Spacelog Apollo 13

Roger. Reading you, Fred. Go ahead.

Go ahead. Houston is reading you.

Houston, Aquarius.

Reading you loud and clear. Go ahead.

Are you monitoring our P52 technique?

That's negative, Jim. We do not have high bit rate data on you now. Over.

Okay. Thank you.

Roger.

And be advised, Vance, that we are getting several echos in our COMM downlink here.

Roger. We'll check into it.

… … and … alinement.

Apollo 13, Houston.

Go ahead, Houston.

Jim, request you give us high bit rate now. We might be able to fix you up on the 120 antenna.

Okay. High bit rate.

Roger.

And, zero, zero, zero.

Yes.

Apollo 13, Houston.

Go ahead.

Fred, we can't lock up on your high bit rate. Request you go back low bit rate.

Hey, we lost you there, Vance.

Roger. Advise, we are not locking up on your high bit rate, so you can go back low bit rate. Over.

Low bit rate.

Right here, Jim. There it is. Looks like it …

I don't have all the confidence in the world in this Earth-Sun P52.

You know how many times I screwed up on my arithmetic.

Yes. Don't count your chickens before they hatch.

Listen, I'm not.

We're … going to be two diameters out, huh?

Yes.

Okay. Tell me what that technique is to get the lamp on, in case I don't see it.

They'll have to give you AC again and you punch in your breaker -Well, let's see—I've still got H_P on for the FDAIs, so you're in business now. All you need is the lamp breaker, the AC BUS A AOT lamp breaker, that is.

Let me know when these start going. There's the Sun. Give me the—Give me the AOT.

Okay.

Never mind. I don't need it. Go ahead. I got it. Never mind.

Reticle brightness, want it up? Got the reticle?

I got the reticle …

… Call it, Jack; you can see it better.

…

Okay.

… …

… we got it a great big one.

Yes. I show it about maybe a third of a diameter to the left.

Okay. Take a look.

Check your needles. You're off in roll, Jim.

Pitch and yaw are in, but we're off in your roll needle. Better get that …

Okay. It brings it in. Say when.

Okay. We got it. I think we got it. What diameter was it?

Just about it.

Okay. Yaw is in …

What have you got?

… upper right corner of the Sun.

We've got it.

You're hot …

Houston, Aquarius.

Go ahead, Aquarius.

Okay. It looks like the Sun check passes.

We understand it checks out. We're kind of glad to hear that.

It's not quite centered, but it's about a diameter, a little bit less than a diameter, just to one side.

Sounds good.

Now. Let's get the AOT lamp on.

Okay, Jim.

Which … to get the AOT lamp on?

Okay. Pull the—your AOT lamp breaker.

Got it.

Okay. And, Houston, can we proceed with our powerdown now? Getting the ball back off and AOT lamp, et cetera, AC secured.

Stand by on that one for a minute, Fred.

— the ball … get back to—Okay. What we'd like now, I guess, is the next attitude to go to, Vance, and we will work on getting there while we still have the ball.

Roger. We copy.

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Okay. Seventy-four hours.

Yes. We're not there yet, really. I've got 11 minutes to check … out.

Yes. Bring your … down.

Get set. Keep … It's better in here. Slow now …

Apollo 13, Houston.

Go ahead.

Jim, in a moment we will have an attitude for you to go to, and recommend that you keep your FDAI up while maneuvering to that attitude. After you get there, then we will have you widen the deadband and eventually go into a PTC about the burn attitude.

You were cut off slightly, Vance.

Roger. We will have an attitude for you to maneuver to in a moment. And you should leave your FDAI up for that. The attitude is as follows if you are ready to copy. Over.

Got the book.

Go ahead, Vance.

Okay. This is FDAI attitudes for the maneuver. Yaw 060 degrees, pitch 083 degrees, roll 272 degrees.

Let's not read that in the R₁, R₂. I don't want VERB 69 twice. I want VERB 49, 58g's so I can fly the needle.

Jim. Those are not VERB 49 angles. Those are strictly FDAI attitudes. Over.

Okay. I understand, Vance. It's much easier if the ball is up to fly the needles; that gives me a drift of VERB 49, 58g maneuver. We could fly that manually.

Stand by. We'll try to get you a VERB 49 angle.

Flying on maneuvers.

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On that last check, what did it look like?

… … …

This is the first three-man LM we've had.

Apollo 13, Houston.

And, Vance, which—What hack you got now on GET?

Okay. Stand by on that, Fred. First, let me read up your VERB 49 attitude, if you are ready to copy.

Go ahead.

Okay. Yaw 27100, pitch 35500, roll 33000. Over.

Ask him if you keep it in AUTO maneuver there.