Apollo 12 — Air-to-Ground Voice Transcript (Excerpts)
Document ID: nasa-uap-d1-apollo-12-transcript-1969 Source tapes: 90/3 · 90/4 · 90/9 · 93/8 (Pages 742–743, 748, 778) Mission elapsed time range: 05:19:14 – 06:00:23
Participants
| Code | Role |
|---|---|
| CDR-LM | Pete Conrad — Commander (aboard Intrepid, Lunar Module) |
| LMP-LM | Al Bean — Lunar Module Pilot (aboard Intrepid) |
| CMP | Dick Gordon — Command Module Pilot (aboard Yankee Clipper) |
| CC | CapCom Houston (Jerry Carr; "Fredo" also present during AGS segment) |
Reading (EN)
Segment 1 — Pre-rendezvous housekeeping (MET 05:19:14 – 05:19:25) · Tapes 90/3–90/4
05:19:14:58 · CC: That's affirmative. We're ready for the E-MOD.
05:19:16:31 · CC: Intrepid, Houston. 05:19:16:35 · CDR-LM: Go. 05:19:16:37 · CC: If you will give us P00 and ACCEPT, we'll give you a CSM state vector and RLS update. 05:19:16:45 · CDR-LM: You have P00 and ACCEPT.
05:19:20:05 · CMP: Hello, Houston; Yankee Clipper. 05:19:20:09 · CC: Yankee Clipper, Houston. Loud and clear. 05:19:20:14 · CMP: Well, hello there, stranger. How are you? 05:19:20:22 · CC: Morning, Dick. We are fine. How are you? 05:19:20:27 · CMP: Well, pretty good. I hope you would like to have some company for a change. 05:19:20:31 · CC: Roger. Got the house clean? 05:19:20:36 · CMP: As a matter of fact, I just finished that. I sure do; got everything in order; ready to go towards the LM and bring back... That's quite a chore; keeping this thing clean.
05:19:20:53 · CC: Roger. You got a couple of coal miners coming up to see you. 05:19:20:59 · CMP: That's okay. I'll be glad to see them.
05:19:21:10 · CC: Intrepid, Houston. The computer is yours. Break. Yankee Clipper, if you will go P00 and ACCEPT, we have an uplink. 05:19:21:20 · CMP: All yours.
05:19:23:14 · CDR-LM: Houston, you got the lift-off time for me? 05:19:23:20 · CC: Stand by. 05:19:23:39 · CC: Intrepid, Houston. Your lift-off time is 142:03:47. 05:19:23:52 · CDR-LM: I copy 142:03:47.00. 05:19:23:57 · CC: Affirmative. 05:19:24:05 · CC: Clipper, Houston. Computer's yours.
Segment 2 — Battery charge & Anomalous Light Report (MET 05:19:24 – 05:19:29) · Tape 90/4
05:19:24:11 · CMP: Okay. And Jerry, will you find out what they want to do about this battery charge, because I'm using the bus ties during the rendezvous? 05:19:24:23 · CC: Roger.
05:19:24:43 · CC: Yankee Clipper, Houston. Why don't you figure on terminating the battery charge at LOS? 05:19:24:52 · CMP: All right; I could let it go until just before lift-off. That way it might take it all the way up. 05:19:25:33 · CC: Clipper, Houston. We prefer that you terminate at LOS on this pass. 05:19:25:40 · CMP: Roger. 05:19:25:41 · CC: Roger. That would be one less thing for us to keep track of prior to lift-off. 05:19:25:48 · CMP: Okay.
⚠ ANOMALOUS LIGHT PHENOMENA — Al Bean, Intrepid
05:19:27:17 · CDR-LM: Say, Houston, Intrepid. 05:19:27:20 · CC: Intrepid, Houston. Go. 05:19:27:25 · LMP-LM: Roger. When you look out the AOT in the dark quadrant? You can see these lights — particles of light, flashes of light just seem to come from — in this case, I'm looking in quadrant 1 which is the left one. It's coming from behind me, the left, and they're just sailing off in space. I was thinking they're dropping from my water boiler, but it looks like some of those things are escaping the Moon. They really haul out of here and just press off at the stars. 05:19:27:56 · CC: Roger.
