Otrobonita/noicy-space-talks huggingface dataset:
CDR-LM: Say, Bob, driving back from Station l, driving back from Station l, where we did some of our circling and what have you. We didn't have time to get off, but we did see down in - I don't remember whether it was in the slopes of some craters, or down on the slope itself, but I'd say several meters down below the mantle where there was _ what we almost agreed to, might be bedrock at least, a deeper porti[on of the subflooro I i 1 $ think
CC: Okay, well, I we'11 get to it tomorrow. I think I might Just give you a clue to our thinking think for tomorrow. But, I don't we've seen, or anything change done today that is going to make us very much from the nominal station of - nominal plans. didn't EVA-2 _e fact we get the station - to the EVA-1 at the large boulders at Ew_ry is mean probably going to that Station 5 might be shifted a little bit to the boulders on Camelot. But certainly Station 5 on the subfloor and also to Station 10 have ass,,-_d a higher priority than they originally had. Other than that I, don't think we' 11 see an awful lot of changes to EVA-2. Over.
CC: I thSnk at the moment they're primarily they're going to Station 10, and not going to Station 1.
CC: Okay, Jack, I've wrested control -
LMP-LM: Some of your experts might - -
LMP-LM: - - some of your experts might think about what they might expect to happen to put the regolith on a bigrain pyroclastic would look like.
CC: We'11 tell them. I'11 see you tomorrow, guys.
LMP-LM: Sleep well, Bob.
CDR-LM: Okay, I've Just got one question, Bob, before you run off. Did the TGA perform okay, with the - with the camera on? TRANSCRIPTION APOLLO 17 AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE
CDR-LM: Okay, well, I'd like to leave it - You know it's a little change in my thinking - I'd like to leave it on the Rover if we can, although it's a piece of cake to take off. It's very difficult to lean over that bar without losing your balance and taking your - your readings and what have you. So if we can leave it on it would be far better.
CC: Roger. I was noticing that. And I also noticed the only three - three-ball reading we got was when it was on the ground.
CC: Gene and Jack, if you'11 get Lunar Surface Check- list 3-5, I've got an easy change to read up to you.
CC: Okay. After the line: "Empty ETB As Follows," change the first line which reads, B&W Mag Golf In Forward RHSSC to read, B&W Mag Hotel In LCG Com- partment. And then go into the next colnmn, which begins, "Stow In ETB." Change the second line, which reads: LMP's Camera With B&W Mag Hotel to LMP's Camera With B&W Mag Golf. That's Mag G, ETB. Over.
CDR-LM: Got you. Hotel, stow it; and go out with Gulf.
CC: That's got it. And I've got a LEVA-cleaning procedure which maybe you could pencil in there. It's an easy three-step procedure. And I'11 go ahead and read it step-by-step here. Step num- ber i is tap LEVA base to remove loose dust. Step number 2 reads: If excess dust still re- mains, use a towel from the LM tissue dispenser, which has been wetted with water, and gently wipe the visor from the top to the bottom; that is, in one direction. And fold this towel after each wipe to keep the contact surface clean. There's a note. "Take care not to wet the inside that is, the concave surface of the gold visor." And the last step is: Allow it to air-dry. And that's it on the LEVA cleaaing.
CC: That's right, Geno. And we think you fellows have earned a good meal now, and maybe you can take the rest of the day off.
CDR-LM: Okay, Joe. Thank you.
LMP-LM: Mag Hotel has 83 frames.
CC: Jack, on your mag Hotel, we'd showed you all the way up to 183 at one time, on that. Did you miss the l, this time?
LMP-LM: I may have clipped it out, Joe. 183, yes.
CC: Okay, yes, you did clip it out, clipped it out cleanly. So thanks for verifying that.
LMP-LM: Joe, mag Romeo has 21 frames. And I took a few, random, and probably not very good 500-millimeter of the North and South Massifs - North and South Massifs.
LMP-LM: And, Joe, verify that you want mag Charlie sub- stituted for Mag Bravo on the CDRs camera.
LMP-LM: Don't get me wrong. I think it's a good idea, Joe. Don't let everybody work all night on that one.
CC: Jack, I think the answer to that is yes. Per the checklist, by the way. That's the way we show it in our checklist here.
LMP-LM: Roger. We Just have - probably have a - about 100 frames left on Bravo, so we'11 Just keep track of that.
CC: Jack, it'11 go out later on - Bravo will - It's - apparently, it's kind of your backup magazine there.
CC: The reason being, we want to start that EVA-2 with a fresh _Rg.
CC: Gene and Jack, Just a general comment on that. SIM bay's cooking along beautifully. We are getting lunar sounder data. It looks quite interesting. We've only got one or two annoying problems, but nothing major, that is with the SIM bay, not with the sounder. One of them being that we have our usual mapping camera extend problem. And we've just decided to leave it ex- tended and it will serve it right if it gets a little contaminated with an occasional dump. And _ I guess there's a minor problem with one of the big antennas. It didn't pass its retract check properly, so I guess it may have to be Jettisoned when we do a plane change. Otherwise, things are working beautifully. Over.
LMP: That sounds great, I'm glad to hear that.
LMP-LM: We're sort of around 27:30 in the checklist, more or less, and you want the POWER AMP and TM to high?
CC: Ready when you are. And, troops, are you raiding the pantry up there yet? LNP-LM Yes, we are. We've been hitting it as hard as we can. Okay, POWER AMP is going to PRIN_4_RYand PCM to HIGH. And, while we're waiting for Gene to look at this computer, shall I do the battery _a_ agement ?
CC: Jack, stand by, until we get the high bit rate, on that battery management. And, a reminder, are you recharging that PLSS number 2 there, or have you taken that off the line? I_P-LN No, we're - we're through with that. We caught it with 10 minutes.
CC: Okay. We've got high bit rate now. Go ahead with battery management.
LMP-LM: Okay, we'11 play it - Gene'11 work the computer, and I'11 work the batteries. And the ED volts are 37.2, both bateries.
