Apollo 7

This is Apollo Control, Houston. We've been watching the biomedical values as the Apollo 7 sails overhead, and we're getting biomedical on Walt Cunningham. We're showing right now a heart rate of 68, there it switched to 67 beats per minute, and all other quantities look quite normal. He is apparently moving around. We've seen a variation in the heart of about 10 beats per minute. He must be moving around the cabin a little bit. The cabin itself is still holding at 5.1, cabin temperature a very steady 68 degrees.

This is Apollo Control, Houston, 168 hours, 23 minutes and that will wrap up the communications of the stateside pass. We'll be up in Ascension in a few minutes.

This is Apollo Control, 168 hours, 39 minutes into the flight. At Ascension, we simply had a callup and identification, no comments. That will probably be Tananarive in about 3 or 4 minutes. We want to alert you to the fact that at 45 minutes after the hour this morning, 3 minutes from now, we will be showing through the Houston News Center, the tape of yesterday's television pass. The tape of yesterday's television pass, it's been run through our machine, it's the original tape recorded at the station. It is quite cleaned up and it is well worth seeing. We heartily recommend it to you. At 168 hours, 40 minutes into the flight, this is Apollo Control, Houston.

This is Apollo Control, Houston, 169 hours, 1 minute into the flight and some 5 minutes ago at ground elapsed time 168 hours, 56 minutes, we have experienced a rather massive loss of circuits throughout our world net including the Goddard - the terminus - the hub of this data network which is Greenbelt, Maryland, the Goddard Space Flight Center. At first we thought the loss was confined to our high speed data circuits, since then the network flight controllers confirm that we've lost all our data circuits. We do have a good voice communications circuit, however, of course, to all stations and to the spacecraft and we'll operate with it. The effect of this is we'll only be able to read data when the spacecraft is overhead. We'll keep you advised as to the progress, we expect it's probably only a momentary dropout. We'll give you a status report on it as soon as it's available. We're in touch with the spacecraft over Carnarvon, let's listen to the conversation.

This is Apollo Control, Houston. The spacecraft control system attitude test is continuing and we've been advised that we've had partial restoration of service on our data network. It is not yet fully up, but we have one or two circuits that have been restored to use. We'll keep you advised. Here's more conversation through Carnarvon.

And that wraps up the conversation by Carnarvon. We'll acquire Guam in 4 minutes. Apollo Control, Houston.

Apollo Control here, 169 hours, 17 minutes into the flight. We are talking to the crew by Guam and we will cut in on that conversation in just a minute. First, I want to make clear that all data circuits have been restored. We advised earlier that we lost our data circuits - our ground data circuits at elapsed time of 168, 56 minutes. Within about 15 minutes, all circuits had been restored. And much of that 15 minute outage was due to the testing on the alternate routing circuits that were brought up when we lost - when we had the data dropout. The trouble has been traced immediately to three major system failures in the Kansas area. It's no better defined than that, but apparently in the Kansas area there were three major failures in a very short period of time about 40 or 50 circuits, and those are circuits other than the NASA circuits, were involved. Alternate readings are available for all those circuits and they were routed very quickly. As I say, to recap, we have full restoration of our data circuits now, and we are in touch with the spacecraft by Guam.

Apollo Control here, 169 hours, 28 minutes and we're in touch via Hawaii.

Apollo Control here. The Network controller just advised the Flight Director we are back 99 percent full coverage now on our data and our voice line.

This is Apollo Control, Houston here 169 hours, 51 minutes. Schirra's last transmission has triggered a little discussion here in the Control Center about this brown fluid as he described it, at the connection point or at the neck of the - leading into the water container. It was described also earlier in the day on the swing shift very similarly to the description we just heard. Our best guess is that it is an oxidized lubricant from somewhere, and apparently the person making this diagnosis of oxidized lubricant has more specific information on it because they're also sure it's non-toxic. In other words it wouldn't make any difference, any physical difference to the water, although apparently it's none too appetizing looking. The main question in the minds here is why don't the crew simply wipe the brown stain away. It's doubtful that we'll get any more comm through Antigua. The surgeon just advised that we did not have, to the best we know, there was no similar occurrence during our chamber test here in Houston called 2-TV1, which is a long term run of the command module in our big vacuum chamber. This will trigger a lot of checks and cross checks I'm sure throughout the center here and the contract plant in California. At 169 hours, 53 minutes into the flight, this is Apollo Control, Houston.

