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Garbled transmissions.


McCandless: Okay, Mike.

Aldrin: On the , the radar can be pointing plus-X, and I'll be using right-rear detent.

Collins: No, 10 degrees - 2 minutes. It's working very well, and it's a nice pleasing tone. [Pause.] [Garble] pick me up [garble].

McCandless: (Laughing) Okay. Five policemen had a hard time restraining about 500 kids who wanted to touch Broadway Joe. Over.

Armstrong: Well, I can do it like this, Owen. 6 minutes.

Aldrin: Yeah. Eagle, over. (Long Pause) (Pause) (Long Pause) Okay.

Armstrong: Out's Closed.

Collins: What are we supposed to be putting in there?

Evans: Okay. [No answer.]

Collins: ... get the BMAG?

Duke: Roger.

Collins: Okay.

Aldrin: Well, a crater... The LM/CM Delta-P is 0.98. It's a pretty spectacular ride. It could very well be the one that just passed over you.

Evans: Columbia, Houston. It's great. Try to lock on again, and you'll lose him at about 29 minutes and 35 seconds. And for your information, the reason the is a little different is because the K-factor is a little bit wrong.

Armstrong: You have an ergometer up here.

Collins: Okay.

Duke: And Apollo 11, it's good night from a sleepy White Team. Out. Over.

Collins: I have 100 hours and 16 minutes. I - I'm thrashing around over here a little bit.

Garriott: Columbia, Houston. Is that correct?

Collins: Roger. They're packed. We're going to come out of PTC here at 263 roll and then do a Verb 49 to the recommended attitude.

Armstrong: We're up to 6... [Garble.]

Aldrin: But when I first saw it, at the other Sun angle... Circuit breakers: Docking Probe, two, Open.

Armstrong: How about that package out of your sleeve?

Collins: I mean the - I mean the whole - I mean the gas consumption would be a lot more than I would have guessed, you know?

Armstrong: Yes. That should be on wide beam or...?

Aldrin: How about if you get the bottom in the - get the bottom underneath this cover?

Armstrong: Yes, I think we're about ready.

Aldrin: AGS had these residuals after its completion after the burn. You've got plenty of room to your left. Over.

Collins: Well, we - we should still have him.

Duke: 11, Houston. We'd like you to accept this one and every mark thereafter. Over.

Collins: Thrusting... Over.

Duke: 11, we have a good view of the window there.

Aldrin: I turned it on.

Collins: The Sun...

Collins: Glad to have you.

Duke: Roger.

Collins: Sure as hell is. I did see a suspiciously-small white object whose coordinates are... [Long pause.] I'll just put you back right-side up where you belong. I got a way on it...of keeping it.

Evans: Roger. Go ahead.

Collins: Okay, Charlie. Okay, now.

Duke: Roger. Over. Over. Over. That's affirmative, Buzz. [Long pause.]

Aldrin: Wait till we finish the maneuver and we'll give you the DSKY.

Armstrong: There's signal strength. Pyro B coming armed. That's [garble].

McCandless: Okay. Out. Over.

Armstrong: I just pressurized the DPS. You just slid out of your...

Evans: Sure, Mike. Go.

onboard): Camera's running. (Garbled)

Aldrin: Roger. [Long pause.] We're not going to - match it - [garble] creep up. I hope I took the thing apart correctly.

Armstrong: Houston, 11.

Collins: Yes. I'll dump the water as soon as we go around the corner. I got a way on it...of keeping it.

Collins: You know, no matter how many times I put these optics eyepieces... How do you read now?

Duke: Rog. Over. Roger.

Armstrong: Yes, to Inject.

Aldrin: Yes. It was just a little bit shy of 40. Look warm down there, Neil?

Duke: 11, Houston.

Aldrin: [Garble.] [Pause.] Okay.

Collins: Yes, we ought to get the 250 - we ought to do it at 250. We're ready to copy and comment. I'll maneuver back to PTC initiation attitude while you guys look at the data and see what you think.

Aldrin: Oh, loud and clear. " 35 degrees. [Pause.] Let's see, what's tearing me up is we're going to orb-rate on this damn booster, and the rate is very evident.

Collins: Right. Tranquility Base, it sure sounded great from up here. Okay, 19 seconds, two jets.

Aldrin: Houston, Apollo 11. How long you got - to end this maneuver, Mike?

McCandless: Roger.

Collins: How about that, wise asses! Stand by for the Gimbal Motors.

Duke: Okay, Buzz. You can torque it. Looks like it's a little bit easier than doing that in the chamber.

Collins: I'm graphically reminded of it at this moment.

Collins: Houston, Apollo 11. I guess it would.

Aldrin: It was mostly white, perhaps a tinge of yellowish color to it.

Aldrin: Roger. Over.

Duke: Rog. Sure are. Stand by one. Over.

Aldrin: That battery compartment pressure, Mike, it ought to be less than 1.5. Could you confirm that?

Armstrong: Really has.

Collins: Roger.

Collins: Roger. Rotational Control Power is Normal, number 2, to AC.

Collins: Eagle, Columbia.

Armstrong: Okay. Okay, the residuals were 0.1, 3.9, and point...

McCandless: Roger.

Collins: About a minute from AOS. [Long pause.] We're watching you as well, you know.

Armstrong: You want me to take your checklist, Mike, and kind of skim through it? They're all up.

Aldrin: I'll just put a question mark here about... not show our ignorance. (singing) CO2.

Armstrong: Roger. Oh, you got about 30 degrees to go.

McCandless: No. [Long pause.] ' [Pause.]

Aldrin: Yes. You happy with it? 3 minutes 33 seconds ( or ). Let's get some music.

Armstrong/Collins: Proceed.

Collins: Number 4.

Armstrong: Roger.

McCandless: Roger. The Retros down here are anxious to get an accurate c.g. Out.

Collins: Alright, that's mostly the camera. Okay.

Evans: 11, Houston. [Long pause.]

PAO: That was Buzz Aldrin from the Lunar Module using the codename for the first time.

Aldrin: 160 feet, 6 1/2 down. Yes.

Aldrin: You want to do that?

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

Aldrin: Charlie, with the monocular, I can discern a definite green cast to the San Fernando Valley. 700 feet, 21 (feet per second) down, 33 degrees.

Armstrong: We have them gray now.

Collins: 50 seconds. Yes.

Collins: Or at least I've configured for it. I'm oscillating between 0.69 and seven-tenths.

Armstrong: That's good.

Collins: Okay, now. I don't believe it was abnormal, and it seemed to be deadbanding rather crisply in roll plus or minus about 8 degrees either side of center line. Now...

Collins: Charlie, state those three angles one more time.

Armstrong: Okay. Go. We'll do it. Got 8 minutes [garble].

Collins: Menkent. It'll wait until the next rev or two.


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