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03 04 30 05
Fred Haise (LMP): Do you want this?
03 04 30 08
Jack Swigert (CMP): Write them right on—…?
03 04 30 10
Jim Lovell (CDR): Why don't you write them right in here?
03 04 30 12
Fred Haise (LMP): Okay.
03 04 30 22
Fred Haise (LMP): Okay. I'll start on that.
03 04 30 25
Jim Lovell (CDR): Okay, Vance.
03 04 30 27
Fred Haise (LMP): Go ahead.
03 04 30 28
Jim Lovell (CDR): We're all set to go.
03 04 30 31
Vance Brand (CAPCOM): Okay. Okay. First of all, general philosophy is that these rules should be similar to LOI mode I abort with the tight limits. Now, I'll go through them one by one for you to copy. Okay. You should shut down, if any of the following happen. Thrust monitor readout, 77 percent or below; DPS propellant tank pressure—that's the inlet pressure—onboard readout, 160 or below; fuel to OX DELTA-P, greater than 25 psi—and that would have to be a ground call to you—attitude error plus or minus 10 degrees, with the exception of the start transient; attitude-rate limits, plus or minus 10 degrees a second. And you should shut down if you get any of the following alarms: ENGINE GIMBAL, ISS, plus PROGRAM ALARM, LGC, CES DC, and if you get an inverter light after switching inverters. Are you with me?
03 04 32 52
Fred Haise (LMP): Roger.
03 04 32 54
Vance Brand (CAPCOM): Okay. —
03 04 32 55
Jim Lovell (CDR): Affirmative.
03 04 32 57
Vance Brand (CAPCOM): And proceeding on. If, during the burn, the engine stops, if you have a flashing NOUN 97, you should PROCEED, then ullage, ENGINE START to PUSH, and DESCENT ENGINE OVERRIDE ON. Okay. Now just general information. If you didn't burn PC plus 2, probably P—P plus 4 would be the earliest MCC. AGS is going to backup in a rate-fail mode only, which you know. We're talking over the star check. Will have to get back with you on that. If, for some reason, there is no PC-2, you have a free-return trajectory with the landing at 152:02:00, and that would be after a small midcourse-5, which would probably be around 4 feet per second at 93 hours. And you have recovery forces in the Indian Ocean; you're in good shape there. And the Indian Ocean is where this landing would be. Okay. You still with me?
03 04 35 13
Fred Haise (LMP): Roger.
03 04 35 15
Vance Brand (CAPCOM): Okay. After —
03 04 35 17
Fred Haise (LMP): Yes. I'm with you.
03 04 35 19
Vance Brand (CAPCOM): Okay. After PC plus 2, there are no trim requirements; and, if you have a shutdown during PC plus 2, subsequent midcourse maneuvers required with—Well, the earliest one would be PC plus 4. If you don't do a PC plus 2, but we still want to do one—MCC later. At PC plus 4, the increase in DELT—in DELTA-V, or the penalty, would be about 24 feet per second, with a landing in the mid-Pacific at 142:46:30. Now, you should expect new pads, state vectors, and targets for PC plus 2 at about GET 78. Over.
03 04 36 56
Jack Swigert (CMP): Tell them to stand by.
03 04 36 57
Fred Haise (LMP): Stand by, Vance.
03 04 36 58
Vance Brand (CAPCOM): Okay.
03 04 37 07
Fred Haise (LMP): Okay. How do you read?
03 04 37 09
Vance Brand (CAPCOM): Loud and clear.
03 04 37 13
Fred Haise (LMP): Okay. Burn rules. We should shut down for the following: if we have the thrust monitor at 77 percent or below; number 2, if the DPS propellant ullage pressure is less than 160 psi; 3, if the fuel oxidizer DELTA-P is greater than 25, and that'll be a ground callout; 4, if the attitude error is plus or minus 10 degrees except for starting transients. Okay. Rate limits are plus or minus 10 degrees per second. And we're to shut down with the following alarms: an ENGINE GIMBAL light, an ISS with a PROGRAM ALARM, an LGC, a CES DC, and an inverter light, if it's still on after we've tried switching inverters. If, during the burn, the engine shuts down when the NOUN 97 flashes, we should PRO, do manual ullage, and START pushbutton, push, and DESCENT ENGINE COMMAND OVERRIDE, open. If we don't do a PC-2, our next burn will it be at PC-4 for an added 24 foot per second. We'll land mid-PAC at 142:46:30. Okay. We'll have the AGS up for backup rate command, or rate damping, I guess. And the free return that we're on, if we don't—that we're on now, if we don't do PC-2 or 4, lands us at 152:02:00 in the Indian Ocean. And there's no trim requirements on this burn, and we should expect a new uplink and a new final maneuver pad from you at 178 hours.
