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CC: Oh, 16, if the 68-degree middle gimbal angle is acceptable to you, we would like for you to go ahead and press on with it.
CMP: Okay. We'11 do that, and that'11 get us back on time. And we're looking at a 6h-degree angle now, so 4 more isn't going to be that different.
CC: And, 16, we're finished with the up-link. I
CC: Ken, we want the PAl CYl_P_ to ST_2_DBY, and you can deploy the gamma ray boom the rest of the way out.
CMP: Okay, FAi_ C_ERA to ST_i'_DBY_ and we'11 deploy the g-_mna ray.
UNKNOWN: Okay. The gmmma ray's going out.
CC: Okay, 16. Go PAN CAi._ERA, POT,_JtiR OFF.
UNKNOWN: Okay. P's2_CYI'.fEP_A PO_fER's coming ,iFF.
CC: Amd 16, there's an advisory - when you do ia - going to the P52. You'11 probably get a L01 alarm, which means that you've exceeded 60 degrees middle gimbal angle. You can go on with it, _ay.
CMP: Okay. END TAPE OF
CC: 167 Houston. We've got some words on the LiOH canister any time you're ready to listen.
LMP: Stand by 1, Pete. Ken's eyeballing it.
CC: Roger. There's no hurry.
CC: 16, did you call?
CMP: No, sir. Be with you in a minute.
CMP: Ok_, Don; go ahead.
CC: Ok_v, on the LiOH canister, the words we got on it are that we'd never had one of those straps break on a flight unit. However, apparently if you put more than 128 pounds of force on them you - you can break them. And what we'd like you to do n_ is go ahead and change - make that change so that we don't miss it when we do the clock sync. I believe it's listed at - -
CMP: Now, Pete, that's some good thinking. Yes, sir; I'_re got it at 202:20.
CC: Roger. And we were afraid we'd get the clock - -
CMP: - - get that out of the way.
CMP: S_r again, Don.
CC: I'm just saying it's up close to the time we're gonna sync the clocks. We're afraid we might omit it.
CMP: Yep, that's good thinking. Okay; while we're changing that out, if you want to - you want to do your thing with the computer, or do you want us to do the P52 first?
CC: Ken, you talking about the clock sync?
CC: Okay, I guess we'd like you to do the P52 first.
CMP: Okay. We'11 get on with that in just a minute as soon as we get the ... changed here.
LMP: Hey, Pete, y'all got any ideas why old Orion didn'_ hold attitude Jettisoned?
CC: I guess I don't have a complete briefing on it. We've got a couple of suspsect conditions. I'11 try to get back to you later.
LMP: Okay. No hurry on that one.
CMP: Hey, Don, in order to keep our lithium things from driving us buggy on the way home with the time change, we're Just going to go ahead and exchange the canisters as they're called out in the Flight Plan here. And we'11 Just be skipping the couple that'11 be unused. Okay?
LMP: Hey, Pete, is Tony coming on tonight?
CC: That's affirmative. About midnight, I guess. About 2 hours and 15, 20 minutes from now.
LMP: I guess that's after - after we go to bed?
CC: I believe that's right, Charlie.
CC: Good, 16. We copy the torquing angles. They look real good.
CMP: Okay. That was at time 202:03:00.
CC: 202:03:00. Roger.
CMP: Don, how long we gonna be in this attitude? Tape
CC: Stand by 1. About 30 or 40 more minutes, 16.
CMP: Okay, Houston. Would you like to take over our clock?
CC: Stand by. We're just about ready to do that.
CC: Okay, 16; if you'11 go ACCEPT, we'11 uplink this clock sync. And while they're doing that, I'11 tell you kind of what's going to happen. But - We're going to do it. The total change will be 24 hours 34 minutes and 12 seconds. And what we wculd like you to do is on, let's see here, page 338 in the Flight Plan, we'd like you to pick up at about 226:30 in the Flight Plan - -
CMP: Hey, Don, (laughter) I'm sorry you're gonna - Hey, Den, you're gonna have to start over again. Just as you started talking, our cabin fan let out a great big moan, and so we turned it offlthen, after all sitting up straight to see what it was. Sc would you start over again?
CC: Okay, I'11 do that. If you'11 go ACCEPT, we've got the clock sync ready to go, and it'11 be a 24 hour 34 minute and 12 second total change in the clocks. And what we would like you to do is pick up the Flight Plan at the old - at the old point of 226:30, actually pick up those events, although your clock may not come out exactly on that time. And what we're saying is we may cut a little bit into your rest period.
CMP: Okay; but we're planning to do a little stowage here that we never have had a chance to get done.
CMP: So we're going to have to do some of that stuff now.
CC: Okay. The items we'11 pick up with, I guess, are the ones immediately following 226:30 in the old Flight Plan.
CC: Okay. Ken, your clock should be changed now. And if you'11 pick up with - on page 338 where it says, '_GAMM RAY, SHIELD OFF," you can go ahead and finish that stuff up.
CMP: Okay. I take it we're gonna hold off on this PTC for a while until you've had enough time in this attitude?
CC: Eoger. We'd like to stay away from the PTC for about 15 more minutes.
CMP: Okay; we'11 do that.
CC: Okay, 16. We'd like you to close the ALPHA PARTICLE/X-.RAY COVER now, but we want to leave the )[-RAY on for an extra 30 minutes because we failed to get some calibration data, and I'11 call you %'hen it should go off. PARTICLE/X-RAY
CC: ]6, did you copy on the ALPHA COVER?
LMP: ?,oger.
CC: (,kay. We want to get that closed and leave the )[-RAY on, and I'11 call you when it should go off. About a half hour from now.
LMP: Okay, I closed the cover.
CC: Okay. And, also, we'd like you to read out T ephem for us. That's VERB 5 NOUN i 1706 enter.
CDR: Eow's that look to you, Houston?
CC: [_tand by l; we'11 take a look at it.
CC: Okay, 16. That looks good.
CDR: That's three balls 11; okay. 132/5 Tape
CC: Okay, 16. On those numbers you've got on the DSKY there, if you'11 go to the G&N Checklist, page 9-4, you can load register 2 and 3 in column Bravo, lines 4 and 5.
