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Day 4: Lunar Orbit Insertion

Corrected Transcript and Commentary Copyright © 2004 by W. David Woods and Lennox J. Waugh. All rights reserved.

Public Affairs Office - "This is Apollo Control 70 hours, 08 minutes Ground Elapsed Time. Distance now of Apollo 12 from the Moon 30,385 nautical miles, velocity toward the moon 3,558 feet per second. To summarize the last 8 hours of the Apollo 12 mission, which the Green team of Flight Controllers under Flight Director Cliff Charlesworth are here in the Control Center, the crew of Apollo 12 went into the LM for the LM familiarization and housekeeping chores somewhat early. Also, the television pass, which had been scheduled to start at 63 hours, 30 minutes actually began at 62 hours, 52 minutes, about 38 minutes early. TV ran 56 minutes total time. During the TV pass the crew of Apollo 12 took the viewers on a tour of the lunar module and how they stowed the equipment in various stowage areas, a description of some of the pilot devices such as the Landing Point Designator, and they closed out with a view of the Earth and the Moon out the Command Module windows after the hatch's probe and drogue had been restowed in the tunnel. They continued on with their eat period and the presleep checklist had a negative crew status report. They have taken no medications. They are back on the timeline for the beginning of the rest period at 68 hours and since Midcourse Correction number 4 likely will not be made, the sleep period will be extended for a total of 10 hours to end some 7 hours, 48 minutes from now. Apollo 12 entered the Moon's sphere of influence or equigravisphere at 68 hours, 30 minutes 22 seconds. Handover is taking place now. The day shift, headed up by Flight Director Jerry Griffin, and here in Mission Control the new team of Flight Controllers, who likely were asleep at the time of the TV pass, are watching a replay on the large television projection screen and on individual monitors. At 70 hours, 11 minutes Ground Elapsed Time, this is Apollo Control."

Public Affairs Office - "This is Apollo Control at 71 hours, 18 minutes. Apollo 12 is 27,953 nautical miles from the Moon traveling at a velocity of 3,582 feet per second, that is Lunar referenced. Total weight of the vehicle, 96,117 pounds. Six hours, 41 minutes remaining in this sleep period. Systems performance on Apollo 12 continues normal. This is Mission Control, Houston at 71 hours, 18 minutes."

Public Affairs Office - "This is Apollo Control. It's 71 hours, 48 minutes. At this time we will replay the tape of the television transmission of early this morning. We'll play the video and audio back to the news center in building 1 at the Manned Spacecraft Center. Go to utilize the release line for the audio portion of this tape We'll play the tape now. Roll the tape."

Public Affairs Office - "This is Apollo Control at 72 hours, 44 minutes. All still going well with Apollo 12. 5 hours, 15 minutes remaining in the sleep period. Apollo 12 is 24,880 nautical miles from the Moon, approaching it at a velocity of 3,618 feet per second. This is Mission Control Houston at 72 hours, 45 minutes."

Public Affairs Office - "This is Apollo Control it's 73 hours, 18 minutes. All still going well with Apollo 12. 4 hours and 41 minutes remaining in the sleep period. The only crewmen being monitored at the present time is the Command Module pilot Dick Gordon. His heart rate is running around 65 which is his normal sleep heart rate, the flight surgeon reports. Apollo 12 is 23,681 nautical miles from the Moon, approaching at a velocity of 3 634 feet per second. This is Mission Control, Houston at 73 hours, 18 minutes."

Public Affairs Office - "This is Apollo Control at 74 hours, 18 minutes. Apollo 12 is 21,544 nautical miles away from the Moon. Velocity has increased to 3,666 feet per second. Systems performance still normal. We have 3 hours, 41 minutes remaining before we put in a call to awaken the crew. If they awake on their own before that time, we may expect to hear from them. At 74 hours, 18 minutes, this is Mission Control Houston."

Public Affairs Office - "This is Apollo Control at 75 hours, 18 minutes. Apollo 12 is 19,371 nautical miles from the Moon, velocity 3,705 feet per second. All continuing to go well, and we are 2 hours, 41 minutes away from crew wakeup time. This is Mission Control Houston at 75 hours, 18 minutes."

Public Affairs Office - "This is Apollo Control at 76 hours, 18 minutes. Apollo 12 is approaching the Moon at a velocity of 3,751 feet per second, distance from the Moon now, 17,180 nautical miles. We plan to put in a wake up call to the crew 1 hour, 41 minutes from this time. This is Mission Control Houston at 76 hours, 18 minutes."

Public Affairs Office - "This is Apollo Control at 76 hours, 46 minutes. The Flight Dynamics officer has just informed Flight Director Jerry Griffin that based on his latest update, he confirms positively now that no Midcourse Correction number 4 will be required. The magnitude of that maneuver is only 2 feet per second. We have been operating for the past number of hours on the assumption that it would not be performed and on that basis, had extended the sleep period 2 hours, shortly after it began. We are now 1 hour, 13 minutes from the wake up period of the extended sleep period; 10 hours instead of 8 hours. The Midcourse Correction number 4 will be incorporated into the Lunar Orbit Insertion maneuver number 1, and flight dynamics reports that burn will be targeted to produce a Lunar Orbit, of 62 by 169.3 nautical miles. His latest update shows that the closest approach to the Moon without the Lunar Orbit Insertion burn will be 64.73 nautical miles. That would occur at an elapsed time of 83 hours, 28 minutes, 32 seconds, and the velocity at closest approach would be 8,239 feet per second. At 76 hours, 48 minutes this is Mission Control Houston."

Public Affairs Office - "This is Apollo Control at 77 hours, 18 minutes. Apollo 12 is 14,967 nautical miles from the Moon. Its velocity, 3,811 feet per second. We're 41 minutes away from wake-up time. This is Mission Control, Houston."

Public Affairs Office - "This is Apollo Control at 77 hours, 45 minutes Fourteen minutes remains in this sleep period but we have indications that the crew is awake. Communications officer reports that he can see through telemetry that they have configured their communications equipment for voice transmission, so we may be hearing from the crew prior to the official wake up time. We'll keep this circuit up live for any communication we may get from the crew."

Public Affairs Office - "Still no word from the crew and we're 5 minutes away from the time that we'll initiate a call to them. Apollo 12 is 13,615 nautical miles from the Moon, their velocity 3,856 feet per second. Reveille being played."

Public Affairs Office - "We don't think the crew heard that because there was an antenna switch right at the start of that bugle call. If we don't hear from them shortly, we're liable to play it again."

077:57:58 Gibson: ["Reveille" played on bugle].

078:00:51 Gibson: One more time. ["Reveille" played on bugle].

078:01:17 Gordon: Apollo 12, all present and accounted for, sir.

078:01:21 Gibson: Roger, 12. [Long pause.]

Public Affairs Office - "That was Dick Gordon responding."

078:01:59 Gordon: Houston, 12. Can you give me a roll angle to stop PTC to do the rest of that alignment?

078:02:09 Gibson: Sure will, 12. Stand by. [Long pause.]

078:02:26 Gibson: 12, Houston. You can continue to do PTC during the alignment as you have before. If you want stop, go to 270.

078:02:42 Gordon: We'll keep doing PTC to save some gas.

078:02:46 Gibson: Roger. [Long pause.]

078:03:05 Gibson: ["Sweepers, Man Your Brooms" played on Boatswain whistle].

078:03:22 Gibson: The next ...

[Comm break.]

078:04:38 Conrad: Houston, 12.

078:04:40 Gibson: Morning, 12; Houston. Go ahead.

078:04:45 Conrad: Okay. On the crew status report, the CDR slept 9; the CMP, 8; the LMP, 8. The PRD's: CDR, 11013; CMP, 11013; the LMP, 04014. We cycled the fan, and we're back to the normal lunar comm mode.

078:05:11 Gibson: Roger, 12. We copy. When you cycle the fans, could you do that for 3 minutes this time rather than the usual one, so we can get a little better hack on the readouts?

078:05:25 Conrad: Okay. We'll go back and do it for 3. We just completed it for 2. We'll go back and do it for 3.

078:05:31 Gibson: Roger.

078:06:05 SC: Houston, 12. Can we start battery charge on Batt A now?

078:06:11 Gibson: That's affirmative, 12. Go ahead. We also have a Flight Plan update, when you're ready.

078:06:16 Conrad: Okay.

078:06:24 Conrad: Okay. We're ready to copy.

078:06:26 Gibson: Okay. First is, seeing we have no MCC4, replace the flight plan timeline pages from GET 78 to 82 with the pages you'll find in the back - that's 6-7 to 6-9. And then you'll be picking it up again at page 3-58. At 78:00, for no MCC 4, delete stop PTC and continue PTC until 80 plus 50. This is optional. Insert - Then, at 80 plus 50, insert stop PTC at roll 300, and that's the Moon view attitude in roll. And at 79:45, would you perform a rendezvous radar transponder self-test to see if there was any effect on it during launch?

078:07:44 Conrad: Okay. We got 80:50 stop PTC at 300; 79:45 rendezvous radar transponder self-test, and we have the proper pages out of the Flight Plan.

078:07:58 Gibson: Roger, 12.

[Long comm break.]

078:16:26 Conrad: Go ahead, Houston.

078:16:28 Gibson: 12, we have your consumables update and some comments on the - your P23's, as well as an alteration to your LOI abort card when you're ready to copy.

078:16:45 Conrad: Okay. Let's have the consumables update and all that stuff, in, that order.

078:16:52 Gibson: Okay, 12. Consumables at 78 plus 15: RCS total, 79.8; and Alfa up through Delta, in that order, 77.5, 83.4, 77.3, 81.2; and that gives you about 92 below the predicted. H₂ total, 71.2, 69.9. H₂ total, 70 - I'm sorry, that's O₂ total, 70.9, 72.5.

078:17:39 Conrad: Okay.

078:17:46 Gibson: And, 12, for the P23, no Comm procedures. Dick, your first sighting exercises showed an excellent performance although the use of two different horizon locators resulted in quite different apparent horizons. The CMC horizon should be updated to 19 kilometers rather than the 24 for the no Comm contingency. Change the erasable address 1351 from its present value of 27340 to 22434. Your second set of P23's done at about 15:30 were excellent. Therefore, use the same locator as in this set. As you expected, the best results are obtained when the star is positioned precisely on the substellar point when you're using only the center two-thirds of the sextant field of view and you center the star on the locator.

078:18:50 Gibson: 12, do you have those values for the erasable?

078:18:53 Gordon: Okay. We've got all of them.

078:18:57 Gordon: Say again?

078:19:01 Gibson: 12, confirm do you have the valuable - value for the erasable.

078:19:14 Conrad: Okay, Houston. The address was 1351 and change it to 22434. Is that correct?

078:19:20 Gibson: That's correct. 12, on the LOI abort card which you have in the checklist F-13-2, your hybrid trajectory is a little different than nominal; your TLI was slightly off nominal, and your curve for the LOI abort is very sensitive to the dispersions in your TLI.

078:19:43 Conrad: Hold it, Houston, until you get a good antenna.

