Spacelog Apollo 8

Go ahead, Houston. Apollo 8.

Okay. You want us to reservice it now?

That's affirmative, and upon completion, go back to AUTO.

Apollo 8, Houston.

Go ahead, Houston.

Roger. We are still dumping your tapes. The voice quality on high bit is coming through superb, and you are GO for the next rev. And we would like to get a brief status report on your rest between 60 hours and LOI 1, just to fill in some information for us.

We only got a couple hours rest.

Okay.

We're tired right now, but we will have to wait until TEI before we get back to the regular cycle.

Alright. I suspect you're right.

Okay, Houston. The water boiler has been reserviced, back pressure valve CLOSED for 1 minute, water ON for 2, and it's now steam pressure AUTO, H₂O flow AUTO.

Roger. We copy, Bill.

If we have a problem, a similar problem, again on the back side in the sunlight, might be a good idea to crank the secondary loop until we have AOS. What do you think about that?

Stand by one, Bill.

Apollo 8, Houston.

Go ahead, Houston. Apollo 8.

Roger, Jim. In regard to your evaporator, we feel that if you do have a similar problem next time on the back side in sunlight, check the evaporator outlet temperature, and if it gets above 60, we concur that it would be a good idea to bring up the secondary loop. Over.

Roger.

Apollo 8, Houston. When we say bring up the secondary loop, we mean bring up the evaporator only on the secondary loop. Copy?

Roger.

Houston, Apollo 8. We got time for a little news?

Apollo 8, this is Houston. Over.

I say how about a little bit of that news you promised?

Roger. We got the Interstellar Times here, the December 24 edition. Your TV program was a big success. It was viewed this morning by most of the nations of your neighboring planet; the earth. It was carried live all over Europe, including even Moscow and East Berlin, also in Japan and all of North and Central America and parts of South America. We don't know yet how extensive the coverage was in Africa. Are you copying me all right? Over.

You are loud and clear.

Good. San Diego welcomed home today the Pueblo crew in a big ceremony. They had a pretty rough time of it in the Korean prison. Christmas cease-fire is in effect in Viet Nam, with only sporadic outbreaks of fighting. And if you haven't done your Christmas shopping by now, you better forget it.

Thank you.

A couple of Oilers made the All-Star team, Webster and Farr.

Roger.

And that's about all our news. How about your news?

Well, we'll be looking forward to a big burn here shortly.

Roger.

Mike, I think I can say it without contradiction, it's been a mighty long dry spell up here.

I guess you can say anything you like without contradiction.

When can we dump water, Houston?

Say again, Frank.

When can we dump water?

Stand by.

Apollo 8, Houston.

Go, Houston.

We will get you the number after a while on your water dump. It looks like the quantity isn't increasing very slightly, and we're considering not only the quantity in regard to the dump, but also its effects on the trajectory relative to TEI and so forth, but we will have a good answer for you shortly.

We are not just thinking about the waste water tank: we're thinking about some other kind of water that has to get dumped out of the spacecraft, slightly used water.

Roger. We have about three and a half minutes to LOS. We give you back the DSE under your control, and in regard to your water dump, we are tentatively predicting a waste water tank dump at about 80 hours GET and any other dumps are at your discretion, any time you would like to make them.

Thank you.