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i SKYLAB 1/3
TECHNICAL AIR-TO-GROUND
VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

PREPARED BY
TEST DIVISION
PROGRAM OPERATIONS OFFICE "4 •

National Aeronautics and Space Adm

i, L YNDON Houston,Texas
B. JOHNSON i
SPACE CENTER
_ •OCTOBER1973 '
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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUNDVOICE TRANSCRIPTION

229 00 06 56 CC Skylab, Houston; 1 minute from LOS. See you

again over at Carnarvon at - in 28 minutes at
00:35, 00:35.

229 00 07 12 SPT See you later, Crip.

229 00 35 03 CC Skylab, Houston. We;re A0S over Carnarvon for

14 minutes.

CC And, SPT, when you get a moment, got a favor to

ask of you.

SPT Go ahead, Bob.

CC Roger; Owen. We're still trying to figure out

this little problem about apparently some extra
wattage on the ATM C&D or at least on the coolant
loop that we discussed last night. And wonder if
you could check for us on panel 135 to verify
that the EREP COOLANT FLOW is in BYPASS.

229 00 37 00 SPT Jack's up at the panel right now and maybe he

could check that.

CC Oh, okay.

PLT (Music) I think that might be the problem; it's

in FLOW.

CC Okay, we copy - -

PLT Want her in BYPASS, right?

CC Okay, should be in BYPASS.

CC Okay, we really don't have any telemetry to tell

us. We're under the assumption that no - no EREP
gear is on.

PLT That's affirm but I'ii check it.

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229 00 39 00 PLT I think the way that happened, Bob, was that we
decided not to completely load the tape recorder
the other day because we wanted to make sure we
gave it a good cleaning again a couple of weeks
from now and you had asked us to leave the - the
FLOW valve in - in FLOW after the last EREP pass
until we changed out the tane recorder _nd we
never really strung the tape recorder up because
we wanted to clean it again before we have our
next _ass.

CC Okay, Jack; we cooy that.

CC Skylab, Houston. We're getting ready to do a

data voice recorder dump. And if you can give us
the DAS for a couple of minutes, we want to update
our drifts on rate gyros Z-l, 2, and 3.

PLT You got it, Bob.

CC Thank you.

229 00 40 20 CC PLT, Jack, we'd like you to verify it for us

whether you did find any of the EREP gear on.

229 O0 44 37 CC Jack, we'd like to find out whether you had left
any of the EREP gear on or not or whether you
found any of it on.

PLT Oh, no. We shut that all down the other day.
The only thing we didn't do is string up the tape
recorder. And if you look in the tape recorder
procedures, the last thing that you do is to do a
check and go back to the BYPASS position. And we
decided not to do that complete load because we
knew we'd want to clean the tape recorder real
good again and overlook the fact that we had been
requested to leave the valve in FLOW and would
not get it back to BYPASS. So, our mistake is
not completing that procedure. We got the tape
recorder with the tape in, but it's not threaded.

229 00 _5 28 CC Okay, Jack. We - copied.

PLT The only thing unusual about the EREP gear, Crip,
is that the VTS door is open.
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CC Roger, we were still puzzling a little bit about

even though it was flowing through the EREP gear
as to why it was picking up that much - that much
heat.

CC And now that you've gone back to BYPASS, we - we

should be able to see it in a couole of hours to
find out whether that brought it back down to
normal.

PLT Okay, well we shutt off all the EREP stuff after
that last pass - the lunar cal or whatever it was
and I just checked it again and all the switches
are off. And nothing's running.

229 00 46 27 CC Okeydoke, real fine.

CC Okay, Jack, we been talking to you and you need

to go aheand and start your next AUTO MODE.

PLT Yes, I know that but I can't because I'm waiting

for that too, but S056 has got a time out and
so does 55 and then I'll go to the next AUTO
_ MODE. I got the 82B summarysheet out in front
of me and I noticed that the last exposure is
about a 17-minute exposure. So, I think what
we're going to do is _o right on into the AUTO
MODE at 20 arc seconds and just cut that last
exoosure a little bit short but I want to wait
until the other on's time out. And that ought to
be within the next 3 minutes. There goes the 56.
\ It's timed out now. And the AUTO RASTER is on
the llne 16.

229 00 47 h3 PLT As soon as the auto raster gets through this last
pass, it's on the third one now, why I'll whistle
over to 20 arc sees off the limb.

CC Okay - -

PLT Looks like about all that'll do is cut the last

exposure on 82B about in half.

CC Okay, Jack, you don't have to - to wait for that

exposure to time out. All you need to do is to
go ahead and start the AUTO MODE. And you can
STEP 82B's mirror out to their appropriate
position.
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229 00 h8 37 PLT Okay.

CC Yes. Using the MANUAL STEP switch, of course.

The DAS belongs to you guys again. We're about
to go over the hill. We'll see you again at MLA
in about 35 minutes from now. And that's at
01:23.

CDR Hey, Crip, who was it that figured out that I

left it in FLOW instead of BYPASS?

CC Came from the EGILs back there.

CDR Wonder which one psyched it out. That's a pretty

good call, you know it.

CC Roger; concur. Looks like Bill Moon did that.

229 00 49 28 CDR ... Tell him, thanks.

229 01 25 25 CC Skylab_ Houston. We're AOS across Bermuda for

about 8 minutes.

CDR How about a little night report?

CC Stand by.

CDR Give it to you right now, if you're ready.

229 01 25 h7 CC Okay. Let us get our paper together here.

CDR You don't copy these thing down_ do you, Crio?

I always read them way to fast.

CC Oh, we're getting better all the time. No,

we're - we're recording it also. But some -
sometimes we try to copy some of it down. We
want to make sure the recorders and everthing are
going. 0kay. Shoot.

229 01 26 06 CDR Okay. Urine: 96, 155, 167. Now, I screwed up

the drinking water gun reading this morning, in
that I didn't get it. And I didn't notice it
until later in the day. So we tried to estimate
what our drinking water gun usage was. Now, Jack
was able to estimate his exactly, because he knew
how many drinks he had today. 0wen and I Just
guessed. So, we can be off five squirts,
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probably , either way. Here comes the numbers:

5095, 8430, 5775. Okay, BMMD: 6.250 , 6.254,
6.249; 5.978, 5.980, 5.978; 6.943, 6.941, 6.943.
Okay, here's exercise: 2/36/4558, and that
includes the MI71 run 3/15/Mark I, 60, A; 20, B;
20, C; 20, D; 3/05/Mark II, 20, A; i0, B; i0, C;
and I0, F. Okay, this is the SPT's% 2/30/4500,
on the Mark I - excue me. On the Mark I he had
80 A's, h0 B's, 40 D's. Pilot, 1/05/0521,
2/57/11582 [sic], and the bike quit right at the
end. It started making noise. So we let it cool
off; he was trying to _o for an hour. We let
it cool off and it seems to be working okay. In
addition to that, the nilot had 3/20/Mark I,
50, A% 20, B; 20, D; and 20 baekhends. No
medication. Sleen; 6-i/2/q, 6-i/2/C, 6-I/2/G.
Food ion: CDR, four salt packs, and one straw-
berry drink; SPT, three salt packs and one
butter cookie; PLT, 12 salt backs, one butter
cookie, and two cherry drinks. Photo Log, here
it comes. We're going for a first tonight. We're
goin_ to try to get this riaht. T013, C148, 82,
C143. T013, C147, 82, C145. 35-millimeter:
CXI2, 16; CXI01, 00; 70-millimeter: CXII, 160.
Now we need a ma_azine change there, and if you
can wait until tomorrow's pad, if you can recommend
which mag we ouaht to put on there.

229 01 29 29 CDR Drawer A configuration: A-I and A-2 no change%

A-3, 06, C147, 10, C145; A-h, 03, CI48, 10,C143.

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SKYLAB AIR-T0-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

229 01 30 03 CDR We blew it. We didn't get the photo pad right.
Let's go back up to the top, on 16-millimeter.
T013, CI48, i0, CIh3; TO13, CIh7, i0, CI45; I
don't think there's a way we can get it right,
frankly. We only missed it by 72 percent on two
of them.

CC That 's close.

229 01 30 45 CDR Which were the only two we used. It's Just im-
possible, I guess. Okay. Flight Plan for to-
morrow looks good. And I think everybody was -
was working pretty good today. Nobody was
rushed. Everybody's Just about finished. I
think Jack's got one pad, and I'm finishing up
the dlnnp, and he 's emptying the garbage. And,
so we've got a few little things, but essen-
tially, we're - we're pretty near finished up.
Believe we've got about an hour or so, So
we're in pretty good shape. _%_lonpinglist ae-
comDlished. We got all our housekeeping done.
And by the way, I Just won't even mention it
if we do all the housekeeping, because I'm
pretty sure we will. And Jack took apart the
second tape recorder, and he reported to you
the results of that. Inoperable e0uipment ,
nothing new. Unscheduled stowage item, we moved
six blue towels from W-737 to }[-831.

229 01 32 04 CC Okay, AI. We - we've got all that. And we're

about 1 minute from LOS. %[etll pick you up again
over Madrid at 01:36. I guess we'd be interested
in hearing a few more words about the bike prob-
lem that Jack had. And I've got a number of
questions here I'll ask you at that time, also.

CDR That's a good idea. And Jack Just wandered off,

but he'll he back by the next station passage
and he can give you a briefing. I'll give you
all I - well here he comes right now.

PLT He'll be here when you get back. Are you still
there, Crib?
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229 01 32 37 CC Yes, sir. I hope you don't wander off too far,
Jack.

PLT (Laughter) I haven't got cabin fever yet. A1

won't give us our liberty cards. There will be
no more liberty until morale improves.

CC Tough skipper, huh?

229 01 33 56 PLT Captain Ahab. What happened on the hike was I

decided to go for a ride, and - and I was going
to go for a half an hour, but you know, the
scenery was good and all that, and so was the
music. And it's kind of like eating strawberries
and ice cream, if you run out of the strawberries
first, you've got to get more ice cream. Well,
I had the music going, and I ran out of bike
before I ran out of music, so I kept going, and
then I ran out of music before I ran out of
bike, and so forth. But I got to 57 minutes
and the bike started vibrating a little bit,
and then it just started freewheeling, so I
had to quit. And we let it cool off, and I
think it's going to work all right now.

229 01 34 34 CC That sounds vaguely familiar.

229 01 37 07 CC Skylah, Houston. We're AOS Madrid for 8 minutes.

and I've got a few questions for you if you can
- got some time to answer them.

PLT Righto, we've got all the time in the world.

CC Gee, you're so cooperative. Okay, I got a

pile of them here. We'll just start at the
too. We'd like to get an inventory of the
batteries in the IMSS diagnostic kit, which
is locker 709, to determine if any replacement
batteries have been used. And if you can -
also please report on usage to date and antici-
pated usage of the IMSS head-mounted light. And
if you could Just - -

229 01 37 49 SPT Okay, we haven't used the head-mounted light at

all. It's got a fancy name which I won't bother
quoting. And I can't remember it. And I haven't
had a chance to inventory the batteries yet.
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CC Okay, if at some time you can find that

convenient and Just record it for us, we'd
appreciate it.

SPT Okay.

CC Okay, this one is in reference to EREP i - S190

desiccants. What would you like to have from us
concerning the S190 desiccants? We can track
for you, giving how many have been baked out and
stowed and the condition and so forth. We think
from our SL-2 experience it might be easier for
you to take care of that Just - Just yourself.

229 01 38 33 PLT You're ;right. They're all baked out, and we've
got 12 of them ready to go.

CC Okay, and I understand that you concur that

you'd just as soon bake them out when you think
they need it without any turning around from us.

SPT Righto, Crip.

CC We appreciate that. And for A1, we'd like to

ask on the LBNPD, are you still using position
number 6 on the saddle?

229 01 39 03 CDR The answer is yes. I used it today, but I

didn't make it all the way through the 50 milli-
meters; I had to cut off at about a minute,
25 seconds to go, but I was using position 6.

CC Do you think you're going to stick with 6, or

are you thinking about changing it, Al?

CDR I'm thinking about moving it to 5, but I'm not

concerned. I think 6 or 5 will both be good.

CC Okay, I guess we might be interested in hearing

if you do change it from 6.

229 01 39 35 CDR Sure will, Crip. We'll keep you informed with
that. The serial number of the cuff - blood
pressure cuff and the serial numbers of the
band, and then we're going to use those numbers
that we called down the other day until we -
and if we change them, we'll sure let you know.
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229 01 39 52 CC Okay, this item here you may - you may - you
may have to break out a book, if you can write
it down that's - probably satisfy it. We sent
you up a permanent general message number 14
regarding the spider, and we messed up on a
stowage location in there. We put down, right
at the end of it, an F-508, and it should have
been F-509.

CDR Okay, we got it_ Crip.

CC 0kay, thank you.

229 01 40 18 CC Okay, and we had some little difficulty under-

standing during T013 today whether the - the DAC
was on during task 3 performance over Vanguard.
The voice indicated that you did task 3 again
later for the DAC or something.

CDR That's affirm. Here's what occurred. We were

running a little bit behind, so we knew we had
to come over Vanguard and give you the informa-
tion, so we got over there, set the TV up, and
figured that the TV would correlate with DAC
task 3. But we knew they mi_,ht want film also.
So we ran 3 again later with film. So they've
had two 3's, two l's and one 2. So we gave
them essentially an extra 3, and they've got
everything, I hope, that they needed on both
tape and TV.

229 01 hl 05 CC Okay. But you were doing a TV when you came

over Vanguard at the time we were - you were
doing task 3. Is that correct?

CDR That is a fact. So everything we did was cor-

related either with TV or with film.

CC Okeydoke, very good. Next question regards

the wardroom window which you told us the other
night that you had evacuated again. We'd like
to know if you performed that per perm - per
permanent general message number i0 which
basically left the thing evacuated to vacuum.
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229 01 41 37 CDR We did, and I'ii tell you what, Crip. After
we evacuated, and I evacuated for about 5 or
6 hours, this still - this little cone-shaped
thing which is - which is on the inside of
both windows - it's on the inside pane of the
window'we're closest to and the inside wing of
the outside window, you can only see it when
the light is Just right. Like at night, you
can't see it. And the more l've looked at it
the more l've realized that probably that came
in the day that we did the window procedure.
And it doesn't look like moisture anymore.
It looks like some thin, white coating. But
it - it's so thin that you can't - like I say,
you can only see it when the light's right.
I don't think it111 disturb pictures. I think
it'll Just be a noticeable thing to someone when
the light shines Just correctly on the window.
And if - the window presently is evacuated,
it's got in it the best vacuum we could put
on it.

229 01 h2 37 CC Okay. I think we got all that. Appreciate

the good description of it, A1.

PLT Sa_v,Crip?

CC Yes, sir.

PLT I hope you've got some more words on this

S192 EBDU for tomorrow.

PLT I got that the first thing after I get up, and
I - guess I don't have the word as to what that
means.

CC Yes, Jack. We _ye got a message down here

we're going to send up to you. And it's Just
a special run to - to check the thing out.

229 01 43 05 PLT Oh, okay, thank you.

SPT And, Bob, here _s you batter/r info. On the

microscope, 3 batteries; the laryngoscope,
2 batteries ; hemoglobin meter, 2 batteries ;
otoscope, h bats.
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CC Okay, appreciate that, Owen. And for Jack,

we'll try to get that message up over - for
you on the next pass so you can be taking a
look at it. And, A1, for you, you've stated
during your 509 runs that the backpack was
slipping around when you were rolling. We'd
like to know whether the harness was actually
loosening un on you during the run, or is it
Just that the harness is not adequate to pro-
vide good restraint?

229 01 43 40 CDR I think maybe it's a little of both. It gets

worse as the run progresses. The harness is
not made of very thick webbing, so when you
pull it through tight, it tends to slide over
into the corner of the - the buckle, if you
know what I mean. And so it doesn't grip too
good. But even - when you first start out doing
din [?] rolls, if you do a - a very. much of a
roll, then the backpack rolls relative to you.
As - as the run progresses it's even more.
Usually when we came to an end of a baseline
maneuver, we - we would readjust. So what I
think needs to be done - and we kind of looked
at it - we need to come up with a - an additional
use of a short strap or a long strap like we
did on T20 to stabilize that backpack, and I
think we'd have it licked. Lou Rsmon invented
a procedure for T20 that worked out real good.
And we might be able to use it on 509. I don't
think you need new straps; it just needs some-
how to incorporate a few extra little short
straps and long straps that we have here to
stabilize it better.

229 01 44 53 CC Okay, AI, we cooied all that. We're about

20 seconds now from LOS. We'll have you again
at Carnarvon at 02:10, and that will be your
ned status rep - debriefing. And if we have time
there, I'll come on and talk to you like - about
the loss-of-attitude cue card that we sent up
and also about deleting some items from your
shopping list. If not, I'ii get you at Texas
which is at 02:55. And that's the time we have
set uD for Owen's phone call. And we'll start
off on the left antenna and he may have to switch
it.
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CDR Okay, we'll stand -be standing by for any

questions you've got there, Crip. Thanks.

229 01 45 31 CC Okay, thank you, A1.

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229 02 23 36 CC AI, we're planning on shutting off the cabin

release valves tomorrow, so we'll - we'll handle
that problem, but we do want you to go ahead
and close that venting tonight.

CDR Okay, I haven't done it yet, but plan to.

Right now l'm getting the film out of S019.
Would it be okay with you if I stowed SOl9 to-
night? It would be just as easy.

CC Roger that. That's your choice.

229 02 23 58 CDR Okay. Well it's - it's had plenty of time to

warm up. l've had it inside but evacuated for -
since the last S019 pass. So, I'ii stow it
all tonight. That'll give us a few more minutes
tomorrow morning to shoot up that film.

CC Oka?T, copy that. And, A1, like to find out

about - if you've got your shopping list handy,
I'ii talk about it if you don't, we would
like to get - -

CDR Let me grab it. Okay, go ahead.

229 02 24 28 CC Okay, the items that require you to inhibit

momentum dump on it, we plan on - we td like
to go ahead and delete off of the shopping list
because that way - it ensures to us that we'll
schedule them. Stand by i. Okay, AI, we show
that you've got S019 ops tomorrow, so we don't
think you should be - be stowing that tonight.

CDR I agree with you. But I noticed you had me

stowing it first thing tomorrow morning. But I
agree a hundred percent with you.

229 02 25 14 CC Okay, that's for stowing the prism, not the

S019 itself, AI. And we're about 15 seconds
from LOS. We'll have you again over Texas
at 02:55, and I got a couple of items I'ii
run over with you in the shopping list there
also.
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CDR Okay. Well we'll do that stow i tonight -

stow i. We'll do that tonight.

CC Okay - -

CDR We'll work on the shopping list when you

call back.

229 02 25 36 CC Okay, that's fine.

229 02 59 42 CDR Hello, Crip.

229 02 59 4B CC Oh, you're back there. Good. I've _ot a

few questions I need to run by you, sir.

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SKYIg_B AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

229 02 59 51 CC Are you with me, AI?

CDR You bet. i00 percent.

CC Okeydoke; real good. The one we talked about

on the shopping list, have you got that h_ndy?

CDR You bet.

CC Okay. What we w_nted to do - do are delete

items 22, 23, 34, 35, 36. And those are the
MMD items that require inhibiting momentum
dump and we're - we'd feel more comfortable
if we go ahead and do our runs down here to
make sure that we don't get in a TACS problem
flying like we are.

CC You with me on that one, AI?

CDR I was just marking them off. The answer is,

we understand. I - We think the TACS is not
inhibited at the moment.

CC That's - -

CDR Let me mention something else that's going on,

that I think you're aware of. But I want to
make sure that you are. And that's the fact
that we're venting this holding tank through
the ssme airlock that the SO19 is in.

229 03 01 15 CC Think we might have had a little problem there?

CDR Well now, it's not - We don't dump through

there. It's Just that when it comes time to
put a vacuum on the backside of the bellows,
that's where we've been doing it. Now, maybe
we shouldn't and should do it somewhere else.

CC No. That's where we told you to do it. We -

we've noted that, AI. Let me t_]k about a
couple of items and - That - that is the
problem we would like to have - have it out
of the SAL before we vent - before we draw a
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vacutun on it through there. But, if you're

already in process, it's not going to help now.

CDR Okay. And we did it the other day a couple of

times, too.

CC Yes. I guess, we didn't get - get the word

squared away to you. And - Okay. On the TACS,
since you mentioned it, do you happen to have
that new cue card that we sent up to you on
loss of attitude, and how we recover?

CDR Got it right in front of me.

229 03 02 08 CC Okay. Couple of items l_d like to discuss

with you on that. We talked over there toward
the end about getting back in plane, looking
out the S190 window. And, actually, at low -
That's only going to be available for the low
Betas. At hi_h-Beta angles, it may be a
little bit difficult. And really what we're
trying to say is, use, you know, any window
you've got, STS windows, if thatls necessary,
190, if thatts available.

229 03 02 38 CDR 0kay_ Got you.

CC Also, subsequent to that, and probably working

with the ground, we are going to use the star
tracker and lock it on to get a - a good
update on where we actually are with respect
to the orbit plane. And then correct the -
the Nu Z accordingly. And want to make sure
you understood that.

CDR Okay. Sure do.

CC Okay. And, if you've had a chance to look

over it and you haven't got any questions, we
recommend going into that configuration for
tonight and really all we need you to do for
it, is to secure the six TACS switches and put
them to INHIBIT for use and we'll handle the
rest in the commanding in the computer.
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229 03 03 19 CDR Okay. And let me see if I've got it right.

Rate gyros, we know what they are, because
we've got the pad that you sent us lately.
C_G control, enabled, naturally that is. CMG
auto, reset: That's been that way all day, or
for several days. TACS control DAS, inhibited.
Now, TACS control, I don't know if you've
inhibited yet, because you must have enabled
it earlier today.

CC That's affirm. We're flying with that enabled

in the computer right now.

CDR So you're going to inhibit that part. And

we're going to go TACS switches INHIBITED.
And we'll go do that in a few minutes.

CC Okay. That's -that's affirmative. And, A1,

on that rate gyros, I think I better mention,
when we say as appropriate, if you ever got
into the situation, we - and you're going
down trying to find the best gyro, we don't
exp_ect you Just to go to that card we sent
you, you should go through and look at the
appropriate gyros in the axis and their out-
puts, and play that against any rates you see
outside. And pick the best one.

229 03 04 19 CDR Okay. We understand that part. You'd use

that to decide which of the good ones you
want to pick, or you want to vote on?

CC Yes, That's correct. You know, if we already

know that one is completely bad, there's no
sense even considering it.

CDR Right. And then we'd look out the window and
try to relate what was going on, maybe to the
indications - We noticed the other day that
the gyros we brought up, generally, were in
close agreement.

229 03 04 53 CC Okay. And, AI, also it's probably up at

your other panel, but on that rate gyro drift
information that you've got, I did want to
update Z-2 verbally and have you mark it on
that permanent general message number 12, if
-_ we could.
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CDR You drooped out, Crip. Do - Say again.

CC Okay, on permanent general message number 12,

which is the rate gyro drift, the one that
you're supposed to put in a computer if we
have a switchover, l've got an update for Z-2
that l'd like to give you verbally if - if
somebody could copy it down.

229 03 05 25 CDR Copy right now.

CC Okay, for Z-2, it's 50010, 50015, which is a

plus 0. 0013.

CDR Okay.

CC And stand by, A1, I want to check out this

condensate dump for you and get you a - a good
story on that.

CDR Seems to me there ought to be some way we

could dunD it through the same line we been
dumping the condensate through. But maybe we
can't.

CC Okay, A1, I think we see the problem is, you

have been going according to the permanent
general message number l, which is the conden-
sate dump that we first sent you. Is that
affirmative?

CDR Let me look.

229 03 06 29 CC We - we have sent you, in addition to that a

housekeeping gO Tango, 60 Tango, which modifies
the ws_v to do that dump.

CDR Hold on a second.

CDR Roger_ I've got that one.

CC Okay, do you have the permanent general message

number l? Or is that - is that the one that
you been using?

CDR No, I've got the one that says, "Condensate

holding tank only dump; housekeeping 60T."
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CC Okay, that's the procedure that we had hoped

you were dumDing by and it doesn't require you
to pull a vacuum on the tank.

229 03 07 40 CDR H_mn. Well, _then there's an error. I thought

that this was kind of the first half of a two-
part procedure. You notice the other procedures
in here, they - they kind of break it up.
It's - One of them shows you how to dump and
the other shows you how to get a vacuum back on
it. In other words, you're saying what I need
to do then is Just dump it and then leave it
like it is.

CC Yes, sir. That's -_that's what we wanted_ou

to do. And if you WouY_, _yO_ tan del_te that ....
general message number i which was the one that
required you to go about the SAL.

CDR Okay, well, I been doing twice as much, because

I thought this was, you know, Just the first
part and I had to do the other part anyway.
Okay, understand. I guess the feeling is once
you got a vacuum in the bellows as long as you
don't let it out, it Just stays there.

229 03 08 33 CC That's - EGIL is telling me yes; that's the

way it goes.

CDR Well, I kind of wondered about that one, too, but I

decided you - I can see now why I was screwed
up. Okeydokey.

CC Okay. Sorry, we didn't get the - get the word

to you to get that one squared away. I believe
that covers most of the items I have. I've sort
of gone over here into your bedtime. Let - let
me check with Flight.

CDR Okay, we got time.

229 03 09 21 CC Okay, that does it. We got about a minute and

a half before we go LOS. I really didn't have
time to read you any news tonight. I might say
that NASA announced today that it plans to
launch - launch Skylab 4, Jerry's flight, on or
about November the 9th. During the SL-4 mission,
NASA tentativelyplans to observe c_net Kohoutek.
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CDR And what's their length or are they quoting

any now?

CC I haven't heard it. Haven't heard an update

on that at all.

CDR 0kay.

CC They - they're still planning on, you know, just

makin_ sure they go - they go in to get the
Kohoutek, at least go that long. And go ahead
and wish you guys good night here. There is a
Madrid pass coming up in about 5 minutes from
now if you wanted to talk to me about anything
else. But I'm not going to give you an AOS call.

CDR Okay, good night.

CC Good night, guys.

PLT So long, Crip.

PLT Rest well. Your Marine Corps is watching you.

229 03 i0 22 CC I feel safe.

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SKYLAB AIR_TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

229 i0 45 14 CC Good morning Skylab, we've got you through Guam

for 2 minutes. And the CDR is the only one who
needs to rise now. He's got an ATM pass starting
in about 25 minutes.

CDR Okay, thank you, Story.

229 i0 45 41 CC And no need to acknowledge, but I've got an update

for your Sun this morning. New prize crossing
east limb at 28/1. A bright surge on the limb
was reported in this position, at 0B_B0 Zulu. No
other activity.

CDR What's its name?

CC I'ii get it for you.

229 i0 46 40 CC And Skylab, we're 20 seconds to LOS here, we'll

see you over Goldstone in 16 minutes, at 11:02.

229 ii 03 17 CC Skylab, we're AOS stateside for 18 minutes.

CDR Okay, everybody's up.

CC And AI, when that area gets around, it's going to

be active region 93.

CDR Okay.

229 Ii 05 17 CDR There is a nice bright spot on the east limb. It's
not a spot, I meant plage, a nice bright area.

CC Yes, sir.

229 ii 06 17 PLT Hello, Story.

CC Go ahead, Jack.

229 ii 06 21 PLT Yes, today we'd like to recognize an individual at

Marshall Space Flight Center who's contributed a
lot to this program, by the name of Bob Thompson.
l'm sure that you know him, and eve1_body does.
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We'd like you to give him a call and make sure he

knows how much we appreciate his efforts on this -
on the workshop. He had a major responsibility in
making sure that the workshop got built correctly
and he had a major responsibility of making sure
our trainers were in good shape. We're mighty
pleased with the way things turned out. And Bob
always had a very can-do attitude about everything,
and that's the kind of attitude that has made this
program, and other programs we've had in space
flight, successful. So we'd like you to make sure
Bob Thompson, over at Marshall Space Flight Center,
knows that we appreciate all his efforts.

CC Knowing him, he may be hearing you right now, but

I'll certainly call him.

229 ll l0 18 CDR Are you getting the down-link on the TV, Story?

CC That's affirm, A1, we're looking at it.

CDR Okay, well, let me give you some goodies here.

Here's the ... graph; let me roll it around for
you.

229 ll 12 02 CDR They ought to roll a little faster now.

CC Okay, we're seeing it.

CC And, A1, we've got 3 more minutes of real time TV.

CDR Okay, let me get this out here and do this XUV MON.

CDR Did you come to the sequence?

229 ll 12 58 CC Okay, we're getting the XUVs.

CDR Okay, I'ii give you another sequence.

CDR Okay, there's two sequences. Let's take a look

at H-alpha 2.

CC Okay, we got them.

229 ll 14 16 CDR Okay, now I'm going to close the coronagraph here.
And then I'm going to go up and look at that new
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active region, so y'all can get a glimpse of it on

H-alpha i.

CC Okay.

229 ll 14 52 CDR Okay, it's right below the reticle there. I'll
move it up a little bit higher - be a better
view for you.

CC Okay, we can see it.

CDR Maybe we'll get a little action out ofathat thing.

CC Let's hope so, it's been pretty quiet.

CDR Boy, it sure has.

229 ll 15 25 CDR Let me give you a little XUV MON of the same spot.
I know you've got the whole thing, but - right here.

CDR I'll give you some 2's and 4's.

CC And_ A1, we're not picking up the TV real time now,

but it will be recorded at Mila at this time.

CDR Okay, I think that does it.

229 ll 16 50 CDR We'll put that detector 3 around, and scan that
area, and see what we can see, as far as the UV's
concerned.

CC Okay.

CDR Take a few seconds on my frames 67 and 66, so

detector 3 may not be getting anything special.

CC A1, could you give us the frame counts on the

experiments? We've missed them the last couple
of days.

229 ll 17 45 CDR Okay, its our faults. Let me give them to yuu;
H-alpha l, 05750; 56 is 2861; 82A, 100; 82S, 553;
52 is 3262. We're going to have to get with it.
5_ is 3144.

CC Okay, thanks.
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PLT Hey, Story, those were put on tape last night.

They must be somewhere in your archives there.

CC Okay, we'll look.

229 ii 19 49 CC And Skylab, we're a minute to LOS. We'll see you

over Carnarvon in 40 minutes, at 12:01, and we'll
be dumping the tape recorders then.

229 ll 20 22 CC In case you didn't read me, Skylab, we're 30

seconds to LOS. We'll see you over Carnarvon in
40 minutes. We'll be dumping the tape recorders
then.

END OF TAPE
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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

229 12 01 36 CC Skylab. We're AOS Carnarvon for 7 minutes.

229 12 08 07 CC Skylab. We're 30 seconds to LOS. We'll see you

over at Guam in 8 minutes.

229 12 15 56 CC Skylab, We've got you through Guam for 6 minutes.

We didn't finish our tape recorder dump over
Carnarvon. We'll be dumping a couple more minutes
here.

CC Skylab, we're 1 minute to LOS. We'll see you

over Goldstone in 18 minutes at 12:39. And,
CDR, the last message is up on the teleprinter
pad. It refers to changes on your M509 _U ops.
And we're assuming on giving you that message
that you will be using the cue card rather than
the checklist.
CDR You assume right. We'll do it.

CC Okay, and a little later on, A1, we'll be talking

with you about changes in the cue cards versus
the checklist. If possible, we'd - we'd like
not to have you have to change both of those but
we'll talk over that philosophy, maybe stateside.

CDR Good idea. We've found the cue cards to really

be the thing.

229 12 22 05 CC Okay, we're glad to get that information.

229 12 39 5h CC Skylab, we're AOS through Goldstone and Texas

for 15 minutes.

PLT Okay, Story. Are you ready for the EREP readings?

CC Go ahead.

PLT Okay, Alfa 2 is reading 60 percent, Aifa 3 reading

86 percent, Alfa 4 reading 71 percent, Alfa 5
reading 65 percent, Alfa 6 reading off-scale low;
Bravo 2 reading 57 percent, Bravo 3 reading
76 percent, Bravo 4 reading 71 percent, Bravo 5
reading 73 percent, Bravo 6 reading 51 percent.
P Youwithme?
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CC Yes.

229 12 40 45 PLT Okay, Charlie 2 reading 45 percent, Charlie 3

reading 87 percent, Charlie 4 reading 70 percent,
Charlie 5 reading 82 percent, Charlie 6 reading
47 percent; Delta 2 reading 86 percent, Delta 3
reading 85 percent, Delta 4 reading 72 percent,
Delta 5 reading 13 percent, Delta 6 reading 57
percent.

CC Okay.

PLT Okay, I'm standing by for an aut - AUTO CAL at 45.

CC Roger.

CC And, Jack, we'll need the VIDEO switch to TV for

the down-link.

229 12 41 59 PLT Okay, my friend, l've change/ it. How are you
getting it now?

CC Okay.

CC SPT, Houston.

SPT Hello.

CC Owen, I've got a change to the ATe4 schedule pad.

Take you about a minute to copy if you've got it.

SPT l'm just setting up to start this JOP. Can you

wait a couple of minutes? How much time do we
have here?

CC It doesn't - The nearest pass that it concerns

is 17:25. So you've got all kinds of time.

SPT We'll wait.

229 12 45 02 PLT MARK. AUTO CAL.

CC Okay.

229 12 47 28 PLT MARK. S191 POWER, OFF.

CC Okay.
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229 12 48 h0 SPT And for the information of the backroom, DETECTOR

number 3 peaked up right on the dark boundary of
this network cell as seen in H-alpha i. So
apparently the two were coincident on DETECTOR 3
and H-alpha.

CC Copy, 0wen.

229 12 h9 25 PLT MARK. 192 MODE to READY; READY light on.

229 12 h9 46 PLT Position 5.

229 12 49 57 PLT Position 7.

229 12 50 07 PLT Position 9.

229 12 50 19 PLT OFF position. Okay, you got everything down

there, EREP? Hello, Story. How do you read?

CC Reading you loud and clear, Just waiting for an

answer. We've got it all, Jack.

PLT Okay, l'm going to turn it off.

SPT Okay, if you still have real-time TV, the back-

room can see the network cell I'm pointed at.

229 12 51 33 CC Owen, we haven't got the lines called up, but

they will be recording it at the site.

SPT Okay, thank you.

CC CDR, Houston.

CDR Go ahead.

CC A1, about these changes to checklists and cue

cards and the things like JOP summary sheets.
When we send you up a change to a JOP summary
sheet, to be precise, you'd probably have to
change the slJmmary sheet, the teleprinter fail
sheet, and the cue cards. And we'd like some
kind of understanding of which ones that you use
and maybe you could change Just those.

