keep that stuff. I'll put it in my pocket. ..... cloud formations down there. ...... right over there? I think El Paso i
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Authorized
for
by:
Distribution
by:
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NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION MANNED SPACECRAFTCENTER HOUSTON, TEXAS APRIL , 1965
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CONFIDENTIAL GT-3 COMMUNICATIONS TRANSCRIPT The transcription from spacecraft The following
of GT-3 air to ground voice communications and ground station voice recorder tapes. is
a breakdown
of the format
a.
Column 1 - Elapsed time and seconds.
b.
Column 2 - Communicator,
from
was derived
of the transcription:
launch
identified
in hours,
minutes,
as follows:
c - Command Pilot P - Pilot CC - Capsule Communicator RA - Recovery Aircraft RS - Recovery Ship C.
Column 3
-
Text
of communication.
the transmission Within the text, a series of three dots (... ) indicates indicate a time pause and/or Two dashes (--) could not be deciphered. Parentheses are used to designate information not a change in thought. but included to clarify certain communia part of the communications, 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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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
00 00 12
C
There's
the roll
00 00 13
cc
Roger.
Roll.
00 00 22
C
okay.
Roll
is
00 00 23
cc
Roger.
Roll
complete.
00 00 25
C
There
oo oo 26
cc
Roger.
00 00 29
C
Yeah man!
00 00 50
cc
Plus
00 00 52
C
Roger.
00 00 55
cc
Roger.
oo 00 56
P
Cabin pressure little.
00 00 59
cc
Roger.
00 01 18
C
It
00 01 21
cc
Roger.
00 01 29
P
Cabin pressure
00 01 41
cc
1 + 40.
00 01 43
C
Roger.
00 01 44
cc
Roger.
is
started. program.
completed,
goes the pitch. Pitch.
You're
on your
way, Molly
Brown.
50 seconds.
just
Mode II
delay.
is holding
at 6.0,
got quiet.
relieving
at 6.5.
Mode II.
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climbing
just
a
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MCC-Launch 00 01 48
P
First
DCS update
received.
00 01 53
cc
Roger.
00 02 02
cc
You're a little no problem,
00 02 05
c
Okay, Molly
00 02 07
cc
Roger.
00 02 09
c
Roger.
00 02 28
P
Second update
00 02 29
cc
Roger.
00 02 35
c
Okay, there
00 02 37
cc
Roger.
00 02 39
c
And, we're
00 02 41
cc
okay.
00 02 51
P
FDI shows full
00 02 53
c
Okay.
00 02 58
C
Horizon
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!
00 03 07
cc
Steering
00 03 31
c
Hey, we're
00 0;s 33
cc
Roger.
Update. bit Molly
high on the flight Brown.
Brown's
GO for
path,
staging.
Looks good from here.
received.
Update. was staging.
Stage. thrusting.
Thrust
We're
looks
good from here.
scale
pitch
starting
comes right
attitude
error.
to steer. into
Look at that
view.
horizon.
is good from here. moving
right
along
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that
horizon.
but
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MCC-Launch co 03 53
c
What did
you say,
00 03 54
cc
Pretty
00 03 56
c
Yes.
00 04 18
CC
Roger.
Molly
Brown you're
00 04 21
c
Roger.
Molly
Brown is GO.
00 04 22
cc
Roger.
00 04 48
CC
Steering
right
down the old
00 04 50
c
Okay.
oo 04 56
c
Yeah, you can see the view dropped below the horizon back up above.
00 05 04
cc
Roger.
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
00 05 55
cc
Roger.
You are GO, Molly
00 05 59
c
One seven.
00 06 06
cc
Roger.
00 06 lo
c
Okay.
big
Gordo? you got
throttle
Stand
by for
there,
huh?
GC from here.
line.
real well. a little
my mark on 0.8.
a good one here. Brown.
We are separated.
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The nose Now it's bit.
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5
MCC-Launch Pairings.
oo 06 15
CC
Roger.
oo 06 21
c
There
oo 06 22
CC
Okay, fine.
oo 06 24
cc
You have the
00 06 29
c
Okay. 17 ft/sec
00 06 37
cc
Roger.
00 06 42
c
That's
00 06 47
CC
Roger.
oo 06 49
c
And 29 aft.
Right.
oo 06 50
CC
And 23 aft.
Okay.
oo 06 54
P
And the attitude
00 07 23
cc
Roger.
00 07 40
cc
Molly
00 07 43
cc
You have an 87 by 125 orbit. Roger. One-Alpha shortly.
00 07 45
c
Roger.
00 07 54
cc
New One-Alpha time Roger. 18 minutes, 12 seconds.
00 08 05
C
Roger.
18:12.
00 08 06
CC
Roger.
Write
00 08 39
C
That
00 08 43
P
Yes.
oo 08 46
c
Let's John?
went all
23
fairings.
IVI's? at SECO, and I have 29 ft/sec
now.
d0kn-s
3 down, 7 right. 3 down, 7 right.
on the ball
is 18" nose down.
We have an 87 by 125 orbit, Brown,
horizon
Molly
Brown.
Cape CAP COM.
fast, is right
is
elapsed
I'll
get you
time
of 18:12.
John. where they
said
it
would
be.
see, have we got everything on this checklist, Yes. safe. Let's see --retrorockets
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MCC-Launch 00 08 52
P
Yes.
00 08 54
C
OAMS power--
00 08 56
P
Maneuver
00 09 03
c
Arm restraints,
00 09 05
P
Secondary O2 bottle is closed. Waste valve to NORMAL.
00 09 22
cc
Molly
00 09 25
c
GO, Cape CAP COM.
00 09 27
cc
Look better
00 09 30
c
Say again.
00 09 31
cc
Does it flight?
look
better
00 09 37
c
I can't
read
you,
00 09 38
CC
Roger.
How-do-it-look?
00 09 41
c
It
great!
00 09 43
cc
Rog.
00 09 44
p
Computer--PRELAUNCH. High selector to ADAPTER.
00 09 53
P
Cape CAP COM, how do you read Over.
oo 10 06
P
Cape CAP COM, Molly
00 10 09
c
Maybe we lost
00 10 10
P
Yes.
00 10 14
c
Man, it's
ATTITUDE.
face
Brown,
look
Sequence
controller--stowed.
lights--test,
plates--open. I've
got mine.
Cape CAP COM.
there
hard
than
on a ballistic
from
there
than
flight?
on : ballistic
Cordo.
Brown.
frequency
on adapter
Over.
'em,
to watch
that
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is off.
gyro.
Antenna
antenna?
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MCC-Launch 00 10 15
P
Yes.
00 10 23
c
Guess you've
00 10 24
P
Yes.
Stow those
00 10 34
cc
Molly
Brown,
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
00 10 51
P
Okay.
00 10 55
c
Cape CAP COM, how do you read Molly
00 10 59
c
I think we've lost them now. Let's leave it adapter antenna and we'll try at Canaries.
00 11 04
P
Okay.
00 11 08
C
Let's
00 11 19
P
I'll
00 11 41
c
What's
00 11 48
P
Time is 14 something. Just Canary is 14:50 acquisition.
got
to stow the drogue drogue
huh?
pins.
Cape CAP COM.
go to reentry
get
pins,
lined
antenna.
Brown? on
up here.
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 12 10
c
Okay.
00 12 18
C
I'd
00 12 20
P
Yes.
00 12 42
P
Great!
our
time
coming
say I was alined
in to the Canaries?
pretty
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a second.
Okay,
Los 21:42.
good,
wouldn't
you?
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CYI-1 00 13 24
P
Shoot, Gus, I can't I really can't.
00 13 33
c
It
00 13 34
P
Huh.?
oo 13 36
c
It
00 13 37
p
Yes.
00 14 07
c
We must have a leak.
oo 14 08
P
What kind
00 14 19
P
Okay.
00 14 37
c
You want the plotboard?
00 14 40
P
Yes.
00 14 45
c
If
00 14 49
P
The intercom
00 14 54
c
I can't
get the plotboard
00 15 01
c
I can't
get it
00 15 03
P
Can't
00 15 07
c
I'll
wants
wants
get my blood
to keep yawing
us all
the time.
to keep yawing
us all
the time.
bulb
in.
of leak?
I can get it
out.
is noisy,
out,
isn't
it? out
of there.
John.
get the plotboard
darn comes.
pressure
sure never
out? get
it
in.
Oh yes,
there
it
cANARYIsLANJx oo 15 16
cc
Molly
00 15 19
c
Canary CAP COM, this read?
00 15 22
cc
Roger.
00 15 27
C
I read
Brown,
Canary CAP COM. How do you read?
Read you loud you the
is Molly and clear,
Brown. Molly
How do you Brown.
same.
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CYI-1 00 15 28
CC
We have your T/M solid on the ground.
00 15 31
c
Okay, we look
00 15 32
cc
I have your you copy,
00 15 38
P
Okay.
00 15 40
c
Okay.
00 15 41
cc
GMTRC 15 55 47. GEX'RC01 31 47. Roger. AVl39. 65. Roll ieft 550. GMTRB 16 05 31. Roll right Did you copy?
00 16 13
c
Did you get
oo 16 14
P
Yes.
00 16 15
c
There
00 16 20
c
Did you get
00 16 21
P
Roger.
00 16 25
cc
Molly
Brown,
Canary
00 16 28
C
We're
getting
ready
00 16 29
cc
Roger.
00 16 30
P
Roger.
00 16 39
cc
Molly Brown, Canary CAP COM. Request you place your radiator switch to the FLOW position.
00 16 45
P
Roger. whole
oo 16 55
P
It's
00 17 00
P
Reading back a GMT of &l--l5 55 47 GMTRC. GMTRB and right 650. is 16 05 21. Bank angle 55" left
pretty
look
good
good up here. to copy.
Do
2-l.
'em?
goes a planet
up there.
'em?
of 139.
Radiator pass.
cooling
systems
2-l time if you are ready Molly Brown?
Ready with
N
and all
CAP COM. to read
them back to you.
GMT of 16-belay
is
us right
that--15
in FLOW position. down too.
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It's
55 47.
Has been the working.
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10
CYI-1
00 17 30
cc
Molly Brown, Canary CAP COM. We are your UHF Corn Check. Do you copy?
00 17 35
p
Roger. Over.
00 17 49
cc
Molly
00 17 51
c
Go ahead.
00 17 51
P
I don't
00 17 52
cc
Roger. We are standing by for your and would you place your radiator FLOW position?
00 17 59
c
Roger. just
00 18 03
P
The radiator has been in FLOW the whole pass. Roger. Over. The UHF has been on No. 2 the whole pass.
00 18 14
cc
Copy you loud Roger. are standing by for
00 18 20
P
Roger.
00 18 32
cc
Molly
standing
by for
We are on UHF #2. Have been the whole pass. (Pilot was in RECORD on No, 2 audio). Brown,
think
Canary
they
CAP COM.
read me.
John has been answering in RECORD.
Blood Brown,
and clear, your blood
pressure Canary
is
coming
all
UHF Corn Check, switch to your of those.
Molly Brown. pressure.
He's
We
down.
CAP COM. Be advised, on your a 12.6 ft/sec. Did
15 second burn you achieved you copy? 00 18 41
c
I seem to have a leak. There Roger. Understand. must be a leak in one of the thrusters, because get a continuous yaw left.
00 18 53
CC
Roger. left.
00 18 57
C
Very
00 18 59
CC
Roger.
00 19 13
cc
Molly Brown, Canary CAP COM. I have your temperatures, if you are ready to copy.
Understand slight.
Very
that
you get
a continuous
yaw
alow drift.
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radiator
I
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CYI-1
00 19 19
C
Roger.
00 19 20
cc
Roger. scale
00 19 30
C
Off-scale Roger. radiator.
00 19 33
cc
Roger.
00 19 47
CC
your Molly Brown, Canary CAP COM. Stand by to start clock at 20 minutes ground elapsed time. h my mark.
00 20 00
cc
MARK! Did you copy,
00 20 04
C
Roger.
00 20 08
cc
Roger.
00 20 12
cc
Be advised we have received Molly Brown.
00 20 16
C
Roger.
00 20 18
C
Radiator outlet temperature is Greenwich Mean Time is 1445.
00 20 34
C
Rate
Command looks
good.
00 20 48
C
Okay.
The control
checks
00 20 55
C
Do you still
read,
00 20 58
cc
Molly
Canary
00 21 00 r
C
Roger. Control checklist is
00 21 04
cc
Roger.
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.
Your radiator outlet Your radiator high. high.
temperature if inlet is 74.
Going
off-
back to BY-PASS on
Understand.
I copied,
Brown,
Molly
Brown?
and sea urchin
your
eggs activated.
blood
pressure,
off-scale
high
and
are completed.
Canaries? CAP COM.
checks are completed completed too.
and insertion
Understand.
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CYI-1 00 21 17
P
It's
not
leaking.
oo 21 18
cc
Did you copy Molly
00 2120
c
I copied.
00 2125
P
Here,
Gus, let
oo 21 38
cc
Molly
Brown, Canary CAP COM, Do you copy?
00 2141
c
Say again.
00 21 43
cc
Can we have your Roger. please?
oo 21 46
c
Roger.
20 minutes
00 21 48
cc
Roger,
Understand.
00 21 53
c
We are over Africa,
00 21 54
P
Yes.
00 21 59
P
I knew I wouldn't get these were over Kano.
00 22 13
c
There's
00 22 15
P
Man, I agree!
00 22 37
c
If
00 22 42
P
Okay.
oo 22 56
c
We've got a scanner ignore. Hey, we're pitching over do about it.
00 23 14
P
Scanner
00 23 17
C
Yes.
all
me get your
kinds
you'll give of pictures.
drogue
sea urchin
.
.
.
in.
egg time
again,
John,
of junk
pins floating
camera,
valve
is
is driving
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1
pin
elapsed.
me the
The waste
ignore
Esown?
I'll
stowed around
take
until
we
in here.
a couple
in NORMAL. Wonder what caused that. and there's nothing I can you?
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00 23 21
P
Oh, I know what it was. control stick, wasn't
00 23 24
c
No, I don't =9-w.
00 23 35
P
We've got
00 23 41
c
Do we have a leak?
00 23 59
P
It's this event they cryogenic pressure
00 24 03
c
Let's
00 24 04
P
Look at the cabin
24 06
c
What?
00 24 07
P
We've lost
00 24 09
c
Lost
what?
00 24 14
P
Lost
a prima.ry
00 24 17
c
Really?
00 24 18
P
Yes.
00 24 23
P
I'll
00 24 39
P
Okay,
00 24 44
C
Are you sure you didn't OFF position?
00 24 47
P
That
00 24
48
C
No, you couldn't,
24 49
P
No.
00 24 51
P
Want to try happens?
00
00
think to get
so.
13
My knee was hitting it? That would
this
pressure
only
the
be in Pulse
back up.
were talking about decay on CT-2).
