Otrobonita/noicy-space-talks huggingface dataset:
LMP: Hey, we were tracking do_ there real nfce. Socn as started went we to vent, we poof!
UNKNOWN: Yes. 6
C: You'd better have - It's a good thin we a_-e venting now, and not on that lOth R_V or something like that.
UNKNOWN: Did you sleep?
UNKNOWN: on the 7th - coming over here - %fnere are we? We're coming from here. JD'ENTIA L'"' r .... ,. NFIr)EIt,JII A_L Day How's your - There's one I've got to get. Hui_?
CMP: You all finished with 83, Bill? our
CMP: I'11 see if orbit has changed any.
CMP: These optics are outstanding.
UNKNOWN: The optics.
LMP: Okay, water quantity is 55 percent.
LMP: 55.
CMP: 5th RA_;.
CMP: 7 and 8 are the last two that we got. You got TV right down here.
UNKNOWN: 02 FLOW HIGH.
LMP: 02 high flow; it's from that venting, I guess.
LMP: That and - oh, the water - the accumulator came on. The accumulator Just came on.
LMP: 50 percent. Are
UNKNOWN: you in position, Bill?
UNKNOWN: _t's eomJn c up on that time, now. iDENT,,IA,b, Day 1 ,6
CMP: 81:09, I got to get this stUff started.
LMP: This one calls for pitch down 5 ·degrees, Jim.
LMP: You want to do that, or are you Just going to do that lO-degree thing? on horizon
CMP: No, you can - pitch at least the for this, because - otherwise, it's going to - This hasn't changed though, I don't think.
LMP: Well, it has in the flight plan, whether you - it's Doesn't up to you, howevar you want it. make any difference - -
LMP: - - I can't see anything out here anyway.
CMP: I Just don't want to get the sun in my eyes.
CMP: You want me to pitch do wn to the horizon or past?
UNKNOWN: Yes, you can pitch down a little bit past the horizon.
LMP: Give me a moment here, then.
LMP: Okay, you want to hop in here, Frank?
LMP: Say, you want to get in here?
UNKNOWN: Huh?
UNKNOWN: I can put this ... right there.
UNKNOWN: Okay. That better?
LMP: It's about 35, huh, Frank? ,,'- F_ k. lC i !',_ r-k i"r [,, *,,.. _,, __',_'l-INq I/-_L Day 4 147
UNKNOWN: Well, I still say 35.
UNKNOWN: it does. You got to lead it a little bit, because it's - kny time now - It - it always drops a little more. bit
LMP: Yes, it would be a good time. want
LMP: Jim, you to give him that vacuum vent?
LMP: Okay, stick the vacuum thing o:: there, and vent it for a while.
CMP: Here's the vacuum.'
UNKNOWN: might get a possible
CMP: What's your attitude, Bill?
LMP: I'm about 5 degrees pitch down and 5 degrees roll right.
CDR: (Blowing nose)
CDR: Did you get through?
UNKNOWN: Okay ...
CDR: Oksy, Jim.
CMP: Well, the sunlight suddenly came in there. It wasn't like the last time I saw it.
LMP: I'm pitched down quite a bit this time.
CMP: Okay. Keep tracking, Bill. She'11 be ready.
UNKNOWN: I changed the IP, Frank. I thought this had a better . symbol to it. I can remember this one better.
CMP: Let's see. _
CMP: How's the water doing?
CMP: 81:09 is -
UNKNOWN: You want something to hold on to or what? surface
UNKNOWN: Boy, you ought to see the lunar with this 28-power scope ! fantastic!
UNKNOWN: This is Can volcano?
CMP: This is utterly fantastic!
CMP: You should get it when it's Just rising - you get it with Just the horizon still there; you've got to hurry, though. I've got to take a shot here shortly.
CMP: She's tracking.
CMP: I got it right there, big as the mark.
UNKNOWN: - How far are you pitched down now, Bil]?
LMP: 10 _egrees -"6 degrees.
LMP: Too much? ¢, IFID ENTIA I Day h lb9
CDR: I although Just wanted it's AUTO to know tracking, - Yes, 6 I can degrees Just is barely too much; see the edge. 6 degrees is too much pitchdown.
LMP: How's that?
CMP: That's it - Whatever you have right now is a good shot.
LMP: ° Got 5 degrees.
CMP: I'm tracking on this - on this telescope, and it's - the sextant) and it's much better.
UNKNOWN: Almost.
CMP: You don't get - 60
UNKNOWN: You know, even at miles though, it seems like it's still that far away.
CMP: There's still things coming off.
LMP: There's still stuff coming out.
CMP: Well, I wish I could say that we saw a volcano or some- thing, but I'm afraid this is - Just an amazing sight.
LMP: I haven't seen a thing - seen a thing that looked like a volcano all day long.
CDR: I haven't either.
LMP: I said I haven't seen a thing that looked like a ye - volcano all day long.
CDR: Tsiolkovsky - Tsiolkovsky is the only one that has the distinct appearance to it - -
UNKNOWN: Yes, the filling does.
CDR: ... NFIDENTIAL ' NFIDENTIAE Day
UNKNOWN: Yes, please.
LMP: Yes, I'11 Just kind of ease - Just - Oh - okay, you
LMP: Sure.
CMP: Have you down in attitude?
CMP: What's your attitude in pitch, Bill?
LMP: I'm going to take a leak, now. I should have told you.
LMP: About 8 degrees.
CMP: Above?
UNKNOWN: Below. below,
CMP: Oh, yes. That's bad.
CDR: Should stay at lease at the horizon, if you can.
LMP: Well, you liked what I had before; it's only about 2 degrees difference.
CDR: Well, when it's tracking far like this, see what the trunnion is? _6 degrees?
CMP: Well, maybe it does, maybe it's ...
LMP: Tell you what - Why don't I give you that other camera?
LMP: You've got color film; why don't you get a picture of the e_h as it comes up next time?
LMP: (Laughter) Well, that was real good. Okay, you ready?
CMP: Have you pitched up at all?
LMP: Yes, we're pitching u_p. Just having a changing of the watch, here.
LMP: I'11 get that, Frank. Go ahead. there
LMP: In the back - It's toward me - it's right .... lower. FID,ENTIAL,.I 'tDENttAb-- Day 151 tracking with the ors-nge background.
UNKNOWN: Man, that's an mmazing sight!
UNKNOWN: The landmark line of sight is going by; it's so bright, it's orange[ And the star line of sight is white.
UNKNOWN: Hey, let me swap you caJmeras there.
UNKNOWN: It floated off the wall.
LMP: Camera.
LMP: Here you go.
