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Jim Lovell (CMP): We are with you.
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Mike Collins (CAPCOM): 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.
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Jim Lovell (CMP): This is Apollo 8. You're breaking lock on S-band, and again, you got cut off just at HP.
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Mike Collins (CAPCOM): Okay. HP plus 00192 52909 627 52694. Are you with me? Over.
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Jim Lovell (CMP): Roger.
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Mike Collins (CAPCOM): 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.
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Jim Lovell (CMP): 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.
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Mike Collins (CAPCOM): Very good. That's all correct, and I have a TLI PAD for you whenever you're ready to copy it.
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Jim Lovell (CMP): Ready to copy.
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Mike Collins (CAPCOM): Okay. Your computer PAD is in and verified. You can go to BLOCK, and we're going to have LOS here in about 45 seconds. I'll start on the TLI PAD anyway. Time base 6P 24136, roll 179, pitch 045, yaw 001, burn time 5 plus 15, DELTA-V_C prime 105 196 V_I 35569, roll 357, pitch 091; yaw 001. Comments: TLI plus 10 minutes; abort attitude is 199 degrees, and I don't believe you've got time to read that back. We'll see you over Canaries at 1:50 GET. Adios.
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Mike Collins (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, Houston. Over.
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Jim Lovell (CMP): 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.
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Mike Collins (CAPCOM): 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.
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Jim Lovell (CMP): Roger. Go ahead.
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Mike Collins (CAPCOM): Okay. It's—the sextant shaft angle should be 2027. Over.
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Jim Lovell (CMP): Roger. Sextant shaft is 2027.
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Mike Collins (CAPCOM): Thank you, sir.
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Mike Collins (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, Houston. Over.
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Bill Anders (LMP): Go ahead, Houston.
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Mike Collins (CAPCOM): Roger. S-IVB looking good, both from a guidance and a consumable viewpoint; it all looks GO.
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Bill Anders (LMP): Roger.
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Mike Collins (CAPCOM): The DSE is all yours, Bill.
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Bill Anders (LMP): Thank you.
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Mike Collins (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, Houston. We will have LOS in 1 minute; we'll pick you up again over Tananarive at 02:09.
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Frank Borman (CDR): Roger, Michael. Thank you.
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Mike Collins (CAPCOM): Roger. How does it feel up there?
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Frank Borman (CDR): Very good, very good. Everything is going rather well. It looks just about the same way it did 3 years ago.
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Mike Collins (CAPCOM): Has Bill got time from playing with his tape recorder to look out the window?
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Frank Borman (CDR): Roger. We had one little incident here. Jim Lovell inadvertently popped one liferaft, so we've got one full Mae West with us here.
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Mike Collins (CAPCOM): Roger. Understand.
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Mike Collins (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, Houston through Tananarive. Over.
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Frank Borman (CDR): Roger. Houston, this is Apollo 8.
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Mike Collins (CAPCOM): Roger, Apollo 8. We don't have anything for you; we are just standing by. You're looking good.
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Frank Borman (CDR): Roger. Thank you.
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Mike Collins (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, Houston.
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Frank Borman (CDR): Gemini 8—correction: Apollo 8.
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Mike Collins (CAPCOM): 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.
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Frank Borman (CDR): Very good. That's very good. Thank you.
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Mike Collins (CAPCOM): Roger.
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Mike Collins (CAPCOM): Thought you were Gemini 7, not 8.
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Frank Borman (CDR): Roger.
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Mike Collins (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, Houston. Over.
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Frank Borman (CDR): Go ahead, Houston. Apollo.
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Mike Collins (CAPCOM): Roger. Loud and clear. We'd like to take your tape recorder for 2 minutes, please.
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Jim Lovell (CMP): Can he have it, Bill?
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Bill Anders (LMP): Go ahead.
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Frank Borman (CDR): Thank you.
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Mike Collins (CAPCOM): By the way, we read out the voice tape, and quality of the voice tape is good—from the DSE.
