Joe Kerwin (CAPCOM)

13, Houston. Wonder if you could zoom in on that S-IVB for us a little bit?

Joe Kerwin (CAPCOM)

Yes, yes. More like that. That's nice. It's off our screen to the right, now.

Joe Kerwin (CAPCOM)

Oh, that's very nice, very nice.

Jack Swigert (CMP)

Okay, Joe. Is EECOM monitoring the O2 FLOW HIGH light again? We haven't yet started the venting yet.

Joe Kerwin (CAPCOM)

Okay. Stand by. I'll check.

Joe Kerwin (CAPCOM)

Jack, your cabin REGs are still making up, but you're GO to open the waste management vent again at this time, and we'll delta the time to close it by the appropriate amount for you.

Jack Swigert (CMP)

Okay. Real fine. Well, we'll wait till the S-IVB does its maneuver here.

Fred Haise (LMP)

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

Joe Kerwin (CAPCOM)

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.

Joe Kerwin (CAPCOM)

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

Joe Kerwin (CAPCOM)

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

Jack Swigert (CMP)

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.

Joe Kerwin (CAPCOM)

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.

Joe Kerwin (CAPCOM)

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.

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Fred Haise (LMP)

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

Jack Swigert (CMP)

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

Joe Kerwin (CAPCOM)

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

Joe Kerwin (CAPCOM)

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

Joe Kerwin (CAPCOM)

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

Fred Haise (LMP)

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

Joe Kerwin (CAPCOM)

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

Joe Kerwin (CAPCOM)

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.

Jack Swigert (CMP)

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

Jack Swigert (CMP)

Okay, Houston. We are charging battery B.

Joe Kerwin (CAPCOM)

Roger, 13. We see it. Looks good.

Joe Kerwin (CAPCOM)

Apollo 13, Houston. Request OMNI Alfa now. Over.

John Young (CAPCOM)

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.

Fred Haise (LMP)

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

Fred Haise (LMP)

Okay. Here, it's coming at you.

Fred Haise (LMP)

All right, Houston; 13.

Fred Haise (LMP)

Is the S-IVB doing something different now?

Joe Kerwin (CAPCOM)

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?

Fred Haise (LMP)

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.

Jack Swigert (CMP)

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 -

Joe Kerwin (CAPCOM)

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

Fred Haise (LMP)

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

Fred Haise (LMP)

It's a very pretty sight.