- Jack Lousma (CAPCOM)
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Okay, Aquarius. On my mark, it's going to be 34 minutes to the burn, and you'll be reading 36. Stand by.
- Jim Lovell (CDR)
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I hope the guys in the back room who thought this up right knew what they were saying.
- Fred Haise (LMP)
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And I'm looking through the AOT there, Jack, and the Sun's right in the top and it's about maybe 2 degrees to the right of the cursor. So that looks real good.
- Jack Lousma (CAPCOM)
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Okay, Aquarius. The attitude looks good here and your choice when you want to start the burn.
- Jim Lovell (CDR)
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We're counting down, aren't we, or do you want us to start any time?
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And, Houston, we reset our clock and we're making the burn in about—I'll give you a hack here at 2 minutes to go.
- Jack Lousma (CAPCOM)
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Okay, Aquarius. We're ready to follow you through on setting up PTC and powerdown. Your choice.
- Jack Lousma (CAPCOM)
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Aquarius, Houston. We'd like to change the number of yaw pulses we gave you before as 21. We'd like to reduce that to 12. Twelve pulses yaw right, and that'll take you about 3 seconds to get them in if you don't want to count them.
- Jim Lovell (CDR)
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Okay, Houston. I'm just about there now and as soon as I get 90, we'll start damping rates.
- Jim Lovell (CDR)
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Okay, Houston. I'm trying to damp rates now. We're at the proper roll attitude and pitch.
- Jack Lousma (CAPCOM)
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Okay, Aquarius. We're seeing some extremely low rates at this time, really below our capability to measure them.
- Jim Lovell (CDR)
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Houston, I think I've got pitch and roll just about squared away. I let yaw just slightly drift; it's drifting in a clockwise direction and I'm about all set now to put in my 12 clicks to the right.
- Jack Lousma (CAPCOM)
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That's affirmative, Fred. We're ready to press on with powerdown. I've got two changes for you. Step 1 of the emergency powerdown on page power—5. Over.
- Jack Lousma (CAPCOM)
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Okay. Leave your POWER AMPLIFIER switch in PRIMARY vice OFF and put your RANGING switch to RANGE, vice OFF/RESET.
- Fred Haise (LMP)
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Okay. We'll hold off. And we're looking at a SHe pressure, incidentally, of about 1830 now.
- Jack Lousma (CAPCOM)
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Roger. We concur with that. And it looks like you got a little pitch rate going on here. Do you copy the same?
- Jim Lovell (CDR)
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Okay. My pitch needle is just slightly up now. I could try to take it out if you want me to.
- Jim Lovell (CDR)
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What's that flitting out there in the breeze? Are we venting again? Take a look, Jack.
- Jim Lovell (CDR)
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Well, once we get squared away, Joe, I think I am going to have to go to the space center and take a good healthy one and leave just about everything. I've held up long enough.
- Fred Haise (LMP)
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That's coming from above. Another one just—is just coming down right over here. Well, there's the old terminator at Fra Mauro. We'd been landing about 2 hours ago, huh? Right on the —
- Jim Lovell (CDR)
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Just for information, although I thought I'd never have to use it, that technique looked like it was a pretty good one.
- Jack Lousma (CAPCOM)
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Roger, Jim. And we'd like you to give us your idea of how the PTC looks. We're not sure we're seeing what we ought to here.
- Jim Lovell (CDR)
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Okay. I still have my ball powered up and I'm coming around past 270 right now. I've got a slight roll and pitch offset in there. My pitch needle about halfway up and my roll needle is about 4 degrees over now.
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Okay, Jim. With that info we'll go on the PTC, and let's proceed with the powerdown.
- Jim Lovell (CDR)
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Okay. We'll proceed with the PTC and proceed with the powerdown. I guess if we have to we can reestablish PTC at a later date. Okay. Okay.
- Jim Lovell (CDR)
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Okay. Let's—give the last thing to Jack and I'll keep it all out. Okay? RCS SYSTEM A. That's in. TCAs are going off. Why do they need the ISOL valves in the ASCENT FEED in?
- Fred Haise (LMP)
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Because you didn't want them to get moved inadvertently, I guess. It doesn't matter, Jim, they can be out or in in terms of powerdown. They just don't count.
Spoken on April 16, 1970, 4:25 a.m. UTC (54 years, 8 months ago). Link to this transcript range is: Tweet