Otrobonita/noicy-space-talks huggingface dataset:
LMP: Well, the REXCQ didn't work as advertised. It into the mechanical limit and followed MSFN arolznd looking ,out of the corner of its eye Page3 onWIDEREAM. And when MSFN came back under- neath the spacecraft, why it snapped back on it to NARROW BEAM. It apparently never broke lock; or if it did, it was only instantaneously.
CC: Roger. It looked like we did break lock there for about 8 minutes. Well, we miggt have broken two way lock, but I was still having about AGC right at the noise level, at the minimum reception level. we're definitely out of the scan limit, why, I'11 go ahead and go to the MANUAL md AUTO lock-on sequence and switch over to REACQ and see what it does next time around.
UNKNOWN: Houston. Were you able to get high bit rate from the OMNI's now, by the way? r Apollo 8, Houston. The OMNI high bi‘t rate capabiiity is noisy, but usable.
LMP: Okay. I think what we'11 do here is, if I see the high gain definitely going past the scan limit before it gets the mechanical limit, I'11 'go ahead aa ask - you could ask if the RF.ACQ feature hasn't taken over I'11 just go ahead and shut it down so that it'11 remain in stops.
UNKNOWN: How's that sound?
CC: We are talking about it now, Bill. It's my understanding that the scan
LMP: Okay. warning limit of this thing is supposed to stop tracking; and break of lock, it'11 travel on over to the thumb-wheel settings.
UNKNOWN: Roger. That's my understanding, Bill. We are talking about, it right now. 1'11 let you know in just a second. Probably, Ken, we are not ever losing the earth's present signal:
CC: Hey, Bill, can you tell us what angies this went The curve that we have plotted is through? apparently the RF limit rather than the mechan- . ical limit; and discussing the function of the AUTO RRACQ mode, it looks like it is supposed to shift when it hits the RP limit, which is as your- should be your ENTER set of numbers opposed to the scan warning limit. And if it went inside of that number, could you tell us about what kind of numbers it did go to?
UNKNOWN: Roger. It went past the caution warning limit to the scan or RF limit, as I understand it. And let me give you a rundown on whal it did here. .~ --- ). -. _. - .._ I\,.!
CC: Okay. Say it slow so I can copy it. plus 60 to 80 pitch. Copy?
LMP: Okay. The AGC dropped off to what I call our noise level, that was the voltage level on the AGC measured at - integrated when the noise broke in. It was about 11 o'clock position on and it looked like it was switching the gage, beam widths there off and on. It would pulse up and down, and a couple of times dropped to full-scale low very briefly.
CC: Okay. You got some marks on that AGC that in should register volts, I believe. Do you have an indication other than 11 o'clock? If you vi11 look on that chart that Fred Haise has, it shows one at 11 o'clock position which is the noise level. I don't remember what the voltage was. I might have it on my systems book, though.
UNKNOWN: When the antenna - when the antenna did snap back in, it went to yaw 6G, pitch minus 5, with VERB 64 reading plus 67 for yaw and minus 10 for pitch. , I- Yes, copy all that. I think you have
CC: Okay. four or five marks on that power meter, don't you? From what you,are saying, I t&e it, it's between marks 2 and 4. Stand by a second.
LMP: Stand by, Ken. I'11 tell you what that mode is.
LMP: Okay. It vent to about - hovering around 2.4 to 3 volts.
LMP: Closer to ?i4,
LMP: Go ahead. I ----.. _
CC: Okay. It's not real clear that it did, in fact, get to the mechanical stop, and if it does, the back room people say ve can stay up against that stop f0r.a maximum of 15 minutes without doing any damage. And we vculd kind of like to track it through one more time as is. We do have the high bit rate capability on OMRI's. So ve would like to follow through that same configuration for , 2 -
LMP: Stand by. against the mechanical stop last time for - ,. 10 minutes or so, I don't think it would be too smart to do it this time because we may end up having to switch field to high gain position.
CC: I am sorry, Bill. You didn't come through. Say again, please.
LMP: Since we are not - it is not clear to me that we weren't UQ against mechanical stops for a while on the last time around. That might account for 10 minutes of that 15 minutes, and there is no sense pushing our luck. I think we ought to - if it starts dropping off again, we just ought to go and put it back into MANUAL We are still and take it back where it belongs. a long way from home, and if that antenna switch fails, it's going to fail the high-gain position, ana that's all we got.
CC: And we will be making a handoff
UNKNOWN: Bill. on stations at 5:5.
LMP: Okay. Ken, we are going to switch COXM carriers here a second.
LMP: Relay that. We'11 hold this configuration for a while. cc
CC: Apollo 8, Houston through Honeysuckle. \ !
LMP: Roger. Read you five-by.
UNKNOWN: Apollo 8. ,Over. i Loud and clear, Apollo 8.
UNKNOWN: It aid the same thing that time, Ker!. This time the voltage AGC aid drop to full-scale low for several seconds, but the antenna does seem to have the capabilities to look right through the spacecraft, and I guarantee, the earth went where the antenna was not supposed to be able to go. I would just like to confirm with you that
CC: okay. it never did go back to the present numbers. nal. It sdunds like it was trying to pick up one-way lock all the time, and we usually hovered around 2-volts ACC except for brief periods.
CC: Okay. Thank you very much. JXP It looks like if they had - should have not had switch into WIDF‘BEAM until after it the . . . had g&e to those preset limits.
LMP: We are back in AUTO on the CMNI. '5, ,'y,',
CC: Okay. Thank you. .: Houston, CDR is up and manning the helms. We t are going to switch COMM carriers. We'1 .1 be off the air for a little tit. cc Okay. Thank you. Page1 CDR Hey,Ken. This is Frank.
CC: Good morning, sir.
CC: 00 ahead, Apollo 8. Loud aa clear.
