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Joe Kerwin (CAPCOM)
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Okay, Jim. Good morning; and understand you relieved the watch, and the rest was kind of blurry. Did you have any questions?
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Joe Kerwin (CAPCOM)
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Okay. That was—That was loud and clear, that one there. Now we don't have a heck of a lot going on as you know we're working on the entry procedures. I've got preliminary copies, but we're not ready to pass—to pass it up to you. Looks like you're about 125 000 miles out, starting to—starting to really pick up speed, and the Astros won last night, and that's about all I've got. Over.
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Joe Kerwin (CAPCOM)
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Okay, Jim. It's about time, at your convenience, for another volts and amps reading on the command module. For your information, we put 6 amp-hours back in the battery already and we've got about 14 to go. It's looking real good, and I also just got the word that the entry weather tomorrow is looking better all the time. Really looks great.
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Joe Kerwin (CAPCOM)
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Roger. Just for your information, in case it happened when you were off watch, the master caution circuit breaker is still pulled, and we're seeing the—the malfunction indication on the descent battery now, but all the parameters still look just as good as ever, and that's just for information.
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Joe Kerwin (CAPCOM)
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Okay. Copied 39.3 and 1.25. Jim, did Jack tell you what your trajectory looks like? Over.
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Joe Kerwin (CAPCOM)
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Okay. We are looking at a vacuum perigee right now of 23.6; flight path angle of minus 6.25; and if we decide we want to trim that up, we're looking at a midcourse of about 2 feet per second. Your consumables, of course, are getting better all the time; we've got 163 hours of water, 230 hours of oxygen, and 172 hours worth of electrical power. Over.
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Joe Kerwin (CAPCOM)
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Okay, Jim. We would like to get another check from you on the propellant tank temperatures, as we did yesterday. And the procedure is to, on panel 16, circuit breaker PROPELLANT, DISPLAY/ENGINE, OVERRIDE/LOGIC to close. Then go to your display and read the tank 1 and tank 2 temperatures for us, and then open the circuit breaker again. Over.
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Joe Kerwin (CAPCOM)
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Jim, I copied 63 and 64, which I think were the descent 1 temps, and that's all I got.
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Jim Lovell (CDR)
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Okay. I'll go over it again. I'm on descent 1, now and fuel is about 64, and oxidizer is 65, and I'll go to descent 2 —
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Joe Kerwin (CAPCOM)
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Roger. We copy that, and once again we'd like to get the volts and amps check in the command module. Over.
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Jim Lovell (CDR)
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Okay. I'm going to go up there and get it. Jack is—and Fred are asleep, so I'll be off the air a minute.
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Joe Kerwin (CAPCOM)
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Okay. We copy 39.3 and 1.20. And, Jim, I've got one more item for information for you. At—In about 45 minutes or so, you will get an H2O quantity caution light on the descent tank. We expect this. It occurs at 16 percent. And it's no problem, because we intend to run the tank dry just for drill. To reset the—the light, on panel 2, just set the O2 H2O QUANTITY MONITOR to the CAUTION/WARNING RESET position and the light will go away. Over.
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Jim Lovell (CDR)
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Okay. I understand. We're going to get a H2O warning light here shortly, and I'll reset it.
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Jim Lovell (CDR)
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Joe, you might pass to our friends in Crew Systems that lunar boots make great footwarmers.
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Joe Kerwin (CAPCOM)
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I guess you need them up there, too. Is—is anybody sleeping in the command module right now, Jim?
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Jim Lovell (CDR)
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Negative, Joe. It's just too cold in there. I got Fred stashed over here to my left. He's asleep and Jack's …
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Joe Kerwin (CAPCOM)
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Roger. Earth is here, also; and, Jim, it is time for another one of those volt/amp checks. For your information, we've got that battery back up to 30 amp-hours now. Over.
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Joe Kerwin (CAPCOM)
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Jim, Houston. Have you guys put on any extra clothes to try and ward off the nip of Jack Frost? Over.
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Jim Lovell (CDR)
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Well, the lunar boots and two pair of underwear, and everyone is … crawl into their sleep restraints.
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Joe Kerwin (CAPCOM)
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Yes, that's understandable. You can always use them if you have to. I guess it's pretty hard to get extra coveralls on, huh?
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Jim Lovell (CDR)
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Well, Joe, I didn't think we had any extra inflight garments aboard, but we're going to check right now.
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Joe Kerwin (CAPCOM)
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Roger. Jim, we noticed you just went to AUTO and back to CLOSE on the SUIT RELIEF valve. Is everything okay?
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Jim Lovell (CDR)
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Roger. What happened was, our lithium hydroxide device here got caught in the suit relief valve. It is closed now. That's where you want it, right?
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Joe Kerwin (CAPCOM)
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And, Joe, just a reminder; now that you mention it—that it's less than 24 hours to go, what I'd like to do, and I have aboard all the procedures that you are working up; so I can run through them with the crew, and make sure that we get all our signals straight.
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Joe Kerwin (CAPCOM)
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Roger that, Jim. We are trying to get the procedures finished and up to you as quickly as we can. They exist. What's going on now is the guys are running them in the CMS/LMS, integrate, to make darn sure that the attitudes are correct and the time line is nice and relaxed and all that good stuff. And they won't be finished that run for another few hours. However, we expect to have an overall time line and a sequence of events for you before that time, and we'll start with the procedures as soon as they get ready. Over.
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Jim Lovell (CDR)
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Okay. That's good. I think … ought to go back to the original procedures we have on board and modify them as we have the time to.
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Joe Kerwin (CAPCOM)
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Okay, Jim. Roger. We're going to do that to the maximum extent possible. And it looks reasonably feasible. To begin with in the command module we're going to have to send you some separate sequences for powering it up a little bit at a time. The closer we get to entry the more we get on the checklist. By the time we're about at EI minus 45 we're on the checklist all the way.
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Jim Lovell (CDR)
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And just as a reminder, don't forget our stowage problem. We—We still have to do quite a bit of stowage of the drogue and probe in the LM, and, et cetera.
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Joe Kerwin (CAPCOM)
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Roger that. We've got a team working on that, and incidentally, one of the information items that they want to know is which lithium hydroxide containers in the command module are empty. They just want to know that for weight and balance—and there's no rush about it —
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Jim Lovell (CDR)
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Another note of interest to the crew systems people—Tell them that they don't have to bother putting the refrigerator onboard. I just brought out some hot dogs, and they're practically frozen.
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Joe Kerwin (CAPCOM)
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Okay. Roger that. And, Jim, we ought to have a—an entry time line to discuss with you in one hour.
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Joe Kerwin (CAPCOM)
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Okay, Jim. We show the SUIT CIRCUIT RELIEF valve is back in the AUTO position, and we'd like to have it off for good scrubbing. Over.
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Joe Kerwin (CAPCOM)
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Roger. No sweat. Jim, in a few minutes I'm going to be coming at you with the—with the overall time line for tomorrow morning. You might want to think about taking a few notes, although we don't have detailed procedures for you at this time. Maybe you want to have Fred or Jack listen. Over.
Spoken on April 16, 1970, 4:14 p.m. UTC (54 years, 6 months ago). Link to this transcript range is: Tweet
