- Mike Collins (CAPCOM)
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The Browns took Dallas apart yesterday 31 to 20. We're sort of curious, who do you like today, Baltimore or Minnesota? Over.
- Mike Collins (CAPCOM)
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Roger. Understand. Oh, I've got another score for you when you are ready to copy. Are you ready to copy?
- Bill Anders (LMP)
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You are very garbled; Houston; I'm unable to read. Will call you back in another year.
- Mike Collins (CAPCOM)
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Okay. We also notice the University of Houston lost their first home basketball game in 3-1/2 years last night. Illinois edged them out 97 to 84. And some really big news: the State Department announced only a few minutes ago that the Pueblo crew will be released at 9 p.m. tonight.
- Jim Lovell (CMP)
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Sounds good. Outboard calculations indicate that Apollo 8 at 25 hours is 104 000 miles from home.
- Mike Collins (CAPCOM)
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We're showing about 104 800 miles, and we're guessing another 8 to 10 hours on your battery charge.
- Frank Borman (CDR)
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This is a mighty nice view we have down there today. A little bit more than a half earth. Looks like Africa and the Red Sea is visible; we're not quite sure as there is quite a bit of cloud cover; but even through the hazy windows, it's mighty nice.
- Frank Borman (CDR)
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The rendezvous windows are good. The others are all about the same as they were when we last reported. One and five have a slight haze and a little fog on the inside.
- Mike Collins (CAPCOM)
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Roger. Just as a matter of curiosity for Bill, we can say a few words about the heaters for the cryo tanks, and also for the fans. We've noticed that the heaters are doing their thing normally, cycling on and off; and as time goes by, this cycle rate increases, indicating a little bit of stratification in the tanks. And then when we've been turning the fans on every 4 hours for a couple of minutes, this stirs things up and the heaters then cycling on and off again more slowly for awhile, until again a little bit of stratification occurs, and the cycling becomes slightly more rapid. This is, of course, normal; we just point it out as a curiosity to you. Over.
- Bill Anders (LMP)
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Roger. I haven't really been following it that close. One thing I have noticed is when you turn the fans on you get a glitch in the quantity, which might correspond to a glitch in AC. Maybe the next time we'll look at the AC volts and see what happens.
- Mike Collins (CAPCOM)
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Our experts say that's not the reason for the glitch. They say the stratification fakes out the capacitance sensor there for a second.
- Bill Anders (LMP)
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I'm reading you loud and clear. I'll go ahead and dump this. You might want to listen to it in real time to evaluate the voice.
- Mike Collins (CAPCOM)
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Do you want to dump it by your command, or would you like us to command the dump on it? Over.
- Mike Collins (CAPCOM)
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Roger. Understand, Bill. You promised me you would wait 3 days before you started doing this, Bill.
- Mike Collins (CAPCOM)
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Roger, Bill. We've got your dump, and the voice quality is very good. We we going to take about 20 minutes or so to get it back to Houston to play it.
- Mike Collins (CAPCOM)
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It comes through Madrid and then Ascension, Bill.
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Spoken on Dec. 22, 1968, 2:18 p.m. UTC (55 years, 10 months ago). Link to this transcript range is: Tweet