Otrobonita/noicy-space-talks huggingface dataset:
CDR: Got so many ... You can see all the - you know, you can see all the prominent features and little sharp craters like - I think I'm looking ay Kepler. It's out there in the middle of the mare. It's Just beautiful. And that's all earthshine.
CDR: Yes, and it's just about - it's like two-thirds of the window, if I've got my hand no more than 6 inches from it. You know, on the - on the dark side, you can see a big dark disk, and I think the reason I can see it is it's the solar corona that's illuminating around the back side. And I can see a star within - well, maybe it's within a degree of the Moon's disk.
CC: Could we get the L_ to confirm that that's really the Moon and not the Earth you're looking at?
LMP: Hey, babe, this is really the Moon. It's the most awe-inspiring sight I've ever seen in my life. Looks like the door that just hung out _here in the middle of blackness. It's really beautiful, Pete.
CC: Roger. 48/5 Tape
CMP: And you can make out all the features on the thing. I can see ..., and you can see up into the Pro_el- larum - and in the basins in there. You can even see the outer rings of 0rientale. And you can'v see the basin itself but you can see it's outer rings.
CC: Sounds beautiful, Ken.
CMP: And looking at our present orientation, i can tell that our new attitude will be perfect for LOI.
CC: Ken, just for your information - The reading that you got when you zeroed the optics on the NOUN 91s there was considered normal, and it's like a single- bit - or less than a single-bit error. And the other thing I wanted to pass on was that this EMP 509 has been verified by MIT for use with P24 and during rendezvous.
CMP: Ok_r, thank you.
CMP: Don, we're gonna waste the two frames of VHBW. Could you tell me if it's better to - to use SS or TT?
CC: Magazine TT, Ken.
CMP: We copy.
CMP: Okay. I'm up to three exposures on magazine TT.
CMP: Houston, 16. Do you have any objections to our going to the burn attitude now?
CMP: Was that affirmative or negative? Over.
CC: Stand by !.
CC: 16, give us P00 and ACCEPT, and we'11 give you your up-links, and then you can maneuver.
CDR: Okay, Houston. The reason we would like to go now is it looks to me like you can't get there without going through gimbal lock, but we want to see what the DAP wants us to do.
CC: Okay, 16. You can start maneuvering, and we'11 help you watch the gimbal lock situation, and also, I have an LOI pad when - whenever you're ready to copy.
LMP: Go ahead, Pete.
CC: Okay. LOI, SPS/G&N; 66314; plus 1.21, minus 0.14; 074:28:27.22; minus 2781.6, minus 0219.6, minus 0256.2; 000, 001, 000; NOUN 44 0170.0, plus 0058.3; 2802.0, 6:14, 2794.7; sextant star 16, 242.9, 27.1. Rest of the pad is NA. Set stars, Sirius and Rigel; 132; 196; 006. Ullage, none. LM weight, 36287. Single-bank burn time, 6:28.
LMP: Okay. We copy LOI, SPS/G&N; 66314; plus 1.21, minus 0.lb; 074:28:27.22; minus 2781.6, minus 0219.6, minus 0256.2; 000, 001, 000; 0170.0, plus 0058.3; 2502.0, 6:14; 2794.7; 16, 242.9, 27.1. Rest of the pad is NA. Sirius and Rigel; 132; 196; 006. No ullage. LM weight, 36287. Single- bank burn time, 6:28. Over.
CC: OM_I Delta, 16; OMNI Delta.
LMP: I read you 5 by here in OMNI Delta.
CC: Roger. You're 5 by also.
CC: 16, Houstcn. Voice check. _8/7 Tape
LMP: Roger; 5 by, Pete.
CC: You're loud and clear, Charlie.
LMP: Okay. We're going to the sextant star check.
LMP: ... sitting right in the middle there, Houston.
CC: 16, would you stow the high gain antenna, please? EI_ OF TAPE rape 49/1
CC: 16, you're GO for LOI.
CDR: 16. Roger. GO for LOI.
CMP: Houston, we're preparing for the gimbal drive check.
CMP: Okay, we've completed the gimbal drive check. We're now going to terminate 509.
CDR: Okay, 509's out of there. How's it look?
CC: Looks real good, 16.
CC: 16, we're a couple minutes from LOS. See you on the next pass.
CDR: Okay, we'11 be there.
CDR: Hello, Houston. Sweet 16 has arrived.
CC: Roger, 16. Copy you loud and clear.
LMP: Okay, Pete. Super double fantastic burn. If you're ready, I'11 give you a burn status report.
CC: Okay, go ahead, John.
LMP: Okay, DELTA-T. was O, 615 burn - 06:15.1 burn zg time plus 2803.9, trim ...; residuals, plus 0.2, minus O, minus 0.1. DELTA-V C is minus 5.5; fuel, 376, OX, 371; 150, unbalance, decrease. Okay, at ignition, we got a momentary SPS light; then it went out. During the burn, the oxidizer pressure read 200. The fuel side was a little bit low, and it was about 165 on my gage. After shutdown, the fuel side climbed to 170. The oxidizer wen_ to about 202 with an SPS light, and we've still go+ it. Over.
CC: Roger. We copied everything except the roll, pitch, and yaw, which was blacked out by some noise.
LMP: Okay, the trim attitude - we did not trim. The residuals were as we gave you after the burn. Our attitude was 005, 358, 002. Over.
CDR: And it was a slight transient, when the second hank was lit, that I don't remember from previous burns. You might look at that data, but it was super.
CMP: And it appeared to me that the chamber pressure had dropped off Just as we brought the second bank on.
CDR: And as you can see, we're in 170.4 by 58.3 according to the old computer, and that baby just rifled it right down the line.
CDR: Everybody is looking out their window. And right now, we're looking right down at Crater King, and it's Just as fantastic as it always has been.
CDR: You can see those little dark - those little dark - look like volcanic black spots up - up in the north sector of it, and you can see the central peaks with a - with a varied - very white central peaks covered by lighter gray - gray-brown material that sort of looked like somebody painted it on there with a - with a - with a paintbrush.
CMP: And, Pete, your first view at Tsiolkovsky out of my window is pretty - it's a spectacular sight the Tape49/3 way that - looks like a marshmallow float - a central peak floating in the top of a hot chocolate.
