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04 15 33 06
Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM): Real fine. Thank you.
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Frank Borman (CDR): Used the exerciser.
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Frank Borman (CDR): Well, Ken, that just leaves you or I—how about you and I—did anything exciting happen today?
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Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM): I think you know about all the things that are exciting up on your end, and it's real quiet down here. Everybody is smiling; Santa was good to most of the folks in the world, and everything is pretty calm, like it should be on Christmas.
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Frank Borman (CDR): very good.
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Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM): Milt says we're in a period of relaxed vigilance.
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Frank Borman (CDR): Very good.
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Frank Borman (CDR): We'll relax; you be vigilant.
04 15 34 54
Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM): That's a fair trade. (Laughter)
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Frank Borman (CDR): Hey, Ken, has anybody got any good idea why that quad A tank is running hot, hotter than the rest by so much?
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Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM): Okay. I didn't have an answer when I came on; just a second and we'll check again.
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Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, Houston.
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Frank Borman (CDR): Go ahead, Houston.
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Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM): Okay, Apollo 8. Let me tell you what the subjects are that we're going over down here: number one, we're making a review of all the entry procedures and this type of information, and we're going to actually go through and review the entry checklist. We have people that are still working on verification of your erasable memory, and we are looking at the EMS problem, and we're discussing the quad temperature, so I'll feed up some of these pieces of information as they come along, and right now we are just sort of having a status review.
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Frank Borman (CDR): I don't think the EMS is much of a problem; it just jumps when you go into AUTO. I don't believe it will bother us for entry. I—I'm doing the same thing; I am looking over my entry checklist. One of the first things I see here is a coldsoak, and I don't think we want to evaporate between the last midcourse and entry, do we?
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Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, Houston.
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Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, Houston.
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Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, Houston.
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Frank Borman (CDR): Go ahead, Houston. Apollo 8.
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Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM): Roger. Looking at the flight plan, you have a P52 coming up at a 115 hours, and we'll have to do another one at 119:45 in preparation for the P23. And it's acceptable with the ground procedures if you would like to delay about 115-hour alignment, and do it just once at 119:45, or you can do it there in flight plan location. If you want to skip the 115-hour alignment we could go ahead and start in on the pitch and yaw free PTC mode at this time.
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Frank Borman (CDR): What does that mean, Ken?
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Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM): Okay. We have a DTO that requires that we do a PTC and go ahead and do it in minimum impulse mode so that we're not putting any attitude hold corrections in. And we're going to be tracking the attitude excursion, and they want this some—think like 6 hours—or until we reach a limit.
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Frank Borman (CDR): Okay.
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Frank Borman (CDR): Cabin's running a little bit warmer today than normal.
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Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM): I'm sorry; say it again.
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Frank Borman (CDR): I say the cabin is running a little bit hotter today than it has been. It looks like this particular PTC alignment gets more sun in the cabin than the PTC before.
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Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM): Roger. What kind of temperature are you recording now?
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Frank Borman (CDR): About 78.
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Frank Borman (CDR): I just put the window shades up. That'll cool it down.
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Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM): Okay.
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Frank Borman (CDR): Do you want me to take the pitch yaw out of RATE COMMAND, right?
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Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM): That's affirmative. You just put it MINIMUM IMPULSE, and then we'll watch it.
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Frank Borman (CDR): There you are.
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Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM): Okay. Thank you.
04 16 12 38
Frank Borman (CDR): Have fun.
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Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM): Roger. And on that quad temperature—the upper limit of that thing is 105 degrees on the bottle. You are well below that. We have been watching it, and it is tracking, although it is tracking very slowly. As you roll the spacecraft, the temperature excursions seem to be a little sluggish, but it isn't a frozen sensor. And talking a little bit more about that one right now, you might tell Jim the next time he goes to work with the optics, when he works with the trunnion, if he'll go ahead and recycle the ZERO OPTICS switch, he can avoid the problem we had prior to midcourse correction 4.
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Frank Borman (CDR): We've done that. And the midcourse correction 4.
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Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM): Roger.
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Frank Borman (CDR): The midcourse correction number 6 right now looks like zero, and midcourse correction number 7 is approximately 2 feet per second.
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Frank Borman (CDR): Okay, Jim. Now we've got on the checklist to initiate cabin coldsoak. This involves evaporating, and I don't think we want to do that.
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Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM): Okay. Now we talked that over with FIDO, and at 12 hours out, everyone seems to think that we don't need to do it there. But in close, it doesn't seem to have any effect on the trajectory, and what's been suggested if you'd like—we can do over the entry checklist and just kind of walk through it on the air with all the people on the console. Right now, you have the team that will be performing the entry session with you so we can go over the checklist and run down any questions that you might have. That's up to you.