078:19:45 Gibson: Okay. [Long pause.]

078:20:18 Conrad: Hello, Houston. How do you read?

078:20:23 Gibson: 12, we read you with a fair amount of static in the background. Let's wait until we clear it up before we proceed. [Long pause.]

078:21:05 Conrad: Hello, Houston; 12. How do you read?

078:21:09 Gibson: 12, we read you now. I think the static is dropping off. We're ready to proceed. [Long pause.]

078:21:49 Gibson: Apollo 12, Houston.

078:21:56 Conrad: Go ahead, Houston.

078:21:57 Gibson: 12, a reminder, it would help if you turned the uplink squelch off.

078:22:06 Conrad: Okay. Uplink squelch going off.

078:22:11 Gibson: Pete, we have a discussion of the LOI abort card when you're ready. That's in your checklist F13-2.

078:22:25 Gordon: Hang on a second, Houston. Do you have the DSKY or torquing angles?

078:22:31 Gibson: Stand by, Dick. Dick, we have them. Go ahead. [Pause.]

078:23:07 Conrad: Okay, Houston. Give me the page again in the checklist you were talking about.

078:23:13 Gibson: Okay, Pete. That's your LOI abort card on F13-2.

078:23:24 Conrad: Okay. And we lost you there. All I heard you say - something about the trajectory, and you faded out.

078:23:32 Gibson: Roger, Pete. There's a change necessitated here because your hybrid trajectory is different than nominal. Your TLI was slightly off nominal, and the abort curve is very sensitive to dispersions in the TLI. The curve itself should be lowered slightly, and we can give you the co-ordinates for four different points, and you'll be able to plot that curve yourself. Are you ready to copy?

078:24:02 Conrad: Yes. Go ahead.

078:24:04 Gibson: Okay. The four points under LOI Delta-V_M: 400, 290, 135, and 60. Your correspon - corresponding abort Delta-V's: 2240, 2065, 1865, 1800. You copy?

078:24:51 Conrad: Okay. Let's see, we had four points: 400, 290, 135, and 600, and they correspond to 2240, 2065, 1865, and 1800. Is that correct?

078:25:10 Gibson: Pete, on - one correction - on your LOI Delta-V_M. Your last one is 60 - That's 60, rather than 600.

078:25:24 Conrad: Okay.

078:25:27 Gibson: Your CSM gimbal angles, which you'll see down in the lower right, are roll, 295; pitch, 271; yaw 332.

078:25:48 Conrad: Okay. 295, 271, and 332.

078:25:52 Gibson: That's correct. When you plot the curve over, you'll see that your crossover point for mode 1 occurs at 320 - 320 rather than 290 as shown. This would have to be changed then in three places. First of all, the table, which you have on the card, your first value - first range goes from 290 to 650; that would now go from 320 to 650. On your Flight Plan, the value 290 is found also on page 3-59. That would have to be changed to 320. Also, the LMP cue card should be changed, 390 to 320. All of the other limits are unchanged.

078:26:55 Conrad: Okay. We got that.

078:27:00 Gibson: Okay, Pete. That's it.

078:27:07 Conrad: Roger.

[Very long comm break.]

078:38:05 Gibson: 12, Houston.

078:38:10 Gibson: Go ahead.

078:38:11 Gibson: 12, for your information, after 68:30, a little over 10 hours ago, you started accelerating back towards the Moon. And you now are around 12,192 nautical miles out, and your velocity is building. You're presently going 3,911 feet per second. We have some morning news for you. The news of the flight of Apollo 12 continues to maintain world-wide interest, and your television broadcasts are getting priority preference on the local and network newscasts. There's a lot of foreign press here at Houston Press Center, and it is expected to intensify as you get closer to the lunar landing. Incidentally, there's a new baby boy born to a Baltimore, Maryland, mother at the precise time of your lift-off. Her name - or his name is Charles Richard Alan.Wilson is their last name.

078:39:11 Gibson: We have some sport news, and one of the leading items is ...

078:39:15 Gibson: Who did you say was first?

078:39:16 Gibson: Say again. Say again, 12.

078:39:22 Conrad: Who did - Who did you say was first?

078:39:25 Gibson: First name turned out to be Charles, Charles Richard Alan. Al, I guess you just snuck in there. [Long pause.]

078:39:46 Gibson: We'll be back to you within a minute with the sports news as soon as we get a better antenna.

078:39:53 Conrad: Okay. [Long pause.]

078:44:19 Gibson: 12, Houston. We'll continue with the sports news when you're squared away.

078:44:25 Conrad: Okay. Go ahead.

078:44:29 Gibson: News reports say that Notre Dame may be about to accept a bowl invitation. This would be for the first time since 1925. If it turns out to be the Cotton Bowl, they will undoubtedly play the winner of the Texas-Arkansas Southwest Conference Championship in Fayette on December 6. Notre Dame has a 7-l-1 record, losing only to Purdue at the beginning of its season. Bobby Roseburg took an early lead and held on Sunday to defeat Jimmy Wright by one stroke in the $50,000 PGA Club Championship at the Road Runner Golf resort in Scotsdale. Results of yesterday's ball games: first, in the National League, Los Angeles took Philadelphia, 23 to 17; it was Dallas over Washington, 41 to 28; Minnesota, 9 and Green Bay, 7; Cleveland was over Pittsburgh, 24 to 3; San Francisco, 20 and Baltimore, 17; in a close one, New Orleans, 25, New York, 24; Atlanta took Chicago 48 to 31; and Detroit over St. Louis, 20 to 0. In the American League: Kansas City, 34 and New York, 16; Oakland, 21 and San Diego, 16; Buffalo over Miami, 28 to S; and Boston took Cincinnati, 25 to 14; Houston and Denver played to a 20-20 tie. However, in the - Houston really made a classic comeback in the last 11 minutes. They put 17 points on when they were down 3 to 20 inside of 11 minutes. First of all, right tackle Domres scampered into the end zone after picking up a yun - fumble and running 35 yards. Beathard then got one long bomb to Jerry Levias which was over 80 yards, and in the last - or at the last 3 seconds left, Gerela kicked one field goal. Pete Beathard looked pretty good, and - especially in the last quarter and especially on that one last long bomb. He laid it right into the hands of Levias.

078:46:58 Gibson: And, Pete, one last - one last item - Al Onser won the Phoenix 200 race.

078:47:09 Conrad: Roger. Thank you.

[Very long comm break.]

[Change of shift.]

Public Affairs Office - "This is Apollo Control at the present time, the crew is scheduled to be eating breakfast. We don't anticipate a great deal of conversation from them. The change of shift press conference is scheduled to begin shortly in the Houston news center. We will be taping any conversation from Mission Control to the crew during the press conference, playing it back immediately following. At 79 hours, 2 minutes into the flight, Apollo 12 is at an altitude of 11,058 nautical miles from the Moon, traveling at a speed of 3,964 feet per second. This is Apollo Control, Houston."

079:03:22 Weitz: Hello, 12; Houston. We have a state vector and a clock update for you, if you'll give us P00 and Accept, please.

079:03:30 Conrad: Roger-Roger. P00 and Accept. [Pause.]

079:03:44 Conrad: Boy, that Moon looks big today, Houston. Thing's about the size of a baseball held at arm's length. And you can see all the mountains and craters. It's really a beautiful sight. We're starting to move on the far side of the Sun from it, so we only see about an eighth of it. But that eighth of it is really stark. You can see - particularly up near the poles - On the LM, you can start to see that it's not a nice smooth ball anymore. It's got some little ridges and bumps that would be mountains or craters if you could see them right head on. It's a beautiful sight.

079:04:28 Weitz: Roger. Understand, 12. That's a good sign if it's getting be - look bigger.

079:04:34 Conrad: On the other hand, the Earth - Yes - On the other hand, the Earth looks like about the size of a quarter held at arm's length, which is pretty small.

079:04:46 Weitz: Roger.

[Comm break.]

079:06:24 Conrad: Okay.

[Long comm break.]

079:11:23 Conrad: Roger.

[Very long comm break.]

079:36:33 Conrad: Houston, 12.

079:36:36 Weitz: Go, 12.

079:36:41 Conrad: Roger. You want to watch this rendezvous radar transponder self-test? We're about ready to do that any time you are.

079:36:51 Weitz: Okay, stand by.

079:36:58 Weitz: 12, Houston. There's nothing meaningful we can monitor on that, Pete. Just go ahead with it.

079:37:03 Conrad: Okay. It's in work.

[Comm break.]

079:39:29 Weitz: Go, 12.

079:39:33 Conrad: Best we could determine, it's a good transponder. System test in A gave us 4.2; system test B gave us 2.0. With it in Operate on D, it gave us zero; and system test indicator in C Unlock gave us 0.4.

079:40:01 Weitz: Roger. Copy,. 12. Understand. Thank you.

079:40:03 Conrad: Anything else you need?

079:40:05 Weitz: If you're finished eating, I've got a pericynthion plus 2 abort PAD for you.

079:40:14 Conrad: Okay. Al is ready to copy.

079:40:19 Weitz: Okay. Pericynthion plus 2. SPS/G&N: 62491, plus 0.90, minus 0.17, 085:25:17.92, plus 1601.0 plus 1561.9, minus 3498.1. The roll angle is NA is unconstrained. The pitch angle is 031. The remainder of the PAD is NA. And that's no ullage and, of course, it will be a docked burn. Over.

079:41:38 Bean: Okay, Houston. That's pericynthion plus 2. SPS/G&N: 62491, plus 0.90, minus 0.17, 085:25:17.92, plus 1601.0, plus 1561.9, minus 3498.1, NA, 031; the rest of the PAD is NA; no ullage; dock burn.

079:42:13 Weitz: That's for Charlie, Al.

[Long comm break.]

079:47:39 Conrad: Okay. Be with you in just a second. They are buried up here in R-3. We're going after them.

079:47:50 Weitz: Okay. [Long pause.]

079:48:35 Conrad: Okay. I've got the time line out. Let's go over those changes first, please.

079:48:41 Weitz: Okay. On the LM time line book, page 6.

079:48:54 Bean: Okay. Go ahead.

079:48:56 Weitz: Okay, that's Touchdown plus 3 through T-2 abort. At top left-hand part on about the eighth or ninth step down, there's descent vent fire. You got that?

079:49:12 Bean: Yes.

079:49:13 Weitz: Okay. Insert after that, if the SHe pressure drops 15 psi, then close both vents.

079:49:29 Conrad: We got it.

079:49:30 Weitz: Okay. As Spence said he briefed you on, before launch, then we vent the oxidizer per the checklist and vent the fuel at 8 psi.

079:49:42 Bean: Roger. I have [garble] we

079:49:46 Weitz: Okay. Now, we go to the contingency book.

079:49:51 Bean: We don't have that book aboard. It's in the LM right now, but we'll take a note on the Flight Plan and move it over there.

079:50:00 Weitz: Okay. Page Delta/Alfa-6, step 1. After the step which says Guidance Control to PGNCS, add - on the Commander's PTCA Throttle, Min. The reason for that is if the engine is on longer than 2 minutes, as it may be, when you run through the rest of this check, if it is on longer than 2 minutes without the PTCA in Throttle in 10 percent, you may damage the throttle actuator.

