Otrobonita/noicy-space-talks huggingface dataset:
LMP: Hello, Hou - Houston; 17. How do you read?
CC: Roger. We have you back again, 17.
CDR: Okay. We may play the S-band squelch by ear, a little bit. We got an awful lot of noise when you guys drop off the line. So, if that's all right, we'11 Just use it as required. Also, I'm on frame 163 on the Hasselblad, and I just completed two pictures of the Earth about 5 minutes ago. And there's one that I did not report late yes- terday at about 72:30 GET. A set of two pictures of the Earth.
CC: Say again that time. Was that 78:30? You were sleeping then.
CDR: Negative. That was 72:30.
CC: Okay. Copy that. And part of the reason we had a little problem that - this - this last time, Jack, was we planned to call the omnis and we didn't get the word around down here. And we didn't call the omni to you in time. We're still planning on doing that, and I think we'11 be more coordinated next time.
LMP: Okay. We'11 bear with you.
CC: And, Jack, I presume that's magazine November November.
LMP: That's affirm, Bob. 55/1 Tape
CC: OMNI Charlie, 17, please.
CC: And, Apollo 17; Houston. For your information, we are scrubbing midcourse 4; and you can stay in PTC until 83:30, which will be about when you start to get ready for LOI anyway. We'11 give you a call on that.
LMP: Hey, Bob, we're about three-quarters of the way through eating. You got some news for us?
CC: Stand by. I'11 see. Did you catch the midcourse-4 scrub?
LMP: Yes, sir. Apparently, you're not getting some of our acknowledgements.
CC: Okay, must be. Captain Young here wants to tell you that it's raining outside; and the paperboy apparently hasn't come in yet. OMNI Delta, please.
CDR: I'm surprised he didn't get his papers delivered before he came in.
CC: Roger. I suppose I should apologize to all the paperboys after saying that, but the news is still being put together for you guys. And - stand by.
CC: And, Geno, some advice to you on the gas pills. I guess - suggestion down here from the Surgeon is that one thing we ought to be sure to do is chew the pills thoroughly. It apparently is - helps in their effectiveness quite a bit; and Dr. Young, beside me, also suggested if you're chewing chewing gum, you might cut down on that a bit because he thinks this might be causing some gas.
CDR: I might add that both of those alternatives have been - worked on.
CC: We thought probably so.
LMP: Bob, although we're getting close to concentrating our attention on the Moon, it doesn't decrease the interest in looking back at the patterns of activity we can see on the Earth. That storm I talked about yesterday that was in North Africa, looks like it has left that area and has moved in - maybe, if it's there at all, it's Just over the - Iberian Penin- sula. And maybe Gibraltar and that area is getting a little activity today.
CC: Okay; copy that, Jack. It does not look very well organized, but - it's not very well organized right now, but - it's right out on the LM, and it's hard to get a good view of it.
LMP: The storm I guessed yesterday - I thought might be moving into the Cape of Good Hope looks like it's dissipating and also staying south of that area. The whole of Africa is essentially clear, except in the southern part of the intertropical convergence area where there's scattered patches of - of fairly dense clouds. They're probably getting scattered rain showers of some kind in there this morning. Some of those extend farther south than I've - than we've seen them - down into South Africa. There's a - On one of the earlier revs, although now it 's at the terminator, it looked like there was a depression developing about BO degrees longitude, east of Madagascar in the middle of the Indian Ocean. A little bit northeast of Madagascar, there's also a new area of clouds developed that looks like it's getting organized into a cyclone pattern.
CC: Roger. OMNI Alfa, please.
LMP: Okay, you got it. 55/3 Tape
CC: Okay. And, Jack, while you guys are finishing your lunch - your breakfast there, excuse me - Are you all on your headsets?
LMP: Yes, sir. Go ahead.
CC: Okay. Let me brief you on a little funny that we we saw last night. And I'11 start the briefing by mentioning that, at the present time, it is not a great concern; but just to keep you up to date with what's going on, let me mention it to you. About 70 hours, which was probably about the time of your last exercise period, we saw three funnies with the hydrogen tanks - as I say, none of which is causing any great concern. The first of these was a shift of the limits of the pressure switch, the one that turns the heaters on and off. Remem- ber, there are two of those switches, one on tank 1 and one on tank 2 and they work in series. And one of those switches - we can't tell which, but we suspect it's probably tsm_k 2 because of the other funnies I'11 get to in a minute on tank 2 - one of those switches went from a 1B-psi range; in other words, a plus or minus 6.5-psi range. It changed its range down to plus or minus 1.5 psi. So it's now - its total range is only B psi. The main result of that is that it means that the pressure switches and the motor switch turning the heater on acts more frequently over shorter periods of time. The second thing which we observed following this - and we're not at all sure if there is any correlation between this and the others - We observed a high-frequency pressure oscillation in tank 2. It was about a 5-psi peak- to-peak oscillation, a frequency of about 2 cycles per second. And this lasted about B to 5 minutes. A third funny that we observed - and this was in tank 2 - the third funny that we observed was an erratic - and possibly correlated with the high- frequency oscillation - but an erratic total fuel cell currents, and here again we were looking at - oh, peak-to-peak variations of something like 5 amps, or of 5 to 10 amps. And the suspicion is that, coupled with the shift in the limits of the pressure switch, some acoustic vibrations were set up in that tank - we may have seen them causing the oscillation of the motor switch, which was then reflected in the fuel cell currents. The - again, these erratic and possibly correlated fuel cell currents lasted for about 3 to 5 minutes. And since then, all during the night, they've [sic] been no further events of this sort; and the pres- sure switch with its reduced limits has been acting quite normally, just with the reduced limits over- night. As I say again, we're looking at it, people are studying it in great detail, with no real answer at the moment; but there is no great concern at present. And it appears that the worst that can happen is for the motor switch to "stale" be- cause of overuse. And if this were to happen, it would force us to go to man - manual management of the heaters on the H 2 tank. But that appears at the moment to be the worst, that we can anticipate from this - from this group of funnies. Over.