05:19:28:25 · CC: Yankee Clipper, Houston with a P22 tracking PAD. 05:19:28:42 · CMP: Go ahead. 05:19:28:44 · CC: Roger. Your target is LM; T1 is 139:57:39; T2 is 140:02:38; south 05; latitude is minus 3 — 05:19:29:10 · CMP: Roger. T 112 —
[Transmission cut; PAD readback incomplete in this excerpt.]
Segment 3 — AGS Instrument Anomaly & RCS Hot Fire (MET 05:20:08 – 05:20:12) · Tape 90/9
05:20:08:23 · CC: Clipper, Houston. We'll give that data a good evaluation before we do anything with it.
⚠ INSTRUMENT ANOMALY — Al Bean, Intrepid (Abort Guidance System)
05:20:09:25 · LMP-LM: Houston, Intrepid. 05:20:09:30 · CC: Intrepid, Houston. Go. 05:20:09:34 · LMP-LM: Got sort of an interesting thing going on AGS right now. I didn't notice earlier, but it may just be because the lights are brighter now. I'm getting an all 8's flash on both the address and the information registers at about one-fifth the brilliance of the normal numbers. And a — it's pulsing every second. 05:20:10:00 · CC: Roger, Al. 05:20:10:06 · LMP-LM: If I turn down the illumination level just a little bit, it's not noticeable.
05:20:10:52 · LMP-LM: Hello, Houston; Intrepid. You ready for my RCS hot fire? 05:20:10:59 · CC: Intrepid, Houston. Roger. Fire away. 05:20:11:03 · CDR-LM: Okay.
05:20:11:32 · CC: Intrepid, Houston. 05:20:11:37 · LMP-LM: Go. 05:20:11:39 · CC: Roger, Al. Fredo is here. He and I have both seen that phenomena on your DEDA during testing of most all the spacecrafts up at Bethpage, and it's probably an EMI. 05:20:11:56 · CDR-LM: That's what we've been talking about, but we thought we'd just touch in on it. 05:20:11:59 · LMP-LM: When you go to your roll rate, roll left, pitch up — 05:20:12:01 · CC: Roger. I think TRW's got a workup on this problem. 05:20:12:08 · CDR-LM: Okay? 05:20:12:11 · CDR-LM: Here you go, Houston, with roll, pitch, and yaw. 05:20:12:14 · CC: Roger, Pete.
Segment 4 — Tracking Light Discrepancy (MET 06:00:21 – 06:00:23) · Tape 93/8
06:00:21:42 · CMP: But I don't have you in the sextant. That's okay. Your blinking light's just not blinking, that's all.
⚠ TRACKING LIGHT DISCREPANCY — Conrad (Intrepid) vs. Gordon (Yankee Clipper) vs. Houston
06:00:21:51 · CDR-LM: Hey, Houston. It looks like our tracking light's burned out. Dick hasn't been able to find us in his sextant. And on the first nightside pass we had little bits and pieces floating along with us and we could tell that the tracking light was flashing on them. And we still have, I've presumed to think, bits and pieces floating along and nothing's flashing on them, so I'm pretty sure it burned out. 06:00:22:11 · CC: Roger, Pete.
06:00:22:22 · LMP-LM: Yes, sir. Okay. 06:00:22:26 · CC: Hi, Intrepid. 06:00:22:27 · LMP-LM: Okay. 06:00:22:28 · CC: This is Houston. How'd your sweepdown fore and aft go? 06:00:22:33 · CDR-LM: It's getting much cleaner in here running this way; and, also, Yankee Clipper informs me he has the television all set up. When we come around the horn, we'll come around with the television on in VOX. 06:00:22:47 · CC: Roger.
