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Post by Ginnie on Jun 16, 2008 19:20:56 GMT -4
Anything funny here said by astronauts or mission control.
I'll start it off:
APOLLO 11:
00 01 17 41 CDR How does zero g feel? Your head feel funny, anybody, or anything like that? 00 01 17 44 CMP No, I don't know, it just feels like we're going around upside down
***************************************************************************** 00 01 20 08 CDR Get a picture of that. 00 01 20 10 CMP Ooh, sure, I will. I've lost a Hasselblad...Has anybody seen a Hasselblad floating by? It couldn't have gone very far - big son of a gun like that. ****************************************************************************** 00 01 21 05 CMP Well, that pisses me off. Hasselblad gone. Find that mother before she or I ends the...Everybody look for a floating Hasselblad. I see a pen floating loose down here, too. Is anybody missing a ballpoint pen? 00 01 21 17 LMP Got mine. Is it ballpoint, or is it...? 00 01 21 23 CMP Yes, ballpoint. Here it is. I mean felt tip. ************************************************************************** Every second page of the Apollo 11 transcripts has something funny on it.
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Post by laurel on Jun 16, 2008 20:12:42 GMT -4
Apollo 12 145:19:45 Gordon: Looking good. How can you look so good if you're so ugly? 145:19:55 Conrad: Say again. 145:19:57 Gordon: How can you look so good when you're so ugly? 145:19:59 Conrad: I don't know, you look awful good yourself.
Apollo 16 077 23 25 Duke: Houston, apparently this line of secondaries down here that cross the mare - gives you the impression that there have been a couple of great big chickens been walking across there. 077 23 37 Hartsfield: Roger. 077 23 40 Young: That - that was courtesy of Charlie Duke, our airborne geologist and chicken farmer.
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Post by Ginnie on Jun 16, 2008 20:46:15 GMT -4
;D Good stuff... NOW PLAYING ***Deep Purple - Strange Kind of Woman
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Post by Ginnie on Jun 16, 2008 21:01:47 GMT -4
Gemini 7 195:35:13 CC We didn't tell you last night, but the two previous nights we had a good visual on you over RKV. Had a real good look at you. 195:35:21 C With the naked eye or telescope? 195:35:24 CC With the naked eye. We had about 10 or 15 troops up there. 195:35:27 P So what do we look like? 195:35:32 CC You're the fastest star we've ever seen...
BTW I've been typing this stuff in from PDF documents. Is there a digital version of the transcripts available where I can just cut and paste?
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Post by laurel on Jun 16, 2008 21:32:12 GMT -4
HTML Apollo 11 transcript (I don't know where to find any other ones though): history.nasa.gov/alsj/a11/a11transcript_tec.htmlAnd from that Apollo 11 transcript: 06 13 56 32 CMP White Team's really got a busy one tonight, huh, Charlie? 06 13 56 36 CC Say again, Mike. Over. 06 13 56 41 CMP Say the old White Team's really got a busy one tonight, huh? 06 13 56 43 CC Oh, boy. We're really booming along here with all this activity. Can barely believe it. 06 13 56 51 CMP What are you doing? Sitting around with your feet up on the console drinking coffee? 06 13 56 55 CC (Laughter) You must have your X ray eyes up. You sure can see a long way. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 07 06 44 05 CMP [about Flight Director Cliff Charlesworth] Did he ever let you go get a cup of coffee when we were over on the back side? 07 06 44 15 CC Oh, things have been going pretty smoothly down here. He's really not that hard to get along with. 07 06 44 21 CMP Oh, he must be mellowing. 07 06 44 23 CC We've only got two of them back here right now. 07 06 44 30 CMP He always used to make me sit at the console through the back side passes, just for training. 07 06 44 41 CC Well, the word we have here is - that was because whenever you came back, you had to be retrained. 07 06 44 50 CMP Touché. Michael Collins mentioned both of these exchanges in Carrying The Fire as well.
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Post by Ginnie on Jun 16, 2008 21:57:21 GMT -4
Apollo 14
110:34:46 McCandless: Roger; 16049, 07047, and are you all getting something to eat up there, now?
