Apollo 7

This is Apollo Control Houston 72 hours 7 minutes into the flight and it appears we have lost lock through the Canary station. The spacecraft now is moving across Africa. To recap a couple of the highlights of our first television pass of Apollo 7, you saw Wally Schirra extend two cards down camera range. The first one read "Hello from the lovely Apollo Room high atop everything." And a little later you say him hold another card up, both obviously in jocular vein, it said "Keep those cards and letters coming in, folks." We've timed the total television pass from receipt of the first seeable to the loss of the signal out over the Atlantic, at 7 minutes. A little bit shorter than we had anticipated, but all in all we are agreed that it was a good, a very valid first test. It had comments in the Control Center here from varied flight controllers, words like "Amazing", "Much better than I expected", generally that would describe the reaction here in the Center. We will plan very likely to do an apogee adjustment burn a little later today. That will be discussed, I suspect, over Carnarvon on the next pass, and the affect of this will be to lower apogee, which is presently running about 160 by 122 and it will have the happy affect of adjusting of bringing our RCS budgets - our onboard propellant budgets to more conservative alignment. In the television pass Donn Eisele was wearing his space suit. He still has it on. We could see his hoses set up unpressurized, and I'm looking at a rerun now and it's pretty clear'that Wally Schirra and Walt Cunningham are in their flight coveralls, powder blue coveralls. Of course, we don't have color television yet, but they are blue in color with a NASA wishbone and as I understand it the picture is being replayed to the news center so they can have a look. It's 72 hours and 10 minutes into the flight. This is Apollo Control Houston.

This is Apollo Control Houston 72 hours 38 minutes into the flight. We have some conversation which was taped back at Tananarive, We will play that for you and we are now moving into the - rapidly moving into the Australian area and'we will come right into that. First, there is this word on the transponder test from White Sands, immediately preceding that most successful TV pass. The data at this point is inconclusive. There is some indication that the test didn't work or perhaps we weren't pointed just right, or perhaps the transponder in the spacecraft had not been turned on. I say again, the data is inconclusive, but the test objectives were not fulfilled in that particular pass. We have other revs across White Sands and the test, of course, can be repeated. Now let's hear the conversation via Tananarive.

And this is Apollo Control Houston. We nay get some additional by either Woomera or Honeysuckle, but right now it's pretty noisy. You heard on the loop, the ground, Jack Swigert, our capsule communicator tell Apollo 7 that we had resolved the telemetry difficulty we noted earlier in the day. The troublesome item proved to be a secondary circuit transponder and it has been ruled inoperative. We switched over to the primary transponder in the telemetry loop and we are getting all the data from the - in all possible nodes and everything is rosy. This brought a cheer here, a small cheer in the Control Center, and when the word was passed up to the crew, we could hear what sounded like a cheer there, at least Donn Eisele called Walt Cunningham to be sure he knew about it. Apparently Walt may not have had his headset on. So all in all, things are looking up and quite rosy at this point, and we will continue to monitor until the spacecraft moves off the coast of Australia. At 72 hours 46 minutes into the mission, this is Apollo Control Houston.

This is Apollo Control Houston, we have lost lock with the spacecraft now, by Australia and that will bring the circuit down, we'll be back up in about 12 minutes from Hawaii. One additional note, on the television pass, the altitude of the spacecraft at the time that trans - television transmission came through was aproximately 130 miles and decendinl slightly to perigee which occurred out in the Atlantic. You could say the pass started roughly at 130 miles - nautical miles and probably was 126 or 127 nautical miles at the conclusion of the pass. Tomorrows television show, if you will, is presently scheduled for an elapse time of 95 hours and 25 minutes, that's the Corpus Christi acquisition time. At 72 hours, 52 minutes into the flight this is Apollo Control Houston.

This is Apollo Control, Houston, 73 hours 1 minute into the flight. We're on the 46th revolution around the Earth and we just put in a call through Hawaii. Here's how it's going.

Apollo Control here. This pass is running well south of Hawaii. We apparently did not have a good acquisition or good lock on the signal, but the pass was opened by Capsule Communicator, ... Capsule Communicator, Jack Swigert, with the word Aloha. Of course, he is here in Houston, but the signal went out through Hawaii. We will continue to stand by."

This is Apollo Control, Houston, apparently we are having a little ground communication problems. A line problem apparently. Network Flight Controller just advised that on the last rev, our voice signal from Houston was not reaching Hawaii. Now we are locked up again, let's go back.

This is Apollo Control, Houston. And we are continuing to monitor through the Hunstsville area but we really don't expect to get a useful voice signal. We should acquire from California, a combination of California and Guaymas momentarily. You hear Wally Schirra give us the positioning of the men for burn 3. This is the third burn in our flight plan, which had been programmed for about 95 hours. It is being moved forward in the flight plan and it's presently planned to do this burn at 75 hours and 47 minutes, 75 hours 47 minutes of elapsed time. Reading, we are presently 73 hours and 12 minutes and as I started to say Schirra positioned the people for this burn accordingly. It will be Donn Eisele's burn. He is over in the crew commander's couch on the left side. Walt Cunningham will occupy the center couch, which would normally be occupied by Donn Eisele, and Wally Schirra will be over in Walt Cunningham's couch on the right hand side, the right couch. That was the planned configuration of people for the third burn and a little later in the mission Walt Cunningham will move into the commander's couch and he too will get some experience in handling a burn. We have reestablished Com and let's go back to Apollo 7.

This is Apollo Control Houston. Jack Swigert is giving Apollo 7 a I minute to LOS by Bermuda and he gets a Roger back. Let's turn in.

This Apollo Control Houston at 73 hours, 31 minutes. We'll take the line down now and bring it back up at Ascension.

