Otrobonita/noicy-space-talks huggingface dataset:
CMP: I don't know, but I bet the MIT cats are really ginning (laughter).
CDR: I bet they are. Say, how come you got a red beard'
LMP: Do I really? My ... be red, but ... - -
CDR: ... not much redder than now, does it?
CMP: No, it's mostly gray. Old, gray man.
CMP: Whoo! ... in a big hurry.
CDR: Better to go home with all ... day early than to go home with them all empty.
CMP: ... right date. We ... go home with them all empt._ on the right day.
CC: Apollo 9, Houston. This is a voice check, S-band.
CDR: I'm not thinking too well today. Back to bed. Say again, Houston. S-ban,
CC: Roger. Just wanted to - ARIA is sending the backup now for a voice check.
CDR: Okay. CON ii IAL Rea you an_
CDR: Roger. We're reading you pretty well, too.
CMP: Are they still uplinking on VHF?
CC: Yes. I think they're working a little better nowadays than they used to be.
CDR: Oh, yes. I think they're coming in very handy ....
CMP: Hey, Jim, you going - -
CC: Concur wholeheartedly.
CMP: He's going to be ia the field of view for 30 seconds.
CDR: ... make a big thing ... Now for a little lunch. hot chocolate down there. Wonder who put that there?
CDR: Probably me.
CMP: The hot chocolate kid.
CDR: Gee, your face really looks a lot better, Dave.
CMP: It really does? You mean maybe ... won't throw me off the ship for scurvy.
LMP: Okay, the time is ih:10; we've got 2 minutes to go.
CDR: Yes, this is one of the busiest days we've had.
LMP: Yes, I'd like to get really dark adapted to some- thing before I - Oh, hell, what have we got going out there? That must be the thruster stuff.
CMP: Gee, we never got a picture of the thrusteE firing ... J C )ENTIAL
CMP: I tell you, I _hink that is a waste of film.
CMP: Really? It takes all kinds to make horse races. It 's pretty.
LMP: I don't think ..., if you took it, Dave.
LMP: I say, I think the point is, I don't think you're going to see it.
CMP: With a movie camera you will.
LMP: Maybe you would with C-IN.
LMP: Wide open.
CMP: You could seeit Just as well as a ...
LMP: Yes. Which is also a waste of film. It didn't
CDR: Yes, that was. turn out at all.... ground to those islands.
LMP: What's the time, Dave?
CMP: ... clock.
LMP: Oh, that doesn't help me any.
UNKNOWN: Well, if you can look at it; I can't see it - -
CDR: You have 57 seconds.
LMP: Okay. I'm trying not to look out; I'm trying to get dark adapted, I don't want to look -
LMP: Are we at the attitude?
LMP: How much time now, Jim?
CDR: We should be there. C( TIAL C EC ,NTIA . L.. 9 837
LMP: I see it; I see it. Okay. It's coming through Just below the X-axis.
CDR: I see it, too.
CMP: You see it, too? And it's going to go right through the damned X-axis - No, it's just a little below it.
CDR: Okay, Houston; we've got it. It's going out the left corner there.
CMP: Yes, he's going to be going out the left side.
CDR: Is it? Sure is. Okay.
CDR: Yes. You got to go left. You can still see him, Jim?
UNKNOWN: do you still see him?
LMP: You're going to get in gimbal lock, Dave. There he is again.
CMP: Yes, he's Quite a ways out. He's dumping a lot of stuff out of his thrusters, too.
CDR: Gee, he's Just standing there doing that.
CDR: He came back in and - -
CC: Apollo 9, Houston; 1 minute LOS, Tananarive at 30, and Carnarvon at 44.
CMP: 'Roger. CO TIAL
LMP: Yes, old fuel c 2 is hanging in there like it - like it was always doing nice.
LMP: It isn't even a fifth different from the other two today.
CMP: How does that look on your ball, Jim?
CDR: Great. i --
CMP: What did you look for, when - when you're making that Judgment?
CDR: Just see if it's going to go into gimbal lock ... By doing one after another, you _4
LMP: If it coarse aligns - it - it can coarse align in gimbal lock without hurting anything.
CDR: Yes, but it Just can't coarse align into _gimbal lock.
LMP: So you can tell that by look'ing at what's on here?
CMP: Is that all you look at or do you - -
CDR: Well, Just look at that and see about where it's going; make sure it goes over in that general direction.
CDR: 'l'_e primary thing is to ... gimbal angle.
LMP: Yes.'
CDR: Find ... gimbal angle.
CDR: Tes, but - yes, but Dave could judge that to see if it!s in gimbal lock; that's why I'm wondering - that's why I wondered. I never paid attention to what you were doing there, Just always hear you. CONFI F AL COIwr,JI NTIAL 9 839
CMP: Give the leader a chance to say something.
CDR: Well, (yawn) ... - -
LMP: You want your COAS back?
CDR: You ought to know that the ball doesn't go around, when ... going around there, Yes, you don't go through ... thruster malfunction.
LMP: Laying on your stomach sleeping.
CMP: Hey, we've got something, Jim. We can stop.
CDR: Okay. There we are, stop.
CMP: Let me look at our next REV 'here and see where we're going. F_m, that time we came down over the -
LMP: Boy, we're really getting to the South American passes early tods_.
LMP: It's going to be light down there.
CDR: Yes, every ds_ the terminator moves farther south.
LMP: Farther where?
CDR: To the south.
CDR: ... south. It's really not the terminator; it's ..
LMP: Well, it's got to move farther south on one side and farther north on the other side, huh? Or something like that? CONF TIAL 9 CON TIAL
CDR: When you start out you start out with the day- light ... eventually you'd have all this ... in darkness ...
LMP: It doesn't go straight across the map, does it? I mean - I mean does the curve - It's got to go like that?
LMP: But we've seenithis in daylight, all time.
CMP: I don't think we have.
LMP: Sure, early this morning - this was all in daylight. Well, alright, now let me - let me see. Okay, you ma,V he right. We - -
CDR: That's right ... in Australia - -
LMP: Well, we saw this in daylight today or - No, we Just missed it, didn't we?
CMP: ... we saw ...
LMP: Saw this in daylight?
CDR: I think our problem in Australia ... (Coughing)
CMP: Hey, that's ridiculous .... What did we say on that Barbados?
LMP: Said north of track, didn't we?
CMP: I think I put it on the top of the next page.
UNKNOWN: North 30. Look at this. And, that's the way we were looking. '' CONF II IAL CONT'I'I NTIAL 9
UNKNOWN: That's the way'we were trying, too.
CMP: Yes, we could have been taking the right one. Aah!
LMP: We took the wrong one?
CMP: Yes, I should have looked at the map, but I didn't have time.
CDR: Me took those lovely pictures of nothing, Just like you said.
LMP: Luckily, it was only three.
CDR: Were there some clouds out there? Dave, - -
CMP: Yes, there were some clouds.
CDR: Okay, ... weather change photography.
CMP: Oh, that's a dirty shame.
LMP: It always pays to check that map.
CMP: Whooeel Pretty dim. Whooeel
CDR: Too light in here?