This is Apollo Control, Houston, 170 hours, 11 minutes into the flight. A few minutes ago before we left the Antigua area of acquisition the crew came back up and made some additional comments on this brown fluid, which occupied the later part of that pass. Here's that conversation and then we will bridge right into the Ascension acquisition.

The flight directors advise we may get some comments on the cold soak tests as we pass through Tananarive. I think we'll probably determin by the quality of the communications circuit through that station today. We're standing by. This is Apollo Control. We don't expect any communication via Tananarive, so we'll take the line down now.

This is Apollo Control at 170 hours, 48 minutes into the flight. We are about to acquire through Guam but one additional word on that power outage which now has been,- or the data outage we recorded earlier. At that time it was indicated the trouble was somewhere in the middle west, Kansas was mentioned on the loop. The network flight controller has tracked it some more, and the trouble was traced to a place called Pinsboro, West Virginia, a major outage in a large carrier and routing immediate - immediate re-routing had to take place and it takes some minutes to test out and validate the alternate circuits to be used. Don Eisele is well into his sleep period and we are now in touch with the spacecraft by Guam.

Apollo Control here. Watching this data coming in from Guam, you heard Walt Cunningham acknowledge that he was reassured that we were showing a heartbeat for him - and the heartbeat is about 68, the mean heart rate is about 68.

And that will wrap up the communication by Guam at 170 hours, 57 minutes.

This is Apollo Control, Houston, 171 hours, 05 minutes into the flight. Momentarily we should acquire through Hawaii. There goes the first call.

The flight plan indicates the crew should be now powering down the guidance and navigation system, they'll also power down the spacecraft into the control system, stabilization and control system. The next item at 171 hours and 30 minutes calls for a purge - an oxygen purge of the fuel cells. We're going through the noisy area of the ship Huntsville at this point. Guaymas should pick up momentarily. And the guidance and navigation order happily reports that we're ten feet above our red line in the quad area on propellant. Let's listen some more as we move down off the west coast of Mexico through the Guaymas circle.

And that will wrap up the conversation for the Guaymas pass. At 171 hours, 20 minutes into the flight this is Apollo Control, Houston.

This is Apollo Control, Houston at 171 hours, 56 minutes. Tananarive should acquire momentarily and we will get an update for - a planned landing area update. No other activity is scheduled. Actually, that update may come later, during the Hawaiian crossing. More than likely, just a check in and a stand by call, as the spacecraft and the Control Center are sort of powering down after the day's work. We will keep the line open and see what develops.

Well, from all appearances, we are not going to put any calls into the spacecraft, so we will just take down the line. At 171 hours, 59 minutes, this is Apollo Control, Houston.

This is Apollo Control, at 172 hours, 22 minutes into the flight. By the ship Mercury, in the far west Pacific, we have just acquired the spacecraft.

This is Apollo control at 172 hours, 51 minutes and we'll bid good-bye to Apollo 7 for the afternoon.

This is Apollo Control at 173 hours, 09 minutes. We're still about 23 minutes from our next acquisition of the spacecraft at the Tananarive tracking station. At the present time here in the Mission Control Center we are in the midst of a change of shift. Flight Director Gene Kranz will be coming with his white team to replace Flight Director Glenn Lunney and the black team and we anticipate that Ron Evans will be coming on shortly as CapCom to replace Jack Swigert at 273 [should be 173] hours, 09 minutes. This is Apollo Control.

This is Apollo control at 174 hours, 08 minutes into the mission, during our press briefing the spacecraft completed two passes, one over the Tananarive station and we've just completed a pass over the tracking ship Mercury. We had no communications with the spacecraft over Tananarive, we put in a call to the crew and stood by, there was no conversation there, there was a brief bit of conversation over the Mercury and we passed up some information to Wally Schirra on reconnecting some biomedical instrumentation leads which probably have come undone and we'll play the Mercury pass back for you now in its entirety.

