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02 22 49 31
Bill Anders (LMP): Okay. Thank you.
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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.
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Bill Anders (LMP): Roger. Did you get a report of the photography accomplished, or is that on the tape at present?
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Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Negative. We haven't heard that.
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Bill Anders (LMP): Okay. We will put it on the tape now.
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Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Roger.
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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.
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Frank Borman (CDR): Negative; it is in the NORMAL voice. We will go DOWN-VOICE BACKUP.
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Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Roger. Request you leave it there forever. Over.
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Frank Borman (CDR): Roger. In DOWN-VOICE BACKUP now.
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Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, this is Houston. All systems are GO. You're still GO for REV 2. Over.
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Frank Borman (CDR): Thank you.
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Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, Houston.
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Frank Borman (CDR): Go ahead, Houston. Apollo 8.
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Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Roger. One minute to LOS.
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Frank Borman (CDR): Thank you.
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Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, Houston. Ten seconds to LOS. All systems are GO.
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Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, Houston. Over.
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Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Key moment TV broadcast 3: views of the moon: Apollo 8, Houston. Over.
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Bill Anders (LMP): Houston, this is Apollo 8 with the TV going. Over.
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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.
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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.
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Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Roger.
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Bill Anders (LMP): How's that look? Is it on the top of your picture?
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Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, this is Houston. It's a good picture—the horizon—we can't see many terrain features as yet.
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Bill Anders (LMP): Roger.
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Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, Houston. We are beginning to pick up a few craters very dimly; the whole thing is pretty bright.
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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.
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Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Roger.
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Bill Anders (LMP): I'll shift to the rendezvous window.
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Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Roger, Bill.
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Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, Houston. We want to take the DSE.
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Bill Anders (LMP): Roger. You've got it.
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Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Roger. Looks like we've got a real good picture now.
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Bill Anders (LMP): Okay. That's the crater Brand.
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Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Roger.
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Bill Anders (LMP): Sorry we missed Carr.
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Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Me, too.
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Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, this is Houston. We are going to need a cryo fan cycle sometime during this pass.
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Bill Anders (LMP): Roger. Can we wait till sunset?
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Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Roger. We can wait.
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Bill Anders (LMP): Okay. I think we are coming up on Miller right now.
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Bill Anders (LMP): There's a very new bright impact crater; should be in the field of view now.
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Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Roger, Bill.
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Bill Anders (LMP): You see it in the upper part of your screen.
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Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Say, Bill, how would you describe the color of the moon from here?
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Bill Anders (LMP): The color of the moon looks like a very whitish gray, like dirty beach sand with lots of footprints in it.
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Jim Lovell (CMP): Some of these craters look like pickaxes striking concrete leaving a lot of fine haze dust.
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Bill Anders (LMP): There's some interesting features out on the other window. Let me switch windows on you now.
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Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Roger, Bill.

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