CDR: Okay, Bob. I understand that. You know, I wonder if we ought to stop stirring the cryos the way we've been doing it.
CC: That - that has been suggested, but - but, again, it's not very clear that any of these things are terribly correlated.
CDR: Okay. Also, you know, if you want to reduce the activity on that switch - depending on how much you need to have it done during quiet periods, such as eat periods and things like that - we could go to manual operation.
CC: Negative, Jack, because the switch - OMNI Bravo, please, 17.
CC: ... If you pull out your schematics there, you'11 find that the - no matter what you do, the - you can turn the thing off, in fact, and the switch will continue to operate the motor switch - the pressure switch will continue to operate the motor switch off the service module buses. There's nothing you can do. The only thing you'11 do if you go from AUTO to MANUAL or OFF is you'11 keep the current from going to the heaters, but the motor switch will still operate.
CDR: Okay. Thank you for the education.
CC: And I've been corrected. The frequency of the pressure oscillation was more in the vicinity of a cycle every 4 or 5 seconds.
CC: And 7 - -
LMP: Bob, let me ask a couple of questions to make sure - -
LMP: Make sure I understand this. You're not sure whether the heater cycling and the pressure cycling were correlated. Is that correct?
LMP: In a cycle very 4 or 5 seconds, is it possible for the heaters to affect the tank that fast?
CC: That's not possible, so the only thing that really - we think could - The tank is too much of a heat sink to do it that way. What may have happened was that if you set up an oscillation - a mechanical oscil- lation in the tank - through - one way or another, that this could then have acted back up on the motor. But the motor switch in driving the heaters could not have reinforced the oscillation because the tank is too much of a heat sink.
LMP: Okay. When did you say this happened with respect to our exercise period?
CC: That's not well pinned down, 17. We do know it hasn't occurred since about 71 hours; and it did occur at approximately 70 hours, which was about the time of your exercise period. But we haven't been able to correlate that exactly with the start of or the finish of the exercise period.
CC: Well, you know you should be able to do that because of the biomed on - at least on me, and Ron was on, too. But, as soon as I started exer- cising, you should have the biomed data on my heart rate. It was an unscheduled exercise period. We Just went into it before an eat period there, I think. Let me check back.
CC: Okay. And we can check back and inform you more specific on what the times were there in terms of your exercise period, also. I'd like OMNI Charlie, please, there, 17. And we might mention that oscillations like this have been seen on the ground under somewhat different circ_m_tances, but oscilla- tions like this have been seen on the ground in ground tests previously. And I might say, also, that as far as other things in the spacecraft are concerned, everything looks absolutely normal or nominal, as the case may be, and in great shape and emph - I'd emphasize again that we've seen none of this oscillation again since 71 hours. Over.
LMP: Okay, Bob. That was, as you say, pretty close to the exercise. I can't pin it down in the checklist exactly, but it was somewhere after ALFMED was complete and before we changed that canister. I think we changed that canister a little early, about 70:50. So I think the medic should have pretty good data on when we were exercising. And the reason I say that was because the way we were - I was exercising anyway - I'm sort of running in place against the LEB and conceivably could have gotten an oscillation going in the tank.
CC: Roger. Understand that.
CC: OMNI Delta, 17.
CC: And, 17, we did a little - a little investigation of times down here. We found that at 71:12 you were exercising at 130 beats per minute, Jack. And we think the exercise period ended about 10 minutes later at 71:22. The H2 tank funnies started at about 71:37 with the pressure switch shift and 71:42 with the oscillations. Over. So, there it's - oh, at least 15 minutes after the exercise period was over.
LMP: Okay. I Just wanted to clear my reputation, Bob. Now it's perfectly clean again.
CC: As clean as ever, anyway.
CC: Okay. 17, I guess we decided we'd let - we'11 run the omnis down here instead of having you guys push them all the time. So if you'11 select OMNI Bravo at the present time, then we'11 take over and run the omnis for you.
LMP: Okay, Bob. It's not too big a deal. If anytime you think you want to talk to us continuously, go ahead and call them, if we're not busy.
CC: Okay. Copy that. Let us know when you're ready. I've got a pad here for you guys to copy, but there's no big hurry on it. Finish your eat period and give us a call.
LMP: Okay. I'11 be with you in about 5 minutes.
CC: Say again there, 17,
LMP: Be right with you, Bob.
CDR: And, looking at the Flight Plan, we're going to go ahead and change a canister; and we've got the H 2 purge LINE HEATERS, ON. We're going to configure for the urine dump. We'11 go ahead and do our - stop our PTC at 83:30, and then we'11 do our P52.
CC: And, 17, that P52 at 83:10 was primarily intended for the MCC-_. There's some more following, any- way, before LOI. So we suggest you scrub the P52 at 83:10.
CMP: Okay, fine. I may Just do a little OJT without torquing.
CC: That's your business.
CDR: Bob, when we come out of PTC, then you want us to go right to the SIM door Jett attitude?
CC: That's affirmative, 17.
CDR: Okay, and you want us to do that about 80 - 83:30, huh?
LMP: Bob, what pad are you going to give me?
CC: Okay, I've got a - coming up, pericynthion - plus- 2-hour abort pad here.
LMP: Yes, Bob. Here's 17. Say, for a while here, why don't you guys go ahead and manage the omnis. I think we can get things done a little better; and when it becomes inconvenient for us to switch, we'11 let you know.
CC: Okay. You want us to call them to you - Is that what you're saying by you manag - we m_age the omnis?
LMP: Yes, we lose 5 or 10 minutes going around here without comm, and it usually breaks up seemingly when somebody has something to say, either you or US.
CC: Roger. Okay. That's fine. Stand by.
LMP: That's up to you guys, but, it seems to me, it would be more convenient.
CC: Okay; things are good now, Jack. Do you want to copy this pericynthion-plus-2 pad at the present time?
LMP: Yes, I'm Just about ready, Bob.
CC: Okay, give me a call when you get it. And, while you're getting ready there, you might think back to yesterday afternoon Just after the exercise period; and the question that's raised is whether you were running the DAC or some other miscella- neous equipment at that time which might have caused some high current usage - or erratic current usage.
