Spacelog Apollo 11

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It's getting appreciably larger now. It's looking more like the world.

Roger. I'm looking at the right side of the screen this time.

How's everything going on the—Say again, Charlie?

Oh, just—I -I'll never hear the last of that one about that Earth/Moon business during the TV there, and I was just saying that I was looking at the right side of the board here, so you are going towards the Earth. What are—What were you going to say, Mike?

You'll have—You'll have fun at the press conference after this shift then, won't you?

It's 2:30. Everybody will be asleep. I going to sneak off through the back way.

Okay. I was just wondering how everything is going at the home front. All the wives and kids in one piece?

Roger. Sure are. Everything's doing fine. All the gals are having a little party tonight, as far as I know.

Apollo 11, Houston. I was just reading some of the transcripts of earlier today about this earlier PTC that we attempted, and when you keyed into VERB 24 and did the two ENTER's, it took off on you. I think we got a story on that, if you'd like to listen to why it had such a high rate, Mike. Over.

Yes. I'm all ears.

Okay. I think it would be better if you got your checklist out on 97, and we could walk you through it, and that way I could probably get the story straight. Over.

Okay. I got it.

Okay. Mike, what happened is—you know, you were sitting there monitoring VERB 16, NOUN 20, and at step 7 you went into VERB 24, NOUN 01, and keyed in the address and then INFORMATION INFORMATION; and on the final ENTER of that 35400 ENTER, right after that, it—that then put you back into the 16, NOUN 20. Then when you did the VERB 24, ENTER, you were really entering the information in the actual CDU; and when you got the two entries in, in register 1 and 2, it was an—it was an instantaneous change in the actual CDU, and the CM DAP looked at that and saw—saw what it thought it had. My—my gosh, I got a 600 degree per second rate. And it turns on the jets to try to take that rate out. And the rate filters that it's looking at—it—well, the rate it's looking at is filtered, so it doesn't really sense the actual rate until the thing is already built up, and then it starts reading the rate filters, and it says, “Well, I really didn't have 600 degrees.” So then it turns it off and tries to slow it down. But until that happens, and it is some time lag, and that's why the rate was building up. The jets were on, and they were going to stay on due to that instantaneous 600—suspected 600 degree per second rate. Over.

Okay. I got you.

Roger.

Man.

Hey, Charlie, are you saying that for a short period of time, he actually loaded NOUN 20 with some value other than was being read by the CDU?

I think I got that, Buzz. That's affirmative. But when he did that second VERB 24, you were—the NOUN was 20, so when he did the 3175 and then a 002 ENTER, what he actually did there was load the first two actual CDU locations, and the computer looked at it—the DAP looked at it as an instantaneous change in the actual CDU. Stand by on your comments. We're switching antennas.

Roger.

— We're very scratchy.

Okay.

11, Houston. We got you back now on the high gain. Did you copy all that, Buzz? Over.

Yes. I think so. I—I thought maybe that NOUN 20 was one of those that you could never load from the DSKY, and that still maybe. Maybe it was loaded just for the short period of time, and then when the counters read the—the gimbal angles, why they changed it back to what they actually are. But in the meantime, the DAP saw this different number. Is that right?

Well, our guidance guy was telling me that you can actually load those ACDU's, the actual CDU's, but we'll—we're checking on that. Over.

Okay.

11, Houston. Buzz, the word from the back room is that you can actually load the NOUN 20, but you should not.

Yes. I got that. Thank you.

Apollo 11, Houston. We got a recommendation for you on your stowage of the EVVA's. Over.

Go ahead.

Okay. We'd like—the SPAN guys say it looks—they think that one would go on the helmet that you're going to have in B1, and you could put the other one on Mike's helmet, which will be in the sleep restraint. Over.

I doubt if it will fit on the helmet in B1. The other one might—might go in the sleep restraint. We've got them in our helmet bags, and I guess we're going to have to keep the helmets in the helmet bags, and the LEVVA's in the LEVVA bags.

