- Bill Anders (LMP)
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We always have the same smear to look through. The rendezvous windows are okay, but they're so small and looking in the wrong directions here so far.
- Bill Anders (LMP)
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It certainly looks like we're picking the more interesting places on the moon to land in. The backside looks like a sand pile my kids have been playing in for a long time. It's all beat up, no definition. Just a lot of bumps and holes.
- Bill Anders (LMP)
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The area we're over right now gives some hint of possible volcanic, though I really can't eyeball it at the moment to pin that down. There are some craters and buildups that just definitely suggest volcanic activity.
- Mike Collins (CAPCOM)
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Roger, Jim. We have you on the high-gain antenna. We'd like you to take the DSE and dump it over.
- Mike Collins (CAPCOM)
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That's affirmative, Jim. We'd like to—stand by one, and I'll tell you when to go to P00 and ACCEPT.
- Mike Collins (CAPCOM)
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Jim, would you please go to P00 in ACCEPT, and we'll send you a P27 and run a state vector update.
- Jim Lovell (CMP)
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Houston, this is Apollo 8. We have a little piece of useful information if you're interested in deliberating over it.
- Jim Lovell (CMP)
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Roger. Our first control point is very near the terminator, and as the optics were tracking it, I had occasion to watch the sun come up. And at about 2 minutes before sunrise, you get—the limb begins to brighten up into sort of a fine white haze, a fine glow completely over the space just behind the limb.
- Mike Collins (CAPCOM)
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Roger. I understand. About 2 minutes before the sun comes up, you get a fine white haze radiating out from behind the limb. How far out does it extend?
- Jim Lovell (CMP)
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It goes up quite a ways. It takes a fan shape, unlike the sunrise on earth where the atmosphere affects it. This just sort of is a complete haze all over the local area. It's concentrated at the exact spot where the sun comes up at ignition and then goes away from the sun spots. Very interesting.
- Mike Collins (CAPCOM)
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Okay. When you get your—before you get your map book out, the Houston COMM TECHS have got a little word for an old ex-CAP COMM. They say they consider you in NONREMOTE. Over.
- Mike Collins (CAPCOM)
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Okay. Your map update for REV 6/7: LOS 80:57:24, sunrise 81:06:57, prime meridian 81:13:02. Are you with me?
- Mike Collins (CAPCOM)
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AOS 81:43:05, sunset 82:13:54. Remarks: IP-1 TCA for B-1 82:07:39, and now I've got four more times for you which—acquisition times for when various things come over the horizon. Over.
- Mike Collins (CAPCOM)
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Okay. Control point 1, acquisition time 81:09:05; control point 2, acquisition time 81:21:48; control point 3, acquisition time 81:43:17. B-1 acquisition time 82:03:54. And I say again all those ACQ times are when they first come over the horizon. Over.
- Bill Anders (LMP)
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Just a matter of general interest, Houston: everybody is feeling good, and the CDR is taking a snooze.
- Mike Collins (CAPCOM)
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Roger. Glad to hear it. We were just talking about a water dump down here. We've got one coming up, and it looks like on this REV prior to the time around LOS or just prior to LOS, would be a convenient time to do it. Do you concur?
- Mike Collins (CAPCOM)
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That's affirmative, and we'd also be interested in any comments about what these various dumps have done to your optics, if anything, and how long the effects last after a dump.
- Bill Anders (LMP)
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Don't seem to have done anything to the optics, but they've definitely got in some of the windows. There are a few little chunks of ice on window number 1, which is nearest the vent, and also on window number 5 a little bit; windows 2 and 4 remain amazingly clear.
- Mike Collins (CAPCOM)
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Roger. Thank you, Bill, and I'm ready to resume the PAD when you are.
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Alright. Weight 45701, minus 040, plus 157 083:18:20.80, plus 32346, minus 01168, plus 05730. Are you with me so far? Over.
- Mike Collins (CAPCOM)
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Roger. I got down through DELTA-V, minus X, minus Y, and minus Z. Did you copy those? Over.
- Mike Collins (CAPCOM)
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Roger. Let's go back to the weight: 45701, minus 040, plus 157. Are you with me? Over.
- Mike Collins (CAPCOM)
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Okay. GETI 083:18:20.80, plus 32346, minus 01168, plus 4—correction, plus 05730. Are you with me? Over.
- Mike Collins (CAPCOM)
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Thank you. 179 009 001, not applicable, plus 00187 32870 307 32676 42 0880 253 033, down 121, left 27, plus 0790 minus 16500 129 73 36238 146:44:14; same north set Sirius and Rigel, roll 129, pitch 155, yaw 010, four quads for 15 seconds, horizon on the 2-degree mark at P ignition. Over.
- Bill Anders (LMP)
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Roger. TEI 7 SPS/G&N: 45701, minus 040, plus 157 083:18:20.80, plus 32346, minus 01168, plus 05730 179 9—correction, 009 001, NA. Are you with me?
