- Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM)
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Okay. We will do that. When you get in the PTC attitude, we will let you know when we take the command on the antenna switching.
- Frank Borman (CDR)
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Okay. Just be careful what you do with the tape recorder. Bill's a little sensitive about that.
- Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM)
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Roger. We were listening to the tape dumps, and it looks like Bill gets a happy new year after all.
- Frank Borman (CDR)
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Ken, we've about run out of gas here on this next set of stars. Would you ask your people to be especially alert there watching the systems tonight?
- Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM)
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Roger. I have—let's see, we've got a hydrogen purge line here that ought to come on about 91:40 and an oxygen-hydrogen fuel cell purge for 92 hours.
- Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM)
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I sure will. And, let's see, we just wanted to let you know we've got a real good battery charge going here this time. Looks like—it looks just like the ones in the book, and I'd like to get a battery C voltage before you shut down, and a sleep report on what you did in —
- Frank Borman (CDR)
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We all only got about 2 hours sleep today MAX, Ken. We're going now—Bill's going to stay up awhile, and Jim and I are going to sack out, and we're going to try to rotate short sleep cycles till we can get back to the normal one.
- Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM)
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Roger, sounds like a good idea. And EECOM on the ground tells us that the flying EECOM is to go ahead and put his hydrogen purge line heater on, and we'll get ready for a fuel cell.
- Frank Borman (CDR)
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I hope it won't disappoint anybody too much if we knock off those last two stars, but Jim is just in a daze, and so am I.
- Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM)
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Apollo 8. One of the things we'd like to have before you shut down also is VERB 64 so we can watch the pointing angles.
- Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM)
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Hey, Frank, you might be interested; they are having some trouble with the medics' P-2.
- Frank Borman (CDR)
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Oh, is that right? It's been so busy.
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Hey, Ken, tell the people if you see anything getting close to the gimbal lock to be sure and whistle, too, will you?
- Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM)
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We sure will, Frank. You will want to make sure one of you keeps your COMM carrier on.
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Spoken on Dec. 25, 1968, 8:05 a.m. UTC (55 years, 11 months ago). Link to this transcript range is: Tweet