Otrobonita/noicy-space-talks huggingface dataset:
CC: Okay. Just open it up the next time we use it, which is in about 15 minutes. We'11 we'11 remind you on that if you forget.
CMP: Oh, okay. That's right. Okay. That's right, these are Just short sounder passes now, aren't they?
CC: Ron, I can finish up my description of the last night's EVA if you like since nothing to look at now. I'm watching the clock on the sounder start for you,
CMP: Okay; hey, appreciate it.
CC: Okay, think I left off, or was cut off there without mentioning two varieties of breccia in the South Massif. They found blue-gray and tan-gray and, without going into the geological details, those are the two types they found up there at Nansen. The subfloor unit was exposed as blocks and eJecta around larger craters had been partly buried by dark mantle. And craters apparently had penetrated thin parts of the light mantle. Espe- cially good samples were obtained from the rim of Camelot where the same textural characteristics which are banding caused by variations in vesicle concentration, coarse-grain size, and mineralogic features, as reported in EVA-l, were found. So apparently this unit is quite uniform over the distances that they have covered so far in the traverses. The prominent east-facing scarp, crossing the valley floor from north to south about 5 kilometers west of the LM, was traversed twice near the crater Lara, near Hole-in-the-Wall, al- although Hole-in-the-Wall appeared to be pretty subtle. No change in the surface characteristics or lithology of the mantle was discernible where the astronauts traversed the Scarp. Outcrops of 102B/11 Tape boulders were observed farther to the north where the northward extension of the Scarp crosses the face of the North Massif, it forms a notably smooth and relatively young-appearing surface. Elsewhere, the surface of the North Massif is prominently furrowed and textured, and the crew described it as a cross-hatched pattern on the surface that they could see with one set of linea- ments dipping eastward and the other westward at about 30 degrees. Some of the most interesting observations made during the EVA were related to craters. Many small craters within the dark mantle have glass-coated central pits. Jack called them dimples. Some of the pits are nearly cylindrical and mayb e half again as deep as the crater itself. Other small craters occurring in both the dark and light mantle have bright halos, but these halos appear to be noticeably brighter on the light- colored material. This bright material is not blocky or fragmental eJecta derived from a subfloor layer, but rather appears to consist of "instant rock" or soil breccia which has been partly con- solidatedby the impact shock itself. The most interesting eureka during the EVA was at station 4, Shorty Crater, where Jack found some bright red or orange, he described it, orange dirt within the gray to dark-gray rim material. The colored band- lng is circumferential to the crater and resembled alteration halos, which occur around many terres- trial volcanic vents. So you can see why the geologists are excited on that one. The morphology of Shorty, however, is similar in some respects - -
CMP: You bet you.
CC: - - impact craters have definitive interpretation of its origin msy depend on sample analysis. And I got about a,minute and a half to start the sounder. It might be close to 02:BO there, if you aren't. They took a total of about 850 pictures. They've taken a total of 1270, would you believe, pic- tures ... on the lunar surface. Including about 150 with the 500-millimeter camera mostly of the North, South, East Massifs, and Family Mountain. They got 56 samples, two double cores, probably about 36 kilograms worth, and they traveled a total distance of 20 kilometers. Over.
CMP: Hey, sounds like a good s_lmm_ry. They're finding all kinds of things up there. Which is the reason you explor, I guess, to find - to see what you can find.
CC: Yes, they - they were really in their element last night. About 30 seconds to T-start time. I'11 let you call it yourself, though.
CMP: Okay. I'11 get it.
CMP: DATA SYST_S are OFF. OPERATE, 05.
CMP: Hope this thing's in Reiner G,mmR. Then you can find some sort of a topographic expression, to that light-colored material around there. It looks to me like there is - right around the Reiner G_mma itself anyhow,
CMP: Maybe the lunar sounder will collaborate my moon- light investigations here - or earthlight investi- gations, I'm sorry.
CMP: While we're waiting here - I decided to sleep last night without being tied down or anything. So I slept in the old - What do you call them in the Navy? -
CC: Hammocks, I think.
CMP: Well, anyhow, sleeper strings, we call them up here. Yes, sleeping bags - or some kind of sack. And the last 2 or 3 nights, what I'd do is put the lap belt on loosely. And you know, it Just kind of keeps you from rolling all over the cockpit. Then last night, I didn't put it on at all and stayed in the sack. And I really didn't go too far anyhow. One time I woke up and I was crossways in the couch up here. And then when I woke up this morning my feet were up in the tunnel, and my head was kind of still in the center couch, more or less. So you really don't roam around too much that way anyhow, even if you aren't tied down. And you can get the "huggy pillow" effect by being inside that sack and laying your head on the outside of the sack. It Just about fits me, except that if I stretch my feet out - then I get a little bit of a pull. Little bit of a pull - on it and it feels like a huggy pillow that way.
CC: Kind of a security blanket effect, huh?
CMP: (Laughter) Yes, right. That was the biggest problem the first 2 or 3 days here - what do you do with your head when you go to sleep. I'm used to sleeping with a pillow. And I'm used to sleeping on my side. And it's amazing the psychological ef- fect that you can get from - for me it's hard to go to sleep Just laying on my back. So you can - turn on your side and you go right to sleep (laughter). What's your side and what's your back - I don't know, but anyhow, it works.
CC: That's got to be psychological.
CMP: (Laughter) It sure is.
CMP: 5, 6, 7, 8-
CMP: MARK it. LUNAR SOUNDER to STANDBY.
CMP: Okay. RECORDER is going OFF .... the heaters.
CMP: DATA SYST_4s coming ON.
CMP: Okay. SM/AC POWER is ON.
CMP: I guess we need to open the old door. IR, OFF, barberpole, gray bar. I get to mess with the old optics again.
CC: We're getting some of that, Ron. Sounds like the mike might have slipped away from your mouth, though.
