Spacelog Apollo 13

Jack, while he's doing that, copy down what you just said again. I want to write it down.

Aquarius, we need to get your sublimator powered up, Activation page 20 and Activation page 21, step 3. Over.

Roger. Activation page 20 and Activation page 21, step 3, sublimator.

Roger.

That's Activation, page 20? Okay, Jack. Now I have to power down IMU. I have no control at all. I'm going to turn my 16 jets off, Say again the other things you wanted?

Okay, Jack. We'd like you to turn off your O₂ tank 2 heaters and fans. Correction—tank 1. Turn the fans and heaters off.

Okay. And, Jack, can we turn on the FDAI circuit breakers so we could have a ball to see if we go to gimbal lock or not?

Stand by.

Houston, he's going to give a 16 NOUN 20, Jack. And, okay, I've got O₂ heaters and fans off in tank 1.

And, Jack, let me know if you get close to gimbal lock, would you?

Jim, we don't want you to power down the ball in the LM. We wanted you to power down the ball in the CSM.

Jack, they haven't powered down —

Jack, we don't have the balls powered up in the LM.

I have the CMC and IMU in the command module is powered down. The heaters are out.

And the EVAP flow valve, that's open now, and I've undone my suit hoses here and opened up the suit flow valves; so, we got air flowing in the LM now.

Okay, Jack. Will you say again the SCS items you wanted me to power down?

Okay, Houston. Do you read Odyssey?

Hello, Houston. How do you read?

His gimbal lock and ours are different, Jim.

Apollo 13, Houston. Say again, please. You were cut out.

Okay, Jack. Do you want me to proceed by the SCS powerdown checklist? I did not copy the SCS items you wanted me to power down.

Okay, Odyssey. We want to go SCS ELECTRONICS POWER, OFF.

Okay. It's done.

FDAI POWER/GPI, OFF. AUTO jet SELECT, 16 —

That's done.

— OFF. And all your ROTATIONAL CONTROL POWER, OFF.

It's done. ROTATION CONTROL POWER, DIRECT, and AUTO …, OFF.

Okay, Jack. Tell me there. We need to know when we're getting close to gimbal lock in the LM. We have no balls right now.

Okay. We want you to power up your eight-ball. We want you to get your RCS heaters on. Pressurize the RCS and open up the MAIN SOVs. Over.

Okay, Jack. I got two commander FDAI breakers in, AC and DC, and the two GASTA breakers in AC and DC and next you'll want the RCS heaters all on with the—pressurize the RCS and then the MAIN SOVs open. And I think they're already open.

Roger. And, Fred-o, get the TCA breakers in last. Please.

Roger, Jim. I'm holding open those until you give me a further word anyway. I'm just going to pressurize right now.

Jack, are you reading LM gimbal angles?

— … power off, come down here and … the audio …

Okay, Aquarius. I have some gyro torquing angles and the Odyssey is powered down, attitude-control-wise, so LM's got attitude control now.

Aquarius, Houston.

Go ahead, Jack.

Okay. We want you to know that we got some gyro torquing angles for you. And we want you to tell us when you got attitude control in the LM.

Okay. We're still working on the pressurization. I'm getting Jim on the horn here so he can help out, there.

Roger.

Wonder why.

We got to get this pressurized.

Houston, Aquarius.

Stand by 1, Aquarius, Odyssey. We'd like you to go DIRECT RCS and hold your present attitude out the window until the LM gets RCS powered up. Go ahead, Jim.

Well, that's my question. We're not—Our 16 20 doesn't match our eight-ball here. We went to FDAIs ON, and we don't have our balls completely powered up. There may be a … and our angles don't look the same and we don't want to go into gimbal lock.

Roger. How far are you from RCS power up—RCS pressurization?

Okay, Jack. I'm right up to where it's MASTER ARM, ON; RCS, FIRE; —

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— both LOGIC POWERs out … goes into normal circuit-breaker. … Do you want A in and then I'll fire them?

Okay, 13. You're both talking at once. One at a time, please.

Okay. Who's first?

Close LOGIC POWER A and B, Fred, and pressurize RCS.

Okay.

Go ahead, Odyssey.

Okay. I'm going to try to do the best I can. I've got a one-attitude reference I'm going to fly according to the lunar terminator.

Roger, Jack. Just maintain attitude.

What am I doing? I can't do that, anyway. Let's see, cross feed. Nope. Now, and -

Aquarius, Houston. We'll have to get some AC up so you can get a ball reading. Close your BUS TIE INVERTER circuit breakers, all four of them on panel 11. Close your AC BUS VOLT circuit breaker on panel 11. On panel 16, INVERTER 2, CLOSE. Select inverter 2. Over.

That's been completed, Jack.

Okay. The RCS is pressurized now.

Okay, Jack. Do you want us to proceed right on down the line with the RCS check-out and Activation 37 now?

Stand by, Fred.

Hell, is he still firing up there?

Okay, Fred. Negative on the activation on page 37. Go on to your RCS pressurize and then get your TCA breakers in and go to PGNS attitude hold.

Okay, Jack. How do you read?

Okay, Jim. This is Houston. We want you to load the DAP with 30120.