This is Apollo Control Houston, 73 hours 39 minutes into the flight. And we are about to acquire through Ascension. Before we do, a word or two more on the upcoming burn presently scheduled for 75 hours and 47 minutes. This will be a perigee adjusting burn, not an apogee; I believe I referred to it as an apogee adjusting burn. It will be a perigee adjustment and it will have the affect of lowering our present perigee which is about 121.5 nautical miles down to 90 nautical miles and the apogee which is presently 159 will remain about the same. But the total effect here is to give us a little bit more margin on our onboard propellant should we have to do a, what we call a hybrid deorbit or in other words, use the small 100 pound thrusters rather than the big service propulsion engine; that's our backup deorbit capability and we have to keep that constantly in mind and keep plenty of margin there to insure that we could do that. Now we have sufficient margin right now but we are going to add to that margin by adjusting the perigee downward about 30 miles and we are doing this some 20 hours of when we had routinely planned to do it, in the flight plan. We are putting a call in now to Apollo 7; here is that communication through Ascension.

This is Apollo Control Houston 74 hours and 02 minutes into the flight. The spacecrafft is just beginning a swing across th e Indian Ocean. We recorded this conversation through Tananarive.

This is Apollo Control Houston 74 hours 11 minutes into the flight. We've got some contact via Carnarvon and we've also got some good news here on the ground. We watched the Primary evaporator - that water boiler which was balky earlier in the flight, then the trouble seemed to go away yesterday, it all settled out, and it kind of kicked up again this morning. Now it's behaving more like it should. Time and again the little troubles that we've had consistently have been in the electrical environment communications area, all of which spells EECOM in the Control Center. That's our name for that particular controller, but from Carnarvon now lets cut over to that conversation.

This is Apollo Control here we have a little machine difficulty with our tape device in building 1. It will be fixed momentarily when we switch to another machine. And I'm sure I'll be given the signal when the machine is fixed. We're up and ready now.

This is Apollo Control Houston. At 74 hours and 40 minutes into the flight we have acquired Hawaii and here is what is going on.

This is Apollo Control Houston, 74 hours and 56 minutes into the flight. We are in touch with the spacecraft which is almost directly over Houston and here is how that conversation is going.

And at 75 hours 07 minutes into the mission, Apollo 7 goes over the hill from Antigua and as you heard Jack Swigert say, we will pick you up at Ascension in a few minutes." This is Apollo Control in Houston.

This is Apollo Control Houston, 75 hours, 16 minutes and we have established contact with the crew by Ascension and a most interesting piece of information results from the conversation. Wally Schirra mentioned that Walt Cunningham came up in the line to confirm that in fact they had seen and observed and tracked a star in daylight. I'll say that again that the crew confirms they saw and tracked a star in daylight. Here is the tape of the conversation as we move through the Ascension area.

This is Apollo Control Houston 75 hours 31 minutes into the flight. The spacecraft is approaching the Tananarive site and the first call is going out to them.

The SPS burn, burn number 3, is presently programed 17 minutes from now, at 75:48. It will be a 9 second burn, 211 feet per second. It will be done with the big engine out of plane. The resulting perigee should be 90 miles with an apogee of 160. The burn itself should take place over Australia, about 5 minutes into the Australian pass. Correct that - well, 3 minutes into the Carnarvon area, actually pass will take it - take the spacecraft northwest of the Australian continent. It will run parallel about 500 miles northwest Australian coast, and then swing up through the island chains through the Pacific.

Well, I think it's unlikely that we will get a conversation via Tananarive, so let me take the line down and wait for Australia. At 75 hours 54 minutes into the flight, this is Apollo Control Houston.

This is Apollo Control Houston 75 hours 45 minutes into the flight and we're only a few minutes away from the third burn - major burn - of this flight, a 211 foot per second burn which will be done out of plane with the engine pointed south. The engine pointed south. Jack Swigert is now counting the crew down to mark T minus 2 minutes away from the burn. On the stateside pass this next rev, or this present rev which is rev 48, the radar transponder test between the spacecraft and White Sands Missile Range will be repeated. The rendezvous transponder heater will be turned on a good 10 minutes before the test. That may have had something to do with the lack of data on the run. There was some question as to just when that heater had been turned on in the other elements. This time it's gotten a little more attention, and we're standing by for the burn. Donn Eisele's in the commander's seat. Wally Schirra has moved over to the right couch, and Walt Cunningham is in the center couch. All quite in the spacecraft. Seconds are counted off. 15 seconds, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, zero. Ignition, and we see thrust, beautiful cutoff, says Cunningham, here is their report.

This is Apollo Control Houston 75 hours 58 minutes into the mission. We have acquired through Guam and we have also had a chance to look at some of the data - that burn came exactly as programed, the resulting orbit is 90 miles by 160. The crew was congratulated by CapCom Jack Swigert. Here is how the conversation is going as we move through Guam.

This is Apollo Control here. It is questionable whether we will get any additional - here comes a call now. They are being given 1 minute to LOS.

Apollo Control here. Wally says they are getting set up for the transponder run over White Sands again, which is upcoming on this pass. Following that third burn, here are some numbers on the remaining propellant. SPS fuel weight in pounds remaining is 2,874; SPS oxidizer weight in pounds remaining is 4,683 - 4,683 oxidizer, 2,874 fuel. Then you add those together and you have your propellant. In the quads, the reaction control system engines - they read thusly: quad A shows about 175 pounds of propellant, that's a combination number; quad B is 201; quad C is 171; and quad D as in dog is 201. Apollo 7 is being told that an aircraft ARIA 3 is out east - is between the Guam circle and Hawaii. If they have anything to transmit, they can reach us through that aircraft, a KC135, five of which are available for deployment in the specific areas between ships, giving us very extensive tracking coverage. At 76 hours 05 minutes of Apollo 7, this is Houston.

