…okay, entry conditions which is, would
primarily be for corridor control, controlling
the flight path angle at entry. And the current
predicted splash time in the Pacific is 195
hours 17 minutes 25 seconds. At the present
time Apollo 11 is 172,654 nautical miles from
the Earth, traveling at a speed of 4017 feet
per second. We estimate that the spacecraft
will be half way home at a ground elapse time
of 159 hours 53 minutes 43 seconds. At that
point 
the spacecraft will 145,583 nautical miles
from the Earth's surface, and we will have
completed half of the return trip measured
from lunar orbit insertion to splashdown.
Now we also have another figure that would
be for the time of which the spacecraft velocity
is equal with respect to both the Earth and
the moon. At that point the velocity will
be 4300 feet per second with respect to both
bodies and we would define this as the equal
potential point and that will occur at 155
hours 30 minutes and at that time the spacecraft
will 156,874 nautical miles from the Earth,
52 543 nautical miles from the moon. We're
now 1 hour 28 minutes 26 seconds from ignition
for the midcourse correction 5 maneuver.
Apollo 11, this is Houston. Over.
Roger, go ahead Houston.
CAPCOM Roger, if Neil has a free minute, we've
got a question or two regarding the C02 partial
pressure and water in the suit loop discrepancy
noted yesterday. Over.
Go ahead.
Roger, 11. Was water noted in both suits or
only in yours, Neil?
SC I think only in my suit.
CAPCOM Okay, can you locate that occurrence
for us in time when you first noticed water
in the suit either by mission time or relation
to any particular event?
SC I think it was after insertion sometime,
Bruce. I don't remember exactly when. It was
when we were in orbit and had our, after we
took our helmets off.
CAPCOM Roger, did you call it co us when you
first noticed it, or was it sometime after
when you called us?
SC It just might have been probably 20 minutes
after I noticed it that I mentioned it to
you.
CAPCOM Roger. Was this noticing the water
accompanied by your erratic C02 partial pressure
readings or was that a separate problem? Over.
SC Well, the water problem evidenced itself
before we noted any erratic motion the PCO2
gauge.
CAPCOM Roger. What was the relative sequence
on selecting water separator number 2 and
the secondary CO2 canister - that is, did
you go to the secondary water separator first
and then the secondary CO2? Over.
SC I believe we went to secondary C02 first.
CAPCOM Roger, we copy. Was there any change
in your suit loop count?.
SC Now…
CAPCOM Go ahead.
SC I should mention, Bruce, that when I went
to water secondary, water separator to secondary
that. I didn't notice any change, but about
after 15 minutes or 20
minutes the water stopped coming out. So,
maybe that was just water that was already
in the loop that was still blowing out, but
the secondary water separator was operating
properly.
CAPCOM. Roger, did you make any changes in
the suit tube configuration after you went
from the egress mode to the cabin mode after
insertion - that is, in particular, they're
interested in knowing if you recall changing
the diverter valve position to egress any
time while you were on the secondary canister?
Over.
SC No, I don't believe we did that at all,
Bruce.
CAPCOM Okay, 11. Thank you. That sums up our
questions for now and we'll crank these back
into the engineering pipeline and see what
we can come up with.
SC Okay. Are you satisfied that the CO2 circuit
breaker was in (garbled)? Over.
CAPCOM Say again, please.
SC Roger. In LM jettison, are you satisfied
that the C02 circuit breaker was in? Over.
CAPCOM Yes, it was in.
SC Roger, could you confirm that? I thought
there was some question after we got into
the command module as to whether that had
been left in or not. Over.
CAPCOM Roger, 11. It was in and confirmed
in, and the readings after jettison say about
.I to .2.
PAO This is Apollo Control at 149 hours, 41
minutes. We're now about 49 minutes away from
the first midcourse correction of this transearth
leg of the Apollo 11
flight. That maneuver will be a 4.8 foot per
second burn of the spacecraft reaction control
system thrusters and is scheduled to occur
at a ground elapsed time of 150 hours, 29
minutes 54 seconds. At this time Apollo 11
is 171,017 nautical miles from the earth and
the spacecraft velocity is 4043 feet per second.
