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Joe Kerwin (CAPCOM)
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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.
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Joe Kerwin (CAPCOM)
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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.
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Jack Swigert (CMP)
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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.
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Joe Kerwin (CAPCOM)
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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.
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Joe Kerwin (CAPCOM)
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Okay. We have a PTC REFSMMAT ready, if you're ready to go P00 and ACCEPT, we'll stick it in there.
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Joe Kerwin (CAPCOM)
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Apollo 13, Houston. We'll have a handover in half a minute or so. You may get a momentary loss of strength.
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Jim Lovell (CDR)
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Okay. I just got all hooked up to get in my COMM system here, and I just wanted to check out. I've got my suit stowed, a few other odds and ends done, and I'm back in business again.
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Joe Kerwin (CAPCOM)
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Okay. Good deal. We're kind of hanging loose down here. I've got a lift-off plus 15 pad. There's no hurry to read it up, so let us know when you're ready.
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Joe Kerwin (CAPCOM)
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Okay, Jim. Lift-off plus 15 pad: GETI 015:00, DELTA-VT 5622, longitude minus 165, and GET 400K 047:04. Over.
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Jim Lovell (CDR)
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Okay, Houston. Lift-off plus 15: GETI 015:00, 5622, minus 165, 047:04. Is that correct?
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Joe Kerwin (CAPCOM)
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Roger. We'd like to have the ATTITUDE SET switch back to GDC, if you're finished with your aline. It gives GNC down here a telemetry problem.
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Joe Kerwin (CAPCOM)
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Roger. Would you please verify or tell us what S-band antenna configuration you're in, please?
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Joe Kerwin (CAPCOM)
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Roger. Stand by a minute, Jim. Our signal strength is getting a little low. We may have a recommendation.
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Joe Kerwin (CAPCOM)
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That's affirmative, Jack. We followed you through the whole thing. You're ahead of schedule.
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Jim Lovell (CDR)
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Okay. Because we're standing by. We want to do a fuel cell purge and a waste water dump.
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Jim Lovell (CDR)
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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.
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Joe Kerwin (CAPCOM)
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We'll be handing over from Hawaii to Goldstone in a few seconds. You may get a temporary loss of COMM.
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Vance Brand (CAPCOM)
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No, I didn't see staging. It was too hazy for that, but we could see it for a few miles anyway.
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Jim Lovell (CDR)
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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.
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Jim Lovell (CDR)
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Okay. Disable quads A and B, will do; and soon as Jack gets finished thrashing around, we'll be going to that PTC mode.
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Vance Brand (CAPCOM)
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Jim, we'd like to verify that the high gain is secured, that the S-BAND antenna is on OMNI, and OMNI B should be the right antenna. Over.
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Jim Lovell (CDR)
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Okay. You want the high gain secured and you want the OMNI on OMNI Charlie, huh? Or Baker?
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Vance Brand (CAPCOM)
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And the high gain angles for stowage—or for stowing—are pitch minus 52, yaw 270.
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Jim Lovell (CDR)
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Stand by for another Earth weather picture. I'll give you a mark.
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Vance Brand (CAPCOM)
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Houston here. Your rates look very stable. It looks like your rates are damped out completely here. As far as we can see, it would be alright to start the PTC.
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Vance Brand (CAPCOM)
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Hello, 13; Houston. Loud and clear. 13, Houston is reading loud and clear. How do you read?
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Fred Haise (LMP)
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Okay. And do you have any estimate, Vance, on how long we'll be charging battery B?
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Vance Brand (CAPCOM)
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Fred, recommend that, when your window comes around facing the Earth again, that you catch another one of those pictures, and at the same time, you should probably start PTC again. We might have sent a confusing bit of info up to you. The “disable two quads” only applies to an early step in the procedure. We didn't mean that for the latter part of the procedure where we have the statement “enable all jets.” Over.
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Jack Swigert (CMP)
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Vance, Fred said that you had some more information about PTC and a different way of establishing it or something, huh?
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Vance Brand (CAPCOM)
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Roger. Referring to the procedure on G/8-2, if you have that open, I'll tell you what we had to give you.
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Vance Brand (CAPCOM)
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Okay. On checklist G/8-2 under step 5, there's a statement, “disable all jets on two adjacent quads,” and that's what we were referring to when we called up saying “disable quads A and B.” So that's all fine; however, going down now to step 7 where it says “enable all jets,” we hoped that you didn't think we meant leave A and B disabled there. In that case, it's as written. All jets should be enabled. Over.
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Jack Swigert (CMP)
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Okay. Our checklist has “all jets” scratched out, and it says “enable couples on all axes.” So what we'll do is—we'll reestablish this thing and come down to that step 7, and we'll enable all jets. That means enable quads A and B. Is that right?
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Fred Haise (LMP)
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And Vance, on that picture, I was all set to shoot it just a little before you called, and the Earth hasn't showed up in the window yet. I don't know if we got too far off the bellyband or what.
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Vance Brand (CAPCOM)
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Roger. On the photo, you'll probably have to reestablish the attitude for PTC and then whenever it comes into the window again, why we'll just be standing by for the photo.
Spoken on April 12, 1970, 1:28 a.m. UTC (54 years, 6 months ago). Link to this transcript range is: Tweet