CMP: Okay. That's a good point - let me change my headsets here. Anyway, I went right through the Flight Plan with all that stuff.
CMP: ... left the IR COVER, OPEN.
CC: Okay. Great memory there.
CC: Ron, if you like while you're getting ready for the 52, I can s_,mmarize the news real rapidly. There wasn't a whole lot.
CMP: Okay. Sure, go ahead, I've got a different head- set now. Is that okay?
CC: Yes, you're loud and clear. Former President T_,m_n is still hanging in there. His heartbeat and breathing became _,u_table yesterday, but then improved again. Of course, the big headlines were about the discovery of the orange dirt at Shorty Crater. And there was a picture of Jan, John, and Jaime in the paper, watching the EVA on TV. The only thing new on the peace talks is that Kissinger will probably be coming back to the United States today and there's a rumor, the French press said that the compromise is in the work on the withdrawal of the North Vietnamese troops from the south. The Rockets lost - the Aeros, the hockey team, won last night. They beat the Alberta Oilers. The Rockets lost to Buffalo. And the weather finally cleared out. The cold front cleared out the wet stuff and last night I think was the first time since you guys launched that we've had a look at the Moon, so we had a direct look at you last night. It's Just nice and sunny here_ this morning when I came to work. Over.
CMP: Hey, thanks for the news and I guess those three guys that went up to the Moon - you know, they probably cleared that weather up there in Houston.
CC: It sure took you awhile though.
CMP: Okay, 14 is Canopus again, the same ones I had last night I think. That's Canopus. Canopus looks about as bright as Sirius, but not quite.
CMP: My sextant - is good and everything like that, but you Just can't quite get the reticle in focus.
CMP: It's kind of the way they said it was going to be.
CC: Okay, Ron. We copy those. Clear to torque them.
CMP: Okay, let's see; we'11 torque at - oh, make it 06:30.
CC: Ron, we've still got about 5 or 6 minutes until LOS, but in case we drop off on your maneuvering there - Just want to tell you that everything's looking good. In fact, the IR is pumping out good data, so with that fantastic teamwork, we saved it back there, and we'11 see you next time around.
UNKNOWN: Hey, okay. Sounds good, there's little old Aldebaran in there. Saturn still must be out of the - There it goes into the -
CMP: (H,,mming) got to align the old GDC here.
CMP: Ahal We have acquired on OMNI D.
CC: Hello there, America. We hear your scratchy- sounding omni.
CMP: (Laughter) Probably so.
CC: You're readable but noisy.
CMP: You're cutting in and out on the omni. I thought I couldn't get you.
CMP: Looks like we get the high gain here pretty quick.
CMP: Launch a little heavy [?].
CMP: Okay, Houston; America. We probably have pretty good corem now, huh?
CC: Yes, Ron. We're getting you now, and you sound good.
CMP: Okay. I don't have any observations to report from the back side. About time for blue bag m_,ber _. Somebody has got to develop a better mouse trap.
CMP: Okay, the old PAN CAMERA's in STANDBY.
CMP: Power's coming - power's coming on and V/H is the HIGH ALTITUDE.
CC: Okay, R0n, we're ready for SELF TEST.
CMP: Okay, going to SELF TEST -
CMP: Now. Barber pole.
CMP: Okay, by the way, mag Lima Lima is empty. 165 frames showing there. Started mag Mike Mike with frame number 95. Finished the orbital science at 142. Took the crazy camera at f/5.6 at 1/125. When I got ready to change to f/5.6 at 1/250, I looked at the crazy thing and it was setting at f/11. Maybe those first frames in there, maybe they can develop them a little different or something and still bring - get them to come out.
CMP: I think what happens is I must have been holding the thing by the lens or something or I bumped the - the f-stop thing somehow.
CC: Ron, we're ready for PAN CAMERA POWER to OFF. And did you go to HEATERS after you set the SELF TEST switch to SELF TEST, when we started this?
CMP: No, I Just went back to to OFF. Was I supposed to go to HEATERS?
CC: Okay, we'd like it in HEATERS, now.
CMP: Okay, it's going to HEATERS. Now it's spring- loaded to OFF, and I Just left it there. Okay, going to HEATERS, and now it's going to - power if OFF.
CMP: Okay, let's see. Are we ready for Lunar Sounder? Need a clock down here by panel 230 (laugh). Not really. I can look back and see the LEB one. Okay, it's about time. Okay. LUNAR SOUNDER's verified in STANDBY. The RECORDER is going ON. RADAR is going ON. And the RECORDER is OFF, not the heaters. If antenna l, verify they're out, eh? EXTEND. No barber pole. Back to OFF. Number 2 EXTEND. No barber pole. Back to OFF. Okay, MODE is going to HF and let me take a look at - Alfa is OFF; Bravo is OFF. B DATA is OFF, BEACON is OFF; RANGING is OFF. Okay, let's see. Two, two. 250 lens. Okay.
CMP: 5.6 *** fifth and infinity. Mag QQ.
CMP: Mike goes in the temporary stowage bag; QQ goes on with 104 frames. That's going to be window 3.
CMP: Somebody had - had his nose up against window 3, here. Got to wipe it off. Boy, these windows have really been great though. They haven't - you know - don't have any coatings or anything like that on them.
CC: Roger, on that.
CMP: I'11 be darned. I'11 bet that's a little micro- meteorite pit in window 3. Right in the middle of it. It looks like two of them out there. It's about - much smaller than a 1/32 - 1/64 - 1/64 in diameter probably.
CC: Got cha.
CMP: It's a little, round - Doesn't seem to have any - It's Just a pit, you know.
CC: Ron, you said that was window 3?
CMP: Window 3, yes.
CMP: Oh, it scared me for a minute there. I was con- figuring for terminator photos, and I looked on the near-side terminator, and I didn't see any. It's on the far side.
CC: Yes, Stu and I were looking at the same thing. We're Just about a - 30 seconds ahead of you.
