Otrobonita/noicy-space-talks huggingface dataset:
C: Stand by. of the S-11 experLment. you GO on the ground. Everything looks real fine from here. Standing by. HAWAII data and it looks real good. CALIFORNIA anything for you this pass, except one question. If you can recall when you closed the S-12 door, do you have any idea how long that door was run- ning before it closed? Over. closed. on it tonight. that up again, i_ it took longer than 30 seconds to close. I doubt if you could estimate that. it. mine and one of yours. around to 360 when we come back. down there, doesn't it? you, if you are ready to copy. right ascension. hours, 33 minutes. ROSE KNOT VICTOR this pass. We are standing by. MARK. transmitter quite a bit. zipper bags for the ... COASTAL SENTRY QUEBEC have nothing special for you at this time. We show your vehicle as GO. We are standing by.
CC: Gemini IX. We have you GO and we are at LOS, we Just received an answer. HAWAII data and all systems look good. and find out what their latest estimate of our hydrogen quantity is, please? wefre standing by. ROSE KNOT VICTOR
CC: Gemini IX, RKV CAP COM. You need not acknowledge this transmission. We've got you GO on the ground and are standing by.
CC: Gemini IX, RKV. We have about a m_uute to LOS. Will be standing by.
P: Okay. It's still a little dark out, isn't it? going to do something there, then start the check list. doesn't it? calculations, we'11 have a solution. How are you doing? ready to heave it out.
C: Okay. step. US. to you, right, I guess. taking care of the situation, so we're okay. back is out and it's a little dark, but I may be able to get this one.
C: Got him? 3-1/2. the pressure getting right out there. there, we've got that. LOCK. Roger. there, Tom. systems. They're locked and they're GO. tisoned. Next thing is our little experiment called S-12. Gene. It looks pretty from here. got a good go at 700. now, Tom. c_t _ out. 1 minute after sn_wise. things because the handrail is so far back. back end? dowll. here. again, Tom. 1/2OOth except o.. fit
C: Good show, Gene. float The next thing is to attach the Hasselblad to the ELSS chest pack. least get a picture. pictures with this thing. I guess that'e something ...
C: Yes, it looks good, doesn't it? Plarl_ now, out of the bag and feed it out. Then move back to the docking bar, Gene. aAL'rFO]_r_ thrusters and I ,11 shut off the control power. Tom. to ride up in my face. Everything I let go of goes up. boy, you've got a beauty ccmztng. we're getting most of it. t,W_ng a break here to relax. seat. We ,11 be going on with the Flight Plan shortly. have a cup of coffee. (George Low, NASA official). I'm sure you don't want to talk now. do they know? BaJa California. That's about right on the track ... holding real good. what our next step is? Tom and - I'11 start taking some pretty pictures. Don't back off the Scanner Heater circuit breaker, whatever you do. forward. Baja California, looking ...
C: Yes. here, Tom. mvself pushed forward. TEXAS this ? the Spacecraft. to float up though. you're upside down and have all kinds of snake around you. a picture, Tom. there; you want to float up right away. one hand: with thing. tube. back in and we'11 press right on with the Flight Plans. I've got another of you. out there.
UNKNOWN: left. any difference. Maybe you ought to bang on it now.
P: Snake all over me. all right. out here where I can evaluate this umbilical. itself is a pretty hard row to hoe. 4 slowly rotating. I'11 take a picture. get. here and appears ... looking real good. Let me know when yom get near those thrusters. you're real good. Alined up ... platform here. get a good evaluation of pod and this umbilical. evaluate those Velcro pads, Tom. Velcro pads and - I lost it. It came right off my hands. these hand pads if I can. right now but they won't stay. The Velcro's not strong enough here. off slightly. Gene. course, the shorter it ks, the better control I've got. utes tO s,,n_et. Okay. Okay? up here now if I can, away from you. Right out in here.
C: Okay. gave myself a torque that would'nt quit. can get a picture of you. Go on with your evalua- tion.
P: Yes. much better room you've got. pad, but so far it doesn't look like it's stiff enough. Gene. them on. off your ... real well. second. What ti_e is it? ,_mbilical than anyone figured, I 'm sure. want me to help you in the hatch, Gene? bility. see what I can do for you. breaker, whatever you do. you doing there? tion and it looks pretty rubbery out on the adapter. When I get back there in the cockpit I can see him real well with his docking bar mirror. It's a real useful piece of gear. Our suit pressures are holding good and we're both real comfortable in the suits. We're standing by to ... know warm on tank now. primary pressure ... LOS.
C: Yes. adapter. It gave scm_ pretty good torques to the Spacecraft, so get back out of the way of the thrusters as soon as you can when you get back there. rails this time. earlier, or just stay here and relax? time to close the hatch than I thought. The seal is still soft. circuit breaker is ON or OFF on the right console? ... here. You'd better turn them on. minute. one light. squared sway? Gene. to the hand bars. doesn't work. of bumps.
P: Okay. to the AMU tether ring. it is very hot. of t_m_ and we're starting to use one of these little unknown things like the hatch and all that. that's going to help you there? beating down on you. mirror. I'm up in no time here, Gene. minute. What's the next step? AMU tether hooks to ring on ,,mbiltealtether. you weak end garbled. Step 7 here, attach the tether bag and he's con- siderably warmer on the back. I believe it is from what we anticipated, so we are taking a break here cools until he off. contact you. 54 minutes (EVA time from hatch opening). TANANARI_E is now 47 percent. between the ECS 02 and the fuel cell 02? at all. Tananarive? ECS 02 Quantity is 46 percent. Do they recommend that I open the valve, please? you open the crossfeed? umbilical ring? comes shot - - percent ... Is that correct? affirmative. 46 percent. con- siderably higher rate to keep the Pilot cool. the Pilot cool. Is that correct? nighttime is here. it. the ... Tom. time. time. leave the other one for awhile. and verify RCS handles in stowed position. all six positions. hack it. thing to pull down out of that slot - pull the other one. I check it at all four positions. right?
