CONFIDENTIAL

COMPOSITE AIR-TO-GROUND AND ONBOARD

VOICE TAPE TRANSCRIPTION

OF THE GT-3

MISSION

Approved by:

Authorized for Distribution by:

Uona,.Ld K. 81
Assistant Dire
Flight Crew Oper

NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION

MANNED SPACECRAFTCENTER
HOUSTON, TEXAS
APRIL , 1965

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GT-3 COMMUNICATIONS TRANSCRIPT

The transcription of GT-3 air to ground voice communications was derived

from spacecraft and ground station voice recorder tapes.

The following is a breakdown of the format of the transcription:

a. Column 1 - Elapsed time from launch in hours, minutes,

and seconds.

b. Column 2 - Communicator, identified as follows:

c - Command Pilot
P - Pilot
CC - Capsule Communicator
RA - Recovery Aircraft
RS - Recovery Ship

C. Column 3 - Text of communication.

Within the text, a series of three dots (... ) indicates the transmission
could not be deciphered. Two dashes (--) indicate a time pause and/or
a change in thought. Parentheses are used to designate information not
a part of the communications, but included to clarify certain communi-
cations.

For ease of reference, the station in contact with the spacecraft is

designated at the initiation of communications. At the top right hand
corner of each page is shown the station (s) in contact and the pass
number or mission phase.

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MCC-Launch

CAPEKENNEDY

10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0
00 00 00 cc Bolts and lift-off.

00 00 02 C Roger. Clock is started.

00 00 12 C There's the roll program.

00 00 13 cc Roger. Roll.

00 00 22 C okay. Roll is completed,

00 00 23 cc Roger. Roll complete.

00 00 25 C There goes the pitch.

oo oo 26 cc Roger. Pitch. You're on your way, Molly Brown.

00 00 29 C Yeah man!

00 00 50 cc Plus 50 seconds.

00 00 52 C Roger. Mode II delay.

00 00 55 cc Roger.

oo 00 56 P Cabin pressure is holding at 6.0, climbing just a

little.

00 00 59 cc Roger.

00 01 18 C It just got quiet.

00 01 21 cc Roger.

00 01 29 P Cabin pressure relieving at 6.5.

00 01 41 cc 1 + 40.

00 01 43 C Roger. Mode II.

00 01 44 cc Roger.

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00 01 48 P First DCS update received.

00 01 53 cc Roger. Update.

00 02 02 cc You're a little bit high on the flight path, but

no problem, Molly Brown.

00 02 05 c Okay, Molly Brown's GO for staging.

00 02 07 cc Roger. Looks good from here.

00 02 09 c Roger.

00 02 28 P Second update received.

00 02 29 cc Roger. Update.

00 02 35 c Okay, there was staging.

00 02 37 cc Roger. Stage.

00 02 39 c And, we're thrusting.

00 02 41 cc okay. Thrust looks good from here.

00 02 51 P FDI shows full scale pitch attitude error.

00 02 53 c Okay. We're starting to steer.

00 02 58 C Horizon comes right into view.

00 03 00 cc Roger.

00 03 02 P RGS is GO!

00 03 04 cc Looks good from here.

00 03 05 c Oh, man! Look at that horizon.

00 03 07 cc Steering is good from here.

00 03 31 c Hey, we're moving right along that horizon.

00 0;s 33 cc Roger.

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co 03 53 c What did you say, Gordo?

00 03 54 cc Pretty big throttle you got there, huh?

00 03 56 c Yes.

00 04 18 CC Roger. Molly Brown you're GC from here.

00 04 21 c Roger. Molly Brown is GO.

00 04 22 cc Roger.

00 04 48 CC Steering right down the old line.

00 04 50 c Okay.

oo 04 56 c Yeah, you can see the view real well. The nose
dropped below the horizon a little bit. Now it's
back up above.

00 05 04 cc Roger. Stand by for my mark on 0.8.

oo 05 06 c Roger.

00 05 09 cc MAFX 0.8.

00 05 10 c Good show.

00 05 11 cc Roger.

00 05 26 cc Looks good.

00 05 34 c SECO.

00 05 36 cc Roger. Showing a good one here.

00 05 55 cc Roger. You are GO, Molly Brown.

00 05 59 c One seven.

00 06 06 cc Roger.

00 06 lo c Okay. We are separated.

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oo 06 15 CC Roger. Pairings.

oo 06 21 c There went all fairings.

oo 06 22 CC Okay, fine.

oo 06 24 cc You have the IVI's?

00 06 29 c Okay. 17 ft/sec at SECO, and I have 29 ft/sec now.

00 06 37 cc Roger. 23 d0kn-s

00 06 42 c That's 3 down, 7 right.

00 06 47 CC Roger. 3 down, 7 right.

oo 06 49 c And 29 aft. Right.

oo 06 50 CC And 23 aft. Okay.

oo 06 54 P And the attitude on the ball is 18" nose down.

00 07 23 cc Roger. We have an 87 by 125 orbit, Molly Brown.

00 07 40 cc Molly Brown, Cape CAP COM.

00 07 43 cc Roger. You have an 87 by 125 orbit. I'll get you

One-Alpha shortly.

00 07 45 c Roger.

00 07 54 cc Roger. New One-Alpha time is elapsed time of 18:12.

18 minutes, 12 seconds.

00 08 05 C Roger. 18:12.

00 08 06 CC Roger. Write fast, John.

00 08 39 C That horizon is right where they said it would be.

00 08 43 P Yes.

oo 08 46 c Let's see, have we got everything on this checklist,

John? Let's see --retrorockets safe. Yes.

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00 08 52 P Yes.

00 08 54 C OAMS power-- ATTITUDE.

00 08 56 P Maneuver controller--stowed. Sequence lights--test,

00 09 03 c Arm restraints, face plates--open.

00 09 05 P Secondary O2 bottle is closed. I've got mine.

Waste valve to NORMAL.

00 09 22 cc Molly Brown, Cape CAP COM.

00 09 25 c GO, Cape CAP COM.

00 09 27 cc Look better there than on a ballistic flight?

00 09 30 c Say again.

00 09 31 cc Does it look better from there than on : ballistic

flight?

00 09 37 c I can't read you, Cordo.

00 09 38 CC Roger. How-do-it-look?

00 09 41 c It look great!

00 09 43 cc Rog.

00 09 44 p Computer--PRELAUNCH. High frequency is off. Antenna

selector to ADAPTER.

00 09 53 P Cape CAP COM, how do you read on adapter antenna?

Over.

oo 10 06 P Cape CAP COM, Molly Brown. Over.

00 10 09 c Maybe we lost 'em,

00 10 10 P Yes.

00 10 14 c Man, it's hard to watch that gyro.

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00 10 15 P Yes.

00 10 23 c Guess you've got to stow the drogue pins, huh?

00 10 24 P Yes. Stow those drogue pins.

00 10 34 cc Molly Brown, Cape CAP COM.

oo 10 36 c Cape CAP COM, Molly Brown. How do you read?

00 10 45 c Cape CAP COM, Molly Brown. How do you read?

00 10 50 c Better go to reentry antenna.

00 10 51 P Okay.

00 10 55 c Cape CAP COM, how do you read Molly Brown?

00 10 59 c I think we've lost them now. Let's leave it on

adapter antenna and we'll try at Canaries.

00 11 04 P Okay.

00 11 08 C Let's get lined up here.

00 11 19 P I'll put the mains to OFF and see what we've got.
Look here, we've still got a . . . I want to put
these off. I'll put them off one at a time, or
we may drop voltage.

00 11 41 c What's our time coming in to the Canaries?

00 11 48 P Time is 14 something. Just a second. Okay,

Canary is 14:50 acquisition. Los 21:42.

00 12 10 c Okay.

00 12 18 C I'd say I was alined pretty good, wouldn't you?

00 12 20 P Yes.

00 12 42 P Great!

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00 13 24 P Shoot, Gus, I can't get my blood pressure bulb in.

I really can't.

00 13 33 c It wants to keep yawing us all the time.

00 13 34 P Huh.?

oo 13 36 c It wants to keep yawing us all the time.

00 13 37 p Yes.

00 14 07 c We must have a leak.

oo 14 08 P What kind of leak?

00 14 19 P Okay.

00 14 37 c You want the plotboard?

00 14 40 P Yes.

00 14 45 c If I can get it out.

00 14 49 P The intercom is noisy, isn't it?

00 14 54 c I can't get the plotboard out of there.

00 15 01 c I can't get it out, John.

00 15 03 P Can't get the plotboard out?

00 15 07 c I'll darn sure never get it in. Oh yes, there it

comes.

cANARYIsLANJx

oo 15 16 cc Molly Brown, Canary CAP COM. How do you read?

00 15 19 c Canary CAP COM, this is Molly Brown. How do you

read?

00 15 22 cc Roger. Read you loud and clear, Molly Brown.

00 15 27 C I read you the same.

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00 15 28 CC We have your T/M solid and all systems look good

on the ground.

00 15 31 c Okay, we look pretty good up here.

00 15 32 cc I have your 2-l time if you are ready to copy. Do

you copy, Molly Brown?

00 15 38 P Okay.

00 15 40 c Okay. Ready with 2-l.

00 15 41 cc Roger. AVl39. GMTRC 15 55 47. GEX'RC01 31 47.

Roll ieft 550. GMTRB 16 05 31. Roll right 65.
Did you copy?

00 16 13 c Did you get 'em?

oo 16 14 P Yes.

00 16 15 c There goes a planet up there.

00 16 20 c Did you get 'em?

00 16 21 P Roger.

00 16 25 cc Molly Brown, Canary CAP COM.

00 16 28 C We're getting ready to read them back to you.

00 16 29 cc Roger.

00 16 30 P Roger. N of 139. GMT of 16-belay that--15 55 47.

00 16 39 cc Molly Brown, Canary CAP COM. Request you place

your radiator switch to the FLOW position.

00 16 45 P Roger. Radiator is in FLOW position. Has been the

whole pass.

oo 16 55 P It's cooling us right down too. It's working.

00 17 00 P Reading back a GMT of &l--l5 55 47 GMTRC. GMTRB

is 16 05 21. Bank angle 55" left and right 650.
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00 17 30 cc Molly Brown, Canary CAP COM. We are standing by for

your UHF Corn Check. Do you copy?

00 17 35 p Roger. We are on UHF #2. Have been the whole pass.

Over. (Pilot was in RECORD on No, 2 audio).

00 17 49 cc Molly Brown, Canary CAP COM.

00 17 51 c Go ahead.

00 17 51 P I don't think they read me.

00 17 52 cc Roger. We are standing by for your UHF Corn Check,

and would you place your radiator switch to your
FLOW position?

00 17 59 c Roger. John has been answering all of those. He's

just in RECORD.

00 18 03 P Roger. The radiator has been in FLOW the whole pass.

The UHF has been on No. 2 the whole pass. Over.

00 18 14 cc Roger. Copy you loud and clear, Molly Brown. We

are standing by for your blood pressure.

00 18 20 P Roger. Blood pressure is coming down.

00 18 32 cc Molly Brown, Canary CAP COM. Be advised, on your

15 second burn you achieved a 12.6 ft/sec. Did
you copy?

00 18 41 c Roger. Understand. I seem to have a leak. There

must be a leak in one of the thrusters, because I
get a continuous yaw left.

00 18 53 CC Roger. Understand that you get a continuous yaw

left.

00 18 57 C Very slight. Very alow drift.

00 18 59 CC Roger.

00 19 13 cc Molly Brown, Canary CAP COM. I have your radiator

temperatures, if you are ready to copy.
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00 19 19 C Roger.

00 19 20 cc Roger. Your radiator outlet temperature if off-

scale high. Your radiator inlet is 74.

00 19 30 C Roger. Off-scale high. Going back to BY-PASS on

radiator.

00 19 33 cc Roger. Understand.

00 19 47 CC Molly Brown, Canary CAP COM. Stand by to start your

clock at 20 minutes ground elapsed time. h my
mark.

00 20 00 cc MARK! Did you copy, Molly Brown?

00 20 04 C Roger. I copied, and sea urchin eggs activated.

00 20 08 cc Roger.

00 20 12 cc Be advised we have received your blood pressure,

Molly Brown.

00 20 16 C Roger.

00 20 18 C Radiator outlet temperature is off-scale high and

Greenwich Mean Time is 1445.

00 20 34 C Rate Command looks good.

00 20 48 C Okay. The control checks are completed.

00 20 55 C Do you still read, Canaries?

00 20 58 cc Molly Brown, Canary CAP COM.

00 21 00 C Roger. Control checks are completed and insertion

r checklist is completed too.

00 21 04 cc Roger. Understand.

00 21 07 cc I've been advised from the Cape you might put your
prop switch off and recycle a couple of times, and
it --might stop your leak.
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00 21 17 P It's not leaking.

oo 21 18 cc Did you copy Molly Esown?

00 2120 c I copied.

00 2125 P Here, Gus, let me get your drogue pin in.

oo 21 38 cc Molly Brown, Canary CAP COM, Do you copy?

00 2141 c Say again.

00 21 43 cc Roger. Can we have your sea urchin egg time again,

please?

oo 21 46 c Roger. 20 minutes elapsed.

00 21 48 cc Roger, Understand.

00 21 53 c We are over Africa, John,

00 21 54 P Yes.

00 21 59 P I knew I wouldn't get these pins stowed until we

were over Kano.

00 22 13 c There's all kinds of junk floating around in here.

00 22 15 P Man, I agree!

00 22 37 c If you'll give me the camera, I'll take a couple

of pictures.

00 22 42 P Okay. The waste valve is in NORMAL.

oo 22 56 c We've got a scanner ignore. Wonder what caused that.

Hey, we're pitching over and there's nothing I can
do about it.

00 23 14 P Scanner ignore is driving you?

00 23 17 C Yes.

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00 23 21 P Oh, I know what it was. My knee was hitting the

control stick, wasn't it?

00 23 24 c No, I don't think so. That would only be in Pulse

=9-w.

00 23 35 P We've got to get this pressure back up.

00 23 41 c Do we have a leak?

00 23 59 P It's this event they were talking about (Unexplained

cryogenic pressure decay on CT-2).

00 24 03 c Let's see.

00 24 04 P Look at the cabin pressure!

00 24 06 c What?

00 24 07 P We've lost the --.

00 24 09 c Lost what? What have we lost?

00 24 14 P Lost a prima.ry converter.

00 24 17 c Really?

00 24 18 P Yes.

00 24 23 P I'll get that heater off.

00 24 39 P Okay, I'll get the mains back off.

00 24 44 C Are you sure you didn't bump the converter to the

OFF position?

00 24 47 P That switch way up there?

00 24 48 C No, you couldn't, could you?

00 24 49 P No.

00 24 51 P Want to try it back on the primary and see what

happens?

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00 24 55 c That's how we lost it. Yes.

’ 00 24 58 P See? (Noted that primary dc-dc converter was still

inoperative.

00 24 59 c Yes.

