Otrobonita/noicy-space-talks huggingface dataset:
CMP: Need the - dark slide. Here. Okay. W-f_ere's Oscar Oscar? Whoops. VHBW. There's a -
LMP: We've got a good oblique view of the Hortensius Domes, and with their nice little central pit craters.
CMP: Did we hit the stick, or something? Huh? Looks like we're changing attitude. Well, I'11 be darned. I put Oscar Oscar on there and I got but one pic- ture. (Laughter) And it's empty. Well, that's probably right. Those won't come out too good there, anyhow. Too close to the terminator for this kind of film.
CC: Yes, we agree with that, Ron. Farouk was mention- ing that was kind of - beyond Euler was pretty marginal anyway.
CDR: Gordo, that classic crater that I talked about last rev, I picked it up again this rev with the naked eye, and then I also looked at it again with the binocs. If Ron was talking about the same crater, and i have my doubts, he got a picture of it, he said. But the interior - I won't say vhere's a change to black; it's jusv dark. i'd say iv's probg_!y goomt the size, to put it in vhe right, perspective_ of Shorty, or just a little bit big- ger. The inside is dark. By that, I don'n _r, ean it's black or a_aything inside; Z just ca_'t roaT.iy see inside of it. But the - it's a rus%-coiorea blart_et tha_ co_es out a_nd overlaps on _he rk:_.s and then has the classic eJecta. And Z_r::gon_& vo _ai_,ea sho_ at t_ing to ge_ a picture of i_ _e_t rev o__ so__etime when we're in an attlvude, beea_se it's too good to miss.
CC: Okay. And, commander, if you can send one of your subordinates over there to terminate the battery charge, we'd appreciate it.
CDR: (Laughter) Okay, that's in work.
CMP: Seven Bravo. It's 1 point - it's coming up just a little bit. Well, not much, 1 point - well, 1.25.
LMP: Okay, Houston. Battery charge on B is terminated, and we got 1.25 on 7 Bravo.
CMP: Here's November November; it may have three or four pictures left. It's on 160 .... me set one up. Oh, we've got Papa Papa for opportunity, huh? Yes. I'11 get it. Houston, are you ready for LASER ALTIMETER, ON?
CC: America, we're seeing some higher than normal temperatures on fuel cell 1. We'd like you _o go to panel 226 and check the FUEL CELL i PUMPs circuit breaker and also the switch on panel 5. Over.
LMP: Well, don't ask me how it happened, but your switch on panel 5 is OFF. Going to AC1.
CC: Okay. I guess that's the best news that we could have had on tha_. And we're ready for the laser altimeter - -
LMP: Okay. Hey, Oordy - -
CC: - - whenever you get to the attitude. - turned tha_ on - well, t guess tha_ - i _o% a sudden drop in H 2 flow; and vhen it went up, ov{r- shot a iltvle bit, and now _ s that's what _,o__ EECOH friend there will say should happen. 143/13 Tape
CC: Yes. That's right, and we see indications that the pump started up.
LMP: Okay, that was a good call. I can't - How long have you noticed that, Gordy? Do you know?
CC: Well, it's been about 3 minutes, Jack.
LMP: Okay. t guess I'm to blame then; I don't know how it happened.
CMP: Hey, Houston; America. Do we have any more or- bital science photos?
CMP: Okay, Houston. LASER ALTIMETER is ON, and IMAGE MOTION is barber pole plus 2.
CC: Say, Ron, this is Houston. And there's no more scheduled o_oital science photos. We can't seem to run down Farouk to see if he has anything up his sleeves. _nere are a couple of passes with black and white coming up; one next rev, and then a couple just prior to TEI.
CMP: Okay. Looks like what we've got left here, as far as I can tell anyhow, is just - we've _ot all of magazine Papa Papa, and maybe four or five of them on November November.
CC: Okay. And we'11 come back to you if there's any- thing we got in mind to schedule on - on either of those.
CDR: Okay. We'11 want to save some for aI_er TEi _o - shoot back at the Moon. efooum.
CMP: Okay, i see what he said.
CC: Roger. TEi, period.
CDR: _nese guys can call it what they like, but I know what it's going to be and when.
CC: America, a little human interest stuff here. We just watched the second charge go off; not Just watched, it's been about half hour ago or so. Second charge went off, and we caught it just in the lower left corner of the TV view. It looked like a - to me it looked like a flashbulb went off - flashbulb laying on the ground went off, just a kind of a quick flash. No big shower of dirt or anything that I could tell.
CDR: How far away do you expect that one was, Gordy?
CC: That one was 600 meters away. And it was a half- pound charge.
CDR: Yes, you're still pretty far away over that - yes, you're still pretty far away over that - that terrain that those things are sitting in over there. You're going to probably see something when you look at those that are placed by the end of the SEP and back to the east there.
CC: Showing about 115 beats per minute on the CMP.
CC: America, we'11 take AUTO on the HIGH GAIN. IZ1D Okay, you've got AUTO.
CDR: See you Gordy, and thanks for keeping an eye on us.
CC: One last frantic reminder to configure the DSE per the Flight Plan after LOS.
CDR: Okay, we'11 get it. FZD OF TAPE APOLLO 17 AIR-TO-GROUI_D VOICE TRANSCRIPTION
CC: Okay, America.
CC: America, Houston. I have three one-liners for the Flight Plan.
LMP: Is this the same Flight Plan we've been working on up here?
CC: I think it is. lIMP Okay, Gordy. Go ahead.
CC: Okay, at 218:09, delete MAPPING CAMERA - RETRACT. At 218:30, delete MAPPING CAMERA/LASER ALTIMETER COVER - CLOSED. And at 219:59 - next page - in addition to iR and UV COVERs - OPEN, put in LASER ALTIMETER - ON.
LMP: Okay. At 219:59, LASER ALTIMETER - ON; and at 218:30, delete HAPPING CAMERA/LASER ALTIMETER - OPEN; and at 218:09, delete MAPPING CAMERA - RETRACT.