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Frank Borman (CDR): That's fine. Let's do that. I've got one right here. I'm lonesome anyway.
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Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM): Okay. Give us a few minutes to pull ourselves together and get on the air.
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Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, Houston.
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Frank Borman (CDR): Go ahead.
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Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM): Okay. We've drifted off now about 25 degrees in pitch. I'd like to have you take it back and set up the PTC plane again at pitch of 10 and yaw 45 and set up the PTC under control, and turn your pitch back to minimum impulse. And give us a mark when you have done that, and we'll time the drift rates down here.
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Frank Borman (CDR): Okay.
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Frank Borman (CDR): Okay, Ken. I've got them all damped out about as low as I can get them.
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Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM): Okay. Fine.
04 16 25 08
Frank Borman (CDR): I'll put in a roll right now.
04 16 25 10
Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM): Thank you.
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Frank Borman (CDR): It takes me three actuations to get about—just about a degree and a half, or a tenth of a de—0.15 degrees per second.
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Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM): Okay. And give a mark when you release the RATE COMMAND in pitch and yaw.
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Frank Borman (CDR): I haven't even got them on.
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Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM): Oh, okay. Fine.
04 16 25 35
Frank Borman (CDR): When I gave you—when I gave you that mark, that was it.
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Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM): Real fine. Thank you.
04 16 25 57
Frank Borman (CDR): It's much more sensitive today than it was when it was heavy.
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Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM): Roger.
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Frank Borman (CDR): Well, the old earth is getting bigger.
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Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM): Good show. Going in the right direction, then.
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Frank Borman (CDR): Yes. I was beginning to get worried.
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Frank Borman (CDR): Ken, be sure and call me if you see the gimbal angles start to get near gimbal lock or anything. I'm a little drowsy still. I don't want to end up with another null attitude, like one is enough.
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Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM): Roger. Will do.
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Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, Houston.
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Frank Borman (CDR): Go ahead, Ken.
04 16 43 01
Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM): Okay. Would you reinitialize the PTC attitude, and let's try that one more time.
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Frank Borman (CDR): Okay.
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Frank Borman (CDR): You ready?
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Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM): Okay.
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Frank Borman (CDR): Okay. Three blips.
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Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM): Thank you.
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Frank Borman (CDR): There she goes.
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Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM): Roger.
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Frank Borman (CDR): Is it sleepy out down there, too?
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Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM): Say again, please.
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Frank Borman (CDR): I say, is it sleepy out down there?
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Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM): Roger. It's getting pretty good now. I figure it's getting sleepy up there, though.
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Frank Borman (CDR): Yes.
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Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM): Okay. Well would you believe that the North beat the South 3 to nothing, and they did that all with a first-quarter field goal.
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Frank Borman (CDR): Very good. When was the East-West game?
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Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM): Oh, about Saturday.
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Frank Borman (CDR): Next Saturday?
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Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM): Yes, sir.
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Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM): And, Frank, we are going over the checklist right now, and I'll get back with you on the entry checklist in a few minutes.
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Frank Borman (CDR): Okay, Ken. I think it is a pretty good one; that's one thing we have practiced a lot. But we might as well let everybody know what we're doing.
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Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM): Roger.
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Frank Borman (CDR): Ken, while we are just killing time here, there are a couple of anomalies we've noticed. The booties, you know, for the inflight coveralls; mine have frayed very badly, and I had to take them off. Also, we had one Y adapter with an open in it, and the lightweight headsets were kind of useless.
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Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM): Roger.
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Frank Borman (CDR): I take that back. I really didn't mean to say that. The lightweight headset—what I really meant to say was—the lightweight headsets are useless.
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Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM): Okay.
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Frank Borman (CDR): But these Snoopy hats are pretty comfortable. We have worn them the whole time.
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Frank Borman (CDR): Ken, one thing we are going to do on these suits, we're going to Stow them one under each seat, the way North American suggested.
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Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM): Roger. And you'll be putting the helmets in the food stowage.
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Frank Borman (CDR): Yes, I think we'll put the helmets in the food stowage; and any stuff we have to take out of there, we'll just stick in a suit.
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Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM): Okay.
04 16 52 30
Frank Borman (CDR): Is the weather still good out there?
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Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM): It's not quite as clear as it was yesterday; it sure is nice and balmy.
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Frank Borman (CDR): No, I mean out at 165 west.
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Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM): Okay. Frank, we've got a weather picture here. The forecast shows 2000 scattered and 4000 broken with a high overcast. You might see that as you come down through it, and wave heights 4 feet, wind about 070 at 12 with 10 miles visibility and perhaps some scattered showers in the area, and this is forecast for the twenty-seventh at 16:00 Zulu.

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