C: Okay. attach those temperature sensors if you can see them. minute. them both on, and one fell off. arm in the following order: Oxygen hose - - and that should be able to help you. stirrups that gets to you. like you can in i g. other side. the place.
P: Okay. I've got the other side. CA_NARV0N up around 3,000. I can't quite read it. right? switch to VOX. and we 'ye got power. reading is fogged up, my visor's fogged up and I'm in high-flow. and relax. high-flow to keep the fogging down to minimum and the attitude controller arms and the maneuver con- troller arms presented far more difficulty to us in zero g than they did in the simulation. The big problem now is his thrust gage is fogged and his visor is fogged 8nd we're just taking it easy here.
CC: Roger. turned around. ECS 02 Pressure is 42 percent. 42 percent. fogging quite a bit. it. Are you in the AMU now, Gene? All squared away? I don't know whether you can do that or not. Gene. know whether it was on. umbilical and change from Spacecraft to A_ electrical systems. Now do you want to hang on and get rested before you do that? schedule. just take it easy. If we're going to have any trouble with visibility on loosening electrical oarts, let's just take our time. to change that ... let's take a rest. nected; that's a 125-footer. though? those tether hooks and working up a heat load so the only one we have hooked up is the 125-footer. It's still hooked to the umbilical. m,ke changeover. electrical changeover. He's had a little bit of a rest and our ECS 02 is 41 percent. Relay that on to Houston so they can make a rec_ndation to us when we hit Canton. umbilical
C: We'11 go back to the electrical ...
C: Houston, Gemini IX.
CC: Houston is here, Gemini IX. We're reading you pretty weak. Go ahead.
CC: Gemini IX, Houston. Go ahead.
C: Whooppee minute yet and then it's about 4minutes until RKV. inch. ROSE KNOT VICTOR up.
CC: Roger. Copy. that the Pilot was completely fogged over. back there, my chances were about 50-50. on one side, and visor was so fogged I couldn't see anything. you, but I could tell you were talking and I didn't get anything at all. ON?
CC: Roger. Copy. more D~14's planned for us. If they do, we'd better just take the first one and take a look at it because I broke off the antenna. off.
C: Roger. house here. for your information, Gene fogged over completely during the Ingress Maneuver. TANANARIVE this station again. We'11 be standing by. after you get the cockpit cleaned, that you have an eat period for the - about the next hour. pressure, exercise. Give me a Mark. have the time. circuit breaker - see if it's CLOSED. T/M verify the switch in the REAL-TIME and ACQAID positions. the Propellant Indicator switch and give us a read- out pressure and temperature on H202 ? here, don't we? It's reading 460 right now - pressure - and 65 degrees Fahrenheit temperature, and our question is probably what you've been considering. Do you want us to get rid of it or not ?
P: Okay. comsu_tion go up rapidly. co_umption go up rapdily. readout on our latest Propellant Quantity, please.. cent, maybe 3. quantities over the States. standing by. CALIFORNIA recollection of the configuration of the AMU at the time he left; that is, in terms of connections, tether, arms, the valves, et cetera. garbled. ahead. I went back there after I closed the hatch, I went back over the top all the way down to the handrails and - .- adapter, so I figured that they did not extend. tion of that AMU as it is now. Right now, as best you know it. OPEN, Hydrogen valve, OPEN. On my gage, I have 80 percent peroxide quantity. The Battery switch is ON. condition of the arm, the ,_mbilical and the tether - the restraint. in the flyable position. The tether was discarded, and it cleared the Spacecraft.
CC: Roger. way down. loose or what ? troller. The restraint harness on _th sides is Velcroed to the arm controller, and the electrical connection, I believe, is Velcroed. I think I've got it back down but I cannot verify it. quantity indicates 20 pounds of fuel. The source pressure indicates 28 pounds of fuel. The ground equations indicate 35 pounds. ready to copy. or is that fuel and oxidizer? your true anomaly in the right place, if you'd agree with that. I'i1 give it to you.
C: Okay. we are in good shape. Stand by one and we'11 copy it. foot-per-second burn. We'd like to monitor your - have you monitor your VW tank, your reserve tank, during the burn, and if it starts to go down, you stop your burn at that point. down, we ,11 stop the burn. second you burned. GUAYMAS 31 seconds; yaw 180, pitch O; Address 25, 90250; Address 26, zero; 27, zero; aft thrusters; Retro- grade. Go ahead. second; Delta-T, 31 seconds burn ttm_; yaw 180, pitch O; Address 25, 90250; 26 and 27, zeros; aft thrusters; Retrograde Maneuver. we feel for some reason we have to. was your recom_mndation? want to watch these pressures and I'm sure you'11 be watching them too. a real worthwhile exercise. data on the previous one. da_a on the previous-one. we would 've got. We hated to give up the AMH portion of it, but we did do some good ,,mbilical evaluation and we got some pictures. We also got a lot of thermal inputs to give back to the people. know the EVA bottle is empty. much. hack, please? TEXAS up and it may go up over 500. Then it's con- ceivable that you could get a light here scmetime along the way. more on the ground here. jettison the AMU, even if that light does come on. However, in the configuration you have it - we don't see any reason why we won't be able to jettison it if, for some reason, we have to. burn according to instructions. good show there, Gene. better than nothing. ROSE KNOT VICTOR this time? then a Section 2. first? fuel the nicest I 'ye ever _een cells running. have been holding on good. Very well balanced. close on the current. Hold really in there. give us a water gun count, please?
P: Roger. Water gun now reads 2706.
