Otrobonita/noicy-space-talks huggingface dataset:
CMP: Okay, the handle itself is free swinging at - to a point about i inch beyond the backside of the J-hook.
CMP: And, I'11 go ahead and try to cock it now. 37.2,
LMP: Gordy, ED BATs are 37.2 and and the BUS VOLTAGES are 26.2 and I'11 bring on the high taps.
CC: Okay, Jack. Sounds good.
CMP: And, Houston, as we all suspected, it has one cock on it, or it had one cock. Now it's fully cocked. And the handle itself is free swinging. The plunger has depressed, oh, ,lmnst three-quarters of an inch from the top. And it is no longer parallel with the surface.
CMP: Okay. When you look back in the side of it there, that little J-hook with the snowman in it, the snowman's head points - as you look directly at the side of it, it points - the snowm-n's head is at 8 o'clock and the connecting link from the one one that connects - the that goes into the plunger to - to the little fat J-bar there, is parallel with that slot, so that the point of the J sticks out. So it is, indeed, fully cocked.
CC: Okay, Ron. Sounds good and that's where we'd like to leave it.
UNKNOWN: Okay. Step 5, 2-3.
CC: Okay, Eouston. Step 5 eo_lete. Glycol pressure is 21. It's down about a psi from yesterday.
CMP: And, Houston, is magazine II a good one to use for a - some opportunity interior photos?
CC: Let me check, Ron.
CC: That's affirm; II sounds good.
CMP: Hope so. Looks like that's the only one I have.
CC: Do you - do you recall when you did the heat flow on HH, if you used all of HI{ up on that experiment?
CC: Don't get it out to look, but I Just wondered if you remembered. ran com-
CMP: ... No, it out. It didn't - I got the plete cooldown part of the ex - of the experiment on HI{ and then switched to HIGH. And I got about 2 minutes of HIGH before the film ran out again. Had that at HIGH power on the - on the - -
CC: Okay, Ron. Thank you.
CMP: After the main part of the experiment was com- plet e.
CC: And, Jack, we're copying LM data now.
CC: Okay, Gordy. Beautiful. I was Just going to say step 6 is complete.
LMP: Houston, 17. ahead.
LMP: Roger. I Just was th_n_ing while I was waiting here that the cleanliness of these two spacecraft is certainly a tribute to the - all the people at Gx,_-,,-nand Downey and at the Cape, who worked so hard to put them that way.
CC: Okay. We'11 make sure they hear about it.
CC: Challenger, Houston. We're - we've looked at the LM data and it looks perfect, no problems at all. What we're doing right now, though, is - is - the checkout on the carrier and subcarrier lockups on the L_ comm. So far, we've had no trouble with it, but we haven't quite completed the routine we wanted to try. Over.
LMP: Okay. I understand, Gordy. No - no hurry here.
CC: Okay, Jack. We've completed our investigation of the corem, there. It all looked good. You can press on page 2-4.
LMP: Say, Gordy, I see I neglected to pull the BAL LOAD circuit breaker when I went to - after going to high taps. You want me to go back and show you that again?
LMP: Okay. Sorry about that.
CC: America, Houston. We're all ready for the E-MOD dump, if it's convenient to you.
CC: That's right, for Captain America.
CMP: (Ls,,_ter) Okay. We'11 get her here.
CMP: Okay, VERB 7h ENTER.
CMP: Okay. And, rem-tning
CMP: And they're all taken at 6 frames a second.
CC: Okay. A_rica,
CC: Okay, we've got the dump.
CMP: Okay. Understand; you have the dump.
CC: Okay. Welcome back.
CDR: Yes, I was Just testing out the survival techniques in space.
CC: Roger. Did you survive?
CDR: Well, so far.
CDR: Gordo, it's called education of necessity.
CDR: Okay. I guess the LM looked pretty good to you, huh?
CC: Yes, sir. It looked perfect. And we also went through the little co._m_uications main carrier subcarrier lockup check, and the - and the corem system worked perfectly, so there's no problems at all to report.
CC: Let me get another check, here.
LMP: Well, I'm Just going to be in a position to work on it in a little while and if the occasion arises, I could.
CC: Okay, we'11 keep that in mind, although it looks reasonable at the moment. It has shown some - at some times, it's gone to - from edge to edge on their scale but it's come back in right. Find out later if they want to do anything.
CDR: Hello, Gordo.
CDR: Okay. We're up to frame count 151 on magazine November November. They've been pictures of the - primarily of the CSM out the LM windows by the CMP.
CDR: He's been up there fooling around for a while. We may have to check it out and see what he did.
CC: That dropout there was because Ascension had a problem. We're now over on Madrid, and you're sounding good.
CDR: Okay, Gordo. Jack is in his suit, unzipped at this time. I'm going off the air, and Rc_ will come on and keep you informed as to how we're going.
CC: Houston. How do you read the LMP?
CC: Okay. I'm in m_ suit, presently unzipped. Didn't seem to be any problem at all.
LMP: And, Gordy, I think I found the problem with the biomed sensors. And when I come out of the suit, I can fix it. I put a little of that bacterial cream on the sensor places last night as a pre- ventive mechanism, and I think it's Just a little greasy to hold the sensor.
CMP: Okay. Gene's got his suit on and he's going IR across to the now.
CC: Roger, Ro_.
CMP: Okay. This is CMP. I'11 go off the line here, for a little bit, until I can get _ suit on again.
CMP: And Jack's still on the line up there in the I_4 though.
LMP: Okay, Houston. We're both zipped now, and it went quite easily.
CC: Okay, Jack. Sounds super.
CMP: ... CMP. I finally got my suit on now.
CC: America, Houston. Did you call?
CMP: No, I was Just saying - the CMP. Got my suit on now. And I had a little trouble with the donning liners getting stuck - stuck in the zipper; but I figured out how to get them out of the way now.