110:34:59 Mitchell: As soon as we stop asking questions, we'll start eating.
110:35:03 McCandless: Okay. Munch away!
110:35:11 Shepard: Okay. We'll give you a little verbiage between bites here.
110:35:13 McCandless: No talking with your mouth full.
110:35:19 Shepard: Did you say talking or torquing?
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Post by laurel on Jun 16, 2008 22:47:00 GMT -4
Speaking of Gemini 7 . . . Apollo 8 002:14:11 Borman: Gemini 8 - correction: Apollo 8. 002:14:16 Collins: Roger. Gemini 8, Houston. We would like to bring you up to date on the comm situation while we've got some quiet time here. We'll be LOS Tananarive in another 2 minutes; we'll be picking you up over Carnarvon at 2 hours, 25 minutes and 22 seconds. LOS Carnarvon will be 02:31:55; then we've got ARIA number 1 coming in about 02:37:30; and after that, we will have a hand-off to Mercury to Hawaii to Goldstone, and we should have continuous comm. Over. 002:14:28 Borman: Very good. That's very good. Thank you. 002:15:01 Collins: Roger. [Pause.] 002:15:10 Collins: Thought you were Gemini 7, not 8.
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Post by Kiwi on Jun 17, 2008 9:22:05 GMT -4
Is there a digital version of the transcripts available where I can just cut and paste? There is for Apollo 11. Produced by combining all three PDFs, the dialogue from the ALSJ, and facts from Apollo By The Numbers; then changing the DD:HH:MM:SS format to GET HH:MM:SS; changing "CMP" to "Collins", etc., naming the Capcoms and PAOs, and fixing half a gazillion typos. There are probably only about a quarter gazillion errors left now. It's still being worked on and needs proof-reading by experts, but is a big improvement over those massive PDFs with all their errors in the electronic text and the original typos, and will suffice until the Apollo 11 Lunar Flight Journal arrives. Anybody is welcome to a copy. PM me with email address if you'd like one. BTW I've been typing this stuff in from PDF documents. Do you know that most PDFs have electronic text that you can copy and paste using the Select Text tool and mouse, or Ctrl-A, Ctrl-C, Ctrl-V, etc.?
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Post by Kiwi on Jun 17, 2008 9:37:50 GMT -4
From the new Apollo 11 document:
Apollo 11 - Salmon salad 28:39:33 Aldrin: My compliments to the chef, that salad salmon is outstanding. 28:39:41 McCandless: Roger. Understand that's the salad salmon. Over. 28:39:49 Aldrin: Something like that, salmon salad. 28:39:51 McCandless: There we go, the salmon salad, very good.
Apollo 11 - DSKY troubles 32:40:33 Collins: I'm not going to let these LM guys play with my DSKY any more. 32:40:38 Duke: You sound like you'd better protect it. Later: 56:37:44 Duke: ...Is Collins going to go in [to the LM] and look around? 56:37:56 Armstrong: We're willing to let him go but he hasn't come up with the price of the ticket yet. 56:38:01 Duke: Roger. I'd advise him to keep his hands off the switches. 56:38:08 Collins: If I can get him to keep his hands off my DSKY, it'd be a fair swap. 56:38:13 Duke: Roger.
Apollo 11 - Loss of communications Seventeen minutes before the lunar module Eagle commences powered descent to the first manned lunar landing, Capcom Charlie Duke advises Mike Collins in the command module Columbia that Houston expects to temporarily lose communications with him via the high gain antenna. 102:16:00 Duke: Columbia, Houston. We expect to lose your high gain during the powered descent. Over. 102:16:19 Collins: Columbia. Roger. You don't much care do you? 102:16:22 Duke: No, sir.
