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Mike Collins (CAPCOM)
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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.
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Mike Collins (CAPCOM)
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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.
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Jim Lovell (CMP)
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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, VT?
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Mike Collins (CAPCOM)
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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-VT and then a burn time and so forth. Over.
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Jim Lovell (CMP)
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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?
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Mike Collins (CAPCOM)
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Okay. Going back to apogee, not applicable; perigee, plus 00191. And you weren't hearing things; it was my mistake. Over.
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Mike Collins (CAPCOM)
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Okay. Picking up with DELTA-VT 00014 004 00014 45 0459 225, Shaula, up 236 000, plus 0813 minus 16503 12202 36301 146:46:41; north set of stars, Sirius and Rigel, roll 308, pitch 209, yaw 357; remarks: perigee in P30 equals plus 22.2 nautical miles. Over.
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Jim Lovell (CMP)
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Roger. Midcourse number 7 RCS/G&N: 31600, not applicable, not applicable, 144:45:57.99. Are you with me?
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Jim Lovell (CMP)
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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.
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Mike Collins (CAPCOM)
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Okay. Entry PAD: area mid-Pacific, 357 152 359 146:29:13 268, plus 0813, minus 16503 068 36221 651 12202 36301 146:46:13 0028, not applicable four times, in other words, DL MAX, DL MIN, VL MAX, and VL MIN—all not applicable. Starting with TO: 400 0207 0025 0333 0816 16 0590 312. And your vortex star is Zeta Persei, which is half way between Mirfak and Aldebaran, up 165, right 34 up. Remarks: use nonexit EMS pattern. Over.
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Jim Lovell (CMP)
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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.
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Mike Collins (CAPCOM)
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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.
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Mike Collins (CAPCOM)
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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.
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Mike Collins (CAPCOM)
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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.
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Mike Collins (CAPCOM)
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Apollo 8, Houston. We're configured for the dump. VERB 74 ENTER at your convenience.
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Bill Anders (LMP)
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Good morning, Mike. We had a little change of the guard here.
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Bill Anders (LMP)
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The one that I have now, and the one that Jim took off, which is obviously broken, it's still at 0.64.
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Mike Collins (CAPCOM)
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Roger, Bill. On your PTC attitude, we're requesting a pitch angle zero, and we're showing you about 27 degrees pitch and increasing. Over.
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Jim Lovell (CMP)
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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.
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Mike Collins (CAPCOM)
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I read you loud and clear not, Bill. I wasn't hearing here for a couple of calls. How do you read me?
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Mike Collins (CAPCOM)
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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.
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Bill Anders (LMP)
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Houston, Apollo 8. Do you read?
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Bill Anders (LMP)
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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.
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Mike Collins (CAPCOM)
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Well now, you just caused Flight down here to get a “Got Ya” on CAP COMM and FAO.
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Mike Collins (CAPCOM)
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Apollo 8, Houston. We will be changing the antennas in 3 minutes. You can expect a COMM glitch. Over.
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Bill Anders (LMP)
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I was just seeing if you were still there, Mike. The Old Grey Eagle is taking over the show from here.
Spoken on Dec. 27, 1968, 1:57 a.m. UTC (55 years, 11 months ago). Link to this transcript range is: Tweet
