Otrobonita/noicy-space-talks huggingface dataset:
CMP: ... that's what they want pictures of ...
LMP: 30. L-- 'Oi4FiDEi;T;,nII_y 8 _2_
CMP: You callings were it supposed to start?
LMP: Quite a while ago.
CMP: Now what? Tell you - why - -
LMP: No, go ahead. Just as fast as you can go. lO seconds - you could have plenty of them.
CDR: Why don't we call it a day and ...? -
LMP: I was going to say I could wind one, too, but you can,t ...
CMP: Where's the other Hasselblad?
LMP: I don't know what else to do here ...
CDR: Put away.
CDR: ... either way.
CMP: Put it away, what are you going to do with it?
LMP: I think there's one in there, maybe more. What do you want to do, put them away or try something different?
CMP: Let's Just forget about this stuff. _at's the next ...?
LMP: ... 54, there's supposed to be one up here. Where's that other Hasselblad?
LMP: No, it's still stowed. Where is it?
LMP: Oh, no, it's not, Dave.
CDR: Okay, let's forget these ...
CDR: A-7 has superwide angle; that's all it's got. No other camera in there, Dave. Oh, shoot, I put it hack in B-3, yes.
UNKNOWN: It's not all the way around, Dave. This thing is - yes, but this thing i_ sprung. t_:"'"'"__ I =Ir"' _N ITl A I i ! J --. r _ _ - magazine, and then, by forcing it, it just goofed up the camera, too.
CDR: Let's put the SO 65 away - _y don't you put this back in there? ... SO 65 away.
LMP: You want me to get that 16-millimeter bracket out, DaVe?
UNKNOWN: Not particularly, Rusty. That's not much of a good idea, but ...
UNKNOWN: Okay - Got that out yet?
UNKNOWN: I think they want it here.
LMP: Oh[
CMP: ... should be turned back and stowed in the - turned back and stowed in the wide angle - -
LMP: Yes, it is_ that's got a dark spot ... I th{nk.
LMP: Unfortunate, unfortunate.
CDR: Looks like we're going to have to break out that other roll of film.
CDR: What magazine is that, Jim?
CDR: ... one-sixth of that, Dave. Did you click it after you took it off?
CDR: The slot on the ...
CDR: Okay, I put that extra ... in B-3.
UNKNOWN: Maybe that'11 h01d.
CMP: How much ... to that SO 65 ...? I guess we don't know.
UNKNOWN: Yes, it's sitting right here. _"q ¢"_k _ , Iri-- J_./_l _ I I/"XL-- ,, I ......... 'CO i S 73: we could use those, huh?
LMP: ... about used all up; we're already up what, about 85 or 90 on them, aren't we?
CMP: One of them only has 100 and ...
CDR: One of them has nearly 200 - -
UNKNOWN: is the procedures book? It's in there. See if I can -
CMP: You all quit taking SO 65 pictures, and we wouldn't have to load it so much.
LMP: No, we won't, ... something.
CDR: (Laughter) It's a good idea, though.
LMP: ... of the photo - photo ... plan ... or is that in there?
CMP: Y_s, it's in there.
LMP: One has 140, one has 170, one has 100, and 170. gees.
CMP: You want me to take another 100 SO 65?
LMP: We better, Dave; we're not going to have anything to do.
LMP: We have roughly 225 pictures; we ought to save -
LMP: 2 full days of ... No, 1 full day of ...
CDR: We're up to 184 ... it's there right now, isn't it? ..., because things are obviously getting screwed up on time.
LMP: Well, it would be nice to know when they're not going to let us sleep through, so that we could get (laughter).
CDR: and want to sleep late, too There's nothing to do when we get up.
CDR: Get up at 18_:20 - The first thing we do is align the IMU; at 188 ... then we unstow ... SO 65, eat, take colored pictures, go to drifting flight, and go back to bed.
CDR: Okay, we go to bed at 198 - and get up at ... 2 more workdays .
CDR: 2 more workdays?
LMP: They're not really workdays.
CDR: Another 25 minutes, we better limit ourselves _.. 25 pictures we got to take ...
CDR: While that ... is out, let's see if the d,mn thing.
CMP: ... the right way.
CDR: How does that differ from what we've been doing?
CMP: ... Oh, well! One step of progress ... lO years from now ... can get out.
LMP: You got the DAP running? CO · 8 7aa
UNKNOWN: I_P How about ...?
UNKNOWN: Yes, as a matter of fact, let's try some.
LMP: You got the DAP on?
LMP: Oh, the DAP's turned off?
CDR: ... What do you want?
LMP: Let's Just try the MIN_3M _ULSE down here and see if it works.
LMP: It worked! matter that's
CDR: Yes, as a of fact, right, that one ·.. B-3.
LMP: Hey, that works good. not of the MAG's, and stow ... those others ..., that room there will leave more over for the ...
LMP: Boy, I - I made a drastic mistake this morning - when I brushed my teeth and put my bag away, and now I don't have anything to drink water in.
CMP: The water is not - really isn't bad today.
CDR: It isn't?
LMP: No, it's not bad at all; it's the best I've ever tasted ..., which isn't saying anything. I had a couple big drinks and it's not too gassy and it's ... chlorine ... doesn't have any gas at all.
CMP: Now, I_ll try it.
CDR: Hey, did you kick that? l'"l"_h irlr% r-k avl _ |
CC: Houston Tananarive.
CDR: Go, Houston; Apollo 9.' Houston. 9.
CDR: Go, This is Apollo them more time. -
LMP: Try one Sounds like -
CC: Roger, Apollo 9. I've got some - four more target -. updates here, but I can't hear you at ail yet.
CDR: Okay, Houston, we're reading you reasonably well. How do you read us now? Roger.
CC: I can't read you now. Are you reading us enough to receive the update?
CDR: Yes, we do.
LMP: Do you? Here's the log ...
CDR: Go ahead, Houston, with the update.
CC: Okay, Apollo 9, this is Houston. Here we go. frames, 10 seconds, on track; Oalapagos Islands: weather, 17_ plus 32 plus 38, four frames, 8 seconds, on track; Lima, Peru: weather, oceanography, 174:37:03, 18 frames, 12-second intervals, on track. The next one is in your rest period and not required it. unless you can get Japan: volcanos, geology, meteorology, 175:36:07, seven frames, 30-second intervals; it's north 32 degrees. Over.
CDR: Roger, Houston. Now do you read?
CC: Roger; got you now.
UNKNOWN: weather, frames, seconds, on track; 174:32:38, Galapagos, weather, four frames, 8 seconds, on track; 174:37:03, Lima, weather and oceanography, 18 frames, 12 seconds, on track; 175:36:07, Japan, volcanos, weather, seven frames, 9, Your
CC: Apollo Houston. readback's correct. '_l Ir--'11'q I I/"_L Cg'%l ·.._[ I ' g ._ 8 735 . failure, on the 70-millimeter Hasselblad, and we've lost about 50 frames of film in a jammed pack.
