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03 12 39 06
Jack Lousma (CAPCOM): Okay. One degree on the center of the Earth.
03 12 42 13
Jack Lousma (CAPCOM): That was a good TV show you put on the other night, Fred, during LM entry.
03 12 42 26
Fred Haise (LMP): Yes. It would have been an even better one about 10 minutes later.
03 12 42 50
Jack Lousma (CAPCOM): Yes. Things sure turned to worms there in a hurry after that show.
03 12 43 12
Fred Haise (LMP): Yes. You're right.
03 12 43 28
Fred Haise (LMP): Okay. The center of the Moon new is about minus 2 degrees LPD.
03 12 43 35
Jack Lousma (CAPCOM): Minus 2 degrees, center of the Moon.
03 12 44 44
Jack Lousma (CAPCOM): Charlie said to say hello.
03 12 44 51
Fred Haise (LMP): Who's that?
03 12 44 53
Jack Lousma (CAPCOM): Charlie.
03 12 44 58
Fred Haise (LMP): Is he still around there?
03 12 45 16
Fred Haise (LMP): Unless my watch is wrong, it says it's almost 2 a.m. back there.
03 12 45 22
Jack Lousma (CAPCOM): No. That's the bearded one.
03 12 45 29
Fred Haise (LMP): Oh! Okay.
03 12 46 15
Fred Haise (LMP): Hey, tell Charlie that I'll be back down there personally to thank him for this baby.
03 12 46 28
Jack Lousma (CAPCOM): Sure will. I did.
03 12 50 21
Fred Haise (LMP): Okay. The Earth went by there, Jack, at LPD about 18 degrees.
03 12 50 28
Jack Lousma (CAPCOM): Roger. We copy 18 degrees for the center of the Earth.
03 12 53 56
Fred Haise (LMP): Okay. The Moon—I'd estimate it up around minus—somewhere 17 to minus 20 degrees LPD.
03 12 54 07
Jack Lousma (CAPCOM): Okay. Moon's minus 17 to minus 20.
03 12 55 14
Jack Lousma (CAPCOM): How would you like to spend a week on an aircraft carrier getting back?
03 12 55 28
Fred Haise (LMP): If I can get on an aircraft carrier, I don't care how long it takes, Jack.
03 12 56 28
Jack Lousma (CAPCOM): 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.
03 12 56 46
Fred Haise (LMP): Okay. Kind of sounds like the original plans for the …
03 12 57 24
Jack Lousma (CAPCOM): Had you worrying that you're going to spend the night on the ship, helo to Samoa and directly to Ellington.
03 12 57 35
Fred Haise (LMP): Very good.
03 12 58 27
Fred Haise (LMP): Boy, these thrusters are sure … …
03 12 58 35
Jack Lousma (CAPCOM): Fred, I'm not reading you. Maybe we'd better wait until we change antennas or unless you can speak up a little louder.
03 12 58 43
Fred Haise (LMP): How do you read now?
03 12 58 45
Jack Lousma (CAPCOM): Better.
03 12 58 49
Fred Haise (LMP): Okay. The thrusters … and the … outside … and they hardly look like they … …
03 12 59 12
Jack Lousma (CAPCOM): Gee, I'm sorry, Fred. We're just not reading you right now. Maybe we'll have to wait a little bit.
03 12 59 20
Fred Haise (LMP): Okay.
03 12 59 29
Jack Lousma (CAPCOM): Let's try it now. If you can speak up, the background noise has gone down a little bit.
03 12 59 37
Fred Haise (LMP): Okay. How do you read now?
03 12 59 39
Jack Lousma (CAPCOM): A little better.
03 12 59 44
Fred Haise (LMP): 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 …
03 13 00 14
Jack Lousma (CAPCOM): You say the coloration of the thrusters appears they haven't been fired on quads 1 and 4?
03 13 00 24
Fred Haise (LMP): 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.
03 13 00 58
Jack Lousma (CAPCOM): Roger. Copy LPD 42. Is that affirm?
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03 13 01 03
Fred Haise (LMP): That's affirm.
03 13 01 17
Jack Lousma (CAPCOM): 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.
03 13 01 28
Fred Haise (LMP): Roger.
03 13 03 38
Fred Haise (LMP): How do you read on AFT OMNI now …?
03 13 03 43
Jack Lousma (CAPCOM): I'm reading you, Fred. I've got a lot of background noise. Looks like it might come and go with attitude.
03 13 03 54
Fred Haise (LMP): Yes. I think that's probably—just looking through the command module at you now.
03 13 04 45
Fred Haise (LMP): How do you read now, Jack?
03 13 04 47
Jack Lousma (CAPCOM): About the same, Fred.
03 13 04 52
Fred Haise (LMP): Okay.
03 13 05 08
Fred Haise (LMP): Okay. And the Moon just went by at about minus 14 degrees.
03 13 05 13
Jack Lousma (CAPCOM): Okay, the Moon at minus 14.
03 13 05 24
Fred Haise (LMP): That—that's correct.
03 13 05 28
Jack Lousma (CAPCOM): Okay. Your landing in—your weather in the landing area, which is about 560 miles south of Samoa, is now predicted to be about 1500, scattered, high broken. Waves are going to be 5 feet, the winds are going to be 15 knots, visibility 20 miles, showers in less than 10 percent of the area, and you will be landing at 08:00 local, roughly.
03 13 06 04
Fred Haise (LMP): Hey, that all sounds pretty good.
