Otrobonita/noicy-space-talks huggingface dataset:
CC: Frc_ Lourenco Marques, Mozambique, this item. "Fresh floodwaters have poured into Portuguese East Africa's cyclone-stricken lowlands today, hampering rescue efforts for thousands of flood victims al- ready marooned 4 days. The central government said 135,000 persons lived in the worst-affected area around Quelimane, a_m_nistrative capital of the central Zambesia province. Only 24,000 people have been rescued, but Zambesia Governor Lieutenant Gen- Lieutenant Colonel David Ferreira declined to estimate the death toll." Good night, Fred.
MCC: Very good. Good night, Bruce.
CMP: Tremendous! (Laughter)
CDR: Very nicely done. Very nicely done.
CC: We had to censor the best parts.
CDR: That's too bad.
CDR: There will be a daily showing, I assume.
CC: Oh, (laughter), we'11 see what we can do.
CMP: Hey, Bruce. I'm going to take some pictures of this S-IVB area this time around. Do you want me to have the two strips at 24 frames per second for 2 seconds and everything Just like on the other sequence?
CC: 14, Houston. If you feel like doing a little paperwork here, I've got an update to the inflight erasable load procedure as a result of the new PIPA bias and gyro ccmpensation uplinked to you just prior to midcourse 2.
CMP: Okay, stand by 1, Bruce.
CMP: Okay, Bruce, go ahead.
CC: 14, Houston. Page 9-4 in the G&C checklist, load A for Albuquerque. Under identification number 03, the old value is 77143; new value, 76674. OID 05: old, 00110; new, 00320; OID 07: old value, 76745; new value, 77417; OID 11: old value, 00477; new value, 006 - make that 00063. Head back. Over.
CMP: Okay, under COllrmU A, 03, 76674; 05, 00320; 07, 77417; and 11, 00063.
CC: Roger; readback correct. For cyrogenic hydrogen management, we'd like to turn the heater in Hydrogen tank number 2 off, and our calculations show that your pericynthion altitude is currently 67 miles. As the period of our tracking improves, we expect this to work down towards about 60 nautical miles. And we have a question for you. Have you noticed any cosmic ray flashes during your last sleep period or at other times when the command module was darkened? Over.
CDR: One at a time, Houston. You say HYDROGEN 2 HEATER, OFF? Over.
CC: Roger; H 2 tank number 2 HEATER, OFF. We'11 call you when we want it back to AUTO or ON.
CDR: Okay, it's OFF now. And yea, verily, saw a few flashes. I'm not quite sure what they're ascribed to; but, nevertheless, We saw flashes during the sleep period last night.
CC: Okay, was this - -
CDR: Unfortunately, we were a little bit - we were a little bit too tired to conduct any sort of measured experimenter data with them, but maybe we will get around to that in the next few days.
CC: Roger. One question, would you say that you were dark-adapted when you saw these, or did you see them before you were well dark-adapted?
CDR: I will speak for myself. I didn't start seeing them until after I woke up, B or 4 hours after going to sleep.
CMP: Hey, Bruce, I had a c_ment I noticed on that last night. I'd wake up several times and I'd turn on the light to take a look around PTC and that 02 flow that's been troubling us; and then I'd close my eyes again, and I'd see same flashes real soon after I had been looking at these lights. Now they were rather subdued lights, but you know - I certainly wasn't totally dark-adapted.
CC: Okay, what sort of lights were you using, the floodlights or the integrals?
CMP: Using the integrals mostly; on several occasions, I did have the floods up to check, and then I'd turn them back off again. And it didn't seem to matter much.
CC: Okay, thank you, 14.
CC: 14, Houston. For your information. The pro- gram alarm was a 404 trunnion angle greater than 90 degrees. No problem.
CMP: Go ahead, Fred.
CC: I wonder if you can verify for us that you have H 2 tank number 1 to AUTO and H 2 tank 2 to OFF.
CMP: Okay, Fred. We just _went through the Hycon and everything checked out real fine and we ended up with magazine W on it.
CC: Okay. Copied. And, you ended up with maga- zine W.
CMP: Roger. That's per the plan.
LMP: Fredo, do they want these times - of these - at this point?
CC: That's affirm, Ed. I guess they'd like the times and they'd like how m,ny frames you used off the other MAG that was on there.
LMP: Okay. MAG V as in Victor. We started with frame zero and ended with frame g, before reset- ting the counter. The LTC clock is on day 764 and 07:30 corresponds to GET of 34:26:42.
LMP: Say, Houston. We could play a lot of tic-tac- toe in the next two or three pages of the flight plan.
LMP: I said, the next three pages of the flight plan are very bare. We can play tic-tac-toe all afternoon on those.
CC: Ail afternoon, huh?
CC: It's about 02:00 down here.
LMP: - - we Just had lunch a few minutes ago; it's afternoon.
CC: Yes, I have to agree with you about the next few pages. They do look pretty slim.
CC: The photo people would like - -
CC: Yes, the photo people would like to know if y'all got the S-IVB pictures using the dim-light Earth-side settings there, and about when you did that - if you remember.
LMP: Stand by. We took some pictures. Whether we got them or not remains to be seen.
CC: Is that a pun?
LMP: Roger. Say again.
LMP: Those pictures were completed at B4:0B:25, and they were on magazine J for Juliett.
CC: Okay. You got them at 34:03:25 on MAG Juliett.
UNKNOWN: a - LOI minus 5 hour flyby maneuver you pad for that we owe you about this time.
LMP: Roger. LOI minus 5 flyby.
CC: You got the good book out, ready to copy?
LMP: That's affirmative; let her rip. SPS/G&N,
CC: Okay. 63526; plus 0.90, minus 0.33; 076: 59: 31.54; plus 0382.3, minus 0104.3, minus 0008.4; 246, 208, 062; N/A; plus 0021.2; 0396.4; 0:56, 0391.2; 22, 211.7, 08.7.
CDR: Hold it, Fredo.
CDR: Start back with DELTA-V T, please.