UNKNOWN: Okay, you got POO and DATA, Joe.
LMP-LM: Okay, Joe, the battery management complete. How does the rest of the spacecraft look, what you can see of it?
CC: Okay, Jackie. Copy the battery management complete, and the Challenger's looking beautiful from down here.
LMP-LM: I guess you don't have telemetry on dust yet, huh?
CC: Negative on the dust. And the computer's yours. Sounds like you've got hsV fever sensors, as far as that dust goes. LMP-_ It's come on pretty fast just since I came back. I think as soon as the cabin filters most of this out that is in the air, I'11 be all right. But I didn't know I had lunar dust hay fever.
CC: It's funny they don't check for that. Maybe that's the trouble with the cheap noses, Jack.
LMP-LM: Could be. I don't know why we couldn't have gone and smelled some dust in the LRL Just to find out.
CC: Goodness knows we've tried.
LMP-LM: Okay, I'11 wait for your cue on the rest of it.
CC: Okay, Jack. TELEMETRY PCM - LO, and your POWER AMP - OFF, please.
CC: Challenger, this is Houston requesting DOWNVOICE BACKUP, and then configure your ECS for sleep at your convenience.
CC: Okay, Jack and Gene. And, unless you've got questions, or we can help you out in some way, we'11 say good night to you.
CDR-LM: Good morning.
CDR-LM: The reason I say that, Joe, it's going to be another 30 minutes or so anyway before we - probably more like an hour before we actually close our eyes.
CC: Roger, Gene. You think you'11 be able to use about 30 more minutes of sleep tomorrow morning? What's your wish on that?
CDR-LM: Yes, I'd like to try to get the full amount. As I recall, tomorrow's a little bit flexible. If we get up 30 minutes late, it doesn't really hurt us.
CC: Sounds like a good way to proceed. We'11 give you the full 8 hours. Good night, Geno. And, you do have a time pad in there, so it shouldn't hurt a thing. CDR-I_ Yes, as long - the big object tomorrow is to get out, and get back in, and the same thing with the next day. I don't think we're really that time critical either day that we can't go an hour either way. And I think we'd prefer to have the full 8 tonight.
CC: Roger. We couldn't agree with you more. And if there's anyway we can be helping you now, Just speak up.
CDR-LM: No, you've been doing - doing fine. We just got a little housecleaning we got to do that's going to take us - I expect we'11 be an hour late, Joe.
CC: Go ahead. 84A/7 Tape
LMP-LM: Some ambiguity in your statement. You want us to use a tissue or a towel on that visor cleaning?
CC: Jack, they call it - they call it a towel, but it comes from the LM tissue dispenser, so I would interpret that to mean tissue.
LMP-LM: Well, you and I are thinking alike. But can you ask back there and find out?
CC: Asking right now.
CC: Jack, our guess was right on the cleaning of the visors there. We're to use a tissue from the LM tissue dispenser. And I've got an unrelated question for you. We're tracing water usage down here. Could you tell us, please, if you filled your drink dispensers - refilled the drink dis- pensers in the suit already? Over.
LMP-LM: That's affirm. We have.
LMP-LM: We have been drinking quite a bit of water, Joe.
LMP-LM: Houston; Challenger. How do you read?
CC: You're loud and clear. Go ahead.
LMP-LM: Joe, I just took a - quick look with the hand lens at that large rock I brought in, and I'11 - I don't think there's much more than 30 percent plagioclase. I'11 go back - could be more of a standard basalt or gabbro. It has a fair propor- tion of ilmenite in it, I believe. There's a bright platelets - in the vugs or vesicles - of ilmenite. Now it could be that the glass - if the soil is very glassy, that it's developed the darker color from the contribution of the - of the basic minerals through the glass, particularly the iron and the titanium.
CC: Roger, Jack. Copy that. Sounds interesting.
LMP-LM: All it means is that we don't yet know the origin of the dark mantle.
LMP-LM: That rock - looks I may have, by accident, sampled the front side of one of the parting planes that I mentioned. Very, very sharply bounded on one side by a planar surface.
LMP-LM: No, I didn't. I mentioned when I sampled it, it had one very planar surface, and looking at it more closely, it looks like one of those parting planes that I talked about even earlier in the EVA.
CC: Roger. Copy. Parting planes, thank you.
LMP-LM: It 's like a parting shot.
CC: Of which you've been known to have an overabundance, by the way.
LMP-LM: Oh, I didn't know that.
CC: All us fast finishers do. I_dP-_ That's right. You got to figure out what race you're in though, first, Joe.
CC: I'm sure that Sherlock Holmes would have a suitable quotation to answer that, Jack. I Just can't come up with it right now. Something like "therein, Watson, lies the problem" - -
LMP-LM: That, in itself, is a singular event.
LMP-LM: Rut the dog did nothing in the nighttime, Joe. 84A/9 Tape
CC: And when you've examined all possibilities and eliminated all but the very improbable ones, then the improbable one must mean the truth.
LMP-LM: I told you, he was a good geologist, one of the experts on the soils of London. Not to mention their relationship to all kinds and brands of tobacco.
CC: Jack, maybe we better get off onto auother vein. Surgeon's giving me a puzzled look over here. We maybe getting in trouble.
LMP-LM: You want to talk about veins - now that's some- thing an old ore geologist could talk about all night.
CC: Ore geologists and cardiologists alike.
LMP-LM: Thou strikest for the Jugular.
CC: Jack, we running a contest down here to come up with a reply to that. We're getting a request, many requests, for a weather report. We've been missing your weather report and wonder what the weather is on the Moon right now.
LMP-LM: Well, the Moon's weather is clear and sunny. It's only scattered clouds, and all of those seem to be attached to the Earth.
CC: Except for a cloud of dust around the right rear wheel of the Rover, we've noticed.
LMP-LM: Yes, but dissipates in the morning warmth. Believe it or not, Joe, I'm going to be off the air briefly.
