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05 07 15 20
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Roger, Frank. That is fine. Do you have the gimbal angles you need?
05 07 15 26
Frank Borman (CDR): Yes, thank you. I got them earlier today.
05 07 15 29
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Okay.
05 07 15 43
Frank Borman (CDR): I'd like to keep this one kind of short because we're trying to get some sleep earlier than yesterday.
05 07 15 52
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Say again, Frank. You are getting pretty garbled.
05 07 16 03
Frank Borman (CDR): How is that antenna?
05 07 16 05
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Loud and clear, Frank.
05 07 16 07
Frank Borman (CDR): I said, will this be a short one? We are trying to hurry things up a little bit to see if we can get as much sleep as possible.
05 07 16 15
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Roger.
05 07 16 38
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, Houston. Would you put the BIOMED switch on the right side now, please?
05 07 16 44
Frank Borman (CDR): Roger.
05 07 16 50
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Frank, do you intend to start your TV before 128?
05 07 17 02
Frank Borman (CDR): Negative; no.
05 07 17 04
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Roger.
05 07 17 05
Frank Borman (CDR): That is what you wanted, isn't it? I thought that is what it was all squared away for.
05 07 17 10
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Affirmative.
05 07 18 22
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, Houston. Are you planning on using the wide angle lens?
05 07 18 28
Frank Borman (CDR): I think that would be best.
05 07 18 31
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Okay. Jack says you want to be sure and use the red filter and the filter holder for that One. It takes a little darker filter.
05 07 18 40
Frank Borman (CDR): Okay.
05 07 18 57
Frank Borman (CDR): Do you want to take both red filters on there or just the one for the one for the filter holder?
05 07 19 10
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): He thinks just the red one on the filter holder will do, but might not hurt to have the other one ready, just in case.
05 07 19 38
Frank Borman (CDR): How about if we use the telephoto? It will be a little harder to focus, but it might end up a better picture.
05 07 19 52
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Roger, Frank. If you want to use the telephoto lens, you ought to use the same combination you used going out, the 25A.
05 07 20 02
Frank Borman (CDR): Okay.
05 07 22 12
Frank Borman (CDR): Hey, Jerry.
05 07 22 17
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Roger, Frank.
05 07 22 19
Frank Borman (CDR): Ask your EECOM how many gallons of fuel we burned for TEI, will you?
05 07 22 24
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Roger. In work, he's breaking out his sathometer now.
05 07 23 04
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, Houston. We will be handing over to Goldstone in 2 minutes. Over.
05 07 23 14
Frank Borman (CDR): Roger, Jerry.
05 07 23 58
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Frank, the doctors say they are not getting anything on Bill yet. Apparently, he is not plugged up.
05 07 24 07
Frank Borman (CDR): He is down underneath the couch getting some stuff out; he doesn't have his umbilical on.
05 07 24 12
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Okay.
05 07 24 17
Frank Borman (CDR): Tell them to look at the stuff they got yesterday. He hasn't changed at all, just as mean as ever.
05 07 24 30
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Roger.
05 07 24 43
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Hey, Frank, this simulation has really been great. What do you say after these photos we recycle back to TLI again?
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05 07 24 54
Frank Borman (CDR): That's fine. Bring on the backup crew.
05 07 24 57
Jim Lovell (CMP): Hey, Jerry, yesterday I tried to cycle back to the pass and 01 was lunar.
05 07 25 05
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Jim, we missed that. Say it again when you get a better antenna.
05 07 25 14
Frank Borman (CDR): Don't blame your antenna problems on us …
05 07 25 29
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, Houston. We are not reading you; stand by one.
05 07 26 50
Frank Borman (CDR): Houston, do you read now?
05 07 26 51
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Roger. Loud and clear.
05 07 26 57
Frank Borman (CDR): I say, Bill will be ready in a minute; he is cycling back and forth under the couch trying to get the TV stuff out.
05 07 27 01
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Okay.
05 07 27 06
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Backup crew says they are ready to go.
05 07 27 12
Frank Borman (CDR): Great. A most fantastic voyage.
05 07 27 24
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Sure was.