UNKNOWN: How far are we from home, Ken?
CC: Oh, about 152, looks like. That's pretty gross; I get you a real number in just a minute.
UNKNOWN: CDR 152?
CC: 148 550; that's a good number.
CDR: s-2~ good.
CC: Ana your velocity is about 4650. CDR Increasing, huh? cc That's affirm.
LMP: Houston, Apollo a.
UNKNOWN: cc Go ahead, Apollo 8. We are trying to get back on our normal sleep cycle, and I just woke up here a little while ago, so I'm going to try to hit the hay again. It'd probably be a good idea to try another . Seconal to try to get with it. What a0 you guys think down there? if we can
CC: okay. Sounds like a good idea, and get Frank to tell us how much sack time he got, .vhy that'11 go in the log, too.
CDR: I was in bed for 7 hours, Ken, and I probably slept for about k-1/2 to 5 hours of i: , anyway. -_--.- _._ ..-- -
UNKNOWN: If you - if you're interested in further reports, we've all bad three meals today, and we have drunk a lot of water, and Jim's asleep now. He mrked pretty hard this afternoon, but I think we are all in pretty good shape now.
CC: Real fine. Thank you. Used the exerciser.
CDR: Well, Ken, that just leaves you or I - how about YOU ma I - did . anything exciting happen today?
CC: I think you know about all the things that are exciting up on your end, and it's real quiet down here. Everybody is smiling; ‘Santa war good to most of the folks in the world, and everything is pretty calm, like it should be on Christmas.
CDR: very good. Milt
CC: says we're in a period of relaxed vigilance.
CDR: -7 ma. CDR We'11 relax; you be vigilant. <. .__ -___ _/- --~ --.-~-- - That:s a fair trade. (Laughter) - v Hey, Ken, has anybody got any good idea why that quad A tank is running hot, hotter than the rest by so much? cc I didn't have an answer when I came on; a second and we'11 check again. just
CDR: Co ahead, Houston. I - ,. - - . _ . _. _
CC: okay, Apollo 8. Let me tell you what the sub- jects are that we're going over down here: num- ber one, we're making a revieu of all the entry procedures and this type of information, and we're going to actually go through and revieu the entry checklist. We have people that are still working on verificatiop of your erasable memory, and we are looking at the EMS problem, and we're discus- sing the quad temperature, so I'11 feed up some of these pieces of information as they come along, and right now we are just sort of having a status geview.
UNKNOWN: don't think the EM.5 is much of a problem; it Just jumps when you go into AUTO. I don't believe it will bother us for entry. I - I'm doing the same thing; I amlooking over my entry checklist. One of the first things I see here is a coldsoak, and I don't think we vant to evaporate between the last midcourse and entry, do we?
CC: Roger. Looking at the flight plan, you have a P52 i ccnning up at a 115 boars, and we'11 heve to do another one at 119:45 in preparation for the P23. -- _ And it's acceptable with the ground procedures if you would like to delay about 115hour align- ment, and do it just once at 119:45, or you can it there in flight plan location. If you want do to skip the 115-hour alignment we could go ahead and start in on the pitch and yaw free PTC mode at this time. What does that mean, Ken?
UNKNOWN: Okay. We have a DTO that requires that we do a FTC and go ahead and do it in minimum impulse mode so that we're not putting any attitude hold corrections in. And we're going to be tracking 'The attitude excursion, and they want this some- think like 6 hours - or until we reach a limit.
CDR: okay. Cabin's running a little bit warmer today than normal.
CC: I'm sorry; say it again. CDR I say the cabin is running a little bit hotter It looks like this parti- today than it has been. cular PTC alignment gets more sun in the cabin than the FTC before.
CC: Roger. What kind of temperature are you record- ing now?
CDR: I just put the window shades up. That'11 cool it down. --
CC: okay *
CDR: Do you want me to take the pitch yaw out of RATE COMMAND, right? That's affirmative. You just put it MINIMUM IMPULSE, and then we'11 watch it.
CDR: There you are.
CDR: Have fun.
CDR: cc Roger. And on that quad temperature - the upper limit of that thing is 105 degrees on the bottle. You are well below that: We have been watching it, and it is tracking, although it is tracking very slowly. As you roll the spacecxaft, the temperature excursions seem to be a little sluggish, but it isn't a frozen sensor. And talking a little bit more about that one right now, ycu might tell Jim the next time he goes to work with the optics, when he works with the trunnion, if he'11 go ahead and recycle the ZERO OPTICS switch, 1.e can avoid the problem we had prior to midcourse correction 4.
CDR: We've done that. And the midcourse correction 4 - -
CC: Roger. --
CDR: the midcourse correction number 6 right now and midcourse correction number 7 looks like zero, is approximately 2 feet per second.
UNKNOWN: Okay, Jim. Now we've got on the chec'klist to initiate cabin coldsoak. This involves evaporating, and I don't think we want to do that. Now we talked that over with FIDO, and at 12 hours out, everyone seems to think that we don't need to do it there. Rut in close, it doesn't s&m to have any effect on the trajectory, and what's been suggested if you'd like - we can go over the entry checklist and just kind of walk through it on the air with all the people on the console. Right now,'you have the te;m that will be performing the entry session with you so we can go over the checklist and ~LUI down ary questions that you might have. That's up to you. \
UNKNOWN: fine. Let's do that. I've one right
CDR: got here. I'm lonesome anyway.
CC: Okay. Give us a few minutes to pull ourselves together and get on the air.
CC: okay. We've dEfted off now about 25 degrees in pitch. I'd like to have you take it back and set up the FTC plane again at pitch cf 10 and yaw 45 and set up the under control, and turn I PTC your Fitch back to minimum impulse. And give US a mark when you have done that, and we '11 time the drift rates down here. ! i ., Pa& 7
CDR: Okay, Ken. I've got them all damped out about as low as I can get them. / e Okay. Fine. I'11 put in a roll right now.
