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.SL-IV IIC-2907/2
e:.A-M?~C. ~, FRll~ l t>J
Time: 15:13 cnT 83:20:13 GHT
2/6/74

CC ATK Systems Checklist and Data, 8 big

book.
CDR Okay, I'd the GNC checklist, I'm in the
command module. Stand by.
ce CDR, Hou8ton. How are you coming?
CDR Go, Bruce.
CC Okay, page 2-22 ATM Systems Checklist
and Data book. About three-quarters of the way down the
page there's a bunch of nAS entries which starts out nAS
umptiump maneuver time and 13 minutes, rate gyro redundancy
managemen t .
CDR I've got i t .
ee Okay. and there are three blanks. we want
a 4 in each of those three blank s .
CDR Okay. that's in.
ee So that, in essence, the first redundancy
management command 1s 52015, 50014 and then 80 on.
enR Right, we got them written in.
ee Okay. that's it, that's all the messages
I got. I'm sorry if we got all wrapped around the axle here,
I must - I might have b~en too clear or I guess I steered
you up to the command module instead.
enR Yeah, I headed for the command module
and was getting in there and getting the GNe checklist out.
And this data book has already been put away in the time
capsule, we had to dig it out. That's why we had the delay.
CC Oh, ah, okay. Hey, gee whiz, we - we
didn't realize that but it was - it's probably good to have
it out for the trim burn.
enR That's right. we'd had to got it out -
get it out for that.
ee Okay, we got I minute to LOS . And
could you tell us how the center couch installation and
the rate gyro 6-six pack band installation came?
CDR Very quickly, no sweat.
ee Okay, that sounds good to us. And
we'll see you in about 8-1/2 minutes through Ascension at
20:31. Out.
PAO Pilot Bill Pogue just completed the Ml71
bi c ycle ergometer run, the last me dical run of the Sky lab
program. He was producing over 200 watts of energy, the
equivalent of riding a bicycle up hill . His heart was putting
out 138 beats a minute too and as 800n as he quit the
ergometer - quit peddling on the ergometer his heart dropped
ahout 20 beats immediately . Next acquisition will be 6 minutes
from now. That may be a noisy pass over Ascension, elevation
is about I degree for this pass, however, it's the only tra c kln~
.~ .. -~

SL-IV HC-2907/3
Time: 15:13 eDT 83:20:13 GMT
2/6/74

station between here and Vanguard again. 20 hours 25 minute s ,

this is Skylab Control.

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SL IV MC-2908/1
Tia." 15 : 30 CDT 83:20:30 GMT
2/6/74

PAO 20 hours 30 minutes Greenwich mean time.

The apace station now nearin~ acquisition for a 1 degree
elevation pass over Ascension. At 20:48 Greenwich mean time
this afternoon, the space Itation will fire four Res thruster
jets in the command and service module to establish a new
orbit. 30 seconds from acquisition nov, we'll hold the line
up for CAP COMH "Bruce McCandless.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Ascension
for 3 minutes. Out.
CC Skylab, this Is Houston. One minute to
LOS. Next station contact in 1 hour and 19 minutes through
the Van~uard at 21'52, with a data/voice tape recorder dump
at AOS. And we shov the completion of the last major medical
of the gkylab program.
CDR That is affirmative. Bruce.
CC Good show, troops.
CC And for Jerry, we see the CHC and the IMU,
both of them up, and they're both looking y.ood to us. Over .
CDR Roger. Thank you, Bruce.
PAO Loss of signal through Ascension. Next
acquisition will be the Vanguard 1 hour and 15 minutes from
now . Approximately 28 minutes from now at - excuse me -
approximately 12 minutes from now at 20:48 Greenwich mean
time, four reaction eontrol system jets aboard the comm a nd
and service module will fire for 180 seconds. Velocity will
be 12 feet per second, and that will create a new orbit for
the orbiting space station, 246 by 235 nautical miles. The
added speed will push Skylab about 7 miles further out from
the Earth. and as a result, the space station should remain
in orbit anywhere from 9 months to 2 years longer than origin -
ally planned, possibly through 1983. Trim burn will occur
within 40 miles of the Red Sea as the space station goe s
over F.~ypt. cro8sin~ the Red Sea. The burn will last throu~h
half-way of the country of Saudi Arabia . It will be dark at
the time the trim burn i8 be~un. Possibly with a 8tron~
telescope Earth viewers could catch the rockets burning.
20 hours 37 minutes, this i8 ~kylab Control .

