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05 04 21 46
Jim Lovell (CMP): Okay. I'm sorry. Yes, I have it here. I wrote it down, 146:46. Okay.
05 04 21 55
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Roger.
05 04 21 57
Jim Lovell (CMP): I guess the best way to terminate this is by going back to P00, is that right?
05 04 22 00
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Affirmative.
05 04 28 02
Jim Lovell (CMP): Houston, Apollo 8. It looks like a plus 2.8 foot per second correction at midcourse 7.
05 04 28 11
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Roger, Jim.
05 04 41 25
Frank Borman (CDR): Houston, Apollo 8.
05 04 41 30
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, Houston. Go.
05 04 41 33
Frank Borman (CDR): Started the fuel cell purge, and I'm going to 183:15, and I'll start that three-tenths of a degree per second roll stabilization test for you.
05 04 41 42
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Roger, Frank. Thanks.
05 04 41 55
Frank Borman (CDR): Okay. There we are, and we are going to start rolling now.
05 04 41 57
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Roger.
05 04 42 16
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Frank, on this free pitch and yaw, if either one of them gets outside of 15 degrees from the nominal values, we'll call it off.
05 04 42 32
Frank Borman (CDR): Okay.
05 04 45 00
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, Houston. I would like to have the BIOMED switch left now, if you can.
05 04 45 09
Frank Borman (CDR): Roger, it's LEFT.
05 04 47 39
Jim Lovell (CMP): The fuel cell purged to complete, O₂.
05 04 47 47
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Say again, Apollo 8.
05 04 47 51
Jim Lovell (CMP): O₂ fuel cell purge complete.
05 04 47 53
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Roger, thanks.
05 04 50 50
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, Houston.
05 04 50 55
Frank Borman (CDR): Go ahead, Houston. Apollo 8.
05 04 50 58
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Looks like you've exceeded your 15 degrees offset PTC attitude, so you can go to attitude HOLD in pitch and yaw.
05 04 51 05
Frank Borman (CDR): Okay. I'll go back to the attitude. We didn't even get around once, did we?
05 04 51 09
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Doesn't look like it. So much for spin stabilization.
05 04 51 15
Frank Borman (CDR): Well, we tried that last night several times 0.5 to 0.2 degree per second.
05 04 51 51
Frank Borman (CDR): I think there is the phenomena known as inertial coupling that has something to do with that, huh?
05 04 51 57
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Roger. That could be.
05 04 52 01
Bill Anders (LMP): Put a bigger rudder on it.
05 04 52 05
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Need some feathers, Frank.
05 04 52 08
Frank Borman (CDR): (Laughter)
05 04 52 35
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, Houston. On the P37 comparison; using the MSFN vectors, we get a minus 1.4 on that midcourse compared to your 2.8. We ran your solutions through our computer and we also get a 2.8, so your P37 looks good. We are busy still fiddling with the vectors and comparing them and we'll keep an eye on the difference.
05 04 53 03
Jim Lovell (CMP): Roger. It looks like we came up with a plus 2.8 though, and you say you came out with a minus 2.something.
05 04 53 10
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Affirmative.
05 04 53 28
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Jim, that 4 feet per second difference is worth 0.28 degrees on the flight path angle.
05 04 53 35
Jim Lovell (CMP): Roger. Thank you.
05 05 07 10
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, Houston.
05 05 07 13
Frank Borman (CDR): Go ahead, Houston.
05 05 07 15
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Roger, Frank. How is your cabin temperature looking now?
05 05 07 20
Frank Borman (CDR): It's getting cooler, thank you. We put those shades up, and that really helps.
05 05 07 22
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Okay. The primary loop down here still looks real good, so it looks like you are in fine shape. Your battery B charge ought to be done by about 127 hours, and we think you shouldn't even try to charge battery A, since it looks like, at entry interface, it is going to have 38 amp-hours on it.
05 05 07 45
Frank Borman (CDR): I'll tell Bill that.
05 05 07 47
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Okay
05 05 08 48
Frank Borman (CDR): How is the weather down there, Jerry?
05 05 08 52
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): That's loud and clear.
05 05 08 55
Frank Borman (CDR): Cold?
05 05 08 57
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): No, it's pretty balmy around here today.
05 05 09 13
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Yes, the temperature is about in the 70's here. It's a real nice day.
05 05 09 22
Frank Borman (CDR): Fine.
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05 05 09 54
Frank Borman (CDR): Say, Jerry, last night, Jim was saying something about turning on VHF Simplex A about 20 00 miles out. I wrote it down, but I can't seem—I can't remember where I put it. …
05 05 10 11
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Roger, Frank. We've got it in the checklist here as right around 4 minutes—4 hours before EI, right after your nominal P23, P37 onboard comparisons, KG-1, page E-1.
