11, Houston, the definition is pretty good
on our monitor here. The color's not too (garbled)
at least on this set. Could you describe what
you're looking at, over?
SC You're seeing Earth as we see it out our
left-hand window, just a little more than
a 
half Earth. We're looking at the eastern Pacific
Ocean and the north half of the, top half
of the screen, we can see North America, Alaska,
United States, Canada, Mexico and Central
America. South America becomes invisible just
off beyond the terminator or inside the shadow.
We can see the oceans with a definite blue
cast, see white bands of major cloud formations
across the Earth and can see coastlines. I
got the Western U.S., San Joaquin Valley,
the Sierra Mountain Range and peninsula of
Baja, California, and can see some cloud formations
over southeastern U.S. There's one definite
mild storm southwest of Alaska, looks like
about 500 to a thousand miles and another
very minor storm showing the south end of
the screen near the, a long ways south of
the equator, probably 45 degrees or more south
latitude. We can pick out the browns, the
browns in the land forms pretty well. Greens
do not show up very well. Some green showing
along the northeastern, northwestern coast
of the United States and the northwestern
coast of Canada. Roger.
SC Stay here, world. Hold on to your hat.
I'm going to you upside down.
CAPCOM 11, that's a pretty good roll there.
SC Yah, that was pretty sloppy. Let me try
that one again.
CAPCOM You'll never beat out the Thunderbird.
SC I'm making myself seasick, Charlie. I'll
just put you back right-side-up where you
belong.
CAPCOM Roger.
CAPCOM 11, Houston. If you could, we'd like
to see some smiling faces if you could give
us some interior views, I'm sure everybody'd
like to see you. Over.
SC Okay, we'll reconfigure the PB for that.
CAPCOM Roger.
CAPCOM Now we're coming in. Can't quite make
out who that...
SC That's big Mike Collins there.
SC Right, you got a little bit of, yah, hello
there sports fans. You got a little bit of
me on the center couch and Buzz is doing the
camera work this time.
CAPCOM Roger.
SC I'd have put on a coat and tie if I had
known about this ahead of time.
CAPCOM Is Buzz holding your cue cards for
you, over?
SC Cue card have, a no. We have, we have no
intention of competing with the professionals,
believe me. We are very comfortable up here.
We do have a happy home. There's plenty of
room for the three of us and I think we're
all learning to find our favorite little corner
to, to sit in. And, you know, g is very comfortable
but after a while you get to the point where
you sort of get tired of rattling around and
banging off the ceiling and the floor and
the sides so you intend to find a little corner
somewhere and put your knees up or something
like that to wedge yourself in and that seems
more at home.
CAPCOM Houston, roger. Slowly sinking into
the sack there.
SC It's really comfortable. Forgot to give
Buzz his flashlight back.
CAPCOM Apollo 11, Houston. Could you give
the folks a view of your patch on your CWG?
Over.
SC Stand by. We're going to try to get it
closer.
CAPCOM All right, 11, Houston. We have the
patch to get temped up through the focus slightly,
over.
CAPCOM 11, Houston. The scan on the camera
makes the, that's a little bit better now.
The flashlight seems to flicker due to the
scan on the TV. We can't see the Eagle. Now
that's a little bit better, over. If you open
the F-stop a little bit more, over.
SC Over. It's open all the way. We're going
to have to move Buzz around a little bit.
CAPCOM Roger.
CAPCOM Okay, Apollo 11, Houston. The colors
are better now. It's coming in. If we could
attempt a little bit better focus on it. There
we go. Our focus is a lot better now. We see
the Eagle coming right in on the lunar surface.
Over
CAPCOM That's very good now.
CAPCOM Apollo 11, Houston. That's very good
now. We can see the Earth in the background,
Apollo 11, and the Eagle coming in.
SC It's probably pretty hard to see the olive
branches, isn't it?
CAPCOM Roger, it is.
SC Well, that's what he has in his talons,
an olive branch.
CAPCOM Copy.
