Spacelog Apollo 13

Okay.

Houston, Aquarius.

Go ahead, Aquarius.

Okay. Odyssey is completely powered down, according to the procedure that you read to Jack.

Roger; we copy. That's where we want to be, Jim.

And, Jack, have you all got good LM data down there now?

That's affirmative, Fred. We're getting good LM data.

Okay. In that case, I think I'll pull out some display breakers and just let you all keep an eye on things.

Roger.

He's turning his lights off now, too.

Stand by 1 on that, Fred.

Okay.

What about these lights up here?

I've got it.

Okay.

Where would you like …?

…

Oh.

We don't want to lose COMM with him.

I'm watching it.

Aquarius, Houston. Stand by on opening your circuit breakers for displays. We're going to let you know what they are, and I have some gyro torquing angles for you.

Okay. What page is that there gyro torquing?

Okay. What page is the, do we write the gyro torquing angles on there, Jack?

Stand by.

Okay. We're there now, Jim. Jim's got it. Go ahead with the gyro torquing angles.

Okay. We'd like you to proceed with the fine aline and your gyro torquing angles are X plus 003.30, Y plus 024.80, Z minus 015.10. Over.

Okay. I read your gyro torquing angles as plus 003.30, Y is plus 023, I only have four numbers for Y; you'll have to give that one to me again, and Z is minus 015.10. Read Y again, please.

Okay, Jim. X and Z are correct and Y is plus 024.80.

Okay. We read Y as plus 024.80. We'll proceed on Activation 40 to fine aline the platform.

Aquarius, Houston. Can you see any stars out the LM window?

We'll have to wipe them off, Jack. They're coated with water right now.

Can I get a towel?

Yes.

Roger. As soon as you get a chance to—on your position—to take a look, we'd like to know if you can see stars for alinement purposes.

Okay. Jim's going to be in trouble in our present attitude out his side. The Sun's there.

Wait 1.

What have you got? How much you got left in battery A? Okay. I wish I knew what the hell they were thinking right now … —

They're talking about powering down and doing a P51 here?

No. They were just thinking about P52 —

Aquarius, Houston. Negative on the P51. We want to stay just like we are, but we'd like to be able to correlate what you're doing with some simulator work we're going to crank up. And so if you can give us information as to what stars you can see out the window, we can make that correlation.

Would you say one more time? Give me the top two. The top two.

Jim, what we want you to do is go with your current fine aline and disregard the P51. What we're attempting to do is to crank up some LMS simulations to correlate what we can get out your window with what we can get out the LMS window to see if that will help us any. So when you can see some stars, if you can, you think you can recognize them and recognize constellations, please let us know.

Okay. We'll check. Stand by.

Okay. Watch the —

I'm just glad …

Okay, stand by.

Okay. Here, unplug this.

Aquarius, Houston. We notice that the O₂ pressure in the ASCENT TANK O₂ is a little high, so we want to use some of it. So close DESCENT O₂ and open ASCENT O₂, tank 2. Over.

Okay, Jack. Switch now on ASCENT number 2 O₂ tank, DESCENT O₂ is closed.

Roger, Fred.

… that?

Okay, Houston; Aquarius. How do you read?

Reading you 5 square, Jim. Go ahead.

Okay. I'm looking out of Fred's window. I see a lot of particles out there, but a lot of that stuff is still drifting away from us, so a lot of it is flashing in the local vicinity, and I don't recognize any constellations right now, in this particular attitude.

Okay, Jim. If that status changes, please let us know.

Roger. We're continuing to drift. Okay, get your TTCAs to roll.

TTCA …

And, Aquarius; Houston. I've got some circuit breakers you can open to power down displays. In addition, I have a P30 maneuver pad. Over.

Roger. Stand by, Houston. Get the CS—get the pad book.

Get the LM data—get the LM book.

And, say—We're getting the pad book now, Jack—and say the boost on powered up?

Okay. I have some circuit breakers that you can open up in order to power down displays.

Okay. Stand by 1, Jack. I'm going to get my COMM carrier on.

All right, I'll tell you what. Get all the LM stuff. Give me the LM stuff right now. Jack, give me all the LM stuff.

Why?

All right, Jack. Hey, what do you need out of here?

