Otrobonita/noicy-space-talks huggingface dataset:
CDR: Okay. I'11 kind of narrate this, Charlie. I'm kind of at an odd angle to hold it out the window. Again, you can see the west coast of orange. Africa, the Sahara Desert, there, all in _om can see the Atlantic Ocean with swirls of _louds over to the eastern part of Brazil You r. that ieam see the very weird cloud patterns Gene Idescribed out over the northeas;ern part of the United States. Again, it looks like the North com- !
CC: t l_oger.
CDR: Again, the one. thing that is really so amazing, as you look at the Earth, is the amount of cloud- cover that we have down there. Over the tropi- cal ra/n forest of South America, there's Just numerous small cumulus clouds.
CC: Roger. Can you describe the color as contrasted to say, the Andes 'or the American Desert?
CDR: Roger. The color of th_ tropical rain forest there is more of a greenish brown. It's a greenish brown versus a brown-orange on the tropical - on the Americafi Desert and the Sahara Desert.
CC: l_oger. Can you pick out the Amazons?
CDR: I'm giving you - - Can
CC: Roger. you pick out the Amazon River?
CDR: Negative. No. I can't pick out the Amazon. I am looking at it with my naked eye where Tape32/8 Gene had the 28-power monocular. I do have the zoom on here, so you are seeing it a little bit bigger than w_ are on the stanfi-_d vision, so the v_th as you see it there is bigger. And you can see the terminator, or nighttime, has moved most at this time, over of Africa and is to to Europe. It'11 starting move over soon he nighttime in Spa/n, and also_ it is getting daylight over in Hawaii, there. The cloud patterns utterly fantastic are as you look out at it.
CC: Roger, 10. We copy. How about up around the clouds that I asked you about earlier up around the Bering Strait? Is it ds,vlight over there yet?
CDR: They are Just starting to come into view and when we have our programed TV pass, - that's through Goldstone, we should be able to take a situation. look at that cloud frontal It was a beautiful swirl yesterday.
CDR: But it's also amazing how some of the clouds are pare white and the other ones will look more of a brownish white - kind of a dirty white. Again, if you look you could see, by Mauritania going over to Brazil, the intertropical convergence z_e that's always pictured on our weather map is Just a straight line right around the Earth. It's really beautiful with occasional out- croppings of cumulus clouds.
CC: Roger. %_ere are.the brownish clo_s located? Over the deserts, or Just where, Tom?
CDR: Right now the brownish clouds are over the tropical rain forest and the Atlantic Ocean.
CDR: - - tropical rain forest in Brazil. Copy.
CDR: We're about to lose you out our window. 1 f
UNKNOWN: stand by. Goldstone and Madrid were both TV. recording the Get good signals both places.
CDR: Okay. 32/9 Tape
CC: We rll stand by till you come out through the hatch window.
CDR: Okay. As we say adios - disappeared behind our hatch window now. We will see you later.
CDR: Cut it. 33/1 Pa.ge 225
CDR: That VOX worked okay, I guess.
CC: Hey, 10. That VOX was perfect. None of the words anything. were clipped or It was like talking to you in the same room, 10. It was really great.
CDR: Okay. That's the first time, I guess, we've really llsed VOX. It seems to be okay up here, Charlie.
UNKNOWN: not clipped at all. We're real pleased with it here, 10.
CC: i0, Houston. We'11 have you om the high gain for about another 8 minutes. Over.
CDR: ... on the Earth at all, now. You're completely out of view. John will be able to pick you up down in the optics.
CMP: Houston, Apollo 10. Over.
CC: Roger. Go ahead, John.
CMP: Roger. In about another hour and a half, you ought to be right underneath ua. And, boy, it ought to be the most remarkable picture of the United States ever made. The whole North Ameri- can continent is Just standing out. It's really - and there's not too much clouds, for a change; it's open.
CC: Well, great.
CMP: ... see right do_m from Florida -
CC: You can see Puerto Rico, Haiti, Jamaica, Cuba, Florida. The Bahamas are under cioudcover right United nOw, but, in general, thewhole States, except for the New England states and a path cutting down through the middle of the United see States, Wide open. You can the Great Lakes verY well.
CC: Good show. We'11 be looking forward to your TV show live here at - in a couple of hours, and we should be, as you sscy, about right underneath you good and ought to get a view. Thanks 'a lot.
CMP: Roger. Mexico and the Yucatan pe_insul_ _md even Central America. some of I eon't see Panama. I can see parts of Venezuela, Colombia, and, of course, most of Brazil is wide open. Chile seems to be open along the coast down there. Peru and Bolivia are probably under scattered clouds today.
CC: Roger. You guys are giving us - -
CMP: YoU can sure see a lot.
UNKNOWN: - great weather reports.
CMP: You can sure See a lot of the world from u p here.
CC: Yes (laughter). Like maybe all of it.
CC: Charlie, I've got it out mY window now, and, like John said, it's so remarkably clear. Lake Superi- or and Lake Michigan stand out very brightly. There's Just a patch, a littIe patch of clouds, or the Chicago-Milwaukee area, or else there's snow on the ground. I really think it's probably clou_ but you can ,l_ost pick out the states by the con- tour of the sea and the oceans and the lakes. Ant I can actu,lly see the Mississippi, not see the river, but you can sort of see the Mississippi River V-11ey as it goes up on north from the delt_
CC: Is this through the monocular or naked eye, Gene?
LMP: It's through the monocular, Charlie.
CC: Roger. Well, it sounds like a spectacular sight. Wish we had had a stowaway up there with you.
CC: Hey, you know, you almost did until they wrote it in the OCP to get Joe Engle out of here.
CC: Yes (laughter).
LMP: It's also very:_interesting Just to watch the continents come out over the horizon as the world turns more towards us - as the U.S. continent turns more towards us.
CC: Roger. We copy. And
LMP: I agree now with John. You can see practical that whole island chain all the way down to Trini
LMP: It's hard to believe we is really here. i ....... at about 170 000 miles, little bit more than that right nov.
LMP: 170. Okay.
