Spacelog Apollo 8

Apollo 8, this is Houston. Over.

Go ahead, Houston.

Roger, Jim. You can go back to BLOCK; we got the P27 in and verified. It was a state vector update to the LM slot, and I'm standing by for the midcourse correction number 7 and the entry PAD at your convenience. Over.

Roger. Stand by.

Go ahead with midcourse number 7.

Okay. Midcourse correction number 7, RCS/G&N: 31600, not applicable, not applicable, 144:45:57.99, minus 00014, plus five zeros, plus 00001. Are you with me so far? Over.

Roger. With you.

Good. 000 304 000, not applicable, 000 191 00014 004 00014 450 —

Hey, Mike, hold it. Hold it, Mike.

Okay. Holding.

You said not applicable for HA and HP; I started to copy it down, and then I didn't get the right number sequence. Did you skip down to what, V_T?

No. Let's go back to apogee is not applicable, and then I just started reading the numbers again. From there, I've got a perigee and then a DELTA-V_T and then a burn time and so forth. Over.

Okay. I didn't hear a plus or minus on the HP, and I only got four numbers off of it. So could you start with HP again?

Okay. Going back to apogee, not applicable; perigee, plus 00191. And you weren't hearing things; it was my mistake. Over.

Roger.

Roger. Midcourse number 7 RCS/G&N: 31600, not applicable, not applicable, 144:45:57.99. Are you with me?

I'm with you.

Minus 00014, plus all zeros, plus 00001 000 304 000, not applicable, plus 00191 00014 004 00014 45 0459 225 Shaula, up 236 000, plus 0813, minus 16503 12202 36301 146:46:41, Sirius, Rigel, 308 209 357, HP, and P30 is 22.2 nautical miles.

That's all correct, Jim, and I have the entry PAD at your convenience.

Roger. Stand by one.

Ready to copy. Mike.

Right, Mike. Stand by.

Entry as follows: mid-Pacific, 357 152 359 146:29:13 268, plus 0813, minus 165 03 068 36221 651 12202 36301 146:46:13 0028, NA 4 times, with TO 400 0207 0025 0333 0816 16 0590 312, Zeta Persei, up 165, right 34, up. And remarks: use nonexit EMS pattern. And Zeta Persei is between Mirfak and Aldebaran, and Frank can never find it anyway.

Okay. That's all correct.

We certainly don't waste much time getting down to drogue deploy, do we?

Apollo 8, Houston. Over.

Go ahead, Houston.

Roger, Jim. In your computer, we'd like to do an erasable memory dump again, like we did the other day, and the reason we'd like to do it is, when you did that P37 about 8 hours ago, and you remember you put that EI time for TIG and got that P00 do thing; we'd like to—We don't think there's anything in the world wrong with it. We think everything is just perfect inside the computer, but we'd like to do an erasable dump as we did the other day; go through it bit by bit. Give us something to do down here. Over.

Okay. Any time.

And I have the procedures for you when you're ready to copy.

Go ahead.

Okay. VERB 01 NOUN 01 ENTER, 333 ENTER, and then read out register 1, and that register 1 should be 10 000. And then if it's not, I can give you procedures for getting it to 10 000. If it is 10 000 as we expect, then VERB 74 ENTER, and that will do the dump. Over.

Roger. When do you want it?

And, Apollo 8, you can do the first part of that now at your convenience to verify that register 1 is reading 10 000, but would you hold up on the dump itself until we get our ground stations configured, please. Over.

Will do.

Jim, we're getting noisy down here. Could you switch OMNI antennas, please?

Thank you, sir.

That works pretty well, doesn't it?

Not bad. I was amazed at the communication at the moon, too.

Apollo 8, Houston. We're configured for the dump. VERB 74 ENTER at your convenience.

Roger.

Apollo 8, Houston. The dump is complete, and it's your computer. Thank you.

They're letting you drive, after all?

I have to every now and then just to square this thing away.

Mike, I'll just give you my status here before the rest of them go to sleep; had about 3 hours sleep, another meal, and everybody's doing fine.

Apollo 8, Houston. Radio check. Over.

Loud and clear.

Apollo 8, Houston.

Apollo 8, Houston. Over.

Apollo 8, this is Houston. Over.

Apollo 8, this is Houston. Over.

Roger, Mike. How do you read?

I read you loud and clear not, Bill. I wasn't hearing here for a couple of calls. How do you read me?

I had my hands full; I was putting something down. I read you fine.

Okay. Understand. If it'll be any help to you in your PTC driving, we've computed that as you look out plus X in the COAS or just out the window, you should be pointed right at Acrux when you're in a perfect PTC attitude. We don't know if that's a help to you or not, but we thought you might enjoy trying an alternate mode of keeping the attitude under control.

Okay. From my present position, we're going to have to move Acrux a little bit.

Well, whatever you think. We just thought you might appreciate knowing.

I'll give it a try, Mike.

Can you see it all right?

Yes, I think so. There's a star out there anyway.

Houston, Apollo 8. Do you read?

Go ahead, Bill.

Actually, Mike, it's so easy to do it with the eight-ball within a reasonable sloppy limit that it's hardly worth the trouble to scootch way up in the seat to look out the COAS, and it's enough light in the cockpit where the star really isn't too easy to see. So I'm kind of inclined to use the IFR technique here where you can see the rest of the instrument panel.

Okay.

I thought you were an all-weather pilot.

Well now, you just caused Flight down here to get a “Got Ya” on CAP COMM and FAO.

Apollo 8, Houston. Could you give us a better OMNI, please?

Apollo 8, Houston. We will be changing the antennas in 3 minutes. You can expect a COMM glitch. Over.

Apollo 8, Houston. Can you switch us to OMNI Charlie, please.

Thank you, sir.

Houston, Apollo 8.

Houston, Apollo 8. Are you still there?

Apollo 8, this is Houston. Go ahead. Over.

I was just seeing if you were still there, Mike. The Old Grey Eagle is taking over the show from here.

Which one of them?

Old Super Chief.

Apollo 8, Houston. Over.