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04 09 05 52
Jack Lousma (CAPCOM): Okay, Aquarius. On my mark, it's going to be 34 minutes to the burn, and you'll be reading 36. Stand by.
04 09 05 59
Jack Lousma (CAPCOM): MARK.
04 09 06 03
Fred Haise (LMP): Okay. We got it cranked up.
04 09 10 29
Jim Lovell (CDR): Okay, Houston. We have our attitude set.
04 09 10 35
Jack Lousma (CAPCOM): Roger, Jim.
04 09 10 39
Jim Lovell (CDR): I hope the guys in the back room who thought this up right knew what they were saying.
04 09 10 50
Fred Haise (LMP): 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.
04 09 11 01
Jack Lousma (CAPCOM): Roger. Good going.
04 09 12 04
Jack Lousma (CAPCOM): Okay, Aquarius. The attitude looks good here and your choice when you want to start the burn.
04 09 12 16
Jim Lovell (CDR): We're counting down, aren't we, or do you want us to start any time?
04 09 12 22
Jack Lousma (CAPCOM): Your choice.
04 09 12 28
Jim Lovell (CDR): You guys are getting easy.
04 09 12 32
Jack Lousma (CAPCOM): It's not time critical, Jim.
04 09 12 36
Jim Lovell (CDR): I understand.
04 09 15 59
Fred Haise (LMP): 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.
04 09 16 11
Jack Lousma (CAPCOM): Roger, Fred. And let us know when you're going to ullage, will you?
04 09 16 16
Fred Haise (LMP): Okay.
04 09 16 25
Fred Haise (LMP): Okay. Stand by. 2, 1.
04 09 16 28
Fred Haise (LMP): MARK it.
04 09 16 29
Fred Haise (LMP): Three minutes to go. Correction, 2 minutes to go, Jack.
04 09 16 34
Jack Lousma (CAPCOM): Roger. Two minutes. We got it.
04 09 17 01
Jack Lousma (CAPCOM): Aquarius, Houston. Check engine gimbal off, please.
04 09 17 07
Fred Haise (LMP): It's verified to off. And -
04 09 17 28
Fred Haise (LMP): MARK it.
04 09 17 29
Fred Haise (LMP): One minute.
04 09 17 31
Jack Lousma (CAPCOM): Roger, Fred.
04 09 17 58
Fred Haise (LMP): ENGINE ARM to DESCENT.
04 09 18 18
Fred Haise (LMP): ULLAGE.
04 09 18 48
Fred Haise (LMP): Okay. You're looking at 470.
04 09 18 53
Jack Lousma (CAPCOM): Roger. We copy 7.4.
04 09 18 59
Fred Haise (LMP): Roger. 7.4 and I had about 0.2 showing, I guess, when we started.
04 09 19 05
Jack Lousma (CAPCOM): Roger. We verify that, Okay, Aquarius. Trim it to 7.6.
04 09 19 18
Fred Haise (LMP): Okay. You want plus-X now to get 7.6. Is that correct?
04 09 19 23
Jack Lousma (CAPCOM): That's affirmative.
04 09 19 42
Fred Haise (LMP): Okay. You're looking at it, Houston.
04 09 19 46
Jack Lousma (CAPCOM): Okay. Looks good. Nice work.
04 09 19 51
Fred Haise (LMP): Let's hope it was.
04 09 20 23
Jack Lousma (CAPCOM): Okay, Aquarius. We're ready to follow you through on setting up PTC and powerdown. Your choice.
04 09 20 30
Fred Haise (LMP): Okay. We're pressing into getting PTC established right now.
04 09 26 49
Jack Lousma (CAPCOM): 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.
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04 09 27 08
Fred Haise (LMP): Okay. We'll make it 12 versus 21.
04 09 29 50
Jim Lovell (CDR): Okay, Houston. I'm just about there now and as soon as I get 90, we'll start damping rates.
04 09 29 57
Jack Lousma (CAPCOM): Roger, Aquarius.
04 09 33 58
Jim Lovell (CDR): Okay, Houston. I'm trying to damp rates now. We're at the proper roll attitude and pitch.
04 09 34 05
Jack Lousma (CAPCOM): Roger, Aquarius.
04 09 34 22
Jack Lousma (CAPCOM): Working a little bit better this time.
04 09 34 29
Jim Lovell (CDR): Are you copying any attitudes down there, rates, et cetera?
04 09 34 56
Jack Lousma (CAPCOM): Okay, Aquarius. We're seeing some extremely low rates at this time, really below our capability to measure them.
04 09 35 09
Jim Lovell (CDR): Roger.
04 09 36 25
Jim Lovell (CDR): 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.
04 09 36 44
Jack Lousma (CAPCOM): Roger, Jim. Ready to look at it with you.
