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Apollo 11: Transcription of TV transmissions « Thread Started on Jun 29, 2005, 4:23am »
Apollo 11: Transcription of unscheduled television transmission at 10:32 GET Times shown are for the Spacecraft Films' Apollo 11 DVDs -- Disc 1 / "Fly Me to the Moon" / "Television transmissions 10:32 GET, 33:59 GET" / Chapter 1 Three asterisks show a gap in the dialogue.
0:10 [Transmission begins at 10:32 GET.] 0:12 Houston (Charles Duke): Hello, Apollo 11, Houston. Goldstone says that the TV looks great, over. 0:22 Aldrin: Okay, Roger. We're er... [garbled] on earth. 0:31 Houston (Duke): Hello, Apollo 11, Houston. Did you copy, over? 0:38 Aldrin: Roger, we copied, Charlie. 0:42 Houston (Duke): Ah Roger, Houston. Your transmission the last couple of times has been about two-by, over. 0:47 Aldrin: Okay, how do you read me now? 0:49 Houston (Duke): Rog, you're five-by now. 0:51 Aldrin: Okay, we're zooming the lens on in to what will just about fill the monitor. 0:58 Houston (Duke): Roger. 1:13 Aldrin: Okay, Houston. Full zoom now. 1:19 Houston (Duke): Copy, Eleven. 1:23 Aldrin: And how about the f-stop? Is 22 going to be accurate? 1:27 Houston (Duke): Stand by, we'll get with the Goldstone TV guy. We don't have anything here at Houston. Stand by. 1:33 Aldrin: Yeah, okay. 1:39 Unknown: It looks good on the monitor as far as the f-stop goes, they'll probably just assume it's okay, Goldstone. 2:05 Houston (Duke): Hello, Apollo 11, Houston. Goldstone say that the TV looks really great, five-by. 2:20 Aldrin: Okay, you just cut out, Charlie. We understand that it's looking great. We'll leave it the way it is and wait for you to come back on. 2:29 Houston (Duke): How do you read me now, over? 2:32 Aldrin: Five-by. 2:34 Houston (Duke): Okay. My comments were... My comments were from Goldstone at the they see no white spots as we saw in ten [meaning Apollo 10]. Looks like the AGC's working real well, the f22 looks good, over. 2:45 Aldrin: Okay, very good. Well, we shut out the sun coming in [garbled] the spacecraft so er, it's looking through the number one window on earth and any reflected light [garbled] right now so it ought to be a pretty good picture. 3:02 Houston (Duke): Roger. 3:43 Houston (Duke): Hello, Apollo 11, Houston. We'd like you to keep the TV on for about ten minutes or so, so we can get some... a good comparison on the camera. You can do anything you're... *** 4:42 Collins: Houston, Apollo 11, over. 4:44 Houston (Duke): Roger, go ahead, over. 4:46 Collins: Charlie, I'm sorry, you keep cutting out. We heard up to, "You can do anything," and then after that we didn't hear anything. [Garbled] what do you want us to do? 5:00 Houston (Duke): Roger. We'll check the uplink on our voice. The transmission on the TV... we'd like to get about... Goldstone so we can look at the camera quality back here at Houston for about ten minutes or so when they patch it back in to us. What we were saying was... 5:22 Houston (Duke): We'd like a little... Stand by. 5:29 Aldrin: Start over with, "We were saying." *** 6:14 Aldrin: Hey, Houston. Do you suppose you could turn the earth a little bit so we could get a little bit more than just water? 6:23 Houston (Duke): Roger, Eleven. I don't think we've got much control over that. Looks like you'll have to settle for the water. 6:40 Houston (Duke): Eleven, Houston. We're going to change... thinking about changing our voice uplink to another site. If you'll stand by we'll see if we can improve the quality, over. 6:48 Collins: Okay, Charlie. We'll stand by for your call. 7:27 Houston (Duke): Apollo 11, Houston. We'll try once more on this TV request. We'd like ten minutes' worth of TV and we'd like a narrative if you could give us one on the exterior shot. You could... we also suggest you might try an interior position, over. 7:48 Armstrong: Roger. We're seeing the center of the earth as viewed from the spacecraft in the eastern Pacific Ocean. We have not been able to visually pick up the Hawaiian island chain, but we can clearly see the western coast of North America, the United States, the San Joaquin Valley, the High Sierras, Baja California and Mexico down as far as Acapulco, and the Yucatan Peninsula, and you can see on through Central America, to the northern coast of South America, Venezuela and Colombia. I'm not sure you'll be able to see all that on your screens down there. 8:42 Houston (Duke): Ah, Roger Neil. We just wanted a narrative such that when we get the playback we can sort of correlate what we're seeing. Thank you very much. *** 8:57 Aldrin: I haven't seen anything but the DSKY so far. 9:02 Houston (Duke): Looks like they're hogging the windows. 9:06 Aldrin: You're right. *** 13:36 Houston (Duke): Hello, Apollo 11, Houston. On your cryos we like this time for you to place all four cryo heaters to auto and turn off all four cryo fans, over. 13:52 Aldrin: Okay, all four cryo heaters are auto, and all four cryo fans are off, are off. 14:03 Houston (Duke): Ah, Roger. That's got to be your sweet configuration. 14:06 Aldrin: Okay. 14:07 Houston (Duke): And Buzz, we'll be terminating your battery charge in about a half hour. 14:13 Aldrin: Roger. 14:36 Houston (Duke): Hello, Apollo 11, Houston. You can terminate TV at your convenience. We've got enough tape, and you can start PTC at your convenience. The rates look super for starting up, over. 14:51 Collins: Roger, Charlie. 15:34 [Transmission ends.]
