Otrobonita/noicy-space-talks huggingface dataset:
LMP: See anything else?
CMP: No. But we've got a minute away from the mountains. What time are the mountains?
CDR: They were on - they were 57 a little bit ago - -
CMP: 57 something. Look south of the nadi_, Jim, 30 degrees. Do you see anything? Did you see anything?
LMP: I could see pretty good south of the nadir, I think. I. - could
CDR: So could I could I see real well around to the south, but I don't see anything good enough to take pictures of.
CMP: There's another . ,l* good piece of geology. Rusty's been waiting - waiting to take pictures.
UNKNOWN: Hey, let me - let me take one picture - -
CMP: Yes. I
LMP: Well! Well, no - - ....
CDR: Yes
CDR: Boy, that cinder cone is pretty. What - -
LMP: How's the Red Sea ... up there?
UNKNOWN: The Red Sea is at - 188:03:06.
CDR: What time is it now?
UNKNOWN: We've got about 5 minutes to go. We're about upside down, alright?
LMP: Yes, it would be great to stop the roll ...
CMP: Boy, reckon here's two shots another will interesting give them piece. the stereo You that - you they're looking for?
LMP: Not - not two shots aimed at the same direction - I-mean, at the same point.
LMP: I think most of these things - that - by way out here - are Just one shot good, Dave. I think that something around the United States and Mexico, where they can get to and survey and do something with, they need stereo, but this stuff way out here, they Just want a picture of it. You can - you can see an impact down there that - -
CMP: -.- Just like the lava on the moon.
CMP: Oh, we ... was impact or not, though. . ° Day 8 _83
UNKNOWN: Ail circular features are impacts! That's
CMP: pretty good - pretty good geologist. Maybe he could get the - Australia, if he's a geologist. J
LMP: Oh course. Sure like to get out there and see that nice big crater.
CMP: That would be interesting. Not too many people get
LMP: The Nile River.
CDR: - - I do believe.
CDR: What's this?
LMP: Let's see where we are. We may be right down - that's right, we're going right by Khartoum. That's - We're about at Khartoum right now; and that's where the Nile Joins - the White Nile and the Blue Nile - -
CDR: _hite Nile and the Blue Nile comes together, there.
LMP: That's right. That's right where going isn't it? Oh, what time is it?
LMP: Good, that's - We should be a little bit south of track; so, it ought to be down my side, here. Let's see if I can see it.
CMP: South? That should be on Jim's side.
LMP: Oh, south is on Jim's side. That's right. Okay.
CMP: Look at the striation.
CMP: Is that a good word?
CDR: Look at the what?
CMP: Striation.
LMP: Is that a good word?
CMP: 'Oh, yes. .-
LMP: Good word, yes?
CDR: Good word. That's not right, but it's a good Word.
CMP: Alstrait (laughter).
LMP: Jim, do you see Khartoum down there, yet?
CDR: I think it's up ahead to the left there. Yes.
CMP: ... morphic granulate down there, too.
LMP: Now, you've gone too far.
CDR: Okay, this one is - -
LMP: Is that it, Jim? Down %o the left, there?
CMP: I don't see anything at all. Should it be south of track, l_xsty'? be
LMP: Yes. It should south of track, it should be right at the junction of the two rivers. Junction.
CMP: Two rivers. Now this is the Blue Nile Under us, I think. Isn't the Blue Nile farther to the east?
CDR: Hey, give me - Let me take a picture - -
LMP: To the what?
CMP: To the east?
CDR: - - take a picture of the junction of the two rivers.
CDR: That blue's pretty.
LMP: Yes. I think that's the Blue Nile.
CMP: There we go. Look at the cultivation on the river the re ? t ....... Day 8 785
LMP: Yes. And there's some right up ahead here, too, almost on track.
CMP: Hey, we're going to be pretty good at this - -
LMP: The greenest looking fields I've seen.
CMP: Seven frames at 10 seconds, ... We're going to be in good shape to do that.
CDR: Hey, I'm not sure we want to take those. Oh, of what?
CMP: Not the - the Red Sea.
CDR: The Red Sea. Oh, yes, let's take the Red Sea. Look at this cultivation down there - -
LMP: Yes, that's what I was going to s_y. That's the - those are the best looking fields I've seen. That lo6ks like home, doesn't it? A lot of them. Wonder what those other things are that aren't green, but look like they're - -
CMP: Oh, they're brown fields.
LMP: No, but they look different; you know, like it's a special kind of crop or something. Oh, we're getting into some - rocky stuff, now.
CMP: Say, why don't you call when 10 seconds comes up, Rusty?
CMP: 03:06 is the beginning.
LMP: Okay, and you're going to take them straight out.
CMP: Yes, I'11 take them straight down.
LMP: Okay. 03:06. You got about 1 minute.
LMP: And I'11 Just give you a mark every 10 seconds, and we want seven up; right? ....... 1 ............
LMP: Oh, the're going to go away, though. Looks - They're not too bad.
CDR: Yes, and as soon as we get over this one ..., your again. lights come hack on in. It gets good
LMP: Okay, stand by. It's about 15 seconds - -
CDR: Yes. You ought to start counting, Dave, if you see that lake down there.
CMP: Okay. Oh, that little lake?
CMP: Rusty, start the count.
LMP: Okay· You Just take one.
CMP: Yes, I took - over that lake. here.
UNKNOWN: 2, 1 - ...
CMP: Geepers, Just - -
LMP: Works pretty good, though.
CMP: - - ... down there.
LMP: Oh, this is going to be great. 3, 2, 1 -
CMP: Number 3.
CDR: Look at those big craters, down there. I Day 8 787 Yes.
LMP: 3, 2, 1 -
LMP: MARK. [
LMP: Number 4.
CDR: Keep taking them straight down, because you don't get a hair as much ... reflected, nearly as much.
CMP: Greatl MARK.
CDR: Man, that is greatl
UNKNOWN: .MARK.
LMP: Okay, have I got one more here?
LMP: Okay, that's one more than they asked for.
CMP: That looks pretty ,good.
LMP: No, I'm sorry. It wasn't. Hey, take one more here.
LMP: 3, 2, 1 - I
CDR: Take a picture over there, Dave - -
CMP: Okay. CC,; ..... L ii i
CDR: Wbooee - Oh, yes - Hey, take a picture over the right, Rusty. That's the part that I was telling you about.
LMP: Yes. Alrigbt.
CDR: I think that was a pretty good strip.
LMP: Yes. Except you were pulling up a little bit, instead of steering out the window. You're - And that window is almost perpendicular to the - -
CDR: You're drive - -
LMP: - - your angle to the window.
CDR: - - try to angle straight to the ground.