079:50:50 Bean: I understand.

079:50:52 Weitz: Okay. On page D/A-7, after step 1, we want you to set the lunar-centered bit. You do that with a Verb 25, Noun 07, Enter, 104, Enter, 06000, Enter, 1, Enter. Over.

079:51:29 Bean: Roger. That's Verb 25, Noun 07, Enter, 104, Enter, 06000, Enter, 1, Enter.

079:51:36 Weitz: That's affirm, Al.

079:51:41 Bean: That's interesting that we have to set it then, and we never have to set it during normal operations.

079:51:49 Weitz: Okay. Let me see if I can get an answer for you on that.

079:51:54 Bean: Also, the first one you sent up, we made the change in our Activation Checklist - correction -lunar surface checklist, first page, to reflect also the new vent pressures.

079:52:07 Weitz: Roger.

[Comm break.]

079:54:00 Bean: Roger. Understand now.

[Very long comm break.]

080:13:52 Bean: Houston, Apollo 12.

080:13:54 Weitz: Go ahead, 12.

080:13:58 Bean: Roger. LiOH canister change number 7 is complete, and we are getting ready to pressurize the CSM and then the LM.

080:14:07 Weitz: Roger. Understand, and you verify the position the oxidizer flow valve for me, please.

080:14:22 Gordon: It's at Increase.

080:14:23 Weitz: Thank you.

080:14:24 Bean: It's at Full Increase right now, and it shows Max in the window. It was at Normal when we started the burn for the midcourse; and, then the minute it started, I moved it to Increase, and it finally made Max by the time we shut down. So, we are planning to burn at Full Increase.

080:14:40 Weitz: Okay. Thank you, Al.

[Comm break.]

080:16:04 Weitz: Yes, that's a good sign, Al, and Pete wanted a reminder on breaking out the monocular if you are getting in close to the Moon there.

080:16:14 Bean: Okay. We have been using it pretty regularly; we didn't know we were going to use it so much on translunar, but it turned out to be pretty I good even at great distances, and using it up close like this, the features are very, very stark, and I never really realized how high the edges of these craters are. These large craters are steep, and it is a pretty rough looking satellite.

080:16:41 Weitz: Roger. Understand.

080:16:50 Bean: Say again, Houston.

080:16:53 Weitz: Just rogered for your transmission.

080:17:00 Conrad: Houston, Apollo 12. The LM is pressurized.

080:17:04 Weitz: Roger, 12.

080:17:26 Conrad: And, Houston. The LM's pressurized.

080:17:29 Weitz: Roger, 12.

[Long comm break.]

080:21:01 Conrad: Houston, we are going to do our pre-LOI secondary ECS loop check right now.

080:21:07 Weitz: Roger, 12.

[Long comm break.]

080:24:58 Weitz: Go, 12.

080:25:01 Gordon: Roger. Secondary loop looks okay to us. Glycol Evap temperature's coming down, and the Quantity dropped just a little bit when the temperature's coming down, and also the radiator's being filled up with that stuff for the first time. What do you think? It looks pretty stable to us right now.

080:25:19 Weitz: Roger. It looks good here on the ground, Dick.

080:25:21 Gordon: Dropped to a quantity of about - yes. Dropped on an indicated quantity of about ...

080:25:25 Conrad: ...Okay, we are going to go ahead and secure it.

080:25:29 Weitz: Roger.

[Comm break.]

080:27:21 Weitz: Roger. You guys must really be closing in on it, huh?

080:27:31 Bean: This is the first time we have been able to look at it, and in the mare area - up to now - it looked very, very smooth; but now when you look at the mare area, you can see there's a, quite a number of long ridges, and what have you, that mar the maria a little bit.

080:27:50 Weitz: Roger. Understand.

080:28:02 Weitz: 12, Houston. You can terminate charge on Bat A. [Long pause.]

080:29:09 Bean: Roger. Terminate the charge on Bat A.

080:29:28 Bean: Yes, Houston, we're closing to the Moon fast enough now that every time we do a 360, you pick it back up in the windows again. You can see it grow quite considerably.

080:29:40 Weitz: Roger, 12.

[Long comm break.]

080:38:20 Conrad: Okay, Houston. The next trip past 300, we'll go ahead and stop PTC. We're just out of about 50 degrees roll now, coming around, and we'll stop PTC at 300.

080:38:34 Weitz: Roger, 12.

[Long comm break.]

080:46:01 Conrad: 0kay. You've got it. P00 and Accept.

[Comm break.]

080:48:29 Weitz: Go ahead, 12.

080:48:39 Bean: Hey, another interesting thing is you look out on the mare, it didn't show so much from your maps that I've seen on Earth from the photos, there's isolated large mountains - hills, or something - right scattered throughout the Mare. And in this low Sun-angle that we've got on the Moon right now, which is about, little less than an eighth, maybe a tenth of the Moon; they almost look like cumulus clouds at first glance because they're very bright on top, and they're significantly higher than the mare. And then when you look at them closer in the monocular, you can see that they're just very high hills.

080:49:24 Weitz: Roger, 12. Understand. [Long pause.]

080:49:43 Weitz: Hello, 12; Houston [garble] ...

080:49:45 Conrad: ... He's really working on that doctoring.

080:49:51 Weitz: Say again what you're working on, Pete.

080:49:57 Conrad: Never mind.

080:50:01 Weitz: Oh, Roger. Understand. Yes.

080:50:10 Weitz: He started a little early this time.

080:50:14 Conrad: He won't - he won't let either one of us look.

080:50:18 Weitz: Understand. Hey, Jack Schmitt's here. He wants to know how Al spells mare. It's a pop quiz.

080:50:29 Conrad: Is that that geology pop quiz you were going to give us the other day?

080:50:34 Weitz: That's the first question [laughter].

080:50:36 Conrad: He refuses to take it. He won't take it today.

080:50:43 Weitz: Okay. If Al wants to do something worthwhile, I've got a PAD for him.

080:50:50 Conrad: Thank you [garble]; now we can look.

080:50:52 Bean: Go.

080:50:55 Weitz: Okay. LOI-1 SPS/G&N: 62491, plus 0.90, minus 0.17, 083:25:18.51, minus 2821.3, plus 0603.6, plus 0112.4, 002, 263, 018, HA and HP are NA, 2887.3, 5:58, 2880.4, sextant star is 02, 254.0, 38.0. The rest of the pad is NA. Your GDC stars are Sirius, 15 - that's your Z-axis star - and Rigel, 12. The angles are 134, 230, and 357. The LM weight is 33585. Over.

080:52:57 Bean: LOI-1, SPS/G&N: 62491, plus 0.90, minus 0.17, 083:25:18.51, minus 2821.3, plus 0603.6, plus 0112.4, 002, 263, 018, NA, NA, 2887.3, 5:58, 2880.4, 02, 254.0 38.0; Sirius, 15, is the Z-axis star; Rigel, 12; 134, 230, 357; and the LM is 33585.

080:53:57 Weitz: That's affirmative, Al, and if you'll get out two more PADs, I've got TEI-1 and 4 for you.

080:54:12 Bean: Go ahead. Ready to copy.

080:54:14 Weitz: TEI-1, SPS/G&N: 38641, minus 0.59, plus 0.64, 085:32:39.16, plus 3207.1, plus 0813.0, minus 0310.9; NA for roll; pitch is 093; the rest of the pad is NA. Your ullage is four jets for 11 seconds; burn undocked. Over.

080:55:26 Bean: Okay, Houston. TEI-1 SPS/CAN: 38641, minus 0.59, plus 0.64, 085:32:39.16, plus 3207.1, plus 0813.0, minus 0310.9, NA, 093. The rest is NA. Ullage is four jets for 11 seconds; burn undocked.

080:55:59 Weitz: That's affirmative, and you are ready for TEI-4?

080:56:05 Bean: Go.

080:56:08 Weitz: Okay. This also is SPS/O&N: NA, NA, NA down to time, the time 092:00:46.70, plus 3519.6, plus 0967.2, minus 0177.4, NA, 084; remainder is NA; same ullage; undocked, assumes no LOI-2. Over.

080:57:11 Bean: Roger. SPS/G&N again: NA, NA, NA, 092:00:46.70, plus 3519.6, plus 0967.2, minus 0177.4, NA, 084 NA, rest NA; ullage the same as previous; undocked, and this assumes no LOI-2.

080:57:38 Weitz: That's affirmative.

[Long comm break.]

081:02:39 Weitz: Go, Dick.

081:02:44 Gordon: We're set up in the attitude for looking at the Moon. We can see it pretty good. We're worried about the Sun angle on it for television. We'll take a look at it, and while we're doing that, I'll go ahead and do the landing site REFSMMAT orientation. Okay?

081:02:59 Weitz: That'll be fine. And if you are getting sun-light in the camera, about the only - that's expected - would help is to point as far away from the Sun as you can, toward the points of the crescent.

081:03:15 Conrad: No, that's not our problem. Our problem is the Sun is shining on the center hatch window, and the hatch window's got so much gunk on it that it's just so shiny that I'm afraid the TV wouldn't look through it. The Sun is not directly in the window yet. But we'll - We'll look at it, as we close it. Of course, we're going to drop behind anyhow and eclipse the Sun here in a minute.

081:03:42 Weitz: Roger. [Long pause.]

081:04:38 Weitz: 12, Houston. You might consider if that hatch window is really clobbered, Pete, looking out one of the side windows. We've got some angles here if you want to use window number 1, and we can work some up for window number 5, if that's a better window.

081:04:57 Conrad: Five is absolutely the best window. It's the only one that we're ever going to get any pictures out of. The rest of them are so clobbered that we're not going to get much out of any of them.

081:05:05 Weitz: Okay. We'll have to run that through and cheek and make sure we ...

081:05:07 Conrad: ...we need an angle for window 5.

081:05:09 Weitz: Okay. We'll have to run it through and make sure we can get high gain and the window at the Moon.

[Comm break.]

081:06:53 Weitz: We got it, 12.

081:06:59 Bean: Okay.

[Comm break.]

081:09:58 Conrad: Houston, 12. Shall we give you the high gain now?

081:10:05 Weitz: That's affirmative.

[Comm break.]

081:13:48 Conrad: Okay. Let us give it a try here for a minute out this center window and see what happens.

081:13:53 Weitz: Okay. Now if you'd rather use window number 1, we've got some - we've got some angles for you, or you can go ahead and Use the hatch window.

081:14:05 Conrad: I think we're better off with the center window in this case, and we'll - We'll give her a try here. Let's see what happens.

081:14:13 Weitz: Roger.

081:14:22 Conrad: We're not going to send you any TV. We're just going to experiment with it for a while in here and see what we get.

081:14:27 Weitz: Understand.

081:14:29 Conrad: If it doesn't turn out right, we'd just as soon not send it.

081:14:35 Weitz: Okay. [Long pause.]

