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02 19 49 05
Jim Lovell (CMP): Roger.
02 19 49 12
Bill Anders (LMP): Go ahead.
02 19 51 20
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, Houston. The CM vector is in; working on the LM now. Over.
02 19 51 28
Frank Borman (CDR): Roger.
02 19 52 17
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, Houston. We'd like a cryo fan cycle when you can. Over.
02 19 52 24
Frank Borman (CDR): Roger. We're starting that now.
02 19 52 26
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Roger.
02 19 53 17
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, Houston. The LM vector is loaded. Target load going in now.
02 19 53 23
Frank Borman (CDR): Roger.
02 19 55 20
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, Houston.
02 19 55 25
Jim Lovell (CMP): Go ahead, Houston.
02 19 55 27
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, Houston. The update is complete. You can have the computer, TLM to BLOCK. Be advised the erasable dump checks out okay.
02 19 55 41
Jim Lovell (CMP): Roger. Thank you. We have the computer; we're in BLOCK.
02 19 55 45
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Roger.
02 19 55 50
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, this is Houston. We'd like to make at this time a down-voice backup COMM check. Set the S-band AUX tape to DOWN-VOICE BACKUP, TLM inputs PCM, LOW. Over.
02 19 56 10
Bill Anders (LMP): Roger, Houston. And we'd like to have a check of our DSE on low bit rate for voicing.
02 19 56 19
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Roger. Understand you want the DSE check on low bit rate for voice.
02 19 56 30
Frank Borman (CDR): That's affirmative, and we'll give it about 10 minutes now or about 5 minutes, then you can check it out.
02 19 56 37
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Roger.
02 19 57 55
Jim Lovell (CMP): Houston, Apollo 8.
02 19 57 57
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, Houston. Go.
02 19 58 01
Jim Lovell (CMP): As a matter of interest, we have as yet to see the moon.
02 19 58 07
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Roger.
02 19 58 21
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, Houston. What else are you seeing?
02 19 58 31
Bill Anders (LMP): Nothing. It's like being on the inside of a submarine.
02 19 58 36
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Roger.
02 19 59 17
Frank Borman (CDR): Houston, we just did a PROGRAM 21, and we show a pericynthian of plus 74.9 miles on the state vector you just uploaded.
02 19 59 24
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Roger. Plus 74.9.
02 19 59 32
Frank Borman (CDR): Roger.
02 19 59 50
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, this is Houston. Reading your down-voice backup loud and clear. Request you keep those switches where they are for the remainder of the pass. Over.
02 20 00 02
Frank Borman (CDR): Roger. And we're rewinding the tape recorder for a dump for a DSE voice check.
02 20 00 10
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Roger, 8.
02 20 00 15
Frank Borman (CDR): It's rewound; are you ready to dump?
02 20 00 23
Frank Borman (CDR): We'd like to go to S-band AUX tape briefly so you can dump the tape while we're on the high gain. We've only got about 30 seconds worth.
02 20 00 44
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, Houston. Roger. We'll do that from the ground. Over.
02 20 00 54
Frank Borman (CDR): Roger. Switch configuration is down-voice backup and stop. You got it.
02 20 00 59
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Roger. We will dump it.
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02 20 01 15
Frank Borman (CDR): You won't need to dump more than a minute's worth.
02 20 01 19
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Roger.
02 20 01 49
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, Houston. Over.
02 20 02 03
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, Houston.
02 20 02 04
Frank Borman (CDR): Roger. This is Apollo 8.
02 20 02 06
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Roger. That pericynthian you read out is for ignition. We read that as 75 miles; your true pericynthian is 64 miles at 69:10:35. Over.
02 20 02 25
Frank Borman (CDR): Roger.
02 20 03 03
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, this is Houston with an addition to your TEI 1 maneuver PAD. Over.
02 20 03 12
Frank Borman (CDR): Stand by a minute.
02 20 03 25
Frank Borman (CDR): Go ahead.
02 20 03 27
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Roger. Under remarks, add the following: “requires minus MA procedure”. Over.
02 20 03 43
Frank Borman (CDR): Requires minus MA procedure.
02 20 03 47
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Affirmative, 8.
02 20 04 07
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, this is Houston. At 68:04, you are GO for LOI.
02 20 04 17
Frank Borman (CDR): Okay. Apollo 8 is GO.
02 20 04 22
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, Houston. You are riding the best one we can find around.
02 20 04 30
Frank Borman (CDR): Say again.
02 20 04 32
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): You are riding the best bird we can find. Over.
02 20 04 33
Frank Borman (CDR): Thank you.
02 20 04 38
Frank Borman (CDR): Roger. It's a good one.
02 20 11 45
Bill Anders (LMP): The cryo's have been stirred, Houston.
02 20 11 49
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Roger, Bill.
