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Post by laurel on Oct 28, 2008 18:46:12 GMT -4
Good point!
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Post by laurel on Nov 5, 2008 0:11:23 GMT -4
Apollo 13 05 19 16 47 Joe Kerwin: Okay, Aquarius, Houston. With the present amount of power you've got in the LM, which is over 500 amp-hours, and the rate you're using them, we figure you've got almost 12 hours of power left. Lovell: 12 hours, huh? We could re-enter with it. Kerwin: That's affirm. That's enough for two touch-and-goes and a full stop, Jim. Lovell: That's right, Joe; if you could dig a crater like Cone Crater, I might could hit it. Kerwin: (laughter) Okay.
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Post by PeterB on Apr 30, 2009 12:13:03 GMT -4
On Apollo 12
057:24:56 Bean: How about asking the food experts down there, we had a can of tuna fish spread salad last night, and there's about a half a can left today, and that stuff's still good to eat, isn't it?
057:25:10 Lind: We'll check. I'll be right back with you.
057:25:15 Bean: Thank you. [Long pause.]
057:25:32 Lind: 12?
057:25:36 Bean: Go ahead.
057:25:37 Lind: The surgeon suggests you try a new one. New can. [Pause.]
057:25:52 Bean: Well, Dick has this one in his hot hand, and we just opened it last night. You sure that one isn't all right?
057:29:42 Lind: Apollo 12, Houston.
057:29:46 Bean: Go ahead.
057:29:48 Lind: We're still checking with some people down here whether there's, any problem over that tuna fish, but why don't you hold off eating it until we get a better answer for you?
057:29:56 Bean: Okay.
[Long comm break.] Public Affairs Office - "This is Apollo Control, Houston; at 57 hours, 35 minutes now into the flight of Apollo 12. We currently show Apollo 12 at 168,650 nautical miles above the Earth. It's velocity now reading 2,642 feet per second..."
Public Affairs Office - "This is Apollo Control, Houston. At least for now, the consumption of tuna fish spread one-day opened remains an open item. We'll keep you posted on developments. At 57 hours, 37 minutes into the flight, this is Apollo control Houston."
057:39:25 Lind: Apollo 12, Houston. [Long pause.]
057:40:12 Lind: Apollo 12, Houston.
057:40:18 Conrad: Go ahead.
057:40:20 Lind: You can't imagine what consternation your tuna fish question has raised down here. We have a wide diversity of opinion.
057:40:26 Conrad: I decided it was...
057:40:29 Lind: The...
057:40:30 Gordon: I decided it was okay.
057:40:32 Lind: Well, we have a vote that it's okay. The majority says throw it away; there's a minority report that says everybody can eat it except Dick Gordon.
057:40:41 Conrad: Okay. That's done.
057:40:43 Lind: Roger. They recommend that you probably throw it away.
057:40:50 Conrad: Okay.
[Very long comm break.] Public Affairs Office - "This is Apollo Control, Houston; at 1 - at 57 hours, 44 minutes into the flight of Apollo 12. Apollo 12's altitude now reads 168,882 nautical miles. Its velocity now 2,635 feet per second. We've closed the "tuna fish question".
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Post by PeterB on Apr 30, 2009 12:16:20 GMT -4
Another from Apollo 12
092:07:53 Lind: Hey, listen. We've got one idea down here on the O2 consumption rate that we'd like to get your comments on. The suggestion was that, last night while you guys were asleep, the metabolic rates indicated that one of you was dreaming, probably about scuba diving, and that we think you were dreaming about petting a moray eel; and in the hyperventilation, you sucked up too much of the oxygen.
092:08:27 Conrad: Okay, tell David, David, that I'll go along with that one.
092:08:31 Lind: Roger. [Pause.]
092:08:42 Conrad: I suspect that it's this urine device thing - we're just out of the habit of leaving it on to keep it flushed out. It doesn't flush out very well, so we've been leaving it on, and we usual don't bother to shut it down until the O2 High Flow comes on or something; that takes awhile. But that probably doesn't account for all of it.
092:09:12 Lind: The practical people would be impressed with that. Most of us like the moray eel theory better.
092:09:20 Conrad: Okay, I'll go along with that.
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Post by Obviousman on May 8, 2009 2:04:07 GMT -4
Whilst writing up my notes for the Apollo 10 flight (which I'll share later) I found this little gem:
07:02:31 CAPCOM: "Roger. And 10, if you'd be interested, there's just a possibility of a waste-water dump during TV"
07:02:42 CDR: "Okay, great."
