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Garbled transmissions.


Evans: Apollo 11, Houston. Longitude over 2: plus 11.844. Take option 1 in Noun 06, and use the no-update mode. Houston. [Long pause.]

Armstrong: And how about ORDEAL? Stand by for the Gimbal Motors, Off. Hmmm - here comes the Moon.

Duke: Negative. Over. A few words of clarification on the RCS? If you go to Reacq on the High Gain, we can acquire you now. We'll have you a map location momentarily. [Pause.] Good night all. Over. Over. Over. Over.

Aldrin: How far out are you, Mike? Go ahead. Have you about maneuvered there, yet?

Armstrong: Huh?

Collins: How would you like the camera?

Collins: A few minutes. God, look at that Moon!

McCandless: Okay. (Laughing) Okay.

Aldrin: No.

Armstrong: Did you get a secondary radiator leak check? Very good.

Armstrong: Three minutes.

Collins: Okay.

Duke: 11, you got a pretty big audience.

Collins: Verify MTVC. [Long pause.] Better late than never; better early than late. Just a minute; yes.

Duke: We concur. We got a TEI-11 PAD for you and an update on the water dump. The one we had here came in from the west and is moving east - or nearly so, as far as I could tell.

Collins: Neil, when you get a hand, would you push that little god damn valve down to Dump?

Armstrong: One of these days, we'll be able to bring the whole MOCR along, I hope.

Aldrin: Okay, let's do one more.

Armstrong: That's what it looks like down here.

Duke: Roger. Do you read? We'd like you to terminate the O2 purge if you have not done so already, and the TV camera people say that the lines are inherent in the camera, Buzz; and it's something that we expected. Over. Reading you five-by.

Collins: You're in pretty good. (Pause)

Duke: Roger. [Long pause.] Over. Over. Over.

Armstrong: Yes, Mike.

Armstrong: Roger.

Aldrin: ...[garble] that might be indicative of why [garble]...

Collins: There's Mount Marilyn. Understand.

Armstrong: ...Delta-V...

Collins: Columbia.

Aldrin: Now, we're - PCM, Low, and we want to turn the tape recorder, Off?

Collins: Okay, that ought to almost get it there and, damn, I don't want to see any more than that.

Armstrong: It's okay with me.

Armstrong: Okay. Okay.

Collins: Are you hearing me all right?

Collins: Hallelujah.

Armstrong: It's for sure it's not going anywhere; this one's bolted down two places - and this one is...

Aldrin: Roger.

Armstrong: Houston, Apollo 11. Huh?

McCandless: Columbia, this is Houston. Like you to terminate charging battery Bravo at 111 plus 15. [Long pause.]

Aldrin: I thought you were going to be doing VHF Ranging on the darn thing because we had it set up for - VHF [garble]. I'm not sure we could pull it out if we pushed it in, though. "When I consider the heavens, the work of Thy fingers, the moon and the stars which Thou hast ordained, what is man that Thou art mindful of him. As usual.

Duke: Roger, Eagle. Over.

Collins: Okay.

Duke: Columbia, Houston. we've got the load, If you'll give us P00 and Accept, we'll send you a load up. [Long pause.]

Collins: He may know that, but he doesn't even know whether his grass is wet or dry. Oh, I guess - get 10 pictures of the Moon.

Collins: Charlie, Apollo 11.

Duke: Five-by, Eagle. Over. [Long pause.]

Collins: That P22 is still pointing in the wrong place. Here we go...

Aldrin: You in the right attitude, Mike? Like old home week, Charlie, to get back in the LM again.

Collins: Okay.

Duke: Rog, Neil. Out. Over. And verify track mode in Auto for the High Gain.

Duke: Stand by.

Aldrin: Okay. No.

Collins: Okay. He's not going to have the Sun in your eyes - I mean, on this thing, why don't we [garble]?

Armstrong: A hundred and what?

McCandless: Houston.

Collins: Who said all that? That's fine.

Aldrin: That's affirmative. I read you about four-by-four. (Long Pause)

Armstrong: Apollo 11.

Aldrin: Roger. And a maneuver of - and a maneuver of 51.3.

Armstrong: Roger. It's Off.

Collins: You sure you have the right power switch on? You need me to wait in the Noun 49 display for any length of time?

Aldrin: It's a No-Go - Go/No-Go - the one - one I'm looking for. LMP reads 09018. Neil, the handle...

Armstrong: Rog.

Aldrin: Did you hear that?

Aldrin: Alright, I've seen enough of Verb 83, Mike...

Duke: Eagle, Houston. All the gals are having a little party tonight, as far as I know. You can just let P41 bring you up to TIG, and when you get zero, you can burn on that. [Long pause.]

Collins: Ah...

Aldrin: All the stuff looks like very light tan and gray, you know, that's - that's the color of it. Got that?

Armstrong: Yep.

McCandless: Roger.

Collins: Okay.

Armstrong: Go ahead, Houston.

Duke: Rog. Over.

Collins: Great, great. Accept this with a Proceed.

Aldrin: Roger. [Garble.]

Aldrin: Roger. 95, 95.

Collins: Will do.

Armstrong: Verify CMC.

Aldrin: Okay. Thank you. ] [Garble] hold the [garble].

Collins: ...is holding.

PAO: One Bravo is a abort control mode.

McCandless: Roger. They certainly seem to be.

Armstrong: Roger.

Duke: Roger. We copy. You are Go to continue powered descent.

Armstrong: You can take some pretty good pictures out of the hatch, here. You could.

Duke: Apollo 11, Houston.

Aldrin: You're a poor [garble]. I got 'em.

Collins: Okay, right now...

Duke: Hey, that's beautiful right there. Houston. We'd like you to turn off your Rotational direct - Rotational Control Power Direct number 2, Off. Say again.

Collins: [Garble.] We have about 450 psi now in the - in the three 1-pound bottles.

Duke: Apparently that's about all we can tell. Thank you much, Neil. You can keep it coming down, 11.

Duke: We concur with that, Buzz. No, sir.

Aldrin: Roger, Houston, do you have some High Gain angles for Columbia? We'll go to number 2 this time.

Duke: Roger. [Long pause.]

Aldrin: Okay. It's got to be in one or the other or you can't see it. Fine. We've got them in their helmet bags, and I guess we're going to have to keep the helmets in the helmet bags, and the LEVAs in the LEVA bags.

Aldrin: Stand by a little, please.

Evans: Eagle, Houston. Roger. We're working on the grid squares and we'll get them shortly.

Aldrin: That TVC gimbal drive's taking up the power?

Armstrong: Columbia, do you read Eagle?

McCandless: Negative, Buzz. That looks good there, Neil.


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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