Spacelog Apollo 13

We have some procedures in work, and I've seen them, Fred. I think pretty soon we'll be shooting them up to you to specify which cameras and settings. But that—that sounds pretty close.

Okay, you might let them know that, if they hadn't thought of it, that we got this lunar-surface sequence camera on board which has its own battery pack setup, and to shoot quite a few pictures with, and that could also be used for this.

Roger. I know we are planning to use that camera, among others.

Okay, Houston; Aquarius. Jack has backed out of powering up the CM, and now he's proceeding to restart battery charge on BAT A.

Okay. And we are charging battery A now.

Roger. Charging battery A, Fred.

And, Fred, request now first reading of voltage—BAT A voltage and charger current. Over.

Okay, Vance. I can give it to you. I read it right after I started it. BAT A voltage was 39.4 and the current had jumped up to 1.4.

Okay. 39.4 and 1.4. Thanks, Jack.

Okay. How about—You ready for some other readouts, that you wanted there?

Ready to copy.

Okay. BAT B, 37.0; pyro A, 37.0; pyro B, 37.0; SPS helium pressure, 3400; and nitrogen A and B—just for throwing it in for kicks, 2200 and 2400, respectively; and the injector temperature—stand by- The Sun went down. Okay. The injector temperature, 5 Charlie, 3.9; 5 Dog, 3.2; 6 Alfa, 3.6; 6 Baker, 3.9; 6 Charlie, 3.5; 6 Dog, 3.4; the battery manifold pressure, 1.4.

Okay. We copy all that, Jack. Thank you.

Okay.

You say, you figure you are going to be charging BAT A until about 126?

Roger. About 126:30 is an estimate, Jack.

Okay. You figure it will be fully charged then, huh?

Yes. That's right. We'll have all the batteries up to about 116 amps-hours.

That's good news.

That's better than 99, huh?

You're right.

How did all our systems look on …, Vance?

I didn't hear any complaints, but just a minute; let me make a detailed check.

Aquarius, Houston.

Go ahead.

Jack, it's a general statement. It looks like temperatures have cooled off in the ballpark of 6 to 8 degrees cooler than what they were yesterday. Looks like everything is still within tolerance, but we're working up a detailed sheet of temperatures to send up to you, for your interest.

Houston, Aquarius.

Go ahead, Aquarius.

Vance, Joe brought up the alinement at EI minus 2 plus 30. Were you going to send up or have a discussion about that later on.

That's correct, Jack. We just about have procedures in hand detail checklist-type procedures to send to you. In other words, a time line with reference to entry checklist and any changes in the entry checklist. So, if you have a few pages of scratch paper, why, I think we'll have that to you within an hour.

Okay. I'll be standing by.

One other thing, Jack—You still with me?

Yes, go ahead.

The stowage people have tried out this black-and-white TV camera into B-6 idea and they say even with the lens off, they can't get it in. So, I still recommend that it be stowed where we had it on the list. That's A-7.

No problem.

All right, go ahead.

Okay, Vance. The volt 39.3, amp 1.3.

Roger. Copy 39.3 and 1.3.

Aquarius, Houston. Over.

Go ahead, Vance.

Jack, looks like the LM suit release valve has been bumped to AUTO again; request it —

Okay.

— closed. Over.

In work.

Okay.

How's that right there?

Okay. They say it looks good.

Aquarius, Houston.

Go ahead.

Okay, Jack. We need another one of those voltage amps readouts and then maybe we will get off of your back for a little while.

Oh, don't worry about it. I'd like to have you talk with us. Volts and amps coming up.

Okay.

Okay, Vance. Volts 39.4, amps 1.25.

Okay. EECOM's got it duly recorded.

Is John Aaron on?

No. Gee, I don't know what shift he is on. But he comes in later, I guess.

Actually, all the shifts are morning shifts to us.

Say that one again —

The Sun is always shining—All of the shifts are morning shifts to us, because the Sun is always shining.

That was a short night.

Just for curiosity's sake, are we still holding entry angle at 6.25?

Okay. Jack, right now we're told that it's closer to 6, and—But they would like to track it some more. Looks like your next midcourse will be in the order of 2 to 3 foot per second.

Houston, 13.

Go ahead, Jack.

Okay. We're still in good shape as far as water goes in the LM?

Okay. We copy.

The reason I ask is I'm assuming that we are, and I have no idea each time I pressurize the surge tank to get water out of the command module, how much I drop that surge tank and if we are in good shape as far as water goes in the LM, we'd like to fill a couple of drink bags to get some water for drinking purposes.

Okay. Have you run out of CM drinking water. yet, Jack?

Oh, no, we've got plenty of drinking water. I think the—I don't have any idea what the surge tank pressure is.

Okay. It's 750 —

— and I don't have any —

It's 750, Jack.

Okay. 750.

Aquarius, Houston.

Go ahead, Vance.

Okay. Stand by 1, Jack, and we'll give you an indication of how that water situation on the LM is—which is your question. Right?

Okay. But I guess what I was really asking is, if you'd have any violent objections if we filled two drink bags from LM water rather than repressurizing the surge tank.

Okay. Stand by on that.

Also, Jim is asleep up there and we didn't want to bother him, either.

Okay. We understand.

And, Jack, we'll be changing stations in 1 minute; so, we may have a temporary dropout in COMM.