07:02:49 CDR: "We could substitute another kind if you want to…"
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Post by laurel on May 18, 2009 23:15:30 GMT -4
Apollo 10
(During the first TV transmission)
004:09:41 Cernan: Charlie, we're looking for the Earth right now. We'd like to show it too, but we can't find it.
004:09:45 Duke: Roger. It's down there somewhere.
004:09:49 Young: That's a smart comment.
004:09:52 Duke: Ask the navigator. He should know.
004:09:57 Young: He's the housekeeper right now.
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Post by laurel on May 23, 2009 18:27:27 GMT -4
Apollo 12
084:25:00 Bean: I'll move a little bit around and see if I can - here's some of those mountains we talked about earlier that look like, from the distance, like little clouds over the Mare. You can see how bright they are relative to the Mare surface; and, maybe even on the TV, they look like puffy clouds. However, they're not. They look like hard rock down there.
084:25:20 Weitz: Roger. Understand they are not clouds.
084:25:25 Bean: [Laughter].
(Later)
092:07:26 Lind: Hey, Al, on our TV broadcast, when you were commenting about mountains looking like clouds, were you aware that those mountains were in the Sea of Clouds?
092:07:39 Bean: No. I guess that's where it got its name, huh?
092:07:44 Lind: We thought you had planned a pun for us.
092:07:49 Bean: No, I wasn't smart enough for that.
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Post by tevildo on Jul 19, 2009 18:05:26 GMT -4
One thing that always amuses me is NASA's fairly unsophisticated search-and-replace Bowdlerization of Pete Conrad's language. I hope the asterisks are sufficient to meet the forum rules here - if not, mods, please delete this posting. 091:28:35 Conrad (onboard): Oh, you stupid son of a b*tch! God d*mn, these things are really about to p*ss me off! I get that c*ck-s*ck*r open, and the son of a b*tch shuts up again, and I'm - I really spend more freaking time trying to put g*dd*m water bags together than anything else. (Emphasis added).
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Post by LunarOrbit on Jul 19, 2009 19:14:11 GMT -4
I'll allow it... it is Pete after all. I think today is the 10th anniversary of his death, isn't it? I remember he died just a day or two before the 30th anniversary of Apollo 11.
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Post by laurel on Jul 19, 2009 19:17:37 GMT -4
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Post by LunarOrbit on Jul 19, 2009 19:22:36 GMT -4
Ah, yes, my memory is playing tricks on me again. Makes me think about how the HBs will pounce on every little mistake the 70 year old astronauts make when recalling events that happened 40 years ago. I'm only 33 and can't remember some of the things I did last week.
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Post by tevildo on Jul 19, 2009 19:54:40 GMT -4
A couple more good ones from Pete:
110:10:57 Conrad: You can turn the mirror on; give me the fox-corpen, and we got the hook down. 110:11:02 Carr: Roger. 110:11:06 Gordon: Roger. Fox-corpen, 285. Clear deck.
110:28:55 Conrad: (Garbled) you're out at 10,000 feet. Hook up your lanyard.
115:22:16 Conrad: (As he lands) Whoopie! Man, that may have been a small one for Neil, but that's a long one for me.
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Post by laurel on Aug 10, 2009 22:02:25 GMT -4
Apollo 1106 11 36 42 CapCom Charlie Duke: The focus is a little bit out. We see the Earth in the center of the screen. Still have a little white dot in the bottom of the camera, apparently. And see some landmasses in the center, at least I guess that's what it is. It's very hazy at this time on our Eidephor. Over. 06 11 37 06 Duke: Let me change - - 06 11 37 07 Mike Collins: Believe that's where we just came from. 06 11 37 10 Duke: It is, huh? Well, I'm really looking at the bad - at a bad screen here. Stand by one. Hey, you're right. 06 11 37 34 Collins: It's not bad enough not finding the right landing spot - - 06 11 37 35 Duke: ... screen now. 06 11 37 42 Collins: It's not bad enough not finding the right landing spot when you haven't even got the right planet! 06 11 37 46 Duke: I'll never live that one down.* 06 11 37 55 Collins: We're making it get smaller and smaller here to make sure that it really is the one we're leaving. 06 11 38 02 Duke: All right. That's enough you guys. * I think he was right, read the following... Apollo 12003:33:55 Carr: Apollo 12, Houston. We're having a little trouble recognizing things here. How about giving us a little travelogue? 003:34:01 Gordon: Well, that's the Earth you're looking at, friend. 003:34:04 Carr: Oh, I thought it was the Moon. 003:34:07 Gordon: Charlie is not working again, is he?
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Post by Obviousman on Aug 21, 2009 18:11:47 GMT -4
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Post by homobibiens on Aug 21, 2009 23:16:23 GMT -4
One of them looks like someone I know.
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