Apollo 11 Technical Crew Debriefing, Volume 1 (scan)

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## CONFIDENTIAL

## 1.5 ELEVATOR AND FLIGHT DECK

## ALDRIN

From the center-couch position, it's a very pleasant time period because I'd sit in the elevator and walk around up there on the flight deck and contemplate just about everything, including the outside world.

CDDT was a very pleasurable experience, looking out over the whole beach.

## 1.8 INGRESS

## ARMSTRONG

While we were completing the countdown procedures, the number 2 rotation hand controller was raised to the launch position. At that point, it somehow managed to attach itself to the shock attenuator release on the lower left strut. It released after a good bit of work and coordination between Mike and Fred, the BCMP. It was relocked. No new procedure there; it just requires care and properly installing those handrests to avoid a recurrence of that problem.

It would be well for the BCMP to assure himself that he knows how to relock any one of the strut releases that might come disengaged in this time period.

## COLLINS

The crew should know about the strut softeners just in case one of them gets pulled loose inadvertently in

## CONFIDENTIAL