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Bill Anders (LMP)
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You ought to give those guys a chance to go back to sleep and calibrate those things.
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Mike Collins (CAPCOM)
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Apollo 8, Houston. We've just passed 25 percent and you can terminate your waste water dump, please.
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Mike Collins (CAPCOM)
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Yes. We are going to switch antennas from Madrid to Goldstone in about 3 minutes. You should hear the glitch.
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Jim Lovell (CMP)
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Roger. Just for information, would the perigee reading and NOUN 42 be such a big minus number for such a small burn? We are reading minus 03137 now.
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Jim Lovell (CMP)
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Roger. We are going to PROGRAM 30 after you give us the target load, and I didn't think there would be that much of a change for such a small burn.
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Mike Collins (CAPCOM)
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Roger, Frank. We don't think there's any problem or any funnies in this perigee prediction of minus 03137. It's a Keplerian prediction, and it's not very accurate. Now we have taken your vector from the downlink and run it through a make-believe external DELTA-V maneuver down here, and we get precisely the correct answer. Over.
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Jim Lovell (CMP)
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Roger. Understand that you figure just because of the conics solution that it comes up.
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Jim Lovell (CMP)
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Okay. I was just kind of curious. I could see differences when we were talking about LOI burns, but this being such a short one, I thought it wouldn't be that much difference. I understand.
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Frank Borman (CDR)
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You are monitoring and seeing if we get any inadvertent engine firing all the time, aren't you?
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Mike Collins (CAPCOM)
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Well, we can't tell when you're in low bit rate. When you're in high bit rate, that's right.
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Frank Borman (CDR)
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Okay. If we crank up high bit rate and just have you take a checkout look at them?
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Mike Collins (CAPCOM)
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Roger. Since you're on OMNI D (Dog) at this time, we're sort of 180 out of phase for the high-gain lock antennas. As soon as we can get high-gain lock, then we'll —
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Mike Collins (CAPCOM)
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Roger, Frank. We've done some more checking, and we confirm that that is the correct Keplerian prediction on NOUN 42 minus 03137, just like you said.
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Mike Collins (CAPCOM)
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Roger. We are going to be doing a ranging sequence; if we can eliminate voice for a couple of minutes, we would appreciate it.
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Mike Collins (CAPCOM)
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Roger. Our ranging is complete, and we have been monitoring your thruster firings, and they show what appears to be very normal damp activities. Over.
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Mike Collins (CAPCOM)
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Frank, we've got about 2-1/2 minutes to ignition, and we're still showing some of your SCS switches not set up as per checklist; specifically, rate LOW, deadband MINIMUM, and your BMAG mode at attitude one, rate two.
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Mike Collins (CAPCOM)
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And your manual attitude switches in RATE COMMAND.
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Roger. We burned on time, 14 seconds, attitude nominal. Our residuals were plus 2 in VGX, minus 1 in VGY nothing in VGZ. Our EMS stopped about 6.2 and continued counting after the burn.
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Mike Collins (CAPCOM)
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Roger. Understand 14 seconds, burn on time, nominal attitude, two-tenths X, one-tenth Y, and nothing—minus one-tenth Y, and nothing Z; and you put 6.2 on the EMS, and it continued to count after the burn. Is that affirmative?
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Jim Lovell (CMP)
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No. We put the burn—we put the burn DELTA-V in the EMS, and after the burn, it was still counting.
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Mike Collins (CAPCOM)
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Roger, Jim. Thank you, and I still don't understand you on this EMS. Counted down from 5 to zero normally and then continued through zero in a negative way, and now it's reading minus 6.2? Is that affirmative?
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Jim Lovell (CMP)
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Roger. That's right. It was counting up when we shut it off. Last time I saw it, it was 6.9. Now Frank just put it on AUTO again with the DELTA-V function switch in DELTA-V, and it jumped six-tenths. Then he tried the second time, and it stayed at zero so we really don't know what the story is.
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Mike Collins (CAPCOM)
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We'd like you to resume the PTC attitude, pitch 010, yaw 045; and then come out of it again for your P23 that you're scheduled for about another hour and 10 minutes, in another hour and 10 minutes.
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Mike Collins (CAPCOM)
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How's it going with the TV, Frank? Are we—can the networks count on having it on schedule? Over.
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Frank Borman (CDR)
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Yes, we can have it on schedule. We don't have much to do, but we'll perform for you.
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Frank Borman (CDR)
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Well, we're just going to have to just do it inside today because there are no good shots of the moon or the earth; the sun's too darn bright.
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Frank Borman (CDR)
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Roger. On this EMS, when I put it in DELTA-V, it was reading zero; then I switched to AUTO. Sometimes it will count to 19 or 20 feet per second. I guess that is what happened.
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Mike Collins (CAPCOM)
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Roger. Understand when you put it to AUTO, it maybe will keep counting up to as much as 19 to 20 feet per second.
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Frank Borman (CDR)
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Just when you put it to AUTO; it will start counting on some occasion, by itself.
Spoken on Dec. 25, 1968, 8:08 p.m. UTC (55 years, 10 months ago). Link to this transcript range is: Tweet
