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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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How are the families doing, Mike?
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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.
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Mike Collins (CAPCOM)
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Just checking in with you after about a 45 minute quiet break. Say, we notice on your high-gain antenna, if you like, you can get a little bit more use out of it by switching to it from OMNI when you have a yaw angle of 90 degrees and a pitch angle of minus 45 degrees. We are noticing that you are staying an extra 10 minutes on the OMNI, which is fine; but you could get more use out of the high gain if you use that procedure. Over.
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Frank Borman (CDR)
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Okay, thank you. It's a lot simpler for us, as long as the OMNI isn't working. We've got it all wrapped up here on the eight ball with the roll … pointing to an OMNI number. We just switch it; it makes it a lot easier, if it is not bothering you.
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Mike Collins (CAPCOM)
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Okay. That is fine. We are presently happy with the COMM, Frank. We are just trying to be helpful.
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Frank Borman (CDR)
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Thank you very much. It's unusual that Mike Collins tries to be helpful, but nevertheless, thank you very much.
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Say hello to Howard Tindall for us, will you? His procedure seemed to be working.
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Frank Borman (CDR)
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I hope that you have got everybody looking this thing over very carefully. One thing we want is a perfect spacecraft before we consider the LOI burn.
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Frank Borman (CDR)
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Houston, Apollo 8. The water is in the process of being chlorinated at this time.
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Mike Collins (CAPCOM)
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At your convenience, we would like the readout of your service module RCS propellant quantities. We haven't gotten one of those so far this flight.
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Frank Borman (CDR)
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Alright. Stand by. We are just about to—need to change the antenna. I'll give them to you.
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Frank Borman (CDR)
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The temperature is about 111, the helium pressure—Do you just want the quantity, or do you want the whole works?
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Frank Borman (CDR)
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Okay. The helium pressure is about 37, the manifold is 182, and the quantity is reading 80. B has got the temperature about 112, the helium pressure about 36.5, the fuel pressure 180, and the quantity about 77. C has got the temperature of 140—incidentally, those other temperatures should have been 120 instead of 110; I was looking at the wrong calibration here. The pressure is 37, the manifold pressure is about 182, and the quantity is 80. Temperature on D is 115, pressure is 37, the manifold pressure is 181, and the quantity is about 83.
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Mike Collins (CAPCOM)
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Roger, Frank. I read you loud and clear. On the temperatures, quad A and B should both be 120. Roger.
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Frank Borman (CDR)
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I will trade all of that good information for a readout of the actual quantities. If you will give us a minute, we will go ahead and plot them up, Mike.
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Mike Collins (CAPCOM)
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Okay. I have them both in percent and pounds; I'll give you both numbers. The pounds are slightly more accurate for plotting on your chart. Quad A 72 percent, 219 pounds; quad B 76 percent, 233 pounds; quad C 70 —
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Mike Collins (CAPCOM)
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Apollo 8, Houston. We have got those numbers in a percent. We are going to switch them over to pounds, and in the meantime, we are going to be changing our ground antenna in about another 2-1/2 minutes. You can expect a COMM glitch. Over.
Spoken on Dec. 23, 1968, 2:10 p.m. UTC (55 years, 11 months ago). Link to this transcript range is: Tweet