CMP: Okay, Houston. Gene has his suit pretty well on now.
CC: Okay, Roi1.
CC: We reviewed the data on the E-MOD. Everything looks normal. One thing you might do is - no big thing, but you might zero NOUN 26. It's still in loaded, left over from the _P you used the P23 yesterday. Thank
CMP: Okay. you much.
LMP: Gordy, this is the LMP. How do you read?
LMP: Say, when I was switching batteries, I noticed switching from low to high taps that there were some reverse-current indications. Sure that's nothing to be concerned about; you probably ex- pected those, right?
CC: That's affirmative, Jack. That's normal.
CC: America, Houston. We'd like to terminate the charge on battery B.
CMP: Okay; stand by 1. Okay, we'11 get that in a min- ute, Gordon.
CMP: Okay, Gordo, the charge should be terminated on BAT B.
CMP: And 7 Alfa's still - 7 Alfa's still 0.6.
CDR: Okay, Gordy, I - I'm looking around, but I can't figure out what that MASTERALARM is. I didn't see any 02 HIGH FLOW and I didn't see any lights, and we did get it down in the LEB.
CDR: And there it is again.
CDR: And again.
CDR: Okay, I saw SPS PRESSURE blink on that one.
CDR: Yes, Gordy, she's triggering continually on SPS PRESSURE.
CDR: Yes. I can't reset it, and a minute later she's coming up with a blink on SPS PRESSURE.
CC: Okay, Gene. We think it's the - well - well, we - we're sure that it's the oxidizer pressure is right on the trip limit. We're almost certain it's due to helium absorption.
CDR: Yes, we're reading 155 right now.
CDR: Okay, Gordy. We got the SPS PRESSURE light on steady now.
CC: America, Houston. If you give us ACCEPT, we'11 give you a new state vector. Nothing much wrong with the one you've got, but we're just going to tweak it up.
CDR: Okay, Gordy: you've got it.
CC: One other question. Do you have the LM closed up now? We're seeing some heater currents that are ind$'cating a little high_ maybe the light's still And on. we're Just trying to understand where the LM is at the present time.
CMP: Okay, I Just closed the hatch, Just about the time you started talking there.
CC: Okay, we'11 take a look at the currents now.
CC: America, it's Your computer, and we did the VERB 66.
CDR: Say, Gordo, what's the trend in thinking on that SPS light - to leave it lit or to bump the pressure up?
CC: Well, I - Ed Mitchell must be at work, because we were Just talking about that subject. I'11 call you when they come up with a final decision.
CDR: Okay. And Ron has put the - has closed LM hatch. He's put the drogue in. He's put the probe in, and he's putting the CSM hatch in as a one-man exercise - suited. So he's doing the whole thing, and he's still in his suit. Our suits are stowed.
CC: Okay, Gene. We got one question here, that - Just - Just waitinE for a convenient time to ask, and that was - wondered if, with reference to the wakeup problems we had this morning, if you'd clarify Just exactly why Ron didn't hear our crew- alert MASTER ALARM. You know exactly why?
CMP: Well, it's not the Seconal. As much as I hate to admit it, the POWER AUDIO/TONE was OFF (chuckle) in m_ headset.
CC: Okay. We kind of suspected that - that one.
CMP: Okay; that lets you rest a little bit easier. And Just to prevent something like that from happening again - or if it should happen again - what we'11 do, we'11 hook up the tone booster, which we didn't have hooked up last night.
CC: Okay. We concur. Sounds good.
CMP: Yes. I woke up and I saw that light there and I thought, "Gee-whiz, I Just got it in time." Until I tried to push - push out that caution and warning NASTERALARM. And burned my end of my finger.
CMP: I was also in a sleep restraint and upside down with a zipper in the back. And I had a little problem getting my hands up to start with, also.
CMP: Hey, Houston, CABIN REPRESS is back to BOTH now - I mean _E_ERGEIICY CABIN REPRESS.
LMP: Gordo, if you don't have any objections, we'd like to ge ahead and secure the high gain, and go on to PTC while Ron's doffing his PGA.
CC: Let me check and see if we have any.
CC: Sounds good to us. Go ahead and, per Flight Plan, spin it up. Okay. i
CC: Okay, I didn't want to mislead you. I mean, you can get ready to spin it up. We'11 give you the GO to spin up.
LMP: Okay, Gqrdy. You want to leave the high gain until you call?
CC: Okay. Jack, this is a good attitude to go to OMNI Bravo, and you can go ahead and secure the high gain.
CC: America, Houston. The rates look good; you're GO for spinup.
CMP: trying to get out of his suit by himself.
CC: Wish I was there to watch.
LMP: It really is a story to behold.
CDR: Needless to say, we're both very impressed.
CC: I can tell.
CC: America, Houston. Use B/D roll for spinup.
LMP: on biomed. How do you read?
CC: Okay, Jack. Let's take a point check here.
CC: America, D-2 ROLL is not on. You need the Delta ROLL Jet.
CDR: Yes, I'm still working on it, Gordo. I was Just deciding whether to spin minus or plus; but I guess we ought to spin minus, as per the Flight Plan.
CDR: We're on our way.
CC: Okay. Okay, - the LMP's EKG and ZPN look good. And on the SPS light, we recommend not doing any- thing with the system. We want you to go to ACKNOWLEDGE so the - get the light out of your eyes, and then just fly there in ACKNOWLEDGE on the CAUTION and WARNING.
CDR: Okay, Gordy. We're in ACKNOWLEDGE, and - I pre- sume, probably after LOI, we'11 be able to go back to NORMAL, right?
CDR: Is that an abnormal amount of helium ingestion [sic], or do you think that's about right?
CC: It's - it's absorption, and that's normal.
CDR: Hello,-Houston. You read?