CDR: Yeah, you - it - it's like - three guys - they've each got a window, and we're staring at - at the ground. It's really - Boy, this has got to be the neatest way to make a living anybody's ever invented.
LMP: Pete, 16 here. Another pretty sight we had before burn was the earthset. It - really quite a view.
CC: We're all sitting here listening, Charlie. Tell us about it.
LMP: Pete, you got - a - MAPPING - or the PAN CAMERA POWER's - is on?
CC: Okay, PAN CAMERA POWER on.
CDR: How'd the S-IVB look?
CC: It hasn't happened yet, John. It's about another - 9 minutes or so.
CDR: I - I trust we're not getting there the same time it does.
CC: I trust.
CC: It - it's going to hit on the southwest corner of Reinhold, Ken.
CDR: Say again, Pete.
CC: Tell Ken it's going to hit on the southwest corner of Reinhold. He should know where that is.
CDR: I'm sure he does.
CMP: Okay. Let me get the binoculars out here - playing with them there. It's pretty interesting. I tell you, all that time spent with Farouk sure realty's going to pay off, because it does look like old home.
CC: That's good, Ken. lawn and
CMP: The needs mowing all that.
CC: Okay, Casper, PAN CAMERA POWER, OFF.
LMP: Pete, looking out at the horizon, you can really highlands. tell you're in the The horizon is really Jagged looking.
CC: Looks like comin g up on the Rockies, huh?
CDR: Of course, we're start - we're starting to come up over the flatlands now, over the Smyth Sea. I remember a landmarking track down there on Apollo 10. It's still there. You can't really tell by looking at it that the Smyth Sea is any - any deeper or lower than the data shows it is right in the surrounding terrain.
CDR: The submerged crater s in S_thii remind me a lot of a- coral atolls. They Just got the ridges sticking up, you know, and the - and the bottoms of them appear to be flooded with the same material that's in Smyth.
CC: We're digging out a map now, 16, to take a look at it.
CDR: We're going to get a close-in picture of Humboldt here, as we come up, because we'11 probably miss it on the next round.
CDR: That's real - it's really a fascinating crater, the way the dark mare has got in - sort of like a path around the edges, and - and there's a fracture pattern running across it, and it has some very prominent central peaks that are very white. But it has every contrast and color on the Moon. _9/5 Tape
CDR: Boy, those fracture patterns running down through it are white - appear to be white, layered fr&c_ure patterns. They look like somebody's drawn them on there with a piece of chalk.
CC: S-IVB has impacted.
CDR: Houston, out my window is fine now. We got Petavius with it's central dome of - a whitish cap - dome, and it's a fairly subdued crater, and the lineations running into it - the rilles or whatever they are - are Just like it's drawn on the map here.
CDR: Some of those central domes are exceptionally dark, and they have exceptionally dark material running down a white surface. You can see that.
CMP: With the binoculars, we passed over Langrenus, and you can see blocks on the tops of the central peak, and some features that probably are there that I Just haven't noticed before in that central feature. You can see an awful lot of - looks like a - the demarcation where the central feature - looks like a crack in it - has a whole ring of craters that kind of dots that boundary. And then, you see some more of those little craters up along near the top of the central lineament also. And you Just don't see those kind of things stand out at you without the binoculars.
CMP: I could also say that the binoculars at 10 power is the maximum you can hold in your hand. You got to get yourself set up very nicely for it before you start.
LMP: And we're coming up over the Messier A and B Craters.
LMP: Houston, we're coming up on Theophilus now. and Central peak's in the shadows, the - As we approach the terminator, looking out towards the horizon, it really looks rugged.
CC: 16, if you'11 give us the computer and go ACCEPT, we'11 give you a REFSMMAT.
CDR: Just now looking at the Altai Scarp and, boy, it's well named in this lighting.
CC: Roger. are
CDR: Looks like the walls vertical. I'11 admit the lighting exaggerates it, but that's how it looks.
CC: And, 16, we're finished with the up-link. BLOCK.
CMP: Okay, back to
CMP: In this lighting, you can see the Crater Descartes, and it stands out much bid_Ker thanyou wouldexpect because of the low Sun angle. And - in fact I had to look in to my map in order to make sure that was what I was lookin$ at. _And the material that runs out of it - that - that's in the area, are the things we talk about as being that bright reflective area, in this low Sun angle, has a much blockier and Jumbled appearance than it does on any of the high-Sun photographs.
CMP: It looks very much like looking down on a clinkery - a big clinkery cinder field, but on a much larger scale.
LMP: Yeah, a big - a rounded surface of clinkers. It's fantastic. Boy, is that rough!
LMP: Okay, Houston, as we look to the west into past the terminator, there's - a couple of degrees past the terminator, there's one bright stot [sic], a peak standing up which is west of - well, west of Kant.
CC: Charlie, you're fading out.
LMP: Really high ground. Say again.
CC: Right after you started talking about this peak and you said something like "west of," you faded out.
CDR: Yeah, the general opinion here is that we may be looking at part of the Smoky Mountain sticking up through some - through the shadow.
CC: Houston, 16, FAO advises you've got some extra film on magazine UU - that's VHBW, and you can use it for targets of opportunity, and you can use the CEX exposure graph and stop down one stop from what you get off the graph.
CDR: Okay, I hear you.
CC: And, Casper, on that last transmission - As an f/il f/16 example, for the CEX, you should go to to use with magazine UU.
CMP: Dons I'd like to verify how we're going to do the P52 again now. Any ideas that we'11 go to place the SCS CONTROLS into RATE, HIGH, and DEAD BAND is min. At the proper time, I'11 - I've got the BMAGs in Rate 2, I'11 go to SCS CONTROL, and then I don't have to worry about loading 509. And I'11 Just go And ahead and do the P52. then when we're through, I can go back to CMC CONTROL. Is that correct?
CMP: Ail right, sir; thank you.
CMP: Hey, Don, we're trying to set up the - the camera for the next terminator and sunrise, and I thought I understood what you told me about the settings, but I guess I don't. Can you run through that again? I guess I Just as soon have you just give me the proper settings.
CC: You're talking about this magazine UU that I just called up ?