LMP: We'11 think about that, Bob; but, offhand, none of us can remember doing anything like that.
CC: OMNI Charlie, 17.
CC: And, 17, your faithful night shift capcomm is signing off. I'11 talk to you on the surface tomorrow. Good luck.
CDR: Thank you, Robert. Looking forward to seeing you there.
LMP: Are you leaving us, Bob?
CC: That's affirm; he's already left.
UNKNOWN: Boy, he doesn't stick around long, does he? And he wanted to read that pad to me; well, that's too bad. Okay, Gordy, I can take the pad now.
CC: Okay, Jack. It's pericynthion plus 2; SPS/G&N. Weight is 66373; plus 1.18, minus 0.14; ignition time is 090:49:55.82; plus 1787.5, minus 1891.7, minus 2396.8; attitude is 237, 126, 332; and all the rest of the PAD is NA. GDC align stars are Sirius and Rigel; 122; 354; 000. Ullage is none. Remarks: number 1, burn docked; number 2, assumes LOI REFSMMAT. Over.
LMP: Okay. Pericynthion plus 2, SPS/G&N; 66373, 1 - plus 1.18, minus 0.14; 090:49:55.82; plus 1787.5, minus 1891.7, minus 2396.8; 237, 126, 332; rest of pad is NA; Sirius and Rigel; 122; 354; 000. No ullage. Remark l, burn docked; 2 is LOI REFS_iAT assumed.
CC: Need OMNI Delta now.
CMP: Houston, 17. Canister change complete.
CC: America, switch to OMNI Alfa.
CC: America, Houston. I have the morning news at the convenient time.
LMP: Fire away, Gordo.
CC: Okay, first of all the weather. It's raining fairly - fairly heavily all night; there's a lot of water standing around. Temperatures here are in the high 50's, but it's supposed to get a little cooler tonight with a low in the 40's. I think you know how the Dallas-Redskin game came out - the only thing additional mentioned here is that chances look good now that Washington and Dallas may meet in the rubber games for the National Conference representative in the SuperBowl. In the other pro game yesterday, a field goal by Don Cockroft was the difference in a 26-to-24 win by Cleveland over rival Cincinnati. Other sports highlights: The Pittsburgh Steelers play the Oilers today in the Dome. Other big games will be Atlanta at San Francisco, Green Bay at Minnesota, and Baltimore at Kansas City. Tennessee State beat Drake Uni- versity in the Pioneer Bowl 29 to 7. And East Texas State beat Carson Newman in the NAIA football playoffs. The Southwest Conference has pulled out of the U.S. Olympic Committee. Some college basketball scores: The Houston Cougars routed Xavier last night out at Hofheinz Pavilion ll4 to 7B; and Rice downed George Washington 93 to 89. Geno, you'11 be glad to hear Purdue ripped TCU 101 to 70, and it was Texas over Oklahoma State 86 to 66. And SMU over Oklahoma City 106 to 8B. We couldn't find any score at Cal Tech, Jack, but - Switch to OMNI Bravo, please. But one final score, Ron, Kansas lost to Iowa 69 to 56. The only thing new on the plane crash Friday in Chicago - it's reported here that the plane was apparently waved 55/11 Tape off because another plane was still on the assigned runway. The Democratic Party's stormy session in Washington saw the old-guard Democrats appar- ently take back control of the Party from pro- McGovern forces. Mrs. Jean Westwood was replaced as Party Chairman by Texas lawyer/businessman Robert Strauss. Former-president T_mAU appears to be more than holding his own at a hospital in Kansas City. There's a good chance the 88-year- old former Chief Executive may be taken off the critical list. There's been a 1-day interruption in the secret peace talks between Dr. Henry Kissinger and Le Duc Tho. The two conferred for over 3 hours yesterday. Both sides have agreed not to talk to newsmen on any s_stantive matters. In other news highlights, President Nixon has named Daniel Moynihan as U.S. Ambata -Ambassador to India. And Chilean President Allende has flown to Cuba to vis - to visit Fidel Castro. Here's an interesting one. A 45-year-old pilot lost in the Arctic for 31 days has been found alive and well. Three companions were killed. The Soviet Party boss Leonid Breshnev has delayed a scheduled visit to the U.S. It looks as if the visit may come in the fall rather than this coming spring. One last note: The news media says that the flight of Apollo 17 is the smoothest on record so far, and I call that last one pretty accurate reporting. Over.
LMP: Thank you, Gordo, appreciate the news. Sounds like things are still happening down there.
CC: Got some more parochial news here - -
LMP: Houston, we're starting our -
LMP: No, we Just - I Just wanted to tell you we're starting our waste dumps.
CC: Okay. A little more parochial news. I have your oxygen consumable status here. Tank i is still running 4 percent below the line; the other two are right on the line; really no news there. Same with the hydrogen; all three are essentially right on the preflight lines. Over.
LMP: Okay, that's the way like to hear it.
LMP: We'11 bring all of it home if we can.
CC: We'd like OMNI Charlie, please.
CC: Need OMNI Delta now. this morning?
CC: ... mRke sure.
CMP: Go ahead, Houston; 17.
CC: 17, we do want the hydrogen purge; go ahead.
CMP: Okay, hydrogen purge is in process. You'd never believe it, dust collection container assembly serial number 5725 developed a hole in it. Fortunately, with a lot of dexterity, I was able to put a piece of tape over the hole.
CC: Okay. I guess that's why we sent men into space.
LMP: Gordy, while the purges are going on here, I might mention, a little while ago, I looked at the Earth through a Polaroid colored glass again and had a full view of Africa. And it appeared as if, in the red and yellow portions of Africa, that the land areas darkened considerably more than those areas that are green or foliated, and that would be the central portion; that is, they darkened with the orien - handle on the lens going in a north-south rather than east-west. 55/13 Tape
LMP: The land areas, though, still do not show as marked a contrast as do the oceans.
CC: We'd like OMNI Alfa.