(Unexplained
see.
get
pressure!
the --. What have we lost?
that
I'll
switch
get
converter.
heater
off.
the mains
back off. bump the converter
to the
way up there?
it
could
you?
back on the primary
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and see what
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KNo-1
.
00 24 55
c
That's
how we lost
’ 00 24 58
P
See? (Noted inoperative.
00 24 59
c
Yes.
002500
P
Okay.
002503
C
Okay.
that
That
did
it.
Yes.
primary
dc-dc
converter
was still
it.
KSO-
00 25 07
cc
Molly
00 25 10
P
HOW'S that
00 25 20
cc
Molly
00 25 20
c
...
00 25 22
P
Yep.
00 2.5 40
cc
Molly
00 25 43
C
Cape CAP COM, Molly
00 25 46
cc
Roger.
00 25 50
c
It's still GO. We're still drifting Gordo. It's not bad. I can hold with no problem. Hut we did lose dc-dc converter.
00 26 02
cc
Roger.
00 26 05
c
Roger.
00 26 07
cc
Roger.
00 26 14
c
That must not
00 26 17
cc
Have you tried
Brown,
Cape CAP COM. circuit
breaker
set-up
Brown,
Cape CAP COM.
Brown,
Cape CAP COM.
HOW'S your
Lost
your
Brown here. status
primary
on that
circuit
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thruster? a little bit, it with hlse our primary
dc-dc.
have been the scanner your
up there?
breaker,
problem
though.
Gus, on that?
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KNO-1 00 26 22
c
Yes, we have,
00 26 29
cc
Molly Brown, to cut off
00 26 33
C
Negative.
00 26 36
c
I don't
00 26 42
P
Yaw left.
00 26 50
c
We're
00 26 52
P
It
00 26 53
C
Yes, but
00 27 02
c
That
00 27 04
P
Yes.
00 27 14
r:
I turned
the
00 27 20
P
I should down.
turn
00 27 24
c
Flight
00 28 42
c
Now it's
00 30 04
P
It's
00 30 44
c
Can't
00 32 33
P
What time
00 32 47
C
32 elapsed.
00 33 14
c
We're
00 33 17
P
Over where?
00 33 19
c
We'll
have you tried your circuit that one erratic thruster.
know which It
not
would
getting
really
one it
stopped
any roll
it,
all
auto
just
cross
isn't
it?
off
back on. till
the cryo
pressure
comes
loss. us the other
to see in here, it is
it.
right.
heater
that
drifting
pull
left--
OAJ!G No. 7 or 8. with
up,
see--yaw
stopping.
control
hard
Let's
be either
is pitching it's
is.
breaker
off? it
about
Can't
isn't
way. it?
you get
it
off?
now?
over
the east
. ..Africa.
coast
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of Africa
here before
long.
16
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00 33 55
p
Hand me one of those will you?
00 33 58
C
Okay.
00 34 08
P
No, they're
00 34 46
c
Hey!
Are they
over
there
in your
box,
on top?
baok in
We're
towels
the baok.
coming
in
on the night
side.
TANANARIVE
35 08
CC
Molly
00 35 17
c
Look at that
night
00 35 24
cc
Molly
Cape CAP COM.
00 35 27
C
I read you okay,
00 35 29
CC
Roger.
00 35 36
c
Cape CAP COM. How do you read Molly
00 35 38
CC
I'm reading
00 35 45
c
Yes, you are almost
00 35 52
CC
Say again,
00 36 06
c
I said
I can read you,
00 36 09
cc
Roger,
I'm barely
00 36 18
cc
How - 'is - your
00 36 26
c
That
00 36 27
P
Yes.
00 36 28
P
Okay.
00 37 18
C
There
00 37 19
P
Yep.
00
Brown,
Brown,
Cape CAP COM. come up.
How's your
stuff
control
you weak but
Molly
system?
readable.
Gordo.
reading - control
you also. - system?
Now I've out
Over.
on by us*
there.
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.
Brown?
Brown.
right.
lightning
Brown?
unreadable.
goes right
That's is
How do you read Molly
Gordo.
got
the
suit
closed.
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TAN-l
00 37 34
c
Look at that stuff sparkle doesn't
00 37 57
p
Yes.
00 38 30
C
Now you can see those
00 38 30
C
Now you give
00 38 40
P
I'll
00 38 44
C
It
says you do.
00 38 46
P
It
says Command--Oh!
00 38 51
c
Oh, I mean oral temp, thermometer out?
00 38 55
P
Yes.
00 39 31
c
I can't
00 39 37
p
Maybe you are pushing
00 39 42
C
Oh.
00 39 51
p
Okay.
00 39 54
c
How can you tell
00 40 05
P
All
004016
P
Look at that!
00 40 28
P
There's
00 40 39
c
Are those
00 40 40
P
Yes.
give
this
by.
Oh boy!
thrusters
blood
pressure,
Oral
the blood
does
back there.
don't
you?
it?
temperature.
John.
pressure it
Really
firing
You want me to give
it.
get
going it?
Can you get
bulb
the
in.
in the wrong end.
We're back to NORMAL on the waste valve. the difference
between
the ends?
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. It's
the Southern thrusters
beautiful! Cross and Alpha firing?
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and Beta Centuri.
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TAN-l CSQ-1
00 40 44
c
I'm
doing
it.
00 40 45
p
Oh, you doing
00 40 46
c
Yes, we are yawing. so far around.
00 40 56
P
Going
00 41 18
P
Want me to put pressure?
it
back in and give
00 41 21
c
If
it
in.
00 41 23
P
What time
00 41 25
c
41 elapsed.
00 41 35
p
Okay.
00 41 36
c
About
00 41 39
P
Going back to No. 1 on the UHF.
00 41 43
p
Going back
00 42 00
c
There's
it?
to do this
you can get is
I've
to keep it
from yawing
O2 -them a blood
I can't.
it? I get
another
got
CSQ at 42:19.
minute.
to No. 1 on the TJHF at elapsed
no horizon
out
there
time
of 42.
It’s
just
at all.
COASTAL SENTRY QUEBEC
00 42 27
cc
Molly
00 42 31
c
CSQ, this
00 42 34
cc
Roger.
00 42 38
C
Well,
Brown,
cc
Molly
Brown,
is Molly
Brown.
How is your
the control
that
00 42 47
Molly
CSQ CAP COM.
control
system working?
system is working
I have a very
slight
Brown, I copy you very
again?
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fine.
yaw to the left. weak.
Would you say
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CSQ-1
00 42 51
c
All
00 42 58
CC
Roger. Understand. are on secondary
00 43 11
c
Affirmative.
00 43 15
cc
Are you on secondary
00 43 20
c
Negative.
00 43 22
c
Should
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. ACME yaw logic now.
00 43 46
cc
Roger.
00 44 08
P
I don't
know where
I'm going
00 44 13
c
Does it
have urine
in
00 44 14
P
No, there isn't I'm supposed
anything in it. It's to fit in into the aft
00 44 22
c
Puncture
it's
00 44 24
P
Well,
00 44 47
c
CSQ, Molly
00 44 54
cc
Molly
00 44 58
C
Roger. won't
the control system is working fine. have a very slight drift to the left.
we try
it
that's
Brown,
We just
Would you confirm dc-to-dc converter?
that
you
ACME yaw logic?
that?
if
We're
to put
trying
secondary
this.
it?
just
air in it. food box.
air.
a thought. Brown. CSQ CAP COM.
Unable fit in
to send a blood pressure. the suit hole anymore.
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The bulb
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CSQ-1
00 45 05
cc
Roger. Cape recommends that switch to SECONDARY.
00 45 13
c
Roger.
00 45 18
CC
Molly
00 45 23
C
Go ahead CSQ.
00 45 24
cc
Your inlet
00 45 32
C
Roger.
00 45 40
p
We'll
00 45 54
c
That secondary
00 46 12
cc
Molly
00 46 14
c
Go ahead.
00 46 15
cc
We have not temp.
00 46 19
c
Roger. I told you the blood pressure bulb won't in the hole anymore. I think the "0" Ring is jammed, or something.
00 46 29
cc
Roger.
We're
00 46 38
C
Okay.
Here it
00 46 52
c
Okay. How about CALIBRATE -
00 46 55
cc
Molly
00 47 00
c
Roger.
00 47 01
cc
On my mark GMT will
00 47 10
cc
MARK!
Brown,
stay
the driver
CSQ CAP COM.
76".
temp:
Your outlet
temp:
42".
in FLOW.
Brown,
Brown,
you place
driver
may have stopped
the drift.
CSQ.
received
a blood
standing
pressure
by for
or an oral
respiratory
fit
maneuver.
comes.
CSQ.
this?
No. 2 audio
Stand by for
be 15 11 10.
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in UHF and T/M
a GMT time
hack.
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CSQ-1 CRO-1
00 47 14
cc
Molly
00 47 15
c
Roger your
00 47 17
cc
Roger.
00 47 51
c
Have you received
00 47 54
cc
Molly
00 47 59
c
Go ahead CSQ.
00 48 01
CC
We copied your respiratory oral temp. All systems
Brown,
CSQ.
mark.
Brown,
My watch
oral
is
10 seconds
fast.
temp yet?
CSQ.
maneuver, and we have your appear GO from the ground.
CARNARVON
00 50 27
cc
Molly Brown, Molly do you read?
00 50 31
c
Loud and clear.
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.
00 50 46
cc
You have a GO from down here for the second Okay. 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
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 R
Brown,
CAP COM. How
How me?
None of the remedies
helped
and we are GO.
TR.
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.
Carnarvon
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CRO-1 and it did go in at this on T giveRiou a hack on TR at 39:30, going
c
You're
00 51 30
P
Yes.
00 51 52
cc
Molly
00 51 53
cc
MARK! with time
00 52 05
P
Okay. We have computer enough.
00 52 07
c
Roger,
00 52 ii
cc
I understand you see light from Perth. Roger. We'll have a radiator status for you in a minute, and anytime you can give your GMT for your experiment, I'd appreciate it.
00 52 21
P
Roger.
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. in is pretty
00 52 38
c
Roger.
00 52 40
cc
And if John is ready to copy any of this load, I have it for you.'
00 52 44
P
All
00 52 45
C
He's
00 52 47
cc
of burn139. Duration Okay. GMTB 15 43 23.Avof Your GMTRC 15 55 24. Roll 2 minutes 39 seconds.
stand
aren't
like to 10 seconds.
00 51 29
Brown,
to punch it,
I'd
time,
in about
by on my mark. Your TR clock is synched and your spacecraft elapsed
39:30 is your TR, all on the ground, is synched.
and I believe
you?
time
of 39:28.
I see a light
The GMT of that
Blood
from
Experiment
That's
close
Perth.
--
Your radiator 50 minutes and 18 seconds. 73, your rad-out is 38. You're looking good.
maneuver
set. ready
to copy.
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CRO-1 left 55. GMTRB 16 05 28. Roll right 65. GMT 400 K 6344257, 0444775, 15 58 23. Your maneuver load: 0533348, 664903.3, 676628.4, 082244.4, 09120.50, 11302.00.
10031.38,
00 54 28
P
Roger.
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 NORMAL.
00 55 22
cc
Molly
00 55 24
C
Go ahead.
00 55 26
cc
Roger. Your Texas burn seconds.
00 55 37
c
Okay,
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
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
01 01 05
c
Huh?
01 01 06
P
I wouldn't
Copied
Brown,
your
parameters.
coolant
Carnarvon
48 ft/sec
Over.
loop
OFF and evaporator
to
CAP COM.
will
be 48 ft/sec
for
73
73 seconds.
for
get back on RECORD.
lovely.
believe
it
if
it
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hadn't
happened.
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24
01 01 08
C
What?
01 01 10
P
I got my left board.
31 01 14
c
Oh, Oh.
010115
P
Had to turn
01 01 26
c
Hey,
01 01 36
P
We're down to 2400. pressure)
01 01 39
c
Is that
01 01 40
P
Yes, that's fuel.
01 01 46
P
ELapsed time is 1:05. Now, I'm going to get a main (Pilot misread elapsed time). batteries check.
01 02 05
P
--p&
shoulder
around
I think
harness
to get
it
our yaw drift
tangled
up in the back-
out, has stopped.
That's
pretty
good.
(OAMS
okay? fine.
It
means we haven't
used any OAMS
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
01 03 52
c
It's
63 minutes.
01 03 56
P
63.
Okay.
010412
C
Look at that thing. with any of this
01 04 15
P
No, I don't keep that
either. stuff.
01 04 20
c
I'll
in my pocket.
01 04 23
P
I'll Okay. load)
verify
01 04 29
P
Is the Tp5
circuit
put
is
it
it
now, Gus?
I don't know what we can do stuff floating around. Do you? We need a special
that
load.
breaker
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(Pre-retro off?
place
to
command
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25
01 04 32
c
Yes.
01 04 33
p
Okay.
01 04 50
c
You don't
01 05 03
c
We have a scanner ignore light those gages again, are we?
01 05 11
P
NO.
01 06 02
c
All
01 06 07
P
Yep.
01 06 20
c
Must have been our scanners,
01 06 41
P
204.
of our power is
This
digit!
again.
c
Hey, we ought
to have our face
01 06 50
P
Okay.
01 06 52
c
Cabin Air
01 06 58
P
Huh?
01 06 59
c
It
01 07 01
P
Yes.
01 07 04
c
Closed.
01 07 05
P
Okay.
01 07 07
c
Now we have a Catch-Up
01 07 oy
P
Okay.
01 07 12
P
Now?
01 07 13
c
Well,
Recirculation
Air
Faceplates
losing
checks
to the
I guess.
is just beautiful, Gus! (Pr e-retro command load)
says Cabin is.
Aren't
okay?
01 06 47
yes.
You know that?
see many stars.
closed
plates
Valve-UP.
Recirc
Valve
UP.
Mode Check.
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closed.
That's
or open?
Now.
It
That's
where it
where it
is.
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26
01 07 20
P
Okay.
01 07 25
c
Hey,
01 07 29
P
You want to go to CATCH-UP?
01 07 32
c
Yes.
01 07 38
C
In CATCH-UP.
01 07 40
c
Yes.
01 07 50
c
Hey.
01 08 08
P
Okay.
01 08 39
P
Okay.
01 08 44
C
You want to punch
01 08 46
P
It's
01 08 47
C
Okay,
01 08 51
C
50 - 30 - 40.
01 08 52
P
How about
01 08 54
C
Roger.
01 08 56
C
Pitch
01 08 57
P
Yes.
01 09 01
P
Okay,
01 oy 19
P
Cabin pressure
01 09 21
c
Yes,
01 09 28
C
50 - 30 - 40.
01 09 29
P
Yes, 56 and 57 are right them.
there
was lightning
That
down below.
right?
I'm no.t in CATCH-UP yet. I scratched
this
it
There's
CATCH-UP.
one out.
in?
punched. I'll
start
the computer.
that? Just
Just
what it's
what it's
supposed
supposed
to be.
to be.
down.
56 is 20094,
it's
57 is 19280.
is reading
5.2,
isn't
it?
holding. Those readings
are right.
on the money.