CMP: No, I've got Dnoces, and it's right on the edge of the field of view and I - It's Just too dim.
CDR: Probably in the other ... optics - -
CMP: Yes, ... and it's - it's so dim; T can't really be sure. I'm going to try it once, and if it's ..., I'11 go get another one.
CMP: Hey, Jim, the two Magellanic Clouds are right out the front window.
CMP: A little high. Let me turn down my - ye old COAS.
CMP: See them? They are up pretty high and a little to the right. Oh, ho ho! ... I guessed it; I guessed it; I guessed it. I passed my star test today. CONFI AL Oollyl ..
CDR: Okay, let's see ...
CMP: Did you really see them?
CDR: I've never seen them, except at the planetarium.
CMP: Yes. Here, look in this one.
LMP: Holy ...
CMP: Sure is pretty. They form a triangle. (Laughter)
CDR: They cute? They could form a triangle with anything.
LMP: Achernar is the one to ...
CDR: I never used those as gouges, because they are never really - -
LMP: Man, that's weird; the moon just came up through the airglow.
LMP: Really a weird shape when it came through.
CMP: yes.
LMP: The larger and smaller Magellanic Clouds -
CDR: (Coughing) Excuse me.
CMP: By George, there's ...
CMP: If you can barely recognize Regor, you can always find ...
CDR: ...; they're really very significant and easy-to- fCB AL CO NTIAL 9
CDR: They're easy to find; that's what's significant.
LMP: I can find Regor - -
CDR: Which one's that - The one with the cross?
UNKNOWN: NO, the one frg_ Leo.
CDR: Oh, hold it; wait a minute.
CMP: Okay, we got a good platform ... Look out this window, it's better than ... telescope.
CDR: What are we going to do with that stuff?
LMP: Kind of looks like a - - ...
CDR: ready yetT
CDR: Which way is the landmark?
CMP: North.
LMP: mV
UNKNOWN: godl Stars!
CMP: How about thatT
LMP: How about that?
CDR: I'm going to have to do a little thrusting, here. ...
LMP: such s big deal with you, I get lost.
CMP: Let's see. Let's look and see kind of move we're going to do.
CMP: Hey, go to MANUAL and slew your optics, Mr. Scott? NTIAL !
LMP: That doesn't bother'it where we are, huh?
CMP: First, let's turn the CMC, OFF.
LMP: Yes, to MANUAL, right? and - out zero.
CMP: Yes, I'11 put of
UNKNOWN: or second? First one. turn the
CMP: It's easier if you CMO, OFF, and then you won't get a drive until the last stored value. Then turn zero off.
CDR: What are you reading? - -
CMP: 195 - 2 there's your closest approach. 78 north ·.. and then I'm going to take out that - alarm. The alarm, the 121 alarm? Oh, that's what it looks like when you give a ele _ --
LMP: - - the thingamaJig. Oh, I see now.
CMP: It really wipes you out, doesn't it?
LMP: Yes. Yes, I never appreciated it before.
CMP: That's where I had Dnoces, right on the edge. If you could get, you know, if ... sometimes, and one if not the other, and all that vice- versa stuff.
CDR: ... landmarks ...
LMP: Is that Navi?
CMP: Hmm, maybe Menkar. Let me check that; see if Menkar - CO NI IAL CO' QENTIAL 9 ."k
CMP: It looks like we got a good _ Oh, doggone itl First ... I got through was Hawaii. I go back down to - -
LMP: Now about that, San Diego?
CMP: No, the first one. I thought it was Hawaii, hut it wasn't. It was San Diego.
CMP: ... point lower ....
CDR: ... "
CDR: My, they are dim in here. Oh, let me see if I cam get it in the sextant.
CMP: 130. Hey, querito ver Venezuela.
CMP: How about that? That ought to be a challenge.
LMP: It's a damn challenge.
CDR: That's right, because they .... (Laughter)
CMP: I can find San Diego.
UNKNOWN: Jove! I've got it.
CMP: Querito ver Venezuela - south of Caracas.
LMP: Boy, isn't that a lovely reticle?
CMP: yes, isn't that great? Thrilling!
CMP: If you turn it up bright enough, I guess it's a/right, huh?
CMP: Well, you can find your star, but it Just gets fuzzier.
LMP: Yes. So that's what Navi looks like. Okay. Now what? Back to zero first, then CMC?
CMP: The other way around. Zero first. To go to CMC, it takes the last stored value and drive over there, and then it'11 drive back ... i i f
LMP: Well, Dave, ... !
LMP: _ere are - Mere are yo_ targets?
CMP: Ri_t there. _h?
UNKNOWN: it's north?
UNKNOWN: !
CMP: No. (Coughing}
CMP: _m,.
LMP: ... over there, Davey?
LMP: ... over there?
CMP: Hey, where we going?
CMP: Oh, yes, let's see where it is.
UNKNOWN: You're on wh_?
CMP: I'm nor_ of you. 78 north and 27 ....
CDR: ... north?
CMP: Yes, you got 10 degrees below, haven't you?
CDR: ... to _e horizon?
LMP: ... cranked up like - %_at are you going to _, 30 degrees then, 40 degrees?
CMP: 'Yes.... roll.
LMP: _out 20 or 30 degrees, yes? CON I IAL -' CO"I' I F TIAL Day9 847
CMP: ... the horizon is parallel to the bottom offthe window - and north.
LMP: Hey, since there's so many of those fruitcakes left, I may Just take another fruitcake. That really tasted good.
CDR: Did it? Man alive, you can have all of mine.
LMP: Really? "
CMP: Hey, give me a bite of it.
CMP: That's a deal.
CDR: Give me a bite out of it; I haven't had one of those things .... a thousand o_ them.
CDR: Fruitcake?
CDR: Yes. compatible.
CMP: I can't believe it.
LMP: (Laughter) I don't particularly care for the hot chocolate. The only thing is that David likes the grape.
CMP: I think the grape - I think the grape, and about all of them, I guess. I'm not sure that ..., if the color doesn't have a lot to do with it
CDR: ... the color of some of this meat is peculiar.
LMP: Yes, oh boy. And they all have that same smell.
CDR: Don't they, though?
LMP: Wonder what it is?
CDR: I don't know. It must be something - -
LMP: 'Iwonder if they put something in them - Yes, I was Just going to say, I wonder if they put something in them? Whatever it is, it dominates the flavor.
LMP: Boingl Here you go, my good friend, have an energy pill.
LMP: Hey, I'm ready for a drink.
CMP: ... and it takes a little Jockeying .... and you go around this way, if you want to get to the right spot. Why don't you - -
CC: Apollo 9, Houstou. You're on your o_a; Guam at about 57.
CDR: Roger. Guam at 57. We'11 keep.an eye on it.
CMP: When we come up over Guam, see if we've been into it or not.
CMP: Could give you an inertial angle, Rusty, because ... stay there, but -
CMP: Well, knowing the times, you can figure it out.
LMP: That - The only reason I'm saying that is then you don't - then you don't have to keep flying it to keep it out of gimbal lock.
CMP: Yes, you could go to INERTIAL - -
LMP: Once - once you get it t:-,re,then it can take care of itself.