CC: Roger. You're still below- If the drawing's right there, you're still below the F_rth/Moon plane; and, be coming up ak about 195 000, you'11 be crossing through the plane and going a little aboVe. Charlie
CC: Go ahead, John. not close.
CC: Roger. Yes, real close.
CDR: Hey, you can watch the Earth through the optics so if you eau pick it in time, you can follow it
CC: 10, Houston. We'd like you to select ONNI Bravo and MAIfOALon the high gain. Over.
CDR: Roger. CC
UNKNOWN: Apollo 10. _ouston. Over.
CC: Kgger, John. We're lo_kin_ here ahead in the flight plan, and we'd like to give you your P27 uupdate at 52 05 or thereabouts; and, hopefully, we won't have to kill the PTC for you to do this realign- ment. You did such a good Job this morning, we think we ,cancontinue on in the PTC and let you do the realign; and we can get an update to you -.1soin PTC mode. And we're suggesting, since this thing is going so great, that we just keep it going and put TV - that we could do TV also during PTC, since it seems to be working fine. And we'11 have about - At the present roll rate, cover- we'11 probably have about 10 to 15 minutes age with the high gait,;so we cernget th_ vbole liw_ TV, and it w_ll be partia3 exterior and par- and _,greeablewith ttal]y _ht,er_or, _f that's you guys, that'_ the way _:e'd3_ke tciplay _l.
CDR: Okay, Charlie. But _ - Remember we were going to do a trunnion CAL here one of these days. And I guess today isn't the day.
CC: Well - -
CDR: You can't do that _nless you stop the PTC. Over.
CC: Stand by. We'11 see if that's worth stopping for. Hold on. ,t
CC: 10, while we're waiting for the answer from the ;_ experts on the trunnion CAL, we'd like you to turn to the back of your flight plan to the mis- sion rules summary, and like to talk about a few updates that we feel are Justified at this time. Over. turning
CDR: Okay. We're to them, Charlie. !
CC: Roger. i : I
CDR: Okay. We've got the flight plan out for this one. l f We're looking at it. '
CC: ROger. It's on the back page, Tom, on the L_ stuff, primarily. Looks like the command module's side is in good shape. But on the LM side, if ,f you'11 notice under the column "Do Direct Return _, Abort For Loss Of," we have an X beside the pri- mary loop. We'd like to change that to both lOOps, that we'd have to lose both loops before Over. we did a direct return. In
CDR: Okay. other words, you said it can go secondary a period of time? i
CC: Roger. If we went on the secondary, we would do the PDI abort sequence. But it's such a short time frame from between the DOI and th_ direct return that we don't think that we should go that rottte Just for losing a primary loop and we feel we'd be satisfactory coming back on a sec- ondary loop with a PDI abort. Over. sounds us
CDR: Okay. That good to since we've seen from the - how the - the G&N system has worked in the altitude chamber without the cooler. We'11 sure. go along with that for can come back with us if you - to us, if you dis- agree. And at the bottom of the page under the "Do Bot Perform Rendezvous For Loss Of," next to the last line, we list RCS systems, and we had Just an X. We say that we would not perform the rendezvous for loss of either RCS, A or B. Over. think agree
CDR: I we with that completely, either one. i
CC: Roger. Well, t.hat's Just slight clarification. :_ And, also, moving over under the same heading, _! RCS systems for the PDI abort sequence, we recom- mend that we do not go to that sequence for loss of one system. In other words, if we lose one RCS system, we continue with the nominal plan. Over.
CDR: I think we ought to t,lk that one over.
CDR: Let us think about it for a little while. Okay? :
CDR: I'm a little bit lost, Charlie. You Say do not T perform rendezvous for toss of either RCS system, and then you say do PDI abort sequence for loss i of either one? You continue the rendezvous, oi' what ?
CC: After you're c_mitted to the rendezvous, is our other feeling, that - In words, once we've done IX)I, that after you've committed to the rendezvous, then you would not change that sequence for loss of an RCS system, that we would continue on nomin- ally. And that's a trade-off, though. If you need time to figure in ,11 that stuff, when you look at it, we Just think we're better off with a nominal time line once we're committed. Over.
CDR: Yes. We certainly like the nominal time line, but the main thing is - depends on what you say the mean time to failure for that other system. If we lose attitude control, _e could be in trouble, i hours
CC: Roger. We a_ree, 10. We'11 go - It's 2 t--lking _e're about, of course, and we'11 go i l either way you guys wa4nt to go. This is strictly a recommendation.
CDR: Okay. Let us think about it for a little whi]e_ : Charlie.
CC: Roger. ! I Page 230 i obviously
LMP: Hey, Charlie. This failure is between 4 DOI and phasing, because once you've done phasing, anyway. ' you're committed to the nominal
CC: That's affirmative, 10. We like - We look at also that - Really, we feel wh_t you're t-]Wing about is just 2 hours of stationkeeping, because once you're past phasing and you're down to one [_ t system, the RCS then you're on for most of the · burns anyway. I shouldn't say 2 more hours of stationkeeping; I should say 2 more hours of i attitude control. CDR
UNKNOWN: I guess one reason or one question we have in mind, you know, is what caused you to lose that one ring. What was the circumstance that caused you to lose it, and what are the chances that 2 hours is going to make a difference, you know, in whether you do a PDI abort or whether you do the nominal. _J__
CC: Roger. We - _.
CDR: Charlie, I .... out. ExcAse me.
CC: GO ahead, Tom. I cut you 4
CDR: Yes. I think you're ... the time ... If it occurred earlier after DOI, we might ... If it occurred real late ... real bad time ... {,
CC: 10, you're fading out. Unreadable now. We'11 switch the antennas on you. We'11 be back in a moment.
CC: 10, Houston. We're back; do you read me?
CDR: Okay. Now do you read now, C"narlie?
CC: Okay. Five-by, Tom. Look, we aren't just suggesting this. We feel like it's more of a real time situation here, and about what kind of failure we've had and how much time we've got, and we play it rea] time. There are cer- I ta/nly situations where you'd want to come back with a - doing a PDI abort seauenee, so it was Just something for you to think about; and I think it's more of a real time situation than a hard and fast rule, anyway. Over.
