Otrobonita/noicy-space-talks huggingface dataset:
CC: Ken, is it convenient for somebody to start a VERB 49 to the thermal attitude?
CMP: Yes, sir. If you can read it to us. We don't have any books out or anything.
CC: Okay, your NOUN 22 is 175, 283, 340. And we want to change the DAP first. VERB 48 will be - And if you can get to it, we enable all the Jets.
CMP: You want me to move, John? Oh, Okay. What do you w_nt on the DAP, Houston?
CC: Okay, after enabling all Jets, we want lll01, and then all l's.
CMP: *** A/C. Okay, leave the B/C [sic] ROLL jets OFF. Just leave enable coupled. Yes, sir. Just turn - turn the A/C ROLL on. Okay; and all of the PITCH and YAW. Push the three, maybe, or four, maybe, circuit breakers back in. Okay. Okay, you're in business. You have the auto coiled? [?]
CDR: Hank, say again those numbers for the attitude?
CC: Okay, R-1 is 17500, plus 28300, plus 34000. And would you check jet Charlie l, on.
CMP: Do they want it on or OFF? Well, I don't think we've got quite that yet.
CDR: Hey, Houston, I don't know what that problem we had with the GLYCOL EVAP TEMP was. But there was a lot of ice crystals coming off from that side of the cockpit, and maybe it was affecting some of the temperatures over underneath that region, which are probably covered with condensate.
CMP: Got to roll over so John can get to my ... valve.
CC: Roger. That may have been it, John.
CMP: Look at that. I did it. (Laughter) Boy' When I get off VOX, I'11 t_ell you. Okay. Why don't you do something to my suit so I can get depres- surized, there?
CC: Roger, Ken. We're showing you at 3 psi now.
CMP: Okay. Thank you. Read the card there. Well, I think we're going to pump the cabin up with it, Charlie. Just read the - Yep.
CMP: (Laughter) You got it' They didn't make the string quite long enough. Okay? Where is it? (Laughter) Well, we'11 find it if it comes - Well, I don't want to let it come loose on the panel. Can you reach the - You got it? Okay, I'm gonna open it. Okay? All set? Here we go. I've gotta open the purge valve. I can reach the purge valve. (Laughter.)
CMP: Yeah. Why don't you punch it off, so you - It's under your card, there.
CMP: Five and a half. Might as well go first class. Might as well. We want to empty it before entry.
CC: 16, could we have AUTO on the HIGH GAIN. 144/5 Tape
CMP: (Laughter) In a minute. Canyou reach it? Okay. Good thing you can reach it. I think that's where my OPS is.
CMP: Okay, how's the cabin? Is it? Maybe I won't have to turn this thing off. Is it flowing, Charlie? Cabin regs are off.
CC: Ken, we're showing 5.0 down here.
CMP: I'11 buy that. (Laughter) When I closed it, I understood what you meant (laughter).
CC: Ken, would you shut the OPS off? We show 5.5.
CMP: Okay. Is there anything wrong with taking it a little higher?
CC: You can take it on up to about 5.7, 5.8, Ken.
CMP: Okay, if you don't mind.
CC: We're showing you 5.8 now, Ken.
CMP: Okay, it's off. Okay, I'm gonna pop the purge valve.
CC: Ken, did you ever get the MEED locked?
CC: Okay. Verify it was locked.
CMP: It probably got another 5 seconds of exposure.
CMP: Got another 5 seconds of exposure, not all of which was on indirect UV. But as soon as we g¢_ it in the cockpit where a couple guys could get at it, it was locked.
CC: Good show. OMNI Delta, 16.
CMP: Can you get OMNI Delta?
CMP: I don't know. Hey, why don't you hold tight there. Okay. That'11 do it. You've got it.
CMP: (Laughter.) Uh-oh. (Laughter) It's up in the - it's up in the LEVA in the tunnel. Oh, there's more accessory bags up there. Just get one of them out. Okay, both of them have an accessory bag in them. Why don't you take me off the VOX, too? Thank you.
CC: Ken, we were enjoying that. Sounds like you're having a lot of fun.
CDR: I mean to tell you. I believe he was enjoying it.
CC: Sure sounded like it.
CDR: Charlie's already said all he can say about it. And he said it 45 or 50 times already.
CDR: Want to hear Charlie's words?
CDR: Boy! Is it black out there!
CC: 16, can one of you see the battery compartment reading now?
CDR: It's 2.0, Hank.
CC: Roger; 2.0.
CC: 16, Houston. When you get a chance - no rush - we'd like to switch over to B/D ROLL.
CC: Roger, John. When y'all get through stowing and cleaning up there, whenever you're ready to pick up in the Flight Plan, give us a call. We got a little change to that SIM bay configuration, and we won't bother you with it now until you're ready for it.
CDR: Okay. Thank you, Hank. Hey, listen. We could go to a SIM attitude or something and clean up in that attitude. We don't have to stay in this attitude, Hank, because it's gonna take us a long time to get these suits off and get all this stuff stowed. Maybe like an hour or so.
CC: Okay, John. We're working that up now, and if you can do that, we'11 give you a call here in a few minutes and start out on it.
CDR: Sure, we pretty well have to do it one at a time because of - we're sort of loaded with things now. Like rocks and film and experiments.
CC: 16_ Houston. We're going to do a shift change now. Don's coming on. That was a real great job.
CDR: Thank you, Hank. We enjoyed it. We sure do appreciate your support in looking at some of those gages for us, when we - We didn't realize we were able to see them in one g, but zero g, you sort of float up in front of them. Thank you very kindly.
CC: Roger; that's what I'm here for.
CC: Okay. As soon as you can get to it, we'd like you to maneuver to that X-ray pointing attitude that's listed in the Flight Plan at 245:20. But we do not want you to configure the SIM bay. We'11 give you that item by item after you get in att itude.
CC: 16, go OMNI Charlie.
LMP: Okay, Pete. You got it.
CC: 16, we're going to try to bring up the HIGH GAIN on PITCH 48, YAW 330. Go MANUAL and WIDE.
LMP: Okay, plus 48, 330. Stand by.
LMP: Okay; we got pretty good signal strength, about three quarters.
CC: Roger. 16, let's try going NARROW on the HIGH GAIN.
