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LMP: You can - Langrenus is now visible at the edge of Fecunditatis there, if you want to show that one.
LMP: And Humboldt is a crater that ought to show up very well on the television. That's the cracked floor crater there with a little dark mare.
CDR: Okay. There's all the swirls in Marginis. You can really see them now.
LMP: Okay. Early in our orbit, and particularly Ron_ he had the chance to work on the question of these light-colored swirls and Marginis has outstanding examples of them and I'11 try to get the camera pointed on those in the northern part of Marginis. Let me orient you, as soon as we're focused here. Okay - Smythii - I'11 point right at the center of Mare Smythii, and then move up towards Neper and then into the swirl area a little bit more north. And Gene will zoom you in and let you see what some of that looks like. I don't think we have a full answer at what the swirls are_ but some of the things that we saw in Ta-orus-Lit_row ana later from orbi_ aroun_ $ulpicius Galius may suggesv to people, from now on, that the possibility of aider- orion from fluids in the interior of _he Moon is more than jusv a possibility.
CC: _oger. That's a nice shot there of Marginls.
LMP: Can you see the swirls, Goray? Are _he very _if- fused, light-colored areas they cross various toDographlc feavures?
CC: That's affirmative, Jack. They're visible from here.
CDR: Okay. I'm going to give you an end-on views i__ I can, of Mare - of the Crisium Basin_ You should be seeing that now.
CMP: How is that_ Gene?
CC: That's a good picture of C_mslu_ +_- · as it is very evident on the right side of our picture_
LMP: Yes, that's right. And before long, we'11 be able to show the landing site and Tau_us-Littrow and I think you probably see Proclus, which is the bright crater just off the horizon now. That's the one with the excluded ray zone on its western or southwestern side.
CMP: it's not in view yet.
LMP: We may not see it, I think we're going the other way.
CDR: Right in _ uh_ = horizon_ The landing area, Taurus- Littrow_ and the edge of the Serenitatis Basin is probably _uso _ _ _ on the horizon now and i_m not sure it exactly - -
CMP: You can see the dark part of Serenitatis is stick- ing out of the Sea of Proclus the ray-excluded zone. No, that's Fecunditatis sticking up there_ isn't it? Because the ray perpendicular to o_ track now ooints right to the landing site right off of Proclus. and returned s_pies from is just about in the cen- ter of your field of view now. Just on the north side of Fecunditavis.
CC: Roger. f_d you're about 1300 miles up right now.
CDR: Wow! That's not a bad cliff0 is it, Oordy?
CC: Pretty good rate.
CDR: A friend of mine says "Wow woozle!"
CMP: Looking out window - window 3 now, and the Moon is just the size of the window, and i've got my face right up against the window.
CDR: Or maybe his bead's just the size of the Moon. We're not sure whisho
CMP: (Laughter) Thav's right.
CDR: i don't know what's happening down there now, Gordy, but this is where vhe action was one time.
CDR: Okay, we're starting to, I think, in a little bit, be able to show you the edge of the $erenitatis Basin° It's moving a little slowly righv now. it looks like it's creeping over the horizon. I think - -
CDR: But I'11 tell you wnat's on the horizon now. i'm not sure i can get it. Let me try the rendezvous window. I think I can show them Apollo 11's land- ing site. Tranquiliity there, if you - out the center window would be betver.
CMP: Yes, the center window, you could get it.
LMP: See the southern par_ of Fecunditatis, an_ then the Tranquiilitatis takes off to the west there, Gene, right along that southern edge of Fecundi_a_is is where Apollo 11 set down.
CDR: Yes, and a ±ittie bit north of _ne line %hat - of _he Pay of %hose two craters.
LMP: Okays Gordy_ in the center of your picture is - about right in there, - is the sou%hern edge of granquiiiity ani the Apollo il area anm thav was mhe ground track, of course, for Apoi_o _ and Apollo i0. Tape ]-57/9
LMP: Yes, we'11 put you back on Langrenus_ _£nieh is one of the Copernican-age craters, in this part of the Moon, and I believe it was Apollo 12 had an excellent opportunity for some several orbits to study Langrenus.
CC: Roger. We see that_ It stands out like a beacon there, on the right side of the picture, and we also saw Messier with its rays.
LMP: Okay, our landing site's in view now, Gene. -
CMP: You're a little bit off the field let me move - you're almost out of the field here. Let's see - Proclus -
LMP: Our landing area is just about in the center of your field of view right at the horizon now.
LMP: That's the best focus we've got, Gene°
CDR: OKays full zoom, and right in that region in %ne center should be the landing site of Apollo 17. Known, hereafter, I guess, as the Taurus-Littrow area.
CC: You're now 1500 miles above the surface_ and your climb rate was just computed at 295 000 feet per minute.
LMP: Sare glad they cleared %he traffic ou_ of the way. Let me - Gene_ let me switch over briefly and snow zhem the North and South Poles, which nobody really has done much with yet_ except for Lunar Orbiter, and some of the Russian vehicles. There's a spec- tacuiar valley off - on the South Pole. i don'v know tne n_me. iv looks like one of t_lese long chain of - - chain of craters.
CDR: Does thav snow up? Let me try i% _ivk - _er me vry some cf vhese others. Well, oh, here's wkere it goes.
LMP: Okay, Houston_ we're in - -
CDR: Huh? Good pictture?
LMP: ThatVs in the south polar regions. There's a - I think you can probably see a long chain of cra- ters, which so far unvisited by man_ In fact, the whole region has_ and that goes for the north pole.
CC: Rogers Jack_ That's very interesting. Can you zoom in on that whole valley?
LMP: i think that's the best we got, Gordy. That's fuml zoom.
LMP: it's one of the biggest crater - chain crater valleys that i've seen on the Moon. it - we saw some crossing Mendeieev, in the first few days, I think we zalked about, similar in shape but not nearly as big.
