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171:43:23 Duke: Houston, Orion. Over. 171:43:25 England: Go ahead, Charlie. 171:43:30 Duke: Okay. We've got some weights for you, if you're ready to copy. 171:43:33 England: All set. 171:43:37 Duke: Okay. The BSLSS rock bag, the big rocks, will weigh 40 pounds; bag 7, SCB number 7, is 33; SCB number 4 is 25; SCB number 6 is 20. I get a total out of that of about 118 (pounds). Over. (Pause) 171:44:01 England: Okay, we concur. [Comm Break] 171:45:06 England: Okay. We're working those numbers over here. 171:49:52 England: Hey, fellows, you have 245 pounds of rocks. (Pause) That's not including the weights of the SRCs. 171:50:05 Young: Okay, has some got to go back? 171:50:09 England: No, I think we're going to be able to find a way. You got an in-plane launch, so things look pretty good. But we're working it here. 171:50:20 Slayton: (Joking) Probably have to throw that big one away, John. 171:50:39 Young: Okay. Well, we don't want to throw away any that don't need to be throwed away. That's for sure. ALSJ [They are over the planned limit for samples and, in principle, would be cutting into propellant margins if they kept them all. As Tony mentions, however, the Command Module orbit is perfectly lined up so that John and Charlie wouldn't have to apply any lateral thrust to achieve the rendezvous. Nonetheless, the fact that Houston is taking a long time to make a decision about the over-limit samples is indicative of the pragmatic conservatism that motivated most operational decisions in Apollo.] 171:56:25 Young: Roger. We're ready to tie up the jett bag. 171:56:28 England: Okay. We're still trying to get a decision on these rocks down here, if you could hold on one. 172:05:59 England: Okay, Orion. We're go with the rocks you've got. 172:06:07 Young: Outstanding. Thank you very much.
[Cernan - "Each pound mattered. I'm not saying that we would have thrown out a pound of rock. There were margins. But, weight translated into less Delta-V(elocity) and into fuel."]
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