Spacelog Apollo 8

Well, the old earth is getting bigger.

Good show. Going in the right direction, then.

Yes. I was beginning to get worried.

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.

Apollo 8, Houston.

Go ahead, Ken.

Okay. Would you reinitialize the PTC attitude, and let's try that one more time.

You ready?

Okay.

Okay. Three blips.

Thank you.

There she goes.

Roger.

Is it sleepy out down there, too?

Say again, please.

I say, is it sleepy out down there?

Roger. It's getting pretty good now. I figure it's getting sleepy up there, though.

Yes.

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.

Very good. When was the East-West game?

Oh, about Saturday.

Next Saturday?

Yes, sir.

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.

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.

Roger.

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.

Roger.

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.

Okay.

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.

Roger. And you'll be putting the helmets in the food stowage.

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.

Okay.

Is the weather still good out there?

It's not quite as clear as it was yesterday; it sure is nice and balmy.

No, I mean out at 165 west.

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.

Very good; we'll be there.

Yes, I'm sure you will.

I don't think those waves are too high. We're going to have to sit in this heap for about 45 minutes.

Okay. We'll put in a kit for some small waves.

Apollo 8, Houston.

Go ahead.

Okay. Why don't you drive it back over to the PTC attitude and put it back in ATTITUDE HOLD for the roll, and we're going back in and review the DTO requirement. You have about the same results, it looks like, on a cursory analysis all three times. So we're going to take another look and see if there is any reason to do it again. If so, we'll call you. You can go ahead and put it back in ATTITUDE HOLD now.

Houston, Apollo 8. Radio check.

Loud and clear, Apollo 8.

Okay, Ken. Thank you.

Roger. It is taking us a little longer to go through and rehash all of the entry checklist than I though, and we are just about to wrap it up now.

No problem. Just watch my gimbal angles for me, and give me a call if they get too close.

Apollo 8, Houston.

Go ahead.

We would like to look at a couple more DELTA-V tests on the EMS, and the general consensus is that we don't think there is any particular problem. We'd like to go ahead and take a look at what you get by running four or five more DELTA-V tests. And prior to that, we'd like to run one of these null bias tests; and since we don't have any way of monitoring any of this stuff on the downlink, I'd like to have you tell us each step when you turn the switch and different orders and things like that.

Okay.

Alright. I'll run a test.

Okay. The first thing we want is this null bias, 100 seconds.

You stand by, and I'll do a null bias for 100 seconds. Do you want me to put DELTA-V in AUTOMATIC and let it alone for 100 seconds?

That is affirmed.

Going to DELTA-V; going to AUTO -

Now.

Roger.

Went to one-tenth and back to zero.

Understand; plus one-tenth and back to zero.

One-tenth, now it's a minus one-tenth and back to zero; no, it's not zero yet; wait a minute.

Now it's up some, minus 4; 0.4, that is.

Roger.

Minus 25.

Roger.

Minus 26.