Spacelog Apollo 13

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.

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.