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Day 5: Prepare for Lunar Descent

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

Public Affairs Office - "This is Apollo Control Houston 92 hours, 38 minutes now into the flight of Apollo 12. We've had no communications with the Apollo 12 crew for the past several minutes. The crew is preparing to start their rest period. We presently show Apollo 12 traveling at a velocity of 5,349 feet per second. Current altitude 59.6 nautical miles. Its orbital parameter's 65.5 nautical miles for an apolune and 54.7 nautical miles for a perilune. So at 92 hours, 38 minutes continuing to monitor, this is Apollo Control Houston."

Public Affairs Office - "This Apollo Control, Houston, at 92 hours and 50 minutes since lift-off. We do not plan to [call] the spacecraft from this point on and will only respond, of course, if they do call Mission Control Center. We're some 20 minutes away from Loss Of Signal. We will continue to monitor any conversation, should a conversation develop between the ground and the spacecraft. Presently, Apollo 12 is at an altitude of 56.5 nautical miles above the lunar surface. This is Apollo Control, Houston."

Public Affairs Office - "This is Apollo Control, Houston, at 93 hours, 5 minutes now into the flight. We're less than 5 minutes away at this time from scheduled Loss Of Signal. The Mission Control Center has not been contacted by Apollo 12 since our last report nor do we expect to be. Presumably, the Apollo 12 crew has started their rest period, which will be their last period of rest prior to the start of the very active phase of this mission. We're at 93 hours and 6 minutes and currently show Apollo 12 at 54.9 nautical miles above the lunar surface, and this is Apollo Control, Houston."

Public Affairs Office - "This is Apollo Control, Houston. We're less than a minute away now from scheduled Loss Of Signal as Apollo 12 will be passing above the far side of the Moon. We're now at 93 hours, 9 minutes into the flight, and this is Apollo Control, Houston."

Public Affairs Office - "This is Apollo Control, Houston. We've had Loss Of Signal with Apollo 12. We're now at 93 hours and 10 minutes into the flight."

Public Affairs Office - "This is Apollo Control, Houston. We're now at 93 hours, 56 minutes into the flight of Apollo 12. We should be acquiring Apollo 12 momentarily, however, since the crew should have started their rest cycle we're uncertain at this point as to whether or not we'll have any communications with them on this the front side pass of the sixth revolution around the Moon. However, we will leave the line up in any case. We currently show orbital parameters of 65.2 nautical miles and 55.1 nautical miles. At 93 hours, 57 minutes into the flight this is Apollo Control, Houston."

Public Affairs Office - "This is Apollo Control, Houston. We are receiving data at this time from the spacecraft. We're at 93 hours, 58 minutes into the flight."

Public Affairs Office - "This is Apollo Control, Houston at 94 hours, 19 minutes now into the flight. We've had no conversation with the Apollo 12 crew since we acquired them. We’ve still got 49 minutes of acquisition time on this front side pass. It's quite conjectural at this point as to whether or not we will have any contact with them. The Apollo 12 crew is presently in their period of rest. We now show a velocity for Apollo 12 as it circles the Moon of 5,327 feet per second. Its apolune now 65.2 nautical miles, its perilune now 55 nautical miles. At 94 hours, 20 minutes continuing to monitor, this is Apollo Control, Houston."

Public Affairs Office - "This is Apollo Control at Houston at 94 hours, 38 minutes now into the flight of Apollo 12. We have approximately 31 more minutes of acquisition time on this front side pass of the 6th revolution around the moon. Thus far we have had no communication contact with the crew; they are presently in their rest cycle. Following this shift change, we will have a Change Of Shift briefing in the news center with Flight Director Pete Frank. We expect that to start at approximately 9:30. We are now at 94 hours, 38 minutes into the flight, and this is Apollo Control Houston."

Public Affairs Office - "This is Apollo Control Houston at 94 hours, 56 minutes into the flight of Apollo 12. We presently show the Apollo 12 velocity at 5,370 feet per second. Its apolune 64.8 nautical miles, its perilune 55.1 nautical miles. We have 11 minutes of time remaining before we lose signal with the spacecraft. As you have no doubt surmised by this time, we have not contacted the crew at all during this pass. They're in a rest period. They have not attempted to contact Mission Control Center from the spacecraft. We are, as a reminder, scheduled to have a Change Of Shift news conference scheduled to start at 9:30 this morning, or shortly thereafter. We are 94 hours, 58 minutes into the flight, and this is Apollo Control Houston."

Public Affairs Office - "This is Apollo Control at 95 hours, 24 minutes. We're now 29 minutes, 43 seconds from reacquiring Apollo 12 Spacecraft at that time will be on it's seventh revolution. We're scheduled to start the Change Of Shift press conference momentarily in the small briefing auditorium in the Houston News Center. Press conference is scheduled to begin at this time. At 95 hours, 25 minutes this is Apollo Control, Houston."

Public Affairs Office - "This is Apollo Control at 95 hours, 53 minutes. We are now 1 minute from reacquiring the spacecraft on the 7th revolution, and Mission Control Flight Director Glen Lunney's team of Flight Controllers settled down to watching these spacecraft systems during this scheduled 8 and a half hours sleep period. We last heard from the crew at 93 hours into the mission, about 3 hours ago. We show an orbital period now of 60 - rather of 1 hour, 58 minutes, 47 seconds. Our current orbital parameters are 65 nautical miles by 55.1 nautical miles. At 11:00 this morning, there is a briefing scheduled on the Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments Package. That will be held in the main auditorium, the large auditorium of Building 1 in the Houston News Center. That's 11:00am this morning for the briefing on the Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments Package. We'll continue to leave the air-to-ground circuits up live for any possible conversation with the spacecraft, although we don't anticipate any. We're reading a cabin temperature in the spacecraft, right now, of 65 degrees, cabin pressure is holding steady at the nominal 5 pounds per square inch. At 95 hours, 55 minutes this is Apollo Control standing by."

Public Affairs Office - "This is Apollo Control at 96 hours, 37 minutes. All continues quiet as the crew moves into their sleep period of about 3 and a half hours now. The spacecraft currently moving towards the site 7, the point at which Apollo 12 is targeted to land, and at the present: time we show an altitude of 59.1 nautical miles above the lunar surface. The ALSEP, Apollo Lunar Surface Experiment Package briefing is scheduled to begin at 11am in the News Center auditorium, the main auditorium of the Houston News Center. That will be 11am this morning for the Apollo Lunar Surface Experiment Package briefing. At 96 hours, 38 minutes this is Apollo Control, Houston."

Public Affairs Office - "This is Apollo Control at 97 hours, 3 minutes. We are now some 4 minutes from LOS from Apollo 12. The spacecraft currently on the 7th revolution around the Moon. The crew is some 4 hours into a 8 and a half hour sleep period. Here in Mission Control now we have received word from the Solar Particles Alert Network that they have observed a moderate solar flare; this apparently is the same solar flare that we watched on the second of November. The flare has now rotated around and is coming back into the field of view. Based on the previous information that we had from this flare, we would not expect it to be a problem; the particles associated with it were quite low and from our previous information we would not expect to get a significant level of radiation to the crew. We will however be monitoring the particles coming from the flare now over the next few hours, determining the types of radiation levels we can expect for both inside the spacecraft and outside the spacecraft and evaluating this in terms of any possible impact on the mission. To repeat the classification that we have of the flare at this time, based on optical data, is that it is a moderate flare and we would not expect it to be a problem. At 97 hours, 4 minutes into the mission, this is Apollo Control."

Public Affairs Office - "This is Apollo Control at 97 hours, 52 minutes. We are about 1 minute now from acquiring Apollo 12, the spacecraft on its 8th revolution of the Moon, and the crew now some 5 hours into their scheduled 8 and a half hour rest period. We will continue to leave the circuit open, and should we receive any calls from the crew, although we do not anticipate hearing from them during the rest period. Apollo 12's current orbit is 4.7 by 55.6. We show an altitude at this time of 64.1 nautical miles. We are standing by now for reacquisition in about 15 seconds."

Public Affairs Office - "And our network controller reports that we have Acquisition Of Signal now."

097:55:07 Bean: Houston, Apollo 12.

097:55:19 Lind: Apollo 12, Houston. Go ahead.

097:55:24 Bean: Roger. Got a couple of quick questions for you. One, we seem to be find - a little more RCS - there seems to be a little more RCS thruster activity around the Moon than we had imagined. Is Control satisfied with our propellant usage right now and the number of firings? That's one. Two, I've been getting a little stuffy in the head. In fact, I been that way since launch. Do you know - I don't have a cold or anything. My ears are sometimes clear, and sometimes they're not. I took a decongestant pill about - several hours ago, and in order to be sure that my ears are good and clear tomorrow for the - all the LM activity and the EVA, how often should I take one of those pills to get the maximum effectiveness from it?

097:56:25 Lind: Roger. We'll check on both of those.

097:58:58 Lind: Apollo 12, Houston.

097:59:04 Bean: Go ahead.

097:59:06 Lind: The surgeon recommends that we take one of those every 8 hours; so 8 hours after you took the first one, we recommend another one, and it should be just about time to take one more just before the EVA, so that's the recommendation. Also, we're interested in getting Biomed, and we're wondering if you can turn on Pete's Biomed if it's just a question of throwing the switch. We're not getting any Biomed from him, and we don't I know why. Don't wake him up, but we wondered if you could get us some Biomed from him easily.

097:59:40 Bean: No. He's down in his sleep station, and it makes it a bit uncomfortable to get the Biomed down to there, so he's not even connected to it. That's why you're not getting it from Pete at all. The only person you've been getting it from is Dick.

097:59:54 Lind: Roger. We didn't get any for a long time there. Okay. And on the thrusters, they look good. We're checking further, but, at the first approximation, things look fine.

098:00:12 Bean: Sounds good. I'm going to head back to sleep, Houston, so the only person you'll have Biomed on is Dick, I guess.

097:00:19 Lind: Roger. Thank you. Hope your nose clears up.

Public Affairs Office - "This is Apollo Control. That was Lunar Module pilot Al Bean reporting some stuffiness, and he said he did not think he had a cold, and advised that he had taken a decongestant pill a number of hours ago. The flight surgeon recommended that he take another pill approximately 8 hours after taking the first, and then one more just before beginning the lunar landing portion of the mission. Al also questioned us on the propellant usage. He noted that the RCS thrusters seem to be firing regularly in Lunar orbit and, as you heard, the advise from CapCom Don Lind was that everything looked good with the RCS thrusters and with the propellant usage."

Public Affairs Office - "This is Apollo Control at 98 hours, 26 minutes. We have continued to monitor that solar flare that we reported to you on the last revolution. We have gotten a report from the radiation support room here in Mission Control that the flare would now appear to be classified as a – relatively small one and we've also gotten several other positive indications. One we would have expected by this time, had there been any significant high energy particles to begin receiving some of these at the spacecraft sensors. At the present time we've seen no indication of any radiation - particle radiation in the area of the spacecraft based on onboard instrumentation. Also, we've seen no change in the radiation levels being monitored by the ATS1 Satellite which is in its synchronous orbit about the Earth, and also no increase in radiation measured by Explorer 41, which is in a high elliptical orbit around Earth that takes it about a third of the way out to the Moon. A short while ago we had a call from the spacecraft, as you heard, Lunar Module Pilot, Al Bean, called down at 97 hours, 55 minutes and reported that he had observed regular thruster fire in it and asked us to check the status to see if the spacecraft was, perhaps, consuming more RCS propellant than would be desired. After reviewing the propellant status and the number of thruster firings, Flight Controllers reported that all is normal. Just about what we would expect and the propellant usages about what we would expect. Bean also advised that he had some stuffiness and some head stuffiness, nasal congestion. He said he had taken a decongestant pill several hours ago and requested that we provide him with a schedule for continuing to take decongestants up to the lunar landing. The Flight Surgeon recommended that he take an additional decongestant tablet approximately 8 hours after taking the first one and take another one then just before beginning the Power Descent. At 98 hours, 28 minutes this is Apollo Control."

