Spacelog Apollo 13

With the new space. … we're … We've just about slowed down. You're damping right.

There she is.

And, Houston, Aquarius.

Houston. Go ahead.

Okay, Vance. A couple of items we uncovered for that cartridge MOD. One is the special dust covering bag that we were going to use on the tote bags, that is pretty thick and nonporous; and we went up to the upstairs kitchen and drained water a couple of more times, and made up a whole bunch of drink bags, again; and from the pantry, we retrieved a fairly large—enclosed—enclosure made of plastic that those drink bags are in that I think we can scissor and also make do for a cover, taping it on, if that's appropriate.

Okay. Jack Lousma here has a refined version of the procedure on how to make these the easy way, and I think before too long he ought to be reading that up to you. If —

Okay.

It's not time critical to get this up to you. It's just that, before you get too far in assembling these on your own, we'd kind of like to give you the benefit of experience down here.

Okay. Who—Who built them back there.

Tony did some of it, and Jack's been working on it, too. So we've had a big effort on it.

Great.

We would encourage you to wait until tomorrow to receive that procedure, but we can send it up sooner, if you insist. Over.

No, that's all right, Vance. Before we have to worry about that I guess we got another primary and three secondaries to go through.

That's right.

You know, sometimes those cartridges have—I guess they rejuvenate.

Aquarius, Houston. Over.

Man, that's a wicked low pressure down there. I wish I was on it. (Laughter).

Aquarius, Houston.

… up …

Okay, Jim. Your rates are once again looking good so we can continue on with the rest of this procedure. Request you go ahead with the VERB 76 ENTER, and MODE CONTROL, to ATT HOLD, and then the last step, 30 clicks yaw right.

Jets are firing again.

Okay. I'll do a VERB 76 ENTER with the MODE CONTROL ATT HOLD and then 30 clicks of right yaw to set the maneuver.

VERB 76 ENTER.

Roger.

There's your VERB 76, ENTER. MODE CONTROL to ATT HOLD. Now you want me to do 30 clicks of right yaw?

Vance, did you say for me to hold on the right yaw or do you want me to start it now?

No, no need to hesitate, you can start now.

Okay.

After you get that going, then we'll think about powering down the PGNS.

Okay. There were 30 clicks of right yaw.

Okay. We'd like to look at it for just a little while before we power down the PGNS, so stand by.

Understand you're planning to power down the FGNS?

Right. We want to get the amps down.

Okay.

… finish …

That's bad news.

Take 26 pictures of you?

Why not?

You want to bring all the film back empty?

I'd like to just … and shoot it.

Well, that means I've got to -

Hey, let me see if I can get this started here.

Okay.

Hey, Jim.

Yes, we'll probably get there ..

Aquarius, Houston. Request AFT OMNI.

You got it, Vance?

Roger. That did it. Thank you.

Gad, there's Ptolemaeus and Alphonsus.

Yes, sure enough.

See them right over the edge.

Here, let me shoot a few pictures of the old Moon here.

Yes. (cough) Which ones .. Did you put it back?

Yes.

Looks like we got … to do with Earth? Ptolemaeus?

We need it to aline again.

You don't think that burn was enough, do you?

Was that a midcourse? The RCS is worse.

The RCS … attitude.

… ought to come up the side. Then, you got us in the right plane, Jim. We're in the right plane. We're pointed off and we'll swerve on again with the Earth, Moon, and Sun.

In another respect, it might be easier to get a -

Look in the rear detent now. Go to -

How's that?

Awful.

Oh, that's right. That blasted service—command module is back there. Scratch that one. That one?

It's not much better. Okay, let's go this one.

Keep the …

Aquarius, Houston. Over.

Go ahead.

Jim, we have some status information for you, if you're ready to copy on a piece of scratch paper.

Stand by, Vance.

Okay.

We're ready for you.

Put that away and get some status paper here.

Go ahead, Vance.

