Otrobonita/noicy-space-talks huggingface dataset:
CDR-EVA: - - the first thing that we ought to do, if we want to drag the MET with us, is - see that white boulder down there.
LMP-EVA: Yes. I saw it. Let's grab a - -
CDR-EVA: We can sample both types of boulders right down in our area, so let's go on down there.
CDR-EVA: And can you give us a feel, Houston, about when you'd like us to leave the area.
CC: Okay. Estimated time of departure is in about 8 minutes, 7 and a half minutes.
LMP-EVA: Okay. Brought the h_mmer.
CDR-EVA: Okay. I guess we Just run down there this way, huh?
CDR-EVA: Okay .... One of these boulders, Fredo, is broken open. They're really brown boulders on the outside, and the interface that's broken is white, and then another one that most of it is white. They are right in the same area.
LMP-EVA: That's where we're headed right now. It's about 50 yards away.
CDR-EVA: Why don't you go on down and start, and let me bring the MET down.
LMP-EVA: All right. Yes. It's further than it looks.
CDR-EVA: That's the order of the day.
LMP-EVA: Okay, Fredo. I'm right in the midst of a whole pile of very large boulders here. It's - See what I can do to grab a meaningful sample.
LMP-EVA: First of all, let me start my photographing. This whole area.
LMP-EVA: They're awful darn big, but there's hardly anything that I can find. Let's see if I can chip one.
CC: Okay, Ed and Al, - -
LMP-EVA: Okay, Fredo - -
CC: To get - to get us back on the old time line here, when you depart C here, we'd like to proceed di- rectly to F, Weird. And we'11 pick back up from that point. En route you can make grab samples as you see fit.
CC: And another note I'11 remind you of - -
LMP-EVA: ... I've chipped some - -
CC: - - later on. Go ahead. I'm sorry.
LMP-EVA: I've chipped off one of the white rocks. I put it in bag 13-N. I'11 photograph it. There don't seem to be any samples of the white rocks lying around that are small enough for me tO sample and be sure they're what I'm looking for.
CDR-EVA: And A1 is Just going around picking up hand-size grab samples from the immediate vicinity of where Ed's - is operating. I have a couple that are go- lng in bag 16.
CDR-EVA: ***help with that one?
LMP-EVA: That's all right, I can do it.
CDR-EVA: There's a football-size rock, Houston, coming out of this area, which will not be bagged. It is - appears to be the prevalent rock of the boulders of the area.
LMP-EVA: That's better.
CC: Roger, Al, we copy.
CDR-EVA: That can go in one of the Z-bags.
CDR-EVA: Okay. Do you have a sample of that white rock?
LMP-EVA: Yes, I got one batch of particles.
CDR-EVA: Put it right in here.
LMP-EVA: I don't think it'11 go.
CDR-EVA: Yes. Core tube's out of the way ....
CDR-EVA: Okay. We'11 Just try back that way.
CDR-EVA: Okay. We're moving on down the hill now. Okay. Can you see Weird from here?
CDR-EVA: Kind of hard to find.
LMP-EVA: I can't even see Triplet from here (laughter).
CDR-EVA: Okay, let's - -
UNKNOWN: Wait a minute, Al. Let me take one quick look at the map before we move. Waste a minute looking.
CDR-EVA: Why don't you take the map and I'11 just head down to the general area of the LM, and you'11 probably get enough elevation view from down there so we can see Weird.
CDR-EVA: Okay. We're leaving C now.
CC: Roger, Al. And to rephase the question earlier, on the way back down, you might integrate any dis- tinction in the lithology on the way back with a better Sun angle and you're free to take grab samples en route to Weird.
LMP-EVA: Al, I think that's Weird to the north - I mean just to the left of North Triplet. And North Triplet appears to me to be right behind the LM.
LMP-EVA: You agree?
CDR-EVA: It's between - it's halfway between those two large boulders and one way down.
LMP-EVA: Yes, I think that's right. Uh-hu_h, that's the one.
CC: Kitty Hawk, Houston. We should have you now.
CMP: Okay, Ron. You're loud and clear.
CC: Okay. You're loud and clear there, Stu. How does it go?
CMP: Okay. Went real smooth, and the frame number is 48.
CC: Roger. Frame 48. And you think you got some good flicks, huh?
CMP: That's affirmative. I was touching it off once every 5 seconds and it was - it held right in there. And they should be good.
CC: Beautiful! Okay. I guess you're pressing then to checking out the LTC, right?
CMP: That's affirmative. I'11 get it stretched out here and get it up and then get on with you and tell you what I see.
CMP: Okay, Houston. Kitty Hawk.
CC: Roger. Go, Stu.
CMP: Okay. As far as whether or not the shutter is oscillating or going in one direction, I can't tell. We did run out of film on this magazine W and that made it a little easier to see in there. With this shutter sticking like this, you're going to expose any film underneath it because, you know, it's mov- ing at fast enough rate that I can see through and see the platen now. I can see the holes in the platen with the shutter oscillating. It goes fast. I'd say it's a couple of three times a second oscil- lation. Or at least that's the noise level, now. I'm not sure what the shutter's doing it's moving so fast. In AUTO and in single frame, when you push the button, the shutter does stop for Just an instant, and Just randomly, you will see the slit. Now it's not always there. Sometimes it's there, sometimes it isn't, sometimes it's a different width on the slit. Now, why don't we start there, and then I'11 entertain the questions.
CC: Okay, Stu. That sounds like that's a good explana- tion of what's happening. The shutter is oscillat- ing back and forth and it does expose the film every time it oscillates, it looks like. And even in single frame, it stops - -
CMP: Yes. Well, I don't know whether - -
CC: Yes. Go ahead, Stu.
CMP: I don't know whether it's oscillating or whether, you know, it's - I guess it would have to be though. That thing flips back and forth. Suffice it to say, there's always a slit over the film, the thing's moving so fast. I mean I can see through to the platen.
CC: Okay, Stu, as far as the oscillating or whipping all of the way around, what we simulated here on the ground, is that the shutter just goes around and around in there. And you know - you get a real clicking - dot dot dot dot - you know, some- thing like that. And I guess you've tried your frame rates at 10 frames a second.
