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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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# CONFIDENTIAL 4. 0 EARTH ORBIT AND SYSTEMS CHECKOUT ARMSTRONG It appeared that the platform was in reasonably good shape and its values compared favorably with the MSFN ephemeris. Everything went smoothly. 4. 2 POST-INSERTION SYSTEMS CONFIGURATION AND CHECKS The insertion checklist is fine, as far as I'm concerned. After the insertion checklist, the items in the checklist on page L-2 and L-9 need some work to get them in the proper sequence. ALDRIN It's pretty hard to follow through on the time with all those things happening according to the time schedule that's on there, especially when you get down to the LEB. COLLINS The one who goes down to the LEB is sort of jumping from one place to another and back and forth. Some improvement could be made on the order in which those items are. I sort of got lazy and decided not to fight the checklist world and I just had my own order in which I was going to do them regardless of the order of the checklist. The follow-on crews ought to look at this section and have things rearranged to their liking for a minimum amount of moving around. ALDRIN For example: Step 7 on 2-9, the 20 minutes ECS postinsertion configuration, we were doing other things at that time and I ## CONFIDENTIAL
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