Apollo 14

This is Apollo Control, 149 hours, 23 minutes Ground Elapsed Time. 2 minutes, 54 seconds until Acquisition of Signal assuming a nominal Trans-Earth Injection burn which should have taken place at 149:16 Ground Elapsed Time, approximately 8 minutes ago. At the time of the burn the Command Service Module of Apollo 14 weighed 34,720 pounds. The burn itself consumed more than 10,000 pounds of SPS propellants which brought the gross weight down to 24,646 pounds. That divides out to about 68 pounds per second of propellant going out through the 20,000-pound thrust SPS engine. The latest impact figures from the Flight Dynamics Officer for the Lunar Module ascent stage Antares, 3.420 south latitude, line 19.667 west longitude At a Ground Elapsed Time of 148 hours, 22 minutes, 25.4 seconds as the Antares struck the surface the communications engineer here in Mission Control commented that the LM's high gain antenna was sending out high bit rate data right up to the last. Back to the propellant used in the Trans-Earth Injection burn, after the 10,000 pounds is used in this burn, which is the second largest burn required of this engine, in a lunar mission, there's 1,600 pounds of propellant left which is adequate for weather avoidance trans-Earth mid-course corrections. We're still about 39 seconds away from acquisition. We'll bring t - up the line a few moments before we have confirmation of AOS. 7 seconds Let's open the circuit and listen to the air to ground. We've had AOS.

This is Apollo Control. At the present time, the crew of Apollo 14 is making photographs of the lunar surface using 500 millimeter lens on the hand-held Hasselblad cameras Apparently, the lunar topographic camera which was planned for some high resolution photography on the going away portion here from the Moon...

Apollo 14 velocity now 7,462 feet per second, 482 nautical miles above the surface of the Moon and continuing to increase as the trajectory loops out away from the Moon in a slingshot effect.

The high resolution photography with the Hycon camera apparently has been scrubbed because of the malfunction of this camera. This was scheduled at 150 hours 30 minutes and would have yielded some of the highest resolution photography thus far of the lunar surface.

This is Apollo Control. Gold Team Flight Dynamics Officer, Bill Stoval, has passed on to the Flight Director an estimate of the present trajectory. The vacuum perigee at Earth on the present path of this Trans-Earth Injection burn would be 74 nautical miles.

This is Apollo Control at 149 hours 59 minutes Ground Elapsed Time. Apollo 14 homeward bound, now 9,801 nautical miles out from the Moon. Velocity coming toward Earth is 6,022 feet per second. Still up live on air-to-ground until the crew goes to sleep for the night. This is Apollo Control.

This is Apollo Control. Stu Roosa only one with a headset on aboard the spacecraft, is presently setting up the spacecraft in the barbeque roll or passive thermal control as it's called in preparation for going to sleep for the night. Present altitude above the Moon 6,746 nautical miles, velocity 4,806 feet per second. We're going to leave the line up until the crew does sign off for the evening. At 151 hours 39 minutes standing by this is Apollo Control.

This is Apollo Control. 152 hours 12 minutes Ground Elapsed Time. Apollo 14 now showing a height above the Moon of 8,149 nautical miles, velocity 4,673 feet per second. The crew presently is eating, and after they're through with their meal they will call the Mission Control Center here for the last minute preparations before the sleep period, which may be extended to about 163 hours elapsed time. They will establish the PTC, passive thermal control or barbeque roll for the night. And, until they sack out we'll leave the line up at 152 12. This is Apollo Control.