LMP: Okay, coming in NARROW.
LMP: Okay, Pete, I tweaked up the pitch, and you got pretty good signal strength in NARROW BEAM.
LMP: Hey, Pete; 16 here. We'd like to see if EECOM can come up with a - something on this battery compart- ment pressure increase. It appears to us that something is venting in there. I'd like to tell you - Before we started the BAT B CHARGER, 3 or 4 hours ago - whenever it was. We failed to check it before we started. And when we started the charge, there was a slight odor that's hard to identify, but it smelled like insulation. Then we stopped the charge, reconfigured again - Mainly I stopped the charge because I was looking at the wrong thing. I was looking at BAT BUS B and I saw the currents go negative which is nominal, but - and so I stopped the charge went back to BAT B CHARGE, and it looked okay. And there was no odor. And then we looked at the SYSTEMS TEST and we had 3 - 3 volts. We been venting it now on y'all's request. And we'd vent it to l, and then it immediately starts climbing back to 01.45, and then it slowly increases and usually stabilizes out at about 2 or so. Over.
CC: Roger; we copied. That's in work.
LMP: And I'd like to know right now how many amps we got in A, B, and C.
CC: Okay, 16. I've got the SIM bay basic configuration that we'd like to get you into as soon as we can. And I'11 read them to you one at a time, and you can configure as we go along. The first one is AUTO RCS SELECT, OFF, except Al, B2, A3, C4, B3, D4.
LMP: Okay, stand by. That was a little fast. John is starting - you got Al. Go ahead, now.
CC: Okay, Charlie. It's - -
CDR: Say again what thrusters you want.
CC: Okay, we want AUTO RCS SELECT, OFF, except the following: Delta l, Bravo 2, Alfa 3, Charlie 4, Bravo 3, Delta 4.
CDR: Okay, you got D1, B1, [sic] AB, C4, B3, and D4.
CC: Roger; copy. Okay, we need to go PCM BIT RATE HIGH.
LMP: We were in HIGH.
CC: Okay. And S-BAND AUX TV to SCI.
LMP: SCI. ALPHA/X-RAY
CC: EXPERIMENT COVERS, CLOSE. ALPHA/X-RAY
LMP: Okay. EXPERIMENT COVERS ARE CLOSED.
CC: Roger. GAMMA RAY BOOM DEPLOY to OFF.
LMP: Stand by. Roger.
LMP: It is OFF.
CC: Roger. GAMMA RAY BOOM JETT to off.
LMP: Okay. It's off.
CC: Okay. GAMMA RAY, EXPERIMENT ON.
LMP: GAMMA RAY's coming ON.
CC: Okay. MASS SPEC, EXPERIMENT off.
CC: Okay, it is off. MASS SPEC, off. Roger.
CC: MASS SPEC, ION SOURCE. Verify off.
CC: DATA SYSTEM's ON.
CC: It's ON.
CC: X-RAY, ON.
CC: X-RAY is ON.
CC: And LOGIC POWER 2 to DEPLOY/RETRACT.
CC: Okay, stand by on those two.
CC: Okay, 16. We've lost the HIGH GAIN. Let's go WIDE and REACQ, and then step to NARROW like a normal acquisition.
LMP: Okay. Okay, we got the HIGH GAIN, REACQ and NARROW. Okay, Pete, the LOGIC switch is at DEPLOY/RETRACT. Go ahead.
CC: Okay, 16. We need ALPHA ON, and that will complete the SIM bay configuration.
LMP: ALPHA's ON.
CC: Let's go GAMMA RAY, DEPLOY, for 17 seconds.
LMP: Roger. The GAMMA RAY's going to DEPLOY for 17 seconds. Page1893'
CC: And, 16, would you verify GAMMA RAY ON?
CC: Yes, sir. The EXPERIMENT is ON.
LMP: Hey, Pete, our SERVICE MODULE/AC POWER is OFF right now - on 181.
CC: That's the way it should be, 16. And - -
LMP: Okay. Stand by and I'11 get - Go ahead.
CC: Okay, Charlie. Did you get the GAMMA RAY, DEPLOY, 17 seconds?
LMP: I'm gonna do that right now. Stand by.
LMP: Hey, Pete. All our watches have floated off. Could you - I'11 give you a mark, and give me a call in 17 seconds. Okay -
LMP: MARK. Deploy.
CC: Now, Charlie, on the GAMMA RAY DEPLOY.
CC: Stop the GAMMA RAY DEPLOY.
CC: I think I copied you. I'm now in OFF on the DEPLOY switch.
CC: Pete, are you reading? Over.
CC: Roger. Say again, Charlie.
LMP: Roger; I wanted a mark on that GAMMA RAY DEPLOY. We didn't have any ticktocks. All ours floated off here, and I couldn't see the EVENT GET MISSION TIMER. and And T gave you a mark, then I think you said turn it OFF, so I'm now in OFF on the DEPLOY switch.
CC: Okay. We copy, Charlie.
CC: Okay, 16. Wouldyou confirm that SEB 2 circuit breaker is closed?
CC: No, they're both open too. We powered down the SIM bay as - per checklist for the EVA.
CDR: ... for some things that you guys threw in there as per usual.
CDR: You want me to close instruments in ... equipment, too?
LMP: Okay, Going closed -
CC: 16, on your request on the amp-hours on the batteries: BATTERY Alfa is 36, BATTERY Bravo 30.3, and Ch_rlie 39.0.
CC: 16, on the cryo configuration, we'd like 02 tanks 1 and 2 to AUTO; t_nk 3, OFF.
LMP: Roger. You have it. i and 2 AUTO; 3 is OFF.
CC: And, 16, on the SIM bay, we'11 call all the changes on the SIM bay in real time until you're cleaned up there and in a position where you can get back to the Flight Plan.
LMP: Thank you very much.
CC: Okay, 16, and now we'd like to go ALPHA PARTICLE/ X-RAY COVER, OPEN. And we'd also like to get one more reading on the battery compartment.
LMP: Okay, ALPHA/X-RAY is going OPEN.
CC: Roger. around there.
CC: And it might be climbing slightly, too.
CC: 16, Houston. We've got a maneuver - VERB h9 ma- neuver at 246:30. I've got the attitudes and high gain angles when you're ready.
