Otrobonita/noicy-space-talks huggingface dataset:
LMP: MASTER ALARM ... nothing ... caution/warning ...
LMP: We've got a fairly high vent flow here ...
CDR: Have a high vent flow in what, Rusty?
LMP: By God, I've finally seen our friendly Orion out there. '! Day 1 163 you alright, Dave? Yes, I'11 get it for you.
CMP: I'm ... go higher.
LMP: Go up higher, Dave. Dave, can you go up higher?
LMP: Hold on. Have you got it?
LMP: ... down ...
CDR: Who's ... are these? Are these yours?
LMP: Dave's.
CDR: You're going to lose that film pack.
LMP: No, it's going to be stowed as soon as Dave has t_-_.
CMP: Hey, why don't you stick it in your pocket or something, Rusty? We're not going to have time. We're down to 30 minutes.
CDR: What did you do? Did you hurt yourself? What? Oh, oh, you alright now?
CDR: ... doing down there, ...
CDR: Guess we're not going to have time to do a star check. I'm going to turn my ... stuff on ...
LMP: Hey, Jim? Jim? Yes, I can. Can you hear me? Do we want to change the configuration of the CABIN REPRESS or EMERGENCY valve when we put our helmets and gloves on, or not?
LMP: Have you got that flight plan?
CDR: Is it still dark out there?
CMP: Yes. z L
UNKNOWN: _''''' r_ ITl k
CDR: What's the time?
CDR: What's your status?
CMP: Stand by. The star is 21.
UNKNOWN: horizon.
CMP: The angle - Here you go, Jim. Got it?
CDR: 21.
CDR: Let's see, what can I call up here, Dave? 16927 1691.
CDR: Oh, 1691. Okay .... I'm at zero, moving to MANUAL, and i'm ... at - 208.
CMP: We're a few degrees off, Jim. Okay.
CDR: Oh, there's the moon.
CMP: Want me to tighten it up for you, Jim?
CDR: No, if he's Just out there, I'11 be lucky. I'm not sure I'm going to be able to see if the moon's out there, Dave.
CMP: The sun's coming up, too.
CMP: ]{ere comes the sun.
CDR: The sun's coming?
CMP: ... ought to be right there.
CDR: Ail I see are the speckles right to the spacecraft. CZ;., ,,..,_,., .... [_ -- ""' 'qrlr' '"......, I
CMP: Yes, I bet you've had it.
CDR: Yes, I think I have, too. How much time do we have?
LMP: 19 minutes.
CDR: Hold this, Rusty. got it. --
LMP: Okay, I
CDR: Let's see, I want to go back to zero and CMC, right?
CMP: tighten
UNKNOWN: I could up P_0.
CDR: No. Dave, I couldn't see out there.
CMP: Well, yes, but you can see stars in the daytime.
CDR: I could see a thousand of them, out there and I canlt.
CMP: What? No, no, no, no.
CDR: sextant?
UNKNOWN: the sextant. to them.
CMP: In the You ought to be able see Just tighten it up and look, okay?
CDR: I just zeroed it, Dave.
CMP: You could unzero it You want to look at it, or you want to ass_me we're okay?
CDR: Oh, let's assume we're okay ....
CDR: What was it - what was it, 13.27
CMP: They were 280, 280._, and 13.2. 208._.
CDR: That's 208, yes.
CMP: I'm going to go into P_0 to get you there, Jim.
CDR: Okay. CCi :T:AL
CDR: 208._ and 13.2.
CMP: Okay, we're right there.
CDR: I don't see any stars.
CMP: Well, wait a minute. You got to get your - Okay.
CDR: My what?
CDR: Well, Dave, I don't see a thing.
UNKNOWN: You don't, hey?
LMP: Can see the ground?
CMP: Well, you ought to see it.
LMP: How about looking down to see if you can see the ground?
CMP: I can see the ground Over to the right, here.
CDR: I can see the ground in the - plane
CMP: Are we out of north?
LMP: Let's see, the ground is - Yes, yes, we are. Yes, we' re out of plane north.
CDR: How much time do we have?
LMP: 16 minutes.
CDR: The whole sky is Just very light, Dave.
LMP: You ought to be Just about looking at the ground, Jim.
CDR: Yes, you know, I don't understand. I am - I am with the sextant, and I'm not with the telescope. How about that? ... can't tell it if I am. Oh,
CMP: Good ...
UNKNOWN: what in the hell? % L Day 1 167
LMP: ... on, Dave?
UNKNOWN: Yes, Just a minute.
LMP: Well, there's a new strap; I never saw that one before.
CMP: What's your DELTA-V counter setting, Rusty? -
CMP: DELTA-V counter is 8_5.7.
CMP: Okay, Rusty, if you want to go ahead on, let's go ahead on.
CMP: Okay, are we in PLO?
CMP: We're in PLO.
CMP: Okay, and we're in AUTO and CMC. _AG MODE, three, to RATE 2.
CMP: RATE 2.
LMP: Align the spacecraft in ROLE.
CMP: Aligned.
CMP: Okay, we've trimmed already.
LMP: Alright, check panel 8.
CMP: Okay, panel 8 looks okay.
LMP: Okay, AUTO RCS SELECT; A/C and B/D ROLL's, four, OFF.
CDR: ... UCD. A/C
CMP: ROLL coming OFF. Are you going to rant to hold this?
UNKNOWN: "_'f"" ........ _ '_' · '
CDR: Yes, I'11 hold that.
CMP: You want to hold that. I Checked the - - your A/C
LMP: Is ROLL, OFF?
CMP: ROLL's OFF.
LMP: Okay, set the DELTA-V indicator?
CMP: Set.
LMP: Verify - Jim, you want to verify that number for the pad?
CDR: Okay. Whoops! ... there goes a ring. Now, what are we going to do with that? The numbers should be DELTA-V counter 2_5.7.
LMP: Okay. The EMS DELTA - FUNCTION to DELTA-V.
CMP: DELTA-V.
LMP: MANUAL ATTITUDE, three, to RATE COMMAND.
CMP: Three to RATE COMMAND.
LMP: ATTITUDE DEADBAND, MIN.
LMP: RATE, LOW.
CMP: RATE's LOW.
LMP: TRANSLATION CONTROL POWER, armed.
CMP: Armed.
LMP: SCS TVC, two, to RATE COMMAND.
CMP: Two to RATE COMMAND.
LMP: DELTA-V to LM - CSM/LM. cg
CMP: CSH/LM.
LMP: Stand by for 6 minutes. L I 169 Day
LMP: What is now?
CMP: 11.
UNKNOWN: Wonder if that's going to stay down.
CMP: No. Why don't you put it in the bag, over there, or something?
LMP: We don't have a bag.
LMP: Well -
CMP: Okay, 0.4 of a second, NO-GO for the second one and i degree per second, and we shut her do%re.
CDR: You got the b_!l - the ball aligned. Okay, and you're going to hit it after 1 minute, right? 68,
CMP: What's the total burn time?
LMP: 1 minute and 51.2 seconds.
UNKNOWN: I got it all set up. That ought to hold it.