CC: Roger_ of Humboldt, which should show up very well now. We're just about directly overhead, it's unusuml - one of the few craters on the Moon thaz have a fairly flooded floor_ and appears to have been domed, and you probably can see some of the cracks in that floor.
CC: Okay, it's in the center of the field now; however, something is blocking the right side of the view.
CDR: How's that? That's real good now.
LMP: Around the edge of the dome floor, you can see some of the dark mare which is z.reva!en% elce_,'nere in the region but not so abundant within H_T,boiav.
CDR: '_d Mou - you - yo_ can see - if you can see - _ec_ i_ .._ 157/11 Tape
CDR: Tsiolkovsky is ... the terminis.
LMP: Oh, all right. Hey_ there's another view, if you _11 bear with us_ of our old friend Tsioikovsky_ Okay?
CDR: Okay, I got it° one.
CC: Roger. It's hard to mistake that
LMP: Yes, it's one of the more pic - picturesque basins. I guess partly - although it's big_ it's not so big you can't look at it all at once. S_thii and Crisimm and Serenitatis and imbrium, in partieuZar, once. are hard to look at all at You're always down inside of them in the 60-nauticai-mile orbit.
CC: Roger. Just might mention the diameter for those home. who are watching at That's about 180 miles across, think. I
LMP: (Laughter) Okay. That's pretty good. i was going to say about 200 kilometers, I-think_ is what it is, but - - right.
CMP: And_ Gordy_ of course, it's on a part of the Moon that you - you don't see from where you are.
LMP: Not yet, anyway.
LMP: Okay_ iez's see if we can move on along cur orbital track that we_ve been following and see what's new that's come into view. Once again, iT_i pick you _fou um at Sm_chii and raove into Mare Marginis_ zhe Margin Sea. And_ all the mare_ you may recai_ now_ we have pre,my good evidence as a reauL_ of _he Apollo - -
CMP: Change this ... around.
CMP: Goo D .
LMP: - - that our theories of basalt flows that some 3 to 4 billion years ago_ in round numbers, were erupted on the Moon and filled many of the !ow areas that existed at that time_ Not an a_'ui lot has happened ko the Moon since - except for the impact craters_ some of the younger ones, since 3 billion years ago, which is one of the reasons it becomes so interesting to nmm_ It's - the Moon's frozen in a period of history 3 billisn years and older, which is a veriod of history that we cannot recognize very readily on Earth because of the dynamic processes of mountain buii_ing and oceans and weathering that are taking place even at the present time. Underszanding that early history of the Moon may mean am understanding of the e_ly histcry of the Earth. And, Z chink we're well on our way to a first-order understanding of that history as a result of the Progr_a. Okay, going to take you a little bit farther along. Again, to Proclus_ _nich is the oLvious partially rayed crater with a big exciude_ zone zo the south- west. There's Mare Fecunmitatis and ics contact area with the Sea of Serenity, Mare Serenitaois_ and the landing site now has to be just about on the horizon. I think we were a little premazure before.
CMP: Yes, we were. That's Macrobius A and J just: oeyond PrDcius, vhere_ Yes_ that's really Macr©bius - - Serenitatis come over the horizon - -
LMP: - - and, if you take a Line from Proclus be_._,_en the two bright craters --- nave space _v here_
LMP: Yes, yes. How's that?
LMP: Take that line, and that will take you just about to the landing area, right at the edge of the ne×% big mare that you see.
CC: Okay, Jack_ we can follow that just as you told us there. Those three craters are very obvious.
LMP: The site, Gordo_ is now just to the left - iefb and a little below center of your picture_
CDR: You can see that ridge of mountains that sticks out and the landing site is - well, from here, anyway, right in that area.
LMP: Right, I guess my line was a little bit north of where we actually should have pointed you. There's some dark area just showing up around the edge of Serenitatis on the horizon. I think thaz will show in your picture as I remember some of these from Apollo 10 before. And it's jusv this side of the dark area that the Taurus-Littrow area sits, in the mountains, there.
CC: We think we have Maraldi in sight now.
LMP: - - Vitruvius should be visible to you just co the south of the landing area.
CDR: Vitruvius is in the monitor, so they should have ito
CDR: Jack, I think yon got a good view. You can see Censorinus now. You can probaoly get a real g_oa-^ ' shot aZ the ii site at ...
CDR: There's old Censorinuso It's awful _
CC: How big is it, Geno?
CDR: Okay, towards the southern border of - (laugnmer.]. Okay. 01d Censorinus is right in the mi&die of the screen.
CC: We see it.
CDR: You've been there before.
CC: 17, Houston. You"_e just passed 2000 miles.
LMP: 2000 miles° We've got about a 95-percent fu£_ KOCh in front of us. Not too far - matter of fact, think the Apollo 16 landing area would be just about on the horizon, to the south of Uranquiiii- taviso And back up to something that's ,sear and near to our hearts. You vrobabiy now can piuk out the mountains, the North and South Massif, if you really look closely. What do you think, Gene, from the monitor? Carl they see that?
CDR: I can't even see the Massifs with the naked eye. No. See the dark area there next to _.. - -
CDR: I know _¢here - Yes. I know where to look_ P_ it's awful hard to pick them out. But you're looking righz at it. Yon'ire got it rigk_ - jusm to the left con-car, it's just about perfect, zhe landing site. Therers a zz_le dark area in _naz peninsula of mountains chat sticks out and tko siva is just about right, in znat area.
CC: Roger, Gene, as you say - -
CC: - - we know where to iooK_ bat Ja's ;._a to con- firm exactly the structure %hereo 157/15 Tape
CDR: Extrapolation is the nature of our ar_o
CC: i just saw a flash, Jack.
LMP: I wish we could - Okay. I didn't hear theme Say again.
CC: i just saw a flash_
LMP: (Laughter) i wish we could show you some of the ?4oon color we see on the this trip, but I think we're a little too far away from it. We'11 see if we can ... back in o.. from here.
CC: We - we've been looking for that crater - -
LMP: Well, I can show you a picture of the con_mander. He's fairly colorful.
