Spacelog Apollo 8

I hope we can get that other lens fixed or some reading on it.

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.

Roger. We are starting PTC again.

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.

Stand by. We're ready. Go ahead.

Okay. Number 1. S-band normal mode voice to VOICE.

Go ahead—keep going.

Uptelemetry data to DATA.

CDR Normal mode voice to VOICE. Uptelemetry data to DATA.

Okay, uptelemetry command to NORMAL.

NORMAL.

High-gain antenna track, AUTO.

Roger. Going AUTO.

High-gain antenna beam width to NARROW.

Beam-width NARROW.

Houston, Apollo 8. how do you read?

Apollo 8, Houston. Did you call?

Roger. We lost you for a while there. Are you reading us there now?

Loud and clear now.

Okay. Thank you. So are we.

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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All right.

Say it again.

I say a late ball score there is —

… the ball score?

2, 4 to 1, 4.

Baltimore over the Vikings?

Houston, Apollo 8.

Go ahead, Apollo 8.

We have reached the scan limit on the high gain. what do you want us to do about it now?

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.

Pitch minus 45, yaw 90.

Okay. Stand by 1.

Houston, do you read? Apollo 8.

Apollo 8, read you weak but clear now.

Roger. Thank you.

Okay. Looks like we had a ground problem there.

Apollo 8, Houston.

Go ahead.

- okay. Looks like we're —

Go ahead, Houston. Apollo 8.

— 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?

Roger.

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.