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Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM)
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I'll bet. If you've got nothing else to do, I do have two charts in your LOI table that I need to give you some update numbers on.
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Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM)
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Yes, sir; I've got a couple of charts in your chart book under LOI, and I have some numbers to fill in, one of them being the chart of LOI DELTA-V magnitude versus abort DELTA-V.
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Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM)
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Alright. Mode 1, 5 hours, roll 1.38, pitch 7.89, yaw 357.37. Mode 1, 15 minutes, roll 180.73, pitch 29.46, yaw 1.65. Over.
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Jim Lovell (CMP)
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Roger. The new attitudes for the Mode 1, 5 hour Mode 15 minute are as follows: roll—for the Mode 1, 5 hour, roll 1.38, pitch 7.89, yaw 357.37; Mode 1, 15 minute, roll 180.73, pitch 29.46, yaw 1.65.
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Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM)
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Okay. That is correct. Now I also have to give you a couple of points to plot on that curve. The present curve you have drawn is based on a 60-mile perigee or perilune, and you right now have a 62-mile pericynthian; and the reason that your target is for 62 miles is to pass over the landing site, so I have five sets of coordinates for you to copy.
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Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM)
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Okay. We'll go in on the LOI DELTA-V magnitude 1600, abort DELTA-V 2450, two-four-five-zero.
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Jim Lovell (CMP)
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Okay. LOI DELTA-V magnitude 1600, abort DELTA-V 2450. Stand by just one. I have it; continue.
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Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM)
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Alright. The last one is LOI DELTA-V 2990, abort DELTA-V 5114. That is almost directly into the end of the present curve, 5114.
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Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM)
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Alright. And on the next one, you should have a chart (number 10), and we have three numbers to go in there for a Mode 3 gimbal angle.
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Frank Borman (CDR)
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Houston, could you give us some gimbal angles to point at the moon? I never have seen it the whole trip, and I'm wondering which way it is from us now.
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We are getting ready to give you a rundown on your systems. We're going over all the final steps, and we will tell you what we see in the way of trajectory and systems information. And once again, Dr. Joe Kerwin has brought over all the latest news, and we can read that up to you a little bit at a time if you aren't going to sleep.
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Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM)
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Okay. Here is one: the previously scheduled 72-hour cease fire by the Viet Cong went into effect today, 17 hours before the 24 hour allied truce was to begin.
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Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM)
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The gist of it was that the VC went into a cease fire earlier than the truce that we had planned on, as a Christmas holiday type.
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Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM)
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Loud and clear. Sorry to have stopped on you there. We are going over the summary of the systems data.
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Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM)
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Okay. I have a rundown on your systems here, GNC status. Everything looks real —
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Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM)
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Okay. We'll just start with EECOM business then, I'll give you a summary of your batteries; battery A, we calculate 38.3 amp-hours, battery B —
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Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM)
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Okay. Battery A 38.3, battery B 36.9, battery C, 38.5. That's looking pretty good. It looks like we got all the things back in that we took out, and we're running right along prediction. We would like to get a battery C voltage from you if you can just reach over there and switch it.
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Roger. Thirty-seven volts, Okay. The predicted cryo quantities at SEP: on oxygen tank 1, 170; oxygen tank 2, 170; hydrogen 1, 9.5; and hydrogen 2, 10.0. You essentially have single cryo tank capabilities all the way at full power now.
