Documents / Document

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.

  • p. 22 …COLLINS The only interference I noted was that Neil's suit pocket interfered with the abort…
  • p. 31 # CONFIDENTIAL ARMSTRONG Unstowage; COAS installation: I don't recall any points there. 4.9 UNSTOWAGE AND…
  • p. 148 # CONFIDENTIAL ## 9.2.9 Radar tracking ARMSTRONG We had a good manual radar acquisition, and data…
  • p. 185 ## CONFIDENTIAL ARMSTRONG As was reported, we broke one circuit breaker with the PLSS and we depressed…
  • p. 191 …my feet and posterior out the hatch, Neil was in good position, as good as I…
  • p. 209 …It would be advantageous if we could get rid of that some way. ## ARMSTRONG Your foot…
  • p. 222 …I have no explanation for that at all. ## ARMSTRONG It would have been nice to have…
  • p. 223 …While I proceeded to that — because that's essentially a one-man operation — Neil went around…
  • p. 229 …step, though Neil tells me he got up to the third one. ARMSTRONG The third step…
  • p. 231 ## CONFIDENTIAL I had very little difficulty, again using the same technique that Neil used. About half…
NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION

MAC memo 71-17-71

71-42. Maine 12-27-71

APOLLO 11

TECHNICAL CREW DEBRIEFING

(U)

JULY 31,1969

PREPARED BY: MISSION OPERATIONS BRANCH FLIGHT CREW SUPPORT DIVISION VOL.1

GROUP 4 Downgraded at 3-year intervals; declassified after 12 years

## CLASSIFIED DOCUMENT - TITLE UNCLASSIFIED

This material contains information affecting the national defense of the United States within the meaning of the espionage laws, Title 18, U.S.C., Secs. 793 and 794, the transmission or revelation of which in any manner to an unauthorized person is prohibited by law.

MANNED SPACECRAFT CENTER HOUSTON.TEXAS

CONFIDENTIAL

About this file

Document, cited by the archive. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. The text was read from the page images by an OCR model; expect the odd misread word. 251 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.