… status.

Here.

Now is there any way they can control this thing with the LM on? Fred-o?

What's that?

Looks like I'm cross-coupling here. I might as well -

Yes, you are. TTCA will give you the best controlling warning.

Yes, and I want to get out of this roll. What if I go to —

It doesn't matter where the hell you are. … gimbal lock … my flashlight or any flashlight.

… down and power down …

Well, I'm not doing any good here.

Okay, how do you read now, Jack?

OMNI.

Yes, we're on.

Hello, Houston; Aquarius.

Back on? Yes.

Aquarius, Houston. You're watching the middle gimbal there, aren't you? Go ahead, Aquarius.

Okay. Go ahead with the breakers first, Jack.

Okay. You watching your middle gimbal there?

Tell them we are.

Your attitude is just straight pitch down, Jim. Okay, you're moving away.

Okay, Fred, I've got six circuit breakers for you.

Okay. Go ahead.

Okay, they're all on panel 11. Row 1 under AC BUS B, open HELIUM PQGS for PROPELLANT DISPLAY.

It's OPEN.

On row 2, FLIGHT DISPLAYS, open THRUST, open MISSION TIMER, open RANGE/RANGE RATE, ALTITUDE/ ALTITUDE RATE, and open the AC BUS A RANGE RATE, ALTITUDE/ALTITUDE RATE.

They're OPEN.

Okay. They're all OPEN.

Okay. On row 4, PGNS, SIGNAL STRENGTH DISPLAY.

It's OPEN.

It's OPEN?

Okay. That concludes the powerdown of displays. And I have a P30 pad for you.

Okay. Go ahead.

Okay. The purpose is a pericynthion plus 2 hours DPS abort. NOUN 33: 079:25:26.48; plus 1633.0, minus 0014.5, minus 0751.5; apogee not applicable, perigee is plus 0020.5; 1797.7, 8:35, 268, 264, plus 16410, minus 00145, minus 07338. COAS is NA. And I have two gimbal trim angles for you which will be updated. Right now, however, we want you to go with pitch 5.86, roll 6.75. Over.

What was that for?

Pitch and yaw, maybe, huh?

Okay, what was the last two things you gave me, a pitch and roll angle for what?

That's for your DPS trim.

Those were gimbal angles for—pitch and yaw.

Oh, Roger. GDAs.

Yes, that's what I mean. Sorry.

Pericynthion plus 2—Okay, DPS pericynthion plus 2, at 079:25:026.48; plus 1633.0, minus 0014.5, minus 0751.5; HA N slash A, HP plus 0020.5; 1797.7, 8:35, 268, 264, plus 16410, minus 00145, minus 07338 —

Did we lose the water in the —

— N slash A in the COAS, and you gave me GDA angles of pitch 5.86, and you want roll 6.75.

Good readback, Fred.

Yes, lose—get all the little bags you can with water.

Aquarius, Houston. Say again, please.

Okay. We didn't answer back there, Jack. Check to see if you're on VOX.

No.

Neither am I, okay. Why the hell are we maneuvering at all now? Are we still venting?

Well, we're at ATT HOLD for one thing—I mean, we're at MINIMUM IMPULSE.

No, I mean why can't you null them out, somewhere?

Every time I try to—I can't take that doggone roll out. I got to wait until they get around to the bellyband.

Wait a minute. Do you—you fight roll by using the TTCA left right. That's what you need to play with.

Okay. We'll try that. Let me get around though. Let's roll. Let it roll all the way.

Yes, you can't let it roll all the way.

I know. I know. But I mean -

Okay. Then until it's upside down at least, huh?

Yes.

Okay. Well, should I ask him what the return time on that one is? Or are you interested?

Let's get the first things first.

Oh, you don't want to hear. Let me figure some times out here. That's at 79, and what are we at now? About—do we—do we—do we even know any better computer time, do we?

No.

Hey, Jack. Do you still have a mission timer? You don't? Okay.

I'll tell you what. Let's ask—let's ask Houston to give us a mission timer, computer time. They can up link it to us. Okay, hold it.

Go ahead.

Houston, Aquarius.

Go ahead, Aquarius.

You know, we don't have a—I don't think we have a computer clock going, and why don't you up link that stuff to us?

