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Vance Brand (CAPCOM)
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Jim, we have some status information for you, if you're ready to copy on a piece of scratch paper.
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Vance Brand (CAPCOM)
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Okay. First, midcourse correction will probably be at GET 104 hours, and all we look for is a 4- to 6-feet-per-second DELTA-V. Okay. That's the first item. Now, I will give you a rundown on consumables. Okay. In the LM, you have 1498—that is 1 4 9 8 amp-hours remaining. That means over 61 hours you'd—That would average out to 24.5 amps. We expect that, after powerdown, that you will use 1 4 or 14 amps per hour, and that would leave a reserve of 500 amp-hours at the end of the mission. Are you with me?
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Vance Brand (CAPCOM)
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Roger. In the LM, you have 215, that is 2 1 5, pounds of water, usable. That would average out over 61 hours to 3.5 pounds per hour available. Okay.
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Vance Brand (CAPCOM)
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Okay. And after you power down, we expect that you will be using water at the rate of 3.2 to 2.7 pounds—That's at 14 amps per hour electrical usage rate. One note, this does not—When we speak here of water available, this does not include CSM water and PLSS water, so that's add on. Okay, next, LiOH. Using the CSM cans, you will have 16 cans at 12 hours per can to give you 1 9 2, or 192 hours, of LiOH. And, in the LM, using its cans, you have 44 hours remaining.
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Vance Brand (CAPCOM)
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Okay; oxygen. You have remaining 44 pounds in the LM. At a usage rate of 0.36 pounds per hour, that leaves you 120, or 1 2 0, hours of oxygen. Okay. Next, RCS. RCS A stands at 6 2 percent and B at 6 2 percent. We only expect 2 percent to be used for the PTC, so you're in good shape for RCS. Next, DPS DELTA-V. You have 1190 feet per second remaining. And, finally, CSM EPS. We estimate that you have 99 amp-hours. That's an estimate. And that's it. Over.
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Vance Brand (CAPCOM)
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Okay. And just a question. It would be interesting to hear from Jack to see if he thinks that main B bus is good. If he has any idea of how, if whether it's good or not, this would influence our steps in the future; for example, we might want to try to test main B to see if it is, in fact, good so that we'd know how to set switches for entry.
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Jim Lovell (CDR)
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Roger. Just a minute. They want to know whether you think main bus B is any good for the command module.
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Jim Lovell (CDR)
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Vance, while Jack's got on the loop, let me pose the question of how we're planning on doing this midcourse, if we are going to power down the PGNS.
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Vance Brand (CAPCOM)
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Would you stand by on that, Jim? We'd like to give you a procedure for that later on.
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Jim Lovell (CDR)
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Okay. Got a midcourse at 104 hours, he's going to give us a procedure for that later on.
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Vance Brand (CAPCOM)
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In short, Jim, we don't expect any problem, but we'll explain further later on.
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Vance Brand (CAPCOM)
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Deke says get a night's sleep. He says you've been working hard, and you ought to relax a little bit and be ready for tomorrow.
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Jack Swigert (CMP)
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Okay. Let me give you my observations on main bus B. Things happened pretty fast there, and we first heard the impact or explosion or whatever caused it, I'm not sure. The next—About 1 second later, there was a MASTER ALARM which was the MAIN BUS B UNDERVOLT. I looked at the voltage, and the voltage was good at this time so I'm suspecting it was a spike. Fuel cell 3 was also good, with good flow. However, Fred, at that point, was coming into the command module and got over into his seat. At that time, we shortly had an AC BUS 2 light about the time he got into his seat. He looked at the MAIN BUS B and the MAIN BUS B was reading ZERO. It, however,—and the fuel cell flows were ZERO. I'm kind of suspecting that perhaps we do have a MAIN—a current MAIN BUS B. But that's merely a guess. I never did try to reset it. We were having other problems with the MAIN BUS A, having an UNDERVOLT and a few other things like that. I'd kind of like to hear what your feelings are down there.
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Vance Brand (CAPCOM)
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Well, Jack, we copy your information. And we'd like to hold off because we're still working the problem. So we'll have to give you information later.
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Jack Swigert (CMP)
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Okay. We lost lock there. We switched OMNIs. Just for my own—kind of to get my thoughts in order, I'd kind of hear what—I'd like to hear what kind of entry you're planning. EMS or PGNS or what ?
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Vance Brand (CAPCOM)
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Okay. PGNS entry is being planned, and people are at work on checklist changes and that sort of thing.
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Vance Brand (CAPCOM)
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And—we'll—We'll give you the CSM stuff tomorrow, but basically we expect that main bus B is good and we're going to work up a procedure to test it.
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Vance Brand (CAPCOM)
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That's affirm.. We think it is, but we want to check it out anyway. We think you guys are in great shape all the way around. Why don't you quit worrying, and go to sleep.
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Jack Swigert (CMP)
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Yes, I'm mixed up. You had 15? I mixed up seven more. So we got 22. By the way, there's still some water that's- it's not enough pressure to mix up another drink, but there is some water out of there, if you want to get some water out of the drink cup.
Spoken on April 15, 1970, 5:02 a.m. UTC (54 years, 7 months ago). Link to this transcript range is: Tweet