CDR: That's about what we're seeing, Gordy. i can't give you the bottom half because I can't quite move around the post here.
CC: Geno, we're getting a great picture ..o 80 percent of it.
CDR: You getting the whole movie? I'11 gev it. Okay, i think you can orient yourself with the big basins Jack's been talking about. There's Crisiu_. You can see the landing site up in the - what is to me the upper left-hand corner of the pictures but you can pick it out by now, I know. Get a better relationship. You're looking _ the Langrenus_ down there, that bright craver. You ought to be able to see Humboldt. Maybe Jack can give you the whole thing.
LMP: ... this in.
CDR: Need to ge_ the whole thing.
LMP: Yes. He said minimum zoom.
CDR: Yes. it's put on the ... Okay, vha%'s __ e-_t TM _ good, _+'s centered just abouv righv in the aenver. ---=o ought to fit your screen as we climb cuz. Just about tangential now.
CC: That's perfect righz where you got iv,
CDR: Okay, we_il hold thav for a minute_ ?he verhi_ra%cr is coming across_ of course, at the os-0oslce slae of the Moon from the big basin you're ioo__in_xay.
CC: Roger. ,
MCC: Geno_ what color does _a_ _ mare look like to you?
CDR: What color does the mare look like to me fror_ acre'?
MCC: Right.
CDR: Now, i'm a commander; do I have the right to change my mind? (Laughter)
MCC: I guess soo
CDR: Tom, yo_ know I always thought you couid alkm&)st make i% look whatever color you wanted ts_ ices so subtle. But the mass - the mare_ to me_ has go5 a grayish - a d_k grayish mixed with a very subtle tan_ and that's what i% looks like to me, from here.
CMP: This is the CMPo I agree with that.
CDR: The tan is sort of like a dusted tan in seoVs in and around and on the mare. I:d say zhat the basic - if i could pick out a chunk of that 6ray mare from here, t would picX ous a very sveel gray - a dull steel-gray coior_ but if i ,just took a mass of mare out, I'd have to mix it wish a sub,is - very, very subtle pastel tan,
CDR: Thas's perfect. You can see Tsiolkovsky r_ow ix sle terminator, down there, i think Jack's _ ...... a_ got the Hoot. centered perfect. You go% is:s_saovs__y on one end; she big basin's on the ocher one. how high are we_ Gordy?
CC: ,.. gray. Okay, you're 2327 mi_es_
CDR: You know: i chink it's worth noming, vdcile we're iockzng bacx as the entire Moon as wa _ee iv haz'e and you're seeing it vhere_ shay America so'__._5e rape 157/17 proud of Zhe Apollo heritage it's !eft here. i know we in _he program believe that _v _ really and truly been a heritage that will prove i_se!f to be one of the ben - most beneficial things that have happened to mankind in quite some time, al- though none of us can really predict the future. But I think everyone that has been part of this program has been proud of lo._ _o accom_iis_ents, l know we have. We're looking back at someplace_ I think, we will use as a stepping stone to go beyond some day_ Aaa those aren't words_ it's a faith I truly and dearly have_ And I think we will all see it in our lifetime, not jus_ as a nation, but as a world. -I think the A_po_±o''Program not only has given us the first steps to that sort of im- possible dream_ b_5 has given us an opportunity to make the first steps in bringing a world together as one unit_ so -that we can make shat step together_ it's been a privilege sharing the 3ro- gram - that part of it that we_ve been in with as many people as we have and as many peeple as we can, because l_ve often thought and Itve often said before that anything that's worshwhiie doing and doing well, is certair_y worthwhile sharing with others. This is hlsoor_,_ _ _ being made in our time_ while you and I are alive, not i00 years ago or 1000 years ago_ and it's sort of the real thing happening right now_ You're living iv_ not just us. We hope that ycu're getting as much out of it, not just feeling of pleasure and exci%ement_ but that of accompiis_me_t_ as we are_
CC: Thank you, Gene. Speakin6 for the grounm_ as oar_ of the Apollo Team, we second those thoughts_ which you put very well.
CDR: Well, ,Gordy, itTs nov o_r accomplishmen_ izts the accom_iishmenvs of a nazion_ And ±_ =_amn_ -_xe xexz set of accompiisP_ments are the aacomells_nen%s of mankind. i'd like 30 more or less _'eiterave _na-_ _e_ zo say as we finished our %hisd EV_%, anl zha% vas zhav zhe valley of '....... _ ' _ _-' _he soaceshi_ A_r,.erica saw %ne comp_ezzon of man- kind's first szeps - firs5 evo/a_sionary acecs from the planet Earth into toe universe_ _ _hin[_ i_'s important that in doing sos he establishes a_ mra- dition of peace and freedom wi_nin the so_a__ system. From that larger homes now_ we move to greev _he future.
CMP: Well, you know, Houston, and America and _ha _,crld, this is the co=_aand module pilot of the spaceshzp America, and I just feel quite honored and proud to have been a part of this Apollo Program. The Moon, itself_ is a magnificent, i_'s a dyn_m - well, i hate to use the word dynamic, because iv's really not dynamic, but it's a marvelous planet. it has all the wonde_'fui opportunity for explora- tion. Man must explore_ We will continue to explore, and I hope _ha_ some day we may all nave the opportunity to see mankind en_oy _ne benefits of the exploration of the Apollo Program.
CC: Thank you very much for the great TV show and _ne - and your final words. We enjoyed every nit of' it.
CDR: And, Gordy, _-ith that, we're about behina our timeiine_ as we fully expected we might be at vhis point in time, but believe me, it has been abe- ginning, it is a beginning, I don't mhink there ever will be an end, not as long as man is alive and willing. APOLLO 17 AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION
CC: America, Houston. We didn't have data, of course, while you had the TV on. We're wondering if you configured the SIM bay on our voice call or had you done it earlier? Over.
CDR: No, Gordo. We were late. When you called - I guess "PAN CAMERA, ON," we went back and configured a SIM bay and followed those steps in the Flight Plan that follow "TV, ON." We had not done that.
