Spacelog Apollo 13

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?

Hello, Houston; Aquarius.

Roger, Jim. Good morning.

Good morning, Vance. How's things going down there?

Oh, quiet and smooth.

Oh, it's afternoon down there.

Right. We thought maybe it was morning to you.

Well, I've sort of lost track. But I had a good sleep.

Glad to hear it. Doctor just said he wondered how many hours?

Oh, let's say whenever I left Jack, and Fred came up and we ate for about an hour, and then I went to bed, so whatever that time was. It must be about 5 hours, something like that; 4 or 5 hours.

Good. Glad to see you catching up.

Aquarius, Houston.

Go ahead, Vance.

Jim, the next time that it's convenient, could you get the readout of the REPRESS package in the command module for us? Over.

Will do.

Okay.

When you go back there, Fred, they want the REPRESS package readout.

We don't want you to wake anyone up to get it.

No. No one's asleep now.

It has? …, was it? … you get forward to it and a pretty good view of the venting.

And, Houston, Aquarius. It looks like service module venting has ceased, at least momentarily.

Roger. Understand service module venting has ceased momentarily. How about the descent stage? Does Fred report venting down there? Do you still see that?

Stand by.

What is your report on descent stage venting—Was it venting? Anything else going on? Any more venting?

No.

No. Fred hasn't seen anything else from the descent stage. And I understand that we can expect the—the SHe—tank pressure to build up to relief here about 105 hours.

Roger. A little later than that—like 106—107.

Okay.

Did you get some interior photos?

Yes.

Okay. I'd like to show them the arrangement of these hydroxide canisters. Do you have?

Aquarius, Houston.

Did they give Jack any more procedures on command module powerup?

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Did they give Jack any more procedures on command module powerup?

Well, they think it might be up here.

Okay.

The main thing we got to think about, and when we have to get to them, is the procedures for LM jettison, the transfer of the LM to CSM mode (cough), LM jettison.

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