CC: Okay, that second one was deleting a COVER CLOSED, but I'm sure that's the one you got. MAPPING CAHERA/LASER ALTIMETER COVER - CLOSED. And that laser altimeter, we'11 just leave her run through the sleep period.
CMP: Can'% see it, sorry.
CMP: May have. Smythii may have, on the thing. I still want -to talk a iivvle bit _oouv _nese _olygonai cra_ers and Smy_hii. The one right above rev 62 picture on vne thing_ there's definitely kind of a, an _ninmavea (sic) old depression there wi%h a mare, very smooth mare floor on the thing. With two, - two old craters. And, that is definitely a younger flow than whatever made the polygonal crateriike depression. Right above the rev 62 number. The thing that bothers me about that is that they, they almost - oh, looks like if you threw a rock in the mud, you know - made a mud pie, and you get a wave or a ripple going out from there. In other words, you've got a high wavefront going out from a circular direction with a slightly siopil_ up to that wavefront. That's on the inner ring on the thing. The outer ring, of course, is a typical-type ring that you get from an impact type of an operation. It looked like the rough-looking floors of those rings, ring basins, essentially have the s_ae albedo, the s_me characteristic_ as the rougher looking floor in the Mare Smythii itself.
CC: We'11 take HiGH GAIN to AUTO.
CC: Okay, understand that. Say again, where that one is? _._P Yes, that's the one above rev 62 or direcviy north of the Wright Brothers(?), in the 12:00 position from the Wright Brothers.
CC: Oh, okay. CMl° You know, Houston, we're jus_ passing over a little polygonal crater that's maybe 15 kilometers in diameter - 15, 20 kilometers in diameter. It may be 10 to 15 - and down in the basin of it is a kind of a polygonal fill. It, again, has that dark greenish-black rock that is collected down at the bottom of it, and you also see it streaking down the side of it. But, I think one of the most significant features about the crater itself is that it has a swir!_ and these are honest to good- ness - they look like swirls rather than rays. It has a swirl pattern around there - it's radial, from that most recent impact.
CC: America, Houston, we haven't got data right at the moment because we are in a skin reflection zone. We'd like you to hold the pan camera to STANDBY until we call you. i_P Thank you.
CMP: It's near - just see Yerkes. Come down from Yerkes. Yerkes is the subdued crater up there. Come down from Yerkes, and then there's a little one about lO kilometers in diameter; and, then a big one that's about 50; and, then there's a bright one. Okay, and then - -
CMP: Yes, and then right - let me see, kind of north- west of that bright one s about a crater _ud a half diameter from it - is an orange-ringed crater, again. about a crater and a half aiamever from the brigh_ one. See it? See, it's a_ orange ring on iv, isn't it? That's the one we were talking - - i_lt get it. Yes.
CMP: Yes, Z _ow it. That's right, it's not a classic, but it's another ex_ple of an orangish-_annish - Say what? See vha_ brighv crater down vkere. gus_ abouv a craver anma half di_.eter to vhe north of it - f/8 az 250 - them ought vo se_ im. '_kndHouston, _h_t was fr_e 162.
CMP: Yeah, we - -
CDR: And, the frame just before that - I took of a ridge just on the southern edge of Crisium, - the pattern of the massifs in that area were very impressive, but two frames just before that.
CMP: Houston, just one other %uestion. I was looking around here at my film, and I got mag Victor Victor, which is VHBW for the Nikon. And looking through the Flight Plan, it doesn't look like we're going to be able to use that anytime. I Just wonder if we might be able to use it for some of these terminator photos?
CC: We'11 check on the film. We'd like you to go WIDE for 10 seconds and then back to NARROW.
CC: Okay, Ron. The HIGH GAIN looks good; and, on the film - it's your option on that magazine. There's no scheduled usage.
CMP: Oh, okay, thank you. CAMERA _MP Okay, you want PAN POWER, ON, now?
CC: That's affirm. We're ready now.
CMP: You want to get it, or I'11 get it?
CC: Okay, America. We'11 take PAN CAMERA POWE_ OFF, _OW.
CMP: l{o, the optics are up in vhe air all the rime on vhis SIM bay stuff.
LMP: Houston. Areas in the landing site where we now know there are extensive blocks of the subfloor material, particularly in the walls of the larger craters, I have the impression that those block fields, from this altitude, give a light bluish- gray appearance.
LMP: I don't know how far we could extrapolate that in other craters, but we might start trying a little bit.
LMP: Following that a little bit farther, looking into Dawes, the lower talus slopes of Dawes have about the same hue and are overlaying the first by a zone that's producing - or several ledges that seam to be producing white talus and then above that is the - or make that very light-gray talus - and above that is a tan-gray talus slope that carries right up to the rim of Dawes. So, there are three distinct major stratigraphic units showing up in the talus slope in Dawes that I can see.
CMP: Jack, can you see any holes in the - square holes in the floor of Dawes, there?
LMP: Wait a minute. No, I was, i guess I was talking about the crater northeast of Dawes - Let me check Dawes with the same sequence.
CMP: No. Dawes is the little one down there. That other one is - -
LMP: 0kay_ take i_ back again. That was Dawes I was talking about.
CMP: Jack, you using the binocs? aren'V coles dcwr_ there_ those are _us_ greaz bZg - graam big blocks thav have fallen off Zke side of vhe modem, vain. Side of the - Okay. _MP Okay, between the tan gray and the very light gray there may be another thin and possibly intermittent zone of a - just a plain, apparently gray unit forming in the talus slope.
CC: Roger. That's Bessel you're talking about. The top of Serenity? No, no the one back.
CMP: Oh, Plinius. IMP Ptinius? CMl° Plinius is that rough-looking one. Yes.
LMP: Yes. That was Plinius I was talking about. CMl° Oh, Yes .... the oranges. Yes.
LMP: And, the next large - well, it's not large - no_ as big as Dawes, it's a reasonable-sized crater that to the west, the talus is largely just white debris on the slope of it. But, it doesn't look like it penetrated nearly as deep as _he other two we're talking about. CM? _, Menelaus Tacquet is the one that is our - right underneath us right now. And _hen Menelaus is right on the edge of the Sereni_atis 3asin before you get to _he Haemus Mountains.