CC: Okay. No problem. We're just - Just wondered what we had there.
CDR: Okay. Are we up to date on the SIM bay now, or you satisfied?
CC: No, we're just now getting some data, and taking a look. We'11 let you know. Okay. We'11 take PAN CAMERA, OFF, now.
LMP: Okay. The PAN CAMERA power is OFF.
LMP: Okay, Gordy. S-BAND AUX TV is going to SCIENCE.
CDR: Gordy, it's going to be hard to leave this attitude, but we're going to maneuver now.
CMP: And, Houston; America. Mag Delta Delta ls empty now. The last 50 percent was used for taking pictures of the TEI.
CDR: Gordo, going back at that burn. It was an out- standing burn. We were looking about a half a g throughout the burn. She lit off on time. She was a very steady burn. I think she reversed roll a - a couple of times in the dead band. The computer and the EMS were with each other all the way. t
CMP: Chamber pressure on bank A started out at about 87. Bank B brought it up to about 92, 93. And when I first sat down, it was reading 0, now it's reading 5.
CC: Okay, Ron. We got 6 down here.
CDR: Okay, so in all other respects, the burn was nominal, Gordy. You got the burn report and the residuals, and we'11 leave the tracking to you.
CDR: I might add, I don't think they built spacecraft any better than they built these two.
CC: I don't see how they could have.
CMP: I'11 sure second that.
CDR: I finally found what I was looking for. I got the man in the Moon.
CDR: For all you nonbelievers, I verify he really is there.
CDR: Gordy, these next series of maneuvers - bring us - bring our middle gimbal angle pretty close to the apple [?]. We're watching it, but appreciate - you not hesitating giving us a call, too.
CDR: Gordo. In answer to PP's [?] question about %he color of the maria down there, when you look at Serenitatis, of course we saw this earlier, when we were much closer, but when you look a% it from up here, it's - it's got on the northeast side, a very - quite thick, laterally across %he surface, dark - typically dark with %he tannish colors i was talking about - mare - which sort of Lorders it. But just north of the - the overla_, between Tranquility and Serenita_is, that con_ac_ c}_es sharply to a - the grays are gone - it'_ a vary sharp contrast and I think those who ?lave see_ _t 158/3 Tape before will remember it, but Serenitatis from where we stand is - much more tan dominated, than gray dominated.
CDR: Gordo, we'11 get those numbers out of the first state vector out of the computer here shortly. No hurry to do it though.
CDR: Do you have our altitude now? About 4000 miles maybe?
CC: I lost that display. Let me check here.
CDR: No, I'm just trying to relate it to when we were coming in. I'd say it's more like 5.
CC: 3100.
CDR: 3100. Okay.
CC: America, Houston. Sorry to say that the LCRU has pretty well crumped, evidently. We were talking over the biomed schedule and suggest that with your choice, either Gene stay on it or Jack go on it, and then we'11 get back to the Flight Plan rotation after the EVA. Over.
CDR: Okay, I'11 stay on it through the EVA. How's that?
CDR: And we'11 pick - we'11 pick Jack and Ron in the morning.
CC: Well, we don't see any correlation either, but we're trying to look for some.
LMP: Okay; let me know when you have an answer.
CDR: Houston, America. When you get a hack on - on our track, I'd like to get a first-cut estimate at it.
CC: Okay; will do.
CC: Geno, it'11 take about an hour to get a good hack, to get that much tracking. However, earlier, the Retro was betting everybody there wouldn't be any midcourses.
CDR: That's a - that's a good way to feel. Okay, we'11 - we'11 talk to you in an hour about it.
LMP: Whose the wild man Retro? I don't want to play poker with him.
CC: It's old ... He's a former B-17 pilot. They're - they're always right on.
LMP: Now you're starting to scare me.
CDR: You can pass the word to Captain Green, back there on the Ti to clear the flight decks.
CC: Okay, we'11 do it. LML° The last time I had anything to do with a bomber pilot, Gordy, he was scheduling my airplane.
CDR: We got PTC orientation in the computer?
CC: Negative. But we got it ready to come to you, if you give us ACCEPT.
UNKNOWN: Okay. It's all yours.
LMP: Gordy, I'm afraid the weather reports on the way back of the only planet that really has much weather visible, will be a little repetitive.
CC: Jack, we're heartbroken.
LMP: For your for - first report, you can Just play the recording back; it's sunny and clear.
CC: You're right on that one - -
LMP: The only sign of any weather - -
CC: - - except that you left out the fact that it's - cold also, here.
LMP: Gordy, you didn't listen. I can't see the Earth. I'm talking about that other planet.
CC: Okay. Depending on what part you're looking at, it's cold there, too. We got you, though. You got your REFSMMAT, you can go back - -
LMP: There might be traces of an atmosphere - -
CMP: one more chance at a P52.
LMP: Then, the LMP gets to start trying.
CDR: Gordy, I can look back and - with the glasses - the binoculars, and I can see the white mantle and see all the massifs in the landing area.
CC: Back when you had the tube on it, I - I really think - I knew we were looking in the right spot, but you know it was just blurry enough that - you couldn't be sure of exactly what you were looking at.
LMP: Gordy, let me - since I don't have anything else to do right now, apparently, I'11 see - tell you a couple of things I see right here. The annulus - the dark annulus around Serenitatis, does not look complete in - in the due-north area. Oh, there're little partial pieces of dark material up there, but the main part of the annulus seems to cross into the mare region that's north of Serenitatis, and I can't remember the name of that right now. But it very clearly crosses right over there as a band and then dies out in that north region.
CMP: Okay, Houston. There's the torquing angle.
CMP: Okay. And I'11 torque at - it looks like - at 238:10. I guess you really don't care, though, do you?
LMP: And, once again, albedowise and hue - color-hue- wise, the - that annulus is the same as at Tran- quility, and essentially the same as most of Feeunditatis. The areas - although Tranquility and Fecunditatis are mottled ... with tan colors, the - that mottling seems to be local and, probably in large part, related to rays that cross those - those seas.