CDR: Okay, now that we got another look at you, Gordy, it looks like Houston might be right on the fringes of either being clear or clearer. The entire Gulf is pretty nice. Florida looks pretty clear, and Mexico looks pretty clear. There's a big air mass of clouds that looks like it picks up somewhere around the coast at Houston, heads on up north, and then covers most of the Midwest and the East - from about the middle of Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia on north. It's clear enough now to even see the coral reefs down off of Florida. h4/1 Tape
CDR: And it looks like west Texas is probably also pretty clear, at least in a run from east to west. We can see BaJa, and on up the coast of California up north.
CC: Okay, sounds like the whole crew is turning into weathermen.
CDR: It's one of the better views we've had of the States, I think, even though we're quite a ways out.
CC: Roger. Looks like your subso - subspacecraft point is Just about at Peru right now.
CDR: Yes, we're - looks like we're looking straight down on the center of South America, pretty close to what you're saying.
CDR: Gordy, you want to bring us up to date briefly on how you plan on handling this time update again?
CC: Okay. I'11 do that. Let me - but let me practice before I start here. Just a minute.
CDR: Okay. I'm primarily interested in those parts of the Flight Plan which we're going to eliminate.
CC: Okay. Just one second.
PAO: release; they s,,mmed up pretty well, and I'11 Just use their words here. The time has been made up in two increments. The first one of i hour and 45 minutes in the Flight Plan. The crew activities were Jumped ahead by i hour, and they essentially began doing those things that were called for i hour later in the Flight Plan. They will again Jump ahead an hour and 40 minutes, and that will occur at 65 hours. By that time they will have completed all those activities required up through 67 hours and 40 min- utes in the Flight Plan. Or, in other words, they will have completed all the activities required to get them into lunar orbit 2 hours and 40 minutes early, and in order to make the clocks then agree with where the crew will be in the Flight Plan, we'11 Jump the clocks ahead 2 hours and 40 minutes. This clock update, which can be likened to going on daylight savingtime, only 2 hours and 40 min- utes worth of change instead of i hour of change as we do on daylight saving time, will occur at 65 hours when the crew will have completed all of those Flight Plan activities up through 67 hours and 40 minutes. (Chuckle) This simply involves setting our ciock to65 hours in the Control Center and aboard the spacecraft to 65 hours, moving them ahead to 67 hours and 40 minutes. Then, barring any further changes in the mission time line, from that point on, the elapsed time clocks, which are used as a cue to Flight Plan activities, should agree with the Flight Plan and events that, in the Flight Plan are called out for a certain time will happen at that time on the elapsed time clocks (laughter) in Mission Control and aboard the space- craft. (Laughter) This is a convenience factor.
CDR: You're lucky; we're going to lose an omni.
CC: Okay. I'11 hold off there for the rest.
CDR: Gordy, never mind. I think I got the gist of it.
CDR: Did you give up, Gordy?
CC: Okay. What we're really going to do - (chuckle) really is simple. At 65 hours we're going to do the update of 2 hours and 40 minutes. And the: procedures are shown in the Flight Plan at 67:35. There Just happens - happens to be really no - no activities we have to reschedule in the intervening time. So, after the update is complete, we'11 be right on the Flight Plan, both timewise and activ- itywise. Over.
CDR: Okay. We're looking at it. Going to have to squeeze my shave in somewhere else, I guess.
CC: Hey, Gene; Houston.
CC: Hey, you got to break - you can cast the tying vote. Which is the best description: the water bag or the clock one?
CDR: Oh yes. Now I remember. You got a little - give a little credit on this last one, I guess, to - to Public Affairs, because I don't think Gordo could have thought that one up all by himself.
CC: Very diplomatic.
CDR: ... Considering I - I was trying to do - to do Charlie's technique step by step, I guess I got to give him little bit more credit from the gymnastic point of view.
LMP: That sounded like one of Gordy's aircraft schedules.
CDR: One thing they didn't ... They were moving another Saturn V out on the pad.
CC: Jack, we lost all of that due to the antenna switch. Say again.
CC: Jack, we missed your last transmission - -
CDR: Gordy, you listening?
CC: - - due to the antenna switch.
CDR: You say you got it, or you're getting it?
CC: No, we missed it.
CDR: Okay. I said you can look right down at the Cape area - that's the Cape that we know - in Florida, and it's little disheartening because the last time I was up here looking back from this angle, they were moving another Saturn V for another Moon trip out on the pad already. But I guess they're working pretty feverishly out there on B.
LMP: Gordy, this is Jack. I think Gene was right. You got some - probably scattered cloud weather, but not very far away from you there's a pretty heavy mass of clouds. It may be the forerunner of that dry cold front you were talking about yesterday, which I can see stretching over into Sonora. But where it hits the stateside, it's got quite a mass of clouds associated with it. It looks like they're moving in your direction.
CC: Okay, Jack, thanks for the warning.
LMP: Clear behind it, in Arizona and New Mexico and maybe southern Colorado, it looks like there may be another front stretching, or maybe it hits northern Arizona and Utah and up through northern Colorado, and on in to Canada, trending northeast.
LMP: You're calling it right on, Jack. I'm looking at the surface chart, and that's about what we see.
LMP: Looks like a low might be developing on that one - a wave up in northern Colorado and - although the clouds are a little hard to read.
CC: Roger. Our sub - or our zero phase point - About 20 degrees west of Bolivia, our sub - our zero - zero phase point, and it is quite a bit brighter than yester- day and looks as if, and more general, as if maybe the seas have picked up in that region a little bit.
