Otrobonita/noicy-space-talks huggingface dataset:
CMP: Stand by, Bob. Let us get squared away from the ALFMMD; then we can get going on that.
CC: No, I don't want to hurry you, Ron. I Just want you to know what - when - just get yourself com- fortable and be ready to take them whenever you want them. It's going to be a lengthy time, though.
CDR: Hey, Bob, I'm looking at what - what Jack was talking about; and it's definitely not a particle that's nearby because there is another one I can look at and get a three-dimensional comparison with. It is a - it is a bright object, and it's obviously rotating because it's flashing. It's way out in the distance, as I say, because there are particles that are close by and it's obviously not one of those. It's apparently rotating in a very rhythmic fashion because the flashes come around almost - _]_ost on time. And it's as we look back at the Earth, it's up at about 11:00 about - oh, maybe 10 or 12 Earth diameters. I don't know whether that does you any good, but there is something out there.
CC: Roger. We don't doubt it, Gene. And we might work out a set of gimbal angles or something here; maybe we can get a look at it through the optics.
CDR: Okay. And I - I - I just want to emphasize that it's definitely not - not one of these particles that tends to look like a star out there. It's something physical in the distance. (Laughter) Oh, yes.
CDR: ... thing off.
CMP: Yes, guess I am.
CC: Okay, Gene. If you can call up a NOUN 20 so we know the spacecraft attitude, and if you can reference the object you're looking at out of your window, with - with respect to body axis and let us look at your - your - give us a mark, somehow, and give us your NOUN 20s, we can try and get a tie-in and start locating - locating this object down for you.
CDR: Okay, I'm looking it out - looking at it out the center window - the hatch window - and I'11 give you a hack when it crosses the XX axis at the center window; and I guess it's up maybe 45 degrees.
CC: Okay, give us a hack and we're copying your NOUN 20s right now.
CDR: Okay, Jack says pitched up about 30 degrees but - -
LMP: No. 45, because -
CDR: Yes, he agrees. It's 45 degrees pitched up, and I'11 give you a hack when it crosses the XX axis.
CDR: MARK it. It just crossed through the - -
CC: Mark. We got it.
CDR: - - let's call it the XZ plane of the spacecraft. One unique thing about it, Bob, is that it's got two flashes. As it comes around in - in rhythmic fashion, you get a very bright flash; and then you get a dull flash. And then it'11 come around with a bright flash, and then a dull flash.
LMP: That's the side and - of the S-IVB - and then the engine bell, Gene.
LMP: The commander doesn't think that I can see the engine bell on that thing.
CC: Roger, Jack. Is that with the monocular you're looking at it?
CDR: He couldn't see the engine bell if he had 10 monoc- ulars.
CMP: Okay. I've got the cable restowed now.
CMP: And, Gene, where's your blindfold? ...
LMP: Bob, couple of revolutions ago when I was looking at it, I had a much brighter view and I believe I was looking at it broadside. It looks to me like it may be flashing more or less end-on now. It's much, not - not as bright, although it's getting brighter. But it's not as bright now as it was awhile ago.
LMP: ... we've been noticing that, I think, for about 24 hours or so. I Just - hadn't put it together as maybe being the S-IVB. I thought it was Just some other particle out there.
CDR: Hey, Robert, what's the final Cowboy score?
CC: Okay; I was Just going to update that. The Cowboys won it 34 to 24. And by winning it, they wrap up the wild-card slot in the NFC; and so both Wash- ington and Dallas will be in the playoffs.
LMP: Bob, that line of clouds I called a fir-tree pat- tern that swings up towards Hawaii - Hawaii, if you will - has - also has a mushroom pattern on the top. It has the appearance as if two major air masses - one going from west to east and the other form east to west - have converged along that line, and the joint movement of air at the interface being south to north. And up in the area of Hawaii, I think, it tends to mushroom so that the pattern then goes back to flow from west to east on the east side and from east to west on the west side.
LMP: In a little while, we'11 probably get a pretty good look at a - what looks like a very concen- trated intense storm that, I think, is Just - east -
CMP: *** And then we'11 put them. once we get updated a little bit. Yes, I'11 get out of VOX in a minute.
LMP: I was looking for the Flight Plan and stuff. And the little books.
LMP: Say, Bob.
CC: Go ahead, Jack. Read you loud and clear.
CDR: Okay, Bob, you want to update the LOI card and Flight Plan 3-82 and B-81; is that right?
CDR: Which one do you want to start on?
CC: I would say 3-81 is the most difficult one to start on.
CDR: Okay, in that case, why don't you start on the board - on the cue card?
CC: Okay. We can start on the cue card. Your - your druthers.
CDR: Yes, go ahead. I'm ready.
CC: Okay, on the LOI limits. The VGO column - let's go right down the VGO cold,mn; I think that would be the easiest way to do it. Where it says, "VGO 2980," change that to "2986."
CDR: Why don't you Just keep going?
CC: Okay. The next one going straight down the line, "2721, 2521, and 2316." That's all the changes on the VGO line.
CDR: Okay; and all those changes were in Mode I?
CDR: Okay, I got 2986, 2721, 2521, 2316.
CC: Roger. Now under the burn time cold,mu, the first one opposite the 2986, the burn time remains the same. Do not change that one. The next one changes -
CC: Zero plus 40.
CDR: Which one is that, Bob? I missed you.
CC: Okay. Where it says, "0 plus 28," change that to "0 plus 40."
CDR: Okay, press on through them all now.
CC: Change the "0 plus 53" one to "l plus 10." Change the "l plus 31" to the number "l plus 40". Over.
CDR: Okay. I got - in order - burn time O, and then 0 plus 40, i plus 10, and i plus 40.
CC: Roger. V-measured column: the first one, the zero does not change. The next one - in this order: "265, 465, and 670." Over.
CDR: Okay. I got 0, 265, 465, and 670.
CC: That's affirmative, Gene. That's the changes to the LOI limits cue card.