CMP: That's affirmative, it's on 10, and the interval- ometer works. And on the cycle of 10 a minute, why the shutter stops and then takes back up again.
CC: Okay. Is the counter counting at the intervalometer setting, more or less?
CC: Okay. So, my impression is that it's getting mul- tiple exposures on each frame. Is that correct?
CMP: Yes, that would be it. Any film that's behind is going to be exposed as the slit moves back and forth. And like I say, the rate is fast enough that with your eye, you know, you can look right through the shutter in the center and see the holes in the platen while it's doing it's clicking thing.
CMP: And maybe if you could drum up any more questions, why - you know, this is a pretty good time; I've got the beast out here.
CC: Okay, we've got our photo guys, here, I'11 give them a poll and see if they've got any questions.
CMP: Okay. Hey, Ron, I want to make sure I'm making myself clear; so, keep asking me until you get across what you want to know.
CC: Okay, Stu. One question here. While the curtain is - or the shutter, you know, is clicking, slid- ing back and forth there, is the frame counter counting at that time or is it only counting - you know, kind of like when it's supposed to?
CMP: The frame counter is counting when it is supposed to.
CC: Okay, the frame counter is counting when it's sup- posed to, and while the shutter is erratic, flip- ping back and forth or round and around, whatever it's doing, the frame counter is just standing still. Is that correct?
CMP: That is affirmative. It does not move with this clicking or with the shutter oscillation. It only counts either when you hit the single frame or when the intervalometer times.
CC: Okay, Stu. It looks like we're still so uncertain on the Hycon, that we want to press on and use the 500 millimeter on the next REV. And we will not use the Hycon on the next REV.
CMP: Okay, I guess we need to talk a little bit about how we're going to do this, Ron.
CC: Okay, I've got some flight-plan updates here for you. Starting out at 135:20 in your solo book, there.
CMP: Okay. 135:20; I'm there.
CC: Okay. Delete the VERB 49 maneuver and press on to 135:35. Delete the ORB RATE.
CC: Delete - I hate to say this - delete King photo, before there at 135, about 45. And also delete the fan Crater strip there, target 4.
CMP: Okay, I've got you. Go ahead.
CC: Okay. And, of course, delete all references to the LTC photo on target 6. And then at 136:00, on page 38.
CC: Okay. And VERB 49 to roll 0, pitch 249, and yaw 0. Use 500-millimeter procedures. T-start, 136:18:40.
CC: And, Kitty Hawk, Houston. Did you copy that?
CDR-EVA: Okay. These rocks - these boulders in this field here appear to be very weathered, obviously not by atmosphere, but eroded by some process, because they all show cracks. They show evidences of being broken up either by impact or subsequently. And it looks to me as though these rocks are really pretty old.
CC: Roger, Al. And do you have anything left on the 16-millimeter or has it been running on the MET.
CDR-EVA: No, it hasn't. We might turn it on now - follow the progress.
CDR-EVA: Is it running now?
CDR-EVA: Have you checked the setting on it?
LMP-EVA: Yes, I did.
CC: And, Al. Without taking any extra time, if you come across any boulders large enough, We might fill the ... on the way down. If you haven't already done that on the way up.
CDR-EVA: I don't think we're going to find any along our path big enough, Fredo. The very largest ones are off to the right - south of us a bit - set up the hill a bit more.
LMP-EVA: Let's go on - Are you on the thing back there?
CDR-EVA: Want me to hold your back?
LMP-EVA: No, that's all right.
LMP-EVA: ... you're going to go over here in a minute.
LMP-EVA: ... I can't get you. Okay.
CDR-EVA: All right, here again, Houston. The texture here appears to be - The regolith appears to be a lot of pebbles, approximately a quarter of an inch on down to go along with the fine. And the same tex- ture pattern we spoke of before and photographed also here.
CDR-EVA: Okay. Why don't we stop here to see if we're really going to Weird.
LMP-EVA: Man, that - the LM doesn't seem like it's getting much closer.
CDR-EVA: is that Weird right down there, do you think?
LMP-EVA: Huh? No, Weird is - let's see; Weird is almost due east of the LM.
CC: And, A1 and Ed. We'd like - we need an EMU check.
CDR-EVA: Okay; this is Al. 3.75 and 45 percent; and I'm on MEDIUM flow, and I'm comfortable.
LMP-EVA: Okay, this is Ed. I'm on 3.75; MIN flow, 40 per- cent, and very comfortable. And there is Weird, Al. You can see the triple crater in it.
CDR-EVA: Okay - -
LMP-EVA: It's got the white spot.
CDR-EVA: Yes. With the boulder in the near foreground.
CDR-EVA: Okay. We're now out of the boulder field, Houston. And proceeding on down the flank.
CDR-EVA: And, I believe, - just get a shot - let's get a sample of that baby right there. Let's grab some from that one.
CDR-EVA: We're just going to get a quick grab here of a rock, and I'11 - I'11 photograph it because it's got some tremendous fillets in it. Don't hit the fillets until I photograph it .... and let me get a quick shot there. Okay, and a quick pan across there. That looks like - Yes, we ought to get a piece of that baby.
LMP-EVA: No, man; that's hard, hard, hard! Look at that - that ... in it.
CDR-EVA: Yes. Okay, here's a piece of it. Bag?
LMP-EVA: ... lay them back here. Crystals here, don't lose it.
CDR-EVA: Okay, that was about - it's about where we - No, I guess not.
LMP-EVA: Hold it a minute. Hold it! Let me get this bag. This darn bag dispenser is not doing what it's supposed to do.
CDR-EVA: Go ahead and take two. No.
LMP-EVA: Houston, the rock we're taking is in 14-N.
CC: Roger, Ed. 14-N. - -
LMP-EVA: ... a filleted rock. Large filleted rock that A1 photographed. Okay, let's go on. Do you want me to pull awhile?
CDR-EVA: No, Just watch everything. We don't want anything to drop off.
LMP-EVA: And you want me to hold back a while?
CDR-EVA: No, no, let's Just let it run. Long as we don't lose anything.
LMP-EVA: No. It's holding in very well. If it doesn't turn over. A little higher c.g, now than we had before with that big rock in there.
