Apollo 11 Technical Crew Debriefing, Volume 1 (scan)

“Works”60+ pages

• p. 6 …It released after a good bit of work and coordination between Mike and Fred, the BCMP…
• p. 7 …Our procedure worked very well. I don't know who thought it up to use the…
• p. 16 # CONFIDENTIAL 3.11 CABIN PRESSURE (DECREASE) COLLINS The valves worked as advertised and started decreasing as…
• p. 17 …ALDRIN This would give you a clue if the lights were not working, if something had…
• p. 25 …L-2 and L-9 need some work to get them in the proper sequence. ALDRIN…
• p. 28 …ARMSTRONG That worked well for us, I think. COLLINS Worked fine. ALDRIN Optics Cover Check. COLLINS…
• p. 40 …and docking, in general, worked in flight just as it worked a couple of times in…
• p. 41 …In the simulator, sometimes it worked like magic and other times it wouldn't. In flight…
• p. 42 …ALIGNMENT AT 50 FEET My procedure was worked out so I'd be 66 feet away…
• p. 46 …All that hardware worked well. We followed the checklist. We extracted in CMC, FREE, and then…
• p. 51 …were quite reasonable and had been well worked out by previous crews and I'd recommend…
• p. 53 …That worked fine. All three suits did go in the L-shaped bag satisfactorily and could…
• p. 54 …That worked as planned, and we think that's a reasonable procedure. Folding them, taking a…
• p. 55 …3 OPTICS CALIBRATION COLLINS Optics calibration worked all right. 6. 4 PHOTOGRAPHY; EARTH AND MOON COLLINS…
• p. 62 …from that viewpoint, or it won't work properly. These are just two pitfalls that I…
• p. 68 …A little bit of work could have cleaned that up before the flight, and I just…
• p. 69 …safe and comfortable with it, and it worked throughout the flight. 6. 15 ADEQUACY OF PROCEDURES…
• p. 70 …all the P30's and P40's worked out very smoothly. ## 6.16 MIDCOURSE CORRECTION ## ARMSTRONG…
• p. 74 …It hasn't been well worked out. I feel uncomfortable about this. ARMSTRONG It's just…
• p. 75 …just trying to see how it was working. All of a sudden we found that we…
• p. 77 …I suspected at times that it was not working properly. I never absolutely caught it mal…
• p. 78 …6.21 S-BAND SQUELCH ## ARMSTRONG It worked very well, I thought. ## ARMSTRONG ## 6.22 DAYLIGHT…
• p. 79 # CONFIDENTIAL ## 6.24 RADIATORS COLLINS We never flowed through the secondary radiators because the primary worked…
• p. 80 …ALDRIN When it worked, it worked like a charm. There were a couple of times when…
• p. 82 …The repetition just took the pressure off the next day's IVT. ## ALDRIN Working in the…
• p. 83 …ARMSTRONG So, all in all, I guess it worked out well. We recommend it as a…
• p. 84 …We got a lot of rest and got into lunar orbit eager to go to work…
• p. 93 …That always worked for us. We were always able to see the star in the sextant…
• p. 103 …It seemed to work well. ARMSTRONG I was thinking ahead about our overall LM stowage which…
• p. 110 …The probe, drogue, and hatch worked flawlessly. At this time, I was on this solo book…
• p. 115 …This solo book concept, where I had all the information I needed in one book, worked…
• p. 116 …I'm not sure it turned out to be any less work. I never was too…
• p. 117 …me to see that the system was working. We had no scheduled checks on it to…
• p. 120 …I think that things worked out quite well. We were gradually, comfortably getting 15 to 20…
• p. 122 # CONFIDENTIAL ALDRIN (CONT'D) E-memory dump, and you did some work with the DSKY and…
• p. 123 …But, that worked out all right. ## CONFIDENTIAL
• p. 124 …If in other flights it could be worked into the earth-side pass, I think it…
• p. 127 …ALDRIN The S-band antenna seemed to work very well at this stage. It didn't…
• p. 129 …If it didn't work that way, when you moved it, it didn't go to…
• p. 132 …Cards worked quite well. We'd lose maybe a little bit of time by having to…
• p. 133 …The little piece of Velcro on the feet port worked quite well, just slapping it down…
• p. 140 …AUTO optics worked well, and the optics drive was extremely smooth. When using resolve and in…
• p. 141 …This technique works for another few miles, but I don't know how long I could…
• p. 143 …I did that as a VERB 49 maneuver, and it worked fine in that I had…
• p. 148 …This procedure seemed to work as we had planned; however, the variation in the data was…
• p. 149 …We had it worked out with the ground how we arranged the signs on the differences…
• p. 151 # CONFIDENTIAL for the PDI needs additional work prior to the next flight. There are some alternative…
• p. 154 …something that the two of us could work on at the same time and to give…
• p. 165 …That worked pretty well, but I was surprised that I had as much trouble as I…
• p. 174 …noticed that the mission timer wasn't working. It was frozen; it just stopped. ARMSTRONG No…
• p. 175 …We turned it off for a while and turned it back on again and it worked…
• p. 176 …might have that we'd want to work on, and the second was our adaptation to…
• p. 177 …from the window prior to lunar surface work. We were in a relatively smooth area covered…
• p. 180 …We would have at least one working watch to back up the mission timer or to…
• p. 187 …It seemed to work well. ## 10.20 DEPRESSURIZATION This was one area of flight preparation that…
• p. 188 …Well, in retrospect, it all seemed to work okay, it was just that we weren't…
• p. 190 …and the work on the ladder and the platform is that our simulation work in both…
• p. 191 …The work and effort required to go up and down the ladder and in through the…
• p. 193 …operation of lowering the camera seemed to work fairly well. It appeared as though you might…
• p. 196 …10.25 ENVIRONMENTAL FAMILIARIZATION With respect to work on the surface, the 1/6 gravity was…