Spacelog Apollo 8

Apollo 8, Houston.

Go ahead.

Roger. We copy Jim doing a P52, and I'm standing by with a maneuver PAD for midcourse 5 any time at your convenience.

Okay. Ready to copy, Mike.

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?

With you.

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.

Still with you.

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.

Roger, Houston. MCC 5, RCS/G&N—are you with me?

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.

Roger.

Apollo 8, Houston. Over.

Go ahead, Houston. Apollo 8.

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.

Roger. We'll get right with it.

Apollo 8, Houston.

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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.

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.

It'll keep going.

Apollo 8. We're starting the dump now, Houston.

Apollo 8, Houston. Over.

Okay. We're starting the waste water dump now.

Okay, Bill. Thank you.

That's a blizzard.

Roger. Understand.

Apollo 8, Houston.

Go ahead, Houston.

Roger. I need a Pop Romeo Dog on all three and a status report on the LMP.

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.

Okay. And you got a PRD on the other two.

Yes. The CMP is ready to report. The CMP is reading 1.2 rem.

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.

He's starting to glow in the dark.

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.

Roger.

Thank you, sir.

What have they measured in our—what have they measured on that, I guess you would call it the VABABR, or VABD?

We're sending the boy to the back room to find out.

Find out what it is, or what it's reading?

First one and then the other.

Apollo 8, Houston.

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Bill's VA and VR reading that he requested is 0.13. Over.

Roger. Looks like you've got a little discrepancy here.