Spacelog Apollo 13

Affirmative. Under “VHF/S-band Activation and Checkout,” scratch step 1. Under step 2, change “DOWN VOICE BACKUP” to VOICE. Scratch step 3. Under “PGNS turn on,” scratch entire procedure. Under “DAP Set/Gimbal Drive,” scratch entire procedure. Over.

Okay. Under “VHF/S-band Activation and Checkout,” scratch step 1. Do step 2 with the following change, “DOWN VOICE BACKUP” to “VOICE.” Scratch step 3. Scratch the entire remaining events that page. Over.

That's affirmative, Jim, Going on to page 29. We've got—At this point, there's a write-in required. It's about a six or seven liner, and I'll try to go fairly slowly and let you write it down, if you're ready to copy. Over.

Ready to copy.

Okay. At this point, we'd like you to “Verify RCS heaters in AUTO for 15 minutes.”

Is that the first step, Charlie?

That's affirmative. What we're trying to do here is we're getting you set up in an attitude so you can damp your rates and come out of PTC. And this is the configuration I'm reading you now, the next—in the next six lines, the procedure for getting you into a configuration to damp the rates and stop PTC. Over.

Okay. So the first thing will be to—“Go to AUTO on the RCS SYSTEM A and B”?

It's the “Verify that the heaters have been in AUTO for 15 minutes.” Back on the first page of this procedure, you put the heaters in AUTO and you pushed the breakers in, and we'd like for them to warm up the quads for 15 minutes before we start to—stop at—stopping PTC. Over.

Roger, “Verify heaters RCS on for 15 minutes.”

Okay. Step 2: “BALANCE COUPLE, OFF; DEAD BAND, MINIMUM; ATTITUDE CONTROL: PITCH and ROLL to PULSE; YAW to DIRECT; MODE CONTROL: AGS, ATT HOLD; GUIDANCE CONTROL to ACS; damp rates; pitch and roll with the TTCA, yaw with the ACA with the Earth in the front window.” Over.

Okay, let's see if I got it. Step 2 is “BALANCE COUPLE's OFF; DEAD BAND, MIN; ATTITUDE CONTROL: PITCH and YAW at PULSE; YAW, DIRECT. MODE CONTROL will be in AGS, ATT HOLD; GUIDANCE CONTROL will be in AGS; we'll damp the rates; pitch and roll with the TTCA, and yaw with the ACA; and we'll probably have to have some reference point, so I have to try and stop on the Earth.” Over.

Roger, Jim. We were hoping that in your PTC that you occasionally see the Earth coming through the window; and, if that's true, then we'd like you to have to—just damp the rates with the Earth in the forward window. And then we'll give you the burn attitude via the forward window on the Earth momentarily. Over.

Roger.

Okay. That was the entire procedure for damping the rates, only—though I only gave you—said it was step 2, that was the entire procedure. Now, continuing on to what's printed on page 29—Correction, you had one error in the readback under ATTITUDE CONTROL. It was PITCH and ROLL to PULSE; YAW to DIRECT. Continuing on, on page 29 with the printed procedure, the first four lines, scratch. Step 3, scratch. Under “AGS Activation,” one change: add a step. First step will be “Verify ASA CB(16) in for 10 minutes.” The rest of the AGS activation is as printed. Over.

Okay. “Verify ASA circuit breaker 16 in for 10 minutes”; and, I take it, 10 minutes back in our procedures we'll have a note saying to put that in.

It's—the circuit breaker goes in on the circuit breaker activation page, Jim. So, by the time we get here and have the rates all damped, we feel that—that the PIPAS will be up to temperature by this time, and we can go ahead and turn it—turn the AGS on at this time. Over. But we just want you to verify that.

Okay. And one other question, Charlie. I'd like to know if the note you gave me about damping the rates is before the other information on page 29.

That's affirmative. Add that in to the top of the page. The—What we're really doing—Let's—let's put it in to right before the “AGS Activation.” The other—the other procedure on the top of the page belongs with the “DAP Set Gimbal Trim,” and we're just omitting all of that procedure. So the addition that—on the damping, the rates should really go in right before the “AGS Activation.” Over.

Understand.

What we're really trying to do is get you in a posture so that when you see the Earth come through the window, you can damp her out and hold—hold the Earth in the window. Proceeding on to the rest of page 29, under “RCS PRESS,” scratch the entire three steps as printed. On page 30, scratch step 4 under the “RCS PRESS.” Over.

Roger. Under “AGS Activation,” well, I included that step on the ASA circuit breaker and we'll do step 1 and 2 under “AGS Activation.” But then we'll scratch steps 1, 2, and 3 under “RCS PRESS” and, on page 30, we'll scratch step 4.

Affirm. Under “DPS PRESS,” step 1, line 1, scratch. Line 4, “DESCENT HELIUM REG 1, talkback barber pole.” Under step 2, scratch; step 3, scratch; “LANDING GEAR DEPLOY,” scratch. Over.

Okay. Under “DPS PRESS,” we'll scratch the first line and we'll have the “DESCENT HELIUM REG, talkback to barber pole.” We'll scratch steps 2 and 3, and we'll scratch the “LANDING GEAR DEPLOY.”

Roger. Turning over to page 33. Minus 4 minutes. Okay. Moving down the page, it's about line 7, to “ENGINE GIMBAL”: “ENGINE GIMBAL, OFF.” Down to “MODE CONTROL,” make that read “MODE CONTROL: AGS, ATT HOLD,” and then scratch “PROPELLANT QUANTITY MONITOR, DESCENT 1.” Over.

Okay. At 4 minutes, “ENGINE GIMBAL” will be “OFF”; “MODE CONTROL” will be to “AGS, ATT HOLD”; “PROPELLANT QUANTITY MONITOR, DESCENT 1,” scratched.

Roger. Picking up at minus 1 minute, scratch “MASTER ARM, ON.” Minus 35 seconds, scratch first two lines. At minus 10 seconds, change that to “Minus 9 seconds”; so, at “Minus 9 seconds,” it will be “Manual Ullage.” At 2 seconds, scratch “CMC MODE, FREE,” and scratch “ACA out of detent.” At—after “IGNITION,” at plus 1 second, “Terminate Ullage.” Are you with me? Over.

Okay. At 1 minute, “MASTER ARM,” we scratch. At 35 seconds, scratch the first two lines. “Manual Ullage” will start at 9 seconds; we're scratching the blocks at 02 seconds; and the line beneath that, at plus 1 second, we “Terminate Ullage.”

That's affirm. Picking up at plus 5 seconds; scratch the rest of the page. “TTCA, attitude control; and MASTER ARM, OFF.” Over.

Scratch the remainder of the page.

Okay. Now, like to verify that under the 35 seconds, minus 35 seconds, the only thing you have remaining is “ENGINE ARM to DESCENT.” Over.

That's affirm. That's the only thing I have.