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03 08 22 28
Fred Haise (LMP): What do we make it out of, Vance?
03 08 22 32
Vance Brand (CAPCOM): One canister with a —
03 08 22 35
Fred Haise (LMP): — How about planning a rendezvous procedure?
03 08 22 38
Vance Brand (CAPCOM): — with a plastic roof.
03 08 22 50
Jim Lovell (CDR): Just for information, Houston, during—just prior to going around the Moon, we saw a lot of debris that was floating by us, including some—one rather large piece looked like the wrapping off of a line of some sort that is—still is with us.
03 08 23 10
Vance Brand (CAPCOM): Roger. Copy, Jim.
03 08 23 16
Jim Lovell (CDR): Even after our free-return midcourse yesterday.
03 08 23 24
Vance Brand (CAPCOM): Okay. We copy that.
03 08 23 40
Jim Lovell (CDR): No matter what I do, I can't stop that. Roll either way won't do it.
03 08 23 49
Fred Haise (LMP): Jim?
03 08 24 06
Fred Haise (LMP): Well, I don't see any way around it, Jim. It sure doesn't seem to be doing much, does it? It won't go down.
03 08 24 29
Jim Lovell (CDR): I don't know. I wonder if they tried that in the simulator. I can't seem to get roll to go up. It goes down on me, no matter how I hit the controllers.
03 08 24 45
Jim Lovell (CDR): Got pitch zero.
03 08 24 56
Jim Lovell (CDR): You can really see a change in rate?
03 08 24 59
Fred Haise (LMP): … jar here, see if it'll couple in roll.
03 08 25 15
Fred Haise (LMP): No?
03 08 25 26
Fred Haise (LMP): There we go.
03 08 25 45
Fred Haise (LMP): That does it.
03 08 25 54
Fred Haise (LMP): I'm glad, too.
03 08 26 00
Jim Lovell (CDR): I don't know what caused it.
03 08 27 36
Jim Lovell (CDR): Here we still have 67-percent fuel level. I wonder how come they didn't … DELTA-V curve?
03 08 27 56
Vance Brand (CAPCOM): Aquarius, Houston.
03 08 27 59
Jim Lovell (CDR): Go ahead.
03 08 28 01
Vance Brand (CAPCOM): Jim, we don't have any data on your movements right now. How does it look like this procedure's going to work out so far as getting an attitude set up, the first part of the procedure?
03 08 28 19
Jim Lovell (CDR): Well, Vance, I've been trying to use MINIMUM IMPULSE only attitude control to get my roll and yaw—the roll and pitch, rather. But, with the attitude control only in this configuration, I—I can't command these—the roll the way I want to. So, I had to go to TTCA to get my roll to build up towards zero, it was going—decreasing towards 270. I really don't know what the combination is in the attitude control, that you can get the control to pitch and roll the way you want it to. You've got to use the TTCA.
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03 08 29 00
Vance Brand (CAPCOM): Roger. Copy.
03 08 29 04
Jim Lovell (CDR): I now have both pitch and yaw—or pitch and roll going toward the designated amounts, now passing through 23 degrees in pitch, and I'm going up past 321 degrees in roll. And I am letting go that direction and when I get there, 90 in pitch and zero in roll, I'll go to AUTO and damp the rates.
03 08 30 00
Jim Lovell (CDR): Get a little sleep? That's okay.
03 08 30 28
Jim Lovell (CDR): We've got to rig up a method of using those lithium hydroxide canisters.
03 08 30 53
Fred Haise (LMP): Okay, Houston. We just got a MASTER ALARM and an ECS light. I take it the partial pressure CO₂ is—Yes—That's what tripped it.
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03 08 31 15
Fred Haise (LMP): There's that mother.
03 08 31 19
Vance Brand (CAPCOM): Aquarius, Houston. Say again.
03 08 31 20
Jim Lovell (CDR): All right. CO₂. Our CO₂ value is getting high. We had a DPS ECS light and a blinking component light.
03 08 31 37
Vance Brand (CAPCOM): Okay. Copy.
03 08 32 14
Vance Brand (CAPCOM): Stand by on that PTC O₂.
03 08 32 20
Jim Lovell (CDR): Say again, Houston.
03 08 32 41
Jim Lovell (CDR): Hello, Houston. How do you read? Over.
03 08 32 43
Vance Brand (CAPCOM): Okay. Read you loud and clear now, Jim.
03 08 32 48
Jim Lovell (CDR): Okay. Did you hear what I just said about the ECS light and the blinking CO₂ component light?
03 08 32 54
Vance Brand (CAPCOM): Okay. We got that and—Stand by 1.
03 08 33 01
Jim Lovell (CDR): Okay.
03 08 33 17
Fred Haise (LMP): Not much.
03 08 33 34
Jim Lovell (CDR): Jack, we might have to have you rig up this CO₂ rig they're talking about.
03 08 33 42
Vance Brand (CAPCOM): Go ahead. Houston. Over.
03 08 33 43
Jack Swigert (CMP): Oh! We've got a long ways to go.
03 08 33 47
Jim Lovell (CDR): Go ahead.
03 08 33 49
Vance Brand (CAPCOM): Okay, Jim. We're going to have to get back with you in a couple of minutes on whether or not we switch over at this time to your other canister. Second point, it might help in setting up this PTC if you concentrate on roll first, and get that going; and then work on pitch, when roll is established, and sort of take whatever yaw you get.
03 08 34 21
Jim Lovell (CDR): Okay. Vance, I tried that but when I start doing roll only I get pitch coupled in with it. But both of them rolling up toward this desired amount, though. I'm up to 46 and in pitch and 326 in roll.
03 08 34 42
Vance Brand (CAPCOM): Okay. Understand you've tried it.
03 08 34 55
Jim Lovell (CDR): Once I get roll zeroed, I don't think it'll be too bad.

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