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APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-16-69 CDT 7:02 - GET T -90 - TAPE 1/1 PAO This is Apollo/Saturn Launch Control T minus 1 hour 30 minutes 55 seconds and counting. All elements are GO with the countdown at this time, the countdown aimed at landing 2 astronauts on the Moon. At this time the spacecraft Test Conductor Skip Chauvin going through some checks with astronaut Mike Collins aboard the spacecraft. We're winding up this important emergency detection system test that Neil Armstrong has been participating in. Meanwhile, at the 320 foot level the closeout crew now placing the boost protective cover over the hatch now that we have completed the cabin purge and have the proper cabin environment inside the cabin. We have also performed leak checks to assure ourselves that the cabin atmosphere is valid. This boost protective cover is used during the early phases of a powered flight and it is jettisoned with the escape tower shortly after second stage ignition. Here in the firing room the launch vehicle test team's still keeping a close eye on the status of the propellants aboard the Saturn V launch vehicle. We're back to 100 percent supply with the liquid hydrogen fuel in the third stage. This problem with the leaking valve is no problem at this time. We've actually bypassed the valve that we are maintaining our hydrogen supply aboard the vehicle. All aspects GO, the weather is very satisfactory this morning, a thin cloud cover about 15,000 feet, temperature at launch time exected to be about 85 degrees. At T minus I hour, 29 minutes, 30 seconds and counting, this is Kennedy Launch Control. END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-16-69 CDT 7:11 - GET T -l:20 - TAPE 2/1 PAO This is Apollo/Saturn Launch Control T minus 1 hour, 20 minutes, 55 seconds and counting. All is still GO with the countdown for Apollo 11 at this time. At this point in the countdown Spacecraft Commander Neil Armstrong once again appears to be the busiest worker in the spacecraft as he is performing a series of alignment checks associated with the guidance system in the spacecraft. He is working these checks with the spacecraft test conductor as the test conductor reads out the various procedures and Armstrong responds to them. The astronauts aboard the spacecraft also were informed by the spacecraft conductor a short while ago that the launch vehicle is GO at this time. The hydrogen problem that we did encounter earlier has been solved. That is real good news said Armstrong and then he went back to work shortly thereafter. We are now coming up on the 1 hour, 20 minute mark in the countdown. This is Kennedy Launch Control. END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-16-69 CDT 7:21 - GET T -1:11:55 - TAPE 3/1 PAO This is Apollo Saturn Launch Control. T minus one hour, 11 minutes, 55 seconds and counting. The countdown for Apollo 11 still going very satisfactorily at this time. In most cases we're a matter of 5 or 10 minutes ahead of the countdown procedures. The crew in the white room at the 10 and 20 foot level who have been aiding the astronauts up to this time are just in the process of finishing up their work. They've been advised by the spacecraft test conductor that they'll probably be able to move out in about 3 minutes or so. Once this is accomplished, once the close-out crew does depart, we'll be ready to move that swing-arm back - swing-arm 9. It will be moved 12 degrees away from the spacecraft hatch which is about 5 feet away from the hatch. Once this is accomplished, we will arm the pyrotechnic systems in the spacecraft so in the event of a possible catastrophic condition below them, the launch vehicle, while still on the pad, the astronauts could fire that escape rocket and separate from the rocket in difficulty. The close-out crew are about to depart at this time. That swing-arm remains about 12 degrees away from the spacecraft hatch as mentioned - 5 feet or so until the 5-minute mark in the count when it's fully retracted to it's fall-back position. The obvious reason here is in the event we do have to get the astronauts out in a hurry, the swing-arm is in a stand-by position and could be moved rapidly back to the hatch - to the hatch level so the astronauts could depart in the event of an emergency. We're coming up on T minus 1 hour, 10 minutes, and 20 seconds. This is Kennedy Launch Control. END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-16-69 CDT 7:25 - GET T -1:07:25 - TAPE 4/1 PAO This is Apollo/Saturn Launch Control at 1 hours 7 minutes 25 seconds and counting, countdown still proceeding satisfactorily. For those people who would like to synchronize their watches in relation to the count, we'll synchronize on 26 minutes past the hour, which is now about 65 seconds away. We'll count down the last 5 seconds to 26 minutes past the hour. We're now 1 minute away from 26 minutes past the hour. In the meantime, we do have information from the Civil Defense Agency in the area. The estimate is more than a million persons are in the immediate area in Brevard County to watch the launch. Now 40 seconds away from 26 minutes past the hour. Civil Defense Agency reports further that there is extensive heavy traffic, a number of traffic jams, particularly in the area of Titusville and the U.S. 1 and Route 50. Countdown still progressing satisfactorily. 15 seconds away from 26 minutes. 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, Mark. 8:26 am Eastern Daylight Time. We're now 1 hour 5 minutes 55 seconds and counting as it was announced at that point. This is Kennedy Launch Control. END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-16-69 CDT 7:31 - GET T -61 min - TAPE 5/1 PAO This is Apollo-Saturn launch control. T-61 minutes and counting - T-61 minutes on the Apollo 11 countdown, and all elements are GO at this time. Astronaut Neil Armstrong has just completed a series of checks on that big service propulsion system engine that sits below him in the stack. We want to assure ourselves before liftoff that that engine can respond to commands from inside the spacecraft. As Neil Armstrong moved his rotational hand controller we assured ourselves that the engine did respond by swiveling or gimballing. This is - course is important for maneuvers in space. The countdown is still proceeding very satisfactorily other than two minor problems essentially picked up the count at 11 pm eastern daylight time last night, all has gone well. As we approach the one hour mark now, in the count of series of radio frequency and telemetry checks will be in progress with the launch vehicle. We'll also check out the tracking beacons in the instrument unit that travels as a guidance system for the Saturn 5 during the powered phase of flight. Now 59 minutes, 48 seconds and counting, this is Kennedy launch control. END OF TAPE APOLLO 1I MISSIOW COMMENTARY 7-16-69 CDT 7:36 - GET T -56 - TAPE 6/1 PAO This is Apollo/Saturn Launch Control. We have just passed the 56-minute mark in our countdown. We are still proceeding in an excellent manner at this time. All elements reporting in that all systems continuing to look good at this point. We are still aiming toward our planned liftoff at the start of the lunar window 9:32 AM eastern daylight. A short while ago, in fact the spacecraft test conductor - we are doing quite well, in fact some 15 minutes ahead on some aspects of the preparation spacecraftwise. Armstrong replied that was fine so long as we don't launch 15 minutes early. I guess they are referring to the start of the window. The countdown is still going well, T minus 55 minutes, 10 seconds in counting, this is Kennedy Launch Control. END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-16-69 CDT 7:41 - GET T -50:51 - TAPE 7/1 PAO This is Apollo/Saturn Launch Control. We have passed the 51 minute mark in our countdown. We're now T minus 50 minutes 51 seconds and counting. Apollo 11 countdown is still GO at this time, all elements reporting ready at this point in the countdown. The spacecraft - correction - the Test Supervisor Bill Schick has advised all hands here in the control center and spacecraft checkout people that in about 30 seconds that big swing arm that has been attached to the spacecraft up to now will be moved back to a parked position some 5 feet away from the spacecraft. We alert the astronauts because there is a little jolt when this arm is moved away. It will remain in that position some 5 feet away from the spacecraft until the 5 minute mark in the count when it's completely pulled away to its retracted position. It's coming up now in 5 seconds, the swing arm will come back. Mark. The swing arm now coming back from the spacecraft. Countdown proceeding satisfactortly, we've completed our telemetry checks with the launch vehicle and at this point with the swing arm back we arm the pyrotechnics so that escape tower atop the astronauts, atop their spacecraft, could be used if a catastrophic condition was going to occur under them with the launch vehicle from this point on down in the countdown. We have the high speed elevator located at the 320 foot level in the event the astronauts have to get out in a hurry. This is a special precaution. One of the members of the support team for Apollo 11, Astronaut Bill Pogue, is here in the firing room. He acts as Capsule Communication during the countdown. His call sign is Stoney. He controls that elevator. He now has it locked at the 320 foot level. These are special precautions for safety purposes during the final phase of the count. Now coming up on the 49 minute in the countdown, this is Kennedy Launch Control. END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-16-69 CDT 7:46 - GET T -45:42 - TAPE 8/1 PAO This is Apollo Saturn Launch Control. We've passed the 46-minute mark in our countdown. T minus 45 minutes, 52 seconds and counting. All elements still GO the countdown at this time. The hard work on the spacecraft at this point in the countdown - Astronaut Buzz Aldrin in the middle seat. He's been working with the spacecraft test conductor on setting up proper switch settings in preparation for pressurizing the reaction control system. These are these big thrusters on the side of the service module. There's actually 16 of them in 4 quadrants around the service module. They are used for maneuvers in space. We pressurized that system before liftoff. That particular operation will be coming up in some 5 minutes or so. In preparation for it, Buzz Aldrin who has most of the switches in front of him has been preparing for that particular event. The launch vehicle people keeping an eye on the status of the various propellants aboard the Saturn V launch vehicle. Just at liftoff, we will have the vehicle weighing close to 6 and a half million pounds on the launch pad. There's more that a million gallons of propellants aboard the 3 stages of Saturn V. The report here in the control center are the propellants are stable. They did look a little while ago at the RP 1, the high-grade kerosend fuel that's used in the first stage of the Saturn V to make sure it was at it's top level. We keep an eye on these various aspects throughout the count, and use the aid of computers to keep an overall look on general status. So now at T minus 44 minutes, 21 seconds and counting, this is Kennedy Launch Control. END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-16-69 CDT 7:51 - GET T -40:53 - TAPE 9/1 PAO This is Apollo-Saturn launch control. We've passed the 41 minute mark in our count. T-40 minutes, 53 seconds and counting. We are continuing, and we're continuing very excellently at this time. There are no problems that have been reported in as the countdown continues to click down. We're still aiming for the start of our window on this, the first flight to land man on the moon. Our - we're aiming toward our planned liftoff time of 9:32 am eastern daylight time. Coming up shortly will be a key test here in the firing room. As far as the launch vehicle people are concerned, it's a - some final checks of the destruct system aboard the three stages of the Saturn-5 launch vehicle. In the event during powered flight that the vehicle strayed rather violently off course, the main safety officer could take action to destroy the vehicle which obviously would occur after the astronauts were separated by their escape tower from the faulty vehicle. We'll make a check of the destruct system to assure that if the signal is required to get through that, in fact, it will. This is what is coming up here in the control center at this time. All aspects of the mission still GO at T-39 minutes, 47 seconds and counting. This is Kennedy launch control. END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-16-69 CDT 7:56 - GET T -35:48 - TAPE 10/1 PAO This is Apollo/Saturn Launch Control. We have passed the 36-minute mark in our countdown. T minus 35 minutes, 48 seconds and counting. We've completed those range safety command checks. All still going well with the countdown. A short while ago Spacecraft Test Conductor, Skip Chauvin, asked Neil Armstrong if the crew was comfortable up there and Neil reported back. He said it is very comfortable - it's very nice this morning. For a status report, we will now switch to Mission Control, Houston. PAO This is Apollo Mission Control. Flight Director, Cliff Charlesworth's team is on station here in the Mission Operations Control Room, ready to assume the control of this flight at tower clearance. There is a possibility that Apollo 11 will check out the command module color TV camera during the first earth revolution while in contact with the Goldstone station. If this checkout does occur, we acquire Goldstone at 1 hour, 29 minutes elapsed time. We have loss of signal at 1 hour, 33 minutes, 50 seconds elapsed time. This TV camera checkout is a possibility. This is Mission Control, Houston. END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-16-69 CDT 8:01 - GET T -30:52 - TAPE 11/1 PAO This is Apollo/Saturn Launch Control. We've just passed the 31 minute mark in our count. At T minus 30 minutes 52 seconds and counting, aiming toward our planned liftoff time of 32 minutes past the hour, the start of launch window on this the mission to land men on the Moon. The countdown still proceeding very satisfactorily at this time. We've got by an important test with the launch vehicle checking out the various batteries in the 3 stages and instrument unit of the Saturn V. We remain on external power through most of the count to preserve those batteries which must be used during the powered flight. We've just taken a look at them by going internal and then switching back to external again. The batteries all look good. The next time we go internal will be at the 50 second mark with those batteries and they will remain, of course, on internal power during the flight. The lunar module, which has been rather inactive during these latter phases of the count also is going on internal power at this time on the 2 batteries on the ascent stage and the 4 batteries on the descent stage. For the next 20 minutes we will take a look at some systems in the lunar module and then power down at about the 10 minute mark in the count, power down the telemetry to preserve the power of the LM. The lunar module on Apollo 11, of course, when it separates from the command module in lunar orbit, will have the call sign Eagle. The command module call sign, once the 2 vehicles separate, will be Columbia. Both Columbia and Eagle are GO at this time at 29 minutes 24 seconds and counting. This is Kennedy Launch Control. PAO This is Apollo/Saturn Launch Control. We've just passed the 26 minute mark in the count, T minus 25 minutes 53 seconds and counting, still proceeding very satisfactorily. At this time Spacecraft Test Conductor Skip Chauvin working with Astronaut Buzz Aldrin in the middle seat covering the final pressurization of the reaction control system for the spacecraft. Those are the big thrusters on the side of the service module that are used for maneuvers in space. Each one of these thrusters is capable of 100 pounds of thrust, there are 16 of them located in 4 quadrants around the service module. We pressurize the system with helium prior to launch to make sure that all will be in readiness for use in space. The countdown still proceeding satisfactorily. We picked up at the T minus 9 hour mark at 11:00 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time last evening. We've just had 2 comparatively minor problems since that time. The major portion of the countdown during the early morning hour some 5 hours of work was taken to load the various propellants aboard the stages of the Saturn V launch vehicle. As we came into the count this morning we did already have the fuel aboard the first stage, but it was necessary to bring the liquid oxygen aboard all 3 stages and the liquid hydrogen fuel aboard the second and third stages. APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-16-69 CDT 8:01 - GET T -30:52 - TAPE 11/2 PAO Close to 3/4 of a million gallons of propellants were loaded during these 5 hours. Following that the astronauts, the prime crew, were awakened at 4:15 a.m. Eastern Daylight as planned in their countdown, and proceeded to have their physical examination in which they were declared flight ready. They sat down for the normal astronaut meal on launch day as far as breakfast is concerned, orange Juice, steaks, scrambled eggs, toast and coffee. The 3 pilots were joined by 2 of their coleagues at breakfast, Director of Flight Crew Operations Deke Slayton and the backup command module pilot Bill Anders who has been named the Executive Secretary of the National Aeronautics and Space Council. The astronauts departed from their crew quarters. After checking out their suits they departed from the crew quarters at 6:27 a.m. and some 27 minutes later and 8 miles away from the crew quarters at the Kennedy Space Center a top the launch pad at complex 39, 6:54 a.m. the commander, astronaut Neil Armstrong, was the first aboard the spacecraft. He was followed about 5 minutes later by Mike Collins and finally Buzz Aldrin, the man who is sitting in the middle seat during liftoff, was the third astronaut to come aboard. Two minor problems have been encountered during the count. Early in the count a malfunction light came on here in the control center indicating that we might have a communication problem at the launch pad. Nothing to do with the spacecraft, but it indicated we possibly might not be able to talk to some key technicians we had at the pad. The problem turned out to be very minor, a simple adjustment of some equipment beneath the pad remedied the problem. There was no, in fact, no equipment problem involved. The second problem, we did encounter a leaky valve in part of the equipment that is used to replenish the hydrogen fuel supply on the third stage of the Saturn V launch vehicle. A team of technicians were sent up to the launch pad at about the time the astronauts were traveling to the pad. They tightened some bolts and we were able to bypass this valve and to proceed with our countdown. The weather is certainly GO. It's a beautiful morning for a launch to the Moon. We expect a temperature of about 85 degrees in the Kennedy Space Center area. The wind is about 10 knots from the southeast, and the weather condition in the round-the-world track, according to reports to the Manned Space Flight Meterology group indicate all weather conditions are acceptable for launch. That's our general status. We've Just passed the 22 minute mark in the count. 21 minutes 55 seconds and counting, this is Kennedy Launch Control. END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-16-69 CDT 8:16 - GET T -16 - TAPE 12/1 PAO This is Apollo/Saturn Launch Control. We are now less than 16 minutes away from the planned liftoff for the Apollo 11 space vehicle. All still going well with the countdown at this time. The astronauts aboard the spacecraft have had a little chance to rest over the last few minutes or so. At least they have not been busy with procedures with the spacecraft test conductor. In the meantime we have been performing final checks on the tracking beacons and the instrument unit which is used as a guidiance system during the powered phase of flight. Once we get down to the 3-minute and 10-second mark in the countdown, we'll go on an automatic sequence. As far as the launch vehicle is concerned all aspects from there on down will be automatic, run by the ground master computer here in the firing room. This will lead up to the 8.9-minute mark in the countdown when the ignition sequence will begin in those five engines of the first stage, the S-IC stage of Saturn V. At the 2-second mark we'll get information and a signal that all engines are running and at the zero mark in the countdown once we get the commit signal, the signal that says that the thrust is proper and acceptable, we then will get a commit and liftoff as the hold-on arms release the vehicle. We have some 7.6 million pounds of thrust pushing the vehicle upwards, a vehicle that weighs close to 6 and one-half million pounds. We are now 14 minutes and 30 seconds and counting and this is Kennedy Launch Control. END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-16-69 CDT 8:21 - GET T -10:54 - TAPE 13/1 PAO This is Apollo Saturn Launch Control. We've passed the 11-minute mark. Now T minus 10 minutes 54 seconds on our countdown for Apollo 11. All still GO at this time. The astronauts in the spacecraft busy again. The commander Neil Armstrong has performed some final switch settings for the stabilization and control system of the spacecraft. The spacecraft also now is on full internal power. This came shortly after the 15-minute mark. Spacecraft now on the full power of it's fuel cells. Up to this time, it had been sharing the load with an external power source. Both Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin have armed their rotational hand controllers - the controllers they use in flight and we have now gone to automatic system with the emergency detection system. That system - it would que the astronauts if there's trouble down below with the Saturn V rocket during the powered flight, we're now coming up on the 10-minute mark. 10 minutes away from our planned liftoff. Mark T minus 10 minutes and counting, T minus 10. We're aiming for our planned liftoff at 32 minutes past the hour. This is Kennedy Launch Control. END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-16-69 CDT 8:26 - GET T -5:52 - TAPE 14/1 PAO This is Apollo-Saturn launch control. We've passed the 6 minute mark in our countdown for Apollo 11. Now 5 minutes, 52 seconds and counting. We're on time at the present time for our planned lift off of 32 minutes past the hour. Spacecraft test conductor, Skip Chauvin now has completed the status check of his personnel in the control room. All report they are GO for the mission, and this has been reported to the test supervisor, Bill Schick. The test supervisor now going through some status checks. Launch operations manager, Paul Donnelly, reports GO for launch. Launch director Rocco Petrone, gives a GO. We're 5 minutes, 20 seconds and counting. Coming up shortly that swing arm up at the spacecraft level will come back to its fully retracked position. It should occur at the 5 minute mark in the count. In the meantime the lunar module telemetry has been powered down. We took a good look at Eagle, and it looks good. The spacecraft test conductor for the lunar module reported that Eagle was GO. The swing arm now coming back to its fully retracted position as our countdown continues. T-4 minutes, 50 seconds and counting. Skip Chauvin informing the astronauts that the swing arm now coming back. The astronauts will have a few more reports coming up in the countdown. The last business report will be from Neil Armstrong at the 45 seconds mark in the count when he gives the status on the final alignment of the stabilization and control system. We're now passing the 4 minute, 30 second mark in the countdown - still GO at this time. Four minutes, 15 seconds - the test supervisor now has informed launch vehicle test conductor, Norm Carlson, you are GO for launch. From this time down, Carlson handles the countdown as the launch vehicle begins to build up. We're now hitting the 4 minute mark. Four minutes and counting. We are GO for Apollo 11. We'll go on an automatic sequence as standing at 3 minutes and 7 seconds. Three minutes, 45 seconds and counting. In the final abort checks between several key members of the crew here in the control center and the astronauts' launch operations manager, Paul Donnelly wished the crew on and the launch teams we have good luck and God speed. Three minutes, 25 seconds and counting. We're still GO at this time. We'll be coming up on the automatic sequence in about 10 or 15 seconds from this time. All still GO at this time. Neil Armstrong reported back when he received the good wishes, thank you very much. We know it will be a good flight. Firing command coming in now. We are on the automatic sequence. We're apprpaching the 3 minute mark in the count. T-3 minutes and counting. T-3 - we are GO with all elements of the mission at this time. We're on an automatic sequence system as the computer supervises hundreds of events occurring over these last few minutes. T-2 minutes, 45 seconds and counting. APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-16-69 CDT 8:26 - GET T -5:52 - TAPE 14/2 PAO The members of the launch team here in the control center monitoring a number of what we call red-line values. These are tolerances we don't want to go above and below in temperatures and pressures. They're standing by to call out any deviations from our plans. Two minutes, 32 seconds and counting. We're still GO on Apollo 11 at this time. The vehicle starting to pressurize as far as the propellant tanks are concerned, and all is still GO as we monitor our status for it. Two minutes, 10 seconds and counting. The target for the Apollo 11 astronauts, the moon. At liftoff we'll be at a distance of 218,096 miles away. Just passed the 2 minute mark in the countdown. T-1 minute, 54 seconds and counting. Our status board indicates that the oxidizer tanks in the second and third stages now have pressurized. We continue to build up pressure in all three stages here at the last minute to prepare it for liftoff. T-1 minute, 35 seconds on the Apollo mission, the flight that will land the first man on the moon. All indications are coming in to the control center at this time indicate we are GO. One minute, 25 seconds and counting. Our status board indicates the third stage completely pressurized. Eighty second mark has now been passed. We'll go on full internal power at the 50 second mark in the countdown. Guidance system goes on internal at 17 seconds leading up to the ignition sequence at 8.9 seconds. We're approaching the 60 second mark on the Apollo - - END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-16-69 CDT 8:16 - GET T -1 - TAPE 15/1 PAO leading up to the ignition sequence 8.9 seconds. We are approaching the 60-second mark on the Apollo 11 Mission. T-60 seconds and counting. We have passed T-60. 55 seconds and counting. Neil Armstrong just reported back. It's been a real smooth countdown. We have passed the 50-second mark. Our transfer is complete on an internal power with the launch vehicle at this time. 40 seconds away from the Apollo 11 liftoff. All the second stage tanks now pressurized. 35 seconds and counting. We are still go with Apollo 11. 30 seconds and counting. Astronauts reported, feels good. T-25 seconds. 20 seconds and counting. T-15 seconds, guidiance is internal, 12, 11, 10, 9, ignition sequence starts, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, zero, all engines running, LIFTOFF. We have a liftoff, 32 minutes past the hour. Liftoff on Apollo 11. Tower cleared. PAO Neil Armstrong reporting their roll and pitch program which puts Apollo 11 on a proper heading. Plus 30 seconds. SC Rolls complete and a pitch is program. One BRAVO. PAO One BRAVO is an abort control mode. Altitude is 2 miles. CAPCOM All is well at Houston. You are good at 1 minute. PAO Down range 1 mile, altitude 3 - 4 miles now, velocity is 2,195 feet per second. We are through the region of maximum dynamic pressure now. 8 miles down range, 12 miles high, velocity 4,000 feet per second. CAPCOM Stand by for Mode 1 Charlie MARK Mode 1 Charlie. SC 1 Charlie. PAO Cliff Charlesworth taking a staging status. CAPCOM This is Houston, you are GO for staging. SC Inboard cutoff. PAO Inboard engines out. CAPCOM Inboard cutoff. PAO Down range 35 miles, 30 miles high. Standing by for the outboard engine cutdown now. SC Staging and ignition. CAPCOM 11, Houston, thrust is GO all engines, you are looking good. SC Roger. Hear you loud and clear, Houston. APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-16-69 CDT 8:16 - GET T -1 - TAPE 15/2 PAO At 3 minutes, downrange 70 miles, 43 miles high, velocity 9300 feet per second. SC We've got skirts up. CAPCOM Roger, we confirm. Skirts up. SC Tower is gone. CAPCOM Roger. Tower. PAO Neil Armstrong confirming both the engine skirt separation and the launch escape tower separation. SC Houston be advised the visual is GO today. CAPCOM This is Houston. Roger, out. SC Yes, they finally gave me a window to look out. CAPCOM 11, Houston, your guidiance is converged, you are looking good. PAO Downrange 140 miles, altitude is 62 miles, velocity 10,300 feet per second. CAPCOM 11, Houston, you are GO at 4 minutes. SC Roger. PAO Apollo 11 right on the ground track. PAO 190 miles downrange now, 72 miles high, velocity 11,000 feet per second. PAO Booster says it is looking good at 5 minutes. CAPCOM This is Houston, you are GO at 5 minutes. SC Roger, Apollo 11, GO. PAO Downrange 270 miles, altitude is 82 miles, velocity is 12 472 feet per second. CAPCOM S-IVB to COI capability. SC Okay. CAPCOM MARK S-IVB to COI capability. SC Roger. PAO Apollo 11 could now get into orbit using the S-IVB if necessary. SC - sitting in your living room. CAPCOM Oh, thank you. You are coming through beautifully, too. PAO Everyone is reporting GO here in the Control Center. SC - 6 minutes, starting the gimbal motors . CAPCOM Roger 11, you are GO from the ground at 6 minutes. APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-16-69 CDT 8:16 - GET T -1 - TAPE 15/3 CAPCOM Apollo 11, this is Houston. Level sense arm at 8 plus 17, outboard cutoff at 9 plus 11. PAO Level sense arm is the sequence that arranges the staging between the second stage and the third stage. The fuel - uncovers the sensor starting that sequence. Predicting that will be uncovered at 8 minutes 17 seconds with outboard engine cutoff at 9 minutes 11 seconds on the second stage. SC Apollo 11 is good at 7 minutes. CAPCOM Roger, 11, this is Houston. You are GO from the ground at 7 minutes. Level sense arm at 8 plus 17 outboard cutoff at at 9 plus 11. SC Roger. PAO Downrange 530 miles, altitude 95 miles, velocity 17,358 feet per second. PAO Apollo 11 is still right down the ground track and still GO, at 7 minutes, 41 seconds. CAPCOM Roger, we confirm. PAO Inboard engines are out on the second stage as planned. PAO Apollo 11 GO on all sources. CAPCOM 11, Houston, you are GO at 8 minutes. SC We just got the mixture ratioshift. CAPCOM Roger, we've got PU shift down here, too. SC It's a nice day for it. These thunderstorms downrange is about all. CAPCOM 11, this is Houston. You are GO for staging. Over. SC S-band, GO for staging. CAPCOM Stand by for Mode IV Capability. SC Mode IV. CAPCOM MARK, Mode IV capability. PAO Mode IV on Apollo 11 could get into orbit using the service propulsion system now. Altitude is 100 miles, downrange is 883 miles, outboard engine cutoff. SC - and ignition. CAPCOM Engine confirmed, thrust is GO, 11. PAO And we have a good third stage now. PAO Velocity is 23,128 feet per second. Downrange 1000 miles, altitude 101 miles. CAPCOM Apollo 11, this is Houston, at 10 minutes you are GO. APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-16-69 CDT 8:16 - GET T -1 - TAPE 15/4 SC Roger, 11, GO. PAO Capcom Bruce McCandless giving the reports here in the Control Center. CAPCOM Apollo 11, this is Houston, predicted cutoff at 11 plus 42. Over. SC 11 42. Roger. PAO Downrange 1,175 miles, velocity 24,190 feet per second and altitude 102 nautical miles. PAO Apollo 11 still GO on all sources. CAPCOM Apollo 11, this is Houston. You are GO at 11. SC Roger. PAO We are predicting third stage shutdown at 11 minutes, 42 seconds. Velocity 25,254 feet er second. Downrange 1,400 miles now. Altitude 102.8 nautical miles. SC Shutdown. PAO Shutdown right on time. SC 101.4 by 103.6 CAPCOM Roger. Shutdown. We copy 101.4 by 103.6. END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-16-69 CDT 8:44 - GET 12:04 - TAPE 16/1 CAPCOM Apollo 11, this is Houston. You are confirmed GO. SC Roger. CAPCOM This is Houston. The booster is safe. SC Roger. PAO We show velocity and insertion 25,568 feet per second. CAPCOM Apollo 11, this is Houston. The booster has been configured for orbital coast. Both spacecraft are looking good. Over. SC Roger. CAPCOM Apollo 11, this is Houston. Vanguard LOS at 1535. AOS Canary at 1630. Over. SC Okay, thank you. PAO This is Apollo Control. Based on a vector from the instrument unit of the third stage of the Saturn V, here on the ground we're showing an orbit of 102.5 by 99.7 nautical miles. The flight dynamics officer, Dave Reed, wants to get some radar tracking to refine this orbit and he will report a refined orbit after more radar tracking. PAO This is Apollo Control at Canary Island Station. Has acquisition of Apollo 11 now. We'll continue to stand by live for any air to ground communication. We're showing an orbital weight of the combined vehicles of 297,914 pounds. COMM TECH Go ahead Houston Comm Tech, Canary Comm Tech. CAPCOM Apollo 11, this is Houston through Canary. Over. SC Roger, reading you loud and clear. Our insertion checklist is complete, and we have no abnormalities. CAPCOM Roger, and I'd like to pass up your DELTA azimuth correction at this time. Are you ready to copy? SC Stand by. SC Roger, go ahead. Ready to copy. CAPCOM Okay, DELTA azimuth correction is plus 0.22, that is plus .22 and we do recommend the P-52 alignment. Over. SC Okay, we'll go ahead with the P-52, and detecting angleplus 0.22. CAPCOM Roger, and your LOS time at Canary is 2337. Over. SC 2337. CAPCOM Houston, Roger. Out. PAO This is Apollo Control. Based on that initial orbital figures, the orbital period is 1 hour, 28 minutes, 16 seconds. This number will be refined also as we get better information on the orbit through radar tracking. At APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-16-69 CDT 8:44 - GET 12:04 - TAPE 16/2 PAO the present time, we're showing an orbital period of 1 hour, 28 minutes 17 seconds. We'll continue to stand by live through the Canary Station. CAPCOM Apollo 11, this is Houston. One minute to LOS Canary. AOS at Tananarive, 3704 in VHF simplex ALPHA. Over. END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-16-69 CDT 8:55 - GET 00:23 - TAPE 17/1 CAPCOM Apollo 11, this is Houston, coming up on LOS Canary, AOS Tananarive at 3704, simplex ALFA. Houston out. SC Roger. PAO This is Apollo Control at 23 minutes 52 seconds. Canary Island station has loss of signal from Apollo 11. We have a tape of the air-ground during the launch phase . We'll play that for you now. REPLAY OF LAUNCH TAPE PAO This is Apollo Control at 36 minutes. That's the end of the tape. We have a report on the launch heart rates now from the flight surgeon. Commander Neil Armstrong's heart rate 110, Command Module pilot Mike Collins 99, Lunar Module pilot 88. These compare with their first Gemini flights, their first liftoff back in the Gemini program. Armstrong's heart rate was 146 at that time, Collins was 125, Aldrin was 110. We have acquisition at Tananarive now. We'll stand by live now through that station. END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-16-69 CDT 9:10 - GET 00:38 - TAPE 18/1 PAO This is Apollo - - CAPCOM Apollo 11, this is Houston through Tananarive. Over. Apollo 11, Apollo 11, this is Houston through Tananarive. Over. SC Houston, Apollo 11. Read you on VHF radio system. How do you read? Over. CAPCOM Roger, 11. This is Houston. We're reading you loud and fairly clearly. For your information, Canary radar shows you in a 103.0 by 103.0 orbit. Over. SC Clear. Over. CAPCOM Roger. We can clear. SC Gene, we're just coming in to the terminator here. PAO This is Apollo Control. The orbital period at that 103 nautical mile circular orbit is 1 hour, 28 minutes, 24 seconds. CAPCOM Apollo 11, this is Houston. One minute to LOS Tananarive. AOS Carnarvon is at 52:15. Over. SC All down, roger. PAO This is Apollo Control at 42 minutes, 53 seconds. Tananarive has loss of signal. We'll come back up at 52 minutes into the mission when the Carnarvon- Australian station acquires Apollo 11. This is Mission Control, Houston. END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-16-69 CDT 9:24 - GET 00:52 - TAPE 19/1 PAO This is Apollo Control at 52 minutes and the station at Carnarvon, Australia is about to acquire Apollo 11. We'll stand by live for this pass. CAPCOM Apollo 11, this is Houston through Carnarvon. Over. SC Houston, Apollo 11. Loud and clear. Over. CAPCOM Roger 11, we're reading you the same. Both the booster and the spacecraft are looking good to us. Over. SC Houston, Apollo 11. Would you like to copy the alinement results? CAPCOM That's affirmative. SC Okay, NOUN 71 we used 30 and 37, 4 balls 1, NOUN 93 plus 00016 plus 00033 plus 00152. GET 00:48:15. Check star 34. Over. CAPCOM Roger, say again check star. SC Check star 34. CAPCOM Roger, we copy, and the angles look good. SC Tell Glenn Parker down at the Cape that he lucked out. CAPCOM Understand tell Glenn Parker he lucked out. SC Yes, he lucked out. He doesn't owe me a cup of coffee. CAPCOM This is Houston. Roger. We'll pass it on. PAO That was Buzz Aldrin giving the report and Mike Collins chiming in that at the last with the no cup of coffee report. CAPCOM Apollo 11, this is Houston. 1 minute LOS Carnarvon, AOS at Honeysuckle 59:33. Over. SC Apollo 11, roger. CAPCOM Roger, request you turn up S-band volume for the Honeysuckle pass. PAO This is Apollo Control. We've had loss of signal at Carnarvon. However, the station at Honeysuckle in Australia will acquire Apollo 11 in approximately a minute. We'll continue to stand by through the Honeysuckle pass. CAPCOM Apollo 11, Apollo 11, this is Houston on S-band. Radio check, over. SC Roger, Houston, Apollo 11 reads you loud and clear. CAPCOM This is Houston. Roger, reading you the same. Out. PAO That was Neil Armstrong in the radio check. CAPCOM Apollo 11, this is Houston, a little over 1 minute to LOS at Honeysuckle. You'll be AOS at Goldstone at 1:29:02, LOS at Goldstone 1:33:55. Over. SC Roger, Bruce, thank you. We expect TV APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-16-69 CDT 9:24 - GET 00:52 - TAPE 19/2 SC We've got it all hooked up. We have not yet turned it on. We're ready to do that now. CAPCOM Roger, we copy. We'll be configured and waiting for what ever you want to send out. PAO This is Apollo Control at 1 hour 6 minutes into the mission of Apollo 11. Honeysuckle has lost signal. Mike Collins reported just prior to LOS here that the crew would check out the TV camera at the Goldstone station. Goldstone will acquire Apollo 11 at 1 hours 29 minutes 2 seconds and will lose the spacecraft at 1 hour 33 minutes 55 seconds. We'll come back up shortly prior to acquisition at Goldstone. This is Mission Control Houston. END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-16-69 CDT 10:10 - GET 1:28 - TAPE 20/1 PAO This is Apollo Control at 1 hour and 28 minutes into the mission. We are about 10 or 12 seconds away from acquisition at Goldstone at which time we expect a checkout of the color TV camera. We will then continue live through the United States pass. CAPCOM (Garble) SC Roger, Houston, read you loud and clear. CAPCOM Roger. Reading you same, coming up on Goldstone. SC Roger. SC Cecil B. to Aldrin is standing by for instructions. CAPCOM Houston, Roger. PAO We have no downlink yet at Goldstone. We're standing by. CAPCOM Apollo 11, this is Houston. We are not receiving your FM downlink yet. We are standing by. CAPCOM Apollo 11, this is Houston. We are receiving your FM downlink now. We are standing by for TV modulations on the signal. CAPCOM Apollo 11, Apollo 11, this is Houston on radio check. Over. SC Roger. Loud and clear. We think we are transmitting to you. CAPCOM Okay, we are not receiving it yet, 11, although we have confirmed presence of your FM downlink carrier. SC Which switches do you want us to confirm? CAPCOM Stand by. CAPCOM Apollo 11, this is Houston. You were just on the fringes of coverage from Goldstone. We have just had LOS at Goldstone and we'd like to push on and get the pad messages read up to you here shortly. SC Roger. We are ready to copy. CAPCOM Apollo 11, this is Houston. I am ready with your TLI plus 90 minute abort test. CAPCOM Apollo 11, this is Houston. I am ready with your TLI-plus 90 minute abort test. SC Apollo 11 is ready to copy TLI plus 90. CAPCOM Roger. TLI plus 90, SPS G&N, APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-16-69 CDT 10:10 - GET 1:18 - TAPE 20/2 CAPCOM 63481 minus 153 plus 132, CETI 004102538, NOUN 81 minus 04761 plus 00001 plus 53361, ROLL 180 193 000. HA is NA plus 002035357363353349, Sextant Star 3352578122, the aboard sight star is not available. Latitude minus 02052 minus 02580 11887 34345 0160350. GDC aline Vega and Deneb. ROLL 071291341 no ullage undocks. I have your P37 for TLI plus 5 hours. Over. SC Go ahead TLI plus 5. CAPCOM Roger P37 format, TLI plus 5, 00744 6485 minus 165 02506. Readback over. SC TLI plus 90 SPS G&N 63481 minus 153 plus 132 004 102538 minus 04761 plus 00001 plus 53361 180 193 000. Not applicable, plus 00203 53573633 53349331578122 not available, minus 0252, minus 0258 1188734345 0160350. Vega and Deneb 071291 341. No ullage, undocked. P37 TLI plus 5. END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-16-69 CDT 10:20 - GET 1:38 - TAPE 21/1 SC 291341. No ullage undocked. P37 TLI plus 5. 00744 6485 minus 165 02506. Over. CAPCOM Apollo 11, this is Houston. Readback correct. For your information Goldstone reports receiving approximately 1 minute of FM down link carrier. We were getting ready to request you confirm the S-band OCS switches, the S-band OCS tape switch to OFF and the S-band OCS TV switch to TV. Over. SC I confirm that that is the configuration we're in. CAPCOM Roger. Let us do a little more detective work here and see if we can come up with something. SC Okay. SC Houston, Apollo 11 is ready to go ahead with the - extend the docking probe, and ready to go with the RCS hot fire when you're ready to monitor. Over. CAPCOM Roger, go ahead with the probe count. SC Roger. SC Okay, we're ready with the hot fire check when you're ready. CAPCOM Roger, we're ready 11. Go ahead. SC Roger, here's the pitch. CAPCOM Apollo 11, this is Houston. We are seeing the pitch hot firing and it looks good. SC Roger. Be advised that we are unable to hear them. CAPCOM Roger, we copy. SC Have you seen all 3 axis fire? CAPCOM We've seen pitch and yaw, we've not seen roll today. SC Okay, I'll put in a couple more rolls. CAPCOM Okay, we've got the roll in focus and you're looking good here. SC Roger. Houston, Apollo 11. We're standing by for a GO for sequence logic on. CAPCOM Apollo 11, this is Houston. Go ahead and we'll watch on TM. SC Okay. Sequence logic, 2 of them. Sequence logic 1 and 2 coming up and on them. CAPCOM Apollo 11, this is Houston, you are GO for pyro arm. SC Roger, thank you. CAPCOM Apollo 11, this is Houston. If you will give us POO in accept we have a state vector update for you. SC Roger. You have P00 in accept. CAPCOM Roger. It will probably be another 10 or 15 seconds. We're going to go up through the Vanguard. When you are ready to copy I have your TLI pad. SC Roger, ready to copy TLI pad. APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-16-69 CDT 10:20 - GET 1:38 - TAPE 21/2 CAPCOM Roger, TLI 235 14 179 071 001. Burn time 547 104356 35575 Roll for sep 357107041 301 287 319. TLI 10 minute abort pitch 223. Readback. Over. SC Roger. TLI PAD. 23514 179071001 547 10 4356 35575 357107041 301 287 319. TLI 10 minute abort pitch 223. Over. CAPCOM Apollo 11, Houston. Roger. Would you read back DELTA-VC prime again? You were cut out by noise. SC Okay. Roger, I'm picking up the squeal here, also. DELTA-VC 104356. Over. CAPCOM Apollo 11, this is Houston. Readback correct. Out. CAPCOM Apollo 11, this is Houston. We've completed the uplink, the computer is yours, you can go back to BLOCK. Would you verify that you have extended the probe? Over. SC Roger, that's verified. The probe is extended. CAPCOM Roger. About 2 minutes to LOS on this state side pass. AOS Canaries at 1:50:13. Over. SC Roger, 1:50. END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-16-69 CDT 10:30 - GET 1:48 - TAPE 22/1 PAO This is Apollo Control. The tracking ship, Vanguard, has had loss of signal, however, the Canary Island station will acquire Apollo 11 in less than a minute. We'll continue to stay up live through the Canary station. The ignition time for the translunar injection burn - an elapsed time of 2 hours, 44 minutes, 14 seconds. Duration of the burn expected to be 5 minutes, 47 seconds. We're acquiring at Canaries now. We'll stand by. CAPCOM Apollo 11, this is Houston. Over. SC Roger, Houston, Apollo 11. Loud and clear. CAPCOM Okay, on your service module RCS quad BRAVO package temperature, we're showing it running a little low. Looks like about 20 degrees low - lower than the rest of the quad. Would you confirm that your RCS heater switch for quad BRAVO is in primary? Over. SC You're correct. It was not in primary. It was off. It's on now. Thank you. CAPCOM Roger, thank you. PAO And the temperature on that reaction control system quad is coming up to normal now that the heater's on. CAPCOM Apollo 11, this is Houston. Over. SC Houston, Apollo 11. Go ahead. CAPCOM Roger. We've checked over the spacecraft and the launch vehicle guidance. They're both looking to be in good shape. We estimate you have better than a 99 percent probability of a guidance cutoff on the launch vehicle, so things are apparently holding in very well. For your information, Mila received approximately 1 minute of a usable TV picture, so apparently the system is working, and you're a little over a minute from LOS at Canary. AOS Tananarive is 2 hours, 9 minutes, and 18 seconds. Over. SC Roger. We like those 99 numbers. Thank you. CAPCOM Roger, out. PAO This is Apollo Control at 1 hour, 55 minutes into the mission. Canary has had loss of signal. We were unable to use the 1 minute of TV time from the mylar station. There is no longer a converter at Mila. The one formerly there has been sent to the Australian station. Tananarive will acquire Apollo 11 on its second orbit of the earth at 2 hours, 9 minutes, 18 seconds. We expect the translunar injection burn at 2 hours, 44 minutes, 14 seconds. Duration of 5 minutes, 47 seconds and the DELTA-V or the velocity that we will add to the spacecraft of 10,435.6 feet per second. We'll come back up at Tananarive acquisition. This is Mission Control, Houston. END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-16-69 CDT 10:40 - GET 2:08 - TAPE 23/1 PAO This Apollo Control at 2 hours, 8 minutes into the mission. Apollo 11 about to be acquired at the Tananarive station. As expected this orbit is changing slightly as the S-IVB third stage vents. We are showing an orbit now of 107 by 105.7 nautical miles in an orbital period of 1 hour, 28 minutes, 30 seconds. We have acquired Tananarive now. We'll stand by live through that station. CAPCOM Apollo 11, this is Houston, through Tananarive. How do you read? CAPCOM ApolLo 11, this is Houston standing by through Tananarive. COMM TECH Tananarive, Houston COMM TECH. Net 1. COMM TECH Tananarive, Houston, COMM TECH. Net 1. COMM TECH Goddard voice, Houston COMM TECH Net 1. GODDARD Goddard voice, read you loud and clear. COMM TECH Roger, we can not raise Tananarive. TAN Houston, COMM TECH, Tananarive. COMM TECH Roger, Tananarive. Are you receiving CAPCOM's voice and are you uplinking it? TAN Negative. COMM TECH Roger. Monitor again I'll tell CAPCOM to make one more transmission. TAN Roger. CAPCOM Apollo 11, Apollo 11, this is Houston standing by through Tananarive. Over. SC Houston, Apollo 11. CAPCOM Roger. Reading you loud and clear. SC Houston, Apollo. The power is on. CAPCOM This is Houston. Roger. Out. CAPCOM Apollo 11, this is Houston. 