LMP: Yes. Yes, I know. You can tell dut the side window. It's ,1most - We were almost in the SO 65 attitude. That's okay. They can't tell the difference - 10 degrees.
LMP: Okay, okay. Now we're coming back across the - -
LMP: - - ... peninsula.
CMP: - - How far off of the times were we, Rusty?
UNKNOWN: No, we were right on it.
LMP: Okay, we're coming across Somaliland.
CDR: Somaliland - How about stopping and get a tamale?
LMP: Boy, wouldn't that be good?
CMP: Sure would.
CDR: Anything with some seasoning right now would really taste good.
LMP: What's that island out there? Oh .... Oh, yes, I remember that one. ',,, II..'LI',I I I/-%1. ,11DaY 8 789
UNKNOWN: That's it right there. I never even heard of it " before.
LMP: Oh, you haven't beard of that, ...?
CDR: Oh, Rusty, Rusty. Oh, that's right.
CDR: Hey, you ... have Andes on time. Did you?
CMP: Yes, isn't that something to give the time - to be out the old timeline? Poor Australia, we never ge t;osee it in the daytime.
CDR: Well, that wasn't a bad strip either, was it? damned.
LMP: I'11 be
CMP: What do we have ahead of us now, Rusty? ... out i the water somewhere. Ocean
LMP: Yes, we're out in the middle of the Indian right now. The only thing out there is - the _agos Archipelago out - almost on our track, whie is - I guess, a bunch of reefs out in the middle o
CDR: Hey, we checked right out that time. Zero roll, VERB 55.
CDR: Now, listen, you knew that ... (laughter).
LMP: And on your le -
LMP: - - to your left is the Chagos Archipelago. To th right, the island of ...
CMP: What number was that? ''
CDR: ... Grape - Hey, grape and hot chocolate in the same package. Man, I am going to have that for breakfast. Boy, Rusty ... that breakfast.
LMP: No, I gave Dave my hot chocolate.
CMP: Golly, why didn't you drink ...? Rusty, ... take a few in North Africa.
CDR: This is sausage . How was that sausage yesterday? t
CMP: Pretty good. And if I say it's pretty good - -
LMP: It must be pretty good!
CDR: Hey, here's - here's cocoa - Hey, here's really a meal. Cocoa, grape, sausage, peaches, and bacon. Want that?
CMP: No, I'm going to have that tomorrow.
LMP: We already got it all dug out here.
CMP: Yes, I know. Well, with our luck, we may not be
LMP: I think we will be, unless for some reason, - That's day 8, meal C, right? Day 8, meal A, I mean.
CMP: ... I see you changed the paper bag already.
CDR: When there aren't any more meals like that, ... you know we don't have enough meals for ... What else do you have over there stashed away?
CMP: What else do you have over there stashed away?
LMP: Here ....
CDR: No - Eat it. No, no, I was only kidding. I was just opening this to put in the bag.
CDR: Which one - which one - Is this the one we're putting in? ... the old grab bag.
CDR: Is it up there in the tunnel, maybe? i J C 8 T91 (
LMP: Oh, here it is. Here you go.
LMP: OH, yes, we got to get ... open, too.
CDR: Oh, shit, oh dear ... part of the ...
CDR: How you doing there, sport?
LMP: Okay, well, I guess I'11 go continue to dump some water.
CDR: Good idea.
CDR: Hey, what's that?
CDR: That's land.
LMP: Is that land?
LMP: Up ahead of us there, to the north part of it.
CMP: Or, are those low brown clouds?
CDR: Maybe we ought to take a second look at them when we get up there. It might be ... cloud.
LMP: If it's land, it's called - Australia.
CDR: Hey!
LMP: It's got to be dark there.
CMP: ... daylight, I really do. Are we going over Austrhlia this pass?
LMP: Yes. Sure are.
CMP: ... looks like ...
CDR: Austr' rea_ /s CO though.
LMP: ... over on our last pass, too,
CMP: We sure don't have two grapefruits ...
CDR: Probably don't. I ... yesterday.
LMP: ... breakfast yesterday.
LMP: Let me see. It's 1 hour past the update ... should be there; give you some idea of whether - it should be - 188:05. Oh, no. We've got 11 minutes to go to until we get to Australia. Our pass is going be black ·
CDR: ... already. guess
CDR: Let's see; I - you want me to continue to dump some water?
LMP: I didn't use much of your gas on that alignment.
LMP: This is more than using the optics, though.
LMP: It's difficult to articulate the COAS.
CMP: Yes, it is. It's awfully difficult to articulate the optics.
CMP: True, if you don't remove the damn thing.
CDR: It's a ... Job to articulate - -
LMP: Oh, you're Just ... Day 8 793
CMP: Z wasn't throug h with it. I got to get an alignment this pass, Rusty. Okay?
LMP: Whatever you say.
CMP: Oh, I really hate to do this.
CDR: ... southeast of ... is suppose to do ... put it in your pocket.
CDR: Well, where was that water bag? There should be an empty bag up here, Dave, that I was fixing to damp that water. See it up there?
CMP: No, I sure don't. are. ...
CMP: Here you Let's get the
LMP: Well, doggone it.
UNKNOWN: a meal that came floating over here.
LMP: Day 4, meal C. There it is, Dave. How about grabbing it for me, will you?
LMP: That bag, right there.
CDR: Day 4, meal C? How could - how come we still happel to have that around?
LMP: Probably got a glue on it.
CDR: Yes. As a matter of fact -
CMP: Have you tasted the water to see if it has still got the chlorine in it?
LMP: No, you want to taste it?
CMP: Yes. I'11 be glad to. I'11 fix me something to drink.
LMP: Alright.'
CMP: I'm thirsty and I'm hungry.
LMP: I tell you, all you got to do is take a tissue or a rag, if you've got a clean tissue, and put some water in it and smell it.
CDR: ... smell a pipe.
CMP: Look at that. We got two big bags. Whew!
CDR: Looks like - it looks like ... we don't want - -
LMP: Give me a drink, David, and I'11 - -
CDR: I think we also ought to get out the other ...
CDR: Why don't you - Let's put that one down in the food bOX.
CMP: Let me find one that is palatable. Oh, hey, here's another one.
CMP: How drink about an orange Juice? There's more orange than anything else.
LMP: Good. this other ...
CDR: ... is screwed up.
CMP: ... grape drink or grape ...
CMP: I think they're a little better now. But I ate the orange ... and they're a pretty close second.
CDR: That's right ... right of rockers if you call this .- -
LMP: You know what would be a better idea?
CDR: What? Day 8 795
LMP: ... ...
UNKNOWN: all the spaghetti's oranges throw it in into the food locker and ...
CMP: Anybody want part of a bacon?
