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Any adjustment? >> roger. >> right here. >> okay. good luck. >> thank you, gunner. >> all right. closing the hatch. >> roger. 441, the cm hatch is closed. >> all righty. >> the hatch is closed and we're beginning to purge the cabin to bring it to the proper atmosphere for launch, which is a combination of oxygen and nitrogen, 60% oxygen and 40% nitrogen atmosphere. the astronauts, themselves, are breathing pure oxygen through their space suits. coming up shortly will be another key test in which hopefully the launch crew and the spacecraft team combine together with the commander neil armstron...

>> loud and clear. >> good morning, neil. >> good morning. >> welcome aboard. >> how do you read? >> loud and clear. >> good morning, buzz. >> good morning. how are you gentlemen? >> just fine. thank you. >> let me make a last check here. any adjustment on your stats? >> happy. >> fine here. >> good luck. >> thank you. >> proceed. >> roger. we are proceeding with closing the hatch. >> roger. >> the hatch is closed. >> roger. >> the hatch is closed and we are beginning to purge the cabin to bring it to the proper atmosphere for launch, which is a combination of oxygen and nitrogen, 60% oxygen a...

Space suits. coming up shortly will be another key test with the launch crew from the launch creek view and the spacecraft team combined together with the commander neil armstrong to make a thorough check of the emergency detection system. this is the system that will signal the astronauts in the cabin and if anything goes wrong below them. we use the ground-based computer to accomplish this test. it will take some 30 minutes. neil armstrong will being doing most of the work in the spacecraft responding as different lights signifying different difficulties are presented to him.