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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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“The Sun”11 pages

  • p. 78 …10 discovered of pointing the plus X axis at the sun. We never had an occasion…
  • p. 89 …I tried to correlate this with the direction of the sun. When you put the window…
  • p. 148 …the Sun. This procedure seemed to work as we had planned; however, the variation in the…
  • p. 150 …In addition, on the way to the Moon, we looked at the Sun with the telescope…
  • p. 151 …the Sun check. ## ALDRIN We turned the propellant quantity on before DOI and I believe the…
  • p. 173 …all with the approximation of 0.1 that we got in the Sun check. We didn…
  • p. 178 …The down-Sun area was extremely bright. It appeared to be a light tan in color…
  • p. 208 ## CONFIDENTIAL to the Sun. The shadow that was cast by the solar wind aborted a good…
  • p. 212 …the shadow, when you first move from the sunlight into the shadow, when the Sun is…
  • p. 236 …The Earth obscured the forward detent and the right detent. The Sun was now in the…
  • p. 245 …If I had thought of that ahead of time, we could have put the Sun filter…
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

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