CDR: Okay, Bob, I think we got all that. I guess DELTA-V measured down there in the bottom - 2980 - should be 2986, huh?
CC: Roger. We felt that wasn't - that - that is - correct. To be technically correct, it should be 2986 at that last one.
CDR: Okay, I guess we're coming in just a sukosh hotter, huh?
CC: You'11 see from the curves that we're going to have to update, that you're a lot closer to the free-return trajectory.
CDR: Okay, why don't you go ahead on 3-817
CC: Okay, this is the tough one. The first thing we're going to do is plot a couple or three points here in the Mode I - 2-hour - the Mode I R-hour line might changes, also. So you want to draw a line at a LOI DELTA-V DVM of 265, 265 and draw that straight up the curve. That'11 be the no - the new - -
CDR: Okay, the LOI DELTA-V magnitude of - DVM of 265, huh?
CC: Roger. That will be the crossover point from the Mode I 2-hour to the Mode I 30-minute.
CDR: Bob, are you there?
CC: That 's affirmative. Go ahead.
CDR: Okay, Bob, I've got a - 265 vertical line drawn and I expect I can extend the Mode I 2-hour abort to that limit.
CC: That is affirmative, Gene.
CC: Now you're going to have a new curve, so don't bother to draw in the old curve. We're going to give you three points to plot and draw a straight line in between them that will create a new curve.
CC: Okay. The first one is at - the point is defined with a DELTA-VM of zero and an abort DELTA-V of 1525, 1525.
CC: Okay, the second point is defined by a DELTA-VM of 150; an abort DELTA-V of 1810. Over.
CDR: Bob, that last was 18107
CC: Okay, and the last point is defined by DELTA-VM of 265; an abort DELTA-V of 2105.
CC: The curve- -
CC: - - defined by those three points will be your LO - LOI plus 2-hour abort DELTA-V.
CDR: Okay, and that - that last point is Just the DPS available curve with 265.
CC: That 's affirmative. Tape _6/13
CDR: Okay, it's drawn in and I - -
CC: Okay, now we got a curve 1.
CDR: - - guess at 2. Okay, go ahead.
CC: I'm sorry I cut you out. Did you have something want else you on that?
CDR: No, it 's good. Our curve 's in.
CC: Okay. Curve I is two points defining it. The first one is DELTA-VM of 265, abort DELTA-V of 1855.
CC: And the second one is a DELTA - DELTA-VM of bO0, abort DELTA-V of 2065.
CC: Okay. Those two points from the curve i of the Mode I 30-minute.
CC: Okay, now curve 2 has three points defining it. The first point is identical with the end point of curve 1. It's 400 on the DELTA-VM and 2065 on the abort DELTA-V.
CC: Okay, the second point is 530 for the DVM and 22h5 for the abort DELTA-V.
CC: And the last point is DVM of 670 and a DELTA-V - abort DELTA-V of 2_75.
CC: Okay; and if you draw a line up the page at the DVM of 670, that is the end of the Mode I 30-minute and everything to the right of that you are in Mode II.
CC: Gene, Houston.
CDR: Stand by, Bob.
CDR: Hello, Houston. Are you reading yet?
CDR: Okay, Bob, curve looks good. I Just checked the DPS/APS crossover on the DPS available, and it comes out with what you gave me on the card - about 2521.
CC: Roger. And Just one minor point. Across the top, on the velocity to be gained, you can bias all those n,_mbers - add a six to every one of them across the top, to be technically correct.
CC: The next thing we have on that, Gene - -
CDR: ... correct, I could have done that before I - before I plotted the curve; but that's good. We understand, and we got it down.
CC: Okay. The next thing I've got is - that whole update column in the little block there is all updated; and we probably ought to get a readback on all these n_mbers, Gene. I can give it to you right like a regular pad, Just from the - right down from the top to the bottom, and then read it back to me. I think that'11 be the best way, don't you?
CDR: Okay. Ron's going to go ahead and take them; and we'11 doublecheck them, and he'11 read them back.
CMP: Okay, Just go ahead and start at the top and go down.
CC: Okay. I'm starting at LOI ignition time. 88:54:26.8. Pitch is minus 43, yaw ll2. GET abort ignition, 89:24:26.8; roll 217, pitch 6, yaw 25. Minus 42 on the Pitch, ll0 on the yaw. 216, 6, 18. High-gain angles again. Minus 75, Yaw 250; GET abort ignition there 90:54:26.8; 153, 17, 19. Next time there is GET abort ignition for the LM FDAI angles there - 90:54:26.8; Roll, Pitch, and Yaw angles, 202, 29, 330. Over.
CDR: Okay, Bob, here we go on the readback. I'11 Just read them right down the line. 88:54:26.8; minus 43, ll2, 89:24:26.8; 217, 6, 25; minus 42, ll0; 216, 6, 18; minus 75, 250; 90:54:26.8; 153, 17, 19, 90:54:26.8; 202, 29, 330. Over.
CC: Roger, Ron. A real good readback. The - on the next page, on page 3-82, the data there is exactly the same as the LOI limit cue card - the changes. We can read it up to you individually or you can take it from your cue cards; your choice.
CMP: No, we'11 change it from the cue card.
LMP: Bob, since they won't let me write anything, I tried looking for the Moon near the Sun with the filters and could not see it.
LMP: You sure you're sending us to the right place?
CC: Roger, Jack. Hey, I've got some information on that's-IVB that you're looking at. The azimuth was in - within i degree of what you called when we looked - checked out on your angles.
CC: Hey, Jack. Houston.
CC: This was for Jack and Gene. The trench has computed the S-IVB location in reference to your body axis; and the azimuth was within i degree, very close, and the - we calculate it should have been out of that window at 62 degrees from the X-axis, and you reported 45 degrees, which is Just a 17-degree error. It's real close there. You know, Just eyeballing it like that.
LMP: That's great. Then that is the S-IVB, huh?
CC: Okay. Well, we - you might check it this way, Jack. Line up the star Denebola and Rigel - say again, Regulus; I'm sorry, Regulus - Denebola and Regulus. And then, on that line, go perpendicular to that line right above Ri - right above Regulus, and that should be the S-IVB. It forms one point of a right triangle with Denebola and Regulus.