CDR Okay, well, that's a good idea. On the JOP

summarysheets,the ones we're using,are -
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are not the teleprinter fail. We don't have

any cue cards except for flares. We'd have to
change the flare ones. But Owen's listening
in; my suggestion would be that in order to make
this teleprinter fail situation work, we'd have
to put the changes in there, too, but let's
ask his opinion.

CC Okay, and you are not using the building block

cue cards?

229 12 52 43 CDR No, the situation never comes up.

CC Okay, and how about other things? Where you've

got a cue card and a checklist, is it satisfactory
just to changy the cue card?

CDR Yes, it's desirable Just to change the cue card.

CC Okay.

CDR The only time we've gone to the checklist is for

procedures that aren't on the cue card, and that's
about it. These cue cards are working out dandy.

CC Okay, I think in the past we've been too precise

and been changing the checklist too, even though
there's a cue card to cover that procedure.

229 12 53 25 CDR We'd sure welcome any relief on the paperwork;

there is quite a lot of it. You always feel
like that you could better be using your time
up here, but you know it's important too; so
you end up doing it.

CC We're doing about the best we can, but I think

we'll be able to do better in the future.

CDR Okay, I agree with you.

229 12 54 21 CC Skylab, we're 30 seconds to LOS. We'll see you

over the Vanguard in lO minutes at 13:04.

229 13 04 14 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Vanguard for l0 minutes.

CDR Sound happy this morning.

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CC Yes, sir, it's - little light rain in Houston

this morning, but it's - We're doing real fine,
Just coming on duty.

CDR Well, I was shaving and looking out the window at

the Andes.

CC I'm sure that's a pretty sight.

CDR Those are as rough a mountain range as I've -

we've seen whistling over the Earth. They're
kind of compact in a small place but they rise
up high and are continually rough all the way
down the coast.

CC Roger, A1. We remember the - Pete's comment when

he was - during his reentry phase and they were
real low over the Andes and it really impressed
them also.

SPT Say, Dick. Story had some changes for the

A_4 schedule there. I'm ready to copy them.

229 13 05 30 CC Okay, give me a minute here, Owen; then I'll

have them right up to you.

PLT Hey, Dick. I've got some word on the tape

recorders.

CC Roger, Jack. Go ahead.

229 13 05 53 PLT Okay, the first tape recorder that we took apart
was the one we replaced, that was serial number
22, it had 347 hours on it. It had three-eighths
to one-half of an inch more tape on the bottom
reel than on the top reel. And the reels rotated
freely, and as you know I had a busted drive
belt. And it made a 90-degree break and there
was some residue on all of those wheels down
in the drive area. Now, I have found the other
one down in the plenum bag after a little search-
ing around and that's the one that Pete's crew
replaced or took out and that was serial number 13.
It had 1 - 1710 hours on it. It had 1/8 inch
more on the bottom reel than the top reel.
Everything rotated nice and freely. It had the
.-- same failure, a busted drive belt. This time the
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break in the drive belt was angular and a

little bit serrated but it also had the same
kind of residue on the wheels down at the drive
area. Most of the residue was on the outer
sides of where the tape passed over the wheels,
but there was a little bit underneath where
the tape was strung across the wheels. Over.

229 13 07 18 CC Roger, Jack. We copied it and, while I give

Owen these changes to his ATM schedule pad, if
there're any questions about what you said, we'll
get them back to you up - after that. Owen,
you ready to copy?

SPT Go ahead.

CC Okay. The first is on the A_4 schedule pad at

the pass that starts at 17:25, Owen, and it's
at time 38, and it's - the information to the
right of limb scan 2. The ROLL should read
minus 6922, UP, four balls, LEFT, minus 815.
The latitud is minus 51 degrees. The quiet
region referred to is the southwest limb and
the next change is under - is right under there
under the information for line scan 3.

SPT Go ahead.

229 13 08 22 CC ROLL of minus 7497, UP, four balls, LEFT,

minus 900. And the next change is on the pass
beginning at 18:54 under line scan 5. The ROLL
should be minus 7718, UP, four balls, LEFT,
minus 945. And the last correction is under
the pass that starts at 20:29 and for the limb
scan 4. Okay, there the ROLL should be minus
7624, UP, four balls, LEFT, minus 925. Over.

SPT Okay. I've got all that, Dick.

CC Roger.

229 13 13 06 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from LOS. We're

going to see you at Goldstone a little over an
hour from now at 14:17 and we are going to dump
the date - data tape recorder at Goldstone.
Over. And we - Jack, we don't have any more
questions on your report about the tape recorder ....
We plan, I think, to send up some replacement

r
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belts for both those recorders on SL-h, so we

should have them back in operation by then.

PLT Okay. What you will want to do is make sure that

the Job can get done. Looks like there's lots of
wire bundles and stuff in there and that the belts
are put on before the wires are soldered down.
But, I think, with a little close look at it,
why, somebody can work out a way to do it.

229 13 13 55 CC Roger. And I'm sure Jerry and Bill will - and
Ed will have time in here to get hold of a tape
recorder and we'll figure out a way.

END OF TAPE
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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

229 14 16 58 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Goldstone for

12 minutes.

229 14 17 34 CC Skylab, Houston. We're going to have a keyhole

here at Goldstone, that is coming up in 15 seconds;
will last about a minute and a half. I'm not
sure if we are going to lose voice or not. I do
have one question for the PLT, but I think I'll
delay it for a couple of minutes. The pass is
about ll minutes long.

PLT Okay, let me ask you something. Page ll-2,

Maneuvering Experiments Checklist, step 2 asked
me to turn on two recorders, but only gives me a
select for one.

CC Roger, stand by.

PLT Okay, thank you, Dick.

229 14 18 45 CC PLT, Houston. In answer to your question, the

experiment 2 recorder is going to be recording
biomed data. It doesn't matter what the selector
position is for experiment 2. Any one of the
positions will be okay.

PLT Okay, that answers it, thanks a lot. They're both

running and they have got 1-G and 1-G select.

CC Roger. Thank you much. And we confirm they are

both running. And the question that I had for
you, Jack, had to do with the problems you had
last evening with riding the bicycle. What we
were interested in finding out was - is - did you
do any kind of troubleshooting, at all, on the
bike, or did you just - When you found out after
riding it for a long time, and it started free-
wheeling, how long did you let it cool down? And
I assume that when you got back on, the reason
you thought that it's going to work okay, was just
the fact that it was - after cooling down it seemed
to work okay? Over.
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229 14 i9 42 PLT Yes, after it cooled down for about an hour, I

got on it and I Just turned over the pedals five
or six times. It ran up to the watts that I had
set and it seemed like a normal workload on the
legs. And then I turned it off, and I think later
on, A1 got on it, and it worked okay.

PLT I didn't do anymore troubleshooting on it. I

didn't know anything I could do except to get into
the load module, and I didn't want to do that.

CC Roger, understand. Thank you, Jack_ And another

thing, the experiment 2 recorder - get back to that
for Just a second. We rant it On any position
except G, Golf.

PLT Okay.

CC G or H, Golf or Hotel.

229 14 20 33 PLT Okay.

229 14 27 2h CC Skylab, Houston. We're a minute from LOS at Texas.

We're going to see you at Vanguard at lh:43.

229 14 27 54 SPT And it's GO for the ATM room. It looks like the
same network cell is not distinguishable from the
H-alpha displays. So we finished up the last couple
of steps here by pointing coordinates, and I have
to look awful closely at the H-alpha photographs
to find the same cell on the second orbit.

229 lh 28 12 CC Roger, Owen. We copy.

220 14 40 27 CC Skylab, Houston; we're AOS Vanguard for ii minutes.

CC Skylab, Houston; we're AOS Vanguard for ll minutes.

229 14 hl 24 SPT Hello, Houston. It looks like we've got a little

subflare going on in active region 92, at the
moment. No apparent X-rays associated with it,
but I finished up my network and I'm doing it -
shopping list item 3, on this small subflare.

CC Okay, O_oen. Thanks for letting us know.

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229 14 49 31 CDR Houston, we're now right in the midst of the take
up procedure on SUS i.

CC Roger, CDR:

229 14 50 28 CC Skylab, Houston; we're about a minute from LOS.

We're going to drop you out for about an hour, and
see you again at Hawaii, at 15:51.

END OF TAPE
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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

229 15 51 06 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Hawaii for 6 minutes.

229 15 53 05 CC Skylab, Houston. A couple of things - we'd like

to get a status some time during this pass if we
could, about how AI is coming along with the 509
run. We've still got about 4 minutes left. And
also, 0wen, after tou get through setting up for
this daylight cycle pass and have a couple of
minutes, I've got an answer to a couple of
questions you asked of Dr. R_mmel and Ed Michael
the other night.

SPT Okay. First, let me mention about the network

cell. It's Just possible that I may have relocated
the same original cell that I had two revs ago.
It looks a little more promising now. I am a
little surprised about the changing coordinates.
It seems a little bit too much for solar rotation.
I have the cell boundary now at the same roll:
minus 490 DOWN, minus 644 LEFT, as opposed to the
original coordinates I called out before. The
backroom might check to see if they think this is
reasonable from a standpoint of solar rotation.
And A1 is Just suiting up, down there; in fact,
he's in his suit. Maybe Jack has a later update.
And I'm ready to answer - to copy those answers.

CC Okay. We're taking a look at the - the numbers

you read down to us, Owen. On the questions you
asked, the first one had to with - with any
changes in resting 02 consumption. And the answer

we get from the guys here is that the resting 02

consumption rates on all the crewmen are within
the range of their preflight - your preflight
baseline values. And this same was also true for
the SL-2 crew. The second question that you asked
had to do with the - your mechanical efficiency in
riding - in pedalling the bicycle. And the same
answer app - applies. The mechanical efficiencies
observed are essentially the same as you had during
preflight baseline. Over.

_P
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229 15 52 51 SPT Thank you.

PLT Hey, Dick, we've got A1 mounted on the ASMU, and

we're getting ready to put his hel - hat on. And
I noticed that one camera position doesn't seem
to work out in here, and that's the camera in the
dome. And I'm going to have to modify those
settings. And I want to know what - generally
in what direction they want that dome camera
pointed.

229 15 55 49 CC Okay, Jack. Stand by, please.

CC PLT, Houston. On the camera, we'd Just as soon

have it Just pointed right along minus-X, just
straight down into the forward compartment from
the dome. We're about 45 seconds from LOS at
Vaugu_rd. We're going to see you - correction,
at Hawaii; and we're going to see you at the
Vanguard at 16:19.

229 15 57 _l CC SPT, Houston. We're pretty close to going over

the hill. I'm not - I don't think we will get
an answer to you on the - what we think about
that pointing for that network cell, so ...

229 16 18 33 CDR And we're starting to yaw; let's see how it works.
I'm getting a roll left; I'll correct it. I'm
also headed down; I think it's the umbilical
that 's doing that.

CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS at the Vanguard for

the next l0 minutes, and I need to get a word in
for the 509 guys if they can listen.

CDR We're listening, go ahead.

229 16 18 56 CC Okay, A1. We're a little bit behind on - we're

a little bit behind on - on our recorder
number 2 dump - dumping. We'd like for you to
Just hold off on the run. We'd like to dump the
recorder 2 here at the Vanguard for the next
h or 5 minutes, and we'll get back to you. We're
going to start the dump, and we'll get back to
you as soon as the dump is complete to - so that
you can continue your run. Over.
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CDR Okay, I'ii Just go into a float mode here, around

the middle of the workshop. The tether, as you
can imagine, is pretty strong. I made - attempted
a left turn - left yaw, and it yawed about
90 degrees and stopped, and now It's headed back
the other way, and it's also pushing me down to-
wards the bottom. So my suspicion is that the
gas is not going to last too long.

CC Roger, AI. We're sorry to interrupt, and why

don't you and Just - Jack, Just figure out the
best way Just to get stabilized there and walt a
few minutes. And then I'ii let you know as soon
as we can continue.

229 16 19 58 CDR Okay, the tether is floating me over in the cor-

ner, so I guess that'll be good enough.

CDR What luck do you think you can have operating the
umbilical, Jack? See what you can do with it.

CDR I don't know. I noticed when you touch it, it's

almost like you've got a rigid pole. So I sus-
pect anything you do to it is going to - I could
not fire a fru - thruster, and you could fly me
around the maneuvers Just maneuvering the - the
umbilical.

CDR Okay. Seems natural, okay. May - maybe you can

occupy that position with the umbilical all the
t Ime.

229 16 21 29 CC And, Skylab, Houston. Jack, if you have time,

we've still got about 7 minutes here at Vanguard.
We were wondering if you could let us know how
far along A1 is in the run or, A1, if you could.

CDR We Just got started a few moments ago.

CC Understand.

CDR These suited operations take a little time to get

rigged out.

CDR Have you been able to find a place, Jack, yet,

where you could sort of keep the umbilical?
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CDR Uh-huh. I know it. Uh-huh.

229 16 22 37 CC And, Skylab, Houston, if I can break in real

quickly. Qne note for the SPT: we didn't get
back to you as we were going LOS there. We saw
about an 18 arc-second change in your pointing
in that one rev on that cell, and we expect only
about 6 to 7 arc seconds, so apparently you were
pointed at a different cell, and we were sorry
we didn't get the answer to you as we were going
A0S - LOS at Hawaii.

SPT Okay, now actually that was a two - change be-

cause this is the third rev I've done it. So
six or seven doubled is nearly the change that
we saw. So it looks to me like it might have
act1_lly been the same cell.

229 16 23 18 CC Roger, Owen, The way we arrived at that number -

we had looked at the telemetry from a one-rev
pass. So we think that the number that we cal-
culated was a one-rev diss - difference and not
tWO.

SPT Okay, here's the reason. The second rev I couldn't

find the cell with much certainty. So I used the
same numbers that I had on the original rev. And
so it means that the second rev, I may ahve been
mispointed a bit, but the first and third revs
differed by the 18 arc seconds. And so that's
the reason I said two revs, and I think it's a
reasonably close number.

CC Okay, good. We're going to go back and look at

the - that rev also, and we'll check it out.

229 16 25 12 CDR Since this - Dick, since this umbilical isn't

particularly large relative to any you might have
to have EVA; in fact it's our EVA one; kind of
makes you wonder, if you had a maneuvering unit,
whether you wouldn't have to include in it the
cooling and 02 requirements. Either that or one
whale of a lot of gas because, if you got this
umbilical out very far, it's going to really have
an idea of its own of where it wants to go.

CC Roger; understand.
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CDR It not only wants - has an idea, when you get it

going, it wants to keep going too. When you stop,
then it's off your c.g., and it keeps going so it
torques you, and then you're back expending gas.
You could overpower it, we've got enough authority
to do it. It's Just that you fire a lot of bursts.

229 16 26 01 CC Roger; A1.

SPT Comment for the backroom there. The - Ass1_,_ug

that I have found the correct cell here, which I
believe I have, it would have been impossible to
locate it without the time-exposure photograph
of H-alpha 1 which I took at the beginning of
rev 1. And only with that photograph could you
come back and find it in the very nearly ...
n_twork that we see now.

CC Roger, Owen. And, A1, we've completed the recorder

2 dump, and it's running again, and you can con-
tinue with M509.

229 16 26 37 CDR Okay, we're off and flying.

CC Okay.

CDR Get the cameras going and get the old umbilical.
Whenever you're ready, well I'll attempt this
turn again.

CDR Okay. Let me know when you're ready to go.

CC Skylab, Houston. We're about a minute from LOS

at Vanguard. We'll see you at Hawaii at 17:26,
and we've cleaned off that recorder. We will
not have to dump it again until 509 is over.
So you're in good shape.

CDR Okay. Thanks, Dick.

CC See you there.

CDR Let's try to get back up where we were.

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229 16 28 52 CDR Trying to come up to operating height here. We

us11A11y operate with it here, and I want to start
so that the data and everything is correct, l'm
going to do a left yaw in a mlnute.

END OF TAPE
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SKYLAB AIR-T0-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

229 17 25 41 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Hawaii for i0 min-

utes.

SPT Roger, Dick.

229 17 27 00 CC SPT, Houston. During the LOS period we did go

back and check some of these - the numbers on
the pointing for the network cell that I thought
you would be interested in. If you have a mo-
ment to listen, I'ii pass them up to you.

SPT All right. Just a moment, please.

CC Sure thing. We've got about 8-1/2 minutes left

and no hurry.

SPT Okay, l'm ready now, Dick. Go ahead.

229 17 28 05 CC Roger Owen. On the first rev, you were - we

looked at the pointing for the first rev, the
second rev, and then the last time that we
talked about it. Maybe we've already talked
about it enough. But the difference in pointing
taken off telemetry, between the first and sec-
ond revs was about 20 arc seconds. And between
the second and third revs was about 19 arc sec-
onds. And both of those were - were larger than
the difference between the first rev of about
7-1/2. Also, the difference between the first
rev and the third rev, itself, was in excess of
30 arc seconds. It was about 34, and there we
expected much less. So - and we did get your
comment just at LOS about the H-alpha photographs,
although there was some static. But we played it
back and listened to that, too. But in essence
we still are not sure that we were pointed at
the same network cell. So the next time you do
this, you might take this into consideration
and put it into your thinking hat about - you
know - you know - some techniques to use next
time.

229 17 29 16 SPT Okay. l'm still a little confused about that

F then, because on the secondrev, I went back to
the exact same pointing coordinates for the
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boundary. But then of course the particular steps

I was on required me to be displaced from the
boundary. But the second rev I intended to be -
put the boundary at exactly the same spot as I
had it on the first rev with the fine Sun sensor.
And so I don't believe there was any difference
in the coordinates of the boundary position itself.
And then on the third rev, since I thought I had
refound the correct cell, then of course I placed
the boundary at what I thought was some 20 arc
seconds away. And then I had to step even further
away to complete the step that I was on. So I
think there is some confusion about the actual
location of the pointing and the location of the
boundary of that cell. And as I was trying to
explain on the other - earlier pass, I assumed
that the boundary on the second rev was right
where it was on the first rev, because I couldn't
identify it clearly. And on the third rev then,
I had to displace about 20 arc seconds. See if
that makes sense to the backroom down there, please.

229 17 30 23 CC Okay.

229 17 30 58 CC SPT, Houston. To put this subject to bed here for

Just a few minutes: The only thing we can figure
is possibly - since we were only looking, so far,
at the real-time data that we got over the
Vanguard, and we are in the process now of pulling
out the MDRS data so we can look at that whole
rev. Possibly the point at which we picked the
numbers, you were not pointed at the cell there.
But at any rate, we'll pull out the MDRS data and
chase down and make sure that we do not have a
pointing problem. And we're convinced that we
don't.

229 17 31 30 SPT Okay, I think that's the answer right there because
you wouldn't know exactly where I put the boundary,
because for all of my later steps I was offset
from that up from 5 to 25 arc seconds. And so the
data that's on the telemetry is not the position
of the boundary, but displaced from the boundary
the appropriate number of arc seconds for the step
I was on. And I think that is the reason that the
numbers didn't appear quite reasonable at first.
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CC Roger, (>wen. That makes sense. And be advised

there are some teleprinter messages in the printer
you might take a look at.

SPT Okay, I'ii do it when we get a chance here.

CC Okay.

SPT Is that for me? Or for who in particular, Dick?

CC Nobody in particular, you just might take a look.

SPT Okay.

229 17 33 39 CC Skylab, Houston. And this is for the PLT if he is

listening. Later on today, Jack, you are going
to be scheduled to take some pictures of a volcano
down in New Guinea. And you have onboard, that
you carried up - -

SPT Hey, Dick.

CC Go ahead.

SPT He's sort of tied up right now, and says he can't

talk to you for a minute.

CC Okay, fine, no hurry. We've got - I was just going

to try to tell him that some time in the next
couple of hours I wanted him to get out a map,
and I could point out exactly where that valcano
is. I knew he couldn't do it right now.

SPT Okay, he's tied up on 509 with AI and working on

the thrusters.

229 17 34 13 CC Roger, understand.

229 17 35 04 SPT Yes. Well, Jack, I'm just setting up for an A_

thing right now. It's going to throw the thing
out of kilter if I do. Oh yes, l'm in the middle
of a limb scan thing.

CC Skylab, Houston. We're about a minute from LOS.

We'll see you at Vanguard at 17:58, and the last
two transmissions, Owen, were on air-to-ground.
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SPT Okay, fine. Do you know whether or not we're

supposed to knock off ATM ops so I can get some
VTR of this 509 at this interval?

CC Stand by.

229 17 35 45 SPT Okay, Jack. We'll try to get it anyway here.

CC SPT, Houston. That's affirmative. That's the

TV-36 Bravo that's listed on your pad - on your
details pad. And that was for you to support.

229 17 36 05 SPT Thank you.

229 17 57 21 CC Skylab, Houston. AOS Vanguard for 8 minutes.

229 17 58 14 CDR Okay, let's take the HHMU off, Jack.

PLT Okeydoke.

CDR All right. We've got about 1000 pounds. Maybe

we can make a rate gyro once around. I'm not sure.

CC Skylab, Houston. We're A0S at Vanguard for the

next 8 minutes, and we'd like to get a status as
to where you are in the run. The cabin pressure
we're reading is toggling between 5.5 and 5.6.

229 17 59 36 CDR Dick, did you read Jack?

CC CDR, negative. I did not.

229 17 59 42 CDR Okay, here's essentially what we have done.

END OF TAPE
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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

229 17 59 47 CDR We used up the first bottle flying the maneuvers

in the middle of the workshop. Not the baseline
maneuvers, but the attitude maneuvers and the limb
motions. We then came back, put in the second
bottle and new battery, put on the SOP, took off
the umbilical and flew a baseline maneuver in
DIRECT, that was the second maneuver. The first
one we flew in CMG and then DIRECT. Then we came
back, got the HHMU, and flew the first leg of the
baseline maneuver and then the SOP ran out of
oxygen. So we came back, put the umbilical back
on, that's where we are at the moment, put the
third bottle on, and we're down to i000 pounds
in the third bottle. I flew some - a baseline
maneuver with the HHMU and the umbilical, although
it wasn't very tidy. We did make it around. Now
we're going to - we got this last i000 pounds,
l'm going to attempt to do a baseline maneuver
with the umbilical in RATE GYRO, but the amount
of fuel it uses in RATE GYRO is fantastic, and
my guess is it'll never make it around.

CC Roger; AI. Understand.

229 18 01 04 CDR Without the umbilical on, it flies very well.

The - the SOP down at the bottom on the legs
doesn't seem to bother it. The thrusters don't
appear to impinge particularly on the suit or
the equipment I'm wearing so that you get rather
pure rotations, translations and the like, or at
least as pure as we did without the suit. Now
I noticed with the HHMU, such is not the case.
The HHMU is very - is much more - unstabilizing
in the suit than out of it because of the - exhaust
from the handheld maneuvering unit strikes you
at different places, or your backpack in different
places, depending on where your hand is, and it
up - it upsets your applecart a bit. So the HHMU
is even more difficult to fly than unsuited, and
not only because of, you know, the cumbersome
suit, but the fact the thrusters impinge all over
the place on it. It's - it's much different.

.... 229 18 02 13 CC Roger; CDR.

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CDR Um, let me think, what else? The P - the SOP

lasted - we had a full 6000 pounds in it, and my
guess is it lasted right around 19 to 20 minutes.
And the way it runs out, I've often wondered, is
it keeps flowing, but it Just lowers the suit
pressure until finally you have no suit pressure,
but you can still hear the flow. So there is
plenty of time to - to get your helmet and gloves
off. We were concerned about that, that it'd
Just suddenly run out and you would be standing
there with no oxygen, but such is not the case.
And so there's plenty of time to get your helmets
and gloves off and go back and regroup.

CC Roger.

CDR I think one interesting thing is you - you seem to

sit a little bit further away from the backpack
in zero g than you did before, and I - I find
that the arm - the hand controller, the rotational
and translational - is a - a little bit too
close for me; it never was in training or check-
out. I don't - I've been trying to figure it
out. I assume it's Just the way the backpack sits
in zero g, the way the suit fits, or the way I'm
floating forward in the suit or something like
that, that isn't true at - at zero - at one g.

CC Roger; AI.

229 18 03 36 PLT How do you read me now, Dick?

CC Loud and clear, Jack.

PLT Okay, when are we going to get the tape recorder

back?

CC Just be about 1 more minute.

CDR We're just sitting here, disconnecting the HHMU

anyway.

CC Roger; standby a second, please.

PLT Okay, we did that last HHMU run in ID number l,

which is where it needs to be, and we're going
to do this umbilical rate gyro baseline maneuver
in ID-2.
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CDR Okay.

229 18 04 33 CC Skylab, Houston. On the 509 stuff; since you're

so close to the end of the run, we've carefully
taken a look at cabin pressure. We think it will
be okay, so just go ahead and finish it as you've
described, and we're about a minute and a half
or 2 from the LOS at the Vanguard. We're going
to go around one more rev and see you again at
Vanguard at 19:35.

CDR Okay, how do we look on our time line, Dick?

CC Stand by.

CDR Yes, that's what I was wondering. I haven't got

a watch on, but I'm suspicious we're quite a
ways behind and we'll catch up eventually during
the day, but l'm just hoping it doesn't affect
this S019 pad that I have on board.

229 18 05 22 CC Okay, AI. The - on your time line, you _ys -

you and 0wen are scheduled to eat on the time line
at about 19:00 which is i hour from now. And
then the S019 follows that at about, oh, the
last half of - 19:40 or something like that.
Just looking at it real quick.

CDR Okay, we'll make that, no trouble.

CC Yes, I - I think you will.

CDR Okay, good.

229 18 05 47 CC Skylab, Houston. The tape recorder is yours.

PLT Okay, thank you, Dick. We're ready to go again

then.

CDR Yes. Uh huh. Ready to go? Okay.

CDR Jack, can you tell any reason that l'm sitting
so far forward? Huh?

CDR Can you move this out, Jack? Thank you. Oops.
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229 18 07 ii CC Skylab, Houston. As you go over the hill, we

heard the question about you sitting far forward.
It might be that the - You might make sure the
backspaceris out.

END OF TAPE
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TIME: 229:19:30 to 229:21:00
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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

229 19 35 08 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Vanguard for the next

l0 minutes.

CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Vanguard for l0 minutes.

CDR Okay, Dick.

CDR Hey, you've got it made; l0 minutes every hour

and a half.

229 19 35 50 CC Man, I planned it this way. One reminder, we

wanted to make sure that Jack - sometime before
this - the sunset got a Nu Z update, with the star
tracker in preparation for the S019 run that's
coming up with A1.

PLT Okay. Then you're ready for TV?

CC Stand by 1.

PLT You're going to pick it up at the site, huh?

CC Stand by l, please. That's affirmative, Jack.

The Vanguard is standing by to get your TV down-link.

PLT Okay. Here it comes.

229 19 36 28 CC And, Skylab, I had one little caution note that

EGIL wanted me to pass up to you, and that is,
since the cabin pressure is high, we'd like to
make sure that you don't open the CABIN PRESSURE
RELIEF valves, in the airlock module, on panels
300, 313, and 391, because if you do put them to
their normal - they're presently closed - if you
put them to their normal position now, they would
relieve, so we'll be watching cabin pressure for
you. And then when we ask you to, we'll ask you
to change position on those valves.

229 19 37 53 CC Skylab, Houston. Awhile ago, when I tried to get

to Jack, to - during the 509 run, and didn't get
to talk to him. What I wanted to mention, and
now may have to ask for some help from either A1
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or Owen down in the wardroom, but later on, in a

couple of hours, Jack is going to be taking
pictures of a volcano. It's down in - in New
Guinea, and I think it's going to be kind of hard
to find, and I think we could ease up on that
situation if you all could dig out your book that
you flew up - and I think it's in the _ardroom.
It's called General World Maps. And right toward
the end of it - right toward the end of it, in
my book at least, there's a picture of - that has
about the eastern half of Australia and New Guinea.
And if you could turn to that page, I could direct
somebody to exactly where this volcano is and
show you where the ground track is going to be.
And I think it might be a little easier for Jack
to. find later.

CC Incidentally, also, there's no particular big

rush on this, as long as we can talk about it
prior to the photography opportunity, and that
occurs at 22:19 this afternoon.

229 19 39 35 PLT Say, Dick. I've looked at all the numbers that
I've got for you on the inner and outer gimbals,
and I can't find the star. You got some more
good numbers?

CC Stand by 1.

229 19 39 51 CC Jack, I'm advised to let you know to Just go

farther with OUTER GIMBAL. We were watching and
we Just don't think you went far enough with it.
Said -

PLT I went both ways. Which way do you want me to go?

CC An OUTER GIMBAL of at least lO00 arc minutes, Jack.

PLT Okay. It was all the way from a 1000 to 1250 or

so, and didn't see it.

229 19 40 25 CC Okay. We still don't think that's enough. At

least a 1000 on one side and 1400 on other,
ASCO says.

SPT Okay, Dick, I'm looking at Australia and New Guinea.

What do you want to tell me about?
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CC Okay, Owen. If you'll look up there at the top

you'll notice that the island of New Britain is -
the coordinates we're looking for are about 148.h
degrees east, and about 5_5 degrees south. And
that is on the very western tip of the island of
New Britain.

S_T Stand by.

CC Okay.

229 19 41 29 PLT No luck, Dick. I went between 1900 and 1600 and
got nothing.

CC Understand, Jack. Stand by, please. We'll try to

help you.

PLT Correction, that was 900 to 1600. And the INNER

is around minus 650, or in that neighborhood, right?

CC That's affirmative.

229 19 41 56 CC Skylab, Houston. I'm advised the star may be

anywhere on the OUTER GIMBALbetween 200 arc
minutes and 2600 arc minutes. Over.

PLT Okay. I got one now at 9 - about 900.

CC Roger; understand. Thank you much.

PLT You want me to Just let a - lock up and close the

door, right?

CC That's affirm.

229 19 42 29 PLT Okay. It's a minus 650 INNER and plus Z-92 OUTER.

CC Okay, Jack. And we've had a good Nu Z update, and

you're GO to close the door.

PLT Okay. I got a minus 6.9, on NUz; you like that?

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229 19 h2 h5 CC Roger. And back to Owen. Owen, the - New Guinea

is the very large island Just to the north of the
eastern end of Australia, and the island of New
Britain is to the right of that, and Just under
that is - are the words Bismarck Archipelago.

SPT I know right where it is. I'm looking at Cape

Gloucester on Bismarck - on New Britain right now.
Is it on the western tip of New Britain there,
near Cape Gloucester?

229 19 h3 13 CC That's right, Owen. You see where the word - the
C in Cape Gloucester, and Just below that on the
island of New Britain, is a mountain peak indication -

SPT 6600.

CC That's right. Now that's - -

SPT 6600.

229 19 h3 26 CC That's right. Now that's where the volcano is,

right there. And your ground track that Jack will
be going on will be Just to the south of there
and will actually Just cross over the - the island
of New Guinea, so you'll be fairly close to it.

SPT From what I can tell on the western tip of New

Britain there is close enongh, and I don't think
we can miss it. Jack will get it.

229 19 h3 56 CC Okay. Real fine. We're about a minute from LOS

at the Vanguard. We're going to drop out for
about h minutes. And I'll call you again at
Ascension.

229 19 h8 56 CC Skylab, Houston. Hello, again, at Ascension; we

got you for l0 minutes.

CDR Hello, again.

229 19 h9 39 PLT How'd the ATM guys like the panel, Dick?

CC Roger; check. Stand by.

CC PLT, Houston. We're completely satisfied with

the configuration. Looks good.
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PLT Makes it unanimous, then.

CC Roger.

229 19 52 15 CC PLT, Houston. You Just put 82 Bravo into HOLD.

We'd like you to go back to NORMAL and then STOP,
please.

PLT Okay, NORMAL and STOP.

CC Okay.

PLT Okay, Dick. The tape recorder's in use. I'll give

you a quick debrief on the last ATM run. Every-
thing came off as advertised. Any questions?

CC (Laughter) That was quick. Stand by and I'll

see.

CC Jack, the backroc_ says that was a very clear

debrief and they don't have any questions.

PLT Okay, see you in about half an hour. Thanks.

CC Roger.

229 19 58 27 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 30 seconds from LOS

at Ascension. We're going to see you at Guam at
20:33.

229 20 33 13 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS at Guam for 9 minutes

and, Jack, if you will let us have the DAS, we're
going to command - enable the momentum dump.

PLT You've got it.

CC Roger.

SPT Say, Dick, do we have anything left on the VTR?

CC Say again, please, I didn't copy that last question.

SPT Roger. I Just asked if we had anything left on

the VTR?

CC Stand by.
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229 20 BB h4 CC Skylab, you've got about 6-1/2 minutes on the VTR.

It is - You can use that and the tape recorder is
in the RECORD mode - RECORD cyc - we're in the
RECORD cycle.

SPT Okay, fine. Thank you, Dick.

CC Roger.

CDR And, Dick, we've Just begun the charge on BAT 6,

M509.

CC Thank you, A1.

229 20 34 38 CC Skylab, Houston. We're through commanding: DAS

is yours.

PLT Okay.

229 20 40 48 CC Skylab, Houston. We're a minute frc_ LOS. We're

going to see you at Vanguard at 21:12.

PLT Okay.

CC And, Skylab, Houston. We got two of your tomorrow

Flight Plans up that are in the teleprinter. We'll
have the other on up-linked at Vanguard.

SPT Okay.

CDR That fast. Good.

CC Sorry. Didn't copy that one.

CDR I said that fast. Good.

CDR We're just putting the SPT in the LBNP.

229 20 42 07 CC Roger.

END OF TAPE
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SKYLAB AIR-T0-GROUNDVOICETRANSCRIPTION

229 21 12 15 CC Good afternon, Skylab. We're AOS over the Van-

guard for the next ii minutes.

CDR Hey, Crip; CDR. Do you suppose you could set up

a phone call for me tonight?

CC Yes, sir. Be glad to.

CDR Okay. Thank you.

229 21 18 44 CC PLT, Houston. We're a little bit confused about

what you're doinK at the Danel there right now.
We show that you did not go into building block 6.
Can you update us a little bit, please?

PLT Yes, I'll give you the word on that, Crip. That's
correct, I did not go into building block 6, be-
cause I would not have time to complete it. There-
fore, I went down to the last rev and I pickedup
that shopping list item which I'm doing now. And
in its place I'll be substituting the building
block 6A that I didn't have time to complete at
this time.

CC Okay - -

PLT Did you copy?

CC Yes, Jack. We copied that, and that sounds good.

Thank you very much.

PLT 0keydokey.

PLT And for Jim Milligan, there in S056, there'll be

about a 9-minute exposure at Sun center with fil-
ter 3 in OFF.

229 21 20 21 CC Okeydoke, Jack, we got that; thank you.

CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from LOS. We'll

see you again over Ascension in about 6-1/2 minutes
at 21:29. And, Jack, I got a small update I want
to mske to your JOP sheets. If you're still at
the panel at that pass, I'll give them to you then.
If - if not, I'll get them later.
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PLT Okay. I'm still here.