081:15:16 Weitz: 12, Houston. To minimize perturbations to your trajectory now, we're requesting that you go out of single jet attitude control vector couples. Over.

081:15:33 Conrad: Roger. In work.

[Long comm break.]

081:19:29 Weitz: Go ahead, 12.

081:19:35 Conrad: All the TV is doing is an excellent job of picking up all the droplets and glare and rivulets on the window. It's pretty - pretty hopeless.

081:19:45 Weitz: Okay. One suggestion is to try to fake it out a little bit by putting your ALC switch to the inside position and see if that makes any difference.

081:20:00 Conrad: Okay. We - We tried both.

081:20:07 Weitz: Roger. [Long pause.]

081:20:47 Conrad: Houston, how long are you going to have Goldstone? It could be that when we slip behind the Moon, we - the Sun gets behind there - We may be able to give you some then.

081:21:02 Weitz: Okay. Stand by. [Long pause.]

081:21:21 Weitz: 12, Houston. We can - We have Goldstone scheduled for 20 minutes. We can keep it as long as we need it.

081:21:41 Conrad: Okay, Houston. Why don't you hang on to him for a little while, and we'll see if we can pick anything else up out this window for you?

081:21:51 Weitz: Okay. Thank you.

081:21:57 Conrad: Roger. Looks like it's about 10 or 15 degrees between the lighted limb of the Moon and the Sun right now, and it's just making our glass glare so much that there's no possibility of showing you what we see. We have to sort of get over near the edge where we can block the Sun with the window frame before we cau see it ourself. Maybe when we go behind it, we can open up the aperture and you can see some from earthshine. I don't know if that's possible or not.

081:22:25 Weitz: Okay. The solar - solar corona will probably look great if you can get that coming by. That's supposed to be a pretty good camera for picking that up.

081:22:39 Conrad: We'll give it a go.

081:22:40 Weitz: Okay. Pick up a few credits in electives there.

081:22:53 Conrad: Yes, if that's okay.

081:22:57 Gordon: If you're going to do that, you'd better do something about that maneuver schedule for 81:55.

081:23:01 Weitz: Okay.

[Long comm break.]

081:27:24 Conrad: Roger-Roger. We concur. [Long pause.]

081:27:51 Conrad: It's a shame that we don't have a shade of some kind that we could shade that window with because this is really quite a sight. Our motion to the left is not as apparent as our motion towards the Moon, and therefore, we have the decided impression that we're going right into the center of that baby right now.

081:28:12 Weitz: Okay. We'll check it out for you.

081:28:18 Conrad: [Laughter]. No, I trust you. I trust you.

[Long comm break.]

081:32:17 Conrad: Houston, 12. It's really a shame we can't show you this sight because we're dropping behind it in a hurry, with respect to the Sun, and we've only got about 2 degrees of a crescent Moon right now, and the rest of it, of course, is all in the black, but we're dropping behind it fast enough that we can just sit here over a few minutes period of time and see it get smaller and smaller, the illuminated portion. Also, of course, it's filling more and more of the window all the time because we're - we're really smoking in there.

081:32:56 Weitz: Roger, 12.

[Very long comm break.]

081:46:44 Bean: Houston, Apollo 12.

081:46:46 Weitz: Go ahead, 12.

081:46:50 Bean: Could you give us your estimation of the fuel quantity and the helium pressure, SPS helium pressure, after the burn's complete? Your latest guess.

081:47:01 Weitz: Will do. Stand by.

[Long comm break.]

081:51:15 Weitz: Roger. We copied that, 12.

081:51:57 Weitz: Hello, 12; Houston. After the burn, Al, your fuel quantity should show 39 percent remaining; your SPS helium pressure should be 1500 psi.

081:52:16 Bean: Thank you.

[Very long comm break.]

082:11:46 Weitz: Hello, 12; Houston. You give us P00 and Accept, we'll send up your state vector and target load.

082:11:54 Conrad: Right, sir.

082:11:56 Weitz: Got a map update for you.

082:11:57 Conrad: P00 and Accept.

082:12:01 Bean: Go.

082:12:03 Weitz: Okay. Map update for Rev 1: 83:11:46, 83:24:35, 83:43:57, 83:36:36. Over.

082:12:32 Bean: Roger. 83:11:46, 83:24:35, 83:43:57, 83:36:36.

082:12:42 Weitz: That's affirmative. [Long pause.]

082:13:46 Conrad: Houston, Apollo 12.

082:13:49 Weitz: Go, 12.

082:13:53 Conrad: Roger. The pre-LOI-1 systems checks are complete.

082:13:57 Weitz: Roger. Thank you, 12.

082:15:03 Weitz: Hello, 12; Houston. I have update to your LOI-1 PAD.

082:15:11 Bean: Okay. Wait 1.

082:15:18 Bean: Go ahead, Houston.

082:15:20 Weitz: All right. Al, now the seconds for your burn time will change. It is now 22.68. The Noun 81: your Delta-V_y is now +0607.0; Delta-V_z is now plus 0142.0; dropping down to Delta-V_t, that value is now 2889.3; Delta-V_c is 2882.4. Remainder of the PAD is unchanged.

082:16:14 Bean: Okay. In Noun 33, the seconds register should be 22.68; Noun 81, Delta-V_y plus 0607.0; Delta-V_z plus 0142.O; Delta-V_t 2889.3; Delta-V_c 2882.4.

082:16:38 Weitz: That's affirmative, 12. [Long pause.]

082:17:12 Weitz: 12, Houston. The computer's yours.

082:17:17 Bean: Roger, Houston.

[Very long comm break.]

Public Affairs Office - "This is Apollo Control at 82 hours, 37 minutes. One of the clocks on our front display board here at Mission Control shows that we bare 34 minutes, 38 seconds until Loss Of Signal as the spacecraft goes behind the moon at prior to the Lunar Orbit Insertion maneuver. That maneuver is scheduled to be performed in 47 minutes, 56 seconds. LOI-1 ignition time is 83 hours, 25 minutes, 23 seconds. The burn duration is currently planned for 5 minutes, 58 seconds reducing the spacecraft velocity by 2,889 feet per second. The spacecraft weight combined CSM/LM weight prior to the burn will be 96,076 pounds. Following the burn we estimate the weight will be 72,225 pounds. The Lunar Orbit Insertion 1 maneuver is targeted for 62 by 169.3 nautical mile orbit. Lunar orbit insertion No. 2 is targeted for a 54 by 66 nautical mile orbit. That burn is scheduled to occur at 87 hours, 48 minutes, 33 seconds with a total Delta-V of 161.6 feet per second. Apollo 12 is now nearing the 2,000 nautical mile mark altitude above the lunar surface. That altitude continuing to decrease ever more rapidly and the velocity building up at an increasing rate, now reading 5,511 feet or 5,511 feet per second. Flight Director Glynn Lunney is periodically going around the room checking on status for the maneuver. A short while ago he advised Flight Controllers that we are moving along well according to the Flight Plan and have completed all scheduled activities listed by the Flight Plan at this time in preparation for the maneuver. The next scheduled activities on the Flight Plan are rolling to burn attitude verifying the burn attitude with a star check through the spacecraft sextant and aligning the gyro display coupler to the inertial measurement unit. At 82 hours, 40 minutes this is Mission Control, Houston. "

082:44:10 Conrad: Houston, 12. We're beginning to go into darkness at this time.

082:44:16 Weitz: Roger, 12.

082:44:17 Conrad: As a matter of fact, we're there.

082:44:19 Weitz: Roger.

[Comm break.]

082:47:07 Weitz: We're checking now, Dick.

082:47:12 Gordon: Okay.

082:47:28 Weitz: Apollo 12, Houston. Looks real good.

082:47:34 Gordon: Okay. If you're happy, we'll go ahead and roll to 2 degrees.

082:47:38 Weitz: Okay. Go ahead.

[Comm break.]

082:50:03 Weitz: Roger, 12.

[Long comm break.]

083:00:04 Gordon: Houston, 12.

083:00:06 Weitz: Go, 12.

083:00:10 Gordon: Roger. Sextant star check okay.

083:00:14 Weitz: Roger. Thank you.

[Comm break.]

083:03:04 Conrad: Roger, Houston. Go for LOI. Burn checklist is complete to minus 6 minutes, and we're holding at that point.

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083:03:11 Weitz: Roger.

083:03:12 Conrad: [Garble] the other side.

083:03:13 Weitz: Okay, Pete. We'll see you at 43:57.

083:03:20 Conrad: Roger-Roger.

[Long comm break.]

Public Affairs Office - "This is Apollo Control 83 hours, 8 minutes. We're coming up now on 3 minutes, 50 seconds until Loss Of Signal as Apollo 12 goes behind the Moon in preparation for inserting the spacecraft into Lunar Orbit. We'll continue to standby for any parting remarks from the crew before we lose contact with them. We should be out of contact for about 32 minutes, 11 seconds. Assuming the burn is performed as scheduled. Without performing the Lunar Orbit Insertion maneuver, we would reacquire the spacecraft about 24 minutes, 50 seconds after Loss Of Signal. And the spacecraft without performing that maneuver would pass within about 65 miles of the Moon's surface, at its closest point. We're now 3 minutes, 6 seconds from Loss Of Signal. Apollo 12,624 nautical miles from the Moon's surface traveling at 6,900 feet per second."

083:09:44 Weitz: Hello, 12; Houston. Two minutes to LOS; be seeing you shortly.

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083:09:52 Conrad: Roger, Houston.

Public Affairs Office - "We're coming up now on 36 seconds until Loss Of Signal. All flight controllers here in Mission Control getting one last look at their data before the spacecraft goes behind the Moon. All systems looking very good, prior to this Lunar Orbit Insertion maneuver. And our Network Controller reports we have Loss Of Signal right on schedule. We should reacquire Apollo 12 in about 32 minutes. Without the burn, the reacquisition time would be 24 minutes, 40 seconds from now. At last look, just before we lost data, the spacecraft was at an altitude of 471.9 nautical miles velocity at 7,188 feet per second. At 83 hours, 13 minutes into the flight of Apollo 12, this is Mission Control Houston"

083:10:38 SC(onboard): [Garble].

083:10:42 Gordon (onboard): We will be in a minute. There we go. Yes, it looks like it.

083:10:49 Conrad (onboard): [Garble].

083:10:52 Bean (onboard): We'll get it. Things are under control.

083:10:59 Conrad (onboard): Okay, this little thing is snapped in.

083:11:01 Gordon (onboard): You're on the tape recorder.

083:11:05 Bean (onboard): [Garble].

083:11:07 Conrad (onboard): Do, do, do, do, do, do, do.

083:11:09 Gordon (onboard): Okay, I'm going to close this vent now and turn it off so we won't get a Master Alarm.

083:11:12 Conrad (onboard): Okay.

083:11:13 Gordon (onboard): [Laughter] Yes. The dump is off; so if we get one, it'll be soon. Now, let - is there anything you want me to check down here? Let me look around one last time. See if you see anything floating around.

083:11:16 Bean (onboard): I don't see anything.

083:11:20 Gordon (onboard): TV camera's in good shape. It'll jump a little hit whenever we start the burn.