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Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM)
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The secondary coolant loop really looked good. Looks like you had a nice tight radiator and everything else on there was working right along the performance curves. Your main oxygen regulators both filled at 104 psi during our check. Looking at the lunar orbit, expect to be doing a water boil of about 1 pound per hour, and this is just an approximation; there's quite a variety of estimates as to what the water boiling requirements may be, might go anywhere from boiling lots to not boiling at all. The next water dump will be coming up after TEI, so you don't have to worry about any of that until you get through. Communications predictions are looking good, possibly a little bit better than what we had hoped for, and looks like we're going to get high bit rate on OMNI's with our 210-foot dish at Goldstone. This will be working for us on the first couple of rev's, and then we'll be switching sites, so we'll go back to using OMNI's for high bit. The voice quality on DSE is good. Your fuel cells have been running above nominal for the entire flight, and they really look nice and stable. There's been some destratification -
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Okay. Looks like may not be able to hack the normal voice. On the cryo tanks, we've had quite a bit of destratification, particularly in the oxygen, and you notice this during the fan cycles and DELTA-V's, so we're going to be sure and we'll remind you again to stir up the oxygen prior to LOI. CMC is running along like clockwork. G&C tells us that the RCS quantities are looking good. You're using the same amount as predicted for your PTC and for your alignment. What we have in the way of a redline: we're going to tell you that you can use 30 percent per quad in lunar orbit. Now this is quite a bit of fuel to play with, and you can take 30 percent and subtract that from what you have to completion of LOI, and that will be a good number.
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On the SPS, the oxidizer and fuel feed line temperatures are 75 and holding steady. The service module RCS quad package temps are cycling and holding between 120 and 140, and looks like we're getting good normal heater operations. We plan to have you in a 60-mile circular orbit after LOI 2. And we should have some PAD's for you on the LOI burn at about 67 hours.
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Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM)
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Okay. We're still going through the tracking, and as you know, we're going to hold down on the water dumps and so forth during the last couple of hours in and out, sort of aid the tracking procedures. Everything is running along the line normally now. Do you have any other specific questions? We are looking for an angle on the moon. I guess that about summarizes the system. Everything looks GO right now.
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Frank Borman (CDR)
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Okay, Ken. Thank you. We just completed day 3 meal C, and now are going to break up and each take a rest period before LOI.
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Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM)
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Okay, real fine. Everybody wanted to ask if you wouldn't try and get some sack time here before we go in. It's going to be a big day.
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Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM)
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Finally found out where the moon is, and your present PTC attitude—if you happen to look out the right window as you go by—roll attitude of 320, it should be there.
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Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM)
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Okay, Apollo 8. You're cleared to go ahead with that pill. Take—Surgeon recommends a small one.
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Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM)
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Apollo 8, Houston. If you can, we'd like to have you stir up the oxygen cryo.
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Jerry Carr (CAPCOM)
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Apollo 8, this is Houston. Roger. LOI 1 SPS/G&N, 62844, minus 161, plus 129 069:08:18.41. Copy?
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Jerry Carr (CAPCOM)
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Roger, 8. Minus 29837, plus 02390, plus 00994 000 200 005 01693, plus 00600 29949 402 29782. Copy?
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Jerry Carr (CAPCOM)
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Roger, 8. 010 689 260 Persei Zeta, down 048, left 05. The remainder is not applicable. Sirius, Rigel, set of stars for GDC align, 129 155 010, negative ullage. We'll pass the horizon window data later. Over.
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Jim Lovell (CMP)
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Roger. Preliminary LOI 1 PAD as follows: SPS/G&N; 62844, minus 161, plus 129. Are you copying?
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Jim Lovell (CMP)
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069:08:18.41, minus 29837, plus 02390, plus 00994 000 200 005 01693, plus 00600 29949 402 29782 010 689 260, Persei Zeta, down 048, left 05. The remainder not applicable. Sirius, Rigel, 129 155 010. No ullage. We'll pass up the remainder up later.
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Jerry Carr (CAPCOM)
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Roger, Jim. One question—we talked about a P40 gimbal check. Would you like to do that during this maneuver to LOI 1 attitude, or would you rather hold that off until a little closer to LOI? Over.
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Jim Lovell (CMP)
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I understand that you'll load us up with the LOI 1 PAD and we'll run through P40 as far as the gimbal check.
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Jerry Carr (CAPCOM)
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Roger. That's what we heard you were going to do on it. Are you going to run both the manual gimbals as well as the automatic? Over.
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Frank Borman (CDR)
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Okay, Jerry. At 67, we are going over to the LOI 1 attitude, do a sextant star check, and then we will have to go back to PTC. I want to know if you want us to go back to the same attitudes we are at now?