LMP: Okay, hydrogen purge is complete. HEATER is going OFF.
LMP: Gordy, it looks like the cloudiness and possibly the showers associated with the intertropical con- vergence over Africa are moving as far south as Johannesburg right now. It's quite a distinct change from even an - an hour or so ago - a couple of hours ago. They're down into an area where, presumably, they're not normally found if vegetation indications are any criteria. And also, in the Atlantic - South Atlantic near Goa Island, there seems to be a possible storm developing as part of what was probably now a fairly weak front. And whether or not that will develop into anything and move in towards Capetown is hard to say at this time.
LMP: It looks as if our old friends at Ascension are enjoying a fairly nice day out there.
CC: OMNI Bravo, please.
CC: Jack, this is Houston. We recall you mentioning the purge complete and the heaters off. We Just wanted to be sure that you did leave the H2 purge line heaters on for 10 minutes after terminating th_ purge. Over.
LMP: Thank you, Gordy. I'11 turn them back on.
LMP: Who's sitting over there reminding me of all these good things this morning?
CC: Well, that was a combination effort by John Aaron and Charlie Dumis.
LMP: Wow! You've got a real powerful team there.
LMP: Hey, you really ought to get them a cup of coffee though sometime this morning.
LMP: Gordy, also curious who's wa - who's watching Challenger this morning?
CC: Well, let's see.
LMP: Not much to see, I realize, but I'm sure somebody's there.
CC: We need OMNI Charlie, Jack.
CC: Well, we've got the first team on - the gold team - your LOI and landing team, and the LM guys are Merritt and Thorson.
LMP: You cut out on the telmu. Who is it?
CC: Merlin. Merlin the Magician.
LMP: I'm sorry, Gordy, you clipped off the first again.
CC: Merlin Merritt, the magician.
LMP: Oh, yes; of course. As I recall, he's the only one that really understands Thorson. anybody
CC: He says he doesn't think understands Thorson. a
LMP: Well, we're sure looking forward to having chance to make those guys work a little bit. Tape55/15
CC: They say - well - Merlin says he is, too. I don't know about Thorson. He's out of the room at the moment.
LMP: He's probably spilling coffee in SPAN.
CC: We need OMNI Delta now.
LMP: Gordy, for some reason, it's a lot easier to tell the difference between the Antarctic Continent and the icepack.
LMP: Maybe the glancing Sun is picking up the breaks in the icepack and giving it a different appearance.
LMP: The continent itself - all you can see are very - what appear to be very gentle differences in - or subtle differences in shading, possibly indicating rolling relief due to a photometric dark beam along the - as a function of local phase angle.
LMP: And except, maybe, for the area Just - well, no - even there, I didn't the ... - it looks like the whole visible continent is clear of clouds this morning. Possibly some clouds Just east of the Ross Sea, which is Just coming into view, I think.
LMP: I know we don't have many listeners in Antarctica, but it looks like they're having a - exceptionally fine day over the portion of the continent we can see.
LMP: That weak front I mentioned in the South Atlantic stretches from the apparent storm center around Goa Islar_d - I'm not sure about that pronunciation either - up Just to the coast of South America from Brazil, where it reaches its maximum eastward extent.
LMP: Our sub - our zero-phase point of the spacecraft is in the middle of the South Atlantic. And it's moderately bright, although there is no central bright point at all - a fairly large area, but moderately bright. The seas down there might be rough moderately choppy or this morning.
LMP: Okay, Gordy. You might say "uh" before you - you start your sentences because you're clipping your first word. The question I had was the pan camera - we're on 1-6 of the Experiments Checklist and need your word on whether you want the PAN CAMERA, OFF, at this time - SELF TEST, OFF.
CC: We'd like you to leave it in HEATERS.
LMP: Okay, we're leaving it in HEATERS.
LMP: Okay, Houston. The S-BAND AUX, TV is to SCIENCE - -
LMP: - - and I'm turning the IR, ON.
CC: Jack, we'd like OMNI Alfa.
LMP: How do you read on OMNI Alfa? 55/17 Tape
CC: Okay; you're readable, fair amount of noise.
CC: Jack, this is Houston. You're clear with consider- able noise. Over.
LMP: Houston, how do you read 177
CC: Apollo 17, Houston. Still reading you with a lot of background noise. Over.
CC: 17, Houston. Weak but readable.
LMP: Okay, we'11 have you up on your high gain pretty soon. I'm turning the IR, ON.
CC: Roger; Roger; Roger. IR, ON.
LMP: Say again, Gordy.
CC: We copy. IR, ON. Over.
CC: America, we'11 take the high gain now. PITCH, minus 15; YAW, 188. Over.
CC: America, Houston. Let's try the high gain now. I see you're moving it. Minus 26 and 199.
LMP: Okay, I think we've got amain load block now on the high gain. How do you read?
CC: You're loud and clear, Jack. It looks good here.
LMP: Okay, Gordy. Let me keep going here. I did not turn the IR on because I thought you said some- thing. IR is going ON now. APOLLO 17 AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION
CC: Okay. What I said is, "Roger. IR, ON."
CMP: Coming on. MAPPING CAMERA going to STANDBY.
CMP: Okay. I'm waiting your cue for PAN CAMERA POWER, to POWER.
CC: Roger. We're still locking up on the data. We'11 give you a cue.
CC: Okay, Jack. You have our cue for PAN CAMERA POWER to POWER.
CMP: Okay. PAN CAMERA going to POWER.
CMP: Me to you.
CC: Yes, sir. You're loud and clear.
CC: Okay, America, you're - -
CMP: What happens now is - -
CMP: Okay, Jack, let me know when you've got the camera ready.
CC: Well, stand by. I think we're backing down here. Stand by i second.
CDR: Might check it.
LMP: Hey, Houston. You know this attitude - this at- titude has the Sun right into window 5. It's probably going to be on the lens of the camera. I'11 - I'11 try to shade it the best I can, but I don't have an awful lot of hope for these pictures.
