Otrobonita/noicy-space-talks huggingface dataset:
CC: You may want to kick this next one around before you answer us on it and make sure you got all the details lined up. We'd like you to go through the procedure in as much detail as you can on the final docking, including the switch position, talkback indications, the dynamics, the order of your con- tact with the - with the I_M drogue, the plus-X thrusting, the barber poles, the bottle selection, and the actual probe retraction. I think you mentioned yesterday that you had a B-second delay in probe retraction, and we'd like to know when that B-second delay was measured, starting, that is, from throwing the switch or from some other event. Over.
CDR: Okay. I'11 start off by saying that all the switches were per checklist. And, of course, those were one of the first things that we verified at - when the problem occurred, at your suggestion as well as our own. And - everything was normal up to the point where Stu made his first contact. I'11 let him take it on in from there.
CMP: Okay, Bruce, why don't we Just back up a little bit, and you - you asked for the specific one where we got the - the docking, but let's go back to the first one, and everything looked Just real fine coming in on it. I'd say the - the whole docking operation was Just so much like the CMS that it was hard to believe. I mean the - the procedures, and the view, and the response of the vehicle, and I'd say I had 2/10ths of a foot per second closing speed. And then, the reaction when I hit the drogue was Just exactly like the - you know, the docking trainer that we had where you didn't hit the capture latches, but you Just went in and banged into the drogue?
CC: Roger. The one over there in building 5?
CMP: Yes. That's the exact response I got. On the first one, I - I klonked into it and - you know - and then I could tell that I was slipping out, and, of course, A1 didn't call the barber pole. So, at that time, I did the natural thing and Jabbed it with a little plus-X, and drove it into the drogue, and we were lined up good. I was holding plus-X and the - the alinement - you know - still good on the - on the target Just like - you know - you can do in the docking trainer. Okay, and then I realized that it hadn't made contact, so I let her back off. At that time we called you, and I said, "Well, I'11 try it again," and increase the velocity. And, on this one, I'm estimating that my contact velocity was about a foot per second. Now, it might have been a little less than that. As you know, a foot-per-second closing looks like you're · going to run right through the thing, so - but I would - I've looked at a lot of these on the simulator and I'd say that probably the second one was right at a foot per second. And got the - got the same response - and I really can't remember whether that's the one where you told me to try plus-X after I hit or not. You know, I had already done that on the first one, but anyw ay , if this was the one, then I hit - you said, oh 3 seconds; I held 4, and no - no luck at all. We came back out. At that time, I suggested we fall back, regroup, and talk about it. And then, y'all pretty much know the story then. You suggested that we try it again with everything normal, and I guess the second time there was - I contacted and I - that was not the time I held the plus-X. It was the next one on your suggestion. Yes, the second one I - I did it on my own and then you - on the third one you said, let's try a normal docking and hold 3 seconds, and I did that and held 4. And, also, it was after the second docking that I noticed the radial scratches and - and at that time, that's when I became convinced that from the action aud then seeing the scratches, that the docking latches were not giving and were indeed locked, instead of the cocked position. Okay, so we went through that one as you suggested, and I held plus-X 4 seconds and - we're right in - right in the drogue - you know - holding steady. And then we came out and then down to - to the last time - -
CC: Stu?
CMP: I came in, I'd say probably about a tenth, maybe 0.15, in that area, two-tenths, maybe a little less, contacted it and, at contact, the - the attitude stayed fairly good. There was maybe a degree and a half, 2-degree pitchup movement on the COAS. I then applied the plus-X and held it. At that time, I put it in the center of the drogue, and the COAS and the reticle and the translation were all Just looking real good, and so I gave the cue to A1 to retract, and he hit the RETRACT switch at that point. And then I let him take it from there.
CC: Stu, before you press on, where in this sequence of dockings did you actuate the EXTEND/RET,_SE switch position again? Over.
CMP: Okay. It would be after the second attempt. We - It was per your suggestion - the ground suggestion, and we went through the extend/release - in through there - No, wait a minute, we tried it ourselves after the second one, didn't we? Okay, consensus here is, after the first one, we went back to OFF and then back to RETRACT. And then after the second one, we went to EXTEND and then back to RETRACT.
CC: Okay, and did you do anything with the EXTEND/ RETRACT switch after the last unsuccessful docking but prior to the final successful one?
CDR: I don't think we did, Bruce. We did - We told you everything we did with that switch .... from RETRACT to OFF and then back to RETRACT again.
CC: Okay, now, in going through this sequence, did you ever move the docking probe retract, that is, the BOTTLE SELECT switch off of PRIMARY l; that is, did you recycle that switch or do anything in this sequence? Or did you Just leave it in that posi- tion once you'd initially selected it?
CDR: Well, we don't touch that switch until we get the capture latches. We stay to the OFF position until - -
CC: Okay. Roger. Copy. Okay. So we're coming up on the final successful docking here, and you told l-l/2, us that you got this 2 degrees pitchup on the COAS that looked pretty good. You applied plus-X and held, and I think that's where I broke in. Go ahead.
CMP: Okay, and then on the plus-X then that - that brought the - you know - the COAS right down and the alinement - then everything was fine and trans- lation was - was real good all the way except - except like I say, for that - you know - small pitchup - a degree and half or whatever it was, right at contact as the - as the probe sliding into the drogue.
CC: Okay, and did you - -
CDR: And when - when Stu called out RETRACT, I went to RETRACT position on PRIMARY 1. And it looked pretty normal from there. Just long enough - to - for you - to say to yourself, "Well, it hasn't worked." And then it went barber pole and gray and simultaneously there we got the feeling that we'd hard docked. So it's probably about a 3-second time period from the time I went to PRIMARY i until I had barber pole, and approxi- mately a second later after that, to gray and the hard dock.
