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UNKNOWN: I understand. Roger. I just got the sextant and now looking and the weather man is right, it looks at Texas, like a pretty good day. Pull of clouds down there, but not bad.
CC: Real fine, Jim. Can you see the kids out in the yard waving?
UNKNOWN: Would you tell Pete Conrad to get his kids off my roof?
CC: Jim, do you see the bright spot out in the Pacific Ccean through the sextant? CMP I'11 try. We saw it, of course, through the windows and through the monocular. 1'11 see if I csn spot it.
CC: Roger. CD Yes, Jerry, I can see the bright spot. It's - I guess it's the subsolar point. It's off of it appears to me. It is a grayish South America, --_--__, spot compared to the blue waters surrounding it. It's undefined in diameter, though, I mean, it's not a clear round spot at all; it's just a raggedy one.
CC: Roger. That showed up real well on the TV's picture.
CC: ~pllo 8, Houston. We'd like to delay that request for a secondary loop check to a little better point as far as thrusting is concerned.
CDR: Fine. We can wait for a long time on that.
CC: Roger. Jim, we've got some bird watchers in the viewing room.
CMP: Bird watchers, huh?
CMP: Sounds good. Who are they?
CC: Marilyn.
UNKNOWN: well, good. Say hello to her for me.
CC: Yes, and she's got a few troops with her, too.
CMP: Did she see the TV, I wonder?
CC: Affirmative. Barbara and Jay are with her.
CMP: Good. ----- _, Apollo 8, Houston. We're replaying your trle- vision pictures now. We can see the Chilean coast and Florida.
CDR: Very good. That's a pretty good little television camera, isn't it?
CC: It sure is. With the right filters on it., it's great. That was a Schmitt input. He must be a Jack of all trades.
CC: Beautiful. CDR Houston, Apollo 8, cc Apollo Houston. Go. .Bill would like to ask the friendly Flight Surgeon's permission to take a Seconal so he can sleep. cc Roger. Copy. - Apollo Houston. That's a "yes."
CDR: Thank you. cc Apollo 8, Houston. CMP Go ahead. Before Bill falls asleep, we'd like to
CC: Roger. have him go ahead and do that secondary EVAP check now at any time at his convenience, and if we don't happen to be able to monitor it with high bit rate, just let us know when you : did it. __---, -- .--,. __ Tape
CMP: Roger. I'11 tell him that evaporator check at any time.
CC: Apollo 8, Houston. BIOMED switch to the CDR. Over. CMP Roger. In work. Page1
CC: Apollo 8, Houston. Go. Good afternoon, Jerry.
CC: Howdy.
LMP: Okay. Somebody said something about checking out the evaporator - evaporators. What do you want .io do?
CC: Roger. Before we get too far along, we'd like to see, essentially with the secondary evaporx- tor check, what we got on the redundant compo- nents check.
UNKNOWN: Stand by. ,
UNKNOWN: EECOM says to be sure and let it go for at least 5 minutes. Roger. Now you want to check out the primary or did you decide it's not evaporator also, necessary?
UNKNOWN: guess they decided it's not necessary, Bill. Secondary glycol loops coming on the line.
UNKNOWN: the secondary evap's coming on the line.
UNKNOWN: it's stabilized the leg, oh, for about 5 nin- utes. i .-- Page Houston, Apollo 8. cc Apollo 8, Houston. Go. cc Apollo Houston. Go.
LMP: What do you have in mind here in the way of activating the secondary loop prior to separation? It looks like if we do,have a cabin fan problem, we won't be able to do a full-blown coldsoak. Is there anything that we can do that'11 do good? any cc Veil, right now, Bill, in the checklist, we're shoving this activation at about minus 1 hour. Let me check with EECOM for R minute and see if they got any more words considering the cabin fan situation. IMP Roger. cc Apollo Houston. Looks like a good time. One hour before SEF' - entry interface would be fine.
LMP: Okay. It won't do any good, then, to fool around with these cabin temp valves. . . . cc Bill, stand by. You're - got a lot of background noise. cc Go ahead now, Bill. LMP Read me nou, Jerry? cc Loud and clear. LMP This coldsoak is built around the premise that you've got a cabin heat exchanger, in my I-- -.- 2 .I viev; and if you haven't got a cabin heat ex- changer, I'm wondering just what you can do. He's thinking. We think it'11 still do a
CC: A@10 8, Houston. little bit of good so we'd just as soon go through with it. Okay. Even bypassing the suit heat exchanger and that part of it too, huh?
LMP: Okay. cc Also, Bill, your secondary loop is looking good. LIMP We just had 5 minutes. I'11 deactivate it now. cc Roger. I.dw Houston, Apolio 8. Over. cc Apollo 8, Houston.
LMP: Hey, Jerry. when do you want to crank up .the VW, VRF Simplex - well, we had that on the
CC: Roger. minus 4 checklist f'cr about hours.
UNKNOWN: Okay. We wanted - we wanted to put it out prior to MAX range, don't you think? Get an idea of vhen ve're picking it up? cc They're talking about
UNKNOWN: Stand by, Bill. : . it. -.' ?;, . - -- ------. _ IS. .-
CC: Roger. Entry interface minus 4 hours is just about right for the VHF. That is about - oh, 142 GFII.
CC: !I!he next voice you hear will be that of the smil- ing Irishman.
UNKNOWN: Outstanding.
CC: Good morning, James.
UNKNOWN: Oh, it's Michael Collins, is it? Good'morning to you. out down here and looks to us like you are about degrees off the 180 for your PTC, and we were just vondering how come?
CMP: We've been looking at that, too. It keeps wander- ing off in pitch for some reason more than yaw. I was just about ready to go back to it again. I had to go back one time, and I was just seeing hov far she would drift. I thought it would drift out a ways and.come back by itself, but it is not doing it.
CC: -Okay.
CMP: We'11 get back there.
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CDR: Houston, Apollo 8. We're in the process of doing the trunnion bias check; then we will go to P23. Roger. mank you, Frank.
CDR: We like to have the PIG attitude to comply with P23 requirement.
CC: Roger, Frank. Stand by.
CDR: GO ahead. Any time you vart to start on those P23's is just fine.
CDR: Okay. I was just checking. I just wanted to know how our thermal control was going hcfore we left.
