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CC: After some discussion down here, we'd like to disable your Jets A2, Alfa 2 and Bravo l, mainly because the mapping camera's still out and our concern is that the plume will be deflected down into the SIM bay and possibly damage some of our electrical wiring or some of the - the N2 plumbing, which may give us other problems.
CDR: Roger. That sounds like a good idea. If there's any other particular configuration you want, Just let us know.
CDR: And A2 and Bravo i are disabled.
CDR: Roger. The OPS pressure is 2000 and we'11 be off coma for about 5 or lO minutes here while we reconfigure the suits and everything.
CDR: Houston, Apollo 15. We'11 start to charge on battery B now, if you're ready.
CC: Roger, 15; we're ready for the battery charge; and, while we're about it, the experimenters are getting a little fidgety about the waste water dump be- cause that will impact their mass spectrograph work, so we would like to get the dump and the 02 fuel cell purge started also.
CDR: Roger; we'11 get on it right away.
CC: And, 15, whenever A1 has a couple of minutes, we have a few questions about the SE bay that we'd like to debrief on.
CDR: Okay, give - give him another 15 to 20 minutes here.
CC: We need to make a small change in the Flight Plan, because there'S a need now to turn the X-ray ex- periment on. If you'11 go down to that group of steps at 245:30, we'd like to do four of them. We'd like to get the "DATA SYST_S -ON - switch to ON." We'd like to "Disable the Jets." We'd like to get "S-BAND AUX, TV - SCIENCE" -
CMP: Hey, stand by 1.
CC: Roger. Four of those steps down at 245:30 we --_ want to do right away, if possible. We want to get the "S-BAND AUX, TV to SCIENCE." We want the "DATA SYST_{ON switch to ON." We want to "Dis- able all jets except - "and we want "X-RAY ex- periment, ON."
CMP: Okay. Understand at 45:30 - 245:30, you want "S-BAND AUX, TV to SCIENCE, DATA SYST_{S ON to ON, disable all Jets, and X-RAY experiment, ON" _mmediat ely.
CC: Apollo 15, this is Houston. We're having some ground problems in communications networks, and we'd like to have a comm check.
CMP: Hello, Houston; this is 15. Loud and clear, and I got your first message, Karl. I'm sorry.
CC: Hi, Al. Yes, we've got some sort of problem on ground circuits here. Just wanted to make sure we were in contact with you.
CC: Al, we have some questions for you on the SIM bay experiments, whenever you have some time to answer them.
CMP: Okay, KArl. Tell you what, I'11 give you a call back in about 10 minutes when I'm ready.
CC: Roger. Just sending up a reminder about the X-ray pointing attitude, which is due very soon now, and the activation of the SIM bay experiment.
CDR: Okay Karl, thanks.
CC: Apollo 15, we'd like to have OMNI Alfa.
LMP: Roger; OMNI Alfa.
CMP: Okay, Karl. I'm ready to talk SIM bay; but first, a couple of questions.
CMP: Okay. What attitude do you want us to do the UV photo - photography at?
CC: Roger, Al. The information on UV photos is to follow the procedures - Okay - you want the attitudes - the procedure's on page 3-352, and the attitude to be used is 210, 242, 322.
CMP: Say the attitudes again, please.
CC: 210, 242, 322. Also, note use of magazine P, and also the time - the time that we start the maneu - the time that we finish the maneuver is 247 plus 45.
CC: And let me clarify that magazine. That is the magazine for the UV color for photographs. That is magazine P instead of magazine M.
CMP: Okay. Understand. Use the procedures on page 3-352, except change the attitude to 210, 242, and 322, and this whole thing is to be done at 247:45.
CC: Roger. That's the time for completing the maneuver.
CMP: Well, what time would you like us to maneuver to that attitude then?
CC: Roger. The time to start the maneuver is 24 - 247 _-_ plus 36.
CMP: I understand. 247 plus 36. Roger. Thank you, Karl.
CC: Okay, Al. Are you ready for the SIM bay questions?
CMP: Roger, Karl. Sure am.
CC: Okay. First of all, the guys down here would like to send up their warmest congratulations on such an ex - successful EVA. You sure made it look easy up there. And the questions. The questions we got are about the mapping camera, and they're directed at the general problem of is there - was there anything you could see which might indicate why it Jammed? And there are three - three partic- ular items that you might have looked at. First of all, it was the main camera cover at the bottom of the camera. Was it touching or scraping the camera in any way that you noticed?
CMP: The answer to that is negative. In fact, I checked it. I checked the mapping camera cover, laser altimeter cover quite carefully to make sure, because I do know that there have been some interference problems with that before, particu- larly with the pan camera, so I was looking at that in particular to see that it was maybe ad- justed too close or - or interfering along the side of the pan camera, and it was not. There was about half an inch clearance between the upper edge of the cover and the body of the mapping camera, so that I - I don't see that that was responsible for the thing J_mming.
CC: Roger. I think you've very clearly put that suspi- cion to rest. There are also two covers to the solar camera in the upper left side of the mapping camera. And did you notice any - any distortion or any scraping in - in these covers? There's one possibility. The one that stuck out to the left - it - it might have J_mmed and the screwjack that controls it might have twisted it or distorted it. Was there anything you noticed like that?
CMP: Negative, Karl. I noticed nothing out of place with the mapping camera, nothing interfering. I checked all the way around it, down into the cavity, nothing interfering. I saw no evidence of anything interfering, and it looked clean under- neath, so I don't think there was anything blocking it from underneath. I don't know. My distinct impression after surveying the mapping camera and looking around the cavity where the mapping camera fits was that there is a problem with the drive.
CC: Roger. You didn't see anything inhibiting its motion, not even the electrical cables up on the top, huh?
CMP: Negative, and I guess I can ask a question along that line. Has anyone noticed any high current when we've gone to RETRACT on the mapping camera to indicate that it was hanging up?
