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00 04 29 46
Jim Lovell (CMP): Houston, we are going to have to hold up on the cislunar navigation until after this next little maneuver.
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Mike Collins (CAPCOM): Roger, Jim. We understand.
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Mike Collins (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, Houston.
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Frank Borman (CDR): Go ahead now, Mike.
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Mike Collins (CAPCOM): Can you give us an updated readout of your gimbal angles. When your plus X-axis is pointed toward the booster, please?
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Frank Borman (CDR): Roger. Stand by.
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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): Could you give us those gimbal angles, Frank, when you have a chance?
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Frank Borman (CDR): I'm getting the COAS right on it now so it will be accurate.
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Mike Collins (CAPCOM): Thank you.
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Frank Borman (CDR): Okay. With the COAS right on the S-IVB, the roll reads 105, the pitch is 275, and the yaw is about 325.
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Mike Collins (CAPCOM): Roger. Copy roll 105, pitch 275, and yaw 325.
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Frank Borman (CDR): Roger. That should be 115 for the roll.
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Mike Collins (CAPCOM): Thank you. 115 roll.
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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. If it will help you any, Mike, the earth is plus Y about 45 degrees in a minus X. I can see it out my side window, and it's a beautiful view with numerous cloud vortex.
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Mike Collins (CAPCOM): Roger, Bill. Thank you. Understand; plus X 45 degrees halfway between plus Y and plus Z and slightly minus X.
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Bill Anders (LMP): Negative. It's 45 degrees in the plus Y, in the XY plane towards minus X. Over.
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Mike Collins (CAPCOM): Roger. Understand in the XY plane, toward X 45 degrees.
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Bill Anders (LMP): Forty-five degrees from plus Y to minus X.
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Mike Collins (CAPCOM): Roger. Thank you.
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Bill Anders (LMP): It's behind us to the right, if that will help.
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Mike Collins (CAPCOM): Roger.
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Frank Borman (CDR): I can still see the Cape and isthmus of Central America.
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Mike Collins (CAPCOM): Roger. Understand. Frank, what we want on this burn is 8 feet per second now, 8 feet per second. We want it radially upward, and we want you to use whatever thrusters are required to burn radially upward at 8 feet per second.
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Frank Borman (CDR): Why do you want to use—do so much, Mike?
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Mike Collins (CAPCOM): Because of the separation distance we would like to achieve between now and the time of S-IVB blowdown.
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Frank Borman (CDR): Okay.
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Frank Borman (CDR): Mike, do you want me to go ahead and try to do this, or are you going to give me some gimbal angles?
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Mike Collins (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, Houston. Go ahead and do it without gimbal angles, if you can do that. Over.
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Frank Borman (CDR): Okay. I don't understand why you want so many feet per second on it, but I think I can—with just a little maneuvering, I can get away from it a lot simpler than that.
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Mike Collins (CAPCOM): Well, we would like the radial upward for trajectory reasons, and the magnitude we'd like because of the separation distance which we're predicting you will have at S-IVB blowdown.
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Frank Borman (CDR): Okay.
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Frank Borman (CDR): VHF sounds good.
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Mike Collins (CAPCOM): Roger. On the VHF.
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Jim Lovell (CMP): OMNI B.
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Mike Collins (CAPCOM): Understand; OMNI B Baker.
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Mike Collins (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, Houston.
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Bill Anders (LMP): Go ahead, Houston. Apollo 8.
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Mike Collins (CAPCOM): Roger. About 12 minutes before your big blowdown, there is a small continuous vent which opens at a GET of 04:55:55. You may notice that on the booster, 12- or 15-pound thrust.
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Bill Anders (LMP): Okay.
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Mike Collins (CAPCOM): And, Apollo 8, could you give us your burn information whenever you have it?
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Bill Anders (LMP): Roger. We are maneuvering to the attitude now.
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Mike Collins (CAPCOM): Okay.
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Frank Borman (CDR): Okay, Houston. I understand you want 8 feet per second burn, is that right?
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Mike Collins (CAPCOM): Right. Eight feet per second, radially upward.
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Frank Borman (CDR): Well, we are as close to being radially upward as we can determine.
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Mike Collins (CAPCOM): Roger.
Mike Collins (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, Houston. Are you going to use P47 to monitor the burn?
Jim Lovell (CMP): Yes, Jim, that's Roger. We are putting it in right now.
Mike Collins (CAPCOM): Thank you.

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