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02 22 01 15
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Roger. We'd like high bit rate. We have dumped your DSE, and we'd like to stick with high bit rate for a while.
02 22 01 26
Frank Borman (CDR): Roger.
02 22 01 45
Jim Lovell (CMP): Well, we're just about over Maskelyne B (Marsh Of Sleep) now, and our target is just directly below us.
02 22 02 32
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, this is Houston. If you want the recorder now, it's yours.
02 22 02 41
Bill Anders (LMP): Roger. Thank you.
02 22 03 17
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, Houston. MSFN tracking is comparing very well with your onboard NAV.
02 22 03 26
Frank Borman (CDR): Roger.
02 22 03 31
Frank Borman (CDR): Houston, for your information, we lost radio contact at the exact second you predicted.
02 22 03 40
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Roger. We concur.
02 22 03 47
Frank Borman (CDR): Are you sure you didn't turn off the transmitters at that time?
02 22 03 52
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Honest Injun, we didn't.
02 22 04 00
Frank Borman (CDR): While these other guys are looking at the moon, I want to make sure we have a good SPS. How about giving me that report when you can?
02 22 04 06
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Sure will, Frank.
02 22 04 14
Frank Borman (CDR): We want a GO for every REV please; otherwise, we'll burn in TEI 1 at your direction.
02 22 04 21
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Roger. I understand.
02 22 07 22
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, this is Houston. Are you eating?
02 22 07 28
Frank Borman (CDR): Say again.
02 22 07 39
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, this is Houston. Are you eating dinner?
02 22 07 45
Frank Borman (CDR): Negative. We'll have breakfast in a little while here.
02 22 07 49
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Roger.
02 22 08 00
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, this is Houston. When you go into the dark in about 7 or 8 minutes, I have some words for you on the filters for the wide-angle lens, for your TV camera. Over.
02 22 08 19
Frank Borman (CDR): We are in the dark now.
02 22 08 23
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Roger. Let me know when you are ready to copy.
02 22 08 36
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, Houston. Any words on earthshine? Over.
02 22 09 13
Bill Anders (LMP): Earthshine is about as expected, Houston. Not as much detail, of course, as in the sunlight, but you can see the large craters quite distinctly, and you can see the albedo contacts quite distinctly. And, also, the—there's a good three-dimensional view of the rims of the larger craters.
02 22 09 43
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Roger, Bill.
02 22 09 54
Bill Anders (LMP): I think our high-speed film will be able to pick some of this stuff up quite well.
02 22 09 58
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Roger.
02 22 12 44
Bill Anders (LMP): Go ahead with your information on the filter, Houston.
02 22 12 47
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, Houston. Roger. We recommend you use a wide-angle lens on this particular TV run. You can use a telephoto lens with the same setup as yesterday's TV show. However, we recommend a wide-angle lens. Step number 1, tape the single red filter to the red filter on the red/blue 0 filter holder; do it so that the filter slide still functions. Over.
02 22 13 38
Bill Anders (LMP): Go ahead.
02 22 13 40
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Roger. Step number 2, attach the filter holder to the lens with the tape on the top and bottom; do this with the slide forward. Over.
02 22 14 04
Frank Borman (CDR): Go ahead.
02 22 14 05
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Roger. Then at the end of your second REV TV pass, or on request from here, we would like you to remove that red filter from the holder and transmit briefly with it that way, then slide it over the blue side for your final transmission. Over.
02 22 14 27
Frank Borman (CDR): We got you.
02 22 14 28
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Okay, Frank.
02 22 15 35
Frank Borman (CDR): Houston, Apollo 8. Standing by to record TEI 1 and TEI 2.
02 22 15 40
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, this is Houston. Your TEI 1 and TEI 2 PAD's you received last pass are still good. Using these PAD's, your next midcourse will be less than 20 feet per second. Over.
02 22 15 56
Frank Borman (CDR): Roger. Understand.
02 22 16 14
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, Houston. We have all the SPS experts looking at your data now. The preliminary look is very good, and we will give you some final words later.
02 22 16 28
Frank Borman (CDR): Roger. We could feel the chug when we threw in BANK B, not a chug, but we could feel additional thrust.
02 22 16 37
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Roger. Copy.
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02 22 16 44
Bill Anders (LMP): Houston, be advised on this red/blue filter technique on the TV. You cannot slide the two filters out of the way with them taped onto the TV camera; so I suggest we do red, blue, and then take them off.
02 22 17 06
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Roger. We concur, but make sure the little red filter is taped over the big one. Over.