CDR: Bill?
LMP: Yes. ...
CMP: Still try to get a series, Frank, if you have a - ... you using 70 millimeter?
UNKNOWN: yes, go ahead; I'm Just - just waiting for the solution to come up.
UNKNOWN: I've been using tho sextant to mark -
C: Boy, this tracking is - Yes, it is fairly easy.
UNKNOWN: You boiling? Huh'.'
UNKNOWN: have LOW bit going? Maybe we ought to discuss what we're seeing here. You have some sort of tape recorder going so that we can discuss what we're seeing? ,N.F.I.DENIIA L ._C.ONFIDENTtAL'- Day
CMP: Yes, Just something that I could talk for some tir.c without - -
CDR: GO ahead and ...
CMP: Okay, anytime. the sextant which gives us - gives me mach finer control to track the landmark with. I've been using the same landmarks sextant magnifies as before. And the the maintain landmark, and it's very easy to the sextant on the landmark. control
CMP: RESOLVED to 5[EDIUM were the modes.
CMP: On %he second control point, the crater which I take, vhich is in the middle of Gemini, is very easy to see one side has collapsed, the side to the left. And you debris tumbling down. many can seerocks and On of the craters that go by, especially near the one on control point 1, I can see where hard rock had stayed in place around the rim of the crater as Lhe rest of the debris had folded ovcr into a mound do%-n into that crater floor.
CMP: I'm coming up on the crater - as a matter of fact, the now. We're Crater Slayton right going directly over it.
CMP: And Just beyond that one is the Crater Cart. newer surround
CMP: The craters that the older ones have sharper ridges - and the - They're more roundly formed like - like cones, funnels, and along the insides are a brighter material than the other craters. And they also don't have the step functions that the lifter - bigger craters have. There's one - there's two bright craters Just to the west of Slayton that have this particular characteristic.
CMP: In the vicinity of the Crater Carr, it's very difficult to see the ground now; it's very brizht , a uniform brightness, and the craters seem to dim out somewhat.
CMP: You can still make some of the rilles and hills of tile smaller craters and the white material of the newly formed oncs, but - it's much more a hazy appearance than craters on either side. That must be near the sub- solar point. " ql'FID ENTI,' L 4
CMP: Okay. You can stop it now, if you want to.
CDR: You got a program alarm, Bill.
LMP: What did I do w_ong?
CMP: Oh, counted 15 seco_zds from zero.
UNKNOWN: Well, you got a F_START that time.
LMP: Oh, shit!
UNKNOWN: Don't worry.
CMP: (Singing) gave
CDR: ) VERB 34, huh? Well, you me bum dope. Well, I'11 be doggoned!
CMP: ..., I guess.
CDR: It's not mine.
UNKNOWN: 34, ENTER.
CDR: Oh, brotherl Look at that!
CDR: ° What was it?
CDR: Guess.
CMP: Tsiolkovsky?
CDR: No, it's the earth coming up.
LMP: Augh! Quit rocking the boat!
CDR: _,faatdid you get, another program ala_un?
LMP: j Yes, 1620.
UNKNOWN: VERB - VERB 37, not perr_itted. r....ON IDENTIAt' 4 154
CDR: ... reach those two program alarms and the RESTART. And it is your time to take a rest.
CMP: Okay, Just a minute. Let me - ¥EttB 37 - V-_RB 37, ENTER; 60. Okay, we got one more coming up here.
CMP: 81:43.
CMP: VERB -
CDR: Are you getting M.b_qt?
CMP: Huh!
CC: Roger, Frank, good morning. You're loud and clear; how me?
CMP: Proceed. VERB 22, k_FrER.
CC: Welcome back.
UNKNOWN: ENTER; proceed; VERB 25, ENTER.
CMP: Minus 89, then plus 48631, ENTER; minus 00253, ENTER; proceed.
CDR: How's the SPS doing? ...
CMP: VEPd3 -
LMP: What do you want, the gun? I'11 hand it to you.
CMP: Yes, would you, please?
CDR: Where's the update book? Does anybody know?
UNKNOWN: been looking for it. 01'4 F D,ENTIAt gONFIDENTIAL
UNKNOWN: Yes, I got it here in my hand.
CC: Houston. Apollo 8,
CC: Roger; we have a request that Jim space his marks _ his five marks out a bit more slowly. If possible, we'd like to get a couple of them past the zenith. We're getting five of them with rather rapid spacing and from the geometry view-point, it would be better if you would slow them down a little bit and lengthen them out so as to include a couple of them past the zenith. Over.
CDR: Roger; we understand.
CMP: Houston, Apollo 8. That last set of marks are invalid, came
CC: Roger; understand the last set of marks are invalid. Over.
CMP: Roger, if you'd correlate with - The set I'm about _o take is the last set.
CC: We've got an awful lot of background noise, Jim. Could you say again, please?
CMP: Roger; I'm coming up on control point 3; I tried to 3, take another control point in bet_'een 2 and but didn't do it, so I Just - to get out of the program,
CC: Roger; understand you are coming up on 3-
CMP: If I got a program alarm, disregard it - it's because I took too many marks.
CDR: Huh? . e..
CDR: This time, it did though, huh?
CDR: Go ahead, Houston; Apollo 8. p FIDENTIAL ONFIDENTIAL' 156
CC: Roger; on Jim's marks, we'd like to get spacing of approximately 30 - 30 seconds between each mark. The last ones we are copying roughly 15 seconds between z_trks, and we would like to stretch it out even further if that is okay with you.
UNKNOWN: him ...
CMP: I'11 stretch her out all the way.
CMP: You got the hot water on? I can pour some hot water while I'm waiting.
CDR: Yes, Here's one for you.
CMP: Okay, Just stand by 1.
CMP: Here's one.
CMP: I got it.
UNKNOWN: Let me know if anybody else wants some.
UNKNOWN: Here it comes, Bill.
LMP: .°.
CMP: What's that no_se?
CDR: What is that noise? Huh?
CMP: What was it?
CDR: Had his leg against the hose.
UNKNOWN: There you go. '- ONFIDENTiAL JP_ h L I I"- I I1"_ p L I 'T' lA ! U I",11-IU I::::r',l/ IA L Day4 157
CDR: I Just gave it to you.
CMP: Check Bill's.
CDR: The program alarm Just blinked.
CMP: That's okay. It's below the earth.
CMP: It won't drive now until it - If it's below 50.
CDR: Until what?
CMP: Until that trunnion gets up.
CMP: Roger, Mike. I find that tracking is much easier using the sextant than the scanning telescope; you have finer control and at these orbite_l speeds RESOLVED to MEDIUM seemed to be the best combination.
