Otrobonita/noicy-space-talks huggingface dataset:
CC: Roger. I am about 15 minutes early with the TRI fix update and the map update. I will have them here whenever it's convenient for you to copy.
LMP: okay. Just a little bit, Mike.
CC: Roger. We would like to ask you to stop using AUTO OPTICS on the.pseudo landing site. It's the RLS values stored in the computer. Over. I went to MANUAL OPTICS on Bl.
UNKNOWN: Roger. I found . . .
CC: Roger. If you.would go to PCO and ACCEPT, please, we are going to send you a P27 loai which will up- date an RX value which will be followed by a pro- cedural change, Jim, we will give you later; and AUTC OPTICS should be working shortly.
UNKNOWN: Or I could use no landmark AUTO OPTICS in- stead of the code. Apollo 8, Houston. We are also sending you up a state vector update at the same time. -. _-. ._ _ l.-- .._^ .---LI ,t.,-.l--. F ..,-.._. .~ ,..._- .-__-
UNKNOWN: be expecting that. 8,
CC: Apollo Houston. We're taking the DSE for a dump. Cver.
P: cc Apollo 8, Houston. Cver.
CC: Roger. We would like to take Bill's DSE for a dump. Over.
UNKNOWN: Houston, ~~0110 8. We're ready for the - your updates, your PAD's. 516, 6 map update for REV and TRI update. Which would you like first?
UNKNOWN: okay. I've got the map update page now. why don't you give me that one?
CC: Okay. Map update for REV LOS 78:58:49, sunrise.79:08:07, prime meridian W:14:30, AOS 79:44:36, sunset 80:21:05; IP-1, time of closest approach to target Bl 80:09:00. Now your two new control points that Jim gave us: control point number 1, acquisition 79:10:32, control point number 2, acquisition 79:23:14. Over.
LMP: Roger. Copy. Ready for the TRI.
CC: Okay, Bill. Before we read the big TEI update here, I'd like to give Jim briefly a procedure - I I ‘ : 1 -.-. -. 89, for P22. When he comes to NOUN we request that he do a VRRB 34 ENTER. Do not proceed, and lat and longitude from his mark, and he will not change the reference value of the landing site, and we will solve this AUTO OPTICS problem. Over.
UNKNOWN: Let me see if I have this correct, Mike. When flashing comes up with the latitude and longitude information, I will not proceed but vill go to VERB 34 and terminate. Is that cor- . recta
CC: 34
UNKNOWN: that is affirmative. Do a VERR ENTER instead of a PROCEED. And that till -
CMP: Alright. Is this technique true?
CMP: Houston, is this technique true for both the F’25? node control point AUTO OPTICS on
CC: Stand by one, Jim.
UNKNOWN: And the len . . .
CC: That is affirmative, Apollo 8. F'hat is always true.
UNKNOWN: may I Roger. True for the code AUTO OPTICS and no landmark. I'11 proceed instead of going on - or I'11 use 34 instead proceding on 89. cc 6 when you are ready - or TFX number 6.
CDR: Go ahead. .----- l
CDR: - -. _ , ..-. i.. ..-,.. _ “. ..L- ..-.--L-_. -A. (,- .,_-~-” ..--- IMP Ready to copy. 1% glad you are ready to copy TEI num-
CC: Roger. 6. ber I've got one last comment for Jim before you do so. The VEFB 89 - or correction - the l!JOUN 89 we are talking about is the one that he There are two NOUN 89's, one gets after marking. prior to marking and one after, and our procedure references NOUN 89 aPter marking. Over. Cf? Roger. Understand. Thank you, and, Bill, you still ready to copy? you with me so far?
CC: 081 21 24 43, plus 31776, minus 00823, minus 01365 180 016 001, not applicable, plus 00188. Are you still with me? Over. That's Roger.
UNKNOWN: 302 31624 40 2699 396 033, down 054, left 21, plus 0810 control minus 16500 12968 36222 146 42 04; GDC align remains the same; Sirius and Rigel, roll 129, pitch 155, yaw 010, ullage four quads for 15 seconds; horizon on 6-degree line at TIC micus 3 minutes. Over. Ix? Roger, Houston. TEI 6, SPS/GLN:. 45701, minus 040, plus 157 018 21 2443, plus 31776, minus 00823, b 01365 180 016 001, 00188 31816 302 minus NA, plus 3624 40 2699. - Are you with me?
CC: Yea, I'm with you, Bill.
LMP: 396 033, aom 054, left 21, plus 08 10 minus 16500 129 68 36222 146 42 04; same GDC align; Sirius and Rigel, 129 155 010, four jet, 15 sec- onas, horizon 6 degrees, TIC minus 3. Over.
CC: Roger, Bill. On your ignition time, GEM is hours, 081. Over.
LMP: Roger. Got it, 081. ,
CC: Thank you, sir.
LMP: Thank you, Michael. As a matter of interest, these aide windows are so hazy that when the sun e- shines on them, they just about - they are real -. poor for any visual observation or photography- heads-up. l
CC: Roger. Un&stand.
CMP: Go ahead, Houston. The last state vector updates we sent you,
CC: Roger. Jim, was to the IM slots, and you will have to transfer that over to the CSM slots using VE3B 47 ENTER. Over.
CMP: Roger. do.
CC: Apollo 8, Houston. - - , i 1
UNKNOWN: Go ahead, Houston. cc Roger. Bill has got his tape recorder back, and we noticed during that last dump, it was all in low bit rate. We wonder whether that was inten- tional or not? Over. IMP Roger. We didn't have much to say; we couldn't y\
LMP: It was really too bad.
CC: Apollo 8, Houston. - - IMP Go ahead - -
CC: Roger, Bill. This next time around into the sun- light, we do not expect any problem with the pri- mary evaporator. If it does start drying out, we think it is best just to close the back pressure valve, and there is no need to activate the sec- Qua- boiler. Over. IMP Okay. I guess the 6O-degree limit will still hold then.
CC: stand by.
CC: Apollc 3, Houston. We are suggesting you disre- 'gard the 60 degree limit, and let it go ahead and . , There is no need to activate rise up above 60. the secondary. Over.
