Otrobonita/noicy-space-talks huggingface dataset:
MCC: No, it - Just clamp the thing right to the rails. Just allow a little overlap, and clamp that rascal right down. And I know you can tighten those clamps down so good it'11 never get loose. I know - I know you can do it if I can do it.
CDR-LM: Okay, John. I think I know what you're talking about, and I'd sure like to give it a stab. The only hooker is I hope that tape holds the fenders together well enough - -
MCC: Yes, they - -
CDR-LM: - - the pieces together well enough.
MCC: Roger. One of the things - when you're taping the - the pages together that you want to be care- ful of is that you - is that you make sure and get the air bubbles out so when you get in a vac- aum, it doesn't open up by itself. And maybe you can put an X across there to - to make sure that you - if you get any separation - that's it's still held together pretty good. We think the tape will work - -
MCC: - - think the tape will work because back about in 13, we were using it Just sort of incidentally in the thermal vacuum chamber, and it worked okay there for some reason.
CDR-LM: It would seem to stick on the surface okay if I could find a dust-free spot when I put that other fender on earlier.
MCC: Yes, I agreed. to overlap on the present fender, Just make it about symmetrical with the other side, and that probably ought to give me plenty of overlap, huh?
MCC: Well, if you - are you talking about over the dovetail part of it, or are you talking about off the aft end of the - of the vehicle?
CDR-LM: I'm talking about - about the present fender that's on there, the aft end of that fender. About how much overlap do you want with this makeshift fender? Just give me an idea. I think I could figure out when Z get there, but I'd rather have your feelings before I do.
MCC: We think if you get it out about 4 inches past that fender - You understand what this looks like when you get it put on the fender. It Just looks like sort of a roll, and you end up with a sort of a straight fender right at the back end of the - of the - of the Rover - a sort of a straight - about half a pipe straight out there. And, if you get it out _ or 5 inches, that will keep the dust from coming back over the vehicle.
CDR-LM: Yes, that would be about where I want it. That would be about 4 or 5 inches.
MCC: Yes, it's just sort of like a - a horizontal fender, like on a - a old automobile.
LMP-LM: I thought I understood what he was talking about.
MCC: Say again, Geno.
LMP-LM: Hey, John. This is Jack. Did you say pipe there a minute ago? P-i-p-e?
MCC: Yes, but it doesn't roll up into a circle; it's sort of a - a hemisphere. I mean it's half of one.
CC: Hello_ America. How are you doing?
CMP: Wells I think I've got it back under control again.
CC: What happened - any problems?
CMP: Let's see. Let me go back to my - Well, I almost got into gimbal lock (laughter).
CC: Okay. You almost got into gimbal lock. Go ahead - -
CMP: Just at the last step of the - last step of the solar corona thing which says go back to CMC AUTO - which wouldn't have been too bad, except as soon as you get a waste water dump, it really torques it aro_Id_ I guess. And, somewhere - you ought to be able to check it back on the tape - at about 137:50 - between 50 and probably - no, between 55 and 58, somewhere in there, I got the GIMBAL LOCK light and all those good deal things; under and got her control. Took her back. And we got back to SIM bay attitude at 137:59:20. In the meantime s while I was doing all that, looked like my waste water dropped do_m kind of low, too. How much are you reading down there?
CC: Okay. Stand by on that, Ron.
CC: We're reading 0.16 percent and 0.9 pound - 1.6 per- cent and 0.9 pounds_ Ron.
CMP: I didn't quite make it to zero, did I?
CC: Ron, that's affirm.
CMP: Okay. Caught that in time, anyway.
CC: Hey, Ron, just a question, here. Pick up where you were briefing us there. Did you go to CMC AUTO after the solar corona, or did you get the GIMBAL LOCK light prior to going to AUTO.
CMP: (Laughter) I got it prior to going to AUTO. I forgot to go to AUTO after the solar corona thing.
CMP: The full cell purge and the waste water dump. Yes.
CMP: I saw it before it tumbled the platform, though.
CC: Roger. We've got you, and the platform looks good then, too?
CMP: Oh, yes. The platform's okay. And
CMP: if Enco's [?] timing his bit rate forces there, high bit rate was - I mean going to low bit rate is about 137:42 - was pretty - -
CC: Okay. We copy that. And
CMP: this thing. Okay. then going to high bit rate, I've got the high bit at 137:50:30. And I hit LOW BIT RATE again at 138:08; went to HIGH BIT RATE at 138:14.
CC: Roger, Ron. We copy those times.
CC: Sounds like you might have got your heartbeat going good for your eat period. Is that right, Ron?
CMP: (Laughter) Yes, might have. I'm going to have some peanut butter now, if you guys don't care.
CC: Roger. It's your eat period.
CC: At least he didn't forget this one. Ron, we've got some data here for you.
CMP: Yes, that's right, by gosh. I've even got one scheduled. Go ahead.
CC: We've got some data here for you, for - if you're planning on taking those red and blue filtered exposures across the landing site - if you want this information.
CMP: Oh, yes. Okay; go ahead.
CC: Okay, Ron. Here is - here it is. It's a Nikan [sic] - NK - November Kilo 55; VH - VW; mag X-ray X-ray. Okay. With the red-blue filtered exposure you want it at F/11, 1/125, one frame F/11, 1/250; each filter; one frame each filter. F/11, 1/1000. With no filter, expose at And if you want to use the polarizing filter, expose at F/11, 1/500 of a second.
CMP: Okay. Looks like we'11 bracket it, there: F/11, 1/125, one frame on each filter; and F/11 at 1/250, one frame on each filter; and without a filter, one - F/11 at 1/1000; and polarizing F/11 at 1/500.
