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04 01 20 15
Fred Haise (LMP): Okay. It looks like the PTC is deteriorated enough that … the docking window of the LM, and …
04 01 20 55
Vance Brand (CAPCOM): Aquarius, Houston. We got part of your transmission. Understand the PTC has deteriorated quite a bit and you'd like to know what to do about it. Is that affirm?
04 01 21 10
Fred Haise (LMP): Negative. How do you read now, Vance?
04 01 21 12
Vance Brand (CAPCOM): Okay. A little better.
04 01 21 16
Fred Haise (LMP): 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.
04 01 21 38
Vance Brand (CAPCOM): 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.
04 01 21 57
Fred Haise (LMP): Okay.
04 01 24 14
Fred Haise (LMP): Hey, Houston; Aquarius.
04 01 24 20
Vance Brand (CAPCOM): Aquarius, Houston. Go ahead.
04 01 24 25
Fred Haise (LMP): 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.
04 01 24 40
Vance Brand (CAPCOM): Okay, Fred. Thanks for the info.
04 01 36 07
Fred Haise (LMP): How do you read, Vance?
04 01 36 11
Vance Brand (CAPCOM): Okay. I'm reading you weakly, Fred. Go ahead.
04 01 36 17
Fred Haise (LMP): 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.
04 01 36 53
Vance Brand (CAPCOM): This is in the food bag?
04 01 36 59
Fred Haise (LMP): Yes.
04 01 37 01
Vance Brand (CAPCOM): That's to stand loads of launch and boost.
04 01 37 07
Fred Haise (LMP): Roger. Tool B did the trick.
04 01 37 28
Fred Haise (LMP): Yes.
04 01 37 34
Vance Brand (CAPCOM): Hey, Fred. John says you can use the dikes on it to get them apart.
04 01 37 42
Fred Haise (LMP): Yes, that probably wouldn't have crumbled them as badly.
04 01 37 49
Fred Haise (LMP): I generally don't use the subtle approach. You can tell we're feeling pretty good, Vance, when we start complaining about the food.
04 01 37 58
Vance Brand (CAPCOM): Yes. That's good to hear.
04 01 38 11
Vance Brand (CAPCOM): I think everybody's feeling better down here, too.
04 01 41 15
Vance Brand (CAPCOM): Aquarius, Houston.
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04 01 41 20
Fred Haise (LMP): Go ahead.
04 01 41 21
Vance Brand (CAPCOM): 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.
04 01 41 36
Fred Haise (LMP): Okay. Stand by. I'll have to plug in first.
04 01 41 38
Vance Brand (CAPCOM): Okay.
04 01 42 03
Fred Haise (LMP): Okay, Vance. How do you read on baseband.
04 01 42 08
Vance Brand (CAPCOM): We read you just—Stand by.
04 01 43 02
Vance Brand (CAPCOM): Okay, Fred. We're receiving your MED data; it was a little slow in coming in.
04 01 43 09
Fred Haise (LMP): Okay.
04 02 23 04
Fred Haise (LMP): Houston, Aquarius. Are you calling?
04 02 23 08
Vance Brand (CAPCOM): Negative. No call from here.
04 02 23 13
Fred Haise (LMP): Okay.
04 02 26 14
Fred Haise (LMP): And, Vance, this is Aquarius.
04 02 26 19
Vance Brand (CAPCOM): Go ahead, Fred.
04 02 26 23
Fred Haise (LMP): 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?
04 02 26 44
Vance Brand (CAPCOM): Stand by.
04 02 26 48
Fred Haise (LMP): Okay. Jim doesn't have his BIOMED rigged on right now, so … DOWN VOICE …
04 02 27 07
Vance Brand (CAPCOM): 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.
04 02 27 24
Fred Haise (LMP): Okay. How do you read now?
04 02 27 26
Vance Brand (CAPCOM): Okay.
04 02 27 30
Fred Haise (LMP): 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.
04 02 27 49
Vance Brand (CAPCOM): Okay. We copy you're in DOWN VOICE BACKUP.
04 02 28 53
Jim Lovell (CDR): Well, I'm thinking about the last 10 hours. We've lost our suit compressors.
04 02 29 02
Jim Lovell (CDR): Because we don't want to use the power.
04 02 29 18
Jim Lovell (CDR): 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.
04 02 29 34
Jim Lovell (CDR): Are we on mike now?
04 02 29 45
Jim Lovell (CDR): Hello, Houston; Aquarius.
04 02 29 49
Vance Brand (CAPCOM): Roger, Jim. Good morning.
04 02 29 53
Jim Lovell (CDR): Good morning, Vance. How's things going down there?
04 02 29 56
Vance Brand (CAPCOM): Oh, quiet and smooth.
