Spacelog Apollo 8

Okay. Then we'll keep using it.

This PTC attitude really isn't the greatest for taking pictures of the earth.

Roger, Houston. This is Apollo 8. One, two, three, four, five, five, four, three, two, one. Apollo 8, out.

Roger. And read you loud and clear. This COMM is unbelievably good.

Good.

Okay, Apollo 8. We've finished the first test, and we're now going to change the uplink mode to UPLINK COMMAND AND RANGING, and we'll be going without upvoice. We'll be in this mode for 2-1/2 minutes and will be sending a test messages. It'll have no effect on either your computer or your panel switch configuration. What you might see will be the S-band noise that's associated with the break lock. However, you should still have a good signal on your power meter. This is not a loss of signal, but rather just a loss of the voice modulation, and I'll do you a mark just before we do that so that you can turn your S-band volume down if you so desire, and we'll be back up in this mode that we're in now in 2-1/2 minutes.

Roger.

Apollo 8, Houston. Voice check.

Read you five-by, Houston.

Apollo 8, Houston.

Roger, Houston. Read you loud and clear and am with you. Completed our second test.

Okay.

Okay. Our next test will be a test of the uplink voice and ranging with downlink voice and ranging and on low bit rate, so we'll be changing bit rate on you, and we'll be making a voice check in the middle.

Okay. You've about had it on the high gain. You might try to get it in, but it's going to hit the scan limit at any second.

Okay, Apollo 8. Looks like we'll get our information before we lose the high gain.

Okay. We'll just leave it go.

Roger.

They got the scan limit. We'll let it go, Houston, until it breaks lock.

Okay, Apollo 8. Go ahead and switch to the OMNI.

How're you doing with your test?

Okay. We've got three-fifths of the test. We'll have to pick up the rest next time we get a look at high gain.

Houston, Apollo 8.

Go ahead, Apollo 8.

Roger. Reading on P21 at 269 10 indicates a parallel of about 67.4 miles. I guess we can carry her.

You guys are getting pretty good.

That's a lot better than our first answer.

Houston, Apollo 8.

Go ahead, Apollo 8.

Roger. I'd like to ask a question about this TLI plus 11 maneuver that we copied. In the remarks, you put P37, DELTA-V 7900. Is this the DELTA-V that we would use with P37?

Okay. That's the option that you use with minimum time.

Roger. What I'd like to do is check on our P37 with your TLI maneuver update.

Okay, Apollo 8. We'd like to make sure that we don't have a misunderstanding that this 7900 feet per second is the DELTA-V. It's not associated with the high speed per feet work around procedure. This is just a standard P37 DELTA-V.

Roger. But was that the DELTA-V that you used to give us the TLI plus 11? Okay.

Okay. That's not the one that the maneuver PAD was based on. That's the number you put in for the minimum time.

Roger. Understand.

Okay. Sounds like a good idea if you want to go ahead and check out the 37. And we're standing by to work on COMM as soon as that high gain is available.

Okay. Houston, you got the high gain.

Houston, do you read? Apollo 8. Over.

Apollo 8, Houston.

Roger. High gain yours.

Okay. And if you're ready, we are. We'll go right ahead with our COMM checks.