CC: Okay. Here's a note that I'm not sure I understand totally, but let me read it to you. "Observe tar- gets through viewfinder and shoot as desired with polarizing filter in different positions. Mark exposure time with polarizing filter as data analysis requires the incidence angle."
CMP: Okay. So we need the GET time when we take the picture.
CC: That's - that's affirm -with the polarizer.
CMP: ... Yes. Yes, with the polarizer. Right.
CC: And there's another note here. Do not exceed 18 frames total for the above pictures. 18 frames total.
CC: And your TCA - TCA is - for the landing site - is 138:39:11.
CMP: Okay. TCA is 138:39:11.
CC: And, Ron, if you'11 Just give us a MARK when you make the shot. That'11 be close enough and we'11 - we'11 mark the time here on those polarizing ones. So we'11 get the angle that way.
CMP: Lost the freaking camera ....
CC: Eon, we'd like ACCEPT on the computer. We have a new state vector for you. Your downtrack there got to be in excess of 30,000 feet, and this has nothing to do with your backside water dump Just now - it's just accumulation of errors in the path.
CMP: 0h, okay. You have ACCEPT.
CC: Ron, it's your computer.
CC: Okay, Ron, anytime you want to reach up and go AUTO on the HIGH GAIN - your - your convenience.
CMP: Okay. Stand by. Is it 1/5007 Yes. Stand by.
CMP: MARK it. And the polarizer all the way to the left. Stand by.
CDR: ° MARK it. That's the polarizer all the way, counterclockwise.
CMP: Okay. That's eight pictures. Okay. Stand by. Okay. Wait a minute. I lost the landing site. Stand by. Okay. Stand by.
CMP: MARK it. It's all the way to counterclockwise. Stand by.
CMP: MARK it. And that's all the way clockwise.
CMP: Frame 23 and 24 - I mean - yes, 23 and 24; we're looking north along the ridges there. The other two polarizers - the two before that were looking at the landing site. Then I had three - three red ones at a 1/500 and 1/250 and a 1/25th and the rest 16. And, the blue one's at the same thing.
CMP: And we're setting on frame number 25 on mag XX - that's XX ...
CC: Roger, Ron. Tape9lA/1
LMP-LM: Oh, okay. I thought i was with you until you said pipe, and then you lost me. Okay. I think I understand, too.
CC: You know the problem I have with communication. week, we can get something to work.
CC: Okay. And we can watch you on the tube - and make recommendations if - I think you've got the idea of it. Ands you know Terry Neil thought of these AOT clamps, and that's a great idea because you can - you aaa clamp those things on that - that old dog tail, you can put a force on there, that - those pages - that chronopaque pages will never get loose.
CDR-LM: Yes, on those other clamps we had_ I was thinking about - paper clip - type clamps would never hack it.
CC: We tried that - they just don't have - they don't have the push.
CDR-LM: Sounds good, babe; appreciate it.
CC: Okay. We've got a detailed procedure here if you're - if you want to copy it; just in case.
CDR-LM: Hey, you know, after thinking and looking at the map last night, and recalling what I saw during landing and where I was planning on putting it down and everything, I still think, to the best of my knowledge_ that we are about 1 or 2 o'clock, and I'11 increase up to about 200 meters or so west and slightly north of Poppy.
CDR-LM: ... ahead of you ...
CDR-LM: Hey, Gordie, the thing that fooled me yesterday is this depression out at - out at 9 o'clock here, which I - is greatly undersized for Trident, really isn't Trident, and I said yesterday, I didn't think how we could be that close. Well, we really aren't. Trident is way out there, and I'11 still hold to my 200 meters at 1 to 2 o'clock of Poppy.
CC: Okay. We're thinking you might have, on the way to the geology stops, driven between a couple of the Trident craters then.
CDR-LM: Yes, we may have coming back. I think I went all the way around to the east of the last one going out, though.
CDR-LM: If you had asked me at 3- or 4000 feet where we were going to land, I could have told you exactly. But, once you decide where it's going to be, then you decide where in that where it's going to be if you forget everything else around you.
CDR-LM: Besides, Gordy, when you land on a boat, all you're worried abowt is that the boat's there. You let the captain worry about where it is.
CDR-LM: Gordy, while we're eating_ have you got a short synopsis of the news?
CC: Yes. Sure do. Stand by 1. W_'d like B[OMEI), LEFT, please.
CDR-LM: I don't have any sensors on, Gordy.
CC: Okay. As you might have expected, front pages around the country are headlining last night's EVA with photographs taken from TV monitors show- ing you and Jack going about your tasks. I might add that the TV camera is really spectacular. It couldn't have been a clearer or more beautiful picture, both for fidelity and color. In other news, South Vietnam's President Thieu has sug- gested that all prisoners of war be released before Christmas. He has also asked that all Vietnamese parties be included in peace negotiations. South Vietnam and the Viet Cong are now not directly rep- resented in the secret talks now under way in Paris. Meanwhile, Kissinger met for more than 4 hours yes- terday with Hanoi representative Le Duc Tho. The two negotiators are expected to meet again this afternoon. The former President, Harry Truman, is still resting quietly, although his condition re- mains serious according to his doctors. American poet Mark van Doren died at the age of 78. He was a professor of literature at Columbia and a winner of the 1940 Pulitzer Prize for his poetry. Presi- dent Nixon announced yesterday that he wants to extend price controls beyond the scheduled April 30 expiration date. He also plans to freeze new hiring, promotions, and pay increases for executives of the Federal Government, which doesn't affect us, I guess. The Republican National Committee has a new chairman.