1 minute to LOS Tananarive, AOS at Carnarvon, 22530. SC Roger. PAO This is Apollo Control at 2 hours, 16 minutes. Tananarive has loss of signal. The Carnarvon station will acquire at 2 hours, 25 and one-half minutes and during the Carnarvon pass the GO/NO GO decision will be made for the translunar injection maneuver. That maneuver to occur at about 27 minutes from now near the - spacecraft is near the Gilbert Islands, about halfway between Australia and Hawaii. We will come back up just prior to Carnarvon acquisition. This is Mission Control, Houston. END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-16-69 CDT 10:57 - GET 2:25 - TAPE 24/1 PAO This is Apollo Control at 2 hours 5 minutes and Carnarvon has acquired Apollo 11. At LOS here at Carnarvon we will have several ARIA's, Apollo Range Instrumented Aircraft, in the area between LOS Carnarvon and acquisition at the tracking ship Redstone, so we may have the capability of continuous communications between now and the TLI burn. We'll stand by through Carnarvon. CAPCOM Apollo 11, this is Houston through Carnarvon. Radio check, over. SC Roger, Houston through Carnarvon, Apollo 11, loud and clear. CAPCOM Roger, you're coming in very loud and very clear here. Out. CAPCOM Apollo 11, this is Houston, you are GO for TLI. Over. SC Apollo 11, thank you. CAPCOM Roger, out. CAPCOM Apollo 11, this is Houston, over. SC Houston, 11. CAPCOM Roger. We'll be coming within range of the ARIA aircraft coverage here in about 1 minute. They're going to try uplinking both on S-band and on VHF this time, so if you'll make sure your S-band volume is turned up we'll appreciate it and we believe that we'll have continuous coverage from now on through this TLI burn. Over. SC Very good. CAPCOM Apollo 11, Apollo 11, this is Houston through ARIA 4. Radio check, over. SC Houston, we read you strength 4 and a little scratchy. CAPCOM Roger, we're reading you strength 5, readability 3, should be quite adequate. CAPCOM Apollo 11, Apollo 11, this is Houston. We're reading you readability about 3, strength 5, sounds pretty good. Over. SC Roger. We've got a little static in the background now. PAO This is Apollo Control. We are 10 minutes away from ignition on translunar injection. We want to add 10,435 feet per second to the spacecraft's velocity, looking for a total velocity at the end of this burn of about 35,575 feet per second. END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-16-69 CDT 11:07 - GET 2:35 - TAPE 25/1 CAPCOM Apollo 11, this is Houston through Aria 3, radio check, over. SC Roger, Houston, Apollo 11, you are much clearer and adquately read. Over. CAPCOM Roger, 11, you are coming in 5 by 5 here. Beautiful signal. SC This is lot better than the static we had previously. CAPCOM Okay. SC And we got the time base fix indications on time. CAPCOM This is Houston. Roger. Out. CAPCOM Apollo 11, this is Houston. We just got telemetry back down on your booster and it is looking good. SC Roger. It looks good here. CAPCOM Houston, Roger, out. PAO This is Apollo Control. We are 2 minutes from ignition now. We are showing present altitude of about 108 nautical miles. We expect to be in an altitude of 177 nautical miles at cutoff. The present velocity is 25,560 feet per second. We are one minute from ignition. CAPCOM Apollo 11, this is Houston, slightly less than 1 minute to ignition and everything is GO. END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-16-69 CDT 11:15 - GET 2:43 - TAPE 26/1 PAO and we're one minute from ignition. CAPCOM Apollo 11, this is Houston. we are slightly less than one minute to ignition and everything is GO. SC Roger. SC Ignition. CAPCOM We confirm ignition and thrust is GO. PAO Guidance looking good. velocity 26,000 feet per second CAPCOM Apollo 11, this is Houston at 1 minute. Trajectory and guidance look good and the stage is good. Over. SC Apollo 11. Roger. PAO Coming up on 27,000 feet per second. PAO Telemetry and radar tracking both solid. Velocity 27,800 feet per second. CAPCOM Apollo 11, this is Houston. Thrust is good. Everything's still looking good. SC Roger. PAO We're 2 and a half minutes into this burn. Still have another 3 minutes to go. PAO And velocity exceeds 29,000 feet per second building up toward 30,000 feet per second. PAO Present altitude 115 nautical miles. CAPCOM Apollo 11, this is Houston. Around 3 and a half minutes. You're still looking good. Your predicted cutoff is right on the nominal. SC Roger. Apollo 11's GO. PAO 31,200 feet per second now. Altitude 125 nautical miles. PAO Velocity 32,000 feet per second. Altitude 130 miles. PAO One minute left to burn. Velocity is 33,000 feet per second. Altitude 142 and a half nautical miles CAPCOM Apollo 11, this is Houston. You are GO at 5 minutes. SC Roger, we're GO. PAO 34,000 feet per second now. Altitude 152. PAO 35,000 feet per second. PAO Cut out. We're showing velocity 35, 570 feet per second. Altitude 177 nautical miles. CAPCOM Apollo 11, this is Houston. we show APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-16-69 CDT 11:15 - GET 2:43 - TAPE 26/2 CAPCOM cutoff and we copy the numbers in noun 62. CAPCOM Apollo 11, Houston, do you read? CAPCOM Apollo 11, this is Houston. Do you read? Over. SC Roger, Houston. Apollo 11. We're reading the VIL 35579 and the EMS was plus 3.3. Over. CAPCOM Roger. Plus 3.3 on the EMS. And we copy the VI. SC Hey Houston, Apollo 11. This Saturn gave us a magnificent ride. END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-16-69 CDT 11:25 - GET 2:53 - TAPE 27/1 SC Houston, Apollo 11. The Saturn gave us a magnificent ride. CAPCOM Roger, 11, we'll pass that on, and it looks like you are well on your way now. PAO That was Neil Armstrong praising the launch vehicle. SC We have no complaints with any of the 3 stages on that ride. It was beautiful. CAPCOM Roger, no transients at staging of any significance, over. SC That's right, it was nominal. All a good ride. CAPCOM Houston, roger, out. CAPCOM Apollo 11, this is Houston. For your information we expect the maneuver to separation attitude to begin at 3 plus 05 plus 03, and to be completed plus 09 plus 20. Separation at 3 plus 15 plus 00. SC Roger, time to begin maneuver is 30503, complete 30920. Separation 3 plus 1500. CAPCOM Roger, that separation should be 3 plus 15 03, my error in reading up. SC Roger. PAO This is Apollo Control, velocity falling off now. Immediately after shutdown we're showing 34,000 feet per second now. The altitude building 512 nautical miles. CAPCOM Apollo 11, this is Houston. All the booster functions are proceeding normally. The sequencing is in good shape, and it doesn't look like you are having any problems at all. Over. SC Roger. PAO This is Apollo Control and we're showing orbital weight 138,892.9 pounds. PAO This is Apollo Control at 3 hours into the mission. Velocity now 31,214 feet per second. Apollo ll's distance from Earth 1245 nautical miles. END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-16-69 CDT 11:35 - GET 3:03 - TAPE 28/1 CAPCOM Apollo 11, this is Houston. Preliminary data indicates a good cutoff on the S IVB. We'll have some more trajectory data for you in about half an hour. Over. PAO This is Apollo Control. The S IVB has started its maneuvering to the separation attitude. PAO At 3 hours 7 minutes the velocity is 27,945 feet per second. Distance from Earth 2384 nautical miles. CAPCOM Apollo 11, Apollo 11, this is Houston, over. CAPCOM Apollo 11, Apollo 11, this is Houston, over. SC Hello Houston. Hello Houston. This is Apollo 11. I'm reading you loud and clear. Go ahead, over. CAPCOM Roger, 11, this is Houston. We had to shift stations. We weren't reading you through Goldstone. We show pyro bus A armed and pyro bus B not armed at the present time. Over. SC That's affirmative, Houston, that's affirmative. CAPCOM Roger. PAO The S IVB has completed its maneuver to separation attitude. PAO 4 minutes away from separation, 4 minutes. PAO At 3 hours II minutes into the mission velocity 26 314 feet per second. Distance from Earth 3140 nautical miles. PAO The S-IVB is reported in a stable attitude for the separation. PAO Rates are less than 1/10th of a foot per second in all axis. END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-16-69 CDT 11:45 - GET 3:13 - TAPE 29/1 PAO One minute to separation. CAPCOM Apollo 11, this is Houston. You're GO for separation. Our systems recommendation is arm both pyro busses. Over. SC Okay. Pyro B coming armed. My intent is to use bottle primary 1, as per the check list therefore I just turned A on. CAPCOM Roger, we confer with the logic. PAO We' re waiting confirmation of separation. SC Houston, we're about to SEP. CAPCOM This is Houston. We copy. SC Separation complete. CAPCOM Roger. PAO We confirm the separation here on the ground. SC And (garbled) secondary propellant B went (garbled). CAPCOM That was secondary propellant on quad BRAVO? SC Quad BRAVO, yes. Both the primary and secondary (garbled). SC Houston, stand by. CAPCOM Apollo 11, this is Houston. Radio checkover. PAO The Goldstone station reports a very weak signal. We believe that (garble) is now maneuvering the spacecraft in the transposition and docking maneuver, and the antenna patterns aren't too good at the moment, so we have a weak signal strength. END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-16-69 CDT 11:55 - GET 3:23 - TAPE 30/1 CAPCOM Apollo 11, Apollo 11, this is Houston broadcasting in the blind. Request OMNI BRAVO is you read us. request OMNI BRAVO. out. CAPCOM Apollo 11, this is Houston. How do you read? PAO Goldstone still showing weak signal strength. CAPCOM Apollo 11, this is Houston. How do you read? Over. CAPCOM Apollo 11, Apollo 11, this is Houston. Do you read? Over. CAPCOM Apollo 11, this is Houston. Radio check. Over. CAPCOM Apollo 11, this is Houston. Radio check. Over. CAPCOM Roger, we've copying you about 5 by 2, very weak. Can you give us a status report, please? SC Roger, we are docked and we do want acquisition with the high gain at this time I think. CAPCOM Understand you are using the high gain, over. SC That's affirmative. CAPCOM Roger, I read you very loud and clear, Buzz. Mike is pretty weak. SC Roger, we've got the high gain locked on now I believe, auto tracking now. CAPCOM Okay, you're coming in loud and clear but Mike is just barely readable. SC That was Neil. How are you reading Mike. CAPCOM Loud and clear, Mike, and we understand that you are docked. SC That's affirmative. SC Houston, CDR. How do you read (garbled). CAPCOM 11, CDR loud and clear, Neil. SC Okay. PAO This is Apollo Control. Apollo ll's velocity now 21,096 feet per second, distance from Earth 6649 nautical miles. CAPCOM 11, this is Houston. Over. SC Houston, Apollo 11. Go ahead. CAPCOM Roger, when you commented on that BRAVO problem at separation you were a ltttie weak. Could you go through what you did after you noticed the talkback problem again, please? END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-16-69 CDT 12:05 - GET 3:33 - TAPE 31/1 CAPCOM We copied the - the primary and secondary propellant talk back on SM RCS quad BRAVO 1 to barberpole at separation. SC Roger. Roger, that's affirmative, and we moved that switch to the open position and they went back to gray. Over. CAPCOM Roger. PAO This is Apollo Control. We're 34 minutes away from extraction of the Lunar Module from its adapter in the third stage of the saturn. The crew has started pressurizing the LM. CAPCOM Apollo 11, this is Houston. Over. SC Roger, Houston. Apollo 11, go ahead. CAPCOM Roger. Could you give us comments on how the transposition and docking was? Over. SC I thought it went pretty well, Houston. Although I expect I used more gas than I've been using in the simulator. The turn around maneuver, I went pitch accel command and started to pitch up, and then when I started to pitch up, and then when I put manual attitude pitch back to rate command for some reason it - it stopped its pitch rate, and I had to go back to accel command and hit what I thought was an extra proceed on the DSKY. And during the course of that we drifted slightly further away from the S-IV B than I expected. I expected to be out about 66 feet. My guess would be I was around 100 or so, and therefore I expect I used a bit more coming back in. Except for using a little more gas, and I've used a few numbers on that everything went nominally. CAPCOM This is Houston. We copy. PAO That was Mike Collins giving the deSC ription on the transposition and docking. END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-16-69 CDT 12:15 - GET 3:43 - TAPE 32/1 SC Apollo 11. Over. CAPCOM Go ahead 11. SC Bruce, we're working on the pressurisation of the LM now and working off the decal with the SM LM pressure equalization. And we're down to step 13 where we're waiting for the cabin pressure to be 5 or should be roughly 5 before we turn the repress package O2 valve to FILL. Instead Of 5, we're running about 4.4. Over. CAPCOM Roger. Stand by a second. SC Houston, Apollo 11. We just put the repress package O2 valve to .FILL. Momentarily there at step 13 and we have filled the bottles back up partially. What's the pressure reading on them? SC We have about 450 PSI in the 3 1-pound bottle. CAPCOM Roger. Stand by a second please. SC Roger, standing by. The repress valve is now in the OFF position. What's the cabin pressure now Buzz? Cabin pressure is now 4.5. PAO At 3 hours, 46 minutes, velocity is 18,917 feet per second. Distance from Earth 9002 nautical miles. SC Houston, Apollo 11. We think these readings are in normal tolerance and we just wanted to get your concurrence before we press down any further with these decals. CAPCOM Okay, captain. SC Houston, Apollo 11. How do you read? CAPCOM Apollo 11, this is Houston. Go ahead. SC Roger. LM looks to be in pretty fine shape from about all we can see from here. CAPCOM Okay, and in reference to your question on this step 13 on the decal, I understand that you have used up the contents of the repress O2 package and at that time, instead of being up to 5 PSI, you were reading 4.4. Is that correct? SC I said 4.4, yes sir. CAPCOM Okay, and you want to know if you can go ahead and use additional oxygen to bring the command module up to 5.0 and continue the equalization? Over. SC Yes. We think it's within normal balances Bruce. We just wanted to get your concurrence before we press nominal procedure. CAPCOM Roger, Apollo 11. Go ahead. SC Okay, we pressed nominal procedure. CAPCOM And 11, Houston. We have a request for you on the service module secondary propellant fuel pressurization valve. As a precautionary measure, we'd like you to momentarily cycle the 4 switches to the close position and then release. As you know we have no TM or talkback on these APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-16-69 CDT 12:15 - GET 3:43 - TAPE 32/2 CAPCOM Valve positions and it's conceivable that one of them might also have been moved into a different position by the shock of separation. Over. SC Okay, good idea. That's being done. CAPCOM Houston, roger. Out. CAPCOM Apollo 11, Houston. We're doing a non-propulsive vat on the booster at the present time. You may see some sort of a cloud coming out of it. When you're ready I have your evasive maneuver pad. SC Roger. It's coming out. CAPCOM Roger, out. SC It's a haze. It's going by toward our minus X direction and several small particles are moving along with it. A natural velocity is fairly high - at least it appears to be high. And we've got a 02 high - right now. CAPCOM Houston, roger. Out. END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-16-69 CDT 12:25 - GET 3:53 - TAPE 33/1 SC And, Houston, you might be interested that at my firsthand window right now, I can observe the entire continent of North America, Alaska, over the Pole, down to the Yucatan Peninsula, Cuba, northern part of South America and then I run out of window. CAPCOM Roger. We copy. PAO That was Neil Armstrong with that report. SC Houston, Apollo 11. All 12 latches are locked. CAPCOM Roger, 11, this is Houston. Understand. 12 latches locked. PAO That was Buzz Aldrin reporting that all 12 of the latches in the docking mechanism had locked. CAPCOM 11, Houston. Whenever you possess a free moment there, we've got this Evasive Maneuver Pass. SC Roger. SC Go ahead, Houston, Apollo 11 ready to copy. CAPCOM Apollo 11, this is Houston. Evasive Maneuver SPS G&N 63481 plus 095 minus 020. GETI 004 40 01 00 plus 000 51 plus all balls, plus 00190, ROLL is your option, PITCH 213 357 NOUN 44 is NA, DELTA VT is 00 197 003 00152. The rest of the pad is NA. No ullage, LM weight 33 290. Readback. Over. CAPCOM Apollo 11, this is Houston. Standing by for your readback. Over. CAPCOM 11, Houston, do you read? Over. CAPCOM Apollo 11, this is Houston. Do you read? Over. SC All of a sudden there, we had a little click and the signal strength began to start dropping off. Your transmissions were cut off very abruptly. How do you read now? CAPCOM Roger. Loud and clear. We had a handover to Madrid about the time I was halfway through the pad. If you could give me the last value you read, I'll pick up there. Over. SC Okay, back with DELTA VZ. Over. CAPCOM Roger. DELTA VZ is plus 00190, ROLL, your option, PITCH 213 357 and NOUN 44 is NA. END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-16-69 CDT 12:35 - GET 4:03 - TAPE 34/1 CAPCOM Roll, your option. Pitch 213357 NOUN 44 is NA. DELTA-VT 00197 00300152. The rest of the pad is NA, and no ullage. LM weight 33 290. Read back. Over. SC Roger, Houston. Evasive maneuver SPS G&N. 63481 plus 095 minus 020 00440 0100 plus 00051 plus all zeros plus 00190. Roll crew option, 213357 NA 00197 003 00152 No ullage. LM weight 33290. Over. CAPCOM 11, this is Houston. Readback correct, Out. PAO This is Apollo Control at 4 hours 4 minutes Apollo ll's velocity now is 17,014 feet per second. Its distance from Earth 11,753 nautical miles. We're about 5 minutes away from ejection of the lunar module and about 35 minutes away from this evasive maneuver. Ignition time on the evasive maneuver ground elapsed time of 4 hours 40 minutes 1 second. It will be a service propulsion system burn of 3 seconds duration DELTA-V 19.7 feet per second. END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-16-69 CDT 12:45 - GET 4:13 - TAPE 35/1 SC Houston, Apollo 11. CAPCOM Go ahead, 11. SC We'd like to arm our logic switches. CAPCOM Go ahead with the logic. SC Okay, mark logic 1 and 2 armed. CAPCOM Roger, we show the logic armed, and you're GO for pyro arm. SC Houston, we're ready for LM ejection. CAPCOM Roger, you're GO for LM ejection. SC Thank you. SC Houston, we have sep. We have a cryo press, light. CAPCOM Roger, copy. Cryo press, light. CAPCOM Roger, 11. We recommend you turn the O2 fans on manually and insure that the O2 heaters are in the automatic position. SC Roger. O2 heaters are on, and we're going to cycle the O2 fans now. CAPCOM Roger, O2 heaters to AUTO, or you can watch them in the ON position and O2 fans manual ON. END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-16-69 CDT 12:55 - GET 4:23 - TAPE 36/1 CAPCOM Apollo 11, this is Houston. Over. SC Here it is now, Apollo 11. CAPCOM Roger. In answer to your question on RCS usage, it looks like you are 18 or maybe 20 pounds below nominal at the present time. No problem at all. Over. SC Great. SC Wanted to be 18 or 20 pounds above nominal. CAPCOM Sorry about that. END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-16-69 CDT 13:05 - GET 4:33 - TAPE 37/1 PAO This is Apollo Control at 4 hours, 34 minutes. Apollo ll's velocity is 14,972 feet per second. Its distance from earth is 15,895 nautical miles. The spacecraft weight 96,760.9 pounds. We're about 5 minutes away from a evasive maneuver - that one I'm sure there will be no problems of recontact between the spacecraft and the SIVB stage of the launch vehicle. CAPCOM 11, Houston. Your systems are looking good. We're standing by for the burn. PAO The duration of this burn will be 3 seconds. DELTA-V 19.7 feet per second. Ignition, shutdown. SC Houston, Apollo 11. Could you confirm that pitch gimbal motor number 1 turned off? We just shut all four off, and we got a questionable indication on the ECS on pitch 1. CAPCOM Roger. Stand by a second. Apollo 11, this is Houston. Stand by, please. SC Go ahead, Houston. Did you copy our residuals? CAPCOM Roger. We got 00 and .2 it looks like. SC We had .1 while ago. It's Just like the .2. CAPCOM Okay. SC That EMS DELTA-V counter is minus 4.0. CAPCOM Minus 4.0. Roger. SC And how about pitch gimbal 17 Can you confirm that off? CAPCOM Can you stand by just a second on that? At the present time we cannot confirm it off. We saw a current drop indicating that several motors had gone off. We'll be back with you in just a second on it. Over. SC Okay. If necessary we can recycle it. CAPCOM Apollo 11, this is Houston. If you'll go ahead and cycle pitch gimbal motor number 1 on and then off and give us a mark, and we'll tell you what we see. Over. SC Okay, fine. It's coming back on. Ready, MARK. And it's going back off. Ready, MARK. And that time we had an onboard indication, Houston. Thank you alot. CAPCOM Roger. We confirm that it is off. SC We do likewise. PAO This is Apollo Control at 4 hours, 44 minutes. A news conference at Kennedy Space Center is APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-16-69 CDT 13:05 - GET 4:33 - TAPE 37/2 PAO about to begin. We will take down the live circuits and tape air to ground during this news conference and play it back after the conference. This is Mission Control, Houston. END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-16-69 CDT 13:43 - GET 5:11 - TAPE 38/1 PAO This is Apollo Control at 5 hours, 11 minutes into the mission. The S4B slingshot maneuver was completed about 5 minutes ago. Designed to put the third stage of the launch vehicle into a trajectory that will take it behind the trailing edge of the moon and then into a solar orbit. The crew did not witness this maneuver. The command was not in the proper attitude where they could see the S-IVB at the time. We've advised the crew that we do not believe that we'll do the first midcourse correction. That we'll wait for midcourse correction 2 tomorrow and expect a DELTA V to be performed in that maneuver of about 21.3 feet per second. We've also had some other brief transmissions including a - comments from Neil Armstrong on the view out the window, and a weather report on the part of the world he can see. We have the tape of these transmissions that have occured during the news conference at the Cape. We'll play that for you now and catch up live. SC Houston, Apollo 11. We're starting our maneuver to observe the S-IVB slingshot. CAPCOM Roger, 11. We've got an updated attitude for you on the slingshot observation. SC Okay, say the angles please. CAPCOM Roger. ROLL 002.5, PITCH 289.3, YAW 357.5 and there's also an update - minor correction to your attitude for the P-52. Over. SC Roger. I'have ROLL 2.5, PITCH 289.3, and YAW 357.5. Over. CAPCOM Roger. And for your P-52 and optics calibration it'll be ROLL 346.5, PITCH 345.0, and YAW 007.8. Over. SC Roger. 346.5, 345.0, and 7.8 Thank you. CAPCOM Houston, roger. Out. CAPCOM Apollo 11, this is Houston. Over. SC Roger, go ahead Houston. Apollo 11. CAPCOM Roger. We're going to go ahead and able the S-IVB for the slingshot maneuver. the LOX dump will start about 12 minutes from now. Over. SC Okay, LOX dump about - I guess that'll make it about O1. CAPCOM Right. I'll,try to give you a little closer update as we approach it. SC Alright. CAPCOM 11, for your information, the magnetude of midcourse correction number 1, if we've burned it, looks like about 17 feet per second. We're presently considering not burning it. This could make midcourse correction 2 tomorrow about 21.3. Over. SC That sounds good to us. APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-16-69 CDT 13:43 - GET 5:11 - TAPE 38/2 CAPCOM Roger, you're looking good down here. SC Well, we didn't have much time, Houston, to talk to you about our view out the window, so when we were prepared for lunar injection, but up to that time, we had the entire northern part of the lighted hemisphere visible including North America, North Atlantic, and Europe and Northern Africa. We could see that the weather was good just about everywhere. There was one cyclonic depression in Northern Canada, in the Athabaska - probably east of Athabaska area. Greenland was clear and it appeared to be we were seeing just the icecap in Greenland. All North Atlantic was pretty good, and Europe and Northern Africa seemed to be clear. Most of the United States was clear. There was a low - looked like a front stretching from the center of the country up cross north of the Great Lakes and into Newfoundland. CAPCOM Roger, we copy. SC I didn't know what I was looking at, but I sure did like it. CAPCOM Okay. I guess the view must be pretty good from up there. We show you just roughly somewhere around 19 000 miles out now. SC I didn't have much outside my window. CAPCOM We'll get you into the PTC one of these days, and you can take turns looking. SC Houston, Apollo 11. We've completed our maneuvers to observe the slingshot attitude, but we don't see anything - no Earth and no S4B. CAPCOM Roger, stand by. In GET I have a LOX dump start time for you. It's supposed to start at 5 plus 03 plus 07 and stop at 5 plus 04 plus 55. LH burn starts at 5 plus 37 plus 47. Stop at 5 plus 42 plus 27. Over. SC Roger, thank you. CAPCOM 11, Houston. SC Go ahead Houston. CAPCOM Roger. We now recommend the following attitudes: ROLL 307.0, PITCH 354.0, YAW 019.5, and the LOX dump has already been enabled so we can't hold it off any longer. SC That's okay, go ahead. We'll maneuver around to 307, 354, and 19 and a half. CAPCOM Roger. CAPCOM 11, Houston. It doesn't look to us like you'll be able to make it around to this observation attitude in 2 minutes. We recommend that you save the fuel. Over. SC Okay, Houston. You got to us just a little late. Our maneuver's already begun, so it's going APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-16-69 CDT 13:43 - GET 5:11 - TAPE 38/3 SC to cost us about the same amount of fuel to stop it no matter where we stop it and we may as well keep going. CAPCOM Roger, go ahead. CAPCOM 11, Houston. LOX dump initiated. CAPCOM 11, Houston. LOX dump has been terminated. Over. SC Roger. We still don't have the - CAPCOM Roger, out. CAPCOM Apollo I1, this is Houston. Over. SC Go ahead. CAPCOM Roger, if you'll give us ACCEPT and stay in POO, we'll set your trunnion bias to 0 and I have a plan for balancing your oxygen cryo's. Over. SC You got it. CAPCOM Roger. SC Houston, Apollo 11. We've got the - what appears to be the S4B in sight - oh it has to be a couple of miles away. It's at our number 5 window and the dump appears to be coming out of 2 radially opposite directions from the S4B. CAPCOM Roger. they're continuing with the non-propulsive vent from a liquid oxygen tank. It would he radially opposite then. And boosters tell me it's the continuous vent system they're also dumping a small amount of fuel at this time. We've got about 23 and a half minutes or so until the APS burn. Over. SC Roger. CAPCOM 11, Houston. We have our recommended configuration for your cryo switches to even up the load between oxygen tanks 1 and 2. Over. SC (inaudible) CAPCOM Okay, you're coming in very weakly there. We're recommending O2 tank 1 heater off, O2 tank 2 heater to AUTO, O2 tanks 1 and 2 fans both OFF, H2 tank 1 heaters to AUTO, and H2 tank 2 heaters to OFF. Over. SC Roger, we have that except the last one was H2 fans to OFF. Is that affirmed? SC The configuration we have now is hydrogen heaters, we got 1 AUTO, 2 OFF, oxygen heaters 1 OFF, 2 AUTO, and we 'have all the fans OFF. CAPCOM This is Houston. Roger, we concur. Out. CAPCOM 11, this is Houston. We've completed the trunnion zero bias setting. We can retrieve the computer and go to BLOCK. SC Roger, and I thank you. CAPCOM 11, this is Houston. With this maneuvering to observe the slingshot, I guess we missed copying your LM CM DELTA P reading. Over. APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-16-69 CDT 13:43 - GET 5:11 - TAPE 38/4 SC Stand by, we'll give you a reading. CAPCOM Okay, roger. SC Right now reading 0.2 Bruce. CAPCOM Roger, 0.2. Okay, Mike, and could you verify that your waste compartment valve is in VENT then? SC Roger, waste compartment valve has been in VENT for oh I guess 45 minutes or so. CAPCOM Roger, we copy. SC If we're late in answering you, it's because we' re munching sandwiches. CAPCOM Roger. I wish I could do the same here. SC don't leave the console. CAPCOM Don't worry. I won't. SC Frank doesn't like it. SC How is Frank today? CAPCOM Oh he's doing quite well. PAO This is Apollo control at 5 hours 22 minutes. We're back live now. The Delta-P you heard diSC ussed is the difference in pressure, between the LM and the command module, the cabin pressure. Apollo I1, coming up on 22 thousand miles distance from the earth now. Velocity, 12 thousand 9 hundred 14 feet per second. END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-16-69 CDT 13:55 - GET 5:23 - TAPE 39/1 SC Houston, 11. CAPCOM Go ahead, 11. SC Down in the control center you might want to join us in wishing Dr. George Mueller a happy birthday. CAPCOM Roger. We are standing by for your birthday greetings. SC I think today is also the birthday of California and I believe they are 200 years old and we send them a happy birthday. It's Dr. Mueller 's birthday also but I don't think he is that old. CAPCOM Roger. We copy and looking back in the viewing room right now. I don't see him. SC He may not be back from the Cape yet. CAPCOM Roger. I believe Dr. Mueller is on his way back from the Cape. We will relay his greetings for you. SC Roger. CAPCOM 11, this is Houston. Over. SC Go ahead, Houston. CAPCOM Roger. At your convenience, we would like to get a waste water dump to 5 percent remaining. After completion of this one the next waste water dump will be at about GET equal to 25 hours. Over. SC Coming on right now. CAPCOM Roger. PAO This is Apollo Control at 5 hours, 31 minutes into the mission. Apollo ll's velocity now is 12,637 feet per second. Distance from earth 22,971 miles. Spacecraft weight is 96,573 pounds. END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-16-69 CDT 14:05 - GET 5:33 - TAPE 40/1 SC Houston, Apollo 11. Do you copy our torquing angles? CAPCOM Would you leave them on there for another second, please? SC Will do. CAPCOM 11, this is Houston. We copy the angles, but stand by before you go ahead and use them. Over. SC Standing by. CAPCOM Wait a minute, Houston. We request that you redo P52 and if the angles come out the same magnitude go ahead and incorporate them. Over. SC Okay, will do. CAPCOM They look a little large right now. SC Yes, roll- roll looks a little large especially there. CAPCOM Roger. CAPCOM We showing a waste water quantity of about 13 percent on TM now, 11. Over. SC Roger. It's off now. CAPCOM Roger. We copy. SC Houston, Apollo 11. Torquing angles essentially the same, and we're going to go ahead and torque them now. CAPCOM Roger. We concur. SC Okay. CAPCOM Apollo 11, this is Houston. Could you give us a - an auto optics check to a third star or a different star from the one you've been using? SC Sure, be glad to. I can go back and do the whole thing and pick different stars. CAPCOM I don't think there - there's any need to do that. We'd just like to confirm it with a different star. That roll angle was a little larger than we expected. SC Okay. CAPCOM Apollo I1, Houston. I have a TLI plus 11 hour pad when you're ready to copy. SC Wait one. END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-16-69 CDT 14:15 - GET 5:43 - TAPE41/1 SC Old Star No. 30 looks like it is right dab smack in the middle of the Sextant. CAPCOM Houston, Roger. Out. SC 11, ready to copy. CAPCOM Roger, 11. This is the TLI plus 11 hours, P-37 format. 013444793 minus 165 049 23. Readback. Over. SC Roger. 1344 4793 minus 165 04923. Over. CAPCOM This is Houston. Readback correct. Over. PAO This is Apollo Control at 5 hours, 55 minutes. Apollo ll's velocity is 11,970 feet per second. Distance from earth is 25,671 nautical miles. SC Houston, Apollo 11. CAPCOM Go ahead, 11. SC Did you have any update for the ROLL, PITCH and YAW angles on the top of Page 37 in the flight plan, or are they still good? CAPCOM That's for the optics calibration? SC Yes, Sir. END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-16-69 CDT 14:30 - GET: 5:58 - TAPE 42/1 SC Houston, Apollo 11. CAPCOM Go ahead, 11. SC Roger, do you have any update for the roll, pitch, and yaw angles on the top of page 3, 7 on the flight plan, or are they still good? CAPCOM That's for the optics calibration. SC Yes, sir. CAPCOM Yes, indeed. I'll give them to you in Just a second here. Roger, 11, for the optics calibration I've got 346.5 for roll, 345.0 for pitch, and 007.8 for yaw. The pen and ink attitude corrections in your book are good, over. SC Okay. CAPCOM And we're going to hand over to Hawaii in about 5 or 6 seconds. Here we'll have a momentary comm dropout. SC Roger. CAPCOM Hello, Apollo 11, Houston. Be advised your friendly white team is - come on for it's first shift, and if we can be of service, don't hesitate to call. SC Thank you very much. Yeah, we're about to take our marks, Charlie, and it's B23 optics cal. I've got it in the sextant now, and I'm about to split the image and mark. CAPCOM Roger, Mike, we'll watch it. PAO The Cap Com is now Charlie Duke, and Gene Kranz and his white team of flight controllers is preparing to take over the responsibility here in the Control Center from Clif Charlesworth's team. END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-16-69 CDT 14:42 - GET 6:10 - TAPE 43/1 PAO This is Apollo Control at 6 hours, 16 minutes into the mission. Velocity now 11,479 feet per second. Apollo ll's distance from earth, 27,938 nautical miles. We're estimating the change of shift news conference for 3:30 p.m. central daylight time. CAPCOM Hello, Apollo 11, Houston. We have scrubbed the midcourse 1. Over. SC Roger. Understand you've scrubbed midcourse 1. CAPCOM Roger. CAPCOM Hello, Apollo 11, Houston. We see your middle gimbal angle getting pretty big. Over. SC Well, it was, Charlie, but in going from one auto maneuver to another we took over control and have gone around gimbal lock, and we're about to give control back the DAP. CAPCOM Roger, Mike. We see it increasing now. SC Hey, Charlie. Houston, Apollo 11. CAPCOM Go ahead, 11. Over. SC Hey, maybe you better call Lou and tell him we might be a little bit late for dinner. CAPCOM Okay, sure will. We'd like for you to turn on the fan on in O2 tank number 2, Buzz. END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-16-69 CDT 14:57 - GET 6:25 - TAPE 44/1 SC Houston, Apollo 11. CAPCOM Go ahead, 11. SC Maybe you ought to call Lou and tell him we might be a little bit late for dinner. CAPCOM Okay. Sure will. We'd like you to turn the fan on in O2 Tank No. 2, Buzz. And, 11, did you, on your optics calibrations, did you proceed or recall the program? Over. SC We recalled the program. CAPCOM Roger. SC And O2 Fan No. 2 is on. CAPCOM Roger. SC Houston, Apollo. I've got a CRYO pressure light, and a master alarm. It's reset. CAPCOM Roger. We suspected that. That's why we had you turn the fan on. We were getting pretty close to the caution warning limits. We were trying to prevent that. SC Okay. PAO This is Apollo Control at 6 hours, 31 minutes. At the present time the spacecraft is 29,363 nautical miles from earth and the velocity continuing to drop off gradually, reading now 11,192 feet per second. Flight Director, Gene Kranz, has taken over as Flight Director now from Clifford Charlesworth. Kranz has been reviewing the status of the spacecraft's systems with his team of flight controllers; everything looks very good at this point. The crew has been advised that the mid-course correction 1, the first opportunity for mid-course correction, of which has been scheduled into the flight plan at about 13 hours, 30 minutes will not be performed. A correction of mid-course had been scheduled at 11 hours, 45 minutes into the flight plan and that will not be performed according to the tracking data we have at this time. The crew, up until their sleep period which will begin in about 13 hours, 30 minutes or about 7 hours from now will be involved generally in a routine of housekeeping type activities aboard the spacecraft. At the present time they should be involved in some mid-course navigations. At 6 hours, 32 minutes this is Apollo Control of Houston. SC Houston, Apollo 11. CAPCOM Go ahead 11. Over. SC Roger. You looking at our Delta -R- our Delta-V? Looks like Delta R's a pretty large area. We want to talk about it before we incorporate it. CAPCOM Stand by Mike. We don't have anything on our paneling here I don't think, on the DSKY. Stand by. APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-16-69 CDT 14:57 - GET 6:25 - TAPE 44/2 SC Okay. Our NOUN 49 is reading register 1 plus 08793. Register 2, all balls. CAPCOM Copy. END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-16-69 CDT 15:07 - GET 6:35 - TAPE 45/1 CAPCOM 11, Houston. Guidance is looking at the 940, 49 stuff, so we'll be back with you momentarily, over. SC Okay, Charlie, I think we'll just hold right here in the program. CAPCOM Roger, we got the DOWN light now, over. SC Okay. CAPCOM Hello, Apollo 11, Houston. We'd like you to reject the 940, 49 stuff on the DSKY right now, Mike, and try it again, over. SC Okay, will do. CAPCOM Okay, Houston, Apollo 11. Here's another 49 for you. Are you getting it on the DOWNLINK. SC Roger, we see it, stand by. CAPCOM Hello, Apollo 11, Houston. We recommend you accept the NOUN 49 display on the DSKY now. Over. SC Okay. It looks like an awful big one. We noticed that you had moved star number 2 to the tail-end of the listing, and we should be marking first on star 40. Did that have anything to do with it? CAPCOM Negative. We don't believe so, Apollo 11. We think that this is possibly due to some TOI dispersions, and it's probably satisfactory so go ahead and accept this. It fits our criteria anyway that if you repeat a Mark and you get an equivalent size, and we'll have to go ahead and accept it. And this is an equivalent size 0. Over. SC Okay, we'll do it. CAPCOM And, 11, Houston. Your state vector in the LM slots is good. Over. SC Roger. Thank you. SC Houston, Apollo 11. If you like this, we'll accept it as well. CAPCOM Stand by. CAPCOM Hello, Apollo 11. Houston. We recommend you accept the NOUN 49. Over. SC Okay, Charlie. Thank you. We'll do that now. SC Now we're going to proceed on this one, too, Charlie. CAPCOM Roger. Copy. END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-16-69 CDT 15:17 - GET 6:45 - TAPE 46/1 SC Houston, Apollo 11. Another noun 49 for you. CAPCOM Rog, we copy. Stand by. CAPCOM Hello, Apollo 11, Houston. We'd like you to recycle and do this one over again. Over. SC Okay. PAO This is Apollo Control at 6 hours 52 minutes. Apollo 11 now 31,565 nautical miles from earth and the velocity is 10,789 feet per second. The crew at this time is involved in midcourse navigation using their onboard optical system. We have completed the changeover in briefing of shifts here in Mission Control, and the crew activities, until the sleep period begins, will consist of housekeeping, functions aboard the spacecraft, changing out carbon dioxide filters. They will not be doing the midcourse correction SC heduled for 11 hours 45 minutes into the flight as the first opportunity. The change of shift briefing is SC heduled to begin shortly. Any conversations that develop with the crew during that period of time will be tape recorded and we'll play those back following the change of shift briefing. This is Apollo Control at 6 hours 53 minutes. END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-16-69 CDT 15:53 - GET 7:21 - TAPE 47/1 PAO This is Apollo Control, 7 hours, 21 minutes into the flight of Apollo 11. During the change of shift briefing, we accumulated about 4 minutes of tape conversation with the spacecraft. That conversation generally related to the onboard batteries, which are currently being charged - a routine operation - and also the midcourse navigation exercise that the crew is currently involved in. We'll play back the tape for you now, and then stand by for any live conversation with the crew. SC Houston, Apollo 11. CAPCOM Go ahead, Apollo 11. Over. SC Roger. Why don't you sing out when you think we've done enough battery charging on B. CAPCOM Roger. Stand by, Buzz. Over. CAPCOM Apollo 11, Houston. We'll be charging battery B up until the sleep period. We'll diSC ontinue charging at that time. Also, at about 12:25 in the flight plan, we have battery A charge. That has been deleted. Over. SC Roger. Understand. We'll charge until the sleep period on B and delete the battery A charge. CAPCOM Affirm. SC And, Houston, Apollo 11. These AUTO OPTICS MANEUVERS or P23's AUTO MANEUVERS don't seem to be going to the substellar point. Can you come up with the roll pitch, and yaw angle for the substellar point on this star. It's our second star. CAPCOM Roger. Stand by. CAPCOM Hello, Apollo 11, Houston. Your angles in the flight plan we feel are still good. 198.6, 130.7, 340.0. Just slightly off than those in the flight plan. Over. SC Okay, and we'll try that. SC Charlie, state those 3 angles one more time. I'd like to confirm them before I maneuver. CAPCOM Roger. Roll and pitch are slightly off than what's in the flight plan, 11. Roll is now 198.6, pitch is 130.7. Over. SC Roger. Roll 198.6, pitch 130.7, and yaw 4000. CAPCOM That's affirmative. SC Houston, Apollo 11. I think the problem here is that that attitude just is not too close to the substellar point. I'm having them maneuvered quite a bit, and that's in progress now, so stand by for some more. CAPCOM Roger. We copy all. CAPCOM Hello, Apollo 11, Houston. We've run the angles given in the flight plan for the P23 attitude through the machines down here and they come up with the same thing every time. We think everything's going correctly, Mike, and we're wondering if the nonsymmetrical horizon might be giving APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-16-69 CDT 15:53 - GET 7:21 - TAPE 47/2 CAPCOM a problem. Over. SC Yes, I'd say - it could be, Charlie. Stand by here. We'll get another Mark for you. CAPCOM Okay. SC Houston, Apollo 11. Noun 49 for you. CAPCOM Roger; copy. Stand by. CAPCOM Hello, Apollo 11; Houston. We recommend you accept the Noun 49. Continue through your sequence of sightings and then we'll analyze the data afterwards. Over. SC Okay. Houston, Apollo 11. Star 40 Just disappeared now in the sextant. Could the trunnion angle 47 something be a little higher? CAPCOM Stand by. Hello, Apollo 11; Houston. We'd like you to press on to star 44. Over. SC Yes, Roger. How many Marks did you record on star 40? CAPCOM Stand by, Mike. SC Okay. CAPCOM I1, Houston. We copied 2 good Marks. Over. SC Okay. END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-16-69 CDT 16:03 - GET 7:31 - TAPE 48/1 SC Houston, Apollo 11. CAPCOM Go ahead. Over. SC Roger. 44 is Just not bright enough for this. There's a reddish glow filling the black area of the sextant and the star is lost somewhere in there and I can not see it. CAPCOM Roger. Stand by. We'll come up with another star. Over. SC Yes. I'd appreciate that. CAPCOM Hello Apollo 11, Houston. We'd like you to go on to star 45. Over. SC Okay. CAPCOM And, Mike, we think these large Delta-Rs, NOUN 49 you're getting, is really meaningful since it's been . . . TLI since we had a state vector update and we think it's normal. Over. SC Okay. Could be Charlie. Some of the area markings I might not have had precisely the sub stellar point. I think as time goes by, they've been coming more accurate but Olean up here is just flat invisible. CAPCOM Rog. SC Sam Houston, Apollo 11. Understand it's the same 3 gimbal angles you gave me should be valid for star 45 as well. Is that affirmative? CAPCOM I'm believe that's right. Stand by 1. Over. SC Okay. CAPCOM That is negative. Stand by 1. SC Okay, cause it's quite a difference between the gimbal angles you have and the gimbal angles the program was but with inaccurate state vector I'm inclined not to believe the program. CAPCOM Stand by. SC Houston, Apollo 11. LMB is back on the line. CAPCOM Roger. Copy. SC Read you bye, bye. CAPCOM Roger same, Buzz. And 11, the angles for you are 1978 roll, 1285 pitch, 3400 yaw. SC Okay. Just as a matter of comparison, P-23 for this star would like to go to 235.66, 154.31 and 31365. Over. CAPCOM Roger. We copy 11. We understand the program can give you almost an infinite combination of angles NP-23 and it's not too unreasonable. If you'll stand by we'll look at these - that we see on the DSKY. Over. SC Okay. Then in the meantime I'll just go ahead and maneuver to yours. 197.8, 128.5 and 340.0. APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-16-69 CDT 16:03 - GET 7:31 - TAPE 48/2 CAPCOM Roger. END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-16-69 CDT 16:13 - GET 7:41 - TAPE 49/1 SC Houston, Apollo 11. CAPCOM Go ahead. Over. SC Okay, Charlie. Is the attitude you gave me on star number 45. The radial is off, I'd say, a good 30 degrees in roll and the star is not in sight. Over. CAPCOM Roger. stand by. SC Something's wrong with those attitudes. CAPCOM Hello, Apollo 11, Houston. I wondered if you have auto optics selected. Over. SC That's affirmative. CAPCOM Roger. Looks like to us we need a proceed, Mike, to get the sextant pointed at the star. Over. SC Okay. Stand by. CAPCOM 11, Houston. Those shaft and trunnion angles were exactly what we were computing on the ground. Over. SC Okay, I'm going to trim up the attitude here. I'll give it another try. SC Okay, I have it loud and clear, now, Charlie, so I might as well do a bunch of marks on this one to get a horizon count. CAPCOM Roger. Stand by. SC It still looks like I'm far from the substellar point, however, I'm off quite a bit in roll. CAPCOM Roger, we'd like you to mark right where it is now, Mike, and we'd like two sets of marks on this. Over. SC Okay, fine, but the radial is not parallel to the'horizon. I have to move off quite a bit in order to get it parallel to the horizon. CAPCOM Apollo 11, Houston. Our Procedures guys are saying that the radial does not have to be parallel. Over. SC Well, then we' re going to have to substellar point it for now. CAPCOM Rog. END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-16-69 CDT 16:23 - GET 7:51 - TAPE 50/1 SC Houston, you copy that noun 49? CAPCOM Roger, we see it 11. Stand by. CAPCOM Apollo 11, Houston. We would like you to accept this one and every mark thereafter, over. SC Okay. SC Do you need me to wait in the noun 49 display, for any length of time? CAPCOM Negative. SC Okay. SC Okay, Charlie. I'll be glad to give you as many of these as you like. CAPCOM Roger, we'd like six marks on star 45, Mike and then we'll probably go back to star 2, again. Stand by, we'll have further word on that. SC Okay. SC They seem to be getting smaller Charlie. Are you sure you wouldn't like some more? CAPCOM Stand by Mike. SC It's no trouble. CAPCOM Right, stand by. CAPCOM Apollo 11, Houston. We'd like you to do 2 more on Star 45, over. SC Okay. SC Okay, Charlie, there's your two more marks. Where do you want to go from here? CAPCOM Stand by. CAPCOM Hello Apollo 11, Houston We'd like you to go back to star number 2 with an attitude as follows, roll 1952 pitch 1239 yaw 3400. Mike that'll give you a trunion angle of about 31.4 over. SC Okay I understand star number 2 and roll 195.2, pitch 123.9, and yaw 340.0, over. CAPCOM That's affirmative. END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-16-69 CDT 16:33 - GET 7:01 - TAPE 51/1 SC Okay Charlie. On there, I've got a trunnion angle of 30.5 degrees. Again, miss a line considerably in a row and I do believe that's important to getting good marks. CAPCOM Stand by. SC See if my radicals not down, then I'm not marking normal to the right and I'm not marking at the substellar point. I'm marking off somewhere else. CAPCOM Stand by 11. Over. SC Okay. CAPCOM Apollo 11, Houston. The ground computed values for your shaft and trunnion are just what your getting on the DSKY there, Mike. The horizon looks cocked off to you - you look like your off in roll because the angles that we gave you to maneuver to to prevent LM reflection from fouling up your optics. We feel like a - you should go ahead and mark on the stars just as is. Over. SC Okay. SC I'll bet you a cup of coffee on it. CAPCOM Copy. SC VERB - NOUN 49 for you now, Charlie. CAPCOM Roger. Stand by. CAPCOM Apollo 11, Houston. We'd like to accept this one and give it 2 more and that will be enough. Over. SC Okay. PAO This is Apollo Control 8 hours, 8 minutes and Apollo 11 now 38,812 nautical miles from earth and traveling at a speed of 9682 feet per second. And we've just put in a call to the crew; we'll stand by for - - SC It just appears to me that you have to have a radical. Change it to the horizon at the point at which you mark or else your not at the substellar point here out front, laterally and therefore you're measuring a larger trunnion angle than you should. CAPCOM Seems so to me. Our procedures people are working on this and we'll be back with you momentarily. Over. SC Thanks sir. END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-16-69 CDT 16:43 - GET 8:11 - TAPE 52/1 CAPCOM Hello, Apollo 11; Houston. We'd like you to go to ACCEPT. We'll have a PTC REFSMMAT for you momentarily. Over. SC Roger. Going to an ACCEPT. PAO The PTC REFSMMAT, which capcom, Charlie Duke, just referred to is the passive thermal control attitude that the crew will place the spacecraft in. In this attitude the spacecraft will be rotated at a rate of about 3 revolutions per hour to maintain the proper temperature balance. CAPCOM Hello, Apollo 11; Houston. We're through with the load. You can go back to BLOCK. SC In BLOCK. Thank you. CAPCOM Hello, Apollo 11; Houston. We'd like you to do a P52, option 1 preferred, and established PTC is listed in the flight plan at 12 hours. We'd like you to commence that right now, Mike. And we have some stars recommended for you. First star's 26, 30, and 24, when you get to attitude 000. Over. SC Okay, Charlie. We're off the wick right now. We understand you're ready for us to do a P52, option 1? CAPCOM 11, it's a P52, option 1, preferred. Over. SC Understand. Let's see that - Spica, Menkent, and what else? CAPCOM Roger. Stars - codes are stars 26, 30, and 24. Over. SC 25 - 24. Okay. END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-16-69 CDT 17:03 - GET 8:31 - TAPE 53/1 CAPCOM Apollo 11, Houston. We notice your program alarm Mike was due to use any stars in the P23 attitude. If you'll go to 000, the stars we gave you will work, over. SC Okay, understand. CAPCOM Hello Apollo 11, Houston. Prior to you starting your P52, we'd like to give you new CSM state vector, over. SC Roger. When we finish the maneuvering we'll give you the - - CAPCOM Roger, we're standing by. END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-16-69 CDT 17:23 - GET 8:51 - TAPE 54/1 SC Houston, Apollo 11, the DSKY is yours. CAPCOM Apollo 11, Houston. Go ahead over. SC Roger, the DSKY is yours. CAPCOM Roger, stand by. PAO This is Apollo Control at 8 hours 59 minutes into the flight of Apollo 11. The spacecraft altitude is currently reading 42 thousand 7 hundred 53 nautical miles, and we show a velocity of about 91 hundred feet per second. We are in the process now of up linking to the space craft attitude for the passive thermal control mode. Under this mode the spacecraft will be rotated about its X axis at a rate of about 3 revolutions per hour to maintain proper temperature balance within the spacecraft. The crew has completed the midcourse navigation exercise. They will shortly be aligning the spacecraft stable platform, used as a attitude reference in the guidance system. This is a routine procedure, and following that, the spacecraft will be placed in the passive thermal control mode where normally it would be left during the sleep period. The cabin temperature in the command module, has been running between 65 and 70 degrees. The current spacecraft weight is 96 thousand 4 hundred 60 pounds. CAPCOM Hello Apollo 11, Houston. You can do the verb 66. The computer is yours and then the P52 option 1 preferred, over. SC Roger. END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-16-69 CDT 17:43 - GET 9:11 - TAPE 55/1 PAO This is Apollo Control at 9 hours, 13 minutes into the flight of Apollo 11. Based on biomedical data, a flight surgeon reports that it appears the crew removed their pressure garments - their pressure suits at about 8:00 PM for. the Commander, Neil Armstrong and Command Module Pilot, Mike Collins. Lunar Module Pilot, Buzz Aldrin apparently got out of his pressure suit about 1 hour earlier or about 7 hours ground elapsed time. The spacecraft is currently 44,529 nautical miles from earth and the velocity has dropped now to 8983 feet per second. We do have, rather poor lock with the spacecraft antenna at this time accounting for the noise on the air to ground circuit. We'll take down the circuit until we reestablish better lock and we'll record any conversations that occur in the interim. At 9 hours, 14 minutes this is Apollo Control Houston. END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-16-69 CDT 17:55 - GET 9:23 - TAPE 56/1 CAPCOM Apollo 11, Houston. If you read, at this attitude 000 is pretty bad for our COMM. In fact, we've lost all data with you. An unreadable on the void. We recommend you do the P52, option 1 preferred. (garbled) SC Roger CAPCOM as soon as we finish our alignment, we'll maneuver it toward the pad, Joe. CAPCOM Roger, 11. We copy. Recommend you go to this P52, option 1, preferred, and then go to PTC attitude. Over. SC Then we get to stop. CAPCOM When you get there to PTC attitude, it'll be pitch 90, yaw 0 on the high gain. Over. SC Houston, Apollo 11. Over. CAPCOM Roger, 11. You got a one by. Go ahead. CAPCOM Apollo 11, Houston. You're about one by. Go ahead. Over. SC Houston, Apollo 11. Over. CAPCOM Roger, 11. Reading you about 4 by. How me? Over. SC You're loud and clear, Charlie. We've pitched down some to get a better COMM attitude. CAPCOM Roger. Did you copy our recommendation note - proceeding with the P52, Mike? Over. SC Negative. We didn't. I've got that in work. I'm starting at the edge of it. CAPCOM Roger. END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-16-69 CDT 18:08 - GET 9:36 - TAPE 57/1 PAO This is Apollo Control at 9 hours, 36 minutes into the flight of Apollo 11. The mission continuing to go smoothly at this point. The communications noise that we were experiencing previously cleared up after the crew was able to get the spacecraft in a good attitude for antenna log-on and we had one brief conversation which we taped and we're presently communicating with the crew at this time. We'll pick up the tape and then continue to follow live conversation. SC Houston, Apollo 11. Over. CAPCOM Roger 11. With you about 4 by IB. Over. SC Hear you loud and clear, Charlie. We pitched down some to get a better comm attitude. CAPCOM Roger. Did you copy our recommendation on proceeding with the P-52, Mike? Over. SC And even if we didn't, I've got that in work. I'm sorry (garble). CAPCOM Roger. SC Houston, Apollo 11. SC Houston, Apollo 11. CAPCOM Go ahead 11. Over. SC Roger. Copy our torquing angles. We forgot to torque. CAPCOM Roger. Stand by. SC Gosh, the reason for delaying it Charlie is that - difficult to find 2 stars that are not occulted by the LM and also are not in the midst of a man made star field up here with dumps. CAPCOM Roger. We copy. SC Okay. CAPCOM Hello Apollo 11, Houston. You can torque to NOUN 93. Over. SC Okay. PAO That brings us up to date with the taped conversation that we had. We'll contidue to stand by for any live communications with the spacecraft. Most of that conversation with Mike Collins involved the platform alignment which the crew is involved in at the present time, aligning the stable platform used by the Guidance System as an attitude reference. Apollo 11 is presently 46,688 nautical miles from earth and the velocity is 8750 feet per second. SC Okay Houston, that completes the P-52. We verified the 3rd star with Antares and other optics are pointed there pretty closely. How do our platform drift angles look so far, Charlie? CAPCOM Stand by. APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-16-69 CDT 18:08 - GET 9:36 - TAPE 57/2 CAPCOM Hello Apollo 11, Houston. We didn't have a chance to get a good check for you. We're going to run a drift check in this alignment till the next one, approximately 12 hours and we'll have something for you later. Over. SC Okay. CAPCOM Hello Apollo 11, Houston. We'd like you to establish your PTC. We recommend you select quads Alfa and Delta. Over. SC Roger understand. Alfa and Delta quads. CAPCOM That's affirmative. END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-16-69 CDT 18:18 - GET 9:46 - TAPE 58/1 CAPCOM Hello Apollo 11 Houston. Would you verify that the attitude set switch is in GDC, over. SC The set switch. Stand by one, Charlie. CAPCOM Roger. SC It is now. CAPCOM Roger. It was on IMU. SC That's affirmative. CAPCOM Roger, thank you. SC Houston, Apollo 11. How many miles out do you have us now? CAPCOM We have you, stand by Buzz. Roughly about 50 thousand, stand by. SC It's a beautiful sight. Charlie on that PTC, we're just waiting 20 minutes here for all thrustor activity to damp out. You might let us know how that's coming. CAPCOM Roger, will do. We have you about 48 thousand miles now. SC Thank you. SC Houston, Apollo 11. We still have our oxygen fan on for tank 2. Is that what you want? CAPCOM Stand by. SC Hey Charlie I can see the snow on the mountains out in California, and it looks like LA doesn't have much of a smog problem today. CAPCOM Roger Buz, copy. Looks like there's a good view out there, then. And Apollo 11, Houston. We would like you to keep the O2 fan on. It will give you an ECS configuration prior to sleep, over. SC Okay, fine. END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-16-69 CDT 18:38 - GET 10:06 - TAPE 59/1 SC Charlie, with the monocular I can spot a definite green cast to the San Fernando Valley. CAPCOM Roger. SC Yes. CAPCOM How's the Baja California look, Buzz? SC Well, it's got some clouds up and down it, and it looks pretty good - circulation system a couple of hundred miles off the west coast of California. CAPCOM Roger. 