Forty-five minutes after the launch, the astronauts tried to get comfortable, sounding rather like friends settling in for a long car ride. Collins attempted to find a star named Menkent to help the spacecraft’s guidance systems figure out their orientation in space. Each start that the computer using for alignment is given a number. After aligning on Menkent, which is star number 30, Collins repeats the process on a second star, Nunki, number 37. The computer afterwards was able to check the spacecraft alignment.