Public Affairs Office - "This is Apollo Control at 99 hours, 5 minutes. We have had LOS now. The spacecraft is on the 8th revolution of the moon and the crew is about 2 hours now from their scheduled 8 and a half hour sleep period. During this LOS period we plan to play back the tape recording of the Apollo Lunar Experiment Package Briefing which was held this morning in the Houston News Center. We understand the tape runs about 30 minutes; we expect this LOS period to last something on the order of 45 minutes. We will play back the tape of the ALSEP briefing for you now."

Public Affairs Office - "This is Apollo Control at 99 hours, 52 minutes. We've had Acquisition Of Signal from the spacecraft, now in its ninth revolution of the Moon. We expect the crew will remain sleeping through the major portion of this revolution. They're scheduled to awake at 101 hours, which is a little more than 1 hour from now. At the present time, Apollo 12 is at an altitude of 64 nautical miles above the lunar surface. We show the orbit to be 55.9 nautical miles by 64.4 at the present time. We'll continue to stand by for any conversation from the crew, but as I said, we don't expect anything, probably, for about another hour."

Public Affairs Office - "This is Apollo Control at l00 hours, 41 minutes. We have a little more than 22 minutes now before Loss Of Signal with the spacecraft. A few minutes prior to LOS, if we have not heard from the crew, we plan to wake them up. The crew will then have breakfast. The Lunar Module pilot and commander, Al Bean and Pete Conrad will begin putting on their pressure garments, and at about the middle of the11th revolution, they're scheduled to enter the LM, begin powering up, checking out in preparation for the lunar landing. All spacecraft systems have continued to function normally during the 8 hour sleep period. Several hours ago, Al Bean came on the line to advise that he had a bit of nasal congestion - congestion in the head, and planned to - had taken a decongestant tablet, and planned to continue taking them up to the beginning of the power descent. Bean also checked on propellant consumption, RCS propellant consumption at that time. He reported that he had noted regular firing of the RCS thrusters and wanted to check to see that everything was normal. We advised him that it was. That the thrusters were firing about as often as we would expect them. The propellant consumption was about nominal. At 100 hours, 43 minutes, this is Apollo Control. We'll be standing by for the awakening of the crew."

Public Affairs Office - "This is Apollo Control at 100 hours, 54 minutes Capcom Don Landers [Lind] preparing to put in a call to the crew shortly. We'll stand by for that. Reveille."

[Lunar Rev 9.]

100:54:00 Lind: Apollo 12, Houston. Good morning.

100:54:13 Lind: Apollo 12, Houston. Good morning.

100:54:38 Lind: Apollo 12, Apollo 12, this is Houston. Over.

100:54:56 Lind: Apollo 12, Apollo 12, Houston. Good morning.

[Comm break.]

100:56:23 Conrad: Good morning, Houston. This is 12.

100:56:26 Lind: Good morning, gentlemen; today's the big day. Hit the deck.

100:56:33 Conrad: Roger. We've been there for a while.

100:56:36 Lind: Very good. We've got a couple of items for you when you get your eyes wide open.

100:56:44 Conrad: Okay. I'm ready to copy.

100:56:51 Lind: Question about your biomedical sensor that you reported moving the other day. Is it still holding in position?

100:56:57 Conrad: Yes. I want to talk to you about that this morning. Go ahead with the rest of the questions, then I'll talk to you about it.

100:57:05 Lind: Okay. That was one of them. One of the other items was that, while you were sleeping, we had a class-2 flare reported on the Sun. We watched it very carefully in your behalf, and we get no particles coming out of it in the vicinity of the Earth. So, we exercised the system, but there's nothing to report coming your way. The surgeon is recommending ...

100:57:28 Conrad: Okay.

100:57:30 Lind: ...The surgeon is recommending that we change your biomedical sensor, but what do you have to say about first?

100:57:39 Conrad: I - I've already moved the sensor, and I'm developing a little bit of a problem with all of them. I've never had this problem before, but something in that goo is - allerg - My skin is allergic to it, I guess. And I finally had to move the upper one because I broke out underneath it. And I guess I was weeping plasma or something, and it finally started weeping over the side. It's been bothering me for the last couple of days. Now, all of them are in the came category, and I don't want to move [garble] and get this stuff out in the open. I - I can't do - You tend to break out even worse. Now, the one on my chest is pretty bad, and I've moved that one. So, what I propose to you all is - that - I'm going to leave them just the way they are until we get all the way through the EVA and I get back up here. Then, I want to take them off. [Long pause.]

100:59:35 Lind: Apollo 12, would you go Manual on the High Gain? We're losing your signal.

100:59:47 Lind: Apollo 12, Apollo 12. Please go Manual on the High Gain. We're losing your signal.

101:00:19 Lind: Apollo 12; Houston.

101:00:24 Conrad: Okay, Houston. I'm on Omni B. Now's that?

101:00:27 Lind: Roger. Much better. We lost most of your transmission about your Biomed centers -sensors, Pete. You had said that you'd been having trouble for a day or so on that. What was the last half of that message?

101:00:42 Conrad: Okay. What the problem is, is I - For some reason, it's making me break out. It looks like I got poison ivy under those things, and they're weeping plasma or whatever you weep. And the one I moved is the one on the top of my chest, and it's all broken out up there. Now, I don't want to take the rest of them off, because I'm afraid of what I'm going to find underneath. So, what I propose to do is continue the way they are, and when we get done EVA's down there, I want to get rid of them. They're driving me buggy.

101:01:19 Lind: Roger. We're going to talk that one over for a second. We're about 2 minutes from LOS. Just in case we should lose you a little bit early, we expect to pick you up again at 101 plus 49.

101:01:35 Conrad: Roger. Okay, I've already moved that one, and my my - skin's in pretty bad shape underneath it. It's - It's still weeping whatever you weep, plasma, I guess, and I don't want to move the other ones.

101:01:52 Lind: Roger. Just a question on them - on that. When you moved it, did you put on a new seal and new jelly?

101:02:00 Conrad: That's affirmative.

101:02:02 Lind: Very good.[Long pause.]

101:02:11 Conrad: I think we're getting ready to lose you here, Houston. We'll see you on the other side at 101:49.

101:02:18 Lind: Roger.

101:02:20 Gordon (onboard): Go back to High Gain [Long pause.]

101:02:54 Bean (onboard): [Garble].

101:03:00 Conrad (onboard): Another thing I was thinking about doing – taping this goddamned thing's going to be...

101:03:08 Gordon (onboard): Huh?

101:03:13 Conrad (onboard): It'll have been on for 32, 34 hours before he was...

101:03:16 Lind: Apollo 12, we'll see you on the other side.

101:03:23 Conrad: Roger-Roger.

[LOS Rev 9.]

101:03:27 Gordon (onboard): Is that a promise?

101:03:29 Conrad (onboard): [Laughter] Looks good. We're on the other side.

101:03:36 Bean (onboard): [Garble]?

101:03:38 Conrad (onboard): We got our O₂ fuel cell purge, waste water dump, clean the spacecraft; we got 1 hour.

101:03:47 Bean (onboard): [Garble].

101:03:52 Conrad (onboard): Al, we actually have 1-1/2 hours to do all that in and then we're supposed to start donning our LCGs, so I think we can probably get ahead of the game right there.

Public Affairs Office - "This is Apollo Control at 101 hours, 4 minutes. We've had Loss Of Signal now from the spacecraft. We'll reacquire again at 101 hours, 49 minutes or a little more than 45 minutes from now. At that time the spacecraft will be in its 10th revolution of the moon. During that exchange with the crew, Pete Conrad reported that one of the biomedical sensors attached to his chest had been giving him trouble. As you heard, he said that apparently some sort of allergic reaction to the jelly that's used to attach the sensor and he had broken out underneath it. We're evaluating the situation with respect to the sensors at the present time and plan to have some sort of recommendation to pass up to Conrad when we reacquire. At 101 hours, 5 minutes, this is Mission Control, Houston."

101:04:08 Conrad (onboard): Hey, I got to bandage this son of a bitch. Are there any bandages in there? Look at that freaker. It usually doesn't...

101:04:16 Bean (onboard): Maybe that antibiotic isn't doing any good.

101:04:23 Bean (onboard): We've got lots of bandages [garble] antibiotics just bombed it out.

101:04:34 Conrad (onboard): I would have bombed it out; it's just...

101:04:35 Bean (onboard): [Garble] eye drops [garble].

101:04:37 Gordon (onboard): [Garble], yes. Is there [garble] in that medical kit?

101:04:43 Conrad (onboard): Yes, there's [garble] but the only trouble is [garble].

101:04:48 Gordon (onboard): What? Isn't that thing going here someplace?

101:04:50 Conrad (onboard): I - I didn't look that carefully.

101:04:52 Bean (onboard): [Garble]? [garble].

101:04:57 Gordon (onboard): [Garble].

101:04:58 Bean (onboard): I don't know.

101:05:00 Gordon (onboard): Right - right there. Wherever the hell that is.

101:05:05 Bean (onboard): [Garble] cleaned [garble] home - home.

101:05:08 Conrad (onboard): Where was that clean yesterday?

101:05:10 Bean (onboard): Oh, those little ones, but the big ones...

101:05:12 Gordon (onboard): [Garble] cleaned [garble].

101:05:14 Bean (onboard): Filthy [garble] - Oh, yes [garble] I've got some over here.

101:05:24 Gordon (onboard): What's that, Al?

101:05:25 Bean (onboard): [Garble] I'm taking out of your Med kit two of these nasal sprays, and I'm taking the nasal emollient, if it's okay.

101:05:32 Gordon (onboard): Why don't you take one eye drop?

101:05:33 Conrad (onboard): Wait a minute; we got that in the Med kit in the...

- 101:05:35 Bean (onboard): No, we don't; I checked it.

101:05:36 Conrad (onboard): What's in it?

101:05:37 Bean (onboard): The only thing in a bottle is eye drops.

101:05:39 Gordon (onboard): Isn't there a medical kit in the LM?

101:05:41 Conrad (onboard): Yes, there's nothing in there but eye drops.

101:05:43 Bean (onboard): We've got eye drops and some of these things [garble], but it doesn't have any nasal spray.

101:05:48 Conrad (onboard): This kit isn't medication; that's just...

101:06:10 Bean (onboard): [Garble] and ask him for it.

101:06:13Conrad (onboard): I tell you, the other ones are just as...

101:06:14 Bean (onboard): Give me a piece of tape.

101:06:15 Conrad (onboard): ...the same way, but not quite as bad - not at the moment.

101:06:17 Gordon (onboard): [Garble], Pete.

101:06:19 Conrad (onboard): I got it; wait a minute; it's right here. Here [Long pause.]

101:06:52 Gordon (onboard): You guys leave anything for me? Huh?

101:07:12 Conrad (onboard): Hey, Dick?

101:07:13 Gordon (onboard): Yes.

101:07:14 Conrad (onboard): Will you stick that in the TSB down there?

101:07:20 Gordon (onboard): Let me get this screw off.

101:07:59 Conrad (onboard): Hey, one more thing for the TSB. I know, this ought to go in the waste disposal.

101:08:11 Gordon (onboard): Let me get this [garble] out of your way here.

101:08:18 Conrad (onboard): You could clean those clothes out right now and put them away. I think that's what I'll do.

101:08:23 Gordon (onboard): Huh?

101:08:24 Bean (onboard): [Garble].

101:08:31 Conrad (onboard): We'd be better off putting them in where the - where the LCGs are.

101:08:34 Bean (onboard): [Garble].

101:08:39 Conrad (onboard): I guess you're right; we ought to just try [garble].

101:08:44 Conrad (onboard): You've got to shit, huh? That figures [laughter].

