Vance Brand (CAPCOM)

And I just want to verify one thing, we could —

Jack Swigert (CMP)

I say I'm sure glad we didn't have a LM impact, too.

Vance Brand (CAPCOM)

Right. Just wanted to verify—We had poor reception when I was talking to you before—I wanted to verify that you understand that the Sun check you made earlier in the AOT was good, and that's what we're riding on. Anything that we told you in the past about looking at the Sun in the front left window or looking at stars, like Nunki through the AOT, why, we want to forget.

Jim Lovell (CDR)

Roger. Understand, Vance. I think Nunki would be kind of hard to see anyway with the Moon right here.

Jim Lovell (CDR)

And, Vance, we plan to start powering up at 78:12. Is that a good time or do you think we ought to hold off a little longer?

Vance Brand (CAPCOM)

Jim, we think that's very good.

Vance Brand (CAPCOM)

Apollo 13, Houst—Aquarius, Houston.

Vance Brand (CAPCOM)

Fred, after the burn, we'll get the powerdown instructions, or checklist changes to you. At the same time, we'd like to get a consumables status to you. All I'll say right now is that we think you look in reasonably good shape.

Jack Swigert (CMP)

Okay. Houston, Aquarius.

Jack Swigert (CMP)

Okay. One CAUTION AND WARNING light here showing that you didn't call out—it's the PRE AMPS—I suppose because we don't have the ATCA breaker in yet.

Jim Lovell (CDR)

Houston, are you planning to give us a state vector update.

Vance Brand (CAPCOM)

That's—That's affirm, Jim. All we need is UPDATA LINK circuit breaker closed on panel 11, and P00 and ACCEPT and we can ship it up to you. P00 and DATA.

Jim Lovell (CDR)

Okay, Vance. We're in DATA and P00 and the circuit breaker's in. Go ahead.

Vance Brand (CAPCOM)

Okay. We'll ship her up to you.

Vance Brand (CAPCOM)

Jim, request verify RANGING FUNCTION switch is in RANGING. We need that, if it's not there now.

Vance Brand (CAPCOM)

Aquarius, Houston. The computer is yours.

Vance Brand (CAPCOM)

Aquarius, Houston. Did you call?

Jim Lovell (CDR)

We didn't call, Houston.

Vance Brand (CAPCOM)

Aquarius, Houston. Over.

Fred Haise (LMP)

Houston, are you calling Aquarius?

Vance Brand (CAPCOM)

Roger, Fred. I would like to confirm that you are getting drinking water out of, potable water out of the command module and, if you can make any estimates of how much you use as time goes on, and how much you have used, we would appreciate it for our consumables analysis.

Fred Haise (LMP)

Okay, Jack. Tried the procedure and out of that pressure, we got 10 drinks made. That's roughly 80 ounces.

Vance Brand (CAPCOM)

Okay, Fred, we had a little static on that one, but I think you said that 80 ounces of water has been used out of the CM. Is that right?

Fred Haise (LMP)

Yes. Jack worked the procedure and filled as many of the drinks as he could, and he made up ten bags of approximately 8 ounces a bag.

Vance Brand (CAPCOM)

Jim, just a bit of information, if for any reason you had to slip Tig, our people here feel it wouldn't do much harm if you slipped it up to 30 minutes. The procedure, of course as you know, is not to PRO on the flashing 99 and we thought you might like to be aware that Tig time isn't all that critical.

Fred Haise (LMP)

Okay, Vance; Aquarius.

Fred Haise (LMP)

Okay. I think it's finally coming through to us here, what you said just a little while ago. Were you suggesting that we move the Tig up 30 minutes?

Vance Brand (CAPCOM)

No, not at all. We're just giving you excess information. Just saying if you had any problem at all it could be slipped.

Fred Haise (LMP)

Oh, okay. Slipped 30 minutes. Okay. That's better.

Vance Brand (CAPCOM)

You guys are pretty fast, though.

Fred Haise (LMP)

Yes. It kind of surprised us.

Vance Brand (CAPCOM)

I guess that's what happens when you cut a lot out of a checklist.

Fred Haise (LMP)

Yes. Yes, we're taking about a thousand pictures in between steps there, too.

Fred Haise (LMP)

Okay, Houston; Aquarius, radio check.

Fred Haise (LMP)

Okay. I had a change in the background noises, wondered if you were still there.

Jim Lovell (CDR)

Houston, Aquarius. Go ahead, Houston

Vance Brand (CAPCOM)

Okay, Aquarius. We have some new information regarding what you should see out the commander's window at Tig Over.

Vance Brand (CAPCOM)

According to calculations—calculations, you should see the Moon. It'll be a full Moon. You should see most of the disk and it should be somewhere on your vertical LPD line, probably at about 14 on the LPD scale. Over. Roughly centered on 14.

Jim Lovell (CDR)

Okay, Houston. I concur. I'm looking at 14 on the LPD and the angle is just about centered. It's south of Crisium, but its—The line is just slightly to the north of center.

Vance Brand (CAPCOM)

Okay, Jim. That sounds very good. We see that you have a slight yaw angle, so it should be north of center.

Jim Lovell (CDR)

I can even see Mount Marilyn from here.

Vance Brand (CAPCOM)

Aquarius, Houston. Over.

Vance Brand (CAPCOM)

Jim, you are GO for the burn. GO for the burn.

Jim Lovell (CDR)

Roger. I understand. GO for the burn.

Vance Brand (CAPCOM)

Aquarius, 2 minutes and 40 seconds to go on the mark.