LMP-LM: Well, if you don't get any heart beat for a little while, don't worry.
CC: Okay. APOLLO 17 AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION See you in the morning. [Talking in his sleep apparently]. Tapes 86A-89A/1 APOLLO 17 AIR--TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION REST PERIOD - NO COMMUNICATIONS 86B/1 APOLLO 17 AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION
CMP: Roberta?
CC: Hey there, Ron. I heard some signs of life there.
CMP: Let's see. I - got m_ DUPLEX, OFF, there so I won't talW to those guys on the surface.
CC: That's a good idea. We don't want to wake them up.
CC: Ron, we're going to be going LOS here in about 3minutes. Just wanted to get you up. We're letting the LMies sleep over - sleep in an extra hour this morning. Over. nV
CMP: Oh, okay. I'11 get Flight Plan out here and see what I'm supposed to be doing. Probably Just eating though, I think isn't it?
CC: That's right. Get up, turn the VHF A, OFF, change your canister, and have breakfast.
CMP: Okay. Sounds good. That's what we'11 do then.
CMP: Scrambled eggs and bacon. Not bad at all.
CC: Sounds better than what I had. CNP It's really not bad. Cocoa and orange Juice along with it. Even have four toasted bread cubes.
CMP: Hey, Gordo. Do you have any sort of - some kind of a ground truth wrap-up of the first EVA as far as the type of material they ran across down there and things like that?
CC: Ron, I kind of personally - on and off. Let me work on a good s,_mmary, and I'11 come back to you on that.
CMP: Okay. Nothing elaborate but Just - you know -
CC: Okay. T_lking about the America though, your consumables - You're B.8 percent high on RCS quantity. On the 02, well - all the points of the three tanks have fallen between the - the two sets of lines on your graph with a total result as on 02 you're about 10 pounds below the average Quantity expected. However, your trend is paralleling the lines and that's of absolutely no concern. On hydrogen, by best guess is you're probably a little bit high, total. Your Tank 1 is right on the line; T_k 2 is - oh, about 6 or 7 percent high; and T_k B is about 4 percent high, so you're fat on hydrogen. Over.
CMP: That doesn't sound too bad then, does it?
CC: No. It sounds great.
CMP: Sounds good, I think.
CC: Okay, Ron. Go ahead. C_P Okay. PRD is - You didn't cut out on me (laughter). Ny orange Juice is leaking. Okay. PRD is 15OB8. Had about 6 hours of good sleep. Took me about an hour to get things squared away last night. Then I woke up early this morning. Didn't take any medication. And I had four cans of fluid.
CMP: Okay, on the menu. Did I give you day 5, meal A, yesterds_ or not?
CC: I guess you did not.
CMP: Okay. Spiced oat cereal, sausage patties, instant breakfast, coffee, and a half an ambrosia. Okay. Four frankfurters, ate the pears, chocolate pudding, grape drink, and, in addition, I had a grape punch, package of brownies, package of graham crackers, and two gingerbreads. Yes, for the bottom one there, I had turkey and gravy, and an orange beverage, and if I find my chocolate bar, I'm going to eat it today. But I didn't eat it yet. Oh, yes, and I had the vit-m_ns yesterday too.
CMP: Sure. Go ahead, Gordo; Appreciate it.
CC: Okay. I'11 read a few selected excerpts here. The surface around the landing site is generally an undulating plain, which was somewhat rougher and had a greater abundance of blocks than was expected by the astronauts. It is saturated with small craters not exceeding a few centimeters in size but not with larger craters. Sma]l craters commonly have glass on their floors. Boulders ranging from about 1/2 meter to 4 meters are common. All of them are partially buried or covered with the dust of the dark mantle. In one locality, a crater of about i meter deep pentrated the relatively fine dark surface material and excavated sv,all blocks. Other shallower craters in this area did not fully penetrate the mantle. This fact, together with the abundance of small boulders on and near the surface, indicates that the dark ms_tle is relatively thin. A minor amount of dust noted upon landing suggested a thin layer of fine grain unconsolidated material. Footprints and LRV tracks left firm impressions in the fine grain material when darker material was kicked up from underneath. At the ALSEP site, the drill encountered harder material several times and definitely seem to reach harder material at about a 7-foot depth. The deep drill core apparently also bottomed in harder material. In the core, the material was noted to be cohesive, and it contained more fragments than did the surficial material. Predominant rock type between the LM and Steno Crater is medium grained, vesicular or nonvesicular basalts or gabbro. They contain about equal amounts of plagioclase and pyroxene along with less abundant opaque material. The guys took a total of - well, they took a lot of pictures. They had 229 color and 197 black- and-white during EVA-1. And they got 17 samples in addition to the deep drill core. Three were large, unbagged rocks, and the total, excluding the core, estimated to weigh about 13 kilograms so far, and they traveled about B kilometers in the Rover. As a suw_ary conclusion, the observa- tions made on the first EVA support the premission interpretation that at least the upper part of the subfloor ms_erials consist of basaltic lava flow. The overlying dark mantle maybe part of the regolith on subfloor material, but the possibility that it is an independent unit re_ns open and will be tested by observations on second and third EVAs. Both the dark mantle and upper subffloor units contain remarkably little foreign material between the ALSEP site and Steno with suggests comparatively young ages. Over.
CMP: Hey, that sounds like a good report there. They - sounds like they got a lot of stuff done and also getting a lot of good information out of it already.
CC: Yes. I think that's a safe conclusion. They're going to get a lot more today.
CMP: Oh, you bet.
CC: Ron, for your information, the ALSEP seems to be working pretty well. The central station and all the experiments with the exception of one are working norm_l ly. The one that 's giving them trouble is the T.WAM, and the data on the T.MAM doesn't seem to want to sync up properly. They're th_n_ing that one over and maybe have something for them to try to get that to - to work right. Over.
CMP: Oh. Okay. Mighty fine.
