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  Almost done for day 3 on the spacecraft..

  Apollo 11 is at about 183,000 nautical miles from earth and its velocity is about 3042 feet per second. There were some communication problems and the air-to-ground signal has been turned off for a while.The crew has recently reestablished the Passive Thermal Control rotation rate of 3 revolutions per hour and completed all the steps on checklists F9-7.

  After some checks, both the crew and Huston confirmed a good PTC value. This was the good night for mission’s day 3.

  Capsule Communicator: Apollo 11, Houston. Would you please select OMNI Bravo? Over.
  Michael Collins: Roger. Bravo.
  Michael Collins: Houston, Apollo 11. How do you read on Bravo?
  Capsule Communicator: Roger. Reading you five-by.
  Michael Collins: Same here.
  Capsule Communicator: Apollo 11, Houston. Looks like we’ve got a good PTC going. It’s good night from the White Team. Over.
  Michael Collins: Okay. See you tomorrow. Thank you for everything.

  From the voice transcription, I see that there will be about another half hour of conversation before the actual rest period.

  And this is my last note for today, too. 4:23 am in my local timezone ;)

  I have understood that the mission control can “cut” some air-to-ground dialogues and broadcast them later, after a short comment. I’m not sure now, too tired, but I think this explains the differences I were noticing today between the nasa tv stream and that from wechoosethemoon.org.

  Will check that tomorrow.

  ~1 year on
  Sleto's Tumblelog
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  Space music.. Capsule Communicator: 11, Houston. We're wondering who's on horn.
  Michael Collins: Say again, Houston?
  Capsule Communicator: We just had a little music there.
  Michael Collins: We'll keep you entertained.
  Capsule Communicator: Roger. That was good. You can keep it coming down, 11.
  Michael Collins: Okay.
  Michael Collins: Because it's a special occasion today, Houston. This is the third anniversary of Gemini 10.
  Capsule Communicator: Roger. Happy anniversary.
  Michael Collins: Thank you, sir.
  
  Mission Time - about 59 h 11 min
  

  ~1 year on
  Sleto's Tumblelog
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  Moon cheese.. Capsule Communicator: Apollo 11, Houston. Over.
  Neil Armstrong: Go ahead. 11, here.
  Capsule Communicator: 11, Houston. A little information to you there, CDR. We've all taken a momentary brief respite from out work here to have some special - to have a bite of special moon cheese that is - I understand it's been sent to us directly from Wapakoneta, your own hometown. Over.
  Neil Armstrong: No, we can't - we can't pronounce it either. I think you'll enjoy that. They make a fine brand of cheese.
  Capsule Communicator: Roger, there, and I'll polish up the grammar for the next trip.
  Mission Time - about 57 h

  ~1 year on
  Sleto's Tumblelog
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  White team relieved green team..

  The white team led by Gene Kranz relieved Cliff Charlesworth and the green team. Capcom is Charlie Duke. I think next one will be black team.

  Happy. It seems that now I can listen all the air-to-ground dialogues (plus the mission commentary) as it was yestarday. Can’t understand what happened before when I was reading the dialoges on the voice transcription pdf but was not able to listen to them on nasa tv.

  It’s not a problem anymore :)

  ~1 year on
  Sleto's Tumblelog
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  End of the mismatch on wechoosethemoon.org ok, we just heard the comment at 48 h ground elapsed time, so now the distance from earth and velocity shown on wechoosethemoon are correct.

  ~1 year on
  Sleto's Tumblelog
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  Who is saying the truth here? Nasa TV or wechoosethemoon.org?

  At this moment, there is a mismatch between the mission time and audio and the flight info shown at wechoosethemoon.org.

  Also, audio and mission time from wechoosethemoon.org and real-time audio on @nasa tv are not synchronized anymore.

  On nasa tv crew is awake. On wechoosethemoon.org crew is still sleeping.

  As per the mismatch on wechoosethemoon.org on mission time and audio from one side and flight info on the other, at mission time 47 h 41 min (read from wechoosethemoon) apollo control said distance from earth was 160137 while wechoosethemoon.org was showing 160760. Apollo control said velocity was 3544 while on wechoosethemoon.org one can read 3529.

  The values 160760 for distance and 3529 for velocity are those of the comment at 48 h (the next one we will hear) which I already read on mission commentary transcription.

  So it’s a mess today: confusion within the site wechoosethemoon.org and - even worse - not synchronization between nasa tv and wechoosthemoon.org.

  So, who is saying the truth here? Nasa TV or wechoosethemoon.org? What is the real mission time?

  I think I will abandon wechoosethemoon.org once and for all, and am going to receive the voice communications only from nasa tv (http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html, last channel)

  ~1 year on
  Sleto's Tumblelog
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  Day 2, time to take some rest on Apollo 11 Capsule Communicator: Hello, Apollo 11. Houston. As the Sun sinks slowly in the west, the White Team bids you good night. If we get a story on the seven-tenths, we can give it to you in about 15 minutes or so; if not, we'll give it to you in the morning. Over.
  Michael Collins: Okay. That sounds fine, Charlie. Thanks.
  Edwin Aldrin: Hey, you earned your pay today, Charlie. Thank you.
  Capsule Communicator: Roger. Good night all.
  Mission Time - about 36 h

  ~1 year on
  Sleto's Tumblelog
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  Day 2, dinner time on Apollo 11 Michael Collins: Well, it looks like it's probably almost your dinner time down there, Earth. We'll show you our food cabinet here in a second.
  Capsule Communicator: 11, Roger.
  Capsule Communicator: 11, Houston. We see a box full of goodies there. Over.
  Michael 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 various breakfast items, bacon in little small bites, beverages like fruit drink, and over in the center part we have, on, all kinds of things. Let me pull one out here and see what it is.
  Capsule Communicator: Roger.
  Mission Time - between 29 h and 36 h

  ~1 year on
  Sleto's Tumblelog
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  "While we’re pointing up in this direction, we see out our side windows the Sun going by and,..." “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, of course, we have the Sun, because 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 in - it will be eclipsing the Sun as we go behind it, as we approach the lunar orbit insertion maneuver.”
  
  - Michael “Mike” Collins, Apollo 11 - Mission Time: between 29 h and 36 h

  ~1 year on
  Sleto's Tumblelog
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  "Cue cards have a no. We have no intertions of competing with the professionals, believe me. We are..." “Cue cards have a no. We have no intertions 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 learning to find our favorite little corner to sit in. Zero g is 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.”
  
  - Michael “Mike” Collins, Apollo 11 - Mission Time: between 29 h and 36 h

  ~1 year on
  Sleto's Tumblelog
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  "Roger. You’re seeing Earth, as we see it, out our left-hand window, just a little more than a..." “Roger. 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 off beyond the terminator or inside the shadow. We can see the oceans with a definite blue cast, see white bands of major cloud formations across the Earth, and can see coastlines, pick out the western U.S. San Joaquin Valley, the Sierra mountain range, the peninsula of Baja California, and we can see some cloud formations over southeastern U.S. There’s one definite mild storm southwest of Alaska, looks like about 500 to 1000 miles, and another very minor storm showing the south end of the screen near the - or a long ways off of the equator, probably 45 degrees or more south latitude. Can pick out the browns in the landforms pretty well. Greens do not shot up very well. Some greens showing along the northeastern - northwestern coast of the United States and northwestern coast of Canada.”
  
  - Neil A. Armstrong, Apollo 11 - Mission Time: between 29 h and 36 h

  ~1 year on
  Sleto's Tumblelog