Otrobonita/noicy-space-talks huggingface dataset:
CC: Roger, Jack. Say, you might to put something in the back of your mind here a minute. We made a run of the DSE recording just now of the TLI to get an idea of the quality of the DSE recording, and Gene came through loud and clear. Ron was very weak and almost unreadable, and we never caught you, Jack, in there. We don't - maybe you weren't saying anything during TLI, but we never did catch anything you said.
LMP: Okay. I don't recall talking too much during TLI.
CC: Roger. Understand. Now Gene - Gene came through real loud and clear. So whatever technique he was using went on that tape real well.
CC: Hey, Jack. Just a couple more comments on that DSE. I think, as you well know, it's very critical on the position of your - of your boom there, and those areas that you're critical in, why, make sure that you've - you've really got those beauties up or you're talking right in - right into it. And this - this really makes a difference, because the DSE - The volume is - is fairly low, and if you're muddled just the least bit, why, it - it's going to be difficult to pick it up. So talk slow, and - and get right up next to the mike, because I know you - you're doing it. Just some voices come across a little better than others.
LMP: Roger, Stu. Thanks for the comments. As a matter of fact, you probably called it Just right. I think during - once I got the helmet off, I lossened up my chinstrap, and my mike booms had moved away from my mouth some. And I'11 keep that in mind. Thanks for the reminder.
CC: Yes. It's - that's probably the most critical item is that - is the position of those, and this has been true of - in the past, and it just really makes a difference in - in that - being able to pick up the data off the voice.
LMP: Roger. I've - Ron and I did some experimentation with that in the chamber, and couldn't agree more. But I sometimes don't remember it. Thank you.
CDR: Well, Stu, I just - -
LMP: I - I --
CDR: - - thought I'd -
LMP: Okay. Go ahead, Stu.
CC: No, I was saying I was - I'm sure you - you're aware of that, but I think the fact that the vol- ume is - is down just accentuates the - the problem.
LMP: Okay. Gene had something he wanted to ask you.
CDR: Stu, I - I just thought you'd like to be aware of it, as much time as we've all spent down at the cape, probably May is one of the nicest months down there. However, having had the opportunity to - to be up here during May, I find out that it's not nearly as nice up here.
CDR: And I'd like to - to thank all my friends for that.
CC: Roger. We wouldn't go away, Jack. We're listeni_lg. Did you call?
LMP: Well, I just - Yes, I almost lost a pass here, _ld just a couple more words about Australia. As a - as a general landmass, it's red. Very strong red hues, except for the north and eastern coasts, where that red gradually merges into a greenish- gray. It's as - as red as portions of - of northern Africa appeared to be yesterday.
LMP: Very striking color. It would be more of an orange- red, really, with brown subduing it. It's not - obviously not crimson or anything like that.
CC: You think it's a function of Sun angle, Jack, or is it just - just a red like we see out in New Mexico area sometimes - some of the areas? L_ Yes. No, it's not Sun angle, because that'11 hold a good red color right - right in towards sunset or sunrise. It's - it's due primarily, I'm sure, like most desert areas, to the oxidation of the iron-bearing minerals in the sands and rocks in those regions.
LMP: Getting limonite and hematite. Little geology thrown in there, Bob. Sorry.
CC: That's all right. Got to keep you warmed up for the next couple of days.
LMP: Well, I think the Flight Plan will probably ke_,p me warmed up, too.
CC: Roger. We thought that time around T&D was just outstanding.
CDR: Hey, Bob. We - I think we've pretty well got impressions from you do_a there on that - on that night launch. I might give you a few of mine.
CC: Gene, Houston. Go ahead.
CC: We're just standing by for your comments you wanted to make. I think we lost comm there a minute. We're back with you.
CDR: 0kay_ Bob. The entire boost itself was not unlike what you've heard and what Stu down there under- stands from the physical cues, and what have you. But the significant part of going at night is that as soon as we did have ignition down there in the bottom of the S-IC stack - even though I only have a little slit out of - oat of the rendezvous win- dow here, and Ron doesn't have much of a hole in the boost protective cover out of the hatch window, we could definitely confirm ignition because we could see the reflected light on out through in front of us. It was by no means blinding, of course; we had the cockpit pretty well lit up. We - as soon as we lifted off, that light immedi- ately went behind us We came into just S-IC staging, and I had an opportunity to say, "I told you so," to Jack and Ron. It was just like the great train wrecks of the past. I definitely could see the S-II ignite; and, then, of course, the - I could see the significance of the reflec- tion through the window, besides all the other cues we had for ignition, very much like the S-IC lit up the windows on the stack. Tower jett was pretty spectacular. I could see - the entire boost protective cover and some flames from somewhere - I'm not sure - maybe it was through the hole in 17/3 Tape the windows - but I could definitely see it. Of course, it disappeared in short order. When the S-II shut down, the delay time between shutdown there and the S-IVB igniting, the entire - the entire flame overtook us, and we literally through - flew through the S-II flame when the S-IVB ignited, if you can imagine that. It's very similar to the Titan staging, where you actually fly through the fireball on the S-II. And that's something you never see - none of those things you ever see quite that way in daylight. On the S-IV, I could see - Of course, once we got going, I couldn't see _y light from that plume again, but we could see the APS firing all the way through the burn. And once we got in orbit, as other guys have seen, you could see the APS firing at night without any dif- ficulty. One of the most significant things about TLI is the fact that we, of course, started at night and flew right on up and through a sunrise, which in itself was a pretty spectacular thing. But, when you do it during a TLI burn, it even adds a little bit of momentum to your effort.