02 22 17 20
Bill Anders (LMP): Alright, you don't want the red fil—you want the blue by itself. Is that correct?
02 22 17 25
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): That's affirmative, Bill.
02 22 17 33
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Bill, we'd like you to use the double red filter for the first transmission. Over.
02 22 17 43
Bill Anders (LMP): Roger. It worked.
02 22 18 33
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, Houston.
02 22 18 43
Bill Anders (LMP): Go ahead, Houston. Apollo 8.
02 22 18 45
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, this is Houston. If you should decide that you want to roll heads up on REV 2, one thing to remember, be sure you yaw 45 degrees right in order to maintain your high-gain antenna COMM. Over.
02 22 19 01
Frank Borman (CDR): We will not do that; we're going to stick with the flight plan, and make the best we can here.
02 22 19 06
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Roger, Frank.
02 22 19 12
Frank Borman (CDR): As usual, in the real world, the flight plan looks a lot fuller than it did in Florida.
02 22 19 18
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Roger. Understand.
02 22 27 19
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, Houston. We need an O₂ purge now.
02 22 27 27
Bill Anders (LMP): Roger. And we're standing by for a map update.
02 22 27 31
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Roger.
02 22 27 43
Jim Lovell (CMP): Houston, Apollo 8. Just for your information, after we completed P52, I acquired the earth in the sextant. Quite a sight from here.
02 22 27 57
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Roger. Bet it is.
02 22 28 11
Frank Borman (CDR): Row are the systems experts on the SPS coming, Jerry?
02 22 28 16
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): They are still working, Frank; another 5 or 10 minutes.
02 22 28 24
Frank Borman (CDR): Roger.
02 22 28 38
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, Houston. Your SPS data looks real good. It is just a matter of getting it all in from the site and getting it looked at.
02 22 28 48
Frank Borman (CDR): Thank you.
02 22 28 49
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): So far, everything looks copacetic.
02 22 30 42
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, Houston. We would like to take about 5 minutes of high bit rate. Over.
02 22 30 50
Frank Borman (CDR): Roger. Five minutes of high bit rate coming on.
02 22 30 52
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Roger.
02 22 30 56
Frank Borman (CDR): You've got it.
02 22 32 14
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, Houston with a map update.
02 22 32 15
Frank Borman (CDR): Stand by one.
02 22 32 52
Frank Borman (CDR): Go ahead with the map update.
02 22 32 55
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Roger, Frank. Map update: REV 1/2, no change; the REV 2/3 follows: 73:04:57, 73:09:37, 73:19:01, 73:48:53, 74:24:23; remarks: Bravo 1 [03:02:16:24|74:16:24]. Over.
02 22 33 49
Frank Borman (CDR): Roger. Copy.
02 22 33 52
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Roger. We show you 23 minutes to LOS.
02 22 33 59
Bill Anders (LMP): Roger. Are you going to dump the tape?
02 22 34 41
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, this is Houston. You are GO for REV 2; all systems are GO. SPS evaluation is still underway and looking good. Over.
02 22 34 56
Frank Borman (CDR): Understand; GO for REV 2. Thank you.
02 22 35 00
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Roger, Apollo 8. We're still using the tape recorder. We will dump it in a little bit.
02 22 35 35
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, this is Houston. The recorder is yours. You can go to low bit rate.
02 22 35 43
Frank Borman (CDR): Thank you.
02 22 37 55
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, Houston. Request BIOMED switch center.
02 22 38 04
Frank Borman (CDR): Three, two, one -
02 22 38 08
Frank Borman (CDR): MARK.
02 22 38 11
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Roger. Mark.
02 22 43 50
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, Houston. Put your TELEMETRY INPUT switch to LOW. Over.
02 22 43 57
Frank Borman (CDR): Roger. GO in LOW.
02 22 44 38
Frank Borman (CDR): Houston, Apollo 8. We're in the process of preparing meal 4, day—correction: day 4, meal A.
02 22 44 47
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Roger, Frank.
02 22 48 13
Bill Anders (LMP): Houston, Apollo 8. Over.
02 22 48 15
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, Houston. Go.
02 22 48 20
Bill Anders (LMP): Are you going to be able to dump that tape prior to LOS?
02 22 48 30
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Roger. Bill, they say they have already dumped the tape, and it's almost totally clean.
02 22 48 42
Bill Anders (LMP): What does that mean?
02 22 48 52
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): That means you have got about 2 minutes of low bit rate on there, but the rest is clean. Over.
