Otrobonita/noicy-space-talks huggingface dataset:
CMP: Okay, we've installed the probe and the ratchet handle is - and the insulation and strut are restowed, and the probe is loose in the tunnel Just for stowage. Capture latch release handle is set and in the LOCK position. And we'11 verify a few little odds and ends on here. The ratchet pa]l is flush with the housing. Preload shaft is up into the detent, and it's against the umbilical. And we're going to leave the ,,mbilicalstowed all ready to put in the hatch. In the hatch right here.
CMP: And we're looking at the ourside of the hatch now.
LMP: Want to get out of the way for me?
CMP: There's one down.
CMP: Did you stow the strut thing where it was? i
CDR: Yes. This time I'm learning. Page 20'1
LMP: In case our friends in Australia are wondering, we got a - of course, the top hatch on the LM, which is the first thing you saw - Pete wiped and off the seal closed it, and then he put on the drogue on the I24;although we had it stowed in here a moment ago, it fits on the LM and you and, put that in; of course, it looks like a big inverted ice cream cone. When that was complete, it hooks to attach the I24. When that was complete, then Dick got out the probe, which was attached to the command module, put it in the drogue, mated it with the drogue, and then attached it to the comm_d module structure; and now he's put in the command module hatch. When we undock around the Moon in 2 days after passing through the same passageway, Dick will be in here by himself. We'11 put the same hardware in, and then when we undock, he'11 end up with this hatcb to keep the seal in the command module and the probe on the command - on the front end of the command module. We'11 end up with the drogue on the LM and then the LM hatch to keep the pressure the 35 hours or so that we're apart. When we get back together, then he'11 come in, dock his probe with our drogue, and Just the same as we are right now. We'11 remove a11 both hatches - and the probe and the drogue, and then we'11 come back out of the LM into the command module. So, there's a lot of hardware, and it's heavy Because the total wet vehicle weight right now is about 100 000 pounds, and it has to be re- movab1 e.
CDR: That's it. You can turn the tunnel lights out and that's it; it's c_mpletely done.
LMP: That little valve right in the center is the pressure eq,_lization valve. If there's a dif- I/4and ference in pressure between the the command module, we can take that valve and open it, and it will allow the pressure to equalize, thereby allowing us to open the hatch and that's this. It's got a handle with some teeth on it. Dick really ratchets it around. It works pretty good.
CMP: Jerry, I think some comments to the folks at home: We've enjoyed doing this for them. All three of us are in good spirits, we're feeling great, we've exercised and slept well, the food's been good, we have lots of nice cold water to drink, and we're sure enjoying the scenery. Tape hl/26 Page 208 D' However, I'11 tell you one thing: We do miss the good people back home.
CC: Roger, Dick. It was a great show, and we really enjoyed your - our little tour dovn through the lunar module. Glad to see you guys are looking so good, and you're sounding great, and we'11 be seeing you later.
CDR: Very good. By-by from 12.
CMP: Would you hold that a minute?
LMP: Gee, you really ...
CMP: Yes, da_n nice.
CDR: Let's go off VOX.
CC: 12, Houston. Look's like everything's set up well for starting PTC. Okay. We don't have to do anything but crank '_ her off. Oki?
CC: Affirmative. _2/1 Tape
CC: Apollo 12, Houston. Select OMNI antenna Bravo.
CC: OMNI in Bravo.
CDR: Roger. Are you going to let us know before we go to bed tonight whether we're going to do MCCh or not?
CC: I think we probably can, Pete. Right now it doesn't look too much like we're going to do one. stand
CDR: Okay. We'11 by. I Just wanted to know whether we were going to know before we went %o
CC: Pete, I think we can tell you before you hit the sack.
CDR: It's amazing how well you can see when you're looking at something you recognize. I got the monocular here, and I'm looking at Australia, and I can see 80-Mile Beach and the area that that's in - and, the area that Shark's Mouth Bay Just south of Carnarvon's in. It's very clear over in that part of Australia right now.
CC: Roger, Pete. E_ND OF TAPE _3/1 Tape I Page 210
CC: Roger. Battery B is all chuck full of electrons now, and you can terminate the charge.
CDR: Roger. Thank.you.
CDR: Houston, 12. Go ahead.
CC: Roger, 12. At this time it looks like - there'11 be no need to schedule a midcourse _. Next 8 hours or so, if we have no major changes in the trajectory due to dumps or anything like that, it probably will be - a sure no midcourse _.
CDR: Okay. It doesn't look like we'11 have any dumps other than the regular urine dumps that we happen to have, but no waste water.
CDR: Jim, ... it looks like the_'re going to give us another 10 hours of sleep tonight, huh?
CC: You guys eating dinner now?
CDR: That's affirm. Got some soup and salad, beef and gravy, butterscotch pudding, and ... Yes, I guess that's about it. Somebody got a grapefruit.
CC: Roger. Sounds tasty. _/1 Tape
CC: Roger, Pete. It looks like your EKG indication has gone sour down here. Would you check your blue lead on your - your system there, when you get a chance?
CMP: In work. He was exercised; he may have pulled it loose.
CDR: How's it look now, Houston? and Pete.
CC: Loud clear,
CDR: Say again, Jerry?
CC: We're reading you loud and clear, Pete.
CDR: Okay. I Just didn't reinstall it ccrrectly.
CC: You are now medically acceptable again.
CMP: The major finally found his heart.
CDR: Go ahead, Rouston.
CC: Roger. Are you about ready to give us a E-MOD dump?
CDR: Okay. Coming at you.
CC: I've got your RCS consumables if you're ready to copy.
UNKNOWN: Okay, Jer. Go ahead.
CC: Roger. The GET, 67 plus 00, RCS total is 80.0; A/fa, 77.2; Bravo, 83.1; Charlie, 77.5; Delta, 82.2. Over.
CC: Apollo 12. Houston, Were you c,11ing?
CC: Apollo 12. Houston. Tape hh/2 Jr Page 212 3
CC: Apollo 12, Houston. How do you read? Over.
CMP: Roger; loud and clear, Jerry. I'm reading you.