CDR: Yes, Bob. I not only will comment - I was aware of it, and I was looking for it. And during parts of the S-II and parts of the S-IVB burn, I even turned the lights down in the cockpit - in hopes that I could see stars out there; but I could not make out a one. Ron, I think, may have saw Saturn out the overhead hatch; but looking through the rendezvous window, during a boost phase and during a time-critical phase like a Mode II or Mode IV, I am very much afraid that we would not have been able to pick up that reference.
CDR: As I remember it, as low as I had the interior lights there for a period of time - and I didn't want to keep them that low, of course - to see if I could get adapted very fast because we were in a dynamic phase of the burn. But my window just gave me a very deep purplish hue, a hue of which I could not, literally, see through to look to see any stars at all. Now, that may have been due to the very low intensity of our interior flood lights.
LMP: Bob, this is Jack. A little lay impression there. I think I - saw just about everything Gene was talking about - as far as his description - and felt like it was - although everything was an amazing experience, each one in itself, after each one was over, you could think back and say, "Yes, that's what other guys said it was like." The old Saturn V has got to be a pretty consistently per- forming vehicle. But - with the added night-time contrast, I think it made it probably the best ride any three guys have ever had.
CDR: Bob, I might add, that the S-I was, as usual, pretty shakey on lift-off. I saw all the maneu- vers as I called them out - the yaw and small re- verse roll. Going through max q, I got up to 25 percent; but my yaw attitude error was zero and my pitch attitude error probably wasn't even at - oh, certainly less than 2 degrees. After max q, she smoothed out by comparison quite a bit; and the S-II was a very quiet ride, a very smooth ride. However, you are always aware, due to just a little rumbling out in the S-IVB, that she was still burn- ing for you. The S-IVB, I think, was just a con- tinually - rumble but smooth or consistent ride, all the way through TLI.
LMP: And, Bob, from my rendez - from the right-hand rendezvous window when the tower jett occurred, there seemed to be a lot of burning particles 17/5 Tape streaming away from it. I could not see - did not notice or remember seeing the actual cover or tower burn itself; but I - we were inside the cone of the and with a lot of streaming. It looked very much like a sky rocket - portion of one at any rate. Reminded me of the Fourth of July out in Silver City a few years ago.
CC: Roger. Say, any time you got your Flight Plan handy, I've got a discussion here I'd like to run through with you on the - how we're going to re- cover those 2 hours and 40 minutes from the launch delay - and you'11 need to copy it into the Flight Plan. And then just wanted - want you to be ad- vised, we're not happy with the PTC. We get a half angle of about 17 degrees; and so sometime after the P52 coming up at 23:00, we'11 want to do another PTC, or initiate PTC again.
CMP: (Laughter) You bet he has. Okay. We've got the Flight Plan here, Bob. Which part of it are you talking about ...?
CC: Well, let's just talk some words here for a minute, and then I'11 go through some specifics that you can just write down on a page because you don't want to do it until a little later. Okay, what we're going to set up here - You will arrive at lunar orbit at the same GMT time. _le landing Sun angle - Sun elevation angle - and the camera settings and everything will be unchanged when you get to lunar orbit. To compensate for the 2 hour 40 minute late launch, we're going to hack 2 hours and 40 minutes out of the timeline. And we're going to - They'11 be out of the TLC timeline - and we're going to do it in two groups. And this is where you might want to start copying now, Ron. Delete 1 hour from 46 to 47. From 46 to 47, we're just going to delete the activities that are pres- ently scheduled at 46:30 to 47:00, you'11 perform at 45 - move those to 45. Let me read that again. Delete 1 hour from 46:00 to 47:00. The activit]_s that are listed at 46:30 to 47:00, perform at 4%:00.
CC: Roger, Ron. And then starting at 47, just take - just scratch 1 hour off of each time, just subtract 1 hour from each of those times up through 66 hours. Just subtract 1 hour from 47 up through 66.
CMP: Okay, we can do that. Subtract 1 hour from 47 through 66 hours.
CC: Okay. And then just for your information - you won't have to do it - but we're going to play the old simulator step-ahead game at 66 hours of the old time, which will be 65 hours of the new time. So however you want to call it, we'11 call you; and we're going to sync you up at 67:40 at that point. We'11 play the old step-ahead game there.
CC: Roger. It'11 be 65 hours of the new time or 66 hours under the old time; depends on how you want to look at it. But that's when we'11 sync you up.
CC: You'11 be in sync all the way out to that time; just - we're just going to delete and jump you to 67:40.
CC: And just another note of interest - You don't have to write this down - what - let's see; I'11 read it to you. The awake periods will be - on day 3, you'11 be 15 hours, 8 hours sleep starting at 11:33 CST; then at day 4, you'11 be 14 and 20 hours_ with 8 hours sleep. So - it actually Just shorl,ons a couple days there.
CC: The beauty of that - that Tommy came up with on that, Ron - is that all you have to do is go sub- tract those 1 hours and no more reading or anything else; just subtract them and we're in business.
CMP: Yes, it looks real fine.
CC: We're going to give Tommy a gold star for that one.
LMP: (Cough) Bob, this is Jack. I'm going to try and get a little exercise. I'd be interested to know how high I can get my heart rate just fooling around up here.
CDR: Bob, just to keep you and the people there thinking a little bit, today is a relatively short day; but it is a good day because it gives us a chance to again get acclimated finish our stowage and just generally go through all the things that have to be gone through for the rest of the mission. We've got 3 eating days today, and judging from what we're thinking and talking about now - that the last two are going to he sort of stretched into one eating period because three meals on this particu- lar day Just is not really going to be stomachable.
