Spacelog Apollo 13

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.

Okay.

13, Houston. I guess we could stand one more twick down on the f-stop.

Okay, Joe. He's going to do it.

That is, we want you to open it up. Looks like a very interesting book you're reading.

Hey, that's pretty, Fred.

Okay. I hope you got more detail than I have on the monitor here.

No. We probably don't, but it's kind of a neat picture anyway.

Houston, we are now going to finish repressurizing the tunnel.

Houston; Roger.

… probably hear, Joe, we're just finishing pumping up Aquarius here.

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.

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, Joe. We just had a momentary dropoff in signal strength again there.

Roger, Fred. We had an LOS for a minute and we lost our TV picture. It looks like—yes, we Just got it back. It looks great again.

13, Houston. You might stop the f-stop down one more notch, if you got any left.

And, 13, Houston. We'll be commanding the evasive maneuver in about 17 seconds.

Okay, Joe. We can see it start to move. However, it doesn't seem to be a lot of debris or vapor coming out of it.

Roger that, Jack. Booster says that's great. He says the booster's doing its thing normally. Concur. We don't see much on the television at all.

And, Apollo 13, Houston. We'd like to change the S-band and antenna configuration. Like you to go OMNI Delta. Like you to go MANUAL mode on the high gain with pitch of minus 60 and yaw of 90. Over.

Okay. You want us to OMNI Delta and MANUAL on the high gain to minus 60 and plus 90. Is that correct?

That's affirmative.

Okay, Houston. How much longer would you like the television?

Stand by on that. We'll get a word.

Okay, 13; this is Houston. You can turn the TV off anytime you're ready. We've enjoyed the show.

13, Houston. Before you secure the TV, we'd like to know whether that was in maximum zoom, just for information.

That's affirm. Jim had it in MAX zoom.

Okay. Good deal. That was a real good picture.

And, 13, Houston. The APS evasive maneuver appeared to be nominal. The LOX dump time is now 4 plus 39 plus 20, about 3 minutes late.

Okay, Joe. We are right now opening the WASTE STOWAGE VENT.

Okay, Jack. We copy.

Okay, Houston. We are charging battery B.

Apollo 13, Houston.

Go ahead, Joe.

Roger. They are having trouble verifying that the high gain is doing its thing. Like to verify that the pitch is minus 10, the Y is plus 350, you're in WIDE BEAM WIDTH and AUTO.

Okay. Minus 10 pitch, plus 350 yaw, and WIDE BEAM WIDTH and going into AUTO. You want HIGH GAIN, John?

That's affirm.

All right, Houston; 13.

13, Houston. Go ahead.

Is the S-IVB doing something different now?

Well, I don't know. It should be—let's see, it should have started the LOX dump at least quite a while ago. I guess that's complete. Why do you ask, Fred?

I'm looking out window 5 at what I think is the S-IVB, and I'm seeing what looks to be double plumes, going in two very narrow bands maybe about 3 degrees that are streaming out from it. And then there is a less dense band that covers maybe a 40-degree swath through the sky that continues out, also, in two directions.

Hey, Joe, what it looks like, kind of, is if you pull up behind a guy that's pulling a contrail, and you get in his contrail, like he's going away from you—there's a long contrail -

Okay; stand by. Let me see what Frank's got to say about that.

Except we're between—Looks like we're between two contrails, one guy above and one below.

Roger.

It's a very pretty sight.