LMP: Okay, good, I'11 split it with you, Dave. I'm not going to want all of it, but I need a little snack.
CMP: Hey, we could take that and stuff it in ... food box? Yes, we could have an empty ... Never open box the food again.
CDR: ... someplace to put our scraps.
CMP: 189:10:23.
CMP: ... reading the bubble.
LMP: Okay, ... stopped.
LMP: Okay, the ...
UNKNOWN: Yes, I see it over here in the clear area.
LMP: Okay, that's got it wrong one. Now, we take this end and we go -
CMP: We do it for a minute.
CDR: There we go.
CMP: Not too bad. Delays it a little anyway.
LMP: ... it does it all in one spot and not on to the other un.it.
LMP: If you can get rid of it that way - toward the end I can - if there isn't too much water with it, if it all comes out as gas. The capillary action kind of makes it - or something makes it stick to your mouth and the gas kind of goes in the middle.
CMP: What actually the ...?
CMP: A rather interesting picture out this side.
LMP: What's out there?
LMP: It might be worth a shot. 20 - Desert with lava flow.
CMP: How are we doing angle-wise? I
CDR: Boy, there's some real sand dunes down there - whe_
LMP: You know something? We look like we've been in it
CDR: (Laughter) :
CDR: Now we're pitching back down ...
UNKNOWN: we rolled -
CDR: .... down at 0.h degree per second.
LMP: Yes. Hey, I think I can see it coming, if that's Mount KilimanJaro. You think that's the mountain up there, Jim? Out the front window? Or you thin] that's just a - Oh, I guess that's just a - -
CDR: The one I'm looking at, that's Just a cloud.
LMP: - - Just a cloud.
LMP: No, well, I'm not sure yet. Let me see.
LMP: This must be the South Sahara. When the world get: overpopulated, they can all come here ....
LMP: Hey, Jim, you're looking down on clouds.'
CDR: Really? ...
LMP: Can you see it through them?
CDR: Yes -
LMP: ... in this side.
CDR: Real light brown '-
UNKNOWN: Cloudy as can be, and there's nothing that even resembles vegetation. It looks like lunar soil doesn't it?
UNKNOWN: There it is, KilimanJaro out there. I see it, I see itl
LMP: Over to the left, there. Is that where you were .looking?
LMP: What time is it? Oh, yes - - minutes.
UNKNOWN: 6
CDR: It's ... time, yes.
CDR: I thought I saw a big brown thing with snow, and there's supposed to be snow on that mountain. I read about it.
CDR: This actually is supposed to be where we start tracking. Right under us.
UNKNOWN: Let me get the map there, Dave.
LMP: Here, let me roll right and ...
CDR: He can ... out here.
LMP: A little bit south of track.
CMP: It's pitching around ...
LMP: Yes, this window is - this one is - moving around - 0.4-degree-per-second pitchup, and 0.4 - degree per-second pitchdown. F"F'_klEIr_rk'lTI A I
CDR: We're climbing, aren't we?
LMP: Yes. Well,
LMP: actually - actually, that's not a bad attitude Just the way it is, Jim.
CDR: Okay. Just let it go then.
CDR: Let's see, we've got another 5 minutes - 4 - little .. over h minutes.
CDR: I see a town. I see a waterhole there.
CDR: See the old waterhole?
LMP: Over on your side is an old waterhole.
CDR: Oh, yes. Ye old waterhole.
CDR: It looks pretty cloudy.
LMP: It sure does. See, if they were Just low clouds, old Killmanjaro would stick right out of the top
LMP: Pitch fate's dropping off - it's down about 0.25.
LMP: How many more minutes?
CDR: 3.
LMP: ... might be hole up there.
CMP: Need_ ... up there?
LMP: No, about a minute and a half.
CDR: Really doesn't look that bad.
CDR: There's water down underneath.
CMP: Yes, we go over by Lake Victoria - lake right be- it. side ^' wi i_ l- . . ._ J i 'lb i lr ._ k. _. .IVl...AI 8 ?99
CDR: Yes, therets another one right down underneath us - right now.
LMP: Oh, boy - it's getting kind of steep.
LMP: We must be rolling to the right, too, aren't we?
CDR: Got that?
LMP: Yes - I can't _ no longer se_ along the track.
LMP: Do you see a mountain coming up?
CDR: I don't see anything at all that resembles a mountain.
CMP: I don't either.
CDR: There's the shoreline of Africa.
LMP: Yes. I think I see the mountain out in front of us there, but it's under that cloud. Is that it, Dave? Yes, there it is. Yes, you can see the
CDR: Whereabouts?
CMP: Right straight out here.
LMP: Yes. Can you get it, Dave? Well, get the mountain and put it in the top of the field.
LMP: You get it?
CMP: Yes - Let me get one more here.
LMP: You can get one when we ge over it.
CMP: I got to find the damn thing again, though. You know, I'm not sure that that's it.
LMP: Yes, it is.
CMP: Yes, that's it. Oh, yes - it's got the crater in the top, too. _
CDR: Maybe I'm looking at the wrong thing. Where is it, Dave?
CMP: It's way dow_ here.
LMP: It's back out to the right now, Jim. It's got a lot of clouds around it, but the clouds are heavy on the - the east slope of it.
CDR: Slope? Yes, that's what I was looking at. You think that 's it, huh?
LMP: Yes. It's the only mountain around, Jim.
CDR: It doesn't look like a mountain to me.
LMP: Oh, yes. With snow on the top of it? You don't see much now on the ground; or didn't you think it was snow.
CDR: No, as a matter of fact, I thought it Was a cloud.
CMP: Let's tell everybody it is KilimanJaro.
LMP: Oh, hell, yes, it was. That was - if it was a cloud, it had rocks sticking out the top of it. In which case it was KilimanJaro anyway. Okay.
LMP: How would you read that number now, Dave?
LMP: It's right between two - You can't even tell what the hell it says. to 79,
UNKNOWN: You were getting ready check 78 and but I - -
LMP: Remind me. Is that yours?
LMP: And on into the Pacific!
LMP: There's a loose, near-empty, grapefruit bag floating around. I guess - It's not in front of me any longeI ....
CMP: When you said that one, I thought you P Day 8 8ol
CDR: Oh, yes! i '..
CDR: Way hack there? the next frame - ... is the setting now, Dave? 190, 30, 00. L i.N=! A · , ·
LMP: Here, here's your ....·
CMP: I was really looking forward to this· I thought you had a surprise.
LMP: Yes, I think I will. Hey, those were the - Corigodoes - Caragos [?] shoals.
CMP: Oh, yes ....
CMP: Hey, we could play interceptor with these Cepacols and vitamin pills. Cepacols could be the bombers and the vit-m_u pills, the fighters.