002500 P Okay.
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002503 C Okay. That did it.

KSO-

00 25 07 cc Molly Brown, Cape CAP COM.

00 25 10 P HOW'S that circuit breaker set-up up there?

00 25 20 cc Molly Brown, Cape CAP COM.

00 25 20 c ...

00 25 22 P Yep.

00 2.5 40 cc Molly Brown, Cape CAP COM.

00 25 43 C Cape CAP COM, Molly Brown here.

00 25 46 cc Roger. HOW'S your status on that thruster?

00 25 50 c It's still GO. We're still drifting a little bit,

Gordo. It's not bad. I can hold it with hlse
with no problem. Hut we did lose our primary
dc-dc converter.

00 26 02 cc Roger. Lost your primary dc-dc.

00 26 05 c Roger.

00 26 07 cc Roger.

00 26 14 c That must not have been the scanner problem though.

00 26 17 cc Have you tried your circuit breaker, Gus, on that?

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00 26 22 c Yes, we have,

00 26 29 cc Molly Brown, have you tried your circuit breaker

to cut off that one erratic thruster.

00 26 33 C Negative.

00 26 36 c I don't know which one it is. Let's see--yaw left--

00 26 42 P Yaw left. It would be either OAJ!G No. 7 or 8.

00 26 50 c We're not getting any roll with it.

00 26 52 P It really is pitching up, isn't it?

00 26 53 C Yes, but it's stopping.

00 27 02 c That stopped it, all right.

00 27 04 P Yes.

00 27 14 r: I turned the auto heater back on.

00 27 20 P I should turn that off till the cryo pressure comes

down.

00 27 24 c Flight control loss.

00 28 42 c Now it's drifting us the other way.

00 30 04 P It's hard to see in here, isn't it?

00 30 44 c Can't pull it off? Can't you get it off?

00 32 33 P What time is it now?

00 32 47 C 32 elapsed.

00 33 14 c We're just about over . ..Africa.

00 33 17 P Over where?

00 33 19 c We'll cross the east coast of Africa here before long.

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00 33 55 p Hand me one of those towels over there in your box,

will you?

00 33 58 C Okay. Are they on top?

00 34 08 P No, they're baok in the baok.

00 34 46 c Hey! We're coming in on the night side.

TANANARIVE

00 35 08 CC Molly Brown, Cape CAP COM.

00 35 17 c Look at that night come up.

00 35 24 cc Molly Brown, Cape CAP COM.

00 35 27 C I read you okay, Gordo. How do you read Molly Brown?

00 35 29 CC Roger. How's your control system?

00 35 36 c Cape CAP COM. How do you read Molly Brown?

00 35 38 CC I'm reading you weak but readable.

00 35 45 c Yes, you are almost unreadable.

00 35 52 CC Say again, Molly Brown.

00 36 06 c I said I can read you, Gordo.

00 36 09 cc Roger, I'm barely reading you also.

00 36 18 cc How - 'is - your - control - system? Over.

00 36 26 c That stuff goes right on by us*

00 36 27 P Yes.

00 36 28 P Okay. That's right. Now I've got the suit closed.

00 37 18 C There is lightning out there.

00 37 19 P Yep.

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00 37 34 c Look at that stuff going by. Oh boy! Really does

sparkle doesn't it?

00 37 57 p Yes.

00 38 30 C Now you can see those thrusters firing back there.

00 38 30 C Now you give this blood pressure, don't you?

00 38 40 P I'll give it. You want me to give it?

00 38 44 C It says you do.

00 38 46 P It says Command--Oh! Oral temperature.

00 38 51 c Oh, I mean oral temp, John. Can you get the

thermometer out?

00 38 55 P Yes.

00 39 31 c I can't get the blood pressure bulb in.

00 39 37 p Maybe you are pushing it in the wrong end.

00 39 42 C Oh.

00 39 51 p Okay. We're back to NORMAL on the waste valve.

00 39 54 c How can you tell the difference between the ends?

00 40 05 P All I know is it won't insert in one end, and it does

insert with the other. I never saw a blood pressure
bulb like that before this flight.

004016 P Look at that! It's beautiful!

00 40 28 P There's the Southern Cross and Alpha and Beta Centuri.

00 40 39 c Are those thrusters firing?

00 40 40 P Yes.

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00 40 44 c I'm doing it.

00 40 45 p Oh, you doing it?

00 40 46 c Yes, we are yawing. I've got to keep it from yawing

so far around.

00 40 56 P Going to do this O2 --

00 41 18 P Want me to put it back in and give them a blood

pressure?

00 41 21 c If you can get it in. I can't.

00 41 23 P What time is it?

00 41 25 c 41 elapsed. I get CSQ at 42:19.

00 41 35 p Okay.

00 41 36 c About another minute.

00 41 39 P Going back to No. 1 on the UHF.

00 41 43 p Going back to No. 1 on the TJHF at elapsed time of 42.

00 42 00 c There's no horizon out there at all.

COASTAL SENTRY QUEBEC

00 42 27 cc Molly Brown, Molly Brown, CSQ CAP COM.

00 42 31 c CSQ, this is Molly Brown.

00 42 34 cc Roger. How is your control system working?

00 42 38 C Well, the control system is working fine. It’s just

that I have a very slight yaw to the left.

00 42 47 cc Molly Brown, I copy you very weak. Would you say

again?

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00 42 51 c All the control system is working fine. We just

have a very slight drift to the left.

00 42 58 CC Roger. Understand. Would you confirm that you

are on secondary dc-to-dc converter?

00 43 11 c Affirmative.

00 43 15 cc Are you on secondary ACME yaw logic?

00 43 20 c Negative.

00 43 22 c Should we try that?

00 43 25 P Yes.

00 43 32 cc Molly Brown, CSQ CAP COM. Are you in the FLOW

position on the radiator?

00 43 40 c Radiator is in FLOW position. We're trying secondary

ACME yaw logic now.

00 43 46 cc Roger.

00 44 08 P I don't know where I'm going to put this.

00 44 13 c Does it have urine in it?

00 44 14 P No, there isn't anything in it. It's air in it.

I'm supposed to fit in into the aft food box.

00 44 22 c Puncture it if it's just air.

00 44 24 P Well, that's a thought.

00 44 47 c CSQ, Molly Brown.

00 44 54 cc Molly Brown, CSQ CAP COM.

00 44 58 C Roger. Unable to send a blood pressure. The bulb

won't fit in the suit hole anymore.

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00 45 05 cc Roger. Cape recommends that you place the driver

switch to SECONDARY.

00 45 13 c Roger.

00 45 18 CC Molly Brown, CSQ CAP COM.

00 45 23 C Go ahead CSQ.

00 45 24 cc Your inlet temp: 76". Your outlet temp: 42".

00 45 32 C Roger.

00 45 40 p We'll stay in FLOW.

00 45 54 c That secondary driver may have stopped the drift.

00 46 12 cc Molly Brown, CSQ.

00 46 14 c Go ahead.

00 46 15 cc We have not received a blood pressure or an oral

temp.

00 46 19 c Roger. I told you the blood pressure bulb won't fit

in the hole anymore. I think the "0" Ring is
jammed, or something.

00 46 29 cc Roger. We're standing by for respiratory maneuver.

00 46 38 C Okay. Here it comes.

00 46 52 c Okay. How about this? No. 2 audio in UHF and T/M

CALIBRATE -

00 46 55 cc Molly Brown, CSQ. Stand by for a GMT time hack.

00 47 00 c Roger.

00 47 01 cc On my mark GMT will be 15 11 10.

00 47 10 cc MARK!

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00 47 14 cc Molly Brown, CSQ.

00 47 15 c Roger your mark. My watch is 10 seconds fast.

00 47 17 cc Roger.

00 47 51 c Have you received oral temp yet?

00 47 54 cc Molly Brown, CSQ.

00 47 59 c Go ahead CSQ.

00 48 01 CC We copied your respiratory maneuver, and we have your

oral temp. All systems appear GO from the ground.

CARNARVON

00 50 27 cc Molly Brown, Molly Brown, Carnarvon CAP COM. How

do you read?

00 50 31 c Loud and clear. How me?

00 50 33 cc Roger. Read you the same. Could you give us your

status please? And the Cape would like to know if
any of the remedies helped your yaw problem.

00 50 43 c No. None of the remedies helped and we are GO.

00 50 46 cc Okay. You have a GO from down here for the second

orbit, and, if you'll stand by, I'll send you a 2-l
TR and a Gemini load.

00 50 58 C Roger.

00 51 00 cc Stand by for TR.

00 51 03 c You ready?

00 51 04 P Yes.

005112 cc Okay, Molly Brown. We got your Gemini load. We

could not get T in. We got a spacecraft reject
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on T and it did go in at this time, I'd like to

giveRiou a hack on TR at 39:30, in about 10 seconds.

00 51 29 c You're going to punch it, aren't you?

00 51 30 P Yes.

00 51 52 cc Molly Brown, stand by on my mark.

00 51 53 cc MARK! 39:30 is your TR, Your TR clock is synched

with all on the ground, and your spacecraft elapsed
time is synched.

00 52 05 P Okay. We have computer time of 39:28. That's close

enough.

00 52 07 c Roger, and I believe I see a light from Perth.

00 52 ii cc Roger. I understand you see light from Perth.

We'll have a radiator status for you in a minute,
and anytime you can give your GMT for your experi-
ment, I'd appreciate it.

00 52 21 P Roger. The GMT of that Blood Experiment --

00 52 23 c The elapsed time.of the Blood Experiment was 50

minutes and 18 seconds. That was elapsed time.

00 52 31 cc Roger. 50 minutes and 18 seconds. Your radiator -

in is 73, your rad-out is 38. You're looking
pretty good.

00 52 38 c Roger.

00 52 40 cc And if John is ready to copy any of this maneuver

load, I have it for you.'

00 52 44 P All set.

00 52 45 C He's ready to copy.

00 52 47 cc Okay. GMTB 15 43 23.Avof 139. Duration of burn-

2 minutes 39 seconds. Your GMTRC 15 55 24. Roll

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left 55. GMTRB 16 05 28. Roll right 65. GMT 400 K

15 58 23. Your maneuver load: 6344257, 0444775,
0533348, 664903.3, 676628.4, 082244.4, 09120.50,
10031.38, 11302.00.

00 54 28 P Roger. Copied your parameters. Over.

00 54 32 CC Molly Brown, Carnarvon here. You can go secondary

coolant loop OFF, and you can go evaporator to
NORMAL.

00 54 40 c Roger. Secondary coolant loop OFF and evaporator to

NORMAL.

00 55 22 cc Molly Brown, Carnarvon CAP COM.

00 55 24 C Go ahead.

00 55 26 cc Roger. Your Texas burn will be 48 ft/sec for 73

seconds.

00 55 37 c Okay, 48 ft/sec for 73 seconds.

00 55 40 cc That's affirmative. We got your TR and Gemini load

in. Your clocks look good on the ground, and
everything is GO here. See you next trip.

00 55 50 c Roger.

01 00 31 c Let's get back on RECORD.

01 00 32 P Okay.

01 00 40 c On the OAMS thruster check, the fire is red in

streaks. When the yaw thrusters fire it definitely
wipes out the horizon. Can see the horizon all
right through the pitch thrusters.

01 01 02 P Oh, that's lovely.

01 01 05 c Huh?

01 01 06 P I wouldn't believe it if it hadn't happened.

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01 01 08 C What?

01 01 10 P I got my left shoulder harness tangled up in the back-

board.

31 01 14 c Oh, Oh.

010115 P Had to turn around to get it out,

01 01 26 c Hey, I think our yaw drift has stopped.

01 01 36 P We're down to 2400. That's pretty good. (OAMS

pressure)

01 01 39 c Is that okay?

01 01 40 P Yes, that's fine. It means we haven't used any OAMS

fuel.

01 01 46 P ELapsed time is 1:05. Now, I'm going to get a main

batteries check. (Pilot misread elapsed time).

01 02 05 P --p& and 24 on one and 9& and 24 on two, and $& and
24 on three. 9$ and 24 on four. Those mains are
good!

01 03 50 P What time is it now, Gus?

01 03 52 c It's 63 minutes.

01 03 56 P 63. Okay.

010412 C Look at that thing. I don't know what we can do

with any of this stuff floating around. Do you?

01 04 15 P No, I don't either. We need a special place to

keep that stuff.

01 04 20 c I'll put it in my pocket.

01 04 23 P Okay. I'll verify that load. (Pre-retro command

load)

01 04 29 P Is the Tp5 circuit breaker off?

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01 04 32 c Yes.

01 04 33 p Okay.

01 04 50 c You don't see many stars. You know that?

01 05 03 c We have a scanner ignore light again. Aren't losing

those gages again, are we?

01 05 11 P NO.

01 06 02 c All of our power is okay?

01 06 07 P Yep.

01 06 20 c Must have been our scanners, I guess.

01 06 41 P 204. This is just beautiful, Gus! It checks to the

digit! (Pr e-retro command load)

01 06 47 c Hey, we ought to have our face plates closed.

01 06 50 P Okay.

01 06 52 c Cabin Air Recirculation Valve-UP. That's where it is.

01 06 58 P Huh?

01 06 59 c It says Cabin Air Recirc Valve UP. That's where it

is.

01 07 01 P Yes. Faceplates closed or open?

01 07 04 c Closed.

01 07 05 P Okay.

01 07 07 c Now we have a Catch-Up Mode Check.

01 07 oy P Okay.

01 07 12 P Now?

01 07 13 c Well, yes. Now.

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01 07 20 P Okay.

01 07 25 c Hey, there was lightning down below.

01 07 29 P You want to go to CATCH-UP?

01 07 32 c Yes.

01 07 38 C In CATCH-UP. That right?

01 07 40 c Yes.

01 07 50 c Hey. I'm no.t in CATCH-UP yet. There's CATCH-UP.

01 08 08 P Okay. I scratched this one out.

01 08 39 P Okay.

01 08 44 C You want to punch it in?

01 08 46 P It's punched.

01 08 47 C Okay, I'll start the computer.

01 08 51 C 50 - 30 - 40.

01 08 52 P How about that? Just what it's supposed to be.

01 08 54 C Roger. Just what it's supposed to be.

01 08 56 C Pitch down.

01 08 57 P Yes.

01 09 01 P Okay, 56 is 20094, 57 is 19280.

01 oy 19 P Cabin pressure is reading 5.2, isn't it?

01 09 21 c Yes, it's holding.

01 09 28 C 50 - 30 - 40. Those readings are right. You get 56?

01 09 29 P Yes, 56 and 57 are right on the money. I copied
them.

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01 10 04 P Okay, there it is -- 10 - 20 - 30.

01 10 08 P Okay, what time is it now?

01 10 09 c 70 minutes.

01 10 10 P Huh?

01 10 11 c Elapsed time of 70 minutes.

01 10 13 P How many?

01 10 14 c 70.
01 10 14 P Right now?

01 10 15 c 1:lO. Yes.

01 10 16 P Okay, at 70:18 give it to me.

01 10 18 C MARK!

