Spacelog Apollo 13

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.

Aquarius, Houston. We're finished with the uplink. The computer's yours. We'd like to power down the DUA, so pull the DUA circuit breaker please.

Aquarius, Houston. We'd like to have AFT OMNI, and we're going to lose contact with you for about a minute here while we try to establish tracking. And our latest data shows that your closest approach to the Moon is going to be 60 miles perigee. Over.

Okay. Closest approach, 60 miles, and I'm sitting on AFT OMNI now.

Houston, Aquarius. Over.

Go ahead, Aquarius.

Okay. We're thinking about rigging up the urine dump to the side hatch. We're thinking about rigging up the urine dump to the side hatch and save urine heater power. What do you think?

Stand by 1.

Better still so we won't freeze up our urine dump.

Roger. That sounds like a good plan, Jim. Why don't you go ahead with that one?

Okay, Aquarius. And down here we're getting regrouped, trying to work on your control modes and trying to set up something for PTC and taking a look at consumables as opposed to flight plan, and so forth, and as soon as we get all that information, we'll pass it up to you. We also have the 14 backup crew over in the simulators looking at dock burns and also trying to see what kind of alinement procedures they can come up with for looking at stars out the window. So if you ever are able to see any stars out there and think you can do an alinement out the window, why let us know.

Okay. Jack, right now we're not able to. The sunlight's reflecting off the thrusters and whatever debris came away at the time of the mishap is still with us, such that the stars are hard to find, and why—what respect do you want us to do the stars out the window—just to check the LMS run, is that correct?

That's affirmative. We'd like to correlate the information we get with your's, so that if we can use it to update the platform, we can. What we're really trying to do, Jim, is see if we can do a COAS aline so we can power down the platform.

That is Aquarius. We're getting an awful lot of static on the uplink now, and we're not reading you at all.

I have good signal strength and I'm on AFT OMNI.

How do you read now, Aquarius?

Hey, Jim, do you suppose that you could orient the LM so that the service module would be between you and the Sun? I believe you could see—recognize constellations out your front windows then.