Documents / Document
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.
“Low Earth orbit”2 pages
Read from the scan by GLM-OCR; expect the odd misread word.
## CONFIDENTIAL ARMSTRONG (CONT'D) and down in lunar orbit. When you put them up, you are going to start to collect moisture on those windows in some attitudes. Invariably, when you take the window shades down, you have partially degraded windows. ALDRIN It took a long time. You couldn't just wipe it off once; it came right back because the glass had cooled so much. ARMSTRONG It would clear if it was left exposed to the sunlight for a significant period of time, but we didn't always have that much time before we had to be tracking or looking at the ground or doing something else. Having the tissues or towels there to dry those windows off so that we could use them as windows was important. ALDRIN Another item that we added to the transfer list, and we asked for approval from the ground for this, was the monocular. We felt we could use it more in the LM than Mike could in the command module so we took that in with us. We did use it on the surface, looking at and observing certain rocks before and after the EVA. I certainly will recommend that crews have something like that onboard the LM, in the way of a magnifying device. ## ARMSTRONG It is useful also before EVA to help plan your EVA routes and objects of interest. ALDRIN I might mention that when we went in there the first day, I did go over the circuit-breaker checklist that we were ## CONFIDENTIAL
Document, cited by the archive. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. The text was read from the page images by GLM-OCR; expect the odd misread word. 251 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.