Spacelog Apollo 8

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Frank Borman (CDR)

Go ahead, Houston.

Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM)

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.

Frank Borman (CDR)

Stand by. We're ready. Go ahead.

Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM)

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

Frank Borman (CDR)

Go ahead—keep going.

Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM)

Uptelemetry data to DATA.

Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM)

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

Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM)

Okay, uptelemetry command to NORMAL.

Frank Borman (CDR)

NORMAL.

Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM)

High-gain antenna track, AUTO.

Frank Borman (CDR)

Roger. Going AUTO.

Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM)

High-gain antenna beam width to NARROW.

Frank Borman (CDR)

Beam-width NARROW.

Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM)

Okay, this will be our base-line data check. This will be a full uplink voice with ranging and full downlink.

Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM)

Apollo 8, Houston. We are going to have to delay the COMM check again.

Frank Borman (CDR)

Houston, Apollo 8. how do you read?

Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM)

Apollo 8, Houston. Did you call?

Frank Borman (CDR)

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

Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM)

Loud and clear now.

Frank Borman (CDR)

Okay. Thank you. So are we.

Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM)

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 —

Frank Borman (CDR)

…

Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM)

All right.

Frank Borman (CDR)

Say it again.

Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM)

I say a late ball score there is —

Frank Borman (CDR)

… the ball score?

Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM)

2, 4 to 1, 4.

Frank Borman (CDR)

Baltimore over the Vikings?

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Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM)

Affirm.

Frank Borman (CDR)

Houston, Apollo 8.

Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM)

Go ahead, Apollo 8.

Frank Borman (CDR)

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

Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM)

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.

Frank Borman (CDR)

Pitch minus 45, yaw 90.

Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM)

Okay. Stand by 1.

Frank Borman (CDR)

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.

Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM)

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)

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.

Frank Borman (CDR)

Houston, do you read? Apollo 8.

Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM)

Apollo 8, read you weak but clear now.

Frank Borman (CDR)

Roger. Thank you.

Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM)

Okay. Looks like we had a ground problem there.

Frank Borman (CDR)

Roger.

Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM)

Apollo 8, Houston.

Frank Borman (CDR)

Go ahead.

Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM)

- okay. Looks like we're —

Frank Borman (CDR)

Go ahead, Houston. Apollo 8.

Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM)

— 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?

Frank Borman (CDR)

Roger.

Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM)

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.

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