CDR: Yes. _T_at was Just e_actly what wc were coming _round to. It's sw_O hard 'towr._t_ that rule 33/7 down on paper, and to say like, if it happened early, you can see what happens when you might _o the PPI abort. But after - Later on where we'd he time-rushed to do the PDI abort in other _combining cire',mqtanees, you would probably go ahead with the nominal.
CC: _ger. We agree.
CDR: So I'd Just leave it up to re_l time.
UNKNOWN: We agree 100 percent. We're with you.
CDR: Alrighty. Fine.
CC: And, looks and trunnion
UNKNOWN: it more more like the C_XL is becoming less and less of a priority here. And we're recommending tentatively now that we continue the PTC on through that and get this later on, but we're checking with a few more experts on the problem. Over.
CMP: Okay. That's your decision. CC Re,er. you
UNKNOWN: let know, John.
CDR: Charlie, wo_ld you pass on the word to Christopher C. that we're saving Al1 this fuel so we can get him some good lanOm.,_-ktracking.
CC: Roger. We sure will. And, Tom, I talked to Faye on the telephone Just a minute ago, and all's real fine at home, and they've really been enjoying your TV shows. And ,1] three of the gals think they're married to a bunch of hams up there after yesterday's show; and they've really enjoyed it a lot, and everything's Just real fine.
CDR: Okay. you.
LMP: How can you be a h,m when you're Just trying to show that the world's round?
CC: It's the interior shots that they were referring to, Ill_ sttre.
LMP: Oh, were those live?
CC: (Laughter) Roger.
UNKNOWN: Hey, Charlie, I w_,t to talk you a bit about the data, _lnce you %:ere _ charge of _t. We've got some pretty _nteresting flight plaz_ notes that
UNKNOWN: 33/8 _ge 232 were penciled and taped in at the last minute. We're wondering if you want to see some of those down there? Roger.
CC: It's up to you guys, whatever you think. want Most of this goes out live, so if you to show it, it will he fine.
UNKNOWN: since you did such a fine Job on the data, we thought we'd like, you know, to express our t_lhuqn_S.
CC: Roger. Well, I take really not much credit for that.
CDR: You migh_ have to clear that with Gordo and Ed.
CC: Roger. Ed'a sitting here right no_ grinning from ear to ear. We didn't think you guys were looking through - - i /
CDR: ... grinning about anothe_ - -
CC: We didn't think you guys Were - !
CDR: Now we're trying to sp_ him_ He's going to wade ,11 the way thro-gb the flight plan to the end.
CC: Roger, I'm glad to see you're reviewing al_ that data.
CDR: We're trying to do our homework up here, Charlie.
CC: 10, Roustoa. We're GO without a trunnion CAL, PTC. Over. and we'd like to say in Okay. to us, we've
CDR: Somlds gOod I don't think ha_ a thruster fi:e in a long time. Helln.
LMP: Houston, were you trying to call 107
CC: Okay. You kno_, for informatioa, I guess it caught a little bit une×pectcd, but ever, _d.th me ) the S-hand squelch on, you know we can hear this :; very fine, not annoying at all, but very fine, soft crackling in the background, but not typical loud S-band that drives you out of your mind. mw
CC: Roger. Stand by. ?j
CC: Roger. We got this when we - - i t
LMP: Looks pretty much - -
CC: GO ahead, Gene.
UNKNOWN: going to say, on this end, when you break lock, it really is grim. We've got to get synced up on this delay here.
UNKNOWN: Yes. I know. When we cut each other out, I can hear my voice coming back to me that I said a secon _ or two ago. But we don't - Wq_en we break ! lock or we're changing antennas or one thing or __ another, with that squelch on, we can tell it, but it's very acceptable. And even right now, I've got a very low crackling in the background. Norm-lly, on a gOOd lockon, I don't. $
CC: Roger. I can hear that too down here in the MOCR. When we break lock, it really is loud down here. Of course, we don't have our equipment turned on, and when we start getting a bad signal, it really -lmost. is deafening _.
CC: I guess the only reason I mentioned it, I was surprised that I hear anything at all with that squelch on, but I do. And it's really very good, because it's acceptable and yet detectable. !
CDR: Houston, Apollo 10. ]:_ -!
CDR: Okay, Charlie. Looks like we finally dri_ed c,t of the deadband and fired a couple of thrusters.
CC: Roger. We see you at 30 on the pitch here.
CDR: Okay, Charlie. Does it look like we should go hack mhd start all over again or Just continue on as is? \
CC: G&C says it looks good Just the wa V it is. We Ju_ ought to continue in. An/ it looks like we're coming hack into the deadband now_ 10, it it and watch so let's Just leave like is it for awhile.
CDR: 0ka_. I looks like - I'm guessing we've run about 20 hours without a thru_ster firing. That's { 1 pretty good.
CC: Roger. We concur. It was great. :,] Houston.
CDR: Hello, Apollo 10.
CC: Roger. Go ahead, lO. ! that yaw deadband, and the thrusters are continu- ;i
CC: Roger. Copy. Stand by. We '11 look at it. We might want you to start up again. Stand by. 'l -T--
CDR: Koustoa, Apollo 10. ! don't know if you can read our telemetry, but we've had about a steady stresmc of firing for the last _ minutes. :!
CC: Roger, 10. We're not ecpying your - We're in low i bit rate. We're not copying your thruster firings. '_ We noticed you're on the edge of the deadband; we're _[seussing this. Stand by. ;!
CDR: Okay, Houston. Apollo 10. It's continuing to fire about once every 4 or 5 seconds. i
CC: Ro_e_, 10. We copy. We're - Stand by Just 1 more minute. {
CDR: 0ka_. 4
CDR: There we go again. ]
CC: 10, Houston. We recommend y,u go WIN I_4PLrLSE, try to pulse it awayfrom the edge of the dead- band and then back to RATE COMMAND, and then let's watch it. We're having a debate whether we should Just stop PTC for a couple of hours or not. We're checking with the thernal people. :! Staid by.
