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04 06 16 01
Mike Collins (CAPCOM): Roger. Quad Able helium tank temperature has dropped very slightly and is looking pretty good to us now.
04 06 16 11
Bill Anders (LMP): Thank you, Michael.
04 06 16 12
Mike Collins (CAPCOM): 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.
04 06 16 27
Bill Anders (LMP): Alright. Stand by.
04 06 16 29
Mike Collins (CAPCOM): Okay.
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04 06 16 34
Bill Anders (LMP): He's getting his hat on now. Whose procedure is this, Michael?
04 06 16 41
Mike Collins (CAPCOM): Oh, it's the summation of the opinions of all our experts down here. I got it from Mr. Colossus, Gunther Sabionski.
04 06 16 54
Bill Anders (LMP): Very good. I want to make sure it wasn't an Aldrin special.
04 06 17 03
Mike Collins (CAPCOM): I'm sorry you're broken up. Don't say again. (Laughter)
04 06 17 16
Jim Lovell (CMP): Merry Christmas, Bud.
04 06 17 25
Mike Collins (CAPCOM): Yes, Merry Christmas up there, Jim. I've got a procedure when you are ready to copy.
04 06 17 31
Jim Lovell (CMP): Okay. I just got on my headset; just let me get a pencil and paper, and I will copy it.
04 06 17 36
Mike Collins (CAPCOM): Okay.
04 06 17 58
Jim Lovell (CMP): Okay, Mike.
04 06 18 00
Mike Collins (CAPCOM): 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.
04 06 19 29
Jim Lovell (CMP): 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?
04 06 19 37
Mike Collins (CAPCOM): That's correct.
04 06 19 42
Jim Lovell (CMP): 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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04 06 20 15
Mike Collins (CAPCOM): That's affirmative. Apollo 8.
04 06 20 21
Jim Lovell (CMP): I'm just kinda curious, Mike; I thought this was done for us. I thought the computer took care of this little problem.
04 06 20 34
Mike Collins (CAPCOM): 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.
04 06 20 59
Jim Lovell (CMP): Okay. Tell Buzz I sure could use his eye-patch.
04 06 21 19
Mike Collins (CAPCOM): Roger. I understand. Buzz had one on Gemini X, worked real well.
04 06 21 28
Jim Lovell (CMP): Mike, do you want me to do this procedure now?
04 06 21 31
Mike Collins (CAPCOM): That's affirmative, Jim. Now at your convenience.
04 06 24 06
Mike Collins (CAPCOM): Did you see guidance? Is the flag set?
04 06 24 10
Mike Collins (CAPCOM): We're set, that's right.
04 06 24 50
Mike Collins (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, Houston.
04 06 24 54
Jim Lovell (CMP): Go ahead.
04 06 24 56
Mike Collins (CAPCOM): Thank you, Jim. We copied your DSKY work there, and it's looking just fine to us now.
04 06 25 03
Jim Lovell (CMP): Okay.
04 06 25 42
Jim Lovell (CMP): Houston, Apollo 8.
04 06 25 44
Mike Collins (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, Houston.
04 06 29 50
Frank Borman (CDR): You know, one thing you can pass on to the program office—something you might try working on right away is —
04 06 30 00
Mike Collins (CAPCOM): Can you stand by, Apollo 8?
04 06 30 02
Mike Collins (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, can you stand by? We'll try to get you a better antenna; you're just about unreadable.
04 06 30 10
Frank Borman (CDR): Alright.
04 06 30 18
Mike Collins (CAPCOM): 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.
04 06 30 27
Frank Borman (CDR): Roger.
04 06 33 44
Mike Collins (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, Houston. Over.
04 06 33 49
Frank Borman (CDR): Go ahead, Houston. Apollo 8.
04 06 33 51
Mike Collins (CAPCOM): Okay. You're loud and clear now, Frank. Go ahead and say what you were saying about the program office.
04 06 33 57
Frank Borman (CDR): 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.
04 06 34 17
Mike Collins (CAPCOM): 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.
04 06 34 34
Frank Borman (CDR): Three is totally unusable; 1 and 5 are unusable for any kind of photography.
04 06 34 39
Mike Collins (CAPCOM): Roger.
04 06 34 42
Jim Lovell (CMP): And, Mike, that sure puts the CMP in a bad light, you know, when you can't see where you are going.
04 06 34 48
Mike Collins (CAPCOM): Yes. And when you're sitting between two guys that won't tell you, too. (Laughter)
04 06 34 54
Jim Lovell (CMP): 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.
04 06 35 04
Mike Collins (CAPCOM): Glad to hear that, Jim.

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