CC: Roger. Copy 2706.
P: We're starting on this ATDA Com,_nd Signaling.
C: This is a continuation of the debriefing on the Rendezvous. One trimming will complete the first Rendezvous. Radar was turned on and lock was obtained intermittently at 130 miles. It occured at 120 nautical miles. After NMR we started to make data points throughout TPI. They showed that we were fairly ... in our effort ... 12-1/2 miles.
P: The altitude -
P: Altitude ... shows us to be 12-1/2 miles. Our it had, the solution was apparently a good solution. The time, as far as we are concerned for TPI, how- ever, differed with the ground. The computer gave us 26 forward, 8 up and & right. It differed with the ground. The ground gave us 26.7 forward, 1.3 up, 2.2 right. Backup correction, 24 forward and O up/down. We went with sort of a compromise be- cause we did not like the 8 up from the Closed Loop at all and we did not have too much confidence in the computer.
P: We went with 27 forward, 1 up and 2 right, which was basica]ly a compromise betweer the ground and back-up solution. It looked good to us, which was our on-board back-up. Now one thing about the on- board and back-up rendezvous information. On both this and the other rendezvous, many times we were dependent on making corrections based on our radar angle and then the elevation angle. Wherever we could, we tried to take the two angles to get the Delta-Delta-R difference of ..., so as a result, we did compromise on this TPI and went with what appeared to be the ground solution.
C: Okay. With respect to the lighting, approaching TPI. We first saw a speck of light that could be compared with about a fifth or sixth-magnitude star and it was in excess of 50 miles. The ATDA appeared in the darkness as about a zero-eagnitude star. Continuing on, we made our first back-up solution measurement in 1 to _ m_nutes after trans- fer into reflected sunlight, and the ATDA disap- peared into darkness for appro_mately 5 minutes, so the overall condition from the ground with re- spect to the Phasing and the NSR was exactly on time.
P: I m_ght add that the Closed-Loop solution from the computer came right on time. The COMP light came right on the predicted time of my burn. In other words, I predicted back-up burn time accurately and my COMP light came on exactly on time. The re_son we did not like the 8 up on Closed-Loop solution was that there was little or no ellipticity and it just didn't appear right to us. As it turned out, it was a good thing we did not burn it. The first correction obviously was initiated as Closed- We could tell that the cone lights were on and, as we approached within 1OOO feet, everything looked in good shape on the ATDA since we could see the cone lights and a part of the ATDA. Then, as we closed in further, we could see the moonlight and extensions on the nose of the ATDA. It became very obvious, there in the moonlight, that the nose shroud had not Jettisoned· The shroud was open like a set of jaws, appro_mately 30 degrees off, not ... Braking went very smooth and we had 58 percent fuel remaining at the end of the first run. Equal period orbit initiation at Omega 80 ·.. it was determined in real time that ... the ATDA was going ... orbit rendezvous. At this time we Alined the Platform ... made a good Platform Alinement and proceeded directly on top of the ATDA ... initial maneuver on time. As we fell behind the ATDA, of course, we could see the run- ning lights, particularly the RED running lights on the ATDA. Approximately 13 miles, pardon me, up to appromdmately 8 miles in darkness ...
P: The sextant practice that was to occur after separation, or I mile through 3 miles, was attempted but could not be done for a couple of reasons. At first we were at too steep an angle to acquire the horizon out of the Spacecraft window while we were boresighted on the target. In ad- dition, seeing a target that was as bright and white as the ATDA was, it was impossible to see the target against the ground background. We discovered that it was very difficult during Rendezvous even up to as close, as I recall, a mile because we were coming in from above .... so, as a result, none of the sextant practice was actually done because I could not acquire the target visually at all. I did get a sextant read- ing at 12 degrees to give us a back-up to our Horizontal-Adjust Maneuver. Nominal was &l:OS, our time was &1:22. And then we gcc a GET of local horizon crossing of &5:20 and &5:33 was nominal. This gave us a Horizontal-Adjust maneuver of .1-foot-per-second forward and .2-foot-per- second out, which ended up in time to be O forward and .5 foot-per-second up. I decided we would not burn. Now, regarding Terminal-Phase Initiation, we were coming in real well at - Tom.
P: I came up with 2 down. I feel this correction probably should have been 0 or close to it.... quite a bit of line-of-sight correction in the mode prior to braking. Like to talk about the lighting and braking, Tom?
C: Right. After TPI, the reflected sunlight con- tinued to increase to a more brilliant light than the planets by the ttme that we were in ... 3 miles. There was no difficulty in seeing it. I used the optical sight out of the window optically for all the braking. At 1 mile the nose cone and the complete body of the ATDA was the size of the total of Agena. I tried braking at approximately - well, I would estimate 3/4 of a m_le - continued in brake and arrived at stationkeeping position sunset. well before We made the Rendezvous in the inverted position. The terminal phase on up pre- sented no difficulty whatsoever.
P: I personally feel that the reason we were so - could so ably see the target in reflected sunlight was that big white nose cone. It was silver with a dull burnished al,-.tnum,was very dull and burn- shown ished where that white should have out there.
C: On the Rendezvous from above, we continued it in after the NSR maneuver.
P: Closed-Loop solutions for the total velocity ... total velocity and we didn't get a repeat of START COMP cycle and TI and VT looked real good. Occasionally we'd get one about every fourth or fifth solution that came up that would be higher than the preceding one, but generally they came down in a fairly systematic order. We had a lot of faith in our Closed-Loop by the time it came. However, we saw ... ellipticity for about - let me see ... mile Delta-H. We were about 8 m1les ·.. and then we were ... and then we were still going. We were still going up when we hit TPI and our computer gave out ... the pass over the RKV. I'11 repeat what I was going to say. We noticed an ellipticity .. we were about 1/2 mile over our desired 7-1/2 miles. We started out about a 1/4 of a mile high and went up to 1/2 mile high. We then started coming hack down and 7-1/2 where we lost the target completely.