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SL IV IfC-2909/1
Time : 16:51 CDT 83:21:51 GifT
2/6/7-4
PAD 21 hours 52 minutes Greenwich mean time
The space station 1s now nearing acquisition through the
Vanguard tracking ship. Late yesterday and early this
morning, the crew indicated that they had problems getting
the urine chill containers into the urine return container.
Urine chill containers are egg-crate like metal containers
which hold the approximately 2'-cublc inch unlne-sample bags
in the urine freezer. And the urine r e turn co ntainer is a
rather large, approximately 8-foot square, excuse me, a-cubic
foot container. which is insulated , and which will keep th e
urine frozen for approximately 30 hours. The chill containers
won't slip into the urine retur n container, and yes terday and
this m or nin~ th e crew and the ~ round controllers i ndicat e d
that they would address themselves to this problem la ter on.
Well, it's later on and they'r e trying to figure o ut a
solution to it. Acquisition - -
CC Skyl a b, this is Pouston thr o u g h the
Vanguard for 11 minutes with a data/voice tape recorder dump.
And we'd like to talk with the SPT on th e s ubject of t h e
urine return container interfere n ce. Over. Oh, and can we
get a burn report out of the way first?
CDR Yes Bruce, the burn was on time and nominal.
no problems.
CC Okay . We show that the Y-axi s rate ~yros
were not reconfigured. We'll take care of that from the
,round here , 8S well as e nabling mo mentum dump .
CDR Roger. I w8sn't able t o verif y the DELT A-V
very well, because of the bia s i n the EMS counter. so - but
it looked pretty much like every thing ran real wel l.
CC Okay. Mighty fi ne . Thank yo u, Jer.
CC And if the SPT 1s at a point where he can
break away now. we'd like to talk about the urine return
container.
S PT Okay . Bruce. I too k and looked it over .
And did a couple of things. One is the r e was a littl~ wooden
clip or whatever that soft material is made out of, I was able
t o smooth that down with the file we have on board . And th e n
I tried the various geometTies of fittin g that in. Fitting
all o f the four trays in so that the - whereyer it bulRed in
o n e place, it would be taken up by sla ck in another, and I
was able to work it around to the point where I could pet
four - two of them all the way in, and the o ther tw o almost
all the way in. And 1 - a nd with a s mall am o unt of e xtr a
force, I' m sure I could have gotten th em i n . The o nly probl e m
with thi s tech niq ue i s - th at was evident is that two of the
s ampl es already have th ei r inte ~ rity broken, allhou~h they' re
still int ac t in terms of so lid ice . J think on re t urn da y I
coul d pr obably vet them in th ere , but we might have a co upl ~
of them with their integrity br oke n .


SL ' IV l'IC-2909/2
Time: 16:51 CDT 83:21:51 GMT
2/6/74

CC Okay . Ed, there's one possibility here

as far as ~etting them in that might help you. If you take
the Teflon sheet out of the humidity control device in the
film vault. you know. there's one on the inside of each
drawer, I think, and one somewhere else in the film vault.
It's just about the ri~ht size for use as sort of a shoe
horn tn put over the top of the drawer and this would hold
the lids of the sample bags depressed while you're forcing
the drawer in, then this CQuid be drawn back out after yo u
~et the drawer in place. Pow does that strike you?
~PT Yeah, that sounds like a good idea. I'll
~o ahead and look at it. I was using those flat metal plates
for the H.071/73 return container. Phat are they, about 6
or 7 inches by 10? Using that as a shoe horn and it seemed
to help. But Teflon sounds like a better idea yet .
ce Okay, these Teflon jobs, the length of
them is about a quarter of an inch length - less than the
width of the urine return container, so it's almost a per-
fect fit . There's no cutting required, and that - that's
about 40,OOOth thick.
SPT Okay. That sounds good. I'll go ahead
and take a look at it.
ce Okay. And just for completeness, we had
a list of questions drawn up here by the people that are
working the problem here. I'd like to go ahead and ask them
anyway, if you'd bear with us.
SPT Okay.
ee How far are the samples pr o jecting above
the top of the tray?
SPT Gee, I'll have to y.o down and measure
that first. I'm estimating on the order of a quarter of
an inch. The problem is that it's not just one or two
samples per drawer, a few of them are a little higher than
the others, but when they were frozen, if one would freeze a
little hIgher than the other one, then all the subsequent
ones would ~et to freezing at that same height. And I'll
just have to go down there and give you a more accurate
measurement if they want. Net result is though, that four
of them will just about fit all the way across .
ce Hey. I don't think that we need you
to actually measure it. Your estimate of a quarter of an
inch is adequate for our puyposes. Are the samples loose
to the point where you could take one out, and say put it
in the can crusher and put it back in, or are they pretty
well frozen into place?
SPT Oh, I'd say just about all of them
are frozen in place. There might be one or two that if I
SL IV ~C-2909/3
Tim. : 16 :5 1 eDT 83 : 21:51 GHT
2/6/74

v ed~e d
them a little bit they'd come out, but almost a l l of
them are frozen right 1n there.

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SL-IV KC-2910/1
Time: 16:57 CDT 83:21:57 GMT
2/6/74

CC Okay, when you wound up this last time

with two of them all the way 1n and two almost all the way
in, how far out where the two that went almost all the in
when you first encountered resistance to pushing them?
SPT I eneountered resistance to pU8hin~ them
almost from the start, but I was careful to try to wedge
them in there in such a way that I wasn't breaking the
integrity of any of them. Unf o rtunately, there wae two o f
them which did have their integrity broken . I'd say the
force required 1s impulsive and probably around 20 pounds
or so ,
CC About how far out was the tray s till
sticking when you stopped?
SPT Okay, they were sticking about the
hei~ht of two samples, whatever that works out to bej
maybe. about J , 4, - 3 inches or so.
ee Yeah, okay, two-thirds of a compartment.
SPT The resistance as far as going in was
pretty mu c h uniform all the way and the only reason I didn't
go any further is that the only thing we have to pull th e m
out is the strap whereas if you leave them a l ittle bit out
you can ~rab the side and pull. But I'm confident I could have
~otten them in there.
ee Okay , we - we applaud that discreti o n.
And one other comment, Jerry mentioned that there wa s a
little bit of a ridge on the o~tside - apparently on the
outside edges of the tray so that it has a wedge effect.
~e were wondering if you've noticed that also, or, you or
he could elaborate on it.