CDR: I think you'11 find out that our eating and drink- ing, for the most part, is starting off relatively slow; but - I think we'11 pick it up here by tomorrow.
CDR: It just felt like you lit in the other burner.
CC: Just for Jack's information, you're running in the 80s on your heartbeat. We saw a 91 or 2 there for a few minutes. Are you working - still working out?
LMP: (Laughter) Yes. That's sort of discouraging.
CC: I'm sorry, babe (laughter).
CDR: Hey, Bob, what was Jack running before he started that?
CC: He was running in the 6Os; the count's somewhere in the mid 60s.
CC: Kind of interesting, Jack. You slowed down, and then you're back up to 105 right now. Now you're slowing down again.
CC: Go ahead, 17; this is Houston.
CDR: Hello, Houston; this is 17.
CC: 17, Houston. Go ahead.
CC: Roger, 17. Go ahead. Roger, 17. Go ahead.
CC: Hello, 17; Houston. You read?
CT: Goddard voice.
CT: Roger, Goddard. I'm reading you loud and clear, Honeysuckle. I'm not getting to him.
CC: America, Houston. Stand by. If you read us, don't change anything in the cockpit yet.
CT: 17, Honeysuckle.
CT: Roger, Honeysuckle. I read you - -
CMP: Hello, Honeysuckle. 17's reading you loud and clear.
CT: Roger. We have a comm outage and I'11 be right with you.
CMP: Okay. Very fine. How are things down there today?
CT: Fine. Your ...
CDR: ... from here.
CC: Okay, 17; Houston. How do you read now?
CC: Okay. That was our network problem, not your problem on board.
CDR: Okay thank you, I just figured out what happened on my PTC. Here - with his exercises, Jack is shaking all of America in all three axes, here.
CC: Roger. He finally got to 115 on the heart rate.
CC: Roger. Got to find something to pin it on.
CC: Jack. Surgeon over here says you got a 120 on the heartbeat for a moment there - 122 right now. Okay, 130, Jack. 130. 140, Jack, 140.
LMP: Yes, glad we brought him along then. We found some use for him. Once an EECOM, always an EECOM. I have to cre - create my own g in order to run in place.
LMP: How high up did the heart rate get, Bob?
CC: We got you at 140, Jack. Were you running _n place? Is that - -
LMP: 140 was - Yes, I was - I'm underneath the right- hand couch holding on to the main Y-Y strut with my hands and running against the LEB.
CC: Roger. It worked real well. 140 and you were running in the mid-60's, so you picked up about - almost 70 beats there, no problem. The surgeon is very happy.
LMP: Roger. Well, I'm happy too. You know, it took a while to find a technique I was - initially, I got up to 90 with just isometrics - pushing against the couch, and the running is obviously what it takes.
LMP: But I don't - Bob, I don't I really don't f_] - I guess I lost you.
CC: Roger. We're with you. We had a little comm problem there as - you know, coning on this - as we were changing on the antenna - but we're with you.
LMP: Okay. Tghat's the heartrate right now?
CC: Right at - Stand by. We hs_d a data dropout, Jack, that's why I'm holding up. And it just came on and we'11 tell you in a second here. About 60, Jack. Right about 60 even.
LMP: Okay. That's where I was when I started, so that's - you certainly recover fast. I don't know whether that's faster than in one g or not.
CC: Well, we're happy with it - the Surgeon is happy with it, so it's good.
LMP: Well, I just - How does that compare - do they have any data on how that compares with the re- covery - say, the 5-minute recovery time on the ergometer?
CC: We can look it up, Jack, if you're interested. We - we'11 have to check your records, they don't have it right in front of us.
LMP: No big deal. I was just curious.
LMP: Okay. That's very interesting.
LMP: Bob, since we've got a few moments to talk - which I know we won't have later in the mission. Some- thing I don't ever remember happening, but it's happening now in the windows. That's the 1, 3, and 5, but not 2 and 4, is that in the center of the window about 6 or 8 inches in diameter, as you come through the night side of the rotation, you pick up a very light - oh, you might call it even a frost. Very light frost on the window - more like a - a moisture frost, film of moisture, or film of frost - not very thick like crystals at all. As you come through the sunlight, it tends to sublime away, but never - you never fully lose it until you go back into darkness again. The very artistic definite ice crystals that we had on my number 1 window over here yesterday - I think we reported to you this morning that they were gone or they sublimed away. But the impression they left on the window is still there; it's very sharp and very evident.
LMP: But they said that they had - -
CC: They kind of concurred with your
CC: - - weather report there, Jack.
LMP: Oh, lucky guess. I might say that the sub - the zero phase point that we're looking at is right at the northeast coast of Australia, and it's much brighter. Very - it's a very bright point now - oh, it's hard to say how far across. But, quite unlike what I mentioned being in the vicinity of the Samoan Islands earlier. And it's right at the shore, and it could be just that the shore area has somewhat choppier seas. So maybe - maybe the brightness of that point is a function of sea state, although I don't know exactly what type of seas it would take to brighten it up. I suspect choppy seas are better than long swells.
LMP: Except I got the movement wrong again. Although it does seem to have progressed west from New Zealand.
LMP: I take back what I said about forecasting Sydney's weather. I think that will - I would suspect that would move to the northeast like - now that I look - it seems like an earlier front, which is partly dissipated, had the same kind of motion, and now lies considerably north and east of the one I've been talking about.
LMP: I'11 talk to you later. I think you're - We're losing you for a little bit here.
CC: Okay, Jack. We're reading you loud and clear right now. Oh, you're going out a little bit now.