229 21 22 59 CC Yes, I haven't got time to give it to you now.

I'll catch you in about 6 minutes from now.

229 21 29 31 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS through Ascension for

about h-l/2 minutes. And, Jack, have you departed
the ATM C&D yet?

229 21 31 58 CC PLT, Houston. You got a moment to talk to us?

PLT Sure do, Crip.

CC Okay, Jack. To understand what you were talking

about awhile ago when you said you were going to
go back and - and pick up that building block 6,
were you going to go ahead and fill it in at the
last rev of the day after 01:ll, or when were you
planning on picking it up?

PLT Yes, that's my plan here. The problem was there

wasn't time left after I got done with the pre-
ceding building block to complete the 6A. So, I
didn't want to get it started and - and not finish
it. So, I decided that there would be time at the
end of the day in the last rev coming up tonight
if I were to pick up that shopping list item there.
And so I did that; it worked out good, and looks
like I'm going to have plenty of time to work in
6A tonight.

CC Okay, that sounds good. The - the one thing that

we Just wanted to make sure that we weren't going
to break into our JOP 9's that we had going on.
And that sounds all squared away now. Have you - -

PLT I didn't plan to cut into anything. I Just put

them head to tail, fit them in wherever they will;
if it's not too late to do it two revs later why,
that's what I plan to do.

CC Your plan sounds great. We're going to drop out

here in about h5 seconds and I'll have you again
in a couple of minutes. And copy you've already
departed the ATM C&D?

PLT Yes, sir. Is there anything I can do for you?

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CC Okeydoke, thank you.

229 21 33 35 PLT Yes, that's all set up for unattended.

229 21 36 02 CC $kylab, Houston. We're AOS once more through

Canary for about 8 minutes. And, Jack, I know
you're busy shuffling food around restocking your
pantry, but we copy on $052 when you closed out
that you left the mirror position in TV. And
we'd appreciate it if you get a chance, that you'd
switch it to camera 4 so that, when we do our un-
attended ops, we won't lose a frame.

PLT Okay, I'll do it right now.

229 21 36 38 CC If you - if you're going up to the C&D panel, I

could - sure appreciate it if I could get you
to change one JOP sheet for me.

PLT Here's your friendly ATM operator.

CC Okeydokey. If you've - Go ahead and put that

mirror back to the camera, and if you could get
a chance to pull out your JOP 9 sheet for me, I've
got a small flip I need to - small change I need
to __ke.

PLT I see it here before me.

229 21 37 29 CC Okay, if you'd look in building block 2 in S054,

it calls out first for a filter 3 and then a
filter 1. We - -

PLT Sure does.

CC Okay, we need to flip those around. The first

one should be a filter 1 and the second one should
be a filter 3.

PLT Sounds more reasonable that way too, doesn't it?

CC Yes. All of the other building blocks on the

various JOP sheets of build_ng block 2's are cor-
rect. That one was an error. If you could cor-
rect it on both the - the regular JOP 9 and on
the - no teleprinter JOP 9, we'd appreciate it.
/

PLT I'ii do it right now. Thank you, Crip.

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CC Thank you, Jack.

CC Skylab, Houston. We're going LOS. See you again

at Guam at 22:10.

PLT Okay.

229 21 44 07 CC Out.

229 22 l0 18 CC Skylab, Houston. AOS over GuAm, 7 minutes.

CC And, Skylab; Houston. For anybody, I got one

message I'd like to relay, please.

CDR Go ahead, Crip.

CC Okay. Due to the problem you ran into last

night, Jack, [sic] on the - on the ergometer,
until we can investigate the problem a little
bit further, we would like to limit ergometer
time to 30 minutes usage, and then with a
15-minute break, it may be used again.

CDR Okay. You say use 30, break 15, use 30 break 15.
Okay, understand.

CC Yes, sir.

CDR Thank you, Crip.

CC Skylab, Houston. One minute from LOS; Honeysuckle

at 22:24, about 8 minutes from now.

229 22 17 47 CC Skylab, Houston. We'll - going LOS. We'll see

you at Honeysuckle at 22:24.

229 22 24 34 CC Skylab, Houston. AOS Honeysuckle, 2-1/2 minutes.

PLT Okay, Crip. I Just took some volcano pictures.

I located the area; however, the western tip of
that island was mostly covered with clouds. The -
Part of the island was clear however, such that
I could determine that I had found the right
place. I took a couple of Hasselblads and a
couple of 300s anyway, with the thought that
perhaps some of the clouds were due to the vol-
cano. I could not see any discoloration in the
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water, primarily because the clouds and probably

because - perhaps because it wasn't there, any-
way. But located the area, although the volcano
may have been covered.

CC Okay, Jack. That was good spotting it anyhow,

with all the cloud cover there.

PLT Oh, it showed up right on time, right in the

right window, too. So you gave me some good fig-
ures on that.

229 22 26 l_ CC Okay. Those EREP people are plotting it right.

We're about 1 minute from LOS, now. We'll see
you again over the Vanguard at 22:51. And that's
about 25 minutes from now.

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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

229 22 51 09 CC Skylab, Houston. AOS over the Vanguard for

6 minutes.

CDR Say, Crip, I was looking over this procedure that

was sent up by the teleprinter a few moments ago
about this service module RCS, quad A.

CC Roger.

CDR Want to do that now, or when?

CC Stand by one moment.

229 22 55 00 CC Okay, A1. Our only constraint is that we'd like

to have site coverage on it. We've got a Canary-
Madrid pass coming up here in about 15 minutes.
If it's satisfactory, we'd be glad to do it then;
otherwise, we can put it off. We've got another
one around 01:00.

CDR Let's do it in 15 minutes. I got it in my hands,

and I'll just wander on up there in a few minutes.

CC Okay, sounds good.

CC Skylab, we're going LOS in about 30 seconds.

We'll see you again over Canary at 23:10. And,
A1, we'll be standing by to do that co-,,and module
switch there.

CDR Okay, and they're looking for feelings about how

long some of these housekeeping items take. The
first they had down was housekeeping ID, which is
vacuum cleaner bag replacement of 20 minutes.
I'd say that's about 5 to l0 minutes.

229 22 57 35 CC Copy.

229 23 i0 20 CC Skylab, Houston. AOS Canary for 14 minutes.

CDR Okay, Crip. I'm over in the comm_nd modules [sic].

CC Okay, AI. And we're ready and you can press on.
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CDR Okay. I'ii call them out as I do them. It'll

_ake them simpler.

CC Appreciate it.

229 23 l0 hl CDR Okay. RCS INDICATOR, SERVICE MODULE A; that's

where it is. RCS INDICATOR switch, TANK
PRESSURE/QUANTITY; that's where it is. Verify
SERVICE MODULE RCS PSM PROPELLANT A, OPEN; talk-
back, gray. That's a fact. And I Just cycled it
again, OPEN. SERVICE MODULE RCS PSM PROPELLANT C,
CLOSED_ talkback, barber pole. Okay, I'll do
that ; it's presently OPEN. Okay, and C is now
CLOSED, talkback, barber pole. SERVICE MODULE
RCS QUA/) PROPELLANT A, OPEN; talkback, two, gray.
Okay. I'm coming over to QUAD PROPELLANT, it is
barber pole, now. So I'm going to open it. Two
of them go gray. Next: SERVICE MODULE PSM l,
MANIFOLD ISOLATION, OPEN; talkback, gray. Says
"Monitor quad A fuel tank press, decrease to 176."
What we've got now, by the way, is about 198.
So, I'll let it go to 176, and then it says,
"PSM l, MANIFOLD ISOLATION, CLOSE." So, I'll
open it and close it at 176, or thereabouts.

CC Okeydoke.

229 23 13 13 CDE What do you think?

CC Proceed on.

CDR In other words, you want me to leave it right here

in 180?

CC That looks like it's stabilized there.

CDR Okay. All right now. So we've only - didn't de-

crease it to 176, gone to 180. I Just CLOSED the
MANIFOLD ISOLATION; I'll proceed from there.

CC Okay.

CDR Next is, SERVICE MODULE RCS QUAD PROPELLANT,

CLOSED; talkback, barber pole. Just a moment.
Okay, CLOSED and two barber poles. Wait 30 sec-
onds. Okay?
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CC Okay, A1. You don't have to wait anymore. You

can press on.

229 23 14 14 CDR Okay. It says, "SERVICE MODULE RCS PROPELLANT C,

OPEN." That 's PSM PROPELLANT, okay? Okay. C 's
OPEN; talkback is gray. RCS INDICATOR switch
MANIFOLD PRESSURE and it says, "RCS indicator
select SM, D." It is. Now, let me tell you
where the - all the switches are, so we'll know.
PSM 1 NELIUM, and MANIFOLD ISOLATION are barber
pole. QUAD Nk_,IUM, all of them are barber poled;
QUAD PRIMARY PROPELLANTS are all barber pole;
QUAD SECONDARY PROPELLANTS are all barber pole,
but I suspicion that they're OPEN. Because I
have - for example there, I didn't close that
one. Okay. Let's go over to the PSM PROPELLANT.
A's gray, B's barber pole, C's gray, D's barber
pole. And, of course, COMMAND MODULE RCS PROPEL-
LANT are both gray. And that's where they all
sit right now.

229 23 15 21 CC Okay, A1. That switch set and talkback concurs

with the way it should be.

CDR Okay. I'll shut down the comm here, Crip.

Thanks.

CC A1, could I - One more item, I guess, before you

rush off. It seems that a phone call tonight is
going to interfere with a little shopping trip -
I guess, getting ready for the trip. I wonder if
you'd mind putting it off until tomorrow night.

CDR Not a bit. That's a good idea.

CC Okeydoke.

CDR Thank you.

CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from LOS. We'll

see you again over Honeysuckle at 23:58, 23:58.

CDR 35 minutes.

229 23 23 36 CC That's affirm.

229 23 57 53 CC Skylab, Houston. AOS Honeysuckle, 8 minutes.

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CC And, Owen, if you'll stay off the DAS for us,

we're going to inhibit the momentum dump for this
upcoming S019. Also we are going to update TACS
thrust to 39 pounds at pulse width,
i00 milliseconds.

SPT Roger, Bob. I'll stay off the DAS and the back-
room might be interested to look at the contrast
on DETECTOR 3 between inside the coronal hole and
outside - beyond the boundary. I'm - Just - done
the one GRATING AUTO SCAN inside the coronal hole.
I'm about to move on the outside right now; it's
a pretty good contrast.

229 23 58 50 CC Roger.

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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

229 23 59 45 CC And, Owen, correction on my last statement about

S019. That was incorrect. We're doing it for
JOP 7, I understand - that dump inhibit.

SPT Roger. And you're going to take care of the

inhibit?

CC That's affirm.

CC Owen, no need to acknowledge. Today you had a

question about whether you were on the correct
network throughout the three cycles. They made
a thorough evaluation of all the data regarding
the network study and it reveals - the only thing
we could look at was the - was the third cycle.
And we verified that you had correctly - cor-
rected properly for the solar rotation, and we're
confident that you had the same cell - cell for
all three cycles. I guess the little question
that we had earlier was the fact that you were
so far ahead of us that we didn't really catch
on to where you were. But you were right on.

230 00 01 53 SPT Okay, fine. Thanks, Bob, and I did put some
more information about that on channel A which
I expect will get dumped and a transcript over
to y'all some time about it also. But I was
reasonably confident also because the - the
numbers checked out so well. And Just for in-
formation on this - coronal hole search that
I'm doing right now. It is possible to do it
as I've been doing it. Magnesium l0 is a very
good line for that. At the present coordinates,
591, the magnesium l0 level was about 40 counts.
Only 50 are seconds away, up at - up - plus
6_1, the magnesium l0 count dropped to about
four to five counts, or a factor of lO there,
and I've been using a persistent image scope
along with the magnesium l0 detector 3 sensor
and put together - I think you can do a pretty
good Job of pointing in and out of the coronal
hole. Jack had a real good idea on aligning
the electronic crosshairs with the crosshairs
of the XUVmonitor. And we have the electronic
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crosshairs on monitor 2 approximately aligned

with the center of the XUV MON right now. And
I think that'll be a considerable assist to us
in such things as pointing inside the coronal
hole, but even better doing such things as point-
ing at a bright spot in the coronal hole. And
we've got it aligned - it was Jack's idea yester-
day, and it's working out real nicely.

230 00 03 19 CC Okay, we copied that, Owen. And we'll pass it

on to Ed, also. And the DAS is yours once more.

CC And by the way, we are anticipating Ed would be

over here a little bit later to talk to you
tonight.

SPT Okay, fine _ Thank you, Bob.

CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from LOS.

We'll see you again over Bermuda in 36 minutes
at 00:41.

230 00 05 06 SPT Roger.

230 00 41 52 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS over Bermuda for

7-1/2 minutes.

PLT Hello, there, Crip.

CC Howdy, howdy. I've got a little stack of ques-

tions for you guys. If any - if you're handy,
I could go ahead and start into them now. If
not, we can hold them up until later.

PLT You got any for me?

CC Stand by, Jack.

PLT Just putting away a hamburger and a milk shake.

CC Roger. Bet you wish you had one. Yes, I got

one. When you examined the tape recorders, you
talked about some residue. Can you tell us if
it was a solid kind of residue and what color
was it.
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PLT Yes, it was a solid residue. It was sort of a

very pale yellow, and you could scrape it off
with a screwdriver.

CC Okay. Do you associate it with the - the belt?

230 00 h3 09 PLT Well, I don't know, Crip. The belts look like
they're kind of a hard clear plastic type of
thing, and I'm not sure that would come off the
belt. Looks like it must have come from some-
where else. The belts didn't appear to have
stuff scraped off them.

CC Okay, copy that.

CDR Got any more questions?

CC Jack, let me clarify that on those belts. Those

belts were supposed to be sort of amber looking.
Did you say they're clear?

PLT Yes, they're amber, but they're translucent is

what I mean. You can see through them.

CC Roger.

CDR Crip, it didn't look like stuff from the belt.

It looked waxy or not oily, but something that
you could - It was of an oii base; it - or dirt.
It didn't have - You know, those belts are clear
plastic. ItVd be like rubbing plexiglass and
expecting to get oil stains or something. It
just didn't look like it came from the belts.
The belts looked pretty good.

230 00 _h 16 CC Okay, copy that one. And, A1, I got a few for
you if you got some time.

CDR Sure do.

CC Back on 509 today, you mentioned that you felt

you were located very far forward in the unit
and - could you verify for us that the arms
were fully extended and that the backspacer was
removed?
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CDR I can verify half of it. The warm - arms were

1%_11y extended. The backspacer was not removed
when Truly mentioned it. Truly mentioned it ;
we said that's it, and so we removed it, flew
it for a few seconds, and found that everything
set okay and it flew exactly the same.

230 00 44 54 CC Okay, I guess that - that last bit of information

got dropped out someplace. And I believe that
Jack mentioned about some problems with the dome
camera that prompted you to ask about the point-
in@. And we were a little bit confused as to
why you asked about it. There - and there seems
to be - I think you're awa_e that _ - the - the
decal up there by the handrail is wrong, and the
correct ones are in your checklist. Can you ex -
tell us a little bit more about that?

CDR The answer to that one is, we've been using the
ones in our checklist, and it Just doesn't come
out to point in the right direction. We suspect
that either the trainer's different, but that is
not a good suspicion, or something's different.
And so we've Just been pointing it in the right
diTection which doesn't use the same angles. I'm
sure we're getting the film in the right point,
hut we Just -but the angles don't match.

230 O0 h5 50 CC Okay, copied that. And the other day on your

unsuited runs - run numher 2 rather, you made
four HN - HHMU baseline runs. You made a nominal,
a grab-on, a push-and-go, but on the fourth one_
Jack told us that you stopped halfway through,
but you gave no description of the operating
techniques. Could you elaborate on them a little
bit for us?

CDR Okay, now, I'm - I'm - I'm having a tough time

remembering. One of the runs I tried to do, and
I think that was this one. I tried to see if I
could Just push off in a certain direction and
make midcourses and get to the right place. And
that was one of the things that we thought might
be useful with the HHMU, because it's so hs_rd to
fly otherwise. And it didn't work out too well.
If you get very much of a pushoff, you can't
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overpower it with that HHMU, it Just doesn't

have the zing. And I think that's what occurred.
We did - I did two or three of those and decided
that it Just wasn't a - a useful way. It Just
wasn't - didn't work out like we thought.

230 00 47 12 CC Okay, we copied that.

CDR You might tell Ed and Lou that, although I don't

remember specifically if that - you know, that
many runs back. When we get home and look at
the movies, I don't think we'll have any trouble
figuring it out.

CC Oka - -

SPT Bob, I have a comment if you're through with that.

CC Okay, go ahead, Owen.

SPT I wanted to let the ATM room know that I elected

not to attemptJOP 7 there at the end of that
orbit because I was uncertain about the t_m_n_
switch= Is that SR/SS switch supposed to be
left in _P for the times on the pass, or placed
down to SUN?

230 O0 47 52 CC Owen, we don't want to place that switch down to

SUN when we're operating on one gyro in the
Y-axis. That's - that's in the funny book.

SPT Okay, I was not aware of that, although I didn't

see how it affects the computer ops. And inasmuch
as it should remain in CMP, it's not clear to me
how this - the times on the pad are going to get
82B down through the extinction region. I guess
I should've started at 6 minutes and stopped it
at 20 seconds. Is that the way I should have
interpreted the ATM activity pad?

230 00 48 30 CC Owen, I'm not sure we're going to be able to get

a-quick answer for you. We're about 30 seconds
from LOS right now, and we'll have you again over -
for Canary-Madrid pass at 00:51.
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SPT Okay, fine, that's good. I Just didn't -

didn't want to attempt that and potentially
waste the 82B film. So, let's try to reschedule
it in the next day or so.

CC Okay, we'll make sure that we got it clear as

to how we're supposed to operate it.

SPT Roger; thank you.

CC And we're going to - And, Owen, we'll put Ed

on for this next pass in about a couple of minutes
from now.

SPT Fine; thank you.

CC You can have the J0P Sl_mary sheets out if you

llke.

230 00 49 15 SPT Okay.

230 00 50 57 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS once more across

Canary and Madrid for about i0 minutes, and we
need the DAS so we can reenable momentum dump.

SPT Okay, you have the DAS.

CC 0keydoke, and I'm turning the mike over to Ed.

SPT Hello there, E.G.G.

MCC Hello, (>wen, and troopa. Wetve got some good

words on ATM. You got the JOP s1_mmary sheet
there, Owen?

SPT Yes, I do. Go ahead.

MCC Okay; One general comment is that we'd llke

you to continue to use the shopping llst if you -
as you have in the past. It's worked out real
well. A1, you made a comment about at some
points wanting a more detailed description of
the operation. For this, you can go ahead and
use the JOP s,-m=_y sheets and the steps from
the teleprinter fail case. And Just use the
steps of your choice, but omit 52 and 54 until
after the EVA and only use 82A for very special
events. In other words, you've got those J0P
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summary sheets available to you, teleprinter

fail - as a shopping list, Just leaving out
those three experiments.

CDR Okay. Understand.

230 00 52 08 MCC Okay, and one general question. How about your
scheduled versus free time in the nominal ATM
passes? Would you like more scheduled or more
free time?

SPT I personally think that it's working out Just

about right. Most of the blocks are pretty full.
But then occasionally there's a little 5-minute
interval or so that shows up that allows you to
squeeze in a shopping list item that you may
have been wanting to do. So personally, I
wouldn't like to see much change. I don't know
how A1 or Jack feel about it.

CDR I think it's just perfect right now.

MCC Okay. Real good. In your prep for unattended,

you've received a note about pointing so that
the 52 crosshairs are centered. The two other
ways, of course, you can do this, are with the
bias out. Just go up 25 and right 25. That'll
get you to the right point. Or you can fly to
the values that you've previously established
with the biases in.

SPT Hello, I think you Just hit a keyhole, Ed.

MCC Okay.

SPT Hello, Ed.

230 00 53 14 MCC Okay, Owen, the comment --

SPT Hello, Ed. I think you Just hit a keyhole. We

missed your last.

MCC Roger. Okay, we'll pick it up again. The com-

ment was on the 52 pointing for unattended,
where at the end of the orbit you extended the
crosshairs. Alternate ways of doing that, if
you don't want to open up the 52 doors, if
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you Just go up 25 and right 25 with the bias

out, or Just fly to the values you've already
found with the biases in.

SPT Okay. That's a good point. We'll make a note

of it and list it around here on a sheet some-
where.

230 O0 53 45 MCC JOP 15, and the location of coronal hole bounda-
ries. The 55 intensity data has worked out real
well, and we'd like you to continue to use what
you've established before and explore new ways
of pointing. The coronal hole boundaries show
up exceptionally well in magnesium I0. That
you can get on detector 3 at a grating of 19hl
or detector 1 at 3366.

SPT Now, we Just did that about 20 minutes ago, Ed.

MCC Very good. It gives a real sharp contrast. One

reason - -

SPT Were you there to hear any of the comments about

that?

MCC I - I did not hear them. No, Owen.

SPT I see. Well, I could describe Just in a couple

of seconds, but we used the - First of all,
I took an XUV M0N time exposure at the beginning
of the orbit, so I had a general idea of what
it looked like. Then I used the - set the dim-
ming scope on the XUV MON while I was actually
hunting around through the hole. And that plus
magnesium i0 on the 55 detector enables you to
find the boundary remarkably well. I was sur-
prised. And also surprised at how sharp the
boundary was in magnesium i0, just as you said.
So I think we did what was required on the last
orbit, Just what we're talking about here, with
relatively little difficulty.

230 O0 54 55 MCC Hey, that's real good to hear. One reason

they'd like to study the coronal holes is that
it turns out that the chromospheric network
appears depressed in holes in both helium 1
and helium 2. That's in the high chromosphere
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and the transition regions. And this is not

easily explained, and they'd like to explore
it quite a bit further.

SPT Do you mean across the boundary, or within the

hole?

MCC Within the hole. The whole chromospheric network

as seen in helium 1 and helium 2 is depressed.

SPT Well_ it's easy enough to get into the middle of

the hole because they're so large you can hardly
miss.

230 00 55 27 MCC Very good. In JOP hA, prominences, where you're

trying to peak up the detect - detector to find
the brightest points in the prominences, apparen-
tly you've had some difficulty in that, using
detector 3 at the grating of zero. _at you're
looking at there is oxygen 6. The problem is
that oxygen 6 has a lot of limb-brightening, but
it's not very bright in emissionas seen with
the prominence. We suggest you try to use Lyman
Beta. It doesn't have very strong limb brighte-
ning, but it also has strong emission in the
prominence. So, you ought to be able to pick out
the brighter points. You can do that by going
to detector 3 in the grating position of 28.

SPT Okay. That's a good point. You probably ought

to put that on a pad, so that we can list it
up here on the board someplace, because - Either
that or change the JOP summary sheet. Because
the JOP summary sheet is written in such a way
as to make a person think that there might he a
peak, whereas in reality the radial gradient is
so large that it really swamps out any little
peak in brightness that the prominence may pro-
vide, just as you were describing with the limb
brightening. And so, if you really wanted to
try Lyman Beta as a routine, instead of oxygen 6,
might put it on a teleprinter pad,

MCC Okay. We can put it on a pad. We'd like you to

give it a try to see how well it works. If it
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doesn't work out, no need to change the JOP

sun_nary sheets. We'll just go right back to
using H-alpha.

SPT Hey, that's a real good idea. Much rather try

it a time or two first. And so I'll try Lyman
Beta at grating 28.

230 O0 56 57 MCC JOP 17. You had some questions on bright point
location. And so far, you've gotten some real
good information for us. All right. You've
already partially answered this; but in terms
of bright points, can you use the XUV MON with
the camera and the scope?

SPT Well, I think we could use it to get to the

general vicinity. And that's the way I did do
it on the one bright spot, just perhaps, that
we looked at the other day. I think it was
yesterday. And get within, say, l0 or 20 arc
seconds of it like that. And then the thing
that I did was to use detector 3 and just step
manually - well, first of all, I hunted around,
up/down, left/right, until I thought I had it
peaked. And then after that, I left it at that
spot and searched manually by moving the 55
mirror left/right, up/down, one step at a time
until I managed to get the peak of it. And, so
if you get it within, say 20 or 3 - let's say
20 arc seconds from the XUV MON, which I think
you can, then you can fine-tune it by manually
stepping the 55 mirror. Over.

230 00 58 00 MCC Okay. Very good. Understand. Some information

about the bright points. Some of them as seen
down here are doulbe peaked; that is_ there
might be a i to 2, 3, 4, maybe 5 arc-seconds
separation between the peaks. Some develop very
rapidly; that is, become extremely bright rapidly.
We hate to use the word flare, but they have
those characteristics. They occur all over the
disk even at very high latitudes. You're going
to find exceptionally good contrast for obser-
vation in coronal holes.

SPT As a matter of fact, Ed, I did notice that

double peak yesterday when I was searching,
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I noticed it go up/down, and then up again. So

there certainly was a double peak near the one
I was looking for. Now, I - we had a couple of
good bright points near the polar regions yester-
day. I noticed your pad says within 0.5 solar
radii, and I assumed that was because you didn't
want too much altitude difference between mag-
nesium i0 and the chromospheric line. Was there
some other reason for wanting the bright point
within half a radius?

230 O0 59 05 MCC Roger. That's the reason, Owen. You might

want to also get GRATING AUTO SCANS at both of
those peaks when you're doing a shopping list.

SPT Okay.

MCC Continue to use both the oxygen 6 and the mag-

nesium i0 in looking for bright points.

SPT Okay.

MCC General impression, from looking at the GRATING

AUTO SCANS - MIRROR AUTO SCANS, the - you find
a bright in the corona, you usually find a bright
below, but it's not necessarily true in reverse.
That is, if you're looking at a low line, it's
not necessarily true of both. So Just continue
to explore, keep your eyes open, and don't home in
in just that one particular way.

230 O0 59 46 SPT Okay. Sounds fine, And we're anxious to try a

little of the newer exploratory techniques like
this bright spot and coronal hole and boundary
and so on. So when you can work them into
schedule, we'd like to see them.

MCC Okay. We've got about a minute and a half here,

and I'll try to give you one last item here.
On JOP 13, which we've changed, some clarifying
co_mnents. For 56, we're using filters 3, 4,
and 5. Thatts in the order of increasing hard-
ness of the X-rays, which should allow us to
pass. And theY're also in the order of de-
creasing priorities. In other words, l'd like
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you to use filters 3, h, and 5 with that priority.

Obtain exposures greater than 5 minutes, pos-
sibly longer - -

230 01 00 26 SPT Hey, Ed.

MCC Go ahead.

SPT Did you say JOP 13, or did you mean item 13
on the shopping list?

MCC I meant item 13 on the shopping list.

SPT Okay. Understand. Now I've got it.

MCC Very good. Looking for - What they're trying

to do is to look for nonthermal processes on
the quiet Sun, so you have to look for what
might be relatively hard X-ray. Another thing,
when you're out close to the - to the limb,
they'd like you to try to use two filters; that
is, get two exposures, preferably three if yOU
can. This will give them a temperature ratio -
a ratio of emission. They can get temperatures
and then correlate this with the 52 data for -
for coronal streamers.

SPT Say, Ed, that relates particularly to S056 that

you're talking about on item 13. Would you
mind putting that on a teleprinter pad? Be-
cause I'd like to have estimates of the times
in each of those two fil - each of those three
tilters that's most desirable. And Itd ap-
preciate those comments on a teleprinter, so I
wouldn't forget it.

CC We'll get those to you, 0wen. We're going LOS.

Fave you again at Carnarvon at 01:26, and we'll
be standing by for the evening status report. The
DAS belongs to you guys again.

230 O1 01 36 SPT Okay. And thanks a lot, Bob and Ed. I appre-
ciated all the information.

230 01 26 17 CC Skylab, Houston. We're A0S through Carnarvon

for about 16 minutes. And, AI, we're standing
by for the evening status report.
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CDR Okay, Crip. Here it comes.

CDR Okay. Urine - start right at the top - 142, 210,

145; 5143, 8517, 5802, 6.259, 6.256, 6.257;
5.970, 5.970, 5.971; 6.945, 6.950, 6.950;
2/35/4300, 3/15/mark i; 50A, 20B, 20C, 20D; mark 2,
lO, 20A, lOB, 10C, 10F; SPT now, 2/30/4300,
mark l, 60A's, hOB's, 40D's; PLT, 2/30/6060,
1/05/054; PLT, 3/20/mark i, 50A, 20B, 20D, 20
hackbends. No medication. Sleep: 6-1/2, G;
6-1/2, G; 6-1/2, G. Food log follows. CDR,
15 salt packs, no deviations; SPT, add peanuts,
jam, and cherry drink; PLT, add two cherry drinks
and one butter cookie. Here comes the photo log.

230 01 28 35 CC One more time.

CDR Okay. What did you say, Crip?

CC I was just going to try the photo log once more.

CDR We're going to make it tonight. I made it out

myself_ Let's see if it works. Cam 509: C149,
40, CI47; Cam 509: MI51, C146, 75, C141. Now
we've got three things missing from the 16 milli-
meter.

SPT Uh oh.

230 01 29 05 CDR We've got the two 487's which we haven't taken
yet because we haven't dumped the trash. So one
of them will be taken later. We did not have
three people at a meal, so we decided to wait
until tomorrow and take the other 487. We have
not transferred the food and plan to do that
tomorrow because we still have food in our
drawers. And if we tried to transfer food when
there's still some in there, we find that we
don't have enough space. Jack in particular,
fills up his -his shelf there. So we'll get
those three tomorrow. Even though they're not
assigned, we'll get them tomorrow. Okay,
35-millimeter: CII01, 16; BBI3, 14; CXI2, 14;
CX25, 08; no EREP: drawer A: 07, C140, 20,
CI09; 05: C146, 75, CI41; 06: CI49, 40, C147;
03: C148, 12, CI43; and our spare magazine l'm
just going to quit reporting until we use some
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of it, and then I'll let you know because it's

at the back of the drawer, and it's always
there.

END OF TAPE
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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

230 01 30 24 CDR Okay, let'sgo on to the next. Flight Plan

deviations; it looks good tomorrow. We plan to
take some showers tomorrow, although we think
we're getting awfully clean here using washrags
and soap and then washing off. The hand
squeezer - or the washrag squeezer works pretty
well in there. It'd be nice if it were a little
bit bigger where you could put towels in there,
but it's not, and it's - but it's still accept-
able. So we'll be working tomorrow. We'll try
and catch all the ATM passes. And it - We're
going to get housekeeping done in advance, and
we'll also see what else comes off. We may give
you a call for some SO19 or something; we don't
know. Okay. Shopping list accomplished. We
accomplished all of our shopping list today ex-
cept that moving food, and I told you why and
we'll - I'll tell you what. It'llprobablyjust
save time if you don't even bother putting that
down. And we'll see when we get down to zero
food; we'll move it and tell you about it.

230 01 31 24 CC Sounds good.

CDR Okay. Inoperable equipment: now commbox 540 -

it's the one by the minus-Z SAL. The toggle
switch that goes either INTERCOM or TRANSMIT -
the one I'm holding down right now except on a
different panel, has chip - broken. It doesn't
appear to have any spring force in either direc-
tion, and it's hot mike anytime you have it on
COMM CHANNEL SELECTED. So we suspect we'll prob-
ably want to change that commbox tomorrow with
a spare, but we'll wait to hear from you. Un-
scheduled stowage item location changes: Six
peanuts from overage, which is 548 to 700, and
that's for 0wen. Twelve butter cookies from
F-550 to waste management, and that's for Owen
also; and two broken AM tape recorders we put in
D-422. You know one of them we had standing
around, and one we got out of the plenum bag. So
everything's looking cozy up here, and we're
looking forward to a day off tomorrow and getting
a lot of things done and get ready for next week.
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230 01 32 30 CC Okay, A1. We got all that and I copied from one
of your comments there that that washcloth
squeezer is working okay and not leaking on you
anymore.

CDR Well, it - Once I learned to put things in there

right, it started doing better. But it's still
not perfect. I - I was debating last night on
whether or not to change it, but l've deciaed not
to change and Just go a few more days. If it
squirts out too much more, I'll change that -
Teflon washer is what it looks like. It doesn't
look like a big job. I was just trying to see
if we could make it work without it. What are we
over right now, Crip? We don't have our chart out.

CC Right over Australia.

CDR Well, we're over a different part than we recall.

It looks populated in most - we've been over the
badlands and the wastelands - I guess of - of
Australia when we were looking out. We see some
cultivated fields down there and cities. I'll he
darned. Different.

230 O1 33 28 CC Yes, you should be pretty close to Perth right now.

You're right over the western edge of the - the
island - or the continent rather.

CDR Yes, we must not have looked out during those

other periods because I asked Owen Just where we
were, and he looked out and he didn't know either.

CC Okay. Hey, Ed didn't get quite few - few - through

awhile ago. And if Owen's still standing around,
I'll give the mike back to him.

CDR Good idea. Tell Ed I'm going to get - give him

an autographed Sun picture when I get home.

CC Okay.

CDR To point out some of the features he may be look-

ing for when he comes up.
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MCC I'm really waiting, A1. Owen, have you got the
shopping list out?

SPT No, as a matter of fact, I have the Hasselbald

camera in my hands right now.

230 01 3& 17 MCC Okay, we can either try to get it now, we'$e got
about 7 minutes left, or Would you prefer to try
to do it a little bit later?

SPT Okay, I've - I can go up to the ATM; I'm all set.

Go ahead.

MCC Okay, on shopping list item 15: This is primar-

ily for 82B where you primarily use it to study
bright and dark bands close to - rather than
coronal holes. If you take a look at your XUV
monitor pictures, and you look at the south pole,
you'll find that you've got, first of all, a
polar-coronal hole, then you get a bright band,
and then another dark band - this is all running
east-west. This dark band could be a filament
channel and then - and then another bright band.
This has shown up consistently close to the south
pole. We'd like you to try to explore this using
shopping list item 15. You can try to do the
pointing as you point it out from the pictures.
And then also, use magnesium lO to get yourself
fine-tuned.

230 01 35 20 SPT Okay, now, you're looking at a recent XUV MON

picture. Is that right?

MCC That's the one we're looking at today. That's

affirm.

SPT Okay, let me take 30 seconds, and I want to go

up and grab the picture upstairs. Just a min-
ute.

MCC Hey, just a general comment. We've been follow-

ing how you folks have been working the ATM in
general, and I thinkyou've made a heck of a lot
of progress from what we've started out with -
in our knowledge of how to operate this machinery.
And we're getting some real good data, and you're
teaching us all how to use it. So a commendable
job.
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230 01 35 57 CDR Thank you, Ed. 0wen really does a lot of - He is

spending a lot of time up there and he's also doing
a lot of thinking about it; even down here when
we're eating and doing something else, he'll come
up with a good idea. Although he's not the only
one. Jack came up with that idea the other day
about using those reticles with the XUVMON, and
that's - that's helped us quite a bit. I don't
know why nobody thought of it before, but we - we
hadn't. I think Owen's up there now and ready to
chat with you some more.