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Jerry Carr (CAPCOM)
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Apollo 8, Houston. That is affirmative, Frank. We are getting ready to ask you to do an erasable dump, VERB 47. We are ginning up to get ready for it now, and we will call you as soon as we are ready to copy.
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Jerry Carr (CAPCOM)
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Apollo 8, this is Houston. We are setting up for the dump now. It will take about 3 minutes and 20 seconds once we start the dump. Over.
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Frank Borman (CDR)
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Roger. Can you point out the position of this Zeta Persei to us a little better? We don't have it marked on our charts. We have got Mirfak, and we know Algol, but which one is Zeta Persei?
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Jerry Carr (CAPCOM)
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Apollo 8, this is Houston. We are ready for your CMC erasable dump. Key VERB 74 ENTER. Over.
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Jerry Carr (CAPCOM)
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Apollo 8, this is Houston. Indications are that we are getting it; we are checking. You will have to leave the computer alone for 3 minutes and 20 seconds. Over.
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Jerry Carr (CAPCOM)
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Apollo 8, Houston. PC plus 2 does not need an update. We'll have your TEI 1 and 2 in about 10 minutes. Over.
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Jerry Carr (CAPCOM)
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Apollo 8, Houston. The dump is complete; you can have your computer back. The reason for the dump was to investigate further the P52 anomaly you had about 4 hours ago. We will try to have some words for you in about 20 or 30 minutes. Over.
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Jim Lovell (CMP)
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During the flight, I noticed that the AUTO optics wouldn't drive to the star pick-a-pair selected. Example, it picked Alpheratz at one time, wouldn't drive there, drove to a spot that had no star; and I went back and reselected the program and came back, and it worked okay.
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Jerry Carr (CAPCOM)
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Jim, is this anomaly you are talking about—was that 4 hours ago when we did the REFSMMAT align?
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Jim Lovell (CMP)
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This happened, I think, yesterday. When we—we were doing a regular REFSMMAT alignment. Alpheratz was the first star selected, and it didn't drive to Alpheratz; and I ran and reselected the program again, and it worked okay.
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Frank Borman (CDR)
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Our PAD here is—Roger. Our PAD here hasn't been correct. I understand the gimbal angles for LOI 1 are roll 0, pitch 200, and yaw 5. Is that correct?
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Jerry Carr (CAPCOM)
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Apollo 8, this is Houston. Map update REV 1, slash 2: 68:58:04 69:05:05 69:31:41 70:14:48. Copy?
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Jerry Carr (CAPCOM)
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Roger. Remarks: Charlie Poppa 1, 71:14:57, Charlie Poppa 2, 71:28:32, Charlie Poppa 3, 71:47:26, Bravo 1, 72:09:42. Over.
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Jim Lovell (CMP)
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Map update as follows, Houston: 68:58:04 69:05:05 69:31:41 70:14:48 70:56:36 71:00:59 71:10:42 71:39:40 72:23:17; Charlie Poppa 1, 71:14:57, Charlie Poppa 2, 71:28:32, Charlie Poppa 3, 71:47:26, Bravo 1, 72:09:42.
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Jerry Carr (CAPCOM)
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Roger, Frank. Can you lock up the high gain at that attitude? We have a telemetry problem. Over.
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Jerry Carr (CAPCOM)
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Apollo 8, this is Houston. We have a handover from Honeysuckle to Guam in about two minutes.
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Jerry Carr (CAPCOM)
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Apollo 8, this is Houston. I have TEI 1 and TEI 2 PAD'S. We still have no telemetry; expect to get it soon. Over.
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Jerry Carr (CAPCOM)
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That is affirmative, LOI 1, SPS/G&N: 62844 1, correction, minus 161, plus 129 069:08:19.52, minus 29840, plus 02390, plus 01053. Copy?
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Jerry Carr (CAPCOM)
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Apollo 8, Houston. Roger. Beginning with DELTA-VX: minus 29840, plus 02390, plus 01053 000 200 005 01693, plus 00600 29954 402 29788. Copy?
