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04 22 29 41
Frank Borman (CDR): Hopefully, right after separation.
04 22 29 43
Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM): That sounds like a real good place. Okay. I'm sure we're going to discuss that one a little bit more, Bill. But right now those are the kind of things we're talking about doing. And on the high gain, there is still a lot of discussion about as to what—exactly what we saw and what it means. And I think it is a little too early to tell you anything about that one.
04 22 30 11
Bill Anders (LMP): Roger. I think it's got X-ray eyes.
04 22 30 17
Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM): That's as good as some of the explanations.
04 22 30 26
Bill Anders (LMP): Yes, I think that's what they hashed out on the ground, Ken.
04 22 30 29
Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM): Okay. I think we all agree that we don't want to try experimenting with it if we really don't know what it is we're looking at.
04 22 30 39
Bill Anders (LMP): Roger. I've written down some numbers here that I hope will be helpful.
04 22 30 43
Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM): Okay. Fine.
04 22 30 46
Bill Anders (LMP): And I'll give them to you in the debriefing.
04 22 30 49
Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM): Real fine.
04 22 30 52
Bill Anders (LMP): I don't think it's any great big deal, because the antenna switching is not hard at all and the … is required to work; if it doesn't work as advertised, at least it works in a reasonable manner.
04 22 31 26
Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM): Okay. And we're looking at 120 hours for the next water dump, Bill.
04 22 33 41
Bill Anders (LMP): Ken, is it my imagination, or do you have the music running?
04 22 33 45
Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM): I'm sorry; say again.
04 22 33 49
Bill Anders (LMP): Is it my imagination, or do you have the music running?
04 22 33 54
Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM): I think it's your imagination.
04 22 33 59
Bill Anders (LMP): Uh-oh. Don't let the doctors hear that.
04 22 34 01
Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM): It's too late; he already heard you.
04 22 34 06
Bill Anders (LMP): I must be getting that detached feeling.
04 22 36 49
Bill Anders (LMP): Apollo 8, Houston.
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Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM): Go ahead, 8.
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04 22 36 55
Bill Anders (LMP): Roger. Just to make sure the urge to get red and blue filter shots of the moon haven't crept into this TV test. We have got red and blue filter shots of the moon, so you need not worry about that.
04 22 37 12
Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM): Okay. I don't think that would throw it away. I think we're trying to come up with something definitive so that postflight will have some real good data to compare with what we do on the ground for future work. I would like to have you go over and take a look at the battery Charlie, please.
04 22 37 35
Bill Anders (LMP): I'm on my way.
04 22 38 08
Bill Anders (LMP): Okay. Battery Charlie, that's about 36.8 volts.
04 22 38 13
Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM): Okay, 36.8. Thank you.
04 22 38 19
Bill Anders (LMP): Roger.
04 22 38 26
Bill Anders (LMP): Also with respect to the TV test, I would think that we could probably get a pretty good handle on the operation just by taking red and blue and polarizing shots of the earth independent of the TV, but within the same time frame or at about the same range we had the TV last time.
04 22 38 54
Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM): Okay. That's what—the second portion of this really is asking that we do this with the Hasselblad, and again we won't be using the red and blue filters so we have our baseline.
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Bill Anders (LMP): Taking a picture of the earth with the Hasselblad is no big deal because it does swing by the earth now and then. But trying to get the TV and the Hasselblad all pointed to the earth at the same time would really be tough.
04 22 39 21
Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM): Roger. I don't think that it's that time-critical, but I'll ask.
04 22 59 15
Bill Anders (LMP): Houston, Apollo 8.
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Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM): Go ahead, 8.
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Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM): Go ahead, 8.
04 22 59 29
Bill Anders (LMP): We're going to hold up on the LiOH change for about a half an hour. The PCO₂ reading is low, and we don't want to wake up the CDR. It's right by his feet.
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Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM): Good headwork.
04 23 02 46
Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, Houston.
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Bill Anders (LMP): Go ahead, Houston.
04 23 02 53
Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM): Okay, Bill. We are coming up on the P52 and then the P23 sightings, and there is some concern that if we just go directly to P23 attitude that we are liable to overheat quad Charlie. So we would like to have you maneuver to place the minus X-axis towards the sun now. And I have some gimbal angles here for you. And if we take it over there and point the minus X at the sun between now and the time we have to start into the alignment, then the P23 business—we will tend to coldsoak Charlie, and then we will be able to go through the P23 operations without worrying about the temperatures.
04 23 03 45
Bill Anders (LMP): Okay. Give me them.
04 23 03 47
Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM): Okay. Roll 183.3, pitch 136.7; yaw 13.5.
04 23 04 27
Bill Anders (LMP): Right. 183 roll, 137 pitch, and 14 yaw.
04 23 04 31
Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM): Okay.
04 23 04 36
Bill Anders (LMP): Actually, we worked out up here on Lovell's slide rule and got 183.25 roll.
04 23 06 15
Bill Anders (LMP): Houston, you wanted to go to this coldsoak attitude prior to the P52, did you not?
04 23 06 21
Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM): We would like to go to the coldsoak attitude now.
04 23 06 27
Bill Anders (LMP): And that was to keep from heating up quad D, was it?
04 23 06 30
Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM): Negative. That's quad Charlie.
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Bill Anders (LMP): Okay.
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Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, Houston.

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