CC: We didn't see any, Al, although there had been a long controversy down here about the long amount of time required to extend and retract. It was, even though it was about the 4 minutes predicted Several months ago, it was somewhat longer than what we'd observed at the Cape. People had been worrying about that for some time.
CMP: Yes, I realize that. And I also, as I re - as I go back to what we saw at the Cape, there were some problems with that thing hanging up in the drive itself at the Cape.
CC: Roger. Okay, a couple of questions on the mass spectrometer. You gave us some good information there, but when you said the mass spectrometer cover wasn't completely closed, could you give us some idea at - as - to - to what degree it had closed, to what angle, and was - was there any pos - any cocking, any - any twisting in - in that cover?
CMP: Well, I couldn't tell whether there was any warpage in the cover or not particularly because that kind of a cover is a little - looks like it's warped anyway. It looked to me, I could - I pulled the cover out of the way enough to look at the mass spec inside, and I could see the guide pin and along the sides of the carriage coming through the holes all the way up, so that they were plainly visible from the outside which - which meant to me that the - the mass spec was either very close _-_ to being seated on the carriage or it was seated. I - I guess I don't really know how far those guide pins extend out beyond the - the carriage. The other thing was that the - that the cover - the Inconel cover was - it - was rotated about 30 degrees on its - on its hinge point from a full close position. And I thought at first, as I in- dicated when I was there, that there - there looked like there was some interference in one of the outer covers or one of the outer edges, but after playing with that and pulling it a little bit when I was out there, it was quite obvious to me that that wasn't the problem either. And - and beyond that, I couldn't see down around beside the cover enough to tell whether there was something internal between the cover and the mass spec that was - that was binding the cover.
CC: Roger, Al. We copy that. And would you OPEN the X-RAY and ALPHA COVERS right now, please?
CMP: Okay, X-RAY/ALPHA COVERS coming OPEN.
CC: Okay, I guess you've answered most of our questions on the mass spec, and you've approached one that we might get a little more out of, and that is those guide rails sticking through the guides. There is a tapered portion, and when it's com- pletely seated, you actl,ally see the - the - the cylindrical portion beyond the tapered portion. Did you actually see the cylindrical portion, or was it all tapered area that you looked at on the guide rail?
CMP: Okay, that's good scoop. All I saw was the tapered area.
CC: Roger. You probably - If it was fully seated, you would have seen about a half inch of - of the cylinder there, and this is a good indication that it was not all the way seated even though it was close.
CC: Here's a couple of other questions. Give me a second to look at them.
CDR: Okay. APOLLO 15 AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION
CC: Okay, Al. Mostly questions here about the con- tamination status and things in the SIM bay. First of all, how about the - the - the door eder - the door edges? Did they blow off smoothly and cleanly?
CMP: Yes, very cleanly. I saw no rough edges at all.
CC: Stand by a moment, Al.
CC: Al, we're anxious to bring up the HIGH GAIN ANTENNA. I've got a couple of angles here if they '11 help.
CMP: Okay, minus 76 and ll7.
CC: Okay. We copied your comment on the SIM bay door Jettison, and further questions go as follows. The white coatings in the SIM bay were - Did you notice that any of them why - were obviously dis- colored or - or coated from contamination or over- heating?
CMP: I saw no evidence of heating in the SIM bay. I saw no evidence of discoloration of the white surfaces. There were - (cough) - as - as best I could tell, no particulate matter that had come to rest on any of the surfaces in the SIM bay. It looked very very clean. And - even across the top of the mapping camera where there was a - such a heating problem expected, I saw no indications of heating whatsoever, particularly on things like the cover over the mapping camera cassette, which was sup- posedly a very hot spot, and it was Just as clean as a whistle. There wasn't - there wasn't any evidence of scorching or contamination anywhere that I could see.
CC: Roger. And, on the insulation and foils, I guess there's a question here - Were any of them burned or discolored? You probably already told us that. Were any of them torn, or were there any attach- ment failures?
CMP: No, I couldn't see any evidence of - of any burning or tearing or anything else back there, Karl.
CC: Okay, we got one more general question there. And our Flights Dynamics Officer who is vitally con- cerned about our reentry weight would like to know whether we Jettisoned more or less than a nominal 32 pounds; and, if so, by how much?
CMP: Okay. Stand by 1. and
CMP: Say, Houston, we've talked it over I guess we'd say it was pretty close to a nominal - as far as weight, we have no idea of - of determining exactly what the weight was, but we're going to try and work " our reentry stowage over this afternoon and tomorrow morning, and we hope to give you a - a plan by - somewhere around noon tomorrow, of where all the rocks are stowed and where everything is stowed and what we have on board. So you can start - so Mr. FDO can work up his entry plan.
CC: Roger. And, if somebody has the time to copy it, I've got a small Flight Plan update available now.
LMP: Okay, Karl. I'11 take that.
CC: Hi, Jim. How're you doing?
LMP: Just fine.
CC: Okay; 246 hours 20 minutes, we have "HIGH GAIN angles of PITCH, 00; YAW, 240." At - -
LMP: ... OO and 240.
CC: Roger. And at 246 plus 46 we want to add "Change DISCRIMINATOR to LOW."
LMP: Understand. Scratch "DISCRIMINATOR, HIGH," and make it "DISCRIMINATOR, LOW." -_ 159/3 Tape
CC: That's correct. And, on 247 plus 28, delete that DAP load.
LMP: Okay. We already have that change.
CC: Sorry about that. On 247 plus 30, we'd like to have the "ALPHA X-RAY COVERS, CLOSED; then off," and delete the note on the COVER, OPEN, CLOSE.
LMP: Okay, understand. At 247:30, you'd like "ALPHA X-RAY DOORS, CLOSED," and to Just delete the note here.
CC: Roger. And stand by 1 second.
CC: 247 plus 30. Also, we would like to add "MASS SPECTROMETER MULTIPLIER, HIGH; DISCRIMINATOR, LOW."