LMP: Okay, I was going to try to recover there from that last few statements. As I recall, the weather briefings that we had at the Cape last week, that - talking with Ken Nabor and Jim Nicholson do_n there, that the patterns we were seeing from the satellite pictures in their forecast - or analysis anyway, charts in the New Zealand part of the Pacific, those waves formed along the front would move north and then curve east. And that appears to be the pattern that was visible in one of the older fronts. And I suspect if that pattern would hold with the wave that's developed off the coast - right on the coast of New Zealand now, that it might move on up the western coast of New Zealand. We'11 probably have a chance to watch that the next few days and see what happens to it.
CDR: Okay, Bob. As I look at the clock, we're - just 24 hours ago we were about within our hold some- where. For this period yesterday we were in our hold, and I think it goes without saying; but we'd sure like to pass on our bit of gratitude and thanks for the response that the people down at the Cape came up with. And particularly at Marshall. I think we all knew no one would be going anywhere unless everyone was satisfied that we were going all the way. And that's certainly the way we felt, bet we do want to thank everybody who had a part in making that come true.
CC: Roger, Gene. I think it was a superb show between the Cape and Marshall and Houston and probably even Goddard, with the Network and Just about every- body concerned, really, had to do some work there to bring it off. And it went off real smoothly.
CDR: Yes. After flying with Stafford a couple of times and having that happen a few times back, I thought maybe he was aboard. 17/15 Tape
CC: (Chuckle) Okay. I think that was a first for getting a Saturn V to 30 seconds before ignition and - or rather actually 30 seconds before lift- off and holding there.
CDR: It got mighty quiet onboard about 30 seconds.
CC: I sure imagine.
LMP: We all felt like old hands the second time around, though.
CDR: Bob, I've been at that 30-second count one other time and it's no different the second time around.
CDR: But we do appreciate the work, and I think it's typical of - of what made this manned space pro- gram such a superprogram. The response of people like that.
CC: We concur with that, Gene, wholeheartedly.
CDR: And with that in mind_ tell everyone to stick around because there's a lot yet to be done.
CC: You better believe it.
CC: Roger. We're seeing it. It looks like you got a MASTER ALARM. Is that affirm?
LMP: Yes, sir. That's how we tell these days. Although it doesn't happen all the times and I guess as long as - Whenever we have that WASTE VENT, CLOSED, we probably wouldn't be bothered by it at night.
CC: Roger. That's - that's our feelings here, Jack.
CMP: Yes, that's pretty neat.
CC: A neat way to go scare up the fish, I guess. CMl° (Laughter) Right.
CDR: How are they doing today, Bob?
CC: Really fine, really fine. They're just - like I said, they're just really tickled pink, and Barbara said that she wants you to know she's going into quarantine until after the weekend here, until after landing.
CDR: If she goes into quarantine, it'11 be a space first.
CC: You got to be careful - -
CDR: Well, you know what to tell them - -
CC: - - about all this.
CC: You got to be careful now - The hotboxes are open - the hotlines are open at the houses there, so everything you say is being listened to.
CDR: Yes; okay. In that case, just want to say h_]]o and we're having a super good time looking forward to what's coming, and we thank you for the news, Robert.
CDR: And _y impression of the world, philosophically, I suppose you'11 be getting from time to time, but, it sure hasn't changed.
CDR: It's sure beautiful. It's sure beautiful and, looking back at it, there's several billion people who have got a lot to work for because it's one of the most beautiful sights we've ever seen here. sounding
CC: Roger, Gene. You guys are great and doing real great. We're pressing right on here.
CDR: I Just want to emphasize, Bob, that these first 2 days - of course, yesterday was a pretty good day, but today we're catching up and - and, as I say, on the food consumption, don't be expecting too much.
CDR: Acclimation and familiarity, and stowage and pre- paration, and enjoyment and relaxation - are ready to call it a day today, which is probably the most ideal day in the Flight Plan to put it, because it's probably the only one we'11 have.
CDR: Not that they aren't all going to be enjoyable.
LMP: Hey, Bob, your hourly weather report is due and - (laughter) I'11 wait awhile. I keep losing your comm.
CC: Roger, Jack. We're standing by.
LMP: Okay, I had a quick - quick look and just to bring you up to date, we're starting to be able to see the coast of Asia. The Philippines are wide open today. And the - that tropical storm Theresa that I mentioned I thought I could see - indeed, I'm sure that's what that little concentrated mass of clouds was north of New Guinea. And, I suspect, although I didn't get a good fix on it, that the folks in Guam may be in for some heavy weather.
LMP: Oh, and, Bob, I got another pair of pictures. And that would be up to 134.
CC: Roger. That's on November November, is that affirm?
CC: Good. Good show.
LMP: And that was taken - the last pass, about 10 min- utes ago, if you want to keep track of GET.
CC: Roger. Thanks, Jack; I'm doing that.
CC: Just for some information for Ron, in particular. We've evaluated the data from the mapping camera and the pan camera cycling there and it looks real good. Everything looks right normal.
CMP: Hey, that's outstanding. Good deal.
CC: 17, read you 5 by.
LMP: That's the strangest-sounding Bob I ever heard.
CC: He's taking a short break.
LMP: Okay. Good. Nice to talk with you. Hey, I don't know whether you were around, Gene, the other day when I was talking about the circulation patterns around Antarctica. We were looking then at the Indian Ocean - actually, South Atlantic in the Indian Ocean region. And you see the same pattern at about the same latitude, say 60 degrees south, where all the linear cloud patterns which presum- ably are - reflect the various cold fronts have - are arcuate with their convex sides, or more actually, almost pointed sides are all lined up in a west-to-east direction around that latitude. It's quite a spectacular appearing circulation pattern. And the little wave that I mentioned on New Zealand seems to be beginning to form another 11/19 Tape arrow or another convex point on that front that's fitting right into the same circulation pattern.