CC: Apollo 8, Houston. Do you read?
CDR: Roger. Did you copy?
CC: Roger; I copy that it's - Tracking is easf_r using the sextant than the scanning telescope; it gives you finer control, and say again after that. Over.
C: And the combination of RESOLVED and _IL?4 is perhaps the best combination - the combination of - our speed LOW is too low. You can't catch up with the target.
CC: Roger; understand that the best combinatian is RESOLVED and MEDIUM. LOW is Just too low.
CMP: You can't keep up with the l_nding site, I should say.
CDR: Yes. CONFIDENTI.A[ l ONFIDENTIAL Day
UNKNOWN: It's tracking us beneath the earth.
CMP: How do you _]1 feel?
CDR: Fine. Why?
CMP: I was Just curious.
CDR: You tired?
CDR: You're going to be busy right afterwards. Those last two REV's.
CDR: I've got a sleep period ooming up here, though, I think. Don't I?
CDR: Yes, right - right after this.
CDR: Let that computer rest.
CDR: What do we have on our TV debut?
CDR: I got that ...
CDR: You mean on the left there?
UNKNOWN: Well, it's always here; I haven't started tracking yeL.
CDR: Do you see it coming up already?
CDR: On the left; I'm not sure if that's it or not, thou_h, triangular-shaped but it's a mound.
CDR: Oh, here we go, right now.
UNKNOWN: This isn't computing the right thing, here.
CDR: Wr.at's your attitude, Frank?
CDR: I'm down some. You want me to pitch up?
CDR: H,_h? '"ON FIDENTIAL' FiDEt.IT!AL' 159
CDR: Yes, it's down now.
CDR: Tracking°
LMP: I could easily see a LM on here.
CMP: What's my trunnion and shaCt?
CDR: 20 and four- 15; 203 and 16, 27, 18 - -
CDR: I'm thrcugh with _he landing site right now.' Don't touch the computer, though.
CDR: Let me see - Have you got the update book, Bill?
UNKNOWN: No, I gave it back to ycu if I recall. Did you look down in here?
UNKNOWN: did, I gave it back, because I don't think that -
CDR: I got it.
CMP: Roger; I'm not too sure what happened that time, Mike. I was marking on the landing site using the code, and I kept getting a large trunnion for AUTO OPTICS, and I could see that the target , the landing site was coming up, so I Just went manually and marked, and yet the - the latitude and longitude was - were quite different from the nominal.
CDR: Get r_lled over here, Jim. Then, you can do a P52.
UNKNOWN: Okay. NFtDENT. tAt; - D'NFID'ENTIAL'
CDR: You might as well start shooting some of this film, Bill, because we're not going to do this converse and stereo because we've got that high _. And then we're going to get ready for TEI and knock everything else off.
CMP: Hill, you w_lt to take care of this 16-millimeter camera?
LMP: I need a lens ... here
CDR: We should be able to get them on - on high gain in a minute, Hill.
CC: Roger; we're checking into Jim's remarks on P22; and in the meantime, I have your maneuver pads and map updates at your convenience. Over.
CDR: If we're going to get settled here, you want to do a P52, Jim? get
CMP: Yes, whenever you settled do_n.
CDR: How about right now?
UNKNOWN: Okay. Proceed ... that inertial, and I'11 have it in a Jiffy.
CMP: One more REV of this stuff and we're finished. No more experimentation.
CDR: Go ahead with your data, Mike.
CC: Okay, and before that, we'd like to take the DSE away from you, please, for a while.
CDR: Alright? Is that all right, Bill?
CDR: It's all yours.
CC: Thank you, and we'd like you to go to P00 and ACCEPT - -
LMP: Go ahead with ... I'11 get ... . -ONFIDENTIA'[ ONFIDENTIAL comfortable?
CDR: Are you - are you
UNKNOWN: Why?
CDR: I mean, do you want to sleep?
LMP: No, I was Just asking.
LMP: Come again.
CDR: I - I ...
LMP: Go on.
CDR: No, no. They've - they've got - Jesus Christ, they've got plenty of data. You can tell them almost anything ... everybody--
CDR: Oh, I did, you're too tired; you need some sleep, and I want everybody sharp for TEI; that's Just like a retro.
LMP: Why don't - Hey, Frank, how about on this next pass you Just point it down to the ground and turn the goddan_n cameras on; let them run automatically.
CDR: Yes, we can do that.
CDR: Shit, I Just burned this film up.
CC: Apollo 8, Hou-_ton.
CC: This REV coming up we'd like to clarify whether you intend to scrub control points 1, 2, and 3 9nly, and do the pseudo landinE site or whether you also intend to scrub the pseudo landing site marks. Over.
CDR: We're scrubbing everything; we'11 - I'11 stay up and point - K_ep the spacecraft vertics/, and take some automatic pictures; but I want Jini and Bill to get some rest. CONF!DE.NTIAL
CDR: Unbelievable - the detail these guys study up. A very good try, but Just completely unrealistic, stuff like that. I should have - -
LMP: I'm willing to try it.
CDR: I should have warned you. No. You try it, and then we'11 _ke another mistake, like entering instead of proceeding or screwing up somewhere like I did.
CMP: ... want your
CDR: I you to get ass in bed! Right now! No, not get to bed! Go to bed! Hurry up! I'm kidding you, get to bed! again?
CMP: ... try
CDR: No, they said they don't want to. no,
LMP: No, they said okay.
CDR: Yes, really.
LMP: What - what would you like me to do?
CDR: Go to bed! When we come over it, we'11 get that thing going when we get to daylight, and then you guys go sack out for 2 hours.
LMP: Shall we - shall we do that detailed thing there, that real ly - -
LMP: Say, give me that lens back there, will you?
CDR: Which one, Bill, this one?
CDR: No, the 80.
CDR: Camera, you mean? FtD'BNItA.b ONFIDENTIA 163
CDR: (Whistling) in been
CDR: You haven't been there since we've in lunar
LMP: In where? you you go horizontal, sometime b=._ore you turn - We haven't shot
LMP: This is the tail end ... this time.
CDR: Huh? Are we losing it?
UNKNOWN: No, I don't waxltto go to local horizontal yet.
CDR: Oh, no, Just go to sleep, Jim.
CDR: I know how I felt, and I know how you guys do.
LMP: Hey, I can see the moon out here ...
CDR: Is that earth's turn on here, or what?
UNKNOWN: Yes, that's what - -
LMP: I - I - Yes, that's why I want to get the pictures over here.
LMP: You want to put it on 0_'.2_I?