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Post by Kiwi on Jun 17, 2008 9:50:07 GMT -4
Apollo 17 - EVA-1 - Taurus-Littrow Valley117:55:33 Cernan: Okay. On the plains of Taurus-Littrow. What a valley. I'd like to cut through here with a T-38 sometime. [The T-38 is a supersonic jet aircraft and Gene is imagining roaring up the valley at about 500 knots.] 117:55:44 Schmitt: That'll be the day. [Jack says that, here, his intent was to mimic John Wayne.] 117:55:46 Cernan: Yeah, it will. [There being no air on the Moon in which to fly a T-38.] Apollo 17 - EVA-1 - Station 1 - Get Driving in Ten Minutes 122:22:37 Parker: And, 17; we'd like to have you guys... driving in 10 minutes, please. 122:22:45 Schmitt: Nag, nag, nag. 122:22:49 Parker: That's right, that's right, that's right. Apollo 17 - EVA-1 - Sep site - Antennae Problems 122:56:51 Schmitt: Okay, I won't bore you with details on why you see the antenna all over the ground (chuckles), but it has to do with one-sixth g. 122:57:10 Parker: Roger, Jack. Understand you dropped a couple of the antenna reels. [In Houston, Bob is being told that the antenna reels and wires can rapidly become a "Chinese Puzzle" unless they are untangled very carefully.] 122:57:13 Schmitt: ...More accurately, I dropped three of them. Apollo 17 - EVA-1 - Sep site - More Antennae Problems 123:02:28 [Jack heads south; Gene drops his antenna.] 123:02:29 Cernan: Oh, (sub-vocally) [bad word deleted]... 123:02:34 Schmitt: (Taunting) Ha, ha, ha. Ha, ha, ha. Serves you right. [Jack returns to the transmitter; Gene retrieves the antenna with his tongs.] Apollo 17 - EVA-1 - Sep site - Appreciation 123:06:17 Parker: Yeah, the "locator" is really all you need; but a partial pan to show the area would be appreciated. 123:06:24 Cernan: Yeah, I'm here. I'm going to get a partial pan, Bob. 123:06:27 Parker: Okay. 123:06:32 Cernan: The only reason I'm doing it is I know it would be appreciated. Apollo 17 - EVA-1 Close-out - Clear Seal123:22:56 Cernan: Bob, the seal is clear. 123:22:58 Parker: Beautiful. 123:23:02 Cernan: I don't know if it's beautiful, but it's clear. 123:23:06 Parker: It's clearly beautiful. Apollo 17 - EVA-2 - Station 2, Nansen Crater - Flying Rock 143:30:55 Approximately: [Gene gets the hammer and knocks a piece off on the third stroke. The piece comes off to Gene's left and he tries to grab it. He manages to touch it and, in so doing, knocks it into Jack's left wrist. The fragment bounces off of Jack's wrist and slowly falls to the ground behind him.] 143:31:02 Cernan: See it? 143:31:03 Schmitt: Yeah. See it!? You hit me with it! 143:31:09 Cernan: Well, I tried to catch it. Bob, you still there? 143:31:14 Parker: Roger. Still there. Listening with great delight. Apollo 17 - EVA-2 - Traverse to Station 3 - Alien tracks? 144:18:01 Schmitt: Hey! We crossed somebody's tracks! 144:18:07 Parker (over Gene): Hope they look like yours. Apollo 17 - EVA-2 - Station 3, Ballet Crater - Jack Schmitt gives the crater its name 144:50:46 Parker: Okay. We're ready now for your pan and don't forget your scoop. 144:50:52 Schmitt: I won't...Aaaahh! (Pause) [Jack has knocked the SCB over, scattering full sample bags. He drops to his hands and knees, facing upslope, gets the SCB standing upright, retrieves the sample bags, and stows them in the SCB without getting up.] 144:51:05 Schmitt: You don't mind a little dirt here and there, do you, gang? 144:51:16 Parker: No. [Jack leans back to get his PLSS over his heels and kicks upright. He makes it, but drops the SCB in the process. He goes to one knee to retrieve it but stumbles and falls on his chest. He gets up successfully and goes to the scoop.] 