Otrobonita/noicy-space-talks huggingface dataset:
CDR: Roger. Loud and clear. Listen, Jerry, I've got something real important for you. We were taking some target of opportunity photographs with the same film pack that we had the 500-millimeter film on, and _'ithout going into details right now - I'11 tell you later when we have the time - that magazine pack popped off and we're not sure we didn't _ipe out that film magazine. Now, what we suggest is that - is we dump the landmark tracking, seeing as we got good ones last time on Descartes and Fra Mauro and you pump us up another T I and T 2 for both of them and let's get some more 500 millimeter this pass on another magazine. Okay?
CC: Roger, Pete. We copy. Stand by 1.
CC: Roger. We concur with your plan, Pete, and we're hustling right now to get some new T I, T 2 times for Descartes and Fra Mauro.
CDR: Okay. Let me tell you what happened. We - A1 was very careful to watch all the time %-e were taking the 500-millimeter pictures to - to make sure that the eanera was, in fact, running; and he was watching the side opposite the counter which is at the - the little red-and-white deal; and, and, and - I mean, he was watching the red- and-white thing as we were taking the picture and we noticed that we ... 500 millimeter ind_i- cated approximately 100 pictures but the counter only read 60 and we kicked that around for quite 108/2 Tape Page 8h7 a while until we finally eonc ded that, because A1 had been watching, that - that there was some- thing wrong with the counter and we really had taken all the pictures. So we decided that we'd use up the rest of that film on targets of oppor- tunity; so while A1 was taking the pictures out the window, the side of the magazine Just popped off out of nowhere for no reason, and it opened up about an eighth of an inch, and A1 tried to get it back on and then he had to actually open the lock and put it back on. Oh, we never did get it on, so he Just taped it on, and we don't know whether it's lightstruek or not and we don't know why it - it popped open, but we're sure suspicious. We also don't know if it - if it was only partially on to begin with that we really did lose film; so I think it's best that we take a fresh magazine, which he has, and we'11 get those pictures again. sounds
CC: Roger, Pete. That like the best way to go.
CDR: Okay. We do.
CC: Roger. I've got your Tl'S and T2's , we'11 have some attitudes for you shortly. Ready to copy?
CC: Ok.iy. For Descartes, Tango 1 is 167:26:05; Tango ? -s 167:30:05; for Fra Mauro, Tango 1 is 167:36:58; Tango 2 is 167:h0:58. And we'11 have your attitudes for you in a few minutes.
CDR: Okay. And don't forget to work up that same data for Lalande for the REV before TEI there. CC
UNKNOWN: Will do it.
CC: Clipper, Houston. kqlile are waiting, update. I have a REV h4 map
CDR: Okay, Houston
CC: Roger. LOS 168:09:05, 168:33:57, 168:55:10. Over. 108/3 Tape Page 848 --
CC: Roger. And I've got your attitudes for Descartes and Fra Mauro.
CC: Roger. For Descartes: roli_ 1.1; pitch, 285.9; yaw, 1.6. For Fra Mauro, roll, 1.4; pitch, 252.0; yaw, 2.0.
CC: Clipper, Houston. I did not read your readback. You were broken.
CDR: Roger. Roll, 1.1; pitch, 285.9; yaw, 1.6 for Descartes. Fra Mauro: roll, 1.4: pitch, 252.0; yaw, 2.0.
CC: Clipper, Houston. If you did a P52, we need a torquing time. Over. -_
CC: Clipper, Houston. I guess we need the angles, too. Over.
CMP: Okay, Jerry. Torquing angles are plus 0,.095, minus 0.088, minus 0.003; torquing time, 164:06:33. time
CC: Roger. Copy the as 164:06:33 and your torquing angles were plus 0.095, minus 0.088, minus 0.003. assume
CC: Clipper, Houston. We then that you did not do a P52, at about 165:50. Over.
CMP: Yes, we did; excuse me.
CC: Okay. Those were the numbers we were interested in.
CMP: - - plus decimal - okay - plus 0.023, minus 0.003, plus 0.073; time 165:52:05. 108/4 Tape
CC: Roger. Time 165:52:05 and the angles are plus 0.023, minus 0.003, and plus 0.073.
CMP: Hey, Jerry, those guys are a ... point ... point ·.. point but I don't see any different from the first ones anyws,v.
CC: Roger, Dick. Judging from the results on all the P22's you been sending down, buddy, you're the expert.
CMP: Hey, Jerry, tell Kohrs also that on CP-2, he did and pick that northern crater - the one that he's got in the catalog is the center one, but the coordinates he has are for - is for a northern one, as he'11 see in the film.
CMP: Yes. Just this once, and i marked on the one he has in the film, but the coordinates are actually for the northern crater.
CC: Roger, Dick. Understand.
CC: Clipper, Houston. How do you read? C_4P and
UNKNOWN: clear.
CC: Okay. We got you high gain and reading you loud and clear now.
CMP: Okay. We're Just finishing up Descartes.
CMP: We've got the box all taped - We've got the box all taped up this time.
CC: Roger. Good recovery, guys.
CC: Clipper, Houston. How do you read now?
CC: Roger. We're reading you weak but clear now. We're on backup equipment at Honeysuckle. 108/5 Tape
UNKNOWN: and clear now, Pete.
CDR: Okay, Houston. We got Fra Mauro.
CC: Roger, Pete. We've had a meeting of the minds here, and the tentative plan right now is to drop the stereophotos on, stereostrip work on REV 44 because it has a lower priority than the landmark tracking, and so we want to be prepared for landmark tracking on the next REV. We'11 have PAD data available for you by AOS, and what we are going to have to do now is uplink you a new state vector and have you do a P52 on this pass. Over.
CDR: Okay. What you want is Fra Mauro, Descrates landmarking tracking. Is that right?
CC: So, if you go P00 and ACCEPT, we'11 run your state vector up.