Houston, Apollo 11. Over.
11, this is Houston. Over.
SC Roger. I wonder if you have noticed any
change in the biomed returns sign you're getting?
Over.
CAPCOM Negative, Buzz. Still looks kind of
bad. Apparently when you move around, it's
cutting in and out. Have you checked the little
electrical connector where it goes into the
signal conditioner? Over.
SC I did. They're all about as tight as can
be. I tell you what I'll, I'll take them out
and put them back on again to see if that
makes any difference.
CAPCOM Okay, if you would at your convenience.
We'll be watching it down here.
PAO This is Apollo Control at 150 hours 4
minutes. Telemetry data at this time shows
the spacecraft in the proper attitude for
the upcoming midcourse correction maneuver.
The crew will soon be verifying their attitude
by taking a sighting on a star through the
sextant and then be running some tests on
the guidance and control system and the reaction
control system before the maneuver takes place.
That burn now scheduled to come a little over
25 minutes. Apollo 11 is now 170 102 nautical
miles from the Earth and the spacecraft velocity
is 4058 feet per second.
Apollo 11, this is Houston. We'd like you
to try acquisition on the high gain antenna
for us at PITCH minus 90, YAW 270. Over.
SC Roger. Got us some work.
CAPCOM Roger, out.
CAPCOM 11, this is Houston. We're showing
about 6.8 percent on waste water on our telemetry
now. Over.
SC Okay, we've got about 9 up here. Over.
CAPCOM Roger, out.
CAPCOM 11, Houston. We're standing by for
your burn. Everything's looking good from
down here.
SC Thank you Bruce. You've got about a minute
and 20 seconds.
CAPCOM Roger, we concur.
PAO One minute until midcourse correction
number 5. It will be a 10.9 second burn of
the spacecraft reaction control system thrusters
giving a change of velocity retrograde of
4.8 feet per second. The primary purpose of
this maneuver will be to control the spacecraft
flight path angle at entry interphase. We're
now less that 30 seconds from the initiation
of the burn.
PAO They should be burning at this time.
PAO And we show the burn off.
SC Houston, do you copy our residuals?
CAPCOM Roger, we've got your residual fuel
count reading for us.
SC DELTA VC is plus .2.
CAPCOM Roger. Plus .2.
SC It was actually plus 100.2. Okay?
CAPCOM Okay.
PAO That midcourse correction was performed
at a distance of about 169,000 nautical miles
from the Earth at a spacecraft velocity of
4075.6 feet per second.
PAO This is Apollo Control at 150 hours 35
minutes. Our telemetry data here on the ground
shows that a midcourse correction maneuver,
just about nominal, burn duration 10.5 seconds.
Prior to the maneuver, we were predicting
a splashdown time of 195 hours 17 minutes
25 seconds. And we expect there will be some
modification to that after we've had a chance
to do some tracking following this midcourse
correction maneuver. Apollo 11 is now 168,843
nautical miles from the earth traveling at
a speed of 4078 feet per second and we're
continuing to see a very slow buildup in the
velocity.
SC Houston, Apollo 11.
CAPCOM Go ahead, 11.
SC Roger. We're in FTC attitude and would
you please give us a call when our thruster
activity has subsided sufficiently?
CAPCOM Roger, stand by.
CAPCOM Apollo 11, this is Houston. We're going
to hand over from Madrid to Goldstone at 151
hours even. If you should lose lock on the
high gain at this time, you may require at
PITCH minus 45 yaw 270. Break. We're still
watching your rates. Over.
SC Okay. Thank you.
CAPCOM Apollo 11, this is Houston, over.
CAPCOM Apollo 11, this is Houston, over.
SC Go ahead, Houston.
CAPCOM 11, we're still seeing rates on your
spacecraft above those we would like for and
the continuation of the PTC mode which we
are still monitoring it and we'll advise you
when it has settled down, over.
SC Okay.
PAO This is Apollo Control at 151 hours 11
minutes. The crew is presently setting up
the spacecraft for passive thermal control.
