Spacelog Apollo 11

Apollo 11, Houston with a little recovery force information. Over.

Go ahead.

Roger. The Hornet is on station just far enough off the target point to keep from getting hit. Recovery 1, or the chopper, is there; they're on station. And Hawaii Rescue 1 and 2, the C 130's, are within 40 minutes of your target point. Over.

Apollo 11, Houston.

Go ahead.

Roger. Just to get a little downlink here to check out our VHF: I show us about an hour and 37 minutes, approximately, from entry interface. Over.

Okay. That's about right.

Okay. Looks like we're together on that, and I guess we're standing by for you to whip into the entry attitude.

Okay. We've just been taking a couple of last minute pictures. We've finished the EMS entry check, primary water EVAP activation.

Apollo 11, Houston.

Go ahead.

Roger, Mike. We recommend the left VHF antenna for VHF.

And this is your friendly backup CMP. Have a good trip, and may—remember to come in BEF.

You better believe. Thank you kindly.

We can see the Moon passing by the window and it looks what I considered to be a correct size.

Houston, Apollo 11. Like to switch to S band OMNI C. I just did a minute ago, and noticed a loss of signal strength, over.

Roger, Apollo 11. Go ahead and try it again now that you're in attitude.

Apollo 11, Houston.

Apollo 11, Houston.

Go ahead, Ron.

Roger. Faces are red here. We lost data with you there for a while. Did you do the P52? Over.

That's affirmative, we completed the P52. We'll give you the data from it in just a second. We passed our sextant star check at entry attitude, and right now we're maneuvering to our first horizon check pitch attitude of 298 degrees.

Apollo 11, Houston. About 4 minutes to 1 hour, and I'll give you a mark at 1 hour. Was a command module preheat necessary? Over.

Negative that.

Apollo 11, Houston.

Go ahead.

Roger. We don't want to jettison the hydrogen tank that stratified, so could you cycle the fans in tank 2 please? Hydrogen tank 2.

You better believe, that old service module has taken good care of us. We want to take good care of it.

It sure has, hasn't it.

11, Houston. I'll give you a time hack at 58 minutes to go. It's about 15 seconds yet.

Thank you.

Stand by.

MARK.

Apollo 11, Houston. Command module RCS looks fine to us.

Same here, Ron. Looks very good. Doesn't make as much noise as we thought. Some of them are barely audible.

Roger.

And 11, Houston. Weather still holding real fine in the recovery area.

Roger.

Looks like it's about 1500 scattered, high scattered. And it's still 3 to 6 foot waves.

Hey, that part of it sounds good.

Roger.

11, Houston, I'll give you another Mark at 33 minutes. Stand by.

MARK.

Houston, Apollo 11. Do you have any recommended settings to catch the sunset. Over.

Roger. Well, the time is 36 41. And stand by for some settings.

Okay. I'll probably only be doing it maybe—part of it at six frames a second, some it at one. So I could be changing settings as it goes through.

Roger. Copy.

And the horizon check passes; it's right on the money.

Hey, mighty fine. Sounds good.

Apollo 11, Houston. On the shooting at the Sun, f:16th at 1 over 250.

Understand f:16 at 1 over 250.

Roger.

And the Sun is going down on schedule. It's getting real dark in here.

Apollo 11, Houston. We see you getting ready for SEP. Everything looks mighty fine down here.

Same here, Ron. Thank you.

Apollo 11, Houston. You're still looking mighty fine from here. You're cleared for landing.

We appreciate that, Ron. Thank you.

Roger. Gears down and locked.