083:11:25 Bean (onboard): Okay.

083:11:26 Gordon (onboard): That engine's smooth.[Long pause.]

083:11:39 Bean (onboard): These okay?

083:11:41 Gordon (onboard): All these hoses.

083:11:43 Bean (onboard): Something else? [Garble] tight enough?

083:11:46 Conrad (onboard): That's it. By-by

083:11:52 Gordon (onboard): There it goes to Reacq.

083:11:53 Bean (onboard): Yes.

083:11:54 Gordon (onboard): You caught it because it ...

083:11:55 Conrad (onboard): Yes.

083:11:56 Gordon (onboard): ...the angles aren't too great.

083:11:57 Bean (onboard): Yes. Now, check your tape motion.

083:12:00 Gordon (onboard): It's in motion.

083:12:01 Conrad (onboard): It's in motion.

083:12:04 Bean (onboard): Okay, we is behind the Moon.[Pause.]

083:12:30 Bean (onboard): You want your [garble] yet?

083:12:32 Conrad (onboard): Not for a minute [garble] down [Long pause.]

083:13:03 Conrad (onboard): I've about worn out this piece of gum; I could go for another one.

083:13:08 Gordon (onboard): I got one I can give you, Pete. Right here, babe.

083:13:10 Conrad (onboard): Freshen her up [garble] a little guy ...

083:13:14 Bean (onboard): [Garble] it's just that [garble] keep going ...

083:13:16 Conrad (onboard): You nervous?

083:13:19 Bean (onboard): Not any more than [garble].

083:13:22 Conrad (onboard): That I believe.

083:13:29 Bean (onboard): Well, I'm going to come up on the lights, here. We just won't look out any more.

083:13:38 Gordon (onboard): Put that in the TSB.

083:13:40 Bean (onboard): I think everything's been put up, Here are these scissors; they could fall out. No sense in letting them fall out in the middle of a burn; I'll put them in my bag. Everybody's happy with their gear, huh? No pens on the overhead?

083:13:57 Conrad (onboard): There's your checklist right there, troop.

083:14:00 Bean (onboard): [Garble] locked in. Okay.

083:14:03 Conrad (onboard): What did you do with the scissors?

083:14:05 Bean (onboard): Put them in my TSB.

083:14:12 Conrad (onboard): You had your hat on for the burn. Probably ought to do that.

083:14:18 Bean (onboard): I owe it to myself.

083:14:22 Conrad (onboard): Keep the sunlight out of your eyes when it pops in here.

083:14:25 Bean (onboard): Not a bad idea either. Could be reflecting off that LM. I just put ...

083:14:30 Conrad (onboard): Good idea. GDC's [garble] in there; we're down to 6 minutes, huh?

083:14:36 Conrad (onboard): Yes. We're down to - we're a little over 10 minutes to the burn. My [garble] a time. Let me see, to get the burn time, I need my checklist.

083:14:53 Bean (onboard): Get on that checklist 1 minute early, I think.

083:14:56 Conrad (onboard): Really? Is that my pen?

083:14:57 Bean (onboard): Or is that your pen?

083:14:58 Conrad (onboard): Sure, that's my pen.

083:15:01 Bean (onboard): Well, where the hell did mine go?

083:15:04 Conrad (onboard): [Garble] pocket.

083:15:05 Bean (onboard): Got it in my pocket ...

083:15:06 Conrad (onboard): [Garble] up there for?

083:15:08 Bean (onboard): Yes. Not any more than you, as they say.

083:15:10 Conrad (onboard): It's not, huh?

083:15:11 Gordon (onboard): No.

083:15:12 Conrad (onboard): I don't like that answer. It's in my pocket. I'm just worried about you settling down and [garble].

083:15:20 Bean (onboard): I'm in, babe.

083:15:23 Conrad (onboard): Ten minutes.

083:15:25 Bean (onboard): Okay [Long pause.]

083:15:53 Bean (onboard): Okay. Watch your head. Right behind - Pete, you know.

083:15:59 Gordon (onboard): Go by that and you've messed up.

083:16:03 Conrad (onboard): [Garble] want to do, Dick, there'll be a GDC Align here in a minute.

083:16:08 Bean (onboard): It's not doing too bad when you're not moving around.

083:16:18 Gordon (onboard): Pete, you're doing okay right now.

083:16:31 Conrad (onboard): After that, you'll be on for sun visors.

083:16:34 Bean (onboard): I'm thinking about it [Long pause.]

083:17:00 Gordon (onboard): There's sunshine.

083:17:02 Bean (onboard): Goody.

083:17:03 Conrad (onboard): Yes. On the LM.

083:17:06 Gordon (onboard): Quick one- think we've missed it. That's good.

083:17:12 Gordon (onboard): Yes. Sure is.

083:17:15 Conrad (onboard): Okay. Dick, why don't you move to [garble]?

083:17:21 Gordon (onboard): Move into view fast.

083:17:22 Conrad (onboard): [Garble].

083:17:27 Bean (onboard): I think this hat idea is a good one. Keeps us from being distracted when the Moon comes into view. Damn good idea.

083:17:32 Gordon (onboard): [Garble] align.

083:17:35 Bean (onboard): Yes.

083:17:37 Conrad (onboard): He's still looking out the window. He's got 90 hours [garble].

083:17:40 Bean (onboard): [Garble] looking out.

083:17:45 Conrad (onboard): Tight is 160; loose is 115. You're going to have to watch your Delta ...

083:17:51 Bean (onboard): Yes, I got it,[garble].

083:17:54 Conrad (onboard): And Dick Gordon has got to watch his PC.

083:17:58 Bean (onboard): They're awful tight. And we're going to stay loose at about 224. Give me a mark at 1 minute, please. We're not even there yet.

083:18:11 Conrad (onboard): No, it's not right, Al. You're loose - you're tight after about 1 - 130.

083:18:19 Bean (onboard): 130 - okay.

083:18:22 Conrad (onboard): Okay. Bus Ties.

083:18:26 Bean (onboard): Never mind.

083:18:27 Conrad (onboard): Okay, Bus Ties, Batt B.

083:18:28 Gordon (onboard): It's on.

083:18:29 Conrad (onboard): Got both of them?

083:18:30 Gordon (onboard): They're both on.

083:18:31 Conrad (onboard): Okay, Dick, TVC Servo Power - AC 1/Main A.

083:18:34 Gordon (onboard): AC 1/Main A.

083:18:36 Conrad (onboard): TVC Servo Power 2, AC 2/Main B.

083:18:38 Gordon (onboard): 2, AC 2/Main B.

083:18:39 Conrad (onboard): Rot Control Power Normal, two to AC.

083:18:42 Gordon (onboard): Two to AC.

083:18:43 Conrad (onboard): Rot Control Power Direct, two, Off.

083:18:45 Gordon (onboard): Off.

083:18:47 Conrad (onboard): BMAG Mode, three, Att 1/Rate 2.

083:18:48 Gordon (onboard): Att 1/Rate 2.

083:18:49 Conrad (onboard): Spacecraft Control to SCS.

083:18:51 Gordon (onboard): SCS.

083:18:52 Conrad (onboard): RHC 2, armed.

083:18:54 Gordon (onboard): Armed.

083:18:58 Conrad (onboard): Okay. Ready for the Gimbal Motors, Al?

083:19:00 Bean (onboard): I'm ready. Go.

083:19:01 Gordon (onboard): 1.

083:19:02 Conrad (onboard): Okay, Pitch 1.

083:19:03 Gordon (onboard): Mark.

083:19:04 Bean (onboard): On.

083:19:05 Gordon (onboard): Yaw 1.

083:19:06 Gordon (onboard): Mark.

083:19:07 Bean (onboard): On. Boy. You can feel them go on.

083:19:10 Conrad (onboard): Verify trim control and set.

083:19:11 Gordon (onboard): Trim and set.

083:19:14 Bean (onboard): Okay.

083:19:15 Conrad (onboard): Verify MTVC.

083:19:21 Gordon (onboard): MTVC.

083:19:22 Conrad (onboard): Okay. Spacecraft Control to CMC.

083:19:25 Gordon (onboard): CMP CMC return to zero.

083:19:27 Conrad (onboard): Okay. Translation Hand Controller, clockwise.

083:19:29 Gordon (onboard): Clockwise.

083:19:30 Conrad (onboard): Verify no MTVC.

083:19:31 Gordon (onboard): No MTVC.

083:19:33 Conrad (onboard): Gimbal Motors number 2. Ready?

083:19:34 Bean (onboard): Ready.

083:19:35 Gordon (onboard): PITCH...

083:19:36 Gordon (onboard): Mark.

083:19:37 Bean (onboard): On.

083:19:38 Gordon (onboard): Yaw ...

083:19:39 Gordon (onboard): Mark.

083:19:40 Bean (onboard): On.

083:19:41 Conrad (onboard): Okay. Set GPI at trim.

083:19:43 Gordon (onboard): Trim.

083:19:49 Gordon (onboard): Trim's set.

083:19:51 Conrad (onboard): Boy, it really shakes the spacecraft. Verify MTVC.

083:19:54 Gordon (onboard): MTVC.

083:19:55 Conrad (onboard): Translation Hand Controller in Neutral.

083:19:59 Gordon (onboard): Neutral.

083:20:00 Conrad (onboard): No MTVC.

083:20:01 Gordon (onboard): No MTVC.

083:20:02 Conrad (onboard): Verify GPI returns to zero.

083:20:03 Gordon (onboard): Zero.

083:20:04 Conrad (onboard): Rot Control Power, two of them, AC/DC.

083:20:08 Gordon (onboard): AC/DC.

083:20:09 Conrad (onboard): Rot Control Power Direct, two, Main A/Main B.

083:20:11 Gordon (onboard): Main A/Main B.

083:20:12 Conrad (onboard): BMAG Mode, Rate 2.

083:20:14 Gordon (onboard): Rate 2.

083:20:16 Conrad (onboard): Okay. Pro.

083:20:19 Gordon (onboard): Trim. Trim.

083:20:25 Conrad (onboard): Okay. BMAG Mode three, Att 1/Rate 2.

083:20:28 Gordon (onboard): Att 1/Rate 2.

083:20:30 Conrad (onboard): Enter.

083:20:31 Gordon (onboard): Enter.

083:20:32 Conrad (onboard): Gimbal drive test.

083:20:33 Gordon (onboard): Here we go. Up 2, down 2.

083:20:36 Conrad (onboard): Man, that rattles the spacecraft.

083:20:37 Gordon (onboard): Zero.

083:20:39 Conrad (onboard): What do you suppose it does when the last thruster's [garble]?

083:20:42 Bean (onboard): Naturally.

083:20:43 Conrad (onboard): Yes.

083:20:44 Gordon (onboard): Zero.

083:20:47 Bean (onboard): It looks like an olive branch over there.

083:20:49 Gordon (onboard): Trim is set.

083:20:51 Conrad (onboard): Okay. The trim is set. Should be - and we're there. TFI, VG, and Delta-V_M. FDAI Scale, 5/5.