Edited 7 February 2006, 12:51pm NZST as follows: 8:42 We just wanted a narrative such that... 14:36 The rates look super... Changed from "[garbled]" and "went"
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Re: Apollo 11: Transcription of TV transmissions, « Reply #1 on Jun 29, 2005, 4:24am »
Apollo 11: Transcription of unscheduled television transmission at 30:28 GET Times shown are for the Spacecraft Films Apollo 11 DVDs -- Disc 1 / "Fly Me to the Moon" / "Television transmissions 10:32 GET, 33:59 GET" / Chapter 3 Three asterisks show a gap in the dialogue.
18:11 [Transmission begins at 30:28 GET.] 19:43 Houston (Charles Duke): Apollo 11, this is Houston, over. 19:48 Collins: Go ahead, Houston. 19:54 Houston (Duke): Eleven, this is Houston. Goldstone reports they are receiving a TV picture coming down from you all. A little snowy, but a good TV picture, over. 20:08 Armstrong: Roger, we're just testing the equipment up here. 20:13 Houston (Duke): Roger. 20:18 Aldrin: Ask them if they can read the numbers [On the DSKY, which the TV camera is pointing at.] 20:21 Houston (Duke): Okay, stand by. 20:23 Aldrin: What's showing on the DSKY and also whether they can see P-R-O-G, V-E-R-B and N-O-U-N, over. 20:30 Houston (Duke): Ah, Roger. Stand by a second. Goldstone MNO, Houston Capcom, over. 20:36 Goldstone: Capcom, Goldstone, go ahead. 20:38 Houston (Duke): Ah, Roger. Did you copy the spacecraft's request? 20:41 Goldstone: That's affirmative. I am reading the numbers on out monitor here. 20:45 Houston (Duke): Okay, that's er... Stand by. 20:49 Houston (Duke): Roger, that's both the numbers on the DSKY itself and the little words like program, verb, noun, computer activity -- things of this sort? 21:05 Goldstone: Roger. I can read the numbers clearly. We can't distinguish what the words are because it is a little snowy. 21:15 Houston (Duke): Ahh, Roger, thankyou. 21:18 Goldstone: Okay, I read verb, noun and program. *** 27:25 Collins: Houston, Apollo 11. 27:29 Houston (Duke): Go ahead, Eleven. 27:32 Collins: Oh, Charlie, is that you? 27:34 Houston (Duke): Yeah, that's me. How are you there? 27:39 Collins: Oh, just fine. How's the old white team today? 27:41 Houston (Duke): Ah, the old white team's bright-eyed and bushy-tailed. We're ever-alert down here. 27:47 Collins: Ever-alert [garbled]. Hey, you got any medics down there watching my heart rate? I'm trying to do some running in place down here [in the navigation bay] and I'm wondering just out of curiosity whether it brings my heart rate up. 27:58 Houston (Duke): Ah, they will spring into action here momentarily. Stand by. *** 28:26 Houston (Duke): Hello, eleven. We see your heart beating. 28:32 Collins: Okay, well then, look at the CDR's and the CMP's and see if they go up any. We're all running in place up here. You wouldn't believe it. 28:40 Houston (Duke): I'd like to see that sight. Why don't you give us a TV picture of that one? 28:46 Collins: I think Buzz is trying. 28:48 Aldrin: You got it. 28:50 Houston (Duke): Okay, it's coming in at Goldstone, Buzz. As Bruce said we don't have it here and it's er... *** 29:13 Unknown: Major [garbled] and the PTC very much. 29:19 Aldrin: Yeah, I don't know if it's the vibration or what it is, but it makes the pitch and yaw rate needles on MTAI number one jump up and down a little bit when we jump up and down. 29:33 Houston (Duke): Ah Rog. Alright, Goldstoners say they see you running there, Mike. 29:43 Collins: Okay. 29:45 Aldrin: Ask him what he's running from. 30:01 Houston (Duke): Eleven, Houston. Mike, we see you're about a 96 heartbeat now. 30:10 Collins: Okay, thankyou. [Two seconds before Mike Collins says this, we can see him reach down and press his push-to-talk button, then release it.] *** 30:41 Collins: Well, that's about all that is reasonable. I'm getting a hundred and twenty. 