CMP: Yes, sir; the VHBW.
CC: Ken, they - they're get - looking that up for us right now. And in the meantime, I'11 try to give you the rule again. Maybe that'11 clear it up some. You can use that CEX exposure graph that you have on board, and take the readings off of that.
CC: And then simply increase the stop number one stop. For example, if the CEX exposure graph calls for f/11 and you're gonna use this magazine UU, you should go to f/16.
CMP: Yeah, okay. I - I thought - I - You used an ex- ample; I thought you meant that specifically, smd I couldn't make that correlate. Okay. And Charlie says this magazine is HBW instead of VHBW.
CC: T_nat_s affirmative_ he's right.
CC: And, Casper, for the terminator photography on the next rev, we're recommending you go ahead and use magazine SS. That's Sierra Sierra.
CMP: Okay; use the one we had planned on.
CC: And, Casper, that call on magazine UU; we meant to impart to you that you can use that for targets of opportunity.
CMP: Roger. Okay, thank you.
CC: 16, put the HIGH GAIN on AUTO.
CMP: Houston, did you copy our torquing angles?
CC: Affirmative. We got them.
CMP: Okay, Don; one comment. I'11 try again and take a look at the optics in the - when we get out into the double umbra, but right now in the telescope, I - I can see the stars now, but I still can't see star patterns. Like we looked at - at _ntares_ and you Just couldn't see the Scorpion at all. And that may be due to the extreme amount of earthshine that's being reflected off of the LM. That LM is like looking at it almost in daylight, and, good gosh, the - the Moon looks like you can see everything on there just like - it's really bright.
CC: Right. Okay, Ken; we understand.
CC: 16, we're about a couple of minutes from LOS. Everything is looking good, and while you're behind the Moon, we'11 change shifts and pick you upon the next rev. 50/3 Tape
CDR: Okay. We sure enjoyed it, and we really appre- ciate all of the things that you guys are doing to get us into orbit here. Man, I don't - That's the kind of help that really does it for us. Thank you much.
CC: Hello, 16; Houston. How do you read?
CDR: Roger. Read you 5 by, Henry. We just got the 10,000th picture of a beautiful earthrise.
CC: 16, Houston. Were you trying to transmit? We heard a little noise on the loop there and looks like our data was dropping in and out; looks good now.
CMP: Negative. We weren't trying to say anything, Hank.
CDR: We Just can't find any words. Everybody's peeking out the window here.
CDR: We got all the dumps completed, and we're - all the dumps are secure.
LMP: And I got some pictures on the back side of - Icarus and the - and a black of the Sea of Moscow.
LMP: And the material to the north of us at the ter- minator, we don't think we got ... for. 51/1 Tape
LMP: Okay, Houston, we have you on the high gain. How do you read? Over.
CC: Okay; I read you 5 by 5.
LMP: Okay, Hank, I'm turning the PAN CAMERA to MODE, STANDBY - POWER, on.
LMP: Hank - I'm sure they have been described before, but the most - to me, the most unique craters up here - are two that we're just going over now - that - her ejecta blanket is completely white with white interior, but with a black rim to them.
LMP: Hey, Hank, how do the SPS data look?
CC: Okay, we were just talking about that, Charlie. Apparently, we had a real nominal burn. Our data down here showed a burn time of 6 minutes 14.2 sec- onds, which is right on the money. And I got a few words on that PC drop. I understand that's completely normal for the first dual-bank burn, due to some helium bubbles that are normally trapped between the ball valves. So that wasn't unexpected for the first dual-bank burn - you shouldn't see it again. And as far as the SPS pressure lights that came on, we warned you earlier to expect that, due to the pressure surge of the tanks pressurizing, we - you were right on the 200-psi limit - that triggered it. The second pressure light you got, which is apparently still on, is due to heat soak back into the tank. So it's not unexpected either.
LMP: Okay, fine. We passed that word on to you about the light. Not that we weren't expecting it, but just to tell you what had happened.
CC: 16, TRACK MODE AUTO on HIGH GAIN.
CDR: That crater Icarus - we got the profile picture of. It's a big round crater and it has real steep walls, and the central peak is a - the central peak is a little above the crater walls, and you'11 see that profile when you get the picture back. But the shape of the central peak is such that the only Earth analog I've ever seen that looked like it was sort of a shield volcano. I never saw any- thing like that in the - Now, I'm not saying the whole thing is not an impact, but that central peak is really unusual.
CC: Roger. We copy, and we're also through with the PAN CAMERA - you can go POWER OFF on that.
LMP: Houston, apparently this line of secondaries down here that cross the mare - gives you the impression that there have been a couple of great big chickens been walking across there.
CDR: That - that was courtesy of Charlie Duke, our airborne geologist and chicken farmer.
CC: Roger. Maybe you better watch your step.
CDR: I'm watching.
CMP: Hank, you can tell Farouk that -tnose smooth areas we thought we saw around Isidorus and Capella are indeed uniquely different in texture. They are quite smooth. We'11 get a chance to play with them later.
CC: Hey, that sounds real interesting, Ken.
CC: How are your systems checks coming?
CMP: Roger; Hank. We've already finished those.
CC: Okay. of
CMP: Henry, the amount terminator movement in one rev is kind of dramatic up here. Last time around, Descartes Just barely showed as a crater - but showed very dramatically - and now it's - as it moves out it's starting to lose some of the stark- ness, and I'11 get a picture of this bright zone. And it sure looks right now the material that is Just to the north of the crater Descartes and that stuff that we talked about going between Delambre B and Descartes A are in fact extensions of the things that go into the Smoky end Stone Mountains. They - right now - look like they have a very similar texture.
CMP: Hank, it sure looks like we can see Gator and Palmetto from here. It's almost straight down.
CC: Does it look like the map?
CMP: Well, that stuff around the outside sure doesn't look like it did at high Sun.
CC: Apollo 16, Houston. If you will give us ACCEPT, we'11 up-link state vector and target load.
CC: Apollo 16, Houston. I have your DOI pad, your map update, and landmark pad whenever you are re ady.
LMP: Okay, go ahead ... with the DOI pad.