CC: Okay, Dick. We lost your E-MOD dump about hadf- way through. Would you try it again?
CC: Apollo 12, Apollo 12, this is Houston. How do you read?
CMP: Roger; loud and clear. I think we're in the middle of switching over. Are you ready for my onboard readouts?
CC: Affirmative, Dick. And we'11 need another E-MOD dump from you, too.
CMP: Okay. Here comes the E-memory. PRIM BAKERY Charlie is 37.0; PYRO BAT Alfa, 37.1; PYRO BAT ".) Bravo, 37.1; LM/CM DELTA-P, plus 0.25. Over.
CC: Roger. BATTERY Charlie, 37.0; PYRO Alfa, 37.1; PYRO Bravo, 37.1; DELTA-P, plus 0.25.
CMP: That's affirmative, and all you got to go is the water chlorination, and the crew status report is negative.
CC: Roger. We're going to need a cryo stir.
CMP: You've already had it.
CC: Okay. And no medication, right?
CDR: 0o ahead, Houston.
CC: Roger. Would you verify that you changed canister number 6? Out. -'%
CDR: We sure did. 3 Tape I_h/3
CC: Okay ask Dick to give us a quick call. His last!_o and ink Page 213 1 was pretty rough, and we suspect maybe it was mike position; otherwise, we might have C_4M problems.
CDR: He's not on the COb_ right now.
CC: Okay. You're sounding pretty good; it must have been his mike- And we've copied your E-MOD dump, and so that about wraps it up.
CDR: Okay. We're getting ready to sack out here, and still got to chlorinate the water yet. We're still cleaning up from dinner a little bit. Do you want us to wear BIOMED tonight? We prefer not to, the two that are sleeping under the couches, so that it doesn't interfere with our Gleeping bags.
CC: Pete, doctor says we can get along without it tonight, but they definitely want it tomorrow night.
CDR: Okay. They going to make that standard procedure, they ought to rig these sleeping bags so that you can get in there without having to leave the hem open.
CC: Boger, Pete. The BIOMED they need tomorrow night is Just on you and Al.
CDR: Yes, mud we're the two that are sleeping in the sleeping bags under the couch.
CC: Ain't that nice!
CC: See you in the morning, Pete. Tape _5/1 _, Page 21_
LMP: Houston, 12. Go ahead.
CC: Roger. You about through with your dump up there? t-lking
CMP: Which dump are you about, Jerry?
CC: We're showing 02 flow a little bit high. It looks like your urine nozzle is open, and you're dumping. What we're ending up with here is - -
CC: - - FTC is going unstable here. It's beginning to diverge, and we figured we might as well stop it and start it over and get things squared away so there'11 be no danger whatsoever of waking you guys up later.
CMP: Okay. We'11 stop the purge now.
CC: Hey, Dick. What do you say we reestablish PTC here and get going good, so there will be no danger of waking you later?
CMP: Houston, 12. How does the rate look?
CC: 12, Houston. The rates are looking good.
CC: 12, Houston. You're clear to go ahead and turn it up and set your S-BAND, NOPJdAL;MODE switch to OFF.
CMP: Roger. Good night.
CC: Good night, Dick. APOLLO 12 AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION _,_s !,6-5on · REST PERIOD - NO COMMUNICATIONS
CC: ("Reveille" played on bugle)
CC: One more time. ("Reveille" played on bugle)
UNKNOWN: Apollo 12, all present and accounted for, sir.
CMP: Houston, 12. Can you give me a roll angle to stop PTC to do the rest of that alignment?
CC: Sure will, 12. Stand by.
CC: 12, Houston. You can continue to do PTC during the alignment as you have before. If you want stop, go to 270.
CMP: We'11 keep doing PTC to save some gas.
CC: ("Sweepers, Man Your Brooms" played on Boatswain whistle ) 'J
CC: The next - -
CDR: Houston, 12. Yorning, Houston.
CC: 12; Go ahead.
CDR: Okay. On the crew status report, the CDR slept 9; the CMP, 8; the I/_P,8. The PRD's: CDR, ll013; CMP, 11013; the I_4P,04014. We cycled the fan, and we're back to the norm-1 lunar CO_ mode.
CC: Roger, 12. We copy. When you cycle the fans, could you do that for 3 minutes this time rather than the usual one, so we can get a little better hack on the readouts?
CDR: Okay. We'11 go back and do it for 3. We Just completed it for 2. We'11 go back and do it for 3.
CDR: Houston, 12. Can we start battery charge on BAT A now_. -.} 51/2 Tape /
CC: That's affirmative, 12. Go ahead. We also Page have 21'[ a flight plan update, when you're ready.
CC: Okay. First is, seeing we have no MCC k, replace the flight plan timeline pages from GET 78 to 82 with the pages you'11 find in the back - that's 6-7 to 6-9. And then you'11 be picking it up again at page 3-58. At 78:00, for no MCC 4, delete stop FTC and continue F£C until 80 plus 50. This is optional. Insert - Then, at 80 plus 50, insert stop PTC at roll 300, and that's the Moon view attitude in roll. And at 79:45, would you perform a rendezvous radar transponder self-test to see if there was any effect on it during launch?
CDR: Okay. We got 80:50 stop PTC at 300; 79:45 ren- dezvous radar transponder self-test, and we have the proper pages out of the flight plan.
CC: 12, we have your cons_n_-blesupdate and some comments on the - your P23's, as well as an alteration to your LOI abort card when you're rea.ly to copy.
CDR: Okay. Let's ha_'ethe consumables update and all that stuff, i, that order.
CC: Okay, 12. Consumables at 78 plus 15: RCS total, 79.8; and Alfa up through Delta, in that order, 77-5, 83.4, 77.3, 81.2; and that gives you about 92 below the predicted. 2{2 total, 71.2, 69.9. H2 total, 70 - I'm sorry, that's 02 total, 70.9, 72.5.