CMP: (Laughter) Okay. One's of Aitkin on the far side. Okay. Aitken and Ibn Hyan [sic], I think, or some- thing like that. Debber [7], Ibn Hyan [sic].
CMP: Yes. You know, going to come across - come across the Tacquet area again, and there doesn't seem to be any - it - there's a bright crater - a recent crater in the annulus - in that dark annulus, in the southern part of Serenitatis, it shows up again as that kind of a blue-graybrightness, as opposed - as opposed to the tannish - tannish brightness of the - of the bright craters in Serenitatis. There's still is no apparent wrinkle ridge - there's no color tone or differentiation in the winkle-ridge area, in this part of it. The only differentiation, and - It looks like south of Tacquet you get the same color tone variation occurs on over into Tranquillitatis. When you get to the Tacquet area, from Tacquet up to Miller or some- thing - I wish I could remember the name of that crazy crater.
CC: How about Menelaus. Menelaus now, the - that's got to be a buildup of material and it's more on the tan side than it is on the - more of a dark tan than it is to the tannish-gray. So it's a different type of material than - than on the annulus down below the crater, Tacquet.
CC: Okay, Ron. You're saying this is sort of a annular plateau, then, that stretches across between Tacquet and Menelaus?
CMP: Yes, it is. It's an annular plateau in there, and the plateau is got to have been coming from those rilles down - that are down in there.
CC: Okay, do those - Maybe you've already said this - do those wrinkle ridges cross the color boundaries?
CMP: No, I can't find the wrinkle ridge that crosses the color boundary. The wrinkle ridges are out in Serenitatis itself, and there is no color boundary on the western edge of Serenitatis. It's all the same.
CC: Okay. Those sound like supergood observations, Eon.
CMP: Passing over - Sulpic - and - I'm Just passing over Sulpicius Gallus, now. And Just beyond Sulpicius Gallus - Sulpicius Gallus is out in the Mare Tranquillitatis, itself, and it looks like you could - it's either a talus slope - you know, you got a gentle slope of the - of the massif coming down and then it changes slope a little bit, and the - it looks like you have finer-grained material. And that might be what we have at one time or another called the high-water mark, but I kind of believe that's just a talus change in the slope, As you.go on down there in the fine-grained material, somehow developing down there in the bottom. But as soon as you cross that area - we're going west now from Sulpicius Gallus - again we've got kind of the same tannish - a dark tan material that essentially covers the highland - this highland-type of an area here. It's a hummocky- type material. There are a few rilles Just north of Sulpicius Gallus; those rilles, again, have - have the dark tan material on it. About the same as the tan - same color tones that you pick up from Tacquet to Mele - Meleneis [sic].
CC: Okay sounds great. Keep talking, we'11 cue you as the Flight Plan events come up. and take a quick look with the binocs on that one. *** binoc and I can't find it there. There it is. bit of a - of a topographic rise around the D-Caldera, just a slight one, and it's about half the width of the - if you - As you look at the "D," it's a half a width of the "D," not the height, but the width. And it seems to be a raised, kind of a raised, flat rim around it. The color of the raised bumps down in the D-Caldera are the same as the surrounding material, around there. The de - the bumps that are raised up are smooth iooking and the depression for it has to be a caldera, I guess, or at least, the part of the depression, anyhow, is a light bluish gray; I'11 call it that way, very light bluish gray.
CC: Hey, Ron I'm not suggesting you do, because it's probably trouble to find. Have you tried the color wheel, comparing it on any of this stuff?
CMP: (Laughter) No, I haven't. Let me try. That's a good idea, though. I'11 try that and see what I can come up with on that thing.
CC: Well, don't don't go to a lot of trouble. I never got around to it, but you might - you might peg down some of these colors a little better. Parti- cularly when you were talking last night about - on the back side - -
CMP: That 's a good point.
CC: On one of those passes about the green.
CC: Okay, you're about 7 seconds away from where we're wanting the recorder on, Ron. Any time here's fine.
CMP: Okay, RECORDER - let's see -
CMP: Is ON. Verify RADAR is ON, remove HF, okay. than I'd been led to believe. I kind of had the impression that everything was the same color. That's far from being true.
CC: I guess, maybe we could say, perhaps, color is in the eye of the beholder.
CMP: I think there is a considerable amount of truth to that.
CC: Okay, Ron. We'11 take the MAPPING CAMERA, OFF, I1OW.
CMP: Okay, the old MAPPER is going OFF.
CC: Ron, you're clear to go to STANDBY on the MAPPING CAMERA.
CMP: Okay, MAPPER's going to STANDBY. MOTION is up, barberpole. CAMERA is OFF. PAN CAMERA SELF TEST, OFF. Okay, turn the old SM/AC POWER, OFF, again. SERVICE MODULE AC POWER is OFF.
CMP: (H_m_ ng)
CMP: Okay, must be sunset. IR is coming -
CMP: OFF. *** ... OFF. Okay, I'm going to go to plus-X. Plus 52.25. There is an UP-LINK. VERB 58 ENTER. Ah, 141. That's pretty close. 228.
CMP: Ah - plus 66641. ENTER, there at 48 07. *** at 49B5. That's about right.
CC: We're about a minute and a half to T-start, now.
CMP: Okay. Cue release, [?] ENTER.
CMP: OMNI Bravo.
CMP: Power OFF. Okay, data systems - -
CC: Okay, BO seconds to T-start.
CMP: - - ... five. Okay, at 40 minutes - Okay. I got the HIGH GAIN, OFF. Got my finger on the DATA · SYSTEMS. Okay. DATA SYSTEMS are going OFF; OPERATE at 49:35. OPERATE. 54:38. Give me a call on that, Gordo. I'm going to look out the window here for a bit.
CC: Sure will, Ron.
CMP: A minute before that or so.