CC: Roger. DOi, SPS/G&N; 41441; plus 1.87, minus 0.71; 078:33:44.39; NOUN 81: minus 0205.3, all zips, minus 0045.5; 000, 274, 000; 0058.5, plus 0010.3; 0210.3, 0:24.2, 0203.8; sextant star: 22, 204.89 21.7. The rest of the pad's NA. Set stars_ Sirius and Rigel; 131; 071; 014. Four Jets_ 15 seconds° End of pad. SPS/G&N;
LMP: Okay, copy. DOI, 41441; plus 1.87, minus 0.71; 078:33:44.39; minus 02053, plus all balls, minus 0045._ 000, 274_ 000; 0058_5,_1us 0010.3; 0210.3, 0:24.2[ 02-03.8; 22, 20)4.8, 21.7_-Rest--of t_%e pad is NA. Sirius and Rigel; 131; 071; 014. Four Jets, 15 seconds.
CC: Good readback, Charlie.
CC: I have your map update rev 3 whenever you're ready, Charlie. It's 79:05 in the Flight Plan.
LMP: All right, why don't you give me the map update _ud the landmark pad?
CC: All righty. Map update: LOS: 78:23:17; 78:48:09; 79:10:25. Landmark pad is T-horizon: 79:34:11; 79: 36: 22.
LMP: Roger; cSpy. Map update of 078:23:17; 078:48:09; 079:10:25. Landmark tracking is 79:34:11; 79:36:22.
CC: 16, the computer is yours, and I have your TEI-5 pad for the updates book.
CMP: Okay, Hank, before we do that - Looking at the change to the Flight Plan here, we got to load the VERB 48 to put in the proper DAP, and ... to start 509, and then go to the P52. Can we go ahead and stop the maneuver now and will this attitude clear enough things so we can get a P52 in there?
CMP: I'm sorry; I didn't copy that.
CC: Roger. Stand by a minute, Ken, i'11 have FAO check.
CMP: Thank you. I was worried about getting in vhe same problem we get into after undocking tomorrow, where it might take a special angle.
CC: Apollo 16, Houston. FAO says this is a gcca attitude. 51/5 Tape
CC: 16, Houston. Are you ready for the TEI-5 pad yet?
LMP: Roger; go ahead.
CC: Okay, pad follows: TEI-5, SPS/G&N; 39838; plus 0.61_ plus 1.19; 084:31:41:36; NOUN 81: plus 3525.2, plus 1247.3, minus 0086.8; 182, 056, 022; the rest is NA. Set stars: Sirius, Rigel; 131; 071; 014. Two Jets, 17 seconds. Other: l, burn undocked; 2, assumes DOI; 3, landing site REFSMMAT.
LMP: Roger. TEI-5, SPS_G&N; 39838; plus 0.61_ plus minus 0086.8; 182, 056, 022. Rest of pad is NA. Sirius and Rigel; 131; 071; 014. Two Jets, 17 sec- onds. Other: 1 is burn umdocked; 2, assumes DOI; landing 3, site REFSMMAT.
CMP: Houston, do you want to take a look at our rotated vector in P40 before we start our maneuver?
CC: Your P30 looked good, Ken.
CMP: Okay. The question was, do you want to take a look at the rotated vector in P40 before we start our maneuver, or can we go ahead and start the maneuver?
CDR: Houston, did you miss the question?
CC: Negative, but we're having trouble finding an a_lswer.
CDR: Okay. ma_.euver.
CC: 16, Houston. Go ahead and call P40, then
CMP: Okay. Have you got enough look now?
CC: He's looking at it now, Ken.
CC: You got a good vector, Ken. Go ahead.
CC: 16, give us OMNI Delta.
CDR: Okay, you got it?
CC: Apollo 16, Houston. Everything looks good down here. You've got a GO for DOI, and the monitoring limits in the Flight Plan are good.
CDR: Okay, Houston. The gimbal motors are on.
CMP: Okay, Houston. We're going to do the gimbal drive check.
CMP: Okay; the gimbals are trimmed.
CMP: And 509 is killed.
CC: 16, Houston. We're about 2 minutes from LOS.
CC: Roger. Two minutes from LOS.
CC: About 12 - 12 from the burn.
CDR: Okay, Houston. Nominal burn; first - first DOI burn we ever had that was nominal.
CC: Roger. That's great news.
CDR: At least in our training.
CC: Okay, we'11 stand by for your burn report.
LMP: Okay, Henry. It feels like if we had - we're clipping the tops of the trees all through there - what it looks like. We got a burn report of a DELTA-T. 0 .... all we got was 24.4, plus lg' two balls 06 - 2106 VGX ' Trim attitude 001, 272, 003; so we did not trim. Residuals were plus 0.8, plus 0, plus 0.1; minus 2.3 DELTA-Vc_ fuel 337, OX 346. Over.
CC: Roger, 16. Unbalanced? 0k_;, j'_mped increase.
LMP: it up to 200
CC: copy. never really Hank.
LMP: It stabilized though,
CDR: And a VERB 82, last look, thought we were at 10.9 perigee. Roger. 10.9.
CC: Copy
CDR: But I don't think it really knows. But _he _SFi_ really knows.
UNKNOWN: Houston, 16. it appeared to us thaz we go_ _: auto shutdown.
CC: Roger, Charlie. Copy auto shutdown. prelimina__Z
CDR: You got _ay data, Houston?
CC: Roger, John. The Doppler says stay; we're waiting on the short arc.
CC: Apollo 16, Houston. You're good on the short arc. You have a stay, and we show you 59 by 10.7.
CDR: Roger; 59 by 10.7. Thank you, sir.
CC: 16, Housten. Can you - could you give us AUTO on the HIGH GAIN?
CDR: Roger. You have it.
CMP: Henry, if you remember that little real bright crater on the northern rim of Chaplygin that Stu and Farouk were talking about the other day, we - we happened to see it right up close to us as we came by on this orbit, and we got a couple of pics for you on it, and that really is an unusual little guy. And it's really beautiful.
CC: Probably getting carried away with all of vhis, bu_ we've - we've got all kinds of things to see back there. It would really be nice to fly that kind of an orbit down low.