CMP: Want to try to see some cities at night here? We're going right over Perth - -
UNKNOWN: - - and right over Brisbane.
LMP: Oh, boy, coming up are a whole bunch of really nice islands in the South Pacific.
CDR: Where are we going? and
LMP: Right up past New Caledonia then the Loyalty Islands, the Fiji Islands, Western Samoa, Danger Island, right past Christmas Island - Boy, we got the whole batch of them·
LMP: Boy, we go right over Fiji.
LMP: When does it say to unstow, Jim?
CDR: I Just ... the flight plan, Rusty. It says that our 2-1/2 after we terminate SO 65 .·. hours to unstow the spacecraft, and hour to eat, am hour to do chores, and then have our rest period.
CMP: Jim, you want ... these?
LMP: It took us 30 minutes to get ready for that burn yesterday?
CDR: Yes. f' I'_ I .......... .......... l · CC: ^L 8 8o3
CMP: What time do we do SO 65? Is that the next thing we have?
LMP: They want to take those off, even though the weather's broken.
CMP: 190, 42 - ... 45 more.
LMP: Heady to unstow? I'11 get them out.
LMP: Here's a little bag, Davey.
CDR: Do we have any 70-millimeter stuff to take yet?
LMP: Yes. Shots north of track.
CDR: Feeling any better?
CDR: Well, did you time yourself? Get all that way out?
LMP: Yes, I'm feeling - Boy, that's a lot better. Somewhere - in here, another 5 minutes ...
CDR: Dave, check that pyro there _ It's ...
LMP: 29:37, okay. Coming up across BaJa California - - ...
CDR: night pass.
LMP: Yes, we're going across .... Why don't you disable ...? We've already got it scheduled.
CMP: Yes. Step number 1 after the last pictures ...
LMP: There's the ... Crater, again.
CMP: Oh, really? ...
LMP: Yes, let me read it off - No, you can't see it out there, Dave. Get under me and look up there. No, under me - under me, look outside. i CC:'- "
UNKNOWN: I I/"_L -_
CMP: 0h, yes. Oh, that's really - real autive, isn't it?
CDR: It's still not time?
CC: Apollo 9, Houston. About 1 minute LOS. I'd like to verify the ATTITUDE SET switch is in GDC.
CDR: I think the new ATTITUDE SET is in IMU.
CDR: ... and it goes to GDC. I knew there was a reason , for it - -
CC: Roger. Request GDC unless you have a real reason to put it in I_J.
CDR: No, that's Just where it ended up the last time I did the GDC test.
CMP: I knew there was a reasonl
LMP: Are they going to read something if you do it - leave it in GDC?
CDR: I don't know. When I ask them about that the other day, they said they were having trouble - -
CC: 9, Houston. In the preparation to your powering up the S-band, like to do the LMP checklist, page 214. The first six - the first six steps of the TELECOMM systems powerup.
CC: Okay, understand. The first six steps on 214, LMP checklist.
CMP: You got her going? That's not badl
CMP: No, it's not really ....
CDR: Last night ... trying to vent the batteries down.
CMP: Yes, that doesn't look like ... . J Day 8 805 film.
CMP: That's the last roll of
LMP: What time do we have that high gain antenna thing?
CMP: 232:08 or so.
CMP: ... following steps.
CMP: It's a ..., Ji_.
LMP: Yes, we - we go out over and then back into.
CMP: 14 minutes ...
LMP: Wool Oh, there are a lot of big clouds.
CMP: The water.
CDR: Another interesting thing, huh?
LMP: The ... either, you know it?
LMP: Lot's of water - pretty sight.
CMP: Sure we didn't want to point it out the other side?
CMP: No, right there in the middle.
CDR: No, right down the middle would probably be better.
CMP: ... pink, brown, blue - I've Just seen a whole bunc of keen-looking clouds.
CDR: Keen-looking what?
CMP: Clouds.
CMP: Carry all the folks at home one apiece.
LMP: True.
CDR: Anything out there, but ...?
LMP: Really a big ...
CDR: Oh, maybe they want the weather. over desert.
LMP: Got to go that wild
CMP: 7 more minutes to go. Just
CDR: The clouds look like they're 30 degrees south of track.
UNKNOWN: never going to get this done over one station.
CMP: Repeat - repeat ...
LMP: ... Wonder that?
CMP: if they know
CDR: ... part of Africa for 50 years.
LMP: I don't know - Stanley met Livingston.
LMP: Man, Just think of all those lions and elephants and rhinoceri - -
CMP: I don't see a one.
CDR: Sure is Jungly down there, isn't it?
LMP: Boy, there's a - it really is Jungly. Man, oh manl
LMP: We should be coming up over Lake Nyasa here some- time soon. A great big lake.
CMP: I don't really like ...
CDR: Lake Nyasa goes for miles.
LMP: Do you ...?
CDR: Yes, ... Lake Nyasa_
LMP: Whoo ...
CMP: There's some geology down there. I guess there's - Just not ever been very manypeople in there, huh?
CDR: The ones that are in there don't come out.
LMP: The ones that go in don't come out?
CMP: You have about a minute more.
LMP: Supposed to go to Madagascar now, right?
LMP: You better hurry up.
CDR: gun's kind of peeping out down there, too.
LMP: Yes, it sure is. The shadows are really getting long. There's YOur update form. They block the view.
CMP: Is Madagascar in the view on the horizon?
CDR: I see the shoreline there on the horizon. Can you tell what time to turn it off?
LMP: 50 something - 40 something.
CMP: ... the shadows.
CMP: Okay, Jimmy - you want to turn it off on time or let it go? ...
CDR: Madagascar. r..J
CMP: Now is the time. 1_ minutes should get it. I don't see Madagascar out either.
CMP: It's going to be too dark now anyway.
UNKNOWN: the sane time I started it off.
CMP: These darn Cameroons - whabobbedo. What's under these clouds? Huh?
LMP: The weather - the weathermen Will re,lly think we're neat.
CMP: They will?
UNKNOWN: I hope.
CMP: ...,
LMP: I wonder if they want that thing on now to warm up.
CMP: No. I don't know if they wanted to look at it or what. You know, beforehand, he said to do the first six steps in the checklist, but he didn't really say when.
CDR: Wheu do we turn it on? When do we do the steps?
CMP: 193:08. In a couple of hours.
CDR: Why don't we turn it on about ...?
LMP: How come we're on secondary transponder?
CMP: Maybe it's because the primary didn't work very good. We've been for about 4 days.
LMP: Yes, I Just never looked at the console. I Just wanted to know when did we do it? ITl Irlr_lrh I A C__ _ 'rlr_rl_lTI ^ I Day8 809
CMP: One day, I don't remember which one.
