Jim Lovell (CDR)

It's amazing watching these little frozen droplets maneuver. They seem to go in all directions, but finally after they get out a certain ways, settle down and they all seem to be traveling in the same direction.

Vance Brand (CAPCOM)

Right. That's coming in real well.

Jim Lovell (CDR)

The objects in the foreground are parts of the LM that you're looking at.

Jim Lovell (CDR)

The camera is now going to …

Vance Brand (CAPCOM)

We can just barely see those parts of the LM. They must be in a shadow.

Jim Lovell (CDR)

Okay. Now you are looking at a thruster quad at the lower part of your screen.

Fred Haise (LMP)

I've got the f-stop all the way open now, Vance; that's quad—quad 1 you're looking at with the LM should—The Moon should be in view just over the top of the quad.

Vance Brand (CAPCOM)

Right. We see the nozzle of the quad, but it's dark and it's not easy to see.

Vance Brand (CAPCOM)

13, Houston. INCO suggests you try AVERAGE if you're in PEAK to see if that gives us a better picture.

Fred Haise (LMP)

Okay. We're in AVERAGE now.

Vance Brand (CAPCOM)

I think that helps out. We can see it better.

Vance Brand (CAPCOM)

Okay. Now, 13, request you either move it away from the bright area or else move it back to PEAK. Over.

Fred Haise (LMP)

Okay, Vance. I cranked the focus down a little bit. Is the quad coming in any better now?

Vance Brand (CAPCOM)

It's coming in about the same, Fred, and you're a little weak now on the COMM.

Vance Brand (CAPCOM)

We could see when you went back to PEAK.

Fred Haise (LMP)

And I'm now … all the way out.

Vance Brand (CAPCOM)

Okay. We could see you zoom in on the Moon, and it's near the center of our screen, just a little to the left. Very clear.

Fred Haise (LMP)

Yes. I show it just about at 38.

Vance Brand (CAPCOM)

We can't tell if it's gray or light brown, though.

Fred Haise (LMP)

Do you have your grid down there, Vance?

Fred Haise (LMP)

I don't know if you can make out the features there, Vance, on the Moon, but it looks like the terminators are at central plains area somewhere around Descartes, maybe.

Vance Brand (CAPCOM)

Okay. We're—We see it just as a bright portion of the lunar disk, and it looks a lot like you see it from Earth. Very bright. We are unable to see any features at all.

Fred Haise (LMP)

It's pretty much the same with the eyeballs in here, and it looks a little bigger now. But the only way I could see it very good at all was with the monocular, a little while ago.

Vance Brand (CAPCOM)

Okay, Fred. Very good. We'd be interested to seeing the cabin when you get ready for that, too.

Fred Haise (LMP)

Okay. I'll set up now.

Jim Lovell (CDR)

And, Vance, we're counting down to midcourse-2, we're up to, in our checklist, to minus 6 minutes to go.

Vance Brand (CAPCOM)

Roger. Minus 6 minutes. Understand you're about ready to turn on the gimbal motors and all that sort of thing. Okay. We see the computer now in the upper middle part of the—the panel. I think we see somebody's checklist in the center couch. It must be Jim holding the checklist.

Fred Haise (LMP)

Right. And what Jim's holding now, he's got a pen in his hand we've rigged on a string, as sort of a simple-minded accelerometer. This burn's pretty short and I'm not sure even that's going to show very much. But we'll see if it'll stretch out at the end of its string.

Vance Brand (CAPCOM)

Yes. We see the pencil at the top of the picture floating around. And Jack's coming into view now.

Fred Haise (LMP)

And I've gone back—Okay, I've gone back to AVERAGE now and … pitch up.

Fred Haise (LMP)

Now in a few minutes, Vance, I guess we'll see how about the only system we haven't used yet works. Everything else sure has worked mighty fine.

Vance Brand (CAPCOM)

Right. The spacecraft's really working nicely. Okay. We're picking up panel 2 now. Still a little bit of the checklist.

Fred Haise (LMP)

Wondering if you can pick up the caution array there?

Vance Brand (CAPCOM)

Right. We just saw your—your testing of the caution and warning system at the left-hand side of the panel on our TV. See the lights all flash on. You're doing it again.

Vance Brand (CAPCOM)

You mission timer's showing up as a—a brilliant green in the upper left-hand part of the picture.

Fred Haise (LMP)

Roger. I got the camera kind of canted on you here, Vance.

Jack Swigert (CMP)

Vance, Jim's going to go to VOX now.

Jim Lovell (CDR)

Vance, how do you —

Vance Brand (CAPCOM)

Roger. Read you loud and clear, Jim.

Jim Lovell (CDR)

Okay. We'll—what we'll do—We'll be on VOX for the remainder of the burn and preburn countdown.

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Jim Lovell (CDR)

… And what we're waiting for is 54 minutes on our counter or 20 which would be minus —

Vance Brand (CAPCOM)

Jim, we hear clipping on your VOX. Could you adjust it so that you're coming in continuously all the time?

Jim Lovell (CDR)

1, 2, 3, 4, 5. How's that, Vance?

Jack Swigert (CMP)

Vance, how do you read the CMP on VOX?

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Spoken on April 13, 1970, 1:45 a.m. UTC (53 years, 11 months ago). Link to this transcript range is: Tweet