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You get I copied
56?
27
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01 10 04
P
Okay,
there
01 10 08
P
Okay,
what time
01 10 09
c
70 minutes.
01 10 10
P
Huh?
01 10 11
c
Elapsed
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,
01 10 18
C
MARK!
01 10 23
p
Okay,
Blood
01 10 27
c
Okay,
that's
01 10 38
P
Okay, and you've at 1:15, too.
01 10 42
c
Okay.
01 10 57
c
Pulse
01 10 59
P
Yes.
01 11 11
c
It
01 11 13
P
Sure does.
01 11 19
c
Okay, we're
01 ii
P
Okay.
23
time
it
is
sure
it
now?
of 70 minutes.
at 70:18
control
10 - 20 - 30.
is --
give
it
to me.
Experiment exactly got
deactivated. --
the sea urchin
is real
good.
up all
around
lights
just
about
39" pitched
that's
to get
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though,
it
all
down.
eggs coming up
doesn't
it?
in one window.
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CTN-1 CANTON
01 ii
32
cc
Molly
01 11 33
P
Okay, reading
01 11 39
c
Cape CAP COM, Molly
01 ii
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 and then watch for
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. 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 by telemetry.
01 12 46
P
Say again,
01 12 47
cc
Your oxygen pressure, your 02 pressure, high side of the scale. You may have switch failure in there. YOU may have telemetry failurein there that failed side.
01 12 57
P
Roger. We'll go to High Rate and see if down, Gordo.
42
Brown,
Cape CAP COM. on the Catch-Up
We can't
Brown.
Mode Check was 69 000 00. Go ahead.
switch on for leakage?
tell
is off
that
we're
the scale
the Texas burn,
using
any
on the high
side
Gordo.
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is off the had that had a to the high it
comes
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our primary
scanners.
011307
c
Roger,
01 13 17
cc
Roger.
01 13 21
c
Affirmative.
011325
CC
Okay.
01 13 32
c
Say again.
01 13 33
cc
What is your
helium
01 13 40
P
Roger.
It's
2350,
01 13 44
c
Look at the
sunrise.
01 13 45
p
Yes.
01 1-3 54
p
Our source
01 13 59
p
Let's see if I can bring 02 High Rate, if it is
01 14 03
c
Okay.
01 14 05
P
We can try manual actuation of 02 High Rate. never did the Suit Integrity Check.
01 14 24
c
We probably drove it overboard using switch when we thought the pressure
01 14 28
P
Yes.
01 14 32
c
We have got
01 14 34
p
Yes.
01 14 35
c
What time
01 14 36
P
1:33.
01 14 38
C
1:33.
Did you say primary
Can you give
pressure
That's
is
scanners?
us a helium
source
source
pressure?
pressure?
Gordo.
is
2350, Gordo. that pressure down, using all right with you, Gus.
that heater was down.
right. to get ready
that
for
Texas burn?
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this
I
Texas burn.
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30
01 15 39
p
Now see, it
01 15 40
c
Okay.
01 15 41
P
Now, we'll
01 16 14
P
That was 02 High Rate for about two minutes to bring the pressure off the peg. It's now reading 985, and cabin pressure is holding at 5.6.
01 16 31
P
Here comes the sunrise.
01 16 33
c
Isn't
01 16 35
c
Aren't
01 16 37
P
I hadn't planned camera out.
01 16 42
c
Let's see, I went circuit don't I?
01 16 44
P
Yes.
01 17 34
P
Look at that! Where do.you (A camera reel)
01 17 37
c
What?
01 17 42
P
I know you shouldn't let those things float but I don't know what to do with them.
01 17 56
c
What did he say that It's 48 ft --
01 17 59
P
48 feet
01 18 00
C
Okay.
01 18 02
P
Yes.
01 18 06
C
Do I have to be in CATCH-UP when you put it
01 18 09
P
What?
that
is
coming
just
recock
(oxygen
pressure)
it.
Is that
beautiful!
pretty?
you going
That
down.
sun's
to take
any pictures?
to on this
pass. breakers
bright,
isn't
burn
I'll
get
the
9 and 10 off,
it? suppose
was on that
that
came from?
around,
. . . net?
and 73 seconds. You put
that
in,
don't
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you?
in?
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C
Do I have to be in CATCH-UP when you put
01 18 14
P
For me to enter MDIU indicators
put
in on the
01 18 24
C
Looks like the velocity is about perfect. You can really tell you're moving on. that?
You know
01 18 32
P
You sure
01 18 43
P
I can see some interesting there.
01 19 08
C
We'll
01 19 12
P
Okay, what elapsed Gus?
01 19 14
c
1:1y.
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
01 19 51
P
I've got Okay. That's what we want to burn. The camera is change this tape cartridge. fll at 250.
01 20 35
P
The first inserted
01 20 46
c
Okay.
01 20 52
P
That's
01 21 02
P
I'll
01 21 05
c
What?
01 21 06
P
The oxygen off-scale..
0119
it,
I'll
yes. here.
just
it
in?
can!
be coming up for
Guaymas,
time
say my alinement
cloud
formations I guess,
are we in
down next.
the flight
plan,
is perfect.
command load it properly.
is valid.
to set for
The DCS at Carnarvon
beautiful! bet
the debris
pressure
filter
really
has climbed
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clogs
right
’
up.
up back there
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m-1 01 21 07
c
What is?
01 21 08
P
The oxygen
01 21 19
P
I've
01 21 28
C
We're
01 23 14
P
Tape cartridge No. 2 was Tape change at 1546. replaced by tape cartridge No. 28.
01 23 iy
P
The red light
got
pressure.
to change
this
cartridge.
at 1:21.
did
not
come on.
(Tape recorder)
ROSE KNOT VICTOR 01 23 38
CC
Molly
01 23 40
c
RKV, this
01 23 42
cc
Roger. your
012349
C
Roger.
01 23 54
CC
I've got a reject Molly Brown?
01 23 55
P
Do you want me to tell 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
a TR and Gemini load Roger, and I have transmitted for your maneuver over Corpus. Confirm you were in CATCH-UP. Over.
01 24 20
c
Negative.
01 24 21
cc
Roger.
I'll
01 24 26
cc
Roger.
You have a load
Brown, is
Molly
Brown,
Molly
Brown.
Read you loud TR and transmit
We're
RKV.
end clear. a maneuver
on my TR.
in
I'm going to update load to you.
What is your
them about
status,
the oxygen pressure
CATCH-UP, now.
retransmit
the load. in
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the
CATCH-Up for
your
maneuver.
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33
RKV-1
01 24 26
c
Got to be in CATCH-up.
01 24 28
P
Okay.
01 24 29
c
Roger.
01 24 30
cc
You are GO for
01 24 33
C
Roger.
01 24 34
cc
Are you ready
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.
01 24 45
cc
Your GMTB...correction, 15 57 00. Your Roger. ground elapsed time to burn, 01 33 00. Your Your length of burn, 01:14. AV of the burn, 048.
01 24 46
P
Roger. We copied 15:57, minute and 14 seconds.
01 25 14
P
74 seconds.
01 25 17
c
Well,
01 25 26
c
Did you get him the
01 25 27
P
Neg.
01 25 31
cc
Roger.
01 25 36
cc
On my mark, Stand by.
01 25 45
cc
MARK!
There
you go.
Go. the next
orbit.
Thank you. to copy your
We're
ready
1 minute
Wait
Stand
to copy.
14.
until
01:33,
48 ft/sec,
You want to read
I'll by for
it'll
maneuvertimes?
other
it
at a
back to them?
one?
get
them.
a GET time
be 85 minutes
You copied?
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hack. and 45 seconds.
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34
PLKV-1
01 25 46
c
Roger.
01 25 49
cc
Roger.
01 25 52
cc
Will you give Over.
01 26 15
P
26 and 27 are all
01 26 26
P
I wonder
01 26 29
c
I don't
01 26 31
cc
Molly
01 26 34
P
Go ahead.
01 26 40
c
Go ahead RKV.
01 26 42
cc
Will
We copied. Your clocks
if
looked
me a readout
good on the ground. of core
25, 26, and 27?
of your
computer
zeros.
he got it?
know. Brown,
RKV CAP COM. Over.
you give
me a readout
core--
25, 26, and 27, please? 26 and 27 were
01 26 48
P
25 was minus Roger. It was: all zeros. Over.
01 27 01
cc
That
01 27 22
cc
Molly Brown, can you give me a readout helium source pressure, temperature, propellant quantity gage.
01 27 31
c
The propellant quantity gage is 83 percent. John will give you the other.
01 27 35
P
Roger. Source pressure is 2450. Source regulated is 85”, and fuel and oxidizer 68".
01 27 50
cc
295 at 68. Roger. Command Pilot.
Say again
01 27 55
C
Propellant
is
is
I concur.
affirmative.
quantity
0480.
your
84 percent.
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of your OAMS and your
propeliant
Stand by. temperature at 295 with quantity,
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35
RKV-1 GYM-l 01 27 58
CC
Roger.
01 28 10
CC
Molly Brown, else?
01 28 13
C
Roger.
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 MANEWER and ATTITUDE and we haven't handle.
I copy. RKV standing
We're
Do you have anything
in good shape.
01 28 38
CC
Roger.
01 28 58
CC
Molly
01 29 00
c
Roger.
01 29 31
P
Outstanding!
01 29 43
p
I wonder what area
Brown,
by.
stand
by for
even in touched
the
Guaymas.
I see the whole of Mexico
of Mexico. it
is?
GUAYMAS 01 29 43
cc
Molly
01 29 45
C
Guaymas, Molly
01 29 46
cc
Guaymas standing
01 29 49
C
Roger.
01 29 55
C
It’s
01 29 57
P
Yes.
01 29 57
C
We're going task.
Brown,
pretty
Guaymas CAP COM.
well
Brown. by.
clobbered,
to have a hard
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isn’t
time
it?
with
that
tracking
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GYM-1 TEX-1
01 29 59
P
Can you see anything
01 30 01
c
I never got a chance to Look for but I thiti we can see up that
01 30 08
C
Nothing
01 30 14
P
Oh, man! Mexico!
01 30 19
c
You must have it
01 30 21
P
Yes,
01 30 28
CC
Molly
01 30 30
c
Roger.
01 30 45
c
It
01 30 52
P
Roger.
01 30 53
c
Okay. It will be about two minutes before we start So yo-L punch off your stopwatch and tell me-it. give me a Lark to stop it--just in case it doesn't go to zero.
01 31 01
P
Okay.
but high
it's
up north
there?
Brown,
Sea,
cirrus.
Oh. man, you can see all
clear
the Salton way.
clear
down there,
down south,
Suaymas handing
the way across huh?
here. over
came out 53 feet on my IVI's. Right? a mark now on my burn.
to Texas.
You'll
give
me
TEXAS 01 31 10
cc
Molly
01 31 12
c
Read you loud
01 31 14
cc
Roger.
01 31 15
c
Roger.
01 31 45
c
You got that? Right?
Brown,
Texas CAP COM. and clear,
Texas standing
Texas. by for
The IVIls
your
maneuver.
came out 50 ft/sec
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aft.
37
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01 31 52
P
Yes, but why it
I don't it should have been 48. Should we bring it came out 50.
know down to
48? 01 31 56
P
Well 25--48 load.
is what is
in
the--48.3
is what's
in the
01 32 12
c
How we doing
01 32 13
P
Fine.
01 32 15
c
Well, good. that much.
01 32 2.1
c
Now, it's
01 32 23
c
It
01 32 31
P
Are you going to give--you want me to give Okay. Texas a mark when you start burning?
01 32 37
C
I will.
01 32 38
P
Okay.
01 32 40
c
Twenty
01 32 45
cc
Roger.
01 32 57
C
Okay.
01 33 00
c
MARK!
01 33 01
P
Okay. They appear
01 33 03
cc
Roger.
01 33 17
c
A bolt
01 33 20
c
How much time
01 33 23
CC
Molly
on time?
I guess maybe we probably
51.
slowed
down
See?
came up 48 initially. place in the orbit.
seconds
We're
at a different
30 seconds.
to burn.
You got
that,
Texas?
3 seconds.
to be firing
Texas confirms just
Brown,
stuck
good.
OAMS thruster
up against
firing.
the instrument
to go? how are your
attitudes
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holding?
panel.
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TEX-1
01 33 24
C
Perfect.
01 33 26
P
44 seconds
01 33 27
cc
Roger.
01 33 27
P
MARK.
01 33 37
p
I think
01 33 45
c
They sure attitude 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
01 34 05
p
A minute,
five.
01 34 05
c
What did
we do?
01 34 09
p
Okay.
01 34 14
p
MARK!
01 34 14
c
Thrusting
01 34 18
CC
Roger.
01 34 21
P
That burn
01 34 27
C
And when we started
to go.
44 seconds I'd
to go.
do it
on the
IVI's.
blurp a lot, don't control thrusters
they? That may be Probably what though.
to go.
Burn down an--give
me a mark.
4-3-2-l-
complete. Confirmed
ft/sec,
maneuver
was 1 minute out,
complete.
and 14 secondsby the
IVI's
our watches.
were reading
and I burned them down to 2 ft/sec
01 34 37
02
Say again,
Molly
01 34 38
C
As we started to burn my IVI's read 51 ft/sec, we burned them down to the place where they 2 ft/sec.
51
aft.
Brown.
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and read
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TEX-1 MCC-1 01 34 48
CC
Say again
that
01 34 50
c
TWO.
01 34 56
cc
Roger.
01 35 01
P
What have you got on your
01 35 05
c
Propellant
quantity
01 35 09
P
Hey, we're
in good shape.
01 35 14
c
Yes.
Zero,
last
zero,
number. two.
is
propellant,
Gus?
65 percent.
CAPE KENNEDY
01 35 27
cc
Molly
01 35 27
C
Go ahead,
01 35 29
cc
Roger. start
01 35 31
p
Yes,
01 35 38
CC
Ready for
01 35 42
P
Understand.
01 35 49
P
Tape playback
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.
01 36 10
cc
Molly
01 36 12
P
Oh, that
Brown,
Cape CAP COM.
Gordo. Do you want to get your your tape dump?
it's
on.
The transmitter
your
tape
Going is
Source Brown,
up to
is now DELAYED-TIME.
dump? tape playback
CONTINUOUS.
on CONTINUOUS.
pressure
is
Cape CAP COM.
record
transmitter
switch!
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2050, temperature
is
56.
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MCC-1
01 36 16
P
This
01 36 24
cc
It looks like that pressure switch on that Roger. You probably better bring that 02 O2 is failed. heater from AUTOMATIC to OFF, and then manually control the temp from then on--the pressure from then on.
01 36 43
p
If
01 36 48
CC
Okay, you can bring it off the peg by going Is that affirm? High Rate.
01 36 51
P
Roger,
01 36 52
cc
be nearest Okay. I have a time for you, where you will to the booster. Would you like to have that so you can look for it?
