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Buzz Aldrin (LMP)
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Houston, Apollo 11. I'd say that the secondary loop was actuated about 15 to 20 minutes ago. Over.
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Charlie Duke (CAPCOM)
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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.
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Charlie Duke (CAPCOM)
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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.
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Michael Collins (CMP)
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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.
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Charlie Duke (CAPCOM)
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Roger. Beautiful. We've got the load. If you'll give us P00 and ACCEPT, we'll send you a load up. Stand by.
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Charlie Duke (CAPCOM)
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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.
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Charlie Duke (CAPCOM)
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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.
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Charlie Duke (CAPCOM)
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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.
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Charlie Duke (CAPCOM)
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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.
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Michael Collins (CMP)
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And I'm standing by to go to P47 just as soon as you give me a go for PYRO ARM.
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Charlie Duke (CAPCOM)
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Roger. I thought we gave you that. Mike, you're GO for PYRO ARM and you're GO for jettison.
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Michael Collins (CMP)
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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.
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Buzz Aldrin (LMP)
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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?
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Charlie Duke (CAPCOM)
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Roger dodger. We got Eagle looking good. It's holding cabin pressure and it picked up about 2 feet per second from that jettison.
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Buzz Aldrin (LMP)
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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.
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Charlie Duke (CAPCOM)
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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.
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Charlie Duke (CAPCOM)
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Columbia, Houston. Would you start a maneuver to a pitch of 230 for this little tweak burn? Over.
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Charlie Duke (CAPCOM)
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Right now that's what we're looking at. Stand by. We might have you roll so we can keep the high gain. Stand by.
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Charlie Duke (CAPCOM)
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Oh, Roger, Apollo 11. We got you going to a posigrade attitude and we want you—this burn will be using minus X thrusters at about 2 or 3 feet per second, and we got a load for you. We'll send it up momentarily. Over.
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Charlie Duke (CAPCOM)
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Apollo 11, Houston. Would you give us P00 and ACCEPT? We have a load for you. Over.
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Charlie Duke (CAPCOM)
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Roger, Mike. And our pitch attitude's a little wrong here. If you're ready to copy, I'll give you the SEP PAD. Over.
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Charlie Duke (CAPCOM)
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Roger. Starting with NOUN 33: 130 30 0000, plus 00020, plus all zeros, plus all zeros. Roll all zeros, pitch 230, yaw zero. NOUN 44 is NA. DELTA-VP 00020, burn time 007, DELTA-VC 00020. We have—The rest of the PAD is NA.
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Michael Collins (CMP)
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Roger. GET 130 hours 30 minutes, DELTA-VX 2.0, roll zero, pitch 230, yaw zero, DELTA-VC, 2.0.
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Charlie Duke (CAPCOM)
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That's affirmative, Apollo 11. And, Mike, it's similar to the SEP burn prior to flight after the undocking here. And the P41 you should see on register 1—2, and then you burn minus X until you read 4. Over.
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Michael Collins (CMP)
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Roger, Charlie. We switched our OMNI D—Delta, and I lost that last transmission. Would you say again, please? The thing I'm wondering about specifically is that earlier you said it would be minus X thrusters and the PAD indicates plus X. Do you want me to null that to zero or do you want to add 2 and leave it as a 4?
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Charlie Duke (CAPCOM)
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Roger, Apollo 11. The way we gave it to you in the attitude we're in, it'll be just like the SEP burn that you had yesterday. You'll see—NOUN 85 will give you a plus 2 and then you just burn minus X until you read 4. Over.
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Charlie Duke (CAPCOM)
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Apollo 11, Houston. We see you in P41 now. It might take you a couple of minutes to integrate these vectors that we gave you and if you don't make TIG, it's pretty insensitive. You can just let P41 bring you up to TIG, and when you get to zero, you can burn on that. Over.
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Michael Collins (CMP)
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Okay. Burn complete. Residuals: plus three balls 40, plus four balls 7, plus four balls 2, DELTA-V counter 102.1. Over.
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Michael Collins (CMP)
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Houston, Apollo 11. How about coming up with a good communications attitude for us to go to between now and the time we maneuver at TEI attitude.
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Charlie Duke (CAPCOM)
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Okay. Mike, you can maneuver to your preliminary TEI attitude as shown on page 398 of the flight plan, and the high gain angles are good as shown in the flight plan, and we'd like you to dump the waste water at 131 05 down to 10 percent. Over.
