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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.
Spoken on Dec. 25, 1968, 7:08 p.m. UTC (55 years, 10 months ago). Link to this transcript range is: Tweet