CDR: Hey, Houston; Yankee Clipper here. Why don't we start ,he last test during the stereostrip and we'11 grab Lalande in the middle of it, and we can get it all that way.
CC: That sounds like a sterling proposal, Pete.
CDR: Okay. We'11 do that on the last REV, and we'11 break right in the middle there Just before Ti, grab Lalande and go back to it. And that'11 take care of the whole show.
CC: Clipper, Houston. You mentioned Lalande, and that confused us. Say again. Lalande with the 500 millimeter.
CDR: On the very last REV, we want to photograph
CC: Roger. We're with you now.
CDR: Okay. So what we need from you is the T 1 and the times for Descartes and Fra Mauro. We'11 get them next pass. And then we need a T 1 time for 500 millimeter on Lalande on the next pass, which is the pass we burn TEI on, and we'11 stereostrip her up to that point. REV Lalande, keep on going with the stereostripper and burn TEI around the corner.
CC: Stand by, Pete. Clipper, Houston. The computer is yours.
CDR: Okay. And we'11 give you a P52 in about 2 minutes here.
CC: Roger. While you're waiting, Pete, I've got messages from the families.
CC: Okay, Pete. Your kids - I called them this morning are about 8:30 - Your kids off to school and Jane says you're doing a great job and that And she's really proud. they're all waiting anxiously for all three of you to get back. · Dick, Barbara said you're doing a fabulous Job sure but she wishes you could get some rest, so she could. And, Al, Sue says she spent the fun evening with Jane, and they had a lot of last night, and they both feel real good about everything. And she's now in a watching-and- mode. waiting
CDR: Okay. Thank you, Jerry.
LMP: Th_nks, Jer.
CC: Copy P52.
CDR: There's your alignment, Jer.
CDR: Houston, Clipper.
CDR: Okay. Now at 170 hours, we going to do this P52, option 1. So, make sure SAO gives us 108/7 Tape gimbal angles for Lalande with the right - with the fact that we've got the option 1 in for TEI. Okay?
CC: Will do it, Pete.
CDR: Go ahead. TEl. We think that might squeeze some of the targeting near the end there, and we ~ we think you'd be better off if you did your stereostrip work on REV _. I have some T1 and T2 times for you.
CC: Clipper, Houston. The Dian is to do your stereo- photos up until the landmark tracking time, and then terminate the strip photos and do your tracking.
CMP: Okay, Jerry. Give me the TI and T2 times for Descartes, Fra Mauro.
CC: Okay. Terminate your battery B charge. And your stereophotos for REV _h are T1 of 168:5_:00, 169:10:00, and we'11 have your T1 and T2 times for - at A0E for your other work.
CMP: Roger. Understand TI and T2 for REV _ for the stereostrip, 168: 5_:00, 169:10:00.
CC: Roger. And we'11 have your time for the l_ndmark tracking when you come around the horn.
CC: Roger. The fuel manifold'pressure on all your quads is started down, so go ahead and switch all four quads to secondary. We're looking for LOS here in 1 minute and 30 seconds and we'11 see you coming around the horn at 168:55. Over.
CC: So long, Clipper. Page 85k
CDR: Hello, Houston. Clipper ready to copy DE-1 and FM-1.
CC: Hello, Clipper; this is Houston. Roger. P22 tracking update. Your target is Delta Echo 1: T1 is 169:21:10, 169:26:0k, north 05; the LAT, LONG, and altitude are unchanged from your last PAD. For the second target, Foxtrot Mike 1: T 1 is 169:31:55, 169:36:53, north 16; LAT, LONG, and altitude, no change. Over.
CDR: Roger. Delta Echo 1: 169:21:10, 169:26:0h, north 05; FM 1; Ti: 169:31:55, 169:36:53, north 16; and LAT and LONG unchanged on both. update if you're ready?
CC: Okay, REV h5 map update: 170:07:19, 170:32:25, ) 170:53:_0. Over.
CDR: Roger. Copy. 170:07:19, 170:32:25, 170:53:h0.
CC: Affirmative, and I've got a TEl _5 preliminary for you.
CDR: Ok_v. Wait 1.
CC: Okay, that's a maneuver PAD, Pete.
CDR: You have a lot of systems data.
CDR: Okay, go ahead. SPS/G&N: NOUN
CC: Roger, preliminary. TEI bS, h7: plus 34163; minus 0.64, 0.2_; NOUN 33: 172:27:16.15; NOUN 81: plus 3027.k, plus 0297.8, minus 0019.6; roll, pitch, and yaw, 180, all zips, ail zips; NOUN 44: both NA; DELTA-VT, 30k2.1, 2:10, 3020.9; sextant: 01; 232.9; 23.7; boresight: 0_1; down 01.6; left 4.8; NOUN 61: minus 15.82, minus 165.30; _4S: 1171.2, 36198; GET of 0.05g is 244:21:55; ODC align on Sirius and Rigel; roll is 138; pitch, 0,9, yaw, 002; four-Jet ullage; 11 seconds. Over. Pge 855
LMP: Roger, Houston. Copy 3k163; minus 0.6k, plus 0.24; 172:27:16.15; plus 3027.b, plus 0297.8, minus 0019.6 200,000,000; NA, NAt 3062.1, 2:10, 3020.9: 01;; 232.9; 23.7; 0bi; down 01.6; lb.8; minus 15.82, minus 165.00; 1171.2, 36198; 264:21:55. Let's go back up to the sextant, counting the boresight star, SXT, I think that should have been 648. / Over. an
CC: That's negative, Al. That's L for left, 4.8.
CC: Okay, Al. And did you copy the GDC _lign stars and angles?
UNKNOWN: Sirius and Rigel, 138, 079, 002; four jets, 11 seconds.
CC: Roger. You got it, Al.
CC: Roger. Tracking looked real good. When you get to the P52 attitude, we'd like to have the high gain, and we've got your REFS_kAT for TEI coming up.
CDR: There you go, Houston. We're on the high gain.
