Spacelog Apollo 11

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

58 minutes.

Okay. You've got it.

Okay. Here it comes.

Apollo 11, Houston.

Go ahead.