CDR: Okay, give me the roll left - Which way are you goin_ to go? NFIDENTIALf
LMP: Well, let's see. I can roll to the right, and that'11 keep us good, won't it?
CDR: The only window that's any good - are these rendezvous - You kind of pitch it down, and yDu get some -
CDR: Okay, which way are yo%{ headed? Oh, you're going to roll, going to roll - -
LMP: We're going to roll to the right, so we can get that high gain up. Right window ...
CDR: Alright, I keep expecting to be seeing the moon.
LMP: Well, you're going to have to Just yaw towards me a little bit.
LMP: Would you hit those lights down there with your foot, Fran
LMP: Hell, we're going away from it, huh?
LMP: We're going away from it, huh?
CDR: Oh, yes.
LMP: Yes, sure is.
CDR: I'm pitching down, but we're going that way.
LMP: Are we? We're going this way?
CDR: Yes, we're going that way.
UNKNOWN: Oh, okay.
CDR: You know, it kin_ of gets you do_n.
UNKNOWN: I thought we '_-cr.egoing - we're going tow___r!s the e?.rth. , tDENTIA LJ your rendezvous W_indow?
CDR: See what? The earth?
LMP: No, the - ground.
CDR: Oh, I see, yes.
CDR: That enough?
CDR: Yes. What happened?
CDR: Snap that thing on or we end u_ doing another automatic one.
CC: Apollo 8, Houston; 4 minutes to LOS. You have control
CDR: Thank you very much, Mike.
CC: You bet.
CDR: Lovell's snoring already.
CC: Yes, we can hear him down here.
LMP: You going to point at the horizon, Frank?
CDR: I pointed it straight down, I thought.
UNKNOWN: when we get ready to go inertial, we get a shot of the horizon as it comes up.
CDR: Well, I'm already straight down pointing ... Thought you might ... one of these ...
LMP: No, I did back there.
CC: We have 1 minute to LOS, Frank. You can terminate stirring up your cryos anytime, and we agree with all knd have your flight plan changes, a beautif_ back- side; we'11 see you the next time a_'o_nd. ONFtDENTIA'["' CONFIDENTIAL 166
CDR: Thank you. I'11 get those, Bill.
LMP: Have you - have you done any of the cryos?
CDR: Is that thing running already? OFF?
CDR: Huh? Did you put it on
CDR: We're doing fine; why don't you go to bed? I'11 - Just tell me what the click - Just turn that thing? Look! This thing here? Right over your head?
CDR: No, I want you to get to bed. Come on now. You've been upall the time; it's in the flight plan. God d,mu it, go to bed! To hell with the other stuff! We'11 bust our ass for it.
CDR: Do I Just turn that when the time comes? What do I have to do to start it?
LMP: ... eighth; it's going to start with me.
LMP: ... stay 1 more minute.
CDR: I know it. Get going! I think this is a closed issue. Get to bed!
CDR: I don't care; get to bed!
CDR: No, you get to bed; get your ass to bed. You quit wapting one - one - I - I - I - I don't want to talk about it.
CDR: Shut up; go to sleep, both of you guys.
CDR: I'11 Just click it on when the time comes.
CDR: You should see your eyes; get to bed!
CDR: Don't worry about the exposure business, God damn it, ...CO' ALs t"ONFIDENTIA[
CDR: I don't want ... Alright. You want me to take some pictures? Get some sleep now. You've only got a couple hours, Bill, before we're going to have to be fresh again.
CDR: Yes. Okay. I'11 take care of it all. Alright. I Just got up, remember? I slept for 4 hours.
CDR: No, I didn't.
CDR: Yes. Go to sleep.
CDR: Houston already came back and said, "Fine."
CDR: A quick snooze, and you guys will feel a hell of a lot better tomorrow.
CDR: Well, you're tired; it's not cold.
CC: Apollo 8, loud and clear.
CDR: Fine, I'm fine.
CC: Apollo 8, Houston. Apollo
CDR: Go ahead, Houston; 8.
CC: Roger, Apollo 8. A couple of notes for you. On the P52 that you're co_ing up to ¢n this REV, we've looked at your state vectors and all your information. The plat- form looks good, and it appears that it is your option if you would like to bypass this P52; your platform will still be good at the following TEI pass. And we'd like to have your PRD reading, and I guess we are behind t?_ sleep summary. Over.
CDR: Okay. Well, Jim and Bill are botL resting now, and I rested for about 3 hours or 4 hours d_ving the period earlier today. S,F.IDENTIA!' , oQ Ftjzaam lD y4 168
CC: Roger. Copy· And
CDR: this PRD now reads 144. state POO and ACCEPT.
CDR: P00 and ACCEPT.
CDR: Now we are standing by to Copy this TEI 9 pad.
CC: Okay, Apollo 8. We have completed with the computer. You can use VERB 47 to transfer, and I have the TEI 9 pad.
CDR: That's Ken, isn't it? Just a minute and I'11 take those.
CDR: Okay. I went to P00 and then VERB 47, and I'm ready to copy.
CC: Okay, do you have it in BLOCK?
CDR: Say again. It's in BLOCK; Roger· have
CC: I say, do you UP TELemeTRY in BLOCK?
CC: Okay. This pad is a TEI 9, SPS G&N: 45597, minus 040, plus 157, 087:19:1820, plus 34188, minus 01353, plus 00780, 180, 008, 001, November Alfa, plus 00187, 34223, 313, 34021, 42, 0898, 253, 033, down 131, left 28, plus 129_i, 0758, minus 16500, 36277, 14648, 16; primary star, Sirius; secondary, Rigel; 129, 155, 010, four quads, 15-second ullage, horizon on l·2-degree window line at T minus 3; use high-speed proced_lre with minus Mike Alfa. After looking at the burn information _rom your previous SPS burns, it appears that the engine perform_ance should give us a 3-second burn time, longer than what you have on the pad. The pad number should correspond with what you got out of the computer. So we have not factored this into the past data; however, you can antfcipate the engine for a normal DELTA-V to give you a 3-second - 3.7-second burn in excess of the computed times. Over. I
CDR: Roger. Th_uk you.
CDR: TEI 9, SPS G&_: 45597, minus OhO, plus 157, 087:19:1820, plus 3h188, minus 01353, plus 00780_ 180, 008, 001, NA, , D.N-Ft:DENTIAL CONFIDENTIAL ' Day4 169 left 28, plus 0758, minus 16500, 12987, plus 36277, 14648, 16; and that's Sirius and Rigel, 129, 155, 010: four-Jet, 15 seconds, 1.2 the gaze on the window at T minus 3, high- than speed, minus MA, engines 3.7 seconds longer given. to it, if you would like for us to dump your tape, we
CDR: Roger. now,
CDR: Okay, you should have it on the high gain Houston.