CMP: And, we're pitching down to our lan_ark track attitude, and this is my first chance to poinv the sextant at the surface, and the sexta___ is jus_ as clear as a bell. It's beautiful. You cmn piak out little bitty features. They're just - _hey_re just as clear. There's no fuzziness. And _he telescope's the same way. =ai__
CC: Hey, that's great: We ought vo be a_ie _o get good use out of that.
CC: 16, OMATI Delta.
LMP: Hank, out to the - my side, ou_ window 5, zhera ?2 one crater here that you could see in one section of it, it looked like some outcrop two-thirds zhe way up the crater wall, and some big blocks had rolled down the - into the crater floor, and you could see the boulder tracks all the way down.
CC: Roger; copy. Can you locate that one?
LMP: Wait a minute. No, I'm pretty lost right now. Let me see if I can figure it out.
CC: Ken, while you're maneuvering there, we'd like to ask what value did you put in your EMS, and what did you get on your EMS check?
LMP: Houston, 16. That crater I had, I think was in a series around Maclaurin, maybe a little bit further west than that.
LMP: Hank, coming across the mare here, it reminds you of ... static system c_ts at Edwards.
CC: Roger. You're really down low, scresming across, huh?
CC: 16, Houston. Did you copy the question i had about the EMS DELTA-V?
CC: Houston, the Goclenius Rille looks like large grabens with very subdued sides to them; no outcrop at all apparent from my position.
UNKNOWN: And looking on up into the Gutenberg Rilles _vo_-csr_ see it cross - one craver jusv cl_mbs rig_ across the crater wall.
LMP: And that's Gutenberg Sea. That's Gutenberg Sea -_ xani<_ ' and you can see %h= _ wail _ _- do'_,l' _ .i:-ccze,f:_d __ l the rills.
CC: Roger; copy. How do you read, Charlie?
LMP: i'm reading you 5 by.
CC: Okay. A littler earlier, I asked a question about the EMS DELTA-V. Did you copy that?
LMP: Negative; we did not.
CC: Okay - - read
LMP: It - it minus 2.3.
CC: Roger. We had a question here as to how the m_S DELTA-V check came out, and which value you loaded into the DELTA-V counter?
CMP: Can I call you in a second on that, Hank?
CMP: It was like - it was like 1.8 at shutdown because of the drift in the EMS, and Z did a check, and it came out to be normal and the bias was the sa_,e. I put in the DELTA-VT, the same thing that we've used before, but then it looked to me like the bias was in - less than half a foot per second.
CC: Roger; copy. We were a little confused here because the - the value that you had at the end there was somewhere in between what we thought it ought to be, depending on which setting ycu put in the DELTA-V counter.
CMP: Roger. It was about 1.6 or something like :hat at shutdown. I'11 have to look back at the F!igb_ Plan.
LMP: Okay, Houston. The walls - the north wall of Capelia has striations that ara dipping east_arm about 60 degrees or so, all the way across the north face.
CC: Roger. Copy, Charlie.
LMP: Okay, and also Isidorus, the same vhing.
CC: Rogar.
CC: J-2 should be on the horizon now, Ken.
CMP: Roger. We got the - it's right on the horizon. Still haven't picked up the target yet. Looks like it's tracking Just about right. I have Theophilus going out of the field of view now.
CC: Ken_ you're coming up on about 30 seconds to TCA.
LMP: He has the target, Houston.
CMP: Big old hill down the stream from - Where you are going ...?
CDR: Guess who is sneaking in marks on Gator Crater right now?
CC: I wonder who.
CDR: Now that's what I call OJT right there.
CC: How did the landing site look through the sextant?
CDR: You have to do that with the telescope, Hank.
LMP: I third< vhat was the best high-speed pass I've ever made.
CC: 16, Houston. I have your map and pan camera photo pads for 80:35 whenever you're ready.
CMP: Okay, Henry; go ahead.
CC: Roger. T-start, 080:38:01_ T-svc_ C_C_-_g_C_. And that s_v_e pad is _ood for vke _&_ _=
CMP: Okay. T-start, 080:38:01; T-stop, 080:46:0h.
CMP: That'11 be the same pad for both cameras.
CC: 16, Houston. We'd like for you to go on and get in the SIM bay attitude so we can get our DSE dump.
CMP: Hey, Hank, you want me to go ahead and do this single Jet authority, or use couples to go to the attitude?
CC: Ken, why don't you go ahead and go coupled, then we can go single jet.
CMP: Okay. Sounds like a good plan.
CC: 16, OMNI Chariie.
CMP: Hark, would you check on one thing for me? Would you find out if this method I've been using for reading out the maneuver times, VERB 4 NOUN 1, is in any way affected by or affects the use of program 509?
CC: Will do, Ken.
CMP: Thank you, s£r. And I got a couple of minutes here_ if you would like to go over some of those questions you had before now. I - I wasn't paying much attention.
CC: Stand by, Ken. I think they got your answer awniie sure. ago and it satisfied them, hut i'11 make
CMP: Okay. I wasn't paying a lot of atvention; i was trying to pick up that landmark.
CC: Do you have any comments on the landmark tracking? Did it all gc smoothly?
CMP: Well, except for the fact that those optics are perfect, that's really neat. The target area did not look as I anticipated. Iv_s a - I think it's a function of the low Sun angle, but it iookea to me like there were far more rims around the craters than - than what - the impression i had from looking at things on the - on the models. And I did not pick up North or South Ray; they still were in the shadows. So, I guess it's possible that I could have been on the wrong crater, but it sure looked like to me like I must have been on Gator.
CMP: It's still - still a problem in scaling when you look at something like that, until you're sure that you have the right feel for it. But I think it's pretty obvious, and I think picking it up tomorrow will be relatively easy.
CC: 16, Houston. Could you bring up the high gain, PITCH plus 35, YAW 290.
CMP: Say again your yaw number.
CC: Roger; 290.
CC: And, Ken, there's no problem in - -
CMP: Okay, Hank, and we're about - Go ahead, Hank.
CC: Roger. They say there is no problem in calculating maneuver completion time, and - and it does no_ interfere with 509.
UNKNOWN: Okay, thank you. I've been avoiding using _ha_. Ail right. We're about ready to go through our solar monitor and tiedown release. You folks reaay for us Lo do that?
CC: Roger. We're ready to go, Ken.