CC: Your temperatures are looking good,.Frank. There is still a differential temperature between quads, but nothing that vould cause us in the slightest to worry about doing P23.
CC: Apollo 8, Houston. Over. GO ahead. -~
CC: Roger, Jim. We've been looking at these stars that we gave you this time for P23. It looks : -_ i like tue second star, number 11, has a trunnion angle right out to the limit, about 49.7 degrees. And we're thinking it might be a good idea to switch you over to star 1, which has a much smal- ler trunnion angle. What do you think? Star 1 is Alpheratz.
CMP: Fine with me; I would just as soon take star 1.
CC: Okay. That will be then in place of star 11, star 1, and in place lunar far horizon, lunar cf aa it remains two sets. Over. near horizon;
UNKNOWN: Star 1, lunar near horizon, two sets.
CC: Apollo 8, Houston. Over. 8.
CDR: 00 shead, Houston. Apollo
CC: Roger. Fine. Old golden fingers there is get- ting so swift we missed some marks on the down- if you hand recorded them, link. I wonder - could you read us your three marks - trunnion angles, your three trunnion angles on star 2 and the last four trunnion angles on star 1. Over.
CDR: Do you read me still, Mike?
CC: Stsnd by. We'= not reading you good enough, so ve'11 uait until you get a better OMRI. That ought to be a good one. -.- __~ ----^_.. __ - -Y- -( ,.
UNKNOWN: is a g00a one.. That's loud and clear. cc
CDR: Okay. Star 2 trunnion angle, first one 05245, second one 05243, next one 05241; last 4 trun- nion angles 04133, 04133, 04132, 04132.
CC: Thank you kindly.
CDR: Can you give me some idea on the updates from the midcourse that we migh-c need, and all that good stuff, Mike?
CC: Yes, sure can, Frank. Stand by. Page1
CC: Apollo 8, Houston. Over. Go ahead, Mike.
CC: may- We're predicting at the nominal time of your next midcourse, which is entry interface mims 2 hours - we're predicting 1.4 foot per second burn vhich changes your gamma at entry Right now interface by a tenth of a degree. uith no further maneuvers, your gamma is minus 6.39degrees. aa we're going to steepen it up very slightly to hit the center of the and it will be after the maneuver target line, minus 6.51. over.
CDR: Very good. Anything else you want like that? we hadn't heard whether
CDR: I just wondered - NO. we were going to do it or not and so on. cc Roger. When we get the PAD data, we'11 get it all out here.
CC: Yes. We'11 be sending the PAD data up to you .in about another 2 hours, Frank; about 132 hours GET. Okay. We - this will be the last set of star sightings we do now nominally, and even if we lose CCMM, we'11 just come on in with what we got. cc Okay, Frank. ,-.-
CDR: Incidentally, that COMM has been fantastic. I don't knov how you've heard us, but boy, it's just like you are next door even in lunar dis- tances.
UNKNOWN: has really been great with rare excep- tions when you are on a bad OMRI right before you switch. Then we get an awful lot of back- ground noise, but in general, it has been excel- lent, and boy, we are really thankful for it because reading ail these updates would be baa news with bad CGMM, as you know.
UNKNOWN: you noticed the confidence the Captain has in his navigator?
CC: He hasn't called you Goldfinger yet.
UNKNOWN: He is disregarding anything I can do. NO. We're coming in anyway.
CC: I suspect he is right on that point.
CMP: Well, back to the drawing board.
CDR: As usual, we are all a little I've got pooped. Bill sleeping now, and then Jim and I will swap just as soon as we get through with these stars.
CC: Well, you're sounding real good, and you are doing good work.
CDR: Thank you. --. l Apollo 8, Rouston.
CDR: Co aheed, Houston. Apollo 8.
CC: Roger, Frank. If you get a chance to, we'd like for you to read us down your trunnion cali- bration number. missed that one on the down- We link, and we have an update for your passive thermal control attitude; Okay. The trunnion calibrations were all zeros. Thank you, end on page 2-104 the PTC
CC: Roger. attitudes should read zero pitch and 45 degrees yaw. Over. Zero pitch and $5 degrees at 2-104. And we'd like some PRD readings for
CC: Roger. those of you who are up and around. CDR Zero pitch, 45 yaw, it is? cc Roger. Thank you. I'm asking. I wasn't sure I copied it right.
CC: Yes. That's affirmative, Frank. Zero pitch, 45 degrees yaw. CDR m PRD now reads 2.85. 2.85. Radio check. Over.
UNKNOWN: This is 8. Loud and clear. How us? to get your PRD reading while we've got you up and a flight plan change we're suggesting on page 2-107 when'you're ready to copy. -. --.- ._ . --i-- , ._“. .i._ .I ,... . ~ . _ Roger. Stand by.
UNKNOWN: the only person up, and my PRD is reading 0.15.
CC: Roger. I understand; 0.15.
UNKNOWN: I'11 bet that Bill's is still reading 0.64.
CC: That's okay; don't bother him with it. He's asleep. a4P Co ahead with your flight plan change. afP Go ahead with your flight
UNKNOWN: Apollo 8. plan change. cc Okay,Jim. Cn page 2-107, we're recommending that you delete that P52 and just-stay in PTC Your platform is real good, and we attitude. don't feel that alignment's necessary. One is coming up again at 139 hours anyway. And also, M that same page, we'd like to delete the begin cabin cold ~oak.~ Over. soak,” and we'11 delete the P52. cc Okay. 'Ibank you.
CC: Roger, Apollo 8. This is Houston. Over.
UNKNOWN: Mike. Are you still planning to send up these updates at 132 hours?
CC: Yes; affirmative, Jim. We're getting them together now.
CC: Apollo 8, this is Eouston. Would you please go to POO and ACCEPT, Jim, and we'11 send you a p27.
CMP: We're ready for you.
CC: Okay. Sending up a state vector to IM slot.
UNKNOWN: Go ahead, Ho&on.
CC: Roger, Jim. You can go back to BLOCK; we got the P27 in and verified. It was a state vector and I'm standing by for update to the LM slot, the midcourse correction number 7 and the entry PAD at your convenience. Over.
CMP: Roger. Stand by.
UNKNOWN: ahead with midcourse number 7.
CC: Okay. Midcourse correction number 7, RCS/G&N: 31600, not applicable, not applicable, 14445 5793, minus 00014, plus five zeros, p lus 00001. A-e you with me so far? Over.