Vance Brand (CAPCOM)

Stand by. That was incorrect. Three minutes—Counting down to 3 minutes, and I'll give you a mark, and I'll take into consideration 2 seconds.

Jim Lovell (CDR)

We're burning 40 percent.

Vance Brand (CAPCOM)

Aquarius, Houston. You're looking good.

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Vance Brand (CAPCOM)

Aquarius, you were looking good at 2 minutes. Still looking good.

Vance Brand (CAPCOM)

Aquarius, you're GO at 3 minutes.

Vance Brand (CAPCOM)

Don't forget DESCENT REG 1, off; 10 seconds to go.

Jim Lovell (CDR)

Are you reading our 1640, Houston?

Vance Brand (CAPCOM)

Roger. We're reading it.

Jim Lovell (CDR)

We'll proceed. Here's our residuals.

Vance Brand (CAPCOM)

I say, that was a good burn.

Jim Lovell (CDR)

Roger. And now we want to power down as soon as possible.

Jim Lovell (CDR)

Suggest maybe you just read off the circuit breakers you want us to power down. As you did yesterday, for us.

Vance Brand (CAPCOM)

Okay. We have a procedure ready to send up to you here in about 2 minutes. Let us know when you're all ready to take it.

Fred Haise (LMP)

Okay. Is it going to be better to write this on a blank page, Vance, or can we use some portion of the powerdown list there in the contingency book that already exists.

Vance Brand (CAPCOM)

Aquarius, Houston. Over.

Vance Brand (CAPCOM)

Slight delay here, Jim. It will be a couple of minutes before we read that up to you, and we're looking at the contingency checklist powerdown and that's on page 5. You might be getting that out while we get all ready to give it to you.

Fred Haise (LMP)

Could you give us that page number again. Page 5 doesn't make sense.

Vance Brand (CAPCOM)

Okay. Make that power 5 in the contingency checklist, Fred. And it's the —

Vance Brand (CAPCOM)

— middle part of the page, it starts emergency powerdown, and we'll mark that up.

Fred Haise (LMP)

Okay. I'm to 5 emergency powerdown.

Vance Brand (CAPCOM)

Okay. But hold off on it because we might have to start PTC up again here. And that's the point that's being resolved right at the moment, so stand by.

Vance Brand (CAPCOM)

Aquarius, Houston. Over.

Vance Brand (CAPCOM)

Okay. We're ready to give you the procedure which will power you down a good bit, and after the PTC is going, maybe we can give you further information, are you ready to copy? Starting at the middle of the page, power 5.

Fred Haise (LMP)

Okay. Go ahead, Vance.

Vance Brand (CAPCOM)

Okay. After number 1, first line, cross out “And VHF-A.” Second line, cross out “SIMPLEX operation.” Third line, cross out “Prime.” That refers to PRIME POWER AMP, OFF. That—that “PRIME” should actually be replaced by OFF. And that's the second prime that line. Also in the third line the last word “OFF” should be crossed out and replaced by “PCM.” Fourth line is okay. Fifth line, which is “VHF VOICE, ON, OFF, OFF,” cross out. “Lighting, FLOODS,” which is the next line should be “OFF”, but add the following, “Or OVERHEAD/FORWARD prefer OFF.” Okay. Step 2 remains the same; no change for the moment. Stand by. Skip step 2. Do not do it. Just go on to step 3, which is “Configure circuit breakers per the chart.” That takes us to page power 6. Why don't you give me a readback on what you had on power 5, Fred-o.

Fred Haise (LMP)

Okay. On power 5, emergency powerdown. Item 1, first line, I scratch the “And VHF-A.” Second line “SIMPLEX operation.” Third line, I replace the second prime which is the POWER AMP with an “OFF,” and the last word in that line is “OFF,” replaced it with “PCM.” Fourth line is okay. Fifth line, I scratch the whole line. Lighting, we haven't needed floods yet so we will just leave them off, exterior lighting off. Scratch line 2 and I am now on power 6, wait for your update on the CB panels.

Vance Brand (CAPCOM)

Okay. Power 6. Okay. Power 6 refers to panel 11. You should go per the chart with the exception of those breakers that I call out. First line is okay. Or, let's say, first row. Second row, QUAD 4, TCA, closed; QUAD 3, TCA, closed; QUAD 2, TCA, closed; and QUAD 1, TCA, closed. The rest of that row is okay. Row 3, about halfway over, ATCA (PGNS), closed. Okay. The rest of that line is okay. Fourth line, HEATER—stand by. Okay. That line is all okay with the exception of the last three circuit breakers, Fred, under PGNS, which is LGC DSKY, IMU STANDBY, IMU OPERATE. Those three should be closed, at least for the time being. And finally, the fifth line; it's okay as is. And would you give me a readback on that?

Fred Haise (LMP)

Okay. I disagree on the fifth line. It appears that we ought to have the ASCENT ECA CONTROL open.

Vance Brand (CAPCOM)

Okay. We'll check into that one and while we are listening to the rest of your readout.

Fred Haise (LMP)

Okay. And top row is correct as is. Second row we want the QUAD TCAs 1 through 4 closed. On the third row, we want the ATCA (PGNS), closed. On the fourth row we want the PGNS LGC DSKY, IMU STANDBY, IMU OPERATE, all closed, and you're saying the bottom row as is.

Vance Brand (CAPCOM)

Okay. We'll go along with what you said on the ASCENT ECA CONTROL. That should be open.