03 04 39 23
Vance Brand (CAPCOM): 78.
03 04 39 29
Fred Haise (LMP): Okay. I'm sorry, 1—Yes, 78 hours. It only seems like it's been that long.
03 04 39 35
Vance Brand (CAPCOM): I can understand.
03 04 39 54
Vance Brand (CAPCOM): Okay, Fred. Your readback was correct.
03 04 40 00
Fred Haise (LMP): Okay.
03 04 40 16
Fred Haise (LMP): Okay. And, Vance, did you ever have any LOS/AOS times, and—and a startup time for us to jump into this activation checklist?
03 04 40 29
Vance Brand (CAPCOM): Okay. Let me—Let me poll the house again on that one.
03 04 40 37
Jim Lovell (CDR): What?
03 04 40 39
Fred Haise (LMP): Okay. One word is that the—In an optimum fashion there, going through that 2-hour activation generally took somewhere from about an hour and 15 to an hour 20.
03 04 40 56
Vance Brand (CAPCOM): Okay. I guess then we ought to allow you a little more than that, huh?
03 04 41 06
Fred Haise (LMP): No, I was thinking that we don't have to do about four pages of it, that we probably need just about that, and that will make up for the difference of any added time we need maneuvering et cetera.
03 04 41 19
Vance Brand (CAPCOM): Okay.
03 04 42 07
Jim Lovell (CDR): We'll need a—Can I get a flashlight? You got a flashlight. We might need a spare flashlight—Yes. Okay. We might need a spare flashlight: have you got one? Okay. Okay. The Sun has gone … down.
03 04 42 31
Jim Lovell (CDR): Man, look at those stars. Houston.
03 04 42 40
Vance Brand (CAPCOM): Go ahead, Aquarius.
03 04 42 45
Jim Lovell (CDR): Roger. We are in the shadow of the Moon now. The Sun is just about set as far as I can see and the stars are all coming out.
03 04 42 54
Vance Brand (CAPCOM): Okay. And if you are ready to copy, we have LOS/AOS times for you.
03 04 43 04
Jack Swigert (CMP): Flashlight. Okay.
03 04 43 16
Fred Haise (LMP): Go ahead, Vance.
03 04 43 18
Vance Brand (CAPCOM): Okay. LOS 77:08:35, AOS 77:33:10. Sunrise—First I'll give you sunset which is past, but that was supposed to be at 76:32:45 and sunrise 77:16:48.
03 04 43 58
Fred Haise (LMP): Okay. LOS at 77:08:35, AOS at 77:33:10. Sunset at 76:32:45, sunrise at 77:16:48.
03 04 44 13
Vance Brand (CAPCOM): Roger. We'll get back with you on the powerup time and, if you're ready to copy, have angles to load into NOUN 22 for your VERB 49 maneuver to burn attitude. Over.
03 04 44 35
Fred Haise (LMP): Okay. Go ahead with the VERB 49 value.
03 04 44 38
Vance Brand (CAPCOM): Okay. R₁ plus 27210, R₂ plus 35570, R₃ plus 33010. Second item, as you know, due to maneuver with a PROCEED and a PROCEED; and, after your attitude, a reminder that P40 will not set you back to a narrow deadband. To get back to the 1.40-degree deadband, you have to use the procedure I gave you, which is VERB 21, NOUN 01, ENTER, 3011, ENTER. And 200, ENTER.
03 04 45 47
Fred Haise (LMP): Okay. VERB 49, register 1, plus 27218; register 2, plus 35570; register 3, plus 33010; and to get the narrow deadband back we want a VERB 21, NOUN 01, ENTER, 3011, ENTER, 200 ENTER.
03 04 46 11
Vance Brand (CAPCOM): Roger. And a correction on your—on your first number for register 1. That should be plus 27210. And another comment; after you get into the narrow deadband at that attitude, why, you might tell us where you see Nunki.
03 04 46 34
Jim Lovell (CDR): Roger. Will do, Vance.
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03 04 46 36
Vance Brand (CAPCOM): Thank you.
03 04 46 37
Fred Haise (LMP): Okay. And you corrected register 1; it's plus 27210.