That is all the communication we had with the crew over the tracking ship Mercury we'll be acquiring again at Hawaii in about 5 minutes. This is Apollo Control at 174 hours, 12 minutes into the flight.

This is Apollo Control at 174 hours, 16 minutes. We' re standing by for CAPCOM Ron Evans to put in a call to the crew over Hawaii.

This is Mission Control. During that pass, as you heard, we checked out the biomedical information from Walt Cunningham's sensors, and apparently are still not getting good data here in Mission Control. The medic reports that the data looked kind of erratic, and we'll check it again on our next pass, which will be over Ascension. At 174 hours, 23 minutes, this is Apollo Control.

This is Mission Control Houston. We have put in a call to the crew over Ascension. Let's listen in for that conversation.

This is Apollo Control at 175 hours, 05 minutes and apparently we are not going to have any communications with the crew over Ascension. We're scheduled to acquire at Tananarive in about 5 minutes. We'll come back up for that pass.

This is Apollo control at 175 hours, 12 minutes, we're standing by to acquire the spacecraft over Tananarive.

This is Apollo control. The spacecraft will be going out of range of the Tananarive station shortly and we had somewhat garbled communication along that pass of the spacecraft relatively low on the horizon and it seemed from the tracking antennas at Tananarive, we'll be picking them up again at the Mercury in about 19 minutes from now. Within the - the next 15 or 20 minutes Wally Schirra and Walt Cunninghan are scheduled to begin their sleep periods and command module pilot Donn Eisele is scheduled to be ending his. This is Apollo control at 175 hours, 16 minutes.

This is Apollo control at 175 hours, 34 minutes, the spacecraft now approaching the tracking ship Mercury, in the western Pacific, we should be hearing from command module pilot, Donn Eisele shortly. Donn is scheduled to end an eight hour sleep period at this time. We'll stand by for that call to the crew.

And with that we appear to have lost communcations with Apollo 7, we're scheduled to reacquire the spacecraft in about 23 minutes over the tracking ship Redstone in the south Pacific. You heard Donn Eisele report on the status of the crew at the present time continuing to keep up on the water intake and the lunar module pilot Walt Cunningham and Wally Schirra, commander have apparently changed into their back up pairs of constant wear garments or Wally called them him back up up backs. This is Apollo control at 175 hours, 42 minutes.

This is Apollo Control at 176 hours, and 6 minutes into the mission. We're preparing to contact the spacecraft at this time over the tracking Ship Redstone in the South Pacific. Over that - over our last pass over the tracking ship Mercury telemetry information showed that our orbit has presently 245.1 nautical miles for a high point with a perigee of 89.8 nautical miles. We'll listen now as CAPCOM, Ron Evans, prepares to put in a call to the crew.

This is Mission Control, Houston at 176 hours, 31 minutes. Apollo 7 is just entering darkness now and coming up on the tracking station at Ascension.

This is Mission Control. We've lost contact, now, with the spacecraft over Ascension. A relatively long pass that time accounted for by the fact Apollo 7 is at it's, or near it's apogee of 240 nautical miles at this point. The next station to acquire will be the tracking ship Mercury, and we'll pick up there in about 28 minutes. The thank you that you heard passed up from the Control Center to Donn Eisele from the medics here, was in response to his successful repair of his biomedical instrumentation leads. We are now getting a good electrocardiogram data on Donn here in the control center. At 176 hours, 43 minutes, this is Apollo Control.

This is Apollo Control at 177 hours, 10 minutes. We've just acquired the spacecraft over the tracking ship Mercury. We'll listen for the call.

This is Mission Control, We're about on the fringe of coverage from the Mercury. However, we do have overlapping coverage from Guam on this pass, and we'll continue to monitor.

This is Apollo Control at 177 hours, 22 minutes, and we've had loss of signal with the spacecraft from Guam.