LMP: One of the more unusual features is developed - as I see - developed in the southeast Pacific Just north of the Ross Sea and that is a very striking mushroom pattern on a very large scale. It has north/south clouds streaming streamers from the Ross Sea. And when it gets up about the latitude of Tierra del Fuego, but quite a bit west of that land, it branches out to the east and west in a iarg e mush-room pattern. And, it looks like the top of that mushroom may be a curved cold front that's pushing its way up into the southeast Pa- cific. It currently - the eastern edge of that front is probably 10 degrees longitude from Tierra del Fuego, and it looks like that land in southern Chile is picking up high clouds, probably associ- ated with that front's movement.
LMP: I'11 get some shots of that next time around. That's a spectacular pattern. You _most get the feeling that the cold airmass moving out of Ant- arctica streams for a while north/south. And then it picks - The cloud patterns change and as it starts to migrate_ the winds start to change from east to west. Maybe that's where it encounters the Jetstream.
CC: America, Houston. I have a couple of miscellaneous items here.
CC: Okay. We'd like you to disable B2 and D2 just for a drill here.
CDR: Oh, thank you, Gordo.
CC: Also, the SHe tank looks exactly nominal, as far as the rise rate goes, to us.
CC: And to Sl_mmarize your film budget situation, have three magazines: KK, 11, and MM are budget for the scheduled photos such that they have only five, 19, and one, respectively, frames left over after you've done all the scheduled pictures. And November November, we think, has Just - has Just nine frames remaining now. The two nonscheduled magazines are OO and PP; 160 frames each. Those are the ones provided for optional use. We have 44 additional frames scheduled out of November November, scheduled during lunar orbit. There is only nine left in it now, so we'd like to save at least 60 frames out of either Oscar Oscar or Papa Papa, the two optional magazines, to cover the scheduled frames. Guess what we're saying is there is no problem. We've still got plenty of film, but you will have to use some of your op- tional mags for scheduled pictures. Sixty frames is what we want to save.
CMP: Okay; mighty fine, Gordo. Plan on Oscar Oscar for that magazine.
CC: Gordy; this is Jack.
CC: Go ahead, Jack. I - Cal Tech will never forgive me; I'm a little hesitant on my elementry optics. But I Just put Ron's polarizing filter in front of the monocular, looking at the Earth and rotate 90 degrees, and from max to min in terms of brightness, there's a remarkable change. And I suspect that means that the Earth is polarizing light enough to see it. The main thing that happens is that the oceans get considerably darker when I rotate the filter towards the dark position anyway. The continents don't seem to show any obvious change, but the oceans and the zero phase point darken - oh, I would guess by a factor of two in brightness. Maybe that's an extreme, but I think it's that.
CC: Roger. I was just trying to think of a reason. Is it uniform change over all ocean areas, or is it more of a change in some areas than others?
LMP: Well, I'd say'that the subsolar point shows the greatest change, but you can still - the zero phase point shows the greatest change. But all the oceans get darker.
CC: Very interesting. We are just about to switch omnis.
UNKNOWN: Houston, 17.
CC: Go ahead. ready for me, right?
CC: I haven't had anybody volunteer one. Strictly some layman theories going around, but nothing official.
CC: America, Houston. Just got started on the Cowboy- Redskin game, about 5 minutes into it. The Cow- boys are ahead 7 to nothing. They scored the first time they got the ball.
LMP: Gordy, you started talking before we had an omni. Try it again.
CC: Okay. The Cowboy-Redskin game just got started. It's now 7 to nothing, Cowboys. They scored the first time they got their hands on the ball. again, though.
CDR: Did you say it was 7 to nothing, Cowboys?
CC: That's what I said. They scored the first time they got the ball. It's - the game's Just about 5 minutes old.
CDR: Outstanding. I thought this was Saturday. Isn't - isn't today Saturday?
CC: It is, but the college is all through, so the pros are playing on Saturday now.
CDR: Beautiful. Seven to nothing, huh? Go get 'em, Cowboys.
LMP: But, he would say the same thing for Washington, I 'm sure.
CDR: Nosiree. Go get 'em, Cowboys.
CMP: 's insult drinking bag. There was, in fact, water in it. However, somehow, when we put the suit on, the water bag had gotten turned sideways, I guess, is the way to explain &t. It had gotten turned side- ways such that the suction tube was crimped side- ways. And, as a result, there was no way that you could get any water to go through the tube.
CC: Okay. You're talking about the problem we had there Just before launch, right?
CMP: That's affirmative - prelaunch.
CC: Okay, and for your information, the PTC looks good° It ought to hold.
CMP: Okay. Mighty fine. I lost my scissors. If there is anything you can do to help me find them, I'd be - appreciate it.
CMP: Okay (laughing).
CC: Got a game plan update for you here. It's now 14-nothing, Dallas; still in the first quarter.
CDR: You're sure a bearer of good news, Gordy. That's great.
LMP: Gordy, I just - this is Jack. I just tried the red filter on the front of the monocular and about the only major thing I noticed was that the cloud pat- terns over the landmasses seemed to be enhanced. _e contrast between cloud and land, particularly green land is enhanced. Otherwise, all it does is make the red - the Earth look a little red.
CDR: Hey, Gordo; this is Gene.
CDR: Hey, Houston; this is 17.
CC: Roger, Geno. I think we've got you now. Go ahead.
CC: Okay, Geno. I think we got you - -
CDR: ... 17.
CC: - - Now. Go ahead.
CDR: Okay. I Just happened to be throwing a few : switches, and I see our helium tank temperature on quad A is about 95 or so. And the others are quite low. Is that because of our attitude there duringthe LM checkout? 44/9 Tape
CC: That's affirm. That's the reason.
CDR: Okay. I also see the tank that - package tempera- ture a little higher on that quad too. But, being close to a hundred it seems a little unusual. You're - you're happy, right?
CC: That's affirm. No problem. We've been watching it, and it seems to be coming down now.
CDR: Okay. Fine. Thank you.
LMP: Houston, you want the H2 HEATERS to AUTO and the FAN B OFF now?
