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Apollo 11 Technical Crew Debriefing, Volume 1 (scan)

NASA via ibiblio · 1969-07-31 · 251 pages · text by OCR

This is Volume 1 of NASA's Apollo 11 Technical Crew Debriefing, dated July 31, 1969. The Mission Operations Branch of the Flight Crew Support Division at the Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston prepared it, and it was originally classified Confidential. In it Armstrong, Aldrin and Collins go phase by phase through suiting, launch, powered flight, Earth orbit and lunar surface activities. They comment on suit fit, vibration, checklists, lunar dust, footing and poor sleeping conditions in the lunar module. A section titled Visual Sightings appears in the table of contents.

  • p. 51 …I thought that whole first 3 or 4 hours worth of activity was well thought out…
  • p. 58 …COLLINS I certainly don't think it's worth changing the system for mainline Apollo. For…
  • p. 63 …is in order. ## ARMSTRONG It's probably worth noting here, while we're thinking about it…
  • p. 109 …ALDRIN I think it's worth while to point out that we didn't jump ahead…
  • p. 146 …9.2.6 Trimming residuals ARMSTRONG It's probably worth noting that the flight plan at…
  • p. 210 …I don't know whether it's worth moving that tab or not. ## 10.38 BULK…
  • p. 249 …53 LEC The LEC worked as expected; however, I have a few comments worth noting. The…
## CONFIDENTIAL

## CONTENTS

Section Page

1.0 SUITING AND INGRESS 1-1

2.0 STATUS CHECKS AND COUNTDOWN 2-1

3.0 POWERED FLIGHT 3-1

4.0 EARTH ORBIT AND SYSTEMS CHECKOUT 4-1

5.0 TLI THROUGH S-IVB CLOSEOUT 5-1

6.0 TRANSLUNAR COAST 6-1

7.0 LOI THROUGH LUNAR MODULE ACTIVATION 7-1

8.0 LUNAR MODULE CHECKOUT THROUGH SEPARATION 8-1

8.1 COMMAND MODULE 8-1

8.2 LUNAR MODULE 8-11

9.0 DOI THROUGH TOUCHDOWN 9-1

9.1 COMMAND MODULE 9-1

9.2 LUNAR MODULE 9-5

10.0 LUNAR SURFACE 10-1

11.0 CSM CIRCUMLUNAR OPERATIONS 11-1

12.0 LIFT-OFF, RENDEZVOUS, AND DOCKING 12-1

13.0 LUNAR MODULE JETTISON THROUGH TEI 13-1

14.0 TRANSEARTH COAST 14-1

15.0 ENTRY 15-1

16.0 LANDING AND RECOVERY 16-1

17.0 GEOLOGY AND EXPERIMENTS 17-1

## CONFIDENTIAL

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