30:46 Houston (Duke): Alright, Rog, we copy. 30:59 Collins: Goldstone should be getting about the best picture there as we can give them right now, Charlie. 31:03 Ah Roger, Mike. Thankyou much. 31:07 Aldrin: Ah, we've got a little distortion in the horizontal direction, some banding on our monitor. I wonder if they're getting the same thing. [The banding can be clearly seen.] 31:17 Houston (Duke): Stand by, Buzz, I'll let you know. 31:27 Goldstone: Goldstone MNO. 31:29 Houston (Duke): Okay. The crew is complaining of some horizontal banding on their monitor. Y'all see that on the picture? 31:36 Goldstone: Stand by. 31:44 Goldstone: Ah, [garbled] right now, we don't have anything in focus, Charlie. 31:50 Houston (Duke): Ah Roger. He's checking on it. I'll see if they had it earlier. Stand by. 31:58 Aldrin: I guess when we're showing the DSKY or when we're showing the earth they might see that better or not. 32:04 Houston (Duke): Okay. 32:10 Goldstone: Houston Capcom, Goldstone. 32:12 Houston (Duke): Go ahead. 32:13 Goldstone: Okay. Our TV people confirm they see this horizontal banding. 32:16 Houston (Duke): Okay. 32:21 Houston (Duke): Eleven, Houston. The Goldstone TV people also see the banding when... at the same time y'all do, over. 32:32 Aldrin: Okay. Would they call it a horizontal waviness instead of banding, maybe? 32:37 Houston (Duke): I'm not talking to 'em directly. Stand by, Buzz, let me see what they... how they describe it. 32:43 Houston (Duke): Goldstone MNO, Houston Capcom. Could you put the TV guy on the loop, please? 32:49 Goldstone: Capcom, Goldstone. Roger. *** 33:32 Goldstone: Houston Capcom, Goldstone MNO, net one. 33:34 Houston (Duke): Go. 33:35 Goldstone: Ah, the TV people do not have access to net one in that area. Suggest we use net two for that purpose. 33:40 Houston (Duke): Okay. Going to net two. *** 34:34 Houston (Duke): Hello Apollo 11, Houston. The Goldstone TV guys say that they had some horizontal banding across the upper corner of the picture and across the lower part. They would consider the lines just straight, no waviness to 'em at all, over. 34:53 Aldrin: Roger, understand. They do seem to distort vertical lines, though. 35:00 Houston (Duke): Ah, say again about the vertical lines, Buzz. 35:05 Aldrin: Rog. When there's a vertical line, these horizontal bands tend to put small waves in it. 35:14 Houston (Duke): Er Rog, I copy. He didn't mention that. Stand by, I'll check again. *** 36:00 Houston (Duke): Hello 11, Houston. The Goldstone TV say that when you get a sharp vertical line on the picture where the horizontal banding goes across, it does appear to bend it slightly. The same as Apollo 10, they said. Looks okay to them, over. 36:17 Aldrin: Okay, understand. It's on our monitor must be the transmitter [garbled]. 36:21 Houston (Duke): Ah, Rog. I guess so, Buzz. We'll have them look into it and see if they can suggest anything. *** 39:34 Houston (Duke): Hello Apollo 11, Houston. Please select omni bravo on board, over. 39:42 Collins: Trace on to bravo, Charlie. 39:44 Houston (Duke): Rog. 39:49 Collins: How's everything going down there? You guys happy with the spacecraft systems? 39:53 Houston (Duke): Roger, affirmative. Everything's looking really good to us, over. 40:00 Collins: Okay, same here. *** 40:39 Collins: Charlie, how far out can you pick up TV on the omni? 40:43 Houston (Duke): Stand by. 41:03 Houston (Duke): Apollo 11, Houston. We're just about at the limits where we can get any kind of picture at all on the omnis on the TV. The picture, I guess, would be almost zero at this point. 41:16 [Transmission ends.]