Once it stabilizes out it will begin a slow
roll rate of three revolutions per hour to
maintain temperature control. At the present
time Apollo 11 is 167,448 nautical miles from
the Earth and the velocity is 4101 feet per
second.
CAPCOM Apollo 11, this is Houston. You are
Go for the set up on PTC, over.
SC Thank you.
SC Houston, Apollo 11, over.
CAPCOM Go ahead 11.
SC It didn't like it that time. When I got
down to the entry 27303 enter, it took off
in roll at a high rate in excess of one degree
per second. Over. That stopped it now and
we are going to have to go back and do it
over again. I’d like to try find out the
reason it did that.
CAPCOM Roger. You might as well start setting
up for it and we will be working the problem
here.
SC Okay. You do have us on high bit rate here
now?
CAPCOM That's affirmative.
SC Okay, good. I'll maneuver back to PTC Ignition
Attitude while you guys look at the data and
see what you think.
CAPCOM Roger.
SC Houston, Apollo 11. I think the reason
is in having 1620 on the DSKY during the subsequent
entry or at least that’s one possibility.
CAPCOM Roger. We’ll check it out.
CAPCOM Apollo 11, this is Houston. While you're
waiting for the CSM to settle down and for
us to look at the tapes on your latest maneuver,
would you feel like answering some more questions
with relation to the lunar surface? Over.
SO Go ahead.
SC Go ahead, Bruce.
CAPCOM Roger. For 64,000 dollars we're still
trying to work out the location of your landing
site, Tranquility Base. We think it is located
on LAM2 Chart at Julia .5 and 7.8. Do you
still have those charts onboard? Over.
SC Stand by one. They're packed.
CAPCOM Roger. You may not have to unpack it.
The position which I Just gave you is slightly
west of Wess Crater. I guess it's about two
tenths of a kilometer west of it and
we were wondering if Neil or Buzz had observed
any additional landmarks during descent lunar
state or ascent which would confirm or disprove
this. One thing we're wondering about is that
if you were at this position, you would have
seen the
Cat's Paw, during the ascent just up to the
north of your track. Over.
SC We were looking for the Cat's Paw too,
thinking we were probably downrange beyond
the Big Z. But I think that it's likely that
that might have been Wess Crater that we went
across in landing, but, stand by.
SC We're hoping, Bruce, that our 16 millimeter
film was working at that point in descent
and we'll be able to confirm our touchdown
position. We thought that during
ascent we might be able to pick up some recognizable
objects close to the landing site, and we
did see a number of small craters and crater
rows and things like that, which we may be
able to pick out after the fact, but we haven't
been able to yet.
CAPCOM Roger. And the next question from our
panel is for Buzz. We recall that he reported
seeing a laser upon AOS of the Earth the first
time after, the first rev after ascent, and
we're wondering what color the beam was and
if he could determine at the approximate location
with respect to the Earth. Over.
SC It was mostly white, perhaps a tinge of
yellowish color to it, and it seemed to be,
as I recall it, the terminator of the Earth
was toward the horizon and seemed to be about
a quarter to a third of the way down from
down toward the terminator of the Earth from
the opposite horizon. That's a third to a
quarter of the Earth's radii. Over.
CAPCOM Roger, and that puts it in the light
side? Over.
SC Roger. Yes, it was in the light side. The
Earth was about 2/3 lit, Earth, with the terminator
down toward the horizon. And now, coming from
the opposite LM of the Earth, the sunlight
LM, coming down about one quarter to one third
of a radius in from the LM. Generally, ESSENTIALLY
located with respect to a line drawn perpendicular
to the terminator that goes through the center.
Over.
CAPCOM Roger, Buzz; we copy.
SC And I got pictures of that. I'm sure that
will show up.
SC And I saw, I saw that too. It was a very
bright spot of light and I confirm Buzz's
observation of its position.
CAPCOM Okay, 11, very good. Now with respect
to the documented sample container on television
it appeared to us as though the samples for
that container were in fact being, given,
being selected in accordance with some thought
or consideration being given to the rocks
themselves, and we were wondering if you could
give any further details from memory about
any of these samples and the context of the
material or the surface from which they were
taken. Over.