This is Apollo Control Houston, 76 hours, 15 minutes. Through Hawaii, we are having this conversation.

This is Apollo Control at 76 hours 50 minutes into the mission. At present time the spacecraft is coming up on the Ascension tracking station. Actually, the spacecraft will be passing well south of Ascension, and this will very low elevation pass. We would not expect a great deal of communications to develop between the ground and the crew. However, we will stand by for any conversations that might develop with the crew on this pass and during that previous stateside pass, the crew was given a go-ahead to begin powering down the spacecraft. We just got the call to the spacecraft, CapCom Ron Evans will pick up that conversation as it develops.

This is Apollo Control. We have lost signal at Ascension. The next voice station to acquire will be the Tananarive tracking station. During that pass, you heard the ground advise the crew that the waste water tank was approaching 70 percent - 77 percent full mark and that the crew was advised to dump the tank at their convenience. Donn Eisele is scheduled his sleep cycle and as we mentioned before, the spacecraft will be powered down. This will be primarily the guidance and navigation system and the stabilization and control system. These two systems were no longer needed after that very successful SPS burn. Here in Mission Control Center, we are presently going through the change of shift. Flight Director Gene Kranz will be replacing Glenn Lunney on the console and we would like to advise that the best estimate on the change of shift news briefing will be 3:30 pm. That will be in the Building 1 Press Center. At 76 hours 51 minutes into the flight, this is Apollo Control.

This Apollo Control at 77 hours, 4 minutes into the flight. The spacecraft is just passed over the southern tip of Africa and is moving toward the Tananarive tracking station in the middle of the night side pass. We'll stand by for Cap Com Ron Evans to put in a call into the crew.

This is Mission Control. We've had a loss of signal at Tananarive on that rather quiet pass. The next station to acquire the spacecraft will be the tracking ship Mercury in about 20 minutes. This is Apollo Control at 77 hours 12 minutes into the flight.

This is Apollo Control at 77 hours 30 minutes into the flight. The spacecraft has just been acquired by the Mercury tracking ship. However, we've been advised that we probably will not have voice communications on this pass over the Mercury. The ship is having trouble with the antenna used to relay communications via the satellite. Now we do have overlapping coverage on this pass with the tracking station at Guam and we'll be stand by for Cap Com Ron Bvans to put in a call to the crew as the spacecraft approaches Guam.

This is Apollo Control we had loss of signal from Guam. During that pass the ground passed up to spacecraft information which the crew would use for REV 51 through 56 in the event a contingency situation developed requiring re-orbit and spacecraft goes out of touch with ground stations. This is a routine block update which is passed up regularly to the crew. They were also advised to begin recharging battery B. This would be to replace electrical energy removed from that battery during the SPS burn some 2 hours ago. This is Apollo Control at 77 hours 39 minutes into the mission.

This is Apollo Control. The spacecraft is now orbiting out across the South. Atlantic toward southern tip of the African continent: And we expect acquisition with the Tananarive tracking station about 8 or 9 minutes from now. This is Apollo Control at 78 hours 30 minutes into the flight.

This is Apollo Control at 78 hours 41 minutes. Capcom, Ron Evans, has just put in a call to the crew from the Tananarive tracking station and we will stand by for any conversation there.

This is Mission Control. It doesn't appear that we are going to have any conversation with the crew on this pass over Tananarive. Things have been very quiet on this shift since Flight Director Gene Kranz took over. Activities involve mainly with each of the individual flight controllers reviewing the systems he is responsible for on the spacecraft and reporting to the Flight Director. And we might add, that all those systems appear to be functioning very well at this time. This is Apollo Control at 78 hours 45 minutes into the flight. We will pick up next at the tracking ship Mercury.

This is Apollo Control at 79 hours 2 minutes. We're coming up now on the tracking ship Mercury. We do expect to have communication with the crew on this pass over the Mercury, and we'll have some overlapping coverage from Guam. We'll stand by as we wait for Cap Com Ron Evans to put in a call to the crew.

This is Apollo Control. The spacecraft has apparently gone over the horizon from the tracking ship Mercury, and we never did acquire from the Guam station. As you heard astronaut Walt Cunningham reported to the ground what he characterized as a minor problem. He reported a puddle of water had collected on the spacecraft aft bulkhead. He said it had apparently had condensed off the relatively cool environmental control water coolant lines and had condensed out into the form of a puddle. And they reported that they mopped it up. Cunningham also as you heard reported that today is the fifth anniversary for himself and astronaut Donn Eisele with the space program. We'll next acquire the spacecraft perhaps at hawaii. That will be a very low elevation pass if we acquire at all as the spacecraft moves south of the Hawaiian Islands and then move down over the tracking ship Redstone. This is Apollo Control at 79 hours 11 minutes.

This is Apollo control at 79 hours 20 minutes, the spacecraft will be acquired by Hawaii shortly, and we'll stand by for any conversations that develop with the crew on this pass.

Well, we have had loss of signal. Now from the Huntsville. You heard the crew advise that they have water coming out one of the oxygen hoses and have turned off the suit compressor which apparently has stopped the flow and is allowing them to clean it up. We have no further evaluation at this time. Flight Director Gene Kranz is discussing the situation with the flight controllers. It doesn't appear to be a serious problem, however, at this point. Our next pass will be over the Tananarive tracking station. We are scheduled to acquire there at 80 hours 12 minutes and we will pick up the pass at that point. This is Apollo Control at 79 hours 33 minutes into the flight.

