Spacelog Apollo 13

Aquarius, Houston. Over.

Go ahead.

Okay, Fred. Since you went ahead and used the PLSS condensate container, we got the procedure in for using it. I'm not going to read it up to you except that it cautions a little bit about shaking it too much or about filling it too full, because they feel that if you do that the vent valve might unseat and the bag might leak a little bit. Over.

Okay. We haven't removed it from its stowage spot. We just left it right in place, and just—he mated the tank at the end of the cable and hooked right into that.

Understand. That's satisfactory and recommended that you leave it in the stowage spot. That should help the situation.

Roger.

We got a—we got another flow shower going on outside. Particles, seeing them vented against the service module. Jack thinks it may be an H₂ vent. …

Okay. Copy that. What window are you looking at it out of, Fred?

Out the LM docking window.

The docking window. Roger that. Somebody just handed me your latest consumables status report, and you're using between 11 to 12 amps an hour real steady, and it looks real good.

Joe, what are you showing for GET now?

I think you wanted the GET, Jack, and the present GET is 96 hours 21 minutes. Over.

Okay, thank you.

Okay.

And Jack, Houston. For your information, FIDO tells me that we are in the Earth's sphere of influence and we're starting to accelerate.

I thought it was about time we crossed. Thank you.

Roger.

We're on our way back home.

There's something that puzzles me, Joe. Vance mentioned yesterday that the planned entry is a CMC-guided entry, so I'm kind of curious as how are we going to get the alinement.

Did you say how we're going to get guidance? Over.

No. How are we going to get a platform alinement?

Okay. We got a number of interesting ideas on that and the latest one I've heard is to power up the LM platform and aline it, and aline the CM platform to it.

Okay. That sounds good.

Okay. And we're working out detailed procedures on that, Jack.

Aquarius, Houston. Over.

Go ahead, Joe.

Okay. We are taking our final look at the mid-course procedures and we have a question as to the present position of one of the switches. The switch is the AGS STATUS switch on panel 6. We'd just like to know where it's at.

Okay. Stand by.

Okay, Joe. The AGS STATUS switch is OFF.

Houston, Aquarius.

Aquarius, Houston. Go ahead.

Okay, Vance. I just heard a little thump, sounded like down in the descent stage, and I saw a new shower of snow flakes come up that looked like they were emitted from down that way. We've already decided though—I wonder what the SUPERCRIT pressure looked like now.

Okay. Understand you saw a thump in the descent stage and a few snow flakes. We'll take a look down here, see if we see anything.

Aquarius, Houston.

Aquarius, Houston.

Go ahead.

Fred, we don't see anything wrong. For example, your SHe appears to be okay as far as we can see. The thing we don't have data on, is the … tank down there.

Okay. And I doubt if it would have been that anyway.

Okay. While we have you on the horn —

We're still getting -

Roger. Still getting it.

Go ahead.

While you're on the horn, be advised our calculations show you might be running out of potable water in the CSM pretty soon. Also, that you might start to have hydrogen tank venting in the CSM and a question. Next time Jack looks through the sextant and telescope, we'd like him to see how it looks. Do you have anything on the optics, any specks or anything?

Houston, Aquarius. How do you read?

Okay. The only comment was that it has deteriorated to where the Moon is now coming through the overhead docking window now, in a portion of each pass, and about that time I just lose COMM on either antenna, so there's going to be a short period of time on each revolution where we're not going to have COMM.

Okay, Fred. We understand that and one more item for clarification on the water. We don't really know what your usage of potable is. That was purely an estimate assuming a fairly healthy usage.

Hey, Houston; Aquarius.

Aquarius, Houston. Go ahead.

Okay. Jack just took a look through the optics—through one REV, and he said they look good, loud and clear. He doesn't have any current condensate on either the sextant or telescope.

How do you read, Vance?

Okay. I'm reading you weakly, Fred. Go ahead.

With all this other procedures you've been working on there, I thought I was going to have a new one for you. How to get four gingerbread cubes apart; I think they were stuck together with epoxy.

This is in the food bag?

Yes.

That's to stand loads of launch and boost.

Roger. Tool B did the trick.

Yes.

Hey, Fred. John says you can use the dikes on it to get them apart.

Yes, that probably wouldn't have crumbled them as badly.

I generally don't use the subtle approach. You can tell we're feeling pretty good, Vance, when we start complaining about the food.

Yes. That's good to hear.

Aquarius, Houston.

Go ahead.

Fred, we have you on the Goldstone big dish now, and our COMM is much better. If you'd like would you turn the BIOMED switch on to either crewman there.

Okay. Stand by. I'll have to plug in first.

Okay.

Okay, Vance. How do you read on baseband.

We read you just—Stand by.

Okay, Fred. We're receiving your MED data; it was a little slow in coming in.

Houston, Aquarius. Are you calling?

Negative. No call from here.

And, Vance, this is Aquarius.

Go ahead, Fred.

Okay. Jim's coming back on the line, and I'll be unhooking on the BIOMEDs, and you want us to go back to the SPA DOWN VOICE BACKUP?

Stand by.

Okay. Jim doesn't have his BIOMED rigged on right now, so … DOWN VOICE …

Okay, Fred. You're too weak on that last. I understand you're disconnecting, and your BIOMED will be off. Say again about Jim, please.

Okay. How do you read now?

Okay.

Okay. All I said was Jim doesn't have his BIOMED rigged right now so I'll go back to DOWN VOICE BACKUP SPA and Jim's coming on the line.

Okay. We copy you're in DOWN VOICE BACKUP.

Well, I'm thinking about the last 10 hours. We've lost our suit compressors.

Because we don't want to use the power.

Well, that's what I'm saying. We can use these fans right here and use the circulate air right through the use of those fans.

Are we on mike now?