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.

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.

Go ahead.

Okay, Jim. Looks like your rates are damped sufficient. Recommend that you go ahead with the VERB 25, NOUN 07, ENTER bit on down through the VERB 34, ENTER, and then wish you'd stand by for us to look at it again before you go beyond that. Over.

Okay, Houston. I'll go through VERB 25, NOUN 07, down through VERB 34 ENTER, and I'll stand by.

Right-o.

Okay, Houston. That's complete.

Roger. Houston copies, and we'll —

You … monitor our rates?

Roger.

We —

You want to monitor the rates; we're 16 20.

Roger. That's the way it should be done, and we're standing by for the rates to dump out some more.

Okay.

How you coming?

Oh, we're taking stock of how much we got there, maybe sort of think about rationing some of it. I mean just to make sure we've got enough to last us and that we get enough water out. I'd hate to run out of water on the last day. Take a look and see how much we got, and fill them up and just hold them there. Yes, and I'll tell you the stuff that's good to eat now will be the candies, the sandwich spreads. Maybe the freeze—the dehydrated stuff. If you have to rehydrate it, it'd be kind of difficult. No, wet packs are good.

As a matter of fact, we might use those little—Well, how about the PLSSs?

Yes, I know, but I mean the PLSSs are bombs, too.

…

We're damping rates.

…

You guys moving around?

Okay.

Apollo 13, Houston. Over.

Go ahead, Vance.

Jim, just a reminder. Any waste water dumped at this point would really jiggle up the PTC preparation, so request you save that until we're spun up. Over.

Right. I don't think we're doing any.

No. No, I don't think so, but I just wanted to make sure you were aware of it—I thought you were.

… for a minute?

With the new space. … we're … We've just about slowed down. You're damping right.

There she is.

And, Houston, Aquarius.

Houston. Go ahead.

Okay, Vance. A couple of items we uncovered for that cartridge MOD. One is the special dust covering bag that we were going to use on the tote bags, that is pretty thick and nonporous; and we went up to the upstairs kitchen and drained water a couple of more times, and made up a whole bunch of drink bags, again; and from the pantry, we retrieved a fairly large—enclosed—enclosure made of plastic that those drink bags are in that I think we can scissor and also make do for a cover, taping it on, if that's appropriate.

Okay. Jack Lousma here has a refined version of the procedure on how to make these the easy way, and I think before too long he ought to be reading that up to you. If —

Okay.

It's not time critical to get this up to you. It's just that, before you get too far in assembling these on your own, we'd kind of like to give you the benefit of experience down here.

Okay. Who—Who built them back there.

Tony did some of it, and Jack's been working on it, too. So we've had a big effort on it.

Great.

We would encourage you to wait until tomorrow to receive that procedure, but we can send it up sooner, if you insist. Over.

No, that's all right, Vance. Before we have to worry about that I guess we got another primary and three secondaries to go through.

That's right.

You know, sometimes those cartridges have—I guess they rejuvenate.

Aquarius, Houston. Over.

Man, that's a wicked low pressure down there. I wish I was on it. (Laughter).

Aquarius, Houston.