LMP: Okay, looking at Menei_as, you can see where vhe dark - _he edge of Sereniva%is goes vhrough uke craver. Ar_d_ the north wall is quite mistincvLy grayer to - let's say_ bluish-gray, _h_u _he south wail, which is iighv - very iighz gray in the talus. My guess is that iz's a very nearly vertical contacv at vhav point.
LMP: At least that's the way vhe talus suggests it, but talus does move vertically. Looking at the depression with all the color streaking in the talus on the walls - there - I'11 say again, that the more red-looking unit, or talus, is coming from below the orangish-gray material. But it is far not a continuous horizon_ at least not so as the talus indicates. It's local spots that are giving the reddish color.
LMP: Gordy. That particular depression doesn't look like it's an impact-generated depression at all.
CMP: Hey, we_d be%ter, hadn't we. Black and - D-Caldera is what I called it. LMi° Yes, Ron's D-Caldera - i'm just correlating apparent colors now, or hues. And, the lighter-colored material there is comparable in hue to the subfloor color at the landing site. SMP The first one's f/32 at 1/500. Tobias Mayer. CMl° ... A window.
LMP: Window 5. Window 5? Okay. i2_P _na_'s the frame count ... surface?
CMP: Count is 55 now on Romeo Romeo, Houston. _o, not come before Mayer. until _e up to Tobias, just Tobias
CDR: Be able to pick that up there about - -
CMP: On the other side of Copernicus. CMl° Right after 218. Okay.
CC: Roger that: Ron. CMl° (Cough)
CC: Ron, this is Houston. Do you want any help from me calling the f/stop changes on this P66 run? Or do you want to do it on board there?
CMP: Why don't you give me a little help there. Just kind of reminders? So to f/11 about Tobias Mayer, I guess, and, then -
CC: Okay. Then f/8 and a 1/250 is at Brayley D.
CC: Are you shooting pretty much straight down or out in front, on this one?
CMP: Let's see. We're pretty much straight down on this one.
CC: Okay, I've got a real-time plot of your longi - yes, longitude here. So I can call right on longitude.
CMP: There goes ~ What's there? Eratosthenes, okay.
CMP: Yes, aoout right in here it's a good place.
CC: Hold 1, Jack. It's about time for f/il - - _MP Go ahead. ... Ron. v_ CMZP Okay, f/il a% 1/500. 144/9 Tape
LMP: Euler is - lower is blue-gray and the upper is a very light gray, from the talus slope up to the rim.
CDR: Houston, I can just start to see the peaks of Euler now - exposed in the central peak - the tops of them exposed in the sunlight, and it looks like there's massive quantities of large boulders on the - on the peaks.
CC: Roger, Gene. Okay, it must be about time for f/8 1/250. and 1/250,
CMP: f_8 at okay? That's my little sea - crater chain down there. Looks like a cinder cone chain. Right (cough) between Tobias Mayer and Euler.
CC: Roger. f/56 1/25.
CC: Okay, try and 1/25.
CMP: 56 at Is this the last - -?
CC: Last setting, right, and you should finish up there at Tobias Mayer W.
CC: Or a little beyond.
CC: Roger. C_P Okay, Houston. We ended up on frame 80, magazine RR.
LMP: Houston, what do you read our GLYCOL EVAP T_P as? I tapped the gage up here and got a little bit of upward jump in temperature. Just curious how much a hang up it was.
CC: Stand by. Okay, we show 66 EVAP out TEMP.
LMP: That's exactly what it jumped to. Okay.
CDR: Gordo, I'm interested. How have you been reading me most all day today? I've been on lightweight headset, all the time.
CC: I'd say you're fine, since I've been on. Let me check you the rest of the day.
CDR: No, it would be the same all day. You're - you're as good a data point as any. I haven't really tried to make any effort to talk into the mike or anything, I just been talking around it, and if you're satisfied, I'm happy.
CC: Okay, sound gooded [sic] all day. No cutout or anything - no problem.
CC: Okay, Gene. 6$fP I think you can stand by for some small torquing angles on this one. Right within the center of the sextant.
CMP: Well, I did get 5 balls that rime; but, that's not bad.
CC: We'11 buy that. Well, the Z-axis here looks pretty good, anyway. You're clear to torque. (Laughterl Okay. We'11 torque at 2i - i missea 30 - Let's go to 21:45.
CC: America, Houston. Request the H2 tank 2 FAN, ON. Over.
CMP: Okay. H2 tank 2 FAN is ON.
CC: Okay, and the waste water dump that you'11 start after LOS should take 11 minutes, if you want to set your kitchen clock. Also a reminder, this time after LOS we go to REACQ. Over.
CMP: (Laughter) Okay. Thank you. Will do. We'11 go to REACQ.
LMP: Houston, the IR/UV COVERs are CLOSED.
CC: 0key-doke.
CC: Hello, America; Houston. Glad to have you back.
CDR: Well, we got a good one for you, Bob. Not too good, but - In the midst of other things, we let the waste water go to zero on that dump. As a matter of fact, it went past zero. And the ... is starting to fill up again, and the best we can tell onboard, that - it shouldn't disturb anything, but you might take a good look at it.
CC: Okay. We've got our moon beside me taking a look at it.
CDR: Okay. How are you doing tonight?
CC: Not too badly. I'11 have you know, it's clear down here. We saw the Moon for the first time since launch day. It's getting bright. It looks like you must be somewhere over the terminator on Imbrium.
CC: First time we've seen the Moon since launch day.
CMP: Oh, we Just - Oh, it's beautiful. Your weather has been that bad, huh?
CC: That's affirm. Fog and drizzle and rain and rain and rain.
CC: About 1 day. Okay. And, America, we'd like H2 TANK 2 FANS, OFF. H2 TANK 2, OFF.
LMP: _aey're OFF.
CC: And, America, as you can tell from the Flight Plan, we aren't expecting too much from you guys this rev. And we aren't expecting to send up too much to you guys either. A reminder that we won't be asking Gene and Jack for their PRDs tonight, but we certainly would like them in the morning. So you might take that into considera- tion. And we'11 be sending you a few up-links there for the Flight Plan at 220, both the state vector and the EMi° 523. We also have a clock update for you - that we'11 send up, and it's a 0.04 seconds; so it's another biggie.