144:51:46 Cernan: Oh, dadgummit! (Pause) Well... [From later evidence, Gene is having trouble re-attaching the rake to the extension handle. Meanwhile, Jack's unused sample bags have fallen off his camera again.] 144:51:53 Parker: Hey, Gene, would you go over and help Twinkletoes, please? [Jack drops the SCB on the ground.] A little later: 144:56:23 Parker: And be advised that the switchboard here at MSC (Manned Spacecraft Center, now the Johnson Space Center) has been lit up by calls from the Houston Ballet Foundation requesting your services for next season. 144:56:34 Schmitt: I should hope so. 144:56:39 ...[On camera, Jack is going for the gnomon. In response to Bob's 'Ballet' comment, he does two, big, one-footed hops on his right leg, with his left leg extended up and back, flexed at the knee. He is on the outer slope of the crater, hopping toward the rim. After the second hop, he loses his balance and falls on his hands and knees. Clearly, he is playing. Fendell pans away.] 144:56:46 Schmitt (Asking Bob about his ballet style): How's that? Apollo 17 - EVA-2 - Station 4, Shorty Crater - Orange soil vs gray soil 145:36:14 Parker: 17, Houston. We'd like to get the double core here instead of the small can. Double core, please, instead of the small can. 145:36:23 Cernan: Okay. 145:36:24 Schmitt: Did you want it in the orange? 145:36:26 Parker: Roger. That's affirm. We can put cores in gray soil all the time.
Apollo 17 - EVA-2 - Close-out - 500mm Lens Gene Cernan is taking photos of North Massif with the 500mm lens. Motion caused by the winder can been seen at the end of the lens. 147:38:21 Parker: ...Tell Gene that we can confirm that his lens cover's off. [As can be seen in the TV, the lens cap is hanging free, attached to the barrel of the lens with a strap. After finishing a sequence of South Massif photos, Gene turns his attention to the North Massif, taking a right-to-left sequence starting just west of Wessex Cleft. He actually does three sequences of the summit area and then finishes up with a sequence across the face of the mountain, starting to the left of the large boulder track. AS17-144- 22105 to 22132 are his North Massif pictures. Frame 22129 shows the boulder track.] 147:38:32 Schmitt: Okay. (To Gene) They confirm that your lens cover's off. [Needless to say, Gene can hear Bob perfectly well. The humor here is exceedingly dry.]
Apollo 17 EVA-3 Traverse to Station 6 - Keep Station 8 164:36:19 Schmitt: I wouldn't eliminate Station 8 for the world - or the Moon - whatever's available today.
Apollo 17 - Harrison Hagan Schmitt, Apollo 17 Poet Laureate 183:36:46 Schmitt: Hey, Gordy. In honor of one of your comm handovers last night, and in the tradition of Apollo 8, I've got a paraphrase of a familiar poem for you. 183:37:01 Fullerton: Okay; go ahead. 183:37:03 Schmitt: Well, "It's the week before Christmas and all through the LM, not a commander was stirring, not even Cernan. The samples were stowed in their places with care, in hopes that with you, they soon will be there. And Gene in his hammock and I in my cap, had just settled our brains for a short lunar nap. But up on the comm loop there rose such a clatter, I sprang from my hammock, to see what was the matter. The Sun on the breast of the surface below, gave the luster of objects, as if in snow. And what to my wondering eyes should appear, but a miniature Rover and eight tiny reindeer. And a little old driver so lively and quick, I knew in a moment, it must be St. Nick. I heard him exclaim as over the hills he did speed. Merry Christmas to all and to you all Godspeed." 183:38:22 Fullerton: Very good.