01 10 23 p Okay, Blood Experiment deactivated.

01 10 27 c Okay, that's exactly -- that's 39" pitched down.

01 10 38 P Okay, and you've got the sea urchin eggs coming up

at 1:15, too.

01 10 42 c Okay.

01 10 57 c Pulse control is real good.

01 10 59 P Yes.

01 11 11 c It sure lights up all around though, doesn't it?

01 11 13 P Sure does.

01 11 19 c Okay, we're just about to get it all in one window.

01 ii 23 P Okay.

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CANTON

01 ii 32 cc Molly Brown, Cape CAP COM.

01 11 33 P Okay, reading on the Catch-Up Mode Check was 69 000 00.

01 11 39 c Cape CAP COM, Molly Brown. Go ahead.

01 ii 42 cc Roger, Molly Brown, Cape CAP COM. We're going to

have you leave your propellant switch on and do
the Texas burn, and we will watch your fuel usage
then across the States. If it continues, we'll
have you turn your propellant switches off, then,
when you're over the Cape next time, except when
you need to use the fuel.

01 12 07 c Leave the propellant switch on for the Texas burn,

and then watch for leakage?

01 12 12 cc Roger. Leave it on till after the Texas burn, and

then we will watch your leakage. If it continues
to leak, we will have you turn them off over the
, Cape.

01 12 22 c Roger. We can't tell that we're using any

fuel.

01 12 26 cc Okay, fine. We are not overly concerned. It's

just that we'd like to get a handle on what is
causing it here.

01 12 34 cc Your O2 pressure is off the scale on the high side

by telemetry.

01 12 46 P Say again, Gordo.

01 12 47 cc Your oxygen pressure, your 02 pressure, is off the

high side of the scale. You may have had that
switch failure in there. YOU may have had a
telemetry failure- in there that failed to the high
side.

01 12 57 P Roger. We'll go to High Rate and see if it comes

down, Gordo.

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011307 c Roger, and Gordo we have lost our primary scanners.

01 13 17 cc Roger. Did you say primary scanners?

01 13 21 c Affirmative.

011325 CC Okay. Can you give us a helium source pressure?

01 13 32 c Say again.

01 13 33 cc What is your helium source pressure?

01 13 40 P Roger. It's 2350, Gordo.

01 13 44 c Look at the sunrise.

01 13 45 p Yes.

01 1-3 54 p Our source pressure is 2350, Gordo.

01 13 59 p Let's see if I can bring that pressure down, using

02 High Rate, if it is all right with you, Gus.

01 14 03 c Okay.

01 14 05 P We can try manual actuation of 02 High Rate. I

never did the Suit Integrity Check.

01 14 24 c We probably drove it overboard using that heater

switch when we thought the pressure was down.

01 14 28 P Yes. That's right.

01 14 32 c We have got to get ready for this Texas burn.

01 14 34 p Yes.

01 14 35 c What time is that Texas burn?

01 14 36 P 1:33.

01 14 38 C 1:33.

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01 15 39 p Now see, it is coming down. (oxygen pressure)

01 15 40 c Okay.

01 15 41 P Now, we'll just recock it.

01 16 14 P That was 02 High Rate for about two minutes to

bring the pressure off the peg. It's now read-
ing 985, and cabin pressure is holding at 5.6.

01 16 31 P Here comes the sunrise. Is that beautiful!

01 16 33 c Isn't that pretty?

01 16 35 c Aren't you going to take any pictures?

01 16 37 P I hadn't planned to on this pass. I'll get the

camera out.

01 16 42 c Let's see, I went circuit breakers 9 and 10 off,

don't I?

01 16 44 P Yes. That sun's bright, isn't it?

01 17 34 P Look at that! Where do.you suppose that came from?

(A camera reel)

01 17 37 c What?

01 17 42 P I know you shouldn't let those things float around,

but I don't know what to do with them.

01 17 56 c What did he say that burn was on that . . . net?

It's 48 ft --

01 17 59 P 48 feet and 73 seconds.

01 18 00 C Okay. You put that in, don't you?

01 18 02 P Yes.

01 18 06 C Do I have to be in CATCH-UP when you put it in?

01 18 09 P What?

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01 18 10 C Do I have to be in CATCH-UP when you put it in?

01 18 14 P For me to enter it, yes. I'll just put in on the

MDIU indicators here.

01 18 24 C Looks like the velocity is about perfect.

You can really tell you're moving on. You know
that?

01 18 32 P You sure can!

01 18 43 P I can see some interesting cloud formations down

there.

01 19 08 C We'll be coming up for Guaymas, I guess, next.

01 19 12 P Okay, what elapsed time are we in the flight plan,

Gus?

01 19 14 c 1:1y.

0119 15 P 1:19.

01 19 17 c RKV we get at 1:24.

01 19 19 P Okay.

01 19 33 c I'd say my alinement is perfect.

01 19 51 P Okay. That's what we want to burn. I've got to

change this tape cartridge. The camera is set for
fll at 250.

01 20 35 P The first command load is valid. The DCS at Carnarvon

inserted it properly.

01 20 46 c Okay.

01 20 52 P That's beautiful!

01 21 02 P I'll bet the debris filter really clogs up.

01 21 05 c What?

01 21 06 P The oxygen pressure has climbed right up back there

off-scale..
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01 21 07 c What is?

01 21 08 P The oxygen pressure.

01 21 19 P I've got to change this cartridge.

01 21 28 C We're at 1:21.

01 23 14 P Tape change at 1546. Tape cartridge No. 2 was

replaced by tape cartridge No. 28.

01 23 iy P The red light did not come on. (Tape recorder)

ROSE KNOT VICTOR

01 23 38 CC Molly Brown, Molly Brown, RKV.

01 23 40 c RKV, this is Molly Brown.

01 23 42 cc Roger. Read you loud end clear. I'm going to update

your TR and transmit a maneuver load to you.

012349 C Roger.

01 23 54 CC I've got a reject on my TR. What is your status,

Molly Brown?

01 23 55 P Do you want me to tell them about the oxygen pressure

being off-scale?

01 23 59 C Our status is GO. We did bring the ECS 02 back down

on the scale with 02 High Rate, and since that time
it has returned to off-scale.

01 24 10 cc Roger, and I have transmitted a TR and Gemini load

for your maneuver over Corpus. Confirm you were
in CATCH-UP. Over.

01 24 20 c Negative. We're in CATCH-UP, now.

01 24 21 cc Roger. I'll retransmit the load.

01 24 26 cc Roger. You have a load in the CATCH-Up for your maneuver.

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01 24 26 c Got to be in CATCH-up.

01 24 28 P Okay. There you go.

01 24 29 c Roger. Go.

01 24 30 cc You are GO for the next orbit.

01 24 33 C Roger. Thank you.

01 24 34 cc Are you ready to copy your maneuvertimes?

01 24 38 c Stand by.

01 24 39 cc Roger.

01 24 39 C You ready?

01 24 42 P Yes.

01 24 43 C Okay. We're ready to copy.

01 24 45 cc Roger. Your GMTB...correction, 15 57 00. Your

ground elapsed time to burn, 01 33 00. Your
AV of the burn, 048. Your length of burn, 01:14.

01 24 46 P Roger. We copied 15:57, 01:33, 48 ft/sec, at a

minute and 14 seconds.

01 25 14 P 74 seconds.

01 25 17 c Well, 1 minute 14. You want to read it back to them?

01 25 26 c Did you get him the other one?

01 25 27 P Neg. Wait until I'll get them.

01 25 31 cc Roger. Stand by for a GET time hack.

01 25 36 cc On my mark, it'll be 85 minutes and 45 seconds.

Stand by.

01 25 45 cc MARK! You copied?

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01 25 46 c Roger. We copied.

01 25 49 cc Roger. Your clocks looked good on the ground.

01 25 52 cc Will you give me a readout of core 25, 26, and 27?

Over.

01 26 15 P 26 and 27 are all zeros.

01 26 26 P I wonder if he got it?

01 26 29 c I don't know.

01 26 31 cc Molly Brown, RKV CAP COM.

01 26 34 P Go ahead. Over.

01 26 40 c Go ahead RKV.

01 26 42 cc Will you give me a readout of your computer core--

25, 26, and 27, please?

01 26 48 P Roger. It was: 25 was minus 0480. 26 and 27 were

all zeros. Over.

01 27 01 cc That is affirmative. I concur.

01 27 22 cc Molly Brown, can you give me a readout of your OAMS

helium source pressure, temperature, and your
propellant quantity gage.

01 27 31 c The propellant quantity gage is 83 percent. Stand by.

John will give you the other.

01 27 35 P Roger. Source pressure is 2450. Source temperature

is 85”, and fuel and oxidizer regulated at 295 with
68".

01 27 50 cc Roger. 295 at 68. Say again your propeliant quantity,

Command Pilot.

01 27 55 C Propellant quantity is 84 percent.

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GYM-l

01 27 58 CC Roger. I copy.

01 28 10 CC Molly Brown, RKV standing by. Do you have anything

else?

01 28 13 C Roger. We're in good shape.

01 28 15 CC Roger.

01 28 24 CC Molly Brown, RKV. I'm getting an indication of OAMS

thrust forward-firing. I have negative OAMS yaw
firing on the ground.

01 28 32 c We're not doing any firing. We're not even in

MANEWER and ATTITUDE and we haven't touched the
handle.

01 28 38 CC Roger.

01 28 58 CC Molly Brown, stand by for Guaymas.

01 29 00 c Roger.

01 29 31 P Outstanding! I see the whole of Mexico.

01 29 43 p I wonder what area of Mexico it is?

GUAYMAS

01 29 43 cc Molly Brown, Guaymas CAP COM.

01 29 45 C Guaymas, Molly Brown.

01 29 46 cc Guaymas standing by.

01 29 49 C Roger.

01 29 55 C It’s pretty well clobbered, isn’t it?

01 29 57 P Yes.

01 29 57 C We're going to have a hard time with that tracking

task.
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TEX-1

01 29 59 P Can you see anything up north there?

01 30 01 c I never got a chance to Look for the Salton Sea,

but I thiti we can see up that way.

01 30 08 C Nothing but high cirrus.

01 30 14 P Oh, man! Oh. man, you can see all the way across
Mexico!

01 30 19 c You must have it clear down there, huh?

01 30 21 P Yes, it's clear down south, here.

01 30 28 CC Molly Brown, Suaymas handing over to Texas.

01 30 30 c Roger.

01 30 45 c It came out 53 feet on my IVI's. You'll give me

a mark now on my burn. Right?

01 30 52 P Roger.

01 30 53 c Okay. It will be about two minutes before we start

it. So yo-L punch off your stopwatch and tell me--
give me a Lark to stop it--just in case it doesn't
go to zero.

01 31 01 P Okay.

TEXAS

01 31 10 cc Molly Brown, Texas CAP COM.

01 31 12 c Read you loud and clear, Texas.

01 31 14 cc Roger. Texas standing by for your maneuver.

01 31 15 c Roger.

01 31 45 c You got that? The IVIls came out 50 ft/sec aft.

Right?

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01 31 52 P Yes, but it should have been 48. I don't know

why it came out 50. Should we bring it down to
48?

01 31 56 P Well 25--48 is what is in the--48.3 is what's in the

load.

01 32 12 c How we doing on time?

01 32 13 P Fine.

01 32 15 c Well, good. I guess maybe we probably slowed down

that much.

01 32 2.1 c Now, it's 51. See?

01 32 23 c It came up 48 initially. We're at a different

place in the orbit. 30 seconds.

01 32 31 P Okay. Are you going to give--you want me to give

Texas a mark when you start burning?

01 32 37 C I will.

01 32 38 P Okay.

01 32 40 c Twenty seconds to burn. You got that, Texas?

01 32 45 cc Roger.

01 32 57 C Okay. 3 seconds.

01 33 00 c MARK!

01 33 01 P Okay. They appear to be firing good.

01 33 03 cc Roger. Texas confirms OAMS thruster firing.

01 33 17 c A bolt just stuck up against the instrument panel.

01 33 20 c How much time to go?

01 33 23 CC Molly Brown, how are your attitudes holding?

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01 33 24 C Perfect.

01 33 26 P 44 seconds to go.

01 33 27 cc Roger.

01 33 27 P MARK. 44 seconds to go.

01 33 37 p I think I'd do it on the IVI's.

01 33 45 c They sure blurp a lot, don't they? That may be

attitude control thrusters though. Probably what
it is.

01 33 49 p Okay.

01 33 55 p Coming up on - coming up on a minute.

01 34 00 P MARK.

01 34 02 c 7 ft/sec to go.

01 34 05 p A minute, five.

01 34 05 c What did we do? Burn down an--give me a mark.

01 34 09 p Okay. 4-3-2-l-

01 34 14 p MARK!

01 34 14 c Thrusting complete.

01 34 18 CC Roger. Confirmed maneuver complete.

01 34 21 P That burn was 1 minute and 14 secondsby our watches.

01 34 27 C And when we started out, the IVI's were reading 51

ft/sec, and I burned them down to 2 ft/sec aft.

01 34 37 02 Say again, Molly Brown.

01 34 38 C As we started to burn my IVI's read 51 ft/sec, and

we burned them down to the place where they read
2 ft/sec.
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MCC-1

01 34 48 CC Say again that last number.

01 34 50 c TWO. Zero, zero, two.

01 34 56 cc Roger.

01 35 01 P What have you got on your propellant, Gus?

01 35 05 c Propellant quantity is 65 percent.

01 35 09 P Hey, we're in good shape.

01 35 14 c Yes.

CAPE KENNEDY

01 35 27 cc Molly Brown, Cape CAP COM.

01 35 27 C Go ahead, Gordo.

01 35 29 cc Roger. Do you want to get your transmitter up to

start your tape dump?

01 35 31 p Yes, it's on. The transmitter is now DELAYED-TIME.

01 35 38 CC Ready for your tape dump?

01 35 42 P Understand. Going tape playback CONTINUOUS.

01 35 49 P Tape playback is on CONTINUOUS.

01 35 53 cc Okay, Molly Brown. Looks like your OAMS has leveled

out before your burn. Can you give us an OAMS
source pressure and temp again now?

01 35 59 P Roger. Source pressure is 2050, temperature is 56.

01 36 10 cc Molly Brown, Cape CAP COM.

01 36 12 P Oh, that record switch!

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01 36 16 P This source pressure is 2050. Source temperature is 56.

01 36 24 cc Roger. It looks like that pressure switch on that

O2 is failed. You probably better bring that 02
heater from AUTOMATIC to OFF, and then manually
control the temp from then on--the pressure from
then on.

01 36 43 p If I go into High Rate you can break it off the peg.

Over.

01 36 48 CC Okay, you can bring it off the peg by going to

High Rate. Is that affirm?

01 36 51 P Roger, but--

01 36 52 cc Okay. I have a time for you, where you will be nearest

to the booster. Would you like to have that so
you can look for it?

01 36 58 P Roger.

