Apollo 11 LM Systems Activation Checklist
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Source document: 1969-07-08-apollo-11-lm-systems-activation-checklist.pdf (scan, 72 pp, with an OCR text layer). Searchable sibling: 1969-07-08-apollo-11-lm-systems-activation-checklist.txt (rough OCR — usable for search, not for verbatim quotation).
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Original: NASA MSC, Apollo 11 — LM Systems Activation Checklist; Basic Date July 8, 1969 (REV H) on the transfer-list page.
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Available online: ibiblio.org/apollo — Apollo 11 LM Systems Activation Checklist.
Summary
Section titled “Summary”The onboard procedures for waking Eagle up: the GET-keyed LM timeline and activation sequences (intravehicular transfer from Columbia, hatch operations, power-up, communications and systems checkout around ~99:00 GET on landing day), panel-by-panel switch configurations — and the CSM-to-LM transfer list, the manifest of everything the crew physically carried into the LM for the landing.
Key takeaways
Section titled “Key takeaways”- The transfer list is a packing inventory of the landing (basic date July 8, 1969, REV H): suits and ancillary equipment (IV gloves, helmets, bio belts, comm cap — annotated “Molded Earpiece”), penlights, scissors, the CDR’s CSRC pocket (the contingency sample container), personal radiation dosimeters — and the camera magazines: “16 MM Magazines in Bag (6); 70 MM Magazines in Bag (3)”, matching the photographic index’s surface magazine count.
- The LM flight data file rode in a bag: LM ACTIVATION CHECKLIST, LM TIMELINE BOOK, LM LUNAR SURFACE MAPS, LM STRIP CHARTS, LM STAR CHARTS — with a handwritten “LM SFC Book” added; the crew’s working library for the descent, including the maps behind the landing-site recognition.
- Activation is its own mission phase: dedicated GET-tagged timeline pages (~99:00 GET) for transfer, hatch close-out, power-up, comm checks, and systems verification — the procedural bridge between Columbia flight and Eagle’s powered descent.
- Crossed-out and annotated entries (e.g. “
Stopwatch (CDR)”) show the late-stage procedure churn between revisions — the cockpit-side counterpart of the page-level change dates in the surface checklist.