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Buzz Aldrin describes the departure:
"Joe Schmitt, a NASA technician, had our equipment
laid out in the brightly lit suiting room. The
spacesuits hung like headless white snowmen from
racks, and there were gloves and boots stacked
neatly here and there. The place looked like an
anatomy lab for robots."
The Apollo command module cabin contained 15 miles of
wiring and over 2,000,000 different parts. Its panel
displays included 566 switches, 40 event indicators, and
71 lights.
Each Apollo astronaut was allowed to carry a pilot's
preference kit (PPK) to the moon. In these, they could pack
eight ounces of personal items of value to the astronauts
and their families.
Bodily waste disposal was the worst housekeeping chore
onboard.
Buzz Aldrin reminisces that he "was actually hungry for
our first meal of freeze-dried shrimp cocktail,gritty
chicken sald and overaly sweet applesauce".Food was carefully
engineered to minimize things like gas which causes
discomfort in zero g. It was a low-residue diet. Between
the three astronauts there were sometimes twenty-five food
bags for a meal that included drinks,salad,soup,main course,
dessert,and coffee. You could not eat if you did not have
scissors to cut the corners off the bags.