SPT Yes, now, Ed. You're talking about the coronal

hole that lies just north of that first bright
band near the south pole. It'd be over around a
latitude of 70 degrees and running between the
east limb and the central meridian.

MCC Yes. Now, if you want to look at it in general,

you could say that coronal hole has got a bright
region on either side of it, and then there's a
coronal hole at the very self [sic]. So if you
looked at it over a number of days, you could
picture that they'd average out to be a band; a
bright band, dark band, bright, and dark. And - -

SPT That's right.

230 01 36 57 MCC Okay. They'd like you to explore this further

using shopping list item 15. Use magnesium l0 to
tweak it up. I'll let you think on that one a
little bit. And if you have any more comments or
questions why don't you put them back down, and
I'll give you a couple of more comments here.

SPT Okay, you Just had a keyhole there; you did say
shopping list 15, didn't you?

MCC That's right. Okay, do you have any qualm -

ques_lons on that particular item which we just
talked about?

230 O1 37 35 SPT No, I don't think so. I think it looks like 82B
is interested in getting average - an average
exposure over both inside and outside the coronal
hole regions; we can do that.
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MCC Okay, very good. Shopping list item 16, the

following one: they'd like you to use this to
look for the rotational velocities in the corona.
In other words, you go to a ROLL of zero, go
8 arc seconds above the limb, and then take an
exposure on the east limb and then on the west
limb. And by comparising - comparing the Doppler
• .shift, they can get a feel for what the rotation-
al velocities are at that altitude. And we're
looking for 8 - -

SPT Okay.

MCC We're looking for 8 arc seconds above the limb,

and they recommend exposures of 10, 40, 160, and
640. That is, you start with 10, multiply by 4,
get up to 40, then 160, and 640.

230 01 38 28 SPT Okay, I'd like that up on a pad if I could, please,

Ed.

MCC Okay. And also on shopping list item 16: sure

.... they'd like you to study the limb above the band
by the south pole. And here you go, again, 8 arc
seconds aOove t_e ±lmD, rlg_ aDove _ne souLn poke,
above the corona_l hole bright band, above the
filament channel, and then above the second bright
band. And the exposures would be about the same
as - as the above, and we can send those up to
you also on a pad if you like.

SPT Yes, I would appreciate it because I can't remember

all the numbers, and I don't have them - have
them all on paper yet.

230 Ol 39 02 MCC Okay. And one note of clarification. When we

talk about 56, we'll also send you up some of
that information on a pad. But the exposure times
they were talking about were greater than 5 min-
utes. It turns out in one of their - most - some
of their modes where you go long exposure, you do
get approximately 5 minutes. They'd like to get
5 minutes, preferably quite a bit longer than that,
5, i0 minutes in those single frames. And they'd
like you to do that, if you can, as many days as
possible. They - they think that'll give us some
pretty good data.
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SPT Okay, we can - we've given them a couple

i0- and 15-minute exposures, so we'll get some
more as time permits.

230 O1 40 01 MCC Okay, Owen, that's all I got for now. Do you have
any other comments?

SPT One other thing I told - I think it might have been

on channel A, a comment that I didn't think there
was much difference, as near as I could tell, be-
tween the H-alpha view at sunrise and at sunset.
That's a response to your question the last time
we talked. Now, having had a close look at the
network configuration this morning and having had
some difficulty finding the same networks at sun-
set as at sunrise, it leads to the possibility
again that there really may be a little difference.
And I think probably you can tell that better on
the ground by looking at some of the H-alpha 1
photographs that were returned on SL-2. And see
if you can tell any difference there on the expo-
sures early and late from the same camera and
everything.

MCC Okay, Owen. We'll - we'll do that.

230 01 40 36 SPT No, I think that takes care of it fQr this even-
ing, Ed. And appreciate collecting all this
information and having a chance to talk with you
about it.

MCC Very good, Owen. You folks are doing a great job,
and press on.

SPT Well, we're trying to get things comfortable for

you up here, Ed, and leave things in good working
shape for yon to continue and expand on it in a
couple of months.

MCC M_ only comment is don't wear out the Sun. I

don't - -
SPT It's Just warming up.
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CC I don't think you're going to wear it out, Owen.

We're about i minute from LOS. Next pass is at
MIIA at 02:13, and that's going to be your med
conference. Owen, darn - I got one question, but
I don't think I've got a chance to get it in. If,
following the med conference, we got some time,
I got a few other evening questions l'd like to
get in for you.

SPT Okay, I'm still working on that filet, so I'ii

be down there at the table.

CC Okeydoke. Sorry we interrupted it.

230 01 hl 54 CC And, Skylab. The VTR is not available for your

use. We have it rewound now for dump.

SPT Okay, I never did get that stuff on there I wanted_

we'll have to try tomorrow.

CC Okeydoke.
f
CDR I was Just going to ask you, Crip: we're going
to have a completely empty one, I understand,
tomorrow morning that we can put anything we want
on it.

CC That' s the intent. Yes, sir.

CDR ...

230 01 42 19 CC Over the hill.

230 02 22 5h CC Skylab, Houston. We have you for about 4-1/2 minutes.

And I've got a few more evening questions I'd
like to run by you, if possible.

CDR Okay. I'm using Story Musgrave's harness on the

bicycle. It works great.

SPT Could you read that, Robert?

CC [Jnderstood you used Story's advice on the bicycle?

SPT No. A1 is on the bicycle right now. And he Just

said that he was using Story's harness, the one
that he contributed to the design. And it's working
fine. There was some question on SL-2 about it
being satisfactory, and A1 was just pointing out
it 's working great.
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CC Oh, okay.

230 02 2] 29 SPT Now are the questions for AI, or for the other
two of us?

CC Oh, f think they got one or two for AI, here. But
they sort of go across the board.

SPT Okay. He's on the bicycle, but go ahead.

CC Okay. On the CBRM SELECT switch; we'd like to

tell you that you are free to use that from now
on. I don't guess -well, I think -made that
clear. And we can't find any reason for continuing
to restrict your use after the test we ran the
other day. So t you've got that one again, and we're
going to change that general message that restricts
its use.

SPT Okay. Do you have any idea, why on that one

occasion a couple of weeks ago, it did kick the
regulator off when I rotated it?

230 02 24 13 CC Unfortunately, no.

SPT Okay. We - I think we ought to keep our eyes

open then, to make sure it doesn't happen again.

CC That's affirmative. Okay. Unfortunately, on

the evening report in the photobit, we - I guess
we had one more problem. We'd - we'd like to
know on 509, did you use both DACs today? The
evening report indicated only the dome camera was
used. The camera at location F-10 used only
20 percent, and that was for M151. You should
have used approximately 83 percent more for M509
location at F-10.

CDR Okay. We used them both, let me check.

230 0_ 2_ 57 CC Didn't mean to break you off the bike, A1.

CDR That's okay. I think the log's right. We'll

check it.

SPT The CDR made out the report, so I'm pretty sure
there's no mistake.
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CC Never happen.

SPT Never hoppen.

230 02 25 36 CC And, Owen, while Al's looking for that, I guess

you kind of attracted the whole world's attention
with your - with your spider there. And during
the next ED52 web photography, if you possibly
would, we'd like you to count the number of
radials in the web, and the number of spirals
external to the central hub. And voice record
those for us, please.

SPT Okay. Number of radials and spirals. I'll go up

and count them before I go to bed tonight.

CC Okay. Thank you very much.

SPT That's what I was going to put on TV tonight along

with the fish, if we ever had a chance to get at
it.

230 02 26 44 CC Okay. We're about 30 seconds from LOS. We'll

have you again over Madrid in about 4 minutes from
now at 02:30.

230 02 31 i0 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS across Madrid for

8 minutes.

CDR Okay. Let me give it to you right, maybe. We'll

try for tomorrow night. I gave you the first two
correct on 16-millimeter. Let me read you some
others. M509: CI4h, 19, CI42. Crew activities:
CIh7, 00, CI45. The bum dope I gave you in addition
to that was the one at the back of the locker
was used: 02, CI47, 00, CI45. So we used all
the 509 that we should have.

CC Okay, A1, we copied that. And pertaining to Owen's

last remark, if he'd like, since we've dumped
some of the VTR, we can rewind it for him here
and give hime the first 7 minutes available to
him, if he'd like it.

CDR I'll bet he would. Can you do that?

230 02 32 07 CC It's in work.

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CDR Okay. Good. Thanks, Crip.

SPT Okay, Bob.

CC AI, if I could, I'd like to answer a couple of

questions you had about S019 and the pads.

CDR Okay.

230 02 32 21 CC We talked about this the other night, but the

earliest time for starting an S019 exposure is
the first time on the pad. And this is generally
less than 60 seconds after sunset.

CDR Okay. We've been using that lately, and I think

it's been coming out pretty good.

CC Okay. In planning, we allow 60 seconds to set

up between fields and 30 seconds between exposures
on the same field. Like you not to forget that
a 270-second widening - widened exposure is about
210 seconds, and a 90 is approximately 72, and
a 30 is approximately 2h due to that time difference.

CDR Okay, understand. I had no trouble getting in

all of them today.

230 02 33 Oh CC And, if you ever get behind the timeline, don't

think anything of leaving off the last exposure
or terminating the expostire early, but Just let us
know about it at the next opportunity.

CDR Okay. Will do. I even gave them an extra this

time.

CC Okay. And the most critical time on the pad is

the - the first start time and the sunrise time.
You should not get into trouble as long as you
shoot the fields in sequence, and you do not have
to wait for the exact start time of each field,
which I think you know.

CDR Okay. I tri - I think we're getting the hang of

this one pretty good. And it looks like we got
a lot of frames to go, so I think we can get some
pretty good data for Karl.
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CC Okay. And one oth - one other comment is that

once the shutter is closed, the widening mechanism
may be rewound immediately, even though it is
still turning.

CDR Okay. I understand. That cuts down the time.

CC That - -

SPT Bob?

CC Yes. Go ahead.

230 02 33 56 SPT Arabella has 12 to 15 radials. Three of them are

forked, so it starts 12 and ends up 15. The
circular webs are 15 on one side increasing to
25 on the other, and they are not all continuous
all the way arotuud. And it's about 8 inches -
no - yes, about 8 inches in diameter and spans
three quarters of a box, where the three sides
meet. And that's the general description. Over.

CC Okay. Appreciate that information. And I've got

one other question for you. Were any of the SL-4
return water bags from F-507-A9 used to package
the leaky ED72; and, if so, how many? And which
of the three parts of ED72 was leaking?

SPT Boy, you've got me cold. I don't know anything

about that.

CC Neither do I.

230 02 3_ 51 CDR You've got us all cold.

CC Let me go back to my FA0 on it.

CDR Okay.

CC We copy that you haven't had a leak, and that you

haven't used any bags. Is that correct?

SPT True to my knowledge.

CDR What - We're still missing the point.

f 230 02 35 17 CC We had understood that you had had a leak on the

ED52. Was way early in the mission.
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CDB Isn't 52 the spider?

CC No, that - correction - I - 72, 72. I said 52

that last time.

CDR What's 72?

230 02 35 h0 CC That's that fluid mechanics thing.

SPT I don't think there's any leak in there. If there

is, I didn't know about it. I did see that little
shaker in there the other day. It ztill, as far
as I know, looked all right.

CC Well, it looks like we got our information turned

around here. Thank you.

SPT Okay, well, yeu've really got us fooled on that

one.

CC Okay, and, Owen, you have 7 minutes of time avail-

ableontheVTR.

SPT Okay, thank you.

230 02 36 16 CC Owen, one other item, and I guess this should be

for all of you. I mentioned that bit - the Sun
timing should not he selected on the A_4 C&D.
And that's in reference to the fact that we're
operating on one rate gyro in the Y-axis. And
if - if we did have a - you know, a small DELTA-
time error when we came over - looking at the
Sun, the - the computer would interpret that as
the Sun wasn't present when it was supposed to,
and it would flunk redundancy management on that
axis.

SPT Oh, I see. I hadn't appreciated that point, and

I hadn't see all the implications, so - all right,
I do remember it now, and A1 wasn't aware of it
also, and I think probably Jack. So, we'll mske
sure we stay in CS4P. I am still a little bit
puzzled about how 82B exposures could get down
below the region of - of absorption. But maybe
going do_rn to 20 seconds would have been adequate.
So I was Just a little unclear about that pad,
and I didn't want to take up that m_ny exposures
until I was sure I had it right.
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2B0 02 37 18 CC Okay_ we're trying to get that clarified for you

as to - on that JOP 7 and we'll - we'll get that
information to you tomorrow. We're about a minute
from LOS. This is really - should be our last
pass of the night. We'll CRO - Carnarvon at
03:05, and I can give you a call there if you
want; otherwise, I'm going to leave you alone.

SPT Okay, we'll take some news at Carnarvon.

230 02 37 _h CC Roger. Want some news at Carnarvon. We'll give -

give it to you.

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SKYLAB AIR-T0-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

230 13 04 59 CC Skylab, Houston. We're A0S over Carnarvon for

6 minutes.

CDR We're working on tomorrow night's film report

but go ahead anyway.

CC Well, the first item of news is we don't under-

stand tonight's film report, even with the correc-
tions. I guess if you could read us drawer A-3
and what's in the back drawer, maybe we can get
it squared away. It sounded like we had one
transporter in both - in two spots was the problem.

CDR You still don't understand tonight's, huh?

230 03 05 43 CC No sir (laughter).

CDR Okay,we'll go get it again.

230 03 06 28 CC While we're working on that, I can - First item

of news really was something I kind of mentioned
to you the - last night that - big Skylab news
was announcement of Skylab launch - Skylab 4
launch, which was November the 9th. And
national TV news tonight showed your T013 experi-
ment which we had a chance to watch here briefly.

CDR Okay, now we just went up and checked drawer A

and we think we have it right. But the thing
that may have been confusing was, we used up a
film - we used up the camera today - the C147, 00,
45 - C145. We used that up and that's sitting at
the back of the drawer.

CC Okay, that's in the back of the drawer. What's

in A-37

230 03 07 17 CDR 06, CI49, h0, C147.

CC That - that's the same one.

CDR No, the one in the back is 02, CIh7, 00, C145.

CC Yes, are there two C147's?

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CDR Yes. In A-3 is 06, C149, 40, C147. Well, 47

wasn't - it was in supply and now it's in takeup.
Wait a minute; that's not right. That can't be
possible; hold on.

230 03 08 15 SPT Think we ought to make a successful photo log a

GO/NO GO for reentry.

CC Meanwhile, I'll continue on with the news.

Hank Aaron hit home run number 702 today -
correct - today is - no, today is Friday; that
was Thursday. Hit it with two men on base to
cap a ninth run - eighth - nine-run eight innings
for the Braves and help propel them to a l0 to
2 victory over the Cubs. A1, your film report's
about like my newscast. And the Astros went down
tonight playing Philly, The score was 8 to 3.

CDR Let me try the back one again.

CC Okeydoke.

230 03 09 21 CDR 02, CI - 02, CI44, 00, CI42. Now how's that one
go?

CC We buy that. That sounds good. And I might - -

CDR And I may Just read this one tomorrow night.

CC Right. We've got about a minute and a half left.

I guess I was just informed - I haven't got it
written down any place, that - that it looks like
the divers on the Andrea Doria have given up due
to too much turbulence right now. And I don't -
see if I can get an update on that one for you
tomorrow.

PLT Okay, Crip. I got two things.

CC Go.

230 03 09 58 PLT I didn't turn my salt in on time for the report

and it's 13 packs today. And one other thing I
noticed was that the procedure I did on EREP
yesterday had me leave the - the FLOW valve
in - in the wrong position again. Did you want
to keep it there or did you want me to change it
back to BYPASS?
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CC It should have had BYPASS on the bottom of it,

Jack. We're a little bit confused by that.

PLT Okay, I'll put in BYPASS.

230 03 l0 29 CC Okay, that may explain - we were still seeing

some watts on that thing - or what was appar-
ently wattage and that may explain it. We've
got about 30 seconds from LOS. And I guess I
can go ahead and wish you good night here.

CC And we copy. We've got about 3 minutes of

Arabella. The crimson team's going to go off for
a while, so we'll wish you good night for a couple
of days. See you again in about - -

230 03 ii 06 PLT Say, Bob, so - so far, that's the fish; Arabella's

still coming up.

CC Oh, okay.

PLT You're right, Crip. It was on the EREP pad.

CC Okay, very good. Thank you, Jack.

230 03 ii 20 CDR Crimson team's going to take a couple of days

off, huh?

CC Right.

CDR Okay, good. See you in a couple. What time -

What shift are you coming hack on?

CC Coming back on summary. Bleah_

CDR Yes, that's a toughy. Okay.

CC We'll wake you up.

CDR 0keydoke. Have fun.

230 03 ii 35 CC Night, guys.

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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

230 ii 56 19 CC Good morning, Skylab. We've got you stateside

for 15 minutes.

PLT Good morning, Story. I'm up here aboard the ATM.

CC Okay, you fooled me.

CC CDE, Houston.

CDR Go ahead.

230 ll 57 hl CC A1, we've got a tropical depression developing

about 100 mines southwest of Cuba. It's heading
into the Gulf and the best photo time for it will
start at 12:10:17.

CDR I got it.

PLT Okay.

CC Okay, and you can use Hasselblad 01 if you'd

like, shutter speed 1/250 and f-stop 5.6.
And we recommend STS window number 1 and AOS will
be 12:10:17 to LOS 12:1h:58.

CDE We'll get a few.

CC Great.

CDR Story, we're going to get - get that taped [?]

and Owen and I are going to go back and sleep in
our bunks a little while. We can get everything
done through the day later. We're going to sleep
in some more.

CC Okay, we will not call you.

CDR That's good, unless you have something like that.

We'll get it and then we'll go back.

230 ll 59 12 CC Okay.

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SKYLAB-AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

230 12 00 55 CDR Say, Story, what do you think of us giving you

some TV of it? And maybe you could either take
it -

CC A1, we were Just handing over to Texas then; say

again.

CDR Didn't hear you.

CC We just handed over to Texas; could you say amain

about the TV?

CDR What do you think of us taking TV of that storm

because it might be of interest to folks in the
U.S. because their - you know it might - I gather
it's one that could hit the coast.

CC Stand by I.

230 12 02 23 CC AI, you've got an empty VTR. You can use the VTR
but we prefer that the photographic data come first.

CDR 0keydoke.

CDR Tell me again where this is located, Story, relative

to - to - Texas.

CC It's about i00 miles southwest of Cuba. Between

Cuba and the Yucatan Peninsula.

CDR Okay, well we'll - we'll take it with both because

I think maybe the - you know, one of the advantages
of manned space flight is to give a quick look at
something that's happening. Whereas, these photo-
graphs get back in another month and they don't
do any good, by then the hurricane will have dis-
appeared from the face of the Earth. Maybe the
thing to do is to get them both, and may - ... news
might want to take a look at this. It might be a
good idea to get them both.

CC Okay, that'll be fine; we aopreciate that and you

will he able to down-link real time to Mla.
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230 12 04 46 CDR Story, how about giving us a good setting for the
TV too. We could do it ourselves, but it'll
give us a good starting point.

CC Okay; we'll get it.

230 12 07 56 CC CDH, Houston.

PLT Go ahead.

CC Is A1 listening, Jack?

CDR Yes.

CC Okay, for the TV settings: linear, average, f/22,

and the rest is up to him.

CC And you only have about 30 seconds of AOS while

you're looking at the - at the target, so you'd
better start the VTR and we can be recording on
the VTR and getting real time at MLA.

CDR Okay, we're set up right now, and we looked out

the window. We don't see it yet but everything
looks Rood. We'll shoot the TV first and then
get the pictures.

CC Okay, you ought to be getting it in about a

minute and 15 seconds.

CDR And you still think window i is the best, huh?

CC STS-1 still.

230 12 l0 03 CC Skylab, we're 15 seconds to LOS and also about

l0 seconds to acquisition of the target. And we
will not call you and see - until we see 10,000
in the DAS or until you call us.

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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

230 iB 33 01 SPT Hello, Houston, Skylab.

CC Skylab, Houston. Did you call?

SPT Yes, Dick. I'm up here at the ATM panel now and
Just noticed you'll be ready for some TV. Is
that going to be real time or do you want it re-
corded at a remote station? Over.

CC Owen, that will be tea - real time. We're pre-

sently A0S Goldstone. I'd like to give you a
GO on that after we hand over and get AOS at Texas.
Over.

SPT Okay, that'll he fine.

230 13 33 37 CC All righty.

f

CC SPT, Houston. If you'll st_v off the DAS, we're

going to inhi - inhibit momentum dump.

SPT Okay, and, Dick, I notice on the ATM schedule it

indicates that'll increase the time remaining a
bit. How much does it Jump?

CC Stand by.

230 13 36 ii CC Between h and 5 minutes, Owen. And I'm assuming

you're configured so the guys downstairs are not
hearing me. If so, I can give you a solar update
this morning.

SPT Why don't you hold off on the solar update a min-
ute? I - I think they've got their speaker boxes
turned off, but I'm not sure.

CC Okay, I'll keep the chatter down.

230 13 39 39 SPT Okay, Dick, let me know any time you're configured
for TV.

CC We are receiving live TV now. Stand by. Negative,

we're not. Stand by.
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SPT Okay.

CC Owen, it's about a minute and a half. The DAS is

yours. And I've got one correction to this task
that you are on on the ATM. It's down at 2 min-
utes and 45 remaining. We've got a sign wrong.

SPT Okay.

230 13 40 l0 CC It should read minus 9860 in ROLL instead of plus.

SPT Okay, I've got the sign corrected, and I do notice

that the pad - our SAP for today indicates a ROLL
of 000 for the appropriate roll to give the coordi-
nates of the active regions and so on, yet we still
can't quite reach roll 000. They're really -
10800 is what we're going to have to use for roll
today. And that will mean all those coordinates
get reversed in sign. There is not very many of
them. I guess Just one set, but they'll have to
be reversed in sign.

230 13 40 52 CC Roger; that's affirm. I do have two more corr-

ections that are later in the day where we got
a sign wrong.

230 13 41 14 CC Owen, we're ready for ATM TV, and I think we have
it now. And the next two corrections: first is
in the pass starting at 19:48. Again, it's the
same. Should be at minus 9700 and that's at
2 plus 50 TIME REMAINING. And the - the next
correction is the pass that starts at 00:28.
And at 7 plus 40 TIME REMAINING, should he
minus 9600.

SPT Okay, I have those three.

SPT Yesterday, I was puzzled on the timing arrange-

ments for this JOP 7 coming up here, and I hadn't
realized that the time was - had Jumped when we
inhibited momentum dump. That clears it up for
me right there, seeing that time increase the
way it does, makes it clear how we're getting to
lower altitudes, and that was the thing that
puzzled me yesterday. I think it's a help to
have it on the ATM schedule the way it is today.
I don't remember that it was there yesterday, and
it does make it a little more clear.
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CC Okay.

230 13 h3 48 SPT I'm going to give you the coronagraph in Just

about 45 seconds here when this standard mode
finished.

CC Okay, we still got about 2 minutes of AOS time.

SPT Okay, we'll see the corona and part of the roll
then, before the end of the pass.

CC Owen, 1 minute until LOS; Vanguard at 13:59.

Would you like a call or you want to call me?

SPT Give us a call, I think everyone's up now.

230 13 h5 09 CC Okay.

230 13 57 19 CC 0wen, we're at Vanguard for I0 minutes.

230 lh 03 i0 CC SPT, Houston. We've still got you at Vanguard

for 5 minutes.

SPT Okay, Dick. The first of your call was cut out
there. I just got in on the end of it, but I
don't have anything else for you, I don't think.

CC Okay. Before we go LOS for this hour period,

there are a couple of things I'd like to pass up
to you about today's Flight Plan; a couple of
little items.

SPT Go ahead.

CC Okay, there is a message for you called - it's

number 2236 Alfa, which is the star tracker
magnitude test that you might accomplish today.
I think you asked for it prior to flight. Also
during the evening, there were two messages that -
we had a dropout during an up-link, and we
up-linked a single - a second copy. So if you
find duplicates, use the second copy. We think
those are the good ones - good ones. And for the
CDR this morning: he does not have to do HKI0
Alfa, but we do want him - because it has already
been done. We do want him to accomplish command
module accumulator check, which is on a message
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that's in the teleprinter, which is 2231 Alfa.

And finally - and I guess this is really the first
order of business - we also would like to get
M_09-F3 All a accomplished this morning. And we
need to get on with that sometime in the early
part of the day. It's atmospheric _,-nagement.

230 14 Oh 37 SPT Okay, we'll take a look at that thing first then.

CC Thank you.

SPT We'll look at them all.

CC Thank you.

CC And, Owen, one other comment. That 2231 Alfa is

one of those redundant pads that I was mentioning.

SPT Say again your last, Dick.

CC Roger. The comm_nd module accumulator message is

one of the - the messages that we had to send up
twice, and so you need to be sure and use the
second copy of that one.

SPT Okay, 2231 Alfa, second copy.

230 lh 07 07 PLT Are you there, Dick?

CC That's affirm for about i more minute. I was

Just getting ready to call you, Hawaii at 15:07.
Go ahead.

PLT Okay, yesterday we did MS09-FI Alfa which turns

most of the relief valves off. And I know that -
I think they were to open them hack up again, and
they did not. And maybe some of the other guys
didn't either. So what do we do about that?

CC Stand by.

CC We'd like to leave them Just like they are, Jack.

We want - we do not want to restore the relief
valves to - to normal yet.
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PLT Okay, Dick. Thank you.

230 lh 07 51 CC Roger.

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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

230 15 07 54 CC Skylab, Houston. Hawaii for 5 minutes.

SPT Hello, Dick. I got one thing of interest to the

ATM room, I think.

CC Okay, go ahead.

SPT In addition to the planned stuff on the last orbit,

I managed to get in some extra work on what I
believe to be an emerging flux region. Brand
new, at least I think that it's new, near the
center of the Sun. They can probably see it on
today's XUV MON pictures, and the coordinates I
had were minus 54.01 in roll; up/down is
minus 134, left/right is plus 107. And I did
a - a shopping list item 2, and - plus a - both
a GAS and an MAR on S055. It's got a very small
signature in H-alpha. Just a few bright spots
are beginning to show up, but the XUV siKnature
is very clear. I picked it up on the 55 detectors
and then went ahead with item number 2. And might
want to keep an eye on that and see whether or
not it's worth scheduling at some later passes,
either today or tomorrow perhaps. Over.

230 15 09 09 CC Okay, 0wen. Thanks for the words. Incidentally,

I've got a solar activity update that is very
brief; but I didn't read you before, and I can
pass up to you now.

SPT Okay, why don't you? Pleased to hear it now.

CC Okay. The Sun continues to be very quiet ss

you've probably - already - as observed. Active
region 93 remains simple. Possible surge
activity on the limb, Just south of active
region 93. We have a new active region 94 at
310 degrees at 0.4 radii. Stand by. And break.
We need the DAS, we'd like to enable momentum
dump. And I'll continue here. The new active
region 94 is about 310 degrees at 0.4 radii. It
has reversed polarity, but is not expected to
develop. And prominence 31 has shown some signs
of activity. Over.
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SPT Okay, I'm down in the wardroom now, but those

coordinates of active region 9h sound sort of
similar to the position of the graph specified
for work on the coronal hole on this upcoming
orbit. Could they check to make sure that that's
not going to be too close to the coordinates for
that coronal hole that was specified? Over.

CC Yes, sir. We'll sure check.

CC And, Skylab, I've got a couple or three other

notes I'd like to read up to you guys, assuming
everybody' s up.

SPT Everybody's up, wandering around one place or

the other. I think they can hear you.

230 15 l0 53 CC Okay. The DAS is yours, and we'd like to know

if you have started MS09-F3 Alfa yet.

PLT Affirmative.

CC Okay, super, thank you very much. One voice

update I've got for the CDR. After you - or in -
I think it's the SPT I'm not sure, but at any
rate, we'd llke to shoot up any film remaining
in the Nikon 01 after the volcano and the sea
mountain photog - photography this afternoon.
That camera will need to be empty for mission
day 23, and so we'd like to go ahead, and you
can shoot up that film remaining in that camera
at will.

CDR Okay, Dick.

230 15 ll h7 CC Okay. The next thing is we'd like for you

sometime today, if you get a chance, to go ahead
and replace that broken speaker intercom assembly,
and that's housekeeping 80 Foxtrot. And finally,
the last note I have for Jack is we intend to
bring home one of the taoe recorders and also
the two little yellow belts that broke, and we
Just wanted to - we were wondering where those
little yellow belts were. And you might put
them in a place that later we can stow them in
the command module and bring them home.
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230 15 12 00 PLT Okay, I've got them in my sleep compartment

taped to the wall, so why don't you tell me
where you want them right now, and I'll put them
the re ?

CC Okay, we don't know right now where we're going

to want them, Jack. So I'd say they're in a
good spot right now.

PLT I'll take them in the command module and stick

them on the wall or inside a locker or some place
and make sure we don't leave them behind.

230 15 12 38 CC Okay. I'll - I'll have words for you where to

put them shortly here today. We're about to go
LOS here at Hawaii. We'll see you at Vanguard
at 15:35 and that will be a site that we'll
dump the airlock module taoe recorder.

230 15 35 05 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Vanguard for

i0 minutes.

CDR Okay, Dick. We're _mning along on JOP 15A.

I went to the pointing coordinates on the pad,
looked through the persistent image scope and
found that that wasn't the darkest part of
coronal hole. So I repointed to some coordinates,
and I'll tell you what they are. First of all,
you can't get to zero roll yet, so we had to go
to 10.8.

CC Roger.

CDR And then it's minus ll9, which is down; and right -
correction - left, 475.

CC Okay, A1. I copied that. And in answer to

Owen's question that I didn't get to answer Just
prior to that last LOS, we did check and there's
over 300-second separation between the coronal
hole and that new active region, and so - and
there's no problem there.

SPT Okay, fine. Thank you.

CDR And that's plus 475, not minus 475.

CC Roger, plus 475. Thank you.

230 15 36 12 CDR In other words, down and ri_qt at 10.8 roll.

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CC Okay. The next item I had was - is back to Jack

on tape recorders. What we'd like for him to do
is take the two little yellow belts and taDe and
tape them to tape recorder serial nl,mber 13. And
we believe that tape recorder is in D422. And
to Just leave it - leave those belts taped to
that tape recorder in D422, and then at the end
of the mission it'll be easy to bring them home
that way.

SPT Dick, I have one question and one comment. First

question is, I wonder if the TV last night was
any good on the fish and spider? And while
somebody's thinking up an answer to that, the
comment was, we stayed up a little late last
night and I had a good chance to see an aurora
at 04:05 Zulu Just to our - to the left of our
track, which ought to put it up over Goose Bay,
Labrador. There was a very nice aurora visible.
I did get a few photos with the 70-milimeter.
I'm not sure they're going to turn out right
because of uncertain exposure lengths. The
Nikon, which I wanted to have ready, I'd already
taken the visible lens off and didn't get it out
in time. And I'll get that remedied so it will
be stowed properly for any more. My question is,
what's the probability of another aurora at the
northern latitudes when they get up in that
region late tonight? Over.

230 15 37 h2 CC Okay, we'll sure find out, Owen, and get back to
you.

SPT And the TV question.

CC Roger.

CC SPT, Houston. On the TV, I didn't - it wa - it

was being played in here a little bit earlier,
but I didn't have a chance to look at it myself.
But the guys that did look at it said that both
the TV on the fish and the spider was very clear
and very good.

SPT Okay, that's encouraging. Thank you.

CC And we could see the web that the - the spider

has spun very clearly.
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SPT Oh, that 's fine.

230 15 38 45 CC I've got two more notes. One is, is - has to do

with when you plan to accomplish the accumulator
check that's on message 2231 Alfa. We'd like to
do that during STADAN coverage, AI. And any time
you have a chance is, okay with us. And the
next item I have also is for AI, primarily. We
plan to start the statusing sessions with the
Canary pass this afternoon at about 22:26. That
ought to give you some time to read over the
science message we sent up this morning and t-Ik
about it. So if you have anything that you want
us to research and - in preparation for those
series of passes before that - if you think of
anything, Just let us know, we'll be glad to try
to look up the answers for you.

CDR Okay. Th_nks, Dick.

q

CC Yes, sir.

CDR S[meant to mention, as I _s getting up this

morning, I heard some conversation about bleeding
the cabin down. Nobody sent that message up the
other day, and we kind of wondered why they didn't,
but assumed they had a reason.

2B0 15 40 01 CC Stand by 1.

PLT And, Dick, I understand that serial number 13

tape recorder that you want to bring back, vice 22.

CC That 's affirmative, Jack.

PLT Okay, I'll take care of that right now.

CC And, CDR, Houston. Like - A reminder. Like you

to, - on S054, filter 3, to get a 6h-second
exposure. I think it's on the pad.

230 15 40 31 CDR We'll do it.

CDR It's going to turn out that more than 15 minutes

are available, so I may be able to give them a
couple of exposures at different lengths. I can
give them 3 and 5 at any length they want, really.
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CC Stand by on that, please.

CDR I didn't mean 54; I meant 56.

CC CDR, Houston. Backroom says that just the filter 3

exposure is what they'd like.

CDR Okay, they want one 64-second exposure?

230 15 41 33 CC That's affirmative.

CDR Okay, that'll give me about 15 extra minutes to

do some other things.

CC Okay.

CDR Ask them if they've got any thoughts on the

last 15 minutes. If not, I'ii pl_v it by ear.

CC Roger, AI. l'm listening to the backroom.

Stand by, please.

230 15 42 30 CC CDR, Houston. We'd suggest the shopping list 13

for your time if you - if something doesn't come
up that you think would be more valuable.

CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from LOS at the

Vanguard. We're going to see you at Hawaii at
16:42. That's about an hour from now. And, A1,
the - the requirement for that M509-F3 Alfa came
up fairly late yesterday afternoon at a time that
the - your detail pad had already been approved,
and we Just chose to make it a voice up-link this
morning.

CDR Good, I got the impression from somebody that that

they voiced it yesterday afternoon, but we didn't
remember it.

CC I - I don't think we did. I - certainly didn't

on this shift anyway.

CDR Okay, we're in the midst of that 64-second filter 3.

In fact, - we're three quarters of the way through.

230 15 44 46 CC Roger, A1.

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SKYLAB AlE-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

230 16 h3 Oh CC Skylab, Houston. AOS Hawaii for i0 minutes.

PLT Aloha, Dick.

CC Aloha.

