Spacelog Apollo 13

Okay.

Okay, Joe. We just had a momentary dropoff in signal strength again there.

Roger, Fred. We had an LOS for a minute and we lost our TV picture. It looks like—yes, we Just got it back. It looks great again.

13, Houston. You might stop the f-stop down one more notch, if you got any left.

And, 13, Houston. We'll be commanding the evasive maneuver in about 17 seconds.

Okay, Joe. We can see it start to move. However, it doesn't seem to be a lot of debris or vapor coming out of it.

Roger that, Jack. Booster says that's great. He says the booster's doing its thing normally. Concur. We don't see much on the television at all.

And, Apollo 13, Houston. We'd like to change the S-band and antenna configuration. Like you to go OMNI Delta. Like you to go MANUAL mode on the high gain with pitch of minus 60 and yaw of 90. Over.

Okay. You want us to OMNI Delta and MANUAL on the high gain to minus 60 and plus 90. Is that correct?

That's affirmative.

Okay, Houston. How much longer would you like the television?

Stand by on that. We'll get a word.

Okay, 13; this is Houston. You can turn the TV off anytime you're ready. We've enjoyed the show.

13, Houston. Before you secure the TV, we'd like to know whether that was in maximum zoom, just for information.

That's affirm. Jim had it in MAX zoom.

Okay. Good deal. That was a real good picture.

And, 13, Houston. The APS evasive maneuver appeared to be nominal. The LOX dump time is now 4 plus 39 plus 20, about 3 minutes late.

Okay, Joe. We are right now opening the WASTE STOWAGE VENT.

Okay, Jack. We copy.

Okay, Houston. We are charging battery B.

Apollo 13, Houston.

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.

Okay, 13; Houston. The booster says that the propulsive dump is concluded; he now has the nonpropulsive vents open and what you see is a normal phenomenon and it should go on for another 5 minutes or so.

Okay.

And, while I've got you, 13, at your convenience, we'd like to have the results of the EMS bias tests that you did pre-TLI and pre-SEP.

Stand by.

Okay.

Okay, Joe. The TLI—the DELTA-V no bias test prior to TLI, we had a 0.8, and post-TLI, it was 1.0.

Okay, Jack. Copy that. Thank you very much. Incidentally, as your tracking gets better and better, the size of MCC-2 is getting lower and lower and figures to be somewhere between 20 and 30 feet per second now.

Sounds good.

Yes, sure does.

Apollo 13, Houston.

Go ahead, Joe.