CDR-EVA: Fredo, can you give us an idea at about what time we should arrive at Weird?
LMP-EVA: That 16-millimeter bounces all over every place.
CDR-EVA: Well, maybe it could - could - It's taken photos from every view.
CDR-EVA: Okay. I hate to make a grab here that's not from this crater. It looks like that cuts fairly deep, though.
LMP-EVA: Yes. Let's - Hey, here's a whole batch of them right down here, Al. Let's grab those.
CDR-EVA: Which way, left or right?
LMP-EVA: Off to the left and ahead - around %hat little crater. They're all from this same area.
CDR-EVA: Houston. Unable to see any stratigraphy in any of these craters. The slumping has been such that its pretty much destroyed.
LMP-EVA: I'11 grab this one right here.
CC: Roger, Al. And ... positionwlse, you're past Flank now. Is that correct? Or at lease a mean position of Flank?
CDR-EVA: No, we're not, Fredo. We're - No, we're not at Fank - at Flank yet. I'd say we're probably 15 minutes away from Weird. Did you go it on board?
LMP-EVA: As a matter of fact, I think this is Flank right here.
CDR-EVA: Get it on board?
LMP-EVA: Yes, I've got the rock on board.
CDR-EVA: Okay, let's press.
CC: Roger. And one other question that's up there is to check for the stratigraphy reported earlier of the light gray-white layer below the top, if you see that exposed anywhere?
CDR-EVA: Okay. Now, we did not see that until we started approaching the edge of the boulder field. The - There's no evidence of that at all that we noticed.
LMP-EVA: Not down this far. One thing I did notice - further outside of where we sawthe white underneath - but it looked like an impact had been of the white rock or it was a splatter of white. And it was Just outside where A1 was reporting that the underlying layer was white. As a matter of fact - No, that Just - The Sun angle was causing it. Right now, some of the spray that we're kicking up looks white underneath, but I'm convinced it's Just the angle .... I looked back the other way, and it's not substantiated.
LMP-EVA: Hold it.
CDR-EVA: That's what I'm trying to do.
CDR-EVA: Okay, we're moving along pretty well, Fred, at this point. And I'd say we're still probably about minutes 10 away from Weird.
CC: Very good, Al. Looks kind of like you're making a little better time going down than up.
UNKNOWN: Yes, the slope's a different way, Fredo. In this case, the MET helps.
CDR-EVA: Okay, don't let me lose that baby. That's it right there with the three - -
CDR-EVA: - - with the three rocks beyond it.
LMP-EVA: Yes. We're getting down to the place where ... to see it.
CDR-EVA: This is probably Flank right here, or is it?
LMP-EVA: I'm not going to say until I get down and look at the exact pattern. It probably is, Al. But if this is really Flank, we should have been at the top of Cone Crater where we were.
CDR-EVA: Yes, I know.
LMP-EVA: I think we've already passed by it.
CC: Okay. It maybe - looks down here, Ed - that maybe what you're looking at there, if you've got another Flank-size crater is the one by E.
LMP-EVA: No, this is a big crater. It's 40, 50 meters across. It has a fairly sharp crater in the south edge of it, which is - -
LMP-EVA: - - 20, 30 feet across. Yes, I think that's it, Fredo. And it's - No, it's at least 50 or 60 feet deep.
CDR-EVA: Why don't we just grab a couple from right here.
CDR-EVA: That baby came apart. Very soft.
LMP-EVA: Yes, it's falling apart as you pick it up; very crumbly, isn't it?
CDR-EVA: Okay. You got a bag ready?
CDR-EVA: Very, very soft rock ... that crater, plus another one very close to us with crystal in it .... now going into bag.
LMP-EVA: 15-N.
LMP-EVA: Not quite; let me get it in there.
CDR-EVA: Stay behind me; we don't want to leave anything now.
CDR-EVA: Okay ... right there.
LMP-EVA: Yes, we're going right for Weird. Head right for the big boulder. Then Weird's right beyond it.
CDR-EVA: Easy.
LMP-EVA: Okay, keep going.
LMP-EVA: This is Ed. I'm going back through INTERMEDIATE cooling.
LMP-EVA: The - One of the problems of going down hill here is that you have defric - essentially defraction, I guess, around your body, and it creates a halo effect in your shadow, and you Just can't see a darn thing right in front of you.
CC: That's okay, Ed, - -
LMP-EVA: ... either blacked out or washed out right - Kind of blacked out - kind of washed immediately - im- mediately down-Sun of you. We're going predomi- nantly down-Sun now.
CDR-EVA: Okay, Fred, we're still moving, and - that's about 3 minutes away now from Weird.
LMP-EVA: The crater we are going by now, we're just to the north of it, Fredo, is an old subdued crater.
CDR-EVA: If you want to run over behind that boulder over there, and I'11 try and talk to you.
LMP-EVA: You're the one that has to get behind it and try to talk to Houston.
CDR-EVA: Oh, that's right. Okay.
LMP-EVA: I'11 pull the MET. Go ahead.
CDR-EVA: Okay. On second thought, maybe it's not big enough. I '11 help.
LMP-EVA: No, don't think it is.
CDR-EVA: No, I guess not. Sure is a big old boulder. I'11 take a picture of it anyway.
CC: Okay, and this - this big boulder, Al, is - you're just about at Weird now. Is that - is that right?
CDR-EVA: - - a couple of hundred meters short of Weird.
CDR-EVA: This country is so rolling and undulating , Fred, with rises and dips everywhere, that you can be going by a fairly good-size crater and not even recognize it.
LMP-EVA: Okay, I'm back with you. Okay, I think this is Weird right - to our right here - forward, Al. See that fresh one right there? I think that's the fresh one of the Weird pattern.
CC: Okay, Al and Ed; on the Weird task, we'd like to pan and grab samples at Weird; and we'11 pick up most of our tasks that we had bypassed at E - when we get to Triplet.
CDR-EVA: Okay, I'11 get the pan. I think ... is right in here.
LMP-EVA: Where are you?
CDR-EVA: Behind you, to your left. Any ... in there?
LMP-EVA: No, I didn't think so; I think this is it right here.
CDR-EVA: It looks too small, I believe. Well, anyway, yes, we're in the area, Houston. We've got a minute to find it.