02 20 12 08
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, Houston. We just saw an MC&W light.
02 20 12 16
Bill Anders (LMP): We just tested the caution and warning.
02 20 12 18
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Roger.
02 20 12 22
Bill Anders (LMP): That's keeping alert.
02 20 12 24
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Roger. Clint there is getting white.
02 20 15 59
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, Houston. We're 42 minutes from LOS, and we caught another caution and warning light.
02 20 16 09
Frank Borman (CDR): It was the high-gain antenna going out of limits.
02 20 16 12
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Roger.
02 20 21 04
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, Houston. Voice quality on the DSE dump is very good. The DSE is yours. Over.
02 20 21 14
Frank Borman (CDR): Mighty fine.
02 20 26 25
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, Houston. COMM check.
02 20 26 30
Jim Lovell (CMP): Read you loud and clear, Houston.
02 20 26 32
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Roger.
02 20 30 37
Frank Borman (CDR): Houston, Apollo 8. Over.
02 20 30 40
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, Houston. Go.
02 20 30 45
Frank Borman (CDR): Roger. We are ready to activate the primary water boiler.
02 20 30 49
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Roger. Copy.
02 20 30 53
Jim Lovell (CMP): We got a GO?
02 20 30 57
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Roger. GO.
02 20 31 01
Frank Borman (CDR): Okay. Steam pressure going to AUTO; H₂ flow going to AUTO.
02 20 31 49
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, Houston. We are on low bit rate. We won't see your steam pressure; your RAD OUT is 33. Over.
02 20 32 01
Frank Borman (CDR): Roger. We're below the boiling limit, and steam pressure is steady at 0.15.
02 20 32 09
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Roger.
02 20 33 21
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, this is Houston. We have got our lunar map up and ready to go.
02 20 33 29
Frank Borman (CDR): Roger.
02 20 37 38
Bill Anders (LMP): Houston, Apollo 8. Over.
02 20 37 40
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, Houston. Go.
02 20 37 45
Bill Anders (LMP): Roger. We're showing a fuel pressure of 167, in AUX of 163. Wondering, do you think there's a possibility of us having a transient caution warning trip on fuel AUX pressure at the beginning of the burn that would correct itself nominally as we had a chance to pressurize? Over.
02 20 38 12
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Roger. Understand; will check. Stand by.
02 20 38 20
Bill Anders (LMP): Roger.
02 20 38 43
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, Houston.
02 20 38 49
Bill Anders (LMP): Go ahead.
02 20 38 51
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, this is Houston. We've been reading fuel 173, AUX 167, holding steady for a long period of time. We expect no caution and warning trip. Over.
02 20 39 12
Bill Anders (LMP): Roger. Understand.
02 20 48 30
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, Houston. Nine minutes 30 seconds from LOS.
02 20 48 38
Jim Lovell (CMP): Roger. Understand.
02 20 49 00
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, Houston.
02 20 49 05
Jim Lovell (CMP): Go ahead.
02 20 49 08
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Roger. In about 10 seconds, we'll have you 19 minutes from ignition. Five, four, three, two, one -
02 20 49 18
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): MARK.
02 20 53 06
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, Houston. Five minutes LOS, all systems GO. Over.
02 20 53 13
Frank Borman (CDR): Thank you. Houston, Apollo 8.
02 20 53 17
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Roger, Frank. The custard is in the oven at 350. Over.
02 20 53 30
Frank Borman (CDR): No comprendo.
02 20 53 38
Bill Anders (LMP): Roger.
02 20 56 06
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, Houston. Two minutes until LOS.
02 20 56 12
Frank Borman (CDR): Roger.
02 20 57 06
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, Houston. One minute to LOS. All systems GO.
02 20 57 12
Frank Borman (CDR): Roger. Going to COMMAND RESET, tape recorder FORWARD low bit rate.
02 20 57 19
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Roger. Safe journey, guys.
02 20 57 24
Bill Anders (LMP): Thanks a lot, troops.
02 20 57 26
Jim Lovell (CMP): We'll see you on the other side.
02 20 57 54
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, 10 seconds to go. You're GO all the way.
02 20 58 00
Frank Borman (CDR): Roger.
02 21 32 02
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, Houston. Over.
02 21 32 35
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, Houston. Over.
02 21 32 50
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, Houston. Over.
02 21 33 08
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, Houston. Over.
02 21 33 21
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, Houston. Over.
02 21 33 44
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, Houston. Over.
02 21 33 52
Jim Lovell (CMP): Go ahead, Houston. This is Apollo 8. Burn complete. Our orbit 160.9 by 60.5; 169.1 by 60.5.
02 21 34 07
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, this is Houston. Roger. 169.1 by 60.5. Good to hear your voice.