CC: Okay; VERB 49 maneuver to X-ray attitude will be angles 174, 133, 032. And the HIGH GAIN are PITCH, minus 14; YAW, 105; they want to go REACQ and WIDE on the HIGH GAIN, and then step to NARROW in the normal way. And if you lose corem, go to OMNI Delta.
LMP: Okay, Pete. We're - we'11 start maneuvering at 30, and we'11 go to 174, 133, 032. Angles on the HIGH GAIN, minus 14 and 105 and the normal acquisition.
UNKNOWN: Do you want us to wait until 30, or can we start maneuvering now?
CC: Stand by a minute; we'11 check it. Okay, 16; you can go ahead with the maneuver now.
CC: 16, let's go OMNI Delta. We reacquired a HIGH GAIN when we went into a new attitude.
CDR: Houston, we still got 1300 psi on the OPS.
CDR: That's being reported as per page - page X3-22.
CDR: In the middle of the page.
CDR: Houston, 16 on the HIGH GAIN.
CC: Roger; loud and clear, Charlie. Or was that Charlie?
CC: Roger. wasn't sure I'd recognized your voice. You're loud and clear.
LMP: It's me. Got a mouth full of chewing gum.
CC: 16, we've got a update to the G&C Checklist on the PIPA bias chaoges, and also we're gonna play a little game with the mixing valve to try to reset it for the transearth coast. We can do that when- ever you're ready.
LMP: Okay; do - we have something to copy for the PIPA bias?
CC: That's affirmative. It's in the G&C Checklist, page 9-4.
LMP: Okay; could you hold off on that? And we're sort of cluttfered here now, and we - give me the mixing valve. Is that procedure down on below the couches or just up on the cockpit?
CC: We can do this all from up in the cockpit. What we're gonna do - and I don't want you to do it now - but what we're gonna do is put it in AUTO, and EECOM will sit here and watch the flow-rate change, and when we a - get to a certain lead point on what we think is the desired flow rate, he'11 cue me, and I'11 cue you, and we'11 go to MANUAL.
LMP: Okay; we're ready at your - Give me a mark.
CC: Okay; stand by. Okay; go to AUTO, 16.
LMP: MARK. AUTO.
CC: Okay; Charlie, the - the valve didn't act the way we thought it was going to. It's been oscillating down and back up on the flow rate, and we were gonna try to catch it in midcycle. And this time, when we went to AUTO, it Just went up pretty high and it's oscillating a little, but it's staying high. We're gonna watch it for a couple or 3 more minutes, and if it doesn't work, we'11 probably have to go down below the couch here and play with the manual valve.
LMP: Okay. That'11 be the trick of the week in our present configuration.
CC: Well, we can wait awhile for that.
CC: Okay, Charlie. Stand by, and I'11 give you a hack when I want you to go MANUAL.
CC: It had started down, but it's hung up again.
CC: Charlie, it looks like it went back up again. We'11 give you another little warning here if it starts back down.
CC: Okay; Charlie, let's try cycling that switch from AUTO to MANUAL and back to AUTO, and see if we can get the flow rate to come down.
LMP: Okay; here we go. MANUAL. AUTO. Hey, Pete, there's a - -
CC: Go to MANUAL, Charlie. Go to MANUAL now, Charlie.
UNKNOWN: - - an awful lot of static on the up-link. Could you - -
CC: Go to MANUAL now.
LMP: Okay; we got MANUAL. And there's an awful lot of static on the up-link. Could you check - have net- work check it?
CC: Roger; will do, Charlie.
LMP: Sounds like a wind - wind blowing.
CC: Charlie, on that noise that you're hearing, is - are John and Ken also hearing the same thing?
CC: Yeah, what it is, is John has his comm carrier off but connected, and it - in his PGA, one of the mikes was down in the neck ring, and the - the vent tube was blowing on it. It's okay. It's up here. Thank you.
LMP: It sounded exactly llke radio - it sounded exactly like the radio static, though.
CC: Pete, we've still got quite a bit of stowage left. If you could keep us advised on the Flight Plan, we'd appreciate it.
CC: Okay. Will do. (NO COMM FOR 22 MINUTES)
CC: 16, ifyou read, go MANUAL and WIDE on the HIGH GAIN.
LMP: Roger. We're with you, Pete. Looks like either our antenna's acting up, or the up-link's been dropped.
LMP: Do you want me to try REACQUISITION?
CC: Let's try REACQ and WIDE. And you won't try to step to NARROW. We won't try to step to NARROW.
LMP: Okay; the PITCH is osch - oscillating right now between about plus - minus 10 and minus 40. 145/5 Tape
CC: Okay; let's stay where we are until it settles down, if it will.
LMP: Okay; you're in REACQ and WIDE.
CC: Roger. Is it oscillating now, Charlie?
LMP: Not in REACQ. No, it settled out in minus - about minus 15.
CC: Okay; let's go to NARROW.
LMP: And it doesn't look like it took, Pete.
LMP: Okay; Pete, I went to MANUAL and tweaked up the PITCH a little bit, and then went to NARROW and REACQ, and it looks like we've got it now.
CC: Okay; looks good to us too now, Charlie.
CC: 16, we'd like to DEPLOY the GAMMA RAY to 4 feet, and that's 13 seconds from where you are now.
LMP: Okay; exactly 13 seconds.
CC: And, 16, could you give us a battery manifold pressure read-out, please?
LMP: You mean the battery compartment?
LMP: Yeah, it's a- just a minute. It's about - I think it's creeped up to about 2.2 now, Pete. Yeah, it's 2.2.
LMP: Okay, Pete. I was Just looking through the Flight Plan. We're a little off on the biomed. I'm still on the biomed; Ken and John are off now. They're - stowing suits.
CC: Okay, Charlie. And while I've got you on the subject of biomed here, the doctor advises that they were unable to monitor you during the EVA this afternoon; and it looks like you may have to do some troubleshooting on the thing. And you were scheduled to be monitored tonight; however, that's not a hard and fast requirement. They could monitor the CMP tonight instead, and that'd give you a little more time to work with your harness.
LMP: Okay. What are they seeing right now?
CC: They're not seeing anything right now.
LMP: Ah so. Well, I put some new sensors on this morning before we got suited. When I get my suit off, I'11 check it.
