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Mike Collins (CAPCOM)
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Apollo 8, Houston. Requesting S-band OFF state to OFF. This should put us back in the normal configuration. Over.
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Mike Collins (CAPCOM)
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Okay. S-band OFF state to OFF. That returns us to normal configuration, and we need a couple or items from you. First, the CMP and LMP status report (including PRD readings on all three crewmembers), and we'd like to know did you chlorinate the water after your last meal. Over.
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Mike Collins (CAPCOM)
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Apollo 8, Houston. We've switched on all the communications switch; functions are operating normally, Bill.
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Frank Borman (CDR)
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Mike, the PRD readings for the CDR are 4—that's 0.04, for the CMP is 0.64, and for the LMP is 0.25.
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Frank Borman (CDR)
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We're about in the right position for high gain; we wondered if you wanted to take a trial run and see if it will work. Or do you just want to wait and try it when they're supposed to go on the air with it?
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Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM)
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Okay. In reference the early TV, we're losing the high-gain antenna now, and it looks like the only way we would have gotten the early TV pass in anyhow was to send it to remote site and look at it there. So we're going to scrub that idea and we'll just pick up with the scheduled TV. The COMM checks that are remaining are the high-gain dependent type, and we'll put those off until the TV session is completed, and we are working on the fuel propellant curve for you now.
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Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM)
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Okay, Apollo 8. What we're going to do on the TV is to go ahead and let you crank it up as soon as we get back on the high-gain antenna, and it looks like—my guess is that this will be about 31:07, and we'll just use this to—as long as we have the coverage there. I have an update to your TLI plus 35 PAD. Now we have to correct a couple of times on there. So when you get that out, let me know and I'll read it to you.
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Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM)
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Okay. On the TLI plus 35 pass, the update I want to give you is the last three lines in the block: the EMS range to go 13084 35985 0984217. Over.
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Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM)
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Affirmative.
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Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM)
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Apollo 8, Houston. We are about to have a handover to Goldstone, and our downlink isn't improved then. I don't know if you'll notice any difference in the uplink or not.
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Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM)
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Okay. We have switched sites over to Goldstone now. I don't know if you can tell any difference in our uplink.
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Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM)
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I have some RCS quantity data for you. We are all set up to receive the TV whenever you get high gain looking at us.
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Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM)
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Roger. I will repeat. Alfa 225, 74 percent; Bravo 240 pounds, 79 percent; Charlie 236, 78 percent; Delta 238, 19 percent. I would like to remind you on the TV that we need narrow beam width when you get up in high gain. Over.
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Frank Borman (CDR)
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Okay. We're rolling around to a good view of the earth, and as soon as we get to the good view of the earth, we'll stop and let you look out the window at the scene that we see. Jim Lovell's down in lower equipment bay preparing lunch, and Bill is holding a camera here for us both.
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Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM)
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Okay. We're getting a pretty good picture, but if you'd move it a little slower—every time you move it around, it breaks up the scan.
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Frank Borman (CDR)
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Okay. Now we are coming up on the view that we really want you to see. That's the view of the earth, and if you will break for just a minute, Bill is going to put on the large lens. So we will be right back with you.
Spoken on Dec. 22, 1968, 7:21 p.m. UTC (55 years, 10 months ago). Link to this transcript range is: Tweet