CC: F_11o, 10. Houston.
CC: Roger. You can discontinue PTC at this time. And we recommend you select an attitude of pitch 90 and roll 307· Put us in a good TV attitude, and then you can go to - Just drift, and we'11 watch it for you. _d if you start getting out of that attitude, then we can MIN IMPULSE hack. Over.
CDR: Roger. Pitch 90, yaw zero, and roll 307.
CC: 10, Houston. In this attitude, we'11 have a high gain antenna in a pitch of 023, yaw of 265.
CC: 023 and 265. Roger.
CC: Affirmative. And, we're going to try and come up for with some stars for you_ P52, and then maybe a sextant eor_-ection; a trunnion CAL, too. We'11 that· let you know On
CMP: Roger. Houston. We've m-neuvered
CMP: Okay, Apollo 10. 1;o roll 307, pitch 90, and yaw zero, and holding in that atti%ude.
CMP: Houston, you want us to Just the thrusters off now?
UNKNOWN: there at wide deadband. If we turn them off now, we'11 Just go all o?er the place, I guess. _
UNKNOWN: your choice. We'd like you to stay near this attitude, and we don't think you're going to use too much in wide deadband; so Just keep them o_, and we'11 he in good shape.
CC: John, it looks like you got a pretty good star for the tru,n_on CAL. We're coming up and rechecking it for you. And you'11 probably do your P52 in this attitude, also, an_ we'11 have you
UNKNOWN: Have you got a good view of the w_wth out of one of your windows? That's why we came to this attitude.
CDR: Yes, it's a beautiful view out of the left side window.
CDR: Couldn't ask for any better. And we're going to change our seats around here.
CC: And we're coming up about 9 minutes away from the waste-water dump. We're ready any time you gu,ys are.
CC: HeY, CharlieT
CC: Stand by - Yes. Go ahead, 10.
UNKNOWN: on this bag is on the wrong end.
CC: Roger. 9
CC: You're defying the laws of physics. !
CDR: Yes. We'11 show it to you in a little bit.
CC: Okay. We're standing by. OkAy.
CDR: John is all set to start on his P52, here. And do you want the waste water dump first?
CC: Negative. I think that'11 ruin your P52. We're thinking about doing the P52 first. I don't think there's any really big sweat on the water dump, but if you'11 just stand by 2 seconds - ahead. Go You can do your P52 - -
UNKNOWN: Houston. We should be able to get the high gain now with a pitch of 023 and a y_w of 265.
CDR: Pitch 023 and yaw 265. -_.....
CC: 10, HoUston. We recommend for your trent,ion CAL that we - Star number 31, Arcturus, prob- ably requires Just & little bit of maneuvering, i' It looks like the best to us. Over. i_
CC: And, 10. Looks like - I think we passed on to you earlier today that we're skipping mid- ? course 3, and we probably will skip midcourse 4. It's in the order of 3.6 feet per second right now. And we're leaning towards skipping that one, also. Without the midcourses, we have a perigee of 60.7 nautical; _d, at LOI 1, we i t can achieve a 60 by 170. And with LOI 2, we are lean_ug towards skipping mideoum_e 4, also. can get a 60 circular. So, it looks like we
CDR: Okay. That sounds real good. ! J --=_les
CC: 10, we copy your torquing and your star ' angle difference, i k I 238 Page
CDR: Houstou, Apollo 10. You _t us to go ahead with the calibration test at this time?
CC: That's affirm=rive. We recommend star Arcturus, 31.
CDR: Houston, Apollo 10. Have you copied VERB 06, NOUN 87 there with us?
CC: Roger. We - Stand We copy it.
CC: 10, Houston. We're satisfied with the trunnion calibration. It's looking good to us. You needn't do any more.
LMP: Okay, Houston. I believe that 89992 is probably the best number. These are right on the edge of sextant. It's the about to disappear out of it. 10.
CC: Roger, We copy. It's looking good to us. You can discontinue that. We have a loaded site for you. If you'11 give us Poe and ACCEPT, we'11 send you a state vector.
LMP: Roger. I'11 load - ,m_oad the 89992.
CDR: Okay. You are in POO and you have ACCEPT.
CDR: Houston, Apollo !0. When do you want our water dump?
CC: i0, we're through with your update. You can go back to BLOCK, and we are debating now on the dump. We got to get all the cameras con- figured. They want to try to photograph this again. We're looking probably at 52 15, but we'11 have an exact figure in Just a minute.
CMP: Houston, this is lO.
CC: Go, 10. delay
CMP: 'I%zereason for the in between the start of P52 and initiating it was, when _[ went to look at the :_extant, the eyepiece had floated '6 scrambling around in here, and it ws_ over behind Gene's sleeping bag, if you can believe that. How it got there, I don't know, because it couldn't have been gone - It couldn't have been off more than about 3 minutes.
CC: Roger. You can sleep with it in your pocket tonight.
CMP: Yes. We're taping it on, but that's the kind of'thing I would think that ought to be sort -_ of held in place by something better than tape.
CC: Roger. We agree.
CC: Roger. at 52 15. Over.
CC: 10, Houston. You can proceed with the dump Roger.
CDR: 52 15.
CC: 10, Houston. We'd like to give you a GET time coming be on my Mark, 52 13. :
UNKNOWN: CC MARK.
CC: 52 13.
LMP: Did you allow for the speed of light there, Char] ie?
CC: Yes, sir. I got it i second early, so you should have had it.
CC: Me and the R_/I'HOcan really count - -
CDR: Taking lots of lessons from IJlewc]]yn there, huh? -i I Psge2_o l
CC: Roger. I got
CDR: Okay. I've the CMC clock going. It looks ! SYN,CED. here. i
CC: Roger, !'_
CDR: Here comes the water dump. i
UNKNOWN: Houston, we're du_nping.