UNKNOWN: With you. A-* --.-. ./
UNKNOWN: 000 304 000, not applicable, 000 191 00014 004 00014 450 - -
UNKNOWN: Hey, Mike, hold it. Hold it, Mike.
CC: Okay. Holding.
UNKNOWN: said not applicable for HA and HP; I startej. to copy it down, and then I didn't get the right number sequence. Did you skip down to what, VT:
UNKNOWN: Let's go back to apogee is not applicable, and then I started reading the numbers just again. From there, I've got a perigee and then a DELTA-VT and then a burn time and so forth. Over.
UNKNOWN: I didn't hear a plus or minus on the HP. and I only got four numbers off of it. So could you start with HP again?
CC: Going back to apogee, not applicable; perigee, plus 00191. And you weren't hearing things; it was my mistake. Over. Roger.
CC: Picking up with DELTA-VT 00014 004 00014 up 45 0459 225, Shaula, 236 000, 0813 plus minus 16503 12202 36301. 146 4641; north set of stars, Sirius and Rigel, roll 308, pitch 209, yaw 357; remarks: perigee in P30 equals plus 22.2 nautical miles. Over. -
CMP: Roger. Midcourse number 7 RCS/G&N: 31600, not applicable, not applicable, 14445 5799. Are you with me?
CC: 1% with you.
CMP: Minus 00014, plus all zeros, p lus 00001 000 304 000, not applicable, plus 00191 00014 004 OOOl4 45 0459 225 Shaula, up 236 000, plus 0813, minus 16503 12202 36301 146 4641, Sirius, Rigel, 308 209 357, HP, and P30 is 22.2 nautical miles.
CC: That's all carrect, Jim, and I have the entry PAD at your convenience.
CMP: Roger. Stand by one.
CMP: Ready to copy. Mike. cc Okay. Entry PAD: area mid-Pacific, 357 152 359 146 29 13 268, pm 0813, minus 16503 068 36221 651 12202 36301 146 46 13 0028, not applicable four times, in other words, DL MAX, DL MIN, VI, MAX, and VL MIN - all not applicable. 400 0207 0025 0333 0816 16 Starting with TO: 0590 312. And your vortex star is Zeta Persei, which is half way between Mirfak and Aldebaran, up 165, right 34 up. Remarks: use nonexit EX pattern. Over.
UNKNOWN: Mike. Stand by.
CMP: Entry as follows: mid-Pacific, 357 152 359 146 2913 268, @US 0813, minus 165 03 068 36221 -. Tape a7 651 12202 36301 146 4613 0028, NA 4 times, vith TO 400 0207 0025 0333 0816 16 0590 312, Zeta Persei, up 165, right 31i, up. And remarks: use nonexit EMS pattern. And Zeta Persei is between Mirfak and Aldebaran, and Frank can never find it anyway.
CC: Okay. That's all correct.
UNKNOWN: We certainly don't waste much time getting down to drogue deploy, do we? - that's true.
CC: Roger. That's
CC: Apollo 8, Iiouston. Over.
UNKNOWN: Go ahead, Houston. Roger, Jim. In your computer, we'd like to do an erasable memory dump again, like we did the other day, and the reason we'd like to do it is, vhen you did that I?37 about 8 hours ago, and you remember you put that EI time for TIG and got that POO do thing; we'd like to - We don't think there's anything in the world wrong with it. We think everything is just perfect inside the computer, but we'd like to do an erasable dump as ue did the other day; go through it bit by bit. Give us something to do down here. . Over. ace Okay. Any time. -i-
CC: And I have the procedures for you when you're ready to copy.
CC: okay. VERB 01 NOUN 01 ENTER, 333.ENTER, and then read out register 1, and that register 1 should be 10 000. And then if it's not, I can give you procedures for getting it to 10 000. If it is 10 000 as we expect, then VERB 74 ENTER, and that will do the dump. Over. Roger. When do you want it?
CC: And, Apollo 8, you do the first part of can that now at your convenience to verify that register 1 is reading 10 000, but would you hold up on the dump itself until we get our ground stations configured, please. Over.
CMP: Will do. CC Jim, we're getting noisy down here. Could you switch OMNI antennas, please?
CC: That works pretty well, doesn't it? cm Not bad. I was amazed at the communication at the moon, too. We're configured for the
CC: Apollo 8, Houston. dump. VERB 74 ENTF.R at your convenience. Roger. Apollo 8, Houston. The dump is complete, and it's your computer. Thank you. Tape a7 cm Roger. IMP
UNKNOWN: Apollo 8. Over. cc
CC: Apollo 8, this is Houston. Over. IMP Good morning, Mike. We had a little change of the guard here. cc
UNKNOWN: sound real bright eyed and bushy tailed. HOWLS it going up there? IMP
UNKNOWN: great. cc
UNKNOWN: Houston. How about giving us a count- ~~0110 down to PRD reading. Over? IMP Just mine? cc We got the other two while
UNKNOWN: on you, Bill. you were sacked out.
LMP: The one that I have now, and the one that Jim took off, which is obviously broken, it's still at 0.64. cc
CC: Roger, Bill. On your PTC attitude, we're re- questing a pitch angle zero, and we're showing you about 2i' degrees pitch and increasing. Over. Lw
UNKNOWN: I've been trying to work it down to ENTER again, cc
UNKNOWN: letting you drive, after all? LMP
UNKNOWN: have to every now and then just to square this thing away. status here Page before 7 the rest of them go to sleep; had about 3 hours sleep, another meal, and everybody's doing fine. m
CC: Roger, Bill. Thank you. - , APOLCO 8 AIR-Y&GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION Page1 cc Apollo 8, Houston. Radio check. Over. LM!? Loud and clear. cc
UNKNOWN: Thanks, Bill. cc
CC: Apollo 8, Houston. Over. cc 8, this is Houston. Over. - Apollo cc Over.
UNKNOWN: 8, this is t-:>;;tcn. lx?
UNKNOWN: Mike. How do you read?
CC: I read you loud and clear not, Bill. i w.w-n't hearing here for a couple of calls. Row do you read me? Im
UNKNOWN: my hands full; I was putting something aown. I read you fine.