06:00:22:53 · CDR-LM: Who knows, you may get to see the first whifferdill. 06:00:22:59 · CC: Roger, Pete. Our electrical watchers say that the current indicates that your tracking light is on. 06:00:23:11 · CDR-LM: Okay. Now we just turned it off. How does the current show that? 06:00:23:19 · CC: It — it sure does, Pete. 06:00:23:26 · CMP: You're — they're — You're flying through the air backwards, then, Pete, because I don't see it. 06:00:23:33 · CDR-LM: Well, my ball tells me I'm pointed at you, Dick, and so does my radar.
Leitura (PT-BR)
Participantes
| Código | Função |
|---|---|
| CDR-LM | Pete Conrad — Comandante (a bordo do Intrepid, Módulo Lunar) |
| LMP-LM | Al Bean — Piloto do Módulo Lunar (a bordo do Intrepid) |
| CMP | Dick Gordon — Piloto do Módulo de Comando (a bordo do Yankee Clipper) |
| CC | CapCom Houston (Jerry Carr; "Fredo" também presente no segmento AGS) |
Nota: Os diálogos abaixo são citações verbatim em inglês, idioma original da transmissão. Apenas os elementos estruturais e anotações investigativas estão em português.
Segmento 1 — Preparativos pré-rendezvous (TEM 05:19:14 – 05:19:25) · Fitas 90/3–90/4
Neste segmento, Houston confirma o tempo de levantamento do Intrepid e coordena atualizações de computador de navegação com ambas as espaçonaves. Dick Gordon, a bordo do Yankee Clipper em órbita lunar solo, aguarda o retorno dos colegas de superficie. A referência a "coal miners" é jargão bem-humorado da tripulação para Pete Conrad e Al Bean, que haviam coletado amostras do solo lunar.
05:19:14:58 · CC: That's affirmative. We're ready for the E-MOD.
05:19:16:31 · CC: Intrepid, Houston. 05:19:16:35 · CDR-LM: Go. 05:19:16:37 · CC: If you will give us P00 and ACCEPT, we'll give you a CSM state vector and RLS update. 05:19:16:45 · CDR-LM: You have P00 and ACCEPT.
05:19:20:05 · CMP: Hello, Houston; Yankee Clipper. 05:19:20:09 · CC: Yankee Clipper, Houston. Loud and clear. 05:19:20:14 · CMP: Well, hello there, stranger. How are you? 05:19:20:22 · CC: Morning, Dick. We are fine. How are you? 05:19:20:27 · CMP: Well, pretty good. I hope you would like to have some company for a change. 05:19:20:31 · CC: Roger. Got the house clean? 05:19:20:36 · CMP: As a matter of fact, I just finished that. I sure do; got everything in order; ready to go towards the LM and bring back... That's quite a chore; keeping this thing clean.
05:19:20:53 · CC: Roger. You got a couple of coal miners coming up to see you. 05:19:20:59 · CMP: That's okay. I'll be glad to see them.
05:19:21:10 · CC: Intrepid, Houston. The computer is yours. Break. Yankee Clipper, if you will go P00 and ACCEPT, we have an uplink. 05:19:21:20 · CMP: All yours.
05:19:23:14 · CDR-LM: Houston, you got the lift-off time for me? 05:19:23:20 · CC: Stand by. 05:19:23:39 · CC: Intrepid, Houston. Your lift-off time is 142:03:47. 05:19:23:52 · CDR-LM: I copy 142:03:47.00. 05:19:23:57 · CC: Affirmative. 05:19:24:05 · CC: Clipper, Houston. Computer's yours.