LMP: Okay. We just don't want to boil our IN. cc Roger. Understand then. Apollo 8, you are GO for the nert lunar orbit REV. -. _- -
UNKNOWN: Houston. I'11 read the book this time.
CC: .
UNKNOWN: We have about b-112 minutes left before ve have LOS; we'd like your last PRD readout. Over. Stand by. The commander is asleep; we'11 get his when he wakes up. The IMP is still 6 . . . 0.64, C is 9, CMP is 0.09. Roger. copy 0.64, 0.09. Thank you. Apollo 8, Houston. About 40 seconds to MS, and everything's looking good down here.
UNKNOWN: Houston. We will give it another try here. ..-_- - I * ‘, -
UNKNOWN: this is Houston. Over.
CC: Apollo 8, this is Houston. Over. cc Apollo 8, this is Houston. Over.
CC: Reading you very weak but - a lot of background noise. Welcome back around. How are you reading us? cc . .
UNKNOWN: Roger, Houston. A few words on our optics tracking system. I used AUTO OPTICS for control points 1 and 2 on the backside, and they worked beautifully, tracked both the targets for me. And I went to the control point 3 as designated in our orbital control book to see the latitude and longitude that was given to me and used AUTO OPTICS to track that particular coordinate system, and it was very close to the ac- tual tracking plot. I pickecl the mark there whext I did a final marking and recorded latitude and lon- gitude. I'm now about to come up on 'the landing site and using AUTO OPTICS in the coded input to see how that works. -Page 2
CC: Roger, Apollo 8.
UNKNOWN: Roger. We know you're busy so we are not going to bother you. We are watching your progress QL the DSKY. You are looking good; all your systems are looking good, and we have maneuver PAD's for you any time at your convenience.
UNKNOWN: Roger. We will take them when we are doing the
LMP: Mi.ke,Apollo 8.
UNKNOWN: &ke, there are an awful lot of objects down on It would just warm up Jaclt the lading site. Schm -t t's heart. The AUTO OPTICS are tracking .periectly .on the target, and the two high peaks stand out beautifully. I have a beautiful view of it. The first I've seen just barely beneath and the second one coming up - the vertical now, It's just a grand view!
CC: Roger, Jim. Glad to hear it. Jack's listening.
UNKNOWN: Jack, the information.- Tne triangles that we see now are from the first IB, second IB, and the Bl art? just ri@t, I think, for landing conditions. lhe shadows aren't too deep for you to get confused, _ ._ i but the land has texture to it, and there -are enough shadows there to make everything stand out.
UNKNOWN: If Jack's listening, tell him that the optical may be doing all right, but the eyeball is having a little trouble looking through all this smear on the windows. Understand the optics are doing better than
CC: Roger. the eyeballs. How about the cameras?
LMP: We always have the same smear to look through. The rendezvous windows are okay, but they're so small and looking in the wrong directions here so far.
LMP: It certainly looks like we're picking the more in- teresting places on the moon to land in. The back- side looks like a sand pile my kids have been playing in for a long time. It's all beat up, no definition. Just a lot of bumps ard holes. a great spot.
LMP: 'Ibe area we're over right now gives some hint of possible volcanic, though I really can't eyeball it at the moment tc pin that down. There are some craters and buildups that just definitely suggest volcanic activity.
CC: Roger. Understand, Bill, and understand Jim thinks the old 2P-2 is a winner. -. -.
LMP: Yes, that backside doesn't look good at all.
LMP: That's relatively speaking, of course. s
CC: Of course.
CC: Apollo 8, Houston. We have you on the high-gain antenna.
CC: .Roger, Jim. We'd like you to take the DSE and dump it over.
CMP: Roger, Houston. Are you going to use our computer to update our state vector?
CC: That's affirmative, Jim. We'd like to - stand by ACC?iFT. one, and I'11 tell you when to go to POO and
UNKNOWN: Roger. 'Iben I'11 uork my 52 around your .._
CC: Jim, would you please go to POO in ACCEFT, and we'11 send you a P27 and run a state vector up&de.
CMP: Houston, this is Apollo 8. We have a little piece of useful information if you're interested in delib- erating over it.
CC: Go ahead. Say again.
CMP: Roger. Our first control point is very near the terminator, and as the optics were trackil;g it, I had occasion to watch the sun come up. And at about 2 minutes before sunrise, you get - the limb begins to brighten up into sort of a fine white - haze, a fine glow completely over the space just behind the limb.
CC: Roger. I understand. About 2 minutes before the sun comes up, you get a fine white haze radiating out from behind the limb. How far out does it ex- tend?
CMP: It goes up quite a ways. It takes a fan shape, unlike the sunrise on earth where the atmosphere affects it. This just sort of is a complete haze It's concentrated at the all over the local area. exact spot where the sun comes up at ignition and then goes away from the sun spots. Very interesting. Thank you, Jim. Thank you.
CC: Apollo 8, Houston. We're standing by with your map and TEI 7 updates.
CMP: Standby.
CC: Apollo 8, Houston. You can go back to BLOCK with your computer.
LMP: Okay, Mike. We're ready for the map update and then the TRI. Okay. When you get your - before you get your map book out, the Houston COMM TECHS have got a little vord for an old ex-CAP COKM. They say they con- sider you in NONREMOTE. Over.
LMP: Not permanently, I hope. Okay.
UNKNOWN: map update for RRV 6/7: LOS 80:57:24, sunrise 81:06:57, prime meridian 81:13:02. Are youwithme?
LMP: You cut out after the prime meridian. I got it, but not AOS.
CC: AOS 81:43:05, sunset 82:13:54. Remarks: IP-1 PCA for R-l 82:07:39, and now I've got four more times for you which - acquisition times for when various things come over the horizon. Over.
CC: Okay. Control point 1, acquisition time 81:09:05; control point 2, acquisition time 81:21:48; control point 3, acquisition time 81:43:17; B-l acquisition time 82:03:54. And I say again all those ACQ times are when they first come over the horizon. Over.
LMP: Roger. Copy, Houston. In about 2 seconds, I'11 be ready for the TRI. cc Alright.
UNKNOWN: I'm ready.
CC: TRI 7, SPS/GMi - stand by one, Bill.