LMP: Okay, Pete. The biomed doesn't work very well unless you hook it up. When I put on the suit, I forgot to hook it.
CC: Okay, we copy. Okay, Charlie. We'11 stick with the nominal plan then. We'11 monitor you tonight.
LMP: Okay, that's fine. I'11 be up in Just a little bit.
LMP: Okay, Pete. We're back up again on the steerable.
CC: Okay. And you're loud and clear.
LMP: Okay. And for some reason here - we're sitting in REACQ and NARROW, and I can move the yaw - yaw - plot and - drive the antenna.
CC: Charlie, we're thinking about it. We'11 get back to you in a minute.
CC: Charlie, apparently the problem is that the position we're in now - we're right at one of the scan limits of the antenna; and when it comes up on that limit, it automatically switches to MANUAL. And so, in- termittently, it would be in a situation where you could drive it.
LMP: Ah so. I see. Thank you. (NO COMM FOR 15 MINUTES)
CC: 16, we've got a station handover here in about a minute. And because we are on the scan limit on the high gain, we may lose contact temporarily.
CC: 16, Houston. I'ee got a VERB 49 maneuver for you, and we need a battery - -
CMP: Understand. A VERB 49 maneuver.
CC: Roger. Coming up at 45 minutes past the hour here - a couple of minutes away, and it's maneu- ver to 332, 280, 000. High-gain angles are PITCH, 10; YAW, 260.
CMP: Okay, Pete. VERB 49 maneuver. Say the time you want to do it at.
CC: Oh, about a minute from now. 146/3 Tape
CMP: Ail right. A minute from now. 332, 280, 0007
CC: That's affirmative. It's not real time- critical - -
CMP: And. plus 10 and 260.
CC: That's affirmative. And that maneuver is not time-critical.
CMP: And - and that's - It's not?
CC: Negative. Just - You can go ah&ad and do it now, or you can wait a few minutes; whatever you want. And, 16, we'd like another read-out on the battery compartment, too.
CMP: It's reading 2.2 - about 5. 2.25.
CC: Roger; 2.25
CC: OMNI Delta, 16.
CC: Wo_d you close the X-ray alpha cover - as soon as you can?
CC: 16_ you're getting up high on yaw angle. And - want to watch your middle gimbal angle, and you're in FREE right now.
CDR: Ken is watching it.
CDR: In fact, he was just flying around it.
CC: OMNI Charlie, 16.
CC: 16, would you try to bring up the HIGH GAIN now on PITCH 10, YAW 260, and you can follow it up by getting the ALPHA PARTICLE/X-RAY DOOR, OPEN, and the GAMMA RAY, SHIELD OFF.
CDR: Roger; understand HIGH GAIN, minus 10 and 260 on HIGH GAIN.
CC: It's plus 10, 16.
CDR: Follow that up by the GAMMA RAY - GAMMA RAY door - ALPHA/X-RAY DOOR to OPEN and the GAMMA RAY, SHIELD O[.
CC: GAMMA RAY, SHIELD OFF, and that's plus 10 on the HIGH GAIN.
CC: TT_at's affirmative.
CDR: Okay; the door's open and the SHIELD's OFF.
CC: 16, we need the HIGH GAIN, if you can bring it up.
CC: Okay, 16. We're getting it now.
LMP: How does that look to you, Houston?
CC: That looks real good.
CC: Okay, 16. We need to go extend - or DEPLOY on the _tMMA RAY for 26 seconds.
CDR: Okay; that's in work.
CC: Roger; and we do not want to retract it first; just extend it for 26 seconds from your present position.
CC: And, 16, we've got some national and local news here for you while you're finishing up with your chores there. The - first of all, Ken Mattingly made the headlines today in connection with the EVA, and we got a big cartoon here showing the Apollo 16 Intercelestial Hauling Company coming back from the Moon with a big load of rocks. Looks like they've made a - a railroad car out of a SIM bay here and got a big pile of rocks on it there. Moon in the background, and all that sort of thing. Got a couple of things here, one from Vietnam. Communist tanks drove retreating South Vietnamese soldiers toward the provincial capital of Kontum in the Central Highlands today, forcing Government troops to abandon two more artillery bases in the town of Dac To. Seven bases in the Central Highlands have fallen to the Communists since Sunday. Ten waves of B52s bombed Commu- nist troop positions during the night in an effort to stop the offensive that appeared aimed at Kontum. And from Northern Ireland, some guy found a new use for a baby carriage. He packed it with gelignite, which one of our backroom guys here tells me is a - an explosive, and bombed Northern Ireland's main telephone exchange during the night in a major attempt to disrupt the province's com- munications. The carriage exploded in a sheet of flames shortly before midnight Monday outside the Belfast Telephone Exchange, injuring two British soldiers and a civilian, and toppling part of the wall of the seven-story brown brick building. And the Astros amazed everybody, I guess, by winning a - their seventh straight today. Chicago's Ron Santo and Houston's Lee May bashed two-run homers for each side in the first inning, and then the two teams battled tenaciously without another score until John Edwards smashed an llth inning home run that gave the Houston team a 3-to-2 victory. That makes it seven in a row for the Astros, and brought them a first-place tie with Los Angeles in the National League West, and gave them the best nine-game start, that's seven wins and two losses, in the team's 10-year history.
CDR: Go get them, Astros.
CC: Okay; got another little thing here in the local paper you might be interested in. Houston paper reports that the city is moving to annex a 50- square-mile area west of Houston, including the Federally-owned Addicks and Barker Reservoirs and the land between them and the present city limits. The annexation reportedly would open the way for the city to develop the reservoir areas for rec- reational purposes. And I guess that does not - the annexation would not include about 4 square miles of Barker Reservoir in Fort Bend County, which is outside the city's extraterritorial jurisdiction. And three U.S. Representatives have studied a feasibility study of deepwater ports in the Gulf of Mexico and have reconnnended the Texas Coast as a possible site. Texas Repre- sentatives Jack Brooks of Beaumont, Bob Eekhardt of Houston, and John Young of Corpus Christi appeared here Monday at a U.S. Corps of Engineer public hearing to voice their opinions on such a
CC: Okay; the weather here is real nice. Houston and vicinity was fair all day and tonight. Becoming partly cloudy Wednesday. Warm afternoons, cool again tonight the paper says. High today was in the upper-80s, low tonight in the upper-50s, and high Wednesday in the mid-8Os. And dry, cool air prevailing over most of the U.S. And of more immediate interest, the weather in the recovery area is excellent and forecast to stay that way.