CC: Standby, Jack.
CC: That's affirmative, Jack. Go ahead.
CC: Now 21 to nothing, Cowboys. Second quarter.
CDR: Super Bowl, here they come. Watch out now.
CC: Should remind you that the Commander in Chief is a Redskin fan.
CDR: I read about that. That's why the Cowboys need as much help as they can get.
LMP: Gordy, in the continuing saga of looking at the Earth through rose-colored glasses, I tried a blue-colored glass, and it - as you might expect, completely masks out the continent. The land areas are Just not visible through the blue. Otherwise, the ocean and clouds - or the contrasting ocean and clouds remain about the same.
LMP: And, Gordy, I tried putting all the filters we had together to check the Sun for sunspots, but just not quite enough light attenuation to do that.
CC: Okay. For a while I thought you were a human weather satellite. Now I think you're a human Earth resources satellite.
LMP: Well, about all I can say is I'm a satellite I guess.
LMP: Gordy, it looks as if the distribution of water and ice in the ri - Ross Sea has changed in the last day or two. I don't remember looking at it yester- day specifically, but it seems to be different today than it was the first day.
LMP: Houston_ 17.
LMP: Yes, about this icepack in the Ross Sea. The - as I remember a couple days ago, there were two clear areas, triangular in shape and quite elongate, that were projecting out into the sea from the inner- most part of the bay, or the - from the continent. Today those are not apparent, at least the first look I made. And it looks like there is an elon- gate, more irregular clear area that is roughly parallel to the Antarctic coastline within the sea itself. We'11 check that a little more closely and see if that's right.
CC: Okay. Seems like kind of a quick change for some- thing like ice, doesn't it?
LMP: Yes, and that's what bothers me. That's why I wonder if I'm not being fooled by cloud patterns or something.
CC: I'm looking at a satellite picture here, which I guess is around 12 hours old though. But over to the east of Australia, maybe about a continent width east or'Australia, there is really striking long frontal system - striking because it's so long and so straight, sort of west-northwest, trending west-northwest and east-southeast trending. Can you see that?
CDR: Gordo, are you there?
CC: Yes, sir, right here. 44/11 Tape
CDR: Okay. Now Jack and I may be talking about two different frontal systems or patterns, but the one I think you might be referring to is the one I referred to yesterday as a ruffled parrot's beak. Actually two of them tied together, one starting up probably southeast of Australia and - and then heading down with a long arcing frontal system to another clockwise rotational parrot's - parrot's cone, I should say, down around - near the tip of South America, between it and Antarctica. There is one strong tributary front heading up to the north-northwest from the western side of this big, arcing, frontal mass. And I think that's probably what you're referring to. I'm not sure. I can't quite see Australia coming up over the - over the horizon yet.
CC: Okay. I - my picture cuts off right about the - oh, two-thirds of the way south in Australia, that latitude. So most likely we're talking about the same thing, but I can't verify the southern part of it.
CDR: There is some tremendous - western side of that curve front is a tremendous clockwise rotational airmass. It must cover hundreds of square miles. The one down near - near the continent of Antarc- tica, down there, near the tip of South America, seemed to be squashed slightly as if there is pos- sibly some - some squashing or effect coming off - off the South Pole area near Antarctica. I think, if I turn around and look at it the way Jack was looking at it, it's a cap of a mushroom. Only instead of simply curving in underneath the cap, it has clockwise rotations on both sides as it curves under.
CC: Roger. 45/1 Tape
LMP: Gordy, I just took two pictures of the Earth at the present time. And those are - Right now the camera is on frame 153.
CC: Okay; 153.
LMP: Gordy, where did you say your ATS satellite picture left off to the west?
CC: Okay. To the west, it goes clear on over to Africa. But to the south, it cuts off about 30 south, or not quite all of Australia.
LMP: Okay. Yes, that mushroom pattern we've been talking about, on either edge - either end of the cap - and the mushroom points north - is a major cyclone cir- culation system. And also taking - moving, in one case - or trending, in one case, to the northwest and the other to the northeast, there are linear cloud patterns. Gives it a very symmetrical and a striking appearance. I hope it shows on those pictures.
CC: Okay. It doesn't show on the one I got. Maybe a later version will have that one. Because it cuts - it's cut off on this one.
CDR: (Chuckle) Hey, Gordo. This is Geno.
CDR: To put this update in simple terms - at 65, I guess on our clocks, you'11 update us to about 67:40, right?
CDR: Does that mean we have to eat 2 hours and 40 min- utes earlier?
CC: Oh, you got me there. I - You haven't been eating - you haven't eaten since breakfast. Is that right?
CDR: Oh, yes, sir. We Just finished. We'11 take another go at it, but I feel I've spending my life here eating.
CC: Yes. Well, we'11 leave it up to you on this special case here.
CDR: Okay, I think we'11 take - a - a Jab at supper here later in the day as per the Flight Plan.
CDR: Gordy - the whole suiting operation - I was really very pleased with. Jack and I both got in our suits very easily. And one by one we went into the LM. And that's where we zipped each other up. And we really had little or no trouble. We took our time. We got all configured in terms of changing our pockets around and whatever else we needed to do. And, actually, I think it's much easier to get suited than it is to get unsuited, personally.
CDR: Ron stayed suited and did the entire tunnel work. And then went - did it by himself - and then totally doffed his suit and stowed it by himself, also, to sort of extend that little exercise.
CC: America, Houston. Halftime score is 28 to 3 - Cowboys.
CDR: Keep talking, Gordo.
CC: Okay, I'11 keep talking (laughter). The - I've learned that when you get to the ALFMMD and pull it there, you'11 see some tape around the emulsion shields. Those are three rectangular areas in front of your eyes and to either side that contain the photographic emulsion. This tape is around the edges of each of those three areas to help seal out light leaks. You haven't seen it before. Leave the tape on there. Don't pull it off. Over.