LMP: Just a matter of general interest, Rouston: every- body is feeling good, and the CDR is taking a snooze.
CC: Roger. Glad to hear it. We were just talking about and it looks like.on this REV prior to the time - -.-. _ ~.--_- __-- i- around LOS or just prior to LOS, would be a con- venient time to do it. Do you concur?
LMP: Okay. We vill. Down to 25 percent again?
CC: That's affirmative, and we'd also be interested in any comments about what these various dumps have done to your optics, if anything, and how long the effects last after a dump. Don't seem to have done anything to the optics, but they've definitely got in some of the win- dows. There are a few little chunks of ice on window number 1, which is nearest the vent, and also on window number 5 a little bit; win- &us 2 and 4 remain amazingly clear.
CC: Roger. 'lhank you, Bill, and I'm ready to resume the PAD when you are.
LMP: Okay. Press on with the weight.
CC: Alright. Weight 45701, minus 040, plus 157 083 18 2080, plus 32346, minus 01168, plus 05730. Are you with me so far? Over.
UNKNOWN: Mike.
CC: Roger. I got down through DELTA-V, minus X, minus Y, and minus Z. Did you copy those? Over.
UNKNOWN: No, I didn't read a word. I'm still waiting for the weight.
CC: Roger. Let's go back to the weight: 45701, minus 040, plus 157. Are you with me? 0ve:. - .- ,-. - . I -_-_. ._ I _. . ,. .______ “_ l_l_--.._ . . .;----__-. i-_“.u----.-. Page a
UNKNOWN: sounds good.
CC: Okay. m1 083 18 2080, 32346, minus 01168, @US plus 4 - correction, plus 05730. Are you with me? Over.
CC: Thank you. 179 009 001, not applicable, plus 00187 32870 307 32676 42 0880 253 033, down 121, left 27, plus 0790 minus 16500 129 73 36238 146 4414; ssme north set Sirius sncl Rigel, roll 129, pitch 155, yaw 010, four quads for 15 seconds, horizon on the 2-degree mark at P ignition. Over.
LMP: Roger. GET1 7 SPS/G&R: 45701, minus 040, plus 157 08318 2080 , plus 32346, minus 01168, plus 05730 179 9 - correction, 009 001, NA. Are you uith me? cc Yes, I'm with you, Bill.
LMP: Plus 00187 32870 307 32676 32 - correction, 420880 253033, doun 121, left 27, plus 0790, minus 16500 1.2973 36238 146 44 14; same north set Sirius and Rigel, I.29 155 010; four-jet, 15 seconds) 2 degrees, now horizon and peak.
CC: Th&'s .a fill correct .
LMP: Go shesd, Houston. cc your Roger. You got LEE back, end you are GO for the nezt lunar orbit. Over. i --- --;-- _ 'i- ,-_., _ _I-_ - _I.. _---_X__-_.., ". " _L--.
LMP: Roger. How far did you want us to dump that water?
CC: Twenty-five percent, please, Bill. Roger. Twenty-five percent.
UNKNOWN: Are you 'receiving our tracking data? That's affirmative, Jim. We are receiving. Okay. Thank you.
CC: And also, Jim, we are - That last P27 we sent uas for the LM state vector only, and it will require a VERB 47 RR'I'RR to transfer to the CSM slot. Ovgr.
LMP: Okay. We're dumping the waste tank now, Houston. Roger, Bill.
UNKNOWN: Roger. We've got 4 minutes til LOS, and everything is looking good down here. Roger. How much longer do you th ink we have to go into battery charge there, Mike?
CC: I'11 find out for you. If you can wake up the ECO,NM, why don't you have him ask the back room?
CC: Oh, you really know how to hurt a guy.
CC: Apollo a, Houston. We estimate the charge wili be complete in another 45 minutes. Over.
LMP: Okay. Thank you very much.
CC: Apollo 8, Houston. One minute til LOS, and stanfing by. okay. See you on the other side, Mike. cc
UNKNOWN: to it. f0rdard
LMP: Me, too. . : i,_ Tap 55 Page 1' REGIN LlJljj.RJ% 7 _--- ---
CC: Apollo 8, this is Houston. over.
CC: Apollo 8, this is Houston. Over. Apollo 8.
CC: Roger, Prank. Good morning. You're loud and clear, how me?
CDR: T&ink you.
CC: ‘Apollo 8, Houston. Over.
CDR: Go ahead, Houston. narks, his five marks out a bit more slowly. If possible, we uould like to get a couple of Ue're getting five of them past the zenith. them with rather rapid spacing, and from the geometry viewpoint, it would be better if you'd slow them down a little bit and lengthened them out so as to include a couple of them past the zenith. Over.
CDR: Roger. We understand.
CDR: Houston, Apollo 8. That last set of marks Disregard what Jim drew the last are invalid. time,
CC: Roger. Understand the last set of marks are invalid. Over. cm Roger. If you would correlate ..; the last set. Could you say again, please?
CMP: Roger. I'm coming up on control voice 3. I tried to stick another control voice in between ana 3. It didn’t d0 it, SO 1 @St tOOk Out our program, marked it down on the program.
CC: Roger. Understand you are coming up on 3.
CC: 8, Apollo Houston.
CC: ahead, Houston. Apollo
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 marks, and we would like to stretch it out even further if that is okay with you- r
UNKNOWN: Mike. I find that tracking is much easier using the sextant than the scanning telescope. You have finer control, and at these orbital speeds, resolved to medium seem to be the best ' combination. T-i-=- - . . :-. _ ----.- --.. “, ,. . _, .--” _._^ ^ _-.. --- “.“...1_(--.--
CC: I copy that if' s easier for you to
UNKNOWN: Jim. use the sextant than the scanning telescope. It gives you finer control, and say again after that.
CMP: Roger. Did you copy? tracking is easier
CC: Roger. I copy that it's - using the sextant than the scanning'telescope; it gives you finer control, and say again after that. Over.
CMP: And the combination of resolved and medium is perhaps the best combination of - combination of - speed low is too low; we can't catch up with the target.
