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Joe Kerwin (CAPCOM): Okay. With the direct sunlight from the window, out of the TV camera field as it is now, we'd like you to open it up an f-stop or so and, if convenient, try to keep that bright spot out of the window.
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Fred Haise (LMP): Okay.
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Joe Kerwin (CAPCOM): 13, Houston. I guess we could stand one more twick down on the f-stop.
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Jack Swigert (CMP): Okay, Joe. He's going to do it.
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Joe Kerwin (CAPCOM): That is, we want you to open it up. Looks like a very interesting book you're reading.
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Jack Swigert (CMP): I have two of them.
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Joe Kerwin (CAPCOM): Hey, that's pretty, Fred.
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Fred Haise (LMP): Okay. I hope you got more detail than I have on the monitor here.
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Joe Kerwin (CAPCOM): No. We probably don't, but it's kind of a neat picture anyway.
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Jack Swigert (CMP): Houston, we are now going to finish repressurizing the tunnel.
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Joe Kerwin (CAPCOM): Houston; Roger.
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Fred Haise (LMP): … probably hear, Joe, we're just finishing pumping up Aquarius here.
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Joe Kerwin (CAPCOM): Okay. About all we see on this picture, Fred, are the bright spots with the lights around the tunnel area. The hatch itself is pretty dark.
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Joe Kerwin (CAPCOM): 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.
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Jack Swigert (CMP): 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.
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Joe Kerwin (CAPCOM): Okay. Good deal. See that flashlight beam wandering around in there.
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Fred Haise (LMP): Houston, 13.
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Joe Kerwin (CAPCOM): 13, Houston. Go ahead.
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Fred Haise (LMP): 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.
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Joe Kerwin (CAPCOM): Okay, 13; will do.
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Fred Haise (LMP): And we'll try to shift her up to look up into the tunnel here.
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Joe Kerwin (CAPCOM): Okay. Real good.
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Joe Kerwin (CAPCOM): Okay, 13; Houston. I think we could use an f-stop lower. What f-stop are you in now?
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Fred Haise (LMP): I'm about as low as you can go, Joe. I'm sitting on 4.4.
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Joe Kerwin (CAPCOM): Okay.
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Fred Haise (LMP): What you're looking at, Joe, is the commander has removed the hatch and is proceeding to stow it.
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Joe Kerwin (CAPCOM): Okay, 13. That's a pretty good picture there.
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Fred Haise (LMP): The CDR is verifying the docking latches now.
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Joe Kerwin (CAPCOM): Roger.
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Jack Swigert (CMP): Hey, Joe. Jim reports that there's a slight, you know, burn smell up in the tunnel area, as been reported on previous flights.
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Joe Kerwin (CAPCOM): Okay. We copy that.
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Jack Swigert (CMP): Okay. The commander reports all docking latches latched.
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Joe Kerwin (CAPCOM): Houston; Roger.
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Joe Kerwin (CAPCOM): 13, Houston. For your information, the S-IVB vent is proceeding on schedule.
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Jack Swigert (CMP): Okay, Joe.
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Fred Haise (LMP): Yes, Joe. That's—That's concurring with all the thousands of particles that I see going by outside here.
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Joe Kerwin (CAPCOM): Yes. I guess I didn't need to tell you.
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Joe Kerwin (CAPCOM): 13, it looks like Jim is connecting the umbilical at this time. Is that right?
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Fred Haise (LMP): 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.
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Joe Kerwin (CAPCOM): We can see the probe pretty well, and we can see his hands quite well there.
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Jack Swigert (CMP): Okay. We're powering the LM now, Joe.
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Joe Kerwin (CAPCOM): Okay, Roger that.
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Joe Kerwin (CAPCOM): And the voltage looks good there, 13.
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Jack Swigert (CMP): Roger.
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Fred Haise (LMP): Okay. We're going to take an outside view now, out the left side, Joe.
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Joe Kerwin (CAPCOM): Okay, Fred. Real good.
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Fred Haise (LMP): Okay. You making out the picture there, Joe?
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Joe Kerwin (CAPCOM): Yes. Is that the world?
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Joe Kerwin (CAPCOM): Okay, Fred. That's pretty nice looking picture. We'd like to know what settings you used to get that.
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Fred Haise (LMP): 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.
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Joe Kerwin (CAPCOM): Okay. I think we can stand to go to f:44 on that. The clouds are pretty bright.
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Fred Haise (LMP): Okay. We are going to have to press on here, Joe, so we are back inside.
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Joe Kerwin (CAPCOM): Okay. Thanks a lot.