LMP: What you're saying is, it's the eye of Leo the Lion.
CC: That 's firm.
LMP: Except we can't see Leo the Lion very well.
CC: And, 17; Houston.
CC: We've got a rather lengthy Flight Plan update series here. We can read up to you any time you want. Just a reminder that we are sitting here waiting with it. Your call.
LMP: Generally what is it, Bob?
CC: It's changing a nl_mber of attitudes all through the Flight Plan, 84:32 - 84:35; changing VERB 49 maneuver, things like that, due to the TLC change here on times and that.
LMP: Okay, where are you going to start?
CC: Okay, it's at 84:32. Stand by 1. Jack, FLIGHT Just told me we can wait on this if you want until some other time in the Flight Plan. We want to get into this Experiment Checklist with the pa - pan camera, mapping camera film cycling. Or we can do both of them concurrently.
CDR: Hey, Bob, let's get the camera cycling out of the way first, and then we'11 pick up the Flight Plan updates.
LMP: Okay, Bob, I'11 get to that camera in Just a second. The coast of Australia is starting to come into view. Still looks pretty clear. We'11 give you more on that later, probably. That cyclone I t_ked about yesterday in the vicinity, I believe, of the Solomon Islands, looks even better organized than yesterday. It's really tightening up. Starting to look very bright and dense right in the core, not too dissimilar from Therese. Although it has a little broader extent in the southeast quadrant.
CC: Trying to match that up in my prog here. I can't find it.
LMP: Well, you didn't have it there yesterday either. It certainly looks like a tight little storm now though.
CC: Jack, would you mind repeating that location of that.
LMP: Can't give you mch on the progress - -
LMP: Well, I'11 try to give it to you a little better later. It's the one I was t_king about yesterday as being in the vicinity of the Solomon Islands. That's somewhat east-southeast of New Guinea.
CC: Yes. Roger. I've got it.
LMP: I think before we go to bed, we'11 probably be able to update the progress of the - that front south of Australia, also.
CC: Oh. Roger. I've - I've got a pretty disorganized area to the east of New Guinea. It's probably right over the Solomons. Looks pretty disorganized on our satellite photo - from, let's see, I guess that was this morning sometime.
LMP: Well, there is a lot of cloudiness in the equa- torial regions, the intertropical convergence zone in there. This is south of that, sort of on a - I'11 t_lk to you later.
CC: Roger. APOLLO 17 AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION
LMP: Okay, S-BAND AUX TV to SCIENCE.
LMP: Okay, SM/AC POWER is coming ON.
LMP: MAPPING CAMERA to STANDBY.
LMP: PAN CAMERA POWER is POWER; barber pole - gray.
LMP: SELF TEST is to HEATERS.
CC: That's affirmative. Minus 50 on PITCH and 270 on YAW.
LMP: Okay. When you're ready, I'11 do the big deal here.
CC: Roger. Stand by for my cue on that, Jack.
CC: Okay, Jack; we're ready.
CC: Roger. We mark it.
LMP: Okay; and PAN CAMERA SELF TEST - going SELF TEST. Got a barber pole.
CC: Roger. We'd like REACQ on the HIGH GAIN. Check.
LMP: Sorry, I didn't read the checklist.
CC: Jack, say your last.
LMP: MAPPING CAMERA went OFF at 2 minutes, and the PAN CAMERA POWER is OFF. And
CC: Roger. we'd like to select your checklist angles now on the high gain, please.
LMP: Do you want those on the dial? You don't want me to try to acquire there, do you?
CC: Jack, say again your question, please.
CMP: This is Ron. How is my ZPN doing?
CC: Oh. Roger. Let me take a look here.
CC: Hey, Ron, we don't - we don't want to say it's bad, but we're glad you're talking to us because we want to make sure you're with us.
CMP: (Laughter) Okay. Let me ... a little bit then.
CC: Roger. We think we've got a bad skin - skin sensor interface there, Ron.
LMP: Okay; that storm I'm talking about - a little more precisely is maybe centered at 2 degrees latitude, north of the Solomon Islands.
CC: Yes, that kind of matches up, Jack. Does it look like New Guinea and that is pretty well clobbered?
LMP: No, not really. New Guinea is at the western edge of a cloud zone that is part of that inter- tropical convergence zone that starts at New Guinea and swings east-northeast in an arc for about half the visible Pacific, and then that arc crosses back down over the equator and heads generally towards Central America, I suspect, although that's beyond the terminator now. The storm I'm talking about is clearly south and separate from that inter- tropical convergence cloud - pattern.
LMP: It's getting very tightly wound in the - the clock- wise sense, and - and is - is Just where there was a less well-organized pattern yesterday. Although maybe it's moved northward a little bit. understand,
CC: Roger. We Jack.
LMP: Our zero-phase point, Bob, is about 10 degrees - make that 15 degrees longitude east of the Solomons and has a - is a - fairly - low intensity at this time. I'11 keep an eye on it as it approaches that storm area and see if it changes.
LMP: Okay - I'11 be ready for them. Bob, Just one last thing on that line of clouds that stretches up toward Hawaii. They're very - they look very thick and dense based on the structure you can see as that - as the terminator approaches them. _ey cast a pretty strong shadow to the west.
CC: Roger. I see those on our satellite photo. They look pretty - pretty thick in there. I'm strictly an amateur talking to you, Jack, but it looks pretty thick in there.
LMP: How about some flight - when you come around again, can you start the Flight Plan updates?
CC: Any time you want them, I can start them.
CC: Okay, the first one is at 84:32 in the Flight Plan.
LMP: 84:22. Go ahead.
CC: 84:32. 32. Add the following.
CC: "Roll right 12 degrees," in parentheses, "To a roll of 150." The purpose of this change is to avoid - -
LMP: Say again the - say again the number in parentheses.
CC: R, roll of 150, 150.
