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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

ALDRIN
(CONT'D)	talkbacks would go red. The final one that I got was,
"No, the latest story is they won't go red on you." Well,
they all went red. First four of them, then all of them
went red. It's a very light-colored red, I might add.
It didn't look much like the simulator. It really stands
out much more than the simulator.

We got the numbers we ran on the DSKY when we went to the
soft stops. For the most part, they agreed precisely.
There were a couple of them that missed by one last digit,
but we were told that that was not significant.

8.2.25 Rendezvous radar and self-test
ALDRIN	Everything went just as expected. I've got the numbers
written down here; they're all within limits.

8.2.26 DPS preparation and checkout
ARMSTRONG	DPS preparation and checkout went as expected.
ALDRIN	The AGS CAL attitude angles are written down in my log.
Mike maneuvered to the angle, and we're steady as a rock
for a good long time period; more than adequate time
period to perform the check.

## CONFIDENTIAL

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