This is Apollo Control, 79 hours 37 minutes. We have a few more details on the situation which Walt Cunningham reported to the ground a short while ago concerning water coming from one of the oxygen hoses, and forming a puddle on the floor of the spacecraft. Apparently this is the same nature of problem as we noted a short while earlier, and that is moisture in the cabin condensing off cool surfaces and forminl puddles on the floor. The primary concern is the inconvenience it causes the crew rather than any significant problems with the spacecraft, itself. We do have a humidity survey coming up on the flight plan shortly, and this would give some indication of what the humidity is in the cabin. However, Flight Director Gene Kranz, advises that the humidity in the cabin has been running well within the comfort level and apparently the condensation is a process that occurs when moisture, which is naturally in the air and the atmosphere of the cabin, comes in contact with exposed cool surfaces. We will continue to follow the situation and advise if any further developments relevent to it occur. This is Apollo Control at 79 hours 39 minutes.

This'is Apollo Control at 80 hours 14 minutes. The spacecraft is about to come into range of the Tananarive tracking station and we will pick up any conversations that come out of this pass over Tananarive.

We have had loss of signal now from Tananarive. The next'station to acquire the spacecraft will be the tracking ship Mercury and we expect acquisition there in about 16 minutes. This is Apollo Control at 80 hours 21 minutes.

This is Apollo Control, at 80 hours 36 minutes. The spacecraft will be coming within range of the tracking ship Mercury, and we're standing by for a call from CapCom Ron Evans to the crew.

This is Mission Control. We've had loss of signal now from the Mercury. You heard Wally Schirra, again mention the problem with moisture coming from the oxygen hoses from the suit supply. The initial assessment on that moisture from Cunningham was that it was condensate, and the feeling here in Mission Control Center is that it does represent condensation rather than any leak from the spacecraft. The crew was advised that they will be in good position to view the volcano erupting on Hawaii. Now that is the volcano Kilauea and I don't vouch for that pronunciation. They will be coming up within - uh within range of the volcano approximately 80 hours 57 minutes elapsed time and it's predicted they will have a clear view of the area. This is Apollo Control at 80 hours 45 minutes.

This is Apollo control, 80 hours 54 minutes, we've just acquired the spacecraft from Hawaii and we'll stand by for any comments from the crew or conversation on this pass.

We have Loss of Signal now, from Hawaii. The crew advised on that pass that they were not able to observe Kilauea, which is erupting at this time. They said they did get a good view of the entire Hawaiian chain however and reported that weather in that area was unusually clear although the main island of Hawaii was apparently clouded over, blocking their view of the volcano there. We have a very long pass dry period now before we come upon another station with voice communcation, that will be the tracking ship Mercury almost a full rev from Hawaii here, we'll acquire Mercury at 82 hours and 10 minutes ground elapsed time. This is one of the quitest passes during a - the days operations when the spacecraftis passing down over the southern part of the western hemisphere and missing a large part of the ground stations. At 81 hours, 2 minutes; this is Apollo control.

This is Apollo Control at 81 hours, 39 minutes. At present time the spacecraft is approaching the southwestern coast of Africa, on what will be one of the revolutions with the smallest number of contacts with ground stations during the day. We will go from the station at Hawaii all the way back around the tracking ship Mercury off - between Japan and the Phillipine Islands in the Pacific Ocean before we expect to acquire again. We will be passing north of the Tananarive station, but I do not expect that we will be within range to acquire at that station. At the present time the plotboards here in the Control Center show the S-IVB the second stage of the launch vehicle to be leading the command service module by approximately 1200 miles. The S-IVB at last report was in orbit 116 nautical miles by 147 nautical miles as compares with the orbit for the command and service module of 160 by 90 nautical miles. We will be acquiring the tracking ship Mercury at an elapsed time of 82 hours 10 minutes and we will be following the progress of events here in Mission Control Center until that time. At which time we will come up to follow any conversations between flight controllers here in the Center and the spacecraft. This is Mission Control at 81 hours, 41 minutes.

This is Apollo Control; 82 hours, 11 minutes into the flight. The spacecraft at the present time is approaching the tracking ship Mercury. Coming up near the end of a revolution which has had various force ground coverage. Our last station to be in touch with the spacecraft was the tracking station at Hawaii, and we are preparing now to put in a call to the crew from CapCom - our CapCom, Ron Evans, here in the control center. We'll stand by for any conversation that develops with the crew over the tracking ship Mercury.

This is Mission Control. We've had loss of signal now, from the Mercury. During that pass Walter Cunningham reported that they had a failed switch in the number 2 hand controller. This is one of two controllers used to control spacecraft attitudes, and he reported that they would plan to troubleshoot this the next time they have the computer back up on the line. The computer, at the present time, has been powered down. It was powered down after that SPS burn this afternoon. They also reported on the condition of the crew. As far as nasal congestion and physical condition is concerned, he reported that Commander Wally Schirra, appeared to be holding his own, and that Donn Eisele was perhaps getting somewhat worse. He did not copy his comments in regard to his own condition. Flight surgeon requested that the crew attempt to obtain temperature readings, and we would perhaps expect to see that information coming up on subsequent passes. We'll next be acquiring the tracking ship Redstone in the South Pacific. That acquisition is scheduled to occur at about 82 hours 42 minutes ground elapsed time and there's also a possibility of a very low angle acquisition as we pass Hawaii going off the - south of the Hawaiian Islands. Now we will be passing that point at 82 hours 29 minutes ground elapsed time, or about 10 minutes from now. This is Apollo Control at 82 hours 19 minutes into the flight.

This is Apollo Control 82 hours 33 minutes into the flight. Now we've just had a brief acquisition from the Hawaiian tracking station. And we'll play back the tapes of the air-to-ground communications from that passing in their entirety now.