CC: Roger. Why don't you go ahead and d_mp the tape?
CC: Apollo 8 Houston. The tape recorder is back to you.
UNKNOWN: Hey, Bill, ... aspirin.
CDR: You got a headache _
CDR: Hey, you don't have to tell them about aspirin. I told Berry ...; Just the other two.
CDR: Yes, you ought to be good and tired, too.
CDR: There's a magazine floating around. Can you grab that please, Jim?
CDR: Huh? It's for you to sleep.
CDR: Hey, this little radiometer that I got is up to-124 now. What's yours reading?
CC: Apollo 8, HOuston.
CC: We have looked at all your systems and ali your trajectory information, and you have a GO for another REV.
CDR: Oh, thank you. FIDENTIA
CDR: Houston, Apollo 8. do you read?
UNKNOWN: reading you weak, but clear, Frank.
CDR: How about this antenna? Is that any better?
UNKNOWN: a little louder.
CDR: (Whistling)
CMP: ... align ...?
CDR: We didn't have to do one, Jim. No, they said that they'd and they'd checked it, it looked real good, and let you sleep. Hey, Ken, how'd you pull a duty on Satur - on Christmas Eve? You know, it happens to bachelors every time, doesn't it?
CC: I wouldn't oe anywhere else tonight.
CDR: Ha, ha.
CDR: Ken, how's the MSFN tracking of this lunar orbit coming out?
CC: Okay, Frank. It's looking like it's coming right down the pike. It's doing Just what it's supposed to, and our apparently all computer programs have got the right numbers in them because they're predicting where you're going,
CDR: Are they covering any of these anomalies due to hard spots?
CC: They're detectable, but they're not changing things enough to be anything more than of interest.
CDR: Well, I hope they're as good with the corridor as they were with that LOI. That was beautiful.
CC: It sure was. That's - that is textbook all the way.
CC: Apollo 8, llouston.
CDR: Go a_head. p DENTIAL ONFIDENTIAL
CDR: Do what? Yes.
CDR: Understand we're GO for REV 9?
CDR: I feel - I - Listen, I'11 be the first to tell you I had enough sense; I went down _d crapped out before.
CDR: How is the weather down there, Ken?
CC: Entirely beautiful; loud and clear and Just right in temperature.
CDR: ]{ow about in the recovery area?
CC: That's looking real good.
CC: Yes, they told us that there's a beautiful moon out there.
CDR: Yes, I was Just saying there's a beautiful earth out there.
CC: It depends on your point of view.
CDR: Aqmost - -
CC: If you're looking for something to do up there, Frank, you might get that BIO_,5/Dswitch over to the left position.
CDR: Are you ready?
CDR: 5, 4, 3 - Say again.
CDR: Ken, are you're - -
CC: All set.
CDR: $, 4, 3, 2, 1 -
CDR: How do you read me on A, Ken? C, ENTIAL
CC: Okay, we're about - inside 10 minutes to LOS; we'11 be the TV types' information standing by. In the event that the situation develops again, for p nting accuracy, if I see anything that looks like the terminator or anything of that nature, I'm going to call the dark side of it 12 o'clock, and use that as a reference system, and we'11 try that. If that doesn't dope out any problems with camera pointing, why, I may try - call for a plus pitch, and then I'11 Just correct what I see to account for it.
CDR: Roger. We're not going to use that telephoto lens. But I don't believe we'11 get - be able to get a picture of and the - the lunar surface. I'm looking at the earth
CC: Okay. Real fine, then. And next time around, why - We'11 take an extra special look at all the parameters. We'11 have our TEI pad for you, and we'11 use the last REV for by system of all things we see and where they stand.
CDR: Okay, fine.
CC: Apollo 8, Houston. We're approaching 4 minutes to LOS; a]] systems are GO.
CDR: Roger. Thank you.
CDR: You sick, Jim?
CDR: Yes. Fine.
CDR: I'11 call you all in about 15 minutes for that TV show.
CDR: You sick?
CDR: We might as well go ahead. We might as well go ahead. Yes, we've got about 15 minutes to get set up.
CDR: Huh? Well, we've got to get the TV out now. I don't think %-e ought to screw around with this.
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CDR: Well, let's talk about that; that's what I wunted.
CDR: Why don't we do this? Why don't you hold it out the window, and like you did, each one of us talk - -
LMP: ... and Words. And then we'11 say something about how this kind of reminds you of how it might have started, and then you read the first four of those, and Jim reads the next four, and I'11 read the last two, and we'11 say good night.
CDR: No, Just this one. I don't want to complicate it any more than that, because we got the high gain antenna everything. problem and
CMP: Why don't we ...?
CDR: Hey, wait. We've got to do it up right because there will be more people listening to this than ever listened to any other single person in history.
UNKNOWN: ... first four ...
CDR: Let Bill say the first four, and you say the next four, and I'11 say the last two. There's no more.
CDR: Just put it away; don't you have time to?
CDR: No, I don't know where the tape is.
CDR: Huh? What'd you Say, Bill?
CDR: Then as soon as we go through this, we 6o into a GI party. Everything gets put up, and We'l:l concentrate on TEI. Okay?
CMP: ... .,- ONFIDENTIAI t CONFIDENTIAI .17,,
CDR: We've got a lot of time.
CDR: Store all the cameras, store everything, because this burn will be a hang. How much do you need? What rate?
CDR: I can't hear you.
CDR: No. Yes, I got it completed. '-
CDR: That long? Here.
CDR: Why don't we each talk about one thing that impressed us out most of what we saw and describe it? Okay?
CDR: How much do you have? The same?
CDR: How ... a change?
UNKNOWN: ought to _ke it perfectly.
CDR: Yes, they wanted it to drag on a little bit longer, but we'11 cut it off when we feel like it. Okay?
CDR: Yes, then we could take all the ldnar stuff and put it Somewhere; you know, all the maps and things - -
UNKNOWN: Yes, I got ... in
CDR: - - and we'11 put it all one place e_nd Eet _q_ whole - Put all the cameras away and get the ghole damn thing in shipshape.
CDR: Because no_. she's going to take us home!
CDR: Let's only have the stuff out we're going to necd to operate with for the burn. Here's some stuff stuck up here. _nere's cameras floating all over the place. Jim, fix me one of those.
UNKNOWN: ... ENTIAE CONFIDENTIAL l'r
CDR: Alright. Here comes a couple of magazines - I don't
CDR: What are these? better
CDR: That doesn't ... - You put ail the camera equipment one away in place.