LMP: Okay, G&N Checklist, 9-4, what - load what?
CC: Load register 2 and 3 in column Bravo, line 4 and 5.
LMP: Okay. (NO COMM FOR 30 MINUTES)
CDR: Houston, Apollo 16; over.
CDR: Roger. We're gonna go ahead and service the ac- cumulator to - to 55 percent if that - that's all right with y'all.
CC: Stand by 1. Okay, you can go ahead with that, John.
CDR: Trying to - okay, we're trying to get as many of these nitpickies out of the way for this EVA tomorrow.
CC: Okay, and in connection with that, the surgeon advises that the CMP will need a new hiomed harness prior to the EVA. We do not have any requirement to monitor the CMP tonight. We would like to monitor either you or Charlie.
CDR: Okay; we decided you can look at me tonight.
CDR: I'11 put on a biomed tonight, but I've got a bunch of things to do before - before I can get to it. Okay?
CC: Okay, sir.
LMP: P_te, looking out of the hatch window towards the - back at the Moon, I think this view_s even getting more stunning, and - Just brilliant whites and grays against a stark black background - looks like it's not even real.
LMP: Hey, Pete, how far out from the Moon are we now?
CC: How far out from the Moon?
CC: S_and by a minute.
CC: Charlie, you're 7294 miles out.
LMP: Hey, Pete, we'd like to send you a picture of this if y'all got - can take the - the TV. This is really a spectacular sight.
CC: Okay; stand by, Charlie. We'11 see what we can do.
CC: Charlie, while we're working that, can you copy about four short items into the Flight Plan at 226:40?
LMP: Yeah, wait a minute.
CC: Charlie, you can go ahead and start getting that c_nera out. We'11 work up .the lines here.
CDR: Okay, 226:40; go ahead.
CC: Okay; at 226:40, we want to RETRACT MAPPING CAMERA, close the door, put the MAPPING CAMERA to STANDBY, put the X-RAY to STANDBY, and then pick up at 226:50 there in the Flight Plan.
LMP: Pete, did y'all copy that?
CC: Negative. I guess we lost comm there temporarily, S_r again, Charlie.
LMP: Okay; you gave us a Flight Plan update for 226, and our clocks now say 227 - -
LMP: --- 23.
CC: We're going to have to go back to 226. It's just prior to where you go into PTC and pick up these fo_ar items, and then get into PTC.
LMP: Well, why don't you give us a call when you want us to do those, since we don't know when 226 is.
CDR: Is 226 right now, there, Pete?
CDR: 226 is supposed to be right now?
CC: Negative, negative. Right now we're showing 227:44:07, 8, 9.
CDR: Okay, but I mean you're saying what - When do you want us to do those items at 226?
CC: We'11 call you when we want you to start in. That's just where we want you. That's the items we want dcne and then I'11 tell you when to start them.
CC: Okay, 16; I'm - 16; I've been advised it really doesn't matter when you do them, as long as we get them all done before you go to sleep.
CDR: Houston, you're saying we can - we're now cleared _o take the GAMMA RAY, SHIELD OFF, the X-RAY to STANDBY, the ALPHA/X-RAY COVER to CLOSE, and so forth, right?
LMP: Pete, could we take the S-BAND AUX switch out of SCI to get the - monitor set up?
CC: Okay, 16. We need to get the MAPPING CAMERA, OFF - Stand by. Get the MAPPING CAMERA to STANDBY, and the GAMMA RAY, shield on, prior to going out of the SCI position.
LMP: Okay. The camera has retracted. We're gonna go to OFF on the MAPPING CAMERA, and the gain - and the shield is on.
CC: 16, want the MAPPING CAMERA to STANDBY, and the GtdV_A RAY, shield on.
LMP: Okay. Yeah; okay.
LMP: Okay. Can we go to TV?
CC: Affirm. You can go to TV.
CMP: Okay. I'm gonna have to hit a COMMAND RESET. Is that all right with Super Tech - Comm?
CC: Stand by 1. That's affirmative. Go ahead.
LMP: Okay, Houston. You should have a picture coming n ow.
CDR: Does that look like the Moon to you, Houston?
CC: Not yet, I guess.
CC: Charlie, we'd like you to verify that you've got that camera pointed at the right one this time.
LMP: I happen to be not pointing those cameras this time.
CDR: They don't let - We don't let Charlie make that choice any more; Ken's doing that kind of work now.
CC: Roger. Understand. It's a beautiful picture, Charlie.
CDR: I tell you - yeah. And it's Just about that big, too, from where we're looking. It Just - Just fills the window just about like that.
CC: T_at's really a great looking -
CDR: Are y'all getting it real time?
CC: Affirmative. We just happened to have the lines u_ for au LCRU picture, so we're getting it real time.
LMP: Ah, great.
CDR: Is the LCRU still working?
CC: It was last night, they say.
CDR: I'11 be darned. Did they watch lift-off and evsrything?
CC: Affirmative. Had a beautiful lift-off. Got to watch all of it almost.
LMP: How much did you see, Pete?
CC: We got to see about the first 30 or 40 seconds of it real good.
LMP: Hej, great! That's wonderful.
CC: That was something. I guess we'11 have to tell you that was spectacular, because you didn't get as good a .riew of that as we did, I guess.
LMP: Man, I tell you. That ascent engine coming on, you - you - it was a real - It wasn't what I expected, an)u_ay. At ignition, there, it seems like it sort of sits a little bit, then it grabs you and, boy, off you go! And it takes you a while - at least, it did for me - to get my eyeballs uncaged. And we were - then all I saw out the window was the MESA blanket; then we were back on the gages.
CC: Roger. It looked like you lifted out of there pretty rapidly.
CDR: Yeah; that machine just flies so nice. It's just unbelievable! But once you get to ascent stage, it's really light and responsive. Boy, you fire one of those thrusters and it does exactly what you want it to.
LMP: And this is what you look like after 4 days with no shaving.
CDR: _ld we refuse to show you the pressure suits.
CDR: You can tell Charlie's real adapted to zero gravity. A couple of days ago, he couldn't spin that pencil.
LMP: Ic takes us country boys a little while to adapt to things, Pete.
