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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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Frank Borman (CDR)
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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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Mike Collins (CAPCOM)
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Well, if you are reading, give us 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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Frank Borman (CDR)
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Slow up. We just got quad A plotted. They are on separate charts.
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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, 3:03 p.m. UTC (55 years, 11 months ago). Link to this transcript range is: Tweet