083:21:01 Gordon (onboard): 5/5.

083:21:03 Conrad (onboard): Limit Cycle, Off.

083:21:04 Gordon (onboard): Limit Cycle's Off.

083:21:05 Conrad (onboard): Rate, High.

083:21:06 Gordon (onboard): Rate, High.

083:21:07 Conrad (onboard): Update the Det.

083:21:08 Bean (onboard): Looks like it's right on.

083:21:11 Conrad (onboard): Okay, standing by for 2 minutes.

083:21:17 Bean (onboard): This thing looks like an olive branch though; you can't see it. When it was in close, it's ...

083:21:21 Gordon (onboard): Big circular pieces here.

083:21:24 Bean (onboard): Suit?

083:21:26 Gordon (onboard): Wonder where it came from.

083:21:27 Bean (onboard): I don't know. It looks about like this; it looks about this big.

083:21:31 Conrad (onboard): Okay. Let's not worry about it right now. [Pause.]

083:21:52 Conrad (onboard): Sun looks the same on this side of the Moon as the other side. Sure weren't back there very long. Because we're going fast, I guess, no? Don't know why it was. Yes, because we're going by it; that's why, we're not orbiting it. It's a lot faster than - yes, 2,800 feet per second more - What do you want?

083:22:16 Gordon (onboard): Look at the time.

083:22:17 Conrad (onboard): Okay. I've got 3 minutes, and we're going to pick up the checklist at the 2-minute mark. Okay. What are you going to start on, bank A?

083:22:24 Gordon (onboard): Yes.

083:22:25 Conrad (onboard): Okay.

083:22:26 Gordon (onboard): Okay. I'll be watching bank A.

083:22:29 Bean (onboard): Say a little word about this thing.

083:22:34 Conrad (onboard): Well, I - I thought that we were told that as long as it did what it was supposed to do, everything was okay; but if it went to full decrease or something like that ...

083:22:44 Bean (onboard): Yes. That's right. That's always true.

083:22:47 Gordon (onboard): If it jumps, it's going ...

083:22:49 Conrad (onboard): It's going to jump to decrease whenever we pull crossover ...

083:22:52 Bean (onboard): Yes.

083:22:53 Conrad (onboard): ...but we'll already be in increase.

083:22:54 Bean (onboard): Yes.

083:22:55 Conrad (onboard): You're right. It's not going to stay at zero.

083:22:56 Bean (onboard): All right.

083:22:57 Conrad (onboard): If it goes wild, we'll fix it; but, otherwise, it stays right there.

083:22:59 Bean (onboard): Yes.

083:23:06 Conrad (onboard): All right, 2-minute check. Delta-V Thrust A switch ...

083:23:16 Gordon (onboard): Thrust A.

083:23:17 Conrad (onboard): ...Normal.

083:23:18 Gordon (onboard): Normal.

083:23:19 Conrad (onboard): Translational Hand Controller, armed.

083:23:21 Gordon (onboard): Armed.

083:23:22 Conrad (onboard): Rotation Hand Controller, two of them, armed.

083:23:23 Gordon (onboard): Armed.

083:23:24 Conrad (onboard): Now, don't hit it, Al.

083:23:25 Bean (onboard): Okay.

083:23:26 Conrad (onboard): SPS Helium valves, two of them, to Auto.

083:23:28 Bean (onboard): They're Auto.

083:23:29 Conrad (onboard): Tape Recorder, High Bit Rate, Record, Forward ...

083:23:31 Gordon (onboard): High.

083:23:33 Conrad (onboard): Reset. Forward and Command ...

083:23:47 Conrad (onboard): One minute and 30 seconds coming up.

083:24:09 Conrad (onboard): Forget it.

083:24:23 Conrad (onboard): Okay, 1 minute.

083:24:24 Bean (onboard): Okay.

083:24:25 Gordon (onboard): The clock's started here. DSKY's blank; everybody's ready.

083:24:31 Bean (onboard): Okay, it's going to be ball valve A.

083:24:48 Conrad (onboard): DSKY's blank. Average g and hit the EMS to Normal.

083:24:56 Gordon (onboard): Normal.

083:24:58 Conrad (onboard): Okay.

083:24:59 Gordon (onboard): [Garble].

083:25:01 Conrad (onboard): It's such a long burn, it isn't going to make much difference. Go ahead, get Normal. There you go.

083:25:08 Conrad (onboard): 15 seconds.

083:25:13 Conrad (onboard): 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1...

083:25:23 Conrad (onboard): Ignition.

083:25:24 Bean (onboard): Thrust On.

083:25:25 Conrad (onboard): You got ball valve A. Get B.

083:25:26 Gordon (onboard): There's B.

083:25:27 Conrad (onboard): You got B.

083:25:28 Bean (onboard): [Garble].

083:25:29 Conrad (onboard): Okay.

083:25:31 Bean (onboard): [Garble] pressures looking fine.

083:25:32 Conrad (onboard): All the pressures here look good.

083:25:34 Gordon (onboard): All right.

083:25:35 Bean (onboard): [Garble] looking good [garble].

083:25:39 Conrad (onboard): Nice and smooth.

083:25:42 Gordon (onboard): [Garble] 1.

083:25:43 Conrad (onboard): [Garble] balance indicator's good.

083:25:44 Bean (onboard): Twenty seconds. You're right on the money.

083:25:48 Conrad (onboard): Everything looks good over here.

083:25:50 Gordon (onboard): Power is off. Roll's good here.

083:25:54 Bean (onboard): Oh, don't worry about roll.

083:25:56 Conrad (onboard): Everything looks good.

083:26:11 Conrad (onboard): Okay, gang, we're out of mode 1 [garble]; we're into mode 1-A.

083:26:16 Bean (onboard): Looks good. Fuel pressure [garble].

083:26:19 Conrad (onboard): We're still in [garble].

083:26:20 Gordon (onboard): Pressures look good.

083:26:22 Conrad (onboard): How's the timing [garble].

083:26:25 Gordon (onboard): That's okay [garble] here. Everything's good.

083:26:39 Bean (onboard): [Garble] pressure's 98. Gimbals are working.

083:26:48 Gordon (onboard): Everything looks good here.

083:26:51 Conrad (onboard): We're coming up on...

083:26:54 Conrad (onboard): Mark.

083:26:55 Conrad (onboard): You're mode 2.

083:26:57 Gordon (onboard): Loose rules now?

083:26:58 Bean (onboard): Loose rules.

083:26:59 Gordon (onboard): Okay.

083:27:00 Bean (onboard): Hey, I'm not watching the clock at all [garble] going on Delta-P now?

083:27:04 Bean (onboard): Okay.

083:27:05 Gordon (onboard): Watching the loose ones now [Pause.]

083:27:15 Gordon (onboard): Watching those loose ones.

083:27:19 Bean (onboard): [Garble] pressure is falling under 1 [garble] 99.

083:27:23 Gordon (onboard): Way it ought to be, babe.

083:27:26 Bean (onboard): It's riding in from here. See some little ones back there, maybe fuel flash [Pause.]

083:27:43 Bean (onboard): [Garble] fuel [garble].

083:27:45 Gordon (onboard): We've got plenty. 74.

083:27:47 Conrad (onboard): Okay. We're [garble] mode 2. We're at [garble] release again.

083:27:51 Gordon (onboard): Okay. Looking real good.

083:28:00 Bean (onboard): Good here.

083:28:01 Gordon (onboard): Helium's come down to about half, which is normal.

083:28:04 Bean (onboard): Looks good.

083:28:07 Gordon (onboard): What kind of g's we pulling?

083:28:08 Conrad (onboard): Oh, enough. Twelve seconds; we're in mode 3; we're still in the loose rules.

083:28:16 Gordon (onboard): Okay. That was just me moving my head just a little. Let me move it again. Sorry I didn't mention it. I didn't know it was going to make any noise.

083:28:28 Conrad (onboard): It's okay. Okay, it's 3 minutes into the burn. We're coming up on tight rules very shortly.

083:28:35 Gordon (onboard): Everything's solid; and everything looks good here. We're down to 65 percent.

083:28:40 Conrad (onboard): Okay. We're over 2. There you go. We're coming in [garble] Wow!

083:28:47 Bean (onboard): Put your hat back on.

083:28:48 Conrad (onboard): Supposed to do that.

083:28:49 Bean (onboard): I know. Got to do it.

083:28:52 Conrad (onboard): Okay, gang...

083:28:53 Conrad (onboard): Mark.

083:28:54 Conrad (onboard): Mode 3. Tight rules.

083:28:56 Bean (onboard): Okay.

083:28:57 Conrad (onboard): Now I'm going to monitor for shutdown.

083:29:00 Bean (onboard): That balance looks good. Staying right in the center.

083:29:03 Gordon (onboard): Gimbal motors are straight.

083:29:12 Conrad (onboard): [Garble] give us the mode [garble] data.

083:29:17 Gordon (onboard): Solid as a rock, boy. That thing hasn't even moved.

083:29:21 Bean (onboard): Check the nitrogen; looks good. Not a thing.

083:29:24 Conrad (onboard): Okay. It looks to me like we got a hot engine, and we're going to shut down early.

083:29:29 Gordon (onboard): Okay.

083:29:30 Conrad (onboard): About 5 seconds early.

083:29:31 Gordon (onboard): Okay.

083:29:34 Conrad (onboard): I'll keep watching her.

083:29:37 Conrad (onboard): Did you get crossover yet, Al?

083:29:38 Bean (onboard): No. No ...

083:29:39 Conrad (onboard): 55; we're just about finished.

083:29:41 Gordon (onboard): [Garble] that chamber pressure; everybody is going to [garble].

083:29:53 Conrad (onboard): [Garble].

083:29:56 Conrad (onboard): Boy, this engine is really running hot; looks like it's going to shut down quite early.

083:30:08 Gordon (onboard): 100-percent chamber pressure.

083:30:10 Bean (onboard): Yes. I couldn't tell crossover here.

083:30:16 Gordon (onboard): [Garble] going to shut down at 5:52.

083:30:18 Conrad (onboard): It's going to shut down 6 seconds early.

083:30:29 Bean (onboard): Yes. It's perfect.

083:30:31 Gordon (onboard): 100-percent chamber pressure.

083:30:33 Bean (onboard): It's up high in the increase range, and it's still there [Pause.]

083:30:45 Conrad (onboard): Six seconds until shutdown; it's going to shut down at 52. Going to shut down 6 seconds early.

083:30:56 Gordon (onboard): Twenty seconds.

083:31:05 Gordon (onboard): Ten - 5:52.

083:31:08 Conrad (onboard): Yes. 5, 4, 3, 2, 1...

083:31:15 Conrad (onboard): Shutdown.

083:31:16 Gordon (onboard): Shutdown.

083:31:17 Bean (onboard): Shutdown.

083:31:18 Conrad (onboard): All balls valves are off.

083:31:19 Gordon (onboard): Okay.

083:31:20 Gordon (onboard): Gimbal Motors.

083:31:21 Bean (onboard): I'm standing by.