11, we'd like you to close the waste storage vent valve right now. SC Okay. SC (Garble) Waste storage vent valves closed. CAPCOM Copy. CAPCOM Hello, Apollo 11; Houston. We'd like - the rates are looking pretty good right now on the PTC, but we'd like you to continue holding. Over. SC Okay, fine. SC (Garble) END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-16-69 CDT 18:48 - GET 10:16 - TAPE 60/1 CAPCOM Hello Apollo 11, Houston. Your rates look really great. Now you can start your PPC. SC Okay, thanks Charlie. SC Houston, 11. CAPCOM Roger, go ahead 11. SC Roger, if you'd like to delay PPC efforts for 10 minutes or so we can shoot you from TB number 78. We'll leave that up to you. CAPCOM Roger, stand by. CAPCOM Hello Apollo 11, Houston. We'll have our answer for you on the TV in about 1 minute. Over. PAO This is Apollo Control at 10 hours 26 minutes into the flight of Apollo 11. CAPCOM Houston we are ready at Goldstone for the TV. It'll be recorded at Goldstone and then replayed back over here. Neil, anytime you want to turn her on, we're ready, over. SC Okay, it'll take us about 5 minutes to get the rate. CAPCOM Roger. PAO CAPCOM, Charlie Duke, advised the crew that we would be recording the television at Goldstone. We don't have an estimate at this time as to how long it will take to get a play back of that from Goldstone. CAPCOM Could you verify the reading on your O2 flow indicator? over. SC We're still on point 2. We just inadvertenoly touched the rapid repress button. That made a tremporary glitch in the flow. CAPCOM Roger, during that glitch there, did it go almost a peg high? over. CAPCOM Apollo 11, Houston. Could you tell us if the O2 flow indicator was pegged high prior to closing the waste storage vent valve, over? SC No it was not. CAPCOM Roger, thank you. CAPCOM Apollo 11, Houston. While ago we tried those scan limits, and disabled the auto drive on the high gain. We'd like you to position the antenna at pitch 30 yaw 270, go to react, that will give us narrow beam widths, over. SC That - - END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-16-69 CDT 19:03 - GET 10:31 - TAPE 61/1 CAPCOM -this will give us a narrow beam width. Over. SC That yaw 270 and pitch 3 ze - what was the pitch? CAPCOM Pitch 3 zero, Nell. SC Okay. I think we've got you. CAPCOM Roger. We've got a good signal there. Thank you much. SC Okay Houston. We are sending picture of earth down right now so you can let us know if they're receiving us also. CAPCOM Roger 11. Goldstone is receiving the TV. Stand by. We'll let you know on the quality. Over. CAPCOM Hello Apollo 11, Houston. Goldstone says that the TV looks great. Over. SC Roger (Garble) CAPCOM Hello Apollo 11, Houston. Did you copy? Over. SC Roger we copied, Charlie. CAPCOM Roger. Your transmissions the last couple of times have been about 2 by. Over. SC Okay. How do you read me now? CAPCOM Roger. Your 5 by now. SC Okay. We're zooming the lens on in so that it will just about fill the monitor. CAPCOM Roger. SC Okay. It's been a full film now. CAPCOM Copy 11. SC And how about the F stops. Is 22 going to be accurate? CAPCOM Stand by, we'll get with the Goldstone TV guy. We don't have anything here at Houston. Stand by. SC It looks good on the monitor as far as the S-band goes. Therefore, we just assumed it's okay at Goldstone. CAPCOM Hello Apollo 11, Houston. Goldstone says it - TV looks really great, 5 by, we don't - ABC looks like it's working fine. The F-22 is good; we have no real white spots. They're real pleased with it. Over. SC Okay. You just got out Charlie, We understand that it's looking great. We'll leave it the way it is and wait for you to come back on. CAPCOM Roger. And how do you read me now? Over. SC 5 by. CAPCOM Okay. My comments were - my comments were from Goldstone that they see no white spots as we saw in 10. Looks like the ABC's working real well. The F-22 looks good. Over. APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-16-69 CDT 19:03 - GET 10:31 - TAPE 61/2 SC Okay. Very good. Well we shut out the sun coming in from the other windows into the spacecraft, so it's looking through a - a number 1 window and there isn't any reflected light. Now they ought to be pretty good pictures. CAPCOM Roger. CAPCOM Hello Apollo 11, Houston. We'd like you to keep the TV off for about 10 minutes or so, so we can get some good comparison on the camera. You can do anything your heart desires on the TV. Interior, exterior, pan in and out, anything you'd like. Over. SC You have it Houston. Over. SC Houston, Apollo 11. Over. CAPCOM Roger go ahead. Over. SC You know (garble) you keep cutting out. We heard up to "you can do anything" and then after that we didn't hear anything and we knew that wasn't right any how because we can't but what do you want us to do? CAPCOM Roger. We'll check this stop link on our voice. The transmission on the TV was we'd like to get about 10 minutes worth of signal at Goldstone and we can look at the camera quality back here at Houston for about 10 minutes or so, when they pass it back into us. What we were saying was that you can go interior or exterior on the camera. On the exterior shots, we'd like to look - - SC Say again. CAPCOM Stand by. SC Turn over what we were seeing. SC Hey Houston. You suppose you can turn the earth a little bit so we can get a little bit more than just water. CAPCOM Roger 11. I don't think we've got much control over that. Looks like you'll have to settle for the water. CAPCOM 11, Houston. We're going to change - thinking about changing our voice uplink to another sight. If you'll stand by, we'll see if we can improve the quality. Over. SC Okay Charlie. SC We'll stand by for your call. CAPCOM Apollo 11, Houston. We'll try once more on this TV request. We'd like 10 minutes worth of TV. We'd like a narrative if you could give us one on the exterior shots. We also suggest you might try the - an interior position. Over. SC Roger. We're seeing the center of the earth as it appears from the spacecraft in the eastern Pacific Ocean. We have not - - END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-16-69 CDT 19:23 - GET 10:41 - TAPE 62/1 SC - from the spacecraft, and the eastern Pacific Ocean - we have not been able to visually pick up the Hawaiian chain, but we can clearly see the western coast of North America, the United States, the San Joaquin Valley, the High Sierras, Baja California, and Mexico down as far as Acapulco, and the Yucatan Peninsula, and you can see on through Central America to the northern coast of South America, Venezuala and Columbia. I'm not sure you'll be able to see all that on your screens down there. CAPCOM Roger, Neil. We just wanted a narrative such that we can - when we get the playback, we can sort of correlate what we're seeing. Thank you very much. SC I didn't see anything but the DSKY's so far. CAPCOM Looks like they're hogging the windows. SC You' re right. CAPCOM Hello, Apollo 11. Houston. On your cryos, we'd like at this time for you to place all 4 cryo heaters to AUTO and turn off all 4 cryo fans. Over. SC Okay. All 4 cryo heaters are AUTO. And all 4 cryo fans are off. Uh huh. CAPCOM Roger. That's going to be your sleep configuration. SC Okay. CAPCOM And, Buzz, we'll be terminating the battery charge in about a half hour. SC Roger. CAPCOM Hello, Apollo 11. Houston. You can terminate the TV at your convenience. We've got enough tapes. And you can start TTC at your convenience. The REG's look super for starting up. Over. SC Roger, Charlie. PAO This is Apollo Control at 10 hours, 51 minutes. That TV transmission lasted about 15 minutes. Goldstone reported that we did get good quality on it. We estimate that it will be somewhere between an hour and a half or two hours before we have the television available here in Houston to play back. The lines will have to be called up between Goldstone and Mission Control Center, and the conversion equipment brought up on line before we'll be able to play back the television from that transmission. At the beginning of the TV transmission, the spacecraft was approximately 50,980 nautical miles from Earth, and at the conclusion they were about 52,248 nautical miles from Earth. END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-16-69 CDT 19:33 - GET 10:51 - TAPE 63/1 PAO 9 hundred 80 nautical miles from earth and at the conclusion they were about 52 thousand 2 hundred 48 nautical miles from earth. CAPCOM Apollo 11, Houston. We have a flight plan update for you and some P37 block data, if your ready to copy, over. SC Stand by. SC Okay, Houston, PTC is started now, and looks good to us, and we'll be ready to copy in a minute or two. CAPCOM Roger, copy, 11. SC Houston, Apollo 11. Ready to copy the flight plan update and P37. CAPCOM Roger, stand by 1, Buzz. CAPCOM Apollo 11, Houston. Coming at you with the P37 block data, over. SC Okay. CAPCOM Roger, 02744 5363 minus 165 07314 03744 8016 minus 165 07246 GETI 04644 6141 minus 165 09703 05544 8209 minus 165 09642, ready for your read back, over. SC Roger, 02744 5363 minus 165 07314 03744 8016 minus 165 072 46. END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-16-69 CDT 19:43 - GET 11:01 - TAPE 64/1 SC 03 744 8016 minus 165 072 46 046 44 6141 minus 165 097 03 055 44 8209 minus 165 09642. Over. CAPCOM Roger, 11. That was a good readback. That was the block data scheduled for 12 hours. We'd like to do - just say that on a flight plan update here, just to remind you of some things, and you can do them at your convenience, and then go to sleep early if you'd like. We don't have anything else planned, but we'd like to just remind you on the filter change, the O2 fuel cell purge. And we'd like to have LM CM DELTA-P and accomplish the presleep checklist. SC Okay. We've completed the filter change and we'll get started on the fuel cell purge, and stand by for the LM CM DELTA-P. CAPCOM Roger, 11. Would you hold off on the fuel cell purge. E COMM is saying we might not have to do that. Over. SC Okay. SC Charlie, the LM CM DELTA-P is 0.5. CAPCOM Copy. 0.5. Out. CAPCOM Hello, Apollo 11. Houston. We've just decided to delete the O2 fuel cell purge. Over. SC Roger. Delete the O2 fuel cell purge. CAPCOM Hello, Apollo 11. Houston. We've been noting some funnies on the O2 flow indicator. For instance, we kind of got a suspicion that the transducer - we expected to see an O2 flow pegged high with the waste stowage vent to VENT. It was not. We also noted some funny indications when you closed the waste stowage vent valve. We're going to take a look at this through the night, and we'll be with you in the morning with an assessment of the problem. Also, we'd like to ask specifically, when you place the waste stowage vent valve to vent does the detent - correction - does the arrow line up with the detent? Over. SC Stand - stand by one, Charlie. We'll give you something on the detent. CAPCOM Roger. SC Right now it's at CLOSED, and I lined up with CLOSE before the vent, and best I can recall, it was quite accurately lined up with vent. Would you like me to go to VENT again momentarily and see where it lines up ? CAPCOM That's negative. That question's answered. Thank you much. SC Okay. SC (Garble) PAO This is Apollo Control. During that last transmission you heard Cap Com Charlie Duke advise the crew that we are not seeing as high an O2, or oxygen APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-16-69 CDT 19:43 - GET 11:01 - TAPE 64/2 PAO flow, as we would have expected at this point. This would indicate that the enrichment of the cabin atmosphere, which was 60 percent oxygen, 40 percent nitrogen at launch and which is normally enriched with pure oxygen during the course of the/flight, is not enriching as rapidly as we would expect. This could be a transducer problem - one of the devices that measuzes the O2 flow rate - or possibly a partial obstruction of one of the vents. The problem is not thought to be significant at this point, and we'll be monitoring the O2 flow during the night. CAPCOM Stand configuration for you. Over. SC Roger. Go ahead. CAPCOM Roger, Buzz. We'd like you to place the S-band antenna OMNI-A switch to the BRAVO position. S-band antenna OMNI switch to the OMNI position. The high gain track to MANUAL, and the high gain angles will be yaw 270, pitch minus 50. Over. SC Roger. Understand. OMNI to baker and OMNI MANUAL, and the angles are yaw 270, pitch minus 50, and was that narrow or wider? Over. CAPCOM Stand by. Buzz, we'd like it in wide, and you can set that configuration up now. Over. SC I've been working. SC (Garble) END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-16-69 CDT 19:53 - GET 11:11 - TAPE 65/1 CAPCOM Hello Apollo 11, Houston. You can terminate battery bravo charge, and we'd like a crew status report, we're about to tell you good night, over. SC Roger, stand by. SC Houston, Apollo 11, the battery chargingis complete and the crew status report is as follows. Radiation CDR 11002, CMP 10002, LMP 09003, negative medication fit as a fiddle, over. CAPCOM Rog, copy 11, thank you much. We'd like to ask one question. Have you tried the gas separator on the water, how is that working, over. SC Yea, Mike's got a couple of comments on that. SC It's working good so far, Charlie. We've got one installed on the water gun and the other one installed on the spigot down in the LEV, and we - like to mention one problem with them is that they leak at the junction between the food bag and the water filter, however with that extension they seem to be working pretty good. We were getting some gas through innitially, and I think that was just getting purged out to begin with and the last tube full we poured was almost free of bubbles, over. CAPCOM Roger, sounds good. We'll check in on that problem with the span guys and let you know in the morning. If you have to call us tonight, we'd like you to do it on down voice back up. We're configuring the MSFN for that mode and as far as we can see you're cleared for some z's, over. SC Okay, maybe we'll get around to lunch. CAPCOM How about a peanut butter and jelly? END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-16-69 CDT 20:03 - GET 11:21 - TAPE 66/1 PAO This is Apollo Control at 11 hours, 29 minutes into the flight of Apollo 11. We don't expect to hear a great deal more from the crew tonight. At about 11 hours, 20 minutes we said good-night to them from Mission Control and they're beginning their sleep period about 2 hours early. The additional time available for sleep was made available by deleting the mid-course correction. The first opportunity which occurred at 11 hours, 45 minutes. That mid-course correction has been moved to mid-course correction 2 to the opportunity of mid-course correction 2 of which would occur tomorrow. The last conversation we had with the crew, we received a status report and a report that they had taken no medication and were "fit as a fiddle". We also got a report from Mike Collins on the gas separation unit which is being flown on this flight. This consists of 2 stainless steel cylinders about 5 inches long and about an inch to an inch and half in diameter. The cylinders are attached to the water gun or to the water spigot on the food preparation panel and remove the gas from the water that flows through the filter. The filter actually has 2 filters inside. One which attracts water and one which repels it, in the process removing the gas. Mike Collins reported that the filters seem to be working quite well. That the water was coming out almost free of bubbles. He did report that they had a minor problem with a leak at the junction between the food bag and the filter. Mission Control advised that we would give that some thought and try to come up with some solution to it when they wake up tomorrow. At this time, Apollo 11 is 55,522 nautical miles from earth traveling at a velocity of 7920 feet per second. This is Apollo Control at 11 hours, 32 minutes. END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-16-69 CDT 20:19 - GET 11:47 - TAPE 67/1 PAO This is Apollo Control at 11 hours 47 minutes into the flight of Apollo 11. At this time we are receiving the television data from Goldstone. The data is coming in. It will be processed here and converted, and we estimate that it will be available for play back in about 20 to 30 minutes and we will have a firm time on that as soon as possible. At the present time Apollo 11 is 56 thousand 7 hundred 4 nautical miles from earth, and the velocity is 7 thousand 8 hundred 21 feet per second. We have had no further conversations with the crew since we passed along a good night to them at 11 hours 20 minutes. Getting them to bed about 2 hours ahead of the scheduled time on the flight plan, as a result of the deletion of midcourse correction 1. At 11 hours 48 minutes, this is Apollo Control. END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-16-69 CDT 20:37 - GET 12:05 - TAPE 68/1 PAO This is Apollo Control at 12 hours 5 minutes. We expect to have the unscheduled television transmission, which came in to Goldmtone California. It was taped there and has been transmitted to Mission Control center ready and converted for replay in color at 8:45 PM central daylight time. That would be about 7 minutes from now. The TV transmission runs for a total time of about 16 and a half minutes and there's an exterior shot out the window of the earth. At the time of the transmission Apollo 1l was some 50 thousand 9 hundred 80 nautical miles from earth. The transmission came into Goldstone at the ground elapsed time of 10:32:40, and ended about 16 minutes, 16 and a half minutes later, when the spacecraft was at an altitude of 52 thousand 2 hundred 48 nautical miles. We'll stand by for a replay of that transmission at 8:45 PM central daylight time. CAPCOM Apollo 11 Houston. PAO This is Apollo Control at 12 hours 12 minutes, and we expect to be ready to release the television transmission from the spacecraft which was received at Goldstone, California. That should be ready to go in a little less than a minute. PAO And we are starting to get lock on from the tape replay and we expect that we will have a color picture shortly. CAPCOM 3 minute TV, stand by and we'll let you know on the quality, over. CAPCOM Apollo 11, Houston. Goldstone says that the TV looks great, over. SC Roger, we're - - CAPCOM Hello Apollo 11, Houston. Did you copy, over? SC Roger, we copied, Charlie. CAPCOM Roger your transmissions these last couple of times has been about 2 by, over. SC Okay, how do you read me now? CAPCOM Roger, 5 by now. SC Okay we're zooming the lense on in so it will just about to the moniter. CAPCOM Roger. END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-16-69 CDT 20:47 - GET 12:15 - TAPE 69/1 SC -zooming the lens on in, until it just about fills the monitor. CAPCOM Roger. SC Okay. It's in full zoom now. CAPCOM Copy 11. SC And how about the F stops? Is 22 going to be accurate? CAPCOM Stand by. We'll get with the Goldstone TV guy. We don't have anything here at Houston. Stand by. SC It looks good on the monitor as far as the F stop goes. Therefore, we just assumed it's okay at Goldstone. CAPCOM Hello Apollo 11, Houston. Goldstone says it's - TV looks really great - 5 by. SC Okay. You just got out Charlie but and I understand that it's looking great. We'll leave it the way it is and wait for you to come back on. SC Okay. How do you read me now? CAPCOM 5 by. CAPCOM Okay. My comments were - my comments were from Goldstone. They see no white spots as we saw in 10; looks like the AGC's working real well. The F-22 looks good. Over. SC Okay. Very good. Well we shut out the sun coming in from the other windows into the spacecraft so it's looking through the number 1 window and there isn't any reflected light right now so it ought to be a pretty good picture. CAPCOM Roger. CAPCOM Hello Apollo 11, Houston. We'd like you to keep the TV on for about 10 minutes or so, so we can get some good comparison on the camera. You can do anything your - SC Houston, Apollo 11. Over. CAPCOM Roger go ahead. Over. SC Charlie, I'm sorry you keep cutting out. We heard up to you can do anything and then after that, we didn't hear anything and we knew that wasn't right anyhow because we can't. But what do you want us to do? CAPCOM Roger. We want check the up link on our voice. The transmission on the TV was we'd like to get about - for Goldstone and we can look at the camera quality back here at Houston for about 10 minutes or so when they patch it back into us. What we were saying was - - We'd like a little - - Stand by. SC Start over what we were saying. SC Okay Houston. You suppose you could turn the earth a little bit so we can get a little bit more APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-16-69 CDT 20:47 - GET 12:15 - TAPE 69/2 SC than just water. CAPCOM Roger 11. I don't think we've got much control over that. Looks like you'll have to settle for the water. CAPCOM 11, Houston. We're going to change - thinking about changing our voice uplink to another sight. If you'll stand by, we'll see if we can improve the quality. Over. SC Okay Charlie. We'll stand by for your call. CAPCOM Apollo 11, Houston. We'll try once more on this TV request. We'd like 10 minutes worth of TV and we'd like a narrative if you could give us one on the exterior shots. We also suggest you might try an interior position. Over. SC Roger. We're seeing the center of the earth as viewed from the spacecraft in the eastern Pacific Ocean. We have not been able to visually pick up the Hawaiian Island chain but we can clearly see the western coast of North America, the United States, the San Joaquin Valley. The High Sierra's, Baja, California and Mexico down as far as Acapulco and the Yucatan Penninsula and you can see on through Central America to the northern coast of South America, Venezeula and Columbia. I'm not sure you'd be able to see all that on your screens down there. CAPCOM Roger Neil. We just wanted a narrative such that when we get the playback we can sort of correlate what we're saying. Thank you very much. SC I didn't see anything but the DSKY's so far. CAPCOM Looks like they're hogging the windows. SC Your right. PAO This is Apollo Control. The view that we have of the earth disc at this time, as near as we can tell, the north pole is to the left of the screen - - END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-16-69 CDT 20:57 - GET 12:25 - TAPE 70/1 PAO This is Apollo Control. The view we have of the earth disc at this time as near as we can tell, the north Pole is to the left of the screen. The land mass that was visible was the western coast of the United States. The earth then would appear to be rotated 90 degrees with the North Pole to the left and South American Continent extending toward the upper right of the globe but not visible. CAPCOM Apollo 11 Houston. On your Cryos, we'd like at this time for you to place all 4 cryo heaters to auto, and turn off all four cryo fans, over. SC Okay, all four cryo heaters are auto. And all 4 cryo fans are off. CAPCOM Roger, that's going to be your sleep configuration. Buzz we'll be terminating the battery charge in about a half hour. SC Roger. CAPCOM Apollo 11, Houston. You can terminate the tv at your convenience. We've got enough tape and you can start PTC at your convenience, the rates look super for starting it up, over. SC Roger, Charlie. PAO That concludes the unscheduled television transmission. That transmission came in about 2 hours ago at a ground elapsed time of 10:32:40 beginning, lasted about 16 and a half minutes. At the beginning of the transmission Apollo 11 was about 50,980 nautical miles from earth and at the conclusion about 52,248 nautical miles. At the present time, the crew is in a scheduled rest period. They did indicate before going into the rest period, when we last heard from them, that they would probably use part of the time to get a bite to eat and then get some sleep. At this time Apollo 11 is 59,908 nautical miles from earth, traveling at a speed of 7,569 feet per second. At 12 hours 31 minutes, this is Mission Control, Houston. END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-16-69 CDT 21:19 - GET 12:47 - TAPE 71/1 PAO This is Apollo Control at 12 hours 47 minutes. We've just put in a call to the crew. Flight Director, Gene Kranz, verified with the surgeon that they had not gone to sleep at this point and Capsule Communicator, Charlie Duke, has put in the call. We'll pick up the tape of the converstion and then stand by for any following live communication with the crew. CAPCOM Hello, Apollo 11; Houston. Hope we aren't disturbing you. We'd like you to terminate the noun 65 now. Over. SC Alright. CAPCOM Apollo 11; Houston. Over. SC Houston; Apollo 11. CAPCOM Roger. When you stopped, or correction, when you terminated the noun 65, it appears to us, you get a verb 46 which collapsed the deadband back to 0.5. We're okay as long as you do not turn on any auto RCS select switches. Over. SC Okay. I've got that one, Jack. We're ready to ... Roger. CAPCOM Roger, verb 34 would have been a better procedure. SC Yeah. PAO This is Apollo Control. We don't anticipate a great deal of further conversation wit the crew. We expect they will attempt to get some sleep shortly. The converstion that just ended, we advised that through one of the computer programs, the deadband for that area of excursions which the guidance system will allow befor firing the RCS thrusters to correct it. It had been narrowed from 30 degrees to 1/2 a degree. What this would mean, if the RCS jets were enabled, is that unless the crew reselected the 30 degree deadband, the jets would be firing more frequently to keep the spacecraft within the narrower limits. Since the spacecraft is very stable at this point, very few wobbling motions, it was felt that the narrower deadband was acceptable; the jets are not enabled, and the crew would not be disturbed by firing of the Reaction Control System jets even if the spacecraft moved out of the 1/2-degree deadband. In the event of any large excursions, which we would not expect, based on the passive thermal control mode, used in Apollo 10. It would be possible to awaken the crew from the ground and have the situation corrected. We would not expect, however, for the spacecraft attitude to change significantly during the night, and we do intend to continue in the passive thermal control mode as it is presently set up. At this time Apollo 11 is 61,509 nautical miles from earth, traveling at a speed of 7,449 feet per second, which would translate to about 5,000 miles an hour. At 12 hours 54 minutes, this is Apollo Control, Houston. END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-16-69 CDT 21:58 - GET 13:27 - TAPE 72/1 PAO This is Apollo Control at 13 hours, 27 minutes into the flight of Apollo 11. The spacecraft now traveling at a speed of 7,279 feet per second, which would be about 4,963 miles an hour, and it's at a distance of 63,880 nautical miles from Earth. Our Flight Sugeon reported a short while ago that command module pilot, Mike Collins, appeared to be sleeping soundly at this time. Biomedical data on the other two crewmen indicates that they are still awake. We've had no further conversation with the spacecraft since our last report, and it appears that the crew will be getting some good rest either as scheduled or perhaps a little earlier than scheduled in the flight plan. At 13 hours, 28 minutes, thesis Mission Control, Houston. END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-16-69 CDT 22:37 - GET 14:06 - TAPE 73/1 PAO This is Apollo Control at 14 hours 6 minute into the flight of Apollo 11. The mission is progressing very smoothly. All spacecraft systems ar functioning normally at this time, and the flight surgeon reports all three crewmen appear to be sleeping. For commander Neil Armstrong, and lunar module pilot Buzz Aldrin, they appear to have begun sleeping about 5 minutes ago. Command module pilot Mike Collins has been asleep for about an additional 30 minutes to an hour. At the present time Apollo 11 is 66 thousand 5 hundred 54 nautical miles from earth and traveling at a speed of about 70 thousand, or rather 7 thousand 95 feet per second, which would be about 48 hundred miles an hour. We've had no further conversation with the crew since our last report and as I said all 3 crewmen appear to be sleeping at this time. At 14 hours 7 minutes this is Apollo Control, Houston. END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-16-69 CDT 22:58 - GET 14:25 - TAPE 74/1 PAO This is Apollo Control 14 hours, 25 minutes into the flight of Apollo 11. The spacecraft, presently 67,819 nautical miles from earth traveling at a speed of 7012 feet per second. Here in Mission Control, the shift change is in progress. Flight Director Glenn Lunney and his team of flight controllers coming on to replace Gene Kranz and his white team. The Capsule Communicator on the upcoming shift will be Ron Eavans. And we anticipate that the change of shift briefing for this shift will begin in about 10 or 15 minutes. At 14 hours, 26 minutes this is Apollo Control. END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-16-69 CDT 23:59 - GET 15:28 - TAPE 75/1 PAO This is Apollo Control, 15 hours, 28 minutes ground elapse time. Apollo 11 crew still asleep according to Flight Surgeon Ken Beers here in Mission Control. The flight crew is still sleeping soundly at this time according to the biomedical telemetry being beamed down to the displays on his console. Here in the Mission Control Operations Room or MCOR as it is called the black team of flight controllers is settling in for the night headed up by Flight Director Glen Lunney. Some 7 hours remaining in the crews sleep period. Distance and velocity now showing 72,009 nautical miles out from Earth. Velocity now 6,750 feet per second. And at 15 hours, 28 minutes ground elapse time, this is Apollo Control. END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-17-69 CDT 1:10 - GET 16:38 - TAPE 76/1 PAO This is Apollo Control at 16 hours, 38 minutes ground elapsed time. Apollo 11, presently being tracked by the Honeysuckle Creek, Australia tracking station. Geographically the spacecraft is practically directly over or out from the Phillipine Islands. Now showing some 5 hours and 51 minutes remaining in the crew rest period. The crew still asleep at this time. Continuing to decelerate as the spacecraft gets out toward the changeover point between the Earth's sphere of influence and the Moon's sphere of influence. Velocity now showing 6493 feet per second. Apollo 11 now out 76,453 nautical miles from the Earth. And at 16 hours, 39 minutes ground elapsed time this is Apollo Control. END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-17-69 CDT 2:05 - GET 17:33 - TAPE 77/1 PAO This is Apollo Control 17 hours 33 minutes Ground Elapsed Time. Apollo 11 now some 79,700 nautical miles out from Earth at a velocity of 6320 feet per second. Telemetry display for the crew biomedical readings now shows all three men in a fairly deep sleep. The mean heart rates in the 40's for all three men. Command Module cabin pressure holding at 4.7 pounds per square inch. Cabin temperature is 63 degrees. No measurements on the Lunar Module in terms of cabin pressure in as much as the Lunar Module has not been activated and will not be until shortly before entering Lunar orbit and the first manning for the module is checked out, systems are checked out and closed back up again. Spacecraft analysis reports coming out of the back room here in Mission Control Center read like some of the ones in Apollo 10 toward the end of the mission when they were down to one page. And most of the entries are all systems performance normal systems operation normal, no change from last report, et cetera, et cetera. In the spacecraft fuel cell, performance is normal. And the load sharing is shown within 3.2 amps. Cryogenic hydrogen and oxygen quantities now show total oxygen at 558 pounds, 279 pounds in each of the two tanks, 49 pounds of cryogenic hydrogen, 24.2 pounds in Tank 1, 24.8 in Tank 2. And the cryogenic system is performing normal. At 17 hours 36 minutes Ground Elapsed Time this is Apollo Control. END OF TAPE APOLLO i1 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-17-69 CDT 3:10 - GET 18:38 - TAPE 78/1 PAO This is Apollo Control, 18 hours 38 minutes ground elapse time. Apollo 11 now some 83,644 nautical miles out from Earth, continuing to decelerate in velocity. Now some 6,114 feet per second. The reveille time for the crew of Apollo 11 in some 3 hours and 50 minutes. All systems still functioning normally aboard the spacecraft as the crew continues their nine hour rest period. All measurements normal, as the flight controllers here watch the systems on telemetry and the displays here in the control center. Have 18 hours 39 minutes ground elapse time. This is Apollo Control. END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-17-69 CDT 4:15 - GET 19:43 - TAPE 79/1 PAO This is Apollo Control, 19 hours, 43 minutes ground elapse time. Crew now has some 2 hours, 46 minutes remaining in the scheduled sleep period. Distance out-bound from Earth now 87,409 nautical miles. Apollo ll's continuing to decelerate in velocity, now traveling at 5,930 feet per second. All going well in the Apollo 11 mission. Crew sleeping apparently in deep sleep. Systems still performing quite well. And at 19 hours, 43 minutes ground elapse time, this is Apollo Control. END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-17-69 CDT 5:10 - GET 20:38 - TAPE 80/1 PAO This is Apollo control 20 hours 38 minutes ground elapse time. One hour 51 minutes remaining in the crew rest period. At this time, Apollo 11 on a line projected outward from earth as directly over the southern tip of the Indian sub-continent. Distance now 90,509 nautical miles. Velocity continuing to decelerate, now 5,788 feet per second. The crew is still asleep at this time, and at 20 hours 39 minutes ground elapse time, this is Apollo control. END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-17-69 CDT 6:10 - GET 21:38 - TAPE 81/1 PAO This is Apollo Control 21 hours, 38 minutes ground elapsed time. Apollo 11 now being tracked by the tracking station at Madrid. Some 51 minutes remaining in the SC heduled sleep period for the crew of Apollo 11. When the sleep period ends depends on the business of the day whether the flight controllers here and the spacecraft communicator wakes the crew up or whether they wake up on their own accord and call in to begin the second day of the translunar coast. Upon awakening the flight plan calls for change of the carbon dioxide removing filters in the spacecraft cabin. Now a report on the differential pressure between the lunar module and the command module. Update from the ground on consumables remaining. They will remain in the passiye thermal control mode through the hour long eat period that follows the wakeup. After their breakfast meal the flight plan calls for some navigation excercises using the sextant and the program 23 computations of the onboard computer. These are star and earth horizons sightings. Presently Apollo 11 is 93,085 nautical miles out from earth. Velocity now 5638 feet per second. At 21 hours, 40 minutes ground elapsed time, this is Apollo Control. END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-17-69 CDT 7:22 - GET 22:49 - TAPE 82/1 PAO This is Apollo Control at 22 hours, 49 minutes ground elapse time. The crew has been awake for some time according to the surgeon. Spacecraft communicator here in mission control with the green team, Bruce McCandless, is standing by to make a call to the crew. He's in the process of taking over from Ron Evans. Flight director, Cliff Charlesworth, has asked that he make a call to the crew. We're standing by for this call momentarily. CAPCOM Apollo 11, Apollo 11, this is Houston. Over. SC Good morning, Houston. Apollo 11. CAPCOM Roger, Apollo 11. Good morning. CAPCOM When you're ready to copy, 11, I've got a couple of small flight plan updates and your consumable updates, and the morning news, I guess. Over. SC Apollo 11, Houston. CAPCOM Go ahead, 11. SC Roger. Standing by for your updates. Over. CAPCOM Okay, 11, this is Houston at time approximately 22:30 in the flight plan. In your post-sleep checklist and in all other post-sleep checklists, we'd like you to delete the statement that says AUTO RCS Jet select 16 to ON, and what we're doing here is picking this up in the procedure for exiting PTC that's in your CSM checklist. And in the CSM checklist on page foxtrot 9-8 - if you want to turn to that - we'd like to change the order of the steps in that. Over. SC Okay, page F 9-8. Go ahead. CAPCOM Okay, right now it reads to exit G and N PTC then you've got a FAN 8 change that says AUTO RCS select 12 main A and B. And then you come down to printed stuff 1. We'd like to take and move the AUTO RCS select 12 main A and B down to be the second step, so the procedure would read Step 1 Manual attitude 3 excel command, Step 2 AUTO RCS select 12 Main A B, Step 3 would be verified deployed and so on. Over. SC Roger, I copy. Is that AUTO RCS select 12 Main A B to be the - CAPCOM Roger, it should be the second step in that procedure. At time 22:40 when you get to it, we'd like to commence a charge on Battery A. And at time 24:10 we have an updated attitude for your P-52 and optics calibration. Over. SC Okay, 24:10. Go ahead. CAPCOM Roger. P-52 and optics calibration attitude ROLL 330.5, PITCH 086.3, YAW 000.0. The nominal attitude is PAN 8-10 for the P-23 is still good. At time 25:30, approximately, after you complete P-23, we're requesting APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-17-69 CDT 7:22 - GET 22:49 - TAPE 82/2 CAPCOM a weight water dump down to nominal 25 percent. Over. CAPCOM Apollo 11, this is Houston. Did you copy the attitude in the waste water dump? Over. SC Roger - CAPCOM 11, this is Hohston. We're not reading you at the present time. You're way out on the noise hold. Stand by. CAPCOM Apollo 1l, this is Houston. How do you read? Over. SC Roger, Houston. Apollo 11. Loud and clear. How me? CAPCOM Okay, beautiful. Did you copy the attitudes for the P-52 and the waste water dump? Over. END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-17-69 CDT 7:31 - GET 22:59 - TAPE 83/1 SC - coming in. CAPCOM Okay, beautiful. Did you copy the attitudes for the P52 and the waste water dump? Over. SC Rog. Okay, we note the battery charge as soon as we get around to it, and the attitude for the P52 optics cal, roll 330.5, 086.3 and yaw all zeros. The attitude for the P23 as in the flight plan is okay, and I copy your battery charge. Crew status report as follows: 3 CDR, CMP 7, LMP 5.5, and we've completed the post sleep checklist. Standing by for a consumable update. Over. CAPCOM Roger. We're requesting a waste water dump at GET 25:30 down to a nominal 25 percent, and here we go with the consumables update. At a GET of 22 hours, RCS total is minus 3.5 percent, alpha minus 3.5 percent, bravo minus 1.5 percent, charlie minus 5.0 percent, minus 4.0 percent, H2 minus 2 pounds, O2 minus 4 pounds. Over. SC Okay, stand by. I copied those consumables, and I'll read you back our RCS quantities. We got 86 percent in alpha, 87 in bravo, 88 in charlie, and 90 in delta. Over. CAPCOM Roger. I copy. And did you copy the waste water request? SC Roger. Waste water - and we got the time for that, and that'll be down to 25 percent. CAPCOM Okay. SC Houston, 11. CAPCOM Apollo 11, this is Houston. Over. SC Roger. We've started charging battery A, and voltage started off a lot higher than I expected. It was just a little bit shy of 40. It looks like it's dropping down some now. This is the battery charge folder. You know yesterday when we were doing this on battery C it started out at entry, and it went lower than the battery charge before. CAPCOM Roger. Stand by a second, and I'll get some reading on that. SC On charging battery A, now it's at about 39 3 and - oh, about 1.5 amps. Looks like it's gradually increasing in the amps starter. CAPCOM Roger. On RCM we're showing you at 39.11 and your current's about what you reported. SC Okay, I guess you have to - - CAPCOM Alright, we're losing you in the noise again, 11. Stand by. END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-17-69 CDT 7:41 - GET 23:09 - TAPE 84/1 CAPCOM Apollo 11, this is Houston. Over. SC Houston, Apollo 11. Go ahead. CAPCOM Roger, 11. On your battery charging question, we feel that it's probably a difference between individual batteries and it does seem to have gone away as sort of a start up transient here. Other factors that might conceivably have an influence on it would be battery temperature, things of this sort. EECOM seems to feel that it's operating within the normal design limits. Over. SC All right. Very good. Thank you. CAPCOM 11, this is Houston. If you are interested in the morning news I have a summary here from PAO. Over. SC Okay, we're all listening. CAPCOM Okay, from Jodrell Bank England via AP. Britian's big Jodrell Bank radio telescope stopped receiving signals from the Soviet Union's unmanned moon shot at 5:49 BDT today. A spokesman said that it appeared the Luna 15 space ship "had gone beyond the moon". Another quote: "We don't think it has landed", said the spokesman for Bernard Lovell, Director of the Observatory. Washington UPI: Vice President Spiro T. Agnew has called for putting a man on Mars by the year 2000, but Democratic leaders replied that priority must go to needs on Earth. Agnew, ranking government official at the Apollo 11 blastoff Wednesday, apparently was speaking for himself and not necessarily for the Nixon administration when he said, "We should, in my judgement, put a man on Mars by the end of this Century". Laredo, Texas, AP: Immigration officials in Nuevo Laredo announced Wednesday that hippies will be refused tourists cards to enter Mexico unless they take a bath and get haircuts. Nuberto Cazaras, Chief of Mexican Immigration in Nuevo Laredo, said authorities in Mexico City, Alcapulco, and other popular tourist spots have registered complaints about the hippies. United Press International: Initial reaction to President Nixon's granting of a holiday Monday to federal employees so they can observe a national day of participation in the Apollo 11 moon landing mission mostly was one of surprise. Rodney Bidner, Associated Press: London AP: Europe is moon struck by the Apollo 11 mission. Newspapers throughout the continent fill their pages with pictures of the Saturn V rocket blasting off to forge Earth's first link with its natural satellite. And the headline writers taxed their imagination for words to hail the feat. "The greatest adventure in the history of humanity has started" declared the French newspaper Le Figaro which devoted 4 pages to reports from Cape Kennedy and diagrams of the mission. The tabloid Paris Soir proclaimed, "The whole world tells them Bravo". From the Communists Daily L'Humanite led with the launch picture and devoted its entire back page to an enthusiastic moon report describing the countdown and launch, the astronauts' wives and families and backgrounding lunar activities. Hempstead New York: Joe Namath officially reported to the New York Jets APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-17-69 CDT 7:41 - GET 23:09 - TAPE 84/2 CAPCOM training camp at Hofstra University Wednesday following a closed door meeting with his teammates over his differences with Pro Football Commissioner Peter Roselle. London UPI: The House of Lords was assured Wednesday that a major American submarine would not "damage or assault" the lochness monster. Lord Nomay said he wanted to be sure anyone operating a submarine in the loch would not subject any creatures that might inhabit it to "damage or assault". He asked that the submarine's plan to take a tissue sample with a retrievable dart from any monster it finds can be done without damage and disturbance. He was told it was impossible to say if the 1876 Cruelity to Animals Act would be violated unless and until the monster was found. Over. SC Roger, thank you, Bruce. That's interesting. That number 2 item we all (garbled) before we left and we hope we get a chance to see him when we return. CAPCOM Roger, and I understand he was down there and really enjoyed watching the launch. We are think it was pretty magnificent and you all are doing a great job up there. SC Thank you. END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-17-69 CDT 7:51 - GET 23:19 - TAPE 85/1 PAO This is Apollo Control at 23 hours 22 minutes. Apollo 11's distance from Earth is 99,308 nautical miles. Velocity is 5411 feet per second. The spacecraft weight is 96,361 pounds. A flight dynamics officer reports that in terms of distance Apollo 11 will reach the half-way mark at 25 hours 0 minutes 53 seconds. At that time the spacecraft will be 104,350 miles from both the Earth and the Moon. END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-17-69 CDT 8:01 - GET 23:29 - TAPE 86/1 All dead air and static. APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-17-69 CDT 8:16 - GET 23:44 - TAPE 87/1 PAO This is Apollo Control at 23 hours, 48 minutes. Capcom Bruce McCandless is getting ready to put in a call to the crew momentarily. Apollo 11's distance now is 100,685 nautical miles. Velocity 5356 feet per second. CAPCOM Apollo 11, this is Houston. Over. SC Roger, go ahead Houston. CAPCOM Roger. Mike, we've got some comments on the performance for P-23 for today if you've got a minute to talk. SC He's all ears. Yes, go ahead. CAPCOM Okay. For today, we'd like you on P-23 to make a trunnion bias determination prior to P-23 sitings as called out in procedures and also one afterward. Our intent here is to check out the possibility that some sort of thermal effect may be giving you errors in the angular readout in the section. The bias that you get beforehand should be incorporated, that is proceed on NOUN 87 after you get 2 consecutive measurements equal it will then point 003 degrees, and of course move the trunnion off a couple of degrees between the measurements. The Earth should be a lot smaller in your field of view today, I'm sure you're a lot more qualified to tell us about that than we are, but to insure that you're getting a good angle measurement between the star and the Earth horizon, the section M-line, which is the line that runs through the 2 hash marks and is perpendicular to the R-line, should be parallel to the Earth horizon at the substellar point. And then the actual super imposition of the star on the horizon can be made at any point in the field of view of the section above, below, or on the M-line. We recommend the marks be made as rapidly as possible after the AUTO maneuver. If you feel that the amount of time between the AUTO maneuver and the time you get ready to mark is excessive or that you don't like that AUTO maneuver attitude when you get ready to mark, of course you can use a - END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-17-69 CDT 8:31 - GET 23:59 - TAPE 88/1 CAPCOM We've got an auto maneuver attitude when you get ready to mark. Of course, you can use a VERB 94 - that's VERB 94 to get you back to the flashing 51 position to redo the auto maneuvers. Over. SC Roger. Stand by one, we're going to stop PTC, and then we'll talk about this P23. CAPCOM Okay. PAO Apollo 11 is now going out of the passive thermal control mode in which it was slowly rotating to maintain thermal balance. They're getting set up for the P23 activities. That's the midcourse navigation. Capcom Bruce McCandtess is passing up some changes in the procedures for this navigational operation. SC Houston, Apollo 11. CAPCOM Go ahead, 11. SC Okay, we're stopping PTC now and maneuvering to our P52 and optics cal attitude. And we're going to the P23. What I was trying to tell you yesterday was about that. The M line is not anywhere parallel to the horizon at the roll, pitch and yaw which you give me to go to for the substellar point, and I was trying to maneuver off to get it parallel to the horizon when you all said that was unnecessary. CAPCOM Roger, 11. I guess in keeping the cups of coffee strong, why you get that one. SC Well - okay - well, this morning, let's just see how close it comes to being parallel to the M line. Before we started marking for the first time it appeared that the computation of - of those three angles was somewhat off, and that I was wasting a lot of gas by going to those three angles and then having to make a large attitude changes after that to get the M line parallel, and in some cases it appeared to be just an accepted attitude required, and you all said that it wasn't needed. So I was marking in some cases with the M line not parallel. I thought perhaps you had some processer for computing that offset and making sense out of that data, but as far as I know we gotta have the M line parallel. CAPCOM Roger, 11. We don't have that capability. We do require that the M line be parallel to the horizon in order to get a good mark. We feel that possibly the - the state vector information that you were using for your maneuver basis yesterday may have needed to be updated a little, and if you'll stand by a second we'll give you an evaluation of what we feel you'll get today by the auto maneuver. SC Okay. SC Houston, Apollo 11. Over. CAPCOM Go ahead, 11. APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-17-69 CDT 8:31 - GET 23:59 - TAPE 88/2 SC Roger. I'm setting ready to do an O2 fuel cell purge. Do you have any particulars on this, and I assume you want these one at a time, or can I triple up. Over. CAPCOM We'd like them one at a time, and stand by. I don't think we have any sequence. You can do them in any order you want. SC Okay. CAPCOM And, we're watching you on TM down here. We wanted to - END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-17-69 CDT: 8:46 - GET: 24:14 - TAPE 89/1 SC Houston, Apollo 11. You want to look at these TM 93 before I proceed on. CAPCOM Yes, please, stand by a second. SC Okay. CAPCOM 11, this is Houston. On our TM here we're only seeing values in 2 registars. Can you read us out the contents of registar 3, please. SC Registar 3 minus 3 balls 2 4. CAPCOM Roger, minus 3 balls, 2 4, and you can go ahead and proceed. SC Okay, proceeding at this time. CAPCOM 11, Houston, after you've completed P52, we'd like the up flight you on state vector, so we can start out clean on this P23, over. SC Okay. Houston, are you observing the higher O2 flow on fuel cell 3? Houston, Apollo 11, it triggers the master alarm 3 times now - there it goes number 4. It goes up to about 1.4 and then oscilates back down to about 1.1 , over. CAPCOM Roger, we saw them 1.3 now, on TM - stand by a second. SC And we're through now for state vector. CAPCOM Roger, give us accept, please. SC Roger. CAPCOM 11, Houston. On our O2 flow fuel cell 3, apparently it was flowing a little higher than the other two during purge, but the flow rate is acceptable, over. SC Roger, it seems to be flowing a little bit more, and actually putting out more current than the other two, also, over. CAPCOM Roger, we copy. 11, this is Houston. We've completed the uplink; computer's yours, and go back to block. SC Okay. CAPCOM Go ahead 11. SC Houston, 11, I don't believe we were calling you right now. CAPCOM Roger, out. PAO This is Apollo Control at 24 hours 22 minutes into the mission. Apollo 11's distance from the Earth is 102,436 nautical miles, velocity 5288 feet per second. SC Houston, Apollo 11. CAPCOM Apollo 11, this is Houston, go ahead. SC Roger, I'm in a good attitude here to do - I have in the sextant this last P52 star. What number is it? Star 37, is that all right for the optics calibration to save some gas, are do you want to go over to Star 40? END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-17-69 CDT 8:56 - GET 24:24 - TAPE 90/1 SC - 37. Is that all right for the optics calibration to save some gas, or do you want to go over to Star 40? CAPCOM Star 37 will be fine for the optics calibration and we haven't noticed a VERB 66 yet after our state vector uplink. Over. SC Okay. CAPCOM When you move into P-23, we recommend that you use the CMC computer angles for your auto maneuver. See how that works out. If it doesn't bring you up with the M-line parallel to the horizon to the substellar point, we will see if we can get you some ground computed angles. I guess the big thing here is to make sure that the M-line is parallel to substellar points so we can get a good angular measurement. Over. SC Yes, I believe. CAPCOM Roger. Roger. PAO Star 37 is Nunki. Apollo 11 is now in program 52 which is realignment of the platform prior to beginning the cislunar navigation operation. SC This is Apollo 11. Marking on this star, I get a 987 twice in a row of five balls so that's sufficient for a count. CAPCOM That's certainly very sufficient. SC Okay. SC Now I want to go to P00 and I am going to take your three angles and do a verify of 49 maneuver to your substellar point. Okay? CAPCOM Okay. We recommend that for the first star, if we gave you a new state vector, we'd like to try the CMC computed angles for your auto maneuver. SC Okay. CAPCOM And have you hit PROCEED on this display to enter the zero? SC Not yet. CAPCOM Okay. CAPCOM 11, Houston. Over the past two hours we have seen a slight continuing increase in partial pressure of CO2. Have you in fact changed the CO2 cannister yet this morning? We don't need to do it right now, but we'd like to confirm it on our instrumentation. Is that in good shape? Over. SC No, we haven't changed any cannisters this morning. CAPCOM Okay. Then you can plan on accomplishing that after P-23 is over and you've got the LEB clear. APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-17-69 CDT 8:56 - GET 24:24 - TAPE 90/2 SC Houston, Apollo 11. We're in process of maneuvering to P-23 in desired attitude. It likes ROLL 8.37, PITCH 61.22 and YAW 339.87. Over. CAPCOM Roger, we copy. And that is for Star Zero 1? SC Star Zero 1 right near the horizon. Code 110. CAPCOM Roger. SC Houston, Apollo 11. On this star the auto maneuver works just fine and I am right at the substellar point. Everything looks beautiful except there is no star in sight. It is just not visible. CAPCOM Roger. Is this for Star 01? SC That's correct. CAPCOM You are not getting any reflections or anything like that that would obscure your vision, are you? SC Well, of course, the earth is pretty bright and the black sky, instead of being black, has sort of a rosy glow to it and the star, unless it is a very bright one, is probably lost somewhere in that glow, but it is just not visible. I maneuvered the reticle considerably above the horizon to make sure that the star is not lost in the brightness below the horizon. However, even when I get the reticle considerably above the horison so the star should be seen against the black background, it still is not visible. CAPCOM Roger, we copy. Stand by a minute, please. CAPCOM 11, this is Houston. Can you read us the shaft and trunnion angle off the counters? SC I will be glad to. Shaft, 331.2 and trunion, 35.85. CAPCOM Roger, thank you. END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-17-69 CDT 9:16 - GET 24:44 - TAPE 91/1 SC It's really a fantastic sight through that sextant. A minute ago, during that auto maneuver, the radical swept across the Mediterranean. You could see all of North Africa absolutely clear, all of Portugal, Spain, southern France, all of Italy absolutely clear. Just a beautiful sight. CAPCOM Roger, we all envy you the view up there. SC But still no star. CAPCOM 11, this is Houston. Over. SC Roger. Go ahead, Bruce. CAPCOM On our ground computer we confirm the shaft and trunnion angle that you have as heing pointed at the star. However, it looks as if that shaft and trunnion angle is also pointing into the structure of the LM so that while you will be getting the earth horizon, the star LOS, is obscured by the LM. We recommend an auto maneuver to the attitudes in the flight plan. Roll 1772, pitch 2982 and yaw 330.0. Over. SC Okay, fine, let's try that. SC Transmission hooked on and gimbal locked on now? END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-17-69 CDT 9:36 - GET 25:04 - TAPE 92/1 CAPCOM 11, this is Houston. While you're maneuvering, could we get an LM CM Delta P reading from you? Over. SC Roger. Just a tad under 1, Bruce - .95. CAPCOM Roger. .95. PAO This is Apollo Control. That reading was the difference in pressure between the lunar module cabin and the command module cabin. CAPCOM Apollo 11, Houston. SC Go ahead. CAPCOM Is the commander aboard? PAO This is Jim Lovell calling Apollo 11. SC This is the commander. CAPCOM I was a little worried. This is the back-up commander still standing by. You haven't given me the word yet. Are you GO? SC You've lost your chance to take this one, Jim. CAPCOM Okay, I concede. SC Houston, Apollo 11. CAPCOM Go ahead 11. SC Okay, our maneuver is complete and at this attitude the M-line is exactly 90 degrees out of phase. It is exactly pointed along the vector toward the center of the Earth instead of being parallel to the right. CAPCOM Roger. SC I'm going to hold right here for your next projection. CAPCOM Roger. SC Okay, Houston. It appears to be okay now. We've changed our attitude slightly and I have a star and I'm maneuvering to get the M-line parallel. CAPCOM This is Houston. Roger, we copy. PAO This is Apollo Control at 25 hours, 20 minutes. Apollo 11 - SC Houston, stand by. PAO Distance is now 103,263 nautical miles. Velocity 5,256 feet per second. PAO This is Apollo Control. Delay that last announcement. Those figures are not based on the proper ground elapsed time. This display is static. We don't have the present numbers. END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-17-69 CDT 9:56 - GET 25:24 - TAPE 93/1 SC Houston, Apollo 11. Are you copying these NOUN 49's that have been going through? CAPCOM Yes, we surely are. Let's see, plus .1, and a plus .2 on nautical miles and feet per second. Over. SC Roger. CAPCOM 11, this is Houston, over. SC Go ahead. CAPCOM Yeah, Mike, we show you in - we're in 59 right now, over. SC That's right. I - I haven't entered, I gave it back to the computer for a second. I put the Mode Switch from Manual back to CMC while I fooled with the DSKY, and the computer drove the star off out of sight, so the delay here has been in going back to manual and finding the star again which I've finally done, and just a second here, I'll go to enter and get a 51 and mark on it. As I say, for some reason the computer drove the star off out of sight. CAPCOM Okay, roger, out. CAPCOM Apollo 11, this is Houston, over. SC Go ahead. CAPCOM Roger, we show you as a little less than an hour to the midcourse correction number 2 burn, and we recommend that you terminate the B23 activities here, and press on with the waste water dump which we need from you and getting ready for the burn, over. SC Okay. CAPCOM And I have your midcourse correction number 2 pad when you're ready to copy. SC Stand by. Roger, Houston. Apollo 11, ready to copy MCC 2. CAPCOM Apollo 11, this is Houston. Midcourse correction number 2, SPS G&N 63 zero 59'er plus 09'er7, minus 020 - GET ignition 026 44 57 9'er 2 plus 00 118 minus 00 003 plus 00 177 Roll 277. END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-17-69 CDT 10:22 - GET 25:50 - TAPE 94/1 SC 177, roll 277355015, noun 44 block is A, delta VT 0021300300168, sextant star 302082370, the rest of the pad is N/A. GDC align vega and deneb. Roll align 007144068, no LH. LM weight 33302. For your information your heads will be pointed roughly towards the earth on this burn. Readback over. SC Roger. Midcourse correction number 2. SPS G&N 63059 plus 097 minus 020026445792 plus 00118 minus 00003 plus 00177277. Are you still copying? Over. CAPCOM Roger. Still copying. Go ahead. Apollo 11, this is - Apollo 11, this is Houston. I copied your transmission about roll 277, and go ahead from roll 277. Over. SC Roger. 