CC: Okay. Understand. If it'11 be any help to you in your PTC driving, we've computed that as you look out plus X in the COAS or just out the win- dow, you should be pointed right at Acrux when you're in a perfect PTC attitude. We don't know if that's a help to you or not, but ue thought you might enjoy trying an alternate mode of keep ing the attitude under control.
UNKNOWN: Okay. From my present position, we're going to have to move Acrux a little bit. cc We just thought yod
UNKNOWN: whatever you think. might appreciate knowing. LMi
UNKNOWN: give it a try, Mike.
CC: Can you see it all right?
LMP: Yes, I think so. There's a star out there any- way.
LMP: Houston, Apollo 8. Do you read?
CC: Go ahead, Bill.
LMP: Actually, Mike, it's so easy to do it with the eight-ball within a reasonable sloppy limit that it's hardly worth the trouble to scootch way up in the seat to look out the COAS, sr,d it's enough light in the cockpit where the star really isn't too easy to see. So I'm kind of inclined to use the 'IFB technique here where you can see the rest of the instrument panel.
CC: Ql=Y. I thought you were an all-weather pilot.
CC: Well now, you just caused Flight down here to get a nGot Yan on CAP COMM and FAO.
UNKNOWN: Give you a little yarning next time. - ., Apollo 8, Houston. Could you give us a better 0MN1, please? antennas in 3 minutes. You can expect a COMM glitch. Over.
LMP: Okay, Mike.
CC: Apollo 8, Houston. Can you switch us to OSEU'I Charlie, please.
UNKNOWN: De nada.
UNKNOWN: Houston, Apollo 8. Are you still there? cc Apollo 8, this is Houston. Co ahead. Over.
LMP: I was just seeing if you were still there, The Old Grey Eagle is taking over the Mike. show from here. Which one of them?
UNKNOWN: Old Super Chief.
UNKNOWN: Go ahead, Houston. cc Roger, Bill. We had an erasable memory dump a few hours back. I think it was while you vere asleep, but anyway we've checked the com- puter's erasable memory bit by bit, and every- thing agrees 100 percent. Over. Mighty iine. Glad to hear it, Mike. Thank you.
LMP: I t -.
CC: Roger. Are you going to brief Frank on your tape recorder before you go to sleep? it. It's to complicated.
UNKNOWN: He can't handle
CC: Apollo 8, Houston. Give us a different OMNI, .,plea.se.
CC: 'Ihank you, sir. : ‘- i-
CC: Apollo 8, Houston. Orer.
CC: Over.
UNKNOWN: 8, this is Houston.
CDR: Go ahead, Michael.
CC: Roger. We are going to switch our ground anten- nas in about a minute and a half. You can expect a COMM glitch then.
CDR: . . . . Mike. Apollo 8, this is Houston through Carnarvon. Were you calling a minute ago, Frank?
UNKNOWN: in Australia, do you hear us?
CC: Yes, we are-reading you loud and clear new. Carnarvon, how do you read? Apollo 8.
CC: Apollo 8, this is Houston. Reading you loud and clear through Carnarvon. CDR Hello, Houston. Go ahead, Frank. We are just listening to all the guys around the RET.
CC: Can ycu hear them? CDR I could that time, all the way from Carnarvon to Texas.
CDR: How did they ever get an old maintenance officer on the midnight shift?
CC: Frank, you are on GOSS Conference if you would like to be brave. Over.
CC: Apollo 8, Houston. OMNI Bravo, please.
CC: Thank you, sir. Houston, Apollo 8.
CDR: Rave you noticed how long I've stayed locked in this FTC mode?
CC: Just about an hour and a quarter looks to us like, Frank.
CDR: I haven't even touched the hand control here for about 20 minutes, and it just hasn't moved out- side that zero; I've never see it like this be- fore.
UNKNOWN: sure and have your troops give me a call if it gets close to gimbal lock, will you? I'm snoozing a little bit now and then up here.
CC: Yes, we sure will, Frank.
CDR: And if you'd switch the antennas, you'd really be good guys. Page1 Apollo
CC: 8, Houston. cc Apollo 8, this is Houston. Over.
CC: Roger.. Just a check on the radio, and if it's practical, BIOMED switch left, please. LIMP Okay, Mike. We had a crew change in the watch again.
CC: Well, that was quick. Did you decide you didn't rant to sleep after all?
LMP: Well, it wasn't my decision.
CC: Yes, that's what I figured.
CC: Apollo 8, Houston. We will be changing antennas in about 2-l/2 minutes; you can expect a COMM glitch.
LMP: Roger. What are you changing to? We're switching from Carnarvon to Honeysuckle, Bill.
LMP: Roger. Apollo 8, Houston. Over.
CC: Roger, Apollo 8. Ycur Green Team will be signing off in a few minutes, and beEore we do, Charlesworth and the rest of us would like to say we have enjoyed it and look forward to seeing you back in Houston. Over.
UNKNOWN: have sure enjoyed it, too, troops, and you guys have really done a good job. We really do Fsge 2 Well, nice words there. We will be seeing you, Bill.
UNKNOWN: Mike. We will see you, Buddy. Tell old Cliff adios for me, too. Sure will. Apollo 8, Houston.
UNKNOWN: 8, we'd like to have you, before you get in a P52 going here, we'd like to have you sear:? the optics and read us the mechauicai CDli’s. We're trying to collect a little data for trm;bfe- shooting .
LMP: Roger. Stand by.
LMP: What's the trouble you are trying to troubleshoot? cc This goes back to some of the problems we had prior to MI; trying to see if the softwear readouts we're getting down here compare with the mechanical readouts. It's not a current problem as far as we know. IMP Okay. cc Apollo 8, Houston. IMP
UNKNOWN: ahead, Houston. cc
UNKNOWN: Why don't you just read me the mechanical CDU's there now, and then it looks From the ground like you're clear to go ahead with the P52. -.. ---. - --
LMP: Okay. We'11 get the navigator squared away here in just a minute.
UNKNOWN: morning, Captain.
UNKNOWN: This will be a piece of stew out of a deep sleep. Okay, stand by one.
CMP: Trunnion mechanical CDU looks like it's reading about l/100.
CMP: And the shaft mechanical CDU looks like it is reading about h/l00 below zero, which would be about 364. Yes.
CC: Understand, Jim. That is h/100 below zero on that shaft; is that affirm?
