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02 11 10 59
Jack Lousma (CAPCOM): Aquarius, we need FORWARD OMNI.
02 11 11 05
Jim Lovell (CDR): FORWARD OMNI.
02 11 11 07
Fred Haise (LMP): Say again, Jack.
02 11 11 09
Jim Lovell (CDR): FORWARD OMNI.
02 11 11 11
Fred Haise (LMP): I am. Okay, Houston. If that call was an OMNI switch, I'm in FORWARD now.
02 11 11 28
Jim Lovell (CDR): Okay, Fred-o, how do I get the mission timer up? I got the mission timer cranked in.
02 11 11 34
Fred Haise (LMP): You got it on?
02 11 11 35
Jim Lovell (CDR): I got the mission timer circuit breaker in.
02 11 11 38
Fred Haise (LMP): Okay. We're going to probably need NUMERICS LIGHTING. There you go. You got it.
02 11 11 47
Jack Lousma (CAPCOM): Aquarius, Houston. I think we've got a better way of getting your mission time up.
02 11 11 56
Jim Lovell (CDR): Go ahead with it.
02 11 11 59
Jack Lousma (CAPCOM): Okay. We can do a VERB 55, ENTER, and then put an R₁, minus 00088. In R₂, minus 00059; R₃ minus 03274.
02 11 12 28
Fred Haise (LMP): Watch the crapping attitude.
02 11 12 31
Jim Lovell (CDR): We're okay.
02 11 12 36
Jack Swigert (CMP): God damn. I wish you'd get to something I know.
02 11 12 41
Jim Lovell (CDR): Well, as soon as we get over here, we'll stop it with the TTCA.
02 11 12 43
Jack Swigert (CMP): Okay.
02 11 12 46
Jack Lousma (CAPCOM): And, Aquarius; Houston. We've got you both on VOX.
02 11 12 54
Fred Haise (LMP): Like to go what?
02 11 12 56
Jim Lovell (CDR): You want us on VOX, Jack?
02 11 12 58
Jack Lousma (CAPCOM): We have you on VOX. We're reading you loud and clear and the clock took good.
02 11 13 17
Fred Haise (LMP): Okay. Looks like we're on the FDA route there, Jack.
02 11 13 39
Fred Haise (LMP): Okay, Jack. How do you read me on NORMAL VOICE now?
02 11 13 42
Jack Lousma (CAPCOM): Reading you 5 square, Fred.
02 11 13 46
Fred Haise (LMP): Okay.
02 11 14 12
Jack Lousma (CAPCOM): And, Aquarius, we're ready for a VERB 74 when you can give it to us.
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02 11 14 23
Fred Haise (LMP): You got it.
02 11 14 25
Jack Lousma (CAPCOM): 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.
02 11 15 08
Jim Lovell (CDR): Completed, Houston.
02 11 15 10
Jack Lousma (CAPCOM): Okay, Jim. Thank you.
02 11 17 53
Fred Haise (LMP): And, Jack, Aquarius. What kind of return time is this maneuver given?
02 11 18 02
Jack Lousma (CAPCOM): That puts you back in the water at 133 hours.
02 11 18 11
Fred Haise (LMP): 133, hey.
02 11 18 13
Jack Lousma (CAPCOM): Affirm.
02 11 18 24
Jack Lousma (CAPCOM): And that's an Atlantic landing site.
02 11 18 31
Fred Haise (LMP): Atlantic landing?
02 11 18 36
Jack Lousma (CAPCOM): 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 —
02 11 18 47
Fred Haise (LMP): Okay.
02 11 18 48
Jack Lousma (CAPCOM): — minimum time return.
02 11 20 09
Jack Lousma (CAPCOM): 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.
02 11 20 21
Jim Lovell (CDR): Roger.
02 11 20 30
Fred Haise (LMP): Okay, you got it, Jack.
02 11 20 34
Jack Lousma (CAPCOM): Roger. Coming up.
02 11 21 22
Jack Lousma (CAPCOM): Aquarius, could you give us DATA please?
02 11 21 32
Jim Lovell (CDR): Okay, Jack, you got it.
02 11 21 33
Fred Haise (LMP): — the updata link, the DUA breaker may not be in, Jack.
02 11 21 44
Jack Lousma (CAPCOM): Okay, Fred, and close the DUA breaker.
02 11 21 51
Jim Lovell (CDR): It's in now, Jack.
02 11 21 54
Jack Lousma (CAPCOM): Okay, Jim, and it's coming up now. Thank you.
02 11 28 03
Jack Lousma (CAPCOM): 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.
02 11 28 14
Fred Haise (LMP): Okay. Updata link breaker's coming OPEN.
02 11 36 25
Jack Lousma (CAPCOM): 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.
02 11 36 44
Fred Haise (LMP): Okay. Closest approach, 60 miles, and I'm sitting on AFT OMNI now.
02 11 36 50
Jack Lousma (CAPCOM): Roger. We'll probably be going off the air here in about a minute.