CDR: I think we're probably stuck with it, Jack, because we need to be in this right attitude, for the cle_ance _d-
CMP: Okay. SIM door Jett 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 -
CMP: JETT. Oh, I got a good bang. You see it, Jack?
CDR: Let me see it.
CMP: Ah - ah (laughter).
CDR: You take a picture. Yes, there it goes.
CMP: It's really --
CC: Sounded good.
CDR: Okay. Did you get the word we got a clean Jett?
CC: That's right, Geno. Sounds good.
CMP: Yes. Boy, we got a good bang out of it. You could hear that - that pyro going, I think. It's rotating at about 5 - or i revolution per 5 seconds.
CMP: And it's rotating - what, about the long axis? Yes. Rotating about the long axis.
CDR: Houston, the garbage that I said went with it was Just a small amount of debris, I'm sure around the sealant pyro area. There was one, oh, about a 4-foot-length piece of, oh, i or 2 inch tapelike material that also went out with it.
LMP: (Laughter) Okay. What do we do with these LOGIC POWER switches ?. Don't they go back to OFF now?.
CMP: DOOR JETT's OFF, down. DEPLOY/RETRACT
CMP: Okay. You go on to the on number 1.
CDR: FUEL CELL REACT VALVES are NORMAL. I'm sort of glad we had those in LATCH.
CMP: Yes, me, too, because that's a pretty good bang.
CC: You've loaded the wrong pitch angle there in NOUN 22.
CDR: Well, I'm - I got 10 degrees loaded; that's what we've got copied down here in the change.
CC: Maybe there's some m/stake. Let us check here, Geno.
CDR: Okay, we got 320, 010, and 324, and before I go into the muver - maneuver, I'11 roll right about 12 degrees.
CC: Bad call, Gene. Our error; you're right.
CMP: Okay, and the UV SPECTROMETER is going to go ON here.
CC: Roger. Mark the UV. Okay, and the IR will be OFF on your cue.
LMP: Okay, Just give us a call.
CC: Roger. until
LMP: I don't know whether you were watching the
LMP: on the door Jett, did you see a Jett on my heartbeat?
CC: Well, we'11 check this data here, Jack.
LMP: I guess I was remembering erroneously 15's comment that it was very quiet, but I - of course, Ron reminded me they were in the suits.
CC: Okay, Jack. John Young was talking about the same thing here, but we didn't see anything on your EKG. IA{
P: How stable could you get?
CDR: And, Gordo, we are watching the 8-ball.
CC: Roger. We're keeping an eye on it, too.
CC: America, we'd like the HIGH GAIN to AUTO, please.
CC: Oh, is that right? What's that?
LMP: Well, Gordy, it looks as if you could improve your voice quality by putting fingers over the end of the mike booms. At least that works on the intercom.
CC: America, Houston. We're ready for the IR to OFF. Okay. IR's coming OFF -
CC: Okay. It's the LOI and descent team, Presley, Green, and Deiterich.
LMP: They're a trio of musketeers, if I ever heard of one.
LMP: All they lack is a French accent.
CC: A New York accent is about the best they can do.
LMP: I wasn't going to exercise any value Judgments, Gordy.
LMP: Okay, Gordy. I was just checking to see if I could find the Moon, and I still can't see it out there. 56/7 Tape
LMP: I'11 be with you in 30 seconds.
CC: Okay. This is a preliminary LOI, SPS/G&N. 66361; plus 1.21, minus 0.12; 088:54:22.71; minus 2798.8, plus 1045.7, minus 0037.3. Attitude is all zeros. HA is 0170.1, plus 0052.5; 2988.0, 6:38, 2981.7; sextant star 45, 252.1, 13.5. Bore' sight star and all the rest is NA. GDC align stars: Sirius and Rigel; 122; 354; 000. Ullage, none. Remarks: LM weight, 36312; and single-bank burn time is 06:51. Go ahead.
CC: One correction on the ignition time. The seconds are 22.77.
LMP: Okay, 22.77.
CC: That's affirmative; otherwise, good readback.
CC: Okay, Ron. We caught that. And if you're looking for the Moon, according to our figures here, it should be visible out window number i about 30 de- grees off the boresight axis. Over.
LMP: Okay, got you. I'11 try again.
CC: America, Houston. I'm ready with a TEI-4 pad anytime it's convenient.
CMP: Okay, Gordy, I'm ready for a TEI-4 pad. SPS/G&N;
CC: Okeydoke. It's TEI-4, 40090; plus 0.50, plus 1.17. Ignition time is 097:20:47.45. NOUN 81, plus 2004.8, minus 2951.1, minus 1547.3; attitude will be 202, 083, 312. Rest of the pad is NA. GDC align stars are Sirius and Rigel; 133; 200; 030. Ullage: four Jets, 12 seconds. And remark num- ber l: burn undocked; number 2: assumes no DOI; number 3: assumes landing site REFSMMAT; number 4: with the LOI REFSMMAT, your attitude will be: roll, 180; pitch, 220; yaw, 38 - correction - yaw is 338. Over. SPS/G&N;
CMP: Okay, TEI-4, 40090; plus 0.50, plus 1.17; 097:20:47.45; plus 2004.8, minus 2951.1, minus 1547.3; 202, 083, 312. Rest of pad NA. Sirius and Rigel; 133; 200; 030. Four Jets, 12-second ullage. Remark l: burn undocked; 2: no DOI assumed; 3: landing site REFSMMAT; 4: L0I REFSMMAT attitude 180, 220, 338. Over.
CC: America, Houston. If you give us ACCEPT, we'11 pop up a state vector - a preliminary state vector and a VERB 66, preliminary target load, and an LOI REFSMMAT. Over.
CDR: Okay, Houston. You have it.
CDR: Okay, Houston. This is America. How do you read the commander on biomed?
CC: Stand by. I'11 take a look here.
CC: America, Houston. Looking at the 02 pressures, we think maybe TANK 3 ISOL VALVE got Jarred closed. Would you check the barber pole over on panel 278. If it's barber pole, would you reopen the valve? 56/9 Tape
LMP: Gordy, we checked that. I'11 check it again. We checked it right after the Jet. it?