This is Mission Control, Houston at 177 hours, 40 minutes into the flight of Apollo 7. The mission is progressing very well, almost without incident at this time. Wally Schirra, and Walter Cunningham began their scheduled 8 hours sleep periods about two hours ago. In the meantime we have been maintaining contact with the spacecraft through our tracking sites with Command Module Pilot, Donn Eisele. Donn ended his 8 hours sleep period about the same time his two fellow crewmen began theirs. Apollo 7 is currently in orbit with a high point of about 243 nautical miles, and a low point of about 90 nautical miles. Following that very successful burn earlier today with the 21,000 pound thrust spacecraft Service Propulsion System engine. The SPS engine is scheduled to be ignited three more times including a burn to bring the spacecraft back to Earth Tuesday. At present time Apollo 7 spacecraft is approaching acquisition over the Redstone in the South Pacific. We'll stand by for CAPCOM Ron Evans to put in a call to Eisele.

This is Apollo Control at 177 hours, 51 minutes and we've just had loss of signal from the spacecraft over the Redstone. As you heard that time, Donn Eisele confirmed CAPCOM Ron Evans' suspicion that he was doing his exercises at this time. That was indicated by the biomedical scope here in the Control Center, now showing Donn's heart rate going up somewhat. Eisele joked the other night that the only time he had a chance to use the inflight exerciser was when his two fellow crewmen were asleep. We'll be picking up the spacecraft again over Ascension. Acquisition there is scheduled at 178 hours, 7 minutes, or about 17 minutes from now. This is Apollo Control, Houston.

This is Apollo control at 178 hours, 08 minutes, we have acquired the spacecraft now over Ascension. Now let's listen in.

This is mission control, Houston, the spacecraft has now gone out of range of the tracking station at Ascension. Eisele was advised during that pass that his wife, Harriet, was here in mission control center observing the progress of the flight. We'll be acquiring the spacecraft again in about 26 minutes as it passes over the tracking ship Mercury.

This is Mission Control Center, Houston at 178 hours, 46 minutes and we have just acquired the Apollo 7 spacecraft over the tracking ship Mercury, and we'll be putting in a call shortly to the spacecraft.

This is mission control, the spacecraft is now going out of range of the station at Guam, during that pass over the tracking ship Mercury and on out over Guam, we had Eisele pawller up the command module computer briefly to bring the computer up to date with the lastest orbital information. The computer has now been pawllered back down. We'll be coming up on the Redstone in about 18 minutes from now at 178 hours, 58 minutes into the flight, this is Apollo contro}.

We'll regain contact with the spacecraft in about 18 minutes so over Ascension, that will be a relatively low elevation pass with the spacecraft passing well to the north of the tracking station. At 179 hours, 27 minutes, this is Apollo Control.

This is Apollo Control at 179 hours, 44 minutes the spacecraft at this time is coming up on the tracking station at Ascension completing a night side pass. We just received indication that we have acquired from Ascension. We'll stand by for that call.

This is Mission Control we've lost acquistion now from Ascension but because of the fact that the spacecraft is in a higher orbit and at the present time is near apogee of 240 nautical miles we have overlapping coverage from the Canary Islands. We'll continue to stand by.

This is Apollo Control at 180 hours, 29 minutes. The spacecraft is presently coming within range of the station at Guam. This will be low elevation pass and relatively brief. At the present time, Wally Schirra and Walt Cunningham are about 5 hours into their scheduled 8 hours sleep period. And the spacecraf, is midway through day side pass. We've just put in a call to Donn Eisele onboard the spacecraft. We'll stand by for any conversation.

This is Mission Control. We have lost the signal of the spacecraft now from Guam. And we'll be reacquiring over the tracking ship Redstone in about 20 minutes from now. As you heard Cap Com Ron Evans attempted to pass up to Donn Eisele onboard the spacecraft an updated time on the television pass for tomorrow. He said we would be doing it one revolution earlier. According to our first calculations that would put it at about 7:15 tomorrow morning. We will update that time and refine a little more as necessary. At 180 hours, 32 minutes, this is Apollo Control.

This is Apollo control at 180 hours, 52 minutes into the mission, we'll have acquisition of the spacecraft over the tracking ship Redstone shortly, we'll stand by for Capcom Ron Evans to put in a call to the crew.