CC: Okay. Delta-VT, 0396.4, and 0:56, 0391.2; 22, 211..7, 08.7. The next three lines are N/A. Then NOUN 81 - NOUN 61 are minus 27.86, minus 168.02; 1149.8, 36159. And the last item, GET .05g at 165:12:25. Under comments, GDC aline, set stars, Sirius and Rigel, are alined 230, p aline, 170; yaw aline, 002; no ullage. And the burn is SPS docked based on the PTC REFSMMAT.
LMP: Okay, I think I missed two items sent over: the NOUN 47 weight, and the _ figures there.
CC: Okay, the NOUN 44 is at - apogee was N/A; perigee, plus 0021.2.
LMP: Roger. NOUN 47, the weight?
CC: Okay. Weight, 63526.
LMP: Okay. On the LOI minus 5, SPS/G&N: 63526; plus 0.90, minus 0.33; at 067:59:31.54; plus 0382.3, minus 0104.3, minus 0008.4; 246, 208, N/A, 262; HA is plus 0021.2; 0396.4, 0:56, 0391.2; 22, 211.7, 08.7; boresight star, N/A; NOUN 61, minus 27.86, minus 168.02; 1149.8, 36159; 165:12:25. Sirius and Rigel at 230, 170, 002; no ullage. It's an SPS docked burn with PTC REFSMMAT.
CC: Okay, Ed. Everything's okay, except two items. Apparently the one of us got our flip flops wrong here. For the attitude block, yaw should be 062, and the NOUN 3B hours should be 076. and
LMP: Roger. The hours are 076; NOUN 3B; yaw is o62.
CC: Okay, good readback.
CC: 14, Nouston.
LMP: Houston, 14. Go ahead.
CC: I Just wanted to see if you all are still around there. You all been looking out the window lately back in this direction? Seen anything interesting?
LMP: No, I haven't looked out for a while. Got some- thing interesting for us to look at?
CC: I was asking you - if you had seen anything from that vantage point. Pretty dark down here where I am right now.
LMP: It's been an hour or so, Fred, since I took a look at either back in your direction or at the Moon. Let me see if I can see where you are now.
CC: Guesstimation on the terminator ought to be some- where around India, Pakistan; somewhere in that - along that line.
LMP: Houston, 14. We have the Moon out the hatch win- dow right now, Fredo.
LMP: And I presume then that the Earth is probably out the port telescope at this moment.
CC: I guess you'11 have to wait about another 20 min- utes or so for it to come up in the hatch.
LMP: Roger. Yes, I suspect also it's down Just a little bit too far for us to see.
CC: Let's see, how big a Moon are you seeing there? Is it about not quite a half or something?
LMP: Roger. It's short of a half; and, for size, it appears about like an orange held at - short of - Just short of arm's length .... subtends about a degree and a half now, a little less.
CC: Roger. And the board here has you at about 135,000 out now.
LMP: Okay, that'11 make it slightly over a degree then, I guess.
LMP: As you already know, Fred, the Moon starts to take on a little bit of brown - grayish colors about this point, as opposed to being so very bright as it appears from the Earth. You can start to see a little bit of texture here.
CC: Yes, that's a good word to remember, that texture business.
LMP: And, Fred, I have the monocular on the Moon now out window 5, and it - it's really starting to look very interesting from this point of view.
CC: They ought to look a little better in a couple of days.
LMP: I have the Home Planet out the hatch window now, and where did you say the terminator is?
CC: Oh, guesstimation is somewhere between the Sudan and India.
CC: And, looking at your position, overhead here, you ought to have the Philippines - mainland, the Far East in sight.
LMP: As a matter of fact, I do, Fred. There is quite a bit of cloud cover, and I'm having a little difficulty identifying landmasses. I'11 be able to pick it up by the next time around ...
CC: Yes. I was trying to give you a sunrise terminator there, Ed. I guess from your - I got some pic- tures here that tell me that what you're probably looking at is the sunset terminator, and that's running right through Australia and right across the coast of China.
LMP: Okay. Roger. That makes a lot more sense of it; I'm pretty sure I had the Australian Continent down at the bottom of my lighted area, and looking up across the Philippines. And there's a great deal of cloud cover in that area, but there are a few islands standing out. I believe that I can see the southern tip of India standing out without too much cloud on it.
CC: Roger. India should be right about at the - the edge.
LMP: Is there still a semisizable tropical storm off the east coast of Australia?
CC: Hey, I'11 ask somebody about that one, Ed.
LMP: Part of it seems to be in darkness right now, but I seem to be seeing about half of a very large - circulating airmass.
CC: Okay, stand by, Ed. We've got kind of a bad comm right now.
LMP: Houston, Apollo 14. Are you there?
CC: Okay, I think we may be back on good OMNI now, Ed. Go ahead.
LMP: Okay, I didn't have ...
CC: Say that last again, Ecl.
LMP: I say, I don't have very much viewing time on either the Moon or the Earth. As it swings past the window, it's very low; and I - we don't have - Just a few minutes window. But inviting on each it's a most and magnificent view. I 'm very glad we have Earth as a Home Planet. I hope we can keep it so it's inviting.
CC: Roger, Ed. Yes, again looking up at the big board I can - need to get about another 40,000 miles or so, then you'11 be more directly in the Earth/Moon plane, and you ought to have them pretty much cen- tered in the window about then.
LMP: 0keydoke. Thank you.
LMP: Roger, Fred. I'm watching - out the rendezvous - right-hand rendezvous window at the thermal skin on the LM. Right now -and it is in f%Jll-Sun out- side my window - and I observed as the Sun came directly onto it ... bands of heat and then cools off and pops back into shape again as the - it starts to cool off on the next cycle. It's - it Sun gives a rippling effect as the passes across it. It's very interesting.
CC: Okay, I heard a little bit of your onset there, Ed, before OMNI B got us again with the bad corem there. And, I guess LM-8 got built Just like LM-7, because I noticed that same sort of a thing there.