CMP: 0kay_ Houston. We released the tiedc_s _i _ke c_or _d kear_ _as_ a var_ tlr? Li_Le s___h _z_ _a_a ukcse aavzv_t_es_
CC: Roger. We copy, Ken.
CMP: Hank, another piece of questionable data _ha_'ve collected today is - well, on our low pass c× the back side there, we got our color wheel out. And we have two votes for number 17, and one vo_e for number 13.
CMP: And that's over on the back side just past Chaplygin. And number 17 really isn't quite right; it's just the closest thing we have. And the same comment applies to number 13.
CDR: Well, I still say 13 was right on.
CMP: You'11 never guess who voted for 13.
CDR: The grits have affected his vision.
CC: That's probably what it is, John.
LMP: Hey, Hank, ask Stu who he believes.
UNKNOWN: Okay, Hank. We have a SIM bay jett configuration, and I'm going to start deploying equipment.
CC: Kens you wan_ to keep us posted on what you're doing there with the switches?
CMP: Okay. I got the mapping camera door opens and vhe alpha cover door open, and the mapping camera's _oi_g out. And we've just gone through 1 minute of e×_end rime, and I'm timing the first one.
CMP: i'11 do the gamma ray and mass spec booms se- quentially afterwards, so I can pay a_tention %_ the times. 52/9 Tape
CMP: Okay. And I've got gray on the MAPPING CAMERA, EXTEND, and that was at 1 minute and 20 seconds.
CMP: Okay. Can you read me on VOX, Henry?
CMP: Okay. That's the way we'11 operate. I'm going to the GAMMA RAY, DEPLOYs at this time. I'm going to hold it for barber pole plus 2 seconds, then OFF. Going to DEPLOY. DEPLOY. Barber pole now, 1, 2_ OFF; and it' s gray. GAMMA RAY is coming to RETRACT.
CMP: MARK. Barber pole, and it's gray. Okay. Going to the MASS SPECTROMETER. DEPLOY.
CMP: MARK. Barber pole, 1, 2, OFF. MASS SPEC to RETRACT.
CMP: MARK. Barber pole, OFF. Okay. They're both in the RETRACT position, and everything looks normal. The X-RAY is coming ON.
CMP: MAPd<. I've completed the gamma ray and mass spec boom deployment and retraction, and I'm ready to go ahead with the MASS SPEC, DEPLOY, if that's okay with you.
CMP: Okay; it's DEPLOY on the MASS SPEC, and I'm timing i_.
CC: Give us AUTO on the HIGH GAIN, 16.
CMP: Five seconds to stop. Okay, it's OFF on the _SS SPECTROMETER, and you have AUTO.
CMP: Okay, Hank. You've go_ the mass spec out to 8.4 feet.
CC: Roger; looks good dowr_ here.
CMP: LASER ALTIMETER is coming ON.
CMP: And can I go ahead and put the MASS SPEC EXPERIMENT ON without waiting the 3 or 4 minutes?
CC: Stand by. Roger. Go ahead.
CMP: Okay. MASS SPECTROMETER EXPERIMENT is coming ON.
CMP: M_RK. The ION SOURCE is going to STANDBY.
CMP: Can you tell how the laser is doing yet, Hank?
CC: Stand by, Ken. We'11 take a look. Laser looks good, Ken.
CC: Apollo 16, Houston. We're about 2 minutes from LOS.
LMP: Ail righty. See you in a little while.
LMP: Houston, 16. Do you read?
LMP: Okay, Hank. I'm up with the biomed. Take a quick look at it.
LMP: Okay. Since we are gonna put on our LCG's tonight, I don't bit - put on the ...
CC: Apollo 16, Houston. How do you read?
CDR: You're 5 by, Hank.
CC: Roger. Our data down here we worked on during the back side shows you're in 58.8 by 10.6.
CDR: Okay. And while - while we were on the back side, we had a couple of MAIN B UNDERVOLT lights.
CC: Roger. Copy. You want to tell us about it?
CDR: Stand by. Yeah, it was when Ken was - messing around with the SIM bay, and he'11 fill you in.
CMP: Yeah, we got a little behind on this sequence already, Hank. But as soon as I turned the - had the mapping on and it worked fine, I turned the pan camera on, and as soon as I went to OPERATE on the PAN CAMERA, we got a MAIN B UNDERVOLT. So I turned it back to STANDBY and left it there. Charlie said he saw about 25 volts on MAIN B, ana concluded I'd wait and let you take a look at it. And then we got another MAIN B UNDERVOLT at some 5 minutes or so later, and it again was momentary. By the time we looked at it, it all looked pretty normal. The only - We checked the fuel cell regu- lator pressures. They looked good, and I really don't have any idea what might of caused it.
CC: Yeah. Ail the things we could check look okay.
LMP: Hank, we got a - it might not even be a small anomaly, but fuel cell 3, the H 2 flow's running a little bit higher than the 02 flow, but the regulavor pressure looks fine to me. But the other two fuel cells, H2 and 02, match.
CC: Roger. We copy, Charlie.
CDR: My guess is when you dump the DSE the whole story will be right on there probably.
CC: Okay .... John.
CDR: When you get the DSE translated, probably tell you what happened.
CMP: Hank, you really can see both the mass spec and the gamma ray booms deployed.
CC: Roger. Understand you can see them both.
CMP: That's affirmative. Looks like a couple of feet of the boom is about all you can see.
CC: You've really got us puzzled with this _ndervol_ now, because the pan camera runs off from main A,
CMP: Yeah, we'd noticed the same thing. It - you kno_ it may not be rational, but it just seemed like that was the - I touched one switch and got a MAIN UNDERVOLT so I took i_ back off again. D_m _ to even let you think about it before I ... any~ mom e.
LMP: Possible that it doesn't have any connection.
CMP: I still have the power on it, Hank. I've got it in STANDBY and POWER on.
CC: Roger. Copy. And, Ken, I'd like to verify - is yonu- NONESSENTIAL BUS on MAIN A or MAIN B?
CMP: That's MAIN A.
LMP: And, Hank, last night we - I - think we got verifi- cation that we could wear the LCGs to bed tonight and be all ready to go by in the morning.
LMP: Okay. Anybody thought any more about my suit?