CC: Roger. One pack is Jammed, 50 frames are lost.
CDR: You hear that, Rusty? Japan.
CDR: 33 frames yet. The last target was Japan.
CDR: How low does that thing get?
LMP: How about that? We got that at O, 1, 3, 4.
CMP: WhatY
LMP: We go across -
LMP: No, right over Manila - Let me get my ... ---
LMP: Oh, yes. I didn't think we'd been far enough north to get to Singapore, have we?
CMP: Not really.
CDR: ... it's 2 hours ...
LMP: Better write them all down here for tomorrow. 172 ...
LMP: No - I'm sorry, no, no, no, no .... great big ... I think of a ... somewhere in that ballpark - I
LMP: Some of those pictures we took of the Cairo Airport and those other - the Houston Airport ...
LMP: ... possibly with a 75-millimeter lens, I could ...
LMP: I hear you, but - I hear you talking, but I doubt - F_F'NN 17,.2 --- ,v, A ] A I You know, if you get that to work, that means that you got to get the background out - that means that you come out at the right spot at the right time.
CDR: Three or four things recorded on the recorder, so I don't think ...
CDR: Whoo, that's terrible. Whooee.
CDR: What's coming up now?
CMP: We're going right across Sumatra, and we'11 go right across the Philippines.
LMP: Is it light out?
CMP: No, but it should be shortly.
CDR: Okay, there are only three unused film packs in A-7, right now.
LMP: Where are the rest of them, or is that all we have?
CDR: That's it. Two C-IN's and one C-EX.
LMP: Is that the stuff for'the 70 millimeter or the 16 millimeter?
CMP: Yes, but we got a bunch of partially used 16 milli- meter. There's a lot of that left.
LMP: Where are they?
CMP: It's strewn all over. We got a bunch of that, too. Look at ... B-3.
UNKNOWN: But one we want to save for entry.
CMP: Yes, we want to save one full film package.
CDR: What are you doing, Davey?
UNKNOWN: Well, I'm fixing to ...
LMP: Are we going to do the daylight ...? -r'n IF!_'2' 5,''T:,',t_.- _/_1% I,I"'_=' .-.. ..... · ·---_-,_llr'_L..._ Day 8 737 take couple pictures of you. your
CMP: You're - you're the only guy who had picture taken.
CDR: Hey, that's right ... picture.
LMP: Whew, is that a pretty, pretty That's really pretty - Whooee. Beautiful. Isn't it beautiful? The sunrise ... Gee!
LMP: You got a malfunction procedure ... camera, Dave?
CMP: No, not ...
LMP: Oh, you ought to see ... really something.
UNKNOWN: Whooee, that's pretty.
UNKNOWN: got - we've got three in here. We've got one here that hasn't had any taken out of it yet.
CDR: didn't
UNKNOWN: me, I - I had my helmet on. You said you had one up there that - that what?
LMP: We have two of these, completely full. And then we have some partials in the C-EX.
CDR: ... chance to use the ... filter. Hal
CDR: Hey, how about that?
LMP: Anybody explained to you how to use it, yet?
CMP: Will you guys please give me a description on how all the pieces for the optics work?
CMP: Oh, sure, we'd he glad to do that.
LMP: Now, watch your e_e, we can't afford to lose our navigator at this point.
CDR: Yes (laughter). (",*",,kl_:r",_ITI _j -.%
CDR: No, I - I've got the filter on. Okay, I don't know find very much about it, but I can the stars.
UNKNOWN: Can you see those ... platforTa.
CDR: Don't burn a hole in the side of ...
UNKNOWN: One of his eyeball lens. Here.
CMP: No, you don't need an eyeball.
LMP: There's an ... with the eyebail.
CMP: I don't know what the vectors are for this thing.
LMP: Well, you don't need the - vectors; Just throw it in the computer, Dave.
CMP: You do?
LMP: Yes, number -
CMP: Yes, it sure is, Rusty. You're right. Here, I've got it; you're right. Here it is, 48, _9- Whew! That's a big yellow balll can
CMP: Yes, but I see the spots on it.
CMP: Yes, I can see sunspots. How about that.
CMP: Ooh, out of the field of view .... I
CMP: It's going to my right, which means we're rolling left - and ... stays right, we need to roll left. That's it, that's it. Manila, Dave.
LMP: Hey, listen, where are we over right now, because I can see land down there. Could this be Australia, by chance?
CMP: I don't know. I/IL C_: ,I ' ILYLrq · ' I ' I L 8
LMP: Where were those - what were those update times?
CDR: I missed them; is that the one . ..?
LMP: Yes. No, that's the one I'm talking about, the next opportunity.
CMP: Boy, they're really off. -
LMP: Oh, my God, we already passed it. I
UNKNOWN: that be Manila down there.
LMP: Where? ... ?
LMP: Yes, I see the Philippines.
CMP: Damn, I wish I had seen that. That's my old home.
CDR: I think we'11 see it tomorrow. Old ... is a Filipino.
CMP: These really are volcano islands at 1_2. Which is going to be 173 and 57. We're
CMP: Just viewing a volcano island?
CMP: No, I don't see any down there, Rusty.
LMP: MaYbe the camera Just ...
CMP: I don't know, you had the only good camera that works. Oh, it's right here ... LEB ...
CDR: Okay, ... ..,
CMP: Hey, I can report that I used my ...
LMP: Oh, no, it's coming up in another minute, Jim.
CC: Apollo 9, Houston. --_C' _NI IL,/L[_4 ' 'TI F_'/"'WL; I I _ m
CC: Roger. We would like to have a readout on your battery manifold pressure, systems test 4 Alfa. And have you been venting it periodically or not?
CDR: No, we haven't been venting it periodically.
LMP: 8.2 volts.
CC: Don't vent it; Just give us a readout then.
LMP: Okay. 1.2 volts.
LMP: And we don't come across another thing.
CDR: Nothing at all.
LMP: I don't know, there's a biggest slice of Pacific -
CC: Apollo 9, Houston. When I called you about the FDAI SELECT and ORB rate, was the ATTITUDE SET Switch in GDC or IMU?
UNKNOWN: not sure. reconfigured a few times. Right now the ATTITUDE SET - SET switch is in IMU.
CC: Okay. Understand it's in IMU now, and it more than likely was at that time.
CDR: Well, that's probably right, yes. another
CC: And, 9; Houston. We'11 have ARIA check at 06.
CDR: Okay. We'11 have a COMM check ... with ARIA .... 06.
LMP: ... so you can tell they're yours. If you mark
CDR: Oh, yes. What does it look like through your sextant.
CMP: Hey, come here and look, Jim. i ,%.. ,lxlCli..%pi.,i/iAL Day8 741,
CDR: Are they still there?
