Spacelog Apollo 13

Okay. Go ahead, TK.

Yes, sir. Understand you have a question.

Yes. I guess I didn't understand what the letter and the number was behind some of these photo targets.

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Does that refer to the pages?

Yes, sir. That's the map. Each fold is lettered in the lower—or upper right-hand corner if you work your way from east to west and the charts are labeled D, E, and F and the solo stuff will all be the D and E, and they change with the plane change 1. That's the time they change the two maps.

Okay. I got it. Thank you.

Yes, sir. You're doing good work, hey.

Well, I had a good prime crewman that taught me all I know.

Don't run out.

Hey, when FIDO gets a good hack on our trajectory, will you let us know?

How long you willing to wait?

He's looking at his calendar, if that means anything.

(Laughter) All right.

Okay. I'm back at the attitude here, and I'll wait for rates to damps and you let me know when we're stable again.

13, Houston.

Go ahead, Vance.

Roger. Just a reminder you have to disable Charlie and Delta here as you've done in the past. Over.

Okay. I was kind of holding off on this. We're dumping a little waste water now.

Okay, Vance. We've got quad C and B disabled.

Apollo 13, Houston.

Go ahead.

It may be awhile before your rates are settled down. We're still observing fairly high rates and deadbanding. Over.

Apollo 13, Houston.

Go ahead, Vance.

Okay. We've got about three items. First one is, all of your P23 batch—two marks have been evaluated and—Hey, congratulations. Looks real good; they're very happy with it. You're down to 4 arc-minutes on the substellar-point aspect of it, and that's the first thing to mention. The second is, unless you see a need, I don't see any need for you to read back the information we gave you on the solo book and so forth. Do you concur?

Roger. I think I got it. I remembered a lot of it, and so I think with what you gave me and what I remember, I'm pretty sure we got it right.

Okay, and the third item, I was just about to call that your rates were stabilized to start the PTC, but it looks like they're jiggling around again from a dump, so we'll stand by some more.

Okay.

No secrets around here.

Say again. Hey, that's right.

I said there's no secrets around here.

Yes. Big Brother is watching.

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I can just see EECOM telling FIDO.

Yes. You really have to watch that pair, all right. By the way, we have a maneuver pad for you, a fly-by pad, whenever you're ready to copy.

Okay. Stand by.

Go ahead, Vance.

Our pad as follows: fly-by, SPS/G&N; 63385; plus 0.97, minus 0.23; 072:24:33.08; plus 0212.7, minus 0141.7, minus 0254.8; 148, 316, 050; NA, plus 0022.5; 0360.9, 0:53, 0356.3; 33, 352.7, 15.0; NA, NA, NA; minus 23.26, minus 165.00; 1147.7, 36172; 166:54:02; set stars 31, 23; roll is 288, pitch 205, yaw 034; no ullage; SPS docked; and LM weight, 33499.

Roger. That's correct. Want to verify under NOUN 81 that DELTA-V_X is plus 02127. You cut out right there.

Roger. DELTA-V_X is 02127.

Roger. And your rates are low. Looks like you can start the PTC.

Yes, it is pretty nice. Not bad at all. You're right; you didn't say it. This PTC we're in is a pretty—pretty nice merry-go-round, Vance. Every 10 minutes alternately I get to look at the Earth and the Moon.

You couldn't ask for anything more than that. Just so it isn't so fast you —

No, it's a lot—a lot better. I remember from 8 when they didn't hardly ever get to look at either one.

That's right. They were tumbling about another axis, weren't they.

Yes.

It's pretty cloudy down there tonight. About the only land I can see again is a portion of Australia and Korea and looks like a part of China. Just about clouds covering everything else.

Can you still see that clearly with the naked eye, or do you have to look through a glass?

I can see Australia with the naked eye and the China landmass, but I—It took the monocular to pull out the Korean Peninsula.

How about the Moon? Is it looking very big yet?

No, not really. Bigger, but we've got a ways to go.

I understand that they're estimating your pericynthion—lunar pericynthion is now 62 miles.

Well, that's not bad.

That's supposed to be just right.

Yes.

Okay, Houston; 13.

Go ahead, Jack.

Okay. We're into the presleep checklist now. As far as the crew status report, as far as medication goes, we've had no medication. And we're all feeling really good. I've given you the onboard readouts. Jim is chlorinating the potable water now. I'm ready for an E-memory dump whenever you're ready.

Stand by 1 on the E-memory dump, Jack. I think we'll be ready in about a minute.

Okay.

And EECOM says that as soon as you stir your cryos, request you go back to AUTO on that one tank.

Okay. We'll do that.

Hello, 13; Houston. We're ready to take your E-memory dump.

Apollo 13, Houston. Were you trying to call?

Go ahead, Houston.

Houston, 13.

Apollo 13, Houston. We thought you were trying to call. Were you?

I don't believe so unless we inadvertently hit the microphone button.

Must have been some other guy trying to call, Jack.

Just trying to get some words in, eh Jack?

Roger. We saw the downvoice subperiod come on. We thought maybe you were trying to call. Sorry. I hope we haven't disturbed you and from where I sit, it looks like you're running a rest home up there. Good night.

We're all going to bed now just after we play the last rendition of “With Our Eyes on the Stars.”

(Music)

Okay, Jim. And we'd like you to check your S-BAND NORMAL voice switch, OFF.

Houston, 13. We'll be off COMM; so if you need us, send a crew alert, please.

Okay, Jim. If we need you, we'll send a crew alert, and we'd like to know who's got the duty tonight on the BIOMED. Is that you?

Yes. I'll be on the BIOMED.

Okay. We copy, and you're spoiling my good record of two watches without saying anything.

Just want to keep you busy, Jack.

You're waking me up.

Houston, Houston, Apollo 13. Over.

Good morning, 13. You're early.

Ah so. I just thought I'd be waking up. And we are awake and getting the spacecraft shipshape. …

Roger. Spacecraft is in real good shape as far as we're concerned, Jim. We're bored to tears down here. We do have a few little items for you, like a P37 update and a couple of flight plan updates. But there's no rush about them. Over.

Okay. Gig us again in a few minutes. We're breaking out some food, and we'll copy them then.

Okay. And the surgeon will be ready for your sleep report whenever you get that together.

Righto. If he's listening, LMP had a solid 9 hours of sleep; I couldn't wake him up this morning. The CMP had 6 hours, and the commander about 5 intermittent.

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