355015 N/A 00213003001 68302082370. Vega and Deneb 007144068. No ullage. LM weight 33302. Heads towards the earth. Over. CAPCOM 11, this is Houston. Readback correct. Out. CAPCOM Apollo 11, Houston. Over. SC Go ahead, Houston. Apollo 11. CAPCOM Roger. We'd like you to terminate battery A charge at GET 26 hours and reinitiate battery A charge after midcourse correction 2. Over. SC Follow that one, roger. CAPCOM Roger, out. PAO This is Apollo Control at 25 hours, 58 minutes. Apollo 11's distance is now 107,224 nautical miles. Velocity 5,106 feet per second. CAPCOM 11, this is Houston. Over. SC Go ahead. CAPCOM Roger. If you can give us a step we'll send you up a state vector and a target load for the maneuver. SC Okay, give us one minute to check the P23 damage. CAPCOM Sure thing. SC Houston, Apollo 11. The DSKY's yours. CAPCOM Houston, roger, out. PAO This is Apollo Control at 26 hours. The ignition time for this midcourse correction will be 26 hours, 44 minutes, 57 seconds - about 44 minutes from now. It will be a service propulsion maneuver. Duration of the burn will be 3 seconds, the delta-V 21.3 feet per second. PAO This midcourse maneuver should reduce the pericynthion of Apollo 11's trajectory from the present 175 nautical miles to 60 nautical miles. CAPCOM 11, this is Houston. We've APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-17-69 CDT 10:22 - GET 25:50 - TAPE 94/2 CAPCOM completed the uplink. The computer's yours. SC Thank you. END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-17-69 CDT 10:37 - GET 26:05 - TAPE 95/1 SC Houston, Apollo 11. CAPCOM Apollo 11, this is Houston. Over. SC Roger. Wonder if you have a star that might be a little closer to the direction we're turning than the one you gave us. CAPCOM Roger. We're going to rework the attitude in the sextant star for you in order to improve the high gain antenna coverage and we'll have that for you in a few seconds. SC Fine, we're already maneuvering in that attitude. CAPCOM Roger. SC Maybe you can make it just the change in roll. Apollo 11, over. CAPCOM Roger. CAPCOM Apollo 11, this is Houston. Over. SC Go ahead. CAPCOM Roger, on your attitude for the burn we'd like you to use roll 096, pitch 356, yaw 018. That will give you a sextant star of 01, shaft 253.8, trunnion 24.2. Over. SC (garbled) CAPCOM 11, this is Houston. We are having difficulty reading you through the noise. Could you read back again, please? Over. SC Roger, Houston, (garbled) CAPCOM Roger, very weakly in the noise, but I think I can copy. Go ahead. SC Okay, roll 096, 356 018 01. CAPCOM Roger, I got all of that except trunnion. It's trunnion 242. Over. SC Houston, Apollo 11. How do you read me now on OMNI A? CAPCOM Roger, loud and clear, 11. SC Okay, we'll stay on OMNI A for a while then. CAPCOM Okay. I got all your readback except the value for trunnion and if it's 242, confirm please. SC Roger, 242. CAPCOM Okay. END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-17-69 CDT 10:47 - GET 26:15 - TAPE 96/1 PAO The Guidance Officer reports Apollo 11 is now in the attitude for the midcourse correction. PAO This is Apollo Control at 26 hours, 27 minutes. Apollo 11's distance from Earth now 108,594 nautical miles. Velocity 5,057 feet per second. We're about 17 and a half minutes away from the midcourse correction. END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-17-69 CDT 11:07 - GET 26:35 - TAPE 97/1 SC Houston, Apollo 11. Could you give us a couple of high gain antenna angles, please? CAPCOM Roger, stand by, 11. Roger, 11, pitch minus 35, yaw 0. Over. SC Thank you. CAPCOM Okay. SC Houston, Apollo 11. How do you read high gain? CAPCOM Read you loud and clear on high gain down here, and everything's looking good from our standpoint for your burn. Over. SC Okay, Bruce. PAO This is Apollo Control at 26 hours and 40 minutes. We're Just under 4 minutes to the midcourse correction maneuver. Apollo 11's distance from the earth is 109,245 nautical miles. Its velocity is 5,033 feet per second. Spacecraft weight 96,361 pounds. PAO One minute to the burn. The duration will be 3 seconds. Burning. Shutdown. SC Houston, burn's completed. You copying our residuals? CAPCOM Affirmative. SC And Houston, looks like we saw about 87 or 88 psi on chamber pressure that time. I can't look at that on the ground. CAPCOM Roger, 11. We'll take a look at that and get back in a few minutes. 11, Houston. On our realtime telemetry we saw 95 to 97 psi on chamber pressure. We'll - we will look at the recordings down here though and get back with you again. Over. SC Okay, thank you. CAPCOM And we've copied your residuals,11. SC Roger. No, we're not going to check those residuals. CAPCOM Huh? END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-17-69 CDT: 11:19 - GET 26:47 - TAPE 98/1 PAO This is Apollo Control. That was a good burn. The residuals are on the order of a half a foot a second or less, and will not be trimmed. We're showing spacecraft weight now as 96,159 pounds. CAPCOM Apollo 11, Houston, could we get your DELTA-V counter reading, please. SC Minus 3. 8. CAPCOM Minus 2. 8. SC 3.8. CAPCOM Roger, copy, 3.8. SC Houston, is there anything else you need on the burn status report? CAPCOM This is Houston, negative, over. SC Roger, thank you. CAPCOM Apollo 11, this is Houston, over. SC Roger, Apollo 11. CAPCOM Roger. I just wanted to remind you that we haven't noticed on the TM the VERB 66 after the burn. And for your information we played the recorded TV back last night, I believe, after you all turned in for you rest period, and the pictures came out quite well, over. SC Did you get any usable pictures out of Mila on that first pass? CAPCOM Not that we've seen. We had word of a voice loop, but Mila reported that they had gotten a minutes worth of TV signal and Goldstone reported that they had gotten about a minutes worth of modulation, but that they weren't able to get anything off of it. SC Okay, thanks. CAPCOM Okay, here's another input, Apollo 11, that the Mila data was recognizable as of the pictures, but we don't have any evaluation as to the quality of the pictures, over. SC Okay. CAPCOM And for our information, we've been watching a PCO2 again. Did you change a lithium hydroxide canister this morning, over? SC Yes, we did, and we've been seeing 1.7 percent in the spacecraft ever since. CAPCOM Roger, that agrees with our data. SC 1.7 millimeters. CAPCOM Roger, we copy. SC Houston, Apollo 11, we're starting our maneuver to PTC attitude. CAPCOM Roger. END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-17-69 CDT 11:29 - GET 26:57 - TAPE 99/1 CAPCOM 11, this is Houston. Over. SC Go head. CAPCOM Roger. From a propellant balancing standpoint, we recommend that you use QUAD, ALPHA, and BRAVO to start the PTC maneuvers. Over. SC Roger, understand ALPHA and BRAVO. CAPCOM Roger, out. PAO This is Apollo Control at 27 hours, Apollo 11's distance now 110,198 nautical miles. Velocity 4984 feet per second. CAPCOM 11, this is Houston. Over. SC Go ahead Houston. CAPCOM Roger. For cryo balancing purposes, we'd like you to turn the heater and oxygen tank number 1 off at this time. Over. SC Okay, stand by. CAPCOM Everything else in the CRYO system remains the same. SC Okay. SC Okay, we have O2 heater tank 1 off. CAPCOM Houston, roger, out. PAO This is Apollo Control at 27 hours, 7 minutes. The crew is now is the process - SC - is he happy with all those good things? CAPCOM Oh, EECOM is happy, and after you get PTC set up, we've got a little procedure from EECOM here to check out the O2 flow and the O2 flow sensor in your cabin enrichment. Over. SC Okay. SC It'll be awhile, Bruce. We're just now arriving in PTC attitude and we're going to our 20-minute of minding thruster activity. CAPCOM Roger, we copy. We'll be here. END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-17-69 CDT 11:40 - GET 27:08 - TAPE 100/1 PAO This is Apollo Control. The passive thermal control being reestablished by Apollo 11 is at the rate of three-tenths of a degree per second which would be three rotations per hour. SC Houston, Apollo 11. Are you going to take control of the OMNI's now and switch us between D and B. CAPCOM This is Houston. Stand by one. CAPCOM Apollo 11, Houston. SC Go ahead. CAPCOM Mike, how about selecting bravo at this time and I'll give you a comp configuring these, over. SC That PTC sure worked well last night. CAPCOM Outstanding. CAPCOM 11, Houston. SC Go ahead. CAPCOM Okay. ROLL for the COMM installation. Now, that's the antenna on the A and BRAVO, S-band antenna OMNI to OMNI, high gain track to manual and the PITCH is minus 50 and YAW is 270. SC You may have to repeat some of that James. We've got a LM guy taking care of the high gain right now. Yes, and he is eyeballing the earth. He's got his head out the window. CAPCOM I understand. I had trouble on 12 with him, too. SC Say again what you'd like. CAPCOM Okay, the S-band antenna OMNI A switch to BRAVO which you have now, and S-band antenna OMNI to the OMNI position and the high gain track to the manual position, and the PITCH and YAW angles are minus 50 for PITCH and the YAW is 270. SC Minus 50 and 270. PAO That's Jim Lovell, the commander of the backup of Apollo 11 crew communicating with Apollo 11 at the present time. He also commanded the Gemini 12 flight in which Buzz Aldrin was his pilot. SC Hey, Jim, I'm looking through the monocular now and to coin an expression the view is just beautiful. It's out of this world. I can see all the islands in the Mediterranean. Some larger and smaller islands of Majorca, Sardinia and Corsica. A little haze over the upper Italian peninsula, some cumulos clouds out over Greece. The sun is setting on the eastern Mediterranean now. The British Isles are definitely greener in color than the brownish green that we have in the islands APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-17-69 CDT 11:40 - GET 27:08 - TAPE 100/2 SC peninsula of Spain. Over. CAPCOM Roger. I understand that the Northern Africa - Mediterraanean area is fairly clear today, huh? SC Right. I see a bunch of roads with cars driving up and down, too. CAPCOM Do you find that the monocular is any good to you, Buzz? SC Yes. It would be nicer if it had another order of magnitude of power on it. It has a tendency to jiggle around a little bit and you might want to have some sort of a bracket. I hate to use that word though. SC There's an anti-cyclone going in the southern hemisphere southeast of Brazil and some - well, the diameter of it must be over 2,000 miles across. CAPCOM How does the weather look up in the southern part of the western hemisphere or up in the United States area? SC Well, you all are just beginning - END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-17-69 CDT 11:51 - GET 27:19 - TAPE 101/1 SC United States area. SC You all are just beginning to come over the LM now I can see parts of Central America and it looks to be fairly clear there. The islands in the Caribbean are beginning to come in and rather a few streaming lines of clouds. Looks like there is a system up to the - well, off of Greenland that has some large cloud streamers extending back down to the southwest. The east coast of the U.S. is just coming into view now and it doesn't look too bad that I can see right now. We may have some pretty good shots later on this afternoon Over. CAPCOM Roger, thank you. PAO That was Buzz Aldrin giving the description of what he could see on the Earth. The backup lunar module pilot Fred Hayes is also in the Control Center at the present time. SC Houston, Apollo 11. CAPCOM Go ahead, 11. SC I've got a comment about the point on the Earth where the sun's rays reflect back up toward us. In general, the color of the oceans is mostly uniform and it's, oh bright and darker blue except for that region that's about 1/8th of an earth's radius in diameter, and in this circular area the blue of the water turns a grayish color and I'm sure that's where the sun's rays are being reflected back on up toward us. Over. CAPCOM Roger, Buzz. We noticed the same thing, It's very similar to looking at a light shining on something like a billiard ball or bowling ball. You get this bright spot in the blue of the water and that turns it sort of a grayish color. SC Yes. Is there a Navy term for that? CAPCOM A lot of gray paint. CAPCOM 11, Houston. SC Go ahead, Houston. CAPCOM Mike, are you satisfied with P23 now? SC Yes, I'm happy with the last updates we got, you know, in terms of what it did to our state vector. Still not altogether happy with the various procedures. If we could pick stars within the smaller range of trunnion angles so that you could allow P23 to pick its own maneuver and go to that substellar point and then have that star visible, that would seem to me to be the simplest and best way to do it, CAPCOM How about the horizon now? Is it pretty well defined where it's no longer hazy? SC Yes, we're far enough out now that the - I think the horizon definition variation is lost in the noise. SC Hey, Jim. APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-17-69 CDT 11:51 - GET 27:19 - TAPE 101/2 CAPCOM Go ahead, Buzz. SC Looks like the best outstanding view is through the monocular is just steady it out and let it close when it's in front of your eye and then you kind of float up next to it so you're not touching it at all. It has a very slow drift and you get a better view that way. CAPCOM Sounds good. CAPCOM How does it feel to be airborne again, Buzz? SC Well, I'll tell you, I've been having a ball floating around inside here, back and forth up to one place and back to another. It's just like being outside except more comfortable. CAPCOM It's a lot bigger than our last vehicle. SC We've been busy, I'm looking - SC Say again, my friend? SC It sure is nice in here. CAPCOM I said it's a lot bigger than the last vehicle Buzz and I were in. SC Oh, yes. It's been nice. I've been very busy so far. I'm looking forward to taking the afternoon off. I've been cooking, sweeping, and almost sewing, and you know, the usual little housekeeping things. CAPCOM It was very convenient the way they put the food preparation system right next to the NAV station. SC Everything is right next to everything in this vehicle. SC Not if you're in the (garbled) SC Jim, it's been a little warm in the machine throughout yesterday and last night during the PTC. It cooled off somewhat with the windows buttoned up and - END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-17-69 CDT 12:01 - GET 27:29 - TAPE 102/1 SC - the PTC. It cooled off somewhat with the windows buttoned up and we've seen suit temperatures of about - the high 40's and cabin temperatures in the low 60's. But this seems to be still a little bit on the warm side. CAPCOM I understand it got a little warm during the day and cooled down a little bit when you put the shades up, but you're still a little bit warm. Have you have any moisture condensation or anything like that on the wall? SC No, we haven't been able to detect any moisture anyplace in the spacecraft. It seems to be fine. SC One of the hydrogen filters - the one that we've got on the hot water - seems to keep flowing when you remove one of the food bags from it. Its flow rate is quite small right near the end of one out, and that contributes a little bit of moisture to the atmosphere. SC Yes, that hydrogen thing, it's, I'm not sure, but I think it's a back pressure problem. If the thing sees any back pressure at all, like when the bag is attached, well the flow rate will slowly decrease to where its almost zero, and you wait, and you wait, and you wait for that last ounce. You think you have it, and you remove the bag, and then you very rapidly thereafter see maybe a glob the size of a dime or a quarter come out and just hang there. That appears to be true even though the opening into the bag is not restricted. CAPCOM Understand. SC In general, I think they do quite a good job, especially on the guns when we're moving a lot of the hydrogen bubbles. CAPCOM Are the water temperatures good? Are you getting hot water? SC Yes, it seems reasonably warm. SC We made 3 cups of coffee today. The last one - you know when all the plumbing was warmed up, the hydrogen gun and everything, was warmest of the 3. I don't know who had that one - Neil, did you have that one? How was your coffee? You didn't drink it till later, did you? Anyway, it's pretty good. It's not piping hot, but it beats stone cold coffee. SC Jim, we've been sitting here a little over 20 minutes now. How does the thruster firing activity look? Are you ready to go on with this PTC? CAPCOM Roger, stand by. CAPCOM We're all set to go, Mike. SC Okay, I'll press ON then. SC Houston, Apollo 11. PTC has started and it looks good. APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-17-69 CDT 12:01 - GET 27:29 - TAPE 102/2 CAPCOM 11, Roger. This is Houston. Roger, out. END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-17-69 CDT 12:11 - GET 27:39 - TAPE 103/1 PAO This is Apollo Control at 27 hours 46 minutes. Apollo ll's distance from the Earth is now 112,386 nautical miles, velocity 4,906 feet per second. We now have the actual numbers on the midcourse correction maneuver. Ignition time was 26 hours 44 minutes 57.92 seconds. Duration of the burn was 2.91 seconds. DELTA-V 20.9 feet per second. CAPCOM Apollo 11, this is Houston, over. SC Go ahead, Houston. CAPCOM Roger, if you're free for a couple of minutes, we have a procedure here that will let us verify the O2 flow transducer, and at the same time get some more of our cabin enrichment out of the way, over. SC Stand by. SC Go ahead Houston, we're ready to copy. CAPCOM Roger, the primary purpose of this is - as I mentioned, to let us check out your O2 flow transducer. However, we still need about 2 hours worth of cabin enrichment, so we'd like to keep the - the vent that we're going to set up going for this purpose. Okay, we want you to install the cabin - END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-17-69 CDT 12:21 - GET 27:49 - TAPE 104/1 CAPCOM - for this purpose. Okay, so we want you to install the cabin vent quick disconnect which you'll find in compartment R6, that is Romeo 6 on the urine connector on panel 251. When this is completed verify that the waste stowage vent valve is closed and then open or position the waste management overboard drain to the dump position. Over. SC Okay, understand that - install the cabin quick disconnect out of R6 on the 251 urine connector and verify that the waste dump valve is closed, and say again the last part. CAPCOM Roger. And then put the waste management overboard drain valve off into the dump position. Over. SC Roger. Put the waste management overboard drain valve to the dump position. CAPCOM Right. That's the one down on panel 251 also. And we'll watch your O2 flow on telemetry down here. SC Okay, Houston. This is the configuration to set up. CAPCOM 11, this is Houston. Say again, please. SC You do have the O2 flow transducer checked out - the set up accomplished. CAPCOM Okay, understand you have opened the drain valves this time. SC That's affirmative. CAPCOM Roger. We're not getting telemetry data from you right due to low signal strength. There it comes back. I expect it'll probably take us anywhere from 15 minutes to half an hour or so. I see an increase in 024 due to the size of the cabin and of course of the small size of the drain. Over. SC Alright. END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-17-69 CDT 12:36 - GET 28:04 - TAPE 105/1 SC Houston, Apollo 11. CAPCOM Go ahead 11. SC Roger. I've got the world in my window for a change and looking at it through the monocular it's really something. I wish I could describe it properly. The weather is very good. South America is coming around into view. I can see on the - what appears to me to be upper horizon a point that must be just about Seattle, Washington, and from there I can see all the way down to the southern tip of Tierra del Fuego and the southern tip of the continent. CAPCOM Roger, sounds like you've got a beautiful view up there. SC Absolutely fantastic. I hope the pictures come out. We're rotating around where's it's going out of view again. PAO That's Mike Collins talking. SC We'll pick it up again in a second. CAPCOM Sounds like one of these rotating restaurants. PAO And Bruce McCandless is back on the CAPCOM console now, END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-17-69 CDT 12:46 - GET 28:14 - TAPE 106/1 CAPCOM Apollo 11, this is Houston. Over. SC (inaudible) CAPCOM Apollo 11, this is Houston. Negative. We had a command computer at the Madrid go down. We had to switch over to ascension temporarily. We're now back remoting through Madrid and the computer is back, and we're ready to resume control of your OMNI's and full communication. Over. SC Okay, you've got it. CAPCOM Okay. One thing that we did miss in the dropout in the noise here is your LM CM DELTA P readings for about 28 hours GET. Over. SC Okay. LM CM DELTA P is .98. CAPCOM Roger. 0.98, and what have you been reading for O2 flow on your onboard gage? Over. SC Well, right now, after we put that gadget in, we've got about .35. Before that, we were reading on scale level. I think ours is relatively correct, at least when time comes for the water simulators to kick in at 10 seconds, it goes on up to about .75, .8, something like that. CAPCOM This is Houston. Roger, out. CAPCOM 11, this is Houston. Oh, more information based on our analysis of your last SCS burn, it looks like you got a good solid burn there. We show 94 PSI chamber pressure - END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-17-69 CDT 13:11 - GET 28:39 - TAPE 107/1 CAPCOM It looks like you've got a good solid burn there. We show 94 psi chamber pressure, and it looks like the SPS is definitely GO, over. SC Good to hear it. CAPCOM Roger, we thought you'd feel that way about it. SC We're right in the middle of either (garbled) or salmon salad, or something like that. That's probably why we're not answering you right away. CAPCOM Okay, well we don't want - SC My compliments to the chef, that salad salmon is outstanding. CAPCOM Roger, understand that's the salad salmon, over. SC Something like that, salmon salad. CAPCOM There we go, the salmon salad, very good. SC Okay, Houston, coming up on the water accumulator activity, and it's going on up to .85, oh, about .95 and it reached a peak there and then gradually dropped back on down to .6 now, .4, and it looks like it's pretty well - here we are leveling off back down to .35, over. CAPCOM Roger, we're copying that. PAO At 28 hours 40 minutes, we're showing Apollo 11's distance as 114,922 nautical miles from Earth, velocity 4,819 feet per second. The crew is eating lunch at the present time, and it sounds like there music in the background that they are enjoying during their lunch period. CAPCOM Apollo 11, Houston. SC Go ahead. CAPCOM Roger, on that O2 flow transducer down here on telemetry our values are agreeing pretty well with what you read out onboard, and the EECOM's have been noticing this cycle, but it still looks like the indicated rate is lower than what we would expect. We're still working on the problem, and we'll let you have a more complete diagnois on it in a little while. SC Okay, it's a tight fix then. SC We run a tight ship. CAPCOM Roger, is that music I hear in the background? SC Buzz is singing. SC Pass me the sausage, man. CAPCOM Okay. PAO This is Apollo Control at 29 hours into the mission. Apollo 11's distance from Earth is now 115,837 nautical miles, velocity 4,788 feet per second. Spacecraft weight 96,117 pounds. END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-17-69 CDT 13:36 - GET 29:04 - TAPE 108/1 PAO This is Apollo Control at 29 hours, 20 minutes. Apollo 11's distance from the earth is now 116,747 nautical miles, velocity 4,758 feet per second. One of the clocks in the control center is now displaying the time to landing, the landing timing based on the time in the flight plan. It shows we're 73 hours, 26 minutes, 30 seconds from the lunar landing. END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-17-69 CDT 13:56 - GET 29:24 - TAPE 109/1 CAPCOM Apollo 11, this is Houston. Over. SC Go ahead, Houston. CAPCOM Roger, 11. We've been watching your activity on the DSKY there, and by selecting another major program with VERB 37 ENTER and all that, we show you COAS the dead-band in CTC and having driven the CMC rate from .3 degrees per second down to 0 degrees per second, although of course with all the auto RCS coils shut off, you're not throwing any thrusters. Over. SC Okay, what do you recommend? CAPCOM Well, you can just continue in your present configuration in PTC. However, if you go to turn any thrusters on, the CMC would then try to bring you into an attitude hold position rather than continuing with the PTC. Over. SC Roger. I understand. CAPCOM Okay. SC And Houston, we're just looking at you out our window here. Looks like there's a circulation of clouds that just moved east of Houston over the Gulf and Florida area. Did that have any rain in it this morning? CAPCOM Roger. Our report from outside says that it's raining out here, and looks like you've got a pretty good eye for the weather there. SC Yes, well, it looks like it ought to clear up pretty soon from our viewpoint. The western edge of the weather isn't very far west of you. CAPCOM Okay. PAO That was Neil Armstrong. END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-17-69 CDT 14:11 - GET 29:39 - TAPE 110/1 PAO This is Apollo Control at 29 hours 40 minutes. Apollo 11's distance from Earth 117,682 nautical miles, velocity 4726 feet per second. CAPCOM Apollo 11, this is Houston. Over. SC Go ahead, Houston. CAPCOM 11, this is Houston. As a result of our venting through the waste management drain we concluded that your O2 flow rate sensor is in fact malfunctioning. I mentioned when you start this through the cyclic water accumulator dump that even though it was moving, probably indicating a higher flow rate, it didn't seem to be indicating a flow rate that is high enough, and based on that and the flow that we're getting right now we concluded that the transducer is malfunctioning. We'd like to continue the O2 flow for about another hour, shuting off at about 31 hours GET to get the O2 concentration in the vehicle up in the vehicles where it will be acceptable for the LM checkout. Over. SC Okay. Does it look to you like it just has a bias on it? CAPCOM Roger, 11. It does seem to bias. Looks like it has a fairly high threshold before it stops indicating. ECOM seems to think that for high flow rate purposes it will still give you a relative indication during the mission. Over. SC Okay, we understand. Thank you. END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-17-69 CDT 14:32 - GET 30:00 - TAPE 111/1 PAO This is Apollo Control at 30 hours into the mission. Apollo 11's distance from earth is 105,853 nautical miles, velocity 4233 feet per second. And that was Neil Armstrong conducting a conversation with CAPCOM Bruce McCandless on the O2 flow rate transducer. PAO This is Apollo Control. We have a correction on those last distances and velocities. That distance and velocity is in reference to the moon instead of the earth. To the moon - Apollo 11's distance from the moon is 105,729 nautical miles at the present time and the velocity in reference to the moon is 4230 feet per second. CAPCOM Apollo 11, this is Houston. We would like you to start terminating charging on Battery A at GET 30 plus 15. Over. SC Okay. GET 30 plus 15, Battery A charge terminated. CAPCOM Roger. Out. PAO This is Apollo Control. Apollo 11's distance from the earth is 119,116 nautical miles. Its earth referenced inertial velocity, 4679 feet per second. END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-17-69 CDT 14:46 - GET 30:14 - TAPE 112/1 PAO This is Apollo Control. Based on the present projectory, Apollo 11 will enter the lunar sphere of influence as an elapsed time of 61 hours, 39 minutes, 58 seconds. CAPCOM Apollo 11, this is Houston. Over. SC Go ahead, Houston. CAPCOM Roger. If you're free for a minute I'll get some updates to the P37 pad that we passed up to you yesterday afternoon, I guess. As a result of doing midcourse correction number 2 the delta-V required in the TLI plus 35, 44 and 53 pads have changed slightly. Over. SC Roger. Standing by to copy. CAPCOM Okay, TLI plus 35 pad, the delta-VT should be 7 and 992 instead of 8016, TLI plus 44 it should be 6112 instead of 6141, and TLI plus 53 it should be 8172 instead of 8209. Readback. Over. SC Roger. Understand. 7992, 6112, 8172. Over. CAPCOM Roger. Readback correct. Out. PAO This is Apollo Control. Goldstone reports they are receiving TV from the spacecraft and are recording it. CAPCOM Apollo 11, this is Houston. Over. SC Go ahead, Houston. CAPCOM 11, this is Houston. Goldstone reports they are receiving a TV picture coming down from you all - a little snowy but a good TV picture. Over. SC Roger. We're just testing the equipment up here. CAPCOM Roger. SC Ask them if they can read the numbers. CAPCOM Okay, stand by. Goldstone, this is Houston Capcom. Over. GOLDSTONE Houston Capcom, Goldstone M and O go ahead. CAPCOM Roger. Stand by a minute, Goldstone. 11, this is Houston. What numbers are you referring to? Over. END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-17-69 CDT 15:03 - GET 30:31 - TAPE 113/1 CAPCOM This is Houston. What numbers are you referring to? Over. SC Well, I guess if they can't see any numbers, why it's kind of a lost cause. CAPCOM Negative. Stand by. We want to do them. We wanted to know what numbers before we asked them. SC Okay, I'm showing them a DSKY and I'd like to know whether they can read what's showing on the DSKY and also whether they can see PROG VERB and NOUN. Over. CAPCOM Roger. Stand by a second. Goldstone in on all Houston Capcom. Over. SC Capcom, Goldstone, go ahead. CAPCOM Roger. Did you copy the spacecraft request? SC That's affirmative. I am reading the numbers on our monitor here. CAPCOM Okay, that's ... SC Roger, that's both the numbers on the DSKY itself and the little words like program and verb, noun, computer, activity, things of this sort. CAPCOM Roger, I can read the numbers clearly. We can't distinguish what the words are because it is a little snowy. SC Roger. CAPCOM Okay, you read verb, noun, and program. SC Roger, do you see over in the left-hand corner there's a big square one that says computer activity, comp activity. CAPCOM Roger, I see a flash occasionally in that area. SC That's the one. CAPCOM Okay, it looks like he's moved the camera at this time. SC Roger. CAPCOM 11, this is Houston. Goldstone M&O reports that they can read the numbers on the DSKY. They can also read the verb, noun, program, and see the comp activity light flashing. Over. SC Very good. Thank you. CAPCOM And they also report you appear to have panned the camera over to another location now. SC Yeah, we're going to work on something else. CAPCOM Roger. PAO This is Apollo Control. We do not have lines called up between here and Goldstone at the APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-17-69 CDT 15:03 - GET 30:31 - TAPE 113/2 PAO present time, so we cannot receive the pictures in Houston. Goldstone is recording. The lines will be up for the scheduled TV pass, approximately 6:30 this evening, Central Daylight Time. PAO This is Apollo Control. The tape from this unscheduled TV pass will probably be fed from Goldstone to Houston following the regularly scheduled TV transmission this evening. END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-17-69 CDT 15:23 - GET 30:51 - TAPE 114/1 SC Houston, Apollo 11. CAPCOM Go ahead, 11. SC Oh Charlie, that you? CAPCOM That's me, how are you there? SC Oh, just fine. How's the old white team today? CAPCOM Oh, the old white team's bright eyed and bushy tailed. We're ever alert down here. SC Ever alert and ready. Hey you got any medics down there watching high grade? I'm trying to do some running in place down here. I wondered just out of curiosity whether it makes my heart rate up. CAPCOM Well, they will spring into action here momentarily. Stand by. CAPCOM Hello 11, we see your heart beating. SC Okay well (garbled) we're all running in place up here. You wouldn't believe it. CAPCOM I'd like to see that sight. Why don't you give us a TV picture of that one. SC I think Buzz is trying. He got it. CAPCOM Okay, it's coming in at Goldstone, Buzz. As Bruce said, we don't have it here in the center. SC (garbled) didn't help out the CPC very much. SC I don't know whether it's a vibration or what it is, but it makes the pitch and yaw rate needles on FDAI number 1 jump up and down a little bit when we jump up and down. CAPCOM Rog, Rog, Goldstoners say they see you running there, Mike. SC Okay. SC Ask him what he's running from. CAPCOM 11, Houston. Mike we see about a 96 heart now. SC Okay, thank you. SC (garbled) without getting (garbled. CAPCOM Rog, we copy. SC Goldstone should be getting about the best picture of the earth we can give them right now, Charlie. CAPCOM Roger, Mike, thank you much. SC We've got a little distortion in the horizontal direction from banding on our moniter. I wonder if they're getting the same thing? CAPCOM Stand by Buzz. I'll let you know. SC I guess it would be more described as a waviness. GOLDSTONE Goldstone MNO, Houston, Capcom. APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-17-69 CDT 15:23 - GET 30:51 - TAPE 114/2 GOLDSTONE Goldstone MNO. CAPCOM Okay, the crew is complaining of some horizontal banding on their monitor. Do you see that on the picture. GOLDSTONE Stand by. GOLDSTONE They don't see it right now. We don't have anything in focus, Charlie. CAPCOM Roger, he's checking on it. I'll see if they had it earlier, stand by. SC I guess when we're showing the DSKY, or when we're showing the earth might be a better time. CAPCOM Okay. GOLDSTONE Houston Capcom, Goldstone. CAPCOM Go ahead. GOLDSTONE Okay, our TV people confirm they see this horizontal band. CAPCOM Okay. CAPCOM Eleven, Houston. The Goldstone TV people also see the banding when, at the same time you do, over. SC Okay, would they call it a horizontal waviness, instead of banding, maybe? CAPCOM I'm not talking to them directly. Stand by Buzz let me see how they describe it. CAPCOM GOLDSTONE MNO, Houston Capcom. Could you put the TV guy on the loop please? GOLDSTONE Capcom, Goldstone, roger. END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-17-69 CDT 15:33 - GET 31:01 - TAPE 115/1 SC Houston, CAPCOM Goldstone MNO Net 1. CAPCOM Go. SC The TV people do not access to Net 1 in that area. Suggest we use Net 2 for that purpose. SC Say go to Net 2? CAPCOM Hello Apollo 11, Houston. The Goldstone TV guys say they have some horizontal banding across the upper part of the picture and across the lower part. They would consider the lines just strayed; no wave in the storm at all. Over. SC Roger, understand. They do seem to distort vertical lines though. CAPCOM Say again about the vertical lines Buzz. SC Roger. When there's a vertical line, these horizontal bands tend to - put small waves in it. CAPCOM Roger. I copy. He didn't mention that. Stand by, I'll check again. CAPCOM Hello 11, Houston. The Goldstone TV said that when you did a sharp vertical line on a picture, was he - horizontal panning goes across it, does appear to bend it slightly. The same as Apollo 10, they said. Looks okay to them. Over. SC Okay, understand. It's not our monitor, it must be the transmitter or the distance. CAPCOM Roger. I guess so but we'll have them look into it and see if they can suggest anything. PAO This is Apollo Control at 31 hours, 5 minutes and here in Mission Control we're changing shifts at this time. Flight Director Gene Krantz is replacing Flight Director Clifford Charlesworth and our Capsule Communicator on this shift will be Charlie Duke. CAPCOM Command interface with Goldstone. We'd like you to switch to OMNI Delta. Over. SC Roger going to Delta. CAPCOM Rog. PAO Apollo 11, at this time, is 121,158 nautical miles from earth traveling at a speed of 4613 feet per second. We anticipate that the change of shift briefing will begin at about 4:00 P.M. Central Daylight Time. CAPCOM Hello Apollo 11, Houston. We'd like you to terminate the O2 purge if you have not done so already and the TV camera people say that the lines are inherent in the camera Buzz, and it's something that we expected. Over. SC Roger understand about the camera. Say again about the O2 purge. APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-17-69 CDT 15:33 - GET 31:01 - TAPE 115/2 CAPCOM Roger. We can terminate the O2 purge at this time. Over. SC Oh, okay. Fine. Will do. END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-17-69 CDT 15:43 - GET 31:11 - TAPE 116/1 CAPCOM Hello, Apollo 11; Houston. Please select OMNI BRAVO onboard. Over. SC Take on the (garble), Charlie. CAPCOM Roger. SC How's everything going down there? You guys happy with the spacecraft systems? CAPCOM Roger. Affirmative. Everything's looking really good to us. Over. SC Okay. Same here. SC Charlie, how far out can you pick up TV on the OMNI? CAPCOM Stand by. CAPCOM Hello, Apollo 11. Houston. We're just about to the limits where we can get any kind of picture at all on the OMNI's on the TV. It - The picture, I guess, would be just almost zero at this point. SC Okay. Well, for this TV program coming up in a couple of hours, you might give some thought to how you want us to stop PTC, if you do, for the best high gain angle and also it would be nice if you could stop us at such an attitude that we'd have the Earth out of one of our windows. CAPCOM Roger, 11. We're thinking about that. SC Okay. CAPCOM Hello, Apollo 11; Houston. We got some pipa biases and general drift updates for you if you give us to an accept. Over. SC Okay, Charlie. Stand by one. CAPCOM Roger, 11. The - Okay, thank you much. Our biggest drift on the gyros is 0.03 degrees per hour with only X-gyro. On the pipas, the wide pipa's the biggest and it's 0.006 feet per second so we just kinda tweak it up. The biggest we have is about one sigma on both gyros and accelerometers. SC Sounds good. CAPCOM The system really looks good to us. SC And here, Charlie. CAPCOM 11, Houston. You can go back to block. We accept the load in. SC Okay. Roger. PAO This is Apollo Control at 31 hours, 22 minutes. We're scheduled to begin the change of shift briefing shortly. During the briefing we will record any conversations with the crew and play those back following the briefing. At 31 hours, 22 minutes, this is Apollo Control. END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-17-69 CDT 16:53 - GET 32:21 - TAPE 117/1a PAO This is Apollo Control at 32 hours 21 minutes. During the Change of Shift Press Conference we had about 3 minutes of conversation with the crew. During that conversation, Buzz Aldrin reported on - what appeared to be a weather disturbance off Cuba and the Caribbean and we also had some descriptions from Aldrin on the view of Earth from the spacecraft's present position. We'll played that back for you now and then stand by for any further live conversation with the crew. SC You sure do get a perspective in this thing in Zero G? Right now Neil's got his feet on the forward hatch and he can with his arms reach - oh - five windows. He can reach down into - oh, the LEB where the overboard drain is. He can practically reach over in the cockpit. CAPCOM Sounds like plastic man to me. SC I'm hiding under the left hand couch trying to stay out of his way. CAPCOM Be a good idea, Mike. SC All right Houston, Apollo 11. Do you have a cloud over the Houston area right now? CAPCOM Roger. We just had really big thunderstorm here about a hour ago. Couple of storms around the area right now. SC Yeah, I see one fairly large and isolated one. There are couple of more off to the left but this one looks fairly good size. It could very well be the one that just passed over you. It looks like the Cape has been having a little bit of rain too. CAPCOM Roger. The one we had here came in from the west and is moving east or nearly so as far as I could tell. SC Have news, this sextant is fantastic. I can see Alaska right up - right up along the LM and I am running the cross hairs right now down the coast of California, west coast of Mexico, Yucatan Peninsula, up around the Gulf, Florida, Cuba, down Central America and I'm running into the South now. CAPCOM Roger. It sounds like a pretty fantastic view. SC The guys in the weather office out at Patrick wanted a report on the top but I guess all we can say is that we are above them. CAPCOM Rog. We'll pass it on OMEGO. SC Houston, do you see any predominant weather systems as far as funnel type? Any buildup of tropical storm type? Over. CAPCOM Not any large ones. There are a couple of smaller disturbances - there is one maybe 300 miles north of Cuba but it doesn't look like. APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-17-69 CDT 16:53 - GET 32:21 - TAPE 117/1b CAPCOM Rog. CAPCOM Hello Apollo 11, Houston. We got a PV attitude for you and also an update to your CMC erasable load and your alternate contingency check list if you can break that out too over. SC Roger, - I am not sure I caught all of that. CAPCOM Roger, 11, if you will break out your alternate and contingency check list for the CSM, we got an update to some of the erasable loads on page F2-20, over. SC Okay, we will be getting that out and you can give us the attitude for the (garble) APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-17-69 CDT 16:53 - GET 32:21 - TAPE 117/2 CAPCOM Roger 11. Your TV attitude will be roll 261, pitch 090, yaw 000. High gain angle pitch plus 28, yaw 271. That puts the left-hand window pointed at the Earth. We recommend exiting PTC with your updated procedure in the check list. Over. SC Roger. We copy roll 21 - 261, pitch 090, yaw 000, high gain pitch plus 28 Yaw 271. (garble) Over. CAPCOM That's affirmative. SC Charlie, I have a couple of questions on the PTC. It seems to me that the easiest way to stop it would be - we're essentially on course at 0 degrees yaw and close to up a 90 degree pitch. It is just a question of stopping at 260 roll roughly and how about for a procedure going manual attitude three to REG command and then seeing how our deadband has already collasped, I will turn on our Panel 8 RCS thrusters at which time it should stop at whatever attitude it binds itself in and if I will do all of that as it comes up on 261 degrees roll we should stop right there - in that position. CAPCOM Sounds pretty good. Stand by one SC In other words, it might save on gas SC Houston, Apollo 11. What page do you want in that revision, Over. CAPCOM Roger, 11, if you will turn to page F2-20, over. SC Okay. CAPCOM Roger, 11. Under Column A on page F2-20, line 5 - line 05. The new data is 01042, line 07, the new data is 00256. Skipping down to line 11 - 00070, line 12 is 00042, line 13 - 77730. In column END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-17-69 CDT 17:03 - GET 32:31 - TAPE 118/1 CAPCOM 13 per 77730. In column Bravo, lines 3, 4, and 5, which are blank should be all zeros. Line 3, line 4 is 20017 line 5 20616, over. SC Roger (garbled) S-band -20 column Alpha 05 01242 07 2056 11 I'll say again 1100070 1200042 1377730 column bravo 0300000 04 2001705 0616, over. CAPCOM Roger good read back, and stand by Mike, coming out of the PTC recommendation, over. SC Okay. CAPCOM Hello Apollo 11, Houston, with a recommendation on the exiting PTCM, over. SC Go ahead. CAPCOM Roger, Mike. We'd like to see you go to excell command on the manual attitude switches. Then to turn on the auto RCS select switches, and then go right to manned. That will prevent us from firing jets uncoupled, over. SC Okay, fine and I would guess go right command and roll first and then followed by pitch and yaw. CAPCOM Okay, that sounds good if, and when you get to the roll attitude desired just go right command at that time and that'll stop us right on. SC Yea I agree Charlie, that sounds right. CAPCOM Rog. PAO This is Apollo Control at 32 hours 39 minutes. This is a relative quiet period in the flight plan. The crew will be getting the spacecraft set up for the passive thermal control termination, and the Television transmission. Capcom Charlie Duke has just put in a call. We'll pick that up. CAPCOM Playing with the P37 while ago and we collapsed the dead-band back down. The dap assumed that the dead band was centered around the new attitude that we happened to be at at that time. Since then we've drifted out a couple of degrees in both pitch and yaw from that attitude, such that if we did the proceedure as we call it up to you of going excell command, turning on all of the auto RCS select switches and the rate command it would attempt to fly back to the pitch and yaw attitude that it had when the dead band collapsed. We can prevent that by just immediately priod to going to right command on the manual attitude switches, if you cycle the spacecraft control switch to SCS, then back CMC, over. SC Sounds like a winner. CAPCOM Okay. SC I'm not going to let these LM guys play APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-17-69 CDT 17:03 - GET 32:31 - TAPE 118/2 SC with my DSKY any more. END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-17-69 CDT 17:13 - GET 32:41 - TAPE 119/1 SC I'm not going to let these LM guys play with my DSKY any more. CAPCOM You sound like you'd better protect it. It looks like just about anything that you do with that DSKY is going to collapse that bad dead band back down. SC Understand. SC Charlie we just had to turn in 61 degrees roll and it looks like whoever figured it out did a good job. It's right there in the middle of window number 1. CAPCOM Sounds great. SC It looks like Houston's got a little smog over it, Charlie. CAPCOM We've got a constant over-cast here in the room - - stand by. SC - course a little cloud from up here, probably covers 8 or 10 states. CAPCOM Apollo 11 Houston, some of our guys just came in from outside and said that is pretty clear over the center here it's cleared up completely. All the storms have moved on. SC Contengient. SC Oh yes Charlie, I can see (garbled) now, and I can see the coast line is clear and those clouds are just inland a few miles. CAPCOM Okay, we copy. SC Looks like the south east part of the country is all socked in. California looks nice, the San Joaquin Valley shows up as a real dark spot with a lighter brown around the side of it. You can't tell that it's green, it looks just sort of dark gray or maybe even a real dark blue. CAPCOM How does the Mojave look? Is it clear? SC Yea, as usual. It looks like the clouds just to the west of the Serras, northeast of Bakersfield a little bit and crossing over into the Mojave from Bakersfield looks clear and then as you get on - - END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-17-69 CDT 17:23 - GET 32:51 - TAPE 120/1 SC Rog. Seeing about what - It looks like there are some clouds just to the west of the Sierras, northeast of ... a little bit and then crossing over into the Mojave from ... it looks clear and then as you get on further to the southeast of there, there's a few clouds. CAPCOM Roger, 11. Can you pick out Edwards in the sextant? Over. SC I can see a 104 taxing out takeoff on the runway. CAPCOM Man, that's super. SC Those damn bastards almost always have a 104 taxing out for takeoff. CAPCOM 11, Houston. Can you pick out anything around Edwards, a dry lake or anything? Over. SC Negative, Charlie. I just - I don't have that resolution, but to give you some idea, I can, in the lower sextant scope, I can see, after knowing what I'm looking for, I can see Padre Island. I can just barely make out the fact that there's a thin slit of land and then there's a little dark zone which is the Laguna Madre between it and the mainland. CAPCOM Roger, 11. That's pretty signficant. Thank you much, Buzz. SC Right. PAO Mike Collins is sending us this description from about 126,000 miles from earth. SC How far out are we, Charlie? CAPCOM Stand by. I'll give it to you exactly. Looks like about 130,000, but stand by. SC Okay. CAPCOM 11, Houston. The exact range is 125,200 miles, and you're traveling 4,486 feet per second. SC Pretty far and pretty slow; just passed halfway. SC Hey Charlie, what the latest on Luna 15? CAPCOM Say again, Buzz. Over. SC Roger. What's the latest on Luna 15? CAPCOM Stand by. I'll get the straight story for you. END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-17-69 CDT 17:33 - GET 33:01 - TAPE 121/1 ALL DEAD AIR END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-17-69 CDT 17:58 - GET 33:26 - TAPE 122/1 PAO This is Apollo Control at 33 hours, 34 minutes. We've been advised that we are getting television transmission from Goldstone at the present time. This is an unscheduled TV transmission apparently of the crew checking out their onboard system. PAO We have lost lock on the high gain antenna at this time. Apollo 11 is presently 127,991 nautical miles from Earth, traveling at a speed of about 4400 feet per second. The regularly scheduled time for the television transmission is 6:47 p.m. Central Daylight Time, and we are anticipating that that transmission will occur as scheduled. PAO We're getting momentary lock-on. We seem to have a somewhat better picture now. Here's a call to the crew from Capcom Charlie Duke. CAPCOM Hello, Apollo 11; Houston. Over. SC Light's on. CAPCOM Roger. Latest on Luna 15 - passed a - Tass reported this morning that the spacecraft was placed in orbit close to the lunar surface, and everything seems to be functioning normally on the vehicle. Bernard Lovell said the craft appears to be in an orbit of about 62 nautical miles. Over. SC Okay. Thank you, Charlie. CAPCOM And also, President Nixon has reported - declared a day of participation on Monday for all Federal employees to enable everybody to follow your activities on the surface. Many state and city governments and businesses throughout the country are also giving their employees the day off, so it looks like you're going to have a pretty large audience for this EVA. SC Oh, that's very nice, Charlie. I'll tell him about it. END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-17-69 CDT 18:13 - GET 33:41 - TAPE 123/1 PAO This is Apollo Control at 33 hours, 41 minutes. We are going to be standing by here in Mission Control for the possibility that the crew would want to transmit that television pass early. The scheduled time for it was 6:47 Central Daylight time and about 15 minutes was scheduled. That would be at a ground elapsed time of 34 hours and we will have the system set up here in Mission Control to receive and release television should the crew decide to send us the transmission early. PAO This is Apollo Control at 33 hours, 45 minutes and we do have a correction to the time given for the beginning of that TV nominally. The flight time is beginning at 34 hours to 34 hours, 15 minutes ground elapsed time. The previous conversion of that, that we gave you for Central Daylight Time was in error, it should be 6:32 P.M. Central Daylight Time beginning, assuming we start as the flight plan nominally has a transmission listed at 34 hours ground elapsed time. At the present time, Apollo 11 is 128,431 nautical miles from earth and the velocity continuing to drop off slowly, now reads 4386 feet per second. SC Houston, Apollo 11. We've stopped PTC, we're in the right position, we're setting up the TV. CAPCOM Roger. PAO You've heard that comment from the crew. They've stopped their passive thermal control, they're starting up the TV and we'll be standing by for - for a picture. END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-17-69 CDT 18:21 - GET 33:49 - TAPE 124/1 CAPCOM Apollo 11, Houston. We have you stopped in the PTC. Attitude looks good to us. In fact, I would like to get a contact. The last couple of the transmissions from the spacecraft has been garbled from especially Buzz. Could you both give me a com check over. SC Roger Charley, Buzz here. How do you read? 1 2 3 4 5 - 5 4 3 2 1. CAPCOM Roger, you are about 4 by with a slight decrease/increase in volume - sort of a weighty volume to it over. SC Okay, I moved my mike around. How about now? Is it any better? CAPCOM Hey that's beautiful right there. Thank you. SC Okay, Charlie. 