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05 13 07 00
Mike Collins (CAPCOM): You sound real bright eyed and bushy tailed. How's it going up there?
05 13 07 04
Bill Anders (LMP): Real great.
05 13 07 44
Mike Collins (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, Houston. How about giving us a countdown to PRD reading. Over?
05 13 07 52
Bill Anders (LMP): Just mine?
05 13 07 55
Mike Collins (CAPCOM): Just on you, Bill. We got the other two while you were sacked out.
05 13 08 04
Bill Anders (LMP): The one that I have now, and the one that Jim took off, which is obviously broken, it's still at 0.64.
05 13 08 10
Mike Collins (CAPCOM): Okay. Thank you.
05 13 11 38
Mike Collins (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, Houston. Over.
05 13 11 45
Mike Collins (CAPCOM): 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.
05 13 11 56
Bill Anders (LMP): Roger. I've been trying to work it down to ENTER again.
05 13 12 00
Mike Collins (CAPCOM): They're letting you drive, after all?
05 13 12 06
Bill Anders (LMP): I have to every now and then just to square this thing away.
05 13 13 28
Jim Lovell (CMP): 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.
05 13 13 41
Mike Collins (CAPCOM): Roger, Bill. Thank you.
05 13 49 11
Mike Collins (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, Houston. Radio check. Over.
05 13 49 16
Bill Anders (LMP): Loud and clear.
05 13 49 19
Mike Collins (CAPCOM): Roger. Thanks, Bill.
05 14 36 50
Mike Collins (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, Houston.
05 14 37 04
Mike Collins (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, Houston. Over.
05 14 37 26
Mike Collins (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, this is Houston. Over.
05 14 37 59
Mike Collins (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, this is Houston. Over.
05 14 38 02
Bill Anders (LMP): Roger, Mike. How do you read?
05 14 38 04
Mike Collins (CAPCOM): I read you loud and clear not, Bill. I wasn't hearing here for a couple of calls. How do you read me?
05 14 38 09
Bill Anders (LMP): I had my hands full; I was putting something down. I read you fine.
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05 14 38 20
Mike Collins (CAPCOM): 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.
05 14 38 40
Bill Anders (LMP): Okay. From my present position, we're going to have to move Acrux a little bit.
05 14 38 50
Mike Collins (CAPCOM): Well, whatever you think. We just thought you might appreciate knowing.
05 14 39 03
Bill Anders (LMP): I'll give it a try, Mike.
05 14 39 07
Mike Collins (CAPCOM): Can you see it all right?
05 14 39 09
Bill Anders (LMP): Yes, I think so. There's a star out there anyway.
05 14 40 58
Bill Anders (LMP): Houston, Apollo 8. Do you read?
05 14 40 59
Mike Collins (CAPCOM): Go ahead, Bill.
05 14 41 02
Bill Anders (LMP): 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.
05 14 41 27
Mike Collins (CAPCOM): Okay.
05 14 41 41
Bill Anders (LMP): I thought you were an all-weather pilot.
05 14 41 44
Mike Collins (CAPCOM): Well now, you just caused Flight down here to get a “Got Ya” on CAP COMM and FAO.
05 14 41 59
Bill Anders (LMP): Give you a little warning next time.
05 15 07 08
Mike Collins (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, Houston. Could you give us a better OMNI, please?
05 15 07 26
Mike Collins (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, Houston. We will be changing the antennas in 3 minutes. You can expect a COMM glitch. Over.
05 15 07 34
Bill Anders (LMP): Okay, Mike.
05 15 21 10
Mike Collins (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, Houston. Can you switch us to OMNI Charlie, please.
05 15 21 24
Mike Collins (CAPCOM): Thank you, sir.
05 15 21 28
Bill Anders (LMP): De nada.
05 16 01 21
Bill Anders (LMP): Houston, Apollo 8.
05 16 01 30
Bill Anders (LMP): Houston, Apollo 8. Are you still there?
05 16 01 33
Mike Collins (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, this is Houston. Go ahead. Over.
05 16 01 38
Bill Anders (LMP): I was just seeing if you were still there, Mike. The Old Grey Eagle is taking over the show from here.
05 16 01 47
Mike Collins (CAPCOM): Which one of them?
05 16 01 53
Bill Anders (LMP): Old Super Chief.
05 16 03 18
Mike Collins (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, Houston. Over.
05 16 03 23
Bill Anders (LMP): Go ahead, Houston.
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05 16 03 25
Mike Collins (CAPCOM): Roger, Bill. We had an erasable memory dump a few hours back. I think it was while you were asleep, but anyway we've checked the computer's erasable memory bit by bit, and everything agrees 100 percent. Over.
