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05 04 12 06
Ronald Evans (CAPCOM): Tranquility Base, little less than 10 minutes here. Everything looks good and we assume the steerable's in track mode AUTO.
05 04 12 20
Buzz Aldrin (LMP): Roger. It is in track mode AUTO.
05 04 12 24
Ronald Evans (CAPCOM): Roger.
05 04 13 10
Buzz Aldrin (LMP): And both ED batteries are GO.
05 04 13 15
Ronald Evans (CAPCOM): Tranquility, Houston. Roger.
05 04 14 44
Michael Collins (CMP): Neil, I'm reading you on VHF. You sound good.
05 04 14 50
Neil Armstrong (CDR): Yes sir. Couldn't be better. It's just purring along.
05 04 17 17
Buzz Aldrin (LMP): Rate scale, 25?
05 04 17 18
Neil Armstrong (CDR): 25.
05 04 17 19
Buzz Aldrin (LMP): ATT translation, four jets. Balance couple ON.
05 04 17 23
Neil Armstrong (CDR): Balance couple, ON.
05 04 17 24
Buzz Aldrin (LMP): TTCA jets, PROP PUSHBUTTON RESET, ABORT, ABORT STAGE RESET.
05 04 17 32
Neil Armstrong (CDR): RESET.
05 04 17 34
Buzz Aldrin (LMP): DEADBAND, MINIMUM. ATT CONTROL to MODE CONTROL; MODE CONTROL, AUTO, both.
05 04 17 42
Neil Armstrong (CDR): AUTO, AUTO.
05 04 17 49
Buzz Aldrin (LMP): Okay. We're standing by for 2 minutes to—for the guidance steering in the AGS.
05 04 18 23
Ronald Evans (CAPCOM): Eagle, Houston. You're looking good to us.
05 04 18 29
Neil Armstrong (CDR): Roger.
05 04 19 26
Buzz Aldrin (LMP): …
05 04 19 59
Ronald Evans (CAPCOM): MARK.
05 04 20 00
Ronald Evans (CAPCOM): TIG minus 2.
05 04 20 05
Buzz Aldrin (LMP): Roger. Guidance steering in the AGS.
05 04 20 58
Buzz Aldrin (LMP): Key moment The Eagle lifts off from the Moon: Okay. MASTER ARM ON.
05 04 21 33
Buzz Aldrin (LMP): DSKY blanks.
05 04 21 44
Neil Armstrong (CDR): Got that ascent … ?
05 04 21 54
Buzz Aldrin (LMP): 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, abort stage, engine arm ascent, proceed.
05 04 22 07
Buzz Aldrin (LMP): … Beautiful.
05 04 22 09
Buzz Aldrin (LMP): 26, 36 feet per second up. Be advised of the pitchover. Very smooth. Balance couple, OFF. Very quiet ride. There's that one … on now.
05 04 22 40
Ronald Evans (CAPCOM): Eagle, Houston. Request manual start override.
05 04 22 47
Buzz Aldrin (LMP): Roger.
05 04 22 52
Buzz Aldrin (LMP): …
05 04 23 04
Ronald Evans (CAPCOM): Eagle, Houston. One minute and you're looking good.
05 04 23 10
Buzz Aldrin (LMP): Roger.
05 04 23 19
Buzz Aldrin (LMP): A very quiet ride, just a little bit of slow wallowing back and forth. Not very much thruster activity.
05 04 23 31
Ronald Evans (CAPCOM): Roger. Mighty fine.
05 04 23 37
Buzz Aldrin (LMP): 700, 150 up, beautiful. 9000. PGNS AGS agrees within a foot per second.
05 04 23 59
Ronald Evans (CAPCOM): Eagle, Houston. You're looking good at 2. PGNS, AGS, and MSFN all agree.
05 04 24 06
Buzz Aldrin (LMP): And that's a thousand, 170 up, beautiful. 14 000. And a foot per second again, AGS to PGNS.
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05 04 24 32
Buzz Aldrin (LMP): S band looks like it's holding good, Houston.
05 04 24 36
Ronald Evans (CAPCOM): Roger. We concur. It's great.
05 04 24 38
Buzz Aldrin (LMP): 1500, 185.
05 04 25 01
Ronald Evans (CAPCOM): Eagle, Houston. You're GO at 3 minutes. Everything's looking good.
05 04 25 07
Neil Armstrong (CDR): Roger.
05 04 25 17
Buzz Aldrin (LMP): Right on H dot.
05 04 25 21
Neil Armstrong (CDR): Coming up to, … to the right.
05 04 25 22
Buzz Aldrin (LMP): — this is H dot MAX now.
05 04 25 35
Neil Armstrong (CDR): We're going right down U.S. 1.
05 04 25 39
Ronald Evans (CAPCOM): Roger.
05 04 26 01
Ronald Evans (CAPCOM): Eagle, Houston. Four minutes; you're going right down the track. Everything's great.