This is Mission Control the spacecraft is now going out of range Of the tracking ship Redstone. We'll be reacquiring at the Canary site in about 20 minutes. During that pass we passed an update to Eisele on a television pass for tomorrow of the new time for acquisition at the Corpus Christi site and the beginning of the television transmission from the spacecraft is now 189 hours, 4 minutes ground elapsed time and we compute that to be about 7:07 AM, Houston time tomorrow. Eisele also advised that the signal conditioner power supply in his biomedical harness was apparently heating up, he said he had taken it off and stowed it. At 181 hours, 4 minutes into the flight this is Apollo Control.

This is Apollo Control; 181 hours, 23 minutes into the mission of Apollo 7. We're anticipating acquisition at Canary Islands in a very few seconds; let's listen in.

This is Apollo Control; 181 hours, 32 minutes into the mission of Apollo 7. Our next acquisition point will be Redstone tracking ship at 182 hours, 27 minutes. This is Apollo Control.

This is Apollo Control; 182 hours, 44 minutes into the mission of Apollo 7. We're on our 116th revolution, we have a tape from, correction we're ending our 115th revolution, we have a tape from the last pass at the Redstone tracking ship which we'll roll now. Shortly after that we'll be at Antigua acquisition and we'll go live for that. So, let's hear the tape.

This is Apollo Control; 185 hours, 47 minutes into the mission, we should have acquisition at Antigua very shortly, we'll stand by.

This is Apollo Control; 182 hours, 56 minutes into the mission. We've lost acquisition at Antigua we're now anticipating contact at Canary Islands at 59, 181:59. This is Apollo Control.

This is Apollo Control; 182 hours, 59 minutes into the mission of Apollo 7. We are at the point of acquistion of Canary Islands. Let's listen in.

This is Apollo Control; 183 hours, 07 minutes into the mission of Apollo 7. We have just lost acquisition at Canary Islands. They are checking comunications apprently with the Madrid station - through the Madrid station. After that we will have a dry spell until we have contact at Carnarvon at I - maybe 3:36. At 183:08, this is Apollo Control.

This is Apollo Control; 183 hours, 36 minutes into the mission of Apollo 7. We're approaching Carnarvon now in Australia, we should have acquisition any second; let's stand by.

This is Apollo Control; 183 hours, 42 minutes into the mission of Apollo 7. We've lost acquisition at Carnarvon, there is only a little less than a minute and one-half to wait for the pass at Honeysuckle Creek, we'll stand by.

This is Apollo control 183 hours, 51 minutes into the mission of Apollo 7. We have lost acquisition at Honeysuckle Creek in Australia. We're anticipating the Redstone tracking ship acquistion at 184 hours, 4 minutes. At 183:52, this is Apollo Control.

This is Apollo Control; 184 hours, 04 minutes into the mission of Apollo 7. We're approaching the time of acquisition at the Redstone tracking ship; we'll stand by.

This is Apollo Control; 184 hours, 14 minutes into the mission of Apollo 7. We've lost contact with the Redstone tracking ship. We had some conversation on the ECS environmental control system, coolant loop test, which it was indicated from CapCom Pogue continues good. Then there was some biomedical harness conversation and Pogue was passing up instructions to them to wrap tape around the leads for two inches from the connect point and Astronaut Schirra indicated that they've gone far enough with those kluges, that Eisele had a hot signal condition and they've reached the bitter end at that point. He also said they'd done all they could do to make it work and since Eisele had a breakage and Schirra had a breakage, that was it. At 184:15, this is Apollo Control.

This is Apollo Control, 184 hours, 22 minutes into the mission of Apollo 7. We're approaching acquisition point at Merritt Island, Florida in a few seconds and that will carry us through Merritt Island, Antigua, and Bermuda stations. Then we'll have a couple of minutes about 3 minutes between LOS signal at Bermuda and the acquisition at Canary Islands. So this will be a relatively long pass. Let's listen in.

This is Apollo Control at 184 hours, 33 minutes into the mission. We will acquire Canary Islands at 184 hours, 35 minutes into the mission.

