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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. 224 …I started beating on it harder and harder and I managed to get it into the…
  • p. 246 …around because it would be that much harder to get back to that same state again…

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## CONFIDENTIAL

ARMSTRONG(CONT'D)	flagpole axis such that the flag was no longer pointed in the same direction as it was originally. I suspect that the weight of the flagpole probably had shifted its position in the sand a little bit from the position where it had originally been installed.
ALDRIN	How far would you estimate you got it into the ground?
ARMSTRONG	Six to 8 inches was about as far as I could get it in.
ALDRIN	It was fairly easy to get it down the first 4 or 5 inches.
ARMSTRONG	It gets hard quickly.

## CONFIDENTIAL

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