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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.

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  • p. 6 …completing the countdown procedures, the number 2 rotation hand controller was raised to the launch position…
  • p. 9 …They had rotated this handle on the X strut on the left of my seat so…
  • p. 73 …You do have to think about whether the vehicle is rotating or not, in what area…
  • p. 114 …Then it rotated around, and I never really could check the fourth downlock. I was relatively…
  • p. 213 …the LM that the weight of the flag had rotated the entire unit about the ## CONFIDENTIAL
  • p. 220 …The handle deployed upward and rotated around, even though I wasn't able to see it…
  • p. 221 …I would try to push it down to get it to rotate around and it would…
  • p. 225 …On rotating it up to the inverted position to keep anything from coming out, I didn…
  • p. 232 …I ran into a minor problem in getting it to rotate fully so that I could…
  • p. 233 …seem to rotate it as much as I thought it should have been rotated. However, the…
  • p. 237 …it would have amounted to a considerable rotating of the spiral and cursive reticle field back…
## 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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