04 09 37 59
Jim Lovell (CDR): Twelve clicks right.
04 09 38 13
Fred Haise (LMP): Okay, Jack. Are we clear now to proceed with the powerdown?
04 09 38 22
Jack Lousma (CAPCOM): 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.
04 09 38 36
Fred Haise (LMP): Go ahead.
04 09 38 37
Jack Lousma (CAPCOM): Okay. Leave your POWER AMPLIFIER switch in PRIMARY vice OFF and put your RANGING switch to RANGE, vice OFF/RESET.
04 09 38 53
Fred Haise (LMP): Okay. We're in PRIM in the POWER AMP and RANGING on RANGING.
04 09 38 59
Jack Lousma (CAPCOM): Affirmative.
04 09 39 11
Jim Lovell (CDR): Okay. I'm going to pull. Well, here, let's just look at the checklist.
04 09 39 14
Fred Haise (LMP): Okay. Configure CBs. There you go.
04 09 39 18
Jack Lousma (CAPCOM): Aquarius, Houston, hold off 1 on powerdown, please.
04 09 39 23
Fred Haise (LMP): Okay. We'll hold off. And we're looking at a SHe pressure, incidentally, of about 1830 now.
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04 09 39 37
Jack Lousma (CAPCOM): Roger. We concur with that. And it looks like you got a little pitch rate going on here. Do you copy the same?
04 09 39 47
Jim Lovell (CDR): Okay. My pitch needle is just slightly up now. I could try to take it out if you want me to.
04 09 39 58
Fred Haise (LMP): Not—Wait, wait. There you go.
04 09 40 07
Jack Lousma (CAPCOM): Just hold off on it 1, Jim. We'd like to take a look at it.
04 09 40 14
Jim Lovell (CDR): Okay.
04 09 40 21
Jack Lousma (CAPCOM): Aquarius, we'll need high bit rate, please.
04 09 40 26
Fred Haise (LMP): Flashlight, Jack. Jack, flashlight over here a minute.
04 09 40 31
Jack Lousma (CAPCOM): Aquarius, we need the POWER AMPLIFIER back in high bit rate, please.
04 09 40 37
Fred Haise (LMP): You got it.
04 09 40 48
Jim Lovell (CDR): You got a couple in the roll pretty soon.
04 09 41 02
Jim Lovell (CDR): What is it, 1.7?
04 09 41 34
Jim Lovell (CDR): You have another set of them by the PGNS.
04 09 41 44
Jim Lovell (CDR): Now we got to turn on the heaters you want to save -
04 09 41 59
Jim Lovell (CDR): What's that flitting out there in the breeze? Are we venting again? Take a look, Jack.
04 09 42 17
Jim Lovell (CDR): 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.
04 09 42 32
Fred Haise (LMP): 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 —
04 09 42 56
Jim Lovell (CDR): Houston, Aquarius.
04 09 42 57
Fred Haise (LMP): — to the right of the terminator.
04 09 42 59
Jack Lousma (CAPCOM): Go ahead, Aquarius.
04 09 43 03
Jim Lovell (CDR): Just for information, although I thought I'd never have to use it, that technique looked like it was a pretty good one.
04 09 43 13
Jack Lousma (CAPCOM): 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.
04 09 43 26
Jim Lovell (CDR): 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.
04 09 43 48
Jack Lousma (CAPCOM): Okay, Jim. With that info we'll go on the PTC, and let's proceed with the powerdown.
04 09 43 59
Jim Lovell (CDR): 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.
04 09 44 22
Fred Haise (LMP): First row. Ullage. AGS.
04 09 44 31
Jack Swigert (CMP): Your AGS on?
04 09 44 33
Fred Haise (LMP): My what? My what? Oh, yes. Go ahead.
04 09 44 38
Jim Lovell (CDR): Okay. The four INVERTERS of this AC BUS volt, Fred.
04 09 44 44
Fred Haise (LMP): Okay. Go ahead.
04 09 44 52
Jim Lovell (CDR): 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?
04 09 45 17
Fred Haise (LMP): You're not sucking any power unless you take these switches and move them.
04 09 45 21
Jim Lovell (CDR): How come we pulled them out, then, in this burn?
04 09 45 23
Fred Haise (LMP): 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.
04 09 45 46
Jim Lovell (CDR): Okay. I got 1, 2, 3.
04 09 45 54
Fred Haise (LMP): ISOL valve should be in 2.
04 09 45 56
Jim Lovell (CDR): Yes. Okay. Third row. Attitude DIRECT CONTROL I still have in.
04 09 46 41
Fred Haise (LMP): Jack, how do you read now in baseband?
04 09 46 44
Jack Lousma (CAPCOM): Reading you 5-square, Fred. How me?

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