Otrobonita/noicy-space-talks huggingface dataset:
CC: 12, we copied just a little dumping going on. As soon as that damps out, you can go ahead and roll.
CC: It appears that we've lost the downlink long line for a few minutes. As soon as we get it re- established, we'11 be back with you.
CC: Roger. That one came down loud and clear. dump any urine? Is that correct?
CC: No. We're saying Just damp out your rates for a few more minutes and then start your roll. dump
CDR: Okay. But you don't want us to urine after we start PTC. Is that right?
CC: Whatever is necessary, go ahead and do, but we - damp out your rates as much as you can before you start to roll.
CC: We Just don't want to have to wake you up in middle the of the night and do a maneuver for US.
CDR: Yes, I - it's no problem. We - we can keep it onboard. So I Just - I Just didn't know when we're down this light if it was going to mess us up, and Z guess it probably will, so we'11 go ahead and keep it onboard. It's no problem.
CC: Apollo 12, Houston. Your rates look good to us. If you want to spin up, we're agreeable.
CDR: Okay. We were Just getting ready to do that now. Tbmnk you.
CDR: I screwed that one up, so I'm going to start over again.
CC: APollo 12, Houston.
CC: Roger. We're going to be on LOW BIT RATE most of the night, so we won't be getting any BIOMED data from you, so if you want to disconnect us. your harnesses, that's fine with
CDR: Okay. Very good. Okay. Let me give you the checklist here. _U' crew status report: The Commander had one decongestant; the CMP had nothing; the LMP had one sleeping pill last night and one decongestant. The fans have been cycled. The water's been chlorinated. We've verified the valves; BAT C at 37.0; pyro BAT A, 37.1; pyro BAT B, 37.1. You've got the E-memory dump, and as soon as I get PTC going here, we're going to hit the pad. Actually, LMP and CMP are already asleep.
CC: Very good. Have a good night. You've certainly earned your rest.
CC: We'11 see you in the morning.
CDR: And how do the rates look to you down there?
CC: Looks fine. Spin her up.
CDR: Okay. APOLID 12 AIR-TO-GRO_ID VOICE TRANSCRIi'TICN -Page 886 REST PERIOD - NO CO>_ItI_[ICATIONS l I
CC: Music "The Yankee Clipper, Apoilo 12," (chorus)
CC: Music "The Second Time Around" (chorus)
CC: Good morning, 12. Welcome back to tramsearth coast.
CDR: Music
CDR: Good morning, Houston. How are you?
CC: Very good. How are you folks?
CDR: Fine. We'd like - we'd like to say we really sacked out last night, I guess.
CC: That you did. You had to, Paul Weitz was on.
CDR: (Laughter) Very good.
CC: Say, Pete, right now - -
CDR: What's new in the world of news today?
CC: Okay, why don't we first figure out how you want to go from here? We could take a - and pick up midcourse 5 which is relatively small - a little over 2 feet per second and 188:27, or we could slip it a little bit it's - maybe - up to on the hour even. It's really up to you folks.
CDR: 188:27, huh?
CC: That's right. It depends upon how far you are along in your postsleep activities. It can be slipped Just as easily.
CDR: Okay. What - Why not don't - why don't we go ahead and burn it on time? I tell you what, the only thing we have to do is change the canister, and we all had 12 hours' sleep last night, I think. I lost track of time there. And the PRD's are 11026, 11025, and 04027; and we'11 go ahead and do a quick P52 here for you in a PTC orientation. And then give you the computer, okay? And you can uplink loads. That what you want to do? 121/2 Tape
CC: Okay, that sounds good.
CDR: And in the meantime, we'11 go ahead and put on - How - What do - Do you want us to try and get the H 2 purge done?
CDR: And the waste water dump before - and fuel cells before we do the burn?
CC: Yes, let's go ahead and try to carry things out in the same order in which you would have done them before. That is, all flight plan items preceding your midcourse 5 was still required and accomplish it at your own - crew-determined pace. Your water dump and fuel - fuel cell purge is after your sextant star cheek.
CDR: Okay. Very good. We'11 go ahead and do the P52 right now.
CC: Okay. And one word on after M - MCC 5 and your associated data dump, the - you'11 roll the degrees spacecraft 180 and hold attitude rather 1-1/2 than :_TC for the next hours, and then you nominally perform P23 scheduled for 189. roll
CDR: Okay.. P23 for 189. What orientation did you want?
CC: Okay. You'd be rolling 180 degrees from the attitude you'd have in MCC 5.
CC: We have a consumables PAD for you here, and we'11 be coming up with a maneuver PAD shortly.
CC: Apollo 12, OMNI Charlie; OMNI Charlie.
CC: Apollo 12, 0_II Charlie; OMNI Charlie.
CDR: Okay. Here's the alignment for you. It was done on 6h5, star angle difference: Four balls l, plus 00288, minus 00301, plus 00211, / 18[:5h:_5. And the computer is yours.
CC: Roger, Pete. You can go ahead and cut off the cryo fans.
CC: And we have a maneuver PAD and consumables update, in that order, when you're ready to copy.
CDR: Okay. Give me the consumables update first.
CC: Okay. GET: 187:30; RCS total, 3h; and Alfa through Delta: 35, 32, 3h, 3h; H2, 3h.5 and 3h.5; 02 , 37.3 hO.2.
CDR: Okay. I copied ail that. We're ready for the maneuver PAD. RCS/G&N:
CC: MCC 5 25138; your trims are NA; GET, 188:27:13:7h; plus 0002.0; and DELTA-Vy, DELTA-V Z are zero; 089, 339, 007; NOUN h_, NA; 0002.0, 0.05, 0002.0; 22; 323.0.
LMP: Hold on a second.
LMP: Did you - I understand now. The DELTA-V T is in the 0002.0. Start from there.