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Frank Borman (CDR): Good.
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Mike Collins (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, Houston.
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Frank Borman (CDR): Go ahead, Houston.
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Mike Collins (CAPCOM): Alright, Apollo 8. You are GO for TLI. Over.
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Frank Borman (CDR): Roger. We understand we are GO for TLI.
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Mike Collins (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, Houston. Over.
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Frank Borman (CDR): Go ahead, Houston. Apollo 8.
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Mike Collins (CAPCOM): Roger. We will have LOS in about 30 seconds, and we'll pick you up over ARIA 1 at 02:37:30.
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Frank Borman (CDR): Roger.
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Frank Borman (CDR): Houston, this is Apollo 8. How do you read?
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Mike Collins (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, Houston. Over.
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Frank Borman (CDR): Houston, Apollo 8. I hear you garbled but fairly clear.
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Mike Collins (CAPCOM): Roger. Apollo 8, Houston. We're transmitting through ARIA 1, and you are also garbled.
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Mike Collins (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, Houston. Over.
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Frank Borman (CDR): Go ahead, Houston. Apollo 8.
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Mike Collins (CAPCOM): Good; you're loud and clear through the Mercury, and you're looking good dawn here. Everything looks good.
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Frank Borman (CDR): Roger. Understand. Our O₂ flow is a little bit higher than I thought, but Bill says that it's just about what he expected.
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Mike Collins (CAPCOM): Roger. Understand.
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Mike Collins (CAPCOM): Your He flow looks good down here.
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Frank Borman (CDR): Thank you.
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Mike Collins (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, Houston. You're looking good.
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Frank Borman (CDR): Roger.
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Mike Collins (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, coming up on 20 seconds to ignition. Mark it, and you're looking very good.
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Frank Borman (CDR): Roger.
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Jim Lovell (CMP): IGNITION.
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Mike Collins (CAPCOM): Roger. IGNITION.
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Mike Collins (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, Houston. You're looking good.
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Mike Collins (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, Houston. Trajectory and guidance look good. Over.
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Frank Borman (CDR): Roger. Apollo 8, looks good here.
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Mike Collins (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, Houston. We're predicting cut-off, 02:55:58, and it looks exactly nominal here.
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Frank Borman (CDR): Roger.
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Mike Collins (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, Houston. That predicted cut-off, 02:55:52, 52, and that's exactly as it should be.
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Frank Borman (CDR): 02:55:52.
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Mike Collins (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, Houston. You are looking good here, right down the center line.
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Frank Borman (CDR): Roger. Apollo 8.
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Frank Borman (CDR): Apollo 8, Houston. You are looking good, right down the old center line.
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Frank Borman (CDR): Roger. Apollo 8.
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Frank Borman (CDR): Okay—We got SECO right on the money.
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Mike Collins (CAPCOM): Roger. Understand; SECO.
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Mike Collins (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, Houston. Looks like a good cut-off. Everything is looking real good down here.
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Mike Collins (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, Houston.
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Frank Borman (CDR): Go ahead, Houston. Apollo 8.
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Mike Collins (CAPCOM): Your cut-off looked very good down here. We have a whole room full of people that say you look good.
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Frank Borman (CDR): Roger. Thank you. The only situation we have here in the O₂ flow is high, O₂ flow is a bit high.
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Mike Collins (CAPCOM): Roger. Understand; O₂ flow high.
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Jim Lovell (CMP): We'll get to first status report here shortly.
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Mike Collins (CAPCOM): Roger.
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Mike Collins (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, Houston. Your booster configured normally, and we're not concerned with the O₂ high flow. We think it's normal.
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Frank Borman (CDR): Okay.
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Jim Lovell (CMP): Houston, Apollo 8.
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Mike Collins (CAPCOM): Go ahead, Apollo 8.