CDR-LM: How about me?
CC: George Bush of Houston, who is Ambassador to the United Nations. He will continue his UN post through the present session of the General Assembly. Both national political parties are now headed by Texans. As you recall, Robert Strauss of Dallas became Chairman of the Democratic National Commit- tee last Saturday. And Jack, I'm sorry to say that you've been replaced. The Nimbus 5 weather satellite is now operating after its launch from _andenberg early Monday morning.
LMP-LM: Can it talk?
CC: Joe Namath tried mightily to lead the Jets to the play-offs, but the Oakland Raiders grounded the Jets in the fourth quarter, 24 to 16. I think you have already heard that score. Namath passed some more than 400 yards, but he was only able - New York only scored one touchdown. And the last item concerns the Houston weather, which is been - there's been two kinds of weather since you all left us: That's cold and light rain and cold and heavy rain, and it's still doing it. Fog and drizzly rain are here now, and we're only supposed to get up to the mid-40's and probably down to 32 tonight. Over.
LMP-LM: Holy Smoly. That doesn't sound too good on the weather. I'm going to take a look, right here up the overhead window.
LMP-LM: Gordy, you're right. There's a band of cloud,s that comes right up the coast of Mexico. Looks like it comes ... Old Mexico and then gets very dense as it comes up into the Texas area and south- eastern part of the United States with a - with a counterclockwise rotation which gets very dense down over the Atlantic, I believe, off the east coast - southern east coastal states and from about, oh, I'm guessing, maybe the center of Texas straight north, straight east. It looks like the whole country's cloudy.
LMP-LM: Baja looks nice; west coast of Mexico looks nice.
UNKNOWN: At Taurus Littrow, the weather's great_
LMP-LM: Hey, Houston; Challenger.
LMP-LM: Roger, Gordy. How's the ALSEP doing and in that light I hope you people will take as close a look as you can at the signal strength and its v_ria- tion and see if you get some idea whether, when I go after the neutron flux tomorrow, if I ought to work on that antenna alignment again. I'm still a little bit concerned about it.
CC: Okay, Jack. We'11 consider that although they've been getting good performance out of the central station, as I understand, and a couple of T_roblems with the experiments. One was the LEA]_ data isn't syncing up like it should. I'11 have to get a further, more complete story on that. And we're thinking that's - -
CC: -- mostly on ground software problem. The other one is the LSG isn't leveling up properly, and we'11 cover this further in the planning briefing for the EVA here, but we're probably going to let you off - I mean have Geno let Jack off at the Rover - I mean at the ALSEP. Let him off the Rover at the ALSEP and take another look at the leveling on the LSG. That'11 be at the end of the EVA.
LMP-LM: Roger. I may just run out there and let Gene pick me up after we - after I turn - well - whi_e he fixes the fender maybe - We'11 work that out, Gordy. I'm joking, but maybe I could go kick th__ LEAM - that might help it.
CC: Let's make sure we've got all our problems solved down here before you do that.
LMP-LM: Okay_ hey, Family Mountain, the northeast facing slopes, although lower has boulders and outcrops. I mean, below the outcrop. It has boulders from local block concentrations. Looks very much like the South Massif does.
CDR-LM: ... the old sinuses ...
CDR-LM: Huh? No, I've had two.
UNKNOWN: Hey, Gordo, we're still eating, but let me give you a few observations. That outcrop I talked about that was way at the top of the South Massif at the break in slope - at the very top of the break in slope - almost looks - it's hard to tell that it's inplace outcrop up there. It's hard to convince myself that it is. Looks like there's some very large and many, many small fragments of large - like 3- and 4-meter rocks up there and a lot of smaller fragments. I've seen that type of of thing in a number of places over the South Massif. However, I - do see - they also, they all seem to be sitting on top of the South Massif sur- face, but I do see one other area that it looks like there is a - it is protruding from within some sort of mantle on the South Massif. So conceivably some of that could be a place [?] An additional impression I got is - is that at least with the monocular, that those fragments - those boulders look much more angular than what we've seen here. And, for the most part, they appear to be - if covered at all - very little by any mantle except the one I just mentioned.
LMP-LM: And, Gordy, through the monocular, in contrast to the tan gray of the South Massif, those large blocks up there look blue - very distinctly blue-gray. Not unlike Gene mentioned yesterday, anorthosite - anorthosites look in certain ter- restrial environments.
CDR-LM: And, Gordy, now that i get my - my three-dimensional eyeballs working, I can look up on the scarp - out to 9 and lO o'clock. It's practically the same color as the South Massif. It just looks to be very undulating. I see no outcrop evidenced from here in the scarp, i think I can just about see _lere Hole-in-the-Wall is, but it's so subtle that 91A/7 Tape I can't really tell you much about it. And the local terrains which I think is the southern rim of Camelot, just about blanks out where Hole-in- the-Wall should be - just about covers it up. But what I can see in a small little saddle to our local horizon here in front of us - I can see out there just about - oh, I'd say a 100 meters or so to the south of Hole-in-the-Wall and it just looks like a subtle undulating slope. We can't really tell too much the steepness from here.
CC: Okay, Geno, we're - Stand by 1.
CC: Okay. I had something for you, but we just decided to cancel the call. Although, when you do get out the prep and post card, I have one write in For you so just holler when you're - when it's handy.
CDR-LM: We're wrapping up oUr eating and drinking, here now, Gordy. We'11 be ready to go in a minute.
LMP-LM: Gordy, Challenger. Could you ask somebody there in the FAO console to, - where the hiking kit is - is stowed?
