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00 11 49 30
Bill Anders (LMP): Just barely make out Clear Lake.
00 11 49 40
Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM): Your nozzle temperatures have dropped from about 94 to around 66.
00 11 49 49
Bill Anders (LMP): Okay. I'm showing just a little bit above 50 percent here, and we'll keep on going, and if it looks too cold, give us a call.
00 11 49 59
Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM): Okay. We'll do that.
00 11 50 30
Bill Anders (LMP): Houston, we had a momentary O₂ high flow, but we think it's due to all the purging of the water lines we're doing here in the cabin.
00 11 50 40
Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM): Roger. We concur.
00 11 53 20
Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, Houston. We show you down to 25 percent of your waste water.
00 11 53 26
Bill Anders (LMP): Okay. I'm just about 28, Houston. Stand by just a bit.
00 11 54 02
Bill Anders (LMP): Okay. Waste dump stopped and then purge again.
00 11 54 05
Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM): Understand. Roger. Waste dump stopped.
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Bill Anders (LMP): Roger.
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Bill Anders (LMP): Houston, we're on a high gain, and it might be a good time to try your COMM check.
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Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, we're going to go ahead and crank up to a COMM test now, and we will be a little bit late on your update for 12 hours.
00 12 01 10
Bill Anders (LMP): Okay.
00 12 01 11
Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM): Do you still want our—have us command as much as we can on the ground, or would you like to move the switches yourself?
00 12 01 20
Bill Anders (LMP): Oh, you can have the fun of doing it.
00 12 01 23
Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM): Sounds like you're dragging there.
00 12 01 30
Bill Anders (LMP): … you suggest a … We're using 1/250 on at f:11 on CEX and CMAX for earth shots. Do you verify? Over.
00 12 01 43
Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM): Okay. You got going before I got my pencil up. How about saying it again?
00 12 01 49
Bill Anders (LMP): f:11 and 1/250 for CEX 16mm and C 70mm.
00 12 01 58
Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM): Okay. Thank you.
00 12 02 01
Bill Anders (LMP): How about running in by the back room boys. My light meter doesn't seem to be helping out too much.
00 12 02 07
Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM): Okay.
00 12 03 01
Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM): Okay, Apollo 8. We're starting in—setting up for our first COMM test. This is going to be an uplink voice, ranging, and full downlink, which is not anything really different than what you have on board. I would like for you to verify that the S-band NORMAL MODE VOICE switch is in VOICE.
00 12 03 22
Bill Anders (LMP): Roger. VOICE.
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Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM): Okay. And the up-telemetry DATA to DATA.
00 12 03 28
Bill Anders (LMP): Roger. DATA.
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Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM): Up-telemetry COMMAND in NORMAL.
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Bill Anders (LMP): Roger. NORMAL.
00 12 03 38
Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM): High-gain antenna to AUTO TRACK.
00 12 03 42
Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM): Correction. That's -
00 12 03 43
Bill Anders (LMP): AUTO.
00 12 03 46
Bill Anders (LMP): We're in AUTO WIDE BEAM, and you can go ahead and dump the tape.
00 12 03 50
Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM): Okay. I'd like for you to go to NARROW BEAM.
00 12 03 54
Bill Anders (LMP): Okay. Going to NARROW BEAM now.
00 12 03 57
Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM): Roger.
00 12 04 01
Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM): And I'll give you a call when we get ready to work on the tape.
00 12 04 05
Bill Anders (LMP): Okay. We're still in PTC, so you're only going to have it for about 10 or 15 minutes.
00 12 04 12
Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM): Okay. We've had some problems with our displays, and I think they're straightened out now, but you may have to keep us advised if we run out of limits in case we display again.
00 12 04 22
Bill Anders (LMP): Roger.
00 12 04 38
Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM): Say, while we're standing by here, Apollo 8, the service module quantities that we had listed—we're going to try to update them, if you want to call out your quantities. Have you checked them with your charts?
00 12 04 54
Bill Anders (LMP): Negative. I haven't gotten around to that. Stand by.
00 12 04 56
Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM): Okay. There's no hurry on that. Just wondered if you had done it; we will check it against what we've got on our norma-gram.
00 12 05 17
Bill Anders (LMP): I'm showing a SPS helium pressure, about 3570, indicated on board.
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Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM): Roger.
00 12 05 31
Bill Anders (LMP): And fuel LOX tank pressures are 177 and 176, respectively.
00 12 05 40
Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM): Okay.
00 12 05 44
Bill Anders (LMP): N₂ A is 2400, B 2500.
00 12 05 52
Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM): Okay.
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Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM): Okay. And our back room tells you that you've got the right F stop.

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