CDR: Oh, do you mean, do a P - VERB - -
LMP: Well, you could do that. You wouldn't even have to do that, Jim, I mean - Just the fact that you could be in ATTITUDE HOLD, and go do something know, without, you without having to worry about it. CON Tb , i IAL 9
CDR: Okay, I'm going down and look at - -
LMP: Yes, ... I'11 be willing to do it.
CMP: Not bad. You drive.
CDR: You and I've got ... on the wrong side of the ball ... you got us here.
CMP: ... Well, I figured now I got you where you are all screwed dp, see if you can work yourself out of the hole.
CDR: Well, that's what happened the other day, you see, when you said - when we did that one thing, and then we quickly did the other thing? Shoot, I ... the other side of the ball, on the wrong side where the red ... - while we're on the ball, go around the dot - (laughing).
LMP: Where's that bag full of hard ... ?
CDR: ... copy bag, right here.
LMP: No, I think - -
CMP: No, that's a new one.
LMP: Oh, look at here, would you.
CDR: ... saw some spaghetti go by. Hey, there you go.
CMP: What if I ate one of your spaghetti's? Would that make you unhappy?
CDR: ... spaghetti. Looks like we have _ more days worth of food in here.
LMP: ])owe really?
UNKNOWN: Down here? C i TIAL
CDR: A third of the food is still down in there. !
CMP: Oh, well, let's have at it.
CMP: Do we really?
CDR: In addition to all this?
CDR: In addition to all that, there's third of the food left. Look it. "
CMP: We'11 never make it.
CDR: ... doesn't have a single thing out of it yet.
CMP: People don't steal my ...
CDR: Boy, I'11 tell you one thing that that LM needs is another set of ...
CMP: Boy, I gathered from the way you talk, you don't even know what's going on.
CDR: ... I used to watch the radar beacons go back and forth.
CMP: I feel lots better about it, if you can ... Let's see, west is ...
CDR: ... the way with the pretty ... roll right, ·.. degrees.
LMP: Got to keep track of all that. Hey, look ...
CMP: Inertial gimbal angle got screwed up? Worked out pretty well.
CDR: ... happened so fast that we didn't have time to screw it up.
UNKNOWN: ORDEAL didn't - set right or at least we couldn't set ORDEAL on the way back, huh? --Z tr. IAL .C- TIA i': L Day9 851
CDR: No, I don't understand what was wrong with it. It wasn't working at all. Then, when we got out there, it was working fine.
LMP: Yes. My guess is that we ... off to the right there
CDR: I know you can't - you can'% set it right ..., but I was off like 80 to 90 degrees ... or some big number ...
LMP: By the way, I'd like to give you back your old COAS.
LMP: Just set it up there.
CMP: Hey, somebody write down what I say; I've got the target and all that stuff.
CMP: I'11 do that for you, and I'11 - I'11 tell you - I cab identify it, you know, and -
CDR: Alright. How about write - "Gees, I can't iden- tify it; I can't identify it; I can't identify it." You want those comments, too?
CMP: Night as well. Part of the game.
LMP: What the hell is this ... doing down here? What did you write it on 195 hours for?
CDR: Well, I had - ... give me the time first, and you said "Roger,"'instead of ... and I had to write it down - (Laughter) ...
CDR: '... missed it by 4 hours.
CMP: Hey, 195:10 is when it says landmark track. Is that like right now? CO AL
CMP: What time do you do xt, Dave?
CDR: About 195:22.
CMP: Well, okay, 22 is when it comes over the hill.
CMP: Oh, look at that. We're almost at the right roll angle.
CDR: We're Just about right, aren't we, Dave? __
CMP: You're pitched down a little bit farther than you were the other day, Jim.
CDR: Right. I'm - I'm getting it ...
LMP: It's almost like ... about 5 degrees, and roll Just about right. Yes, roll is good.
CDR: What did you s_y, Dave?
CMP: Oh, I can't see the horizon. we go along here, in this inertial attitude - -
CDR: Yes, it will come quick enough.
CDR: You really like to have me up there a long, long, long ways, I'11 tell you.
CDR: But you're fine, really.
CMP: Oh, yes, ...
LMP: I think it'11 be just fine· Just fine, Jim, you're doing a wonderful Job.
CDR: ... great, nice guy, doing a grand Job.
LMP: Yes. CO TIAL CO F'Jb'f N TIAL Day9 853
LMP: Oh, look at that, Jim. There's a line that goes all the way over the horizon to the north, the clouds out there.
CDR: Oh, yes, wonder what in the world that is?
LMP: That doesn't look like a contrail.
CDR: It does in spots, but in other spots, you can tell it's definitely not. -
LMP: Yes. you
CDR: Did see that big white ... or was that Dave that saw it?
CDR: NO, Dave saw it. - -
CDR: Man, you could see that from - Must have been 3 miles long. Must have even been longer than that. Among
LMP: That would be a great picture. all the other great pictures.
CDR: One thing I don't think we are going to lack are great pictures.
LMP: If they all turn out.
UNKNOWN: How far north is it? 78 miles?
CDR: Right, 78 miles north.
CDR: Yes, you'11 be able to see it over the ...
CDR: When these things get very far off track, ... we're going to get ...
CDR: ... technique falls apart ...
LMP: Okay, you don't dare get any closer to gimbal lock then. ....!...... I
CDR: It's a very simple technique to take these two balls ... out the window.
CMP: Such a pretty little island.
LMP: Is it really?
CDR: Boy, I tell you, I'd sure like to go visit some - of those islands. Don't they look beautiful?
LMP: I think we've yawed! I mean, you know, not degrees. Looks like we've ya';edmore than 90.
CDR: According to the balls, we're Just about 90, I 2.. 2 degrees off.
LMP: Yes, I kind of believe you, but - I mean -
CC: Apollo 9, Houston through Hawaii.
CDR: Hello there.
CC: Roger. We're both right on that Barbados thing. The island is actually south, but we wanted some pictures to the north for oceanography-type things.
CDR: Ho hum, I think I'11 take a 10-minute nap here, if Dave's got us to the right spot at the right time.
LMP: We're almost there, aren't we? ... yes, we're there.
CMP: I think we got 10 more degrees.
CDR: ... no, let me get my ...
CDR: Next REV, you ought to get a good shot at this. :
CDR: Let's get the ... C( AL TIAL 9
CDR: Yes, he's doing ght ... That could be part of the ... group. We're going exactly backwards. I can't see what's coming. Yes, we're going past Shnnatra, right now.
CDR: Oh, look where we took those other pictures at. Yes, that's ...
CC: ·Apollo 9, Houston; 1 minute LOS. We'11 see you over the sUnny Caribbean aroUnd 10. ....
LMP: Okay, we'11 be ready.
CMP: Well, we'11 make sure.
LMP: We wouldn't miss Australia for anything.
CDR: Oh, boy! I'm tired, so tired. That muscle that I've developed in my back is Just - It keeps grabbing me ... bends me the wrong way.
CDR: ..., too. Boy, it sure catches.
LMP: Well, I don't know of any that we took ...
LMP: Hey, I'm Just - Jim, ...
