Apollo+40: DOI successful, on the way to PDI

102:15:36 (CAPCOM): "Columbia, Houston. Over."

102:15:41 (CMP): "Houston, Columbia. Reading you loud and clear. How me?"

102:15:43 (CAPCOM): "Roger. Five-by, Mike. How did it go? Over."

102:15:49 (CMP): "Listen, babe. Everything's going just swimmingly. Beautiful."

102:15:52 (CAPCOM): "Great. We're standing by for Eagle."

102:15:57 (CMP): "Okay. He's coming along."

With a successful DOI, Eagle is now closer to the Moon in altitude, therefore Columbia reestablished contact first.

102:17:27 (LMP): "Houston, Eagle. How do you read?"

102:17:36 (CAPCOM): "Five-by, Eagle. We're standing by for your burn report."

All did not stay well however. Communications with Eagle became extremly "ratty", in the vernacular of space travel. Mission Control was forced to deal with repeated voice and data dropouts from Eagle as the spacecraft hurtled toward the point where PDI would begin.