04 02 29 59
Jim Lovell (CDR): Oh, it's afternoon down there.
04 02 30 06
Vance Brand (CAPCOM): Right. We thought maybe it was morning to you.
04 02 30 12
Jim Lovell (CDR): Well, I've sort of lost track. But I had a good sleep.
04 02 30 17
Vance Brand (CAPCOM): Glad to hear it. Doctor just said he wondered how many hours?
04 02 30 29
Jim Lovell (CDR): 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.
04 02 30 42
Vance Brand (CAPCOM): Good. Glad to see you catching up.
04 02 31 42
Vance Brand (CAPCOM): Aquarius, Houston.
04 02 31 50
Jim Lovell (CDR): Go ahead, Vance.
04 02 31 51
Vance Brand (CAPCOM): Jim, the next time that it's convenient, could you get the readout of the REPRESS package in the command module for us? Over.
04 02 32 02
Jim Lovell (CDR): Will do.
04 02 32 04
Vance Brand (CAPCOM): Okay.
04 02 32 08
Jim Lovell (CDR): When you go back there, Fred, they want the REPRESS package readout.
04 02 32 15
Vance Brand (CAPCOM): We don't want you to wake anyone up to get it.
04 02 32 21
Jim Lovell (CDR): No. No one's asleep now.
04 02 33 37
Jim Lovell (CDR): It has? …, was it? … you get forward to it and a pretty good view of the venting.
04 02 34 13
Jim Lovell (CDR): And, Houston, Aquarius. It looks like service module venting has ceased, at least momentarily.
04 02 34 19
Vance Brand (CAPCOM): Roger. Understand service module venting has ceased momentarily. How about the descent stage? Does Fred report venting down there? Do you still see that?
04 02 34 33
Jim Lovell (CDR): Stand by.
04 02 34 36
Jim Lovell (CDR): What is your report on descent stage venting—Was it venting? Anything else going on? Any more venting?
04 02 34 51
Fred Haise (LMP): No.
04 02 34 52
Jim Lovell (CDR): 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.
04 02 35 06
Vance Brand (CAPCOM): Roger. A little later than that—like 106—107.
04 02 35 13
Jim Lovell (CDR): Okay.
04 02 35 43
Jim Lovell (CDR): Did you get some interior photos?
04 02 35 48
Fred Haise (LMP): Yes.
04 02 35 52
Jim Lovell (CDR): Okay. I'd like to show them the arrangement of these hydroxide canisters. Do you have?
04 02 36 10
Vance Brand (CAPCOM): Aquarius, Houston.
04 02 37 11
Jim Lovell (CDR): Did they give Jack any more procedures on command module powerup?
04 02 37 16
Fred Haise (LMP): …
04 02 37 18
Jim Lovell (CDR): Did they give Jack any more procedures on command module powerup?
04 02 39 04
Jim Lovell (CDR): Well, they think it might be up here.
04 02 39 06
Fred Haise (LMP): Okay.
04 02 39 08
Jim Lovell (CDR): 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.
04 02 39 23
Fred Haise (LMP): …
04 02 39 24
Jim Lovell (CDR): Yes.
04 02 40 33
Jim Lovell (CDR): … the LM mode?
04 02 41 17
Fred Haise (LMP): All we have to do is turn the BIOMED … on, and we'll be in there.
04 02 41 34
Jim Lovell (CDR): Houston, Aquarius.
04 02 41 39
Vance Brand (CAPCOM): Roger. Go ahead, Aquarius.
04 02 41 44
Jim Lovell (CDR): We would like permission to turn the BIOMED on to get off the hot mike mode. I don't think that we have to be on it now if you have the big dish on, do you?
04 02 42 05
Fred Haise (LMP): Yes. Yaw's coming—or roll's coming up for it, and we were going to burn.
04 02 42 13
Vance Brand (CAPCOM): Roger, Jim. We concur. Go ahead and turn it on.
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04 02 42 18
Jim Lovell (CDR): Okay. Fine; thank you.
04 02 42 22
Vance Brand (CAPCOM): One other point. The philosophy of timing this midcourse is based a little bit on doing it just before the SHe tank is supposed to vent. That way, we hope that we would have — be powered up and you would have control when the venting occurs, in case you were tossed around a little bit. Over.
04 02 42 45
Jim Lovell (CDR): Okay. Understand. Philosophy on the midcourse is doing it prior to venting of the SHe tank, which means we'll be doing this around 105 hours, I suppose, or 105:30 and so I'll have control of the spacecraft if it should give us some perturbation.
04 02 43 06
Vance Brand (CAPCOM): Roger. Then, after that, we would establish PTC again.

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