- Jim Lovell (CMP)
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That burn status report: it burned on time; burn time 2 minutes 23 seconds, seven-tenths VGX. Attitude nominal, residuals minus five-tenths VGX plus four-tenths VGX—of minus O VGZ. DELTA-VC minus 26.4.
- Jim Lovell (CMP)
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Roger. We had 2 minutes 23 seconds. Our—wait one. Change that to read 3 minutes 23 seconds.
- Jim Lovell (CMP)
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I say that this gives the sensation that you are climbing.
Expand selection up Contract selection down Close - Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM)
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Apollo 8, at the first convenient moment, we'd like to have the high-gain antenna.
- Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM)
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Apollo 8, Houston. We do not have any data on the ground yet; the voice is very good.
- Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM)
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Apollo 8, Houston. We'd like to try to have you manually acquire on the high gain.
- Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM)
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This will take a wide beam width.
Expand selection down Contract selection up - Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM)
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Roger. Reading you loud and clear. Initial tracking indicates a 4 foot per second at 8 hours will put you on target.
Spoken on Dec. 25, 1968, 6:27 a.m. UTC (55 years, 11 months ago). Link to this transcript range is: Tweet