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03 08 35 53
Unidentified crew member: (Laughter)
03 08 36 01
Jim Lovell (CDR): So what did they put on my LEVA?
03 08 36 15
Fred Haise (LMP): Oh, boy.
03 08 36 23
Jack Swigert (CMP): …?
03 08 36 25
Fred Haise (LMP): No. He didn't want it. There she goes, gang. The Moon.
03 08 36 40
Vance Brand (CAPCOM): Aquarius, Houston.
03 08 36 45
Jim Lovell (CDR): Go ahead, Vance.
03 08 36 46
Vance Brand (CAPCOM): Okay, Jim. Since the first recommendation on how to maneuver PTC didn't work out, we have another one. And you might try this. Put yaw at zero, then start the roll, and the pitch after that.
03 08 37 27
Fred Haise (LMP): Vance, do you read?
03 08 37 29
Vance Brand (CAPCOM): Yes. I do now. Go ahead.
03 08 37 33
Fred Haise (LMP): Key moment Mission control describes the 'mailbox' CO₂ scrubbers: Okay. You guys just tell me what sort of material you had in mind to build this mailbox out of, and Jack and I will go to work on trying to construct that thing. Assume we'll use the space-age baling wire or the gray tape?
03 08 37 51
Vance Brand (CAPCOM): That's affirm. We have a lengthy procedure here; but, in short, you use plastic as a covering for the whole thing. You put some kind of a stiffener at the top so the plastic doesn't suck against the LOI—LiOH enter—entrance side. You'll—You need gray tape to stick the whole thing together, and you need something like a sock to put in the—the bottom so that the outlet side is plugged up. As it turns out, the flow is rather U-shaped through the cartridge, Fred. It, if you plug up the bottom, it comes in one side of the top and goes out the other.
03 08 38 45
Fred Haise (LMP): Okay. (Sigh) Hold on a minute. Let—Let us go get a cartridge and with it in hand, I'll speak to you some more.
03 08 39 01
Vance Brand (CAPCOM): Aquarius, Houston. Over.
03 08 39 03
Jim Lovell (CDR): Okay, Vance. Go ahead.
03 08 39 06
Vance Brand (CAPCOM): Okay. Really, I think we should give you a more detailed procedure on that; and, in general, those are the materials that are to be used, but let us get back with a detailed procedure on how to make this cartridge arrangement work.
03 08 39 27
Fred Haise (LMP): Okay.
03 08 39 38
Jim Lovell (CDR): And to answer your question about PTC, Vance, it's rather difficult to use yaw in zero right away. So what I'm doing, yaw is working toward zero right now. Pitch is working toward 90, and roll is working toward—zero. So, we—We're just going to take some time to get there, that's all.
03 08 40 08
Vance Brand (CAPCOM): Roger. Quite a bit of noise now. I understand you're still having a problem getting there with the PTC.
03 08 40 19
Jim Lovell (CDR): We are getting there slowly.
03 08 40 21
Vance Brand (CAPCOM): Okay.
03 08 40 42
Vance Brand (CAPCOM): Aquarius, Houston. Let's try FORWARD OMNI.
03 08 41 38
Fred Haise (LMP): I don't know, it looks …
03 08 41 47
Fred Haise (LMP): I don't know, it looks that way.
03 08 42 41
Fred Haise (LMP): Okay, Houston. How do you read, now?
03 08 42 56
Fred Haise (LMP): Houston, how do you read?
03 08 42 57
Vance Brand (CAPCOM): Loud and clear, now. Go ahead.
03 08 43 02
Fred Haise (LMP): Okay. I switched to FORWARD OMNI, now.
03 08 43 05
Vance Brand (CAPCOM): Roger. …
03 08 43 07
Fred Haise (LMP): Okay.
03 08 43 53
Jim Lovell (CDR): They're … off. They can't stop pitch.
03 08 43 57
Fred Haise (LMP): …
03 08 44 00
Jim Lovell (CDR): That would only use fuel.
03 08 44 06
Jim Lovell (CDR): … and stick it around that way.
03 08 44 30
Jim Lovell (CDR): Must have the wrong thing, there.
03 08 45 52
Fred Haise (LMP): Oh, yes. That was pretty.
03 08 46 53
Fred Haise (LMP): That didn't sound very good.
03 08 47 05
Jack Swigert (CMP): Yes, hang on to that.
03 08 49 01
Jim Lovell (CDR): …
03 08 49 31
Jim Lovell (CDR): They're a hell of a long ways away.
03 08 49 33
Fred Haise (LMP): Right.
03 08 49 38
Jim Lovell (CDR): Yes, we're not moving that fast to Earth.
03 08 49 40
Fred Haise (LMP): Not yet.
03 08 49 59
Fred Haise (LMP): Hey, we're already … this time, huh?
03 08 50 02
Jack Swigert (CMP): Yes.
03 08 50 05
Fred Haise (LMP): … to the trajectory.
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03 08 50 08
Jim Lovell (CDR): Huh?
03 08 50 09
Fred Haise (LMP): …
03 08 50 10
Jim Lovell (CDR): Yes, I've been trying to get roll out. Roll to zero. Just go ahead to zero, I'm going to put it in ATT HOLD. Then it'll take out yaw, leaving pitch the way it is; then we're going to pitch down.
03 08 50 48
Fred Haise (LMP): We've got to think about when we have to start changing that canister.
