![]() ![]() As a result of the late launch time, the Translunar Injection, that's up through Translunar Injection, also slipped 2 hours, 40 minutes. ![]() Of course, launch occurred 2 hours, 40 minutes late at a Ground Elapsed Time of 11, - of a Central Standard Time rather, 11:33 pm. After 12 hours, the team came on about 3 hours prior to the scheduled launch time of 8:53 pm Central Standard Time. The White Team of flight controllers, headed by Gene Kranz, is in the process now of handing over to the team headed by Flight Director Pete Frank. I can probably - probably - well, not probably - I can make out the entire coast of Africa from - from Mediterranean around to the west, coming back to the south, back where it takes its big dip to the east, back around the Cape, back around up through the Suez Canal, almost perfectly.Ġ05:30:00 - This is Apollo Control at 5 hours, 30 minutes Ground Elapsed Time. ![]() And for the most part relatively clear of clouds except in the Antarctica region, and up towards Europe which is - which is on the horizon, across the Mediterranean, it looks like there might be some clouds back up in that way. The Indian Ocean out into the Pacific Ocean and back into the Atlantic Ocean. And, I don't know exactly how big Antarctica is, but I guess we can certainly see more than 50 per cent of it. Got Zanzibar on the southern tip of Africa, the Cape down there just almost directly below us. I catch a glimpse of Australia out on the far horizon. We can see the Sinai we can see up into the Mediterranean we can see across the Mediterranean, although we can't quite make out the countries up there we can see across into India. It's covering the - oh, the upper third - upper and western third of the - of the world. 005:23:09 Cernan: We've got a - I guess probably the continent of Africa dominates the world right now. ![]()
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