Spacelog Apollo 13

13, Houston. We've got a groovy TV picture.

Sounds good.

Is the focus good enough, Joe, that you can see all the glittering debris?

We've seen some debris, Fred. The booster itself is a little bit bright. What's your f-stop?

Okay. I'm at 22.

Why don't you go up a click and let us have a look at that.

Okay. You're at 44 now.

Okay. Let's stay there for now and I assume you're in peak.

Affirmed.

13, Houston. Recommend RATE 2 on the BMAGs.

Thank you.

It's getting bigger.

As you might know, Joe, I've got the center seat, again and I can't see a thing.

Too bad.

I gave him the TV monitor.

Okay, I'm going to be moving the TV directly. I'm going to pull it out of this bracket, Jim.

13, Houston. Did you call?

Roger. I'm going to be moving the TV to get a better shot here—moving it out of this bracket.

Okay, Fred. It's just beginning to cut off at the bottom, but it's still a very good picture.

That's a good picture, Fred.

Yes, we are just about there. About 10 more feet now.

Roger.

Everything looks pretty good down in the S-IVB, too. The shroud still looks intact down there.

Good deal. There is really quite a bit of detail on this picture.

Okay. We've got two—two barber poles.

Houston; Roger.

Okay. You should be able to see down into the portion of the IU right now, Joe.

Fred, Houston. We'd like to try going to AVERAGE on the TV for a minute or so.

Okay. You've got AVERAGE, and a little yellow dust cap just floated by in front of us.

Yes. We see it at the top of the screen.

Fred, after a few minutes of this, at your convenience, we could use some interior shots if you get the time and if the lighting is good.

Okay.

And, 13, Houston. The S-IVB vent times are nominal as in the flight plan within a few seconds.

We're hard docked, Houston.

Roger. Understand. Good deal. Fred, one more thing on the TV. If you could come to f:22 again —

Okay. You've got f:22 again.

And, Houston, Fred will handle the camera as we go through the postdocking checklist.

Okay, Jim. Real good.

Okay, Joe. I am pointing it over toward Jack, and it's pretty bright with the Earth out that window. Is that sort of washing out the picture here?

No, Fred, it's not. We've got a bright spot where the window is. The rest of you are semi-silhouetted. It's a pretty impressive picture.

Apollo 13, Houston.

Go ahead, Joe.

For Fred. The IOS [?] has caught you with the fuel cell reactant values in latch again.

Touché.

13, Houston. By the way, we'd like to know how the high gain antenna lockup worked. Our signal strength is a little bit lower than we thought it would be.

It looked just the way I expected it to, Joe. I had her sitting there in REACQ with the numbers cranked in and soon as we got pretty much through the rotation, I just threw it down to HIGH GAIN and it appeared to lock right up.

Okay. Good deal. See that flashlight beam wandering around in there.

13, Houston. Go ahead.

We'd kind of like to hold off on the—start the venting again until we get the things—pumped back up inside here. Wonder if you might give us a call to remind us when to initiate that.

Okay, 13; will do.

And we'll try to shift her up to look up into the tunnel here.

Okay. Real good.

Okay, 13; Houston. I think we could use an f-stop lower. What f-stop are you in now?

I'm about as low as you can go, Joe. I'm sitting on 4.4.

Okay.

What you're looking at, Joe, is the commander has removed the hatch and is proceeding to stow it.

Okay, 13. That's a pretty good picture there.

The CDR is verifying the docking latches now.

Roger.

Hey, Joe. Jim reports that there's a slight, you know, burn smell up in the tunnel area, as been reported on previous flights.

Okay. We copy that.

Okay. The commander reports all docking latches latched.

13, Houston. For your information, the S-IVB vent is proceeding on schedule.

Okay, Joe.

Yes, Joe. That's—That's concurring with all the thousands of particles that I see going by outside here.

Yes. I guess I didn't need to tell you.

13, it looks like Jim is connecting the umbilical at this time. Is that right?

Yes, that's affirm—affirm, Joe. Do you have any detail up in there at all? On the monitor it looks like I can—I can make out the drogue—the drogue a little bit, but not much else.

We can see the probe pretty well, and we can see his hands quite well there.

Okay. We're powering the LM now, Joe.

Okay, Roger that.

And the voltage looks good there, 13.

Roger.

Okay. We're going to take an outside view now, out the left side, Joe.

Okay, Fred. Real good.

Okay. You making out the picture there, Joe?

Yes. Is that the world?

Okay, Fred. That's pretty nice looking picture. We'd like to know what settings you used to get that.

Okay. I think Jim is holding it now and—it—Okay, it should be in about f:22, infinity, and I think the 50-millimeter. And Jim says he thinks he hit Baja in the picture now.