CDR: Isn't it, though?
CMP: That's the worst I've ever seen 'it. Worse than the simulator.
CDR: It's amazing how that - that sextant doesn't look at the same thing that the telescope does when you're looking out at the ... f"_h. lr-II-_l--k IT1 A I .
CMP: Yes. Sure is.
CDR: Well, we're going sideways. Headed north. That's
CDR: 30 seconds.
LMP: EMS to AUTO. OFF..
CDR: Okay .... ,
UNKNOWN: Okay, PIPA, ... full count. count.
CDR: Full count.
LMP: Full
CDR: Ready, Dave.
CMP: Ready, Jt---a'.
CDR: 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, ---
CMP: Got a good line.
CMP: Gimbal motors look good.
LMP: Okay, i minute and 30 seconds remaining in the burn. 2, 1 -
LMP: MARK.
CDR: Looks good, Rusty. better
LMP: Okay. PU's looking now.
CDR: Okay. l 'FIF....... Dayi lU
UNKNOWN: looks good, gimbal motors are steady; we're ceding back in on the steering.
CDR: Okay. You've got 20 seconds to go to the ... Okay, Dave - -
CMP: Okay, we're _rifttng to the side in a roll ...
CDR: GO to 51, Dave.
CDR: okay,51. i .°
LMP: You have 9 seconds to go.
CDR: You want to put VERB 68 up now?
CMP: Okay,
CDR: 3, 2_ 1 -
CDR: E_TKH.
CMP: Okay, got the gimbals; your rates are less than 0.1.
CMP: Damps? Looks fine.
CDR: Okay. Very good.
CMP: Shoot, no, that is enough.
LMP: Yes. Camera coming off again.
LMP: Okay, 30 seconds to go.
CDR: ... I can't hear you both.
LMP: Mark, 30 seconds. Okay, the clock looks good.
CDR: ... feet per second. How's the DSKY look? C_"_ ,r,,-_,-_ ,_-, · , ,_-L.,
UNKNOWN: · , ,,·
CMP: Looks good. Looks good.
CDR: 166 feet per second; 18 seconds to go.
CMP: Okay, looks great.
LMP: 15.
LMP: 10.
UNKNOWN: h, 3, 2, 1 -
UNKNOWN: Pc's OFF; GIMBAL MOTORS coming OFF. Rusty?
LMP: DELTA-V's thrusts OFF first, Dave.
CMP: They're OFF.
CMP: YAW 1.
CMP: PITCH 2.
CMP: YAW 2.
CMP: Okay, we're shut down - -
LMP: TVC SEHVO POWER 1 and_2, OFF.
CMP: TVC SERVO POWER 1, OFF; 2 is OFF.
LMP: ATTITUDE DEADBAND, MAX.
UNKNOWN: MAX.
LMP: RATE, HIGH. _ L Day 1 173
CMP: HIGH. b b IRP
LMP: MAIN BUS TIES cc_ing OFF.
CMP: A, OFF ...
CC: Apollo 9, I've got minus 0001, plus 0007, aa_ plus 00003.
CDR: Okay, that's pretty good, and the DELTA-V counter was minus 5.0. (24P
UNKNOWN: got the feeling ...
UNKNOWN: What did you sa_ ...?
CDR: Are we?
CMP: ,.. S-band.
CDR: Okay, that thing ...?
CDR: ..., now what do I do for the suit?
CDR: Hey, Dave, where's .,.?
CDR: Where's ...?
CDR: _..
CDR: Jim, try to remind me I can ... will you? ... CDR
UNKNOWN: CMP ...
LMP: Ahh! My side. _ _.._.?_ .... ,_4w?% ̧.. ̧_m. - i I
CMP: ... you didn't hurt yourself!
CDR: ... got the front of my side ... Huh!
CDR: ... last night, I ... my stars because I thought ...
LMP: Jim, ... look up the stars on my star ... sleep on my side last night.
LMP: ... I kept ... I kind of thought I'd been sleeping on my back last night and I wanted to get over on my side.
CMP: But for some reason there, I've been keeping my head up like this ... it's so stiff ... (laughter).
CMP: Hey, I like my ...
CMP: Do you?
CDR: You does know, it? it doesn't look like we're 150 miles up,
LMP: What does it look like?
CDR: I don't know, but it sure doesn't look like it to me.
CMP: Well ... awfully hard ...
CDR: ... - looking at the clouds and all ...
LMP: How many times have you ... from 150 miles?
CMP: ... going like a bat out of hell ... on a piece of tape with a grease pencil.
CMP: Yes, good idea.
CDR: 'Dave, could you put this up there on the ... some- place? I've got a little one sticking in there already.
CDR: Okay, ... let's start cleaning up with ... f ' Day 1 175
CMP: ..., Jim. .4
CDR: I know it; I've got t0 ...
CDR: Let me know ...
UNKNOWN: look there at that ... Whoo!
CDR: ... I wonder why it's ...
CMP: Hey, didn't we take a couple of Hasselblad pictures of the S-IVB?
CMP: Yes. I took a bunch of them, as a matter of fact
CDR: How's that for' ...
CMP: Hey, Russ.
CMP: I'm going back to ...
CDR: Say, by the way, how does that look?
CMP: It's down in the A_5, Ithink ...
CDR: Oh, yes, ...
UNKNOWN: Hold on.
CMP: Would you load the cameras before the next check- list ...?
CMP: ... I think it's ... star chart ... and leave it off.
LMP: What the hell have you done with all the power in the fuel cells ...? Let's budget that; we need i Jim, switch your cryos down.
CMP: Ready. Let me get my ... down. 50. :.,-:2,-:'T, L + J
LMP: Okay, count them off, because that's number 50 that you refer to there.
CC: Roger; I haven't heard anything.
CMP: Okay, stand by, Houston. How do you read Apollo 9?
UNKNOWN: Apollo 9, this is Houston. Reading you loud and clear.
CC: Apollo 9, this_is Houston. I read you loud and clear. "
CDR: Roger; ready to copy ...
CDR: Houston, Apollo 9.
CC: Apollo 9, I'm reading you loud and clear. How meY
CMP: Same here; ready to copy.
CC: ·Roger. You'11 have to stand by here; don't have it yet. Let me give you an estimate of when it's going to come out of the trench.
CDR: I thought he said he ...
CMP: I thought he did, too.
LMP: I guess you better ... Okay, and you better hit it after 1 minute.
CMP: Okay, 1 minute; VERB 68 ... What's the total burn time?
LMP: 1 minute 51.2 seconds .... 51.2 seconds.
CMP: That ought to hold it. . I I ! T_/INI-IIJ CI_I I It-_L -- · . DAY 2
LMP: See if you don't - see if you don't feel two bump: on the start. Okay?
CDR: _ MODE to AUTO.
CMP: _S to AUTO.
CDR: Okay, go for the proceed. Okay? 20 seconds.
LMP: That damn ullage is still counting - I mean, that PIPA.
CDR: 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, flashing; PROCEED.
CMP: Good start. Pc looks good; gimbal motors look beautiful.
CDR: ... EPS ... is no sweat.