05 16 03 40
Bill Anders (LMP): Mighty fine. Glad to hear it, Mike. Thank you.
05 16 03 44
Mike Collins (CAPCOM): Roger. Are you going to brief Frank on your tape recorder before you go to sleep?
05 16 03 54
Bill Anders (LMP): He can't handle it. It's too complicated.
05 16 03 58
Mike Collins (CAPCOM): Roger.
05 16 13 25
Mike Collins (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, Houston. Give us a different OMNI, please.
05 16 13 38
Mike Collins (CAPCOM): Thank you, sir.
05 16 34 23
Mike Collins (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, Houston. Over.
05 16 34 38
Mike Collins (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, this is Houston. Over.
05 16 34 42
Frank Borman (CDR): Go ahead, Michael.
05 16 34 43
Mike Collins (CAPCOM): Roger. We are going to switch our ground antennas in about a minute and a half. You can expect a COMM glitch then.
05 16 34 51
Frank Borman (CDR): Thank you.
05 16 35 47
Frank Borman (CDR): …, Mike.
05 16 37 09
Mike Collins (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, this is Houston through Carnarvon. Were you calling a minute ago, Frank?
05 16 37 17
Frank Borman (CDR): Y'all in Australia, do you hear us?
05 16 37 21
Mike Collins (CAPCOM): Yes, we are reading you loud and clear now.
05 16 38 03
Frank Borman (CDR): Carnarvon, how do you read? Apollo 8.
05 16 38 06
Mike Collins (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, this is Houston. Reading you loud and clear through Carnarvon.
05 16 38 54
Frank Borman (CDR): Hello, Houston.
05 16 38 57
Mike Collins (CAPCOM): Go ahead, Frank.
05 16 38 59
Frank Borman (CDR): We are just listening to all the guys around the NET.
05 16 39 02
Mike Collins (CAPCOM): Can you hear them?
05 16 39 05
Frank Borman (CDR): I could that time, all the way from Carnarvon to Texas.
05 16 39 18
Frank Borman (CDR): How did they ever get an old maintenance officer on the midnight shift?
05 16 40 15
Mike Collins (CAPCOM): Frank, you are on GOSS Conference if you would like to be brave. Over.
05 16 40 21
Frank Borman (CDR): Okay.
05 16 50 47
Mike Collins (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, Houston. OMNI Bravo, please.
05 16 51 11
Mike Collins (CAPCOM): Thank you, sir.
05 17 11 48
Frank Borman (CDR): Houston, Apollo 8.
05 17 11 56
Mike Collins (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, this is Houston. Over.
05 17 12 09
Mike Collins (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, this is Houston. Over.
05 17 12 13
Frank Borman (CDR): Have you noticed how long I've stayed locked in this PTC mode?
05 17 12 34
Mike Collins (CAPCOM): Just about an hour and a quarter looks to us like, Frank.
05 17 12 38
Frank Borman (CDR): I haven't even touched the hand control here for about 20 minutes, and it just hasn't moved outside that zero; I've never seen it like this before.
05 17 12 55
Frank Borman (CDR): Be sure and have your troops give me a call if it gets close to gimbal lock, will you? I'm snoozing a little bit now and then up here.
05 17 13 01
Mike Collins (CAPCOM): Yes, we sure will, Frank.
05 17 13 05
Frank Borman (CDR): Thank you.
05 17 13 13
Frank Borman (CDR): And if you'd switch the antennas, you'd really be good guys.; No contact for 1:05:33
05 18 18 46
Mike Collins (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, Houston.
05 18 19 12
Mike Collins (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, this is Houston. Over.
05 18 19 27
Bill Anders (LMP): Houston, Apollo 8.
05 18 19 30
Mike Collins (CAPCOM): Roger. Just a check on the radio, and if it's practical, BIOMED switch left, please.
05 18 19 38
Bill Anders (LMP): Okay, Mike. We had a crew change in the watch again.
05 18 19 44
Mike Collins (CAPCOM): Well, that was quick. Did you decide you didn't want to sleep after all?
05 18 19 52
Bill Anders (LMP): Well, it wasn't my decision.
05 18 19 59
Mike Collins (CAPCOM): Yes, that's what I figured.
05 18 21 28
Mike Collins (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, Houston. We will be changing antennas in about 2-1/2 minutes; you can expect a COMM glitch.
05 18 21 36
Bill Anders (LMP): Roger. What are you changing to?
05 18 21 43
Mike Collins (CAPCOM): We're switching from Carnarvon to Honeysuckle, Bill.

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