SPT Well, by a wedge, yeah. This I mention e d
yesterday. On the - outside the - you have a middle bottom
to it or I should say the whol e inside of the container is
middle and it interfaces with a top part of. looks like
fib e rgl - fiberboard or something of that nature which is - ha d
the bottom piece cut into it, or I should say the middle
piece which ~oes all the way up to about I inch from the toP.
it cut into this fiberboard and the fiberhoard t~rned -
doesn't go straight up, it actually has a wedge effect. On
one side I found that the material that cut ba c k a littl e
bit further than needed so that th e re actually was a slir-ht
overhang and that is what I filed off just a couple of hours
ago to try to ease a little extra space there . And so what
I've been doing is easing that wedge effect on the one that
I put in today. On that side I was putting the sample s
towards that face so that they won't b e going into the
middle sheet which would act like guillotine.
SL-IV MC-2910/2
Time 16:57 CDT 83:21:57 GMT
2/6/74

CC Okay. 80 you're talking - you ' re

describing the - the broad internal surface of the urine
retain con - return container itself. 1s that correct?
RPT The top part of a urine return container
which 1s around 1 or 1- 1/2 inches. I'll have to go down
and take a look. It's the material which 1s not metal but
1s fiberboard.
CC Yeah. Okay, we copy all that. Thank you
very much. Ed, and we're heartened by your commentary to the
point that you think you can get it In. And we - we suggest
the shoe horn technique with a sheet of Teflon and we'll
continue working the problem down here.
SPT Okay. One good thing I got from Crip
last night is that these usually stay frozen so that when
we get on the ship if the integrity of any of them is broken
you can still use the sample. That was my understanding,
I hope that's true.
CC Right, we have verified that. We're not
particularly concerned about breaking even a number of these
samples bags. We do expect that they'll stay frozen and
that they can be handled as little yellow ice cubes.
SPT Okay, that's good. Bruce. We'll ret them
in there.
CC And, by the way, if you think that the
Teflon that's associated with the humidity control unit s up in
the film vault is too thick, we suggest the Teflon sheet
which is on the treadmill which is half the thickn ess or
20/1000 of an inch thick which you will have to c ut to make
it the proper size.
SPT Yeah, that's another pood idea. As a
matter of fact, there are some points of that which are now
at negative thickness.
CC Say now at what?
SPT I should say zero thickness
CC (Laughter)
SPT We've - we've gone through it in SOme
spots.
CC Okay, I ~uess we ~ot that input the othe r
day and relayed to Bill Thornton and we thought you were
pulling a y'reat big joke on him. Didn't seem possible - -
SPT When Jerry ~ets on there and starts charg in~
and he just doesn't turn of.f.
CC (Laughter) we didn't know we - didn't know
we had such a hard charger there, didn't seem possible we could
work out through a sheet of Teflon in only 84 days.
PLT If we could just y,et him to clip his toe
nails, everything would be all right.
SL-IV MC-2910/3
Time: 16:57 CDT 83:21 ; 57 GMT
2/6/74

cc (Laughter) Okay I 30 seconds to LOS here.

We get out the shepherd's truck and push you guys over the
hill.
CDR Thank heavens.
CC 2-1/2 min - 3 minutes to Ascension at
22:05. Out.

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SL-IV MC2911/1
Time: 17 ' 03 CDT 83:22:03 GMT
2/6/14

PAO Loss of signal through Vanguard. Next

acquisition less than 2 minutes from now. The apparent
pr oblem with the urine sample containers and the urine re-
turn containers ia that when first tested and frozen on
Earth. the urine sample containers, which are plastic co n-
tainers approximately 2 lnchea by 1 inch by 2 incheR - OT
4 q - square inch - cubic inches rather. I previously said
2 cubic inches. These containers when frozen on Earth. the
urine will settle and they'll freeze square. whereas when
frozen In an zero-g environment, of course, they don't freeze
square. And according to the crew, if one froze out of shape,
the rest of them tended to do the same. They are sticking
up out of the sample container drawer, which is about 18
inches by 2 inches high by 12 inches deep, and ha R two rows
of drawers in it. These containers, these samples conta iners
for the urine, the plastic bags are stlckin~ up over the t o p
of the drawer preventing the drawer trom slipping into a
sl ot in the urine return container. The s uggesti on this lime
around is if they try the Teflon sheet, on the inside of the
film vault doors to see if they c an't use that as a shoe h orn
and push the drawers into the proper s lots. There are four
drawers in the container, and Ed is having problems with
all four of them. The other suggestion is that they take the
Teflon coatin~ sheet off of the treadmill and use it, since
it' s half the thickness of the Teflon sheet off the film vault
doors. Ed, however, said the Teflon treadmill sheet has
negative thickness indicatin g that the crew has reall y worked
through that. Acquisition now through Ascension. Hold the
line up for Bruce McCandless.
CC - through Ascension for 10-1/2 minutes.
Out.
CC CDR, this is Houston. Over.
PLT Stand by, Rruce.
CC Roger.
CDR Go ahead) Rruce.
CC Yes it is, Jerry. Looking over your
shoulder on the command module telemetry, we need to r.et th e
UP T~LEMETRY switch to ACCEPT, and left thcTe so we can
play our little game on the uplink and get your state ve c tor
and stuff. And we also like to get the spacecraft control
awitch to SCS please. Over.
CDR Okay.
CC Thank you.
ce Skylab , this is Houston. About 1-1/4
minutes to LOS. Next station contact in 35 minutes through
Guam at 22:49. We have the commanders final phone call
scheduled at Guam at 22:49, LEFT ANTENNA switch i ng to RIGHT.
Over.
SL-IV MC2911/2
Time: 17,03 CDT 83,22,03 GMT
2/6/74