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Post by Kiwi on Jun 17, 2008 11:12:23 GMT -4
Apollo 11 - Monsters, moose, foggy windows and slumps 76:08:xx PAO (Riley): We're seven minutes from acquisition time. 76:08:37 Armstrong (on-board): What a spectacular view! 76:08:48 Collins (on-board): God, look at that moon! 76:09:xx PAO (Riley): If Apollo 11 achieved only a partial burn, we could receive a signal any time so we will continue to stay up until acquisition time of 76 hours, 15 minutes, 29 seconds. That time is the initial acquisition time, but it could take a little longer to lock onto the signal for voice communications. We are four minutes away now. 76:09:20 Collins (on-board): Fantastic. Look back there behind us, sure looks like a gigantic crater; look at the mountains going around it. My gosh, they're monsters. 76:09:58 Armstrong (on-board): See that real big - - 76:10:01 Collins (on-board): Yes, there's a moose down here you just wouldn't believe. There's the biggest one yet. God, it's huge! It is enormous! It's so big I can't even get it in the window. You want to look at that? That's the biggest one you ever seen in your life. Neil? God, look at this central mountain peak. 76:10:xx PAO (Riley): There are a few conversations taking place here in the control room, but not very many. Most of the people are waiting quietly, watching and listening. Not talking. 76:10:23 MS (on-board): ... 76:10:24 Collins (on-board): Isn't that a huge one? 76:10:26 Armstrong (on-board): Look at the ... Did you get some pictures of that? 76:10:29 Collins (on-board): Yes, I just took one. Can take another one here when he gets around a little better. It's fantastic! 76:10:35 Armstrong (on-board): That's kind of a foggy window. 76:10:37 Collins (on-board): That's a horrible window. It's too bad we have to shoot through this one, but - Oh, boy, you could spend a lifetime just geologizing that one crater alone, you know that? 76:10:51 Armstrong (on-board): You could. 76:10:53 Collins (on-board): That's not how I'd like to spend my lifetime, but - picture that. Beautiful! 76:11:01 Aldrin (on-board): Yes, there's a big mother over here, too. 76:11:07 Collins (on-board): Come on now, Buzz, don't refer to them as big mothers; give them some scientific name. 76:11:17 Aldrin (on-board): It sure looks like a lot of them have slumped down. 76:11:20 Collins (on-board): A slumping big mother. Well, you see those every once in a while.
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Post by laurel on Jun 17, 2008 13:38:22 GMT -4
Apollo 11 00 05 23 48 Armstrong: Down in the control center you might want to join us in wishing Dr. George Mueller a happy birthday. 00 05 23 55 McCandless: Roger. We are standing by for your birthday greetings. 00 05 24 05 Armstrong: I think today is also the birthday of California, and I believe they are 200 years old, and we send them a happy birthday. And I think it's Dr. Mueller's birthday, also, and I don't think he is that old.
Apollo 12 133:10:01 Conrad: I've got the LM in sight to my 10 o'clock. (Pause) You know what I feel like, Al? 133:10:11 Bean: What? 133:10:12 Conrad: (Chuckling) Did you ever see those pictures of giraffes running in slow motion? 133:10:16 Bean: That's about right. 133:10:17 Conrad: That's exactly what I feel like. (Giggles) 133:10:21 Gibson: Say, would you giraffes give us some comment on your boot penetration as you move across there - what you're doing now, and what (penetration) you had back there at Sharp Crater?
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Post by laurel on Jun 17, 2008 21:48:24 GMT -4
Apollo 15 165:33:41 Scott: Okay. Lens is reasonably clean. And I'll brush it off anyway. (Pause) 165:33:52 Allen: Roger. (Deadpan) That or blow on it. 165:33:57 Scott: Oh, that's better. (Playfully blowing on the camera) There. 165:34:03 Allen: Outstanding. [Blowing on something doesn't do much good when you're wearing a helmet.]
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Post by Ginnie on Jun 17, 2008 21:51:47 GMT -4
I remember reading this in a book not too long ago.
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Post by laurel on Jun 18, 2008 16:23:18 GMT -4
Apollo 11 02 00 10 37 Collins: How's the old Green Team this morning? Did you have a quiet night? 02 00 10 40 McCandless: Yes. It was a very quiet night. Down here the old Black Team is complaining they didn't get a chance to make any transmissions. Ron Evans is getting . . . 02 00 10 53 Collins: Well, we'll be seeing them tomorrow, I guess. 02 00 10 56 McCandless: Yes. Ron's getting to be known as the silent CapCom. 02 00 11 03 Collins: That's the best kind, Bruce. 02 00 11 05 McCandless: (Laughter) Okay.
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