LMP: Yes. I guess that's what it's all about. The thermal protection - expands from the heat and con- tracts. And, this is sure doing it on each cycle.
CC: With respect to your weather question awhile ago, Ed, they say they do have a weak cyclonic storm to the west of Australia, but they're not showing any- thing to the east; and I - maybe I misunderstood, I thought you said you saw it over by the sunset terminator to the east.
LMP: Roger. It appeared to me by the sunset terminator ... a very - well, like a donut-shaped cloud but several thousand miles across. It might have been too large for Just the tropical storm they're talk- ing about. Couldn't be very widespread circulation.
CC: Yes, I guess they need to go look out the window down there, too.
LMP: Okay. APOLLO lh AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION
CC: Okay. We're ready to suspend battery charge on A.
CDR: Okeydoke.
CC: All filled up again.
CC: Go ahead, 14. LM/command
CDR: At B9 hours, the module DELTA-P is reading 0.75.
CC: Roger. 0.75.
CC: Is Ed around with a headset on?
CC: Okay, Ed. I'm not - -
LMP: I'm listening, Fredo.
CC: Yes. I'm not maybe clear on a question you had earlier about the ball valves with respect to time in the burn on MCC-2, but I do have some data here. And I think the crux of it is - is that if you use a few of the ball valves visually showing full OPEN to full CLOSED, you'11 be shifting your - what your're actually starting and stopping your clock by about a quarter of a second from the actual chamber pressure. But the total DELTA-Time is very close. On that burn, you would have clocked 10.15 versus 10.2 via PC'
LMP: Okay. You say had we measured PC' we would have clocked lO.15. Is that affirm?
CC: No. You'd have - from 90 percent PC down to 10 percent, you'd got 10.2 seconds. And if you'd started your watch with BANK A full OPEN to the BANK A needle showing full CLOSED, you'd measured 10,15. Except in the time -absolute time scale, you would have started and stopped your watch one- quarter second to the right. Because there is a lag in the - what I'm telling you is there - -
CC: There's a lag in those needles moving by about a quarter of a second from what the actual chamber pressure is.
LMP: Okay. I understand.
CC: I know you'11 be happy to hear that we won't have a need to do the uplink here at 39:40. The state vector looks in great shape as is.
CDR: Very good. Glad to hear that. You're right.
CC: We won't have to work that in this busy schedule here.
CDR: Okay. We'11 proceed to the next item.
CC: 14, your NOUN 93.
CDR: Okay, 93.
CDR: 04, 11, 00.
CC: Roger. 040, 11, 00.
CC: Okay. The PTC is divergent enough that it's not going to make it through the next upcoming sleep period. So we'd like for you to stop at about zero roll, and we'11 reinitialize. In the in- terim, you can do any venting or dumping you might have to do and - before cranking it up again.
CDR: ... at the moment with the food and everything.
CC: Okay. Okay. And either zero or 180 roll will
CC: And, 14; Houston. Who's duty cook tonight?
CDR: Ed Mitchell's in the pantry right now.
CC: Apollo lb, Houston.
CC: Okay. We'd like H 2 - H 2 tank number 2 to AUTO.
CDR: Okay. H 2 number 2 going to AUTO now.
CC: Okay, that's a heater switch, Al.
CDR: Got it, Fredo.
CDR: Houston, 14. We are ready with our crew status report and with the VERB 74.
CC: 14, Houston. Got a new CAP COMM now. Stand by 1 before you start that - report.
CDR: And - Houston, 14.
CDR: Okay, Gordon. Fred made his comment before you left, I guess you're - wanting us to reestablish PTC before we sack out. Is that affirm?
CC: Roger. We're waiting for a good OMNI to come up before starting that E-memory dump. One reminder is to complete all dumping before you - try to start the PTC again. And - a question. With respect to the 02 FLOW HIGH alarms you had yester- day and any that you might have had since, we're wondering if you're doing anything - different than normal procedures as far as the - waste management overboard drain or any other - outside drains that control 02 flow high problem. Over.
CMP: That's a negative on the - procedures. We're not doing anything unusual there. And, we haven't had any problems today. The 02 flow you saw a minute ago was when we were pumping up the cabin to 5 7. And - as far as the ones that - we had yesterday, we really don't have that psyched out.
CC: 14, Houston. We're ready for the E-MOD dump.
CMP: Okay, Gordon. VERB 74, and coming at you.
CC: Apollo 14, Houston. We're ready to copy your crew status report and onboard readouts. Over.
CDR: Okay. With respect to the crew status, it's excellent. We have a negative medical report. B7.0; 37.2; BAT C is PYRO A, 37.2; PYRO B, RCS A, 87; RCS B, 89; C, 86; D, 88. Now, we've taken it over 41:00:00.
CC: Roger, Al. Would you say BAT - C voltage again?
CDR: 37.0.
CC: Roger. We copy all those.
CC: Roger. We're within rate limits and looks like a good place to start the roll rates for PTC.
CMP: Okay. We're going to hang loose here for a few minutes before we spin it up.
CC: Stu, when you do get ready to spin up, let us know before you do, and we'11 catch it at a good point to start it and give you a GO. Over.
CMP: Okay. That sounds like a good plan. We want to make sure that we've got all the activity quieted down before we spin up.
CMP: Okay, Gordon. I think we're through with our - all our venting - for the present time. And any time you say, we'11 spin up.
CC: Okay. Stand by. I guess we want to wait here a little bit.
CC: Apollo 14, Houston. It looks good now for start- lng spinup.
CMP: Okay, Gordon, we'11 give it a go.
CDR: This is 14, go ahead.
CC: Roger. I'm sorry to have woken you up if you'd dozed off, but we'd like you to check the S-BAND NORMAL MODE VOICE switch, OFF, and try to go on to sleep then.
CDR: Okay. Stand by. APOLLO 1_ AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION REST PERIOD - NO COMMUNICATIONS
CDR: Houston, Apollo 1_.
CC: Apollo l_, this is Houston. Go ahead.
