Apollo 11 Technical Crew Debriefing, Volume 1 (scan)

“The Times”60+ pages

• p. 4 …ARMSTRONG We had a reasonable amount of pad time to handle the little problems you might…
• p. 5 …The only time it hurt me was when I actually had the UCD securely held and…
• p. 6 …time period because I'd sit in the elevator and walk around up there on the…
• p. 7 …I believe this was the first time they tried this. The secondary glycol loop pump was…
• p. 8 ## CONFIDENTIAL COLLINS but it made the system very comfortable, and I recommend (CONT'D) that they…
• p. 12 …It was a little surprising to me, and this started rather suddenly. ## COLLINS About the time…
• p. 13 …the combination was rather severe until approximately the time of "Tower clear," at which time there…
• p. 14 …ARMSTRONG It goes away at about the tower-clear time. ARMSTRONG I thought they were. # CONFIDENTIAL
• p. 15 …complete were on time, as were the rate changes. My impression in the seat throughout this…
• p. 17 …characteristic, in addition to the light going out at the time, and I can't remember…
• p. 19 …It seems like a long time in flight to get the S-IVB ignited. The S…
• p. 20 …I found that observing them several times right at the time they were coming on, you…
• p. 21 …ARMSTRONG It was a little rattly all the time. COLLINS It was a lot smoother than…
• p. 22 …feet per second most of the time H-dot. Guess the altitude was a little lower…
• p. 25 …ALDRIN It's pretty hard to follow through on the time with all those things happening…
• p. 26 …The man who goes down to the LEB — if he goes through steps sequentially as written…
• p. 27 …Yet it's listed prior to the time the CMP goes to the LEB for the…
• p. 31 …ARMSTRONG We had the TV camera preparation also in the same time period; any comments there…
• p. 32 …Sometimes there was quite good S-band through the various stations; other times, it was only…
• p. 37 …ALDRIN The time of the burn. ARMSTRONG Burn time was not quite book value, there. Did…
• p. 39 …time. 5. 13 PYRO OPERATION ARMSTRONG No problem. ## 5.14 SEPARATION FROM SLA ## COLLINS The only…
• p. 40 …as it worked a couple of times in the simulator. I went MANUAL ATTITUDE PITCH to…
• p. 41 …At the time, Buzz said that I had forgotten one PROCEED. As I recall, I went…
• p. 46 …Ken Mattingly and I spent a lot of time the last couple of days before the…
• p. 47 …Luckily, it is not a maneuver that is time-critical. I think the present scheme of…
• p. 48 …time, and we used up a little extra amp-hours out of the batteries, but the…
• p. 50 …Of course, we were going through the Belts about this time. I don't recall that…
• p. 52 …The more time I took and the more precise I attempted to be, the more often…
• p. 53 …Mike's in the top, Buzz's suit in the bottom section to the rear towards…
• p. 54 ## CONFIDENTIAL since they had been worn for a significant period of time prior to this. We…
• p. 55 …4 PHOTOGRAPHY; EARTH AND MOON COLLINS We didn't photograph the Moon at this time; the…
• p. 56 …We spent a lot of time with EECOM before the flight discussing what items to check…
• p. 58 …You couldn't do that unless you put some in the bag ahead of time. We…
• p. 59 …time for rest period go to lunar coast except for such and such. In the LM…
• p. 60 …times when we had communications dropout that I don't think were explained. I had the…
• p. 62 …to use but has not stood the test of time yet. It needs a lot more…
• p. 63 …considered, rather than the one we're using at the present time. It could obviate many…
• p. 66 …I'd be happy to draw it on a blackboard some other time for the proper…
• p. 67 …I had so much stuff to learn, and I had divided up the time, and P23…
• p. 68 …Sometime between the last time we simulated it and the first time we pulled this out…
• p. 69 …In most cases, it was not convenient to stop and spend the amount of time necessary…
• p. 73 …producer, and actor, for the daily television shows. We had no time nor inclination preflight to…
• p. 75 …time picture and voice along with it, but you're going to suffer somewhat in the…
• p. 76 …time and we didn't have control over it and the ground had one of the…
• p. 77 …I don't think they expected it; the next time they had control, we were on…
• p. 78 ## CONFIDENTIAL through your earphone doesn't always lead you to the right conclusion and that's…
• p. 80 …We followed the checklist on the heaters and they worked normally. 6.30 LM AND TUNNEL…
• p. 81 …In addition, the television set at this time was quite valuable. ## 6.37 IVT TO CM…
• p. 82 …If problems arose with the probe or the drogue, you have time to troubleshoot with the…
• p. 83 …and I thought adequate time was given to eating. Quality of the food will be discussed…
• p. 85 …We had a problem with the high gain about this time, didn't we? COLLINS There…
• p. 87 …It might have been about the time we had high gain antenna problems. In the back…
• p. 88 …At other times, I could see a line with no direction of motion and the only…
• p. 91 …time. COLLINS Did they have an uplink? ARMSTRONG I'm not sure they had uplinked the…
• p. 93 ## CONFIDENTIAL COLLINS (CONT'D) then the other waiting for something. There was a time in the…
• p. 94 …ARMSTRONG Buzz, give the pad value for burn time. ALDRIN 6 02. ARMSTRONG Burn time was…
• p. 95 …These calculations turned out to be within a second of the ground-predicted time. When the…
• p. 96 …during the time of the burn. I think it dropped to 1900. ARMSTRONG The values I…
• p. 97 …MSFN ARMSTRONG In the post-LOI, we had a MSFN contact on time and did a…
• p. 100 …ALDRIN Let's go back to the first time we went into darkness on the front…