CC: Okay. First, NOUN hh was NA; DELTA-V T was 0002.0; 0:05, 0002.0, and that was DELTA-Vc; 22; 323.0, 35.9; boresight star 016, up 07.2, left _.2; NOUN 61, minus 15.81, minus 165.1h; 1171.1, 36198; 2_:22:3_. Under comments, your Sirius stars, and Rigel, alignments, 256, 152, 069; your ullage is a fou_-Jet RCS, plus X. I/4P RCS/G&N:
UNKNOWN: 25138; NA; NA; 188:27:13:7_; plus 0002.0, the next two are zip; and then, 339, 007; roll Ss 089, NA, NA; 0002.0, 0:05, 0002.0; 22; 323.0, 35.9; 016; up 07.2; left h.?; minus 15.81, minus 165.18; 1171.1, 36198; 2hh:22:3h; Sirius and Rigel, 256, 152, 069; four Jets, plus X. 121/4 Tape
CC: Okay, NOUN 61, longitude was 165.14 and the other i? correct.
LMP: Roger. I got minus 165.14. Is that - is that right?
CC: That's Charlic.
LMP: Okay, Houston. Also, we're going to vent the battery compartment there. That's up to about 3.6, and we'11 do that along with the rest of the dump.
CC: Apollo 12. OMNI Bravo.
CC: Apollo 12, OMNI Alfa; OMNI Alfa.
UNKNOWN: Apollo 12, Houston.
CDR: Right here, Ho ton. We got you on the high gain now, and the H2, 02 fuel cell purge is in works and so is the waste water dump. Sextant star check okay.
CC: Apollo 12, Houston. You can hold off on that battery B charge until tomorrow.
CDR: Say, Houston. We're not going to get the purge - fuel cell purge all the way done by f P_e 89_ J burn time. What would you like us to do about that? We ean purge oxygen a minute and 20 for each or we can do something else.
CC: Apollo 12, Houston. You can go ahead and continue on with the purge through the burn.
CDR: Okay, Houston, the burn is complete.
CDR: The residuals were zero.
CMP: Hey, Ed, for your information, this _NS is useless for this kind of thing; I finished the burn; I was reading 1.8 feet per second; it's got a pretty sizable bias on it. I haven't reported this before because it has been wcrxing and meeting all tolerances; but, in the t2_ DELTA-V test, i% goes down to minus 18.1 and it's been consistent that way throughout the flight.
CC: Will you enable an A-C roll on the DAP? And also, we're showing that your weight is about _00 pounds heavier than what we passed you in the PAD.
CDR: Okay. Now, Houston, you want us to roll 1807
CC: Stand by for Just a moment, Pete.
CDR: We're rolling.
CC: Pete, if you have already eaten, you can go right on to the P23's, and the attitude for those are in the flight plan and they are good.
CC: 12 Houston. Go ahead.
CMP: Roger. For these P23's, I'm going to disable
CC: And, 12, you can give us OMNI Alfa as you approach the high gain limits.
CMP: Roger. OMNI Alfa.
LMP: OMNI Alfa. END OF TkPE 122/1 Tape
CC: Apollo 12, Houston. OMNI
CC: Apollo 12, Houston. OMNI Delta, Delta.
CDR: Roger-Roger. Al's OMNI Delta, O_I Delta.
CC: Roger. Thank you, Pete. Say, do you have a reason for not selecting balance couples for P237
CC: Hello 12, Houston.
CC: 12, do you h_ve a reason for not selecting balance couples for the P237
CDR: Do you read the CMP, Houston?
CC: That's negative, Pete. We're not picking up the CMP at all. The only transmissions we've heard are from you.
CDR: Okay. I've got him hooked up.
UNKNOWN: How ~ How about now?
CC: Okay, Dick, you're coming in now.
UNKNOWN: about now?
CC: Okay, Dick, we've got you. Go ahead. - -
CMP: Okay. Sure we had a reason for not using - Yes, I sure had a reason for not using balance couple minimum impulse and that's I'm using controller in the LRR. With this balance couple on, the vehicle is far too sensitive to get decent marks of this thing. The vehicle motions are too exaggerated. My P23 information will be much better if I use unbalance couple.
CC: Okay, Pete - or Dick, good idea. Thank you.
CC: Hello, Pete; Houston.
CC: You gave us a battery m_nifold pressure of 3.6; would you confirm that that is volts? Page 89k
CDR: Yes. _hat - Well, I read it wrong. I was looking et the wrong thing. It was 1.8 volts.
CC: Roger. 1.8. We did a little head scratching down here on that one. Thank you.
CC: No problem. It's good to exercise the system.
CC: Apollo 12, Houston. High gain antenna angles for your next P23 attitude: pitch, minus 55, yaw 3.
CDR: Okay. I got a question for you.
CDR: Anybody got any suggestions down there on how we could warm up the cabin a little bit? It's getting a little cool in here. Can we go - do like we do on the launch day or whatever it is and maybe run the secondary loop without any cooling on it or something to get some heat in here?
CMP: Roger. How many marks is that on the second star? I've lost count. Is that two er three? I believe it was three.
CC: Stand by, Dick. And, another
LMP: also, ask if they want trunnion bias before I finish off this set.
CDR: Ed, you still with me?
CC: Yes, We're still with you. Hight now they're still scratching their heads. Just a minute, Dick.
CMP: Well, tell them to quit scratching. I'11 say that was three, and I'11 press on, and I'11 do about it.
CC: Okay, Dick. We concur. didn't have data when you were taking your first mark, so we really weren't sure where you stood in the total flow.
CMP: That's - That's our fault, Houston. We're the...
CMP: Ed, does that mean you wart me to do that first set of stars over again?
CC: Negative on that. We've got it recorded, and we'11 dump and take - We'11 have a dump and take a look at it.
CC: Okay, Dick. Very good.
CC: Apollo 12, Houston. For your calibration attitude, give us OMNI Delta.