CC: Roger. Understand that the best combination is resolved and medium. Low is just too low. cm Roger. CMP
CC: Apollo 8, Houston. Over. cm Roger. I'm not too sure what harpend that time, Kike. I was marking on the landing sites, using the code, and I kept getting a large trunnion for AUTO OPTICS. And I could see the target, or landing site was coming up, so I just‘went manually and marked and got the - were quite different from the noninal.
CC: Roger. We copy that, Jim.
CC: Apollo 8, Houston. Go ahead, Houston. Apollo 8.
CC: Roger. We're checking into Jim's remarks on his P22; and in the meantime, I have your maneuver PAD's and map updates, at your convenience. Over.
CMP: Go ahead with your data, Mike.
CC: away And before that, we'd like to take the DSE okay. from you, please, for a while. All yours.
CC: Thank you, and -*a like you to go to POO aa ACCEPT. We have a P27 state vector update for You.
UNKNOWN: POQ, and 1% going to AC&PT.
UNKNOWN: yours.
UNKNOWN: would you like first, the map update or the TEI 8?
UNKNOWN: map mula be f.i.re.
UNKNOWN: -Map update: LQS 82:55:54, sunrise 83:05:49, prime meridian 83:11:38, AOS 83:41:43, sunset control point 1 acquisition 84:18:45; remzks: 83:07:39, control point 2 acquisition 83:20:21, control point 3 ACQ 83:41:51, B-l acquisition 84:02:28. Over. -’ .sj:.: __ _ . r- . . I 82:55:54, 83:O5:49, 83:X:38, 83:41:4X, Roger. 84:18:45. cp-1 83:o7:3g, CP-2 83:20:21, CP-3 83:41:51, il 81:02:28.
UNKNOWN: - -
UNKNOWN: - for the.TEI PAD.
UNKNOWN: The TEI 8 PAD,.SFS/G&N: 45701, minus 040, 157 085 18 1904. Are you with me so plus far? Over. okay. plus 3195, minus 01267, plus 04716 179 008 001, not applicable, plus 00187 33552 311 33355 Are you still with me? Over. 42 0909 252. Okay. Picking up with the boresight star, it's old Dzuba who is the center star in the head of Scorpion; he's aown 060, left 42, plus 0773, minus 16500 12082 36256 146 46 18. North set stars remain Sirius, Rigel, roll 129, pitch 155, yaw 010; four-quad ullage of 15 seconds, horizon on a b-degree line at TIG, ana requesting you zero the optics. Over.
CDR: Roger. Going to ZeRO OPTICS. he you through with the computer now, Mike?
CC: It's your computer; P27 IM state vector in and verified.
CC: af That * s Pinnat ive .
CDR: Okay. TRI 8, SPS/G&N:
UNKNOWN: minus 040, plus 157 085 18 igob, plus 33195, minus 01267, plus 04716 179 008 001, 00187 33552 311 33355 42 ANA, @US ogogo 252, Dzuba down 060, left 4.2, plus 0773, minus 16500 12982 36256 1464618; Sirius, Rigel, l.29 155 010, four-quad, 15 seconds, horizon 4 degrees at TIG.
CC: You keep good books; that's all correct.
CC: Roger. Some time back, we noted evidence of a in the computer and wondered if you had restart any remarks about it. Over.
CDR: I know it. Jim got screwed up on one of those programs. He's getting kind of tired here, and we got a RRSTART ard couple of PROGRAM ALLARMS. I don't know what he did. Roger, Frank. The main point is the computer is looking fine to us, now.
CDR: That's good.
UNKNOWN: Houston, don't believe all you hear up here.
CC: Ho, we have a filter, Jim, for that.
CDR: Th3nk you. Pege 7
CC: Roger. In some of Jim's previous comments about the limb brightness as the sun about to come was up has sparked a lot of interest down here. And we'd like to ask him if he gets a chance to notice again or perhaps he can recall, whether there were any changes in the appearance the s:ars. Such as, of did he notice any twinkling while this taking w3s and did he notice any narrow limb brightening place, within 10 to 20 seconds prior to the sun's rising? Over.
UNKNOWN: He'11 be with you - he's doing a P52 now.
CMP: Houston, my comments concerning the sunrise was the comments above the terrain. Ihere appeared what might be called diagonal light or light due to the haze or something like that. As the sun came above or before the sun came above the limb, definite rays could be seen coming from the other side. It was uniform haze emanating from the center spot where the sunwas going to rise, and this was something which I didn't expect.
CC: Roger, Jim. Understand. We copied that and just curious, and if you see it again whether you notice any stars twinkling or any additional information. _ _. ..-- I- Tap 55 Page
LMP: Actually, he doesn't want to pass out too much of that information. He wants to save it and write a paper when he gets back, Mike.
CC: Right. In German, probably, huh? -
CDR: Houston, Apollo 8. A~O~LO a, Houston.
CDR: okay. What time is that TV, Mike, 85:37?-
UNKNOWN: which is probably like 86:lk.
CDR: okay. Well, I don't know if we can go that long with it, and I'm going to scrub all the other experiments, the converging stereo or other photography, and we are a little bit tired; I want to use that last bit .to really make sure we're right for TFX.
CC: I understand, Frank. Roger, cc couple of miscellaneous items for you: we'd like for you to discontinue charging battery B at this time; we'd also like to get a cryo stir, 2 minutes on all four; and your UP TELEMETRY IU switch, put to BLOCK, please, and you are GO for the next lunar orbit.
CC: Apollo 8, Houston. ahead, Frank. GO -. Ai 1 want to scrub these control point
CDR: Roger. - sightings on this next REV, too, and let Jim -2 take a rest. e. Roger. I understand.
UNKNOWN: you want to scrub control points 1, 2, and 3 on the next REV and the converging stereo on the following REV. ,That's right. We're getting too tired. - 8,
CC: Apollo Houston. This REV coming up we vould like to clarify whether you intend to scrub control points 1, 2, and 3, only, and do the psuedo landing site; or vhether you also intend to scrub the psuedo land- ing site marks. Over. I'11 stay up and try
UNKNOWN: We’re eng everything. F and keep the Spacecraft vertical and take some automatic pictures, but I vant Jim and Bill to get some rest.