05 04 26 12
Buzz Aldrin (LMP): Now we got—got Sabine off to our right now.
05 04 26 18
Ronald Evans (CAPCOM): Roger.
05 04 26 33
Buzz Aldrin (LMP): 240 to go.
05 04 26 56
Buzz Aldrin (LMP): Okay. There's Ritter out there. There it is, right there, there's Schmidt Man, that's impressive looking, isn't it?
05 04 27 10
Ronald Evans (CAPCOM): Eagle, Houston. You're looking good.
05 04 27 13
Buzz Aldrin (LMP): … 55.
05 04 27 17
Neil Armstrong (CDR): Looking good here. It's a pretty spectacular ride.
05 04 27 40
Buzz Aldrin (LMP): … of to the right.
05 04 28 02
Ronald Evans (CAPCOM): Eagle, Houston. You're still looking mighty fine.
05 04 28 09
Buzz Aldrin (LMP): Roger. Good agreement in DELTA V to go in both AGS and PGNS.
05 04 28 13
Ronald Evans (CAPCOM): Roger.
05 04 28 34
Buzz Aldrin (LMP): Got 800 to go.
05 04 28 41
Buzz Aldrin (LMP): 700 to go. Okay, I'm going to open up the main shutoffs.
05 04 28 56
Buzz Aldrin (LMP): Ascent feed closed; pressure's holding good, cross feed ON, 350 to go.
05 04 29 11
Buzz Aldrin (LMP): Stand by on the engine arm. 90, okay, OFF, 50.
05 04 29 17
Buzz Aldrin (LMP): SHUTDOWN.
05 04 29 23
Buzz Aldrin (LMP): We got 53373, 32.8 feet per second, 60 666.
05 04 29 33
Ronald Evans (CAPCOM): Eagle. Roger. We copy. It's great. Go.
05 04 29 35
Buzz Aldrin (LMP): And we got—got our residuals.
05 04 29 45
Buzz Aldrin (LMP): …
05 04 29 50
Ronald Evans (CAPCOM): Eagle, Houston. Trim residuals.
05 04 29 53
Buzz Aldrin (LMP): …
05 04 30 14
Buzz Aldrin (LMP): We're working on it.
05 04 30 33
Ronald Evans (CAPCOM): Eagle, Houston. Trim looks good.
05 04 30 43
Buzz Aldrin (LMP): That's good.
05 04 30 45
Michael Collins (CMP): Eagle, Columbia. … got a solid lock on in VHF ranging and … 480 feet per second.
05 04 30 53
Neil Armstrong (CDR): Okay. That sounds a little—little on the high side.
05 04 30 57
Michael Collins (CMP): Yes. I'll update it here shortly.
05 04 30 59
Neil Armstrong (CDR): Okay.
05 04 31 00
Buzz Aldrin (LMP): Okay, Houston. We show 47.3 by 9.5.
05 04 31 07
Ronald Evans (CAPCOM): Roger. 47.2 by 9.5.
05 04 31 14
Buzz Aldrin (LMP): AGS has 9.5, 46.6.
05 04 31 23
Ronald Evans (CAPCOM): Eagle, Houston. Copy.
05 04 31 44
Ronald Evans (CAPCOM): Eagle, Houston. Request abort stage, reset, … PROP reset, and mode control to ATT HOLD when you get a chance to.
05 04 31 52
Buzz Aldrin (LMP): Roger.
05 04 32 44
Ronald Evans (CAPCOM): Eagle, Houston. You can go ahead and proceed with P52 as per nominal.
05 04 32 55
Neil Armstrong (CDR): Roger, Houston. The Eagle is back in orbit, having left Tranquility Base and leaving behind a—a replica from our Apollo 11 patch and the olive branch.
05 04 33 15
Ronald Evans (CAPCOM): Eagle, Houston. Roger. We copy. The whole world is proud of you.
05 04 33 26
Neil Armstrong (CDR): We had a lot of help down there.
05 04 33 37
Michael Collins (CMP): Eagle, Columbia. I've got 470 now for R dot, and I just broke lock. Could you hold silent for a few seconds here while I reacquire.
05 04 34 09
Michael Collins (CMP): Columbia's reacquired you.
05 04 35 23
Ronald Evans (CAPCOM): Columbia, Houston. Request P00 in ACCEPT, and we'll give you a good GO LM vector. Over.
05 04 35 37
Michael Collins (CMP): Roger. Houston. Going to ACCEPT.
05 04 37 29
Ronald Evans (CAPCOM): Eagle, Houston. You can go ahead and turn your updata link switch off.
05 04 37 39
Neil Armstrong (CDR): Roger. It's off.
05 04 37 41
Ronald Evans (CAPCOM): Roger.
05 04 39 06
Ronald Evans (CAPCOM): Columbia, Houston. The computer is yours. Press on.
05 04 39 12
Michael Collins (CMP): Okay.