CC: And, 12, for the P23, no C0_4 procedures. Dick, your first sighting exercises showed an excellent performance although the use of two different horizon loeators resulted in quite different apparent horizons. The CMC horizon should be Page 218 I' updated to 19 kilometers rather than the 2h for the no COMM contingency. Change the erasable address 1351 from its present value of 273h0 to 22_3_. Your second set of P23's done at about 15:30 were excellent. Therefore, use the same locator as in this set. As you expected, the best results are obtained when the star is posi- tioned precisely on the substellar point when you're using only the center two-thirds of the sextant field of view and you center the star on the locator.
CC: 12, do you have those values for the erasable?
CMP: Okay. We've got all of them.
CC: 12, confirm do you have the valuable - value for the erasable.
CDR: Okay, Houston. The address was 1351 and change it to 22_3_. Is that correct?
CC: That's correct. 12, on the LOI abort card which .9 you have in the checklist F-13-2, your hybrid trajectory is a little different than nominal; your TLI was slightly off nominal, and your curve for the LOI abort is very sensitive to the dispersions in your TLI.
CDR: Hold it, Houston, until you get a good antenna.
CC: 12, we read you with a fair amount of static in the background. Let's wait until we clesz'it up before we proceed.
CDR: Hello, Houston; 12. How do you read?
CC: 12, we read you now. I think the static is dropping off. We're ready to proceed.
CC: 12, a reminder, it would help if you turned the uplink squelch off.
CDR: Okay. Uplink squelch going off.
CC: Pete, we have a discussion of the LOI abort card when you're ready. That's in your checklist F-13-2.
CMP: Hang on a second, Houston. Do you have the DSKY or torquing angles?
CC: Stand by, Dick. Dick, we have them. Go ahead.
CDR: Okay, Houston. Give me the page again in the checklist you were talking about.
CC: Okay, Pete. That's your LOI abort card on F-13-2.
CDR: Okay. And we lost you there. Ail I heard you say - something about the trajectory, and you faded out ·
CC: Roger, Pete. There's a change necessitated here because your hybrid trajectory is different than nnm_nal. Your TLI was slightly off nominal, and the abort curve is very sensitive to dispersions in the TLI. The curve itself should be lowered slightly, and we can give you the coordinates for four different points, and you'11 be able to plot that curve yourself. Are you ready to copy?
CC: Okay. The four points under L0I DELTA-VM: 400, 290, 135, and 60. Your correspon - correspond- lng abort DELTA-V's: 2240, 2065, 1865, 1800. You copy?
CDR: Okay. Let's see, we had four points: 400, 290, 135, and 600, and they correspond to 22h0, 2065, 1865, and 1800. Is that correct?
CC: Pete, on - one correction - on your LOI DELTA-VM. Your last one is 60 - That's 60, rather than 600.
CC: Your CSM gimbal angles, which you'11 see dcwn in the lower right, are roll, 295; pitch, 271; yaw 332. 51/5 Tape Page 220 3
CDR: Okay. 295, 271, and 332.
CC: That's correct. When you plot the curve over, you'11 see that your crossover point for mode 1 occurs at 320 - 320 rather than 290 as shown. This would have to be changed then in three places. First of all, the table, which you have on the card, your first value - first range goes from 290 to 650; that would now go from 320 to 650. On your flight plan, the value 290 is found also on page 3-59. That would have to be changed to 320. Also, the I24Pcue card should be changed, 390 to 320. All of the other limits are unchanged.
CDR: Okay. We got that.
CC: Okay, Pete. That's it.
CDR: Go ahead. )
CC: 12, for your information, after 68:30, a little over 10 hours ago, you started accelerating back towards the Moon. And you now are around 12 192 nautical miles out, and your velocity is building. You're presently going 3911 feet per second. We have some morning news for you. The news of the flight of Apollo 12 continues to main- tain world-wide interest, and your television broad- casts are getting priority preference on the local and network newscasts. There's a lot of foreign press here at Houston Press Center, and it is ex- pected to intensify as you get closer to the lunar landing. Incidentally, there's a new baby boy born to a Baltimore, Maryland, mother at the pre- cise time of your lift-off. Her name - or his name is Charles Richard Alan. Wilson is their last name.
CC: We have some sport news, and one of the leading ttpr._is - -
CDR: Who did you say was first?
CC: Say again. Say again, 12.
CDR: Who did - Who did you say was first? ') 51/6 Tape
CC: First name turned out to be Charles, Charles Richard Alan. Al, I guess you Just snuck in there.
CC: We'11 be back t0 you within a minute with the sports news as soon as we get a better antenna.
CC: 12, Houston. We'11 continue with the sports news when you're squared away.
CC: News reports say that Notre Dame may be about to accept a bowl invitation. This would be for the first time since 1925. If it turns out to be the Cotton =._owl,they will undoubtedly play the winner of the Texas-Arkansas Southwest Conference c,_mpionship in Fayette on December 6. Notre Dame has a ?-l-1 record, losing only to Purdue at Wright by one stroke in the $50 000 PGA Club ChRmpionship at the Road Runner Golf resort in Scotsdale. Results of yesterday's ball games: first, in the National League, Los Angeles took Philadelphia, 23 to 17; it was Dallas over Wash- ington, al to 28; Minnesota, 9 and Green Bay, 7; Cleveland _ over Pittsburgh, 24 to 3; San Fran- cisco, 20 and Baltimore, 17; in a close one, New Orleans, 25, New York, 2_; Atlanta took Chicago h8 to B1; and Detroit over St. Louis, 20 to 0. In the American League: Kansas City, 34 and New York, 16; Oakland, 21 and San Diego, 16; Buffalo over Miami, 28 to S; and Boston took Cincinnati, 25 to la; Houston and Denver played to a 20-20 tie. However, in the - Houston really made a classic comeback in the last 11 minutes. They put 17 points on when they were down 3 to 20 inside of 11 minutes. First of all, right tackle Domres scampered into the end zone after picking up a got one long bomb to Jerry Levias which was over 80 yards, and in the last - or at the last 3 sec- onds left, Gerela kicked one field goal. Pete Beathard looked pretty good, and - especially in q,,-_ter the last and especially on that one last Levias. Page 222 -j And,
CC: Pete, one last - one last item - A1 Onser won the Phoenix 200 race.
