good morning I'm Frank Reynolds and
these are the men who will make this
historic voyage to the moon
the crew of Apollo 8 they are in their
command module right now they've been in
there since 530 for this morning at Cape
Kennedy when they hatch was closed the
weather at the Cape is perfect and
astronauts Borman Lovell and Anders are
all set to go
the weather at the cape which had caused
some concern last night and yesterday
possibly it might interfere with today's
launch has cleared up and everything is
now apparently all set to go
standing by at Cape Kennedy to bring us
a late status report is ABC science
editor Jules Bergman Jules what we're
going to see happen after liftoff may
seem slowly makes it may seem to take
place slowly it takes around two and a
half minutes for those five f-1 engines
on the main stage to burn out we should
see that clearly we predict is nothing
more than a little bit scared but
scattered light cirrus clouds over the
cape and out and out over the Atlantic
we think our long-range cameras will see
this separation and staging a late word
from large controls all the settings
ctrl t minus seven minutes 30 seconds
and counting
still aiming to our planned liftoff time
spacecraft is test conducted to profit
has just completed a status check of all
elements concerned with the spacecraft
operations all reported go and there
were three particularly strong and loud
goes from the three astronauts in the
spacecraft 320 feet above the base of
the launcher at complex 39 Jim level
reported just a few minutes ago that he
could see a blue sky and it looked like
the sun's out spacecraft has conducted
reported back that it's a very fine day
for at t minus six hours 15 16 minutes
50 seconds and counting and we are
proceeding at this time this is launch
control
and so some six minutes away from
liftoff to continue the process of what
will happen at liftoff those main stage
engines we showed earlier earlier 5f one
main stage engines will burn for about
two-and-a-half minutes when they burn
out the Saturn five will be hundreds of
miles down range from the cape and about
60 miles altitude over the Atlantic
Ocean than the five smaller engines that
JJ to hydrogen engines in the second
stage take over and they'll burn until
eight minutes and 40 seconds after
liftoff propelling Apollo 8 almost but
not quite into orbit at that point if
anything went wrong
Apollo 8 would land somewhere east of
Africa out over the Indian Ocean the
final in German takes over third stage
j2 engine which indeed puts them into a
115 miles statute mile circular orbit
around the world and if that engine has
done its job well they'll fly in that
orbit for some two hours and 46 minutes
until they come up over australia on the
second revolution and let's begin the
historic translunar burn to escape the
Earth's gravity and head toward the moon
now let's go back to launch control for
late word from NASA's Jack King much
Control this is Apollo Saturn launch
control at five minutes 30 seconds and
our account is still go at this time we
just completed for the status checks
here on the firing room at the control
center here in the control center we've
had our status checks and the range is
given a go as as has the launch director
Rocco patron we are still counting and
we are goal coming up on the five-minute
mark in the count
mark t-minus five minutes and Counting
t-minus five at this point the Apollo
access arm should be coming back and it
is now moving back at the 3 20 foot
level to its fully retracted position
high atop the tower at pad a our
countdown still proceeding at this time
at the four-minute mark in the countdown
the overall count will be turned over to
the launch vehicle test conductor ray
Roberts the launch vehicle test
conductor will conduct the final four
minutes as all
of different aspects move over to the
launch vehicle test conductors channel
the automatic sequence as reported will
come in at the three minutes and 6
seconds mark in the countdown
we're standing by at four minutes 16
seconds and counting this is launch
control and if we were in launch control
of this moment we would hear a
mysterious chant going a chance of
voices that would say goal and launch
commit as they go up and down the
consoles there in launch control
checking out every stage of the booster
every one of hundreds of key electrical
systems onboard computers and items on
the spacecraft and the word is commit
and launches now being handled this has
been for the last two minutes
automatically by computers from t minus
six minutes on downward no man's hand
touches what goes on except to stop the
process in case something goes wrong
it's an automated launched a pass today
let's there late word from our control
now mark t-minus three minutes and 30
seconds and counting
we have completed our communications
checks with the Apollo 8 astronauts in
the cabin and the communications our
goal coming up shortly will be in the
automatic sequence where we have a
completely automatic check out of the
launch vehicle from three minutes and 6
seconds down
we have firing command the firing
command is in we are now on the
automatic sequence 2-3 minutes and
Counting during this period once we do
get the firing command the various tanks
within the three stages and sad and 5
launch vehicle begin to pressure why
pressurized they all must be under
pressure before ready to launch we have
a sequence status board here in the
control room that will give us readouts
on the overall status of the space
vehicle as we reached the terminal faces
in the countdown now 22 minutes 32
seconds and counting our status board
indicates that all aspects already
instrument unit is ready spacecraft
ready final check of the emergency
detection system that ready light also
on first stage preparations are
completed two minutes 15 seconds and
counting the tanks and continuing to
pressurize in the vehicle
not as many reports coming now as we all
stand by in the launch vehicle test
conductors channel coming up on the
two-minute mark on the Apollo 8 mission
two minutes and counting
t-minus two minutes and counting we are
still proceeding we now have recorded
that the first stage liquid oxygen tank
has been pressurized and the prices
still building up one minute 45 seconds
and counting
we have a vehicle wing 6.2 million
pounds on the pad interesting enough
some 1,200 pounds of that weight is just
frost on the side of the vehicle created
by the extremely low temperatures of the
propellants coming up on ninety seconds
mark t-minus 90 seconds and counting
Apollo 8 crew standing by spacecraft
commander Frank Borman Jim level
neulanders we now have a report that the
liquid hydrogen tank in the third stage
is pressurized one minute 15 seconds
our third stage propellants pressurized
at this time as we come up on the 62nd
mark on a flight to the moon
t-minus 60 seconds and counting
t-minus 60 seconds and counting the
vehicle now is completely pressurized
we're coming up on the power transfer
shortly
t-minus 50 seconds and counting
we have the power transfer we're now on
the flight batteries within the launch
vehicle 45 seconds final reports coming
from Frank Borman at this time final
look at the switch list board the
spacecraft 35 seconds and counting will
lead up to an inn ignition sequence
start at eight point nine seconds
this will lead up as we build up the
thrust to lift off if all goes well as
zero we just passed a 25-second market
account 20 seconds all aspects we are
still go at this time t minus 15 14 13
12 11 10 9
we have ignition sequence start the
engines are armed four three two one
zero
we have commit we have we have liftoff
liftoff at 751 a.m. eastern standard
into the sky about nearly four miles
downrange 42,000 feet speed of almost
2,000 miles in our this instant burning
beautifully the whole way and cool
crystal clear sky over Cape Kennedy one
minute 442nd always great
there's that majestic plume of flame
behind the Saturn five that she wanders
into the sky gathering speed
like this point the cruise and giving it
go for staging she's now more than 30
miles high 4,300 miles an hour speed the
inboard engines two minutes 25 seconds
there is staging in the burn out of the
first stage engines right on the money
the first age cutoff as you have ignited
we can confirm and the stress looks good
all engines all sources show the second
stage is burning perfectly two minutes
51 seconds into the mission 6,000 miles
and are more than 225,000 feet high
burning dutifully Borman Lovell hander
you're perfectly right
and relieve 53 minutes into the flight
we're 50 miles high
there's the escaped are separating and
about 10 miles there
three minutes 25 seconds we have we have
verified that the tower has jettisoned
the breakthrough has verified towers
jenison every event taking place exactly
as scheduled
Frank carbon dating was smooth and he
says the right now is even smoother
history but the only person I'm it
doesn't have TV coverage of the food-men
got the black up now you're going to do
is going to be picked and I ever fail
yes we are getting a
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