Spacelog Apollo 13

And if—if you can now go into your eat period or do something else while the rates are stabilizing, why, we recommend you relax somewhere and get some chow.

Aquarius, Houston. Over.

Go ahead.

Okay, Jim. Looks like your rates are damped sufficient. Recommend that you go ahead with the VERB 25, NOUN 07, ENTER bit on down through the VERB 34, ENTER, and then wish you'd stand by for us to look at it again before you go beyond that. Over.

Okay, Houston. I'll go through VERB 25, NOUN 07, down through VERB 34 ENTER, and I'll stand by.

Right-o.

Okay, Houston. That's complete.

Roger. Houston copies, and we'll —

You … monitor our rates?

Roger.

We —

You want to monitor the rates; we're 16 20.

Roger. That's the way it should be done, and we're standing by for the rates to dump out some more.

Okay.

How you coming?

Oh, we're taking stock of how much we got there, maybe sort of think about rationing some of it. I mean just to make sure we've got enough to last us and that we get enough water out. I'd hate to run out of water on the last day. Take a look and see how much we got, and fill them up and just hold them there. Yes, and I'll tell you the stuff that's good to eat now will be the candies, the sandwich spreads. Maybe the freeze—the dehydrated stuff. If you have to rehydrate it, it'd be kind of difficult. No, wet packs are good.

As a matter of fact, we might use those little—Well, how about the PLSSs?

Yes, I know, but I mean the PLSSs are bombs, too.

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We're damping rates.

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You guys moving around?

Okay.

Apollo 13, Houston. Over.

Go ahead, Vance.

Jim, just a reminder. Any waste water dumped at this point would really jiggle up the PTC preparation, so request you save that until we're spun up. Over.

Right. I don't think we're doing any.

No. No, I don't think so, but I just wanted to make sure you were aware of it—I thought you were.

… for a minute?

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).

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.