CMP: Yes, they're still there.
CMP: ..., oh boy, these ... are really getting to me.
CMP: This thing is fairly loose. It doesn't fit on very good. ..
CDR: That's the whole sun, Rusty?
LMP: See the sunspot?
CDR: That's looking really smooth, huh? Look down bottom; you
LMP: at the can see the ... at the bottom.
CDR: Sure are smooth.
CDR: ... over to the left at the bottom.
CDR: ... at it before I lose it. Why don't you drive the boat for a while?
UNKNOWN: approaching something, Dave?
CMP: Yes, it should be approaching - No, there is some ... There is on the other one ... all the way in, s/1 the way out yesterday and I ...
LMP: It's a little difficult to mark these actually in the middle of the orbit.
LMP: Yes. It's almost the same - Well, Jupiter is ..., but Jupiter is difficult to figure out exactly where the center of it is. Because it spills into that
CC: ARIA 2, Houston CAP C0_._4.R_4OTE, VHF UP.
UNKNOWN: That's really neat, isn't it? ¢ lClpC m I
CDR: Yes, it is. I'd like to see the moon through that. What do you have -
CMP: I - I'11 tune it in for you when you get back; the moon's pretty. What does it do to it; it not really ... - I mean, it looks just like it does - -
CC: Apoilo 9, Houston through ARIA 2. VHF.
CMP: Roger, Houston; Apollo g. How do you read?
CC: Hey, that's beautiful this time. How me? .
CMP: You're about the same; it sounds like a little bit of motorboating. You're clear, though.
CC: Okay, very good. While we have you here, I have a consumables update if you'd like to copy that.
CMP: Okay, stand by 1.
CMP: That field of view, Jim, is getting out of the ...
CC: Okay, that's 173:_3:10, h3, 12, bT, 13, _h, 13, 305, 22, 32, 28, 39. And I've got some notes here for you.
CMP: Okay. Ycu're evidently cutting in and out, because I ended up with one button left and no buttonholes.
CC: Okay, we're Just about ready to switch to S-band. We'11 try S-band now; so S-B_D VOL_4E, up. S-BAND VOLUME, up, and ARIA 2, R_.IOTES-B_.
LMP: Houston, you're very weak on S-band. Row do you read us?
LMP: Okay, ... - ¥_ Just ...
CDR: See that little ... hole out there? It's off to my left. That little spot of green water out there. See that hole in the clouds over there ...?
LMP: Yes. Day 8 7_3
CMP: That's a better, No, you're breaking up pretty had, Houston.
CMP: Houston, if you read us, you're coming through very, very garbled. We're unable to read you.
CDR: That thing is really out in the middle of nowhere, wasn't it? There's another little bitty hunk of green water out underneath one cloud there. I couldn't see if there was any land there or not.
CDR: Yes, out there all by itself (laughter).
CC: - - let me cheek. It's getting a little confused.
CDR: Good for you, Rusty. I'd like to know also. Boy, oh boy.
CC: And it looks like it will be 184 plus 20.
LMP: Okay, thank you,
CDR: How does that compare with the flight plan?
LMP: Just about right.
LMP: Let's see, we're on revolution about lll.
CDR: Ooh! (Laughter)
LMP: God! We've got 150-some odd to go.
LMP: I mean total.
UNKNOWN: Oh, boy, round and around and around and around. Hey, I tell you, I'm all for shooting up the film tomorrow and then going into deorbit.
LMP: I'm with you.
CDR: You've been ready for that since we got up here.
CDR: No, I changed my mind in the middle.
LMP: I'm ready for that 350-pound cake.
CDR: We're going to go around until it's time to come dow%%.
LMP: Yes, you're right. Be stern, Jim.
UNKNOWN: We've got to give you some opposition, so you can exercise your authority.
LMP: I've got to start practicing P37.
CDR: If all goes well, you won't even have to touch P37.
LMP: I know it, but I like to practice it anyway.
CDR: Whoopsedayl
LMP: It looks like they gave us about 20 minutes for initial entry PREP and stowage.
CDR: (Laughter) Listen, we better have a lot of that
LMP: Oh, yes. Well, the day before, we got nothing -
CDR: What, what's -
CMP: We've got only 8 hours until they wake us up, Jim.
CDR: So - go to sleep.
CDR: Why don't you start purging some of that hydrogen in?
LMP: I was hoping you'd say that. Going to start this thing .
CDR: You can tell Schweickart, he is always in favor of purges.
LMP: I got_to do something operational.
CDR: The big twister.
LMP: Hey, we've done a lot of things, you know it? r ; ] I Day 8 745
LMP: Yes. Look at all that Jazz. All those little black squares. We don't have very many little black squares to fill.
CDR: What little black squares?
LMP: Those things to get done.
CDR: Let's see. Oh, oh, I see what you mean. i
LMP: ... flight plan.
LMP: I wish we could get a couple more of those.
CDR: Couple more _ays?
LMP: That'd be a good one to frame, you know i_. L_P It'd be a good one to frame.
LMP: Last of the earth-orbital flights.
CDR: Well, I doubt that.
LMP: Or, the first AAP flight.
LMP: That's what it is.
CMP: The last?
LMP: One fuel cell! 58 _:'
CMP: What
LMP: cloud. a
UNKNOWN: a circular formation in the It's low cloud, not like a thunderstorm. See it over it's Let there? No, no, over here, Dave. me - It may he - be too high for you to see.
UNKNOWN: Oh, yes ... what do we see?
LMP: Kind of weird.
CMP: Hey, I think that's worth a weather picture right there.
CMP: I do too.
CDR: Yes, I agree.
LMP: Could you see it, Jim?
CMP: That's worth a picture.
CMP: There you are, a perfect spot. You get a pretty perspective if you just look at it. I can't really tell what the -
LMP: Yes, it is hard, isn't it - to tell?
LMP: It's the only one around, too, like it.
CMP: You get my ...? The LEB, okay.
UNKNOWN: Let's see. We got the water dumped, canister changed; we got - We don't have to chlorinate tonight, do we?
CDR: Yes, we do. .
CMP: Yes, we do have to.
UNKNOWN: We doing that every night now? .-.-. k ,rlr_l-I_ ITl _1 I Day 8 ' 7_7
UNKNOWN: I'11 be. 'Getting close to _nn-ing out, I guess we got to ...
LMP: Late afternoon clouds (coughing). You can pick up a lot of those, can't you? Really weird.
CMP: ... you know it feels like ... right here.
LMP: Oh, really - it never has quit hurting?
CMP: You know, it's very funny. It's a very calm, steady feeling, you know. It really hurt. It's Just like it's going, you know, like when I get down, it's really going to be stiff or something.
LMP: We're not going to get to South America - before it 's dark.
LMP: You got it all hot again?
