Spacelog Apollo 13

And, Joe, do you have the … out for the …?

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.

No. The question was, do you have a … from the Moon burn.

Still didn't understand, Fred. I'm sorry.

Okay. We'll be able to get better COMM.

Roger.

Okay.

Fred, Houston. You want to try it, now?

How do you read, Houston?

That's pretty good, Fred.

Okay. Two things: first of all, we noticed a …

Gol darn it. Just as you started talking, it got noisy again, Fred; try it again.

Okay.

Try it now, loud and slow.

Okay. Jack had a question on how far out from the Moon are we now?

On how far out what?

From the Moon we are now?

Oh. Our little plot shows you just touching the 180-thousand-mile line. So you're about 40 K out from the Moon.

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.

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.

Roger.

Aquarius, Houston.

Go ahead.

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.

Okay. How you read now?

Okay, Fred. That might be a little better.

We're on the 180—K line, right now.

…?

… It's 550 over there.

Okay. It's … there.

Just split the difference.

Yes.

Okay. I got a copy of the … K …

Is that right?

EECOM.

That midcourse should be interesting. You know, the mode we're going to do it in.

Manual AGS … DPS burn. We're controlling … TTCA attitude. …

… down under …

Fortunately.

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 …

Another burn that's never been done.

Go to the—Go to the technique for a lash and … it's the burn technique.

I'm sure they got something written out, maybe …

A what?

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.

… 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 -

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 …

Yes.

Yes, we did, Jack. …