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05 05 30 00
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, Houston.
05 05 30 04
Frank Borman (CDR): Go ahead.
05 05 30 07
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Roger. We're showing some garbage on your computer. If you will hit ERROR RESET, we can clear that PROGRAM ALARM so the next one can be identified. Over.
05 05 30 15
Frank Borman (CDR): We don't have any PROGRAM ALARM.
05 05 30 18
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): I think this—this is a carryover from your last PROGRAM ALARM there on that P37.
05 05 30 23
Frank Borman (CDR): Okay. ERROR RESET. Thank you.
05 05 30 38
Frank Borman (CDR): That do it?
05 05 30 41
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Stand by. Okay. Thank you, Frank. That did it.
05 05 30 49
Frank Borman (CDR): Roger.
05 06 30 28
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, Houston.
05 06 38 31
Frank Borman (CDR): Go ahead, Houston. Apollo 8.
05 06 38 33
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Roger. Your battery is full; you can terminate charging. You've got 40 amp-hours on it now, and we've got a couple of requests for data here.
05 06 38 41
Frank Borman (CDR): Roger.
05 06 38 42
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): — requests.
05 06 38 45
Frank Borman (CDR): Okay. We were just talking about that. I tell Bill stop. Okay. What are your requests?
05 06 38 52
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): The first one is—the first time somebody is down in the equipment bay, we would like to get another reading on your RCS temperatures—those six temp meter readings —
05 06 39 00
Frank Borman (CDR): Okay.
05 06 39 02
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): — and the other one is of the boys in the back —
05 06 39 04
Frank Borman (CDR): We just read them again.
05 06 39 05
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Beg your pardon?
05 06 39 06
Frank Borman (CDR): We just read the RCS thruster temperatures again, and they are all pegged high.
05 06 39 14
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Okay. Good deal, Frank. The other one is—the boys in the back room would like some time when everybody is awake—if you would fire up both cabin fans for about 5 minutes, they would like to see what the DELTA temperature is on the telemetry when you get the stagnation broken down and get some flow going over it. So if you can see your way clear to do that, we would like to see it same time when everybody is up.
05 06 39 43
Jim Lovell (CMP): We had that running before in the flight. Did they check it then?
05 06 39 49
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): You mean early in the game, when you were cool?
05 06 39 52
Frank Borman (CDR): Yes. When we were cool. Right.
05 06 39 55
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Yes. They got that data, and they were kind of interested in seeing what it looks like when the cabin is nice and warm and the temperature indicator is reading on the high side, to see how the DELTA works in the other direction.
05 06 40 07
Frank Borman (CDR): Okay. Coming on.
05 06 40 08
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Okay. Thank you.
05 06 40 22
Frank Borman (CDR): What else, Jerry?
05 06 40 25
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): That's it, Frank.
05 06 40 30
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Another thing, Frank, is we just want to remind you that there is no charge needed on A battery.
05 06 40 36
Frank Borman (CDR): Hey, listen, these cabin fans—one of them sounds like it's got a bad bearing. We are going to turn it off. It's got a real squeal to it.
05 06 40 42
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Okay, Frank.
05 06 40 45
Frank Borman (CDR): Sounds like it's got something in it.
05 06 40 50
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): That must be Bill's teddy bear.
05 06 40 54
Frank Borman (CDR): Say again.
05 06 40 55
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): That must be Bill's teddy bear.
05 06 40 59
Frank Borman (CDR): I don't know, but there is something in there.
05 06 41 46
Frank Borman (CDR): We will try them again, one at a time, and see if we can determine which one's got the noise.
05 06 41 50
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Roger.
05 06 42 15
Frank Borman (CDR): Number 2 is really bad. It's got a bad bearing, and it whines like mad, so we are not going to turn it on.
05 06 42 22
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Roger. Thank you.
05 06 42 26
Frank Borman (CDR): We are not going to try number 1 either; there may have—something might have got in both of them, Jerry.
05 06 42 31
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Okay, Frank. That's fine.
05 06 42 46
Frank Borman (CDR): Sounds like that MG starter of yours.
05 06 42 55
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): I'm afraid to turn my starter on now. It's been so long.
05 07 14 36
Frank Borman (CDR): Houston, Apollo 8.
05 07 14 39
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, Houston. Go.
05 07 14 42
Frank Borman (CDR): Roger. We would leave the PTC long enough to go orient toward the earth for a TV shot to see if this TV thing is going off on 128.

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