02 21 35 23
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, this is Houston. Verify your evaporator water control in AUTOMATIC. Over.
02 21 35 56
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, Houston. Over.
02 21 36 09
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, Houston. Over.
02 21 36 24
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, Apollo 8, this is Houston, Houston. Over.
02 21 36 32
Frank Borman (CDR): Roger, Houston. We read you loud and clear. How do you read us?
02 21 36 35
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, this is Houston. Reading you loud and clear now. And verify your evaporator water control panel switch to the AUTO position. Over.
02 21 36 51
Frank Borman (CDR): Roger. I am sure it is in AUTO.
02 21 36 54
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Roger.
02 21 37 00
Jim Lovell (CMP): Burn status report as follows: burn on time, burn time 4 minutes 6-1/2 seconds, VG_X minus 1.4, attitude is nominal, no trim, VG_Y was zero, VG_Z was plus 0.2, DELTA-V_C was minus 20.2, orbit 169.1 by 60.5.
02 21 37 45
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, Houston. Roger. The burn on time, burn time of 4:06.5, VG_X is minus 1.4.
02 21 38 19
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, Houston. Verify your EVAP water control on panel 382 is AUTO. Your EVAP OUT temperature is high. Over.
02 21 38 33
Bill Anders (LMP): Roger. Standing by.
02 21 38 40
Bill Anders (LMP): Houston, Apollo 8. Roger. Primary EVAP is AUTO, H₂ flow AUTO. Do you recommend activating the secondary water boiler?
02 21 38 51
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Roger. Copy. Stand by.
02 21 39 10
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, this is Houston. Reverify manual valve on panel 382, evaporator water control AUTOMATIC. Over.
02 21 39 22
Bill Anders (LMP): Roger. Verified.
02 21 39 36
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, this is Houston. Recommend you activate your secondary water evaporator.
02 21 39 54
Bill Anders (LMP): Secondary EVAP coming on line.
02 21 39 56
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Roger.
02 21 40 40
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, Houston. Turn off your DSE, and we will go to high bit rate. Over.
02 21 40 49
Bill Anders (LMP): Roger.
02 21 40 52
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, this is Houston. And I will continue my readback of the burn status report. Copied VG_X zero, VG_Y zero, VG_Z 1.2, DELTA-V Charlie minus 20.2. Over.
02 21 41 15
Bill Anders (LMP): Stand by; he's getting the chart out again.
02 21 41 21
Jim Lovell (CMP): DELTA-VG_Z was 0.2.
02 21 41 26
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Roger. Understand; 0.2 on VG_Z.
02 21 41 53
Bill Anders (LMP): Houston, this is Apollo 8. We are on malfunction 1 of 6, going through step 1 to step 2. Over.
02 21 42 02
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, Houston. Roger. Copy.
02 21 42 08
Bill Anders (LMP): Correction. That is to step 4.
02 21 42 10
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Roger. Copy; to step 4.
02 21 42 41
Bill Anders (LMP): Now to step 13.
02 21 42 44
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Roger. Step 13.
02 21 43 14
Bill Anders (LMP): Now to step 14.
02 21 43 18
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Houston. Roger.
02 21 43 25
Bill Anders (LMP): Looks like the boiler dried out somewhere along the line.
02 21 43 28
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Roger, Bill.
02 21 44 01
Frank Borman (CDR): Houston, this is Apollo 8. I would like to confirm that burn status report. VG_X was minus 1.4, VG_Y 0. VG_Z 0.2, minus 0.2 that is. DELTA-V_C was minus 20.2 -
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Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, —
02 21 44 27
Frank Borman (CDR): — apogee 169.1, perigee 60.5.
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Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, this is Houston. Roger. I will read back again. The burn was on time, 4 minutes and 6-1/2 seconds, VG_X minus 1.4, trim nominal, VG_Y zero, VG_Z minus 0.2, DELTA-V Charlie minus 20.2. Over.
02 21 45 05
Frank Borman (CDR): That's Roger.
02 21 45 06
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Roger. And we copy your apogee and perigee.
02 21 45 24
Bill Anders (LMP): Steam pressure is coming up.
02 21 45 27
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Roger, Bill.
02 21 46 37
Bill Anders (LMP): Step 15.
02 21 46 39
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Roger. Concur.
02 21 46 41
Bill Anders (LMP): Very good.
02 21 46 58
Bill Anders (LMP): EVAP TEMP's coming down.
02 21 47 04
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, Houston. Roger. We concur.
02 21 47 20
Bill Anders (LMP): Okay. Houston, keep a good eye on it.
02 21 47 23
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Roger. We're watching.
02 21 47 28
Bill Anders (LMP): Okay. Nice job on the malfunction procedures.
02 21 47 32
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Roger, Bill. Thanks.
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Bill Anders (LMP): You, too.
