Spacelog Apollo 11

Houston, Apollo 11.

Go ahead, 11.

Apollo 11, Houston. We'd like for you to go ahead and put your S band antenna OMNI to OMNI and OMNI B. Over.

Apollo 11, Houston. How do you read me through Honeysuckle now? Over.

You're loud and clear. Over.

Very good. Reading you better now. And did you copy we'd appreciate going S band OMNI and OMNI B at this time? Over.

That's the configuration we're in.

Okay. Thank you.

I'll say you “Purple” people keep funny hours.

Good afternoon, Houston. Apollo 11. Over.

Good morning, 11. This is Houston. Over.

Okay. Crew status report: 88 and 8.5.

Roger. 88 and 8.5. When you're ready, we've got a small flight plan update for you.

Houston, we're ready to copy.

Roger. At about 148 hours, if you've not already done so, a CO₂ filter change, and the H₂ purge line heater on 20 minutes before the O₂ and H₂ purge. At 148 hours, we'd like you to initiate a charge on battery Alfa instead of at 151 hours, and leave the charge on until we notify you further. At 150 hours GET, waste water dump to 10 percent. We do plan to burn midcourse correction 5. It will be an RCS burn about 5 feet per second at about the nominal time in the flight plan. Over.

Roger. Understand. We'll be accomplishing the filter change shortly, the purge line heater is on ***, O₂ and H₂ purge shortly, and at 148 will initiate a charge on battery A until you notify us further. At 150 hours, waste water dump to 10 percent. And we're looking forward to midcourse correction 5 at about 5 feet per second at the nominal time. Over.

Roger. I've got your consumables update, if you're ready to copy.

Copy.

Okay. At GET of 147 plus 00, RCS total minus 2.0 percent, which is about minus 14 pounds. Alfa minus 12.0, Bravo plus 10.0, minus 3.0, minus 2.0. Hydrogen total minus 1.5 pounds, O₂ total plus 20 pounds. Over.

Roger. I copy, and our onboard readouts: Alfa, *** 2 percent, Bravo 54 percent, Cocoa's 64 percent, Delta 61 percent. Over.

Roger, 11. Would you read that quad Alfa again, please, Buzz. You're cutting out. It may be—are you operating on VOX? Over.

Negative. Alfa is 53 percent. Over.

Roger. We copy.

Apollo 11, this is Houston. Over.

Go ahead.

Roger. Would you ask Buzz to check his biomedical TM sensors for a loose or dried out sensor? We're getting an erratic electrocardiogram reading. That would be one of the three sternal leads. Over.

Okay.

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Apollo 11, this is Houston. Say again your last, please.

Disregard.

Apollo 11, this is Houston. Stand by for a Mark leaving the lunar sphere of influence.

MARK.

You're leaving the lunar sphere of influence. Over.

Roger. Is Bill Shaffer down there?

Negative. But we've got a highly qualified team on in his stead.

Roger. I wanted to hear him explain it again to the press conference.

That's old Apollo 8 junk, but tell him the spacecraft gave a little jump as it went through the …

Okay. I'll pass it on to him. Thanks a lot, and Dave Reed is sort of burying his head in his arms right now.

Roger. Out.

Those guys down there in the press room did a pretty good job this morning.

Yes, they have.

We don't want them to give up yet, though.

No. They'll hang in there for about another 47 hours or so.

Apollo 11, this is Houston. If you're not busy now, I can read you up the morning news.

Okay. We're all listening.