CDR: I am going to get me something to eat; I'm getting hungry.
CMP: I haven't even finished my breakfast yet.
CDR: Getting sleepy. So I have to have something to keep me awake.
CDR: The hours we keep are ridiculous.
LMP: 191:25, P52 time ...
CMP: Through with the ORB rate?
CMP: Okay, I'm going to VERB 46 i_. Okay?
LMP: Huh? ...
CDR: I clocked it ...
CMP: Did you clock it the other way?
CMP: Okay, I clocked it this way.
CMP: How did your ball work?
LMP: I think I'm going to go hunt one more time for m_ tape.
CDR: ... Lt -£ ......... I I AI
LMP: I think I can do that without disturbing ... aligner. (Singing) Boy, my old suit's really Jazzed over there now, isn't it? Goll!
LMP: It's definitely not in that pocket. It's not in that pocket. Let's see, it might be in this pocket: ·.., an American flag, goofballs, some earplugs, another goofball, some ... lanyards, a neckband; and nothing else. Nothing at all.
LMP: In this pocket,; we have - nothing - and in this pocket, we have - nothing. I have a sneaky feeling my tape is either in orbit by itself or it went by-by with the _.
LMP: Yes, I may very well have.
CDR: ... in the suit.
LMP: No, I don't think so. I think, Jim, I would'ye put it in that pocket, Jim, and - -
CDR: You mean ... hidden in here - -
LMP: Yes, but most of the things that have hidden them- selves have magicly unhidden themselves. Doesn't say it isn't.
LMP: Oh, well, another meal without music!
CMP: ... your platform.
CMP: Oh, oh!
CMP: What's today? What's today? Do you know?
LMP: Tuesday.
CDR: It is Tuesday?
CDR: Nice day, isn't it? _C.Z,., ;.:.1.L_ ,ay8 - , "
CDR: Let's see. We launched on the third. It's the 12th, isn't it?
CMP: I'd say you're right.
CDR: I think that's right.
UNKNOWN: that's right; somebody told me we come back on Thursday. ... L-shaped bag, I don't have the courage to challenge that. Hey, look what I found, a whole bunch of stop-trots. You want some stop-trots?
CMP: Just what we need. Well, let's see what we're doing.
LMP: What were you after?
CMP: Ob, I was trying to find - Saturn.
CMP: No, it's not in the field of view.
LMP: The rings are almost edge on, man. I don't think it's going to be very spectacular.
CMP: Oh, are they really?
LMP: Yes. I think it takes another 6, 7, or 8 years before they get to the point where they come up with a good angle again.
CMP: 09.
CDR: Okay. Understand Hawaii LOS at 4_:07, instead of 09.
CMP: Hey, that's great. I was hoping you'd get a chance to try that.
CDR: Oh, good. ,,., ,l i
CDR: Well, good. . _ . ,
CMP: Okay, we'11 keep her over and, if we have any Questions, give you a buzz back.
CC: Okay, ... after the antenna stops slewing.
CDR: Man, am I sleepy!
CMP: Okay, I copy that after the antenna stops slewing. i
CDR: Why don't you drive the boat And let me take a little nap? Okay.
LMP: I think, Dave, we're going to do just about every- thing we had - that we brought up here with us.
CDR: ... didn't even know you had with yOU.
CMP: Well, I didn't thihk we_d be able to get this thing in here fn time. We - we wrote it up, but I didn't think we'd get it in here.
CMP: 192:48 ...
CMP: We're at 191:48 now, Jim.
CMP: Oh, I'm sorry. Oh, let me see.
CDR: Let's see. We're supposed to do - - An
LMP: SO 65 we've got to do.
LMP: Gosh, we've only got a few minutes to get to bed, Jim.
CDR: Hand me that thing again, Rusty.
LMP: The SO 65 padhere?
CDR: Yes. SO 65. i ....... h .? I _B ir.,.- ,... I II I Day 8 813 . · .
UNKNOWN: I can't find the damn thing; oh, here it is. Oh, wait a minute. The data is not here, is it?
CDR: I put it right after that.
LMP: Oh, yes, in the gimbal angle; okay.
LMP: ... frames in 8 seconds - _hooee! - -
UNKNOWN: 8-second
LMP: Ohh! "
CMP: Damn, damn, that's a ...
CDR: ... catch up ...
CMP: When we catch up, we're safe.
CMP: What do we have to do tomorrow?
CDR: ...'
CMP: Get ready for that 350-pound cake. Oh boy, oh boy. I hope they have some ice cream with that.
UNKNOWN: a 340-pound ice cream sandwich!
CMP: Yes, yes! Okay, 10 frames at 8 seconds starting at 32. 21, 49, 57 - Yes, alright. DSKY 21, 49 ...
CDR: Your time is i90:09 - 192:00:00. Key align.
CMP: Oh, key align, I already did that. It's lunch time, now, isn't it?
LMP: Yes, from the time we got up, it is.
CMP: Almost bedtime for McDivitt.
CDR: I'm really sleepy.
CMP: sleepy,'he'11
UNKNOWN: about the time we get wake up again and go charging off on some campaign.
LMP: Naturally. I II I
CDR: That's right I know
CMP: Oh, oh, you - Where's your bag full of - Oh, here it is. Hard food .... the light ...
CMP: Those are peaches in there.
LMP: Peaches? I Just remembered ...
CMP: Fuel cell 2 seems to have cured itself completely.
LMP: Yes, it looks pretty good, d0esn't it? ...
CMP: Went charging along all night, huh?
LMP: Hey, Dave, you know what did it - -
CMP: No - -
LMP: - - t_e hydrogen purging - -
CDR: (Laughter) -
CMP: - no.
CDR: With all that contamfnation?
LMP: - - until it finally blew it out.
CMP: It was close to the redline.
LMP: ... does that.
CMP: No kidding.
LMP: ... get a 120 something times ... ...
CDR: We've had a couple, haven't we?
CDR: I'was talking to my ... right before launch, and ... going over the flight plan, and he said, "You're going to start coming down on the hundred 'and whatever it was revolution." And I thought, ,,Oh God! Don't sa_ it that way." t-_. Iral_klTIAI CO. -. I 0
CDR: (Laughter) '
LMP: It really sounded like an awfully long time when he said it in revolutions.
CDR: Ho hum, I could Just about take a 10-minute nap here, if Dave got us to the right spot at the right time.
CMP: We're almost there, aren't we? ... Yes, we're .. there.
CMP: Okay, ... Let me get my ... nap.
CDR: ... I'11 get us there. I'11 do my fair share.
CMP: Better look out.
