P: you. easy. getting back that way. HAWAII S-10 all right. pretty good rate. of got tangled up in it. So we think we'd better not fool with it anymore. you to your left. So if you want to translate to your right - - You're okay. You should be good for most of the rest of the EVA. in PLATFORM? staying with the Agena. the Agena. Just save fuel. I 'm trying to release this ,,m_ilical. with Mike out there by the thing. don't hit this Agena. possible. clear. do that? side is about ]_ke we predicted, only it takes more time. The body positioning is indeed a problem, although the nitrogen line got connected without too much of a problem. I - when I translated over to the Agena, I found that the lack of hand holds is a big impediment. I would - I could hang on, but I around couldn't get to the other side, which is what around I wanted to do. Finally, I did get to the other side and I did get both the S-lO package and the nose fairing off. John now has them. However, there is a piece of the shroud hanging - or part of the nose of the Agena that came loose and I was afraid I was going to get snarled up in that. So did John and he told me to come on back. So the new S-lO, which I was going to put on the Agena, I didn't and I Just now threw it away. Also, I lost my EVA Hasselblad inadvertently, I'm sorry to say. I'm getting ready now to do some gun evaluations. Okay, John, you can let go. HAWAII more fuel. Over. nitrogen line and I 'm standing up in the hatch here. John's not firing the thrusters anymore. We're ma_e just going to take a little rest here and sure we both know what we're doing before we press on with the ingress. squared away and they'11 pick you up over the States shortly. CALIFORNIA any more fuel. Quantity at this time? GUAYMAS status. all it is - turned off the radio we just found out. you turned off your Yaw Rate _yro and your C-Band Beacon circuit breaker. We'11 have to pick those up later. not now, but as soon as you get the opportunity you might check the VIII Agena and, if it's possible, put in a i foot-per-second Retro-burn. would you? feet of hose wrapped around him. We may have diffi- culty getting him out. ROSE KNOT VICTOR this time. You're looking real good. We're stand- ing by. too. up. take awhile. factorily. And if it did, we give you GO to Jettison it with the rest of the equipment. for awhile. I got slightly warm and it went to HIGH FLOW, but I felt it was all right as far as pressure went. As far as all the tones and lights and whatnot, it worked perfectly so I don't have any complaints at all on that. It worked per- fectly. from the ,,mbilical? a Sunday school picnic. information we plan to have you reduce your altitude in two separate burns. The first depleting your fuel, all except the Volkswagon tank, and then the second utilizing it. We '11 be talking with you more about that later. here. Over. you informed. we're reading about 9 percent. read about 9 percent. ·.. while we're ... everything again· two burns you mentioned that we have scheduled to ... minute. versa. place about 51:39, which is roughl_ an hour and a half from now. The second burn will take place at 53:11. We'11 be talking with you about these two burns later on. By spreading the Height-Adjust into two separate burns, we hope to get a better handle on your final parameters. The open hatch time was scheduled at 50 plus 30 which is about 30 minutes from now, if you're prepared to do it then. let you know. from LOS. CA2NARVON circuit breaker. Thank you. HAWATT - closing the Repress valve. hatch, jettisoned everything and the cabin pressure is back up again. ing real fine. showing about 900 on your Cryo 0 2 which is real fine. Tubes look good and your cabin's good. Control switch OFF, haven't you? jettison everything according to schedule or did you let something else go or did you keep something extra? the EVA camera ... which is down in the lower left- hand box. weight. got a - oh - I estimate 3000 feet in the sunlight. It's beautifUl. entry c.g. and weight, they might give us a call later and check the individual items, the heavy ones that they're in doubt about. switches? the AID of Agena attitudes looked like prior to your EVA? limits-cycle tumble rate. It wasn't t,,mhlingat all. The only way you could tell it was t,,mhling was by being in Platform mode and watching it go round. excuse me, it's not even rolling. It looks like it's got an Inertial Guidance System, is what it looks like. down part of the time and very, very slow rate. Flying formation on part of it, you didn't even notice that it was moving. they're making them up now. Alinement before we get in the States. it. sAm_ altitude? with the gages when he's not supposed to play with them. CALIFORNIA second Out-Of-Plane at 51 plus 16, to separate you from the Agena that's presently ahead of you. Over. lateral separation from the Agena for the burn that's going to take place at 51:38:51 and we're suggesting a i foot-per-second lateral burn at 