LMP: Understand. At 247:30, you want to add "MASS SPEC MULTIPLIER, HIGH, and DISCRIMINATOR, LOW."
CC: Roger. And, at 247 plus 32, we'd like to have "MASS SPEC MULTIPLIER, HIGH; DISCRIMINATOR, HIGH."
LMP: Okay, 247:32, "MASS SPEC MULTIPLIER, HIGH, and DISCRIMINATOR, HIGH."
CC: Roger. And I guess you need to save room, if there's any left there, because at 34 and at 36, we want to change these two switches again. At 34, we want "MASS SPEC MULTIPLIER, LOW; DISCRIMINATOR, HIGH."
LMP: Understand. At 34, you want "MULTIPLIER, LOW; and DISCRIMINATOR, HIGH."
CC: Affirmative and at 36, we want "MULTIPLIER, LOW; DISCRIMINATOR, LOW."
LMP: Okay. At 247:36, it's "MULTIPLIER, LOW; and DISCRIMINATOR, LOW."
CC: Affirmative. Also at 247:36 is "Add the UV photos,'! and we've already sent up the changes required for that; the changes over and above what's on page 3-352. And there's one reminder there, and that is to verify that when you use filter 2, that you take one frame for 20 seconds and one frame for 2 seconds.
LMP: Roger. We remember that.
CC: Okay. The next step is 247 plus 45, "X-RAY to STANDBY. _'_ _-_
LMP: Okay. At 247:45, "X-RAY to STANDBY."
CC: And, at 247 plus 50, we want to move the PTC initiation steps from 247:30 to 247:50.
LMP: Okay, understand. The initiation of PTC to be delayed from 247:BO to 247:50.
CC: That's affirmative. At 248 hours and 0 minutes, we'd like the following: We'd like the mass spectrometer boom retraction sequence. Each retraction step will last 20 minutes, instead of 12. And terminate this test at 249 plus 30.
LMP: Go back to 248, Karl, on that mass spectrometer boom retraction sequence.
CC: Roger. I - -
LMP: I have that in there.
CC: I - I guess all - all we're doing there is changing - The - the retraction step will be 20 minutes instead of 12 minutes. Down at the end of the writing there, it says "Each sample period will last 12 minutes." We'd like to have that at 20 minutes.
LMP: Okay. I'11 change the note there then. It occurs about 248:20; the 12 will be 20.
CC: That's correct. At 249:05, we'd like to move the mass spec boom deploy from 05 to BO - from 249:05 to 249:30. ___
LMP: Understand. Move the mass spec boom deploy from 249:05 to 249:30.
CC: Roger. And one final one at 251:48, which you may already have, is delete the DAP load there.
LMP: I do; we have that one, Karl.
CC: Okay; that completes the _pdate. Thank you.
CC: 15, Houston. We'd like to have GAMMA RAY GAINSTEP up four clicks.
LMP: Okay. That's GAMMA RAY GAINSTEP up four clicks.
CC: 15, this is Houston. We trust you'11 be pleased to hear the news that the high voltage has been turned on to the subsatellite, and that they find that all systems are operational.
CDR: Oh, that's very good. Glad to hear it.
CC: 15, Houston. We have a couple of more comments on the UV photo procedures, if somebody can copy.
CC: Roger. We overlooked the fact that you are taking these photos in the midst of SIM bay operation, so a couple of little things change. Going back to page 3-352, you can first of all delete, below the damp rates notation, in - you can delete "Inhibit all Jets," except the jets that are there, and Just keep the Jet configuration you got right now.
CC: Okay. I copy that. Do you have any other comments?
CC: Roger. Under "Remove the CM 5 window," put in there "CMC, FREE," and likewise, about four lines up from the bottom, Just above "note," put in "CMC, AUTO." And the final comment, "Enable all Jets"; you can delete that. And that's all.
LMP: Okay; understand. Just below "Remove CM 5 window cover." put "CMC, FREE," and then down at the - the bottom there, Just above the note, put "CMC, AUTO," and scratch "Enable all Jets."
CC: Roger. Tape Page 143B
CC: 15, go ahead; Houston.
CMP: Dr. Parker, I presume. Listen, Bob, we've got to pull the g-mrna ray to 15 feet at 50, and wonder if you've got an updated retraction time for us.
CC: That's affirm, Al. We have a retract time of 247 plus 50 for 72 seconds. Over.
CMP: Understand, 72 seconds.
CC: That's affirm. And, 15, if you've got your Flight Plan out, we can update a couple more times in that same general vicinity for you.
CMP: Okay, the Flight Plan is out and the door is open.
CC: Okay. At 248:02, the _ass spec boomer track time - that should be 33 seconds. And that time will apply to the first retraction. The second, third, fourth, and fifth retractions will be 32 seconds. Over.
CMP: Okay, Bob. Understand that the first retraction i_ 33 seconds and the succeeding retractions will be B2 seconds. Is that 4 or 5?
CC: Apollo 15, Houston. That will be 32 seconds for all succeeding ones, and we are going to do that up to 249:30. And so all succeeding ones you get will be at 32 seconds. And we will finish that test at 249:BO, no matter where we are. And I believe I see that Karl has sent up comment that the sample period would be 20 minutes instead of 12. Is that right?
CMP: That's Roger; we have that.
CC: Okay. And another change: at 249:B6, the gamma ray deploy. That time will 6B seconds. Over.
CMP: Copy, 63 seconds.
CC: Okay, that's all we have for right now. _-_
CMP: Okay, thank you, Bob.
CC: Apollo 15, Houston. Request OMNI Delta, please.
CMP: Roger. OMNI Delta.
CC: Roger, 15. If you guys will give us a hack when you start the first mass spec retraction, we'11 keep an eye on those 20-minute periods for you.
CMP: Bob, we Just completed one retraction for 33 seconds.