CDR: Roger. Going OMNI Delta.
CC: We have a procedure here for warming up the cabin.
CC: Okay. Take the glycol EVAP temperature in to MANUAL and adjust the primary glycol _,_TVAPIN valve to obtain a temperature of the glycol evap- orator OUT of 55 degrees.
CDR: Okay. GLYCOL IN valve tc MANUAL and adjust the glycol T_4P to an IN of 55. Thank you. And be advised we're running one cabin fall right now.
CC: Pete, on that last procedttre, we want to adjust the EVAP temperature OUT to 55 degrees. I
CDR: \ Roger. T_4P, OUT. Did I say "T_4P, IN"? I'm sorry.
CC: Apollo 12, Houston. Do you still have the high gain angles for the P23 attitude ?.
CDR: Yes. I think I have them here in RFACQ. Say them again.
CC: Roger. That's pitch, minus 55; yaw 3.
CDR: Yes. We've got them.
CDR: Houston, 12 on the high gain. Back in the P23 itude. att and
CC: Roger, Pete. We've got you loud clear.
CDR: Say, Ed, you're getting pretty doggone good at CAPCO_ing, aren't this you?
CC: Oh, well, I enjoy it. Getting a little practice on these coast periods. Like I say, however, Paul Weitz is the real sleep expert.
CDR: I kind of figured last night we must have gone through lO CAPCOM_4's of sleep.
CC: Yes. You went through a few. Paul Weitz came in here and was waiting 6-1/2 hours for the big moment and then you overslept, and he went out of here with a long face again.
CC: However, he's on for reentry; he's assuming you're not going to be sleeping through that.
CDR: I don't think we will be. Who's the Flight Director down there today, right now?
CC: We've got Pete Frank.
CDR: Oh, I thought if it was Jerry, I'd let him listen to some of my music.
CMP: Hey, Houston: Apollo 12.
CC: 12, Houston. Go ahead. P23
CMP: Roger. Have you been looking at this inertial? 122/5 T_pe
CC: That's affirmative, and we copy you're off the fairway.
CMP: The AUTO optics are dropping. Have you got any suggestions? I've dropped back to zero optics.
CC: Yes. Stand by, Dick, and _'e'11 be right with _OU.
UNKNOWN: o Okay.
CC: Dick, would you take the optics switch to zero and wait 30 seconds?
UNKNOWN: ° How does it look, Ed?
CC: Stand by, Dick. We're still looking at it.
CC: Dick, could you give us FOO?
CDR: Okay. You get it.
CC: Dick, we'd like to sit here in P00 for about 5 minutes. It may be a possible software problem.
CMP: Okay, Ed. No problem. You've only got us think- tng how to do new realignments.
CDR: It's about time CMP get back in the game again.
CC: Pete, you were way down in the noise level there. Would you say again?
CDR: I don't think you want to hear it.
CC: It sounded too good to miss.
CDR: I Just said that - I Just said that it sounds like CMP is getting back in the game again.
CC: That's right. He's been itching to go since launch.
CDR: I bet he has. Since after launch, huh?
CC: That's right, about m minute after launch.
LMP: Hey, how about looking on the records down there and find out how long it was from the time our fuel them back on? Can you do that? 122/6 Tape
CC: Roger. Sure wi:l.
CC: 12, I can read up to you a portion of our news broadcast that we were going to read up to you a little later on, which is on that subject, and it was - A tentative analysis shows that the Apollo 12 was struck twice by lightning during Arabian lift-off. Don told a press conference gathering in Building 1 that the strike occurred at 36 seconds after lift-off and again at 52 seconds after the Saturn left the pad. According Arabian, to the rocket and the engine plume ex- haust acted Just like a wire that ran from the ground clouds to the and then from cloud to cloud. There are photographs available of the strike. The Arabis_u analysis is called a very interim kind of report.
CDR: Hey, that's great. We're sure looking forward to seeing those films. We saw it from inside, fr(zn but we'd sure like to see it outside the next time.
CMP: You said it. I34,
CC: How did it look visually from the looking at and module/service interface the co, module ?.
CDR: Well, we've been discussing that subject and I guess you ought to go look at some photographs of CSM's that have had I24's on the nose and make sure that it's not from Lq thruster firing, but that Junction box where all the cabling runs from the command module to the service module was black on top like it was burned, and - How- ever, I noticed on the top oF the ... boxes on the service module some similar type marks. We were discussing it here, and our suspicion was possibly the lightning strikes always goes to the small point, and we were suspecting up here you had us on the outside pictures, that we prob- ably got struck on the tower and it Just went all the way down the stack.
CDR: I wonder if they are going to revise the weather r-ales for launch?
CC: I guess they are looking at it. What's been said so far, under identical conditions with an identi- cal spacecraft, you wouldn't do it over again.
CDR: I guess we hold the world's record now as the world's fastest lightning lod.
CC: The world's tallest.
CC: Hello, Al; Houston.
CC: Okay, on your request before, we showed that at 36 seconds, three fuel cells went off; at 1 plus fuel 42, two cells were on line; and at 1 'plus 70 - or I'm sorry that's 142 seconds, two fuel cells were on line; and 170 seconds, the third one c8_e On.
LMP: Okay. We'11 - we've been trying to remember it ever since launch. We hadn't been giving it a lot of thought since we left Earth orbit, - but we were trying to think _'out it right now. We couldn't remember where we got them back on.
CC: Roger. Did th .r indicate barber pole after that 36 seconds? I/ff_
UNKNOWN: yes. They indicated barber - all - all six of them were barber poled; and FUEL CELL l, 2, 3 lisht were on, and AC BUS i and 2 light were on, and AC BUS 1 and 2 OVERLOAD were on the FUEL CELL BUS DISCONNECT was on and MAIN BUS A 'mudervolt, M_IN BUS B undervolt, and every one of those things were on. I'11 tell you - -
CDR: I also looked at the malfunction procedures and there's nothing that covers that particular series of lights.