CDR: Yes, I thought of that, too. We ought to call the ground right now and tell them to flag the photo guys on that EVA film ... That,s something .._ really looking for ... I have this horrible feeling that ... run it through the bath .... I don't ... - What - what MAG is that? ...
CDR: E, Echo.
CC: And, Apollo 9, Houston.
CDR: Roger. Go. NTIAL !
CC: Roger. I guess, Just to close the loop on our discussion here, we'11 have the ship at 152-1, and IFnen come if you down there. So I just though it might toss that in, in case you're wanting it. 350-poundcake
CDR: Okay. Mill it have the on it?
CC: Yes, it will have a 350-pound cake on it; at least that's the word I have. --
CDR: Okay. Greatl
CC: And we'11 lose you in 10 seconds and have you through Texas around _1.
CDR: Roger. Did you say you got the state vector in?
CC: Oh, negative. I said we're going to uplink the state vector at Texas acquisition - -
CDR: Okay - - ,ns
CC: - - I've Just given you the NAV check now. CON TIAL I I CO i AL 857 DAY 10
CT: Apollo 9, this is Huntsville. Over. today?
UNKNOWN: fine, Apollo Our HF link through Houston is out at this time. Could I take any message for relay once we get these linksback in?
CDR: No, I don't believe so. Tell them we're preparing to do an SO 65, and everything else is okay here.
CT: Roger; will do.
CT: Apollo 9, Huntsville. We're doing fine now, other ' than our CONM at times is pretty bad here on the HF link.
CDR: Very good. Listen, we appreciate all the help you guys have given us during the flight.
CT: Roger; thank you.
CDR: Okay. Get some of that good sun for us, will you?
CT: Roger. We have down ... pretty close to the equator. It 's pretty warm.
CDR: Yes, I know. I wish we had some of it up here.
CT: Well, you should be closer to it.
CDR: (Laughter) Yes, I hadn't thought about it that way.
UNKNOWN: 9,
CDR: Whoo.
CC: Roger. I'11 take your torquing angles now if you want to.
CC: Apollo 9, Houston, 1 mznute' LOS, Ascension at 51.
CDR: Roger. Okay, Houston, we're busily snapping pictures for you.
CDR: The States were really clear that time; we ought to really have some nice ones.
CC: that's
UNKNOWN: what we like to hear.
CDR: Trouble is, we're supposed to be taking pictures of weather out here, and the ocean is clear as a bell.
CC: Well, the oceanographers will be happy, then.
CDR: Yes, I guess as long as we have the cameras pointed down, we're pleasing somebody.
CMP: Yes, this is one coming up the - south of those ...
CMP: Look at the little white stuff going around you ...
LMP: Two burns and two turns. ..
LMP: That's going to be an interesting strip of weather film, though.
UNKNOWN: It looks like we're going to get a pretty good tracking target on the ascent stage this evening. It's -L The closest point of approach will be at 222 hours and about _1 minutes. It's about an hour sleep an hour in the morning, and kind of wondering what you thought about this.
CDR: Sure; we'd like to track it.
CC: Okay, real good. It looks like we'11 go ahead and work it into the flight plan there and update you a couple of state vectors - both the CSM and the LM. Th range will be out about 690 miles, and CONN!:: TIAL lO ' . we'11 give you some gimbal angles to point the optics out of. We'11 take a few marks, and then we'11 make a vector compare on it. 7 hours, I think.
CC: By the way, the lighting looks like it's going to he about perfect for this tracking thing, too.
CC: Roger. It looks like - When you finish your landmark tracking there, what we plan to do is set you up in a PTC mode, and we'11 update the stuff for you here later on. But Just keep it in the PTC mode, then you can go ahead and get kind of squared away in there. We'11 stay in PTC until we.start on the tracking of the IA{.
CDR: Okay. We can also set ourselves upin 30- to 40-degree deadband hold to keep it out of gimbal lock, and that's what you want?
CC: No. We really want the data on the PTC with the DAP driving it, so we can get an idea on the fuel and the pressure operations and what have you.
CDR: Okay. What kind of pitch and yaw deadband are you looking for?
CC: Roger. It'11 be 20 degrees.
CDR: ... that PTC. We have ...
CC: I think so, but we'11 get you over at Tananarive; if not there, Carnarvon.
UNKNOWN: 9, Houston. see you at Guam at 36.
CDR: Rogeri Guam, 36.
CC: - - 10 degrees. I think you have that procedure on page - about 3-27, your CMP checklist. CONFI TIAL · i · !
CDR: Roger; we'11 ... !
CC: Roger. Just about every REV thereafter, we're goi to want to try a different deadband. We'11 try to hit 20 degrees and then 25 degrees; and we'11 give you a call on those.
CDR: Okay, understand to perform - The procedure then i to perform CMP 3-17 for plus 0.1 degree per second initial attitude 0, 231.7, 0; do step 7 at 218:35: at 218:40:00, change the DAP deadband to plus or minus 10 degrees.
CC: Affirmative. Now you will be kind of on your own. From now on, you can do a little housekeeping or things you want to do, and we'11 uRdate you for th tracking procedure a little later on.
CDR: And I'11 tell Russell to stand by for some - new info soon as I figure out where we're going to put all this stuff.
CDR: Houston, 9. Did you get the P22 data?
CDR: Well, let's see ...
CDR: Houston, Apollo 9. 9,
CC: Apollo Houston. 30 seconds LOS; Tananarive, 44 if not there, Carnarvon, 59.
CDR: Roger. Tananarive, 44; Carnarvon, 59]
CDR: Go ahead_ Houston; Apollo 9.
CC: Roger. Do you read well enough for a flight plan update?
CMP: Roger. I believe so.
CC: Roger; when you're ready. ._ J .±__ w _ CONI' r',I IIAL lO 861
CMP: Okay, go ahead, Houston.
CC: Apollo 9, Houston. When you are ready, I will go with the flight plan update.
CMP: Roger, Houston. Go ahead with the flight plan update. Roger.
CC: 220 plus 48, block data; 221 plus 05, update state vectors; 222 plus 25, maneuver to ascent-stage track attitude; 222 plus 50, power down IMU and SCS, terminate BAT A charge, waste water dump to 35 per- cent. I say again, 35 percent. Begin rest period. Over.
CMP: Okay, how do you rea_ Apollo 9, Houston?
CC: Roger. Pretty good now.
CMP: Okay, we missed what you said at 220:48. Would you say that one again, please?
CC: I'11 send you block data.
CMP: 222:25, Okay. 220:48, maneuver block to ascent-stage data; 221:05, attitude; update state 222:50, vector; power down IMU and SCS, terminate BAT A charge, waste water dump to 35 percent, begin rest period. Over.
CC: Roger; your readback correct.
CDR: Houston, Apollo 9- What's the get-up time in the morning?
CC: Roger. Your nor-_l time on the flight plan was 232 plus 20, and we are thinking of making it 233 7-1/2 plus 35 or 233 plus 50. That's about hours prior to P_'i'_O.
LMP: Roger; understand it will he 233:35.