CMP: SPS.
UNKNOWN: Stable.
LMP: Okay, the camera's off.
CDR: CRYO PRESS ...
CMP: Ruse, put on the CRYO PRESS. We need a little lii you know?
CDR: Yes. It's like the simulator.
CMP: You're drifting over to the roll a bit, Jim.
CDR: Okay. Okay, got about 20 seconds to go to RESTAR Okay, you can come up with your 5/l's scale.
CDR: Okay. Come up 5/l's.
CDR: Okay, call out VERB 68.
CDR: We've got 10 seconds to go. 5. 5 now - -
CMP: Camera on. 3,
CDR: - - 2, 1 -
CMP: 0.2, 0.0, zero. Holding zero.
CMP: Now it's oscillating zero to point - minus 0.2; crossing in yaw at 0.2, and it's damped out - almost like the ME, but not Quite - -
CDR: Not Quite as violent.
CMP: - - violent.
CDR: Yes. Okay, now to get it back under control, you want to go back to 5/5.
CMP: Completely damped?
CMP: Okay, camera coming off.
CMP: Okay, I'm waiting for crossover. Is that yet?
CDR: Should be in 80 seconds. Should be about ...
CMP: CRYO PRESS and PU sensor. No sweat. Okay?
CDR: ... Okay? I'11 call them out ...
LMP: I'm going to leave this off here so the rest of yOU call ...
CMP: DELTA-V counter's ...
CMP: I think I'11 go back to normal on the PU, here. ___[__Da_v 2 179 ' to
CDR: Okay, fine. A minute and a half go.
CMP: Hey, that thing's a pain in the ass. pretty
CDR: Okay, DELTA-V counter and the PGNCS look good.
CDR: Okay, you have a and 15.
CMP: Okay. to it. 5/5.
CDR: Okay, we're Everything looks good over here.
CDR: You're going to have about 0.6 on this trim, and we're going to have you pitching at about - at least a half in yaw.
CDR: Okay, 55 seconds; so we have 5 seconds to go.
CDR: 3, 2, 1 -
CDR: Switch, OPEN.
CDR: That a boyl Things looking good. At about 35 PGNCS at 250 feet per second to go on EMS.
CMP: Okay. At 20 seconds to go -
CMP: We're within time.
CDR: That's good. 150 feet per second to go; that's about 15 seconds. 100, now. 90, 80, 60, _0, 20; we have shutdown now. "_...,/INI L,r-xt.. -- IL.,/L.I _ I
CMP: Okay, DELTA-V THRUST, OFF.
CMP: Okay, GIMBALMOTORS, Rusty?
CMP: PITCH 1. i
LMP: Yes, verify ..... yet.
CDR: Okay, go ahead and get it.
UNKNOWN: also, Houston, you might have some words to say after you look at the data there on the SPS P sensor. Both normal and AUXhave a pretty high increase. I'd like to know if you want to go DECREASE on the next burn.
CC: Roger. Apollo 9, we're going to have some words on the PUGS for - for the SPS 4.
CDR: Yes, like disable it.
LMP: There goes another one of my straps.
CDR: Cheek that CB switch over there?
LMP: Yes, sir. You want SPS 47
LMP: Malfunction, EPS.
UNKNOWN: 9, Houston. We're losing you here. We'11 see you over Tananarive with a preliminary orbit, I hope;
UNKNOWN: Roger. _F'%k li--II"_ [-k I'1"1 A I . . i i f Day 2 181
LMP: You know, I find myself lifting my head.
CDR: .Yes, me too. I guess that's why I have a skiff neck. I must have slept like that last night.
LMP: Yes, I - I - I'm - I'm generating. Oh, we have a little piece of metal sitting right outside the window, here.
CDR: Oh, really? i'
LMP: It's turning over slowly, slowly, slowly.
CDR: Take a picture of it.
LMP: Oh, it's not worth taking now.
CDR: Yes, but you know, it might be an interesting little sidelight.
LMP: Alright (laughter). I don't want to use very much film on it.
CDR: No, no, ...
UNKNOWN: can give it to Bill Peterson and say, "See what fell off when he did the stroking ..." Let me put it down to six frames or so.
CDR: Hey, what's this film magazine doing here? We could use -- --
CMP: That's the one that I was ... I Just didn't have time to put it away - -
CDR: Put it away.
CMP: - - ... easy to follow. is.
CDR: Sure ·
CMP: Should be marked, too; I wrote on it. I think I did. 2/50ths
CDR: C and D; f:11 and here? ! 'L t
UNKNOWN: Okay, I'11 log that in the film log as piece of plat inure.
LMP: Why don't you set that on 24 again, Mr. Scott?
CMP: I guess it doesn't make any difference what that's set on, I guess.
CDR: Why don't you look and see where magazine H is supposed to go?
CMP: Okay, on - on G -
LMP: I'11 take that, Dave.
CMP: G, H.
CDR: It's in that - it's in the book right in front of you, Dave, if you want to check it.
CMP: H, G; no, D-B, Jim. The very first one. The first one we used. The only place for D-3 to put it is on hole for it in D-3.
LMP: Okay, I is going to circ - cycle the purge valve.
CDR: Yes, ..,; put it in B-87
LMP: The purge valve didn't seem to help. Stand by for the alarm; I'm going to try that again.
LMP: Hey, you know it purges too much, too.
LMP: Think so. It's only supposed to increase 0.6 on the 02, right?
CMP: Right. Whatever kind of panel there.
LMP: Yes, it goes a lot higher than that?
CDR: Oh. You mean it increases more than 0.6? Day 2 183
LMP: Yes. Let me just check out the ... and see what happens.
LMP: Yes, it sure does.
CDR: Maybe your sensor is screwed up.
LMP: Okay, it's reading 0.6 right now. No, it's reading 0.7, And 0.6 would be 1.3 - goes off scale high. That's interesting.
CDR: Goddamnest thing ...; there's no place to put the film magazine here either.
CMP: I took one out of there the other day, Jim. There ought to be au empty hole.
CDR: Yes, but I put "I" in it.
CDR: Where is that?
CMP: The one we have in there - where'd you get it, I wonder? Why don't you Just put it in the F-1 until we - pull another one out? Where did U go? Where did the ... U go?
UNKNOWN: boing.
CMP: Put it in A-7. Yes, A-7 has got a spot, Jim.
LMP: Boing.
LMP: Mind if I write in your malfunction book here, David?
CMP: Heck, no. That's what it's for.
LMP: Okay. We seem to be okay on the Ammeter - right with the other ones, and the condenser exhaust, and all that stuff is looking good.
LMP: Did you report that last set of torquing angles to them?
CMP: No, I sure didn't, Rusty. J:
CMP: Okay, I guess we ought to do that. 'r_,VI ILJL. _q _ .-- 'q! I I I i i i I
LMP: Slowly, all of my gages are ... Boing.
LMP: Well, of these ... such as fuel cells, ..., flow have gone out.
CDR: SPS helium pressure, cryo pressure. I
LMP: Oh, boy. Say, how are our rates? We might want to - -
CMP: Right now?