51 plus 16. Over. would be i foot-per-second to the south. Do you think that would then give you lateral separation from the Agena? X. Think there's a possibility of hitting him at this point. We'11 go remote at the ... chance at GET? me, 50:54:00. We'11 give you a Mark there. give you a hack there. copy. of 51:38:51; 1OO.O feet per second; burn time 1 plus 57; yaw 180, pitch O; 25 is 91000; thrusters, aft; maneuver, Retrograde. Maneuver? Over. The time 51:16:00. logic is to completely deplete your main OAMS tank only in this burn. We have scheduled you for 100 feet per second but expect the OA_ Regulator Pres- sure will drop below 250 psi when you indicate only 75 feet per second or so; and this is the cut-off point of the burn. That is, we want to completely deplete the OAMS tank and it will accept the feet per second that you incur during this. get there. But whatever it is, when the regulator pressure drops to 250, that is what we will accept and then we will be standing by for your readings on 80, 81 and 82. Platform? GUAYMAS and in this D-lO no maneuvering. If the Horizon Scanner Ignorer light will not bother you during the sleep period, we would like to have you leave that on. 51:45:00 to 52:45:00 will be an eat period. 52:00:00 at CSQ, purge fuel cells l, then 2. At 52:50:00 at RKV, we'11 have a PlA update, crew status report. will take place somewhere near 53:11:06. So we will be sending you a power-down Spacecraft after that time. But we 'il have more information on that later. Shaping Maneuver will take place at 53:11:06. We'11 be then sending you some information om Spacecraft power-down, but we 'il cover more of that later. and then gone the next. I copied down to 52:00 and then I picked up again at 53:11 and lost everything in between. right now, we'11 contact you over another station and pass this information up then. ROSE KNOT VICTOR You are GO. decided not to round it off. Rendezvous with VIII Agena. How close do you think you maneuvered your Spacecraft to the VIII Agena? for you when you're ready to copy. CSQ; purge fuel cell.q l, then 2; Cryo Quantity readout. At 52:50:00 at the RKV, PI_ update, crew status report. At 53:11:00, Second Orbit Shape. Do you copy? All Flight Plan update and the radio goes out. Let's give it one more try. you fill me in. Scanner light, leave ON all night; 51:45:52 eat. 52 hours even over the CSQ, purge 1 and then 2; Cryo Quantity readout. 55:00:00, PLA update and at 53:11:06, an Orbit Tweak Maneuver. and that's it. standing by. TANANARIVE burn. we switched over to _ 2. clear on UHF 1. fuel. and you still got fuel. time. 00020 and what John said was the Propellant Quantity is now indicating - Source Pressure is steady on 300 - - CSQ. We may not have to m_We another burn tonight, John, and you can go to bed early. What are you going to do with all the room in the Spacecraft? three-room apartment in here now compared to what it was an hour ago. let go of - like the Hasselblad EVA camera and the eem the window, so you might bear that in mind in the rest of your planning and keep us abreast of what's going on. We 'ye got that abbreviated copy of the Flight Plan procedures. I saw it down on the back of my Rendezvous Book, but that's all. whatnot. the system working and COASTAL SENTRY QUEBEC We're ready for your fuel cell purge Section l, then 2 anytime you're ready. oxygen on Section 2. The ... know so we can get our Oryo readout. ... is a lot better since EVA. It's not noticeable and our eyes are clearing now. there. I called you when I stopped, when I turned the Cock Lever valve OFF. I completed it about 2 or 3 minutes ago. was a little garbled. Could you put your Quantity Read to CRYO 02? pressure. HAWAII I T/M Control Switch in the REAL-TIME and ACQ-AID position. of the night and your Adapter C-Band in the CONTINUOUS position? I 'm going to lead you through a check list on the jettison and see if we can get everything you got. lng items. The umbilical bag. great big bag, yes. with us; the S-12 fairing from our Spacecraft we threw away. Correction, I'm sorry. The S-12 we jettisoned. The S-10 from the old Agena we have with us. Flight Plan? those items before ... the S-13 bracket, the NSC-8 color plate and extension rod. the Hasselblad are gone. gone. else? find it now, so either we stowed it some magic place or else it floated back out somewhere during the EVA sequence. We ,11 let you know if we find it, but if we don't find it or don't tell you, you better assume that it's gone also, the S-12 package itself. we have left. When we get it all added up, we'11 give you a rough hack on it for your S-5, S-6 and other planning. put it so we could get rid of it. The bag was as big as my body. was Just on the Spacecraft hoses without any ex- tension. What I did was get my body position down in the right-hand footwell prior to pressurizing the suit, so that when I pressurized the suit I was wedged in down there with '_eaucoup" head clearance so that it