CMP: Here we go.
CDR: This H_h?
CDR: No, put everything away. 16-millimeter
CDR: Got this big camera and the camera cord.
CDR: It's about 10 minutes.
CDR: You want to tape that?
CDR: Where do these brackets go?
CDR: Man, I wonder how -
CDR: Huh? I wonder how in the hell it goes in here. Who took it out?
CDR: You sure this one came out of here, too, Bill?
CDR: Jim, where did you get this camera bracket out of?
CDR: They did?
CDR: Who's cutting - Somebody's closing off one of those inlets somak'here.
CDR: Is that tooth?asia thing of yours going over that one Bil] ? , DN.F, IDENTI'A[ .fDENTt,Ab Day4 Z76
CDR: This one - this compressor started lugging down.
CDR: I said the compressor started lugging down. monocular, 'it that too. Where did go?
CDR: Huh? Where does that go? There's
CDR: a ...
CDR: No, put them all away.
CDR: I got that one; do you want to put them on?
CDR: I don't know - How - how does this store, Bill? Together or separately?
LMP: Ta_ke ...
CDR: I guess that 150 - 250 millimeter comes off, and this one goes on.
LMP: Now, we'11 open the .,.
CDR: That goes on that other camera.
CDR: Let's take that clip off that wire there, tee,' shall we? I don't like that.
CMP: (Coughing)
LMP: Flight plan.
CMP: That's it. open.
CDR: R3 is I got the tape right here. O,NF1DENTIAL NFIDENTIA[ Day,, -'r7
CDR: Bill, can we get through this placo? Oops.
CDR: Did you stow the sextant bracket? Want
CDR: Bill? me to hold it? There it is.
CDR: After this ..., I'11 store the ORDEAL, too.
CDR: That should be -
UNKNOWN: ... send down the update ...
CDR: Yes. blurb
LMP: May I see that - that ... thing?
CDR: The what, Bil] ?
UNKNOWN: The thing we're supposed to read?
CDR: Oh yes, what time is it? 85 something?
LMP: 85:35.
CMP: And then ... complicabed.
UNKNOWN: _ There you go. Why don't you get a map, Jim, so we can tell the folks what you're looking at?
LMP: Which one do you _ant - What do you want me to read?
CDR: The first four.
CDR: Okay? light
LMP: I can't see it. There's so much on here.
CMP: It's minus 63 degrees pitch, 350 degrees yaw. ' ONFIDENTIA L 'ONFIDENTIALt ,, .'r8
LMP: I'm not getting anything. _%at are you going to try to - What _rindow are you going to do it out of?
LMP: What are you going to do it out-of? This side window here, the terminator, or what?
LMP: What window are you going to do it out of?
CDR: Well, wherever we can get the high gain on. I'11 point - -
LMP: We're pointed straight up in the air, now.
CDR: No, we're not. We're Just about horizontal.
UNKNOWN: Oh. My visual is off. (Singing)
CDR: Probably be best out that rendezvous window there.
LMP: Yes. If you'd yaw about 30 degrees this way, you could probably pick the earth coming up over the hill.
LMP: Where abouts are we?
CDR: Somewhere over the moon.
UNKNOWN: Here, we'11 ta_ke it out that window over there - -
CDR: We'11 have to yaw to the left, Wouldn't I?
UNKNOWN: No, you'11 have to yaw to the right, and - to get the rendezvous; maybe pitch up Just a little bit. CQNFIDEN'['IAD
LMP: It's on. Are
CDR: we getting them?
LMP: Well, it's Just - The trouble is, I don't think you'd normally and get it out the rendezvous window have the Frank. high gain, too,
CMP: You tell me - -
UNKNOWN: thing to do would be, - if you want to get the earth, to get the yaw - to yaw up and pitch up.
CDR: Try to get CC_,_, will you, Bill?
LMP: Okay, well, gee - I don't see it out there anywhere. Do you? The earth? I don't think we've had AOS yet.
UNKNOWN: You're going down, it says right here.
LMP: I'11 know when to get them as soon as we get on an O_I.
UNKNOWN: You'11 have to p_tch up, Frank; I can't get them now, on - on the -
LMP: You'11 have to pitch up; I can't get them on the high gain there. Pitch or - or yaw - pitch up or and/or yaw yaw right.
CDR: I'11 do both.
R: Okay.
CDR: How's that steam pressure, Bill?
UNKNOWN: Good.
UNKNOWN: ... Frank.
UNKNOWN: isn't even boiling yat.
UNKNOWN: Yes, we Just started. bo-k?
UNKNOWN: Where's the pad Doesn't it have the - - · .-OblFID ENTIA _ ONFIDENTIA[ 4 ',80
CDR: Here it comes!
CDR: Oh boy!
CDR: Yes, see it?
CMP: Well, keep the camera there. Keep the camera.
LMP: Here it comes. Here it comes. But you're not on yet.
UNKNOWN: You got it - you got to do something.
LMP: Pitch up or yaw -
CDR: Yaw right?
LMP: Yaw right.
UNKNOWN: Oh, Jesus.
CDR: Oh, I get it off this camera - window over here.
CMP: Houston, Apollo 8. to the right.
UNKNOWN: Here, you want me to fly it Just to come a _ -
LMP: That one's got it, the roll. Yes, yes. It's the roll that's got it. Roll right, if you can.
CMP: We're rolling.
LMP: Come on, gang.
UNKNOWN: We're going to radial out. Are we - You got her coming up? You see her, Frank?
CDR: Yes, it's beautiful.
UNKNOWN: got to roil. i
CMP: It's rolling.
CDR: Watch the gimbal lock.
LMP: You got to roll - - CMP Right.
LMP: -- and yaw. now.
CMP: We're over 45 degrees in yaw right CMP and rolling.
UNKNOWN: still yawing, we're still Ib_ it.
UNKNOWN: is it m Frank? Point to
CDR: I'm pointing right at it with the camera.
LMP: Then why in the hell we're not getting it? Okay.
CDR: Should be getting it.
UNKNOWN: Try again here. i
CDR: Got it?
CMP: There, you got it; you're on.
LMP: There y_u got it. It was in some kind of a gimbal lock- up there.
CDR: Try - try it - call them.
LMP: Houston - -
CDR: Houston - Go ahead, go ahead.
CC: Loud and clear and an initial look at your systems are good. Over.
UNKNOWN: Roger. We've got the T - -
CC: We've got a p_cture, ApoTlo 8. .QNFtDENTIAI C NFIDENTIAL" Day
UNKNOWN: Roger, wE've got the TV - -
CDR: Roll- rollle_.
CDR: Did he say it was a good picture?