CAPCOM Apollo 11, Houston. We're really impressed
with the clarity and the detail that we have
in the picture. The colors are, it's really
an excellent picture now that I'm looking
on our monitor which is about 12 seconds before
the networks can get it out due to the conversion
that we have here on our TV converter. We're
looking at the controls in the flight, the
main display console and we can see the DSKY
up on the panel. Over.
SC That would be nice if you could take a
look at all the circuit breakers, make sure
the right ones are in and the right ones are
out.
CAPCOM All right, Big Bubba's watching.
SC And we're glad of it.
SC You guys sure been doing a good job of
watching us. We appreciate it.
CAPCOM The spacecraft's been beautiful, 11,
the way, really no complaints at all. Looks,
things are really great.
SC Can you see this DSKY on the embasy?
CAPCOM That's affirmative. It appears that,
can't quite tell what program when the cut
went through. We see you punching in a verb
35, I think it is. Over.
SC Might as well tell the econs or tell the
G&C's they better hold on to their hat and
I'll push the inner button.
CAPCOM Roger. We see a real display now.
CAPCOM That's a good demonstration of how
the crew has the interface with the computer
talking to the programs and all that we have
in the computer.
SC That's right, Charlie. Sometimes it tells
us things and sometimes we tell it things
and mostly it talks to us.
CAPCOM 11, Houston. We just lost our pickup.
I see we're going back outside now. Over.
CAPCOM 11, Houston. You copy? Over.
SC Roger, we copy and as we pan back out to
the distance at which we see the Earth we'll
have Apollo 11 signing off.
CAPCOM Roger, Apollo 11. Thank you much for
the show. It's a real good half hour. Appreciate
it. Thank you very much. Out.
PAO This is Apollo Control. That TV transmission
lasted about 35 minutes.
CAPCOM Apollo 11, Houston. Would you T arrow
reset on the DSKY please? Over.
SC Okay, we should be straightened out now,
Charlie. Back in POO.
CAPCOM Houston, Apollo 11, how do we stand
on the O2 fuel cell purge? Do you want to
go ahead and do that as scheduled in the Flight
Plan?
SC Stand by, 11, over.
CAPCOM Okay.
SC This is 11, Houston. You can commence the
O2 fuel cell purge now if you'd like? Over.
CAPCOM Okay, fine.
SC While Buzz is doing that, I'll change the
aluminum hydroxide.
CAPCOM Roger.
CAPCOM Hello, Apollo 11, Houston, over.
SC Go ahead, Houston, Apollo 11.
CAPCOM Roger, Buzz. The attitude that we're
in right now is a convenient one to start
PTC in. We'd be satisfied with this attitude
so we'd like you to disable quads Charlie
and Delta and we'll wait about five to ten
minutes and then we'll establish the PTC,
over.
SC Roger, disable Charlie and Delta and we'll
wait before starting PTC.
CAPCOM Roger.
PAO This is Apollo Control at 34 hours 46
minutes. Apollo 11 is presently 131,000 nautical
miles from Earth, traveling at a speed of
about 4300 feet per second. During the TV
transmission, the crew advised that they may
possibly be able to take the color television
into the lunar module with them tomorrow at
about 56 hours 30 minutes ground elapsed time.
They reported that the cables had been checked
and appear to be long enough to take them
into the lunar module. During the next hour
or so, the activity here in Mission Control
will be revolving about getting the crew set
up for their rest period and eat period as
we have a very long rest period tonight scheduled
ten hours and that will begin, according to
the flight plan, at about 37 hours ground
elapsed time. However, we would anticipate
if activities move along as they appear to
be at this point, we are somewhat ahead of
the flight plan, then perhaps again we would
be able to get the crew into their rest period
and sleep period a little bit early. At 34
hours 48 minutes, this is Apollo Control Houston.
PAO This is Apollo Control at 35 hours 13
minutes. Apollo 11 is presently about 93,265
nautical miles from the moon and with respect
to the moon it's traveling at a speed of about
4019 feet per second. At this time we are
receiving the tape playback which Goldstone,
the tracking site at Goldstone, California,
received from the spacecraft in that earlier
unscheduled TV transmission. This was a test
of the system using the spacecraft on the
antennas, the small OMNI directional antennas.