CC: Clipper, Houston. If we can have a P00 and ACCEPT, we will ship your REFSMMAT up.
CC: You've got it.
CC: Roger. It's on She way.
CC: Clipper, Houston. Got a special report for you on your CSM consumables. We've had you doing so many off-nominal things, we thought you'd probably like a quick off-the-cuff report. Right now you stand, as of 169 plus 20, you stand with 37 percent RCS total and its - Alfa is 38 percent, Bravo is 37, Charlie 37, and Delta is 36. Over.
CC: Clipper, Houston. Computer's yours. APOLLO AIR-TO-GROUND TRANSCRIPTION I Tape 110/1
CMP: Houston?
CMP: He drives a good bus. Houston, are you copying those angles?
CC: Roger. They're beautiful.
CMP: And we're torquing at this time.
CC: Yankee Clipper, Houston. You're 1 minute from LOS. Things are looking good, and we're looking for you around the horn at 170:53. Over.
CMP: Roger. 170:53; see you then -
CDR: Helle_ _ouston; Clipper here.
CC: Roger. We've got - -
CDR: Hello, there! How are you today?
CC: Just fine. How's th_ngs up near the Moon?
CDR: Not too bad, but I think we're about ready to leave.
CC: Very good. We'11 be glad to have you back.
CDR: We haven't met anybody up here.
CC: Hey, listen. I've got some times -
CMP: We haven't found any strangers.
CC: Thank goodness! Hey, Dick, we've got the state vector and a target load for you any time you want to give us the computer; and, also, I've got the data for the hiSer resolution photcg- sure that you understand that th_s is your option, t We don't want to press you too much on this last \ pass before TEI, so if you want to do it, fine. We'11 appreciate it. If not - -
CC: - - it's your option.
CMP: Don, we understand that, and we want to do it, because I messed it up myself this morning. I want to get it.
CC: Okay. Whenever you're ready to copy, I can give you the money - the information.
CMP: Go ahead. I'm ready to copy.
CC: Okay. T1 is 171:30:52, T2 is 171 plus 34 plus 52; roll, 7.1; pitch, 141.1; yaw, 8.2. Maneuver to the attitude by ltl plus 24. Now, the target is not the crater rim; the target has been displaced south 8 nautical miles, so what we'd like you to do is estimate that; pick a point near that spot, and track whatever point you pick. Now, the gouge on 8 nautical miles is that it's three lines on the COAS, and the radius of the crater is 6-1/4 nautical miles. The camera settings remain the same.
LMP: You've got P00 and ACCEPT on the computer, Houston.
CMP: Hey, Houston. I want to check on this three-line- widths business over - Are you saying that it's 8 nautical miles at acquisition, is three-line- widths' worth on the COAS?
CC: Three degrees, that is three marks offset.
CMP: Oh, oh, oh! Three degrees. Okay, very good. Understand.
CC: I have for you, when you want to copy them, the updates to your TEI 45 PAD and also a TEI 46 PAD. We can do that any time, either before or after the photography, that you want.
UNKNOWN: _ Okay. We're ready to do that in about 2 seconds.
CC: Okay, go ahead.
CC: Okay, do you want the whole TEI PAD over again, Al, or Just the changes? There will be four of them.
LMP: Why don.'tyou Just give us the changes?
CC: Okay. This is the TEI 45 PAD. The first change is NOUN 33; the correct ae is 172:27:16.14; NOUN 81 is plus 3027.2, plus 0302.1, minus 0025.3. The DELTA-V burn time box is 30h2.3, 2:10, 3021.1; and the GET for 0.05g is 244 plus 21 plus 56.
LMP: Okay, we need the DELTA-VT, the burn time, and DELTA-VO one more time, please.
CC: Okay. DELTA-VT is 3042.3 2:10 3021.1.
CC: Apollo 12, the computer is yours. Thank you.
CMP: Roger. And, Houston, did you agree with that readback?
CC: We didn't get your readback.
CMP: Roger. How do you hear now?
CC: Hear you loud and clear.
CMP: Okay. First correction was NOUN 33, the seconds column should read 16.14; NOUN 81, DELTA-VX is plus 3027.2; DELTA-Vy is plus 0302.1; DELTA-Vc _s minus 0025.3; DELTA-VT is 3042.3; burn time remains 2 plus 10; DELTA-VC is 3021.1; and GET at O.05g is 24h:21:56.
CC: _at is correct. Do you wanb the TFI 46 PAD?
CMP: Wait just a second. 110/4 Tape
CMP: Okay, Ho,:ston. Apollo 12 is ready to copy the next PAD.
CC: Roger. This is the TEI 46, SPS/G&N: NOUN 47, NA; NOUN 48, NA; time is 174:27:15.41; NOUN 81, plus 3072.3, plus 0312.7, minus 0189.5; roll, NA; pitch, 359; yaw, NA; ullage is four Jets, 11 seconds.
CMP: Roger. Understand. SPS - -
CC: Apollo 12. Break. Break. We're losing you. OMNI Delta, please.
CMP: Houston, Apollo 12. Sorry, we were maneuvering then and lost you. How do you hear now?
CC: Read you loud and clear, again. We lost you Just an you started your readback.
CMP: Okay. SPS/G&N, and we go down to NOUN 33: plus 0017.4, plus 0002.7, plus 0154.1; olus 3072.3, plus 0312.7, minus 0189.5; NA, 359, NA, four-Jet ullage for 11 seconds. Over. -.
CC: That's affirmative. I've also got a REV 46 map update if you want it.
CMP: We don't need it.
CC: I'd better give you your AOS times, don't you think?
UNKNOWN: guys are getting eager. Zip it up.
CC: Roger. AOS with TEI is 172 plus 40 plus 42, and without TEI is 172 plus 52 plus 00.
UNKNOWN: That's 172:40:42 and 172:52:00.
