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05 16 03 23
Bill Anders (LMP): Go ahead, Houston.
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.
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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.
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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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