CDE Say, Dick, I have a couple of comments. You

said we're going to have a statusing session later,
and I've got a couple here that might be worth
thinking about.

CC Okay, and before you get started, we'd like you

to stay off the DAS, please. We're going to
update our mission timer. We've got an error
of about 2-1/2 seconds. And go ahead.

CDR Okay, one - a couple of things first that have

nothing to do with the status session. We're
not really sure on this star tracker exactly
what the ground rules are. We got a message the
other day that told us how to work it, and we
understand that. But does that mean we should
never lock it on except at those two times;
namely, when we are correcting for Nu z updates
and when we're correcting for a gyro drift?

CC Stand by.

CDR I locked it on about 30 minutes ago and got an

update for 7.7, or minus 7.7 to minus 7.9. With
0UTER-INNER significantly different than what
we've been having, but I think it's the right
star. INNER is pretty close; OUTER is off like
it usually is. And I got to thinking about it
afterwards.

230 16 hh 22 CC Okay, stand by just a second, A1.

CC A1, the - What we're trying to do is minimize the

door cycles on the star tracker, so I guess the
ground rule is - is we'd like not to - to do that
procedure unless we do need a Nu z update. However,
that is not to say - that does nSt preclude you
from deciding that - that you think it would help
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whatever operation you're in. If you think that

you need a Nuz update, go ahead and do it. But
we don't want to indiscriminately cycle the star
tracker door. Over.

CDR Okay, I think we understand that. The next one

is on these general messages - I think it's 7-B
or whatever, where you sent up the - South Atlantic
anomaly in the horn?

CC Roger.

CDR You know we did a lot of t_Iking about that before

flight. Thought we needed it. We really don't
think we need it anymore, so you can Just cease
sending them up until it looks like we do need
them. The reason - one of the reasons being that
we're Just not in an area - a time of intense
solar activity at the moment, and we Just don't
use them. I assume if we had a lot of activity,
we'd watch them, but right now we don't. So
that'll save you some work.

230 16 h6 12 CC Roger. I'm sure there'll be a couple of typists

that are - be glad to hear that, and if you do
need them later, Just let us know. And we'll
cease.

CDR Okay, now let me go down this general message

on science and talk about s_e of the things
that - and we'll see - what we can think about it.

CC Okay, let me get mine out here, AI, before you

start.

CDR Go ahead.

CC Okay. Go ahead.

CDR Okay. We're glad to see that this ATM is up

because we're working hard on it. And we think
by using this pace, we're hoping that we can
make this 230-hours goal. That's only l0 over
how they see we're doing now and sure - I assume
that the way they're planning now, that we're
not going to run it on our day off. And we're
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always planning to run it on our day off, which

should soar it way past 230. But what else we're
hoping occurs, is that we don't skip any during
the day. Somehow we get every pass during each
day, and we- if - if the thing that's being
interferred with - the thing that we noticed on
the schedule is we got lots of small tasks. Most
of those small tasks we find we can do in the
middle of other tasks or later in the day. So
we're hoping that we don't miss any ATM passes
for days on end here. And we're hoping that in
addition to getting the 230 or more - we're not
so hung up on that as we are making sure that
when the EREP time comes around again, that we're
able to get as many double EREP passes in, that
are available. So we hope we get ahead somehow
in ATM before EREP comes .up, and then when EREP
comes up, we're able to work on EREP real hard.

230 16 h8 00 CC Roger; understand.

CDR Okay, and another thing - thought along on those

lines maybe, and these are Just thoughts we have
and they may not be right, you know, they may not
fit into the big picture that - that you see down
there. I've been kind of worried, although Owen
isn't - I've been worried about 5h having a bunch
of film here at the end of day 27 because I
understand we're going out day 28 and change the
film again. I guess we shouldn't be concerned
about it, but they seem to be happy. We Just
sort of wondered about it. Okay, one of the
discussions here is medical should be down about
25 hours from premission plan. We think that the
plan you got of, you know, laying off the first
half because we've already done it, was a good
one. And going down to the more normal way for
the second half because that's unexplored area
is a - is a good one too. We - we'll be able
to carry that out. The thing that I think we' re
doing additional in the medical area that needs
to be put down as experiment hours, because that's
what they are, is this work that Owen's doing on
hematology and also urinalysis - specific volume
and things. He probably - Every time he does it,
it takes him about an hour apiece, at least. And
my guess is we'll be doing it much more than
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25 times the rest of the mission, which ought to

be medical eval - you know, part of the medical
because that's exactly why we're doing it.

230 16 49 27 CC Roger; understand.

CDR I suspect that's somehow fallen over Just to

houskeeping, but it really isn't; it's strictly
a medical experiment.

CC We'll check and see how we're counting those

things and let you know.

CC You got anything else, Al?

230 16 _9 49 CDR Yes, talking about this visual observation. They

wanted to hear if we have any co_nent. I have
one big comment. I don't think we're using this
TV out the window enough on current events that
might be of interest to people around the world.
We're taking pictures which we won't even bring
back here for another 6 weeks or something. They
won't be developed for another 2 or 3. Whereas,
if any of these things we're doing, like volcanos,
or hurricanes, or sea mountains, or anything else,
are of current interest to people, we ought to be
figuring out how we can use this TV on them. Now
maybe somebody is figuring it out already, and
decides we can't. But it seems to me it'd be
worth more than a try. We seem to be working it
all with cameras, and not much with TV, when -
when we're missing one of the best things of
man is space, namely currency, being able to give
people on the ground a view of something that is
happening tod_v or yesterday, instead of last
month.

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SKYLAB-AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

230 16 50 52 CC Roger. I think that is a good input, AI. And -

and we'll - we'll think about that. A1, we're
about a minute and 20 seconds from LOS at
Hawaii. We're going to be down at the Vanguard
at 17:lb. We're going to dump the data tape
recorder there. And we can probably pick up -
finish our conversation when we get down there.
Two things before we go over the hill. We
wanted to know, if possible, when to expect to
do this command module accumulator test, that
was on message 2231 Alfa? That was the one -
we want to do it during STADAN in coverage, A1.
And we can pick any pass you like, including
the next one at the Vanguard, if - if you want
to. It doesn't matter to us.

CDR How about the next one at the Vanguard?

CC Okay, we'll pick it up there. And also, since

we were talking about those - the undersea
mountains and the - the two photography oppor-
tunities today, I Just talked to the EREP
officer for a little while. And there's really
not much we can help you in the way of locating
them, because they are, you know, out in the
middle of the ocean. But the one on the under-
sea mountains is a]most a nadir pass, and the
one with the undersea volcano - the - the loca-
tion of the pumice that's floating on the water
is Just to the north of the groundtrack. You
can look - and neither of these are in your book
that has the large photographs. But they are on
the map, of course, where the earth slider [?]
is. And so you might take a look at them prior
to the opportunity.

230 16 52 23 CDR Okay, I think we saw that one with the pumice
the other day, I really do.

CC Roger. It's been sighted, I'm advised, by an

airline pilot and also by a ship down there.
But it - it is in a very remote area and - and
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they thought, you know, it'd be a good thing for

you guys to get.

CDR Okay, well, we 'll wander up there, we 'll even

take the TV. If there's anything big enough,
we'll give it a go.

230 16 52 _3 CC Roger.

230 17 lh 05 CC Skylab, Houston. We're A0S at the Vanguard for

9 minutes. We have good data on the ground.
So, A1, any time you want to do this accumulator
check in the command module, we'll be happy to
watch you.

PLT He's on his way up. Floating fast.

CC Okay.

PLT You notice that even though there is not much of

an up or down here, we still stick with the same
old names for up there or down here.

CC Roger."

CDR Okay, how do you hear, Dick?

CC Loud and clear.

230 17 15 16 CDR Okay, mypresent indicated primary accumulator

quantity is about 31 percent, Dick.

CC Okay, I got it.

CDR Okay, on my mark, I'm going to open the reser-

voir.

CC Okay.

CDR That's the inlet.

CC Roger.

230 17 15 51 CDR MARK.

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CC Roger.

CDR Now, let me tell you what it did, for thinking

purposes. When I opened it, it _mmediately in-
dicated zero, gave us a caution and warning.
So I closed it. When I closed it, it now indi-
cates 25. So there's a little funny there. If
you like, I'ii open it again and kind of cycle
it until it gets down to 15.

CC Stand by just a second, please, AI.

CDR Yes, and it didn't Just kind of go down to zero.

It was almost like, you know, an instantaneous
zero. It wasn't any delay. Couldn't have come
out that fast.

230 17 16 42 CC Roger. Stand by Just a second.

CDR It's now sitting at about 25 percent.

SPT Incidentally, there's a very nice low pressure

center Just right outside our wardroom window
at the moment. Not more than 300 miles from our
present groundtrack. It might be of interest to
the people in the southern tip of South America.
Got very nice cyclonic wind flow.

CC Roger, Owen. Thank you much. And for A1, yes.

We'd like for you to open the valve once more
again. Don't cycle it, and let us watch the
data please, and then close it_

CDR Okay. Well, I'm not going to let - It says

don't go below 15. I have no way to know if it
goes below 15.

CC Stand by.
_o

230 17 17 39 CC A1, I said that wrong, I guess. Open it. If it

goes to zero, then close it again. Over. .

CDR Okay.

CC Okay.
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CDR Okay. It went to zero. And now I have closed

it, and it is right at 15 percent or lh percent,
it looks like at the moment.

230 17 18 07 CC Roger. That's what we see on the ground here

also, A1, and you can go ahead now and do the
accumulator fill.

CDR Okay, sure will.

CDR Okay, I - Okay - what I - Let me tell you what

occurred then. I put it in FILL. It went up,
and when it indicated hS, I turned it OFF, which
dropped it back to about 31. So I'm going to
fill it a little bit more.

CC Okay, we concur.

230 17 20 20 CDR Okay, I filled to an indicated 57, and then

closed it, and it dropped down to about 51. So
it didn't drop as far that time.

CC Okay, we're - -

CDR We're sitting at 51 percent.

CC Okay, A1, and we're satisfied where we are right

now and thank you very much. Stand by 1. Yes,
go ahead and finish the procedure, but we're
satisfied with that percentage reading.

CDR Okay.

230 17 21 l0 CDR Okay, both MAIN REGS are CLOSED and our CABIN
REPRESS valve is OPEN, so everything's Just like
it was.

CC Okay, A1, thank you very much. We'll take a

look at this data and probably by the next pass
maybe I can brief you on what we think is going
on - the - We got about a minute and a half to
LOS; we're going to see you at - at Hawaii at
18:23. And I'll have some words also - stand
by 1.

CC Skylab, Houston. We're going to be LOS in about

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a minute and it sounds like the comm is getting

kind of poor here. I do have some words on
S05_ film usage, that I can give to you, when
we get to Hawaii. And one word for A1, we have
set up a phone call and it's this evening Canary -
along Canary-Madrid pass, starting at 00:06. We'll
see you at Hawaii.

CDR Okay, what'd you say? Is that a private comm?

I didn't hear, Dick.

CC Yes, sir; that's your phone call.

CDR Hey, that's good. Thanks, Dick.

CC Roger.

PLT Say, Dick, I'd like you - to have - you set one
up for me, also, please.

230 17 22 26 CC Okay, Jack. Thank you.

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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

230 18 21 41 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS, Hawaii for 3 minutes.

CDR Not very long.

CC Roger. I got a couple or three notes to task to

y'all about, if you don't have anything.

CDR Go ahead.

CC Okay, first of all, on the S054 question that you

asked, I have some numbers here that you might
be interested in. First of all, we have about
2618 frames remaining and when we - we're going
to leave about 200 frames on the end for a safety
buffer, and we're keeping in reserve - flare re-
serve of 360 frames, which we will reserve right
up until the EVA, in case we get a flare. The
remainder of that is going to be scheduled essen-
tially as - as follows: JOP 9 is going to get
about 900 frames, JOP 6 about 320, JOP 12 about
100, and all of the rest about 740. Now - The
numbers are not so important as the fact that -
Just be assured that we - we do intend to use up
the frames remaining for that experiment prior to
EVA, considering the reserves that we have budgeted.
Over.

CDR Okay. We can - we knew they did, but we Just kind

of wondered how they were going to do it. That's -
that's good information. Thanks, Dick.

230 18 23 07 CC Okay. And if - if any of those numbers I read too

fast and you would like to have - I'ii be glad
to pass them up to you. The - the next thingthat
I had is the answer to Owen's question about the
aurora. We talked to NOAA, and it turns out that
there is a quad aurora that's always visible in
the northern latitudes. And there was no un-
usual event last evening, other than this ever-
present aurora. The best time for viewing the
aurora today, is between 04:00 and 05:00, above
40 degrees north latitude and between Alaska and
Hudson Bay. And the aurora should get - The
brighter portion of it is towards Hudson Bay.
Over.
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SPT Okay, that's about where we saw it, as I mentioned

before. About over Goose Bay, Labrador, was about
where we saw it isst night. We might stay up for
it tonight.

CC Yes, I guess your specific question was on the

probability of seeing one, and we don't think there
is any different probability tonight, than there
was last night.

SPT Okay, that's fine. And I had not been aware that an
aurora that extensive was a more or less ever-
present scene on the northern sky up there. So
that's good to know, and we'll try it.

230 18 24 27 CC Okay. Next note I have here is on the co_nand mod-

ule coolant loop check that we Just performed.
And that check indicates to us that the primary
loop accumulator decay is due to a very slight leak
in the loop, as opposed to a leak through a valve
back in there - into the reservior. The leak could
be anywhere in the loop, it smounts to only about
1 percent of indicated quantity per day. At the
current leak rate, this poses no problem with our
nominal mission duration. We probably will have to
refill the accumulator a couple more times before
the end of the mission. And this includes one that
we do on entry day. And - in our present capacity
is the capability to - for greater than i0 refills.
So you can see that we got plenty of fluid.

230 18 25 h2 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about a minute from LOS at

Hawaii. We're going to see you at Vanguard at 18:52.

230 18 52 48 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS at Vanguard for

9 minutes.

SPT Okay, Houston. And we found the bright spot very

clearly on the XUV MON with the persistence image
scope, but very near the coordinates you'd selected
in the backroom. I'm into the 36A portion, so you -
that's not the position of the exact coordinate that
I am right now, but originally they were minus 12,
down and right, plus 462, with a roll of minus 10769.
So that's pretty close to the ground coordinates
and I think we should have a - a good set of build-
ing blocks.

CC Okay, good.
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230 18 54 04 CC And, Skylab; Houston. We've still got about

7-1/2 minutes left in this pass. I got three items
sometime - that I would - none of which are time
critical, but would like to pass up to you. One
is a request to do some reg adjusts to - for us,
in order to increase our power capability a little
bit; and then I'd like to talk to you a little bit
about star tracker operations, and then again some
slight differences that we are going to be sending
up to you on the detail pads, concerning M092 vents.
Over.

SPT Go ahead with the reg adjust. I'm right here right
now, Dick.

CC Okay, panel 206 res - reg adjust bus 2 about l0 de-

grees clockwise. Then reg adjust - reg control fine
adjust 6 about l0 degrees counterclockwise. And
reg control fine adjust 7, l0 degrees clockwise.

230 18 55 18 CC And, Jack, I had a note here to mark the position

of the pots prior to your resetting. I'm probably
too late to catch you on that, but if you can do
that, do it.

HOU CT Vanguard Comm Tech, Houston Corm_ Tech. Net 1.

VAN CT Vanuard Comm Tech. Go ahead

HOU CT Roger; read you loud and clear. How me?

VAN CT Read you loud and clear also.

HOU CT Roger.

230 18 57 46 CC Skylab, Houston. We lost a couple of network cir-

cuits down to the Vanguard there for a couple of min-
utes and I dropped out, I think. I haven't heard
anything since I read up the numbers to Jack on the
reg adjust pot.

SPT He Just reported that he had them marked and adjust-

ed, and about that point, you dropped out.

CC Okay, real fine. I understand that the reg adjust

is - is finished. Thank you very much. We still
got about 3-1/2 minutes left, Owen, and if you can
listen, I'll talk to you Just a second about the
star tracker and M092.
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SPT Okay, go ahead.

230 18 58 23 CC Okay, one - First on the star tracker. I know we've

had some difficulty in the last couple of days,
in getting a - a lockon. And I'm not sure if you
are aware of what the - what our criteria are for
changing the star tracker pad. But what it is, is
when the inner gimbal changes more than 30 arc min-
utes, we send you a new star tracker pad. This
resslts in a pad getting 3 or 4 days old onboard,
and - and allows the outer gimbal to change from
the pad's az[imuth?] quite a bit, up to a 1,O00 arc
seconds, and so - Just thought if you were aware
of - of - of that, you know - you would - wouldn't
get surprised if you have to really search on outer
gimbal quite a ways.

SPT Okay, I personally had not been aware that - of your

criteria there, but I wonder if you'd want to recon-
sider 1000 arc-seconds, if the outer gimbal drifts
that far. Really ends up taking a fair amount of
time and makes us less certain about whether or not
we've got the right star. And since it's Just a
little 3-inch sheet of paper anyway, maybe you want
to send them up a little more frequently.

CC Roger, Owen. I - -

230 18 59 B4 CDR Hey, Dick.

CC Roger, go ahead.

CDR This is the CDR. Couldn't agree with that more.

Now maybe what you'd want to do is send up a piece
of paper like you said, but every day Just give us a
voice one in the - in the morning we'd cross out the
old numbers on the piece of paper and put in the
new one. It does take a long time. And it's wasted
time too.

CC I tell you, A1, I think we'd be Just about as well

off Just to send you a pad everyday, I - It isn't
very much paper and - and it's not - not much trouble
to us.

CDR Okay, how about doing it this way. You know at -

down at the bottom on the solar activity pad, where
you put Beta angle and all that business, why don't
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you Just put it on to that one? And that way we

won't have to cut out a piece of paper and it won't
be loose. It'll Just be right down at the end of
the solar activity pad everyday. Just write the
star, and the two angles, and that'll be it.

2B0 19 00 B6 CC Roger. Another suggestion here from - is - is to

Just to put the - those two pads back to back each
day. And that way you could Just have the whole
information for star tracker immediately following
the SAP, and cut them out one time.

CDR Sounds good.

CC Roger. We're about a minute from LOS at the Van-

guard. We're going to have you in Just about another
5 minutes at Ascension. We're going to dum_ the
data tape recorder at Ascension and when we get
there, I'll talk to you about this M092 vent.

230 19 01 ll CC And also, A1, we up-linked two of tomorrow's flight

plans here at the Vanguard and your next one'll be
coming up at Ascension. See you then.

230 19 05 53 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Ascension for 9 minutes.

SPT Okay, Dick. And I'ii have some information on chan-

nel A about the evolution of this bright spot for
the backroom there. I won't bother real-timing it,
and I'll put it on channel A at the end of the pass.

CC Roger, Owen. And while I'm talking to you and we're

talking about the ATM. We sent up a message, oh,
yesterday I think it was, that changed a time on
several of the building blocks and JOPs, from 320 to
520, on the exp_osure time. And on this pass, we
noticed that on J0P 17A, building block 36, an ex-
posure time of 320 was used, although we have seen
some 520s also. So, the suggestion is, we might
have missed one pen and ink. In any case, J0P 17A,
building block 36, that change should have been made.

230 19 07 01 SPT Okay, I didn't have it on here. M_ybe - I don't

remember entering them. But I will make this one
into 520 and we'll check some more.

CC Okay. That - that message number for that change -

• it was change 6 - to the J0P s_w,,ary
sheetbook.
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And the message number was 21B2 Delta, I believe

it was.

230 19 08 05 CC Skylab, Houston. If you will stay off the DAS for
a few minutes, we're going to update the Y-2 gyro
drifts condensation.

SPT Say, you might ask ATOM there if the next orbit -
you've still got a listed - the target as bright
spot 1. I've completed these two building blocks
on this bright spot. I wonder if we wouldn't want
to select another bright spot in this coronal hole.
Was there an intent to keep it the same one, or is
a second target satisfactory?

CC Stand by. I'll ask.

230 19 08 52 CC Owen, the backroom suggests that they'd like to stay

on the bright spot - on the same one all the way.

SPT Okay. That has to do with the evolution that I was

Just mentioning a moment ago. This bright spot had
a very significant decay over Just the last 30 min-
utes. On detector 3, it decayed from a peak of about
1500 down to about B or 400. And I double checked
that a couple of times. It also decayed to a point
where it was no longer visible on the XUV MON with
integration. Now I can still find it on detector 3.
Four or 500 count is still way above the background,
but it's much weaker than it was Just 45 minutes
ago. And that was another reason for suggesting
that another bright spot might be better. So you
might think about it and inside the next 30 minutes
let me know if you still feel that way.

CC Roger. CDR, and did you copy my request to stay

off the DAS, please? G&S would like to up-link a
drift compensation to Y-2 gyro.

CDR Go ahead, we're clear.

CC Thank you.

230 19 09 06 CC Skylab_ Houston. We've still got about 4 minutes

here at Ascension. And I'd like to tell you about
this M092 slight change that we're making. It's
going to show up tomorrow on - first on SPT's de-
tailed flight plan, if you have a chance to listen.
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CDR Go ahead, Dick. We're listening.

CC Okay, AI. I guess the situation that we're in is -

is - since we lost the meteoroid shield and this
makes this M092 vent much more pronounced. And
this, coupled with our recent TACS and gyro prob-
lems, makes us goosey about the momentum state,
and we want to make sure we do everything to do -
we can to protect it. So, what we're going to do
is up-link to the observer of each M092 run, a
window, in which we would like the M092 vents start
to fall within. For example, I'm looking at the
detail pad for the SPT tomorrow, and it says M092
vent start window and give two times. What we're
trying to avoid here is having the M092 vent fall
on top of amy of the momentum samples - any of the
four momentum samples, and there's one Just prior
to sunset and one Just after sunrise. And so the
instructions to you are, if possible, go ahead and
start the vent any time within this window. Ln any
case, do not start it early, because there's nothing
we can do to counteract that problem. However, if
you are unavoidably late and you have to bust the
last time, as soon as you come over the hill, if
you will Just let us know, then we can get a con-
tingency momentum sample. And we can - we can make
sure this way that the momentum dumps are calculated
correctly. Over.

SPT Okay, I think we understand all that, Dick. And

we'll cooperate and get them in on those windows.

230 19 ll h6 CC Okay. And for your information, the times are

fairly broad. For instance, tomorrow's window is
26 minutes long. And if - if the vent starts any-
where in there, it's perfectly okay.

CC Skylab, Houston. The DAS is yours. Thank you very

much. We're about 1 minute from LOS at Ascension.
We're going to see you at Guam at 19:51.

230 19 13 06 SPT Okay, Dick.

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230 19 51 20 SPT Hello, Houston.

CC Skylab, Houston. Go ahead.

SPT Okay. I was wondering what the backroom had to

say about the bright point. It looks to me like
the one that I used last orbit is still not
visible on the XUV MON, although I could find it
using DETECTOR 3. Over.

CC Roger. And, Skylab; Houston. Before I answer

this one, request you stay off the DAS, so we
can inhibit momentum dump.

SPT Wilco.

230 19 51 55 CC Okay. The note that I had here was to give you -
when we came AOS on this cycle - was to request
that you run steps 1 and 5 of JOP 17 Alfa,
which is building blocks ll and lO, as scheduled,
to complete the evolution of that - of bright spot
number i. And then suggest you repeat building
block ll and building block l0 on a second
bright point. Over.

SPT Sounds like a good idea.

CC Okay.

230 19 53 04 CC Skylab, Houston. The DAS is yours.

CDR Okay.

CC And, Skylab, Houston. For Jack, his phone con-

versation we set up for Carnarvon pass at 00:42,
and we'll be reminding you again later on about
those.

PLT Thank you, Dick.

CC Yes, sir.
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SPT Will you let me know when you are ready

configured for TV?

CC We're ready now, Owen.

SPT Okay. I'm not quite through with this first chip.
If you'll - if you're still configured to be in
that chip, I'll give you a XUV MON - or a WLC
ROLL, also.

CC Roger.

SPT There's no cue card. I'll do it for you.

CC Roger, SPT; and we're going to keep the TV do,n-

link configured for the rest of this AOS, so don't
worry about that.

230 19 57 26 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 30 seconds from LOS; we'll

see you at - at Vanguard at 20:29.

230 20 28 _l CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS at the Vanguard

for ll minutes.

CDR Okay.

CC And I had a couple of quick notes for you. The

reg adjust you did last pass for us looks real
good. We're satisfied with that. The INCO asked
me to remind you that VTR still has 30 minutes of
tape on it and it's all yours, available as you
desire. And one more note. The tropical depression
that you flew over this morning, south of Cuba,
is - has been named tropical depression Brenda.
And you're going to have the last opportunity,
for a few days, in overflying it, Just after you
wake up in the morning. And we were thinking
about sending cho - a - sending you a photo pad
and possibly getting some photo and some TV as
you fly over it. It'll be very shortly after
you wake up.

CDR Sounds like a good idea.

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230 20 29 38 CC Roger. We'll - we'll plan on it and get the stuff

available to you and let you know later about that.

CDR Okay. We're working on the TV.

CC Okay.

CDR Takes three of us to do it. So it turns out that

we have to do it at night between ATM passes.
We're getting ready to do the first one here as
soon as night comes.

CC Roger. We Just can't hardly wait to see it.

CDR We're trying to come up with three little things

so that maybe they're useful. We might shoot - We're
going to shoot l0 min - i0 minutes of each. And
we may repeat ourselves some during the lO minutes,
so maybe it could be cut and be better than it is
Just in one shot.

CC Okay, A1. Sounds good.

230 20 30 57 SPT And I'm working on the second bright spot now.

CC Roger; Owen. Tban_ you.

PLT Dick, I was Just noticing I do not have change 6 to

the JOP entered in on the sheets yet. If I don't
find it, I may have to ask you to send it up again.

CC Okay, We'll make preparations to be able to get

it up to you, if - if you need it.

230 20 38 25 CC Skylab, Houston. We're a minute from LOS at the

Vanguard. We'll see you at Ascension at 20:h2.

CDR Roger,

CC And, Skylab, Houston. There's a message in the

teleprinter that are some answers to the SPT's
question regading ATM shopping list - in the
teleprinter now.

SPT Thank you.

230 20 39 03 CC Roger.
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230 20 42 h0 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS through Ascension,

Canary, and Madrid, for several minutes.

CC Skylab, Houston. We're A0S at Ascension, Canary,

and Madrid for the next 18 minutes. And we were
wondering if the PLT had any luck in getting his
handheld photos of the evidence of the underground
volcano in the Pacific.

PLT Okay, Dick. I went over there and looked for it,
and I found the - the islands in the area. The
weather was scattered as shown on the - the pad.
I was unable to find the pumice flow; and I took
a few pictures in the area where it was reported
to be. However, I was unable to see it. I think
that it probably had about the same appearence
as - in - colorationwise, as may of the clouds in
the area.

230 20 4h 25 CC Okay, Jack. Thank you.

230 20 46 17 CC Skylab, Houston. We notice you're off Sun center

in - in building block 15. And - and we thought
that was to be Sun centered. Over.

CC Skylab, Houston. We notice you're in building

block 15 and not Sun centered. And weren't sure
you got our last call, and weren't - And we're
not sure the reason why and didn't quite under-
stand the pointing.

230 20 h7 37 CDR I'm not sure what he's doing, Dick, but he's using
both hands up there, so he may be getting some
special data.

SPT No, here I am now. I couldn't take time to talk

to you, Dick. The schedule sheet shows a roll
of 9700, and I see it does say Sun centered now.
But 52 is omitted, and when 52 is omitted our
normal procedure is to go to bright plage and
do the - in order to increase the number of counts
on the 55 detectors. Now, I don't think that's
going to make any difference in the data. In fact,
I don't really see why you'd specified Sun centered,
since 52 is not operating. Over.

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CC Roger. Stand by. Owen, we're satisfied with

the - the situation as it is, and you're doing
okay. So don't worry about the data. It - it
will he fine.

SPT Actually, I think it'll be better this way.

CC Roger.

230 20 51 22 CC Skylab, Houston. If you'll stay off the DAS for

a couple of minutes, we're going to enable
momentum dumps.

CDR Okay.

CC Thank you.

230 20 52 22 CC Skylab, Houston. We're through commanding. The

DAS is yours.

CDR Okay.

CC Skylab, Houston. We see the - the VTR is selected

to the ATM and Just wanted to make sure that was
intentional.

CDR Sure glad you reminded us.

CC Roger.

CC Skylab, Houston. On the ATM console, we'd like

the MANUAL POINTING CONTROL switch to IN - INHIBIT
instead of ENABLE. It's no particular problem,
except its - warms up one of our torque amplifiers,
and we'd like to get it to INHIBIT, please.

CDR What else do you want, Dick?

CC ROLL switch to INHIBIT.

230 20 56 52 CDR Okay, we got it. Anything else?

CC One more thing. On S055, DETECTOR 1 to OFF.

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CC Skylab, Houston. We're i minute from LOS at

Madrid. We'll see you at Guam at 21:56. We're
going to dump the data tape recorder when we get
to Guam. And also, we are shipping the JOP sum-
mary sheet change 6 out there to the site. So,
if you can tell us at AOS Guam whether or not you
need another copy on board, we'll be hap - happy
to up-link it there, if required.

SPT Dick, I doubt if I have time to try track it down

between now and then. We'll Just have to wait a
little longer.

CC Roger. We're not trying to make you hurry to make

the corrections, Owen. But at any rate, the
message will be available for up-link any time you
need it,

SPT Okay, fine. Thank you a lot. I was Just down here
working with A1 and Jack and I'm not going to
have a chance to get up there. I understand.
Thank you.

230 21 O0 02 CC Roger; understand. No problem.

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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

230 21 26 25 CC Skylah, Houston through G1,=m for 9-1/2 minutes.

And as a reminder, we'll be dumping the data
voice recorder here.

PLT That you, Hank?

CC Yes, sir. How are y'all doing today?

PLT By golly, there is a Hank Hartsfield. I thought

you had left the country. Welcome back.

CC Thank you. Glad to be back.

CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 40 seconds from

LOS; Vanguard at 07.

230 21 35 49 CC Skylab, Houston. 20 to LOS; VanguArd at 07.

230 22 06 58 CC Skylab, Houston through Vanguard, 8 minutes.

CC And, Skylab, for info, we're going to go ahead

and up-link that change number 6, the JOP s,lmmary
sheets, so if you don't find yours, you'll have
it on board.

SPT Okay, Hank. Was that in both building block 33A

and 36A? Just change everything from 03:20 to
a 05:20.

CC Let me check it.

230 22 08 28 CC Skylab, Houston. That comment was correct.

In building blocks 3, 6, 33 and 36, the time
should read 05:20 instead of 03:20.

SPT Okay. That's 3, 6, 33, and 36. Right?

CC That's right and that r and that was part of the

change number 6 to the summ,v-j sheet.

SPT Thank you.

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PLT Got to quit now. Hank, I didn't copy down the

time of my phone call and I believe it's over
Carnarvon. Would you have the time handy there,
please?

CC Okay. That's 00:42.

PLT Okay, 42. Thank you.

230 22 14 12 CC Skylab, Houston. One minute to LOS; Canaries

at 26.

230 22 27 03 CC Skylab, Houston through Canaries and Madrid for

13-1/2 minutes.

230 22 29 30 CC Skylab, Houston. Sometime this evening when

it' s convenient, we're recommending that on
panel 207, you take the PRIMARY COOL, PUMP B
CAUTION AND WARNING to INHIBIT. Now, we've
got secondary loop up and running, and we got
auto switchover enabled, so there's actually
no requirement for that caution and warning.
The auto switehover will turn the PRIMARY, PUMP B
off. If it does, there's the DELTA-P - because
of the fluid loss - does come on down. So,
what we were doing is preventing a caution and
warning from waking you up in the middle of the
night.

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SKYLAB AIR-T0-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

230 22 30 40 CC Skylab, Houston. Did you copy?

PLT We copy. Say the switch again, please.

CC Okay, panel 207, PRI COOL, PUMP B, CAUTION and

WARNING, Just take it to inhibit. We don't
think the primary loops - we think it's good for
another 8 to 12 d%¥s, but we're not sure, and
we'll Just go ahead and inhibit that caution and
warning. We don't need it.

PLT PRI COOL, PUMP B.

CC Roger.

230 22 39 54 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about i minute from LOS.

We'll be coming un on Honeysuckle at 14 with a
vice data recorder dump.

CDR Okay. And we've been putting, in additon to doing

this TVtoday, we've been recording it on the
chan A voice. So, you'll probably find a lot of
that on there. We've got one more TV thing to do
and then we can dump it.

CC Roger. We copy.

CDR How much is left on the TV right now?

CC You have about 8 minutes left.

230 22 40 34 CDR Okay. Perfect.

230 23 14 34 CC Skylab, Houston through Honeysuckle for 8 minutes.

CC Skylab, Houston through Honeysuckle for 7-1/2 min-

utes. And as reminder, we'll be dumping the data
recorder here.

CDR Okay.

CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 1 minute from LOS;

Bermuda at 58.

230 23 21 42 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 45 seconds from

LOS; Bermuda at 58.
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2BO 2B 58 B7 CC Skylab, Houston through Bermuda for 4 minutes.

SPT Okay, Hank.

SPT I'm going to be starting some of these star checks,

Hank.

CC Roger _ copy.

231 O00l 51 CC SPT, Houston. We'd like to inibit-inhibit the

Nu z update there, so when you do get a lockon,
it doesn't give us some bad data.

SPT Roger. I thought it probably already was; I'll

stay off the DAB.

CC That - that's on your pad there, (3wen.

231 00 02 17 SPT Oh. Thank you very much. I should have done that.

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SKYLAB AIR-T0-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

231 00 03 55 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about i minute from LOS,

Canaries at 06. And a reminder to the CDR. That's
your phone call and we think that the right antenna
will be good for the whole pass.

SPT Okay, Hank. That's fine. That's all the star

checks I'm going to have a chance to make and

how about reenabling Nu z - You want me to do that

and do you want me to go get - find a star?

CC When you're through, Owen, we'd like for you to

reenable.

SPT Okay. And I'll go try to find the Canopus or put

it at the right spot.

CC Okay,
sir.

CDR Okay. And that phone call is in Just 2 minutes,

then?

i CC Roger. About 2 minutes for - for the CDR and

the - the VHF right antenna.

231 00 04 h6 CDR I'ii get it.

231 O0 06 19 CC Skylab, Houston through Canary and Madrid for

11-1/2 minutes.

CC Skylab, Houston. We've got 10-1/2 minutes left

on this pass through Canaries and Madrid.

231 00 08 36 SPT Star tracker update's reenabled and I've gone to

the pad coordinates for the star. We'll have to
wait and see how close they come next time we're
around,

CC Roger. We copy.