LMP: We knr_ there wasn't. The funny part about a situation like that is you get - All right, let's say you get, for example, a fuel cell and an AC, an AC overload and a main bus undervolt, you don't work on the fuel cells because you know the problem's probably down in the ac somewhere so you start in the ac. And that's sort of what we did. We started working down in the ac, and they to were all good. Then, we went up the overload. They looked good. Then we're into the mains and they lookJd pretty good except the undervolt. Then we finally got to the fuel cells, so we - and I didn't have idea one on what to do. 12R/2 Tape
CC: Well, it looks like we got another page in the malfunction book.
CC: Apollo 12, Houston. We're 1¢_king at a middle gimbal angle down here of about 58 degrees.
CDR: Hey, that's - We've Just been talking in here, and we Just thought of something. When we lost the three fuel cells, which was at 36 seconds, which was the first time lightning struck - Of course, we didn't realize that we got hit twice. Rowever, the platform didn't go when all the fuel cells went. So, it must have been when we got hit the second time that that dumped the platform. Now, it's beginning to make sense. I've been - It's been but - bugging me all along how we lost the platform so late. We didn't know whether it Just slowly went off because of the 24 volts or what, but it sounds like now what happened was that if we, in fact, really did get hit twice, why, the second time that dumped the platform.
CC: Yes, that may be. They've been looking over all the traces down here and talking to all the lightning experts, and I think they have some tentative ideas on that. They'11 probably be able to give you some pretty concrete discussion on it when you get back.
CDR: Go ahead. Go ahead.
CC: Okay, two things. First of all, we did confirm that you lost your platform at 56 simultaneously with the - the second strike. And also, on the optics problem, we suspect that it may be due to operating the optics switch at the same time as VERB 37. We'11 be coming up to you with some ])SKYentries to check this.
CC: And, Dick, could we have a clarification on some- thing which - which happened a short while ago, and that was, what value had you loaded into the ENS counter before MCC 5?
CMP: 2.0.
CC: 2.0. Roger.
CMP: There's so much bias in that thing, it almost counts up - so much bias in there that it almost counts up as fast as it counts down.
CDR: Say, I've been wondering if we ought to - Dick and I discussed this much earlier in the flight and wondering - We could calibrate that accel- erometer here in flight during GTA, and I'm Just wondering if we oughtn't do that. This thin_ is really bad news. It's got a lot of bias on it.
CMP: Maybe the GTA doesn't work in flight; I don't know, but we ought to see whether we could get that bias out of the _4S.
CC: Pete, one thing which we're suggesting down here is to load in 102 or 100 into whatever it is and fly with that. ,
CC: That should help you - -
CDR: It does the same thing. -
CC: That -
CMP: No. That doesn't either. It does exactly the same thing.
CC: Apollo 12, Houston with the DSKY entries.
CMP: Okay, wait 1.
CMP: Okay, Ed. We're ready to copy.
CC: Okay, what we're doing here is setting the optics status word or 0P's modes to a known configura- tion. We do that with a VERB 21, NOUN 01, ENTE_R, 1331, ENTER, 130, ENTFJ_. And then, if you would, cycle the optics zero _u_itchOFF and then ON; and we'11 be watching it down here, and stand by. Ed.
CMP: Roger, Copied. Checking out the optics mode and VERB 21, NOUN 01, ENTER, 1331, ENTER, 130, ENTER, optics zero OFF, and then back ON.
CC: Affirmative. and
CMP: . Okay, optics zero is OFF goes back to optics zero.
CC: Apollo 12, Houston. That looks as though it cleared the problem. We're ready to go on with the P23's.
UNKNOWN: Do you want another trunnion bias, or is that okay, the same one I had?
CC: Dick; we better - -
CMP: It hasn't changed, the whole flight.
CC: Dick, we better go ahead and get another optics CAL.
CC: Dick, go ahead and scratch the optics CAL. Looking at it, we feel you can get away without it. Houston.
CC: 12,
CC: Okay, clarification on that optics problem: if you go to optic zero and then hit VERB 37 before 15 seconds have elapsed, you can run into the problem which you did.
CDR: Okay, we understand. Thank you. And Dick said that's exactly what he did by mistake. He says it's from ignorance.
CC: And, 12, one thing on the - your gas separator; we'd like to try and see how well that thing is working. You can go ahead and remove the gas- separator cartridges and run on the H2 separator only. And continue on that way unless it's not doing the Job, and then you can go back to your nomal configuration.
CDR: Well, let me tell you what we've done, anyhow, a/ready. We've been running our food system without the cartridge, and we've been running the gun with the cartridge for the whole flight. And _he cold water output is very, very good on the food system. The hot water output still has a tendency to get some air in it. But I kind of suspect that there's Just a little air or hydro- gen or whatever it is in the water, and when you heat the water, that makes the air bubbles expand; and we'11 go ahead and pull the cartridge off the gun and operate without it and see how that goes. gun We have had the cartridge on the the whole time.
CC: Okay. Thank you, Pete. And also, you - if we go ahead and pick up some BIO - data on Dick and A1 during the course of the day, we'd appre- ciate it.
CDR: Okay, I'11 have them hook up.
CDR: We thought we were hooked up. We forgot.
CC: Roger. Surgeon is looking at you, ncw.
CC: And, 12, when you finish up with the P23, we have a high gain tesb here. It's an engineering attempt to isolate the problem area, and we're looking for a thermal problem in the high gain antenna electronics.
CDR: Okay, very good. You got something we can copy down now. We'11 go ahead and copy it.