LMP: Okay, at 84:32, "Roll right 12 degrees to roll 150."
CC: Roger. And in parentheses here, Just a comment, it's to avoid gimbal lock during VERB 49 maneuver directly below it.
CC: Okay. At 84:35, the VERB 49 maneuver, change the attitude to "Roll 320, pitch 010, yaw 324." And we want the high gain antenna angles: PITCH, minus 29; YAW 17. Over.
LMP: Okay. 320, 010, 324. High gain: PITCH, min_ 29; YAW, 17. And that's at - that's for the VERB 49 maneuver at 84: 35.
CC: That's affirm. And it goes without saying, scratch ou - scratch out "OMNI Alfa" there.
LMP: Got you. 47/5 Tape
CC: Okay, the next one is at 85:42. 85:42.
CC: This is Just a couple of notes here. The P52 stars we got in the CMS are 16 and 17. Gyro torquing will take 10 minutes 47 seconds, 10 minutes 47 seconds.
LMP: Okay, the stars will be stars 16 and 17. Torquing will take 10 minutes 40 seconds - 47 seconds.
CC: That's affirmative, Jack. Okay, at 85:44, over there on the right where it says, "LOI REFS_fl_AT attitude," change that - "roll 064, pitch 135, yaw 005." Over.
LMP: Okay, got you. Change is to roll 064, pitch lB5, yaw 005.
CC: Okay, Jack, and let's take a break here, and you can go ahead and secure the high gain and give me OMNI Bravo, and call me when you're ready for some more of these.
CC: Okay, Jack. The next one is an addition at 86 hours, 86 hours. We just want the following words: "Man- ually pressurize SPS." Over.
CC: Okay; did you get that last one, 86 hours?
LMP: Roger. 86 hours, "Manually pressurize the SPS ."
CC: That's affirmative. And Just for your information, that's because we need a couple hours of data on it. Like to look at it a couple of hours prior to LOI. Okay, the next one's at 87:20. Go ahead.
CC: Okay. Where it says, "Manual roll left to BO de- grees,'' chao_e "30 degrees" to "63 degrees," 63 degrees. Change the roll angle - -
CC: - - from "050" to "001."
LMP: Okay, that's roll left 63 degrees and the roll is 001.
CC: That's affirmative. And the new high gain angles will be PITCH, minus 27; YAW, 339.
LMP: Okay, minus 27 and 339.
CC: Okay, Just a little bit below that - where - at about 87:27 or 87:30, where it says, "Manually roll right 30 degrees," change the "30" to "63," 63. Change the roll to "064."
LMP: Okay, roll right 63 degrees. Roll will be 064.
CC: That's affirmative. And scratch out "OMNI Alfa" and add "High gain antenna: PITCH, minus 29; YAW, 17 ," YAW 17.
LMP: Okay. That's high gain: PITCH, minus 29; YAW, 17.
CC: Roger, Jack. And the next one is over at 89:03. We've got a comm attitude.
LMP: Okay, 89:03.
CC: Okay, that attitude there should - it's pretty close. Roll 165, pitch 060, yaw 338.
CC: Did you get that last - the attitude change there? It's a real trivia change; we probably shouldn't have called it, but it's - - 89:03 ... to me.
CC: - - 165, 060, and 338.
LMP: 89:03; excuse me.
CC: Roger. Did you get that attitude at 89:03? 1_7/7 Tape
LMP: Repeat 89:03.
CC: Roger. Roll 165, pitch 060, yaw 338.
LMP: Okay. New cow,, attitude: 165, 060, 338.
CC: Roger. That seems hardly worth it on that, Jack. Sorry on that one. Just one last note, general note on all this we gave you. Everything has been checked in the CMS. You probably figured that anyway.
CMP: Roger. Always know those fellows are working with us.
CC: Roger. And, Ron, we've got good data on you now.
CMP: Okay; th_k you, Jack
LMP: Okay, I mentioned earlier, I can't remember exactly when, that it looked like the wa - pattern of water in the Ross Sea - clear areas within the Ross Sea icepacks had changed, and I feel more strongly about that now. It looks like it's opened up con- siderably. The tri - long - elongate triangular areas, two of them that were there a couple of days ago, seem to have merged, and you also have clear water along most of the inner portion of the shoreline of that sea.
CC: Roger. Must be getting towards s_mertime down there.
LMP: Well, I'm very surprised that it's changed shape as much as that, and it could be that that tri- angular pattern was caused by a cloud bank that split what is now open water and made it look as if it was icepack.
CC: Roger. We'11 work it out.
LMP: Do it in either GET or CST, either one.
CC: We'11 crank it up to you in GET.
CC: Ron, Houston. We missed the NOUN 05 on the data - can you give us what your NOUN 05 was?
CMP: Would you believe five balls?
CC: Oh, I 'd believe that.
CC: You can go ahead and torque, Ron.
CMP: Roger. Roger. We'11 torque at BO - 54 BO.
CC: Roger. We've been listening to the playback of the DSE tape from the ALFMED period, and all three of you sound pretty good on that. Gene is still clearer than the rest, but all three of you sound real clear and very readable.
LMP: Excellent. That'11 make up for my note taking.
CC: Roger, And also, Jack. You had a question earlier about the different response of sea and continental areas when viewed through monocular polarizing fil- ter, and I've got a note here from John Dietrich that kind of explains it.
LMP: Okay, let's hear what John has to say.
CC: Okay. This is pretty much referencing the time you were looking at it, and here it is. "Ocean scenes near the bright area off Bolivia, which is the spel - specular point, include a high proportion of polarized light. The spacecraft-Earth-Sun geometry now is approximately equal to the Brewster angle which is nearest 53 degrees, where maximum plane polarization due to reflection occurs. There- fore, a high response of scene brightness to changes of filter position can be expected. Continental scenes are dominated by Lambertian or diffuse re- flectors, which are characterized by low proportion of polarization in the reflected beam. For such scenes, changing position of the polarization fil- ter produces changes in scene brightness that are near or below the threshhold of detectability." Over.