101:08:49 Bean (onboard): [Garble]

101:09:03 Conrad (onboard): I wish I could shit; I'd feel a lot better about it. I don't - have the slightest inclination, but I just know what's going to happen. It's going to be the first shit on the lunar surface.

101:09:12 Bean (onboard): [Garble].

101:09:18 Conrad (onboard): Thank you. [Pause.]

101:09:33 Gordon (onboard): Okay, I'm up on the time, I guess. See what else we've forgotten.

101:10:15 Conrad (onboard): Exactly what it looks like underneath here is poison ivy. That's the best way to describe it.

101:10:19 Gordon (onboard): Looks bad.

101:10:21 Conrad (onboard): Yes, it looks like a bad case of poison ivy. I hate to look under the rest of them.

101:11:06 Conrad (onboard): We ought to get as much done as we can in the next hour because as soon as we come back out from behind the Moon, it's going to be yak, yak, yak, yak.

101:11:13 Bean (onboard): That's right; we're going to have to remember to...

101:11:14 Conrad (onboard): Oh, they got all kinds of PADs as soon as we get fired up here.

101:11:23 Gordon (onboard): Let's get that waste water dump going.

101:11:25 Conrad (onboard): Okay I'm watching.

101:11:27 Gordon (onboard): That's good then, I'll get that going; let's...

101:11:30 Conrad (onboard): Do we have an O₂ and H₂ purge or just O₂?

101:11:32 Gordon (onboard): Just O₂.

101:11:33 Bean (onboard): Why don't I do it right now?

101:11:35 Conrad (onboard): All right, that's what I want. Here you go.

101:11:43 Bean (onboard): Here comes fuel cell 1 - O₂. I've already started watching the waste water, too.

101:11:54 Conrad (onboard): All right. Close on the potable - waste down 50.

101:11:59 Bean (onboard): Good. There you go.

101:12:04 Conrad (onboard): Get all that good stuff done [Long pause.]

101:12:34 Conrad (onboard): Time for my vitamin pill this morning. Here are your vitamin pills. Boy, I'd swear, if I didn't know better, that that's exactly what I had was poison ivy.

101:12:51 Bean (onboard): That vitamin-pill supply is getting low...

101:12:53 Conrad (onboard): I've got all kinds of drugs; give them to you.

101:12:56 Bean (onboard): Why don't you give me some and I can stick them in there. I've only got three, and I'll have a hell of a time fighting these blue jobs here. No.

101:13:07 Gordon (onboard): Hey, that's a bunch of [garble] there.

101:13:17 Conrad (onboard): I need a - I need a sack [garble]. Wait a minute [garble] going to eat them all now, make you [garble].

101:13:50 Conrad (onboard): Want a vitamin pill, Dick?

101:13:51 Gordon (onboard): What?

101:13:52 Conrad (onboard): A vitamin pill?

101:13:55 Gordon (onboard): I guess so.

101:14:03 Conrad (onboard): I'm trying to play doctor, sort of.

101:14:14 Conrad (onboard): Here you go. You want a pill?

101:14:20 Bean (onboard): Yes, I'll take one with some water, in a minute.

101:14:51 Conrad (onboard): I [garble], you're liable to lose your [garble].

101:14:57 Bean (onboard): Really?

101:14:59 Conrad (onboard): Go ahead and take it.

101:15:00 Bean (onboard): No, I'll go ahead and wait until Gordon takes it. Wait a minute.

101:15:06 Conrad (onboard): O₂ Flow High. Where the hell is it? Oh, here it is, okay. Where are you?

101:15:39 Conrad (onboard): What's the waste water?

101:15:42 Gordon (onboard): It's okay [garble].

101:15:56 Conrad (onboard): Okay, close her up.

101:15:57 Bean (onboard): One for you and one for me.

101:15:59 Conrad (onboard): Okay, good show. Get this thing started now. Fuel cell 2 - 2, O₂ - and there's that one.[Long pause.]

101:16:50 Bean (onboard): About every l0 minutes, that baby will be so clear, I won't...

101:16:54 Conrad (onboard): Be careful with that - should be on [garble] once in about 8 hours.

101:16:57 Bean (onboard): Really?

] 101:16:58 Conrad (onboard): Yes, and it can make you goof - not goofy, but it can make you light-headed. Don't take too much of it.

101:17:04 Bean (onboard): I don't need to be light-headed.

101:17:11 Conrad (onboard): Got it? In the bag, huh?

101:17:13 Gordon (onboard): In the bag.

101:17:15 Conrad (onboard): Good show. Okay, our waste water's coming down. Going to have you stop your crapping and shut off the waste water [cough].

101:17:27 Bean (onboard): What am I going to run it to?

101:17:29 Conrad (onboard): Ten [Long pause.]

101:17:58 Conrad (onboard): How busy are you, Dick? How busy are you?

101:18:02 Gordon (onboard): [Garble].

101:18:04 Conrad (onboard): Huh?

101:18:05 Gordon (onboard): [Garble] [Long pause.]

101:18:17 Conrad (onboard): Okay, how about - how about - here - here. Waste water...

101:18:24 Bean (onboard): Okay, fuel cell 2 looks good.

101:18:28 Conrad (onboard): Potable, on; dump, off.

101:18:30 Bean (onboard): Try fuel cell 3.

101:18:53 Gordon (onboard): Where are [garble]?

101:18:54 Conrad (onboard): Right here, Dick.

101:19:08 Conrad (onboard): Okay, the next thing we've got to do - cycle these fans. You ready? 1...

101:19:14 Bean (onboard): Yes.

101:19:17 Conrad (onboard): ...2 - 3 - 4.

101:19:24 Bean (onboard): You're [garble].

101:19:30 Conrad (onboard): Is the pisser turned on over there, Dick?

101:19:33 Gordon (onboard): Yes, [garble].

101:19:35 Conrad (onboard): Turn it off. Okay, you've closed off the waste water dump, is that right? Dick Gordon?

101:19:47 Gordon (onboard): Huh?

101:19:48 Conrad (onboard): Waste water's off, huh?

101:19:49 Gordon (onboard): Waste water's off.

101:19:50 Conrad (onboard): Okay.

101:20:40 Bean (onboard): Just a minute. Valve's closed. Fuel cells 3, 2 1 all look good.

101:20:56 Conrad (onboard): Okay, the only thing left to clean up on this page - get these fans off.

101:21:01 Bean (onboard): Got [garble], Pete. Still got to let me have half a minute more to [garble].

101:21:05 Conrad (onboard): All right.

101:21:15 Bean (onboard): Bat A needs a charge.

101:21:20 Conrad (onboard): I'm sure that we aren't supposed to do that someplace in here.

101:21:24 Bean (onboard): We are, sure needs it. How come our damned SPS is warm?

101:21:33 Gordon (onboard): [Garble] warm.

101:21:34 Bean (onboard): The fuel Temp on the service module propellant tank, 90 is the limit to 65 to 75.

101:21:44 Conrad (onboard): Well, it's been 75 up those...

101:21:46 Gordon (onboard): [Garble]. [Long pause.]

101:21:55 Bean (onboard): We probably ought to [garble] them - because it's above the normal limit.

101:21:58 Gordon (onboard): Sure is.

101:22:01 Bean (onboard): Only, I don't know how you get hot fuel.

101:22:04 Conrad (onboard): That's really just the line Temp, by the way.

101:22:06 Bean (onboard): Yes.

101:22:07 Gordon (onboard): You're right; that's the line Temp and that's probably exactly why.

101:22:16 Bean (onboard): Okay, fans off. l, 2, 3, 4.

101:22:37 Bean (onboard): Get my freaking [garble]; it's a problem to work back down there.

101:22:41 Gordon (onboard): Sure [garble] to working right now.

101:22:43 Bean (onboard): Can't do nothing. I'm sure that piece didn't bother Pete before...

101:22:49 Conrad (onboard): It's never bothered me before, Al. Christ, I've worn it for 8 days on Gemini, 3 days on Gemini, wore it in chambers; I never had any problem.

101:22:57 Bean (onboard): Yes?

101:22:58 Conrad (onboard): There's something funny.

101:23:04 Bean (onboard): You probably had a bad [garble], [garble] or something like that.

101:23:07 Conrad (onboard): That's true. That being the case, somebody else ought to be feeling bad, too.

101:23:20 Bean (onboard): I wish we hadn't looked at [garble].

101:23:31 Bean (onboard): Prim, Prim, High, Voice, PCM, Ranging. Off, Off, Data, Norm, B, High Gain.

101:23:50 Conrad (onboard): Break out the food.

101:24:02 Bean (onboard): Okay, we're all set. I want to make sure I'm not switching to anything else yet. Should be we're running happily along.

101:24:31 Bean (onboard): Give me - What's this shit doing here? [garble] the place up.

101:24:40 Conrad (onboard): We're shipshape. Get my freaking towel out of the way.

101:25:02 Gordon (onboard): Where are we supposed to do - keep the towels?

101:25:05 Conrad (onboard): Go ahead and put them in that - put them in that waste bag. Those babies go to the lunar surface, as far as I'm concerned.

101:25:10 Bean (onboard): That's where I've been putting mine.

101:25:11 Gordon (onboard): In the LM?

101:25:12 Conrad (onboard): Nobody said anything to me about used towels, though. I'll just say, "What? No, I didn't - nobody said anything about that."

101:25:20 Bean (onboard): Doesn't sound too bad anyway...

101:25:23 Gordon (onboard): Okay [garble] towels - dirty ones.

101:25:29 Bean (onboard): [Garble] keep a clean towel.

101:25:31 Gordon (onboard): Got rid of them.

101:25:32 Bean (onboard): The dirty one going into the LMP's clean - [Laughter].

101:25:35 Conrad (onboard): You ought to really smoke this baby over from one end to the other, when we get - the food's no problem, but anything else is, you know, get rid of it. Like you say, if we could get rid of those turds, we'd have it made.

101:25:51 Conrad (onboard): Day 5, meal A.

101:25:58 Bean (onboard): Okay, that's done, baby. Don LCG at 102:30. I think I'll start that about 102.

101:26:10 Conrad (onboard): Huh? Where - where are you?

101:26:15 Bean (onboard): [Garble] at me.

101:26:17 Conrad (onboard): Coming at you. Right here.

101:26:21 Bean (onboard): Let me see if I - Don LCG. Well, I can don it here; I got [garble] time. I don't get in - and the thing of it is, I got to be out of the way when you're donning yours.

101:26:35 Conrad (onboard): Look, I'll help you get into your whole rig and then you press on.

101:26:39 Bean (onboard): Okay.

101:26:41 Conrad (onboard): Hey, how soon do you fire up the batteries in that bastard; right away though, don't you?

101:26:46 Bean (onboard): We got to do that on time.

101:26:48 Conrad (onboard): LM Power, 104.

101:26:52 Bean (onboard): Straight ahead for 3 hours and 40 minutes from here.

101:27:00 Gordon (onboard): [Garble]?

101:27:02 Conrad (onboard): Yes.

101:27:13 Conrad (onboard): Hey, would you stick - would you stick – that in the waste disposal unit, over there?

101:27:20 Bean (onboard): Get her in the [garble].

101:27:32 Conrad (onboard): We got aspirin over in that other son of a bitch?

101:27:35 Bean (onboard): Yes.

101:27:37 Conrad (onboard): Okay. As long as we got aspirin, that's all I wanted to know. I have a feeling that I may need it, over there - getting tired.

101:28:24 Conrad (onboard): Got your [garble] for you.

101:28:25 Bean (onboard): Oh.

101:28:27 Conrad (onboard): That thing's in a separate bin from anything else. Here, let me just snap it on something, or...

101:28:32 Bean (onboard): Why don't you snap it right there? That's where I figured it'd go.

101:28:37 Conrad (onboard): Mine's in my helmet bag, so I didn't have to worry about it. [Pause.]