CC: Roger. Were you thrusting plus-X all the time from initial contact until the time that you got the hard docking? Over.
CMP: That's affirmative, Bruce. Once I got her in the drogue - you know, we'd talked among ourselves, and we told A1 to hold off until I'm thrusting and I'm satisfied with the alinement. So when we made contact and I thrusted and it looked like we were - Everything was good, and I - I held a positive plus-X all the way until we got the - the latches.
CC: Okay, now. From contact, when you started thrusting plus-X, did you feel anything after the initial contact that would indicate that you'd moved on in and seated the probe in the center of the drogue? Specifically, do you feel that at the time that you selected RETRACT, the probe head was in such a position in the drogue that you should have already been in a barber pole position on the t alkb acks ? Over.
CMP: Well, Bruce, the - the probe was obviously in the drogue, but - you know - there's no way of knowing. But the feeling among us here and - my feeling is that, no, I don't think we had capture latch lock until after we went to PRIMARY. Now, I - You know; I'm sure y'all have looked at it and you've got people down there tearing the probe apart, but I don't even know if it's physically possible. But I don't feel that we had any capture latches in that hole until that last operation when we went to PRIMARY and drove the beauty in there.
CC: Okay. Do you feel like the - the probe head was in such a position - do you feel like the position of the probe head changed on you any after you went to PRIMARY?
CMP: No. No. I was watching the - the I24 - I was plus-X-ing and A1 called "PRIMARY," and we started closing on it and there was no movement; no.
CC: Okay. We copy. No movement after - after you started the plus-X and got yourself seated in there until such time as the bottle fired; that is, no - no more closing movement. Is that corre ct?
CMP: That's affirmative. As far as I can - you know - tell, we were there, thrusting, holding steady - Okay, do you read me, Bruce?
CC: Roger. Reading you loud and clear, Stu.
CMP: Okay. And - you know, we got - We're sitting steady in the drogue, plus-X, everything looking fine. We hit the RETRACT switch and we start moving together. I didn't hear anything nor see any action until we heard the latches close.
CC: Roger. But while you were sitting there then - the talkback was gray and then 3 seconds after you went to PRIMARY, approximately, it went barberpole and the nominal sequence started.
CDR: Well, I was looking at the talkbacks, and that's about the only thing we saw as we pointed out before. About 3 seconds after the initiation of the primary contact - of the PRIMARY RETRACT switch to the i - number i position, they went barber pole for perhaps a quarter or a half a second and then went gray simultaneously with the · hard dock.
CMP: Hey, Bruce?
CC: Go ahead, Stu.
CMP: Okay. And on that one, we've sort of hassled this out. I guess it's something we need- We're probably going to get to, but we - Yesterday, you know, we called it a ripple fire and we felt like we had them all, which we did; but it really felt like the - the latches - we got a couple or, you know, it's hard to say how many; but we got some latches and then at some discrete time, maybe a quarter of a second or something like that; then we got the rest of them in a ripple. So, I think we got the docking latches in two distinct times, separated by, you know, a very small amount. But at least it was enough to say it was not one con- tinuous ripple fire.
CC: Okay, Stu. We copy that and I guess one last point on this - this final docking sequence. Did the closure of the two vehicles start when you selected PRIMARY and continue for some period of time with the barber pole indication appearing during this period of closure, or did the flash to barber pole and then back coincide with the beginning of the closure for hard docking?
CMP: Hey, let us talk about that one for a second, Bruce.
CC: Bruce, let me give you my opinion from the right seat. We're coordinated, I think, on the way this happened. I saw us move in as in previous attempts. We hit, moved Just a little bit to improve alinement as the drogue forced the probe toward the center, and we started to bounce - it looked like we bounced - started to bounce back out. Stu hit the plus-X thrust and held it for what appeared to be right in the middle of the drogue with thrust. He called the RETRACT. A1 hit the RETRACT, and a moment after that, it seemed like we started to move together. A1 then called barber pole, called gray, and we were moving together continuously during this time; and then I heard the - the fire go off on the - the latches making.
CC: Okay. We copy that, Ed. Thank you.
CC: No. We did not [Answering CDR or CMl°].
CC: And I wonder if you could comment on the thrusting activity _mm_diately after contact for each docking.
CMP: Okay. As I said on the first one, I - was going along - -
CC: I think we're referring - We're referring more to the nature of stable - attitude control or stabi- lization thrusting other than the plus-X. I think you've pretty well covered the plus-X for US.
CMP: Oh, that's the only thrusting I did. That's all it took to - to aline it. I did no other movements either with the RHC or the the after contact except plus -X.
LMP: Bruce, the probe was sufficiently close to the center of the drogue on each of those contacts. I believe that the marks that we pointed out to you on television yesterday represent the initial contact of the probe. It could not have been more than an inch and a half or 2 inches from the center of the drogue at that time on any of the contacts.
CC: All right. It looks like Stu was right in there in the center frc_ what we could see on the - the TV last night on those contacts.
CC: That's affirmative. It looked the same way out the right window.
CC: 14, this is Houston. In the process of making the docking yesterday, we advised you to check some circuit breakers, which you did. Did you at any time cycle any of these circuit breakers, that is, open and then reclose them? Over.
CMP: Okay. All we did was check them. That's the group 4 and the docking probe circuit breakers. I Just checked them, you know, by pushing on them; but, no, we did not pull any and then push them back in.
