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Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM)
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Okay. We've got a telescope alignment if you'd like to give it a try. Your sextant star is still good, but if you had problems with that, folks have worked out that if you look through the telescope at 10:35, we have a shaft and trunnion that should point you at the center of the earth, if you would like to give that one a try.
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Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM)
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Okay. We'd like to get a fan—a cryo fan cycle in here before the burn. About 1 minute on each should be fine.
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Bill Anders (LMP)
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Roger. I've already given 2 minutes on H2 1 and 2 and O2 1, and I've just started O2 2.
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Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM)
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Apollo 8, Houston. We'd like to dump your tape prior to the burn.
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Okay, Apollo 8. That's—that's correct. You're on high bit rate, and we're afraid you may run out before the burn, so we'd like to dump it, and give it back to you with a full load before the burn.
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Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM)
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Okay, Apollo 8. All your systems are GO, and we were about to tell you you can go ahead and terminate the battery charge, and you beat us to the punch.
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Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM)
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Apollo 8, Houston. If you'll go high bit rate, we'll give you a tape recorder back to your command.
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Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM)
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Apollo 8, Houston. If you'll put your high bit rate on, we'll give you a tape recorder back.
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Frank Borman (CDR)
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Houston, Apollo 8.
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Frank Borman (CDR)
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Roger. The burn time was on time—about 2 seconds; we have residual 4.4 X. We burned it out to 0.2. Attitudes are nominal. The DELTA-VC before the residuals were taken out was a minus 2.4. I have transferred the state vector to the LM's slot in VERB 66.
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Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM)
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Roger. Copy 4.4 for X and 2.4 on Z. And negative residual on Y prior to the trim. Is that affirm?
Spoken on Dec. 21, 1968, 11:25 p.m. UTC (55 years, 11 months ago). Link to this transcript range is: Tweet