02 22 48 59
Bill Anders (LMP): The high bit rate of the burn wasn't on there?
02 22 49 03
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Negative. We've already dumped and got that.
02 22 49 18
Bill Anders (LMP): Okay. Let me know when you're going to dump it next time, Jerry. I understand we are GO now on the DSE. Have you got any voice off of it?
02 22 49 26
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): That's affirmative. We did.
02 22 49 31
Bill Anders (LMP): Okay. Thank you.
02 22 50 10
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, Houston. The voice quality on your tape was just fair-to-middling; we were able to monitor your burn and hear most of that pretty well.
02 22 50 27
Bill Anders (LMP): Roger. Did you get a report of the photography accomplished, or is that on the tape at present?
02 22 50 36
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Negative. We haven't heard that.
02 22 50 42
Bill Anders (LMP): Okay. We will put it on the tape now.
02 22 50 46
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Roger.
02 22 51 53
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, Houston. You are 4 minutes and 40 seconds away from LOS. I would like a reconfirmation on your S-band AUX switch in the DOWN-VOICE BACKUP position. Over.
02 22 52 09
Frank Borman (CDR): Negative; it is in the NORMAL voice. We will go DOWN-VOICE BACKUP.
02 22 52 17
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Roger. Request you leave it there forever. Over.
02 22 52 22
Frank Borman (CDR): Roger. In DOWN-VOICE BACKUP now.
02 22 52 44
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, this is Houston. All systems are GO. You're still GO for REV 2. Over.
02 22 52 53
Frank Borman (CDR): Thank you.
02 22 55 32
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, Houston.
02 22 55 37
Frank Borman (CDR): Go ahead, Houston. Apollo 8.
02 22 55 39
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Roger. One minute to LOS.
02 22 55 44
Frank Borman (CDR): Thank you.
02 22 56 25
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, Houston. Ten seconds to LOS. All systems are GO.
02 23 39 46
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, Houston. Over.
02 23 40 42
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Key moment TV broadcast 3: views of the moon: Apollo 8, Houston. Over.
02 23 40 52
Bill Anders (LMP): Houston, this is Apollo 8 with the TV going. Over.
02 23 41 00
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, this is Houston. Reading you loud and clear. We see your TV. It is a little bit—little bit clearer.
02 23 41 15
Bill Anders (LMP): Roger. The moon is very bright and not too distinct in this area. I will give you a shot of the horizon.
02 23 41 21
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Roger.
02 23 41 25
Bill Anders (LMP): How's that look? Is it on the top of your picture?
02 23 41 30
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, this is Houston. It's a good picture—the horizon—we can't see many terrain features as yet.
02 23 41 41
Bill Anders (LMP): Roger.
02 23 41 48
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, Houston. We are beginning to pick up a few craters very dimly; the whole thing is pretty bright.
02 23 41 58
Bill Anders (LMP): Roger. There is not much definition up here either out on the horizon. We are now approaching the craters See and Bassett.
02 23 42 06
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Roger.
02 23 42 15
Bill Anders (LMP): I'll shift to the rendezvous window.
02 23 42 18
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Roger, Bill.
02 23 42 22
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, Houston. We want to take the DSE.
02 23 42 28
Bill Anders (LMP): Roger. You've got it.
02 23 42 29
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Roger. Looks like we've got a real good picture now.
02 23 42 35
Bill Anders (LMP): Okay. That's the crater Brand.
02 23 42 37
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Roger.
02 23 42 42
Bill Anders (LMP): Sorry we missed Carr.
02 23 42 43
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Me, too.
02 23 42 54
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, this is Houston. We are going to need a cryo fan cycle sometime during this pass.
02 23 43 02
Bill Anders (LMP): Roger. Can we wait till sunset?
02 23 43 06
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Roger. We can wait.
02 23 43 10
Bill Anders (LMP): Okay. I think we are coming up on Miller right now.
02 23 43 53
Bill Anders (LMP): There's a very new bright impact crater; should be in the field of view now.
02 23 44 01
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Roger, Bill.
02 23 44 05
Bill Anders (LMP): You see it in the upper part of your screen.
02 23 44 10
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Say, Bill, how would you describe the color of the moon from here?
02 23 44 14
Bill Anders (LMP): The color of the moon looks like a very whitish gray, like dirty beach sand with lots of footprints in it.
02 23 44 23
Jim Lovell (CMP): Some of these craters look like pickaxes striking concrete leaving a lot of fine haze dust.