LMP: - - Yes, we might want to damp them, because roll, pitch, and yaw were right about, you know, zero.
CMP: Oh, I know, but we're - we're way off. And there's no telling where we'11 be.
CMP: You know, if we're 90 degrees away, now, We're liable to go all the way back around.
LMP: I think it's the suit that bends me backwards that m.lces my back hurt.
CMP: Rusty, give me a flight plan ... the update.
LMP: Okay. Oh, it's getting toward sunset ... 2000 ...
LMP: (Singing) One of these books is the flight plan. (Singing)
LMP: What magazine is that, Dave, that's in there?
CMP: That's U.
LMP: U?
CMP: U,
CDR: Hey, I Just put H down in A-7. ,r-,r-,,-,.,T,^I C^; I Day 2 185 ' .
LMP: Where - where did you get it?
CDR: Out of F-1 ....
CDR: Well, this whole pass, we do nothing again. Don't we have IMU align the next time? ... up again? ...
CDR: As soon as we do that, we can get ready to go to bed.
CC: Apollo 9, Houston through Tananarive. ' $
CMP: I got them there.
CMP: Roger, Houston; Apollo 9. How do you read?
LMP: They're not going to read us.
CMP: Houston, Apollo 9. How do you read?
LMP: Try the other antenna.
CC: Apollo 9, Houston. I think you're trying to answer at 271.8 by 109.5.
CMP: Roger; how do you read on the other antenna here?
CC: You're essentially unreadable, Apollo 9. I can detect you are transmitting.
CMP: Get Shat, Jimmy?
LMP: That's about nominal, isn't it?
CDR: Yes. Sure is.
LMP: What's the setting up there? Something like f:11 on the 1/250th, right?
LMP: What's the focus? 5 feet, right? i I t t t i ' ·
CMP: Right. !
CDR: Oh, boy. Tomorrow is going to be a long one. I
LMP: Boy, you're right.
CDR: We get up at 39:30. At 5_:30, we do SPS number 5. Whew! And at 57, we go to sleep. '- - i
CMP: Oh, you're kidding. That's a long day. How about that? We got frost on the inside of the window.
CDR: Yes. On this side of it?
CMP: Yes, it's rightin here with us.
LMP: Condensation.
CDR: After all, it's cold out there.
LMP: Ohh, look at that star out in front of us. Hey, what the hell is that? A shooting star? Oh, God d_mnl
LMP: That freaking quad. That fakes me out every time.
LMP: The edge of the quad - -
CMP: Hey, Rusty, there's a - there's a quad out there - -
LMP: LMP Why don't you shut up?
CDR: Would you look at it every once in a while to see if it's still there?
LMP: Can you see it, Dave?
CMP: The quad? Yes.
UNKNOWN: The edge of that thruster's being lit up. Looks like a streak, with a dash mark through it. Really, it looks like a persistent tail. i · I-.I · i · .-- __ 'IAL 187 ' .
CDR: Boy, you know, you have - we have to be up and into the I_ in 2-1/2 hours.
LMP: Boy, oh boy.
CMP: That's going to be sporty.
CDR: That's right; that's up, suit, crap, pee, eat, clear the tunnel.
LMP: Hey, by the way, talking about tunnel, how's the _ DELTA-P doing?
CDR: Well, let me look up there and see. Says zero.
CMP: ... probably still same ones ...
LMP: It's in LM PRESS.
CMP: Oh, it is LM PRESS?
UNKNOWN: don't think the gage reads, though.
CDR: Does it?
CDR: DELTA-P.
LMP: It ought to be zero if we have it in LM PRESS.
LMP: It ought to be zero. If we have it in LM PRESS, it ought to be zero. It ought to be zero; I'm pretty sure.
UNKNOWN: Ohh, my feet. Godl
CDR: Hey, son, you want to come stand down here for a while? .-
LMP: '_'_ Hell, that's a good idea. That's a good idea ...
CDR: I want to get that Exer-Genie exerciser out. All the other guys said that really helped. Matter of fact, why don't I get it out right now?
LMP: Oh, what are we going to do with it, Jim?
CDR: We can't use it now. Wait until we get our feet propped.
LMP: Z can use it right here. Okay?
CMP: If you want to exercise, don't let us stop you.
CDR: You never have before.
CDR: You've never stopped me before - -
CMP: ... so crazy; you say you want to do some exercise.
LMP: Why don't you go run, Jim?
CDR: If you were - if you weren't in town carousing around at the beach - with all the broads and everything, you'd have been out at the gym with us working out every morning and every night.
CMP: I was working out. Isn't that right, Rusty?
CMP: I was working out.
LMP: I wonder what you got going down there, baby. I don't know.
CMP: Oh, you wouldn't believe it.
CDR: Hey, where is the Exer-Genie? (Laughter) That ought to take the rest of the day.
UNKNOWN: under his right shoulder.
CDR: That sounds like a suit-off exercise.
CMP: This water is really wild. You got any - any meals down there? I think I'11 have me some juice. .-._'_f_k irlr"_F_ IT1 A ! Day 2 189
LMP: Boy, I think I'11 have some brownies.
LMP: I can't figure whether I'm acclimatizing to this game or not.
CDR: Why? You trying to feel better, or you don't know?
CDR: Well, - -
CMP: Hey, Jim, ... '-
LMP: - - I don't feel bad, but I still don't - -
CC: Apollo 9, Houston. We're going to lose you at Tananarive in about a minute, and we'11 see you
LMP: Roger, Houston. How do you read us now?
CMP: How about it? I'd like a meal, Jimmy. You got a white - -
CC: Houston, Apollo 9. Say again.
CC: Roger. Do you read us now? '
CC: I can make you out now, barely. Before, I couldn't read you at all.
CC: Okay, we'11 see you at 05 at Carnarvon.
LMP: I don't want to talk to them when I can't hear - -
CDR: Do you know what time it is down at the Cape?
CMP: What time is it at the Cape? It's 1 o'clock in the afternoon.
CDR: Noon in Houston! Seems like it's about nighttime again, doesn't it?
CMP: It does. Are
CDR: you particularly concerned about which one of these meals you get? I
CMP: We ought to eat the white ones because they make this big sample thing afterwards to see who ate what. For science, I'11 take a white one.
UNKNOWN: I mean, do you care which white one?
CMP: Oh, hell no. I didn't know that they were any '_fferent. I mean, I never even looked at the _ fference. I Just ... eat ... what you give me. B
CDR: Oh, shit, here'; some more garbage. Got your scissors, Dave?
CDR: Oops! Oops!
CDR: Can you wait Just a second, there?
CMP: Yes, what the hell did I do with them - with my scissors?
CDR: Wow! That's the experiment, fully packed.
CMP: The what?
CDR: It's got to be a - L_T.
CMP: That's the stuff for your teeth.
CDR: A toothbrush?
CMP: Dental floss.
CDR: Dental floss.
CMP: Oh, no.
CDR: That's what I need.
UNKNOWN: You got any more of those meals up there above your U-2 head in - those good turkey dinners?
UNKNOWN: Yes. No turkey.
