Spacelog Apollo 13

13, Houston.

Hey, Joe? Is FAO ready to—do you—or are you ready to give me those items that we made optional and deleted in the solo book?

Jack, we are not quite ready with that yet, but we will be before too long. Can you wait awhile?

Sure can. Got lots of time.

Okay.

Hello, Houston; Apollo 13.

13, Houston. Go ahead.

Just a passing comment, Joe. We're having lunch right now, and I just made myself a hotdog sandwich with catsup. Very tasty and almost unheard of in the old days.

That's correct, 13. As I recall the flight plan, you're supposed to put mustard on the hot dogs and not catsup, but I guess we'll overlook that.

We blew it.

Right. How's everything going?

It's going pretty good. We have about four different methods of spreading catsup, right now.

Okay. Jack, we'll have your update to you before too long.

Okay. Fine, Joe. We did a pit check on the Hycon camera and everything works okay.

And the last item's for Jack. Jack, the preliminary indications are that you can get a 60-day extension on your—filing your income tax if you're out of the country.

That's good news. I guess I qualify.

Yes, we were just looking at the map, and you're south of Florida so you're not in the country now. But we wondered how about your car tags. Have you taken care of those?

Yes, I did, as a matter of fact. I think I did!

Known as, “plan ahead.”

Okay. Good.

And, Apollo 13, Houston. Recommend OMNI Alfa until you get to the burn attitude.

Okay, Houston; Apollo 13.

13, go ahead.

Okay, Vance. The EMS DELTA-V pass passive, the results of the no-bias pass in 100 seconds, have been from 100 to 101.5.

Roger. Copy plus 100 to plus 101.5, and that agrees fairly closely with the last one, as I recall.

Okay, Houston. We're at P40 burn attitude. Jim is on the sextant star check, and we do have a star in the sextant.

Roger, Jack. Copy. Very good.

But we couldn't tell you whether it's 44 or not.

Whoops.

Okay, Houston; 13. We're a little bit ahead of ourselves. Do we have a GO to do the fuel cell purge and the waste water dump?

Jack, that's affirm. You have a GO for those.

Apollo 13, Houston.

Go ahead.

Jim, battery A is charged now. Whenever you want to unhook it will be fine with us.

Houston, 13. Are you still planning to have TV at the scheduled time?

Okay, 13; Houston. That's affirm. At the flight-plan-scheduled time.

Okay. All right. We've got a beautiful sight we want to show you.

Right.

13, Houston. You can go ahead with the TV now. We're standing by.

Okay. Here it comes.

Okay.

Okay. Jack. It's coming in, and it's right in the center of our screen.

Okay, Vance.

Can you—Think you could guess what that might be, Vance? Better than Charlie?

I don't want to start flipping coins at this point.

Okay, Vance. We're pointed just a little ways off from looking directly at the Moon. Jim is holding the camera through window 3. The Sun is coming at about 40 degrees off our left side, and what we are going to show you in just a minute is about 30 seconds of waste water dump and just show you just what it looks like. It's really fantastic.

Okay. We'd like to see that.

Okay. We saw some droplets speeding out for a little while, Jack. Now we don't see anything.

Actually, Vance, what you're looking at is solid water droplets coming out just about all the time. It lights up the whole sky around the Moon. It's Just far too fine for you to see. Now I think they're coming out a little thicker.

Okay. Yes, we see those.

Jack's complaining about seeing stars.

FIDO says he can understand why that would perturbate a trajectory now.