CDR: .It takes me three actuations to get about - just about a degree and a half, or a tenth of a de - 0.15 degrees .per second.
CC: Okay. And give a mark when you release the RATE COMMAND in pitch and yaw. I haven't even got them on.
CC: Oh, okay. Fine.
CDR: When I gave you - when I gave you that mark, that was it. Real fine. Thank you.
CDR: It's much more sensitive today than it was when it was heavy.
CC: Roger. Well, the old earth is getting bigger i on, then.
CC: Good show. Going in the right direct
CDR: Yes. I was beginning to get worried.
CDR: Ken, be sure and call me if you see the gimbal angles start to get near gimb-al arc or anything. I'm a little drowsy still. I don't want to end up with another null attitude, like one is enough.
CC: Apollo 8,'Houston.
CDR: Go ahead, Ken. Would you reinitialize the FTC attitude,
CC: Okay. and let's try that one more time.
CDR: you're-dy?
CDR: okay. Three blips.
CDR: There she goes.
CDR: Is it sleepy out down there, too?
CC: Say again, please.
CDR: I say, is it sleepy out down there? Ifigure
CC: .Roger. It's getting pretty good now. it's getting sleepy up there; though.
CC: Okay. Well would you believe that the Nrrth beat the South 3 to ncthing, and they did that all with a first-quarter field goal.
CDR: Very gcod. When vas the East-West game?
CC: Oh, about Saturday.
CDR: Next Saturday?
CC: Yes, sir. <"
CC: And, Frank, we are going over the checklist right now ) and 1'11 get back vith you on the entry check- list in a few more minutes.
CDR: Okay, Ken. I think it is a pretty good one; that's one thing ve have practiced a lot. But we might '_ as vell let everybody know what we'r.e doing.
CDR: Ken, vhile we are just killing time here, there are a couple of anomalies we've noticed. The ----.- boeies, you know, for the inflight covera- mine have frayed very badly, and I had to take them off. Also, we had one Y adaptei* with an open in it, and the lightweight headsets were kind of useless.
CDR: .I take that back. I reaIly didn't mqan to say that. The lightveight headset - vhat I really meant to say vas - the lightweight hradsets are - useless. -
CDR: But these Snoopy hats are pretty comfortable. We have worn them the vhole time. .- Page1
UNKNOWN: one thing we are going to do on these suits, we're going to stow them one under each seat, the vay north American suggested.
CC: Roger. And you'11 be putting the helmets in the food stowage.
CDR: Yes, I think we'11 put the helmets in the food stovage; and any stuff ve have to take out of there, ve'11 just stick in a suit.
CDR: Is the veather still good out there?
CC: It's not quite as clear as it was yesterday; it sure is nice and balmy.
CDR: no, I mean out at 165 vest.
CC: okay. Prank, we've got a weather picture here. The forecast shovs 2000 scattered and 4000 broken with a high overcast. You might see that as you come dovn through it, and wave heights 4 feet, vind about 070 at 12 vith 10 miles visibility and perhaps some scattered showers in the area, and this is forecast for the tventy-seventh at 16:OO Zulu.
CDR: Very good; we'11 be there.
CC: Yes, I'm sure you will.
CDR: I don't think those vaves are too high. We're going to have to sit in this heap for about 45 minutes.
UNKNOWN: put in a kit for some small vaves.
UNKNOWN: Jerry Hammack if the waves get high, it's ,--- -------w d ----. _ his fault. 2' -
CC: Okay. Why don't you drive it back over to the PIG attitude and put it back in ATTITUDE HOLD for the roll, and we're going back in and review the DTO requirement. You have about the same results, it looks like', on a cursory analysis all three times. So we're going to take another look and see if there is any reason to do it again. If so, we'11 call you. You can go ahead and put it back in ATTITUDE HOLD now.
CDR: Okay, Jim. Thank you. CDR Houston, Apollo 8. Radio check. cc Loud and clear, Apollo 8. CDR Okay, Ken. Thank you. cc Roger. It is taking us a little longer to go through and rehash all of the entry checklis: than I though?, and,ve pare just about to wrap it up nov.
CDR: Ro problem. Just watch my gimbal angles for me, and give.me a call if they get too close. Roger. We will watch them .
CC: We would like to look at a couple more DELTA-V tests on the EMS, and the general consensus is that we don't think there is any particular problem. - - i 1 - We'd like to go ahead and take a look at what you get by running four or five more DELTA-V tests. we'd ‘like to run one of these And prior to that, null bias tests; and since we don't have any uay of monitoring any of this stuff on the downlink, I'd like to have you tell us each step when you turn the switch and different orders and things like that.
CDR: Alright. I'11 run a test. Okay. The first thing we want is this null bias, 100 secocds.
CDR: You stand by, and I'11 do a null bia.s for 100 seconds. Do you want me to put DELTA-V in AUTOMATIC and let it alone for 100 seconds? That is affirmed.
CDR: Going to DELTA-V; going to AUTO -
CDR: Pow. Roger. Went to one-tenth and back to zero.
CC: Understand; plus one-tenth and back to zero.
CDR: One-tenth, now it's a minus one-tenth and back to zero; no, it'& not zero yet; wait a minute. Now it's up s3me, minus 4; 0.4, that is.
CDR: Minus 25.
CDR: Minus 26.
CDR: Minus 0.7, and there is 100 seconds; minus 0.7 at
CDR: Now what do you want?
UNKNOWN: back to mode, switch to stand by
UNKNOWN: to do a couple of DELTA-V
CDR: Say you're going AUTOMATIC?
CC: Roger. a
CDR: Going to DELTA-V test now. Counting down.
UNKNOWN: back, Ken? .
CC: Apollo 8, this is Houston.
CDR: Roger. Read you.
