NASA-UAP-D2, Apollo 17 Transcript, 1972
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Tape 5/2
CC Yes, we copied your V1 and your EMS numbers, and we've got a number for you. Maneuver start time will be at 03 plus 33 plus 27.
LMP Okay, we got you. Maneuver at 03:33:27.
CC That's affirmative, Jack.
LMP You guys didn't tell us we couldn't see anything going through the sunrise.
CC (Laughter) Roger.
00 03 25 01 CC 17, Houston. We're making plans here for a spacecraft SEP time of 03 plus 43.
LMP 03 plus 43. Roger.
00 03 27 27 CC 17, Houston. We're copying cabin press of 5.9 this time.
CMP Roger. We - we just got it, Bob.
CC Okay.
CMP Thank you.
00 03 31 55 LMP Frame 65 for the LMPs mag November November.
00 03 [ILLEGIBLE] LMP
Okay. We - we are maneuvering, Houston. CC
Roger. We're watching it. CMP
Now we've got a few very bright particles or fragments or something that go drifting by as we maneuver. CC
Roger. Understand. LMP
There's a whole bunch of big ones on my window down there - just bright. It looks like the Fourth of July out of Ron's window. CMP
Yes. Now you can see some of them in shape. They're very jagged, angular fragments that are tumbling.
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- Page 1 Tape 5/2 CC Yes, we copied your V1 and your EMS numbers, and we've got a number for you. Maneuver start time will be at 03 plus 33 plus 27. LMP Okay, we got you. Maneuver at 03:33:27. CC That's…
- Page 2 Tape 5/3 CC Roger. They look like fluid of some sort? CMP Not to me. They look like pieces of something. CC Roger. CMP They're very bright. CC Jack, we'd like OMNI Charlie. CMP Bob, for the most…
- Page 3 Tape 5/4 00 03 38 01 CC Roger. Cut in. CMP Every once in a while, a fragment of considerably higher velocity than the others goes across my window. But that's very rare. CC Roger. CMP Hey, that's…
- Page 4 Tape 5/5 00 03 40 01 CMP Okay. SECS LOGIC is CLOSED; SECS ARM are CLOSED; LOGIC POWER is ON. LMP Okay. 00 03 40 13 CC 17, Houston. You have a GO for T&D. CDR Okay. A GO for T&D. 00 03 40 38 CMP Okay.…
- Page 5 Tape 46/4 02 18 41 11 CDR Okay. Is that it? Yes, I can get that, Gene. CMP Okay, you want to take a picture of it first? Okay, POWER ... Okay, stand by. 3, 2, 1 - 02 18 41 59 CMP MARK it. POWER…
- Page 6 Tape 46/5 02 18 44 40 CDR Okay, I just wanted you to - just told them like we saw them. That's all. CC Roger. CDR I will say one thing, though; no question in my mind but that they're there. Last…
- Page 7 Tape 46/6 02 18 46 46 CC Jack, are you sto - you all stowing the ALFMED now or are you done? CMP What's that, Bob? CC Are you all done with the ALFMED now, Ron? CMP Yes, I've got to get it to - get…
- Page 8 Tape 46/7 very rhythmic fashion because the flashes come around almost - almost on time. And it's as we look back at the Earth, it's up at about 11:00 about - oh, maybe 10 or 12 Earth diameters. I…
- Page 9 Tape 46/8 02 18 51 32 CDR MARK it. It just crossed through the -- - CC Mark. We got it. CDR -- let's call it the XZ plane of the spacecraft. One unique thing about it, Bob, is that it's got two…
- Page 10 Tape 46/9 CC Okay; I was just going to update that. The Cowboys won it 34 to 24. And by winning it, they wrap up the wild-card slot in the NFC; and so both Washington and Dallas will be in the…