Spacelog Apollo 11

Columbia, Houston.

Columbia. Go ahead.

Roger, Mike. You want to tweak the O₂ flow up just a bit there?

Okay. Coming up. Houston, do you have any preferences as to what you want us to do with the probe? Over.

Columbia, Houston. Stand by one.

Okay. Eagle says they've got a place for it inside there, so no problem.

Roger. That's all we were assuming.

Eagle, Houston.

Eagle. Go ahead.

Roger. Neil, it looks like your steerable's good. You can put your track mode to slew and high bit rate, please. Over.

Okay. Track mode to slew and high bit rate.

Okay. Stand by just one, please.

Okay. Shoot them on down.

Eagle, Houston.

Go ahead, Houston.

Roger. Neil, just a reminder again, the ACA out of detent to zero; the AGS out of there just in case you go to ATTITUDE HOLD shortly.

Okay.

Eagle, Houston.

Houston, Eagle. Go ahead.

Roger. That ACA out of detent didn't quite do it because the mode control switches were off. Request guidance control to PGNS and then back to AGS, and that will zero the AGS, there. Over.

Say again, please.

Roger. Request guidance control switch to PGNS and then back to AGS. Over.

Okay. We still have both mode control switches off. Over.

That's okay. That's good.

And I thought I'd just take about 5 seconds here and see if I could get 000 gone, since we're fairly close to gimbal lock right now.

Columbia and Eagle, Houston. About 5 minutes to LOS. Your LM jet time will be 131 plus 52, and I have the rest of the maneuver PAD if you want it now, or I can give it to you on the next time around.

Stand by one.

Could you read it around the next time around, please?

Apollo 11, Houston. About a minute and a half to LOS. You're looking great. It's been a mighty fine day.

Hello, Eagle. Houston. Do you read? Over.

Houston, this is Columbia. Reading you loud and clear. We're all three back inside; the hatch is installed. We're running a pressure check leak check. Everything's going well.

Roger, Eagle. Correction—Roger, Columbia. We copy. You guys are speedy; you beat us to the punch. We had a couple of things for you.

What are they?

Oh, it was just—We wanted you to close the CO₂ sensor breaker and give us an RCS onboard readout out of Eagle, but that's all. Columbia, Houston. We've got a state vector for you if you'll give us P00 in ACCEPT. Over.

Buzz says the CO₂ sensor circuit breaker is IN

Roger. Thank you very much.

The RCS quantity was approximately 60 at A and 45 percent at B.

Roger.

And we're going P00 in ACCEPT.

Roger. Thank you.

Columbia, Houston. Your friendly White Team's going to be on till we get you on the way home, and we'd like to congratulate everybody on a successful rendezvous and a beautiful EVA. It was a great show for everybody. Over.

Thank you, sir. I'll tell Neil and Buzz.

Columbia, Houston. It looks like you guys are so speedy on us that we're thinking about moving up jettison time to about a GET of 130 plus 30, if that's okay with you all. Over.

That's fine. I've still got to get a P30 PAD from you.

Roger. We want to talk to you about that. Mike, we can—for your druthers, we can do it either way. We can either let you do it in the jettison in P30—correction P47, or we can send you a P30 target load up and then you—let you call P41, whichever you want to do. Over.

Yes, I see. Ron was going to give me a P30 PAD and the flight plan says P47. Out of the two, I prefer to go to P30, P41 route.

Roger. Beautiful. We've got the load. If you'll give us P00 and ACCEPT, we'll send you a load up. Stand by.

Columbia, Houston. We'd like you to terminate direct O₂ flow, and stand by on your P00 and ACCEPT. We'll have to generate a new load due to the moveup on time. Over.

Columbia, Houston. Over.

Go ahead.

Roger, Mike. It looks like if we move up this jettison time and give you a new load, it would require a new attitude, and we can't do that due to the LM already closed out, and it would fight us all the way around and we'd lose COMM with it. We're thinking separating in P47 in about 10 minutes. We're looking at trajectories and we'll be right with you momentarily. Over.

Okay. It's no big thing with me either way.

Roger.

Hello, Columbia. Houston. We'd like you to start down your jettison checklist. We recommend picking up page F11—12 and we'd like to jettison at 10 minutes. That'll be 130 14 15. Over.

Right.

Columbia, Houston. If that's not satisfactory, let us know. Over.

Right.

Houston, Columbia. How about a GO for logic BUS ARM.

Stand by.

Columbia, Houston. You've got a GO.

Thank you.

Columbia, Houston. You can undock at your convenience, correction, jettison at your convenience. We would like you to jettison Eagle and stationkeep—in P47 and stationkeep, and we'll have another attitude and a maneuver for you so we'll be okay for TEI. Over.

Roger that.

And I'm standing by to go to P47 just as soon as you give me a go for PYRO ARM.

Roger. I thought we gave you that. Mike, you're GO for PYRO ARM and you're GO for jettison.

Okay.

Okay. Let her go in 10 seconds.

Copy. Out.

NOUN 83 reading minus four balls, minus three balls, 3 or—correction—minus—both register 1 and register 2 are reading minus four balls 3, register 3 is zeros, the EMS remained on 100.00. A fairly loud noise, and it appears to be departing—oh, I would guess several feet per second.

Roger, can you kind of stationkeep with it, Mike? Just stand by now.

Will do.

Columbia, Houston. Don't try to chase it, just hold what you've got.

Charlie, did it hold cabin pressure this time?

Say again, Buzz. Over.

Okay. I thrusted back—I thrusted back toward it a little bit, Charlie, and I'm now reading NOUN 83, plus four balls 4, minus four balls 8, and you want me to kill average D. Right?

Stand by. That's affirmative. You can exit P47.

There she goes. It was a good one.

Roger dodger. We got Eagle looking good. It's holding cabin pressure and it picked up about 2 feet per second from that jettison.

I believe that. I can see some cracks on the outer coating around the tunnel. In the thermal protective covering, I don't think it has anything to do with the structure.

Roger.

Hello, Columbia, Houston. We'll have an attitude and a little blip burn for you in about 130 30, so we can separate from Eagle. Over.

Columbia, Houston. Would you start a maneuver to a pitch of 230 for this little tweak burn? Over.

Roger. Pitch 230.

Roger, Mike. And verify track mode in AUTO for the high gain.

We're in REACQ. Is that all right?

Say again. We need AUTO.

Say again. We're in REACQ—AUTO REACQ.