CC: Roger, 15. We'd like to get a PITCH of minus 4.0 and YAW of 90 for the HIGH GAIN ANTENNA. And then, if you'd change your antenna switch to HIGH GAIN without hitting the CGMMAND RESET switch, we'11 maintain COMM that way, please.
CMP: Go ahead, Houston. _
CC: Negative, you did the right thing without us calling you. Thank you.
CC: 15, Houston. Your rates look good to us for a spin up.
CC: And, 15, time for the next cycle on the m-_s spec: 32 seconds.
CMP: Okay. We were a little ahead of you that time.
CC: Roger. If you guys are - have a moment free, we'11 pass up three comments to you preparatory to some stuff you want to do later on.
CC: Okay, first is a reminder that we're counting on using the OPS to pump up the cabin for sleep tonight - another way of bleeding off the OPS. Guess we'11 remind you now so you don't stow it away down underneath something where it's incon- venient. And we'd like a read-out on the OPS after you finish pumping up the cabin tonight. Second comment is a reminder that we'd like a cue on the vacuum cleaner, if you intend to use it for this contamination control period coming up in a half hour or so. And third one is that as far as the medics are concerned, it's dealer's choice on who wears the biomed tonight. Over.
CMP: Okay. We copied, Bob.
CC: Roger. We'd like to confirm AUTO, AUTO, OFF on the 02 HEATERS. It looks like we've gone beyond the point where they should have come on.
CC: They're all OFF right now, Bob.
CC: Roger. That explains what we are seeing. Roger; we'd like Ab_O, AUTO, OFF, please.
CMP: Understand; AUTO, AUTO, OFF.
CMP: Okay, Just wanted to clear up the 02 heaters with you. Are you aware that the last instruction that we had of the Flight Plan was at 243:30 that said, "02 HEATERS, three OFF?"
CC: Stand by. That wasn't on my shift.
CMP: You're not the regular crew chief, huh?
CC: 15 - Apollo 15, Houston. That callout at 243:30 --' is the 02 heaters for tank 3, only.
CMP: Okay, Robert. I stand corrected.
CMP: That's one I owe you.
CC: 15, you called?
CMP: Negative, negative.
CMP: Thank you, Bob.
CC: And, Apollo 15; Houston. It's time to retract again.
CC: And, 15, be advised that this is the last retract we'11 do. We will not do the fifth retract in order to ensure that we don't damage the filament by getting it in too close. We'11 sit in this retracted position for 30 minutes, and then de- ploy the mass spec boom as per the Flight Plan at 249: 30. Over.
LMP: Okay, understand.
CC: Apollo 15, Houston. About 2 minutes to mass spec boom deploy. And we'd like a DELTA-T on the length of time it takes to deploy it, please.
LMP: Roger, Bob.
LMP: Bob, the flight time on the mass spec was 3 and 25.
CC: Roger. Copied 3 plus 25, Jim.
CC: Apollo 15, Houston. While you' re eating your supper there, thought you might be interested in knowing how the vectors are going. Your vector and the ground's vector are extremely close, and- at least at the moment. We'11 see what happens when we take the next P23. Right now, we're looking at no midcourse 6 and about 1.8 foot per second for midcourse 7.
CMP: Houston, 15. That sounds pretty good, and it looks like we'11 see what happens on the P23. One - You say 1.7 on midcourse 7 is what it looks like right now?
CC: Roger; 1.8. The vectors, I guess right now, are about 4000 feet apart and about a couple of feet per second in velocity and no more.
CC: Apollo 15, Houston. We can terminate battery Bravo charge now.
LMP: Houston, 15. Roger; will do.
CC: And, 15; Houston. A reminder that when we exit PTC in about 15 minutes, we'd like to do it using the SIM bay RCS configuration.
LMP: Roger, Houston; understand.
CC: And, 15, this is Houston. We have your torquing angles. That's some platform, isn't it?
CDR: Yes, sir, Bob. You bet you; it sure is beautiful.
CC: Roger. Mr. Lightning Fingers, we'd appreciate it if you'd keep your NOUN 49 on for about 5 seconds on this P23, so we get a nice chance to look at it here on the ground (laughter).
CMP: I will do my best, sir.
CC: Super m_ks, Al. You can do my P2Bs any day.
CMP: They looking okay down there, now?
CC: Roger. We caught all of them. Hey, when you go back into PTC now, we'd like to change NOUN 79, the rate one anyway, to a minus .42. Over.
CMP: Going to try a little higher one, now. Okay, minus .42.
CC: And, 15; Houston. If you've got a minute, we've got a couple more comments for you.
CMP: Okay, anything I need to write down?
CC: Negative. Number - -
CC: - - number one, we'd like to know the film status of magazine Victor. And number two, if you're planning on being on the loop tonight, Al, for the biomed, your harness needs some attention. The heart rate that we're getting down is getting a little noisy. Over.
CMP: Well, in the first place, my heart rate's always noisy; and, in the second place, I guess Jim's going tobe on tonight.
CC: 15, Houston. Go.
CMP: Okay, Bob, MAG Victor is 12 frames expended.
CC: Copy, 12 frames expended. Thank you.
CC: 15, Houston. We suggest that you go ahead with your g_mma ray deployment while you're doing your rate damping.
CC: And, 15; Houston. If you feel like it, we can take your E-MOD now.
CDR: Okay. Coming your way.
CC: And, 15, we have your E-memory dump.
CC: 15, Houston. We're GO for spinup - for PTC.
CDR: Okay, good. 163/1 Tape APOLLO 15 AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION
CC: Shoot; we're ready. Dave, hold on. We got a - -
CC: Oka_ 15, we're back with you. We Just had a sit_ changeover.
CDR: Okay, Crew status is all good, no medications. And I've got the onboard read-outs if you've got a pencil.
CDR: All righty. Starting with BAT C, 37.0; 37.0, 37.0; RCS A is 56, B is 50, 48, and 52. And I guess everything else has been done, and I guess you got your E-memory dump. We pressurized the cabin with the OPS, and, when we got up to about 57 or 58, the OPS was down to 800. And I reckon that's the size of it.