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Jim Lovell (CMP): Roger. The DELTA-TIG looked like it was right on. Burn time appeared to us to be about 2 seconds longer, 517. VGX was reading 95485 when we got it. The attitude was nominal. V_I was reading 35452 at cut-off, H-dot 04552, and H is 01791. DELTA-V_C on the EMS was minus 20.6.
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Mike Collins (CAPCOM): Roger. We copy that, Jim, and I've got some times here for you.
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Jim Lovell (CMP): Roger. Go ahead.
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Mike Collins (CAPCOM): Booster begins maneuver to SEP attitude at 03:10:55. Takes 5 minutes, so it arrives at 03:15:55, and SEP time, 03:20:55. Your SEP attitude, the gimbal angles on the PAD remain good.
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Jim Lovell (CMP): Roger. I have those times. The SEP time will be 03:20:55.
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Mike Collins (CAPCOM): Right.
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Bill Anders (LMP): Houston, Apollo 8. Over.
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Mike Collins (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, Houston. Go ahead.
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Bill Anders (LMP): Roger. Going to start charging battery B.
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Mike Collins (CAPCOM): Okay. Battery B.
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Bill Anders (LMP): And would you keep a special eye on the purge tank and cryo O₂ tank 1 DELTA-V for us since our flowmeter is pegged out, we got no warning on O₂ high flow.
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Mike Collins (CAPCOM): Roger, Bill. We'll do that for you.
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Bill Anders (LMP): Thank you.
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Frank Borman (CDR): Okay. Maneuvers started to separation attitude.
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Mike Collins (CAPCOM): Roger, Apollo 8.
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Frank Borman (CDR): Houston, Apollo 8. How do you read?
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Mike Collins (CAPCOM): Yes, reading you loud and clear, Frank. Understand you've started the maneuver to SEP attitude.
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Frank Borman (CDR): Roger.
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Mike Collins (CAPCOM): Are you reading us alright?
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Frank Borman (CDR): Loud and clear.
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Mike Collins (CAPCOM): Thank you.
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Mike Collins (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, Houston.
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Frank Borman (CDR): Go ahead, Houston. Apollo 8.
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Mike Collins (CAPCOM): Okay. Coming up on 3 hours and 15 minutes as per flight plan; we have you GO.
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Frank Borman (CDR): Roger. GO.
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Frank Borman (CDR): You got any reading on that O₂ flow?
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Mike Collins (CAPCOM): Stand by one.
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Mike Collins (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, Houston.
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Frank Borman (CDR): Go ahead.
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Mike Collins (CAPCOM): We're reading about the same as we were before on that oxygen flow. The reason it's that high is due to the cabin gas changeover. According to Apollo 7, if your data repeats theirs, you can expect it to be high for another few hours.
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Frank Borman (CDR): Roger. Thank you.
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Mike Collins (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, Houston.
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Frank Borman (CDR): Go ahead.
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Mike Collins (CAPCOM): You can expect that the S-IVB will be 10 degrees off in pitch at SEP attitude; however, that is GO. There is no problem involved.
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Frank Borman (CDR): Roger.
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Mike Collins (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, Houston.
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Frank Borman (CDR): Go ahead, Houston.
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Mike Collins (CAPCOM): Roger. We have you about 30 seconds prior to separation, and everything's looking good.
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Frank Borman (CDR): Roger.
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Frank Borman (CDR): What a view!
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Mike Collins (CAPCOM): Looks pretty good, huh?
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Bill Anders (LMP): We've SEP'd Houston. We got the IVB, right?
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Mike Collins (CAPCOM): Roger. Apollo 8.
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Bill Anders (LMP): Houston, do you read Apollo 8?
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Mike Collins (CAPCOM): Go ahead, Apollo 8.
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Mike Collins (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, Houston. Over.
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Mike Collins (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, this is Houston. Over.
Bill Anders (LMP): This is Apollo 8 on VHF and S-band. How do you read?
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Mike Collins (CAPCOM): Hear loud and clear, Bill. How me?
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Bill Anders (LMP): Read you loud and clear. We have SEP and looking good.

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