CC: Right. I'm with you_ Charlie.
LMP: You know, Pete, if you took this view that y'all Just saw of the Moon and put in a movie, everybody would say you're faking it. It doesn't look like that. And it's just - you can't see any stars, just pure blackness, and that white-gray body sitting out there is really-
LMP: T_lis is what the well-dressed LMP on Apollo 16 has been wearing for the last - well, ever - all the way out and all the way back.
LMP: If y'all get tired of looking, you can just cut off the lines or go to COMMAND RESET or something.
LMP: Ene final shot of the beautiful Moon.
CC: Say, Charlie, why don't you try to give us a closeup cf each guy, and maybe we can get a playback for the wives tomorrow.
LMP: Ckay; we'11 do that.
LMP: Ckay; we got it off. We'11 turn - bring it up in just a second.
LMP: This is the relaxing attitude for the world - for the seasoned space traveler.
LMP: Boy, I can hardly believe the last 3 days, Pete. That was - The Cayley Plains is really the most fascinating place I've ever been in my life and will ever hope to go, and we sure had a good time collecting all the rocks.
LMP: Ken. I'11 let you look at somebody else now.
CC: Charlie, everybody else is doing a mental interpo- lation. The Surgeon's standing on his head.
UNKNOWN: You say - what - what was that?
CC: I said everybody in the MOCR is doing a mental in- terpolation except the Surgeon, and he's standing on his head.
LMP: (Laughter) Okay. That's great.
LMP: Okay; Ken Just turned the camera over, you can have him turn the other way now.
CC: Roger. (Laughter) I'11 have him - -
LMP: _ud then the rest of you will stand on your heads.
CDR: Okay; I don't know if you can see this or not. See this dirty hand?
CC: Oh yeah, we can see that.
CDR: See that? Cam you see the dirt under those finger- nails - can you see the dirt under those fingernails?
CDR: That's Moon dust. You talk about a - you talk about two dirty human beings. It took 10 minutes before we could get Ken to open the door. As soon as he saw us, he wanted to close it.
CC: Roger. We understand. He runs a neat ship.
CDR: And we're still that way. Yeah, wait'11 you see some of these rocks. And we've - and some of the data that Ken's got. That's really something. The Moon around Alphonsus. I got a chance to look at it today for the first time, and - it's really - it's really a strange place. How's everybody doing down there at MCC. Is everybody starting to take it easy for a change?
CC: _le only - the only really neat guy on the crew.
LMP: k_lat'd you say? You must be blind.
LMP: Ken doesn't look like he is either.
CDR: (Laughter) I told you, in a J-mission spacecraft, you - you either have to be a midget to do that, or have thought about it a lot before you try it.
LMP: Okay. We're going to sign off here.
CC: Okay. Thanks a bunch, guys. We'11 being talking to you again in a minute.
CC: Okay. And for thermal reasons, as soon as you can, wc'd like to go on now and get into PTC.
LMP: AIl right. We'11 start up.
LMP: What's happening down in there?
CC: S_y again, Charlie.
LMP: Get any newsy items for today?
CC: Nc. I guess we don't have anything going on right new, Charlie. Everything's routine. If you want a news report, we can dig one up, I think.
LMP: Nc, it's not important. Wondered what - We haven't had an update for a while; y'all must have ran out of paper.
CDR: How does the midcourse look, Pete?
CC: Stand - stand by 1.
CC: Okay, 16. Ail we have is the G&N data. We don't have tracking data because you are uncoupled. However, based on the G&N data, it looks like less than 1 foot per second.
CDR: Yeah; but - course, I - Yeah, I forgot us - about us being uncoupled.
CC: Doesn't look like anything very big. About a foot per second.
CDR: Yeah. Well - I - the G&N - thought it did a good thing.
CC: Yeah, we concur. G&N looks great.
LMP: Hcuston, 16 on OMNI Alfa. Over.
CC: Rcger, 16. You're loud and clear.
LMP: Okay. We dropped up-link, it looked like, for a while. Signal strength went to zero on all antennas, and I had a COMMAND RESET, and we're OMNI Alfa, if that's okay.
CC: If you'11 go PITCH minus 70 and YAW 130, we can reacquire on the high gain, 16.
CDR: In where?
LMP: Okay. There you are, Pete.
CC: Okay. You're loud and clear.
CC: Okay. Charlie, a little while back, you were ask- ing what time Tony was going to come aboard, and he's just walked in here and gotten plugged up if ycu've got anything for him.
LMP: Okay. Say again.
CC: Earlier you were asking what time Tony was going to come in, and he's on board right now.
CDR: Hey, Tony, this is John. Over.
CC: Yeah. Go ahead, John.
CDR: I don't know if we told you or not, but Charlie and I think you really did one whale of a job doing those EVAs. We know how tough that is to do all those real-time changes. We just thought you did one heck of a good Job, and we sure appreciate it. Just wanted you to know that.
CC: 0h, thank you much. But you guys made it awful easy.
LMP: H_.y, Tony. I was sitting here today thinking about those rocks we got, and the thing that really s_rikes me is that there was - i really don't think we got any volcanic rocks to speak of. Maybe some of those little black clasts were volcanics, but osherwise - I don't think we got any. There wasn't a_ly there. The - there was one other - one other point that could have been - Those ones we were calling shocks could have been a tuff breccia, since they were so friable. But - that we might - that might prove to be the case; but to us, they looked shocked due to the other features that we saw that - that - applied a shocked metamorphism. Over.
CC: Right. We - From your description, we had thought tLere was a good chance that you might have gotten a tuff breccia there. I think, also, the fact that a lot of the breccias were one-rock breccias would iz - would mean that you may have your basalts or gabbroic anorthosites or whatever, and that they're just broken up. If they're one-rock breccias or two-rock breccias, it still has most of the informa- tion of the - of the rocks we're looking for. It's not like a - you know - if you remember, it's not like a soil breccia, where everything is lost. So w_ - we're very happy with what you found. Also, did anyone brief you on the newest on the X-ray r_sults ?
LMP: Nc. Go ahead.