CDR: Good morning, Bruce. We're reading you loud and clear. We've completed our postsleep checklist. We have the readouts for you when you're ready to copy.
CC: Roger. Go ahead with the postsleep checklist.
CDR: Okay. The checklist is complete. We have the following readings: for dosimeter, A1, 16041, slept 5 hours; Stu, 01038, slept 7 hours; Ed, 6-1/2 05038, slept hours.
CC: Okay, 14. Understand. Al 16041 and 5 hours; Stu 01038, 7 hours; Ed 05038, 6-1/2 hours. Over.
CDR: Good morning, Bruce. Go ahead.
CC: Roger. I don't want to interrupt your eat period, but when you have a convenient time, I have a - plan update for you. It's a fairly lengthy one. Nothing in the immediate future though.
CDR: Okay. Stand by. Roger, stand by for about 5 min- utes or so, and be advised we completed the Li0H canister change at 5:00 hours and the LM/cow,,-nd module DELTA-P at 50:59 plus 0.95.
CC: Understand 0.g5 for the DELTA-P at 50:59.
CMP: Hey, Bruce, I'11 take that flight plan update. Proceed.
CC: Okay, Stu, here we go. You may want to Just get out the flight plan and mark out the items as we go along, or you can copy it down, either way.
CMP: No, I'd rather work on the flight plan. You give me the right places to go.
CC: Okay. Up through 59:20, that's 59 plus 20, every- thing is nominal. And from there on, you take the LM/CM DELTA-P vent at 59 hours and 25 minutes and move that up to 59 hours even. LM/command
CMP: Okay, we'11 move the module DELTA-P vent up to 59 even.
CC: Roger. Take the P52 that occurs at 59:45 and move it up 10 minutes to commence at 59:35. Over.
CMP: Okay. We'11 shoot a P52 at 59:35.
CC: Roger. At 60 hours and 20 minutes, you have em 02 fuel cell purge and a waste water dump listed. We want to move those up to 59 hours and 50 min- utes. That's 59 plus 50.
CC: You still with me, Stu?
CMP: Okay, Bruce, I moved the fuel cell purge. Yes, I was Just ... m-Wing - getting it all in here, Bruce. Moved the fuel cell purge and the waste water dump to 59:50.
CC: Roger. Delete midcourse correction number 3. Over.
CMP: Jolly good. We'11 strike out midcourse
CC: Okay. Now, everything scheduled between the times of 60 plus 55 and 64 plus 10 should be scheduled i hour earlier. And if you look at 64 plus 10, the breakpoint there comes after the VERB 48, and we're going to have a write-in that says establish PTC at 63:10, and Li0H canister change comes at the nominal 64:12. Over.
CMP: - - read this one again, then. Everything from 61 hours to 64:10 is moved up an hour. Is that affirmative ?
CC: Roger. Starting with the prepared transfer items per LM Activation Checklist and all that stuff.
CMP: Okay, we'11 move that up i hour.
CMP: Okay. I've got that. Everything from 61 to 6_:10, move up an hour.
CC: Roger, Stu. At the time of 63:10, following the IA{ housekeeping activities, reestablish PTC. Over.
CMP: Okay, we go to PTC at 63:10.
CC: And perform the lithium hydroxide canister change at the nominal currently scheduled time of 64:12, and pick up the normal flight plan timing in se- quence afterwards. Over. canister
CMP: Okay. We'11 change the at 64:12 on time and plan. then be back on the flight
CC: Roger. And I have a 51-hour consumables update for you, if you're ready to copy back at 51 hours.
CMP: Okay, let her rip, Bruce.
CC: How do you read me, Stu? I think we're in the process of changing antennas.
CMP: I read you 5 square. I'm ready to copy.
CC: Okay. GET of 51 hours even; RCS total, 84 per- cent; Alfa, 84; Bravo, 83; Charlie, 84; Delta, 84; H2 tank l, 79.3, 79.7; 02 tanks, 92, 91, 45. Over.
CMP: Okay, got you at 51 hours; total, 84; Alfa, 84; Bravo, 83; Charlie, 84; Dog, 84; H2, 79.3, 79.7; 02, 92, 91, and 45.
CC: Roger. And you may be interested in knowing that at the present time you are only 20 pounds of RCS fuel below the nominal; so, you're really gaining on it there.
CMP: I'm sorry, Bruce. You - you busted up; would you start over again, please?
CC: Roger. With respect to total RCS fuel, you are only 20 pounds below the planned RCS budget at the present time, and you are 2 - -
CMP: Okay. That's broken up pretty badly. I can read we are 20 pounds below nominal.
CC: Okay, Stu, how do you read now?
CMP: Okay. I'm back with you, and I copied the 20 pounds.
CC: Roger. And that's really closing in on the nominal there. A couple of other items that came up while you were asleep is that we're going to go ahead and exit PTC for the LM housekeeping, since we want to have the TV up for it. And - we'11 Just go ahead and dump the waste water, anyway; or, wait a minute - wait a minute, I'11 run that by again. We need to dump the waste water, which will ruin PTC; con- sequent/v, we're going to come out of PTC for the I2_ housekeeping and have a good TV attitude to boot. One item is that I believe you went to sleep with 16:20 showing on the DSKY, which was continuously updating during your sleep period; and unless you have strong feelings otherwise, we would rather have a blank display up on the DSKY to keep from cycling the little read switches all the time. And another flight plan item, at 55 hours even or thereabouts, we intend to request another set of photographs of the S-IVB from you using the data acquisition camera and the sextant. We'11 have an updated NOUN 88 for you later on. Over.
CMP: Okay, and say that time again, Bruce.
CC: Roger; 55 plus 00. Over.
CMP: Okay, and we'11 blank the DSKY.
CC: Okay. No need to blank it now - -
CMP: For sleep that is.
CMP: No, I understand. For sleep - for sleep we'11 put it to rest.