CC SPT, Houston. I guess the reason we had the

trouble there with that thing in - we - it slipped
our minds too that We were in the middle of a
dump there. So it would have been difficult for
you to do very much with that star check.
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SPT Okay. I should have thought of that also, and -

before time for the star to set. So it wasn't
a very good check. Now the - the pad that you've
given me r@ally expired about 1 hour ago, and I
suppose tomorrow I'll have to have another pad.
I don't - unless you think the numbers will still
be close enough.

231 00 i0 27 CC Okay. I suppose we'll have to build you another

pad, Owen. However, the - the next night pass
momentum dump will be inhibited for JOP 7, if
you want to try it again.

SPT Okay. I'll Just stay at the panel a little late.

I'll be running this next pass, I think, and so
I'll Just stay at the panel a little late and
try it. Several of the stars I can pick right
up after sunset.

CC Roger.

SPT Hank, will you need an update during - on the

star tracker during the day side here?

CC Stand by 1.

231 00 13 47 CC SPT, Houston. We'll take an update.

SPT I was thinking of it the other way around. I

was going to inhibit it again and try to get most
of these stars on the day side, if you didn't
need a Nu Z update.

CC Okay, Owen. I guess we don't really need it that

had. We Just thought maybe you could give it to
us. Why don't you go ahead and do that, then?

SPT Okay, then if I finish or get - don't find time

or something, why I'll try to get you Canopus
also.

CC Okay. Good show.

231 00 16 31 SPT Hank, are you still there?

CC Roger.
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SPT I wanted to m_ke sure that 82B really didn't

want a lO-second exposure every 15 seconds between
7 minutes 40 seconds remaining, and sunset. That's
the last item on the next orbit.

CC Okay. We'll check it.

231 00 17 21 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 30 seconds from LOS.

We'll be coming up on Carnarvon at 42. And a
reminder for the PLT, that's his phone call. And
we think the right antenna will also be good for
him_

CC And, SPT, Houston. Go with the pad.

SPT Okay. I think that means what I said is a correct

interpretation of the pad. So I'll go with what
I told you.

231 00 17 57 CC That's - that's affirmative.

231 00 43 0B CC Skylab, Houston through Carnarvon for l0 minutes.

And if you can give us the DAS, we want to inhibit
momentum dump.

SPT All right. You have it.

231 00 43 55 CC Skylab, Houston. The DAS is yours. And as a

reminder, your VIDEO switch is in TV.

SPT Okay. Are you ready for the down-link now?

CC Okay. This will be recorded at the site and

they're ready.

SPT Okay.

231 00 46 14 SPT Okay. That completes the circuit of the displays

for the do_ra-link TV. And Just for your planners
back there, new region on the east limb is getting
very, very bright in the XUV.

CC Roger. We copy.

CC Skylab, Houston. Is there someone free who can

help us get the atmospheric management started
for the M509 and T020?
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CDR You bet.

CC Okay, A1, got a few switches for you on panel 225

then.

CDR Okay. Let me go up there.

CDR Okay. Go ahead.

231 00 47 46 CC Okay. The AM FILL, PRIMARY - we want to OPEN.

And the 02 FILL, PRIMARY, PRIMARY l, OPEN. Oh,
that 's PRIMARY, OPEN.

CDR Okay. We did and we hear oxygen entering the

spacecraft.

CC Okay. And what we're going to - what we want to

do, A1, is leave those open until the PPO 2 is
4.0 psi, or the cabin pressure gets up to 5.7,
whichever occurs first. And we're going to help
you watch that. It should take about an hour and
a half to do that. And when it does - one of

those levels is reached, h psi on the PPO 2 or

5.7 total on the cabin, we want to take those
two switches to COMMAND.

CDR Okay. Understand that. You're aware, of course,

that we're still bleeding out through the water
dump.

231 00 h8 45 CC Roger. We understand.

CDR Okeydokey. Keep an eye on it.

CDR After finish of T020 tomorrow, what's the cabin

pressure going to be?

CC We'll - we'll get an answer for you here in a sec.

CDR Okay. Give me another answer too. What's our

velocity up here in statute miles per hour?

231 00 50 l0 CC CDR, Houston. We expect we'll start T020 at 5.3

and wind up at about 5.6.
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CDR Okay. That's not bad. I didn't realize how it

was going to get down. Do you think that this
bleed will get down that low in the night, huh?

CC That 's affirmative.

231 00 52 32 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 45 seconds from a

short LOS. We'll be picking up at Honeysuckle at
53. And at that point I'd like to give you a
few number corrections on the master alarm ano-
malies we sent up. We had some poor numbering
in that and like to correct those, if I could.

CC Those corrections will be on pages E-l, E-2, and

E-7 in the - in the Flight Plan part under the
master anomaly list.

231 00 53 57 CC Skylab, Houston. We're back with you at Honeysuckle,

4-1/2 minutes.

CDR Okay. Go ahead with your corrections, Hank. I'm

standing here with the book.

231 O0 54 28 CC Okay. On page E-I there, you probably noticed

there, we sent an item A-5 up there the other
day, and that should have item A-4.

CC That's in - under ATM, there.

CDR Uh, so. I'm under thermal; let me find it.

CC Okay. Page E-I, under master anomaly, under

S054.

CDR Okay. I - we know them by subsystem like A -

ATM and number something. Okay. Go ahead and
tell me the number again, I'll find it.

CC Okay. Page E-1. That's A - ATM, S05h, and we

sent up and ad - an additional item there. We
had it numbered number 5, and it should be
number 4. There are only three there that went
up with you.

CDR We got them. We kind of suspected as much. Go

ahead. We got that.
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231 00 55 27 CC Okay. And the same thing occurred on the page E-2
on the ATM S055; we sent up item _, and there's
only one ahead of it, so it should be item 2.

CDR Okay. Got that one. What's next?

CC On page E-7, we sent up an item number 9. That

was back on day 222, and it should have been
item number B-11. We've corrected item number 8,
and number l0 on messages, so that number 9
we sent up should B-11. Number ll.

CDR Okay. Well, l0 then came up on day 230. I Just

go it. Do you want me to go back and take the one
that came up earlier and call it ll, is that it?

CC That's affirmative. The - the - the - the l0 that

came up - Just came up, corrected the previous
one.

CDR Okay.

CDR Okay. Ready for the next.

231 00 56 31 CC That's all of the corrections on that, A1.

CDR Okay. We got her.

CC PLT, are you able to copy some numbers?

CDE He's private comm right now.

PLT Yes. Go ahead, Hank.

CC Okay. Tomorrow morning, the TV of Brenda will

come during your postsleep, and I have your
acquisition time for you. That - it'll be at
ii:24:52.

PLT That 's TV of what, Hank?

CC Okay. Tomorrow morning during postsleep, we're

going to try to get some TV of the - of the
tropical storm Brenda again. And your AOS time
for Brenda is about 11:2_:52. And you should
be able to see it on up through about 11:29:30,
with closest approach at 11:28.

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231 O0 58 05 PLT Okay. I got that. You want TV and photos, right?

231 O0 58 09 CC That's affirmative. And we're about 20 seconds

from LOS now. We'll be coming up on MLA at
01:30. And we - we'll do our evening status
there, or get started on it. And we also have
a voice data recorder dump scheduled there.

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SKYIAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

231 01 30 32 CC Skylab, Houston through Merritt Island, 13 minutes.

CC Skylab, Houston. We have a couple of things to

get up in regard to some photo settings, one in
regard to the noetilucent cloud general message
and one for the C-mount photos. And we're also
scheduled for the evening status report this site.

SPT Okay. I'd like for you to take a look at the

star tracker gimbal angles. They're quite a bit
off the ...

CC SPT, Houston. We Just keyholed. Could you say

that again?

SPT I did have it on - a lock on a star that might be

Canopus, so I didn't want to enable Nu z update
until you verified that it was a good lockon.

CC Okay. We'll check it.

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i CDR And, CDR standingby to read night report whenever

you're ready.

CC We're ready.

231 01 32 26 CDR Okay. 188, 220, 163; 5186, 8571, 5843. 6.255,
6.253, 6.255; 5.958, 5.960, 5.959; 9.967, 9.965,
9.966. The exercise: CDR's not yet; SPT, 2/30/h300,
Mark I, A, 50; B, 30; D, 30. Pilot, no exercise yet.
Medication: none. Sleep: CDR, 7/G, 1/2/F; SPT,
6-1/2/G; Pilot 7/G. Here comes the food log: CDR:
one seat pack, did not eat strawberries; SPT, no
seat, add one cherry drink, one butter cookie,
and one peanut; PLT, seven salts, two butter cookies,
one grape drink. Here comes the photo log: M487-hF,
CI48, 00, CI43. M487/food transfer, CI49, 05,
CI47; Mh87-hA, CI40, 00, CI09. 35-millimeter:
CI101, ...; CXl2, 00; that one's empty; BB13, 14;
CX 25, 022. Here's the drawer A: 07, CIh0, 00,
CI09; 05, CI46, 75, CI41; 06, cIhg, 05, CI47;
03, CIh8, 00, C143; 02, CI44, 19, CIh2.

231 01 35 06 CDR On that last one - last night, we reported that the
02 transporter had one - correction, 00 remaining ,
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and that's what it looked like last night. And

we looked at it this morning, it looked like 19.
All I could guess was the little BB Jumped to a
different place. It must have rattled off zero
or something. Anyhow, it looks like it's 19 at
the moment. Next one, Flight Plan deviations:
everything 's okay. Shopping list accomplishment :
487-4A, 487-_F, housekeeping 60E, and all the others
that were on the Flight Plan and down in the little
areas that we could accomplish. Inoperable equip-
ment: well, we got a problem, our rope broke -
Owen broke the rope on the Mark I. And the little
Allen screw that you unscrew to replace the rope
in the handle looks like it's a - it's a size we
do not have. Now I don't remember what size we
have. I think we've got 8 and i0, and it's a 9. -

231 01 36 12 SPT Nine and three fourths.

CDR - - We've got 9 and ii and it's a i0 or something;

so we need some assistance. Any thought down there
on how we might release this Allen screw without
the proper Allen wrench? Or maybe we've got the
proper one somewhere and we Just don't know it.
That's it.

SPT I need some better star tracker coordinates it

looks like.

CC We're working it, Owen.

CC SPT; Houston. Would you try an INNER GIMBAL of

minus 636? That should be more gac - or more
_xact. It looks like you're in the right place.

231 01 37 31 CC And, SPT; Houston. If you give us the DAS, we'll

enable dump.

SPT You have it.

CC Did you copy the gimbal angle?

CC Okay, CDR, Houston. We've got a correction to your

C-mount photos pad.

CDR Okay, go ahead.

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CC Okay. We gave you some bad settings for the Nikon.

We want you to use a shutter speed of 1/250, and
an aperture of f/4.5.

CDR I can do it.

2BI O1 B8 15 CC And we also had an error in a permanent general

message number 8-A that we sent up regarding S06B.
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CC Okay. Could you give us a brief s,,mma_y of what

you have on there to help us in getting the stuff
squared away?

2B1 01 40 55 CDR Okay. We put three different events on there.

We - I got a haircut from 0wen, so we got that on
there for about l0 minutes. Next, we did some
tumbling and acrobatics up in the dome area and
that's on there for about 12 minutes. And then
we gave Jack a shower and that's on there for about
8 minutes. We shot - repeated some of the steps
and we blocked it out, so that it might be applica-
ble to editing and cutting up and being useful
through the networks as opposed to Just being a
single straight run up here. We tried to give
them something that they might be able to piece
together to - to a good little couple-minutes
blurb.

CC Hey, good show. We'd llke to get started on a

few questions here, if we could. Did the SPT
perform the M487-3 Bravo, yesterday?

231 Ol 41 54 SPT I tried to get it done yesterday, but had to do it

later this morning. It's already been on the
channel A.

CC Okay. Now that is accomplished. Thank you, sir.

CC And I guess you've already answered the question.

You haven't seen any noctilucent clouds. We'd
like to know, is it possible that a white line
might have been present in the twilight slrlow -
airglow band which might have been noctilucent
clauds.

231 01 h2 29 SPT Okay, if you're talking about that little white

band that Larry Dunkelman at Goddard has some
photographs of, I have not seen that white band at
that altitude any time since we've been up here,
although I've made a special point of looking.
There is some banded structure, however, in the
atmosphere, as it strayed from a blue into a sort
of a white, and then the blackness of space. And
those bands do appear to be different from time to
time. But, I've seen nothing that I would interpret
as being noctilucent clouds and nor have I seen that
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white band. I - in the sort of a faint blue layer

that Larry Dunkelman in particular has photographs
of and has described to us on several occasions.
I've been looking for cloud structures that are
some 80-millimeters high. I presume that's the
sort of altitude you're talking about.

231 O1 43 B1 CC That's correct. We're about to LOS now. We'll

be coming up on Madrid 47.

231 01 47 25 CC Skylab, Houston through Madrid for 8 minutes.

CC Skylab, Houston. On your M509 run number 3 or -3,

which seat position was used?

SPT Stand by a minute here, Hank; they're checking.

CC Okay. While they're checking there, SPT, on mission

day 20, you gave a report saying you gave Arabella
some water, did you also give water to Anita?

SPT Affirmative. Would be nice if I had a sponge I

could give her some water with, but all I could
do was sort of blow a few drops of water down into
the container.

CC Roger. We copy.

231 01 49 0_ PLT That was seat position Delta. And Al's got a
couple of words for you.

CC Okay.

CDR And, don't dump that VTR recorder yet. We'll -

we'll let you dump it in another - Just a little
while. Is that okay?

CC Okay. We had planned to dump it on the next

CONUS pass. That's about an hour from now, so - -

CDR Okay. We'll be - we'll be in good shape by then.

How much time's left on there now, by the way?

231 01 49 38 CC And - Skylab be advised the - the VIDEO switch

is in the MONITOR position. If you recorded some-
thing recently, it might not have gotten on.
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CDR That's what we think. And we wanted to record

something over the last couple of minutes. How
many mlnutes are left?

CC Okay. There are 3-1/2 minutes left and the previous

2 minutes was on the TV - on the ATM monitor.

CDR Okay. We'll put it on the last three. Thanks.

CC Okay. We'd like to run through some comments and

questions from biomed here, in the couple of minutes
we have left here. Would the CDR be willing to
have an R[431-I scheduled on himself. I guess we
were pretty interested in your comments concerning
the 0GI. And also we've got some baseline data
that we could use.

231 01 50 h0 CDR You bet. Be glad to do it.

CC Okay; we copy. And we'd like to know if anybody's

had any problems with taking a shower, such
low hot-water pressure.

CDR Jack's the only one that's had a shower, we'll

ask him.

PLT Shower worked great, Hank. Got a clean Marine.

231 01 51 Oh CC Okay; sounds good. Now a little bit on the hemo-

globin and urine specific gravity. Hopefully,
the hemoglobin determinations from the finger
stick or earlobe stick blood will prove to be more
accurate and more easy to accomplish. The specific
gravity ofurine is also very important when done
in conjunction with the hemoglobin determination,
since both reflect the body first status. The
urine specific-gravity procedure in permanent
message number 15 that we sent up was an attempt
to simplify. Do you think this is going to help
it a little bit?

231 01 51 39 SPT We're familiar with the message and I think it

will simplify; there'll be no problem.

CC Okay. We are evaluating, still, both the hemo-

globin and specific gravity procedures to shorten
them as much as possible.
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SPT Okay. I don't think there's any shortcut on

hemoglobin. And we Just know - know how do to it,
and we Just take so long. And we'll have to do
a finger stick, of course, due to the Imreliability
of venous blood, but aside from that, why we'll
Just proceed on, whenever it's scheduled.

231 01 52 08 CC Okay. Maybe - maybe having the refractometer for

urine more accessible will cut down the time required
to do this. And we'll - -

CDR Think you're right. We'll have it stashed

conveniently.

CDR Looks like we're going to reach the 5.7 cabin

pressure before we reach h.O PPO 2.

CC Roger. We copy. And, Owen, we prefer - the

surgeon prefers the earlobe stick.

CDR Send him up, we'll stick his earlobe.

CC Surgeon says thanks (laughter). And, A1, we con-

cur that the - that the 2 hours really puts this
into the experiment status. And we'd llke to cut
this time and avoid the change of status if we
can.

231 01 52 58 Subject, exercise: Do you feel a ph_slcal need

for exercise? If so, has it increased with time
in orbit? Please comment on the desirability of
a method that would allow prolonged walking or
running with near one-g bodyweight loads.

SPT You want a comment on that real time or on chan-

nel B. That might take a couple of minutes. What
do you want, Hank?

CC Okay. How about putting it on channel A, please.

CDR Okay. You wanted a comment about whether or not

we felt a - You were cut out in the middle of your
question. Why don't you repeat it quickly?

CC Okay. We would like to know if you - if you feel

a physical need for exercise, and if so has it
increased wi_.b time in orbit? And then also
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comment on the desirability of a method that would

allow prolonged walking or rtmnlng with near one-g
bodyweight loads.

2B1 01 53 h6 CDR Okay. Understand. We'll comment on channel A.

CC Okay, on M092: We'd llke to know if you are currently

using blood pressure cuff serial number 0.011, and
you can put that on channel A also, if you don't
know the number right off.

SPT I know. The answer is yes. We have the other one

standing by, in case of a double run, so we could
get one that's not too sweaty. But we've been
using serial ll.

CC Okay. And we'd also like to know the number of the

one you were using before.

CC You can put that on the recorder.

CDR Okay. I don't remember the other number.

CC And weLwould llke to know if the saddle settings are

still 6, 7, and 8, for the CDR, SPT, and PLT?

CDR The last run on the SPT make it 6. So that'll be

6, 6, and 8 from now on.

CC Roger. We copy 6, 6, and 8. And we're about

30 seconds from LOS. Next station contact will be
Carnarvon at 02:21, and that's our reed conference.

231 01 55 12 CC And we - we still have a few more things we'd like

to discuss with you, maybe we'll pick them up on
the Honeysuckle part of that pass.

231 02 28 56 CC Skylab, Houston. We'd llke to get you to terminate

the AM FILL now. That's taking the - on panel 225,
the AM PRI FILL and the 02 PRI FILL to COMMAND.

SPT He was on his way in to do it Just then, Hank.

CC Okay. Thank you, sir, and we also need to get the

S056 door open.

SPT That 's a good idea.

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CC And also we'd like to know if you're through with

the VTR, if you are, we're going to rewind her.

231 02 29 31 SPT That's affirm. Completely finished this time, so

it 's all yours.

CC Thank you, sir.

CC And, Skylab, we're about 20 seconds from LOS for a

short one. We'll be picking you up at Honeysuckle
at about 32.

SPT What time are you going to give me a wakeup call

tomorrow so I can get that hurricane, Hank?

231 02 30 07 CC Okay. I guess we can use a - a - a normal wakeup

time. That - you - you acquire the thing at approx-
imately 11:25 Z, and we suggest that you go ahead and
set up the TV camera this evening at STS window i,
so it'll be ready for you in the morning.

CDR Okay. Well, what time will that be?

CC That's 11:25. We gave you an acquisition time

awhile ago.

CDR Yes, I mean, but what time for getup?

231 02 30 37 CC ll:00's normal wakeup.

231 02 31 53 CC Skylab, Houston. We're back with you through

Honeysuckle for about 3-1/2 minutes.

CDR Okay. And, Hank, we terminated the 02.

CC Roger. Thank you, sir. And in answer to Jack's

question, we don't have our P set run out yet, but
it looks like from the cal comp that we will wake you
up at Guam in the morning. That's Just a little prior
to ii :00.

PLT Okay. That sounds good, Hank.

CC And one quick question on the photo report. We got

a squeal on our tape here about the time you were
telling us the frame count on the mag Charlie Indaia -
Charlie India 1Ol, the 35 millimeter. Could you tell
us what that frame count is?
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CDR I think it's 27.

231 02 32 38 C_ Roger; we copy. 27.

CC Okay. I'd like to continue here with a few more

questions from the surgeon in regarding the M092.
We'd like to know for the CDR, did you notice any
discomfort in the saddle, and also for the SPT,
was discomfort your reason for changing your setting?

CDR This is the CDR. MY reason for changing was, I was

too far down in it, and the rubber grommet was
squeezing on my stomach, and I think it was acting
like a blood pressure cuff and preventing blood
from flowing back from my leg. I moved it out
higher so it squeezed down towards my hip like it's
done on the Earth prior to the flight, and it was
a lot better. I'm thinking about moving it one
further out like it was before.

231 02 33 33 SPT Essentially the same answer applies to the SPT.

In zero g, you Just float further down ... keep my
body at approximately the same position relative
to the iris that it is in one g.

CC Roger; we copy. And have you noticed any change

in head fullness doing the M0927

SPT SPT' s noticed none.

CDR CDR, none.

PLT l've been emptyheaded for a long time, Hank.

CC Roger. I wonder if there's any more awareness of

head fullness in doing the Mark I exercises?

CDR This is CDR. Just the normal amount that comes

when you strain hard, drop down hard.

231 02 34 28 SPT As far as the SPT is concerned, any heavy exercise

always seems to clear my head up. It did that in
one g and it does in zero g, Just the same.

PLT Hank, I haven't been noticing any head fullness

regardless of what l'm doing up here, since the
first day.
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CC Roger. We copy. We do have a - We're about

30 seconds from LOS now and we do have a few more
items we'd like to discuss with you. If it's
okay you - with you, we'd like to continue state-
side. It's 3minutes into your bedtime. That's
up to you.

CDR You bet.

CC Okay, then we'll see you over Texas at 03.

CDR And we're all ready to take the C-mount picture

if we can see it.

231 02 35 20 CC Okay.

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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

231 03 03 45 CC Skylab, Houston. Stateside 16-1/2 minutes.

CC Skylab, Houston. We got about 16 minutes left,

this pass.

CC Skylab, Houston. Stateside 15-1/2 minutes.

CDR Okay, Hank, was there anything else?

CC Okay. Let's wind this up so you guys can get to

bed. Owen, we - we got a lot of static at - at
- when in the keyhole, apparently when you were
talking about your comments on the - -M092 sad-
dle. We would like to get you to repeat those
comments if you would, please.

SPT Oh, as far as why I put it at six is essentially

for the same reason A1 mentioned, namely, was to
position my body in the same position relative
to the iris as it was in one g. Here in zero g,
you simply foe - float further down into the can
and by - you have to raise the saddle up to keep
your - the iris essentially at the same spot on
your hip - above your hip bone.

231 03 06 07 CC Roger, we copy. And we'd like to know if you

noticed any nodding of the head in association
with the heartbeat. The SL 2 crew reported this
occasionally, even though it was very subtle.

SPT Oh yes, you can tell that. When you lay very
quietly, as a matter of fact, Jack just mention-
ed it to me, I think, day before yesterday on
the last run with Jack. When you lay there very
quietly, you - your heart beating will cause a
slight oscillation in the upper torso.

CC That's pretty interesting. Let me ask a couple

of questions about the food now. What perman-
ent menu changes are you now following?

231 03 06 44 SPT Let's see, as far as permanent changes, I have

no changes, although one of them might as well
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become - excuse me - I do have one. Pork loin

is removed from one of my day's menu and
spaghetti is inserted. I've also been omitting
asparagus when it rolls around, because some-
body apparently doesn't know the difference be-
tween a stalk and a tip, but anyway, asparagus
normally gets omitted, but those are the only
two things that I have normally or routinely
done. I'm supplementing my diet, as you can
tell from the daily report. As far as any
changes the others may have, they'll have to
speak for themselves.

SPT Almentioned sometimes he substituted - substi-

tutes peaches for strawberries.

231 03 07 36 PLT Jack eats everything that's on the menu except

for bread and tuna fish, when they appear
together.

PLT Plus a few extra drinks and stuff that gets re-
ported.

CC Roger, we copy. On what days did you not take

vit-m_ns and also in what locker is the third
bottle of vitamins.

SPT We've been taking vitamins regularly. There

were a few days at the - at the beginning of the
mission, approximately the first week, when we
were not on the regular diet that we were not
taking supplements. And when we didn't take the
supplements, we omitted the vitamins, but the
one vitamin bottle that we first had has been
depleted, and we've opened up the two cans - the
one can that came up with us in the command
module, which has three vitamin bottles in it
and we're Just working our way through those
three. We're working on the first of those
three bottles right now. We take them everyday.

231 0B 08 37 CC Roger, we copy. Have you water cleaned the

waste-processor exterior recently?

SPT Yes.
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SPT Anything else, Hank?

CC Out of curiosity, I guess, we'd like to know

what stars did you think you tracked while ago,
then we can look at our data and see if we
agree.

SPT Oh - Okay, just a minute. I'll have to get that

pad out. I was saving it until a convenient
time to talk to you about it. I'll see if I -
Just a minute, I'll get it.

CC We can hold on that, Owen, if you'd rather not

do it now; we can hold on that.

SPT Go ahead with your question.

CC Okay. That finishes up all of our questions for

the evening. I - I got a little bit of news
here if you're interested in that, if not, we
can say good night.

SPT Go ahead with the news then, and I may be look-

ing up that pad while you're at it.

231 03 09 49 CC Okay. Cambodia's top military man said Saturday

he would ask the U.S. to resume air strikes if
the Communists ignore the Indochina peace agree-
ment. The bombing of Cambodia, as you know,
stopped on August 15. A Sunday paper reports
that, in Houston, prices for at least 25 stand-
ard super market items increased almost l0 per-
cent during the past 4 weeks.

CC James Webb, the ex-NASA Administrator, will dis-

cuss the future of the U.S. Space Program at an
August 27th dinner honering Mrs. Lyndon Johnson.
The dinner, at the Hyatt-Regency Hotel, will
follow the formal dedication of the Johnson
Space Center. Dedication ceremonies will coin-
cide with the late President's birthday. Here's
a bit of Navy news. For the next 6 months the
population of Brimington, Washington- Bremerton,
Washington, will be l0 percent greater. The
Big E is docked there for repair and mainten-
ance, and there's 3000 Navy men and their
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families in port there. From the sports world,

Hank Aaron hit number 703, yesterday. That's
number 30 for the season. And I got a couple
of scores here for the season. The Astros are
leading the Phillies 3 to 2, it's somewhere past
the 6th inning, l'm not sure. And at halftime
the Packers are beating the Oilers 20 to 14.

231 03 ii 2_ SPT Okay, Hank, sounds fine, and it looks like I'ii
have to talk to you about stars tomorrow.

CC Okay. Get a good night's rest, and we'll see

you in the morning.

SPT Okay. We've got a few more things to do around

here before we hit the pad, but we'll see you in
the morning, early.

231 03 ii 38 CC Okay.

231 03 30 51 SPT Hello, Houston. Are you there?

CC Roger. Go ahead.

SPT Hello, Houston, Skylab.

CC Skylab, Houston. Did you call?

SPT Yes, Hank. I guess we're - maybe Just about to

go LOS. I was going to give you that star
tracker information. How much time do we have?

CC About 25 seconds.

231 03 31 32 SPT Well, I guess we better let it go with doing

nothing more than saying that I got ahold of
Ngdar and Rigel. I missed Atria and Avior. I
didn't have a chance to look at Acamar. Do you
agreewith that?

CC Roger. We agree.

SPT Okay. It looks like the magnitude is somewhere

around zero capability. Maybe we could get down
to plus l, we didn't have any stars right in
the magnitude. But why don't you take a look
at it and see whether or not it matches spec
and whether or not you think a few more checks
would be worthwhile. Over.
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CC Okay, we'll do that, Owen.

SPT See you tomorrow.

CC Good night.

231 03 32 23 SPT I was Just trying to photograph the old aurora

above Labrador and Greenland - -

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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

231 i0 54 25 CC Good morning, Skylab. We've got you for 2 minutes

through Guam.

SPT Okay, Story, just a couple of quick items. Get

underway here. First of all, I'd like to make sure
I've got an S063 pad up here; I didn't see one last
night. And the second item is, I'd like to let
Ted Bursa know that this is his day up here in
Skylab. If you'd call Ted and let him know we sure
appreciate all the work he did putting out fires,
and tracking down problems, and making sure things
were going to be working just right, why, we're
convinced it was an important factor in making sure
the ATM and other areas were all working well. And
if you'd call Ted for us, we'd appreciate it.

CC Okay, I'll sure do it. And you've got an ATM pass

coming up here pretty soon. And Jack's photography
meeting with Brenda will be in about half an hour.

231 i0 55 25 PLT I guess that's my first date with a lady since being
up here, huh?

CC Well, I don't know. You'll have to tell me about

that.

CC We're a minute from LOS here. We'll see you over

Goldstone in 17 minutes at ll:12. And, Jack, I'll
have some TV camera settings for you at that time.
And we've got the lines up for real-time TV.

PLT Okay, thank you, Story.

CC And, 0wen, there is an S063 pad on board.

SPT Okay, I hope it came up during the night because

I didn't have one at bedtime last night.

231 l0 56 l_ CC That's affirm.

231 ii 12 24 CC Skylab, we're A0S stateside for 17 minutes.

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SPT Okay, Story.

CC And, Owen, your solar update this morning: the Sun

has remained quiet. Active region 93 contains a
small spot, and is moderately intense in XUV. Ac-
tive region 96, at 70 degrees point 3 [70.3], is a
new emerging feature. Slightly actlve prominences
are present on the east limb at 240 and 260. And,
0wen, sometime in the next 15 minutes, I'd like to
get a frame count on the ATM.

SPT Okay. I forgot to call it down to you last night.

2797, 2129, 74, 211, 2763, 2738.

CC Say just the H-alpha again.

SPT 2797.

231 ii 13 34 CC Okay. And if possible we'd like to get these during

the evening status report. As we come down the
final stretch here towards the EVA, we're looking
very closely at the frames remaining and scheduling
the ATM accordingly.

SPT Okay, you'd like that in the evening status report?

CC If possible, that would be fine.

SPT How about Just calling it down to you on me of the

latter - one of the last passes during the evening?
That way it saves us transferring to a book that is
downstairs, and a lot of bookwork up here. And it's
real easy for the guy on the panel to take
l0 seconds to do it.

231 ll 14 03 CC Okay, beautiful.

CC And, PLT, at your convenience, I've got your TV

camera settings for Brenda and an update.

SPT You need a star tracker there - lockon this

morning?

CC I'll see.

SPT Say again.

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CC I'ii find out shortly, Owen.

CC Yes, that would be fine, at your convenience, Owen.

And the padyou've got should be good.

CDR Hey, Story, l've got a couple of additions to last

night's nightly report on exercise. Can I give them
to you now?

231 ii 16 41 CC Go ahead.

CDR Okay, CDR: 2/33/5003; 3/, Mark V, 40, A; 20, B;

20, C; 20, D; 20 situps; 2/10/Mark II, 20, A; i0,
B; i0, C; i0, F. And then let me give you the PLT
also: 2/30/6710, 05/0534; 3/20/Mark I; 50, A, 20,
B, 20, D, 20 backbends.

CC Okay.

CDR And we also replaced the SIA that we had fail. I

forget the number of the housekeeping task, but
that's accomplished.

231 ii 17 33 CC Okay.

CDR Jack did that in about 15 minutes.

PLT Okay, Story. How do you read?

CC Loud and clear, Jack.

PLT Okay, I'm up here getting the window cleaned. And,

got any new times, or are the ones I got last night
good?

CC Those times ought to be good. Now we do have a

position that's a little different than what you got
last night. It's on the northernmost part of the
Yucatan Peninsula. It's right on the - the seashore
edge. And I've got some TV settings here for you
when you're ready to copy.

231 ll 19 52 CC If you were calling, Jack, we just handed over to

Texas.

PLT Okay, go ahead with the settings, Story.

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CC Linear and average, f-stop 16; focus, infinity;

zoom, 25 or as desired.

PLT Okay, thank you.

CC And there's a lot of people down here been looking

at your TV pictures from yesterday.

PLT How did they come out?

CC They came out fine, and they've been on all the

networks.

PLT Already, you mean? The day-off pictures are on the

networks ?

CC Those are your TV pictures of - of Brenda.

231 ii 20 14 PLT Oh, okay.

CC The day-off pictures, during the long hours of the

night here last night, we all enjoyed looking at
them very much.

PLT There is no business like show business.

CC Boy, that's right; and it was done well.

PLT Story, is STS-1 still my best window?

CC Yes, sir.

CDR We kemp wondering; STS-1 looks parallel, to us - to

the EREP window. And you never call out the EREP
window, yet that looks like that might be even
better.

CC I'm working on an answer for you.

231 ll 22 24 PLT Story, what's the status of this storm? Is it a

hurricane or a tropical storm?

CC It's a tropical storm now, about 55 knots. And from

down here we're still thinking that STS-1 is the
best.
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PLT What's the general movement of the storm, Story?

CC It's moving at about - heading 285.

PLT At what speed?

CC Ten knots.

231 ll 25 lO CC Jack, we got a good picture down here.

PLT Okay, I'm showing you a picture out of number 4

window at this time. You can see one of the straps
there that's been tightened up to hold the sail.
The - one of the reefing lines, and there's the
edge of one of the solar panels right there.

PLT I enjoy looking out the STS windows more than the
wardroom window almost, because you get the feeling
that you're really driving a big machine. Other-
wise, you're kind of Just looking out of a porthole;
like looking into an aquarium or a - out the window
of an airplane when you're looking out the wardrocm
window. Although you can see more.

CC Okay, it's a good picture and you ought to have

acquisition of Brenda at this time.

231 ll 25 13 PLT Okay, let me whistle over to the other window here.

PLT Okay, we're just coming up on the sunrise of the

Skylab. Over here you can see it's still dark.

CC The Sun angle would be between zero and one.

PLT Okay, I've got the point of closest approach will

be at 11:28 which should be Just in a few seconds.
Is that time still good, Story?

CC It's the best we've got Jack.

CC See, if you can see, Yucatan, it's right on the

northernmost edge.

231 ii 28 27 PLT Okay, space fans, we're taking a look up here in

Skylab this morning at the tropical storm Brenda.
She's a relatively small storm; winds up to 55 knots,
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moving at a west, northwesterly direction at this

time at about i0 knots. She's out in the Gulf of
Mexico near the Yucatan Peninsula. Name is Brenda.
If you know .anybody named Brenda, now's your chance
to tease them about their temperament.

CC Oksy, Skylab, ths/nka for the weather report. We're

i0 seconds until LOS. See you over the Vanguard
in 9 minutes, and we've started the VTR. And you
can stop it when you get done, Jack.

231 ii 29 26 PLT Okay, and are you getting real time down there now?

CC We are at this time. We'll be going LOS in about

i0 seconds here.

231 ii 29 48 PLT Okay, and one of these days before you know it the

231 ll 39 h3 CC Skylab, we're AOS over the Vanguard for 6 minutes.

PLT Okay, Story. And how did the TV come down, okay?

CC The real time came down Just fine, Jack.