CC: Jack, take a look on the right-hand side stowage compartment there, on the forward lower corner under the LEC kit compartment.
LMP-LM: Gordy, you broke - broke up with the changeover or something. Say again.
CC: Okay, Jack. You're right. I got caught right in the middle of a site handover. Look on the right-hand side stowage compartment, the forward lower corner, under the LEC kit compartment.
LMP-LM: Fantastic. You picked the one place i'd never look.
LMP-LM: Houston, Challenger.
CC: Go ahead. sure it's been mentioned, but I'11 say it. During the CF squared we asked about that bundle of wires that has contact with the gimbal - and when I deployed it, that bundle was - it still had contact with the gimbal and everybody at the CF squared said that was okay. But, you might think about it. I don't know what i could do to help if that is the problem. But that might be causing the problem here that it wouldn't cause on Earth.
CC: Okay, Jack. I'11 make sure the experts hear that.
CDR-LM: Gordie, everthing okay at home today?
CC: Yes, everything is fine here.
CDR-LM: Well, thank you.
CC: I'm not sure i copy your question precisely. Haven't talked to - to your home today, at all.
CDR-LM: Okay. Don't - don't worry about it. I just thought you might have heard.
CDR-LM: Well, if you hear, Gordie, just tell them they're missed.
CC: Okay; I'11 sure do that.
LMP-LM: Gordie, has anybody heard from Tucson recently?
CC: Check on that, Jack. Just a minute.
LMP-LM: Ands Gordie, iX you have any updates to the EVA-2 checklist, give me a yell.
CC: Okay. The update I do have - I think the EVA checklist changes_ we'11 just call you, real time. But, I do have one for the prep card.
LMP: serial number 211; CDR, 208. This is to maximize the OPS operation, should you have to use it.
CC: LMP, 211; CDR_ 208.
CC: That's right_ the serial numbers on the purge valve.
CC: Okay, Challenger. This is Houston. Would you like to have a little update on the EVA plans?
CC: No, I don't think there are essentially a_y no_es required. I'11 make a few real-time callups to you; but_ I don't think there's anything you really have to write down. a little hectic yesterday. But, if we end up making any changes where I don't need to get a charge in my hands - that's an awfully good thing to call, because not only does it tire your heart - your hands out holding it, but it me_ls you don't get as many pictures or Rover sam_les or anything else.
CC: Roger. You guys are just ahead of us there. We were trying to get that up to you. Okay. No, I don't think there is anything here that really needs to be written down. i'11 go through with you first, and we can talk about details and writing in, if you w_ut to on any of them. But, I don't think there is anything that really needs to be written in. The EVA - it is going to be essentially nominal_ with two minor exoeptions. One is the - we've allowed about 5 minutes extra at the LM before leaving for the Rover fender fix; and, John, we_il be talking to you _out that in a minute. _d the second big change, Js that we're also extend - allowing 5 more minutes at the end of the EVA so that we can have extra time for dusting. And I suspect that if the Rover fender fix works and we aren't getting as dirty as we did last night, then we may gain back that 5 minutes. We're also allowed - well, what we've done is we've taken the time here out of some of the tasks at station 3 and station 4. And along with the fact that we think you're a little bit farther east than planned - and we're allowing 4 minutes additional driving time. But again, that's ali_ real timed and if we're doing well on time_ we can reinstitute all those tasks and get rid of the 5 minutes that we are allowing here, there, or elsewhere. So that's just sort of to keep in your thinking.
CC: There is a possibility that we'11 have some addi- tional overhead at each stop, depending on what the Rover battery temperatures are when you get out this morning_ If the Rover - if they're high again, then we'11 have to probably park at least on some of the stops, if not all - with the up-Sun heading and dusting the battery covers and then opening them to let them cool. But, again, that will depend upon _hat we find on the Rover bat- teries whe_ we get out this morning.
CC: The variations that we found on the surface of the South Massif indicating a possibility of layering - ! guess you saw those mostly with the monocular and the observation of boulder tracks and the size of the Massif emphasizes the importance of sampling boulders that can be traced to sources at various elevations of the Massif. And I guess we should say that's hopefully. And we'11 just have to see what happens when we get down to station 2 on that. But_ if we see boulders with tracks: i'm sure you guys remember that they obviously will have a higher priority. Since we didn't get to Emory, and since we didn't really get to the rim of Steno itself, the question of sampling of the actual subfloor is still somewhat ambiguous although there is a large consensus opinion that says that we sampled the subfloor when we sampled _hat inter- mediate Gabbro tha_ we sampled yesterday ay both the ALSEP and station I_ The - here is a possible alternative conclusion which says %hat the subfioor 9lA/11 Tape has not been sampled, but that these blocks that we sampled and the surface are both parts of a later flow. And, in that line, we're still look- ing for specific observations which will help us distinguish between whether or not the dark mantle is a - whether the dark mantle is a separate unit from the intermediate gabbro that we're seeing or, whether it's the - Stand by.
CC: Okay. Whether or not the dark mantle is an entirely separate unit from the intermediate gabbro you were sampling yesterday or whether it just represents the top of very well churned up layer of a flow that was later than the subfloor - if you see what I'm saying there. Ail this says is that we're very interested, of course now - -
CDR-LM: Roger, Bob.