01 36 58
P
Roger.
cc
02 -t 08 + 52. Will be dead ahead at an Roger. 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
01 37 43
c
Roger,
01 37 48
CC
Roger.
01 37 57
p
We had another
01 37 59
cc
Roger. That was the actual one was the T R'
01 38 05
P
Roger.
01 38 51
CC
Molly
01
36 59
source
pressure
I go into Over.
is
2050.
Source
High Rate you can break
temperature
it
off
is
the peg. to
but--
you a load
DCS load
now.
received.
We got you loaded.
Brown,
DCS load
just
in, values.
too. The first
Cape CAP COM. Did you get your
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56.
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MCC-'1 experiments
for
the first
orbit?
Cape CAP COM.
01 39 08
CC
Molly
013915
c
Go ahead Cape CAP COM.
01 39 17
cc
Roger. We just you got your orbit.
01 39 23
C
Roger.
01 39 26
cc
Roger.
01 39 40
cc
Everything
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 so you might delete all the MDIU readouts. there,
01 40 21
c
Okay.
01 40 49
p
Here is
01 40 53
cc
Okay.
01 41 03
cc
Tape dump is
01 41 07
c
Rog.
01 42 01
cc
You still got a blood read it.
01 42 08
c
He sent
01 42 10
cc
Okay.
01 42 28
c
Gordo, do you have me a time Check?
01 42 41
c
Cape CAP COM, do you read,Molly
Brown,
We got
wanted to get a confirmation that experiments on time for the first them on time
looks
the blood
it, Just
for
the first
orbit.
good down here.
pressure
complete,
okay. wondered
coming down there,
Molly
I'll if
MCC.
Brown.
pressure,
John?
We didn't
give
you another
one.
he was breathing.
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for
the Horizon Brown.
Scan
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MCC-1
01 42 44
cc
Go ahead Molly
01 42 46
C
Do you have me a time
01 42 49
cc
Okay, sunset time is get you the horizon
01 42 58
P
1634.
01 43 08
cc
That
01 43 13
C
Thanks.
01 43 26
cc
Pretty
01 43 29
C
Say again.
01 43 30
cc
Pretty
01 43 33
C
Yeah,
it
really
01 43 40
C
We didn't
get
01 43 43
cc
Clouded
01 44 01
C
Let's
01 44 04
P
Yes.
01 44 25
C
Is this
01 44 28
P
Yes,
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
01 44 58
P
Hot dog!
is
the
Brown.
time
for
spectacular
spectacular
this
for
the Horizon
Stand by,
it,
Brown.
Molly
huh?
up there,
huh?
It
really
Too many clouds,
do you want your
is
get it
Cheek?
and I will
16 -t 34.
is!
to see much of the States
one all
Scanner
16 + 34. scanner.
up there,
is.
over? see,
Cape CAP COM.
though.
huh?
meal?
right?
the one here.
in.
Good old
food.
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CYI-2
01 45 23
C
Going
to have to make Alinement
01 45 34
p
Want to just
01 45 56
p
They said
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, platform and attitude. Fine aline from 1:45 to 1:55.
01 47 1-7
c
Let me have some of that
01 47 22
c
Get any water?
01 47 44
lJ
Good stuff!
01 48 25
c
You want me to stick
01 48 25
P
Yes, we can attach
01 48 26
C
Let me see if
01 48 41
c
That
01 48 44
P
The what hasn't?
01 48 47
P
I'll
tell
01 49 01
P
Is your angle
those
to leave
babies
over
the brownies
juice
there?
closed.
when you get done.
(Water)
oxygen
that
slap
Check.
this it
up here?
nozzle)
up there.
I csn lock still
(Water
it
hasn't
you, boy. It 02 High Rate bit.
in there.
come off
of the peg.
poses a serious
window getting foggy, I'm looking at?
or is
it
problem just
with
the
GRAND CANARY ISLAND
01 49 03
cc
Molly
01 49 04
c
It
01 49 10
c
Canaries,
Brown,
Canary
looks like it's know what it is. Molly.
CAP COM. something
Go ahead.
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on the
side.
I don't
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CYI-2 We have systems
on the ground.
01 49 13
cc
Roger.
01 49 16
C
Roger. We are GO in here. Alinement Check.
01 49 26
cc
Roger. Understand, and Canaries calibrate command.
01 49 31
C
What was that?
01 49 33
P
Transmit
01 40 35
C
Okay.
01 49 47
C
What was the
01 49 50
P
2 08 52.
01 49 53
C
Elapsed?
01 49 54
P
Yes.
01 49 57
P
Okay.
01 50 04
C
A T/M 2 cal
01 50 07
P
I don't see where it says for us to do that, guess that's all right. I think we should done it on the first pass.
01 50 24
P
One of these
pills
01 50 27
cc
Molly
Canary
01 50 30
C
Go, Canaries.
01 50 32
cc
Roger.
After
your
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 to us.
going
GO
We are finishing
our
transmitting
a
my T/M cal. It's
coming.
Tell
time we could
them we're is
Brown,
they
see that
sending
booster?
them a T/M 2 cal.
coming.
came off,
(Germicide
but I have
pills)
CAP COM.
burn
weren't
your
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orbit
to give
is
85.6,
those
92.6.
times
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CYI-2
01 50 49
c
Stand by.
01 51 06
P
If
01 51 15
c
Okay.
01 51 18
CC
Roger. AV,90. GMTRC 16 52 25. Roll left 55.
01 51 45
c
Roger.
either one of these things leaks, close up shop. (Food packages)
time
What's
the Two-Bravo
we can just
time? GETRC 02 28 35.
Two-Bravo: 90 AV. 16 52 25 GMTRC. Elapsed 55. of 02 28 25. Roll left
01 51 55
cc
That's
01 52 26
c
What is
01 52 27
P
Corn beef
sandwich.
01 52 28
c
Where did
that
01 52 30
P
I brought Smells,
it with doesn't
me. it?
01 52 41
c
Yes, it's breaking my pocket.
up.
01 52 43
P
Is it?
01 52 49
P
It
01 52 51
c
Yep.
01 52 52
P
Not a very
01 52 54
C
Pretty
01 53 13
P
Want some
01 53 15
c
No, you can handle
that.
01 53 23
C
What was the time elevation?
of that
affirm. it?
come from?
was a thought,
Let's
see how it
I'm going
tastes.
to stick
it
in
anyway.
good one.
good,
though,
chicken
if
it
would
just
hold
together.
leg? -booster
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again?
What
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01 53 26
P
02 08 52.
01 53 30
c
02 --
01 53 32
P
2 hours,
01 53 39
c
Above?
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. looking out your window?
01 53 59
p
,Yeah, man.
01 54 05
c
What else have we got to do? secondary. Now we're going
Scanners should be on to yaw 180" here.
01 54 32
C
Hey, look
some land.
01 54 36
p
Yes.
01 54 49
c
What time
01 54 51
p
4 --
01 54 55
c
Must still
01 55 04
c
You're
01 55 19
p
Oh, no!
01 55 20
c
What?
01 55 25
C
Look at
01 56 30
P
What elapsed
01 56 32
c
1:56.
01 56 37
c
How do you like
18" el.
8 minutes,
52 seconds.
They didn't
That's
out
is
give
18" el.
us the mileage,
huh?
What do you think,
beautiful!
there.
There's
it?
be over
a noisy
Canaries.
eater.
What did
you drop?
'em jumping is
it
this
around
down there.
(Food bags)
now, Gus?
going
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backwards?
You can tell
47
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going
01 57 04
p
Never a doubt.
01 57 14
p
That's
01 57 18
C
I'll
not take all.
it
backwards
bad for a bite
too,
of applesauce,
P
It's
01 57 40
c
If
01 57 41
p
Yes.
01 57 42
C
Here it now?
01 57 44
p
What,
01 57 45
c
Yes.
01 57 47
p
I don't know, the tablet fell to put the germicide tablet know where it is.
01 57 53
c
Let's see what my retrofire going backwards.
01 57 56
p
Okay.
01 58 11
P
160 nose down is what it
01 58 13
C
Yep.
01 58 17
P
Oh, man!
01 58 21
C
I'll
01 58 25
P
tough
is back.
if
to squeeze
we had some pork all right.
out
you don't
eat
of there.
chops to go with
What are you going
it,
we'd be
to do with
it
the applesauce?
I'll
your
you?
applesauce.
01 57 21
getting
can't
be there
off. I'm not going in, because I don't attitude
looks
like
is.
in a minute.
tell you, man, you don't yaw, do you?
need anything
to tell
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 What does it look like to you? right there.
01 58 44
P
Look's
01 58 46
C
That's not no doubt
what the 8-ball about it.
01 58 58
P
Well,
that
looks
01 59 14
c
Let's
try
01 59 16
P
Okay.
01 59 21
P
Watch everything
float
01 59 27
C
There's
okay?
01 59 48
P
That's
01 59 49
c
No. Well,
01 59 55
c
That's
01 59 56
P
Okay.
01 59 57
c
There's
02
00 00
P
That's
what
02
00 01
P
There
you go.
02
00 05
P
Isn't
that
02
00 09
c
That's
02
00 16
c
The sun is
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. to?
to me like
it
60
it,
Gus.
shows.
It's
right
there,
good to me.
upside
left,
60
you got
down once.
to the ceiling.
left. yes,
let's
see.
inverted.
60
left. I figured.
beautiful?
60 left
right
there.
That's
hard
to fly.
sure bright.
Where's
the next
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station
we're
coming
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P
Ksno.
02 02 31
C
The sun's
02 02 32
P
It
02 02 34
P
Suit
02 02 45
P
Boy, this is a manual bag feeding port)
02 02 47
C
Yes.
02 03 41
P
That stuff is really (Grapefruit juice)
02 04 17
P
John Yardley
49
hot.
is. inlet
UP t0
temperature
loses
is
still
dexterity
trying his
at 58, though.
holding test.
to crawl
bet.
(Opening
out
food
of there.
Cabin
temperature
there
in your
is
920.
02 04 40
C
Oh, man!
02 04 43
P
It's
bad,
02 04 44
C
That
sun is
02 04 45
P
Yes.
02 04 58
P
Can you stow these (Food packages)
02 05 01
C
Yes.
02 05 06
P
Somehow.
02 05 07
C
You don't
02 05 09
P
Yes,
I'm
02 05 11
C
Well,
I'd
02 05 13
P
Well,
I don't
02 05 19
C
Well,
we've
02 05 27
C
There, it went out. the sun.
isn't
it?
something
back over
need that going better
to,
else.
towel, very
get think
it I'll
got a scanner
side?
do you?
shortly. out
then.
need it, light
I guess
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but
I might.
on secondary. I was looking
at it
in
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02 05 29
P
Yes.
02 05 33
c
Hope that
stops
02 06 10
c
The sun's
around
02 06 13
P
Yes.
02 06 21
c
Either
02 06 31
c
What time's remember?
02 06 33
P
No.
02 07 07
P
You don't mind if to the pressure
02 07 11
c
What are you going
02 07 13
P
Just
02 07 15
c
I hope you don't
02 07 17
P
No, don't
02 07 33
c
We've got a scanner
02 07 47
c
Okay,
02 07 56
c
Okay, it's pitching up slightly. zero. I don't have a scanner 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
02 08 53
C
Yes.
02 08 57
P
Hey,
that
Now we've
it.
That
there.
got it sun's
or our ball
is
it
to be next
supposed
out
again. pushing
it
off.
of alinement. time.
I make an inflight suit, do you?
Do you
modification
to do?
cut a strap.
let's
cut
a hole
in it.
worry.
start
ignore this
thing
light
...
right
Going up above light. Man, is it
dark.
look
at those
thrusters
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now.
glowing!
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02 08 59
C
Where?
02 09 00
P
Over on the right side. I think shining on them, or something. Sunset? side?
02 09 07
c
It's
02 09 13
c
You mean the RCS thrusters?
15
P
Yes.
02 09 17
c
I can't
02 09 18
P
Can you see yours?
02 09 20
c
No.
02 09 21
P
Well,
02 09 22
c
I can probably
02 09 24
P
I see those
02 09 29
P
It's the sun shining off used the A-Ring yet.
02 09 32
c
That must be what it
02 09 33
p
A-Ring
isn't
hot.
02 09 38
P
Okay, waste
valve
NORMAL.
02 09 50
P
What time
it
in the flight
02 09 52
c
It's
02 09 58
C
2 hours
02 10 05
P
You're
02 10 07
c
I'll
02 10 24
c
Okay. Translation away.
0209
back behind
it's the sun Is the sun on my
us some place.
see them.
I see mine shining. see the horizon
now,
though.
thrusters.
is
2 hours
of them,
because
we haven't
is.
plan?
and 9 minutes.
and 10 minutes. supposed
give
to give
an oral
temperature.
them one. Check at 2:l7,
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is 7 minutes
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02 10 35
P
Know what kind
of transmission
02 10 37
c
Translation thing.
02 11 05
c
We're supposed dark.
02 11 08
P
Photos
02 11 09
c
Those thrusters.
021115
c
Translation
Check . ..We're
check
not
to get photos,
going but
is?
to send anyit's
going
to be
of what?
thrusters.
02 ii
25
c
There is a ground What would that
02 ii
29
P
. ..forest
fires.
02 ii
32
c
No, it's
a pin
02 12 19
c
What time
02 12 23
P
To what?
02 12 26
P
I'm supposed time.
02 12 29
c
Translation
02 12 32
P
During
02 14 01
c
I think that was a star coming over I saw. I can see it move now.
02 14 20
c
There goes your
02 14 25
P
Okay, waste valve
02 14 33
c
I've got to make a translational a half minutes.
02 I4 37
p
Okay.
if
it
is
light. be?
We're
point.
I see it
really
moving.
way below
the horizon.
it?
to change
this
tape around
here
some-
Check.
the check?
Well,
that's
I'll
the horizon
... back to NORMAL.
wait
okay with
till
you.
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you
thrust finish
in that
two and then,
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CSQ-2 02 14 40
c
Yes.
02 14 42
P
You want
02 14 43
c
We're
02 14 45
p
Shoot, we've hardly used any film. Of course Okay. 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 --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
02 16 05
P
Yes, probably.
02 16 12
c
What time
02 16 16
P
It's
--
02 16 19
c
It's
10 ft/sec
to take pictures
supposed
to with
on this? a 16 mil.
on that
covering
says minus 10" down on the ball. that Orbit Rate, isn't it?
is
underwear
I guess
is
it's
it?
with
the forward
firing
ones.
COASTAL SENTRY QUEBEC 02 16 20
cc
Molly
02 16 23
c
CSQ CAP COM, Molly
02 16 26
cc
Roger read you weak but from the ground.
Brown,
CSQ CAP COM. Do you read? Brown. clear.
We have you green
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CSQ-2 Getting
ready
for
a translation
burn.
02 16 31
c
Roger.
02 16 37
P
You going
to use the aft
02 16 41
c
I'm
to use them all.
42
P
Okay.
02 16 44
cc
Molly Brown, CSQ CAP COM. We're the maneuvers.
