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Jim Lovell (CMP)
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We're all feeling pretty good now; no problems. We've all had about between 40 and 60 ounces of—or clicks of water so far today.
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Jim Lovell (CMP)
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The food: we're up to—we've eaten day 2, meal 2 so far. And both of us have eaten the rehydratables and the juices and about half of the solids.
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Jim Lovell (CMP)
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The cabin's running slightly cold. We do have one cabin fan ON, and we're in full heat, and it's running just slightly under 70. Might be a design note for future spacecraft.
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Bill Anders (LMP)
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Houston, we're showing a glycol EVAP OUT TEMP around 44, and a RAD OUT TEMP of about 28. I wonder if we might try some manual mixing here to raise the glycol EVAP TEMP OUT a little bit?
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Bill Anders (LMP)
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Okay. We're boiling the secondary EVAP, and the temperature's stabilized, and so we're gonna close up the EVAP pressure valve.
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Jerry Carr (CAPCOM)
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Roger, Bill. Before you try the manual mixing, we'd like you to give it a whirl at the manual and increase on the cabin TEMP. Over.
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Bill Anders (LMP)
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We've done that. We're in full HOT, and what is your—what's the lowest RAD OUT—individual RAD OUT TEMP you seen here during our PTC?
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Jerry Carr (CAPCOM)
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Apollo 8, Houston. Go ahead with your manual mixing. Suggest you set your EVAP OUT at about 55. Over.
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Bill Anders (LMP)
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Roger. We have it stabilized about 53 degrees, and we will leave it there, but we will go back AUTO if you start having any concern about the radiators.
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Jerry Carr (CAPCOM)
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Apollo 8, this is Houston. We are going to have a command changeover to Honeysuckle in about 2 minutes. Over.
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Bill Anders (LMP)
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Buenas dias. We're going to be answering your calls pretty quietly for a little while here to let the CDR get to sleep. If you can't hear us, why, just tell us so.
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Bill Anders (LMP)
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Roger. My two cohorts are going to try and get some sleep here, so y'all might keep a good eye on the systems. I'm going to move over to the other side.
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Jerry Carr (CAPCOM)
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Apollo 8, Houston. We're getting low bit rate now. We could do better with a high-gain antenna before you move over to the other side. Over.
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Bill Anders (LMP)
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You might give me a call every now and then, Jerry, just to let me know you're still there, as we're switching antennas, or play some music or something.
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Bill Anders (LMP)
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I say you might just give me a call every now and then as we switch antennas, just to let me know you're still there, or play some music or something, just to make sure we haven't lost COMM.
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Jerry Carr (CAPCOM)
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On your secondary coolant loop, looks like your back-pressure valve might be slightly open. I suggest you go to secondary coolant loop EVAP switch to the RESET position for 58 seconds. Over.
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Bill Anders (LMP)
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Keep an eye on it, in case it starts dropping. It stabilized there right after I shut the evaporator off.
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Bill Anders (LMP)
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What might have happened, Jim might have gotten the water control valve off before we completely had the back-pressure valve closed.
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Bill Anders (LMP)
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Roger. We have the secondary water EVAP control valve off, but he might have gotten it off on that return pump chart check prior to the time the evaporator back-pressure valve had completely closed, which might explain its lower-than-nominal state pressure.
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Jerry Carr (CAPCOM)
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Roger, Bill. We see your secondary steam pressure coming back up slowly, and we would like to just sit and watch it for a while before doing anything else.
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Mike Collins (CAPCOM)
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Roger. I just wanted to let you know we still have voice contact, and we have the morning news for you. We can give it to you now or some time later, your choice.
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Mike Collins (CAPCOM)
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Very good. This is the 23rd of December edition of the Interstellar Times a la Paul Haney. We would like to let you know that there are only 2 more shopping days until Christmas. He says your TV transmission was a real big hit yesterday. Mickey Herskowitz is doing double duty for the Post. He's written a couple of columns on your launch in addition to his other sports columns, and, Jim, your mom certainly appreciated that birthday greeting. Twenty-one convicts broke out of a prison in New Orleans yesterday, and President Johnson went home last night from Bethesda Naval Hospital after his bout with the flu. He sends you guys a special message—not what to do for the flu—but congratulations on the flight. Are you reading me so far okay?
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Mike Collins (CAPCOM)
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Good. Well, we had a big blizzard down here in the midwest; I don't know if you can see that from up there or not. And in Houston, as a matter of fact, it's getting pretty chilly, about 35 degrees. And we would like to know who you like next Sunday, Baltimore or Cleveland? Baltimore defense looked pretty tremendous yesterday. They put on great pass rush, and it sounds to CAP COM like Haney is trying to con you guys into a bet. Over.
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Frank Borman (CDR)
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Mike, this is Frank again. Would you tell the doctors I got about 5 hours of good sleep yesterday?
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Mike Collins (CAPCOM)
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Roger. Thank you, Frank; we were wondering about that, about 5 hours of good sleep.
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Mike Collins (CAPCOM)
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How is everything going up there, Frank; all three of you guys feeling okay this morning?
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Frank Borman (CDR)
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Feel fine. Jim went back to sleep. Bill and I are having breakfast and everything seems fine.
Spoken on Dec. 23, 1968, 12:25 p.m. UTC (55 years, 10 months ago). Link to this transcript range is: Tweet
