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05 05 48 57
Jack Swigert (CMP): Okay.
05 05 50 28
Jack Swigert (CMP): Okay, Deke. All the windows in the command module are heavily coated with water right now. So I don't know what kind of pictures we'll get out of them, but I'm going to try and clean them off and do the best I can with the 250-millimeter lens on the Hasselblad.
05 05 50 47
Deke Slayton: Roger. That's why we have the top priority stuff in the LM. We figure you've got a much better chance of getting it through there.
05 05 50 55
Jack Swigert (CMP): Okay.
05 05 53 24
Vance Brand (CAPCOM): Aquarius, Houston.
05 05 53 29
Jack Swigert (CMP): Are you ready to send it up, Vance?
05 05 53 31
Vance Brand (CAPCOM): Jack, before we start reading the procedure, we'd like—We find that BAT A is topped off and in great shape. Like to switch over and top off BAT B some more. Give it 2 more hours of charging. Have about a seven- or eight-step procedure here to give you, if you want to copy that. We're switching before we start recording the entry procedures.
05 05 53 58
Jack Swigert (CMP): Okay. Stand by and let me get out my other checklist.
05 05 54 14
Jack Swigert (CMP): Okay, Vance. Ready to copy.
05 05 54 19
Vance Brand (CAPCOM): Okay. Panel 3: switch BATTERY CHARGE to OFF. Panel 5; MAIN BUS TIE BAT A/C to BAT A/C; CB BATTERY CHARGER, BAT A CHARGE to open; CB BATTERY CHARGER, BAT B CHARGE, close. Next, panel 250; CB BAT B POWER ENTRY/POSTLANDING to close. Panel 5; MAIN BUS TIE, BAT B/C, off. Panel 3; BATTERY CHARGE to B. Advise; well, stand by. Jack, advise that we have a backout procedure for this, but we'll read that up to you later, in about 2 hours. And, also, that this procedure is a DELTA to your—the first battery charging procedure that we gave you. In other words, it's a DELTA from where you are right now.
05 05 57 10
Jack Swigert (CMP): Okay. This is the procedure for charging BAT Baker. Panel 3; BAT CHARGE, OFF; panel 5; MAIN BUS TIE, BAT A/C to A/C; CB BAT CHARGER, BAT A CHARGE, open; CB BAT CHARGER, BAT B CHARGE, close. Panel 250; CB BAT B POWER ENTRY and POSTLANDING, close. Panel 5; MAIN BUS TIE, BAT B/C, to OFF; Panel 3; BAT CHARGE to B. This is a DELTA for the first battery charging procedure; you'll give me the backout procedure in a couple hours.
05 05 57 47
Vance Brand (CAPCOM): That's affirm.
05 05 57 51
Jack Swigert (CMP): Okay. I'll put it in work right now, then come back and stand by to copy the rest of—well, I—not the rest—everything.
05 05 58 01
Vance Brand (CAPCOM): Everything is right.
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05 05 58 13
Vance Brand (CAPCOM): You'd never believe how much this procedure's been massaged in the last day.
05 06 02 41
Jack Swigert (CMP): Okay, Vance. I put BAT Baker on charge; I don't think it quite had stabilized. It was reading 1.1 amps, 39.6 volts when I left up there.
05 06 03 02
Vance Brand (CAPCOM): Okay. We got that.
05 06 03 07
Jack Swigert (CMP): Okay. I guess now is as good a time to start as any.
05 06 03 21
Vance Brand (CAPCOM): Just a second, Jack.
05 06 04 45
Vance Brand (CAPCOM): Aquarius, Houston.
05 06 04 50
Jack Swigert (CMP): Okay, Vance. You're kind of weak, but readable.
05 06 04 54
Vance Brand (CAPCOM): Jack, we're going to need readings on the BAT volt and charger amps about every 10 or 15 minutes for a while, so is there somebody else that can be reading them out while you're copying? Over.
05 06 05 10
Jack Swigert (CMP): Yes. Jim will take a run up there. Fred-o is sleeping right now. We're trying to get some sleep here, and Jim'll run up and take a look at voltage and current whenever you call.
05 06 05 22
Vance Brand (CAPCOM): Okay.
05 06 06 34
Jim Lovell (CDR): Houston, Aquarius.
05 06 06 37
Vance Brand (CAPCOM): Go ahead, Aquarius.
05 06 06 40
Jim Lovell (CDR): Vance, we've got to realize that we've got to establish a work-rest cycle up here, so we just can't wait around here to just read procedures all the time up to the burn. We've got to get them up here, look at them, and then we've got to get the people to sleep. So take that into consideration when you get ready to send up the pads.
05 06 07 01
Vance Brand (CAPCOM): I know, Jim. We're very conscious of that. We—we should be ready to go in about 5 minutes. That's all I can say. Stand by.
05 06 07 16
Jim Lovell (CDR): Okay.