P: This is where it became extremely difficult to get good angles because we were going from bore- sight to radar and radar to - hey, Tom, I don't know e_actly' they were not obviously really steady and some of our corrections ... but as I recall, we did not have visual contact until - correction, we were doing line-of-sight control and you were radar-boresighted and I think it was to a mile before we had it.
C: During this time we had reflected sunlight from the desert and I could not see my pattern on the optical reticle. There was no possible way to see the target. I tried to adjust the needles, which had fluctuated in somewhat of a previously pre- scribed manner. The Range-Rate needle was far in excess of nominal and continually fluctuating be- tween 12 to 15 feet per second. I finally could 3-1/2 see a faint speck in the distance,3 to miles. This was not ... by reticle. Finally, as we crossed the Red Sea, I could see you coming up on the white target, against a blue ocean, but 1 mile was approx- imately the maximmm that we could see under this condition. And during this time the radar needles fluctuated back and forth ... We continued in to one-half mile, we got a good Range-Rate and the line-of-sight was going good ... Range-Rate to a negative value. For this we had to make a 7 to lO- foot-per-second positive forward thrust. At this time we continued on until we were stationkeeping.
P: The third correction back-up gave 2 aft and 2 down and then we could see rapidly that we were crossing angles. The fourth correction gave Closed-Loop: 2 forward, 10 down and 7 right; i aft, 5 down, and we burned. Apparently Tom could see errors develop- lng, as I recall, from the ball. We burned a total of ... We went in on the basis of LOS at that point and we had quite a bit of line-of-sight control, which worked out fine. We had to force it down because our angles were crossing too steeply ... come up into the sun as I recall it was happening at that time. I think the one thing we ought to remember from this Rendezvous ... showed suddenly during the equal-period orbit was that when you're looking down at daylight with an earth background, the target is almost impossible to see.
C: Also, the motion that you experienced as you are down to a vertical position going across the ground is something phenomenal. The relative positions, even when you can see plainly, are very hard to ascertain; as is the Job of looking at your Flight Director Attitude Indicator, optically tracking and also cross-checking your radar.
C: Right on. Thank you. tity pressure ... We can't get a full charge to the gun any more.
CC: Roger. We understand that you can't get a full charge to the gun. We're about to get to LOS. We'11 probably talk to you at Canary. CANARY ISLANDS We ground and we're standing by. straight to the water and everything is smooth. HOUSTON TANANARIVE and taking it easy.
P: He has checked, by the way? now. It's OPEN. this out to you, Tom. Okay? while. story; a couple of stars shining, an orange and a blue sky. CARNARVON be set up 20 minutes in your event timer. time hack to check it. the computer. We're counting down real well. standing by. Have a good trip home! i minute. down and i minute up. down at the bottom, and my part at the top, with the exception of where I am right now. I'11 read right through. an inch so I can get it out, because it's so hard to get out. your D-Ring out. Gene. there Jim had to get there with both hands and tie mine on. Okay. We 're about 10 minutes. stretch it as far as what's coming down now. minutes, 40 seconds to splash uown. Your Retro- fire, 71:06:45. well as fuel cell currents conflict as far as m_in current. That's why they are a little unbalanced, but they are looking real well. Gomeisa for you' Squib batteries are ON. Maiu Batteries are all ON. Prop gages are indicating RCS A. Record switch is CONTINUOUS. Cryogenic is OFF. ON. a minute. There it is, 4:16. Okay, Tom, Attitude Control, PULSE. Control circuit breaker, OFF. Power, ARM. is complete. I've got the rest over here. RCS and you want to go to RATE COMMAND and we'11 be all set. CANTON
CC: Roger. Understand. to do is go to RATE COMMAND. At one minute we'11 push these. things, arentt we? Adapter. Wow! That went all right. on the Auto Retro. O_ -- -- give you a 3-minute time hack. and we got EETRO JETT. REENTRY. START COMP light did come ON. and a hack. Ready? OFF. Attitude Control, PULSE. Boost Insert Con- trol i and 2 circuit breakers, OPEN. Scanner switch is OFF. pawls, NEUTRAL. Check Thermo circuit breaker, OPEN. Okay. Fuel Cell Control 1 and 2 coming OPEN. ECS, all the heat is OFF. Stations check as are. Report Check List complete. complete. plus 13. HAWAII timer I'11 give you a hack on time since Retrofire. go ahead and give us a hack at 6 minutes, Hawaii. an inverted horizon. right, and 125 down. and we will reverse bank 3 seconds earlier than what they gave us. You get the Maneuver Thrusters, 1,11 get all these - - a look at what we have over here. are all OFF. Cryo Quantity is OFF. Okay, Turn the Heater - Left Heater is OFF. Right P_eateris OFF. Fuel Cell is OFF. up/down had 298. And nominal was 112 and you had 125. fourth retro. right ? Start blackout. standing by. that fourth retro. ches OFF and my circuit breaker panel's OFF - or I can get it OFF. And we can get all these pumps OFF. We don't have them any more, do we? It's back here, though. on. push START COMP - I don't want it to freeze so - - in Ring B. ners are OFF; Gyros are ON; Radar is OFF. I guess we can't push much else off, Tom. not kidding you. computer. yet. Wait till you see the big fireball. look like it's up there. information I gave you. tor standing by. So it would be bank left 60 degrees, Tom, in case we lose the computer. bank on time, or would it be bank left 60 and bank right - let's see - 50. written down there? 50 degrees I'm sure but those numbers I gave you were back-up angles - back-up "lost comp angles" based upon our Retrofire. I feel certain we'11 get an update here pretty sudden anyway. numbers now? Okay. TEXAS when you're ready to copy. 22 plus 01; end blackout, 27 plus 07; drogue, 28 plus 43; main, 30 plus 08. Your downrange needle deflection, 10 plus 94. 22 plus O1; and blackout, 27 plus 07; drogue at 28 plus 43; main at 30 plus 08; downrange, lO plus 94. I_I 's. We '11 be getting you any other data we can from radar. _OOK !