Segmento 2 — Carga de bateria & Relato de Fenômeno Luminoso Anômalo (TEM 05:19:24 – 05:19:29) · Fita 90/4
Após a coordenação de rotina sobre a carga da bateria do Clipper, Al Bean (LMP-LM) faz o relato mais investigativamente significativo desta seleção de fita: observação de partículas/flashes de luz vistos pelo Telescópio de Apontamento Óptico (AOT) no quadrante escuro do Módulo Lunar. Bean especula sobre a origem (boiler de água), mas chama atenção para o fato de que os objetos pareciam escapar da Lua.
05:19:24:11 · CMP: Okay. And Jerry, will you find out what they want to do about this battery charge, because I'm using the bus ties during the rendezvous? 05:19:24:23 · CC: Roger.
05:19:24:43 · CC: Yankee Clipper, Houston. Why don't you figure on terminating the battery charge at LOS? 05:19:24:52 · CMP: All right; I could let it go until just before lift-off. That way it might take it all the way up. 05:19:25:33 · CC: Clipper, Houston. We prefer that you terminate at LOS on this pass. 05:19:25:40 · CMP: Roger. 05:19:25:41 · CC: Roger. That would be one less thing for us to keep track of prior to lift-off. 05:19:25:48 · CMP: Okay.
⚠ FENÔMENO LUMINOSO ANÔMALO — Al Bean, Intrepid Bean observa pelo AOT (quadrante 1, esquerda) luzes em forma de partículas e flashes que se deslocam pelo espaço vindos de trás/esquerda, parecendo escapar da superfície lunar a alta velocidade em direção às estrelas. Considera inicialmente o boiler de água como fonte, mas descarta a hipótese pela trajetória observada.
05:19:27:17 · CDR-LM: Say, Houston, Intrepid. 05:19:27:20 · CC: Intrepid, Houston. Go. 05:19:27:25 · LMP-LM: Roger. When you look out the AOT in the dark quadrant? You can see these lights — particles of light, flashes of light just seem to come from — in this case, I'm looking in quadrant 1 which is the left one. It's coming from behind me, the left, and they're just sailing off in space. I was thinking they're dropping from my water boiler, but it looks like some of those things are escaping the Moon. They really haul out of here and just press off at the stars. 05:19:27:56 · CC: Roger.
05:19:28:25 · CC: Yankee Clipper, Houston with a P22 tracking PAD. 05:19:28:42 · CMP: Go ahead. 05:19:28:44 · CC: Roger. Your target is LM; T1 is 139:57:39; T2 is 140:02:38; south 05; latitude is minus 3 — 05:19:29:10 · CMP: Roger. T 112 —
[Transmissão interrompida; readback do PAD incompleto neste trecho.]
Segmento 3 — Anomalia no AGS e Disparo RCS (TEM 05:20:08 – 05:20:12) · Fita 90/9
Al Bean relata um comportamento incomum no Sistema de Orientação de Abortagem (AGS): todos os registros de endereço e informação exibem o dígito "8" piscando com brilho de cerca de 1/5 do normal, com pulso de um segundo. Houston (com a presença de "Fredo", engenheiro de Bethpage) atribui o fenômeno a interferência eletromagnética (EMI), citando observações semelhantes em testes com outras espaçonaves. A TRW teria um laudo técnico sobre o problema.
05:20:08:23 · CC: Clipper, Houston. We'll give that data a good evaluation before we do anything with it.
⚠ ANOMALIA INSTRUMENTAL — Al Bean, Intrepid (Sistema AGS) Flash de "todos 8" nos registros de endereço e informação do AGS, brilho 1/5 do normal, pulsando a cada segundo. Houston atribui a EMI; referência a laudo da TRW.
05:20:09:25 · LMP-LM: Houston, Intrepid. 05:20:09:30 · CC: Intrepid, Houston. Go. 05:20:09:34 · LMP-LM: Got sort of an interesting thing going on AGS right now. I didn't notice earlier, but it may just be because the lights are brighter now. I'm getting an all 8's flash on both the address and the information registers at about one-fifth the brilliance of the normal numbers. And a — it's pulsing every second. 05:20:10:00 · CC: Roger, Al. 05:20:10:06 · LMP-LM: If I turn down the illumination level just a little bit, it's not noticeable.
