Spacelog Apollo 13

Fifteen even.

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.

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.