01 36 59 cc Roger. 02 -t 08 + 52. Will be dead ahead at an

elevation of plus 80 degrees at 190 miles. This
will be just prior to darkness. It should be very
bright. Proceed to see if you can rendezvous.

01 37 22 c Roger.

01 37 37 cc We are sending you a load now.

01 37 43 c Roger, DCS load received.

01 37 48 CC Roger. We got you loaded.

01 37 57 p We had another DCS load just in, too.

01 37 59 cc Roger. That was the actual values. The first

one was the T
R'
01 38 05 P Roger.

01 38 51 CC Molly Brown, Cape CAP COM. Did you get your

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experiments for the first orbit?

01 39 08 CC Molly Brown, Cape CAP COM.

013915 c Go ahead Cape CAP COM.

01 39 17 cc Roger. We just wanted to get a confirmation that

you got your experiments on time for the first
orbit.

01 39 23 C Roger. We got them on time for the first orbit.

01 39 26 cc Roger.

01 39 40 cc Everything looks good down here.

01 39 43 c Roger.

01 40 08 CC Molly Brown, Cape CAP COM. Our memory loads on

the ground confirm your loads were correct in
there, so you might delete all the MDIU readouts.

01 40 21 c Okay.

01 40 49 p Here is the blood pressure coming down there, MCC.

01 40 53 cc Okay.

01 41 03 cc Tape dump is complete, Molly Brown.

01 41 07 c Rog.

01 42 01 cc You still got a blood pressure, John? We didn't

read it.

01 42 08 c He sent it, okay. I'll give you another one.

01 42 10 cc Okay. Just wondered if he was breathing.

01 42 28 c Gordo, do you have me a time for the Horizon Scan

Check?

01 42 41 c Cape CAP COM, do you read,Molly Brown.

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01 42 44 cc Go ahead Molly Brown. Cape CAP COM.

01 42 46 C Do you have me a time for the Horizon Scanner Cheek?

01 42 49 cc Okay, sunset time is 16 + 34. Stand by, and I will

get you the horizon scanner.

01 42 58 P 1634.
01 43 08 cc That is the time for it, Molly Brown. 16 -t 34.

01 43 13 C Thanks.

01 43 26 cc Pretty spectacular up there, huh?

01 43 29 C Say again.

01 43 30 cc Pretty spectacular up there, huh?

01 43 33 C Yeah, it really is. It really is!

01 43 40 C We didn't get to see much of the States though.

01 43 43 cc Clouded over? Too many clouds, huh?

01 44 01 C Let's see, do you want your meal?

01 44 04 P Yes.

01 44 25 C Is this one all right?

01 44 28 P Yes, this is the one here.

01 44 43 P You can't get the bulb in, huh? How about if I

just leave it in and give them blood pressures.

01 44 50 C Yes, go ahead.

01 44 53 C I can't get it in.

01 44 58 P Hot dog! Good old food.

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01 45 23 C Going to have to make Alinement Check.

01 45 34 p Want to just slap those babies over there?

01 45 56 p They said to leave the brownies closed.

01 46 03 c Okay, starting Alinement Caging Check. Minus 10"

in pitch, 10" in yaw, and 10" in roll. Going to
CAGE, small-end-forward, holding attitudes out
the window. Okay, I've caged. Going SEF, plat-
form and attitude. Fine aline from 1:45 to 1:55.

01 47 1-7 c Let me have some of that juice when you get done.

01 47 22 c Get any water?

01 47 44 lJ Good stuff! (Water)

01 48 25 c You want me to stick this up here? (Water nozzle)

01 48 25 P Yes, we can attach it up there.

01 48 26 C Let me see if I csn lock it in there.

01 48 41 c That oxygen still hasn't come off of the peg.

01 48 44 P The what hasn't?

01 48 47 P I'll tell you, boy. It poses a serious problem with

that 02 High Rate bit.

01 49 01 P Is your window getting foggy, or is it just the

angle I'm looking at?

GRAND CANARY ISLAND

01 49 03 cc Molly Brown, Canary CAP COM.

01 49 04 c It looks like it's something on the side. I don't

know what it is.

01 49 10 c Canaries, Molly. Go ahead.

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01 49 13 cc Roger. We have systems GO on the ground.

01 49 16 C Roger. We are GO in here. We are finishing our

Alinement Check.

01 49 26 cc Roger. Understand, and Canaries transmitting a

calibrate command.

01 49 31 C What was that?

01 49 33 P Transmit my T/M cal.

01 40 35 C Okay. It's coming.

01 49 47 C What was the time we could see that booster?

01 49 50 P 2 08 52.

01 49 53 C Elapsed?

01 49 54 P Yes.

01 49 57 P Okay. Tell them we're sending them a T/M 2 cal.

01 50 04 C A T/M 2 cal is coming.

01 50 07 P I don't see where it says for us to do that, but I

guess that's all right. I think we should have
done it on the first pass.

01 50 24 P One of these pills came off, (Germicide pills)

01 50 27 cc Molly Brown, Canary CAP COM.

01 50 30 C Go, Canaries.

01 50 32 cc Roger. After your burn your orbit is 85.6, 92.6.

01 50 38 C Roger. 85.6, 92.6.

01 50 41 cc And I have a Two-Bravo time.

01 50 46 P I thought they weren't going to give those times

to us.
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01 50 49 c Stand by.

01 51 06 P If either one of these things leaks, we can just

close up shop. (Food packages)

01 51 15 c Okay. What's the Two-Bravo time?

01 51 18 CC Roger. AV,90. GMTRC 16 52 25. GETRC 02 28 35.

Roll left 55.

01 51 45 c Roger. Two-Bravo: 90 AV. 16 52 25 GMTRC. Elapsed

time of 02 28 25. Roll left 55.

01 51 55 cc That's affirm.

01 52 26 c What is it?

01 52 27 P Corn beef sandwich.

01 52 28 c Where did that come from?

01 52 30 P I brought it with me. Let's see how it tastes.

Smells, doesn't it?

01 52 41 c Yes, it's breaking up. I'm going to stick it in

my pocket.

01 52 43 P Is it?

01 52 49 P It was a thought, anyway.

01 52 51 c Yep.

01 52 52 P Not a very good one.

01 52 54 C Pretty good, though, if it would just hold together.

01 53 13 P Want some chicken leg?

--
01 53 15 c No, you can handle that.

01 53 23 C What was the time of that booster again? What

elevation?

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01 53 26 P 02 08 52. 18" el.

01 53 30 c 02 --

01 53 32 P 2 hours, 8 minutes, 52 seconds. 18" el.

01 53 39 c Above? They didn't give us the mileage, huh?

01 53 43 p 19 miles.

01 53 45 c Dead ahead.

01 53 46 p Yeah.

01 53 55 c We're alined just about perfect. What do you think,

looking out your window?

01 53 59 p ,Yeah, man. That's beautiful!

01 54 05 c What else have we got to do? Scanners should be on

secondary. Now we're going to yaw 180" here.

01 54 32 C Hey, look out there. There's some land.

01 54 36 p Yes.

01 54 49 c What time is it?

01 54 51 p 4 --

01 54 55 c Must still be over Canaries.

01 55 04 c You're a noisy eater.

01 55 19 p Oh, no!

01 55 20 c What? What did you drop?

01 55 25 C Look at 'em jumping around down there. (Food bags)

01 56 30 P What elapsed is it now, Gus?

01 56 32 c 1:56.

01 56 37 c How do you like this going backwards? You can tell

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you're going backwards too, can't you?

01 57 04 p Never a doubt.

01 57 14 p That's not bad for applesauce.

01 57 18 C I'll take a bite of applesauce, if you don't eat

it all.

01 57 21 P It's getting tough to squeeze out of there.

01 57 40 c If we had some pork chops to go with it, we'd be

all right.

01 57 41 p Yes.

01 57 42 C Here it is back. What are you going to do with it

now?

01 57 44 p What, the applesauce?

01 57 45 c Yes.

01 57 47 p I don't know, the tablet fell off. I'm not going

to put the germicide tablet in, because I don't
know where it is.

01 57 53 c Let's see what my retrofire attitude looks like

going backwards.

01 57 56 p Okay.

01 58 11 P 160 nose down is what it is.

01 58 13 C Yep. I'll be there in a minute.

01 58 17 P Oh, man!

01 58 21 C I'll tell you, man, you don't need anything to tell

your yaw, do you?

01 58 25 P No, I'll tell you, I need some of these missions

where I can look out of the window. I haven't
looked out of this window a second and a half.
It's beautiful!

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01 58 35 C You know, if I lined up the yaw, I'd line it up

right there. What does it look like to you?

01 58 44 P Look's to me like you got it, Gus.

01 58 46 C That's not what the 8-ball shows. It's right there,

no doubt about it.

01 58 58 P Well, that looks good to me.

01 59 14 c Let's try it upside down once.

01 59 16 P Okay.

01 59 21 P Watch everything float to the ceiling.

01 59 27 C There's 60 left, okay?

01 59 48 P That's 60 left.

01 59 49 c No. Well, yes, let's see.

01 59 55 c That's inverted.

01 59 56 P Okay.

01 59 57 c There's 60 left.

02 00 00 P That's what I figured.

02 00 01 P There you go.

02 00 05 P Isn't that beautiful?

02 00 09 c That's 60 left right there. That's hard to fly.

02 00 16 c The sun is sure bright.

020053 C We can't see the booster. Have to be turned around

for this check. We can't see it. We're facing
the wrong way.

02 01 34 c Let's see. Where's the next station we're coming

to?

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02 01 36 P Ksno.

02 02 31 C The sun's hot.

02 02 32 P It is.

02 02 34 P Suit inlet temperature is still holding at 58, though.

02 02 45 P Boy, this is a manual dexterity test. (Opening food

bag feeding port)

02 02 47 C Yes.

02 03 41 P That stuff is really trying to crawl out of there.

(Grapefruit juice)

02 04 17 P John Yardley loses his bet. Cabin temperature is

UP t0 920.

02 04 40 C Oh, man!

02 04 43 P It's bad, isn't it?

02 04 44 C That sun is something else.

02 04 45 P Yes.

02 04 58 P Can you stow these back over there in your side?

(Food packages)

02 05 01 C Yes.

02 05 06 P Somehow.

02 05 07 C You don't need that towel, do you?

02 05 09 P Yes, I'm going to, very shortly.

02 05 11 C Well, I'd better get it out then.

02 05 13 P Well, I don't think I'll need it, but I might.

02 05 19 C Well, we've got a scanner light on secondary.

02 05 27 C There, it went out. I guess I was looking at it in

the sun.
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02 05 29 P Yes.

02 05 33 c Hope that stops it. Now we've got it again.

02 06 10 c The sun's around there. That sun's pushing it off.

02 06 13 P Yes.

02 06 21 c Either that or our ball is out of alinement.

02 06 31 c What time's it supposed to be next time. Do you

remember?

02 06 33 P No.

02 07 07 P You don't mind if I make an inflight modification

to the pressure suit, do you?

02 07 11 c What are you going to do?

02 07 13 P Just cut a strap.

02 07 15 c I hope you don't cut a hole in it.

02 07 17 P No, don't worry.

02 07 33 c We've got a scanner ignore light ...

02 07 47 c Okay, let's start this thing right now.

02 07 56 c Okay, it's pitching up slightly. Going up above

zero. I don't have a scanner light. Man, is it
dark!

02 08 07 C I don't have a scanner light, but I don't think it's

doing right. We're now 20" above the horizon and
have no horizon. It's bringing me back down to
180.

02 08 52 P It's dark.

02 08 53 C Yes.

02 08 57 P Hey, look at those thrusters glowing!

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02 08 59 C Where?

02 09 00 P Over on the right side. I think it's the sun

shining on them, or something. Is the sun on my
side? Sunset?

02 09 07 c It's back behind us some place.

02 09 13 c You mean the RCS thrusters?

0209 15 P Yes.

02 09 17 c I can't see them.

02 09 18 P Can you see yours?

02 09 20 c No.

02 09 21 P Well, I see mine shining.

02 09 22 c I can probably see the horizon now, though.

02 09 24 P I see those thrusters.

02 09 29 P It's the sun shining off of them, because we haven't

used the A-Ring yet.

02 09 32 c That must be what it is.

02 09 33 p A-Ring isn't hot.

02 09 38 P Okay, waste valve NORMAL.

02 09 50 P What time is it in the flight plan?

02 09 52 c It's 2 hours and 9 minutes.

02 09 58 C 2 hours and 10 minutes.

02 10 05 P You're supposed to give an oral temperature.

02 10 07 c I'll give them one.

02 10 24 c Okay. Translation Check at 2:l7, which is 7 minutes

away.

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02 10 35 P Know what kind of transmission check it is?

02 10 37 c Translation Check . ..We're not going to send any-

thing.

02 11 05 c We're supposed to get photos, but it's going to be

dark.

02 11 08 P Photos of what?

02 11 09 c Those thrusters.

021115 c Translation thrusters.

02 ii 25 c There is a ground light. We're really moving.

What would that be?

02 ii 29 P . ..forest fires.

02 ii 32 c No, it's a pin point. I see it way below the horizon.

02 12 19 c What time is it?

02 12 23 P To what?

02 12 26 P I'm supposed to change this tape around here some-

time.

02 12 29 c Translation Check.

02 12 32 P During the check?

02 14 01 c I think that was a star coming over the horizon

I saw. I can see it move now.

02 14 20 c There goes your ...

02 14 25 P Okay, waste valve back to NORMAL.

02 14 33 c I've got to make a translational thrust in two and

a half minutes.

02 I4 37 p Okay. Well, I'll wait till you finish that then,

if that's okay with you.

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02 14 40 c Yes.

02 14 42 P You want to take pictures on this?

02 14 43 c We're supposed to with a 16 mil.

02 14 45 p Okay. Shoot, we've hardly used any film. Of course

there's 130 feet in there. Wait a second till I
get the suit closed.

02 15 15 c Okay.

02 15 25 P Gee.

02 15 30 P Your recommendation on that covering underwear is

--well taken.
02 15 41 c Man! I don't believe this 8-ball. It is way off.
Look at it. It's way off. There's zero right
there. Right?

02 16 00 P Yes.

02 16 01 c It says minus 10" down on the ball. I guess it's

that Orbit Rate, isn't it?

02 16 05 P Yes, probably.

02 16 12 c What time is it?

02 16 16 P It's --

02 16 19 c It's 10 ft/sec with the forward firing ones.

COASTAL SENTRY QUEBEC

02 16 20 cc Molly Brown, CSQ CAP COM. Do you read?

02 16 23 c CSQ CAP COM, Molly Brown.

02 16 26 cc Roger read you weak but clear. We have you green

from the ground.

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02 16 31 c Roger. Getting ready for a translation burn.

02 16 37 P You going to use the aft burn or the forward burn?

02 16 41 c I'm going to use them all.

02 16 42 P Okay.

02 16 44 cc Molly Brown, CSQ CAP COM. We're standing by for

the maneuvers.

02 16 55 c Roger. 5 seconds . . .

02 17 13 P Using the aft ones?