02 21 49 02
Bill Anders (LMP): Give us a call when you think we ought to stop the secondary boiler, Houston.
02 21 49 06
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, Houston. Wilco.
02 21 49 40
Jim Lovell (CMP): Houston, Apollo 8.
02 21 49 41
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, Houston. Go.
02 21 49 47
Jim Lovell (CMP): Roger. For information, we're passing over just to the side of the crater Langrenus at this time going into the Sea of Fertility.
02 21 49 57
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, Houston. Roger.
02 21 51 04
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, Houston. What does the ole moon look like from 60 miles? Over.
02 21 51 16
Jim Lovell (CMP): Okay, Houston. The moon is essentially gray, no color; looks like plaster of Paris or sort of a grayish deep sand. We can see quite a bit of detail. The Sea of Fertility doesn't stand out as well here as it does back on earth. There's not as much contrast between that and the surrounding craters. The craters are all rounded off. There's quite a few of them; some of them are newer. Many of them look like—especially the round ones—look like hits by meteorites or projectiles of some sort. Langrenus is quite a huge crater; it's got a central cone to it. The walls of the crater are terraced, about six or seven different terraces on the way down.
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Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Roger. Understand.
02 21 52 40
Jim Lovell (CMP): And coming up now, the Sea of Fertility are the old friends Messier and Pickering that I looked about so much on earth.
02 21 52 49
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Roger.
02 21 52 50
Jim Lovell (CMP): And I can see the rays coming out of blaze Pickering. We're coming up now near our P-1 initial site which I'm going to try and see. Be advised the round window, the hatch window, is completely iced over; we can't use it; Bill and I are sharing the rendezvous window.
02 21 53 15
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, Houston. Roger. Got any more information on those rays? Over.
02 21 53 24
Bill Anders (LMP): Roger. The rays out of Pickering are quite faint from here; there are two different groups going to the left. They don't appear to have any depth to them at all, just rays coming out.
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Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Roger.
02 21 53 45
Jim Lovell (CMP): They look like just changes in the color of the mare.
02 21 54 08
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Bill, if you can tear yourself away from that window, we'd like you to turn off the secondary evaporator. Over.
02 21 54 16
Bill Anders (LMP): Roger. Going OFF.
02 21 54 45
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, this is Houston. You can leave that secondary pump on for just a few minutes. Over.
02 21 54 53
Jim Lovell (CMP): Stand by.
02 21 54 54
Bill Anders (LMP): Roger.
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Jim Lovell (CMP): Okay. Over to my right are the Pyrenees Mountains coming up, and we're just about over Messier and Pickering right now. Our first initial point is easily seen from our altitude. We're getting quite a bit of contrast as we appear—as we approach the terminator. The view appears to be good, no reflection of the sun back to our eyes; it appears that visibility at this particular spot is excellent. It's very easy to pick out our first initial point; and over this mountain chain, we can see the second initial point, the Triangular Mountain.
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Bill Anders (LMP): And we're coming upon the craters Colombo and Gutenberg. Very good detail visible. We can see the long parallel faults or grabens, and they run through the Mare material right into the highland material.
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Bill Anders (LMP): We're directly over our first initial point now for P-1. It's almost impossible to miss, very easy to pick out, and we can look right over into the second initial point.
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Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Roger, Jim.
02 21 58 04
Jim Lovell (CMP): I can see very clearly the five crater star formation which we had on our lunar chart —
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Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Roger.
02 21 58 18
Jim Lovell (CMP): — And right now, I'm trying to pick out visually P-1.
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Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Roger, Jim. Bill, you can turn off the secondary EVAP pump now.
02 21 58 40
Frank Borman (CDR): Houston, this is Apollo 8.
02 21 58 43
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, Houston. Go.
02 21 58 47
Frank Borman (CDR): Roger. How about giving us a system status, please?
02 21 58 51
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Roger.
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Jim Lovell (CMP): Okay. I've got P-1 in sight now, Houston.
02 21 59 30
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Roger, Jim.
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Jim Lovell (CMP): It's very easy to spot. You can see the entire rims of the craters from here with, of course, the white crescent on the far side where the sun is shining on it. The shadows are quite lengthy now. Maskelyne B (Marsh of Sleep) has quite a few shadows off of it, but it can be recognized. Just west of the Maskelyne B, we start going to the terminator. The terminator is actually quite sharp over the Pyrenees, and it's—I can't see anything in earthshine at this present time. Bill says that he can see things out the side window when he's not looking down on the sunshine on the moon.
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Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, this is Houston. All systems are GO. We're evaluating the strip charts on your SPS burn, and we'll give you a readout on that shortly. Over.
02 22 01 03
Frank Borman (CDR): Roger. Thank you. It seemed smooth. Do you need high bit rate any more?

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