Spacelog Apollo 13

Aquarius, Houston. We got part of your transmission. Understand the PTC has deteriorated quite a bit and you'd like to know what to do about it. Is that affirm?

Negative. How do you read now, Vance?

Okay. A little better.

Okay. The only comment was that it has deteriorated to where the Moon is now coming through the overhead docking window now, in a portion of each pass, and about that time I just lose COMM on either antenna, so there's going to be a short period of time on each revolution where we're not going to have COMM.

Okay, Fred. We understand that and one more item for clarification on the water. We don't really know what your usage of potable is. That was purely an estimate assuming a fairly healthy usage.

Hey, Houston; Aquarius.

Aquarius, Houston. Go ahead.

Okay. Jack just took a look through the optics—through one REV, and he said they look good, loud and clear. He doesn't have any current condensate on either the sextant or telescope.

How do you read, Vance?

Okay. I'm reading you weakly, Fred. Go ahead.

With all this other procedures you've been working on there, I thought I was going to have a new one for you. How to get four gingerbread cubes apart; I think they were stuck together with epoxy.

This is in the food bag?

Yes.

That's to stand loads of launch and boost.

Roger. Tool B did the trick.

Yes.

Hey, Fred. John says you can use the dikes on it to get them apart.

Yes, that probably wouldn't have crumbled them as badly.

I generally don't use the subtle approach. You can tell we're feeling pretty good, Vance, when we start complaining about the food.

Yes. That's good to hear.

Aquarius, Houston.

Go ahead.

Fred, we have you on the Goldstone big dish now, and our COMM is much better. If you'd like would you turn the BIOMED switch on to either crewman there.

Okay. Stand by. I'll have to plug in first.

Okay.

Okay, Vance. How do you read on baseband.

We read you just—Stand by.

Okay, Fred. We're receiving your MED data; it was a little slow in coming in.

Houston, Aquarius. Are you calling?

Negative. No call from here.

And, Vance, this is Aquarius.

Go ahead, Fred.

Okay. Jim's coming back on the line, and I'll be unhooking on the BIOMEDs, and you want us to go back to the SPA DOWN VOICE BACKUP?

Stand by.

Okay. Jim doesn't have his BIOMED rigged on right now, so … DOWN VOICE …

Okay, Fred. You're too weak on that last. I understand you're disconnecting, and your BIOMED will be off. Say again about Jim, please.

Okay. How do you read now?

Okay.

Okay. All I said was Jim doesn't have his BIOMED rigged right now so I'll go back to DOWN VOICE BACKUP SPA and Jim's coming on the line.

Okay. We copy you're in DOWN VOICE BACKUP.

Well, I'm thinking about the last 10 hours. We've lost our suit compressors.

Because we don't want to use the power.