SC Yes, you remember I initially started on
the side of the LM that the TV camera was
on and I took a number of samples of rocks
off the surface and several that
were just subsurface and about 20, 15 to 20
feet north of the LM. And then I recalled
that that area had been probably swept pretty
well by the exhaust of the descent engine,
so I crossed over to the southern side of
the LM and took a number of samples from the
area around the elongate double crater that
we commented on and several beyond that and
tried to take as many different types, of
rock types as I could see by eye as I could
in the short time we had available. There
were a number of other samples that I had
seen earlier in our stroll around the LM that
I had hoped to get back and pick up and put
in the documented sample, but I didn't get
those and I'll be able to comment in detail
when we get in the debriefing session.
CAPCOM Roger. Did you observe any small craters
with conspicuously blocking rims? Over.
SC Well, aside from the great big one that
we went over, I guess there were none in our
area. I took a stroll back, after putting
up the PSEP and all. Buzz was starting to
unpack the documented samples, took a stroll
back to a crater behind us that was maybe
seventy or eighty feet in diameter and fifteen
or twenty feet deep and took some pictures
of it. It had rocks in the bottom of pretty
good size, considerably bigger than any that
were out on the surface but there was no,
we apparently at fifteen feet or so had not
got below the regalus. We were essentially
showing no bedrock, at least in the walls
of the crater at that depth. Over.
CAPCOM Roger. We copy. Okay, thank you, Neil.
That about wraps up the questions we have
on hand for now.
SC Okay.
SC My compliments to the chef. The food's
outstanding. This cream of chicken soup, I
give at least 3 spoons.
CAPCOM Okay. Cream of chicken, 3 spoons.
CAPCOM Apollo 11, this is Houston. Over.
SC Go ahead.
CAPCOM 11. We e concur that having VERB 16
NOUN 20 up on the DSKY may well have had some
effect, on your PTC initiation. It looks like
this would give, let the computer work with
the knowledge of the axle, PDU angles. What
we'd like you to do is do a CDU 0 which is
VERB 4 O NOUN 20 ENTER and then start the
PTC procedure again at step 2 with loading
VERB 6922 desired attitude in the AUTO maneuver
and all that. OVER.
SC Okay. The only I don’t understand about
that is why it took off at the rate it did.
What rate should it had taken off at under
that theory?
CAPCOM Stand by a minute, Mike.
CAPCOM 11, CMB, this is Houston. Over.
SC Go ahead, Houston.
CAPCOM Mike, over here on page 9-7 of your
checklist where we're setting up PTC, there's
been a note penciled in after wait 20 minutes
for rate to damp. Do not monitor a VERB 16
NOUN 20. It turns out that the significance
of that is that if you are monitoring 16 NOUN
20 then when you get down here in step 7,
the second time you do a VERB 24 you've got
to reload the NOUN 01 to make it VERB 24 and
NOUN O1 ENTER before you load the three registers.
Over.
SC Roger that. I was just questioning the
rate at which the maneuver would begin if
that were not done.
CAPCOM Roger. We're still working on computing
the rates for you.
PAO This is Apollo Control at 152 hours 9
minutes. At this time, the crew is getting
the spacecraft set up to reinitiate the passive
thermal control. Apollo 11 currently 165,143
nautical miles from the earth and traveling
at a speed of 4,142 feet per second. The flight
plan has relatively few activities scheduled
for now through
the beginning of the crew sleep period tonight.
We do have a television transmission scheduled.
I believe, the time on that is a little after
8:00 P.M. Central Daylight Time.
And we show the sleep period to begin at about
160 hours Ground Elapsed Time or a little
less than 8 hours from now. We'll continue
to stand by for any conversation with
the crew. It has been relatively quiet for
a good part of today. We'll stand by for a
call from the CAPCOM or from the spacecraft
down to the ground.
CAPCOM Apollo 11, Apollo 11, this is Houston
broadcasting in the blind. If you read us
attempt to acquire on OMNI antennas, attempt
to acquire on OMNI antennas, if you read.
This is Houston, out.
