Apollo 17 Transcript, 1972

Text

This text came with the file. It may have mistakes. When the text and the image disagree, the image is right.

Tape 46/4
02 18 4111
CDR
CMP
02 18 41 59
CMP
CDR
cc
02 18 42 34
CDR
CC
CDR
CC
CDR
CMP
CC
Okay.
Is that it? Yes, I can get that, Gene.
Okay, you want to take a picture of it first?
Okay, POWER ... Okay, stand by.
3, 2, 1 ­
MARK it.
POWER switch OFF.
Say, Bob or Stu.
Roger.
Go ahead.
Okay, add - to ad to today.
Not last night, but ­
I guess the first night I was in bed - I definitely
saw some of these - because I had a hard time going
to bed, to start with - I saw some of the same
peripheral horizon-type things you said were not
the type of data you were looking for; but I also
saw a - some sets of the streaks.
And probably
the one most imposing thing I remember is -
and the
last one I remember before falling asleep - was
the fact that there was a very bright spot that
flashed right between my eyes like a very bright
headlight - like a train coming at you, only with
a flash.
It's difficult probably to estimate the
frequency of any of those because I was in a ­
sort of a sleep-hazy mode.
Roger.
But then, as today, I saw some that flashed and
lit up the horizon and some that lit up peripher­
ally; and I guess, as you say, that's a different
kind of data, but I did see them there and they
impressed me.
Okay.
We got all that, Gene.
Okay.
And it might be interesting to know I've never
seen it before today.
Hey, Gene, we appreciate all the data.
We were
just trying to make the data fit the curve; you
know the old trick.