UNKNOWN: Stand by one. About 35996 on the shaft. cc You can go ahead with P52 now.
UNKNOWN: I always said he did better in his sleep.
CC: Apollo 8, Houston. Go ahead, Houston.
CC: Okay. It looks like we're getting down on the service module RCS to the place where we ought to go ahead and activate the secondary service module RCS propellant.
LMP: Okay. Stand by.
CC: Apollo 8, Houston. i ___ - Page
CC: Okay. We've got a new FTC attitude. For the pitch 180, and the yaw 315. 315.
UNKNOWN: Roger. Yaw
CC: Roger. And pitch 180.
UNKNOWN: Ckay. Can't you pick one a little‘further away?
CC: Rot in our normal sphere.
UNKNOWN: Ken, this is Jim.
UNKNOWN: we still a little high on the quantity side to activate the secondary?
CC: Regative. We have quad Bravo and quad Delta which are getting right down, according to the calculated numbers, next to where we ought to be activating them. The numbers you are reading are going to be a little bit high, but.the computer data on the ground shows that you have about 134 pounds in Bravo and Delta, and about 130 pounds is where you ought to be on the secondary.
CMP: Okay. Roger. We will activate the secondary and turn off the primary.
CC: It's just to keep you from running one of them up. --' 4, __ .i _. .
UNKNOWN: Secondary activation. Roger. . Page 1
CDR: Rouston, Apollo 8.
CDR: Ken, on this maneuver, MC 7, are you going to - are we going to burn the PAD data that we got sometime ago, or is there n few maneuver coming UPS or what's going on in that regard?
CC: Okay, Apollo 8. If required, we'11 give you a neu one. Right now, we are looking at not making a maneuver burn at all.
CDR: You say we may not even have another one now?
CC: *t's right.
CDR: okay. You're the boss.
UNKNOWN: 8, Houston. YOU try
CC: Apollo 8, Houston. Try another CMRI, please. Apollo 8, Houston.
CC: okay. Read you loud and clear now. Just wanted to remind you that in the event of a loss of 7. COMM, ve don't want you to burn KC Your present entry PAD is good. We'11 be updating your landing points at the same time that you would have gotten MCC 7, and I'd like to have a crew status report from you vhen it's convenient. . _~.... _ -... .” _. ,. . - .” ..^. .--. . .._- -- you do not want us to burn MCC 7, just go ahead and use the entry PAD you've given us? of your entry angle target line.
CDR: The crew status is everybody has gotten Alright. real good rest last night, and everybody is in good shape. Jim is just waking up, and Bill is starting the initial stowage, and we all feel very Well. ‘,
CC: Okay. And we'd like to - guess we need a PRD reading from you. And we'11 be needing one in the neighborhood of 145-hour period, somewhere when it's convenient in there again.
CC: Apollo 8, Apollo 8, Houston. Go ahead. could
CDR: Roger. you give us cur range - correction, our velocity and range from the earth now?
CC: Apollo 8, Apollo 8, Houston. At time 51, your velocity will be 9526, altitude 42946. Over. Thank you. -- 8 j -J Page 1 b 7- Apollo 8, Houston. You call? 8,
CC: Apollo Apollo 8. Did you call?
CDR: Regative, this is Apollo 8. We did not call you.
CC: okay. I've got some weather and recovery force ma status a couple of last minute items to run a0m any time it is convenient for you.
CDR: Alright. It's convenient right now, any time.
UNKNOWN: the mid-Pacific, the general condition
CC: okay. good. You can expect cloud bases 2000 foot scattered, visibility 10 miles, wind 070 at 12, wave heights 4 feet, altimeter 2974. Sunrise will be 17:lO Zulu, and first light 16:49 Zulu. ship will be Yorktown; the The recovery forces: aircraft will be Airboss number 1 and 2, and Recoveries 1, 2, and 3. The estimated time to a target point: the ship is - Yorktown is on the target point, Airboss aircraft 15 minutes and will be on-scene commander. Recoveries 1, 2, and 3 are SH3 Alfas, and they go with the Yorktown, so they are at the target point. All of them have swimmers aboard. If the recovery aircraft do not hear from the spacecraft; they will go ahcad and ,YJ : _ i put svimmers in the water, and if you are in good shape and give them a call, then they will hold off on dropping swimmers until sunrise.
CDR: Roger. Say again the sunrise and first light for me, would you, please? time 8.
CC: I say again,
CC: Apollo 8, Houston. Rotice the rather large middle gimbal angle. Over.
UNKNOWN: ODR iiould you say again the daylight time, please,, sunrise, and first light.
CC: Sunrise is 17:lO Zulu, and first light Okay- is 16:49 zulu.
CC: okay. Looking over the weather I gave you was - the 2000 foot scattered at the target point may a have 6000 foot broken layer above that. At the MAX lift point, you will have about the same thing, and altimeter is the same down the range. As you go further to the east, the weather should improve slightly; there is no problem uith thunderstorms or rain showers in any of your recovery area. YQU.
CDR: Very good; thank
CC: The items that we still need will be a PRD reading as late as you can do it conveniently prior to a final stowage. And we don't have any numbers on the last crew sleep period. I'd like to verify that the secondary RCS was activated on all four quads. And I have about five comments on the entry checklist procedures to verify.
CDR: It was activated on all four quads; that's correct. Cur final stowage is completed. We'11 read out the PRD's for you now.
CC: Alright. Thank you.
CDR: The IMP's reads 0;64; I believe it's been that way throughout the flight. The CMP's reads 0.11, that's 1.11.
CDR: Stand by a minute. Let me look at it closely. That's 0.11.
CC: Roger. 0.11.
CDR: And the one I ended up with reads 3.10.
CDR: Okay. Go ahead, Ken. What else do you want to talk'about?
CC: okay. To make everybody happy, we can use an estimate of the number of hours sleep the people got. CDR Just a minute, I'11 give you that; I forgot. Bill __ .--- .------ five, and I got about five and a half or six.
UNKNOWN: Sounds good. Okay. We vent through a? exercise with the mockup on the preentry preparations, and _-~~ --.---._ _ .1 -i-- ve noticed that in the IMP's checklist on page S-i2, when you go to top off the repress bottles, I believe it is a misprint; it should read the PLSS fill valve rather than the REPRESS valve, and we should be going to the FILL position as opposed to going to OZ.