02 17 14 c No, forward-firing ones.

02 17 15 c 9 ft/sec-10. Okay, now 1 second on the others.

02 17 22 cc Molly Brown, CSQ. Would you give us your IV1 readouts

before and after the burn?

02 16 28 C Roger, IV1 readouts before the burn were all zeros.

After the burn was 10 ft/sec forward.

02 17 38 CC Roger. Understand. 10 ft/sec forward.

02 17 42 c That was in the 009O attitude. 10 ft/sec forward.

02 17 44 cc Roger.

02 17 47 c That was with a 90" yaw.

02 17 58 CC Molly Brown, CSQ. Be advised I sent TX twice. I've

had spacecraft reject. I'll try again.

02 18 13 CC Molly Brown, CSQ.

02 18 16 C Go.

02 18 17 CC We still cannot get an . . . back from spacecraft on

TX'

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02 18 33 P Roger, I'll set the TX for the . . . Over.

02 18 38 CC Say again.

02 18 45 CC Molly Brown, CSQ. How did your attitudes hold during

the maneuver?

02 18 49 P Attitudes held very well.

02 18 52 CC Roger.

02 19 53 cc Molly Brown, CSQ.

02 19 54 c

02 19 59 cc You still look real good from the ground here.

02 20 02 c Roger.

02 21 00 P Okay. Replaced the tape recorder cartridge.

02 21 01 cc Molly Brown, CSQ CAP COM.

02 21 03 c Go ahead CSQ.

02 21 04 cc Would you give us a propellant quantity readout

before and after the burn?

02 21 09 c Before the burn it was 66 percent, and now it reads

61 percent.

02 21 16 cc Molly Brown, say again.

02 21 20 c 66 percent before, 61 percent after.

02 21 24 cc Roger.

02 21 28 C I'm not real sure of that before burn.

02 21 30 P At 1645 GMT, changed the tape from No. 28 to No. 10.

Okay.

02 21 32 cc That looks like it's in the ball park.

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02 22 03 c This thing isn't alined, is it?

02 22 06 P I think you're right.

02 22 25 c Give it one more chance.

00 22 38 C Let's see -- 2:22 elapsed. Carnarvon comes up in

about a minute.

CARNARVON

cc Molly Brown, Molly Brown, Carnarvon CAP COM. How do

'you read?

00 23 25 c Carnarvon, this is Molly Brown. Read you loud and

clear.

cc Very good, Gus; weld like to get a blood pressure on

the co-pilot, please, and could I have your status?

02 23 36 c Okay -- blood pressure's coming and our status is

green.

cc Very good. We don't have any communications with the

Cape at this time, but they have requested for me to
run down your flight control problem a little bit.
The first thing I'd like to know is what kind of rates
are you getting if you just let it yaw?

02 23 57 C They are very slow, Pete. Probably on the order of a

quarter of a degree per second.

cc Okay and you are in a horizon scan mode, is that

correct?

02 24 13 c At the present time I'm in Pulse and alining the

platform.

cc Okay. You're in pulse alining the platform. Are your

ACME logic yaw rate gryos and attitude drivers and all
that stuff still primary?

02 24 29 c Affirmative.

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02 24 29 cc Okay, strike all that other stuff. It sounds to me

like you've got a mechanical problem in the valve.
Is that what you figured?

02 24 36 c Roger, it must be very, very slight. We can't see

the pressure go down.

02 24 40 cc Okay, and you have turned off 3, 4, 7 and 8 yaw cir-

cuit breakers and put them on again, and that didn't
have any effect?

02 24 46 c Yes, we've gone through everything, Pete.

02 24 48 cc Okay, and no cross-coupling.

02 24 50 c Negative.

02 24 50 cc Okay. That should keep them happy back there. We are

not going to send you a load. Your TR is good. I
don't have your clock counting down with mine. I
guess you have a different one in. We got your blood
pressure and your clocks are on as far as SET goes.

02 24 54 C That's -- Pete.

02 25 16 c Roger.

02 25 16 cc And I have a question for John. I would like to know

how his.waste evaluation is doing,

02 25 23 P In process. Tell him.

02 25 26 c In process.

02 25 27 cc In process. Roger. Roger.

02 25 32 cc You have a GO down here from everybody, and do you

have suit temps for me, please?

02 25 42 c Yes, suit temp is running 58", Pete. We are okay.

02 25 45 CC Righto.

02 26 02 c 2:26. Rate gyros primary. Roll jets yaw.

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02 26 22 CC Molly Brown, Cam.arvOn.

02 26 25 c Go.

02 26 26 CC Would you turn your real-time telemetry off after LOS

from Carnarvon, please?

02 26 31 c Roger, real-time off after Carnarvon.

02 26 34 CC Yes. We didn't get a TX up to you.

02 26 36 c Roger.

02 27 02 C You're going to make these Horizon Scan Checks after

a little bit?

02 27 09 P Yes. You do it, because I'm busy here.

02 27 14 cc Molly Brown, this is Carnarvon. How do you read?

02 27 18 C Still read you loud and clear.

02 27 19 cc Okay, you'll probably go over the hill, Gus. You

look good here on the ground. We'll see you on your
next go.

02 27 25 c Roger, thank you, Pete.

02 28 24 P Be sure I don't throw any switches over there while

I'm moving around.

02 28 27 C No, I'll keep a check on you. I don't believe that

scanner's doing the right thing by us at all. If
it is, the ball isn't.

02 31 25 c Want this bag for anything?

02 31 27 P Yes, I put the paper towels back in it.

02 31 29 c Okay, I can thrust now?

02 31 31 P Wait till I get my suit zipped up.

02 31 35 c ....

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02 32 08 C Better get that sight out for me.

02 32 11 P Huh?

02 32 12 c Should get that sight out before long, too.

02 32 13 P Okay.

02 32 46 c I can't get the auxiliary light off there.

02 33 29 C It's really black out there.

02 33 31 p Yep.

02 33 46 c I've got a scanner ignore light. Shoot, that ball

must be way off.

02 33 59 p Okay.

02 34 01 c Oh, man! It's hot.

02 34 03 p What's the matter, Gus?

02 34 04 c Oh, there it is. I was losing the horizon. Don't

tell me our secondary scanners are out now. That
isn't right. Let's see what happens. This ball
is way off. Good night! Our ball has drifted
way off. Let's just go into daylight and aline
the thing.

02 34 50 p You've got the answer.

02 34 58 C Pulse. Going to use those stars. There's zero roll

all right.

02 35 30 p Well, that's great! I can't bust up the bag. Sure

like to get that smell out of here and the only
way I can do it is to bust that bag.

02 35 41 c What bag?

02 35 42 P It won't break.

(32 35 43 c What do you mean?

0’ 35 44 P I mean this bacteriacide bag.

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02 35 59 p Got it -- a little.

02 36 25 P There we go.

02 36 48 C We're coming into daylight again.

02 37 08 C Does that look roll-level to you?

02 37 10 P Looks what?

02 37 11 c Is that level to you? Looking out the window.

02 37 20 P Yes.

02 37 22 c What about yaw? I can't really tell yaw, can you?

02 37 26 P No.

02 37 28 P Have you got that --

02 37 30 c What?

02 37 43 c Let's see. You don't see the moon any place, do you?

02 37 46 p No.

02 37 49 c It'll be coming up over my -- on my right here

pretty soon.

02 37 59 p Boy, I tell you I really dig this zero g. This is

the finest way to go I ever saw.

02 39 26 c That looks about right in pitch. Roll is off.

02 39 31 p Can you stick this on your side?

02 39 34 c That mess? Doesn't that go in your food box?

02 39 40 p Would if there was any room in it.

02 39 43 c I don't have any room.

02 39 45 p I don't either.

02 39 46 c Drop it back behind the seat, I guess.

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02 39 51 p I'll try to stick it in the food box.

02 40 30 P Okay, what does the flight plan say about here, Gus?

02 40 33 c I’m supposed to be doing the Horizon Scanner Check,

but I don't have time to do it.

02 40 41 P Oh, okay. Well thanks, I’m done. I'm supposed

to be doing that O2 High Rate Check, Is it at
2:4O in the flight plan?

02 40 49 c Yes. 2:4O right now.

02 40 53 p Okay, we'll got to O2 High Rate. I've --

02 40 56 c Man! The primary scanners are working! How about

that!

02 40 59 p I got to have some light here to look at the oxygen

gages
Is that all right?
l

02 41 02 c Yeah, I just can't figure out --

02 41 06 P Okay, I'll go to O2 High Rate. O2 High Rate isn't

the way to go.

02 41 18 P Okay, MARK. O2 High Rate.

02 41 29 c I'm sure uncomfortable.

02 41 30 P Yes, it's bad.

02 41 31 c Let's leave the heater switch off and let the oxygen
pressure come down a bit.

02 41 33 p It will come down, and I mean it will come down!

02 41 36 c You got the batteries on?

02 41 37 P And at the start of the 02 High Rate Check, 02

quantity was reading 65 percent. Cabin pressure
was 5.1. Cabin pressure is building slowly.

02 42 17 P Look at that suit inlet temperature go up.

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02 42 23 c Is that moon coming up at about the right spot for

you for zero yaw?

02 42 26 P I don't see it over here, Gus.

02 42 29 C Almost dead ahead. Maybe it's daylight. Maybe it's

the sunrise.

02 42 44 C Thruster sounds are about like the trainer, aren't

they?

02 42 49 P Yeah, not bad, is it? See the 02 pressure is

coming down now. Okay, &he mains coming on the
line, in case we need the heaters.

02 42 59 C Got the scanners again, I guess. That's what I

got the last time.

02 43 03 p Yeah. Okay, the 02 pressure is now down to 925 and

we have been on 02 High Rate two minutes. Coming
up on two minutes.

02 43 13 c What was that?

02 43 14 p Cabin pressure relief valve. Cabin pressure relief

valve relieves with a loud shhh!

02 43 21 c Still don't have that scanner light out. There it

goes. That's what caused that thing to go out
the last time --when you turned those mains on.

02 43 28 P The horizon scanner?

02 43 30 c Yes, but it came back on again, though.

02 43 34 p That son-of-a-gun is relieving at 5.8, isn't it?

02 43 43 p Okay, 2 minutes and 30 seconds O2 High Rate.

02 43 59 p And the Greenwich mean time is 1707.

02 44 07 c Hey, give me that sight down there.

02 44 10 P Okay.

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02 44 11 c I'll miss my tracking task.

02 44 16 P You know what they did, they turned the sight

around.

02 44 19 c Really?

02 44 19 p Yes.

02 44 23 P Okay, that's three minutes and ten seconds of 02

High Rate. Don't want to stay on it five minutes.
I think that is more than a guy can stand. The
suit inlet temperature is up to 64 and pressure
is down to 825. We will shoot it a shot of manual
heaters here when it gets to 800.

02 45 15 p Okay, MARK. Four minutes on the 02 High Rate Check.

Now we will go to the first shot of manual heaters.

02 45 29 C MiSl! It’s almost impossible to see out with the

sight in front of you.

02 45 36 p Pressure is still dropping. Now it's coming up.

Okay.

02 45 59 c When you get that scanner light it pitches you right

down.

02 46 01 P Yeah. That's what they said it'd do, didn't they?

Okay, 10 seconds to go, and been holding the manual
heater switch in for the last minute. It's keeping
the pressure up to 825.

02 46 10 c Oh, man! That ball is staying way off --

02 46 13 P Okay, MARK. 02 High Rate recocked.

02 46 15 c Give me the mark when you think I've got zero yaw.

02 46 18 P Okay.

02 46 24 c Oh, man! I don't know about this.

02 46 27 P Turning the auto heater off.

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02 46 34 p Can't see a thing, Gus. The quantity at the end

of the 02 High Rate Check was down to 62 percent.
Started at 66 and ended 62. I canrt see a thing
out the window, Gus, because of the sun.

02 46 58 C This is about zero yaw.

02 47 01 P Go a little bit left.

02 47 07 p That looks pretty good, although --

02 47 09 c That's about what we had in pitch attitude for

zero before, wasn't it?

02 47 12 P Yes.

02 47 14 P Okay. At 2:4O in the flight plan --

02 47 22 c That shows 30° off on the ball.

02 47 31 p Started out at 66 and ended at 62, at 2:JO.

(Oxygen quantity)

02 47 37 c Hey, what time do we come across the coast here?

02 47 40 p We come across the coast at 3:04. What time is it?

02 47 44 c That's too much pitch-up for zero attitude, don't

you think.

02 47 48 P Huh?

02 47 49 c Is this too much pitch-up for zero attitude?

02 47 51 p Yep.

02 47 54 p Okay, the OAJIS propellant at 2:5O is 62 percent.

02 48 02 C You going to leave those mains on?

02 48 03 P No.

02 48 05 C It's dropping down pretty good.

02 48 07 P No, no it didn't, see?

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02 48 09 C Coming up?

02 48 10 P Yes. Well, I'm going to turn them off now and see
what happens. Okay. The mains are off. Been
on seven minutes while we were on 02 High Rate.
Okay, we are down to 62 percent at three hours.
We are two percent under what we should be. That
ought to be good enough for a couple of orbits.

02 48 41 C I really can't tell whether I have zero yaw or not.

What do you think?

02 48 46 P Get off some and then I can tell.

02 48 49 C I'll take this sight down out of here a second.

02 48 58 C I have to get the e-ball caged.

02 49 02 P NOW I can tell you have -- haven't.

02 49 05 c Do I have to go to the right?

02 49 07 P You have to go back to the right. You are going

the right way.

02 49 17 P Yes.

02 49 30 P Now, let's see what TR is.

02 49 35 c How does that look to you? Is that enough?

02 49 38 P It looks pretty good to me, Gus.

HAWAII

02 49 48 CC Hello, Molly Brown. This is Hawaii CAP COM.

02 49 52 C Hello, Hawaii. This is Molly Brown.

02 49 54 cc Confirm your telemetry in REAL-TIME and ACQUISITION.

02 50 01 c Telemetry is in REAL-TIME and AC&. Neil --

02 50 04 P I thought they told us to put it in COMMANDover

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02 50 11 cc Yeah. Go ahead, Molly Brown.

02 50 12 C I have a problem with the B-ball here, keeping it

alined, or Orbit Rate control is not right.

02 50 21 #CC Say again, Molly Brown. I didn't understand.

02 50 26 c The attitude on the e-ball is drifting badly. I'm

trying to get it alined right now.

02 50 32 cc Okay. Understand the e-ball attitude is drifting

badly. You have a GO from the ground. We are
ready to up-link a 4-l TR to you.

02 50 40 c Roger.

02 50 43 c John, do you think I've got too much right yaw?

02 50 50 c Ready to copy it?

02 50 58 P Tell them to send it.

02 51 00 c Go ahead and send it.

02 51 02 cc Okay, sending now.

02 51 14 P Roger, 4-l time received and verified.

02 51 18 CC And we would like to send you a TX as soon as you

are ready.

02 51 20 P Roger. Send TX.