CC: Okay. You remember the first look I gave - The first look that I reported to you indicated that thle aI_m_num-to-silicon ratio was sort of intermediate. Well, they've gone back; and with the newer data ar.d a better analysis, it turns out that Descartes has one of the highest ratios on the Moon. The only place we've seen like it right now is on the east side of Smythii. We don't really have a good com- psrison yet with the east of Crisium. But anyway, it indicates that if any place has anorthosites, ycu've found them.
LMP: I tell you, Tony, some of those rocks that we picked up - I was leaning, with the color and the crystal- line structure that we had - they really gave me the - I didn't want to call it that, but they were certainly crystalline rocks; and there was no ques- tion in my mind. They had a sugary texture - the whitish ones. That big - one on the - rim of North Ray, there, with the shatter cone that had - a - a bluish tint to it in the crystalline structure. _lough, it might have been Just the - an aph - I say crystalline structure, or it might have been an aphanitic matrix; but y'all are gonna sort all of that out when you get bagged ones. I tell you, it really wasn't what we thought - I thought we were going to find up there. I imagined a lot of vol- canics; and frankly, if the - if these shocked rocks turn out to be tuff breccias, that will be the only volcanics we found.
CC: Right. Understand. I think - -
CC: - - the fact that you recovered from the picture we had given you before you went and went ahead and found out what was there and sampled it so well - I think that's - a good indication that the training was good and you guys are really on the ball.
LMP: Well, we tried hard, anyway, Tony; and I think we got every - a piece of every rock that was up there. I really do. They were - and that's, I think, be- cause we were lucky, and the rocks were identifiable.
CC: You know, the - -
CC: - - difference between a rock being identifiable mad not being identifiable is the level of training. That Just says you guys were well trained.
LMP: Well, you guys tried to beat it into us long enough, I'11 tell you that. Hope we did a good Job.
CC: I Just got a set of questions that the geologf team - -
LMP: ]t looks like - -
CC: - - would like to send up to you sometime. Maybe sometime during the transearth coast, we'11 have a chance. I haven't really read through them, so I don't know what they're all about yet.
LMP: fkay. Well, we're gonna go into an eat period and a an EVA prep and try to get some rest before the EVA tomorrow, so - we'11 wait on those. Okay?
CC: _hat's fine. Hey, we have the TV back on on the Moon up there, and everything's looking fine. It hasn't changed much since you left.
LMP: Well, we were glad that y'all were able to watch lift-off. We heard that they got about 30 or 40 seconds, which, I think, was neat. It took me about teat long to uncase my eyeballs when that ascent engine lifted off.
CC: (Laughter) Yeah. Great.
LMP: It certainly wasn't what I thought I was going to - experience.
CC: Y_ah. INCO was really on the ball. They tracked you right up.
LMP: Well, that's just super.
CC: I don't know - We don't know whether Ken understood the up-link while ago on the biomed harness. The ilea is that he's going to have to change it before the EVA in the morning. So, if he'11 sleep better without one on tonight, he could take the old one off, now.
CDR: Okay. We'11 tell him.
LMP: _ld, Tony, the only - on that - on the rocks, back to one other little point, there. That - You know, we called the whitish rocks tuff breccias- I mean, shocked rocks. But we're eou - at least, I'm per- sonally convinced that there are at least two endogenic craters that we passed, and - the big one on the way to North Ray and the big one coming back from - from stop 8. And so, that might have been a source of a tuff - if that's what they turn out to be.
CC: Very good. I just want to emphasize again that - -
CDR: ... situation, though.
CC: Right. I understand. I just think it was outstand- ing, maybe serendipity, that we probably - your landing there at Descartes probably sampled the most differentiated place we could find on the front side of the Moon. I think that's really outstanding.
LMP: That's the feeling I got when we started seeing those rocks. That - that basalt that I called under the engine bell there, I think, might end up to be that blackish-bluish rock that we sampled up at North Ray, and so - we'11 - but we'11 see. We couldn't get any of what I call real basalt in rocks. Maybe some of the clasts will be, though.
CDR: Could you tell from the TV, Tony, how rough that place was? Could you see all those - those swales and valleys that we didn't have mapped on our - that didn't show up on our map that were maybe, some of them, 30, 40, 50 meters deep?
CC: Yeah, I sure could. It reminded me of a dune area.
CDR: Yeah. That's what it sort of looked like, sort of a dunes plains.
CC: Incidentally, somebody here is kind of worried shout - -
CDR: I'11 tell you -
CC: - - thermal problems, and we would like to get into PTC as soon as possible..
CDR: Okay_ as soon as the thing - as soon as the rates get low enough, we will.
CDR: f_re the rates good enough now?
LMP: Tcny, that one - that crater at - the endogenic one that we described coming back from North Ray and going out, it - I was guessing 80 meters, John said about 50, hut it was really deep; and I'm surprised that we didn't - I sure had no feel for that before we started.
LMP: I'11 tell you one thing, your hair sure doesn't feel very good aft - up here after 3 days with it full of orange Juice.
CC: I don't know. It may do great things.
LMP: That stuff is great glue, I'11 tell you. Boy, we were really worried about those hel - getting those helmets off, but they came - came right on off after we eventually broke the thing and got them cleaned up then.
CC: Okay, and on your Flight Plan there, at right about 22T:00, for setting up for PTC, I guess your DAP has to be set up for B/D ROLL.
CDR: Houston, can you give us a holler when these rates ge_ good enough to start PTC?
CC: Apollo 16, last time you changed the Li0H canister, chid you happen to wiggle the other one and see if it had swelled up in there?
CDR: No, we sure didn't. That one out of B Just came right out.
CC: Okay. Don't worry about it, then.
CC: Just a brief report from the home fronts here. Everybody's healthy, and happy, and not just a li-_tle bit proud.
CDR: Boy, you had me worried there for a second.
LMP: Thanks, Tony. Appreciate it.
CC: Okay, Apollo 16. You've got a GO for spinup.
LMP: Okay. Thank you. 134-138/1 Tape APOLLO 16 AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION KEST PERIOD - NO COMMUNICATIONS $ I
CC: Good morning. Is everybody wide awake and feeling great this morning?
CMP: You even gave us an extra hour.