CMP: I had the lights up. I may not be light adapted.
CMP: Sure is ...
CMP: I was trying to think if there was anything I could add to the Reiner Gamm_ observation there. I'm right over that - the light albedo of that type of m_terial that goes perpendicular between Reiner and Reiner Gammm. It's kind of a crooked type - Well, you know, it goes for a little ways, and then it breaks off into a dark-albedo-type stuff; and then breaks off in another direction a little bit. So, it doesn't look like a straight ray at all.
CMP: Youknow - you can see crater holes, and this type of thing. You look right down on Reiner now, you've sure got that dark annulus - the lighter- albedo-type stuff is essentially in the middle of it. And the annulu s is - let's see, maybe 30 kilo- meters wide by twice as long - that's a relative size, anyhow - by twice as long, and that's the dark area. And then around that, the light albedo stuff is about half of the width, and it's lighter on the outside than it is on the inside. The in- side is not quite as light as the - I'd call it the rim, I guess. It's very hard to see any - -
CMP: - - great, great, great topographic expression to it, though. The reason I say that is because it kind of blends in with everything, whereas if you look at a crater out here in the middle of the mare or a hill, you get a brighter - part of it's brighter than the surrounding territory. You can actually see the demarcation. So that's the way you get your depth perception out of it.
CC: Okay, about 30 seconds now until T-stop.
CMP: Okay. T-stop is 54:38 and we'11 go to STANDBY at that time. Tape switch. 3, 4, 5, 6, 7; STANDBY.
CC: Okay. I'11 give you a call in a minute.
CC: Okay, Ron. It's been a minute.
CMP: Okay. RECORDER is OFF - not HEATERS. RADAR is OFF. DATA SYSTEM goes back ON. HIGH GAIN ANTENNA POWER to ON. And we're about minus 44, I guess. And select the old HIGH GAIN. There we go. REACQ *** AUTO. *** in NARROW. INCO's going to do some commanding. *** goes. Tape motion is going. Continue on here to the SM/AC POWER. Okay. SM/AC POWER is ON.
CMP: NAPPING CAMERA is STANDBY. IR *** CAMERA SELF TEST ***. *** is ON. H 2 PURGE LINE HEATER. Do a hydrogen purge, here, shortly, I guess. Mendall Mendall [?] get some data for a while; on Dr. Low, or whoever happens to be there. And I'11 step ahead and sample the old BUSS.
CMP: Do-do-do-do-dadoot-doot.
CMP: Houston, America. You might tell the medics not to pay any attention to those sample numbers on those busses. Pay attention to the GET time, because when you take them out of the buss storage bag, the right one never comes out. So I don't think it m_kes any difference, Just pay attention to the GET time.
CC: Okay, Ron. I'11 pass that along.
CMP: Dun-dun-du-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun.
CMP: Where are the guys on the Challenger? Are they going to go out the regular time, or are they getting a little extra sleep period here or something?
CC: I think we're letting them sleep in again today. They're getting up i hour later than the Flight Plan shows; however, there's enough pad downstream that we're planning on ascent at the scheduled time.
CMP: (Hllmming and whistling)
LMP: (H_lmmlng) a little bit.
CC: America, Houston. We've got a couple of - couple of items of general information, as you come up on AOS here - LOS. The - we want to remind you to CLOSE the IR - -
CC: - - and UV COVERS, before you do any dump. After LOS, you'11 have to - -
CC: And suggest you wait on the dumps, as per the Flight Plan, until after the photos. And, we estimate the waste water dump will take 10 rain- ut es. Over.
CMP: Okay. Let's see - must be *** LOW BIT RATE, huh? Okay, LOW BIT RATE, with DATA SYSTEMS, so no DSE voice. I '11 write everything down.
CC: Just about LOS, Ron. See you later.
CMP: (H{,mm_ng)
CC: Hello, America. Are you there?
CMP: Okay. We got REACQ and NARROW now.
CC: Eon, when it's convenient --
CMP: ()kay. I Just finished mag--
CC: - - I have a couple of updates to the Flight Plan - -
CC: Okay. On your present page, there - the UV solar atmosphere pad, at 160:B8.
CMP: Ah-ha. I have it. 161:26:47. And the remark that goes with that - you don't need to write this down - but the T-start time is biased 10 seconds prior to when we really think sunset will occur. If you see, visually - - APOLLO 17 AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION And
CC: That's correct, and do you want to read back the start time? 160:41:22.
CMP: My start time is Is that correct?
CC: That's correct; 41:22.
CC: Okay. Go to 161:34.
CMP: 161:34, okay.
CC: Okay, and the old standard "MAP CAMERA/LASER ALTIMETER COVER, OPEN:" cross that out. A couple "MAPPING lines below, at 36, cross out CAMERA, EXTEND," and then turn the page - - CNP I got them.
CC: In fact, turn two pages to 163:31.
CMP: 31, okay.
CC: At 16S:S1, write in "verify all command module VHF, OFF."
CMP: 63:31, verify all VHF, OFF, okay?
CC: Okay. That completes it.
CC: Okay. 1/125.
CMP: And they were 5.6 at I kind of doubt if - It might work, but there's sure a lot of glare on the window. If it can get through that glare, well then we've got it made.
CMP: Oh that pass there.
CMP: I don't know who took my water Jug, but it's gone.
CMP: Okay. Overboard drain is purged enough. I guess we can turn that off.
CMP: _at big filter on here - here. I always leave the hose and everything disconnected and stick it back behind this rock bag. I'm afraid I'11 kick it, bags. I unzip those and blow the air out of them every night, wak$ up the next morning, and they're full of air again; Just like two big bal- loons down there.
CMP: (Laughter) I don't know ...
CC: You can use one for the pillow you've been missing.
CMP: (Laughter) Yes, that's an idea. I could use that.
CMP: And, Houston; America. If FAO's got his finger on the next magazine - next Hasselblad mag, I'm going to use - save me looking it up, here.