LMP: Okay. That sounds very good. It's sort of like the contrast between the lunar surface response and - the oceans being more like that, I guess, and the - between the lunar surface and terrestrial land surfaces.
LMP: That's very good, very interesting. Thank - thank John for me. I should have thought about that, but I've been away from it too long.
CC: No problem. Okay; terminator over Hawaii at 73:45 GET.
CC: 7B:45; thank you.
CC: Go ahead. Read you loud and clear, Jack.
LMP: Roger. Gene and I are going to stir your cryos - Gene and I are going to stir your cryos for you.
CC: Okay, we'11 be watching for it.
CC: Roger; 8 in the Bravo. We got it. You made EECOM happy tonight there, Ron.
CMP: Okay, and I'm still looking for my scissors.
CC: For your what?
CMP: My scissors.
CC: What did you do, misplace them? Or do you want and me to look up see where they're supposed to be?
CMP: (Laughter) No. They were stuck in the hand con- troller number 1. That little thing you're supposed to put the lap belt and things into. It was stuck in there last night when I went to bed, and I got up this morning, it was gone.
CC: Scissor, scissor, who got the scissor, huh?
LMP: ... waiting for him to get up.
CC: Well, I've got a - I've got a feeling they're still with you somewhere.
CDR: All sorts of things happened on his watch.
CMP: Yes; we won't talk too much about that.
CC: Say again, Ron; we missed that.
CMP: Roger. Are you watching Jack's and my EKG?
CC: Roger. Let me punch the Surgeon here.
CMP: We're doing a little - we're doing a little bit of exercising, now.
CC: Oh, we can see that in the cryos. We know you're doing exercises. Let me go over and get the num- bers here.
CC: Jack's at 120 on the heart rate.
CC: And, Ron, you're about 90.
CC: And, Jack - guess you can pass the word to Jack we refined that Hawaii terminator number through the Pacific fleet and called it all around. It is actually at 72:55 GET.
CMP: Okay. 72:65 GET.
CC: No, 72:55, 55.
CMP: Roger. 72:55.
CC: Okay, Jack. We got you at 130 right now.
CC: Okay, you peaked at lB5, and we had you at 1BO for several minutes. I_P Okay.
LMP: Well, that's what you wanted, wasn't it?
LMP: Good thing there's not another mission or we'd have to flight plan this kind of thing for your EECOMs.
CC: That's right. Got to conserve at all cost.
LMP: Who's sitting on your right tonight?
CC: Got a big Moon over there.
LMP: He's always there, isn't he?
CC: Let me see, Jack. We - the last thing we had was right about the end of it. We had you in Sierra Sierra, frame 50. And you had four pictures then. Is that before that or after that? Okay, those four were for the ALFMED, weren't they?
LMP: That's affirm. No, this was with the - the Hassel- blad, the EL camera.
CC: Oh, okay; got you.
CC: We had FAO working on matching that one up.
LMP: Roger. That weak front that I talked about south of Australia yesterday has moved north, but it looks considerably weaker than it did yesterday even. Just a very thin line of clouds - very thin line of clouds that now is touching the - the tip of Australia, south of Perth.
CC: Okay. That - I can't tie up with you on that one, Jack, because my prog doesn't go down that far; it only stays up in the landing area. And my satellite photo doesn't go down that far south either. So, I can't touch up with you on that one. LHP Okay. Well, it - it looked stronger yesterday, and it might have developed. Now there is a larger disturbance at the southeastern end of that front, still south of Tasmania; although, I suspect, un- less it stays on a pretty northerly course, it will not affect the weather on the east coast of Aus- tralia very much.
LMP: Thank you very much. Good to hear. They've learned to take care of themselves pretty well, haven't they?
CC: They sure have. They - they're - they're having a little trouble with the squawk box, and we'11 get working on that and it's - they're having trouble reading a little bit, but they're keeping up with US.
LMP: That 's nothing new.
LMP: But try to fix it, please.
CC: Oh, we'11 - definitely on that one.
CC: Roger. We saw you looking at Regulus there; we didn't realize you were looking at the Earth instead.
LMP: Ron's been looking for the booster. And he called me down and asked me to look at the Earth. He's been holding out on me.
LMP: Pass the torch of weather forecasting to Ron.
CMP: No. I think that's not a good way.
CC: Ron, everybody's fine over at E1 Lago. They are doing great. Listening to every word.
CMP: Very good, Bob. Thank you very much.
CDR: Hey, Bob. We got two of those flashers out there. They could be SLA panels. I don't know. They're alike in intensity and pretty regular in the - in the intensity, bright and dim flashes they come out with, and they're widely separated. One is about the position we called at the first time; the other one is - oh, as I'm looking at the Earth, far to the left. Closer to the center window now.
LMP: Yes, Bob, what is your - analysis chart, if you have it - surface terms analysis chart show for Hawaii today?
CC: stand by on that.
CC: Jack, according to the - -
LMP: The reason I ask is that for using your term - Go ahead.
CC: No, go ahead on that, Jack.
LMP: I was going to say, using your terminator time as a partial - mark for where Hawaii ought to be, Hawaii ought to be, it looks like that cyclonic circulation at the north end of the cloud bank I described, approaching that area, would be Just about on the Hawa - Hawaiian Islands. I'm curious if they're getting some weather down there now.
CC: Standby right now; I've got my weatherman right beside me here. L_ Also, that major front we talked about last night as being east and south of Japan has progressed even farther and is, oh, maybe 20 degrees longi- tude - about 20 degrees longitude from the Hawaiian Islands. And I'm making some _lesses on exactly where Hawaii is.
CC: Roger, Jack. We've got nothing adverse in the Hawaiian area at all. Just a lot of winds, high winds and surface winds and surface roughness, but we don't have any bad cloud area in the Hawaiian area. I'11 get the Hickam sequence re- port here shortly, Jack.
LMP: Okay, ... a little bit. The - our zero-phase point is now centered just a little south of the disturbance near the Solomon Islands. And I see no distinct change in the intensity of that zero- phase point over what I had talked about a couple hours ago.
