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And we're not sure whether it spilled a fair amount of water or just the little small puddle that we have here on the floor of the LM. Have you noticed any significant decrease in water supply?
Allen: Dave and Jim, this is Houston. Our data shows no leakage of water at all. We suspect that the little puddle you see on the floor is about all the water that's dripped out there.
130:32:01 Parker: Rog. We noticed over the last half hour or so, a 25-pound drop in the water quantity. We're wondering if you guys have been doing something. Know anything about that you could clue us in on?
130:32:16 Scott: Rog. We just recharged both PLSSs.
130:32:19 Parker: Rog. Was that in the last hour and a half?
130:32:24 Scott: Rog. Just in about the last, oh, 30, 40 minutes.
130:54:45 Parker: And one last comment to give you a good night's sleep. That little water leak you guys saw when you came in the cabin this afternoon. Right now, our plots are showing that as 25 pounds (about ten liters). Do you guys care to make any comments about the size of the leak, or anything more about that?
130:55:04 Scott: My! No, except that, when we got in, that little plastic connector on the - yeah - on the bacteria filter was broken and there was water running out of it.
130:55:22 Parker: Roger; understand. More or less a steady stream?
[In a 1996 letter, Dave noted that no one, he and Jim included, seems to have asked where the 25 pounds of water went.]
[The LM water tanks were loaded with a total of 496 pounds at the start of the mission. Planned usage was 391 pounds, with the remainder constituting a reserve. Actual usage will be 419 pounds. The estimated 25-pound loss due to the leak is a significant fraction of the 105 pound reserve, but not enough to cause cancellation of EVA-3.]
Originally posted by Phage
Timeline:
^^^^^
At 127:52 the water leak was reported.
^^^^^
Later, more than two hours after the leak had been stopped by removing the filter
130:32:01 Parker: Rog. We noticed over the last half hour or so, a 25-pound drop in the water quantity. We're wondering if you guys have been doing something.
Apparently see something highly significant here. Something that indicates Apollo 15 was a hoax? I don't, I see a probable misunderstanding of no real consequence. Do you think the water leak was just a show and they messed up? What's the point? Why bother?
Then we disconnected the filter; that stopped the leak.
127:52:48 Scott: The bacteria filter that's on the water gun, at some stage in the process today, got broken. It only has a plastic connector on it, rather than a metal connector, and the plastic connector chipped, and it started leaking. And we don't know exactly when that happened. We found it when we were unsuiting to get a drink. And we're not sure whether it spilled a fair amount of water or just the little small puddle that we have here on the floor of the LM. Have you noticed any significant decrease in water supply?
127:53:26 Allen: Stand by, Dave.
127:53:31 Scott: Okay. (Long Pause) And, of course, Joe, the bacteria filter is no longer usable, if anybody is worried about that. We're not, particularly.
Originally posted by Phage
reply to post by bokonon2010
Houston inquired about water usage at 130:32. More than two hours after the report of the leak.
To answer your questions.
1) The leak was stopped by disconnecting the bacteria filter.
2) Any liquid water would have vaporized when the LM was depressurized for the next EVA.
history.nasa.gov...
128:19:10 Irwin: Yeah.
[Worden has hot-water to use in preparing his meals, a luxury the LM crews have to do without.]
history.nasa.gov...
138:05:16 Fullerton: Okay. If you find any water back there, we have some suggested procedures to clean it up, and we'd like to do that before depressurization.
138:05:33 Scott: Rog. Will do.
[Long Comm Break]
[Scott - "If we had a problem, they should have awakened us early, to take care of the problem...if you want to stay on the timeline. Cause, if you ever get behind, you get behinder. You know, the old saying, 'Get ahead and stay ahead.'"]
[Jones - "Otherwise, you might lose the North Complex or something."]
[The reason for cleaning up the water prior to depressurization is to prevent sublimation in the vacuum which would not only cool the cabin but might also lead to ice formation on the hatch seal and/or various cabin systems. Indeed, the fact that there is, indeed, a considerable amount of liquid water behind the engine cover suggests that the bacteria filter was broken at the end of the EVA and that much of the leakage occurred after repressurization.]
138:10:56 Scott: Hello, Houston; Falcon. Yes, we do have a little puddle of water back behind the engine cover.
[If none of the 25 pounds of water had sublimated, the puddle would contain a bit over 11 liters. As can be inferred from the quantity of water involved - and Dave's statement during the post-flight Technical Debrief - Dave's "little puddle" is undoubtedly an understatement.]
[Scott, from the 1971 Technical Debrief - "Sure enough, there was a great big puddle back there."]
Originally posted by weedwhacker
reply to post by bokonon2010
The proper SPELLING is AstroNAUTs.
The only people I ever see spelling that word the way you do are the Apollo "hoaxists" and "hoax" believers who post on YouTube.
But, of course, earlier you said you don't subscribe to the Apollo "hoax" 'theories'??
How can you reconcile this discrepancy??
Originally posted by Phage
reply to post by bokonon2010
Wonderful. More information. But they did tell us how they stopped the leak (by removing the filter).
Now will you please just get to the point of all this? Will you just tell us what the big deal about the leaky bacteria filter is?
ps. I'm glad we didn't have TV reception issues in 1969 like the ones we have during todays spacewalks in 2010. That would have been a nuisance. Maybe they could source some of the old technology to fix today's issue huh?
Originally posted by ppk55
For some reason I think we've been led to believe everything in space, especially the apollo missions should be in slow motion.
ps. I'm glad we didn't have TV reception issues in 1969 like the ones we have during todays spacewalks in 2010.
Originally posted by www.honeysucklecreek.net
John Saxon writes,
It may seem strange, but Apollo support sites were not required to keep a formal log. Usually particular times were reported to Houston as they happened, or when the action was completed. Some times were reported in post-pass Teletype messages.
At Honeysuckle we did try to maintain an overall log of mission events as we observed them. And the operating position on the right hand side of the main station Operations console got lumbered with the job.
This position was also required to monitor anything up to 6 or 7 voice loops simultaneously, and respond as required. Also, there were two 25 key CAMs (Computer Address Matrix) used to control some aspects of the Command and Telemetry Computers (send commands to the Spacecraft if data communications were lost between the site and Houston, etc.), operated by this position. So keeping a written log as well, was sometimes difficult.
No DJW, look at it yourself. Stop being so lazy
From NASA lunar surface journal
[The checklist calls for Al to mount one of the 70 mm cameras on the bracket on the front of his chest-mounted RCU. This will leave his hands free for other tasks. When he needs to take a picture, all he needs to do is squeeze a trigger on the handle which is also attached to the bracket.]
So now I must ask again, how can the lens flare and 'sun' of the below images be identical