CC: Roger, Dave. That sounds like the size of it to us. We copy all that, and there will be no vector update. Ground says your vector is Just as good as theirs right now.
CC: And, 15, let's hold a couple of minutes while we check some data on SIM bay and while we go around the MOCR one more time. And we'11 be back with you in final status, I hope.
CDR: (Laughter) OkaY, we got - we got time. We're not quite ready to go to bed yet.
CC: Apollo 15, Houston. The only thing we show lacking at the moment is GAMMA RAY GAINSTEP, SHI_n on. Other than that, you're GO for sleep.
CDR: Okay, understand. GAINS'I'_F, SHIELD on. APOLLO 15 AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION REST PERIOD - NO COMMUNICATIONS Tape APOLLO 15 AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION
CC: Good morning, Endeavour. This is Houston.
CMP: Hello, you guys.
CC: Good morning, Dave. A little something special for your I24P from your lunar lift-off Flight Director with young Ed Fendell on the cymbal.
CMP: Oh, man; he's standing at attention right now.
CC: Endeavour, this is Houston, with our first request of the day. We'd like the X-ray spectrometer, on, please.
CDR: Roger. Coming on. APOLLO 15 AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION
CC: Okay, Dave. And I've got HIGH GAIN ANTENNA angles for you, when you exit PTC.
CDR: Okay. Standby l, Joe.
CDR: Okay. Go with your high gain angles.
CC: Roger. HIGH GAIN PITCH, plus 24; YAW 264. And, Dave, I've got CSM consumables if you're interested in copying those.
CDR: Okay. Go, Joe.
CC: Roger. GET 261 plus 00. RCS total, 38. Quad A, tanks: 42; 39, 32, 38. H2 34, 32, 33. 02 tanks: 49, 50, 40. And there's a note on that which reads, "Fat City." Over.
CDR: Yes, man. I guess so. That's pretty even, isn't it?
CC: Yes, sir. And, Dave, a comment - -
CDR: What a machine.
CC: Roger. A comment: you're being served now by the MOCR shift that witnessed a new endurance record for Apollo flights, being set during the night.
CDR: Ohhh, that's interesting. We'd forgotten abOut that.
CC: And, Endeavour, I'11 be standing by for when you're ready to copy down the few changes in your Flight Plan for today. I can bring you up to date over the next 7 hours or so and get all that out of the way. I'm also curious to know if you've had time to listen to any sea chanties from the HMS Endeavour up there. Over.
CDR: No. We haven't had a chance to, Joe. Stand by and I'11 get my trusty pen out, after we get through with this - coming out of PTC, and we'11 do the Flight Plan.
CC: Okay, fine. You should ask your trusty record librarian A1 where the sea chanties are, if you have time today.
CDR: Okay. We were talking about that last night, and came to the realization that we brought all these neat things along, and we hadn't had time to listen to a single one of them.
CC: Not at all surprised to hear it.
CDR: I'11 tell you, yesterday, we finally got to catch our breath.
CC: You always said the hours are long.
CDR: The hours are long but the accommodations are palatial.
CC: Was that the way it went, Dave?
CDR: Sounds like you've recovered from all that - the other - couple of last few days, too.
CC: Very nearly.
CC: Houston, this is 15. Standing by to copy Flight Plan update.
CC: Roger, Jim. Good morning. The first - -
CC: Good morning, Joe.
CC: - - entry should be at 261:42. And it is a - a change in the first register of the DAP load - the time column. We want that to read, lll01. Over.
LMP: Give me the time again on that, Joe.
CC: Roger; 261 plus 42.
LMP: Okay. At 261:42, I don't see any DAP information. I see one on 261:35.
CC: I may have done it again, Jim. Let me see.
CC: Stand by on that. Let's - let's continue on with some of the easier steps. At 262 - -
LMP: Roger. (Laughter)
CC: - - plus 05, it should - that - that - that's 262 plus 05 add "GAMMA RAY GAINSTEP, two steps."
LMP: Understand. At 262:05, GAMMA RAY, two steps.
CC: Roger. And at 263:55, under the line "NOUN 70," et cetera, add "X-RAY to STANDBY." And at 263:59, delete the VERB 48 line and the DAP load over in the time col,,mu.
LMP: Okay at 263:55, we'11 add a step there after NOUN 70, X-RAY to STANDBY; and then, at 263:59, we'11 delete the VERB 48 and also delete the DAP load that's in the time colm,mn.
CC: Roger. Turning the page to 264:02, the DAP - load in the time cOll-_U should read lll01. And at 265 - -
CC: - - the DAP load status in the notes column should read lll01, Xllll, and this continues through for 2 hours. Over.
LMP: Okay. Understand that 264:00, in time co_mn, changed the DAP load there from all ones to lllO1; and then, at 265, the DAP load will be changed the same way to continue for 2 hours.
CC: That's correct, Jim, And moving on to 266:BO, delete the "GAMMA RAY GAINSTEP to SHIELD, on" line.
LMP: Okay. 266:30, to - eliminate the GAMMA RAY GAINSTEP.
CC: Roger. Moving to 267 plus 20, add the two steps: "GAMMA RAY BOOM RETRACT, talkback barber pole for about two and a half minutes, then gray, and then OFF." And the second step, "GAMMA RAY GAINSTEP to SHIELD, on."
LMP: Okay. Understand, there are two steps there. The first one is GAMMA RAY RETRACT, barber pole for about two and a half minutes, then gray, and then turn it OFF. The second one is GAMMA RAY GAINSTEP to SHIELD, on.
CC: That's correct. Moving to 267 plus 42, change the DAP load in the time column to read lll01, Xllll. 0vet.
LMP: Understand, from all ones to lll01.
CC: That's correct. Turning the page to 268:02, the DAP load in the time coll_mn, the same change.
