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.