CC: Hello, 12; Houston. We have a state vector and a clock update for you, if you'11 give us POO and ACCEPT, please.
CDR: Roger-Roger. POO and ACCEPT.
CDR: Boy, that Moon looks big today, Houston. Thing's about the size of a baseball held at arm's length. And you can see all the mountains and craters. It's really a beautiful sight. We're starting to move on the far side of the Sun from it, so we only see about an eighth of it. But that eighth of it is really stark. You can see - particularly up near the poles - On the 124,you can start to see that it's not a nice smooth ball anymore. It's got some little ridges and bumps that would see be mountains or craters if you could them right head on. It's a beautiful sight. -_
CC: Roger. Understand, 12. That's a good sign if it's getting be - look bigger.
CDR: On the other hand, the Earth - Yes - On the other hand, the Earth looks like about the size of a quarter held at arm's length, which is pretty small.
CC: 12, Houston. We're waiting to get HIGH BlT RATE before _e send up that load is the reason for the delay.
CC: 12, Houston. Computer's yours.
CDR: Roger. J 52/1 Tape
CDR: Houston, 12. 12.
CC: Go,
CDR: Roger. You want to watch this rendezvous radar transponder self-test? We're about ready to do that any time you are.
CC: 12, Houston. There's nothing meaningful we can monitor on that, Pete. Just go ahead with it.
CDR: Okay. It's in work.
CDR: Best we could determine, it's a good trmn.qponder. System test in A gave us 4.2; system test B gave us 2.0. With it in OPERATE on D, it gave us zero; and system test indicator in C UNLOCK gave us 0.4. Copy,.
CC: Roger. 12. Understand. Thank you.
CDR: Anything else you need?
CC: If you're finished eating, I've got a pericynthi( plus 2 abort PAD for you.
CDR: Okay. A1 is ready to copy.
CC: Okay. Pericynthion plus 2. SPS/G&N: 62491, plus 0.90, minus 0.17, 085:25:17.92, plus 1601.0_ plus 1561.9, minus 3h98.1. The roll angle is NA is unconstrained. The pitch angle is 031. The remainder of the PAD is NA. And that's no ,,llag_ and, of course, it will be a docked burn. Over.
LMP: Okay, Houston. That's pericynthion plus 2. SPS/G&N: 62_91, plus 0.90, minus 0.17, 085:25:17.92, plus 1601.0, plus 1561.9, minus 3_98.1, NA, 031; the rest of the PAD is NA; no ullage; dock burn. CC
UNKNOWN: for Charlte, Al. 2,2 ·ape
CC: Apollo 12, Houston. I have some checklist changes and updates for you if you want to break out your LM contingency checklist and the I_ time line book, please.
CDR: Okay. Be with you in Just a second. They are buried up here in R-3. We're going after them.
CDR: Okay. I've got the time line out. Let's go over changes those first, please.
CC: Okay. On the LM time line book, page 6.
CC: Okay, that's Touchdown plus 32 through T-2 abort. At top left-hand part on about the eighth or ninth step down, there's descent vent fire. You got that?
CC: Okay. Insert after that, if the SHe pressure drops 15 psi, then close both vents.
CC: Okay. As Spence said he briefed you on, before launch, then we vent the oxidizer per the check- and list vent the fuel at 8 psi.
LMP: Roger. I have ... we
CC: Okay. Now, we go to the contingency book.
CC: We don't have that book aboard. It's in the I24 right now, but we'11 take a note on the flight plan and move it over there. Delta/Alfa-6,
CC: Okay. Page step 1. After the step which says GUIDANCE CONTROL to PGNCS, add - on the Comm-nder's PTCA THROi-rLE, MIN. The reason engine for that is if the is on longer than 2 min- utes, as it may be, when you run through the rest of this checlc,if it is on longer than 2 minutes without the PTCA in THROTTLE in 10 percent, you may damage the throttle aCtuator, __ i
LMP: I understand. 52/3 Tape
UNKNOWN: CC Okay. On page D/A-7, after step 1, we want you to set the lunar-centered bit. You do that with a VERB 25, NOUN 07, ENTER, 10_, ENTER, 06000, ENTh_, 1, ENTER. Over.
LMP: Roger. That's VERB 25, BOUN 07, EIITEH, 10_, kNTER, 06000, ENTER, 1, ENTER.
CC: That's affirm, Al.
LMP: That'_ interesting that we have to set it then, and we never have to set it during normal opera- tions. can answer
CC: Okay. Let me see if I get an for you on that.
LMP: Also, the first one you sent up, we made the change in our activation checklist - correction - lunar surface checklist, first page, to reflect a/so the new vent pressures.
CC: Hello, 12; Houston. The reason for this, Al, is that in the normal activation sequence - that setting the lunar-centered bit that you asked nor_-I about - in the activation sequence, the ground uplinks the vector and in the other stuff that they send up with that vector, they set this talk- lunar-centered bit. However, the page we're ing about is the contingency for a docked DPS burn, that vector is not set up - sent up, and you will have to set this bit on board.
LMP: Roger. Understand now. 12.
LMP: Roger. LiOH canister change number 7 is complete, and we are getting ready to pressurize the CSM and then the IA{.
CC: Roger. Understand, and you verify the position the oxidizer flow valve for me, please.
CMP: It's at INCREASE. Thank you. e Page 226 --
LMP: It's at FULL INCREASE right now, and it shows MAX in the window. It was at NORMAL when we started the burn for the midcourse; and, then the minute it started, I moved it to INCREASE, and it finally made MAX by the time we shut down. So, we are planning to burn at FULL INCREASE.
CC: Okay. Thank you, Al.
LMP: Boy, the Moon is still getting big out there, Houston. It's about the size of a large grape- fruit when you hold it about half-arm's length. It's a monster.
CC: Yes, that's a good sign, Al, and Pete wanted a reminder on breaking out the monocular if you are getting in close to the Moon there.
UNKNOWN: We have been using it pretty regularly; we didn't know we were going to use it so much on translunar, but it turned out to be pretty close like this, the features are very, very stark, and I never re-lly realized how high the edges of these craters are. These large craters are steep, and it is a pretty rough looking satellite.