CC: We're coming up on antenna switch, and I think the comm is a little bad; but, right off the bat we'd like for you to remain in PTC.
CC: And we'd also like for you to take the UP TELEM- ETRY COMMAND switch OFF for 3 seconds. We've got that same commanding problem we had during coast out to the Moon.
CMP: Okay. It's OFF and back to NORMAL.
CC: That cured up the commanding problem.
CMP: Hank, before we copy the Flight Plan updates, do you want us to start on the 236-hour item?
CC: Roger. We'd like for you to get started on the postsleep checklist. And, rather than read you a bunch of things to start with, I think I'11 just remind you of a few things to catch you up. I've got a list of them here. While you're doing that, if we could get somebody to pull the g_mma ray boom in, I'd appreciate it.
CMP: Okay. You want that all the way in?
CC: That's affirmative. And s you'11 need your LOGIC POWERs to get that in.
CMP: _11 righty. Thank you, sir.
CC: And we'd like to get the S-BAND NORMAL MODE switch to VOICE.
CMP: '?hat already is voiceing.
LMP: _e couldn't talk to you if we weren't in VOICE, Pete.
CC: _'oger. We were in DOWN VOICE BACKUP there and _hen COMMAND in NORMAL.
CMP: ] got you.
CC: And, Ken, for your information, we've scrubbed the corona window calibration and the Skylab contamination photos.
CC: And we're gonna stay at PTC right up to the mid- course 5. And if you're - can get to it now, Ken, I'd like to get the IMAGE MOTION, ON; and the M_PPING CAMERA, ON. And, then give me barber pole plus 2.
CMP: OKay. Just a second. Let me catch up here.
CMP: Hank, you say you want the MAPPING CAMERA IMAGE MOTION, ON; and then the cameras on ...
CC: That's affirmative, Ken. We want to get the IMAGE MOTION, ON; the MAPPING CAMERA, ON; barber pole plus 2. And we're gonna leave it shut up in there. We're just running the film out.
CC: A_ollo 16, Houston.
CC: Rcger. For your information, old mother Earth's got you now, and you're coming home.
CMP: That's nice to know - -
CDR: Hey, Hank it had us - -
CDR: - - last night.
CC: Roger. We're just now showing you crossing under the Earth's in - sphere of influence.
CMP: What's some words on midcourse 5.
CMP: Roger
CMP: Hank, would you say again what you wanted done with this mapping camera, please?
CC: Roger, Ken. We just want to run the film out _ld leave the door shut. We want to get the IMAGE MOTION, ON; MAPPING CAMERA, ON; and barber pole plus 2. That gives us a higher speed.
CC: _d, 16, Houston. Whenever you get a chance, we'd like to get yesterday's crew status and today's crew status report.
CC: Apollo 16, Houston. When you get a break there, I do have a few Flight Plan changes I'd like to get up.
CMP: Okay, Hank. Let me finish this status report thing. It all uses the same book.
CC: Ken, we need the GA_A RAY BOOM switch OFF. It didn't quite make it all in. The motor's still rlmning. It's to a safe position.
CMP: Dkay, thank you. Thank you, sir.
CC: 16, Houston. We'd like to verify that you heard ny transmission on holding PTC to midcourse 5.
CDR: that's affirmative. Hold PTC until midcourse 5.
CC: Roger, and for planning purposes, we'd like to get a P52 in sometime in the next 25 minutes.
CDR: Well, for work purposes, Ken is putting up the optics now.
CDR: Okay. Here's the crew status report, starting with the - A - item A-1 for the commander. Skip _he PRD. It's in the pressure suit, which is in _he bag, and it's down - and it's very dusty, ·nd I'd like to wait until we get ready to suit up for the EVA and I'11 read you the PRD then.
CDR: t_-3: day 8, 7 hour - 7 hours, good sleep, nope. t_-4: none. Day 9: still skip the PRD reading for the same reason; 6-3/4 hours, good sleep. t_-4: none. On the CMl°, day 8: B-I, 15059. B-3: 5.5, good sleep. B-4: none. Day 9: B-l, 1564. B-3: 7 hours, good sleep. B-4: none. On the IAIP, day 8: skip the PRD, and suit was out of the way then. C-3: 7 hours, good sleep. C-4: none. And, Charlie remembered to get his PRD reading - reading machine out today, and C-1 is 21143. C-3: 7 hours, good sleep, C-4: none.
CDR: Did we lose you doing any of that, Hank?
CC: _[egative, John. We got it all.
CDR: Okay. Now_ on to the menu. When we got back to the - to good old Casper here - We're working on day 8, meal C. And for the CDR, substitute a hamburger for beef gravy, and scratch the ginger- bread. And for day 9, meal A: scratch the peaches and the grits. Day 9, meal B: scratch the ham- b_ger and add meatballs with sauce. For day 9, meal C: scratch the pecans. And, for the CMP -
CDR: Okay. For the LMP, with all of day 8, scratch the mixed fruit, the ham steak, the white bread with jelly. On meal B: scratch the pea soup, the meatballs, the pork, and escalloped potatoes. Meal C: scratch the chocolate bar and a ginger- bread and add pi - pineapple and a hamburger. On day 9; scratch the peaches, the scrambled eggs, and the bacon squares on meal A. On meal B: scratch the hamburger and white bread, the instant breakfast and the cereal bar. Meal C: scratch the pecans only. On the LMP [sic], day 8, last meal, scratch the beef and gravy and substitute a hamburger. And, scratch two-thirds of a choc- olate bar. Scratch the gingerbreads. On day 9, meal A: scratch the peaches. And on meal B: scratch the hamburger and - in a wetpack and the - and the cereal bar. And, add turkey and gravy. On day 9, meal C: scratch the pecans only and add an orange drink. I think that about does it.
CC: Thank you, John. The surgeon's happy, and we didn't get any biomed on you last night. Could you check your system. Or, you have any idea why it didn't work?
CDR: I sure had it plugged in. I had it plugged in the night before last, too. I don't understand that. I got the leads tight -
CC: Okay. We're getting a - the carrier, John. We're just not getting modulation. So, there must be something fouled up in the system, there.
CDR: Okay. Well, why didn't you tell me, I could have changed this sensor out' - or this - it's probably in this box here, don't you reckon?
