Apollo 14

Stu aboard Kitty Hawk reported visual sighting of Antares at a GET of 114 hours 48 minutes.

This sighting occurred while in program 24, a computer program for landmark tracking. We're at 116 hours 37 minutes. 2 hours 18 minutes since cabin depress.

Kitty Hawk accomplished her plane change by the book. Now circling the Moon on the 19 rev.

Meanwhile all alone in Kitty Hawk, Stu Roosa...

Stu Roosa performed plane - plane change number 1 right on schedule - with a Delta-V of 370.5 feet per second, a burn time of 18.45 feet per second, this is done in a Ground Elapsed Time of 118 hours and 9 minutes, 35 seconds.

Kitty Hawk now in an orbit of 62.1 nautical miles by 57.6 nautical miles. And this Apollo Control, Houston at 119 hours 13 minutes.

This is Apollo Control, Houston. At 119 hours, 59 minutes we've completed the shift handover in Mission Control. Flight Director Milton Windler and his maroon team of flight controllers are now on. Capsule Communicator on this shift is Astronaut Gordon Fullerton. There will be a change of shift briefing shortly in the MSC News Center, main auditorium. At the present time, Flight Director Windler is reviewing the mission status with each of his flight controllers - going around the room checking status and also discussing the lunar lift off which will occur on this shift tomorrow. We're about one minute fifteen seconds from reacquiring the Command Module on its 20th revolution and al: this time we expect that crewmen on both spacecraft are in the midst of an eat period prior to beginning their scheduled rest periods. We'll stand by for acquisition of Kitty Hawk now in about 45 seconds.

This is Apollo Control at 120 hours,15 minutes. We're ready now for the change of shift press briefing in the MSC News Center auditorium. We'll switch to that at this time.

This is Apollo Control, Houston. At 119 hours, 59 minutes we've completed the shift handover in Mission Control. Flight Director Milton Windler and his Maroon team of flight controllers are now on. Capsule Communicator on this shift is Astronaut Gordon Fullerton. There will be a change of shift briefing shortly in the MSC News Center, main auditorium. At the present time, Flight Director Windler is reviewing the mission status with each of his flight controllers - going around the room checking status and also discussing the lunar lift off which will occur on this shift tomorrow. We're about one minute fifteen seconds from reacquiring the Command Module on its 20th revolution and al: this time we expect that crewmen on both spacecraft are in the midst of an eat period prior to beginning their scheduled rest periods. We'll stand by for acquisition of Kitty Hawk now in about 45 seconds.

This is Apollo Control at 120 hours 40 minutes. During the change of shift briefings we have conversations going on with both the Lunar Module, Antares, and with Stu Roosa, in Kitty Hawk. We have tape recorded on the conversations with Antares and we'll be prepared to play that back. The conversations with Stu Roosa primarily concern the Hi Con camera. Capcom, Ken Mattingly, who is handling the CSM side of the capcom duties advised Roosa that tests on the ground indicate that the hicon camera may in fact be getting usable pictures and we asked Roosa to attempt to verify that the shutter is operating. This would add to the feeling of confidence that perhaps the Hycon camera is operating properly. And Roosa was advised to operate the camera and to attempt to look down toward the aperture with a flash light and see if he could verify that the shutters were operating. If he can verify this, the plan at this time would be to use the Hycon camera, the lunar photographic camera at the next opportunity to photograph the potential landing site at Descartes, which would be on the 25th and 26th revolutions. Roosa is finishing up a meal period, and as soon as he has completed with that, he's scheduled to enter a sleep period. We're in conversation with the Lunar Module at tile present time. We'll pick up with tape recorded communications and then stand by to follow live.

This is Apollo Control at 120 hours, 54 minutes. We've bid Stu Roosa good night. The Communication's Officer reports that he's turned his comm off in the spacecraft. He's scheduled to have a 9½ rest period and we wouldn't expect to hear from him until that rest period is completed. The Science Briefing on EVA one which had been scheduled for 4:00 PM in the MSC News Center Auditorium has been cancelled. Dr. David W. Strangway, Chief of the Geophysics Branch at the Manned Spacecraft Center will be available at 7:00 PM central standard time in the MSC News Center main auditorium to answer questions concerning EVA-one. And at the present time we show Kitty Hawk in an orbit 61.8 by 57.7 nautical miles. Spacecraft current altitude is 58.5 and the velocity is 53 53. We'll be losing contact with Kitty Hawk in a little over 17 minutes as the spacecraft goes behind the Moon on it's 20th revolution. We'll continue to stand by for any calls from the crew aboard Antares on the lunar surface. At 120 hours, 56 minutes, this is Apollo Control Houston, standing by.

This is Apollo Control at 121 hours and 13 minutes and Kitty Hawk has just gone around the corner on it's 20th revolution of the Moon. When next we reacquire the spacecraft, we would expect Stu Roosa to be asleep. He turned off his communications midway through this revolution at about 120 hours, 45 minutes and we did not hear further from him on the frontside pass. We'll continue to stand by for any communications with the Lunar Module, Antares. In a previous conversation with the crew on Antares, CapCom Gordon Fullerton queriedthem as to how there checklists were going and what looked like a good time to begin the post EVA debriefing and according to our figures here that would probably occur at about 122 hours, Ground Elapsed Time.