CC: Roger. Copy. 3 been able to see the water dump yet? i ¥
CC: We haven't got word back on that yet, 10. It plates and things developed. I think they're taking pictures of everything, and it takes them a while to get all that information back. And, so far, we haven't heard where they've to find out that word for you and let you hnow. l
CDR: Houston, Apollo 10. Did yOU transfer the CSM
CC: That's affirmative. We sure did.
UNKNOWN: Okay. I didn't catch it until last.
CC: 10, Houston. You can stop your dump now.
CC: Apollo i0, Houston. John, we noticed after your trunnion bias check, when you entered the 89992, 59 that - We Saw a flashing come up instead of a 92, and we don't think that number got in. It's not any big deal, but whatever the number is is okay. But we don't think it went in - what you were trying to load. uee
CMP: Can you that, Charlie? or you [ruy_ gotten 3_/6 Page 2)_1 '_
CC: Roger. We see those - We see your register. S It looked like to us that when - that instead of the PROCEED, you _i_. a ¥-_HB 32. We saw the 59 down here when you entered that- entered that number, John.
CC: Stand display.
UNKNOWN: on this 'r
CMP: Now, I just called up - I Just called up 687. Didn't the second register 89? Whatever it _ms supposed to be?
CC: Stand by. That's _t it's supposed to be. I'm not sure - Hold on a minute, let me talk to the guidance gu_. ,_
CMP: Please don't tell me it's not in there.
CC: 10, that location 87 is time shared, and those '_ mr-hers that we're looking at are results of marked data. The 89992 - We don't care whether it's in or not. The point was t]_,t - that - instead - to incorporate that, when you er,tered 59 displey instead Of a 0692.
CMP: Roger. Oh, yes. Okay.
CC: Smd that '_ really all we Were trying to say,
CMP: Okay. Yes. I know that. Well, that's why '_
CC: Roger- chance to do a trunnion CAL, I'11 load that
CC: Okay. Fine. That'_s great. _ ' Page 2_2
CC: Apollo 10, Houston. Go. John storm
CDR: Okay. was asking earlier about that center over Alaska. It's finally started to rotate around and has developed into quite a system. We'11 show it to you later on during the TV pass.
CMP: How's it going, Donn?
CC: Oh, prettM good, John. Row are you getting along up there?
CMP: Great. This is Just as great as you said it was,
CC: Kind of neat, isn't .it.
CMP: Man. Yes. up, most of the United States is wide open today and will be in the middle of the Earth as you see it.
UNKNOWN: be a pretty good view.
CC: Ail right. Thank you.
CC: You guys are getting close; coming up on 180 K. tI
CDR: Yes. we're about to pass over. t
CC: Yes. I
CMP: Houston, this is 10. Over. !
CC: Go ahead. I
CMP: Roger. Yesterday, I asked them to give us a de- tailed briefing on how to use that water bag, on the theory that we are probably doing something wrong because it wasn't working. We never got that. Over.
UNKNOWN: CC Stand by.
CC: Apollo 10, Houston. About hag stuff.
CC: Roger. this water We've got a procedure here that we can read up to you, if you'd like to listen to it. As far - While it is not working, we got no ideas, other than reading this procedure to you. We'd like to see it on TV when the ti,_ comes I don't know whether that will help us or not, but watch you twirl it amd see what happens, and maybe somebody will have a smart idea at that ti me . Right now, all we got to offer iS a procedUre that we can read up. Over.
CMP: Okay. Why d_a_'t you do t_t? See if that's what we're doing. Maybe that's why it's not working. Okay. go.
CC: Here we It says: step 1 is fill the i bag to approximately one-half full of water 'using the water dispenser.
CMP: We did that.
CMP: We di_l that.
CC: I co_ied. You did that. Second step: squeeze the hag. (Laughter)
CC: Squeeze the bag, Stand by. was
LMP: Yes. I was afraid it going to sound about s__t. that
LMP: It's a pretty complicated mechanism we've got here.
CC: Okay. _econd step: squeeze the bag at the valve end to force the water into the opposite end of the bag. This '_ill shorten the time task of collecting gas during t.he spinning operation. Okay. Third step: using the handle, spin the bag until separatien is accomplished. This oper- ation is to cause the gas to be collected in the end at valve of the bag and the water the opposite end. Number h is pinch off or fold across center seam to maintain the separation of gu %nd water. Okay. valve Then you open the probe mad bleed the gas off and then close the valve, and they say that ought to do it. Ovcr. that'.% there.
UNKNOWN: Babe, quite a theory We'11 g_ve you real-time :_:,_,Cnar]ie. a ew_]uation ri&hr 244 Page
CC: We wait for the That's all - the thinE. the only help We've _vt for whole Over.
CDR: Ju_ wait for the TV, Charlie. it.
LMP: Charlie, you'11 love it, babe; you'11 love
CC: Defies the laws of physics, h_h?
LMP: I found a way: we spin it - -
CC: We spin it until the air bubble goes to the bottom and then suck the water out around the bubble.
CC: Roger. We copied. (Laughter)
LMP: Try it, it works. guys.
CC: I don't know about you
CC: Hey, did you guys try Just m_ing one of the Plain ? fruit Juice bags to separate it out? How - Did youever try that?
CDR: Yes. And Dorm, the water stays with the air. The bubbles condense from a thousand bubbles into one or two big bubbles but that's all she writes. You can't get it out.
CMP: It's not clear how you get rid of the bubble, once you get the big bubble, you end up drinking it along with the water.
CMP: Like I told Charlie, the valve's on the wrong end. I'm going to spin the other end.
CDR: Would you believe that air is heavier tb_n water?
LMP: That's m_ theory.
CC: Roger. M_kybe we've discovered something here.
CC: It's _]1 relative. tension on
CC: It m_y be that the surface the inside of that bag is enough to keep the water from flowing through that constriction very well.
CDR: Well, at the end of the centrifuge the big bubble is right in the bottom, quite a ways away from the constriction.
UNKNOWN: Roger. Page 2_5
CDR: It won;t Cnna_12se _1! tile hlA_hles in the water tub_ nm.