LMP: Say again, Houston.
CC: Just rogered for your transmission.
CDR: Houston, Apollo 12. The I_ is pressurized.
CDR: And, Houston. The LM's pressurized.
CDR: Houston, we are going to do our pre-LOI secondary ECS loop check right now.
CMP: Houston, ]2.
CC: Go, 12. Tape52/5
CMP: Roger. Secondary loop looks okay to us. Glycol EVAP temperature's coming down, and the Quantity dropped Just a little bit when the temperature's coming down, and also the radiator's being filled up with that stuff for the first time. What do you think? It looks pretty stable to us right now.
CC: Roger. It looks good here on the ground, Dick.
CMP: Dropped to a quantity of about - yes. Dropped on an indicated q-,ntity of about - -
CDR: - - Okay, we are going to go ahead and secure it.
LMP: The Moon is about the size of a volleyball now - at arm's length.
CC: Roger. You guys must really be closing in on it, huh?
LMP: This is the first time we have been able to look at it, and in the mare area - up to now - it looked very, very smooth; but now when you look m-we at the area, you can see there's a Quite a number of long ridges, and what have you, that mar the maria a little bit.
CC: 12, Houston. You can terminate charge on BAT A.
CC: Roger. Terminate the charge on BAT A.
LMP: Yes, Houston, we're closing to the Moon fast enough now that everytime we do a 360, you pick it back up in the windows again. You can see it grow quite considerably.
CDR: Okay, Houston. The next trip past 300, we'11 go ahead and stop PTC. We're Just out of about ,50 degrees roll now, coming around, and we'11 stop PTC at 300.
CC: Hello, Apollo 12; Houston. If you'11 give us POO and ACukwT, we'11 send up your target load 228 D Page I 52/6 Tape and your REFSMMAT; and your last state vector is still good. We will not be sending up a new state vector.
CDR: 0ks,v. You've got it. POO and ACC_FT.
CC: Hey, another interesting thing is you look out on the mare, it didn't show so much from your maps that I've seen on Earth from the photos, there's isolated large mountains - hills, or something - right scattered throughout the mare. And in this low Sun-angle that we've got on the Moon right now, which is about, little less than an eighth, maybe a tenth of the Moon; they almost look like cumulus clouds at first glance because they're very bright on top, and they're significantly higher than the mare. And then when you look at them closer in the monocular, you can see that they're just very high hills. . ._ _J
CC: Roger, 12. Understand.
CC: Hello, 12; Houston .... - -
CDR: - - He's really working on that doctoring.
CC: Say again what you're working on, Pete.
CDR: Never mind.
CC: Oh, Roger. Understand. Yes.
CC: He started a little early this time.
CDR: He won't - he won't let either one of us look'.
CC: Understand. Hey, Jack Schmitt's here. He wants re-.re. to know how A1 spells It's a pop quiz.
CDR: Is that that geology pop quiz you were going to give us the other day?
CC: That's the first question (laughter).
CDR: He refuses to take it. He won't take it today. '_
CC: Okay. If A1 wants to do something worthwhile, I've got a PAD for him. Tape look.
CDR: Tbm_ you now we can
UNKNOWN: Co. SPS/G&N:
CC: Okay. LOI 1 62491, plus 0.90, minus 0.17, 083:25:18.51, minus 2821.3, plus 0603.6, plus 0112.4, 002, 263, 018, HA are and HP NA, 2887.3, 5:58, 2880.4, sextant star is 02, 254.0, 38.0. The rest of the pad is NA. Your GDC stars are Sirius, 15 - that's your Z-axis star - and Rigel, 12. The angles are 134, 230, and 357. The Lq weight is 33585. Over.
LMP: LOI 1, SPS/G&N: 62491, plus 0.90, minus 0.17, minus 083:25:18.51, 2821.3, plus 0603.6, plus 0112.4, 002, 263, 018, NA, NA, 2887.3, 5:58, 2880.4, 02, 254.0 38.0; Sirius, 15, is the Z-axis star; Rigel, 12; 134, 230, 357; and the LM is 33585.
CC: That's affirmative, Al, and if you'11 get out two more PADS, I've got TEI 1 and 4 for you.
UNKNOWN: ahead. Ready to copy.
CC: TEI 1, SPS/G&N: 38641, minus 0.59, plus 0.64, 085:32:39.16, plus 3207.1, plus 0813.0, minus 0310.9; NA for roll; pitch is 093; the rest of the pad is NA. Your ullage is four Jets for 11 seconds; burn undocked. Over. Houston. SPS/CAN:
LMP: Okay, TEI 1 38641, minus 0.59, plus 0.64, 085:32:39.16, plus 3207.1, plus 0310.9, 093. 0813.0, minus NA, The rest is NA. Ullage is four Jets for 11 seconds; burn undocked.
CC: That's affirmative, and you are ready for TEI 47
CC: Okay. This also is SPS/O&N: NA, NA, NA down to time, the time 092:00:46.70, plus 3519.6, plus 0967.2, minus 0177.4, NA, 084; remainder is NA; same ,Olage; undocked, assumes no LOI 2. Over.
LMP: Roger. SPS/G&N again: NA, NA, NA, 092:00:46.70, plus 3519.6, plus 0967.2, minus 0177.4, NA, 084, NA, rest NA; ullage the same as previous; undocked, and this assumes no LOI 2.
CC: That's affirmative. EN_ OF TAPE
CC: Go, Dick.
CMP: We're set up in the attitude for looking at the Moon. We can see it pretty good. We're worried angle about the Sun on it for television. We'11 take a look at it, and while we're doing that, I'11 go ahead and do the landing site _MMAT orientation. Okay?
CC: That'11 be fine. And if you are getting sun- light in the camera, about the only - that's expected - would help is to point as far away from the Sun as you can, toward the points of the crescent.
CDR: No, that's not our problem. Our problem is the Sun is shining on the center hatch window, and the hatch window's got so much gunk on it that wouldn't look through it. The Sun is not directly in the window yet. But we'11 - We'11 look at it, as we close it. Of course, we're going to drop behind anyhow and eclipse the Sun here in a minute.