CAPCOM Apollo 11, Apollo 11, this is Houston
broadcasting in the blind, do you read? Our
contact position on an OMNI antenna, our contact
position using an OMNI antenna. Over.
CAPCOM Apollo 11, Apollo 11, this is Houston
broadcasting in the blind. If you read attempt
to contact using an OMNI antenna. This is
Houston. Out.
PAO This is Apollo Control at 152 hours 29
minutes. In the process of reestablishing
the passive thermal control with the spacecraft
in a slow rotation, we have apparently lost
high gain lock on and we expect that the crew
will reacquire lock with the antenna once
the passive thermal control is reestablished.
At the present time Apollo 11 is 164 thousand
320 nautical miles from the earth and the
velocity is up now to 4 thousand 156 feet
per second. We'll continue to stand by here
for reacquisition of the spacecraft, for reestablishment
of high gain lock on.
CAPCOM Apollo 11, Apollo 11, this is Houston
broadcasting in the blind. If you read us
attempt to acquire on OMNI antennas, attempt
to acquire on OMNI antennas, if you read.
This is Houston, out.
SC Hey, Goldstone
CAPCOM Apollo 11, this is Houston. How do
you read, over?
SC Loud and clear, Bruce.
CAPCOM Roger, what antenna are you using?
SC Houston, Apollo 11 has gone into high gain.
How do you read, over?
CAPCOM Well, you are loud and clear on the
high gain.
SC So what's new?
CAPCOM Oh, we were wondering what was new
with you up there?
SC Oh, very quiet. We're just sitting here
letting the thruster firing damp down when
they, Houston, let us know and we will start
this PTC.
CAPCOM Roger.
SC Nice to sit here and watch the Earth getting
larger and larger and the Moon smaller and
smaller.
CAPCOM Roger. We'll give you a call when your
rates have damped down sufficiently and we
are unable at the present time to predict
what rate you should have seen at your last
attempt in initiate PTC. We saw about 2 1/2
degrees per second, over.
SC Yah, I believe that.
SC Buzz thinks we should have a PTC program
built in the computer. He could very well
be right.
PAO This is Apollo Control at 153 hours, 7
minutes. At the present time, we are changing
shifts here in Mission Control. Flight Director
Gene Kranz will be coming on to relieve Flight
Director Clifford Charlesworth. The Capsule
Communicator on this shift will be astronaut
Charlie Duke. There will be a change of shift
briefing in the news center, in the building
1 auditorium in about 10 minutes. At the present
time, Apollo 11 is traveling at a speed of
4,185 feet per second. The spacecraft is about
162,700 nautical miles from the earth. During
the change of shift briefing, we will take
the circuit down, record any conversation
that develops with the spacecraft and play
it back following the change of shift briefing.
At 153 hours, 9 minutes this is Apollo Control,
Houston.
PAO This is Apollo Control. 153 hours 49 minutes
Ground Elasped Time. Apollo 11, homeward bound,
is now 161,015 nautical miles out from Earth.
Velocity now 4216 feet per second. Some 3
1/2 minutes of recorded air to ground transmissions
have accumulated during the recent Change
of Shift Press Conference here in Apollo News
Center. Let's play that tape back now.
SC Houston, Apollo 11.
CAPCOM Go ahead, 11.
SC Rog. I was just checking the radios and
how is the thruster activity coming?
CAPCOM 11, Houston. The radios are still in
good shape and we are still waiting for your
rates to decay. We got .03 degrees per second
in pitch now.
SC Okay. We're in no rush. This is a very
pleasant attitude as a matter of fact, the
sun is down in the LEB so it is not shining
through the windows and heating the place
up. We’ve got the Earth steady out window
1. We have the moon steadily out window 3
and of course be are locked up on the high
gain, so as long as the thermal people are
happy, we are happy.
CAPCOM Roger, we copy.
CAPCOM Apollo 11, this is Houston, over.
SC Go ahead, Houston.
CAPCOM Okay, 11. We are about ready to start
PTC. I’d like to give you some high gain
antenna angles though. We would like to operate
in the react mode and if you plan on spinning
up in the positive or negative direction,
over?
