Spacelog Apollo 8

You planning on using our computer any time in the near future, I thought I'd do a little P37.

Apollo 8, Houston. You can go ahead and run that 37 and we're going to kind of watch that from the ground, too, and see how it works out. A couple of items that are just of general interest in the trajectory world. Looks like the uncertainty in position was about 12 miles. Your uncertainty in velocity is about a quarter of a foot per second. And the perigee altitude of uncertainty is 5 miles.

Roger. Understand. Just for information, perhaps you read it out on the ground. I ran our pericynthian altitude determination using first of all, P21. The star state vector that we navigated with, we have plus 84.7 mile altitude and then we ran out your state vector that you updated with us the last time. We got 64.2 and then I ran P30, using our state vector and got 82.6 nautical miles. These are all plus.

That's good.

What I'm going to attempt to do on P37 is to input your DELTA-V on your TLI plus 44 and use that 44 burn time. I notice that the entry velocity is a little high. We might not be able to do a normal P37, but we'll give it a try.

Roger.

Houston, one more question then before I start. Did you notice on this last update PAD, this minus MA NC-1. Was that referring to the P37 fast return or the nominal maneuver which you gave me?

Apollo 8, that's referring to the fast return procedures.

Houston, Apollo 8.

Go ahead.

Are you following my procedure?

That's affirmative.

Okay. This happened yesterday, too. I'm trying to load the DELTA-V you gave us in the maneuver TLI plus 44 in P37, but I keep getting an operator error everytime I try to load zeros for the termination of the middle and corner. Do you know what I'm doing wrong in my procedure?

Apollo 8, Houston.

Okay, go ahead. I can take it.

Okay, looks like the decimal point in R2 under NOUN 60 is on the extreme right-hand side so the proper load will be 06070. Over.

Apollo 8, Houston. We are about to hand over to another site so you may lose lock momentarily.

Roger, Houston. Did you receive the results of the P37?

Sure did. Looks pretty good here.

Apollo 8; Houston through Honeysuckle. The switch is completed.

You are loud and clear.

Roger.

Houston, Apollo 8.

Go ahead.

Another comment on the optics. We're in PTC right now. We are passing the—we have the roll of about 182; we're about in 226 pitch and 18 in yaw. I can rotate the shaft all the way around at this particular attitude, and I get this band of light at about 10 degrees of this side of the M-line. It—it varies in intensity with the shaft position. However, it is there at this particular attitude.

Okay. Thank you.

Jim, we have just been looking at your marks with respect to accuracy and they figure they are within a couple of thousandths of a degree of the theoretical optimum. The integrator seems to bear that out.

Well, I hope that they are enough to get us home if we have to use them.

Well, I am getting a lot of confidence in your ability to run that mystery show now.

Hey, Jim, we have to spend four more days up here with him, will you take it easy. He is already talking about going back to MIT as a professor.

Hello, Houston. How do you read Apollo 8?

Oh, loud and clear.

Apollo 8, Houston.

Roger. Go ahead Houston. Apollo 8.

Roger. We read you loud and clear and copy your remarks about having our remote site talk to you. Some of our problem has been in going from MCC to the remote site. We will attempt to do that anytime we can.

That's right. Just tell them you are having problems.

Houston, Apollo 8. How do you read?

Apollo 8, Houston. Reading you weak but clear.

Apollo 8, Houston. Over.

Go ahead, Houston, Apollo 8. Over.

Roger, Frank. I've got a little news and some ball scores if you want them.

Go ahead.

Okay. The big news right now, on the wires, is that all 82 crewmen of the Pueblo have been returned. They walked across the Bridge of Freedom Monday night.

Wonderful!

Said it took about 30 minutes for all 82 men to come across the Bridge of No Return and that's the one separating North and South Korea. They started across about 11:30 a.m. and were over by about noon, and they brought the body of the crewman that was killed, also.

Okay, Frank. On ball scores, did you get the word on the Baltimore and Minnesota game today?

Not the final one.

Okay. Final score was the Colts 24, Vikings 14. That gives them the western conference, so it looks like for the NFL title it's gonna be the Browns versus the Colts on the 29th.

29th?

Roger. Slow return—you'll get it.

Say again.

Roger. Come back slow return and we'll get it.

I'd rather come back fast and watch it on television.

Atta boy! Let's see, for the AFL: the big game today was Oakland and Kansas City and Oakland dumped them 41 to 6, so it's looks the AFL title game will be the Raiders and Jets.

Righto! That's hard to believe, that score.

Amen! Okay. In yesterday's game, I don't know it you got the score on that. The Cleveland Browns and the Cowboys. The Browns dumped the Cowboys 31 to 20.

Yes, we heard that.

Yes, they're crying in Dallas. Basketball scores: Houston didn't do so good this weekend. Illinois beat Houston 97 to 84. And North Carolina took the Owls. The score was 85 to 77. We had a couple of words in the paper, Frank, on the Oilers. The Oilers voted George Webster their most valuable player and—although Houston didn't make anybody on the All Offensive Team this year, they put Walt Suggs and Hoyle Granger on the second team.

Very good.

But although the Oilers didn't do so well out on the field, they did great in the box office. Bud Adams, Don Klausterman and Wally Lemm were all—real pleased with it. By the way, they were at the Cape to watch the show. Houston in 11 games—the Oilers attracted 460 628 people.

That must be a record? For them? I don't believe they ever got that many in Rice Stadium.

I think so. Let's see the regular season attendance was about half that. This includes all the exhibition games. The paper says they averaged about 40 480 for the league games.

Great!

Well, that's about it for now, Frank. We got some more news that they promised they would bring over as soon as it comes off the wire. The only thing of real interests were—particularly the Pueblo release. I think you've already been told about the—Nixon-Eisenhower wedding. And about the only other thing is the weather which is pretty clear around here. We've got high overcasts. But it is cold, good visibility, and it's beginning to feel like winter again.

Good time for Christmas, good weather for Christmas.

Who have you got up now, Frank?

The other two guys are pretty sleepy. They sacked out again. So I am holding the fort down for a while.

Okay. Thanks.

Roger. Thank you.

Frank, we had a little egg nog over at Charlie Duke's tonight.

Say again.