CC: 12, Houston. You might consider if that hatch window is really clobbered, Pete, looking out one of the side windows. We've got some angles here if you want to use window number 1, and we can work some up for window number 5, if that's a better window.
CDR: Five is absolutely the best window. It's the only one that we're ever going to get any pic- tures out of. The rest of them are so clobbered that we're not going to get much out of any of them.
CC: Okay. We'11 have to run that through and cheek and make sure we - -
CDR: We need an angle for window 5.
CC: Okay. We'11 have to run it thro_,gh and make sure we can get high gain and the window at the Moon. _ Tape 53/2
CC: Okay, Houston, you looking at our torquing angle?
CC: We got it, 12.
CDR: Houston, 12. Shall we give you the high gain now?
CC: Hello, 12; Houston. Looking out window number 5, Pete, does not give us satisfactory high gain angle. So looks like we got our choice of the hatch window or window number 1. Also on previous flights it is indicated that even though the windows looked pretty grungy to the people on board, with the TV camera focus set at infinity, you k_nd of look through some of that stuff on the window and it's not as bad to us as it is to you.
CDR: Okay. Let us give it a try here for a =_nute out this center window and see what happens.
CC: Okay. Now if you'd rather use window number 1, we've got some - we've got some angles for you, or you can go ahead and Use the hatch window.
CDR: I think we're better off with the center window in this case, and we'11 - We'11 give her a try here. Let's see what happens.
CDR: We're not going to send you any TV. We're Just going to experiment with it for a while in here and see what we get. Understand.
CDR: If it doesn't turn out right, we'd Just as soon not send it.
CC: 12, Houston. To minimize perturbations to your trajectory now, we're requesting that you go out of single Jet attitude control vector couples. Over.
CDR: Ail the TV is doing is an excellent Job of pick- lng up all the droplets and glare and rivulets on the window. It's pretty - pretty hopeless.
CC: Okay. One suggestion is to try to fake it out a little bit by putting your ALC s_itch to the inside position and see if that makes any dif- ference.
CDR: Okay. We - We tried both.
CDR: Houston, how long are you going to have Goldstone? It could be that when we slip behind the Moon, we - the Sun gets behind there - We may be able to give you some then.
CC: 12, Houston. We can - We have Goldstone sche- duled for 20 minutes. We can keep it as long as we need it.
CDR: Okay, Houston. Why don't you hang on to him for a little while, and we'11 see if we can pick any- thing else up out this window for you?
CDR: Roger. Looks like it's about 10 or 15 degrees between the lighted limb of the Moon and the Sun right now, and it's just making our glass glare so much that there's no possibility of showing you what we see. We have to sort of get over near the edge where we can block the Sun with the window frame before we cau see it our- self. Maybe when we go behind it, we can open up the aperture and you can see some from earth- shine. I don't know if that's possible or not.
CC: Okay. The solar - solar corona will probably look great if you can get that coming by. That's supposed to be a pretty good camera for picking that up.
CDR: We'11 give it a go. Page 23_
CC: Okay. Pick up a few credits in electives there.
CDR: Yes, if that's okay.
CMP: If you're going to do that, you'd better do some- thing about that maneuver schedule for 81:55.
CC: Hello, 12; Houston. We're going to keep Gold- stone standing by, but as far as going to burn attitude 81:55, we'11 do that; we'11 press on with the flight plan as advertised.
CDR: Roger-Roger. We concur.
CDR: It's a shame that we don't have a shade of some kind that we could shade that window with because this is really quite a sight. Our motion to the left is not as apparent as our motion towards the Moon, and therefore, we have the decided impres- sion that we're going right into the center of that baby right now. -_ -%
CC: 0ke_v. We'11 check it out for you.
CDR: (Laughter) No, I trust you. I trust you.
CDR: Houston, 12. It's really a shame we can't show you this sight because we're dropping behind it in a hurry, with respect to the Sun, and we've only got about 2 degrees of a crescent Moon right now, and the rest of it, of course, is all in the black, but we're dropping behind it fast enough that we can Just sit here over a few min- utes' period of time and see it get smaller and smsller, the illuminated portion. Also, of course, it's filling more and more of the window all the time because we're - we're really smoking in there.
CC: Go ahead, 12. us
LMP: Could you give your estimation of the fuel and quantity the helium pressure, SPS helium pressure, after the burn's complete? Your .- latest guess.
CC: Will do. Stand by.
LMP: Okay, Houston. We are maneuvering to the burn attitude.
CC: Roger. We copied that, 12.
CC: Hello, 12; Houston. After the burn, Al, your fuel quantity should show 39 percent remaining; your SPS helium pressure should be 1500 psi.
CC: Hello, 12; Houston. You give us P00 and ACCEPT, we'11 send up your state vector and target load.
CDR: Right, sir.
CC: GOt a map update for you.
CDR: POO and ACCEFT.
CC: Okay. Map update for REV 1: 83:11:_6, 83:2_:35, 83:_3:57, 83:36:36. Over.
LMP: Roger. 83:11:_6, 83:2_:35, 83:_3:57, 83:36:36.
CDR: Roger. The pre-LOI 1 systems checks are complete.
CC: Roger. Thank you, 12.
CC: Hello, 12; Houston. I have update to your LOI 1 PAD.
CC: Okay. Wait 1.
CC: All right. Al, now the seconds for your burn time will change. It is now 22.68. The NOUN 81: your is now plus 0607.0; DELTA-VZ is now plus 01_2.0; dropping down to DELTA-VT, that Page 236 'J DELTA-VC Re- value is now 2889.3; is 2882._. mainder of the PAD is unchanged.
LMP: Okay. In NOUN 33, the seconds register should be 22.68; NOUN 81, DELTA-Vy plus 0607.0; DELTA-V Z plus 01_2.O; DELTA-VT 2889.3; DELTA-VC 2882._.
LMP: Roger, Houston. Page 237
CDR: Houston, 12. We're beginning to go into dark- ness at this time.
CDR: As a matter of fact, we're there.
CMP: Hello, Houston. Pk0's up. How's it look?
CC: We're checking now, Dick.
