Spacelog Apollo 8

Roger. Before Jim makes his next mark, could he call up VERB 01 NOUN 91? We missed the last trunnion. Over.

Roger. The last trunnion was 10660.

10660. Thank you.

Apollo 8, Houston.

Go ahead.

Roger. Before Bill gets his snooze, we would like him to give us a PRD readout on all three crewmembers. Over.

Roger. CDR is 0.06, CMP is 0.64, and LMP is 0.64.

Roger. Thank you, Bill.

Looks like I'm the only one that is radioactive.

Understand.

Okay. Houston, we got three sets on 33; we are going now to 34 lunar far horizon for one set. Don't you agree?

We agree. Star 34 lunar far horizon for one set.

Houston, the cryos have been stirred, and could you also give me a quick rundown on how the SPS line temps are doing?

Roger, Bill. Understand you stirred the cryos. Last time we checked, the SPS line temps were excellent; they were nice and warm. We will give you another number right now.

And a PU valve.

Apollo 8, Houston.

Go ahead.

Roger. On your SPS system, your oxidizer is running 75 degrees, fuel 74 degrees, and PU valve between 78 and 82 depending on where we measured it. Over.

Real good. Everything really is working fine, isn't it?

Yes, it's really humming along, Bill.

Okay. See you later.

Houston, Apollo 8.

Apollo 8, this is Houston.

I understand you want two sets on number 40, lunar near horizon. Is that right?

Apollo 8, Houston.

Go ahead, Houston.

Roger. We missed your last trunnion angle, Frank.

21450.

Roger. 21450, and Paul tells me Valerie is over here and wishes Bill a happy nap.

Okay. Thank you. Tell her that he makes us tired sometimes too, will you?

Roger. I will deliver a modified version of the message.

Thank you.

Apollo 8, Houston.

Go ahead, Houston.

Roger. On star number 40 that you are doing now, the flight plan only calls for one set of marks. You called down two sets, and it's really your choice. Only one is required. We are glad to have the data if you do a second set. Over.

We will only do one then, if you want to. Our flight plan has been updated to include two sets. That is why I called it down.

Apollo 8, Houston. We missed the last trunnion.

Very well, I will read it to you; 21455.

21455. Thank you. Just a matter of interest: it is taking your voice about 1.6 seconds to get down to us.

I'm a little hoarse, that's why.

Okay. Houston, do you want us to go back to the PTC attitude now and start the rotisserie again?

That is affirmative, Frank. We will have the PTC attitude for you in just a second here.

Apollo 8, Houston.

We would like to tell you to drink plenty of water. We think that your water intake may be down. We copied your dosimeter readings. The only other thing is we just were wondering how in general you feel. We show you to have about 15 hours sleep total—Frank or Bill about 10, and Jim about the same, and we were wondering just how you are feeling in general.

We all feel fine; we are going to fix it now so that we all have one more rest period before the LOI.

Roger. Thank you.

Happiness is bacon squares for breakfast.

If you don't eat them all, bring them back, and we'll polish them off here.

Okay, Houston. Apollo 8 here. I stand corrected, William had one Marezine. He didn't tell me about it; he snuck it.

Roger. Understand Lovell took the Marezine. Understand.

That's Bill Anders, and he took one when he took the—with the Lomotil, when the doctors told him to.

Roger. We copy that. Thank you.

Okay. We are back on the bar-b-que attitude, starting PTC.

Roger, Apollo 8. Thank you.

Mike, we ran the latest state vector we have through the P21, and it showed the pericynthian at 69.7 miles.

Yes, we were all having big talks about that down here. It looks like you are giving us a real good comparison on our system. Looking—looking extremely good.

We've got the navigator par excellence.

I believe.

Apollo 8, Houston.

Go ahead.

Roger. What was the time you used on that P21?

6910 there, Mr. Slide Rule.

Thank you.

Mike, I wonder if Buzz wants us to change the time?

No, that is fine.

Houston, Apollo 8.

Apollo 8, Houston.

Roger. Are you going to give us an update for a maneuver PC plus 2 that does not assume a flyby maneuver?

Apollo 8, Houston.

Go ahead, Houston. Apollo 8 here.

Roger. Here is a rather brief summary of the updates that you will be getting. The one that you have now for PC plus 2 following an LOI minus 8 flyby maneuver is still good. That will not be updated. The next update you will get will be MCC 4. After that, you will get two PC plus 2 maneuvers, that assume MCC 4 completed. One will be a minimum DELTA-V, and the other will be a fast return. Do you copy?

Roger. Understand, and also I take it for MCC 4 you are going to give us a new alignment. Is that correct?

Apollo 8, Houston.

Go ahead, Houston. Apollo 8.

Roger, Frank. I've got a lot of talking to do regarding TV cameras and brackets and whatnot. I would like to start in on it whenever you are ready to talk about it.

Let me get a piece of paper out.

Okay.

Go ahead.

Okay. First a question. Are you planning to show us TV pictures of the earth today?

Well, that is what we wanted to do. It seems that would be the most interesting thing we can show you, but we—you know, we had trouble with the lens.

Well, okay, that's good. All this procedure that I am going to give to you here is relative to what we hope are fixes to the lens and for looking out your rendezvous window at the earth, and all the gimbal angles and all that good stuff is based toward looking out the window at the earth rather than at the moon. Over.

Roger.

Okay. First, unstow the red filter, the polarizing filter, the red and blue filter holder, and some tape. Over.

Okay. Let me write this down.