02 16 55
c
Roger.
5
17 13
P
Using
the aft
02 17 14
c
No, forward-firing
02
17 15
c
9
02
17
22
cc
Molly Brown, CSQ. before and after
02 16 28
C
Roger, IV1 readouts before the burn were all After the burn was 10 ft/sec forward.
02 17 38
CC
Roger.
c
That
cc
Roger.
c
That
02 17 58
CC
Molly Brown, CSQ. Be advised I'll had spacecraft reject.
02 18 13
CC
Molly
02
02
02
16
17
42
02 17 44 02
17 47
going
seconds
burn
. . .
Okay, now 1 second on the others. Would you give the burn?
10 ft/sec
was in the 009O attitude.
was with
Brown,
16
C
Go.
02
18
17
CC
We still
a 90"
us your
IV1 readouts zeros.
forward. 10 ft/sec
forward.
yaw. I sent TX twice. try again.
I've
CSQ.
cannot
get an . . . back from spacecraft
TX'
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1
by for
ones.
Understand.
18
standing
burn?
ones?
ft/sec-10.
02
or the forward
on
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CSQ-2 02 18 33
P
Roger,
I'll
set
02 18 38
CC
Say again.
02 18 45
CC
Molly Brown, CSQ. the maneuver?
02 18 49
P
Attitudes
02 18 52
CC
Roger.
02 19 53
cc
Molly
02 19 54
c
02 19 59
cc
You still
02 20 02
c
Roger.
02 21 00
P
Okay.
02 21 01
cc
Molly
02 21 03
c
Go ahead CSQ.
02 21 04
cc
Would you give us a propellant before and after the burn?
02 21 09
c
Before
held
Brown,
How did
very
the
. . . Over.
your
attitudes
hold
during
well.
CSQ.
look
real
Replaced Brown,
the TX for
good from
the
tape
the ground
recorder
here.
cartridge.
CSQ CAP COM.
the burn
it
quantity
was 66 percent,
readout
and now it
reads
61 percent. 02 21 16
cc
Molly
02 21 20
c
66 percent
02 21 24
cc
Roger.
02 21 28
C
I'm not
02 21 30
P
At 1645 GMT, changed Okay.
the
02 21 32
cc
That
in the ball
Brown,
real
looks
say again.
61 percent
before,
sure
like
it's
of that
after.
before tape
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burn.
from No. 28 to No. 10. park.
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CRO-2
03
c
This
02 22 06
P
I think
you're
02 22 25
c
Give
one more chance.
00 22 38
C
Let's see -- 2:22 about a minute.
02
22
thing
it
isn't
alined,
is
it?
right.
Carnarvon
elapsed.
comes up in
CARNARVON
00 23 25
02 23 36
02
23
57
02 24 13
02 24 29
cc
Molly 'you
Brown, read?
Molly
c
Carnarvon, clear.
cc
Very good, Gus; weld like to get a blood pressure on and could I have your status? the co-pilot, please,
c
Okay -- blood green.
cc
We don't have any Very good. Cape at this time, but they run down your flight control The first thing I'd like to are you getting if you just
C
They are very slow, Pete. Probably quarter of a degree per second.
cc
Okay and you are in a horizon correct?
c
At the present 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?
c
Affirmative.
this
Brown,
is Molly
pressure's
time
I'm
Carnarvon Brown.
Read you loud
coming
and
and our status
is
communications with the have requested for me to problem a little bit. know is what kind of rates let it yaw? on the order
scan mode, is
in Pulse
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CAP COM. How do
and alining
of a
that the
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CRO-2
02 24 29
cc
It Okay, strike all that other stuff. like you've got a mechanical problem Is that what you figured?
02 24 36
c
Roger, it must be very, very the pressure go down.
02 24 40
cc
Okay, and you have turned off 3, 4, 7 and 8 yaw circuit breakers and put them on again, and that didn't have any effect?
02 24 46
c
Yes, we've
02 24 48
cc
Okay,
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
02 25 16
c
Roger.
02 25 16
cc
And I have a question for how his.waste evaluation
02 25 23
P
In process.
02 25 26
c
In process.
02 25 27
cc
In process.
02 25 32
cc
You have a GO down here from everybody, have suit temps for me, please?
02 25 42
c
Yes,
02 25 45
CC
Righto.
02 26 02
c
2:26.
gone through
slight.
everything,
sounds to me in the valve. We can't
see
Pete.
and no cross-coupling.
--
suit
Pete.
Tell
Roger.
like
to know
him.
Roger.
temp is running
Rate gyros
John. I would is doing,
58",
primary.
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Roll
Pete.
jets
and do you We are okay.
yaw.
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CRO-2 02 26 22
CC
Molly
Brown,
Cam.arvOn.
02 26 25
c
Go.
02 26 26
CC
Would you turn your real-time from Carnarvon, please?
02 26 31
c
Roger,
02
26
34
CC
Yes.
02
26
36
c
Roger.
02
27 02
C
You're going to make these a little bit?
02
27 09
P
Yes.
You do it,
02 27 14
cc
Molly
Brown,
02
27
18
C
Still
read you loud
02
27 19
cc
Okay, you'll probably go over the hill, look good here on the ground. We'll next go.
02
27
25
c
Roger,
02
28
24
P
Be sure I don't throw I'm moving around.
02 28 27
C
I don't believe No, I'll keep a check on you. scanner's doing the right thing by us at all. it is, the ball isn't.
02 31 25
c
Want this
02
31 27
P
Yes,
02 31 29
c
Okay,
02
31
31
P
Wait
02
31
35
c
....
real-time
off
We didn't
thank
I put
off
after
LOS
Carnarvon.
get a TX up to you.
because
this
you,
bag for
is
Horizon
Scan Checks after
I'm busy here.
Carnarvon.
How do you read?
and clear. Gus. You see you on your
Pete. any switches
over
anything?
the paper
I can thrust till
after
telemetry
towels
back in it.
now?
I get my suit
zipped
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up.
there
while that If
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02 32 08
C
Better
02 32 11
P
Huh?
02 32 12
c
Should
02 32 13
P
Okay.
02 32 46
c
I can't
02 33 29
C
It's
02 33 31
p
Yep.
02 33 46
c
I've got a scanner must be way off.
02 33 59
p
Okay.
02 34 01
c
Oh, man!
02 34 03
p
What's
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 Good night! is way off. Our ball has drifted Let's just go into daylight and aline way off. the thing.
02 34 50
p
You've
02 34 58
C
Pulse. Going 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
(32 35 43
c
What do you mean?
35 44
P
I mean this
0’
get
that
sight
out for
get
that
sight
out before
get
really
won't
the auxiliary black
It's
light
long,
off
too.
there.
there.
ignore
light.
Shoot,
that
ball
hot.
the matter,
got
out
me.
Gus?
the answer. to use those
stars.
break.
bacteriacide
bag.
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There's
zero roll
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60
02 35 59
p
Got it
--
a little.
02 36 25
P
There
we go.
02 36 48
C
We're
coming
02 37 08
C
Does that
02 37 10
P
Looks what?
02 37 11
c
Is that
02 37 20
P
Yes.
02 37 22
c
What about
02 37 26
P
No.
02 37 28
P
Have you got
02 37 30
c
What?
02 37 43
c
Let's
02 37 46
p
No.
02 37 49
c
It'll
02 37 59
p
Boy, I tell the finest
02 39 26
c
That
02 39 31
p
Can you stick
02 39 34
c
That mess? Doesn't
02 39 40
p
Would if
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
into
look
level
to you?
Looking
I can't
yaw?
that
out
really
the window.
tell
yaw, can you?
--
You don't
see the moon any place,
be coming up over soon.
looks
again.
roll-level
to you?
see.
pretty
daylight
my --
on my right
here
you I really dig this zero g. way to go I ever saw. about
there
right
this
in pitch.
on your that
Roll
This
is off.
side?
go in your
food box?
was any room in it.
the seat,
I guess.
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do you?
is
61
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p
I'll
40 30
P
Okay, what does the flight
02 40 33
c
I’m
40 41
P
Well thanks, I’m done. I'm Oh, okay. to be doing that O2 High Rate Check, 2:4O in the flight plan?
02 40 49
c
Yes.
02 40 53
p
Okay, we'll
40 56
c
Man! The primary that!
02 40 59
p
I got
02
02
02
try
to stick
it
in
the food plan
box. say about
supposed to be doing the Horizon but I don't have time to do it.
2:4O right got
Scanner
Check,
supposed Is it at
to O2 High scanners
Rate.
I've
--
are working! to look
How about at the oxygen
l
41 02
c
Yeah,
02 41 06
P
Okay, I'll go to O2 High the way to go.
02
41 18
P
Okay, MARK.
02
41 29
c
I'm
sure
02 41 30
P
Yes,
it's
41 31
c
Let's leave the heater switch pressure come down a bit.
02 41 33
p
It
41 36
c
You got
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
02
02
02
Gus?
now.
here to have some light Is that all right?
gages
here,
I just
will
can't
figure
out -Rate.
O2 High Rate isn't
O2 High Rate.
uncomfortable. bad.
come
off
down, and I mean it
the batteries
suit
inlet
and let will
the oxygen
come down!
on?
temperature
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go up.
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02 42 23
c
Is that moon coming up at about you for zero yaw?
02 42 26
P
I don't
02 42 29
C
Almost dead ahead. the sunrise.
02 42 44
C
Thruster they?
02 42 49
P
Yeah, not bad, is it? See the 02 pressure is Okay, &he mains coming on the coming down now. line, in case we need the heaters.
02 42 59
C
Got the scanners again, got the last time.
02 43 03
p
Yeah.
02 43 13
c
What was that?
02 43 14
p
Cabin pressure relief valve relieves with
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
02 43 30
c
Yes, but
02 43 34
p
That
son-of-a-gun
is relieving
at 5.8,
isn't
02 43 43
p
Okay,
2 minutes
and 30 seconds
O2 High
Rate.
02 43 59
p
And the Greenwich
mean time
02 44 07
c
Hey, give
sight
02 44 10
P
Okay.
see it
over here,
sounds
the right
spot
for
Gus.
Maybe it's
are about
daylight.
like
the
I guess.
Maybe it's
trainer,
That's
aren't
what I
Okay, the 02 pressure is now down to 925 and we have been on 02 High Rate two minutes. Coming up on two minutes.
valve. a loud
Cabin shhh!
pressure
relief
scanner? it
came back on again,
me that
is
though.
1707.
down there.
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63
02 44 11
c
I'll
02 44 16
P
You know what they around.
02 44 19
c
Really?
02 44 19
p
Yes.
02 44 23
P
Okay, that's three minutes Don't want to High Rate. I think that is more than suit inlet temperature is We will is down to 825. heaters here when it gets
02 45 15
p
Okay, MARK. Now we will
02 45 29
C
MiSl!
It’s
sight
did,
they
turned
and ten seconds of 02 stay on it five minutes. a guy can stand. The up to 64 and pressure shoot it a shot of manual to 800.
almost
impossible of you.
still
to see out with
02 45 36
p
Pressure Okay.
02 45 59
c
When you get down.
02 46 01
P
That's what Yeah. Okay, 10 seconds heater switch in the pressure up
02 46 10
c
Oh, man!
02 46 13
P
Okay, MARK.
02 46 15
c
Give me the mark when you think
02 46 18
P
Okay.
02 46 24
c
Oh, man!
02 46 27
P
Turning
dropping.
that
scanner
That ball
Now it's light
it
the
coming up. pitches
you right
they said it'd do, didn't they? to go, and been holding the manual for the last minute. It's keeping to 825. is
staying
way off
--
02 High Rate recocked.
I don't the auto
know about heater
this.
off.
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.
the sight
Four minutes on the 02 High Rate Check. go to the first shot of manual heaters.
in front is
task.
.
I've
got
zero yaw.
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02 46 34
p
at the end Can't see a thing, Gus. The quantity 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
02 47 01
P
Go a little
02 47 07
p
That
02 47 09
c
That's about what we had in pitch zero before, wasn't it?
02 47 12
P
Yes.
02 47 14
P
Okay.
02 47 22
c
That
02 47 31
p
Started out at 66 and ended at 62, at 2:JO. (Oxygen quantity)
02 47 37
c
Hey,
02 47 40
p
We come across
02 47 44
c
That's too much pitch-up you think.
02 47 48
P
Huh?
02 47 49
c
Is
02 47 51
p
Yep.
02 47 54
p
Okay,
02 48 02
C
You going
02
48
03
P
No.
02
48
05
C
It's
02
48
07
P
No, no it
is about
zero yaw. bit
looks
left.
pretty
good,
although
At 2:4O in the flight shows 30°
off
what time
this
plan
do we come across the coast
the OAJIS propellant to leave
those
down pretty
didn't,
attitude
for
--
on the ball.
too much pitch-up
dropping
--
the coast
at 3:04. for
What time
zero attitude,
for
good.
see?
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is don't
zero attitude?
at 2:5O is mains
here?
on?
62 percent.
it?
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HAw-2 02 48 09
C
Coming up?
10
P
Well, I'm going to turn them off now and see Yes. The mains are off. Been what happens. Okay. 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 What do you think?
02 48 46
P
Get off
02 48 49
C
I'll
02 48 58
C
I have to get
02 49
02
P
NOW
02 49 05
c
Do I have to go to the right?
02 49 07
P
You have to go back to the right. the right way.
02 49 17
P
Yes.
02 49 30
P
Now, let's
02 49 35
c
How does that
02 49 38
P
It
02
48
some and then
take
this
I can tell
looks
sight
I have zero yaw or not.
I can tell. down out of here
the e-ball
a second.
caged.
you have --
haven't.
You are going
see what TR is. look
pretty
to you?
Is that
enough?
good to me, Gus.
HAWAII 02 49 48
CC
Hello,
Molly
02 49 52
C
Hello,
Hawaii.
02 49 54
cc
Confirm
01
c
Telemetry
is
02 50 04
P
I thought
they
02
50
your
Brown. This telemetry
This
is Hawaii
is Molly
Brown.
in REAL-TIME and ACQUISITION.
in REAL-TIME and AC&. told
CAP COM.
us to put
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Neil
--
in COMMANDover
66
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Carnarvon. Go ahead,
Molly
Brown.
02 50 11
cc
Yeah.
02 50 12
C
I have a problem with the B-ball here, keeping alined, or Orbit Rate control is not right.
02 50 21
#CC
Say again,
Molly
Brown.
I didn't
it
understand.
02 50 26
c
The attitude on the e-ball trying to get it alined
02 50 32
cc
Understand the e-ball attitude is drifting Okay. You have a GO from the ground. We are badly. ready to up-link a 4-l TR to you.
02 50 40
c
Roger.
02 50 43
c
John,
02 50 50
c
Ready to copy it?
02 50 58
P
Tell
02 51 00
c
Go ahead and send it.
02
51
02
cc
Okay, sending
02
51
14
P
Roger,
02 51 18
CC
And we would are ready.
02 51 20
P
Roger.
02
35
cc
Right, sending in synch.