UNKNOWN: That's what we do. mR
CC: Okay. And on - go ahead.
CDR: Go ahead. We agree that's what we do.
CC: okay. On page E-7 of the entry checklist and under as long as you have panel 382 open, that's step 34, a convenient time to go ahead and have the evapora- tor water controls, both primary and secondary, to AUTO, and the suit heat exchanger for the secondary glycol to FLOW.
CC: Very good. On page E-9, when you are getting ready to transfer the RCS to the command module position, if ycu want to avoid having the engines fire as a result of attitude correction, you might want to take the manual attitude switches to ACCF.L COIMMAND or MINIMAL IMPULSE. And again on E-9 Alfa at step 41 Bravo, if you want to go back to attitude hold, bring your manual attitude switches back to RATE.
CDR: What was that last step?
CC: Step 41 Bravo on page-E-9 Alfa. It's if j"; Iz._iA- to use either MINIMAL IMPULSE or ACCEL COMIGXND of Page 5 ,. page E-9, step 41 Bravo would be a good place to go back to RATE COMMAND.
CDR: Okay. We do a purge or - -
CC: Okay, fine. And - -
CDR: I didn't put all those control configurations changes on the checklist, but that's exactly whta we did, used MJMMJM IMPULSE.
CC: okay. Real fine.
UNKNOWN: Apll0 a. CDR cc GO ahead,
CC: Apollo 8, Apollo 8. CO ahead.
CDR: I'd like to confirm one item on the PAD message, please. cc
CDR: Time to retro-drogues, reference you last time to drogues, please.
CC: Okay. 1'11 check that one out.
CDR: And also, Ken, we are going to turn on our VHP now ) about k hours before entry.
CC: Real fine. Thank you. 1'11 let you know when we pick it up. cc Affirm. a,
UNKNOWN: We have checked into your drogue time, iC and the number of 08:16 on your entry PAD is Page correct. lie'11 be giving you an updated entry PAD on the scheduled time of 143:30. At the same time, ve'11 be giving you an update of your state vectors for the IM and The midcourse correc- CSM. tion number 7 was less than seven-tenths foot per You have a second, and we will not execute it. P52 scheduled at 143:30 which is not required. It's your option. However, if you decide to delete the P52, the CMC self-check and DSKY condition light test are still requirements. Over.
CDR: what do you mean, they are still requirements? We weren't planning to do the CMC self-test.
CDR: On that DSKY check . . .
CC: Apollo 8, Houston. That's my mistake on CMC self-check and DSKY condition light. That's an optional test. Over.
UNKNOWN: That's vhat we thought, Ken. Gosh, if that's been vorking perfectly for 6 days, I don% see any reason to test it. cc I agree. Thank you. How's Houston this morning?
UNKNOWN: Uornfng, Ken.
CC: Just fine. Nice and balmy. CMP Good.
UNKNOWN: Houston, Apollo a. Over.
CC: Go ahead, Apollo a. cc Apollo a, go
UNKNOWN: I am just - It is my understanding that we are to bring up the secondary loop at 1 hour prior to SE?, isn't that right?
CC: That is affirmative, about page Echo 9. IMP
CC: And Bill, . . . suggested if we have the water boiler going on the primary loop, that you - you might wait about 5 minutes or so before you initiate the secondary loop.
UNKNOWN: Wait 5 minutes from what? From the time the primary loop starts or from 1 hour?
CC: From the time the primary loop starts; this will give you a check to see if it had a chance to dry out or not.
UNKNOWN: I am with you. Okay.
CC: And for your information, we already have a ,..*Z dovrilink. It's poor quality, but we do have contact.
LMP: Okay. We haven't turned anything over to VHF yet.
UNKNOWN: 11@ We tried to call you on the VHF though, Ken.
CC: Roger. I say, the quality is pretty poor; they may not be able to understand you. -- ._ --..... ,. ,_., _^_...__ “... -., ,._ -_-.._--.--.. .._.. _ ._ -- _..... __.-- Page2 Roger.
CDR: Houston, Apollo a. Over.
UNKNOWN: ahead, Apbllo 8.
CC: Apollo 8, Houston. Go ahead. Ken, we got two things going here which make this suit heat exchanger flow a little different. One of them is we are not doing a coldsoak, and the other one is we are powering down thz secondary loop prior to SEP. An; I wonder if it is a good idea to have the suit heat exchanger only on a secondary loop in that case. And plus the fact that we haven't got any cabin heat exchanger.
CC: I dm't think that vas the intent, Bill. What they had in mind, we have the suit heat exchanger on both loops; and if they got too cold, you could use the panel switching to shut down the primary . loop through the heat exchanger. But in any event, you would always have something going to the suit heat exchanger. I recognize that we are going to be shutting down the secondary heat exchanger pre-SEP and then turning it back on prior to entry, but the idea was to have both primary- and secondary loops on the suit heat exchanger simultaneously.
LMP: Yes, my checklist doesn't reflect that. I think that's a good idea because we are a little suspect of our cabin fans and don't plan to use them. * _--
CC: 00 ahead, a.
UNKNOWN: 8, Apollo 8. Co ahead. main bus voltage?
UNKNOWN: a, Houston. We will be making a handover frorr, Carnarvon to Honeysuckle at 15.
UNKNOWN: Houston, Apollo Over. a.
LMP: I am still a little bit confused on that - on this activating the secondary loop. You indicated in- activating it at 1 hour or 5 minutes after the primary evaporator comes on the line. My checklist shows that the primary evaporator probably won't come on the line until we bypass the radiators. Have you got something else in mind I don't IUDW about?
CC: Okay, Bill. We passed up an update some time back on page E-9 step 38 right at the beginning, and you have got a final GET drift check. And between there and the step 39 where it says terminate CM RCS preheat, that was the place WC wanted to activate the primary loop by putting the glycol evaporator water switch to AUTO and the glycol evaporator steam pressure to AUTO. --_ .- --.- ..,_ I-- - .- x _I. -.---_ ~.- ^ ._ ..-.:. __-.--“__ ..-......-A .___-- t-I_ Tape
LMP: Roger. I don't expect it to boil, though. Do you?