CC: Y_>oks ]_e maybe the sw/ng bRndle's on the wrong end the huh? of bag,
UNKNOWN: _ing handle is on the r_ght end, but the valve is on the wrong end.
CC: _;e]l, whichever. to
CMP: It's a very interesting thing study these bubbles in th_s water.
LMP: Houston, _ollo 10.
CC: Go _, lo.
CC: Okay. I mentioned this morning, earlier when we loo-_i-g .- were at the. EaA_h, Just to gave you a pre- view - John will describe it bec*use it's out his window w__en we get there - But the eastern sea- the boa_rd from abolr_ _'olln_.s on up, ],,ct on seaboard, is going to be covered with clouds and then into the Atlantic. I r_ntioned a cloud B-_ _ - Co _ahead.
CC: ' Go heazqng
UNKNOWN: E northeastern was a long cloud hank from the part of the United States into F_ssouri. It lo_k_ like now that that cloud bank goes from central Ind_Rn- T_W. up across Erie, north-_ortheastward into C_m-da.
CC: Roger.. r-,_e
LMP: Michigan_ Superior, and the _tdwest are very clear except for that cloud and there's some clouds to be which appear over - oh, maybe W--_as, Nebraska, [ hate to say it, But Oklahoma. I may get some disagreement up here but I think it's Oklahoma, Colorado, Montana, up in that area; and then the West Coast is clear and the _outhwest is all clear. Page 21,6
CC: Ruger, 10. We're looking at _ ye&thor map *_hat was Just brought in, and we cast our vote with you, Gene-o. The clouds are over Oklahoma and your description is excellent. It follows a - very There's a low pressury up in the_ far north turning from the Great r_kes northeastward into - and from - I guess zt's up around the - almost to and Gre_-l_nd, it looks like here; from there, the Iow pressure weather system vith a front comes down into the United States and touches the pan- handle of TeYa_ and then goes back on Up into C_-da aga/n pointing towards Alaska. And there's a band of clouds associated with that oa this map, { description accurate. so your is very i
LMP: Yes. Yes, I understand. I think you'11 see that of tn]_ing big swirl clouds Tom was about up Alaska w_v. i
CC: Roger. There's a- - :
CC: Tom, you talW about She - Charlie, you asked Tc_ .x........ about the dense vegetation in South America. But if you look at the United States, the Mexican and greater American desert5 are that orangish- brown as he described them; but _4aen you look into i the Midwest and into the East you go the greenish- It's brown. not the bright orange--broiL, it's a darker, more subdued brown - _yhe with subtle hints of a-rk green in it.
CC: ROger. Ye copy that. It looks like this cloud system out in the Pacific is associated with that's another low-pressure system, sitting probably north of Hawaii at about hO degrees latitude. It's located about 150 degrees west, so that's probably cloud Alaska. what's giving us the pattern up off of
LMP: That's affirmative. That's going to be very easy to see.
CC: Okay. We're _ll -- --
LMP: And again, the San Joaqnin Valley - _e SanJoaquin Valley looks like someone took a big spoon - and it seems to be the one thing at least that I'm able to pick out very easily every time we take a look at the States - looks like someone took a big spoon and Just ca_ved it right out of the coast.
CC: .10, through the _°nocular or through the _exbant, were you able to distinguish the feature_; around :_ San FYaucisco Bay t_'_'s? say, _he
LMP: Let me take a look, Charlie.
LMP: There are lots of features down there. I sure ought to be able to distinguish some.
LMP: Charlie, it is sort of semi - appears semiclouded up north if you follow the coast past the San Joaquin Valley, and I can't really see anything that I can call San Francisco Bay from here.
CC: OkaY. Roger. Probably some haze - Is it pretty hazy out on the coast there, up along the California coast north of the San Joaquin?
LMP: You've got some clouds Just off the west coast of California that seem like they come Just short of the coastline.
LMP: Charlie, if I hold this monocular low enough, I can i _roUnd the San Francisco area. .
CC: Okay. Roger, Gene. Colry.
LMP: And I tell you, if we had an apple to drop, it on would fall right Houston from where we are. Right smack underneath us - right in the center of the world.
CC: Roger. We are looking forward to this TV trans- mission, here·
CDR: Okay. I wanted to ask you about that, Ch_rlie. t Were they planning to go live with us on the hour, / or could we turn it on earlier? What do you want? t
CC: Stand by. We're seeing if Goldstone is configured ! for live. Stand by. Goldstone is ready. We are t_!W_ng to PAO right now. {
CC: Hello, Apollo 10. Houston. The networks and the Goldstone is all configured, You can turn on the tube. '_ it.
CDR: Okay. We will get it out here andplay !
LMP: Hello, Houston. This is Apollo 10. You ought to be receiving something now. I i
UNKNOWN: 35/7 Page 2h8
CC: Stand by. It is not coming in here yet.
LMP: Okay. We are Just starting.
CC: Roger. Will it be exterior shots, Geme-o?
LMP: Negative. We'11 Just start interior right away and then take you outside.
CC: And then we'11 bring you back inside. But we will start inside, take you outside, and bring you inside for the water bag.
LMP: Okay. Let me know when you are receiving us.
CC: Roger. We will. The networks and all a.-e con- figured for tkis, so we are standing by.
LMP: Let us know when you are getting a "pic," Charlie. will.
CC: Roger. Sure EECOMM's are saying we got a 90-second warmup on that transmitter, so it might take Just a little bit longer. Okay. We now. got the black and white coming in The black amd white Just came in.
LMP: Let us know know when you get color.
CC: Okay. We are seeing your patch now in ~-lack and
UNKNOWN: We Just got the color, 10, on the vidicon bit focus; but the colors are good and it is a
UNKNOWN: This is the peacock of Apollo 10.
CC: Roger. ,say
LMP: And we'd like to hello from the five of us, if we may. 35/8 Page 2h9 m,,
CC: Okay. You want me to he a straight on that Question and ask it?
CC: Negative. Stand by one. Got a little technical difficulties here.
CC: We are still getting the color, 10.
LMP: Okay, 10. Here's the hello.