This is Apollo Control, 184 hours, 44 minutes into the mission of Apollo 7. During that pass, spacecraft commander Schirra indicated the problem for the day was as far as he was concerned was that he was very worried about the colds the crew has and the possibility of rupturing eardrums. And they were seriously considering reentering when the time comes in shirt sleeve mode. He also indicated that even if they did reenter in shirt sleeves, they could still wear their life vests. It was passed up to him that what to be done in that situation was still being considered here on the ground. CAPCOM Pogue indicated that - the ground will power up some equipment at 186 hours, 40 minutes. All the crew has to do on Apollo 7 is power up the SCS (Stabilization and Control System). Schirra indicated there is another small crack in the mission timer glass and he noticed that after the SPS burn this morning, the number five burn. So that makes a total of two cracks in that glass which is incidental but he reported it as a matter of interest. At 184 hours, 45 minutes into the mission of Apollo 7, this is Apollo Control.

This is Apollo Control; 185 hours, 10 minutes into the mission of Apollo 7. We're coming up on Carnarvon, let's stand by.

This is Apollo Control at 185 hours, 28 minutes into the mission. We are losing acquisition at Honeysuckle Creek in Australia. Our next point of contact will be Texas at 185 hours, 53 minutes. At 185:28, this is Apollo Control.

This is Apollo Control; 185 hours, 53 minutes into the mission of Apollo 7. We now have Texas acquisition; let's stand by.

This is Apollo Control; 186 hours, 08 minutes into the mission of Apollo 7. We anticipate Canary Islands at 186 hours, 11 minutes. During this last pass we also passed up a GO to the spacecraft for 135 dash one which means 134 orbits. At 186:08, we'll stand by now for the Canary Island pass.

This is Apollo Control, 186 hours, 18 minutes into the mission of Apollo 7. We've just lost acquisition at the Canary Islands Tracking Station. And we're anticipating the next contact to be Canarvon, Australia at 186:45. It's currently 186:18 into the mission. During the Texas pass, we had a GO for revolution 134. At 186:19, this is Apollo Control.

Australia (noises)

This is Apollo Control; 187 hours, 04 minutes into the mission of Apollo 7. We're losing acquisition at Honeysuckle in Australia. Our next point of contact will be Guaymas, Mexico at 187 hours, 25 minutes, correction, our next contact will be the Huntsville tracking ship at 187 hours, 21 minutes. Then we will have continuous acqulsition with the spacecraft for some 22 minutes through Bermuda and at 187 hours and 04 minutes, this is Apollo Control.

This is Apollo Control, 187 hours, 21 minutes into the mission of Apollo 7. We're coming up on the Huntsville Tracking Ship now. We should have acquisition in about 10 seconds. Let's standby.

This is Apollo Control, 187 hours, 43 minutes into the mission of Apollo 7. During that pass we heard Apollo 7 Commander Schirra indicating they are not having much luck with their sleep cycles. Schirra so said he wanted to talk about a probable probable shirt sleeve reentry and that he would talk on the next shift, meaning the next shift here in the Control Center which comes on at seven o'clock in the morning Central Daylight Time. Schirra wondered about the television and asked if it was carried live and Cap Com Pogue indicated, "Yes it was". Schirra then asked, "How does the picture turn out?", Pogue said, "Fine". Then there was some talk on the ECS environmental control system secondary coolant loop which is still performing excellently in the test that has been going on for several hours of that loop. It was also indicated that they'd like to use the crew optical alinement sight instead of the sextant in the IMU inertial measuring unit backup alinement which will take place later on in the mission today. We have acquisition at the Canary Islands coming up at 187 hours, 47 minaltes some two minutes from now, a little more than two minutes from now, we'll just stand by for that pass.

This is Apollo Control; 187 hours, 53 minutes into the mission of Apollo 7. We're now leaving Canary Islands acquisition on 119th revolution. We will be coming up at Tananarive at 188 hours and 06 minutes. This is the revolution where on the stateside pass coming over the United States, we will have a television dump. They will set up the TV, should'be setting it up at 188 hours into the mission, they will turn the TV on at 189 hours and 02 minutes into the mission, the TV pass will be 189 hours, 04 minutes through 189 hours, 15 minutes. The pass should start at approximately 7:10 this morning Central Daylight Time. At 187 hours, 54 minutes, this is Apollo Control.

This is Apollo Control, 188 hours, 6 minutes into the mission o Apollo 7. We're coming up now at acquisition time at Tannanarive, let's listen in.

