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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.
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.
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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 —
05 07 52 59
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, Houston. You are in the scan limit right now on the high-gain antenna; although you may have NARROW beam width selected, you are in WIDE. To improve the situation would take a pitch down and a yaw left, and we will have FAO check it and give you some angles if we need to change it.
05 07 53 22
Frank Borman (CDR): We just got out of the scan limit by pitching up and yawing right.
05 07 53 40
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Roger. You are right, Frank.
05 07 53 45
Frank Borman (CDR): Are we still in wide band, or are we in narrow band now?
05 07 53 49
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): We are checking.
05 07 55 05
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, Houston. EECOM says you are in good shape now.
05 07 55 09
Frank Borman (CDR): Okay.
05 07 56 52
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, Houston. COMM check.
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05 07 56 55
Frank Borman (CDR): Loud and clear.
05 07 56 56
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Roger.
05 08 01 13
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Key moment TV broadcast 6: views of the earth: Apollo 8, Houston. We're getting television.
05 08 01 16
Frank Borman (CDR): Roger. How's the picture?
05 08 01 21
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Roger. The picture is on the lower right hand of our screen.
05 08 01 30
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Camera should go down away from the terminator and to the right.
05 08 01 50
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Still down and about the same place; a little worse; now it's coming in
05 08 01 59
Jim Lovell (CMP): Are you getting it now, Jerry?
05 08 02 01
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Roger. We've got most of it; keep moving off to the right. Good. You have it centered right now.
05 08 02 11
Jim Lovell (CMP): Well, the earth looks a little bigger to us today, not much, but it's somewhat bigger. I'm sitting over in the right hand seat now; Bill has got the TV camera; Frank is helping him out aiming it directly to hit the earth. I hope we have a good picture. Can you see the clouds?
05 08 02 28
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Affirmative. We sure can. Move it up toward the terminator—correction, away from the terminator just a shade.
05 08 02 38
Jim Lovell (CMP): At the tip of South America, there is a great swirl of clouds down there. It looks like a great storm. I wonder if you can see it.
05 08 02 45
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Roger. We see a large swirl just south of the terminator.
05 08 02 52
Jim Lovell (CMP): Roger. And then up to the left hand side, or towards the north, we can see the light waters around the West Indies, and we can actually see Florida. I'm looking through Bill's monocular, and I can see the various land masses, South America and the central part and southern part of the United States.
05 08 03 11
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Roger. Move-a little bit away from the terminator now, a little left with the camera and a little further from the terminator.
05 08 03 27
Jim Lovell (CMP): Say again, Jerry.
05 08 03 30
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Okay. You're moving it toward the center of the screen now, and the earth is off on the left side of our screen.
05 08 03 40
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Real fine. That's good. Hold it right there.
05 08 03 56
Jim Lovell (CMP): What we're thinking about right now, Jerry, is hitting that wedge angle, about 2 degrees their limit. When we come back, the earth looks pretty small right from here.
05 08 04 06
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Roger.
05 08 04 10
Jim Lovell (CMP): You got it, Bill.
05 08 04 22
Bill Anders (LMP): As I look down on the earth here from so far out in space, I think I must have the feeling that the travelers in the old sailing ships used to have: going on a very long voyage away from home, and now we're headed back, and I have that feeling of being proud of the trip, but still—still happy to be going back home and back to our home port. And that's—that's what you're seeing right here.
05 08 04 50
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Roger, Bill. We'll sure be glad to get you back, too.
05 08 04 59
Frank Borman (CDR): This is Frank Borman. We've enjoyed the television shows, and we'd like you to stay tuned in in the future because there'll be flights and rendezvous and earth orbit, and then, of course, there'll be television from the lunar surface itself in the not too far distant future. So, until then, I guess this is the Apollo 8 crew signing off, and we'll see you back on that good earth very soon.
05 08 05 27
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Roger, Frank. Adios.
05 08 06 53
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, Houston.
05 08 06 57
Jim Lovell (CMP): Go ahead.
05 08 06 58
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): We'd like you to go back to PTC. Pick either attitude that's easiest to fly to.
05 08 07 06
Jim Lovell (CMP): Roger. In work.
05 08 11 26
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, Houston.
05 08 11 28
Frank Borman (CDR): Go ahead, Houston. Apollo 8.
05 08 11 30
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Roger. Your PTC attitude ought to be either a 1045 or a 18315. We'd recommend 18315. That will keep your windows out of the sun.
05 08 11 42
Frank Borman (CDR): 180, that's right. I got them mixed up, didn't I? It's 18315.
05 08 11 46
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Roger.
05 08 17 03
Frank Borman (CDR): Okay, Jerry …
05 08 17 15
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, this is Houston. You're unreadable due to background noise. Over.
05 08 17 23
Frank Borman (CDR): How now, Jerry?
05 08 17 25
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Loud and clear.
05 08 17 27
Frank Borman (CDR): I say we're starting to stow the spacecraft and get all squared away and then be sleeping and eating. We'll be all thinking about entry from now on.
05 08 17 34
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Roger, Frank. And now that Bill's up, we'd like to get a redundant components check.
05 08 17 40
Frank Borman (CDR): Alright. He's putting helmets in the food boxes. Just a minute, I'll get him to do it for you.
05 08 17 45
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Roger. There is no great hurry, Frank. We're —

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