the course of the translunar phase to take a look at how well the 11 spacecraft held up to being unpowered, going through this voyage from the earth to the moon. then when they powered it up, were the checklists in place to power this thing up efficiently, rapidly, was the team capable of supporting these two spacecraft in the dock mode and staying on the timeline so that when the time came to separate and start the preparations for the, what i'd say, the pass across the surface of the moon was everything being executed 100% correctly by the numbers and on time? because once you get to the moon, you don't have too many options. you have very limited wave off options. you're either going to accomplish your mission or not. it's black or white. there's no compromise there. this was the dress rehearsal for the entire package. and as an observer, i was watching everything that happened closely. i was also looking at the performance of my lunar module team, which was very critical, because the command module people, systems engineers in particular, had several missions to warm up. so they had a