CC: Roger. Just a que_tion. We missed that one read- back attempt. Did you give us a readback on that Lalande photography stuff that we missed also?
CMP: I sure did. I'11 read it back again, if you'd like.
CMP: Row about 171:30:52, 171:34:52_ roll, 7.1; pitch, 141.1; yaw, 8.2; be there by 171 plus 24. 110/5 Tape Page q61
CC: We agree to all that; thanks very much. load, and the computer's yours if ...
CMP: Thank you, Houston. Roger. Houston,
CMP: Apollo 12.
CMP: Pre-TI -TEI systems checks are complete. Tare lll/1 j "/
CC: Apollo 1_, OMNI Alfa, please.
CC: Apollo 12, would you verify OMNI Alfa?
CC: Apollo 12, OMNI Alfa, please.
CC: Roger. We Just had a few moments of data dropout. Wanted to say hello again.
CMP: Okay. Thank you. We're at the burn attitude at this time. We're doing a star cheek here shortly.
CC: Roger. You -
CMP: And we're beginning a Ph0.
CC: Roger. Your star is going to be Ju_+ , ]!ttle late coming into view for the - on the - the !_ flight plan. It'11 be in view at 171:57:08; that's number - star number 1.
CMP: Say the time again, Houston.
CC: The time is 171:57:08, which is about 2 or 3 min- utes after it's shown in the flight plan for the star check.
CMP: Hello, Houston. You're looking at P40.
CMP: Houston, 12. The star check's okay.
CC: Apollo 12, Houston. We shew about 2 minutes to LOS, and everything's looking good to us down here.
CDR: Roger. See you on the other side.
CC: Very good. We got a nice spot in the South Pacific all reserved for you. "_
CC: Apollo 12, Houston. We'11 see you coming around the other side at 172:40, headed for home.
CC: Have fun.
CDR: Hello, Houston. Apollo 12's en route home.
CDR: Got a burn status report for you. Burn was on time. Burn time was 2 plus 11; VGX was 0; VGy was plus 0.7; VGZ was plus 0.1; DELTA-V Z was minus 14.4; fuel was 7.4; oxidizer was 7.7; imbalance, plus 50.
CC: Roger, 12. We got On time; 2 plus 11_ zero, plus 0.7, plus 0.1, minus 14.4, and will you say again. Your transmissions were pretty weak on the end.
CDR: Roger. Fuel was 7.4; oxidizer was 7.7; and the
CC: Roger. 7.4, 7.7, and plus 50. Looks good.
CC: Apollo 12, Houston. If you have a camera out already and plan some pictures coming back, we have a target of opportunity for you. However, if you don't have the camera out, we don't want you to bother to dig one out.
CDR: We have a camera out.
CC: Roger. They would be extremely happy if you could get some pictures of high lunar latitude can so that we get some small-scale mapping. The procedure is as follows: at time 173 plus 05, we'd like you to use the Hasselblad with an 80-millimeter lens, black-and-white film, f: 5.6, 1/250th, pictures and infinity_ and take at high latitudes, three frames, abollt every 30 seconds. ¢;C
UNKNOWN: clarify. They want three frames together at 30-seoond intervals. 111/3 Tape
CDR: Roger. And give me the time again, would you, please?
CC: Well, the time's not critical. 173 plus 05, which is sort of during the last half of your TV pass, but this is your option.
CDR: Okay. Are you ready to receive TV?
CC: Apollo 12, Houston. We're ready for TV anytime you want to send some down to us.
CDR: Okay. We're trying to get into a good position right now. The formal one is a little bit later, but we're leaving the Moon so fast, we thought we'd better take it.
CC: We're ready any time you want to send it.
CC: Apollo 12, we're coming through in black and white. We expect color any minute.
CDR: Okay. Looks like we're climbing straight up from it. ·
CC: Ah! Now we've got a good picture in true and living color.
CDR: Let's change windows with it, Houston.
CC: Roger. We really get the impression that you're on a fast elevator.
CC: We see your view along the terminator now, although we don't see quite as much coverage as we did be- fore. Oh, here it comes in now.
CC: 12, it really looks you are climbing out in burner.
CMP: Yes, we're really moving out, Don. It doesn't take very long to get some altitude out of that place.
CMP: We've got you looking right at the terminator, now, of course, and then up towards the north. Al's over getting - busy getting black and whites. I'm on the - the ... holding the TV monitor for Pete. We're all kind of busy letting you see all this. lll/h Tape
CC: It looks great.
LMP: One of the things that you're probably seeing - probably noticed on your TV screen is how rough it looks along the terminator line. And this is - was our impression the first time we passed over it. We said to ourselves, "There, now there's a real rough part of the Moon." And the next day when the terminator moved 14 degrees, we found that the part that was now in a higher Sun looked fairly smooth, or at least like the rest of the Moon as you see it, and the part that was now into the terminator looked the roughest. So, I guess you get a real feel for the texture of the Moon by looking at - at near the termina- tor where you can see the height of the craters and the mountains and all the many features that are on the Moon and more relief.
CC: Roger. That's - -
LMP: Hey, Pete, if you point the camera up there toward the north, you can show them a couple of long rilles.
CC: Roger. That texture really comes through loud and clear on your picture.
LMP: The impression that I get, Don, and I had this impression the first time I looked at the ter- minator, too, is that it's really useless for you all to have color down there, because it is pure black and white, and the way it looks to me right now, where we are, it looks to me like a ... and that I'm not really looking at the real Moon. It - it Just doesn't look right, it's so black and white. It is sort of like a painting.
CMP: Roger. Looks Just like a black-and-white photo- graph, doesn't it?
CDR: Well, it - it's real enough to make me want to go into the direction I'm going after 90 hours.
CMP: Just looks like the sailors are ready to go on liberty, that's all.
LMP: Up at the upper top, I see one rille up there. I don't know if you can see it on your TV camera. \' It's almost a straight line. It's about - I'm looking at the monitor, and I can't see it on the monitor. It's about a third of the way down from the top, and they run horizontally across there. It looks Just almost like a straight line.