CMP: Okay. Got mag XX from the camera, finally. Some- tb_ng about the zero g - it kind of pulls that crazy little cassette back out of the way, and you have a heck of a time getting the lid closed on that.
CMP: Okay. Ready for updates.
CC: Okay. Your T-start time for zodiacal light, goes in there at 133:25, is 133 - -
CC: - - 28:O3.
CMP: T-start, 133:28:03.
CC: That's correct, and then flip the page over to 134: 35.
CC: And write in "Charge Battery A."
CMP: Charge Batt A at 134:35.
CC: Affirmative. At bottom of the same column, at 134:54, delete "MAPPING CAMERA, RETRACT." And also a couple of lines later, delete "MAPPING CAMERA/LASER ALTIMETER COVER, CLOSED." rape 87B/1 APOLLO 17 AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION
CC: That's affirmative. Above that whole sequence, we have some verifies for you. You can write this in about 134:50. Actually, you better start - start a little higher to have room. "Verify all sounder VHF OFF for pass." And here are the - AM, the steps. "VHF A and B, OFF. VHF AM, RECEIVE RANGING, ONLY, OFF. VHF BEACON, OFF. And VHF OFF." Four steps there. Over.
CC: Okay. That's all you got - -
CC: Okay, Ron. You sound pretty good to me.
CMP: Okay. I don't have this comm carrier on very tight. I Just wanted to make sure I was still coming through all right.
CC: Yes, think it's perfectly adequate.
CC: Ron, we'd like HIGH GAIN to AUTO.
CC: Looks like another good one, Ron. CMl° Okay.
CC: Was it good? Torque them up.
CC: America, Houston. Give us ACCEPT, and we give you a vector.
CMP: Okay. Back to BLOCK.
CC: Ron, Just for general information on your platform drift rates. Not too bad. X is minus 0.007 de- grees per hour, Y - min - plus 0.002, and Z is really hard to believe. It's a minus 0.0003 de- grees per hour.
CMP: (Laughter) Hey, that's beautiful.
CC: That's got to be some kind of record.
CMP: Boy, I guess.
CC: We may just cancel all further P52s.
CMP: (Laughter) Yes, they're kind of easy here in lunar orbit. Ail except that one that I didn't get done on time yesterday. By the time I got around to doing it, I was pointing right at the Moon. Roll and pitch. It was daylight, and I couldn't see any stars. Finally got to the right attitude, so that the PICAPAR would work.
CC: That's right. We aren't going to be able to be much help. I'11 give you a little warning before T-start. But you're on your own after that, I guess.
CC: Okay, America. We're Just about LOS. See you on the other side.
CDR: Okay, Gordo. Thank you much.
CC: Hello, America.
CMP: Okay, Houston. America's here. The - the zodiacal light sequence worked real well. Oddly enough, I ended up right (laughter) on the right setting with the right times and everything. The only thing is on the 8-minute - on the 8-minute picture, for some reason, I didn't notice that the shutter shut as soon as I took it instead of 60 seconds later. So we Just missed that picture altogether.
CC: Okay, Ron. Understand.
CMP: But the time we worked out good. It was about 2 seconds after the 14:50 - sequence. Not 2 sec- onds - about i second after the 14:50 sequence. And the Sun came up.
CMP: It's going to be hard to - to determine any real relief around the vicinity of Saenger right in there, because it's right at the zero phase point now.
CMP: Okay. I'm just kind of looking out the window now, Gordo. Go ahead.
CC: Okay. According to our rather crude read-out on film remaining, it looks like we're using more film than we should be in the recorder, and - it's - if you add up the amount of film used ac- cording to that telemetry compared to some times when the RECORDER has been ON and also in STANDBY, it looks like there's a possibility they Jive to show that we might be pulling film through the RECORDER in - while we're in STANDBY. This is unlikely because it takes a couple of failures that we don't think are really likely at. all, but we're going to try to run a little test at 134:50, during that sequence of getting set up with the VHF sounder pass.
CC: It will just involve a couple of switch throwings by you to try to conclusively prove that this is or is not the case. Over. C_tP Oh, okay. Mighty fine. Sure. When you get to it there, Just holler out the switches because I'11 be over at the panel at that time.
CMP: I kind of hope our telemetry is wrong. APOLLO 17 AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION
CMP: Microphone set now?
CC: Okay. We're ready. CAMERA
CMP: You know, Houston, just west of Condorcet and on the edge of - -
CC: Okay. We need the PAN CAMERA, OFF now, and then go - -
CMP: But you get the same vertical - you get the same vertical streaking that we do on the edge of Serenitatis, off in the Massif units.
CMP: Coming up at Picard now. Looking at it - a little bit from a distance, there's a darker albedo that goes about a half a crater in diam- eter from it. And then, on top of that darker albedo - It only goes out maybe a fourth of a crater diameter - there's a lighter type material - that seems to be covering it up. The lighter type material though only goes in a generally westerly - well, from the south around to the west side and then kind of from the northeast around to the northwest side, and it leaves the dark material draping down in the side of Picard on the east side of Picard.
CMP: It looks like it's a - fairly easy to - When you go around the south to the west side, it has a light material on it. You can pretty well carry a light layer in the top portion of the wall all the way around to that - that part where it stops - where the light part stops. And then you come to a dark layer again - and then - as you con- tinue around from the west to go on around to the north side. It's a little bit in shadow on the east side, so I can't tell for sure whether that light layer's in there or not. But starting on the south side, boing around to the west again, you can see a layer of dark - dark material, although it - there doesn't seem to be a change in the slope - in the slope or the inner wall of the crater.
CMP: And then just below - just below the dark layer, again a change in slope a little bit. It maintains that a slope throughout the - all the way down to the crater floor, where you get into the slump blocks. And then in the center of the crater, it looks like a maria-type film with - Yes, I'm about to lose sight of it again, but with something comparable to a central peak in it. And I'11 have to get the rest of that a little bit later on.
