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Mike Collins (CAPCOM)
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Stand by one, Frank; we'll look for him, and while we're doing that, for Bill the DSE voice quality on high bit rate is very good, so if he wants to use the DSE in high bit rate for a limited amount of time to record important things, we suggest that he do that. We would like him to wait 20 seconds after turning it on prior to talking. Over.
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Bill Anders (LMP)
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Houston, with reference to the DSE on high bit rate, what I would like to do this is—if you got the last pass—I'd like to play it—run it back and start at AOS on low bit rate and then go to high when we need it. How would that be?
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Frank Borman (CDR)
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Roger. Rod and I got together, and I was going to record a little—say a little prayer for our church service tonight. And I wonder—I guess that's what we are ready on?
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Frank Borman (CDR)
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Okay. This is to Rod Rose and the people at St. Christopher's, actually to people everywhere. Give us, O God, the vision which can see thy love in the world, in spite of human failure. Give us the faith to trust the goodness in spite of our ignorance and weakness. Give us the knowledge that we may continue to pray with understanding hearts, and show us what each one of us can do to set forth the coming of the day of universal PEACE. Amen.
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Mike Collins (CAPCOM)
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Roger. Frank, we'd like to know about the water chlorination. Have you—when was the last time you chlorinated the water? Over.
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Frank Borman (CDR)
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I said Jim inadvertently spilled some of that chlorine, and it smelled like a bucket of Clorox in here for a little while.
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Mike Collins (CAPCOM)
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Roger. We have two and a half minutes to LOS, and all systems are looking good. Everything is looking just fine down here, Frank.
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Mike Collins (CAPCOM)
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We'll have some more information on the TV on the next rev. We're not planning any big change in the time, just to extend them a little bit, I think, closer to the terminator.
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Frank Borman (CDR)
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Just give us the time, will you, because we just want to know when it is. I'd like to get the terminator if we could, and we've got a little message, and that's it.
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Frank Borman (CDR)
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Thank you. Okay. And have the EECOM guys keep a sharp watch on our systems. Old Anders is so busy fooling around with these pictures that—not much else is getting done.
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Mike Collins (CAPCOM)
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Apollo 8, this is Houston. Over.
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Mike Collins (CAPCOM)
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Roger. We have been having a little antenna problem on the ground here. We are reading you now with a lot of noise in the background. How me?
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Mike Collins (CAPCOM)
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Roger. Frank, we are still trying to get a little bit better COMM here. Stand by; you're unreadable.
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Mike Collins (CAPCOM)
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I understand you are reading us loud and clear; we are barely reading you. Would you go to P00 in ACCEPT, please? We are going to send you a P27 update.
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Frank Borman (CDR)
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We are in P00 and ACCEPT.
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Mike Collins (CAPCOM)
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Apollo 8, Houston. You are not readable. We are going to delay the P27 until we get a little bit better lock on you.
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Mike Collins (CAPCOM)
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As long as you're reading me okay, Frank, I'll bring you up to date on a couple of things. The P27 which we will be sending you is a state vector update going to the LM slot, and we'd like to—as per plan—to transfer that to the CSM slot by a VERB 47 ENTER, and we would like to just remind you that prior to doing your VERB 47 ENTER manually select P00 and wait for the computer activity light to go out. Did you copy? Over.
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Mike Collins (CAPCOM)
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Roger. Apollo 8, Houston. Your map update for REV 4/5: LOS 76:59:59, sunrise 77:09:06, prime meridian 77:15:47, AOS 77:45:50, sunset 78:22:03; IP-1 position time for control point 2, 77:29:42; IP-1 time closest approach for target B-1, 78:10:25. Over.
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Bill Anders (LMP)
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I'm reading you five—loud and clear, and you copying our low bit data to record these tracking passes? Over.
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Bill Anders (LMP)
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Okay. I've played—run the tape recorder back to the beginning. We have quite a bit of high bit, so all you'll have to do is start recording when you are ready.
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Mike Collins (CAPCOM)
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Apollo 8, Houston. Stand by one on the tape recorder dump. We would like you to look at your steam pressure. We think that the primary evaporator may have dried out, and if the steam pressure shows off-scale low, would you please close the back pressure valve and reservice the evaporator? Over.
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Mike Collins (CAPCOM)
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Apollo 8, Houston. We are ready to send you the P27 LM state vector update when you are ready. Over.
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Bill Anders (LMP)
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Roger. You can go ahead now and give you computer and get the updates, and let's get going on the PAD messages.
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Mike Collins (CAPCOM)
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Roger. We copy you in P00 and ACCEPT, and we are sending you a P27 LM state vector. On the water boiler, it looks to us like the evaporator has been reserviced. How does it look to you? Over.
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Bill Anders (LMP)
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Roger. I reserviced it, put it to AUTO—H2O flow to AUTO; and the steam pressure went to zero again. So I tried reservicing it the second time for 1 minute, and again no results. I'm in the present process of closing the back pressure valve manually. Over.
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Mike Collins (CAPCOM)
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Roger. Understand you tried to reservice it twice, both times steam pressure has gone to zero, and now you are closing the back pressure valve manually.
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Bill Anders (LMP)
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Roger. Each time I have reserviced it, the steam pressure came up to about 0.07 to 0.1; but as soon as the steam and water were put to AUTO, the steam pressure went right back down again.
Spoken on Dec. 24, 1968, 4:40 p.m. UTC (55 years, 8 months ago). Link to this transcript range is: Tweet
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