CC: Okay. When you get a chance, John, just check it cut.
CC: And, we were - we lost our data on the antenna switching with your P52. Could we get those angles, please?
CDR: You - you have any idea what it might be that I could do to fix this - -
CC: Apollo 16, Houston. We just went through an an- tenna switch there, and I lost anything you said, then. And, John, if you're asking about the sen- sor there, the only thing we could suggest is to caeck the connections there into the blue signal conditioner and maybe change out your sensors or sarvice them.
CDR: Okay. I can't - I can't believe that if you got the carrier that changing out the sensors is going to change anything. These things are really s_uck on there. Let me try something.
CC: Okay. Whatever you did, John, worked. We got us a signal there.
CDR: ._. working now?
CC: It's working now. And what - what angles are you showing on your HIGH GAIN now, on your meter?
CDR: Showing - 50 - minus 50 in PITCH - make it 45, _:d about -
CDR: 2 - 260 in YAW.
CC: Okay. They want to know now what's on the knobs.
CDR: Okay. It's - right now, it's reading minus ° We'11 get the PITCH, minus 40 and minus 40 on the knob - and it's reading 90 DEGREES in YAW and still about 265 in YAW in - on the indicator.
CC: Roger. And, 16, we'd like to get tha P52 data.
CMP: Okay. We've got stars 50 and 22; NOUN 05: all zeroes; NOUN 93: minus 0.040, plus 0.030, plus 0.058; torqued at 213:23:55.
CC: And, 16, whenever you're ready, we'11 give you a few of these changes.
CDR: Okay. Charlie's ready to copy.
CC: Okay. At 238:20 in the Flight Plan.
CC: Roger. GAMMA RAY SHIELD, OFF. Stand by, Charlie. _aey say it's already off - -
CDR: The SHIELD's OFF right now, Hank.
CC: - - ... scratch that.
LMP: We just turned it OFF, Hank.
CC: Okay. In that next group of data there, delete a:aything that refers to the MASS SPEC, since we don't have it any more.
CC: And, about 238:50, we want GAMMA RAY SHIELD, ON.
CC: And, the group of data concerning the P30. We want to start the P30, actually, around 238:46. But, we'11 have to get you up-linked, and we're working on that now.
CC: _ad, you'11 exit PTC prior to that - just put that ila just ahead of the P30.
LMP: )kay. Exit PTC right in front of the P30.
CC: Roger. Using the SIM bay jett configuration.
LMP: kll right.
CC: _Ynd, as soon as we get the sextant star check .here on over at 239, we'11 go ahead and get vhe dumps out of the way.
LMP: ()kay. We will. We'11 start the dumps right after the star check.
CC: Okay. At 239:30, the HIGH GAIN angle -
LMP: }Sold the phone a minute.
LMP: Ckay. Go ahead.
CC: At 239:30 -
CC: Zo you read, Charlie?
LMP: You' re 5 by, Hank. Go ahead.
CC: Okay. At 239:30, those HIGH GAIN angles should be minus 16 and 58.
LMP: C_py. Minus 16 and 58.
CC: Okay. And if you'11 flip on over to page 351.
CC: Okay. As we call - we need another hour for suit donning. So, that time there at 241, at the top of the page, will now be 242. So, there's a_._tuallyan hour's gap between the previous page _d this one. And, you can change your time ac- cordingly, adding an hour on to - You get down to hatch opening or until you get on the EVA cue c_d. And, then we'11 pick up the Flight Plan after the EVA. Now, at 242 hours - that's after i_'s changed there where it says VERB 49 maneuver to EVA attitude, the new attitude is 037, 043, 0[$8, and the HIGH GAIN angles are minus - -
LMP: Roger. 03 - -
CC: - - high gain is minus 10, 244.
LMP: Okay. We change VERB from 49, angles to 037. The other two are the same. HIGH GAIN, minus 10, 244.
CC: Okay, Charlie. They just changed that YAW angle while I was reading it up. It's 224.
LMP: Okay. 224.
CC: Okay. Down about - a few lines down where it says, "Load MEED attitude - that attitude now is 071,. 051, 039.
LMP: Copy. 071, 051, 039.
CC: Okay. And if you'11 flip the page now - page 352 - the new time there is 243:40. Where it says, "Maneuver to MEED attitude," we want to change that again to 071, 051, 039, and the HIGH GAIN angles are minus 34, 218.
LMP: Okay. At the - this whole page has slipped an hour, and it's at 243:_0; 071, 051, 039, to minus 34 and a 218.
CC: Roger, Charlie. And, we need to make those - tho_e appropriate changes on the cue card and then the EVA Checklist. And, I - I have those loca- tions, if you want to do that.
LMP: Well, we'11 do that, Hank. We promise.
LMP: Is that all you've got for now?
CC: That ought to take us through the EVA, Charlie.
LMP: Okay - 2 - 38.5 ...
LMP: .... John.
CC: Apollo 16. ON the HIGH GAIN, go MANUAL and WIDE, and then REACQ NARROW.
CC: Apollo 16, Houston. If you read, _2_UAL WIDE and then REACQUIRE NARROW.
CC: Apollo 16, Houston. I have your midcourse 5 pad, and if you'11 give us ACCEPT we'11 up-link the tar- get load and vector.
CMP: Ok_f. Stand by 1.
CC: And we're also sending you a PIPA bias with that load.
CMP: Ok_. You got the computer.
CDR: Hank, go ahead with the pad. RCS/G&N;
CC: Roger. MCC-5, 27409; NOUN 48 is NA; 239:20:55.86; NOUN 81 plus 0003.4, all zips, all zips; 079, 306, 346; HA is NA, plus 0021.7; 0003.4, 0:09, 0003.4; 04, 047.9, 39.1; boresight star 056, up 27.0, left 3.5; and for Ken's information, that's Beta Centauri, and it's on the white chart and it lies between Atria and Acrux. Continue with NOUN 61, minus 00.73, minus 156.19; 1046.3, 36277; 290:24:04; Sirius and Rigel; 219, 166, 313; four jets, plus-X. High gain angles: pitch, minus 90; yaw, 285; and a note that the _MS is not bias for drift.