PLT Okay, looked like the storm is dissipating, and

that it doesn't have it cyclonic structure that
it had yesterday. It was very difficult to -
to find a well-defined area where the storm center
was located.

CC Roger; that was kind of expected. It - along the

coast there, but we're expecting it to pick up
again when it moves out into the warm moist air
of the Gulf.

PLT I see ; well, I was hoping maybe that would be

good news for everybody, that it was headed down-
hill.

231 ll 40 35 CC Roger.

CC And, Owen, we're showing H-alpha still in the

NIGHT INTERLOCK, OVERRIDE; we'd like that in
NORMAL.
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CC Skylab, we're 1 minute to LOS. We'll see you

over Goldstone in a little more than an hour at
12:_9. We'll be dumping the tape recorders over
Goldstone. And, Owen, we' re showing H-alpha in
NIGHT INTERLOCK, OVERRIDE ; we 'd like that in
NOEMAL.

SPT I believe it has already been changed; you might

check again. I appreciate the reminder.

231 ll _5 lh CC Okay.

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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

231 12 &9 25 CC Good morning, Skylab, Houston. We've got you for
12 minutes.

PLT Hello, Dick. How are you this morning?

CC Just fine, sir, and you?

PLT Doing great.

SPT Hello there, Dick. I Just noticed awhile ago on

the solar activity pad a comment about the emerging
flux regions Just to the west of the center of
the Sun. They show up about 060 and 0.2 or 0.3.
Now are - are - These are the same - the two little
bright spots now sho_ing at H-alpha, they're the
same ones that we tracked yesterday and perhaps
the day before when they were only visible on the
XUV M0N and had no H-alpha signature. We do have
a little background history on them, on the way of
shopping list items, and I'm wondering if the
backroom thinks they might be an interesting tar-
get to study the, more or less, evolution and
birth of these active regions if they think they
are going to develop. Over.

231 12 50 19 CC Roger, (>wen. Stand by and I'll listen to them

for a second.

CC Owen, Houston. The backroom concurs, and sounds

like a good idea if you get the opportunity today.

SPT Okay, we'll keep it in mind, and we'll do a couple

of shopping list items which relate to emerging
flux regions. And if they have any other sugges-
tions about ways to work in other building blocks,
why, please let us know on the voice-link.

CC Okay, 0wen. Sure will.

23k k2 5k 05 PLT Are you getting ATM TV now Dick?

CC Stand by.
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CC PLT, Houston. We won't have the television until

we get Texas AOS, and that's going to be about 3
to 5 minutes from now. And I'll let you know
when we have the down-link.

PLT Okay.

PLT It appears to me that we have that prominence at

050 - is a very pronounced vertical structure to
it, that is radial from the limb. It's very, very
fait, but it looks to me about 60 arc seconds
long on H-alpha 1.

CC Roger.

231 12 53 59 CC Skylab, Houston. Our recommendation is - with

regard to shopping list items on the bright spots,
if you have time today, is shopping list items 8
and 5. Over.

PLT Roger, 8 and 5.

PLT We got a BAT CHARGE light up here, Dick.

CC I didn't copy that, PLT. Say again.

PLT We've got a BAT CHARGE light sho_-ing. What do

you see down there?

CC Stand by.

CC Jack, we don't see anything here in the power

system out of the ordinary. And we're happy with
it.

PLT Okay.

231 12 55 42 CC And, PLT, Houston. We're dumping some of the

VTR TV you took of the storm earlier this morning.
We're looking at that now, and after we get
through with that, we'll get the ATM down-link.

PLT That's off real time.

CC And, PLT, Houston. I wonder if you could let us

know which battery the BAT CHARGE light was asso-
ciated with?
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CC Skylab, Houston, for the PLT. We're ready for the

ATM TV down-link now.

PLT Okay, go ahead. You got it.

CC Roger. And could you tell us which battery the

BAT CHARGE light was associated with?

231 12 57 32 PLT Yes, I'm ....around for it; but can't seem to
find it.

CC PLT, Houston. We've got about 3-1/2 minutes of

real time left on the TV, if you want to cycle
through your switches.

PLT Okay; you'll notice right now on the A_%_ monitor 1.

I've got the crosshairs at the base of the prom-
inence at 050. And I don't know if you can pick
it up or not; it's very, very faint up here, but
it's a very whispy prominenceextending irra-
dially (?) out into the corona, and it appears here
to be about 60 arc seconds long. However, it's
extremely faint; I don't know if you can pick it
up or not.

231 12 59 07 CC We Just can't see it on - with the resolution we

have on this TV that we're looking at here in
real time, Jack. But we do see where you're
pointed on the limb.

PLT Okay; I'li give you some other TV, then.

CC Okay.

PLT Here comes the XUV on MON i.

CC Roger.

CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 1 minute (cough) -

1 minute from LOS at Texas. We'll see you at
Vanguard at 13:15.

PLT ... seeing TV down there, Dick?

CC We just - it just dropped out, Jack, but we got

everything you got, right uto Just before you
said that.
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PLT Okay, did you get the coronas?

CC Just a few seconds of it, but we probably didn't

get all of that down-link.

PLT Okay; thank you.

CC Roger.

CC Skylab, Houston. Vanguard for ii minutes.

CC Skylab, Houston. We're at Vanguard for i0 minutes.

CC And, PLT, Houston. Sometime during this pass, I'f

like to talk to you Just a second about that BAT
CHARGE light.

231 13 lh 29 PLT Working on that right now, Dick.

CC Okay, when you get through with what you're doing

why don't you let us know what that is, and then
we can talk about it.

PLT Okay, Dick, I got them all running now. The first
time I looked at the BAT CHARGE thing, I had the
talkback barber pole and was unable to get it to
do anything. Later on it went gray, and I selected
every battery and was unable to get it to go barber
pole, although I noticed that BATs 3 and 17 had zero
amps and the volts of temperature were off-scale
low. BAT 3 we know about, of course.

CC Roger.

PLT You there, Dick?

231 13 18 31 CC Yes, sir. I am and I missed the first part of

that. But understand no joy in figuring out which
of the batteries it was. And that - we got the
numbers on BATs 3 and 17. What I was going to
pass up to you was, is - if at the last sunset
you had a - a incomplete on one of the batteries,
of course, that would cause the light to come
on. And then it would probably go out at sun-
rise. And it seemed to us that there was Just
about sunrise when - when it did go out, and we
weren't sure about that. And so you're going to
have sunset and then sunrise again before we have
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AOS, Hawaii. So be sure, if you do get a BAT

CHARGE light, to go ahead and figure out which
one it is, and so we - you can help us out, because
by the time we get to Hawaii, it will be gone again.

231 13 19 19 PLT Okay; well, the BAT CHARGE light has been on all the
time, and I've been unable to extinguish it by
selecting the proper CBRM. And, of course, we konw
that number 3 is down; but number 17, the volts and
temperature are reading off-scale low. I guess you
got that, but the point is I'm unable to get the
talkback to go barber pole by selecting all of the
positions.

CC Okay, I understand. We did not - I did not under-

stand that before, but do we now.

CC Skylab, Houston. You're doing the day-23 stowage

transfers this morning, or may already be Just
about complete on those. But at any rate, we wanted
to remind you that we do not want to stow all the
spider and his associates equipment. And that is
listed in the day-23 transfers, and we're sure you
wouldn't do it, but Just wanted to remind you.

SPT Okay.

CC And, PLT, Houston. We show completes on all the

batteries as of now.

PLT Okay. Well, I haven't been able to figure out yet

whythe BAT CHARGE ligh t won't go out.

231 13 21 l_ CC Okay, Jack, and we'll continue look for you. I

had a couple of other things that I wanted to pass
on to you. The - this after - we sent up a coolant
loop procedure during the evening. And the first
time it was up-linked, there was some garble in it,
so we transmitted it again. So the second time
that is appears on the - your stream of paper there,
that's the message to use.

PLT Okay, we got them separated in two now, and I don't

know which one it is. One of them has got 2325 Bravo
at the bottom of it - Bravo 2. In other words, they
both start out with 2325 Charlie l, but one of them's
got 2325 Bravo 2 at the bottom of it.

231 13 22 07 CC Okay, you should have a message, Jack, that goes all
the way through three pages. And actually the end
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of it should be 2325 Bravo 3. The 2B25 Bravo 2 is

the header that's in the - the middle of the message
and actually identifies the start of the second
page of it. Over.

PLT Maybe it's in the teleprinter. I'ii look.

CC Okay, we've got plenty of time and if - if that

message got cut up or you have any problems with
it, we can probably get it retransmitted to you.

PLT Yes, both of them end up with "OVER - 0WS heat

exchanger fan switch, four of them to - " and then
there's a blank, not telling me what to do; hut
they're both like that.

231 13 23 i0 CC Okay, that was the first page; and a matter of fact,
that was a correction that - on the message, and
it should have read - the position at that step
should be OWS. However, there are two more pages
of that message that should be on board, and if
they're not, we're certainly going to have to up-link
the rest of that procedure to you.

PLT We'll look them up then; thank you.

CC Okay, it sounded like what may have happened, Jack,

is that the message got cut off there, because it
appeared that a new message was starting because of
the second page identifier. And the rest of that
message may - you may Just be able to tape it back
on there if you can figure it out.

CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 45 seconds from LOS.

We'll see you at Hawaii at 14:24.

231 13 23 58 CDR Say, Dick, I under - I noticed that both cabin vent
valves in the command module are in BOOST ENTRY per
your instructions the other day. Do you want to leave
them there?

CC That 's affirmative, A1, and good morning.

CDR How are you doing? Yes, we've done the transfers ;
we worked - well, haven't finished; still working on
them.

231 13 24 16 CC Okay.

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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

231 14 24 05 CC Skylab, Houston. We're ADS Hawaii for

2minutes.

PLT Aloha, Dick. And the BAT CHARGE light went out
and it's no longer on.

CC Roger, Jack. Would you please stay off the DAS?

We'd like to up llnk star tracker enable to the
ATMDC, please.

PLT My hand's off all the way.

231 14 24 37 CC Okay, I've got a - and Jack, if you've got time,

l've got a couple of questions on this bat
charge light we'd like to piece together and try
to put together some things that we don't quite
understand. Over.

PLT Okay. One additional thing you ought to know

right now is that 82A door, at sunset the but -
talkback went white, and never did go barber
pole. I tried to close the door, but didn't do
any good. When we came around to sunrise, the
door did not open, apparently. The talkback is
still white. I attempted to open it, cycle
close, and then open it again, but nothing
happened.

CC Roger, Jack; understand.

231 14 25 25 PLT Well, I should have said when we came around the
sunrise I tried to open it manually as I would
normally, and it would not open.

CC Roger.

CC And Skylab, Houston. We're - This is a very

short pass. We've got about B0 seconds to LOS.
We're going to have Goldstone in about B or
4 minutes. That also is going to be about a
2-minute pass. And, Jack, the questions that
I had for you, if we don't get them here, we
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might pick the answers up there. Is the first

time you reported the BAT CHARGE light on you
were in sunlight? And did you notice it then
or had you noticed it before? We're wondering
if it had come on at sunrise, at sunset, or it
Just happened to come on light. And also we'd
like to get another readout of the volts, temps,
and amps on bats 3 and 17. And, finally, on
bats 3 and 17, we want to make sure that we
understand that you found those at zero or off-
scale low during your trouble shooting this
morning. Over.

231 14 26 25 PLT I don't know when the bat charge light came on
and when I was looking at the volts and amps I
noticed 3 and 17 to be off-scale low. That was
the temperature and the voltage. The amperage
was zero.

CC Roger; understand. And could we get a readout

of 3 and 17 now?

PLT No change.

CC Okay, Jack, thank you very much. And I 'ii give

you a call at Goldstone.

231 14 26 55 PLT Okay, ... on bat 17 right now. But we are off-
scale low on ... temp.

231 14 28 56 CC Skylab, Houston; we're AOS Goldstone for next

couple of minutes. And, Jack, I did not - after
I made my last call there, you said something
about bat 17 and we didn't get that.

PLT Okay, when I called you there, bat 17 was read-

ing 8 amps plus, and the temperature and voltage
were off-scale low. Now I look back at it again
- still got the 8 amps but the temperature, and
voltage are in the normal range.

CC Okay, Jack; copy that. And one more question.

You reported at A0S Vanguard a minute ago that
the BAT CHARGE light was now out. When did it
go out and what were the circumstances on it
surrounding that?
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231 14 29 50 PLT I didn't notice when it went out, Dick. It went

out sometime during the last sunlit pass. I - I
don't know, I was too busy running the experiment
to notice when the thing went out.

CC Roger; understand.

PLT And battery 3 at this time is reading zero amps

but the volts and the temperature are off-scale
low.

CC Roger.

231 14 30 28 CC Skylab, Houston, we're i minute from LOS at

Goldstone. We're going to pick you up at Hon -
Vanguard at 14:51. We're going to dump the data
tape recorder at the Vanguard and we - I have
one question for Owen, any time he has the chance,
possibly we csr. get the answer down at the Vanguard.
We reported from NOAA that during the time that
he was accomplishing the S063 experiment work at
about 13:50, Just about 40 minutes ago, it was a
good chance that NOAA thought that he might see
some aurora and we were wondering if that was a
fact?

SPT No aurora was visible.

CC Roger; thank you, Owen.

231 14 31 12 SPT Saw some last night about 03:00 up over Goose Bay,
Labrador again but apparently that's the one you
reported last night as a more or less permanent
feature of that particular location.

PLT One other piece of data, Dick; battery 7 is doing

about the same thing. It's reading lO amps but
the the volts and the temp are off-scale low.

CC Understand; bat 7, volts and amps off-scale low.

PLT Right, we still got 82A door in an unknown position.

PLT That's 82A.

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PLT That's 82A.

231 14 31 48 CC Roger; and Skylab, Houston requests S052

restart in STANDARD mode.

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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

2BI 14 51 21 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS at the Vanguard for

l0 minutes.

SPT Okay, Dick.

231 14 53 21 CC Skylab, Houston. I've got a suggestion for a

ATM door mal that we would like to get you to do
anytime before the next - the start of the next
daylight cYCle , but not to interfere with your
experiment ops on the ATM. Over.

SPT Okay, why don't you tell me right now and we can
do it - just a second, I'll mention one other
thing. I presume that JOP 9, step l, has priority
on this orbit because of a study of solar wind.
Therefore, I'm going to have to shorten this limb
l, shopping item 16, that we're doing right now.
And I propose to take about 3 minutes off of each;
this one and the next shopping list 16. Alter-
natively, I could eliminate - JOP 9, step l, but
I don't think you want me to do that. And so if
you concur with knocking about 3 minutes off of
each of these two SL-16's, I'Ll do that. And why
don't you go ahead with that _-Ifunction on the
82Adoor.

CC Roger, (>wen. And we do concur with - we do concur

with your - suggestion. And the malwe would like
to send you to is door mal 2 on page 1_-6. We
would like for you to start through it and if you
get - and you can go ahead through block 13. If
you get that far, Owen, instead of continuing as
the mal says, what we would like for you to do at
that point is to then inhibit both door motors,
then enable both door motors and try to close the
door again. Over.

SPT Okay. It's going to be a while before I get a-

round to that, then.

231 14 55 01 CC That's okay. And Just to reiterate; you're right.

JOP 9 does have the priority, and - and what you
suggested about shortening the shopping list items
is fine with us.
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231 14 57 52 CC Skylab, Houston. Two short items for you. We're

continuing to think about the battery problem that
we're having and in the interim, since we have had
some probl_,_ with that CBRM rotary switch, we
would like you to use it only as required. And
• the second thing is - is, since this is the first
day that we're observing this H092 vent start win-
dow that on the SPT's details pad, Just a reminder
about that.

SPT Okay, that's why we sort of switched at the panel,

here. I've taken the rest of this orbit, while
Jack's down there getting suited up for 92, and
I think we can make the window all right.

2B1 14 58 27 CC Okay, no problem. Thank you.

231 15 O0 26 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from LOS. Hawaii

at 15:59. And for your information on that 82 mal,
it will not hurt the other experiment to do that
real during the daylight pass if you have - if it's
more convenient and if you have the time. So don't
worry about that.

SPT Okay, Dick.

2B1 15 00 55 CDR Say, Dick. We wondered one thing. As far as we

know, we have not topped off the 509 bottle for
TO20, and we wondered if you wanted us to do that.
Maybe we missed it on a previous pad or something.

CC Roger, CDR. That 's affirmative. Those bottles

should be topped off. And we thought that was on
the schedule yesterday, but at any rate they - they
should be topped off.

CDR Okay.

231 15 01 24 CC Roger.

2B1 15 58 _4 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Hawaii for about lO min-

utes, and interested in the - any door real results
on 82.

CDR Dick, I went through the first two steps. I dis-

abled both motors, enabled primary work rate. So
that is what we're doing right now. On primary.
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CC Okay, thank you very much. And let me give you

another note about the ATM, A1.

CDR Okay.

231 15 59 13 CC Okay, since an 8052 STANDARD MODE was terminated

early, we'd like while a mode is not in progress
we'd like to cycle the main pOwer off and back on
to reset the Polaroid wheel. Over.

CDR Okay, that's on 52. Now there's a mode in opera-

tion. So when the mode - this MODE, STANDARD
stops, then I'ii do it. Okay?

CC Okay. Real fine. Thank you.

231 15 59 44 CC And also, Skylab, we have that coolant pad - that

coolant message pad that Jack is going to do this
afternoon sitting out at Hawaii. And we were
wondering if you got that message squared away,
or would you like for us to up-link it here?

CDR Just a second. Jack is looking.

CC Okay.

SPT Okay, Jack says he has three pages, and he may

have thrown away the first page. It looked like
he had to throw away the first page.

CDR Dick, why don't you Just send us the whole message
again?

231 16 00 29 CC Roger. I think we up-linked the first page twice,

and we think the better part of valor is to up-link
you a brand new message here. So that's what we're
going to do.

231 16 00 40 SPT Okay, Dick. The LBNP vent is now closed, so the
venting is complete. And Just for the flight plan-
ners, we managed to get this vent started Just
about 2 minutes before the end of your window.
And there would have been no way to manage this
if we hadn't Juggled our flight planning schedule
here for me to relieve Jack up there. It was Just
too tight to have ever worked.

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231 16 01 02 CC Roger; understand.

CDR And, Dick, I started this building block before

effective sunrise; I Just noticed that. So you
might ask the backroom whether they want me to
run it again or Just continue on?

231 16 01 21 CC Okay; stand by.

CC CDR, Houston. We're satisfied, and we do not want

you to rerun anything. You're doing okay; so Just
press on Just like you are.

CDR Okay; sorry got ahead of the game.

231 16 02 lh CC And, Skylab, Houston. We still have about 6-1/2

minutes left in this pass. I have some non-time-
critical items to mention to both A1 and Jack.
If you have time this pass, Just let me know and
I'll t_lk to you.

CDR How about right now?

231 16 02 29 CC Okay, A1. We Just want to verify that you got the
509 bottles topped off - numbers 2 and 3. And
also that the BAT 7 charge was started today.

CDR The bottles are being topped off at the moment.

And they will be topped off in time to fly it.
The BAT 6 is still being charged. And I think
Jack's got an item a little bit later, although
I haven't checked the Flight Plan to stop that one
and start 7; and we'll do it.

CC Okay. Thank you very much on that. And I've got

a - one other thing for you, A1. We're changing
the pads that we're going to do the medical con-
ference on this evening, and the CAP CO_4will
Just let you know when it is. We're Just delaying
it one pass for some network problems. And the
other things that I had to ta1_ about were to Jack.
231 16 03 18 CDR
Okay, now 52 is finished. I'm going to turn the
MAIN POWER, OFF, and then back ON again.
CC
Roger. Thank you much; that's correct.
SPT
Okay, Jack's listening. He's still in the can,
so he can hear what you have to say.
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CC Okay. I have two things. One is going back sev-

eral days to - I mean the last EREP pass that we
did when we did the S192 and EDDU business. It
turned out _hat that message we - we realized
after it was all over that it did not have an S192
DOOR CLOSE callout at the end of the message. And
we want to verify whether or not the door was
closed. If you can't remember, wetd like to verify
that the S192 DOOR switch on the C&D panel is in
the CLOSED position. And if it is in the OPEN
position, l've got a procedure for you. Over.
And this is not time critical, hut that's - that's
the question that I have.

231 16 0h 25 SPT Okay. He'll have to worry about it a little later.

CDR I'Ii worry about it for you right now. The switch
is in the OPEN position.

CC Okay; then I have several steps that I'd like to

read up to somebody anytime that they can copy.
And the other thing that I wanted to pass on to
Jack was; is - or to anybody actually - is the -
the procedure that you are going to do this after-
noon to look for some - any Coolanol leaks does
not require that you pull a certain panel off.
But the procedure that you're going to do tomorrow,
to continue on, does require that this particular
panel be pulled off. It's got about 50 screws in
it. But I thought I would Just let you know -
describe which panel it was, so that anytime today,
if you had a chance to get ahead on getting some
of those screws out, I could tell you where it is.

231 16 05 16 CDR Good idea. Tell me, step by step, the procedure
on 92, and I'll do it while you tell it to me.

CC Okay. ERUP - EREP POWER, BUS i, ON.

CDR Keep going.

CC Okay. The next step is PANEL POWER, DISPLAY, ON.

And then CB control to closed; verify. S192 POWER,
ON. SI92DOOR to CLOSED.

CDR Okay.

CC Okay, now wait for the DOOR CLOSE light to come

on, and then S192 POWER, OFF.
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231 16 06 02 CDR Okay. When I turned it ON, even though the switch
was OPEN, the DOOR CLOSE light came on. And then
it turned off as if it was headed to OPEN. And
it may be that the thing closes when you turn the
power off, I don't know. But it's in the process
of being closed now, and I'll give you a call;
it takes 60 seconds - whenever it closes.

CC Okay, real fine.

231 16 06 50 CDR Okay, it's ON. I'll shut it down now.

CC That's right. S192 POWER, OFF; PANEL POWER DISPLAY,

OFF; and EREP POWER to BUS l, OFF. And that ends
it.

CDR You fellows have a good memory.

CC (Chuckle) We check ourselves, too.

CC Roger; and reminder, A1. You'll halve to reopen

the 52 door in order to continue operations there.
And let me real quickly describe to you the panel
that we're talking about - about taking the screws
out of.

CDR Go.

231 16 07 _7 CC Okay, the - It's in the airlock where the - there's

a Calfax panel that covers - that has screens in
it, that covers the heat exchanger fans. And the
panel I'm talking about is toward - is outboard
from that little door with the Calfaxes on it.
And it's a panel that's Just outboard of the hinge
line of the panel that opens easily to get to the
fans. And there's a whole bunch of screws in it.
And you'll be going into there tomorrow to take a
look at - for some Coolanal leaks. And even if we
find the leak prior to that, this is also the place
that Jerry Carr will be doing some reservicing.
So getting those screws out will not be wasted
motion in any case.

231 16 08 36 CC Skylab, Houston. We're" going LOS. We'll see you

at the Vanguard at 16:30.

CDR Okay. Now is this in the lock aft compartment?

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CC AI, we'll check on this; I am looking at - a

pict - picture of it, but I'll let you know
for sure at the Vanguard.

CDR Okay, well I put ... fans are, but I go back i

there and I don't see ... thinking of, unless

231 16 29 5& CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS, Vanguard for

8 minutes.

CC Skylab, Houston. We're Vanguard for 8 minutes.

CDR Okay, Dick.

CC And I think I can do a better Job of describing

that panel to you, if you're listening.

CDR Okay, go ahead.

231 16 31 14 CC Okay. It's in the STS section, A1. And it's

airlock module - it's heat exchanger module,
and the AM circulation fans are underneath
the - a panel that's got some Calfaxes on it
and the three screens that let the air be
sucked down to the fans. The panel I'm talk-
ing about is a - is a hinge line. First of
all, there's a hinge line for that panel with
the screens on it, that's outboard of the
screens. And then the panel that's outboard
of that hinge line is the panel I'm talking
about. And furthermore, there is a - another
fairing panel outboard of that one, but that
is not - that does not have all that many
screws in it. But the one I was referring to
you is outboard of the hinge line, which in
turn is outboard of the screens over the AM
circulation fans. Over.

231 16 32 05 CDR Okay, and the only one we have to take off is
the one,by the way it's got a little fireport
on it that says AM heat exchanger extinguisher
part, I guess.

CC That's affirmative.

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CDR Okay, and we don't have to take off the fairing

Just that one with the multiple screws, there.

CC No - that's not correct. We - we are going to

end up wanting to take off both the - flat
panel that you referred to and the - fairing
Just outboard of that and that - that's it.

CDR What I'm trying to understand is, am I going

to have to remove the screws that are common
to both the fairing and the panel, or can I
Just go around the fairing, and around the
panel, and then pull them off as a unit?

231 16 32 52 CC A1, we'll have to get an answer. And I didn't

personally do this, one of the other guys
did. But I think the answer is - the easiest
way for you to get those two _anels off would
be fine with us. But I - I don't know for sure;
we'll have to check.

CDP Okay. It's only 13 extra screws but it'll - it'll

take a little time. So we can Just pull all
of the ones around the edge of both of them
and take them off of the unit. That's obviously
the best way.

CC Okay. And, A1, - -

CDR ...

CC Go ahead.
CDR I'm waiting to hear from you though.

231 16 33 25 CC Okay. And, A1, I've got one more question,

and it has to do with the report you made about
the exerciser last night. We're wondering
if the rope broke on the exerciser at a point
where that same rope is still usable or are
you going to end up having to replace the - the
entire rope with the spare._

231 16 33 _3 CDR We need to replace the entire rope. What we've

done - It broke about 8 inches from the handle
end. We Just tied it in a knot and we're using
it that way now. But we'd really like to
remove it from the handle and remove it from
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the machine itself and put in the spare rope

because we got lots of spares up here.
All that Beta - not Beta but whatever that rope
is, we got a lot of it, so we'd like to jazz
it up.

CC Okay. Well, what we found so far, A1, and

we're continuing to look, though we don't
think you have a - an Allen bit wrench that's the
correct size to get that handle off the way
it was designed. And we were also wondering
if the rope was fraying very badly which might
be corrected a little bit by putting some
gray tape on the - that metal opening that the
rope comes out of. But as I understand what
you say, at least the rope now is usable
until we can come up with a better fix.

231 16 3h hl CDR You bet. But we need a better fix fast, it's
- it's wearing out. I don't think we frayed
it so much on the metal's lip because we
considered taking that off. I'm not sure it
Just isn't wear and tear on that point. As
you know that kind of goes slack and then the
revolving parts that are down in there, not
on the white drum sometlmesinterface with
that rope right there,'and it tends to braid
it somewhat.

CC Okay; understand. And, CDR, Houston. Unfor-

tunately, I'm advised that all the screws that
you referred to awhile ago are going - you'll
find that all of them are going to have to
come out in order to get the two panels that
I referred to, off.

CDR I knew it. Okay.

CC It always turns out that way, doesn't it?

231 16 35 3h CDR Yes, I guess they'd have made it in one piece,

if it wasn't a reason. It's probably screwed
into a bean right there, we Just can't see it,
or another frame or something.

CC Roger.
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231 16 35 h8 PLT Dick, I had a pretty good view of the Straits

of Magellan and have some photographs of it.
Who should the message which I'm going to put
on channel A be addressed to? Is that visual
observation groups or what?

CC Should be addressed to the EREP Officer. He's

the one that's been coordinating all these
handheld photos that have been coming up to you
in the last few days.

PLT Okay, that's Just what I needed to know. He's

been a busy man.

CC Sure has.

SPT Is that Dr. Llewellyn?

231 16 36 19 CC It is on one of the shifts. The EREP Officer

on this shift, for your information Owen, is
Brizzolara. But John is on team l, I think.
That's Milt's team.

SPT Okay, fine. We'll send the word down to these

fellows.

CC Allright.

231 16 38 08 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from LOS.

We'll see you at Hawaii at 17:37. That's
1 hour from now.

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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

231 17 37 i0 CC Skylab, Houston. We're Hawaii for 7 minutes.

CDR Say again.

231 17 39 39 CC Skylab, Houston, I might pass on to you guys

that everybody on this team this morning really
enjoyed watching the down-link TV that you guys
put together yesterday on your day off. And it
really turned out real well, and it sure does
look like fun.

CDR Thank you, Dick. It is a ball up here. I wish

we could let everybody come up and take about
1 day's worth. It is really fantastic.

CC Well, it sure looks like it, and that TV work is

real good - real good. And you guys are really
doing a good Job in that department like all the
others.

231 17 h0 13 CDR Well, we're getting a lot of pretty sharp support

from downstairs, to say the least. Everything is
working well. You are keeping us out of trouble.
We've been talking this over, over the last week
or two, and one thing I've noticed about the Job,
it's fantastically frustrating up here because
you tend to make mistakes all day long. But
fortunately y'all guys are catching them, and
keeping us from getting into any sort of trouble,
or having any sort of big probl_m_. You get up
in the morning and you say, okay, I_m going to
have an error-free day and then it's about an hour
before you say, well, I made that mistake, what's
next? And it really is nice to have somebody
watching.

231 17 h0 55 CC Well, Phil told me to tell you that we're going

to really watch you more when we get some state-
side coverage instead of all this Hawaii to
Vanguard, but he's Just kidding. We don't have
many to catch, but it's - we are really admiring
the work, so keep it up.
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CDR Thank you. I'm hoping he's figuring out how

we're going to get some of these double EREP
passes along toward the end of the mission,
because we hope we're going to get a lot of this
ATM out of the way here.

231 17 41 18 PLT Hey, Dick, we don't - we don't plan to quit on

15 passes. What are your plans?

CC Okay, we copy that.

CC EREP is smiling from ear to ear.

PLT I've got a request from EREP.

CC Go ahead.

PLT On this thing I'm looking for this afternoon, the

pumice flow or whatever, at FiJi. I think it
would be quite helpful if somebody down there was
able to tell me precisely how long the northeast
island in FiJi is. It looks to me to be about
100 miles. And then what I'd like you to do is
figure out how far away from the northeast tip of
that island in FiJi that this pumice flow should
be, so that I can take about, you know, three or
four of those islands and put them end-to-end out
to sea and look in the right place; because there
is a lot of'ocean to look at, if you don't know
exactly where you are looking. And I think that
would help a whole lot to locate this pumice flow.
The name of that island on my map here is
Vanu_ Levu. Do you think you could work that out?

CC We'll sure try, Jack.

231 17 42 38 PLT If it turns out that western Samoan island is more

likely to be in my field of view, it would be
helpful to know what the length of that is, and
how far it is from there. It all depends on what
the best place to look at it from is.

CC Roger. Understand, Jack. And I think you hit

the nail on the head yesterday, though, because
before you took that photography, he and I did
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some talking about exactly where that flow was.

And the problem is, we're Just not exactly sure
ourselves. And I think with the cloud cover and
probably with the color of that on the water was
the problem. But we'll take a look at what you
asked and get it up to you.

PLT Okay, thanks, Dick, I don't mean to be shouting a

at you. I have a hard time keeping my voice down
up here.

CC No problem.

231 17 43 h4 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 15 seconds from LOS

at Hawaii. We'll see you at Vanguard at 18:09.

231 17 44 02 CC And, Skylab, we've up-linked one of tomorrow's

flight plans that is in the teleprinter now. And
the others will be up at the next site.

231 18 08 15 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Vanguard for 9 minutes,

and we're set up to receive down-link TV.

CDR Okay. Okay, Dick. We got it set up on MON 2,

and I'll give you some integration here on the
XUVMON. You'll notice that the roll is minus 5h00.
I'm doing a MIRROR AUTO RASTER between the two
bright plages in 93, hoping to split them out in
the UV, and so I took that roll instead of the
10800 which I had earlier. So I'll give you some
integration now.

CC Roger.

CDR Y'all got a lockup, you say?

2B1 18 09 22 CC Roger, we are locked up, A1, and be advised we're

not bringing the TV into Houston here. We are
recording it at the Vanguard. We'll bring it in
later.

231 18 l0 00 SPT ... 2 days ago if I was doing to be ready for

some science demonstrations on day 25, and you
wanted 48 hours notice. Looks like I'd better
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slip those a few days; I haven't had time to really

go through that kit yet. So I'll give you a call
when it does look like I'm going to have some-
thing to show you.

CC Okay, Owen, thanks for the input.

231 18 l0 30 CC And, Skylab, Houston. We had some guys go over

to the one-g trainer a while ago, and we did have
some luck with the exerciser, if you can listen
to that for a second, anybody.

CDR We 're listening.

CC Okay, what we did, A1, was get a one-eighth Allen

bit out of drawer 1 Bravo and ratchet handle. And
by inserting the one-eighth Allen bit in - into
there and then cocking it a little bit, we were
able to get quite a bit of torque on it without
endangering, you know, breaking the tool or any-
thing. And the guys that watched the - the
handle being assembled said that it was not
torqued in there. So we think that probably if you
would Just try that, and that ought not take but
a second, you know when one of you have a chance
you may can get it right out there. Even though
the tool is wrong, it worked for us.

231 18 ll 20 CDR Okay, thanks. We'll give it a go.

SPT Actually, Dick, I 'd already tried that, but I

didn't put too much torque on it because I didn't
want to break the tool. But I can try it again
with a little bit more torque.

CC Okay, well Just use your own Judgment about that,

and if it works, maybe we'll be home free, and if
not - either way, Just let us know.

SPT Okay.

2B1 18 12 29 CDR Okay, I've given them about three or four sequences
of UV MON. I'm now giving a little H-Alpha 2, and
then I'll give them H-Alpha 1. That's about all
we got.
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CC Roger, AI.

231 18 13 22 CDR Okay, there's H-Alpha i.

CC Roger.

231 18 13 39 CDR And l'm way ahead on this JOP, and it's timed,
so in just a second I'ii move over to Sun Center
and give them a little 52 and roll both directions.

CC Roger.

CDR We're still a little puzzled about one thing, Dick.

This says, "TV down-link, 9 minutes; XUV MON if
convenient." Do you want us to give you all
9 minutes, or just what we've given you now?

CC Stand by Just a second, AI.

231 18 14 49 CDR I don't know whether that - those words mean there's
9 minutes in there to get that in, or there -
you want all 9 minutes. I don't know what you'd
do with all 9 minutes of it.

CC CDR, Houston. The 9 minutes I think is Just the

window. It's generally the pass length or the -
or the TV window length there, and so when you
get through stepping, you know, give us each of
the required items; we're happy then.

CDR Okay, I'm going to go over to the center and

give you some things from there, adn then press
on.

CC Okay.

231 18 16 26_ CDR Okay, here's a little XUV MON from the center.

CC Roger. Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from LOS.

We're going to pick you up at Ascension at 18:23,
and we're going to dump the data tape recorder
at Ascension.

