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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 the problem; whereas the day before it was a huge maneuver, and I was reluctant to make that maneuver. As a general comment, I've found that the telescope was a very poor optical instrument in that it required long, long periods of dark adaptation before any star patterns were visible. In most cases, it was not convenient to stop and spend the amount of time necessary to make any use of the telescope. Thus, we kept our platform powered up continually. My procedure was to ignore the telescope and to take at face value what the sextant said. In other words, if the sextant AUTO optics came up with a star in the sextant field of view, I accepted it as a matter of fact that it was the correct star. We marked on that star without any further verification. I suppose this could rise up and bite you, but I felt safe and comfortable with it, and it worked throughout the flight. 6. 15 ADEQUACY OF PROCEDURES TO PREPARE FOR AND ACCOMPLISH THE TRANSLUNAR MIDCOURSE CORRECTIONS Now by that I assume they mean the ground-supplied sequence, and that I felt was fine. Got any comment about that? ## CONFIDENTIAL
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