NASA-UAP-D4, Apollo 11 Technical Crew Debriefing, 1969
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CONFIDENTIAL NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION APOLLO 11 TECHNICAL CREW DEBRIEFING (U) JULY 31, 1969 PREPARED BY: MISSION OPERATIONS BRANCH FLIGHT CREW SUPPORT DIVISION VOL. I
GROUP 4 Downgraded at 3-year intervals; declassified after 12 years
STAMP: CLASSIFICATION CHANGED TO U E.O.11652 DATE: 6/1/73 [HW: Sandy D Slate] 5-1-72
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- Page 1 CONFIDENTIAL NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION APOLLO 11 TECHNICAL CREW DEBRIEFING (U) JULY 31, 1969 PREPARED BY: MISSION OPERATIONS BRANCH FLIGHT CREW SUPPORT DIVISION VOL. I GROUP 4…
- Page 2 CONFIDENTIAL 6-33 COLLINS I think particularly when you get into the later flights of extended EVA's and lunar activity, somehow the crew must place themselves in a frame of mind of looking on the…
- Page 3 6-34 CONFIDENTIAL COLLINS How'd we see this thing? Did we just look out the window and there it was? ALDRIN Yes, and we weren't sure but what it might be the S-IVB. We called the ground and were told…
- Page 4 CONFIDENTIAL 6-35 ARMSTRONG We should say that it was right at the limit of the resolution of the eye. It was very difficult to tell just what shape it was. And there was no way to tell the size…
- Page 5 6-36 COLLINS It was during the period when we thought it was a cylinder that we inquired about the S-IVB and we'd almost convinced ourselves that's what it had to be. But we don't have any more…
- Page 6 ALDRIN The other observation that I made accumulated gradually. I don't know whether I saw it the first night, but I'm sure I saw it the second night. I was trying to go to sleep with all the lights…
- Page 7 6-38 ALDRIN (CONT'D) some static electricity because I was also able, in moving my hand up and down the sleep restraint, to generate very small sparks of static electricity. But there was a definite…
- Page 8 ALDRIN Sometimes a minute or two would go by and then you'd see the two within the space of 10 seconds. On an average, I'd say just as a guess it was maybe something like one a minute. Certainly more…
- Page 9 CONFIDENTIAL NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION APOLLO 11 TECHNICAL CREW DEBRIEFING (U) JULY 31, 1969 PREPARED BY: MISSION OPERATIONS BRANCH FLIGHT CREW SUPPORT DIVISION VOL. II GROUP 4…
- Page 10 CONFIDENTIAL 21-1 21.0 VISUAL SIGHTINGS ARMSTRONG Most of the items in Section 21, Visual Sightings, have been previously reported. 21.4 TRANSLUNAR AND TRANSEARTH FLIGHT ALDRIN There was only one…