LMP: Gordy, Just took a series of pictures of the Earth with the 35-millimeter using the polarizing filter rape 45/3 in the two positions. And the frame count is now 39. I took six pictures. And with the filter, on the first of each pair, in the DOWN position. The second's in the UP position. And I changed the f-stop from - the first set at f/4, the second set at f/2, and the third set at f/8.
CC: Okay; we got all that, Jack.
LMP: And, Gordy, you might ask one of the experts around there in - Is the lightmeter in the 35-millimeter integrating over the interior spot, or over the hairline spot? The larger one.
CC: Okay, I'11 ask.
LMP: It acts as if it's the interior one, but ...
CC: Jack. The answer to your question is the center spot is weighted for 60 percent of the reading and the rest of it for 40 percent. Over.
LMP: Okay. That - that makes sense. That would explain why the needle moved as I moved it across the series of spots.
MCC: was updated. To correlate times from this point on, add 2 hours 40 minutes to those shown in this transcript to make them correspond to
MCC: GET.
CDR: Gordo, we're - we're ready any time you are for that update. And after we get the Tephe m and everything squared away, we'11 go into ALFMED.
CC: Roger. Standby on that, Geno; and we'11 be with you in a minute.
CDR: Hello, Robert. How are you today?
CC: Real fine, Gene. You're sounding great.
CDR: Doing great out here.
CC: Geno, we're ready for the clock update. We'd like POO and ACCEPT. And we're got two loads to put in, so it will take a couple of minutes here.
CMP: Okay, you got it?
CC: Thank you, Ron.
CC: 17, Houston. I've got an update on your flyby maneuver pad due to this clock update. Would you like to copy it?
CDR: Stand by just i second (music).
LMP: Okay, Houston. Go ahead with the flyby pad.
CC: Okay, stand by i on that - on our end. We're done with the - we're done with the up-load. The com- puter is yours, and we need a read-out on the Tephem'
CC: Okay, we've got the read-out.
CC: 17, Houston. The data looks good, and you're GO to copy it, and recommend you copy it into the Flight Plan Supplement. And that's on page 1-43 of the supplement.
LMP: Okay, Houston. We have it.
CC: And, 17, we got that flyby pad now. If you're still ready, we're ready. Okay. Is this a full pad or Just a change to the other one?
CC: It's Just a change, Jack. It's a change to NOUN 83, the GETI, and a change to the bottom line, the GET of .05G. Just two changes.
LMP: Okay, go ahead. 45/5 Tape
CC: Jack, if You'11 Just add 2 hours and 40 minutes to each one of them, that's it. The GETI is 081:54:43.49. The GET of .05G, 156:04:03. Jack, I guess I read 81. I was looking at the old pad. It's 83 - 083 - on the GETI.
LMP: You're too fast for me. I was just going to chew you out.
CC: Sorry about that, Jack. I got it around the room.
CDR: Okay, Bob. We got all of our clocks set on board.
CDR: What was the exact amount of that update time?
CC: Two hours, 40 minutes; 2 plus 40.
CDR: Okay, 2 plus 40, exactly. Thank you.
LMP: Okay, Bob. We're going to work up an appetite with the ALFMED today.
CDR: Hey, Bob. May be a little premature - but I don't think so - but I think there was some good thinking into that update, looking at the Flight Plan up until now and where we go from here. I don't think we - we overlooked a thing.
CC: Roger. Like I said the other night, we gave Tommy a gold star on that one.
CDR: Except I think he and Rita got in - in cahoots.
CC: A little soon for supper, huh?
CDR: Yes. We just finished lunch, and it's about time to eat again.
CC: That's known as the simulator step-ahead.
LMP: Can you give us our distance from the Moon - from the Earth?
LMP: Are we about 5000 miles closer now?
CC: Don't you wish.
LMP: Well, isn't that what - isn't that the way these step-aheads work?
CC: Normally, yes. But this one didn't work that way. Jack, you're at 183,000 miles. It's really amazing how time flies when you're interested in your work, isn't it?
CC: Jack, Houston. Did you read your - my last call with the distance?
LMP: Okay, Bob, we're getting ready for the ALFMED. I just took a red-filter and a blue-filter pictures, - On frame 41 now, with a 35-millimeter - pictures of the Earth. And I took them one stop smaller - that is, more open - than the lightmeter said, hoping to compensate for the small Earth. The Earth just barely fills the most inner - the innermost circle of the spotmeter. Also, there's a very strong band of clouds, shaped sort of like a narrow fir tree, with a base about 20 degrees of longitude west of BaJa California, that extends up, I believe, into the vicinity of Hawaii. And the top terminates in a very strong northern cyclone pattern.
CC: Roger, Jack. Was your magazine Sierra Sierra?
LMP: That's affirm. Sierra Sierra.
CC: Roger, Jack. And you say that cloud is right - that cloud area is right near BaJa California? I've got a picture of it here in front of me, from one of the satellites.
LMP: No, it's about 20 degrees west - longitude degrees west of that.
CC: Yes. Okay, we've got it on the spot here.
LMP: And maybe even more than that. Okay, maybe even more than that. It's - it might be as much as 40 degrees west, and - Actually Hawaii may be on the west side of that. It's a little hard to tell. It's close enough to the 124 that it's hard to say.
CC: Roger, Jack. I think I've got it on our map here. It shows a pretty heavy dense cloud area right down in that area you're talking about.
CMP: will be in the center seat with the ALFMED. For our reporting, when we get the VOX, we'11 just call out our first names to shorten it and the comments following. And Jack will be recording.
CC: Roger. We'11 be listening.
CMP: Okay, wait a minute. Houston, how do you read on VOX with the lightweight headset?
CC: Read you loud and clear, Ron.