CC: Roger. It's hard for us to see it on our screen down here.
CC: Can you identify any of the features for us, 127
UNKNOWN: we'11 - we'11 break out our map. You know our map doesn't go to the higher latitudes and lower ones, but we'11 see what we can find that we can point out to you that we know.
LMP: Hey, Don, how long did you want us to keep up this photography of the high latitudes, three each 30 seconds?
CC: You probably got enough now. Anything you want to give us is fine, but don't push yourself. We're happy with what we got now.
CC: 12, it's really amazing how much the size of the Moon has changed Just in the few minutes you've been on the air so far.
CMP: I'm looking out my small hatch window to the right and I can see the Moon as an entire sphere right now. We have really moved out.
CC: We sureconcur.
LMP: I've got to have FIDO crank- have FIDO crank out what's our altitude right now. What's our altitude rate? Anybody know?
CMP: Now, I think one of the things you can't see in your TV, though, is how the texture of the Moon changes, the higher the Sun angle, and over to the extreme westerly region there, you can see how light it is and how much more gray and stark it is by the terminator. But we, as A1 said, found it that way as the terminator moved across. It all really looks the same.
CC: Roger. That shows up very clearly down here.
CDR: Our onboard computer says that we're 109 miles right now.
CC: Apollo 12, Houston. Right now you're getting close to 1100 nautical miles above the surface, and you're coming up about 4000 feet a second.
LMP: Okay. We were - We were reading our DSKY wrong; we're showing 8098 miles.
LMP: _1_e area that's sort of dark down in the lower corner of your screen is Smith's Sea, and it's - It looks, as you pass over, to be one of the about-medium-size mares that we _ee on the Earth side of the Moon. The thing that's the most noticeable about it is the fact that there's many craters in it that are all filled up with the mare material. You can Just see the - the rare outline of the rim. They apparently were once very big like a lot of the craters you see over there near the terminator. Now they've filled up and so they don't appear so. Now it's down at the bottom of your screen by that little white dot.
CC: Roger. We see it very clearly. We assume that's the Sea of Fertility that's over on the west limb.
CC: Apollo 12, Houston. We show that you're coming up at about 1 nautical mile a second. You're really moving out.
CDR: We had talked about it on the back side of the Moon Just before the burn. We only put in 3000 feet a second. We were going a little over 5000 feet a second around the Moon, and we were talking about how it didn't seem like very much additional velocity to get to take you away from the Moon and head you on back to Earth, but I guess this low gravitational field here just allows you to not put in a lot and escape the sphere of influence pretty readily.
CC: Right. Your velocity is dropping off at about i foot per second each second, so you needed all you put in.
CMP: Roger. That's a lot less than our velocity dropped off per second when we left Earth. It, of course, was trying to pull us back much harder, and so we ended up slowing down from our 36 000 feet per second much more rapidly. You could look at the computer and see that the velocity was dropping many times that per second.
CC: Roger. We were watching you down here.
CDR: Today, while the picture-taking was going on, the three of us had the opportunity to discuss what we thought the texture of the surface was, especially because we were interested in our landing area and possibly finding some Copernican ray materials, looking at the rays and everything. And they are quite readily visible from 60 nauti- cal miles, but if you look at them carefully through the monocular or something like that, I think that the difference in texture is so slight when you get actually down on the surface that A1 and I had the impression on the lunar surf acc at our landing site that we Just could see no contact difference whatsoever anywhere we went, and I think that as you look at the Moon going away you get that idea. You see highlights and whites and grays. You can see rays and things like that, but they're really not that much dif- ference in color from one another.
CC: Roger. What about the white and gray differences you saw around the west side of head crater? Could you see those out over the regional area?
CDR: Well, i kind of had the feeling that - A1 and I talked about this, that when we were in the right place and our foot subtracks turned up the lighter material that it was stil3 the same material. It's Just that it hadn't weathered on the surface, and we had the feeling that the r_y material is probably the same thing. It's pretty much the same general material, but it came at different times and it's bad different amounts of exposure to the weather.
LMP: Yes. This is - There Just didn't seem to be any difference in the colors at all. If you look at any part of the Moon at the same time as any other part of the Moon, as you started at the terminator and went around the Moon, it changed colors from gray to white and finally to brown. And we alI sort of thought that was about what it was, and then the next day, it did the same thing. The part that used to be more to the white, now it was the gray, because the shadows were over there more as the terminator moved in that direction. And we weren't able to see ex- cept in several spots any real large differences in colors. I'11 tell you, Pete; could you show them that large crater down there in the lower left hand?
CMP: ... monitor.
LMP: No. It's way over here on the opposite side of the terminator. There's Tycho. Can you show them that one? _ne one with the cracks and several craters in the middle. That's a beauti- ful crater.
CC: Tc give us some idea of the color, how would - -
CDR: ... Take the TV and I'11 show them.
CC: - - How would you describe the color of Smyth's Sea and the Sea of Tranquility for us, so we'11 know how accurate our TV color is.
CDR: It Just seems a chalky gra_ to us. 112/3 Tape
CC: Like Portland cement?
CDR: Pretty much. That's good as anything else.
CC: We want to know whether it's wet or dry.
LMP: - - dark, mare material. Some of it looks wet. Would you believe that?
CDR: As a matter of fact that's probably not too bad a description. If you Just threw some Portland cement down and threw water on it in varying amounts it would be a little more moist than
CMP: The wet parts, of course, would be the d'_rker mare material that's there, and it is lightened considerably by rilles and erabcrs and eJecta that's been taking place there, this giviPE it a lighter texture, but basically remaining the same type of material, I'm sure.
CC: }icy,listen. Tell us about all those grooves and ridges you saw on the surface. Did you get any patterns out of those? Could you see those from orbit?
CMP: Let me take it....