And that's LOS, loss of signal from the Hawaiian pass. The next station to acquire is the tracking ship Redstone and we'll be picking them up in just about 8 minutes from now. This is Apollo Control at 82 hours 35 minutes.

This is Apollo control at 82 hours 43 minutes and we've just put in a call to the crew, here's that conversation now.

This is Mission Control, the spacecraft is now gone over the horizon and out of range of the tracking ship Redstone, the next station to acquire will be the station at Ascension and we'll be coming up there in about 19 minutes from now at 82 hours, 51 minutes into the mission; this is Apollo Control.

This is Apollo Control, 83 hours and 9 minutes into the flight. At the present time we are coming up on the tracking station at Ascension and we'll stand by as Ron Evans puts in a call to the crew.

This is Mission Control, we've had loss of signal now from Ascension, the next station to acquire will be the tracking ship Mercury and we will be picking up the spacecraft there in about 29 or 30 minutes from now. This is Apollo Control at 83 hours and 16 minutes into the flight.

This is Apollo Control. The Apollo 7 spacecraft is now 83 hours 45 minutes into its mission. We're coming up on the tracking ship Mercury about midway through a day side pass. Astronaut Donn Eisele is nearing the end of a seven hour sleep period at 84 hours ground elapsed time. The Commander, Wally Schirra, and Lunar Module Pilot, Walt Cunningham are scheduled to begin their sleep period. We'll stand by now as Cap Con Rom Evans puts in a call to the crew. We'll have overlapping coverage here iron Mercury on through the tracking station on Guam.

We've had loss of signal now with the spacecraft. Due to pick up again at the tracking ship Redstone in about 20 minutes. This is Apollo Control at 83 hours 56 minutes.

This is Apollo Control at 84 hours 16 minutes. The spacecraft has just gone into a night-side pass and is coming up on the tracking ship Redstone. We'll standby here for a call to the crew from the CapCom Ron Evans.

We've had Loss of Signal now at the Redstone. As you heard astronaut Donn Eisele has just gotten up from his 7 hour sleep period. And reported that he had a good nights sleep, but Wally Schirra and Walt Cunningham are now sacked out as he put it, beginning their 7 hour sleep period. They're schedule to sleep from 84 hours to 91 hours. The next station to acquire the spacecraft will be Ascension as we come up on the start of the 54 revolution at 84 hours 25 minutes this is Apollo Control.

This is Apollo Control at 84 hours, 42 minutes into the mission we're coming up now on the Ascension tracking station, just at the beginning - at the end rather of a night side pass we'll be coming out at the spacecraft, we'll be coming out into daylight, probably before the Ascension pass is completed. During this pass we're scheduled, according to the flight plan to get an update to the onboard contingency landing information, this is information that is routinely passed up to the crew several revolutions ahead and would give them the necessary information should - should a deorbit become necessary while they were out of communications with one of the ground tracking stations. We'll stand by now for any conversation with the crew over the Ascension station.

We've had lose of signal now, with the spacecraft, from the Ascension tracking station, a very quiet pass there, we heard from Donn Eisele I think twice, once at the beginning acknowledging the Capcoms initial acquisition report and then Roger at the end as we were about to lose was lock with the spacecraft. Here in mission control center we're in the midst of changing shifts. Flight Director Gerry Griffin will be coming on replacing Flight Director Gene Kranz and we're looking toward a change of shift press briefing at the present time to occur at approximately eleven thirty. At 84 hours 52 minutes into the mission this is Apollo control.

This is Apollo Control, 85 hours, 18 minutes, 25 seconds into the mission of Apollo 7. We are coming upon the acquisition point for the Mercury Tracking Ship this time. Let's standby for any conversation.

This is Apollo Control; 85 hours, 30 minutes into the mission of Apollo 7. We have just lost acquisition with Guam Tracking Station. We are anticipating acquisition at the Redstone Tracking Ship at 85 hours, 50 minutes. During that pass, it was indicated by astronaut Eisele that the spacecraft commander Schirra and the LMP pilot, Cunningham entered a sleep period 84 hours into the mission. Schirra took two aspirins and twenty clicks of water and Eisele in his sleep period took before his sleep period took two aspirins, one actifed, and twenty clicks of water. At 8S hours, 31 minutes into the mission; this is Apollo Control.

This is Apollo Control, 86 hours, 48 minutes into the mission of Apollo 7. We have - a tape of our Redstone pass which occurred at 8550 and following that just a very short tape at Ascension Islands, started at 8617. We will roll those now.

This is Apollo Control, 86 hours, 53 minutes into the mission. We're coming upon the Mercury Tracking Ship for a live pass. Let's standby.

This is Apollo Control, 86 hours, 58 minutes into the mission. We will acquire Guam at 86:59:41. This gives us another minute and that will be a very short pass of some 3 minutes. One point of interest is the television for tomorrow will be in the sixtieth revolution at 95 hours, 25 minutes, 55 seconds, ground elapsed time. That is 9:28:40, central daylight time, roughly 29 minutes after 9 in the morning. Let's standby for any possible conversation on this Guam pass.

This is Apollo Control; 87 hours, 2 minutes into the Mission. We are about 10 seconds away from loss of signal at Guam. We are anticipating acquisition at Redstone at 87 hours, 24 minutes. At that time we had an indication from astronaut Pogue, the CapCom, to astronaut Eisele that we would have an update for them on the flight plan. We are now - well into the fiftyfifth revolution, heading for South America. At 87 hours, 2 minutes into the mission, this is Apollo Control.

This is Apollo Control; 87 hours, 24 minutes into the mission of Apollo 7. We're coming up on the Redstone tracking ship and just acquired.