101:29:00 Bean (onboard): Going to have some music to cool it. I'm about as jumpy as I can be this morning.

101:29:06 Conrad (onboard): You noticed!

101:29:07 Bean (onboard): Huh? Jumpier than I was on launch day.

101:29:14 Conrad (onboard): I kind of have the same feeling; it's a bigger day.

101:29:17 Bean (onboard): It is. You've got more things under your command today, [garble] Launch day, you're just - kind of along for the ride. Be safe; stick with that freaking list - [garble] stick to the list and be careful you don't throw the wrong switch. Don't get in a hurry.

101:29:46 Bean (onboard): Don't get too fancy.

101:29:47 Conrad (onboard): No fancy shit; you're right.

101:30:04 Bean (onboard): Damn! Do I have a lot of breakfast here [garble].

101:30:15 Bean (onboard): See how my pulse is doing.

101:30:31 Conrad (onboard): Let me have the gun, Richard, if you're done with it.

101:30:39 Gordon (onboard): I'm slow, Pete.

101:30:40 Bean (onboard): It's a minute above normal.

101:30:43 Conrad (onboard): What's normal?

101:30:45 Bean (onboard): Seventeen - in a 15-second period. That's what I've been running; I've been checking myself. I used to multiply it out and then I said to hell with it.

101:30:59 Gordon (onboard): Roger. We've got a 15-second turnover.

101:31:05 Bean (onboard): Shit.

101:31:06 Conrad (onboard): What happened?

101:31:07 Bean (onboard): Nothing.

101:31:10 Gordon (onboard): It isn't easy. Watch what you're doing.

101:31:16 Conrad (onboard): You haven't rewound it. Boy, I tell you; this shit drives me totally insane. [Pause.]

101:31:37 Gordon (onboard): Parts falling off of our spacecraft like – loose [garble]. [Pause.]

101:31:54 Conrad (onboard): God damn, damn! I'll tell you; I hate these mother-freakers with a passion! God damn! Oh, shit!

101:32:08 Bean (onboard): What happened?

101:32:09 Conrad (onboard): Oh, I just let the parts loose. It makes me sloppy and I hate to be sloppy in space! Right?

101:32:10 Bean (onboard): Right...

101:32:17 Conrad (onboard): Got to be neat!

101:32:18 Bean (onboard): ...if you say so. We have got a pretty neat spaceship. The only bag of worms we're leaving Dick Gordon will be that big bag of – stuff here. Fortunately, most of this food is - done.

101:32:35 Conrad (onboard): Dick can handle it.

101:32:45 Bean (onboard): Dick's a little jumpy this morning, too; I've been watching him in action. I can tell by your arm movement.

101:32:58 Bean (onboard): There you go - up, up. Somebody's - gotten to that little [garble].

101:33:05 Conrad (onboard): I tell you, I hate to see that thing [garble]. [Pause.]

101:33:16 Conrad (onboard): I really do get annoyed at those end pieces though; they just drive me absolutely ape! Now, for your next one, did you want to shake the bag? Look at that. Is that a drop of water on the end of that bastard?

101:33:37 Conrad (onboard): [Humming].

101:33:42 Bean (onboard): It'll be good to get down on the lunar surface and do some physical work. You know that?

101:33:48 Conrad (onboard): Speak for yourself; I'm a lazy son of a bitch.

101:33:51 Bean (onboard): So am I, but [garble] - I'm just ready enough to get down there and...

101:33:58 Conrad (onboard): You can't hardly sock it up [laughter].

101:34:02 Bean (onboard): Too soft?

101:34:03 Conrad (onboard): Yes, and it's ... like everything. Hey, we got to decide what we going to do with that plaque.

101:34:15 Bean (onboard): [Garble] put it up [garble] going to put it up and the other one steps back and reads [garble].

101:34:24 Conrad (onboard): You're going to put it up; how am I going to know when you're finished?

101:34:27 Bean (onboard): I'll tell you.

101:34:28 Conrad (onboard): That looks pretty good or something like that?

101:34:29 Bean (onboard): Yes. Okay, then you step back, and I'll step right beside you.

101:34:30 Conrad (onboard): Okay.

101:34:32 Bean (onboard): And then I'll go out and grab that thing some way so the TV camera can see it.

101:34:37 Conrad (onboard): Yes.

101:34:38 Bean (onboard): And you move it around so they can see the side view of it...

101:34:40 Conrad (onboard): Well, what I really ought to do is, you ought to put the TV camera on the - where you're going to drive the pole in, and I ought to stand off the TV - and get it all raised; you can walk in and [garble] it all.

101:34:56 Bean (onboard): Not a bad idea.

101:34:58 Conrad (onboard): Yes. That's what we'll do.

101:34:59 Bean (onboard): I'll put in the pole, and I'll step back, so that...

101:35:02 Conrad (onboard): Yes.

101:35:03 Bean (onboard): ...so that - Here's the TV; here's the flag - I'll step back here, and you can put it – step over here, then you go around, and we salute it [garble].

101:35:18 Conrad (onboard): I don't think it's [garble].

101:35:31 Bean (onboard): Like that?

101:35:32 Conrad (onboard): Yes that’s right, They’ll like that.

101:35:35 Bean (onboard): [Garble].

101:35:37 Conrad (onboard): [Laughter] Here it is.

101:35:43 Bean (onboard): You can just read it off your cuff, man. [Long pause.]

101:36:02 Conrad (onboard): Here it is. Oh, it's an ugly mother. [Pause.]

101:36:17 Bean (onboard): It sure is. [Long pause.]

101:37:01 Conrad (onboard): [Singing] Oo-oo-oo. Oo-oo-oo, yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!

101:37:19 Bean (onboard): [Garble].

101:37:22 Conrad (onboard): This is coal black. [Long pause.]

101:37:52 Conrad (onboard): Hey, what did I do with my bacon?

101:37:53 Bean (onboard): I have one of them.

101:37:55 Conrad (onboard): What happened to my bacon? I guess it got away.

101:38:00 Gordon (onboard): Whoops! [Laughter].

101:38:03 Bean (onboard): Here you are, Dick. Thank you.

101:38:07 Conrad (onboard): You can have some of mine, [garble].

101:38:28 Conrad (onboard): I just hope we find the old Snowman! Then, I hope we find a place to land; then, I hope I can set it down all right!

101:38:39 Bean (onboard): If you can set it down, you'll find a place to land. Don't you comment too long. [Long pause.]

101:39:03 Gordon (onboard): Don't let it get low.

101:39:08 Bean (onboard): Don't let us get low. That worries me more than anything. I think we'll see the crater; I just hope we - hope we...

101:39:17 Conrad (onboard): I copy about 5 degrees' Sun angle, right there, don't I? Right back there's going to be about 5 degrees’ Sun angle. God damn, it's going to stand out. Those shadows are going to be sharp as hell.

101:39:32 Bean (onboard): They are - a lot more sharper than the simulator, aren't they?

101:39:35 Conrad (onboard): We could [garble] wherever that is, you know.

101:39:39 Bean (onboard): The trouble is, there's a lot of other [garble] - yes, I think you're going to find it. Don't – don’t do that. You're liable to get amongst them, again. That worries me a little bit.

101:39:55 Conrad (onboard): We'll probably be better off targeted right to the crater.

101:39:58 Bean (onboard): Huh?

101:39:59 Conrad (onboard): Probably better off targeted right to the crater.

101:40:01 Bean (onboard): That's right.

101:40:02 Conrad (onboard): If we got any error, we're going to be long, anyhow.

101:40:06 Bean (onboard): If it's good and low, we can really burn it up and just float along.

101:40:14 Conrad (onboard): You know, we've got one hell of an inclination to the Sun; will you look at that - inclination angle of those shadows?

101:40:21 Bean (onboard): Yes. Beautiful. Going to make it nice to see in.

101:40:24 Conrad (onboard): I hope so. I wish I could see what I'm - We're 60 miles; how big do you suppose those craters are down there? How many meters across the goddamn thing? It must be kilometers.

101:40:36 Bean (onboard): Well, we ought to be able to see ours, just past this [garble] Let's see, our Sun time [garble].

101:41:04 Bean (onboard): If we pull this off, we could be slicker than owl shit.

101:41:23 Conrad (onboard): It's driving me buggy; I just don't know what I'm going to see when I pitch over. Take a look and I'm going to say, "Ahhhhhhh! There it is!" I'm going to say, "Oh, freeze it!" I don't recognize nothing [laughter]. Then, I'm in deep yogurt. Then, if I don't recognize anything, I'm just going to let it keep going. That's the best I can do.

101:41:42 Gordon (onboard): That's right.

101:41:43 Bean (onboard): If you don't recognize a thing I'll look – just tell me - I'll look out my side...

101:41:46 Conrad (onboard): Yes, yes.

101:41:47 Bean (onboard): ...and you look at the computer for a few seconds, and let me see if I see anything out there. What altitude now? 60 miles and it's pretty damn high. And you'll [garble].

101:41:57 Conrad (onboard): That's that - that's that crater vent tube.

101:42:00 Bean (onboard): Isn't that fantastic!

101:42:01 Gordon (onboard): Hey, and that's going to be in the dark – not too long after...[Pause.]

101:42:23 Bean (onboard): That's ridiculous; how'd we ever get here anyway?

101:42:25 Conrad (onboard): [Laughter].

101:42:28 Bean (onboard): Why would a guy want to put his ass on the line like this?

101:42:31 Conrad (onboard): [Laughter].

101:42:34 Bean (onboard): Bet you those prunes are going to lay in my stomach like a rock. [Pause.]

101:42:46 Conrad (onboard): God damn - damn! I hate you, water bag! Look at that!

101:42:52 Bean (onboard): That's a deep crater, that great big one there.

101:42:54 Gordon (onboard): Oh, yes.

101:42:55 Bean (onboard): The one that's a hole, with all that tucked in.

101:42:57 Gordon (onboard): Yes. Yes.

101:43:05 Conrad (onboard): You know, I think that's something that the scientists just didn't really realize at all is that the Moon has been relatively untouched for billions of years.

101:43:16 Bean (onboard): Look at that fantastic freaker right here.

101:43:18 Gordon (onboard): [Garble] must have been like...

101:43:19 Conrad (onboard): Wow!

101:43:20 Gordon (onboard): ...to be around here. One of the interesting places is over there - I wish I had taken some pictures - where all the craters were kind of - look like where you shoot balls into mud, you know...

101:43:30 Conrad (onboard): Yes, yes.

101:43:31 Gordon (onboard): ...they made angles, but they didn't - they never...

101:43:34 Conrad (onboard): Yes, sir. Anything like that...

101:43:35 Gordon (onboard): ...they didn't look - nothing - looked real weird.

101:43:36 Conrad (onboard): They got the idea, just like you said, that that stuff caved in while it was still molten.

101:43:54 Gordon (onboard): Do you have a wet pack in the LM?

101:43:55 Bean (onboard): For dinner?

101:43:56 Gordon (onboard): Yes.

101:43:57 Bean (onboard): [Garble] do we got one before we go out tomorrow?

101:44:01 Conrad (onboard): No. You can only have one wet pack; I don't know. I don't remember.

101:44:04 Gordon (onboard): All you...

101:44:05 Conrad (onboard): Yes, you got one.

101:44:12 Gordon (onboard): Good grief [garble]!

101:44:20 Bean (onboard): Oh, just got a vent tube.

101:44:22 Conrad (onboard): Al? Right down in here.

101:44:26 Bean (onboard): Yes.

101:44:27 Conrad (onboard): Yes. They got to be - they got to be volcanic. But look how crude this got.

101:44:35 Bean (onboard): Yes. That stone is, like you say, billions and billions of years. Hey, are we maneuvering?

101:44:39 Conrad (onboard): What?

101:44:44 Bean (onboard): Funny, sort of looked like we were.

101:44:53 Conrad (onboard): 120 degrees roll.

