UNKNOWN: with the Agena still below us, how- ever. Now we have quite a big loop in the tether. I'd say we're about 60 feet away from it right now. and 30 seconds to Antigua LOS and then we'11 have you again at Ascension. Are you locked up on bim? firing. Are you firing your maueuver thruster? keep at night. you're all right then to go into the night? Either way ? stationkeep? you at Ascension at d8:16:18. ASCENSION Over. low and I couldn't read you. Would you say it again slowly? I would say it would touch the horizon about 30 degrees below us. much at all ..° remember that if you're going to maneuver in pitch, put your Logic switch to yaw and vice versa. Might help a little bit. and Tananarive, you can look at your water gun. can't, We'd like to get a count off it. If you forget it. not reading you too well. We'11 get you at Tananarive in a little while. again now. You're getting pretty high over the station. Maybe we can read you. I think it might be ... CONFIDENTIAL- I guess it is - yet. That's partly why it might be a little low. taut all the time now, and we're Just about to pass straight over. We're thinking that may be a perfect gift of Pat to go over. looking at is your OAMB propellant, and you have plenty. That's no problem right now. he holds a darn good attitude. TANANARIVE I think ... Agena, isn't it? with us right now. What we're going to do is put in a very small upthrust from him; then We,11 try and kill our translation as we pass over directly above him, if we do. The tether is frankly taut now, and I think that as long as we keep it taut, we might be able to ... as we pass right over. Carnarvon 48 :AS:02. usual. We can't get any water in any of the food. CARNARVON We'd like to send a RESET TIMER RESET. CONFIDENTIAL` show the Agena in now and how much gas is left? recently? on. ting up the Agena do you think you have it? think we may have a much better crack at it this than time we had before. Rates seem to be nulled down a lot better. T/M take a picture, that's on too. HAWAII rate. and we look like we're in pretty good shape. We're just maybe 10 feet south and, oh, maybe 20 feet ahead of the direction of orbit travel. Good tight tether now. roll rate in it. Very gradual. it, oh, about 45 degrees pitch down now. That doesn't seem to be too much of a problem, though. .me I know, it's south with respect to the orbit plane. Yes. We're crossing now and we're, oh, maybe 10 feet ahead. ... get very large. Could you give us encoder off, please? lock on, and we're not able to get MAP lights right now when they are pointed directly at them. I tried to switch to SPIRAL or DIPOLE, and was un- able to get any MAP light. low there? up in the gradient at the present? lined right up with the guide pole now. We're almost straight above them and the tether's crossed. you've rolled about roughly 60 degrees; that's been over about a 5-m_uute period now. more the position relative to the Agena. tude Control a little bit longer and then maybe near the end turn her off. well, it didn't take too long for that one to show that we were in capture. turn off all our ... Lang is right. to figure out whether you're in capture or not. excursion. you could probably do it with a good operating platform on, if you could- I mean control? keep We'11 have LOS in appro_tely 1 m_nute. If you'd like to change antennas, we will check and see if you're getting in okay. across to them? here. ple in Houston, which antenna would be best. respect to - we,ve got to push back and forth to get capture. And the tether is always taut. we are going forward. CALIFORNIA gas in the Agena. If you think you're stable, _hile you still have some daylight, any time you're ready, you can go ahead and shut the ACS off. capture or not is the Agena. If it's that low, I guess we have no choice. track. and we' 11 slowly go down. night period, I'11 just leave it the way it is. long as you want. Just ca]14ug to advise you about the attitude gas and whenever you're satis- fied, why it's up to you. gas. Just what do you plan on doing this time? This capture takes us a long time. We're in that region now where we can say we're captured for a long period, but might slowly go into a spin, l_ke we did on our first attempt. We're in good posi- tion now. We can turn off the gas and Just let it go. I would suggest that, no _tter what it does, we go through the night period in this manner. We won't touch the controls, so that if we're not captured and we go into a spin, we'11 come out the next day in that spin. gather, from what you say, that you've got a pretty taut tether all the time now. much force in there at all, however, and we're Just merely going along with it. However, we were in the same position the last time, and we slowly got into a horizontal position. It might do the same this time. her go. to confirm whether the engine ACS is off. m_uutes and we can look at it then. or something lake that, if you want to assure yourself that you're getting in. there to - - losing the battle fore and aft. know what we're over. GUAYMAS down in Texas if you want to try to turn it off. You are getting in all right. some idea of the forces in the tether, the natural bend of the wire when it made the loop is still bent about 70 degrees; so you can imagine how small the forces are in that tether. around that one time when it was real tight.