This is Apollo Control; 188 hours, 14 minutes into the mission of Apollo 7. We've just lost acquisition at Tannanarive. Our next contact point will be Carnarvon, Australia at 188 hours, 21 minutes. At 188:14 this is ApollO Control.

This is Apollo 7 Control, 188:22. We have Carnarvon now.

This is Apollo Control, 188 hours, 38 minutes into the mission of Apollo 7. We are coming up on revolution 119 during which Stateside pass we will have live television from the spacecraft. We would like to go back now and do a wrap up from 181 hours into the mission up to now. Everything was quiet up to 182 hours, correct that, 183 hours, 36 minutes. The spacecraft started on an environmental control system secondary coolant loop test, which was in the flight plan. It looked good and it has remained on from that time on and continues to look good up to this time. At revolution 116, 184 hours into the mission, astronaut Cunningham was talking about the biomed harness check. They have had a certain amount of difficulty with biomedical readouts here at the control center through the mission. Astronaut Pogue, the CapCom, indicated that the instructions were from the medics here to wrap tape around the leads for about 2 inches from the connect point. Astronaut Schirra, spacecraft commander, then indicated that he felt that they had gone far enough with the kluges, which means "make-shift" changes. He indicated that Eisele had a hot signal condition, and he indicated that they had reached the bitter end. They have done all they can do to make the biomedical harness work, and he said Eisele had a breakage and Schirra had a breakage, and he was a little concerned about continuing the onboard fixing of that particular system. At 184 hours into the mission astronaut Schirra indicated that the problem for the day, in his opinion, was that they were very worried about colds and the possibility of rupturing eardrums on reentry. They were seriously considering reentering in shirt sleeves, and he also indicated that even if they did, they can still wear life vests, in case they had to get out of the spacecraft in the water. We had a unified S-band communication test, which was a back-up test and very successful. Schirra indicated that there was another small crack in the mission timer glass, the viewing glass. They noticed that after the SPS, the service propulsion system no. 5 burn, which took place yesterday. So there are a total of two cracks in the glass at this time. At 185 hours, 53 minutes we got a GO for revolution 135-1, which means through 134 revolutions of the Earth. For the spacecraft, all the systems were satisfactory. The coolant loop test continued to go in good shape. There were good fuel cell current readouts here at MCC. At 186 hours and revolution 118, the unified S-band back-up test took place satisfactorily. At 186 hours, 45 minutes, Apollo 7 indicated that they had taken one frame of photography of the Sharks Bay in the Carnarvon area and one frame of a town about 60 miles south of Carnarvon that they could not identify. Revolution 118, 187 hours, 25 minutes, astronaut Schirra indicated that they were not having much luck with their sleep cycles. He said he wanted to talk about a probable shirt sleeve reentry and that he would talk about it on the next shift, which means the next shift here in the control center, which will take place in the next 10 to 15 minutes. Schirra asked a question, "If television was carried live down here on Earth?", and astronaut Pogue answered, "Yes". Schirra asked, "How does the picture turn out?", and Pogue said, "Fine". At that time the secondary coolant loop still performing excellently, as it has, as I said, all through the test. It was passed up to the crew that they would like to have the crew optical alignment sight used instead of the sextant for the initial measuring backup alignment test, which is scheduled a few hours from now. They went through a communications checklist and a relay node test, which turned out satisfactorily. On revolution 119, which is the current revolution, 188 hours, 21 minutes into the flight, astronaut Pogue indicated that if it was at all possible on the television pass, we would like to have window views over Texas. At that time the crew indicated that it was likely not possible because of movement of the spacecraft. Apollo 7 also indicated that they were not quite sure which category they should go up for, whether it should be a weeklong series or a special category. The current schedule for the TV is as follows: they have set up the television at 188 hours into the mission, the television will be turned on at 189 hours and 2 minutes, the television pass should last from 189 hours, 4 minutes through 189 hours, 15 minutes. At 188 hours, 45 minutes into the flight, coming up completing revolution 119 this is Apollo Control.

This is Apollo Control; 188 hours, 50 minutes into the flight of Apollo 7. We're coming up on a stateside pass, we should have Hawaii tracking station acquisition in a very few seconds. We'll then remain live through the stateside pass until we lose acquisition off the Florida coast. Let's join in on the conversation.