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Jim Lovell (CDR)
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It's amazing watching these little frozen droplets maneuver. They seem to go in all directions, but finally after they get out a certain ways, settle down and they all seem to be traveling in the same direction.
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Fred Haise (LMP)
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I've got the f-stop all the way open now, Vance; that's quad—quad 1 you're looking at with the LM should—The Moon should be in view just over the top of the quad.
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Vance Brand (CAPCOM)
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13, Houston. INCO suggests you try AVERAGE if you're in PEAK to see if that gives us a better picture.
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Vance Brand (CAPCOM)
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Okay. Now, 13, request you either move it away from the bright area or else move it back to PEAK. Over.
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Fred Haise (LMP)
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Okay, Vance. I cranked the focus down a little bit. Is the quad coming in any better now?
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Vance Brand (CAPCOM)
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Okay. We could see you zoom in on the Moon, and it's near the center of our screen, just a little to the left. Very clear.
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Fred Haise (LMP)
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I don't know if you can make out the features there, Vance, on the Moon, but it looks like the terminators are at central plains area somewhere around Descartes, maybe.
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Vance Brand (CAPCOM)
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Okay. We're—We see it just as a bright portion of the lunar disk, and it looks a lot like you see it from Earth. Very bright. We are unable to see any features at all.
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Fred Haise (LMP)
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It's pretty much the same with the eyeballs in here, and it looks a little bigger now. But the only way I could see it very good at all was with the monocular, a little while ago.
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Vance Brand (CAPCOM)
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Okay, Fred. Very good. We'd be interested to seeing the cabin when you get ready for that, too.
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Jim Lovell (CDR)
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And, Vance, we're counting down to midcourse-2, we're up to, in our checklist, to minus 6 minutes to go.
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Vance Brand (CAPCOM)
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Roger. Minus 6 minutes. Understand you're about ready to turn on the gimbal motors and all that sort of thing. Okay. We see the computer now in the upper middle part of the—the panel. I think we see somebody's checklist in the center couch. It must be Jim holding the checklist.
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Fred Haise (LMP)
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Right. And what Jim's holding now, he's got a pen in his hand we've rigged on a string, as sort of a simple-minded accelerometer. This burn's pretty short and I'm not sure even that's going to show very much. But we'll see if it'll stretch out at the end of its string.
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Vance Brand (CAPCOM)
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Yes. We see the pencil at the top of the picture floating around. And Jack's coming into view now.
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Fred Haise (LMP)
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Now in a few minutes, Vance, I guess we'll see how about the only system we haven't used yet works. Everything else sure has worked mighty fine.
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Vance Brand (CAPCOM)
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Right. The spacecraft's really working nicely. Okay. We're picking up panel 2 now. Still a little bit of the checklist.
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Vance Brand (CAPCOM)
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Right. We just saw your—your testing of the caution and warning system at the left-hand side of the panel on our TV. See the lights all flash on. You're doing it again.
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Vance Brand (CAPCOM)
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You mission timer's showing up as a—a brilliant green in the upper left-hand part of the picture.
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Jim Lovell (CDR)
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Okay. We'll—what we'll do—We'll be on VOX for the remainder of the burn and preburn countdown.
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Jim Lovell (CDR)
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… And what we're waiting for is 54 minutes on our counter or 20 which would be minus —
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Vance Brand (CAPCOM)
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Jim, we hear clipping on your VOX. Could you adjust it so that you're coming in continuously all the time?
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Vance Brand (CAPCOM)
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We can see your fuel and oxidizer gages and hydrogen/oxygen gages at the top of the picture and the PUGS, but it isn't coming in in focus too well. It's a little dim.
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Vance Brand (CAPCOM)
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Fred, the focus is good enough that we can see the position of your four ball valves at the top of the picture for the big SPS engine.
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Jack Swigert (CMP)
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Hopefully, you'll see the—or we'll see the two on the left here, set A, go on here directly —
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Jim Lovell (CDR)
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MAIN BUS TIES, two, ON, Fred. Okay. SPS HELIUM VALVE, two, AUTO and checked AUTO barber pole. TVC SERVO POWER is 1, AC1/MAIN A; 2, AC2/MAIN B.
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Jim Lovell (CDR)
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And arm your hand controller.
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Spoken on April 13, 1970, 1:37 a.m. UTC (54 years, 6 months ago). Link to this transcript range is: Tweet
