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Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM)
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Roger. We are going to work on that one. The one that is sensitive to light is the lens that you were just using. You want to be careful about pointing that at some bright object.
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Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM)
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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.
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Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM)
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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.
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Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM)
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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?
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Frank Borman (CDR)
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Okay. We got the chlorine in and the water has been chlorinated and just a minute I will check with them on their sleep.
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Frank Borman (CDR)
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I was asking you to say, to say what you said. Jim had about 4 hours sleep, and Bill had about 3 hours sleep.
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Frank Borman (CDR)
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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.
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Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM)
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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.
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Frank Borman (CDR)
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Okay. Right now we are stopping for a break, but we will go ahead and do that. What does it involve?
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Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM)
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Okay. We will need the high-gain antenna, and there should be no COMM loss during this mode.
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Frank Borman (CDR)
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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?
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Frank Borman (CDR)
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Remember, the most important part of the trip occurs in two days when we start back. So you all get better rested too.
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Frank Borman (CDR)
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Houston, you just wanted 2 minutes cycling on those fans don't you? Two minutes each?
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Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM)
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That's affirmative, Apollo 8.
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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.
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Bill Anders (LMP)
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Roger. Be advised the CMP just hit the hay for awhile, and the LMP will go down in a little while.
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Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM)
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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.
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Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM)
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Okay. We will try and get the pounds for you, too, Bill. Tank 1, oxygen 88.1.
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Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM)
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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 —
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Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM)
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Okay, thank you. And if you can get to the battery manifold pressure, like to read that one.
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Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM)
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All right understand 0.6 volts. The angles you asked for on the high-gain antenna are pitch minus 45, and yaw 90.
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Frank Borman (CDR)
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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.
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Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM)
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Okay, and I have a scanning telescope star visibility item for you to pick up, when you're ready to copy that.
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Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM)
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Okay, Apollo 8. Maybe we ought to try that one again next time, and the scanning telescope star visibility is scheduled for a 34 10 in the flight plan, and it'll be star number 31. The angles are roll 184.7, pitch 23.4, yaw 14.3, shaft and trunnion zero. Over.
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Frank Borman (CDR)
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Understand; star 31, roll 184 7, pitch 23 4, yaw 14 3, and star shaft and trunnion at zero.
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Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM)
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Okay. We'd like to go ahead and get into this COMM check here, on the last of this high-gain period. If you're ready to go on it I'll read you some witches.
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Frank Borman (CDR)
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Stand by. We're ready. Go ahead.
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Okay, this will be our base-line data check. This will be a full uplink voice with ranging and full downlink.
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Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM)
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Okay, Apollo 8. Do you want to try that AUTO REACQ? 33 plus 24 looks like a good time and the angles are the same. And the late ball scores is 24 to 14 —
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Frank Borman (CDR)
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We have reached the scan limit on the high gain. what do you want us to do about it now?
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Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM)
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Apollo 8, what we would like to do with these angles is to set it in AUTO REACQ over on panel 2, and it is under the tracking for the high-gain antenna, and it'll—the lower position will say REACQ, and on the position dials we would like to set pitch to minus 45 and the yaw to 90.
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Frank Borman (CDR)
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Roger. If we could leave it in REACQ if you want to use the high gain, it would keep from waking us up every REV.
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Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM)
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Apollo 8, Houston. I think we may have gotten off on a tangent. These pitch and yaw angles that we called up to you for the high-gain antenna were in response to Bill's request to know what positions we could put on there for a—for the AUTO REACQ position. The constraint still remains if we don't want to be on an OMNI antenna at the same time. We are in the AUTO REACQ position; we should be in one or the other. So you can use that information if you want to try it out. Otherwise, the procedures you've been using all along will be just fine. Over.
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Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM)
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Apollo 8, Houston. I am transmitting in the blind right now. Our downlink isn't working so well; I'm just going ahead on an uplink.
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Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM)
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— Looks like we're in a good attitude to try this high-gain antenna on the COMM check one more time. I believe you're still on an OMNI. Is that correct?
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Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM)
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Okay. If we could try the high gain and maybe we can get started on this COMM check. I'd also like to verify that you've got the LMP and the CMP trying to get some sleep here, and we could use an oral temp from you, too.
Spoken on Dec. 22, 1968, 8:46 p.m. UTC (55 years, 10 months ago). Link to this transcript range is: Tweet