LMP: Okay. Well, it's a lot more obvious today than it was yesterday; but even then it was showing pretty strong circulation. It is starting to wrap up, look very much llke Therese did yesterday.
CC: Roger. I'm sure of that. The one right off of Vietnam is also pretty tight, isn't it still?
LMP: Well, we can't see that one yet.
LMP: Australia in general is still very clear except in the northeastern portions where it looks like they have got scattered clouds; but it looks like a pretty night - over Australia.
CC: Roger. Looks that way from the satellite photo from the last couple days. Looks pretty nice down there.
CC: Jack, in looking at the sequence reports for Hickam and Hilo and that area, it looks like they Just got their standard 3500 scattered, 4500 broken clouds, maybe a rain shower or two. But Just their standard tropical fluffy clouds. 48/1 Tape Houston,
CMP: Apollo 17.
LMP: and the CDRs suit _!n the bottom of this suit bag. My suit is in the top, and I sure don't have any idea how in the world the other crews got three suits in there. I guess they never did because these things are plumb full right now, of suits, ... suit bag. And it's a good thing we lengthened them. I don't have room for anything else inside the suit bag. The water bags and, you know, contingency water bags, and my g-suit, and those flight things are - I found a place to stick them all around the wall on the outside of the suit bag.
CC: Roger, Ron. Good work.
LMP: Bob, you made some comment earlier about the weather. It may have been Hawaii, but you broke up.
CC: Roger; I just got the sequence report for Hawaii, and Hickam had 3500, scattered; 4500, broken with minor rain showers; and Hilo had about the same. And basically, it's Just their tropical puffy weather out there. The typical nothing. No frontal-type weather - no cyclonic-type weather.
LMP: Okay. Well, it may be Just patterns induced by the - the wind currents, or maybe I don't have the position of Hawaii quite right.
CC: Well, it's - it's possible. You know they do have high winds out there, and I've seen it, Just fly- ing in that area in the past, where those broken clouds get pretty close together at times. It almost looks like a solid overcast. And especially when you look at it from an angle, they all blend together.
LMP: Z hope you're going to save all those charts you're gathering together as we talk about it on this outbound leg. Be interesting to compare them and the pictures we take sometime in Jmluary.
CC: Jack, the Weather just was out here, and they told me that's exactly what they're doing. And if Sour time will permit in Januaxy, they'd like to go through and maybe help piece them all together, but they're going through these transcripts and they're gathering all their satellite pictures and plotting what you're seeing versus the satellite And. pictures etc., etc_ they'd like to go over it with you when you get back.
LMP: I'd love to do that° I hope, in general, we're getting the directions right. At least, I know I thought I'd worry abo_t the descriptions, and it's hard to place points on the globe_ particularly in the Pacific, if you can't identify land masses near them or have those nice little latitude and longitude lines painted on the Earth.
CC: Well, that's rights WeTll - we'11 put in a request for some lat- long lines out there.
CC: Jack, we're going to have a slight changeover from Goldstone to Honeysuckle at 72 hours, so we will probably break by.
LMP: Okay. Bob, you '_now you're just the last turn or so, you started to break up occasionally as if you might be getting a bad mike button or something.
CC: Okay, I'11 check it out.
CC: 17, Houston through Honeysuckle. How do you read?
CDR: You're loud and clear, Bob.
CC: Roger. Samo, samo_
LMP: I's just playing with the polarizing filter again, and it looks as if - when you have the knob on the filter parallel to the - roughly parallel to the polar axis of the Earth, - you get maximum darken- ing. And, of course, the opposite 90 degrees to that you get maximum lightening of the globe. And, in the - in the case of Australia, it also appears to lighten and darken, but not to the extent of the - of the ocean areas.
LMP: It could be that in the more desert climate you get finer grain material on the ground and give you the response that John Dietrich had talked ab out.
LMP: I rechecked that little story I was trying to give you about the ice pack there in the Ross Sea.
LMP: And whether I was right a couple of days ago or not - whether I was right a couple of days ago or not in the patterns, right now there is a lot of open water between the ice pack and the inner or, let's say, southern and south - eastern shore of the sea that I don't recall being there the other day.
LMP: I don't know whether you have any connections with all the Marines stationed in Antarctica, but maybe somebody knows what the ice pack's been doing the last few days.
CC: I'11 - I'11 see if we can find out, Jack. I don't think we've got any gates in Antarctica, though.
LMP: Well, that way you can't lose any.
CC: Roger. Well_ they never stole the continent.
LMP: Sounds like pretty good duty, Bob.
LMP: Yes, I - may have misled you earlier about a storm system south of Tasmania. It's - If there is one, it's Just developing, and it's probably 20 degrees of longitude south. As I recall yesterday, there was some indication that a couple fronts were Join- ing forces and moving in that direction. Today, the weaker and more western front appears to have domi- nated the system, and the only area where there seems to be cyclonic circulation developing is - is that point way south of Tasmania. That con- ceivably might move up and affect New Zealand in a few, in a couple days, but right now I don't see how it could affect Australia.
CC: I Just wanted to give you fair warning, Jack. In case you all feel a bump there when you're about ready to go to sleep there. At 73:17:45, you'11 cross that magic line into the lunar sphere of influence.
CDR: What's the number, Bob?
CC: 73:17:45.
CDR: Bob, do you read us?
CC: Roger. We read you loud and clear. We're reading you, Jack. How me?
CMP: You're reading Gene. How me?
CC: Okay, sorry. I'm reading - reading 17 loud and clear.
CDR: Okay, this is Geno. What was that number on the lunar sphere of influence?
CC: 73 hours 17 minutes 45 seconds: 73:17:45.
CDR: Okay, Bob. You're a little intermittent. Anyway, what you mean is we start hauling the mail I gue***.
CDR: I guess we hit our slowest point. How fast are we going now?
CC: Gene, you're pretty slow today. You're at 2354 feet per second.