02 51 59
cc
Give us a hack when you start Check.
52 10
P
Okay, Roger,
cc
Roger.
02
51
02 52 12
do you think
I've
is drifting right now.
got
badly.
too much right
I'm
yaw?
them to send it.
4-l
now.
time
received
like
and verified.
to send you a TX as soon as you
Send TX. TX now.
And we confirm your
* CONFIDENTIAL
TR --
Gage Correlation
Mark the Gage Correlation
Got it.
your
Check.
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HAW-2
02 52 20
P
Gage Correlation Check at 1816, and away Okay. we go. (Pilot misread 24-hour clock. It should have been 1716.)
02 52 28
c
What do you think, it? (Reference
02 52 31
P
Yes.
02 52 43
P
--and
02 52 44
C
That
02 52 47
P
Yes.
02 52 50
cc
Molly Brown, indicators
02 52 57
C
Affirmative.
02 52 58
cc
Okay.
02 52 59
P
Natch.
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
We are in the middle Roger. Report.
02 54 06
P
OAMS fuel temperature Gee ! A temperature
John? Do you think to yaw alinement)
the propellant should
quantity
be about
Hawaii drifting
zero,
is
that's
about
60 percent.
shouldn't
it?
CAP COM. Are both together?
your
attitude
Cabin temperature -- 92. Suit temperature -Cabin pressure is 5.6. Suit CO2 is 3/4. 58. 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 54 12
c
Look at that
02 54 18
P
It
sure
does,
ball.
-is It
68.
of the
Gage Correlation
RCS A temperature
--
87.
immediately
Gus.
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RKV-2 02 54 22
C
I think
the rest
02 54 25
P
It
02 54 29
P
A pressure is 2000 -- B is 2650 -is 19 -- No. 2 is -- 1A is --
02 54 57
C
Now there
02 55 02
P
Looks good,
02 55 07
C
Yes, when I go to small-end-forward all right.
02 55 14
P
Maybe we ought
small-end-forward,
huh?
02 55 16
C
Well, that is, if you go to ORBIT RATE it That's what happens.
goes off.
02 55 24
P
That
02 55 26
C
Yes.
could
of it
is all
be the horizon
it
Orbit
is
right.
scanner,
coming
in.
It
huh?
is
Main ammeter No. 1 in SEF mode.
Gus.
to aline
Rate isn't
it
any good,
it
alines
it
then.
ROSE KNOT VICTOR
02 55 32
cc
Molly
Brown,
RKV CAP COM. Over.
02 55 35
C
RKV, this
02 55 37
cc
Roger. We are standing maneuver.
02 55 41
C
Roger.
02 55 43
P
The respiratory
02 55 49
C
Here it
02 55 58
cc
Roger. your
02 56 44
C
Blood
is Molly
Brown. by for
maneuver?
your
I can give
respiratory
it
to them.
comes. We copy, Molly Brown. We are standing pilot's oral temp and blood pressure. pressure
is
on the way.
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by for
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RK-V-2 02 56 46
cc
Roger.
02 56 55
c
RKV, Molly
02 56 57
cc
Roger, Stand by. Molly Brown.
02 57 12
cc
Molly Brown, RKV. and temperature.
02 57 17
c
alines all right when I'm Roger, RKV. The platform in SEF and, evidently, when I go to ORBIT RATF: it drives the ball off in roll.
02 57 33
cc
Roger.
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. Gus, or will hour clock.
02 58 00
C
Read it
02 58 01
P
Okay.
02 58 07
c
Let's see. Scan now. to 10".
02 58 15
CC
Molly
02 58 17
C
Go ahead.
02 58 18
CC
If
c
Roger.
02
58 25
Brown.
Understand.
into
Brown,
we are receiving We have received
the blood your
blood
pressure, pressure
Stand by one.
Can I read these into the recorder, it get to you? (Pilot misread 24It should have been 1721.) the recorder.
It's pitching Let's see if
down on Orbit it stops it.
Horizon Rate. Pitched down
RKV CAP COM.
you are drifting in Orbit Rate, suggest you select a mode of your own for your tracking task coming up on the coast.
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RKV-2 GYM-2 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 ' Pressure -- 840. Source 02 quantity -- 62 percent. temperature -- 55. Source pressure -- 2000. Fuel temp -- 68.
02 58 58
C
You are supposed
02 58 59
P
I know it, I know it -- 295. RCS A temperature --- 3000RCS B temperature -RCS A pressure 87. RCS B pressure -- 2650. Main ammeter -- 19. 82. 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 ground. If you have any further standing by.
02 59 08
C
Negative.
02 59 10
cc
Roger.
Guaymas will
02 59 30
c
I don't
see a good target
02 59 41
p
Man, just
02 59 50
p
Can you pitch
pitch
to take
over it
pictures
cc
Molly
02 59 55
c
Guaymas, Molly
02 59 58
cc
Your Three-Alpha
Brown,
anyplace.
and I'll
take
down and toward
Guaymas CAP COM. Brown. times
good here on the comments we are
be next.
GUAYMAS 02 59 51
of this.
are nominal.
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a picture.
the States,
Gus?
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03 00 01
c
Roger
03 00 03
P
Can you come across a ground tracking demonstrating like that, Gus? (Pilot 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
03 00 14
cc
We are standing
03 00 18
P
No.
Roll
03 00 22
P
Roll
left,
03 00 25
c
I don't
03 00 32
c
What did
03 00 34
cc
We are standing Pump Checks.
03 00 40
c
Roger.
03 00 44
c
I don't see anything at all.
03 00 48
P
Well, I can't something?
03 00 53
c
If Oh, you can't see anything. See? over you could have.
03 00 55
p
Yes.
03 00 57
p
Here,
03 00 59
c
Where?
looking with
down hands
to the right? by for
your
coolant
pump checks.
left. and pitch
down.
see a good target you say,
there
Guaymas?
by for
--
anyplace.
your
that
report
makes a decent
can you pitch
is a target
on your
target
down so I can see I pitched
down there.
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straight
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GYM-2
03 01 02
P
You've got nose.
to pitch
03 01 07
c
That
spot?
03 01 08
P
No, down --
03 01 11
c
I don't
03 01 12
P
There's all there?
03 01 17
c
Where?
03 01 18
P
Right
03 01 20
c
I can't see over there, John. I'll roll back to Ah yeah, there is the right so we can both see. Let's see if I can one right down below here. get it.
03 01 41
c
Guaymas, go ahead.
03 01 44
cc
Have you completed
03 01 45
p
Yes.
03 01 47
c
Right
03 01 48
P
Yes.
03 01 50
P
Yes,
03 01 52
c
I'm
03 01 53
p
Okay.
03 01 53
c
You can't
03 01 54
p
I know.
03 01 59
p
Tell
green
like
the nose down. (The Imperial
straight
Right
by the
Valley)
down.
know what you see. kinds
around
here
See that
of stuff.
town down
on the right.
your
Coolant
Pump Checks?
there?
go ahead. tracking
him right
on around.
see the pipper.
them we have done our
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Coolant
Pump Check.
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GYM-2
03 02 01
c
Coolant
Pump Checks complete.
03 02 04
cc
Roger.
03 02 07
P
What difference
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
03 02 24
C
We couldn't
03 02 29
cc
I copied
03 02 33
c
Roger.
03 02 36
c
Got the pictures?
03 02 37
p
Yes.
03 02 38
c
That is right isn't it?
03 02 39
p
Yes.
03 02 41
c
I don't
03 02 43
cc
Guaymas standing by for modulation check.
03 02 55
c
I can't
03 02 56
P
I am too.
03 03 07
p
Secondary
03 03 09
cc
Molly
03 03 12
c
Go ahead,
03 03 13
cc
We are standing by for your standby transmitter check with real-time.
What is
the
status
does it
on the checks? make?
.Brown. You're
broken.
get the pumps on simultaneously. you cannot
get
up from
see the Salton
the pumps on simultaneously.
the
Brown,
of the Gulf
of California,
Sea. your
see in here now.
pump is off
tip
standby
T/M real-time
I'm blind.
and T/M to CONMAND.
Guaymas CAP COM.
Guaymas.
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GYM-2
03 03 ia
P
Okay.
03 03 20
c
Standby
03 03 22
cc
Roger.
03 03 35
p
Hey, Gus.
03 03 37
c
Are we?
03 03 38
CC
Molly
03 03 38
P
Yes.
03 03 43
c
You see it?
03 03 45
p
You've
03 03 50
c
Where?
03 03 53
c
Where?
03 03 56
p
That's the mountain right over there? 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
03 04 10
cc
Roger.
03 04 17
cc
Would you remove pump A off
03 04 23
C
Is pump A off
03 04 26
P
We got A off.
03 04 29
C
Pump A is
03 04 48
P
Well, No. 2 audio check.
Tell
them to stand
T/M is
T/M's
in REAL-TIME.
in REAL-TIME.
We are coming up on El Paso.
Brown,
got
by.
that
T/M check
to pitch
over.
off
is
It's
okay on the ground.
beneath
us.
See that hill range right there. I think El Paso is under the
with
the pump check.
of primary?
primary?
primary. to RECORD. Suit
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GYM-2 TEX-2
03 05 10
P
At 3:10.
03 05 17
p
Change the tape
03 05 22
cc
Molly Brown. Texas.
03 05 23
C
Roger.
03 05 25
P
There
03 05 27
C
That
03 05 29
P
Yeah,
03 05 31
c
I couldn't
03 05 32
P
I know.
03 05 43
c
How much fuel
03 05 44
p
The standard
burn
03 05 55
c
We're
okay,
Okay. again
This
is nothing sight
over
is
the Cape.
Guaymas handing
down there
blocks
to see.
the window.
you over
to
You know it?
Know it?
I know it. track
alined
it
will
in Pulse.
we need for is
the next
93 ft/sec.
burn?
We will
have enough.
now.
TEXAS
03 06 15
cc
Molly
03 06 18
c
Go ahead,
03 06 19
cc
Do you have your standby telemetry and ready for a tape dump?
03 06 23
c
Okay.
03 06 25
cc
All righty, we'll Okay. You are commanding it on. give you the word on it then. What is the status of your other platform modes, Molly Brown -- BEF or 'Free?
Brown,
Cape CAP COM.
Cape CAP COM.
Our standby
T/M is
transmitter
on
in REfiL-TIME.
CONilDENTlAL
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TEX-2 MCC-2
03 06 35
c
Say again.
03 06 36
cc
What is the status as BEF and Free?
03 06 45
c
Orbit Rate is the one that Well SEF is fine. I haven't checked BEF yet. me off in roll. go ahead and give it a check now.
03 06 53
cc
Okay.
03 06 57
cc
How long does it degree rate in yaw rate?
03 07 03
c
Gordo, it just gradually slow leak out there.
03 07 10
cc
Roger. your
Are you satisfied attitudes visually?
03 07 15
c
Roger,
and the platform
03 07 21
cc
Okay, fine. off?
03 07 22
P
Roger,
03 07 27
C
Standby
03 07 29
cc
Okay.
03 07 30
cc
Have you tried
03 07 33
c
We were on secondary scanner Roger. 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
I deleted Roger. Check, too.
standby
of your
other
modes, such drives I'll
take you to build up this quarter that yaw rate, starting from zero accelerates. with
transmitter
It's
obtaining
is alining
You want to turn
transmitter
platform
your
some
end holding
properly
in SEF.
standby
transmitter
off.
off.
secondary
that
scanner?
one Horizon
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Scanner
quite
Mode
awhile.
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TEX-2 MCC-2 The one earlier?
03 07 56
cc
Okay.
03 07 58
C
Roger.
03 07 59
cc
Okay.
03
08 03
C
Roger.
03
08
04
cc
It
03
08 16
C
Roger,
03
08 18
cc
Did you have any success Roger. the booster?
03
08
22
C
We were facing the wrong way at that a Horizon Scanner Check.
03
08
27
cc
Yeah, bit
03
08
30
C
Yes.
03
08
33
cc
Did you manage to see anything of the clouds?
03
08
36
C
We could see the southern part of California Arizona, I guess. That was about it.
03
08 44
cc
You want to get your aid on?
03
08 49
P
I can't
03
08
54
C
It's
03 08 55
cc
Okay.
03 09 09
cc
How's the weather,
03 09 11
C
Very
I have your
4-l
is broken cloud Wind is 20 knots,
weather
for
conditions. at 5 foot
you.
20 miles seas.
visibility.
20 end 5 foot.
I was afraid you would tight in there.
see it,
Gus.
We've got
it.
on contact
be.
real-time I'm bl .ind
with
time, That
over
making
was a little
the U.S.
telemetry from
because and
and acq
looking
outside.
on.
in general,
around
the world?
cloudy.
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MCC-2
03 09 12
cc
I see.
03 09 16
c
We've seen very
03 09 20
cc
All
03 09 22
c
Yep, not
03 09 25
P
Roger.
clouds
little
land.
and water,
huh?
even much water.
We got a DCS update Over?
TX*
just
then.
c
We just
got DCS update,
03 09 34
cc
Roger.
They got
03 09 44
cc
TR looks
03 10 28
CC
Molly
03 10 30
c
Go ahead.
03 10 32
cc
We understand you don't have this Is that affirmative? mode.
03 10 39
c
I haven't I don't have any in SEZ' or BEF mode, Gordo. checked Free yet. Give me another few minutes.
03 10 46
cc
Okay,
03 10 48
C
But the platform does aline properly mode. I can tell that already.
03 10 52
cc
Okay, real
03 ii
cc
We have good verification It looks good. Brown.
03 12 26
CC
Molly
031229
C
Go ahead Cape.
03 12 30
cc
Have you had a chance
56
good,
Brown,
Was that
the
03 09 31
it
Gordo.
Was that the TX?
up and verified.
Molly
Brown.
Cape CAP COM.
rolling
off
in Free
fine.
Brown,
in the BEF
good. on your
load
now, Molly
Cape CAP COM.
to check
that
Free mode yet?
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MCC-2 I'm in Free mode now, and it
looks
like
it
is working
03 12 33
C
03 12 35
cc
Very good.
03 13 24
cc
Molly
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,
03 13 40
cc
Okay.
03 15 03
cc
Molly
03 15 05
C
Go ahead.
03 15 07
cc
That next
03 15 12
C
Roger,
03 15 15
cc
The time
03 15 27
C
Roger.
03 15 31
cc
1 + 49 and 96 ft/sec.
03 15 36
C
...
03 15 37
cc
Okay.
03 15 57
C
Cabin
03 15 59
cc
Okay.
Bad tape following
all
right. We were 6ure interested
in that4
.
Brown, Cape CAP COM.
it's
on.
Brown,
Cape CAP COM.
normal
the next
on that 96 ft/sec
fan
is
burn burn is
will will
be a DVof
96.
be 96.
1 + 49.
and 1 + 49 seconds.
off.
change and recorder did not function again until 04 08 00, conversations were on UHF and recorded on the ground.