03 13 08 29
Jack Lousma (CAPCOM): Say, Fred, did you get the dope on the Saturn IV impact—S-IVB impact?
03 13 08 41
Fred Haise (LMP): Yes. Just as we came around the corner, Vance, they told us that it hit—I don't recall the position now, but it was a … impact … and recorded it on the … seismometer.
03 13 09 04
Jack Lousma (CAPCOM): Yes. It impacted 74 nautical miles from the ALSEP and the passive seismic detected major seismic activity on all long period channels and this was—this activity was detected for 4 hours afterwards with decreasing amplitude. And the impact also was detected by the high-energy channels … The high-energy channel of the SIDE.
03 13 09 58
Fred Haise (LMP): Yes. That ought to add …
03 13 11 42
Fred Haise (LMP): Okay. The Earth LPD number that time was 32.
03 13 11 48
Jack Lousma (CAPCOM): Roger. Thirty-two.
03 13 14 57
Fred Haise (LMP): How do you read now, Jack?
03 13 15 02
Jack Lousma (CAPCOM): I'm reading you, Fred. I've got a lot of background noise, though.
03 13 15 08
Fred Haise (LMP): Jack, I can definitely tell we're moving away from the Moon, now. I got it all in the monocular at one time. We're right over the top of FPA 8 right now.
03 13 15 23
Jack Lousma (CAPCOM): You're right over the top of what?
03 13 15 24
Fred Haise (LMP): On a point between it and Censorinus—FPA 8 and—the point halfway between there and Censorinus.
03 13 15 46
Jack Lousma (CAPCOM): Fred-o, would say the checkpoint over which you're right now?
03 13 15 56
Fred Haise (LMP): Okay. And incidentally, the LPD on the Moon was zero, so it's coming back down. The point looks like we're just about straight over is around Censorinus and the point between it and FPA 8.
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Jack Lousma (CAPCOM): Okay.
03 13 22 07
Fred Haise (LMP): Okay. And, Jack, the Earth LPD angle is 24 degrees.
03 13 22 14
Jack Lousma (CAPCOM): Roger. Earth at 24. And it looks like you're getting up to about 15 on the CO₂, so we want you to select SECONDARY and swap out the primary cartridge. Over.
03 13 22 30
Fred Haise (LMP): Okay. I'll select SECONDARY and swap out the primary cartridge.
03 13 22 53
Jack Lousma (CAPCOM): Okay, Fred. And when you select—When you swap out the primary cartridge, don't reselect PRIMARY. Stay on SECONDARY until we use the secondary up. Over.
03 13 23 10
Fred Haise (LMP): Okay. I'm changing out primary and—stay in SECONDARY until we use it up.
03 13 29 43
Fred Haise (LMP): And the change out is complete, Jack.
03 13 29 50
Jack Lousma (CAPCOM): Okay. Copy the changeout complete, and we're reading 4.5 on the CO₂ here.
03 13 30 01
Fred Haise (LMP): Okay. I'm …
03 13 32 21
Fred Haise (LMP): Okay. And the Earth LPD was 8 degrees.
03 13 32 25
Jack Lousma (CAPCOM): Did you—Did you say 8 degrees, Fred?
03 13 32 31
Fred Haise (LMP): Affirmative.
03 13 32 34
Jack Lousma (CAPCOM): Okay.
03 13 36 52
Fred Haise (LMP): Well, I missed the Moon on that one, Jack. But I would guess—estimating back a little bit, the LPD angle was somewhere around 42.
03 13 37 03
Jack Lousma (CAPCOM): Fred, I'm having a hard time reading you, but I think you're giving me a LPD angle.
03 13 37 12
Fred Haise (LMP): Roger. That's it, Jack. The Moon is about 42.
03 13 37 16
Jack Lousma (CAPCOM): You say the Moon is at 22?
03 13 37 23
Fred Haise (LMP): Four two, 42.
03 13 37 24
Jack Lousma (CAPCOM): Okay, 4 2. Thank you.
03 13 50 27
Jack Lousma (CAPCOM): How you doing there, Fred?
03 13 50 33
Jim Lovell (CDR): …
03 13 50 51
Jack Lousma (CAPCOM): Okay, Fred. I can just barely hear you saying something in the background and I can't make out what it is.
03 13 51 02
Jim Lovell (CDR): Hello, Houston; Aquarius.
03 13 51 06
Jack Lousma (CAPCOM): Hello there, Aquarius. Go ahead.
03 13 51 11
Jim Lovell (CDR): Roger. And Fred is being relieved now. He's—went back to get some rest. This is Lovell here who's got the duty.
03 13 51 21
Jack Lousma (CAPCOM): Gee whiz. You got up kind of early, didn't you?
03 13 51 28
Jim Lovell (CDR): It's cold back there in the command module.
03 13 51 38
Jack Lousma (CAPCOM): Well, what we were really thinking about doing was letting you sleep a little bit longer because we figure you're pretty worn out.
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03 13 51 55
Jim Lovell (CDR): Well, I'll go back and forth once in a while to get a …
03 13 52 01
Jack Lousma (CAPCOM): Is Jack up there with you?
03 13 52 08
Jim Lovell (CDR): No, Jack's still sacked out.
03 13 52 41
Jack Lousma (CAPCOM): Okay, Jim. We're kind of watching this PTC a little bit. Fred's been giving us a few LPD angles as we swang by the center of the Earth—center of the Moon. We noticed that the COMM has been degrading just a little bit so you might have to talk up.
03 13 53 09
Jim Lovell (CDR): Roger. Understand.

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