CC: Roger. Understand. * - Psgel
UNKNOWN: 8, Houston. Four minutes to LOS. You have control of the DSE nov, and all your sys- tems are looking good.
CC: You bet. Love11 is snorina already.
CC: Yes, ve can hear him down here.
CC: We have 1 minute to LOS, Prank. You can termi- nate stirring up your cryos any time, and we agree with all your flight plan changes. Rave a beautiful backside, and we will see you next time out.
CC: Roger. BEGIN LumAR REV 8 .-.
CC: Apollo 8, loud and clear. CDR Roger. !. Apollo 8, Houston.
CC: Roger, Apollo 8. Couple of notes' for you: on the P52 you are coming up to on this REV, we've looked at your state vectors and all your infor- The platform looks good, and it appears mation. L- .“_-.-._ “._~ :__-~.------- -I~III- - --x .,I. m-L. .-.-I -I - c that it is your option if you would like to by-pass this P52, your platform will still be like to have your PRD reading, and I guess we t are behind the sleep summary. Over.
CDR: Okay. Jim and Bill are both resting now. I had about 3 or 4 hours earlier today.
CC: Roger. COPY.
CDR: This PRD now reads 144.
CC: copy, 144. And we have an ugdate ready to go into your computer for the state vector if you want to go to poo ma Acme. _-
CDR: POO ana ACCEPT.
CDR: Jerry, I'm standing by to copy the TEI 9 PAD.
CC: Okay, Apollo 8. We have completed with the computer. can use the VERB 47 to transfer, YOU and I have the TEI 9 PAD.
CDR: That's Ken isn't ic,? Just a rninu;e, and IV11 take care of it.
UNKNOWN: Okay. I went to POO and then VERB 47, ma I'm ready to copy.
CC: Okay. Do you have it in BLOCK?
CC: I say, do you have the UP TELIXETRY in BLOCK?
CDR: Okay. This PAD is a TEI 9, SPS/G&N: 45597, 040, 157 08719 1820, 34188, Q~INS plus pius minus 01353, plus 00780 180 008 001, November Alfa, plus 00187 34223 313 34021 42 0898 253 033, down 131, left 28, plus 0758, minus 16500 12987 36277 14648 16; prixzary star Sirius, secondary Rigel, 129 155 010; four quads, 15 second, ullage, horizons on 1.2-degree window line at T minus 3; use high speed pro- cedure with minus Mike Alfa. After looking at the burn information From your previous SPS burns, it appears that the engine performance should give us a 3-second burn time, longer than vhat you have on the PAD. The PAD number should correspond vith what you get out of the computer. So we have not factored this into the past data; however, you can anticipate the engine for a normal DELTA-V to give you a ?-second - 3.7-second burn in excess of the computed times. Cver.
CDR: Roger. Thank'you.
CDR: !lXI 9, SW/G&N: 45597, minus 040, plus 157 08719 1820 , plus 3'188, minus 01353, plus 00780 180 008 001, NA, plus 00187 34223 313 34021 42 0898 253 033, dovn 131, left 28, plus 0758, minus 16500 12987, plus - or 36277 146 4816; -. --- -L, *11- and that's Sirius and Rigel 129 155 010, four 'Jet, 15 seconds, 1.2 degrees on the vindov at T minus 3, high speed minus MA, engine 3.7 sec- onds longer than given.
CC: That's affirmative, Apollo 8. And when you get your tape, ve can do that when you get on the high gain.
CDR: aoser-
CDR: Should have it on the high gain now, . -a-. kust~.
CC: Roger. And we're going to go ahead and dump the tape.
CDR: Roger. Ken, will ve get the real TRI PAD the next time zsivutd nw?
CC: Apollo 8, we'11 have one for you the next time around, and ve'11 update it if necessary on the foilovingFEv.
CC: 0-Y. It looks to us like, although we're reading out the ssme thing you are on the quad mtity, using the computer program and all of the correction factors that are in there, it looks like all four of your quads are very close. In pounds, it looks like you have, for example, 193 pxmds in quad A and in B, 200 in C, and 190 in Delta. And the difference that you read on the gage is attributed to the fact that you don't have all of the correction factors in there. This ground calculation has an accuracy of atilt plus or minus 6 percent, and the best you can do on board, even using your chart, is plus or minus 10 percent. Over.
CDR: Thank you. -7
CC: Apollo 8, Houston. The tape recorder is back to you.
UNKNOWN: just finished looking at all your systems and all the trajectory information, and you have a GO for another REV.
UNKNOWN: we're GO for REV 9. That's affirmative, 8.
CDR: How's the weather down there, Ken? right in temperature. CDR &IV about the recovery arex? That's looking real good.
CC: Yes. They told us that there is a beautiful moon out there. Now I was just saying that there's a beautiful . ____---__ _._. -~-- - earth out there. i-
CC: if you're looking for things to do up there, Frank, you might hit that BIOMED switch over to the left position.
CDR: Oksy.
UNKNOWN: set.
CDR: Five, four, three - say again. We've got the computers waiting. Five, four, three, two, one.
UNKNOWN: are you ready?
CDR: Houston, Apollo 8. How dn you read?
CC: I'm reading you weak but clear, Frank. How about this antenna? Is thd any better?
CC: It's a little louder. Hey, Ken;'how did you pull duty on Christmas Eve? It happens tehelors every time, doesn't it?
CC: I wouldn't be anywhere else tonight.
CDR: Ken, how's the . . . tracking on this lunar orbit coming out? Okay. Frank, it's looking like it's com;ng right down tie pike. It's doing just what it is sup- posed to, and apparently, all our computer pro- grams have got the right numbers in them because they're predicting where youtre going.
CDR: Have they covered any.of these anomalies due to higb spots?
CC: Roger. They're detectable, but they're not chang- :' ing,things encugh to be anything mOre than - of interest. _ --I--
CDR: Fine. Hope they are as good with the corridor as they were with the LOI. That wss beautiful. - that is textbook all the
CC: It sure was. That's
CC: ol=v. We're about - inside 10 minutes till LOS. We'11 be picking you up again at 85:40, and we'11 have all of the TV types' information standing by. In the event that the situation develops again, for pointing accuracies, if'I see anything that looks like a 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 csmera pointing, why I may try - call for a plus pitch, and then I'11 just correct what I see to account for it. We're not going to use the telephoto lens.