CMP: Yes. Wait a minute. Let me get this little old box set to go here, first.
CMP: Okay, UTILITY POWER is OFF.
CDR: Yes. POWER switch is OFF. Okay, it's connected, now.
CMP: Okay, UTILITY POWER is ON. Okay, let me get strapped in here, somehow, or I'11 float all over.
CMP: (Music) Okay, let's see.
CMP: Uh huh, I think I can.
CMP: Okay, my blindfold's going on, now.
CMP: Okay. Sounds like they clipped. OkaY, somebody will have to help me put this thing on now; yes, Just kind of like so; yes. It goes around the old - -
CDR: Yes, but you ought to ... kind of maintain your head in the same position, if you can.
CMP: ... to operate now?
CDR: No, Just turn it down a little bit.
CMP: Go to operate while you're taking the pictures there (chuckle).
CDR: Hello, Houston. CDR put his blindfold on at 68:18.
CDR: And how do you read me in VOX, Bob? This is Gene.
CDR: Okay, I'm conducting the experiment. And the - frame Sierra Sierra is now at 45. I got two shots. One - two from the side and two from the bottom.
CC: (Chuckle) It may be a personal thing, Gene. I - This is Stu. I had to have mv eyes closed but give it either way.
CMP: Okay, we'11 count down to start. 3, 2, 1 -
CMP: ... two.
CDR: MARK. Gene. I've got a series of random lines, which do not appear to be the width of m_f field of view, that are moving like a flashing horizon with thunderstorms on the horizon. They're dimly flashing, and they're moving across the eye from left to right and from top to bottom, individually. Both eyes. It's stopped now.
CDR: MARK, this is Gene again. Going from the upper left to the bottom right. Lines of the same sort of thing. Dimly lit flashing horizon-type flashes. But they're linear. They're linear, and they tend come to from the - either the upper left or the upper right and work their way downward. Now they've stopped. Both eyes.
CDR: MARK. Gene again. Both eyes. This time the same flashes on the horizon, but they don't seem to be moving out of both eyes. Tend to be up at the tops of both eyes. Just rapid, sequential, lightninglike flashes. And they've stopped.
CDR: MARK. Gene again. Similar type of flashes. They don't seem to be moving, but they're coming from the right of the right eye and from the upper left of the right eye. And I can actually see an out- line of a - of a curved horizon, and the flashes are coming out from behind it. They've stopped.
CDR: MARK. Gene again. I see - peripherally out of my right eye - I cannot see these flashes - but I can see peripherally the right-hand and upper-right- hand side of my right eye being lit up.
CDR: This last one? They were peripherally. I couldn't see them. All I know is that there was some light out - peripherally out - yes, but a flashing glow.
CDR: Oh, man, there is a good one. The left eye, right in the middle, it's - almost a purple flash. It's still going. Right in the middle of my eye, and it's coming out from behind a - a horizon that is almost - It starts out as a semicircle and then folds into a point like on a pencil. And then it disappears. That's the horizon, and the light is flashing from behind it. It's gone.
CC: Hey, Gene, Houston.
CC: Okay. According to all our experts here, the phenomena you're describing is pretty much the phosphene effect - sort of like when you rub your eyes or squint your eyes too hard - because the effect is lasting too long. The streaks or the flashing that we're looking for are very fast, and they do not remain as a scene to your eye. And I guess the only thing we could say would be to maybe either relax your squint a little bit or to ... the blindfold's on exceptionally tight. I know this sounds kind of screwy, but those are the words that we would like to - like to say to you. But the actual phenomena we're looking for will be a very short-lived phenomena. It will either be a flash or a very fast streak. Some- thing along this - We're not trying to load the data, but we feel you're describing a different phenomena.
CC: Okay, Gene. Sorry about that, and here I thought I had waxed so eloquently. But the - the effect you're describing is an effect that can come from rubbing your eyes or perhaps squinting too hard. But the effect we're looking for - and I guess we're really not trying to load the data - but the effect that we're looking for is a very short-lived phenomena and would not - -
CMP: MARK. Ron. I got one. In the right eye. Coming from - back - going towards ... Very narrow streak.
CC: And, Gene, our only words of wisdom are try to relax the - the eyes a little bit or if you have the blindfold on exceptionally tight, you might work on that. But the - Just - I guess sort of relax and see if we can see the other - the other phenomena.
CMP: MARK, Ron. One about 12:00 in the right eye; looked like it was Just a spot.
CMP: About 15 seconds ago. It's so dim I hardly noticed what it was, but kind of starting in the left eye and then - just a flash in the left eye and then a flash in the right eye; very dim. Going left - from left to right.
CMP: MARK. Can't tell if it's right or left eye. Looks like it's almost between the two eyes. There's a -
CMP: MARK. One in the left eye. Just about right in the center. Spot; no streak or anything, Just a spot. First spot seemed to be right between the two eyes, upper half of the field of view.
CDR: MARK; Gene. Streak from the upper right, of the right eye, down to about the middle.
CMP: MARK; Ron. About 8 o'clock ... diameter out, Just a bright flash; it's the brightest flash I've seen yet. Left eye.
CDR: Just about a second or two after Ron said "Mark," I saw a vertical bright line in the left side of the left eye; just flashed.
CMP: It was the greatest intensity - the intensity on that last one I had - but - the brightness was there, but it was kind of dull glow to it. It wasn't a - a spot that you could really focus on.
CMP: MARK; Ron. Left eye, about 09:30, half way - -
CDR: - - Gene. Left eye, very bright spot; left eye, left side about halfway in towards the middle. That was the brightest one I've seen, and it was Just a spot.
CMP: Ron. The intensity of the last one I had was - oh, a fourth of the bright one I had before that.
CMP: Spot. Yes, on the left eye.
