Chords for Public Service Broadcasting - The Other Side

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[C] Apollo Control, Houston, [Bb] two minutes, 50 seconds away from time of LOS now.
Our distance away from the Moon, 460 nautical miles.
[Dm] Velocity, _ 7417 feet [F] per second. _ _
_ _ [Bb] Here in Mission Control, _ _ _ we're standing by.
There's [F] certainly a great deal of anxiety at this moment.
We [Bb] acquire at 36 minutes. _ _
[F] _ So at 68 hours, [Bb] 55 minutes, continue to monitor.
This is Apollo Control.
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_ _ [Bb] So at this time, we're [F] going to stand by and continue to monitor the loops here in Mission
Control for our go, no-go decision. _ _ _
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One minute, 30 seconds away now [Dm] from loss of signal.
Our distance away [C] from the Moon now, 401 nautical miles.
[Bb] Velocity reading 7535.
As we continue with this flight of Apollo [F] 8. _ _
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[Bb] _ _ _ [F] _ _ One minute to LOS, all [G] systems go.
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_ _ _ [Dm] Our flight control team here in Mission Control has examined [C] the data and it looks good.
So we have a [Bb] combined crew ground decision.
We are go, repeat, go for lunar orbit [Dm] insertion one.
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_ [G] _ _ [Bb] Apollo 8, 10 seconds. _ _
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_ We'll see you on the other side.
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[Cm] _ We've had loss of a signal with [Bb] Apollo 8.
At 68 hours, 58 [C] minutes, 45 seconds.
We will watch with continuing [D] interest the AOS [D] clock here in Mission Control.
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They're traveling over the backside of the Moon now.
Our velocity reading here, _ [Bb] _ _ 7777 feet per second.
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_ _ [C] Now we're in our period of longest wait.
[Bb] Continuing to monitor.
This is Apollo Control, Houston. _ _ _ _
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Apollo Control, Houston.
We've acquired signal, but no voice contact yet.
We're standing by. _ _ _ _ _ _
[C] _ _ _ _ _ [Bb] We're looking at engine data and it looks good.
Tank pressures look good. _ _ _ _ _
[Gm] _ _ _ _ _ [Bb] Apollo 8, Apollo 8, this is Houston, [C] Houston.
Over. _ _ _ _
[Bb] _ We can hear you loud and clear.
I hear you loud and clear.
We've got it.
We've got it.
Apollo [Gm] _ 8 now in lunar orbit.
[Bb] There's a chair in this room.
This is Apollo Control, Houston.
Switching now to the voice of Jim Lovell.
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_ _ The unmanned lunar orbiter spacecraft traversed the Moon perhaps over 10,000 times.
But this is the first that a man aboard reported to his compatriots here on Earth.
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