CC: Roger, Roger. And when you all get your break- fast well prepared and you're feeling in a Jovial mood up there, why, we'11 proceed with the Bruce and Bo show on the morning news.
CMP: Okay, hang on till we all get tuned in. We sure wouldn't miss want to that.
CC: It'11 be a couple of minutes yet. We Just got the paper here, and we're editing it right now.
CMP: Okay .... IVB, Bruce; I was thinking about that sextant. what you - I could see through the You know, I had two - it looked like two dim stars in in the - the sextant at that pointing attitude. And, any I didn't see tumbling motion at all on either one of them. And they were separated prob- ably by - roughly half to three-quarters of a de- gree; I'd say 0.5 to 0.6 of a degree separation between the two, but I really couldn't see any- thing that would determine whether I was looking at the S-IVB or a star, a faint star.
CC: Roger. We copy, Stu - -
CMP: I really expected the - I guess I really expected the S-IVB to be a little brighter than either one of the two objects that I looked at.
CC: Okay, stand by a second, please,
CC: iL, Houston, Stu.
CC: Yes. We've Just received the intelligence down here that your family is having lasagna for your breakfast. Over.
CMP: Oh, man; that's - that's good timing.
CC: We thought you'd enjoy hearing about it.
CMP: There's nothing better for breakfast than lasagna, unless it's a sausage-onion sandwich.
CC: (Laugh) Very good.
LMP: Houston. Apollo l_.
LMP: Roger, Bruce. I have a few observations about the light flash experiment that I'd like to pass on, and perhaps you can generate some information from it that might be useful to us.
CC: Would you stand by a minute, please, Ed.
CC: Apollo 14, this is Houston. Ed, go ahead with your commentary on the cosmic ray light flashes, and we'11 digest what you've got and give you our views back probably in a couple of hours. Over.
LMP: Okay, Bruce. First of all, let me say we all de- cided to try to dark-adapt, and run the experi- ment, or at least part of it, last night. I think our experience was that we probably saw one flash after dark-adapting and promptly fell asleep be- fore we saw any more. At least that's true in my case. I think A1 and Stu stayed awake a bit longer. However, I think we have seen only three types of flashes so far. What we would probably call a star, a supernova, and a flash - or rather and a streak - and I think that I have seen some - I for - don't recall a name we tagged to them, but reminiscent of the lightning flashing in - in be- hind the clouds. Those are the only ones that we have really identified, and it takes awhile to realize what you are seeing, because it happens so Quickly that it takes a little bit of practice before you can really recognize these things. I think perhaps after watching them for another per- iod or so, we will be a little more experienced at it and be able to do a more creditable Job of dark-adapting and getting the sort of data that would be liked. MY experience is that even the so-called star, the supernova, are not as clean a phenomena, or clear a picture, as I had in my mind that they would appear. There still - still seem to be at least two flashes; maybe a bright flash, followed an instant later by a more subdued flash, or perhaps a halo-like effect. It doesn't seem to be - there does not seem to be a set pattern in each case. Sometimes it's a very clear single flash. Sometimes it seems followed by a halo; sometimes it seems followed by an adjacent flash. I guess that's about all I have to say at the moment.
CC: Roger, Ed. I think we've copied all of that ...
CMP: I'd like to add a few - - I'd like to add a few comments on that too, Bruce.
CMP: Hey, Bruce. Do you read?
CC: Roger, 14. Go. know,
CMP: Okay, Bruce. I'd like to make - You you asked yesterday about whether we saw them before we were da_rk-adapted. So, last night I took my flashlight and shined it in both of mM eyes; and, of course, you know, that should ruin your - dark-adaption that you would have. And in fact, you know, you got the - the residual glow in your eye for a minute and then closed them and, in one case, less than a minute, I had started seeing the flashes. And on the second time around, I'd sam it's probably around 2 minutes before I started picking them up.
CC: Okay, Stu. And were you seeing - when you started seeing them, did you see a number of flashes? Ed reported, I think he saw Just about one before he fell asleep.
CMP: Well, what we did was we set the timer on 20 min- utes, end I heard the timer go off and by that time I had only seen four or five flashes that I could recall. However, at some other periods dur- ing the night - That isn't when I did the flash- light routine; that was later on - more toward this morning when I started playing with the flash- light - and I - in one case, I saw one and then followed not too long after that by four or five and then - haven't really picked up any pattern on that. You may see one and then three or four, and you may see one and wait awhile. I can't really - it's a little difficult to time in the dark, you know, and get a feel; and, as far as the types of them- -
CC: Okay. We're switching antennas, Stu.
CMP: Three types. However, my super - supernova, there's explosions in one, and very rare; I'11 see a - a - a discrete pinpoint of light for a minute, and then the streaks I've noticed are all - what I would consider over at the periphery of my - of my vision. It - it appears that almost all the streaks are right along the edge of my eye, and I get the - get the impression that the majority of these are running, say longitudinal with the axis And of my body. it seems rare that I see a streak vision. that's right - right in the center of my
LMP: This is Ed. I'm - I have had a little different than think experience Stu has. I don't that I have seen quite as msny streaks as he seems to. But I have seen some that appear to be going from right to left, near the center of the field of vision. However, I have mostly been concentrating on trying to identify the types, as opposed to lo- cating them and getting their frequency. I did observe one right after we started to dark-adapt, about 20 seconds. But nothing after that. And, as I say, I think I fell asleep sometime within a couple of minutes after that.
CC: Do we have any observations from the Commsader?
LMP: No. He's busy cooking breakfast right now.
CC: Oh, Roger. And I guess we Just went through an antenna switchover; and we've got some news here, if you all ready.
CDR: I have only one comment. I think the echo of the other - on the light flashes. They do seem to be random, sort of a showery-type pattern. They are visible in a darkened cabin within a very few min- utes after turning the lights off - probably as small a time as i or 2 minutes. And I've - as far as the characteristics of the flashes are concerned, I've observed about what the other guys have.
CC: Roger. We copy, Al.
CC: 14, Houston. Are you interested in some news?