CC: Hey, 12. Is that the subsolar point - -
CDR: Don, the ones we saw - -
CC: Sorry to cut you off, there - - Just to the south of that great impact crater is the one that in the middle of it are two craters; one crater has a single ray that runs horizontally all the way through it, and the other crater has a single ray that Just runs out one side of it. A very odd set of ray patterns there.
LMP: Say, Don, you were asking about those lines. We don't - The ones we saw on the ground were vcry, very small; maybe an eighth of an inch. But there are definite patterns on the Moon. I'm going to show you up at high latitudes right now. Let's see the monitor, Pete, so I can see if I'm pointing to the right place. Now, I think you'11 r l12/h Tape be able to see some lines that's either run from the pole all the way down towards the touter of the Moon, towards the equator. Let's see if I can get over to the right place. Are you able to see that, Don? It seems to emanate right from the pole region right where the terminator strikes the pole, and then they seem to come down toward the mare are,. They seem to run in parallel lines from that poiL_t on down.
CC: Roger. They Just barely show up on our screen.
CC: Did you get a look at the crater Tyeho? That's pretty impressive because it's l_rge and has a lot of rays. And it also has - although the rays at this particular Sun angle aren't so visible, you can see it as a large - one of the larger craters down in the southern pa__ of the Moon, easily visible from Earth. In fact, one of the most visible from Earth.
CC: Roger. We didn't know whether that was Tycho or whether that was the subsolar point;
LMP: No, that's Tycho. And also that crater just to is also a very bright crater. It appears very white in our little monitor up here.
CC: Roger. We see it very clearly down here, too.
CDR: Hey, let's move it to that hatch window. It's a better window, Pete.
CDR: Take a few more pictures.
CDR: High gain looks okay. Stop there! You got it now.
CC: That's a very impressive picture.
UNKNOWN: Okay. I've got the monitor, Pete.
CDR: Okay, Dick. Just a little bit higher.
CMP: ... so th-utwe could - I can't hold it any higher because of the top of the window.
UNKNOWN: Okay. 112/5 Tape
CDR: Dick Just maneuvered _t so that I can see the whole Moon, and that's it no_,. We have the whole Moon out our window.
CC: We've got a good picture of that. You know, the most amazing thing is that you were Just in orbit down there a few minutes ago.
CMP: than,
UNKNOWN: so to us I'm sure, to you, Don.
CC: I'm sure that's true.
CDR: I'm getting that sort of detached feeling, de- tached from the Moon.
UNKNOWN: Can they see it as a whole sphere now, Pete?
CC: You're cutting out Just a little bit of the south.
CMP: Yes, it's in the - I Just can't move the camera there in the window.
CC: No, you're doing a great Job.
CC: Well, I keep the camera up and down the same way all the time. i)
CMP: Hey, that's about the most I can get in right And now. we're going so fast, though, that I think that it'11 all show up in there in a minute.
CC: That's beautiful. We can see all the way, of course, to the western limb and the north termi- nator, about halfway down to the south.
CC: S_y, are ye coming out in the Earth-Moon plane here, or are we going over the top or what? We were Just discussing this and wondering, it's not - You know, it's not obvious when we leave what we're doing. It's my guess to say that we'd be coming out right along the equatorial plane, but what are we actually doing?
CC: We'11 get it for you in Just a second.
CC: Hey, listen. While we're getting that, since you're the international experts on lunar rock rollirg, how does that work? Tell us what a rock looks like when it rolls down a lunar crater, since you did some of that on Earth. 112/6 Tape
CDR: Well, it goes very slowly. And I guess the im- pression you have is the same way as if you throw something up there, and we had the occasion to throw some things away. They sort of move out, not too rapidly, but they just keep going, and that's exactly what happens when you roll a rock down the side of a crater. Once you get - It was hard to get them going; I was surprised. I think everybody had the idea up there that because you're in such light gravity, that things would roll down rather easily. And that really wasn't the case. Once you got it going, it Just sort of went along in animated slow motion, but it kept going for a long, long time.
CC: Did it bounce, or did they dig in, and did they go through this bounce ...?
CDR: Well, they bounce and slide, a little bit of everything, Just like they do on Earth, but Just stretch it out. I was - I found that I couldn't walk; wherever we went, we loped, and it just didn't seem natural not to lope. And - But when you lope, it reminded me of these pictures, high-speed motion pictures of watchir_ a grey- hound run or something like that. That's just the feeling I had as I loped across because I'd have to step out and then just sort of hold what I had until I came down. And that's the way A1 and I moved around on the whole traverse.
CC: Sounds like you were having a ball.
LMP: Dick, if you could pitch down the little board, it'd help Pete a lot.
CDR: Well, A1 accused me of making him carry all the tools. One time he said that he had wound up with all the ones that I had, too, and I was Just running there in front of him. He's probably right, now that I think about it.
LMP: You know the funny thing about moving around on the lunar surface, you put on this pressurized suit we wear, and you try to do it on Earth, with even close to the weight you have on your back on the Moon and you get tired very rapidly from the walking, and you don't have to walk over, you know - let's say 200 or 300 yards and you're ready for a rest. But, on the Moon, in the light gravity with the same suit on and the same weight, -) your legs never seem to get tired. I guess when you run up the side of a steep slope, you could do it, but Just rumling arou_,d on level ground, you assume some kind of normal pace and you're able to go for long distances without your legs getting tired. The suit doesn't always want to bend like you want to bend. For example, it bends pretty well in the .knee and it bends pretty well i'n the ankles, but it doesn't want to bend up near the thigh, the top of the thigh. So what happens is you tend to run with stral6ht legs, land flatfooted and then push off on your toes. And you think to yourself, "Well, I'm going to tire out my calves pretty soon because I'm not. used to this sort of thing," but apparently the force it takes to push off on your toes on the Moon is much less than you just have when you walk or run on Earth, so your legs Just don't seem to tire. You can move around rather easily, don't you think, Pete?
