Apollo 17·通话录（1972）

Tape 5/2

 CC Yes, we copied your VI 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 space­
 craft 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 34 10 LMP Okay. We - we are maneuvering, Houston.

 cc Roger. We're watching it.

 CMP Now we've got a few very bright particles or frag­
 ments or something that go drifting by as we
 maneuver.

 CC Roger. Understand.

 LMP There's a whole bunce 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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 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 part, these fragments are not -
 or are tumbling at a very slow rate. I tried a
 couple of pictures of them - different settings.
 You may get an idea of what, at least, the patterns
 look like.

 CC Roger. I've got you. We're all ears on these frag­
 ments. Do you think you can figure out what they
 might be?

 CMP Well, you know I - I don't know. There are a num­
 ber of possibilities. If you had some kind of a -
 I got the impression maybe they were curved a little
 bit, as if they might be - off the side of the
 S-IVB. And that's a wild guess

 CDR Okay. RCS LOGIC is ... - -

 CMP - - ice chunks, possibly. Or maybe there's paint
 coming off of it.

00 03 37 34 cc Roger. I noticed on one trip up the elevator last
 weak near one of the flags. I thought it was on
 the S-II, but it might have been on the S-IVB.
 Looked like it was peeling. Maybe that's what
 you've got.

00 03 37 45 cc And the S-IVB maneuver is complete.

00 03 37 46 LMP in 1 minute.

 CDR Okay. We'll set the old clock.

 CMP Okay. And the - with the maneuver complete, the
 fragment field is essentially static, except for
 very slight tumbling within the fragments.
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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 that field of view I saw out my window.
 Jack, do you see it now?

 LMP Yes.

 CMP And, Bob. At least, there - there's no apparent
 relative motion between fragments.

 CC Roger. Understand.

 CMP I'll take two pictures about a minute apart if I
 can. And it'll be Frame 70.

 CC Okay. Frame 70.

 CDR And, Bob. This is Geno. My impression is that
 they are - flat, flakelike particles. Some may
 be 6 inches across. And, although there's no
 relative motion between the two, most of them seem
 to be twinkling. And I think, for the most part,
 they're all moving away from us.

 cc Roger, Gene. Thank you.

00 03 39 35 CMP Okay. We've got 0180 and 0 on the old thumbwheels.

 LMP Okay.

 cc Roger, Ron.

00 03 39 53 CMP Okay. TRANS CONTROL is ARMED .

 LMP . . . two ARMED.

00 03 39 57 CMP CONTROLLER number 2 is ARMED .

 LMP ... SECS LOGIC ...
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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. We'll ARM the PYROs. And we'll hit the GDC
 ALIGN.

00 03 41 00 CMP And maneuver's complete. And 0180 and O? On the
 GDC? No. It's just ... It's kind of diddling.

00 03 41 19 CMP Okay. DELTA-Vin NORMAL.

00 03 41 42 CMP S-IVB, okay. Okay, switches are all set.

 LMP Okay; 59 : 30 .

00 03 41 55 CMP Okay. Let's start the DET.

00 03 41 59 CDR Tickity-tick-tickity, Houston. We're running
 at 59: 30.

 cc Roger.

 CMP Okay.

00 03 42 12 CMP Okay. That's LAUNCH VEHICLE SEP, push button.

 LMP Okay.

00 03 42 19 CMP MC in AUTO.

 CMP Next?

00 03 42 29 CDR SEPARATION, Houston.

 CMP Okay, check the covers. Okay. And check the
 other ones off.

 LMP They're all ...

 CMP Okay, I'm going to start the - My gr.,sh, look at
 the junk! Okay; there's 15 seconds. Pitch her
 up. Okay, we'll PROCEED on the - -
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02 18 4111 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 switch OFF.

 CDR Say, Bob or Stu.

 cc Roger. Go ahead.

02 18 42 34 CDR Okay, add - to ad to today. Not last night, but -
 I guess the first night I was in bed - I definitely
 saw some of these - because I had a hard time going
 to bed, to start with - I saw some of the same
 peripheral horizon-type things you said were not
 the type of data you were looking for; but I also
 saw a - some sets of the streaks. And probably
 the one most imposing thing I remember is - and the
 last one I remember before falling asleep - was
 the fact that there was a very bright spot that
 flashed right between my eyes like a very bright
 headlight - like a train coming at you, only with
 a flash. It's difficult probably to estimate the
 frequency of any of those because I was in a -
 sort of a sleep-hazy mode.

 CC Roger.

 CDR But then, as today, I saw some that flashed and
 lit up the horizon and some that lit up peripher­
 ally; and I guess, as you say, that's a different
 kind of data, but I did see them there and they
 impressed me.

 CC Okay. We got all that, Gene.

 CDR Okay.

 CMP And it might be interesting to know I've never
 seen it before today.