LMP: That's the best news we've heard in a long time.
CC: And we got one final item here I thought you might find interesting. The Memphis Better Business Bureau couldn't help the man who com- plained that a car dealer refused to refund his $50 downpayment after he decided not to buy the car. Apparently he hadn't told the Better Business Bureau all the facts, because it turns out the dealer suggested he take the car for a test ride and he did, but he was gone 3 days and put 1500 miles on the car.
CDR: (Laughteri Beautiful.
CDR: And then he didn't want to buy it?
CC: He didn't want to buy it, and he wanted his money back, his $50 downpayment.
CC: You can probably find a lot of flaws with that kind of test procedure.
LMP: Yeah, sure could.
CDR: How did the TV look down there with Ken outside? I was watching it on the monitor. It seemed like - in places it was too bright, and other places, not bright enough. And I guess that's the way the - unfortunately, I guess that's - that's the way the sunlight is up here. guess
CC: Yeah, I we agree with that, but the pictures were overall real good, John. They looked - looked real good to us. You could see a lot of the detail, and I don't think we missed very much. There were some - some dark areas.
CMP: I'11 tell you, the darkest area, Pete, is looking away from that Sun. Boy, is it black out there.
CC: I bet.
CDR: That's time number 47.
CDR: I know you guys won't believe this, but after spending 3 days among the rocks, ever so often, when we're sitting around in here, we see a pebble go by. And that's the truth. I don't know what we're gonna do with them.
CC: Just a pebble, huh?
CDR: They just seem to - I guess they'11 all get col- lected in ECS. Yeah. When we came back in our suits, it - it got in. I guess we pretty well tracked a lot of dirt into the I_Munavoidably, and we weren't able to clean it up. So when we docked, we tried to keep it all in the lunar module, but it - this - the inflow valve over here was the only thing that was really working once we got powered down. And then when we went back in there and powered up everything, we took the command module hose over with us and that circulated the ail'. And I think we ended up with quite a few unexpected little pieces of Moon rock in the com- ma_ld module.
CC: Roger, understand.
CDR: And every time - and every time Charlie sees one float by, he picks it up and changes his story.
CC: He's still analyzing them, huh?
LMP: I got it all straight now though, Pete.
LMP: I will be unswayed by the facts when we get back.
CC: Roger, understand. And would you give us GAMMA RAY, SHIELD on, now, please?
CMP: I tell you, Pete, looking away from - on that EVA, looking away in it out into that blackness, you get the distinct impression that you don't want to let go.
CC: Yeah, I - I can believe that.
CC: Even on TV it looks pretty dark out there.
CDR: I - I guess - we're sitting around talking about it here when we had a few slack moments, and one of the things we think is that no matter what you see on the pictures, or what you see on the TV, or what you'11 see when we get back with these pictures, you just don't have a feeling of about how stark and brilliant these colors are. Like Descartes was the most dazzling place I believe I've ever been. It just absolutely - brilliant colors that contrast in that bright Sun, and the same way for this EVA that Ken and Charlie just finished. Why it - looking out that hatch it - the black that you can take with a camera is not gonna show up the way that that black actually was.
CC: 16, we've got about three more small items. We've got an update to the C&C Checklist, one change to the Flight Plan at 251: 45, and we need to get John's PRD reading.
CDR: Okay; well, I just packed the thing away in the suit locker. If you want me to dig it out, I'11 get it, but it's gonna be a job.
CDR: I'm sorry about that, but that thing is just hard to get a hold of and keep a hold of.
CC: Okay; John, I guess we'11 try to get to it some- time tomorrow, maybe.
CDR: Well, in other words, you tell me that you want me to go in there and dig that thing out, and I don't mind doing it if it's got to be done, but I mean - I can't see I'm getting anymore PRDs than the other two guys.
CC: Stand by, John. We - we're having a little dis- cussion here.
CMP: He's been within a couple of counts of me, Pete, during the whole flight.
CC: Roger. While we're waiting, you want to go ahead and get this change in the Flight Plan at 251:457
CC: Ok_y. At 251:45 where it says "GAMMA RAY, RETRACT and then DEPLOY," we want to strike out the part that says "RETRACT," and also we want to change the "45 seconds" to "12 seconds." What we're gonna do is just bring it back in from its present position. And we want to make that a "RETRACT" instead of a "DEPLOY."
CMP: Okay; that's a RETRACT to 16 feet, and that's 12 seconds from the existing position.
CC: That's affirmative. And also I've got this update on page G9-4, G&N [sic] Checklist.
CDR: Ok_y_ I'11 have to - I'm gonna have to unstow that th£ng to see where we put it.
CDR: Hey, Don, have you got a pencil out there?
CDR: Okay; we've got a - a Flight Plan update that starts at 249 hours and 39 minutes. It's called "Crew Eat Period."
CDR: Just thought we ought to be able to make some real-time changes from up here too.
CC: Rcger. That sounds reasonable. I think we've done our share in the last couple of days.
CDR: Yes, I'm sure you'11 - you have earned the medals you will receive.
CC: That sounds tragic.
CDR: (Laughter) Okay. How about - I got G9-4 here.
CC: Okay. We want to change in column A, line 5 should now read 03753, and line 7 should read - -
CDR: Okay, that's 03753, line 5 in colnmn A.
CC: That's affirmative. And in column A, line 7, that one should now read 76605.
CDR: 76605, for column - 7 in column A.
CC: That's affirmative, and that completes that update.
CC: And I believe that's everything we got for you.
CDR: And in line with our 20-plus-hour clock sync, we had to go to day 10, meal B to catch up.
CDR: And it looks overwhelming.
CMP: John says in order to catch up with the clock sync, you're making us eat day 10, meal B, and the task is overwhelming.
CC: Roger; understand. Is that why you scheduled the extra eat period tonight?
CDR: Just remember they come in pairs.
CDR: We missed the one that was supposed to start 3 hours ago, or whenever it was.