CC: We thought about it, and smoked it over, and we kind of think maybe we ought to do nothing unless you have some real bad trouble tomorrow.
LMP: Like if we can't get it zipped.
CDR: Okay. Can we use my pliers on it to pull the zip- per closed?
CDR: Houston. Houston, 16. Do you read? Over.
CC: Roger. Reading you 5 by 5, John. Go ahead.
CDR: Okay. If I have trouble closing it, can I use my pliers to get a better grip on it to pull i_ closed? Because it took me the better part of 20 minutes the other day to do it, and it usually takes about 2. There's a place on there in the small of Charlie's back where that thing has jus_ separated too far apart on the restraint zipper for me to pull it closed easily. When he gets on the LCG, the FCS, and the UCD bulk in there_ the suit is going to be farther apart thau it was - yesterday.
CC: John, we talked to Dave about that, and he said the big problem is that you can't arch your back in zero g as well. He had - he had a lot of vrousi_ 1/6 too, but on the Moon in g he had no problem a_ all, because the gravity helped him arch his back. Does that sound like the problem - you just couldn_v get arched back that far enough to do it?
CDR: Got me there. It looked like he was arched as much as he usually is.
CDR: But you're saying that if I can't do it in - in zero g, we go on down to the Moon and try it in 1/6 g?
CC: Roger. That sounds pretty good, John. We - we did look at a backup procedure here, but it's a long - looks like a long thing and involves using a needle and pulling things together like you're sewing.
LMP: Okay, Hank. I think to give us every benefit of the doubt that I will not - I don't plan to wear the - the FCS probably tomorrow, and I'11 just use the LCG and UCD.
CC: Roger. Understand, and could you give us AUTO on - the HIGH GAIN.
LMP: Hank, also we would like to get permission to fill the drink bags tonight to save a few minutes also, if you think that's gonna be all right.
CC: Roger. That - Go ahead and do that, Chariie.
CC: Ken, we can't find any connection between vhe pan camera and main bus A, and we were wondering - main bus B, and we were wondering if, when you got the second momentary one - undervolt - were you moving any switches at that time?
CMP: They were both momentary main bus undervolts.
CC: Roger. The - the first one was momentary also?
CMP: It - it could be, or it could be that the sensor is triggering at the wrong level. It could be that the sensor shifted up to something that looks reasonable. I wouldn't object - we still got the pan camera power on - I wouldn't object to ... it to operate for a second and back off - go ahead and use a couple of frames Just to let you watch it.
LMP: Is Tom satisfied with his GLYCOL EVAP OUT? We've got off scale, high here.
CC: Stand by. Stand by a minute, Charlie.
CC: 16, Houston. You're ... is at the top of the scale. You're still okay. You should now monitor RAD OUT
LMP: A RAD OUT is 75.
CC: 16, Houston. Talked with the suit people, and they don't want you using the pliers on the zippers.
CDR: I just used it to get a better grip with, not to pull the zipper, just to pull with.
CC: Their concern is over side load, John. They're afraid for you to use the pliers.
CC: Ken, Houston. We would like to talk Lo you a minute about this docking latch, if you're free.
CC: Okay. We've got a real long procedure here. I don't think you need to copy it all down. Let me Just read it through to you once, and kind of let me discuss it as we go. What we want to do is kind of get a look at the thing tomorrow and see what the condition of it is. After you disconnect the LM umbilical, we want - would like for you to open the orange LM umbilical connector cover and inspect the roller pawl. The roller pawl, we hope, is engaged in the detent, but we would like to find out if it's in the detent, or is it free, or sticking up, and you can do that by looking in the side of the latch after you remove that umbilical connector cover. Is there any question on that?
CMP: Yeah. I'm not sure I know what you're looking for.
CC: Okay, when you look in the side there - -
CMP: - - I'm not at all sure what the roller pawl is.
CC: Okay, the roller pawl is on the far left side of the latch, behind and above the auxiliary release button. And it can be identified by the roller on the tip of the pawl. The pawl is just a little arm that sticks out, and it's got a little roller on the end of it that rides on the cam that has these detents in it.
CMP: Do you want to do this before we unlock it?
CC: That's affirmative. And it best be done tomorrow - helmet before you get your and gloves on, of course. Just take a look at it while - perhaps while they'rE bringing the LM up. And if you find after we ge% the condition of that, if the roller is down in the detent like we suspect that it is, when you remove the yellow probe umbilical cover on the right side of the latch, we would like you to look in the righ_ side in there and at the bungee bell crank mechanism, and see if there's any foreign-object d_mage or anything wedged up in there.
CMP: When you say remove the cover - do you mean physi- cally remove it from the spacecraf%_ or jusL open it up and look underneath it?
CC: Just open it up and look under there, Ken. And this is mainly - these two steps is just an inspec- tion. We'd Just like to verify the condition of the roller pawl and also the bell crank mechanism on the other side. Has nothing to do with the latch, but at least it'11 give us an idea of _naz's wrong inside, if there is anything. It's not gonna help you in any way to prepare for unlocking it. To unlock it - after you've looked at these two handle things, we would like to know if the latch requires force to cock the latch on the first stroke - and the second stroke, if required. In other words, if the handle comes away real easy, as you recall, then the thing is already cocked. More than likely, it is gonna take some force, and we would like to verify how this works. And if it should require force, pull it down, and then we want to see that the hook comes out there inboard approximately 16 degrees. If the hook doesn't come out, then all you got to do is pull down on the handle to the full cock position, and hold it, and then just reach up and grab the hook, and pull it inboard about 16 degrees, and the hook should stay there. And then you just proceed with normal undocking.
CMP: Okay. So the kind of thing you want me to look for are information only. Is that affirmative?
CC: Right. It would help the guys down here to try to understand what - what really happened to the latch. We kind of suspect it only got one cock. But if you look in there, and look for the roller pawl on the left side and look at the bell crank on the right side, at least that would tell us that nothing is jamming it, and that the roller pawl is in the right direction - right place. Operationally though, prepare for undocking. What it really amounts to, you just use the normal procedure. You pull the latch handle down and cock it if necessary, and if the hook doesn't come back, just hold zhe latch handle all the way down to the full cock position and pull the hook back.
