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(Going to the MESA on the left) How are you fixed for (garbled), there? Here's your two weigh bags that go in the ETB. Either that, or else put that in the weigh bag, and take this up with it.ġ35:18:56 Mitchell: Okay, I'm getting you a bag for it (out of the MESA).ġ35:18:58 Shepard: Okay, we'll use that one, then.

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We need the Plus Z-27 bag, right?ġ35:18:46 Shepard: (At the MET on the left) Yeah. Second Camera Motion 135:18:41 Mitchell: (At the MESA on the right) All right.

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135:16:39 Mitchell: Your feet are about to get tangled up in the TV cable again. In the TV view, the cable passes the MET on the left.įirst Camera Motion 135:16:26 Mitchell: (At the MET, on the right) We didn't get anything in that magnetic sample container, did we?ġ35:16:29 Shepard: (At the MET, on the left) No, we did not. The MET is near the MESA but a few meters closer to the camera.

Probably because Ed did almost all of his work on the ladder side of the MESA and MET, he doesn't not appear to have snagged the TV cable during this part of the mission. Not surprisingly, at the time of each of these camera motions Al was moving away from the camera. A review of the available recordings show camera motions large enough to disturb the recorded image occuring at about 135:16:34, 135:19:06, 135:22:20, 135:22:56, and 135:24:38. The cable pulls and camera motions discussed here all occurred after about 135:01:56 when Al aimed the TV at the MESA so Houston could watch the close-out. In either case, some sideways motions in the TV image might also occur, depending on the orientation of the tripod legs. Fixed objects would appear to move up in the TV view.

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In instances where the cable was free of the legs with little or no excess cable between the MESA and the camera, a cable pull would tend to pull the camera toward the spacecraft, causing it to rock forward over the tripod legs. That would result in the fixed objects in the field-of-view - such as the tip of the S-band antenna - appearing to move down.

In instances where the cable caught on the tripod legs, the legs would necessarily move at least a little toward the LM and the camera would tend to rock back. Conjectural configuration of the TV cableĪfter all the excess cable had been tugged toward the MESA. The fact that there was loops of cable at the camera when it was deployed means that unintentional cable pulls would not have resulted in camera motion unless (1) the loops caught on the tripod legs and moved them or (2) enough cable was cumulatively dragged toward the LM in successive pulls that the excess was taken up and that the cable ended up in a configuration something like that indicated in Figure 3.įig. A comparison of the Hasselblad pan images, the TV record, and AS14-66-9341, a photo Ed took out is window after EVA-2 indicate that, other than some minor repositioning during re-aiming, the crew did not move the camera away from the spot where Al deployed it early in EVA-1.įig. As indicated by the loops of cable, Al did not deploy the camera as far from the LM as the cable would have allowed. There are some loops of cable draped on the tripod legs and, from there, the cable can be followed out of the field-of-view to the left toward the MESA. Detail from AS14-66-9241.Īs can be seen in the figure, the TV cable was attached to the back of the camera and was hanging more or less straight down, with a bulky cable connector about halfway down. An analysis of this sequence of cable tugs suggests that, cumulatively, they put the camera and cable in a much more vulnerable configuration than would have otherwise been the case.īefore detailing specific instances camera motions due to cable snags, let us consider the configuration of the camera and its cable.įigure 1 is a detail from the 4 o'clock Hasselblad pan Al took early in the first EVA soon after 114:53:34. As indicated below, this was at least the fifth instance during the close-out that the camera moved as a result of Al snagging the TV cable with his boot. As Al moved toward the ladder, his foot caught under the TV cable and pulled it enough that the camera tipped forward and fell to the ground. Al Shepard was walking toward the ladder from the MESA with the rockbox, which he would hand to Ed once Ed was up on one of the lower rungs and had had a chance to stomp his boots to clean some of the dust off his legs. Wall mount pulley tower.Apollo 14 TV Cable Pulls Last revised 15 April 2007.Īt about 135:24:38, late in the Apollo 14 EVA-2 close-out, Ed Mitchell was about to head up the ladder.