CC: Okay, Bill. We are hoping that it will there. It looks like we will have had a stable attitude for sometime, and we anticipate that it will be warm enough to make it boil. That is the reason it's suggested if it is boiling, that you wait. If it loop. isn't , go ahead and turn on the secondary waking up. Thank you.
CC: Yes, sir. . cc Apollo a, Houston. IMP Go ahead, Houston.
CC: Okay, Apollo a. We would like to update your L&l state vector, CSM state vector, and target point. If it is convenient now, why, we will go ahead and do that if you will go to POO and ACCEPT.
LMP: Roger. POO and ACCEPT.
CC: Apollo 8, Houston. CDR Go ahead, Houston. Apollo
CC: Okay. The loads are in and verified, and the computer'is yours.
LMP: Okay. . cc You can take it back to BLOCK, and for Bill's information, latest guess from the main bus post-S= -3 voltage to 27.5 f !
UNKNOWN: Guess! You mean the EECOM's are guessing? i -_-_ -.L__ .-. I-- Page5
LMP: At least, they are hcnest fol. a change.
CC: That is more than you can say for the computers.
LMP: Or the crew.
CC: Apollo 8, Houston. 8,
LMP: Co ahead, Houston. Apollo 8.
CC: Okay, 8. We have an entry PAD for you. IMP
UNKNOWN: a mind e .
UNKNOWN: Ready to copy, Houston. 357 152
CC: Okay. This will be the mid-Pacific, 359 146 29 00 268, plus 0813, minus 16503 065 36221 645 12122 36301 14646 14 0028. The next 0025 0334 08 block is November Alfa: DO 400 02 12 14 16 0590 312; Zeta Persei, up 165, right 34, up. Use nonexit ENS pattern, GDC align; primary star Sirius, secondary Rigel, roll 308, pitch 209, yaw 357; this entry will not involve ~65. Over.
CMP: Houston, Apollo 8. Entry PAD as follows: mid- plus Pacific, 357 152 359 146 2930 269 0613 minus . 16503 ~65 36221 645 12122 36301 14646 14 0028, next block not applicable, 400 0212 0025 0334 0814 16059 312, Zeta Persei, up 165, right 35 up, -use nonexit ENS pattern, backup alignment; Sirius, Rigel, roll 308, pitch 209, yaw 357, and ue won't - . I would like to verify sextant
C: ciay, Apollo 8. star shaft 0590, and the boresight star. o¶P Roger. cc The last one is right 34. Over.
UNKNOWN: Roger. Boresight star is right 34. And I have the sextant shaft; that's 0590. cc
CC: Apollo 8, Apollo 8, Houston. CMP Go ahead, Houston. cc Can you tell us if you've done
UNKNOWN: Apollo 8. anything with your potable water? We've noticed our readout has gone from 100 percent down to 56 in the last couple of minutes. u4P
UNKNOWN: reading about 50 percent right now.
CC: Roger. That correlates with what we see. Have you done anything to change configuration? Over.
UNKNOWN: Yes, we noticed the venting here, too, Houston.
CC: Jim, did you mean you could visually see it? u4P
UNKNOWN: we're - oh, stand by, Ken. Bill just dumped urine, so that might have been urine ve were seeing.
CMP: Bill just shut the potable inlet, Ken.
CC: Apollo 8, Apollo 8, go ahead. .- CMP Roger, Houston. We're still showing about 52 per- cent, and we bad our switch on waste so we don't know whether it dropped from a higher value or not. Has yours been stabilized now? was reading full just a few minutes ago.
UNKNOWN: I don't think - we can't account for any sudden drop in water.
UNKNOWN: is looking there now.
LMP: Houston, Apollo 8. Over. cc 0~ ahead, 8. IMP 28,
UNKNOWN: I'm looking at malfunction and it takes you to box 6, but I don't really think that's the problem because the waste tank quantity hasn't changed any. Over. cc We're vatching the ssme thing.
UNKNOWN: I concur.
LMP: Look, we don't care about the potable tank, but we do about the waste tank, so just in case there is a problem scmewhere, I'm going to shut the potable tank off and leave the waste tank inlet valve open.
CC: Stand by-. Okay, 8. We concur. another call. _ _. -. r- ~. ._ _I.. --.I*..” __._ .--~_--... ..__“I_ __..----.._-_._ .__-- 4 ---.-- -__~ Page
CC: Roger. Thank you. 8,
CC: Apollo Houston. Radio check.
CC: Apollo 8, Apollo 8. Radio check.
UNKNOWN: a momentary loss of CCMM on the ground then. Read you loud and clear. : . - -. _ I.-. .-.-.- ^ I... .-.A... .,.. :. ,_.-- 8,
CDR: Houston, Apollo 8. Did you call?
CC: Apollo 8, Houston. You are loud and clear. We've taken a look at this water - - 8.
CC: Apollo 8, Apollo 8, Houston. Read you loud and clear. We have taken a look at your potable water quantity problem, and it appears to be a transducer problem. Suggest that you leave the potable tank isolated. You have sufficient water in the waste tank to continue the entry. Over.
CDR: Roger. Thank you, Houston.
UNKNOWN: that mean we're GO for entry?
CC: Apollo 8, Apollo 8, go ahead. Is our ttxmal stability good enough we
CDR: Roger. can leave the FTC attitude and go to entry gimbal angles now?
CDR: Houston, how do you read? Apollo 8. checking on the FTC problem now.
CC: Apollo 8: Houston. You are cleared with entry attitude at this time. Go to voice 925.
CC: Houston voice. 8.
CC: Apollo 8, loud and clear. Go.
CC: Apollo 8, Apollo 8, go ahead. the l-hour point, and we'11 stand by for 1 hour.
CC: Just for information, did you folks end up having to use any command module RCS heaters? / 5 i high or at volt.
CC: okays Thank you.
CT: Carnarvon, network GOSS conference voice check. .1_7 How do you read?
CT: Betwork, Carnarvon. Read you weak but clear.
CT: Roger, Carnarvon. I read you loud and clear.
CT: You are loud and clear new. Thank you.
CC: Apollo Houston. Stand by for hand over to Carnarvon.
CC: Okay, Apollo 8. If you will go to WO and ACCEPT, we vould like to update your LM and CSX state vectors. Over. F .-
CC: Apollo 8, Houston. State vector load is complete. Verify the computer is yours.