CDR: Roger. I doc't believe we'11 be able to get a picture of theearth. It's going to have to be the terminator, the &par surface. I'm looking at the earth right now; and we won't see it again during that period. And next time around, why,
CC: Okay. Real fine then. ve'11 take an extra special look at all of the parsmeters; we'11 have our TEI PAD for you. And Tape we'11 use the last RRV fcr a real good hack on I'11 give you a rundown by system all systems. of sll things we see and where they stand.
CDR: Okay. Fine. cc Apollo 8, Houston. We're approaching 4 minutes to Los. All systems are GO.
CDR: Roger. Than& you. Bn;IRLuNARREv9 Houston. tems are good. IMP Houston, Apollo 8. Over. CC We've got a picture, Apollo 8.
LMP: Fbger. We've got the T - Roger. We've got the TV . . . u4P How does the picture look, Houston? ' cc Loud and clear.
CC: That's very good.
CMP: Welcome from the moon, Houston. cc Thank you. me Houston, you're seeing a view of the earth taken below the lunar horizon. We're going to follow a track until the terminator, where we wili 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 - ccaupletely void. We're changing the cameras to the other window now.
CDR: This is Apollo 8, coming to you live from the moon. We've had to switch the TV cameras We showed DOW. you first a view of earth as we've been watching it past for the 16 hours. Row we're switching 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 nyself have spent the day before Christmas up here doing experiments, taking pictures, firing our spacecraft engines ma to maneuver What we will now is follow aroma. a0 the trail that we've been following all dsy and take you on through to a lunar sunset. The moon is a different thing to each one of us. I think that each one of us - each one carries his own im- pression of what he's seen today. I know my own impression is that it's a vast, lonely, forbidding- type existence, or expanse of ncthing, that looks rather like c&Cl.s and clouds of puCce stone, and it certainly would not appear to be a very inviting .--- .- -.. .- .-._--.-_1- .L -.-.” .--- l----,l..l” .I,-.. -.-,I- -- --l_l.y z place to live or Jim, uhat have you thought WQ~I& most about?
UNKNOWN: Frank, my thoughts are very similar. The vast loneliness up here of the moon is awe in- spiring, and it makes you realize Just what you have back there on earth. The earth from here .is a grand oasis in the big xxstness of space. Bill, what do you think?
UNKNOWN: I think the thing that impressed me the most was the lunar sunrises and sunsets. These in partic- -\ - ', ular bring out the stark nature of the terrain, and the long shadows really bring out the relief that is here and hard to see at this very bright surface that we're going over right now.
CDR: You're describe - that's not color, Bill. De- scribe some of the physical features of what you're showing the people. We're not receifing a picture
CC: Apollo 8, Houston. now. Over.
LMP: We're now coming on to Smyth's Sea, a small mare region covered with a dark, level material. There is a fresh, bright, impact crater on the edge towards us and a mountain range on the other side. These nmuntains are the F'yrenees. cc A~0110 8, we're not rece;-ving modulation on the i signal; ue do have SYNC.
CDR: Are you reading us? Apollo, Houston. I, i- ---__-- .; -- P43e7 Apollo 8, we're reading you ?.oud and clear, but We have no modulation. no picture.
UNKNOWN: Roger. We understand. Take a look nou.
UNKNOWN: How about now? Apdlo.
CC: Loud and clear. Good picture. What you're seeing has been cross - Smyth's Sea are the craters Castner and Gilbert, and what we've noticed especially, that you cannot see from the earth, are the small bright impact craters that dominate the lunar.surface.
UNKNOWN: The horizon here is very, very stark. The sky is pitch black, and the earth - or the moon, rather, excuse me - is quite light; and the con- trast betveen the sky and the moon is a vivid, dark line. Coming into the view of the csmera now are some-interesting old double ring craters, some interesting features that are quite common in the mare region and have been filled by some material the same consistency of the maria and the same color. Here are three or four of these interesting features. Further on the horizon you see the . . . The mountains up now are heav- coming ily impacted with numerous craters whose central peaks you can see in many of the larger ones.
UNKNOWN: Actually, I think the best way to describe this : area is a vastness of black and white, absoluteiy no color. boding expanse of blackness, with nu stars visible vhen ve're flying over the moon in daylight. You can see by the numerous craters that this planet has been bombarded through the eons with numerous smsll asteroids and meteoroids pock- marlring the surface every square inch.
UNKNOWN: one of the amazing features of the surface is the roundness that most of the craters - seems that most of them have a round mound type of ap- pearance instead of sharp, Jagged rocks.
UNKNOWN: Only the newest feature is of any sharp definition to them, and eventually they get eroded down by the constant bombardment of small meteorites.
LMP: How is the picture nov, Houston? Houston, are you reading us?
CC: Ioud and clear, and the picture looks real fine.
UNKNOWN: Can you see the two large craters Just to the right of our track, Houston?
LMP: 'Be very bright features you see are the new im- pact craters, and the longer a crater has been on the surface of the moon, vbx, the more mottled cc Apollo 8, we've apparently lost your voice; the picture is still good. IMP Roger. ue Houston, we're passing over an area that's Just east of the S@h's Sea now, in checking our charts. S&h's Sea is coming up in a few min- utes . cc Roger.
CC: Apollo 8, if you go to POO and ACCEPT, we'11 up- link some information.
UNKNOWN: are now coming up towards the terminator, and I hope soon that we'11 be able to show you the varying contrast of white as we go into the dark- ness. Houston, we're in POO, and you have the computer.
CC: lhank you. LMP
UNKNOWN: now approaching a series of small impact craters. There is a dark a*ea between us and them vhich could possibly be an old lava flou.
LMP: You c-at? see the large mountains on the horizon nov ahead of the spacecraft to the north of our track.