LMP: At this viewing angle, the dark mantle around Taurus-Littrow area is just a darker shade of blue-gray to me of the annulus, it's a - more just a medium gray, i guess. Whereas the Sulpic_us Gallus dark mantle is a brown-gray, quite aistinct in its color hue - to me, at any rate.
CC: Roger. 158/7 Tape
CMP: Houston, I can't see any stars out there, so I'm going to false torque it instead of coarse align.
CMP: Hopefully, the reason I can is because - cannot - is because the Earth is right in the field of view, and it's still pretty bright.
CC: America, we've got a little musical selection for you here. Stand by. (Music: Going Back to Houston, by Dean Martin)
CDR: That's very appropriate. I re_ember that being played one other time after a TEI burn.
CC: Roger. I think it came the other direction that time, didn't it?
CDR: If you stand by, we'11 express to you our senti- ments here, with a short little tune I think you will enjoy.
CC: Okay; standying by.
UNKNOWN: God Bless America, by Tennessee Ernie Ford)
CC: Hey, thank you very much. Very enjoyable and also very appropriate.
CDR: It certainly has a twofold meaning for us.
UNKNOWN: That's about par for the CMP, now.
CC: Ho hum, another all balls.
CDR: You hit it right on the money.
CC: Okay; we've got those.
CMP: Okay; and we'11 torque at 238:23.
CDR: Gordo, I'11 maneuver in about 10 minutes.
CC: GO ahead, Ron.
CMP: You reckon you'd have one of the photo guys down there to figure out when we could get a full Moon with an 80-millimeter lens.
CC: Okay. I'11 put them to work on it.
CDR: Okay; appreciate it.
LMP: On the pan camera, you said to expect to see barber pole when we ran it. I did not see that just for your information. It went barber pole and then gray.
LMP: And, Gordy, several times I have reminded myself to tell you guys something and I keep forgetting. I think it - was yesterday when we did an oxygen pUrge on fuel cell 3 after about - oh, I think iv it was a minute, possibly a minute and a half. The high 02 flow warning was triggered. Normally that is not triggered when we do the Drudge. That's the one and only time it's happened. This last one, prior to TEi, there was - it was wizhin the green band and there was no fuel cell caution and warning. Just thought you might be interested in that one.
CC: Okay, Jack; thank you.
CMP: Houston, Ron here. I think I got - that - on fuel cell 3 too in one of my fuel cell purges, when I was up here by myself. Probably shows up on the data anyhow.
CDR: And you can tell Farouk that - that crater out on Fecunditatis that I've got a picture of, that we worked on back at the Cape and studied quite a bit, has got all the attributes of everything he told me about it.
CDR: Yes, and that's the one - that's the one I was describing on this morning.
CMP: Also, be advised the inner ring of the - the basin Arabia is quite visible. It looks like there is a - shallow depression outside the inner ring and when you get up at this altitude right around Saenger, it is indeed, it looks like a raised-up plateau crossing Saenger. And, also, in the vicinity is King - King is almost going into the _erminator now, well, it's 10 or 15 degrees from the terminator. But you can see a little bit of a raised-up plateau, that takes in the crater King and goes about a crater - a King Crater - a diameter and a half or maybe 2 diameters to the south, and a crater and a half to the north of King.
UNKNOWN: know, Houston, it's also interesting to note, that the - the range of color, from this altitude and from 60 miles, doesn't seem to change at ail, really. In other words, the same impressions that I had of color in the 60-mile orbit are the s:_e impressions that I have now_ of the ssar_eareas.
CC: Okay, that's interesting. You're a livtle over 5000 miles out, at the moment.
CDR: Gordy, you don't have that number on this millimeter camera, do you? We're going to maneuver and i'd like to get a last shot at it.
CC: Okay. Well, you're far beyond the point where you can cover the whole Moon with an 80. We were just trying to come up with an altitude for filling up the 250, but you'11 get the Moon and then some with the 80, right now.
CMP: Okay, that's good. Then we'11 take it with the 80.
CMP: Oh, okay. 240:30, it looks like for the 250 lens.
CC: 17, Houston. Gordon's off the console for the moment. We'11 wait a couple of minutes on the onmi. LMA° Okay.
CC: America, Houston. We need OMNI Delta.
LMP: Okay. You've got OMNI Delta.
CC: Okay. Eh_D OF TAPE Tape159/1 APOLLO 17 AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION
LMP: Looking at our sketches here and trying to figure out exactly what we're looking at in the dark part of the Earth. I guess it's you and, if it's a clear night, you ought to have a pretty full Moon looking back at you.
CC: That's right we do. In fact, it's nice and clear all day and I could see it as I came in this afternoon. Your subspacecraft point right now is over the Yucatan Peninsula.
LMP: Yes, it's just about the chart I'm looking at, Gordo. Looks like about right smack in the center.
CDR: Gordy, do you have a general trend on the pre- diction in the recovery area?
CC: I haven't - haven't heard one, but I'11 see if we can get one.
CMP: Okay. We're going to retract the mapping camera. 5, 4, 3, 2, 1-
CC: Okay, and we want to keep it running to run the film out of it.
CMP: Barber pole.
CC: Okay. We thought it should have been gray by now.
CMP: (Chuckle) Okay, let's see. I've got -we're coming up on 4 minutes.
CC: That's what I've got.
CMP: Took a while - took a while, hut it made it.
CMP: Okay, the COVER has gone CLOSE; barber pole, gray.
CC: America, Houston. Got a couple of answers for caution/warning you here. On this - the 02 in- dication on the purge, at the time you were pulling 37.8 amps out of fuel cell 3 because the SIM bay was fired up and that'11 result in abouz a flow of 1.37 pounds per hour which - and the trip limit is 1.2, so that's why you got the - the flag on it and you can expect to get the caution/warning anytime you've got 33 amps or more being pulled out of the fuel cells at the time you purge. Over.
