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Jerry Carr (CAPCOM)
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Roger, Frank. We would like for you to go back into PTC now. Your helium tank temperature is still holding about the same. And we are going to try PTC to even things out. Over.
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Jerry Carr (CAPCOM)
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Roger, Frank. Let him know that we've compared his latest P37, and the state vectors have converged to—they are very, very close now.
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Frank Borman (CDR)
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You guys are going to make it impossible to live with him. It always was pretty hard.
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Frank Borman (CDR)
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Hello Michael, we lost lock and Bill hit COMMAND RESET to get the lock back on again, but you're welcome to the antenna.
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Mike Collins (CAPCOM)
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Apollo 8, Houston. You've got a lot of background noise and about unreadable. We're trying to get a better OMNI.
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Mike Collins (CAPCOM)
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Apollo 8, Houston. How do you read? Over.
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Mike Collins (CAPCOM)
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I got a message for you while you were asleep. Valerie said to tell you that she and the kids are leaving for church about 11:30 and eagerly awaiting your return. She said presents are magically starting to appear under the Christmas tree again so it looks like a double barrel Christmas. Over.
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Mike Collins (CAPCOM)
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Early and busy as usual. I told Michael you guys are up there, and he said who's driving?
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Bill Anders (LMP)
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That's a good question. I think Isaac Newton is doing most of the driving right now.
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Bill Anders (LMP)
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Tell Valerie and the kids a Merry Christmas for me, Mike, and tell them I'll see them there in a while.
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Mike Collins (CAPCOM)
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I sure will, and you might tell Frank if he's got any messages his people are about 10 feet away.
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Mike Collins (CAPCOM)
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Roger. Quad Able helium tank temperature has dropped very slightly and is looking pretty good to us now.
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Mike Collins (CAPCOM)
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Righto, and I've got a procedure for Jim I would like to read up. It involves bringing the LM and the CSM state vectors to the earth's sphere of influence. Over.
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Mike Collins (CAPCOM)
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Oh, it's the summation of the opinions of all our experts down here. I got it from Mr. Colossus, Gunther Sabionski.
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Mike Collins (CAPCOM)
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Yes, Merry Christmas up there, Jim. I've got a procedure when you are ready to copy.
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Jim Lovell (CMP)
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Okay. I just got on my headset; just let me get a pencil and paper, and I will copy it.
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Mike Collins (CAPCOM)
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Okay. The purpose is to bring the LM and the CSM state vectors to earth's sphere of influence. Step one: Verb 37 ENTER, 23 ENTER. Step two: At NOUN 70, at NOUN 70, load in register 1, 2, and 3 the following numbers. Register 1, 00002; register 2, five balls; register 3, 00210. Step 3: proceed on NOUN 70, NOUN 70. Step 4: proceed on NOUN 25, 25. Step 5: do not proceed on NOUN 18. Wait for 30 seconds; then do VERB 37 ENTER, 00 ENTER. End of procedure. Over.
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Jim Lovell (CMP)
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Okay. As I understand that the reason for this procedure is to bring the LM and CSM state vectors back to the earth's sphere of influence; is that correct?
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Jim Lovell (CMP)
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Okay. To do it we go VERB 37 ENTER, 23 ENTER; and at the NOUN 70, we'll load in register 1, four balls 2; register 2, all balls; and register 3, two balls 210. We'll proceed on NOUN 70 and proceed on NOUN 25. We'll not proceed on 18. We'll wait 30 seconds, and we'll do a VERB 37 ENTER, 00 ENTER.
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Jim Lovell (CMP)
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I'm just kinda curious, Mike; I thought this was done for us. I thought the computer took care of this little problem.
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Mike Collins (CAPCOM)
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Roger. Normally, it is done automatically, Jim; and had you done the P23's exactly as scheduled, it would have been, but there was some doubt P23 was stopped about 7 minutes prior to the transition point and just to be absolutely sure, we included this procedure. Over.
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Mike Collins (CAPCOM)
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Thank you, Jim. We copied your DSKY work there, and it's looking just fine to us now.
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Frank Borman (CDR)
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You know, one thing you can pass on to the program office—something you might try working on right away is —
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Mike Collins (CAPCOM)
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Apollo 8, can you stand by? We'll try to get you a better antenna; you're just about unreadable.