CDR Roger, 22:49. LEFT t~ RIGHT.

CC And for Bill, we'll repeat it again
later. We have his final phone call scheduled at 23:29,
23:29 at Vanguard, LEFT to RIGHT.
PLT Roger.
PAD Loss of signal throu~h Ascension. Next
acquisition will bQ 32 minutes. That'll be through Guam.
It's that time of the mission, time for the Skylab finals.
Blll Pogue and Jerry Carr's final family corom thls evening
comlng up, and Blll Pogue just completed his final exercise
period, the final exercise period of anybody for Fkylab
~sing the bicycle ergometer once again. Accordin~ to Flight
Furgeon Paul Buchanan, on the M171 bicycle ergometer, all
three crewmen have been performin~ more efficiently during
the last month they've been up there than they did before.
They've been recovering faster. It's taken 2 minutes or less
for their heartbeats to recover from the 130 to 140 range
that they've been -

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SL IV MC-2912/1
Time: 17:17 GMT
2/6/74

PAO - - did before. Theylve been recovering

faster . It's ~aken 2 minu~es or less for their heartbeats to
recover from ~he 130 to 140 range that they've been during
the time that they were exercising on the Hl7l down to their
normal of about 80, and they appear to be using less oxygen .
That goes right along with the more efficient performance.
Their performance on the 11171 dur1ng the prec'e ding months
has been the same 8S their baseline prior to launch. The y
started out with higher heartbeats and less efficient metabolic
rates the first couple of weeks that they were aboard, and
they picked right up on that. ~ettlng much better a t the
equivalent of riding a bicycle uphill. Tomorrow morning at
11:00 Greenwich mean time. an interesting thing aboard the
Skylab. control momen~ gyro number 1, the bane of ~he Skylab
mission, will be prepared to be ~urned back on again . 14
hours from now. they'll be turning the heaters on and they'll
leave those heaters on for 24 hours, bringing the bearing
temperatures back up to a round 70 degrees Fahrenh e it. At
11:55 Greenwich mean time o n Friday ~ or ning, they are going
to apply current to the CHG to try and spin it up again. It's
now been averaging about 40 rpms for the past several ~onths.
Although that's probably not an accurate figure, 8S the
telemetry transducers that pick up wheel speed have a plu s
or minus 200 rpm rating ~o them. So, Friday mo rning at 11:55
Greenwich mean time, the guidance peopl e here in Mission
Control will have two options. If it looks lik e CHG numb er 2
i s not working. they ' re going to shut it down immediately. If
it lOOKS like it is working. they're gotng to leave it fir ed
up and they're going to try to control the attitude of the
space station once again in a three CHC mode. They are n ot
too worried about the current drain, the nominal current
drain is 1.025 amperes. The ~uidance officer indicated that
if they get up to 2.5 amperes, that's st ill a ll right, as
long as it seems to be operating at a nomi n al wheel speed
with bearing temperatures a bout J degrees apart from each
other. So with the crew gone, they're g oing to try a nd see if
CHC number 1 will work again. Next a cq ui s ition 29 minute s
from now through Guam. 22:20 Greenwich me an tim e, this is
Skylab Control .

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SL IV MC-291J/1
Time: 17:48 CDT 83:22:48 GMT
2/6/74

PAO 22 hours 48 minutes Greenwich mean time.

The space statiOD now nearing acquisition through Guam. Flight
Director Neil Hutchinson has indicated that he's going to be
15 minutes early for tonight's cbange-af-shift press briefing.
That'll be at 6 o'clock, or roughly 12 minutes froD now in
the briefing room in Building 1. Also, Bill Pogue has just
finished housekeepin& 60-K. which 18 a drain of the water
line from the water tanks to the wardroom. That involves
venting the water to the waste tank. That's in the odd chance
that the water line should freeze up and break. However, the
people at Huntsville indicate that there's zero chance that
the space station temperature would drop to freezing. Just
the opposite has been true in the past. That it's overheated
rather than underheated. CAP COHM Bob Crippen is coming up
with Flight Director Don Puddy. Bruce McCandless is leaving
also . So we'll hold the line up now for CAP CORM Bob Crippen.
CC Good afternoon, Skylab. We're AOS Guam
for 10 minutes.
SPT Hello, Crip. How are you doing tonip.ht?
CC Just fine, Ed. And you?
SPT Pretty good. Is this your last session
with us?
CC Well, this is the last I get to set - sit in
with the crimson team. However, I'll be here to talk to you
when we - you're coming home.
SPT Hey, that's right. That'p right.
CC And the crimson team's reminding me that
they'll be sitting here - sitting with the workshop.
SPT Take good care of it. What - what's the
lifetime of it look like now?
CC Depending on who you talk to and by our
models of the near dynamic characteristics of the upper
Earth's atmosphere, it's somewhere between 6 and 10 years,
SPT Very good. What kind of mode will this
be in? Just essentially end up with a gravity gradient type?
CC Rog. That's - We're just going to put it
in what we consider - what we think is it's gravity gradient
attitude and leave it, and hopefully i t ' l l stabilize there.
SPT When will you stop send - sendin~ all the
commands and monitoring it?
CC It's going to be running for approximately
24 hours - 22 hours after - after you guys leave. Got a few
little tests we're going to run.
SPT Don't want to do them with us - with us
on board, huh?
CC You guys have got - you guys have Rot
enough - enough problems.
SPT Got some pyros located in here we don't
know about?
SL IV KC-2913/2
Tim~: 17:48 CDT 83:22 : 48 GMT
2/6/74