CDR-EVA: Okay, panning's underway, now.
CDR-EVA: Okay, pan is complete.
CDR-EVA: Did you get a grab sample, Ed?
LMP-EVA: I Just - I got some right up here, Al.
CC: And I guess this is going in bag 16. IS that right, Ed?
LMP-EVA: This is in bag 17, Fred. Sixteen got used some time back.
CDR-EVA: Okay; let's press on.
LMP-EVA: Okay. This darn rig - it's hard to fold up.
CDR-EVA: We've got a pan and a grab sample. What else do we want from here, Houston?
CC: Okay, that!s - that's it, Al. We would like to proceed on to the north Triplet, and I'11 give you a - the a - the tasks when we get there.
CDR-EVA: Okay. we'11 try to get to north Triplet.
LMP-EVA: You ran out from under me Just as I was picking it up.
CDR-EVA: (Laughter) Sorry.
LMP-EVA: Oh, man.
CC: Okay, Al and Ed - -
LMP-EVA: There's some blocks over there ...
CC: - - for your stop for the E, we'd like that - take an estimated one-crater diameter short of the crater - North Crater.
LMP-EVA: You want us to stop one-crater diameter short.
CC: That's affirm; because some of the items coming up are the core and the trench - triple core.
LMP-EVA: Okay. I think we're seeing the rim of the Triplet series right ahead of us, aren't we, _?
CDR-EVA: I would say so, yes. We can say that's the rim of the North right there.
UNKNOWN: Yes. It's got boulders on it, and that's the only thing big enough to have boulders. We're probably about one diameter out right now.
CDR-EVA: I'd say we are. Right here.
LMP-EVA: The way we've been estimating distances today, that rim has to be at least 6 miles from here.
CDR-EVA: Okay, Houston; we're about i diameter to the east of North Triplets.
LMP-EVA: To the west of - yes, east of the Triplets. Excuse me.
CC: Okay, copied, and - -
CC: The number i item is the triple core.
LMP-EVA: Where's the third core tube?
CDR-EVA: Well, why don't you use clean ones?
LMP-EVA: I don't have clean ones.
CDR-EVA: Yes, you do. They're down in this pocket right there. Let me - -
LMP-EVA: This one?
CDR-EVA: - - let me get my camera tightened up.
LMP-EVA: This one's been used.
CDR-EVA: No, no, no. In here, Ed.
CDR-EVA: The three tabs should be clean.
CDR-EVA: Okay, we'11 pull it back together here.
LMP-EVA: Now, I'm clear to the bottom of that, I think.
CDR-EVA: Okay; we've got the camera back together. Okay, Fredo, for your info, the CDR's COMMANDER is reading ll7.
CC: Roger, Al, 117.
CDR-EVA: Okay, I'11 get it.
LMP-EVA: Start with this one. We've only got two fresh ones in here. You've got four out that are used; or that look like they're used.
CDR-EVA: The three tabbed ones, we haven't used yet. Let me get them, Ed.
LMP-EVA: Okay. I'11 take the tabbing off of this one.
CDR-EVA: Yes, I think that's the best way to go. Let's make - make them 1, 2, 3 for simplicity's sake.
LMP-EVA: I don't have a mat from that one; where did it go?
CDR-EVA: The bottom one will be number 1 tube with a tab, Fredo.
LMP-EVA: Here's your number 3.
CDR-EVA: Okay. Hold on to that one. Okay? And the other one will be number 2 with a tab.
CDR-EVA: And the top one will be number 3 with a tab.
CC: Roger, Al. And we're going to subtract off 15 minutes from that 30-minute extension due to a - PLSS oxygen.
CC: So that gets us about - -
CC: Okay. This gives us approximately - -
CC: - - 25 minutes at stop ...
CDR-EVA: 25 minutes until what?
LMP-EVA: ... Okay, I got this one. Go ahead; start your trench, if you llke.
CDR-EVA: Okay. I'11 dig the trench in the far wall of this crater here, Ed.
LMP-EVA: Fredo, I've tried to push in the core tubes - triple core tube - I get maybe a - oh, 3 to 4 inches of pushing in by hand. And it's just surface stuff; a very soft - It will not support the weight of the core tubes. Now, I've got it balanced, and I can take a picture of it, perhaps.
CC: Okay. We're reading you Ed.
LMP-EVA: Okay. We'11 try to drive it.
CC: And do I understand correctly, Ed; you're taking care of the triple core - on your own there?
LMP-EVA: That's affirm. Al's digging - busy with his trench.
LMP-EVA: I'11 go over and help him photograph it in - in a while. And it - it's not going in easy, Fred.
LMP-EVA: I'11 try driving it a bit more, but I think I'm on solid rock; and, I'm about one core tube down.
CC: Roger, Ed. Solid rock, about one core tube down.
CC: Okay. The recommendation, Ed, is to pull it up and move - over a bit and try it again.
LMP-EVA: The way this one feels, it'11 be the same thing.
CC: Okay. Ed; and when you pull it out, they'd like to save the bottom core, and replace it with another one there when you try - before you try again.
CC: How's the trench going, Al? Are you getting - getting down there?
CDR-EVA: I've got _ trench here. It's going fairly easily, but I need the extension-angle handle to get it deeper so - no way to edge through that. I'm cutting into the rim of a crater which is approxi- mately - say, 6 meters in diameter, has a depth of about three-quarters of a meter. And we're back in about one diameter away from the north ... Triplet. The trench is going through at least three layers that I can see. The fine-grain sur- face, dark browns; then, a layer of what appears to be quite a bit of black; and then, a third layer of some very light material. And, we should be able to sample all three of these.
LMP-EVA: Core tube cap. Core tube cap on that sample is in 18 N.
CDR-EVA: And a very interesting looking rock with really fine-grain crystals in it. It's a grab sample, Houston, from that same crater in which I'm digging. It's too large for a bag; it's dark brown; dark part is fractured. It's fracture face is very light gray with very small crystals.
CC: Roger, Al; and if you can't get any with your samples down in the trench itself that have any rock segments, you might include those as part of your sample.
CDR-EVA: What's that, Ed?
CDR-EVA: Put it in that side bag if you can; these are all - all full back here.
