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Garbled transmissions.


Armstrong: Yeah.

Collins: Okay. 80:11...

McCandless: This is Houston. Out. (Pause) Buzz. [Long pause.] Over. Out. Out. Over. A little over 1 minute to LOS at Honeysuckle. We have a TV attitude for you if you're ready to copy. Over. Over.

McCandless: There's a great deal of contrast in it; and currently it's upside-down on our monitor, but we can make out a fair amount of detail. Over. Over. [Long pause.]

Collins: Roger. There is about half the food remaining in L3. T1 time, 82:37:35; T2, 82:42:50. What happened to that card that was here?

Aldrin: Okay. FDAI Scale, 50/15.

McCandless: 11, this is Houston. [Pause.]

Aldrin: What for?

Collins: Mox nix.

Aldrin: Right, going Increase. SPS/G&N: 63059; plus 0.97, minus 0.20; 026:44:57.92; plus 0011.8, minus 0000.3, plus 0017.7; 277 - Are you still copying, Houston? 60...

Collins: [Garble]...

Aldrin: Got it. Same as yesterday.

Armstrong: Proceed to trim. It is.

Armstrong: What's that?

Aldrin: Houston, Apollo 11.

Armstrong: Shutdown.

Evans: Apollo 11, Houston. Over. We had about twenty-some points before you did that. It's coming up now, Columbia. 47.2 by 9.5.

Evans: Roger. [Long pause.]

Collins: I have.

Armstrong: (Garbled) I think that was it.

Duke: And, Eagle, Houston.

Armstrong: Gee, I almost went to sleep then. We're about to open our hatch now.

Collins: All right. Over.

Armstrong: Yes. We'll reconfigure the TV for that.

McCandless: Okay. Over. Over. And, I have a plan for balancing your oxygen cryos. We confirm skirt sep.

Collins: [Garble.]

McCandless: And down here, we showed a chamber pressure of, on the order of, 103 to 104 psi during your burn on playback. We'd like to stay on the High Gain if we can. Roger. [Long pause.] Time of closest approach, 110:33:40. This is Houston. Did you copy the Flight Plan update item? Over.

Collins: Okay.

Armstrong: Should be. [Garble].

McCandless: All right.

Collins: There's atmospheric drag up here.

Armstrong: We'll have a gauge as to where we are.

PAO: Apollo 11 is stable 1 now, stable 1.

PAO: Apollo 11 is still right down the ground track.

McCandless: Roger. How do you feel? Over.

McCandless: Roger, 11. Other factors that might conceivably have an influence on it would be battery temperature, things of this sort. And we show you coming up on landmark Alpha 1 here shortly.

McCandless: Apollo 11, this is Houston. Over. I can hear you trying to transmit; however, your transmission is breaking up. [Long pause.]

Armstrong: Got it. You've got it.

Collins: I'd have put on a coat and tie if I'd known about this ahead of time. We've got a hose up there that we're hoping will sort of help keep it a little bit dry.

Armstrong: 1519, CMC Optics Zero, Off, Verb 41, Noun 91. Go ahead. Yes, but I hate to [garble]; will you get [garble]?

Duke: Eagle, Houston. That's affirmative.

Aldrin: Oh, shoot!

Evans: Okay. [Long pause.] GET 91 plus 30, minus 7 percent; Alpha, minus 8; Bravo, minus 2.5; Charlie, minus 10; Delta, minus 6.5. Over.

Evans: And when the LM does his P22 on your transponder, well then, that'll be our last shot at the LM's position. Over.

Aldrin: I sure do.

Duke: How about that, sports fans! [Pause.] Stand by.

Duke: Yeah. Stand by. [Long pause.]

Duke: What was that, Buzz, you're chasing now? Over. Over. Under column L - that's column Lima. Over.

Collins: Okay, I got your track light back. And O2 fan number 2 is on.

Armstrong: I'm not sure I understand that question, but we got a good bit of the ground mass in the bulk sample plus a sizable number of selected rock fragments of different types.

Aldrin: S what?

Collins: Okay, looks pretty good to me now. Neil, where's the voice tape recorder, you know?

Armstrong: We have you on High Gain right now.

Collins: Got a long way around, yet. Chewing gum, you want any of that?

Aldrin: Roger. Over.

McCandless: Houston. Going into the ninth however, things looked pretty bleak: the Astros were trailing 4 to 3. We've checked over the spacecraft and the launch vehicle guidance. Go ahead, 11.

Armstrong: Go ahead. This should be getting larger, and if it is, it's the place we're coming home to. Yes.

Aldrin: And LMP is 09011.

Collins: Standing by for your Mark. [Long pause.] I hope they've got a nice, big, strong [garble] for you. We have always had confidence that all this equipment will work, and work properly, and we continue to have confidence that it will do so for the remainder of the flight. We think you're close, but no cigar.

McCandless: Say again, 11.

Armstrong: (Laughter) That's your story, huh?

Armstrong: [Garble.] (Garbled)

Aldrin: Roger.

Armstrong: Is it 84 hours yet?

Aldrin: This was [garble]...

Armstrong: Okay, will you just leave them, now?

Collins: Monoculars? Thanks a lot. Not going to let these LM guys play with my DSKY any more.

McCandless: Roger. Alpha, minus 6.0 percent, minus 1.0 percent, minus 7.0 percent, minus 3.0 percent; H2 total, minus 1.2 pounds; O2 total, plus 10 pounds. The EVA is progressing beautifully. Over.

Aldrin: Roger.

Duke: That's affirmative.

Duke: Tranquility, Houston. Got two PADs for you, TEI-30 and then a TEI-31. Over.

Armstrong: Off. You got the Flight Plan handy, Mike?

Duke: Roger. Over. [Long pause.] We had a - -

Armstrong: When you feel it, that's when it is.

PAO: Buzz Aldrin reporting that he's halfway into the LM.

Collins: Yes. Yes, please.

Collins: Stand by one. Yes, this is the handiest little thing you've ever seen. Another Master Alarm coming.

Collins: Well... ].

Duke: Go ahead. Stand by on your readback. Over.

Armstrong: 902:34:47. #NAME?

Collins: What I'm saying is, on the 30 degree, I have both panes of glass... Everything's quiet over on this side.

Aldrin: If we can get some of the wires untangled here, we'll give you a demonstration of how easy push-ups are up here.

Aldrin: Roger. This pitch angle is quite a bit off nominal; 196 instead of 212.

Collins: You're not - you've got plenty of black and white film, don't you? It's running a couple up.

McCandless: Roger. AOS Tananarive is 2 hours, 9 minutes and 18 seconds. Out.

Collins: Well, let's get going here. [Long pause.] Roger.

Armstrong: 158.

Duke: Roger. [Long pause.] Could we have P00 and Accept? We have you - your sub-spacecraft point is just off the western coast of South America directly south of about Mexico City. Over.

Collins: Houston, Columbia.

Aldrin: This other one got changed. Yes, I'll get right to it.

Armstrong: Or could you tell?

Aldrin: Okay.

McCandless: Okay, Columbia. We're observing the dimple crater now. Over. That's affirmative.

Aldrin: We're burning ours, Mike.

Armstrong: [Garble].

Aldrin: Hope we're not going to get a pitch straight down.

Duke: Thank you from all us kids in the world, here in the MOCR, who can't tell the Earth from the Moon. [Long pause.] We got a - If you'll give us P00 and Data, we've got the loads for you. [Long pause.]

Collins: ...A, here comes B - B, I mean, Thrust A...

Duke: Roger. Over. The angles you got in the Flight Plan will be good when you get there.


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