05 06 11 48
Vance Brand (CAPCOM): Aquarius, Houston.
05 06 11 53
Jack Swigert (CMP): Okay, Vance. We're ready to go.
05 06 11 56
Vance Brand (CAPCOM): Okay. We need a—Sorry (laughter). We need a readout. Volts and amps.
05 06 12 05
Jack Swigert (CMP): Okay. In work.
05 06 12 10
Vance Brand (CAPCOM): And, might as well bring the COMM up to a higher fidelity for this long period of checklist reading. That requires, panel 16: CB PRIMARY S-BAND POWER AMP, closed.
05 06 12 37
Jack Swigert (CMP): Okay, PRIMARY S-BAND POWER AMP closed now. How do you read?
05 06 12 40
Vance Brand (CAPCOM): Okay. And next step, panel 12: S-BAND FUNCTION to VOICE and RANGING FUNCTION to RANGING.
05 06 13 25
Jack Swigert (CMP): Okay, Vance. The S-BAND FUNCTION is at VOICE and the RANGING switch was at RANGING.
05 06 13 32
Vance Brand (CAPCOM): Okay. That makes it so we can hear you better, Jack.
05 06 13 41
Jack Swigert (CMP): Okay. Can we—Since the first part of it, you're just going to read and I'm going to copy and we're going to have a question and answer period later, can we get started?
05 06 13 52
Vance Brand (CAPCOM): Okay. Procedure's coming back in again. Multicopies for distribution. And Ken's back. He's a local expert on this now, so we'll turn you over to him and he'll read it off.
05 06 14 07
Jack Swigert (CMP): Okay. Stand by. I'll give you volts and amps. Okay. The voltage is 39.1; amps, 1.75.
05 06 14 20
Vance Brand (CAPCOM): Okay.
05 06 14 43
Ken Mattingly: Hello, Aquarius; Houston. How do you read?
05 06 14 48
Jack Swigert (CMP): Okay. Very good, Ken.
05 06 14 50
Ken Mattingly: Okay. Let me take it from the top here. Just—there might be some overlap, but to make sure we're all on the same signal. We're starting off with a set of time line procedures that are going to give us—end up with the normal entry checklist. There will be some checklist changes into the book, but the bulk of what I have for you is the time line stuff. And it starts at 6 hours and 30 minutes prior to EI and assumes that we're getting LM power to MAIN B in the command module. I think you already have the numbers for the LM pads and the command module pads; I mean the types of pads we'll be giving you. And if you have a question on what they'll be doing or what they're for, I can go over those now or when we get through.
05 06 15 42
Jack Swigert (CMP): Okay. Yes, I'll make a little note there, and we'll discuss it when we get everything copied, huh?
05 06 15 50
Ken Mattingly: All right. And the first item, then, after you get ready to start this checklist, is to install lithium hydroxide canisters and to stow ORDEAL. On panel 8, we want to turn the FLOODLIGHTS to FIXED.
05 06 16 08
Jack Swigert (CMP): Okay. Wait a minute. You're going too fast, here.
05 06 16 11
Ken Mattingly: Okay. I'll tell you. I'll go line at a time and wait for your verification before I go on to the next one. I have panel 8, FLOODLIGHTS, FIXED,
05 06 16 38
Ken Mattingly: Okay. Install LiOH canisters, stow ORDEAL, FLOODLIGHTS, FIXED.
05 06 16 42
Ken Mattingly: Okay. That's the panel 8 floodlights. Now we're going to take panel 5 and put the FLOODLIGHT rheostat to FLOOD and the LEB, that's panel 100, FLOODLIGHTS are also going to FIXED. And the purpose of this is to balance up buses A and B.
05 06 17 05
Jack Swigert (CMP): Okay. Panel 5; FLOODLIGHTS; you want the rheostat on. Panel 100, FLOODLIGHTS; you want FIXED.
05 06 17 14
Ken Mattingly: That's affirmative. Okay. On panel 8: circuit breakers EMS, MAIN A and MAIN B, that's two, open.
05 06 17 47
Jack Swigert (CMP): Okay. Panel 8: EMS MAIN A and MAIN B, open.
05 06 17 51
Ken Mattingly: Okay. On panel 250: circuit breaker BATTERY A POWER ENTRY and POSTLANDING, closed.
05 06 18 14
Jack Swigert (CMP): Okay. Panel 250: CB BAT A POWER ENTRY and POSTLANDING, closed.
05 06 18 20
Ken Mattingly: Okay. The same for circuit breaker BATTERY B POWER ENTRY and POSTLANDING.
05 06 18 39
Jack Swigert (CMP): Okay. BATTERY B POWER ENTRY and POSTLANDING, closed.
05 06 18 42
Ken Mattingly: Okay. And add BATTERY C POWER ENTRY and POSTLANDING.
05 06 19 00
Jack Swigert (CMP): BATTERY C POWER ENTRY and POSTLANDING, closed.
