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Garbled transmissions.


McCandless: Roger. ' [Pause.]

Haise: And other games in the National League... And other games in the National League...

Collins: Okay.

Aldrin: Go ahead, Houston.

Collins: [Garble] going right down the [garble] and it sure has been nice.

Armstrong: It'll lock it the other way.

Aldrin: [Garble] out of plane.

Armstrong: Roger. Apollo 11's Go at 7 minutes.

Collins: Yes, I think on that hydrogen thing, it's - I'm not sure, but I think it's a back-pressure problem.

Aldrin: Okay. ...it's going to be about 3 seconds early - cut-off.

Aldrin: Why you don't hear these 3 - 3,500-pound rocket engines when you're sitting on them, I'll never know. I'll remove one of them and show you a little closer view of what this looks like.

McCandless: Roger. Over. [Pause.]

McCandless: Roger. If you're free for a couple of minutes, we have a procedure here that will let us verify the O2 flow transducer and at the same time get some more of our cabin enrichment out of the way. Over.

Collins: That's affirmative. I'm going to start a maneuver now to our undocking attitude.

Collins: Roger.

McCandless: Roger.

Aldrin: Yes, the flicker... T-3: 104:39:41.00, 001:58:15.00, 001:58:54.00, 105:36:23.00, 107:11:30.00. I can see some cracks on the outer coating around the tunnel, in the thermal protective covering. Apollo 11, ready to copy MCC-2. Over.

McCandless: 11, this is Houston.

McCandless: Roger. Radio check, radio check. I've got a Flight Plan update for you, to give you an optimum attitude for the Earth in the number 1 window and the Moon in number 5 window. We were down in the noise as we switched antennas a minute or so ago. Over.

Collins: Rog.

Duke: Roger. Thank you much.

Duke: Roger. (Long Pause)

Armstrong: Is that alright? ...going to be able to...

Aldrin: Okay.

Collins: Smyth Sea doesn't look very much like a sea. [Pause.]

McCandless: Roger, 11.

Aldrin: Roger. I fed in those angles for the S-band, and I couldn't get a lock-on. Yes.

Aldrin: AGS agrees very closely, and pointing [garble] direction. Alright, time check. Hold it just a minute.

Collins: Say again that last? It's behind the [garble].

Collins: VHF, I think.

Armstrong: [Garble.]

Garriott: I'll have to stand by just a moment. [Long pause.]

Armstrong: [Garble.]

Duke: 11, Houston. Delta-VT 00020, burn time 0:07, Delta-VC 00020. Noun 84: plus 0122.3, minus all zeros, plus 0188.9; Noun 33, 102:44:27.00, PDI plus 12 burn time is 0:46, burn time for DOI is 0:30. (Long Pause)

Collins: He may know that, but he doesn't even know whether his grass is wet or dry.

Armstrong: Check the start out there. What do you need?

Collins: Okay, fine. It's a much bigger crater, and I'll be damned if it doesn't look like it just went in sideways.

Duke: Copy.

Aldrin: Houston, Tranquility.

Armstrong: Then you might as well go to your - 293 Inertial, I guess. Okay, how about MSFN...

Collins: I'll be glad to sleep over there, alright? What - ... time is 36 something...

Armstrong: Roger. Standby.

Collins: Columbia understands.

McCandless: Roger. Out. We're requesting a waste-water dump at GET 25:30 down to a nominal 25 percent, and here we go with the consumables update. Over.

Collins: Did they say anything about the O2 purge?

Armstrong: And the landing site is well into the dark here. (Pause)

McCandless: Roger. (Pause) Correction...

Aldrin: No. Thank you.

McCandless: Roger. [Pause.]

McCandless: Yeah. Pitch minus 35, yaw 0. Over. Say again check star. Go ahead, Buzz.

Collins: (Calling at AOS) Houston, Columbia.

Armstrong: Boy, this water separator sure isn't working worth a durn. 4,000 - 3,500 feet, on the way down.

Aldrin: 5.6 at - 5.6 at 1/250th is probably... [Long pause.] How do you read? And it looks like we're just about to get the Sun coming into the lens, so we'll have to move the camera away.

Collins: Hello there, earthling. Thank you.

Collins: Give me a call just as soon as your hot-fire is complete, please.

Armstrong: You got yourself some rates going about, like, what you want?

McCandless: 11, this is Houston. They really came through in the ninth. Over.

Aldrin: [Garble.]

Collins: [Garble.] How do you read? About 82 hours even.

Duke: Rog. Stand by. We have your fly-by PAD if you're ready to copy. We copy.

Collins: 50 seconds. Mark it.

Collins: I'm rolling. Right.

Aldrin: Roger. Yes.

Armstrong: [Garble.]

Collins: Well, that pisses me off!

Aldrin: Very good. (Pause) How do you read my EKG now? Seashells.

Armstrong: Okay.

Aldrin: Yes, I'm working on the High Gain right now. (Long Pause)

Collins: Okay. [Long pause.] Are you still getting high bit rate off the omnis at this distance?

Aldrin: That looks beautiful from here, Neil.

Collins: Houston, Columbia.

Garriott: Apollo 11, Houston. And your AUTO RCS select switches, quad Alfa, pitch jets on only, quad Bravo all on, quad Charlie and quad Delta all off. One of the implications here is the depth from which the bulk sample was collected. Roger. [Pause.]

Armstrong: Stand by.

Aldrin: [garble] solid urine particles are [garble]. Yaw, damn it!

Collins: Have we got pyros armed?

Collins: They seem to be getting smaller, Charlie? Thank you.

Armstrong: Okay, that's right now.

McCandless: Apollo 11, this is Houston.

Collins: That's alright. TLI 10-minute abort pitch, 223. 1 or 2 degrees, Neil?

Duke: 11, Houston. Over.

Collins: Okay? Understand. You want something?

Aldrin: Through AGS.

Duke: Roger.

Collins: No, I didn't... Min...

Armstrong: We ought to have AOS now.

Collins: Could you read it around the next time around, please?

McCandless: Houston. GDC align, Vega and Deneb, roll 071, 291, 341. I understand you said something about contingency sample container on the ascent engine? If you can give it to us.

Aldrin: I had them out, kind of floating around back here. (Garbled) How far are my feet from the edge?

Collins: Ullage.

Duke: Roger. Over. [Long pause.] I guess the most predominate one now is around the - up in the - around the equator or slightly north of the equator. Thank you much.

Aldrin: I still hear it.

Armstrong: Here comes Pitch 1, ready?

McCandless: Roger. We observed your gimbal test down here, and it looked good to us. Stand by a second. Out. [Long pause.]

Collins: Okay. Yeah. But so far, we've been - not been able to pick out any decent star patterns while docked with the LM using the telescope.

Collins: That'd be nice. Thanks. Okay, Ron. Will do.

PAO: And we're about 10 minutes away from the scheduled separation time now.

PAO: The S-IVB is reported in a stable attitude for the separation. That was a Mike Collins' comment.

Armstrong: Okay.

Aldrin: Yes, we did. What time you got?


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