CDR: Yes. That's - that's quite a drop from the 35 K that the S-IVB put us on.
CDR: Say, Bob. What do you hear from my home front? Anything?
CC: Talked to Tracy a little while ago, and she's listening to the box quite often and enjoying it, and everybody's fine there.
CDR: Bob, you're continuing ... We're getting every third word.
CC: Gene, do you read me any better on this one?
CC: How do you read me now?
CDR: I think you're still ... off.
CC: Roger; you're breaking up on us, too. Let's check it through here a minute.
CC: We were wondering who was going to be wearing the headset tonights Jack. Who's got the duty?
CDR: Hey, Bob. You reading us now?
CC: 17, Houston, did you call?
CDR: I Just wondered if you're reading us now, Bob.
CC: Roger. Reading you now loud end clear. I was Just off a minute there, talking to Barbara on the phone. Everybody's fine on the home front, Gene.
CDR: Okay, what did you say Tracy said earlier?
CC: She Just said she's tickled pink and listening - listening on the squawk box.
CDR: I guess that's the way a 9-year-old daughter should be in a case like this, huh?
CDR: In case she's not listening, tell her not to for- get to feed the horses.
CC: Roger. Barbara said I should find some nice young female voice around here to tell you she loves you, good night. But I figure we'd better not do that.
CDR: Okay; enough said. I guess what we don't need right (chuckle) right now is a nice female voice.
CDR: We're Just happy, health - healthy, hungry, end homesick. _8/7 Tape
CC: You got a lot of work to do, and you better not say you're hungry. The doctor about went through the overhead over here when you said that.
CDR: That's a cliche.
CDR: Bob, Just in general, how is the spacecraft look- ing to you? Pretty good, I hope.
CC: That's affirmative. We - we haven't found anything. I guess we're - stopped getting those spurious MASTER ALARMs here for a while. So that - that was the only witch hunt we were having right there, was trying to find that.
CDR: Yes, they disappeared. The ones we've had recently seem to be real ones.
CC: Hey, guys, we were Just still trying to figure out who is going to wear the headset and got - who has the duty tonight?
CDR: Oh, I'11 wear it tonight, Bob.
CC: Is that Gene?
CMP: And, Houston; 17. You ready for some onboard read-outs?
CMP: Okay. BAT C, 36.8; PYRO BAT A, 37.0; and Bravo is 37.0. RCS Alfa, 93, 91, 91, and 94. Over.
CC: Roger. Got them all, Ron.
CMP: Houston, we're cycling the H 2 FANs, now.
CC: Roger, l?. Go ahead.
CMP: Okay. We're cycling the H2 FANs.
CC: Okay; we copy. 49/1 Tape
CDR: Okay, Bob, we're going to turn out the lights now and hit the sack.
CC: Okay. Have you gone through the presleep check- list, getting ready on the comm and all that?
CDR: Yes; that's affirm- the presleep checklist.
CC: We're not getting any biomed data on - supposed to be on Ron, I guess. We're not showing any biomed data.
CDR: Houston, do you read 177
CC: 17, Houston. How do you read me?
CDR: Yes, I'm reading you, Bob. What did you say I might want?
CC: You might check the sensors on Ron. We're not getting any biomed data. Is he unplugged?
CDR: Well, that's because he's - Yes, he's unplugged. Give him a chance to get hooked up and change some leads here.
CDR: Everything else - the presleep check - the presleep checklist is complete. I'm going to leave the corem cap on tonight. Our tone boost doesn't work, so I'11 just be on corem all night.
CDR: Do you have any biomed on Ron?
CC: Stand by on that, Gene.
CDR: Good night, Robert.
CC: Got a busy day tomorrow, and we'11 - we'11 be with you then. Tapes 50-53/1 RW_T PERIOD - NO COMMUNICATIONS
CC: Apollo 17, Houston. Did you call?
CDR: Good morning, Houston. Anybody there?
CC: Okay, good morning. It's LOI day, Apollo 17.
CDR: Hello, Robert. You gave us an extra half hour.
CC: That's affirmative. We're presently still debating on midcourse 4, Geno, and at the present time, it's small, about a half a foot per second. We're ex- pecting a final decision on whether it's necessary or not in approximately I hour at 8 - 82:30. We'11 let you know then, but it will be small, and so we decided to give you an extra half hour of sleep.
CDR: Okay, Bob, without me having to look it up, when will it come if it comes?
CC: Stand by. 83:55, so we'11 give you about i hour and 25 minutes advance notice.
CDR: Okay. Well, we'11 start stirring around.
CC: Okay, give me a call when you want to talk to people.
LMP: Hello, Houston.
CC: Hello there, 17. Good morning.
LMP: I'm not sure we're ready to talk yet, Bob, but I Just thought you'd like to know we got a pretty spectacular view of - of Africa today. We can see the Sinai, can see the Red Sea, the Sea of Aden, and for the first time I think we can not only see the Mediterranean, but we can see the - most of the Southern European countries, Turkey and Greece and up into Italy and some of those places, can't quite see Spain because you're Just about on the horizon. And for the most part, it looks like the weather throughout the Mediterranean and Northern Africa looks pretty good.
CC: Okay, we're copying that. And, if you guys are willing to do a little switch flipping this early in morning, we'd like you to turn on the pan cam- era heaters, which means if somebody's down there in that vicinity, it's SM/AC POWER, ON, and the SELF TEST switch to HEATERS. Over.
LMP: You want the SM/AC POWER, ON, and the SELF TEST switch to HEATERS?
LMP: Okay, we'11 get that.
CDR: Okay, we got both of those.
CC: Gee, I didn't wake you up, did I?
CC: Well -
CDR: Okay, Bob. The LM/CM DELTA-P is 0.6.
CC: Okay. Copy that. Sounds good.
CMP: Hello, Houston; Apollo 17. How do you read?
CC: Hello. Loud and clear, 17. We're with you.
CMP: Okay, we didn't get you there for about 5 minutes, Bob, with good up-link signal strength. Were you guys having a problem?