UNKNOWN: 'lhe intensity of the sun's reflecticn in this area makes it difficult for cls to distinguish . the features we see on the surface, and I suppose it's even harder on the television, but as we ap- proach the terminator and the shadows become longer, you'11 see a marked change. .-- -. c -
UNKNOWN: is a very dark crater in the filling material in this-valley in front of us now. It is rather in that it is sharply defined, yet it's tmusud dark all over its interior walls, whereas most new-looking craters are of very bright interior. Small impact crater in front of us now in the lit- .tle mare well defined, quite new, and another one approaching. The spacecraft is facing North. From our track, we are going sideways to our left. You are now seeing the Sea of Crises coming over the horizon.
LMP: 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 and past this rather rough mountainous region in front the spacecraft. of
UNKNOWN: 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 vindov now.
UNKNOWN: We'11 switch windows; How does that i-, look now, Ken?
CC: That's real fine.
CC: Apollo 8, can you tell us which window you are looking out? And there is a large crater, looks like it is sticking up in the upper right hand corner of our picture. Can you identify that one?
LMP: Roger. .We are just about to lose our lock; that - is why we are slowing up a little bit. We see the Sea of Crises in front of us now. We are looking out the left hand rendezvous window.
LMP: Houston, how are you reading us now?
LMP: The crater you see on the horizon is %he Sea of Crises?? How are you reading us, Houston? -- *I:- /. _ -_. ._ f - --- --. clear, Apollo 8, and we have a picture
CC: hua ana that is good.
UNKNOWN: We are gettin- t ci static. The Sea of Crises is in front of us on the horizon, and the dark crater Picard can be seen in the middle. We ar now breaking the moon's sunrise or the spacecraft's sunset. Tnis is an area that the sun has just recently come up on the moon. The mare we are over now has a mottled look aoout it, but not very heavily cratered, so it must be relatively new. This is the Sea of Fertility, and we're coming upon a large crater, the delta rim variety; has a strange circular cracked pattern around the middle of it. The crater that you see now is about 30 or 40 miles across.
LMP: How is your picture quality, Houston? cc This is phenomenal.
UNKNOWN: is en interesting rill directly in front of the spacecraft now, running along the edge of a s~dl mountain; rather sinuous sha$e with right- angle turns. 'Ibis area just to the west of the Sea of Crises is called the "rsh of Sleep and to the west of that the Sea of Tranquility.
LMP: Can you see the fracture patterns going across the mare in front of us now, Houston? ----- ..-.I.--- . ..-.-. -._. _ __ _l_l ,__ __
LMP: Roger. The series of cracks or faults across the middle of the they drop down in about mare: three steps to the south. The parallel fault pattern to the north has a drop down in the center. I hope all of you back down on earth can see what we mean when we say that it is a rather foreboding horizon, a very rather dark and unappetizing looking place. We are now going over - approaching one of our future landing sites selected in this smooth region to - called the Sea of Tranquility - smooth in order to make it easy for the initial landing attempts in order to preclude the having to dodge mountains. Now ,- you can see the long shadows of the lunar sunrise. all the people back on earth, the crew of Apollo J' /r ) has a message that we would like to send to you. ,, I L
UNKNOWN: the beginning, God created the Heaven and the G.4 form and darkness was up& the face of the deep. And the spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters:; ;-. hR ,+a Cod "let there be light." And there wz‘ sa’ w li&?[ G And God saw the light and that it was good, . - yi" God divided the light from the darkness; %
CMP: -And God called the light Day, and the darkness he I- called Night. &nd the evening and the morning J,c _v’ ’ L.’ "iet there be a firmament in the midst of the waters. made the firmament and divided-the waters which were under the firmament from the waters wkisi. P ! were above the firmament. God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening d the morning were the second day.
CDR: "let the waters under the Heavens -be gathered together into one place. the dry land appear." And it was called the dry land Earth. And the gathering together of the waters called the seas. And God saw that it was good. And from the crew of -I Apollo 8, we close with;ood night, good luck, Merry and God bless all of you - all a Christmas of yoc bn the good Earth ./-
CDR: Houston, how do you read? Apollo 8.
CC: Loud and clear, Apollo 8. And thank you for e' ood shdw. We have a maneuver PAD for c a verv R you when you are ready to copy.
CC: Apollo 8, read you loud and clear.
CC: That's affirmative., Apollo 8. You are. L
CDR: Did you read everything that we had-to &y-there? +- > -- ‘ L.-- - ” --- --I-.., .._ “..11 -_...-.--1 *. , ” ..,. _ _I_, __- .” ___^ _’ ‘\, / _
CC: Loudandclear. Thank you for a real good show. 1U -if !Li "./ .b
CDR: Okay. Now, Ken,)we'd like to get all squared &r-'"i L. .Q' for TRI here. Can you give us some good away ,; gy+ I words like you promised? 1 . _ ,izf-
CC: Yes, sir. I have a maneuver PAD. I think we vould like to start by dumping the tape. If ve can have that, I have your TRI 10 maneuver PAD, and then ue.will run through a systems brief.
CDR: I understand this is a maneuver PAD that we vill use for TEI. Is that correct?
UNKNOWN: you got the tape, Houston.
CC: Trmnk you.
UNKNOWN: Ready to copy, Ken., . . ,'
CC: Roger. TRI 10, SPS/G&N: 45597, minus 040, plus 157 08glg 1564, fi us 35183, minus 01513, minus 00346 180 007 000, November Alfa plus 00186 35223 38 35019 42 0928 253, boresight star Scorpii Delta (another name for it is Dzuba) down 071, left 45, plus 0748 minus 16500 12995 $3 00146 5005; primary star Sirius, secondary, Rigel, 129 155 010; four quads, 15 second, ullage; horizon on the 2.9 window line at T minus 3; use high-speed procedure with minus Mike Alfa; Over. - s : L. Tnpc 58 clq:c 6 u4P Okay. TET PAD as follows: SPS/G&N: 45597, 1564, minus 040, plus 157 08919 plus 35189, minus 01513, minus 00346 180 007 000, not applicable, plus 00186 35223 318 35019 42 0928 253, Scorpii Delta (Dzuba), down 071, left 45, plus 0748 minus 16500 12995 36300 146 5005; Sirius, Rigel, 129 155 010; four quads, 15 sec- onds, 2.9-degree window line at TIC minus 3, high-speed procedure minus MA.
UNKNOWN: correct, Apollo 8.