CMP: Okay. 144 Charlie Charlie, minus 258, minus 1620, 228:51:08, 5825; 145 Alfa Charlie, plus 038, minus 0320, 229:13:07, 553_; 1_6 Alfa Charlie, plus 198, minus 0301, 230:49:07, 4539; lb7 2 Alfa, plus 293, minus minus 0300, 232:26-1_, 33813. Pitch trim, 0.6h; yaw trim, minus 0.94. CON L '..,.
CDR: Hello there, Houston. How are you?
CC: Roger. Mighty fine. The White Team bids you sayonara, and they will see you back at the ranch. guys
CDR: Okay. Listen, you on the White Team are a wonderful team, and we'd like to thank you all ver_ _uch. do
CC: Apollo 9, Houston. Loud and clear. How me?
CDR: We're reading you. I'd like to thank - We'd all like to thank the White Team for all their effort.
CC: Roger. We appreciate it.
CDR: Tell that flight director that we still have that debriefing we got to get with.
CDR: Is the big white director there?
CDR: Is that big white flight director there?
CC: Affirmative; he's on the loop.
CDR: Okay. Tell him that we got to have that debricfin_
CC: We concur and we will schedule it accordingly.
CDR: Right ho.
UNKNOWN: 5, 51 ... IAL LNTIAL DaylO 863
CMP: Somebody turn off dump? Turn off dump.
UNKNOWN: Houston; how do you read?
CC: I read you loud and clear and just wanted to let you know we're standing by at Tananarive, and we expect to talk to you at Hawaii at 22_:14 ....
LMP: Roger; 224:14, and if you read well enough, we'11 give you our powerdown stuff here.
CC: Okay, Apollo 9, Houston here. We're reading you a little better. We can go ahead and take all your powerdown stuff now, if you want to.
LMP: Okay, ready to copy, Al?
CC: Yes, all set, Rusty.
LMP: Okay, service module A, B, C, D: 51, 54, 40, _8; BAT C, PYRO A and B: 369, 370, 370; injectors: 5.0, 5.0, off scale high, 5.0, 5.0, _-9; PRD's:
CC: Roger, Rusty; copy. 51, 54, _0, 48, 369, 370, 370, 50, 50, off-scale high, 50, _9, 3125, 6127, 8027.
LMP: Roger; you missed one 5.0 on the injector; was 6 Delta.
CC: Roger. We copied that.
CC: And while we've got you on the line, did you get a range for LOS on the LM?
LMP: Roger; I got some numbers for you - times. I didn't get you a good range because we can't run very many ... along with P20; but let me give you the times o_ the first sightings and last sighting and the beginning and the end of the marks. ·Okay?
CC: Okay, we're running out of coverage at Tananarive. I guess we'd better save it for Hawaii. See you there at 14. CON" IAL
LMP: Oh, very well.
CDR: Oh, let's see. I've got to undo that.
CMP: That's forward. I'11 go ahead and ... ]
LMP: Okay, what do you think of ... E-57
CMP: ... clockwise ...
CMP: ... Just punched the warning light on. I guess . power ...
LMP: ... supervise ...
CMP: Where are we ...?
LMP: Oh, I know. Alright, go ahead ....
CMP: See about where we are.
LMP: We ought to be over ... coming over United States soon ...
CMP: What kind of azimuth did you have ...
CC: Apollo, 9, Houston through Tananarive.
CDR: Hello, houston; this is Apollo 9.
CC: Roger. If you turn H2 tank 2 fan on, that may pump up the pressure in the H2 tanks, there.
CDR: Okay. You want the fan on in H2 tank 17
CC: Tank I and tank 2.
CMP: Okay. Thanks i and 2 fans, ON.
CC: Roger. CEONS. ETIAL CuI' Ii, NTIAL DaylO 865
CMP: Roger. You want the heaters on, also - to get the pressure up?
CC: Apollo 9, Houston. Say again. the pressure up?
UNKNOWN: 9, Houston. Negative.
CDR: Do you know ... altitude ...
LMP: Okay .... weather ... some weather photography ...
CMP: Turn up! You ... thing .... go ...
LMP: There's a satellite! Very bright ... large ...
LMP: Me too.
CDR: Houston , Apollo 9.
CDR: Yes, I want to ...
CMP: We've got to get back ...
CDR: Okay .... go.
CDR: ... get an idea what our GET says ....
CMP: An hour and 11 minutes, we're off about 4 degrees in roll; that's about - oh, about - 2 degrees in
CDR: Sounds like that is pretty good .... must have drifted back in again ... (laughter).
CMP: ... frankly.
CDR: Sure, it was off more than that in ... like ... more $han normal in pitch ...
CMP: Guess which star we're ... star check? CON- IAL
CMP: Which star would yo_ like for your check?
LMP: Achernarl
CDR: Sirius! t
CMP: That a boy.
CDR: Sirius, the good one? i the "
CMP: That's goodone.
CDR: That's only when you can still see it....
CMP: ... ... :
CDR: Everybody else is done with this equipment?
CDR: Okay, I'11 put it away ....
LMP: Oh, where's the tape?
CDR: Probably hanging up there on the - -
CMP: NO, I put it away, Rusty. Do you want some? I've got a few feet left.
LMP: yes. I want to - I'd like - Is it too far away?
CMP: No, you know, it's really - -
LMP: I'd like to tape up my pocket.
CMP: Oh, that stuff is the stuff you don't want to get
LMP: Yes. Well, no, I don't care if it gets - This is nonwet stuff, that's okay. This is the wet stuff_ hut it's stuff I don't want to fall out. So I'm going to - -
CMP: Sounds like a good idea, anyway. Tape it. Okay. (F,,_ming) ... Go someplace ...
LMP: Well, I've got to go down there anyway to stow the PIC's and all. C I IAL CO TIAL DaylO 867
LMP: Up at the top? In the front?
UNKNOWN: Those are ... I've seen before. I guess ...
UNKNOWN: I've never seen that ...
LMP: Boy. This thing sure wants to go out of plane, doesn't it?
CDR: Yes. It always wants to go someplace where you don't- want it to go.
CMP: Okay. That's all done.
CDR: ... transponder out ...
CMP: What I like about this program, it sure makes a ddfferenee ... for launch degrees ....
CDR: Are you cold?
CMP: I was Just standing down there with this thing blowing on me. Pretty cool.
LMP: ... above your head, Jim. I'11 get it.
CDR: Hey, here's by ...
CDR: Yes .... Boing! Boingl
CDR: Oh, that's good news.
LMP: Yes, great. that's terrific.
CMP: Oh, oh. Say, Just
LMP: Yes sir, man. Those things Just look real good. they'd stay they might weight. If on, be dead
LMP: ... landing ... How come ... landing ...
CMP: Have we got any film left in the tunnel?
LMP: Oh, yes. Checklist is up there. CO L.
CMP: Did we separate those checklists, Jim?
CMP: Yes - no. Not the entry checklist.
CDR: (Yawn) You haven't received the update for it, right?
LMP: Yes. --
CDR: Okay. I think i will take one of those pieces of
CMP: ... three ...
UNKNOWN: the tape. I'11 put it back in ...