CDR: Okay, Bob. We'11 make an effort to get those PRDs. We can get one of them, probably, without too much trouble. But it's a case of restowing both those suits to get the second one, we're not going to get it until EVA day. I'm sorry, but that's it.
CC: We copy that. I guess they're back stored in the L-bag, huh?
CC: Okay. And we'11 want the onboard read outs there at the bottom of the page, Just before you go LOS. And I might pass up one little piece of news - very local news here - concerning us members of the Orange Team. We're all extremely proud that you and Jack chose to call the soil you found the other night, while we were on shift, the Orange soil because we take it as an obvious honor for the Orange Team to have been on shift at that point.
CDR: Bob, you know our intent was certainly well meant. We certainly are glad you appreciate it.
LMP: i detect a certain amount of skepticism whether it's really orange, though.
CC: It looked orange on Ed's TV.
CDR: Did it really? Could you see zhe color and ail?
CC: Well, so did the blue ocean on the Earth, and so did the white suits and everything else; but they looked orange on Ed's TV anyway.
LMP: Is Ed on tonight?
CC: We don't have any - No, we've seen the two - only two charges for the day. We don't have another charge for, I guess, about another 24 hours or so.
CDR: I think I understand.
CC: Roger. Ed is on the Orange Team, however.
CDR: Bob, I would like a word from you, though, as to whether or not you think there is going to be any problem with that waste water dump to zero as I said. We don't, after looking at it.
CC: No, we aren't expecting any problem. They're looking at it. They're kind of amused, but they're looking atit. And I'd like to pass up to you fellows, it's - -
LMP: ... an iteresting.
CDR: All right. Nothing, Bob.
CC: Okay, I might also tell you fellows, in case no- body told you yesterday, that we tracked the LM on ascent for 30 seconds. Beautiful pitchover. And we saw you going away from us after pitchover for 30 seconds. It came out quite well.
CDR: Yes, sir. We heard that. Good. I guess I was able to find 102 at 0.1
CC: In fact, Ed calculates that you were 480 feet- 480 feet - from the lens. As they say, too far is better than too close.
CDR: Well, I was just going to say I cheated a iit_ie bit. i made vwo stops and backed up a little bi_ out _here.
CC: You backed up, huh? That's another first, isn't it?
CDR: No, I didn't back up that time. But I did back up.
CC: We heard that one at station 7 - yes, 7, wasn't it?
CDR: No, that was somewhere during EVA-2, I can't remember where.
CMP: Houston, fram numbers 40 through 43 are zimed sequences of the waste water dump as we were in the sunlight.
CC: Okay. I copy that one.
CDR: And, Bob, just give us a call when you want the computer.
CC: Okay. It's about another half hour or so, I guess, when we're ready. It will be about 220. And, a reminder, we got - at 220 there we're going to go LASER ALTIMETER, ON and the IR and UV COVERS, OPEN as per your Flight Plan there.
CDR: Yes, sir. I got LASER, ON and IR and UV, OPEN.
CDR: Hey, Bob, while it's sort of quiet, anything of a news worthy - or noteworthy news happen today?
CC: Okay. Stand by on that. From my recollection this evening, there really wasn't anything; but i'11 check. Did you guys get a news briefing this morning?
CDR: Yes, we did.
CC: Okay. We got some news coming over, and we'11 have it here before you go around the horn. Might just, while things are quiet also, pass up to you that, if you run out of the command module film there, you do have two - You've got some LM sur- face film left, as I'm sure you're aware. And two mags in particular, which look fine to us, are mag Barabara and mag Karen. Barabara has 500 frames of CF,X, and Karen, 100 frames of black and white. Excuse me, 50 frames, not 500, of CEX. And 1GO of black and white. These mags have never been fit checked - on the command module cameras; but we believe that they will, along with - as long as we take precaution because the locks don't work the s_m_, ... on the command module on the LM cameras, number 1. And number 2, the focus Won't be quite as good as on the - with the LM cameras. However, it will be satisfactory. So there's 150 frames there you might want to take advantage of in those two mags. We think those are in Romeo 2 - stowage Romeo 2.
CDR: Yes, yes. We've already inventoried those. And we've got our hands on them. However, we - Bravo is empty. We used it coming up in the rendezvous and docking.
CC: And just in case you got some left over, I want to shoot some of that black and white on the Moon. We got some instructions for you, which we can call up in real time, if you want to do it - different exposures. The CEX will be the same, of course, as the CEX that's in the command module.
LMP: Okay. Bob, what factor on the black and white would you use?
CC: Okay. Jack, if you use them, use them, use the same sort you have onboard for the CEX, but you cut the shutter speed by a factor of 2. So it's - 1/500 1/250 for instance, you'd use a instead of - and so forth. Over.
CDR: Say, Bob, i don't think - At least i haven't heard anything concerning the home front for about 4 days. You haven't, by any chance, had any contact, have you?
CC: As a matter of fact, I haven't. And Gordy didn't talk to them tonight. And - in fact, Gordy and I talked about it on one of your - when we were doing the changeover, and I thought, well, it doesn't look like an opportune time to call up and find out right now. If you like, I can. I'm not sure whether they're still up or not; or I can leave instructions for Overmeyer in the morn- ing to round people up and see what's going on. Oh, I'11 make sure Overmeyer does it in the morning.
CDR: No. Don't worry about it, Bob. I was Just curious. I - No news is as good as good news.
CC: Yes, that's my presumption. I kind of thought the daytime people would have taken care of that. It's not the best time in the morning to call up right now. I'11 make sure Overmeyer calls in the morning and checks on it.
CDR: Gordy gave us a briefing on the SIM bay and on the lunar surface experiments. And it sounds like all that good liaison work you did paid off. Sounds like most everybody is pretty satisfied.
CC: As far as I can tell, that's right. We - we try there, fellow.
CDR: We thank you.
CC: What can I say? We thank you guys, too.