CC: Okay. Coming at - coming at you first of all with a switch configuration: S-band TRANSPONDER to PRIMARY; S-band AUXILIARy to TAPE; TAPE RE- CORDER, PCM ANALOG, TAPE RECORDER to RECORD; S-BAND ANTENNA, HIGH GAIN; HIGH GAIN power, ON, HIGH GAIN ANTENNA, SERVO ELECTRONICS - -
LMP: Ed, take it a little slower.
CC: Okay. Let's go back. S-band TRANSPONDER, PRIMARY - -
CDR: Hey, you've got A1 really smoking in here - -
LMP: We don't take shorthand up here, gang.
LMP: Go ahead, Ed. '1
CC: Okay. Al, are you ready? S-band TPJINSPONDER, PRIMARY - -
CDR: Hey, A1 was ready last time.
LMP: I've got it all the way down to POWER, ON.
CC: Okay, that's HIGH GAIN power ON, and then HZGH GAIN SERVO ELECTRONICS, to PRIMARy. Okay, then set up the following attitude. I/4P
UNKNOWN: you want - -
CC: Pitch, O; yaw, 69.9; and roll, 50. The attitude deadband of 0.5, which I believe you have in there now, so it's no change. You acquire MSFN in the MANUAL mode and then switch to the AUTO and REACQ mode NARROW BEAM width. High-gain angles from manual acq- acquisition are: minus 22 on pitch and yaw, 194. Okay, then if we detect a loss of lock, or if you detect oscil- lations, turn the DSE on by placing the TAPE RE- CORDER switch to FORWARD. And go - go ahead and get data for 5 minutes, and then stop the recorder. And then, at that point, we've got a little set of procedures we'11 follow through here, ,nd we can read them off to you at the time, as you're we're doing is looking at the effect of primary versus secondary transponder or primary versus secondary electronics and WIDE BEAM width versus NARROW BEAM width. TRANS-
LMP: Okay, I understand now that you want the PONDER in PRIMARY - -
CC: Al, could you hold it a minute?
LMP: The S-BAND AUX to TAPE switch. Sure.
CC: Okay, we'd like you to go ahead and get that optics CAL now that you're finished with the P23.
LMP: Okay. Start working on it now.
CC: Okay, Al, go ahead with your readback.
LMP: Okay, you want the TRANSPONDER, PRIMARY and then you want to put the S-BAND AUX in TAPE; put the and receiver to PCM __NALOG RECORD; go on the HIGH GAIN with the S-band; put power on with SERVO, PRIMARy; go to a spacecraft attitude of pitch, 0; yaw, 69.9; roll, 50 wi_h a deadband of 0.5. We'11 acquire - we'11 acquire MSFN manually; switch to the REACQ mode with NARROW DEADBAJ_D,and those angles are minus 22 and 194; and, if we notice a I Tape 123/7 f Page 906 ) loss of lock or we notice that we get oscilla- tions, we turn the RECORDER, OFF, for at least 5 minutes. C0_._4,
CC: That's right, and if you run into loss of you'11 be able to pick us up on Ob_NIBravo.
CMP: Hey, Ed, on this - about this CAL this maneuver, and you people down there on the ground are obviously noticing this, quite a ways away from both attitudes where we're doing the P23's them- selves. For the next series of stars - I haven't next looked at them yet; but, for the series of P23's, would you check that to make sure that we don't have this large maneuver? We'11 look at it, also, right now; and if we do, let's pick a different star for the - fo_ the optics CAL. We don't need a star as bright as 12. We can use almost any star we've got out there. )
CC: Okay, Dick, we understand that. And - -
CMP: You know what I'm talking about?
CC: Roger; we understand that request. It's a good idea. We'11 be doing that.
CMP: Maybe the angles are such with the Sun that we don't have one, but - but I think you can give me one near the P23 attitude that I can use for a - a trunnion bias or optics CAL. If not, I can always use star 12.
CC: Roger. We concur with that down here. We'11 be doing that for you, Dick.
CMP: ... copied the DSKY.
CDR: Hello, Houston. On OMNI Delta; how do you read?
UNKNOWN: Okay, got the DSKY. There's his first optics CAL.
CC: Roger. We're looking at it.
CDR: Okay. Here comes the second one.
CDR: There it is. And there's the third one. And there's the fourth one. Okay, Ed, that's it.
CC: Okay, that looks good. Thank you.
CDR: Okay. Now we'11 go ahead and maneuver to the attitude for this S-band.
CC: Those sightings look pretty good. You - you had a good state vector in theft and the sightings essentially change it so your - your reentry angle changed by Just 0.035 degrees.
CMP: Ed, this is Dick. Would you ask the guys there to determine whether they want us to do a h7 or leave it the way it is? And I want to play with this P37 a little bit, later.
CMP: I know what I'd like to do is go ahead and leave the state vector in there that I've got and see if I can improve on it with th_s series of marks. sounds and
CC: Dick, we concur. That good. Go ahead do it that way. Th-nk
CC: And, Dick, when you like, we could take a look on - at your next set of P23's on page 3-173 and look at your second optics CAL.
CMP: What do you mean the second one?
CC: Okay. Well, you do the first one and then about 30 minutes later - 30 or 40 - you probably want to pick up a second one. 123/9 Tape
CMP: Yes, that's true. If I can get mvself in gear and get going and get ail those in before 30 min- utes are up. However, go ahead.
CC: Okay. If you don't get them all in before you require another one, perhaps the easiest way to do it is to Just pitch up 57-1/2 degrees so that you - your zero line of sight is then right along star 160. That's probably the smallest attitude change.
CMP: In other words, go ahead and pitch up 57.5 and use star 160 for the trunnion bias CAL.
CC: Roger. That's the star you have to be going next - -
CMP: ... that's what you _old me?
CC: - - That's affirmative. That's the star you happen to be working with. should
CMP: Okay. Okay, I'11 do 160. I get that in under a half hour with no strain. I'11 do star 160 and then pitch up 57.5, do a CAL, and press on.
