- Jerry Carr (CAPCOM)
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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.
- Bill Anders (LMP)
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Roger. Did you get a report of the photography accomplished, or is that on the tape at present?
- Jerry Carr (CAPCOM)
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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.
- Jerry Carr (CAPCOM)
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Apollo 8, this is Houston. Reading you loud and clear. We see your TV. It is a little bit—little bit clearer.
- Bill Anders (LMP)
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Roger. The moon is very bright and not too distinct in this area. I will give you a shot of the horizon.
- Jerry Carr (CAPCOM)
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Apollo 8, this is Houston. It's a good picture—the horizon—we can't see many terrain features as yet.
- Jerry Carr (CAPCOM)
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Apollo 8, Houston. We are beginning to pick up a few craters very dimly; the whole thing is pretty bright.
- Bill Anders (LMP)
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Roger. There is not much definition up here either out on the horizon. We are now approaching the craters See and Bassett.
- Jerry Carr (CAPCOM)
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Apollo 8, Houston. We want to take the DSE.
Expand selection up Contract selection down Close - Bill Anders (LMP)
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Roger. You've got it.
Expand selection down Contract selection up - Jerry Carr (CAPCOM)
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Apollo 8, this is Houston. We are going to need a cryo fan cycle sometime during this pass.
- Bill Anders (LMP)
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The color of the moon looks like a very whitish gray, like dirty beach sand with lots of footprints in it.
- Jim Lovell (CMP)
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Some of these craters look like pickaxes striking concrete leaving a lot of fine haze dust.
- Bill Anders (LMP)
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There's some interesting features out on the other window. Let me switch windows on you now.
Spoken on Dec. 24, 1968, 12:33 p.m. UTC (55 years, 9 months ago). Link to this transcript range is: Tweet