CC: Okay, coFy.
LMP: That would make four of those major convex i_onts that I can see from this view crossing - south of Australia up into the South Pacific.
LMP: On - on tha_ tropical storm that was Theresa, I don't know whether they're still calling it now - that now_ but I'm not sure it may be a little south of Guam. Guam may not be in trouble with that one.
CC: It looks like it's just a bit to the west of Manila there - about 5 or 6 degrees, no more than that. abo_. It looks like it's about 5 degrees west of Manila and asout 5 degrees south. And it is still called Theresa.
LMP: That center - that area that you just mentioned is very clear now - east of the Philippines. Did you say west or east of-tile Philippines?
CC: West of the Philippines.
LMP: Okay, that area that you mentioned, 5 degrees east, is very clear and 'the center of the - what appears _o be the storm that I'm speaking of, would be about 142 longitude and maybe 8 degrees north latitude.
LMP: _ich would put it south of Guam.
CC: Okay_ yes, you're over in the area between Guam and the Carolines, then.
LMP: Say again, Gene?
CC: You're over in the area between Guam and the Carolines, then. You're saying it would be just about due west of the Carolines, then.
LMP: , °.
LMP: Yes, you're probably looking at a - oh, I don't know - maybe a what - a 12-hour old prog, or something? APOLLO 17 AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION
CC: Yes, that's the one I had for launch date.
LMP: Okay. Well, it's - it's - moved quite a bit now, and I guess it's the same storm; still seems to be very well organized but quite concentrated and small.
CC: Okay. I'11 get a new prog in and compare your estimage there.
LMP: Okay. I think that's pretty good - those - 142 and 8 degrees would be pretty good center of that storm. I've got some pretty good coor - I can see Mindanao, and I can see the - let's see - just a second - what is that on Australia?
CC: Okay. We'11 get a satellite photo and bring it in here in just a bit.
LMP: Okay, Bob. That storm off the - Just off the southwest coast of New Zealand is still intensi- fying and has both high and low level clouds as you can see by shadow lines. It looks like it may go into pretty - pretty fair storm system. Borneo is very clear today; and, as is the_Phil - ippines. And as I mentioned, there's a - looks like a very strong frontal system that stretches from, oh, let's say, the south coast of - or southeast coast of Vietnam up - up between and across Tai - between the Philippines and Taiwan and across Taiwan. And right along, and I can't tell I think, just off - just south of Japan. I can't tell whether Japan is in the front or not. I'11 look at it some more. The strongest storm center that I can see on that is - is way north, and probably - Hokkaido is - has a fair amount of weather from that storm system. There seems to be a tropical depression just north of Borneo. A very strong circulation system north of Borneo and, I guess, just south of - of Vietnam.
CC: Stand by. Let me look at the prog over here a sec. Okay. We - it doesn't show on the old one; the new one is coming in there shortly, Jack.
LMP: Okay. If that is a developing depression, it's approaching Luzon and not very far away - 2 or 3 degrees of longitude now, although Luzon is clear.
CC: Yes, we - we've got the fronts. The leading edge of the front on our prog was past Korea and on Japan, and you've got it moving quite a bit further east there.
LMP: Well, I'm not absolutely sure -
LMP: I can't make out Japan spe - specifically yet; but it's clearly past Korea, and, by - by inspection, it looks like it would be also past Japan by now, the trailing edge of the front. However, the circulation center on farther north- east may be affecting Hokkaido, as I said.
CC: Roger. Like I said, the front on the old prog for yesterday showed that front on the other side of Japan, so it's moved across pretty well.
LMP: As I recall, they had a tropical storm called Sally that went into - ... a few days ago, and so I suspect this new one that seems - that I think I see between Borneo and Vietnam maybe something else; a new depression or I may be - be fooled by it.
LMP: Mainland China, Bob, was the last pass here. I can't see the Ear - see the Earth now, but Mainland China looked like it was clear as far as I could see. There might be another front quite a ways inland, but that gets right at the LM, and I can't tell. But Korea, Yellow Sea, and the regions of China south of there - Shanghai, Nanking and those places are - look as if they are quite clear today. I'11 check that again next time around.
CC: Roger. And, Jack, we are ready to terminate the charge on BATTERY B and start the charge on BATTERY A.
LMP: Houston, for your information, system test 7A is about 0.6.
CC: Say that again, Jack. I missed that. 0.6 on system test 7A?
LMP: That's affirm. Battery compartment pressure.
CC: Thank you, Jack.
LMP: Okay, Bob. BATTERY A is being charged now.
LMP: Bob, you got any of the LMies in there today?
UNKNOWN: LMies? Roger. They're all sitting by. Just gave me a big thumbs up, Jack.
LMP: Okay. Give them a thumbs up on the rendezvous radar antenna. It looks real good.
LMP: I'm nose-to-nose with it practically here at about 2 feet, and it's extremely clean. And I see absolutely no sign of any - anything abnormal with it.
LMP: Matter of fact, compared to some of the flaking problems and things like that we've heard about in the past, I never saw a cleaner piece of hard- ware that that LM looks right now.
LMP: Appropriately, finally we're getting - we're starting to use it during the Christmas season. It sure looks like a Christmas package with all the orange tape on it.
CC: Ron, we got your NOUN - NOUN 05.