CDR: Well, I guess I'11 get in my suit. Dress up. Buckle down. (Singing)
LMP: I've got to stow the PFC's and all that Junk.
CDR: ... (Singing) ...
CMP: Okay .... alright.
LMP: Okay. (Laughter) I think they Just contribute to breaking your ankle right off.
CDR: Oh, shoot. I've got ... ORDEAL.
LMP: Yes. That's in the checklist, Jim. _e haven't quite got there yet.
CMP: ... do that.
CDR: Do you think ...
CDR: ... that bag ...
CMP: Will you deposit that someplace down there for me?
LMP: Okay. CO qTIAL ! DaylO 869
CMP: Can you tell which is the right bag and which is same the left bag? They're all the to me.
CDR: I'm going to add a little attitude simulation ...
LMP: Attitude simulation?
CMP: Simulation for the real time?
LMP: Yes, what do you mean by an attitude simulation? window.
CMP: Oh, that's a good ideal
CDR: We're supposed to k_'fHOat 2_0:31:1Q; the time on the RETRO is - third RETRO at 39:01.
CDR: ... do it like that.
LMP: Oh no!
LMP: Got the screwy bastards on upside down.
UNKNOWN: Well, you do, too.
CDR: Dave, why don't you get the checklist and let me start to do that?
CMP: Got to get ... cut the AUTO RCS off. Let's do that then.
LMP: Oh, okay. AUTO RCS CM 1 to MAIN A.
CDR: CM 1 going to MAIN A. Okay. And A/C ROLL is to that MAIN B, is right?
LMP: CMC to MAIN A and A/C ROLL to MAIN B. C L
LMP: Yes. OPEN.
CDR: SUIT RETURN AIR valve, pull,
LMP: Did you pull all valves?
UNKNOWN: to OPEN.
CMP: First thing up. I_ERGENCY CABIN PRESSURE valve, BOTH. CB
CDR: ... RCS LOGIC, two, CLOSE.
CDR: CB RCS LOGIC, two, CLOSE.
LMP: CM RCS LOGIC, ON.
CDR: CB CM HEATERS, two, No reason to do keep Leave Okay, let's go and going. heaters on for 20 minutes or until reading is greater than 4.2, which it is. WASTE H2O DUMP,. OFF.
CDR: The what? ...
CMP: The heater.
CMP: Oh, the heater! Okay, I'11 get it. Yes, I'11 be right there. Go ahead.
CDR: Okay. URINE DUMP HEATER. CB WASTE H2O/URINE DUMP ... Set RSI and realign ODC.
LMP: We supposed to leave this thing in here ...?
CMP: ... set the RSI and realign the GDC. I
CDR: Okay .... roll coming OFF.
LMP: Okay. WASTE DUMP HEATER coming OFF; URINE DUMP HEATER's coming OFF. Dl081
LMP: ... in the middle for this thing.
CDR: RSI is set? ... got
CMP: I to align this GDC.
UNKNOWN: What did you do with your - with your ...?
UNKNOWN: it through this hole up here up here with ... ... down. my Junk upside
LMP: Okay. ...
CMP: Okay. Okay? The LMP check ORB RATE and FDAI 2 and stow ORDEAL. Okay. At minus 45 minutes.
CMP: Dump and rewind tape recorder. Okay, that's MCC-H over Carnarvon ... UP TEJ.FRETRY, BLOCK; RCS HEATERS, that. OFF; you didn't do CB PYRO A, SEQUENCE A, CLOSE; verify. You did that, didn't you, Rusty?
CMP: PYRO B, SEQUENCE B, to CLOSE.
LMP: Right. That was the other black one.
CDR: Check PYRO BATTERIES, VOLTS, 37.0 to 37.5.
LMP: Okay. They were both 37.0. Okay, I can - Go ahead and read ... Alright.
CDR: ... blowing on that ... stick through the handhold there, probably ...
UNKNOWN: I got the PYRO BATTERIES Communicators' BUSES A and B; got that. Okay. If PYRO BAT ... CB MAIN A, BAT C, CLOSE; CB MAIN B, BAT C, CLOSE. Okay. We leave BAT C on the line. That's unusual. CO Where's your update, Rusty? Says BAT C is on the line. Where is the update? Have you got it some- where?
UNKNOWN: Okay. BAT C, both main buses. Okay. All panel 8 circuit breakers closed except - Ready?
LMP: POST LANDZNG VENT, one,, and FLOAT BAGS, three, to OPEN. ' -.
CDR: Okay. Go on.
LMP: CO'WAND MODULE HEATERS, two, OPEN.
CDR: COMMAND MODULE HEATER, EDS, three, OPEN.
CDR: Go, Houston; Apollo 9.
LMP: EDS, three, ...
CC: Roger, Jim; your altimeter DELTA-H is minus 100 feet, and your sea water temperature is 75 degrees, and the air temperature is about 75 degrees. Mighty fine.
CDR: We put on two sets of long underwear, too, just expecting it'd be cold.
LMP: I'm going to open up these EDS circuit breakers ...
CC: I missed it there.
UNKNOWN: we even put two sets of underwear on Just we'd be warm on the water.
CC: Roger. I don't think it'11 be necessary.
CDR: Okay, Rusty, what else you got?
LMP: CD DOCKING PROBE, two, OPEN. - ;;7 CO 'IAL CONFIUSNTIAL Da, 873
CDR: DOCKING PROBE, OPEN.
LMP: Nine - 11 breakers you should have open - -
CDR: Okay',
LMP: Plus two more - whicl{ - makes 13 now.
CDR: Check just to make sure ... I got EDS, three; POST ... LANDING, four; FLOAT BAGS,
CC: Roger. You can go ahead and turn your logic switches on. We've got about 2 minutes.
CDR: Okay. ELS LOGIC going to OFF - OFF.
LMP: ELS to AUTO - -
CDR: ... pressurization on, can you still support?
CC: Apollo 9, Houston. Negative. We'11 catch you at Carnarvon.
CDR: Oka,v.
LMP: PYRO ARM, ON.
CDR: You doing alright? fruitcake the
LMP: Eating all that - before big one .... fruitcake, do you?
CDR: Okay - We're on
LMP: I finally figured it out (laughter), but it sure isn't the way we been doing it.
CDR: Oh, no! We used them all night again. We used the 90-degree roll and leave this one at zero. This CON IAL one always stays where it is - at 55 degrees. Come down ... Just like the others ...
LMP: Well, that's what I thought, too. I Just looked at the numbers, and I don't think they'd ... at all. But it might ...
LMP: It might take their numbers and put them on a 55-degre roll and right there .... ...?
CMP: Do we want to turn the logic into
UNKNOWN: No ....
LMP: ... 55, 55, Jim?
UNKNOWN: 50; 60; you said we were starting to roll ... ..
CMP: Oh, I don't have that stuff there. I Just got m_ ..., if I don't get there{
CMP: Yesl ...
LMP: There goes the _S; that probably won't work.
CDR: Let's hold those things up at the light.
CDR: ,.. we checked it out.
LMP: Hmmm boy, good to the last ... grape.
CDR: Tell you what ... call up a VERB 49.