CC: Okay, America; Houston. We're ready for a litvle action there in the SIM bay.
CMP: ... is on.
CC: Copy that. You Just beat us by a minute. And if you guys will give us - -
CDR: it's already on, Bob.
CC: Roger. And if you guys will give us Lhe compu%er, we'11 send those updates to you.
CMP: Okay, you have the computer.
CC: Okay. And if you guys want to sit and listen, I'11 broadcast you what's possibly the world's shortest newscast.
CDR: Both covers are open and gray, Bob.
LMP: Go ahead, Bob, on the news. We were waiting for yOU.
CC: Oh, okay. I was waiting to see if you guys were ready to listen to it. The first item - which has been a continuing item here during the flight - In Kansas City, former President Harry S. Truman's condition continues to deteriorate as doctors are unable to restore his vital kidney functions. On the Paris peace talks scene, there has been essentially no apparent further developments today. It continues about the same. And in New York, police are red-faced, it says, when it was learned that more than 50 pounds of heroin origi- nally seized way back in 1962 - this is part of the French Connection business - has been stolen from the police building where it was being kept as evidence. And a last local news item. Three prominent Houston men are missing. They were last seen in person at Cape Kennedy in Florida on December 6 but were apparently lost among the 500,000 people who watched the launch of Apollo 17. The following appeal, it says, is issued in case they are listening: "Gene, Jack, and Ron, - come home. And if you pass a fellow with a bushy white beard and crimson suit, advise him you'11 be home before Christmas." That's the extent of the news.
LMP: We saw him the other morning briefly, Bob. And all four of us will be around at the right time.
CC: That's good news. We'11 pass it on. APOLLO 17 AIR-TO-GRO_Oi{D VOICE TRANSCRIPTION
CDR: I'11 just give them to you - okay - I was going to say - I don't m_ow if you've got - yes, in order - 36.7, 37, 37. RCS is 68, 61, 65, and 66.
CC: Okay, we copy that, and we'd like a battery mani- fold pressure reading. That's 7-A on the selector down there. Seven Alfa.
CC: And, America, the computer is yours again.
LMP: Bob, 7 Alfa is 1.4.
CC: Copy, 1.4. And did you copy the computer is yours?
CDR: Yes, sir. We got it.
CC: Okay, thank you. _P Houston, 17.
CC: Roger, 17. Go ahead.
LMP: Roger. As you - we approach having earthse%, you raight be interested to know, being an astronomer, Bob, that we're getting a very hrigh% specular reflection off the Earth now from the Sur_ that produces - reproduces the S'_u's image qui%e well.
CC: Very good. And we're about, between 4 and 5 minutes from losing track of you guys tonight, and yourre GO for LOS and GO for sleep and we won't be s_ring anything more to you coming around the horn, bum we'11 be up listening to you though. But we'11 consider you guys as going to sleep on the back side. Over.
LMP: Okay. Well, we're moving in that direction, partly to get the cabin cooled down. And we'11 probably talk to you in the morning, before very long.
CC: Okay, well then, open the windows to get it cooled down too much, there.
LMP: By the way - Okay.
CC: And while you guys are sleeping tonight, you might be glad to know that the old Orange Team around will be sitting the fireplace here and they'11 all be singing Christmas carols.
LMP: Is Stan serving coffee to you?
CC: We're holding out out for egg nog tonight.
CDR: Well, good night, Robert.
CC: Good night, Geno.
LMP: Well, that would be appropriate, I don't - you know - I think it's about time they treated zhe MOCR to something.
CMP: Good night, Robert.
CC: Good night, Ron. Say good nigh%, Dick.
CDR: Yes, sir. And if my homefront's listening, I just want to say good night and sleep tight.
CMP: Bob, that's the most beautiful crescent Earth I've ever seen.
CC: It's a nice place to come home to, guys. Tapes 147-150/1 REST PERIOD - NO COMMb_ICATIONS
UNKNOWN: music: "Light My Fire")
CC: Good morning, America.
CC: Good morning, America, and we'd appreciate HIGH GAIN to AUTO so we could talk to you all the way through LOS.
CDR: Okay. We've got to get the guy on watch up here in a minute. and
CC: Time to put your feet on the floor a smile on your face and face another day in lunar orbit. The last one.
CDR: They're there, but our fellow on watch is still asleep.
CC: Roger. Would you like to play the music again to wake him up?
CDR: Apparently it has no affect. Good choice, though.
CC: We're going to light your fire today, babe.
CDR: Okay, let me try to get AUTO without waking him. Stand by.
CDR: Hey, you better play the punch line of vhat song again. Nobody believes you did it.
CC: Gene, just before we get the lunar sound - Say again - before we get the recording going again_ M3LNUAL just remer_er you'11 have to go then WiDE in a normal acquisition at AOS. And the ar_gies on the dial are correct.
CDR: Okay. Sour.d
CC: Things are great. Stand by.
LMP: A little Navy groggy, I think's what you me_. (Music: "Light My Fire")
CC: That's for the CMP. Do you believe it now?
CMP: Yes, I heard it that time.
CDR: Beautiful, Bob. We're going to get your picture as you set this time. Right out number -
CC: Is that from on board?
CDR: Say again, Bob.
CC: Did you have that tape on board or is that Just a back - But we've got the song again in our background here. Or do you all have tha%?
CDR: No, we had it; and I think it's very appropriate for today. And that's exactly what we're going to do.
CMP: No, we didn't play it back to you.
CC: Okay, it's just ... comm - -
CC: America, Houston. You've got about 3-1/2 minutes until LOS, and you'relooking good. All systems look good to us. And have a good breakfast, _d we'11 see you on the other side.
CDR: Okay, Houston, ... AiR-TO--GR0_D
CC: America, Houston. Realize you're eating and don't want to internzot you_ but if you get your headsets on, we'11 give you some news.
CDR: Sound grea%_ Houston. We'd appreciate that.
CDR: Go ahead, Bob_ we're listening to you.