Normally transmissions from this distance
would be, would require the high gain antenna.
This television transmission is being processed
and converted to color and we anticipate that
we'll have it available for playback at about
9:00 p.m. We are in conversation with the
spacecraft at this time and we'll pick up
the tape recorder conversation that we 
have and then standby to follow any live conversation.
SC Houston, would you say again what your
requested?
CAPCOM Roger, 11, we'd like you to go back
to attitude HOLD, over.
SC Roger
CAPCOM 11, Houston, looks like we're going
to have to reinitialate, reinitialize this
PTC.
SC All right.
SC Okay, do you have any roll angle that you'd
like to stop it in, Charlie? I haven't stopped
it yet.
CAPCOM 11, Houston, it's your preference,
right now if you want to right now. Over.
SC Okay.
CAPCOM Apollo 11, Houston, over.
SC Houston, Apollo 11.
CAPCOM Roger, 11. The problem on that initial,
starting up the PTC was we failed to do the
VERB 49 which, and load the desired initial
attitude, so they are trying to take it back
to the old attitude that we had started up
in a number of hours ago. That's why we picked
up the rates in the other axis. We're going
to wait in this attitude for about twenty
minutes to damp out the rates again and then
we'll proceed with the VERB 49 in LOAD 1 attitude
that we have at this time. Over.
SC Okay, sounds good, Charlie. When you get
to the VERB 49, I'd like for you to give me
the 3 gimbal angle that you want loaded.
CAPCOM Roger, we'll do, over.
SC Thank you.
CAPCOM And, Apollo 11, Houston, we have your
fly-by pad if you're ready to copy. Over.
SC Standby 1.
SC Houston, Apollo1, is that P-30 pass?
CAPCOM That's affirmative. Over.
SC Okay, ready to copy.
CAPCOM All right, Buzz. It's fly-by, it's
a purpose. SPS G&N. 62815 plus 097 minus 020
070 54 5944 minus 00028 plus 00023 plus 00069
029 149 312. Apogee is NA plus 00221 00078
001 00034. Sextant star 01 2185 227. Boresight
star is NA NA NA. Latitude is minus 0265 minus
16500 11899 36228 14 45 647. In the comments
your set stars are Deneb and Vega 007 144
068. No ullage. It's a docked burn using the
PTC REFSMMAT. Standby for your read back.
Over.
SC Okay, would you give me the GEC of the
burn again, please.
CAPCOM Roger, 144 56 47. Over.
SC Roger. Flyby SPS G&N 62815 plus 097 minus
020 070 54 5944 minus 00028 plus 00023 plus
00069 269 149 312. NA plus 00221 00078 001
00034. 01 2185 227. NA . Minus 0265 minus
16500 11899 36228 14 45 647. Deneb and Vega
007 144 068. No ullage. Docked PTC REFSMMAT.
Over.
CAPCOM Roger, say again your roll angle, Buzz,
I copy, I read 029, over.
SC Roger, 029.
CAPCOM Roger, good readback.
SC Houston, Apollo 11. On the 7/10th rate,
the rate loaded into the dap is 1 or 2/10th.
CAPCOM 11. Roger.
CAPCOM Hello Apollo 11, Houston, over.
SC Houston, Apollo 11, over
CAPCOM Roger. Mike, would you please copy
down your VERB 16 NOUN 20. I see the angles
now. Then execute a VERB 49 and load that,
those angles, the NOUN 20 that you see on
the DSKY into the VERB, into the NOUN 22 slot
and prone and that will start our 20 minute
wait through it. Over.
SC Okay, Charlie, I'll do that right now in
a matter of inches. Those numbers are plus
04511 plus 09021 and plus 35984. Over.
CAPCOM Roger.
SC It's Apollo 11. I've done that and, of
course, I got an immediate 50 18 so I guess
we're set up to proceed from here and they'll
start the 20 minute timer.
CAPCOM That's affirmative.
SC Houston, I still question that 7/10th rate
with 2/10th loaded into the damper up here,
though. Could you explain? Over.