101:44:56 Bean (onboard): Okay. Man, that's strange. Must have been just the way the crater was.

101:45:08 Conrad (onboard): We've got quite an inclination to the front, don't we?

101:45:17 Gordon (onboard): Now. Look at these little tiny vent tubes; that's what they got to be down there. They make them look like...

101:45:23 Bean (onboard): Yes. I see, the little dots?

101:45:24 Gordon (onboard): Yes, and it makes them look like...

101:45:27 Bean (onboard): They're birds that run across the sand?

101:45:29 Gordon (onboard): Yes.

101:45:32 Conrad (onboard): [Garble] that down there's got [garble], that's got to be volcanic.

101:46:02 Gordon (onboard): How small a crater can you resolve with your eyes from 60 miles?

101:46:07 Bean (onboard): I don't know. We figured it out one day, but I don't know what it is. I think we should be able to see - our - our landing site. Recognize the Snowman. Gordon can give us his [garble] PA.

101:46:52 Bean (onboard): How about another bacon? And we'll eat this Canadian bacon and leave one of these kind.

101:47:15 Conrad (onboard): [Garble] getting Houston, now. Got 6 minutes, though, huh? We'll be on the horn; yak, yak, yak.

101:47:21 Bean (onboard): How about PADs? Do you need your PADs?

101:47:24 Conrad (onboard): Let me look. I got to copy a consumables update...

101:47:29 Bean (onboard): No sweat.

101:47:32 Conrad (onboard): ...Update to CSM - T-1 and T-2 times for Fra Mauro photographs. Update to CSM; TEI-34 PAD, map update Rev 11, CSM DAP PAD, Comm attitude, and High Gain. Uplink to CSM; state vector, Verb 66...

101:47:49 Bean (onboard): You got to [garble] that PAD over there, Dick.

101:47:51 Conrad (onboard): Should have caught on at about a - about 45 minutes.

101:47:54 Bean (onboard): Got the PAD over with you? Because I don't see it over here with me.

Public Affairs Office - "This is Apollo Control at 101 hours, 48 minutes. Apollo 12 now in the tenth revolution of the moon. We are coming up on 1 minute, 45 seconds until we reacquire the spacecraft. During this revolution we will be talking to the crew concerning their crew status report. We will have some further conversations with Pete Conrad about the biomedical sensors and the irritation that he reported on the last revolution - the irritation associated with the location where the sensors are attached to his skin. The crew is also scheduled to eat breakfast during this revolution. There will be some housekeeping type activities aboard the Command Module. Early on Rev 11, Dick Gordon is scheduled to don his space suit. A little later on Pete Conrad and Al Bean will also begin donning their space suits - in the eleventh revolution and they are scheduled to enter the Lunar Module about midway through the eleventh rev and begin following up and checking out the LM. We are now 35 seconds from reacquire. We'll stand by for acquisition."

101:48:14 Bean (onboard): Where in the hell did it go?

101:48:27 Bean (onboard): Okay.

101:48:33 Conrad (onboard): Another P30 PAD, isn't it?

101:48:37 Bean (onboard): Going to run the out load.

101:48:42 Conrad (onboard): What do we do, PDI-12?

101:48:44 Gordon (onboard): Eleven.

101:48:45 Bean (onboard): No, there's PDI-11, right there.

101:48:49 Conrad (onboard): Now, I don't know. [Long pause.]

101:49:14 Bean (onboard): Wait in line, group. Out in the tunnel maybe. I put one of them up there last night. [Pause.]

101:49:51 Bean (onboard): 49...

101:49:53 Conrad (onboard): There they are, damn it. Just in time.

[AOS Rev 10.]

101:50:15 Conrad: Hello, Houston; 12 reads you loud and clear. How me?

101:50:19 Carr: Roger, Pete. We are reading you loud and clear.

101:50:27 Carr: Apollo 12, Houston. On your Biomed sensors situation, we have a few words for you, if you are ready.

101:50:36 Conrad: Go ahead.

101:50:38 Carr: Okay. The recommendations of the medical people here are that you remove the two side - the respiration sensors. You can go ahead and take those off completely, and treat the areas with your first-aid cream; and if they are weeping, you can go ahead and cover them with a Band-Aid or something. The ones on the blue lead, they recommend you do the same thing with those; remove them, cover them with first-aid cream, and put a Band-Aid on them if they are weeping and then relocate those with a whole brand new system; and that way you will have a good clean system with a minimal chance of itching beginning immediately in a new area. And, of course, if you don't like this particular proposal, they have no objection to you sticking to the way you wanted to do it - of just leaving it where it is.

101:51:33 Conrad: Jerry, just - I want to stick with it the way it is. It works. The respiration leads on my sides are the least ones that are bothering me. I moved the one that bothered me the most, and the best I could describe that area is that it looks like I've got a 1-inch-round patch of very bad poison ivy. The rest of them aren't anywhere near that bad. They have been bothering me but they work, and I would just as soon leave them where they are, because the area that I moved is raw; and I have covered it with a Band-Aid, but I am a little worried about getting my sides exposed, even with Band-Aids, with that LCG on. I think that the sensors themselves will do better protection just the way it is. And when I get back up, I'll take them all off and switch them around.

101:52:27 Carr: Okay, Pete. That's fine. We are satisfied with that if that is the way you would like to do it.

101:52:35 Conrad: Yes. You're getting good data now, aren't you?

101:52:38 Carr: Roger. Looks very good, Pete.

101:52:44 Conrad: Okay. I would just like to leave it the way it is. Let me give you the sleep report. Everybody had 7 hours across the board, and the PRD's were from Commander through LMP 11016, 11015, 04017. The checklist has been complete. We dumped the water to 10 percent. We purged the fuel cells. We cycled the fans, and we are just finishing up breakfast right now.

101:53:16 Carr: Roger, Pete. Sounds good. We would like to get a little more medical information from you if we can. First of all, we want to get a little more word on how Al is doing with his stuffiness, and is anybody else suffering from any stuffiness?

101:53:37 Conrad: That's negative and I'll let you - nobody else is stuffy - and I'll let you talk to Al direct.

101:53:43 Carr: Okay.

101:53:44 Bean: I've had a pretty stuffy - Houston - I've had a pretty stuffy head ever since we got into orbit, and I assumed it was going to go away in a couple of days, but it never did. I don't sneeze, cough, or have any other symptoms. It just seems to be fairly full in the ears and the nose. I tried a couple of decongestants. They work well, but I didn't know exactly how far apart to take them. Right now my ears is - are clear, and my nose feels real well. I have taken two of the pills, 8 hours apart; end then, I've been using the spray, so it looks like we have got it licked right now.

101:54:29 Carr: Okay, Al. That was what we were going to suggest is that you take your pills 8 hours apart and use the spray, and we just hope that takes care of it for you. Next question we had from the medical people is, how did you guys sleep? You got 7 good solid hours, or was there any fitfulness at all?

101:54:53 Conrad: We are all sleeping real well up here. As a matter of fact, we've overslept, I think.

101:55:00 Carr: That's great.

101:55:05 Conrad: I'll tell you, it's a real switch from Gemini. I never slept at all in that thing, and, boy, I can crawl down there in that lower - underneath the couch - and just disappear for 8 hours.

101:55:17 Carr: Roger. The doctors say that you ought to space your Actifeds now every 6 hours now, instead of 8.

101:55:27 Conrad: That's for Al.

101:55:29 Bean: Roger. How often can you use that spray? I kind of wondered that, too.

101:55:40 Carr: Al, use that about 3 to 4 hours. If you can space it to 4, fine. If you need it, go ahead and use it every 3 hours.

101:55:49 Bean: Okay. Well, don't have to worry. I've - it's real clear now, and it stays clear as long as I use the pills and things, so it looks good for the rest of the trip.

101:56:00 Carr: Well, that sounds fine, Al.

101:56:03 Conrad: I don't think - I don't think he's had anything. It seems to us - We have all kicked it around a little bit - more like maybe there may be a little bit of dust floating around in here or something, that may be just making it stuffy. It is a little bit different than being on the ground. He is not allergic to anything on the ground but that is what it appears to be.

101:56:28 Carr: Roger, Pete. Is Al putting on his LCG now? His Biomed doesn't look too dandy.

101:56:35 Conrad: No, he is just laying here eating breakfast. We'll smarten him up before he gets in it.

101:56:40 Carr: Roger.

101:56:46 Gordon: Okay. And we need our CSM consumables if you would pass it to us, please.

101:56:54 Carr: Okay. We're working on that. While you are waiting, I've got a Flight Plan update for you on the Fra Mauro pictures and also your Rev 11 map update.

101:57:05 Gordon: Ready to copy. Go ahead.

101:57:09 Carr: Roger. While you are copying, give us P00 and Accept, and we have some uplinks for you. First Flight Plan update is Fra Mauro photos.

101:57:18 Gordon: You got it.

101:57:19 Carr: Tango 1 is 102:30:26; Tango 2 is 102:32:27; Tango Charlie Alfa is 102:32:58. The optimum position in the window will come at 102:31:39. Over.

101:57:56 Gordon: Roger. T-1, 102:30:26; T-2 is 102:32:27; TCA is 102:32:58; optimum 102:31:39.

101:58:12 Carr: Roger, Dick. Your Comm just improved. You must have moved your mike closer to your mouth. Flight plan update for Rev 11. Rev 11 map update: LOS 103:02:01, 103:26:34, 103:47:44.

101:58:50 Gordon: Roger. Copy.

101:58:53 Carr: Okay. And I have your CSM consumables update, if you're ready to copy.

101:58:59 Gordon: Go ahead.

101:59:00 Carr: Okay. GET is 101 plus 00; RCS total, 69.2; Alfa, 68.5; Bravo, 71.8; Charlie, 66.9; Delta, 69.6; hydrogen is 64.4 and 61.5; oxygen is 63.6 and 65.7. Over.

101:59:48 Gordon: Roger. Copy. [Long pause.]

102:00:42 Carr: Apollo 12, Houston.

102:00:48 Gordon: Go ahead.

102:00:49 Carr: Roger. Before you slipped into the pad last night, we didn't get your onboard readouts. We need your pyro batteries and your Bat C readouts.

102:01:26 Gordon: Jerry, all the batteries, battery C, pyro Bat A, pyro Bat B, all read 37.1.

102:01:34 Carr: Roger. Copy 37.1.

102:01:39 Gordon: That's Charlie.

102:01:40 Carr: Thank you, Dick.

102:02:22 Carr: Apollo 12, Houston. The computer is yours. You've got a new state vector and a new REFSMMAT.

102:02:32 Gordon: Roger. [Long pause.]

Public Affairs Office - "Astronaut Jerry Carr is our Capsule Communicator at this time having relieved Astronaut Don Lind in that position."

102:03:15 Gordon: Hello, Houston; 12.

102:03:16 Carr: Go ahead, 12.

102:03:21 Gordon: Roger. Understand we'll be doing option 1 on the P52 here at 103 hours. Is that affirmative?

102:03:30 Carr: 12, Houston. Did you ask about option 1 on your P52.

102:03:38 Gordon: That's affirmative.

102:03:45 Carr: That's affirmative, 12; option 1.

102:03:50 Gordon: Okay.

102:04:03 Conrad: Say, Houston, did our orbit decay last night like it was supposed to?

102:04:18 Carr: 12, Houston. Affirmative, and we're getting good comparisons within a 100 feet.

102:04:28 Conrad: Good show.

102:04:29 Carr: Roger. These are downrange comparison.

102:04:37 Conrad: Understand. I guess if Dick nails that 193 like - or 191 like he did the other one last night, the only excuse will be mine if we don't make it.

102:04:51 Carr: Roger, Pete. [Long pause.]

102:05:14 Carr: Apollo 12, Houston.

102:05:19 Conrad: Go ahead, Jerry.