CC: 0kay_ let's give you the really important news first. Went around the morn here, and over in Nassau Bay_ ever_ood_'s doing real fine, and it looks like Tracy's going to go out and visit one of our bigger amusement centers around the country and going to have a great day. And everybody just looking forward to %he EVA and the deorbit and the splash. Out in E1 Lago - everybody's fine out there, Rono And John's out selling Christmas trees today and Jaime's going to go out shopping with her aunt some'0ime today and - a little Christmas shopping - it's getting near that time of year. And one of your friends from Phoenix is due in today, for the rest of tee r_ission, I guess. And out in Tueson_ rt was a little early this morning, Jack, but everybody's up and about and I talked to your mother, and everybody's fine. She's getting anxious to go back to Silver City and see all the celebration_ i o_less those people out there are really enjoying it sad really getting wild about it. But eve_%ody's fine all the way around, all the way around_
CDR: Thar_ you_ Bob.
CC: Okay_ we;d like RL%CQ and N_ROW.
CC: Oh, i didn't have to tell _hem tnat. They're listening. They heard ever}_ching airead_y this places. morning - a_ all _hree
CDR: Well, we send our good morning on our Last wakeup day from the Moon.
CC: Okay. Here is a summary of _he late news as com- piled in the MSC Public Affairs Office. if you'd like it, we're ready to go with it.
LMP: Okay, we'd love to have it. Go ahead.
CC: Okay, everyone - everybody is talking about the success of Vhe Apollo 17 mission here in Houston, and the weather. It was cold this morning. Some thermometers in the Houston metropolitan area were in the mid-20's. The lowest official temperature for the city of Houston was 31. I might add Ellington had a recorded 29. A huge high pres- sure system is dominating the midsection of the nation. Barometric pressure reached a high of 30.7 in the Houston area this morning at about 5:00 a.m. With strong gusty winds, the chill factor was a 5 above in Houston, and about a minus 10 degrees in Galveston. Man, that's cold. The national Christmas tree was lighted last night in Washington by Vice President Spiro Agnew. A small crowd, braving cold and rainy weather, watched as the Vice President threw the switch to light up the 70-foot spruce that came from Medi- cine Bow, Wyolming. During the ceremony, Mr. Agnew said we must remember the many servicemen who are missing in action or prisoners of war in indochina and pray for them this holiday season. North Vietnamese peace talk negotiator Le Duc Tho has told newsmen he is very optimistic about prospects for an early cease fire in Vietnam° Before leav- ing Paris, Le Duc Tho said he will remain in very close contact with Dr. Henry Kissinger. Dr. Kis- singer is in Wasain_on_ A Paris radio svation has said a oeace paco signing is imminent, _uv the report has been denied in Washington. Former Treasury Seereta_ 7 John Connaily says ne expects to get a call from President Nixon shortly to carry out some foreign visits _his coming year. One as- sigmment may be a visit %o Moscow. John Sca_i, a former newsm_n from ABC and a special consul_an_ to President Nixon, zs expectea to be vhe next U.S. _foassamor to the United Nations. A fcrmal announcement from the }_ite House is expected in a few days. An exlolosion has taken the lives of 21 men in West Virginia. The blast occurred at a steel-m_<ing complex near Weirton, West Virgina, on the Ohio River. President Nixon has given the green light for a pay raise for all Federal em- ployees. The across-the-board increase of 5.14 per- cent }nil! benefit both civilian and armed forces personnel. A 747 jumbo jet_ while taking off our of Miami international yesterday, went through a flock of birds and reportealy lost - had an engine go out. The pilot turned the aircraft around and went out o_er the Atlantic and burned down some fuel and landed at Miami, but skidded off the r.unway_ hit a concrete culvert, and sheared the nose gear. A few passengers fainted, but only 4 were injured when they went down the slide.
CC: The unexpected always deserves some attention. The samll community of West,_ood_ Kansas, a suburb of Kansas City_ will send back a check it has re- ceived from the Federal goverr__ent in the Federal- revenue-sharing program. Major Joe Dennis said Westwood just didn't need the money. On the re- gional and local scene - I just might add - i see it's not here_ that President Truman's condition seemed to deteriorste some last night, but he is still not listed on the cri-_ical list, he is serious. Miss ima Hogg, the 90-year-old founder of the Houston Symphony, was honored at a gala birthday party last night and cake-cutting cere- mony at vhe s_uphony. And lJtt!e Tomball, Texas, has had eolice zrouble_ but nearby Pasadena doesn't seem to have any. Thirteen _ew pretty policewomen have jusz joined the suburban police force our in Pasadena. AAd Jack_ here's a special for you. if you ever get %ired of eraeking rocks: why not try politics? A geoiogist_ J. _eonard Davidson_ is going zo r_ for mayor of Houston during _he 1973 election. Ar_d we also recezved word this morning that an e!er_entary scnoei in Silver Cisy: New Mexico_ is being renamed for their most illustrious graauave, i_ will now oe zhe Harrison H. SeN_it_ Elementary Schooi in Silver Ci%y_ Ney- Mexico. A couple of new col_ege coaches have been n_r_ed. Dave Sr_th has been nar.ea the ne% coach of Southern Methodist. Up in West Lafayette, Indiana_ a vet- eran coach has been named to improve footba_i fortunes at Purdue. Alex Agase, former head coach ay Northwestern_ will take over the Boilermakers. Kent Nix is expected to get the nod as starting quarterback for the Oilers against the Cincinnati Bengals in the final game of the year. Pastorini is still out w_th a pulled hamstring muscle. The Houston Rockets dropped their basketball game wi_h the Baltimore Bullets last night by a score of 94 to 91. Purdue beat Western Kentucky las_ night 91 to 75. Friendswood High School was eliminated last night in the Class II-A semifinals as _hey bowed to Boling at Rice Stadium 33 to 7. And a final in the news today, Marian Rice Hart, the 81-year-old American aviatrix, says she has at least two more years left for flying. Mrs. Hart is currently flying around the world in a single- engine Beechcraft Bonanza. She is presently in Katmandu, India. _at's all from Editor Jim Kukowski here. A special hello from the Space- flight Tracking and Data Network crew around the world.