CDR: Yes. I'd like to ask the doctors because I haven't any idea, but I'm sure that ou_' heart rate stayed fairly low even when we were loping. I don't think ye approached anywhere near the heart rates that we had in Just our normal walk- throughs and practices in Just one g back on Earth and I agree with Al. You could go for 8 or 9 hours out there and still be ... _e other thing that we did was - I think was kind of inter- esting - Everybody got worried about falling over and going down slopes and things. I fell over once up there, but I didn't have any problem getting up and we Just finally - to expedite things - We would just either fall over on our face picking up the rock and give ourselves a one-hand pushup or Just get down on our knees and with it get whatever it was we needed to pick up down there, because we picked up many rocks that were bigger than the tongs would pick up.
CC: Roger. Your heart rates were Just about as ex- pected, and the report is that you are just about in the Earth-Moon plane, just a very small bit out of the Earth-Moon plane, but almost coming straight home. Also, we are about to lose one of the satellites that is bringing this TV back to the States, so we're probably going to have to bid goodby here fairly soon.
CDR: Okay. Why don't we - We'11 Just slip inside for a second and say hello to everybody and then you can shut her off.
CMP: Who's got the monitor?
UNKNOWN: a good idea.
LMP: The way we were hunting the monitor Just then as we moved the camera inside the spacecraft, one of the fun things about this zero-g living, when you spend a day or two here, you have lots of items that you keep around - pencils, cameras, and scissors to open your food - Do you? Do you need more light?
CC: Roger. ,_, you on your inside switch?
CC: W_ got it ... Yes. How's this do for you?
CC: Now you are coming in better.
CC: How does that do?
CC: Okay. Let's me see. What you got in focus, here?
CC: You're looking good now.
UNKNOWN: Okay. That is a good idea.
CDR: Is this better?
CC: That ought to do it. When you end up like - I don't know if you can see this camera that I have got on TV - the one that I was taking pictures of the Moon with, but they float around Just like you see. The funny part is - The funny part is when you're not watching them, they'11 float off, and then you will hunt for them, but the problem is all your training all of your life has been to hunt for them on top of things - like on top of the seat or on top of the floor, or somewhere else. And so you walk around the spacecraft hunting for them, but really they may be in plain view, Just resting right on the underside of the seat, or maybe Just up there near the top of the strut, and you have one whale of a time finding these objects. You look all around aud then some- body on the other side will say "Look, it's right by your left ear." It really becomes quite a lot 112/9 Tape of fun when one of these things gets lost. You spend a few minutes hunting aromld _nd usually end up right in plain view, but you Just don't look there from all these habits you built up over the years.
CC: Hey, now we see Dick.
CMP: Hey, Don, I understand you have changed your schedule around there quite a bit since we left last Friday, and we are very sorry about that, but that can't be helped either.
CC: No problem. understand,
CMP: We did all our work, I real early in the morning or very late at night down there, and we understand very late the first night out - about 20-hour day to adjust our schedule to the sure activities around the Moon and we enjoyed it, and hope that everybody there has enjoyed having us bring what we can to them.
CDR: We were particularly disappointed that we weren't able to give - Yes, we were particularly- dis- appointed that we weren't able to give you the lunar surface TV. It Just didn't seem to work out and I guess that maybe the next flight, Apollo 13, will give you a chance to look at what's going on down there because it's going to be a lot of fun.
CC: Listen. Everybody was absolutely delighted with the tremendous Job you did.
CC: What happened to Pete? We haven't seen him yet.
UNKNOWN: He's going to come into view.
CDR: I've been hiding in my favorite spot in the top of the tunnel.
LMP: We've got all our gear stowed in here by the way. Why don't you show them some of the gear we've got stowed? Surveyor bag, particularly, because unusual, that's and we've got it stowed in a pretty slick place.
CDR: I don't know whethpr they can see all of this, but we do - We have the rock boxes put to bed and all the Surveyor gear. I guess one of the big thrills, of course, for A1 and I was to sit down 112/10 Tape next to the Surveyor, and especially when we stepped outside and looked oqt around the back of the spacecraft - -
UNKNOWN: That was a thrill!
CDR: - - and saw it sitting right there on the other side of the crater. I also gave myself quite a thrill. I think you'11 appreciate it when you see the pictures and you see how close we landed to the crater - which I didn't notice at the time because it was behind me, but I didn't want to overfly too far, but I guess I parked it pretty close to the edge of the crater. And we were also very impressed that the tracking and every- thing put us right down the middle. Everybody at home certainly did their homework there. We didn't land have to do anything but it. And Dick surprised me, I think, by finding us - not only finding us in the sextant, but also finding the Surveyor and the I24 in the sextant. He also took some pictures through his sextant _ith a 16-millimeter camera of that on the next RA"J and, hopefully, we'11 have movies of the I_4 and the Surveyor on the ground that are discernible in know the movies. I don't if that will work or not. Me'il have to wait until we see the film.
CC: Very good. We will be looking for them.
UNKNOWN: We have enjoyed the trip. We have enjoyed the trip. Everybody adapted to zero g real well. Me enjoyed whistling in and out of the I34 and after having flown 8 days in Gemini, it's a real around pleasure riding in this thing and being able to move around, and have all the good food and hot water, and shaves, and all those good things we couldn't do. We've kept the ship pretty spick and span, and we do have things all neatly stowed. I don't know if you can show them, Dick, why don't you show them the Surveyor bay?
LMP: No, they can't see it.
CDR: Well, with that, I think we'11 sign off, and we'11 see you in about 3 days.
CC: Thanks a million! All three of you did a 4.0 job, and your families and the whole team are waiting for you back down here on the ground. 1.1o./11 Tape
CDR: you.
CC: If you will give us POO and ACCEPT, we will give you a PTC REFS_$IAT, and for the PTC we want to use quads Alfa and Delta.
CMP: Hey, we are going to stay at this attitude if ...