CDR: Wait until we get the S-band test. There's nothing I have to do there, I don't believe, besides turn the S-band off to nap.
CMP: Listen, we'11 let you nap, if you'11 promise not to bed.
CDR: Okay, I promise. Tomorrow, look out; today, you're safe.
CMP: Tomorrow, I wish you'd do a lot of campaigning. DAY'9" !
LMP: Why don't we get the coordinates of the carrier and surprise them and land tonight?
CDR: (Laughter) They had a little trouble ... If we -
UNKNOWN: in on them.
CDR: -- land on the carrier tonight it will really surprise everybody, because we're not going home until ... Wouldn't that be something - See that spot - and all of a sudden you see it go - (Laughter) ]
UNKNOWN: Wheel Klonkl
CDR: No, -_fwe could do a 98-degree left-hand turn and fly about 4088 miles north and land.
CDR: Seems like it's getting stuffy in here!
CMP: I was noticing that, too, I'm wondering i'f - here;
CDR: Yes, why don't you take It's all I got it.
CMP: Where did you have it?
UNKNOWN: Hey, guess we ought to do away with the cam - -
CMP: Now we'11 get to see how good a COAS calibration is after 5 days.
CDR: I'm not sure that you would either.
CC: Apollo 9, Houston. About 30 seconds LOS; Tananarive at 53.
CDR: Roger, Houston. We saw Pegasus going by. We mounted the diastimeter and positioned the space- craft in the proper attitude, and right at the moment that you said it'd be there, why, she went L F_F'%kl_l_kITIA ! Day 9 817 thro guIh a. t ppeared astwob ht,w itespots, separated by about - -
CMP: No, wait; that's the diastimeter split, Jim.
CDR: Oh. Okay. We saw her go through as a bright . spot. He was going very fast; probably took him about 20 seconds or so to get across the field of view of the diastimeter from right to left. Yes. That's right, I forgot about that. --
CMP: You can't focus on it at infinity - -
CMP: - - ... stopped at h miles. Well! That was exciting.
CDR: Yes, it was. Sort of broke up the day, didn't it? (Laughter)
CMP: Okay. Let's see - We're not doing anything else ... dump
CDR: .... urine, that's all ...
CDR: (Laughter) You never found - Well, let's see, if you had the COAS pointed in the wrong direction, never you would see it, would you?
CDR: No, I finally saw it, Jim.
CDR: Did you? Oh, good.
LMP: But I wasn't sure what it was, at all. But when you yawed back over you got him just about on the axis at one point there ....
CDR: - - and then he came right back in, and then he drifted out to the top. IAI
UNKNOWN: ·
UNKNOWN: ly o,,ingl
CDR: Yes, wasn't he, though? (Laughter)
LMP: Whoo! Did you ..., Dave?
CMP: Yes. It took me a minute to find out - what - what sort of ... my eyes in.
CDR: Yes. Okay.
CMP: I want to look at the ground ... and
CDR: I was looking at the ground as he came across I think it - plus, maybe you're pointing straight down and here, it Just doesn't hack it. Here. I'11 get it.
LMP: No, it's - -
CDR: Yes, I know how - I know how it has to go in.
CDR: I've got a half of an orange.
UNKNOWN: You what?
UNKNOWN: Yes. It's probably mine. Yes.
UNKNOWN: Jim, I'm going to do an alignment, again - -
CDR: Yes, you've got to do an alignment, and ye have to do an S-band antenna thing.
CDR: Yes, that'11 be ... day.
CDR: Yes, what's the - ... past the ... control plane here _ we're supposed to point out - to point out of plane which way? CI Day9 819 should them you have angles. Rusty wrote down in that - in the - -
CDR: Okay, you got to do the platform alignment first; that's the main thing. Matter of fact, if we have to point out of plane north - Well, we're already doing that - -
CMP: Why don't you do it right there? --
CDR: Yes; I was going to say we're already doing that, so we should he able to get by here without getting into timbal lock.
CMP: You know, I was really hoping they'd try a P32 - -
CMP: stuff,
UNKNOWN: - because with that much ra_e boy, I'd ... we don't go to sleep.
CMP: ... we Just let her roll.
CDR: I think they are going to have to do that - I frankly can't see how you're going to go to the moon, unless you sleep on the way.
CMP: Boy, I don't either.
CDR: If they can't expect us to be able to do anything when we get there.
CMP: You could spend i day learning how to housekeep and 2 days resting.
CMP: Man, I've got to get that down there. Ohh! The garbage hag is really loading up. Umph!
UNKNOWN: Okay, P52 preferred. Oh, ho.
CDR: It doesn't ... come up with a 2, does it? .!_ -_ _-._-.,- _
CMP: You're supposed to come up with a 1 in it if the._ load it preferred; and ... desired REFSMMAT, you supposed to set the flag.
CDR: It is, huh?
LMP: I thought you did away with the flag.
CMP: Well, the flag's still there but it's really - really - There's no constraint on the flag. Bul they used to set it when theM uplinked the desir_ REFS_$4AT,so you'd get the one here that says th_ the ... are loaded. But that's the last thing t_ sent up on the uplink, so it's got to be there. it's not there, we get a garbage alignment.
CDR: Great!
CMP: How'S that look, Jim?
CDR: That looks - that doesn't look like it's going tc get us out of plane, Dave. That's only going to degrees. yaw us over about 20
CMP: Yes, but you're already yawed over here already.
CDR: Yes, but that would yaw us back toward the middle wouldn't it?
CMP: Well, I don't - They didn't necessarily say - they said it's aligned ou$ of plane to the north they didn't really say it's like - -
CDR: Okay. Alright. Try it.
CMP: ... this doesn't get her out of plane.
CDR: Yes. Yes, but not that much, usually.
UNKNOWN: Well, we can talk to them over Carnarvon, and if that's wrong, they'11 - We can do it some other time.
UNKNOWN: You're not going to try in daytime, I hope.
CMP: No. COI TIAL C NTIAL ,)ay9 -.-.
CDR: We're getting on towards dark here; I'11 wait.
CMP: We'11 wait until Rusty gets through obliterating the sky.
UNKNOWN: Who has the - -
LMP: Go ahead and try it. See what happens. -
CDR: Who has the tourniquet tied around my right leg? what happens.
UNKNOWN: No, I'11 wait. I don't want to press my luck. know,
CDR: You as a matter of fact, the way my C0_4 cable is routed now, I'm a little more mobile than I usually am. Goes around the bottom and comes back in.
UNKNOWN: Well, let's see. There's got to be a tissue dispenser or either ... around somewhere.
CDR: Okay, the tissue dispenser - -
CMP: There's one on top of my head. Here's one.
CMP: Okay. Thank you, David. you wouldn't have any trouble finding one.
