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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 ARMSTRONG (CONT'D) it; however, it was hard to operate. I found that the angle that I had to put my hand on the handle to pull it and the force that it took was excessive. ALDRIN The squeezing of the trigger? ARMSTRONG Yes. I found my hand getting tired very soon while taking pictures with that camera. It was wearing out my grip. ALDRIN Would you say that the angle was too horizontal? ARMSTRONG Yes. ALDRIN You would like to have had it sloped down more towards you. ARMSTRONG Yes. It was requiring the wrist to be cocked down. ALDRIN The initial opening up or deploying of it went quite smoothly. The extension of the handle and the opening up of the case was quite well engineered. Separating the cover, taking it off, cutting the film, and removing the cassette also went quite smoothly. I think that the big area for reengineering might be just a change in the angle the handle comes out. We might have to add a hinge or something like that to it. What about the height of the handle? That would probably not be too bad. ## CONFIDENTIAL
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