Roger.

And, Fred-o, I got some fast circuit breakers on panel 16 for you.

Okay. Go ahead.

Okay. On row 1 under FLIGHT DISPLAYS, SYSTEMS ENGINEER's CROSSPOINTER, OPEN. Under RCS B —

It's OPEN.

Open the TEMP/PRESS DISPLAY-FLAGS and PQGS/DISPLAYS.

Okay. They're both OPEN.

Okay, Fred. On row 3 under COMM, open DISPLAYS and under ECS, open DISPLAYS.

Okay. COMM DISPLAYS, ECS DISPLAYS, both OPEN.

Okay. And two more. In row 4 under HEATERS, open DISPLAYS and under EPS, open DISPLAYS.

Okay. HEATERS DISPLAY, EPS DISPLAY OPEN. And I've long since had all the lights off, floods, et cetera.

Where are those bags? Where are those bags for weighing water in the PLSS?

Why?

We're going to fill up command module water. We'll …

Hell, do you need a QD … Jim. No way to get ours in there. I don't think.

Hey, Jim.

I wonder if one of our water … jet is. Okay, let's control—What else can we fill up there?

Aquarius, Houston.

We're not—we're not going to —

We're not going to be able to up link your time because of the IU, and we have a frequency problem there. But what I'd like to do is give you a time to set up on your mission timer and give you a mark and then you can put it into the DSKY from there. Over.

Okay. Stand by.

Wait a minute. Why do we need a mission timer right now, anyway? I mean, that bad, they'd tell us.

Well, I'd rather have a timer going so that we—what are we going to put in the DSKY? Should we shut down the mission timer?

Is that what you want to do?

Yes. Hey, OMNI.

Great.

Switch them. Okay. Let's fire on the mission timer.

Aquarius, we need FORWARD OMNI.

FORWARD OMNI.

Say again, Jack.

FORWARD OMNI.

I am. Okay, Houston. If that call was an OMNI switch, I'm in FORWARD now.

Okay, Fred-o, how do I get the mission timer up? I got the mission timer cranked in.

You got it on?

I got the mission timer circuit breaker in.

Okay. We're going to probably need NUMERICS LIGHTING. There you go. You got it.

Aquarius, Houston. I think we've got a better way of getting your mission time up.

Go ahead with it.

Okay. We can do a VERB 55, ENTER, and then put an R₁, minus 00088. In R₂, minus 00059; R₃ minus 03274.

Watch the crapping attitude.

We're okay.

God damn. I wish you'd get to something I know.

Well, as soon as we get over here, we'll stop it with the TTCA.

Okay.

And, Aquarius; Houston. We've got you both on VOX.

Like to go what?

You want us on VOX, Jack?

We have you on VOX. We're reading you loud and clear and the clock took good.

Okay. Looks like we're on the FDA route there, Jack.

Okay, Jack. How do you read me on NORMAL VOICE now?

Reading you 5 square, Fred.

Okay.

And, Aquarius, we're ready for a VERB 74 when you can give it to us.

You got it.

Okay. And one other thing we noticed. When you pressurized the RCS, we got an increase in pressure in the ascent tanks, and so we want to have you verify that the ascent feeds are closed. In order to do that, on panel 11, close the ASCENT FEED 1 and 2 circuit breakers on—and cycle the Parker valves, and then open the ASCENT FEED circuit breakers on panel 11.

Completed, Houston.

And, Jack, Aquarius. What kind of return time is this maneuver given?

That puts you back in the water at 133 hours.

133, hey.

Affirm.

And that's an Atlantic landing site.

Atlantic landing?

Affirmative. That's the pad that we've given you, but we may change our mind later on. We want you to have this info for now. And that's a minimum —

Okay.

— minimum time return.

Aquarius, Houston. We've got to change the REFSMMAT to the one to which you're alined. So we'd like to have P00 and DATA and we'll ship that up to you.

Roger.

Okay, you got it, Jack.

Roger. Coming up.

Aquarius, could you give us DATA please?

Okay, Jack, you got it.

— the updata link, the DUA breaker may not be in, Jack.

Okay, Fred, and close the DUA breaker.

It's in now, Jack.