- Bill Anders (LMP)
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Plus 00187 32870 307 32676 32—correction, 420880 253033, down 121, left 27, plus 0790, minus 16500 12973 36238 146:44:14; same north set Sirius and Rigel, 129 155 010; four-jet, 15 seconds, 2 degrees, now horizon and peak.
- Mike Collins (CAPCOM)
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And also, Jim, we are—That last P27 we sent was for the LM state vector only, and it will require a VERB 47 ENTER to transfer to the CSM slot. Over.
- Bill Anders (LMP)
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Roger. How much longer do you think we have to go into battery charge there, Mike?
- Mike Collins (CAPCOM)
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Apollo 8, Houston. We estimate the charge will be complete in another 45 minutes. Over.
- Mike Collins (CAPCOM)
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Roger. We have a request that Jim space his marks, his five marks out a bit more slowly. If possible, we would like to get a couple of them past the zenith. We're getting five of them with rather rapid spacing, and from the geometry viewpoint, it would be better if you'd slow them down a little bit and lengthened them out so as to include a couple of them past the zenith. Over.
- Frank Borman (CDR)
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Houston, Apollo 8. That last set of marks are invalid. Disregard what Jim drew the last time.
- Jim Lovell (CMP)
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Roger. I'm coming up on control point 3. I tried to stick another control point in between 2 and 3. It didn't do it, so I just took out our program, marked it down on the program.
- Mike Collins (CAPCOM)
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Roger. On Jim's marks, we'd like to get spacing of approximately 30, 30 seconds between each mark. The last ones we are copying roughly 15 seconds between marks, and we would like to stretch it out even further if that is okay with you.
- Jim Lovell (CMP)
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Roger, Mike. I find that tracking is much easier using the sextant than the scanning telescope. You have finer control, and at these orbital speeds, resolved to medium seem to be the best combination.
- Mike Collins (CAPCOM)
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Roger, Jim. I copy that it's easier for you to use the sextant than the scanning telescope. It gives you finer control, and say again after that.
- Mike Collins (CAPCOM)
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Roger. I copy that it's—tracking is easier using the sextant than the scanning telescope; it gives you finer control, and say again after that. Over.
- Jim Lovell (CMP)
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And the combination of resolved and medium is perhaps the best combination of—combination of—speed low is too low; we can't catch up with the target.
- Mike Collins (CAPCOM)
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Roger. Understand that the best combination is resolved and medium. Low is just too low.
- Jim Lovell (CMP)
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Roger. I'm not too sure what happened that time, Mike. I was marking on the landing sites, using the code, and I kept getting a large trunnion for AUTO OPTICS. And I could see the target, or landing site was coming up, so I just went manually and marked and got the—the latitude and longitude were quite different from the nominal.
- Mike Collins (CAPCOM)
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Roger. We're checking into Jim's remarks on his P22; and in the meantime, I have your maneuver PAD's and map updates, at your convenience. Over.
- Mike Collins (CAPCOM)
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Okay. And before that, we'd like to take the DSE away from you, please, for a while.
- Mike Collins (CAPCOM)
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Thank you, and we'd like you to go to P00 and ACCEPT. We have a P27 state vector update for you.
- Mike Collins (CAPCOM)
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Okay. Map update: LOS 82:55:54, sunrise 83:05:49, prime meridian 83:11:38, AOS 83:41:43, sunset 84:18:45; remarks: control point 1 acquisition 83:07:39, control point 2 acquisition 83:20:21, control point 3 ACQ 83:41:51, B-1 acquisition 84:02:28. Over.
- Jim Lovell (CMP)
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Roger. 82:55:54, 83:05:49, 83:11:38, 83:41:43, 84:18:45. CP-1 83:07:39, CP-2 83:20:21, CP-3 83:41:51, B-1 84:02:28.
- Mike Collins (CAPCOM)
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Understand —
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Roger. The TEI 8 PAD, SPS/G&N: 45701, minus 040, plus 157 085:18:19.04. Are you with me so far? Over.
- Mike Collins (CAPCOM)
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Okay. Plus 3195, minus 01267, plus 04716 179 008 001, not applicable, plus 00187 33552 311 33355 42 0909 252. Are you still with me? Over.
- Mike Collins (CAPCOM)
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Okay. Picking up with the boresight star, it's old Dzuba who is the center star in the head of Scorpio; he's down 060, left 42, plus 0773, minus 16500 12982 36256 146:46:18. North set stars remain Sirius, Rigel, roll 129, pitch 155, yaw 010; four-quad ullage of 15 seconds, horizon on a 4-degree line at TIG, and requesting you zero the optics. Over.
Spoken on Dec. 24, 1968, 9:19 p.m. UTC (55 years, 10 months ago). Link to this transcript range is: Tweet