CMP: You know right west of - I think it's Yerkes or Yerkes or whatever it is - between there and Proclus, there's a real small crater I'm looking at with the binocs. And the reason it stands out is because it's a fresh - fresh crater and yet it's a dark - dark halo all the way around it.
CMP: And it's also dark down on the inside of it. I still don't have a feeling for the relative size cf things. I'11 try to get that one in the next - next pass around through here. But that's what I would call a small, maybe even in the - thousand- meter bracket. Probably somewhere in there.
CMP: Am I suppose to charge battery A here somewhere?
CC: That's affirm when you get a chance. And also, you are due tc turn some switches on panel 230.
CMP: And 34 volts on the charge.
CMP: This work gets interesting. After that, I got to go to 230, huh?
CC: Ron, I got one more update for the Flight Pi_u, unless something ir_eresting at the window. There is no - no hurry on that update.
CMP: Okay; let me take another look at the landing site, and then I'11 get it. Okay?
CMP: Let's see. Did I mention that - that it looks like - the flow out of Maraldi has gone on around it and down to, and almost encroaches on the Vitruvius A. But, it's breached out of the side of Maraldi. Gone around that depression and up to the side of Vitruvius A.
CMP: You still get that same bluish - bluish-type tint from the area in the landing site. At station number 2, on the landslide - it's going to be a pretty good - pretty good little depres- sion there. The scarp itself - it looks like they had picked the least-slope portion to go up it. And, that's kind of between Lara - I think Lara's the one, right - the crater just to the west of the scarp.
CC: Roger. I haven't been on all your revs. You ever had any - anything you'd call a visual on the I_?
CMP: Oh, when we're coming around the dark annulus, follow it around, by Menelaus and Tacquet, and then - it kind of changes - seems to change colors a little bit when we get up to the Sulpicius Gallus.
CMP: I guess the only thing you can say is that - the southern part there, in the Tacquet region, has a more of a bluish tint. And, then to me, this has more of a brownish tint to it when you get to the Sulpicius Gallus region. Tape _8B/5
CMP: Hey, wait a minute. I'm just now passing Menelaus now. So, it changes color right at the - Tacquet and then - at about Tacquet and Menelaus. Sulpicius Gallus is just now coming up.
CMP: You know, I think Sun angle has got a heck of a lot to do with that, because this whole thing - in the Sulpicius Gallus region looks kind of brownish to me.
CMP: I'11 have to check that when the Sun gets a little bit higher when I'm coming across there again.
CMP: Okay, Gordo. I guess I'd better get some work done here. (Laughter)
CC: Okay. I would like you to go through all those switches as shown on the Flight Plan. And, whan you finish all of those with SM/AC power OFF, Y have a couple more for you.
CMP: Okay. I forgot to turn the lights on in hera,. I can't see in the dark.
CMP: Okay, MAPPING CAMERA - Is that the right time? Let's see - 49? No, wait Just a second on the mapping camera, there. It takes good terminator pictures, too, doesn't it?
CC: Ron, go ahead and turn the mapping camera off. Just a minute or 2 ago, it started acting up. We'11 turn it off now and troubleshoot it later.
CMP: Okay, there we go - STANDBY. Now, IMAGE MOTION is OFF. We got a barberpole ... - a gray, okay. Now MAPPING CAMERA to OFF. LASER ALTIMETER to OFF. Okay, you want the RECORDER to ON, huh? Ail right. IR is going OFF. PAN CAMERA, SELF TEST is going OFF. until
CMP: Hey, Gordo. How good is that VOX? Could you hear me chewing?
CC: No, I can't hear you chewing. Hear you talking fine.
CMP: Okay. That's good, then.
CMP: That has to be sunset.
CC: About the right time. COVER, barberpole, gray; UV COVER, barberpole and gray. Okay, turn the old SM/AC POWER, OFF.
CC: Okay, Ron. Now - now we want LUNAR - LUNAR SOUNDER OPERATE switch to OPERATE.
CMP: Okay. Go to OPERATE -
CC: What we're doing this for is to get a readout of the film quantity. C_4P Oh, I see.
CC: Okay, we got her. You go back to LUNAR SOUNDER OPERATE switch to STANDBY, now.
CMP: Okay, L_AR SOUNDER is in STANDBY.
CC: Okay, that completes that test. I have a couple more additions to the Flight Plan for - for 136: 35, is the first one.
CMP: Okay, I'm there.
CC: Okay, 136:35, add VERB 48 (11102) (01111).
CMP: Okay at 136: 35, VERB 48, (21102) and (01111).
CC: Okay, that first one is three ones = 02.
CMP: Okay, three ones - 02 and a zero, four ones.
CC: Right. What we're doing here is making a 20-degree roll by keeping P20 going, to allow them to cal the VHF - I guess they had some unexpected noise on the VHF sounder and they want to - slip this in as another check on it. So, the next step is 136:44 and at that time put in VERB 22, VERB NOUN 78 (plus 072.24), then 58 ENTER. Then some words, "When maneuver complete, wait 20 seconds." Then, a VERB 22, NOUN 78 (plus 052.25). That's plus 052.25. And follow that with a VERB 58 _TER. And, then one more line - you still with me?
CMP: Yes, still with you. Got it.
CC: Okay, at 136:47, write in "VERB 48" and we go back to (11101) and zero and four ones. CMa° Okay. At 44, we - VERB 22_ NOUN 78 [sic] - that changes to 72.24 degrees. And VERB 58. Okay, then we - we're going to stay at that attitude for 20 seconds. Then change it hack to plus-X forward SIM bay attitude again. And as soon as we get back, we'11 change our DAP back to two tenths of a degree per second.
CC: That's right and what this will do is stick the VHF antenna right straight down at nadir for a count.
CMP: Okay. 88B/8
CC: Hey, at your convenience, we need AUTO and HIGH GAIN.
CMP: Pretty convenient when you're laying in the center couch. (Laughter)
CMP: (Humming )
CC: Ron, I got the morning news, if you're interested and I can watch the clock there for that DATA SYSTEM ON time. Or OFF time, rather. Okay, sure. Go ahead.