CC: Okay. We copy. And that about winds up our queries on the docking-probe situation. We'11 be ready to go on the - the launch-vehicle debrief here in a minute or so.
CC: Roger. Last night on the docking probe removal, after you took the preload off the probe, could you tell whether the probe head was, in fact, locked into the drogue at that time or not?
CMP: No - I - It - it appeared to be, Bruce. I took the preload off. In fact, I think A1 made that question and we both looked up around at the probe head to see if we could see anything that looked unusual about it or whether it looked like it was out or anything, and - and it did not. Everything looked - looked normal.
CC: Could you - could you feel and tell whether the head of the probe was locked into the drogue or not ?
CMP: No. I guess the answer to that would be we don't know.
CMP: But now, I guess as you've realized, after I collapsed the - the probe, it definitely was.
CC: Okay. You say after you collapsed the probe, the head of the thing was definitely locked in there?
CMP: Yes. It was hanging in there and I had to apply a little tug to -_to get it out. I went right by the decal on the checklist, and I think you asked at that time about the force that it took to bring it out; and it appeared, you know, reasonably normal for the first time that I had done it in - in zero g. It didn't appear to be anything funny about it.
LMP: Bruce, let's make it clear. There's no question about the capture latches being through the drogue. But the question of whether they were locked or not is the one we don't know the answer to.
CC: Right. That, of course, is the question that we were trying to get out here Just now.
CC: Apollo 14, this is Houston. At GET of 28 hours and 30 minutes, you are approximately 1180 nautical miles. That's 1 1 8 0 nautical miles away fram the S-IVB. If you'd care to look for it, we suggest you use a P52 program with a star code of zero and load the - the following numbers in NOUN 88, if you're ready to copy.
CC: Roger. NOUN 88 values are l, minus 31505, minus 87189, minus 37491. Read back. Over.
CMP: Okay. We'11 plug in minus 31505, minus 87189, minus 37491.
CC: Roger. Your readback is correct and we'11 probably, at the end of the launch vehicle systems debriefing here, have some more numbers for you if you want to - if you don't acquire on this first pass.
CC: And we're ready to press on with the debriefing. If you've got your flight plan handy, you can Just proceed down through the questions, and we'11 interrupt if we find anything that's unclear or, if you prefer, I can ask them to you in a panel- discussion-type thing and you can answer back. Over.
CDR: We'11 go ahead with the ... flight plan. Stand by i minut e.
CDR: Okay, Houston. On question num]Ser l, regarding the changes in noise level, the only change in noise level that we noticed was during the first part of the launch on the S-IC, when we had the initial noise of ignition and the buildup in noise during MAX q. And, of course, the associated -
CC: 14, Houston. I think we're coming up on an antenna switchover for you. You seem to be fading down into the mud.
CDR: Are you reading, now, Houston?
CC: Okay. We're reading you better signal strengthwise, Al. We still seem to be getting a little bit of breakup from your comm carrier. Can you reposition the mike? See if that helps any.
CDR: Okay. I have the mike right in front of my mouth right now. Is that better?
CC: Roger. I think we better take it from the top again.
CDR: Okay, frnm the top. The only significant change in noise level we noticed was, as mentioned, due to the burning of the engine in the atmosphere, that is, the ignition, of course, a buildup of And noise there, the noise level increased through MAX q, and then a dropoff. Other than that, with respect to the noise itself, we had no problems at all in our comm,_uications at any time during the stages of the flight. Does that satisfy everybody on l?
CC: That's affirmative. Press on.
CDR: Okay. Number 2. On the S-IC, we noticed no significant changes in noise level and vibration, other than what we Just discussed. S-IC we felt was a real fine ride, nothing unexpected. The S-II, we noticed a change in vibration, a sort of a slight pogo, which started at 8 plus 40. Nothing of very - of any great magnitude. And on the S-IVB to orbit burn, we noticed no signif- icant changes in the noise and vibration level. We noticed nothing unusual on S-IVB during TLI ignition. However, we did notice the beginning of a slight hum, iow hum, or buzz toward the end of the TLI burn. That's it for number 2. Do you have any questions there?
CC: We have no questions right now on that, Al. We're closing our loop down here with the Huntsville Operations Support Center, so it takes us a- a few seconds to a minute or so to get a response back. Why don't you press on with the question number 3? If we get any queries, why, we'11 re- open the previous ones.
CDR: Okay. On number 3, nothing unexpected in the way of transients on which we had not been briefed. As a matter of fact, it went pretty much accord- ing to the way we had expected it through all the events mentioned in question 3, that is, ignition and staging, engine shutdown, mixture ratios, and so on. We did experience a little more abruptness with the cut-off of S-II. The S-II SECO, I think, we ... a little more than we expected. Otherwise, everything was pretty much the way we'd kind of planned them. Question 3.
CDR: CC Roger. Question 4.
CDR: Okay. Stu is ready for you on question 4.
CMP: Okay, Bruce. I got a good look at that shroud, of course, stationkeeping with the S-IVB, and you couldn't see all of it; but, as we moved around, you could see a good portion of it back around be- hind the - the LM and every place that I could see and Ed also and A1 - A1 was looking through the hatch _window part of the time, and everything looked Just tight as a drum. We saw no loose pieces of the shroud anywhere. Nothing out of the ordinary, and after SEP - as the - I mean after ejection and the booster came into view - came into my window pretty much of a head-on view, and we were out a little ways, but there was no - no vis- ible damage at all to the shroud at any time. And, like I say, I think we got a real good look at it the time we spent around it.