CMP: Okay. I'11 go ahead and accept that one this time.
CC: We got the 9 degrees, Ron. You can torque.
CMP: Okay. I'11 torque at 940. 18/5 Tape
CC: And, Jack, we've been looking at our records. We don't have a previous SYSTEMS TEST reading for 7 Alfa. Do you recall any previous readings on that one?
LMP: Okay. That looks like another accumulator cycle - got a MASTER ALARM.
CC: We dropped data just then, Jack, so we can't concur or confirm it. That's exactly the right time - -
LMP: Bob, you cut out about your SYSTEMS TEST meter discussion.
CC: Roger, Jack. Do you have any previous 7 Alfa readings? We don't have any in our log here written. We're just wondering what the past readings on that were.
LMP: No, I think that was the first one we would have been called to make after a battery charge, right?
CC: Go ahead, Jack. I - you're coming in very weak.
LMP: Well, I didn't intend to be transmitting. We were Just discussing the battery vent and things. We may have missed something in the dump checklist. We'11 check it out.
CC: No, sir. We don't think so. We Just thought may- you might have read it earlier.
LMP: Oh, yes, you want the battery vent - It should be closed now, right?
LMP: Okay. Ron says it ought to be open.
CC: That - that's affirm.
LMP: ... checked the checklist.
CC: It should be open. That - there's no question about that. It should be open.
LMP: Okay. It's open.
CC: Really, there's no problem, Jack. It should be open, but the value appears a bit low to us, and we'd like to read it again before you go to sleep. We may want to close it. And a nominal reading would be 1.7 - -
CC: - - on that.
LMP: Okay. We - we closed it when we were doing all our dumping some time back and neglected to open it again. So, it was closed when I gave you the reading, and it has been closed during some 2 hours, anyway. I'11 - you can figure out how long.
CC: Okay. We - we copy that.
CC: Jack, would you mind opening the vent and watching the system meter concurrently with it?
LMP: Well, it's - it's CLOSED now, and it's still reading what it - 0.6. Do you want us to open it again?
CC: Roger. Open the VENT and - -
LMP: I mean, it's open now. I'm - I'm sorry, Bob. It is now open and reading 0.6. It read 0.6 when it was CLOSED.
CC: Okay. Just leave it open now.
CC: And we will want to still check it prior to your sleep period.
LMP: Okay, Bob, a little update on the coast of Asia. It looks like some residual cloudiness would be affecting the Pusan region of Korea. And, also, that's residual after the frontal passage. And it looks like maybe Shanghai, after all, may have some storms associated with it, but it's really hard to pick out exactly - the exact coast line of Asia, but I - there are some clouds in the Yellow Sea behind the front. Look like they might be possibly some high cirrus is all.
CC: Jack, do you still see that storm that you said was sitting between Guam and - Borneo in that area?
LMP: Okay. I see there is this cloud concentration between New Guinea and Guam. The more I look at it the less well developed it appears to me compared to some of the other circulation patterns. It could be just a residual depression from Teresa that has moved out into that area. It is an isolated, a relatively isolated cloud pattern, fairly small, but apparently fairly dense. But has - does not have a strong cyclonic pattern to it. Nothing at all like the pattern that now exists above Borneo and seems to be moving towards Luzon.
C: is 37.0; PYRO BAT A, 37.2; PYRO BAT B, 37.2; RCS A, 95; Bravo, 94; Charlie, 94; Delta is 96.
CC: Roger. We copy that. And if you've started it, we don't want you to reinitialize the PTC until about 2400 on the time line.
CMP: Okay. We're - we're jmst getting a little ahead - we - took us longer last night on the presleep than we expected. We're trying to work it out again.
CC: Yes. We don't to - we want to terminate the waste stowage vent at that time, because we think that that vent is what's contributing to our PTC coning.
CMP: Okay. We're - we're not - we're not really ready to go to sleep yet, but we're Just moving ahead.
CMP: And if it's okay, I'11 cycle the H2 fans.
CMP: Okay. The fans are off.
CC: Say, Jack, we got a request in here from our ARIA friends.
CC: They were Just wondering if your looking out that way_ if you could give them some sort of update of what the weather in the Wake Island - Kwajalein - the south of the Wake area looks like.
LMP: Okay. Let me work on that one.
CC: Okay. You're going to mearn - earn your American Meteorological Society badge here pretty quick.
LMP: Okay. Let me get the monocular, and we'11 look at Wake Island. I miss having all those nice latitude and longitude lines on the globe.
CC: ... there.
LMP: Okay, Bob. I'11 probably have to work on this one a little more, but - but it looks like around Wake, or in the vicinity of the Kwajaleins and north of Wake, about all you have is a lot of cloudiness although - and in a generally - over wide part of that Pacific, I'm talking about 15 or 20 degrees of longitude and latitude, there's a - roughly a clock - a clockwise circulation pattern. But the clouds do not look very dense or concentrated in any one area. And at leading off to the southeast from that general cloud mass, there're cyclonic - anticyclonic cloud mass is a - is one of the old fronts - or at least one of the old linear cloud patterns that extends down into the South Pacific.
CC: Roger, Jack. I'm sure that the ARIA troops are listening down at Patrick and caught all that.
LMP: Well, my guess is, Bob, and it's purely a guess, is that there - probably - if they were out there right now, would be experiencing an intermediate layer of clouds with scattered showers. And a not too strongly developed circulation system, so I can't predict the winds. But I wouldn't expect them to be anything - anything what might be down - associated with the remnants of the tropical depression Theresa. Now that Theresa - what's left of it, if I'm correct in - in picking it out there, probably is - is moving in that direction, although it looks weak enough. But right now I don't think it would be any big problem. And it may, in fact, go south of there.
