Spacelog Apollo 13

What do we make it out of, Vance?

One canister with a —

— How about planning a rendezvous procedure?

— with a plastic roof.

Just for information, Houston, during—just prior to going around the Moon, we saw a lot of debris that was floating by us, including some—one rather large piece looked like the wrapping off of a line of some sort that is—still is with us.

Roger. Copy, Jim.

Even after our free-return midcourse yesterday.

Okay. We copy that.

No matter what I do, I can't stop that. Roll either way won't do it.

Jim?

Well, I don't see any way around it, Jim. It sure doesn't seem to be doing much, does it? It won't go down.

I don't know. I wonder if they tried that in the simulator. I can't seem to get roll to go up. It goes down on me, no matter how I hit the controllers.

Got pitch zero.

You can really see a change in rate?

… jar here, see if it'll couple in roll.

No?

There we go.

That does it.

I'm glad, too.

I don't know what caused it.

Here we still have 67-percent fuel level. I wonder how come they didn't … DELTA-V curve?

Aquarius, Houston.

Go ahead.

Jim, we don't have any data on your movements right now. How does it look like this procedure's going to work out so far as getting an attitude set up, the first part of the procedure?

Well, Vance, I've been trying to use MINIMUM IMPULSE only attitude control to get my roll and yaw—the roll and pitch, rather. But, with the attitude control only in this configuration, I—I can't command these—the roll the way I want to. So, I had to go to TTCA to get my roll to build up towards zero, it was going—decreasing towards 270. I really don't know what the combination is in the attitude control, that you can get the control to pitch and roll the way you want it to. You've got to use the TTCA.

Roger. Copy.

I now have both pitch and yaw—or pitch and roll going toward the designated amounts, now passing through 23 degrees in pitch, and I'm going up past 321 degrees in roll. And I am letting go that direction and when I get there, 90 in pitch and zero in roll, I'll go to AUTO and damp the rates.

Get a little sleep? That's okay.

We've got to rig up a method of using those lithium hydroxide canisters.

Okay, Houston. We just got a MASTER ALARM and an ECS light. I take it the partial pressure CO₂ is—Yes—That's what tripped it.

There's that mother.

Aquarius, Houston. Say again.

All right. CO₂. Our CO₂ value is getting high. We had a DPS ECS light and a blinking component light.

Okay. Copy.

Stand by on that PTC O₂.

Say again, Houston.

Hello, Houston. How do you read? Over.

Okay. Read you loud and clear now, Jim.

Okay. Did you hear what I just said about the ECS light and the blinking CO₂ component light?

Okay. We got that and—Stand by 1.

Okay.

Not much.

Jack, we might have to have you rig up this CO₂ rig they're talking about.

Go ahead. Houston. Over.

Oh! We've got a long ways to go.

Go ahead.

Okay, Jim. We're going to have to get back with you in a couple of minutes on whether or not we switch over at this time to your other canister. Second point, it might help in setting up this PTC if you concentrate on roll first, and get that going; and then work on pitch, when roll is established, and sort of take whatever yaw you get.

Okay. Vance, I tried that but when I start doing roll only I get pitch coupled in with it. But both of them rolling up toward this desired amount, though. I'm up to 46 and in pitch and 326 in roll.

Okay. Understand you've tried it.

Huh?

… to 15.

What is it right now?

Nothing. We're not reading anything.

Well, that's the one they wanted you to leave in.

…

It's in. That's how it triggers the—Okay, Jack. I'm going to push in on this thing to stop it.

Yes.

That just turned the MASTER ALARM back on. Now that it's on steady, I'll leave it on. I can't understand why I got a power—Oh, I know. That's right. … That reading is correct.

Yaw. I'm going the wrong way though, aren't I?

(Laughter).

Okay. What we're going to do, Jack, … over there …

Aquarius, Houston. Over.

Go ahead, Houston.

Jim, it looks pretty good except that the pitch is going out in the wrong direction, now. Over.

I concur. What I'm going to do is get roll to zero and I'm trying to bring yaw into zero and as soon as I get those two pretty well matched up, then I'm going to take the pitch and try to pitch it down.

Okeydoke.

Okay. Now I've got pitch going down; I've got roll almost zero and yaw is almost zero.

Houston, what's an acceptable pitch attitude, that you'll take?

Aquarius, Houston.

Aquarius, Houston. Over.

Roger. What's the acceptable pitch attitude that we can have for PTC? I can go into AUTO any time now, I'm looking at 118 degrees in pitch, practically zero roll, and about 40 degrees of yaw.

Ninety degrees of pitch.

I'm looking at 118 degrees of pitch.

Stand by.

I'm trying to talk to them.

Stand by a minute, Jim. The pitch is the important thing, but—but stand by 1.

Okay. It's coming down. What's that? Well, I guess I'd better eat something. Hey, this one has some of that candied jelly … you know, we've gone a hell of a long time without any sleep. I said we've gone a hell of a long time without any sleep.

Hey, Fred? These jettison bags with the—are real airtight stuff, if you want to use them for wrapping for a lithium hydroxide bag or something like that.

Yes, this stuff is really tight.

Aquarius, Houston. Over.

Go ahead, Houston.

Okay, Jim. Would you stable your—stabilize your rates here at the attitudes you're at now and go ATT HOLD. Over.

Okay. Will do. I'm now at 103 degrees—106 degrees pitch, and 2.5 degrees roll.

Roger.

…?

No.

… mine are … Hey, I got you a clean one.

Okay.

Last one's in the trash bag. Oh, I thought—if you wanted a …, you'll have to use the lithium hydroxide …

Okay, Houston. Are you monitoring my angles? It appears that it might be less then 1 degree per second.

Stand by. We'll check them, Jim.

Aquarius, Houston.

Go ahead, Houston.

Jim, that's affirm. We're monitoring and you're almost there, but we'd like to let them stabilize a little bit longer. Over.

Okay. We'll—We'll just hold.