Spacelog Apollo 8

Maneuvering now.

Thank you.

Houston, we made the burn at 7.7 plus X plus 00001 Y; and Z's are all zeros. Gimbal angles, roll 180, pitch 310, and yaw 020.

Roger. I copy plus X 7.7. Y 0.1; and roll, pitch, and yaw 180, 310, and 20.

Did you get that information, Houston?

Apollo 8, Houston. How are you reading?

Read you loud and clear. Did you get the information?

That's affirmative. I say again, we copied plus X 7.7, one-tenth in Y, no Z; roll, pitch, and yaw, 180, 310, and 020.

Roger. The burn was made at—initiated at 04:45.

Roger. Copy 04:45 —

Okay. Do you want us to transfer that to the CS—to the LM state vector or just leave it alone? You —

Apollo 8, Houston.

Go ahead, Houston. Apollo 8.

How is that booster looking now? Is it drifting away rapidly, or how does it look?

Bill is the only one that can see it. Just a minute

We're 90 degrees from its X-axis, and we must be out 1000 feet and moving out.

Roger. Understand; 90 degrees from its X-axis and about 1000 feet and separating.

Plus or minus a couple of thousand.

Understand.

Houston, this is Apollo 8. I think we've got clearance now; we got a little behind on our P23's, but I suggest we go ahead and start those now.

Roger. Stand by.

We're well clear of the S-IVB now, Houston.

Roger, Bill. Thank you, and at your convenience, could you give us the PRD reading? And as far as the P23 goes, that's just fine to get started with it. It looks like your first star, which is number 14, should be good until about 05:15 GET. Over.

Roger. We'll start P23.

Houston, Apollo 8 with a PRD reading.

Go ahead.

Roger. At 4 hours 4 minutes, Commander is 0, CMP 0.64, LMP 0.02.

Got that. Copy left to right: 0, 0.64, and 0.02 at 4 hours and 4 minutes. Thank you.

Roger. At 04:53, it was 0.01, 0.64, 0.03, and negligible on the survey meter.

Roger. Thank you.

I have a beautiful view of the S-IVB and the earth here on one. I'll try and get a picture for you.

Hope so.

Apollo 8, Houston. We've got you about a minute away from the continuous vent open and 14 minutes away from the big dump, and we would like an estimate on your distance now if you can give it.

Stand by. Our distance is about 3000 feet we would estimate.

Thank you.

And we can see the vent.

Apollo 8. Houston. Say again.

We can see the vent.

Roger. Thank you.

Houston, Apollo 8.

Go ahead, Jim.

Boy, it's really hard to describe what this earth looks like. I'm looking out my center window, which is a round window, and the window is bigger than the earth is right now. I can clearly see the terminator. I can see most of South America, all the way up to Central America, Yucatan, and the peninsula of Florida. There is a big swirling motion just off the east coast, and then going on over toward the east, I can still see West Africa, which has a few clouds right now. We can see all the way down to Cape Horn in South America.

Good grief, that must be quite a view.

Yes. Tell the people in Tierra Del Fuego to put on their raincoats; looks like a storm is out there.

Roger. Will do. Do you care to give them a 24-hour forecast?

Houston, Apollo 8.

Apollo 8, Houston. Go ahead.