CC: - Ail this says that, we're very much more interested in station 5, as you might expect, than we were before. And I guess, for this reason, we'11 be trying to keep the time line a little tighter than usual to guarantee that we've got some time left over at station 5. And, we're also interested in moving perhaps - in perhaps moving station 5 from its present location there in the southwest of Camelot over to the southeast or east or some location where we have a feeling that we've got big boulders up on the rim. This would be so we could sample, hopefully, some of the light material and some of the boulders together and get a better confirmation that the materials from deep in the subfloor unit is this intermediate Gabbro, as opposed to just material from the upper part of the subfloor. It's just a matter of proving to ourselves whether Or not the boulders we sampled yesterday are from deep within the subfloor, or only at the surface of the subfloor; or, perhaps, as I said, the other alternative being that the intermediate gabbro is part of the dark mantle, and we're seeing a churned-up regolith on top of it - sort of being the gaseous upper part of the flow having been broken down rather rapidly into the dark mantle. Okay, stand by a minute.
CC: Okay. To summarize that again, reading - I guess I got ahead of myself here in the little deal they wrote up. At the present time we have two working hypotheses for the dark mantle, the gabbro - and the gabbro relationships to each other. One: the crystalline rocks that we found in the gabbro are an upper unit of the subfloor with their dark mantle cover unrelated to them in time. Key observations that they suggest here, are stratigraphy at Camelot, station 5, and other steep craters. Especially, perhaps, the trench and sheltered spots which arc unguarded - ungardened, as in plowed - for an older regolith underneath the dark mantle, if such a thing could be found. We don't think we found that yesterday. Or, look at the superposition relations between dark mantles and boulders or, the mantles - instances of the mantle on the boulders or, in- versely, of small boulders on the mantle.
CC: The second working hypothesis is that - is that the dark mantle is regolith derived from a vitreous, vesicular, flow top of the crystalline rock flow beneath. And, it again goes to say that perhaps the re - gabbro that we sampled yesterday was indeed the late flow; and what the regolith was, was derived from the vitreous, vesicular flow top, as it were. Again, many of the same observations are called for. In particular, they'd be interested then in looking at the coarser fines as they define as from a millimeter to 20 millimeters, for some sort of transitional lithologies and textures. In other words, what do the small walnut-size rocks look like, if you can in hand specimens? If I can get more specific in terms of EVA mechanics, let me say that we'11 call out in real time vhe deletion of the tasks at stations 3 and 4, if they become necessary. And what we're planning on doing is, deleting the trench in the base of vhe scarp at station 3, and also, deleting the radial sample of the - on Shorty at station 4. That's the pro- vision that we're planning on. And depending on how the time is going, we'11 call that out real time. We also have - The experiments remain pretty much the same. We'11 deploy the charges at the same locations as we're planning in the checklist at the present time. We also don't - for your TM
LMP-LM: Okay, Bob. We copy all that. Obviously, you're going to have to catch us in real time on some of the details there - on the charges and the task deletion. One question, did you say we were going to delete the trench at station 3?
CC: Roger. The trench at the base of the Scarp, in other words_ some of the stuff that you would be doing while Gene was taking the double core.
CC: Well. No conmient on that, Jack. I supposed to do?
CC: You're supposed to help Gene_ I guess. Let's play that one in real time.
CC: Roger. That's why I said there's no point in marking up the checklist on that, Jack. Let me hit you with one more thing concerning the battery vemps. An initial reaction down here is that the battery temps were high on deployment because of particularly unfavorable heat soaking on the way out. And the Marshall people are hopeful that they'11 be back to normal this morning. However, we're obviously anxious, as I'm sure you are, to get an early reading on the battery temp - that's number 1. And number 2, just for the off chance that the meter's not working, I think we've pretty much discounted that, because of the w_ _ the meter worked yesterday. But, on the off chance that the meter's not working, you might just lean over and see if the meter is reading zero before you punch in the circuit breakers, because that would give us at least a partial confirmation in that direction, that there's not something wrong with the offset. If they're reading - sitting there reading 30 to 40 degrees, then that prob- ably says something about the offset. And, beyond shat - -
CDR-LM: I'11 look at that, Bob, what the meter has indi- cated in terms of a temperature change. I'11 look and see if there's a bias on Vhem at all.
CC: Roger. We - we again also think that that's prob- ably not too likely.
LMP-LM: Bob, I think, based on what i saw yesterday, that the chances are pretty good that all the big blocks out here in the dark mantle area will be pretty much the gabbros. By the way, I looked at that with a hand lens last ni_ht_ and I don't know that you got the report, and I'm back to saying that it's probably closer to 30 - _0 percent plagio- clase. It's very - it's a good gabbro, a final pyroxene gabbro, and it apparently has a fair amount of ilmenite in it. There's some bright shiny flakes within the rugs and some dark minerals in the matrix that are probably ilmenite. And one other additional possibility then, is that the mantling we're seeing here_ is the - is just dark fine glass - darker than usual, because of the iron and the titaniu_m in the rock itself. Also, the probability, I think_ still has to be considered that you're dealing with a true mantle that has been gardened enough that at least where we're seeing it now, in the first few tenths of a centi- meter that it is unrecognizable as a mantling unit yet. The relationship to the large boulders is, I think, one right now, of just filleting and a small amount of covering because of the local gardening process. We haven't seen any clearly mantling relationships between the dark mantl_ or the surface materials here and the large boulders.
CC: Okay. Copy that. And, we'11 be anxious to see what else you find out today. And one last _ord for your interest; the Marshall people have decided to allow us to go to 140 degrees on this EVA with the batteries, if necessary.
CC: Okay, now. John would like to talk to you a0ouv the fender fix.
LMP-LM: Okay. Hold on for 30 seconds.
CDR-LM: Hey, while John's talking to me, why don't you check my biopad out. We're going left.