102:05:20 Carr: Roger. Your S-band communications on the previous two Rev's haven't been too sterling. We've had a couple of cases where your signal strength has dropped off and then come back up again. We'd like to do the rest of this pass, using your secondary Servo electronics and see if that doesn't avoid the problem again. Now, what you'll have to do is take your Track mode and go to Manual with that, and then your Servo electronics to Secondary and then Reacquire. Over.

102:05:58 Conrad: Roger-Roger. [Pause.]

102:06:24 Conrad: Houston, 12. How do you read?

102:06:26 Carr: 12, Houston. Loud and clear.

102:06:30 Conrad: Okay, we've switched to Secondary. I noticed - I was watching it just before we went around the horn on the last pass and when we were within 6-7 minutes of LOS, the antenna just started driving itself, and the signal strain started falling off. The antenna was sort of wandering around. Now, I don't know whether - that would be the electronics or perhaps some something else that's influencing the antenna. We'll look for it again on this pass.

102:07:04 Carr: Roger. I guess that's about what we're thinking, Pete. That's why we recommended your Secondary Servo electronics.

[Long comm break.]

102:13:12 Conrad: Okay. Just a second, Houston. Okay. Go ahead, Houston.

102:13:29 Carr: Roger. CSM DAP load. This is for LOPC number 1, or for rescue. The CSM weight is 36786; pitch minus 0.78, yaw plus 0.43. Over.

102:13:56 Conrad: Roger. Copy for the plane change or rescue; weight 36786; trim minus 0.78, plus 0.43.

102:14:08 Carr: Affirmative. TEI-34 follows. Maneuver PAD SPS/G&N: The weight is 36000; Noun 48, minus 0.70, plus 0.33; Noun 33, 150:44:48.52; Noun 81, plus 3118.6, plus 0409.1, minus 0131.3; roll, NA, pitch 136, yaw NA. The rest of the PAD is NA. Your ullage is four jets, 11 seconds. Over.

102:15:37 Conrad: Roger. SPS/G&N: 36000; minus 0.70; plus 0.33; 150:44:48.52; plus 3118.6, plus 0409.1, minus 0131.3; NA, 136, NA; four jets, 11 seconds.

102:16:02 Carr: Affirmative.

102:16:20 Conrad: What's going on down there in the world today, Jerry?

102:16:26 Carr: Gee, I don't know, Pete. I just got here myself. We'll have a news brief for you real shortly.

102:16:34 Conrad: Roger.

[Comm break.]

102:19:15 Conrad: We're pretty busy right now. We'll give you a call back.

102:19:19 Carr: Okay.

[Comm break.]

102:21:28 Carr: Okay, Pete. News coverage on your flight is beginning to pick up as the touchdown gets a little closer here. I guess most of the reports right now are about your medical ailments. Your "code in de dose" and all that stuff. Joseph P. Kennedy died peacefully today without regaining consciousness from a heart attack. In the Senate today, the vote for the confirmation of Judge Havnsworth has been tentatively set for noon, Friday. And on the stock market, business world, the stock market dropped 6 points yesterday and rebounded a little bit today, with the averages up about 2.64. In international news, the United States and the Soviet Union met yesterday in Finland for what President Nixon called momentus negotiations to seek agreement on ways to limit production on their arsenals of war. In local news, the University of Houston accepted a bid to play Auburn in the Astro-Bluebonnet Bowl on New Year's Day. In the weather world, the weather here in Houston is really miserable. We've had showers most of the day. The temperature started out this morning fairly warm and has been plummeting all day, and it's in the low 50's right now. I got a little piece out of the Houston Post that gives the Bowl games at a glance. The Rose Bowl game, looks like it's going to be decided who's playing in it this next weekend. It's either going to be Southern Cal or UCLA, and they'll be playing either Michigan or Purdue. In the Rose - In the Orange Bowl, it's settled out now with Penn State playing Missouri. In the Cotton Bowl, Notre Dame has accepted a bid to the Cotton Bowl; and they're going to be either playing Texas or Arkansas, whoever wins that game. I think it's December the 6th. In the Sugar Bowl in New Orleans, it'll he Mississippi versus whoever loses the Texas-Arkansas game. In the Bluebonnet Bowl, I gave you that one already. The Peach Bowl will be South Carolina, and they haven't picked a team to play them yet. In the Gator Bowl, it'll be Tennessee versus Florida. In the Tangerine Bowl, Davidson versus Toledo; and in the Sun Bowl, Georgia is going to play Nebraska. That pretty well covers some of the more important Bowls.

102:24:12 Conrad: Roger. I'd still like to square something away down there. Al doesn't have a cold; all I have is a 1-inch itch and I don't consider that any big major medical problem. As a matter of fact, we're in pretty damn good shape.

102:24:26 Carr: Roger, Pete.

102:24:42 Carr: 12, Houston. Al’s Boimed still looks a little bit ratty.

102:24:50 Conrad: Okay. We - we'll smarten him up here. We're just getting into the LCG's and stuff now; and - and I mean we're just getting them out of stowage and everything; and we'll work him over, and see if we can't clean him up. He may have a loose lead; he's been in and out of his harness a couple of times during the night.

102:25:08 Carr: Okay. It looks like a loose lead down here. Give us a call when you've got him adjusted, and we'll tell you how it looks. [Pause.]

102:25:40 Conrad: Okay. His leads look pretty tight now. How's it look down there?

102:25:47 Carr: Stand by. We'll take a look at it. No, it's still looking pretty squirrelly, Pete.

102:26:01 Conrad: Okay.

102:33:26 Conrad: Hello, Houston; 12.

102:33:30 Carr: 12, Houston; go.

102:33:36 Conrad: Roger-Roger, Jerry. You can tell good Captain Shaky that he can relax. We've got his pictures.

102:33:45 Carr: Roger. He'll be tickled to hear that.

102:33:51 Conrad: You can tell him to relax till he sees them, that is.

102:33:56 Carr: Roger. They look pretty good, huh?

102:34:02 Conrad: Let's put it this way, let's say they're going to be very interesting.

102:34:06 Carr: Roger. Copy.

[Long comm break.]

102:37:58 Carr: Apollo 12, Houston.

102:38:02 Gordon: Go ahead.

102:38:04 Carr: Roger. Got some words from the families. Dick, I just talked to Barbara and she's been resting up; they're taking naps and everything, getting all set for spending the night up with you; and Barbara said to tell you that she thinks you're just great.

102:38:24 Gordon: Well, tell her thank you. After 16 years, it's about time.

102:38:29 Carr: [Laughter] Pete, are you listening?

102:38:35 Gordon: Negative, Jer; they're getting in their LCG's.

102:38:39 Carr: Okay. When they get back up on the hook, give me a call.

102:38:41 Conrad: Hold it; hold it.

102:38:45 Gordon: Okay. We'll have them check in as soon as they come up.

102:38:48 Carr: Okay.

102:38:50 Gordon: And I'm doing a maneuver for the 102:50 right now, Jerry.

102:38:54 Carr: Roger. Copy.

102:40:03 Gordon: Hello, Houston; 12. Pete's back up on the line.

102:40:07 Carr: Okay, Pete; talked to Jane just a few minutes ago, and she said the family's all doing fine, and they're ...

102:40:12 Conrad: Hold it a minute.

102:40:15 Carr: Say again.

102:40:19 Conrad: Okay; go.

102:40:21 Carr: Roger, Pete. Just talked to Jane a few minutes ago. She said the family's all doing just fine, and they're all getting rested up to spend the night up watching you guys.

102:40:34 Conrad: Very good, Jer. Thank you. And will you have the doctors look at the Biomed? I'm in my LCG now. All hooked up.

102:40:40 Carr: Your Biomed looks real good.

102:40:48 Conrad: Okay. Now, I just had a little discussion with Al, and we want you to look at his Biomed as soon as he comes hack up. All his sensors are on good, and all his connections are tight; and we prefer not to get into a game of playing swap the amplifiers or anything, because those things aren't tuned. Right?

102:41:13 Carr: That's affirmative. We agree with that too, Pete.

102:41:24 Conrad: Okay. He'll be back up in a minute.

102:41:26 Carr: Okay.

102:41:27 Bean: Houston, this is Al. Go ahead and check my Biomed now. [Long pause.]

102:42:06 Carr: 12, Houston. Al, you're still looking noisy. It looks just like e loose connection. Don't really know what you could do more than just tighten them up.

102:42:18 Bean: We've tightened both the top and bottom ones several times. I think maybe that's just the way it's going to be.

102:42:33 Carr: Al, did you look under your sensors to see they were dry and really pick them off and look at them, or did you just kind of punch them on?

102:42:44 Bean: Well, I haven't had any trouble with the sensors. They might he dry. I didn't look under them at all; just checked the connections like you requested.

102:42:54 Carr: Roger.

102:43:04 Carr: 12, Houston. We are about 1 minute from a handover from Goldstone. There may be an interruption there.

102:43:14 Conrad: Okay.

[Comm break.]

102:44:37 Conrad: Go, Houston.

102:44:39 Carr: Roger. Al's Biomed looks pretty bad there. The medical people suggest that you try on one of your sensors, try a new seal and some new paste under it. We'll see what that does.

102:45:02 Bean: Which one?

102:45:03 Carr: Oh, pick the top one; that will be okay.

102:45:09 Bean: Okay. [Long pause.]

102:45:28 Carr: Al, while you are cutting and pasting there, are you listening?

102:45:38 Conrad: He's not listening. Go ahead. What do you need?

102:45:41 Carr: I was just going to pass up some words from Sue when he listens next time.

102:45:47 Conrad: Okay. We'll get him on the line after while.

102:45:49 Carr: Okay.

[Long comm break.]

102:50:14 Carr: Roger. We copied your star angles.

102:50:35 Gordon: Do you have those?

102:50:37 Carr: Sure do, Dick. It's pretty good for on-the-job training.

102:50:45 Gordon: You weren't supposed to say that out loud. Okay. I'm torquing at this time.

102:50:52 Carr: Roger.

102:51:13 Gordon: Boy, Jerry, this platform has done real well, in spite of that glitch we gave it at launch.

102:51:23 Carr: Roger, Dick. You recommend that we glitch them like that every time?

102:51:29 Gordon: No, sir. Not at all.

102:52:05 Conrad: Okay, Houston. How about looking at Al now? We changed one sensor out. Everything looks good.

102:52:12 Carr: Roger, Pete. Stand by. [Long pause.]

102:53:07 Carr: 12, Houston. If you can work on that lower sensor now, we'd like you to get them both if you can. If you can only do one, do the lower sensor; and we'd like to have a look at you before you go LOS at - in 8 minutes and 45 seconds.

[Long comm break.]

102:57:51 Conrad: Okay, Houston. How does the Biomed look now?

102:58:02 Carr: 12, Houston. It's a little bit improved. What did you do that time?

102:58:09 Conrad: Just what you said; change the lower one out.

102:58:15 Carr: It seem- to be improving now, Pete. I guess we'll just have to live with what we can get here.

102:58:23 Conrad: There you go. That's the words I want to hear. We're on our way. Bye-bye.

102:58:26 Carr: Roger. [Pause.]

102:59:10 Carr: 12, Houston.

102:59:17 Conrad: Go, Houston.

102:59:18 Carr: Roger. Like to have you paste up that third Biomed sensor, and that'll be the end of the fooling around with it.

102:59:30 Conrad: What third one? The one on the top?

102:59:32 Carr: That's affirmative.

102:59:37 Conrad: Okay.

102:59:40 Carr: Al, you listening?

102:59:46 Bean: Yes, Jer.

102:59:48 Carr: Okay, Al. I talked to Sue a little while ago, and they're also doing fine at home. They're resting up getting ready for tonight.

102:59:54 Bean: Stand by. Stand by.

102:59:56 Carr: Okay.

103:00:08 Bean: Hey, Houston, I think we found the problem. The one - the one that we just pulled off on the top is all dried out.