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CSQ-3 COASTAL SENTRY QUEBEC
03 48 14
CC
Molly
Brown,
CSQ CAP COM.
03 48 17
C
CSQ, this
03 48 19
CC
Roger.
03 48 21
C
We are GO.
03 48 22
CC
Roger. You look good from the ground. to copy Three-Bravo times.
03 48 29
C
Roger.
03 48 43
CC
Molly
03 48 49
C
Roger.
03 48 51
CC
GMTRC 18 37 58. Ground elapsed time left 55.AV93. Molly angle - roll Did you copy?
is Molly What's
Brown,
Brown.
Go ahead.
the status?
CSQ.
Stand by
Let me know when you are ready.
We are ready.
04 13 58. Brown,
Bank
CSQ.
GMTRC is 18 37 58.
03 49 26
P
Roger.
03 49 33
cc
Roger.
03 49 35
p
Bank angle
03 49 39
cc
Roger.
03 49 46
cc
Molly Brown, CSQ CAP COM. Cape recommends you perform your OAMS retroburn in BEF after alinement, and stay in BEF up to retrofire.
03 50 02
c
Roger.
03 50 12
cc
Molly
- 55 left.
Agree with Brown,
AV 93.
that.
CSQ.
Did you finish
CSQ.
Stand by for
your
retrofire
checklist? 03 50 19
c
Roger.
03 50 28
CC
Molly
Brown,
a GMT time hack.
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CSQ-3 CRO-3 03 50 32
C
Roger.
03 50 34
cc
On my mark,
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
03 51 14
c
Roger.
03 51 18
CC
Would you give Roger. handle?
03 51 22
c
Roger.
03 51 29
cc
Roger.
be 18 14 40.
GMT will
It's
by for being
your
Sea Urchin
Egg Experiment.
activated. me a GMT when you turn
the
GMT 15:20.
CARNARVON
03 56 00
cc
Molly
03 56 04
c
Carnarvon,
03 56 05
cc
Read you loud and clear. Roger. send you a new 4-l command load have your timer set at 34:00?
03 56 14
c
Timer
03 56 16
cc
Okay.
03 56 29
C
Brown,
set
Molly
Molly
Brown,
Carnarvon.
CAP COM. Over.
Brown. We are going to and TR. Do you
at 34:O0.
In the meantime I’d like to get helium temperature, pressure, and quantity reading you.
OAMS propellant
quantity
is
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source from
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03 56 34
cc
Could I have the temperature 55 percent. Roger. We are going to send you a command and pressure? load at this time.
03 56 39
p
Source Roger. is 81".
03 56 46
cc
Roger.
03 56 54
c
And the pre-retro
03 56 58
cc
Understand, pre-retro checklist is complete. Roger. 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
03 57 28
C
We are blunt-end-forward.
03 57 32
CC
Okay.
03 57 48
CC
Molly Brown, Carnarvon CAP COM. We have a CC here 30 seconds on the ground, and I have about 1 minute, till your time hack.
03 57 59
c
Roger.
03 58 03
CC
Molly Brown, the pilot,
is 1950.
Source
Command load
coming.
pressure
Thank you.
checklist
is complete,
temperature
Pete.
you are looking at the ground, Molly Brown, Carnarvon has a big fire going for you down here.
Carnarvon. the medics
We can't
see them yet.
When you have a chance from would like to get a reading
on the food evaluation. 03 58 16
C
No time,
we'll
03 58 18
CC
Okay.
03 58 27
P
Every-thing
03 58 29
CC
Roger,
is
see them when we get back.
in order.
roger.
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03 58 49
CC
Molly Brown, Carnarvon CAP COM. Stand by for 30 seconds. MARK of 34:00, in approximately
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
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.
03 59 54
cc
Molly
04 00 06
c
...
04 00 10
c
This
04 00 17
c
What's
04 00 21
cc
Say again.
04 00 22
c
What is
the GMT of retrofire
04 00 25
cc
Roger.
The GMTRC is
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,
04 01 18
CC
Molly
Brown,
04 01 23
c
Go ahead.
04 01 24
cc
Cape recommends that I give you your there for GMTRC of 18 57 23. It'll
It's Brown,
is
counting
down.
coming. Carnarvon
Carnarvon, this
is
TR
has it
Molly
loud
Brown.
new GMT of retrofire
and clear.
Say again. you gave us?
you just
18 57 23 for
gave us?
a GETRC of 04 33 23.
Pete. this
is
Carnarvon.
backup quantities be a roll left
55.
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Roll
right
65 at GMT 400K
04 02 00
c
We got it,
04 02 02
cc
for Okay, Gus. I only have one question How's the flying you go out of range.
04 02 16
c
Great1
04 02 18
CC
Fine
04 02 22
c
Okay.
04 08 00
P
Okay.
04 08 27
c
Going
040832
P
Okay.
04 08 32
c
Or GM'IJof 1832.
04 08 35
P
Okay.
04 08 39
C
Can't
you get
04 09 01
P
There
it
04 09 03
c
Seems like one of those scanners just 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
04 09 49
c
It's
out.
040953
'c
It's
on again.
04 09 53
c
It's
out again.
Pete.
GT-3.
See you next
That was the last to primary
trip
- next
tape
change.
scanners
you before up there?
year.
at 25 minutes
to retrofire.
the camera stowed?
goes.
scanner
light
needs a rest
again.
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10
03
c
Scanner
04
10
06
c
It's
04
10
34
c
Scanner
04 10 58
C
Going
04 11 10
c
Secondary
04
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
04 11 43
p
Can you take
04 ii
46
c
I don't
04 11 48
P
Yes,
04 ii
56
P
Now, let me go through manner.
04 12 07
P
Okay.
04 12 23
P
TR-5 circuit
04 12 26
c
Yes.
04 12 27
p
Okay. All on.
04 12 33
c
There
04 12 35
p
And that old suit temp down there at 55”, S-bandCONTINUOUS, C-band-CONTINUOUS, T/M in REAL-TIME and AC&.
041244
P
Main batteries - we tested them. C is way up there at 29, S2 --
04 12 53
c
Man! With that sun shining see anything now.
ii
light's
out again.
on again. light
is on.
to secondary
at 1835.
scanner
seat
know.
ignore
belt it
light
good at 18 35 10.
is
hooked?
around
a couple
Got your
shoulder
more times? harness?
finally. this
breaker
is
equipment
is
checklist
in an orderly
closed.
stowed.
Secondary
B pump is
comes the sun.
They checked
on the nose,
good.
I can't
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04 12 57
P
Every time you fire those RCS thrusters Sl and S2 Well, that's not unusual. drop voltage.
04 13 00
c
Hey,
04 l3 03
p
23.5 on the main bus.
04 13 07
p
Okay, right
04 13 12
c
Man!
I can see the shadow of the
circuit
I hope the
breakers 8-ball
all
scanner
working
now.
closed.
is right,
because
there's
no horizon. 04 13 24
P
retrofire is 400K, Okay. Now 4:06 after minutes after retrofire is reverse.
04 13 33
c
What's
04 13 35
p
4:06
04 13 38
C
Let me write
04 13 39
p
I'll
04 13 45
c
4:06
04 13 51
c
And what is reverse?
04 13 52
P
Eleven minutes flat. it was 10 minutes data.
04 14 00
c
There
04 14 03
p
Okay. Give me a mark, time.
04 14 09
c
Okay,
041412
P
Okay.
04 14 14
c
Got about couldn't
04 14 16
P
Yep.
that
again,
after
tell
is
I'll
now, John?
retrofire that
you.
still
give
is down.
I won't
forget
it.
That sounds about right, because and 51 seconds from our nominal
no horizon.
it
and let
me check
TR one more
to you at 19:08.
10 seconds. I?
Could give
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.
and 11
it
to you anytime,
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04 14 16
c
I'll
04 14 17
p
Okay.
04 14 18
C
One, MARK.
04 14 21
c
You're going to be a little punched a little late.
04 14 27
P
19:04.
04 14 35
c
Hope the
04 14 45
p
The last burn we received a minute and 49 seconds
04 14 51
c
Yeah, we're
04 15 00
P
Okay. Ready for
04 15 02
c
Okay.
04 15 20
c
I've
04 15 23
C
Man!
04 15 39
p
Okay. Better
04 15 41
c
Huh?
04 15 42
P
Better
04 15 44
c
Okay. We have it. scanner --
04 15 48
P
Feels
04 16 33
c
Got everything
04 16 35
P
Okay, well
04 16 38
C
I'm
04 16 47
p
Wait
give
87
it
That's
late.
I think
you
a good TR check.
sun doesn't
going
get
that
scanner
right
here,
was 96 feet a second and of burn. Right?
to aline. this
burn.
Six minutes. got
to start
There's
that
the horizon pitch
over
check yaw, for
like
not
it.
computer. and it
and check yaw.
sure. It's
lying
Looks like but
is beautiful.
start
good now and the
it. computer,
--
going
to start
until
a second.
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later.
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04 16 50
c
Is it
in?
04 16 52
P
No.
04 16 53
c
Well,
04 17 09
c
96.
04 17 11
P
967
04 17 11
P
I'm
04 17 13
p
Okay.
04 l7 29
C
Says to put
04 17 33
p
Okay.
04 17 38
C
You have about
04 17 39
p
Hawaii
04 17 41
c
2-5-9-0-9-6-0
04 17 52
P
Okay, but
04 18 27
P
At the start Okay. (OAMS propellant
04 18 33
C
Hawaii,
04 28 46
C
Man! I mean we start there.
04 18 50
P
Let's go ahead and hit what it says.
04 18 56
C
Nothing.
04 18 58
P
Well,
get it
in!
in Catch-Up
in
mode.
2590960.
2 minutes.
CAP COM, Molly
--
that's
Molly
let's
Brown.
what we're of this quantity)
going
we'll
to shoot
be about
for.
52 percent.
Brown.
do it
to burn
just
the Catch-Up
-- put it
back in,
as we come over thing
and see
Okay. Now try
it.
04 19 05
p
Okay.
04 19 07
c
There
Now. she goes.
6 - 5 - 4 -- how did it
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get
in
89
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there?
04 19 15
p
That's
04 19 19
c
96.
04 19 20
P
Okay.
04 19 32
C
...
‘04 19 34
p
Yes,
04 19 59
c
The IVI's
04 20 04
P
Yes.
04 20 10
P
It
are not
0, 0, 180.
how.
sir! keep counting
up,
does keep changing,
though.
doesn't
it?
HAWAII
04 20 14
cc
Hello,
04 20 17
c
Hawaii,
Molly
04 20 20
cc
Roger.
Give us a hack on your
04 20 23
C
Okay,
04 20 28
C
MARK.
04 20 28
CC
Right,
04 20 42
c
On my IVI's, I have 97 ft/sec Okay. the others are zips.
04 20 49
cc
Roger,
04 20 53
c
Roger.
04 20 56
cc
Roger.
04 20 59
p
That's
Molly
it'll
Brown.
Hawaii
Brown is
be 12:55
for
burn.
event
timer.
on.
us a mark for
We've got about
perfect
ready
on my mark.
we are right
and give
all
CAP COM.
the
25 seconds
out-the-window
forward start
and
of burn.
to go.
alinement.
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HAW-3 04 23 19
P
We timed
that
a minute
04 23 25
cc
Give us your
04 23 26
c
IVI's:
04 23 34
C
That was the end of burn.
04 23 35
P
Yes.
04 23 36
cc
Okay, and how did
04 23 39
C
Attitudes were right degrees.
04 23 42
cc
Okay,
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,
04 23 54
P
Okay, MARK!
04 23 58
C
Oh!
Give me another.
04 24 00
c
I'll
give
04 24 01
P
Okay.
04 24 04
C
MARK!
04 24 06
P
Okay, and the propellant
04 24 18
c
We had indicated (OAMS propellant
04 24 23
cc
20 percent.
04 24 24
C
About
IV1 readings.
Fore-Aft
they
I've
and 48 seconds.
look
got
0, Left
your
was 1, Up was 2.
attitudes
on, plus
look? or minus
2 or 3
good on the ground.
9:29
on the TR.
you one at 19.
Okay?
source
22 percent quantity)
Rog?
22.
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pressure
when we got
is done,
1500. Neil.
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mw-3 04 21 01
c
Yes.
04 21 12
c
10 seconds.
04 21 17
c
We have 50 percent propellant Getting ready to fire --
04 21 23
c
MAFX!
04 21 28
CC
We got your
04 21 30
c
Yes,
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,
04 21 58
P
No.
04 22 05
c
60 --
04 22 17
c
50 --
04 22 22
P
There's
04 22 29
c
40 --
04 22 43
c
There's
04 22 51
c
20 --
04 23 02
c
10 --
04 23 10
P
4-3-2-1-
04 23 14
C
MARK!
04 23 16
CC
Right.
it's
start
quantity
indicated.
of burn.
burning.
you can't
a minute
hear
those
big
thrusters.
of burn.
28 --
33-d of burn. Mark end of burn.
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Good show.
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HAw-3 04 24 26
CC
Okay.
04 24 30
P
60-50, Source pressure is 1500, source temperature Antenna okay. I mean. And the RCS-both rings on. Quantity Read Switch off. On REENTRY. Heaters off.
04 24 51
C
Let's
04 24 54
P
OAMS power to ATTITUDE, controller PULSE, computer to REENTRY.
04 25 26
P
Okay.
04 25 30
C
Now we're
04 25 31
P
Okay, and the retro
04 25 37
C
Now, don't
04 25 38
P
Okay, but I don't think it would make any differOkay -- platform ence, as long as we go back. rate -- computer to REENTRY -- RATE COMMAND-roll gyro off.
04 25 52
C
Yes.
04 25 53
P
Platform
04 25 54
C
No.
04 25 55
P
Retro
04 25 58
C
Not now.
04 26 01
P
Well,
04 26 03
c
Okay, well,
04 26 16
c
I haven't heard any of those Have you? fire yet.
04 26 20
P
Yes,
did
see,
we get all
lined
I called
stow,
attitude
up good.
addresses go out
is
of this?
load is initialized now, because 10 and 11 out of the computer.
of Reentry
mode.
ORBITAL RATE --
--
NO.
power - ARM.
this
At TR-5, you mean? is
I heard
the
we'll
5-minute just
--
checklist. 7:2O now. squib
isolation
the ones on the pad fire.
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pyros
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04 26 24
c
Did you?
I don't
04 26 28
P
I was listening
04 26 30
c
Oh, were you?
04 26 31
P
Oh, yeah!
04 26 37
P
You have to listen
04 26 53'
C
Can't
04 26 57
P
It's
04 27 02
c
Well, the nose looks about right.
04 27 17
P
One minute.
04 27 46
c
Those thunderstorms in. You know?
04 27 57
C
It
04 27 58
P
Batteries
04 28 00
C
Cot everything
04 28 02
P
Yes sir.
04 28 05
C
Retro
04 28 16
C
Turn
04 28 20
C
Okay.
04 28 23
C
MARK.
04 28 23
P
Okay.
04 28 24
c
That's
04 28 26
P
Okay.