03 04 46 43
Vance Brand (CAPCOM): Roger.
03 04 46 45
Jim Lovell (CDR): And would you like us to make that maneuver at this time?
03 04 47 10
Jim Lovell (CDR): It's down below us, isn't it?
03 04 47 13
Vance Brand (CAPCOM): Stand by.
03 04 47 19
Fred Haise (LMP): Can't see it.
03 04 47 26
Jack Swigert (CMP): Can we have some more light in here now?
03 04 47 29
Jim Lovell (CDR): I have a light.
03 04 48 20
Fred Haise (LMP): What do you see out your upper window?
03 04 48 32
Jim Lovell (CDR): Stars.
03 04 48 37
Fred Haise (LMP): Yes. It looks like—looks like the light is coming from around those clouds.
03 04 48 48
Jim Lovell (CDR): Well, you won't get AOS/LOS until 77.
03 04 48 53
Fred Haise (LMP): …
03 04 49 18
Jack Swigert (CMP): Yes.
03 04 49 19
Jim Lovell (CDR): …
03 04 49 22
Jack Swigert (CMP): Yes.
03 04 49 37
Jim Lovell (CDR): Let's see, AOS is at 2 hours before the burn?
03 04 49 45
Fred Haise (LMP): Just about.
03 04 50 01
Vance Brand (CAPCOM): Apollo 13, Houston.
03 04 50 05
Jim Lovell (CDR): Go ahead, Houston.
03 04 50 08
Vance Brand (CAPCOM): Jim, we recommend you go ahead and make your VERB 49 maneuver, but just stay there in VERB 49 and don't go ahead to narrow the deadband just yet. And, when you're in that attitude, why, of course, then you can make your star check. And one other item is, I don't think we got back with you, but that hour 15 for powerup sounds fine with us.
03 04 50 40
Jim Lovell (CDR): Okay. At this time, I'll start my VERB 49 maneuver, but will not narrow the deadband, and we will take a look at Nunki. Okay, Vance.
03 04 50 52
Vance Brand (CAPCOM): Roger.
03 04 51 09
Jim Lovell (CDR): Almost, huh?
03 04 51 46
Fred Haise (LMP): Jim? Jim?
03 04 52 30
Jack Swigert (CMP): …
03 04 52 32
Jim Lovell (CDR): No, it shouldn't.
03 04 52 45
Jack Swigert (CMP): …
03 04 52 46
Jim Lovell (CDR): It shouldn't.
03 04 52 54
Jim Lovell (CDR): I was below that …
03 04 52 57
Jack Swigert (CMP): …
03 04 52 58
Jim Lovell (CDR): That's a good idea.
03 04 53 03
Jack Swigert (CMP): …
03 04 53 34
Fred Haise (LMP): … how many lights you're going to see. You can coach Jim on that.
03 04 53 44
Jim Lovell (CDR): Sure. We're there.
03 04 54 22
Fred Haise (LMP): Nunki?
03 04 54 24
Jim Lovell (CDR): Yes. I can just barely see it. I see Antares much better.
03 04 54 37
Jim Lovell (CDR): Why is the wide deadband on? Stand by. Is—Is Scorpio moving down?
03 04 55 20
Jim Lovell (CDR): What's that cloud I see over there?
03 04 55 23
Unidentified crew member: I don't know. It looks like a Milky Way.
03 04 55 27
Jim Lovell (CDR): Just a -
03 04 55 36
Jim Lovell (CDR): Huh!
03 04 55 48
Jim Lovell (CDR): Houston, Aquarius.
03 04 55 55
Vance Brand (CAPCOM): Aquarius, Houston. Go ahead.
03 04 56 00
Jim Lovell (CDR): Okay. We have completed our maneuver. We're in our wide deadband, and Nunki is close to the top of my display of the AOT. Right now, Antares seems to be more closer towards the center. However, we are in our wide deadband.
03 04 57 18
Vance Brand (CAPCOM): Right; understand. We'll have to make a better check later, I guess.
03 04 57 26
Jim Lovell (CDR): I can't for the life of me figure out what that dark stuff is.
03 04 57 38
Fred Haise (LMP): Yes. Did you look at it, Jack?
03 04 57 46
Jack Swigert (CMP): Yes. Okay. But I didn't recall what …
03 04 58 17
Jack Swigert (CMP): See it there. Like two black clouds.
