Spacelog Apollo 13

That was a good TV show you put on the other night, Fred, during LM entry.

Yes. It would have been an even better one about 10 minutes later.

Yes. Things sure turned to worms there in a hurry after that show.

Yes. You're right.

Okay. The center of the Moon new is about minus 2 degrees LPD.

Minus 2 degrees, center of the Moon.

Charlie said to say hello.

Who's that?

Charlie.

Is he still around there?

Unless my watch is wrong, it says it's almost 2 a.m. back there.

No. That's the bearded one.

Oh! Okay.

Hey, tell Charlie that I'll be back down there personally to thank him for this baby.

Okay. The Moon—I'd estimate it up around minus—somewhere 17 to minus 20 degrees LPD.

Okay. Moon's minus 17 to minus 20.

How would you like to spend a week on an aircraft carrier getting back?

If I can get on an aircraft carrier, I don't care how long it takes, Jack.

They're going to take you by helo to Samoa. You'll spend the night in Samoa, get on a 141, and be at Ellington shortly thereafter.

Okay. Kind of sounds like the original plans for the …

Had you worrying that you're going to spend the night on the ship, helo to Samoa and directly to Ellington.

Very good.

Boy, these thrusters are sure … …

Fred, I'm not reading you. Maybe we'd better wait until we change antennas or unless you can speak up a little louder.

How do you read now?

Better.

Okay. The thrusters … and the … outside … and they hardly look like they … …

Gee, I'm sorry, Fred. We're just not reading you right now. Maybe we'll have to wait a little bit.

Okay.

Let's try it now. If you can speak up, the background noise has gone down a little bit.

Okay. How do you read now?

A little better.

I was just commenting—I've been looking here at the thrusters on quads 1 and 4. We've got a slight discoloration on the outside of the barrel. The nozzles look like they hadn't ever been fired,—like they're brand new. … of like those skinny things on the interior on the upper nozzle …

You say the coloration of the thrusters appears they haven't been fired on quads 1 and 4?

I'm saying all of them look clean again. I guess they've fired so clean that they don't seem to … at all. … different color, … copper, bronze, color of the oxygen cell. They've been fired because I watched them fire. Okay. The Earth's going by at an LPD of 42.

Roger. Copy LPD 42. Is that affirm?

That's affirm.

And, Fred, that may be why the COMM is a little bit degraded, more background noise, because we're getting out of attitude a little bit there.

How do you read on AFT OMNI now …?

I'm reading you, Fred. I've got a lot of background noise. Looks like it might come and go with attitude.

Yes. I think that's probably—just looking through the command module at you now.

How do you read now, Jack?

About the same, Fred.

Okay.

Okay. And the Moon just went by at about minus 14 degrees.