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03 04 33 50
Frank Borman (CDR): Go ahead, Houston. Apollo 8.
03 04 33 53
Mike Collins (CAPCOM): Roger for Bill. He can go ahead and do his standard reservice on the water now. It's looking good.
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Frank Borman (CDR): Okay. You want us to reservice it now?
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Mike Collins (CAPCOM): That's affirmative, and upon completion, go back to AUTO.
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Bill Anders (LMP): Roger.
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Mike Collins (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, Houston.
03 04 40 27
Frank Borman (CDR): Go ahead, Houston.
03 04 40 28
Mike Collins (CAPCOM): Roger. We are still dumping your tapes. The voice quality on high bit is coming through superb, and you are GO for the next rev. And we would like to get a brief status report on your rest between 60 hours and LOI 1, just to fill in some information for us.
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Frank Borman (CDR): We only got a couple hours rest.
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Mike Collins (CAPCOM): Okay.
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Frank Borman (CDR): We're tired right now, but we will have to wait until TEI before we get back to the regular cycle.
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Mike Collins (CAPCOM): Alright. I suspect you're right.
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Bill Anders (LMP): Okay, Houston. The water boiler has been reserviced, back pressure valve CLOSED for 1 minute, water ON for 2, and it's now steam pressure AUTO, H₂O flow AUTO.
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Mike Collins (CAPCOM): Roger. We copy, Bill.
03 04 41 56
Bill Anders (LMP): If we have a problem, a similar problem, again on the back side in the sunlight, might be a good idea to crank the secondary loop until we have AOS. What do you think about that?
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Mike Collins (CAPCOM): Stand by one, Bill.
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Mike Collins (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, Houston.
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Jim Lovell (CMP): Go ahead, Houston. Apollo 8.
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Mike Collins (CAPCOM): Roger, Jim. In regard to your evaporator, we feel that if you do have a similar problem next time on the back side in sunlight, check the evaporator outlet temperature, and if it gets above 60, we concur that it would be a good idea to bring up the secondary loop. Over.
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Jim Lovell (CMP): Roger.
03 04 44 17
Mike Collins (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, Houston. When we say bring up the secondary loop, we mean bring up the evaporator only on the secondary loop. Copy?
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Frank Borman (CDR): Roger.
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Jim Lovell (CMP): Roger.
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Bill Anders (LMP): Houston, Apollo 8. We got time for a little news?
03 04 49 56
Mike Collins (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, this is Houston. Over.
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Bill Anders (LMP): I say how about a little bit of that news you promised?
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Mike Collins (CAPCOM): Roger. We got the Interstellar Times here, the December 24 edition. Your TV program was a big success. It was viewed this morning by most of the nations of your neighboring planet; the earth. It was carried live all over Europe, including even Moscow and East Berlin, also in Japan and all of North and Central America and parts of South America. We don't know yet how extensive the coverage was in Africa. Are you copying me all right? Over.
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Frank Borman (CDR): You are loud and clear.
Mike Collins (CAPCOM): Good. San Diego welcomed home today the Pueblo crew in a big ceremony. They had a pretty rough time of it in the Korean prison. Christmas cease-fire is in effect in Viet Nam, with only sporadic outbreaks of fighting. And if you haven't done your Christmas shopping by now, you better forget it.
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Bill Anders (LMP): Thank you.
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Mike Collins (CAPCOM): A couple of Oilers made the All-Star team, Webster and Farr.
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Bill Anders (LMP): Roger.
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Mike Collins (CAPCOM): And that's about all our news. How about your news?
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Frank Borman (CDR): Well, we'll be looking forward to a big burn here shortly.
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Mike Collins (CAPCOM): Roger.
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Jim Lovell (CMP): Mike, I think I can say it without contradiction, it's been a mighty long dry spell up here.
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Mike Collins (CAPCOM): I guess you can say anything you like without contradiction.
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Frank Borman (CDR): When can we dump water, Houston?
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Mike Collins (CAPCOM): Say again, Frank.
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Frank Borman (CDR): When can we dump water?
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Mike Collins (CAPCOM): Stand by.
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Mike Collins (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, Houston.
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Frank Borman (CDR): Go, Houston.
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Mike Collins (CAPCOM): We will get you the number after a while on your water dump. It looks like the quantity isn't increasing very slightly, and we're considering not only the quantity in regard to the dump, but also its effects on the trajectory relative to TEI and so forth, but we will have a good answer for you shortly.
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Frank Borman (CDR): We are not just thinking about the waste water tank: we're thinking about some other kind of water that has to get dumped out of the spacecraft, slightly used water.
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Mike Collins (CAPCOM): Roger. We understand.
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Mike Collins (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, Houston.
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Frank Borman (CDR): Go ahead.
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Mike Collins (CAPCOM): Roger. We have about three and a half minutes to LOS. We give you back the DSE under your control, and in regard to your water dump, we are tentatively predicting a waste water tank dump at about 80 hours GET and any other dumps are at your discretion, any time you would like to make them.
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Frank Borman (CDR): Thank you.

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