CC: Okay. We got caught in a station handover there. I didn't copy anything after you said you were putting it to DELTA-V test.
CDR: I ran - I ran three tests during that handover. TWO over minus lg.6 - two of them are minus 19.8; and one of them, minus 19.6.
CC: Okay. That sounds real fine.
CC: Okay. The other thing that - sometime prior to entry - and we're going to be looking at it - is the normal entry test pattern, and it's called cxlt presently in the checklist as something we do around an hour. And we'd like to check i; you can read the number on the scroll that is up now so we can see where we are in the test test pattern sequence. We're considering taking a look at one of these test patterns before we get into an hour so we can have more time to i / ~-- f think about it in the event that there should be something anomalous in it.
UNKNOWN: Why don't we do it right now? We're on number 8.
CC: Okay. Understand; that's number 8, right?
CDR: Roger. It takes an awful long time to run them over there anyway. It won't hurt to do one. If you'11 stand by just a second; we're
CC: Okay. checking to see where we stand in the sequence of events for on pattern 8. Hey, Ken. I
CDR: Another little thing about this EMS: you know, we had it set up when we separated from the booster - - Roger. --
CDR: and the shock of the separation - the shock of the pyre's blowing in separation knocked it up to 100 and something. .
CC: Understand. knocked it up 50 100.
CC: Was the pyro separation enough that the - you felt a sensable g in the bird? !
UNKNOWN: Roger. Let's just say there wasn't any question we were separating.
CDR: While you are checking the scroll, find out which entry pattern I should be using this bird in. , ~_ - :
CC: - Okay. Will do. cc Apollo 8, Houston.
UNKNOWN: Go ahead. While we are verifying that scroll posi-
CC: Okay. tion - they are talking it over in the back room about that now - I vould like to go ahead and run down the checklist with you for entry.
UNKNOWN: Go ahead. okay. the second item there
CC: Looking on entry 1: is the 12-hour Kelvin cold soak, and in discussions ! here and preflight, I think it is agreed that we don't want to do the cold soak there. So we are going to delete that step 2. And what it amounts to is, I think we do want to do a cold soak, and ve certainly want to exercise the water boilers prior to entry in order to insure that we don't . I have one that is dried out, in the same manner that we had one dried out prior to LOI. And we are vorking on some procedures for that, and we'11 have to come back to you with those a little bit later, and we will try to do it sometime when Rill's on the line so that everybody can get in on the loop : at the same time. We would li:ie to add a step be- tween 8 and 9, or as part of step 8. This is all where ve turn the VRP to Simplex A on page E-l, at minus 4 hours and 35 minutes. Now this will be beyond two-way VKF range, but it will make sure _--.__ that we do have it on at the time when we pick We were able to get out to 20 000 miles it up. with a downlink, and we are checking on the up- link signsl. So if we put it on at this point, ve knov we have it on well in. advance of any time we might be able to get into the VHF.
UNKNOWN: cc Okay. I guess maybe I have that backwards. They you folks copied the VHF out to 20 KM. COPY - We're checking on the - on the downlink into that now. Rut in any event, this 4 hours and 35 min- utes will get it well in advance of that. Roger. We just got an answer back on the test
CC: Oksy, 8. patterns. We thought it was - We had 25 test pat- terns vhich are allocated to ground tesL, and these are the ones we've been looking at. Then there are five more that are allocated to flight, and the only difference in these patterns is that the flight patterns have instructions actually written on them; so if we are looking at test pattern 8, that means that we're still working on the ones that were al- located to the ground test, so there was no problem there. And I'11 get you a number for which pattern we should be using for entry; working on that one right now. So.we would like to go ahead and run -' '7. *:- through these. I don't mean the - -
CC: Se;r again, Frank.
CDR: I don't mean the test pattern. I say, I don't mean the test pattern. We asked them to put the supercircular on the number, the first place I'm sure it's on the scroll; I'm sure they did. the first pattern, but I just wanted to make sure that's right.
CC: Roger. That's why we arti trying to verify. So - - You want me to run through a test pattern? If you wonld, please. And if you'd
CDR: Okay. Going through step 1; EL5 test 1: wait 5 seconds. There's 5 seconds. CZng AUTO. Okay- Indicator lights are all OFF; the range is zero, zero. Bow I'm gonna slew the hairline over the notch. Okay. And now we go in EMS test 2. cc Roger.
CDR: Got the 0.05~ light; all others are out.
CDR: Go on test 3: far side lower light on 10 seconds; going to set the range counter to 58. Okay. Set at.58; going to test 4.
CDR: Beautiful. It's perfect. It's right in the cor- ridor. It comes down aa stops at zero, zero.
CC: Very good. Co in test 5: perfect again. okay. NOW I go to range set,
CDR: In STANDBY.
CC: Okay. That was perfect.
CC: Okay, Apollo 8. I'd like to run one more null bias and looks like we will have exercised every- thing we can get to.
CDR: Okay. DELTA-V AUTO, all zeros.
CDR: Minus 2. Roger. Understand minus 2. Alright. Is that minus 2 or minus two-tenths?
CDR: Two-tenths, three-tenths now.
CC: Okay. Real good. That looks like we - -
UNKNOWN: It looks like we had a lot of noise on the cir- cuit for a while there, Jim.
CC: Yes, we did, too; all those electronic glitches I guess.
CDR: Okay. One hundred seconds. it's plus - minus four-tenths. Okay. Real fine. That looks like that's about all of the functions that'we can chsck, and looks like everything is just down ;he line.
CC: Okay. We still owe you confirmation that you can expect your high speed scroll to be the first pattern you come to, and I'11 let you know as soon as they come in with an answer on it.
CDR: Cksy .
CC: I'd like to go ahead and finish going through the entry book if you're ready.