This is Apollo Control, 87 hours 33 minutes into the mission o Apollo 7. We have just lost acquisition with the Redstone tracking ship, ah, the updates of the flight plan will be completed probably when they have acquisition Canary Islands and that's anticipated to be 87 hours 54 minutes. So, at this point, the spacecrat Commander Schirra and LM Pilot Cunningham have been asleep over 2-1/2 hours. We're coming up on the beginning of the 56th revolution at 87 hours 33 minutes into the mission this is Apollo Control.

This is Apollo Control 87 hours 54 minutes into the mission of Apollo 7. We're coming up on the acquisition point for the Canary Islands at which point astronaut Pogue here in the Control Center will complete sending up the revised flight plan for the next few hours, so let's stand by for Canary Islands.

This is Apollo Control 88 hours 2 minutes into the mission. We have lost acquisition. The next contact will be with the Redstone tracking ship at 88 hours 58 minutes into the mission, some 57-1/2 minutes from now. At 88:02 this is Apollo Control.

This is Apollo Control; 88 hours, 58 minutes into the mission of Apollo 7. We have had a long dry spell here. We are coming up on the Redstone Tracking Ship. We should have acquisition in a very few seconds.

This is Apollo Control, 89 hours, 7 minutes into the mission of Apollo 7. We are just now losing acquisition at Redstone. We're anticipating contact with Antigua at 89 hours, 17 minutes. At 89:07, this is Apollo Control.

This is Apollo Control, 89 hours 17 minutes into the mission of Apollo 7. Apollo 7 has just begun its 57th revolution around the Eearth. We're coming up in a very seconds to Antigua acquistion. Let's listen in.

This is Apollo Control, 89 hours 23 minutes into the mission. We are about 20 seconds away from loss of signal over Antigua. We have about 5 minutes to go for Canary Islands tracking station acquisition at 89 hours 24 minutes. This is Apollo Control.

This is Apollo Control, 89 hours 28 minutes into the mission. We're coming up on acquisition with Canary Islands tracking station. We'll join the conversation.

This is Apollo Control; 89 hours, 35 minutes. We're looking for a pass over Carnarvon at 90 hours and S minutes. At 89:35 then, this is Apollo Control.

This is Apollo Control 90 hours 6 minutes into the mission, let's join the conversation to Carnarvon.

This is Apollo Control, 90 hours 09 minutes into the mission of Apollo 7. We have had loss of signal at Carnarvon tracking station and it's a matter of about 10 minutes before Honeysuckle Creek at acquisition so we'll just stand by.

This is Apollo Control 90 hours 17 minutes into the mission of Apollo 7. It doesn't appear we'll have any further contact. We have about a minute and one-half of acquisition left at Honeysuckle but there will probably be no more voice contact. We are anticipating acquisition at Redstone tracking ship at 90 hours 32 minutes. At 90 hours 17 minutes this is Apollo Control.

This is Apollo Control, 90 hours, 32 minutes into the mission of Apollo 7. We are coming upon the Redstone Tracking Ship now in the fiftysixth revolution. Letts listen in.

This is Apollo Control, 9 hours, 40 minutes into the mission of Apollo 7. We have just lost acquisiton - and our next acquisition point will be at Antigua at 90 hours and 50 minutes. It appears that spacecraft commander is up at this point. And there was some conversation with CapCom on the amount of sleep that should be scheduled in the coming days of the mission. At 90 hours, 41 minutes in the fiftyseventh revolutxon, this is Apollo Control.

This Apollo Control, 90 hours 50 minutes into the mission of Apollo 7. We're coming up in acquisition with Antigua tracking station. Let's stand by for conversation.

This is Apollo Control; 90 hours, 58 minutes into the mission of Apollo 7. We have Canary Islands acquistion coming up at 91 hours, 2 minutes, which is 3 minutes from now. We'll join the crew at that time at Canary Islands. In the meantime, you heard astronaut Schirra talking to CapCom Pogue here in the control center concerning the sleep cycle that has been shortened. Schirra indicates that 5 hours per shift schedule is not enough and he'd like a chance to get some more sleep. And the ground is gonna check into it. Astronaut Cunningham then talked about the procedures on the radiator degradation that is scheduled a little later on in the flight, some 92 hours, 55 minutes. With about 2 minutes to wait until Canary Islands acquisition, this is Apollo Control.

This is Apollo Control 91 hours 02 minutes into the mission of Apollo 7. We are coming up inside of 25 seconds or so with Canary Islands acquisition. We'll stand by for further conversation.

This is Apollo Control; 91 hours, 11 minutes into the mission of Apollo 7. We have lost acquisition with Canary Islands. We are anticipating Carnarvon acquisition at 91 hours 37 minutes. During this last pass, we heard Schirra indicate that the number two hand controller is GO. That was a situation that occurred yesterday and that was at some 82 hours into the mission where they found that the pitch down on the number two hand controller was inoperative and now checking it with the command module computer we find that the number two hand controller is Go and that anomaly has disappeared Schirra indicates. Cap Com Pogue indicated that down on the ground here in the Control Center they had ironed out a 10 hour sleep cycle for tonight and spacecraft Commander Schirra came back with "No, we didn't need 10, would like to have 8". So it looks like that's what it will be. At 91 hours, 12 minutes into the mission, this is Apollo Control.

This is Apollo Control, 91 hours, 37 minutes into the mission of Apollo 7. We are now coming up into acquisition, just got acquisition with Carnarvon. Let's listen to the conversation.

