- Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM)
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Okay. I'm reading you loud and clear. I understand you have contact with the spacecraft. Is that affirm?
- Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM)
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Okay. Understand that you have good uplink, but your downlink is in the mud. You don't have any way of copying it either, is that correct —
Expand selection up Contract selection down Close - Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM)
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Okay, Hawaii, we can hear Apollo 8, calling down. Would you answer and tell them that we did copy that?
Expand selection down Contract selection up - Milt Windler (FLIGHT)
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Okay. I'm going to ask him to call the spacecraft again, and I would like for you to give me a report if he does not key the transmitters.
- Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM)
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We transmitted to the spacecraft as per CAP COM and they acknowledged our transmission.
- Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM)
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Okay. We got back together again. You're loud and clear. We've been reading you. We have a problem down here on the ground getting our signal from MCC out to remote site.
- Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM)
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Apollo 8. Houston. I've got a ball score for you. It was Oakland 41, Kansas City 6 is the final score. That's 41 to 6, Oakland. We're trying to get some news releases over here for you. I suspect we're going to find that the staged TV show was probably the biggest news of the day.
- Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM)
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Well, we're working on that some more. I'm not sure that the whole thing is lost yet. It appears that our problem is one where the light intensity which is sensed by our light meter in there is picking up an average field which is much larger than the earth, and so it's sensing a great deal of deep space environment which is dark, and we're suspicious that this is probably opening up the lens aperture as wide as it will go, and then when you point the camera at the earth while the earth is only filling about 3 degrees of cone angle, whereas lens takes in 9. So it looks like you're probably just saturating the tube. Now we're playing around now with some —
- Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM)
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Okay. What I—what we've got in mind here is that we are looking at some of the lenses you have on board for cameras, and we are going to see if one of them can possibly be used to attenuate some of this light so that you will be able to take one of these pictures, and we are running some tests now, and we'll let you know about those. I also have a maneuver PAD that I need to read up to you whenever it's convenient.
Spoken on Dec. 23, 1968, 12:19 a.m. UTC (55 years, 10 months ago). Link to this transcript range is: Tweet