CC: Roger. I understand. 147/9 Tape
CC: 16, the decision has been made. We'11 leave the suits stowed, and we won't worry about the PRD. _ld, also, we'd like to advise you that we're now back on the Flight Plan at 250 hours.
CDR: Okay; we'11 take it.
CDR: We sure appreciate you helping us. If you could have seen what we were looking at a couple hours ago, you wouldn't believe it. We couldn't - we had so much stuff piled up in here that none of the three of us could see each other, and that's the truth.
CMP: W_lich the way we look right now, isn't really such a bad deal.
LMP: (Laughter) Roger.
LMP: John was reading the checklist, and Ken was down there - we couldn't even see him, and all of us - Every once in a while, a hand would come through this mass of Beta cloth and mapping camera cas- settes and things, and reach out and grab something.
CC: It's amazing to me you found a place to put it all.
CDR: Well, Ken's super well organized on that EVA, boy, I'11 tell you. We just got - he's got everything all put away, and we're just about ready for entry.
CMP: Well, not quite. We haven't found a place to put all of it, to be honest with you. But we're looking.
CDR: After 8 days, we finally got organized on this eating. Ken cuts it open, I fill it with water, and Charlie eats it.
LMP: Hey, Houston, 16. The LMP is on biomed now.
CC: Understand, _ is on biomed.
CC: And, 16, right now we're not getting a readable signal, but we're gonna run some checks here ffirst.
CC: Okay. Charlie, apparently your biomed is still not functioning properly, and the surgeon would like to go to the CMP to monitor for tonight.
CC: And, 16, could you give us another reading on the battery compartment ?
CDR: 2.3, Houston.
CC: Roger; 2.3.
CDR: Hey, Don, does that mean if I break mine tonight that I don't have to put it on again?
CC: I'm not sure we'd concur with that. (NO CO_ FOR 19 MINUTES)
LMP: Roger. Pete - Pete, we're wondering if you could get FAO working and - on the Mars attitude sequence and see if he could come up with one that - during our normal Flight Plan where we got some Sun in the windows, so we could get some interior photography?
CC: Stand by. We'11 take a look at it. Okay; FAO says he thinks he can - -
LMP: I'd appreciate it.
CC: FAO says he thinks he can work that in, and also we need to remind you, I guess, that we need a P52 before you go to bed tonight.
LMP: Roger. Just as - soon as John gets out of the kitchen, Ken's gonna give you one.
CDR: We're just looking at the Flight Plan here, and we just finished day 10, meal B, and 10 minutes from now, we got to start on day 10, meal C.
LMP: That was John.
CC: Roger. They said that sounds like some of the flight planning that's been going on down here.
LMP: If Alex - Pete, if Alexander the Great had had this kind of chow, he could feed his whole army for 2 days on what we eat in one meal. Tape lb8/1
CC: 16, we've got the torquing angles. You can go ahead and torque them.
LMP: Hey, Pete. Will Tony be on before we go to sleep? He said he had some geology questions for us.
CC: Doesn't look like it now. He's scheduled to be here in a couple of hours. Or maybe he might come in a little sooner than that.
CC: Thmlk you.
CC: And, 16; Houston. I've got about five items for you here that'11 wind it up for the night, I think. First of all, I'11 start out talking about this battery compartment. We've looked at it now, over quite a period of time, and we feel that the pres- sure rise is due to a very tight cabin battery compartment that prevents any leakage from the compartment to the cabin. And also to the in- cremsed battery venting. Now, the - the increased battery venting resulted from recharging the bat- teries longer than normal. And that in turn re- sulted from the high discharges during LOI and DOI burns. We really don't feel there's anything wrong with the batteries. In fact, right now, we're looking at a requirement from now until the end of the mission of about 30 amp-hours. And we've got about 100 amp-hours in the batteries right now. We'11 continue to check the battery compartment pressure, but we really don't expect to have to vent the compartment or to perform any additional battery charging prior to entry. We'd like to get one more read-out prior to your going to sleep. We'11 periodically check tomorrow, but in summary, we feel that there's really not a problem. And the odor that you mentioned is - is probably not from the battery compartment, but is more characteristic of the battery charger.
CDR: Okay, Pete. Thank you very much. It makes me feel better to - I was Just a little gitchy about recharging, especially bat B, since - that's where we first experienced that odor. We had not done that previously, and that makes that sound like a pretty good story. And we haven't been monitoring that compartment on the systems test meter very much, so we really can't give you a history of it. But that sounds pretty good to - to me. Thank you. What else?
CC: Okay. We do want to monitor the CMP on the biomed, and I guess we're still showing that you're on the - on the - on the biomed monitoring system right now. Also, your equipment - -
CC: Also, Charlie, your e - - i
CC: - - your equipment is apparently still not func- tioning properly. So we'11 need new - a new biomed harness on you, probably for tomorrow night. We need to get that on sometime tomorrow.
LMP: Okay, fine. I'11 be glad to do that. What - what appears to be wrong with the signal?
CC: They - they think it's the sensors are probably loose again with maybe some drying of the elec- trolyte under the sensors, but rather than try to troubleshoot that, they figure it's better just to go to a new harness.
LMP: Okay, will do. I just put these on this morning, new, but we'11 - we'11 - we'11 swap out in the morning.
CMP: Hey, Don, what film magazines do we have allocated for our little - little - F-equals-MA experiment?
CC: Hang on Just a minute. I'11 get it for you. Let me give you one more item here while I'm - then I'11 get that for you. All right. We'd like to - Right after we go into PTC end get onto the omnis, we'd like to put the TELCOM GROUP 2 to AC2. The reason for doing that is we just want to return the spacecraft to a nominal configuration because the_t's the way all our doc - documents and onboard checklists and so on are written.
LMP: Al! right, we'11 do that. When we spin up - go on the omnis - we'11 go to GROUP 2 to AC2.
CC: Roger; thank you. And also, we'd like to get an OPS read-out sometime prior to your going to sleep tonight.
LMP: Okay. We gave you one earlier, and it's stowed in A-8 now. And it was 1300 at that time. You want another one?
CC: Roger. I guess we'd like to get one more, Charlie.
CDR: That was plenty of time after it had - it was probably at least an hour and a half after it'd had a chance to - to equalize after the blowdown.