CC: Okay, fine. We'11 take a check, Geno. Let me ask you one question here on the - on Jack's water on his PLSS water cell. We're showing about 3 pounds too much water in the LM system, and we're wondering if you got the AUX tanks filled up in Jack's PLSS. Two questions. Did you - were you sure to have the AUX valve open and did you see good clear water in the sight gage with no bubbles after the fill? Over.
LMP-LM: I guess we'd have to say yes to those questions, but if you've got a question on it we can go through it again. I'd rather do that than take a chance.
CC: Let me make sure we want to do that. While we're making sure, I checked with both homefronts and Nassau Bay and Tucson are both in good shape. Geno, Tracy upstaged you for about 30 minutes last night on local TV during her own interview there and drew everybody away from watching EVA during that time. She did very well.
CDR-LM: Yes, that sort of - that sort of figures. Hey, Gordo, why do you say Jack's PLSS? Did you see the water drop in the LM when we charged mine?
CC: It was the profile of the water quantity as you were filling both PLSS's, and it was the fill - during Jack's fill that looked suspicious like just maybe 3 pounds less than there should have been flow when you were filling Jack's.
CDR-LM: Yes, well, you know there - it's all - it's only ... to know whether or not you've got it filled. I sure don't want to go out there and have him just have some partial water. So let's do the conser- vative thing.
CC: Okay. i'11 - i'11 verify that. There was _ome drinking water going - going out at that thne, too, which muddles up the data a little bit, so we're not absolutely certain on that. 91A/17 Tape
LMP-LM: Okay. We weren't drinking water while we were filling the PLSS, however.
CDR-LM: Okay. You come up with what you think best on that, and I going to copy John.
MCC: Okay, Geno, I don't think you need to copy this. Sort of just - ad-lib it. With your four chrono- paque maps, tape two maps and allow about a 1-inch 10-1/2-inch overlap to a 15-inch by configuration. That's an estimate. And then repeat with two other maps, and then tape both the two maps - now four maps - tape them together, and you'11 end up with a sheet that's about 15 inches by 19 inches, a sheet of chronopaque. And then tape both sides of it - the overlapping edges to strengthen it. And you can further strengthen it, if you tape an "X" of tape across both sides of it. And then, on the roll up, on the long axis, and secure it with a strip of tape and put it in the ETB. And on that strip of tape you secure it with - be sure and leave a tab on the end of it so you can get it off with your gloves. And then remove clamps from both the utility light units, and open the clamp jaws to max. And then tighten the mounting bracket that you've got on it so it will be swing- ing around; and stow the clamps in the ETB. You got that, Gene?
MCC: Okay. And then - now you've got everything you need. And it's all put together and all ready to - to be fastened to the - to the Rover. And then when you get the ETB in the seat, you unroll the chronopaque sheet and you locate the front edge with the long axis fore and aft, even with - even with the axle. And you lay the edge of the sheet over the inboard guide rail and you clamp it. And you lay the other edge of the sheet over the out- board guide rail and clamp it. And, as I said, the inboard clamp must be directly over the axle to avoid interference while steering. And tighten the clamps securely, both of them. And then while you're driving around out there by yourself, it would be good if Jack could take a look at it and see if you're getting any unusual dynamics. And at station 2, you should inspect the fender for any unusual wear that might have been caused by this mass out there on the fender, of those clamps bouncing up and down. One thing about it, doing it in a suit, Gene, you have to push in with your leg and hold - and it's sort of a two-handed job. And I'm not sure in 1/6 g if you can position the fender, the pseudofender, on there without Jack say holding on to the long end behind the Rover so that won't - won't fall off. It works okay in one g for one man. But I'm not sure it's not a 2-g proposition - a two-man proposition in 1/6. Over.
UNKNOWN: Okay. We'11 take a look at it, babe.
MCC: Okay, and you really have to bear down to get those - -
CDR-LM: I just - -
MCC: - - things on a dovetail there.
CDR-LM: I just want to make sure of the geometry now. We want to put the - take two of those pages and put the 10-inch sides together overlapping, right?
MCC: Yes, sir.
CDR-LM: Then take two more and put the 10-inch sides to- gether overlapping, right?
MCC: That's true.
CDR-LM: And then take those two pieces you've got now and put them end to end, so you've got the long - a long fender. Sounds right to me. Sound right to you?
MCC: Well, you end up with - you end up with four - you end up with all four pieces in a big rectangle. See what I'm - you see what I'm saying, you've got a 15-inch by 19-inch sheet of paper. 91A/19 Tape
CDR-LM: Yes, we got it - we got it, John. And I copy the overlap and everything. If you had no overlap, I guess you'd have about 16 by 20.
MCC: That's correct. But you need to overlap, and taping both sides of it gives it more strength, which you need in that situation. You just want to make sure it's not more than an inch, or you won't have enough to cover up those dovetails.
CC: Jack and Gene, this is Gordo again. On the PLSS charge, we're recommending you hook up Jack's according to the decal. Go right ahead and - stand by 1. Okay. Go by the decal and do the full 5-minute fill on Jack's PLSS. It'11 take that long to get the AUX tanks filled up, if it was indeed empty. And maybe that's something you can start and then work on the - the paper taping. Over.
LMP-LM: Okay, Gordy. I started - I'm on step 4 on the decal step 5 on the decal.
CC: Okay, Jack. John Covington advises that the sight gage is not a certain indicator that you're filled, and so we're just going to go by time to be sure, and try to disregard the sight gage readings as a positive indication anyway. exactly by time before. We'11 try it again here.
CDR-LM: Okay, Gordy. Is that about 5 minutes?
CC: Stand by. See if anybody timed you here. That's affirm; 5 minutes now.
