- 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.
Expand selection up Contract selection down Close - 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.
- Joe Kerwin (CAPCOM)
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I'll roger that, Jack.
Expand selection down Contract selection up - 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.
- 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, 11:01 p.m. UTC (54 years, 6 months ago). Link to this transcript range is: Tweet