CC: Roger. Okay, 16; if it's not readily accessible, that's okay. It's not that big a deal.
LMP: Is that all?
CC: That's affirmative, 16. I believe that covers everything.
LMP: You know, Pete, on that battery, I took a peek at it every once and awhile during the EVA, and it didn't vent at all into the cabin.
LMP: My only other question is, why does the - when you vent it to 1, why does it climb so rapidly back up to about 16 or so?
CC: Stand by a minute, Charlie. We're thinking about that.
CC: Oh, on the questions on the trying to get some Sun in the windows tomorrow, you'11 be in PTC a great deal of the time; and during the - a lot of those PTCs, you will have enough sunlight in the window for interior photography.
CMP: Yeah. I Just was wondering if one of the other periods might also place the Sun in our window. Because - when you do it PTC, although it comes by very often and you want to photograph a con- tinuous sequence, it kind of chops it up pretty quickly. It takes an awful lot of planning to hit the lighting at the same time you want to do something.
CMP: But it doesn't justify another attitude or any- thing like that. This is Just so we can get some better pictures inside.
CC: Okay; I'11 see what I can do on that, Ken.
CC: Okay, Ken. We've got magazine 11 that's unsched- uled and has CIN film.
CMP: Okay, thank you very much.
CC: 16, on the sunlight coming in the window in a fixed attitude tomorrow, the - the situation doesn't really look real good. About the best one, I guess, is at one point we'11 have the Sun about 40 degrees from the normal to the hatch win- dow and about 20 degrees - that's 40 degrees off in pitch and about 20 degrees off in yaw. So - and that's about the closest we have to having sunlight coming right down normal to any of the windows.
CC: Ken, I think I said that was 40 degrees in pitch and 20 degrees in yaw, and it's actually 40 degrees in pitch and 20 degrees off in roll on that Sun angle. -- Tape148/5
CMP: Hey, Don, I just plugged back in. Would you say again, please?
CC: Ok_, on this business of getting sunlight in the spacecraft windows, about the best we're gonna be able to do is one attitude gives you sunlight which is - if you take the normal to the hatch window, the Sun is about 40 degrees off of that in pitch and about 20 degrees off in roll. And that's about the closest we're going to have to having sunlight coming directly in a window. Oh, and, Ken - -
CMP: 0k_. Well, we'11 do with what we have, then.
CC: Okay; I've Just been advised that that's not the hatch window, it's window 5. And that attitude occurs about 269:30 in the Flight Plan.
CMP: Okay; well, we'11 - we'11 Just get all the lights as bright as we can get them, and use the standard interior procedures.
CC: Roger. That sounds like probably a better way to go.
CMP: I was just thinking if we had more illumination like that, that we could save ourselves a little time. Be a better pic -
CMP: That's a pretty nice, slow ride, Don.
CC: Okay, Charlie, are you on the loop?
CC: Okay, on this battery compartment problem. The reason for it coming back up so rapidly right after you vented is that there is pressure built up in the batteries. And when you vent the com- partment, the - the batteries simply then are venting to a very iow pressure or see a very iow pressure. And they tend to - to vent very rapidly for a while until you get the pressure built back up, and then they vent at a much slower rate.
LMP: Okay. Fine. That makes sense. Thank you very much.
LMP: Houston, 16. We're going through the pre - pre- sleep check - checklist. If you're ready, we'11 send you an E-MOD.
CC: Stand by 1. Okay, go ahead.
LMP: And, Pete, y'all satisfied with our cyro con- figuration for tonight?
CMP: Don, do you want us to use standard high gain procedures tonight?
CC: Okay, Ken. The rates look good for a spinup.
CC: And, Charlie, we'd like one more reading on the battery compartment.
LMP: It's almost about 2.4, Pete, about 2.35, I'd say now.
CC: Okay; 2.35.
LMP: Yeah. It seems to have Just about stabilized. I should say stabilized. At least the rate of increase is very slow, now.
LMP: Hey, Pete. Do y'all want a E-memory dump?
LMP: Did you say affirmative, Pete?
LMP: Okay, and I'm going to AC2 on TELCONN GROUP - AC2.
CC: We' re ready for the memory dump, Charlie.
CC: Charlle, we - we would like to get the memory dump, and we'd like to keep the high gain until we get that.
LMP: Okay. Maybe I'm not up to speed. Do we lose the high gain if I put GROUP 2 to AC2?
CC: That's affirmative. That's - that's why I wanted to wait until we're on the omni to make that switch.
LMP: I _mderstand.
CC: 16, we' re starting to see some very low SIM bay temperatures. We'd like to go ahead and get into PTC.
CC: And the rates are excellent right now.
LMP: And you see some low what, Pete?
LMP: You said you were beginning to see some very low something.
CC: Can't read you, Charlie.
LMP: Okay, we're spinning up right now.
LMP: Okay, Pete, we're putting TELCOM GROUP 2 to AC2.
CC: Put TRACK MODE to REACQ and NARROW BEAM.
CC: Okay; you've got REACQ, NARROW BEAM, and HIGH GAIN selected.
CC: 16, Houston. I've got about three or four more little small items for you here. First of all, we'd like you to verify that you're going to use the OPS to bump the cabin up to 57.
CMP: Okay, Don. We will.
CC: Okay. And, Ken, you look good on the - on the biomed data. It's all checking out okay. And there's a couple items on the GAMMA RAY. We want to RE[_RACT for 12 seconds and GAINSTEP up 4 steps.
CMP: Okay. RETRACT for 12, and GAINSTEP up 4. Is that right?
CC: That's affirmative. And let us know before you turn the voice subcarrier down.
CC: And, 16, could we get you to tweak the evap out temperature to about 45 degrees? Looks like it's about 38 right now, and that's going to be a little cold after you get into PTC.
CC: Okay. 16, your evap out temp looks good now.
CMP: Okay, Don. I was just going to let it - see how it does - I just moved it to about the middle amount I could. And the OPS is now reading 800 psi.
CC: Understand. 800 psi on the OPS. Thank you.
CMP: That's affirmative . And what else do you have befors we call it a day?
CC: Stand by 1, but I believe that's got everything.