CMP: Ah ha, okay. That sounds good, then.
CC: Also, we've tracked you a while now a_ud midcourse 5 looks like a whopping 0.3 of a foot per second at the present time.
CDR: Beautiful, Gordy, beautiful.
CMP: That is outstanding.
CC: America, Houston. In answer to your question about the weather at splashdown, the area right now is 2000 scattered and 10, winds variable at 10. And forecasting the same - 2000 scattered and 10, with 3-foot waves, variable at 10 knots on the wind, and some rain showers, but less than 10-percent coverage on the rain showers in the area. Over.
CDR: Oh, you're full of good news tonight. Thank you.
CC: Go ahead and give us OMNI Charlie, please, while you're talking.
CC: Also, Jack, we'd like you - -
LMP: Hey, Gordy, this is Jack - since I can't give you - -
CC: - - we'd like H 2 TANK 1 FAN, OFF.
CC: Thank you go ahead.
LMP: Okay, we got all three of them off now. Right, Gordy?
CC: That's affirmative. LqP Hello, Gordy.
CC: Hello; go ahead, Jack.
LMP: Okay, since I can't help you out on the weather right now in the Pacific, can you give me a run- down of what things look like out there?
CDR: I already got it.
LMP: Oh, I'm sorry. I wasn't on the loop. Apparently you already briefed somebody on that.
CC: I covered the recovery area. Not the rest of the Pacific. Did you want an overall briefing?
LMP: No. I was just curious what the recovery area looked like, and I'm sure that my compatriots will clue me in on it, if I'm nice to them.
CC: Yes. I'11 save them the trouble. It's going to be 2000 scattered, 10 miles, 3-foot waves, variable at 10 knots, and less than 10 percent chance of rain showers. And that's Just about what the weather is now, and also forecast.
CC: Jack, you've got a lot of SIM bay data stored up there that we'd like to get dumped. Can you give us the HIGH GAIN; PITCH, 30; YAW, 3207
LMP: Okay, PITCH, 30; YAW, 320.
CC: Thank you, sir. L_ Gordy, what altitude are we at now?
CC: Stand by, I'11 check. 8500 miles.
LMP: You clipped. Say again.
CC: 8500 miles. Okay. 159/5 Tape
CDR: Gordy, as we're maneuvering, I guess we got one of the most spectacular views of the Moon I've ever seen, from a position like this. It's like - Just short of being 100 percent full. We can still see from Tsiolkovsky all the way across the Moon and it's just absolutely magnificent and I'm afraid we're talking here - that the pictures just won't capture the real three-dimensional picture we're looking at. But, uniquely with the binocs I can still see the light mantle in the landing area.
LMP: Well, it seems to me we're not only moving away from the Moon, but we're moving across the face, and I took a picture about 5 minutes ago of the Moon, and it seems to me we could take another one at some X-number of minutes and have pretty good stereo if we matched the printing of the two pictures in terms of scale. And, I'm wonder- ing what's a good time elapse here for a good stereo of the whole globe?
CC: Okay, we understand the problem, but I'm not - Well, we'11 try.
LMP: Well, I guess, if you could figure out what it would - how far we have to move across the face of the Moon and how long that would take to get about a - oh, shoot, a 30 to 1 base-heighth ratio'd probably be enough - 20 to 1 would prob- ably be better, obviously, but 30 to t, you could still see the stereo. And you ought to be able to figure that problem out. How fast do - do the guys know how fast we're moving across the face of the Moon?
CC: No, I'11 put that one to FDO. Just looking at the big chart up here_ I'm sure that vhe rate is slowing down rapidly, and - because you're - the farther you get away, of course, the straighter away from it you're going. Stand by, I'11 see what we can do.
CC: Jack, this is Houston with kind of a crude answer to your question.
CC: Okay, it turns out right now that you're not moving across the lunar surface very fast, and and you - it's getting less less - right now, I guess it's about a mile per minute. It would take a lot of minutes to get much of a stereo base since you're 10,000 miles out. But, remembering back to Ron's final picture there before you went to the UV attitude, after he asked the question about how high he had to be to fill up the 80-millimeter lens, I think he took one at that time. We're thinking of combining a picture now with that picture, and then enlarging the one to get it to the equivalent diameter. And, some rough calculations of your longitude at that time and then - now, show that you've changed about 21 degrees across the surface of the Moon between that picture and the present time, which comes out, if you take the average altitude between that time and now to - to about a 25-to-1 stereo base, as best I can figure.
LMP: Sounds good enough, Gordy. We've got it - I got that one at 5 minutes. I mean at 240 on the hour, so those are probably pretty close.
CC: I would guess, you know, that the angle of looking at it - other factors have changed sc much vhat it would be pretty hard to pull them together once you - even though you get the images reduced to the same size, but it might be interesting _o try.
LMP: I agree.
CC: America, Houston. There's some items coming here now in the Flight Plan. A couple of them, MAPPING CAMERA, RETRACT, and COVER, CLOSED, you've already done. However, right now we still see the mapping camera film rolling, so we want to leave it r_ning until we give you a cue to turn it off - get all the film run out. And, the up-link for a state vector that's shown there will not be necessary. Over.
LMP: We were looking forward to get to do something. Now, we'11 wait a little bit longer.
CDR: Couldn't you just flash a couple of lights on the DSKY just to keep us occupied?
CC: Send a crew alert or something?
LMP: Yes, throw it in once in a while just to keep us on our toes, Gordy.
CC: The Surgeon had a suggestion. He said if you really get bored, you could all put on your biomed harnesses.
CDR: Only listen to about half of what goes down, will you?
CDR: Gordy, you got any words on the SIM bay prior to going into PTC?
CC: Nothing additional, Geno, go ahead as per Flight Plan with the one exception. We'11 give you a cue when to stop the mapping camera as soon as the film runs out.
CDR: Okay, we'11 hold up on the mapping c_mera and its cover, and we'11 get the IR, OFF.