SC We can do it either way. I had planned
the positive.
CAPCOM Okay, for positive the high gain antenna
setting should be pitch plus 30, yaw 270,
and in react, over.
SC Understand. React pitch plus 30, yaw 270.
Thank you.
CAPCOM Roger, and if you would when you are
making your DSKT entries to set up for PTC,
go a little slower and we will try to follow
each entry from down here. Over.
SC Roger that.
SC Houston, 11. PTC established.
CAPCOM Roger, 11.
CAPCOM 11, Houston. We observed that PTC is
fairly well established here and we'll keep
you posted on how it's going and your friendly
white team commentator is taking over now.
CAPCOM That was the green team.
SC Correction, all your green team – correction
green team. Excuse me.
CAPCOM Roger, out.
SC How could I forget! I used to be a green
one.
CAPCOM Hello Apollo 11, Houston. Your white
team is now on. We're standing by for an exciting
evening of TV and a pre-sleep report, over.
CAPCOM Apollo 11, Houston. Are you sure you
don't have anybody else in there with you?
SC Houston, Apollo 11. Say again, please.
CAPCOM We had some strange noises coming down
on the downlink and it sounded like you had
some friends up there.
SC Where, where do the white team go during
their off hours anyway?
CAPCOM Say again.
PAO This is Apollo Control. Still no explanation,
the weird noises emanating from Apollo 11,
if indeed it is from Apollo 11. And it's reported
from network that it's being received on the
downlink at two different stations in the
Manned Space Flight Network. Perhaps it will
all shake out later in the mission as to what
these strange noises are. We'll come back
up again as conversation is resumed with Apollo
11 now 160,410 nautical miles out from Earth
traveling at 4228 feet per second. At 154
hours, 5 minutes ground elapsed time this
is Apollo Control.
PAO This is Apollo Control 154 hours, 53 minutes
ground elapsed time. 40 hours, 9 minutes to
entry. Apollo 11 homeward bound 158,378 nautical
miles out from Earth. Velocity now 4267 feet
per second. We have some 3 minutes of tape
accumulated over the past half hour of minor
conversations with the crew of Apollo 1t.
We'll roll these tapes now.
CAPCOM Apollo 11, Houston. Over.
SC Roger.
CAPCOM Roger. Would you, we've lost comm with
you for about the last ten minutes. Would
you verify that the S-band track switch is
in REACQ? Over.
SC Negative. It's not. The last time we broke
lock, we went to AUTO and I left it there.
Sorry.
CAPCOM Roger. We'd like you to put it in REACQ
then monitor in about two minutes we'll be
coming up on the high gain, would you monitor
the REACQ if it doesn't take, acquire manually?
Over.
SC Okay. Say again the angles you'd like?
CAPCOM We'll try to switch it ourselves. Stand
by on the angles.
CAPCOM Buzz, it's Pitch plus 30 yaw 270. Over.
SC Roger, I've got them, Capcom. Thank you.
CAPCOM Hello Apollo I1, Houston. Would you
please terminate battery charge now? Over.
SC Roger. Terminating battery chargers.
CAPCOM Roger.
CAPCOM Hello Apollo i1, Houston. Any special
attitude you'd like us to look at for the
TV? Over.
SC I don't guess we have a requirement to
(garbled).
CAPCOM Roger. We have an attitude that we
can get the Earth out of a window or the moon.
We’re trying to look at, find that we can
get both if that's what you'd like. Over.
SC A 50 degree roll attitude would probably
give us that, Joe.
CAPCOM Roger.
SC That's a good one because it puts the earth
out window 1 and the moon out window 3 and
puts the sun down the LEB so the lighting
in here remains rather constant.
CAPCOM Rog. Well, we'll just stop on the 50
roll then and we'll give you the word when
to do that. Over.
SC Okay.
PAO This is Apollo Control. That completes
the accumulation of air to ground communications
by means of tape recordings on the last half
hour or so. It's quiet right now. No conversation
going on between Spacecraft Communicator Charlie
Duke and the crew of Apollo 11. And at 154
hours 57 minutes ground elapsed time this
is Apollo Control.