UNKNOWN: this is Frank. I want to - - I want to make one thing certain. This the load that ve are to use to burn with, right? This is not just a PAD data for 10 abort?
UNKNOWN: Apollo 8. We will update this PAD prior to theburn.
CDR: Oh, you will? Okay.
CC: Roger. I am reading you with a lot of background noise. Can you read me clearly?
CC: Okay. I am going to give'you a quick summary Basically, all systems are good. In of systems. .^ . P43e 7 respect to your return trajectory, we can still get to the mid-Pacific line at 146 hours by waiting as late as the thirteenth REV. After 138 seconds of the burn, you are on your way home. The weather in the recovery area looks good. Apollo 8, did you call?
CDR: Continue, Houston.
CC: Apollo 8, Houston. Could we have the high gain for a little bit longer?
CDR: We broke scan on it, 'Ken.: i
CC: Okay. You are coming in loud and clear now. Did you copy rq trajectory information?
CDR: We are on OMXI B now.
CC: Roger. 'That is fine.
CDR: Say again, please. Go ahead. We are 130 - Will you say again, please?
CC: Wilco, Apollo 8. First, if you can spare, we would like to have the high gain to complete the dump.
CDR: Stand by. We will try to get it for you.
CDR: In a couple of minutes there, Houston.
UNKNOWN: 47 .cc Okay, Apollo 8. While we are - - I will continue the trajectory summary. We can * _’ a Page still get back to the mid-Pacific line in hours from the thirteenth REV, and you are on your way after 138 seconds of the burn. That's 138 seconds, -- gets you clear of the butterfly region. We recommend not trying preignitions or restarts after If you go beyond 20 seconds, this may 20 seconds. get the trajectory beyond the correction - RCS cor- rection capabiiity to a free return. The weather in recovery area is good. We have an AOS follow- a9 28 ing TRI of plus plus 39 and an AOS without TEI of 89 plus 37 plus 24. During the burn, you may notice a slight change in chamber pressure and tank pressures due to ;he fuel exhaustion in the storage tank and going to the sump tank. This may occur somewhere around 2 to 5 seconds into the burn. It'11 be a small change in pressures in both systems. Going down the systems, all systems are In ECS, we want to stop water boiling after Go. TEI for trajectory purposes. Your water dump situation looks good; you should be.good to greater than 105 hours. We'11 try to hold off the water dump.until after MCC 5. In the EPS, we'd like to stir the cryos prior to TLI - correction TEI. The next purge on the fuel cells will occur at approx- imatel'i 92 hours, and that will be both hydrogen and oxygen. Your battery status: 'battery A 34.9, -~. battery B 39.1, and Charlie 38.5. We have the c ._ - TaRe 58 single tsnk cryo capability. SPS: looking at the performance on the previous burns, you can anticipate a normal burn taking approximately - 3.7 seconds in excess of the computed values. ..__I_____--. .._---.. -._ Engine performance looks nominal, and all pa- RCS looks good; all rameters have been steady. four quads according to the computer programs have approximately the ssme capacity. You have a good REFSMMAT to take you through TRI. We'11 have a post TRI FTC attitude for you in a few minutes. and that just'about wraps up what we CDR Roger. Thank you, Houston. We appreciate the We're trying to get high gain. SW-
CC: Roger, cl@ I think we have it. YOU & hare the hi& gain. Now, Ken, as I if it shuts down after 20 sec- understand it, - ._c_____----- ends of burn, you don't want us to try to re- I_- _-.- --_-_-I__ -----_ ..__ light it. Is that what you said? -w
CC: Stand by. Apollo 8, the intent w:as do not delay ignit ons Over. beyond 20 seconds. seconds
CDR: Oh, do not delay ignition beyond 20 Roger. That's affirm. 1 :
CDR: Okay. You want me to start it on tank A and --- then switch to B again like we did on our LOI, right? That's affirmative.
CDR: Did you put in this PAD for us? Should P30 and 40 be in our computer now?
CC: Apollo 8, that's negative. We had not uplinked We'11 put this one in on the next pass. this PAD.
CDR: Okay. Roger. Roger, Houston. We have completed the tape
CC: a, Houston. ~poll0 dump, and the recorder is yours. CDR Thank you.
LMP: Houston, how do you read? Apollo 8 on OMNI C. and
CC: Loud clear.
CC: Apollo a, Houston. We're 5 minutes to MS; ve'11 have AOS Honeysuckle at a-7:38:42.
UNKNOWN: . Roger. ,
UNKNOWN: 8, everything looks good going over the hill. cc
CDR: Roger, Ken. Thanks a lot. We'11 see you around - --\ '--- the next pass. Just have our TEI update for us when you're ready. Okay? cc
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CC: Loud and clear, Apollo a.
CDR: Okay. You want the computer? well, ve will start a dump, and when we get that, and we will start your updates.
CDR: Okay. How about reading us the PAD, and we will try to get you the high gain.
CDR: Ken, read us off the PAD in case you can't get the dump in; we can still do it.
CC: Roger. I have got them right here.
CC: Okay, 8. The first PAD I have is TEI 10. APO110
CDR: Go ahead. 45597,
UNKNOWN: Alright. TEI 10, SPS/G&N: minus 040, plus 157 08919 1567, plus 35186, minus 01512, minus 00520 180 007 000, November Alfa, phS 00186 35223 318 35018 42 0924 253; Scorpii Delta, down 069, left 45, plus 0748, minus 16500 12994 36300 146 5005; primary star Sirius, secondary Rigel, 129 155 010; four quads, 15 seconds, ul- lage; horizon on 3.2-degree window line at T use high-speed procedure with minus minus 3; Mike .Ufa. Over.
CDR: stand by 1 second.
CDR: You got the high gain now, Ken: .- - , ---_ .: I_ ---. - I(_- _.“.~., . ..,
CC: Roger. ~~0110
UNKNOWN: and clear. 8,
CC: Apollo we would like to - - 'and ACcEpT, and we would like to take the recorder at this time; then I will copy your PAD.
CMP: You have got PCO and ACCRPT, and you have the recorder. cc Thank you, Jim.
UNKNOWN: set for the maneuver.