Spacelog Apollo 13

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We have a sign underneath our LEB DSKY that “my name is Hal.”

I can't imagine how that got there. Just remember, you have to be nice to Hal.

We will.

I think this PTC's going to work out good. I been watching it here for the last hour here.

Good. It's looking good here.

(Music—Aquarius)

Houston, 13.

13, Houston. You're very weak. Please repeat.

Vance, to my calculations, we have taken about 10 Earth window photography pictures. I see nothing coming up here except to close the waste stowage vent here in a little while. I was thinking about getting squared away to bed down for the evening pretty soon.

Okay. That sounds good, Jim. FAO here would like to request just one more picture before you bed down, if you don't mind.

Okay. We'll come through with one more picture.

Apollo 13, Houston.

Go ahead, Houston.

A couple of items, Jim. The first is, the time for closing the waste stowage vent is 12:24. If you turn in before that time, why it's okay as far as we're concerned down here to close it before that time just before you go to bed. The second point, we have some results on the P23s, and, if Jack's interested, we could give him the corrected altitudes we're getting, and so forth.

Yes. I sure am, Vance.

Okay. This is preliminary results, but it will give you some indication. Corrected altitude is turning out to be 17 plus or minus 4 kilometers, and the fact that it's plus or minus 4 kilometers indicates that you're being very consistent in judging the altitude. The effective altitude is turning out to be 10 plus or minus 12 kilometers. Comments are that, as I said before, you're being consistent on the horizon selection. The substellar point error is averaging 15 arc-minutes and if you could hold the rates to a minimum, you might shoot for 5 arc-minutes. That's the only comment there. Over.

Okay. We'll try doing it better next time.

But, they're real satisfactory.

Okay. Thanks, Vance.

Apollo 13, Houston.

Go ahead.

Okay, Jack, this is the last time for the Earth coming into view in about 1 or 2 minutes.

Okay. I got my photographer looking out there.

Okay.

13, Houston. I just corrected. Actually, the Earth will come into view more times. It's just that we're … to the photography. Over.

Okay.

3, 2, 1 -

MARK.

Roger. We copy, and could you give us the frame number on that last picture, please?

Okay. We've been writing them all down, Vance, as we went, but that one turned out to be 29.

Roger. Twenty-nine, Fred.

Okay, Jack says I can't read the camera very well. It should be 28 based on our start frame.

Correction to 28.

13, Houston. Understand, though, the number showing that you read on the camera was 28. Is that affirm?

Yes. The readability of that thing is like, you know, half a frame one way or the other; so, 28, I think, is a good number.

(Music—Halls of Montezuma)

Roger. Houston copies.

I'll have to not wear it out before Jack gets there.

Sounds like that music's a pretty nice thing to have on a long voyage.

Apollo 13, Houston.

Go ahead.

Fred, did you get any MASTER ALARMS up there about 5 or 10 minutes ago? Folks thought they saw some here and they were curious about it.

Yes. We got another O₂ FLOW HIGH on—I guess it was about 5 minutes ago.

Okay.

Vance, what the people down there might have been seeing is our testing.

Roger. Testing the CAUTION and WARNING?

Yes. We were rigging the siren device over the MASTER ALARM, and we were running a test on it.

Okay. Good enough. And anytime you're ready to copy, I've got a pad P37 block data.

Stand by.

Okay. Go ahead, Vance.

Okay. P37 block data, starting with GETI. 025:00, 5119, minus 165, 071:08; 035:00, 7733, minus 165, 070:36; 045:00, 6208, minus 165, 094:52; 060:00, 5993, minus 165, 118:53. Over.

Okay. Stand by 1 minute.

Okay. 025:00, 5119, minus 165, 071:08; 035:00, 7733, minus 165, 070:36; 045:00, 6208, minus 165, 094:52; 060:00, 5993, minus 165, 118:53.

Roger. That's all correct.

Houston, 13.

Roger. Go ahead.

We're starting our presleep checklist and no medication.

Okay. The Doc says very good.

And, Houston, is there any onboard readouts that you don't have from us.

Stand by 1. We need the LM/CM DELTA-P for one thing, and I'll check back in a minute with the others.

Okay. And we still have the vent valve open. We'll close it one of the last things and looking at LM/CM DELTA-P right now and I see 0.5 in psi indicated.