CMP: What have you got?
LMP: Should be beef and ham. ........, ','./ Day 2 '191
CMP: Oh, hey, you've got a beef sandwich - -
CDR: Hey, I'11 have one of those. Yes, I think I'11 es one of those.
CMP: I'11 take a beef one, if you got it.
CDR: Y'all want some - you want something out of here?
CMP: A Juice, yes. I want a - Give me a meal, and I'11 take the Juice out.
CMP: Stand by, Jim; I've got a grape up here. I forgot Wait Just a second.
CDR: You're way ahead of me on meals, you know that? I don't like that.
CMP: I haven't eaten - I haven't eaten two whole meals yet.
CMP: I don't think I've eaten two whole meals yet.
LMP: I haven't either.
CDR: Neither have I.
CDR: Okay, I give up looking for it. Where is the Exez Genie? Up here, did you say?
CMP: Under Rusty's right shoulder.
CDR: Where's that?
UNKNOWN: The one on the far side over there.
UNKNOWN: R-13, or whatever that's called.
CMP: It's in A-l, but it's way over here - on the side. A-8 or A-1 or whatever the one is over there.
CDR: Way up at the head end, huh?
LMP: Hey, while you're up there, Jim, you could get so meals for us.
CDR: Oh no, I think my ... are coming off.
LMP: (Laughter) All 10 of them, huh? 11 of them?
CDR: Oh, shoot.
CDR: I heard that funny noise, too; what is it?
CMP: I don't know. What's that noise? Anybody know?
CDR: No, I don't.
LMP: The hiss?
LMP: _es.
LMP: No, I don't know, either. Do you know?
CDR: Stopped?
UNKNOWN: Yes. stopped.
CMP: It
CMP: ... for Houston; it looked - it sounded like ...
LMP: No, that was coming up on the RT.
UNKNOWN: Dave.
CMP: Oh, what a good fellow. Hey, you're a winner. Beef and potatoes.
CMP: Eere's a - - Y
CMP: Just what I wanted.
LMP: - - here's a white bag. ' """" -,., i. r--- Day 2 193
UNKNOWN: Hey, as a matter of 'fact, I will. Oh, no. Did it wrong.
CMP: What happened, Jim?
LMP: Boy, I'm warm in this suit.
LMP: I'11 try red to blue and blue to red again.
LMP: Hey, that's the way to go: red to blue and blue to red; the hell with the return.
CMP: ... that these beef and potatoes are the ones that you ate ... - -
UNKNOWN: you know something, Jim?
CDR: Uh oh.
CDR: Boing!
LMP: I was thinking last night - about that noise. We got ignition late.
CDR: _at?
LMP: We got ignition late on launch. You know that? We usually get it at 9; we got it about 5 seconds. Did you notice that? You were pretty busy, probably.
CDR: No, we got it about when I thought we were going to get it.
LMP: Usually get the thrusters at 10, ignition, 8, 7. We were 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, ignition.
CDR: Then we lift off at zero.
UNKNOWN: but I don't think we lifted off when we should have lifted off. I think we were late.
CDR: We lifted off right with it - -
CDR: I don't think so; I think we - CC_lrlr*,xr_ I'*'r'*, A '
CDR: - - within a second or so maybe.
LMP: Yes, but I think we were late, all the way down the line. I was really surprised because as we went - Just standing there, and we hadn't got ignition yet, . I - I thought - -
LMP: - - that was bad news, _mm_
LMP: But I Just - that's all I had {o do was sit there and listen and watch, you know? And I'11 bet you we were late.
CDR: That's what I was doing, too.
LMP: Yes, but you were thinking about a lot of other things. And I'11 bet you we were late.
CMP: Boy, talk about dry, wow!
CDR: What - the meat? (Laughter)
CDR: Good thing the potatoes aren't - they're soggy. that
CMP: ... the door in waste compartment; it will pop open when you press on it. stuff
CDR: Hey, I'm putting most of that over here in temporary stowage trouble the big bag, then. But, is, I don't know what we're going to do with it.
CDR: The Kleenex.
LMP: The Kleenex.
CDR: What? Oh. i CO; ;.;F_..-,-,,,-,,.
CC: Apollo 9, this is Houston through the Huntsville. We're transmitting now - -
CMP: go, $chweiekart ...
CDR: Be quiet.
CC: - - trying to evaluate the C0MM, and it's pretty noisy to me. Can you read me Pt all?
UNKNOWN: Houston, _his is Apollo 9. Roger; we read you. You're weak and a little bit noisy. 9,
CC: Apollo this is Houston. If you can read me, and you've got the time, could you give me a short count?
UNKNOWN: Roger. Short count: 1, 2, B, h, 5; 5, _, 3, 2, 1. Apollo 9, out.
CDR: 0olly! There's sure a lot of air in this thing here.
LMP: Hey, Jim, I let mine sit for a long while, and all the air gathered in one bubble, and it went away from all the rest of it. I'm getting really nice water.
CC: And, Apollo 9, this is Houston. Giving you a short count. Maybe to try to help set up their equipment: 1, 2, 3, _, 5; 5, _, 3, 2, 1. Houston, out.
CMP: Roger, Houston; Apollo 9. 1, 2, B, _, 5; 5, _, B, 2, 1. How ao you read us?
CC: Apollo 9, Houston. Do you read?
CMP: Houston, Apollo 9. Read you weak, but clear.
CMP: Roger; how do you read now?
CC: You're coming through, but real weak. I can make it out, however.
CMP: Roger; that's the same for you. You're coming through clear, but very weak.
CC: Okay, understand; clear, but weak. Are you gettin E this background static? C3! L'-:=.... ' .- tremen-
CMP: No, there's some background static, but not dous.
UNKNOWN: you can really taste the chlorine in our water howl
LMP: That's great l
CDR: Boy, we're sure getting a lot of moisture on a lot of windows.
CMP: Houston, Roger; Apollo 9-
CDR: You ever get the air bubble out, Rusty?
CDR: You want down here?
CMP: Would you fill that, Jim, with water?
CDR: You ought to keep eating though.
CMP: Jim, here you go.
CMP: ... would you put some water in here for me, please?
CDR: Just a second, I've got to get one bite of food of my own in here between water spurts.
UNKNOWN: You didn't shave today.
CDR: I know it. Neither did you, but you can't tell it on you.
CMP: ... Hey, I need seven squirts of cold. It said 7 ounces,
CDR: What it, pudding?
CMP: Huh?' r . , "'"'"Ih r"'"' '-' '"" '' ! i Day 2 197
CDR: What is it?
CMP: Pineapple-grapefruit drink.
CDR: Seven squirts?
CMP: Oh, I don't know; fill it up.
CDR: Hey, that's pretty up against the sun.
LMP: What, your bag?
CMP: Comemos, amigo.
CMP: Hey, amigo, would you give me one with hot water, please?
CDR: Hey, amigo, how'd you like to take a flying leap?
CMP: I ain't your amigo.
CDR: May I have another bite of my own in the middle, he
CMP: sr.
CDR: These aren't even mine; I don_t know whose they are
LMP: They any good?