CDR: Okay. You got it. P00 and ACCEPT.
CC: You know something, Don? This _loon is just this white ball right out in the middle of a big black void, and it doesn't seem like either - We're separating from one another, but there just doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason why we are or why it's setting out there. All the time we were in lunar orbit we were discussing this thing - how unreal it looked, and it is amazing to us to fly around it as it is when you Just think about going to the Moon. It is very, very ] unreal to be there.
CC: You know, your pictures were absolutely fantastic showing how fast you moved away from the Moon. You really gave us a good picture of that.
LMP: We're still doing it. - It's really getting small in a hurry. It's Just sort of unreal to look outside. -It is almost like a photograph moving away from you. It doesn't seem possible it can be a whole sphere that you were orbiting a couple of hours ago.
CC: Well, when you first gave us a picture, you looked like you were very close to your orbital altitude; but, by the time the picture went inside, it looked like about a basketball out at arm's length.
CDR: That's pretty good, because right now at arm's length it's about 6 inches.
CC: Tremendous.
CC: Hey, Don. Do they have smy hack on the midcourse / yet?
CC: Yes. It's extremely small, something like a third or a quarter - a third or a half foot per second.
UNKNOWN: Yes. That's great. That's great.
CC: It was a very excellent burn. It's going to be a real small one.
CMP: I'11 tell you this SPS engine is a real hu_nmer. It reall$-gets out and goes and really performs well at that. It's really a smooth ride.
CC: Listen. Once you g_s get bedded down, we're not _ going to awaken you in the morning. So whenever you get up _]d want to start a new day, you give us a call. You've earned a good long night's sleep. So sleep in as long as you want.
CMP: Yes. Swell idea.
CMP: I think I gained weight on this trip. They've accused me of being a chowhound.
CC: Row come you're not getting out and doing your mile a day?
CDR: He does it ,-',:._nlng from his couch to the food compartment.
LMP: He's topped Conrad now.
CDR: A1 Bean is discouraging everybody from running these days.
CDR: Ai's got a new training schedule? He's going to becc_,ethe Training Officer.
CC: Roger. The computer'_ yours. We've finished sending up your REFS_AT. 112/13 Tape
CDR: Okay. Thank you. How long can we - When do you want us to start FTC?
CC: Anytime you want.
CDR: Okay. We'd like to hold off on it for a while.
CC: Let's hold off. We're in the middle of a play- us back data. So, give some time on that.
CC: Roger. We finished d_mping the data, and so you eau start PTC any time you want to, after you finish 52.
LMP: Houston. You looking at our DSKY?
UNKNOWN: Roger. We Just wanted to give you the torquing angles on the DSKY.
CC: Roger. We got them, 12. Thank you. an dump?
LMP: Houston, you ready for E-memory
CC: Give us Just a moment.
CC: Apollo 12, Houston. We're ready for that E-memory dump now.
CC: Okay. dump.
CC: You're welcome. Thanks for the good P30 PAD.
CMP: Houston, Apollo 12. _ich quads did you want disabled for the P'rC?
CC: Disable Baker and Char!ia. We want you to use Alfa and Delta. 112/14 Tape
CMP: Roger. I guess when we're established in PTC and attitude use the you O_I's will want tonight us to because go off of the the high per- gain formance of the high gain? affirmative.
CC: Apollo 12, when you go off the h_gh gain, we'd like you to turn off the high-gain power during the sleep period and pick up with 0M31I Bravo.
CC: Also, we'd like you to turn off the optics power this evening for the sleep period.
CMP: You want us to turn off the optics power this evening, huh?
UNKNOWN: And - Let me ask you again, Houston. Say again those two quads that you want disabled.
CC: Roger. I checked vith your wives a_nd I have a short status report on the family whenever you get a minute.
LMP: Outstanding. Let's hear. CC
UNKNOWN: Pete. I talked to Jane, and she said she really enjoyed the TV show. Also she sent a letter out. - -
UNKNOWN: Hold on Just a second. Hold on Just a second.
LMP: He'11 be on in Just a second.
CC: Okay, Pete. Talked to Jane, and she said she saw the TV show and enjoyed it .mightily, that it was a great show. Also, she sent a letter for you out to the carrier that will be there with all the family news when you arri,'_. But she wanted you to know that all the f_mily is well, and that they're anxious for you to harry home. Dick, Barbara - -
CC: - - said that they ._lso saw the show and they thought it was great, and the family's in - She says again, great shape, so they're looking for you back in a hurry. _.l, I talked to Sue. - -
CMP: - - Okay, Don. Thank yo_l. and
CC: - - You bet. Al, I talked to Sue it seems that when the network pub on the TV show, they had Pete's name up under your picture, and she said it's been so long since she has seen you, that it even confused her for a moment. But the f-m_ly's been watching the flight. They're wait- ing for you, and they're looking forward to splashdown and everybody's fine.
LMP: _aank you for checking, Don.
CC: You might wear a nametag or something so that she'11 recognize you.
LMP: There won't be any worry about it for another 20 days or so.
CDR: I'11 talk to her through the glass in the LRL for a while. We're just finishing up a meal now, Don, and we'11 be coming at you with the postsleep check report in about, I don't know, 10, 15 minutes.
CC: Fine. We'11 be down here.
CMP: I hope so. 12 113/1 Tape
CC: You're extremely weak, Pete.
CDR: Okay. Well, we've been on the - ... high gain ...
CC: Roger. Your rates look good, so you can spin up anytime you want, and we assume you have no dumps to do that will perturb the roll.
CC: Pete, would you ask one of the other crew to transmit? We can Just barely read you.
CC: Okay ...... How do you read me, Houston?
CC: Still extremely weak, Al. You're Just barely audible.
LMP: ... Houston .... having any problems with your earphones ............
CC: Roger. The problem is probably between the site and Houston. We've got a good downlink signal, so we'11 check it out here on the ground. Thank you.