93
remember, for
all
for
I guess.
that
it
jazz.
to hear
it.
see inside. bright,
doesn't
isn't
look on.
off It's
way down there,
would
like
we're
Mains
on --
make it
on we need.
power is it
it?
coming
Right?
on here
at 5:15.
02 High
Rate.
5 minutes.
everything
but
really
so high.
now.
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but
that's
tough
coming
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m-3 ROSE KNOT VICTOR
04 28 33
CC
Molly
04 28 38
C
FKV, Molly
04 28 38
CC
Molly
04 28 42
c
Say again.
04 28 43
CC
Molly
04 28 45
C
Read you loud
04 28 47
CC
Roger.
04 28 51
C
Roger.
04 28 52
cc
Roger.
04 28 55
C
Did you set your
04 28 56
P
Yes,
04 29 ii
c
Okay, both
04 29 12
cc
Stand by.
04 29 23
cc
MARK!
04 29 24
C
Roger.
04 29 25
cc
04 29 45
Brown,
RKV CAP COM. Brown.
Brown,
Molly
Brown,
Brown,
RKV CAP COM. Over.
RKV CAP COM. How do you read? and clear,
RKV.
Have you completed
I'll
give
I want
you a mark at TR-4. clock
to start
over it
working.
Your clock
looks
like
C
Are we all
set for
04 29 46
P
Yes,
04 30 04
c
Got it
04 30 05
P
Yep.
04 30 11
c
TR-5 is complete.
about.
there?
at retrofire.
rings
just
TR-5 checklist?
it's
counting
good.
TR-l? We'll
make it.
complete? The adapter
batteries
are off.
We're
CObiFlDENTlAL
- ._..-- .__
complete.
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m-3 04 30 14
cc
Roger.
04 30 20
cc
Molly
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
04 31 24
C
Roger.
04 31 25
cc
Roger.
04 31 27
C
Sure miss
04 31 30
p
Yes.
04 31 56
c
That old ticker tell you.
04 31 58
P
Yes.
04 32 06
P
Okay.
04 32 07
C
Okay.
04 32 14
P
Got those
04 32 17
C
Five
04 32 18
P
Okay.
04 52 21
c
2-l-
04 32 23
C
MARK!
Brown,
RKV CAP COM.
Brown,
RKV.
Thank
You look
good from
you.
that
roll
rate
gyro.
is really
ticking
Hope so. Give
me a mark at one, huh?
off?
seconds
the ground.
Yes. to one minute.
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away now,
I'll
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96
m-3 04 32 24
P
Separate
OAMS?
04 32 25
C
Yes,
04 32 26
P
Separate
04 32 27
cc
Molly
04 32 29
C
Hey,
04 32 30
cc
Roger,
04 32 32
C
Yes, you can really
04 32 34
CC
Say again.
04 32 37
C
I said
04 32 49
P
TR-30.
04 32 49
CC
Roger.
04 32 52’
P
Arm auto-retro.
04 32 56
C
Auto-retro
04 32 58
CC
Roger,
04 33 07
c
16 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
go ahead. electronics,
Brown,
separate
RKV.
the adapter
has separated.
we confirm
on the ground. feel
you can really
armed.
Molly
adapter.
Sep.
it.
feel
Squibs
Adapter
it
kick
off.
armed.
Brown. 15 seconds.
of them.
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m-3 GYM-3 4.
04 33 38
CC
Rocket
04 33 40
cc
Molly Brown, normally?
04 33 44
c
All
04 33 48
CC
Roger. out.
04 33 49
p
Roger.
do you confirm
rockets fired in the center.
all
normally
Pass your
rockets
firing
and attitudes
IV1 readouts
were right
on to Guaymas.
RKV
GUAYMAS
04 33 55
cc
Molly
Brown,
Guaymas CAP COM. Do you copy?
04 33 57
p
The IVI's readings were 331 Aft, Roger, Guaymas. 105 Right, and 4 Up. Right in the center. An automatic superfine retrofire down the line.
04 34 07
cc
Roger.
I copy.
043415
p
Roger,
and retropack
04 34 17
cc
Roger.
04 34 48
CC
Molly
04 34 51
c
Go.
04 34 52
CC
I'm prepared to give if you need it?
043500
p
That
04 35 01
cc
Okay, and I have some event times 400K feet 19 10 29 -- stand by,
04 35 24
CC
Molly
Brown,
would
331 Aft,
Right
105,
Down 04.
has jettisoned.
Guaymas CAP COM.
you a TR + 3 minute
time
be good.
Brown,
correct
that
for reentry: Molly Brown.
400K feet.
19 01 29.
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That's
hack
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GYM-3 TEX-3 04 35 32
C
Roger.
04 35 54
cc
Molly Brown, I'll give imately 30 seconds.
you
04 36 09
cc
Molly Brown, time hack.
Stand
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.
04 37 19
cc
Molly
04 37 24
C
Roger.
Guaymas.
a time
by for
hack in approxa TR + 3 minute
We i?Ot it. Brown,
stand
by for
Texas.
TEXAS
04 37 40
cc
Molly
Brown,
Cape CAP COM.
04 37 44
c
Molly
Brown here,
04 37 46
cc
I'm Roger. Your start
04 37 59
c
Roger.
04 38 05
CC
I didn't
04 38 08
C
I'm
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.
go ahead.
getting your bank angle times of Communications Experiment
I have steering
on the
momentarily. is 19 05 14.
computer.
read you on that.
getting computer.
initial
bank angle
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commands from
the
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TFX- 3 MCC-Reentry
04 38 49
CC
Bank left 45". Bank right bank angle 19 08 17.
04 39 02
c
Give me an elapsed
04 39 10
CC
Stand by one.
04 39 21
c
I'm rolling
04 39 27
CC
Roger,
04 39 29
C
I mean 45.
04 39 36
cc
10 + 54 after
04 39 42
C
Say again,
04 39 48
C
What did
04 39 50
cc
Time from retro Ten minutes,
04 40 10
cc
Molly Brown, Cape CAP COM. Transmitting blackout for Communications eperiment.
to you in Over.
04 41 16
cc
Molly Brown, Cape CAP COM. Transmitting communications test. Over.
to you for
04 41 48
CC
Molly Brown, Cape CAP COM. Transmitting Over. ications Experiment.
on Commun-
04 42 05
cc
Molly
time
to 60' left
55". after
Time to reverse
retro.
now.
45.
bank left
retro
is reverse
bank angle.
Gordo. you say,
Brown,
Gordo?
fire to reverse 54 seconds.
bank angle
is 10:54.
Cape CAP COM with Over.
a 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 -
4 - 3 - 2 - 1. 04 42 25
cc
Molly Brown, 4-3-2-l.
Cape CAP COM with
a 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 -
04 42 51
cc
Molly
Cape CAP COM with
a 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 -
Cape CAP COM with
a 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 -
404 43 25
CC
Molly
Brown,
3-2-l. Brown,
4-3-2-l.
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MCC-Reentry and Descent
04 43 55
cc
This is Cape CAP COM transmitting Experiment l-2-3-4-5-4-3-2-1. Over.
for
04 44 28
CC
Molly Brown, 4-3-2-l.
Cape CAP COM with
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
04 45 20
cc
Molly
04 45 26
cc
Go ahead,
04 45 40
cc
Molly
Brown,
04 45 58
P
Black
Dog . . .
04 46 05
cc
Hello
there!
04 46 15
cc
Molly
Brown,
04 46 17
c
Roger. We're down to 80 000 feet. us about 25 miles short.
04 46 23
cc
Roger, indicating about puter. Very good.
04 46 33
cc
I have a drogue
Communications
a 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 -
of that. Brown,
meter
Cape CAP COM. Over.
Molly
Brown.
are you reading
Cape CAP COM now?
Over.
Cape CAP COM.
time
25 miles
19 10 42.
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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My needles short
What is
show
on your your
com-
alti-
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MCC-Reentry and Descent
04 46 49
cc
Roger.
04 46 52
C
Okay, we have a drogue.
04 46 54
cc
Roger,
04 46 59
cc
Looks pretty
04 47 01
C
Our propellant 40K light.
04 47 11
cc
Roger.
04 47 18
C
Passing
04 47 21
cc
Roger.
04 47 31
cc
Approximately
04 47 42
C
Intrepid,
04 47 44
cc
Roger.
04 48 08
cc
Molly
04 48 12
C
We don't
04 48 16
cc
Roger.
04 48 40
cc
Molly
04 48 47
C
Okay. We have a good stable landing attitude.
04 48 54
P
Oh, man! That was the roughest bunch, wasn't it!?
04 48 55
C
Ohman!
04 49 01
C
Okay.
04 49 02
P
Yes.
drogue. good,
doesn't
valves are shut Really oscillating.
through
off.
We've got a
30 000 feet.
one minute this
it?
to the main.
is Molly
Brown.
Go ahead. Brown,
Cape CAP COM. How is your Passing
have a main yet.
Brown,
We all
how is your
main.
main?
through
13 000.
Over? chute.
Going
to
one of the whole
set?
Now we go through
the post-main
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checklist.
102
CONFIDENTIAL MCC-Descent INTREPID-Descent can they
see,
read us now?
04 49 13
c
Let's
04 49 16
p
Yes.
04 49 17
c
Cape CAP COM, this
04 49 19
cc
Molly
04 49 22
c
Intrepid,
04 49 26
RS
Roger.
04 49 28
C
I have 30 ft/sec Loud and clear. Passing through 5500.
04 49 34
p
You never
04 49 34
RS
Roger,
04 49 36
c
Yes I did,
04 49 37
p
Oh, did
04 49 37
c
You better
believe
04 49 38
P
Face plate
open?
04 49 40
c
Open?
04 49 41
p
That's what the checklist Control circuit breaker
04 49 48
C
What?
04 49 50
p
Indicate Landing Attitude Control circuit breaker That's that second one over on your panel. open. There you go.
04 49 56
P
ACME bias
04 49 57
RS
Molly will
Brown,
is Molly
Brown.
Cape CAP COM.
this
is Molly
We are reading
took
your
Brown. you now and then.
D-Ring
out,
rate
How us? of descent.
huh?
5500. too!
you? it!
says. open.
Indicate
Landing
power off.
Brown, this is the Intrepid. land 5 miles ahead of me.
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It appears Over.
you
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INTNPID-Descent
04 50 03
c
Roger.
Thank you.
04 50 04
P
That'11
be nice.
04 50 08
C
Do you have us in sight,
40 50 11
RS
Not yet.
04 50 13
c
Roger.
04 50 l4
p
I'll
04 50 16
c
Rescue beacon
04 50 19
c
Passing
04 50 21
P
Suit
04 50 28
C
That drogue chute.
04 50 31
RS
I understand the drogue 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 temperature was way up. Scanner Heater circuit breaker open.
04 50 46
c
Do you smell
04 50 47
p
Yes.
Let's
04 50 52
c
Yes.
I can see Iem smoking
04 50 54
I?
Suit
04 50 55
c
They'll
get quenched
04 51 02
P
Reentry
Antenna Ekperiment
is on.
Intrepid?
Over.
turn
the rescue coming
through
fan
flow
Rescue beacon
beacon
on,
then,
on.
4000,
to No. 2. chute
that close
is right
above us, is
fuel?
just
or the pilot
above you,
Fumes from
that
or the
stuff?
up. out
there.
increase. in a minute.
off.
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INTREPID-Descent I don't
04 51 05
P
Okay. Manual 02 High Rate - PULL. we want to do that yet, do you?
04 51 09
C
No.
04 51 19
C
I imagine
it
04 51 21
P
The water
seal
04 51 26
C
Okay.
04 5l 29
C
We're coming-through the lower layer, John. better get ready to hit. We're at 2000. telling how far the altimeter is off.
04 51 33
P
Okay.
04 51 35
P
I'm
04 51 37
C
You can put
04 51 39
P
Landing
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 L in here.
04 52 00
P
I know it.
04 52 04
C
It's
04 52 06
P
I think
04 52 09
C
I'm sure it thrusters.
05 52 10
P
No.
04 52 15
C
600 feet.
as ready
is pretty is
your
attitude
probably
ever be.
from
that
.
it?
Rate with
that
smell
hot metal.
is.
There’s nothing coming out of the
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I
You No
head back.
what it is.
AC power off.
was a bump, wasn't
just
that's
bad in here.
closed.
as 1'11
think
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105
INTREPID-Descent, Touchdown &.Recovery
04 52 23
C
Landing jett.
04 52 26
P
Oh, No!!
04 52 27
C
300 feet.
04 52 31
attitude
cover
open.
I thought
it
It
ought
to be pretty
plate
when we went to landing
was para-
soon now.
bwact)
045234
C
Broke my face
04 52 35
P
Did it?
04 52 45
P
That's what (Reference
the problem was, right there. to sight mounting bracket extension)
04 52 50
C
Look at the
smoke coming
04 52 54
C
They're
off.
04 52 57
P
I don't
understand
04 53 03
p
We better
04 53 05
c
Okay.
04 53 20
P
Post-landing checklist. Parachute jett-pushed. Landing safe. Safe the landing bus. Helmet and stowed. I'd leave it on. Arm restraints
the thrusters.
that.
go to O2 High
is Molly
out
Rate and close
04 53 33
c
This
04 53 39
R-A
Molly Brown, this is Big Box 15. clear. Check with Big Box 14.
04 53 40
c
Roger.
04 53 50
p
Okay. off.
04 54 07
c
Hey, start
We're
Brown in the water.
floating
well
again.
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the
Anybody
snorkle.
off -
read?
You are loud
and
in the water.
Shoulder fitting stowed. Helmet - off and stow. over
attitude.
Got the cabin Arm restraints
light stow.
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Recovery 04 54 09
p
Post-landing checklist. don't think we ought
Helmet - off to do that.
and stow.
04 54 13
c
No, not
04 54 14
p
Arm restraint stow. Okay, elbow rest and stow. belt - release
- stow,
04 54 34
p
I tell you, I wouldn't open that face those thrusters blowing like that.
plate
04 54 40
RA
...
04 54 45
c
I read you.
04 54 52
C
This
is Molly
04 54 56
RA
Molly
Brown,
04 54 58
C
This
is Molly
04 55 03
RA
Roger,
04 55 06
c
Okay,
04 55 16
c
Big Box, Molly
04 55 28
RA
Molly
Brown,
Big Box 14.
We have you on . . .
04 56 20
RA
Molly Brown, hold-down?
Big Box 14.
Would you give
04 56 38
RA
Molly
Brown,
Big Box 14.
04 57 51
RA
Molly
Brown,
Big Box 14.
05 00 26
RA
Okay, Molly
I
yet.
sir, I'll
Who is
this
Brown,
call
Big Box 14. Brown, if
it
Molly
with
Brown?
again. Go ahead.
Big Box.
you will
hold
calling
lap
give
Go ahead. me a 15 second
hold-down
down.
Brown.
Brown,
I've
Another got a fix
14.
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me another
hold-down, on you.
please. Big Box