CC: Apollo 12, Houston. Looks rea! good.
CMP: Okay. If you're happy, we'11 go ahead and roll
CMP: And, Houston, we're going OMNI B now.
CC: Go, 12. Sextant
CMP: Roger. star check okay.
CC: Hello, 12; Houston. You're GO fo_ LOI.
CDR: Roger, Houston. GO for LOI. Burn checklist is complete to minus 6 minutes, and we're hold- ing at that point.
CDR: ... the other side.
CC: Okay, Pete. We'11 see you at 43:57.
CDR: Roger-Roger. 5h/2 _) Tape
CDR: Hello, Houston. Yankee Clipper with Intrepid
CDR: Okay. The burn vas on time. The burn time was
CC: Roger, 12. Copy.
CDR: Computer says we're in a 170 by 61.8. )
CC: Okay. We'11 give you an okay three wire on
CDR: Hey, Houston; Apollo 12.
CDR: That was an excellent long-renge rifle shot you r-_,ge 239 1 Tape 5b,/3
CC: Hello, 12; Houston. Any words on your observa- tions?
CDR: Well, Houston, I was Just looking at one very, very, odd, and it looks like a very fresh impact crater that is sort of collapsed on one side - that we've been lookA_g at and discussing a little bit. It's got some fairly high raised sides on it, and we haven't quite got ourselves oriented to the proper size yet. I think these craters are much bigger than anything we've ever seen on Earth, so we're - We're Just sitting here discussing various sizes and getting ourselves oriented on the map. I Just broke out the monocular, and we're starting to look with it.
LMP: One interesting thing, Paul, was that in some of ones, these large craters - the old it looks distance, like - as you look towards the you can see that they - at least from here - appear looked from Earth, but the same size ones that you pass right over, they don't look a bit darker than any other of the terrain. So I guess it must have something to do with the way the Sun refracts off the - the surface. We're passing a beautiful impact crater here on our right side now. It's got many, many long rays; it's a beauty.
LMP: It's - This impact crater that we're going over right now, which has such a fantastic eJecta pattern that we can see it so well, the eJecta pattern's got to go out 50 or 60 crater diameters, very easily discernible with the eye. And you can almost - You eau pretty well tell the direc- tion of the impact from looking at the eJecta Blanket, but it - it's re-1]y spectacular.
CDR: Okay, Houston. We'11 be coming up with the TV in Just a few minutes.
CC: Okay, 12. Can you see Langrenus yet? 51_/1_ Tape Page 2_0
CDR: No. We can't quite see that yet, but we've been looking over at Humboldt and looking at all the great fracture marks in it and everything. Actually, it looks to me like some crisscross roads down there in the desert or something.
CC: Hello, 12; Houston. We're starting to get a picture now.
CC: 12, Houston. For information, you should be crossing 60 degrees east at 8h:02:08.
CDR: We agree.
CDR: Wb?t do you see on the tube, Houston? I can't tell too much from the monitor.
CC: Okay. We're getting the - the lunar surface. It appears that we can see the subsolar point, or could at one time there. We can see numerous s_ll light-colored craters. Okay - -
CDR: I'm going to hand it over to Dick. He's got Langrenus out the window.
LMP: We're coming up on VOX to you, Houston.
CC: Ail right. ;34P
UNKNOWN: got the camera. He's pointing it over toward Langrenus now. This Petavius over here is a beautiful thing. Whenever you get finished, I'11 see if I can shoot it.
CMP: It's got high peaks in the middle.
CDR: What happened to the monocular?
CDR: ... there's the central peaks right in Langrenus right there. - -
CC: Okay. Tape
CDR: I can see those pretty well.
CC: Roger. We're picking it up. On the screen, the colors appear to be green to brown. Can you describe the colors in the scene that you're seeing there now?
CDR: That'11 do for now. The - mountain that's sort of ... sort of in the center of Langrenus I'm and looking at through the monocular, apparently, they look very smooth with the naked eye, but by looking through the monocular, I can pick up these black dots. They're very black, and I - They're obviously very large boulders sitting that are around on it.
CC: Roger. The picture on the TV screen - -
CC: - - of the central peak - it looked kind of - It appeared to be rather rounded.
CDR: Yes. It appears to be rounded, but it's got a lot of big boulders sitting on it. I'11 hand the camera over to Al, now. He's got some stuff out his window.
CDR: Oops, that's one for the geologists, the materials out his window he wants to shine it down on.
CC: I see - -
LMP: I ... myself.
CDR: You were asking what color it looks like from here. It's changed slightly as we went around it. At first, it had a very, very light gray- white concrete appearance. Now, it has more of a - it's still _ light-gray concrete, but it has a little - Just a touch of brown in it. At least, that's the way it appears to me. That's the - the Moon that's directly below us. Of course, there's several places that are very, very white, and I'11 point the camera at one of them now. It's a small crater, and it's very symmetrical. It Just looks like a cone with a flat bottom. 51_/6 3 Tape Page 2h2
LMP: If you can see that.
CC: Okay. It's going out the top of the screen. Can you move up and pick it up Just a little? There, that's good.
CC: I understand that - -
CDR: We're going over Theophilus.
CMP: Yes, Pete.
CDR: Fifty minutes.
CC: Okay. Understand that this - -
CMP: There goes the color again.
CDR: Tweakl Tweak.! -_
CC: - - crater appears to be white down inside, Al. Is that right?
LMP: Well, it's pretty bright. It's white, and then it's got some radial streaks of a more darker material. It's rolling down, or at least runs from the rim down to the center - down to the flat bottom. , mhink you can see those on the TV. Let me show you a real bright crater that's more towards the horizon, but it's one _* the very, very bright ones. Ceu you see that? I'11 try to put it right in the center.
CC: Okay. I can see one that's Just a little bit above the edge of the window there.
UNKNOWN: that now?
CDR: Right. Another interesting thing is - This white or gray-white Moon, it contrasts very starkly reported. And maybe even so on the TV down there. But the black is about as black as you've ever seen in your life. It's Just - doesn't have any - any hues or anythin_ to it. It's ) Just solid straight dull black, and then the Moon is Just sort of very light concrete color. 5_/7 Tape Page 2_3 In fact, if I wanted to look at something that about I thought was the same color as the Moon, I'd go out and look at my driveway.
