CC: Roger. HOUSTON moonlight on the target. but that's all right because we're - if you,ve got it, that's all that counts. to turn ACQ llghts off. I've got him in reflected moonlight at 20 miles. to reflected sunlight. We can break out into the daw_. Rate 70. Hold onto him if you can. now. 66 feet per second. a backup - yet I may. was radar. Sorry about that, Gene. push START COMP? it? Don,t let me - - 3/1Oths 205 - 2.5 right and you have left. 7/1Oths. 5:_O. 20&.2 and 3 down. coming - - doesn't look good from here at this time. time. miles; Range-Rate, 66. solution, staying Closed-Loop. 3 up. will Aline Platform after five minutes. Have 30 percent fuel remaining. is cranking and we used a backup solution. We have 30 percent fuel remA4ning. below, even though we are down to 12 miles. 215.6; range, 11.7 miles. CANARY ISLANDS No angle. No Range-Rate. We're at 10.21 miles. do not get any range or Range-Rate out of the computer at this t_me. Gemini vation, 227.2; 7.18 miles. Sahara and note also some of the lava flows here and we're looking straight down at him and I still can't see him. time. We're at 7 miles. one. Now don't worry about me. We'11 make the rendezvous. - 5 left. It's up to you. What are we coming up on, 12 minutes or 137 5.79 miles; 51 feet per second. miles, looking straight down into the Sahara Desert and no visual contact. We,re locked on forward on radar. _9. Rate, Houston. Roger. range, 4.31; Range-Rate, AA. 5 percent on the gage. the target centered on. down there and request ... CARNARVON We have 18 percent fuel remaining. for EVA for three hours. Stand Flight. you get to the States and we,11 brief you over the States, and go ahead and continue with your EVA preparation. bit here. to start the purge. Band radar? keeping during 3 hours. Would you pass that on to Flight? going to take quite a bit of fuel to stationkeep here for three hours, compared to the EVA. your eat period and mi_tmtze your usage of the fuel. We,11 talk to you over the States. Quantity and CANTON ISLAND garble. Advise we'd like to look at your station- keeping between here and the States to see what your fuel consumption does. Like to have your evaluation of how you think you will be able to do stationkeeping and EVA preparation at the same time. Right now we're both pretty well bushed. But I'm afraid it would be against my Judgement to go a- head and do the EVA at this time. We,ve got about, I,d estimate about 16 or 17 percent fuel remaining and if we did all the experiments which we have planned and everything else, Gene and I talked it over, and we think it might be better for both of us to knock it off for awhile. Do some experi- ments and try in the morning, unless you have a specific plan with the ATDA out here where we can do some good with it. I don't see where we can gain a whole lot. Over. about two minutes to LOS. We'11 be talking to you here at the States. We have acquisition at 22:23. it on fuel with the shortage and do some experi- ments later ... and if we could accomplish some specific task I,d say GO. We,re also - both of us are pretty well beat out at this time GUAYMAS postpone the EVA activity until the third day. you Would agree with that? fire up the ATDA A-ring during this stateside pass and cycle the rates and the cone. Would you be in a position to observe and photograph that activity? I'm in the sunrise right now, Neil. My camera is all set up; be able to follow the whole works. when you think the lighting will be satisfactory and you're in a good position to begin that activity. anything we could do EVA to the TDA that might afford us some docking? some possible action. However, we did not have a very high confidence level in this action. and the real little real-tlme evaluation of what we have done in the past 20 hours or so and what we've got to do leads us to believe probably that the third day EVA might be better. point, and we're continuing the flight pla_tng activity in that direction. TEXAS Now we're standing by for your recommendation. turn on the RCS if you want to. here. HOUSTON telemetry from the ATDA. Should have it squared away in a second. guess. Hope we don't run you out of film.