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8 Feb 2006, made changes: 20:41 I am reading the numbers on OUR monitor here. 27:41 Houston (Duke): Ah, the old white team's bright-eyed and bushy-tailed. We're EVER-ALERT down here. 27:47 Collins: EVER-ALERT [GARBLED]. Hey, you got any medics down there 36:17 Aldrin: Okay, understand. It's on our monitor MUST BE THE TRANSMITTER [garbled].
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Re: Apollo 11: Transcription of TV transmissions « Reply #2 on Jul 28, 2005, 2:43pm »
Hello all,
I was just wondering if there is a video online where I could watch the televised Apollo 11 post-flight press conference held in the auditorium of the Manned Spacecfraft Center in Houston, Texas on the 12th of August , 1969. I have read the transcript on http://history.nasa.gov/ap11-35ann/FirstLunarLanding/toc.html but I don't know if there is a video recording of this national live transmission somewhere online.
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Re: Apollo 11: Transcription of TV transmissions « Reply #3 on Feb 8, 2006, 3:45am »
Have made a few improvements to the transcriptions if anyone has kept them. Would appreciate others checking them against their DVDs to see if they can fix any errors or help with any of the garbled bits.
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Re: Apollo 11: Transcription of TV transmissions « Reply #4 on Nov 27, 2006, 7:27am »
Descriptions of views of Earth during the three TV transmissions. Should be read in conjunction with the dialogue in first two posts.
00:10 Distant view of Earth. 00:20 Camera starts zooming in very slowly. 01:16 Full zoom. Earth nearly fills the screen. 01:48 Camera pans away a little. 02:46 Aldrin: "[Camera is] Looking through the number one window." 03:38 Camera zooms out a little. 04:22 Earth goes out of picture at left. Screen is grey-blue with horizontal banding. 04:41 Earth comes back into view. 04:45 Window frame or other obstruction is seen at bottom of screen for about four seconds. 04:52 Steady view of Earth filling two-thirds of the screen. 05:34 Earth moves around. 05:43 Earth goes off screen. Screen is grey-blue with horizontal banding. 05:53 Earth back on screen. 06:00 Camera zooms out. 06:14 Aldrin's joke. 06:22 Duke's reply. 08:44 Camera zooms in on Earth 09:53 Earth goes off screen. Screen is grey-blue with horizontal banding. 10:08 Earth on screen for three seconds. 10:24 Part of Earth visible at the bottom at times. (Most of the time the camera is hand-held, so there is almost constant movement.) 10:52 Earth back on screen, zoomed in. 11:15 Camera zooms out a little. 14:40 Camera zooms right out. 15:34 Internal view of Neil Armstrong sleeping 17:23 Mike Collins at the DSKY. 30:46 Earth overexposed and fuzzy, with considerable horizontal banding. 31:26 End of view of Earth. 36:47 Earth overexposed and fuzzy, with considerable horizontal banding. 37:18 Earth goes off screen at right. Screen is dark with banding and other artefacts. 37:30 Earth out of focus. 37:57 Aperture being adjusted, changing exposure. 38:21 Earth partly cut off on right by window frame. 38:24 Earth in full view but out of focus, overexposed and moving around. 38:30 Camera zooms out. 38:35 Earth small and overexposed. Window frame becomes visible at right and bottom. 38:43 Earth disappears behind window frame. 38:48 Aperture is opened, showing window frame clearly. 38:54 Top right and bottom of window frame is visible. 39:00 Internal light is visible. Camera pans. 39:17 Small, overexposed Earth is visible in corner of window. 39:29 Camera zooms in on overexposed Earth. Window frame slants across screen from upper left. 39:40 Different parts of window frame cover Earth for 16 seconds. 39:57 Earth disappears from view, interior of command module comes into view. 41:28 Very small Earth in centre of screen. 41:56 Camera slowly zooms in on Earth. 43:17 Neil Armstrong describes Earth outside left-hand window. Window frame sometimes partly covers Earth. 49:06 Camera rotates approximately 180 degrees, keeping Earth on screen. 49:53 Camera continues rotating. 51:00 Earth in approximately the same position it was prior to the camera being rotated. 51:25 View of Earth ceases. Screen is blank with banding. 52:08 Earth on screen. 52:38 Camera rotates as Charlie Duke asks for an internal view of the command module. 53:05 Camera moves around and zooms out until Earth is very small. 53:42 Earth and interior light visible. 53:47 Earth partly obstructed by internal fittings. 54:19 Earth disappears from view. 54:33 Earth reappears, partly cut off by window frame. 54:51 Earth finally disappears as camera is reconfigured for interior shot.