CC NOt no, not at all. They just didn't

want to come to any splashdown parties. That' s all.
CC How's it been f.oing toda y? Everything
clicking along pretty smooth? Not too rushed ?
SPT Dh. yeah, as Jerry sa id, we're j ust
waitln~ for the other shoe to drop and a lot of things you
~ot to get dona tomorrow on - after we ~e t up. I think we
~ot a pretty good handle on it. Don't see any show s toppers.
But with the impossible, you never can tell.
CC Very good. See, 1 was noting thi s morning
in looking back and reviewing the air-to-ground comments
that you and Story were competing for who go t the ~ 08 t
sleep last night.
SPT Flight says that ~ tory won hands down.
ce That's what I hear. I'm probably goinr.
to be in competition tonight. We're ~oing to stay on until
- till we wake you up again.
SPT Who's going to wake up who?
CC (Laughter) That's going to be the
question. You might better set your alarD clocks.
CC SPT. Ed. incidentally, when you talk to
Jer again, when he comes back from the cODmand module, we
noted that he was looking at the CHC clock and the data in
that is meaningless right now. We'll be loading that tomorrow
before it will - and it will start making sense.
SPT Oka y . We got spring back there ye t~ Crip,
or are we still in winter?
CC Well, I'll tell you what. You missed it.
The last few da ys here have been fantastic . Wish we co uld
have bottled some of th a t weather and s t owed it up for yo u.
But. today, we are having a littl e cold front move in , and I
understand it's supposed to be freezing by t o morrow ni g ht.
SPT You gotta do bett e r th an that.
CC We'll work on it. By the time yo u guys
get back here Sunday, we'll have pretty weathf~r, we hope.

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SL-IV MC2914/1
Time: 17:58 CDT 83:22:58 GMT
2/6/74

CC Okay, we're 1 minute from LOS. Next

station c~nt8ct 1s through the Vanguard at 23:30. that's
about 31 minutes away. And as Bruce told you a while ago,
we ~ot Bl11's phone call set up there, ANTENNA, LEFT going
to RIGHT. And also we'll be standing by fOT the evening
status report there .
SPT Okay. Crip, thanks, talk to you there.
CC Okeydoke.
PAO Loes of signal through Guam. Next
acquisition will be 28 minutes from now, that'll be through
the tracking ship Vanguard. And if the press conference Is
still going on, we'll record the Vanguard pass for you.
Right now, we're going to bring you the evening press con-
ference.

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SL IV MC-291S/1
Time: 18:32 CDT 82:23:32 GMT
2/6/74

PAD 23 hours 32 minutes Greenwich mean time.

This is Skylab Control. The space station now in acquisition
over Vanguard, and we'll be playing catchup until we're live
air-to-ground.
CC Skylab, Houston. We are ADS through the
Vanguard for 10 minutes.
CDR Hello Bruce . your voice has changed.
CC You're right. You're right. So has your's
Ed.
CDR (~arble)
CC By the way. we see the time display is
still on the DSKY up there. and we're going to go ahead and
blank it out here, so the relays won't be hot all night.
CDR Okay.
CC And you want to give us an evening status
report?
CDR Yes sir . Sleep: CDR, 6.0, 5 heavy, 1
light; SPT, 9.7. 8 heavy, 1 . 7 light; PLT, 7 .5 , all heavy.
Volumes : 230; 270; 210. Water ~un: 9026; 5187; 2199.
Body mass: 6.300, 6.302, 6.306; 6.373, 6.374, 6.375; 6 .265 ,
6.265, 6 . 265 . Exercise: no change. We have all substituted
Mark III for ~ark II, and we're doing what we think is prob a bly
a ~ood imitation - - new exercises . Medications: CDR, chloral
hydrate tonight ; SPT, Dalmane tonight; PLT, a Seconal last
night, and one tonight. Clothing: CDR, socks, shirt, and
shorts; SPT, socks, shirt and shorts; PLT. socks, shorts, and
T-shirt. Let's see. I'll get to the photo log later. Food log :
CDR. salt, 17 . 0, deviations, plus one lemonade, minus one straw-
berry drink, plus chocolate chip bar, rehydration water, plus
2.0: SPT, 4.0 salt, plus tuna, rehydration water, plus 12.0;
PLT, 4.0 salt, plus a crispy bar, plus green beans, zero
rehydration water. Flight plan deviations: none. Shoppin~
list accomplishments: Documentary photos of the treadmill
today, and also complying with the spirit of the permanent
~eneral message requesting data on the treadmill. Inoperable
equipment: non~. Unscheduled stowage: I stowed the EVA
gloves in w-730 locker instead of snaking - snapping them
an to the outside of locker 763. I did this because they
would have been in the way. It's our understanding that
we're not bringing the EVA gloves home. So - - the other item
is India Romeo 12 canister, which is stowed in B-1, we
discovered today is empty because we knew we had the film
available. And rather than break into 8-1, which is loaded
to the gills right now, we have stowed the film in another
canister and it will be stowed in the 8-hole bag labeled
late film. And we're not sure where we're going to put it;
i t ' l l either be A-5 or R13, and I'll let you know. This is
all the film that we're trying to shoot up to bring home.
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Time: 18:32 CDr 82:23:32 GMT
2/6/74