CDR: Okay. Going on to - going on to number 5. We ex- perienced good communications throughout the en- tire powered flight and launch. We've been able to hear the ground on all the calls, and we had no corem problems at all.
CDR: How about you, Jim? Any corem problems from us?
CC: Negative. We experienced no corem problems. number
CDR: Okay, question 6. Was there visible vent- want ing? Stu, do you to take over, now?
CMP: Okay. didn't any unusual
UNKNOWN: see - anything other than those that you called; and when you called the venting while we were stationkeeping, well, of course, And it came on, rather beautiful sight. other the only thing was when you gave a mark for the APS evasive burn, why, I noticed the booster venting and it appeared to be the same area as it had been venting during the stationkeeping phase; and the answer came back that that was expected, f and so forth; and that was the only thing out of the ordinary. Other than that, everything was fine and all the other vents you called.
CC: Okay, on to number 7. I guess that one may still be open.
LMP: Yes, I was Just trying to whip off a fast answer for you on that one, but we don't have any. So I guess that A1 will tell you the last time that we - we saw it.
CDR: Well, I guess the last time we saw the S-IVB was with the eyeball ... that is, and it was during the propulsion venting. It was kind of a tough angle for us to see because of - it was Just very low on the edge of window number 1. However, the sun angle on it was good; it was stable when it was venting, as near as I could tell, approximately, a couple of miles away. We took a few pictures of it with the Hasselblad, so we may be able to see the beautiful conical-shaped pattern coming from the venting; but as far as control was concerned, it was going in the right direction and appeared to be stable.
CDR: Okay, number 8. Stu, you want to take that one?
CMP: Okay, I guess the guidance obviously was good and the velocity was - was real fine. It looked like, during the - during the boost phase, they were running a - maybe 2, 2 and a half miles, maybe 3 miles low along my profile, looked rather con- sistent; but we obviously arrived at the right place, so the - and the velocity cut-offs were right on the money and the TLI guidance, I think, was within 10 feet, 17, or something like that. You've got the numbers, but it looked real good, and the only thing I can comment there was it looked to me like we were going into Earth orbit insertion maybe a couple or 3 low, pretty much on the profile.
CMP: All the way on the profile I should say.
CDR: Okay, are you ready for number 9?
CC: Roger. Go ahead with number 9.
CDR: Okay. The ORDEAL ball at ignition was as adver- tised at 8 and a half degrees. After ignition, went to the normal pitchdown, the ball settled down very close to zero; and, as the burn pro- gressed, eased on up to about a plus-1 degree; then, slowly on back to zero; then, close to the pitchdown, Just prior to - to the cut-off. And I would say somewhere around 2 or 3 degrees negative, that is at 357 and B58 on the ball, prior to cut-off.
CC: Okay, and we've got one more write-in, Question number 10; and it's based on -
CMP: Okay, I'11 take that one, Bruce.
CMP: Okay, Bruce. That - that came from my comment. And as we were stationkeeping and watching the venting, it looked to me like the booster had picked up a little right yaw as - as I looked at it. I meant - moving left on me, but then I Just mentioned, it looked like it was moving over a little; but then, later on, I decided that that was Just the scatter of the two vehicle's dead bands because the IU - the S-IVB dead band all the time was solid as a rock, even during the venting. And after all that venting, when I went back to - to try the other dockings, I expected to have to change my attitude a little bit. And as it turned out, the attitude was still - you know - right within a degree, so that was Just a call that appeared to, at that time. But the S-IVB vented from both sides and it was steady. And I think I was Just picking up the movement of the dead bands of the two vehicles.
CC: Okay, Stu; thank you.
UNKNOWN: And while the Huntsville people are closing the loop here, we had previously given you a flight- plan update concerning your waste water dump at 30 hours plus 15 minutes, and our update was that you dump to zero percent. We'd like now to modify that to a nominal dump to 25 percent on the waste water. Over.
CDR: Okay, we are now modified; 25 percent it shall be.
CC: Could you tell me about Al's corem? You mentioned same dropouts in EKG prior to launch. Apparently you're still not seeing those. Are they in any way associated with these voice dropouts you talked about today?
CC: Stand by, please.
CC: 14, this is Houston. Our belief is that there's no correlation at the present time between your earlier EKG problems and the current degraded corem through Al's corem carrier. We would like to sug- gest when you have the chance that A1 try using the spare corem carrier, and see if that improves communications.
LMP: Okay, we'11 shift over.
CC: 14, this is Houston. We've received some inquiries regarding your answer to question number 2. The Huntsville Operations people would like to get a little more detail on the slight hum or buzz. Was it actually an acoustic or audible noise, or was it felt through the structure of the spacecraft, and can you give us approximately the time that it commenced and duration, that is, did it proceed until TLI cut-off?
CDR: Stand by l, Houston.
CMP: Okay, Bruce. I think the noise is kind of hard to describe, I guess, end maybe m_ke ourselves clear, but it definitely was not an acoustic buzz. It was a high frequency buzz that we felt through the structure; and, I'd say, it probably started - and this is an approximation - say 2 minutes into the TLI burn.
CC: Okay. And continued through the balance of the burn?
CMP: Pretty much so, yes. Just about the same level. I wouldn't say that it increased any significant amount.
CC: I realize this is sort of hard to put your finger on. Is there any way you can quantify the level, or give us some feeling for how much of - how high the level was ?
CMP: No. No, I think that's pretty tough, Bruce. In fact, you know - the - the burn was going so well and the ride was so smooth that - you know we - we had time to - to pick it up. I suspect that, you know, it was low enough level that if you had something else on your mind, you wouldn't even have noticed it.