LMP: Roger. Press on.
CC: Okay. From the sports world, "Marquette's streak- ing Warriors continued to hold forth as the Nation's top-ranked college basketball power, Monday while unbeaten Southern California displaced defending champion UCLA in a runner-up spot. Houston, 15 to 3, is a newcomer to the top 20. The Cougars, who play Long Island U in Madison Square Garden Thurs- day night, move into the number 18 spot. USC and UCLA will collide Saturday at Southern Cal." Too bad we don't have a TV uplink for you.
UNKNOWN: nice.
CC: 14, this is Bo Bobko. How do you read?
LMP: Good morning, Bo; loud and clea_. How are you?
CC: Just fine, sir. This is Washington, Associated Press. "The Food and Drug Administration said tests on compressed fish products such as frozen dinners, fish sticks, and fish cakes show mercury content well below the danger level. The FDA said Monday, 'More than 80 samples contained an aver- age mercury level of 0.06 parts per million. Under FDA guidelines, fish with a half part per million is withdrawn from the m_rket.' "
LMP: Seems reasonable to me.
CC: "The chill blast of a February norther blew into Texas Monday, dropping the temperature sharply after the s_mmer-like weather which closed out last week. January's last day saw temperatures in the 90's in several points in deep-south Texas. And it was one of the dryest months ever back here in Houston - in Texas. The Dallas weather sta- tion, for example, measured 0.16 - that 's 16/100ths - of an inch of rain against the normal 2.32 inches for January."
CC: "The Rarest Atom Particle Reported Found," New York, Associated Press. "Physicists from the University of California reported Monday, they have discovered the rarest and the most elusive of the nuclear particles within the atom. They found the particle's track in a photograph of a nuclear interaction, an inch-long footprint it left during its brief lifetime of 15 billionths of a second. The particle is called the antiomega- minus baryon part - antiparticle, the mirror image of matter as we know it on Earth. The discovery is related to the idea that somewhere out there in space there are galaxies made up of antimatter, Just as galaxies or star clusters, such as the one we live in, the Milky Way, is made up of matter."
CMP: Hey, Bo. I think I saw one of those Just go by the window.
CC: Grab it, quick.
CC: Hey, Stu - -
LMP: How long did you say the track was that - Bo - how long did they say the track was that they had seen?
CC: "An inch-long footprint it left during its brief lifetime of 15 billionths of a second," they said. "We had a standing offer of a case of champagne to whoever found it, Goldhaber said. When I get back to the lab I have to deliver."
CC: Do you think Stu qm_,lifies for one also?
CMP: Aw, let it get away, Bruce.
LMP: Hey, that's a pretty great piece of news.
CC: Okay. 'IOn Wall Street, investors bought heavily on Monday giving the Dow-Jones Industrial Average its highest single-day gain of the year. The Dow-Jones average of BO industrial stocks closed up at 877.81, up 9.B1 points, for the biggest one-day Jump in '71. Trading was heavy throughout the session, with the New York Stock Exchange ticker backed up a minute or more several times during the day. The tape was B minutes late at the close."
CC: Washington, UPI. "The a_m_nistration is consider- ing a pollution tax, such as a levy on emissions of air-polluting sulphur dioxides, in an effort to give industry an incentive to clean up, Presi- dent Nixon's Economic Report said Monday. The report, prepared by the President's council of economic advisors and sent to Congress under Mr. Nixon's signature, said a tax may be a more effective way to control pollution than direct Government regulatlon."
CC: "At 9:OB tonight, the Apollo 14 crew will begin operating under NASA's own version of daylight savings time. The readjustment of the mission clocks will bring the flight back to the actual real time - parentheses - Greenwich mean time - parentheses - for activities as scheduled in the flight plan. At 9:03 p.m., the flight will be 54 hours into the mission. However, under the plan, nominal flight the 54-hour mark should have been reached at 8:23. To correct this, the crew will move their mission elapsed time clock ahead 40 minutes to coincide with the real-time clock."
CC: This is by Francis Dobbs, Austin. "A bill creating an upper level college at Clear Lake as a branch of the University of Houston has been approved by the Senate Education Committee. The bill, intro- duced by Senator Chat Brooks of Pasadena, will create the University of Houston Clear Lake Campus primarily to serve six area Junior colleges. A proposed 360-acre campus is adjacent to the Manned Spacecraft Center. The proposed college must be started immediately, Hoffman said, for two reasons. To be of service to San Jacinto Junior College, Alvin Junior College, Brazosport Junior College, Lee Junior College, College of the Mainland, and Galveston Community College and to help limit en- rollment at the University of Houston's main cam- pus to 30,000." And then on later it says that the University of Houston Clear Lake would accept students with 56 or more semester hours and would offer degrees to the master's level.
LMP: That's pretty interesting news.
CC: Rochester, New York. "Brooks Robinson, outstand- ing player in the World's Series with his glove and bat, was named Monday night as winner of the Annual 21st Hickok Professional Athlete of the Year Award. The 33-year-old third baseman of the baseball champion Baltimore Orioles won by a large mm_gin over another veteran, 43-year-old George Blanda, quarterback of pro-football Oakland Raiders. Robinson, who hit 428 in the World's Series and made a series of spectacular fielding plays in the five-game triumph over the Cincinnati Reds, re- ceived 62 of the 146 first-place votes by a panel of sports writers and newscasters." And that winds up the news for this evening down here, this morning up there. Goodnight or morning, Bo.
CC: I'm going home and have dinner.
CDR: I thank you guys.
LMP: Still don't understand that bit about changing the time on the Apollo 14 crew. I can't figure what those guys are doing.
LMP: Hey, that was a good newscast. You know you're pretty high in the ratings up here.
CC: Okay. Thank you. Appreciate it.
CC: 14, this is Houston. When you're configured in a suitable VHF mode for the S-170 bistatic radar frequency check, give us a call; and then, we'11 secure the S-hand uplink for about 5 minutes on you. There's no great rush involved in this.