03 04 58 24
Jim Lovell (CDR): Well, you know what this burn is buying us; 10 hours.
03 04 58 29
Jack Swigert (CMP): Yes.
03 04 58 32
Fred Haise (LMP): And how.
03 04 58 54
Jim Lovell (CDR): Might be a good idea.
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Jack Swigert (CMP): Hey, that's pretty extensive, Jim. You can locate it and get it halfway through the …
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03 05 00 25
Jack Swigert (CMP): Strange.
03 05 00 53
Jim Lovell (CDR): It's on the AOT. Well, maybe not.
03 05 01 02
Fred Haise (LMP): I don't think so.
03 05 03 08
Jim Lovell (CDR): I know what that is. That might be the debris that was thrown out there.
03 05 03 15
Jack Swigert (CMP): — into the cloud?
03 05 03 19
Fred Haise (LMP): It's all dark now.
03 05 03 24
Jim Lovell (CDR): From the explosion.
03 05 03 27
Fred Haise (LMP): … we made a maneuver.
03 05 03 30
Jim Lovell (CDR): No, from our explosion.
03 05 03 32
Jack Swigert (CMP): Take a look. It covers a wide area. God, that dark cloud. … Like a pair of contrails. Only if you switch the detent, they go on around. How long to LOS? Is that right?
03 05 04 06
Jim Lovell (CDR): I'd sure like to try the detent 2, but I guess our damn platform's okay, isn't it?
03 05 04 11
Jack Swigert (CMP): Yes.
03 05 04 17
Jim Lovell (CDR): Yes.
03 05 05 03
Jack Swigert (CMP): …
03 05 05 38
Jack Swigert (CMP): …
03 05 06 03
Vance Brand (CAPCOM): Aquarius, Houston. Over.
03 05 06 09
Jim Lovell (CDR): Go ahead, Houston.
03 05 06 11
Vance Brand (CAPCOM): Okay, Jim. We have a little over 2 minutes until LOS, and everything's looking good here.
03 05 06 21
Jim Lovell (CDR): Roger. Yes. I take it that we don't have to start our activations until we receive AOS from you.
03 05 06 39
Vance Brand (CAPCOM): Roger. That's correct.
03 05 08 08
Jim Lovell (CDR): You … up our edibles? … water? …
03 05 33 50
Jim Lovell (CDR): Good morning, Houston. How do you read?
03 05 34 37
Vance Brand (CAPCOM): Aquarius, Houston. Over.
03 05 34 42
Jim Lovell (CDR): Stand by for AOS.
03 05 35 02
Jim Lovell (CDR): Houston, how do you read Aquarius?
03 05 35 05
Vance Brand (CAPCOM): Aquarius, Houston. Reading you about 3 by 3.
03 05 35 43
Jack Swigert (CMP): Houston, Aquarius. How do you read?
03 05 35 49
Vance Brand (CAPCOM): Okay, Fred. Reading you fairly well now. How do you read?
03 05 35 53
Jack Swigert (CMP): Okay. I read you loud and clear, …
03 05 35 58
Vance Brand (CAPCOM): Roger.
03 05 38 34
Fred Haise (LMP): Jack, why don't you get the other …
03 05 39 23
Jim Lovell (CDR): Well, go this way.
03 05 39 31
Jim Lovell (CDR): All right. We're going up on Mare Smythii, now.
03 05 40 55
Jack Swigert (CMP): We'll see where … zooming off.
03 05 41 02
Jim Lovell (CDR): Oh, yes, yes, we're no longer 139 miles. We're leaving.
03 05 41 08
Jack Swigert (CMP): Yes, look at that curvature.
03 05 41 18
Jim Lovell (CDR): That might be Crisium ever there, Fred.
03 05 41 37
Jack Swigert (CMP): Oh, yes; way off on the horizon, there, yes.
03 05 41 44
Jim Lovell (CDR): Hey, if you want to use the 250? There's a beautiful shot of Tsiolkovsky which we very seldom have.
03 05 42 04
Jim Lovell (CDR): Well, at this stage of the game beggars can't be choosers, I guess.
03 05 42 08
Jack Swigert (CMP): Yes, and we can't afford the amps to use the heaters.
03 05 42 36
Jim Lovell (CDR): Here you go.
03 05 43 33
Jim Lovell (CDR): All right. You're in zero phase up here.
03 05 43 46
Jim Lovell (CDR): Are we—back to DOWN VOICE BACKUP?

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