Free Genesis: The Story of Apollo 8 by Robert Zimmerman Page B

however, the ground engineers needed Borman to push the spacecraft a little bit more off course. The S.P.S. was too powerful an engine to make very small course corrections it would be like using a bomb to kill a fly. By doing a sideways burn now with the capsule's small attitude thrusters, the spacecraft's course would be changed enough so that several hours hence they could use the S.P.S. engine to correct it.
In order to change the spacecraft's course, however, Borman needed to reorient the capsule, putting the earth in the windows instead of the S4B booster. ''I don't want to do that," Borman explained. "I'll lose sight of the S4B." He and mission control compromised. The commander would position the spacecraft so that he could see both earth and booster, and make as much of a sideways burn as possible from this position.
Now however, Borman had to relocate the earth. For the next ten minutes he struggled, with Lovell's and Anders' help, to put both the earth and the booster in view. After five minutes Collins asked him if he had been able to do the burn. Borman responded, "As soon as we find the earth, we'll do it."
This brought a burst of startled laughter in Houston. It seemed absurd to say that the earth was hard to find.
Finally Borman was able to make the burn. He looked out his window at the S4B and reported, "We seem to be drifting away from this thing a little bit, although it is still pointing at us quite closer than I'd like."
Then he used the service module's side thrusters to put the module in what he called "barbecue mode," a slow roll spinning once per hour. This evenly distributed the burning heat of the sun over the entire surface of the spacecraft.
They had been in space for six hours, and awake for twelve. One by one the three men pulled off their bulky spacesuits so that they were dressed, not in street clothes, but in lightweight jumpsuits. Instead of magnetic-soled shoes, they wore cloth booties. And instead of "walking" from point to point, they simply pushed off one wall and floated across the cabin. Each man ate something, and things began to quiet down.
     

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For a variety of reasons, astronaut Pete Conrad had pinned the nickname "Shaky" on Jim Lovell. 3 Though Jim always made things work in the end (like Borman and Anders, Lovell had never lost a plane in flight, and had finished ahead of Conrad in test pilot training), silly and sometimes life-threatening things seemed always to happen around him.
Shortly after reaching orbit, Lovell started to move from his couch to his navigation station in the lower equipment bay. As he did so he accidentally pulled on the toggle switch for his life vest, activating it. Suddenly he wearing two bulging and growing balloons in a space that gave him very little room to manuever.
Borman and Anders laughed. When Borman spoke to the ground, he described Lovell by saying that "we've got one full Mae West with us."
Since the vest was filled with carbon dioxide, deflating it would cause the excess CO 2 to saturate the filters for cleaning the capsule's atmosphere. And Lovell had to get rid of it if he was to do his work.
Lovell carefully glided to the urine dump. Normally an astronaut would insert his personal plumbing into a hose and void his liquid waste into the great emptiness of space. Now Lovell inserted the hose into his life vest, squeezing the carbon dioxide gas through it and out of the capsule.
Soon he no longer resembled a big-breasted Hollywood star, and could store his spacesuit with the others.
With Borman steering and Anders alternating between taking photos and monitoring the capsule's operations, Lovell now got busy doing his main task, trying to prove that a human being could pinpoint his position in space without the use of ground-based help.
With the spacecraft's navigational telescope and sextant, Lovell sighted on several stars as well as the horizon of the earth, using this data to triangulate the spacecraft's course and position. This