CC: Okay. - - ... setting up the camera.
CC: Front pages around the country; they're head- lining last night's EVA, as you might expect, with photographs taken from TV monitors showing Cernan and Schmitt doing their tasks. And by the way, their TV camera is spectacularly clear and sharp. It's almost like a regular studio TV. In other news, South Vietnam's President Thieu is - -
CC: - - is suggesting that all prisoners of war be released before Christmas. He's also asked that all Vietnamese parties be included in peace negotiations. South Vietnam and the Viet Cong are not directly represented in the secret talks now underway in Paris. Meanwhile, Henry Kissin- ger met for more than 4 hours, yesterday, with Hanoi representative bec Duc Tho. The two negotiators are expected to meet again this afternoon. The former President Harry Truman is still resting quietly although his condition remains serious, according to his doctors. American poet, Mark Van Doren, died at the age of 78. He was a professor of literature at Columbia and a winner of the 1940 Pulitzer Prize for his poetry. President Nixon announced, yesterday, that he wants to extend wage price control beyond the scheduled April 30 expiration. He also plans to freeze new hiring, promotions_ and pay increases for executives of the Federa] Government. I guess that doesn't include us. The Republican National Committee h_ _ _--
CC: - - a new chairman - George Bush of Houston, who is now ambassador to the United Nations. He will continue his UN post through the present session of the General Assembly. Both national political parties are now headed by Texans. I simply mention to you, Robert Strauss of Dallas became chairman of the Democratic National Committee last Saturday. And, when you see Jack again, you can tell him he has been replaced by the Nimbus 5 weather satellite which is operating in orbit after being launched from Vandenburg very early Monday morning.
CC: Joe Namath - I think you might have heard the football score last night - the Oakland Raiders got to Namath and the Jets in a - in the fourth- quarter and beat them 24 to 16. Namath passed for more than 400 yards, but only scored one touchdown. And Houston weather, we've had two kinds of weather since you've left: it's been either cold and rainy, or chilly and rainy. And, it's foggy and drizzly here again today and tem- peratures are expected to rise to the mid 40's and go down to a low of 32 tonight. There you have it.
CMP: Gee, whiz. I thank you.
CC: Any time. You need to get to the DATA SYSTEM switch. And turn on the sounder at - in about a minute.
CMP: Okay. DATA SYSTEM is OFF, 58, 59 - oops.
CMP: MARK it. Okay, went to OPERATE.
CMP: All talkbaeks are still gray.
CC: America, Houston. About 3 minutes to LOS. Spacecraft looks good and the sounder's filling the Moon with RF energy, Just the way it's supposed to. Over.
CMP: Hey, outstanding. Trying to consolidate all of my trash. Man, I didn't realize you had so much Junk.
CC: Hello, America. Houston. Over.
CMP: Hello, Houston. This is America; loud and clear.
CC: You, too.
CMP: Houston, America. Magazine Lima Lima will be starting with frame 54.
CC: Okay. We copy that, Ron. The sounder still looks good, perking right away. And the mapping camera funny I mentioned earlier - we haven't nailed down exactly what it is. Most likely, we think it's just an instrumentation erroneous indication. And so, we're going to continue with the normal schedule of activities on the mapping camera, except, of course, for the deploy and retraction.
CMP: Uh-huh. Okay. Well, hey, that - let's hope that's what it is then.
CMP: I'd like to change that instruct to frame 55 instead of 54. I just took a picture of the crater on the - well, I guess southwest of Crisium.
CC: Okay, Eon - -
CMP: - - ... different. It's got a light-color - light-colored dike or something through the central peak in the bottom of the small crater. The crater's about - oh, 30 to 50 kilometers, I guess, in diameter.
CMP: The small crater west of Condorcet.
CC: Okay. same
CMP: You know, the Crater Peirce has got that dark halo around its crater, and it extends out - again, you can see it real well out to about a half a cra- ter diameter. You don't see any of the light- colored eJecta on top of it though, like you do on Picard.
CMP: Boy, that Scarp sure looks like a flow down there to me.
CC: Roger. On the landing site Scarp?
CMP: Yes. I don't know how you get it to go up the North Massif, but it sure looks like it runs that way - just from the shadows and everything.
CMP: Gordo, does this go all the way out to Bessel? Does it cross the annulus ridge there?
CC: It doesn't go all the way to Bessel. It stops short of Bessel. About halfway across Serenity from the Taurus-Littrow to Bessel.
CMP: Oh, okay. Forgot to look where it stopped.
CMP: Okay. I ended up on frame 92.
CC: Okay. We copy that. Frame 92.
CC: Okay. Ron, HIGH GAIN to AUTO when you get a chance.
CMP: Okay. There's our 20 seconds or so.
CC: Ron, Houston here. We're coming up on some TEI-38 pad, and some flight - and a solar corona pad, and some Flight Plan update any time you're ready?
CMP: Okay. Let's see. I think I've got the - ...
CMP: Okay. Let's see. I'11 get my TEI book here. Okay. All set for TEI-38.
CC: Okay, Eon. TEI-38, SPS/G&N; 37580; plus 0.55, plus 0.97; 163:21:54.04; NOUN 81s are plus 2668.0, minua 1238.0, minus 0414.1; roll, 181; pitch, 114; yaw, 338; rest of the pad is not applicable. Good ole Sirius and Rigel for o_zr set stars; 133, 200, 030. Ullage, four jets, 12 seconds - that's 12 seconds. Ten, the longitude of the Moon at the T. time is minus 153.71. Over. lg
CMP: Okay. TEI-38 is SPS/G&N; 37580; plus 0.55, plus 0.97; T. is i63:21:54.04; NOUN 81s, lg plus 2668.0, minus 1238.0, minus 0414.1; roll, 181; pitch, 114, 338; Sirius and Rigel; 133, 200, 030; four jet, 12 seconds; longitude at T. is a minus 153.71. lg
CC: Okay. All the rest of our readup here is in the Flight Plan.