02 11 41 12
Jim Lovell (CDR): Houston, Aquarius. Over.
02 11 41 14
Jack Lousma (CAPCOM): Go ahead, Aquarius.
02 11 41 19
Jim Lovell (CDR): 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?
02 11 41 36
Jack Lousma (CAPCOM): Stand by 1.
02 11 41 42
Jim Lovell (CDR): Better still so we won't freeze up our urine dump.
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02 11 41 48
Jack Lousma (CAPCOM): Roger. That sounds like a good plan, Jim. Why don't you go ahead with that one?
02 11 42 59
Jack Lousma (CAPCOM): 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.
02 11 43 40
Jim Lovell (CDR): 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?
02 11 44 04
Jack Lousma (CAPCOM): 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.
02 11 45 23
Jim Lovell (CDR): That is Aquarius. We're getting an awful lot of static on the uplink now, and we're not reading you at all.
02 11 45 39
Jim Lovell (CDR): I have good signal strength and I'm on AFT OMNI.
02 11 45 51
Jack Lousma (CAPCOM): How do you read now, Aquarius?
02 11 47 06
Jack Lousma (CAPCOM): 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.
02 11 47 47
Jack Lousma (CAPCOM): Aquarius, Houston. Radio check.
02 11 48 15
Jim Lovell (CDR): Okay, Jack. How do you read now?
02 11 48 17
Jack Lousma (CAPCOM): Okay. Hearing you 5 square now, Jim. And the question we have, is there some way you can orient the spacecraft so that the service module is between the LM and the Sun so you can recognize constellations out the window? And secondly, can you see anything out the AOT?
02 11 49 28
Jack Lousma (CAPCOM): Aquarius, Houston. How do you read?
02 11 53 46
Jack Lousma (CAPCOM): Aquarius, how do you read me now?
02 11 56 56
Jack Lousma (CAPCOM): Aquarius, Houston. How do you read?
02 11 57 08
Jack Lousma (CAPCOM): Aquarius, request FORWARD OMNI, please.
02 11 58 22
Jack Lousma (CAPCOM): Aquarius, Houston. Request FORWARD OMNI. How do you read?
02 11 59 06
Fred Haise (LMP): Okay, Houston; Aquarius. How do you read?
02 11 59 09
Jack Lousma (CAPCOM): Hello there, Aquarius. Loud and clear. How do you read me?
02 11 59 14
Jim Lovell (CDR): There's an awful lot of background —
02 11 59 16
Fred Haise (LMP): We get a lot of background static, Jack. You're down in the mud. You having a ground problem?
02 11 59 23
Jack Lousma (CAPCOM): What we tried to do was to get the IU frequency shifted off a little bit so that we'd have less interference. I think it'll come up—What we want you to do is turn on your descent oxygen and turn off your ascent oxygen. Over. And request FORWARD OMNI.
02 11 59 43
Fred Haise (LMP): You're unreadable, Jack. We've got our signal strength meter—right now it keeps wavering up and down, and the best I'm getting is about 2.4 AGC.
02 11 59 53
Jack Lousma (CAPCOM): Roger. Request FORWARD OMNI.
02 11 59 58
Fred Haise (LMP): I am on FORWARD OMNI. I've been on FORWARD OMNI.
02 12 00 43
Fred Haise (LMP): Okay. How do you read, Jack?
02 12 00 46
Jack Lousma (CAPCOM): I'm hearing you 5 square, Fred. How me?
02 12 01 13
Jack Lousma (CAPCOM): Aquarius, Houston. How do you read?
02 12 01 58
Fred Haise (LMP): Okay. We're up to about 2.6 AGC now.
02 12 02 03
Jack Lousma (CAPCOM): Aquarius, Houston. Radio check.
02 12 02 10
Fred Haise (LMP): Okay. Every time you transmit, Jack, the AGC starts to drop off and the static level turns up.
02 12 02 18
Jack Lousma (CAPCOM): Okay, Fred. You're loud and clear.
02 12 02 24
Fred Haise (LMP): I wish you were.
02 12 02 30
Jack Lousma (CAPCOM): Fred, go to DESCENT O₂.
02 12 02 35
Fred Haise (LMP): DESCENT O₂. Roger.
02 12 04 05
Jim Lovell (CDR): Hello, Houston; Aquarius.
02 12 04 08
Jack Lousma (CAPCOM): Hello there, Aquarius. How do you read me now?
02 12 04 23
Jim Lovell (CDR): Hello, Houston. Aquarius.
02 12 04 26
Jack Lousma (CAPCOM): Aquarius, Houston. Go.
02 12 04 30
Jim Lovell (CDR): Okay. That's the first clear word we heard from you, Jack. Do you think it could be my pitch attitude that's breaking up your incoming? I guess you've been hearing us.
02 12 04 42
Jack Lousma (CAPCOM): We have been hearing you, and the problem is on the ground. I hope we have it corrected now.
02 12 04 51
Jim Lovell (CDR): Okay. That sounds good.

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