LMP-LM: Okay. Step 7 is complete.
CC: Okay. And we did not see any water flow to speak of, so it probably was full.
LMP-LM: Yes, the condensate indications here were that it was full.
CC: Okay. Better to be sure.
LMP-LM: No questions.
CC: Geno, this is Houston - we want to be sure to have one look at your BIOMED before you get into the suit in case something is wrong with it. And if you go right by the checklist, we'11 miss that look. So when you get to a convenient place, if you can go to LEFT and have us take a look at it, we'd appreciate it.
CDR-LM: Gordy, apparently you - Okay. Stand by. I called it out. I didn't give it to you. Stand by.
CDR-LM: Okay. Now it's yours.
CC: Okay. That looks good, Geno. You can press on with the suiting operation, there.
CDR-LM: Okay. Call me the little old fender maker.
CDR-LM: S-BAND VOICE going to VOICE.
CC: Jack, Houston. With respect to the PLSS water fill, last thing we heard you say was doing step 7. We just want to verify that you did go ahead and do step 8, which is connect the waste management sys- tem to the PLSS AUX vent for 10 seconds. Over.
LMP-LM: Yes, that was all done, Gordy. We just got side- tracked, and I didn't call you.
CC: Okay. Thank you. 9lB/1 Tape TRANSCRIPTION
CC: Ron, you should not see a tape motion light at LOS here, be - or - flag, because we've got the dump done and rewound ahead of time. They're rewinding it right now.
CMP: Oh, okay. Want me to configure the DSE, though, at 39:32 right?
CMP: How's the crew of Challenger? Are they getting about ready to go out again?
CC: They're a little bit delayed, Ron, but there's no problem. They just slept a little longer and - Yes, they're in their prep - pre-EVA prep.
CC: And everything's going good. Bet they're going to find that Scarp is a pretty good hill.
CC: America, Houston. At your convenience, Ron - no hurry on this - we'd like you to service your ZPN sensors on each side there. We're getting some bad data on that now.
CMP: They're itching. (Laughter)
CMP: Yes, it's pretty dry.
CC: Roger. The - Dr. Z. recommends you might find a new location for them - Just move them around a little bit, and put some cream on the other ones.
CC: There's no hurry on that, Ron, I wouldn't interrupt what you're doing now to - for that - it's not critical.
CMP: Okay, I understand, Bob. I'11 - -
CC: You sound like a tour - -
CMP: I will as soon as I get a chance. Okay?
CC: Roger. You sound like a tourist up there.
CC: Going to need a Kodak store here shortly, I'm afraid.
CC: Okay, Ron, you might want to look at your Flight Plan when you get a chance. We're coming up on a SIM bay reconfiguration here shortly.
CMP: 56, 57, 58, 59 -
CMP: MARK it. OFF.
CMP: ... wherever that is.
CMP: Okay. RECORDER is going OFF, not the HEATERS. RADAR is OFF. DATA SYSTEM is ON. Uh-oh. Should have the SM/AC POWER switch up - up there (laughter) at 230, as much as we use it.
CC: Roger. I concur with that one. I thought it would only he in the simulation that it would get to you on that one. SM/AC
CDR: (Laughter) Yes. Okay. POWER is ON. The old MAPPER's going to STANDBY. IR is going ON. SELF TEST is going to HEATERS. UV is going ON. Now, we're going to open IR and we're going to wait on UV. 91B/3 Tape
CC: We concur with that, Ron.
CC: We'11 give you a cue on that UV COVER, OPEN, here.
CMP: Okay, there's the IR. Barber pole. And a gray.
CMP: Okay. Are you going to try to ship the back-side DSE back in there for this next pass - on the Orbital science visuals and stuff?
CC: Ron, we're calling for the DSE operation exactly as - as it is in the Flight Plan. Is that - do you concur with that?
CMP: Oh, yes. I concur, but I mean - sure, that's - that's no problem there. But I mean getting it back to Houston before the end of the flight, you know.
CC: Negative. That was not in the plans unless you want us to, Ron. We don't have any provision to - to - to record it and send it back here, until it comes back in the transcript form.
CMP: Okay, no problem. I'11 paraphrase what I say then, and when I get into AOS over there.
CC: Okay. No sweat. And if you have something you really want us to listen to, we can bring up the loop to get it, but it takes a little effort, Ron. That's all.
CMP: Okay. Yes. No, I - it's - let's don't do it, yet.
CC: Eon, I just heard the voice quality has been real good. We've listened to it several different times, and it's been real good and we can bring it in without too much problem. Probably wouldn't be ready for the next rev, but we can get it in here without too much strain, if you want it brought in.
CMP: Okay. I think it might be worthwhile, especially on - on this particular one, where I'11 be essentially talking all the way across, on this one.
CC: Okay, we'11 just plan on it, Ron.
CMP: If it's not too much of a problem. Yes.
CC: Okay, Ron. You can UV COVER, OPEN, anytime.
CMP: ... Okay. Okay.
CMP: OFF, OPEN, barber pole. And it's gray.
CC: Ron, we need to precondition our H2 tanks again. We'd like H 2 tank 2 FANs to OFF, please.
CMP: H2 tank 2 FANs are OFF.
CC: And, Ron, just a reminder, we will bring in that voice from the - the rev 27 backside pass.
CMP: Oh, okay, good. Thank you. Tell the lunar sounder guys I'm sorry if I pointed their antenna in the wrong direction there, for a short period of time.
CC: No problem. Just one question, Ron, that is the Hasselblad we're hearing every once in a while, isn't it?
CMP: There's what?