LMP: And the COVER is CLOSED.
LMP: Hey, Gordy, this is Jack. Is there any updated briefing on the status of the lunar surface equip- ment and SIM bay findings over and above what we got? I guess - I can't remember when it was - yesterday or some time.
CC: I can't think of anything really outstanding. We're Just right now coming up on another charge detonation; however, I think I mentioned that the LCRU is "kaput." So, we won't be able to watch it. We're looking at the seismometer traces here. Other - I'11 come back with any other words to update you on yesterday's report in a little bit here.
LMP: Okay, I - just updated stuff. If something new comes in or - is all we're interested in.
CMP: Okay, Gordy, we're going to maneuver now to PSO attitude.
CC: America, Houston. You've Just run out of mapping camera film. You can go ahead and clean up the items at 240:30 to power down the mapping camera.
LMP: Okay, Gordy, we're going RETRACT.
CC: Okay, I think it should already be in, with the Cover do_llq.
CC: And just now, the charge exploded at Taurus- Littrow, and we're seeing the results on the tracers here.
LMP: Which one was it, Gordy? Do you know?
CC: Okay, that one was number 8. A quarter-pound charge, and I guess it was fourth - I'm not sure which location that was. It was 0.4 of a mile from the LCRU, if that helps you decide.
CC: America, Houston. We'd like H2 TANK 1 FAN, ON, please. That'11 get it up for - prior to the sleep period.
LMP: Okay, TANK 1 is ON.
CDR: And, Gordo, the canister is changed.
CMP: They - Houston - or Gordo, Ron here.
CMP: Okay, Gordo. As a result of number 5 [?] today and a little bit of a feeling of a little bit of gas right now, with - well, the possibility of a - of the desire, I feel like it may be worthwhile for me to take a Lomotil, and I'd like to get your concurrence on that.
CDR: Houston, America. How are our rates looking?
CC: Stand by. They're not down there yet. We want to wait a little bit, Gene.
CC: America, Houston with a response to Ron's question. Over.
CC: Okay, for gas, we're recommending on - only - we're definitely not recommending the Lomotil; we're recommending the gas pills; however - -
CC: - - we also don't recommend the Lomotils for a situation that really hasn't developed yet. If you want to discuss it in more detail, we can set up a private loop or - or go ahead as you wish. Over.
CMP: Stand by a minute.
CMP: Hey, Gordo.
CMP: Yes, we'd like to talk to you further, please.
CC: Ckay. Fine.
CC: Azuerica, Houston. It looks good right now to start the roll for PTC.
CDR: She's GO, Gordo.
CC: America, Houston. Sleep configuration on the hydrogen fans, and you can do it now, is H 2 TANK 1 FAN, OFF, and 3, AUTO. That's 1, OFF; 3, AUTO.
CDR: Okay, Gordy, we got 1, OFF; 3, AUTO.
CC: On that PTC startup, there was only one Jet that fired, and so we only got half the rate we need, and so the - I guess the only way to recover is to stop the roll and start damping the rates again and wait for our call to start it again - over again. Over.
CMP: Roger again.
CC: And we'd like the procedure on G8-2 using B-2 and D-2 for the spinup. Two Jats.
CMP: Yes. That's interesting. B-2 and D-2 are both on.
CC: Okay, we understand that, Ron. Let us look into that a little further here, then.
CMP: I'm sorry. It's D-1 and - Dog I and Bravo 2 are on.
CC: Okay, that's what did it.
CDR: Delta I and Bravo 2 is what it calls for, and that's what was on.
CMP: Yes, those are the wrong ones though; _hat's the problem.
CC: Well; we're reading it both in the checklist and Flight Plan; Bravo 2 and Delta 2 are the ones to use for spinup. the wrong ones, I guess.
CMP: Okay, Gordy, is this a good attitude or should we go back to the UV/PTC sleep attitude?
C: is on the other loop here. Just a second.
CC: America, Houston. You need to go back to the pitch and yaw in the Flight Plan, and the present roll will be okay.
CC: Also for this damping, we want you to go to the Jets called out at 240:50 in the Flight Plan. That's a - Well, you got it there.
LMP: Yes, we got it here.
CMP: Okay, give us a call when we get all damped out there. We got Alfa and Bravo for damping Jets.
CMP: Hey, wait a minute; we got the wrong ones here. Forget it. We'11 get back to that. What's in the Flight Plan will do it?
CC: Roger. I would think - You're firing into the SIM bay - bay with the present configura%ion.
CDR: Gordo, how's it looking for a midcourse 5? Any further word?
CC: Our last information was still a half a foot. Or essentially no midcourse. I'm not sure if we've been affected by the PTC here or not, the single- Jet spinup, but we'11 let you know.
CDR: Okay, fine. Don't worry about it. You won't have until a final word on it tomorrow anyway.
CC: That's affirmative. I doubt if we'11 have any - enough tracking before bedtime here to give you any update tonight.
CDR: Okay, no problem.
CC: And we'd like you to configure the HIGH GAIN for us. We'd like PITCH, minus 40; and YAW, 90, on the dials and then go directly from AUTO to REACQ.
CDR: Okay, say again the numbers, Gordo. I'm sorry; I missed them.
CC: Okay, PITCH is minus 40 and YAW, plus 90. and
CDR: Okay, minus 40 a plus 9 - 90.
CDR: And REACQ.
CMP: We have REACQ and NARROW.
CDR: REACQ and NARROW now. END OF TARE
CC: Okay, this SIM bay jett configuration Just isn't hacking the job of damping the rates. We're going to go to adjacent quads to try to get it dampened quicker. We'd like you to enable Charlie and Delta. To do that, Just disable all Alfa and Bravo jets, enable all Delta Jets and also Charlie 3. Over.
CDR: Okay, Gordo. Let me disable all Alfa and Bravo first.
CC: Okay, Geno. And then enable all Delta plus Charlie 3.
