At 02:56 UTC on July 21 (10:56pm EDT, July 20), 1969, Armstrong made his descent to the Moon’s surface and spoke his famous line “That’s one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind” exactly six and a half hours after landing. Aldrin joined him, describing the view as “Magnificent desolation.”
Yikes! I was a bit under the weather Friday. (Actually, I crashed and burned in the afternoon) so I missed half a day there. And I was preoccupoed over the weekend.
Now I’m at my office and I have the ‘transmission’ playing. Nothing but static for the last half-hour, but it will be playing all day.
I found the page and read the first few lines (I’m at work, so I can’t spend the time reading it in full), and a minute ago Apollo Control popped up saying what I’d just read.
APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY, 7-20-69, GET 99:19, CDT 11:51 292/2
PAO end of this pass, we passed along the GO for undocking. That maneuver will occur just before we reacquire the spacecraft on the thirteenth revolution and will be followed in about 30 minutes later by a small separation maneuver performed by Mike Collins in the command module. Checkout of the LM has been going extremely well up to now ahead of schedule. Both vehicles look very good. At 99 hours, 31 minutes, this is Apollo Control, Houston.
It’s strange looking back to 4 days ago when they launched to think they’ve been kooked up in that small craft for this long. And they’re only half way done. But damn if it’s not worth it.
I think that was it for the simulation, you should click on the videos for the moon walk, if you click on the “back to earth” button you will get to see a nice epilogue and you can print a nice certificate for “making” the journey.
Ahh, sweet. Yeh, I figured the simulation was over, since the clock stopped ticking and the site only listed the eleven stages up to the landing. But they’re still streaming the mission audio. I’m wondering if they keep at least that part going until liftoff of the eagle? Or perhaps until splashdown on Earth (but I doubt it)?
For example (from the bottom of page 342 in the above linked pdf), from the transcript:
I heard:
CAPCOM And Roger Tranquility, for your
mission timer, two suggestions. Set the circuit breaker
panel 11 also reset and attempt to start. That nine in
the first digit might have something to do with it. Over.
TRANQUILITY Okay. Retried both of those. The
circuit breaker is in when I reset the - put it in reset,
I get 9020440 when I release it, now I get 9020449. I’m
going to cycle the circuit breaker.
CAPCOM Roger.
TRANQUILITY I cycled the circuit breaker and
got all nines and won’t now reset from all nines.
CAPCOM Roger.
How can the transcription be so full of errors?