LMP-EVA: Let me help you.
CDR-EVA: Are you about through with the extension handle, or are you going to - -
LMP-EVA: Go ahead and take it. I don't really need it to drive.
CDR-EVA: I'11 go over and cut that baby, and we'11 - through here.
CDR-EVA: Okay, Houston; I know that - we did not mention this white layer - down in this area before - that was so obvious to us just below the surface up near the flank of Cone. But it appears as though it is - quite a bit - well, it's relatively deep, as far as visual observation is concerned. And certainly not any would be picked up by foot- prints, or tracks or the like. But there appears to be some of that here in this trench.
LMP-EVA: Fredo, did you get my - get my report that the core tube tip - tip was in 18 N?
CC: Roger, Ed. I got that; 18 N.
LMP-EVA: Okay, and I have taken the bottom core of that one, which was core 1 flag; and it's now by itself - as a single core tube; and I'm going to replace that with - number 1 unflagged, which is the one A1 started to use earlier but didn't get anywhere with it.
CC: Okay. Number l, unpegged, on the bottom.
CDR-EVA: You know what's happening in this trench; it's the - surface fines are so loose that they're Just falling down covering the layering that we want to get. I'11 tell you, we're not going to get a classic vertical wall here, Houston, on this trench.
CC: And, Ed. Are you having any better luck on the triple core this time?
LMP-EVA: I've got it in about half a tube. But I'm - getting ready to take a picture of it so you can locate it; and then, we'11 go ahead and drive it the rest of the way in.
LMP-EVA: Okay, Fredo. There's three frames here, probably 69, 70, 71, that are core tubes. The first one's the aborted one that I couldn't - couldn't get in. The second one - the second picture is the - this new attempt, and a 15-foot shot that I raised up and took a locator shot on the horizon of it. I think it might go.
CC: Very good, Ed.
UNKNOWN: Okay, I'm getting down low enough; I'm going to have to have an extension handle to finish driving it, I think.
CDR-EVA: Okay, I'11 give it back to you. I'm really kind of through with this trench.
CMP: Roger. Okay, a readback. We're marking off the 135:20, no VERB 49 maneuver; 135:35, no PRO on the ORDEAL; and marked off in blood is the King photos, the Fan Crater photos; deleting any ref- erence to LTC target 6; and, at 136, we'11 do a VERB 49 maneuver to 0, 249, 0; use the 500-millimeter procedures; T-start at 136:18:40.
CC: Okay, that's good. And then I've got your map update for REV 28 on page 37, there.
CMP: Okay, now. This is another track of Descartes. Is that right, Ron?
CC: That's affirmative. And stand by 1. I may have a slightly different aim point there.
CMP: Okay. Ron, have you got your Descartes COAS out?
CC: Sure do.
CMP: Okay, mark down the aim point. The aim point is shown on it, that crater right by the center of the X.
CMP: That did show up when I first started. So, see right up toward the top of the page, two craters right together? I meant move up about a - oh a quarter of an inch from the center. Can you see a little doublet there?
CC: Okay. I think I'm with you. Yes.
CMP: Okay. That was my aim point on that pass. Those - those two showed up better at first, before this one down here. So I picked up on them. And you know that's essentially between the two bright ones and about 3/16ths of an inch up from the center of the COAS as shown on it.
CC: Okay. I think - I'm not sure which way is up. Is it the bottom of the page or the top of the page now that you're talking about? I - I got a little doublet kind of - -
CC: - - toward - toward the bottom of the page.
CMP: No, no. Take - take the center of the COAS and move toward the top of the page about a quarter of an inch. They're not really touching each other, but there are two small craters there, just to the left of the center line of the COAS.
CC: Okay. I've got you. I've got you.
CMP: Okay, that was my aim point on that - on that pass, and it - it stayed pretty good.
CC: Okay, real good. Do you think you can pick up the - you know the - the aim point as on the COAS? As - as shown on the picture for this REV?
CMP: Yes, I think so. I - I can probably get down there ...
CC: Okay. That'11 be real good. And then if we have - -
CMP: Before we go any further - Hey, Ron, before we press on, would anybody object to me going wide dead band here? Would that affect the eomm or anything?
CC: Yes, it does, Stu. We talked about that, and you're fat on fuel. So let's stay in narrow dead band here, so we'11 keep the comm. You're - -
CC: - - You're about 90 - -
CMP: - - Very good then. I interrupted - -
CC: - - You're - -
CC: - - You're about 90 pounds above the flight plan there.
CMP: Okay. So on this pass I'11 try to hit this aim point dead center. Actually, I was under the impression that the place we really want to aim is a little to the south and a little to the west from where the center of this is marked here on this map. Why don't you verify that for me, and we'11 talk about it when we come around.
CC: Okay. Yes, I remember ... talking about it, and I was going to make a little equilateral triangle with those two craters that were right in the - pretty close to the center of the X, you know, just a little bit, like you say, to the south there. And I'11 verify that for sure, though.
CC: And, Stu, here I've got your map update for REV 28 there on page 37.
CC: Okay. 180 is 135:26:51.
CMP: Okay. 135:26:51, and guess I was talking about this when we went AOS [sic] last time. I - I'm really not - I - I don't need that time. I can - I can find my way around real good. Why don't we just dispense with padding that up and save the chatter?
CC: I figured you'd say that. You know we've had real good training on where we are up there so - plus the fact you can whip in the P21 if you really get lost on the thing, so it sounds like a good idea.
CMP: Okay. And do you have data on me now, Ron?
CC: That's affirmative. We even have HIGH BIT RATE this time.
CMP: Well, how about that? I know after all this talking and everything, I just happened to look over here. My cabin pressure is - is up. What do you say about it there? I'm reading on the gage here about 5.8 or so.
CC: Let me make a quick check with EECOM.
CC: Yes, Stu. You know you pumped it up before you went to bed last night, and the - just the ... accumulator is kind of - you know building it up a little bit. And you just got a real tight cabin. We don't think it's a problem at all.
CMP: Okay. You just don't breathe much when you're in here by yourself, huh?
CC: Yes, I guess that's it.
CC: And, Stu, go for the point as depicted in the COAS picture.
CMP: Okay. I'11 put her on there dead center.
