Spacelog Apollo 13

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.

Okay. We have a PTC REFSMMAT ready, if you're ready to go P00 and ACCEPT, we'll stick it in there.

Okay. Stand by.

Okay.

Okay. I'm P00 and ACCEPT, Joe.

Apollo 13, Houston. We'll have a handover in half a minute or so. You may get a momentary loss of strength.

Okay, Joe.

Houston, you copy 13?

Hello, Houston; Apollo 13. Over.

13, Houston. Go ahead.

Hey, were you copying my P23 results?

That's affirmative, Jack. We followed you through the whole thing. You're ahead of schedule.

Okay.

And, Joe, we confirmed there is no midcourse-1. Over.

That is affirmative as far as I know. Let's get a final check on it, Jim.

Okay. Because we're standing by. We want to do a fuel cell purge and a waste water dump.

Okay, Jim. We confirm there will be no midcourse-1.

Okay. It sounds good.

And, 13, Houston. You can go ahead with the purge and dump at your discretion.

Roger, Houston. What we're going to do is, we're going to get rid of Fred's suit here. Fred's suit has been right in the commander's slot here for the last half hour. So we're going to try and get it stowed.

Okay.

Apollo 13, Houston. We'll have a handover in about 1 minute.

Hello, Houston. Apollo 13.

Roger, Jim. We'll have a handover from Hawaii to Goldstone in about 30 seconds.

Say again, Houston.

We'll be handing over from Hawaii to Goldstone in a few seconds. You may get a temporary loss of COMM.

Okay. Houston, 13.

13, Houston. Go ahead.

Hey, Joe. Do you want to dump waste water down to 25 percent. Is that right?

That's affirm.

Okay, in work.

Okay.

Do you know we're also purging fuel cells O₂ now.

Okay, Houston. The fuel cell purge and waste water dump are complete.

Roger, Apollo 13. And this is your relief CAP COMM shift on now.

Well, good evening, Vance.

Boy, you sure made it back fast.

Yes. You guys had a beautiful launch, there. Really nice.

Could you follow it all the way up, Vance?

No, I didn't see staging. It was too hazy for that, but we could see it for a few miles anyway.

I'll tell you, it's sure an interesting ride.

Houston, Apollo 13.

Roger. Go ahead, Jim.

Roger. We're at that stage now where we're going to take some Earth weather photography. If you're standing by, I have the camera aimed at the Earth right now, and I'll give you a mark when I take this first picture.

Roger. We copy, Jim. We'll be standing by for the mark.

Okay, Houston. 3, 2, 1 -

MARK.

Roger, copy.

And Apollo 13, Houston. Over.

Go ahead.

For the PTC, recommend that you disable quads A and B. Over.

Okay. Disable quads A and B, will do; and soon as Jack gets finished thrashing around, we'll be going to that PTC mode.