CMP: MARK about 5 seconds ago, about 6 o'clock in the right eye.
CDR: MARK; Gene. A sharp line from the center of the left eye to the upper left-hand - upper left-hand side.
CDR: MARK; Gene. It's a very short - very short line, upper left hand of left eye going towards the right.
CDR: MARK; Gene. Upper right eye, tangential to my eye, just a very short line. Moving - -
CMP: MARK; Ron. Oh, a fourth of a diameter out in the right eye. Bright spot. Seemed like it was coming in. I could see the spot and then the streak. It went from that point kind of in - or up, I guess.
CDR: MARK; Gene. A dull flash on the bottom inside corner of the right eye. Correction - -
CMP: MARK; Ron. Go ahead, Gene.
CDR: Okay. Correction, Gene. That was on the left eye, that last one.
CMP: The last one for Ron was at 10 o'clock. Three- fourths of the diameter out. Just a - ... was only about an eighth of an inch in diameter. Right eye.
CDR: MARK; Gene.
CDR: MARK again. A flash - first flash was in the left eye on the left side. It went vertal - vertically up and away. And following that was a flash in the identically same spot. It was a line flash, up and away. On the left side of each eye, and it went up in both cases, but they were split by about 2 seconds. 46/3 Tape
CMP: MARK; Ron. A fourth of the diameter out at 3 o'clock in the right eye. I mean a half a diameter - half a radius; put it that way. z
CDR: MARK; Gene. A flash across the bottom of the right eye coming inward from left to right.
CMP: On the last one, it looked like it was a - -
CDR: MARK; Gene. Just a spot flash in the bottom of the left eye.
CMP: This is Ron. On my last one, it was Just a spot flash. No direction to it at all.
CMP: Ron; MARK. MARK; this is Ron. When I first said the word - it kind of looks like a - almost a sine wave transition from the corner upper at 10 o'clock in the right eye to about 2 o'clock in the left eye. Right between the two of them. The sin wave was - maybe two wiggles in it, and it was about a fourth of an inch long. Going from right to left, yes. And going into the left at about 2 o'clock.
CMP: MARK; Ron. Seems like I looked up, and as I looked up, there was one in the left eye about 12 o'clock just a flash. On the outer periphery.
CMP: MARK; Ron .... down about 06:30; Just a flash. Right eye.
CMP: MARK; Ron. Left eye, about 03:30, three-quarters of the radius out. A very dim flash. About 03:30.
CMP: MARK; Ron. Left eye. Starting at 5 o'clock on the circumference going to 3 o'clock at abou_ three-quarter diameter - three-quarter radius, I mean. Just a straight line.
CMP: Did I say left eye? I guess I meant did. Okay, let's - Okay, the motor quit.
CDR: Okay. Is that it? Yes, I can get that, Gene.
CMP: Okay, you want to take a picture of it first? Okay, POWER ... Okay, stand by. B, 2, 1 -
CDR: Say, Bob or Stu.
CDR: Okay, add- to ad to today. Not last night, but - I guess the first night I was in bed - I definitely saw some of these - because I had a hard time going to bed, to start with - I saw some of the same peripheral horizon-type things you said were not the type of data you were looking for; but I also saw a - some sets of the streaks. And probably the one most imposing thing I remember is - and the last one I remember before falling asleep - was the fact that there was a very bright spot that flashed right between my eyes like a very bright headlight - like a train coming at you, only with a flash. It's difficult probably to estimate the frequency of any of those because I was in a - sort of a sleep-hazy mode.
CDR: But then, as today, I saw some that flashed and lit up the horizon and some that lit up peripher- ally; and I guess, as you say, that's a different kind of data, but I did see them there and they impressed me.
CC: Okay. We got all that, Gene.
CMP: And it might be interesting to know I've never seen it before today.
CC: Hey, Gene, we appreciate all the data. We were Just trying to make the data fit the curve; you know the old trick. 46/5 Tape
CDR: Okay, I just wanted you to - Just told them like we saw them. That's all.
CDR: I will say one thing, though; no question in my mind but that they're there. Last trip I took, I guess I just wasn't looking for them or paying any attention to them. Maybe they were there and I ignored them because of other things. But they're there.
LMP: Okay, all you flash bugs down there - or flash- bulbs I guess is the word - frame 50. I Just took four pictures to show - two on the side and two on the bottom - to show the position of the ALFMED, and one of them of each set was focused on the ALFMED. The others were focused on the - the other set was focused on the struts.
LMP: And when you don't have anything else to do, why don't you have somebody predict where the S-IVB is. I think i've got her spotted - behind us and above us with respect to the Earth and our travel from it.
CC: FIDO just went out and shot himself, but we'11 get working on it.
LMP: Oh, don't worry about it. Shoot. I thought you guys might have an idea off-the-cuff there.
CC: No, what's humorous on this, Jack, is they have really been working on that's-IVB impact point -, and they've really been - it's been a - a real difficult problem for them so far.
LMP: I'11 tell you, I bet you Ron could give a star sighting on it (laughter). I looked at it through the monocular and sure looks like the S-IVB.
CC: Jack, we're not doubting you at all. We could probably start cranking it right now.
CC: Jack, are you sto - you all stowing the ALFMED now or are you done?
CMP: What 's that, Bob?
CC: Are you all done with the AIFMED now, Ron?
CMP: Yes, I've got to get it to - get the plate moved back down there yet.
CC: Okay, Ron - -
CMP: ... get the blindfold off first so I can see what I'm doing.
CC: Roger. I just want you to know. We've got a real long update coming up to you here on the L0I abort charts and that - and it's going to be, probably, a difficult readup. And you're the most familiar with the charts; you probably would want to take them. But whenever you want to take them, they are on - charts on page 3-81, 3-82, and then the cue card for LOI limits. Whenever you want to take them. It will be a lengthy one.