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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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COLLINS (CONT'D) descent or on the surface or during the ascent until after insertion.

## 9.1.6 Voice conference relay

## COLLINS

We didn't use the relay mode at all, although I had a little sticker made for panel 10 which showed the position of each switch. I think that's probably a good scheme because if you want the relay mode, you want it in a hurry; and you don't want to pull a checklist out, so I'd recommend that.

## 9.1.7 CSM backup pad

COLLINS Nothing to say about that. I, of course, used P76 to inform my computer that the LM had made the burn.

## 9.1.8 Monitoring LM phasing

COLLINS We didn't have a phasing burn.

## 9.1.9 Sextant marks

COLLINS I've covered those.

## 9.1.10 SPS setup

OLLINS For all burns, I was to go into P40 or P41 as appropriate I then went to the point of turning on the gimbal motors and stopped short. I never turned on any gimbal motors, but I did feel that I could light the motor within

## CONFIDENTIAL

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