CMP: Okay. We'11 start configuring now and give you a call.
CC: Roger, Houston. We're configured on the flight plan at 52 hours. Standing by.
CC: Roger. We're going to go ahead and secure our S-band uplink.
CC: Belay that, 14. We're going to wait until your rotation in PTC brings us around to the point where we can utilize OMNI Bravo for the frequency measurement. I'11 give you a call Just prior to our turning off the uplink.
LMP: Houston, 14. Speaking of daylight saving time, our Sun comes up very regularly every 20 minutes.
CC: Roger. We copy. That's probably not unreasonable for the sm_ll-size planet you're in right now.
CC: Apollo 14. This is Houston. We're going to secure the S-band uplink for approximately 4 min- utes - 5 minutes at this time. If you need us for anything, Just give us a call. We can still receive you. We still have TM, and we would bring the uplink back up. Over.
LMP: Roger. You're turning the S-band off now. Is that affirm?
CC: Roger. We are turning the uplink portion of the S-band off at the present time.
CC: Apollo 14. This is Houston. On S-band, we have the uplink back up. We would like to leave the VHF configured as is, however, until we give you another call about 20 minutes from now. Over.
CC: Apollo 14, Apollo 14, this is }{ouston. How do you read?
CMP: You're loud and clear, Bruce; 14.
CC: Roger. As you may gather, we have the uplink back up at this time. We'd like to rem-tn in the ex- isting VHF corem configuration until we give you another call, however. That'11 be about 20 min- utes from now. Over.
CMP: Okay. We're easy to get along with. We'11 stand by in this configuration.
CC: Roger, Ed. Down at the Cape, there's a Thor Delta with a NATO communications satellite on it that is about i minute and 40 seconds from ignition. If you're in such an attitude that you can view the Cape, you might try a P22 and pick it up in the sextant. Latitude, 28.5; longitude, over 2, 45.5. I say again, 28.5 and 45.5. That's your option. Over.
CC: Okay. I don't think we're going to be around in time. Al's looking at the Earth out the window 5 right now.
CC: Okay. Maybe you could try the monocular. But that probably doesn't hold much hope.
CC: You want me - -
CMP: Yes, he's got the monocular out now and that's 28.5.
CC: Roger. 28.5 latitude - -
CDR: Say again those coordinates - -
CC: Latitude, 28.5; and longitude over 2, 45.5.
CMP: Okay. 28.5, 45.5. We'11 try it. And Al's looking with the monocular now.
CC: Roger. Longitude over 2 is negative 40.5; negative 40.5.
CMP: Okay, minus 40.5.
CC: Okay, Stu; B, 2, 1, ignition, down at the Cape.
CMP: Okay. I - I didn't get the optics on; the Earth wasn't quite around. It Just went out of the number 5 window Just before you come.
CC: Roger. We Just thought we'd send the info up, in case you happened to be in a handy attitude.
CC: Roger, Al. We thought you might be interested in knowing that we have a Dr. House down here at the Surgeon's console for a few minutes watching the progress of the mission.
CDR: Good evening, William. Glad to have you aboard.
CC: He's waving back.
CDR: Tell him everything is fine, Bruce.
CC: He Rogers that.
CC: 14, this is Houston. We've concluded the VHF measurements. You can turn VHF RANGING, and the VHF switches, OFF.
CMP: Okay, Bruce, did you get the torquing angle?
CC: That's affirmative, Stu. And do you have a time for us?
LMP: Hello, Houston; 14.
CC: 14, this is Houston. Loud and clear. We have your torquing angles. Do you have the time for us?
CC: Apollo 14, Apollo 14, this is Houston; can you read?
CMP: Okay, read you loud and clear, Bruce. Did you have lockup? Did you get the torquing angles?
CC: Roger; we've got the torquing angles. Do you have a time at which you torqued for us?
CMP: Roger; that was 53 plus 11 plus 30.
CDR: Okay. Will do. Battery Bravo.
CC: 14, Houston. I've got a string of pads here for you, starting off with our flight-plan update and then a little later a Tephe m update and two maneuver pads. When you're ready to copy, let me know.
LMP: Roger, Bruce. Some figures here - we're Just finishing up on the experiments. We '11 be ready in a minute.
CDR: Houston, Apollo 14 is ready to copy.
CC: Roger, 14. On the flight-plan update, at 55 plus 40 PGET LOU, we'd like to perform some more S-IVB dim-light photos while in PTC using P52 with the following NOUN 88 unit vectors. Now - Stand by.
CC: 14, this is Houston. How do you read?
CDR: Okay. We're reading loud and clear.
CC: Okay. Did you copy any of that?
CDR: Just how do you read us; that's the first part we got.
CC: Any of the flight-plan update?
CDR: Negative. We haven't ...
CDR: Houston, 14. We're not reading you.
CC: Okay. How now, 147
CC: Beautiful. All right, flight-plan update at 55 plus 40 PGET LOU, perform S-IVB dim-light photos while in PTC using P52 with the following values for NOUN 88. Ri: minus 47601, minus 79244, minus 38131. Camera procedures and film magazine will be identical to those for the Earth dark-side photos. The S-IVB should be visible in the sextant between roll angles of 078 degrees down to 005 degrees. Over.
CDR: Okay. At elapsed time of 055:40, we will again take the S-IVB photographs in the P52, NOUN 88, minus 47607 , minus 79244, minus 38131, using camera magazine and Earth side - Earth dark-side photographs. The sextant roll angles including 078 down to 005.
CC: Roger. Readback correct. And that 55:40 time is the post-GET lift-off update time and - we're preparing to give you a lift-off time update now.
CDR: Understand. That's the new time.
CC: 14, Houston. Tephe m update. Over.
CC: Roger. Tephem: OID 03, 00006; identifier 04, 35223; identifier 05, 16020. The DELTA in time is 40 minutes 02.9 seconds added to GET and subtracted for a Tephe m. Over.
CDR: Okay. The update identifier 03 is 00006; identi- fier 04, 35223; identifier 05, 16020, the DELTA-T, 40 minutes 02.9 seconds, add to GET.
