Spacelog Apollo 13

Okay. Thanks, Joe.

Okay, Joe. The Moon is coming down to about 38 degrees. … —

Okay, Jack. Sounds real good.

Odyssey, Houston.

Go ahead.

Okay. We'd like the S-BAND POWER AMPLIFIER to OFF, center, at this time, Jim.

OFF, center, is done.

Okay. You're still looking real fat on power. We show you having over 30 amps on the water. If you do get into a bind and don't come up—that's amp-hours—don't come up with Recovery, you can always power down and you can always put the pyro batteries on the line if you need them after you're down.

Joe, are you planning to run this all the way down without the suit compressor?

Say again, Jack.

Are you planning to turn on the suit compressor at all on the way down?

That's a negative Jack; I'll verify it, but I sure don't think so.

Okay. That's all right with us.

Okay, Jack. This is Houston. We've got POWER, and you can cycle it for 10 minutes if you so desire, but we don't think you need to do it. Over.

Okay. We'll hold out.

Okay. Real fine. How did the EMS check go, Jack?

EMS checked out okay —

Good deal.

— been initialized and sitting on ENTRY.

Roger.

Okay, Joe. Are you watching—you and FIDO taking a look at our NOUN 60 here?

That's affirmative. Hold it just a second; we are looking at 6.13 and 4.80. I'll get a check on that.

Okay. That's not too many g's.

Okay.

Joe, how far out do you show us now?

Oh, on our plotboard up here, we can't hardly see how far out you are.

Okay.

I know all of us here want to thank all you guys down there for the very fine job you did.

That's affirm, Joe.

I'll tell you—We all had a good time doing it.

Okay, Odyssey; Houston. Just for your information, it looks as though battery C will deplete around main chute time; that's expected; you've got plenty of amp-hours in the other batteries.

Odyssey, Houston. Over.

Odyssey, Houston. Over.

Odyssey, Houston. Over.

Odyssey, Houston. Over.

Go ahead.

Okay, I was just going to tell you about that handover we just had, but I was a little late on the—on the ball. Since we're fat on power and we'd kind of like to have S-band with you after blackout—we'd—We'd like you to delete the step on your entry checklist page 2-5, after “Begin blackout,” it says “POWER PMP to OFF.” We'd like you to leave it on if you think of it. Over.

Okay.

Odyssey, Houston. Over.

Go ahead.

Okay. At 10 minutes to 400 K, you're looking good; we're real happy with the trajectory, and a minute ago, we just lost contact with your friend Aquarius.

Okay. Where did she go?

Oh, I don't know. She's up there somewhere.

She sure was a good ship.

Hey, just as I said that, we got another burst of LM data, so I guess it's still ticking.