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Post by laurel on Jun 23, 2008 23:58:36 GMT -4
Apollo 16 147:59:03 Duke: If you'll pan left, we'll show you the rock we're going to sneak up on. 147:59:12 England: (Joking) Don't scare it.
124:49:42 Young: (about the LRV) It's just like driving on snow, Houston. By golly! 124:49:48 England: Gee, I know all about that. 124:49:53 Young: I know you do; but us Florida boys (chuckling) don't know much about it.
123:52:47 England: Boy, my kids don't get as dirty as you are. 123:52:52 Duke: (Laughing) Well, I bet they don't have as much fun, either. 123:52:58 England: I bet you're right!
Apollo 17 118:07:15 Cernan: Well, how's my cooling doing? I'd like to stay on Intermediate, Bob. I feel pretty comfortable. I'm not cold, but I'm pleasant. 118:07:22 Schmitt: (Guffawing) Pleasant? He thinks he's pleasant?
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Post by Kiwi on Jun 24, 2008 5:39:01 GMT -4
Apollo 17
Gene Cernan is hammering the flag staff into the ground. 118:21:48 Schmitt: Whang! I think we hit something solid with that one. 118:21:49 Cernan: No, it was still going. 118:21:51 Schmitt: Yeah, but did you ever see it vibrate like that? 118:21:56 Cernan: No, I've never put a flag up on the Moon before.
Cernan and Schmitt are trying to extract the core sample. Schmitt loses his balance and spins to the ground. With legs flailing, he kicks the drill-stem rack on the way down. 121:01:11 Cernan: (Both laughing) Okay, okay, okay. [Cernan - "This part -- where Jack spins around and falls [bad word deleted]-over teakettle -- was the funniest thing in the world."]
Cernan and Schmitt outbound to Camelot Crater 140:44:53 Cernan: Oh, what a nice day. (Somebody burps) 140:44:57 Schmitt: (Both laughing) Funny, there's not a cloud in the sky.
EVA-3 Station 9 - Five More Minutes Not so much a joke, but good humour when time constraints clash with a useful find. One of those times when the engineers are exasperated and the geologists are delighted. Heavily edited. 168:28:22 Parker: (After a great deal of discussion in Houston) Okay, 17. We'd like you to press on. We'll abort the radial sample. We'd like to leave here immediately, if not sooner, to head for Station 10... ...168:29:21 Cernan: Jack, you ought to get a scoop of that dirt, though. ...168:29:36 Schmitt: Yeah, we'll get a scoop of it. ...168:29:39 Parker: 17, we're anxious for you guys to get going. ...168:29:59 Schmitt: Come here, Gene, quickly. We can't leave this. 168:30:02 Cernan: What do you got? 168:30:06 Schmitt: This may be the youngest mantle over whatever was... thrown out of the crater. 168:30:13 Cernan: Take pictures of it. Bob, we've got to take 5 more minutes. We'll be right with you. ...[Schmitt - (Laughing) "It doesn't take much to get your enthusiasm back up. Because, all of a sudden, there's a whole different tone in my voice. It may be a combination of having seen something different and the fact that Houston's now put some pressure on us to get out of there."] [Cernan - "It also shows that you've got to have someone on the spot to make a decision. They're saying get out and we're saying 'Sorry, guys, we're not going to get out for five minutes because we've got something we think is worthwhile.' That's the way you have to operate. The ground is an advisor; it's a flight planner; it's a lot of things. But you've got to make the decisions of what you're going to do with your time."] ...168:32:11 Cernan: You with us, Bob? 168:32:12 Parker: Roger. We're with you. 168:32:13 Schmitt: He's mad at us now. 168:32:16 Parker: How'd you guess? [Houston has been discussing a possible extension at this station. However, the Flight Director is concerned about tired hands.] ...168:32:29 Schmitt: Bob, a possibility here is that this upper 6 inches of gray material, in here, is the latest mantling in the area and the light-colored debris may be what's left over from the (Van Serg) impact. 168:32:45 Parker: Okay, I copy. I understand. But we'd like to get you going. (Pause) In case you didn't get the clue. 168:32:51 Schmitt: I know. 168:32:52 Cernan: We're going. As it turned out, they didn't go immediately. Houston changed its mind and cancelled Station 10.
"Good morning" from the Lunar Module on the moon to Mission Control 183:29:59 LM Crew: (Sung with occasionally successful harmony) "Good morning to you; Good morning to you; Good morning, Dear Gordy, Good morning to you."
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Post by Jason on Jul 1, 2008 18:01:49 GMT -4
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Post by Ginnie on Jul 1, 2008 19:27:47 GMT -4
I don't think Pravda is the voice of the government it used to be.
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Post by laurel on Jul 3, 2008 20:03:08 GMT -4
Apollo 17118:41:00 Cernan: Say, Bob, what do you think of the terrain? 118:41:03 Parker: Looks flat. Looks very flat and smooth. 118:41:11 Cernan: That's why you're an astronomer. 118:41:13 Schmitt: That's why you're... (Laughs; Gene has beaten him to the joke). Oh, well. [Cernan - "This was not an old joke; but here I am, on the lunar surface in this big, mountainous terrain, and he's telling me it looks flat and smooth!"]That's an interesting new avatar, Ginnie.
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Post by Ginnie on Jul 3, 2008 20:08:36 GMT -4
Thanks. And do you notice that the flag doesn't move?