CC: That's affirmative, Jack. Go ahead and cycle it OPEN.
LMP: Okay. That's been done.
CC: America, Houston. It's your computer. You can go back to BLOCK.
CMP: Okay, we're back to BLOCK. In the DELTA-V test, I got a minus 22.0, and I'm on a bias check right now.
CC: America, Houston. The biomed looks good on all three of you.
CMP: And the null bias check, on a plus 100, it went to lO0._. I'm working on a minus now.
CMP: Okay. The minus 100, it ended up minus 99.5.
CMP: Gordy, the _2_ERGENCY CABIN PRESSURE REGs are OFF.
CMP: Okay, EQUALIZATION valve in the tunnel has come OPEN.
CMP: Okay, Gordy, the LMTIBINEL valve is in LM PRESS, and EQUALIZATION valve is CLOSED.
P: when you started this, as before?
CMP: That's affirm. It was 0.6 and now it's down to - we been seeing it as about 0.1.
CMP: And, Gordy, I've got the EMERGENCY CABIN PRESSURE REGs back to BOTH.
CC: Okay, Gordy, we're changing mags on the - the EL camera, and mag November November is being stowed with 59 frames on it - or 59 frames used - 159.
CC: Okay, Jack; copy.
CMP: Gordy, you can record that as the second commander's P52 that came up all balls.
CC: Okay, we'11 get a hard copy.
CC: Okay, we got the 93s; you're clear to torque.
CDR: Okay, Gordo, there's the gyro torque angles.
CC: Okay, we're copying them down. Stand by.
CC: Okay, Geno; torque them.
CC: America, Houston. America, Houston. We've lost the high gain and data. Go on OMNI Alfa.
CC: America, Houston in the blind. Go OMNI Alfa, if you read.
CC: America, this is Houston. How do you copy?
LMP: Clear, and we're OMNI Alfa. If you don't answer this transmission, we'11 try the high gain again.
CC: Okay, Jack. We're reading you now. I heard you say OMNI Alfa. Say again the first part.
LMP: Roger. We've been reading you. I think you're on VHF, however. Would you like us to reacquire on the high gain?
CC: Okay, Jack. We'd like you to try the HIGH GAIN at a PITCH of minus 29, YAW 17, MANUAL and WIDE.
LMP: Okay, Gordy, we're on the HIGH GAIN.
CC: I'm reading you - I can read you, but there's still a lot of background noise.
LMP: Like VHF would sound, but I'm not sure I believe iS.
CC: Jack, we Just commanded NORMAL voice.
LMP: Gordy, did we end up somehow out of NORMAL voice?
CC: Jack, we'd like you to try a NORMAL acquisition. Go AUTO and NARROW on the HIGH GAIN.
CC: Okay, that peaked it up, AUTO and NARROW.
CC: Okay, you're loud and clear now. Okay, Gordy. You said that you had to command NORMAL voice. Did we get a spurious command in there some way?
CC: Okay, we had - we did all that ourselves to es- tablish voice through Ascension; no problem. Over. started calling?
CC: Jack, we didn't do anything to cause the problem there, we were up-linking through Madrid amd down- linking through Ascension. Did you see anything on board that could have caused the loss of lock?
LMP: No, sir. We had good signal strength. It wasn't peaked for the high gain. It was more like an omni signal strength, about 70 percent. And we called you several times after the switch in lines, and then finally you came through clear, but with some background noise and sounded like VHF. I presume it wasn't, now. And when you called, I went to OMNI Alfa, with no change in signal strength, still about 70 percent, and you were still coming up the same way and apparently didn't hear us. And then the high gain - with high gain acquisition, it's been pretty clear.
CC: Okay, that's the way - that story's the way it sounded to us. And we're looking around here to see if we can figure out a reason for loss there.
LMP: Okay, and I'm ready to pressurize the SPS, if that's what you want.
CC: Okay, let me make sure here.
CC: Okay, Jack. We're ready for it. Okay, you want me to Just use SPS HELIUM VALVE 17
LMP: Okay, Gordy. We're going to ON with SPS HELIUM VALVE 1. We checked the circuit breakers, they're IN.
CC: Ok ay.
LMP: Okay, pressure's com- pressure's up; FUEL PRESSURE is stable at 175 and OXIDIZER at 175, and the light is out. And we're back to NORMAL on CAUTION AND WARNING. And the VALVE now is back to AUTO.
CC: Roger. And looks - looks good here. We're reading 184 oxidizer and 185 fuel.
LMP: Hey, Gordy, this is the LMP. I got a question for you.
CC: Shoot.
LMP: I 'm Just wondering if - I 'm showing about 85 amps, and is that a good normal power load with - I pre- sume the 02 HEATERs are ON now.
CC: Just a second, we'11 check that.
LMP: I'm Just trying to reestablish my references here for LOI.
CC: EECOM says the HEATERs are ON and that's the normal load.
LMP: Okay. Very good. Thank you, sir.
CC: Go ahead. here.
CMP: Roger. We got about an hour sitting around We can go to wide dead band, if you want, if you'11 remind me to go back to narrow again when we need to.
CC: Let me cheek on that.
CMP: Might save a teacupful of fuel.
CC: Ron, we suggest just staying where you are on the dead band; there's no problem on fuel.
CC: America, Hou - Houston. We Just finished a site handover. And we're seeing some excessive counts on the crv. We'd like to chase the problem a little, and to do that, we'd like you to turn the UV OFF for 5 seconds and then back ON. Over.
LMP: Houston, 17; how do you read after a COMMAND RESET?
CC: 17, this is Houston. You're loud and clear. Have you been calling?
LMP: Yes, sir, we've been calling. After your handover, we heard your statement that you handed over and then hadn't been able to contact you after that. I Just hit a COMMAND RESET.
CC: Okay, Jack, that was a problem here on the ground. Over.
LMP: Say, Gordy, 17.
LMP: Yes, we've got B DUPLEX - B SIMPLEX ON, apparently left over from the LM checks. I suspect I should turn that OFF. Right?