CDR: Thank you, Bob, and our hello and thank you to the tracking team. We sure have been able to work well with them, and communications have been super.
CC: That's real great. I'm sure those words will be appreciated up at Goddard, and around the world, of collrse .
CDR: Well, like a lot of other people - you know - you can't do it without them.
UNKNOWN: Bob, this is Jack. My appreciation anm thanks, for an unnecessary honor, to Silver City.
CC: Roger_ I'm s_re they're iisvening o_v there, and just glad to do it.
CDR: Hey_ Houston; _erica_ How mo you reaa now?
CC: Read you loud and elear_ Eon. 152/5 Tape
CDR: Okay, I've got vhe commander's menu for you.
CC: We're listening.
LMP: medical log - the old PRD is still at the bottom of the sack down there. Had about 5 hours of sleep, no medication, and two cans of water. Okay, the command module pilot had to eat: spiced oat cereal, mixed fruit, instant breakfast, coffee, grape punch, cinnamon toast and cubes, brownies, vitamin. For lunch, four frankfurters, two pieces of bread, catsup, chocolate pudding, grape drift, coffee. Meal C, turkey and gra_r_ chocolate bar, orange beverage, and pork and potatoes. Okay, C_ medical log - 15050, about 5 hours of sleep, pretty good - once I got to sleep. For medication, two sniffs of nosedrops, each side, prior to retiring, and four cans of water. Over.
CC: Roger, Ron; we got all tnat.
CC: Ron, could i jog your memory a minute hack to %ne HF anterma extension perio_ after docking?
CC: Roger, Ron. We_ve been chasing a data dropout glitch and we just wonder - trying to cover all bets. When you were extending HF ANTENNA 1, could have you gone to operate on the immediate switch next to it, which is the LUNAR SOUNDER switch which was right next to 17 Could you have gone to OPERATE for a minute or 2 without realizing it while your hold - holding 1 to EXTEND?
LMP: Stand by, Bob. Which extension anomaly are you talking about, the one prior to rendezvous?
CC: No, the one after rendezvous and docking when we were putting them - they're out now and when we put them out - when we were putting them out and were extending HF ANTENNA 1, the LUNAR SOUNDER OPERATE switch is immediately next to it, and I realize HF _NTENNA 1 is a momentary switch. When you were holding it there, could you have gone to OPERATE on that LUNAR SOUNDER switch?
LMP: Bob, I don't think so. I - no. No, I don't _hink so.
CC: Okay, we'11 keep track of that.
LMP: I would have had to - I would have had to been gone - I would have had to been gone to the - OFF position too, I guess, right after that, and I think I'd remember that.
CC: Yes, that's affirm. You would have had to go to OFF, there. And I didn't feel it, but Joe needs - you know we got a data glitch - it's nothing serious - no problem - but shay're just back there trying to track down all li%tie glitches and tha_ - that seemed to be the only thing that could add up right now. Sure, i - I understand. I understand. Yes.
CDR: Hey, Bob, here you had any more charge firings on the surface? 152/7 Tape
CC: v don't believe so. When i came on shift, they mentioned that the LCRU wasn't working right, now, and they were trying to work it.
CC: Okay, just for an update, we fired 6 and 7 last night and we'11 be firing 1 at about 1 o'clock this afternoon.
LMP: They all went off okay, huh? today.
CC: Yes, and 4, 1, and 8 go off And we're seeing good results, Jack, on all the data.
LMP: Okay, has Bob Kovach gotten any depth to the debris cover or to anything below it yet?
CC: Let me check that out before I give it to you, piecemeal here. We'11 check it out.
LMP: I realize that's pushing a little bit, but I'm curious.
LMP: Bob, how do you read 177
LMP: Okay. I'm looking right down the slope of the South Massif, above the slide right now - right down at the - just about the angle of the slope. Amd there's a very slight indentation in the slope, just opposite the maximum - the point of maximum extent of the dark - light mantle. Opposite other portions of it, though, it - there's no clear in- dication of any change in the direction of the Massif - front, it's very, very slight, and i'd say you'd have a hard time saying that it is a source area for the light mantle but it's - there's a slight indentation.
LMP: Bob, just north of the - of the bright-rayed c_aters in the Littrow area, there are five craters - oh, probably in _he thousand-mever-diar, e%er class range_ 500 %o iC00, and all five of those have %he sequence of colors in vhe waiis_ from rim down, of brovnl-gray a - hiue-gra_ _ and 5hen brown-gray. They are all identical in that sequence and quite clear.
LMP: And that blue-gray is comparable to the blue-gray that's visible in the craters such as Sherlock in the landing area. And along the graben, in the vicinity of those five craters, there is a series of very black spots, I'm going to have to look at again on the next pass, if we can. I don't have any idea what those spots are, but I'm looking very obliquely now to that graben and it's extremely -black spots along that graben.
CC: Ron, NOUN 26 doesn't require a sign.
CDR: I've heard more about this P20 on this side of the tunnel this mission than I ever could have.
CC: Roger. Looks like you g_ys are ready to go to work.
CDR: Well (laugh). Yes, we are. We're ready to de anything you want to do.
CC: Okay, we need ACCEPT. Got you a CSM state vector.
CDR: Okay, sock it to us.
CC: Okay, it's on its way. Going down the Flight Plan, we've got a Flight Plan update if you're ready to copy. It isn't too awful tong, although it's not the easiest one.
CC: Okay. At 230:20, 230:20, add the following: "LASER ALTI_ER, OFF; LA, OFF."
LMP: Just keeping pressing on, Bob. I'11 get them and let you know if I get them all.
CDR: don biomed harness." Jusv put "CDR" in place of "L_."
CDR: Hey, that was a Flight Plan update we passed on yesterday. I_ve got those.
LMP: biomed" to "o_heck Com- mander biomed." And change "
CDR: doff" to "C_ doff." Okay. f_d the computer's yours, by the way. You can go back to BLOCK. And this is the one important one here. We want to make sure, and I'11 explain a little bit. Over at 232:27, 232:27, _'If LbNAR SOUNDER, OPERATE, talkback flag goes barber pole, switch LUNAR SOUNDER, OPERATE, to STANDBY." The s_tuation here is that it might run out of film during this lunar sounder !tF target on Hertzspru_g. if it does, we need to go to STAI_DBY inunediately_ and we - It'11 probably require somebody monitoring that panel during that 5-to-6 minute pass there. Our best guess is -
CDR: Okay_ Bob.