CAPCOM Roger, we're working on it. Standby
1.
SC Okay.
CAPCOM Apollo 11, Houston, over.
SC Yes, Apollo 11.
CAPCOM Roger, we got a little laser experiment
we like to -- for you to do for us -- If you
got the Earth through any of your windows
or through the telescope, would you so advise?
Over.
SC Standby, Charlie. At this low attitude
what should our high gain angles be? Maybe
that would help us locate you. We don't see
you on the lens.
CAPCOM Standby.
CAPCOM Hello, Apollo 11, Houston. Those high
gain angles are PITCH minus 70, YAW 90. We
think the Earth is apparently it's pretty
close to plus C axis, over.
SC Okay.
SC Okay, Charlie. I got you in the telescope.
CAPCOM Roger, Apollo 11. We got a laser that
we're going to, it's a blue/green laser that
we're going to flash on and off in a frequency
of on for a second, off for a second. It's
coming out of MacDonald Observatory near El
Paso which is, should be right on the terminator,
right inside the terminator. We're going to
activate that momentarily. Would you please
take a look through the telescope and see
if you can see it? Over
SC Telescope or sextant?
CAPCOM Either one, over.
SC Okay, I'll start with the telescope and
if I don't see it there then I'll try the
sextant.
CAPCOM Roger. We'll give you the word when
they've got it turned on, over.
SC Okay.
CAPCOM 11, Houston. They don't have it turned
on yet. We'll give you the word when they
got it turned on, over.
SC Okay.
CAPCOM Hello, Apollo 11, Houston. We noticed
the cryo pressure dropped moment ago. Did
you stir up the cryos? Over.
SC Roger, we've finished cycling operations.
CAPCOM Rog, copy, out.
CAPCOM Hello, Apollo 11, Houston. MacDonald's
got the laser turned on Would you take a look?
Over.
SC Okay, Charlie.
CAPCOM It's bluish/green.
CAPCOM 11, Houston. We got some shaft and
trunnion that might tweak it up a little bit.
Shaft of 141.5. Trunnion of 39.5, over.
SC Okay, standby.
CAPCOM Apollo 11, Houston. If you see it,
it should be coming up, appear to be coming
up through the clouds. MacDonald reports that
there's a break in the clouds that they're
beaming this thing through. Over.
SC Roger.
CAPCOM Hello Apollo 11, Houston. You can terminate
the exercise on the laser. Rates are steady
enough now for it to come into the PTC, over.
SC Okay, Houston. Neither Neil nor Mike can
see it. Incidentally those shafts and trunnions
just missed pointing at the world.
CAPCOM Roger, thank you.
SC Just as we are looking at it through the
scanning telescope, it would be about a, oh,
maybe a third of an Earth radii high and to
the left.
CAPCOM Roger.
SC But we did, we did identify the El Paso
and it appeared to us to be a break in the
clouds there and we looked in that break and
saw nothing.
CAPCOM Roger, thank you much, out.
SC Houston, Apollo 11, over.
CAPCOM Roger, go ahead, over.
SC Were you following that on the DSKY?
CAPCOM Roger, standby.
CAPCOM Eleven, Houston. What's your exact
question, over.
SC I've followed the procedure through step
7 down to the point where I've got 27 303
enter and then we go to an operator light.
CAPCOM Roger, stand by.
CAPCOM Apollo ll, Houston, stand by a moment.
We'll have an answer for you momentarily,
over.
SC Okay appreciate it, Charlie. Now the light's
gone out without any further DSKY action.
CAPCOM Roger.
SC Correction, stand by that's not right.
CAPCOM Roger.
CAPCOM Apollo 11, Houston.
SC Houston, Apollo 11.
CAPCOM Roger we've finally gotten concurrence
on the problem here with 50 guys looking at
it. When we were sitting in the 58 team we
attempted to load the erasable before you
terminated the verb 49. So Mike what we're
going to have to do is call off the present
CDU's, copy those down and do a verb 49. Load
the present, do a proceed then an enter and
then we can then set up attitude hold with
step 6, over.