103:00:14 Carr: Roger. They're rejoicing in the streets here.

103:00:42 Gordon (onboard): ...left behind.

103:00:43 Bean (onboard): [Garble].

103:00:44 Conrad (onboard): Don't worry about it; you're in good shape. Here. No, here. Easy.

103:00:52 Gordon (onboard): Here, right here.

103:00:52 Carr: Apollo 12, Houston. One minute from LOS, and things are all looking good now, and we'll see you at 103:47. Over.

103:01:06 Bean: Roger. 103:47.

[LOS Rev 10.]

103:01:12 Bean (onboard): That did it, that one right there.

103:01:15 Conrad (onboard): Yes.

103:01:18 Bean (onboard): Put the [garble] in there, Pete.

103:01:20 Conrad (onboard): Right [Long pause.]

103:01:46 Bean (onboard): Now, [garble] well, there's nothing we can do. That hard stuff doesn't want to come out of there, Pete.

103:01:56 Conrad (onboard): Yes, that's dried up, [garble].

103:01:58 Bean (onboard): Sure did.

Public Affairs Office - "This is Apollo Control. We've had Loss Of Signal now on the 10th revolution. We'll be reacquiring Apollo 12 in 45 minutes, 48 seconds on the 11th Rev. The Change of Shift Press Conference is scheduled to occur shortly after 5:30 in the News Center, Building 1. At 103 hours, 2 minutes, this is Apollo Control Houston."

103:02:04 Conrad (onboard): Get that?

103:02:06 Bean (onboard): Got it.

103:03:03 Bean (onboard): Tried this one?

103:03:07 Conrad (onboard): Okay.

103:03:23 Conrad (onboard): Put it down.

103:03:26 Gordon (onboard): [Garble].

103:03:30 Bean (onboard): [Garble] to 1 [garble].

103:03:35 Conrad (onboard): Okay. We'll just pull up [garble] [Long pause.]

103:03:51 Conrad (onboard): Did you find it, Dick Gordon, or did I really screw you up? You find that strap? Where was it?

103:03:58 Gordon (onboard): [Garble].

103:04:01 Conrad (onboard): You can help zip it up, Dicky-Dick.

103:04:03 Gordon (onboard): Okay.

103:04:15 Bean (onboard): Where'd this come from?

103:04:17 Conrad (onboard): Huh?

103:04:18 Bean (onboard): That [garble] - what number is it?

103:04:21 Conrad (onboard): It's 9, [garble].

103:04:22 Gordon (onboard): It's a dead one. Right? It's a used one.

103:04:27 Bean (onboard): It's a used one but, I mean...

103:04:29 Conrad (onboard): Throw it in the disposal thing.

103:04:36 Bean (onboard): Well, let's see how that one looks. Looks okay to me. Get in there and get this LM going.

103:04:48 Conrad (onboard): Don't worry; you've got plenty of time, Al. You're going to be so freaking far ahead of the game, it's pathetic.

103:04:53 Bean (onboard): Well, I want to take...

103:04:54 Conrad (onboard): Let me have it and I'll stow it. Okay, just a minute, I'll have music and I'll stow it [laughter]. Do things right. A little music never hurt anybody. Get that up out of the way, just like that. I need to get under this top bag, right here.

103:05:18 Bean (onboard): Now, [garble] this freaking suit.

103:05:21 Conrad (onboard): Just a minute; let's get Dick squared away.

103:05:27 Conrad (onboard): That's where these came out of, wasn't it? Right there. Just a second; I got to get this tidied up here. Just stowing your hose and thing.

103:05:41 Bean (onboard): Going off the Comm.

103:05:42 Conrad (onboard): All right - crazy.

103:05:46 Bean (onboard): This here thing has got to go in the - put that in the disposal.

103:05:53 Conrad (onboard): All right, just 1 minute, Dicky-Dicky. Are you ready.

103:06:09 Conrad (onboard): There you go [Long pause.]

103:06:26 Bean (onboard): [Garble].

103:06:28 Gordon (onboard): Sir?

103:06:31 Bean (onboard): I'll go ahead and do it with my hat on.

103:06:59 Conrad (onboard): Now, what you need to do is to get in the couch; that's right. And I'll hook you up red to blue and blue to red. All right. Now, how do they tape these things, all the way around this way? Which way do you want these? Huh? Do you want them [garble]? No...

103:07:22 Conrad (onboard): Just like this?

103:07:23 Bean (onboard): [Garble].

103:07:25 Conrad (onboard): Okay. We could take that strut out of here now.

103:07:30 Bean (onboard): [Garble].

103:07:34 Conrad (onboard): Okay. And [garble] all these goodies. And I'll help you with your snap. Meanwhile...[Long pause.]

103:08:26 Bean (onboard): [Garble].

103:08:27 Gordon (onboard): Okay, it's coming up [garble].

[ Call It a Trap by Elvis Presley. The song title should read Suspicious Minds ]

103:08:55 Conrad (onboard): What do you need?

103:09:00 Conrad (onboard): Turn what around?

103:09:03 Gordon (onboard): [Garble].

103:09:06 Conrad (onboard): Okay. [Long pause.]

103:09:44 Conrad (onboard): What did I just do with my personal dosimeter? Oh, there it is, [garble]. [Long pause.]

103:10:29 Conrad (onboard): Okay, both [garble] are off [garble] wanted them.

103:10:35 Bean (onboard): Huh?

103:10:57 Conrad (onboard): Take this dosimeter [garble].

103:11:39 Conrad (onboard): I can [garble] [laughter). No wonder he wanted a [garble].

103:11:52 Gordon (onboard): That always [garble].

103:11:54 Conrad (onboard): You got your little - Hey, where are mine? Where's that other one? Oh, - okay, that's all I wanted to know.

103:12:02 Bean (onboard): [Garble]. [Long pause.]

103:12:23 Conrad (onboard): Yes, go ahead and stow all that shit. You stowed mine, didn't you?

103:12:28 Bean (onboard): [Garble].

103:12:31 Conrad (onboard): Okay, there's the McDivitt bag. [Pause.]

103:13:03 Conrad (onboard): Let me have the [garble].

103:13:05 Bean (onboard): [Garble].

103:13:08 Conrad (onboard): Do it on lunar surface after its settled down to.

103:13:15 Bean (onboard): [Garble].

[ Music: Sugar, Sugar.]

103:13:54 Gordon (onboard): No [garble] here you go. I've got both feet in it. Hey.

103:14:11 Conrad (onboard): Here, you got your foot in; that's good. Okay? Yes. One urinal, one Biomed, one LCG. Oh, shit! I forgot about that. Wait’ ill I take this plug out.

103:14:39 Conrad (onboard): How's that come out?

103:14:44 Gordon (onboard): There you go.

103:14:47 Conrad (onboard): Yes.

103:14:59 Conrad (onboard): You're okay.

103:15:12 Conrad (onboard): Ready? [garble] hello, there. [Pause.]

103:15:23 Gordon (onboard): Well, if you're through with the LMP, naturally you're through...

103:15:26 Conrad (onboard): Turn around; hang on to this.

103:15:37 Conrad (onboard): Yes - hold on to that. [Long pause.]

103:16:03 Conrad (onboard): Okay?

103:16:16 Bean (onboard): [Garble].

103:16:18 Conrad (onboard): Yes, yes.

103:16:21 Bean (onboard): [Garble].

103:16:28 Conrad (onboard): Looks good.

103:16:33 Conrad (onboard): The LCG is a [garble] okay. Everything feel good in there? All right, now, just let me sit down; I don't want to rip your [garble].

103:16:50 Gordon (onboard): Look at [garble] no, I see [garble].

103:17:10 Conrad (onboard): There you go. [Pause.]

103:17:21 Gordon (onboard): Pete, don't these get connected up front?

103:17:24 Conrad (onboard): No. There's your blue one. [Pause.]

103:17:48 Conrad (onboard): There you go, mate. Go ahead. Okay [garble].

[ Music: Hey, Little Woman.]

103:19:18 Bean (onboard): [Garble].

103:19:23 Conrad (onboard): Huh?. [Long pause.]

103:19:50 Conrad (onboard): What time do we ingress the LM?

103:19:54 Bean (onboard): [Garble].

103:20:08 Conrad (onboard): Okay, that's about - about 35 minutes from now.

103:20:11 Gordon (onboard): Go - go ahead and [garble].

103:20:17 Conrad (onboard): You got a good bag over there - drop that in your waste stowage bag, Dick.

103:20:21 Gordon (onboard): Temporary stowage bag?

103:20:23 Conrad (onboard): Okay. Stick that in your TSB. Now, I'm going to rig my suit, Al, if you'll hand me those two things by your map...

103:20:32 Bean (onboard): [Garble].

103:20:34 Conrad (onboard): ...Right down here. What do you need in here? Well, if you'll wait about 3 seconds, Dick, we'll be able to do it and be ahead of schedule. Okay?

103:21:30 Conrad (onboard): Al, want me to close your TSB for you?

103:21:42 Conrad (onboard): Well, let me out. God damn, I was wondering why I was getting wet; there's water under the bulkhead on the - underneath the LC bag. That's where that moisture's been collecting. [Pause.]

103:23:16 Conrad (onboard): Keep going [garble] freaking hell [garble] God damn! Oh, man, that's bad news! That [garble] is bad news. My suit is sopping wet all over the legs; that bulkhead has leaked right through that LC bag.

103:23:41 Bean (onboard): [Garble].

103:23:42 Conrad (onboard): Huh?

103:23:43 Bean (onboard): [Garble].

103:23:44 Conrad (onboard): I hope so. I haven't explored around far enough to find out. It's all down the back of the legs. That damn [garble] after we leave on the [garble].

103:23:57 Bean (onboard): [Garble]. [Long pause.]

103:24:39 Bean (onboard): [Garble].

103:24:48 Conrad (onboard): Well, damn, we've got to; it won't fire up the ECS for a while.

103:25:02 Bean (onboard): [Garble].

103:25:05 Conrad (onboard): Get what? All right, tell you what. Right there by the center hatch is my sunglasses - and the helmet bag is up there to the right side of my pencil.

103:25:38 Conrad (onboard): Sunglasses are in the helmet, right there. I don't want the helmet. That's all right.

103:25:47 Gordon (onboard): [Garble] sunglasses?

103:25:48 Conrad (onboard): I need the sunglasses, a flashlight, and a pen.

103:25:58 Gordon (onboard): [Garble]. [Long pause.]

103:26:14 Conrad (onboard): Right by the pencil.

103:26:15 Gordon (onboard): [Garble].

103:26:17 Conrad (onboard): It was up there a while ago.

103:26:31 Conrad (onboard): Let's go ahead and take the hatch out; you can stay put. Let me see now, where I can [garble] no, better put it under Al's couch. Al? You put your hoses [garble] where they [garble]. [Pause.]

103:26:52 Conrad (onboard): Dick? I'm going to let Al get out of here before I suit up. [Pause.]

103:27:27 Bean (onboard): How do you hear, Dick Gordon?

103:27:32 Gordon (onboard): [Garble] loud and clear.

103:27:34 Bean (onboard): Okay. Got a bunch of shit floating around here; I never saw anything like it.

103:27:40 Conrad (onboard): Whose helmet's this, Dick's?

103:27:42 Bean (onboard): Mine, I guess. Damn.

103:27:44 Conrad (onboard): Something else we'd better check - in just a minute. Boots and [garble].

103:27:52 Gordon (onboard): Okay, that's okay. That's good. A hat, get this TSB; look at that son of a gun go.

103:28:00 Bean (onboard): Here.

103:28:02 Gordon (onboard): Get it out of your way.

103:28:04 Conrad (onboard): One hatch [garble].

103:28:07 Gordon (onboard): Here's the monocular. Okay, Bean, let's see if you got it.