CC: Okay. I'11 ask him.
CC: Ron, I - You're scheduled to use Mike Mike next.
CMP: ... water - Go ahead. Mike Mike. Okay. Thank you.
CMP: Did you hear me sucking all the bubbles out of the - out of my teeth?
CC: No, we've missed that pleasure.
CMP: Good. Didn't want this VOX to be too good.
CMP: Okay. We go to POO in about 2 minutes.
CMP: Zero phase is going to go right over Proclus, I mean Picard this time. Just as that darkness dis- appears there, if I can still see the change in the color on it.
CC: Okay, Ron. You can put the HIGH GAIN to AUTO next chance you get and FAO advises there's no more optional film left on Mike Mike. Everything that's left on Mike Mike is scheduled up. Over.
CMP: And if north is zero as you look at the crater, then over about i o'clock there's some kind of a fault area in the side of the rim, and that's another spot where the dark material drapes down into the rim and also out on the outer - outside - outside of the rim. And then you have that same type of impression at about 11 o'clock. You've got a black streak going down inside the rim, and then it widens out going out toward a little crater out there on the outside of the rim.
CC: - - you're scheduled to get a VERB 49 going now.
CMP: Thank you. Okay. Pitch is plus /20.55 ENTER, plus 341.00 ENTER, and a plus ENTER for 0 yaw 622. Press on. 50 18. CMC caged. Proceed.
CMP: Okay; let's see. We're in AUTO, so we can ***teen. 26 on the dial
CMP: Okay, we'11 change 07 to 8 plus 9 - i -
CMP: *** VENTS OPEN .... waste water dump. Must have been some stuff that's just frozen on the - the dump or something and then when the - when the jets fired too - that kicked it loose.
CC: .Roger. ! C_P Maybe that's the particles of combustion - burning. C_P Minus 0.05 - degrees per half a degree dead band. Five up - Got zero, zero. Stay there ...
CC: Ron, this is Houston. Check NOWN 79 again. We think you might have loaded R1 and R2 negative. That's the way it looked down here, anyway. C_4P Okay, I'11 check that.
CMP: You know, I'm looking from this position back toward le Monnier - le - le Monnier or whatever. Le - le Monnier, and you can see the - well, it's hard viewing it - to see it here, but your - you can see the annulus around Serenitatis. The demarcation is about the diameter of le Monnier toward - westward frcm there and the demarcation of the color - the color from this observation, again, is a light tan. Darn. I forgot to get that Color wheel out, but it's a darker tan than the tan of Serenitatis.
CMP: The color boundary is not associated with any rille or anything that I can see. Doesn't look like there's any topographic expression to it, C_P There it is.
CC: Yes, they pressed me into service because they have - We woke up the Challenger and they needed someone on that one, so I'm over here. Still cold and cloudy.
CC: But we've got one blessing. It's not raining out- side. (2_P Well, that's good anyhow. You know, even from here now I can still see that Annulus around le Monnier or le Monnier orwhatever it is.
CC: I'11 bu M that.
CMP: Pronounce those things for me, you know (laughter).
CC: Are you saying that annulus extends out into Serenitatis, and you see some, kind of like, rings of le Monnier out there in Serenitatis like that? No, they aren't rings there - they're Just a - it's a diameter that extends into Serenitatis about the diameter of le Monnier.
CMP: And even from this distance. Youknow, I'm _lmost to the western edge of Crisitun, looking back across there, and even from this distance, you can still see the - the color boundary between the two and as far - It goes up north by Posidonius, and then it kind of blends in and it will look - as far as I can tell anyhow. Going from Posidonius on around to the north side of Serenitatis. Of course, it's a long ways away, and I really can't see, but I couldn't tell a definite demarcation. It just kind of blended in from the tan to - to the dark tan.
CMP: Yes. Bessel is the one crater that really shows up out there. It's the biggest one in the - in the Mare Serenitatis, and it's also the one that has that - an ejecta pattern - a fresh pattern ejeeta pattern around it and that really shows up in the - in the shallow Sun as you're looking back towards the Sun.
CMP: And this is the first time now, looking back toward the Sun where I've been able to see that ray from - That's supposed to be a Tycho ray isn't it - going right across Bessel in the north-south direction?
CMP: Here's 50 18. Let's see. What are we supposed to be doing here?
CMP: Get this squared away. Bright - coming in the window here, I can't see my DSKY .... GDC - Well, this could [?] be 20 going first. ENTER 2-2 - enter - We use option - -
CC: Ron, if you'11 stand by with us, we're going to have a roll maneuver here real quick for you, so we get the mapping camera out of the Sun.
CMP: Oh, okay. Which way?
CC: Roger, Ron. We want a 360 - We want a 360 degree roll, 360 roll, 360, 6r 000; your choice.
CMP: Okay. That's only 20 degrees.
CC: Yes, it would mean a 360 roll. Just roll to 360.
CMP: Yes, that's right. That's what I assumed.
CMP: Fifteen degrees to go. Will that hack it?
CC: Ron, looks good. As soon as the Sun goes down, you can roll back to 341, as required.
CC: Roger. I'm looking at them, Ron, and - -
CMP: - - okay; that's minus 05, plus 50. Okay?
CC: Got it. C_P 50 41 22.00. That looks good.
CC: Yes, right on the money.
CC: Hey, Ron, did you kill P20 when you grabbed the stick that t_me? (_P I don't know. I don't think so. Tell you what I'm going to do. As soon as the Sun goes down, I'11 roll back to all my error needles, recall P20.
CC: Ron, they're saying that when we - when you roll back to 341, you'11 have to restart P20. C2_P Yes, that's - that's what I'11 do.
CMP: *#* sunset.
CMP: Can you tell, are the pitch rates changing?
CC: Roger, Ron. C_P Okay.