CC: Okay. Ue've reviewed most of the book up here, and we will have to-come back and suggest a way that we can check out the wate: boiler prior to getting reentry area. We've revier..d all of the last minutes changes that were put in - pen and ink type things - and they're all looking good. On page E-7, like to add a couple of items.
CDR: what's that? Okay. On step 34 under final stowage, which is a sort of c&-h-all area, there's a steE that says secondary glycol to radiator that bypass verify. While we are do-wn in this area, we would like to go to panel 382, the water control panel, and set up the evaporator water control valve both primary and secondary to AUTO. Now this is something we would have done had we done the cold soak at minus 12 hours, but since we I-- .- - veren't doing it there, we would like to go ahead and make sure we have these in AUTO, and this will enable automatic controls from the panel.
CDR: Can we just make this part of the procedure when we test out the water boilers beforehand?
CC: Yes, sir. If we get that checked out earlier, -re can just ieave them in AUTO.
CDR: I'd rather do that. I'm just going to make a note here, and
UNKNOWN: cc Okay. The other ve can do it the other way, too.
CDR: . . . You may already have this down as step 35. It says UP TELRMEIRY to BLOCK, VERIFY, and there's a step right after that that says RX? command module heaters to circuit breakers CLOSED. Roger. --
CDR: I have that.
CC: Okay. I guess that one was sent up to you this : afternoon. And when you LUII the Fage over to R-8, it shows the EMS entry check being run at { and you know that it's a short minus sn hour, test. There is really no reason to wait for an / hour; we might as well go ahead an2 do that as _ ‘tl soon as you get through with step 35 on page E-7 because we're coming up on a pretty busy period.
UNKNOWN: I say that's fine; we'11 do that.
CDR: Houston, are you still there? Roger. got a discussion going; be right
CC: We back.
CC: Okay, Apollo 8. On page E-9 - -
CC: - - at the top of the page, you have step 38, and right underneath that, prior to step 39, we want to have a primary glycol loop uctivation. What ve are doing is to get the glycol evapora- tor water switch to AUTO and the glycol evap- orator steam pressure switched to AUTO. This vill get your prinary water boiler on the line prior to entry, or at least it'11 enable it.
CDR: Okay. Tell IIE what to write in, Ken. Okay. It's glycol 'evaporator water to AUTO.
CC: Apollo 8, iiouston. Are you there?
CDR: Clycol evaporator water switch to ALPTO.
UNKNOWN: second switch is the glycol evap- orator steam pressure to AUTO.
CC: Okay. That takes care of getting the primary vater boiler enabled, and it's my understanding that ve vere going to make the actual entry vith __- both the primary and the secondary water boilers on the line. I'm not reading you now, Houston.
CC: Roger. How now?
CDR: Loud and clear. Okay. There's some question from reading the checklist. It is my understanding that both secondary the primary and the water boilers vill be OR for the actual entry, and don't find a place in the checklist where it's actually turned on. So we'd like to get confirmation on that, and we'11 make sure that we have all the proper switching to put in the checklist. CDR Okay. A.iri,$lt . Still on page E-9 and under step 39 at the bottom of the pyro circuit check, there's a step that says panel 8, all circuit breakers CLOSED except and then it lists five that are printed, one that was pen-and-inked before launch. It says EDS power circuit breakers 3 OPEN, and to be complete, we ought to add the RCS heater circuit breakers. There's two of those, and they should also be OPEN.
CC: Alright. The rest of these pages look good; I'm coming over through the graphs. hd on page E-11 - -
CDR: Roger. I'm with you. cc Okay. On step 5 on E-11, there's - the first subtitle there is Relmets and Gloves, and the items that follow beneath that are affected by whether you wear suits or come in shirt sleeves, but they do have to be accomplished. And the suit return air valves would actually be OPEN for a shirt-sleeve entry. And you should have a line penciled in of optics power to OFF between an emergency cabin pressure valve and the time when the CMP moves to.the couch.
UNKNOWN: the step shows the tape recorder to REWIND at minus 30. Now that's an onboard step rather than a ground step, just to verify that. i
CDR: Okay. I
CC: Okay. Under step 6, almost at the bottom - in 'I fact, it's three lines from the bottom of step 6 - there's a section that says secondary coolant loop evaporator to RESET, and should be a note that that's 58 seconds if you hold it in RESET prior to moving the pump OFF.
CDR: That's it; that's in it.
CC: Okay. Okay.
CDR: Okay. I'm there.
CC: Alright. This is a general conmen'; that refers to any time you're working around P62 or when‘ -_I _.. you're going between ~62 and ~63, and you should be careful not to call an extended VERB during ' This is here in the program notes, this time. . and it is just a reminder. What will happen if we get into an extended VERB such as an 83 or an 82? We may get hung-up in ~62 2nd have to recycle through it in order to get the 63, and neither of these displays are normally used, and it's just a good practice. And we're just trying to remind you that we don't want to call an extended VERB while we're in P62.
CDR: Okay. Neither do we. That's right.
CC: Okay. In going through the rest of it, we on. You have all the latest corrections in your checklist.
CDR: Roger. The main thing, that is to come up with way to determine that the boiler - water a boiler is not dry and make sure that Bill gets it activated at TMS 7.
CC: 'Phst is correct, and we will talk to you some more about that next we catch both you time and Bill up.
CDR: Righto.
CDR: Ken, this is Frank. I am going to be off the headset for about 5 minutes here. -
CC: Okay. Fine. When you come back, I will have a systems rundown for you.
CC: Okay. Loud and clear.
CDR: Back with you. I've got a few good words for you. The
CC: Okay. erasable memory has been taken completely apart and looked at, and it like it's all okay. looks Your PO1 didn't have any effect. The one thing thacmight be questionable is if you used a VERB when you get to the NOUN 99 display, you may find that one to be unrelia')le, and what you're going to get there is the - that's m. error display for the W-matrix. And it's something you probably won't be usjng again . anyhow; and if the occasion arises, we can update that one, but it's not a normally used display and everything else, all the operational functions, are good.