083:31:22 Gordon (onboard): 2 Yaw.

083:31:24 Bean (onboard): 2 is off, I think.

083:31:25 Gordon (onboard): Pitch 2.

083:31:27 Bean (onboard): Off.

083:31:28 Gordon (onboard): Yaw 1.

083:31:29 Bean (onboard): It's off.

083:31:30 Gordon (onboard): Pitch 1.

083:31:31 Bean (onboard): It's off.

083:31:32 Gordon (onboard): Okay.

083:31:33 Bean (onboard): Over [garble].

083:31:34 Conrad (onboard): All right. Let's check all those SPS Injector valves and close the Helium valves...

083:31:39 Bean (onboard): Wait a minute. Let me get the residuals.

083:31:41 Conrad (onboard): Ooh! God damn it; [garble] plus l, plus 1.

083:31:47 Conrad (onboard): Okay, minus 1.

083:31:49 Gordon (onboard): Plus l, plus 1.

083:31:50 Conrad (onboard): Minus 1, plus 1, plus 1. Okay.

083:31:56 Bean (onboard): Look at that Moon.

083:31:58 Conrad (onboard): Son of a gun. Look at that place.

083:32:08 Bean (onboard): Gosh! Look at the size of some of those craters.

083:32:13 Bean (onboard): Verb 66, Pete.

083:32:15 Conrad (onboard): Okay.

083:32:16 Bean (onboard): The [garble] is cleaned up, and the Delta-V_M is [garble].

083:32:18 Conrad (onboard): Now, let me just make sure here.

083:32:19 Bean (onboard): Did you get this, Pete?

083:32:21 Conrad (onboard): 1.1.

083:32:23 Gordon (onboard): 1.0.

083:32:26 Conrad (onboard): [Garble] 1.0.

083:32:28 Bean (onboard): Yes. Plus [garble] right [garble].

083:32:31 Conrad (onboard): SPS Injector valves, Gimbal Motors, TVC ...

083:32:33 Gordon (onboard): They're okay.

083:32:34 Conrad (onboard): [Garble] Servo Power, Main Bus Ties...

083:32:35 Gordon (onboard): Check out the Bus Ties.

083:32:37 Bean (onboard): Okay.

083:32:38 Conrad (onboard): Null residuals; we're getting EMS Function, Off: EMS Mode to Standby.

083:32:40 Bean (onboard): Okay.

083:32:41 Conrad (onboard): Limit Cycle, On?

083:32:42 Bean (onboard): Limit Cycle's On.

083:32:43 Gordon (onboard): Okay.

083:32:44 Conrad (onboard): Att Deadband, Max.

083:32:45 Bean (onboard): Max.

083:32:46 Conrad (onboard): Trans Control Power, Off.

083:32:47 Bean (onboard): Off.

083:32:48 Conrad (onboard): Rot Control Power, two, Off.

083:32:49 Bean (onboard): Two, Off.

083:32:50 Conrad (onboard): BMAG Modes, three of them, to Rate 2.

083:32:52 Bean (onboard): Rot Control Power Direct...

083:32:54 Conrad (onboard): Rot Control...

083:32:56 Conrad (onboard): PCM Bit Rate, Low.

083:32:57 Bean (onboard): It's low.

083:32:59 Conrad (onboard): Do a Verb 82, if you want to.

083:33:02 Bean (onboard): Got it - Man! Look, at that place. Outstanding effort there, Dick Gordon. Flash Gordon pilots again!

083:33:12 Conrad (onboard): 170 by 61.8.

083:33:14 Bean (onboard): That is absolutely [garble].

083:33:18 Gordon (onboard): Got it?

083:33:19 Bean (onboard): Yes. We're circling around [garble] place...

083:33:21 Conrad (onboard): Let me see your fuel and oxidizer.

083:33:24 Bean (onboard): Okay, the fuel is 34. - correction, 38.4; oxidizer is...

083:33:29 Conrad (onboard): Fuel - wait a minute. Oh, here it is. I see; 38.4 ...

083:33:33 Bean (onboard): ...and 38.7, and unbalance is about 80 pounds increase.

083:33:44 Conrad (onboard): Okay.

083:33:48 Bean (onboard): Look at that Moon, bugger! I'll tell you, I may be colorblind, but that looks gray as hell to me.

083:33:58 Conrad (onboard): What are you doing? Oh, you're rolling.

083:33:59 Gordon (onboard): I'm rolling, for attitude, Pete, for attitude. I'm working.

083:34:02 Conrad (onboard): Save that gas, babe! Save it!

083:34:04 Gordon (onboard): I'm saving it.

083:34:05 Conrad (onboard): Good Godfrey! That's a God-forsaken place; but it's beautiful, isn't it?

083:34:10 Gordon (onboard): That old turtleback dome hanging there - look at it.

083:34:13 Conrad (onboard): Look - look how black the sky is ...

083:34:15 Bean (onboard): That's gray and something else.

083:34:17 Conrad (onboard): Chalky white - Those craters have been there for...

083:34:20 Bean (onboard): A few days.

083:34:21 Conrad (onboard): Yes.

083:34:26 Gordon (onboard): Man, this is good to be here is all I can say.

083:34:29 Conrad (onboard): Has quite a horizon to it, doesn't it?

083:34:31 Bean (onboard): Yes.

083:34:32 Conrad (onboard): It is smaller - and it's got a nice arch to it.

083:34:39 Bean (onboard): Okay.

083:34:41 Conrad (onboard): Okay, now - Dick, you're going to roll 180 ...

083:34:47 Gordon (onboard): Pitch 302.

083:34:48 Conrad (onboard): ...pitch 302...

083:34:49 Gordon (onboard): Yaw zero.

083:34:50 Conrad (onboard): ...yaw zero.

083:34:51 Gordon (onboard): You've got the High Gain angles right there [garble] ; there you go!

083:34:52 Conrad (onboard): Yes, we're minus 68 and sitting here at 39 Reacq.

083:35:00 Gordon (onboard): Yes, if you want. There you go. That ought to do it. Okay.

083:35:06 Conrad (onboard): That's it.

083:35:08 Gordon (onboard): Lunar surface attitude: hatch window, heads down; go Orb Rate by 84 hours. Give me that update for time, that first lunar Rev ...

083:35:16 Conrad (onboard): It's right there.

083:35:19 Gordon (onboard): Oh.

083:35:20 Bean (onboard): Orb Rate?

083:35:21 Gordon (onboard): What was the First orbit update PAD?

083:35:26 Conrad (onboard): The map update?

083:35:27 Gordon (onboard): Yes.

083:35:32 Conrad (onboard): 83:24:35 over the 180-degree burn angle.

083:35:37 Gordon (onboard): How about 83:25?

083:35:39 Conrad (onboard): Sounds good. Okay. We'll get AOS here at 83:43:57.

083:35:44 Bean (onboard): Do you want the TV camera out?

083:35:48 Conrad (onboard): No. We don't need it yet.

083:35:50 Bean (onboard): We ought to be getting it out ...

083:35:51 Conrad (onboard): Well, get it out, then - find a spot.

083:35:55 Gordon (onboard): Where are we; does anybody know?

083:35:56 Conrad (onboard): Yes, 83, we're 10 minutes out; I'll show you right where we are.

Public Affairs Office - "This is Apollo Control at 83 hours, 36 minutes. We are now less than 1 minute at the earliest time at which we could reacquire Apollo 12. That would be the time of acquisition assuming the Lunar Orbit Insertion maneuver had not been performed as scheduled. We'll continue to leave the circuits up for the intervening 7 minutes during which we could reacquire the spacecraft. Acquisition is scheduled to occur assuming a normal burn in 7 hours, 7 minutes, 30 seconds from now."

083:36:00 Bean (onboard): 10 minutes [garble] time.

083:36:02 Conrad (onboard): We're right over at this spot, right here. I don't know; we're upside down, so I guess that would be out...

083:36:09 Bean (onboard): No, we're right-side-up now.

083:36:11 Gordon (onboard): Yes.

083:36:12 Bean (onboard): I saw that turtleback crater; it's right in here.

083:36:14 Conrad (onboard): At 10 minutes; that's - we went by here at 25.

083:36:20 Gordon (onboard): Go get the TV camera.

083:36:23 Conrad (onboard): When I think you need it, I'll set it right here [Pause.]

083:36:50 Gordon (onboard): "A" stopped the roll, huh?[Pause.]

083:37:07 Bean (onboard): Says you're going to be doing this - coming around in here.

083:37:11 Conrad (onboard): Oh, gosh, what a sight!

083:37:13 Gordon (onboard): What'd you see?

083:37:14 Conrad (onboard): [Laughter] It's right-side-up in my window now; it looks fantastic. Of course, we're getting higher Sun angles - Look at that!

083:37:22 Gordon (onboard): Yes. This [garble] sure enough it's leaking.

083:37:29 Bean (onboard): Everything's staying just like it was when we shut down, which is a swell idea, I think.

083:37:36 Conrad (onboard): Boy, you'd never guess; it doesn't look like we're 60 miles, does it?

083:37:41 Bean (onboard): That's because everything is so much bigger; the craters are so much bigger - than anything you've ever seen, and I think that's why.

083:37:47 Conrad (onboard): Guess you're right.

083:37:49 Bean (onboard): I was looking at them, you know, as we came in, and they're just huge.

083:38:02 Gordon (onboard): I marked this so we'd know where we were. Who's got a dry cloth? Hand me your...

083:38:11 Conrad (onboard): We're 5 minutes to AOS.

083:38:12 Gordon (onboard): ...hand me your cloth, please, Pete.

083:38:18 Bean (onboard): Thruster's going.

083:38:21 Conrad (onboard): Man, that's got to be spectacular.

083:38:25 Bean (onboard): Okay. Looks good, Dick [Pause.]

083:38:34 Conrad (onboard): Boy, that's good right there. There you go [Pause.]

083:38:49 Bean (onboard): There you go.

083:38:50 Gordon (onboard): Here's your thing back, Pete. Got it all done.

083:38:55 Bean (onboard): Yes. You've got me all discobooberated, perspective wise, now that we're in orbit. You feel the same way?

083:39:03 Gordon (onboard): Hey, who's that big guy?

083:39:08 Conrad (onboard): We're going to have to learn which way on that map, whether we're going backwards or forwards - what we' re doing. For example, we' re right now at 25 ...

083:39:18 Gordon (onboard): We're right in at 25?

083:39:20 Conrad (onboard): [Garble] PH, 39; so it's 14 minutes. Fourteen minutes - here's 20; we're right around in here. Now - we're looking backwards. We ought to turn this map around the way we're going, see.

083:39:34 Bean (onboard): Hey, I see - I see the crater [garble].

083:39:36 Conrad (onboard): Here's the thing; you put our map around the way we're going - see, and out your side you ought to see a huge old one.

083:39:43 Bean (onboard): Where?

083:39:44 Conrad (onboard): Right out there.

083:39:45 Bean (onboard): I do - a monster [garble].

083:39:47 Gordon (onboard): Right here, there's about three or four right in the middle of ...