CC: Must have felt good to be able to fly it by hand for awhile, huh? 105B/9 Tape
CMP: Covers are open - Yes. (Laughter) Yes, we're going now. Okay. We got her going.
CMP: Pretty close, but we made it.
CC: Just of interest to you, Ron. We are really pleased with the way that our visual display and that worked out last night during the orbital science visual. Farouk was able to feed me the questions, and I was able to get them to you. If you have any comments one way or another, if you don't want us to do it on rev 40 or not, let us know. We plan right now on rev 40 for those orbital science visuals to do the same thing going - It's the visuals through landing site down through D-Caldera, and we're going to run the same operation, since it went so smoothly down here. We hope it went that way for you up there.
CMP: It sure did. As a matter of fact, I like it very much. That kind of clues me on what to look for as you're going through, because you see so many things down there - that you - that you kind of - Frankly, I have a tendency to forget what the main thing that you're trying to look for is.
CC: Good show. We're prepared to do it on this next rev, and I guess you might say even though it isn't that way in the Flight Plan, we'11 probably just stand by right straight through on rev 40 where you - you pick up at the landing site and go right through D-Caldera. We'11 be just standing by for that whole rev - that rev - whole piece - about 1R minutes, or so.
CC: OMNI Charlie, Ron. We'd like OMNI Charlie. _"4P There it is.
CC: 0k_y. And we hear the crackle.
CMP: Yes, it sure did. I hear the crackles up here, but I think it's a lot worse down there. Isn't it?
CC: Well, we can live with it.
CMP: Time for stuff that you want to feed through to the IAi, prior to - lift-off?
CMP: I'm sitting on an OMNI waiting for lift-off, I think.
CMP: Say again, Bob.
CC: MY fault. I Just kicked the peddle down here, Ron. C_P (Laughter )
CC: Roger. We need the calibration data.
CMP: Is it starting to look pretty good on your high gain antenna scale down there - to switched to high gain yet ? 105/11 Tape
CC: That's your cue, Ron. What - what you think on the high gain meter ...
CC: You're at that time in the Flight Plan where you should be able to get it and we should be able to get our PCM data.
CC: Sounds like you've got it.
CMP: Okay. Worked like a charm.
CC: Roger. Boy, it sure does quiet down as soon as you get it in there.
CC: I sure hope I'm as clear to you as you are to us. You sound like you're Just in the next room. It's really great comm.
CMP: Well, you are really - It's really great.
CC: Ron, we're about ready to lose you, and at 161:30 you have a maneuver. We want to make sure that gets started on time because of Sun problems on the camera.
CMP: At 161:30. Okay.
CC: Yes, it's just a matter of doing it on time - -
CC: - - or else we'11 have Sun problems.
CC: And it's because the camera's out of shade.
CMP: I tell you what. I'11 start that.
CMP: Yes, I'11 start that as soon as I get the clem [?] cover closed on T-stop. That will give us a minute or so there, too.
CC: That would be real fine, Ron.
CC: Okay. We've got the DME r,mning, Ron, as per the Flight Plan.
UNKNOWN: ° Okay. APOLLO 17 AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION
UNKNOWN: Texas Aggie Fight Song)
CC: Hello there, Challenger. The Gold Team Flight Director picked out the morning's selection, and he said that if can find some maroon dirt, today, instead of orange, you'11 probably get a lot more cooperation out of him.
CDR-LM: I figured the Gold Team might do that. You know, I've woke up to a lot of pleasant thoughts, but never to an Aggie before.
CDR-LM: Hey, Gordo, don't forget I'm a gold - I'm a Boilermaker.
CDR-LM: I feel like one right now. Tell the Gold Team Flight Director we'11 find about - Just about anything he wants today.
CC: Okay; I'11 do that. The Challenger looks as good as ever. No problems at all through the night.
CDR-LM: That's outstanding. How's America?
CC: It's in the same shape. Just clicking along. Ron's been up for a few hours now and really gathering up the data.
CDR-LM: Outstanding, Gordo.
CC: Challenger, the name of the game today is to stay with the - the EVA prep time line. We're not going to talk much to you - We'd like - except to bug you a little and stay on your back to keep with the time line, if at all possible - We'd like to get out on time. Over. Okay,
CDR-LM: Gordo. That's been our motive all along, and we will stay with it. As of right now, we're i hour behind. Is that correct?
CC: That's affirmative. Although, if you stay on the normal time line, that's fine with us. We don't need to gain any, but we just don't want to lose any - from where we're starting now. CDR-I_ Yes. Understand. Understand.
LMP-LM: Good. How are you this morning?
CC: Go ahead, Challenger.
CDR-LM: Okay, Gordy. Crew status is good, in case you hadn't noticed. And again I'm not going to - We haven't kept an itemized accounting of the food - burning up blanks on the paper to do that. But we have ate - have eaten, pardon me - We have eaten Just about everything in the various meals. I guess the shrimp was the only thing we didn't really eat. And we've been drinking a lot of water and all the juices and tea and stuff, so I thinkwe're in pretty good shape there. The commander had a Seconal last night, and he slept 3 good and 3 intermittent hours. IMP had no medication and had 6 good hours of sleep. If you've got some lift-off time data, well, I'11 copy it.
CC: That's affirm. Okay; start with - for rev 38. Time is 162:22:52. Rev 39 is 16_:21:2_; 166:19:55; 168:18:27; 170:16:59; 172:15:31. That should have been rev _3, and read back starting with rev 38.
CDR-LM: Okay; rev 38: 162:22:52; 164:21:24; 166:19:55; 168:18:27; 170:16:59; 172:15:31. And what is our present rev? 106A/3 Tape
CC: That's a good question. Let's see here. We're working on rev 37. Ron just went by 10 minutes ago on rev 37.