This is Apollo Control, 91 hours, 53 minutes into the mission of Apollo 7. During that lengthy pass - from Carnarvon through Honeysuckle Creek, we heard about the radiator degradation tests. They are coordinating with astronaut Pogue at the Control Center on that. And on the number hand controller check and at the very last you heard the crew had beautiful pictures of the great barrier reef in New Zealand, about 5 rames. We are anticipating acquisition at Texas 92 hours 19 minutes into the mission, It is now 91 hour 54 minutes. This is Apollo Control

This is Apollo Control 92 hours 19 minutes into the mission of Apollo 7. We are just completing the 58th revolution and we're approaching - should be at the point of Texas acqusition. Let's listen in.

This is Apollo Control; 92 hours, 35 minutes into the mission of Apollo 7. We anticipate acquiring at Canary at 92:38, that's about three minutes from now. We will just stay up until we acquire at Canaries and go through the Canary pass and at the end of Canary pass we'll have a wrap up of the last eight hours of activity. At 92:33 this is Apollo Control standing by for Canary Islands.

This is Apollo Control; 92 hours, 43 minutes into the mission. We are about 20 seconds away from loss of signal at the Canary Islands now. We will have a recap here of the night's activities for the last 8 hours. At 85 hours 18 minutes in revolution 54, it was indicated by astronaut Eisele that he had taken two aspirin and one decongestant tablet at the time of his sleep cycle, and 20 clicks of water. That equals 10 ounces of water. The commander of the spacecraft, Schirra, and the LM pilot, Cunningham, entered the sleep period at 84 hours in the mission. Schirra had taken two aspirin and 20 clicks of water. Again, that is 10 ounces. Then there was a very stable period on down through 89 hours 28 minutes at which time the CapCom, astronaut Pogue here at the Control Center, went through an exercise on the O₂ tank, the oxygen tank, fans. There was no problem, it was just indicating which fans were on and which fans were off on the cycling. At Carnarvon, 90 hours 05 minutes, it was indicated by Eisele that the number 2 hand controller, which had given a little problem yesterday, pitched down position I believe, might be okay and that it would be checked when Astronaut Schirra woke up. They would check the input to the command module computer to see how the hand controller would operate during burn. At 90 hours 32 minutes, Astronaut Schirra awoke and indicated that he would like to have his sleep schedule ironed out. At 90 hours 49 minutes, CapCom Pogue talked to him again and Schirra indicated that 5 hours per shift of sleep was not really enough and that he would like a chance to get some sleep, more than 5 hours, and have the ground check on it. He also indicated that the number 2 hand controller is go. It was green for go and that the anomaly had disappeared, so he had checked the hand controller. Pogue then indicated that 10 hour sleep cycles would go on for tonight in the flight plan. Schirra indicated that they didn't need 10 but they would like to get 8 hours of sleep. They then checked the procedures again at 91 hours, 37 minutes for the radiator degradation test and the number 2 hand controller check that Schirra had indicated came out that the controller was go. Schirra indicated at that time that he had gotten beautiful pictures of the Great Barrier reef at New Zealand. That's about it for the evening. There wasn't too active a period, there. The spacecraft looks to be in good condition, we are in rev 59 right now. We have the TV schedule this morning for 60th revolution at 95 hours 25 minutes, 55 seconds into the mission, which would be 9:28:40 central daylight time and that's it. With everything looking good, this is Apollo Control.

This is Apollo Control. 93 hours, 10 minutes into the mission. We are coming up on acquisition right about now with Carnarvon here in a very few seconds, so let's stand by and see what occurs.

This is Apollo Control. We still have acquisition at Honeysuckle in Australia. The question that astronaut Cunningham is talking to astronaut Swigert here in the Control Center about, is one about RCS propellant; the amount being used. This has to be used because the RCS system is used during the radiation degradation test, which now is going on to keep the spacecraft in a steady mode. And that's why he refers to the 9 or 10 pulses per minute to begin with, and now at 2 to 4 pulses per minute and they are not concerned mightily, but they would like to know how much fuel, how much propellant that is now using, we will join them now at Honeysuckle again.

This is Apollo Control 93 hours 26 minutes into the mission - 27 minutes into the mission. We have just had loss of signal at Honeysuckle Creek. We're anticipating Guaymas at 93:49. At 93:27 this is Apollo Control

And a good, good morning from the black team, which is back on duty in the COntrol Center, 93 hours 50 minutes into the mission. We have called up the crew from Guaymas and here is how that conversation is going.

This is Apollo Control. We are in the midst of a radiator test and this test will continue for one full revolution. Essentially, the mode is to - there are two radiator - banks of radiators aboard Apollo 7 and they occupy about 130 degree strip around the command module. The radiator 1 bank is being isolated and pointed down toward Earth, thus pointing radiator 2 on the opposite side out toward deep space. The test will - we will watch very carefully the performance, the ability of radiator 2 to take care of the load of keeping Apollo 7 cool enough during one full revolution around the Earth. Here is some more conversation.

This is Apollo Control. You heard Walt Cunningham discussing the radiator test. It is not a real concern, but the facts are that sore 21 pounds of fuel are programed to continue to maintain this attitude for the radiator test. And that was what Walt Cunningham was referring to when he said "You know what I'm getting at." It was fuel usage, and his point was, if the radiator is operating satisfactorily, why go ahead and test full duration, and every indication is that it is operating quite satisfactorily. The crew is probably performing a fuel cell oxygen purge at this point, and as they move around on the Atlantic side, they will start to unstow their television equipment for a TV pass on the next revolution.

Apollo Control here. During this quiet period, we might make mention of the fact that in the course of the night, we received a telegram which reads as follows: Hey, guys, first you steal my song Houston, and now you steal my quote "Keep them letters and cards coming," and it's 10 to 1 when you land you will start drinking. P.S. Like all Anericans, I'm proud of you. Second P.S. I was higher last night than you are now. Signed Dean Martin.

