C: Thank you. Hey, l_eten, Jim and I really appre- ciate the - all the efforts everybody - it's really been great. Everybody on the ground has been really helping out. I wish you'd tell them all . as smooth as silk for us. CANARY ISLANDS you read? like the humidity readout within the next pass. You can relay it over the next stateside con- tact. photometer ever since we got it. I believe it's defective. CONFIDENTIAL .81 _ through the clouds. However, we had no color change on the reticle agmin. ag-inst area such as the western part of Africa here. Would you relay that to Houston, please? meter is defective? task has been completed: viw,A1 contrast was great, the water a deep blue, the lnud area a pinkish tan - the desert area of western Africa. Apollo T_udmark features: over the area we were at, there was a small point of land to the north, a light on the camera, which has been recorded. Other than that, it is Just another smooth coast- line. Cloud cover: there was some cloud cover to the left. I attempted to use a photometer on the clear land that was further to the north. There was window glare and there's also a deposit on my window, which might have some effect on the recordings. Continue with the MSC-12: the gain wheel was left in the FULL-UP position - f,,1] clockwise position - and the color did not change. KANO CONFIDENTIAL -- for the time being. We want to look at the data on the next tape dump from this one you Just did. We'd like you to put the instrument away without changing the calibration setting. UP position, since it never changed colors. Jim Just rotated it _,11-up, and so we have a very ready source where it was. 163:30:28; slightly cloudy below. getting a 2-amp split, the main bus amps. Carnarvon this time, VII. necessary. TANANARIVE CONFIDENTIAL .83 give us a reading on Stack 2C ag_4u, please? 2 amps. circuit? Canton with a power switch and let it be open- circuit from there to the US, and then we'11 turn it back on and observe how it reacts with that. section open-circuited Power switch at Canton and leaving it off until we get to the States. Is that correct? CARNARVON were expecting D-6/D-7. Is there any problem? by, we're checking our log now. but it is 03. you this pass. You're looking good here on the ground. We're standing by. next pass, please? It's our fault. take care of it. readout on 2C, please? read it. It agrees with the ground rea_tugs quite closely. CANTON CONFIDENTIAL .85 _ Section 2 Power switch, Jim. Could you give us a complete readout on your stack currents at the present time? please e currents? readout on our stack currents. Stand By, 1,11 give it to you. bus voltage? voltages for the complete stack, iA, 27.8; lB, 27.8; lC, 27.8; 2A, 27.8; 2B, 27.8; 2C, 27.8. Say again. off Section 2. GUAYMAS your T/M switch to the REAL-TIME and ACQ-AID positions. acknowledge. All systems look good on the ground. TEXAS this pass. We'd like to tell you congrat,,1Ations on your hs1*way mark. You're now heading downhill. and I'11 thank you very much. boys are here. Mode 02; rescheduled from previous pass. MSO-_: 166:20:_1; Sequence 01; Mode 01; pitch 30 degrees down, yaw 25 degrees left. Do you copy? CONFIDENTIAL 487 _ asked for in the cockpit? survey this morning have been dew point around 58, temperature around 82. when we got up, E13iot. and decided we would hold off a little bit on this open-circuit technique and just observe it a little longer. we'11 be standing by for the rest of your pass. contrast film on the States pass, but I see you're quite cloudy today. this weather so we can try an MSO-& at Hawaii, but it looks pretty bad for today. ment is st411 down. night; final run-through on the rendezvous sim. Everything went real well. Good. there towards north. boiler venting? ANTIGUA Elliot, which is very pronounced. Well, you know it 's there. the ... point. again. like it needs mowing? amps, 2A, 3 amps, 2B, about 2_ amps; and 2C is slightly under 3 amps. CONFIDENTIAL ,89 _ CANARY ISLANDS is low, almost down to mSnimum. You m_ght take a look at it and boost it up a little bit. Just about leveled out. Everything looks pretty good. We'11 keep a close look on it on the ground, however. see you tomorrow. which we're coming up on right now, there are so many clouds and a lot of haze, that we don't think it's worth taking the shot. it. Forget it. IfA_NO this water boiler venting. Keep a log of it so we can get a handle on how often it is happening here. venting is at twilight or when the sun shines in a certain light and it forms a sparkle on the - ice crystals against the black sky. can only tell it when you see it. You do not get -,lymotions out of it that are particularly noticeable. roll. After we had lined up on this Apollo landmark and shut down, we did go into a slow left roll. that as far as keeping track of it_ to see if we can establish any pattern here as to how often it does vent. CARNARVON for you this pass. Everything looks good on the ground. We are standing by. 3 minutes over water, a little more than & minutes CONFIDENTIAL 491 _ over land. Land was covered by clouds with some lightning in it, so you should take that into account when you're inspecting. HAWAII circuit breaker to OP_? T/M tion until Flight advises us to change. The reason for this is we're supporting the pad test on VI so we'11 just leave you in this configuration. information for you to copy when you're free. pass. You'11 be having a manual tape dump over the States and I have a flight plan update when you're ready to copy. east; right