- Joe Kerwin (CAPCOM)
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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.
- Joe Kerwin (CAPCOM)
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That is, we want you to open it up. Looks like a very interesting book you're reading.
- Joe Kerwin (CAPCOM)
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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.
- Joe Kerwin (CAPCOM)
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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.
- Jack Swigert (CMP)
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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.
- Fred Haise (LMP)
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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.
- Joe Kerwin (CAPCOM)
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Okay, 13; Houston. I think we could use an f-stop lower. What f-stop are you in now?
- Fred Haise (LMP)
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What you're looking at, Joe, is the commander has removed the hatch and is proceeding to stow it.
- Jack Swigert (CMP)
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Hey, Joe. Jim reports that there's a slight, you know, burn smell up in the tunnel area, as been reported on previous flights.
- Fred Haise (LMP)
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Yes, Joe. That's—That's concurring with all the thousands of particles that I see going by outside here.
- Fred Haise (LMP)
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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.
- Joe Kerwin (CAPCOM)
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Okay, Fred. That's pretty nice looking picture. We'd like to know what settings you used to get that.
- Fred Haise (LMP)
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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.
- Fred Haise (LMP)
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Okay. How's that picture looking back outside now, Joe? Getting ready for LM extraction.
- Jack Swigert (CMP)
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Hey, Joe, when we went back up and rechecked the tunnel there, we found two latches that weren't cocked and we reset them.
- Fred Haise (LMP)
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By the way, the windows came through in real good shape. Window 5 looks real clean, so I am kind of hopeful that Hycon stuff will be pretty good.
- Joe Kerwin (CAPCOM)
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Okay, 13; Houston. Correction on that. You're GO for LM SEP at the nominal time and—or later. We don't want it early.
- Joe Kerwin (CAPCOM)
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Okay. Looks good. It's weird because we get the TV about 10 seconds after you call it.
- Joe Kerwin (CAPCOM)
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Okay. We'll be waiting for you to tell us that you feel you're safely clear of the booster, and give us the GO to command the booster in its yaw maneuver.
- Jim Lovell (CDR)
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How much time do you have, Houston? Can you wait, or do you want to do it right now?
- Joe Kerwin (CAPCOM)
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Jack, they're not willing to pin it down to a specific number right now because they say the tanks will warm up later on and the apparent consumption will go down. But it was nominal.
Expand selection down Contract selection up - Jack Swigert (CMP)
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Try to give you a—Houston, we're going to try to give you a shot of the S-IVB with the TV out window number 3.
- Joe Kerwin (CAPCOM)
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Okay. Real good, Jack. Our S-band signal strength has been fluctuating. Does it seem to be going all right up there in the AUTO TRACK mode?
- Fred Haise (LMP)
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Yes. Right now; yes, it's dropped off to about the 70-percent point, Joe, and it was before up about 85.
- Joe Kerwin (CAPCOM)
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Not at the moment, Jim. We had a garbled one there for a few seconds, and we don't have one at this moment.
- Jim Lovell (CDR)
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And, Houston, I can see the gold shroud around the IU, and it looks that it's all intact.
- Joe Kerwin (CAPCOM)
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Roger, Jim. We copy that. Incidentally, the APS evasive maneuver will be about 4 minutes late. It'll be at about 04 plus 18.
Spoken on April 11, 1970, 10:59 p.m. UTC (54 years, 8 months ago). Link to this transcript range is: Tweet