02 51 35 cc Right, sending TX now. And we confirm your TR --

in synch.

02 51 59 cc Give us a hack when you start your Gage Correlation

Check.

02 52 10 P Okay, Roger, Mark the Gage Correlation Check.

02 52 12 cc Roger. Got it.

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02 52 20 P Okay. Gage Correlation Check at 1816, and away

we go. (Pilot misread 24-hour clock. It should
have been 1716.)

02 52 28 c What do you think, John? Do you think that's about

it? (Reference to yaw alinement)

02 52 31 P Yes.

02 52 43 P --and the propellant quantity is 60 percent.

02 52 44 C That should be about zero, shouldn't it?

02 52 47 P Yes.

02 52 50 cc Molly Brown, Hawaii CAP COM. Are both your attitude

indicators drifting together?

02 52 57 C Affirmative.

02 52 58 cc Okay.

02 52 59 P Natch. Cabin temperature -- 92. Suit temperature --

58. Cabin pressure is 5.6. Suit CO2 is 3/4.
Left bottle is 5100. Right bottle is 5050. 02
quantity 62. Pressure is 840. Source temperature
is 55. Source pressure is 2000. OAMS fuel --

02 53 41 cc Molly Brown, Hawaii CAP COM. Everything looks good

on the ground. We will see you on the next time
around. Aloha.

02 53 47 c Roger.

02 53 48 P Roger. We are in the middle of the Gage Correlation

Report.

02 54 06 P OAMS fuel temperature -- 68. RCS A temperature --

Gee ! A temperature is 87.

02 54 12 c Look at that ball. It immediately goes out in roll.

02 54 18 P It sure does, Gus.

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02 54 22 C I think the rest of it is all right.

02 54 25 P It could be the horizon scanner, huh?

02 54 29 P A pressure is 2000 -- B is 2650 -- Main ammeter No. 1

is 19 -- No. 2 is -- 1A is --

02 54 57 C Now there it is coming in. It is in SEF mode.

02 55 02 P Looks good, Gus.

02 55 07 C Yes, when I go to small-end-forward it alines it

all right.

02 55 14 P Maybe we ought to aline it small-end-forward, huh?

02 55 16 C Well, that is, if you go to ORBIT RATE it goes off.

That's what happens.

02 55 24 P That Orbit Rate isn't any good, then.

02 55 26 C Yes.

ROSE KNOT VICTOR

02 55 32 cc Molly Brown, RKV CAP COM. Over.

02 55 35 C RKV, this is Molly Brown.

02 55 37 cc Roger. We are standing by for your respiratory

maneuver.

02 55 41 C Roger.

02 55 43 P The respiratory maneuver? I can give it to them.

02 55 49 C Here it comes.

02 55 58 cc Roger. We copy, Molly Brown. We are standing by for

your pilot's oral temp and blood pressure.

02 56 44 C Blood pressure is on the way.

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02 56 46 cc Roger.

02 56 55 c RKV, Molly Brown.

02 56 57 cc Stand by. Roger, we are receiving the blood pressure,

Molly Brown.

02 57 12 cc Molly Brown, RKV. We have received your blood pressure

and temperature.

02 57 17 c Roger, RKV. The platform alines all right when I'm

in SEF and, evidently, when I go to ORBIT RATF: it
drives the ball off in roll.

02 57 33 cc Roger. Understand. Stand by one.

02 57 38 P The Gage Correlation Report is complete.

02 57 42 C The Gage Correlation Report is complete.

02 57 52 P Time is 1821. Can I read these into the recorder,

Gus, or will it get to you? (Pilot misread 24-
hour clock. It should have been 1721.)

02 58 00 C Read it into the recorder.

02 58 01 P Okay.

02 58 07 c Let's see. It's pitching down on Orbit Rate. Horizon

Scan now. Let's see if it stops it. Pitched down
to 10".

02 58 15 CC Molly Brown, RKV CAP COM.

02 58 17 C Go ahead.

02 58 18 CC If you are drifting in Orbit Rate, suggest you

select a mode of your own for your tracking task
coming up on the coast.

02 58 25 c Roger.

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02 58 26 P Thanks a bunch. Okay, I'll read these quantities
off. The GMT was 1716 when we started. Propellant
quantity was 60. Cabin temperature -- 92. Suit
temperature -- 58. Cabin pressure -- 5.6. Suit
co2 -- 3/4 millimeter. Secondary left 02 bottle --
5100. Secondary 02 bottle right was 5050. ECS '
02 quantity -- 62 percent. Pressure -- 840. Source
temperature -- 55. Source pressure -- 2000. Fuel
temp -- 68.

02 58 58 C You are supposed to take pictures of this.

02 58 59 P I know it, I know it -- 295. RCS A temperature --

87. RCS A pressure -- 3000- RCS B temperature --
82. RCS B pressure -- 2650. Main ammeter -- 19.
No. 2 -- 19.5. 1A -- 4.5. 1B -- 4.5. 1C -- 4.
2A -- 5. 2B -- 4 3/4. 2C -- 4 3/4. DC volts
23.5. si -- 29. s2 -- 29. c -- 27. 1~ -- 24.
1~ -- 24. ic -- 24. Greenwich Mean Time is
1721. Completed.

02 59 03 cc Molly Brown, FKV. You are looking good here on the

ground. If you have any further comments we are
standing by.

02 59 08 C Negative.

02 59 10 cc Roger. Guaymas will be next.

02 59 30 c I don't see a good target anyplace.

02 59 41 p Man, just pitch over and I'll take a picture.

02 59 50 p Can you pitch it down and toward the States, Gus?

GUAYMAS

02 59 51 cc Molly Brown, Guaymas CAP COM.

02 59 55 c Guaymas, Molly Brown.

02 59 58 cc Your Three-Alpha times are nominal.

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03 00 01 c Roger . . . and nominal.

03 00 03 P Can you come across a ground tracking looking down

like that, Gus? (Pilot demonstrating with hands
on Orbital Path Display).

03 00 06 c Sideways?

03 00 07 P Yes, sideways, and .pitch down 90. Will this hurt

alinement? -- because I can see some targets up
north.

03 00 14 c You mean roll to the right?

03 00 14 cc We are standing by for your coolant pump checks.

03 00 18 P No. Roll left.

03 00 22 P Roll left, and pitch down.

03 00 25 c I don't see a good target anyplace.

03 00 32 c What did you say, Guaymas?

03 00 34 cc We are standing by for your report on your Coolant

Pump Checks.

03 00 40 c Roger.

03 00 44 c I don't see anything that makes a decent target

at all.

03 00 48 P Well, I can't -- can you pitch down so I can see

something?

03 00 53 c Oh, you can't see anything. If I pitched straight

over you could have. See?

03 00 55 p Yes.

03 00 57 p Here, there is a target down there.

03 00 59 c Where?

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03 01 02 P You've got to pitch the nose down. Right by the

nose.

03 01 07 c That green spot? (The Imperial Valley)

03 01 08 P No, down -- like straight down.

03 01 11 c I don't know what you see.

03 01 12 P There's all kinds of stuff. See that town down

there?

03 01 17 c Where?

03 01 18 P Right around here on the right.

03 01 20 c I can't see over there, John. I'll roll back to

the right so we can both see. Ah yeah, there is
one right down below here. Let's see if I can
get it.

03 01 41 c Guaymas, go ahead.

03 01 44 cc Have you completed your Coolant Pump Checks?

03 01 45 p Yes.

03 01 47 c Right there?

03 01 48 P Yes.

03 01 50 P Yes, go ahead.

03 01 52 c I'm tracking him right on around.

03 01 53 p Okay.

03 01 53 c You can't see the pipper.

03 01 54 p I know.

03 01 59 p Tell them we have done our Coolant Pump Check.

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03 02 01 c Coolant Pump Checks complete.

03 02 04 cc Roger. What is the status on the checks?

03 02 07 P What difference does it make?

03 02 10 P We couldn't get the B pumps to come on simultaneously.

03 02 17 c We couldn't get the pumps on simultaneously.

03 02 21 cc Say again, Molly .Brown. You're broken.

03 02 24 C We couldn't get the pumps on simultaneously.

03 02 29 cc I copied you cannot get the pumps on simultaneously.

03 02 33 c Roger.

03 02 36 c Got the pictures?

03 02 37 p Yes.

03 02 38 c That is right up from the tip of the Gulf of California,

isn't it?

03 02 39 p Yes.

03 02 41 c I don't see the Salton Sea.

03 02 43 cc Guaymas standing by for your standby T/M real-time

modulation check.

03 02 55 c I can't see in here now. I'm blind.

03 02 56 P I am too.

03 03 07 p Secondary pump is off and T/M to CONMAND.

03 03 09 cc Molly Brown, Guaymas CAP COM.

03 03 12 c Go ahead, Guaymas.

03 03 13 cc We are standing by for your standby telemetry

transmitter check with real-time.

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03 03 ia P Okay. Tell them to stand by. T/M's in REAL-TIME.

03 03 20 c Standby T/M is in REAL-TIME.

03 03 22 cc Roger.

03 03 35 p Hey, Gus. We are coming up on El Paso.

03 03 37 c Are we?

03 03 38 CC Molly Brown, that T/M check is okay on the ground.

03 03 38 P Yes.

03 03 43 c You see it?

03 03 45 p You've got to pitch over. It's beneath us.

03 03 50 c Where?

03 03 53 c Where?

03 03 56 p That's the mountain range right there. See that hill

right over there? I think El Paso is under the
clouds.

03 04 02 cc Molly Brown, Guaymas. Would you say again the

trouble you are having with your pump check?

03 04 08 c We had no trouble with the pump check.

03 04 10 cc Roger.

03 04 17 cc Would you remove pump A off of primary?

03 04 23 C Is pump A off primary?

03 04 26 P We got A off.

03 04 29 C Pump A is off primary.

03 04 48 P Well, No. 2 audio to RECORD. Suit Fan No. 2 - -

check.

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03 05 10 P At 3:10. Okay.

03 05 17 p Change the tape again over the Cape.

03 05 22 cc Molly Brown. This is Guaymas handing you over to

Texas.

03 05 23 C Roger.

03 05 25 P There is nothing down there to see. You know it?

03 05 27 C That sight blocks the window. Know it?

03 05 29 P Yeah, I know it.

03 05 31 c I couldn't track it in Pulse.

03 05 32 P I know.

03 05 43 c How much fuel will we need for the next burn?

03 05 44 p The standard burn is 93 ft/sec. We will have enough.

03 05 55 c We're alined okay, now.

TEXAS

03 06 15 cc Molly Brown, Cape CAP COM.

03 06 18 c Go ahead, Cape CAP COM.

03 06 19 cc Do you have your standby telemetry transmitter on

and ready for a tape dump?

03 06 23 c Okay. Our standby T/M is in REfiL-TIME.

03 06 25 cc Okay. You are commanding it on. All righty, we'll

give you the word on it then. What is the status
of your other platform modes, Molly Brown -- BEF
or 'Free?

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03 06 35 c Say again.

03 06 36 cc What is the status of your other platform modes, such

as BEF and Free?

03 06 45 c Well SEF is fine. Orbit Rate is the one that drives

me off in roll. I haven't checked BEF yet. I'll
go ahead and give it a check now.

03 06 53 cc Okay.

03 06 57 cc How long does it take you to build up this quarter

degree rate in that yaw rate, starting from zero
yaw rate?

03 07 03 c Gordo, it just gradually accelerates. It's some

slow leak out there.

03 07 10 cc Roger. Are you satisfied with obtaining end holding

your attitudes visually?

03 07 15 c Roger, and the platform is alining properly in SEF.

03 07 21 cc Okay, fine. You want to turn your standby transmitter

off?

03 07 22 P Roger, standby transmitter off.

03 07 27 C Standby transmitter off.

03 07 29 cc Okay.

03 07 30 cc Have you tried secondary scanner?

03 07 33 c Roger. We were on secondary scanner for quite awhile.

We are back on primary now.

03 07 38 CC Okay, if you think the platform is drifting too

much there for that Control Mode Characteristic
Check, just delete that -- that at 3 + 30.

03 07 48 C Roger. I deleted that one Horizon Scanner Mode

Check, too.

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03 07 56 cc Okay. The one earlier?

03 07 58 C Roger.

03 07 59 cc Okay. I have your 4-l weather for you.

03 08 03 C Roger.

03 08 04 cc It is broken cloud conditions. 20 miles visibility.

Wind is 20 knots, at 5 foot seas.

03 08 16 C Roger, 20 end 5 foot.

03 08 18 cc Roger. Did you have any success on contact with

the booster?

03 08 22 C We were facing the wrong way at that time, making

a Horizon Scanner Check.

03 08 27 cc Yeah, I was afraid you would be. That was a little

bit tight in there.

03 08 30 C Yes.

03 08 33 cc Did you manage to see anything over the U.S. because

of the clouds?

03 08 36 C We could see the southern part of California and

Arizona, I guess. That was about it.

03 08 44 cc You want to get your real-time telemetry and acq

aid on?

03 08 49 P I can't see it, Gus. I'm bl .ind from looking outside.

03 08 54 C It's on.

03 08 55 cc Okay. We've got it.

03 09 09 cc How's the weather, in general, around the world?

03 09 11 C Very cloudy.

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03 09 12 cc I see.

03 09 16 c We've seen very little land.

03 09 20 cc All clouds and water, huh?

03 09 22 c Yep, not even much water.

03 09 25 P Roger. We got a DCS update just then. Was that the

TX* Over?

03 09 31 c We just got DCS update, Gordo. Was that the TX?

03 09 34 cc Roger. They got it up and verified.

03 09 44 cc TR looks good, Molly Brown.

03 10 28 CC Molly Brown, Cape CAP COM.

03 10 30 c Go ahead.

03 10 32 cc We understand you don't have this rolling off in Free

mode. Is that affirmative?

03 10 39 c I don't have any in SEZ' or BEF mode, Gordo. I haven't

checked Free yet. Give me another few minutes.

03 10 46 cc Okay, fine.

03 10 48 C But the platform does aline properly in the BEF

mode. I can tell that already.

03 10 52 cc Okay, real good.

03 ii 56 cc We have good verification on your load now, Molly

Brown. It looks good.

03 12 26 CC Molly Brown, Cape CAP COM.

031229 C Go ahead Cape.

03 12 30 cc Have you had a chance to check that Free mode yet?

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03 12 33 C I'm in Free mode now, and it looks like it is working

all right.

03 12 35 cc Very good. We were 6ure interested in that4

.
03 13 24 cc Molly Brown, Cape CAP COM.

03 13 28 C Go ahead.

03 13 29 cc I would like for you to turn that cabin fan on for

two minutes and then back off when you can to see
as a little experiment.

03 13 39 C Okay, it's on.

03 13 40 cc Okay.

03 15 03 cc Molly Brown, Cape CAP COM.

03 15 05 C Go ahead.

03 15 07 cc That next normal burn will be a DVof 96.

03 15 12 C Roger, the next burn will be 96.

03 15 15 cc The time on that is 1 + 49.