Could be a bunch of NikoD Charlie X-rays, a couple of Charlie

Indias and one India Romeo. And one other item. the leg bands
that were wrapped today to be stowed were to have been stowed
in Bravo 1. There's no room in Bravo 1. and when I find a
better place. 1"11 notify you. That's It.
ee Okay. Good rundown, Jer , thank you.
CDR Oh, more shopping list for you, Venous
compliance on the CDR and the PLT today,
CC Okay. I'm sure that Dr. Bill Thornton
will appreciate that.
CDR Okay. On the photo log. This is pretty
the final recap. Well, no, 1 guess we can stl11 give you
some NikeD information tomorrow~ 16-millimeter M479.
transporter 5, Charlie India 95, 00. Charlie India 98; another
K479, Charlie India 97, 00, Charlie India 95; Documentary
photos. treadmill. Charlie India 65, 18, Charlie India 81;
body acrobatics. Charlie India 65, 00. Charlie India 81;
M487-4 Foxtrot, Charlie India 87, 00. Charlie India 79.
Okay. Nikons 01 and 02 are empty. Nikon 03 has Charlie
India 114. frame count is 28. Nikon 04 is empty. Nlkon 05
has Charlie X-ray 63 with 23 frames on the count. The
P.asselblad is Charlie 45 - -

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Time: 18:37 cnT 83:23:37 GMT
2/6/74

CDR - 1s empty; NikoD 05 has Charlie X-ray

63 with 23 frames on the count; the Hasselblad is Charli e
X-ray 45 - 45 with 8 count of 040. The status on NikoD
film is Charlie X-ray 63 and Charlie X-ray 58. and India
Romeo 12 are exposed, and we would like - we're going ~et
at Charlie India 117. 60 - Charlie X-ray 60, and Charlie
X-ray 58, Charlie X-ray 59. And then all the rest is NA:
the ETC, the EREP and Drawer A Configuration.
CC Roger, you ~uys are really taking pictures.
CDR Well, we'd rather point th~ camera at
something and shoot it than just click off the frames.
CC We concur. And Jer, I've got one item
here. iole're going to be running a little CBRM test tonight
while you guys are trying to sleep and it would help us
if we could somebody to do a REG ADJUST for us on panel 206.
We need to take both POTS 1 and" 2, 15 degrees clockwise.
And -
eDR Okay, Ed's on his way.
ee Okay, we need to mark the spot where it's
at if it's still possible .
SPT And I've marked the correct mark.
ee Marked the mark, rag. e'll take a quick
look at it here and see if that looks satisfactory.
ce SPT. Houston. Thank you, Ed, that - that
REG ADJUST looks Rood.
SPT You're welcome. Crip.
PAO Okay. we're live air-to-ground now.
ec Skylab, Houston . We are 1 minutes from
LOS. next station contact is Ascension at 23:47. and that's
ahout 7 minutes away from now . See you there .
PAO Loss of signal through Vanguard, next
acquisition 6 minutes, that'll be through Ascension, a brief
dropout and then Canary which will be the evening medical
conferenCE and straight through Madrid. Crew has been taking
pictures like mad the past three days, 125 frames a day for
the past three days. Also they'll be bring back with them
100 and - 100.800 feet of magnetic data for the S19l, S192,
193 and 194 instruments, and 20,700 frames of Earth resources
experiment package pictures. Next acquisition 5 minutes from
now, that'll be through Ascension. 23:41 GMT, this is
Sky lab Control .

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SL-IV MC-2917/1
Time' 18,45 CDT 83,2),45 GMT
2/6/74

PAD 23 hours 45 minutes Greenwich mean time.