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Michael Collins (CMP)
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Okay. Understand. I'm going to go to roll 1.1, pitch zero—or 52.6, and yaw 13.8, and you want a waste water dump 10 percent starting at 131 05.
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Michael Collins (CMP)
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You're loud and clear, Charlie. What—What numbers are you looking at for TEI TIG preliminary; 135 hours 23 minutes, something like that?
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Charlie Duke (CAPCOM)
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That's affirmative, Mike. We're looking at about nominal time. We've considered kicking it up a REV, but we don't think this REV track is going to be any good since we had the RCS burn and we need some more tracking to get you a good TEI. Over.
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Charlie Duke (CAPCOM)
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11, Houston. Looks like it's going to be pretty relaxed time here for the next couple of hours. We'll have you a PAD, of course, the next REV or so, and we'll keep you posted on TEI. Looks like nominal time. Over.
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Charlie Duke (CAPCOM)
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And your little maneuver back here a moment ago will put you about 20 miles ahead of the LM at TEI.
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Michael Collins (CMP)
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Imagine that place has cleared out a little bit after that rendezvous. You can find a place to sit down almost, huh?
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Charlie Duke (CAPCOM)
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Roger. Our MOCR's about empty right now. We're taking it a little easy. How does it feel up there to have some company?
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Charlie Duke (CAPCOM)
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I'll bet. I bet, you'd almost be talking to yourself up there after 10 REVS or so.
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Michael Collins (CMP)
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No, no. It's a happy home here. It'd be nice to have company. As a matter of fact, it'd be nice to have a couple of hundred million Americans up here.
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Charlie Duke (CAPCOM)
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Roger. Well, they were with you in spirit anyway, at least that many. We heard on the news today, 11, that last night—yesterday after you made your landing, New York Times came out with a—headlines, the largest headlines they've ever used in the history of the newspaper.
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Charlie Duke (CAPCOM)
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That's why we didn't read you up any newscast. There really wasn't anything to talk about.
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Charlie Duke (CAPCOM)
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Apollo 11, Houston. We've got 10 minutes to LOS; see you over the hill at 131 48. Over.
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Charlie Duke (CAPCOM)
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Hello, Apollo 11. Houston. Coming up about 4 30 LOS. You're looking great on all your systems. Eagle is purring right along after an hour 30 without any cooling. The PNGS is still looking good. Over.
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Charlie Duke (CAPCOM)
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Apollo 11, Houston. Will you verify that your rendezvous radar transponder is off? Over.
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Charlie Duke (CAPCOM)
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Roger. We were seeing—believe it or not, we were seeing some funnies on the Eagle's rendezvous radar, and that was the only theory that we had. It looked like it was a good one.
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Charlie Duke (CAPCOM)
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Hello, Apollo 11. Houston. We are standing by. Everything is looking great here. Over.
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Charlie Duke (CAPCOM)
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Hello, Apollo 11. Houston. If you guys want it, we've got some news, here, we can read up. Over.
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Charlie Duke (CAPCOM)
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Roger, Neil. Starting off: Congratulatory messages on the Apollo 11 mission have been pouring into the White House from world leaders in a steady stream all day. Among the latest are telegrams from Prime Minister Harold Wilson of Great Britain and the King of Belgium. The world's press has been dominated by news of Apollo 11. Some newsmen estimate that more than 60 percent of the news used in papers across the country today concerned your mission. The New York Times which, as we mentioned before, has had such a demand for its edition of the paper today (even though it ran 950 000 copies) said it will reprint the whole thing on Thursday as a souvenir edition. And Premier Alexei Kosygin has sent congratulations to you and President Nixon through former Vice President Humphrey who is visiting Russia. The cosmonauts have also issued a statement of congratulations. Humphrey quoted Kosygin as saying “I want you to tell the President and the American people that the Soviet Union desires to work with the United States in the cause of peace.”
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Charlie Duke (CAPCOM)
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And Mrs. Robert Goddard said today that her husband would have been so happy. “He wouldn't have shouted or anything. He would just have glowed.” She added, “That was his dream, sending a rocket to the Moon.” People around the world had many reasons to be happy about the Apollo 11 mission. The Italian police reported that Sunday night was the most crime free night of the year. And in London, a boy who had the faith to bet $5 with a bookie that a man would reach the Moon before 1970 collected $24.000. That's pretty good odds.
