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06 00 09 37
Bill Anders (LMP): If I see any water floating around, I'll give you another call.
06 00 09 40
Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM): Roger. Thank you.
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06 00 18 30
Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, Houston. Radio check.
06 00 18 47
Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, Apollo 8. Radio check.
06 00 18 51
Jim Lovell (CMP): Read you loud and clear.
06 00 18 53
Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM): Roger. We had a momentary loss of COMM on the ground then. Read you loud and clear.
06 00 25 28
Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, Houston.
06 00 27 13
Frank Borman (CDR): Houston, Apollo 8. Did you call?
06 00 27 17
Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, Houston. You are loud and clear. We've taken a look at this water —
06 00 27 23
Frank Borman (CDR): Houston, Apollo 8.
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Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, Apollo 8, Houston. Read you loud and clear. We have taken a look at your potable water quantity problem, and it appears to be a transducer problem. Suggest that you leave the potable tank isolated. You have sufficient water in the waste tank to continue the entry. Over.
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06 00 27 48
Frank Borman (CDR): Roger. Thank you, Houston.
06 00 27 58
Bill Anders (LMP): Does that mean we're GO for entry?
06 00 28 21
Frank Borman (CDR): Houston, Apollo 8.
06 00 28 24
Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, Apollo 8, go ahead.
06 00 28 27
Frank Borman (CDR): Roger. Is our thermal stability good enough we can leave the PTC attitude and go to entry gimbal angles now?
06 00 32 03
Frank Borman (CDR): Houston, how do you read? Apollo 8.
06 00 32 06
Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM): Read you loud and clear, Apollo 8, and we're checking on the PTC problem now.
06 00 32 19
Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, Houston. You are cleared with entry attitude at this time.
06 00 32 23
Frank Borman (CDR): Okay. Fine. Thank you.
06 00 46 22
Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM): Houston voice. Go to voice 925.
06 00 56 46
Bill Anders (LMP): Houston, Apollo 8. Over.
06 00 56 51
Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, loud and clear. Go.
06 00 57 00
Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, Apollo 8, go ahead.
06 00 57 05
Bill Anders (LMP): Roger. We have completed the checklist down to the 1-hour point, and we'll stand by for 1 hour.
06 00 57 14
Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM): Roger.
06 00 57 44
Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, Apollo 8, Houston.
06 00 57 49
Frank Borman (CDR): Go ahead, Houston.
06 00 57 52
Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM): Just for information, did you folks end up having to use any command module RCS heaters?
06 00 57 59
Frank Borman (CDR): Negative. All our indicators are pegged either high or at 5 volt.
06 00 58 06
Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM): Okay. Thank you.
06 00 58 28
CommTech: Carnarvon, network GOSS conference voice check. How do you read?
06 00 58 36
CommTech: Network, Carnarvon. Read you weak but clear.
06 00 58 41
CommTech: Roger, Carnarvon. I read you loud and clear.
06 00 58 44
CommTech: You are loud and clear now. Thank you.
06 00 58 57
Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, Houston. Stand by for hand over to Carnarvon.
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Frank Borman (CDR): Roger.
06 01 02 05
Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, Houston.
06 01 02 09
Frank Borman (CDR): Go ahead.
06 01 02 16
Jim Lovell (CMP): Go ahead, Houston.
06 01 02 19
Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM): Okay, Apollo 8. If you will go to P00 and ACCEPT, we would like to update your LM and CSM state vectors. Over.
06 01 02 27
Frank Borman (CDR): Roger.
06 01 06 18
Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, Houston. State vector load is complete. Verify the computer is yours.
06 01 06 35
Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, Apollo 8, Houston. State vector load is complete; the computer is yours.
06 01 06 47
Frank Borman (CDR): Roger, Houston. We are going to BLOCK.
06 01 06 50
Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM): Roger.
06 01 10 54
Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, Houston.
06 01 10 58
Frank Borman (CDR): Go ahead, Houston.
06 01 11 00
Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM): Okay. Two fast items: number one, it has been suggested that since Marezine takes some time to take effect, you might consider whether you would be interested in taking some now. And I have an entry PAD which has some very small updates to go on it if you would like to copy that.
06 01 11 22
Frank Borman (CDR): Okay. Stand by. Let me get out the entry PAD.

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