Spacelog Apollo 13

Go ahead, Houston. We've lost …

Roger. How are you reading me now, Jim?

Houston, Apollo 13.

13, Houston. How do you read now?

Okay. Read you good now. Seems like we've had a little trouble with the COMM today.

Yes. I guess it's partly because you are further out. We just wanted to tell you that you were going to get that CAUTION WARNING that you just got.

Right. We just got.

And I won't bother you with those calls anymore, unless you especially want them.

That's okay, Vance. You don't have to call us about that, unless it's something serious.

Okay.

We just ate a can of ham salad and that was an experience.

Roger. Copy.

It's really kind of like eating on the sly. Chasing it around.

Right. Copy.

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Houston, Apollo 13.

13, Houston. Go ahead.

Right, we're not doing anything right now, Vance, we're just getting curious, we could start the LM entry procedures, and get everything squared away, and then when the TV comes up at 55 hours, we can just use it for the TV, and we wouldn't be worrying about checking out the SHe tank pressures and everything like that.

Okay, let us mull that one a minute here, and I'll get right back with you.

Also, Houston, Apollo 13. We'd like to move up the waste water dump and maybe the O₂ fuel cell purge a little bit early, if we could.

Apollo 13, Houston.

Go ahead, Houston.

Jim, you're clear to go on into the LM, and just advise though that the TV time is still fixed at 55 hours, and—so we'll be standing by to support your entry and we'll get back with you on a minute—in a minute on the O₂ fuel cell purge and the waste water dump.

Okay. Sounds good.

And also request your LM/CM DELTA-P which was on the flight plan for 53 hours. What did you vent it down to? Over.

We have 1.7 now. We vented it down to that figure.

Okay, you vented down to 1.7, and what did it start at?

It was about 1.1, Vance.

Houston, 13.

Go ahead, 13.

What do you read for suit pressure down there?

We're reading 4.3, Fred.

Houston, 13.

Go ahead, Apollo 13.

We'd like another confirmation, when we closed the tunnel vent valve back to LM/CM DELTA-P, we were reading about 1.7—1.75, and it slowly went up now to about—oh, I'd say a little less than 2.2. Seems to be holding there—Is there a lag in the gaging system?

Okay. We'll—we'll ask that question. Stand by.