CDR: Okay. We copy midcourse 4, RCS/G&N, 27409; NA for NOUN 48; 239:20:55.86; plus 0003.4, plus all balls, plus all balls; 079_ 306, 346; HA is NA, plus 0021.7; 00C3.4, 0:08; 0003.4; Oh, 047.9, 39.1; 056, up 270, left 35; Beta Centauri, minus 00.73, minus 156.19; 1046.3, 36277; 290:24:04, Sirius and Rigel; 219, 166, 313; four jets, plus-X. High gain: plus pitch, minus 90; yaw, minus 255 - pitch, minus 90; yaw is 28_; _S is not bias, for drift.
CC: Good readback. And we'd like to get the GA_A RAY, shield on.
CMP: The G_MA RAY shield is now shielding.
CC: Apollo 16, Houston. We're having a little trouble getting the high gain to acquire, so we'11 be call- ing you omni switches, so we can maintain voice.
CMP: Hank, I had a question here. You said to exit the - use the SIM bay jett configuration. Then, I notice where you called out for a plus-X four jet on the midcourse. Are those two things compatible?
CC: Roger. What happened there, Ken, was we were gonna do a gamma ray extension for a little - out a little ways, and we've - we've canceled that now, so that's not even a requirement anymore. You can use normal jet configuration.
CDR: Okay_ thank you.
CC: And, 16; OMNI Alfa.
CDR: Okay; you have OMNI Alfa with a CO_A_ RESET.
CMP: And, Hank, can I go - go ahead and stop PTC passing 79 degrees roll, this time?
CDR: Okay. And how about the status of the computer? You guys still using it?
CC: Computer's yours.
CC: OMaNI Bravo, 16.
CDR: Okay, Hank, at arm's distance, if you cup your fin- gers around it, it's about as big as a 50-cent piece. But you can sure tell that it's changed size for the smaller, but we still feel like we're still pretty close to it. Like I - I don't know how far away from it we are, but, probably about - maybe 25 or 30,000 miles. Nos Ken tells me 53.
CDR: Somebody left the computer running. 30,000? Okay.
CC: And:, 16, when you get the attitude, we'd like for you to bring up the high gain, and you're there.
LMP: Okay. Henry, how do you read on the high gain?
CC: Reading you 5 by 5, Charlie.
LMP: Okay, you're in REACQ in error.
CC: Apollo 16, Houston. We're getting close to that midcourse, and we'd like to go ahead and get the dumps out of the way. Platform alignment looks good, so you can omit the star check, if you like.
CDR: We just looked at the boresight star. That's a good one. We're not going to mess with the sextant check, and we're in process of dumping.
CC: Res2_ good. Could you find that - star 56?
CDR: Oh, yeah. Alpha and Beta are two of the prettier sta:?s you can find. Even I can recognize those.
CC: ?Zen, we got a list of questions here on the SIM bay _nspection - when you get out on the EVA, and we (_an handle them any way you like. It's about a page and a half of them. Would you rather I read them _ after you're out or - -
UNKNOWN: ()kay. Could you? Okay. No, Z'd like to hear them first, but, not right this minute.
CC: ()kay, I just want - -
CMP: __'11 give you a call in just a minute when we get squared away here.
CC: [ just wanted to apprise you of the fact that I had shem, and then whenever you're ready we'11 talk _bout them.
CC: 16, Houston. Did you have any trouble with your iiOH canister change today?
CMP: _o, sir.
CC: 16, we show you about 10 percent en the waste tank.
CDR: _hank you, boss.
CMP: Hey, Henry?
CMP: Heys I've put on some new sensors. How about seeing if your friends over on the left there are happy with that.
CC: They look great, Ken.
CC: 16, Houston. You're looking good, and you're GO for the burn.
CDR: Okay, Houston, I guess as you saw, the burn was nominal. Our residuals: minus ll0, plus 0, minus ll0; and you probably saw our NOUN 20 for the attitude. Over.
CC: Roger. We copy the NOUN 20.
CMP: Hank, you want to leave the mapping camera on; is that correct?
CC: Ands Ken, the mapping camera is out of film, but the stellar camera is still feeding a little.
CMP: Okay. We gave it lots of stars to look at, just then.
CDR: Hank, is the high gain gonna track us to this maneuver, or should we set it MANUAL and REACQUIRE when we - -
CC: Seems to be tracking good now.
LMP: Hey, I'm going to start BATTERY B CHARGE.
CMP: Hey, Hank, when we were allowed to sleep through the eat period there_ did we move the EVA back or anything like that?
CC: Negative. The EVA is - at the nominal time - in- cluding that hour, you know, that we had to put in there. One-hour slip from what was originally in the Flight Plan.
CMP: Okay. We just traded off eating and sleeping this morning, is that it?
CC: We were hoping you were grabbing some snacks in there early this morning.
CMP: Man, with three guys in hare, Hank, you just - when it comes time to eat, you just bring everything to a halt and go do that that's - because everything has to be done in the kitchen. You got to take your 52s and you got to do everything else right in one place. We'11 grab something and we'11 be pressing on here; we'11 - wetll probably come pretty close to the schedule.
CC: Okay_ we're scheduled for hatch opening at 242:55.
CDR: Okay; we'11 - we'11 try to be there, and if we don't make it there; why, we'11 get it as soon as we get there.
CDR: Hey, Hank, we just looked at - at the battery com- p_rtment pressure. We're reading 3.4. You want us t3 vent that thing?
CMP: Okay, Hank. And I can copy your comments about the SIM bay now if you'd like to give them now, while - -
CC: Okay. In regard to the mapping cam,era, they want to check the interference. Inspect the periphery of the mapping camera and laser altimeter for any evidence of interference. The last attraction on that thing was nominal - -
CC: - - so it's kind of puzzling, you know. It started out real slow and each retraction it got faster.
CMP: ... it's just getting warmed up.
CC: Roger. Some of the things they suggest you might look for is - around the cable, there, between the mapping camera and the shelf, is there any day,age to the cable? Clearance in that area of the cable? Aad whether the cable is caught or curled - -
CMP: Okay. Now, that cable is located on the - on the plus-X side of the camera over on the - towards the A quad, is that correct?