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Mike Collins (CAPCOM)
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Apollo 8, Houston. We are right in between antennas and if you can wait about 5 minutes with your message, we can have better COMM then.
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Mike Collins (CAPCOM)
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Okay. You're loud and clear now, Frank. Go ahead and say what you were saying about the program office.
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Frank Borman (CDR)
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They ought to get some moving out on some way to fix these windows. The three windows, the hatch window and the two side windows, really it's a shame, in fact, that they are almost totally unusable, because they got so gummed up.
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Mike Collins (CAPCOM)
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Roger. I sure agree. We copy so far on the windows that 2 and 4 are in excellent shape and 1 and 5 are sort of mediocre and 3 is just about totally unusable.
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Jim Lovell (CMP)
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And, Mike, that sure puts the CMP in a bad light, you know, when you can't see where you are going.
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Mike Collins (CAPCOM)
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Yes. And when you're sitting between two guys that won't tell you, too. (Laughter)
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Jim Lovell (CMP)
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That's right. You think they will share a window? No soap. You might also note the optics are very good visibility; so far, no coating at all.
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Frank Borman (CDR)
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Go ahead.
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Roger. We copy Jim doing a P52, and I'm standing by with a maneuver PAD for midcourse 5 any time at your convenience.
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Mike Collins (CAPCOM)
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Roger, Jim. This is midcourse maneuver number 5, and it's a RCS/G&N, and it's 31700, not applicable, not applicable. Are you with me?
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Mike Collins (CAPCOM)
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Good. 103:59:52.86, minus 00050, plus all zeros, plus 00001 000 334 001 five zeros, plus 00190 00050 014 00050. Are you still with me? Over.
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Mike Collins (CAPCOM)
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Good. 413020 183, Shaula, down 064, left 06, plus 0747, minus 16410 12988 36301 146:46:40; north set of stars, Sirius and Rigel, roll 308, pitch 209, yaw 357. Remarks: use high-speed procedure with minus MA. Over.
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Jim Lovell (CMP)
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31700, NA, NA, 103:59:52.86, minus 00050, plus all zeros, plus 00001 000 334 001, all zeros, plus 00190 00050 014 0050 413020 183, Shaula, down 064, left 06, plus 0747, minus 16410 12988 36301 146:46:40; Sirius, Rigel, 308 209 357; use high-speed procedure with minus MA.
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Mike Collins (CAPCOM)
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Roger. And could you go to ACCEPT, please, and we're going to send you a P27 load consisting of a LM state vector and a target load for MCC 5.
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Mike Collins (CAPCOM)
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Roger. We'd like to dump your waste water tank down to 25 percent; we'd like to do it before the midcourse, for tracking reasons. So if it is convenient with you, if you'll start right now, we'll dump on down to 25.
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Mike Collins (CAPCOM)
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Roger. We got those loads in and verified; you can go back BLOCK at your computer. And George Low says he's working on that window problem at 6, or spacecraft 104. You just happen to have the wrong spacecraft.
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Frank Borman (CDR)
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That's the wrong statement; we've got the right spacecraft. I'll clue you, if it keeps going this way for 2 more days, we've got not only the right spacecraft, but we've got the best spacecraft.
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Bill Anders (LMP)
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Roger. The LMP's PRD hasn't moved an inch since we took off. And that's the one the CMP did have, still 0.64. And I just had about 5-1/2 hours sleep, and I'm in the process of scarfing up a meal; and I've been drinking lots of water, feeling good, and that's about it.
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Frank Borman (CDR)
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And the CDR: I got stuck with somebody else's, but mine reads now—my new one reads 2.02 rems. I don't know if there is a message there or not.
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Mike Collins (CAPCOM)
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Yes. You should have hung on to the one you had. It sounded a little bit better. I copy left to right 2.02, 0.12, and 0.64. Over.
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Bill Anders (LMP)
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What have they measured in our—what have they measured on that, I guess you would call it the VABABR, or VABD?
Spoken on Dec. 25, 1968, 6:58 p.m. UTC (55 years, 10 months ago). Link to this transcript range is: Tweet
