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05 08 17 47
Frank Borman (CDR): Roger.
05 08 17 49
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): We're mostly interested in looking at the secondary loop.
05 08 17 54
Frank Borman (CDR): That's what I was going to say. I can't see any reason to check anything other than the secondary loop, can you?
05 08 17 58
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): That's affirmative.
05 08 18 08
Frank Borman (CDR): Now in that cabin cold soak, we won't have any cabin fans.
05 08 18 13
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Roger. I understand.
05 08 19 52
Jim Lovell (CMP): Jerry, this is Apollo 8.
05 08 19 54
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, go.
05 08 19 57
Jim Lovell (CMP): Roger. I just got on the sextant and now looking at Texas, and the weather man is right, it looks like a pretty good day. Full of clouds down there, but not bad.
05 08 20 06
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Real fine, Jim. Can you see the kids out in the yard waving?
05 08 20 14
Jim Lovell (CMP): Would you tell Pete Conrad to get his kids off my roof?
05 08 20 16
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Wilco.
05 08 20 22
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Jim, do you see the bright spot out in the Pacific Ocean through the sextant?
05 08 20 31
Jim Lovell (CMP): I'll try. We saw it, of course, through the windows and through the monocular. I'll see if I can spot it.
05 08 20 37
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Roger.
05 08 21 32
Jim Lovell (CMP): Yes, Jerry, I can see the bright spot. It's—I guess it's the subsolar point. It's off of South America, it appears to me. It is a grayish spot compared to the blue waters surrounding it. It's undefined in diameter, though I mean, it's not a clear round spot at all; it's just a raggedy one.
05 08 21 53
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Roger. That showed up real well on the TV's picture.
05 08 22 12
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, Houston. We'd like to delay that request for a secondary loop check to a little better point as far as thrusting is concerned.
05 08 22 22
Frank Borman (CDR): Fine. We can wait for a long time on that.
05 08 22 27
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Okay.
05 08 24 10
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, Houston.
05 08 24 13
Jim Lovell (CMP): Go ahead, Houston.
05 08 24 14
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Roger. Jim, we've got some bird watchers in the viewing room.
05 08 24 20
Jim Lovell (CMP): Bird watchers, huh?
05 08 24 21
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Roger.
05 08 24 22
Jim Lovell (CMP): Sounds good. Who are they?
05 08 24 26
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Marilyn.
05 08 24 28
Jim Lovell (CMP): Oh, well, good. Say hello to her for me.
05 08 24 31
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Yes, and she's got a few troops with her, too.
05 08 24 38
Jim Lovell (CMP): Did she see the TV, I wonder?
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05 08 24 41
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Affirmative. Barbara and Jay are with her.
05 08 24 45
Jim Lovell (CMP): Good.
05 08 26 38
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, Houston. We're replaying your television pictures now. We can see the Chilean coast and Florida.
05 08 26 45
Frank Borman (CDR): Very good.
05 08 26 48
Bill Anders (LMP): That's a pretty good little television camera, isn't it?
05 08 26 50
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): It sure is. With the right filters on it, it's great. That was a Schmitt input.
05 08 27 05
Jim Lovell (CMP): He must be a Jack of all trades.
05 08 27 10
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Beautiful.
05 08 30 01
Frank Borman (CDR): Houston, Apollo 8.
05 08 30 03
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, Houston. Go.
05 08 30 06
Frank Borman (CDR): Bill would like to ask the friendly Flight Surgeon's permission to take a Seconal so he can sleep.
05 08 30 17
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Roger. Copy.
05 08 30 31
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, Houston. That's a “yes.”
05 08 30 36
Frank Borman (CDR): Thank you.
05 08 32 37
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, Houston.
05 08 32 40
Jim Lovell (CMP): Go ahead.
05 08 32 42
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Roger. Before Bill falls asleep, we'd like to have him go ahead and do that secondary EVAP check now at any time at his convenience, and if we don't happen to be able to monitor it with high bit rate, just let us know when you did it.
05 08 32 57
Jim Lovell (CMP): Roger. I'll tell him that evaporator check at any time.
05 08 33 02
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Roger.
05 08 40 38
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, Houston. BIOMED switch to the CDR. Over.
05 08 40 44
Jim Lovell (CMP): Roger. In work.