UNKNOWN: with DAP and we'11 go to -
CDR: ... 5 feet getting ...
CDR: Running like mad out there.
UNKNOWN: water boiling.
CMP: What? Oh, yes, the water boiling. IAL CONi _L_ -_wm_'A_'==- __ f CON-"JL'T ZNTIAL lo
LMP: Secondary. Scattered Somewhat.
UNKNOWN: cold?
CDR: When we reconfigure for entry, I'11 get a ...
LMP: ... check it for ... We get the - ... off ... Y-Y and you've got the ... check out .... X-thrusters e*o
CMP: No, we got lock?
CDR: Hey, where's your ...?
LMP: I Just wondered if you had your S-BAND VOLUME, OFF, because if you do, they're going to miss us. TIAL
CDR: Okay, Davey, residuals are zero.
LMP: Ready?
LMP: _4S to STANDBY. Did you get that, Jim? __
CDR: _S, STANDBY.
LMP: Okay. Okay, 61, ENTER, or you got to call the 82 fir:
CDR: ... 82 - -
CC: 9, Houston. High-speed tracking shows us it's a burn. -. good Might fine.
CDR: Roger; sounds good.
UNKNOWN: the, LocK.
CDR: LOCK. OFF.
LMP: the POWER,
LMP: SPACECRAFT CONTROL to SCS.
LMP: Okay, you want to yaw right _5 degrees for SEP attitude. too.
CDR: We want to go to RATE 2 here,
LMP: I got that covered.
CDR: ... - . AL . . L Dayn 877 p_ . . ·
LMP: Did you get the ... Okay, when ye get there, we want RATE, to go LO%{.
CDR: RATE, LOW. MARUAL three,
LMP: Okay, RATE, LOW; ATTITUDE, to MINIMUM /]4PULSE.
CDR: MINIMUM IMPULSE.
LMP: RCS TRANSFER to COMMAND MODULE.
CMP: TRANSFER to CM. Now, Jim.
LMP: Test - okay?
CDR: Okay, Dave, let's go.
LMP: RCS TRANSFER to SERVICE MODULE.
CMP: SERVICE MODULE, yes.
LMP: MANUAL ATTITUDE, three, to RATE COMMAND. COMMAND.
LMP: PRIMARY GLYCOL to BAD, pull to BYPASS.
CDR: PRIMARY GLYCOL to BAD, pull to BYPASS. It's pulled.
LMP: GLYCOL RESERVOIR IN valve, OPEN.
CDR: RESERVOIR IN valve, OPEN. It's OPEN.
LMP: Okay, BYPASS valve, CLOSED.
CDR: BYPASS, CLOSED..
LMP: OUT valve, OPEN.
CDR: OUT valve, OPEN.
LMP: 02 PLSS valve to PLSS.
CDR: 02 PLSS valve to PLSS.
LMP: 02 SERVICE'MODULE SUPPLY valve, OFF.
LMP: CABIN PRESSURE RELIEF valve, two, - -
CC: Apollo 9, Houston. I'11 give you a time hack at 3 minutes. - - BOOST/ENTRY ...
CC: 3 minutes. ..
CDR: Thank you. Okay.
LMP: Okay, David, you're in P61, right?
LMP: Okay, we'11 press on here.
CMP: Yes, press on; I'11 catch up.
LMP: S-BAND OMNI going to Charlie. Okay, S-hand volume's increased - got my volume going up. SERVICE MODULE RCS PRIME and SECONDARY PROP, four, ON; eight, talkback gray.
CDR: Okay, four, ON; eight, talkback are gray.
LMP: Okay. SECONDARY FUEL PRESSURE, four, ON, up.
CDR: Four's ON, up.
LMP: ABORT SYST_24PROPELLANT, RCS COMMAND; verify.
CDR: RCS CO_.9%ND. C.,.G:'.:.',Di::l l I iA L · I I f 11
LMP: FUEL CELL PUMPS coming ON: 1, 2, 3. HIGH GAIN ANTENNA POWER coming OFF. HIGH GAIN ANTENNA POWER - go to verify single suit compressor opera- tion. That's a verify. S-BAND POT.;ERAMP going to LOW. Circuit breaker ECS RADIATORS - I got them coming; I got the four breakers. POTABLE H2O HEATER, OFF.
CDR: Okay, POTABLE H2O HEATER is OFF.
LMP: CABIN FANS, two , OFF. OFF.
CDR: Two CABIN FANS are
CDR: GLYCOL EVAP T_P IN, MAN.
CDR: EVAP TEMP IN is MANUAL.
LMP: Okay, COMMAND MODULE RCS LOGIC, ON,
CDR: COMMAND MODULE RCS LOGIC is ON, up.
LMP: SECS PYRO ARM, two, ON, up_
CDR: 1, 2.
LMP: ATT DEADBAND, MAX.
CDR: ATTIS_3DE DEADBAND, MAX.
LMP: RATE to HIGH.
CDR: HIGH. CM/SM
LMP: Okay, standing by for SEP on your call.
CDR: Okay, Davey?
CMP: Ready, J_my.?
CMP: Okay, 3, 2, I -
CMP: MARK,
UNKNOWN: pretty good to me.
UNKNOWN: I/-_L
UNKNOWN: module. It sounded definite, didn't it?
LMP: BMAG MODE, three, to RATE 2.
LMP: I got the caution and warning. RCS TRANSFER to COMMAND MODULE.
CDR: TRANSFER to CM.
LMP: COMMAND MODULE RCS LOGIc, OFF.
CDR: COMMAND MODULE RCS LOGIC, OFF.
LMP: Okay, I'm going to monitor the volts. They are 27.5- Okay. AUTO RCS SELECT, 16, RING 1, to MAIN A.
CDR: RING i is MAIN A.
LMP: RING 2, OFF.
CDR: RING 2's OFF.
CDR: AUTO RCS SELECT, A/C ROLL, four, OFF.
CDR: Okay, I have it.
CMP: RCS is good, Jim, and there's your attitude on the DSKY.
CDR: Sharp, huh - -
LMP: Okay, proceed. You got that?
CMP: And I'm up with you now, Rusty.
LMP: All this damn dust all of a sudden. Okay, fly here to gimbal angles at the entry attitude: 0370. Look what I found. How about a bacon bar? Boy'
LMP: Okay, you're going to 0370, huh? _ 1-1,'_ ,_ _, , Dayll 881
CDR: ... to see the horizon.
CMP: Okay, DSKY says you're within 45 degrees of what it wanted, so it's happy.
CDR: Going upside down, now to get the deflector out. Roger, Houston, we are separated now, and we're ... up at this time.
CC: Roger. '-
CMP: Take a look at your TFF there. 8 minutes and 13 seconds.
CDR: TFF is 8?
CMP: Okay, 8 and 7 --. - - "
LMP: EMS MODE, STANDBY.
CDR: EMS MODE to STANDBY.
LMP: _24S FUNCTION, clockwise, to RANGE SET.
CDR: RANGE SET.
LMP: Okay, and you want to set the range.
LMP: Okay, the range was 12 something.
CMP: 12015.
LMP: 1201.5, right; verified.
