Spacelog Apollo 13

Okay. With the direct sunlight from the window, out of the TV camera field as it is now, we'd like you to open it up an f-stop or so and, if convenient, try to keep that bright spot out of the window.

Okay.

13, Houston. I guess we could stand one more twick down on the f-stop.

Okay, Joe. He's going to do it.

That is, we want you to open it up. Looks like a very interesting book you're reading.

Hey, that's pretty, Fred.

Okay. I hope you got more detail than I have on the monitor here.

No. We probably don't, but it's kind of a neat picture anyway.

Houston, we are now going to finish repressurizing the tunnel.

Houston; Roger.

… probably hear, Joe, we're just finishing pumping up Aquarius here.

Okay. About all we see on this picture, Fred, are the bright spots with the lights around the tunnel area. The hatch itself is pretty dark.

13, Houston. By the way, we'd like to know how the high gain antenna lockup worked. Our signal strength is a little bit lower than we thought it would be.

It looked just the way I expected it to, Joe. I had her sitting there in REACQ with the numbers cranked in and soon as we got pretty much through the rotation, I just threw it down to HIGH GAIN and it appeared to lock right up.

Okay. Good deal. See that flashlight beam wandering around in there.

13, Houston. Go ahead.

We'd kind of like to hold off on the—start the venting again until we get the things—pumped back up inside here. Wonder if you might give us a call to remind us when to initiate that.

Okay, 13; will do.

And we'll try to shift her up to look up into the tunnel here.

Okay. Real good.

Okay, 13; Houston. I think we could use an f-stop lower. What f-stop are you in now?

I'm about as low as you can go, Joe. I'm sitting on 4.4.

Okay.

What you're looking at, Joe, is the commander has removed the hatch and is proceeding to stow it.

Okay, 13. That's a pretty good picture there.

The CDR is verifying the docking latches now.

Roger.

Hey, Joe. Jim reports that there's a slight, you know, burn smell up in the tunnel area, as been reported on previous flights.

Okay. We copy that.

Okay. The commander reports all docking latches latched.

13, Houston. For your information, the S-IVB vent is proceeding on schedule.

Okay, Joe.

Yes, Joe. That's—That's concurring with all the thousands of particles that I see going by outside here.

Yes. I guess I didn't need to tell you.

13, it looks like Jim is connecting the umbilical at this time. Is that right?

Yes, that's affirm—affirm, Joe. Do you have any detail up in there at all? On the monitor it looks like I can—I can make out the drogue—the drogue a little bit, but not much else.

We can see the probe pretty well, and we can see his hands quite well there.

Okay. We're going to take an outside view now, out the left side, Joe.

Okay, Fred. Real good.

Okay. You making out the picture there, Joe?

Yes. Is that the world?

Okay, Fred. That's pretty nice looking picture. We'd like to know what settings you used to get that.

Okay. I think Jim is holding it now and—it—Okay, it should be in about f:22, infinity, and I think the 50-millimeter. And Jim says he thinks he hit Baja in the picture now.