CC: Roger. Actually any star you're working - -
CC: - - with, whether it's 160, 171, or 163, which- ever one you happen to be at.
CMP: Okay, and I understand. That figures.
CMP: Ed, I'd like to think about this pitching up 57. Whether I pitch, yaw, or a combination of them depends on shaft angle for that particular star. Does it not?
CC: Roger, Dick. We're Just talking about that down here. That's a pilot pitch of 57-1/2 degrees, and it may be getting you into the problem with the middle gimbal angle. What we can do down here is, and plan to do, is to work you up a calibration star for each one of the stars you'11 123/10 Tape he working at, and we can give it to you at time you want it d_ing the P23.
CMP: Okay, that sounds like an awful lot of work. Why don't you give me a normal NAV star or a star that's in the vicinity of roll, 090; pitch, 329; yaw, 3327 Give me a star that's close to that.
CC: Roger. Okay, we'11 do that, Dick.
CC: 12, Houston. Could you go on back to balance couples now?
CMP: No. We sure c_n't. Thanks for reminding me. We should go A_TO maneuvering on that except for the actual P23. And we really intend to.
CC: Roger, Dick. That makes it a littl__ easier to keep track or to make sure we got a good state vector for you.
CMP: Roger. I understand all the problems; but, Just during the marking, I want to be in the unbalance, but all of our maneuvers should be with - be with balance couples. I agree.
CC: Guess that vehicle is a little sensitive right now, isn't it?
CMP: It sure is, if you have ... and minimum impulse.
CMP: Houston, that was your ALERT light. Did you see it?
CC: Stand by, 12. Houston.
CC: Apollo 12, Houston. Go ahead. Did you get your CREW ALERT.
CMP: Light on that?
CC: Apollo 12, Houston. Houston did not send a CREW ALERT. We're checking with the sites now.
CMP: No, no. You misunderstood me, Ed. We had the GIMBAL LOCK light on. Okeq. 123/11 Tap- Page 910 -, didn't
CMP: Put it - Yes. We put it OIMBAL LOCK, but the ALERT part of it was on.
CC: Apollo 12, Houston. We would expect that light, and you're still about 15 degrees away from getting - gent_ng into a problem.
CMP: Yes, we're watching, Ed, but we got another problem here. I look at our attitude, and I got a 58P, and I can't maneuver automatically away from this thing. You think we ought to zero the OCDU one time?
CC: Dick, say again y3ur last comment.
CMP: Well, look where we are. There's our attitude, and I can't maneuver pest this automatically. I get a 618 and it says we're there.
CC: Okay, Dick. Stand by.
CMP: We're there. We're right there. We're okay. Ney, we're crazy up here. We're all right.
CC: 12, we agree with your last comment.
CMP: We'11 explain this to you later. We don't want - Well, we'11 explain it later. We have a good reason for it, but we don't want to tell every- body.
CDR: What he's saying is we are dumb-dumb up here.
CC: No, we agree with the last comment, not the first one. Houston.
CC: We got the folks down here thinking about the difference between a 5018 and a 618: You thinking about the same t_ _:_g?
CDR: No, no - we (laughter) - we were Just dumb-dumbs sitting here looking at 69 degrees yaw, which is sitting right next to gimbal lock in zero pitch, and wondering why we were sitting there; and it wasn't maneuvering when we were really in the right place. That's all. 123/12 Tape
UNKNOWN: CC Roger, 12.
CDR: We're Just not used to sitting in an attitude like this where we're looking at a red ball.
CMP: Hey, Ed, I have a feeling we're telling you to much, and you're all getting nervous down there.
CC: Apollo 12, Houston. Would you confirm that you've got the switch configuration as we've read up, and then, also, have you gone to REACQ in NARROW BEAM?
CMP: Roger. It's all set.
CC: Roger. Okay, now in that attitude, we got the Sun looking right up the engine bell and that ought to be heating things up as fast as we can do it.
LMP: Okay. Don't forget we've been operating in SECONDARY SERVO up until about 5 minutes ago when we switched to PRIMARY for this test.
CC: Roger Al.
CC: Apollo 12, Houston. We see no FM subcarrier down here. Would you confirm that the S-BAND RECORDER - or S-BAND AUX is to TAPE? TAPE.
CMP: It's at Thank
CMP: How a RESET?
CDR: How about a RESET? Yes.
CMP: Give you a RESET.
CC: 12, Houston. We have the subcarrier now. What we're going to be doing now is Just sitting here and seeing if the problem will appear, and we're looking for a - a 6-degree - decibel drop in signal or you report a hunting in the antenna.
CC: And, 12, this could go on for a little while. is identified. 123/13 Tape
CC: Apollo 12, Houston. While you're sitting there backed up to the fire, we have some news for you, if you like.
CC: Okay, 12. There're some pretty good football games on tap today in the college ranks. Ohio State and Michigan tangle in a Big Ten ga.me. The Buckeyes are favored to win and retain their number i rating. If Ohio State does win and retain its number i ranking, it will be the 6th time in modern football history that a team has won the title 2 years in a row. In other games, UCLA is favored over Southern Cal; Purdue is favored over Indiana; Oklahoma is the choice over Nebraska; and TCU should beat Rice. Princeton plays Dartmouth; and Washington meets Washington State; and we're not guessing the outcome with any of those. Texas University is open, and they're looking towards Texas A&M on Thanksgiving. Hous- ton ts picked over a tough Wyoming team. We'11 keep you posted o_ the games that are going on this afternoon. Texas is now accepting ticket orders for the Cotton Bowl and the Sugar Bowl. The winner of the Texas-Arkansas game on December sixth goes to the C_tton Bowl to face the Fighting Irish. And the loser will play Mississippi in the Sugar Bowl at New Orleans. Willie McCovey of the San Francisco Giants beat out Tom Seiver of the Nets for the National League's Most Valuable Player Award. The big game in pro ball on Sunday ts the Dallas Cowboys against the Los Angeles Rams. The Oilers Mill be playing the Miami Dolphins down in Florida. Meanwhile, the Oilers report that line backer Ed Watson has been placed on waivers to make room for Woody Campbell. A Delta launch vehicle has placed - placed Britain's first con_nunicationssatellite into an orbit from Cape Kennedy. It's called Skynip. Now in an elliptical orbit, the satellite will be placed into a synchronous orbit of 22 300 miles on Sunday. In the world and national news headlines, the Senate has rejected the nomination of Judge Clement Hayns- worth by a 55-to-_5 vote. ttenryCabot Lodge has resigned as ambassador tc the Paris peace talks, and Charles DeGaulle is 79 today.