CMP: Gordo, Just an interesting observation on my part. I don't know why, but all the air bubbles in the beverage packs - you know, none of the air bubbles will come together at all. If you get it a small air bubble, it stays in a small air bubble. And they'11 never co - come together. However, in m_ chicken and rice soup package here, I had a whole bunch of small air bubbles and now it's all one great big air bubble in the middle.
CMP: Most of the - most of the spoon bowl packs you know - or wet packs, whereas the Juice bags won't do it.
CC: Okay, that's interesting. I sure don't know why either.
LMP: We're Just trying to keep your day interesting here, Gordy. Now that you won't let us look at the Earth anymore, we'11 start looking in the cabin.
CC: Okay, while you're looking in the cabin, I've got a new hydrogen cryo configuration for you to mini- mize the pressure cycling and cut down the wear and tear on the motor switch. If you're ready to do it, I'11 read it.
CC: Okay, on HR TANK 1 and TANK 2 HEATERS, both of them, OFF. On the FANs, TANK i FAN's ON, TANK 2 FAN's OFF. I think they're there already. And TANK 3 FAN's AUTO. Over.
LMP: Hey, there's a new configuration. Okay, H 2 HEATERs i and 2 are OFF. H 2 FANs - i is ON, 2 is OFF, and 3 is AUTO.
LMP: That sounds like an EECOM special.
CC: That it is.
CDR: Hello, Houston, I've got the limb of the Moon.
CDR: I've got the limb of the Moon out the - got it out the center hatch and we're just barely seeing a - barely seeing the horizon of the Moon. But, boy, is it big.
CMP: Well, that must be a - what - you know, talk about a sliver of the Moon, that is a sliver of a sliver.
CDR: Gordo, we're coming in right down on top of it. What's our perigee, did you say? 7B miles?
CC: Roger. That's about right. Don't worry, you'11 miss it.
CDR: I Just want to hear you say it because I'm going to hold you to it. As long as you shadow your eyes from the Sun - the Sun is Just about laying on the horizon of the Moon, and as a matter of fact, as I watch it, I can watch the horizon - the amount of - of daylight terminator get larger.
CDR: Gordy, unless I get proven wrong here, I think we'11 be able to watch it all the way in as long as we can keep shadowed from the Sun.
CDR: I'11 tell you, when you get out here, it's a big mamou.
CDR: Gordy, it's a sight to remember. Not Just be- cause of the uniqueness of the view, but because we all got to ask ourselves if we really know where we are and what we're really looking at right this moment, and when you answer that question, it's yes, it certainly becomes an epic sight in your mind.
LMP: My congratulations to the trench for solving another rendezvous - rendezvous problem.
CDR: Gordy, can you tell us how far we are right now from the - from the Moon?
CC: Surely can; stand by.
CC: Right now, you're about 5000 miles from the surface.
CC: Go ahead. out window 5. It's Just about directly off our present plus-Y axis.
CC: Okay. Must be way out there by now.
LMP: Gordy, what's the MOCR having for dinner Sun - this Sunday?
CC: Well, let's see. I guess we haven't sent out for hamburgers, yet. There's a few brown bags in sight, but that's about it.
LMP: MY goodness.
CDR: Gordy, it doesn't look like I'11 have a chance to go to church today, but under the circumstances, I guess it'11 be okay. Next time you see the good father, you might have him put a good word in for us.
CC: Okay. I'11 do that. _2{D OF TAPE
CDR: Gordy, is - in our present attitude, I'm seeing the - the limb of the Moon convex down towards our Can minus-X axis. That's out of the hatch window. you tell me which is the North and which is the South Pole?
CDR: Yes, I'd be all squared away if - if the Moon were on Jack's side, because he's got that end on his head, but I'm a little mixed up now.
CC: Roger. I understand your problem.
CDR: Gordy, I - I'm thinking the - the top of the - the LM towards the Sun is probably the north.
CDR: Hello, Gordy. I - I think I got it. Window - the - the north has got to be on the right as I look at the limb of the Moon opposite the Sun. Because when we go into retrograde attitude, it's got to be over there. I think I can see Korolev without any problem. It's a little bit north of the - of the equator.
CDR: Gordy, are you still with us?
CC: That's affirm. I'm with you, and I'm getting lots of advice here.
CDR: Okay. Okay. I'11 bet you are. But I - I think I got it oriented. You can literally watch your- self fall down in. As we get closer, if we're going to have a view like this, it's going to be pretty dramatic. Because we're calling the way you climb on out of the Moon when you leave it, if you can see. And I remember remarks at that time, "Gee, if we could see it like this when we came back in, we'd have to close our eyes." If we can see this thing coming in like I think we maybe able to see it at 50 miles, it isn't going to look like very much.
CDR: And we're even considering the win - putting - Gordy, we're consider - Gordy, we're considering putting the window covers up. huh?
CC: You're chickens,
CDR: It's going to be one of those high - high - angle energy conversion roundouts.
CC: Roger. From our information here, if you're looking at the Moon so that the - the dark limb is up, then north should be to the right.
CDR: Yes. I - I concur, and that's the way it is.
CDR: The horizon is just steadily growing bigger.
CC: Does it look about the same as last time?
CDR: What do you mean, "last time?" Couple years ago?
CDR: Gordy, we never saw it coming in a couple years ago. We saw it, as I recall, a day out, and we saw just a - a shadow of the limb. But we - to my best re - recollection, we never saw it this close. As a matter of fact, we went into darkness prior to going into LOI, and this time, much to my amazement, we don't. But I see now that we won't, and I see why. I'11 tell you, everyone who's seen that view leaving knows how fast you climb out. And by golly, the closer we get to it, the faster we're coming in.
CDR: Gordo. The - the widest-most part of the convex horizon probably covers a good couple of degrees. I can now see relief on the - on the horizon it- self against the dark space.
CDR: And the rim of Korolev is readily visible standing out by itself in the - in the darker or the unlit part of the - of the Moon. I can see the central peaks or mountains very well lit up.