1 2 3 4 5 - 5 4 3 2 1. How do you read me? CAPCOM Roger, five by. Is Neil on - SC - 1 2 3 4 5 - 5 4 3 2 1. CAPCOM Roger Neil, you five by. PAO This is Apollo Control at 33 hours 57 minutes and we are less than 3 minutes now from the scheduled television transmission. From Apollo 11, we are continuing to standby for that. We have also been asked to advised that the Delta launch of INTELSAT III scheduled for Friday night at 10:00 PM has been postponed for 24 hours. As a repeat, the Delta launch of INTELSAT III scheduled for Friday night at 10 PM has been postponed for 24 hours. Further details on that will be available in the News Center. END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-17-69 CDT 18:31 - GET 33:59 - TAPE 125/1 CAPCOM Hello, Apollo 11, Houston. We got the network all configured for the TV. You can start any time you want. Over. CAPCOM Okay, 11. We have a picture. We see the earth right in the center of the screen. Over. CAPCOM Okay, 11. We have a picture. We see the earth right in the center of the screen. Over. SC Roger, Houston; Apollo 11. Calling in from about 130,000 miles out. And we'll zoom our camera in slowly and get the most magnification we can. Over. CAPCOM Roger. PAO This view is coming to us from about 129,000 nautical miles. CAPCOM 11, Houston. The definition is pretty good on our monitor, here. The color is not too (garbled) at least on this set. Could you describe what you're looking at. Over. SC You're seeing Earth, as we see it, out our left-hand window, just a little more than a half earth. We're looking at the eastern Pacific Ocean, and the north half of the top half of the screen, we can see North America, Alaska, United States, Canada, Mexico, and Central America. South America becomes invisible just beyond the terminator or inside the shadow. We can see the earth's ... a definite blue cast. See white bands of major cloud formations across the earth and can see coastlines, picked out the western US, San Joaquin Valley, the Sierra mountain range, the peninsula of Baja, California, and we see some cloud formations over southeastern US. There's one definite mild storm southwest of Alaska. Looks like about 500 to 1,000 miles and another very minor storm showing the south end of the screen near the - Oh, a long ways off of the equator, probably 45 degrees at a more south latitude. Can pick out the browns in the land forms pretty well. Greens do not show up very well. Some greens showing along the northeastern - northwestern coast of the United States and northeastern coast of Canada. CAPCOM Roger. It's a pretty good picture of clarity, here. We're having - Can you tell us It appears to us that there are two of the same cloud formations trending eastwest. One approximately along the equator, and one around 30 or so south latitude. Can you tell us exactly where those cross the land masses? Over. SC Yes. They cross just south of the lower part of Mexico, probably through Central America. That is the equatorial band which we assume to be the intertropical convergence zone. Another band, which stands about 30 south correctly seems to appear to join equator APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-17-69 CDT 18:31 - GET 33:59 - TAPE 125/2 SC at the far left, or just beyond the horizon on the left edge of earth, or at least it looks like it's going to China. We don't have an explanation for that banding. CAPCOM Roger, Neil. Thank you. SC It also appears that just to the left of the terminator, up in the northern hemisphere, there's a cloud band trending a gap in the cloud, trending northwest southeast. It appears to us that that comes in about over the northern United States, or perhaps the Central United States. Is that about correct? Over. SC I can see on the monitor the thing you were talking about but right now I can't get my eye to the window to pick out just where it crosses the shoreline. CAPCOM Roger. CAPCOM You guys are doing a good job. It's a real steady picture, here. We're - clarity is excellent. The color, it's - the clouds are - the whites are distinct. The rest of it looks like, to me anyway on the monitor I'm observing is a fairly greenish-blue is the way I'd describe it. Over. CAPCOM It appears that the - SC We can't observe much green from the spacecraft. CAPCOM Roger. On this monitor, the land masses appear to be just a darker grayish color rather than a brown. SC Well, it's true that we do not have the depths of color at this range that we enjoyed at 50,000 miles out. However, the oceans still are a definite blue and the continents are generally brownish in cast, although it is true that they're tending more toward gray now than they were at the closer range. CAPCOM Roger, 11. We've been - I've just been vectored to another monitor and sure enough, the browns are coming in a lot more distinctly on the ... that we have up on our screen in the control center. Over. SC Okay. Well, hold on to your hat. I'm going to turn you upside-down. CAPCOM 11, that's a pretty good roll there. SC Oh, I'd say sloppy, Charlie. Let me try that one again. CAPCOM You'll never beat out the thunderbird. CAPCOM Apollo 11, Houston. That practice did you some good. It's looking real smooth roll, there. APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-17-69 CDT 18:31 - GET 33:59 - TAPE 125/3 SC Oops. CAPCOM Spoke too soon. SC I'm making myself seasick, Charlie, I'll just put you back right-side-up where you belong. CAPCOM Roger. SC You don't get to do that everyday. CAPCOM 11, Houston. Could you describe, from your view, the polar cloud cap. It appears to us to extend down the western coast of North America. Would you estimate how far it extends down. Over. SC Trying to fit everybody into the window. It appears that the cloud cap comes down a little bit belong the southern extremity of Alaska. CAPCOM Roger. We've - 11, we've lost our picture here, now. CAPCOM Okay. Apollo 11, Houston. We've got the picture back now. SC Unfortunately, we only have one window that has a view of the earth and it's filled up with the TV camera so your view now is probably better than ours is. CAPCOM Roger, we copy. CAPCOM 11, Houston. If you could comply, we'd like to see a little smiling faces up there, if you could give us an interior view. I'm sure everybody would like to see you. Over. SC Okay, we'll reconfigure the TV for that. CAPCOM Roger. CAPCOM Apollo 11, Houston. It appears to us that we're seeing a view from outside plus a little of the inside. It appears you've taken the camera away from the left window now. Over. SC That's correct. We're moving it back and reconfiguring for interior lighting. CAPCOM Roger. CAPCOM We can still see the earth through the left window and it appears that we can see a floodlight off to the left, either that or some sun shafting through the hatch window. SC It's sunlight. CAPCOM Rog. CAPCOM Now we're coming in. Can't quite make out who that ... SC That's big Mike Collins, there. You got a little bit of - Yeah, hello there sport friends, you got a little bit of me plus Neil is in the center couch, and Buzz is doing the camera work just now. APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-17-69 CDT 18:31 - GET 33:59 - TAPE 125/4 CAPCOM Roger. It's a little dark, 11. Maybe a bigger f-stop might help. SC Yeah, that should work. CAPCOM It's getting a lot better now, 11. Mike, you're coming in 5 by. I got a good - SC I would have put on a coat and tie if I'd known about this ahead of time. CAPCOM Is Buzz holding your cue cards for you? Over. SC Cue cards have a no. We have no intention of competing with the professionals. Believe me. We are very comfortable up here, though. We do have a happy home. There's plenty of room for the three of us and I think we're all willing to find our favorite little corner to sit in. 0 g's very comfortable but after a while, you get to the point where you sort of get tired of rattling around and banging off the ceiling and the floor and the side, so you tend to find a little corner somewhere and put your knees up, or something like that to wedge yourself in, and that's seems more at home. CAPCOM Roger, looks like Neil is coming in 5 by, there, 11. Mike, see you in the background. The definition is really outstanding. The colors are good. It's a real good picture we're getting here of Commander Armstrong. We - Buzz, when you take the camera over towards the window where the sun's shafting through it, it tends to black it out, though. SC And Neil's standing on his head again. He's trying to make me nervous. CAPCOM Roger. SC He's disappearing up into the tunnel, of course, hasn't he, but going into the lunar module, only backwards. CAPCOM Roger. We can see portions of the LAP now. The Systems test meter Panel, in the lower part of the picture. We did have it anyway. SC Okay, and then directly behind his head are our optical instruments, the sextant and the telescope that we use to take sightings with. CAPCOM Roger, copy. And we see the DSKY flashing with a 651. In fact, we can read registers 1 and 2 quite clearly. SC The aerial high gain angles telling us which way the earth is. CAPCOM Copy. That's a beautiful picture. Clarity is ... SC We offer to give you the time of day in our system of mission elapsed time. Elapsed time 34 hours 16 minutes and umpteen seconds. APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-17-69 CDT 18:31 - GET 33:59 - TAPE 125/5 SC Right. You see that clearly now, Charlie? CAPCOM Roger, Apollo 11. We can see it counting up every - every second. We got 34:17:02 now. SC Okay, back to the high gain angles. CAPCOM Roger. SC Now we have amputated those. CAPCOM 11, Houston. We have beautiful rainbow there now as you move the camera around .... That looks like the star chart coming into view now. Over. SC Yeah, those are Buzzs two star charts that he is using right now as sun shades over the right-hand window, window number 5. CAPCOM Roger. We see the sun shining in through it behind him and plotting out the equatorial - correction, ecliptic plane, and the stars that you're using for the navigation. SC You're right. He doesn't really need the charts. He's got them memorized. There's just for show. CAPCOM We copy. SC While we're pointing up in this direction, we see out of our side windows, the sun going by and of course, out one of our windows right now we've got the earth. Now we find my window, course we have the sun, cause the sun is illuminating END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-17-69 CDT 18:51 - GET 34:19 - TAPE 126/1 SC in this direction, we see out our side windows, the sun going by and of course out of one of our windows right now we have the earth. Now right behind my window of course we have the sun and the sun is illuminating the star charts that we see. This line represents the ecliptic plane and these line vertical lines represent our reference system that the spacecraft is using at this time. As we approach the moon, the moon will gradually grow larger and larger in size and eventually it will be in, it will be eclipsing the sun as we go behind it as we approach the lunar orbit insertion maneuver. CAPCOM Roger 11, we've, could you attempt a little bit better focus here, 11, over? CAPCOM Eleven, Houston, that's a lot better on the star chart now. We can make out the ecliptic plane and the planets and the sun and the mcon as they have gone at various placed throughout the ecliptic plane, over. SC Okay, Charlie. If we can get some of the wires untangled here we'll give you a demonstration of how easy push ups are up here. Come in, Roger. CAPCOM Just a view of Buzz there. SC When it gets pretty hard doing it that way, we just roll over and do it the other way. CAPCOM Rog, we copy, we couldn't figure out whether that was a chin up or a push up. SC Just take your choice I guess. Well it looks like it's probably almost your dinner time down there on earth. We'll show you our food cabinet here in a second. CAPCOM Eleven, Roger. CAPCOM Eleven Houston. We see a box full of goodies there, over. SC We really have them, Charlie. We've got all kinds of good stuff. We've got coffee up here in the upper left and the breakfast items and bacon in little small bits, beverages like fruit drink and over in the centerpart we have, oh all kinds of things. Let me pull one out here and see what it is. CAPCOM Rog. SC Would you believe you're looking at chicken stew here. All you have to do is 3 ounces of hot water for 5 or 10 minutes. Now we get our hot water out of a little spigot here with the filter on it that filters any gasses that may be in the drinking water out, and we just stick the end of this little tube in the end of the spigot and pull the trigger three times for 3 ounces of hot water and then mush it up and slice the end off it and there you go. Beautiful chicken stew. APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-17-69 CDT 18:51 - GET 34:19 - TAPE 126/2 CAPCOM Sounds delicious. SC The food so far has been very good. We couldn't be happier with it. SC Could I borrow that flashlight a second? CAPCOM The surgeons are saying thank you there for that. SC And it is sort of down in a dark corner so we have a flash light here to help us see things and if I can let go of it carefully it'll just hold itself right where it is. CAPCOM Ah roger (garbled) CAPCOM Apollo 11, Houston, that's a pretty good demonstration. You started off really stable there Mike. SC Well no matter how careful you let go you bump it just a tiny little bit and set it in motion and once in motion there she goes. Try that again. CAPCOM It looks fairly stable there with flow rotation. SC Well so much for the food department. I'm going to close up the store down here. CAPCOM Roger, we copy. SC Charlie, we checked out the cable legnths, and we're thinking we might want to see if we can take the TV into the LM with us tomorrow for part of the time, over. CAPCOM Roger, good show. We'd like to see it if it'll reach that far, over. SC We'll give it a try. CAPCOM Rog. SC And where we sleep is down underneath this couch. CAPCOM Houston, Roger. Slowly sinking into the sack there. SC It's really comfortable. Forgot to give Buz his flashlight back. CAPCOM Apollo 11, Houston, could you give the folks a view of your patch on your CWG'? Over. SC (garbled) Charlie we can't get any closer. CAPCOM Alright. Eleven, Houston. We have a patch. Could you cut the, put the focus slightly, over. Eleven, Houston. The scan on the camera makes the, that's a little bit better now. The flashlight seems to flicker due to the scan on the TV. We can't see the eagle. Now it's a little bit better, over. Could you open the ESTOP a little bit more? Over. SC It's open all the way. We're going to have to move Buzz around a little bit. APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-17-69 CDT 18:51 - GET 34:19 - TAPE 126/3 CAPCOM Roger. CAPCOM Apollo 11, Houston the color is better now. It's coming in. We could attempt a little bit better focus on it. There we go, it focuses alot better now. We see the eagle coming right in on the lunar surface, over. That's very good now. CAPCOM Apollo 11, Houston. That's very good now. We can see the earth in the background, Apollo 11, and the eagle coming in. SC It's probably pretty hard to see the olive branches. CAPCOM Roger, it is. SC Well that's what he has in his talons, an olive branch. CAPCOM Copy. Apollo 11, Houston. We're really impressed with the clarity and the detail that we have in the picture. The colors are, it's really an excellent picture now that I'm looking at it on moniter which is about 12 seconds before the networks can get it out due to the conversion that we have here on our TV converter. We're looking at the controls in the main display console. We can see the DSKY up on the pannel, over. SC That'd be nice if you could take a look at all the circuit breakers. You could be sure the right ones are in and the right ones are out. CAPCOM Big bubba's watching. SC And we're glad of it. Boy you guys have sure been doing a good job of watching us. Charlie we appreciate it. CAPCOM The spacecraft's been beautiful eleven. There's really no complaints at all. Things are really great. SC Can you see this DSKY on the embasy. CAPCOM That's affirmative. It appears that we can't quite tell what program when the cut went through. We see you punching in a verb 35 I think it is, over. SC Yea might as well tell the econs or tell the G&C's they better hold on to their hat and I'll push the inner button. CAPCOM Rog. We see a real display now. That was a good demonstration of how the crew has the interface with the computer talking to the programs and all that we have in the computer. SC Well that's right Charlie. Sometimes it tells us things and sometimes we tell it things and mostly it talks to us. CAPCOM Eleven, Houston. We just lost our pic - I see we're going back outside now, over. APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-17-69 CDT 18:51 - GET 34:19 - TAPE 126/4 CAPCOM Eleven Houston. We copy, over. SC Roger we copy and as we pan back out to the distance at which we see the earth it's Apollo 11 signing of. CAPCOM Roger Apollo 11, thank you much for the show. It's a real good half hour. Appreciate it, thank you very much, out. PAO This is Apollo control. That TV transmission lasted about 35 minutes. CAPCOM Apollo 11, Houston. Would you key your - - END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-17-69 CDT 19:08 - GET 34:36 - TAPE 127/1 CAPCOM Apollo 11, Houston. Would you T arrow reset on the DSKY please? Over. SC Okay, we should be straightened out now Charlie. Back in P00. SC Houston, Apollo 11. How dowe stand on this O2 fuel dump purge? You want to go ahead and do that as scheduled in the flight plan? CAPCOM Standby 11, over. SC Okay. CAPCOM 11, Houston. You can commit CO2 fuel cell purge now if you would like. Over. SC Okay, fine. SC While Buzz is doing that, I'll change the aluminum hydroxide. CAPCOM Rog. CAPCOM Hello Apollo 11, Houston, over. SC Go ahead, Houston, Apollo 11. CAPCOM Roger, Buzz, the attitude that we are in right now is a convenient one to start PTC and we'd be satisified with this attitude so we would like you to disable quads CHARLIE and DELTA and we will wait about 5 or 10 minutes and then we will establish the PTC over. SC Roger, disable CHARLIE and DELTA and we'll wait for starting PTC. CAPCOM Rog. CAPCOM Retro, you got your block data. END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-17-69 CDT 19:18 - GET 34:46 - TAPE 128/1 PAO This is Apollo Control at 34 hours, 46 minutes. Apollo 11 is presently 131,000 nautical miles from Earth, traveling at a speed of about 4300 feet per second. During the TV transmission the crew advised that they may possibly be able to take the color television camera into the lunar module with them tomorrow at about 56 hours, 30 minutes, ground elapsed time. They reported that the cables had been checked and are perfectly long enough to take them into the lunar module. During the next hour or so the activity here in Mission Control will be revolving on, getting the crew set up for their rest period and eat period. This will be a very long rest period tonight, scheduled 10 hours. That will begin according to the flight plan, at about 37 hours, ground elapsed time. However, we would anticipate if activities move along as they appear to be at this point, we are somewhat ahead of the flight plan, that perhaps again tonight we would be able to get the crew into their rest period and sleep period a little bit early. At 34 hours, 48 minutes, this is Apollo Control, Houston. END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-17-69 CDT 19:47 - GET 35:13 - TAPE 129/1 PAO This is Apollo Control at 35 hours, 13 minutes. Apollo 11 is presently about 93,265 nautical miles from the moon and with respect to the moon is traveling at a speed of about 4019 feet per second. At this time we are receiving the tape play-back which Goldstone, tracking site at Goldstone, California received from the spacecraft in that earlier unscheduled TV transmission. This was a test of the system using the spacecraft on the antennas, the small OMNI directional antennas. Normally transmissions from this distance in space would be - would require the high-gain antenna. This television transmission is being processed and converted to color and we anticipate that we'll have it available for playback at about 9:00 P.M. We are in conversation with the spacecraft at this time. We'll pick up the tape recorded conversation that we have and then stand by to follow any live conversation. SC Houston. Would you say again what you requested. CAPCOM Roger 11. We'd like you to go back to attitude HOLD. Over. SC Roger. CAPCOM 11, Houston. Looks like we're going to have to reinitialate - reinitialize this PTC. SC Right. SC Okay. Do you have any roll angles and see if I can drop it in Charlie? I haven't stopped it yet. CAPCOM Stand by. 11, Houston. It's your preference. Right now if you want to. Over. SC Okay. CAPCOM Apollo 11, Houston. Over. SC Houston, Apollo. CAPCOM Roger 11. The problem on that initial starting up the PTC was we failed to do the VERB 49 which - and load the design to initial attitude so that - that will take you back to the old attitude that we had started up in a number of hours ago that's why we picked up the rates in the other axes. We're going to obate in this attitude for about 20 minutes to damp out the rates again and then we'll proceed with the VERB 49 in LOAD I attitude that we have at this time. Over. SC Okay. Sounds good Charlie. When you get to the VERB 49, I'd like for you to give me the 3 gimbal angle that you want loaded. CAPCOM Roger. We'll do. Over. SC Thank you. CAPCOM And Apollo 11, Houston. We have APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-17-69 CDT 19:47 - GET 35:13 - TAPE 129/2 CAPCOM your fly-by pad if you're ready to copy. Over. SC Stand by 1. SC Houston, Apollo 11. Is that P-30 pass? CAPCOM That's affirmative. Over. SC Okay. Ready to copy. CAPCOM All right Buzz. It's fly-by, it's a purpose. SPS G&N. 62815 plus 097 minus 020 070 54 5944 minus 00028 plus 00023 plus 00069 029 149 312 apogee is N/A plus 00221 00078 001 00034; sextant star 01 2185 227 boresight star is NA NA NA. Latitude is minus 0265 minus 16500 11899 36228 1445647. In the comment your set stars are DENEB and VEGA 007 144 068; no ullage, it's a dock burn using the PTC REFSMMAT. Stand by for your readback. Over. SC Okay. Would you give me the GEG of the burn again, please. CAPCOM Roger. 1445647. Over. SC Roger. Fly by SPS G&N 62815 plus 097 minus 020 070 54 5944 minus 00028 plus 00023 plus 00069 269 149 312 NA plus 00221 00078 001 00 034 01 21 85 227 NA minus 0265 minus 16500 11899 36228 1445647 DENEB and VEGA 007 144 068, no ullage dots PTC REFSMMAT. Over. CAPCOM Say again your roll angle Buzz. I copy - I read 029. Over. SC Roger 029. CAPCOM Roger. Good readback. SC Houston, Apollo 11. On the 7/10ths rate, the rate loaded into the dap is 1 or 2/10ths. CAPCOM 11 Roger. CAPCOM Hello Apollo 11, Houston. Over. SC It's Apollo 11, Over. CAPCOM Roger Mike. Would you please copy down your VERB 16 NOUN 20 after the angles now, then execute VERB 49 and load those angles, the NOUN 20 that you see on the DSKY into the VERB - into the NOUN 22 slot and prone that and that will start our 20 minute rate period. Over. SC Okay Charlie, I did it right now in just a matter of inches. Those numbers are plus 04511 plus 09021 and plus 35984. Over. CAPCOM Roger. SC Thank you. SC Houston, Apollo 11. I've done that and of course I got an immediate 50 18. So I guess we're set up to proceed from here and I'll start the 20 minute timer. CAPCOM That's affirmative. SC Houston. I still question that 7/10ths rate where 2/10ths went into the damper up here. APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-17-69 CDT 19:47 - GET 35:13 - TAPE 129/3 SC Could you explain? Over. CAPCOM Roger. We're working on it. Stand by 1. SC Okay. END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-17-69 CDT 19:57 - GET 35:23 - TAPE 130/1 CAPCOM Apollo 11, Houston, over. SC Houston, Apollo 11. CAPCOM Roger, we got a little laser visual experiment we like to - for you to do for us. If - if you got the Earth through any of your what is it the telescope, would you so advise? Over. SC Can't understand. Wait a minute, Charlie. - at this lower attitude what should our high gain angles be? Maybe that would help us locate you. We don't see you on the lens. CAPCOM Standby. CAPCOM Hello Apollo 11, Houston. The high gain angles are: pitch minus 70, yaw; 90. We think the Earth has apparently pretty close to plus C axis, over. SC Okay. SC Okay, Charlie, I got you on the telescope. CAPCOM Roger, Apollo 11. We got a laser that we're going - it's a blue-green laser that we are going to flash on and off at a frequency of on for a second and off for a second. It's coming out of McDonald Observatory near El Paso which should be right on the terminator or right inside the terminator. We are going to activate that momentarily. Will you please take a look through the telescope and see if you can see it, over? SC Telescope or sextant? CAPCOM Either one, over. SC Okay, I'll try it with the telescope and if I don't see it there then I'll try the sextant. CAPCOM Roger, we'll give you the word when they have got it turned on, over. SC Okay. CAPCOM 11, Houston, They don't have it turned on yet. We'll give you the word when they got it turned on, over. SC Okay. CAPCOM Hello, Apollo 11, Houston. We noticed the cryo pressure dropped a moment ago. Did you stir up the cryos, over? SC Roger, we've finished (garble) operations. CAPCOM Rog, copy, out. END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-17-69 CDT 20:07 - GET 35:33 - TAPE 131/1 CAPCOM Hello, Apollo 11; Houston. McDonald's got the laser turned on. Would you take a look? Over. SC Okay, Charlie. CAPCOM It's bluish green. CAPCOM 11, Houston. We got some shaft and trunnion for you that might tweak it up a little bit. Shaft of 141.5. Trunnion of 39.5. Over. SC Test that one. CAPCOM Apollo 11, Houston. If you see it, it should be coming up - better be coming up through the clouds. McDonald reports that there's a break in the clouds that they're beaming this thing through. Over. SC And I thank you. SC Got her. CAPCOM Hello, Apollo 11; Houston. You can terminate the exercise on the laser. Our REG's are steady enough now for it to commit the PTC. Over. SC Okay, Houston. Neither Neil nor Mike can see it. Incidentally, those shafts and trunnions just missed pointing at the world. CAPCOM Roger. Thank you. SC As we are looking at it through the scanning telescope, it would be about a - oh, maybe a third of an Earth's radii high in the left. CAPCOM Roger. SC But, we did - But, we did identify the El Paso area and it appeared to us to be a break in the cloud's there, and we looked in that break and saw nothing. CAPCOM Roger; thank you much. Out. SC Houston, Apollo 11. Over. CAPCOM Roger. Go ahead. Over. SC Weren't you following that on the DSKY? CAPCOM Roger. Stand by. END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-17-69 CDT 20:17 - GET 35:43 - TAPE 132/1 SC Were you following that on the DSKY? CAPCOM Roger, stand by. CAPCOM Eleven, Houston. What's your exact question, over. SC I've followed the procedure through step 7 down to the point where I've got 27 303 enter and then we go to an operator light. CAPCOM Roger, stand by. CAPCOM Apollo 11, Houston, stand by a moment. We'll have a answer for you momentarily, over. SC Okay appreciate it Charlie. Now the light's gone out without any further DSKY action. CAPCOM Roger. SC Correction, stand by that's not right. CAPCOM Roger. CAPCOM Apollo 11, Houston. SC Houston, Apollo 11. CAPCOM Roger we've finally gotten concurrence on the problem here with 50 guys looking at it. When we were sitting in the 58 team we attempted to load the erasable before you terminated the verb 49. So Mike what we're going to have to do is call off the present CDU's, copy those down and do a verb 49. Load the present, do a proceed then an enter and then we can then set up attitude hold with step 6, over. SC Okay, I think that's what we did last time. CAPCOM It appeared to us that we attempted to load the erasable prior to entering on the verb 49 which verb 49 was still running and it clobbered the CDU's, over. SC Okay. SC Houston, Apollo 11, and we're moving at the proper rate. CAPCOM Halaluea. CAPCOM Eleven, Houston. It looks great to us now. Over. SC It looks fine here Charlie. The (garbled) part is the only part I don't find explained yet. CAPCOM Roger, Mike. We're working on that one right now. We're coming up with the story soon, over. SC Thank you. CAPCOM Eleven, Houston, we're having com from Goldstone to Honeysuckle, over. SC Okay. SC Hello Houston, through Honeysuckle ov - - CAPCOM Apollo 11, Houston go ahead over. APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-17-69 CDT 20:17 - GET 35:43 - TAPE 132/2 SC You sound good to us through Honeysuckle. How do we sound? CAPCOM Roger, 5 by Mike. We'd like to omni configuration as follows. OMNI ALPHA place in BRAVO, OMNI to OMNI - - END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-17-69 CDT 20:37 - GET 36:03 - TAPE 133/1 SC - and the configuration as follows: OMNI ALPHA placed in BRAVO, OMNI to OMNI, high gain track to MANUAL, high gain yaw 270, pitch - PAO This is Apollo Control. At the present time we are handing over from the tracking site at Goldstone, California, to the site at Honeysuckle which accounts for the noise in the transmission - SC - I've got S-band OMNI Z OMNI, track to MANUAL and beam Y and pitch, better say that again, yaw 270, over. CAPCOM Roger, Buzz. I broke up that pitch minus 50 at beam Y, over. SC Roger, copy. SC Houston, Apollo 11. Are you ready to copy some numbers on status report (garble) CAPCOM Say again, over. SC Roger, ready to copy some numbers on the status report, Houston. CAPCOM Rog. Go ahead, over. SC Okay, radiation CDR 11005, CMP 10006, LMP 09007. Medication negative, and I got some (garble). CAPCOM Go ahead, over. SC Battery C 37.1, pyro battery A and G both 37.1. RCS ALPHA 82, BRAVO 84, COCCO 85, DELTA 87, over. CAPCOM Roger, we copy. Radiation 11005 10006 09007. No medication. 37.1 37.1 37.1 82 84 85 87, over. SC That's affirmative. And you want a LM GM DELTA V at 1.1. CAPCOM Roger, copy, 11. CAPCOM Hello, Apollo 11, Houston. Please verify that 4 cryo heaters AUTO, the four fans OFF. SC Okay, we have been holding the O2 heater in the OFF position. I believe that was your last last instructions. All the other heaters are to On and all fans are OFF. Over. CAPCOM Roger, standby. CAPCOM 11, Houston. We would like all heaters AUTO, over. SC All four on AUTO, all four fans OFF. CAPCOM Hello, Apollo 11, Houston. As the sun sinks slowly in the west, the white team bids you good night. If we get a story on the 7 tenths, we can give it to you in about 15 minutes or so, if not, we'll give it to you in the morning, over. SC Okay, sounds fine, thank you Charlie very much. SC Have a nice day today, Charlie. CAPCOM Thank you. SC Good night all. PAO This is Apollo Control at 36 hours 11 minutes. At the present time Apollo 11 is 134,000 nautical miles from Earth. The velocity is 4216 feet per second. During APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-17-69 CDT 20:37 - GET 36:03 - TAPE 133/2 PAO that last series of transmissions from the crew, we received a status report from Buzz Aldrin and he reported that the crew has in the past 24 hours taken no medication. This is similar to the crew status report we received from them last night. We bid them good night at 36 hours 9 minutes or about 2 minutes ago. We anticipate that the crew will probably have a few more housekeeping type chores aboard the spacecraft before they actually turn in and also we'll probably be combining their eat period with the first part of that sleep period. At 36 hours 12 minutes into the flight of Apollo 11, this is Mission Control Houston. END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-17-69 CDT 21:00 - GET 36:27 - TAPE 134/1 PAO This is Apollo Control at 36 hours, 27 minutes. We have completed the processing of the unscheduled television transmission which the crew sent down from the spacecraft at about 30 hours, 24 minutes ground elapsed time this evening. I would like to repeat that this was an apparent test of the onboard system. The crew turned the television equipment on and left it on for about 52 minutes. Some of the time we will have a picture of the parts of it. We don't have good lock-on, and I will not have a good solid picture. We should also point out that this transmission was made with the OMNI directional antennas, which, of course, don't provide nearly the signal strength that we would get from the high gain antenna, which would be used. We'll play back the tape of that transmission for you at this time. CAPCOM Apollo 11, this is Houston. Over. SC Go ahead, Houston. CAPCOM 11, this is Houston. Goldstone reports they're receiving a TV picture coming down from you all - a little snowy, but a good TV picture. Over. SC Roger. We're just testing the equipment up here. CAPCOM Roger. SC Ask them if they can read the numbers. CAPCOM Okay, stand by. CAPCOM Goldstone, this is Houston Capcom. Over. GOLDSTONE Houston Capcom, Goldstone M&O. Go ahead. CAPCOM Roger. Stand by a minute, Goldstone. CAPCOM 11, this is Houston. What numbers are you referring to? Over. SC Well, I guess if they can't see any numbers, why, it's kind of a lost cause. CAPCOM Negative. Stand by. We wanted to know what numbers before we asked them. SC Okay. I'm.showing them a DSKY, and I'd like to know whether they can read what's showing on the DSKY, and also whether they can see PROG, VERB, and NOUN. Over. CAPCOM Roger. Stand by a second. CAPCOM Goldstone M&O, this is Houston Capcom. Over. GOLDSTONE Capcom, Goldstone; go ahead. CAPCOM Roger. Did you copy the spacecraft request? GOLDSTONE That's affirmative. I am reading the numbers on our monitor here. CAPCOM Okay, that's up. Stand by. CAPCOM Roger. That's both the numbers on the DSKY itself and the little words like program, verb, noun, computer activity, things of that sort. APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-17-69 CDT 21:00 - GET 36:27 - TAPE 134/2 GOLDSTONE Roger. I can read the numbers clearly. We can't distinguish what the words are, because it is a little snowy. CAPCOM Roger. Thank you. GOLDSTONE Okay. I read VERB, NOUN, and PROGRAM. CAPCOM Roger. Do you see a - over in the lefthand corner there's a big square that says computer activity, COMP activity? GOLDSTONE Roger. I see a flash occasionally in that area. CAPCOM Roger. That's the one. GOLDSTONE Okay, it looks like he's moved the camera at this time. CAPCOM Roger. CAPCOM 11, this is Houston. Goldstone M&O reports that they can read the numbers on the DSKY. They can also read VERB, NOUN, PROGRAM, and see the COMP activity light flashing. Over. SC Very good. Thank you. CAPCOM And they also report you appear to have had the camera over to another location now. SC Yes, we're going to work on something else. CAPCOM Roger. SC V. END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-17-69 CDT 21:10 - GET 36:37 - TAPE 135/1 PAO This is Apollo Control. The view that we have at the present time appears to be out the window of the command module looking at the lunar module docking target. PAO And we seem to have a fairly good view here of the interior of the command module. This would look to be the panel, display panel with some of the fuel quantity dials on the right side of the cockpit. PAO At the time these television pictures were transmitted from the spacecraft, Apollo 11 was about 121 thousand nautical miles from earth. Where we do have signal lock on we got amazingly good quality on those little omni antennas. As we had mentioned before, normally the high gain antenna would be used for television transmission of this sort. PAO And we could almost make out a face in that one, and somebody's hand down at the instrument pannel. PAO That last view just before we lost picture lock up appeared to be the right center portion of the main display console, main display pannel in the command module. END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-17-69 CDT 21:20 - GET 36:47 - TAPE 136/1 PAO For a brief moment there we had a picture of a somewhat placid Neil Armstrong closing his eyes momentarily. Another crewman to his left, I'm not sure at this point, that I can make out who it was, it did appear it might have been Mike Collins. SC Houston, Apollo 11. CAPCOM Go ahead 11. SC Charlie, is that you. CAPCOM That's me, how are you today? SC Just fine, how's the old white team today? CAPCOM The old white team's bright eyed and bushy tailed. We're ever alert down here. SC Ever alert, hey you got any medics down there watching high grade. I'm trying to do some running in place down here and I'm wondering just out of curosity whether it brings my heart rate up. CAPCOM Well they will spring into action here momentarily, stand by. PAO That was Mike Collins commenting that he was doing some running in place exercises, and we may get a brief view of that a little later on in this transmission if this picture stabilizes and holds still for us. CAPCOM Hello 11, we see your heart beat. SC (garbled) We're all running in place up here. You wouldn't believe it. CAPCOM I'd like to see that sight. Why don't you give us a TV picture of that one. SC I think Buz is trying. He got it. CAPCOM Okay it's coming in at Goldstone Buz. We don't have it here in the center. SC I imagine that didn't help out the PTC very much. SC I don't know whether it's the vibration or what it is but it makes the, pitch and yaw rate needles on the FDAI jump up and down a little bit when we jump up and down. CAPCOM Rog, Goldstoners say they see you running there Mike. SC Okay. SC Ask him what he's running from. CAPCOM Eleven, Houston. Mike we see about a 96 heart beat now. SC Okay, thank you. SC Well that's all that's reasonable without getting hot and sweaty. CAPCOM Alright, Rog, we copy. APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-17-69 CDT 21:20 - GET 36:47 - TAPE 136/2 END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-17-69 CDT 21:30 - GET 36:57 - TAPE 137/1 SC Goldstone should be getting about the best picture of the earth, we can get, right now Charlie. CAPCOM Roger Mike. Thank you much. SC We got a little distortion horizontal direction from our damping on our monitor. I wonder if they're getting the same thing. CAPCOM Stand by Buzz. I let you know. SC I guess it'd be more described as a waviness. CAPCOM Goldstone, M & O. Houston, Capcom. GOLDSTONE M & O Goldstone, M & O. CAPCOM Okay. The crews complaining of some horizontal banding on their monitor. Do you all see that on your picture? GOLDSTONE Stand by. GOLDSTONE No we don't see it right now. Don't have anything in focus Charlie. CAPCOM Roger. He's checking on it. I'll see if they had it earlier. Stand by. SC I guess when we were showing the DSKY or when we were showing the earth, might be the better time. CAPCOM Okay. GOLDSTONE Houston, Capcom Goldstone. CAPCOM Go ahead. GOLDSTONE Okay. Our TV people confirmed they see this horizontal band. CAPCOM Okay. CAPCOM 11, Houston. The Goldstone TV people also see the banding when same time you all do. Over. SC Okay. Would they call it a horizontal waviness from our banding, maybe? CAPCOM I'm not talking to him directly. Stand by Buzz. Let me see how they describe it. CAPCOM Goldstone M & O, Houston Capcom. Could you put the TV down a little please? GOLDSTONE Capcom, Goldstone. Roger. GOLDSTONE Houston Capcom, Goldstone M & O Net 1. CAPCOM Go. GOLDSTONE The TV people do not have access to that one in that area. Suggest we use NET 2 for that purpose. CAPCOM Okay. Go into NET 2. CAPCOM Hello Apollo 11, Houston. The Goldstone TV guy said that they had some horizontal banding across the upper part of the picture and across the lower part. They would consider the lines just strayed, no waviness at all. Over. SC Roger understand. They do think APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-17-69 CDT 21:30 - GET 36:57 - TAPE 137/2 SC they do distort vertical lines, though? CAPCOM Say again about the vertical lines, Buzz. SC Roger. When there's a vertical line, these horizontal bands tends to put small waves in them. CAPCOM Roger. I copy. He didn't mention that. Stand by, I'll check again. CAPCOM Hello 11, Houston. The Goldstone TV said that when you did a sharp vertical line on the picture, where the horizontal banding goes across it, does appear to bend it slightly. The same as Apollo 10, they said. Looks okay to them. Over. SC Okay. Understand it's not our monitor, must be the transmitter or something. CAPCOM Roger. I guess so Buzz. We'll have them look into it and see if they can suggest anything. CAPCOM Hello Apollo 11, Houston. We've lost our command interface with Goldstone. We'd like you to switch to OMNI DELTA. Over. SC Roger. (garble) DELTA. CAPCOM Roger. CAPCOM Hello Apollo 11, Houston. We'd like you to terminate the O2 purge if you've not done so already and the TV camera people says the lines are inherent in the camera Buzz, and it's something that we expected. Over. SC Roger. Understand about the camera. Say again about the O2 purge. CAPCOM Roger. We can terminate the O2 - - END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-17-69 CDT 21:40 - GET 37:07 - TAPE 138/1 CAPCOM Over. SC Roger, I understand about the camera. Say again about the torquing purge. CAPCOM Roger. We can terminate the 02 purge at this time. Over. SC Oh, okay. Fine, we'll do. CAPCOM Hello Apollo 11, Houston. Please select OMNI Bravo onboard. Over. SC Check on to Bravo. Shall we? CAPCOM Rog. SC How's everything going down there? You guys happy with the spacecraft system? CAPCOM Roger. Affirmative. Everything is looking really good to us. Over. SC Charlie, how far out can you pick up TV off the OMNI? CAPCOM Stand by. CAPCOM Apollo 11, Houston. We're just about at the limit where we can get any kind of picture at all on the OMNI on the TV. It - The picture is, I guess, it'd be just almost zero at this point. SC Okay, well for this TV program coming up in a couple of hours, you might give some thought to how you want us to stop PTC. If you do, for the best high gain angle, and also it'd be nice if you could stop us at such an attitude that we'd have the earth out of one of our windows. CAPCOM Roger, 11. We're thinking about that. PAO This is Apollo Control. That concludes the replay of the test transmission from Apollo 11. That transmission occurred about 2 hours prior to the regularly scheduled TV transmission this evening. The crew, apparently, testing out the onboard system, and we received about 52 minutes of intermittant television using the spacecraft OMNI directional antennas. And as you could see, as particularly near the end, this is just - appears to be just about the limit television reception from the OMNI antennas. At the time of the transmission, Apollo 11 was about 121,000 nautical miles from earth. During the replay of that television transmission, we accumulated a very short amount of tape, one or two brief comments from the crew who are in their sleep period at this time. We'll play back that tape conversation for you now. END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-17-69 CDT 21:50 - GET 37:17 - TAPE 139/1 PAO - replay of the test transmission from Apollo 11. That transmission occurred about 2 hours prior to the regularly scheduled TV transmission this evening. The crew apparently testing out the onboard system. We received about 52 minutes of intermittent television using the spacecraft OMNI directional antennas. As you can see it is particularly near the end. This is just - appears to be just about the limit of television reception from the OMNI antennas. At the time of the transmission, Apollo 11 was about 121,000 nautical miles from Earth. During the replay of that television transmission, we accumulated a very short amount of tape. One or two brief comments from the crew who are in their sleep period at this time. We will play back the tape conversation for you now. CAPCOM Hello Apollo 11, Houston. One request the optics switched to 0 and we have a lot of theories of why it maneuvered at 7/10ths a moment ago Mike, but no real definite answer. We'll be back with you later, over. SC Okay, no rush, Charlie. SC Houston, Apollo 11. CAPCOM Roger, Mike I think we can explain that 7/10ths rate. When we - the first half through to show through the VERB 49 so we had a large error between our actual PU and desired PU in roll and with that situation the DAP or the vehicle will roll or maneuver rather at a rate - that is loaded in which was 3/10ths plus 4/10ths rate and it will limit it 4/10ths above the desired rate. So, that is, if we have a large enough angle between the desired and the actual which we did, so therefore the rate was 4/10ths plus 3/10ths which would give you the 7/10ths, over. SC Okay, thank you. CAPCOM Roger. PAO At this time Apollo 11 is 137,219 nautical miles from Earth. The spacecraft is traveling at a speed of 4132 feet per second. Here at Mission Control things have settled down into a rather quiet nightime routine. We said good night to the crew about 36 hours - 36 hours 9 minutes to be exact, a little over a hour ago. We did hear from them once or twice since then and we anticipate that this time are probably getting settled down to begin their 10 hours sleep period. At 37 hours 21 minutes, this is Apollo Control. END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-17-69 CDT 22:58 - GET 38:26 - TAPE 140/1 PAO This is Apollo Control at 38 hours 26 minutes. Here in Mission Control, we are presently going through the shift change. Flight Director Glenn Lunney and his team of flight controllers are coming on to replace Gene Kranz. The capsule communicator on the upcomming shift will be astronaut Ron Evans. Flight Surgeon John Ziegleschmidt reported that two of the 3 crewmen apparently began sleeping at about 38 hours ground elapsed time or about 26 minutes ago, and the two that are asleep are command module pilot, Mike Collins and Commander Neil Armstrong. Lunar Module pilot Buzz Aldrin at last report was still awake. We expect the change of shift press briefing will occur at about 11:15 central daylight time. At 38 hours 27 minutes this is Apollo Control, Houston. END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-18-69 CDT 00:12 - GET 39:40 - TAPE 141/1 PAO This is Apollo Control, 39 hours 40 minutes Ground Elapsed Time. Apollo 11 crew at this time all three soundly asleep. The space digitals display - stand by. The space digitals display here in Mission Control now showing 82,905 nautical miles out from the moon. Velocity 3897 feet per second relative to the moon. Awake time 7 hours 19 minutes away. Spacecraft presently over the west-central Pacific, if a line were projected back toward its nearest point on Earth. And at 39 hours 41 Ground Elapsed Time, this is Apollo Control. END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-18-69 CDT 1:30 - GET 40:58 - TAPE 142/1 PAO This is Apollo control 40 hours 58 minutes ground elapsed time. Apollo 11 presently 146,300 nautical miles up from earth. Velocity 3,917 feet per second. Six hours 1 minute remaining in the sleep period - the ten hour sleep period schedule in the flight plan. Rather quiet here during the night watch or the black team which tonight is being headed up by flight director Jerry Griffin who is spelling the usual black team flight director, Gene Lunney. One clock here in mission control shows landing time 61 hours 48 minutes from now. This is similar to the entry clock which the - is used in the same position in the control room toward the end of a mission, will be refined continuously as we get down to the gnats hair, the exact second of landing. At 40 hours 59 minutes ground elapsed time, this is Apollo control. END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-18-69 CDT 2:58 - GET 42:28 - TAPE 143/1 (Dead air) END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-18-69 CDT 4:01 - GET 43:29 - TAPE 144/1 PAO This is Apollo Control. 