CC: okay. As of 114 hours , your batteries - you had battery A vith 39.32 amp-hours, battery B 38.46. had 35.21, and battery C Your cryo quantities remaining at SSP were the same ve gave you the last time, 18~ pounds of oxygen per tank and 11 pounds of hydrogen per,tank. At _. _--- present, the service module RCS, using the computer values for the quantities, you have quad A vith 45 percent, Bravo with 50, Charlie with 58, and Delta at 48. What we plan to do with the secondary tanks is to go ahead and turn them on at 37 percent actual, and in the event of lost COMM or something like that, recommend that you.use 50 percent onboard gaging as being the time to turn the secondary propellants on. However, as long as'we can use our own calculations, why, we might as well leave them tied up. We probably won't get into the seconday propellants prior to entry anyhow.
CC: Okay. A couple of items I want to check up On: I'd like to confirm that the hatch Dog will be taken off while you're on the chutes if you can. If not, you're going to do that in the water. Is that affirm?
CDR: . . . Okay. iiow we've got a little better sign 1. Like to confirm that the hatch clamps on the side hatch will be taken off either on the to. Is that affirm? - I
CDR: Roger. That's affirm. As a matter of fact, we didn't even put - didn't even put them on. Do you plan to put them on for an entry?
CDR: I don't think so. If's held pretty well so far. I don't think - everybody tells me it wouldn't help much anyway.
UNKNOWN: we never did find out what happened to the Mae West. Did you leave it blown up, or did you dump it?
CDR: We dumped it. Okay. Who was the lucky guy?
UNKNOWN: The same gu,, that tried to launch us this after- noon again.
CC: Okay. And just as a gee whiz item:you're now and you've only accelerated the a 137 915 o-t, 4883. You might check to make sure you don't have a speed brake hanging.
CDR: Dh-oh.
LMP: Rouston, Apollo 8. Over.
CC: Loud and clear. LMP Good morning, or good afternoon, or whatever The JOD is back at the CON; CDR went back to bed. --.
CC: Looks like all the junior guys have the midwatch.
UNKNOWN: know what you mean. so I am pretty well rested and want to make sure Frank gets a good snooze here prior to entry. This might be a good time to try out your background and see if you have any better luck. music,
CC: Okay. We'11 try that a little later.
UNKNOWN: guess we should start off with a little dialogue about sleep. How much did you have?
LMP: Well, let's see; whenever it was I told you I went to bed last ni@t till now. Just a second and let me check the flight plan.
LMP: dave you got it logged in when it was I asked for that last Seconal?
CC: Okay. I guess we can figure that out for ourselves, can't we?
UNKNOWN: don't you let me know. I have.kind of lost track of time it was when I went to bed. But it was about - I went to sleep about 15 minutes after that and woke up about 10 minutes ago. Good sleep.
CC: So I see it is now 142 hours.
LMP: What do you think I em, 3ip van Winkle?
CC: Just trying to find out how soundly you really slept. I guess you are not that sleepy.
LMP: . . . but not that.
CC: Okay. It's really about 4 hours, Bill.
LMP: Okay. Good.
CC: Apollo 8, Houston. Have you got somebody under the left couch, or could you get down to the vater control panel?
LMP: I can get dovn there. Frank hasn:t quite gone to sleep yet.
CC: Uell, what we were thinking about doing was boiling a little out of the secondary evaporator to check it out, just as a component check, something we need to do; but if there's somebody down there in the vay, why, we can do that some other time.
LMP: Well, if it boils, we are going to know it before - it won't take long to find out it won't boil. There's not a heck of a lot we can do about it, so v?ly don't we wait until someone else wakes up here, Frank wakes up again. How will that be?
CC: Yes. That would be fine. There is something you can do; you can reservice it. And it is kind of tediousprocess, and that's t5e reason vhy we just a some idea prior to entry if we can count on having two loops or one. Which kind of leads us into - ! Page another question we are trying to pin down, two questions, in fact. Number one, we would like to verify that you do plan to use both primary and secondary boilers during the actual entry, end we are also looking for a way of checking the primary boiler to make sure it isn't dried out prior , to entry. And that is turning into a little more of a challenge than you might suspect. If you have any thoughts on that subject, we can go over that. use both. Before we get into the water boiler pump though, CDR would like to take a Seconal also; make sure he can get off to sleep here.
UNKNOWN: a GO.
LMP: Okay. On the water boiler: it's interesting Linat .I get my own - I was going to say anytime you have your mike keyed, I can hear myself talk with about a 2-second time delay. With respect to the primary and secondary boiler checks, I thirJc that is a good idea to make sure we got them both prior to entry and have the reservicing procedures handy.
CC: Roger, Bill. You know the secondary - well, in fact, both reservicing procedures are available in a malfunction book, and sort of the problem with check- ing out the primary boiler is finding a way to make it boil on the way in, . -- / Page19
UNKNOWN: Yes. Just a second, I got another little chore going here. Roger. It looks like the only way we'11 be able to do it would be to shut off the radiators.
CC: We were looking for a little more docile way to do that.
UNKNOWN: Roger; That way would be agreeable to me too, a little more docile way, but they shouldn't freeze up if we did it quickly.
CC: Roger. We are talking over several things, you know, like putting the ten-pin valve to KANUAL or partially closing it or some of these different ideas, and something you can think about whiie you are laying there with nothing else to do.
UNKNOWN: Yes. We noticed that it had gotten warmer in the cockpit coming back than it was going out. And I remember going out when we manually positioned the ten-pin valve, but we had pretty good control over the glycol evap outlet temperature. So possibly that would be the thing to attack first rather than the radiators.