CC: Apollo 8, Apollo 8, Houston. State vector load is complete; the computer is yours.
CDR: Roger, Houston. We are going to BLOCK.
CC: okay. Two fast items: number one, it has been suggested that since Marezine takes some time to take effect, you might consider whether you would be interested in taking some.now. And I have an entry PAD which has some very small updates to go on it if you would like to copy that.
UNKNOWN: Stand by. Let me get out the entry PAD.
CMP: okay. Co ahead with the entry PAD, Houston.
CC: Okay. We are still going to the mid-Pacific, 357 152 359 146 2913 267, plus 0813, minus 16503 066 36221 647 12166 36301 14646 13 0028, the next block is November Alfa, V. 400 0210 0025 0335 0816 160590 312; Zeta Persei, up 165, right 34, up nonrxit EMS pattern; Sirius and Rigel, roll 308, pitch 209, yaw 357, no ~65 involved. Over.
CMP: Roger, Houston. 357 152 359 146 2913 267, plus 0813, minus 16503 066 36221 647 12166 36301 14646 13 0028, NA, 400 _-- 0210 0025 0335 0816 16059.0 312, Zeta Persei, up 165, right 34, up. Use nonexit EMS pattern; Sirius, Rigel, 308, 209, 357, no ~65. 8.
CC: That's correct, Apollo
CC: Apollo 8, Houston. You are clear to initiate cabin coldsoak at your discretion. Over.
CC: . . . your mike is stuck.
UNKNOWN: You have a hot mike, Houston.
CC: Roger. Houston, Apollo 8. Over. 8.
CC: Go ahead,
LMP: It doesn't appear that we are going to okay. be able to trigger the primary evaps, so I'm going to go ahead and start up the secondary loop.
CC: Okay, Apollo 8. We concur.
UNKNOWN: Apollo 8. cc 8, 8,
UNKNOWN: Apollo go ahead.
UNKNOWN: Since we're going as smoothly as we are here - ve've got good COMM - let's start this pyre circuit check about 10 minutes early. What do you say? 8, 8.
CC: Apollo Apollo We can conduct the pyro check any time. just :
UNKNOWN: All-right. Why don't we do it here just xome!;tarily 4 . - then?
CDR: We'11 give you a call when we're ready.
CDR: Houston, we are ready to proceed with the pyro circuit check. .
CDR: Houston, 8, 8.
CC: Apollo Apollo That's affirmative. ‘
CDR: Hello, Houston. Apollo 8.
CC: Apollo 8, Apollo 8. Loud and clear. Affirmative we are monitoring.
CDR: okay. IMP Standing by for GO and PYRO ARM. 8, 8.
CC: Apollo Apollo You have a GO.
CDR: Houston, this is Apollo 8; How is your tracking looking?
CC: Looking great. A' d : ! are all armed and ready to go here.
CC: Okay. If you have done everything else, how about ' let's make a VHF check. CDR Okay. I'11 turn off my S-band; the other two will be on S-band.
CC: Roger. I'11 give you a count in just a second. \
CC: Apollo 8, Houston. Simultaneous VRF and S-band. Over.
CDR: Roger. I'm not reading you on VIP.
CC: Roger. Stand by one.
CC: Apollo 8, Houston. Simultaneous VRF and S-ban3. Do you verify that you are on the left hand VHF antenna? Over.
LMP: We can verify the antenna, but we can't verify reading you on S-band or on VI-IF.
UNKNOWN: receiving some downlink, although it is considered to be poor quality.
CC: Apollo 8, Houston. We'd like to try the right ?RF antenna, if you have time.
LMP: We 're - we're on right, Ken.
CC: okay. This is a simultaneous VRF and S-band transmission: one, two, three, four, five. How do you read on VHF? Over.
CC: Understand that's on VHF. Is that affirm?
CDR: Houston, this is Apollo 8. I answered your call oxlvm. Did you receive?
UNKNOWN: piped back here. MOKR '11 have to check and see if they have it on the ground station.
CDR: You were loud and clear, Ken. -- on VHF through Carnsrvon. Csxnarvon to Guam on the hour. We should have continuous contact except for the blackout period 146:51. beginning at .~
UNKNOWN: Apollo 8. Confirm GO for PYRO ARM. Apollo 8, Apollo 8, Houston. You are GO for Em0 ARM.
CC: Apollo 8, Apollo 8. You we GO for PYRC ARM. Everything is looking good. 8. It appears that your primary
CC: Apollo 8, Apollo evaporator may have dried out. If you get a chance, go ahead and give it a try to reservice.. Over. Apollo 8, Apollo 8. Ground data indicates the primary evaporator may have dried out. If you have a chance, you might try reservicing. Over.
LMP: Roger. good.
CC: Apollo 8, Houston. Looking good; both primary and secondary loops look good. Apoilo 8, through the Redstone. You're looking good; both primary and secondary loops are holding good. l cc Apollo 8, Apollo 8, through Redstone. Over. Go ahead, Houston. This is Apollo 8.
CC: Roger. Read you loud and clear. You're looking good. --' $: _, CDR Roger. ~--___
CC: Apollo 8, Houston. One minute to RRT.
CDR: $Ok ) t33. GOC5 ; :+f
UNKNOWN: 8, Houston through Hunt A--=- Over- Apollo 8, Apollo 8, this is Houston through ARIA. say again, 8.
CC: Co ahead, Apollo 8. Read you broken and loud.
CDR: We've got a real fireball. It's 'looking good.
UNKNOWN: . cc Outstanding!
UNKNOWN: CDR We are in real good shape, Houston.
CC: Real fine. ---yc,
UNKNOWN: Yorktown has radar on you. cc Apollo Houston. I 8, d--
UNKNOWN: cc Apollo Houston.
CC: ahead, Houston.
UNKNOWN: you get a chance, we'd like to have your DShY cc readings before drogues.
UNKNOWN: Roger. DSKY reading plus four balls 7, plus balls 812, minus 16522. TWO
UNKNOWN: is Apollo 8. CDR . . . Over.
UNKNOWN: The spacecraft is down to 1000.
UNKNOWN: Yorktown, Ret 3. At this time, the command module is in the water. Over. , . . . . . ..-- - __--.~ * Roger. 51 and 55 time was Recovery 3 reports splashdo- and is undervay. seconds, rescue i
UNKNOWN: '3