CDR: Okay. You don't want Charlie 4 enabled? Or you do? ... - -
CC: That's affirmative. But it is already.
CDR: Okay, you're - Yes, here's what I got. I got - B/D I got Delta i and Delta 2 on ROLL. I've got Charlie 3 and Charlie 4 for PITCH, and I've got Delta 3 and Delta 4 for YAW. Okay. That sounds exactly right.
CDR: America here.
CC: Okay. The rates look good now. I'd like you to use Bravo 2 and Delta 2, and go ahead and spin up.
CDR: Okay, Gordy. We'11 do it - get it this time.
CDR: Okay, Gordy; they're all off. They're all off except Bravo 2 and Delta 2.
CDR: Yes, we got the right amount that time. Let's hope it stays good.
CC: Okay. For Ron only, no Seconal tonight. Over.
CC: America, Houston. G&C, with his years of expe- rience, thinks that this PTC is going to hold. It's looking good so far, and so I think it's safe to go ahead and configure to go to sleep there, if you wish.
CC: Hello, America; Houston. Over.
CDR: Bob?
CC: That is affirm.
CDR: Okay. We're just about ready to turn out the lights. By m_watch, about 7:20 in the morning is wakeu p time, and I got the other guys on their couches and I'm going to stand the duty tonight and I'm going to leave my lightweight headset in mY ear. But if the high gain bothers me during this PTC, I want to go ahead and take it out. And I've got the tone booster connected up and it does work. So, in any event, give me a crew alert in the morning, will you?
CC: Okay. You want a - are you telling me you want to get woke up after 8 hours or at 7:20 as planned?
CDR: No, as - as by the Flight Plan. We've got to get up as by the Flight Plan.
CC: Okay. Talk to you in the morning. And we'd like OPTICS POWER, OFF, ... - -
CDR: - - ... Okay, I Just didn't want you to ... yes, sir; we'11 get the OPTICS POWER, OFF, and we'11 get the VOICE, OFF, too.
CC: Okay; that suits - makes everybody happy - -
CDR: Okay, we'11 see you in the morning then.
CC: See you in the morning.
CDR: Okay, babe. 162-165/1 Tapes APOLLO 17 AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION REST PERIOD - NO COMMUNICATIONS
CDR: 01 (Music: Home For The Holidays by Jerry Vale i
CDR: Good morning, Robert. Good morning.
CC: Good morning, Geno.
CDR: Hey, your choice of music is getting better down there. We're going to have to keep you there every morning.
CC: Well, if I'm here waking you up on Wednesday morning, fellow, you're in trouble.
CDR: Yes, we're not going to count Wednesday. We'11 - we'11 work out something else for Wednesday. I - I know we're not much, but we're all you got for Christmas.
CC: Okay, America, this is Houston. One little update for you on today's plans. At the present time, midcourse 5 is looking like a quarter of a foot per second, which means at the present time, we're not planning on burning it. But we reserve the right to change our minds sometime in the next hour and a half, if necessary. But that'11 give you some thought to what to do today.
CDR: Very good, Bob. Outstanding. We'11 go along with whatever you want.
CC: You guys are getting easy.
CDR: Oh, we get more likable as days go on. pilot of the spaceship America. And we're up _d ready to particpita - participate in _uo_her day's activities. participate with you, also.
CMP: (Laughter) Okay, Robert.
CDR: Got cold up here last night.
CC: Well, I'11 tell you, it was 27 at Ellington at 6 o'clock down here, too.
CDR: Well, it's not quite that cold in here, but there sure is a difference.
CDR: And, Bob, how's America looking to you down there?
CC: We're looking pretty good. We found nothing over- night to give us any concern, and we see nothing at the present time. Looks great. We're showing you at 66 degrees in the cabin.
CDR: Yes, sir. We're going to get it warmed up here, though, slot - shortly. Okay; America still looks good to us.
CC: And, America, you're now in the Earth control. We passed about 2 minutes ago.
CDR: What was our - what was our velocity going through the changeover in influence?
CC: And, Geno, you had 3851 feet per second going through the crossover.
CDR: Okay. We're looking back at a - a very full ar.d very bright, very beautiful Moon, righ_ now. ._d the Man in the Moon is smiling as he's waving us on home.
CC: Copy that. We had a good picture of him last night here down in Houston, also.
CC: America, Houston. Over. 166/3 Tape
CC: Okay. We lost you there with an antenna change that we didn't catch. So we're back with you again.
LMP: Yes, we noticed that.
LMP: Hey, Bob. What time does the old back room get up this morning?
CC: Which back room?
LMP: The geology back room, of course.
CC: Well, beats me. I don't know if there's anyone down there or not. Let me see if I can find out. pass on a thought. I had a little trouble getting to sleep last night. And they've probably already thought of it. But it has to do with Van Serg.
CC: Go ahead. I'11 copy it down.
LMP: No, just ask them if they've thought about the possibility that the - those Van Serg breccias might be - might be the old indurated regolith over the subfloor.
CC: Okay; I got that.
LMP: That's an alternative that in the - the heat of battle did not occur to me at the time. it should have, and it may have occurred to some of them.
CC: Okay. Thats as opposed to being a window through - to the - below the subfloor, which is whav you suggested the other night.
LMP: Yes, sir. I think I - I think I like the regolith better, it - I think it makes sense from a lo% of points of view: the size of the crater, vhe fact that we should have expected to see sometl[in_ but hadn't up to that time.
CC: Okay. I got that.
LMP: And the breccias were, thinking back on it, could very easily have been soil breccias and just getting coarser as you got closer to the base of the sub - to the top of the subfloor, which is what we were looking at down in the bottom of _he crater.
LMP: Bob, is your EECOM friend going to let us practice the waste wa_er dump again today?
CC: I kind of expect so. Stand by and let me find out for sure. Roger, Jack. There's one coming up at 252:50, about 2 hours from now.
CC: We won't let you sneak behind the Moon on this one.
LMP: Who's the EECOM this morning?
CC: Charlie Dumis.