CDR: Yes, they're cheese crackers, or something.
LMP: Oh, I had some of those last night; they are pretty good.
CDR: Maybe they are mine. I never did have any.
CDR: Okay, four shots of cold, right?
CMP: No, three shots of warm!
CDR: Oh, gees, Dave; I'm sorry. Juice.
CMP: Golly, I like warm .11,l,L
CMP: I like wam things - warm and sweet.
CDR: Hey, listen, I've already got two shots of cold in it. You want me to mix it up, or you want me to go all cold?
CMP: Put some warm - put warm water in it. in
CDR: I'11 put one warm there , okay.
CMP: It's too late to ...
CDR: Yes (laughter).
CMP: Alright. I'11 be down there later.
CDR: When you send an amateur to do a pro's Job, that's what you get. Huh.
CC: Apollo 9, Houston through Hawaii. How do you read?
CMP: You're coming in about 4 by 5, Houston.
CC: Apollo 9, say again.
CMP: Roger; you're coming in 5 _quare, now.
CC: Oh, real good. Stand by and let me check and see if we're ready for your long count.
CDR: For a what count?
CMP: Either long or wrong. I would suggest - -
CDR: Long.
CMP: - - long.
CDR: Yes, okay, that's - right - He asked me - he told me - -
CC: Okay, Apollo 9, this is Houston. We'd like you to start - -
CC: '"- - if it did, the i-eadings before and after. · . I I Day 2 199 i" m
LMP: Okay, the answer is yes; it did change. The un- balance tended to decrease, but then it cane back up again; and it also caused the MASTER ALARM to go on and off, and so I switched back to NORMAL. Both NORMAL and AUX indicate an increase in the quantity oxidizer unbalance. I can't give you a reading on the auxiliary system because it was moving unbalance Jumped all around. 9-! that.
CC: Okay, Apollo We copied Thank you very much
LMP: Okay, and if you can't think of anything better to do with it, we might consider shutting it off on some of these later burns, because it - it takes a lot of time to reset those MASTER ALAPJMS in the middle of a burn.
CC: Roger, Apollo 9. We've been considering that, and - nn]ess we can come up with something better, that's probably going to be our recommendation. We're still trying to troubleshoot it; that's the purpose of this question. changes
CMP: Besides that, it the pulse rate, too.
CC: Sorry , Apollo 9. Change of what? I didn't catch your last statement.
CDR: Heart rate.
CMP: Afraid our MASTER ALARM changes the heart rate.
CC: Oh, Roger. Understand. Didn't notice that down here You looked cool as a cucumber.
CMP: Sweaty palms.
LMP: Evaporative cooling (laughter). Whoop. There's always hot food there.
CDR: It is dark out there?
LMP: Yes. CO_ 'r'_r_ =: .... ' i II
CMP: Starting to - let's to
CDR: Okay, go _0.
CMP: Your big chance, Jim.
CMP: Your big chance.
CDR: Okay. Co to _0J '
CDR: Okay. What do you say we go to 52, huh?
CMP: J_,_,_y.
CDR: V_B 37, ENTER; 52 -
CMP: The sun setting through the center hatch?
LMP: Yes. Dave, this time
LMP: Hey, when you start to maneuver,
UNKNOWN: try to see it - I'd like to - ~
LMP: Boy, it really flares up out there, no kidding.
LMP: You know, it's not Just the flash from the exhaust It might be actually burning the paint there.
CDR: Okay, 52. We want to do a preferred, right?
CMP: One this time, and through forevermore.
CDR: (Laughter) Okay, we'11 do a PRO here?
CMP: Middle gimbal angle is 61 degrees and after - It doesn't like that - Well_ that's okay. We're at 63 right now.
CDR: Are we? Okay, well, you even want to look at it?
UNKNOWN: Yes, let's look at it. I___ Day 2 201
CDR: Okay, VERB 5 - NOUN .. desired angles and GIMBAL LOOK. Okay. RESET. 08. You ready to go?
LMP: Proceed ....
CMP: Okay, go.
CDR: Okay, PRO.
CMP: That god-blessed moon. alarm,
CDR: Want to look at that program too? s-me
CMP: That should be the one, Jim. Did you get a RESET?
CDR: Yes, I had a RESET.
CMP: Let's look at that one and ... - -
CDR: Okay. Oh, it is. RESET; 08. Okay, 50/15.
LMP: Boy, that moon's bright.
CDR: Okay, that says PICAPAR - At least, it did last time - still does. It's PRO. 01 70 16.
LMP: Must be Procyon or something, isn't it?
CMP: Let's see. Procyon, yes.
CDR: Okay, let's see. You get the zero; OPTICS going to OMC; OPTICS, ZERO OFF; proceed.
LMP: Right into the antenna.
CDR: Would you believe I can't even identify Procyon?
UNKNOWN: Ohhl
CDR: No, I can't. It's halfway between the radar anterm and the leg or something. I really can't.
CMP: It's the S=band antenna. x_,T_/i N F i I.,/El N I=I _Z_l. I' I I I
CDR: Well, the landing radar and then there's something else there. It's probably Just the S-band antenna.
CDR: Okay. I'11 be in RESOLVED and LOW ... Want 51 up? there.
LMP: Kind of drifting, aren't you?
UNKNOWN: not too! bad.
LMP: You want me to stop it?
LMP: CDR No.
LMP: You are headed for the right way.
CDR: Okay, that's ... by 16; that says, "Did you like it?' and I gUess I did, so I can proceed. Procyon was 16_ Still can't identify it. Proceed; okay, 23 - Denebo: CMC; and if you like that, we can proceed again.
CDR: PRO - Oh, shoot, we're right behind it.
CDR: (Laughter) Would you believe I can't recognize that one either?
CMP: Oh, well ....
CDR: It's about 8 degrees from the moon. onboard ... moon.
CMP: Well, our star charts have
CDR: Do they?
CMP: ..., yes. It's along the Mercator area.
CDR: Oh, shoot, I don't even know _here that is.
CDR: Thanks.
CMP: I thought that would be a big help. Day 2 203
CDR: Hey, I can't see out.
CDR: I don't like that one.
CDR: That fuzzy reticle is really kind of crappy, isn't it?
CMP: Yes, it sure is.
CDR: Shit, I don't like that one either.
CDR: That's a good one - 23. Denebola. I ought to he able to see Regulus or something. I guess not. Oh, I screwed up, didn't I?
CMP: That's alright, for a beginner.
CDR: Well, I'm not the pro. Okay, shall we PRO? We shall proceed.
CDR: Where's the flight plan? Anybody know?
CMP: Right here.
LMP: Roger, Houston. How do you read? 9.
LMP: Houston, Apollo
CC: Okay, I'm reading you okay. Just standing by here. We'11 have you here for about 8 minutes across Tananarive.
LMP: Roger. You want to copy some torquing angles?
CMP: ... will have to read ...
CC: Roger; go ahead.
UNKNOWN: Okay, plus 00298, minus 00374, minus 00649.
CDR: You ready, Dave? .- !
CC: Roger; I copy.