LMP: Here's hello from the five of us from on Apollo 10. Here 's Tom Stafford.
CC: He's a heauti_ul Tom Stafford there. He's in living color.
LMP: John Young.
CC: We've got John. He's a little dark down there now, with his lights not on him, but we can tell it's John with his chin strap loose.
LMP: And yours truly, Gene Cernan. 7 bright.
LMP: Are you still with us?
CC: Yes sir. The Sun is pretty bright coming back out Now you are coming in better. We see you slipping down in the LWR.
LMP: Okay. two on Apollo That's lO, the three your friendly of us. Here's Charlie the Brown other and our everloving companion, Snoopy.
CC: Roger. We got it coming in now. Okay. Color on Charlie Brown and Snoopy is a little dark. If you could get a little bit more light on them, it would be fine, but we can recognize the characters. They look pretty happy up there.
CC: That's fine. It looks a little dark on the color. Could yo u stop it oper, a lltt]e pit more? Wait go. a minute. Okay. That _s f_ne no_. There you 35/9 Pe.ge 250 The red and the hackgroun& on the cards ere e_ing in fine. We are washing out a little bit on the white of Char!ie B_own's coat and Snoop'a face.
LMP: Okay. you that there are five of u_ up here. We'd lilre to take you outside and show you what the axe five of us looking at.
CC: _. h-lf-W_th us. beautiful a to It's a blue. We see the trememdous cloud coverage that you were t_lking about throughout the 10. day,
CC: Okay, Charlie. YoU are looking at the world right- M_xico sideup, as we know it. The Gulf of - :,_xico goes down and to th_ right of the l_icture toward the terminator, South America is in the lower right- h,nd corner of the picture on the terminator. You can look up right smack i_ the center of the vkole picture. You can m_ke out Mexico, is Houston, right on the Gulf, and then North America goes up to about the 11 o'clock position on your picture. Roger. We primarily
CC: Me copy. see Just the blues of the ocean and the whites of the cleuds. We have a - the are evident. cloud patterns pretty Agree quite - real closely With the weather ma D I have. It is pretty difficult to pick out the lan_!-sses, though, I -_t admit. We see one brownish area _hieh appears to be in the American desert, about the center of the globe right now.
CDR: Yes, Charlie. That's Mexico and the southwestern United States, right there; and BaJa California is of on the left that, and the right-hand edge happens to be_ the Gulf of Mexico. If you can follow it all up, you rill folle_ it right to Houston and thence New Orleans.
CDR: It's awi%,l]y hard to ascertain the difference - Okay, charlie. It's hard to ascertain between the the and water down there in Gulf the landmass, be- cause the whole eastern coast of the United States brown looks a _reenish versus water. _locate
CC: Roger. Thst helps us out here to ourselves, _.t least for mc., 10; nnd I th_nk I .',et%'here you ar( ta/_{ng about clouds now. We have o_e section of that looks like it is almost a circular area - m clear area and then clouds A?ear to come out of South and Central America - swimg out into the Pacific and in the center of that it looks like the clear area which I.am saying is the southern part of the United States, from PA-_co along the Gulf I Coast. Is that correct?
UNKNOWN: That's it, Charlie. The Gulf of Mexico is right the and down world. smack in center up of the If yOU follow the terminator down m_d went halfway then went about there and halfway frc_ toward the the Earth, the_ rounder part of you will find Gulf of Mexico on that brown area you are looking at, between Mexico and the southeastern United States. That's Houston right smack in the center of that area. clear Roger.
CC: It appears - -
LMP: That clear area goes from C_ntral America right on up into the states. landmasses
CC: Roger. We copy. It appears that the are washing out Just about as much as the clouds. ! Could you open it up a couple of stop_ and then stop it down fast so we c%n get a little bit - a second or two of sharper _efinition?
LMP: Oks_. Let us know when it is a little better.
CC: Okay. It was a little - there you gu. if you can hold that, but I think - That's good right there. It is a lot better, 10.
CDR: Charlie, we are full zoom on 1_. and it's even hard with for us to make out things the naked eye unless we know where they are. So, I i-t.gine it is going to be difficult for you.
CDR: globe
UNKNOWN: Charlie. The total that you see there is bigger than what we actually see, since we have the zoom lens on and it is probably about one and one-quarter times as big as we see it.
CC: Copy, 10. As I said earlier, -e ar_. prim.,u'il_ g*tth;g _:_' _'.cc_h- _hi'Ic_ the globe o_ _ black background, and of the clouds and the blues of the sea with a_'__,-cl_ stonal glimpse of what I make out ss ]r,u_]mas_cs in
UNKNOWN: 35/11 the brownish. But, it is really difficult for an untrained eye to pick out the exact landmasses. We are sitting here with the in-pad book that - We got it to show the various sizes and with this d/agram, it is a big help.
CMP: What you are saying, Charlie, is that we are too far away to give you a good picture.
CC: Boy, you sure are a long way away.
CC: I think what it is, 10, is the landmasses and the clouds tend to wash out and it is a little hard to discern the difference; but looks like we can pick out the shapes of Yucatan, Florida, and Cuba, and the Gulf of Mexico.
LMP: Charlie, let me ask. Do you see the area you said was a clear area, and do you think you could pick up Mexico there?
LMP: Okay. If you follow up - but you might think it is the Gulf of Mexico there - and then go straight nortl you see a little bit of V in the clouds and there's one going off to the r]g_ht and a little thin sliver going to the right is the one I've been mentioning all day that goes from Indiana on through the north- east part of the country; and then that bigger blob that forms the left-hand side of the V is over the north,central Unite_ States and then right smack in center of the V is Lake Superior and Lake Michigan.
CC: Roger. That is a good description, 10. It clears it up for me, 'anyway. I can see what you are ta!_in about, now.
LMP: And then way up on the upper left-hand, maybe about 10 o'clock on the globe, you will see a funny cloud pattern that sort of looks like a sea serpent of some sort with his beak _ointing to the right. That that cloud pattern that Tom was referring to up in the Alaska area. Roger.