 CC Hey, Gene, we appreciate all the data. We were
 just trying to make the data fit the curve; you
 know the old trick.
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02 l8 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 trip I took,
 I guess I just wasn't looking for them or paying
 any attention to them. Maybe they were there and
 I ignored them because of other things. But they're
 there.

 LMP Okay, all you flash bugs down there - or flash­
 bulbs I guess is the word - frame 50. I just took
 four pictures to show - two on the side and two
 on the bottom - to show the position of the ALFMED,
 and one of them of each set was focused on the
 ALFMED. The others were focused on the - the
 other set was focused on the struts.

 CC Roger, Jack.

 LMP And when you don't have anything else to do, why
 don't you have somebody predict where the S-IVB
 is. I think I've got her spotted - behind us and
 above us with respect to the Earth and our travel
 from it.

 CC FIDO just went out and shot himself, but we'll
 get working on it.

 LMP Oh, don't worry about it. Shoot. I thought you
 guys might have an idea off-the-cuff there.

 CC No, what's humorous on this, Jack, is they have
 really been working on that S-IVB impact point -
 and they've really been - it's been a - a real
 difficult problem for them so far.

 LMP I'll tell you, I bet you Ron could give a star
 sighting on it (laughter). I looked at it through
 the monocular and sure looks like the S-IVB.

 CC Jack, we're not doubting you at all. We could
 probably start cranking it right now.
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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 the plate moved
 back down there yet.

 CC Okay, Ron -

 CMP get the blindfold off first so I can see what
 I'm doing.

 CC Roger. I just want you to know. We've got a real
 long update coming up to you here on the LOI abort
 charts and that - and it's going to be, probably,
 a difficult readup. And you're the most familiar
 with the charts; you probably would want to take
 them. But whenever you want to take them, they
 are on - charts on page 3-81, 3-82, and then the
 cue card for LOI limits. Whenever you want to
 take them. It will be a lengthy one.

 CMP Stand by, Bob. Let us get squared away from the
 ALFMED; then we can get going on that.

 CC No, I don't want to hurry you, Ron. I just want
 you to know what - when - just get yourself com­
 fortable and be ready to take them whenever you
 want them. It's going to be a lengthy time,
 though.

02 18 47 51 CMP Okay.

 CDR Hey, Bob, I'm looking at what - what Jack was
 talking about; and it's definitely not a particle
 that's nearby because there is another one I can
 look at and get a three-dimensional comparison
 with. It is a - it is a bright object, and it's
 obviously rotating because it's flashing. It's
 way out in the distance, as I say, because there
 are particles that are close by and it's obviously
 not one of those. It's apparently rotating in a
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 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
 don't know whether that does you any good, but
 there is something out there.

 CC Roger. We don't doubt it, Gene. And we might
 work out a set of gimbal angles or something here;
 maybe we can get a look at it through the optics.

02 18 49 02 CDR Okay. And I - I I just want to emphasize that
 it's definitely not - not one of these particles
 that tends to look like a star out there. It's
 something physical in the distance. (Laughter)
 Oh, yes.

 SC thing off.

02 18 50 13 CMP Yes, guess I am.

 CC Okay, Gene. If you can call up a NOUN 20 so we
 know the spacecraft attitude, and if you can
 reference the object you're looking at out of your
 window, with - with respect to body axis and let
 us look at your - your - give us a mark, somehow,
 and give us your NOUN 20s, we can try and get a
 tie-in and start locating - locating this object
 down for you.

02 18 50 58 CDR Okay, I'm looking it out - looking at it out the
 center window - the hatch window - and I'll give
 you a hack when it crosses the XX axis at the
 center window; and I guess it's up maybe 45 degrees.

 CC Okay, give us a hack and we're copying your
 NOUN 20s right now.

 CDR Okay, Jack says pitched up about 30 degrees but - -

 LMP No. 45, because -

 CDR Yes, he agrees. It's 45 degrees pitched up, and
 I'll give you a hack when it crosses the XX axis.

 CDR Okay -
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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 flashes. As it comes around in - in rhythmic
 fashion, you get a very bright flash; and then
 you get a dull flash. And then it'll come around
 with a bright flash, and then a dull flash.

02 18 52 18 LMP That's the side and - of the S-IVB - and then the
 engine bell, Gene.

 LMP The commander doesn't think that I can see the
 engine bell on that thing.

 cc Roger, Ja.ck. Is that with the monocular you're
 looking at it?

 CDR He couldn't see the engine bell if he had 10 monoc­
 ulars.

 CMP Okay. I've got the cable restowed now.

 cc Say again, Ron.

02 18 53 10 CMP And, Gene, where's your blindfold? ...