05 08 48 00
Bill Anders (LMP): Houston, Apollo 8. Over.
05 08 48 04
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, Houston. Go.
05 08 48 09
Bill Anders (LMP): Good afternoon, Jerry.
05 08 48 11
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Howdy.
05 08 48 14
Bill Anders (LMP): Okay. Somebody said something about checking out the evaporator—evaporators. What do you want to do?
05 08 48 20
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Roger. Before we get too far along, we'd like to see, essentially with the secondary evaporator check, what we got on the redundant components check.
05 08 48 31
Bill Anders (LMP): Okay. Stand by.
05 08 48 33
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Roger. EECOM says to be sure and let it go for at least 5 minutes.
05 08 48 39
Bill Anders (LMP): Roger. Now you want to check out the primary evaporator also, or did you decide it's not necessary?
05 08 48 46
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): I guess they decided it's not necessary, Bill.
05 08 48 52
Bill Anders (LMP): Okay.
05 08 49 31
Bill Anders (LMP): Okay. Secondary glycol loops coming on the line.
05 08 49 34
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Roger, Bill.
05 08 49 59
Bill Anders (LMP): And the secondary evap's coming on the line.
05 08 50 02
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Roger.
05 08 51 07
Bill Anders (LMP): And it's stabilized the leg, oh, for about 5 minutes.
05 08 51 11
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Roger.
05 08 53 29
Bill Anders (LMP): Houston, Apollo 8.
05 08 53 30
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, Houston. Go.
05 08 53 42
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, Houston. Go.
05 08 53 48
Bill Anders (LMP): Alright. What do you have in mind here in the way of activating the secondary loop prior to separation? It looks like if we do have a cabin fan problem, we won't be able to do a full-blown coldsoak. Is there anything that we can do that'll do any good?
05 08 54 05
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Well, right now, Bill, in the checklist, we're showing this activation at about minus 1 hour. Let me check with EECOM for a minute and see if they got any more words considering the cabin fan situation.
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05 08 54 19
Bill Anders (LMP): Roger.
05 08 54 59
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, Houston. Looks like a good time. One hour before SEP—entry interface would be fine.
05 08 55 10
Bill Anders (LMP): Okay. It won't do any good, then, to fool around with these cabin temp valves. …
05 08 55 21
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Bill, stand by. You're—got a lot of background noise.
05 08 55 39
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Go ahead now, Bill.
05 08 55 40
Bill Anders (LMP): Read me now, Jerry?
05 08 55 41
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Loud and clear.
05 08 55 45
Bill Anders (LMP): Okay. This coldsoak is built around the premise that you've got a cabin heat exchanger, in my view; and if you haven't got a cabin heat exchanger, I'm wondering just what you can do.
05 08 56 02
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): He's thinking.
05 08 56 28
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, Houston. We think it'll still do a little bit of good so we'd just as soon go through with it.
05 08 56 39
Bill Anders (LMP): Okay. Even bypassing the suit heat exchanger and that part of it too, huh?
05 08 56 44
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): That's affirmative.
05 08 56 48
Bill Anders (LMP): Okay.
05 08 56 49
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Also, Bill, your secondary loop is looking good.
05 08 56 54
Bill Anders (LMP): Okay. We just had 5 minutes. I'll deactivate it now.
05 08 56 57
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Roger.
05 09 08 01
Bill Anders (LMP): Houston, Apollo 8. Over.
05 09 08 04
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, Houston.
05 09 08 13
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, Houston. Go.
05 09 08 16
Bill Anders (LMP): Hey, Jerry. When do you want to crank up the VHF, anyway?
05 09 08 26
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Roger. VHF Simplex—well, we had that on the checklist for about minus 4 hours.
05 09 08 37
Bill Anders (LMP): Okay. We wanted—we wanted to put it out prior to MAX range, don't you think? Get an idea of when we're picking it up?
05 09 08 50
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Roger. Stand by, Bill. They're talking about it.
05 09 12 44
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, Houston.
05 09 12 47
Frank Borman (CDR): Go ahead.
05 09 12 48
Jerry Carr (CAPCOM): Roger. Entry interface minus 4 hours is just about right for the VHF. That is about—oh, 142 GET.
05 09 13 03
Frank Borman (CDR): Roger. Thank you.

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