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Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM)
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Roger. We had a momentary loss of COMM on the ground then. Read you loud and clear.
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Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM)
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Apollo 8, Houston. You are loud and clear. We've taken a look at this water —
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Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM)
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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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Frank Borman (CDR)
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Roger. Is our thermal stability good enough we can leave the PTC attitude and go to entry gimbal angles now?
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Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM)
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Read you loud and clear, Apollo 8, and we're checking on the PTC problem now.
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Bill Anders (LMP)
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Roger. We have completed the checklist down to the 1-hour point, and we'll stand by for 1 hour.
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Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM)
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Just for information, did you folks end up having to use any command module RCS heaters?
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Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM)
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Apollo 8, Houston.
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Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM)
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Okay, Apollo 8. If you will go to P00 and ACCEPT, we would like to update your LM and CSM state vectors. Over.
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Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM)
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Apollo 8, Houston. State vector load is complete. Verify the computer is yours.
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Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM)
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Apollo 8, Apollo 8, Houston. State vector load is complete; the computer is yours.
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Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM)
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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.
Spoken on Dec. 27, 1968, 1:47 p.m. UTC (55 years, 8 months ago). Link to this transcript range is: Tweet
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