CC: Okay. On the same page, 268:30, GAMMA RAY GAINSTEP, five steps.
LMP: Understand, GAMMA RAY GAINSTEP to five steps.
CC: That's correct, Jim. Now looking at page 3-378, the "lTV Photos - Transearth Coast," a couple of changes there. About halfway down the page where it reads "two frames, filter 2, exposure time 20 seconds," delete that line, and add the line - the t_o lines, "one frame, filter 2, exposure time 20 seconds; one frame, filter 2, exposure time 2 seconds."
LMP: Okay. i have that. Joe. It's kind of our standard change in the UV procedures. _
CC: That's correct, Jim. And the MAG - Metro under the "Configure Camera" section should be changed to read MAG Papa.
LMP: Okay. Understand MAG Papa.
CC: Okay, Jim. And the last one for you, a biggie, turning over 4 pages to the "Sextant Photo Test," strike the line "PCM Cable."
LMP: Okay. Eliminate PCM Cable on - on the Sextant Photo Test.
LMP: Can we go back now to the very first one?
CC: Jim, I knew you were going to ask that. The first one, I guess, was a small typographical error, and there's no change required there. And, please don't tell Dave about it. He's keeping score against me.
LMP: Okay (laughter).
CC: Endeavour, this is Houston with a forecast weather report for your landing area. They're calling for high scattered - 2000 scattered, 10 miles vis, ! winds about 15 knots out of the east-northeast, waves going to 4 feet, and we're predicting no midcourse 6 correction for trajectory reasons. And from the weather report none is required for weather reasons. Over.
CDR: Gee, that sounds pretty good, Joe. Except we saw a movie about that weather stuff once.
CC: Roger. We copy that. And, Dave, we do have one question. Is it true that nothing can stop the Armv Air CorPs?
CDR: That's true, Joe. That's true.
CC: I'm beginning to believe it.
CDR: Well, that means you're Just about qualified.
CC: I'm glad you still have reservations, though. Your GRmma, by the way, is right on 6.5 as close as we can tell right now.
CDR: Well, that's pretty good. Must be compensating errors along the way somewhere.
CDR: Say, Houston; 15.
CDR: We reviewed our entry stowage last night. We're going to do the stowing this morning. And in the process, why, we came up with one extra little bag up here, which we're labeling LM return items, which is essentially the same thing as 14 brought back. And I wonder if you might check with our good FIDO and see if he wants the details of that, or whether maybe Ed Mitchell can give you the - the general kind of items, and that would be acceptable. But we have one - one bag, which I'm sure you're aware of, and we'11 stow it and tell him exactly where we stowed it. And if he wants the details, well, we'11 give it to him.
CC: Okay, fine, Dave. We copy that, and pass that information along. I have the morning news report, if you're interested in listening.
CDR: Roger. Everybody's hooked up and listening. Go.
CC: Roger. This is the news for 6 August 1971. In the first round in theAmerican Classic at Firestone Country Club, Akron, Ohio, the leaders are Jerry Heard and Mike Hill, both with three-under-par 67's. Arnie Palmer shot a 70 and Nicklaus a 73. The U.S. built its gold medal total to 50 in the Pan Am Games, and theytre entering their second week now. Cuba is a distant second with 17 gold medals, but a Cuban set a world record yesterday in the hop, skip, and Jump. The record was 57 feet 1 inch. We're coming up on the first full weekend of national football exhibition games, and New Orleans Saints play the Buffalo Bills; Dallas Cowboys play the L.A. Rams. And these two games are the beginning of an il-game weekend. I've got the baseball scores. American League East: Yankees beat Baltimore, 5 to O; Boston over Detroit, 5 to 4, American League West; Kansas City over Minnesota, 7 to 4; and Oakland edged out Milwaukee, 2 to 1. The National League: Chicago over San Diego, 3 to 0; Pittsburg beat Montreal, 7 to 2; and Houston, 0, the Dodgers 3. The Government reports today the unemployment latest figures in the nation's problem, and one private economist predicts the jobless rates probably will show still another rise. Five days after the steel industry and union agreed on a new contract without a strike, tens of thousands of steel workers have been laid off, andthe hearths are cold as users consume steel-strike-preparedness stock piles. William Martin, Jr., who reorganized the New York Stock Exchange 33 years ago, proposes an overhaul of the entire securities industry.
CC: We want to interrupt here. If we could have ACCEPT, please, we'11 PrOvide you with a new state vector. The Senate shelves until September 13that compro- mise draft-extension bill, which Nix - President Nixon wants now, and when it comes up, it will, quite possibly, face a filibuster. The U.S. Middle East expert Joseph Sisco concludes "practical and concrete," and those are in quotes, talks in Israel. He says no decisive breakthrough was achieved, and he didn't expect any. The Middle East cease-fire, which went into effect last August 7, hasn't ushered The last 12 months have been the best year for Israel since 1967 and the euphoria induced byresults of the 6-day war. A Government study says Americans will spend more than 105 billion for medical care in 1974, and even the most ambitious Federal health insurance proposal would add less than 12 billion to the tab. Congress is set to embark on a month- long s_mmer vacation after the Senate completes action on a measure keeping Federal agencies in business until October 15. That's good news. And - a - an added word which could be a science update, you may have heard yesterday, but let me repeat it anyway. We've had very clean laser returns off the LR cubed, which is located at Hadley Base; in fact, very good and _mmediate returns from that. Also, as you know, we have a good subsatel- lite orbiting the Moon and are getting data from all the experiments onboard that. Over.
CDR: Oh, that's very good news, Joe. Thank you. We hadn't heard about the LR cubed, but we were hoping it was superclean.
CC: Roger; and it's your computer.
CC: And an added note for Al. Alfredo, I'm not sure if you got a report on your bistatic radar ex- periment. Taylor Howard got very, very clean echos on both the S-bamd and the VHF frequencies, and he's busy analyzing that data right now.
CMP: Very good, Joe.