CC: Roger. The prog I got in my hand for 3-hour-old weather has Theresa located just about in the Manila area. Did you concur with that, or do you think it passed the - the Philippines?
LMP: Well, I don't - Manila's clear. The only thing approaching near Manila is - is this other storm center that now is north of Borneo. And to the east of Manila, it's clear all the way over to this little cloud mass that I was guess might be Theresa.
CC: Roger. Ail I say, this is 3 hours old so - -
LMP: - - And that's about - I gave Gene Kranz some coordinates on it. You can look it up. Those were pretty good coordinates for that cloud mass. Now whether that's really Theresa or not, I don't know.
CC: We got one thing with - for the last couple of hours here, wefve been getting high-bit-rate data through our new facility - a new facility at Tidbinbilla. Tidbinbilla is to a 210 dish, and they're covering the first - -
LMP: - - between Wake in the Kwajaleins, Marshall Islands, in that area, it doesn't look like a very concentrated weather pattern, although it looks like you'11 have ceilings in that region. And they're overcast ceilings rather than broken. Except around the fringes of it.
LMP: We'11 keep an eye on it of course.
CC: Jack, how do you read us now?
CC: Okay, 17, for the last 2 hours, we've been getting high-bit-rate data from a new facility, the facility at Tidbinbilla and they're working their first Apollo flight ever, you might give them a cheery hellow.
LMP: Tidbinbilla, is that correct?
CC: That's affirmative. It's very close to the Honey- suckle base - -
LMP: Where is that?
CC: Very close to Honeysuckle.
LMP: Well, how you doing - how you doing mikes? We certainly appreciate you guys being on the loop for this one.
CC: 17, Houston. We'd like ACCEPT, and we'11 update your gyro drift, the pitch, roll, and yaw drifts.
CDR: Okay, got ACCEPT and P00.
CC: 17, Houston. The computer is yours. And you can go back to attitude and reinitialize PTC whenever you want to.
CC: The computer is yours, Gene - -
CDR: Go ahead. We're reading you.
CC: You can go to attitude and reinitialize PTC when- ever you want to.
CDR: Okay. Did you mean to leave the computer with VERB 21 NOUN 01 up?
CC: Roger. That's your computer with that - as you got it.
CDR: Okay; that's right. That's 14 62. Okay.
CC: Roger. We've got a recommended configuration for your H2 fans and H2 heaters. We would like the H2 HEATERS i and 2 to AUTO and H 2 FANS i and 2, OFF; 3 to AUTO. Your 02 heaters look good.
LMP: Okay. Let me verify that I've got these right. H 2 HEATERS 1, 2, AUTO. 02 HEATERS, 1 OFF; 2, OFF; 3, AUTO. H2 FANS - H2 FANS, you want OFF; OFF; and AUTO. Is that correct?
CC: That's what we want on the H2 FANS. And the 02 is fine, as you've got it.
LMP: Okay. They're OFF, OFF - Okay; H 2 FANS: OFF, OFF, and AUTO.
CDR: Okay, Bob. I just cleaned the suit circuit return valve screen, here. It was probably, as expected, a little crud on it. A few things have collected, but really not too bad.
LMP: Bob, a little more about Wake and the Marshalls and Kwajalein. That large pattern of what appear to be broken to overcast clouds in a - a clockwise circulation pattern - crosses the equator region now that I've tried to project that through.
CMP: 17, go ahead.
CC: Roger, Ron. When you stop the present roll on the PTC to reinitialize, pick a roll angle of 315 or 130 for stopping, so that we have good comm during the damping period.
CMP: Okay. 315 or 120, okay?
CC: 130, Ron.
CMP: Okay. 315 or 130. 18/13 Tape
CC: Roger. That'11 give us good cow to watch the data on the damping.
CC: Read you loud and clear, 17.
CDR: Okay. We're at 300. Do you want us to go to 315 yet, or is 300 going to be okay?
CC: That's good enough, Gene. And we'd like you to close your waste vent at this time, please.
CDR: Okay. It's CLOSED now.
CC: And, 17, Houston. We've got the same recommen- dation. We recommend Alfa and Bravo for damping; Bravo and Delta for spinup. Over.
CDR: That was Alfa and Bravo for damping and Bravo and Delta for spinup.
CC: That's affirmative
CC: If one of you want to break out the Flight Plan Supplement, we have a change to the E-LOADS on page 143 due to the change of gyro-compensation parameters. If you want to copy them down when you get the Supplement out.
CDR: Okay. We'11 give you a call.
CDR: Okay, Bob. We're in our - we're on our damping cycle now.
CC: Roger. We're watching you, Gene.
CDR: Bob, I just hit the control stick. It's locked again in roll; it may have bumped it a little bit.
CC: Roger, Gene. We copy. APOLLO 17 AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION
CDR: Forget it. We got it. I - I was left out.
LMP: Okay, Bob. On the film status, we're still where we were, November-November, 134. And I'11 prob- ably take two more pictures before we go to sleep.
CC: Okay. And, 17, if one of you are down in the LEB, could you give us a read-out on SYSTEMS TEST 7 Alfa?
CC: Roger. 7 Alfa equals 0.6.
CC: Stand by, Gor - stand by, Jack.
LMP: Okay. I've got - I'm going OMNI Bravo right now.
CC: We're in good shape on the corem, and we'11 be controlling the omnis.
CC: 17, the rates look great. We're ready to initialize PTC.
CDR: Okay, Bob. FTC is initiated.
