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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 ## 6.8 COMMUNICATION SETUP FOR REST PERIOD The way that the flight plan handled it was a little involved. We were in a translunar switch setup. It would say each time for rest period go to lunar coast except for such and such. In the LM, we had a fairly simple way of handling it. We just labeled, straight on down the line, the position of the switches. We could probably come up with something similar to this. It could include just a certain set number of switches that are all S-band. You just make a quick check of all these and have them in the right configuration, instead of having to refer back to the systems management book. Keep that checklist out of the flight plan, and keep it in the checklist. ## ARMSTRONG The checklist is pretty long, so you end up with a fairly complex piece in the flight plan and also a complex list in the systems book. ## ALDRIN But the flight plan does have two sleep mode options: high gain or OMNI. So, you really have more than you need in the flight plan. RMSTRONG We insist that we only go in the ONMI mode during sleep periods. We decided that it would be best. ## CONFIDENTIAL
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