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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. 17 …It seemed like to me that at staging the windows lit up with yellow, almost like…
  • p. 19 …ALDRIN Anybody notice any exhaust coming back on the windows when the BPC went? It seemed…
  • p. 49 …We confirmed that we were looking through the correct window, and it wasn't there. ## 5…
  • p. 50 …see the S-IVB out a certain window, then you ought to get the correct angles…
  • p. 73 …going to be from, and through what windows, and all that sort of thing. This takes…
  • p. 85 # CONFIDENTIAL COLLINS How'd we see this thing? Did we just look out the window and…
  • p. 89 …When you put the window shades up there is still a small amount of leakage. You…
  • p. 104 …We found that out the first day we went in translunar; when we pulled the window…
  • p. 105 …Invariably, when you take the window shades down, you have partially degraded windows. ALDRIN It took…
  • p. 107 …straight out the window of the approach. I think both crew members probably ought to be…
  • p. 115 ## CONFIDENTIAL the window and less time fiddling with the cameras, I probably would have had to…
  • p. 133 ## CONFIDENTIAL looking out the window. We commented on our concern about the manner in which the…
  • p. 167 …would be natural looking out the left window and seeing this moving this way that you…
  • p. 168 …But of course, you have to have it out your window. ## ARMSTRONG ## 9.2.23 LPD…
  • p. 177 …of comment here are observations from the window prior to lunar surface work. We were in…
  • p. 178 ## CONFIDENTIAL television, and the experiments, they looked as though they were right outside the window. In…
  • p. 183 …problem with any camera banging into the window when we didn't want it to. The…
  • p. 189 …Once the water window did clear, it seemed that the cooling was noticeable almost immediately. ## CONFIDENTIAL
  • p. 232 …make sure that we covered each particular window as thoroughly as possible and with as wide…
  • p. 244 …We had the window shades up and light came through those window shades like crazy. COLLINS…
  • p. 245 …For example, you can see the horizon out there through the window shades. There's that…
  • p. 246 …We underestimated how much light was coming in through the windows. There must have been a…
  • p. 247 …to have to do something with the window shades to make them more effective. I think…
  • p. 248 …mainstream of the light except for the windows in the AOT. I think we could fix…
  • p. 251 …was completely unable to look out the window at the same time. It was a question…
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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