CC: Roger, Gene. We copy, and we watch the roll start.
CDR: Hello, Houston. I think we've got everything done on the checklist. The chlorine has been - water has been chlorinated, we're in PTC, and I think Jack picked up everything else. How does it look to you?
CC: Roger, Gene. Let's - let us make a check through the room here, and then Just a reminder that I've got that addition on the E-LOADS for the - in the Flight Plan Supplement.
CDR: Yes. Stand by. Jack's going to keep the headset on and the biomed, and he'11 close you out with that and if there's nothing else, I'm going to go off the air.
CDR: Okay, say good night to my friends back there.
CC: We certainly will.
CDR: Hey, Just so that we know, it is about midnight, right?
CC: It's about 7 minutes after midnight, Gene.
CDR: Okay. Just didn't want - wanted to make sure it wasn't noon.
CDR: Good night there, Robert.
CC: Good night, Gene.
CMP: Okay. Say good night, Dick.
LMP: Bob? This is Jack. Your last report for the day as the Earth goes past window 5. The first thing I noticed was that our zero phase point is not nearly as bright on the west coast of Australia as it is on the - was on the east. And it's looking right at the coastline now and see no bright spot in the center. Also, that circulation pattern or tropical depression possibly that I saw earlier north of Borneo is now even more strongly developed at the tail end of the front that stretches up toward Japan. And it - it really looks like a humdinger from here. Beautiful circulation pattern and very concentrated. And it is now east of Vietnam, and again between Vietnam and - and the island of Luzon.
LMP: And I'd be very - be very curious to know tomorrow morning if you - you people are carrying that one on their progs or on their analysis chart.
LMP: Okay, Bob. You want me to erase something on page 1-43 and insert something else?
CC: That's affirmative, Jack. On 1-43 under column A, down at line 11 and 12 and 13. Just to make sure you're at the right spot, the line 11 O-data is O0115. Do you copy that? Do you see that?
CC: Okay. Change that line to 00377.
CC: Change line 12 to 00050.
CC: And line 13, 00523. Over.
LMP: Okay, I got that and (laughter) as you might imagine, when I said erase, I did. And do you have the 04 and the 05 again, please? That is, if they're pertinent.
CC: Stand by, Jack. I'm lost myself here a second.
LMP: See, you gave me an update on 30704 and 31005, and I just erased it.
CC: Okay. The 04 under column B is 34761, and the 05 line under column B is 15403. Over.
LMP: Okay. Here we go. In line Alfa, 314 11, 00377; 315 12, 00050; 316 13, 00523. In line Bravo, 307 04 is 34761; 310 05 is 15403. Over.
CC: Roger. We copy, Jack. Just a reminder to be sure and configure the comm per the presleep checklist. And, Just for your information, Jack, I - I hold you at 100,116 miles. I was going to give you a call at 100,000 even, and then I got talking to you. So you've crossed the 100,000 mark right now. Tomorrow, you're probably not going to be giving us our weather report. You'11 be too far out, but we'11 probably be starting to hear from the Moon, huh?
LMP: We're not going to see much of the Moon, you know. It's going to be pretty dark, so I'11 have to keep looking at the Earth.
LMP: Pretty good - pretty interesting place. Very interesting place.
CC: I'm real sure.
LMP: And I guess - I guess, maybe, I - 100,000 miles. My goodness gracious. That's impressive.
CC: Yes, sir. You're slowing down all the way, Jack.
LMP: Well, it's sure downhill all - all the way back, isn't it?
CMP: get off the line, and is he sacked out now, too?
LMP: Yes, I lost both those guys. They - they decided they wanted to sleep, and I may be rumbling around here for a while but I took - we all three took Seconal, so I think we'11 get to sleep before long.
CC: Roger. Just give us a call if you need anything, and we'11 be watching everything there, and pleasant dreams.
LMP: Now, you don't really mean that, do you?
CC: Well, I can't come up and tuck you in so - hope you have a good sleep. You need lots of rest up there, gang.
LMP: I'11 tell you, Bob, about halfway though this day, I think I acclimated. And I really feel good. I've been eating a lot better, and I'm not - the only thing I ever really felt was a slight headache. It really - not the fullness of the head that people described, I guess, but Just a little head- ache. I could have been looking at the Earth too much. I don't know.
CC: Roger, Jack. You've been sounding good.
LMP: Oh, actually, I feel - I've been feeling fine. Just - none of us have felt like eating. And that's probably normal, and everybody's eating more now, and we'11 start getting to sleep, I think.
CC: Roger. Jack, Just a reminder on that comm for the presleep checklist. It's important to us because we can get the - we can get high-bit-rate data mor e.
LMP: Bob, he cut out, but I'm in the comm sleep con- figuration now. I'm working that way.
CC: Okay. Ed Grindell was shaking his head for a minute. Now he says as long as you're working that way.
LMP: Bob, you still cut out. Let's try it again.
CC: No - no problem, Jack. Just a reminder on the comm; that's all. We're watching you go through the checklist here.
LMP: I'm on HIGH GAIN now, and OMNI Bravo selected.
LMP: How do you read, Bob, on the HIGH GAIN?
CC: Read you loud and clear, Jack.
LMP: Okay. And it's in REACQ and NARROW.
CC: Stand by. Stand by on that, Jack.
CC: Say, Jack, can we refer you to the checklist on S/1-27, a sleep configuration there, where you S-BAND SQUELCH, ENABLE, et cetera?
LMP: Roger. I'm ENABLED.
LMP: Oh, et cetera. Yes.
LMP: Okay. I'11 get to that in a minute, Bob. Who knows, I might have something else to say.