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Garbled transmissions.


Collins: All right. Beautiful. CMC.

Armstrong: We were looking for the Cat's Paw, too, thinking we were probably downrange, beyond the Big V. But I think that it's likely that that might have been West Crater that we went across in landing, but - Stand by.

PAO: 4 minutes away from separation, 4 minutes. At 82 hours, 48 minutes continuing to monitor; this is Apollo Control, Houston. Following the CSI; at 126 hours, 18 minutes, 0 seconds; a 9.2 foot per second [2.8 m/s] burn, probably mostly a radial burn; at 126 hours, 18 minutes will twist the Eagle's orbit to equal distance from the orbit of Columbia, what they call a Constant Delta Height, or CDH maneuver. We expect a temperature of about 85 degrees in the Kennedy Space Center area. It has been decontaminated, and the swimmers will remain on their scuba air. We expect to be at an altitude of 177 nautical miles at cut-off. At 78 hours, 58 minutes into the flight of Apollo 11; this is Apollo Control, Houston, continuing to monitor.

Duke: And Apollo 11, Houston. I'd advise him to keep his hands off the switches. Over. Noun 61 plus 11.03, minus - minus 172.37; 1180.6, 36275, 195:04:52. [Pause.]

Aldrin: And I can see it reflecting out my window, so it must be working.

Aldrin: Well, do you want to get ahead on a few things? How do all our systems look?

McCandless: Houston. And we also have another set of coordinates that we would like you to search in the vicinity of. We will then command Omni Delta down here after you advise us you've switched, and then you can select Bravo on board and we'll be back in the Omni antenna commanding business. Over.

Armstrong: You want to see if the computer agrees with that mission timer?

Collins: Houston, Columbia.

Duke: Rog. Over. Over. Copy, Columbia. [Long pause.]

Aldrin: [Garble] minus a few feet per second. Okay.

Armstrong: Roger.

Collins: Okay, well, why don't we [garble] back over there and [garble]?

Aldrin: Don't tell that to poor [garble], though (laughter).

Armstrong: No, I haven't seen any lightning.

Collins: Man, that's really...

Armstrong: Here comes Pitch 1, ready?

Evans: Sure, Mike.

Aldrin: Okay, Houston. I don't guess we have a spare signal conditioner or anything like that, do we? It's 1.1 [psi].

Armstrong: ...going to be able to... We are beginning our EVA Prep. Got it.

Armstrong: I don't think it's harder to [garble] than it is - at orbital speeds.

Duke: Stand by. Real clear. [Long pause.] Houston. Stand by one. Over.

Duke: Copy. Stand by.

Duke: That's affirmative. And we'd like a narrative, if you could give us one, on the exterior shots. Over.

Armstrong: Okay.

PAO: At 28 hours, 40 minutes; we're showing Apollo 11's distance as 114,922 nautical miles from Earth, velocity; 4,819 feet per second. And we're now 25 minutes, 38 seconds from Trans-Earth Injection.

Aldrin: It's going to have to get up pretty high to [garble].

Armstrong: 15.

Aldrin: The EMS Mode, Standby. [Long pause.]

Duke: Columbia, Houston.

Collins: In the rain.

Duke: Roger. Over.

Aldrin: Well, no.

Evans: Roger. And you might pass to Columbia, we don't have him yet. It'll be coming up.

Collins: Yep. No, no, this is - used for the intervalometer?

Collins: Yes, okay. All right.

Armstrong: Yes, I sure do.

Aldrin: And, I don't know how you'd really describe the limit of resolution. Okay.

Armstrong: Yes, I guess it'll take us another - 6 minutes or something like that.

McCandless: ...We'd like to get both of you in the field-of-view of the camera for a minute. Out. Roger.

Crew: (Garbled).

Aldrin: Need a PPK. [Garble.]

Armstrong: I'm going to pull it now.

Lovell: Go ahead, 11. We're all set to go, Mike.

Lovell: Go ahead, 11. [Pause.]

Aldrin: (Garbled) (Long Pause)

Armstrong: Hey, you...

Collins: Got it. Yes.

Aldrin: Looks good.

Aldrin: Roger. Copy. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5; 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. We'll go ahead with the camera check-out. [Long pause.]

Armstrong: That's the one we made the changes in, right?

McCandless: Roger. Over. Over.

Collins: Roger. I'll just - I'll just turn this one over and get rid of the water and start all over again. I mean, you just sort of floated up or was there a bunch of rattling around?

Aldrin: Okay. Balance couple, On. ...

Armstrong: Yes. Go ahead.

Armstrong: ...coming up on 8 minutes. Going to Track here.

Collins: Houston, Apollo 11. Go ahead.

Armstrong: That slows it down?

McCandless: 11, this is Houston. If you can give it to us.

McCandless: Columbia, this is Houston. We all envy you the view up there.

Collins: [Very weak.]

Collins: I have Hydrogen Tank number 2 heaters, Off. I'm glad to hear it was fit to print.

McCandless: Go ahead, 11. Following Tommy Jacobs, we have the hot smoking word from a local Houston astrologer by the name of Ruby Graham. Stand by.

Collins: Okay.

Armstrong: Okay.

Aldrin: Houston.

Garriott: Tranquility Base, Houston. Your TCA, 106 plus 37 plus 16. Over. And on another subject, request you zero your optics for the night. Copy, 11.

Armstrong: And Boot Hill, Duke Island, Sidewinder, looking at Maskelyne W, that's the yaw round checkpoint, and just coming into the terminator. Okay, it looks good, I'll tell you.

McCandless: Roger. I'll try to give you a little closer update as we approach it.

Collins: Just like the simulator. Circuit breakers - SPS Pitch 1, Pitch 2, Yaw 1, Yaw 2, Open?

Aldrin: Well, I can't do anything until we transfer to LM power.

Duke: Eagle, Houston. You started off really stable there, Mike. Copy.

Aldrin: Negative.

Armstrong: Roger.

Aldrin: Lightning! Alright, horizon check passes.

Collins: Enter. The Earth's going to be over here?

Duke: Roger. (Pause) We're Go. Houston. [Pause.]

Armstrong: Mike's off the loop right now.

Aldrin: You want this one over there?

Duke: It's 2.30. [Long pause.] [Long pause.] [Long pause.] We had a couple of things for you.

Aldrin: Go ahead.

Evans: Roger. [Long pause.]

Aldrin: That's confirmed.

Collins: Yeah.

McCandless: Roger. We are seeing the pitch hot firing and it looks good.

Collins: SECO.

Duke: Apollo 11, Houston. [Long pause.]

Collins: Are you on tank pressures?

McCandless: Roger. Go ahead. Go for cabin depressurization. No ullage, undocked. Low is okay for now. You're good at 1 minute.

Armstrong: Yes, there's some rocks in it, too. I think only in my suit.

Aldrin: It's in work. What did you get out of P30 as far as HA and HP?

Duke: Roger, Tranquility.

Collins: Roger that.

Armstrong: Push the cutter bar down first?

McCandless: 11, this is Houston. Over.

Armstrong: Hmm.

Aldrin: 48:15:00 Over. All three of the them are still 37.1 [Volts]. Yes.

Duke: Rog. A few words of clarification on the RCS? [Long pause.] Have you deployed the landing gear yet? [Pause.] Over.

Collins: 17 seconds - 17 plus 1, huh?


Data from The Apollo 11 Flight Journal and The Apollo 11 Surface Journal, mashed up by Leonard Richardson. We came in peace for all mankind.

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