Spacelog Apollo 8

Okay. It went to about—hovering around 2.4 to 3 volts.

Okay. Thank you.

Closer to 2.4.

Apollo 8, Houston.

Go ahead.

Okay. It's not real clear that it did, in fact, get to the mechanical stop, and if it does, the back room people say we can stay up against that stop for a maximum of 15 minutes without doing any damage. And we would kind of like to track it through one more time as is. We do have the high bit rate capability on OMNI's. So we would like to follow through that same configuration for one more REV.

Stand by.

Well, since we are not sure that it did get up against the mechanical stop last time for 10 minutes or so, I don't think it would be too smart to do it this time because we may end up having to switch field to high gain position.

I am sorry, Bill. You didn't come through. Say again, please.

Since we are not—it is not clear to me that we weren't up against mechanical stops for a while on the last time around. That might account for 10 minutes of that 15 minutes, and there is no sense pushing our luck. I think we ought to—if it starts dropping off again, we just ought to go and put it back into MANUAL and take it back where it belongs. We are still a long way from home, and if that antenna switch fails, it's going to fail the high-gain position, and that's all we got.

Roger, Bill. And we will be making a handoff on stations at 5:5.

Okay.

Ken, we are going to switch COMM carriers here a second.

Okay, thank you.

Belay that. We'll hold this configuration for a while.

We are back in AUTO on the OMNI.

Houston, CDR is up and manning the helms. We are going to switch COMM carriers. We'll be off the air for a little bit.

Hey, Ken. This is Frank.

Good morning, sir.

Houston, Apollo 8.

Go ahead, Apollo 8. Loud and clear.

How far are we from home, Ken?

Oh, about 152, looks like. That's pretty gross; I get you a real number in just a minute.

152?

148 550; that's a good number.

Very good.

And your velocity is about 4650.

Increasing, huh?

Houston, Apollo 8.

Go ahead, Apollo 8.

We are trying to get back on our normal sleep cycle, and I just woke up here a little while ago, so I'm going to try to hit the hay again. It'd probably be a good idea to try another Seconal to try to get with it. What do you guys think down there?

Okay. Sounds like a good idea, and if we can get Frank to tell us how much sack time he got, why that'll go in the log, too.

I was in bed for 7 hours, Ken, and I probably slept for about 4-1/2 to 5 hours of it, anyway.

You're getting better. Good.

If you—if you're interested in further reports, we've all had three meals today, and we have drunk a lot of water, and Jim's asleep now. He worked pretty hard this afternoon, but I think we are all in pretty good shape now.