Spacelog Apollo 13

And, Aquarius, check you ATCA (PGNS) breaker on panel 11 in.

Say again.

Close, on panel 11, circuit breaker ATCA (PGNS).

ATCA (PGNS). Come on. Let's take it easy now.

Okay. We've got ATCA (PGNS) closed.

Yes.

Is that okay?

Yes.

Okay. Now I'm looking.

… okay …

How about plus?

No. …

Okay. It's already open.

Okay. Slow down.

Okay, Jack. We got it.

Yes.

Okay, Jim. How's the attitude control?

Okay, Jack. We've got attitude control now in the LM. We're going to try to rotate up through the bellyband.

Roger.

I like that sound like I got back there.

Odyssey, Houston. I've got a procedure for you.

Okay, Jack. I'm …

I want to go up this way to get away from that—the radios are powered, huh?

Yes.

Check your antenna?

Okay, Jack. Odyssey is ready to copy.

Okay, Jack. What we want you to do is close the reactants valve on fuel cell 2. Power down your inverters. Power down your battery relay bus. Battery ties, off, and pull your entry circuit breakers, entry battery circuit breakers A, B, and C.

Check the control, and make sure we don't go to gimbal lock, Fred.

Okay, Jack; understand. Close REAC valve circuit breakers in fuel cell 2. Power down inverters. Power down BAT relay bus. BAT TIES, OFF. Power entry and both running circuit breakers A, B, and C. All off.

That's affirmative, Jack. And close the reactant valve on fuel cell 2, there.

Okay. I'll do that, and Jack'll do that other.

Okay, Jack; on fuel cell 2, open circuit it.

Okay. Fuel cell 2 is open circuited. Do you want me to go through the standard shutdown procedure for the REAC valves and -

Odyssey, Houston. All you have to do is close the REACs valve on fuel cell 2.

Okay. CB REACs and vent REAC valves all closed.

Yes.

Yes.

… an hour and a half.

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.

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?