CC: Okay. At 137:33, the solar corona photo pad is T-start: 137:33:48. Over.
CMP: Okay. Solar corona pad, 137:33:48.
CC: Roger. The next one's over at 139:20.
CC: Okay. The old one, delete "MAPPING CAMERA/LASER ALTIMETER COVER, OPEN." And at 139:21, delete "MAPPING CAMERA, EXTEND," since they're already there.
CMP: Okay. Got them.
CC: Okay, Ron. At 139:21, where it says, "UV COVER, OPEN," move that down to 139:23. Make the fol- lowing note. "Delay opening 2 minutes to check operating current with cover closed." We'11 be checking that and giving you a cue on that.
CC: And there's nothing - no problems expected there, Ron, We're just getting some extra data that OSO wants.
CMP: Okay. Good deal.
CC: Okay. The next one is at 141:50.
CMP: 141 -
CC: 141: 50.
CMP: 141:50; okay.
CMP: Okay, I got it. V/H
CC: We've got a little - seeing some funnies on the OVERRIDE, so after PAN CAMERA, STANDBY, STEREO, V/H and POWER, we want to add the following: OVERRIDE, HIGH ALTITUDE - HIGH ALT.
CMP: Okay, V/H OVERRIDE to HIGH ALTITUDE.
CC: Okay, make - -
CMP: After you get the PAN CAMERA POWER, ON.
CC: Pardon me, Ron. I missed that.
CMP: That 's right. That 's - after you get the PAN V/H CAMERA POWER, ON, to HIGH ALTITUDE.
CC: Roger. Okay, Hon, the next two are Just a couple of info notes for you. I don't know where you want to write this one, but FAO would like to remind you that you don't have any margin on mag Lima Lima anymore; you used up all your margin on that mag. Everything else is needed for planned operation.
CMP: Uh-huh ! Okay.
CC: And, the last one just - - 89B/5 Tape
CMP: Discontinue spares on Lima Lima.
CC: Roger. Just use Lima Lima as scheduled, but don't - don't use any spare shots on it. And the last one is just a sum up here, Ron.
CC: You obviously are aware of it, but you have not missed ar_ mapping camera, pan camera, or lunar sounder operations to date. And we're all on schedule and right on the Flight Plan -outstanding Flight Plan.
CMP: Yes. You bet it's an outstanding Flight Plan. That's great!
CC: Yes, Ron. I think you had a really outstanding Flight Plan to be flying at this time of the year, because the weather in Houston is so miserable that you can't believe it.
CMP: (Laughter) Oh, boy. That's what everybody keeps saying.
CC: Roger. I just drove in, and it's kind of a sleety rain. It feels like it might snow at any moment, although it's really not that cold. The ceiling is probably down about 6 - 700 feet. It is really rotten out there.
CMP: (Laughter) Yes, we did - we did pick a good time to make the flight then.
CC: That's affirmative. It's been this way since you left.
CC: You guys - you realize, of course, that you're going to get - -
CMP: Well, we want everybody to get ... - -
CC: - - blamed for that, because with two people on the Moon, that' s what happens.
CMP: (Laughter) Yes, right.
CC: Okay. You can get back to work then, if you want.
CMP: See if I can get my solar - solar corona squared away here.
CMP: Okay. Solar corona is mag QQ, and we're on frame 69.
CC: Okay. Mag QQ, 69.
CMP: And, Houston; America. Let's see. You're going to send me over the hill in high bit rate this time for sure, are you? As usual (chuckle).
CC: Stand by on that, Ron. Let me check in the go on that.
CMP: Looks like it.
CC: That's affirmative, Ron. You'11 be going over the hill in high bit rate.
CMP: And, Houston; America. Just so I won't get con- fused there, I put two protect frames at the start of this.
CC: Roger. That's affirm. We got that.
CMP: I just wanted to try out that - mode contrable [sic] - control cable with the PCM stuff, you know?
CC: Ron, we're coming up on 5 minutes to LOS and Just want to update you. We went around the room, and the spacecraft is looking great. We Just have one reminder and that's at the end of the solar corona period. Please use only one protect frame - one protect frame per the Flight Plan or per the check- list. And the other thing is - the lunar sounder - the little check you did at the beginning of this pass - the recorder is pulling film as normal. The glitch we saw was a telemetry grit - glitch lunar and the sounder is looking great.
CMP: Hey, outstanding! That's good to hear. Sounds like we're gettin g kind of iow on VHBW film though is what you're saying, huh?
CC: On that particular magazine; yes, Ron. That's the problem, I think. Looking at the total thing is more - is which magazine has got what on it.
CC: And we'11 see you at 01:38:15 when you'11 be just about eating. So give us a call if you want any- thing. We'11 be listening.
CMP: Okay. I'11 be on the loop. Oh - Hey, One thing. Can you check on mag - what do I have on the Nikon now, XX, I guess? It seems to me like - we just need that for another zodiacal light thing.
CC: Okay. We got FAO working on that.
CMP: ... know is, in other words, are there two or three frames available? Do we have two or three frames available on that one?
CC: Okay. Let me check on it, Ron?
CMP: I want to take a red and a blue picture of the landing site sometime.
CC: It's going to take a little bit of chasing on that, Ron. We may not have the word before you go LOS, but we'11 have it definitely when you come up AOS.
CMP: Oh, okay. Yes, don't - No - no problem. I won't use it until we get to the landing site anyhow.
CC: Okay, Ron. There are 18 spares on X-ray X-ray that you could use.
CC: (Music: Rite of the Valkyrie by Wagner)
CC: Good morning, Challenger. and epic. final's week. hammock. Either way. I'11 - I'11 just stuff my - I'11 stuff all mine in this compartment here, if you'11 Just get yours in there. Otherwise_ we can rearrange it. See how it looks first. I only remember one - one break.