05 06 19 03
Ken Mattingly: Okay. That's correct. On panel 5: circuit breaker BAT CHARGE, BATTERY A CHARGE, closed.
05 06 19 27
Jack Swigert (CMP): Okay. Panel 5: CB BAT CHARGE, BAT A, close.
05 06 19 32
Ken Mattingly: Okay. And the same for circuit breaker for BATTERY CHARGE, BAT B/CHARGE, closed.
05 06 19 52
Jack Swigert (CMP): Okay, BAT CHARGER, BAT B, closed.
05 06 19 56
Ken Mattingly: All right. Like to take MAIN BUS TIES, two of them, on and up. That's probably a verify.
05 06 20 16
Jack Swigert (CMP): MAIN BUS TIES A/C and B/C, on, verify.
05 06 20 21
Ken Mattingly: That's correct. Circuit breaker BATTERY RELAY BUS, BATTERY A and B, closed.
05 06 20 43
Jack Swigert (CMP): Okay. CB BAT RELAY BUS, BAT A, and BAT RELAY BUS, BAT B, closed.
05 06 20 49
Ken Mattingly: That's affirmative. Circuit breaker EPS SENSOR SIGNAL, MAIN A and MAIN B, closed.
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05 06 21 13
Jack Swigert (CMP): EPS SENSOR SIGNAL, MAIN A and MAIN B, closed.
05 06 21 18
Ken Mattingly: Okay. On panel 275: circuit breaker MAIN A, BATTERY C, closed.
05 06 21 37
Jack Swigert (CMP): Okay, Ken. Wait on that one here. I'm just about to lose you here. Just—I've got to change OMNIs.
05 06 21 42
Ken Mattingly: Okay.
05 06 21 47
Jack Swigert (CMP): Okay. Could you give me that one again, please.
05 06 21 50
Ken Mattingly: All right. On panel 275: circuit breaker MAIN A, BATTERY C, closed.
05 06 22 05
Jack Swigert (CMP): Okay. MAIN A, BAT B, closed on 275.
05 06 22 09
Ken Mattingly: That's MAIN A, BATTERY C, Charlie.
05 06 22 15
Jack Swigert (CMP): MAIN A, BAT C, Charlie.
05 06 22 20
Ken Mattingly: That's affirm. No—Negative on battery Bravo.
05 06 22 27
Jack Swigert (CMP): Okay. Negative on battery Bravo. That's MAIN A, BAT Charlie, closed.
05 06 22 32
Ken Mattingly: Okay. Good. On panel 276: circuit breaker INSTRUMENTATION POWER CONTROL, 3 and 4, open.
05 06 22 49
Jack Swigert (CMP): Would you say that one again, Ken?
05 06 22 51
Ken Mattingly: All right. On panel 276: circuit breaker INSTRUMENTATION POWER CONTROL, 3 and 4, open.
05 06 23 17
Jack Swigert (CMP): Okay. Panel 276: CB INSTRUMENTATION POWER CONTROL, 3 and 4, open.
05 06 23 24
Ken Mattingly: That's affirmative. Okay. Panel 5: circuit breaker CENTRAL INSTRUMENTATION POWER, MAIN B, closed.
05 06 23 51
Jack Swigert (CMP): Okay. On panel 5: …
05 06 23 59
Ken Mattingly: Okay. I'm sorry, Jack. Would you read that again, please?
05 06 24 03
Jack Swigert (CMP): Okay. On panel 5: CB CENTRAL INSTRUMENTATION POWER, MAIN B, closed.
05 06 24 10
Ken Mattingly: Okay. That's correct. PRIMARY EVAPORATE WATER CONTROL valve to AUTO.
05 06 24 24
Jack Swigert (CMP): This is on 382?
05 06 24 27
Ken Mattingly: That's affirmative.
05 06 24 28
Jack Swigert (CMP): Wha—Wha -
05 06 24 30
Ken Mattingly: Okay, Jack. We want to put the PRIMARY and the SECONDARY EVAPORATED WATER CONTROL valves to AUTO.
05 06 24 37
Jack Swigert (CMP): Okay.
05 06 24 52
Ken Mattingly: And, Jack, can you give us a readout on BAT B and the charger current?
05 06 25 14
Jack Swigert (CMP): Okay, Ken. That was the PRIMARY and SECONDARY H₂O CONTROL valves to AUTO on 382.
05 06 25 20
Ken Mattingly: That's affirmative, and did you copy about the readout on the battery and charger?
05 06 25 25
Jack Swigert (CMP): Yes. Jim's on his way up.
05 06 25 27
Ken Mattingly: Okay. Thank you. All right, the next little step after your water control valves is to perform the CSM RCS preheat. We'll do that on page E/1-5, steps 35 and 37.
05 06 25 53
Jack Swigert (CMP): Okay, Ken. We're having a problem with the COMM. You read now?

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