CC: Houston. Roger. Out. And I have an update to your lift-off plus 60 pad.
CC: Okay. On P37 lift-off plus 60, 060:00, 5381, minus 165, 117:00. Over.
CDR: Roger. GETI is 060:00, 5381, minus 165, 117:00.
CC: Readback correct. I have a change to the previously passed SRS/G&N flyby pad P30 for you. Over.
CC: Roger. The time of Tig, NOUN 33 should be and 077:39 minutes 34.44 seconds, down at the bottom of the pad, GET of .05g should be 165:52:28, and both of these last pads assume the GET update. Over.
CDR: Okay. NOUN 33 of the LOI minus 5 is 077:39:34.44 and GET is 0 - .05g, 165:52:28. The rest remains the same.
CC: 14, Houston. We observe you're in POO. If you can give us ACCEPT, we will send you a state vec- tor update to improve your pointing accuracy for the S-IVB photography and a lift-off time update to adjust the GET in accordance with the pads that we've passed you. Over.
CDR: Okay. And,
CC: 14, we're going to hold off for a few minutes here on the uplink until we get a good antenna switchover and then we'11 be comi ng at you.
CDR: Houston, Apollo 14. The metal composite specimen number 4 has been cooked and cooled and recorded.
CC: Thanks a lot.
CC: 14, this is Houston. The uplink is completed. I expect you'11 want to reset your mission timers.
CDR: Okay. We'11 do that. And we'11 also call 17 06 so you can look at Tephe m.
CDR: Houston, Apollo 14. Would you check R3 Tephe m for us ?
LMP: My update was 16020.
CC: Okay. Stand by. Be glad to -
CC: Okay. I've got a few words on the T situa- ephem significant tion. Probably the most - -
CC: - - Probably the most significant part of the whole discussion is that both values of T ephem are correct, and the way that they arrive at this is as follows. The left-hand-most digit of the octal representation of T is coded to include ephem a sign. If you break the left-hand-most digit down into the 3 binary bits, the first bit being zero represents positive. The first bit being a one represents negative. In the value of Tephem update on the pad, you'11 notice that in the R3 load it was 16020 which is a positive 16020. In the value that you read out of the command module computer, you will notice that R2 was one least significant digit larger than the pad value, that is, 35224. An R 3 having the left-hand-most digit of 5 was, in reality, equal to a minus 16017, which is then subtracted from the one-digit-larger value of R 2. Does that make sense to you all? Over.
CDR: Affirmative. In other words, you want us to leave the loads the same.
CC: Roger. Either load is correct. The command module computer does not force a positive sign or a negative sign on the octal value but accepts whatever it happens to cc_e up with. So either load is correct. Over.
CDR: Okay. Assuming we have no more updates, how would you like us to update the T into the ephem ImM- Using the 1706 values?
CC: 14, this is Houston. I'11 catch you when signal strength comes back up.
CC: Roger. Back on the question of which set of Tephe m to load. You can load either one in the LM. If you want a recommendation, we rec_,_.._end the - the pad value, but either one would be satisfactory. Over.
CDR: Okay. We'11 call 1706 when we make our load. Thank you.
CMP: Okay, Bruce. We've got something in the sextant with those angles. It could be the S-IVB. It's right off to the edge in the sextant field of view and being tracked by the CMC on those angles. And I'11 look at it again on the next pass, and then - take some pictures of it after that.
CC: Okay, Stu. Very good. Could you tell that the ob- Ject was tumbling, or anything like that, do you think?
CMP: I'11 - I'm going to look at it again.
CC: 14, this is Houston. For your information, the major tumble motion now has a period of 5 minutes and 46 seconds on the S-IVB. Over.
CMP: Houston. 14.
CC: All right. Go ahead, 14.
CMP: Okay. Yes. You really got the S-IVB boresighted with those angles. Now, the other cycle around - I picked up a star that's also in the field of view, and the S-IVB is tumbling, and you can see it righ_ at the start when it ccmes in on this one, and then it disappears and comes back in right toward the end. So we're definitely locked in with those pointing angles; it's got the S-IVB right near the center of the sextant, and what I picked up the first time around evidently is a star, and it's over toward the edge of field - of the field of view.
CC: Okay. And - understand you're going to try to see that the next time around, huh?
CMP: Yes. We'11 try to get some pictures - I guess I'11 try to - I think I'11 look at it one more time and try to get a time frame or roll angle where it's visible in the sextant and then try to take the pictures at that time.
CC: Okay. It - that sounds good. It isn't going to be going anywhere.
CMP: Okay. No, we'11 be hanging around here for a while.
LMP: I Just wanted to say good morning, Fred. Haven't talked to you today.
CC: Well, good morning. Isn't quite good morning yet.
LMP: Hey, Fredo, remember yesterday I was talking about the oil-canning effect of the heat con- tracting and - the heating and cooling of these panels.
LMP: And remember you said it looked like same thing that - that was happening to LM-7?
LMP: Okay. I Just wanted to let you know that I think our oil-can wrinkles are prettier than LM-7's oil-can wrinkles.
CMP: Hey, Fred, Just for curiosity sake, how far away is the S-IVB?
CC: Stand by, Stu.
CC: Do you have any esti_-te of how far the S-IVB is away there, Stu?
CMP: Hey, Fred; Apollo 14.
CMP: Okay, after looking through the optics and judg- ing the size and its relative motion through the celestial sphere, I'd estimate it at 2178 miles from us.
CC: Well! You might replace the rendezvous radar yet. The number they gave me was 2400 nautical miles. And it has an R-dot going away about i nautical mile a minute.
CC: Okay. Have you verified the ATT SET switch in GDC?
LMP: Okay. It's verified there, Houston.
CC: Okay. If you can give us POO and ACCEPT, we'11 pump up a CMC clock update.
CMP: Okay, POO and ACCEPT.
CC: Apollo 14, Houston. The computer's yours.