CC: Did this - did this Just sort of start abruptly, or build up from the background, do you think?
CMP: Well, Ed feels it was a buildup and I'm not sure. So let's vote that it was a buildup then. That seems to be a majority. And it Just came on kind of slow and came up and stayed at low level and - and was there.
CC: Okay. And the only other question we got back in is at 8 Plus 40, this pogo-type thing that you mentioned was - Could you give us a little more detail on direction of motion of it and amplitude. Any more elaboration you have on that would be appreciated.
UNKNOWN: Okay. I guess I called out the time on that one in the cockpit. I - It was no doubt but what it was a slight pogo and I think it was longitudinal; and as far as amplitude, I 'm trying to think back to some of those pogo tests I wrote on the shake table, but they were of such high level that I wouldn't - couldn't compare them to this. But, it was a pogo; it started to slip out that time because when I - when I felt it, I looked at the clock and it was not - -
CC: 14, Houston. We had an antenna changeover here and - -
CMP: Okay. How do you read, Bruce?
CC: Loud and clear, Stu. How do you read me?
CMP: Oh, you're 5 square. The static's died down, and - As I was saying, there was no question but what it was a low amplitude pogo starting right at 8 plus 40. However, the magnitude was low enough that it was not affected - did not affect any of our voices; and, you know, a fairly low level will - will do that, so I'd - I'd say, you know, it was pretty small. It was not of any concern, but picked it up Just because - you know - think- ing about pogo, I guess.
CC: And, Stu, did that last all the way until shutdown of the S-II, or did it die back out?
CMP: Bruce, I can't give you a positive answer; none of us can. My impression is it was there all the way, but that data really isn't a very good input.
CC: Okay. Thank you. I believe this concludes our discussion on the booster questions.
CC: 14, this is Houston.
CC: Okay. Just a little status on the probe situation. We have no further queries on the docking probe at this time. The conclusions of our ground analysis are that the system is now working nominally. And our current intention is that you are GO for the lunar landing and all subsequent events. If we have any further commentary or further discussion on the subject, why, we'11 get back to you later on it. With respect to mtdcourse correction num- ber 2, we plan for that to take place at the nom- inal time which is about 30 hours 36 minutes GET. And itrll be about 71 feet per second, which is also close to nominal. We're planning a GET up- date of some 40 minutes tomorrow at the nominal time in the flight plan of about 54:40. Over.
CMP: Okay. We got that, Bruce, and are we going to leave this Earth dark-side dim-light photography in?
CDR: Houston, that is Al. I've changed the TCU heads. How does this sound, any better?
CC: Would you give us a short count on that, Al?
CDR: Okay. l, 2, B, 4, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. Over.
CC: Roger. That sounds a lot better to me.
CDR: Okay. We'11 take mine and _-ke it the spare.
CC: A1 - Al, are you using the lightweight comm carrier now or the Snoopy hat?
CDR: Using the lightweight at the moment.
CMP: Okay. The DELTA-V check went fine. And the - on the null bias check, we had a minus 100 to start, minus 99.6 at the end. 99.6.
CC: Minus 100 and minus And I have your mid- course correction 2 pad here, whenever you're ready to copy.
CDR: Okay. And I'm ready to copy.
UNKNOWN: Apollo 14. Ready to copy - your pad.
CC: Go ahead - 14, this is Houston with the midcourse SPS/G&N burn: correction 2 pad. 64213, plus 1.02, minus 0.23; Tig 030:36:07.01; minus 0025.9, plus 0004.4, plus 0066.4; roll, 282; pitch, 354; 298; N/A; NOUN 44, DELTA-V total, 0071.4; 0:10; 0066.5; N/A. 25; 278.5; 39.0. The balance of the pad is GDC aline, Sirius and Rigel; roll aline 230, 170, 002; no ullage. In the burn attitude, S-BAND HIGH GAIN ANTENNA pointing angles: PITCH, minus 22; w_.AM, YAW, O; WIDE MANUAL mode; LM weight, 33647. Your burn time to the nearest tenth of a second is 10.3 seconds for use in checking ball valve operation. Over. Okay. ... SPS/CAN:
CDR: I read back 64213, plus 1.02, minus 0.23; 030:36:07.01; minus 0025.9, plus 0004.4, N/A; plus 0066.4; 282, 354, 298; 0071.4; 0:10; N/A; 0066.5; 25; 278.5; 39.0. The rest Sirius and Rigel; 230, 170, 002; no ullage; HIGH GAIN ANTENNA in burn attitude; PITCH, minus 22; YAW, O; WIDE! BEAM in MANUAL; IM weight, 33647; at burn time, 10 - 10.3.
CC: Roger, Houston. Readback correct.
CC: 14, Houston. We've had a correction to the YAW angle for the S-band pointing. That should be plus 8 degrees. Over.
CDR: Roger. The S-band pointing is PITCH, minus 22; YAW, plus 8.
CC: Roger. We have them, 14.
CMP: Okay, and they were torqued at 29 plus 20.
CC: At your convenience, we'd like POO and ACCEPT and we'11 uplink you a new state vector, target load, and the PIPA, and IRIG bias updates. Over.
CMP: Okay. You have it, Houston.
CC: Roger. They're on their way. And at the same time, we'd like to give you one minor flight- plan update. Due to your later lift-off time, on page 3-32, The Flight Plan, "Darkside Dim Light Photography," we have a new value of longitude over 2 for you.
CC: Roger. The old value is minus 42.500; new value, minus 47.500. Over.
CMP: Okay. Longitude over 2 is now minus 47.500.
