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07 05 39 39
Michael Collins (CMP): That might be a little more difficult to find out. I'm not sure whether the—whether Mike is ready to admit when he last did the job, but I'll look into that for you.
07 05 39 51
Buzz Aldrin (LMP): Well, he'll tell you. He's got a new mower.
07 05 39 53
Owen Garriott (CAPCOM): Roger.
07 05 40 04
Michael Collins (CMP): Hey, ask my chinch bugs how they're doing?
07 05 40 07
Owen Garriott (CAPCOM): Well, I'm not sure about your's. I can let you know about my own, and the report isn't very good.
07 05 47 45
Owen Garriott (CAPCOM): 11, Houston. Over.
07 05 47 50
Buzz Aldrin (LMP): Go ahead.
07 05 47 51
Owen Garriott (CAPCOM): Roger. Joan wasn't home right now, Buzz, but Janis reports the grass is getting pretty high, and I would estimate that it's going to be close to your knees by the time you get out of quarantine. Over.
07 05 48 08
Buzz Aldrin (LMP): Okay. I'll have to schedule a little discussion after I get back.
07 05 48 13
Owen Garriott (CAPCOM): Roger. And no reports—no report from the chinch bugs there, Mike.
07 05 48 21
Michael Collins (CMP): Well, they're sort of taciturn little fellows. They don't say much; they just chomp away.
07 05 48 26
Owen Garriott (CAPCOM): Concur on that.
07 05 48 47
Michael Collins (CMP): Which is about what we're doing up here.
07 05 48 52
Owen Garriott (CAPCOM): We concur on that, too.
07 05 49 18
Michael Collins (CMP): Breakfast was magnificent as usual. I had sliced peaches, sausage patties, two cups of coffee, and I forget all what else.
07 05 49 27
Owen Garriott (CAPCOM): That does sound pretty good. As a matter of fact, I'm way overdue for a meal myself, here. I could use some of that.
07 05 49 50
Michael Collins (CMP): Why don't you get Milt to give you 5 minutes off and grab a hamburger?
07 05 50 00
Owen Garriott (CAPCOM): I suggested that awhile ago. He was pointing out about the weight problem here. We've got to keep the calories low, so I'd better stand by without it.
07 05 52 46
Michael Collins (CMP): Houston, Apollo 11. We've been doing a little flight planning for Apollo 12 up here.
07 05 52 54
Owen Garriott (CAPCOM): Roger. Go ahead.
07 05 52 57
Michael Collins (CMP): We're trying to calculate how much spaghetti and meatballs we can get on board for Al Bean.
07 05 53 05
Owen Garriott (CAPCOM): I'm not sure the spacecraft will take that much extra weight. Have you made any estimates?
07 05 53 12
Michael Collins (CMP): It'll be close.
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07 05 55 52
Owen Garriott (CAPCOM): 11, Houston. The medics at the next console report that the shrew is one animal which can eat six times its own body weight every 24 hours. This may be a satisfactory base line for your spaghetti calculations on Al Bean. Over.
07 05 56 11
Michael Collins (CMP): Okay. Thank you. That's in work.
07 05 59 15
Michael Collins (CMP): Houston, Apollo 11. It was slightly colder in here last night than it has been on any previous night. Does EECOMM notice any change in his data or any explanation for that?
07 05 59 25
Owen Garriott (CAPCOM): Roger. Stand by just a moment. We've got to check some temperatures.
07 05 59 35
Michael Collins (CMP): Up until last night it was—if anything, a little on the warm side at night. Last night it was on the chilly side.
07 05 59 43
Owen Garriott (CAPCOM): Roger there. We'll run down the temperatures for the 2 nights.
07 05 59 50
Michael Collins (CMP): Oh, it's no big thing. Just as a matter of interest.
07 05 59 52
Owen Garriott (CAPCOM): Roger.
07 06 00 05
Michael Collins (CMP): And how'd you like the command module RCS temperatures?
07 06 00 17
Owen Garriott (CAPCOM): 11, Houston. They all look very good. The lowest temperature was 40 degrees, and we're taking a look at your cabin temperatures now.
07 06 00 27
Michael Collins (CMP): We agree on the CM RCS. No heaters are going 2 to be required by a country mile.
07 06 00 38
Owen Garriott (CAPCOM): We think that's correct.
07 06 00 50
Michael Collins (CMP): We don't like those heaters, anyway, working off the direct coils.
07 06 00 53
Owen Garriott (CAPCOM): Roger.
07 06 01 34
Michael Collins (CMP): Peculiar thing, Owen, on the platform alignment is that when I really take my time and do a very slow, careful, precise job of marking. I'm getting about the same star angle difference as when I'm doing it in DTC and have to do a hurried rush job with relatively poor tracking. Star angle differences seem insensitive. It almost made me believe there's a very small bias there somewhere in the sextant.
07 06 02 07
Owen Garriott (CAPCOM): Roger, 11. Perhaps the 3 degrees per second just isn't that much of a bother. Over.
07 06 02 16
Buzz Aldrin (LMP): Well, he's really trying to explain why he can't get all zeros.
07 06 02 20
Michael Collins (CMP): I think Buzz is probably right. As a matter of fact, one time I made a mark which I thought was a little bit in error, but I thought, “Well heck. I'll go ahead and see how it works out anyway,” and I got five zeros that time. And when I have thought everything was exactly precisely on, I have consistently been getting 0.01.
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07 06 02 52
Owen Garriott (CAPCOM): Roger. Apparently it pays to hurry.
07 06 02 59
Michael Collins (CMP): I usually do.
07 06 03 07
Michael Collins (CMP): The visibility through the telescope has been very poor. It's, I would say, even worse than the simulator is right now. It requires long periods of dark adaptation which most times are most inconvenient; so it's really a tremendous asset to keep the platform powered up at all times and to keep it tweaked within the capability of the sextant field of view.
07 06 03 37
Owen Garriott (CAPCOM): Understand, Mike.
07 06 05 07
Owen Garriott (CAPCOM): 11, Houston. Checking your temperatures, it does look like the spacecraft may have cooled down perhaps 2 or 3 degrees in the last 24 hours, and that sounds to be consistent with your report on the comfort level there. Over.
07 06 05 25
Michael Collins (CMP): Okay.
07 06 05 29
Neil Armstrong (CDR): Is that a LM off phenomenon?
07 06 05 59
Owen Garriott (CAPCOM): 11, Houston. It looks like we'll have to think a little more about that, as to whether it's a LM off or some effect of being out of Lunar orbit. We don't know, so we'll have to puzzle before we can give a better answer.
07 06 06 12
Neil Armstrong (CDR): Okay.

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