CMP: We need to keep one permanently stowed in the bathroom down here.
CDR: Well, I try to keep one over on this side, because this is where I go to the can, but I - I'm never over there. bathrooms.
CDR: (Laughter) CON TIAL i
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LMP: I go on my side; David goes in the middle; and you go on your side. MASTER My
CMP: ... ALARM? caution and warning light lit up. Oh, my goodness, there's only one CRYO PRESS, right?
CDR: That P CO2 runs about 1.9, no matter what. I think the gage is stuck.
LMP: No, it goes do_ to 1.5 after changing ... and ... 1.8 to 2.
CMP: Yes. -
LMP: It always goes back down to -
CDR: Did it go down a little bit?
LMP: I think it --
CDR: Every time I look at it, it looks like it's always about in the same spot.
UNKNOWN: How's fuel cell 2, today?
LMP: Great. Behaving like a normal fuel cell.
CDR: Are these the ...?
CMP: ... dirty. Ughl ... pretty grubby, although actually it's not as grubby as if we were in the woods somewhere.
LMP: Say, it's not as grubby as I thought it was going to be.
CMP: Up here, you can't dig yourself a slit trench. ... clean ... myself clean.
CMP: It's ali done, if you want to check it. I thought we were almost through the darkness when we were looking at that - - COJ / IAL CUl',lm'l '""---"" xl IIAL 9
CMP: - - Pegasus thing.
CDR: We were almost through the darkness.
CMP: How come we're not in the darkness?
CDR: I don't know. I don't have the slightest. I don't ._ have the flight plan.
CMP: You don't figure our orbits have speeded up a little, do you?
CDR: (Laughter) You don't know how to clean windows. You're going to do it the rest of the flight.
CMP: ... star check ....
CMP: It might not be a bad idea. '
CDR: Yes. There's - there's quite a few - If you get the navigation star - there's two or three more in there.
CDR: Stop that.
LMP: (Singing) Here, you want to put these back, Dave?
CMP: No, those aren't mine; I don't know where they came from.
UNKNOWN: Oh. Well - they're Dave's ... to Jim.
LMP: Oh. Hey, before you start, let me throw a piece of trash over in the - in the locker.
CDR: Oep. I caught something - was getting out there.
CDR: Nmm ...
CMP: Alright. ,! CONFII AL , ! ·
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CMP: What's that ... you'been using up?
CMP: What's the station before we go?
LMP: ... as well.
CDR: If it does, I hope we don't get a ... (Laughter)
CMP: It doesn't - You won't even notice the table of food. ..
CDR: ... By the time it touched the ..., it will probably ·.. entire - the ... the whole
LMP: those pieces.
UNKNOWN: got all
CMP: Ooh. Throw it out.
LMP: ... the S-band.
CDR: I want you guys to know that the chamber pressure is 5 psi and has been ever since we took off. The
CDR: The SPS chamber pressure.
LMP: ... atmospheric pressure.
CMP: Think so ... vapor pressure in the ...
LMP: Boy, the deadband is ... really building up there?
LMP: Four balls 2. bu/lding one.
CMP: Seems li_e I'm up to a bad
LMP: It really is such a ...
CMP: In fact, I almost prefer to have ... CON ,ITIAL J I CC IAL 9
CDR: (Laughter) "'
CMP: So I could get out of the deadband.
CDR: ... with the ullage.
CMP: I think, a little. I'11 Just go across it hack and forth. ...
CMP: the time. God damn, it's that's ....
LMP: Pineapple, fru4tcake. You guys like the fruitcake?
CMP: I Just had some ...
CDR: There is enough fruitcake for you to have one a meal for the rest of the flight and have plenty left over it. Right, Dave?
CDR: I used to like all that stuff.
CMP: See. See. But I still say that ... deadband.
CDR: I wasn't going to say a word. I was Just going to see if you hollered about that.
CMP: I still say that ...
CDR: You haven't had a slice one, ..., Dave.
CMP: I had another one today. Earlier today, I had one. Where'd the flight plan go? Anybody got the flight plan? Rusty, you got the flight plan?
LMP: Not me.
CDR: No, not me. It's on the end of the ...
CMP: Oh, here it is, right here.
CDR: That's where I put it, so we wouldn't lose it.
CDR: Won't work that way.
CDR: Okay, I'11 get it. _ __ #_, % CO IAL
CDR: I think we ... you (laughter).
CMP: Felt like you ...
CDR: Didn't hurt.
LMP: How do you sa_ the o.. didn't hurt?
CDR: Makes you feel like you don't.
CMP: ... exact ... principle.
CDR: Hey, Dave, hurry up and do that, because we've got to get pver to the ... while we're still in the dark.
CMP: I'm almost through, I'm Just getting the third star check here. Okay.
CDR: I thought you _ere going to do ... stars ...
CMP: No, no, no, no. I'm Just getting the third star check.
CDR: Okay. Rusty, where do we have to go?
LMP: ... Yes, up we go.
LMP: 35200.
CDR: 35200. Right? to S-band.
CMP: I'm going turn on the power on the to that There you are. You going move hose, Jim?
CDR: No .... that ...
LMP: it's
UNKNOWN: not, Dave. Let me Just - I'11 be right back.
CDR: What do we have to be there· Rusty?
CDR: We're pretty - Whoo! 193:06, we got to start the maneuver, which is right now.
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LMP: Maneuver right there, right now.
CDR: Let's get on with this.
CMP: Man, I didn't realize we were that late. Maneuver's got to be good.
CMP: 6 minus 35 - in yaw. S-band is ...
CMP: There's ... to - set the wide deadband.
CMP: To 5 degrees. On, you're maneuvering here.
CDR: Yes. Why don't you go back and ...
CMP: That ball you gave me is rocking R.
CDR: Roger. This is Apollo 9.
CC: 1 minute to LOS, and when you come up on Hawaii there, I'11 give you the numbers to disable that 121 alarm for the landmark tracking thing.
CMP: Oh, very good.
CDR: Think I'11 lay this way for a while. Call me if anything happens, huh? I'm trying to sleep with my foot -
LMP: Gee: we're never going to get this camera ...
CMP: Doesn't look like it, does it? ... Yes, we're starting ...
LMP: ... break lock. ,% '
CMP: But we started'to t'urn ... little late. 0ka_r, now, there it goes.
CMP: Would you believe "No"? ... I've got ...; Rv.st¥, you broke lock.
CMP: It's Just sitting there.
UNKNOWN: Okay, so now I_m supposed to Say, "Log the time and the angles after it stopped slewing." So it stopped slewing - -
CDR: Yes, it sure did.
LMP: - - ... around LOS.
CMP: Yes, it sure did.