CC: Endeavour, this is Houston with a final update con- cerning the trusty LCRU on the lunar surface. We turned it on yesterday, and it worked beautifully for about 13 minutes. We w - we were panning around, zooming in and out, got a few more good pictures of the - the surrounding mountains, and suddenly we lost the TM down-link. In fact, we lost everything in a very short time, about 1/60th of a second, almost as though someone had turned it off. We tried - We waited awhile and tried to reactivate it, and did such things as send signals back to it to pan around, while we looked carefully on the passive seismometer for evidence of motion. Apparently it was not responding to the signals. The temperatures were completely normal right before it went off the air. We're not exactly sure what happened. Over.
CDR: Gee, that's interesting, Joe. It's - you sh - I guess it completely went off, and Just didn't get hung up somewhere, huh?
CC: That's right, Dave. It wasn't a mechanical problem. We most likely popped a circuit breaker or something like that. It's a little difficult to sort out.
CDR: Would you like us to go back up and check it for you?
CC: Knew you were going to ask. Stand - stand by.
CDR: Joe, I'm - I'm in - I'm interested in hearing you say that the temperatures were normal. One of the things that - Of course, we'11 debrief them on it when we get back, but Jim and I both noticed that each successive day was warmer than the preceding day. And, on the last day, if you held your hand or something in i position for any period of time, it would really - the suit would really heat up on that particular surface. And I'm surprised that the system ran this long with that temperature up there, because I suspect it really got pretty hot.
CC: Dave, that's interesting comment. By normal, I guess I mean within limits. It apparently was about 90 degrees on the LCRU and about 90 de - 92 degrees on the camera when it gave up the ghost. However, that's well within its limits, and we don't think that circuit breakers, or whatever, let go because of the temperature. The one thing we did not have sensored, as I understand it, were the - the BAT temperatures of the Rover that was - that was feeding the power into the TV, however.
CDR: Gee, 92 sounds pretty cool to us. I - I would have guessed much - much hotter than that. That's a pretty good thermal system on it, if it kept the temperatures down that low.
CDR: Or maybe (laughter) Jim mentioned maybe that's centigrade, huh?
CC: Negative on the centigrade, Dave. However, when we turned the camera off at the end of EVA 3, the temperature was up around 122 degrees.
CDR: Yes, I'd believe that, easily.
CC: Endeavour, this is Houston. The Surgeon reports that we have good respiratory data from your biomed volunteer, but we have evidence that one of the three EKG leads is open-circuited, either not attached or broken somewhere. And, sometime over the next few hours, we'd like - we'd like you to troubleshoot this for us, please; and, if need be, there is an extra biomed harness in the medicine kit. Over.
CDR: Roger. Okay. We'11 check into that.
CC: Endeavour, we have the angles.
CC: Good Ship Endeavour, this is Houston. We'd like a crew status report at your convenience, please.
LMP: Okay, Joe, I have the crew status. We all got 8 hours sleep. PRD readings were - A1 was 25031, and mine was 08042. Cons,rm_bles at 261: 00; RCS total, 38. Quads: 42, 32, 39, and 38. }{2: 34, 32, and 33. 02: 49, 50, and 40. Over. 170/1 Tape
CMP: Roger. We've resensored the EKG and appreciate a checkout from the docs down there.
CMP: Good morning, Karl.
CC: Good morning, Al. How are you doing ?.
CMP: Just fine.
CC: Says the EKG looks good down here. Hold 1.
CC: Al, your new CAP COMM is Just coming up to speed this morning. I understand that there has been a problem with the bicmed harness, and they want to know if the one you have on right now is the one that gave trouble shortly before.
CMP: That's affirmative. And I did find the loose one.
CC: Okay; we're getting a good signal on you, and I guess that information makes everybody happy down here. Thank you.
CC: 15, this is Houston. We still have a concern about your OPS pressure and would appreciate it, if it's at all accessible, to have a reading at the present time.
CMP: Okay; it's - it's pretty well buried right now, Karl. What's your concern on it?
CC: Well, first of all, they're anxious that the OPS pressure be down close to zero at - at entry, and they'd like to figure out how much they're going to use tonight and how much tomorrow night in order ·to bring that down. I guess we don't have it tomorrow night. They're - they're anxious to know _ whether or not it's - we're going to be able to bring down its pressure in using it tonight.
CMP: Okay. I guess it came down to 800 from 2000 last night, but probably came back up. As soon as we get a chance to do some shuffling around here, why, we'11 check it and give you a call.
CC: Good enough. Thank you.
CMP: Roger. It's sort of down in the bottom of the pile right now; and we're getting ready to start reentry stowage, so we'11 be able to - to get to it in a little while.
CC: Al, the way people talk down here, they're going to give you a medal for good sightings up - up there. They say that the - the Gamma from this last series of sightings was 6.55, whereas the value we have down here is 6.50.
CMP: Houston, 15. You may have seen an - an excursion there as we started the VERB 49 maneuver to PTC, and we're trying to figure it out, too.
MCC: What was that?
CC: 15, Houston. We didn't see any obvious glitches down here, but we're going to go back and look at the data. --_-
CMP: Okay. What happened was, we were loading NOUN 22 to the VERB 49; and, apparently on the - the last entry, on the third register, we got about a 1-degree-per-second pftchdown pitch rate, and went to SCS, and then back to ch - to CMC, and tried it again, and it worked Just fine. 170/3 Tape Page 1_59
CMP: Houston, it looks like we might have got that old 22-degree glitch in the CDU.
CMP: And, Houston, right now, we're reading about 93, 93, and 33_ on the ball.
CC: 15, this is Houston. We feel that we can get rid of that discrepancy if you'11 do a VERB _0, 20. NOUN
CDR: Okay; we'11 do one of those.
CDR: Yes. Looks like that's what it was.
CC: Dave, we suspect the cause of that glitch back there was possibly due to the fact that you might have loaded a NOUN 20 instead of the NOUN 22. Is that possible?
