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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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  • p. 20 …They say that you have to be watching closely. If you are, you can definitely say…
  • p. 27 ## CONFIDENTIAL position to be doing that until after we passed Canaries. It was approaching 30 minutes…
  • p. 53 …So, I think that there was some small bias in the sextant. 6.2 DOFF PGA…
  • p. 64 …whose trunnion angles were small enough that this would not then be a problem (the LM…
  • p. 65 …What they meant was that the spacecraft did not have to be rolled in such a…
  • p. 71 ## CONFIDENTIAL ARMSTRONG The results of that were very, very good and the residuals were very small…
  • p. 94 …still ended up being a little bit behind. That was pretty small compared to what it…
  • p. 179 …ALDRIN We could see very small gradations in color that were the result of very small…
  • p. 196 …a small amount on the wrist. I thought that it might get to be more annoying…
  • p. 211 …Consideration should be given to keeping any cable or small object out in sunlight whenever possible…
  • p. 218 …However, there happened to be a small crater right there, so I had to move it…
  • p. 249 ## CONFIDENTIAL just something that has to be worked out. It wasn't satisfactory. If we had…
  • p. 251 …small slope that when we were on the edge of this slope, there would be little…
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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