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Jerry Carr (CAPCOM)
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Roger. 01 0688 259, Persei Zeta, down 048, left 05. The remainder not applicable. Sirius, Rigel, 129 155 010; negative ullage. Horizon window, ignition minus 2 minutes, 40 degrees unlit, ignition 27 degrees unlit. Over.
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Frank Borman (CDR)
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Roger. LOI 1, SPS/G&N: 62844 minus 161, plus 129 069:08:19.52, minus 29840, plus 02390, plus 01053 000 200 005 01693, plus 00600 29954 402 29788 01 0688 259, Persei Zeta, down 048, left 05; Sirius, Rigel, 129 155 010: no ullage, horizon 2 minutes 40 degrees unlit, ignition 27 degrees unlit.
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Jerry Carr (CAPCOM)
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Apollo 8, this is Houston. Are you waiting for us before you start your gimbal check? Over.
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Jerry Carr (CAPCOM)
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Roger, Frank. We're ready with the TEI 1 and 2 maneuver PAD's. We've also got two state vectors and a target load to uplink and load if you'll configure for it. Over.
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Jerry Carr (CAPCOM)
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Apollo 8, this is Houston. TEI 1, SPS/G&N: 462, correction, 46728, minus 053, plus 121 071:25:04.73, plus 37746, minus 03299, plus 00824. Copy?
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Jerry Carr (CAPCOM)
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Roger. 179 346 357, not applicable, plus 00176 37900 336 37705 42 1279 309. Copy?
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Jerry Carr (CAPCOM)
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Roger. NA, NA, NA, plus 1350, minus 16500 13050 36389 122:10:45; Sirius, Rigel, 129 155 010, ullage two-jet, 20 seconds jet Bravo Delta, horizon window X-axis on horizon at ignition minus 3 minutes; assumes LOI 1. Over.
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Jim Lovell (CMP)
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Houston, Apollo 8. TEI 1 as follows: SPS/G&N: 46728, minus 053, plus 121 071:25:04.73. Copy?
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Plus 37746, minus 03299, plus 00844 179 346 357, not applicable, plus 00176 37900 336 37705 42 1279 309, not applicable three times, plus 1350, minus 16500 13050 36389 122:10:45; Sirius, Rigel, 129 155 010, ullage two jets, 20 seconds, quads B and D, horizon window X-axis on horizon at TIG minus 3, assumes LOI 1.
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Jerry Carr (CAPCOM)
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Roger. 073:21:30.24, plus 28466, minus 00350, plus 02406 180 022 002, not applicable, plus 00188. Copy?
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Jerry Carr (CAPCOM)
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Roger. 28570 250 28401 42 0641 296, not applicable three times, plus 0920, minus 16500 12953 36175 146:32:16. Copy?
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Jim Lovell (CMP)
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Copy. Looks like you left out a digit …
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Apollo 8, Houston. Request you switch your OMNI. It's getting pretty garbled now.
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Jim Lovell (CMP)
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Houston, this is Apollo 8. I copied. I question the latitude and the range to go. It appears that you gave me one too few digits in both cases.
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Jerry Carr (CAPCOM)
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Roger. Your GDC align is no change, ullage no change, horizon on the minus 2-degree line at ignition minus 3 minutes, assumes LOI 1. Over.
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Jim Lovell (CMP)
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Roger. TEI 2 maneuver PAD, SPS/G&N: 46728, minus 053, plus 121 073:21:30.24 plus 28466 minus 00352. I did not get the 502406 for a DELTA-VZ. 180 022 002, not applicable, plus 00188 28570 250 28401 42 0641 296, not applicable three times, plus 0920 minus 16500 12953 36175 146:32:16. No change in the GDC align stars, no change in ullage, a rise on the minus P-degree line at TIG minus 3, assumes LOI 1.
Spoken on Dec. 24, 1968, 3:05 a.m. UTC (55 years, 10 months ago). Link to this transcript range is: Tweet
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