CC: Roger. And I've been asked to remind you that, in connection with the midcourse burn number 2, if there is stratification in the oxygen tanks, you may get a CRYO LOW PRESS light as this is reduced. Over.
CC: 14, Houston. Your computer.
CMP: Houston, 14. Have you finished with the uplink?
CC: 14, affirmative. How are you reading us now? We passed up "computer's yours."
CMP: Okay, I guess we must have missed it during the ... and we're terminating PTC here in about 2 minutes.
LMP: We see a NOUN 81, DELTA-V's by i/10th ... the pad. Which is correct?
CC: Apollo 14, Houston. We understand the onboard value is correct, and - that's an R 2 that you're concerned about?
LMP: Yes. We've never seen NOUN 81s round off like that.
CC: Okay. We'11 have an explanation for you in a second.
CC: Houston - Apollo 14, Houston.
CC: Roger. On your query on NOUN 81, 4.3 is the number it was actually uplinked to the space- craft. There is no problem involved with the SlJacecraft rounding off numbers or anything of that sort. The maneuver that was passed to you on the maneuver pad was generated from one computer reading a 4.35 which was rounded upwards by the FDO to 4.4. A separate computer processed the information leading to the auto- matic uplink, and they rounded down to 4.3. Over.
LMP: Okay. Those computers ought to talk to each other.
CC: Roger, Stu. We're looking at your DSKY display here and - noticed it was a little, different from the pad burn attitudes. We believe that if you go back and reload NOUN 48 with the pitch and yaw trim values that we sent up on the pad, CSM/LM, which are for the combination and then redo P40, you'11 get better agreement with the pad values for attitude.
CMP: Go ahead, Hous - Houston.
CC: Roger. You can go ahead and terminate charging on battery Alfa at this time.
CMP: 14 to Houston. We're in position standing by for a GO for MCC-2 burn.
CC: Roger; you are GO.
CMP: Okay, Houston. That was a mighty good burn there. The residuals - There'11 be no trim required.
CC: 14, for your information, we showed the act,_l burn time to be 10.0 seconds. Over.
CMP: Hey, Bruce, that was really great. The CMS was never like that.
CMP: Houston. At the end of the burn we're showing fuel, 002; oxidizer, 989; unbalance, 300 de- crease.
CC: Okay. Understand. Fuel - -
CMP: And DELTA-V -
CMP: And, Bruce, DELTA-Vc, minus 4.1.
CC: Okay. Delta-Vc, minus h.1; fuel, 100.2; oxi- dizer, 98.9; and unbalance is 300 decrease. Is that correct?
CMP: That's affirmative. And if you didn't get the residuals, they're plus 0.2, minus 0, and minus 0.1.
CC: 14, this is Houston. We've reviewed the cham- ber pressure and the SPS engine operation from this last midcourse on the strip charts, and it looks real fine. We'11 have some more words for you - for you - later on the reconciliation of the burn times in tenths of seconds. We're curious as to what value you got with your stop- watch. Over.
LMP: I showed about 10.2, Bruce.
CC: Understand, 10.2. Over.
CMP: Hey, Bruce. Why do the strip charts show us PC' two banks?
CC: We're going to have to convert from percentage of thrust to PSI, Stu. We'11 be right at you.
CMP: Oh, no sweat. Don't want to cause you any trouble. I was Just curious.
CC: They're doing it anyway. Just, we hadn't gotten it accomplished for this burn yet.
CMP: Okay. Just wanted to calibrate my gage.
CC: You might check your middle gimbal angle, Stu, for the maneuvering.
CMP: Roger. We - we're eyeballing it.
CC: 14, this is Houston. For your information, when starting the PTC spinup, we'11 use quads Alfa and Delta. Over.
CMP: Okay. We'11 use Alfa and Delta for the spinup.
CC: Apollo l_, this is Houston. Your average
CMP: Okay, the average was 100 even. Thank you.
CMP: Okay, Bruce. I tell you, I'm sure not seeing what I expected to on this - dark side of the Earth through the sextant here. The angles that - that you gave me lined up the - the optics pretty much over on the edge of the dark side all right. But through the - through the sextant, there's still a lot of light coming in, and I - with that high-speed black and white, I don't see why we're not going to wipe it out. I - I guess I really expected to see pretty much darkness through the sextant here.
CMP: Okay. And there's another strange thing on the sextant on this sighting, Bruce. We got a - -
CC: -Roger. We've been advised that there was some illuminated area of the Earth expected to be visible in the field of view for this dim-light photography. What we'd like you to do is to go angle; ahead using the nominal take your three exposures; and then, if it's agreeable to you, we'11 have a new set of shaft and tr_mnion angles for you and you could squeeze off three more. Over.
CMP: Okay. No sweat. I'11 press ahead and take some photos.
CC: 14, Houston. In your original transmission, did you say that you could see any of the illuminated portion of the Earth through the sextant eyepiece or Just that you had some scattered light coming in? Over.
CMP: I've got quite a bit of scattered light. It's negative on seeing any of the - of the lit portion. I - Manually, you know, I've driven it over to the terminator and then the CMC pulls it back to the dark side. We're pointed on the dark side, but there sure is a lot of light showing.
CC: 14, Houston. Have you already mounted the camera on the sextant adapter? - or to the sextant?
CMP: That's affirmative, Bruce. I'm in the middle of the first frame I have, but it's no sweat to change. I can do anything you want.
CC: No, no. Don't do that, because we'd have to squeeze off more f_lm at that 24 frame per second prior to dismounting it.
