Spacelog Apollo 8

We are with you.

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.

Roger. We will have LOS in about 30 seconds, and we'll pick you up over ARIA 1 at 02:37:30.

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

Apollo 8, Houston. Over.

Houston, Apollo 8. I hear you garbled but fairly clear.

Apollo 8, Houston. Over.

Go ahead, Houston. Apollo 8.

Good; you're loud and clear through the Mercury, and you're looking good dawn here. Everything looks good.

Roger. Understand. Our O₂ flow is a little bit higher than I thought, but Bill says that it's just about what he expected.

Roger. Understand.

Your He flow looks good down here.

Apollo 8, Houston. You're looking good.

Roger.

Apollo 8, coming up on 20 seconds to ignition. Mark it, and you're looking very good.

Roger.

IGNITION.

Roger. IGNITION.

Apollo 8, Houston. You're looking good.

Apollo 8, Houston. Trajectory and guidance look good. Over.

Roger. Apollo 8, looks good here.

Apollo 8, Houston. We're predicting cut-off, 02:55:58, and it looks exactly nominal here.

Roger.

Apollo 8, Houston. That predicted cut-off, 02:55:52, 52, and that's exactly as it should be.

02:55:52.

Apollo 8, Houston. You are looking good here, right down the center line.

Roger. Apollo 8.

Apollo 8, Houston. You are looking good, right down the old center line.

Roger. Apollo 8.

Okay—We got SECO right on the money.

Roger. Understand; SECO.

Apollo 8, Houston. Looks like a good cut-off. Everything is looking real good down here.

Apollo 8, Houston.

Go ahead, Houston. Apollo 8.

Your cut-off looked very good down here. We have a whole room full of people that say you look good.

Roger. Thank you. The only situation we have here in the O₂ flow is high, O₂ flow is a bit high.

Roger. Understand; O₂ flow high.

We'll get to first status report here shortly.

Roger.

Apollo 8, Houston. Your booster configured normally, and we're not concerned with the O₂ high flow. We think it's normal.

Okay.

Houston, Apollo 8.

Go ahead, Apollo 8.