05 07 27 27
Frank Borman (CDR): We're not through yet. We've still got 100 000 miles to go. You know, we kind of feel like it was all over with TEI, but we're still a long way.
05 07 27 40
Jim Lovell (CMP): Jerry, what I was saying before: I tried to hurry up the voyage home by calling up PROGRAM 01 to get us back on the PAD, but it didn't work.
05 07 27 54
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Well, that's the best excuse I've heard so far, Jim.
05 07 27 59
Frank Borman (CDR): The best of many.
05 07 39 35
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, Houston.
05 07 39 39
Frank Borman (CDR): Go ahead, Houston. Apollo 8.
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05 07 39 41
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Roger, Frank. On TEI, you burned 1480 gallons.
05 07 39 47
Frank Borman (CDR): Thank you.
05 07 40 31
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Frank, are you going to need Jim's slide rule for that calculation?
05 07 40 36
Frank Borman (CDR): I got 162.
05 07 41 30
Jim Lovell (CMP): Houston, Apollo 8.
05 07 41 32
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, Houston. Go.
05 07 41 35
Jim Lovell (CMP): Roger. This is one of those rare occasions where Bill left his seat and I am now sitting in it, and for the first time, I can see the earth. I'm looking through his monocular; it's pretty nice.
05 07 41 54
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Roger.
05 07 41 55
Jim Lovell (CMP): You had a little weather today it appears.
05 07 41 57
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Last word from the weather guys here was that it was clear.
05 07 42 06
Jim Lovell (CMP): Well, we could see South America and Florida and through the lower part of the U.S. Looks like there is a weather front going over into the central part of the United States, lot of clouds over the northwest area. Florida is clear; it looks like the east coast is pretty clear.
05 07 42 24
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Roger. Clear but cold.
05 07 42 30
Jim Lovell (CMP): Lot of clouds up in Canada.
05 07 42 35
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Maybe the geese will go home.
05 07 43 30
Frank Borman (CDR): Jerry, we are going to turn it on and see how the picture is.
05 07 43 33
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Roger.
05 07 43 56
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Nothing yet, Frank.
05 07 44 00
Frank Borman (CDR): Takes a while to warm up, I think.
05 07 45 03
Frank Borman (CDR): Any luck yet, Jerry.
05 07 45 05
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Not yet, Frank.
05 07 45 33
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): We got a picture now, Frank. It's twitching.
05 07 46 00
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): The earth is on now, Frank.
05 07 46 04
Frank Borman (CDR): How's it look?
05 07 46 06
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): We are seeing about half of it. You moved in the wrong direction. Okay. It's coming back, a little more. Good, now a shade toward the terminator.
05 07 46 30
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): A little bit more toward the terminator and in the same direction you were moving it before. Right; you have got it centered right in the middle.
05 07 47 01
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Now move it away from the terminator just a bit.
05 07 47 11
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Good picture.
05 07 47 15
Frank Borman (CDR): Okay. You want us to wait until 128, right?
05 07 47 19
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Affirmative. Frank, move your camera to the right; I want to see which way the earth moves on my screen.
05 07 47 30
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Okay. Moving your camera to the right moves the earth to the left on our screen. On our screen, the terminator is almost parallel to the horizontal direction, and the dark part is on the top.
05 07 47 52
Frank Borman (CDR): Okay. We will turn it back on at 128, then.
05 07 47 55
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Okay, Frank.
05 07 48 02
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, Houston. Are you on a high-gain antenna?
05 07 48 05
Frank Borman (CDR): Roger.
05 07 48 07
Frank Borman (CDR): Roger.
05 07 48 14
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): What beam width are you on, Apollo 8?
05 07 48 19
Frank Borman (CDR): NARROW.
05 07 48 21
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Roger. NARROW.
05 07 49 16
Bill Anders (LMP): This is Apollo 8. Do you read?
05 07 49 18
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, Houston. Loud and clear.
05 07 49 22
Bill Anders (LMP): Roger. Radio check.
05 07 49 24
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Roger.
05 07 49 34
Bill Anders (LMP): Houston, Apollo 8. How do you read now? Over.
05 07 49 37
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, Houston. Loud and clear.
05 07 49 40
Bill Anders (LMP): Roger. We're just trying something —

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