PAO This is Apollo Control, 155 hours, 27
minutes ground elapsed time. Coming up now
about 3 minutes away from tonight's television
pass. It'll be through the 85-foot antenna
at the Goldstone tracking station. The 210
foot dish out there is tied up tracking one
of the Mars fly-by missions. We have some
20 seconds of tape accumulated. We’ll play
that back and rejoin the conversation line.
CAPCOM Apollo 11, Houston. We'll have high
gain coverage about 155:30. At that time,
you can turn on the TV if you desire and continue
your roll around until you get
50 degrees roll. Over.
CAPCOM Apollo 11, Houston. We were going to
give you the all-star game tonight, but it
was rained out. Over.
SC Sorry to hear that.
CAPCOM 11, Houston. We're on the high gain.
You can warm up the SM if you like. Over.
PAO This is Apollo Control still standing
by for the incoming television signal from
Columbia. Still nothing but the color bar
test pattern as of now. Continuing
to stand by on air to ground and television
links.
CAPCOM Apollo 11, Houston. We see you coming
up on 50 roll. How does that attitude look?
Over.
CAPCOM Apollo 11, Houston. We're ready for
the TV. We're all configured. At your convenience.
Over.
PAO This is Apollo Control. While we're waiting
for the television pictures to come in, we
have in the control room here a vase full
of long-stemmed red roses, the card saying,
"To one and all concerned. Job superbly done.
From a moonstruck Canadian." Continuing to
stand by as we wait for the pictures to come
from Columbia. Here they come.
SC Houston, Apollo 11. Over.
CAPCOM Roger. Go ahead, 11. Over.
SC Are you picking up our TV signal?
CAPCOM That's affirmative. We have it up on
the eidophor now. The focus is a little bit
out. We see the Earth in the center of the
screen, still have a little white dot in
the bottom of the camera apparently, and see
some land masses in the center. At least,
I guess that's what it is. It's very hazy
at this time on our eidophor. Over.
SC Let me change, believe that's where we
just came from.
CAPCOM It is, huh? Well, I'm really looking
at the bad, at a bad screen here. Stand by
one. Hey, you're right.
SC It's not bad enough (garbled).
CAPCOM What?
SC I said it's not bad enough about finding
the right landing spot. We weren’t looking
at the right planet.
CAPCOM I'll never live that one down.
SC We're making it get smaller and smaller
here to make sure that it really is the one
leaving.
CAPCOM That's enough, you guys.
CAPCOM Eleven, that was a good picture there.
SC Okay, that's enough of the moon.
SC Okay, that's enough of the moon, Charlie.
We're getting set up for some inside pictures.
CAPCOM Right.
SC We've know there’s a lot of scientists
from a number of countries standing by to
see the lunar samples and we thought you'd
be interested in seeing that they really are
here. These two boxes are the sample return
containers. They're vacuum packed containers
that were closed in a vacuum on the lunar
surface, sealed and then brought inside the
LM and then put inside these fiberglass bags,
zippered and resealed around the outside,
and placed in these receptacles in the side
of the command module. These are the two boxes
and as soon as we get onto the ship I'm sure
these boxes will immediately be transferred
and delivery started to the Lunar Receiving
Laboratory. These boxes include the samples
of the various types of rock. The ground mass
is the soil, the sand and silt and the particle
collector for the solar wind experiment and
the core tubes that took depth samples of
the lunar surface.
CAPCOM Roger. Neil, thank you much for that
description. We've got a pretty dark picture
down here could you set your F-stop? We'd
like to have it, see if you can open it up
a little bit, over.
SC Okay, our monitor showed that to be very
bright.
SC We're down between, well, around F4 which
we thought would be plenty right. We’ll
lighten it up some more.
CAPCOM Well, we'd appreciate it. It's pretty
dark on all our monitors here.
SC Okay, fine.
CAPCOM That's looking a lot better now, Neil.
CAPCOM There's Buzz.
CAPCOM 11 Houston, we have an excellent picture
now, over.
SC Okay, how do you read me, Charlie?