LMP: Let's put it up on the hatches. It cools off a little faster.
CDR: You got ... to blow on it?
LMP: Dave.
CDR: Watch it, it's hot - -
LMP: ... spot.
CMP: How'd you like to exercise before sleeping?
LMP: 8 days.
CMP: You know, if we ever really get a space station like in "2001" up here, it'd be a real good ...
LMP: Wonder how long that'11 be? I i I.,TIAL
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LMP: Jim, can I move some direction to help you?
CDR: No, I'm Just cleaning off the hoses, Rusty.
LMP: Why don't we - What's that?
CMP: He Just moved a hose.
LMP: I guess we got used to listening to all that noise all day. How about some dinner? Anybody for some
CDR: Yes, I'11 have some dinner. What are you cooking?
LMP: Oh, I'11 cook you up some chop suey. Open a can and all that stuff again. How about that?
CDR: I'd sure like to have some chop suey, I'11 tell you.
CMP: ... BSO-pound - -
CDR: Oh, my goodness, I got a big screw out of something
LMP: Oh, are they?
CDR: There's a hole right there, what's that? Oh, that's not where it goes, nothing goes there anyway.
LMP: They're all on, Jim.
CDR: Good. It probably came off of some critical spot then.
CMP: Yes, like the ECS or - -
LMP: Maybe that came out of the telescope.
CDR: Hey, there you go.
LMP: Hey, you want some more variety up there?
CMP: I don't care. Incidentally, we didn't have a glitch today in the telescope.
CDR: Not a single one, huh? CS; ;T.E., I.. ;F!p ,'TI'.,, - Day 8
CMP: Not one, it - -
CMP: - - behaved very well. What? Is that a new game? and then we'_e cleaning up and then one night pass goes by and then the next night pass, you do PS1. When you get out of bed, you Jump up and you do a PS1.
CDR: I know it (laughter), but I want tn make sure there's no doubt in either one of our minds.
CMP: Yes, you're right. As a matter of fact, I might do one the night before.
CDR: Hey, Dave (laughter) -
LMP: Hey, why don't you do a nominal P52, too - while
CMP: Hey, you know, I might do that.
LMP: Yes, sure. That'd make it a lot easier. Don't have to - do a nominal P52 for - We don't have a RETRO, yes, we'11 have a RETRO.
CMP: Yes, if we clean up, take that last day to get all stowed, everything done, go to bed, hop up, eat, do the PS1.
CDR: No, you got that wrong - hop up - - You do the PS1 and you eat (laughter).
CMP: You guys eat while I do the PS1.
UNKNOWN: and we'11 stow while you eat. You can eat and keep us out of gimbal look.
CMP: Okay. r-nh ........ : '.LJ CD: .... _-.- · then get into gfmbal lock and then have the shaft hang up.
CMP: Hey, you know what I'd like to do, the day before? I'd like to do a GDC align - ... if you have enough fuel. If you have enough fuel left over where wetre - -
CDR: ... it doesn't take any fuel.
CMP: It doesn't? I'd really like %0 see a couple of those.
CDR: See if it works, huh?
CMP: See if it works and also ...
CDR: Right. How about some more food here? We have lots of food left.
LMP: Let me be selective, since you're offering.
CDR: Yes, what do you want?
CMP: ..., you know another thing we ought to do?
CDR: Get out the menu and pick what you want for dinner.
CMP: ... do an alignment ... - -
LMP: Oh, Jimmy, you're still doing it.
CDR: Gee, I'm sorry about that, sports fans, but that smells just like pure hydrogen to me. I wonder how much hydrogen you need in here before it reaches explosive combustion.
CDR: Okay, Davey, I'11 try not.
CDR: You know I wouldn't be a bit surprised if that isn't it.
LMP: Jimmy, what days have we got over there?
CDR: We've go_ everything from 7 on up, Rusty.
LMP: On up to how far? .... itl A L Day 8 751
CMP: As a matter of fact, tomorrow we don't have n burn.
CDR: Tomorrow, we don't have a what?
CMP: Eow about letting me do the PS1 with the COA8 tomorrow morning?
CMP: Okay_ Would you let me do that?
CDR: Yes, provided we don't have to do any landmark tracking. If we have to do landmark tracking, you've got to do a good one.
CDR: We Just do SO 65, you don't have to do it over.
CMP: Oh, no; you -
CDR: You can do a good P52 - -
CMP: Let me do a PS1, P52 with the COAS; an_ then a P52 with the optics. Okay? Would you let me do that?
CDR: Yes. Sounds like a good experiment. What do you want, Rusty? Which meal?
LMP: I'm looking.
CDR: Oh. Keyf I see one that has grape punch in it.
UNKNOWN: Oh, we're running out of thos& things.
CMP: _ieh things - -
LMP: Yes, that's the terrible thing. L
UNKNOWN: CMP - - which days are you looking at?
CDR: We have - This right here is - day 7 through 11.
CDR: Yes. I think I'm going to get that out before I have it all out here on the deck with me. As a matter of fact, I'm almost tempted to go through here and take you - take out all the drinks.
CMP: Hey, I'd like a' day 8, meal B_
CDR: Day 8, meal B. Coming up. Hey, that's the first one on the end of the string. There you are. How about that for service?
LMP: That's pretty good. What's that green stuff in it?
CMP: Some kind of soup.
CDR: Pea soup.
CMP: Pea soup.
CMP: I don't like that.
CDR: Well, why did you stick it in there?
CMP: Nuh? What?
CDR: Why did you stick it in there? (Laughter) Hey, that was pretty tricky.
CMP: The hand is quicker than the eyel
CDR: Let me see that (laughter).
CMP: That's grape.
CMP: You ought to see my kids when I do my coin trick. They think that's great.
LMP: Boy, I tell you. There's nothing on here that looks good as this breakfast. Day 8 753
CDR: Well, how about a breakfast? What do you want?
LMP: Well, hell, I don't want to eat you guys' breakfast.
CDR: Oh, hell, I don't care what I have for breakfast.
UNKNOWN: I don't either. Just as long as I have my hot chocolate, you can have all the rest of it.
LMP: Well, okay. I'11 give you your hot chocolate out of the breakfast. How about a - a day - Hey, you got a day 7, huh? Day 7, meal A? I had that this morning, but I'11 take it again now.
CDR: Okay. It may not be a day 7, meal A, because we may have eaten all those this morning. Let me see. Meal B, meal O. No, the earliest I have is 9, one day 7, meal B. There's a day 8, meal A. lO, 11.
LMP: I'11 tell you what. I'11 take a day 8, meal A.
CDR: Day 8, meal A coming up.
CDR: Where are the ...? Let me have the ...
LMP: Here, I can get them.
UNKNOWN: You get them?
CDR: Here, Dave and Rusty. Got grape Juice in it, even.
CMP: Yes. Got hot chocolate in it, too.