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Re: Apollo 11: Transcription of TV transmissions « Reply #5 on Nov 30, 2006, 5:39am »
The above posts of the first two TV transmissions, plus the transcript of the scheduled TV broadcast at GET 33:59, plus a transcription of garbled vocal sounds caused by leakage through the intercom diodes during the first 15 minutes of TV (sample below), are all now in one formatted file of only about 52 kb. If anyone would like a copy emailed, PM me.
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Re: Apollo 11: Transcription of TV transmissions « Reply #6 on Dec 8, 2006, 7:42pm »
Apollo 11: Transcription of scheduled television transmission at GET 33:59 Times shown are for the Spacecraft Films' Apollo 11 DVDs -- Disc 1 / "Fly Me to the Moon" / "Television transmissions 10:32 GET, 33:59 GET" / Chapter 5 Three asterisks show a gap in the dialogue.
0:41:25 [Transmission begins at GET 33:59.] 0:41:31 Houston (Duke): Okay, 11. We have a picture. We see the earth right in the center of the screen. Over. 0:41:37 Armstrong: Roger, Houston; Apollo 11. Calling in from about 130,000 miles out. And we'll zoom our camera in slowly and get the most magnification we can. Over. 0:41:52 Houston (Duke): Roger. *** 0:43:01 Houston (Duke): 11, Houston. The definition is pretty good on our monitor, here. The color is not too (garbled) at least on this set. Could you describe what you're looking at? Over. 0:43:17 Armstrong: You're seeing Earth, as we see it, out our left-hand window, just a little more than a half earth. We're looking at the eastern Pacific Ocean, and the north half of the top half of the screen, we can see North America, Alaska, United States, Canada, Mexico, and Central America. South America becomes invisible just beyond the terminator or inside the shadow. We can see the earth's... a definite blue cast. See white bands of major cloud formations across the earth and can see coastlines, pick out the western US, San Joaquin Valley, the Sierra mountain range, the peninsula of Baja, California, and we see some cloud formations over southeastern US. There's one definite mild storm southwest of Alaska. Looks like about 500 to 1,000 miles and another very minor storm showing the south end of the screen near the - Oh, a long ways off of the equator, probably 45 degrees at a more south latitude. Can pick out the browns in the land forms pretty well. Greens do not show up very well. Some greens showing along the northeastern - northwestern coast of the United States and northeastern coast of Canada. 0:45:29 Houston (Duke): Roger 11. It's that there are two distinct cloud formations trending east-west. One approximately along the equator, and one around 30 or so south latitude. Can you tell us exactly where those cross the land masses? Over. 0:45:58 Armstrong: Yes. They cross just south of the lower part of Mexico, probably through Central America. That is the equatorial band which we assume to be the intertropical convergence zone. Another band, which stands about 30 south correctly seems to appear to join equator at the far left, or just beyond the horizon on the left edge of earth, or at least it looks like it's going to join it. We don't have an explanation for that banding. 0:46:38 Houston (Duke): Roger, Neil. Thank you. 0:46:41 Houston (Duke): It also appears that just to the left of the terminator, up in the northern hemisphere, there's a cloud band trending a gap in the cloud, trending northwest-southeast. It appears to us that that comes in about over the northern United States, or perhaps the Central United States. Is that about correct? Over. 0:47:11 Armstrong: I can see on the monitor the thing you were talking about but right now I can't get my eye to the window to pick out just where it crosses the shoreline. 0:47:20 Houston (Duke): Roger. 0:47:27 Houston (Duke): You guys are doing a good job. It's a real steady picture, here. We're - clarity is excellent. The color, it's - the clouds are - the whites are distinct. The rest of it looks like, to me anyway on the monitor I'm observing is a fairly greenish-blue is the way I'd describe it. Over. 0:47:54 Houston (Duke): It appears that the - 0:47:55 Armstrong: We can't observe much green from the spacecraft. 0:48:04 Houston (Duke): Roger. On this monitor, the land masses appear to be just a darker grayish color rather than a brown. 0:48:17 Armstrong: Well, it's true that we do not have the depths of color at this range that we enjoyed at 50,000 miles out. However, the oceans still are a definite blue and the continents are generally brownish in cast, although it is true that they' re tending more toward gray now than they were at the closer range. 