Spacelog Apollo 11

Hello, Apollo 11. Houston. Would you please terminate battery charge now? Over.

Roger. Terminating battery charge.

Hello, Apollo 11. Houston. Any special attitude you'd like us to look at for the TV? Over.

I don't guess we have a requirement there, Charlie.

Roger. We have an attitude that we can get the Earth out of a window or the Moon. We're trying to look at—find one that we can get both, if that's what you'd like. Over.

A 50 degree roll attitude will probably give us that, Joe.

Roger.

That's a good one because it puts the Earth out window 1 and the Moon out window 3 and puts the Sun down in the LEB, so the lighting in here remains relatively constant.

Roger. Well, we'll just stop on the 50 roll, then, and we'll give you the word when to do that. Over.

Apollo 11, Houston. We'll have high gain coverage about 155 30. At that time, you can turn on the TV if you desire, and continue your roll around until you get 50 degrees roll. Over.

Apollo 11, Houston. We were going to give you the All Star game tonight, but it was rained out. Over.

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Apollo 11, Houston. We're ready for the TV; we're all configured. At your convenience. Over.

Houston, Apollo 11. Over.

Roger. Go ahead, 11. Over.

Are you picking up our TV signals?

That's affirmative. We have it up on the Eidephor now. The focus is a little bit out. We see the Earth in the center of the screen. Still have a little white dot in the bottom of the camera, apparently. And see some landmasses in the center, at least I guess that's what it is. It's very hazy at this time on our Eidephor. Over.

Let me change —

Believe that's where we just came from.

It is, huh? Well, I'm really looking at the bad—at a bad screen here. Stand by one. Hey, you're right.

It's not bad enough not finding the right landing spot —

… screen now.

It's not bad enough not finding the right landing spot when you haven't even got the right planet!

I'll never live that one down.

We're making it get smaller and smaller here to make sure that it really is the one we're leaving.

All right. That's enough you guys.

11, that was a good picture there.

Okay. That's enough of the Moon.

Okay. That's enough of the Moon, Charlie. We're getting set up now for some inside pictures.

We know there's a lot of scientists from a number of countries standing by to see the lunar samples, and we thought you'd be interested to see them as they really are here. These two boxes are the sample return containers. They—They're vacuum packed containers that were closed in a vacuum on the lunar surface, sealed, and then brought inside the LM and put inside these fiber glass bags, zippered, and resealed around the outside, and placed in these receptacles in the side of the command module. These are the two boxes. And as soon as we get onto the ship, I'm sure these boxes will immediately be transferred and delivery started to the Lunar Receiving Laboratory. These boxes include the samples of the various types of rock, the groundmass of the soil, the sand and silt, and the particle collector for the solar wind experiment, and the core tubes that took depth samples of the lunar surface.

Roger, Neil. Thank you much for that description. We've got a pretty dark picture down here. Could you check your f stop? We'd like to have it—See if you can open it up a little bit. Over.

Okay. Our monitor showed that to be very bright.

Roger.

… We're down around between, well around f:4, which we thought would be plenty light. Well, we'll lighten it up some more.

Well, we'd appreciate it. It's pretty dark on all our monitors here.

Okay. Fine.

It's looking a lot better now, Neil.

There's Buzz.

11, Houston. We have an excellent picture now. Over.

Okay. How do you read me, Charlie?

Five by now, Buzz. Over.

Okay. The more mundane affairs, now that we've left the Moon, I'd like to trace through them a little bit for you *** developments that have taken place in the food department. I'm sure you've already *** type of a drink container. A little later, Mike will show you how the water gun operates with its new filter to take out the hydrogen. Essentially, this water gun is put in this end and fills up this bag with water, and the drink then dissolves in the water, and this end of the *** outfeeding. Likewise, we have other foods that are more solid nature. You can probably see this shrimp cocktail meal. *** this afternoon while the two of us had salmon salad. *** another early development was the use of bite size food ***

11, Houston. Buzz, you're breaking up badly. Will you check your VOX? Over.