05 04 39 24
Buzz Aldrin (LMP): Houston, the AGS has a DELTA H of 15.5.
05 04 39 31
Ronald Evans (CAPCOM): Eagle, Houston. Roger. 15.5.
05 04 39 33
Buzz Aldrin (LMP): And a maneuver of—and a maneuver of 51.3.
05 04 39 41
Ronald Evans (CAPCOM): Roger. We copy. And, Eagle, aft OMNI. Over.
05 04 39 55
Buzz Aldrin (LMP): Roger. Aft OMNI.
05 04 40 25
Ronald Evans (CAPCOM): Columbia, Houston.
05 04 41 16
Michael Collins (CMP): …
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05 04 41 20
Buzz Aldrin (LMP): Roger. It's on.
05 04 41 23
Michael Collins (CMP): …
05 04 41 26
Buzz Aldrin (LMP): And I can see it reflecting out my …
05 04 41 43
Ronald Evans (CAPCOM): Eagle, Houston in the blind. Try low bit rate. Over.
05 04 41 55
Buzz Aldrin (LMP): Roger. Low bit rate. I've got a 3.8 signal strength. Over.
05 04 42 13
Ronald Evans (CAPCOM): Eagle, Houston. Roger. We copy your signal strength 3.8.
05 04 42 51
Buzz Aldrin (LMP): 37, I believe.
05 04 48 00
Ronald Evans (CAPCOM): Eagle, Houston.
05 04 48 06
Neil Armstrong (CDR): Roger. Go ahead.
05 04 48 07
Ronald Evans (CAPCOM): Roger. We saw a very slight jump in cabin and suit pressure there. Could you verify cabin REPRESS valve is closed?
05 04 48 24
Neil Armstrong (CDR): Okay. It's closed.
05 04 48 26
Ronald Evans (CAPCOM): Roger. And we've got about 1 minute to before where you ought to be radar tracking, and we've lost data with you.
05 04 48 40
Neil Armstrong (CDR): Okay. …
05 04 49 03
Buzz Aldrin (LMP): Okay. Get a pass.
05 04 49 26
Buzz Aldrin (LMP): Got it? …
05 04 49 42
Michael Collins (CMP): Eagle, Columbia. You can turn your … light off.
05 04 49 46
Buzz Aldrin (LMP): Okay. You got it?
05 04 49 48
Neil Armstrong (CDR): Yes.
05 04 49 50
Buzz Aldrin (LMP): All ready to mark, X and Y. Okay. Marked X now.
05 04 49 58
Michael Collins (CMP): …
05 04 50 02
Buzz Aldrin (LMP): X or Y? Maybe we ought to be satisfied with three of them.
05 04 50 14
Michael Collins (CMP): …
05 04 50 21
Ronald Evans (CAPCOM): Columbia, Houston —
05 04 50 22
Buzz Aldrin (LMP): … is still on.
05 04 50 23
Ronald Evans (CAPCOM): — Say again.
05 04 50 25
Buzz Aldrin (LMP): X or Y?
05 04 50 29
Michael Collins (CMP): ***
05 04 50 35
Buzz Aldrin (LMP): I can't tell.
05 04 50 54
Buzz Aldrin (LMP): Okay. Mark Y.
05 04 51 06
Buzz Aldrin (LMP): That enough? Beautiful! All zeros. Okay. Let's torque them. I'll write them down. Minus 06, plus 64, plus … 7. Torque … Radar circuit breakers in?
05 04 51 58
Michael Collins (CMP): ***
05 04 52 06
Neil Armstrong (CDR): Yes. We're pointed down pretty much. We're going to be up —
05 04 52 08
Buzz Aldrin (LMP): Okay. … circuit —
05 04 52 12
Michael Collins (CMP): Roger.
05 04 52 13
Buzz Aldrin (LMP): — breaker in? Both circuit breakers in?
05 04 52 18
Michael Collins (CMP): *** —
05 04 52 19
Multiple speakers: …
05 04 52 20
Michael Collins (CMP): — ***
05 04 52 26
Buzz Aldrin (LMP): Okay. AUTO maneuver.
05 04 52 36
Michael Collins (CMP): ***
05 04 52 40
Ronald Evans (CAPCOM): Columbia, Houston. Did you call?
05 04 52 51
Michael Collins (CMP): That's affirmative. I called you before about the VHF ranging. It's not working. ***
05 04 53 01
Buzz Aldrin (LMP): Houston, Eagle. Did you copy our star angle difference and torquing angles.
05 04 53 07
Ronald Evans (CAPCOM): Eagle, Houston. We didn't have them on the downlink but we copied them on the VOX.
05 04 53 18
Buzz Aldrin (LMP): Okay. It was zero for star angle difference, minus 06, plus 64, and plus 1.37. Over.
05 04 53 28
Ronald Evans (CAPCOM): Eagle, Houston. Roger. We have that.

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