Space station now nearing acquisition through Ascension.
And we're told the crew will be listening to the "Soul of
Saln" by the 101 String Orchestra. That musical enchantment
ahout 40 seconds from now. Acquisition after Ascension will
be Canary. that'll be the evening medical conference and
then they'll go right into a ~adrid pass. So we'll be keeping
the line up throuzh Madrid. Less than 30 seconds away now
from the "Soul of Spain" and Bob Crippen.
CC Skylab, Houston. We are ADS through
Ascension, we've got you for ahout a minute and a half here,
and we'll - there'll be a short dropout of about a minute
and we'll turn i t over - turn the mike over to Dr. Paul
Buchanan to - for the med conference.
CC Okay, we're about a minute from LOS, and
as I said before. we'll - next pass in about a minute and 15
seconds is the med conference.
PLT Roger. Crip.
PAO Short 108S of signal through Ascension
as we reacquire at Canary. Canary will be a medical
conference site. Some erroneous information earlier. the
101 String won't be played until the space station nears
the coast of Spain and the album is called "Soul of Spain" not
the song, 80 we still don't know what we'll be listening to.
(Husic)
PAD As promised, the 101 Strings.
(Hus! c)
CC CDR, Ho~ston. You got a - ~ot a moment
to chat, Jer?
CDR Sure do, Crip. go.
CC Okay, we've still got you tor ahout 2-1/2
minutes here through Madrid. next station contact is going
to be at Guam at 00:28. Do you want to call there or do
you want me to just knock it off for the night?
CDR Oh. it doesn't matter, Crip, if you y,ot
something to call us about ~o ahead.
CC Okay. fine. I don't anticipate we'll
have any traffic there, we can 1.0 ahead and give you a AOS-
LOS call.
CDR Okay. good.
CDR Hey, Crip, we're interested in brinr,ing
back a Nikon, one of the small - the mechanical Nikons with
our last roll of Charlie X-ray film in it for out the
window pictures . Wonder if you could see if you could ~et
us an okay on that?
CC We'll check it out for you.
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Time: 18:45 eDT 83:23:45 GMT
2/6/74

CDR OkaY9 we think that with the photomic on

a Nikon we can do a better job of framing pictures, and we'd
like to take some pictures of the workshop also out ~ out
the ha - side hatch window using the Hikon.
CC Sounds like a pretty good idea. We'll
see of we can run it through the board. lTe're about 15
seconds trom LOS, and next station contact Is Guam in 25
minutes, and that's
CDR Okay, and we would propose either th e
55 or 135 lens.
CC Okeydoke .
PAO Music to go over the Mediterranean by .
4 minutes Greenwich mean time. Space station now out of
range of the Madrid tracking antenna. Ed Gibson (sic)
apparently turning into a photographer. He wants to bring the
Nikon on board the Apollo command module indicating that he
can frame better using the photomic head of the Nikon rather
than the lack of finder which the Hasselblad doesn't have.
Hasselbald is just a point and shot camera and the Nikon you
can actually view what you're going to be taklng a picture of.
They suggested the 55 and 135 lens. We'll bring you Dr.
Paul Buchanan'g medical report when he finishes writing it.
Next acquisition 23 minutes from now, that'll be through
Guam. 5 minutes Greenwich mean time, this is Sky!ab Control.

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SL IV "MC-2918/1
Time : 19:27 CDT 84:00:27 GMT
2/6/74

PAO 27 minutes Greenwich mean time. The space

station now nearing acquisition through Guam. The crew is
already in their pre81eep period. They're going to bed at
8 o'clock Houston time tonight. They get up at 4:00 B,m .
Houston time tomorrow morning for final day of deactivation.
According to all indications , the crew is moving along as
planned . no last-minute rush. Earlier they indicated that
they were waiting for the other shoe to drop. That shoe will
drop tomorrow when they turn the last of the instruments
aboard Skylab off and get the medical experiment results into
the Apollo command module. We'll ' ~o over Honeysuckle on this
revolution, and we'll keep the line up between Guam and
Honeysuckle. Honeysuckle is expected to be the good night
pass. We'll hold the line up now for CAP COHM Bob Crippen.
(Music)
CC And we're with you through Guam for 6-1/2
minutes.
CDR Rog, Crip.
PLT Roger, Crip, and the PLT here. I'd like
a GO on the 60 kilo. What step in the pro ce dures says to
notify you before proceding on 60 kilo.
CC Okay. We'll check that out for you.
PLT Okay . It's all ready to go.
(Kusic)
CC PLT, Houston . You got a GO to continue
on that.
PLT Gracias. Crip.
(Music)
CC Skylab. Houston . We are 1 minute from
LOS. Next station contact in 5 minutes through Honeysuckle.
That's at 00:40.
CDR Roger, Crip.
CC See you there.
PAO Loss of signal through Guam . Reacquisiti o n
less than 4 minutes from now. That'll be through Honeysuckle.
That's expected to be the good night call. The crew is now
about 24 minutes away from bedtime tonight at 8:00 p.m . central
daylight ti.e, or 1 o'clock Greenwich mean tiD~. According
to the National, excuse me, Oceanic and Atmospheric Administra-
tion National Weather Service, the Space Flight Meteorlogical
Group. the landing area 150 miles southwest of San Diego
should be quite nice for landing . The landing zone has cur-
rently ~ot partly cloudy skies with northerly surface wind s
around 25 knots. Those winds are expected to decrease to
18 to 22 knots by Friday morning. ~eas range between
5 and 7 feet. which is a little bit high , and the temperatur e
is near 60 degrees . So the weather sounds quite nice, actually.
Tomorrow morning, 11:00 Greenwich mean time, the control


