Apollo 17 Transcript, 1972

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Tape 5/3
CC
Roger.
They look like fluid of some sort?
CMP
Not to me.
They look like pieces of something.
CC
Roger.
CMP
They're very bright.
CC
Jack, we'd like OMNI Charlie.
CMP
Bob, for the most part, these fragments are not -
or are tumbling at a very slow rate.
I tried a
couple of pictures of them - different settings.
You may get an idea of what, at least, the patterns
look like.
CC
Roger.
I've got you.
We're all ears on these frag­
ments.
Do you think you can figure out what they
might be?
CMP
Well, you know I -
I don't know.
There are a num­
ber of possibilities.
If you had some kind of a -
I got the impression maybe they were curved a little
bit, as if they might be - off the side of the
S-IVB.
And that's a wild guess
CDR
Okay.
RCS LOGIC is ... -
-
CMP
-
- ice chunks, possibly.
Or maybe there's paint
coming off of it.
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Roger.
I noticed on one trip up the elevator last
weak near one of the flags.
I thought it was on
the S-II, but it might have been on the S-IVB.
Looked like it was peeling.
Maybe that's what
you've got.
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And the S-IVB maneuver is complete.
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LMP
in 1 minute.
CDR
Okay.
We'll set the old clock.
CMP
Okay.
And the - with the maneuver complete, the
fragment field is essentially static, except for
very slight tumbling within the fragments.