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05 03 34 03
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Roger. It depends on which way your nose is pointing.
05 03 34 08
Frank Borman (CDR): Touché.
05 03 34 16
Frank Borman (CDR): You might note for the people at MIT that the next series of stars will be shot by the master navigator with a space helmet on and long eye relief eyepieces.
05 03 34 32
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Roger. That ought to cut his speed down a little bit.
05 03 34 36
Frank Borman (CDR): Right.
05 03 35 25
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Frank, while you are talking about the entry checklist, this cold soak—have you decided exactly where you want to do it there prior to entry
05 03 35 37
Frank Borman (CDR): Well, I understood that EECOM talked that over with Bill, and we do it 1 hour prior to entry. We'll do it wherever you say is the best.
05 03 35 43
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Okay. One hour is fine. It's just a matter of finding time in the time line to do it.
05 03 35 50
Frank Borman (CDR): I think we can initiate it 1 hour before SEP.
05 03 35 53
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Okay. Fine. Sounds like a winner.
05 03 37 06
Jim Lovell (CMP): Really got all zeroes with that helmet on.
05 03 37 09
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Roger. We just noticed that.
05 03 37 32
Frank Borman (CDR): Jim's going to leave the helmet off now for the rest of them, I think; it gets a little anoxic in there. These helmets don't have face plates, and we have a difficult time breathing with that on.
05 03 37 44
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Roger.
05 04 02 26
Frank Borman (CDR): Okay. Jerry, that completes the P23. Did you have something else you want us to do now? You wanted to check on something from the last set.
05 04 02 37
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Roger, Frank. We need to get some numbers that we weren't able to copy down here. Stand by just one. Frank, on your first P23, we missed three marks on star number 2. We missed mark number 3 trunnion.
05 04 03 07
Frank Borman (CDR): Okay. Three trunnion is 05650.
05 04 03 11
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Okay, 05650. Then star number 1, mark 2. We need the trunnion on that one, too.
05 04 03 21
Frank Borman (CDR): 04216.
05 04 03 25
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): And on star number 1, mark 3, the DELTA-R and DELTA-V.
05 04 03 31
Frank Borman (CDR): DELTA-R is 00006, DELTA-V 00001.
05 04 03 38
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Roger. Four balls 6 and four balls 1. Okay. Frank, your PTC attitude is pitch 180, yaw 315, and roll rate 0.3 degrees per second. The reason for wanting to point it north is not because we are concerned at all about any changes due to venting, there's been, as we can tell, no effects on your trajectory by venting. We just want to try out that direction on it.
05 04 04 16
Frank Borman (CDR): That's fine. We are going to stay in for about two more seconds while Jim takes the pictures through the sextant for the optics people.
05 04 04 24
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Okay, Frank. And then, also, we are looking for a fuel cell O₂ purge when you get a chance.
05 04 04 30
Frank Borman (CDR): That's right. At—I got the word now; it's supposed to be at 124:30.
05 04 04 37
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Right.
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05 04 04 39
Frank Borman (CDR): Okay. We'll do it.
05 04 11 14
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, Houston.
05 04 11 17
Frank Borman (CDR): Go ahead.
05 04 11 18
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Roger. For your P37 that's coming up that you are going to run, use a midcourse 7 time of 144:46. Also just a little note here, the trajectory is looking so good, it looks like you can make the corridor without even making a midcourse 7.
05 04 11 37
Frank Borman (CDR): Roger. 144:46 for the P37.
05 04 11 44
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Affirmative.
05 04 11 47
Frank Borman (CDR): Thank you.
05 04 13 40
Jim Lovell (CMP): Jerry, this is Jim.
05 04 13 43
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Go ahead, Jim.
05 04 13 46
Jim Lovell (CMP): We are going to set this up for the normal PTC mode for a few minutes until Frank gets through with the—another step of the call.
05 04 14 01
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Roger, Jim. When the time is auspicious, would you shift the BIOMED switch over to left side?
05 04 14 09
Jim Lovell (CMP): I think we ought to shift it over right now.
05 04 14 12
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Okay. No, they say hold it up for a little while.
05 04 14 15
Jim Lovell (CMP): … so you can see, the same data that Dr. Berry got on me in Gemini VII is also good for Frank on Apollo 8.
05 04 14 33
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Roger. He heard that.
05 04 19 25
Jim Lovell (CMP): Houston, Apollo 8. —
05 04 19 28
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, Houston.
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05 04 19 31
Jim Lovell (CMP): Do you see that PROGRAM ALARM we got when we went through P37, 1302?
05 04 19 35
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Affirmative.
05 04 19 39
Jim Lovell (CMP): I'll run through it again and see what happens here.
05 04 19 41
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Roger. We're monitoring.
05 04 21 33
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, Houston.
05 04 21 36
Jim Lovell (CMP): Go ahead.
05 04 21 37
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Looks like you loaded the wrong time in P37, You should load 144:46 for your midcourse time; looks like you loaded 146:46.

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