was a simple matter to get the hatch closed again for the final time. the past two days with no real problem. That's pretty good. That hasn't happened before. more, thank you. dry waste bags you threw away? just a - packets - you know packets that the food comes in. six meals and weigh them and multiplying them by two, then add the weight of a traveling storage bag and that ,11 give it to you. CALIFORNIA (K;AYI/_S X. ahead. orbit now is 216 by 158. Looks real good for tomorrow. Looking at it on the ground here, it looks like you may be fairly iow on fuel even though you 'ye got a full Vo]k_wagon oxidizer tank; so we expect you to keep a close watch on that one. Select to REENTRY for the night operation when you get ready to go to bed. like to. you here. Ready to copy? ing this time we'd like for you to do D-lO, Mode G and as we mentioned earlier, if the Scanner Ignore light doesn't bother you while you sleep, we'd l_We to have you leave the Scanners ON at night because it helps them correlate some of the drifting flight data they get. If it does, you might - - to leave the ScRnners ON during this period so that we can correlate some of the data better. and suggestion was to leave your Scanners ON during the night sleep period. between there. Excuse me. you some more information over RKV, but we'd like to let you know that wa 're pretty doggone happy down here. It was a real great day today and we feel just about as happy about it as you do, I guess. We'd like to keep it that way. about the way everything went. purposes on S-5, S-6. We've got about six magazines of 16_n color, two magazines of black and white and we have about two and a half mags of 70mm Maurer left. that tonight and since we're just about LOS, once again it was a great job today. It was fabulous. really incredible. I didn't believe part of it myself. ROSE KNOT VICTOR l the headings from the col,,musss I '11 relay them. 05; weather, good. Area 36-3: 58:05:49; 21 plus 12, 27 plus O1. Area 37-Delta: 58:55:19; 30 plus 12, 35 plus 32; weather, good. I believe I forgot to give you the weather in 36-2,. The weather is marginal. Area 38-2: 60:33:56; 28 plus 29, 33 plus 06; weather, marginal. Area 39-2: 62:13:01; 26 plus 36, 28 plus 47; weather, good. Area 40-2: 63:52:48; 24 plus 37, 29 plus 24; weather, good. Area 41-1: 63:17:47; 26 plus 08, 31 plus O1; weather, good. Bank angles for all areas, roll left 90. No SEP maneuvers required. Did you copy? weather, good. Did you copy? report. we've missed so far. you, so I guess you can power-down your Spacecraf% and get ready for your sleep period. We '11 be watching you while you're sleeping and we'11 see you back at the ranch. I 'm not going to make up for it. should we power it down? Should we leave the plat- form on for let's see - will it help out to leave the platform on for S-10? know. Stand by and I'11 check. they're concerned, Gemini. the Dual Rendezvous when I first rolled over ... hoping the ... better. But for some reason or other, there was sun shining on the ... shield so - well, it just gave me one big ball of fire. This time I lowered the nose a couple of degrees too much ... coming in and bouncing off the nose. degrees, which was getting pretty marginal toward the IVI. Then, right after that we never lost it. It got brighter and brighter. nominal - - around back so you can tell how accurately you've done it. one of them .... RCS thrusters, right out in front of me, both the A-Ring and the B-Ring. I don't recall which thruster numbers they are. But - - know that that stuff white and fibrous, they around the edges it. It's got of coming loose.... yes, I've a big there. Something else. piece of it out of Up on the nose, I don't know if you can see it or if you have the same size - sAm_ - - I thought it was a shingle, but it was flapping all during launch. Did you notice that? Did you have one of those? that thing was going to break loose and come back through this windshield at me. I was res]]y sweat- ing. ties. which you punch the button to raise, c-_ up nor- mally when I pushed the button; but the handrail, which is automatically sequenced, did not pop up in the rear. It only popped up in the front, so that it w_s unsatisfactory as far as putting the nitrogen line through. I hooked the nitrogen through the front handrail. That's why I told you to make sure and cinch down - There is nothing to grab hold of if it popped up. I couldn't - no. Wait a minute. Let me make that clear. I could get my fingers under the forward part of the aft handrail, but I couldn't get the nitrogen line in. I didn't even try. I could see that the dimension was too smell to do any angling down. Also, there was a bow in it. You see, with the back being locked down, the top was sort of bowed up. There wasn't room enough to get the nitrogen line, so I hooked the nitrogen line under- neath the forward handrail. That's why I mentioned to you to be sure and cinch that nitrogen line down, see. It was slacker