CC: All three Apollo 12 wives wowed the news media yesterday as they paraded out of the Conrad house 123/14 Tape in stunning white suitpants. They each carried a sign which read, "Proud, Thrilled, and Happy." The f,m_ly activity will be rather restricted this weekend. Dick, Barbara will attend Mass this Sunday - or this morning at 8:30. And, Al, Sue will attend a luncheon today at the Lakewood Yacht Club and will visit Mission Control this afternoon at about 3 PM. Pete, Jane will be go- lng shopping today for Chris' birthday present. She is also scheduled to go to the Yacht Club luncheon. Sunday, for the On after church, they plan to go on a picnic at Cloverfield with the Rice's. Your father-in-law is expected to arrive here sometime Sunday and will remain until after splashdown.
CDR: Thank you, Ed.
CDR: Thank you kindly, and tell those Huskies to get after those Cougars today.
CC: We'11 do it, Dick.
CC: And, 12, it's been about 5 hours now since you started accelerating back towards the Earth.
CMP: Roger, Ed, and I have us at 15.97 degrees north and 91.62 east.
CMP: _,d I have us at a- and I have us at 1Th 480 miles out from Earth, traveling at 3150 feet per second; and our ent_-y angle to the Earth at this time is minus 78.11 degrees.
CC: Dick, that sounds good. They're all right on. 12.
CC: 12, Houston. Go ahead. C_
UNKNOWN: we'd like to have you to keep track of one more thing. We have done a GDC alignment Just prior to this test, when we got to this attitude; you'd and, before we come out of it, I wish re- mind us to review our angles on the GDC. This thing's been drifting pretty badly in yaw the whole flig_ht. In fact, it's up to, I think, pretty close to 10 degrees an hour in yaw, but we'd like to give you the numbers when we get out of this - just before getting out of this attitude.
CC: Okay, Dick. We'11 do that.
CC: Apollo 12, Houston with some news on how your ALSEP is doing.
CDR: Go, babe.
CC: Okay, your - the central station is still per- forming well. RTG output is around 73 watts, and as of just a short while ago, they've sent up a total of 382 co, ands. PSE has gotten into a stable temperature equilibrium around 126 de- grees. And they have observed three - at three different times, the tracings have showed that there was some seisr_ie activity taking place. The LSM is - is increasing in activity as the Moon is entering a magnetic zone between the two That Earth's solar shock waves. is, the the Moon is approaching the center of F_arth's magnetic tail near lunar noon where the - where at the field is the lowest. And that point, the And LSM site survey will be accomplished. the solar wind is perking right along and doing real well.
LMP: Say, Ed, from all they know now about watching the temperatures, do they forecast this will last for 2 years?
CC: Okay, folks down here are pretty optimistic, but I'11 have to ask to see if we can really extend answer it that far. I'11 try and get you an to that, Al. Houston.
CC: And, 12; The folks down here have thought a little bit about your two EVA's, especially the geology involved, and have a few questions which were stimulated by what you said during the EVA's and altar it. And, any time you would like to have a discussion of those questSons, we are sitting here waiting for you.
CDR: Okay, Ed. We're in the middle of a big garbage cleanup right now; and, as soon as we get the up, place spruced we'11 be with you. It'11 take us about another hour or so.
CC: Okay, Pete. _IDOF TAPE 12 AIR-TC-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION
CC: Apollo 12, Houston. In another 3 minutes, we'11 have a site handover, and you'11 get a temporary loss of signal.
CDR: Roger, Houston. We've completed our little sweep - down there and we're ready for your question.
CC: Okay, Pete. We'11 be with you in Just a minute.
CC: Okay, Pete. One question is, could you give a little more elaborate description of the patterned ground _ith the ridges and grooves; that is, were there several scales of the patterning and was there a difference in the bearing strength of the surface on the patterned ground?
CMP: You're referring to the things that look like streaks and that we talked about tha t were in different directions, also, than the Lq - so that they weren't effects of the IN exhaust plume. ia that what you're talking about?
CC: Yes, you talked - you described some which were perpendicular to the dis - to the direction which you thought tile exhaust plume would normally give pattern ground.
CDR: Yes. If I remember correctly, that was in the Surveyor crater, and I think that we noticed these radial streaks almost everywhere. Don't you agree, Al?
LMP: Yes. We'd see some and then we'd go through an area that wouldn't have any; then we'd see another area and then there would be an area that wouldn't have any, so we were seeing them frequently, you know; they weren't very isolated, but they were all over. The ones down in the Surveyor crater were from - looked to me like the north-northeast, running southwest, wouldn't you say, Pete? And then maybe the ones out in front of the LM, for running example, they were north, south _ld may- be northwest running south. I can't remember now, but I'm sure it'_ on the voice tape. The size as I recall - Pete may recall them differ- ently - It's hard to remember them, some of these things - They look to me like they wexe about maybe an eighth of an inch to a sixteenth of an inch %'ide,and they maybe were a - as you looked at them real close, they looked like they were about a sixteenth of an inch high or less and then, maybe then they were about three-eighths of an inch between little hills; something like that would be my guess. What do you think , Pete?