ascension 10 hours, 24 minutes, 18 seconds. Hawaii; off at 167:59:00. Apollo: 168:O8:29; Sequence 58; pitch 30 degrees down, yaw 13 degrees right. MSC-2 and 3: 168:15:OO; Sequence 02; at the same time replace tracer storage accumu- lator if not previously done. At 168:52:OO: crew status report, Conm_nd Pilot, Carnarvon. At 169:00:OO: BIO MED Recorder Number i - CONTINUOUS. Are you with me? S-5: 169:3_:00; pitch 90 degrees down, yaw 0 degrees; single; photographs of the southern Mexican Yucatan area. MSC-2 and 3: 169:_9:OO; CONFIDENTIAL .93 Sequence 03; stop at 170:04:00. At 171:00:00: BIO MEn Recorder Number 1 off. Are you still with me, Gemini VII? REV. At 171:35:00: exercise. At 171:&5:00: housekeeping period. At 172:10:OO: flight plan report, CSQ. At 172:15:OO: eat period. At 173:15:00: BIO MED Recorder Number 2 CONTINUOUS, and start the sleep period. At 18&:15:00: end of sleep period. MBC-2 and 3: 18&:15:00; off. At 184:23:00: purge fuel cells; PLA update over Canaries. Did you copy, Gemini VII? CALIFORNIA site, we have clear to 1/10 cloud coverage. Should be real good. And we have two grey smoke pots 10 m_les north of the laser. And they are 30 m_les apart. The wind direction is from the west, about a 5-knot wind. complete with your laser tracking so that we can work on the tape dump. you give us - us the amp readings on the fuel cells? TEXAS thing. works. I see the smoke. I got the _moke very clearly. surprised. you're just too far away for it. Okay. I'd like a readout on the stack amperages. the amperages. 21⁄2; and it looks like 2C is either - just barely below 2. at this time, just like we did yesterday. minutes-the same way we did yesterday. Place your Standby T/M switch to D_.T.AYTI_E. top sternal lead again. Just the top one and hold it until I tell you. CONTINUOUS. and press on the bottom one until I tell you. and I don't think we were that far away that we Just picked that beam up ... lead and then press on it again alternately on and off for a few times here. lead. a good Job you guys are doing on the D-_ and D-7's. You did real well and you got the Polaris real well. a short time ago. Do you mtud if we scrub this one coming up at 1667 looking like now on the amperage - on the voltage? ANTIGUA COMMAND. cell open-circuit voltage and the time and so forth again at Ascension, and we'11 probably put it back on at that point. on at Ascension. CONFIDENTIAL .97 - shouldn't leave it on more than 13 or 14 mtnutes, should we? turn it off here before we have LOS at Antigua. So stand by a m4uute. brief note and I have - we'11 get back with you on the fuel cell. checking that lead, it's very definitely the lower sensor, the sensor on the bottom of the sternum there, so we obviously cannot do anything about that as long as you're in a suited condition, and we'11 have to wait some further developments in that area before we're able to have you do anything further with that sensor. We're going along with the single lead. light on? the top of the scale, 32 volts? about a tenth to two-tenths. Stack 2C back on the 11ne at this time and then give us a complete stack amperage readout. _; and the poor 2C is still down around Z amps. at Ascension. here and Ascension. We'11 be interested in whether it increases or what it does. 2.0. -lmost to ia amps now. stack amperages agA_, please? 2C about ia to 2 - - slightly under 2. at this time. again. CONFIDENTIAL 499 results of this purge, and, if it does not help the situation, we will probably be doing the higt_-flowpurge again as we started to do yes- terday. more fuel ... venting. venting control. Is that what you are saying, Frank? that we should take into account the water boiler venting in regard to sched-ltug of the experiments, from a fuel standpoint. Is that correct? C-Band beacon is on? T/M T/M Do you notice any change in Stack 2C at this point? TANANARIVE amps. Very iow. vegetables, Serial Number FC680, neck is almost sealed shut. You can't even squeeze it out. 1,11 probably have to cut the bag to get it. Chance: Continuing same memo to Doctor Just opened the seals; chicken with vegetables all over window at this time. CARNARVON T/M your switch to REAL-TIME, ACQ-AID position? T/M's Cell 2C stack is on the low side of 1_, it appears to me. beacon to the CONTINUOUS position, please? C-Band CONFIDENTIAL 5Ol experiment when you're ready to copy. 05; Mode 01; pitch 30 degrees down, yaw 20 degrees right. That will be over Hawaii this pass. regardless of whether you see it from the ground or not. the special laser telescope on your last pass over the States. the telescope and also Just eyeballing it. closest point of approach. C-Band beacon on for tracking over the RKV and up to Hawaii. shows that your amperage is up slightly. boresighted on that last pass. time are showing 2._6 amps. get it up to 5, would you? T/M Would you turn your back to the COMMAND position? HAWAII T/M COMMAND? angles here. General area look angles. I'11 give you those as soon as we get acquisition. position. should lock shortly. do from your spacecraft. Look generally to the east, and you may be able to pick out the island. come up over from where my radar's looking at you. I'm turning them around, so maybe you'11 have a general look towards the island. In other words, stay with your mode, pitch 30 down and yaw 20 right, but try and look in that general vicinity from the window. correct? 2-Bravo and 2-Charlie? the beacon. clear. the hill? mountain, on the northwest portion of the island. to the north of the build_ng?