Roger.

Yes. I've been thinking maybe they ought to stay sealed up.

Okay. We —

It won't hack B1, Charlie, with the cover. I tried it already.

Okay. Fine. We weren't sure of that. It was just a suggestion. We thought we'd—You check it out. Sounds like you've already done that, so I guess whatever you can come up with, just let us know.

Okay. There's no problem. We'll let you know where they end up.

Roger.

Hello, Houston. Apollo 11.

Go ahead, 11. Over.

And Apollo 11, it's good night from a sleepy White Team. Over.

Roger. Thank you very much. We're not as sleepy tonight as we were last night.

Yes. I guess you guys were pretty tired last night after that busy day.

That's affirmative. I couldn't even find the chlorine.

Hello, Apollo 11. Houston. Sorry to bother you, but we'd like to have you do a VERB 34 to get the NOUN 65 off of there. Over.

Apollo 11, Houston. Are you up and at them yet? Over.

Well, we're up, at least, Owen.

Eyeballing my Magellanic clouds. Over.

11, Houston. Got your signals loud and clear, here. How are things this morning? Over.

Do you read us, Owen?

Roger. Loud and clear, 11.

Okay. Everything *** to be all right here. So far, we haven't been looking in the cockpit yet. We've been spending our time looking outside the cockpit. ***

Roger, 11. You're breaking up just a little bit there, Neil. Your signals are loud but are breaking up occasionally. Your spacecraft all looks good here from the ground. We noticed you stirring around the cockpit and thought we'd give you a call. Over.

Good morning.

11, Houston. We do have a few items for you here, entry PAD's, consumables, and so forth. After you've had a chance to get organized, whenever you're ready to start on a few of these items, why, we'll read them up to you. Over.

Okay. Stand by.

Go ahead, Owen. I've got the book now. I'm ready to copy.

Okay, Buzz. On your flight plan items, a few updates first of all. We've cancelled midcourse number 6. Just remain—remain in PTC. I'll give you a little more time this morning. Second item on the flight plan is we're ready for a BATT B charge anytime you want to put it on the line; and third item, we'd like a waste water dump a little differently this time. We'd like to do it on our marks from the ground. The PTC is a little bit ragged, and we would like to make the water dump at a time which we think will hold it in its proper configuration, so it looks like we'll have a desirable opportunity coming along in—between 15 and 20 minutes. And on our mark, we would like to have a waste-water dump down to about 40 percent. I'll give you a more accurate level for the water dump a little later. Over.

Roger. You must have stayed up all night figuring this one out.

11, Houston. Stand by just a moment here until we get out of the NO position on the antenna.

11, Houston. We're over on OMNI Delta now. I think we can read you better. Did you get all those first three items on your flight plan update? Over.

I got midcourse correction cancelled; battery B charge and water dump on your call. Over.

That's right, Buzz; and the last item here, we do request that we do a P52, even though we're not doing midcourse correction; and we suggest you get to that after the waste water dump has been complete. We also have a state vector update for you, if you can give us P00 and ACCEPT. Over.

Okay. You have the DSKY now.

Roger. We'll be sending that up, and I'll give you your consumables update now. It's—for a time of 170 hours, your RCS total is minus 3.5 percent, Alfa is minus 14.5, Bravo plus 7, Charlie minus 4.5, Delta minus 3; hydrogen total is minus 1, and your oxygen total is plus 24. Over.

Roger. Copy those. And onboard readouts, D is 69, C is 73, D is—Let me start over again. Okay. A is 51 and B is 62; C is 63 and D is 59. Over.

Roger, 11. Copy those, and we've checked them here on the ground, also. One correction to my last transmission. We would like that P52 prior to the waste water dump, which is coming up in about 30 minutes from now. Will that be possible? Over.

Oh, yes. We'll take care of that.

Roger. And if you're ready for an entry PAD, I'll read that up to you now, also, 11.

Ready to copy.