43 hours, 29 minutes ground elapsed time. Apollo 11 presently on the spot directly above or directly out from the Malay Peninsula. Some 3 hours 30 minutes remaining in the scheduled 10 hour sleep period for the crew. And if the space digital display were up here at the time coming out of the computer we would know what the distance and velocity were. So, at 43 hours, 29 minutes ground elapsed time, this is Apollo Control. END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-18-69 CDT 5:00 - GET 44:28 - TAPE 145/1 PAO This is Apollo Control, 44 hours, 28 minutes ground elapse time. Apollo 11 crew has another 2 hours, 31 minutes remaining in their 10 hour sleep period. The spacecraft is now some 72,010 nautical miles out from the moon. Velocity continuing to decelerate as we'get nearer the change over point in influence between the Earth and the moon. Velocity now showing 3,811 feet per second. The spacecraft now calculated to weigh 96,068 pounds. At 44 hours, 29 minutes ground elapse time, this is Apollo Control. END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-18-69 CDT 6:00 - GET 45:28 - TAPE 146/1 PAO This is Apollo Control, 45 hours 28 minutes Ground Elapsed Time. A little more than an hour remaining in the Apollo 11 crew sleep period. Present velocity, 3799 feet per second. Distance from moon, 69,810 nautical miles. Apollo 11 will continue decelerating as it gets to the point where the moon's sphere of influence overcomes the Earth's sphere of influence. This point will take place - This event will take place at 61 hours 39 minutes and 57 seconds Ground Elapsed Time, according to the Flight Dynamics Officer. At this point, the spacecraft-to-moon distance will be 33,822 nautical miles, spacecraft-to-Earth distance, 186,437 nautical miles. The velocity will have slowed to a relative crawl at this point. The Earth referenced 2990 feet per second, moon referenced 3772 feet per second. Clock counting down to lunar touchdown, which as mentioned before will likely be changed as the spacecraft goes into lunar orbit and the data is refined, some of the times change a few seconds one way or the other. At any rate, the landing clock now showing 57 hours 17 minutes until lunar landing. At 45 hours 30 minutes Ground Elapsed Time, this is Apollo Control. END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-18-69 CDT 7:00 - GET 46:28 - TAPE 147/1 PAO This is Apollo control 46 hours 28 minutes ground elapsed time. A little more than a half hour remaining in the crew sleep period. Members of the green team of flight controllers headed up by prime flight director Cliff Charlesworth are coming into the control room at this time, and at each console, a handover is taking place from the black watch. At the time - at the present time, the Apollo 11 spacecraft is 67,518 nautical miles out from the moon traveling at a velocity of 3787 feet per second. Apollo 11 presently is being tracked by the Madrid S-band station, and at 46 hours 29 minutes ground elapsed time, this is Apollo control. END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-18-69 CDT 7:30 - GET 46:58 - TAPE 148/1 PAO This is Apollo Control at 46 hours, 58 minutes into the mission. The green team led by flight director Cliff Charlesworth has just relieved Glen Lunney's black team. The flight surgeon, Dr. Willard Hawkins indicates the crew appears to be still asleep. We're'nearing the end of the scheduled rest period. Cliff Charlesworth indicates. We will put in a call to the crew within a few minutes. Apollo 11 is 158,681 nautical miles from Earth. Velocity 3578 feet per second. Spacecraft weight is 96,068 pounds. PAO This is Apollo Control at 47 hours, 3 minutes. Cliff Charlesworth has decided to let the crew sleep a little longer. He's just had a conversation with the flight surgeon. Dr. Hawkins reports all indications are that the crew is sleeping soundly. The flight plan does not warrant awaking them just to get them up. There's nothing in the flight plan that requires their attention at the present time, so the flight director has made a decision to not put in a call to the crew and wake them. Flight surgeon says that a look at the data throughout the night indicates that the crew slept rather well all night. END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-18-69 CDT 8:12 - GET 47:41 - TAPE 149/1 PAO This is Apollo Control at 47 hours 41 minutes into the mission. From all indications the crew is still alseep. We're 41 minutes past the end of the scheduled 10 hour rest period now. Flight Director Cliff Charlesworth has decided to let the crew remain asleep and not awaken them from the ground. There is no need to awaken them. Nothing scheduled in the flight plan that requires their attention at this time. Apollo 11 is 160,137 nautical miles from Earth, velocity 3544 feet per second. END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-18-69 CDT 8:32 - GET 48:00 - TAPE 150/1 PAO This is Apollo Control at 48 hours into the Apollo 11 mission. The spacecraft is 160,760 nautical miles from earth. The distance from the moon is 64,115 nautical miles. The earth referenced velocity is 3529 feet per second. The rest period has now lasted an hour longer than the 10-hour period scheduled. It is extended to 11 hours now. Flight Surgeon says there ate indications that the commander, Neil Armstrong, may be awakening. There is some stirring around, however, we have not yet put in a call to the crew. The midcourse correction 3, which was scheduled for this afternoon at an elapsed time of 53 hours, 54 minutes, has been cancelled. The velocity value for that midcourse is only eight-tenths of a foot per second, so we will not do midcourse correction No. 3. We'll continue to stand by for either a call from the ground or a call from the spacecraft. END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-18-69 CDT 8:41 - GET 48:09 - TAPE 151/1 PAO This is Apollo Control at 48 hours, 9 minutes. We just put in a call to the crew. Here's that conversation. CAPCOM Apollo 11, Apollo 11, this is Houston. Over. SC Good morning, Houston. Apollo 11. CAPCOM Good morning, Apollo 11. SC - How's everything look up here from the ground? CAPCOM Apollo 11, this is Houston. Roger. Say again please. SC Roger. How do all our systems look? CAPCOM Roger, they're looking great and as far as we can tell - CAPCOM As far as we can tell, everything is good from down here. Over. SC Looks like the attitude held up real well during PTC. CAPCOM Yes, it did. We were showing a few remaining rolls in a circle of 10 degrees radius throughout the night. Seems to be working beautifully. SC How's the old green team this morning? Did you have a quiet night? CAPCOM Yes, it was a very quiet night. Down here the old black team is complaining they didn't get a chance to make any transmissions. Ron - CAPCOM Ron Evans is getting - SC Well, we'll be seeing them tomorrow, I guess. CAPCOM Yes, Ron's getting to be known as the silent Capcom. SC That's the best kind, Bruce. CAPCOM Okay. CAPCOM - got a couple of small items in the way of a flight plan update and your morning consumables update. Over. SC Apollo 11. CAPCOM Roger, 11. We'd like to perform a waste water dump at your convenience sometime in the near future here. No particular time scheduled. Down air at the time for midcourse correction 3, which is about 53-55, we're deleting midcourse correction number 3 and all the items associated with it. For your information, the calculated value of the burn for midcourse number 3 was 8/10 of a foot per second, that is 0.8 feet per second. Canceling this, if we decide to burn midcourse correction 4, this would then give you a burn for midcourse correction 4 of 2.0 feet per second. At 53 hours we have an IMU on P-52. We're requesting that you do this in PTC, and we plan to continue PTC throughout APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-18-69 CDT 8:41 - GET 48:09 - TAPE 151/2 CAPCOM the day. Over. SC - we'll get to the - CAPCOM Say again, please. You're cutting out. SC Roger. CAPCOM 11, this is Houston. Stand by a minute, please. We're having difficulty receiving you. CAPCOM Apollo 11, this is Houston. Radio check. Over. SC Roger, Houston. Read you loud and clear. How me? Over. CAPCOM Roger, reading you the same. We did a minor reconfiguration down here. Stand by. PAO This is Apollo Control. That first conversation was with Buzz Aldrin and Mike Collins joined in. We've not yet heard from Neil Armstrong. CAPCOM Okay, 11, this is Houston. We switched your OMNI antenna as you rolled through the first appropriate position. Did you copy the flight plan update item? CAPCOM Apollo 11, this is Houston. Over. SC Apollo 11, go ahead. CAPCOM Roger, 11. Did you copy the flight plan update items? Over. SC Roger. How do you read me now, Bruce? CAPCOM Loud and clear now. SC Okay. The battery charge is in the process now and waste water dump is in work. MCC has been canceled. It would have been .8 feet per second. MCC 4 now looks like about 2.4 feet per second. At around 53 hours we'll do a P-52 and PTC. Over. CAPCOM Roger, 11. The magnetudes of the midcourse corrections were just for your information, but midcourse 4 was down around 2.0 feet per second. Again, for your information, on SDS chamber pressure, it looks like you're onboard readout of 87 PSI corresponds to 92 PSI by our telemetry, and your value of 89 onboard corresponds to 94. Over. CAPCOM Apollo 11, Houston. Radio check on new power amplifier and our transmitter. Over. SC Roger. Read you loud and clear. How me? Over. CAPCOM Roger. Loud and clear. Did you copy my notes on SDS chamber pressure? SC Negative. CAPCOM Okay, just for your information again, it appears that your readout of 87 PSI corresponds to our corrected - END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-18-69 CDT 8:51 - GET 48:19 - TAPE 152/1 CAPCOM For your information, again, it appears that your readout of 87 psi corresponds to our corrected TM readout of 92 - that's 92 psi, and 89 onboard is really 94 psi, over. SC Roger, I got that you were reading about 5 psi low. CAPCOM Roger, and are you ready for the consumable update? SC Ready to copy. CAPCOM Okay, consumables update for GET of 46 plus 00, minus 5.5 percent, minus 6.5 percent, minus 2.5 percent, minus 7.5 percent, minus 5.0 percent, minus 2 pounds hydrogen, plus 1 pound oxygen, and that's minus 5.5 percent on the RCS total corresponds to minus 66 pounds, over. SC Okay, I copy those, and I'll give you our percentages now. Alpha 82, Bravo 84, Coco 85, Delta 87, over. CAPCOM This is Houston, we copy your percentages and do you have a crew status report on sleep for us? SC Roger, and in descending order 8, 9, and 8, over. CAPCOM Houston, roger, out. PAO That would be Armstrong 8, Collins 9, Aldrin 8. SC Houston, we're getting cyro pressure light warning now in the middle of - stirring up the pumps. CAPCOM Roger, we copy. PAO This is Apollo Control. The flight surgeon reports that is not a record for sleep. The Apollo 10 crew during one rest period logged 10 hours of sleep. END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-18-69 CDT 9:01 - GET 48:29 - TAPE 153/1 SC Houston, Apollo 11. We've got the continent of Africa raising - facing toward us right now, and of course, everything's getting smaller and smaller as time goes on. The Mediterranean is completely clear. The sun looks like it's about to set around Madagascar. The equatorial belt of Africa stands out quite clearly. We're seeing the dark green or a muddy colored green compared to the sandier colors in the southern tip of Africa and, of course, the Sahara shoreline coast of Africa. There's a rather remarkable cloud that appears in the vicinity of the border between Afganistan and Pakistan. It's just about to go into the sunset now. It is casting a very large shadow (garble). The end of the cloud near the tropical conversions clouds all along the equator clearly separates the clockwise and the counterclockwise cloud formation for us. CAPCOM Roger, 11. We copy your word description on that - I understand you can see that shadow being cast by that cloud between Afganistan and Pakistan. Any estimate on how long that shadow would be? Over. SC It looks like it's a shadow. (garble) coming around to back that way - - CAPCOM We're getting a lot of background noise now, also. Will you stand by a minute or so until we roll a little further in PTC. I think things will get better. SC Okay, coming around to the number 1 window. We'll get you now. CAPCOM Roger, we're hearing you. PAO That's Buzz Aldrin with the description. CAPCOM 11, this is Houston. The noise on the com seems to have quited down now. I guess that we've rotated a new antenna into view and probably also the earth out of view in your window. Over. SC Okay, it looks as though the lines of the shadow of that cloud is about the same as the width of the Persian Gulf. CAPCOM Okay, we copy the width of the Persian Gulf, and yes that - all I can give you first hand is a single isolated data point, and that is that it was clear here in Houston this morning. That's a pretty localized observation. As a result of your waste water dump, it looks like the PTC mode has been disturbed somewhat. We're showing you about 20 degrees out in pitch right now on about 6 degrees in yaw which is significantly greater- about twice as much - a little more than twice as much as the deviation you had prior to the waste water dump. We're watching it down here, though, and we'll let you know if we think any corrective action is required. Over. SC Okay may be ought to next time APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-18-69 CDT 9:01 - GET 48:29 - TAPE 153/2 SC split that in half. We could put half on one side and half on the other or something like that. CAPCOM Yes, we could do that. We were actually pretty interested in seeing what the effects on PTC would be in a waste water dump. We don't recall ever having performed a waste water dump during PTC on previous missions. Over. SC Well, now we know. CAPCOM Roger. END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-18-69 CDT 9:11 - GET 48:29 - TAPE 154/1 SC Houston, Apollo 11, I am looking at the clouds now on Pakistan through the sextant and it appear to be one single cell in the later stages of development. There is a smaller, more isolated one - CAPCOM Apollo 11, this is Houston. We lost you down in the noise on the COMM link here about the time you were describing the single-cell cloud formation over Afghanistan-Pakistan area through the sextant. Over. SC Roger. It came through a lot clearer through the sextant than with the monocular and you could definitely tell it was a one-single cell in the later stages of development. It must have been up to over 50,000 feet though. The eastern Mediterranean is phenominally clear. You can see all the lakes, the Dead Sea, stood out quite well. Over. CAPCOM Roger. What appears to be the limit of resolution through that sextant from your current position? Over. SC Well, I can't see it now. It's out from the field of view. CAPCOM Roger. SC And I don't know how you'd really describe the limit of resolution. I will think about that a little. CAPCOM I guess the smallest object that you could pick out looking through it would give us a pretty good idea. SC Well, you can see the Nile River going almost up to its source. The lake is obscured by clouds, but you can tract it all the way up. CAPCOM Roger. SC I guess that is down though, isn't it? CAPCOM Apollo 11, Houston. SC Go ahead, Houston. CAPCOM Roger. We have been working under the assumption that we would take about an hour for the interference from a waste water dump to dissipate to the point where you can reasonably take star sightings for platform alignment navigation or something of this sort. If you have a spare minute or two, could you comment on the observation conditions now. Over? APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-18-69 CDT 9:11 - GET 48:29 - TAPE 154/2 SC Yes. Stand by a minute, Bruce. CAPCOM Okay. SC My guess would be that a telescope is rather useless, but you can differentiate in the sextant between water droplets and stars by the difference in their motion. CAPCOM Okay, Mike. I guess that we've still got - what you are saying is that we've still got a lot of water droplets visible, but you can pick them out and distinguish them in the sextant then. SC Right. I think so, but Buzz is looking through it now. Just a second. CAPCOM Okay. END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-18-69 CDT 9:21 - GET 48:49 - TAPE 155/1 SC Houston, Apollo 11. It looks like at this time the sextant would be quite usable for any alignment. There's actually very few verticals that need to be aligned. CAPCOM Roger, Buzz. How about the telescope? Is it useful now? SC Well, it's not quite as useful. It doesn't seem to be. Depending on the position of the sun it's got that band that seems to go across the center. I don't think it's because of the waste water particles that it would lack it's effectiveness. Over. CAPCOM Roger. What - is this band something that's deposited on the outside of the optics? Over. SC Now, it's a reflection from the sun. CAPCOM Roger. SC The sun bounces off the LM structure. With the LM attached the telescope is just about useless. Those star charts that Ed has provided, I think would be most useful if we had to use the - if for some reason we had to burn through the telescope we could those as a guide for what we're looking at and say, well, that bright blob over there has got to be that star because that's the position we're in, but so far we've not been able to pick out any decent star patterns while docked with the LM using the telescope. CAPCOM This is Houston. We copy. END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-18-69 CDT: 9:31 - GET: 48:59 - TAPE 156/1 PAO This is Apollo Control at 49 hours 7 minutes into the mission. Apollo 11 is 163,040 miles from Earth, velocity 3,476 feet per second. END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-18-69 CDT 9:52 - GET 49:20 - TAPE 157/1 DEAD AIR APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-18-69 CDT 10:12 - GET 49:40 - TAPE 158/1 SC Houston, Apollo 11, Over. CAPCOM Go ahead, Apollo 11. CAPCOM Apollo 11, this is Houston. Go ahead. SC How do you read? Over. CAPCOM Roger, we're reading you loud and clear. SC Roger. You're coming back a little scratchy. It looks like our O2 flow transducer's gotten a good bit worse. I just looked at it at the last water accumulator cycling, and it just barely registered - barely crept up above .0. Over. CAPCOM Roger. CAPCOM 11, this is Houston. At the time of your cyclic accumulator stroking, we were on low bit rate data, and consequently not receiving the O2 flow parameter. We expect that what you're seeing is probably nominal, that is it's probably what we would expect from a transducer that's malfunctioning in effect and it's probably going to keep on getting worse like that. Nothing to worry about. We'll monitor things on the ground here. Over. SC Okay, it does look it's gradually degrading to about zilch. CAPCOM Roger, we copy. PAO This is Apollo Control at 49 hours, 52 minutes. Apollo 11's distance from Earth is 164,558 nautical miles. It's velocity is 3441 feet per second. END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-18-69 CDT 10:32 - GET 50:00 - TAPE 159/1 PAO This is Apollo Control at 50 hours 16 minutes. Apollo 11 is now 165,346 nautical miles from Earth, traveling at a velocity of 3423 feet per second. Flight controllers report all systems well within the normal and operating very satisfactorily. END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-18-69 CDT 10:53 - GET 50:21 - TAPE 160/1 PAO This is Apollo Control at 50 hours, 40 minutes. Apollo 11 is 166,135 miles from earth. The Capcom is going to take a radio check here, I think, with the crew. CAPCOM Apollo 11 CDR, this is Houston. Radio check. Over. SC Roger, Houston. CDR loud and clear. CAPCOM Roger. We're reading you the same. Out. SC And would you check with FAO and see where that errata sheet is? We haven't been able to locate that. CAPCOM Roger. I understand it's supposed to be the back page in Buzz's operation and check list. SC Okay. PAO FAO is the Flight Activities Office. END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-18-69 CDT 11:13 - GET 50:41 - TAPE 161/1 PAO Apollo 11's velocity is 3404 feet per second. Spacecraft's still in the passive thermal control mode rotating at .3 of a degree per second or 3 revolutions per hour. Sporatic bursts of static that you hear on the air-ground is caused by the rotation of the spacecraft - changing the orientation of the antennas as the spacecraft slowly rotates to maintain thermal balance. PAO The back-up lunar module pilot, Fred Haise is at the Capcom console with Bruce McCandless. PAO That radio check was with the Apollo 11 commander, Neil Armstrong. PAO This is Apollo Control at 50 hours, 53 minutes into the mission. An important news release will be available in the Apollo News Center at 11:45 Central Daylight Time this morning. At noon, Colonel Frank Borman will be in the building 1 auditorium at MSC for a briefing concerning the news release. Repeating, an important news release will be available at 11:45 a.m. central daylight time in the Apollo news center at MSC. END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-18-69 CDT 11:26 - GET 50:54 - TAPE 162/1 PAO This is Apollo Control at 51 hours, 7 minutes. Apollo 7 - Apollo 11's distance is 167,007 nautical miles from earth. Velocity 3,386 feet per second. CAPCOM Apollo 11, this is Houston. Did you find it? Over. SC Roger, we found it. CAPCOM Roger. And I see you improved if you can give us accept we'll uplink a new state vector to you and update the CMP clock. Over. SC Okay, you've got it. CAPCOM Roger. CAPCOM 11, this is Houston. We're through with the uplink. You can go back up block. SC Roger. Back to block. END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-18-69 CDT 11:46 - GET 51:14 - TAPE 163/1 CAPCOM Apollo 11, this is Houston. We would like to terminate the charge on battery B at GET of 5130. Over. CAPCOM Apollo 11, this is Houston. We would like to terminate charging battery BRAVO at 5130 GET. Over. SC Roger, terminate charging battery BRAVO 5130. CAPCOM Roger, out. PAO This is Apollo Control at 51 hours 55 minutes into the mission. Apollo 11 is 167,594 nautical miles from Earth, moving toward the Moon at a velocity of 3373 feet per second. All systems are normal. We will be utilizing this release line for the Col. Frank Borman briefing. During that briefing we will tape any air-ground transmissions and play them back after the briefing. This is Mission Control Houston. END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-18-69 CDT 12:30 - GET 51:58 - TAPE 164/1 PAO This is Apollo Control at 51 hours, 58 minutes into the mission. Apollo 11 is 168,658 nautical miles from earth traveling at a velocity of 3,349 feet per second. We have 30 seconds of air-ground conversation taped during the news briefing. We'll play that for you now. CAPCOM 11, this is Houston. We show you terminating battery B charge. Over. CAPCOM Apollo 11, this is Houston, Over. SC Go ahead, Houston. Apollo 11. CAPCOM Roger, 11. We show you terminating battery B charge at about 51 hours, 30 minutes. Over. SC Okay. CAPCOM Roger, out. SC I'm with you. SC Houston, Apollo 11. (garble) dead band. Roger. CAPCOM 11, this is Houston. Say again both what on. Over. CAPCOM Apollo 11, this is Houston. Affirmative, we request hydrogen and an oxygen fuel cell purge. Over. SC Okay. Any slip in the switch mode? CAPCOM Negative. (garble). END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-18-69 CDT 12:47 - GET 52:15 - TAPE 165/1 PAO Apollo 11 is 170,010 nautical miles from Earth, velocity 3319 feet per second. END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-18-69 CDT 13:17 - GET 52:45 - TAPE 166/1 SC Houston, Apollo 11. CAPCOM Apollo 11, this is Houston. Go ahead. SC Roger. You copy my NOUN 93? CAPCOM That's affirmative. We've got it. SC Okay. I am going to go ahead and thrust and triangle difference is .01, but it's very difficult at three-tenths rate. I'm required to use medium speed and involed and difficult to hold the star standard long enough to get a decent mark on it. CAPCOM Roger. We copy and it looks okay tO us. SC Right. PAO This is Apollo Control at 3 hours, 53 minutes into the mission. Apollo 11 is 170,746 nautical miles from earth, velocity is 3303 feet per second. The crew is now in the process of realigning the spacecraft's enertial platform. END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-18-69 CDT 13:37 - GET 53:05 - TAPE 167/1 PAO This is Apollo Control at 53 hours 20 minutes. Apollo 11's distance from Earth is 171,293 nautical miles, traveling at a velocity of 3291 feet per second. The spacecraft's weight is 6068 pounds. PAO This is Apollo Control. We have a correction on the orbital parameters of Luna 15 as given in the news briefing recently. The parameters given in that briefing of 72 by 156 nautical miles were based on a computation from an orbital period of 2 hours and 30 minutes instead of the correct 2 hours and 30 seconds. The orbit has been recomputed based on the proper numbers and the parameters for Luna 15, based on a period of 2 hours 30 seconds are 30 by 110 nautical miles, a perilune of 30, an apolune of 110 nautical miles. END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-18-69 CDT 13:57 - GET 53:25 - TAPE 168/1 CAPCOM Apollo 11, Houston. Over. SC Go ahead, Houston. CAPCOM Roger. I've got the morning news here if you are interested. Over. SC Yes, we sure are. We are ready to copy and comment. Isn't it 2:30 there? CAPCOM Roger. Okay. Here we go. The interest in the Flight of Apollo 11 continues at a high level but a competing interest in the Houston area is the easing of watering rules. Mayor Louie Welch promises a lifting of lawn watering restrictions if the rains continue. Friday is partly couldy and there is a 30 percent chance of thundershowers in the afternoon. In Washington, D. C. the Senate Finance Committee approved extension of the income tax surtax but a Senate vote on the bill - SC You cut out, Houston, you cut out. CAPCOM Roger, where do you hold me cutting out? Over. SC Houston, Apollo 11. CAPCOM Apollo 11, Houston. Over. CAPCOM Apollo 11, this is Houston. How do you read now? Over. SC Loud and clear, Houston. Go ahead. CAPCOM All right. SC - rains in Houston. CAPCOM Roger. And Washington. The Senate Finance Committee has approved extension of the income tax surtax - END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-18-69 CDT 14:27 - GET 53:55 - TAPE 169/1 CAPCOM Roger. In Washington, the Senate Finance Committee has approved extension of the Income Tax Surtax, but a Senate vote on the bill apparently seemed remote. In Austin, State Representative Ray Lemmon of Houston has been nominated as the National Director of the American Society for Oceanography. Lemmon has proposed a study of the possibility of establishing an institute of oceanography in Texas. This would be the first such institute on the Western Gulf of Mexico. In Minneapolis, Minnesota, the weather bureau after recapping today's weather showing a high of 88 and a low of 72, has noted "snowfall: none." From St. Petersburg, Florida, comes a radio report from a Norwegian Explorer, Thor Heyerdahl which said that the crew of his papyrus boat RA will sail into Bridgetown, Barbados, despite damage from heavy seas. The crew, however, will sleep on an escort vessel. Norman Baker, navigator of the expedition, said the crew was aboard the RA today repairing damage from storms this past week which split the footing of the mast. Part of the broken mast was jettisoned overboard. The vessel was 725 miles east of Barbados. "It is possible but uncomfortable to sleep aboard the RA," Baker said in the radio report. "But the purpose of our voyage is not a test of strength or human endurance." That is the reason why the crew was spending nights aboard the escort vessel Shenandoah, which rendezvoused with the RA on Tuesday. In sports, the Houston Oilers are showing plenty of enthusiasm in their early preseason workouts at Kerrville and Coach Wally Lemm says he is impressed with the fine group of rookies. National League baseball - was it yesterday - Thursday - St. Louis 11, Philadelphia 3; Montreal 5, over Pittsburgh 4; Atlanta 12, Cincinnati 2; San Franscisco 14, and Los Angeles 13. American League - we have Baltimore 3 over Cleveland 2, Detroit 4 to Washington 3, Minnesota 8, Chicago 5. Boston and New York was rained out. And in Corby, England, an Irishman, John Coyle has won the world's porridge eating championship by consuming 23 bowls of instant oatmeal in a 10-minute time limit from a field of 35 other competitors. Over. SC Roger. Houston didn't play yesterday. CAPCOM That's correct. SC I'd like to enter Aldrin in the oatmeal eating contest next time. CAPCOM Is he pretty good at that? SC He's doing his share up here. CAPCOM You all just finished your meal not long ago, didn't you? SC I'm still eating. CAPCOM Okay is that - SC He's on his 19th bowl. CAPCOM Roger. Are you having any difficulties APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-18-69 CDT 14:27 - GET 53:55 - TAPE 169/2 CAPCOM with gas in the food bags like the janitor reported? SC Well, that's intermittently affirmative, Bruce. We have these 2 hydrogen filters which work fine as long as you don't hook them up to a food bag. But the entry way into the food bag has enough back pressure to cause the filters to start loosing their efficiency. A couple of times I've been tempted to go through that dryout procedure, but we found that simply by leaving the filters alone for a couple of hours, their efficiency seems to be restored. CAPCOM Roger, we copy. SC Their efficiency ranges anywhere from darn near perfect to terrible just depending on the individual characteristics of the food bags we're putting through it. Some of the food bags are so crumpled near the entry way that there's no way we can work them loose to prevent back pressure. CAPCOM Roger. PAO That's Mike Collins from the spacecraft. PAO This is Apollo Control at 54 hours, 6 minutes. Apollo 11's distance from Earth now is 172,748 nautical miles, traveling at a velocity of 3260 feet per second. END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-18-69 CDT 14:47 - GET: 54:15 - TAPE 170/1 CAPCOM Apollo 11, this is Houston, over. CAPCOM Apollo 11, this is Houston, over. SC Hello, Houston, go ahead. CAPCOM Roger, 11, as you have probably noticed coning angle on the PTC mode is increased substantially as a result of a - waste water dump, the fuel cell purge and a natural coupling, so it looks like we are going to have to terminate PTC here in a little while and we would like to get your feeling as to rather you are still anticipating - trying to send back TV signals from inside the LM and if so, we will try to provide an attitude that you can hold that will give us high gain antenna lock on the Earth during the TV and LM activation period. Over. SC Yes, we are still planning - that activity if the coordinates work out all right and we will accept that attitude that you work up for us. CAPCOM This is Houston, roger, out. SC Work up an attitude to get high gain is there any way we could get partial sun in one of the two LM sun windows? CAPCOM This is Houston. We'll have a look at it. PAO That was Neil Armstrong confirming they will attempt TV at approximately an elasped time of 56 hours 20 minutes and then the last of the question was by Buzz Aldrin. CAPCOM Apollo 11, this is Houston, over. SC Go ahead Houston. CAPCOM Roger. We have a TV attitude for you if you are ready to copy. SC Go ahead, ready to copy. CAPCOM Okay, we recommend stopping PTC at GET of 54:45:00 and this should put you just about the right roll angle. The attitude we recommend is roll 263, pitch 090, yaw 000. This gives you the Earth out of window number 01 in the command module and places the high gain antenna - END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-18-69 CDT 15:12 - GET 54:40 - TAPE 171/1 CAPCOM to 000. This gives you the earth out of window number 1 in the command module, and places the high gain antenna in the CSM window for TV at your convenience. You also have the sun shining in, or shining at the hatch on the LM and if you take down the window shades you should get some sunlight in. Now we're recommending wide deadband. Over. SC Roger. Thank you, Houston. We'll look at that. CAPCOM Roger up. SC Houston, Apollo 11. When we pass the proper rolling we're not anywhere near 33 chart. Do you want us to stop at the triangle we find ourselves in and then VERB 49 the three angles you give us. CAPCOM Stand by. CAPCOM Hello Apollo 11, Houston. We'd like you to stop at the proper roll angle then to a verb 49 to the roll and pitch. Over. Correction, roll and yaw. SC Houston, Apollo 11. Over. CAPCOM Go ahead, 11. Over. CAPCOM Hello Apollo 11, Houston. You read? Over. SC Houston, Apollo 11. Over. CAPCOM Roger, 11. Do you read me? Over. CAPCOM Hello, Apollo 11, Houston. Over. SC Stand by, Charlie. SC We're going to come out of PTC here at 263 roll and then to a verb 49 to the recommended attitude. CAPCOM That sounds fine to us. Over. PAO This is Apollo Control at 54 hours 45 minutes. Apollo 11 is 173,997 nautical miles from earth. Velocity is 3,234 feet per second. In the control center, the white team led by Gene Kranz is preparing to relieve Cliff Charlesworth and the green team. Capcom is Charlie Duke. We're estimating the change of shift news conference for 4:00 PM Central Daylight Time. CAPCOM Hello Apollo 11, Houston. Before you open the pressure equalization valve, we'd like the LM send Delta-P. Over. SC Okay. Let me check it again. It was about 155. CAPCOM Rog. SC I read it 158 right now, Charlie. CAPCOM Roger. Thank you much. SC Houston, Apollo 11. We're (garbled) CAPCOM 11, Houston. You're about 1 by on this transmission. Say again. Over. SC Houston, Apollo 11. Do you read? END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-18-69 CDT 15:22 - GET 54:50 - TAPE 172/1 CAPCOM 11, Houston. Here's that 1 by on this transmission. Say again. Over. SC Houston, Apollo 11 (garble) SC Houston, Apollo 11. How do you read on the high gain? CAPCOM Hello 11. How do you read me? Over. SC Reading you loud and clear Charlie. We just switched to a high gain and we stopped PTC at roll 263, pitch 90, yaw 0. How do you read? CAPCOM Roger Mike. Your 5 by now on the high gain. We're right between the OMNI antennas and pretty horrible comm on the OMNIs. We've got you 5 by on the high gain and we copy the PTC stoppage. Over. SC Okay, fine. SC Houston. We're going to open the director 2 valve instead of pumping up the cabin. CAPCOM Roger copy. CAPCOM Apollo 11, Houston. We're going to hand over to Goldstone for uplink, in about 2 minutes. We might have a momentary dropout of comm. Over. SC All right. Can you hear our master alarm in the back, John? That's O2, a little high, coming through the amplifier. CAPCOM Roger. Copy. SC That photo electric cell is a good device. It's worked very well. CAPCOM 11, Houston. Say again. Over. SC I say that photo electric cell amplifier for the master alarm is a good device. It's working very well, and it's a nice pleasing tone. CAPCOM Roger. Copy. Thank you. SC Makes you almost glad to get master alarm. SC Houston, Apollo 11. As a matter of curiosity our O2 flow meter is pegged full scale high. CAPCOM Roger 11. We copy that here. Over. SC Okay. SC Boy that transducer's working somewhat. CAPCOM Roger. CAPCOM 11, Houston. We'd like to try to attempt to correlate your O2 flow in transducer with the flow valve that you've got open. How far open would you say you have the repress O2. Over. CAPCOM Correction. The Direct O2. SC Stand by Charlie. APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-18-69 CDT 15:22 - GET 54:50 - TAPE 172/2 SC Okay Charlie. It's not open very far Hard to give you a good reading without shutting it again but the arrows are at about the 1:00 o'clock position. Now I reduced the flow and I'll let it stabilize here. Right now our onboard reading is about .4 and that's with the arrow in the O2 valve at the 2:00 o'clock position. Would you rather have a - comparisons of O2 flow readings or would you rather have valve position comparisons? CAPCOM Roger. Stand by. CAPCOM ECOM said they'd like to look at the valve positions. Over. SC Okay. Well we're holding steady now at 3/10ths of a pound per hour and our cabin pressure is about 54 and I'll close the valve momentarily and then open it again to this position and see how much travel is required. CAPCOM Roger. SC It's about 30 degrees of travel Charlie from the closed position which is with the arrow pointing at about 3 to 3:30, 4:00 o'clock. CAPCOM Roger. SC Our blowers stabilized now at .6. CAPCOM Roger we copy. We're reading the same. SC Okay. SC We're opening it back to the 1:00 o'clock position. CAPCOM Roger. SC Is that enough different positions, or do you want more Charlie? CAPCOM Mike that's good enough. We're satisfied now. Over. SC Okay. END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-18-69 CDT 15:3 - GET 55:00 - TAPE 173/1 SC Houston, Apollo 11, we've terminated direc to O2, our cabin pressure is 57 and, as a matter of curiosity, when we turn the off we get a master alarm just like they did in the spacecraft testing. CAPCOM Roger. Eleven, Houston, we have a little update for you. When you go into the LM, we'd like you to unstow and bring back to the command module the following items, over. SC Ready to copy. CAPCOM Roger, we'd like you to pick up the, out of the flight data file, the surface check list, the mission rules no go card, the DIP, APS, RCS limit cutrons, over. CAPCOM Apollo 11, Houston, the reason we want you to bring those three items back, we'll have some updates for you, for those 3 over. SC Roger, we figured you would. PAO This is Apollo Control at 55 hours 10 minutes. Our network controllers just advised that we are receiving live television at Goldstone. We would presume this is a test of the system, similar to what we received from the crew yesterday. The crew is planning to send television from the lunar module when they ingress. Stand by - here's a call from the crew. CAPCOM Flight configure here at Houston for the transmission. We'll be up in a couple of minutes, over. SC Rog, this is just for free. This isn't what we had in mind. CAPCOM Roger. PAO That was Capcom, Charlie Duke, advising the crew that we are not quite prepared for television reception at this time. You heard Mike Collins respond that this one is for free. We still intend to get the television transmission during the time the crew is in the lunar module, beginning about 56 hours 20 minutes ground elapsed time, which would be about 4:52 PM central daylight time. We are getting a black and white television picture in the control center at this time and we should have that in color by now. An anterior view of the command module looking up into the LM hatch, CSM land hatch area. We can't quite make out which crewman we're seeing up in the tunnel working with the probe and drogue assembly. PAO Getting a very good view of the work going on in the command and service module tunnel. It appears to be Neil Armstrong working in the tunnel. Working on the drogue and probe assembly. This extremely sharp clear picture is coming to us from about a 175 thousand miles distance from earth. END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-18-69 CDT 15:47 - GET 55:15 - TAPE 174/1 PAO extremely sharp picture is coming to us from about 175,000 miles distance from earth. Presently about 48,000 miles from the moon. PAO That appears as if it might be all the free TV, as Mike Collins put it. After we got in we expect to get the television transmission from the time the crew is in the lunar module and that period of activity is scheduled to begin in about 56 hours 20 minutes with the ingress to the lunar module. And we understand it's starting to get a picture back again. It was in lock momentarily and now we had it back again. Neil Armstrong up in the tunnel at this point, removing the probe and drogue assembly in preparation for the ingress to the lunar module. A network controller just reported that this television is coming to us on the 210 foot dish antenna at Goldstone, California. PAO We just saw the probe assembly start to come loose now as Neil Armstrong is - CAPCOM Apollo 11, Houston. It's a pretty good show here. It looks like you almost got the probe out. SC Yeah, it's loose now. Can you see that? CAPCOM Rog, Neil. It's real good. SC There's not much light up in that area but certainly this TV set should pick it up. CAPCOM There are some bright spots shining on the probe. Apparently sun shafting on it. Gets just about enough - part to make it out. Over. SC Hey, how good does it look on the lights? CAPCOM Oh, okay. You're right. SC Okay, it's loose now. Coming down. CAPCOM Roger. CAPCOM Looks like it's a little bit easier than doing that in the chamber. Over. SC You bet. It's the only way it's pretty massive but it goes where you direct it. CAPCOM 11, Houston. That's beautiful picture now, we've got. We're going to have 12 seconds delaying. Adjust and just bringing it down by the optics now. SC Mike must have done a smooth job in that docking. There isn't a dent or a mark on the probe. CAPCOM Rog. We're really getting a great picture, here. Over. APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-18-69 CDT 15:47 - GET 55:15 - TAPE 174/2 CAPCOM 11, Houston. With a 12-foot cable, we estimate you should have about 5 to 6 feet excess when you get the camera into the LM. Over. SC Roger. CAPCOM We can see the probe now. A correction, the drogue. SC Roger. SC Okay, drogue removal is coming next. CAPCOM Roger. As we suspected. PAO Once removal of the drogue is completed, they will have access to the LM hatch and be able to go into the tunnel. CAPCOM 11, Houston. Now it's a good view of storage area under the couch. CAPCOM 11, Houston. Looks like it's pretty crowded in there with that drogue. Over. SC Oh, it's not really bad. This TV cable is getting in the way. CAPCOM We see lots of arms. END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-18-69 CDT 15:57 - GET 55:25 - TAPE 175/1 CAPCOM We see lots of arms. SC The only problem, Charlie, is these TV stage hands don't know where they stand. CAPCOM Well, you got to really have a union card there. We can't really complain too much, I guess. PAO This unscheduled televison transmission has now run about 18 minutes, and we have no estimate at this point as to how long it will continue. Mike Collins reported that it would - we would go ahead with the regularly scheduled one when they are in the LM. CAPCOM Apollo 11, Houston. Do you have a little white dot in the bottom of your monitor - TV monitor? Over. SC Roger. We do. CAPCOM Roger. I guess part of the camera's been burnt out down there. These are really beautiful pictures here, Buzz. Real clear. SC Okay. We might have got just a little bit of nothing there. Is it just a one small white dot? CAPCOM That's affirmative. PAO Have a good view here of the computer display and keyboard assembly with the green lights flashing. SC We went up in the tunnel checking the roll angle, Charlie, and it's 2.05 degrees. CAPCOM Roger. Copy. 2.05 on the roll cal. SC And that's a plus. CAPCOM Roger. Plus. PAO The reference to the roll cal, or roll calibration index marker in the tunnel, which shows how far off exact 0 the 2 vehicles were when the docking occurred. CAPCOM 11, Houston. The tunnel looks pretty clear to us. Somebody going up there now. Over. SC It's Mike checking his connectors up there now. CAPCOM Roger. CAPCOM 11, Houston. The lighting up in there looks very good to us at this time. Over. SC I think that's mostly the camera. It's subdued to say the least. CAPCOM Roger. It's funny. It's gathering pretty well to us. We see everything quite clearly up in there. SC Anyhow, the dock latches look good today just like they did yesterday. Everything up in there looks just fine. CAPCOM That sounds fine to us. Over. PAO Mike Collins reporting there on the appearance of the latches. APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-18-69 CDT 15:57 - GET 55:25 - TAPE 175/2 CAPCOM 11, Houston. We can read the decals up there on the LM hatch. SC Well, let me move it up and see how much you can read. CAPCOM Okay. CAPCOM We can see the LM umbilical connection quite well, Buzz. We see you zooming in on one of the decals now. It's - to reset, unlatch handle, latch behind grip and pull back 2 full strokes. That's about all we can make out. SC You got an A plus. CAPCOM Thank you very much, sir. At least I passed my eye test. SC I'm standing six feet from it, Charlie. You can read it better than I can. There's something wrong with your system. CAPCOM Roger. PAO An interested observer of these amazingly clear pictures coming to us from more than 175,000 miles out in space is Astronaut Gene Cernan, who got a first hand view of some of this same area of the spacecraft during his Apollo 10 flight. CAPCOM That's a real good view of the LM hatch handle there, 11. Over. SC Roger. SC Looks like we'll be ready to go into the LM early if that's okay with you all down there, CAPCOM Roger. It's fine with us, Neil. Go ahead anytime you wish. Over. SC Okay. CAPCOM 11, Houston. The white spot you see on your monitor - our TV people say it is a burn spot, but they expect it to dissipate after a couple of hours. Over. SC Roger. Thank you. END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-18-69 CDT 16:07 - GET 55:35 - TAPE 176/1 SC Okay, the dump valve is actuated. CAPCOM Roger, copy, then we see it very clarly. Is that you Buzz with your hand on it? SC Yeah. CAPCOM 11, Houston. We're really amazed at the quality of the picture up in the tunnel. It's really superb, over. SC It is considering the amount of light up in there. Hey, we are about to open our hatch now. CAPCOM Rog. There is that same guy when you opened up the door, why, he is waiting there for you and he turns the lights on. SC How about that. It's like the refrigerator. PAO That conversation between Charlie Duke and Mike Collins referring to the automatic light that comes on in the LM when the hatch is opened. CAPCOM Buzz, the view by your left shoulder there is so good we can see the ascent engine cover, the velcro on it, and that's' about all we can make out right now. Now we see the helmets, do we? SC We don't see anything loose up there. CAPCOM Well, great. Looks good to us. We see the helmet storage space. CAPCOM 11, Houston. We got a view of the PLSS there, off the right of our screen. CAPCOM 11, Houston. Buzzy already in? Over. SC Roger. I'm halfway in, hanging out, or turning around, I guess. CAPCOM Roger. PAO Buzz Aldrin, reporting that he's halfway into the LM. His view is inside the LM cabin. CAPCOM Apollo 11, Houston. We'd like you to read out the LCG reservoir sight level. Over. SC Okay. Stand by. CAPCOM 11, we have a good view of the window there. It looks like the sun is finally coming through the shade. SC Yes, I'm afraid it's - we're just about plus z toward the sun. CAPCOM That's affirmative. This attitude put both windows right toward the sun - the LM. Over. SC Well, that may be good in some ways, but - CAPCOM We had a view, Buzz, of the utility light cord. Utility's on. SC Yes, let me show you a view looking the other way. CAPCOM Roger. And we see right now the utility light or either the flood light up there. CAPCOM I think now I see the utility light is still in the stowage bag. Hey, that's a great shot right there. We see you in there. Guess that's Neil and Mike. Better be, anyway. APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-18-69 CDT 16:07 - GET 55:35 - TAPE 176/2 CAPCOM We see you waving. PAO Buzz Aldrin has apparently carried the camera into the LM with him, showing us Neil Armstrong and Mike Collins back in the CSM. CAPCOM 11, Houston. That's really a beautiful shot. CAPCOM 11, Houston. We didn't quite decipher that signal that just came from the CMP. SC Just saying hello. On the LCG sight gage, you got about - it looks like - the white mark that's in the plunger is about a quarter to three eighths inch out into the green away from the red. Is that what you like to see? Over. CAPCOM Stand by. Right, Buzz; that looks good to us. Thank you much. SC It is the white index, is it not, that you're interested in comparing whether it's in the red or green? CAPCOM Stand by. That's affirmative, Buzz. It looks good. That's a good reading for us. Over. SC Okay. CAPCOM We had a shot momentarily - a moment ago of the suit disconnect valve. SC I'll open up the windows and see what the lighting condition's going to be like. CAPCOM 11, Houston. That's a real good view we have of the AOT. You're back there, Buzz, and notice you're taking down one of the window shades. Over. CAPCOM The light is superb. SC How's the sun coming in? How's the sun coming in from this direction going to affect what you can see? CAPCOM It made it really super. The lighting is excellent in the LM right now. We can make out the AOT, the ISA, and the left-hand window- there's a little glare off of that, but the LMP side the - with the shade down it's really excellent. Over. SC Well, let's - I'm turned around, why I took the shade off my side first. CAPCOM Roger. We copy. The light level for the TV is really excellent. Over. SC The lighting in the LM is very nice, just like completely daylight, and everything is just beautiful. A good bit lighter than the tunnel was earlier. CAPCOM Roger. We got a good view now of the DEDA and also, Buzz's ATA. PAO This ingress to the lunar module came about - END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-18-69 CDT 16:17 - GET 55:45 - TAPE 177/1 CAPCOM ACA PAO This ingress to the lunar module came about 40 minutes ahead of the flight plan, and we would presume that the unscheduled TV is perhaps merging with the schedule a little bit early. SC Every thing seems to be in place down there. CAPCOM Roger, we got the dump valves in view, over. SC Roger. CAPCOM Eleven, Houston. We see you're removing the ISA now, folding it up, putting it up by the AOT. The instrument pannels are coming into view behind. SC Yea, I think probably it'd be best since we've done an SPS burn to put it back over the instrument panel instead of putting it up over the PLSS on the rechart station. Would you care to comment on that one. We can do either, just as easily. CAPCOM Stand by we'll have an answer for you momentarily. CAPCOM Eleven, Houston. It's really a super shot of the thing displaying. SC The vehicle is suprisingly free of any debris floating around, it's very clean. CAPCOM Roger. CAPCOM Eleven, Houston. It's pretty hard to describe this view. It's really great. SC Now you know how we feel. SC Okay Neils OCS is about 57, 58 hundred. CAPCOM Copy. SC And mine is about 58 hundred also. CAPCOM Copy. PAO Aldrins hand resting on one of the portable life support systems which will be used on the moons surface. CAPCOM Eleven, Houston. That's a good shot of Neils PLSS there, over. SC Yea that's fine. CAPCOM Eleven Houston just a moment ago we had a good shot of your PLSS Buz, and the two helmet stowage bags, and now behind your left shoulder Buz, we have your DSKY and the ACA. PAO We're not quite sure who's holding the camera at this point. Apparently it's drifting freely inside the cabin. Or more likely attached to some convenient point within the LM cabin. SC We're going to go ahead and take all the loose data on back into the command module, Charlie. CAPCOM Roger. APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-18-69 CDT 16:17 - GET 55:45 - TAPE 177/2 PAO This television transmission has now been running about 42 minutes, and the spacecraft now about 176 thousand miles from earth. CAPCOM Apollo 11 Houston. Buz it appears that you didn't put on the sun filter and viewing the sun through the AOT, over. SC Yea, unfortunately it looks like it's down a little bit more towards (garbled) than I can be able to see in the MT. CAPCOM Roger. SC We've got a beautiful view of the side of the command module out of the AOT looking in the left rear deton. CAPCOM Rog. SC I can see the hatch and all the EVA hand rails. First time we've seen the silvery outside of the command module. I can read the letters on the hatch cover, it's a boost cover release, and the big yellow arrow that points toward the opening place where the 20B goes. CAPCOM Rog. Great shot now back down into the - SC And left on the - - CAPCOM Go ahead Buz, over. SC Say again. CAPCOM I was just saying we got a great shot looking back into the command module. SC Okay. And the left decent I can see the rendezvous radar, and I move to the forward detent and that's about all I've got. I'm looking eyeball to eyeball. CAPCOM Rog. PAO Neil Armstrong has apparently been holding the camera, looking back down through the tunnel it appears now that he's handed the camera to Buz Aldrin. As he is still looking back through the tunnel we see Mike Collins in the background there. SC Charlie is there any concern about the duration that we ought to have the window shades open? CAPCOM Stand by. SC We don't have any circulation in here and it might get a little on the warm side. CAPCOM Rog. SC We'll put up a couple of hoses in the command module here and get a little circulation going. CAPCOM It sounds like a good idea, over. END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-18-69 CDT 16:27 - GET 55:55 - TAPE 178/1 CAPCOM Apollo 11, Houston. As far as the window shapes go in this LM is nothing except for crew comfort. I don't think we've got any systems problem. Be sure to put them back up when you egress. Over. SC That we will do. SC Charlie, I'll give you a view out of the overhead window, back looking at the Command Module, right hand rendezvous window. CAPCOM Roger. CAPCOM Well we see it now. Thanks a lot Buzz. It's a good view through the over head. SC One (garble) is on by the overhead. CAPCOM Roger. CAPCOM There we go. We've got it now. SC There wasn't very much debris in the Command Module or the LM. We found very few loose particles of bolts, nuts and screws and lint Very few in each spacecraft. They were very clean. CAPCOM Roger. Sounds good. CAPCOM 11, Houston. We have a good view out of the rendezvous - correction the overhead window of the LM. We don't see anybody standing back at it though. Over. SC Charlie can you see Mike's two eyeballs staring out through the nautical window? CAPCOM 11, Houston. Stand by. We haven't picked him up yet. SC They're looking through a lot of layers of glass. CAPCOM 11, Houston. We had a slight glimpse of Mike in the rendezvous window at that time. It's pretty murky looking in there though. SC Okay. Here he is. I've got him. I've got him on the monitor now. CAPCOM Okay. We see him staring back at us now. Hello in there. CAPCOM Apollo 11, Houston. Our recommendation to the ISA is to store it back over the instrument panel. Over. SC Roger. Will do. PAO This transmission has been running about 54 minutes at this point. CAPCOM 11, Houston. We can make out the markings on the panel. We read system a assent fuel, S in oxidizer. QUADS 1, QUAD 4. It's really unbelievable the definition we're getting down here off that little camera. Over. CAPCOM We can even see the barber pole on APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-18-69 CDT 16:27 - GET 55:55 - TAPE 178/2 CAPCOM - a dog bag. CAPCOM We can read the markings on the instruments for the glycol pressure quantity, quantity, TC O2. You can read the scale on the eight ball. Over. CAPCOM 11, Houston. We seen across these barber pole and we had the Velcro patches back up to the RCS systems now. We can see the markings on the meters, green and red bands, in limits. We see you raised the cover on the abort stage. We don't recommend that. SC Yes. We're going to tape that one over. CAPCOM Roger. SC Going to tape that one over. CAPCOM We concur. SC The restraints in here do a pretty good job of pulling my pants down. CAPCOM Roger. We haven't quite got that before the 50,000,000 TV audience yet. CAPCOM 11, Houston. That's a good view of the eight ball. We see - you can read the OFF light there. CAPCOM You can see the signal strength meter for the radar- read the numbers on it. PAO At this point, we have had to take the color down momentarily. We - - END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-18-69 CDT 16:37 - GET 56:05 - TAPE 179/1 PAO At this point, we've had to take the color down momentarily. We've run out of tape in the color conversion recorder. We estimate we'll have the black and white for about 5 minutes while the tape changes in process and then continue to convert in color after that point. CAPCOM Roger, stand by. We'll have an answer. CAPCOM 11, Houston. On that TV, our commentary - The monitor I was looking at was delayed about 12 seconds, 12 to 15 seconds while it went through our color converter. It was probably - You thought I was praising, but we were looking at it 15 seconds after you broadcasted. 