0:48:48 Houston (Duke): Roger, 11. We've been - I've just been vectored to another monitor and sure enough, the browns are coming in a lot more distinctly on the... that we have up on our screen in the control center. Over. *** 0:49:06 Collins: Okay, world, hold on to your hat. I'm going to turn you upside-down. *** 0:49:35 Houston (Duke): 11, that's a pretty good roll there. 0:49:47 Collins: Oh, I'd say sloppy, Charlie. Let me try that one again. 0:49:57 Houston (Duke): You'll never beat out the Thunderbirds. *** 0:50:22 Houston (Duke): Apollo 11, Houston. That practice did you some good. It's looking real smooth roll, there. 0:50:28 Collins: Oops. 0:50:29 Houston (Duke): Spoke too soon. 0:50:37 Collins: I'm making myself seasick, Charlie, I'll just put you back right-side-up where you belong. 0:50:42 Houston (Duke): Roger. 0:50:46 Collins: You don't get to do that everyday. 0:50:57 Houston (Duke): 11, Houston. Could you describe, from your view, the polar cloud cap. It appears to us to extend down the western coast of North America. Would you estimate how far it extends down. Over. 0:51:32 Collins: Trying to fit everybody into the window. 0:51:35 Armstrong: It appears that the cloud cap comes down a little bit below the southern extremity of Alaska. 0:51:49 Houston (Duke): Roger. We've - 11, we've lost our picture here, now. *** 0:52:10 Houston (Duke): Okay. Apollo 11, Houston. We've got the picture back now. 0:52:22 Armstrong: Unfortunately, we only have one window that has a view of the earth and it's filled up with the TV camera so your view now is probably better than ours is. 0:52:33 Houston (Duke): Roger, we copy. 0:52:37 Houston (Duke): 11, Houston. If you could comply, we'd like to see a little smiling faces up there, if you could give us an interior view. I'm sure everybody would like to see you. Over. 0:52:52 Armstrong: Okay, we'll reconfigure the TV for that. 0:52:54 Houston (Duke): Roger. *** 0:54:13 Houston (Duke): Apollo 11, Houston. It appears to us that we're seeing a view from outside plus a little of the inside. It appears you've taken the camera away from the left window now. Over. 0:54:27 Collins: That's correct. We're moving it back and reconfiguring for interior lighting. 0:54:32 Houston (Duke): Roger. 0:54:37 Houston (Duke): We can still see the earth through the left window and it appears that we can see a floodlight off to the left, either that or some sun shafting through the hatch window. 0:54:52 Collins: It's a floodlight. 0:54:53 Houston (Duke): Rog. 0:54:56 Houston (Duke): Now we're coming in. Can't quite make out who that... 0:55:06 Aldrin: That's big Mike Collins, there. You got a little bit of - 0:55:07 Collins: Yeah, hello there sport fans, you got a little bit of me plus Neil is in the center couch, and Buzz is doing the camera work this time. 0:55:17 Houston (Duke): Roger. It's a little dark, 11. Maybe a bigger f-stop might help. 0:55:26 Collins: Yeah, that should work. *** 0:55:47 Houston (Duke): It's getting a lot better now, 11. Mike, you're coming in 5 by. I got a good... 0:55:56 Collins: I would have put on a coat and tie if I'd known about this ahead of time. 0:56:00 Houston (Duke): Is Buzz holding your cue cards for you? Over. 0:56:07 Collins: Cue cards have a no. We have no intention of competing with the professionals, believe me. We are very comfortable up here, though. We do have a happy home. There's plenty of room for the three of us and I think we're all willing to find our favorite little corner to sit in. Zero g's very comfortable but after a while, you get to the point where you sort of get tired of rattling around and banging off the ceiling and the floor and the side, so you tend to find a little corner somewhere and put your knees up, or something like that to wedge yourself in, and that seems more at home. 0:56:47 Houston (Duke): Roger, looks like Neil is coming in 5 by, there, 11. Mike, see you in the background. The definition is really outstanding. The colors are good. It's a real good picture we're getting here of Commander Armstrong. We - Buzz, when you take the camera over towards the window where the sun's shafting through it, it tends to black it out, though. 0:57:17 Collins: And Neil's standing on his head again. He's trying to make me nervous. 0:57:21 Houston (Duke): Roger. 0:57:32 Collins: He's disappearing up into the tunnel, of course, hasn't he, but going into the lunar module, only backwards. 0:57:39 Houston (Duke): Roger. We can see portions of the LAP now. The Systems test meter Panel, in the lower part of the picture. We did have it anyway. 