John Young [enters Ken Mattingly's hotel room]
Ken? Ken.
John Young Good, you're not dead. I've been trying to get in touch with you for 45 minutes.
Jesus, John. What're you doing here?
John Young I gotta get you in the simulators. We got a ship to land.
John Young There's been an explosion. Oxygen tanks are gone, two fuel cells gone, command module's shut down.
John Young Crew's fine so far, trying to keep 'em alive in the L.E.M. We're gonna have to shut that down pretty soon too. We got a lot of people working on numbers on this one, Ken, and nobody's too sure how much power we're gonna have when we hit re-entry. The command module's gonna be frozen up pretty good by then.
You see this ammeter rise over twenty at any point, power-up is no good. We see it spike, that's sayonara for the guidance computer, our guys can't re-enter, okay?
ST Sim Tech
How much power do we have to play with?
Barely enough to run this coffeepot for 9 hours.
ST Sim Tech 2
[over headset]
John?
ST Sim Tech 2
Yeah, Ken Mattingly just got here.
John Young They've been losing heat since the accident. They're gonna start getting a lot of water condensation on the control panels.
Ken. Glad you're here. You know what's going on?
Uh, John's brought me up speed. What do we have left in the batteries?
We gotta get started on some short cuts for the power-up.
Yeah. You know how short?
Well, it's all in the sequencing, John. If we can skip whatever we don't absolutely need, and turn things on in the right order, maybe...
You started on a procedure?
Well, the engineers have tried but, I mean, it's your ship, we gotta get you in there.
Okay. Frank. I need the sim cold and dark. Give me the exact same conditions they've got in there now and I need the present status of every instrument.
I need a flashlight. [Frank hands him a regular flashlight] That's not what they have up there. Don't give me anything they don't have onboard.
John Young Let's get this show on the road. Put him in space, fellas.
Look, I know this sequence works, John.
The sequence looks good, we're just overbudget on the amperage.
Goddammit, John! Is is three or four?
John Young Four.
Four more amps... [thinking] We know they have some power left in the L.E.M. batteries, right?
We have an umbilical that provides power from the command module to the L.E.M.
John Young Right, it's back-up for the L.E.M. power supply.
So... reverse it. Reverse the flow and see if we can draw these four amps from the L.E.M. batteries before we cut it loose. Why can't we do that?
We don't have a procedure for that, do we?
John Young You're gonna lose a lot in the transfer, Ken.
Yeah, yeah. But all we're talking about here is four amps.