CC: Okay. We've got the back room boys looking at it.
UNKNOWN: I guess if we do pick a time, though, we cught to pick a time that if something did go haywire, we could afford to boil . . . the rest of the way in, but still leave us enought time to fix - rig up the evap service if it didn't work. _- .’
CC: That's affirm, and we're factoring in things like trajectory considerations and all that sort of thing, too.
UNKNOWN: I think that the second derivative of the water boiler versus time plot will give us the optimum time to do it.
UNKNOWN: copying that.
CC: There's also speculation you have a chart on board that gives that information. They've shipped up some other pretty one up. good ones.
CC: It's also been suggested that if you don't have the chart it's on the tape recorder.
LMP: Well, if I don't have a chart, 1'11 put it on t.he tape recorder.
LMP: Okay. I think, unless you guys got some more comments along these lines, maybe we ought to give these guys a chance to get to sleep, and I'11 recline here for a while. If you've got something to brief me on, veli, go ahead; but I'd like to keep my answers to yes's and no's and whatever else you think you really need. cc Pine, Bill, and I'11 check with you like every 30 minutes, just to make sure we still have voice contact. --- - _---
UNKNOWN: log writing to do and whatnot. So keep an eye on the systems and the gimbal angles, and we'11 be all right.
UNKNOWN: Ken, if your EECOM man wants to play the OMNI-switch game, we're on Dog - Bravo at this time, actually on Bravo but a$.0 configured for D's - correction, we are on D and also configured for Bravo. If you want to switch, we'11 go ahead.
CC: Okay, we'11 give that a try, and we are cranking up some Packground music for you.
LMP: Okay. 'Ihe last time they did that, it sounded like they were running at the wrong speed on the tape, but we're a little closer now. Maybe it'11 be a little better.
CC: Wouid you also believe Doppler shift?
UNKNOWN: Might be another way to range. back out again,
CC: books like we can use your humming for backup ranging in case everything else fails. w Roger. Apollo 8, Houston. don't need to answer You this transmission, but doctors observe that it looks like your - some of your sensors may be : working loose, 'so you might just kind of push on them and see if they are in place.
LMP: That do any good?
CC: Looks like it is one of your sternals, Bili.
CC: Apollo 8. We can't handle the OWN1 switching for about thirty more minutes, till we get back to an 85-foot disk, so you will have to watch the antenna store for a few more minutes.
UNKNOWN: I don't see any loose sensor - the upper, upper . . .
LMP: Are you trying to call, Houston?
CC: No, I didn't. It sounded like you were getting an echo, and I checked, and I hadn't held the key down at the time either.
LMP: Okay. I don't see any loose sensors, but the upper sternal is beginning to irritate a little bit, but not badly; and possibly there is some- thing going on there.
CC: Okay. And did you copy about the antenna?
LMP: They really disappoint me, but I'11 keep that in mind. - Page1
UNKNOWN: 8, Houston. I'd like to make a voice check vith you. Apollo 8, Houston. Radio check.
CC: Apollo 8, Houston. Radio check.
CC: Apollo 8, Houston. Radio check. (End music)
CC: Apcllo 8, Houston. Radio check.
CC: Apollo 8, Houston in the blind now. We're not receiving down-voice. We have data, and it appears it's probably a ground problem.
LMP: Roger, Houston. Read you loud and clear.
CC: Okay. I got you that time. I take it you were able to copy us with the music? Is that affirm?
LMP: Ivas able to copy you all the time, Ken, but I cculd only hear the music when you were trying . to tmsmit. And I wondered if you noticed cycling on my suit power switch vhen you - vhen ~011 called me. I am hearing an echo now. And what switch were
CC: Roger. I copy your echo. . you cycling?
LMP: I was cycling the suit power which turns off the BIONZD periodically. I figured +&t would wake the doctors up. . I I- . ._ -^.- ,“. ‘.
UNKNOWN: 77 It appears that we have more than one con- munications problem. Calm it. (Laughter) You are cutting out, Houston. Oh, that was sn inadvertent cut-in.
UNKNOWN: need the high gain, Houston, or will the OMNI's be okay? That's negative. The 0!4iVI is
UNKNOWN: Houston. okay.
UNKNOWN: Be advised that about 50 - I am hearing these ethos quite a bit of the time, and if you are trying to play music, T am not hearing it.
UNKNOWN: We understand, and we are not trying to play music right now. Okay. who is this, CCFM TECH? This is his substitute;
UNKNOWN: is only human. this is Flight Director.
UNKNOWN: I didn't recognize your voice there.
UNKNOWN: don't get to talk often.
UNKNOWN: is substituting for you now, Flight?
UNKNOWN: Things are looking pretty good from here. How about down there?
UNKNOWN: couldn't be better. Tape I&P You guys are doing a great job. I really appreciate it.
CC: Apollo 8, Houston. Going to be handling over sites at 25. I will make a voice clteck with you when we come up on the new site, and the ground says thank you for your kind words.
LMP: Okay. We will be standing by.
CC: Apollo 8, Houston through Honeysuckle.
UNKNOWN: Roger, Houston. Loud and clear.
CC: Okay, Bill, and our BIOMED data still looks a little bit 'squirrelly. How about checking the blue signal conditioner on your BIOMED harness. You have one connector, should be the center package, has a blue connector on it. You kind of check that, and I don't know if you have changed the BIOMBD harness leads recently; if you have, this might have . caused our problem.
UNKNOWN: Roger. I was just cracking open some acorns here for breakfast. Let me put them down, and I will check my BILKED leads.
CC: There is no rush on it.
LMP: Everything seems shipshape.
LMP: Go, Houston. - -
CC: Okay, Bill. We're ready to try this music on a different kind,of latch-up this time. What I'd like to do in order to make sure that we maintain voice CCMM is when you get it if you would, give us a call and tell us you have the music and any comment about its relative volume or anything like that. And if I get your call, then I'11 call you back and tell you. And what will happen is when I go to talk to you we'11 drop the music And we can go ahead and take over the link. switching of the antennas if you like.