LMP: How's the picture look, Houston?
LMP: The TV look okay?
CC: Looks very good.
UNKNOWN: Welcome from the moon, Houston -
CDR: And the world.
CMP: Okay, why don't you' describe what - Where abouts are we here anyway?
CDR: Tell them - this camera's Just the thing. Tell them what we're going to do.
CMP: you got the - got the thing_majig? Want me to roll a little bit?
LMP: Houston, you're seeing a view of the earth, taken over We're until the lunar horizon. going to follow the track the terminator, where we will turn the spacecraft and give you a view of the long shadowed terrain at the terminator, which should come in quite well in the TV.
UNKNOWN: We don't know whether you can see it from the TV screen, but the moon is nothing but a milky white, completely void.
CDR: You're going to have to show it out that picture now; I've lost it. I
UNKNOWN: Okay. NFIDENTIAL' r
CDR: We're ch_lging the cameras to the other window now. Can
CDR: Pitch down.
LMP: - - and let me get out the rendezvous window and yaw, maybe?
LMP: Yaw toward me and away from - away from the earth.
CDR: This is Apollo 8, coming to you live from the moon. We've had to switch the TV camera now; we've showed you first a view of earth as we've been watching it for the past switching 16 hours. Now we're so that we can show you the moon that we've been flying over at 60 miles altitude for the last 16 hours. Bill Anders, Jim Lovell, and myself have spent the day before Christ_ms up here, doing experiments, taking pictures, and firing our space- craft engines to maneuver around. What we'11 do now is follow the trail that we've been following all day, and take you on to a lunar sunset.
CDR: The moon is a different thing to each one of us. I think that each one of - each one carries his own impressions of what - of what he's seen today. I know my own impression is that it's a vast, lonely, forbidding- type existence or expanse of nothing; it looks rather like clouds and clouds of pumice stone.
LMP: Can't you get it down? I can't see it, Jim.
CDR: And it certainly would not appear to be a very - -
LMP: ... 30 degrees.
CDR: - - inviting place to live or work. Jim, what have you thought most about?
CMP: Well, Frank, my thoughts were very similar; the vast loneliness up here of the moon is awe-inspiring, and it makes you realize Just what you have back there on earth. The earth from here is a grand oasis in the b_g vastness of space.
CDR: Bill, what do you think? ENTt,A,b C-- ONF!DENTiALr Day,, 18,,
LMP: I lunar think sunrises the thing and that sunsets. impressed These, me in the particular, most was the bring out the stark nature of the terrain, and the long shadows really bring out the relief that is very here and hard to see in this bright surface now. that we're going over right
CDR: Describe - That's not color, Bill - Describe some of the physical features of what you're showing the people.
LMP: I'm changing to the other window now.
LMP: What sea are we coming up to? Smith's Sea?
CMP: Yes. Smyth's - Smyth's Sea.
LMP: We are now coming onto Smyth's Sea, a small mare region covered with a dark material. There is a fresh bright impact crater on the edge to_-ards us, and a mountain range on the other side.
UNKNOWN: Pyrenees. Okay, hold it right there. Hold it.
LMP: These mountains ar& the Pyrenees. Is that right?
CMP: No, I take that back; it's ...
CC: Apollo 8, we're no_ receiving modulation on the signals. We do have sync.
CDR: Are you reading us, Apollo - Houston? Maybe it's turned OFF, Rill.
CC: Apollo 8, we're reading you loud and clear, but no picture - -
CDR: Somehow it got OFF again.
CDR: Roger. We understand. Take a look now.
LMP: It's O_ now.
CDR: How about now, Apollo? CONFIDENTIAl ' ' ,,....CONFtDENTIAL
CDR: Right or left?
LMP: Roll.
CC: Good picture.
CMP: What you're seeing as we cross Smyth's Sea - are the Gilbert. craters Kastner and impact
CDR: Tell them there's a very bright crater now.
CDR: And what we have noticed especially that you cannot see from the earth are the small bright impact craters that dominate the lunar surface.
CDR: How's that now, Bill?
LMP: Yes, the more right roll, the better.
CDR: Alright, more right roll.
CDR: Can you show the horizon?
LMP: That's what I'm on.
CDR: Describe the horizon.
LMP: The horizon here is very, very stark.
UNKNOWN: see it is the trouble.
LMP: The sky is pitch black, and the earth, or the moon rather, excuse me, is quite light, and the contrast 'between the s_kryand the moon is a vivid dark line. __ e some
LMP: Coming into view of the camera now _ i_teresting old double-ring craters, some interesting features that are quite ccmmon in the mare region and have been filled .ONFtDENTIA' CONFIDENTIAL ,, ,)ay 186 by some material, the same consistency of the mare and features. Further on the horizon, you see the Pyr - _9_ese are the Pyrenees, aren't they? - -
CMP: After the Sea of Fertility; filst, we're going over the Sea of Crises.
LMP: What are these mountains?
CMP: Well, there's the Fo_m_ug Sea.
LMP: Okay. The mo%autains coming up now are heavily impacted _ith numerous craters whose central peaks you can see m, ny larger ones. in of the
CMP: Actually, I think the best way to describe this area is a vastness of black and white, absolutely no color.
UNKNOWN: The sky up here is also a rather forbidding, foreboding expanse of blackness, with no stars visible when we're flying over the ear - over the moon in daylight.
CMP: Are -_e coming up near our - near our target area?
CDR: No, I don't think - we've got quite a ways to go. find
CMP: Do you need this anymore? I'11 out where we are here in a hurry.
LMP: You can see by the numerous craters - -
CDR: Yes, you better leave it on there.
LMP: - - that this planet has been bombarded through the eons with nUmeroUS small asteroids and meteoroids, pocYJ_.arking the surface every square inch. And surface
CMP: one of the amgzing features of the is the ·roundness of most of the craters. It seems that most of them have a round, mound-type appearance instead of sharp, Sagged rocks.
LMP: Only the very newest features have any sharp definition to them, and eventually they get eroded do'gn by the constant bombar_.ent of sma]] m_teorites.
UNKNOWN: You hope. 'NFIDENtt,, 'E .......b, CQNFIDENTIAL :-87 I don't know which ones they are.
LMP: Houston, are you reading us?
CC: Roger. Heading you loud and clear, and the picture looks real fine.
LMP: Can you see the two large craters to the - Just to the right of our track, Houston?
CMP: That might be K_2stner and Gilbert, although I'm not too sure. I can't see out.
LMP: It's hard to get me and the camera in the window at the same time (laug_hter).