LMP: Okay, Gordy. This is Jack. Is there any reason not to start the checks at about 87:437
CDR: Okay, Gordy. What I - what I called a - a central peak or range in there must undoubtedly be that inner ring, but it - the way it was lit up in the sunlight gave you a definite impression that it had an enlongated central range.
CC: Roger. And for Jack, no problem starting early on the checks.
LMP: Okay. They're in work.
CDR: Okay, Hous -
LMP: ..., Houston. Going to put the UV COVER OPEN. How long?
CC: Okay, Jack. And we'd like 5 minutes of operation with it OPEN.
LMP: MARK it, OPEN.
LMP: Okay, Houston; 17. I've started the secondary glycol pump, and it - I neglected to make a check on the evap OP temperature. Do you have that, and did we get a decrease?
CC: Stand by. Looks okay, Jack.
LMP: Okay, Gordo. There's NOUN 05.
LMP: And you're looking at the torquing angle.
LMP: Okay, Houston. I'm going SPS PRESSURE INDICATOR to 2.
CC: Okay, Jack. And you can close the UV cover, and go ahead and roll back to 064 ROLL. And you're clear to torque the P52.
LMP: Okay. UV COVER is CLOSED.
LMP: Okay, Houston. Going back to SPS PRESSURE INDICATOR 1.
CC: America, Houston. We - we still see the UV door open. Have you closed it yet?
LMP: Okay. It's now CLOSED, Gordy.
CC: America, Houston. I have the LOI and map update pads when you're ready.
CDR: Stand by l, Gordo.
CDR: Okay, Gordy. What do you have, a map update on page 3-83 of the Flight Plan?
CDR: Why don't you go ahead?
CC: Okay. It's for rev 1. AOS without burn is 089:07:46; with the burn is 089:16:29.
CDR: Okay. Without the burn is 07: 46, and with the burn is 16:29.
CC: That's affirmative, and then I have your LOI maneuver pad.
CDR: Okay. We're ready to go. 58/5 Tape
CC: Okay. LOI, SPS/G&N; the weight is 66361; plus 1.21, minus 0.12; ignition time is 088:54:21.74; NOUN 81, minus 2798.8, plus 1044.9, minus 0042.5; roll, pitch, and yaw are all zero; NOUN 44, 0170.1, plus 0052.5; 2987.7, burn time is 6:38, 2981.4; sextant star is 45, 252.1, 13.5; rest of the pad is NA. GDC align stars are Sirius and Rigel; 122; 354; 000. Ullage is none. Remarks: LM weight, 36312; single-bank burn time is 6:51. Over. Stand by on the readback. Okay. We'11 take ACCEPT, and give you the up-links while you're reading it back.
CDR: Okay, Gordy. Here's your readback. You've got SPS/G&N; ACCEPT. It's LOI pad, 66361; plus 1.21, minus 0.12; 088:54:21.74; minus 2798.8, plus 1044.9, minus 0042.5; 000, 000, 000; O170.1, plus 0052.5; 2987.7, 6:38, 2981.4; 45, 252.1, 13.5; rest of pad is NA. Sirius and Rigel; 122; 354; 000. There's no ullage. LMweight, 36312; single-bank b_ time, 6 plus 51.
CC: It's your computer, America. You have a state vector, a VERB 66, and a target load. Go back to BLOCK.
CDR: Okay. It's in BLOCK, Gordy. We're finishing up on the bottom of 3-79.
CDR: And I can just roll attitude. I've got the big old Moon again, and from where I sit, it looks like we're right on target. Fifty miles above target, I'd like to add.
CDR: The limb is, of course, still growing and a little more rapidly. And what I can see of the - of the limb that's not blocked out by the Sun, it's getting obviously much larger in the window.
CDR: Now I guess it depends on the shadowing of the Sun as to whether or not we're going to see too much. I think retrograde, we ought to see quite a bit once we get over the terminator.
CDR: Gordy, there's enough of the lighted portion of the Moon where you can see the relief - not Just a shadowing relief, but the actual relief of several craters as they stretch across the termi- nator, both to the north and to the south. I can see even more definite relief now on the horizon, Just to the north and behind Korolev - on the black horizon against space.
CDR: The - the unlit part of the Moon, as you might expect, is Just as dark from here as is deep space itself.
CDR: It's black, I might say at this point.
CC: America, Houston. For your information, your altitude is about 3000 miles now.
CDR: Okay, 3000 miles.
CDR: Gordy, the - the limb has much more three-dimensional relief now. Towards us, you can - you can get the feeling that the horizon - the litted portion of the horizon definitely does flow in our direction. And although you can't see the unlit portion of the Moon, you get a feeling that there's a great deal more of it a lot closer than that which you can see.
CDR: Okay, Gordy. The pre-SPS burn sim prep is complete.
CDR: And I'm going to give my buddies a chance to look at it now.
CDR: I never thought I'd see a geologist speechless at his first near - near shot at the Moon, but I haven't heard a word from him yet.
LMP: This geologist turned engineer for about an hour.
CC: He's probably speechless, because there's no clouds to talk about.
CDR: Gordo, everything's looking good on board. We're Just waiting for about 88:05. We'11 be in our maneuver at that time.
CC: Okay. Everything looks good here also.
CDR: Okay. And is your LOS of about 45 still good?
CC: I '11 doublecheck that.
CC: America, the Flight Plan is correct on LOS. To be exact, it will be 88: 43: 40.
CDR: 43: 40. Thank you, Gordo.
CDR: If - if you guys could get an idea down there of the needle you're threading when you shoot for 50 miles at a quarter of million, you'd be mighty proud of yourselves. I'11 tell you, we are.
CDR: I guess I really ought to wait and tell you that at 89: 16:29.
CDR: Hey, Gordy. Do you have any idea what our relative speed is to the - to the Moon at this time?
CC: Yes. It's 5000 feet per second. You're presently 2660 miles up.
CDR: Okay. I assume T. P. is there, and I guess John is, too. I don't know if John saw this coming in on 16, but I know they can recall what we saw leaving on 10. And other than the fact that you can't see as much of the Moon, it's Just as impressive.