02 23 44 38
Bill Anders (LMP): There's some interesting features out on the other window. Let me switch windows on you now.
02 23 44 41
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Roger, Bill.
02 23 44 48
Bill Anders (LMP): You should see the horizon now in the top of your picture.
02 23 44 51
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Roger. We have the horizon, Bill.
02 23 45 01
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, Houston.
02 23 45 02
Bill Anders (LMP): I believe these are the craters now Bassett and See.
02 23 45 07
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Roger, Bill. If you have the polarizing filter handy, try flipping it in front, would you?
02 23 45 15
Bill Anders (LMP): Roger.
02 23 45 18
Jim Lovell (CMP): Jerry, as a matter of interest, there's a lot of what appears to be very small new craters that have these little white rays radiating from them.
02 23 45 29
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Roger, Jim.
02 23 45 50
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Roger. We see the filter going over it. Apollo 8, this is Houston. Looks like we have too much light. The polarizing filter doesn't help much. Go ahead and remove it again.
02 23 46 16
Bill Anders (LMP): Roger. It's removed.
02 23 46 25
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Looks like we just got —
02 23 46 26
Bill Anders (LMP): Roger. We're just passing over the crater Borman, and there's Anders out there; Lovell is right south of it.
02 23 46 33
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Roger. The TV is breaking up now. Okay. We are back with a good picture. Looks like we just have too much light. Our definition is rather weak.
02 23 46 49
Bill Anders (LMP): Roger.
02 23 47 01
Bill Anders (LMP): Also, we're fogging up the window here, Houston, among other problems.
02 23 47 06
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Roger, Bill. The other window is better than that one.
02 23 47 12
Bill Anders (LMP): Okay.
02 23 47 21
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Much better picture, Bill; much better.
02 23 47 25
Bill Anders (LMP): Alright. The right side of the camera is pointing retrograde. We are now passing abeam of the crater Houston; I will show the camera over there once for the folks in Texas.
02 23 47 47
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Roger.
02 23 47 53
Bill Anders (LMP): It's a big and sprawly one; it's got those two impact craters, one to the right and one to the left.
02 23 48 03
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Roger, Bill.
02 23 48 13
Bill Anders (LMP): How's your picture?
02 23 48 15
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Still about the same, Bill. It's—the terrain's pretty bright. We are not getting much definition at all; definition on this side is much much better.
02 23 48 26
Bill Anders (LMP): Okay. I think—Okay. We are leaving the window; that gives you an idea how bad our window is.
02 23 48 34
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Roger. This picture now is much better; I guess the light levels are decreasing now.
02 23 48 42
Bill Anders (LMP): Okay. We are coming up on the crater Collins.
02 23 48 45
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Roger. What crater is that just going off.
02 23 48 52
Bill Anders (LMP): That's some small impact crater.
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02 23 48 56
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Roger.
02 23 48 57
Bill Anders (LMP): We will call it John Aaron's.
02 23 48 59
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Okay.
02 23 49 04
Bill Anders (LMP): If he'll keep looking at the systems anyway.
02 23 49 06
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): He just quit looking.
02 23 49 19
Jim Lovell (CMP): Jerry, another ID feature: these small impact craters have dark spots in the center where it appears that they buried in it and hit some new material down below and scattered a lot of fine white dust around them.
02 23 49 32
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Roger. Understand, Jim.
02 23 49 39
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Apollo 8. This is Houston. Looks like we can see Collins now.
02 23 49 48
Bill Anders (LMP): Roger. There is Collins for you.
02 23 49 52
Jim Lovell (CMP): And Collins is right on the edge of Smythe's Sea which we are about to pass over.
02 23 49 57
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Roger.
02 23 50 24
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Apollo 8. This is —
02 23 50 26
Bill Anders (LMP): We are now going across the Smythe Sea. Go ahead.
02 23 50 31
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Roger. We just saw a Stellenword go by.
02 23 50 39
Bill Anders (LMP): Roger. He was really in a hurry.
02 23 50 45
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Roger. Picture is much improved now; getting better all the time.
02 23 50 51
Bill Anders (LMP): Roger. The terrain here is, as you can see, not well defined. We are going to start a roll to the left, in order to come across the target area, with the television —
02 23 51 15
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Roger.
02 23 51 16
Bill Anders (LMP): — landing site area.
02 23 51 18
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Roger, Bill.
02 23 51 38
Bill Anders (LMP): How is that crater in—right in the middle look now?

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