Okay. First, midcourse correction will probably be at GET 104 hours, and all we look for is a 4- to 6-feet-per-second DELTA-V. Okay. That's the first item. Now, I will give you a rundown on consumables. Okay. In the LM, you have 1498—that is 1 4 9 8 amp-hours remaining. That means over 61 hours you'd—That would average out to 24.5 amps. We expect that, after powerdown, that you will use 1 4 or 14 amps per hour, and that would leave a reserve of 500 amp-hours at the end of the mission. Are you with me?

Roger. We're with you.

I saved my—number was yesterday.

Okay. In the LM, you have —

We're with you.

Roger. In the LM, you have 215, that is 2 1 5, pounds of water, usable. That would average out over 61 hours to 3.5 pounds per hour available. Okay.

Okay. And after you power down, we expect that you will be using water at the rate of 3.2 to 2.7 pounds—That's at 14 amps per hour electrical usage rate. One note, this does not—When we speak here of water available, this does not include CSM water and PLSS water, so that's add on. Okay, next, LiOH. Using the CSM cans, you will have 16 cans at 12 hours per can to give you 1 9 2, or 192 hours, of LiOH. And, in the LM, using its cans, you have 44 hours remaining.

Vance, is that with the PLSS secondaries?

That's affirm. That's affirm. That includes PLSS secondaries.

Okay; oxygen. You have remaining 44 pounds in the LM. At a usage rate of 0.36 pounds per hour, that leaves you 120, or 1 2 0, hours of oxygen. Okay. Next, RCS. RCS A stands at 6 2 percent and B at 6 2 percent. We only expect 2 percent to be used for the PTC, so you're in good shape for RCS. Next, DPS DELTA-V. You have 1190 feet per second remaining. And, finally, CSM EPS. We estimate that you have 99 amp-hours. That's an estimate. And that's it. Over.

Okay. I copy.

Okay. And just a question. It would be interesting to hear from Jack to see if he thinks that main B bus is good. If he has any idea of how, if whether it's good or not, this would influence our steps in the future; for example, we might want to try to test main B to see if it is, in fact, good so that we'd know how to set switches for entry.

Roger. Just a minute. They want to know whether you think main bus B is any good for the command module.

Vance, while Jack's got on the loop, let me pose the question of how we're planning on doing this midcourse, if we are going to power down the PGNS.

Would you stand by on that, Jim? We'd like to give you a procedure for that later on.

Okay. Got a midcourse at 104 hours, he's going to give us a procedure for that later on.

In short, Jim, we don't expect any problem, but we'll explain further later on.

Okay.

Deke says get a night's sleep. He says you've been working hard, and you ought to relax a little bit and be ready for tomorrow.

Vance, this is Jack.

Go ahead, Jack.

Okay. Let me give you my observations on main bus B. Things happened pretty fast there, and we first heard the impact or explosion or whatever caused it, I'm not sure. The next—About 1 second later, there was a MASTER ALARM which was the MAIN BUS B UNDERVOLT. I looked at the voltage, and the voltage was good at this time so I'm suspecting it was a spike. Fuel cell 3 was also good, with good flow. However, Fred, at that point, was coming into the command module and got over into his seat. At that time, we shortly had an AC BUS 2 light about the time he got into his seat. He looked at the MAIN BUS B and the MAIN BUS B was reading ZERO. It, however,—and the fuel cell flows were ZERO. I'm kind of suspecting that perhaps we do have a MAIN—a current MAIN BUS B. But that's merely a guess. I never did try to reset it. We were having other problems with the MAIN BUS A, having an UNDERVOLT and a few other things like that. I'd kind of like to hear what your feelings are down there.

Well, Jack, we copy your information. And we'd like to hold off because we're still working the problem. So we'll have to give you information later.

Thank you.

Aquarius, request AFT OMNI.

Vance, are you back with me?

Roger. We're with you.

Okay. We lost lock there. We switched OMNIs. Just for my own—kind of to get my thoughts in order, I'd kind of hear what—I'd like to hear what kind of entry you're planning. EMS or PGNS or what ?

Okay. PGNS entry is being planned, and people are at work on checklist changes and that sort of thing.

Okay. Real fine.

And—we'll—We'll give you the CSM stuff tomorrow, but basically we expect that main bus B is good and we're going to work up a procedure to test it.

Okay. Those are my thoughts, too.

But —