Spacelog Apollo 13

Okay. I think we can stand to go to f:44 on that. The clouds are pretty bright.

Okay. We are going to have to press on here, Joe, so we are back inside.

Okay. How's that picture looking back outside now, Joe? Getting ready for LM extraction.

Okay. That looks pretty good, Fred.

Houston, this is 13. Do we have a GO for pyro arm?

13, Houston. Affirmative. You're GO for pyro arm.

Hey, Joe, when we went back up and rechecked the tunnel there, we found two latches that weren't cocked and we reset them.

I'll roger that, Jack.

Joe, I've got a beautiful view of the Earth out window 1.

Roger, Jack.

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.

Good deal.

I meant window 3, Joe.

Okay, 13; Houston. You're GO for LM SEP whenever you're ready.

Roger.

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.

Okay, Joe. We'll do it at 04:01:00.

Okay. We're about ready to pull the LM out, Joe.

Okay, 13.

Here she comes.

Okay. Looks like we're clear, Joe.

Okay. Looks good. It's weird because we get the TV about 10 seconds after you call it.

Apollo 13, Houston.

Go ahead.

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.

13, Houston. Did you copy my last about giving us a GO for the yaw?

Yes, we're maneuvering, Joe, and we hadn't picked her back up again yet.

Okay. Do you want to wait till you acquire it before we yaw it?

How much time do you have, Houston? Can you wait, or do you want to do it right now?

We can wait if you want us to, Jim.

Why don't you wait just a little bit.

Okay.

Joe, did they ever get an idea of what that—the TD and E fuel was?

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.

Okay, Houston. We have the S-IVB in sight. You are GO to maneuver the S-IVB.

Houston, Roger that.

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.

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?

Go ahead, Joe.

Roger. They are having trouble verifying that the high gain is doing its thing. Like to verify that the pitch is minus 10, the Y is plus 350, you're in WIDE BEAM WIDTH and AUTO.

Okay. Minus 10 pitch, plus 350 yaw, and WIDE BEAM WIDTH and going into AUTO. You want HIGH GAIN, John?

That's affirm.

All right, Houston; 13.

13, Houston. Go ahead.

Is the S-IVB doing something different now?

Well, I don't know. It should be—let's see, it should have started the LOX dump at least quite a while ago. I guess that's complete. Why do you ask, Fred?

I'm looking out window 5 at what I think is the S-IVB, and I'm seeing what looks to be double plumes, going in two very narrow bands maybe about 3 degrees that are streaming out from it. And then there is a less dense band that covers maybe a 40-degree swath through the sky that continues out, also, in two directions.

Hey, Joe, what it looks like, kind of, is if you pull up behind a guy that's pulling a contrail, and you get in his contrail, like he's going away from you—there's a long contrail -

Okay; stand by. Let me see what Frank's got to say about that.

Except we're between—Looks like we're between two contrails, one guy above and one below.

Roger.

It's a very pretty sight.