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04 02 29 45
Jim Lovell (CDR): Hello, Houston; Aquarius.
04 02 29 49
Vance Brand (CAPCOM): Roger, Jim. Good morning.
04 02 29 53
Jim Lovell (CDR): Good morning, Vance. How's things going down there?
04 02 29 56
Vance Brand (CAPCOM): Oh, quiet and smooth.
04 02 29 59
Jim Lovell (CDR): Oh, it's afternoon down there.
04 02 30 06
Vance Brand (CAPCOM): Right. We thought maybe it was morning to you.
04 02 30 12
Jim Lovell (CDR): Well, I've sort of lost track. But I had a good sleep.
04 02 30 17
Vance Brand (CAPCOM): Glad to hear it. Doctor just said he wondered how many hours?
04 02 30 29
Jim Lovell (CDR): Oh, let's say whenever I left Jack, and Fred came up and we ate for about an hour, and then I went to bed, so whatever that time was. It must be about 5 hours, something like that; 4 or 5 hours.
04 02 30 42
Vance Brand (CAPCOM): Good. Glad to see you catching up.
04 02 31 42
Vance Brand (CAPCOM): Aquarius, Houston.
04 02 31 50
Jim Lovell (CDR): Go ahead, Vance.
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Vance Brand (CAPCOM): Jim, the next time that it's convenient, could you get the readout of the REPRESS package in the command module for us? Over.
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Jim Lovell (CDR): Will do.
04 02 32 04
Vance Brand (CAPCOM): Okay.
04 02 32 08
Jim Lovell (CDR): When you go back there, Fred, they want the REPRESS package readout.
04 02 32 15
Vance Brand (CAPCOM): We don't want you to wake anyone up to get it.
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04 02 32 21
Jim Lovell (CDR): No. No one's asleep now.
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Jim Lovell (CDR): It has? …, was it? … you get forward to it and a pretty good view of the venting.
04 02 34 13
Jim Lovell (CDR): And, Houston, Aquarius. It looks like service module venting has ceased, at least momentarily.
04 02 34 19
Vance Brand (CAPCOM): Roger. Understand service module venting has ceased momentarily. How about the descent stage? Does Fred report venting down there? Do you still see that?
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04 02 34 33
Jim Lovell (CDR): Stand by.
04 02 34 36
Jim Lovell (CDR): What is your report on descent stage venting—Was it venting? Anything else going on? Any more venting?
04 02 34 51
Fred Haise (LMP): No.
04 02 34 52
Jim Lovell (CDR): No. Fred hasn't seen anything else from the descent stage. And I understand that we can expect the—the SHe—tank pressure to build up to relief here about 105 hours.
04 02 35 06
Vance Brand (CAPCOM): Roger. A little later than that—like 106—107.
04 02 35 13
Jim Lovell (CDR): Okay.
04 02 35 43
Jim Lovell (CDR): Did you get some interior photos?
04 02 35 48
Fred Haise (LMP): Yes.
04 02 35 52
Jim Lovell (CDR): Okay. I'd like to show them the arrangement of these hydroxide canisters. Do you have?
04 02 36 10
Vance Brand (CAPCOM): Aquarius, Houston.
04 02 37 11
Jim Lovell (CDR): Did they give Jack any more procedures on command module powerup?
04 02 37 16
Fred Haise (LMP): …
04 02 37 18
Jim Lovell (CDR): Did they give Jack any more procedures on command module powerup?
04 02 39 04
Jim Lovell (CDR): Well, they think it might be up here.
04 02 39 06
Fred Haise (LMP): Okay.
04 02 39 08
Jim Lovell (CDR): The main thing we got to think about, and when we have to get to them, is the procedures for LM jettison, the transfer of the LM to CSM mode (cough), LM jettison.
04 02 39 23
Fred Haise (LMP): …
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Jim Lovell (CDR): Yes.
04 02 40 33
Jim Lovell (CDR): … the LM mode?
04 02 41 17
Fred Haise (LMP): All we have to do is turn the BIOMED … on, and we'll be in there.
04 02 41 34
Jim Lovell (CDR): Houston, Aquarius.
04 02 41 39
Vance Brand (CAPCOM): Roger. Go ahead, Aquarius.
04 02 41 44
Jim Lovell (CDR): We would like permission to turn the BIOMED on to get off the hot mike mode. I don't think that we have to be on it now if you have the big dish on, do you?
04 02 42 05
Fred Haise (LMP): Yes. Yaw's coming—or roll's coming up for it, and we were going to burn.
04 02 42 13
Vance Brand (CAPCOM): Roger, Jim. We concur. Go ahead and turn it on.
04 02 42 18
Jim Lovell (CDR): Okay. Fine; thank you.
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Vance Brand (CAPCOM): One other point. The philosophy of timing this midcourse is based a little bit on doing it just before the SHe tank is supposed to vent. That way, we hope that we would have — be powered up and you would have control when the venting occurs, in case you were tossed around a little bit. Over.
04 02 42 45
Jim Lovell (CDR): Okay. Understand. Philosophy on the midcourse is doing it prior to venting of the SHe tank, which means we'll be doing this around 105 hours, I suppose, or 105:30 and so I'll have control of the spacecraft if it should give us some perturbation.
04 02 43 06
Vance Brand (CAPCOM): Roger. Then, after that, we would establish PTC again.

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