103:28:13 Bean (onboard): Hey, Pete, why don't I go ahead and do that? I know where the hell these things go and everything.

103:28:15 Gordon (onboard): IV gloves.

103:28:16 Conrad (onboard): Okay. All yours. I just figured we'd get them out of here without....

103:28:21 Bean (onboard): Yes. Yes, I'd just as soon go ahead and get the shit done.

103:28:24 Conrad (onboard): ...[garble] I'll get out of your way.

103:28:27 Bean (onboard): The other way. I better get in the center couch - it's going to be tough - well, I guess you can stick it under my feet. Well, we'll just do what you can. Better shut this map.

103:28:48 Bean (onboard): Rendezvous abort book and LM data. We got that data?

103:28:52 Gordon (onboard): God damn it!

103:28:54 Bean (onboard): My time line book. I can move if you need me to, Dick.

103:28:56 Gordon (onboard): No, sorry. It's just these hoses are so bad. How about putting that down somewhere?

103:29:02 Bean (onboard): Sure.

103:29:04 Conrad (onboard): [Garble]. [Long pause.]

103:29:16 Bean (onboard): Everybody's doing a good job; they're holding their temper.

103:29:21 Conrad (onboard): [Garble] I can't believe it.

103:29:28 Gordon (onboard): That's where we want to be. Set over there and think how...

103:29:32 Bean (onboard): Turn on tunnel lights, please.

103:29:33 Conrad (onboard): Tunnel lights, coming on.

103:29:39 Bean (onboard): 103:54, it says I'm supposed to get there. What time is it now?

103:29:45 Gordon (onboard): Wait, now wait; don't let my bag go anywhere. Okay, I got you. I'm going to - God damn these freaking hoses!

103:29:58 Bean (onboard): Can I help you some way, Dick?

103:29:59 Gordon (onboard): Yes, just get the goddamn hoses out of my way.

103:30:01 Bean (onboard): Okay. We can get in there now, if you - How's that, babe? We're just screwing around over here, babe.

103:30:10 Conrad (onboard): Got a lot of time.

103:30:11 Bean (onboard): We're way ahead. I'm not even due in until 53 and that's 23, 24 minutes from now. You're not kidding. I just won't turn on the Bat. Get all the other stuff done.

103:30:25 Conrad (onboard): Hey, another one - hey there; look, grab that freaking clip.

103:30:30 Gordon (onboard): Clip.

103:30:31 Conrad (onboard): Grab a bunch of trash; that stuff should never been hauled out. It causes more crap. If we didn't have those things, we wouldn't have as much crap outside floating around.

103:30:54 Bean (onboard): [Laughter] Doesn't sound like the Pete Conrad I know; it's usually [laughter] - it's usually, "Out of my way, gang, we've got to get going." [Laughter] Why didn't you just...

103:31:02 Conrad (onboard): [Garble] do it right, gang, [garble] cards are floating around; [garble] time, and it'll save us time.

103:31:11 Conrad (onboard): You son of a bitch!

103:31:12 Conrad (onboard): [Garble] get that in there early...

103:31:14 Bean (onboard): Yes, lift it up and let me get this in here and then we can - there you go - I'll shoot this in here.

103:31:36 Bean (onboard): Snap one snap back here. That'll keep yours in place. That's good. Snap this one over here - get this one in place. There goes the thruster fire...

103:31:47 Gordon (onboard): Yes, we're moving around.

103:31:50 Bean (onboard): Where can I put this? Now, I'll tell you what I need. When did I take that last pill? I'm going to make sure I don't get my ears stopped up.

103:32:16 Conrad (onboard): Here, [garble].

103:32:22 Gordon (onboard): Anybody want any gum?

103:32:33 Bean (onboard): We - when we get in, we want to cheek over all those damn - books, make sure we got them. Oh, I put them all in my mouth, Pete; sorry. Wasn't thinking.

103:34:01 Bean (onboard): We're not supposed to be charging any Bat, are we?

103:34:04 Conrad (onboard): Yes, I thought we were already charging this Bat.

103:34:06 Bean (onboard): No. We talked about it last night, but we never called it out this morning...

103:34:11 Conrad (onboard): I thought he told us to start charging it.

103:34:14 Bean (onboard): He may have and, if he did, I sure as hell didn't hear him and didn't do it.

103:34:20 Gordon (onboard): All right [garble] got Comm [garble] hooked up.

103:34:23 Bean (onboard): Yes. I got Comm, but...[Pause.]

103:34:34 Bean (onboard): Hey, Dick?

103:34:35 Gordon (onboard): Al, just pull those hoses around like this. That's the boy; that'll do it. All it does is block that whole freaking area.

103:34:44 Bean (onboard): Didn't know I was doing it.

103:34:46 Gordon (onboard): Well, you probably weren't; they probably just went that way. [Pause.]

103:35:08 Gordon (onboard): If I can get out of here whenever these...

103:35:09 Bean (onboard): Pete, wait a minute - raise your seat.

103:35:12 Conrad (onboard): This way?

103:35:13 Bean (onboard): Yes. That's a boy. Thank you. [Long pause.]

103:35:37 Conrad (onboard): Doesn't say to in the plan. Hey, Dick Gordon? Now, where the hell did that strap go? There it is.

103:35:47 Gordon (onboard): Yes.

103:35:48 Bean (onboard): Did they tell us to charge a Bat this morning?

103:35:51 Gordon (onboard): I don't think so.

103:35:53 Bean (onboard): Okay.

103:35:54 Gordon (onboard): Is it in the Flight Plan?

103:35:55 Bean (onboard): No.

103:35:57 Gordon (onboard): We talked about it last night, but I never heard any; I could - of course, I could have been off the Comm.

103:36:07 Conrad (onboard): Somewhere along here, we want to go off LM [garble] right?

103:36:12 Bean (onboard): Off what?

103:36:13 Conrad (onboard): We're on LM Press. We got to go hack to something else.

103:36:18 Gordon (onboard): Well, we go to Off here, shortly, I guess.

103:36:37 Bean (onboard): Probably kicking the hell out of you down there.

103:36:42 Conrad (onboard): God damn this freaking [garble]! Boy, this [garble] up on everything.

103:36:48 Gordon (onboard): Sure does, that net.

103:36:50 Conrad (onboard): [Garble] set the clock.

103:36:54 Bean (onboard): Hey, Pete.

103:36:55 Conrad (onboard): Yes.

103:36:59 Bean (onboard): If you'll hold this, and Dick Gordon will hand me that T - Hey, I - I'll rig that TV for you. If you want me to, do what you want. It's in there.

103:37:12 Conrad (onboard): [Garble]...

103:37:13 Gordon (onboard): Guess where that goddamn thing is?

103:37:16 Conrad (onboard): Underneath the probe. I'll go get it. Hey, Dick? I don't have a suit on...

103:37:20 Bean (onboard): Let Pete get it; he doesn't have a suit on or anything else.

103:37:22 Conrad (onboard): ...we have all the freaking time in the world.

103:37:24 Bean (onboard): Let me get my ass over in the LM - stand around over there.

103:37:29 Conrad (onboard): Get that - ready to go and I'll rig - Dick, get me that - I'll rig it for TV.

103:37:40 Gordon (onboard): Okay.

103:37:41 Conrad (onboard): The thing to do is get rid of these goddamn things...

103:37:43 Bean (onboard): Boy, I'll tell you, that's a pain in the ass; everyone of those bastards are.

103:37:45 Conrad (onboard): ...I had three freaking little clips and – take those...

103:37:48 Gordon (onboard): Wait, the map's stuck.

103:37:51 Bean (onboard): Well, I need to go over there and I can't.

103:37:52 Gordon (onboard): No, you need to go that way. That's exactly the way you need to go.

103:37:55 Conrad (onboard): You got to go that way.

103:37:56 Gordon (onboard): You'll never get out of here unless you do.

103:37:58 Bean (onboard): I know it but - see this...

103:38:00 Conrad (onboard): I'll get you out of here.

103:38:02 Bean (onboard): I lowered this a little bit - is that okay?

103:38:11 Gordon (onboard): Got it made.

103:38:13 Bean (onboard): Just a second; I want to miss all these circuit breakers. They're okay.

103:38:19 Conrad (onboard): Put your feet up; just go right up in the tunnel.

103:38:24 Gordon (onboard): Put your feet up, Al.

103:38:25 Bean (onboard): Okay.

103:38:26 Conrad (onboard): [Garble].

103:38:31 Bean (onboard): Wait a minute; just a second. My shoulders are wider than the distance between - there. Wait a second.

103:38:37 Conrad (onboard): You're all right.

103:38:39 Gordon (onboard): You're okay; got plenty of room.

103:38:45 Bean (onboard): Okay, now, do me a favor as you send me through. You're going to have to hand me my helmet bag and the TSB and...

103:38:52 Conrad (onboard): Here's the [garble] bag.

103:38:54 Bean (onboard): Okay.

103:38:55 Conrad (onboard): Your helmet bag is right here. Now, do you want this helmet bag? Or do you want to leave the bag back...

103:39:02 Bean (onboard): No, I'm going to send the bag back to you.

103:39:04 Conrad (onboard): All right, here.

103:39:05 Bean (onboard): Now, here's what I'd like to have you do, if you would.

103:39:06 Conrad (onboard): Yes.

103:39:07 Bean (onboard): As I slowly go up here, how about snapping a few of those things in?

103:39:09 Conrad (onboard): I will.

103:39:10 Bean (onboard): Okay.

103:39:11 Conrad (onboard): Here's your helmet bag, and I'll feed the hoses [garble].

103:39:25 Conrad (onboard): Wait, wait, wait - okay.

103:39:35 Gordon (onboard): Let me run it down; give you a little more - slack...

103:39:38 Conrad (onboard): [garble].

103:39:39 Gordon (onboard): Just a second. We're way ahead.

103:39:46 Bean (onboard): Yes, let's stay that way. Move.

103:39:53 Conrad (onboard): You are in, [garble].

103:40:00 Bean (onboard): Okay.

103:40:01 Conrad (onboard): You might have to do a 360 down there and unwind this hose.

103:40:05 Bean (onboard): Okay. Now, it doesn't seem to bother me, right this minute. I'll try one this way. Okay.

103:40:12 Conrad (onboard): That looks good. Looks real good, Al.

103:40:15 Gordon (onboard): Okay. I'll go get the TV.

103:40:16 Conrad (onboard): Don't you want to get back in your couch [garble].

103:40:19 Gordon (onboard): No, I better get the hell out of the way.

103:40:21 Conrad (onboard): I'll tell you one thing, [garble] I can't believe it.

103:40:26 Gordon (onboard): Have it coming off there in just a minute, anyway. I'll put the interconnects on.

103:40:37 Conrad (onboard): Now, I've got to go over here and [garble] we got to move this whole thing to get it.

103:40:42 Gordon (onboard): Yes, I know it. Shit, that pissed me off! I talked about it before. Wait a minute, let me - hold it right there. Can you get this stuff out of there you need?

103:41:00 Conrad (onboard): [Garble] cables and monitor. I'll get the [garble].

103:41:16 Bean (onboard): Is anything flowing through my hose?

103:41:18 Conrad (onboard): Is your what?

103:41:19 Bean (onboard): Put my hose on Suit Flow.

103:41:22 Conrad (onboard): How's that?

103:41:24 Bean (onboard): There you go, good show.

103:41:29 Conrad (onboard): [Garble] leave that [garble] right where it is. Now, where's the TV now, [garble].

103:41:52 Gordon (onboard): Where is it?

103:41:53 Conrad (onboard): Right up under my ass [garble].

103:41:57 Gordon (onboard): Put that back in there.

103:42:01 Conrad (onboard): Hey, Dick? [garble].

103:42:11 Gordon (onboard): Wait a minute, Pete. Take this off my hands and I'll get it out for you. They've rigged this crap so it'll be up.

103:42:21Conrad (onboard): [Garble].

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