CDR: Could I look out here Just a second just to find out where we are? Well, we're still over the - Okay, we're still over the east side. Here comes Smyth's Sea now. very see are the
LMP: The bright features you new impact craters, and the longer a crater has been on the surface of the moon, why, the more mottled and subdued it becomes.
CDR: Hey, Bill, you're not talking to geologists.
LMP: What do you wa_ut me to say?
UNKNOWN: Here's - here's where we are.
UNKNOWN: Okay. Go ahead - -
CMP: Smyth's Sea - - read
UNKNOWN: You it off. Day 4 188
CC: Apollo 8, we've apparently lost your voice; the picture is still good.
CMP: Houston, we're passing over the area that's Just to the east of Smyth's Sea now in checking our charts. Smyth's Sea is coming up in a few minutes.
LMP: ... that gimbal lock back.
CDR: Yes, watch out for gimbal lock, please.
CDR: How are you doing, Bill? Can you see it?
LMP: Yes, that's good. I can't see much out here with this camera in the way.
CC: Apollo 8, if you go to POO and ACCEPT, we'11 uplink some information.
LMP: (Laughter) We're not over _h's Sea.
CDR: Boy, that baby really took some ..., didn't it?
LMP: We are now coming up towards the terminator, and I contrasts of light as we go into the darkness.
CMP: Well, the terminator's - -
CDR: Houston, we're - we're in P00, and you have the computer.
CMP: - - is where we're ending.
CDR: Don't stop, Bill, (laughter) I didn't mean to cut you off.
LMP: We'11 have _nother thought soon - there are a lot of .holes down there. ' Pt'E)'ENTtA [..... .:, C. LX,IFIDENTIAL. 4 189
LMP: We're now approaching a series of smell impact craters. There is a dark area between us and them which could possibly - could be a - old lava flow.
LMP: We going sideways? I
CDR: Is tha_ crater on the backside called Tchaikovsky - i Ifil - Kil - Kiikowsky [Tsiolkovsky] or something like that? t
LMP: It's an old Russian name, isn't it? That's the Goddard of - -
CDR: You can see the large mountains on the horizon now ahead of the spacecraft to the north of our track.
CMP: Okay .... his c_mera over there ...
LMP: Are those the _renees?
CDR: I'm checking that. No, we - think maybe - No, there's a bright crater right there. sun's
LMP: The intensity of the ref]ection in this area - -
CDR: Unless we could have rotated off here.
LMP: - - makes it difficult for us to distinguish the features we see on the surface, and I suppose it's even harder on the television, but as we approach the terminator and the shadows become longer, you'11 see a marked change.
CMP: I don't know where we are now because we yawed off so much.
LMP: We're going sideways. Frank's window would he the best one to look - Do you see the terminator coming yet, Frank?
CDR: 'I don't know which way it is. I - I didn't look to see which way we were going.
LMP: There's z vcry dark crater in the filling material of this v_lley in front of us now. It's rather unusual ] .... .~. C-"ONFIDENTIAL " 19o in that it is sharply defined, yet it's dark all over are a very bright interior.
LMP: A small impact crater in front of us now .in a little mare, well defined and quite new, and another one approaching. The spacecraft is facing north from our track. We are going sideways to our left.
LMP: What is that mare up there now, that big one?
CDR: Straight ahead?
CMP: North? Okay, let me check it here. Well, there's the Sea of Crises coming up - Oh, that big one is the Sea of Crises over there.
LMP: We are now - -
CMP: I made a mistake with the -
UNKNOWN: - - seeing the Sea of Cris_-s coming over the horizon. What's the name of that crater right between us and it?
UNKNOWN: Okay, I'11 get it for you right now. That's - Condorcet Crater.
LMP: Condoreet? under
UNKNOWN: Let me see Just to make sure. Are we a sea right now, Smyth's Sea? That's the Condorcet Crater. Condorcet.
LMP: And we believe the crater, the large dark crater between the spacecraft and the Sea of Crises is Condorcet Crater. The Sea of Crises is amazingly smooth as far as the horizon, past this rather rough mountainous region in front of the spacecraft.
CDR: How are you doing? ...
CC: Apollo 8, we are through with the computer. You can go back to BLOCK, and it looks like we are getting a lot of reflection off your window now. .CONFIDENTIA[."' CONFIDENTIAL 191
CDR: You want me to try it out this window?
LMP: Yes, that'11 be better. Roger; we'11 switch windows.
CDR: I'11 have to watch out for gimbal lock this way.
CDR: Is it still ON, Bill?
LMP: Yes. Be careful when you grab that handle, because apparently you can turn it OFF.
CDR: Ask him how that is.
LMP: How's that look now, Ken? I:
CC: Real fine. i!
LMP: Okay, you'11 have to - ... I can't see where you are, Frank.
CDR: I wonder what - Oh, hel2.
LMP: Okay, what is the problem here? Okay.
CDR: Pitch up.
CMP: I can't pitch up too much. can
LMP: Can you roll? Don't pitch up, Just roll - You roll - -
CMP: Right?
LMP: your
UNKNOWN: right, and you can yaw - yaw left, - Get right gimbal off a little bit. Roll right and yaw left. Okay, I'm doing it. window
CC: Apollo 8, can you tell us which you are looking out? And there's a large crater, looks like it is up sticking in the upper right-hand corner of our Cgn picture. you identify that one?
LMP: A!right, you better J We're going to lose it if you don't move over. '_
CDR: Roger, we're Just about to lose lock here. That's why we're slowing up a little bit. You're alright. ,ONFID.ENTIAL ^, .... .C.-ONFIDENTIAL
CMP: That might be - Firmicus.
CDR: What's the name of the crater ot_ in the Sea of Crises? That's probably the one they're talking about.
CMP: Picard is right out there on the right-hand - left,brand side of it. We - -
CDR: How are we going to keep lock now, Bill?
LMP: Okay, keep - the thing to do is to - is to roll right - is the best thing to do.
CMP: Okay, I'm rolling right. I've got - I'm in there right nOW -- --
LMP: Well, we're not able - That's their prcblem.
CDR: Their problem?
CMP: Tell them that's Picard.
LMP: Houston, how you reading us now?
LMP: The crater you see on the horizon in the Sea of Cfi - How are you reading us, Houston? Loud
CC: and clear, Apollo 8, and we have a picture that's good.
LMP: Roger; we're getting a lot of static. The Sea of Crises is in front of us on the horizon, and the dark crater Picard can he seen in the middle. We're now approaching the moon sunrise or the spacecraft sunset. This is an area that the sun has Just recently come up on the moon.
LMP: What's this - what sea are We over now, Jim?
CMP: This is pa_t of the Sea of - -