CC: Okay. We'11 send - - / Not Earth orbit
CDR: near as - even - Even Earth orbit at night or the daytime, the sky was never as black as it is here. This is the blackest black I ever saw. A1 described it as dull, and it doesn't even seem like a dull black when you look at it on the horizon, to me. It's like an ebony black. It's as coal black as I've ever seen.
LMP: Okay. I'm going to pass the TV over to Dick now.
CDR: Show you - There's a very interesting crater that Dick's got down there. There's another one that I'm looking into; it's the first one I've seen with the fractures in the bottom of it that we've flown right directly over. And through the middle of the crater including the rim of it, perpendicular to it, crosses all the way across the crater, so it gives me the feeling that - that the fracture pattern - that particu- lar fracture doesn't have anything to do with the crater.
CC: Roger. ENU OF TAPE
CC: Okay. What are looking at there now, 127 Is that the bottom of the crater or a max e area?
CMP: That's at the bottom of a crater, a large m_e area actually, Paul. And in the crater, there are two - in the maria, there are two brand new
CDR: The edge is pretty interesting. As a matter of fact, that one ray pattern looks like it's only one direction. It look that way to you, Dick?
CMP: Yes. It looks like it's pointing towards us.
CMP: That double-ray pattern is just a single one.
CDR: Oh! That is a beautiful crater over here to the right. It's not particularly spectacular, but it's pretty symmetrical, and it's got some in- teresting sloping in on the sides. It looks like an old, old one. We're getting ready to pass over the Sea of Fertility right now. I guess we are over it. There's a lot of rilles and some cracks in here we ought to be able to pick up on the TV.
CDR: We're passing over the Sea of Fertility now, and it is a little bit darker than the terra that we've been over, but not so much. It's more of a - Just a slightly darker gray.
CDR: Looks like the beach sand down at Galveston when- ever it's wet.
CC: Okay. We had a team of geologists checking your driveway. We'11 send them to Galveston now.
CDR: (Laughter) Okay. page 2h5
CDR: Looking down into a real fresh impact crater in the Sea of Fertility; and, with the monocular, I can see some pretty large boulders. So I guess, can as high as we are, if I see those boulders, they must be pretty darn big.
CC: Roger. We can see that crater in the lower left part of the screen right now.
CMP: Yes, let me chow this impact crater or you got something you want to show them, Pete? Hey, let me show you - -
CDR: One is fairly bright.
LMP: You can sure see the direction that one came in from, can't you, Pete? There's hardly any eJecta to our right, which would be - to the south, I guess.
CDR: That one you're looking into now, Houston, that's the one I was saying. It's really got some big boulders in the bottom of it.
CC: Roger. You're breaking up a little on VOX, Pete.
CC: Okay. We see that crater there which has a ray pattern through about everything but about a 110-120 degrees of it off to the right. Is that the one to which you're referring?
CDR: That's - yes, that's right. That's correct.
CC: Understand that you can see larger boulders in the bottom of the crater?
CDR: Yes, and also along the sides of it.
CC: Hey, there's a big one we have right there now.
CDR: Yes, that one Just came into view. I guess in that's still the Sea of Fertility. Yes, it's _n. still
CMP: And there's this big one - -
LMP: We're getting ready to pass over Theophilus here, Pete. It'_ going to be right down at your lower 1 o'clock. That's a good picture, too. t
CMP: Lower 7 o'clock.
LMP: Yes, you - That's a beauty.
CDR: Oh, there it is.
LMP: See it?
CMP: There's Theophilus.
CDR: That one we were showing you a moment ago doesn't have a name, and it's - it's interesting Just to the - behind that small one you were showing is sort of a whole streak of light-colored material that runs for hundreds of miles there and it's a different shape. Maybe it's Just the elevation in %hat area; I don't know. It's near the central peak, so I'11 use the monocular on it.
CC: Okay, and - -
CDR: ... the central peaks in Theophilus.
CC: Roger. We got them good in the screen, and we .-witched saw that large white ray as you windows there. The peaks of Theophilus -
CDR: It's kind of interesting if you look right on - One thing about the peaks, I'm looking at them through the monocular; and, on the top of the peaks, you can see a great number of what appear and to be boulders, they must be huge to be vis- ible from the altitude we're at right now.
CC: Okay. Understand there are boulders on the tops of the peaks, and they look like some fairly well defined ridge lines in that central peak. Is that through how they look the monocular?
CDR: That's right. That's right. That TV must be coming through real well, because from here it looks like very sharp ridge lines; and, if you look at either side of the ridge line, you can see sort of a terracing, a mild terracing effect that's parallel to the ridge line. It could be some form of something or - in fact, some sort of transporta%ional mechanism there, I don't know what it is. Probably grat-ity. Obviously, you can see some - what would be termed rilles and ... running down from the ridge line. They're running perpendicular to it, more or less. 55/4 Tape Page 24'/
CC: Roger. We're looking at -
CDR: You oUght to be able to look over to your side real far over there - -
CC: And them. /
CDR: - - and see the Sea of Serenity and some of those craters over in there. They ou;ht to be pretty good contrast where that dark bar is. There any over there?
LMP: There're plenty of them.
CDR: Yes, that ought - that might be interesting. Hey, there's some pretty good cracks over there.
CDR: Hey, look at that rille over there, Dick. Get - get that.
CDR: We're going to change windows here. There's some beautiful rilles over in the other side, north side.
LMP: Let I don't me see. know, Can maybe you we see ought them to out try of this that one. one better?
CMP: Boy, that is beautiful. Ohl
CMP: ... TV camera, I don't know. Where'd it go?
CMP: There's some grabens over here, big long ones - that come down the
CDR: (Whisper) Don't ... that.
CC: There's a very sharp crater you can see in the top left part of the screen right now.
CC: In the view, we can see now, there appear_ to be a dark line running from the lower left up to- ward the top center. Can you _-ke anything out of that? I