Apollo Control here. The weather story this morning goes like this. The west Atlantic, partly cloudy, easterly winds 20 knots, seas running to 5 feet, temperature in the mid-70's. In the eastern Atlantic, mostly clear, winds easterly 12 to 18 knots, seas 3 to 5 feet, temperatures in the mid-70's. In the west Pacific, the weather will be fair, partly cloudy, winds from the north to northeasterly at 12 to 15 knots, seas about 5 feet, temperatures range in the upper 70's. In the mid-Pacific, area is fair to partly cloudy, winds predoninantly south at 15 knots, seas 5 feet, tenperatures in the upper 70's or low 80's. Here is some'more conversation.

This is Apollo Control Houston, 94 hours, 30 minutes into the flight. We are about to acquire through the Tananarive Station, and let's monitor this conversation. The call has not yet gone out, but I expect it to momentarily.

This is Apollo Control, Houston. That will wrap up the conversation by Tananarive, the morning news passed along at 94 hours, 36 ainutes into the flight.

This is Apollo Control Houston, 94 hours, 48 minutes into the flight. We're in contact with the crew by Carnarvon and they're getting an update. The flight plan for the next 1 hour shows just two items, unstow and set up TV, which should have already been done according to the flight plan. Then it has an item - TV on at 95:25, which is Texas acquisition. The LOS by Merritt Island is shown on our flight plan as 95:37, 95:37. Let's listen to the conversation." [Long pause]

Apollo Control Houston here. 95 hours even, and that wraps up the conversation from Australia. We expect to acquire via the good ship Huntsville at - let's check that 95 hours and 17 - 17 minutes from now. This is Apollo Control Houston.

This is Apollo Control Houston 95 hours 16 minutes into the flight, and we are getting some carrier noise on the circuit out through the Huntsville. It has not put in a call yet to Apollo 7 nor have they attempted to reach us. Meanwhile, the Huntsville has confirmed now and Apollo 7 has been told that we are standing by. We have not heard from them. The radiator test meanwhile, continues. It will run on, presently scheduled to run through the Huntsville, according to my flight plan here. Well, at least through Pretoria 96 hours. Meanwhile, let's monitor the circuit going out through the Huntsville.

That is capsule communicator Jack Swigert you are hearing right now. The other CapCom on the console is Gene Cernan.

In general, this morning we planned to ask the crew to give us a good look around the spacecraft and show us a little of their intravehicular activities, the movements, the ease of movements from here to there. We will watch and see what comes out.

This is Apollo Control Houston 95 hours 22 minutes into the flight. You have been listening to Jack Swigert update Walt Cunningham on the pass of the TV transmission and how we receive them here in the Control Center. The pass is to - we expect acquisition around 26, 27 minutes after the hour, that is of the television signal. Texas station should acquire 25 minutes, 95:25. And if we have an open circuit, we will just continue to monitor.

Apollo Control here. Of interest is the fact that Mrs. Eisele, the wife of the command module pilot is here in the Control Center this morning along with her parents. Harriet Bisele is from Gnadenhutten, Ohio.

This is Apollo Control at 95:24. The people who maintain the Center have put the - put two large screens available upon our data board so all the flight controllers can get a big look at the pictures. And at this point, we are beginning to see a little snow. It's 95:25, we are beginning to see a little snow as we did yesterday just prior to - the network just advised that he had a minor network problem with our station in Guaymas or we have covered it through the Goldstone, California station. It should not give us a problem on TV. We are seeing some snowy lines on the screen at this point. And Eisele has just put in a call "do you see anything yet? Texas now has the carrier locked up and now we're beginning to see a little something that's coming through. Here we go. Lets have a look. It's a little lighter than yesterday. Now it's cleared up.

And Eisele has just put in a call do we see anything yet on the TV and we do not. Texas now has the carrier locked up and now we're beginning to see a little something that's coming through. Here we go. Lets have a look. It's a little lighter than yesterday. Now it's cleared up.

You will notice Walt Cunningham reached out and recovered a pencil floating there. A very positive demonstration of weightlessness. Apollo Control Here." [Long pause]

This is Apollo Control Houston, 95 hours, 37 minutes into the flight and we brought the picture to an end. You can see the degradation as we moved out of the outer limits of the Merritt Island circle. We can thank Commander Wally Schirra for a tour of Apollo 7 cabin, and he held up a few signs with some questions on it, which were, I suppose, meant to elicit a certain answer. We did get some operational information on that pass, which was of interest here. He was trying to show us what the water condensation looked like on some of the machinery inside the cabin toward the end. You might have heard, the com was pretty rocky there, but you heard Jack Swigert confirm that we did understand he was trying to show us the water condensation. All in all, it was a very worthwhile pass. We should continue to hold lock here on out through the ship Vanguard for another 5 minutes. We'll keep the line open and monitored. There has been no conversation now for several minutes.

This is Apollo Control Houston, 95 hours, 44 minutes into the flight. We have lost signal through the ship Vanguard; we should acquire for a very peripheral pass through the Canary Islands. And meanwhile we are continuing with the radiator test; that's the main flight planned item.

This is Apollo Control, Houston; 95 hours, 52 minutes into the flight. We had a very brief conversation with Apollo 7 by the Canary Islands and here is how that conversation went.

Am sorry; we do not have tape of it; it was simply a call up and an acknowledgement and that was that. My error. We expect to reacquire by Tananarive at 96 03 minutes after the hour, about 10 minutes from now. This is, on the TV pass, we clocked here in our tape facility, 11 minutes worth of television tape. Eleven minutes, which was 4 minutes more than we had yesterday. This is at 95 hours, 53 minutes; this is Apollo Control, Houston.