03 15 27 C Roger. 96 ft/sec and 1 + 49 seconds.

03 15 31 cc 1 + 49 and 96 ft/sec.

03 15 36 C ...

03 15 37 cc Okay.

03 15 57 C Cabin fan is off.

03 15 59 cc Okay.

Bad tape change and recorder did not function again until 04 08 00,
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COASTAL SENTRY QUEBEC

03 48 14 CC Molly Brown, CSQ CAP COM.

03 48 17 C CSQ, this is Molly Brown. Go ahead.

03 48 19 CC Roger. What's the status?

03 48 21 C We are GO.

03 48 22 CC Roger. You look good from the ground. Stand by

to copy Three-Bravo times.

03 48 29 C Roger.

03 48 43 CC Molly Brown, CSQ. Let me know when you are ready.

03 48 49 C Roger. We are ready.

03 48 51 CC GMTRC 18 37 58. Ground elapsed time 04 13 58. Bank

angle - roll left 55.AV93. Molly Brown, CSQ.
Did you copy?

03 49 26 P Roger. GMTRC is 18 37 58.

03 49 33 cc Roger.

03 49 35 p Bank angle - 55 left. AV 93.

03 49 39 cc Roger.

03 49 46 cc Molly Brown, CSQ CAP COM. Cape recommends you per-

form your OAMS retroburn in BEF after alinement,
and stay in BEF up to retrofire.

03 50 02 c Roger. Agree with that.

03 50 12 cc Molly Brown, CSQ. Did you finish your retrofire

checklist?

03 50 19 c Roger.

03 50 28 CC Molly Brown, CSQ. Stand by for a GMT time hack.

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03 50 32 C Roger.

03 50 34 cc On my mark, GMT will be 18 14 40.

03 50 40 cc MARK!

03 50 46 c Give me one on the even minute.

03 50 48 CC Roger.

03 51 00 cc MARK!

03 51 01 c Roger.

03 51 05 cc We are standing by for your Sea Urchin Egg Experiment.

03 51 14 c Roger. It's being activated.

03 51 18 CC Roger. Would you give me a GMT when you turn the

handle?

03 51 22 c Roger. GMT 15:20.

03 51 29 cc Roger.

CARNARVON

03 56 00 cc Molly Brown, Molly Brown, Carnarvon. CAP COM. Over.

03 56 04 c Carnarvon, Molly Brown.

03 56 05 cc Roger. Read you loud and clear. We are going to

send you a new 4-l command load and TR. Do you
have your timer set at 34:00?

03 56 14 c Timer set at 34:O0.

03 56 16 cc Okay. In the meantime I’d like to get helium source

temperature, pressure, and quantity reading from
you.

03 56 29 C OAMS propellant quantity is 55 percent.

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03 56 34 cc Roger. 55 percent. Could I have the temperature

and pressure? We are going to send you a command
load at this time.

03 56 39 p Roger. Source pressure is 1950. Source temperature

is 81".

03 56 46 cc Roger. Thank you. Command load coming.

03 56 54 c And the pre-retro checklist is complete, Pete.

03 56 58 cc Roger. Understand, pre-retro checklist is complete.

You've got a new TR. You've got a command load.
Your clocks are synched down here on the ground
and I have about 2 minutes and 15 seconds to
go to your 34-minute time hack.

03 57 20 cc If you are looking at the ground, Molly Brown,

Carnarvon has a big fire going for you down here.

03 57 28 C We are blunt-end-forward. We can't see them yet.

03 57 32 CC Okay.

03 57 48 CC Molly Brown, Carnarvon CAP COM. We have a CC here

on the ground, and I have about 1 minute, 30 seconds
till your time hack.

03 57 59 c Roger.

03 58 03 CC Molly Brown, Carnarvon. When you have a chance from

the pilot, the medics would like to get a reading
on the food evaluation.
03 58 16 C No time, we'll see them when we get back.
03 58 18 CC Okay.

03 58 27 P Every-thing is in order.

03 58 29 CC Roger, roger.

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03 58 49 CC Molly Brown, Carnarvon CAP COM. Stand by for TR

MARK of 34:00, in approximately 30 seconds.

03 58 58 C Roger.

03 59 18 CC 5-4-3-2-l-

03 59 23 CC MARK. TR 34:O0.

03 59 27 C Roger. The clock is counting down.

03 59 34 cc Molly Brown, Carnarvon. The medics would like to

get the respiratory maneuver when you have a
chance.

03 59 43 c Roger. It's coming.

03 59 54 cc Molly Brown, Carnarvon has it loud and clear.

04 00 06 c ...

04 00 10 c This is Carnarvon, Molly Brown. Say again.

04 00 17 c What's this new GMT of retrofire you gave us?

04 00 21 cc Say again.

04 00 22 c What is the GMT of retrofire you just gave us?

04 00 25 cc Roger. The GMTRC is 18 57 23 for a GETRC of 04 33 23.

04 00 45 cc Molly Brown, Carnarvon. Do you want the rest of the

quantities? The Cape said it wasn't necessary
unless you want them.

04 00 59 c That's okay, Pete.

04 01 18 CC Molly Brown, this is Carnarvon.

04 01 23 c Go ahead.

04 01 24 cc Cape recommends that I give you your backup quantities

there for GMTRC of 18 57 23. It'll be a roll left 55.

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GMT'RBof 19 08 23. Roll right 65 at GMT 400K

19 01 29.

04 02 00 c We got it, Pete.

04 02 02 cc Okay, Gus. I only have one question for you before

you go out of range. How's the flying up there?

04 02 16 c Great1

04 02 18 CC Fine GT-3. See you next trip - next year.

04 02 22 c Okay.

04 08 00 P Okay. That was the last tape change.

04 08 27 c Going to primary scanners at 25 minutes to retrofire.

040832 P Okay.

04 08 32 c Or GM'IJof 1832.

04 08 35 P Okay.

04 08 39 C Can't you get the camera stowed?

04 09 01 P There it goes.

04 09 03 c Seems like one of those scanners just needs a rest

every now and then. You know?

04 09 07 P Yes.

04 09 09 c Scanner went out at 1833.

04 09 48 C There's that scanner light again.

04 09 49 c It's out.

040953 'c It's on again.

04 09 53 c It's out again.

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04 10 03 c Scanner light's out again.

04 10 06 c It's on again.

04 10 34 c Scanner light is on.

04 10 58 C Going to secondary at 1835.

04 11 10 c Secondary scanner ignore light is good at 18 35 10.

04 ii 25 c Now I see what you mean about those RCS thrusters

shining when the sun is shining on the nose.

04 11 37 c Got your seat belt hooked?

04 11 43 p Can you take it around a couple more times?

04 ii 46 c I don't know. Got your shoulder harness?

04 11 48 P Yes, finally.

04 ii 56 P Now, let me go through this checklist in an orderly

manner.

04 12 07 P Okay.

04 12 23 P TR-5 circuit breaker is closed.

04 12 26 c Yes.

04 12 27 p Okay. All equipment is stowed. Secondary B pump is

on.

04 12 33 c There comes the sun.

04 12 35 p And that old suit temp down there at 55”, S-band-

CONTINUOUS, C-band-CONTINUOUS, T/M in REAL-TIME
and AC&.

041244 P Main batteries - we tested them. They checked good.

C is way up there at 29, S2 --

04 12 53 c Man! With that sun shining on the nose, I can't

see anything now.

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04 12 57 P Every time you fire those RCS thrusters Sl and S2

drop voltage. Well, that's not unusual.

04 13 00 c Hey, I can see the shadow of the scanner working now.

04 l3 03 p 23.5 on the main bus.

04 13 07 p Okay, right circuit breakers all closed.

04 13 12 c Man! I hope the 8-ball is right, because there's

no horizon.

04 13 24 P Okay. Now 4:06 after retrofire is 400K, and 11

minutes after retrofire is reverse.

04 13 33 c What's that again, now, John?

04 13 35 p 4:06 after retrofire is -

04 13 38 C Let me write that down.

04 13 39 p I'll tell you. I won't forget it.

04 13 45 c 4:06

04 13 51 c And what is reverse?

04 13 52 P Eleven minutes flat. That sounds about right, because

it was 10 minutes and 51 seconds from our nominal
data.

04 14 00 c There is still no horizon.

04 14 03 p Okay. Give me a mark, and let me check TR one more

time.

04 14 09 c Okay, I'll give it to you at 19:08.

041412 P Okay.

04 14 14 c Got about 10 seconds. Could give it to you anytime,

couldn't I?

04 14 16 P Yep.

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04 14 16 c I'll give it to you at 05.

04 14 17 p Okay.

04 14 18 C One, MARK.

04 14 21 c You're going to be a little late. I think you

punched a little late.

04 14 27 P 19:04. That's a good TR check.

04 14 35 c Hope the sun doesn't get that scanner right here,

04 14 45 p The last burn we received was 96 feet a second and

a minute and 49 seconds of burn. Right?

04 14 51 c Yeah, we're going to aline.

04 15 00 P Okay. Ready for this burn.

04 15 02 c Okay. Six minutes.

04 15 20 c I've got to start that computer.

04 15 23 C Man! There's the horizon and it is beautiful.

04 15 39 p Okay. Better pitch over and check yaw.

04 15 41 c Huh?

04 15 42 P Better check yaw, for sure.

04 15 44 c Okay. We have it. It's lying good now and the

scanner --

04 15 48 P Feels like it. Looks like it.

04 16 33 c Got everything but start computer,

04 16 35 P Okay, well --

04 16 38 C I'm not going to start until later.

04 16 47 p Wait a second.

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04 16 50 c Is it in?

04 16 52 P No.

04 16 53 c Well, get it in!

04 17 09 c 96.
04 17 11 P 967

04 17 11 P I'm in Catch-Up mode.

04 17 13 p Okay.

04 l7 29 C Says to put in 2590960.

04 17 33 p Okay.

04 17 38 C You have about 2 minutes.

04 17 39 p Hawaii CAP COM, Molly Brown.

04 17 41 c 2-5-9-0-9-6-0

04 17 52 P Okay, but -- that's what we're going to shoot for.

04 18 27 P Okay. At the start of this we'll be about 52 percent.

(OAMS propellant quantity)

04 18 33 C Hawaii, Molly Brown.

04 28 46 C Man! I mean we start to burn just as we come over

there.

04 18 50 P Let's go ahead and hit the Catch-Up thing and see

what it says.

04 18 56 C Nothing.

04 18 58 P Well, let's do it -- put it back in, Okay. Now try

it.

04 19 05 p Okay. Now.

04 19 07 c There she goes. 6 - 5 - 4 -- how did it get in

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04 19 15 p That's how.

04 19 19 c 96.
04 19 20 P Okay.

04 19 32 C ...

‘04 19 34 p Yes, sir!

04 19 59 c The IVI's keep counting up, though.

04 20 04 P Yes.

04 20 10 P It does keep changing, doesn't it?

HAWAII

04 20 14 cc Hello, Molly Brown. Hawaii CAP COM.

04 20 17 c Hawaii, Molly Brown is all ready for burn.

04 20 20 cc Roger. Give us a hack on your event timer.

04 20 23 C Okay, it'll be 12:55 on my mark.

04 20 28 C MARK.

04 20 28 CC Right, we are right on.

04 20 42 c Okay. On my IVI's, I have 97 ft/sec forward and

the others are zips.

04 20 49 cc Roger, and give us a mark for the start of burn.

04 20 53 c Roger. We've got about 25 seconds to go.

04 20 56 cc Roger.

04 20 59 p That's perfect out-the-window alinement.

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04 23 19 P We timed that a minute and 48 seconds.

04 23 25 cc Give us your IV1 readings.

04 23 26 c IVI's: Fore-Aft 0, Left was 1, Up was 2.

04 23 34 C That was the end of burn.

04 23 35 P Yes.

04 23 36 cc Okay, and how did your attitudes look?

04 23 39 C Attitudes were right on, plus or minus 2 or 3

degrees.

04 23 42 cc Okay, they look good on the ground.

04 23 45 C Roger.

04 23 47 C Now we can go to REENTRY. Right?

04 23 48 P Yes.

04 23 50 P Okay, I've got 9:29 on the TR.

04 23 54 P Okay, MARK!

04 23 58 C Oh! Give me another.

04 24 00 c I'll give you one at 19. Okay?

04 24 01 P Okay.

04 24 04 C MARK!

04 24 06 P Okay, and the propellant source pressure is 1500.

04 24 18 c We had indicated 22 percent when we got done, Neil.

(OAMS propellant quantity)

04 24 23 cc 20 percent. Rog?

04 24 24 C About 22.

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04 21 01 c Yes.

04 21 12 c 10 seconds.

04 21 17 c We have 50 percent propellant quantity indicated.

Getting ready to fire --

04 21 23 c MAFX!

04 21 28 CC We got your start of burn.

04 21 30 c Yes, it's burning.

04 21 32 c There's 90 --

04 21 43 c There's 80 --

04 21 54 c 70 --

04 21 57 c You know, you can't hear those big thrusters.

04 21 58 P No.

04 22 05 c 60 --

04 22 17 c 50 --
04 22 22 P There's a minute of burn.

04 22 29 c 40 --

04 22 43 c There's 28 --

04 22 51 c 20 --

04 23 02 c 10 --

04 23 10 P 4-3-2-1-

04 23 14 C MARK! 33-d of burn.

04 23 16 CC Right. Mark end of burn. Good show.

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04 24 26 CC Okay.

04 24 30 P Source pressure is 1500, source temperature 60-50,

I mean. And the RCS-both rings on. Antenna okay.
On REENTRY. Heaters off. Quantity Read Switch off.

04 24 51 C Let's see, did we get all of this?

04 24 54 P OAMS power to ATTITUDE, controller stow, attitude

PULSE, computer to REENTRY.

04 25 26 P Okay.

04 25 30 C Now we're lined up good.

04 25 31 P Okay, and the retro load is initialized now, because

I called addresses 10 and 11 out of the computer.

04 25 37 C Now, don't go out of Reentry mode.

04 25 38 P Okay, but I don't think it would make any differ-

ence, as long as we go back. Okay -- platform --
rate -- computer to REENTRY -- RATE COMMAND--
roll gyro off.

04 25 52 C Yes.

04 25 53 P Platform is ORBITAL RATE -- NO.

04 25 54 C No.

04 25 55 P Retro power - ARM.

04 25 58 C Not now. At TR-5, you mean?

04 26 01 P Well, this is the 5-minute checklist.

04 26 03 c Okay, well, we'll just -- 7:2O now.

04 26 16 c I haven't heard any of those squib isolation pyros

fire yet. Have you?

04 26 20 P Yes, I heard the ones on the pad fire.

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04 26 24 c Did you? I don't remember, I guess.

04 26 28 P I was listening for all that jazz.

04 26 30 c Oh, were you?

04 26 31 P Oh, yeah!

04 26 37 P You have to listen for it to hear it.

04 26 53' C Can't see inside.

04 26 57 P It's bright, isn't it?

04 27 02 c Well, the nose looks way down there, but that's

about right.