05:20:10:52 · LMP-LM: Hello, Houston; Intrepid. You ready for my RCS hot fire? 05:20:10:59 · CC: Intrepid, Houston. Roger. Fire away. 05:20:11:03 · CDR-LM: Okay.
05:20:11:32 · CC: Intrepid, Houston. 05:20:11:37 · LMP-LM: Go. 05:20:11:39 · CC: Roger, Al. Fredo is here. He and I have both seen that phenomena on your DEDA during testing of most all the spacecrafts up at Bethpage, and it's probably an EMI. 05:20:11:56 · CDR-LM: That's what we've been talking about, but we thought we'd just touch in on it. 05:20:11:59 · LMP-LM: When you go to your roll rate, roll left, pitch up — 05:20:12:01 · CC: Roger. I think TRW's got a workup on this problem. 05:20:12:08 · CDR-LM: Okay? 05:20:12:11 · CDR-LM: Here you go, Houston, with roll, pitch, and yaw. 05:20:12:14 · CC: Roger, Pete.
Segmento 4 — Discrepância na Luz de Rastreamento (TEM 06:00:21 – 06:00:23) · Fita 93/8
Pete Conrad acredita que a luz de rastreamento do Intrepid queimou — Dick Gordon não a detecta pelo sextante, e Conrad infere sua ausência pela falta de reflexos em detritos flutuantes observados na passagem pelo lado noturno. Houston, entretanto, relata que seus monitores elétricos indicam que a luz está ligada. Conrad então desliga a luz para testar, mas Houston continua lendo corrente. Gordon ainda não a avista. O paradoxo permanece sem resolução no trecho disponível.
06:00:21:42 · CMP: But I don't have you in the sextant. That's okay. Your blinking light's just not blinking, that's all.
⚠ DISCREPÂNCIA NA LUZ DE RASTREAMENTO — Conrad (Intrepid) × Gordon (Yankee Clipper) × Houston Três fontes produzem leituras contraditórias sobre o estado da luz de rastreamento do Intrepid: Conrad presume que queimou (sem reflexo em detritos), Gordon não a vê pelo sextante, mas Houston indica presença de corrente elétrica consistente com luz ligada. Sem resolução no trecho.
06:00:21:51 · CDR-LM: Hey, Houston. It looks like our tracking light's burned out. Dick hasn't been able to find us in his sextant. And on the first nightside pass we had little bits and pieces floating along with us and we could tell that the tracking light was flashing on them. And we still have, I've presumed to think, bits and pieces floating along and nothing's flashing on them, so I'm pretty sure it burned out. 06:00:22:11 · CC: Roger, Pete.
06:00:22:22 · LMP-LM: Yes, sir. Okay. 06:00:22:26 · CC: Hi, Intrepid. 06:00:22:27 · LMP-LM: Okay. 06:00:22:28 · CC: This is Houston. How'd your sweepdown fore and aft go? 06:00:22:33 · CDR-LM: It's getting much cleaner in here running this way; and, also, Yankee Clipper informs me he has the television all set up. When we come around the horn, we'll come around with the television on in VOX. 06:00:22:47 · CC: Roger.
06:00:22:53 · CDR-LM: Who knows, you may get to see the first whifferdill. 06:00:22:59 · CC: Roger, Pete. Our electrical watchers say that the current indicates that your tracking light is on. 06:00:23:11 · CDR-LM: Okay. Now we just turned it off. How does the current show that? 06:00:23:19 · CC: It — it sure does, Pete. 06:00:23:26 · CMP: You're — they're — You're flying through the air backwards, then, Pete, because I don't see it. 06:00:23:33 · CDR-LM: Well, my ball tells me I'm pointed at you, Dick, and so does my radar.