LMP: Well, alright.
CMP: 1, 2, 3. Okay, let's see. 193:20
CMP: And the pitch is plus h5 and yaw is 265.
CMP: Oh, you're kidding.
CMP: Well, I don't - I don't see wearing those things didn't for a whole trip - even if it bother you. some kind of gloves.
CMP: Here it is! Yes, that's what I thought.
CDR: Did it come back?
CMP: When you break lock, it ought to go right back to originally. where you set it receiving, because you talked ...
CMP: No, we're talking on VHF.
LMP: Oh, I tho_ht you were talking on the ... CONF' TIAL E ,ITIAL Da,9
LMP: Wait a minute. That's not P70 - Shoot! P40 - P35.
LMP: See if you can slew the antenna. It's a long way to P40.
CMP: I guess I ought to ... these things.
CMP: Yes, talk about a rat's nest!
CMP: This is.
CDR: Rey, Dave.
LMP: Okay, drive it, that's what it's for to drive e'' while you rest.
CDR: You're in charge of driving.
CMP: Okay, very good.
CMP: ... give you a rough time - -
CMP: _ey, are we in - We're in PTC and it's nighttime. Let's turn out the lights and see how many times ' it flashes.
CMP: Hey, let me get my Hawaii acquisition time - 35:2 okay ·
LMP: Now about giving Jim ...? Watch 'the Jets fire. It's in wide deadband, isn't it?
CC: Apollo 9, Houston through Huntsville.
CMP: Houston, say again.
CC: Roger. I have one target for passing across the ·qtates.
CMP: 8ay again that last one, Ron. C O L
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CC: 9, Houston. i have one Hasselblad target.
CMP: Okay, stand by.
CMP: Where in hell's the update book? ...
CMP: Okay, go ahead. Dallas/Fort
CC: Roger; it's Worth; geography, 193 plus 53 plus 11, 15 frames, 6-second intervals. That'11 be north 20 degrees. Over.
CMP: Okay, understand Dallas/Fort Worth, geography, frames, 193:53:11, 15 6-second DELTA-T, north 20 degrees.
CDR: Did we ever find the map?
LMP: Okay, what's my time? 35:22.
CMP: Go ahead, Houston; Apollo 9.' angles
CMP: Gees, the they gave me were pretty good.
LMP: ... to start with? and .hese
CMP: Minus 45 plus - You mean angles or those angles?
LMP: Those - Your angles. How do we do from here?
CMP: You Just track very smoothly up there.
LMP: Up there?
CMP: Yes .... computer thing ...
LMP: For what now?
CMP: That's where it ought to be pointing right now - If you want to point it - I'm not sure how ... that thing is - if you want to point it, you'd - CO AL· . ,L..r._-- C AL 9 831
LMP: To where?
CMP: The station.
LMP: The center of the earth? t
LMP: Well, that doesn't help any. If we go around - the earth - Keep the angles ... the angles point tO the center, i
CMP: That's right. Anytime you go over ... - -
CDR: If you go right over the station.
CDR: Yes, as you ro - as you roll, it would be an attitude change, but it's now going to help you around the earth.
CMP: Even if it - even if you did roll ... - ... Just as well be the center of the earth, shouldn't you?
LMP: Yes, but it doesn't help you on any ... once you're going away from the earth.
CDR: What's your AOS?
LMP: 35 - 2.
LMP: There it goes. Bang! The first single ...
CMP: Goes right to where you set it.
LMP: Right to where I set it. No, it's not ... These dials are supposed to follow the actual position of the antenna. They almost look like they - ... 35, 16 ... Think that went to 90 and minus 70.
CC: Okay. Landmark pad: ID 006; 195:22:1500; NA on the FDAI and the shaft and trunnion; your time of closest approach, 195:25:5300; and you'11 be at - The target is 78 miles north.
CMP: Rogeri understand ID 006 is 195:22:1500; closest approach, 195:25:5300; target is 78 miles north. CO J" I .IA L
CC: Roger. The next one..
CMP: Go ahead. and it's 27 miles north. 195:35:3100; closest
CMP: Roger; understand. 130; approach, 195:39:0400; 27 miles north.
CC: Okay. I've got some mere pointing data now for a on Pegasus. little better pass the
CMP: 8ay again the last. You were broken.
CC: 9, Houston. Delay- want recheck
UNKNOWN: I to the it. times on
CMP: Houston, 9. I'm sorry, but therets a lot of static. again, please? Can you say Roger. We'11 your
CC: get pointing data over Antigua, probably. We're not quite sure of the times yet.
UNKNOWN: fine. you.
F: me not to the 121 through P5_- alarm until after they're with their
CMP: Roger; do not disable until after completing P52. Understand. cn
LMP: I'm waiting for it to lock back again.
CDR: Oh, ...
UNKNOWN: for it to warm up. Hit it early though. 9, Houston.
CMP: Houston, 9. Go. .Roger.
UNKNOWN: For Redstone, be sure S-BAND ANTENNA to OMNI and HIGH GAIN ANTENNA track switch to MANUAL.
CDR: Roger; S-BAND to OMNI and HIGH GAIN track to 1 MANUAL for Redstone. CONF TIAL I CON TIAL 9 833 'us
LMP: Okay, and youwant to do that now, Houston?
CC: Affirmative, now.
CDR: Roger; we're there.
CDR: Tell you what we ought to do; wa ought to finish up that other little bitty roll of movie film. Then pick up the rest of the indoors today and we'11 just have - won't take any movies tomorrow.
CMP: I think it's a good idea.
UNKNOWN: ARIA 5, R_NOTE.
CC: Apollo 9, Houston through ARIA for voice check.
CDR: Roger. You are a little garbled, but readable. How us?
CC: Roger. I think you are a little less than readab]
CMP: again.
CDR: Alright, how do you read me now? 1, 2, 3, _, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9. Apollo 9, out.
CC: Roger. It was much better that time, Jim.
CDR: Okay, and you're coming through pretty good now, t
CMP: All you got to do is switch FHF antenna.
CDR: You know, it looks like we're going to luck out on this part of it.
LMP: ... why don't you cheek to see if we got the tight deadband, Davey?
LMP: We're going to be 700 miles behind him this time; we're catching up. You hear what they want to do?
CDR: Yes. CONF AL I I 9 NTIAL
LMP: I wonder whose state vector they're going to updat_
CDR: I don't kno_, but that sounds like a great idea.
CMP: Yes, but I - They must - they must be going to update his state vector. You know, by having another sextant and putting in a state vector they think he has and knowing our state vector and up- date his state vector.
CDR: Yes, great, great idea.
LMP: Yes. I wonder what they are going to pump you for a W-matrix?