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Time: 19:27 CDT 84:00:27 GMT
2/6/74
I
aament gyro numher 1 heatera, bearing heaters will be turned
on . They will be left on for 24 hours to allow the bearing
temperaturea to stabilize. And then at 11:55 Greenwich mean
time on Friday morning after the crew has - long actually,
after the crew has left the workshop, control moment gyro
nunher 1 will be fired up again, having not been on for
several montha now. And once they apply current to the
pyre, they have two options. If it looks like the gyro is
not working, which meaDS that the current starts to ~o way
out of range, which on Friday's case 1s 2.5 amperes, or 1f
the temperatures start to converge, then they'll shut CMG
number 1 off, never to test it again. If however, CHG numb e r
I looks like it's moving up to wheel speed, which is A912
rp~s, then they'll let it stabilize at that speed, even if
it's drawing more current than it should. Nominal current
is 1.025 amperes, and they'd allowed a new parameter o f l . 5
amperes for Friday's test. If the wheel is rotating at
approximately 8900 rpm, they're pretty lenient about the
wheel speed, too - -

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SL-IV MC-2919/1
Time: 19:39 CDT 84:00 : 39 GMT
2/6/74

PAO - they've allowed a new parameter of

2.5 amperes for Friday's test. If the wheel 1s rotating at
approximately 8900 RPM. they're pretty lenient ahout the
wheel speed, too, and below 2.5 amperes of current being
drawn, then they'll use eHG number I, 2 and 3 once again in
a J eKG configuration and try to stabilize the workshop in
a solar inertial attitude to see how the eHG works and also
to get a final hack on what possibly went wrong with eKG number
1. Hold the line up now for an expected good night call to
the crew of Skylab III now less than two days away from being
back on terra firma. CAP COHH Bob Crippen will be here
tomorrow night also. About 10 seconds away from AOS .
CC Skylab. Houston. We're with you through
Hone7suckle for 3 - 1/2 minutes .
CC Skylab, Houston. We're ahout 45 seconds
from LOS, next st ation contact is a low pass thr o ugh
Vanguard at 01:10. That's supposed to be after you ~uys
have retired 80 we'll go ahead and say good night here. And
we'll try to get back with you tomorrow on the - the Nikon
question, JeT.
CDR Okay, Crip, thanks. Good night.
CC Night.
SPT Night, Crip,
CC Take care.
PAO Loss of signal through Honeysuckle Creek
tracking station. This was the good night call, no more
communication tonight. Tomorrow morning the crew will ~et
up at 4:00 a.m. centrsl daylight time, that's 8 hours from
now. Eight hours and 15 minutes the crew will get back up for
their final deactivation day. And then tomorrow afternoon
at 1 :00 p . m. central daylight time, 18:00 Greenwich mean time
the crew will be to sleep and they will get back up at
9:00 p.m. tomorrow Houston time or 2:00 Greenwich mean time,
and that will be their wakeup for the return trip home. On
today's flight pl~n a number of finals. The final M092/H171
lower body negative pressure device and bicycle ergom~ter
metabolic medical tests was completed today" tor Commander
Carr early this morning, and for Pilot Bill Pogue in the
afternoon. Commander Carr also performing the trim burn
today, the final trim burn for the orbital workshop. placing
it in a new 246 by 235 nautical mile orbit extending its
orbital life around the Earth approximately one year. Also
this evening Bill performed the last physical training
exercise that will be performed aboard the gkylab usinr, the
bicy cle ergometer. Doctors here are very pleased. The crew
got very efficient in the lEst month of ' their stay aboard
the Skylab. recovering very rapidly after their workout, less
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Time ' 19:39 CDT 84:00,39 GMT
2/6/74

than 2-minute recovery time for all three crewmen as opposed

to several minutes more at the beginning of teeir mlssion.
Tomorrow morning at 11:00 the CHG numher 1 heater turn-on,
that'. part of an experlmen~ to try and fire CHG numher 1 up
again. And a final note on the weather for the recovery. it's
stl1l holding, looka like i t ' l l be a nice pleasant day in -
off the coast of So uthern California. Friday. We'll hring
the line down now, however, we haven't read the evening
medical report to you 80 we'll we back shortly with the
evening medical report from Dr. Paul Buchanan. 48 minutes
Greenwich mean time, this 1s Skylab Control.

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5L IV MC-2920/1
time: 19,50 CDT 84,00,50 GMT
2/6/74

PAO 50 minutes Greenwich mean time, this 1s

Skylab Control. We DOW have Dr. Paul Buchanan's medical
report, which tt11 read to you. " Today marks the completion
of the inflight medieal experiments planned for the Sky lab
pro~ra. study of aan in space. Jerry Carr, the commander,
and Bill Pogue performed their final M092/K170 runa in good
order. and without unusual symptoms. the science pilot, Ed
Gibson performed his final MI33 sleep data run laat night.
completing the in flight studies in that series. The crewmen
will all take sleeping medication tonight in order to facili-
tate the transition to the new sleep/work cycle necessitated
by the deactivation and deorbit time lines. They are in a
happy frame of mind and seem fully able to cope with c,rowded
work schedules and demanding tasks ahead. A decongestant
will be taken prophylactically before entry to allay the poss-
ibility of ear or sinus blockage when returning to the
greater pressure of the Earth's atmosphere." And that's the
final crew medical report for Dr . Paul Buchanan. Tomorrow's
final medical report for the Skylab program will be given
by Dr. Charles Rosa. We'll bring the line down now this
evenin~ and we'll be back with you at 4:00 8.m. Houston
time with Jack Riley . At 51 minutes Greenwich mean time.
thia ia Sky lab Control.

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