Spacelog Apollo 13

Okay.

And, it's getting a little warmer in here now. Thank you.

Duck blinds are always warmer, Jim, when the birds are flying.

Right.

Jack, I've gotten so used to flying attitude with the TTCA, I won't be able to do it normally.

Say again, Jim.

Aquarius, we see your glycol temperature getting up there. If you want to make it a little warmer, or you can try putting your SUIT TEMP valve to HIGH, if you haven't already got it there.

Aquarius, something we're thinking about right now is, if we can do it without using a lot of RCS, it would be to our advantage timewise to try to get an alinement.

Okay. You mean a P52?

We're —

I'll … around.

A combination of 51 and 52.

I'll see what we can do, Jack.

Aquarius, Houston. On panel 16, we'd like for you to close the CROSS TIE BAL LOADS breaker, please.

Okay. It's closed.

And it looks like we could support a—an alinement in a few minutes, if you'd be willing to go ahead with that.

Jack, it sounds good. I think from our position here, we know where the Sun and Moon are and it's strictly going to be a pitch maneuver. But I think we can save some gas. I'll see what we can do.

Houston, Aquarius.

Go ahead, Aquarius.

We're all set to go. Are you going to ship us up a REFSMMAT?

Yes, we are. Stand by 1.

Okay.

The Sun feels wonderful. It's shining in the rendezvous window.

And, Aquarius, before we can ship you a load, we'll have to have, on panel 11, under COMM, the UPDATA LINK circuit breaker closed.

It's closed.

Roger. It'll be a few —

… closed … -

Okay. And it'll be a few minutes yet, Jim. We're still cranking it up.

Okay. Stay with it, Jack, and I'll go back to data.

Roger.

I got BAT in about 33-1/3 percent on that uplink. Too fast alarm.

Say again on that, Fred.

I just got another uplink too fast when I took the DATA switch back off—It's happening, I guess, about a third of the time.

Aquarius, Houston. We're ready with your load if you'll give us DATA please.

Aquarius, Houston. After the uplink, you'll have to set the drift and the REFSMMAT flag as on page 8 of the contingency book, steps 5 and 6.

Okay. Are you done with the computer now, Jack?

Negative. We'll give you the word.

Roger. Aquarius, we're through with it, it's your computer.

And, Aquarius, Houston; take option 1 on a P52 when you get to it. And I've got some ball angles for a Sun and Moon.

Okay, Houston. We have the Sun marks and I'll start up at pitch now to go over and pick up the Moon.

Houston, Aquarius.

Go ahead.

Just as a note of interest in this dock configurations for P52s, the command module docking probe is right down the middle of—the docking light, rather, is right down the middle of the detent. And when the Sun flashes on, it really makes it difficult.

Just like the simulator.

Yes. It was good training.

Well, Jack, that's what it says the torquing angles are.

We haven't got them yet.

Aquarius, hold on to torquing angles, please.

We're doing that.

Jim, the reason for the delay is that we're not seeing the data yet. We're having to check a point here; and as soon as they come up, we'll let you know what to do with them.

Okay. We had a large NOUN 105 of—what—112, and our torquing angles, Jack, are minus 01713, minus 03278, minus 01395.

Roger. Minus 01713, and we see them now.

Aquarius, torque them.

Okay.

At 35:04:25.

Aquarius, do you have a star close by there you could check?

I'll look around, Jack. I was just trying to get a check on the Moon, again, to see if those angles were indeed true, and we got the Moon back again and centered.

Okay, Jack. What you're reading now the angles? We had the Moon centered, and it's pretty close to what we have on the 8 ball, I guess. Close enough for any entry that we'd like to do.

Roger. And I'm told that Denubla—Denebola and Regulus are nearby if you wanted to make a star check.

Okay. I'm going to start pitching around again, and I'll see if I can pick them up. I have Orion out here to my left a little bit, but it's pretty close to the—oh, here. I've got Sirius. That's a nice one. How about that?

Aquarius, is Jack sitting on the rumble seat there?

He was. He just headed upstairs to take another look around.

Okay. I got a minor addition to the entry checklist for him. This time it's in the —

Okay. Stand —

— entry book.

Okay. Stand by 1. He has that in his pocket.

What I'm doing, Jack, is just—I'm pitching over now. I'm going to pick up another star. Sirius was just too far off. I thought I was going to use too much gas getting there.

Roger.

By the time I get alined in the—in the AOT—be nice if we didn't have Odyssey attached, we could just AUTO—AUTO maneuver over to these things.

Looks to us like you've got her alined, Jim, so I wouldn't worry about it too much.

Yes. I'm pretty confident that the platform's fairly decent.

Aquarius, Houston. We need an E MOD VERB 74, when you've got a chance, please.

Okay, Jack. On your entry checklist, on page 2-5. Down there on step 9, where it says 152 degrees pitch at .05g, adjacent to that, so that Recovery can see you better on the way down, we want you to turn your S-BAND, POWER AMPLIFIER to HIGH. Over.

Okay. Turn S-BAND, POWER AMP to HIGH at .05g time.

That's affirmative.

Okay. Is that it?

Aquarius, Houston. We're considering doing the midcourse with PGNS, unless you'd rather do it in AGS.

No. PGNS is fine with me. I just aline myself up with the old ball again. So I've got you foresighted again, but any way you want to do it.

Like you say, you might as well go first class.