UNKNOWN: Roll left 50. left, and bank right 38. RET RB is 25 plus 27. plus 27. gree8. 20, 40, 80, 120, miles. 120 miles. Want you to roll right for that position. is about 20, 40, 80 - about 120 miles. about 94 when we got 120. START COMP and a full left. now. Tom. low range. kO miles till earth. _0 miles to it. Still coming in closer. You can go ahead and tnrn it if you want to. Just about any time. Crossrange looks real good. out. Can. are good. the top of it; right over the carrier. in sight. ity. Do have your position. Over. I can hear you but I can't read. Keep talking. the target. 2 miles long. long. gear because ... 3.3 miles long. that. the main this time. of the Wasp visually. Over. Have you got two points? We're going down. Give my congratulations to your Captain Hartley for be- on the spot. in the Station says you're about 2 miles ahead.
P: My ACQ is OFF. shortly, in the Spacecraft. right? it. Look at all the stuff I've got a_ound my feet here. we hit the water. the water. ing ... Get this thing ... water. ...
CC: ... save ... and pick up that _arachute ... right quick ... Spacecraft. Over. bulkhead and have a little water ... we get ... minutes to pick you up. Over. not yet been inflated. The swimmers are still at- taching the final point. The Spacecraft looks in good shape.
C: I should clear it. is minus .59. 88:99999 - Enter. Okay.
C: The water boiler yaw is what's getting to me. I'm going to stop and calculate. I'm sorry. the time. Readout: all right; it says minus .56. very poorly defined. It's just like guessing, darn it. I mean, it's not like "Oh ho; there's that line_" It's sort of like I'm getting close to where that line should be. ual is minus .44. Ready? last one less weight. For some reason that seems to be not quite as good a point. 88 here. Just one second before I forget that, or we're all wiped out. Okay, and it's entered. I'11 check the systems while you go look for Hamal. Okay? turn FC-1 ON? way. here. 93 for Hamal - 02330 - he's entered. you see it? TANANARIVE complete, and everything is doing all right now. any of that. See the star? I can see the star clearly. I've got Hamal. I've got it on zero. Now what could be wrong with this thing? The image will not split' pitch down a little bit. Do you want me to pitch up to it a little? won't split: nothing happened there. The light didn't respond. Do you reject the last one? on. sequence and see what happens. Reads out something ridiculous. Okay. 8267 is what it reads out, for the record. 88:99999 - Enter. Hamal. Okay. Got to yaw to the right and pitch up. I'm sorry, but this thing - I cannot put the image through it. I look through it and - - I think if you can do it on one star you can do it on any star. Why isn't that darn light going out? What's the - you didn't hit it again, did you? around and get me Ham_l. will you? find me Hamal. We're splitting quick. can find that darn horizon. Okay? We:re already behind. might make a note where that's subject to Start Comp.
P: - - other one? ing that, I'11 be doing this. Comp. Hit it again. It's back out. Enter. either one you want. So tell me which one you want and I'11 put through the numbers in 1. 93: 03875 - Enter. can't find the ruddy horizon, if you can believe that. I tracked right through the horizon without seeing it, John. Maybe that's the problem. The horizon here looks different. I hope the voice is getting all this, because the horizon here looks different. Seems like the airglow is a thinner line and a better defined line and the airglow obscures the real horizon. it is. splitting and I'11 do the best I can with that little horizon, but where that thing is, I don't know. 83 reads minus 7676 - 73, correction. right star. Let 's try Altair. and 93. 90 - Gee, I'm going to have to turn the lights on. Light - 92 on Altair. Okay. there. these radiators to FLOW. the horizon. around little bit more here. little while ago. minus .13. We'd better reject that. your C-Band Reentry - C-Band Reentry in COMMAND and C-Band Adapter to CONTINUOUS. and that other ... box floating around here some- where along with that little thing that fits in it, and I'm going to put that whole thing away. Dog- gone it: If I can find that again. in fact, very poorly defined. And, John, I'm sorry I muffed it on that ... -- break? You want a break? to loosen this thing just like it has always been. and we go to PRELAUNCH, right? have to do. I do? the control sticks. wonder if that doesn't influence the darn Acceler- ometer Bias Check. No, I think we're starting to cool down. Feel that? CARNARVON 16-1. Check. Okay? 75, 32108; 76, 82396; 17, 09143; ]8, 16707. 82396 - do you copy? row. (Laughter) 76: 82396 - Enter. 17: 09143 - Enter. 18: 16707 - Enter. Okay. What time is it now? It's 53 minutes? 8. 8 and 5 is 13. 08300. That's 138. Okay. That's Address 12: 08300 and I do not push until the time. Okay. Address 12 is set up on 08300, so at this time I'm going to push the Enter button. bit. Try to keep an eye on it.