CMP: Okay, Ron. Just to make sure I understand here now. Really, I won't do anything the way the flight plan is now, until 136 when I go for another Descartes track? You verify that?
CC: Yes, that's right. And, let me do some checking here. I don't know if you're going to be able to sneak in any pictures of King, you know, as you're coming up there or not.
CMP: Okay. Well, I'11 - I can use the time to get this thing stowed, ready for my hiking buddies.
CC: Okay. Speaking of your hiking buddies, they're about - It looks like a little more than halfway back from Cone, heading back toward the LM. Okay. One other flight-plan change I got here on the - -
CC: - - reference to the batteries. At - Flip over to 137.
CMP: Okay, 137.
CC: Okay. And put, "Charge battery A," at that point in time. And take battery B off of charge at that time, instead of at 136:15.
CMP: Okay. I'11 move "Charge battery A" from 136:15 to 137.
CC: Okay, Kitty Hawk; Houston here. You got about a minute to go before you go around the horn.
CMP: Okay. We'11 see you in a few minutes.
CDR-EVA: Okay, Fred. Bag 19 for the sample of the surface fine - that is, from the surface layer of the trench.
CDR-EVA: I am unable to take from the walls of the trench the type of material - the blocky type of material that I could see when I was digging; so, I'11 just get a ... full of that, and we'11 mix the surface with the second layer.
CC: Roger, Al. How deep did you finally end up getting down?
CDR-EVA: Well, the trench is about a foot and a half deep. I gave up actually not because it was hard digging, but because the walls kept falling in on it; and it was covering all the evidence of stratigraphy.
LMP-EVA: And, Houston. I'm over 40 feet - 50 feet from where A1 is; and on the east side of these craters, I have the triple core in about a tube and a quarter; and it's tightening up again. I Just don't think it's going to go the rest of the way.
LMP-EVA: I'm maybe driving a millimeter a stroke. I'11 hit it a few more licks, and I'11 see if we can break through or move it a little more. No, that's as far as it is going, Houston; one and a quarter.
CC: Okay, Ed. We'11 just take your judgment on that; when you don't think you can get it in any further, you can stop there.
LMP-EVA: Okay. I think I could probably beat it for the next 10 minutes, Fred, and not get another inch out of it.
CC: Well, I don't think you need the exercise, you may as well extract it now.
LMP-EVA: I agree. I'11 take a picture of it, a final picture of it, to show you how far we got with it.
CDR-EVA: Okay, Houston; this is Al. And bag 21 is kind of a collection of the combination of the top two layers. Second layer is a thin layer of small glassy-like pebbles. I was unable to separate them by the trench method, so I gave it to you mixed up in that bag; and the last bag will be pebbles from the bottom layer.
CC: Okay, Al. And about - what's the thickness of the intermediate layer there?
CDR-EVA: Well, it's really ephemeral [laughs] - it's almost - it's very thin; I would say no more than a quarter of an inch thick, and I just noticed it because of the difference of the grain structure as I was digging the trench.
CDR-EVA: And in bag 20, 2 0, we'11 fill a sample of the bottom material; also, mixed up with the - some of the surface material has fallen down in on top of it. And that's about - call it 18 inches below surface.
CC: Roger, Al; and when you and Ed can work it in, we need another EMU check.
CDR-EVA: This is Al, at 3.75 and reading - about - -
LMP-EVA: Oh, hell.
CDR-EVA: Reading 35; I have no flags; and I'm in - negative flow now, going to min flow; and feeling good.
CC: Okay; and what kind of misery are you having now, Ed?
LMP-EVA: 3.75; 32 percent. Minimum- wait a minute - I'm in medium cooling and doing great.
LMP-EVA: Now, my problem is I can't get the - driving down - driving down to that rock, I couldn't get the core cap off; I'11 get some help from Al, soon as he puts his handful of samples down. Okay, that's great. ''
CDR-EVA: Okay, let me get rid of this pincher.
CC: Okay. On the - the agenda here, we have remaining documented samples, and we need a pan.
LMP-EVA: Roger. We'11 get it for you.
CDR-EVA: Oh, God.
LMP-EVA: Get another one; get that one; we've got plenty.
LMP-EVA: Look at it.
CC: Okay. And, Al, one question, did you get the SESC sample out of the bottom of the trench?
CDR-EVA: Well, I told you the trench was kind of a miserable thing, because the walls kept falling down. And I could get a sample from the bottom, but it wouldn't be the bottom, I'm afraid.
LMP-EVA: Okay, Fredo, the bottom - bit on this ... was bit - what - 23? Isn't it, Al? That's the one you did.
CDR-EVA: Twenty-three.
LMP-EVA: Right, 23.
CDR-EVA: Okay, we need a pan from here; I can get that.
CDR-EVA: Well, I'11 tell you, I'11 go back and whack at it a little bit. See what I can do.
CC: Okay. And, A1 and Ed, we have about 8 minutes left here at Triplet.
CDR-EVA: Roger. You're still counting on a quick trip out to the ALSEP antenna?
CC: That's affirm, Al. That's included in this time, and when - when you start out, we'd like you to make some grab samples as you pass by North Triplet.
LMP-EVA: And, Fredo, the triple core tube, the second core didn't have anything in it. As soon as I opened it up, a little bit fell out, and the second core tube is empty.
LMP-EVA: Even though it drove down - even though it drove in about 3 inches, it didn't get anything.
LMP-EVA: Okay, I'11 put a bit back on that one. Save it.
CC: Okay, and when you get done there, Ed, I guess you can proceed with getting some documented samples before we have to depart.
CDR-EVA: Okay. SESC can: that's over in that pocket, right?
LMP-EVA: Okay. Documented samples coming up.
CDR-EVA: This white stuff on the rim here, Ed?
CDR-EVA: These white rocks on the rim here?
LMP-EVA: Yes. Document some of that. Here's a rock right here.
CC: Okay, has A1 moved over by the rim of North Crater now?
LMP-EVA: Oh, no, we're still at the same place.
CDR-EVA: Negative.
LMP-EVA: That's pretty well disturbed, Al; I'11 grab it - I'11 grab it without much documentation.
CDR-EVA: We're digging the bottom of the trench for you, Fredo.