SC Okay, I think that's what we did last time.
CAPCOM It appeared to us that we attempted
to load the erasable prior to entering on
the verb 49 which verb 49 was still running
and it clobbered the CDU's, over.
SC Okay.
SC Houston, Apollo 11, and we're moving at
the proper rate.
CAPCOM Alleluia!
CAPCOM Eleven, Houston. It looks great to
us now. Over.
SC It looks fine here Charlie. The (garbled)
part is the only part I don't find explained
yet.
CAPCOM Roger, Mike. We're working on that
one right now. We're coming up with the story
soon, over.
SC Thank you.
CAPCOM Eleven, Houston, we're having corn
from Goldstone to Honeysuckle, over.
SC Okay.
SC Hello Houston, through Honeysuckle or-
-
CAPCOM Apollo 11, Houston go ahead over.
SC You sound good to us through Honeysuckle.
How do we sound?
CAPCOM Roger, 5 by Mike. We'd like to OMNI
configuration as follows. OMNI ALPHA place
in BRAVO, OMNI to OMNI - -
SC - and the configuration as follows: OMNI
ALPHA placed in BRAVO, OMNI to OMNI, high
gain track to MANUAL, high gain yaw 270, pitch
--
PAO This is Apollo Control. At the present
time we are handing over from the tracking
site at Goldstone, California, to the site
at Honeysuckle which accounts for the noise
in the transmission --
SC - I've got S-band OMNI Z OMNI, track to
MANUAL and beam Y and pitch, better say that
again, yaw 2 70 , over.
CAPCOM Roger, Buzz. I broke up that pitch
minus 50 at beam Y, over.
SC Roger, copy.
SC Houston, Apollo 11. Are you ready to copy
some numbers on status report, etc.
CAPCOM Say again, over.
SC Roger, ready to copy some numbers on the
status report, Houston.
CAPCOM Rog. Go ahead, over.
SC Okay, radiation CDR 11005, CMP 10006, LMP
09007. Medication negative, and I got some
(garble).
CAPCOM Go ahead, over.
SC Battery C 37.1, pyro battery A and G both
37.1. RCS ALPHA 82, BRAVO 84, COCCO 85, DELTA
87, over.
CAPCOM Roger, we copy. Radiation 11005 10006
09007. No medication. 37.1 37.1 37.1 82 84
85 87, over.
SC That's affirmative. And you want a LM GM
DELTA V at 1.1.
CAPCOM Roger, copy, 11.
CAPCOM Hello, Apollo 11, Houston. Please verify
that 4 cryo heaters AUTO, the four fans OFF.
SC Okay, we have been holding the 02 heater
in 
the OFF position. I believe that 
was your last instructions. All the other
heaters are to ON and all fans are OFF. Over.
CAPCOM Roger, standby.
CAPCOM 11, Houston. We would like all heaters
AUTO, over.
SC All four on AUTO, all four fans OFF.
CAPCOM Hello, Apollo 11, Houston. As the sun
sinks slowly in the west, the white team bids
you good night. If we get 
a story on 
the 7/10ths we can give it to 
you 
in about 15 minutes or so, if not, we'll give
it to you 
in the morning, over.
SC Okay, sounds fine, thank you, Charlie,
very much.
SC Have a nice day today, Charlie.
CAPCOM Thank you.
SC Good night ail.
PAO This is Apollo Control at 36 hours 11
minutes. At 
the present time Apollo 11 is 134 000 nautical
miles from Earth. The velocity is 4216 feet
per second. During that last series of transmissions
from the crew, we received a status report
from Buzz Aldrin and he reported that 
the crew has in the past 24 hours taken no
medication. This is similar to the crew status
report we received from them last night. We
bid them good night at 36 hours 9 minutes
or about 2 minutes ago. We anticipate that
the crew will probably have a few more housekeeping
type chores aboard the spacecraft before they
actually turn in and also we'll probably be
combining their eat period with the first
part of that sleep period. At 36 hours 12
minutes into the flight of Apollo 11, this
is Mission Control Houston.
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