LMP: okay. I'm in Bravo Dog switch configuration, and go ahead with the music. Be advised last time the fidelity was low, and the volume was too high.
CC: Okay. And if you'11 give us the same kind of comment, hopefully not the same comment but the same type of evaluation when you pick it up this time.
UNKNOWN: Play it a little bit, and we'11 talk about it.
UNKNOWN: music)
UNKNOWN: I can barely, barely hear it.
LMP: 'Ihat will keep me awake.
LMP: Maybe you ought to crank if. back down a little bit.
LMP: Great.
UNKNOWN: music) CC Apollo 8, Houston. How was that?
LMP: That's real good for background level type, Ken. Maybe you can do some logging in here so that's real nice at that level; maybe for anything else it could be a little bit louder, but that's good for now.
CC: okay * That‘s about the MAX volume we can take down here; so if you want to talk to us, just barely equaling it.
UNKNOWN: okay. Try it again, and 1'11 give you a little louder call; I've been trying to keep it quiet. Don't
CC: Oh, yes, that's all right. - I was aware yoti were calling; I.just didn't make out what you said. And from now on, any time you call, we'11 drop the music, and I'11 talk to you. Don't hesitate for me a bit.
LMP: Roger. - j
CC: And, Bill, we're going to have to wait until we get around to Bravo before we start switch- ing. Our margin is still a little bit low.
LMP: Okay. I'11 just go ahead and switch it and save you all that trouble.
CC: Ckay. Thank you. 0~ midnight DVA show's back on the air.
UNKNOWN: Really great now.
CC: Apollo 8, Houston. Check your yaw gimbal angle.
LMP: You must have been reading my mind.
CC: No, th\? DSKY's.
UNKNOWN: When you go to high gain, would you tell me?
LMP: Ken, do you want me to use the high gain wher, we come around, or is the OMNI sufficient? It doesn't matter to me.
CC: The OMNI is doing fine. Okay. I was just watching your middle gimbal angle there; it 'vzs getting a little far out. - Oh, okay. I thought you - I was, too. I thought you said check the DSKY, and I thought you were talking about the hi& gain antenna. No, I'm sorry. I was just watching your middle gimbal.
LMP: Yes, this thing really slops around in deadband, but it's really nice flying otherwise.
UNKNOWN: All I have used the while trip is pulse.
CC: You just woke the doctor up. You said pulse, and he came alive. And he'd like to know if you did in fact, check out the BIOMED harness.
LMP: Yes, I tightened down all the plugs and checked And when the other fellows wake up, if you remind me, why, I'11 give it a more thorough going over.
CC: Okay, X11. It's been suggested that they would like to see you try switching the two leads, a yellow and a blue one, and just go you know, ahead and switch them, and they'11 sacrifice their pneumogram because they'd rather have the EKG.
UNKNOWN: Do they need it now, or can they wait until somebody else wakes up? -- Page a
UNKNOWN: guess we can wait, Bill. Is that a hard thing to get to?
UNKNOWN: You have to take your pants off and about everything else - stand by. Row's that, Houston? Stand by, Bill. We'11 take a look at it.
UNKNOWN: Apollo 8. Roger. Read you. We're looking at data now. (Laughter)
UNKNOWN: suppose you'11 tell me my heart has quit beating. We couldn't argue with you. That doesn't help at all. That's pretty bad.
UNKNOWN: the pneumogram IO-GO for entry? 0ne thiug you might be interested in: we listened to that low speed information that you taped on the first couple of REX's that we thought was going to be unusable. And it must have been a grocnd problem because it's c0ming in loud and clear now.
UNKNOWN: that's great. I was just writing a long dissertation on why we have problems and can't use that l?SE in low bit rate. So that's real good. L--.
CC: Yes, it's coming in loud and clear. Pretty interesting.
LMP: Let me tell you, it was a hectic revolution. If you've got the music going, I'm not hearing it, Ken.
UNKNOWN: cc No, I vas waiting to see what we did on that before I started it up again.
LMP: Okay. If they could hold off here for a couple of hours, if they have anything at all, just tell them,I'm alive, why, I'11 give my real good going over here when I get done. I might even make a statement to the world that I haven't noticed that their little amplifiers had gotten hot.
CC: You say it did get hot? NC, I hadn't even Goticed it until I started changing the lead.
CC: Oh, okay.. Okay. I'm going to crank the music up agein then. Have they got anything at all down there? .
CC: Well, we're on low bit rate right now, so it'11 be a few minutes before we get a chance to take another look at it. We'11 let you know if you get sick. Oh, well, ue csn hold off for a little while.
CC: Roger. * I can't hear it, but it sounds like something I'd rather not hear anyway. * -- :
UNKNOWN: of music)
UNKNOWN: Houston, Apollo a.
CC: Hello, Apollo a. We interrupt this program of music to bring you the late evening status report.
LMP: Good. What's up?
CC: Okay. We are getting ready to have a shift turn- over, and I vanted to go over a few items before ao: On the midcourse correction nunber 6: right now, that looks like it is at most 0.3 a foot per second, so there will be no burn for midcourse number 6. Midcourse number 7 is a little larger, on Your and we'11 make a decision that later. weather in landing site still reported as being good and the forecast to be --bout 2000 scattered and I2 000 broken, about the same numbers they gave Visibility vi11 be about 10 miles, Prank earlier. wave height about 4 feet. And I guess there is some scattered thundershowers, like less than 5 percent, that you should worry about. And they're 10 to 30 percent maybe at 2000, broken as opposed to scattered; so it looks pretty fair. We have got a-- IMP Just my kind of weather. Got a couple of flight plan things to