02 18 55 24 LMP Bob, couple of revolutions ago when I was looking
 at it, I had a much brighter view and I believe
 I was looking at it broadside. It looks to me like
 it may be flashing more or less end-on now. It's
 much, not - not as bright, although it's getting
 brighter. But it's not as bright now as it was
 awhile ago.

 CC Roger, Jack.

 LMP ... we've been noticing that, I think, for about
 24 hours or so. I just - hadn't put it together
 as maybe being the S-IVB. I thought it was just
 some other particle out there.

02 18 56 27 cc Roger, Jack.

 CDR Hey, Robert, what's the final Cowboy score?
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 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 Wash­
 ington and Dallas will be in the playoffs.

02 18 56 53 CDR Sounds good.

 LMP Bob, that line of clouds I called a fir-tree pat­
 tern that swings up towards Hawaii: Hawaii, if
 you will - has - also has a mushroom pattern on
 the top. It has the appearance as if tvo major
 air masses - one going from west to east and the
 other form east to west - have converged along
 that line, and the joint movement of air at the
 interface being south to north. And up in the
 area of Hawaii, I think, it tends to mushroom so
 that the pattern then goes back to flow from west
 to east on the east side and from east to west on
 the west side.

 CC Roger.

02 18 58 27 LMP In a little while, we'll probably get a pretty
 good look at a - what looks like a very concen­
 trated intense storm that, I think, is just - east -

 CMP *** And then we' 11 put them. once we get updated a
 little bit. Yes, I'll get out of VOX in a minute.

 LMP I was looking for the Flight Plan and stuff. And
 the little books.

 LMP Say, Bob.

 CC Go ahead.

 LMP Houston, 17. How do you read?

 CC Go ahead, Jack. Read you loud and clear.

 CDR Okay, Bob, you want to update the LOI card and
 Flight Plan 3-82 and 3-81; is that right?

 CC That's affirmative.

 CDR Which one do you want to start on?
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 And I'll just confirm that the - that disturbance
 over the So - Solomon Islands is an awfully tightly
 wound little storm system. And right now, I finally
 have see New Zealand for the first time in a couple
 of days, for sure. And the South Island's got some,
 probably high cirrus over it. North Island looks
 pretty clear. That's the end that I can get right
 now.

 CC Roger. We saw you looking at Regulus there; we
 didn't realize you were looking at the Earth
 instead.

 LMP Ron's been looking for the booster. And he called
 me down and asked me to look at the Earth. He's
 been holding out on me.

 CC Roger.

 LMP Pass the torch of weather forecasting to Ron.

02 20 55 22 cc Hey, Jack. I also have some words for you and
 Gene. Got some advice from the home front. The
 thing to do with Ron in the future is to hook up
 a Baby Ben and a metal dishpan. It works every
 time, if you want to wake him up.

 CMP No. I think that's not a good way.

 CC Ron, everybody I s fine over at El Lago. They are
 doing great. Listening to every word.

 CMP Very good, Bob. Thank you very much.

 CDR Hey, Bob. We got two of those flashers out there.
 They could be SLA panels. I don't know. They're
 alike in intensity and pretty regular in the - in
 the intensity, bright and dim flashes they come
 out with, and they're widely separated. One is
 about the position we called at the first time;
 the other one is - oh, as I'm looking at the Earth,
 far to the left. Closer to the center window now.

02 20 56 52 cc Roger.

02 21 01 07 LMP Houston, 17,
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CC Go ahead.

LMP Yes, Bob, what is your - analysis chart, if you
 have it - surface tenns analysis chart show for
 Hawaii today?

CC Stand by on that.

CC Jack, according to the - -

LMP The reason I ask is that for using your term -
 Go ahead.
CC No, go ahead on that, Jack.

LMP I was going to say, using your terminator time as
 a partial - mark for where Hawaii ought to be,
 Hawaii ought to be, it looks like that cyclonic
 circulation at the north end of the cloud bank I
 described, approaching that area, would be Just
 about on the Hawa - Hawaiian Islands. I'm curious
 if they're getting some weather down there now.

CC Stand by right now; I've got my weathennan right
 beside me here.

LMP Also, that major front we talked about last night
 as being east and south of Japan has progressed
 even farther and is, oh, maybe 20 degrees longi­
 tude - about 20 degrees longitude from the Hawaiian
 Islands. And I'm making some guesses on exactly
 where Hawaii is.

CC Roger, Jack. We've got nothing adverse in the
 Hawaiian area at all. Just a lot of winds , high
 winds and surface winds and surface roughness,
 but we don't have any bad cloud area in the
 Hawaiian area. I'll get the Hickam sequence re­
 port here shortly, Jack.

LMP Okay, ... a little bit. The - our zero-phase
 point is now centered just a little south of the
 disturbance near the Solomon Islands. And I see
 no distinct change in the intensity of that zero­
 phase point over what I had talked about a couple
 hours ago.