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03 22 51 30
Fred Haise (LMP): And, Joe, do you have the … out for the …?
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Joe Kerwin (CAPCOM): I'm not sure I copied that, Fred. If you asked me whether I had that powerup procedure, I don't have it for you, yet. Over.
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Fred Haise (LMP): No. The question was, do you have a … from the Moon burn.
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Joe Kerwin (CAPCOM): Still didn't understand, Fred. I'm sorry.
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Fred Haise (LMP): Okay. We'll be able to get better COMM.
03 22 52 09
Joe Kerwin (CAPCOM): Roger.
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Fred Haise (LMP): Okay.
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Joe Kerwin (CAPCOM): Fred, Houston. You want to try it, now?
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Fred Haise (LMP): How do you read, Houston?
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Joe Kerwin (CAPCOM): That's pretty good, Fred.
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Fred Haise (LMP): Okay. Two things: first of all, we noticed a …
03 22 54 30
Joe Kerwin (CAPCOM): Gol darn it. Just as you started talking, it got noisy again, Fred; try it again.
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Fred Haise (LMP): Okay.
03 22 54 45
Joe Kerwin (CAPCOM): Try it now, loud and slow.
03 22 54 51
Fred Haise (LMP): Okay. Jack had a question on how far out from the Moon are we now?
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Joe Kerwin (CAPCOM): On how far out what?
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Fred Haise (LMP): From the Moon we are now?
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Joe Kerwin (CAPCOM): Oh. Our little plot shows you just touching the 180-thousand-mile line. So you're about 40 K out from the Moon.
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Fred Haise (LMP): Okay. Okay. And the other thing is, we've noticed some fresh new particles floating around outside, so possibly the service module is starting to vent a little bit again.
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Joe Kerwin (CAPCOM): Okay. Copy that, Fred. On the O₂ flow thing, we clearly saw the DEMAND REGULATOR go to OFF and back to CABIN. TELMU thinks that it's no big thing that you've seen a little change in flow due to the different resistance we've got in the circuit.
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Fred Haise (LMP): Roger.
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Joe Kerwin (CAPCOM): Aquarius, Houston.
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Fred Haise (LMP): Go ahead.
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Joe Kerwin (CAPCOM): Okay, Fred. Recommend you go to OFF on the BIOMED switch. We never did get any BIOMED and it might clear up the COMM a little bit.
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Fred Haise (LMP): Okay. How you read now?
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Joe Kerwin (CAPCOM): Okay, Fred. That might be a little better.
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Fred Haise (LMP): We're on the 180—K line, right now.
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Jim Lovell (CDR): …?
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Fred Haise (LMP): We're about 40 050.
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Jack Swigert (CMP): … It's 550 over there.
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Fred Haise (LMP): Okay. It's … there.
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Jack Swigert (CMP): Just split the difference.
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Jim Lovell (CDR): Yes.
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Fred Haise (LMP): Okay. I got a copy of the … K …
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Jack Swigert (CMP): Is that right?
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Fred Haise (LMP): EECOM.
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Jack Swigert (CMP): That midcourse should be interesting. You know, the mode we're going to do it in.
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Fred Haise (LMP): Manual AGS … DPS burn. We're controlling … TTCA attitude. …
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Jack Swigert (CMP): … down under …
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Fred Haise (LMP): Fortunately.
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Jack Swigert (CMP): We can't help them too much. Actually it isn't bad … but … … goddamned unfortunate. In part, I get a feeling … now when I get … Just before … goes to zero in 1 second I'm going to pull them out …
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Jack Swigert (CMP): Another burn that's never been done.
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Fred Haise (LMP): Go to the—Go to the technique for a lash and … it's the burn technique.
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Fred Haise (LMP): I'm sure they got something written out, maybe …
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Jack Swigert (CMP): A what?
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Fred Haise (LMP): Well, hell, Jack. All you—you don't use a very good one … Just if you'll go … at your attitude reference for … and the g-meter backup. Because, really, you can almost … The command module and your odds are 60 to 40 that you're going to hit Earth blunt-end first, without any reference.
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Jack Swigert (CMP): … I didn't realize that. That proves you've got a little bit above 50-percent odds that you're going to enter blunt end, and -
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Fred Haise (LMP): We made an entry like that in Apollo 8 in a … with Houston, ol' Buzz went and turned on the command module heaters and left them on. The activators, they went, “Shooo!” both tanks; we had no gas. Just had a real slow rate … We actually went out in the console and started debriefing, but left it running and watched it; and the son of a bitch did a hop-skipout, a hopout, underneath …, but not much, and then we did a long hop … but—The second reentry, also, it did one … both times. It lucked out twice and made a real peculiar … They went to zero g …
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Jack Swigert (CMP): Yes.
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Fred Haise (LMP): Yes, we did, Jack. …

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