LMP: Okay, and the time will be 27:28:00.
CC: Roger. Copy time - 27:28:00, and I copied the angle:
CMP: How about that. Now try a third star check, Jtmmy.
CDR: Okay, we go back to - 1_ePRO here, don't we?
CMP: We PRO here, yes.
CDR: Okay. Do we PRO here?
CMP: PRO here.
CDR: Yes, that's Alphard.
CMP: Okay, let's see - proceed here, go to Alphard.
CDR: Okay, let's go back to _4C; proceed.
LMP: Man, I got to watch this, because I don't know where the heck we are.
CDR: PRO;
CDR: I don't even see a star. I think we're inside the - I think we're inside the spacecraft.
CMP: Can you see in the sextant?
CDR: Yes. There is a star right there in the sextant.
LMP: Right in the middle?
CDR: Yes. Well, it's about a - it's 0.05 degrees out maybe, ....... ........... ' Day 2 205
CDR: Does it have a 20-something next to it?
CDR: (Laughter) No, it sure doesn't.
LMP: Doesn'.t, huh?
CDR: It's Just disappeared, too. The LM is in the way again. It's disappeared in the sextant, too. Is that a star check or not, Mr. Scott?
CMP: You can't recognize it?.
CMP: Does it look like it's close to Alphard?
CDR: I can't tell, Dave; I can't see any sky at all right now. All I can see is the LM.
CMP: Oh, you - -
CDR: And the star already disappeared in the sextant, too, so - It was in there in the beginning.
CMP: - - you can go another way, and - You can go back -
CMP: How about Regulus? Is that in your field of view?
CDR: No, there's nothing in the field of view right now, except the I_.
LMP: Why don't we go to the burn attitude and check it out ?
CMP: Yes, that's probably the best thing to do.
CDR: Yes, I think so. There's three stars - I'm pretty - -
CMP: I'm pretty - I would call that a star check if you got one right in the sextant, really, wouldn't you?
CDR: Yes, I guess so. I didn't - I couldn't recognize
CMP: We got - we got lots of time - -
CDR: Okay, what? - _ mil ....... _ _,.,f I _ll I I,._Flk.._l · I ix q,_ -- '·."
CMP: Why don't you go to POO, and I'11 sweep this over here?
CDR: Okay, I'11 go to POO right here·
CMP: start
UNKNOWN: I'11 Just sweeping this over here.
CDR: Okay, VERB 37, ENTER; 00, ENTER; and the next time through, we don't want to use a one, huh? _
CMP: That's correct.
CDR: Wait a second. Are we - are we going to torque it again and do another whole alignment?
LMP: No, not if you don't use a one. IR.
CDR: It looks like the moon is shining off the It's shining right into the telescope. I can see the vague outline out there of something, and this great Big halo.
CMP: Good grief, we don't want that.
CDR: I wonder where it is with respect to our stars, Rusty?
CDR: Well, it looks like it was right next _o - Denebola there.
LMP: That's because it's not too close to Sirius.
CMP: People who can't recognize Procyon: Whoo!
CDR: Well, Procyon - I couldn't recognize Procyon, Dave, because it was between a couple protrusions on the
CDR: It was Just lucky that the star Was even there.
UNKNOWN: Jim, you close to the garbage bag?
CMP: I got a garbage for you. .............ILl Day 2 207
CMP: Yes, it sure does.
CDR: Boy, I can see trying to do - alignments on the way to the moon like that. Holy Christmas. I wonder how you'd ever do it?
LMP: Do them on the planets - sun and the moon ~ and then sextant. get a star in the
CDR: Yes, but we wouldn't be able to do any better than we're doing here.
CDR: You - you Just - you'd look and there'd be a star in the sextant, and say, "Yes, that must be my star."
CDR: But heck, if you get small torquing angles, it's your star.
CMP: Jimmy, I got all the numbers to the planets. When we get all through with all the other stuff, I'd really like to find some time trying to do some daylight alignments.
CDR: Why sure.
CMP: Alright?
CDR: Like day 5, 6 - I mean 6, 7, and 8.
CMP: Yes. You know, when we're through with everything.
LMP: Hey, maybe you and I could do an alignment, huh?
CMP: I don't know. We'd have to talk to the boss.
CMP: It takes a lot of skill.
CDR: That's right. It takes a lot of skill. f ]
LMP: When you fire, pitch up, that's the time to look out the window, Dave.
CMP: Yes, I don't want to do that now ...
LMP: Yes, I mean - I don't want you to, either.
CMP: Yes, I think I've got my ovn ...
CMP: How is it that thing keeps skewing - It hits the deadband, I guess?
CMP: Yes, ... 5-degrees deadband ...
CDR: Man, that IN really obscures a lot of the field of view.
UNKNOWN: guess I feel better after having eaten that.
CDR: You mean that you didn't like it, huh?
LMP: I - No, I forced it down°
CDR: Yes, you got to keep your strength up. crm_mmyexistence:
LMP: You're right. What a eat when you don't like to; sleep because it says so on the flight plan; if you don't sleep, you Just lay there. You ought to be out carousing around with a bunch of broads or something - or making more money.
CMP: You're making a lot more money. You're overpaid as it is.
CDR: Right. This zero-g existence is easy.
CMP: Wonder what kind of per diem we're getting now?
CDR: A dollar a day, I think. I tried to claim mileage on Gemini IV; they wouldn't give it to me.
LMP: Hey, Jim, you got any tape down there?
UNKNOWN: what kind of tape you looking for? I I Day 2 2O9
UNKNOWN: Something that'11 - I want to get this stuff - in a fairly tight ball.
CDR: Oh, okay ....
CDR: Are we getting there, Mr. Maneuverer?
CMP: Oh, very, very slowly.
LMP: Damn it. That was the piece I didn't want to get out. Oh, don'l_ go up there!
CC: Apollo 9, we'11 see you over Carnarvon at about _2.
CC: Roger. Somewhere at 42.
LMP: You got another one?
CDR: Another one, whoo!
CDR: Whoop! That stays here; you get the little piece. Up
CMP: to eryoPRESS.
LMP: Cryo PRESS. Okay. Cryo PRESS is on for the night.
CMP: Hey, man, I'm sure -_I was sure glad when that finally went off last night.
CDR: Hey, listen. We're going to have to tape that thing over - or something. That mother kept bothering me all night long.
CMP: Me, too.
CDR: I have to look away from the sunny - sunlit window, then I'd be looking right at that thing.
LMP: Okay, Jim, here's some garbage.
LMP: Try some of my wonderful hydrogen-filled water.
CDR: Let's see. The star check we want is - the star angle we want anyway is - I wonder if we ought to
LMP: Boy, oh boy, that water tastes terrible, doesn't
CDR: Is it chlorine or the hydrogen?
LMP: The chlorine. That's the first time I've taste_ chlorine in it.
LMP: You pitch up yet there?
CMP: Why? You see it?
LMP: Turn out your light and watch it.
CMP: Wowl
CDR: See that. it?
CMP: It really lights it up, doesn't
LMP: I don't think it lights it up; I think it's mor,
CMP: No, I mean - the sparkle.