CC: Is that your camera running? Every once in a while?
CMP: No, not now. 91B/5 Tape
CC: How about during this eat period - on this pass, were you running the camera quite a bit?
CMP: No. The only thing was - was the Nikon.
CC: Okay, understand. We keep hearing something that sure sounds like the camera is chugging - -
CMP: The - might have been picking up the tape re - no, it might have been the tape recorder. Might have been me, trying to clear my ears, you know?
CC: No, I don't think so.
CC: Ron, we're a few minutes from LOS. And you're looking real good.
CMP: Okay, Robert. Thank you much. We'11 see you on the other side.
CC: Okeydoke. And I'11 try and get through to the - the homefront here, maybe for this next pass. And you are going to he pretty busy, but I'11 give you a little update.
CMP: ... it as well as the - some of the more Eratosthenian craters around Saenger. Looks to me like you can still have a little bit of a hint - at least of the layering, or a broken-up different-colored material at the top of all these craters.
CMP: And supposed to stop and rewind the DSE. Forgot to do that.
CC: Roger, Ron. We'11 take care of the DSE.
CMP: Okay. Okay, I'11 let you do it.
CMP: Okay. I took three, or four, pictures on mag OO up to frame 104 kind of looking north across the Arabia.
CC: Roger, Ron. We copy.
CC: Ron. Just some words for you. We placed - -
CMP: Okay, kind of a - Okay, go ahead.
CC: No, go ahead - go ahead with yours. We don't want to interrupt.
CMP: I was just going to say that on the crater Aitken, on the other side, is probably - there are no - no - rays - visible rays that I can see at the iow Sun angle, anyhow, coming across there. There's definitely a mare floor in there. It's a dark albedo-type - flat floor with swirls in it; no definite expression of swirls. One thing that's quite apparent, you have a flow scarp in the north- east corner of it coming out of - oh, a little cloverleaf-type of an area there. I'm going to have to look the next pass over it to see if, on account of the south domical structure that's in there, it's breached. And I can't tell if the flow of material is flowing to the east out of that domical structure or if the flow is flowing into the domical structure. I ought to take a better look at that the next time - the next time around.
CC: Roger. We got you. See any lava marks on the crater rims, there?
CMP: Well, that's - that's the - the lava mark is what I'd call - is almost a lava scarp - in - up in the northeast corner. There are some lava marks along the central peak. They aren't nearly as apparent as the one up in the northeast corner. The northeast corner is definitely a flow front - a lava flow front, that has flown up the - the old interior wall of the crater.
CC: Roger, Ron. What's the color of the dome in Aitken?
CMP: Well, the color of the dome in Aitken is - the colors are hard to - to visualize - the color of the dome is essentially the same as, as - pretty much the surrounding materi_l around there. Maybe a little bit lighter - a little bit lighter than the surrounding material. Of course it's defi- nitely lighter than the floor. The floor itself, to me, has a tan - had a tan to it.
CC: Okay, Ron. We'11 have to break away here a sec- ond. PAN CAMERA MODE to STANDBY.
CC: If you haven't got your Flight Plan, it's PAN CAMERA MODE to STANDBY, then POWER ON.
CMP: ... Okay, POWER is going ON.
CC: Okay, Ron. And it's time to charge battery A and we'11 cue you on the PAN CAMERA POWER OFF. Okay, that should have been deleted. We've already charged the bat A, so - -
CMP: ... Yes. Yes. It's already charging.
CC: Right. Sorry about that, Ron.
CMP: Okay, no problem.
CC: How about the freshness of the wall and eJecta materials, and the brightness of the rim deposits on Aitken while we have a minute here.
CMP: Okay. The brightness of the rim deposits are a little bit brighter than the surrounding area on the thing. The way that you put it, probably early Eratosthenian. It's definitely not Copernican because I can't see - well, at least in that low Sun - I can't see any rays - any rays around it. But probably late Eratosthenian - somewhere in that area because you have the slumping - Well, it's not subdued at all. The walls themselves - of the crater are not subdued. They are fairly fresh - not as fresh as Copernican. And - and I just can't remember whether we had the - seems to me like it was brighter at the higher Sun angles around there, which indicate that there would still be some remnants of a - of a bright ring around it.
CC: Okay, Ron. And whenever you're ready, PAN CAMERA POWER to OFF.
CMP: PAN CAMERA POWER is going OFF.
CC: And we're with all eyes here waiting for a Crisium-Serenitatis visual.
CC: Anything at all, Ron, while we've got an open area, anything you want to say - we're following you on the map - just sing out.
CC: Ron, while you're thinking here a second, do you have any views on the possible origin of the domes in Aitken?
CMP: Well, I'm pretty sure they've got to be volcanic in origin. That's what - that's what it looks like to me anyhow. And especially if I can deter- mine that the material in the northeast corner of Aitken has flown out of that domieal little struc- ture in there.
CMP: You know something - the observation that I think is pretty significant is the fact that most of the 30-kilometer craters on the back side of the Moon seem to be fairly fresh. And any of them that are fresh - by fresh I mean you don't have any real definite ray pattern to them, but you've got a real smooth - not smooth but streaked straight - slope, 45-degree angle going down into the crater and the crater wall. And then you get down to the bottom of the crater, and you got a flat floor down there or sometimes there is a domical type of a floor. And the domical material down there doesn't resemble anything like the stuff that's slumped down the side. 91B/9 Tape
CC: Okay, we copy. Ron, if you're handy, you might hit Error RESET on the DSKY. It looks like you might have hit a MARK button or something.
CMP: ... Yes, might have hit the MARK button.
CC: That - that makes it.