Spacelog Apollo 8

Key moment TV broadcast 3: views of the moon: Apollo 8, Houston. Over.

Houston, this is Apollo 8 with the TV going. Over.

Apollo 8, this is Houston. Reading you loud and clear. We see your TV. It is a little bit—little bit clearer.

Roger. The moon is very bright and not too distinct in this area. I will give you a shot of the horizon.

Roger.

How's that look? Is it on the top of your picture?

Apollo 8, this is Houston. It's a good picture—the horizon—we can't see many terrain features as yet.

Roger.

Apollo 8, Houston. We are beginning to pick up a few craters very dimly; the whole thing is pretty bright.

Roger. There is not much definition up here either out on the horizon. We are now approaching the craters See and Bassett.

Roger.

I'll shift to the rendezvous window.

Roger, Bill.

Roger. Looks like we've got a real good picture now.

Okay. That's the crater Brand.

Roger.

Sorry we missed Carr.

Me, too.

Apollo 8, this is Houston. We are going to need a cryo fan cycle sometime during this pass.

Roger. Can we wait till sunset?

Roger. We can wait.

Okay. I think we are coming up on Miller right now.

There's a very new bright impact crater; should be in the field of view now.

Roger, Bill.

You see it in the upper part of your screen.

Say, Bill, how would you describe the color of the moon from here?

The color of the moon looks like a very whitish gray, like dirty beach sand with lots of footprints in it.

Some of these craters look like pickaxes striking concrete leaving a lot of fine haze dust.

There's some interesting features out on the other window. Let me switch windows on you now.

Roger, Bill.