04 27 17 P One minute.

04 27 46 c Those thunderstorms would make it really tough coming

in. You know?

04 27 57 C It doesn't look like we're so high.

04 27 58 P Batteries on. Mains on --

04 28 00 C Cot everything on we need. Right?

04 28 02 P Yes sir.

04 28 05 C Retro power is coming on here at 5:15.

04 28 16 C Turn it off now.

04 28 20 C Okay. It's 5 minutes.

04 28 23 C MARK.

04 28 23 P Okay.

04 28 24 c That's everything but 02 High Rate.

04 28 26 P Okay.

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ROSE KNOT VICTOR

04 28 33 CC Molly Brown, RKV CAP COM.

04 28 38 C FKV, Molly Brown.

04 28 38 CC Molly Brown, Molly Brown, RKV CAP COM. Over.

04 28 42 c Say again.

04 28 43 CC Molly Brown, RKV CAP COM. How do you read?

04 28 45 C Read you loud and clear, RKV.

04 28 47 CC Roger. Have you completed TR-5 checklist?

04 28 51 C Roger.

04 28 52 cc Roger. I'll give you a mark at TR-4.

04 28 55 C Did you set your clock over there?

04 28 56 P Yes, I want to start it at retrofire.

04 29 ii c Okay, both rings working.

04 29 12 cc Stand by.

04 29 23 cc MARK!

04 29 24 C Roger.

04 29 25 cc Your clock looks like it's counting good.

04 29 45 C Are we all set for TR-l?

04 29 46 P Yes, just about. We'll make it.

04 30 04 c Got it complete?

04 30 05 P Yep. The adapter batteries are off. We're complete.

04 30 11 c TR-5 is complete.

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04 30 14 cc Roger.

04 30 20 cc Molly Brown, RKV CAP COM.

04 30 23 C Go ahead.

04 30 24 cc You want to mark at TR-l?

04 30 27 C Not necessary.

04 30 28 CC Roger.

04 31 21 c Two minutes.

04 31 22 cc Molly Brown, RKV. You look good from the ground.

04 31 24 C Roger. Thank you.

04 31 25 cc Roger.

04 31 27 C Sure miss that roll rate gyro.

04 31 30 p Yes.

04 31 56 c That old ticker is really ticking away now, I'll

tell you.

04 31 58 P Yes. Hope so.

04 32 06 P Okay. Give me a mark at one, huh?

04 32 07 C Okay.

04 32 14 P Got those off? Yes.

04 32 17 C Five seconds to one minute.

04 32 18 P Okay.

04 52 21 c 2-l-

04 32 23 C MARK!

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04 32 24 P Separate OAMS?

04 32 25 C Yes, go ahead.

04 32 26 P Separate electronics, separate adapter.

04 32 27 cc Molly Brown, RKV.

04 32 29 C Hey, the adapter has separated.

04 32 30 cc Roger, we confirm on the ground. Adapter Sep.

04 32 32 C Yes, you can really feel it.

04 32 34 CC Say again.

04 32 37 C I said you can really feel it kick off.

04 32 49 P TR-30.

04 32 49 CC Roger.

04 32 52’ P Arm auto-retro.

04 32 56 C Auto-retro armed. Squibs armed.

04 32 58 CC Roger, Molly Brown.

04 33 07 c 16 seconds, 15 seconds.

04 33 08 P Okay.

04 33 13 cc 10 - 9 - 8 - 7 - 6 - 5 - 4 - 3 - 2 - 1 - Retrofire.

04 33 23 C Auto-retro.

04 33 25 CC Manual retro.

04 33 29 CC Rocket 3.

04 33 33 cc Rocket 2.

04 33 38 C Three of them.

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GYM-3

04 33 38 CC Rocket 4.

04 33 40 cc Molly Brown, do you confirm all rockets firing

normally?

04 33 44 c All rockets fired normally and attitudes were right

in the center.

04 33 48 CC Roger. Pass your IV1 readouts on to Guaymas. RKV

out.

04 33 49 p Roger.

GUAYMAS

04 33 55 cc Molly Brown, Guaymas CAP COM. Do you copy?

04 33 57 p Roger, Guaymas. The IVI's readings were 331 Aft,

105 Right, and 4 Up. Right in the center. An
automatic superfine retrofire down the line.

04 34 07 cc Roger. I copy. 331 Aft, Right 105, Down 04.

043415 p Roger, and retropack has jettisoned.

04 34 17 cc Roger.

04 34 48 CC Molly Brown, Guaymas CAP COM.

04 34 51 c Go.

04 34 52 CC I'm prepared to give you a TR + 3 minute time hack

if you need it?

043500 p That would be good.

04 35 01 cc Okay, and I have some event times for reentry:

400K feet 19 10 29 -- stand by, Molly Brown.

04 35 24 CC Molly Brown, correct that 400K feet. That's

19 01 29.

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TEX-3

04 35 32 C Roger.

04 35 54 cc Molly Brown, I'll give you a time hack in approx-

imately 30 seconds.
04 36 09 cc Molly Brown, Guaymas. Stand by for a TR + 3 minute
time hack.

04 36 18 CC 5-4-3-2-l-

04 36 23 cc MARK!

04 36 25 cc Do you copy?

04 36 26 c Roger. We i?Ot it.

04 37 19 cc Molly Brown, stand by for Texas.

04 37 24 C Roger.

TEXAS

04 37 40 cc Molly Brown, Cape CAP COM.

04 37 44 c Molly Brown here, go ahead.

04 37 46 cc Roger. I'm getting your bank angle times momentarily.

Your start of Communications Experiment is 19 05 14.

04 37 59 c Roger. I have steering on the computer.

04 38 05 CC I didn't read you on that.

04 38 08 C I'm getting initial bank angle commands from the

computer.

04 38 12 CC Okay.

04 38 41 CC Molly Brown, I have your backup times on the bank

angles and time to reverse bank angle.

04 38 47 C Go ahead.

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MCC-Reentry

04 38 49 CC Bank left 45". Bank right 55". Time to reverse

bank angle 19 08 17.

04 39 02 c Give me an elapsed time after retro.

04 39 10 CC Stand by one.

04 39 21 c I'm rolling to 60' left now.

04 39 27 CC Roger, bank left 45.

04 39 29 C I mean 45.

04 39 36 cc 10 + 54 after retro is reverse bank angle.

04 39 42 C Say again, Gordo.

04 39 48 C What did you say, Gordo?

04 39 50 cc Time from retro fire to reverse bank angle is 10:54.

Ten minutes, 54 seconds.

04 40 10 cc Molly Brown, Cape CAP COM. Transmitting to you in

blackout for Communications eperiment. Over.

04 41 16 cc Molly Brown, Cape CAP COM. Transmitting to you for

communications test. Over.

04 41 48 CC Molly Brown, Cape CAP COM. Transmitting on Commun-

ications Experiment. Over.

04 42 05 cc Molly Brown, Cape CAP COM with a 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 -

4 - 3 - 2 - 1. Over.

04 42 25 cc Molly Brown, Cape CAP COM with a 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 -

4-3-2-l.

04 42 51 cc Molly Brown, Cape CAP COM with a 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 -

4- 3-2-l.

04 43 25 CC Molly Brown, Cape CAP COM with a 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 -

4-3-2-l.

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and Descent

04 43 55 cc This is Cape CAP COM transmitting for Communications

Experiment l-2-3-4-5-4-3-2-1.
Over.

04 44 28 CC Molly Brown, Cape CAP COM with a 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 -

4-3-2-l.

04 44 44 cc Molly Brown, Cape CAP COM. Over.

04 44 54 c ...

04 45 02 cc Molly Brown, Cape CAP COM.

04 45 15 p . ..end of that.

04 45 20 cc Molly Brown, Cape CAP COM. Over.

04 45 26 cc Go ahead, Molly Brown.

04 45 40 cc Molly Brown, are you reading Cape CAP COM now? Over.

04 45 58 P Black Dog . . .

04 46 05 cc Hello there!

04 46 15 cc Molly Brown, Cape CAP COM.

04 46 17 c Roger. We're down to 80 000 feet. My needles show

us about 25 miles short.

04 46 23 cc Roger, indicating about 25 miles short on your com-

puter. Very good.

04 46 33 cc I have a drogue time 19 10 42. What is your alti-

meter reading?

04 46 38 C Reading 60 000,

04 46 43 cc You say 70 OOO?

04 46 48 c There goes the drogue.

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and Descent

04 46 49 cc Roger.

04 46 52 C Okay, we have a drogue.

04 46 54 cc Roger, drogue.

04 46 59 cc Looks pretty good, doesn't it?

04 47 01 C Our propellant valves are shut off. We've got a

40K light. Really oscillating.

04 47 11 cc Roger.

04 47 18 C Passing through 30 000 feet.

04 47 21 cc Roger.

04 47 31 cc Approximately one minute to the main.

04 47 42 C Intrepid, this is Molly Brown.

04 47 44 cc Roger. Go ahead.

04 48 08 cc Molly Brown, Cape CAP COM. How is your main?

04 48 12 C We don't have a main yet. Passing through 13 000.

04 48 16 cc Roger.

04 48 40 cc Molly Brown, how is your main. Over?

04 48 47 C Okay. We have a good stable chute. Going to

landing attitude.

04 48 54 P Oh, man! That was the roughest one of the whole

bunch, wasn't it!?

04 48 55 C Ohman!

04 49 01 C Okay. We all set?

04 49 02 P Yes. Now we go through the post-main checklist.

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INTREPID-Descent

04 49 13 c Let's see, can they read us now?

04 49 16 p Yes.

04 49 17 c Cape CAP COM, this is Molly Brown.

04 49 19 cc Molly Brown, Cape CAP COM.

04 49 22 c Intrepid, this is Molly Brown.

04 49 26 RS Roger. We are reading you now and then. How us?

04 49 28 C Loud and clear. I have 30 ft/sec rate of descent.

Passing through 5500.

04 49 34 p You never took your D-Ring out, huh?

04 49 34 RS Roger, 5500.

04 49 36 c Yes I did, too!

04 49 37 p Oh, did you?

04 49 37 c You better believe it!

04 49 38 P Face plate open?

04 49 40 c Open?

04 49 41 p That's what the checklist says. Indicate Landing

Control circuit breaker open.

04 49 48 C What?

04 49 50 p Indicate Landing Attitude Control circuit breaker

open. That's that second one over on your panel.
There you go.

04 49 56 P ACME bias power off.

04 49 57 RS Molly Brown, this is the Intrepid. It appears you

will land 5 miles ahead of me. Over.

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INTNPID-Descent

04 50 03 c Roger. Thank you.

04 50 04 P That'11 be nice. Rescue beacon is on.

04 50 08 C Do you have us in sight, Intrepid?

40 50 11 RS Not yet. Over.

04 50 13 c Roger.

04 50 l4 p I'll turn the rescue beacon on, then,

04 50 16 c Rescue beacon coming on.

04 50 19 c Passing through 4000,

04 50 21 P Suit fan to No. 2.

04 50 28 C That drogue chute is right above us, or the pilot

chute.

04 50 31 RS I understand the drogue is just above you, or the

pilot chute.

04 50 35 c Say again.

04 50 40 p RCS heater's off. We did not do that heater check.

Oh, well. We didn't need it anyway. RCS tempera-
ture was way up. Scanner Heater circuit breaker
open.

04 50 46 c Do you smell that fuel? Fumes from that stuff?

04 50 47 p Yes. Let's close up.

04 50 52 c Yes. I can see Iem smoking out there.

04 50 54 I? Suit flow increase.

04 50 55 c They'll get quenched in a minute.

04 51 02 P Reentry Antenna Ekperiment off.

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04 51 05 P Okay. Manual 02 High Rate - PULL. I don't think

we want to do that yet, do you?

04 51 09 C No.

04 51 19 C I imagine it is pretty bad in here.

04 51 21 P The water seal is closed. AC power off.

04 51 26 C Okay.

04 5l 29 C We're coming-through the lower layer, John. You

better get ready to hit. We're at 2000. No
telling how far the altimeter is off.

04 51 33 P Okay.

04 51 35 P I'm as ready as 1'11 ever be.

04 51 37 C You can put your head back.

04 51 39 P Landing attitude was a bump, wasn't it?

04 51 40 C Yes.

04 51 44 C We're at 1500 feet.

04 51 53 C We're in good shape.

04 51 58 C We may have to go on On High Rate with that smell

in here. L

04 52 00 P I know it.

04 52 04 C It's probably just from that hot metal.

04 52 06 P I think that's what it is.

04 52 09 C I'm sure it is. There’s nothing coming out of the

thrusters.

05 52 10 P No.

04 52 15 C 600 feet.

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Touchdown &.Recovery

04 52 23 C Landing attitude cover open. I thought it was para-

jett.

04 52 26 P Oh, No!!

04 52 27 C 300 feet. It ought to be pretty soon now.

04 52 31 bwact)

045234 C Broke my face plate when we went to landing attitude.

04 52 35 P Did it?

04 52 45 P That's what the problem was, right there.

(Reference to sight mounting bracket extension)

04 52 50 C Look at the smoke coming out the thrusters.

04 52 54 C They're off.

04 52 57 P I don't understand that.

04 53 03 p We better go to O2 High Rate and close the snorkle.

04 53 05 c Okay.

04 53 20 P Post-landing checklist. Parachute jett-pushed.

Landing safe. Safe the landing bus. Helmet off
and stowed. I'd leave it on. Arm restraints -

04 53 33 c This is Molly Brown in the water. Anybody read?

04 53 39 R-A Molly Brown, this is Big Box 15. You are loud and
clear. Check with Big Box 14.

04 53 40 c Roger. We're floating well in the water.

04 53 50 p Okay. Shoulder fitting stowed. Got the cabin light

off. Helmet - off and stow. Arm restraints stow.

04 54 07 c Hey, start over again.

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04 54 09 p Post-landing checklist. Helmet - off and stow. I

don't think we ought to do that.

04 54 13 c No, not yet.

04 54 14 p Arm restraint stow. Okay, elbow rest - stow, lap

belt - release and stow.

04 54 34 p I tell you, I wouldn't open that face plate with

those thrusters blowing like that.

04 54 40 RA ...

04 54 45 c I read you. Who is this calling Molly Brown?

04 54 52 C This is Molly Brown, call again.

04 54 56 RA Molly Brown, Big Box 14. Go ahead.

04 54 58 C This is Molly Brown, Big Box. Go ahead.

04 55 03 RA Roger, sir, if you will give me a 15 second hold-down

04 55 06 c Okay, I'll hold it down.

04 55 16 c Big Box, Molly Brown.

04 55 28 RA Molly Brown, Big Box 14. We have you on . . .

04 56 20 RA Molly Brown, Big Box 14. Would you give me another

hold-down?

04 56 38 RA Molly Brown, Big Box 14.

04 57 51 RA Molly Brown, Big Box 14. Another hold-down, please.

05 00 26 RA Okay, Molly Brown, I've got a fix on you. Big Box

14.

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