CC: Okay. button. 7, 8, 9. 99: 90004 - Enter. 99:00005 - Enter. 1/2; 1/2; 1/2; Baker, 8 1-Charlie, 9 2-Able, 8 2- Baker, 10; 2-Charlie, 11. ometer Bias. here, John. - can you yaw around, there's a light - - to fool with it now. John, Mark the time. Is the voice tape running? Looks like a planet or something - looks like it's in orbit with us. Looks like itts in a higher orbit and going the same way. ahead of us slightly. look, but it's out at high, 1 o'clock high, ahead of us and higher then we are. beauty of it. what I need, believe it or not .... I say. The sun's in the eyes and you can't push out the ... went up - started at ... went up to 145. ®es lowest. world: known in the trade as euphoria, John. said. forward. pretty good isn't it? We'11 shut it off now. The Comp light is ON. will you? pretty good number. reading. gimbals. it? heck is that? That's 60 - that's O2:18:OO even. Right? to it - 02:20:20. Want to look at these here? 1/2 10 seconds. We get to Hawaii in 15 minutes. culating) 245_, 319A3 -A6; 30 seconds, 31913 (Cal- culating). shifted the dectmal point over at Z-12, minus Z-12 shifted this decimal point over Z-dot minus _.5, Z-dot minus, that should be _.O closer to there. should have put it in a little different there, but that's all right. Okay. I'11 wait until that Comp light goes out and I'11 read ... that thing! It moves out. 1/2. plus 8. HAWAII the ground. You've got some data from the ... feet per second, 03:49:13, 46 feet per second ... in 20 seconds, come back to UHF 1. Phase-Adjust again? you try it again, please? and for the NSR 03:49:13 at _6 feet per second, Posigrade. up pretty well. Now you're in good shape. right. I'm searching all over the place. practically. it? 8/1Oths second. Yes, yes. Right. my problem. A/1Oths 15. and 18. Delta-V of 9.5. Delta-V of /+8.7. aft. Over. GET B of the Plane-Change is 02:30:22and the Coel- liptic, 03:47:34. 2/lOths, residual less than whatever it is. I/lOth. it's gone to 4/1Oths, 9/1Oths, to 5/1Orbs and every kind of tenths, so I don't know what the heck we do on that. it was plus 8; before it plus 10. The last one is plus 4.2 and the time is 02:12:20, which is 180; 180 is 33220. Believe that? We went in with an 85; 13255 and added 30 minutes to it. Right? on things just went to worms, so let's just take this one. Okay? this residual switch - - it Just isn't coming out. These darn residuals are not getting down there. GET of Nc-1 was O1:32:55. fine. those and get 25, you get 8, you get 168. Okay? in there. (Calculating) 23, 8 and 5 are 13 - 173 and 12: there were another 36 minutes and I'm not going to play with that one. I'm going to use this time right here. be, - heck if I know. The first number is 15 I read, 18 is the - okay, 1_ has read everything from the first time I read it, it was A.5; the sec- ond time it was 10.2; the next time it was 8.0. to plus to minus, so you can take your choice. The time with that is minus; I used minus 5 feet per seond, Spacecraft nose to north. over. But the first time - all right, let's use this one. 8 feet per second, Spacecraft nose to south. when ... John.
P: 02:53:25; 8 feet per second; Spacecraft nose south. of fact. here and we should unpack the camera boxes. GUAYMAS them. Giving them radio trouble, maybe? circuit breaker, please? OFF. Cryo 02 and H2 Reg circuit breaker was ON. switch. second; the nose is south. So small that we can't get the residuals down to - find a good place for it. cause we were in a hurry in here when they were talking to us. Right? thing on it anymore. Thought he was being so snort. Pardon my language. don't know. TEXAS maneuver load all right and your pressure seems to be coming up on your hydrogen all right. on your hydrogen now that you've got your breakers back in. that affirm? of the Phase-Adjust? Over. time? plus 09. breaker - that Cryo Heater circuit breaker. See if it comes out again. it? push it before I pick it up. out my window. You have two? same orbital path with them. What's that flashing on the right? Is that the Agena? See it flash? What? John, do you see what I see?
P: Okay. They're at 12 o'clock; the time on it is O1:39:00 and they are directly ahead. They appear to be coaltitude and there are two extremely bright stars - I'd say about i degree apart. The one on top is slightly to the left of the one on the bot- tom, and about a degree below those two there is a flashing light, a smaller magnitude light which is visible all the time and which periodically flashes. There went flash, Mark; flash, Mark: could see sunlight; I could see the earth lit by sunshine down in the lower right of the windows and the Spacecraft nose is still in the light. And I see these two bright objects deadahead. See those, John? let 's not. See what they say. objects up here in our orbital path. I don't think they are stars; they look like we are going right along with them. about 9 seconds early - 9 minutes early. And co- ellipticity is approximately 9 miles. approximately 9 miles. _hem down. were satellites of some kind. do this Orbit Determination. the center of my desk. Start Comp. I mean with that under there? That's 01:47:OO, ideal. Roger. 83 - - bas just coming up. it? John. .15. We'd better accept that.
P: Okay. Now we want Arcturus.
P: Plane 2, 27782.
P: Is it a Plane-Change? not, I was busy finding the water boiler. pretty low. The ones we've accepted, 02:13:15. Hamal, wouldn't we? Think that's the whole ball game right there?
CC: Gemini X, Houston standing by. Closed Loop solution with the exception of 15 left. I can see the target now at a range of 1AOK. about 225 feet per second. radar screen. like on the photo plot? I'11 put this on right now. 38 degrees, 21 miles. Yes. We're back up on. If anything, we're going a little high. believe my 10 down anyway. Probably all 22. I believe all 22. see what I'm doing? We'11 do the most economical part of it. John. another data point coming in here. tOO. we used?
P: 10 aft and down? 8 another 20 seconds. some more down. This next correction might get ... Okay. I'm coming up 16 minutes and I need a data point. thio ... to brake in and all? how? low on angle; we're riding up high. second higher right now. llO degrees low, right; 14 degrees left. -by ... 20 what? 20:30 or something? minutes, right? tion ... soon° up high that time. We should be thrusted down. Be- lieve that? Yes. be - 68 saying 22 aft now. just get it down. I don't know wt_y it did that. is it? 83. needle_-for you? right now. ROSE KNOT VICTOR time. We're standing by. Now? mode, that 's why. Okay. Now, now Interim.
