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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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# CONFIDENTIAL COLLINS No, SEP occurred within about 8 seconds of the planned time. ARMSTRONG You did separate on the local vertical? The pitch attitude that we were at was about 10 degrees different. COLLINS It was a 7-degree-different attitude. It was pitch 007 instead of pitch 014. ARMSTRONG I was holding in the attitude that was on our timeline, and sure enough, it didn't look like you were in the right attitude. Some changes occurred after launch that we didn't properly appreciate. In any case, 285 is what we expected to be. That wasn't the right number. That was important, because it was the thing that made the COAS point at you and check lateral translations, comparing the formation flying during separation. Immediately after this, we did the landing radar test, right after your separation. That went well, as I remember, everytime. ALDRIN Yes, they were right on. ARMSTRONG After that, we did our first alignment in the LM, fine alignment, option 3. We did that on the flight plan. # CONFIDENTIAL
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