Spacelog Apollo 11

Roger. How am I coming through now, Charlie?

Roger. You're very clear when you come through. It's just that your VOX is not keying at every word. Over.

Okay. These bite sized objects were designed to remove the problem of having so many crumbs floating around in the cabin, so they designed a particular size that would be able to go to the mouth all at once. I think since all of our experience, we've discovered that we could progress a good bit further than that back some of the type meals that we have on Earth. As a matter of fact, on this flight we've carried along pieces of bread, and along with the bread we have a ham spread; and I'll show you, I hope, how easy it is to spread some ham while I'm in zero g.

I think we've discovered that it is quite easy to *** you're all very familiar with.

Apollo 11, Houston. We notice your roll rate increasing. Will you please see if you can bring that down to about 04 or we'll be losing high gain shortly. Over.

You can also use zero gravity to demonstrate many things that we've all learned in school. I'd like to demonstrate briefly how easy it is to explain the action of the gyroscope. If I spin this can, we know that according to the equations of motion that we would expect that once this is given a spin, and has a spin axis in this direction, if we give it a particular torque, and I'll do this by pushing my hands against it in this fashion once it's spinning. By the equations we can predict that, as I put this torque on it, it will in fact rotate this direction. Let's see how well this works out.

See that as I apply the torque this way, it's rotated this way.

Too close, I think.

11, Houston. It's a pretty good demonstration.

Houston, this next is a little demonstration for the kids at home, all kids everywhere, for that matter. I was going to show you how you drink water out of a spoon, but I'm afraid I filled the spoon too full and if I'm not careful, I'm going to spill water right over the sides. Can you see the water slopping around on the top of the spoon, kids?

That's affirmative, 11.

Okay. Well, as I said, I was going to show you but I'm afraid I filled it too full and it's going to spill over the sides. I'll tell you what. I'll just turn this one over and get rid of the water and start all over again. Okay?

Okay.

And you can see, up here we don't know where over is. One up is as good as another. That really is water, though. I'll show you.

That's really not the way we drink. We really have a water gun which I'll show you.

Here's the water gun. This cylindrical thing on the end of it is a filter with several membranes: one allows water to pass, but not any gas; the other allows gas to pass, but not any water. So, by routing the gaseous water which comes from our tank through this filter, we're enabled to drink purified water without the gas in it, filtered water. And, of course, all we do to—to get it started is just pull the trigger.

It's sort of messy. I haven't been at this very long. It's sort of the same system that the Spaniards used to drink out of wineskins at bull fights, only I think this is even more fun. Well, be seeing you, kids.

Thank you from all us kids in the world, here in the MOCR, who can't tell the Earth from the Moon.

Roger. Stand by one, and we'll get you that Earth one.

Looks like you need a wine skin up there, Mike.

That'd be nice.

Okay.

11, Houston —

Will do.

There is a flurry of activity in the PAO site for the evening news.

Bully.

How's the weather down there? You got any rain?

Roger. We've been having a little bit, thunderstorm type, the last couple of days. We had a pretty good rain today, and it's been overcast. A slow storm system's been moving through the area in the last couple of days, and primarily evening and afternoon thundershowers.

Roger. We were watching a few clouds in your area through the monocular along the Texas Gulf Coast this afternoon, and we also noticed there were clouds over Baja California, which is a little bit unusual.

Roger. Thank you for the weather report. We can't quite see that far. It seems to have cleared up outside now, according to some of the people coming in. This constant overcast in the MOCR here is a little hard to see outside.

Yes. We also noticed it was a little overcast down over—in the Antarctic ice cap, too.

Roger. It's apparently raining pretty hard up —

How's that for one-upsmanship?