C: Yes. Reads now. ing to brake, Babe. dot a_, 2 miles. me know. R-dot 49, John.
C: Hold it.
P: 41, R-dot. Holding about 41. 34, I jump to. Good show. And range t.1 miles. A little over a mile. dot 29. Range .8 of a mile. I can make out the sba e of the Agena just barely. _fhattime do you want those inertial needles back? Just say. if you please? second. 5 feet per second. 2 feet per second. 2 feet per second. 2 feet per second. .13 miles. 600 feet. 600 feet holding. a_O and holding. 420. a20 and holding. 420 and holding. 360. per second. 4 feet per second .... 50 ... Where' s it ? don't have enough gas for you to do your ... don't. Do you know for sure we don't? We're there. Okay. Keep your pants on. Docking condition - ... Extension ligr_t_.- DOCK. feet, John. get right in there, John. 180 feet. 180 feet and holding. 120 feet. TANANARIVE it? right' You're all right: You're all right, John: Don't do anything; You'11 see it in a second. back? Panel? That's what I'd like to do next. Panel first, or anything like that? 05:40 to 05:50. locks like. the S-Band ON? OFF. FDC, to date, was the only thing I got on this darn Check List. You got anything in yours? go .°. that Platform BEF. COASTAL SENTRY QUEBEC is it going? Agena C-Band0FF; she S-Band ON. docking. Have you started the Discharge Monitor Test yet? It's 05:48:03 Mark, and we're getting ready for our first Docking. dock. Over. readout, please? byo The ARMED is OFF. I'm not sure about that. as far as the alinement is concerned. We still have to get down to BEF yet to be properly alined at this altitude. See them? MAIN is ON. what do we do? finished with this. light is OFF. DOCK light is OFF. This light is ON. Our light is ON. MAIN RED is OFF. MAIN GREEN is ON. Your MAIN R_ is OFF? stuff? clock says 58 seconds. believe, 3:37. anxious to - - Reticle is OFF. Are you going to take - - you need it anymore or not. they're due in 4 minutes. troller, STOW, while you'r right there. a second? inside the big glove. Okay? That's stowed, that's stowed, and this is stowed. That 's stowed. bit after it's stabilized. Is it back up any? but man it sure did. I didn't think I was losing that much. Have you done that? STOWED. Okay? REAL-TIME T/M, COMMAND? What the heck does that mean? REAL-TI_ME/DELAYTIME, I think. is in PRELAUNCH. Ail right. Send the following commands to the Agena: 030, MAP; O21 MAP; 250, 250, MAP; 140, MAP; K-211, ... well, well, 211 MAP; 070, 070 MAP. All right, I think we can do that. Ready for Hawaii AOS and tell them we're docked. Okay. I have to verify the AP_fi_DSTOPPED position. Okay. I want to turn your Engine Arm to ARM.. Watch that ARMEDlight. play - -
C: Okay. leave them on bright? everything I put a check mark on. HAWAII questions. What's the position of your T/M Control _itch? pressure. Over. we _tart. what did you think of it? little swift and subsequent Closed Loop solution showed up to be the case. Over. are. of fuel - the propellant between RKV and CSQ. Did something different than ordinary happen? But it didn't seem like it used that much. Over. Spacecraft ... Mode 2 at this time. we will do it. ROSE KNOT VICTOR OFF so we can load the Agena, please? C-Band to CONTINUOUS. euver update. 38; Delta-T of main engine burn, 0 plus 14; 25, 04139; the Frs, start C; Maneuver PTA, forward; Posigrade. Do you copy? ... which is 14 seconds on the main engine; 25 is 04139; the PTS, start C; PTA, forward; Posigrade. Over. situation with you. Do you feel that the fuel was used excessively and what was it used for? Do you have any idea on this? before we go any higher in the orbit. we burned 414. The drift midcourse correction was 15 aft and 22 down. We burnedl5 aft and 1_ down. The ... direction was 1025 aft and down right. That was 25 down and 5 right. We burned 25 down and 5 right. We had no element of leakage and we weren't set up too well for the visual line-of- sight control. TPI, please? the ]irt tower.
C: ... quantity is ... 35 percent ... at 1500. braking movement ? was anywhere near that much. Over. profile ? you did follow the Houston profile. Is that affirm? Would this be ... what the maneuver controller was indicating. came down as you were using the attitude controller and the maneuver controller. TANANARIVE will be a 6 foot-per-second tail-off after you get velocity cut off. RKV. Could you give us one? along about there. Over. It's still on. awhile ago is a lesser usage. We just wondered if the T pU matched what you were doing on the maneuver controller.
CC: We were just checking over RKV if your TPI matched somewhat what you were doing with the maneuver controller. COASTAL SENTRY QUEBEC, for you to turn your color switch OFF so we can check your VMmode. 3 minutes and 27 seconds and Attitude Gas 85 per- cent. when you're ready. pressure. you're not to FC6 as yet. HAWAII a GO for the burn. I'11 give you a time hack at 1 minute to your GET B. attitude real fine. machine. No disturbances between ours and theirs. Very ?_rk. now and continue on down. Just don't send recorder OFF. Let me know when you get to that point. Control Mode 6. get the tail-off and you can go ahead on what you have to do. right looking ahead - to the left looking ahead, but it went right back on. yaw. 80 81 00133. 82 is minus 008. Pacific. really something. Did you have the recorder OFF'/ It 's really going off. Really: shutting it down. I _io you not_ might act that way - I would jump out.