CC: No, not that I know of. We were getting a lot of noise down here, and we seem to think that you guys were prob - assumed you guys were turned away from us or something. But we're with you.
CMP: No, you might think about that one a little bit. We had a very strong up-link - signal strength, as good as right now. And Gene was trying to call you, off and on, for several minutes and we didn't get any response. But sounds real good now.
CC: Okay, sorry about that.
CMP: Hey, Bob. Good morning. It's a good chance to talk to you for once.
CC: Yes, for once, yes. Talk to me now this next hour and I won't talk to you again for another 3 or 4 days, Ronald.
CC: Nice to be able to talk to somebody for a change -
LMP: Bob, your friendly medical officer -
CC: Go ahead. Go ahead, if you've got something to say.
CC: Speak.
CDR: and the food. Are you ready to copy?
CDR: had sausage patties, pears, and cocoa for breakfast. And a quarter - one-fourth cheese spread, one-half bread, and one-half cereal bar, and one orange beverage. For lunch. Tomato soup, half a hamburger, half mustard, vanilla pudding, and an orange-pineapple drink for dinner.
LMP: ... 5 hours of good sleep, and two more containers of water.
CC: Okay, 17, I got the CDRs food and then you broke up, and I got 5 hours of sleep and two containers of water. Was there something between?
LMP: That's firm, your - his PRD reading, 17032.
LMP: And I think, Bob, we're coming around different omni, so I'11 wait on the rest of it.
CC: Roger. That's affirm.
LMP: Okay, Houston; 17. How do you read now?
CC: Okay, read you again; go ahead.
LMP: Okay, for the LMP, the food eaten - Well, let's see, I guess it's a tossup: eaten versus not eaten, so I'11 give you what I ate. Sausage patties, grits, pears, pineapple-grapefruit drink, coffee, and let me make a note that the package of peaches in that pack had been - was broken in the package. Also, chicken - I had chicken soup, ham, bread, orange drink, and four bacon squares. For dinner, I sort of ate some leftovers and grape drink, corn chowder, chocolate pudding. And I've had - Well, standby. The PRD reading: 24080; and 7-1/2 hours of very good sleep last night. I took a Seconal in order to get to sleep, and I've 2-1/2 had i and i or - containers of water since last report.
CC: Okay, copy all that, Jack.
LMP: Okay, the CMl°, the chowhound of the kennel here, had: sausage, grits, fruit cocktail, orange beverage, and coffee. He had ham, cheese spread, peaches, cereal bar, and orange-pineapple drink. Later on, he had tomato soup, half a hamburger, half mustard, vanilla pudding, sugar cookies, grape drink, and tea. And he has a complaint this morning, much like mine, that his apricot package had broken in the bag; and, although not too significant itself, it makes everything else pretty sticky.
CC: I copy that.
CMP: medical is 15031 PRD; he had 7 hours restless sleep, and he'd like a comment from the doctors on how that looked on his biomed; and he had a Seconal, and he's had four containers of water.
CC: Okay, we copy all that one also. Jack, you guys still going to fit in your space suits? 54/5 Tape
LMP: If you'd stick around - you'd know we tried those on yesterday.
CC: Roger; copy. Tried to talk to you guys yesterday morning, but I didn't quite make it, there was a problem apparently some place.
LMP: That's all right, we're stuffing him with food so he can't sleep.
CC: Okay, and the comment concerning Ron's sleep from the Surgeon, Jack, is that he was restless the first hour and had periods of restlessness during the night, but we logged him for about 7 hours of sleep also. But we did see periods of wakefulness, some of which were maybe up to 10 minutes long.
CMP: That sounds about right; that's good, thank you. If I can't tell how long I'm awake and, you know, how long you were really asleep.
CC: I'11 tell you, Ron, if you wake up during the night, you might sit there and stare at the second hand then maybe you could count and tell how long you're awake.
CC: Okay, we owe you guys a consml_le update - update. And on RCS consumables, your RCS fuel remaining is still 1.4 percent above the Flight Plan; that's a slight improvement over the 1.B percent from yesterday.
LMP: I guess everything else is about like yesterday. Is that right, Bob?
CC: Roger. The cons_m_les are still about the same. And if you guys will wind your watches, we'11 consider the postsleep checklist finished.
LMP: Okay, and Geno has got his null bias check for you.
CC: Okay, Roger on that. We're waiting.
CDR: Okay, Bob, made two checks over a period of 100 seconds. One was minus 99.0 and the other was minus 98.9.
CC: Okay, we copy minus 99.0 and minus 98.9, Geno.
CDR: And - -
CC: And we'd like OMNI Charlie, please there, 17.
CC: And, Apollo 17; Houston. We'd like to recommend you go SQUELCH, OFF, at this time, if you haven't; and we'11 keep calling you the omnis to change as you rotate there. Over. enabled; maybe you think that's the problem.
CC: Stand by on that and, while we're thinking about it, can we confirm that the only medication you've had is a Seconal for you and a Seconal for Ron, and nothing for the Commander?
CDR: This is Geno, that's right; I did not take any Seconal last night. One thing I wanted to talk to you about though, I - I took one antigas pill after breakfast, I took one after supper, and I took one prior to going to sleep, which were prob- ably within an hour apart. If you've got a better solution than those gas pills, I'd sure like to hear it.
CC: Understand that, Gene. We'11 get back with you, I guess, on that later.
CC: And, Jack, as far as turning the SQUELCH, OFF, I - they do believe that we're better with that for margins and general management at this distance with the omni. As soon as we plot a PTC and go on the high gain, we'11 be much better off.
CC: And, 17; Houston. You can do without your water dump now. We're in good shape. We'11 dump at 94 hours.
CDR: 94 hours. Okay.
CDR: Bob, does that mean we can go ahead with the urine dump on schedule?
CC: Say again there, Geno, On the urine dump.
CC: Say again, Geno, on the urine dump.
CDR: Roger. Can we press on with it on schedule?
CC: That's affirmative, sir. It's Just that we don't need to do the water dump, that's all.