CC: Our best gmess is _¢e've got a 5-minute pad on that film, but this is just a precaution. And at 233:13, after "PAN CAMERA_ POWER," add "V/H OVER- RIDE, HIGH ALTITUDE." Okay. That ends the Flight Plan update. I_ve got a lunar sounder pad.
CC: 0kay_ lunar sounder pad is at 230:55, 230:55. T-start 5irae, 231:00:00} T-s_op time is at 07:58.
CDR: is %hat everything, or you got a couple more so-_der pads?
CC: That's the only sounder pad for nov.
CDR: Okay. At 230:21, you want the LASER ALTi)_-TER, OFF. At 230:30_ you want to verify all the \_F is OFF. And we want to eliminate the waste water dlamp at 230:31. The sounder pad or_ that page is 231:00 and 231:07:58. At 232, following LUNAR SOUNDER, OPERATe, for that pad, if the OPERATE talkback goes barber poles we want to switch the LDY_AR SOUY_DER 0__P_T_ to ST_'DBY, and we'11 be monitoring the panel during that time. And at 233:12, following PA_N CAMERA to POWER, you want V/H to HIGH ALT.
CC: That's a good readback_ Gene. i have a TEi-75, preliminary TEI-75 PAD for your Update Book.
CDR: Go ahead_ Bob. SPS/G&N;
CC: Okay_ that's preliminary TEE-75, 36372; pl_s 0.63, plus 0.86; 236:42:08.58; NOUN 81: plus 3040.3, minus 0183.3, plus 0080.4; 180, 000, 000; HA is nov applicable; plus 0023.0; 3046.9, _.25, 3029.=, sextant star is 06, 109.5, 30.0' boresight_ and that is not applicable. NOUN 61: minus 17.89_ minus 166.00; 1047,2, 36172; GET of 05 G is 304:_8.36. Over on the comments line Sirius and Rigel; 136; 071; 035. Four Jetts, 12 seconds on the ullage. I've got two assump- tions or rather two other comments. This pad assumes TEI REFSM}_AT. Comment 2: With the iii't- off REFSY_4AT which you have in_ it'11 be roil, 179; pitch, 088; yaw_ 359. Over.
CDR: Okay, Bob. _T V_;- r'_O. plus 0.63 plus 0._6; 236:42:0S.58; plUS 3040.3_ minus 0183.3, p_as _'_ 0080.4; 180, all zeros all zeros; i_A is NA; plus 0023.0; 3046.9, 2:25, 3029.2; 06_ i09.5_ ou.0; boresight is NA; m_nus ±_ .09, .minus 166.00; 1047.2_ 36172; _0L:i,_:_. Sirius and Rigel; 136; 071; 335. Four jet, 12-second ullage. Ass_me TEz v_o., _ _ _-_ attitude is 179_ 088_ 35:9.
CC: Real good readback. No problems. Got a consumable update here for you on RCS update. We're right on the Flight Plan: we've got 56 percent remaining. And the 02 and H2 are basically right on the Flight Plan and we've got plenty remaining - no problem on that. And for the Jack - for Jack, for the LMP, I've got a special Flight Plan update on your crew option photo target on Tsiolkovsky. Would you like to copy that?
CC: And we'd like HIGH GAIN to AUTO.
CC: Okay, they're recommending CM-5 to EL 80 or 250 - I guess your option. HBW - maybe that should be VHBW. I'11 check that out, but HBW is what they've got here. Exposure from crew option photo chart as listed, except change 1/250 to 1/500 for the 80-millimeter lens. Change 1/125 to 1/250 for _he 250-millimeter lens. Recommend use lunar surface mag Kilo Kilo. That's use lunar surface mag Kilo. Record frame number for start-stop.
CC: Okay; and I've been corrected. That is HBW. _hat's one of those surface mags that i guess I don't know anything about. And we would like cryo tank configuration, H 2 TANK 3 FANs to OFF; H2 TANK 2 F_s to ON. Over.
CC: Roger_ Jack.
LMP: And record the frames_
CC: Good show. corona _nd there are two strong, brighv streamers Just right at s_set, one parallel to _he plane of the e c_l_m_ _' _'_ _d the other oh, maybe 10 degrees %o the south of the pi_ae. Ymd they form two of the major, longer, du - duller stre_aers tkaL _re streaming out from the Sun now. There are some ovher linear streamers that are still visible, suv those were the major ones. Once you get ou_ ahou_ to the position of Mars_ vhey all have abou_ vhe s_me intensi%y - _Jnich is very iow.
LMP: The pattern is distinctly different from vhe one I believe i Iaentioned to you yesterday, sometime.
LMP: It was right at sunset at any rate.
LMP: Still have a very strong glow visible at the sun- set point.
LMP: And that glow - the - the general glow visible to me now - and of course I'm not very well light- adapted- d_._-adapbed - but extends about to a position - oh, let;s see - about the same distance from the Stun as the apparent distance of Venus - between Venus and Mars right now. WeJ__, let me - let me start over on that. The apparent distance from Venus to Mars is about the same distance as from Mars to the limit of the strong solar glow.
CC: See the NOUN 05 - -
LMP: Bob, when I'ia talking about s_reamers, i'm talk- ing about lin - Say again.
CC: I said, "We see the NObTQ 05." Go ahead, Jack.
LMP: Okay, I just - when I talk about streamlets, I'm talking about each time - very linear bright lines that extend - oh, maybe two or three crate - solar diameters out. And then they merge quite sharply into these very long much duller - strea_mers that - I guess presumably are zodiacal light.
CDR: Okay_ we're _orquing at 45, now. Bob, we'11 go _2aead amd torque am 230:14.
LMP: O_ay_ Housvon, are you throagh with _ke high gain now? 153/3 Tape