CC: Okay. There hasn't been a lot of news, but I'11 read you what we've got. President - former President Trmnan is still holding on. His heart- beat, breathing, and temperature all became unstable yesterday, but then he improved again. A Methodist minister in Kansas City said, "He's a rugged guy who's hanging in there and he's going to make it." The headlines were full of reports of the find of orange dirt and the rest of your adventures yesterday. Internationally, the U.S. and North Vietnam held intensified secret peace talks, and Henry Kissinger prepared to return to Washington probably this afternoon, I understand, after a final session with Le Duc Tho. The French press said a compromise was in the works on the Vietnamese withdrawal of North troops from the South. The Houston Rockets lost to Buffalo up in Buffalo last night, but the hockey team, the Aeros, took a 6 to 4 win over the Alberta Oilers. In - Really, that's about it on the news, except maybe for the weather, which finally broke. The cold front cleared out the drizzly rain last night, and for the first time since you've launched - that I can remember anyway - we've been able to look up and see the Moon, directly. It's a pretty sight as always. That's not much of a report, but that's about all we have. Over.
CDR-LM: Okay; thank you. What's the date today?
CC: It's Wednesday - let's see - Wednesday, the 13th of December.
CC: Right now, it's about 01:35 in the afternoon.
CDR-LM: Okay; just take a quick peek up there. I can't really see too much of the North American continent. South America looks pretty good. And it might be my eyeballs rather than the - the clouds up there, but it looks like most of the clouds are up into the north-central part of the southwestern or southeastern United States.
CC: I have a satellite picture here, and that's about the way it looks.
CDR-LM: Well, it's sunny and pleasant on the valley of Taurus-Littrow. And, Gordo, what is our Sun angle going out today?
CC: I'11 get you an answer on that. Couple of questions. First of all, the Surgeon would like a biomed rate. And they were wondering how your hands feel this morning?
CDR-LM: Hands are in good shape, Gordo. No problem.
CC: Okay; that sounds good. Sun is getting up there about 33 degrees now.
CDR-LM: Gordy, the _ isn't hooked up right now, He will be shortly. So standby on the biomed.
CC: Okay. Okay; I have a few words on the command module trajectory that might be of interest, although it doesn't affect your procedures any.
CC: Okay. The com - the command module orbit somehow is missing all the mascons. It's not de - degrading into a circular like we thought _t would. It's just staying where it was, about a 70 by 50. And so what we're planning on is an extra little maneuver about i hour prior to the normal plane change, which will lower the command module altitude at the plane change mode to - to 60. This will be about a il-feet-per-second RCS burn. And then Ron will do the plane change at the normal time, but it'11 be little bigger than - that we had planned. I think the last half was about 365 feet per second for plane change. And we've checked the consumables. That puts the RCS right on the preflight line. He's been running about 4 or 5 percent above it. That will use up that pad there, put him back to nor - nominal on RCS, and on the SPS, that puts you right down on the CSM rescue redline; so, really no problem. In good shape, consumablewise. Over.
CDR-LM: Okay. Sounds like a good rendezvous posture.
CC: No, I don't think there is, Jack. Although I de have a wri - write-in for the Lunar Surface Check- and list, one that you really don't need to write in on the prep card. Over. I_4P-LM Go ahead.
CC: Okay. Page 5-10 on the Lunar Surface Checklist. The reason for this change is to prevent cabin pressure from increasing. It got up to 5.7 yesterday. And it also - will also prevent water sep spindown like happened yesterday, if you happen to have the hose - the return hose blocked against the wall outlet there. The change is to write in on the upper left corner of 5-10, just prior to "SUIT ISOL, ACTUATOR OVERRIDE (SUIT DISCONNECT)." Write in "PRESSURE REGS A and B to EGRESS." And then down five lines, where it says "CABIN GAS RETURN, EGRESS," change it to "CABIN GAS RETURN, AUTO." Verify. Over.
LMP-LM: Okay, Gordy. At the top of the page, "REGS A and B to EGRESS," and then five lines down, "CABIN GAS, RETURN, AUTO. Verify."
CC: That's right. And the only other change I have is - has to do with matching - just like yester- day, - matching the purge valve to the OPS to maximize the OPS capability. And we can just call you when you get to that point. It's - Or if you want to write it down, you need 211, and Geno needs 208.
LMP-LM: Okay. We've got that.
CC: Okay. That's all. just as planned, with the exception of the bag numbers which have changed, the collection bag n,_mbers. I have more or less repaired the - sample bag holder on my camera. It's taped on there pretty well with good tape, believe it or not, off the fruit bag. I - I don't know that we have any other outstanding hardware problems. I think in terms of sampling, Gene and I will try to shift the emphasis in the mantle area to fragments that are different from the gabbros that we've sampled fairly well, I think, up to now, that presumably are subfloor materials. You might pass that word on and see if they agree with us.
CC: Okay, Jack. We copy that. And, Jack, if you guys are at a convenient place, sit and listen while you're doing some of your stuff. Let me read up the planning for EVA 3 and the s,_-,_aryof what we think we have so far.
CC: Okay. I'11 read here from this thing Just verbatim. It says, "EVA 3 continues to follow essentially the nominal premission plan. Main objectives continue to be the North Massif; station 6, 7; Sculptured Hills; and Van Serg Crater. In view of the extensive observations of the dark mantle and main - and plains subfloor unit on EVA i and 2, particularly there before station 5, the relatively - the relative priority of station 10 is reduced, so that station 10 becomes a flexible station as time allotment is a reserve, possibly providing more time at the earlier station, if desired. However, mantle and block sampling at station 10 are still important objectives. Block pack constraints are not nearly as tight as they were yesterday, guys, and so we can be more flexible in reshuffling station times if we need. We probably won't be coming up against option walkbacks like we did at station _. Closeout time at the IA{ has been increased by 20 minutes to make the closeout less rushed and to allow for potential ALSEP troubleshooting. It is currently plannedto take this time from station 6, 7." APOLLO 17 AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION
CMP: Affirm. UV COVER is OPEN. I think SIM bay's all squared away.