CDR: We're thinking. Stand by.
CDR: Karl, I guess it's a possibility, but we were both looking at it, and I guess we don't think so. But that's a distinct possibility.
CC: 15, Houston. About all we can say is that every- thing's looking fine at the moment, and we'11 go back and look over the data. We haven't had a chance to do that yet.
CDR: Okay. Yes. Roger. Understand. It - it looks fine up here and that - that could have been the problem.
CDR: Houston, 15. Talking it over, I guess that must have been a - a NOUN 20 load because, I guess as I remember it, the CDU glitches occur in incre- ments of 11. And 11 plus 11 doesn't equal 26, I don' t think.
CDR: And, Houston, in our present attitude, a yaw CDU change would be converted to a pitch rate, so that sort of all adds up.
CC: 15, Houston. When you have some time to listen, sentences I have a couple of of cr_ments on the procedure for the - the light-flash experiment. stand
CDR: Okay. Why don't you by until we get our trusty crew all lined up and ready to go.
CC: Incidentally, Dave, as we line them up, one of the changes is that we'd like to keep the cabin lights bright this time.
CDR: Oh, you like the lights bright. Okay.
CC: 15, Houston. We see indications that the optics - aren't zeroed, and we'd recommend that you zero them, with the reminder, of course, to bring the angles down to 10 degrees - less than 10 degrees before you zero them.
CDR: Okay; that's - that's standard procedure. We'11 Thank get it. you. It's even been written up on the panel for about 8 days now, or so.
CDR: Okay, Houston. Go ahead with your procedure on the light-flash.
CC: Roger. We'd like to have you put the window shades on, as usual, but leave the cabin lights bright. And what we're going to do is to sort of calibrate one crewman in terms of the degree of _-_ a dark adaption required to see the flashes. That would be interesting to know. After you don the eyeshades and give us a mark and go ahead and count things, after a while, you - one of you - and we prefer you, Dave, Just to be specific - can expect for us to call' up to you to take off the eyeshade for i minute. And after a minute we'11 do the timing for you, if you like. We'11 tell you to put it back on and, in this minute time, look around at the lights, get back to sort of - your eyes normally adjusted, then put on the eye- shade again, and - and give us marks as you start seeing things. And that's - that's the only dif- ference from the normal procedure. We would - we would prefer to have all - all the data on the voice down link, if possible.
CDR: Okay. Understand the - open the eyes, and - Stand by 1.
CDR: And, Houston, we've talked over the - the down link bit, and it's just impractical if we're all going to try and keep up with the cnmments on where and what we see. It would just be too con- fusing for you. And I think - if - if you cannot get your data from the tape, we'11 dothat; but I think it's much more practical to go ahead and put it on the tape and just inform you of when we get the marks.
CC: Okay, we've had - we've had - we've had some trouble with the tape in the last couple of times around, is the reason the people are sort of saying, "Hey, if we could possibly get it down in real time, we'd feel happier."
CDR: Oh, you - you mean you - you cannot get the data off the tape, huh?
CC: I guess we've been having trouble with voice quality on the DSE, and Gerry Just now says, "Hey, let's check it right now; see how it's doing." And we'11 let you know in the next few minutes as to what's pref - preferable.
CDR: Okay. That's a good idea.
CC: 15 this is Houston. It looks as though the DSE voice down link is acceptable, now; and we'11 do it your way.
CDR: Okay. Let us get squared away here and make sure we get all the shades up and all.
CC: 15, one more comment on that DSE voice problem. This is, to sc_e extent, dependent on how well your mikes are adjusted. So make sure that they're in a good position.
CDR: Roger. I guess a down link would probably be the same problem. We'11 get them all squared away.
CDR: How do the rates look for PTC now?
CC: Just got the word that they look good for spinup.
CDR: Okay. work.
CMP: Okay, Houston; 15. We're experimenting.
CDR: Houston, 15. We're still here; it Just looks like a quiet morning.
CC: Roger. Glad to know that you're still awake. Keep on looking for the cosmic rays.
LMP: MARK LMP. Flash. One at 4 o'clock halfWay out, another one at 2 o'clock on the periphery. Intensity 3.
CMP: MARK CMl=.
CMP: MARK CMP. MARK
CMP: CMP.
CC: 15, Houston. Be advised the DSE just ran out of tape. If there's anything significant to be said from here on in, say it on the air to ground, please. _
LMP: MARK LMP. Flash. Four o'clock, about a quarter !; of the way out. Intensity 3.
CDR: MARK CDR. Right eye; a streak about 3 o'clock to 6 o'clock. Intensity 2.
CDR: MARK CDR. Point source; right eye, 12 o'clock, halfway out. Intensity 2.
CDR: MARK CDR. Right eye; point source; 7 o'clock, about halfway out. Intensity 2.
CC: 15, this is Houston. We find an hour's passed now, and we thank you very much for the data, and there's a general question. Since the counting rate was less than previously, is there - - is there any impression that you have that the inten- sity may have been less than previously; also, the intensity of the individual flashes.
CDR: Roger. I think that'd be a general comment that all three of us experienced.
CDR: And, Houston, also, you might note that we all saw flashes last night when we went to sleep - Just before we went to sleep, and I guess - we feel like there's a surprising decrease in number and intensity today.
CC: Roger. We copy that you feel today's frequency is less than last night's and also that the intensity is less today.
CDR: Roger. That's correct.
CC: Thank you very much for the free information.
CDR: Houston, this is 15. 171/B Tape
CDR: Looking back at 264:16, there's a callout there to close the mapping camera cover. We did not do that because the extension of the mapping camera.
CC: Roger. We concur with you that that was the right action; the one that you took.
CC: 15, this is Houston. We'd like to set your mind at ease about that attitude glitch. It was indeed due to loading a NOUN 20 in place of a NOUN 22.
CDR: Houston, Apollo 15. The OPS pressure is 1000.