11, Houston. SC We understood that, Charlie. CAPCOM Okay, on the LM cameras, we'd like you to do it on LOI day with the LM power. Over. SC Okay, that's what we'll do. PAO The black and white view that you're seeing now is the unconverted color pictures that comes down from the spacecraft. The flicker, of course, is taken out in the conversion process. We've now been receiving television pictures from the spacecraft for about 1 hour. SC Checklist stowage packet, it's, got a 16-millimeter camera in it and it's got this little cylinder and I guess - I don't understand what it is. Maybe you can tell us. CAPCOM Roger. Stand by. We can't figure it out either. SC It's got an arrow on the back and it says "turn", but I'm afraid to turn it. CAPCOM 11, your friendly geologist says it's the camera crank. Excuse me, for the 16 sequence camera if it jams. Over. SC All very well. Thank you. PAO The reference to the friendly geologist refers to Astronaut Jack Schmitt who is here in the control center. SC Here's that word again. The ancillary stowage container. CAPCOM Rog. PAO Now we're back with the color. CAPCOM The shades couldn't quite hack it, there, Buzz. Over. SC Houston, 11. Are you still getting high bit rate off the OMNI's at this distance? CAPCOM Stand by, Mike. CAPCOM Apollo 11, Houston. About 50 percent of the time we're getting high bit rate off the OMNI's when you're in PTC. Over. APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-18-69 CDT 16:37 - GET 56:05 - TAPE 179/2 SC Okay, thank you. CAPCOM You' re welcome. CAPCOM Apollo 11, Houston. Neil, with this attitude, you look like you're about 12 feet along. SC It seems like I always find myself upside-down in whatever I'm doing around here. CAPCOM Apollo 11, Houston. Could you give us a few comments on your crew comfort with the CSM hoses moving you around? Over. SC Well, it's picking up a little bit of circulation in here. CAPCOM What do you estimate the temperature is, Buzz? Over. SC I'd say maybe 73, 75. CAPCOM Rog. SC It's hard to tell at this density and pressure of gas, but comfort level is about the same as the command module. It was warmer, or stuffier when we first got in, but it seems to be improving. CAPCOM Houston copies that. CAPCOM 11, Houston. SC You may be able to see some - CAPCOM Go ahead. SC Some particles jumping around on your screen. That's just dust particles that are being eliminated by sun shafting in the window. CAPCOM Roger. They're very clear now. Over. CAPCOM And that's a good view of Neil's, correction, of Buzzes circuit breaker panel there. END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-18-69 CDT 16:47 - GET 56:15 - TAPE 180/1 CAPCOM And that's a good view of Neils, correction of Buzz's circuit breaker panel there. SC I can just barely see the hand rail on the front porch from this position on the right hand window. CAPCOM Roger. CAPCOM Eleven, Houston. Our view of the panel eleven is, gets brighter then darker. Are you changing the F-stop at all, over. SC Now what's happening is we get pretty close to the window now and then drives the automatic light control into the stop I think. CAPCOM I think that's right. SC Yea I had the switch on outside while I was going through the overhead window. That may be what's contributing to some of it. CAPCOM Roger. Eleven, Houston, we seem to be picking up a few more dust particles now. We see them quite clearly on the screen now, over. SC Yea I'm choking on one ever so often. CAPCOM Eleven, Houston. Your show is going out to the US now. We're about to get this satelite up. It'll be transmitted to some other countries after that, over. SC Roger. I'm checking out this window bracket. Where I'll be putting it for the EVA pictures of Neil going down the ladder. CAPCOM Roger. SC Apollo 11, Houston. We keep mrveling about the color and the clear of your picture. It's really difficult to describe. It's just perfect, over. CAPCOM And Eleven, it doesn't look like you're having too much trouble with that bracket up there, Buzz. SC Roger, those new knobs really make it easy to twist the thing and get it cinched down quite tight. CAPCOM Rog. CAPCOM Eleven, Houston. Buzz, how does the alignment look? SC It looks pretty good as well as I can tell without the gear extended. I can't get a real definitive answer, but you couldn't fix it any place to see much more out of the window without holding it for the whole time. CAPCOM Roger looks like to us it's going to work real well. SC Give me enough room to - Yea I think so. CAPCOM Buzz we see you putting your window guard in place there and back up to the ISA now. SC Houston ask if they know if the 90 degree bracket can be stowed in the commanders stowage assembly. APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-18-69 CDT 16:47 - GET 56:15 - TAPE 180/2 CAPCOM Stand by. CAPCOM Eleven Houston. Buzz are you still looking for that 90 degree bracket, over. SC Yea, he's looking for it now. CAPCOM Roger, we'll have a word for you in just a moment. SC Our monitor shows pretty good, clear pictures from this angle. Alley found the 90 degree bracket. CAPCOM Roger, it's really a super picture. We got the ACA, your ACA, the disc picture of the throttle, the 90 degree bracket. We see your handles, and now over to the bracket. END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-18-69 CDT 16:57 - GET 56:25 - TAPE 181/1 CAPCOM start your handles and now over to the bracket. SC That's about the position we'll be putting the camera in after the initial descend on the ladder, and it'll be taken 1 frame per second for most of the EVA. CAPCOM Houston copies out. CAPCOM That's a real good view of that camera. SC Our monitor is a little bit wavey, so it's hard for us to tell when we're - when we've got a steady picture for you. CAPCOM 11, we have no complaints at all. We don't see that waviness on our picture. It's just really great. Over. SC Do the edges of the window look like straight lines to you? CAPCOM That's affirmative. SC Okay, they don't in our monitor and that leads us to make some corrections to the camera, which probably aren't required sometime. CAPCOM Buzz, we have no complaints at all. It's a magnificent picture. PAO We've been receiving television now from the spacecraft for about an hour and 20 minutes. Apollo 11 presently 177,000 miles from earth. CAPCOM What was that, Buzz, you're chasing now? SC That was me picking up some particles of paint that were floating through the air in front of our camera, there. CAPCOM Rog. Now we got it. It appears to us that Neil's to check the velcro map there. CAPCOM Okay Buzz, we see the card up now. SC Okay, for those of you that don't know, this is where we log most of our data for each of the LM maneuvers and we have another card like this but the timeline broke that we had layed down on the table in front of the - down there at this play keyboard, and it's on this timeline that we have all our procedures. And we obviously have to hold these in place in zero "G" so we make use of the velcro patches on the back and on the table so we can attach these down here and then we just turn the pages over when we go to a new sequences in our timeline of procedures. CAPCOM Roger. SC And we're ready to copy DOI pad. APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-18-69 CDT 16:57 - GET 56:25 - TAPE 181/2 CAPCOM Rog. We'll have the FIDOs work that one up for you momentarily. CAPCOM 11, Houston. That was a good shot of panel 2 now we got panel 3 in view with the temp monitor switch. The ... stationing control panel, we see now, with the mode control switches. Now we can - CAPCOM 11, that's real good camera work. SC That'll be the most unusual position a cameraman's ever had, hanging by his toes from a tunnel and taking the picture upside down. CAPCOM Roger. You're doing a super job. We got a good view of the cross pointer, there. We had a good view of the tapemeter. SC We're giving you a picture now, of the floor of the cabin. I think you can see the - one of the two portable life support systems backpacks here in the center, and on each side, we have two helmet visors. I'll remove one of them and show you a little closer view of what this looks like. CAPCOM Roger. SC Inside the helmet visors, are the EVA gloves, with the blue tips. I'm about to take those out now. CAPCOM Rog Buzz. That's a great shot now that we're getting of the helmet, the EVA visor, and also the EVA gloves in the Background. SC Okay. You did say this was going out now, didn't you? CAPCOM Stand by. I think so. CAPCOM 11, you got a pretty big audience. It's live in the US, it's going live to Japan, western Europe, and much of South America. Everybody reports very good color, and appreciates the great show. SC Roger. I understand. Thank you. CAPCOM Buzz - CAPCOM your EVA visor. Stand by. Appreciate it. CAPCOM I like the good view of Mr. Collins down there. We finally see him again. SC Hello there, earthlings. CAPCOM Hello there. END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-18-69 CDT 17:07 - GET 56:35 - TAPE 182/1 CAPCOM 11, Houston. We noticed when you were scanning over panel 2 a moment ago, 1 and 2 the 2 8 balls were slightly in disagreement. Control said he'd like to AGS the line there. SC Yes. One of them's AGS, one of them's PNGCS. The problem is, we don't know whether to line AGS to PNGCS or PNGCS to AGS. CAPCOM Stand by. CAPCOM Lar and Chris says he can tell you. SC Okay to them both. CAPCOM Roger. SC It's like old home week Charlie to get back into the LM again. CAPCOM Roger. I can imagine. SC It's a ... from the bottom of the LM to the aft bulkhead of the Command Module. Must be about - or 16, 20 feet. It's not a disorienting one at all but it's most interesting to contemplate just pushing off from one and bounding on into the other vehicle all the way through the tunnel. CAPCOM Roger. Must be some experience. Is Collins going to go in and look around? SC We're willing to let him go but he hasn't come up with the price of the ticket yet. CAPCOM Roger. I'd advised him to keep his hands off the switches. SC If I can get him to keep his hands off my DSKY, it'd be a fair swap. CAPCOM Roger. SC That's why I've been eating so much today. I haven't had anything to do today. He won't let me touch it any more. CAPCOM Roger. PAO It appears now that we have a view of earth out the window. CAPCOM 11, Houston. If that's not the earth, we're in trouble. SC That's the earth and we have a very good view of it. Today they're a few more cloudbands on than yesterday when we came down to you but it's a beautiful sight. PAO That description from Neil Armstrong? SC We had some horizontal banding in our TV monitor. Are we transmitting that to you or do you have a clear picture? CAPCOM Neil we have a very clear picture. The only thing that we see is a little white dot in the bottom of our screen which our TV guy says is an apparently burned out spot in the camera but it should come back. Over. APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-18-69 CDT 17:07 - GET 56:35 - TAPE 182/2 SC Roger. We have that in our monitor also. CAPCOM 11, Houston. We do have 3 lines across our TV. I thought it was just a transmission problem but everybody's telling me now that it's probably on the downlink. Over. SC No. Those are the same 3 ones that we have. CAPCOM Okay. SC How far out are we now, Charlie? CAPCOM Stand by. Give you exact figure. SC If you notice the difference between yesterday'and today. This is large in everything as we continue. CAPCOM Roger. If you think we're smaller, your now 177,000 miles out. Over. SC All right. That's nautical miles? CAPCOM That's affirmative. CAPCOM 11. We - SC I'm still on. CAPCOM Go ahead. Over. CAPCOM 11, Houston. We see - still see the banding along the intratropical convergence. I guess the most predominate one now is around the - up in the - around the equator slightly north of the equator. SC That's the way it looks Charlie. Same as yesterday. CAPCOM Roger. SC Just keep the Pacific Ocean nice and clear and calm on splash day is all we ask. SC Charlie. I'd like to say hello to all my fellow scouts and scouters at Farragut State Park in Idaho having a national jamboree there this week and Apollo 11 like to send them best wishes. CAPCOM Thank you Apollo 11. I'm sure that if they didn't hear that, they'll get the word through the news, so they'll appreciate that. CAPCOM 11, Houston. We have your subspacecraft point is just off the western coast of South America, directly south of about Mexico City. Over. SC That looks like what we observe from here. SC And we're going to turn our TV monitor off now, for a short bit, while we have some other work to do. Apollo 11 signing off. CAPCOM Roger 11. Thank you very much. That was one of the greatest shows we've ever seen. We sure appreciated it. Over. PAO This is Apollo Control. That APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-18-69 CDT 17:07 - GET 56:35 - TAPE 182/3 PAO television transmission lasted about 1 hour 36 minutes according to our first rough calculation. And during that period of time, the spacecraft traveled something over 2000 nautical miles - - END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-18-69 CDT 17:17 - GET 56:45 - TAPE 183/1 PAO - one hour 36 minutes according to our first rough calculations. During that period of time, the spacecraft traveled something over 2000 nautical miles. CAPCOM Hello Apollo 11, Houston. Could you give us an idea of about how long it will be before you start close - closing the LM back up? Over. SC We got a little more work to do up here - Charlie, we are going to make sure that we have everything transferred around and stowed the way we want it. Try to get a little bit ahead on tomorrow's timeline. I suppose we could be out of there in another half hour or so if it was necessary. CAPCOM Roger, Neil. We are not trying to push you. We are just trying to get an idea of about water dumps and about starting up the PTC again. Take your sweet time over. SC Okay, we would like - to - get a flight plan update from you for the next couple of hours here. When you think what the various constraints might be and what - what order you might like us to do things. CAPCOM Roger, standby, we'll have that to you in a moment. PAO This is Apollo Control at 56 hours 51 minutes. Buzz Aldrin has now been in the lunar module for a little over an hour and 13 minutes. We estimate that Neil Armstrong has perhaps been in the LM about 15 or 20 minutes less than that. Due to the length of that television transmission, the change of shift press conference has been cancelled. The particpants were unable to wait for the duration of the press conference and with other duties and the press conference has been cancelled. At 56 hours 52 minutes, this is Apollo Control. END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-18-69 CDT 17:27 - GET 56:55 - TAPE 184/1 CAPCOM Hello, Apollo 11, Houston. Mike, we'd like to go ahead and do a waste water dump. We'd like you to dump it all the way down to zero. Over. SC Roger. We copy that, Charlie. SC How did that work, Charlie? SC Houston, 11. CAPCOM 11, Houston. Did you call? Over. SC Roger. Just noticed that the mast that the EVA light is on is charred brown. It looks as though it took quite a beating during launch. CAPCOM Roger. SC The EVA light still does work. CAPCOM Roger. We'll let the stand guys look at this. We'll be back with you with what we think. Over. SC Okay. CAPCOM 11, Houston. We were wondering, Neil, with your closing time in on the TV, if you were going to turn it off. It's indicated that you might be considering turning it back on. We were wondering whether we want to keep the lines up. Over. SC Well, we want your recommendation on that. I think we would just as soon terminate the TV, but if you have a commitment to keep, we'll be more than willing to turn it back on. CAPCOM Roger. Stand by. CAPCOM Apollo 11, Hguston. We'd like to terminate the TV. We think we got a really good tape. That hour and a half show was superb, and we'd like to pick up TV - correction - PTC at about 58 hours. Over. SC Roger. PTC at 58 hours. CAPCOM And we'll have the remaining proxies in the flight plan soon. Over. SC Okay. Fine. PAO This is Apollo Control at 57 hours, 3 minutes. The decision as you heard relayed up to the crew there, that we would go into the passive thermal control mode with the spacecraft in a slow roll at 58 hours in the flight plan. I would rule out further television for today. I would also like to repeat that the change of shift press conference for the previous shift was cancelled due to the length of that television transmission, and we do expect to have a change of shift briefing following this shift probably between 11:30 and 12:pm CDT. At the present time, Apollo 11 is 178,236 nautical miles from Earth, and the velocity has dropped down now to 3146 feet per second. At 57 hours, 4 minutes, this is Mission Control, Houston. CAPCOM Apollo 11, Houston. Our recommendations on the activities the next hour or so as far as flight plan goes are: continue your LM familiarization as desired until APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-18-69 CDT 17:27 - GET 56:55 - TAPE 184/2 CAPCOM about 58 hours, then ingress to the CSM, close the hatch, and establish PTC shortly thereafter. Over. CAPCOM And Apollo 11, Houston. Terminate the water dump. Over. SC Okay. Okay. Water dump being terminated now. END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-18-69 CDT 17:37 - GET 57:05 - TAPE 185/1 SC Houston, Apollo 11. CAPCOM Eleven, Houston, go ahead. SC Roger, Houston. I'd like to do a P52 option 3 and treat the platform up prior to starting the PTC, over. SC Roger, eleven, stand by. CAPCOM Eleven, Houston, that sounds like a good idea to us, go ahead. SC Okay, and the platform's looking pretty good to me. It looks like worst axis drift is .01 something degrees per hours. Is that about what you figure? CAPCOM Eleven, Roger, we've had reports, all the marks have been good, the last couple of times you've run them. Just a moment, I'll get you some information on the apparent drift rate. SC Okay over, and thank you. SC You got the maroons on? CAPCOM Say again eleven. SC I say you got the maroons on now? CAPCOM Not permanently Mike. Just have a stand by here while Charlie's out checking how to use that special tool on the camera. The maroon will be on tomorrow. SC Okay, nice to hear your voice, how's everything going? CAPCOM Everything's going smoothly here. We sure enjoyed the show this afternoon, Mike. SC Okay. CAPCOM Eleven Houston. We'd suggest you go ahead and do the P52 first and we'll take a look at the angles and give you some new drift rates after taking a look at them, over. SC Alright, fair enough. END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-18-69 CDT 17:52 - GET 57:21 - TAPE 186/1 CAPCOM Apollo 11, Houston, over. SC Go ahead, 11 here. CAPCOM 11, Houston. Little information to you there CDR. We all have taken a momentarily brief respite from our work to have some special - to have a bite of special moon cheese that is - I understand that it has been sent directly to us from Wapakoneta. CAPCOM Wow' (Laughter) Congratulations - your own hometown, over. SC No, we can't - we can't pronounce it either. I think you will enjoy that. They make a fine brand of cheese. CAPCOM Roger, there, I'll polish up the grammar for the next trip. CAPCOM Houston 11, you are looking at the NOUN 93 and I'll proceed when you copy them. CAPCOM 11, Houston. We got them. SC Okay. CAPCOM Hello Apollo 11, Houston. We would like P00 and accept. We have a DELTA H update for you, over. SC All right, Charlie, just a moment. SC Houston, Apollo 11, P00 and accept. CAPCOM Roger. CAPCOM Apollo 11, Houston. We got the load in. The computer is yours, over. SC Houston, rog. CAPCOM Hello Apollo 11, Houston. W'e would like for you to stir up the cryos now, over. SC Houston, Apollo 11, rog. END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-18-69 CDT 18:12 - GET 57:41 - TAPE 187/1 PAO This is Apollo Control at 57 hours 44 minutes. We've had no further reports from the crew to indicate whether or not Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin have returned to the command module. And I guess that would answer our question. Neil Armstrong reporting that they are finished with their work in the LM, will be coming out shortly. Apollo 11 is now 179,490 nautical miles from earth. Traveling at a speed of 3,121 feet per second. In a little less than 3 hours, we'll pass a milestone of sorts, as the spacecraft passes into the lunar sphere of influence. And what we mean by that, is that at that point, the spacecraft will be under the dominant influence of the moon's gravity. The moon's gravitational force will have the predominant effect on the trajectory of the spacecraft. And at that point, our displays in Mission Control monitoring velocity and altitude will switch from earth reference to moon reference. We'll then begin monitoring the progress of the spacecraft as it continues to accelerate toward the moon. At 57 hours 46 minutes, this is Apollo Control. CAPCOM Hello Apollo 11, Houston. We're standing by to watch your startup on the PTC at any time. You can start off at the verb 49. Over. SC We'll do. We're just finishing up the probe and about to close up the hatch here. We're going to be a couple of minutes late probably, getting started in the PTC. CAPCOM Rog. No sweat 11. We're standing by. Over. END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-18-69 CDT 18:32 - GET 58:01 - TAPE 188/1 PAO This is Apollo Control. That was Neil Armstrong reporting that they are now reinstalling the probe and drogue, which is just about on the flight plan schedule, and they reported that they would be putting the spacecraft in a slow roll shortly to maintain passive thermal control. In that mode the spacecraft rotates at the rate of about 3 revolutions per hour to maintain even heating. We have a precise time on that sphere of influence change, the point of which the moon - for calculation purposes here. Mission Control, comes under the predominate influence - the spacecraft comes under the predominate influence of the moon's gravitational field, and we now calculate that that will occur at 61 hours, 39 minutes, 55 seconds, ground elapsed time. CAPCOM Hello, Apollo 11, Houston. Mike, there's no wait required where REG's are steady you can proceed on. Over. SC I'm doing it, Charlie. CAPCOM Roger. SC The tunnel's all taken care of and drogue, probe and hatch all back in. CAPCOM Roger. Copy. Out. CAPCOM Hello, Apollo 11, Houston. We have some new additions to your alternate contingency checklist, if you would break that out. Over. SC Stand by. SC Okay, Houston. 11's ready to copy. CAPCOM Roger, 11. If you'll turn to page F/2-22. Over. SC Okay, I have F/2-22. CAPCOM Roger, Neil. Under column L - that's column Lema, line 06. The new data is 00001. Line 07, the new data is 02134. Over. SC Okay, I have in F/2-22, column Lema, item 6, 00001. Item 7, 02134. CAPCOM Roger, that's correct. Thank you much. Out. CAPCOM 11, Houston. For your information, those 2 entries are an update to your Delta-H that we have already uplinked into the CMC. Over. SC Roger. Thank you. SC Well, what was I marking on, Charlie, about an 18 parameter line or what? CAPCOM Our update puts you to the Delta-H to 35 parameters, Mike. Over. SC Okay. END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-18-69 CDT 18:47 - GET 58:16 - TAPE 189/1 CAPCOM Hello Apollo 11, Houston. We've got some switch positions for you for the high gain, over. SC Okay, go ahead. CAPCOM Roger, Buz. Select bravo, omni, high-gain track to manual beam wide, over. SC Okay, Bravo, omni track manual and beam Y. CAPCOM Roger, and your high-gain angles are, minus 50 on the pitch, 270 on the yaw, over. SC Okay, going there now. END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-18-69 CDT 19:12 - GET 58:41 - TAPE 190/1 CAPCOM Hello, Apollo 11, Houston. We have some updates and some things we'd like to talk to you about, if you aren't in the middle of your meal. If it's convenient any time for you, we're ready with some updates. Over. SC What are the updates going to apply to? CAPCOM Roger. We have a couple of changes on the LM mission rules NO/GO for your NO/GO card, Neil. One slight change on the APS DPS fuel and temp pressure cards, and we have a change to the procedure for the secondary radiator leak check, which is to be formed at - performed at 71 hours tomorrow, and also some indications that we have a couple of landing site obliques stowed in the wrong place. Over. SC Okay, if any of those in the flight plan. The secondary radiator, for example. CAPCOM That's affirmative. The secondary radiator leak check is called out in the flight plan at 71:20. That procedure is listed in your launch operations book on page 2-9, L2-9. We'd like to change that procedure. Over. SC Okay. Stand by. SC Charlie, on the secondary leak check, just read us verbatim like you want, and I'll copy directly into the flight plan and not fool around with the checklist. CAPCOM Roger. That's fine if you're ready to copy, stand by. SC Ready to copy on the leak check. CAPCOM Roger. It's monitor the secondary accumulator quantity. Step 2 is secondary glycol to radiator valve normal for 30 seconds then bypass. If no decrease in secondary accumulator quantity, - Are you with me? SC Yeah, I'm with you. CAPCOM Okay. If no decrease in secondary accumulator quantity. Secondary glycol to radiator valve to normal. Next step, secondary coolant loop pump AC1 or AC2. After 3 minutes, verify glycol discharge secondary pressure 39 to 51 psig. Also verify secondary EVAP APS TEMP has changed. Next step, secondary coolant loop pump, off. Secondary glycol radiator valve to bypass. That is the procedure. Over. SC Okay. I read back monitor secondary accumulator quantity, secondary glycol radiator valve, normal for 30 seconds then to bypass. If no decrease in secondary accumulator quantity, secondary glycol to radiator valve to normal. Secondary coolant loop pump AC1 or 2. After 3 minutes, verify glycol secondary discharge pressure 39 to 51 psig. Verify secondary evaporator outlet temp has APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-18-69 CDT 19:12 - GET 58:41 - TAPE 190/2 SC changed. Secondary coolant loop, off. Secondary glycol radiator valve to bypass. And what's the reason for the change, Charlie? CAPCOM Roger. Stan is concerned that our present procedure as shown in the checklist does not really flow a glycol through the radiator and they want to verify that we do not have a plugged secondary radiator. Over. SC Okay. They didn't have any abnormal indications in that system, so far? CAPCOM Negative. This is the procedure that came up with. It's just a check, Mike. Everything's looking great to us. Over. SC Okay, Charlie. SC Charlie, we'll get back with you on these other changes in a few minutes. Okay? CAPCOM Roger, Neil. No hurry. Over. END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-18-69 CDT 19:22 - GET 58:51 - TAPE 191/1 PAO This is Apollo Control at 59 hours, 9 minutes. Apollo 11 now 182,000 nautical miles from Earth, and the velocity down to 3072 feet per second. We've had very little conversation from the spacecraft in the past 40 minutes or so. At this time the flight plan calls for the crew to be getting ready to begin their eat period. That would be followed by a 9 hour rest period. We have one change to the flight plan to pass along. The television transmission which had been scheduled at 100 hours, 20 minutes to 100 hours, 50 minutes in the flight plan has been deleted. This transmission was to have occurred during the formation flying prior to the powered descent to the lunar surface. The decision to delete the TV transmission from the flight plan was made due to a lack of available satelite channels to relay the signal from the tracking site of Madrid to Houston for conversion. The intermittent music that we're getting is apparently coming from the spacecraft. The crew has onboard portable tape recorders with music on the tapes. As they store their own comments on the tape, the music of course is erased, and apparently the music is triggering the VOX operated microphones and we're getting intermittent music down from the spacecraft. CAPCOM 11, Houston. We were wondering who's on horns. SC Back in Houston? CAPCOM We just had a little music there. SC I just had the urging to. CAPCOM Roger. That was good. You can keep it coming down, 11. SC Okay. SC Because it's a special occasion today, Houston. This is the third anniversary of Gemini 10. CAPCOM Roger. Happy anniversary. SC Stay there. PAO This is Apollo Control. That comment a moment ago about the tenth anniversary of - about the third anniversary of Gemini 10 came from Mike Collins, who along with John Young flew the Gemini 10 mission, July 18 through July 21, 1966. END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-18-69 CDT 19:47 - GET 59:16 - TAPE 192/1 PAO about the third anniversary of Gemini 10 came from Mike Collins, who along with John Young flew the Gemini 10 mission, July 18th through July 21, 1966. The brief bit of music that we got from the spacecraft was coming to us from a distance of 182 thousand 190 nautical miles. SC Houston, Apollo 11, ready to copy your update. CAPCOM Roger, stand by. CAPCOM Okay Buzz, the first item, is that we have indications that your landing sight obliques are not in the proper position. If you will check we think that the intermediate scale landing sight oblique is stowed in the CSM lunar land mark book. We think that the large scale, landing sight oblique is stowed in the back of the LM lunar surface map book, over. SC I think I heard you Charlie, but I'm not sure that I understand. CAPCOM Roger, according to our storage list the landing sight oblique should be in the transfer bag. In the back up set of data, the intermediate scale oblique is in the CSM lunar landmark book and the large scale oblique is in the back of the LM lunar surface map book, and that's the reason we think that they might be, not where you think they are, over. SC Okay, we've got three obieques. The last one is one I asked for recently. It's just a blow up of the second one. The first one is one that's got dotted lines on it, indicating hidden view and 50 degree LPD, and all three of those are in the transfer book, over. CAPCOM Roger, fine. We were wrong in our back up set. We had those out of place. Looks like the on board data is good. We just wanted to let you check on that one. We have an update on the APS DIPS fuel cord, that you place on the panel. It's a typo error. If you'll break out that little card, we've got to correct that typo error, over. SC Rog. SC Okay, I got it. CAPCOM Rog, Buzz. Under the DIPS column, on the pressure side. You go down to the fourth item to the pressure greater than 150 PTCA should be greater than 65 percent, over. SC Okay, it's greater than 1.8 but less than 65 and greater than 150 for greater than 65. CAPCOM That's affirmative Al. CAPCOM And we have three items on the mission rules no go card, if you are ready to copy those, over. APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-18-69 CDT 19:49 - GET 59:16 - TAPE 192/2 SC Okay, I've got the mission rules no go. CAPCOM Roger Buz. First entry is on the EPS, under AC bus A. The line extends all the way to high gate. Actually, the line should read at DOI it would be no go AC bus A. After that the no go would be both buses. So if you will just pencil in both buses from TDI through high gate it'll be - - END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-18-69 CDT 19:57 - GET 59:26 - TAPE 193/1 CAPCOM - both busses from PDI through high gate. It will be correct for that line, over. SC Okay, I got that AC buss A for DOI and both busses no go for PDI on. CAPCOM That's affirmative up until high gate. You can stop at - the line in front of the column 5 minutes to low gate. Now the next line is under the G&C exchange, pitch and roll GDA. You can scratch that line completely, over. SC Roger, got it. CAPCOM Okay, Buzz. Last entry is down under RCS and it is a typo error under the three - in the line three axis attitude control. We proceed to the right at PDI plus 05 you'll see one axis. The line goes all the way to low gate to touchdown. That's incorrect. The line should stop under 5 minutes to low gate, over. SC Okay, we are stopping at it 5 minutes to low gate. CAPCOM That's affirm. That completes that card. The rest of the update are just really for your information based on our 58 hour platform - look at the platform. We are really in good shape. Your gyros have almost no drift in them since - plotted update we were looking at X of a minus 2.24 MERU, Y of . plus .87 Z of minus .11. Since the update, which was based on the 52 hour P52, I believe. We gave you a X drift of plus .79, yaw of plus 1.06, Z of plus .02 MERU. I see between the 52 hour and the 57 hour alignments work did not really give us enough time to get a real good, completely valid update on the drift check. So we're real satisfied with the way the gyros are looking. The PIPA'S are looking great also. We are in real good shape with those also, over. SC This is Apollo 11, radio check. CAPCOM Roger, reading you fly by OMNI, over. SC Okay, that clear. You cut out when you were talking about the platform something about 52 hours after that, we never heard you again. CAPCOM Roger, guess we were changing antennas standby. That's affirmative, 11. We were swapping antennas on you down here. Basically the word here is that we have a real good platform, very small drift on the gyros and very small drift in our PIPA'S, over. SC Roger, thank you. And I would like to have a few words of clarification if you will give them to me on the RCS reel, what that change of pitch may mean. CAPCOM Copy, a few words of clarification on the RCS, oh roger. The update there, Neil, you are speaking of about the one axis down to 5 minutes of low gate. SC Yeah, that's right. I'm not quite sure what that really means (garble). CAPCOM Standby, I'll make sure I got my story straight with Control. Standby. SC Okay. CAPCOM 11, Houston. On the RCS, what we APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-18-69 CDT 19:57 - GET 59:26 - TAPE 193/2 CAPCOM are saying is - if we lose control about one axis prior to low gate, we would recommend an abort. This would require a - a lost of - of two distinct jets which is not very probable but that is what we are recommending. After low gate we would - continue on. We would recommend that we continue on to attempt a landing, over. END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-18-69 CDT 20:07 - GET 59:36 - TAPE 194/1 CAPCOM Continue on to attempt the landing. Over. SC Roger. I think I owed him that. CAPCOM Rog. SC Charlie, did you you say had some updates for me from the lunar surface book? CAPCOM Apollo 11, say again. You were Cut out. Over. SC Roger. Did you say you had some updates for us in the lunar surface book. Over. CAPCOM Negative. At this time, we do not have any updates for the lunar surface book. We wanted you to have it just in case. Over. SC Rog. You were cut out that time. CAPCOM Roger. At the present time, we do not have any updates for you on the lunar surface book. We are thinking about some, and kick him around, but they're very minor changes. Over. CAPCOM 11, Houston. Did you copy that transmission? CAPCOM Apollo 11, Houston. We swapped antennas on you again. I say again that we do not have any lunar surfaces update - book updates at this time. We're considering a few minor ones, but we're ... around the MOCR Over. SC Apollo 11. I understand. SC Houston, 11. We have a current status report for you. CAPCOM Roger. Go ahead, 11. SC Okay, radiation CDR 11009, CMP 10010, LMP 09011. No medication. CAPCOM Roger, 11. We copy for the radiations and we're considering this PTC looks sort of weird to us so we're considering stopping and starting over again and we'll be with you in a couple of minutes. Over. SC Okay. CAPCOM Apollo 11, Houston. Would you give us the LM CM Delta-P as reading? Over. CAPCOM Hello Apollo 11, Houston. We switched the antennas on you again. Would you please give us the LM CM Delta-P reading? Over. CAPCOM Hello Apollo 11, Houston. Over. SC Go ahead. 11 here. CAPCOM Rog. We switched antennas on you there moments ago, Neil. Will you please give us the LM CM Delta-P reading? Over. SC It's less than 21. CAPCOM Roger. END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-18-69 CDT 20:22 - GET 59:51 - TAPE 195/1 SC 21 5 now Neil says, Charlie. CAPCOM Roger, thank you Mike, could you give us some help? This PTC is strange, it's not like anything we've seen before. We were wondering if you'all have had any events of any odd data that could help us out, over. SC I didn't understand that. Say again. CAPCOM Roger, we're looking at a, sort of a funny looking PTC. We've already drifted out to 70 degrees in pitch and we're wondering if you all had any vents or any such thing as that, that could have caused us to pick up these rates to drive us off, over. SC Negative, Charlie. We don't know of anything. CAPCOM Roger. SC Unless it's got something to do with that entry from the position that we want to be in. I don't know. CAPCOM Roger, when we started off it looked real fine to us, now it's drifting off with a funny pattern that we haven't seen previously on a flight, and we're just trying to figure out, I think we'll probably start it over again. We'll be with you momentarily, over. SC Okay. CAPCOM Apollo 11 Houston. We hate to say it, but we'd like to terminate this PTC and start over again. We have no assurance that we're going to get it through the sleep period. With this funny configuration, or funny pattern. We'd like you to stop it now and go back to pitch 090 yaw 0 and roll, whatever you stop on, over. SC Roger. PAO This is Apollo Control at 59 hours 57 minutes. A few moments ago you heard Capcom Charlie Duke advise the crew to terminate the passive thermal control mode that they are presently in and reestablish the three revolution per hour roll rate about the spacecraft longitudal axis that is used for thermal control. We had noticed a unexplained deviation from the attitude that the spacecraft was set up in. In this roll mode ideally it would roll about the longitudal axis with very little wobble and if wobble is introduced for one reason or another, the reaction control system jets would come on as soon as the motion out of the prescribed plane had ocurred and gone beyond prescribed limits, in this case 30 degrees to correct. The jet firings on past missions do tend to disturb the crews sleep. Rather than have the reaction control system jets come on during the night and perhaps have to awaken the crew to reestablish the passive thermal control at that time we elected to correct it now. APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-18-69 CDT 20:22 - GET 59:51 - TAPE 195/2 CAPCOM You disabled Bravo and Charlie select quads ALPHA and DELTA, over. CAPCOM Apollo 11, Houston, over. END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-18-69 CDT 20:32 - GET 60:01 - TAPE 196/1 PAO This is Apollo Control. We're getting quite a bit of noise on the air to ground circuit at this time as the spacecraft rotates from one OMNI antenna around to the next and we momentarily lose lock-on. At this time, Apollo 11 is 183,544 nautical miles from earth and the velocity, holding fairly constant now, at about 3042 feet per second. It's been moving down towards 3000 feet per second and seems to be leveling off somewhat. PAO This is Apollo Control. We're going to take the air to ground circuit down temporarily until a stronger antenna lock is - . Here's a call to the crew. We'll stand by for that. PAO This is Apollo Control. We will take down the air to ground circuit down at this time until we reestablish sufficient signal strength to eliminate the noise on the circuit. END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-18-69 CDT 20:41 - GET 60:10 - TAPE 197/1 PAO This is Apollo Control at 60 hours, 10 minutes. We've reestablished good antenna lock-on this time, and we'll continue to monitor for any conversation from the spacecraft. The crew is presently reestablishing the passive thermal control rotation rate of 3 revolutions per hour. Following that we expect they will begin their rest period. At the present time Apollo 11 is 183,821 nautical miles from Earth at a velocity 3037 feet per second. CAPCOM Hello, Apollo 11. Hello, Apollo 11. Over. SC Hello, Houston. You call us? CAPCOM Roger. Reading you about 1 by. Looks like we picked a super attitude here for PTC stabilization. We're reading you in backup voice now. Over. SC You're reading me loud and clear? CAPCOM Roger. SC Should I go back another one, Charlie? CAPCOM I think we've got about the best configuration. We've been doing it off the ground here, 11. We'll just keep it as it is. Over. SC Roger. CAPCOM Apollo 11, Houston. Would you select COMMAND RESET and OMNI ALPHA? Over. SC Houston, 11. We're in OMNI ALPHA. CAPCOM Roger; We read you about 3 by now. Over. SC Roger. CAPCOM Apollo 11, Houston. We is stable. You can start the PTC. Over. SC Roll left, don't you? END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-18-69 CDT 20:51 - GET 60:20 - TAPE 198/1 SC Houston, Apollo 11. Check this page S-9-7; I've completed step 8 and I'd like to know what you think is ideal timing between step 8 and step 9 and step 10 on that page? Over. CAPCOM Roger. Stand by. CAPCOM Apollo 11, Houston. We don't see any time constraint. We'd like you to go ahead and set up the wide deadband and then go through step 10 and 11. Over. SC Okay. Will do. I don't see any constraint here, Charlie. I was just checking to make sure because last time, I went from 8 to 9 to 10 to 11 a little bit more swiftly than I'd been doing in the past. CAPCOM Roger. SC Step 11 complete. CAPCOM Roger. We copy. CAPCOM Apollo 11, Houston. Would you please select OMNI BRAVO. Over. SC Roger. BRAVO. SC Houston, Apollo 11. How do you read on BRAVO. CAPCOM Roger. Reading you 5 by. SC Same here. CAPCOM Apollo 11, Houston. Looks like we've got a good PTC going. It's good night from the white team. Over. SC Okay. See you tomorrow. Thank you for everything. END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-18-69 CDT 21:01 - GET 60:30 - TAPE 199/1 PAO This is Apollo Control at 60 hours 37 minutes. We said good bye - goodnight to the crew about 10 minutes ago. We expect that they will be settling down their rest period shortly. And at the present time, Apollo 11 is 184,600 nautical miles from earth. The spacecraft velocity is presently 3,023 feet per second. I understand there has been some interest in a comment made by Neil Armstrong during the television transmission about the EVA floodlight. Armstrong's remark was that the mast which the light is mounted on, appeared charred. He reported that the light works but had apparently the mast that supported it had apparently been damaged during the launch phase. This light would be used in the event of a contingency EVA. It would have no function in a normal mission such as we are presently flying. And in the event that a extravehicular activity was necessary for transfer of the crew from the LM into the command service module, the light would be an aid in providing exterior lighting of the hand rails, but would - repeat, that it'd have no function in a normal mission and the charring which Armstrong reported is not considered significant at this time. We don't expect to have any further conversation with the crew. We will continue to record any remarks that we get and play those back. The passive thermal control mode, which was reestablished, appears to be functioning well at this time and all spacecraft systems are functioning normally. At 100 - rather 60 hours 39 minutes, this is Apollo Control, Houston. END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-18-69 CDT 21:09 - GET 60:47 - TAPE 200/1 PAO This is Apollo Control an 60 hours 47 minutes. We just got a call from the spacecraft requesting that we give them the position of the S-IVB in respect to the spacecraft and we're currently coming up with that bit of information, so we'll stand by. SC Houston, Apollo 11. CAPCOM Go ahead, 11, over. SC Do you have any idea where the S-IVB is with respect to us? CAPCOM Stand by. CAPCOM Apollo 11, Houston, the S-IVB is about 6 thousand nautical miles from you now, over. SC Okay, thank you. SC Houston, Apollo 11, how is the PTC? CAPCOM Stand by. CAPCOM 11, Houston. The PTC looks great to us, over. SC Hey do you have any idea what happened to the previous one? CAPCOM We have absolutely no idea, over. SC Okay. Did it look like it was all right and just all of a sudden start diverting? CAPCOM Negative, if you look at the plot which we'll save for you and let you see it post flight. It started off immediately on the first rev and just spiraled out to about oh, 20 to 20 degrees in pitch, and then it seemed to be setting up a spiral around an off set pitch point of about 20 degrees off from 90 degrees, but we didn't want to take a chance that it would become stable at that point. We thought it might diverge so we told you and started over again, over. SC Okay, no complaints. I was just curious as to what had happened, END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-18-69 CDT 21:19 - GET 60:57 - TAPE 201/1 No comments on this tape. END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-18-69 CDT 22:12 - GET 61:39 - TAPE 202/1 PAO This is Apollo Control at 61 hours, 39 minutes. We've had no further conversation with the crew since our last report. Flight Surgeon says there is no indication at this time that they have begun to sleep, but we expect they'll be getting to sleep here shortly. Coming up in less than 10 seconds now, we'll be crossing into the sphere of influence of the moon. A computational changeover will be made here in Mission Control. At this point as the moon's gravitational force becomes the dominant effect on the spacecraft trajectory, and our displays will shift from Earth reference to moon reference. At that point, which occurred a few seconds ago, the spacecraft was at a distance of 186,437 nautical miles from Earth, and 33,822 nautical miles from the moon. The velocity with respect to the Earth was 2990 feet per second, and with respect to the moon, about 3272 feet per second. The passive thermal control mode that was set up for the second time by the crew appears to be holding well at this point, and all spacecraft systems are functioning normally. Mission going very smoothly. At 61 hours, 41 minutes, this is Apollo Control, Houston. END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-18-69 CDT 23:00 - GET 62:29 - TAPE 203/1 PAO This is Apollo Control at 62 hours 29 minutes. The flight surgeon reports that the crew appears to have been asleep now for about the past 30 minutes. The spacecraft appears to be holding its passive thermal control attitude very well and at this time Apollo 11 is about 32,000 miles from the Moon traveling at a speed of 3,782 feet per second. In the past 50 minutes or so, we have seen that velocity increase about 10 feet per second going from 3772 feet per second to the present 3782 as the spacecraft continues to accelerate toward the Moon. The Change of Shift Briefing following this shift will occur at about 11:15 PM Central Daylight Time. Flight Director Glynn Lunney and his team of flight controllers are coming on now being debriefed by the Eugene Kranz team and that shift change will be occuring shortly here. The new capsule communicator will be astronaut Ron Evans. At 62 hours 30 minutes, this is Apollo Control. END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-19-69 CDT 00:01 - GET 63:29 - TAPE 204/1 PAO This is Apollo Control. 63 hours 29 minutes ground elapse time. Some 5 1/2 hours remaining in the Apollo 11 crew scheduled rest period. Crew apparently soundly asleep at this time. Spacecraft now 29,715 nautical miles out from the moon. Velocity now 3,796 feet per second. Black team flight director Glynn Lunney going around the room discussing with the various flight control positions the situation for the sleep shift. Talking now to flight dynamics officer on the pros and cons of doing or not doing mid course correction burn number 4. And at 63 hours 30 minutes ground elapse time, this is Apollo Control. END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-19-69 CDT 1:00 - GET 64:28 - TAPE 205/1 PAO This is Apollo control 64 hours, 28 minutes ground elapsed time. Some 4 1/2 hours remaining now in the scheduled Apollo 11 crew sleep period. However, since there is little likelyhood that midcourse correction burn number 4 will be done, since it's a very small magnitude maneuver, that the crew will be allowed to sleep another couple of hours. At this time, Apollo 11 is some 27,529 nautical miles out from the moon traveling at a velocity of 3,812 feet per second. The black team of flight controllers has settled in for the night. Everything running quiet here in the control room. We're anticipating a playback of yesterday afternoon's TV transmission from Apollo 11 which lasted some hour and a half in which the camera was taken into the lunar module at the end of it's cable. This will be played back for the flight controllers who, at that time, were - most of them were asleep. At 64 hours, 29 minutes ground elapsed time, this is Apollo control. END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-19-69 CDT 2:00 - GET 65:28 - TAPE 206/1 PAO This is Apollo Control, 65 hours, 28 minutes ground elapsed time. 3 I/2 hours remaining in the scheduled sleep period for the crew of Apollo 11, however this will likely run into more like 5 1/2 hours remaining. Countdown clock for lunar landing now showing 37 hours, 18 minutes. Apollo 11 now 25,280 nautical miles out from the moon traveling in a velocity of 3832 feet per second. In terms of distance. Stand by, we thought we had some Earth reference numbers, but apparently that display is not up at this time. Present weight of the spacecraft 96,029 pounds. Presently being tracked by the tracking station at Honeysuckle Creek, Australia. And at 65 hours, 29 minutes ground elapsed time, this is Apollo Control. END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-19-69 CDT 3:00 - GET 66:29 - TAPE 207/1 PAO This is Apollo Control, 66 hours 29 minutes Ground Elapsed Time. Apollo 11 presently 22,952 nautical miles out from the moon, and traveling at a velocity of 3858 feet per second. 2 hours 29 minutes remaining in the sleep period. However, as mentioned earlier, this likely will run another 2 hours. Clock counting down to lunar landing, showing 36 hours 16 minutes. Still tracking through the Honeysuckle Creek, Australia tracking station, and all is rather quiet here in the Control Center during the sleep watch. At 66 hours 30 minutes Ground Elapsed Time, this is Apollo Control. END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-19-69 CDT 4:00 - GET 67:28 - TAPE 208/1 PAO This is Apollo Control 67 hours, 28 minutes ground elapsed time. Midcourse correction burn number 4 has been deleted from the Flight Plan on the recommendation to Flight Director Glynn Lunney from the Flight Dynamics Officer, Jay Green. The maneuver, had it been carried out as planned, would be in the neighborhood of one-half foot per second velocity change. As it is now, the trajectory is being predicted to arrive at near point or closest approach of about 62 nautical miles plus or minus two miles if nothing else is done to the trajectory. That is if no maneuver is made. The spacecraft cabin pressure now holding at 4.7 pounds per square inch. Temperature 60 degrees F. The planned sleep period has another hour and one-half to go but as mentioned earlier it will likely run another couple hours in as much as midcourse correction burn number 4 will not be made and the crew will not have to spend the time preparing to do the burn, align the platform and do all the chores necessary for doing a maneuver of this sort. Clock counting down to lunar landing showing 35 hours, 17 minutes. And at 67 hours, 29 minutes ground elapsed time, this is Apollo Control. END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-19-69 CDT 5:00 - GET 68:29 - TAPE 209/1 PAO This is Apollo control 68 hours, 28 minutes ground elapsed time. Some 2 hours and 31 minutes remaining crew sleep period according to the revised schedule inasmuch as midcourse correction burn number 4 has been omitted. Still being tracked - Apollo 11 is still being tracked by the Honeysuckle Creek, Australia station. And, here in mission yesterday's hour and a half long television pass as the crew manned the LM for the first time in checkout is being replayed. This will be piped across to the news center for anyone who might want to view it again. At 68 hours, 29 minutes ground elapsed time, this is Apollo control. END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-19-69 CDT 5:58 - GET 69:18 - TAPE 210/1 CAPCOM Apollo 11, Houston. Good morning. SC Good morning. Are you planning a course correction for us this morning? CAPCOM That's negative. Mid course number 4 is not required. We were going to let you sleep in until about 71 hours, if you'd like to turn over. SC Okay, (garble). CAPCOM Say again, Buz. You were cut off here. SC Okay, I'll see you at 71 hours. CAPCOM Roger. PAO This is Apollo Control. So much for that. Looks like they'd rather turn over and go back to sleep. At 69 hours, 19 minutes ground elapsed time, this is Apollo Control. END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-19-69 CDT 7:00 - GET 70:30 - TAPE 211/1 PAO Planned wake-up time for the crew is 71 hours elapsed. Cliff Charlesworth and the Green team of flight controllers has just relieved Glynn Lenney's Black team. Capcom now is Bruce McCandless. Apollo 11 is 13,638 nautical miles from the moon. Velocity, 4047 feet per second, lunar reference. END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-19-69 CDT 7:32 - GET 71:00 - TAPE 212/1 PAO This is Apollo Control, at 71 hours into the mission. Apollo 11 is 12,486 nautical miles from the Moon. Approaching at a velocity of 4,087 feet per second. We will stand by here and see whether we put in a call to the crew. PAO We're putting a call into the crew now. CAPCOM Apollo 11, Apollo 11, this is Houston, over. SC Good morning, again, Houston, over. CAPCOM Roger, 11, good morning. When you - SC Would you like the attitude purge this morning? CAPCOM Yes, indeed. O2 fuel cell purge at 71 hours, and when you feel like copying I've got a flight plan update containing, I guess that, and some other items for you. SC Purge is first. SC Houston, Apollo 11, go ahead with flight plan update. CAPCOM Roger, 11, this is Houston. At approximately 71 hours to 72 hours, we have you down for an eat period which I imagine is probably in progress already. 71 hours O2 fuel cell purge, 72 hours GET, CO2 filter change number 6, secondary radiator flow check, and we'll send you up at P37 block data on a 2 hour pass, pericynthion pass return mode abort. At 73 hours 00 minutes stop PTC at approximately 0 degrees roll, that is when you're coming up on 0 degrees roll angle around 73 hours we'd like you to stop PTC. And perform a P52 option 3 remaining in the PTC REFSMMAT for a drift check. 73 hours 20 minutes, we'll give you a P27 update to the landing site REFSMMAT, LOI 1 state vector and target load. 73 hours 30 minutes maneuver to 000 roll, pitch, and yaw. High gain antenna angles will be pitch 0, yaw 335, and perform a P52 option 1 using the new landing site REFSMMAT. Resume the nominal flight plan at 74 hours GET, over. SC Okay, we'll get started on fuel cell purge while we're eating. CO2 canister change number 6, secondary radiator purge check, (garbled) also at 72 hours, stop PTC 0 roll at 73, do a P52 option 3, we'll get your uplink REFSMMAT for the landing site, and at 000 - let's see, now was this with the old REFSMMAT or the new REFSMMAT? CAPCOM This is with the - SC And antenna - CAPCOM This is with the new REFSMMAT, Buzz. SC You said you want a P52 (garbled) attitude to REFSMMAT? CAPCOM Roger. END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-19-69 CDT 7:42 - GET 71:10 - TAPE 213/1 CAPCOM Apollo 11, this is Houston. Over. SC Houston, go ahead. CAPCOM Roger, 11. Correction on my last - at 7320, we uplinked you the new refsmat, and at 7330, we'd like you to maneuver to 0 ROLL , 0 PITCH, 0 YAW in the old refsmat, and then torque around to the new refsmat and run your P-52 option 1 in that same inertia attitude. Over. SC Roger, understand. CAPCOM I've got a consumables update when you' re ready to copy. SC I just got up but you didn't catch me on that one. CAPCOM I said I have one for you. SC Okay, we're ready to copy that consumables update. CAPCOM Roger. As of GET 6800, RCS totals minus 4.5 percent corresponding to approximately minus 53 pounds. ALPHA minus 6.0 percent, minus 1.0 percent, minus 7.0 percent, minus 3.0 percent. H2 total minus 1.2 pounds. O2 total plus 10 pounds. Over. SC Roger, and our readouts onboard are ALPHA 82, BRAVO is 84, COCO is 84, and DELTA is 87. CAPCOM Houston, Roger out. SC And you want us to cycle the O2 and H2 fans I imagine, huh? CAPCOM 11, this is Houston. Affirmative. Over. SC Okay. END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-19-69 CDT 7:52 - GET 71:20 - TAPE 214/1 SC Houston, Apollo 11. I have a status report for you. CAPCOM Go ahead, 11. SC Roger. On sleep, CDR, CMP 7.5, LMP 6.5. Over. CAPCOM Roger. 