LMP: Yes, I'm going to give you that.
CMP: Oh, you are a good fellowl
CDR: Let me look at the menu. Let's see what I want.
CDR: I don't think there's anything on the whole menu I want. Just take whatever is least - least undesirable.
CDR: That's the way I feel, but it's got to go. Oh! _ That 350-pound cake! I wonder if it's chocolate? '_ I A
LMP: I tell you. I don't like cake very much, but that still sounds good .... a 350-pound pie would interest me more. eat and eat and eat.
LMP: Boy, I tell you. Jimmy's suggestion of pizza and beer sounds pretty good, too. Chop suey doesn't sound quite as good as lasagna.
LMP: Let's see what else sounds good. How about some some lobster?
CMP: Ooh! Yes. Doesn't that sound good to you?
LMP: Yes. That sounds good.
LMP: Hey, I think I might try this sausage. You say tl huh? sausage is good,
CMP: Yes, I think it's pretty good, Rusty. It's mild and it's crumbly. You know, it's got a firm kind of taste to it, and it feels good.
LMP: Highly recommended. Duncan and Hines.
LMP: Can't find it.
CDR: In front of you. Here it is.
LMP: Mike boom. Your mike boom-boomed.
CMP: Jim must have ...
CDR: You mean - Oh, shit. I forget which day I was go to get. You have a different figure than I do.
CDR: Okay, here you are.
LMP: We have two more. I'11 just
CMP: need one of them.
CDR: What? i mile _ % there
CMP: While Rusty's sitting waiting, let me get one of these.
LMP: Waiting in line at the watering hole. Hey, yo u know, Jim? I drank a bunch of water out of that gun today. And I got a lot of gas.
CDR: Did you?
LMP: Yes, as soon as I drank, as a matter of fact, I could feel it rumbling around down there. And I haven't been using that gun; I did it today because - -
CDR: I haven't used it either, because - but I used it today, because it tasted so good·
LMP: Yes, it's pretty good, but you know today, we haven't had as many drinks ...
CDR: You know?
CDR: I'm tempted to go through here and open these thing up and take all the drinks out and put them in another bag.
UNKNOWN: I think that would be a good idea.
CDR: Alright, let's do that, then· I'11 open up all the food - well, not all of it - but I'11 open up this whole box, and take all the drinks out nad put them in this third bag.
CMP: That's fine, Jim.
CMP: About 10 bags soup, salad, beef, vegetable, drink, cookies -
LMP: Oh, boy, I'11 bet - I'11 bet I've lost - %_en I get down from this flight, I bet I've lost - 12 pounds, or more. ,r' f'%
CMP: I wouldn't he surprised. At all.
LMP: And I bet I gain ... about 3 minutes ... flight.
CMP: Hey, you got a long time ...
CDR: Yes, ... I don't know ....
CMP: This is good.
LMP: ... try
CMP: Anybody ever ...?
LMP: Yes, I did on the ground. water
CMP: ... when I put the in ...
CDR: Gosh, that's hot water. It's really good.
CMP: Whool That stuff's good .... heard
CMP: No, I don't believe I've that one ...
CDR: You - you need your sunglasses in here, Dave? (Laughter) It's dark outside?
UNKNOWN: Hey, that's downtown.
CDR: That's down somewhere!
CDR: I know what I'11 do. Go up to Las Vegas for a couple of days.
LMP: Hey, that does sound like a good idea. Let's go to Las Vegas.
CDR: Do you want to?' t Day 8 ?ST
LMP: Oh, boy. Hell, I could spend a year out there.
CMP: I could go lie on a beach for weeks.
CMP: And go skiing f6r a week.
CDR: Week, hell! I'm going to take a moath.
CDR: I'm going to take off, and then I'm going to retire.
CMP: I thought you weren't going to retire.
CDR: I changed my mind.
CDR: I picked a lousy crew. I Just can't put up with you.
CMP: Oh. I was going to volunteer to retire, Jim, so you
CDR: Oh, not
LMP: So was I.
CDR: (Laughter) That's how I feel like. I've contributed
LMP: Yes, I kind of feel the same way, I - I tell you
CDR: Yes, that's really - I think ...
CDR: Yes, ... I'd gather - I gather from the remarks that L because never ! ... this morning. No. It - it never even dawned on me. You know, we talked about this the other day, and I noticed - I thought you were eating pretty good the last couple of days. So I sort of forgot about it.
CDR: Well, I - I know ...
CMP: That's true.
CDR: Yes, I think you're right. ._*.
CMP: Like what?
CDR: ... like yesterday. Is that ... you've been eating?
LMP: Hey. you know what? I - I '11 tell you. What I really think we ought to have is some soup in here.
CMP: Yes, I think so, too.
CDR: Terrible! Say, you couldn't get out and buy Lipton's soup - -
LMP: That's right! Because I normally - -
CDR: What you really need is some way of - the basis of having some container that you could put the stuff into mixed with water - de-aerated (laughter) - -
LMP: Yes, that ought to fix it, de-aerate it.
CMP: They could do that.
CDR: I wish that - They could do that? ... thing with a bleed on it?
CDR: They'd have to ... Hey, you could have a piston on it or something. Put a paper ... ...e
CDR: Oh, yes, they had a system like that. Designed it ... I wonder if you couldn't have a mechanical de-aerator in here, though?
CMP: You mean a ...?
CDR: No, I mean - I mean - If you let it set, to get the big bubbles in it, use centrifugal force with a allow the stuff at the top to bleed through. All the air's going to be on the top, you could get a ... on it; put a stopper valve on it?
CMP: ... if you sto_ it .... pure water ...
CDR: Like this ... a little centrifugal force thing.
UNKNOWN: Yes, I wasn't trying to ...
CDR: That's really how to do it, now.
CDR: Yes, I mean, ... increases the reliability of your - the water supply of anything.
CMP: ... get all the air out ...?
CDR: Yes, but Dave, ours was nothing at all like this. We didn't have fuel cells; we Just had a regular old water.
CMP: We had fuel cells in our ...
CDR: ... stuff coming out of ... hydrogen.
LMP: I'm going to try these sausages.
CMP: I think you'11 like them. I'm afraid you'11 like them.
CMP: Oh, I was Just kidding.
LMP: Probability's with you, Dave.
CMP: No, I was just kidding. '"' .... 'TI k I G'O; "* I lUI_I _ , ....
CDR: Well, I can get any of it down. There's nothing here that bothers me one way or the other. Hey, guess what I foUnd up here?
CDR: Hot chocolatel
CDR: Oh, good. They're what?
CDR: Yes, I put it there.
LMP: ... We took it out ...
CDR: I would'ye guessed, you ·..
CMP: What? No, they're pretty They're pretty No?
CMP: Makes it look like a screen.