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Charlie Duke (CAPCOM)
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You're probably interested in the comments your wives have made. Neil, Jan had said about yesterday's activities, “The evening was unbelievably perfect. It is an honor and a privilege to share with my husband, the crew, the Manned Spacecraft Center, the American public, and all mankind; the magnificent experience of the beginning of lunar exploration.” She was then asked if she considered the Moon landing the greatest moment in her life. She said “No, that was the day we were married.” And Mike, Pat said simply, “It was fantastically marvelous.” Buzz, Joan said—apparently couldn't quite believe the EVA on the Moon. She said, “It was hard to think it was real until the men actually moved. After the Moon touchdown, I wept because I was so happy.” But she added, “The best part of the mission will be the splashdown.”
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Charlie Duke (CAPCOM)
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In other news, and there was a little bit, another explorer: Thor Heyerdahl had to give up his attempt to sail a papyrus boat across the Atlantic. The storm damaged boat was abandoned about 650 miles from Bermuda. The speed of the craft had been reduced to about 25 miles a day, and Heyerdahl said the object of the voyage had not been to provide an endurance test for the crew.
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Charlie Duke (CAPCOM)
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Looking at the world of sports, let's see here. While you were busy the other day, Joe Namath and football Commissioner Pete Rozelle made the announcement that “Broadway Joe” had agreed to sell his interest in the Bachelors III restaurant and report to the New York Jets. Joe arrived at the Jets' training camp today and had his first workout. Several other Jet players who had held out along with Joe also reported. And Davy Hill, from Jackson, Michigan, won his third major golf in as many starts in the past week. He won the Philadelphia Classic. Hill has won four tournaments so far this year and is the leading money winner this year with a cool $129.000. And in baseball, the west division of the National League remains a tight race. LA and San Francisco are one game behind league leading Atlanta. The Astros have a record of 48 wins and 48 losses, and are now in fifth place, seven games out. A twin bill between the Astros and Cincinnati last night was postponed because of rain. The Chicago Cubs are still in first place in the East Division. They lead the New York Mets by four and one half games. And in the American League, Baltimore is breezing toward the Eastern Division title. They lead second place Boston by 11 games. Looking ahead, the All Star baseball game is scheduled for tomorrow. And President Nixon was scheduled to see the game and then leave immediately after the game for the Pacific splashdown area before going on his tour of Europe. And that about covers the news this day. You guys have been making most of it and I'm sure we couldn't fill you in on any of the details that you don't already know. Out.
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Charlie Duke (CAPCOM)
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Roger. Coming at you. TEI 30, SPS/G&N: 36691; minus 061, plus 067 135 23 4149; NOUN 81, plus 32020, plus 06713, minus 02773 181 054 013; NOUN 44, HA is NA, plus 00230 32833 228, DELTA VC 32625 24 1510 355. Next three lines are NA. NOUN 61 plus 1103, minus—minus 17237 11806 36275 195 04 52. Your set stars are Deneb and Vega, 242 172 012. We like two jet ullage to 16 seconds. The horizon will be on the 11 degree mark at TIG minus 2 minutes. And other comments: your sextant star is visible after GET of 134 50. Ready for your readback. Over.
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Michael Collins (CMP)
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Roger. We have a TEI 30, SPS/G&N: 36691, minus 061, plus 067 135 23 4149; plus 32020, plus 06713, minus 02773 181 054 013; NA, plus 00230, plus 32833 228 32625, 24 1510 355; NA three times, plus 1103, minus 17237 11806 36275 195 04 52. Deneb and Vega 242 172 012, two jet ullage, 16 seconds; horizon 11 degree line at TIG minus 2 minutes; sextant star visible after 134 50. Over.
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Charlie Duke (CAPCOM)
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Hello, Apollo 11. Houston. Seven minutes to LOS; next AOS 133 46. You're looking good going over the hill. Out.
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Charlie Duke (CAPCOM)
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Roger. We'd like you, sometime at your convenience, to stir up the CRYO's on this pass. And we're wondering if you got the fuel cell purge. Over.
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Charlie Duke (CAPCOM)
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Hello, Apollo 11, Houston. We've got a load for you, if you give us P00 and ACCEPT. The load consists of a CSM pre TEI state vector that's going in the CSM slot, and a post-TEI state vector that'll go into the LM slot, if that's okay; and also a TEI target load. Any comments? Over.
Spoken on July 21, 1969, 11:37 p.m. UTC (55 years, 3 months ago). Link to this transcript range is: Tweet
