Mattingly: There is one thing to say about Mission Rules. Why do we publish a Mission Rules document one week before launch?
Young: That makes you nervous, huh?
Mattingly: I couldnÂ’t believe that I had a change to the Mission Rules on my desk dated a week before flight. All those mission technique books that come out of MPAD come out with dates within two weeks of launch, and itÂ’s absolutely impossible to read them.
Young: I was looking through my desk and I saw a bunch of questions posed by the Flight Operations Division, dated the l4th of April, like - what weÂ’re going to do on battery management for the ascent and descent.
Mattingly: When the CPCB says, okay, itÂ’s time to quit making changes, thatÂ’s fine. But it doesnÂ’t stop people from making changes. There were a lot of changes that I saw. A good example was on how to check the batteries on the sequential thing if you have to cut the Apex cover disconnect. WeÂ’d run into this on the simulator. They had been hashing it over and finally they came up with what they would do. So they wrote it down and proposed it. Gary got hold of it and said no, itÂ’s too late. We canÂ’t submit changes this late. But in fact, had the situation occurred, thatÂ’s what we would have done in real time. I felt a little uncomfortable knowing that there were some things which the flight control world had researched, and agreed that thatÂ’s what they would really do if the situation came up. We had stopped that flow if information. I donÂ’t know how you get around it, except to be aware that that kind of a problem can happen. You need to maintain a verbal communication on those sort of things.
Slayton: ThatÂ’s exactly what weÂ’re suppose to have here.
Mattingly: I think everyone has to be aware that it happens that way. IÂ’d get sane little tidbit of data that didnÂ’t come through the system. It was obtained only because you just happened to be talking to them.
Slayton: We had better try to close that loop up. Hopefully most of it isnÂ’t all that important.
Mattingly: I hope thatÂ’s the kind of stuff it is.
Spacecraft Changes — I think that Dave Ballard kept us pretty well informed. I think we were well advised as to what those were.
Procedures Changes — we didn’t have any to amount to anything. We didn’t change any in the LM that I know of.
Duke: Not until we launch.