LMP: Whoohool
CMP: You know, the only bite-size food I like is these cheese sandwiches. I really like those·
CMP: Matter of fact, the beef's going downhill. I don't like ... anymore.
LMP: ... Man, I'11 never live that one down. Singing a song· Hook, every time I start to sing in church, three rows ahead turn around and look at me.
LMP: ... chasing rabbits? (Laughter) God damn, I though ... (laughter). Boing ! CGI If"'i' 'N,T4 L 8 761
LMP: Save some of this stuff for the last day, so it'11 he all -
CMP: Why don't we give Rusty a bag? Water. Water.
CMP: ... feel any better, Rusty?
LMP: Hey, Dave, you want ...
LMP: Drink water. A - I - I'm so thirsty, I just - I Just down water. want to gulp some
CDR: Hey, ... drink ... exercise.
CDR: Baby, I got it.
LMP: Well, we tried, Jim ... (Laughter)
CMP: Acapulco. I think I'11 go to Acapulco for about a week. Las Vegas for a couple of days. Colorado for a week.
CMP: _at? No, Acapuleo doesn't cost you ... You ever Sure, been thcre_ Jim? but when ... reservations.
LMP: This is good.
CMP: I thought you might like that. I was afraid you might like that.
CDR: It tastes like sausage ... Tastes a little bit like ...
LMP: I don't like that anymore. I'm through ... There's a lot more to it.
CDR: Boy, I'11 tell you, ... You got the survival, say survival you got the ... It's about 4 or 5 days, I guess .... A couple of survival rations and that's all; and arab - a live rabbit and you ... and cook him - About 30 miles altogether, something like that, you have to go through ... and all that. It'd be nice if you got back - We did it all year round, but I - I ... I
LMP: ... I'd come in sort of quiet now. Then loud ... ..." "Oh, God d_mn ig, I'm all around here
LMP: You got 4 years in there .... Hell, no, man, if you can do that all the time.
UNKNOWN: it, we're way up here, this time. Oh, we're going by ...
CDR: Say, we are going to come out right over Zanzibar.
CMP: Look at ...
CDR: Oh, golly! Say! This is fabulous!
CMP: Where?
LMP: Oh, boyl Man!
CMP: Lord[
CDR: Beautifuli Spectacularl Golly!
UNKNOWN: That's Just fabulous!
CDR: I know it. That's what I had you ... for.
CMP: SO ..., you're doing it for nothing.
LMP: Yes, that's ... I'11 bet that's one of the prettiest pictures in the whole ..., you know it, Jim.
CDR: I'm surprised.
LMP: Boy, that was worth waiting up for. Day 8 763 .
UNKNOWN: pictures come out, I'm not going to have enought walls in my house to hang them all up on. What is it, Jim? ... coming over the Himalayas ...
CDR: I can - I can see the ground pretty good. Huh!
CMP: I can't see anything I recognize.
CMP: Boy, you sure ..., Jim.
CDR: I flew right by it in a B-17.
CMP: You did? ... fly the Hump in World War II.
LMP: I didn't think there was a ...
CDR: Anything we could fly with.
LMP: Maybe just a little bitty ...
CMP: Okay, we're about 450, I think, Jim.
LMP: going on, Jim? Gees.
CMP: Hey, were you saving this in the corner up here, Rusty?
LMP: I like to sort of clean up at the end of the day ... quick clean.
LMP: No, there's a couple more in the other one here ... pound a day ...
LMP: About 50 feet?
LMP: Ooh! ... get too hot for the throat.
CC: - - Pitch and yaw trim: minus 0.6_, minus 0.94. We've got about 60 seconds. Read them back as fast as you call.
CMP: Roger; I missed the second batch. We broke - You broke Up.
CC: The second block, you say?
CMP: That's affirm.
CC: Okay, reading second block: 120 1 Bravo, plus 318, minus 0680, I88:42:36, 3106. And we'd better take your readbaek over Antigua at 57, and we'd like to turn off the fan on H2 tank 2 and turn off inverter 3.
CMP: Okay, we'11 clean up the switches ,'and what was the longitude on the first area?
CC: Okay, longitude is minus 06_0.
LMP: Okay, see you at 57.
CMP: Yes. You do pretty good.
CDR: Houston ... Yes.
CMP: ... use all that hydrogen, did we?
CMP: I said ... didn't use all that hydrogen.
LMP: Oh, no, it can still go up another 20 psi. That's worth about, you know, 3 or 4 pounds of hydrogen.
CDR: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5-
LMP: I could feel it.
CDR: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5; i, 2, 3, 4, 5. i - Hello, hello, hello.
LMP: Hello.
CMP: Shoot, I'd been awake an hour and a half.
CDR: Have you really?
CMP: Yes. No use turning around ... After that last pass ...that guy was giving us.
CMP: Now you're talking.
CDR: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5; 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. Day _L 8 765
UNKNOWN: loud and clear.
CDR: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. I woke up at 184 hours and 20 minutes ... back to sleep.
CMP: Eow come you didn't want them to call you?
CDR: ... still sleeping.
CMP: There, I can have my morning gas. One thing I like for breakfast is hydrogen and cocoa.
CDR: Hot what?
CMP: Hydrogen and cocoa.
CDR: Oh, hydrogen and cocoa. Yes, that is good.
CMP: Do you know what time it is?
CDR: Yes, it's really nice in our house, isn't it?
CMP: ... they're all open. ...
CDR: We had in the window last night.
CMP: Whoo, it's dark out.
LMP: Where'd you find it? Really?
CMP: Oh, bang. Right in there .... we got - got 20-20
UNKNOWN: the problem.
CDR: YOU mean that one?
CMP: The one we're going on?
CMP: Good idea.
CDR: Well, it's plus 20 and minus hO, minus 50 .... 30, plus 30 ...
CDR: I'11 recycle it again.
CMP: I think ... difference ...
LMP: 32 for hydrogen i'''
CDR: ... Right there. Oops, it's out to ... Hey, this would be a very ...
CDR: Let's do the SCS powerup.
CMP: Going over Casablanca?
CMP: ... checklist out ...
CDR: Well, do the DAP - DAP ...
CMP: We'11 do the DAP -
CDR: DAP activation.
LMP: SCS. Ready?
LMP: CB panel 8, closing.
CMP: CLOSED.
LMP: DELTA-Vcg ...
CDR: DELTA-V ... cg
LMP: LOGIC PO%_R 2/3, ON, up.
CDR: ON, up. C._._ "-'"""-" 'TI t I Omi 8 767 wi I1=-'1,,..I · I i.,,
LMP: SIGNAL CONDITIONER/DRIVER BIAS POWER, two, AC 1/AC 2.
CDR: AC 1/AC 2.
LMP: Okay, SCS ELECTRONIC POWER, GDC/ECA.
CDR: ... GDC ...
LMP: 5WAG T_4P light, OUT; verify.