CMP: Okay, Bruce. I've finished the - the 1-minute, the 20-second, 5-second exposures, and I'11 Just hold here until you give me some more angles if that's what you want.
CC: Okay, Stu. What we'd like you to do is in your longitude over 2 for a P22, Just put in minus 42.5, which was the - the value that was orig- inally in the flight plan before we updated you and run three more exposures and that will wind it up.
CDR: Okay. We'11 enter that in ... 2 like it was originally in the flight plan and repeat.
CMP: Okay, Bruce. I completed the - the pictures. I put the sextant back on and looked at our sec- ond one and it's - it's going to be Just about the same. Stu.
CC: Roger, I think that wraps up the require- ments for the dim-light photography.
CC: And Just to clear up the situation that I created on giving you a quad Alfa Delta. We are recommending Alfa and Charlie for the PTC spinup and your option on the quads that you used for rate damping.
CMP: Okay. We figured that's what you meant.
CDR: All right, Houston. Go ahead, Houston.
CC: 14, Houston. You can secure the high gain antenna at this time. We recommend a PITCH of minus 5 - -
CMP: Go ahead, Bruce.
CC: We recommend a PITCH of minus 52 degrees, YAW of 270 for securing the high gain antenna. Request OMNI Bravo for PTC. Over.
CDR: Houston, this is Apollo 14. We're reading you loud and clear. Go ahead.
CC: Apollo 14, this is Houston. You may secure the high gain antenna now. PITCH, minus 52; YAW, 270. Request OMNI Bravo for PTC. Over.
CDR: Houston, 14. That's what you have.
CC: Apollo 14, this is Houston. Stand by for an important announcement. ·
CMP: Roger. Standing by.
CC: Roger. You're GO for PTC spinup now.
CMP: What would we do without you, Bruce?
CMP: Hey, Bruce. How come we haven't heard any news, like who won at Daytona and things like that?
CC: Well, we tried for one news sm_mmary and most of the news came out to be on the subject of Apollo 14. We figured you guys were probably the ones that had the inside scoop on that, so we'11 give a stab at another one.
CMP: Yes. Tell us what's going on at the races at Daytona.
CC: Okay. Give us a couple of minutes and we'11 have some word for you.
CMP: Oh, no sweat. Just at your convenience.
CC: If the workload isn't too heavy up there for you, we've got another set of NOUN 88 values for sighting on the S-IVB, if you're interested.
LMP: Okay, stand by and I'11 copy them down.
LMP: Okay, Houston. Go ahead.
CC: Roger, 14. NOUN 88: minus 34293, minus 85901, minus 38013. Over.
CMP: Okay, Bruce, you back with us?
CC: Yes, I'm still with you.
CMP: Hello, Houston. How do you read? 14.
CC: 14, we're approaching an antenna switchover period here. Let me give you a call again in a minute.
CMP: Hello, Houston. How do you read, 147
CC: 14, Houston. Loud and clear. How me? Over.
CMP: We're back with you. How about giving me R3 again, please?
CC: Okay, R3 is minus 38013. Read back. Over.
CMP: Okay; reading you back from NOUN 88: minus 34293, minus 85901, minus 38013.
CC: Roger; readback correct. These are calculated for a GET of 32 hours 45 minutes, but should be valid from the present up to about 33:45. You will be able to see the S-IVB when your spacecraft roll angle is between 85 degrees, that's 085 de- grees and 020 degrees.. If you do see it through the sextant, we'd like you to try to take some pictures, using the same techniques as on the dim-light photography per camera advance, same film magazine, same exposure times, if you concur. Over.
CMP: Okay, sounds great. I understand this is set up for a time of 32 plus 45:00, however, it ought to be good now and we ought to be able to hack it our when roll is between 085 to 020. And if we lap the big moose, we'11 take some pictures of it using the same magazine and the same procedures as the Earth dim light that we Just finished.
CC: Roger; Roger.
CC: Hello, 14, this is Houston. Be advised that the B-IVB is tumbling at a rate of one tumble - that is, one 360-degree tumble - about every 4 and a half minutes, so that the intensity of the ob- Ject may vary if you see it out there. And even if you don't, we've been considering the speed of the film. We'd like to take same pictures. Per- haps it would show up on photography if you can't see it with the naked eye. And another item, your phase plane plot for PTC - It looks like you've established a very good PTC here. It's curving back around toward the center. We think it's going to hold for quite same time. And we'd like to get battery Alfa on CHARGE at your convenience. Over.
CMP: Okay, Bruce; copy that. When we get around to the right roll angle, we'11 give a GO on the S-IVB. Copy about the PTC, and we'11 start a charge.
CC: Do you see anything out there, Btu?
CMP: Well, we're Just now coming out fram behind the LM. Looks like I've got samething here in the sextant. Let me pull her in the center and see what it looks like.
CMP: Well, Bruce, I've got two things in the sextant and - You know, it could either be a faint - faint star - I don't see any - any tumbling on them yet, but 4 and a half minutes isn't that fast either.
CMP: Okay, I've lost one of them due to the light com- ing into the sextant. And I'm about to lose - lose the other object, whatever it was.
CC: 14, Houston. We got a little sports news for you.
CMP: Okay, go ahead. You're Just in time for dinner.
CC: Would you rather I croon something soothing to you, like background music, or Ravel's Bolero or samething?
CMP: Negative on the music. We got all that we need here. You can Just croon some good sport news.
CDR: Why don't you hold on a minute and let Ed get his headset on?
CC: (Laughter) It's not that detailed.
CDR: Okay, Houston. EverYbody's on the line.