083:39:49 Bean (onboard): There's one that's got a whole bunch of craters in the bottom of it, where's [garble]?

083:39:52 Gordon (onboard): That's this one - great big thing.

083:39:55 Bean (onboard): No, it's not the same one.

083:39:58 Conrad (onboard): I'll tell you what; you could use this other map - it's a 1:1. It may be a better one. Take a look at this one, Dick. Try this one for size. Look at about - 15 minutes. The secret is to point the map down towards the LEB.

083:40:27 Bean (onboard): Is it firing?

083:40:29 Gordon (onboard): Yes.

083:40:30 Bean (onboard): Why?

083:40:31 Gordon (onboard): [Garble] set to hold.

083:40:36 Bean (onboard): Man, it was firing. Everybody complains, though.

083:40:43 Bean (onboard): [Garble] the firing...

083:40:44 Gordon (onboard): There's a huge monster with a central peak. Look at that !

083:40:48 Conrad\Bean (onboard): Where?

083:40:49 Gordon (onboard): Out my window; take a look.

083:40:51 Conrad (onboard): Oh, yes. Right out there; that's - that's - that's the one...

083:40:55 Bean (onboard): That's the one you said was called Tsi - Tsi - Oh, yes. Tsiolkovsky - Tsiolkovsky?

083:41:03 Gordon (onboard): Is that the way we're going?

083:41:04 Bean (onboard): Tsiolkovsky - yes. See, put this like this, where this points at the LEB and then ...

083:41:08 Gordon (onboard): Is it a double crater, Al?

083:41:10 Bean (onboard): Well, hold it like this; this is the way we're going; that's your side ...

083:41:13 Gordon (onboard): Yes, but this - That's not a double crater. This is a double crater; this is the big crater...

083:41:18 Bean (onboard): That one right there with the central peak in it, is that the one you're talking about?

083:41:20 Gordon (onboard): No. Way out here! Look at this...

083:41:22 Bean (onboard): Oh - oh [laughter]. Goodness, you're right! Wow!

083:41:26 Gordon (onboard): It's got a mare with it.

083:41:27 Bean (onboard): There it is. Yes. Look at that.

083:41:29 Gordon (onboard): Just go ahead and slide across.

083:41:34 Conrad (onboard): Which one are you looking at, Al?

083:41:35 Bean (onboard): Right there.

083:41:36 Conrad (onboard): Oh, yes. Isn't that pretty?

083:41:40 Bean (onboard): [Garble] hold this TV or something; I shouldn't have got it out, because I can take pictures.

083:41:43 Gordon (onboard): I'll be waiting.

083:41:44 Conrad (onboard): We'll be back here again...

083:41:46 Gordon (onboard): What's the big hurry, Bean-o?

083:41:47 Bean (onboard): Take pictures.

083:41:48 Conrad (onboard): Take pictures next Rev.

083:41:49 Bean (onboard): Oh, yes. We're almost gone.

083:41:52 Gordon (onboard): Let's see. What's the trouble with...

083:41:54 Bean (onboard): I just had your strap, Dick.

083:41:56 Gordon (onboard): Oh, you had. Just a minute, and I'll get mine out of the way. Clean up the...

083:42:00 Bean (onboard): Here's your strap.

083:42:03 Conrad (onboard): We're going to have acquisition here in about another 2 minutes.

083:42:05 Bean (onboard): We do; will check it on our high gain.

083:42:08 Conrad (onboard): Boy, that does have mare in it, doesn't it?

083:42:11 Gordon (onboard): Yes.

083:42:12 Conrad (onboard): What did we end up percent on fuel?

083:42:14 Bean (onboard): Good God; 38.4 for fuel and 38.7 for oxidizer.

083:42:19 Gordon (onboard): I hope we burned enough. Did the EMS say we did?

083:42:23 Bean (onboard): No - shut down early.

083:42:24 Conrad (onboard): Huh? Oh, yes [garble] degrees.

083:42:26 Gordon (onboard): Oh, okay. I couldn't tell.

083:42:28 Bean (onboard): EMS has 1.0.

083:42:30 Gordon (onboard): All right.

083:42:33 Bean (onboard): Unbelievable! Just think, just the little bittiest ones down there we can see are going to be our crater. Hey, there's one with collapsed sides over there. See it?

083:42:44 Conrad (onboard): Where?

083:42:45 Bean (onboard): Out your side - straight ahead, sort of.

083:42:47 Conrad (onboard): Oh, yes. All clumped...

083:42:49 Bean (onboard): I wonder if we ought to have sunglasses for this - it's white down in here, you notice?

083:42:56 Conrad (onboard): Where I'm looking is a - a higher - higher Sun angle. Yes, we are climbing.

Public Affairs Office - "This is Apollo Control at 83 hours, 43 minutes. We are coming up now on 1 minute until reacquiring Apollo 12. At time of acquisition the spacecraft should be in an orbit of 62 by 169.3 nautical miles. We are now 45 seconds from reacquisition. The Lunar Orbit Insertion, a 5 minute, 58 second burn of the spacecraft service propulsion system engine. The total velocity reduction from that maneuver is targeted for 2,889 feet per second. We now show 15 seconds until acquisition. We'll stand by for first communication from the spacecraft. Our network controller reports that we have acquisition of signal at this time."

083:43:01 Gordon (onboard): You can tell?

083:43:02 Conrad (onboard): Boy, look at that black horizon; that's black.

083:43:05 Gordon (onboard): It's the white and black - it's...

083:43:08 Conrad (onboard): I don't think - I don't want sunglasses.

083:43:15 Bean (onboard): It does something, all right. It doesn't seem to have - Well, let's don't use them for a while. We may get - eyes may hurt later.

083:43:22 Gordon (onboard): Look at those craters. Man, there's been a lot of action down there.

083:43:32 SC (onboard): Pretty out.

083:43:44 Gordon (onboard): Eighteen minutes.

083:43:46 Bean (onboard): [Garble]

083:43:47 Gordon (onboard): 25 - Noun 43[garble].

083:43:50 Bean (onboard): It's 18 minutes.

083:43:54 Gordon (onboard): Go Orb Rate at what time - 84, right?

083:43:58 Conrad (onboard): By 84 ...

083:43:59 Bean (onboard): Right here.

083:44:00 Conrad (onboard): ...We got to get Hous - There he comes; he's just coming in.

083:44:04 Bean (onboard): Huh? There you go - How'd you know, [garble]?

083:44:09 Gordon (onboard): Al Bean, you keep forgetting about that gain.

083:44:11 Conrad (onboard): He thought it was zero when we looked at it. Wait until I tell them the good news, y'all - they don't know that's the reason they got us, but...

[Lunar Rev 1]

083:44:19 Weitz: Apollo 12, Houston.

083:44:23 Conrad: Hello, Houston. Yankee Clipper with Intrepid in tow has arrived on time. Are you ready for the burn status report?

083:44:31 Weitz: That's affirmative. Go ahead, Clipper.

083:44:36 Conrad: Okay. The burn was on time. The burn time was 5 plus 52. The residuals were minus 0.1, plus 0.1, plus 0.1; Delta-V_cwas plus 1.0; the fuel, 38.4; the oxidizer, 38.7; the unbalance was increase 80 pounds. Over.

083:45:08 Weitz: Roger, 12. Copy.

083:45:13 Conrad: Computer says we're in a 170 by 61.8.

083:45:23 Weitz: Roger, 12.

083:45:33 Conrad: I guess like everybody else that just arrived, we're - All three of us are plastered to the windows looking.

083:45:40 Weitz: Roger. Understand.

083:45:45 Bean: Yes, but to Navy troops - It doesn't look like a very good place to pull liberty, though.

083:45:51 Weitz: Okay. We'll give you an okay three wire on that one.

083:45:57 Bean: Very good. I hope we can say the same thing tomorrow. Save those for tomorrow.

[Comm break.]

083:49:05 Conrad: Hey, Houston; Apollo 12.

083:49:07 Weitz: Go, 12.

083:49:11 Conrad: That was an excellent long-range rifle shot you guys gave us.

083:49:15 Weitz: Roger. Understand. We'll pass it on.

[Comm break.]

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083:52:17 Weitz: Hello, 12; Houston. Any words on your observations?

083:52:24 Conrad: Well, Houston, I was just looking at one very, very, odd, and it looks like a very fresh impact crater that is sort of collapsed on one side -that we've been looking at and discussing a little bit. It's got some fairly high raised sides on it, and we haven't quite got ourselves oriented to the proper size yet. I think these craters are much bigger than anything we've ever seen on Earth, so we're - We're just sitting here discussing various sizes and getting ourselves oriented on the map. I just broke out the monocular, and we're starting to look with it.

083:53:13 Weitz: Okay. [Long pause.]

083:53:40 Bean: One interesting thing, Paul, was that in some of these large craters - the old ones, it looks like - as you look towards the distance, you can see that they - at least from here - appear darker, and it looks very flat like the mare looked from Earth, but the same size ones that you pass right over, they don't look a bit darker than any other of the terrain. So I guess it must have something to do with the way the Sun refracts off the - the surface. We're passing a beautiful impact crater here on our right side now. It's got many, many long rays; it's a beauty.

083:54:29 Weitz: Roger, 12. [Long pause.]

Public Affairs Office - "That was Al Bean commenting on the lunar surface below them. The spacecraft currently 87.1 nautical miles above the lunar surface."

083:55:25 Bean: It's - This impact crater that we're going over right now, which has such a fantastic ejecta pattern that we can see it so well, the ejecta pattern's got to go out 50 or 60 crater diameters, very easily discernible with the eye. And you can almost – You can pretty well tell the direction of the impact from looking at the ejecta blanket, but it - it's rea1ly spectacular.

083:55:57 Weitz: Roger, 12.

083:58:16 Conrad: Okay, Houston. We'll be coming up with the TV in just a few minutes.

083:58:21 Weitz: Okay, 12. Can you see Langrenus yet?

083:58:27 Conrad: No. We can't quite see that yet, but we've been looking over at Humboldt and looking at all the great fracture marks in it and everything. Actually, it looks to me like some criss-cross roads down there in the desert or something. Very interesting.

083:58:44 Weitz: Roger.

[Comm break.]

084:00:01 Weitz: Hello, 12; Houston. We're starting to get a picture now. [Pause.]

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084:00:28 Weitz: 12, Houston. For information, you should be crossing 60-degrees east at 84:02:08.

084:00:39 Conrad: We agree. [Pause.]

084:00:52 Conrad: Wbat do you see on the tube, Houston? I can't tell too much from the monitor.

084:01:00 Weitz: Okay. We're getting the - the lunar surface. It appears that we can see the subsolar point, or could at one time there. We can see numerous small light-colored craters. Okay ...

084:01:21 Conrad: I'm going to hand it over to Dick. He's got Langrenus out the window.

084:01:25 Weitz: Okay. Very good.

084:01:30 Bean: We're coming up on Vox to you, Houston.

084:01:33 Weitz: All right.

084:01:37 Bean: Dick's got the camera. He's pointing it over toward Langrenus now. This Petavius over here is a beautiful thing.