C: Sons, f-a-gun! That beauty lights There's no two ways about it. Gosh. shut it down right on the money. one here pretty quick. At 08:25:00. then l, and then power-down, and then eat and then sleep. I'm glad they let us do that even if I did foul up the Rendezvous. ROSE KNOT VICTOR can command the Agena tape dump. set. Very, very pretty pictures. And I hope we got some of it. Your orbit is now _ll by 160.
CC: Stand by for a TX.
P: Transmitting.
CC: Okay. Gemini X, I would like to have a dosimeter reading, please. 1/10th low tad per hour. please? Secondary Time is 3 minutes, 20 seconds. 0 degrees, 0 degrees. this pass if you would. going back to 02 heaters _U?O when you're through with the MANUAL. in A!_O. first and then Section 1. ahead and put this thing in FC1. 5_at do you think? Over. also. to 02 position? C/ufo at this time. on your SDP? please? reading, please? reading, please? tad per hour. I/lOth rad per hour. standing by. Adapter C-Band in CONTINUOUS for the remainder of the evening. HOUSTON and clear.
CC: Roger. We're wondering if your dosimeter is _ill snubbed. .23. factor of about 10 and there is no sweat down here on that. you say again? enough to get part of a Flight Plan update? Over. At 19:OO gyro compass Agena, TDA aft. Dual ren- dezvous burn planned at the following time: NH, 20:20:57; Delta-V, 336 feet per second; Retrograde. Plane-Change: 21:50:48; 15.7 feet per second south. !_d you copy? second; Retrograde. Plane-Change: 21:50:48; 15.7 feet per second south. That's affirmative. NSR: 22:37:53; Delta-V, feet per second; Posigrade. Planned to stay docked for Tweak maneuvers. Over. NSR: 22:37:53; Delta-V, 84.4 feet per second; Posigrade and docked for Tweak maneuvers. Adjust. COASTAL SENTRY QUEBEC so they can get Agena taped up? ready to copy. weather is good. 9-Echo: 13:34:10, 22 plus 15, 27 plus 42; all bank angles will be 90; weather is good. 10-Echo: 15:08:37; 22 plus 30, 27 plus 62; weather is marginal, il-Alpha: 16:43:39; 22 plus 34, 27 plus 46; weather is poor. 12-Alpha: 18:23:24; 21 plus 19, 28 plus 17; weather is good. 13-2: 19: 34:59; 31 plus 50, 35 plus 31; weather is good. with your Spacecraft readout. clocks right now. The sun is still in the wrong direction and is too bright. Over. time.
C: This is Gemini ×. report.
C: Roger. Crew status is GO. eat in our pockets. CARNARVON report and a radiometer reading, please. We slept pretty good last night. Radiometer reads .78 rads and the dose rate is off-scale low. tape dump, please? Encoder OFF for an Agena tape dump? with Section 1. 02 for lO seconds. to read out the quantity now. 460 for the Horizon Scanner to LOW GAIN?
C: Okay. Let's take her on down. time, John. i can get off together. getting ready to set. hatch. should be all the way open. I can see right next to this thing still. Okay. The hatch pawls are in LOCK; handle is stowed. Vent tube is OPEN. All right. Well, I'm ready to go, John. me to fling this? I'11 fling it where you can see it. How about that? Look out your window. Okay? thing go ! ing GeminiX down there? CANARY ISLANDS
CC: Roger, Gemini X. This is Houston CAP COM. Loud and clear. here.
C: Okay. closing device; should be coming in to you. Can you handle that? getting out at night I think is a loser, because I can't really see how my hoses and whatnot are doing. hatch and he's stepping outside to see what's going on. the bracket and the first time I shot the camera it came out. Maybe I didn't have it in very well. Just fine. you ready? of Centauri. the 20 seconds. is holding me down on m_ left side, John, but can't see what it is so I'm Just going to have to wait until sunup before I thrash around in here. phosphorescent paint or something. very nicely in the S-13. It's phosphorescent. for sure. seconds. years. strap.
C: it didn'tundo it. 04:20. t
C: Yes. Go ahead. Babe? and taking S-13 pictures. We've completed Number 5. ASCENSION Cross. it. Right? time? out and I'm still warm, even though it's in the nighttime.
P: But I think I'm starting to cool off a little bit. is disappointing in one way. This visor, it Just has enough tint to it that you can't really see the stars as I thought you w_uld. I don't see them any better. I don't believe that I see them down to more than about 5th magnitude. with and we 'ye gotten about 6 exposures and another 14 to and little go, we're a bit ahead on the time. One very small disappointing thing is that the visibility t through this visor is not exactly what I thought it would be. The left h-nd Just cuts out enough of the visible sections so that the stars - I would esttm-_teone smallest on seeing, are probably around 5th magnitude. stars, I would estimate, are the highest I am see- ing. They are probably around 6th magnitude. can find C_mm, Velorum. C._tni pretty normmlly up here. It's still _-_k aa it always was. There is practically no visible hori- zon, but there are other constellations that are beautiful. Number down, but it's sure trying to come out this open hatch. Look at that, would you? do that? of 20 exposures with 12 more to go. When the hatch was closed we noticed nothing flared up or down; however, now that the hatch is open, items appear to be floating upward and out the open hatch. John's helmet tie-down, for instance is - has moved over from his chest position and, like a sne_e, is hatch. trying to sneak out the open
C: 12:06. beautiful: It's a better looking one than that other one. Mark it. an area that looks like a great nebula or something. that be? coming up. Ready? Okay. Next track these babies ... Who are we supposed to be reading there? Do you know?
P: Yes. Who? you know. RKV or something like that. But it sure isn't cold. If I had m_ choice, I'd like to be a bit cooler. I expect in another 10 minutes of _-rk, it will be Just about the perfect temperature in this suit. And the 002 washout they were tal_ng about, I don't see any evidence of that. beat the heaters.