CDR: OUT.
LMP: FDAI POWER, OFF; BMAG POWER, two, ON.
LMP: FDAI POWER, BOTH.
LMP: AUTO -
CMP: - is ON. Okay.
LMP: CMC going ON.
CDR: Deactivate the DAP like ...
CDR: ... go hack and load the DAP, ...
CMP: To what? VERB 65, that's where I usually take dead- band.
LMP: Unless you could ... automatically ...
CDR: Yes, let's go back and load it - -
LMP: Try it on the ground ... wide deadband. (Laughter) You better check it before you do anything anyway.
CDR: Okay, when we come up over the horizon, I'11 try to make us right side up. _nere is the - status .- quad? ·
LMP: ... C. -- '_,_
CMP: Wonder why we never use A ...
CDR: No, we're going to try it.
CMP: I don't think ...
CDR: Actually, B is the low quad.
CMP: Sure. ...
CDR: You ignite pad on B ..... on B and C, ... percent on D, and ... percent on A.
LMP: That's pretty good.
CMP: ... at _3 ... _2 in A, _2 in B, _4 in C, and _2 in D.
UNKNOWN: to these, you ought to be using quads A and D.
CMP: ... used a little ...
UNKNOWN: ... only used 5 percent out of B.
CDR: _ percent out of D -h percent out of D. That was on ullage. the
CMP: Roger. We're reading you.
CDR: Houston, Apollo 9. We're reading you.
LMP: No lock.
CC: Apollo 9, Houston. How do you read?
CC: I'm reading you real good.
CDR: Rusty, I guess you can see pretty good over there now, can't you?
LMP: I'm trying to see the ground, but the window ... : ; ,,..... _._ ,.. Day8 . 769
CDR: It's over Mediterranean like, isn't it?
CMP: Now, we're flying down pretty low.
CDR: I thought I saw a ...
LMP: This stereo won't fit.
CDR: It's not that big .... Gibraltar ...
CMP: It's not that big.
LMP: It's big.
LMP: Look in here, Dave (laughter).
LMP: Always learn a little -
CDR: Hey, would you get settled down and take four' of
LMP: Oh, there's the moon on the horizon. Want a picture of that?
UNKNOWN: we don't want any.
LMP: Hey, we're really moving you know it?
LMP: Looks like a ... in the middle of the desert.
CMP: Hey, do we get to see Tobruk or E1 Alamein - - No, but sure
LMP: that's along here, I'm not that we can really see it.
CMP: Oh, boy.
LMP: Okay, there's - Here comes Cairo, you see the Nile delta right there.
CDR: I can't see any water .,. -"- ,,-,r'. I-I,,ITl
LMP: See that - Look out that center hatch there. You ought to be able to see it coming. There's two ... b{g black V.
CMP: I don't know ...
UNKNOWN: could have a vertical over here.
CMP: ... cultivated area.
CDR: ... I was ready for a V down there.
CDR: We're bound to have a vertical at Cairo ...
CMP: Get - get Cairo right here. What is it?
LMP: Cairo's over there?
CDR: Cairo's right below me.
UNKNOWN: yes, and all over it ...
CDR: I don't know, but ...
CMP: Boy, that's really, really pretty.
CDR: Well, where was it, right at the tip of the V there Dave?
LMP: Yes, right at the tip of the V. That's Cairo.
LMP: ... Yes, that's Cairo.
CMP: Alexandria is out on the coast; it sticks out on a little piece of land.
CDR: Whooee[
UNKNOWN: ... Hey, we need a roll, Jim.
CDR: That's what I'm doing.
CMP: Man, look at the rate. 0.6 of a degree per second. Day 8 771
CMP: Yes, it - that really was. You could see ...
CDR: There ... too many clouds out today; I'm really surprised. plentiful
CMP: ..L too at Cairo.
CDR: Huh?'
CMP: Did you go over Cairo before? Hey, we did?
CDR: Yes, that ...
LMP: We went right over it.
CMP: Hey, next time we're going to be way off t_ the side of it, looks like.
LMP: That was pretty.
CDR: Yes, we really are. I put a little of that in it, but then it put the rest of it in by itself.
CMP: Time to go take a look at the optics.
CDR: ... where we are.
CMP: ... see if I can ... Hey, I haven't done a_tvthing · yet, really, Rusty, purging-wise.
CDR: We're not suposed to purge the H 2 tanks.
LMP: Yes, we did that last night.
LMP: I wonder why it's so different? One day you get a lot, and the next day you don't get hardly any.
CMP: There is more land out to the left and the right.
UNKNOWN: It's hot in here ... . iqr,u hTiAL G i
UNKNOWN: Yes; it sort of is.
CMP: I Can't see a thing.
UNKNOWN: water.
LMP: ... going back. fuelto
CDR: I hate to spend all that stop those things. They're really ripping around there. There's some more land. India.
CDR: Pretty, isn't it?
CDR: Rusty, I still have your CON94.... your COMM. Right· there's there We've
CDR: Oh, not much - - A lot of pictures have been taken of it. I guess we - we ought to probably take an Indian picture, too. Why don't we take one?
CDR: Those cotton-picking rates are building instead of damping.
CDR: They're building again!
UNKNOWN: you take one of Ceylon?
LMP: I don't even think I can see it right now.
CMP: Ready to do Pbl?
CMP: How we want to bring it up?
CMP: How doI - -
CDR: What? T?3 Day 8
UNKNOWN: - -.how do you want to do the PSl?
UNKNOWN: You're going to do a PS1 COAS aligr_nent, aren't yom
CDR: Why don't you just do it then?
CMP: · Oki. Ready for the IMU?
CDR: No, wait a second; I'm not. Let me get it.
CMP: ... right up here.
CDR: Yes, shoot, Dave, ... every time you turn it on.
CMP: Coming on. Waiting for a NO ATTITUDE light, I think.
CDR: Looks like you're going to'Just have to hit that yaw with a pulse.
UNKNOWN: Well, listen, why not - Let's try to keep going, until it gets us to an attitude where ...
CMP: Be careful of the gimbal lock .
CDR: Yes. One's right over here? ... here.
CMP: No way. It doesn't look like the rates
CDR: No, they're staying pretty much the same now. I think we can take it out.
UNKNOWN: Okay, ... over here? ...
CMP: Let me unplug
CMP: You're probably going to put that around - Here ii is, right up here. Have I got a what?
CMP: Now we'11 get to see how good _ COAS calibration is after 5 days.
CDR: I know what I'11 do; I'11
LMP: No l.... do that.
CMP: 'What?'
CMP: (Laughter) Don't do that.
CMP: I never . .. looking.
LMP: Me neither.
CMP: Here, Rusty. : There, that's for you.
LMP: Does _it belong over here?
CDR: No, ...
LMP: By the way, we're coming off the end over here.
