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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.
“Neil”19 pages
- p. 22 …COLLINS The only interference I noted was that Neil's suit pocket interfered with the abort…
- p. 31 …You hand them up and you get the bracket from Neil. It's really sort of…
- p. 46 …DAP control 5 seconds after spring actuations. Neil and I both read a memo put out…
- p. 121 …I think that Neil came in just about on schedule. I was able to accomplish three…
- p. 148 …The way that we found to work out best was for Neil to tell me when…
- p. 149 ## CONFIDENTIAL
soon as Neil would say "MARK", I'd hit ENTER, record NOUN 20. Now the…
- p. 176 ## CONFIDENTIAL
with the EVA and it was sometime in here that Neil called to ground and…
- p. 185 …The problem was not with mine, but in hooking up Neil's. I can't say…
- p. 187 …So we unstowed Neil's, and that didn't help immediately. A little later, it seemed…
- p. 191 …my feet and posterior out the hatch, Neil was in good position, as good as I…
- p. 196 …In confirmation of Neil's findings, I didn't experience any hot or even warm spots…
- p. 209 …amount of traverse of this kind.
## ALDRIN
Neil initially pulled out about 20 feet of cable…
- p. 222 …BB was still sitting on the edge. Neil came by with the camera to photograph it…
- p. 223 …While I proceeded to that — because that's essentially a one-man operation — Neil went around…
- p. 229 …doubt is a pretty good step, though Neil tells me he got up to the third…
- p. 231 ## CONFIDENTIAL
I had very little difficulty, again using the same technique that Neil used. About half…
- p. 236 …and then five successive spiral readings that Neil would log down as I would read them…
- p. 241 …I guess it slipped my mind, perhaps Neil's too, that the Apollo 10 crew had…
- p. 251 …It was a question of my looking at the LEC, talking to Neil, and hoping we…
## CONFIDENTIAL
ARMSTRONG No doubt about it.
COLLINS I wouldn't call it POGO, but it just wasn't as smooth.
ARMSTRONG It was a little rattly all the time.
COLLINS It was a lot smoother than Stafford described his ride. I think we had a different S-IVB than he had.
ALDRIN PU shift was noticeable.
COLLINS That was very noticeable.
ALDRIN That was quite a jolt. About as much as one engine out.
ARMSTRONG That's probably about right.
ALDRIN About the same change in thrust.
3.44 SEPARATION LIGHTS
ARMSTRONG Separation lights as advertised.
3.45 DISTINCTION OF SOUNDS AND VIBRATIONS
ARMSTRONG Sounds and vibrations we've commented on.
3.50 COMMUNICATIONS
ARMSTRONG Communications with the ground for the go/no-go went without a problem. There was a short time period in there when we didn't hear anything. I think we gave them a call just to make sure that we still had COMM.
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