CC: Okay, Ken, I guess that's it. You guys get a good sleep. 66-2/3
CMP: percent RDR [?]. Who else is on down there with you tonight? Who is your flight director?
CMP: I say who's - who's on with you tonight? Who's the flight director?
CC: Don Puddy is on right now. We're getting ready to leave, and Jerry Griffin's going on.
CMP: Ah so. Okay. Well, I'm glad you guys are getting off at a reasonable hour for a change. Although I just looked at my watch, and I guess it's about 3:29 (laughter). Sorry about that.
CC: It's pretty reasonable by comparison.
CMP: Appreciate all your looking out for us today.
CMP: Okay. You're sure a big help in taking care of all the things we did today while we were trying to get things restowed up here. We still - You can see daylight now anyhow. So I'11 see you folks tomorrow.
CC: Ail righty now. See you in the morning. Tapes 150-153/1 REST PERIOD - NO COMMUNICATIONS -_ U.S. GOVERNMENTPRINTING OFFICE: 1972--779-264/971
CC: Good morning, Apollo 16; Houston.
CDR: Morning, Tony.
CC: Good morning up there. Say, I think we may have driven your high gain into the stops. Could you check on 225 the HIGH GAIN FLIGHT BUS and GROUP 2? If one's out, push it in.
CDR: They're in, Tony, and can't move it.
CC: Which ones were out?
CDR: They're i___n!
CC: Okay, John, on that HIGH GAIN, could we put it to PITCH at minus 40, to YAW at 90, REACQ, and NARROW?
CDR: Okay, that's where we are right now.
CC: Okay, and we understand that no circuit breaker was popped.
CDR: That's correct. There was no circuit breaker popped.
CC: 0k_, thank you.
CC: And, after you finish your postsleep up there, before you stop PTC, we'd like to update your checklist or Flight Plan. We've got a couple of changes on the - the PTC initiation, there.
CDR: Ch_mges on initiation before we stop, huh? Okay. Okay, don't blow our record, now.
CDR: You're talking about the super gal, huh? I'm ready to copy, Tony.
CC: Okay. Okay, for the PTC initiations at 260 plus 44 and 264:01, we'd like to change the PTC procedures and the G&C checklist to keep the PTC coning with- in plus or minus 3 degrees in pitch and yaw. Okay, if we could go to the G&C 8-2.
CDR: Okay, why don't you just tell me first what the general scheme is, how you're going to do that, while we're getting the book out.
CC: Okay, fine. We'11 use you B/D roll, but we'11 keep the pitch and yaw Jets - D3, D4, C3, and C4 jets - on. And we're gonna leave the roll jets on, too.
CDR: In other words, you want this thing to - to remain in attitude control throughout the PTC?
CMP: Oh, delete the P from PTC.
CC: You're right (laughter). I guess we'd call it ATC now.
CMP: There you go. How about AGS? You got to figure out what that stands for, but it's better.
CMP: You're a scientist; that shouldn't be hard, Tony.
CC: Active galaxy st - scan?
CMP: Do you want us to,try - that's very close. You get a 95.
CC: (Laughter) I want to quit your course.
CMP: (Laughter) Oh, It's right down there, John. How you doing on the HIGH GAIN? I don't know if you shifted to it or not; looks like we're where you could pick up, now.
CC: We're gonna try it down here. If we lose comm, why, we'd like you to go ahead and try to ac- quire it yourself. 154/3 Tape
CC: And let me know when you're ready with the G&C.
CMP: I'm ready. No. No.
CC: Did you acquire or did we do that?
CMP: You did that.
CC: Oh, good show. Okay, in the G&C Checklist, per- form steps i through 4. After the rates are damped in step 5 under the "Auto RCS select," B/D use roll and D3, D4, C3, C4 jets. And you might just sort of write this in at the side - not cross anything out because lateron you'11 go back to the normal procedure.
CMP: Roger; I understand.
CC: Okay, in step 6, use a minus 0.30 degrees a second, and 3.0 degrees in NOUN 79.
CC: Anti delete the last two steps.
CMP: As long as we're remaining active, why - as long as we're remaining active, why are we try- ing to damp the rates, Tony?
CC: Okay, I guess they're not going to let you - they're not going to ask you to damp it down too long. They're just going to get it down to a reasonable rate and then start it up.
CC: Okay, and delete step 7.
CMP: Okay. Roger. I understand.
CC: Okay, and a note here for the PTC attitude at 275 plus 50, use the normal PTC procedures. Okay, now we can go to the updating on the Flight Plan.
CMP: Okay, what you're really saying is that except for this - these two special things, we're Just gonna do what we always do, right?
CC: That's affirmative. I just say it the long way.
CC: Okay, from 262 plus 00 to 262:20, we're gonna schedule in some geology debriefing for EVA-3 for John and Charlie.
CMP: Okay; Tony, I got that - it's written down.
CC: Okay, fine. At 264:30, change "Purge 02 fuel cell 1" to "02 fuel cell purge." And then right under that, cancel out all that mass spec exercise between 264:35 and 264:45. Essentially, all you've done is take all that out and you've done an 0 2 fuel cell purge and then ended up with an H 2 fuel cell purge.
CC: Okay at 267:00 -
CC: Change our - the HIGH GAIN PITCH and YAW to PITCH, 9; YAW, 257.
CC: From 268:10 to 268:40 - You're gonna love this. Schedule a TV press conference.
CMP: You knew we had it stowed, didn't you? Page 19B5
CC: Well, we Just waited - -
CMP: You knew we took 2 hours to do that yesterday.
CC: - - until you had tucked it away.
CC: Okay, at 268:30, delete "Charge bat A."
CC: 0k_z.
CMP: Go ahead. PARTICLE/X-RAY
CC: At 1269:23, delete "ALPHA COVER, CLOSE; X-RAY, STANDBY; and VERB 49 maneuver to thermal attitude." Delete that whole block.
CC: 0k_, delete all activities between 269:55 and 270:10 - mass spec, RCS Jet test.
CMP: Go ahead, Tony.
CC: Okay, at 270:50, change your VERB 49 attitude to 090, 180, 010.
CMP: Okay, 090, 180, O10, at 270:50.
CC: Okay, and your HIGH GAIN attitudes there are PITCH, minus 75; YAW, 40.
CMP: Minus 75 and 40.