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Flight day 6, Monday, 21 July, started at 121 hours elapsed time with Ron Evans making his wake-up call to Columbia. In fact, Collins was already awake and was having his breakfast. Because Columbia was only a few minutes from going ‘over the hill’, Evans launched straight into updates to the flight plan which promised to keep Collins “a little busy”: while in the Moon’s shadow he was to perform a P52 to align the inertial platform, and then, on starting the near-side pass of revolution 23, he was to track crater 130-prime in order to measure the plane of his orbit accurately prior to rendezvous.
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(2007). Home in triumph. In: The First Men on the Moon. Springer Praxis Books. Praxis. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-49544-6_9
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