Spacelog Apollo 11

I'll bet. I bet, you'd almost be talking to yourself up there after 10 REVS or so.

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.

Roger. Well, they were with you in spirit.

Let them see what they're getting for their money.

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.

Save us a copy.

I'm glad to hear it was fit to print.

It was great.

That's why we didn't read you up any newscast. There really wasn't anything to talk about.

Hello, there, Boss.

Apollo 11, Houston. We've got 10 minutes to LOS; see you over the hill at 131 48. Over.

Okay, Charlie. I'll dump the water as soon as we go around the corner.

Roger. Everything's looking real good now.

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.

Apollo 11, Houston. Will you verify that your rendezvous radar transponder is off? Over.

It's not, but I'll get it off.

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.

Hello, Apollo 11. Houston. We are standing by. Everything is looking great here. Over.

Hello, Apollo 11. Houston. If you guys want it, we've got some news, here, we can read up. Over.

Be pleased to have it.

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.”

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.

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.”

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.

Thank you much, Charlie.

Hey, Charlie boy, looking good here. That was a beautiful burn. They don't come any finer.

Roger.

Apollo 11, Houston. I wondered if you've compared your state vector accuracy with the one in the LM flights? Over.

Yes, sir, and it looked very nice. VERB 83 was plus 00070 and minus 00008.

Roger.

11, Houston. I was looking at your bank Bravo nitrogen tank. It didn't leak a bit—correction—didn't leak a bit this time. Over.

Roger. Looked good here.

Chamber pressure was hanging in there around 100. The latter part, of the burn it started oscillating a little bit and got down a little bit below 100.

Roger.

96 or so.

Apollo 11, Houston. Would you give us P00 in ACCEPT? We've got a REFSMMAT for you. Over.

Okay.

Hello, Apollo 11. Houston. We've got the load in. You can go back to BLOCK. Over.

We're there.

Roger.

Your command module film seems to be working out pretty well, Charlie, the amount we carried. Looks like we carried just about what we needed.

Wonderful.

We have one 16 millimeter roll on the ASA 1000 color interior film. We were thinking of shooting that during the entry, out window number 4 on a bracket, and you might get the camera guide sometime in the next couple of days and give us all the good settings for that.

Hello, Apollo 11. Houston. I wondered if during the TEI burn you utilized the oxidizer flow valve on the PUGS. Over.

Yes, we did. Based on your very excellent briefing I was expecting the thing to continue desiring increase for the whole time, so we started out with it in INCREASE. I saw that we pretty quickly crossed the line and started falling about 6 or 7 percent behind, so I was still expecting it to move up, and then I went down to FULL DECREASE and brought it back down to a difference of 2 percent. Over.

Roger. Thank you very much, Buzz.

Two tenths of a percent, I'm sorry.

Apollo 11, Houston. You can go to PTC attitude and torque at your—and do the P52 and torque at your convenience. Over.

Hey, we got to take some more pictures, Charlie. Is there any constraint, normally, in staying here for awhile?

No, sir.

Go ahead, 11. Over.

How does that tracking look, or is it too early to tell?

Stand by, Mike.

Apollo 11, Houston. FIDO's are looking at the data. It's too early to tell yet exactly. It's looking real good so far. We'll have you some answers shortly on trajectory. Over.

Okay. What FIDO is that?

That's Jay Green.

Howdy, Jay.

11, Houston. We have a DAP CSM update for you.

Go ahead.

Roger. CSM weight, Mike: 26370. Over.

Thank you, sir.

Welcome.

Apollo 11, Houston. We've taken your onboard vector and propagated it forward, and it's looking real good. We only got about 24 minutes of tracking now. Really too early to tell on the radar. Over.