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Apollo 11 Technical Crew Debriefing, Volume 1 (scan)

NASA via ibiblio · 1969-07-31 · 251 pages · text by GLM-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. 130 …it should go barberpole, it would go gray. Then, as you released, it would go to…
  • p. 178 …fade, and it began to be more gray. As we looked back as far as we…
  • p. 179 …ALDRIN When illuminated, it did have a gray appearance, very light gray. ARMSTRONG Wouldn't you…

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## CONFIDENTIAL

ARMSTRONG	I think I commented that is where they were stowed, but when we looked in the LCG's we sure couldn't see them anywhere.
COLLINS	I thought those had been sealed up long ahead of time.
ARMSTRONG	Yes, that's what I remembered, but we sure couldn't prove it to ourselves.
ALDRIN	I don't think there was anything that got me hung up at all in getting a good meal. We knew that we would be going about 6 to 8 hours, at least; so we had a good size breakfast, took care of everything, got up about on schedule, suited up, and stowed things pretty well in the LM.

## 8.2 LUNAR MODULE

## 8.2.1 PGA donning and IVT

## ALDRIN

Mike had things well under control, and I'd been into the LM twice before, so the entry procedure went very rapidly. We were due to go in at 95:50.

## ARMSTRONG

We did no complete self-donning. We always used whoever else was available to help with zippers and check whereever they could. We checked each other whenever time allowed.

## CONFIDENTIAL

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