7.5 for each. Over. SC Negative. LMP 6.5. CAPCOM Roger. 7.5, 7.5 and 6.5, and I got a few words for you here on the SPS engine performance. Over. SC Okay, we're ready to look. CAPCOM Okay, 11. It turns out that the engine performance during both of your burns so far this mission has been the same as it was on engine acceptance tests. The onboard PC reading is due to a known gage calibration factor between what you actually got in the chamber and what you' re reading out on the gage. We expect single bank operation to be 90 - that is 90 psi on the gage with an actual chamber pressure of 95 psi. In dual bank operation the chamber pressure is 94 psi on the gage with an actual of 99 psi. 80 psi on the gage onboard correlates to 83 psi actual, and we recommend that you stick to LOI termination cue of 80 psi on the gage - that is no change to the mission rules. Over. SC Apollo I1, roger. We got all that. CAPCOM Houston, out. PAO This is Apollo Control at 71 hours, 31 minutes. Apollo 11's distance from the moon now 11,232 nautical miles approaching at a velocity of 4,141 feet per second. SC Houston, Apollo 11. Houston. CAPCOM Apollo 11, this is Houston. Go ahead. Over. Apollo 11, this is Houston. Go ahead. Over. Apollo 11, this is Houston. Go ahead. Over. SC Houston, you read Apollo 11? CAPCOM Roger, 11. We're reading you loud and clear now. We were down in the noise as we switched antennas an hour or so ago. Over. SC Roger. What sort of (garbled) could you recommend for the solar corona? We've got the sun right behind the edge of the moon now. END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-19-69 CDT 8:06 - GET 17:34 - TAPE 215/1 SC Roger. What sort of (garbled) could you recommend for that solar corona. We've got the sun right behind the edge of the moon now. SC Roger. It's quite an erie sight. There is a very marked three-dimensional aspect of (garbled) corona coming from behind the moon glares. CAPCOM Roger. SC And it looks as though - I guess what gives it that three-dimensional effect is the earth shine. I can see Tycho fairly clearly - at least if I right that up, I believe it's Tycho in moonshine, I mean in earthshine. And, of course, I can see the sky is lit all the way around the moon. Even on the limb of it where there's no earthshine or sunshine. CAPCOM Apollo 11, this is Houston. Over. SC Go ahead. CAPCOM Roger. If you'd like to take some pictures, we recommend you using magazine uniform which is loaded with high speed black-and-white film. Interior lights off. Electric hasselblads' with the 80 millimeter lens, and you're going to have to hand hold this, I guess. We're recommending an F stop of 2.8, and we'd like to get a sequence of time exposures. Over. SC Okay. You want the magazine uniform instead of magazine tangle. Over. CAPCOM Roger. We're not trying to get you all wrapped up in a procedure here. This is on a not-to-interfere basis, of course. Over. SC Okay. CAPCOM And on the exposures, we're looking for an eighth of a second, a half a second, and if you think you can steady the camera against anything to get longer exposures, 2 seconds, 4 seconds, and 8 seconds. Over. SC Roger. Copy. CAPCOM Roger. Out. CAPCOM Apollo 11, Houston. Over. SC Go ahead, Houston. CAPCOM Roger. We'd like to do a little cryo tank balancing, so if you could position the oxygen tank number 1 heater switch OFF and hydrogen tank 2 heater switch to OFF leaving all the rest of the cyro switches the same, we'll let it run that way for a few hours. Over. SC Okay. Stand by one on those switches. We'll get it in a minute. CAPCOM Roger. How far out can you see the corona extending? Over. SC How much - a little bit like the (garbled) light? It keeps going out farther and farther. We'll talk about it a little more later. APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-19-69 CDT 8:06 - GET 17:34 - TAPE 215/2 CAPCOM Roger, out. SC (garbled) We've got quite a few pictures (garbled) mission (garbled) CAPCOM Apollo 11, this is Houston. I think we have comm again. We heard you calling. Over. CAPCOM Apollo 11, this is Houston. Were you calling? Over. SC Houston, Apollo 11. Understand you want the heaters off for hydrogen tank 1 and oxygen tank 1. Is that affirmative? CAPCOM That's negative, Mike. Hydrogen tank number 2 heaters off and oxygen tank number 1 heaters off. SC Okay. CAPCOM Roger, out. SC We have hydrogen tank number 2 heaters off. I have oxygen tank number 1 heaters off. CAPCOM Roger, out. SC Houston, Apollo 11. The earthshine coming through the window is so bright you can read a book by it. CAPCOM Oh, very good. PAO That was Mike Collins reporting. SC And Houston. I suggest that along the ecliptic line we can see - throwing the light out to 2 lunar diameters from this location. The bright light only extends out about - about an eight to a quarter of the lunar radius. CAPCOM Roger. Understand that you can see the corona approximately 200 solar diameters out along the ecliptic, and the bright light extends out approximately 1/8 to I quarter lunar radius. Over. SC That's 2 lunar- 2 lunar diameters along the ecliptic in the bright part, right, a quarter to an eights of a lunar radius out, and that's perpendicular to the ecliptic line on the south pole. CAPCOM Roger. PAO That last transmission was from Neil Armstrong. END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-19-69 CDT 8:31 - GET 71:59 - TAPE 216/1 SC Houston, it's been a real change for us. Now we are able to see stars again and recognize constellations for the first time on the trip. The sky is full of stars, just like the nights out on earth. But all the way here, we have just been able to see stars occasionally and perhaps trough the monoculars, but not recognize any star pattern. CAPCOM I guess it has turned into night up there early, hasn't it? SC Really has. PAO This is Apollo Control at 72 hours, 7 minutes. Apollo 11 is 9761 nautical miles from the moon, velocity 4217 feet per second. Weight 9612 pounds. CAPCOM Apollo 11, this is Houston. How do you read? Over. SC Okay. We went to high gain. Looks like you had a little trouble getting signal strength there. CAPCOM Roger. We missed the OMNI switch there. Over. SC All right. On the secondary loop check when we went to flow on secondary radiators, the quantity dropped from 40 percent down to 36 in the first 10 seconds and then stabilized at 36 for the remainder of the 30 seconds. CAPCOM Apollo 11, this is Houston. We believe that is the normal system of operation. The radiators are expected to be very cold right now and apparently the decrease is always due to contraction in the fluid. Over. SC Okay. We will go ahead with the procedure just as though there were no decrease in accumulated quantity. Right? CAPCOM Roger. Press on. SC Houston, the secondary radiator flow check is complete and satisfactory. CAPCOM Houston. Roger. Out. SC And that is a good deal because we don't have to have any meetings about whether we are going to do it or don't do it anymore. CAPCOM That's for sure. PAO That was a Mike Collins comment. CAPCOM Flight Director says, "Ouch". SC No ouch intended. I enjoyed every one of those meetings. CAPCOM 11, this is Houston. I have your pericynthian forced tube pad, P-34, when you are ready to copy. APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-19-69 CDT 8:31 - GET 71:59 - TAPE 216/2 SC Houston, Apollo i1, ready to copy pericynthion plus 2. CAPCOM Apollo 11, this is Houston. Pericynthion plus 2 hours pad. SPS G&N 62710 plus 098 minus 019 - GET ignition 077462248, DELTA VX 981 plus 32148 minus 00455 minus 10377 ROLL NA, PITCH 307 and the remainder of the pad is NA. GDC align stars Vega and Deneb, ROLL 243183012 no ullage; remarks, assumes landing site REFSMMAT and docked. Over. SC Roger. SPS G&N 62710 plus 098 minus 019 077462248 plus 32148 minus 00455 minus 10377, NA 307, Vega and Deneb 243183012 no ullage, landing site REFSMMAT, docked, and do you have any change in LM weight? Over. CAPCOM No change in LM weight and readback is correct. Out. CAPCOM Apollo 11, this is Houston. Over. SC Roger. Go ahead. CAPCOM Roger. We are having difficulty getting commands into the spacecraft. We would like for you to cycle your up telemetry switch to command reset and off and back to normal. Over. SC Okay. We'll do it. SC We have you on high gainer now. Do you want us to switch over to OMNI? CAPCOM Negative. We'd like to stay on high gain, if we can. Over. SC Okay. CAPCOM Apollo 11, this is Houston. Over. SC Go ahead. CAPCOM Roger. We'd like you to switch to OMNI Delta as we show you approximate at the scan limit of the high gain antenna. We will then command OMNI DELTA down here after you advise us of you've switched, and then you can select BRAVO on board and we'll be back in the OMNI antenna commanding business. Over. SC Okay. We are going to DELTA now. CAPCOM 11, Houston. You can go ahead and select OMNI BRAVO on board now. SC Roger. CAPCOM Roger. Out. END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-19-69 CDT 9:01 - GET 72:29 - TAPE 217/1 CAPCOM Apollo 11, this is Houston. If you have a minute or so free, we can read you up the morning news here. SC Go right, ahead, let's hear it. CAPCOM Roger, hot from the wires of the MSC Public Affairs Office especially prepared for the crew of Apollo 11. CAPCOM First off, it looks like it's going to be impossible to get away from the fact that you guys are dominating all the news back here on Earth. Even Pravda in Russia is headlining the mission and calls Neil, "The Czar of the Ship." I think maybe they got the wrong mission. West Germany has declared Monday to be "Apollo Day." school children in Bavaria have been given the day off. Post Office clerks have been encouraged to bring radios to work and Frankfurt is installing TV sets in public places. BBC in London is considering a special radio alarm system to call people to their TV sets in case there is a change in the EVA time on the moon. And in Italy, Pope Paul VI has arranged for a special color TV circuit at his summer residence in order to watch you, even though Italian television is still black and white. Back here in Houston, your three wives and children got together for lunch yesterday at Buzz's house. And according to Pat it turned out to be a gabfest. The children swam and did some high jumping over at Buzz's bamboo pole. In Moscow, space engineer Anatoly Koritsky, was quoted by Tass as saying that Luna 15 could accomplish everything that has been done by earlier Luna spacecraft. This was taken by he press to mean Luna 15 could investigate the gravitational fields, photograph the moon and go down to the surface to scoop up a bit for analysis. Even the kids at camp got into the news when Mike, Jr. was quoted as replying "yeah" when somebody asked him if his daddy was going to be in history - then after a short pause he asked, "What is history?" In Washington, President Nixon is planning to use his executive power to streamline the Interstate Commerce Commission. According to industry sources, it was reported Nixon would trim the commission from 11 to 7 members by not making new appointments. And the big news around Houston today concerns the Astros. In the Sports World the Houston Astros rallied in the 9th inning at Cincinnati to dump the Reds 7 to 4. Going into the 9th however, things looked pretty bleak. The Astros were trailing 4 to 3. Then with one out Jesus Aiou stroked a single to the right field. John Edwards hit another single to the right, Sandy Valdespino hit a double to bring in the tying run. Julio Gotay was walked and Joe Morgan dropped a bunt for the game winning play. A wild throw to the plate allowed another run to score. Then a sacrifice fly by Denis Menke Brought in the final run. They really came through in the 9th. And other games in the National League. SC Yeah, those Astros have really been catching those flys since they put a roof on the stadium. APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-19-69 CDT 9:01 - GET 72:29 - TAPE 217/2 CAPCOM Good work. In other games in the National League, New York beat Montreal 5 to 2; Pittsburgh beat St. Louis 4 to 1; and Atlanta over San Diego in the first game of a double header 6 to 2. Im the American League, Detroit beat Cleveland 4 to nothing; New York trounced Washington 5 to nothing; Baltimore out hit - Boston out hit Baltimore to score 6 runs to the Orioles' 2; and Chicago beat Kansas City 6 to 1. Okay, in golf world, Tommy Jacobs, infrequent competitor in recent years took the lead in the Philadelphia Golf Classic yesterday. His second round score was 139. You might be interested in knowing, since you are already on the way, that a Houston astrologer, Ruby Graham says that all the signs are right for your trip to the moon. She says that Neil is clever, Mike has good judgement, and Buzz can work out intricate problems. She also says Neil tends to see the world through rose colored glasses, but he is always ready to help the afflicted or distressed. Neil, you are also supposed to have quote, "intuition that enables you to interpret life with feeling," unquote. Buzz is to be very sociable and cannot bear to be alone in addition to having excellent critical ability. Since she didn't know what hour Mike was born, she has decided that he either has the same attributes as Neil or he is inventive with an unconventional attitude that might seem eccentric to the unimaginative. And last but not - SC Who said all that? (laughter) CAPCOM Ruby Graham, an astrologer here in Houston. Now that we've got a check with Flight Operations for all the signs of the mission, and then we, of course, had to make sure that everything was really all set. SC Houston, 11 (garbled). CAPCOM Apollo 11, Apollo 11, this is Houston. We're switching OMNI, can you stand by for about 2 minutes. SC Houston, 11, radio check. CAPCOM 11, Houston, go ahead. SC Roger, you cut out after Tommy Jacobs, I guess we got into antenna switching problems. CAPCOM Okay, following Tommy Jacobs, we have a hot smoking word from a Houston astrologer by the name of Ruby Graham. She say that all the signs are right for your trip to the moon. Neil is clever, Mike has good judgement, and Buzz can work out intricate problems. She also says Neil tends to see the world through rose colored glasses, but he is always ready to help the afflicted and distressed. Neil, you are also supposed to have quote, "intuition that enables you to interpret life with feeling," unquote. Buzz is supposed to be very sociable and cannot bear to be alone in addition to having excellent critical ability. Since she didn't know at what hour Mike was born, she decided he either has the same attributes as Neil or he is inventive with an unconventional attitude that might seem eccentric to the unimaginative. And that's it for today, over. APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-19-69 CDT 9:01 - GET 72:29 - TAPE 217/3 SC Thank you much there, Bruce and Fred, we appreciate that. CAPCOM Roger. PAO That was Fred Haise alternating with Bruce McCandles on the newscast. END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-19-69 CDT 9:11 - GET 72:39 - TAPE 218/1 SC Roger. PAO That was Fred Haise alternating with Bruce McCandless on that news cast. SC Did you hear our comment about the Astro's? CAPCOM The one about the roof? SC Yes. CAPCOM Hey Mike, the game was at Cincinnati there, and we think that they're still using Crosby Field up there. I don't believe it has a roof on it. SC You got him on that one. CAPCOM (garbled) SC It'd have to be a good team in clinch. CAPCOM I assume they seem to be. SC Well, if they can do that well without a roof, think of what they're going to do with a roof. CAPCOM Roger, out. SC We're trying. CAPCOM An old Oiler fan is trying to comment on an alien game. SC You tell Michael, Jr., history or no history, he better behave himself. CAPCOM Roger, we'll pass that along, Mike. PAO This is Apollo Control at 72 hours, 45 minutes. Apollo 11 is now 8188 nautical miles from the moon approaching at a velocity of 4324 feet per second. CAPCOM Apollo 11, Houston. If it's convenient with you we have an LOI 1-pad that we can pass up to you now. Over. END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-19-69 CDT 9:21 - GET 72:49 - TAPE 219/1 CAPCOM pass up to you now. Over. SC Stand by. SC Houston, Apollo 11. The next time we pass through roll 0, we're going to stop PTC and that will give us a 90 degree pitch. Now, I understand you want us to move from 90 degrees pitch to 0 degrees pitch for the platform align option 1, is that affirmative? CAPCOM Stand by, please. SC And we are ready to copy on the LOI 1. CAPCOM Apollo 11, this is Houston. when you stop at 0 roll you will be in approximately 90 pitch, 0 yaw and 0 roll. We'd like you to run the first P52, that is the P52 option 3, from that attitude. Then we'll uplink you a new REFSMMAT either before or while you are maneuvering to 000 and then you can torque the platform around and run the second REFSMMAT. Over. Run the second P52. Over. SC Okay. CAPCOM And I copy you are ready for the LOI 1 pad. Over. SC Go ahead. CAPCOM LOI 1, SPS G&N 62710 plus 098 minus 019 GET ignition 075 49 4965 minus 28897 minus 03944 minus 00686. Roll 358, Pitch 226 347 01692 plus 00610 29173 602 29108 Sextant star 31 1066 358. Remainder of the pad is NA. GET align Vega and Deneb 243 183 012. No ullage. The horizon will be visible just below the upper edge of the hatch window 2 minutes prior to the LOI burn. It will not be visible in the rendezvous window on the left hand side. LOS at 75 hours 41 minutes 23 seconds. AOS at 76:15:29. AOS without the LOI burn 76:05:30. The values which you will see on NOUN 42 prior to LOS burn are HA plus 431.3 HP minus 128.2. Read back. Over. SC Roger, LOI 1 SPS G&N 62710 plus 098 minus 019 075494965 minus 28897 minus 03944 minus 00686 358 226 347 01692 plus 00610 29173 602 29108 31 106.6 358 GET align Vega Deneb 243 183 012. No ullage. Horizon in the hatch window 2 minutes before. Pitch AOS with an LOI 76:15:29. AOS without an LOI 76:05:30. HA before the burn 431.3, HP minus 128.2, say again LOS time. CAPCOM Roger, LOS time 75:41:23. Over. SC Understand 75:41:23. CAPCOM 11, this is Houston. Readback correct. Out. PAO That was Neil Armstrong with the readback of the lunar orbit insertion burn number 1 pad. The ignition time for that burn 75 hours 49 minutes 49 seconds. That's 2 hours 57 minutes 49 seconds from this time. Duration of that burn 6 minutes 2 seconds, retrograde and the change in velocity 2917.3 feet per second. The expected orbit APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-19-69 CDT 9:21 - GET 72:49 - TAPE 219/2 PAO following that maneuver is 169.2 by 62 nautical miles. To repeat the LOS AOS times we will lose signal with Apollo 11 at 75 hours 41 minutes 23 seconds as it goes behind the Moon. Given a successful lunar orbit insertion number 1 burn we will acquire the signal at 76 hours 15 minutes 29 seconds. If for some reason Apollo 11 can not perform the burn we will acquire the spacecraft at 76 hours 5 minutes 30 seconds. END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-19-69 CDT 9:31 - GET 72:59 - TAPE 220/1 CAPCOM Apollo 11, this is Houston. Over. SC Go ahead. CAPCOM Roger. Apparently we missed getting your onboard readouts on battery Charlie and pyro batteries alpha and bravo last night. I wonder if you can give us some fresh summaries. Over. SC You want the readings for now? CAPCOM Yes, please. If it's convenient for you. SC Okay, all three of them are still on 37.1. CAPCOM Roger. 37.1 cubed. Out. PAO This is Apollo Control at 73 hours, 6 minutes. Apollo 11's distance from the moon now 7331 nautical miles. Velocity is 4399 feet per second. The ignition time passed up to the crew on this pad is 4 minutes, 39 seconds earlier than the LOI 1 time published in the flight plan prior to liftoff. This means that all lunar events will move forward from the published flight plan time by this amount of time - 4 minutes, 39 seconds. This time will be made up during the transearth coast, and splash should occur at the flight plan time. This is Mission Control, Houston. SC Houston, Apollo 11. The P52 option 3 is complete. We're maneuvering to 000. CAPCOM Roger. We observe your maneuvering, and we'll have some uplinks for you in a couple of minutes here. SC Okay. END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-19-69 CDT 9:42 - GET 73:10 - TAPE 221/1 CAPCOM Apollo 11, this is Houston. We'll give you P00. If you'll give us ACCEPT, we'll start our uplinks. SC You've got it Houston. CAPCOM Roger, out. CAPCOM Apollo 11, this is Houston. Over. SC Go ahead, Houston. CAPCOM Roger. We're on low bit rate at the present time so it's going to take us a little bit longer than normal to get this stuff up to you. Over. SC I guess we're in no rush. CAPCOM Okay, we're here if you're there. SC The view of the moon that we've been having recently is really spectacular. It fills about 3 quarters of the hatch window, and of course, we can see the entire circumference even though part of it is in complete shadow and part of it's in earth-shine. It's a view worth the price of the trip. CAPCOM Well, there's a lot of us down here that would be willing to come along. PAO That was Neil Armstrong. SC I hope you get your turn, and do. SC One of these days, we'll be able to bring the whole MOCR along, I hope. Save a lot of antenna switching. CAPCOM Say again, 11. SC One of these days, we could bring the whole MOCR along, ahd then that'll save a lot of antenna switching. CAPCOM That's jolly. PAO The MOCR is the mission operations control room. That's the control center here. CAPCOM Apollo 11, this is Houston. Over. SC Go ahead, Houston. CAPCOM 11, this is Houston. We're still - SC The Czar is brushing his teeth, so I'm filling in for him. CAPCOM Say again, please. SC I said the Czar is brushing his teeth, and I'm filling in for him. What can we do for you? CAPCOM Roger. If you don't get in the way of the Czar while he's brushing is teeth, we'd like tou to bring up the primary accumulator quantity a little bit. We'e showing the quantity now at 20.6 percent on TM. Seems to have gone down a bit since you've gone into the shadow. We'd like it serviced to bring the quantity up to between 30 and 40 percent, preferably 35 percent. Over. SC Okay. CAPCOM The computer is your's 11. The loads are in verified. You can go back to BLOCK. APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-19-69 CDT 9:42 - GET 73:10 - TAPE 221/2 SC We're in BLOCK. CAPCOM 11, this is Houston. On the basis of your last P-52 alignment, the platform looks like it's indeed performing very well. No problems there. No updates required, and no PIPA bias update is required either. Over. SC How good. PAO This is Apollo Control at 73 hours, 25 minutes. Apollo 11 is 6522 nautical miles away from the moon approaching at a velocity of 4483 feet per second. END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-19-69 CDT 9:58 - GET 73:26 - TAPE 222/1 SC Houston, Apollo 11. Are you there? CAPCOM 11, this is Houston. Loud and clear. Over. SC Okay. Just checking. Do you want high gain? END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-19-69 CDT 10:13 - GET 73:41 - TAPE 223/1 SC Okay, just a second. Do you want it high gain? CAPCOM Roger, if you can give it to us. SC Okay. SC Houston, Apollo 11. How do you read on that high gain? CAPCOM Loud and clear on the high gain. SC Same here. We've completed the P52 option 1. CAPCOM Roger, we've been looking over your shoulder on TM. SC Glad to have you. END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-19-69 CDT 10:27 - GET 73:55 - TAPE 224/1 SC Houston, Apollo 11. Standing by to copy TEI 1 and TEI 4, over. CAPCOM Roger, I got the 1 and 4 pads here, right now. I'll be ready to read them up to you in just a second. CAPCOM 11, this is Houston. I'm ready with the TEI 1, 4 pads, over. SC Ready to copy. CAPCOM Roger, TEI 1, SPS G&N 38 658 minus 054 plus 065, TIG 078 02 0345 plus 29'er 180 plus 03 779'er minus O1 325 roll NA pitch 041. The balance of the pad is NA. Ullage 2 Jets, 19 seconds. TEI 4 pad, SPS G&N 38 658 minus 054 plus 065, TIG 084 29'er 50 59'er, plus 31 373 plus 03 760 minus 00 968 roll NA pitch 034. The rest of the pad is NA, ullage 2 Jets, 19'er seconds. Both of these pads are for an undock maneuver. TEI plus 4 pad assumes no LOI 2, over. Make that TEl 4 pad assumes no LOI 2. SC Roger, TEI 1, SPS G&N 38 658 minus 054 plus 065, 078 02 0345 plus 29'er 180 plus 03 779'er minus 01 325 roll NA pitch 041, 2 jets 19 seconds undock. TEI 4 38 658 minus 054 plus 065 084 29'er 5059'er, plus 31 373 plus 03 760 minus 00 9'er 68 roll NA pitch 034, 2 jet 19 seconds undocked, assumes no LOI 2. CAPCOM 11, this is Houston. SC Apollo 11, over. CAPCOM 11, this is Houston. Read back correct, out. PAO That was Buzz Aldrin with the read back of that information which was for contingency transearth injection burns if required shortly after lunar orbit insertion. CAPCOM 11, this is Houston, over. SC Roger, go ahead, Houston. CAPCOM Roger, at GET of 74 30, we'd like you to cycle the fans in all 4 cyro tanks, and position the heaters in all 4 cyro tanks to the AUTO position. We're doing this in advance of LOI in order to insure that you don't have any destratification as a result of the burn which might result in giving you a MASTER CAUTION warning during the burn, over. SC Okay, was that 74 30 you wanted us to cycle the heaters and turn - cycle the fans and turn all the heaters on. CAPCOM All heaters to AUTO: cycle the fans at 74 30 about 25 minutes from now, over. SC Okay. PAO This is Apollo Control at 74 hours 8 minutes. Apollo 11 is 4,625 nautical miles away from the moon. Velocity 4,765 feet per second. We're 1 hour 32 minutes away from loss of signal as Apollo 11 goes behind the moon, and we're about 1 hour 41 minutes away from the LOI number 1 burn. END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-19-69 CDT 10:53 - GET 74:21 - TAPE 225/1 PAO This is Apollo Control at 74 hours, 32 minutes. Apollo 11 is traveling at a velocity of 3- stand by. We've got a static display here. CAPCOM 11, this is Houston. Radio check. Over. SC Houston, reading you loud and clear. CAPCOM Roger, loud and clear now. SC Houston, Apollo 11. CAPCOM Go ahead, 11. SC Apparently this is not a very good OMNI attitude for you. We're ready to start our PTC check. CAPCOM 11, this is Houston. We're ready except that we'd like to get the high gain antenna prior to this test. Over. SC Can you give us a pointing angles? CAPCOM Roger. From an attitude with 60 degrees ROLL around to an attitude of ROLL 058 inertial. It would be PITCH plus 30 and YAW 270 on the high gain antenna. SC Thank you. END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-19-69 CDT 11:13 - GET 74:41 - TAPE 226/1 CAPCOM Apollo 11, Apollo 11, this is Houston. Radio check. Over. Apollo 11, Apollo 11, this is Houston. Radio check. Over. Apollo 11, this is Houston. Do you read? Over. SC Roger. (garbled) CAPCOM Roger. We're reading you weak but clear. SC Roger. We put our- our roll for MSFN track in on the wrong side. Got to get this new roll around until we get high gain here, and we'll delete the - the pitch that was scheduled after the PTC check. CAPCOM Say again, please, 11. SC Roger. We put the wrong sign in - CAPCOM Roger. SC for the roll correction to get MSFN high gain, and we're continuing rolling her around to get the proper attitude for high gain at this time. We will delete the pitch maneuver that was scheduled subsequent to - subsequent to the TV check since we already have those pictures. CAPCOM Roger. We copy, and - and we recommend that you go ahead and complete your TVC test onboard. If you have problems we'll talk to you when you get around to the further high gain antenna attitude. Over. SC Roger. SC Houston, how are you reading on high gain? CAPCOM Oh, loud and clear on high gain, 11. SC Roger. We're proceeding. CAPCOM Roger. PAO This is Apollo Control at 75 hours into the mission. Apollo 11 is 2241 nautical miles away from the moon. Velocity 5512 feet per second. We're 41 minutes away from loss of signal as 11 goes behind the moon. We're 49 minutes away from the lunar orbit insertion maneuver number 1. CAPCOM Apollo 11, this is Houston. We observed your gimbal test down here, and it looked good to us. Over. SC Thank you, it looked good here. END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-19-69 CDT 11:38 - GET 75:06 - TAPE 227/1 PAO This is Apollo Control at 75 hours, 15 minutes into the mission. Apollo 11's distance from the moon now is 1516 nautical miles. Velocity 5981 feet per second. CAPCOM Apollo 11, this is Houston. Radio check. Over.. SC Go ahead. CAPCOM Roger. And your systems are looking good from down here. SC Looks good up here too, Bruce. END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-19-69 CDT 11:58 - GET 75:26 - TAPE 228/1 PAO This is Apollo Control at 75 hours 26 minutes. We're 15 minutes away from loss of signal. Apollo 11 is 9066 miles from the Moon, velocity 6511 feet per second. We're 23 minutes away from the LOI burn. PAO Flight Director Cliff Charlesworth polling flight controllers for the GO/NO-GO status for LOI now. CAPCOM Apollo 11, this is Houston. Over. SC Roger, go ahead Houston, Apollo 11. CAPCOM 11, this is Houston. You are GO for LOI. Over. SC Roger, GO for LOI. CAPCOM And we're showing about 10 minutes and 30 seconds to LOS. I would like to remind you to enable the BD roll on the auto RCS switches. Over. SC Roger, and confirm you want PG on low going over the hill. Over. CAPCOM That's affirmative, 11. SC Roger. PAO That was Buzz Aldrin confirming the GO. SC If you want to, I'll put it back to HIGH until just before LOS. Over. CAPCOM Negative 11. LOW is okay for now. Over. SC Roger. SC Houston, do you want to give me a time check, please? CAPCOM Roger. I'll give you a mark at 13 minutes and 30 seconds to ignition. SC Okay, and then a GET, please. CAPCOM Stand by a minute. CAPCOM I'll give you a time hack on the GET at 75 hours 37 minutes and I'll show you a bias at about a second and a half to allow for the time of flight. SC Okay. CAPCOM Stand by. Mark, 75 hours 37 minutes GET. SC Thank you. CAPCOM And I'll give you a time hack on time to ignition at 12 minutes to ignition. Over. SC Okay. CAPCOM Stand by for a MARK at TIG minus 12. MARK TIG minus 12. SC You were right on, Bruce, thank you. CAPCOM Roger, out. PAO We are 3 minutes away from loss of signal. Apollo 11 is 425 nautical miles from the Moon, velocity 7368 feet per second, weight 96,012 pounds. CAPCOM 2 minutes to LOS. CAPCOM Apollo 11, this is Houston. All your systems are looking good going around the corner and we'll see you on the other side. Over. SC Roger. Everything looks okay up here. APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-19-69 CDT 11:58 - GET 75:26 - TAPE 228/2 CAPCOM Roger, out. PAO And we've had loss of signal as Apollo 11 goes behind the Moon. We were showing a distance to the Moon of 309 nautical miles at LOS, velocity 7664 feet per second. Weight was 96,012 pounds. We're 7 minutes 45 seconds away from the LOI number 1 burn, which will take place behind the Moon out of communications. Here in the Control Center 2 members of the backup crew, Bill Anders and Jim Lovell, have joined Bruce McCandless at the CAPCOM console. Fred Haise, the third member of the backup crew, has just come in, too, and Deke Slayton, Director of Flight Crew Operations, is at that console. The viewing room is filling up. Among those we noticed on the front row in the viewing room are Astronauts Tom Stafford, John Glenn, Gene Cernan, Dave Scott, Al Worden, and Jack Swigert. With a good lunar orbit insertion burn the Madrid station should acquire Apollo 11 at 76 hours 15 minutes 29 seconds. Aquisition time for no burn 76 hours 05 minutes 30 seconds. END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-19-69 CDT 12:16 - GET 75:44 - TAPE 229/1 PAO This is Apollo Control at 75 hours, 49 minutes. Apollo 11 should have started this long burn duration 6 minutes, 2 seconds, DELTA V 2917 feet per second. Given that burn we expect an orbit of 61 by 169.2 nautical miles. We're 24 and one-half minutes away from acquisition of signal with a good burn. The clock has not yet started counting for the other acquisition time. We'll take this lying down now and come back just prior to the acquisition in time for no burn. This is Mission Control, Houston. END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-19-69 CDT 12:36 - GET 76:04 - TAPE 230/1 PAO - and we'll stand by. PAO We are passed the burn acquisition now and we have received no signal. PAO It's very quiet here in the control room. Most of the controllers seated at their consoles, a few standing up, but very quiet. END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-19-69 CDT 12:39 - GET 76:07 - TAPE 231/1 PAO We're 7 minutes from acquisition time. PAO If Apollo 11 achieved only a partial burn, we could receive a signal any time so we will continue to stay up until acquisition time of 76 hours, 15 minutes, 29 seconds. That time is the initial acquisition time, but it could take a little longer to lock onto the signal for voice communications. We are 4 minutes away now. PAO There are a few conversations taking place here in the control room, but not very many. Most of the people are waiting quietly, watching and listening. Not talking. PAO That noise is just bring up the system. We have not acquired a signal. We're a minute and one-half away from acquisition time. PAO 30 seconds. PAO Madrid AOS, Madrid AOS. PAO Telemetry indicates that the crew is working on the antenna angles to bring the high gain antenna to bear. SC (Spacecraft signal very weak - inaudible) CAPCOM Apollo 11, this is Houston. Are you in the process of acquiring high gain antenna? Over. CAPCOM Apollo 11, Apollo 11, this is Houston. How do you read? SC Read you loud and clear, Houston. CAPCOM Roger. Reading you the same now. Could you repeat your burn status report. We copied the residuals burn time and that was about it. Send the whole thing again, please. SC They were like perfect. DELTA T 0, burn time 557, ten values on the angles, BGX minus .1, BGY minus .1, BGZ plus .1, no trim, minus 6.8 on DELTA VC, fuel was 38.8, OX 39.0 plus 50 on balance, we ran an increase on the PUGS, NOUN 44, show us in a 60.9 by 169.9. CAPCOM Roger, we copy your burn status report, and the spacecraft is looking good to us on telemetry. SC (garble) PAO That burn report was by Neil Armstrong. END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-19-69 CDT 12:55 - GET 76:23 - TAPE 232/1 PAO This is Apollo Control. We're showing spacecraft weight in lunar orbit of 72,004 pounds. SC Apollo 11. We're getting this first view of the landing approach. This time we are going over the Taruntius crater and the pictures and maps brought back by Apollos 8 and 10 give us a very good preview of what to look at here. It looks very much like the pictures, but like the difference between watching a real football game and watching it on TV - no substitute for actually being here. CAPCOM Roger. We concur and we surely wish we could see it first hand, also. PAO That was Neil Armstrong. SC We're going over the Messier series of craters right at the time, looking vertically down on them and Messier A we can see a good size blocks in the bottom of the crater. I don't know what the altitude is now but that indicates that those are pretty good size blocks. CAPCOM Okay. Just roughly it looks like you are about 120 miles or 130 miles right now. Make that 127 miles. SC We're approaching PDI point now, over. SC There's Secchi in sight. SC We're'going over Mt. Marilyn at the present time and its ignition point. CAPCOM Roger. Thank you. And our preliminary tracking data for the first few minutes shows you in a 61.6 by 169.5 orbit over. SC Roger. CAPCOM And Jim is smiling. END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-19-69 CDT 13:11 - GET 76:39 - TAPE 233/1 CAPCOM Apollo 11, this is Houston. Over. SC Go ahead. CAPCOM 11, Houston. During your SPS burn as played back on tape down here, we've observed the nitrogen tank BRAVO pressure in the SPS system dropping a little bit more than we anticipated. It's holding steady right now. We'll continue to watch it and keep you posted if anything comes up. Over. SC Roger. Thank you. CAPCOM Right. And it has held - - SC Currently going over mascon map. CAPCOM Okay. SC And Boothill, Duke Island, Sidewinder, looking at mass one W that's the yaw round checkpoint, and just coming into the terminator at - at the terminator it's ash and gray. If you get further away from the terminator, it gets to he a lighter gray, and as you get closer to the subsolar point, you can definitely see browns and tans on the ground according to the last Apollo 11 observation anyway. CAPCOM Roger, 11. We're recording your comments for posterity. SC Okay. PAO And again, that was Neil Armstrong with the report. SC In the background do they accuse us of being compromisers? SC And landing site is well into the dark here. I don't think we're going to be able to see anything of the landing site this early. CAPCOM Apollo 11, this is Houston. When you have a free minute, could you give us your onboard readout of N2 tank BRAVO, please, and we'd like to make sure you understand that ever since you stopped thrusting with the SPS the temperature in the tank has remained steady. Over. Make that the pressures remained steady. SC Rog. We understand tank pressure has stayed steady. Thank you. SC Roger. We're showing the N2 tank pressure and the tank BRAVO to be 1960, something like that, and alpha is, oh, about 2250. Over. CAPCOM Roger. We show 2249 in alpha and 1946 down here. SC All right. SC Houston, Apollo 11. How about coming up with some roll, pitch, and yaw angles in which to stop this so called orb rate that I'm doing. CAPCOM Roger. Stand by. APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-19-69 CDT 13:11 - GET 76:39 - TAPE 233/2 CAPCOM We'll have them for you in a minute. Roger. SC Okay, and it's time to stop also. CAPCOM Yes indeed. CAPCOM Apollo 11, this is Houston. Over. SC Go ahead, Houston. CAPCOM Roger. We show you in the flight plan today in orbital rate until about 79 hours, 10 minutes. Do you have some particular attitude or reason for wanting to go inertial? Over. SC No, that's fine. I just wanted to confirm that. Until 79:10 then we'll breeze around here in orbit. CAPCOM Roger. And we've got an observation you can make if you have some time up there. There's been some lunar transient events reported in the vicinity of Arastorckus. Over. SC Roger. We just went into spacecraft darkness. Until then, why we couldn't see a thing down below us, but now with earthshine, the visibility is oh, pretty fair. I'm looking back behind me I can see the corona from where the sun has just set, and we'll get out the map and see what we can find around Arastorkus. CAPCOM Okay, Arastorkus is at angle echo 9 on your ACO chart. It's about 394 miles north of track, however, at your present altitude which is about 167 nautical miles, it ought to be over - that is within view of your horizon, 23 degrees north, 47 west, and take a look and see if you see anything worth noting up there. Over. SC Hold a second. CAPCOM Roger, out. END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-19-69 CDT 13:31 - GET 76:59 - TAPE 234/1 PAO That was Buzz Aldrin discussing the earth shine. SC Houston, 11. It might help us a little bit if you could give us a time of crossing 45 west. CAPCOM Say again, please 11. SC You might give us a time of crossing of 45 west and then we'll know when to start searching for Aristarchus. CAPCOM Roger, you'll be crossing 45 west at 77:04:10 or about 40 seconds from now. Over. 30 seconds from now. SC Okay. CAPCOM Apollo 11, when we lose the S-band we'd like to get OMNI CHARLIE from you and update my last. That 77:04 was the time when Aristarchus should become visible over your horizon. 77:12 is point of closest approach south of it. Over. SC Okay, that sounds better because we just went by Copernicus a little bit ago. CAPCOM Roger, we show you at about 27 'degrees longitude right now. SC Righto. SC Houston, when a star sets up here there's no doubt about it. One instant it's there and the next instant it's just completely gone. CAPCOM Roger, we copy. CAPCOM Apollo 11, this is Houston. We request you use OMNI CHARLIE at this time. Over. SC Okay, going to OMNI CHARLIE. CAPCOM Roger, out. SC Houston, Apollo 11. CAPCOM Apollo 11, this is Houston. Go ahead. SC Roger. Seems to me we know orbits so precisely and know where the stars are precisely and the time setting of a star or a planet to a very fine degree that this might be a pretty good means of measuring the altitude of the horizon. CAPCOM Roger. SC Hey, Houston, I'm looking north up toward Aristarchus now, and I can't really tell at that distance whether I am really looking at Aristarchus, but there's an area that is considerably more illuminated than the surrounding area. It just has - seems to have a slight amount of fluorescence to it. As a crater can be seen in the area around the crater is quite bright. CAPCOM Roger 11, we copy. END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-19-69 CDT 13:46 - GET 77:14 - TAPE 235/1 SC Houston, Apollo 11, looking out the same area now and it does seem to be - reflective ability of earthshine I'm not sure whether it was worked out to be about zero phase, well, at least there 'is one wall of the crater that seems to be more illuminated than the others and that one (garble) lining up with the earth and does seem to put it about at zero phase. That area is definitely lighter than anything else that (garble). I am not sure that I am really identifying any phosphorescence, but that definitely is lighter than anything else. CAPCOM 11, this is Houston. Can you discern any difference in color of the illumination and is that an inner or outer wall from the crater. Over. SC I checked an inner wall in the crater. SC No, there doesn't appear to be any color involved in it, Bruce. CAPCOM Roger. You said inner wall, would that be the inner edge of the northern surface? SC I guess it would be the inner part of the west northwest part. The part that would be more nearly normal if you were looking at it from the earth. CAPCOM 11, Houston. Have you used the monoculars on this? Over. SC Stand by one. SC Roger. (Garble) caused me to lose my (garble). It is supposed to be here somewhere but I can't find it. CAPCOM 11, this is Houston. We're (garble). SC Houston, we will give it a try, if we have the opportunity on next - when we are not in the middle of lunch and try to find the monocular. CAPCOM Roger. Copied you that time and expect in the next rev you had better be getting ready for LOI, 2, so, let's wind this up and we've got some other things to start you on. Over. SC Okay. PAO Apollo 11 will be in acquisition for another 20 minutes during its first revolution of the moon. CAPCOM Apollo 11, this is Houston. Over. SC Go ahead, Houston. Over. APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-19-69 CDT 13:46 - GET 77:14 - TAPE 235/2 CAPCOM 11, this is Houston. We're planning to make the LOI 2 burn now using bank A only. We'll have the pad and everything for you next time around. Just trying to economize a little on bank B. Bank B is holding now. SC Roger. Understand. END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-19-69 CDT 13:56 - GET 77:24 - TAPE 236/1 CAPCOM Apollo 11, this is Houston. Over. SC Go ahead. CAPCOM 11, Houston. In order to improve the communications a little bit here, we'd like to try to get you on the high gain antenna. We're recommending a pitch angle of 0, yaw 355, I say again 355, the track switch to manual and wide beam width, over. SC Okay, you ready to switch to high gain now? CAPCOM That's affirmative. 11, Houston. Do you read? SC Roger. We read you. It seems to be rather marginal for the high gain. CAPCOM Roger. We concur. SC Houston, Apollo 11. Could you give us a time of crossing the prime meridian 150 west? Over. CAPCOM Roger. Stand by about a half a second, here. Okay, your time of crossing of 150 west meridian will be 775005. Over. SC Thank you. END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-19-69 CDT 14:06 - GET 77:34 - TAPE 237/1 CAPCOM 11, this is Houston. We have about 6 minutes remaining until LOS and in order that we may configure our ground lines we'd like to know if you're still planning to have the TV up with the beginning of the next pass. Over. SC Roger, Houston, we'll try to have it ready. CAPCOM This is Houston. We are inquiring if it is your plan to. Over. SC It never was our plan to, but it's in the flight plan so I guess we'll do it. CAPCOM Houston, roger, out. CAPCOM 11, Houston. SC Roger, go ahead. CAPCOM For use in connection with the prime meridian crossing you have an orbital period now of 2 hours 8 minutes and 37 seconds. Over. SC Thank you. CAPCOM Roger, out. CAPCOM Apollo 11, this is Houston. A little over 2 minutes to LOS. All your systems parameters and orbit are looking good from the ground. We have AOS on the other side at 78:23:31. Over. SC Roger, 78:23:21. CAPCOM Roger, that was 31 on the end. SC Okay. PAO This is Apollo Control. We've had loss of signal from Apollo 11 on its first lunar revolution. We will acquire the spacecraft on the next revolution at 78 hours 23 minutes 31 seconds. The orbital period for Apollo 11's present orbit 2 hours 8 minutes 37 seconds, and as you heard we passed up to the crew information that we would perform the LOI 2 burn using only bank A. The banks are the drive mechanisms for the ball values in the service propulsion system. They open and close these ball valves. The valves allow the fuel and oxidizer to flow into the engine. There are redundant valves and redundant banks, banks A and B. There was apparently - they are driven by nitrogen and that was the reference to the pressure drop there. It was apparently a leak in nitrogen tank B during the LOI 1 burn. This burn was performed with both banks open. The engine can be operated with only bank. It's apparent that the tank leaked only during the burn while the bank was actuated. Pressure has held steady since the end of the burn and the experts are reducing the data and looking at the leak rate, determining whether it was constant throughout the burn, precisely what the situation is. We're showing pressure in tank B of 1960 psi. In tank A 2250 psi. Both of these are well above the red lines of 400 pounds psi. END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-19-69 CDT 14:20 - GET 77:48 - TAPE 238/1 PAO This is Apollo Control, Houston at 77 hours, 48 minutes now into the flight of Apollo 11. Here in Mission Control Center, Houston we're at the process of changing shifts. Cliff Charlesworth's green team of flight controllers very shortly will be leaving their consoles. Meanwhile Apollo 11 is passing over the far side of the moon out of acquisition. Our last orbital parameter readings on our flight dynamics orbital digital displays indicated an apolune of 168.5 nautical miles, a perilune of 1 - correction, a perilune of 61.2 nautical miles. We're currently planning a change of shift briefing at approximately 2:30 central daylight time or soon thereafter as practicable. The change of shift briefing will include only our flight director, Cliff Charlesworth. It's expected to be of short duration since we will have a TV pass soon after the reacquisition of the spacecraft. At 77 hours, 50 minutes into the flight of Apollo 11, this is Apollo Control, Houston. END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-19-69 CDT 14:50 - GET 78:18 - TAPE 239/1 PAO This is Apollo Control, Houston at 78 hours, 18 minutes into the flight of Apollo 11. Apollo 11 still passing around the far side of the moon. We are less than 5 minutes now away from time of acquisition on this second revolution for Apollo 11. The station to acquire on this pass will be the Goldstone wing site which will feed the television to Mission Control Center in Houston, and thence to all parts of the country. We would expect to come up with television perhaps some several minutes after acquisition since we must first lock up on the downlink and have the scan converter in full operation. So at 78 hours, 19 minutes continuing to monitor, this is Apollo Control, Houston. PAO Mark 2 minutes now from time of predicted acquisition in Mission Control Center. We are standing by. PAO Mark 1 minute now from time of predicted acquisition. Continuing to stand by in Mission Control Centerin Houston. PAO Mark 10 seconds away now. Standing by for acquisition. We've had AOS by Goldstone. Television is now on. That is Bruce McCandless - CAPCOM Apollo 11, this is Houston. Over. SC Apollo 11, are you picking up our signals, okay? CAPCOM Apollo 11, this is Houston. Confirm. We are reading you loud and clear on voice and we have a good clear TV picture, a little gray crater on the bottom of the picture. SC No. CAPCOM I guess that is a spot on the tube. SC Sorry about that one. CAPCOM And if you give us P00 and ACCEPT, we will uplink our state vector and target load to you. SC Okay. SC Houston, Apollo 11. One of the larger craters on the back side - I noticed a small, dark speck on the outer wall and I put the monocular on it. I was able to see - oh, an area maybe a quarter of a mile in diameter. A really fresh looking dark colored pit and that seems to be in contrast with all the other fresh little craters or holes, that you can perceive on the walls of any of these craters. Around this particular one there seems to be two or three of these - especially the APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-19-69 CDT 14:50 - GET 78:18 - TAPE 239/2 SC one that caught my attention. Quite remarkable. Over. CAPCOM Roger. Do you have a location on that one? SC No, not of (garble). I've got several pictures of it though. CAPCOM Roger. We copy. PAO That was Buzz Aldrin making a report, a geological report on that site pass. CAPCOM We're getting a beautiful picture in down there now, 11. The color's coming in quite clearly and we can see the horizon and the relative blackness of space and without getting into the question of grays and browns, it looks, at least on our monitor a sort of a brownish gray. SC (Garble) the way they're describing it. It appears to me as though it made a difference just sitting back in the tunnel and gazing at all windows, it makes a difference which one you're looking out of. For example, the camera right now is looking out the number 5 window and it definitely gives a rosier or tanner tinge, especially when you look straight through it and not at an angle. Over. CAPCOM Roger. SC G&C flight. SC 95 or 100 degrees (garble) SC Still holding. Okay. CAPCOM Say again. Over. SC I'd say again we're about 95 degrees east, coming up on Smyth's Sea. CAPCOM Roger. And for your information, we show you at an altitude of about 92 miles above the surface right now. END OF TAPE APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-19-69 CDT 15:00 - GET 78:28 - TAPE 240/1 SC about 95 degrees east coming up on Smyth' s Sea. CAPCOM Roger, and for your information we show you at an altitude of about 92 miles above the surface right now . SC Okay. SC Houston, Apollo 11. Could you observe a difference in the N2 pressures before LOI? It seems to me as though the two were not equal on the (garbled) B tank was a little low on pressure. Over. SC I'm flying in an SPS minimum impulse, Houston, and it's rather difficult to keep it on a constant data. The LM wants to wander up and down. I'm not sure if it's in response to mascons or what, but I can get it completely stabiized in data and let it alone and in another couple of minutes it will have developed its own rate. CAPCOM This is Houston, Roger. PAO That was Mike Collins making that report. SC Houston, we'll be moving shortly from the side window to the hatch window, and we'll try and pick up some of the landmarks that we'll be looking at we approach the powered descent. Over. CAPCOM 11, this is Houston. Roger, and we're through with the uplinks. The computer is yours, you can go to BLOCK and we'll have the information on nitrogen for you shortly. Over. SC Roger, copy. SC Okay, Houston, several minutes ago I was exactly steady on data and since then I have been moving forward, the LM pointed straight down toward the radius vector and that's been dispite a number of down minimum pitch impulses. CAPCOM Roger. SC We're over Smyth's Sea right now. CAPCOM Roger. SC We're about 88 degrees east of it I would estimate. CAPCOM We show you about south of the - southwest of the crater Jansky right now. SC The Smyth's Sea doesn't look much like a Sea. It's - the area which is devoid of craters of which is not very much is sort of a hilly looking area. It's not like the Mare at all. CAPCOM Roger. We copy that about the sea, and it looks like you were just giving us a zero of the crater Neper, the large crater on the left, and Jansky on the right. PAO That exchange between Capcom Bruce McCandless and Mike Collins aboard the Apollo 11 spacecraft. SC We think you're close, but not too good. APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY 7-19-69 CDT 15:00 - GET 78:28 - TAPE 240/2 PAO Apollo Control, Houston. We acquired TV at 78 hours, 24 minutes, 11 seconds. Currently our orbital parameters show 104. Altitude an apolune of 170.2, a perilune of 61.3 - nautical miles, those are. CAPCOM 11, this is Houston. Would you care to comment on some of these craters as we go by? SC Roger. We're approaching the approach pass through ignition. This is equivalent to 12 minutes before ignition, and we're at about 83 degrees, I guess. 83 degrees east, Does that correspond to locations you're holding there presently? CAPCOM Roger. We're showing your present position as about 77 - 76 degrees east looking back towards the east. SC You should be looking back at Manzinus. CAPCOM Roger. PAO We've now heard from all three Apollo 11 crewmembers during this television pass. The individual talking earlier was Neil Armstrong. SC Crater Schubert and Gilbert in the center right now, and that sums it up at about a little over 12 minutes before powered descent. Instead of me looking - as they're looking back at it, we're looking straight down at it. CAPCOM Roger. We show you at an altitude now of about 110 miles, and of course, you'll be considerably lower at the initiation of powered descent. SC Say, Houston. Look at register 3 on the DSKY data. Update i |