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Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, Houston. We're showing quad A running a little bit warmer than the other quads. If you remember, I mentioned before that we were coming into a period of time here where we were going to spend a lot of time with no PTC going. We'd like for you to try to favor quad A if you can in the shade, and do whatever you can to keep that temperature from getting out of hand. Over.
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Frank Borman (CDR): Roger. I'm only reading 121 on quad A.
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Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Roger.
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Jim Lovell (CMP): Quad C is the highest temperature we have; it's 142.
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Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Roger, Frank. We are more interested in the tank temperatures than the quad temperatures. Over.
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Frank Borman (CDR): Roger. I understand. Now listen, if you think it is that important, we'll just keep PTC-ing it and not even do anything.
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Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Negative. There's no sweat right now. We're watching it, and we just wanted to let you know that this thing is being looked at. If we get anywhere near a situation where we feel we ought to change, we'll go back to PTC or cool it.
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Frank Borman (CDR): Okay. Thank you. We'll do our best, but it is kind of hard, though. You are sort of subject of spatial geometry: wherever the stars and the moon happens to be, that's where you point.
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Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Roger. We understand. We're going to keep an eye on it down here, and we'll keep you appraised.
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Frank Borman (CDR): Thank you.
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Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, Houston.
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Frank Borman (CDR): Go ahead, Houston. Apollo 8.
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Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Roger. Pass the word to Jim that on these marks that are coming up, pretty important that he remember to record his DELTA-R and DELTA-V and trunnion. We are working low bit rate down here, and so we're not going to be able to record that data from here. Over.
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Frank Borman (CDR): We are recording them all.
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Frank Borman (CDR): Houston, Apollo 8. Did you read that we are recording all the DELTA-R and DELTA-V and trunnion …
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Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Roger, Frank. Thanks.
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Frank Borman (CDR): Jerry, Apollo 8.
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Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Roger. Go ahead.
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Frank Borman (CDR): As luck would have it, we got the sun almost directly ahead on top of us here.
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Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Roger. We understand, but tank temperature is holding steady, so we are all right.
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Frank Borman (CDR): Okay.
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Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, Houston. Over.
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Frank Borman (CDR): Go ahead, Houston. Apollo 8.
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Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Roger, Frank. The helium tank temperature that we are watching on quad A has only gone up 1 degree in all this work that you are doing, so we don't consider it to be too terribly serious. What we would like to do, as soon as you finish this P23 work, is rather than go back into PTC, let's just roll her over 180 degrees and put quad A on the cool side, and hold it that way until your next activity comes up, which is around 102:30. Over.
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Frank Borman (CDR): Okay. Fine.
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Frank Borman (CDR): Okay, Jerry. We're through with PROGRAM 23. We're just going to roll here to get the sun off quad A, if that's what you want.
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Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Roger, Frank. Good deal.
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Frank Borman (CDR): It should be getting cool now, Jerry.
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Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Roger, Frank. So far we haven't seen the temperature start back down again. We expect to see it, though.
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Frank Borman (CDR): Houston, Apollo 8.
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Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, Houston. Go.
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Frank Borman (CDR): Roger. Give us the word if you want us to maneuver back here before that time that you …, please.
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Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Wilco.
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Frank Borman (CDR): Thank you.
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Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, Houston.
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Frank Borman (CDR): Go ahead, Houston.
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Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Roger, Frank. We have some data that was missed on your P23. We'd like you to read it down to us if you have time.
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Frank Borman (CDR): Roger. We will in just a minute.
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Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Roger.
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Frank Borman (CDR): Go ahead. What do you want?
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Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Roger. On star number 2, the sixth mark, we missed DELTA-R and DELTA-V.
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Frank Borman (CDR): Sixth mark, that's—did Lovell tell you to do this? Come on, Carr; come clean. Did he ask you to ask for this?
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Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Who?
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Frank Borman (CDR): Jim Lovell.
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Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Negative. Uh-uh. We really missed it.
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Frank Borman (CDR): It's all zeros, and all zeros.
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Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Roger. All zeros, all zeros. Okay. On star number 7, we missed the trunnion on marks 1, 2, and 3.
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Frank Borman (CDR): On 1, trunnion was 03235; on 2, it was 03240; on 3, it was 03241.
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Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Okay, Frank. And then the last one is on star number 1; we missed the trunnion on mark 5.
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Frank Borman (CDR): 04064.

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