LMP: Yes, but I think it's - I think it's actually -
CMP: Yes, you can almost see the - -
LMP: - - burning to it, kind of.
CMP: What do you know?
LMP: Boy, that water is so bad, I don't believe it's digestible.
LMP: I'm serious. That's really bad. Has it change_ taste for you guys?
CDR: Yes. Considerably more chlorine in it than thel vas. C'-" ...... I .... : :T:.'.L Day ". .. r
LMP: I._ Shoo, boy! .-
CMP: ... can't hardly see ...
CMP: Oh, that's so bad it - it - it actually stings my mouth.
CDR: Oh, yes?
LMP: Yes. Oh boy. Oh, let me have the water gun. God, that's terrible! Phewl ..
CDR: The water gun has really got the gas in it.
LMP: Yes, I know it, but - -
CDR: Be prepared. Well, this probably has a lot of chlorine in it, too.
LMP: I'11 try it.
LMP: Augh yuck, it sure does! Aughl That water gun ...
CDR: Smells llke a Swtmmlng pool in here.
LMP: Oh God, that tastes terrible. Man, let's not do that for another couple of days.
CDR: Maybe I put in two chlorines and no buffer. What about that?
LMP: Oh, man, that is really bad. Psshhoo!
CMP: It's not too bad with Juice.
CDR: In a disguise, you mean?
LMP: Wowl
CDR: Well, let's see. You're not using the DSKY, are you?
CDR: Let me load in my - Drive this thing over to the right place. Your
CMP: what?
CDR: Let me Just drive the optics over to the right place.
CMP: We've got a ways to go, Jim.
CDR: I'11 Just get them there and leave them there. Then when they keep dribbling on over, I can watch. Let me put this in. 1691; is that correct? ..
LMP: You could do an AUTO drive, if you want.
CDR: Ho.
LMP: I thought you were going to load the DAP maneuver.
CDR: I was, hut I ... going the wrong way.
CC: And Apollo 9, this is Houston. We're about to lose you here at Carnarvon. We'11 see you at Huntsville at about 59.
LMP: Roger. You want me to try that test in AUX, or are you still thinking about it?
CC: Well, our plan is, we're going to have you disable these - the PUGS for this burn, and we'11 talk about that over the Huntsville or Hawaii. We're coming up on 30 minutes of the burn, and we figure we should Just go ahead and chuck it for this one.
LMP: What'd he say? - Go ahead and do what fcr this one?
CDR: Disable them. then.
LMP: Well, hell, we might as well run the test
CDR: No, I think they are going to do something next time.
CMP: Okay, Jim, you ought to be just about there.
CDR: Okay. There is a star - Just about there, Dave. It's a bright star. I see another bright star that might be Arcturus ... something else ... Day 2 213'
CMP: Deneb ought to be out there close to it.
CDR: No, I - I can't see anything that dim. There are thousands of little bits and pieces floating around, and then there's a star out about 4 or 5 degrees.
LMP: Anybody happen to know where the PUGS breakers are?
CMP: Yes, they're over here, Rusty.
LMP: Oh, okay. Shoot, I'd like totest that son of a gun ... to see what it's going to do.
CDR: Okay, we're like 30 - 30 minutes prior to the burn. You can ... here.
LMP: You knowwe lose the PUGS here, and that means we don't have any onboard readout of quantity.
CMP: Yes, that's right; we sure don't, do we?
CDR: Well, Dave, all I can tell you is there is a bright star about 4 degrees from the center.
CMP: Beautiful. Jim, you've been doing so good - -
CMP: - - and you're _o proficient now that I have every confidence in you that this'11 be the right way.
CDR: I'11 tell you there's a thousand of them that aren't holding still, though.
CMP: I think we ought to - get the - Make sure we're real Want to do helmets and gloves this time, J_mmy?
CDR: I don't care. I don't think we need to.
CMP: Goody.
CDR: It's going to be a short one.
LMP: I need to get my glove out, to get my watch off.
CDR: 27 seconds - Is that what it is here? CL;-;TiJ ;-;.;7;,;.:- --
CMP: I think ... - -
UNKNOWN: 28.3. ...
CDR: Okay. 2_3 to 260. Okay, it's off 2 degrees in sha and I degree in tzmnnion - -
CMP: Oh, that - that's something new to me.
CDR: Yes, I'm not sure that that's the star, though. All I - There's Just a star there, Dave, ...
CMP: Yes. Yes, if there's no - -
CDR: It's a bright star - -
CMP: - - ... in the daytime.
CDR: There are no other stars that I can see. Close
CMP: that panel down there - the B-1.
LMP: Yes, I'11 tell you, I sure feel a lot better after I ate. .
CMP: Even when you're not hungry, huh?
LMP: Even when you're not hungry. Yes, it's a terrible thing, to force-feed, but -
CDR: Okay, OPTICS to zero and CMC. Gee, I'11 bet I'm getting about that.
LMP: Yes, I've been listening to %hat.
CDR: (Laughter) Well, now I have a wealth of informatic available to me: the moon, landing lunar, the quad Do you need any of this hot poop for your -
CMP: ... nobody else is doing them anyway.
CDR: Let me put the optics away, and I'11 be right with yOU · and
CDR: We ought to check these optics in the morning see if they're still clean.
CMP: Well, you been putting your fingers on them? l '%C. T'.D2:.'7'..'.'- I Day 2 215
CDR: No, Just the - Ail thewater that's been splashing around and the lint and putting your fingers on them. The whole bit.
CMP: You're not supposed to put your fingers on them,
CDR: I know you're not. But you're not supposed to have dirt floating in here either. We do have that. -- ~
CMP: Not more than 90 percent of the time.
CDR: I've yet to make that thing work ....
CDR: The spacecraft looks like it is getting smaller all the time.
LMP: I think it looks like it gets dirtier.
CMP: Kind of like the TV set doesn't look as good, and the wife doesn't look as good, you know.
CMP: It's all those things. Familiarity breeds contempt.
CDR: Where's that tape I had down there?
CDR: How long to the burn time?
LMP: 25 minutes.
CMP: Hey, my toothbrush managed to stay there during all that.
CC: - - CAP COMM. How do you read?
CC: Roger; understand. Would you give me a call when you do?
LMP: Can you hear that?
CDR: ... bad and then some.
UNKNOWN: Give them extra volume when you -
LMP: Houston, Apollo 9.
CC: Apollo 9, Houston. You are loud and clear. /
LMP: Roger; you're still quite weak, but -
CC: ....
LMP: The Huntsville, bouncing down off a satellite ...
LMP: Yes, it's the Huntsville off a satellite, that's why:
CDR: Wonder what this goes to?
CDR: Nothing, I was just listening. Here, Rusty, the flight plan again. Can you stash it away over there, or you want me to Just hold it?
LMP: Oh, I'11 stash it away.
CMP: First unsuited burn! Okay. A new milestone. Where doIputmy
CDR: That's what I wan wondering - DO you want to put the helmet on?
CMP: I think I will, because it puts my head upright.
LMP: I bet you don't have a bit of trouble holding it.