LMP: That's where that belongs, Dave, is under one of those window things.
CMP: Is it really? Oh, shoot! - -
CMP: - - One of those window things is loose. This or right here.
CDR: Will it go on?
LMP: Well, there's a bolt; I - I put a bolt - -
CMP: No_ That was the wrong bolt.
UNKNOWN: Well, are you sure, Dave? I'm not sure I found the same bolt.
CMP: I found it. It's all here.
LMP: Okay, except for this - ...... ·'_ rk ITIA I _..._Ji _, ,L.._. ' Day 8 775 thing you recognized what that was.
CMP: Are those tight over there?
LMP: Yes, I Just tightened them. They weren't.
LMP: No, still daylight. ...
CDR: through logging, I want you to start on the so 65.
CC: Apollo 9, Houston; 40 seconds Log Mercury; see you Texas, 30.
CMP: Okay. Let's get rid of that thing.
LMP: Jimmy, why don't you -
CDR: ... I come through the middle to ... Huh7
LMP: What are you doing, Jim?
CDR: Using the . They're really neat!
LMP: There's you a wake-u_ card.
CMP: ... Regor.
CMP: Looks like that ... alignment.
LMP: optics has got as error.
LMP: Flashing 51.
LMP: Do you do that when you go to M3h_AL?
CMP: 34, Atria. Okay.
CMP: sloppy! Oh! i ...
LMP: That's not too had.
CMP: Yes, that's a pretty good alignment - -
CDR: Not bad.
CMP: - - with the cOAs, you know it?
CMP: Don't s_eat the telescope.
LMP: Within 0.1 of a degree.
CMP: Let's see what the sextant readability is.
LMP: Old hydrogen really came out balanced after last night, you know it?
CDR: Yes, man, right on the money.
LMP: It's about a percent different now.
CDR: ... I've still got to get the logging done.
UNKNOWN: to get what?
CDR: I still want to log this ...
LMP: Oh, hell! Old water bag got wiped off.
CDR: Oh, I saw it floating around down there underneath the seat a little while ago.
LMP: Yes, we're getting down to the section now, where we're going to have to start adding heat to that hydrogen tank.
LMP: Wheel That's pretty good. You're Just going to reject those, huh?
CMP: ... all these ...
UNKNOWN: but I mean - you're not going to torque it, are you? Because it was with the telescope, instead of the sextant.
CMP: No, no, it's the sextant. ' i ) _.Q_:7 _._ 7.. __ - Day 777 ,
UNKNOWN: Oh, that was the sextant. Oh, I thought you were doing the telescope to compare it.
CMP: No, why don't I?
LMP: Well, what was the one you just did before that?
CMP: Sextant. sextant
CMP: So you Just can't have a repeatable - - __
CMP: Why don't I do one with the telescope then? I think that would be a fine idea .... all the way
UNKNOWN: - and Just reject the ones with the telescope?
CMP: Yes. The earth is getting there.
CMP: Yes, reject the ones with the telescope - -
CDR: Okay , I'm going to roll for you, Davey.
LMP: 0hoo! We're looking backward. Boy, that was confusing. I was looking out the window trying to figure out "What am I seeing there?"
UNKNOWN: That's funny, because I think I can see something out there. I can see Acrux. Oh, the earth, that's right. It's between the earth and the spacecraft. Oh, boy.
CMP: Yes. I can see them - I don't know why it looks - I got Acrux down there. Emm, the sun is showing up, too. I didn't quite get Atria. It's coming in, though. Okay. I guess we ought to have it, now. Come on, computer; I can see Atria. Don't give me that .... your sext uts ...? How about that, smart ... Smart telescope. Telescope, you see it, and sextants ...?
CMP: Jim, I tell you what - Yes, if you pitch down -
LMP: What's our first event?
CMP: Okay, Jim, I got one.'
CDR: You've got one?
LMP: Are you looking at that rate ...?
CMP: Everything's ...
CMP: Oh, I - I can't handle it, Jim. I'm going to stop and ...
CMP: Oh, goody, another one. I wonder where that one's from? We're coming apart at the seams, here.
CMP: ... What a star! For daytime! Oh, boy!
CMP: Really put you to the test. out_ too. ...
CMP: Yes, you're right, it is.
CMP: How - how are your rates, Jim?
CMP: Are they really?
CMP: Yes. I'11 Just go overboard. I'11 give you one roll.
LMP: How's your schnoz? ',7' Day 8 779 ' · . now.
CDR: Really stopped up right
CMP: Oh, look at that! Worse in the telescope than the COAS! That's something. Well, I can't see - -
CT: Texas, voice No, we don't. Texas, voice net-2.
CDR: Get off the air, net-2.
CMP: Look at that. I
CDR: Well, ... still better in the C0AS. these.
LMP: I won't torque
CMP: Rusty broke it.
CMP: Oh, I'm beginning to get some, Jim. Yes, keep rolling - you're rolling left, huh? Oh, that - You'11 be in good shape.
CDR: Yes, but we won't be looking north - Well, maybe if we ...
LMP: If you roll left - You're pointed clear right to the ground, see?
CMP: Yes, but you're pitching the wrong way - It almost looks like -
CDR: ... yaw, too.
CDR: ... get to Galveston ... on me.
CMP: You got something? We - we're about _ minutes from the ... Mountains, or whatever it is.
CMP: Obliquely.
CMP: Lots of sand dunes. ......... , ,[ ....... _
CMP: Where are we on the map? Did we figure that out?
CMP: Oh, right here. Hey, we're going across to the "Lady, Be Good" site.
CMP: And, that desert right down there - .--
CDR: How would you like to have to walk _00 miles across that, huh?
CMP: You know what the - the crushing thing about the story was?
CMP: They got to a bunch of dunes, that looked exactly like the dunes on the shore of the Mediterranean.
CMP: Then, they really sprinted.
CMP: You know, they thought, "We're there_ we're there," you know. They got up over the dunes, and that's where they started falling off. Klonk, klonk, klonk. And they only then had another 300 ... - -
LMP: Jim, you're going to be looking south.
LMP: Hey, I think I see - -
CDR: ... geology down there.
CDR: Hey, this part of Africa's sort of the ... place in the world.
CMP: Except, maybe the North and South Pole.
CMP: Oh, look over here. Colly, look at that, Jim. Coming on it in 55 minutes, Jim. Day' 8 781
CDR: How you looking over there?
LMP: I'm not looking ...
CMP: You're not, huh? Great. I'm going to take one of that, there.
CDR: Let's take some of Africa ... '-
LMP: We didn't in other parts of the world.
CMP: I really missed ...
CDR: Oh, there's cinder cones down
CMP: Big cinder cones, yes. Golly, that's a beauty. Do you see it, Rusty?
CDR: ... straight down here on the - Is that what you're talking about?
CMP: Yes, right there. That's a beauty, isn't it?