USED BY NEIL ARMSTRONG Apollo 11 Launch Operations Checklist

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USED BY NEIL ARMSTRONG Apollo 11 Launch Operations Checklist. A single sheet approximately 5.5x8 inches, being pages 1-11 and 1-12 from the checklist. Side 1-11 has the switch settings for six panels and side 2-11 has settings for 7 panels including 325 and 326. Neil Armstrong would verify the setting for panels 325 and 326. The sheet is from Section 1 titled: "Liftoff Configuration" and was part of the complete manual that Armstrong and the Apollo 11 crew used in the CM Apollo Mission Simulator at MSC in Houston, Texas. With a Typed Letter Signed by Buzz Aldrin. NASA/MSC, 1969

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Page 1-11 has been inscribed and signed: "Used in training for Apollo XI, Buzz Aldrin." The Typed Letter Signed reads in part: "The entire checklist, including this actual page, was used by all three Apollo 11 crew members: Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins, and myself ... Panels 325 and 326 were just to the left of Neil. They were our Cabin Pressure Relief and Primary Glycol Systems. Neil would take this sheet and verify those settings ...
It was important to rehearse the flow of this activity in the simulator. This training was a key step which enabled our flight to make the first manned lunar landing on July 20, 1969."