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04 06 42 32
Mike Collins (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, Houston.
04 06 42 36
Frank Borman (CDR): Go ahead.
04 06 42 38
Mike Collins (CAPCOM): Roger. We copy Jim doing a P52, and I'm standing by with a maneuver PAD for midcourse 5 any time at your convenience.
04 06 43 31
Jim Lovell (CMP): Okay. Ready to copy, Mike.
04 06 43 34
Mike Collins (CAPCOM): 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?
04 06 43 56
Jim Lovell (CMP): With you.
04 06 43 58
Mike Collins (CAPCOM): 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.
04 06 45 14
Jim Lovell (CMP): Still with you.
04 06 45 16
Mike Collins (CAPCOM): 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.
04 06 47 00
Jim Lovell (CMP): Roger, Houston. MCC 5, RCS/G&N—are you with me?
04 06 47 08
Mike Collins (CAPCOM): I'm with you, Jim.
04 06 47 13
Jim Lovell (CMP): 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.
04 06 48 23
Mike Collins (CAPCOM): 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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04 06 48 37
Jim Lovell (CMP): Roger.
04 06 50 19
Mike Collins (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, Houston. Over.
04 06 50 24
Frank Borman (CDR): Go ahead, Houston. Apollo 8.
04 06 50 26
Mike Collins (CAPCOM): 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.
04 06 51 39
Frank Borman (CDR): Roger. We'll get right with it.
04 06 51 41
Mike Collins (CAPCOM): Thank you.
04 06 55 20
Mike Collins (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, Houston.
04 06 55 24
Frank Borman (CDR): Go ahead.
04 06 55 26
Mike Collins (CAPCOM): 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.
04 06 55 40
Frank Borman (CDR): 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.
04 06 55 50
Mike Collins (CAPCOM): It'll keep going.
04 06 57 13
Bill Anders (LMP): Apollo 8. We're starting the dump now, Houston.
04 06 57 17
Mike Collins (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, Houston. Over.
04 06 57 23
Bill Anders (LMP): Okay. We're starting the waste water dump now.
04 06 57 26
Mike Collins (CAPCOM): Okay, Bill. Thank you.
04 06 57 38
Bill Anders (LMP): That's a blizzard.
04 06 57 42
Mike Collins (CAPCOM): Roger. Understand.
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04 06 58 33
Mike Collins (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, Houston.
04 06 58 39
Frank Borman (CDR): Go ahead, Houston.
04 06 58 41
Mike Collins (CAPCOM): Roger. I need a Pop Romeo Dog on all three and a status report on the LMP.
04 06 59 01
Bill Anders (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.
04 06 59 29
Mike Collins (CAPCOM): Okay. And you got a PRD on the other two.
04 06 59 32
Bill Anders (LMP): Yes. The CMP is ready to report. The CMP is reading 1.2 rem.
04 06 59 41
Frank Borman (CDR): 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.
04 06 59 49
Bill Anders (LMP): He's starting to glow in the dark.
04 06 59 55
Mike Collins (CAPCOM): 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.
04 07 00 10
Bill Anders (LMP): Roger.
04 07 00 13
Mike Collins (CAPCOM): Thank you, sir.
04 07 00 17
Bill Anders (LMP): What have they measured in our—what have they measured on that, I guess you would call it the VABABR, or VABD?
04 07 00 42
Mike Collins (CAPCOM): We're sending the boy to the back room to find out.
04 07 00 51
Bill Anders (LMP): Find out what it is, or what it's reading?
04 07 00 55
Mike Collins (CAPCOM): First one and then the other.
04 07 01 02
Bill Anders (LMP): We'll need both answers up here, too.
04 07 03 58
Mike Collins (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, Houston.
04 07 04 02
Jim Lovell (CMP): Go ahead.
04 07 04 04
Mike Collins (CAPCOM): Bill's VA and VR reading that he requested is 0.13. Over.
04 07 04 16
Bill Anders (LMP): Roger. Looks like you've got a little discrepancy here.

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