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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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“Roll”17 pages

  • p. 15 …LIGHTS ARMSTRONG Launch vehicle lights, roll program, pitch program, roll complete were on time, as were…
  • p. 41 …Then, just as in the simulator, the DAP rolled itself out. It ceased its pitch rate…
  • p. 43 …I did have a slight roll misalignment. I knew I had a slight roll misalignment, but…
  • p. 48 …It definitely had a good roll to it moving away. ## CONFIDENTIAL
  • p. 63 …roll angle is unconstrained in that with large trunnion angles, the computer may pick a roll…
  • p. 64 …being furnished to me in regard to roll angles. However, I didn't. That's one…
  • p. 65 …What they meant was that the spacecraft did not have to be rolled in such a…
  • p. 66 …very large, and you have an obvious roll on its alignment in the reticle, then it…
  • p. 79 …We always used 0.3 deg/sec roll and we never tried the 0.1. It…
  • p. 111 …There is a constraint on 2-jet roll, 4-jet roll, and no-jet roll, depending…
  • p. 150 …While flying AOT, you depend on the other crewmember to assure you that the roll gimbal…
  • p. 158 …It was then that I clearly realized that we weren't rolling as fast as was…
  • p. 216 …The part that had been melted, separated, and rolled back or peeled back on the secondary…
  • p. 224 …d know what is inside a certain roll. In many cases, there is nothing in it…
  • p. 227 …When it rolled up, it had a tendency to sneak off to the side and crinkle…
  • p. 247 …Also, I could roll over on one side or on the other. I had the two…
  • p. 248 …more horizontal position or the capability to roll from one side to the other. That's…
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I think it's all unfortunate that the first mark, the first star set that we had, was changed in the flight plan.

Well, that's another thing. We didn't mark correctly. Sometime between the last time we simulated it and the first time we pulled this out in the flight, star number 2 had been moved from the number 1 position down to number 4 position, and they had done it just by changing the 1 to a 4 and drawing a little arrow. When you read me the numbers, you didn't note that I read star number 2 and it was the same old star I had always marked on first. That was just a bad area. A little bit of work could have cleaned that up before the flight, and I just didn't have the time or the inclination to sit down and hammer it out with the people required, and I should have.

Well, we were fine the next day only because the Earth was so much smaller. If you have a little Earth and you're supposed to be marking on this point and you're at this point, it's no big deal to move from here over to here. But the Earth is big and you're supposed to be marking on this point, and you're really over there; that requires a big maneuver. The same problem existed the next day. However, a tiny maneuver on my part solved

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