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Fred Haise (LMP): Okay. How's that picture looking back outside now, Joe? Getting ready for LM extraction.
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Joe Kerwin (CAPCOM): Okay. That looks pretty good, Fred.
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Jim Lovell (CDR): Houston, this is 13. Do we have a GO for pyro arm?
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Joe Kerwin (CAPCOM): 13, Houston. Affirmative. You're GO for pyro arm.
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Jack Swigert (CMP): Hey, Joe, when we went back up and rechecked the tunnel there, we found two latches that weren't cocked and we reset them.
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Joe Kerwin (CAPCOM): I'll roger that, Jack.
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Jack Swigert (CMP): Joe, I've got a beautiful view of the Earth out window 1.
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Joe Kerwin (CAPCOM): Roger, Jack.
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Fred Haise (LMP): By the way, the windows came through in real good shape. Window 5 looks real clean, so I am kind of hopeful that Hycon stuff will be pretty good.
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Joe Kerwin (CAPCOM): Good deal.
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Fred Haise (LMP): I meant window 3, Joe.
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Joe Kerwin (CAPCOM): Okay, 13; Houston. You're GO for LM SEP whenever you're ready.
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Jim Lovell (CDR): Roger.
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Joe Kerwin (CAPCOM): Okay, 13; Houston. Correction on that. You're GO for LM SEP at the nominal time and—or later. We don't want it early.
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Jim Lovell (CDR): Okay, Joe. We'll do it at 04:01:00.
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Joe Kerwin (CAPCOM): Roger.
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Jack Swigert (CMP): Okay. We're about ready to pull the LM out, Joe.
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Joe Kerwin (CAPCOM): Okay, 13.
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Jack Swigert (CMP): Here she comes.
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Jack Swigert (CMP): Okay. Looks like we're clear, Joe.
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Joe Kerwin (CAPCOM): Okay. Looks good. It's weird because we get the TV about 10 seconds after you call it.
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Joe Kerwin (CAPCOM): Apollo 13, Houston.
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Jim Lovell (CDR): Go ahead.
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Joe Kerwin (CAPCOM): Okay. We'll be waiting for you to tell us that you feel you're safely clear of the booster, and give us the GO to command the booster in its yaw maneuver.
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Joe Kerwin (CAPCOM): 13, Houston. Did you copy my last about giving us a GO for the yaw?
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Fred Haise (LMP): Yes, we're maneuvering, Joe, and we hadn't picked her back up again yet.
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Joe Kerwin (CAPCOM): Okay. Do you want to wait till you acquire it before we yaw it?
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Jim Lovell (CDR): How much time do you have, Houston? Can you wait, or do you want to do it right now?
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Joe Kerwin (CAPCOM): We can wait if you want us to, Jim.
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Jim Lovell (CDR): Why don't you wait just a little bit.
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Joe Kerwin (CAPCOM): Okay.
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Jack Swigert (CMP): Joe, did they ever get an idea of what that—the TD and E fuel was?
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Joe Kerwin (CAPCOM): Jack, they're not willing to pin it down to a specific number right now because they say the tanks will warm up later on and the apparent consumption will go down. But it was nominal.
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Jack Swigert (CMP): Okay.
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Jack Swigert (CMP): Okay, Houston. We have the S-IVB in sight. You are GO to maneuver the S-IVB.
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Joe Kerwin (CAPCOM): Houston, Roger that.
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Jack Swigert (CMP): Try to give you a—Houston, we're going to try to give you a shot of the S-IVB with the TV out window number 3.
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Joe Kerwin (CAPCOM): Okay. Real good, Jack. Our S-band signal strength has been fluctuating. Does it seem to be going all right up there in the AUTO TRACK mode?
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Fred Haise (LMP): Yes. Right now; yes, it's dropped off to about the 70-percent point, Joe, and it was before up about 85.
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Joe Kerwin (CAPCOM): Okay.
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Jim Lovell (CDR): And, Houston, do you have a TV picture?
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Joe Kerwin (CAPCOM): Not at the moment, Jim. We had a garbled one there for a few seconds, and we don't have one at this moment.
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Jim Lovell (CDR): Okay. I can see the S-IVB now out the hatch window and it's —
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Joe Kerwin (CAPCOM): Okay, Jim. Suddenly we have a very good picture.
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Jim Lovell (CDR): Okay.
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Jim Lovell (CDR): And, Houston, I can see the gold shroud around the IU, and it looks that it's all intact.
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Joe Kerwin (CAPCOM): Roger, Jim. We copy that. Incidentally, the APS evasive maneuver will be about 4 minutes late. It'll be at about 04 plus 18.

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