CC: Roger. Thank you. Sunrise was - that's 7 seconds, I think - after we closed both covers (laughter). Good timing.
CC: Roger. Okay, I'11 keep you posted during your eat period of how the Aerobee's coming. It's due to launch at 162:10, and we need to get the 64-kilobit data here. As soon as we get that, we'11 be giving it a GO for launch, but we did want to get your word on the cover. CF_ It's OPEN.
CC: Roger, Ron. And they're in the count at White Sands.
CMP: Okay. number
CMP: Let me take the old binocs and look out there. It's a long ways away.
CC: Roger. What are you looking at again, Ron?
CMP: These are the swirls looking off across the - Marginis toward Lomonosov and - let's see, what's that other sea? Big - big crater Just to the northwest of the Neper?
CC: Okay, let me look at it here.
CMP: About the same size as Neper.
CC: I got a poor map, Ron. All I show is - next to Neper, you have the Border Sea which is northwest of Neper, called the Border Sea. I don't know if that's the proper term you want or not.
CMP: Yes, that's - that's - that's what I mean. I think that's - Mare Marginis is a round one up there. I think that's what it is.
CC: Yes, I think so, too. I - Soon as I get ahold of - -
CMP: And in that case - Yes, m_ map doesn't go up that way, either, so - or the one I have out.
CMP: I think Marginis is a circular basin.
CC: Yes, Mar - Marginis is the name; right.
CMP: And then, Just north of that is - -
CC: You got a big - big one called Goddard - -
CMP: Yes, and then north of that is - Yes, okay. But in the case Of Marginis - there's a brand new crater Just in the northeast quarter of it - I mean r_orthwest quarter.
CC: Okay. Brand new car - crater in the ... Marginis.
CMP: It almost looks like that - in the northwest quarter of Marginis, and it's about - let's see, I'm guessing - 100-kilometer size, probably.
CMP: Hey, no, 50-kilometer size. the maps?
CMP: But you know, it's - that - Well, no. I've got to look on the map. I'm sure it's there, because that's what's causing all the swirls going across Marginis.
CC: Okay, do you see a color-texture difference between the swirls across Marginis there?
CMP: Yes, the color - the texture is hard to - you Just can't get any texture out of it. There's a dark - a d_rk gray. And then the swirls seem to be around this dark gray - the dark gray areas. The swirls, of course, are a light, light - light, light tan.
CC: We'd like - Stu and I would like to know, do you think the swirls are eJeeta from that new crater you've seen?
CC: Roger. Just a reminder, Ron, we don't want to tear you away from your window if you don't want to, but this is your eat period.
CMP: No, that's all right. I'd better grab -
CC: And we're T minus 3 White Sands and counting.
CMP: Better munch on something here. Hey, good.
CC: Ron, if you were in the simulator right now, I'd have you adjust your mirrors.
CMP: (Laughter) Yes, so you could tell which - where I'm looking, huh?
CC: No, sir, so you could look - you know what we used to adjust the mirror for down at the simulator all the time.
CMP: (Laughter) Yes, I know what you mean. Uh huh!
CC: I guess what I'm saying is I need a mirror down here on my console for those of us in the peanut gallery here.
CMP: Okay, the crater I was talking about was A1-Biruni - is the one that's got the swirls across coming from it. And then off in the northwest corner, just outside the rim, that's a very bright crater. It shows up on this - contingency chart. So that was A1-Biruni. Goddard's got a lot of - of swirls in it also. No, wait a minute. Goddard was the one I was t-lking about, not A1-Biruni.
CC: Okay. Goddard. Roger; got you. C_ What? Yes, Goddard is the one I was talking about. Crater size is more relative on that one, and there weren't any craters on the floor so that had - that had to be Goddard.
CC: Okay, we Just had lift-off at White Sands.
CMP: Hey, good! Let's hope she keeps going.
CMP: - - ... Crisium, just outside of it is about a 50-kilometer crater again. And it's a very bright one. And there the rays cross the Proclus swirls - or rays. Here you have to definitely call them - call them rays instead of swirls, and yet they look the same way. And the only - the only distinction is that in Crisium they go essentially radial. They have a direction to them, whereas the ones over there in Marginis and - next to Fermi or somewhere off in that part of the country are - They don't have any particular direction to them.
CMP: Ah, perfect.
CMP: You know, I'm looking out of window 2 now, and you can definitely get three different color textures on the thing. You've got the light tan of Seren- itatis, and then you've got the - an annulus ring that stops somewhere in about the middle of the two ridge systems that go around. And then you come down south in the landing site area and the two dark things change - Ah, I can't quite see it anymore. Then landing site is a darker - more of a gray, and it go - goes on - goes on up - There's a subdued crater; there's kind of a - The rilles go on up there, and then there's a filled-in crater Just to the west of one that's about 20 kilometers in diameter. And that's about where the dark-gray material ends, right on the edge of that crater. And then you run in to the annulus that goes all the way around Crisium. I mean - not - not Crisium - or around Serenitatis.
CC: Serenitatis, Roger.
CMP: Ouch !
CMP: Frame 110 and 111 were taken, just now, out of mag Oscar Oscar - one of the landing site, and one north of the landing site, trying to get the color distinction between the three of them there.
CMP: Okay. Just a second here; I'11 get it.
CC: Roger. Copy that. Hey, look, there's no hurry - hurry on the Flight Plan. Just keep doing what you want, and I'11 call you at about 162:40.
CMP: Let's see, where are we now? I've got -
CC: Okay, what we want to do is, we have to take a look at the data longer, so at 162:45, we want to put "M_PPING in CAMERA, RETRACT" at that point. NAPPING CAMERA, RETRACT.
CC: And that will delete it over at 163:05. You'11 Just delete it from that point. CMl° Okay.