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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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Houston, how do you read? Apollo 8.
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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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Jim Lovell (CMP)
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This is known as preparing lunch and doing P23 at the same time.
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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, 7:58 p.m. UTC (55 years, 10 months ago). Link to this transcript range is: Tweet
