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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.

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# CONFIDENTIAL

## 1.0 SUITING AND INGRESS

## 1.1 SENSOR APPLICATION

ALDRIN The center lead dried out in flight. I was shaved in that area, but it dried out anyway. The one on my right chest, must have interfered in some way with the suit, because when the suit was taken off, there was a small laceration on the outside toward the rear of that particular sensor. I think that's been documented in the medical examination.

## 1.2 SUITING

ALDRIN We seemed to have plenty of pad in the time frame for suiting. We were sitting around suited up at least 20 minutes before moving out to the pad.

ARMSTRONG We had a reasonable amount of pad time to handle the little problems you might have at times. The timeline on suiting was good.

## 1.3 LIFE SUPPORT EQUIPMENT

COLLINS No problem with life support equipment or transportation out to the pad.

## 1.6 PERSONAL COMFORT

## COLLINS

The only personal-comfort problem I had was that my suit fit was too tight through the crotch area in the region of the UCD. During CDDT, I was really very, very

## CONFIDENTIAL

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