Spacelog Apollo 8

Apollo 8, Houston.

Go ahead Houston, Apollo 8.

Okay, I've got a few items for you I'd like to clear up and then we'll let you alone for a while. The first thing is we would like for you to confirm that your spot meter had an ASA setting of 100.

That is confirmed.

Okay, we thank you. That's one of the first questions that came to mind. We are ready for a cryo fan cycle at any time and use your normal procedures.

Okay.

All right. You can anticipate a fuel cell purge at 35 hours, and we ought to be through with battery A charging somewhere after 34 hours; and looks like you'll have just about a full battery there. And we will give you a call on the exact time to cut it off. We would like to get some confirmation from you on the chlorine procedures. Did you get some in last night or not? Just a quick summary of how much sleep you got on Lovell and Anders?

Okay. We got the chlorine in and the water has been chlorinated and just a minute I will check with them on their sleep.

I am sorry I didn't copy that sleep.

Say again, Ken.

I am sorry I didn't copy your last, Frank.

I was asking you to say, to say what you said. Jim had about 4 hours sleep, and Bill had about 3 hours sleep.

Okay. Thank you very much.

We feel pretty good today. We would like to see, in looking over the flight plan—perhaps we ought to put the rest periods a little bit shorter and more frequent. It seems it might work out better. We got all out of kilter on it yesterday. We are sort of trying to get back in a normal cycle.

Okay. We will look into that.

You all are doing good work. Keep it up.

Thank you. Looks like the only other thing we have left over is a COMM check and if we can work that in without interrupting your present schedule we would like to.

Okay. Right now we are stopping for a break, but we will go ahead and do that. What does it involve?

Okay. We will need the high-gain antenna, and there should be no COMM loss during this mode.

Okay, Ken. I think we are going to lose the high gain here shortly. Why don't we pick it up next time it comes around?

Real fine.

Remember, the most important part of the trip occurs in two days when we start back. So you all get better rested too.

We'll do that.

Houston, we're starting the H₂ fan now.

Roger, thank you.

Houston, you just wanted 2 minutes cycling on those fans don't you? Two minutes each?

That's affirmative, Apollo 8.

Houston, Apollo 8 on high gain stand by for your communications check.

Apollo 8, Houston.

Go ahead Houston, Apollo 8.

Okay. Apollo 8. Looks like we're going to have to put this COMM test off because of some tracking requirements. We can do it in about an hour if this will not interfere with your present operations too much. It'll take maybe 15 to 20 minutes, and it will involve some conversation on the part of the people onboard the spacecraft. So if that's going to interfere with your sleeping and all, why go ahead and we'll defer to that and we'll pick these requirements up at another time. And, we've got a score here, looks like Baltimore 21 to nothing.

Who were they playing?

How about Minnesota.

How did last year's Army-Navy game come out?

Houston, Apollo 8. Over.

Go ahead, Apollo 8.

Roger. We've stirred up all the cryos. Could you give me your quantities, please?

Okay. Stand by.

Roger. Be advised the CMP just hit the hay for awhile, and the LMP will go down in a little while.

Okay. And our guys down here are watching high-gain antenna pointing program, so anytime you're not using the DSKY for anything else, they'd like to watch it for a couple of cycles, so if you would leave that NOUN 51 on the display it will help a lot down here.

Okay. Why don't you give us REACQ angles, and we'll try that for the next time.

Okay.

Apollo 8, are you ready to copy some cryo quantities?

I'm ready. How about O₂ first.

Okay. O₂ tank 1, I show 88.1 percent.

Okay. Could you give it to me in pounds, please?

Okay. You'll have to stand by while we convert that.

Thank you.

That's okay, Gene, go ahead, I'll take the percent.

Okay. We will try and get the pounds for you, too, Bill. Tank 1, oxygen 88.1.

What time is that for?

This is present.

32:30, okay.

Okay, I've got 32:35. And O₂ —

In weight not percentage.

Okay, O₂ tank 1, 88.1, O₂ tank 2, 87.37.

Is that 0.37 or 0.36?

0.37.

Roger, 2. Got it.

Okay, 2 tank 1, 75.97. Tank 2, 78.06. Over.

Okay, thank you very much. It looks good.

Apollo 8, Houston.

Go ahead, Houston, Apollo 8.

Okay. I've got a couple of things we need from you. I would like to get a battery C voltage. I would like to check a battery manifold pressure. Your high gain —

Battery C is 37 volts.

Understand 37 volts on battery C. Is that affirm?

3, 7.

Okay, thank you. And if you can get to the battery manifold pressure, like to read that one.

0.6 volts.

All right understand 0.6 volts. The angles you asked for on the high-gain antenna are pitch minus 45, and yaw 90.

Okay. Houston, this is Apollo 8. I'm going to just go into high gain now, and we're about ready to pick you up … works on REACQ.

Okay, and I have a scanning telescope star visibility item for you to pick up, when you're ready to copy that.

Roger, we'll get that on high gain when we get back to you.

Okay, thank you.

We'll come back on high-gain.