CDR: Yes, I agree with that. You mentioned bearing strength. I think the bearing strength of the ground, generally spe?-king,in the Surveyor crater and up around as we approached it from the far side on our traverse and everything wss probably ground some of the firmest ground we were on; the that we sank in the least. There was one place we got into, when we got out - way out - Was it sharp crater, Al? - where we felt that the ground was much more soft and powdery and we were, there- fore, not as good bearing strength.
LMP: Yes. I think it was sharp; maybe that's on the tape, too.
CDR: And I can't - I can't say that I remember any radial patterning out there at sharp to speak of_
UNKNOWN: I don't remember any either. One thing - we know we did that gold camera right at the very end, and I don't think I was able to get any of that patterned ground; I should have, but the time Just ran out. Before I could get very many pic- tures, we came back in. I did take it with a 70-millimeter several times.
CC: Roger. Over what extent did that patterned ground occur, and can you relate it to anything that you've seen back here?
CDR: Well, I don't think we paid that much attention to it, other than when we were aware of it; it was all around us like the Surveyor crater. Going down - I guess walking down to the Surveyor was when we noticed it in there, while we were resting. And to what extent it went, I really can't say; but, like A1 said, we came across it in several places, and I would - I don't think - It's more an impression than anything else, but Tape l?_/B I really don't remember it out there by sharp crater or anything, and that is where ground was sort of soft and maybe finer grained than we've been on. So that may be a very pertinent point, that the more firmer ground that _e're on, the wo,:ld more we see this radial or patterned streak- ing. of, Pete. Remember that firm ground also was the same ground we came up on when I said it looks this ground has got kind of little blobs in it; and it looks like what a nice, smooth, level dirt field would look like if it Just had some very light rain on it. Remember when we looked at that? Th at's was - -
CDR: You're right. That was when we were on firm ground, right there. That's a good point; I hadn't thought of that. where it went; and usually, if I was near it and looked out in the distance, it looked like it went in the direction of the grooves, as far as I could :-ou see out in that direction, know, and be able to see any detail that fine. In other words, I never did look either left or right on those groove patterns where it did look to me like it went all the way out to the limit of vision to seeing them. I never saw any sort of contact along the trans- verse direction of the grooves either in Surveyor crater or in front of the LM or the couple of other places we happened to walk around. Yes, now that I mention it, we saw I guess at least three basic types of ground. The one that we were on most of the time that we discussed, like right outside the LM, we saw the kind with the grooves; we saw the kind with the little like raindrops on it, and we - of course, we got pic- tures of all the different kinds, and then we - we saw some more finely powdered ground like out around sharp crater, and then we saw some more finely powdered like is down on the inside of the small craters and some - to some extent on the inside of the Surveyor crater. Those are all the different types of soils that I can recall. 12_/_ Tape
CDR: However, they all had the same color. Boy, there was, other than the fact that you're suddenly aware that you've sunk in further or you Just have to be thinking about it or looking at it at the time, there was no distinguishing in colors or anything like that. Now, there might be a subtle enough distinction in colors that from a far distance; that's where rays out of these craters give you that pattern. But, when you're standing right up close to it, that was not at all apparent that there was anything different in color.
LMP: Yes, that color was so deceptive. I can recall now looking at all of the terra around the LM the first day we were out and making some comments - I don't recall what I said, probably more gray- brown or gray-white. Then, the second day I was out in the very same place, and I wasn't really aware of it at the time; I kept talking about it being light brown. All the rocks, I kept thinking, had a light tan coating; whereas, the first day I thought they had a light gray coating. My impression now is, and it could be completely wrong, but - is that I'm going to be anxious to see the rocks when we get home - If we picked up all the different kinds of rocks that we saw that had to do with texture and shape and anything else, we could see which wasn't much, believe me. I looked hard. But my impres- sion is, we're going to crack those rocks open and when we do we're going to find - We should have done this on the lunar surface with a hammer - we're going to find that those things are dark gray basalts. Also, every time we came in the I/4, both times, Pete's suit and my suit looked the same gray color. I never saw anything but that dark gray. I never saw any of the browns that I'd seen outside or anything like that.
CDR: Yes, our suits looked we'd been wallowing around in graphite, a dull graphite.
CDR: That's right. It was about that thin, too, and fine, and it clung to everything.
CC: There were some points there where you talked about seeing large white boulders in the distance or on other occasions, seeing things which ap- peared white. Do you really think that was the the color ;hite, or do you think it was the way in which the Sun was refracting off of those sur- faces that you were looking at? 12h/5 Tape 920 Page
LMP: Well, we discussed that again when we got back up in orbit; and the fact that, at the high Sun angles, the ground looked white to us from orbit and everything, and I think it's purely a matter that the Sun is so bright that when it shines on those objects at a distance and you're very close to having the Sun directly behind you, that it gives the appearance - everything has the appear- a_ce of being chalk white. I think that's one of the most different thi%gs about the lunar sur- face, that I saw, from the Earth's surface was the fact that where the Sun is has such a great effect on the color. Whereas, you take on Earth you have some sort of rock layihg on the ground, the Sun can move a long way and the rock still pretty much looks the same; and, when you pick it up and kind of shade it with your body or some- thing on the ground, you can usually get a good index of the color. You do that on the Moon, and you Just can't hardly see the rock. When it's in the Sun it Just changes colors with the sun- light. That's one of the most phenomenal differ- ences I can see.
CDR: Yes. Now, A1 mentioned a very good point. There's no doubt about it that the ground looked different the second day than the first due to the Sun angle getting higher- however, on the horizon, the hor- izon remained approximately the same, and again I think it's because of the greater distance and the fact that the angle between us _. _.the Sun was still relatively small looking at a distance, and the rocks still looked white out there, chalk white. I'11 bet if we stayed there and let the Sun move to 90 degrees, that what we saw in the distance would change in color.