Apollo 17 Air-to-Ground Voice Transcription

Tape 5/2

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…

Tape 5/3

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 part, these fragments are not - or are tumbling at a very slow rate. I tried a…

Tape 5/4

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 that field of view I saw out my window. Jack, do you see it now? LMP Yes. CMP…

Tape 5/5

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. We'll ARM the PYROS. And we'll hit the GDC ALIGN. 00 03 41 00 CMP And mane…

Tape 46/4

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 switch OFF. CDR Say,…

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 trip I took, I guess I just wasn't looking for them or paying any attention to them. Maybe…

Tape 46/6

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…

Tape 46/7

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 don't know whether that does you any good, but there is something out there. CC R…

Tape 46/8

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 flashes. As it comes around in -- in rhythmic fashion, you get a very bright flash;…

Tape 46/9

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 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-…

Tape 47/14

Tape 47/14 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 h…

Tape 47/15

Tape 47/15 CC Go ahead. LMP Yes, Bob, what is your - analysis chart, if you have it - surface terms 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,…

Tape 47/16

Tape 47/16 02 21 04 23 CC Roger, Jack. The Solomon Islands disturbance and everything is confirmed on this chart that I've got. It's very definitely confirmed in there. LMP Okay. Well, it's a lot more obvious today than it was yesterday; but even then it was showing pretty stro…

Tape 59/19

Tape 59/19 mare. Still looking at Oceanus Procellarum. And now, out window 3, up to the northwest, Grimaldi is starting to show up - a very obvious dark area within the highlands of that part of the Moon - and one of the darkest mare regions that we have seen on the - on the Moo…

Tape 60/1

Tape 60/1 APOLLO 17 AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION 03 15 33 44 CC Roger. LMP For our interp - If we can extrapolate from the samples returned by other missions. LMP Amazing how far over - now the highlands to the west of Procellarum are - still are bright, and the contrast…

Tape 60/2

Tape 60/2 CC Roger. LMP That's the small craters. There, in the Mare Procellarum closest to Grimaldi, there are two arcuate rilles. Look like they are probably V-shaped in their cross section. I'm sure we've seen those on the photographs much better than I can see them here. Th…