CC: Okay. We want to know if that cable is caught or curled or is it smooth, you know, like it's supposed to? That's between the - what I would call the top of the mapping camera and the bay, there, by the handhold.
CMP: Okay. I know the area. I'm not sure we're gonna have enough light to see down in there in the EVA attitudes but we'11 take a look at it.
CC: And we'd like to know a little something about the cuckoo door. You know which one that is? The lit- tle white door that goes over the stellar lens?
CMP: Okay. I won't be able to tell you much about that in the retracted position, either.
CC: Roger. If possible, we'd like for you to lift up that door and inspect the clearance between the hinge and the top of the mapping camera, and look for any scrape marks on the camera or on the door and any evidence of twisting or bending of the stellar lens glare shield.
CC: Any question on that part with reference to the mapping camera, Ken?
CC: Did you have any question about any of those mapping c_aera items?
CC: Okay. In regard to the pan camera, we'd like for you to look at the exposure sensor. And that's the ones that's immediately to the left of the lens barrel.
CC: An_ we need AUTO on the HIGH GAIN.
CC: OKay. In - In regard to that automatic exposure c_ntrol sensor there, Ken, what we're looking for is foreign objects or contamination.
CC: And the little thermal shield that goes around the periphery of the lens barrel, we want to inspect that for contamination, and also, the lens barrel itself. And we're really looking for contamination really on all of the pan camera, and the same goes for the V over H sensor.
CC: And just to refresh your memory, the V over H sen- sor is the one that's on the right side that's got the little hood on it.
CC: And for the gamma ray boom, what we'd like to do is inspect the cover for any damage. You know, that thing has closed a couple of times and - or the boom has retracted all the way a couple of times and a couple of times it hasn't. So - so _e're expecting that the gamma ray boom right now is about 6 inches out; but we're not sure. We'd like for you to look at the cover, and if it's not fully closed, give us an estimate of how far it's open. Full open is about 134 degrees.
CMP: Foger. I'm familiar with that.
CC: Ckay. If the cover is partially o_en - -
CMP: Okay. Is Brad [?] taking bets on where it is?
CC: Fe's not - he's not too brave. He'11 bet you a cup of coffee it's about 6 inches.
CMP: (kay. I heard that. He's on.
CC: _ie said he takes it. And we'd like to know how far that rail protrudes through the bind there, and if you can see any obstructions to retractions, bou know, like the harness, or the guides, or the Loom cable fingers, proximity switches, any of those things - report them.
CC: And that's all we want to know, Ken, other than any other things you might pick up from looking around out there.
CMP: Okay; do you require any kind of documentation on this?
CC: I guess we'11 have to take verbal comment.
CMP: Oks_.
CC: And, Ken, we'd like to vent the battery compart - compartment to t volt on your meter. Stop it at 1 volt.
CMP: Okay; well, all righty.
CDR: It drops like a stone; I don't know if we can do that or not. We'11 try it.
CC: Give it a try.
CDR: We got 1.2 on there; you want to press and try for 17
CC: That's real good, John. We'11 hold it right there.
CC: And, Ken, the stellar camera's out of film, if you want to use a normal shutdown procedure on the map- ping camera.
CC: 16, Houston. He kind of would like to know if that's the first time you've noticed that BAT vent or bat - battery compartment pressure above 1.5 volts?
CMP: Jolhn says that when they did the first charges they ha_ to take it and vent it, but the charges I did I never saw it above !.5.
CC: Roger. Copy. We'11 probably be asking you for a check of that here in a little while, just to make sure it's not charging way on up there again.
CDR: Okay; we reported the other times that we vented it.
CC: Roger, John. J_nd_
CC: 16; Houston. I'm gonna go off the loop a couple of minutes; Phil will cover for me.
CMP: That's not fair.
CC: But it's necessary.
CMP: How you understand.
CMP: lfow are you doing today, Philip?
CC: Doing very well, sir; thank you. And yourself?
CMP: Oh, we're having a ball. Just wanted to hear you on the loop.
CC: Well, you've certainly done that. It's another first.
CDR: Well, always nice to have a few of those.
CC: [6, Houston. Are you gonna get to the mapper in little bit?
CMP: _ure will; thank you.
CC: _pollo 16, Houston. Could you dial in your high _ain angles for the thermal attitude?
LMP: _ank, 16.
CC: ]o ahead.
LMP: Dkay; the BAT B CHARGE is underway, and we've been _atching this battery compartment, and we're back up to 2 now.
CC: Roger. Copy. Tape
CMP: Ha_, I don't really know what's going on with our antenna. It's - I get you the best signal strength by going to MANUAL and NARROW, and every time we switch to either AUTO or REACQ, why, it seems to break - break some kind of beam switch lock, or something, and we've tried going to MANUAL and WIDE and working in through REACQ and then bringing it down and things, and that doesn't help any. Would future there be any in trying the secondary elec- tronics, the serves?
CC: Okaj; INCO says we're just right on the line there. Why don't we just leave it in MANUAL and NARROW.
CC: And, Ken, I'd appreciate it if from time to time, you'd just give me a idea of where you are in the che2klist.
CC: Hey, that's a good plan.
CMP: We'11 be ready to start in on that checklist in probably about 10 minutes or so; but it just didn't seem like it was proper to go ahead and press on the rest of the day without stopping for something.
CC: I agree with you, and I guess we'd better terminate that BATTERY B CHARGE and keep an eye on that thing. If it gives - gets above 3, give us a call. And also -
UNKNOWN: why don't you call us back in about 30 minutes and ask us to look at it, because that's not the kind of position where we can keep an eye on it without making a conscious effort at it.
CC: Oke_; we'11 give you a reminder, and if it's above 3 or in that neighborhood, we're gonna want to vent it again back down to 1.
LMP: Okay; do you want to vent it now. It's at 2.
CC: Negative. We want to see if it'11 stabilize.
CMP: Okay; you've got the - the BAT B CHARGE is termin- ated, and we'11 watch the battery's compartment oressure.
CC: While you're eating there, I'11 tell you a little local sports news. The Astros have won seven in a row now_ and they are tied for first place in -:he division.