CMP: Okay. I just wanted to keep in mind wha% it was i needed if the time gets crowded.
CC: Roger. The only this is - if there is any question on cocking, the only thing you have to do there is just pull it down and get the hook ou_ of _he way. Do you have any questions on any of that?
CMP: Ah, Hank, we just ...
CMP: Not - not right now. Maybe you want to get in there and look at it. I'11 call and ask you for some clarification or something tomorrow. But I think I know what you mean.
LMP: Hank, as we came up towards the landing site, in that terrain - the general terrain to the east of us appears to me to be frothy vesicular-looking type terrain, real ... looking at this scale. Over.
LMP: I'd say that was the Descartes. It has that appearance to it to me.
LMP: And do you have this LM DAP load for us and TEI?
CC: Roger. We're working on those pads now.
CC: Charlie, we'd like to get a BAT B charge going.
LMP: Okay, BAT B charge going on.
LMP: BAT B is charging.
CC: 16, Houston. I have your TEI-12, 19 block data.
CC: Okay. TEI-12, SPS/G&N; 39817; plus 0.6i_ plus 1.19 097:45:53.09; plus 3163.2, plus 1040.3_ minus 6234_;_ 181, 080, 020. Rest of the pad is NA. The set stars are the same as for DOI. Won't re_eaz ur_ess you want. Ullage two jets, 17 seconds; o_l_er 53/9 Tape remarks: burn undock, assumes no circ. Longitude of Moon at T. minus 171.47. Landing site REFS_MAT. lg SPS/G&N;
LMP: Roger. TEI-12, 39817; plus 0.61, plus i.19_ 097:45:53.09; plus 3163.2, plus 1040.3, minus 0234.6; 181, 080, 020; NA; Sirius and Rigei; and informa- burn tion is same as DOI, two Jets, 17 seconds; undock, assumes no circ; longitude of Moon at T.lg minus 171.47; landing site REFSMMAT.
CC: Good readback. And are you ready for TEI-19?
LMP: You speak. SPS/G&N;
CC: Roger. TEI-19, 39445; plus 0.61, plus 1.15; 111:31:49.81; plus 2909.4, plus 0785.3, minus 0224.0; 181, 100, 017_ Set stars same as DOI, two jets, 17 seconds. Other: burn undocked, assumes cir¢; LM to Moon at T. minus 160.09. End of pad. If lg you'11 give us ACCEPT, we're ready to uplink. have SPS/G&N;
LMP: Roger. You it. And readback TEI-19, 394h5; plus 0.61, 1.15; 111:31:49.81; plus, 2909.4, plus 0785.3, minus 0224.0; 181, 100, 017. Sirius and Rigel; two Jets, 17 seconds; burn undock, assume eirc; LM to at T. minus 166.09. lg
CC: That was 160.09.
CMP: Henry, can I assume that the mission timer is in sufficient sync and that we don't need to do any updates there and that the REFSMMAT is good as is?
CDR: Have you got the LM DAP stuff, Hank?
CC: Roger. We've got it and we're up-linking now and we're also loading your EMP 509 and I have your DAP, if ycu're ready to copy.
CC: Correction on that. It's not 509; it's the Jet monitor. Okay, LM DAP. LM weight, 36673; CSM weight, 39329. Checklist: DPS gimbal trims are good; no trim required.
LMP: Roger. Reading 36673, 39329, and the gimbals are good as is.
CC: A good readback, Charlie. I have a change to your LM Timeline Book on page 1.
LMP: Stand by. Is it the Timeline or Activation?
CC: Timeline Book.
CC: It's a change to your undocking attitude, Charlie. It says Timeline Book.
LMP: Okay - okay, just had to get it out. Go ahead, page 1.
CC: Okay, change undocking attitude to 0, 284, 064.
CC: The reason for this is because of the docking index angle - -
LMP: Roger; 0, 280 ... - Roger; 0, 284, 064.
CC: Roger. That's because of your docking index angle of minus 3-1/2 degrees.
CC: And I have some Flight Plan changes for you.
CC: Apollo 16, Houston. We'd like to verify the position of the 02 TANK 50-WATT HEATERS on panel 226.
LMP: They are open.
CC: Roger. Copy. They're open.
CC: Charlie, are you ready to copy the Flight Plan change s?
CMP: What kind of Flight Plan, LM or CSM type?
CC: Roger. They're CSM, if you want to get them, Ken, they're for tomorrow's activities.
CMP: Okay, I'm ready.
CC: Okay, the first one is at 96:34.
CC: Okay, there's a VERB 48 there. Change R-1 to read "10102."
CMP: Okay, "10102" for VERB 48, R-1 at 96:34.
CC: That's correct. At 96:39, write in "Load EMP 509; leave on through gimbal drive check for circ."
CMP: Okay, at 39, "Load 509 and leave through circ gimbal drive check."
CC: That's correct. The next change is at 97:15.
CC: Delete the VERB 48.
CMP: Okay, deleted the VERB 48 at 97:15; and _hat's be- cause we'd already set it; affirmative?
CC: That's affirmative. And that also prevents you from activating that Saturn DAP. Okay, at 97:44, right after - right be - prior to the VERB 49 maneuver there, put in "Load D._P, VERB 48 (10101) (Xllll)."
CMP: Okay. You want to "Load VERB 48 (10101) and (Xllll)." After the circ burn and ahead of the VERB 49 maneuver.
CC: That's affirmative and, Ken, the computer's yours; the E-memory program's loaded.
CC: Okay, next change is at 98:32. Prior to the comm check there, put "Load EMP 509."
CMP: Okay, prior to corem check, "Load 509."
CC: Roger. And down about 98:44 after P00, add "Terminate EMP 509, after the P24 is complete."
CMP: Okay, I'i1 terminate 509 between POO and loading VERB 48.
CC: Roger. The next change is at 100 hours 32 minutes, "Load EMP 509."
CMP: Okay, at about 100:32, "Load 509."
CC: Roger. And about 100:43, "Terminate EMi° 509, after P24 complete."
CMP: 0kay_ will terminate 509 after P24.
CC: Okay, Ken, that's it on the Flight Plan changes, i hate to bring this up again, but they've got a change here for your SPS burn cue card.
CMP: Ail right. What might that be?