CDR-EVA: I'm redigging the trench.
LMP-EVA: I'm picking up one of the - so-called whiter rocks, Fredo, near the area where A1 is digging. Since it's already disturbed, I'm not going to waste time on much documentation. Kind of a - -
LMP-EVA: Man, it's going into 25 Nancy.
CDR-EVA: Okay, we're packing up now.
LMP-EVA: One more documented sample.
CC: Okay, there is a Special request. Rather than grab samples at the North Crater rim there, they'd like to get a documented sample of a partially buried rock.
LMP-EVA: Okay. I was going to try to get you one of those right here, but it looks pretty big. I think maybe I can get it anyhow.
CDR-EVA: Oh, no.
CDR-EVA: I can't believe it.
UNKNOWN: What's the matter, Al?
CDR-EVA: Oh, that - seal came off that thing.
CC: Okay, Ed and Al, we're going to have to be depart- ing Triplet here - and that one brief stop at the North rim to pick up one documented sample - and get on back to the LM area if we're going to pick up the remaining tasks, there.
CDR-EVA: Okay. Okay, you're right.
LMP-EVA: ..., this documented sample that I got of the buried rock, it's too big for regular weigh bags. See what I can do with it. A regular sample bag - I'm sticking one over it, but it'11 never close. Okay, it's going in it. And will probably stay, but it won't close it.
CC: Okay, that'11 probably be all right, Ed. We're going to have to move out now.
LMP-EVA: It's bag 26 N.
LMP-EVA: Okay. I'11 grab the gnomon. We're on our way.
CDR-EVA: ... the last I see of that son-of-a-bitch.
LMP-EVA: Oh, let me do it - let me grab it for you.
CDR-EVA: What? That thing? What do you mean - that can?
CDR-EVA: Forget it?
CDR-EVA: I'm never going to use it again. Okay, headed for the LM. We're probably about 2 minutes away from the LM, Houston.
CDR-EVA: Okay, everything's on so far.
CDR-EVA: Okay, we're - -
LMP-EVA: I think we're closing on it.
CDR-EVA: Right. Here's the - -
LMP-EVA: Triplet right up ahead of us.
CDR-EVA: Could be.
LMP-EVA: We'11 have to do a little bit to the north to get around it, I think.
LMP-EVA: We're approaching Triplet from the - from the east, that's North Triplet from the east. There's some - a little rock field down here - a small boulder field, Al. Want to get a documented sample from it?
LMP-EVA: Looks good. Yes, looks like they might have come from there.
CDR-EVA: Oops.
LMP-EVA: Did you lose something?
CDR-EVA: You lost you know what.
UNKNOWN: Oh, no. What?
CDR-EVA: (Laughter) This shiny can.
LMP-EVA: Damn SESC, huh?
CDR-EVA: Okay, the shiny can is retrieved. Press on. Go ahead to ..., Ed, right down the middle and get a documented sample there.
CDR-EVA: Man, that pile of rocks - beautiful, right to - right to your left. Oh, just the right size.
CDR-EVA: Don't walk over them!
LMP-EVA: No, I'm trying to stay away from them.
LMP-EVA: Are these the ones - the ones over here?
CDR-EVA: God damn that thing.
LMP-EVA: Gnomon is in place.
CDR-EVA: Okay, why don't - -
LMP-EVA: I'11 get the - Go ahead. I'm on this side; I'11 get the stereo.
LMP-EVA: Get the locator.
CDR-EVA: Yes. Can't even see the camera settings.
LMP-EVA: Yes, that's got so much dirt on them. Okay, 7 foot.
CC: Okay, Ed and Al, as soon as you wrap this one up, you're going to have to press on back to the LM, or we're going to be really tight on the closeout.
CDR-EVA: Ail covered with ...
LMP-EVA: ..., huh? Yes. God damn, it's bigger than we thought. Al, we'11 grab sample that one; I'11 get you another one here.
CDR-EVA: Okay. Listen, just put it in that - in that thing. And let's press - because we don't have the time.
LMP-EVA: Ail right. I'11 grab it, and let me take a picture - an extra picture here.
CDR-EVA: Ail right. I'11 grab one right here in the foreground.
CDR-EVA: Okay, bag 27 Nancy.
CC: Roger, Al. Twenty-seven, Nancy.
UNKNOWN: And another documented sample - a larger docu- mented sample than we thought we were getting here, Fredo. Again, it was a buried rock; and it's too big for the sample bag; so, it'11 go into the weigh bag.
CDR-EVA: ... Can you get it?
UNKNOWN: It has a very definite shape; I think you'11 be able to sort it out.
LMP-EVA: Okay, let's march for the LM.
CC: Okay, A1 and Ed. I guess we can skip the rim of North Crater and proceed right on back to the _ are a.
UNKNOWN: Okay. That's where we are. We're at the - we are at the rim of North Crater.
UNKNOWN: We're on the west - -
CC: I think you misunderstood the message. We can proceed right on by the rim - We have the buried rock samples now, and head on back to the LM. That's the Antares.
LMP-EVA: That's right. That's where we're headed.
CDR-EVA: Okay, that's where we're headed.
UNKNOWN: i'il get it; keep going. He lost the core tube.
LMP-EVA: I'11 have it in a minute. I got it.
LMP-EVA: Everything still hanging on? Yes. Everything is still there.
CDR-EVA: Okay, we're approaching the LM now. Coming in at Fra Mauro Base.
CC: Roger, Al, and I guess from here, we'11 - we can split up; and Ed can take the MET and proceed to the cluster of boulders he had reported earlier to the north of the LM; and you can proceed out to the ALSEP.
CDR-EVA: I'd suggest - well, you can do it the way you want to - I guess you can do without the ...
LMP-EVA: Without the MET, yes.
CDR-EVA: Without the MET, because there's nobody to - if anything falls off, we've lost all those goodies.
CC: Okay, that's it - -
LMP-EVA: I'11 Just take a couple of rock bags, put on my tongs and camera, and go.
CC: That's a good point, Ed.
CDR-EVA: Okay, Al's on the way.
CC: Yes. That'd be fine.
LMP-EVA: Okay. Al's on the way out to the ALSEP.