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Post by PhantomWolf on Jul 4, 2008 9:19:43 GMT -4
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Post by Grand Lunar on Jul 4, 2008 18:43:16 GMT -4
Learned of this one from whom I presume was Alan Bean in one of the interviews as seen in the special features of "In the Shadow of the Moon".
The back up crew wanted to keep things in high spirits. So, appearently they made an "addition" to the checklists of the Apollo 12 astronauts (the ones on the wrists of the suits).
While turning through the pages to see what tasks were needed, Bean came across a page that had, as he described it, a playboy bunny. With the page was an instruction list of what to observe, in geological jargon. Bean didn't say a word of this. Instead, he went to his companion, who also showed the same thing in his checklist. Not a word was mentioned about this; they simply laughed. The idea of not saying a thing about the find was that they didn't want some little old ladies to think that their tax dollars were spent on sending such material to the moon.
To me, this shows a very human side of the astronauts. One HBs will never realize.
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Post by laurel on Jul 4, 2008 18:46:06 GMT -4
Apollo 16 146:00:56 Young: You want to take off and go that way now? I can't see nothing. I got my visor down. 146:01:05 Duke: Oh, I'm sorry. Okay, now hook a left. No, not through this crater. Ha, ha. 146:01:10 Young: Yeah. 146:01:13 Duke: Right on the other side of this crater. 146:01:14 Young: Kind of expect trouble from backseat drivers. 146:02:41 Young: Okay. (Long Pause) Like driving a camel. 146:02:55 Duke: Yeah. [The undulating, cratered terrain is giving them a bouncy ride.] [Jones - "I have to ask. Had you ever ridden a camel?"] [Duke - "Not up to this time. I've ridden one later, and it doesn't remind me of riding a camel. I don't know what he's talking about."] [Journal Contributor David Harland suggests an alternative explanation. Noting John's "backseat driver" comment at 146:01:14, David writes "John's just been given hasty instructions to make a turn, and went around the 'wrong' side of the crater. For the next minute or so, there is a debate between Duke and England about precisely where they'd best go and, when John says "It's like driving a camel", John is referring to a camel being 'a horse designed by a committee', and he's saying that he's having to drive with a committee of backseat drivers."]I actually didn't notice the flag in your avatar, Ginnie, I guess I was too busy looking at the spooky shadow.
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Post by Czero 101 on Jul 4, 2008 22:05:17 GMT -4
While turning through the pages to see what tasks were needed, Bean came across a page that had, as he described it, a playboy bunny. With the page was an instruction list of what to observe, in geological jargon. Bean didn't say a word of this. Instead, he went to his companion, who also showed the same thing in his checklist. Not a word was mentioned about this; they simply laughed. The idea of not saying a thing about the find was that they didn't want some little old ladies to think that their tax dollars were spent on sending such material to the moon. To me, this shows a very human side of the astronauts. One HBs will never realize. Here are some low res pics of photocopies of Pete Conrad's and Al Bean's Cuff Checklist Playmate (images courtesy of the ALSJ): A note from LunarOrbit: Sorry, Czero101, but I had to change the images to hyperlinks. They could be violations of the Proboards Terms of Service. Also, if someone viewed them from work they could get into some trouble, so giving people a warning before linking to such images is a good idea.
The following links lead to images containing nudity.Pete's first playmate: www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a12/a12.cdrcuf08.jpgPete's second playmate: www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a12/a12.cdrcuf15.jpg(Pics of Al Bean's Cuff Checklist are of much better quality and are larger so I have re-sized them to fit here) Here's Al Bean's first playmate: www.digitalafterimage.com/A-12/a12.lmpcuf08rs.jpgAnd Al's second playmate: www.digitalafterimage.com/A-12/a12.lmpcuf14rs.jpgIamges and pdf's of both full checklists can be found here: www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a12/cuff12.htmlThey also had some pretty funny little cartoons drawn on various pages of the checklists, as can be seen above and in detail on the ALSJ page linked above. Cz
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Post by laurel on Jul 4, 2008 23:17:58 GMT -4
It's like Gemini 10, when Mike Collins and John Young were getting ready for their first sleep period and they found out the window shades had Playboy pin-ups on them.
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Post by Czero 101 on Jul 5, 2008 4:03:45 GMT -4
A note from LunarOrbit: Sorry, Czero101, but I had to change the images to hyperlinks. They could be violations of the Proboards Terms of Service. Also, if someone viewed them from work they could get into some trouble, so giving people a warning before linking to such images is a good idea. [ Maxwell Smart mode: Activate] Sorry about that, Chief... [ Maxwell Smart mode: Deactivate] Wasn't even thinking about the whole nudity / TOS issue... won't happen again.. Cz
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Post by Kiwi on Jul 5, 2008 5:42:17 GMT -4
Pete's first playmate Pete's second playmate Here's Al Bean's first playmate And Al's second playmate And for those who are interested in details of the Apollo missions, the Playmates are identified here: Playboy Playmates on the Moon. Not knowing, initially, that the checklist photostats came from the 1970 Playmate calendar, nor having access to it, meant casting a wide net and critically examining a large number of [Playboy] photos from 1966 to 1969, and it was only a dogged determination to solve this particular Apollo mystery that enabled the completion of such a tiresome and onerous task...
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Post by graham2001 on Jul 7, 2008 11:24:43 GMT -4
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Post by Ginnie on Jul 7, 2008 12:45:39 GMT -4
Interesting story. For awhile there I thought the inhabitants of the other room might have been Grissom, White and Chaffee.
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