than we had planned on it being. through which you insert the - the water gun, leaks. It's butterscotch pudding - butterscotch pudding in the little hole that's under there. accidentally snipped the tang and had tang flakes all over the cockpit. out. It seems to be working okay, but it is mmking just a "click" instead of the "thump" that indicates the CO2 is working. The CO2 cartridge is starting to make a little noise again. On a couple of ex- posures, there was nothing. Then it popped sort of weakly and now it seems to be mRWing pretty healthy noises. posures right around the middle of the roll, where it says 25 to 30 remaining, there are some pictures of some very unusual cloud patterns. Cirrus banding one way and lower clouds in rows roughly 90 degrees to the pattern of the Cirrus. pudding. ever eaten' of China, Q-,emoy and _atsu, and whatnot. Those are the latter part of Magazine C. get that little spout, through which you eat the food, to open up. Right where the spout Joins the bag, where it is sealed under the bag itself, it lies flat and it's very difficult to get the thing to open up three-dimensionally. You can bend it back and forth and push the ends of the spout in toward one another to force it open. Sometimes it doesn't work and you can't get the food out, short of sticking a pencil down inside it. night and going anywhere. If you want to open the hatch at night, just stand there without moving. _at's fine. But when I was moving around, with the hatch open at night on the first EVA, trying to get up a little higher, I was aware that I was bound up on something. It wasn't possible to see what, and that's not a very good way to do business. If you're going to do anything other than Just the most simple stand-up or hatch-opening maneuver, it ought to be done in the daytime. and there is one of the prettiest sights ... took a you-know-what, in this case, is sort of llke having Wilbur Wright looking over your shoulder while you're trying to solo an airplane. ROSE KNOT VICTOR i REV chart? not our bedtime yet. please? trajectory update. Your present orbit is 158 by 216. to you. node. minutes; right ascension. this evening or OFF?. to find the horizon, even in the daytime. In places, it is very distinctive - through the cloud decks. For other places, the clouds seem to blend into the ocean or other time features. In those cases, the horizon is just herd to see, tell where the horizc _ - where the atmoaphere leaves off and the horizon starts. That's going to shoot down the start of horizon measurements in the daytime. For that kind- for eyeball measurements. we've got negative - - looks like - yes, it looks like Burma. We're over Indza and I'm shooting Magazine D, the beginning of it. down there, get it. fighting over. world. Looks like we're reentering. Would you believe Quemoy and Matsu on the pictures? They were a day early on the ... there's John Young. never fear. (Laughter) is ON. comaeon. you can see the horizon. But there are certain places not too ... I've seen so far, where it's impossible to define where the horizon is. I can't tell whether I'm seeing - for ex,m_le, in one place I'm looking, appears to be the real earth horizon; but there seems to be a great, huge dip in it, a scalloped-out place in the true horizon. If that's a mountain, that's a huge mountain. I doubt it it's a mountain. The horizon, in other words, as I 'm looking at it does not seem oval-shaped - too regular. if it will come out or not, but it's in Magazine D beginning Maurer, toward the of the magazine. slew of weather photos out over the ocean, now. Seems there are some interesting cloud formations here on Magazine D. Hawaii. I'm coming up on Hawaii right now, but I'm afraid I'm going to be pitched-up and not be able to see it. sun see an object - just one object in the sky off to my right - that would be west to northwest - which is brighter than a 1st magnitude star. Appears to be above ma quite a ways - above or below. It's hard to tell just where it is in flight when I 'm pitched up quite a bit. Okay. Here we go with GET of 63:13:35. There is some object in orbit. But the thing is - there it is again. Okay. I have it out my window. If I can find the constellation, I'i1 see what it is. Wait a minute till I find it. CANARY ISLANDS X. you all feeling this morning? the 02 position for us, please? you're ready to copy. When you get your eyes open. switch to the H2 position? Thank you. cell, Section 2, then Section 1; load Module 6 for D-5 Orbit Determination; Aline the Platform as soon as warm-up is complete; then Platform SEF. From 63:00 to 64:00: eat period. And from 64:05 to 64:40: D-lO, Node Easy. That's all I'm going to give you. They have some they'11 update you on later. right now. We can see little islands up there. switch to 02 for about lO seconds and then switch it OFF. We'11 be standing by. anyway. CARNARVON We're looking at your systems. All systems are GO. We're standing by. platform.