CAPCOM 5 by now, Buzz, over.
SC Okay. The more mundane affairs, now that
we've touched the moon, I'd like to trace
through a little bit for you the developments
that have taken place in the food department.
I'm sure you've already seen this type of
a drink container. A little later Mike will
show you how the water gun operates with its
new filter to take out the hydrogen. Essentially
this water gun is put in this hand and filled
up this bag with water and the drink then
dissolves in the water and this end of the
out feeding. Likewise we have other foods
that are more solid nature. You can probably
see this shrimp cocktail meal, this afternoon,
while the two of us had salmon salad. Another
early development was the use of bite size
food.
CAPCOM Eleven, Houston, Buzz, you're breaking
up badly, will you check your vox, over.
SC Roger, how am I coming through now, Charlie?
CAPCOM You're very clear when you come through.
It's just that your vox is not keying at every
word, over.
SC Okay. These bite size objects were designed
to remove the problem of having so many crumbs
floating around in the cabin so they designed
a particular size that would be able to go
into the mouth all at once. I think since
all of our experience we've discovered that
we can progress a good bit further than that
back to some of the type meals that we have
on Earth. As a matter of fact on this flight
we've carried along pieces of bread and along
with the bread we have a ham spread and I'll
show you, I hope, how easy it is to spread
some ham, while I'm in zero g. I think we've
discovered
that it is quite easy to…you're all very
familiar with.
CAPCOM Apollo 11, Houston. We notice your
roil rate increasing. Will you please see
if you can bring that down to about 04 so
we'll be losing a high gain shortly? Over,
SC You can also use zero gravity to demonstrate
many things that we've all learned in school.
I'd like to demonstrate briefly how easy it
is to explain the action
of the gyroscope. If I spin this can we know
that according to the equations of motion
that we would expect that it, once this is
given a spin about, and has a spin axis in
this direction, if we give it a particular
torque, and if, I'll do this by pushing my
hand against
it in this fashion once its spinning, by the
equations we can predict, that if I put this
torque on it, it will in fact rotate this
direction. Let's see how well this works out.
See if I apply the torque this way, its rotated
this way.
SC Too close, I think?
CAPCOM 11, Houston. It's a pretty good demonstration.
SC Houston this next is a little demonstration
for the kids at home, all kids everywhere
for that matter. I was going to show you how
you drink water out of a spoon but I'm afraid
I fill the spoon too full and if I'm not careful,
I'm going to spill water right over the sides.
Can you, can you see the water slopping around
on the top of the spoon, kids?
CAPCOM That's affirmative, 11.
SC Okay, well as I said, I was going to tell
you but I'm afraid I filled it too far and
its going to spill over the sides. I'll tell
you what. I'll just, I just turn this one
over and give me the water and start all over
again. Okay?
CAPCOM Okay.
SC And you can see, up here we don't know
where over is. One up is as good as another
and that really is water, I tell you.
SC That's really not the way we drink. We
really have a water gun which I'll show you.
Here's the water gun. This cylindrical thing
on the end of it is a filter with several
membranes. One allows water to pass but not
any gas; the other allows gas to pass but
not any water so by routing the gaseous water,
which comes from our tank, through the filter
we're able to drink purified water without
the gas in it, filtered water. And of course
all we do to get it started is just pull the
trigger. It's sort of massy. I haven't been
at this very long. It's the same system that
the Spaniards used to drink at a wine stand
at the bull fights, only I think it'd be more
fun.
SC We'll be seeing you, kids.
CAPCOM Thank you from all us kids in the world
here in the MOCR, who can't tell the Earth
from the moon.
SC Roger. Stand by one and we'll get you that
(garbled).
CAPCOM Looks like you need a wine skin up
there, Mike.
SC That’d be nice.
SC Okay. 11, Houston. You have a picture now,
Houston?
CAPCOM That's affirmative. I refuse to bite
on this one though. You tell us.
SC Okay. This should be getting larger and
if it is the place we're coming up to.
CAPCOM Roger.
SC No matter where you travel, it's always
nice to get home.
CAPCOM We concur 11. We'll be happy to have
you back.