03 08 50 55
Fred Haise (LMP): Fifteen even.
03 08 50 57
Jim Lovell (CDR): Huh?
03 08 50 58
Fred Haise (LMP): … to 15.
03 08 51 00
Jim Lovell (CDR): What is it right now?
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03 08 51 02
Fred Haise (LMP): Nothing. We're not reading anything.
03 08 51 07
Jim Lovell (CDR): Well, that's the one they wanted you to leave in.
03 08 51 10
Fred Haise (LMP): …
03 08 51 14
Jim Lovell (CDR): It's in. That's how it triggers the—Okay, Jack. I'm going to push in on this thing to stop it.
03 08 51 35
Jack Swigert (CMP): Yes.
03 08 51 51
Fred Haise (LMP): That just turned the MASTER ALARM back on. Now that it's on steady, I'll leave it on. I can't understand why I got a power—Oh, I know. That's right. … That reading is correct.
03 08 53 03
Jim Lovell (CDR): Yaw. I'm going the wrong way though, aren't I?
03 08 54 32
Fred Haise (LMP): (Laughter).
03 08 54 54
Fred Haise (LMP): Okay. What we're going to do, Jack, … over there …
03 08 55 19
Vance Brand (CAPCOM): Aquarius, Houston. Over.
03 08 55 25
Jim Lovell (CDR): Go ahead, Houston.
03 08 55 26
Vance Brand (CAPCOM): Jim, it looks pretty good except that the pitch is going out in the wrong direction, now. Over.
03 08 55 37
Jim Lovell (CDR): I concur. What I'm going to do is get roll to zero and I'm trying to bring yaw into zero and as soon as I get those two pretty well matched up, then I'm going to take the pitch and try to pitch it down.
03 08 55 49
Vance Brand (CAPCOM): Okeydoke.
03 08 57 33
Jim Lovell (CDR): Okay. Now I've got pitch going down; I've got roll almost zero and yaw is almost zero.
03 08 57 42
Vance Brand (CAPCOM): Okay. Copy, there, Jim.
03 09 01 26
Jim Lovell (CDR): Houston, what's an acceptable pitch attitude, that you'll take?
03 09 01 56
Vance Brand (CAPCOM): Aquarius, Houston.
03 09 02 12
Vance Brand (CAPCOM): Aquarius, Houston. Over.
03 09 02 17
Jim Lovell (CDR): Roger. What's the acceptable pitch attitude that we can have for PTC? I can go into AUTO any time now, I'm looking at 118 degrees in pitch, practically zero roll, and about 40 degrees of yaw.
03 09 02 31
Vance Brand (CAPCOM): Ninety degrees of pitch.
03 09 02 37
Jim Lovell (CDR): I'm looking at 118 degrees of pitch.
03 09 02 48
Vance Brand (CAPCOM): Stand by.
03 09 03 06
Jim Lovell (CDR): I'm trying to talk to them.
03 09 03 09
Vance Brand (CAPCOM): Stand by a minute, Jim. The pitch is the important thing, but—but stand by 1.
03 09 03 19
Jim Lovell (CDR): Okay. It's coming down. What's that? Well, I guess I'd better eat something. Hey, this one has some of that candied jelly … you know, we've gone a hell of a long time without any sleep. I said we've gone a hell of a long time without any sleep.
03 09 03 47
Jim Lovell (CDR): We'll have to start thinking about getting the … back to sleep again because—I know—I—I didn't get hardly any sleep last night at all.
03 09 07 16
Jack Swigert (CMP): Hey, Fred? These jettison bags with the—are real airtight stuff, if you want to use them for wrapping for a lithium hydroxide bag or something like that.
03 09 07 33
Fred Haise (LMP): Yes, this stuff is really tight.
03 09 07 46
Jim Lovell (CDR): Yes.
03 09 10 12
Vance Brand (CAPCOM): Aquarius, Houston. Over.
03 09 10 16
Jim Lovell (CDR): Go ahead, Houston.
03 09 10 17
Vance Brand (CAPCOM): Okay, Jim. Would you stable your—stabilize your rates here at the attitudes you're at now and go ATT HOLD. Over.
03 09 10 29
Jim Lovell (CDR): Okay. Will do. I'm now at 103 degrees—106 degrees pitch, and 2.5 degrees roll.
03 09 10 36
Vance Brand (CAPCOM): Roger.
03 09 11 04
Fred Haise (LMP): …?
03 09 11 06
Jim Lovell (CDR): No.
03 09 12 16
Jim Lovell (CDR): … mine are … Hey, I got you a clean one.
03 09 12 22
Fred Haise (LMP): Okay.
03 09 12 23
Jim Lovell (CDR): Last one's in the trash bag. Oh, I thought—if you wanted a …, you'll have to use the lithium hydroxide …
03 09 13 18
Jim Lovell (CDR): Okay, Houston. Are you monitoring my angles? It appears that it might be less then 1 degree per second.
03 09 13 30
Vance Brand (CAPCOM): Stand by. We'll check them, Jim.
03 09 14 29
Vance Brand (CAPCOM): Aquarius, Houston.
03 09 14 34
Jim Lovell (CDR): Go ahead, Houston.
03 09 14 36
Vance Brand (CAPCOM): Jim, that's affirm. We're monitoring and you're almost there, but we'd like to let them stabilize a little bit longer. Over.
03 09 14 48
Jim Lovell (CDR): Okay. We'll—We'll just hold.

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