Spacelog Apollo 13

Okay. I just can't, right—I just can't read my writing, ESSENTIAL INSTRUMENTATION POWER MAIN B, closed.

That's affirmative.

Aquarius, Houston.

Go ahead, Joe.

Roger. The word we have is that you can't make a VERB 49 maneuver to the LM jettison attitude because those are FDAI angles we gave you, they don't correspond to the gimbal angles for the load; it'll have to be a manual maneuver. Over.

Okay.

And mind out for gimbal lock.

Aquarius, Houston.

Go ahead, Houston.

Roger. We're looking at LM current, to see if Jack has started his preheat, and we haven't seen it yet. Is he doing okay down there?

Houston, Jack said he's already started it, and he said that in 1 more minute, he'll be up to 20 minutes.

Oh. Roger that.

Jim, Houston. Have him let us know what his test meter reads when he's done.

He says that he had a battery A voltage drop of 2 volts, and he'll try to look at the test meter for you right now.

Okay.

He's been looking at them, but they haven't been coming up, so far.

We copy.

Do you see a current now, Houston?

Stand by 1 on that, Jim. That's affirmative, Jim; it looks like we are seeing one now.

Okay. And thanks for keeping us on it.

Aquarius, Houston.

Go ahead.

Roger. Reminder P41 for the RCS burn.

Thanks for keeping us honest.

We got to protect our jobs, Jim.

We've been DPS-ing so long here.

Okay, Houston. I finished up the maneuvers, the AUTO maneuver in 41, but only roll and yaw needles seem to be offset. Pitch is okay.

Okay, Jim. We copy. Stand by. Aquarius, Houston. We recommend PGNS MODE CONTROL to ATT HOLD. Save a little gas and stand by on the error needles.

Houston, Aquarius.

Aquarius, Houston. Did you call?

Roger, Joe. Figured, if we're going to do this burn in PGNS now, I ought to give you an update on the contingency book pages 32, 33, and 34, because the last time we went through this portion, we were burning it in ACS.

Okay, Fred. Stand by. We've been talking about possibly having you do it in ACS. We recommend at this time that you do an ACS to PGNS aline, the 400 plus 3 procedure only. Over.

Okay.

And, Aquarius, Houston

Go ahead, Houston.

Roger. We recommend that you perform this burn in AGS, as you did the last midcourse manuever; we think it will save gas. Over.

Okay. You're looking at them in the DSKY. I've got roll of 8.47; pitch of about 0.51; and yaw looking at about 3.750.

Okay, Jim. Those are very close—I guess all you need to do is trim them up a bit.

I plan to do a final trim—AUTO trim, and then a four-jet translation.

Okay, Jim. For fuel conservation, we'd prefer you to trim it up MIN IMPULSE, and there's really very little trim required; and then go ahead and do it AGS. We're on the expected fuel usage, but we're just being old ladies about it.

Okay. Understand. My only question, Joe, is the fact that both the roll and the yaw needles did not go to null when I did an AUTO maneuver. I'd tried to go manually to the attitude; and then went to AUTO, but the roll and the yaw do not come in at all.

Roger. I haven't got an answer on that yet, but your attitude looks very close.

Okay. I can take it on …

And, Houston, Aquarius. I'm not sure that if I follow and null the needles, that will be the proper attitude.

Okay. Stand by 1, Jim. We're talking about it. It's going to be very close; in any event, close enough.

Okay.

And, Jim, just for your information, I have the entry pad. I have the landing area weather summary, which you probably don't even have to copy, but which I'll read up to you when you're ready; and some stars for Jack that I'm holding for him for later on.

Okay.

And, Joe, Jack says all the injector temperatures, he just checked them again, and they're all over 3.9 —

That they're all over 3.9 now. Thanks a lot.

You can tell him that it's looking good to us. They were even happy with the previous ones.

Okay.

And, my only question, Houston, is do you want me to null the PGNS needle manually?

Okay. Stand by 1 more minute, Jim.

Houston, Aquarius.

Go ahead, Aquarius.

Yes. I guess the basic question is comparing the balls here and out the window it doesn't look too unreasonable, and I guess Jim says the COAS is yawed and roll slightly off from what he might eyeball; but yet, the FDAI air needles for PGNS are showing a full scale left in roll and full scale left in yaw. …

Okay. Go ahead.

Yes. It appears if we track those we, obviously, aren't going to be on the attitude that we burned the last midcourse.

Okay. Well, this attitude we passed you is not quite alined to the terminator, and stand by on this.

How you doing there, Houston?

Oh, we're getting there, Jim. We're—we're all agreed that you're almost, but not quite, in the proper attitude, and we're just trying to get you one firm recommendation on how to proceed from here.

Okay. I have nulled the null—roll needle and the pitch needle now and I'm yawed—rolled left now. I'm rolled left about 9 degrees.

Okay. Understand the needles are nulled.

The yaw isn't, but the pitch and roll are.