LMP-LM: We have ... STAY for EVA-2 prep?
CC: It's STAY. Never any doubt. Thank
LMP-LM: you, sir.
CC: Have any medication?
CDR-LM: My report to ...
CDR: slept 6 hours pretty good; I slept 6 hours intermittent, but generally good.
LMP-LM: And we've eaten well, I think. The food's a little bit confused since we had our little - minor ex- plosion in the cabin, but - I think you can Just say it's good. We've had a lot to drink, a lot of juices. We ate the frankfurters. We're sharing a lot of the stuff because it's not symmetrically packed. If you want more details, it will take time.
LMP-LM: Huh? No.
CC: Okay. Roger. You did not eat the corn chowder, hut most everything else on the menu. Is that right?
C: for yesterday were eaten, except for the corn chowder.
CC: Okay, Jack. We copy. We're wondering if you could come up with a quantitative estimate on the water you've each drunk - drunk and also your PRD readings.
LMP: Stand by, Gordy. That may be difficult. Yes, we'11 get the PRD a little bit later when we start suiting up.
CC: Yes; okay. That'11 be fine. My mistake.
CDR-LM: Hey, Gordy, on this water. We saturated ourselves before we went out. I finished my drink bag out in the suit on the surface. Jack finished about better than three-quarters of his. We've had water and tea and then the juice, and we have been drinking water constantly - post-EVA. And to give you a quantity is almost impossible.
CC: Okay; that's fine.
CDR-LM: If the water is down, it's probably because we've been drinking it. And I'm ready for your lift-off pad data.
CC: Okay. For rev 26, lift-off time is 138:40:15; 27 is 140:38:49; 142:37:22; 144:35:55; 146:34:29; 148:33:03. And the last one, rev 32, is 150:31:37. Go ahead.
CDR-LM: Okay; rev 26. Is that the first one, Gordy?
CDR-LM: Okay. Rev 26 is 138:40:15; 140:38:49; 142:37:22; 144:35:55; 146:34:29; 148:33:03; 150:31:37. And what's our present rev?
CC: Okay; I'11 have to check that myself. We're on rev 25. He's about three-quarters of the way across the front side. Coming up back side will start 26.
CDR-LM: Okeydoke _
CC: And, for your information, he's running the VHF SOUNDER, and it's working fine.
CDR-LM: That' s good to hear. By the way, good morning, Gordy.
CC: Good morning, commander.
CDR: How does America itself look?
CC: Just as good as ever. I added on the consumables. No problem on the spacecraft systems. Only minor fannies in the SIM bay, but even it is almost 100 percent.
CDR-LM: Okay. And I guess from - I didn't hear your comment, but I guess Challenger is the same way.
CC: That' s affirm. That' s the way it looks here, anyway.
CC: Challenger, Houston. We've been working while you've been sleeping on a fix for the missing fender. John Young has been over working it out in the suit with the mockup Rover, and we have about probably 5 to 10 minutes worth of words. And how do you want to go about that? Whenever you have that much time to listen - It'11 be mostly listening on your part - let us know.
CDR-LM: Okay, Gordy. Will do.
LMP-LM: No. Well, I did but I covered it.
UNKNOWN: Gordy, you've implied that we may be a little behind on water. Is that correct?
CC: No. That's - that's not the problem, Jack. I think our concern was more that you - that you were taking enough - enough onboard internally.
LMP-LM: Our water.
CC: That's right. That you were drinking enough. That's what we were worried about.
LMP-LM: Okay; we'11 keep pushing it.
CDR-LM: 0h, a ...
LMP-LM: And cold scrambled eggs.
CDR: Gordy, we're going to start to eat here. Why don't you talk to us about that fender? out - for a second. We'11 have him here in a minute. Might as well let the resident expert on fenders talk. Captain Young.
MCC: Oh, just fine. You guys are doing a superb job; really beautiful. Hey, we spent some time on this - fender problem and worked out a pretty simple-minded procedure, which involves essentially taking four of those chronopaque pages out of your lunar surface map, ones which are not going to be used for discussing the site, taping them to- gether with gray - gray tape so that you end up with a piece of paper about 15 inches by 10-1/2 inches, and then using the AOT lamp clamp_ preposition them full opened, and taking them out, and taking that piece of paper out, laying it on top of the fender guide rails and - and clamping the edges of it with the AOT lamp clamps. It's simple and straightforward, and the beauty of it is you're only spending about 2 minutes in the clamping operation, and it could save you up to about 12 dusting, I think maybe. What do you think? thing because you told me, but I - I guess you can't appreciate it until you see it happen your- self. That - that dust without that - that fender is just almost unacceptable. It - this sounds pretty good. How do you want those things taped together? got the detailed procedures here, if you're ready to copy. Over. you do? Tape the four squares into a bigger square about 16 by 20.
MCC: Yes. Allow about an inch of overlap, and tape both sides of them.
MCC: And then you get the AOT clamps off the utility lights and open the clamp Jaws to max. And you stow the clamps, and you roll up the paper - roll up the - roll up your fender shortwise and put a gray tab over that and stow it in the ETB. You got both the clamps and the paper fender in the ETB. And then when you get out to the Rover, you lay the edge of your fender over the inboard guide rail and clamp it, and then you lay the other edge of the sheet over the outboard rail and clamp it. And the only thing you're - really have to worry about is making sure that the inboard clamp is right over the shock strut so that you don't get any interference with the LRV structure when you turn the wheel.
CDR-LM: Yes, that's the type of thing I was going to ask about, some of those subtle points. There - there really should be quite sways - Well, I'11 look at it - but almost vertical over the hub. Right?
MCC: Yes, on the inboard one. On the inboard one. On the outboard one, if you put it a little further back aft on the wheel: it - it allows you to - it allows you to give your paper fender a little more rigidity. so the clamps - put the clamps - so the clamps are also over the guide rails. They're not trying - align that - the makeshift fender in the guide rails itself, huh?