Spacelog Apollo 8

Apollo 8, this is Houston. Go ahead with backup voice check.

Apollo 8, this is Houston. Go ahead, with backup voice check. Over.

Apollo 8, Houston. Go ahead with backup voice check. Over.

Roger, Mike. I gave you a count. I'll give you another one. Are you standing by?

Roger. Standing by.

Roger. This is Apollo 8 through backup voice: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. Over.

Roger, Bill. Reading you weak but clear. Go ahead with normal S-band voice check.

Roger.

Apollo 8, Houston. Over.

Houston, this is Apollo 8 on normal S-band: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. How do you read? Over.

Apollo 8, Houston. Reading you loud and clear normal S-band. How me?

Apollo 8, Houston. Reading you loud and clear on normal S-band. How me? Over.

Apollo 8, Houston. Over.

Roger, Houston. This is Apollo 8. Reading you loud and clear on normal.

Roger. Reading you loud and clear on normal S-band. How me?

Clear.

Apollo 8, Houston. Over.

Houston, this is Apollo 8. How do you read on VHF? Over.

Apollo 8, Houston. Reading you loud and clear. We are also reading you loud and clear on S-band normal. How me? Over.

Roger. I'm reading you loud and clear. I'll give you another count on S-band normal: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. How do you read me?

Roger. That's loud and clear, Bill. California, would you ENABLE the VHF downlink, please?

California ENABLED.

Apollo 8, Houston. Over.

Go ahead, Houston.

Roger. We are going to rewind your tape recorder, and we have the TLI plus 90 and TLI plus 4-hour PAD's at your convenience. Over.

Roger. Ready to copy.

Roger. TLI plus 90, SPS/G&N, 635 31 minus 164 plus 129. Are you with me so far? Over.

Roger. We're with you.

Houston, this is Apollo 8. We missed a portion of that maneuver PAD. Can you start with HP and go down to boresight star? Over.

Roger. I say again, HP plus 00185. Are you with me?

Roger. We're with you.

48587 603 48383 06 2027 250, and the boresight star is earth's center. Over.

Apollo 8, Houston. Did you copy?

Roger, Houston. This is a TLI plus 90 as follows: minus- the weight will be plus 63531 minus 164 plus 129 0041 74265 minus 04402 minus 0001 plus 48387 178 169 359 plus 00185 48587 603 48383. We will have to get the sextant information later; 123 minus 030.

Apollo 8, Houston. Over.

Houston, did you copy?

Apollo 8, Houston. We are picking you up now over Bermuda. I did not copy your readback after DELTA-V_C. That was the last quantity—I received.

Roger, Houston. Could you give us the sextant information again, the sextant star information?

GETI 006:47:27.79 minus 01594 plus 00000 plus 52885 178 155 000, not applicable, plus 00192 52909. Are you with me? Apollo 8, Houston. Over.

This is Apollo 8. You're breaking lock on S-band, and again, you got cut off just at HP.

Okay. HP plus 00192 52909 627 52694. Are you with me? Over.

Roger.

Roger. Sextant star, 12 1037 211, earth center down 063, right 23 plus 1068 minus 16500 12505 35061 026:42:57 north set stars, roll 068, pitch 097, yaw 356, ullage none, high speed procedure not required. Over.

Roger, Houston. TLI plus 4. Weight remains the same, minus 164 plus 129 006:47:27.79 minus 01594 plus all balls plus 52885 178 155 000 NA plus 00192 52909 627 52694 12 1037 211, earth center down 063, right 213 plus 1068 minus 16500 12505 35061 026:42:57, north set roll 068, pitch 097, yaw 356, no ullage, high speed procedure not required.

Very good. That's all correct, and I have a TLI PAD for you whenever you're ready to copy it.

Ready to copy.

Apollo 8, Houston. Over.

Roger. Houston, Apollo 8. Reading you loud and clear. TLI plan 24136 179 045 001 515 105196 35569 357 091 001; TLI plus 10, abort attitude 199 on the pitch.

Roger, Apollo 8. That is correct. We'd like to double check one number on the TLI plus 90 minutes. When you can dig that out, let us know.

Roger. Go ahead.

Okay. It's—the sextant shaft angle should be 2027. Over.

Roger. Sextant shaft is 2027.

Thank you, sir.

Apollo 8, Houston. Over.

Go ahead, Houston.

Roger. S-IVB looking good, both from a guidance and a consumable viewpoint; it all looks GO.

Roger.

The DSE is all yours, Bill.

Thank you.

Apollo 8, Houston. We will have LOS in 1 minute; we'll pick you up again over Tananarive at 02:09.

Roger, Michael. Thank you.

Roger. How does it feel up there?

Very good, very good. Everything is going rather well. It looks just about the same way it did 3 years ago.

Has Bill got time from playing with his tape recorder to look out the window?

Roger. We had one little incident here. Jim Lovell inadvertently popped one liferaft, so we've got one full Mae West with us here.

Apollo 8, Houston through Tananarive. Over.

Roger. Houston, this is Apollo 8.

Roger, Apollo 8. We don't have anything for you; we are just standing by. You're looking good.

Apollo 8, Houston.

Gemini 8—correction: Apollo 8.

Roger. Gemini 8, Houston. We would like to bring you up to date on the COMM situation while we've got some quiet time here. We'll be LOS Tananarive in another 2 minutes; we'll be picking you up over Carnarvon at 2 hours 25 minutes and 22 seconds. LOS Carnarvon will be 02:31:55; then we've got ARIA number 1 coming in about 02:37:30; and after that, we will have a hand-off to Mercury to Hawaii to Goldstone, and we should have continuous COMM. Over.

Very good. That's very good. Thank you.

Roger.

Thought you were Gemini 7, not 8.

Apollo 8, Houston. Over.

Go ahead, Houston. Apollo.

Roger. Loud and clear. We'd like to take your tape recorder for 2 minutes, please.

Can he have it, Bill?

Go ahead.

Thank you.

By the way, we read out the voice tape, and quality of the voice tape is good—from the DSE.

Good.

Apollo 8, Houston.