0:57:51 Collins: Okay, and then directly behind his head are our optical instruments, the sextant and the telescope that we use to take sightings with. 0:58:01 Houston (Duke): Roger, copy. And we see the DSKY flashing with a 651. In fact, we can read registers 1 and 2 quite clearly. 0:58:13 Collins: The aerial high gain angles telling us which way the earth is. 0:58:17 Houston (Duke): Copy. That's a beautiful picture. Clarity is... 0:58:28 Collins: We offer to give you the time of day in our system of mission elapsed time. Elapsed time 34 hours 16 minutes and umpteen seconds. 0:58:39 Collins: Right. You see that clearly enough Charlie? 0:58:41 Houston (Duke): Roger, Apollo 11. We can see it counting up every - every second. We got 34:17:02 now. 0:58:54 Collins: Okay, back to the high gain angles. 0:58:57 Houston (Duke): Roger. 0:59:00 Collins: Now we have amputated those. 0:59:27 Houston (Duke): 11, Houston. We have beautiful rainbow there now as you move the camera around. That looks like the star chart coming into view now. Over. 0:59:40 Collins: Yeah, those are Buzz's two star charts that he is using right now as sun shades over the right-hand window, window number 5. 0:59:48 Houston (Duke): Roger. We see the sun shining in through it behind him and blotting out the equatorial - correction, ecliptic plane, and the stars that you're using for the navigation. 1:00:02 Collins: You're right. He doesn't really need the charts. He's got them memorized. This is just for show. 1:00:09 Houston (Duke - with a slight snigger): We copy. 1:00:10 Aldrin: While we're pointing up in this direction, we see out our side windows, the sun going by and of course, out one of our windows right now we've got the earth. Now right behind my window, course we have the sun, 'cause the sun is illuminating the star charts that we see. This line represents the ecliptic plane and these lines, vertical lines represent our reference system that the spacecraft is using at this time. As we approach the moon, the moon will gradually grow larger and larger in size and eventually it will be in eclipse, it will be eclipsing the sun as we go behind it as we approach the lunar orbit insertion maneuver. 1:01:01 Houston (Duke): Roger 11, we've, could you attempt a little bit better focus here, 11, over? *** 1:01:43 Houston (Duke): Eleven, Houston, that's a lot better on the star chart now. We can make out the ecliptic plane and the planets and the sun and the moon as they have gone at various places throughout the ecliptic plane, over. 1:02:02 Aldrin: Okay, Charlie. *** 1:02:23 Aldrin: If we can get some of the wires untangled here we'll give you a demonstration of how easy push ups are up here. Come in, Roger. 1:02:36 Houston (Duke): Just a view of Buzz there. *** 1:03:05 Aldrin: When it gets pretty hard doing it that way, why we just roll over and do it the other way. 1:03:11 Houston (Duke): Rog, we copy, we couldn't figure out whether that was a chin up or a push up. Just take your choice I guess. *** 1:03:44 Collins: Well it looks like it's probably almost your dinner time down there on earth. We'll show you our food cabinet here in a second. 1:03:53 Houston (Duke): Eleven, Roger. 1:04:17 Houston (Duke): Eleven Houston. We see a box full of goodies there, over. 1:04:23 Collins: We really have them, Charlie. We've got all kinds of good stuff. We've got coffee up here in the upper left and the various breakfast items and bacon in little small bites, and beverages like fruit drink and over in the center part we have, oh all kinds of things. Let me pull one out here and see what it is. 1:04:33 Houston (Duke): Rog. *** 1:04:50 Collins: Would you believe you're looking at chicken stew here. All you have to do is 3 ounces of hot water for 5 or 10 minutes. Now we get our hot water out of a little spigot up here with a filter on it that filters any gasses that may be in the drinking water out, and we just stick the end of this little tube in the end of the spigot and pull the trigger three times for 3 ounces of hot water and then mush it up and slice the end off it and there you go. Beautiful chicken stew. 1:05:25 Houston (Duke): Sounds delicious. 1:05:35 Collins: The food so far has been very good. We couldn't be happier with it. 1:05:40 Armstrong: Could I borrow that flashlight a second? 1:05:43 Houston (Duke): The surgeons are saying thank you there for that. 1:05:49 Collins: And it is sort of down in a dark corner so we have a flash light here to help us see things and if I can let go of it carefully it'll just hold itself right where it is. 1:06:03 Houston (Duke): Ah Roger (garbled) *** 1:06:14 Houston (Duke): Apollo 11, Houston, that's a pretty good demonstration. You started off really stable there Mike. 1:06:24 Collins: Well no matter how careful you let go you bump it just a tiny little bit and set it in motion and once in motion there she goes. Try that again. 