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105:09:09 Duke: (Chuckling) That's a sad feeling, Jim, to watch that thing go over. (Long Pause)
[Duke - "What John's saying here with 'Do you really want to do this, Houston?' is that we were going to lose our platform. We were going to power down the guidance and navigation system; and this parking it - or powering it down - put it into gimbal lock. It just took all the three axis-gyros and aligned them all, so it put them into gimbal lock. And, when you're in gimbal lock, you usually lose your attitude and it was sort of always a creeping fear in the back of your mind that: 'man, why do I want to put this thing into gimbal lock? Suppose it doesn't come out.' So that's what John was getting at. 'You really want to do this Houston!?' That was the mode he said it in. 'Yeah, go ahead' And, when we did the procedure (laughing), it did it! It really worked."]
[Duke, from the 1972 Technical Debrief - "I highly recommend the procedure that we used for parking that platform in gimbal lock. We parked that beauty for 71 hours, and we didn't even had a PIPA (Pulsed Integrating Pendulous Accelerometer) bias or gyro update (when they powered it up for launch). It just worked like a champ."]
[Jones - "And then down here a couple of lines at 105:09:09, you said, 'that's a sad feeling, Jim, to watch that thing go over'"]
[Duke - "It looks like it's just dying (Charlie makes a falling-airplane noise), you know, going into gimbal lock."]
[Interested readers can find a discussion of gimbal lock in the Apollo 11 transcript at 104:59:35.]
105:09:55 Duke: And, Jim, (as per Surface Checklist page 1-3) the old ED Batts are hanging in there at 37 (volts) each.
105:09:58 Irwin: Okay. We copy, and I have a T-17 through T-21 when you're ready to copy.
105:10:06 Duke: Go ahead.