CC: That's nearly apparent to us. When you stop it down, we can see _that pattern. Some of the time, though, it's washed out due to the tremendous cloud coverage in that area.
CC: _ere it is, Charlie. That ought to be goo_.
UNKNOWN: 35/_
CC: Okay. It Just came in on the black and white. We'11 see it in Just a second. Okay, now we see what you're tAl_tng about. Looks like an inverted view, _lmost.
CC: Now you ought to be'- Right, now you ought to be able to see that V-area I was t-lW_ng about better, too.
CC: Roger. It's coming in a lot better, Gene.
CDR: Okay. If you got a pretty good view of the outside, we'11 take you back inside for one last quick minute.
CC: Thanks a lot, 10, for that view. It's real good. We'11 be standing by for the water-bag trick.
CDR: Okay. We'11 take you back inside here, nov.
CDR: I'11 take care ofit.
CDR: Question for today: who is that?
CC: It looks like John Young with four sets of eyes, there. T_o sets of eyes.
CC: Let's ball it four eyes. a World
CC: Looks like War I aviator.
CMP: That's what happens when you look through the tele- scope to see the Sun.
CMP: Okay. It may sound like we 'ye been loafing for the past couple of days, but we haven't. We've been real Busy, and every spare minute we get we study our flight plan. So you see that pretty soon we're going to be going into orbit, and we have a completely different set of operations to go into that shows our _,tch profile all around the Moon, for the first revolution. Tomorrow's a big day, and we're very much looking for it. Even though we're _bout 180 000 miles away from the Earth here, you never get away from studying,
CC: That's a great picture, 10. We can see the vaxiou_ spacecraft attitudes with the dark side of the Moon and the bright side. And we see the LM and the corem-nd module linked together and going into a LOIi burn attitude. It's real clear. You can pages. almost read the writing on the white. 35/13
UNKNOWN: on the -
LMP: If you want to know where we're going - We'11 show you a little bit of a chart of where we're going. Day after tomorrow, we ought to be seeing this in living Moon color. Right now, it's in the best black and white we've got. This is the area around Landi_ Site 2.
CC: Roger. Could you open it up a little bit, 107 We think maybe if you get a little bit wider f-stop, it'11 help us out. Your pictures are a little bit dark.
CC: That's a lot better, 10. can't yet.
CDR: I see the f-stop,
CC: Okay, 10. When Gene moved back, it helped out a jumt lot. If you'11 pull the chart back - that's good moW. We can - It's coming in a lot better. Gene, could you -
LMP: The moral of the story is, John - The moral of the story is, John Just said, "You know you can study all your life and you never finish studying," and here we are almost a quarter of a million miles studying. away, and we're still Like Tom said, he's got two girls taking final exam_ this week, and this is his way of saying, "Get to work."
CDR: Yes, and if those girls are listening, they had better be studying tonight.
UNKNOWN: I'm_ slue they're listening. Would - Gene, how about pointing to a Landing Site 2 on the map for the folks?
UNKNOWN: Okay. Landing Site 2, I'11 show you here in Just a second. We'11 be coming up from the bottom and I'11 m_r stop finger up on Landing Site 2.
UNKNOWN: That's the area we hope to bring back some good pic- of in a couple of days. tures
UNKNOWN: We'11 eventually - That's the area where we'11 even- tually be 8cttmlly l_mdtng on the surface of the Moon. This _;rea i,.. i,robably Just nbout visible from - in the lighted - with the terminator of the Moon lighted, I mean, from the Earth at this time. Just al_out.
CMP: That's one advantage we have. If you don't like can to turn your pages, you always turn yourse If instead.
CC: Commander, you're in re.reform today.
LMP: We figure that, you know, there's always a way of making pigs run downhill and maybe even knowledge will mm_P it run that way.
CDR: Well, I guess that's the message to the kiddies in country. the If they can't get their homework absorb I LOo_s John's trying
CC: like to hog the picture there, .... Ger_e. _ Why don't you - there you go, you pushed out got center him of the - you got - You stage now.
CC: ham.
UNKNOWN: a
LMP: Y_u want to see me push; watch what happens.
CDR: That's c_lled one-finger power.
CDR: Okay, this is Apollo 10 signing off. We'11 give you one more picture of the Earth here, and call it a day. Oh, hold it. We want tO show you the bag, too. that.
CC: Roger. We'd appreciate
CMP: The bag is full of - half, full of bubbly Water.
LMP: And for _those of you who are unfamiliar, there's the -and valve where the air then the water comes out, and here's the handle. And notice, they're both on the same side. Are you ready?
CC: It's pretty uifficult - get some n_orelight on i%, 10. It's pretty d3ffic,ult to see the bubbles from that position. ?age 256
CC: I'11 show you the bubbles, after I stop.
CMP: Okay. It was full of the ... thousands of minute little bubbles. You wouldn't pick them up. You can barely see them With the _uv,d eye, but they're there, i
CC: lO, try spinning a little bit harder, and maybe that'11 put the bubbles to the top.
LMP: Man, I spinned it so hard a little while ago, I was going in the other d/rection (laughter).
CC: Roger. Gene. Hold it up next to the LEB DSKY. We couldn't see any bubble there. If you got one together.
CC: Hey, that's a good spin; you're really spinning it now. Okay.
CC: How's that f'0ra bubble now?
CC: Okay. We see that bubble. Really a big one.
CMP: Aud it's in the bottom. L
LMP: Charlie, about the only thing we get by spinning 1 the them is making little bubbles into a big one and then it stays in the bottom.
CC: Roger. Is there any water left in the top Of the bag, 107 i
LMP: No, there's no water in the top of the bag. All the water's out. We have tried it with semifilled bags, with full bags, with half-full bags. What we really have been able to do, I think, is to get the bubble concentrated and then suck the water out from around it.
CC: Roger. Have you tried it fil],ingup - filling the bag - both top and the bottom of the bag and then spinning it?
LMP: Yes. We tried that, too.
CC: Well, it doesn't look like it works then, does it? Charlie, can real cst.'-you';