Load the DAP with 30120. Complete.

Okay. We need to change that CSM weight.

Okay, Aquarius. Your CSM weight is 63400.

And Jack's alive to take control the LM to stay away from gimbal lock. Over.

Affirmative. Take control of the LM. PGNS ATTITUDE HOLD.

We are.

And, Odyssey, request you coordinate with Aquarius on attitude control.

Okay.

Roger.

Okay. I don't see where you're firing these things …

Oh?

Are you firing anything?

I don't think so.

Okay. I got DIRECT.

And, Aquarius, check you ATCA (PGNS) breaker on panel 11 in.

Say again.

Close, on panel 11, circuit breaker ATCA (PGNS).

ATCA (PGNS). Come on. Let's take it easy now.

Okay. We've got ATCA (PGNS) closed.

Yes.

Is that okay?

Yes.

Okay. Now I'm looking.

… okay …

How about plus?

No. …

Okay. It's already open.

Okay. Slow down.

Okay, Jack. We got it.

Yes.

Okay, Jim. How's the attitude control?

Okay, Jack. We've got attitude control now in the LM. We're going to try to rotate up through the bellyband.

Roger.

I like that sound like I got back there.

Odyssey, Houston. I've got a procedure for you.

Okay, Jack. I'm …

I want to go up this way to get away from that—the radios are powered, huh?

Yes.

Check your antenna?

Okay, Jack. Odyssey is ready to copy.

Okay, Jack. What we want you to do is close the reactants valve on fuel cell 2. Power down your inverters. Power down your battery relay bus. Battery ties, off, and pull your entry circuit breakers, entry battery circuit breakers A, B, and C.

Check the control, and make sure we don't go to gimbal lock, Fred.

Okay, Jack; understand. Close REAC valve circuit breakers in fuel cell 2. Power down inverters. Power down BAT relay bus. BAT TIES, OFF. Power entry and both running circuit breakers A, B, and C. All off.

That's affirmative, Jack. And close the reactant valve on fuel cell 2, there.

Okay. I'll do that, and Jack'll do that other.

Okay, Jack; on fuel cell 2, open circuit it.

Okay. Fuel cell 2 is open circuited. Do you want me to go through the standard shutdown procedure for the REAC valves and -

Odyssey, Houston. All you have to do is close the REACs valve on fuel cell 2.

Okay. CB REACs and vent REAC valves all closed.

Yes.

Yes.

… an hour and a half.

Okay.

Houston, Aquarius.

Go ahead, Aquarius.

Okay. Odyssey is completely powered down, according to the procedure that you read to Jack.

Roger; we copy. That's where we want to be, Jim.

And, Jack, have you all got good LM data down there now?

That's affirmative, Fred. We're getting good LM data.

Okay. In that case, I think I'll pull out some display breakers and just let you all keep an eye on things.

Roger.

He's turning his lights off now, too.

Stand by 1 on that, Fred.

Okay.

What about these lights up here?

I've got it.

Okay.

Where would you like …?

…

Oh.

We don't want to lose COMM with him.

I'm watching it.

Aquarius, Houston. Stand by on opening your circuit breakers for displays. We're going to let you know what they are, and I have some gyro torquing angles for you.

Okay. What page is that there gyro torquing?

Okay. What page is the, do we write the gyro torquing angles on there, Jack?

Stand by.

Okay. We're there now, Jim. Jim's got it. Go ahead with the gyro torquing angles.

Okay. We'd like you to proceed with the fine aline and your gyro torquing angles are X plus 003.30, Y plus 024.80, Z minus 015.10. Over.

Okay. I read your gyro torquing angles as plus 003.30, Y is plus 023, I only have four numbers for Y; you'll have to give that one to me again, and Z is minus 015.10. Read Y again, please.

Okay, Jim. X and Z are correct and Y is plus 024.80.

Okay. We read Y as plus 024.80. We'll proceed on Activation 40 to fine aline the platform.

Aquarius, Houston. Can you see any stars out the LM window?

We'll have to wipe them off, Jack. They're coated with water right now.

Can I get a towel?

Yes.

Roger. As soon as you get a chance to—on your position—to take a look, we'd like to know if you can see stars for alinement purposes.

Okay. Jim's going to be in trouble in our present attitude out his side. The Sun's there.

Wait 1.

What have you got? How much you got left in battery A? Okay. I wish I knew what the hell they were thinking right now … —

They're talking about powering down and doing a P51 here?

No. They were just thinking about P52 —

Aquarius, Houston. Negative on the P51. We want to stay just like we are, but we'd like to be able to correlate what you're doing with some simulator work we're going to crank up. And so if you can give us information as to what stars you can see out the window, we can make that correlation.

Would you say one more time? Give me the top two. The top two.

Jim, what we want you to do is go with your current fine aline and disregard the P51. What we're attempting to do is to crank up some LMS simulations to correlate what we can get out your window with what we can get out the LMS window to see if that will help us any. So when you can see some stars, if you can, you think you can recognize them and recognize constellations, please let us know.

Okay. We'll check. Stand by.

Okay. Watch the —

I'm just glad …

Okay, stand by.

Okay. Here, unplug this.