LMP-EVA: As a matter of fact, Fredo, I'm just going to take a weigh bag and no sample bag; that way I can get more. The size of these rocks - the sample bags are too small, anyhow.
CC: Roger, Ed. Okay, Al, the first thing when you get to the central station - is to check the alinement and verify the alinement and leveling.
CDR-EVA: Okay, I'm just going to go through the same procedure.
CC: Okay, and I got - I got a ... for you on the azimuth.
CDR-EVA: - - on the antenna setup, that is - - All right. Let me give you a call when I get there, and when I'm alined and level.
UNKNOWN: Okay, Fredo, my plan: I'm out in the area of the boulder field; I'm going to photograph many of the boulders, the rocks, the broken ones, the big ones, what have you - and then, grab as many of the different fragments as I can around these piles of broken boulders. I - now, that I'm here, I see a large number of_inclusions - I can't tell whether they're crystals or not - I think that they are. And I'11 grab as many of these - and give you be- fore and after shots as I can - of a whole weigh bag full of rocks.
CDR-EVA: Okay, the center alinement on the ALSEP has changed very little. Ought to be a slight change in the bubble level. Stand by.
CDR-EVA: Okay. Alined and level.
CC: Okay, A1 - -
CDR-EVA: _nat level are you reading?
CC: The - setting we need is now - actually a change in the azimuth reading to 16 minus 16.00.
CDR-EVA: Minus 6.00.
CDR-EVA: Okay, 16.00.
CDR-EVA: 6.41 is still elevation.
CC: Okay, stand by l, Al.
CDR-EVA: Standing by your ... Okay.
CC: Okay, Al. You can proceed back to the vicinity of the I_, and with the time remaining that you had for the ALSEP, shoot a few closeup pictures here. We've got about 4 minutes left.
CDR-EVA: Okay. Are the ALSEP signals satisfactory?
CDR-EVA: Okay. Heading back to the LM.
CDR-EVA: Go ahead, Houston.
CC: Okay, a little change in the targets; when you get back to the LM, we'd like the TV turned to look at the MESA area, so we can watch the closeout number 1; and then, you can shoot a quick picture of the solar wind.
CDR-EVA: Roger, I'm going for the camera, now.
CC: Okay. And we haven't changed the settings, Al; so, it should - should be in good shape when you turn her to the MESA.
CDR-EVA: Okay. We'11 be setting at 22.
CDR-EVA: Yes. I'm Just setting it up, Fred.
CDR-EVA: Okay, that's f/22. How does that look?
LMP: Well, a little more - more to the left. Just a minute.
CDR-EVA: I'm shooting f/22 in peak. How does that look?
CC: Okay, if you can tilt it just up slightly, Al, that'11 be it. That's good - got good azimuth on it, now.
CDR-EVA: It's on the side of a hill; that's a problem out here.
UNKNOWN: Okay, Fredo, I'm heading back from the boulder field. I've sampled two of the larger boulders in the area. Rocks broken from them and lying on them; and I've taken a pan; and I have a - maybe a third of a weigh bag full of small rocks from these boulders.
CDR-EVA: What setting would you like on that solar wind shot, Fredo?
CC: Okay, Al. I'd go ahead and use your - your standard down-Sun picture if that's the direction you're shooting it in. They don't have an input here. Okay, the last - -
CC: - - just got an input. They want f/11 at 1/25th.
CC: Kitty Hawk, Houston. How we doing?
CMP: Howdy. Getting along real fine.
CC: Okay, Stu. We've got you this time, I think.
CMP: Yes. I'm reading you loud and clear.
CC: Okay, Stu. We'd like to give the high gain a chance here to do its stuff with the SERVO ELECTRONICS POWER in SECONDARY. So what we'd like to have you do is go to SECO_DARY with the HIGH GAIN SERVO ELECTRONICS POWER switch. Switch your - While your TRACK mode in MANUAL, set in a PITCH of minus 58, a YAW of 185, and BEAM WIDTH to WIDE. And then go into a normal acquisition, you know, trying to get it to AUTO and then MEDIUM and then down to NARROW. If for some reason that doesn't work, well then go on back to the way we've been - been doing it there in MANUAL, MEDIUM, and PRIMARY ELECTRONICS.
CMP: Okay. Now, the ELECTRONICS are in SECONDARY now, Ron. They have been since yesterday.
CC: Oh, okay. Well, why don't we press on anyhow and try a normal acquisition on the thing, then? Put your PITCH to minus 58, YAW to 185.
CC: And we'11 see if it'11 track in AUTO at all, or if it'11 - -
CC: We got NARROW.
CMP: Well, how about that, sports fans! There's AUTO and NARROW, good and solid.
CC: Yes. It worked, looks like. Okay. Let's go ahead and leave it there, Stu. And let's see if it'11 track when you start to maneuver to the COAS tracking attitude.
CC: And, Stu, for your information, A1 and Ed are back at the I_M. Ai's down there hitting golf balls. Seeing how far he can hit them.
CMP: How's that coming out?
CC: A1 - looks like he had a couple of slices there, but then finally go - got a hold of one and really drove it down the old lunar surface.
CC: Stu, you doing anything now? Do you want to talk about these normal docking procedures, changed there on page 52?
CMP: Okay. Just a second. Let me float out from under the couch here and get my book.
CMP: Okay. I'm on page 52.
CC: Okay, Stu. Let me talk about it here a minute - for a little bit. As you know, normal procedures are we go whipping on in there, we get contact with the drogue, and then, as soon as we get capture, we go to CMC, FREE. Well, the basic difference there is that we want the LM to do a little bit of thrusting. If for some reason, you know, it doesn't go to - the capture light, just don't capture, when you make contact. So, we just want you to press on in there, contact the drogue, and report contact to the LM. And then at that point, the LM is going to do a plus X. And, then as soon as you get cap- ture on the thing, you go to CMC, FREE.
CC: So at about i - -
CMP: Okay. Go ahead, Ron.
CC: Okay. Just to have it down in writing there, where it says translate to capture latch at about 144:07 or 08 in there somewhere, change that to, "translate to a contact with drogue."
CMP: Okay. "Translate to contact with drogue."
CC: And then add, "report contact to the L_," immedi- ately following that.