Spacelog Apollo 13

Okay, Houston. We'll punch off at 141 plus 30.

Okay, Jack. We copy and we concur.

Okay, Houston. Do we have a GO for PYRO ARM?

Odyssey, Houston. We can give you a GO if you'll put the LOGIC ON momentarily first.

Okay. The SECs LOGIC is on.

Watch gimbal lock there, Jack.

Yes, we did.

Odyssey, Houston.

Go ahead.

Okay, Jack. We'll have a pad for you in a few minutes. We're getting data now on the tracking, and although we suspect the changes from your preliminary pad will be very small, we recommend that you hold off on initializing the EMS until we get you the final pad. Over.

Okay. Will do.

Roger.

Okay, Houston. The sextant star check passes.

Houston, copy. Good show. That was some P52, Jack.

Yes. I was kind of lucky, I guess.

Give you a big gold star for that.

Thank you.

Hey, Joe. We're standing by to copy your new pad.

Okay, Jack. It'll be a few minutes yet. We want to get it right up to speed.

Okay. I can proceed with EMS check, can't I, Joe?

Odyssey, Houston. Over.

Go ahead, Houston.

Okay, Jim. Your CABIN is looking real good. We recommend you turn the SUIT COMPRESSOR to OFF now. Over.

Going OFF. Boy, it's nice and quiet in here.

Okay, real good. Incidentally, your power is looking real good also, Jim.

Thank you.

Odyssey, Houston. I have your final entry pad when you are ready.

Okay, Houston. Ready to copy.

Okay. Mid-PAC, 000152, 000; 142:38:19, 178; and you recall that's GET moonset and Moon-check attitude. NOUN 61, minus 21.66, minus 165.37; 05.2; 3621.1, 6.20; 1119.7, 36291; 142:40:46; 00:30; the next four are N/A; D_O is 4.00, 02:20; 00:19, 03:38, 07:59. The rest of the pad is N/A for this one. You are lift vector up at the very bottom. And the remarks all remain the same; if you want me to copy them, let me know; otherwise, you can read back. Over.

Okay. Entry pad as follows: Mid-PAC, 000152, 000; 142:38:19, 178; minus 21.66, minus 165.37; 05.2; 3621.1, 6.20; 1119.7, 36291; 142:40:46; 00:30; all the DLS are N/A. DO is 4.00, 02:20; 00:19, 03:38, 07:59. All the rest are N/A, except lift vector which is up; and I have the the …

Okay, Jim. That's a tiny hair shallower than we had you before, but it's based on solid tracking, and it still is lift vector up comfortably.

Roger. We never did bring that angle up, did we?

Okay, Joe. The Moon is coming down to about 38 degrees. … —

Okay, Jack. Sounds real good.

Odyssey, Houston.

Go ahead.

Okay. We'd like the S-BAND POWER AMPLIFIER to OFF, center, at this time, Jim.

OFF, center, is done.

Okay. You're still looking real fat on power. We show you having over 30 amps on the water. If you do get into a bind and don't come up—that's amp-hours—don't come up with Recovery, you can always power down and you can always put the pyro batteries on the line if you need them after you're down.

Joe, are you planning to run this all the way down without the suit compressor?

Say again, Jack.

Are you planning to turn on the suit compressor at all on the way down?

That's a negative Jack; I'll verify it, but I sure don't think so.

Okay. That's all right with us.

Okay, Jack. This is Houston. We've got POWER, and you can cycle it for 10 minutes if you so desire, but we don't think you need to do it. Over.

Okay. We'll hold out.

Okay. Real fine. How did the EMS check go, Jack?

EMS checked out okay —

Good deal.

— been initialized and sitting on ENTRY.

Roger.

Okay, Joe. Are you watching—you and FIDO taking a look at our NOUN 60 here?

That's affirmative. Hold it just a second; we are looking at 6.13 and 4.80. I'll get a check on that.

Okay. That's not too many g's.

Jack, FIDO says that's okay.

Okay.

Jack, Houston. Your NOUN 63 looks good to us.

Okay.

Joe, how far out do you show us now?

Oh, on our plotboard up here, we can't hardly see how far out you are.

Okay.

I know all of us here want to thank all you guys down there for the very fine job you did.

That's affirm, Joe.

I'll tell you—We all had a good time doing it.

Okay, Odyssey; Houston. Just for your information, it looks as though battery C will deplete around main chute time; that's expected; you've got plenty of amp-hours in the other batteries.

Odyssey, Houston. Over.

Odyssey, Houston. Over.

Odyssey, Houston. Over.

Odyssey, Houston. Over.

Go ahead.

Okay, I was just going to tell you about that handover we just had, but I was a little late on the—on the ball. Since we're fat on power and we'd kind of like to have S-band with you after blackout—we'd—We'd like you to delete the step on your entry checklist page 2-5, after “Begin blackout,” it says “POWER PMP to OFF.” We'd like you to leave it on if you think of it. Over.

Okay.

Odyssey, Houston. Over.

Go ahead.

Okay. At 10 minutes to 400 K, you're looking good; we're real happy with the trajectory, and a minute ago, we just lost contact with your friend Aquarius.

Okay. Where did she go?

Oh, I don't know. She's up there somewhere.

She sure was a good ship.

Hey, just as I said that, we got another burst of LM data, so I guess it's still ticking.