1:06:38 Houston (Duke): It looks fairly stable there with slow rotation. *** 1:07:08 Collins: Well so much for the food department. I'm going to close up the store down here. 1:07:12 Houston (Duke): Roger, we copy. 1:07:17 Aldrin: Charlie, we checked out the cable lengths, and we're thinking we might want to see if we can take the TV into the LM with us tomorrow for part of the time, over. 1:07:29 Houston (Duke): Roger, good show. We'd like to see it if it'll reach that far, over. 1:07:37 Aldrin: We'll give it a try. 1:07:38 Houston (Duke): Rog. *** 1:08:09 Collins: And where we sleep is down underneath this couch. 1:08:16 Houston (Duke): Houston, Roger. Slowly sinking into the sack there. 1:08:30 Collins: It's really comfortable. Forgot to give Buzz his flashlight back. 1:09:01 Houston (Duke): Apollo 11, Houston, could you give the folks a view of your patch on your CWG? Over. 1:09:15 Collins: (garbled) Charlie we can't get any closer. 1:09:31 Houston (Duke): Alright. Eleven, Houston. We have a patch. Could you cut the, put the focus slightly, over. Eleven, Houston. The scan on the camera makes the, that's a little bit better now. The flashlight seems to flicker due to the scan on the TV. We can't see the eagle. Now it's a little bit better, over. Could you open the f-stop a little bit more? Over. 1:10:19 Collins: It's open all the way. We're going to have to move Buzz around a little bit. 1:10:23 Houston (Duke): Roger. *** 1:11:02 Houston (Duke): Apollo 11, Houston the color is better now. It's coming in. We could attempt a little bit better focus on it. There we go, it focuses a lot better now. We see the eagle coming right in on the lunar surface, over. That's very good now. 1:11:35 Houston (Duke): Apollo 11, Houston. That's very good now. We can see the earth in the background, Apollo 11, and the eagle coming in. 1:11:44 Collins: It's probably pretty hard to see the olive branches. 1:11:46 Houston (Duke): Roger, it is. 1:11:51 Collins: Well that's what he has in his talons, an olive branch. 1:11:55 Houston (Duke): Copy. *** 1:12:17 Houston (Duke): Apollo 11, Houston. We're really impressed with the clarity and the detail that we have in the picture. The colors are, it's really an excellent picture now that I'm looking at it on monitor which is about 12 seconds before the networks can get it out due to the conversion that we have here on our TV converter. We're looking at the controls in the main display console. We can see the DSKY up on the panel, over. 1:13:11 Collins: That'd be nice if you could take a look at all the circuit breakers. Make sure the right ones are in and the right ones are out. 1:13:16 Houston (Duke): Big Brother's watching. 1:13:21 Collins: And we' re glad of it. Boy you guys have sure been doing a good job of watching us, Charlie, we appreciate it. 1:13:32 Houston (Duke): The spacecraft's been beautiful eleven. There's really no complaints at all. Things are really great. 1:13:46 Collins: Can you see this DSKY on the MDC? 1:13:49 Houston (Duke): That's affirmative. It appears that, er, can't quite tell what program, er, when the cut went P00. We see you punching in a verb 35 I think it is, over. 1:14:03 Collins: Yeah, might as well tell the EECOMs or tell the GNCs they better hold on to their hat and I'll push the enter button. 1:14:17 Houston (Duke): Rog. We see a real display now. 1:14:32 Houston (Duke): That was a good demonstration of how the crew has the interface with the computer talking to the programs and all that we have in the computer. 1:14:45 Collins: Well that's right Charlie. Sometimes it tells us things and sometimes we tell it things and mostly it talks to us. *** 1:15:49 Houston (Duke): Eleven, Houston. We just lost our pic - I see we're going back outside now, over. 1:16:07 Houston (Duke): Eleven Houston. You copy? Over. 1:16:11 Armstrong: Roger we copy and as we pan back out to the distance at which we see the earth we'll have Apollo 11 signing off. 1:16:25 Houston (Duke): Roger Apollo 11, thank you much for the show. It's a real good half hour. Appreciate it, thank you very much, out. 1:16:50 [Transmission ends.]
Don't criticize what you can't understand. Bob Dylan, The Times They Are A-Changin' (1963) Some people think they are thinking when they are really rearranging their prejudices and superstitions. Edward R. Murrow (190865)
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