Fred Haise (LMP)

My shorthand is rather poor today.

Fred Haise (LMP)

Okay I'm now up to circuit breaker panel 11, INVERTER 1, CLOSED.

Joe Kerwin (CAPCOM)

Okay. Next was “Circuit breaker panel 16, INSTRUMENTATION SIG SENSOR, CLOSED. Then INVERTER 1, SELECT. Then HELIUM MONITOR to SUPERCRIT PRESS. Report SUPERCRIT PRESS to MCC.” Over.

Fred Haise (LMP)

Houston, 13. How do you read?

Joe Kerwin (CAPCOM)

13, Houston. You're coming through. We still have some background noise. Do you want to read back step 7?

Fred Haise (LMP)

Okay, Joe. The last thing I got was HELIUM MONITOR to SUPERCRIT PRESSURE.

Joe Kerwin (CAPCOM)

Okay. The last part of step 7 is, “Report SUPERCRIT PRESSURE to MCC,” and read back step 7.

Fred Haise (LMP)

Okay. Step 7. Circuit breaker panel 11, AC BUS B, HELIUM PQGS DISPLAY, CLOSED. Main—Circuit breaker panel 11, AC BUS B, NUMERIC LIGHTING, CLOSED. CD panel 11, AC BUS—Is that AC BUS B? BUS TIE INVERTER 1, CLOSED?

Fred Haise (LMP)

And CB—CB EPS INVERTER 1, panel 11, CLOSED. CB panel 16, INSTRUMENT SIGNAL SENSOR, CLOSED. INVERTER 1, SELECT. HELIUM MONITOR to SUPERCRIT PRESSURE. Report pressure to MSFN.

Joe Kerwin (CAPCOM)

Okay. That's correct. Now step 8 is, “On MCC request, perform step 9.” In other words, you wait for us to decide what to do and that's according to the gouge we've already given you. And step 9, I'll give you now, is “HELIUM MONITOR to OFF, INVERTER to OFF.” Over.

Fred Haise (LMP)

Okay. Step 8 says, “Set in an MCC hold.” Step 9 says, “On MCC' s words, HELIUM MONITOR OFF, INVERTER OFF.”

Joe Kerwin (CAPCOM)

Roger. That's correct. Step 10 is, “Configure circuit breaker panels per Activation 3 and 4.”

Fred Haise (LMP)

Okay. Configure—step 10, “Configure circuit breakers per Activation pages 3 and 4.”

Joe Kerwin (CAPCOM)

Roger. That's correct. Step 11 is, “Deactivate the utility lights if you activated them,” and step 12 which is the last one is, “Transfer to CSM power, usual observations, and report time to MCC.”

Fred Haise (LMP)

Okay. Step 11, “Deactivate utility lights.” 12, “Transfer to CSM power and note the usual observations and report the GET.”

Joe Kerwin (CAPCOM)

Okay. That's it. And, of course, Houston will be requesting you to go to step 9 if the pressure is less than 770. If the pressure is between 770 and 800, we will be asking you to do the following, if you're ready to copy.

Fred Haise (LMP)

Stand by. I've got to find some more blank paper.

Joe Kerwin (CAPCOM)

Yes. This is going to be page TLC-3, but it's very short.

Fred Haise (LMP)

Okay. Go ahead with TLC-3.

Joe Kerwin (CAPCOM)

Okay. Stand by 10 seconds, Fred.

Joe Kerwin (CAPCOM)

Roger. We'll hold off on that. It was a short three-step procedure which said, “Repeat activation pages 1, 1A, and 2,” but there was another step in it that nobody understands. So, essentially what we'd recommend in that case would be that you would repeat the procedure that we just passed up for reading the SUPERCRIT pressure. If we need to, we'll clarify it later on. And that's all we've got.

Jim Lovell (CDR)

Okay. One thing, Joe; I just want to doublecheck again. All the stuff that normally was going to start at 57 hours, which the first item was pressurize CSM to 5.7 psia, we're going to move that up to 64 now, so we have our LM entry which was nominally at 58 at 55. Is that correct?

CapCom

Apollo 13, Houston.

CapCom

Roger, 13. Because of the O2 tank 2 quantity sensor drop out, EECOM wants to keep a little closer track of the cryo quantities, and he's going to be asking you to stir all the cryo tanks at slightly more frequent intervals than had been planned, and the first time is now, and we will be calling you probably every 5 or 6 hours, except during sleep period and high activity periods. We'd like you to do it now. Over.

Jim Lovell (CDR)

Okay. We'll start it … now.

CapCom

And, 13, Houston. For your information, a normal 1-minute or so stir will be fine.

Vance Brand (CAPCOM)

Jim, just an advisory; expect a CAUTION AND WARNING on H2 tank 1 pretty quick. No problems; Just warning you about it.

Jim Lovell (CDR)

Okay. A zero pressure light on H2 tank 1 coming on shortly, huh?

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Jim Lovell (CDR)

Okay. Well, you're pretty close. It just came on.

Vance Brand (CAPCOM)

Any other predictions you'd like?

Jim Lovell (CDR)

Well, there's—I guess there's all sorts. Could you go to the horse races with me?

Vance Brand (CAPCOM)

I'm sorry; you were garbled. Say again?

Jim Lovell (CDR)

I said I'd like to invite you to the horse races with me.

Vance Brand (CAPCOM)

Right. We'll—We'll send EECOM.