LMP: Okay. EMS FUNCTION, VO, SET.
CDR: Okay. VO SET.
LMP: Align the scroll to the VO to display index.
LMP: That should %e 25999 or so. You want me to check for you? CD , InmTI._4L
CMP: I've already set - set that, Rusty.
LMP: Okay, 25996, verify. Align scroll - okay - _MS FUNCTION to ENTRY.
CDR: _4S FUNCTION to ENTRY.
LMP: FDAI SCALE as desired.
CDR: Okay, we're in 5/1 right now. --
LMP: Okay, we're in P63. 1644 -
CDR: And I'm shooting for 0370, right?
LMP: Right. Where are the needles? Needles look good.
CDR: Okay. The horizon is going to come back up here in Just a minute. "
LMP: That's a fair bang.
CDR: Looked nice.
LMP: Yes, very nice. We need just a few more. '£_'.
CMP: 6 minutes
LMP: How does that compare with the - -
CMP: 20 seconds, O.05g.
LMP: - - difference? Okay.
CDR: Okay, we're definitely blunt end forward, and we're definitely upside down; all I've got to do is get up to the horizon now and - -
UNKNOWN: the Salton Sea.
LMP: Again, huh?
CMP: Again. C,iqF;DENtF-, L 883
LMP: Gee, I don't . . wait. Okay.
CDR: Okay, we're getting ... - - Start manually at
LMP: the EMS RET of 0.0_g, huh? · l
CDR: Okay, we haven't gotten any updates yet, have we?
LMP: No, we got the DET reset to 3 minutes and counting right?
LMP: Okay, set your RET at 0.05g; Jim, got that?
CDR: RET at 0.05g is 15:27, right.
LMP: Right. ·
LMP: Wish I could see that stupid DET.
CMP: Yes, it's 10:05 right now.
LMP: EMS is still saying they're going to get there 20 seconds earlier.
CDR: There the horizon comes.
CDR: Okay, everybody got their heels in?
LMP: Heels are in. Okay, P6 ... -
CMP: -
CDR: Set the horizon up to the 32-degree line.
LMP: How's that water?
CMP: It's good; 50 percent.
LMP: Let me ·check how that water boiler is doing. The water boiler is doing alright. Ill I
CDR: There go the needles - that a boy - right where they are supposed to come.
LMP: Both water boilers are working good.
CDR: Okay, fine. Okay, the horizon is coming up Just like it ought to come. I mean, the bar's coming come.
CDR: We'11 settle the dust here in a minute.
LMP: Say again. in
CDR: I said we'11 start settling the dust here Just a minute.
LMP: 3 minutes. 3 minutes ....
CDR: Okay, we're - That's off; we're on 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, one 2; is UP; one is UP; one is UP; one is UP; doing? one is UP; one is UP. How is the PROP
CDR: Propellant's good. I Just checked them both.
LMP: That is well.
CC: Apollo 9, Houston. I have a postburn update.
CDR: Roger. Go ahead - - 12091;
CC: Plus 25996; 15:25; 16:01; minus 03256; roll right, 50/60; 19:00. I'11 get the rest a little later.
CDR: Roger. 15:25 is O.05g - What's the RETRB?
LMP: 19 minutes. Did you get the 1209.1 on the EMS now?
CDR: 1209.1.
LMP: Right. And V 0 is still the same? Yes.
LMP: V 0 is still the same? Dave, did you get the new DP CQk'c'nr 'VlA I Day 11 885
CMP: Got it. Minus 3256. !
LMP: Hight. Okay. What's the TFF now?
CDR: 15:35. Okay, we're going for 15:25.
CMP: 12k TFF. It's getting closer. ;(ctually, it look· a/ready.
CC: Apollo 9, Houston. I have a time to begin blackout
CC: 15:53, 19:28, 23:k6, 24:33.
CMP: Those are good.
CDR: Okay, I'11 read the whole thing back. 1209.1, 25996, 15:25, 16:01, minus 03256; right 50/60, 15:53, 19:28, 2k:33. 19:00, 23:46,
CC: Apollo 9, Houston. Your readback correct.
LMP: 0ka2, I'm going to start taking pictures; we're getting- -
CDR: Yes, turn - turn the camera on.
LMP: - - red out there. Yes.
CMP: Yes. Take your pictures.
CMP: Okay. 0.Olg.
LMP: See, you can see the moon through the red there.
CMP: 0.02g.
LMP: Okay, and you are ready to start the RS manually at 0.0kg - -
CMP: At 16 - No. CON i I
CDR: What! !
LMP: At 15:25.
CDR: 15:25, right.
CMP: O.05g at 23.
CDR: 15:25. Goinglto CMC.
LMP: Okay - O.05g light ON; MANUAL ATTITUDE, three, to COMMAND; RATE point 0 - You got that, Jim? Okay.
CDR: Say that again. Go ahead through them again.
LMP: Okay, CMC; 0.05g light ON.
LMP: MANUAL ATTITUDE, three, to RATE COMMAND. 0.05g switch, ON, up.
CDR: O.05g switch, ON, up. _24SROLL,
LMP: ON, up.
CDR: EMS ROLL is ON, up.
LMP: Okay, and it was - Standby for 67. Wow, that's bright out there, isn't it?
CMP: DSKY's GO, Jim.
CDR: What we got here? Our first command?
CMP: That's really something, isn't it?
LMP: Isn't that something? God damn, it's really bright. CO; ....... _1 I_'_ L ,L._, · I Day 11 887
CMP: Spectacular, huh. Ooh, man, those movies will be great!
CDR: Okay, you guys, we're up to about 0.2g.
LMP: 0.2! God, it feels like 5; how do people live here?
CMP: Coming down here to your first bank command, sir.
CDR: Okay, _24S isn't working .... lights up 1.
CMP: Okay, up to about 0.8.
LMP: Hard to believe.
CMP: Okay, bank now.
CDR: Alright, there it goes, almost 3_ degrees.
CMP: That looks good. G&N's GO.
CDR: Okay, going around to 60 degrees.
CDR: ... That's pretty smooth, isn't it?
CMP: Okay, we're up to 1.Og.
LMP: God.
UNKNOWN: looks good; they agree.
CDR: Very fine. Okay, we're over to a 90-degree bank.
CMP: 1.3g's on the DSKY.
UNKNOWN: isn't working at all.
CMP: EMS looks good.
CDR: Hope that camera is running.
LMP: It is.
CMP: Your bank commander is up on the top. t ....
CDR: Okay, fine; she's hanging right on it. We're up to about 1.Sg's. Feels like the world's on you, doesn't it?
CMP: Okay, it's steering good.
LMP: Batteries are doing okay.
CDR: Okay, fine; it's doing real nice here. Nice and smooth without the RCS.
CMP: ... is good.
CDR: ... Yes. That a boy. Okay, she's holding on hS, right in there.
CMP: That's 2g's.
CDR: EMS still isn't working.
CMP: Cabin pressure looks good..
CMP: Okay, _iMSagrees.
CDR: Okay, fine. And
LMP: all the systems look good.
CDR: Should have a potential of about _00, I say here; yes, we're looking good.
CMP: Both rings are good.