CC: Okay, I don't know if it was really all that earthshaking. I've got the results of the Daytona races. It was won by Pedro Rodriguez from Mexico with his partner Jackie Oliver in a Porsche, and they completed 688 laps of the 3.81-mile course there at Daytona in 24 hours. Ronnie Bucknum and Tony Adamowicz were second in a Ferrari, and Lamak Donohue-David Hobbs team was third. In winning the event, Rodriguez and Oliver averaged 109 over miles per hour for the 2_-hour period. And Sunday's Andy Williams - San Diego Open Golf Tournament, Californian George Archer took the honors with a 7-under-par score against his closest competitors, Dave Eichelberger and Jack Nicklaus. Archer ended up with a 65 and $30,000 in prize money. Over.
CDR: Okay, very good. Thank you. Keep up the good news.
CC: Roger. You can tell Ed to take his headset back off now.
CC: Roger. We took up a collection here in the Control Room and bought a newspaper, and we got a couple more items, if you are interested.
CDR: Great. Take up another collection and you might buy two.
CC: Oh, we'11 buy you a morning paper, too, a little later. On the Daytona race, a few more details. Reading into the article Rodriguez and Oliver divided the driving chores up about equally - -
CMP: Bruce, hold up Just a second.
CMP: Hold it a second.
CMP: Okay, Bruce .... Proceed.
CC: Roger. Back in the Daytona, it says that Rodriguez and Oliver divided - -
CC: 14, Houston. How do you read now?
CC: Apollo 14, Houston. How do you read now?
CDR: Loud and clear, Bruce. Go ahead.
CC: Okay. Let me try it once more with vigor. Back in the Daytona Race, "Rodriguez and Oliver, dividing up the driving chores about equally, had built up a lead of 2lB miles at one point in the race. But trouble struck with about B hours left when the car's transmission failed as Oliver was motoring around with not a care in the world. Two Ferraris -' the one driven alternately by Bucknum and Tony Adamowicz of Wilton, Connecticut, and another under commaud of two-time U.S. road racing champion Mark Donohue and David Gobbs of England had survived the long night but were out of it as long as the Porsche held together. Oliver brought the powder-blue ear into the pit, and he and Rodriguez spent an agonizing 93 minutes watching their lead wiped out as crewmen feverishly made repairs. Bucknum gained the lead 70 minutes from the end and Donohue pulled into striking distance before crew chief John Wyer could get the Porsche rolling again. Rodriguez bolted back to the course a half mile behind Bucknum, whose Ferrari was spitting fire and having trouble getting through the turns. The Mexican hotshot needed less than two laps around the B.81-mile layout to catch Bucknum and was never in serious trouble again."
CMP: D_u. That's a good s_]mmary, Bruce.
CC: Yes. I ought to be a sportswriter.
MCC: Yes. That was very interesting, Bruce. And the next item here is a headline that says "Apollo NUMBER 4900 TO ORBIT EARTH."
MCC: "The Aerospace Defense Command has entered Apollo 14 as number 4900 in its records of Earth- orbiting satellites. The ADC, housed inside Cheyenne Mountain, is providing NASA with infor- mation on satellites passing near Apollo 14 during its Journey to the Moon." Just thought you might be interested in that.
UNKNOWN: Well, they say always better late than - -
CMP: Well, It's Fred-lyl (Laughter)
MCC: It's better to be number 4900 than not to be at all (laughter). And, meanwhile, today at New York, "The doors of baseball's Hall of F_me swung open for seven oldtimers elected by a veterans' com- mittee after the regular ballot of the Baseball Writers Association of America had failed to name any moderns to the shrine. Legendary pitcher Rube Marquard, who shares the record of 19 consecu- tive victories in a single season, and George M. Weiss, the executive genius who guilt the New York Yankees into an awesome powerhouse from the late 1940's, led the advance of the oldtimers. Also named were outfielders Harry Hooper, Joe Kelley, and Chick Hafey, first baseman Jake Beckley, and shortstop Dave Bancroft. Marquard, who won 201 games pitching mostly for the New York Giants and Brooklyn Dodgers from 1908 to 1925; Hooper, who hit .281 in 16 American League seasons; and Kelley and Beckley, both pre-1900 stars, were named as 'real oldtimers' whose careers ended by 1925."
MCC: And here's another startling bit of news - from London. The headline says, "Subway riders arrive; can't get out of station." "More than a dozen passengers were trapped in a London subway station for more than an hour early today when the staff locked up and went home." That sound fAn, liar? "When the passengers got off the last train on the Bakerloo line, at the Midavale station in Paddington, they found exits blocked by steel shutters and the station deserted. Police were called and they in turn contacted London subway officials. A spokesman for the London transport said it would investigate the incident. London Subway Service shuts down frcm about midnight 'til 5 AM."
LMP: Could happen to anyone, anyplace.
CC: Also in the news is this other item from London. That D-day is less than 2 weeks away. They're referring here to the day when England changes to decimalized currency. "A government agency coordinating the switch says everything is going smoothly. 'Our latest survey has shown that since November there has been an incredible improvement in the extent to which people are familiar with the decimal equivalents,' a Decimal Currency Board spokesman said Sunday. ·On February 15, the new pound, worth $2.40, officially will become worth 100 new pence."
CC: And next on the agenda here. "Vehicles are called the top noisemaker." Dateline is frem Paris. "Motor vehicles are the chief source of city noise, and only governments can do anything about it. This opinion is the result of a 2-year study by the consultant group on transportation research of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Develop- ment.'' Incredible ! (Laughter) "This problem is worldwi de."
LMP: Seems like you two have a good handle on world events, important world events.