PLT Hey, Dick, I just wanted to mention that in addi-

tion to the whole team doing a great Job, your
team of CAP COMMS is doing a super job too in
getting the information up in a timely manner.
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I know there's a - a lot that goes on behind the

scenes when you're not manning the console to get
things squared away too. So we appreciate all of
the good work of the whole CAP COMMteam ...

CC Thank you, Jack.

CDR We're feeling so good up here today, we even like

Flight Directors.

CC Wow.

231 18 17 46 PLT Especially when they are better than you are.

CC (Chuckle) Roger.

SPT You even including Phil Shaffer, Al?

CC Say again.

231 18 17 59 SPT You don't mean I pressed TRANSMIT instead of INTER-

COM when I asked if he included Phil Shaffer.

231 18 23 43 CC Skylab, Houston. We're A0S Ascension for 7 minutes.

CDR One thing abut that shower last night that was
kind of interesting, Dick, is that water tends to
get in the crevices and in your hair and in under
your armpits or any place where there is an acute
angle. And when you get finished washing off -
first of all when you get the soap on there and
then spray a little water on, the soap doesn't
wash off; it sort of Just hangs there in a glob.
So when you open your eyes, you're looking right
through soapy water, or you open your mouth to
breathe, your breathing tastes of soapy water, which
is a little bit unusual. Also when - if you're
not careful, you can get a big bubble in your
mouth and nose there, and when you breathe in
through either, you - you start taking a lot of
water down. And you shake; the w_ter doesn't
appear to come off too easy; you have to sort of
brush it off. When you get finally rinsed, and
you want to - you want to dry off, you've got this
water all over you now. And there must be a quart
of it, kind of hanging on you, so you shake a bit,
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and some of it flies off, and some of it Just sort

of distends a little bit. And, you know, it doesn't
have a level surface anymore, but then when you
stop shaking, well, it sort of comes back in
contours around you again. So you end up having
to sort of brush it off or put your hand around
your arm, you know, and kind of swish it off; try
to get it over on the walls where you can vacuum
it. But it makes you feel real good and clean at
the end, but it's almost like bathing in kind of
a warm Jello; it's not that rigid as Jelly, but
when it gets on you, it doesn't want to get off.
And it takes a couple of towels to get the water
off finally, because there is so much sort of
standing on you.

231 18 25 38 CC Roger, A1. And I need to get one piece of

information to you. We still got about l0 minutes
of daylight left. We notice that we missed an
S054 sequence in building block 7. And we'd like
to, if possible, to work in a 64-second sequence
in filter 2 if time permits, and Sun center point-
ing is okay.

CDR Okay, will do.

CC Okay.

231 18 26 38 CDR Okay, it's started right now.

CC Roger.

231 18 27 59 CC Skylab, Houston. I got a couple words to - that

I might could pass on to Jack about the location
of the pumice, we think.

PLT Just a minute, Dick; I'll get my book.

CC Okay.

PLT Okay, ready to copy.

231 18 28 32 CC Okay, the - our best guess as to its location -

and first of all, your guess on the length of the
northeast island of the FiJi - of the two large
islands in the FiJis was very good. We measured
it, and it's very close to being exactly 100 miles.
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If you drew a straight line from the - from that

island over to the Samoan islands, the pumice flow,
we think, is Just south - about halfway between
those two island chains and about 100 miles south
of that - of that straight line that would connect
them. So two or three hints for you. One is, is
if you - if you mea - Just take - take a look at
the northeast FiJi island that's 100 miles long
and come out about - towards you about four islands
lengths and - and then to the south about one or
two island lengths. It's somewhere in that
general area that we think the pn_,ice is.

PLT Okay, those are the kind of words I was looking

for. Thank you.

231 18 29 35 CC Okay, I'm - I guess the only thing we're a little

bit hesitant about is, is that - even the atlas
that we're looking at and our knowledge of it, we
Just aren't very confident. So you probably are
going to have to do a good bit of loking around.

PLT I'll do it.

231 18 29 52 CC Okay, we're about 1 minute from LOS at Ascension.

We're going to see you at Guam at 19:07.

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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

231 19 07 25 CC Skylab, Houston. We're A0S at Guam for 6 minutes.

PLT Hey, Dick, maybe you can tell the camera guys to
worry no more about the 300. We worked the malf,
it works all right, and we got it set up with a
new roll of film.

CC Hey, real good. Thank you for letting us know.

That was the Nikon mall you were talking about,
right, Jack?

PLT Right.

CC Okay, th_k you.

PLT And if we work on it real hard and start early we

might get the right filmload on the photo log
tonight.

CC Good.

231 19 12 02 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from LOS. We're

going to see you at the Vanguard at 19:43. And
one note that we did want to pass up to you is
we've pulled out all of the MDRS data during the
period this morning that we were having our in-
dication funnies on the batteries. And whatever
they are, they're not in the electrical power sys-
tem itself. We're satisfied that it's working
completely nominally and we're continuing to try
to chase down exactly what the problem is in the -
in your onboard indications. And we'll continue
to look at that and - and let you know if we've
learned anything else there. But it's not in the
power system. Over.

PLT Okay, Dick. We do still have the BAT CHARGE ALERT

light on.

CDR Okay, Dick. Also we repaired the mark 1 exerciser.

Your technique worked well.

231 19 12 51 CC Hey, real good. Thanks for letting us know, Al.

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231 19 h5 12 CC Skylab, Houston. A0S Vanguard for ii minutes.

SPT Dick, Just for information in the baekroom. D_ring

this observation period, I got in a couple of
shopping list dates on the new merging region
over about zero point - correction, 070.h, and
that, plus a extra mirror auto raster. And I ex-
pect we ought to have a name for that tomorrow.

231 19 h6 13 CC Roger; Owen, thank you much. And one thing that
I wanted to say to the guys that are working up
in the ATM area. We'd - On the BAT CHARGER light,
obviously it is coming on and off at various in-
tervals and we don't want you to spend a lot of
time watching the thing. But if you happen to
notice if it does illuminate or go off, and par-
ticularly around sunside - sunrise and sunset, if
you will remember any other events that were as-
sociated with that and could let us know, maybe
it'll give us a clue as to what's wrong.

SPT Sounds like a good idea. We'll watch - pay a lit-

tle more attention.

CC Okay.

SPT It's been on ever since I've been up here at the

panel, which was about 5 minutes before sunrise.

CC Roger; understand, Owen.

231 19 hi 08 CC And, Owen, be advised we have named that new emerg-

merging region. It's active region 96. And that'll
start showing up on your pads tomorrow.

SPT Okay; thank you.

SPT Not as catchy as Bertha, but it'll serve to iden-

tify it.

CC Roger.

2B1 19 55 12 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from LOS. We're

going to pick you up at Ascension in about 3 more
minutes and I'll give you a call there.
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231 19 58 32 CC Skylab, Houston. We're A0S Ascension, Canary,

and Madrid - and Ascension for about i0 minutes.

231 20 07 39 CC Skylab, Houston. In about a minute we're going

to drop out for another minute or so until we
pick you back up at Canary. I'll give you a call
there.

CDR Okay, Dick.

231 20 09 57 CC Skylab, Houston. We're locked up at Canary for

the next 7 minutes.

231 20 16 07 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from LOS in

Madrid. We're going to see you at G1mm at 20:43
and we're going to dump the data recorder at Guam.

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231 20 4h 04 CC Skylab, we're at Guam for 8 minutes.

231 20 45 21 CC Skylab, Houston. We still got about 7-1/2 minutes

here at Guam. And we'd appreciate knowing from
CDR and PLT how the T020 status id going, if you
have the time.

SPT I'm not sure they can talk to you now or can even
hear you, Dick. Al's floating out in the middle
dome area right now and looks like he's getting
all strapped into the unit and I think they're
getting some of this on tape right now; Just a
moment.

CC Okay, - -

SPT No, he's got it cut off on the tape right now,
but they've been taping parts and they're - looks
like they're getting Just about ready to fly.

231 20 45 54 CC Understand, Owen, and it's certainly not our inten-

tion to slow that up. So, no problem.

231 20 47 27 CC Skylab, Houston. We dropped out on the S-band

lock at Guam for 30 seconds or so, and back on
the air now.

SPT Okay, I guess you got my report on how they were

doing?

CC Yes, I did.

PLT Hello, Dick. Are you there?

CC Yes, sir. Go ahead.

PLT Okay, I got the backpack on A1 and he's in the T020

and we were Just getting ready to make our first
run. And I grabbed ahold of this solenoid valve
on the backpack, and it's - it's almost too hot
to touch, and I'm wondering if that's normal.

CC Okay, stand by.

231 20 49 23 CC PLT, Houston. We - In the present configuration,

we have had electrical current on that solenoid
holding it closed. And we would not be surprised
it it's very warm. Over.
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PLT Okay; thank you very much, Dick.

CC Okay.

PLT And apparently you're through with the recorder

now. Right?

CC I'm sorry; if that was for me, Jack, I didn't get

it.

PLT Okay. Looks like you're through with the recorder.

CC Roger; we are dumping it. We will be through

here Just in a few seconds and I'll let you know
when you can have it back.

PLT Okay.

231 20 50 30 CC PLT, Houston. We're through dumping the data

recorder, and it' s yours.

CC Skylab, Houston. We're 45 seconds from Guam LOS.

We're going to see you at - at Vanguard at 21:23.
And be advised, the purple team is going off duty
for a couple of days, and we've enjoyed working
these day shifts with you guys. We'll see you on
the detail shift a couple of days from now.

SPT Same here, Dick. We've enjoyed it, and we'll see
you back about EVA time_

231 20 52 34 CC Okay; sounds good.

231 21 22 54 CC Skylab, Houston through Vanguard for 9 minutes.

SPT Hello there, Hank. How are you today?

CC Oh, pretty good. How are y'all doing?

SPT Just fine up here. So you kicked those purple

guys out of the MOCR?

CC Yes, we finally got rid of them.

SPT And, for the backroom there Just a couple of notes

on the studies of these - two studies of the
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coronal hole near the pole. I've thrown in a

couple of extra partial mirror auto rasters in
magnesium lO which I think will be useful to you
there, so look for them in the data.

231 21 23 27 CC Roger; we copy.

2BI 21 31 15 CC Skylab, Houston. We're i minute from LOS_ the

Canaries at h2.

231 21 h2 _8 CC Skylab, Houston through Canaries and Madrid for

lh minutes.

231 21 56 16 CC Skylab, Houston, 1 minute to LOS; Honeysuckle

at Bl.

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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

231 22 31 40 CC Skylab, Houston through Honeysuckle, 7 minutes.

CC Skylab, Houston through Honeysuckle, 7 minutes.

SPT Okay, Hank.

231 22 36 17 SPT Are you still with me, Hank?

CC Roger; about 2 minutes more.

SPT Okay, Just a quick comment for the ATM science

room. That is, the steepness of the gradient
across this coronal boundary in magnesium i0 seems
to have diminished between this orbit and the last.
It was a - it seemed to be a sharper boundary on
the earlier rev. Now, I've given you a number of
MIRROR LINE SCANS back and forth across the boun-
dary both on the preceding rev and at the start
of this rev. And so you can check to see whether
or not that is true. But I think it would be
worth checking to see whether or not the boundary
is as sharp as it was for the - these two halves
of the observations.

CC Roger; we copy, Owen.

231 22 37 04 CC And, Skylab, we're coming up on a keyhole. I

don't know whether we'll have contact when we come
out of it or not, but if we don't, we'll be coming
up on Canaries at 22.

231 23 22 08 CC Skylab, Houston through Canaries and Madrid,

12 minutes.

SPT Hello, Hank. Do you read me?

CC Roger; and for info, we're going to be dumping

the data voice recorder at Madrid. That's about
minutes from now.

SPT Okay. I've got two things I wanted to relay. The

first one goes to the ATM science room and the
next one to ASCO. The first thing here: I think
we may have underway a new sort of transient event.
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Just in the last couple of minutes on the last

orbit, I noticed on the XUV monitor that active
region 96 has changed its configuration consider-
ably. There's now a large loop extending from
active region 96 down to the south about 1 arc
minute into another bright point down there. And
the loop extends out toward the west limb. Now,
in the last 2 minutes, I did not see any signature
on H-alpha. I had to use H-alpha 2 at this point.
No H-alpha signature, but very clearly this loop
has formed in XUV within the last 30 minutes.
Because I have looked at the scope earlier in the
preceding rev, and it was not there. And I've
got this onboard photograph which I'm looking at
right now, which very clearly shows this rather
large loop extending from one point to another and
extending out toward the west limb. So at the
very minimum, I plan to do an extra building
block l0 first thing on the beginning of next orbit
at this particular location. Fortunately, there is
about 15 minutes of extra time worked into the next
orbit, and if you have any other suggestions as
to what might be usefully done other than this
or in addition to - to this building block 10,
perhaps the science room could let me know about
it. And then the second thing is a puzzle that
I expect ASCO can clear up for me. And that has
to do with roll. Now starting the last orbit, I
should have been sitting on minus 5400 arc minutes.
I'm reasonably certain I checked it because that's
where I'd been preceding orbit, and I'm confident
that I checked it at the beginning of the orbit.
Some 5 minutes or so into the orbit, I locked on
Canopus and left it there for l0 or 15 seconds
and closed the door. Now about 20 minutes into
the orbit, I noticed that my EXPERIMENT ROLL,
instead of reading 5400 was now reading minus 4818.
That's about a change of about 600 arc minutes or
l0 degrees. Now my question is as follows: Was
our knowledge of spacecraft roll that far off?
And secondly, did our NU z and orbital plane error
get updated? I've noticed my orbital plane error
was about 8.5 degrees, both at the beginning of
the orbit and after locking onto the star. So the
orbital plane error on our display did not seem
to change much. And the - the last question is,
did this affect my ATM pointing? Because I was
relaying on that minus 5400 arc minutes to be the
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same as it had been the preceding orbit, in order

to return to the same spot on the Sun for this
last sequence of photographs. So if ASC0 could
clear that up for me, I'd appreciate it. Over.

231 23 25 29 CC Okay, 0wen. We copy, and we'll try to get your

answer here.

CDR Hey, Hank, if you got a few minutes, I'ii talk

about T020.

CC Okay. Go ahead.

231 23 25 47 CDR Okay. Well, we flew it. We only used one bottle.
It doesn't take a lot of gas, I've noticed, to -
to do the Jobs that it can do. Essentially we
found out - one we knew and one was brand new.
The one that was brand new is that this vehicle,
when you strap it on real tight, besides hurting
you when you strap it on tight because in order
to get it tight, you got to pull it up tight against
you; and we worried about this in one g and we
kept hoping that when we got to zero g it would
be steady enough so that - so that it wouldn't
- you wouldn't have to strap it on so tight. It
isn't true. You have to strap it on even tighter.
And even when you do, the rigidity between you
and the foot-controlled maneuvering unit and you
and that backpack, and particularly between the
backpack and the foot-controlled maneuvering unit,
is a lot less than I think anybody had _m_gined.
It turns out that when you're flying it with the
straps as tight as you can be happy with them and
you fire a few thrusters, it isn't very long be-
fore all of a sudden you're sort of half sidesaddle
on it. And you' re really quite loose on it. And
then as time progresses, if you don't stop and
check it, you get the feeling you're like in a
Jeep that's - that's going over rough ground and
you don't have a safety belt. I - it - it's man-
euvering around and you're kind of hanging on.
And, of course, that upsets the c. g. positions.
That upsets your pure rolls and pitches and yaws
and trans - you know, moves them over to another
axis, Now, we got to come - we got to come up
with some sort of improved strapping arrangement,
I believe, prior to the next run. I notice this
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one and then the suited run, and I think maybe

this - Bold on a second. Lou Ramon and Don Hughes
might want to think of and telemeter - teleprint
up some - sQme improved strap arrangement. Pre-
ferably one that goes across the thighs and hooks
to that hook down there between your legs in front.
I think what they're going to want to do for Jerry's
flight - by the w_y, they're going to - I think
they're going to want another unpressurized run
so that we can get to seechow well we can do with
Just straps. But for - prior to SL-4, I think what
they're going to want to do is - is get some metal
rods or something and somehow rigidize this vehicle -
the seat back to the - the - the - the backpack with
some nuts and bolts and whatever else to make that
one rigid flying unit, and then come on with some
straps that really hold you into it. Because I
believe that if - if we could rigidize the vehicle -
one which isn't - and then rigidize the man to it,
we'd have a fighting chance of - of flying it in
here quite a bit better. At least we ought to
look at that. And, of course, the other one that's
the big disadvantage which I don't think they can
fix, is the fact that it only translates, you know,
up or down. It won't translate left or right, or
forward or aft. Which means if you translate for
a certain point - if you happen to be headed pre-
cisely at it with no translation in the other two
directions, you got it made, Unfortunately, that
doesn't happen often as you know from flying air-
planes or driving cars. So immediately you got
a - let's say a Y translation. You can't get it
out. And you Just hope you get to the target be-
fore your translation builds up enough so that you
miss it. Now we knew that before we came, so we
wanted to work on the principle of the thing. So
it seems to me that we can still work on the prin-
ciple; namely, controlling a E_neuvering unit with
your feet, if we can get this thing rigidized and
somehow padded down in the seat area - we can do
that here with some Mozite things we have - so that
it's a rigid body that you're flying. It's almost
like flying a - one of these inflatable airplanes
that's got three-quarters of the air out; it Just
moves around too much.
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2BI 23 B0 01 CDR And I think you'll probably be able to see that

a little bit on TV, although the TV we ran - we -
we tightened the straps up as good as we could
and then TV didn't last too long. So the straps
did not have a chance to loosen as they do.

END OF TAPE
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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

231 23 30 22 CC We copy, A1., and we'll certainly get ahold of Don

Hewes and see what we can work out.

CDR Okay. I think - I think we've got the necessary

things on board to somehow get some better straps.
So, if they can come up with some ideas, we'll
be working on them too, and then we can try that.
There may be something on board here we can use
to rigidize the backpack to the - the maneuvering
unit itself, and that's what we really need to do.
If we can figure out what we got on board that we
could somehow do that Job, that'd go a long way
to eliminating at least the first of the two prob-
lems. The vehicle's fun to fly; it's difficult
to fly. It's easier to move around in attitude
than the HHMU, but it's a lot - it's - the HHMU
has advantages, as far as flying translating di-
rection, because at least with the HHMUyou can
correct your translational direction which you
cannot here very simply. But, as far as attitude
is concerned, it's quite easy. It's quite inter-
esting to be setting on top of it and have it
maneuvering you. It also has a great advantage
of - it keeps your hands free. And seems to me
if we had some sort of foot-maneuvering device
that could translate in all directions but did
maneuver with your toes, or something like that,
you'd have a pretty nice device, because then you
could work and maneuver around. But in it's pres-
ent configuration with not those capabilities,
it's difficult.

CC Roger_ we copy.

231 23 33 06 CC SPT, Houston. We've got a answer here from ASC0

on your questions. It appears to us that the
experiment roll was off approximately 600 arc min-
utes prior to your update there. And the update
does look good to us, and - so that would make it
so that your pointing was off prior to the update,
but it should be okay now.

SPT Okay, but did the pointing of the instruments

change at the time of that update? Apparently -
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presumably, it would not. And for my last build-

ing block, I did roll to 5400 arc minutes for the
S052 experiment. That does mean that their pic-
tures will have some readjustment required of up
to l0 degrees between the beginning and the end
of the orbit.

231 24 34 09 CC Roger; we copy that. And we'll try to get an an-

swer to the other part of your question there.
We're almost LOS now. We'll be coming up on
Carnarvon at 01.

SPT Okay, 25 minutes.

232 00 01 00 CC Skylab, Houston through Carnarvon for 14 minutes.

232 O0 02 07 CC Skylab, Houston. We've got a question regarding

the exercise reporting, if it's convenient for
one of you to answer now.

SPT Okay, Hank, what's the info?

232 00 02 49 CC Okay. On the - on the tapes when we get down to

exercise reporting, we've been getting two separate
numbers before the Mark I, II, and III exercises
and we assume that one of those is a time. But
we're not sure what the other number is.

SPT Okay. It's directly off the pad. If you'll check

the pad sheet. But the first number is the type
exercise. For example; number on is upper-body,
number two is lower body, et cetera. The second
two-digit number is the time, and the third four-
digit number is the - three or four-digit number
is the watt-minutes.

CC Roger. And this morning we copied that the CDR

reported Mark IV exercises and we assumed that
that was Mark I. Is there any way to verify that?

SPT Just a minute, I'll have to check with him.

232 O0 03 52 SPT He says he did a Mark I and a Mark II. That's

the - you know those two exercises.

CC Okay. I - the nnmhers that we're talking about,

Owen, are in regard to the Mark I and II and III
and we're nor sure what the two numbers are. The
pad is talking about the ergometer, I think.
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SPT That's right, I thought that's what you were

asking. Now after Mark I, it's a question of how
it's been read down, since that's not exactly on
the pad anywhere. So Al's Just coming on the
telephone now. He'll talk to you.

232 O0 04 19 CDR Okay, here's the way we've been doing it. As
you'll notice, it says exercise, type l, 2, and
3. Upper body ergometer is l, lower body ergom-
eter is 2, and 3 is other, with ex - it says
other hyphen explain. So, what we've been doing
for Mark I's and II's - Mark I being the thing
you pull up and down with the rope; Mark II being
those spring things. And so what we've been doing
is giving you the types which - let me give you
mine for yesterday. I'll skip the part that's -
that's the normal 33 _utes and 5003 watts. I
said 3; Mark I, 40 A, 20 C, 20 B, 20 D, and 20
situps. They - those aren't measured in watt-
minutes, they're Just something else, but we've
got a little card up here that has them broken out
into A's, B's, C's, and D's, and all that. And
then I said 2, which I shouldn't have said, I
should have said 3, 3/10; Mark II, 20 A, i0 B, i0 C,
and l0 F. Does that make sense now, Hank? Hello,
Hank.

232 00 05 &0 CC Okay. We're - we're discussing it now, A1.

CDR I thought you fell asleep down there. That exer-

cise makes you tired.

CC Makes me tired Just to hear about it.

CDR In fact, I'm up there right now working on - work-

ing on the Mark I, getting ready to transition to
the Mark II.

232 00 06 lO CC Okay, let's run through that last one again. The
3 - it's - the first number 3 means, it's other.
And then the next number you used was 10. Now
can you tell us what that is?

CDR That - that's the time.

CC Okay, that's the time.

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CDR C_ay. So it was number 3 of s_ne other kind of

exerciser, for I0 minutes and then I said Mark II -
or Mark I depending on which it was. That gives
you the kind, and then I told you how many reps of
each type, and on the ground there is a card that
shows the type, and I assume that if - the only
reason we're passing that down is in case the - the
biomed people are interested in somehow quanti-
fying the exercise that we're doing on these other
devices. We can quit doing that if you want.

CC No, no, that's real good, A1. We understand it now,

and we - we like the way you're doing it.

CDR Okay.

232 00 07 ll CC SPT, Houston. Did you accomplish all of building

block 10? And if not, how much did you get in?

SPT I accomplished more than the building block 10,

so I'm also putting the XUV MON on the VTR right
now so you can get a look at it the next time you
dump it.

CC Roger; we copy. And I guess we've discussed the

pointing problem a little more during the LOS.
And the - the pointing was in error prior to the
update and the computer doesn't change the point-
ing at all after the update. You would have to
crank that around. However, after the update your
read-outs are correct.

232 00 07 59 SPT Roger. I'm Just looking at this XUV MON right
now, and the loops between these two m-_=netic
poles are continuing to develop. They still don't
have much of an H-alpha signature, but it might
be better than - to go take a look at that on
this latter - this middle part of this pass than
it would be to pick up on that coronal hole. If
you have any comment about that, why, why don't
you let me know here promptly.

CC Okay, we'll get you an answer.

SPT I got in an extra grating auto scan in addition

to the building block i0, and a couple of extra
photographs for S056.
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232 00 08 52 CC Roger; we copy. And we would like for you to

stick with the pad. And we're coming up on a
keyhole. We'll drop out about a minute, here.

232 00 l0 07 CC Skylab, Houston. WE're out of the keyhole now.

We got about 5 minutes left.

CC SPT, Houston. Did you have any more questions

on that pointing in the UV update?

SPT Not right now. I've got - got to get busy over
he re.

CC 0kay.

232 00 12 Oh CC SPT, Houston. We're seeing h frames a minute on

H-alpha. Was that intentional or - -

SPT Yes, that was intentional. I wanted to do that

while I was over there looking at that active
region 96 and I Just now put it back to 1. Thanks
for the reminder.

CC Okay. We copy.

232 00 lh 08 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 1 minute from LOS.

Be coming up on Merritt Island at hS.

232 00 _8 35 CC Skylab, Houston through MLA for ll-i/2 minutes.

SPT Okay, Houston. Just a comment on that last orbit.

The active region 96 has continued to evolve and
now shows loops extending both out to the east
and out to the west. And I do have a couple of
segments - brief intervals of this, on the VTR.
I think it'd be of considerable interest to the
backroom, ATM science room, if they'd take a look
at that when the tape gets back home.

CC Roger; we copy.

232 00 h9 12 SPT About the only opportunity in the next orbit to

get another look at 96 without messing up J0P 9
would be during this interval of - let's see, I
guess there's a JOP 2B, step 5, on 93 that could
be substituted for a 96. That looks to be about
the only alteration. They might consider whether
or not they want to substitute that in the next
orbit.
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CC Okay. We'll check that out, Owen.

SPT They'd probably also be doing that 10-minute XUV

MON down-link interval. Probably want to have an
XUV MON called up anyway during that interval.
And you might Just as well be doing work on active
region 96 during that interval.

CC Okay, we'll take a look at that.

232 00 54 27 CC SPT, Houston. On the next rev, here, we'd like

for you to work the JOP 6, building block 1 and
omit the TVD - or TV down-link that's called out
at 39 minutes remaining. And on the - at 24 minutes
remaining on the 2 Bravo, step 5, we would like to
change the target from active region 93 to 96.
And somewhere during that building block l0, give
us 5 minutes of - of data on the VTR. We have
6-1/2 minutes remaining on the VTR.

SPT Okay, 6-1/2 on there, you want 5 on the VTR, and

if we omit the TV down-link at 39 I guess that
really gives about - about 20 minutes to do work
on the - on active region 96. And so we'll do
that building block l0 and probably another
active region study in there to take advantage of
the full length of time available.

232 00 55 3h CC Owen, I think the - the - the TV there at 39

minutes remaining was during the building block i
of - of the JOP 6 there. So you won't have that
extra time. You'll be _;_ning that building block.
We Just want to omit the down-link while you were
running it. But - But - -

SPT Oh, I see, and you're right, you're right. So as

soon as we're through with JOP 6, step l, then
we'll go right on to 96 as you say. Fine.

CC That 's affirmative.

CC Skylab, Houston. I wonder if the PLT has some

words on the Coolanol inspection?

232 00 56 26 PLT Okay, Hank. Here you go. I Just completed the
procedure that you up-linked. And I didn't come
up with anything very positive. I did notice on
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the tape recorder compartment that the - those

two lines that run next to tape recorder number i,
that on one of them there was a - some discolor-
ation of the fiber-glass insulation. It's a little
darker brown than any of the rest. If you were
sitting in the STS area looking at the tape
recorder module with your right shoulder up against
the hatch, you would be in a line that ran verti-
cally parallel to the hatch and near the right
side of the module. And it would be the - the
one of two lines that's the furthest end of the
compartment, or the furthest away from you. And
I looked at it a long time and tried to get some
moisture off and all that. I thought that if I
rubbed it real hard and imagined a lot, I could
fancy that there was something sort of oily on it.
It - There's a line that has two right angles in it
and it rubs around the tape recorder, and from the
top right angle to the bottom right angle I no-
ticed this - I would - from my Judgment, say that
it wasn't enough to cause a si_-_ficant leak, how-
ever. I also, as you know, looked at the tool sieve
area. I didn't find anything that I considered to
be of significance there, although I did notice
that on one of the lines, way back in the - on
the wall of the STS, the line that was in tool
sieve A closest to the vent - the mol seive vent,
back on the wall, that there was same moisture on
it. However, I determined that it was water. The
lines were not discolored. The moisture on it
was beaded. Perhaps - Just - you know, Just a few
drops, not solid, but they were Just beaded. They
didn't have any odor or taste. They were - it was
not oily, and so, I determined that it was water.
So, it was my Judgment that everything's pretty
negative in searching for leaks so far.

CC Roger; we copy.

232 00 59 31 CC And, Skylab, we're about 30 seconds from LOS.

We'll be coming up on Madrid at 03.

SPT Say, and Just a comment about this BAT CHARGE

light, Hank. At the end of the last orbit, that's
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an hour and a half ago, the BAT CHARGE light

went out in that vicinity and it came on again
Just before sunrise. And I see it's now gone out
again after sunset this orbit. So it's - somehow
or other in phase with our orbital period. Maybe
that's some help to you.

232 01 00 08 CC Roger; we copy.

END OF TAPE
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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

232 01 03 42 CC Skylab, Houston through Madrid for 8 minutes.

CC CDR, Houston. I have a question for you on

T020 if it's convenient.

CDR Go ahead.

CC Due to the possible interference with the

equipment in the SAL, we'd like to know if you
have any comments or - or whether you had to do
anything different than in your training
exercises.

232 01 04 59 CDR I had to fly to - We fly to two different places.

One time - some of the maneuvers we fly to the
SAL, some of the m_ueuvers we fly to F_3-2.
And I Just flew all of. them to FMU-2 which was
no different than half the things we were doing.
So I - I - I don't believe it had any effect
whatsoever on the training at all.

CC We copy. And do you recall what the pressure

was on the bottle after your run?

CDR Let me ask Jack.

CDR 400 pounds.

232 01 05 42 CC Roger; we copy. h00.

CC We've got another question here in regard to the

checkout procedure on the CBRM SELECT switch that
you did back on day 222; it was about i0 days ago.
And we - we were wondering if you could remember
whether you notec any occurrences s_m_lar to those
which have happened today? In other words, ref-
erence to the meter readouts on bats 3, 7 and 17;
the volts, temp, and current.

CDR I did part-of that and no, everything was

copacetic. And I reported every single thing
that was a little bit different, of which there
wasn't much.
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232 01 06 37 CC We copy. And I got a couple here for the SPT.

We wish to configure the H-alpha 1 camera for
unattended operations per the powerdown to
unattended operations cue card. And delete the
unattended configuration of H - H-alpha 1 that's
in your schedule pad.

SPT All right. I think the significance of that is

you don't want H-alpha to run all night. Is
that correct?

CC That's affirmative.

SPT Okay, we'll do that.

CC And we got one more thing for you regarding what

we're going to do tomorrow. In our planning,
we're going to run four orbits of J0P 15 Bravo
operations. And this is in conformity with
Ed Gibson's comments to you on the band structures
near the south limb seen in the S082A data and
on the XUV mon. Four positions are chosen above
the bright and dark band structures. In order
to get long enough integrated - integrating above
the limb, the GRATING AUTO SCAN has been changed
to a grating 3 SCAN in the building block 36.
And the extra tlme required is allowed for in
the pad schedule. The S055 MIRROR AUTO RASTER
on nearby disk structures are scheduled as fil-
lers in order to best study the bands on the
disk.

232 01 08 03 SPT Okay, I think I understand all that, Hank. If

there's a problem after looking at the schedule,
I'll give you a call back about it.

CC All righty.

CDR And thinking about this TO20 again with you,

Hank: Jack and I talked about the items in the
SAL before we started. And, of course, we
couldn't take the one out in the plus-Z. In
the minus -Z, we could've, but decided against
it on the grounds that it didn't really _ke any
difference. We could fly either above it or
could fly these other two points which were
directly opposite in the workshop and were - as -
as good targets as the two that we'd chosen
previously.
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232 01 09 04 CC Roger; we copy.

232 01 ll 03 CC Skylab, Houston. We're i minute from LOS.

We'll be coming up on Carnarvon at 37 with
our evening status.

CDR Hank, at the s_ time I'm supposed to give

that evening status - well maybe I could mA_e
it. I'm taking this Laccadive picture that
finishes up at 32, and I'll be down there by
37, I hope. Okay. It's already made out.

232 01 3_130 CC Okay.

232 01 37 i8 CC Skylab, Houston through Carnarvon, 9 minutes.

PLT Okay, Hank--

CDR Ready for the report?

CDR Are you ready for the night report?

CC Everybody's ready. Go ahead.

232 01 38 02 CDR Okay, that completes the report, Hank. What

do you think?

CC That - that was pretty fast. I guess it went

right by me.

CDR Must have been a comm dropout. I' ll do it

again for you. Here we come. 168, 155, 270.
How's that for a record? 5227, 8621. 5906;
6.260, 6.260, 6.264; 5.964, 5.958, 5.960; 6.956,
6.956, 6.957, 2/35/5014, 3/10/Mark I, 50,A; 20,B;
20,C; 20,D. 3/10/Mark II, 20,A; 10,B; lO,C; 10,F,
2/30/4300, 3/30/73,A; 60,B; 60,D. Okay, now for
the PLT, 1/05/0545, 3/20/Ma_k I, 50,A; 20,B; 20,D;
and 20 backbends. He'll probably give you some
more tonight; I don't think he's finished. No
medication. Sleep: 6/G, 6-1/2/G, 6/G. Here
comes the food log: CDR, 12 salt packs, no
deviations. SPT: five salt packs, one butter
cookie added. Pilot; zero salt packs, added
one grape dring and one butter cookie. Here
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comes the photo log: T020, FCMU, CI68, 00;

TO20, CIh6, 55, CI41. 35-millimeter: CIlO, ,
137; CXl3, 59; TV13, 00. That's Nikkon 02 for
S063. 70-millimeter: CX25, 029. No EREP.
Drawer A configuration: A-l, no chs_nge; A-2,
05, CI46, 55, CI41; A-3, 4, and the back, no
change. Flight Plan deviations: haven't had
a chance to look at the Flight Plan for
tomorrow yet. One thing we wanted to see if
we could get in with the next 3 or 4 days is
to try to put in a little spare time so that
Owen can work on this science demonstration.
We haven't got much spare time left and that's
the way we like it, but in this case we need
an ex - a couple of hours I guess sometime.
Shopping list accomplished: We did day 23
transfers. We also did day 25 transfers while
we were there. We did the normal housekeeping.
We repaired the Mark I. Unscheduled stowage
locations: One box of wipes from D-h48 to
the MDA, two boxes of wash - two boxes of
washcloths from 736 to the head and about eight
towels from 737 to the head. And that's it.

232 01 42 01 CC Roger; Al_ we copy.

CDR Okay. On this - photos I Just took of the

Laceadive Islands; it was overcast except for
the very first one. And it was a little atoll
and I shot it, and after that no islands came.
It was completely overcast, as was the west
coast of India. So that didn't turn out too
well. Maybe we can try it again next time and
we'll try to get the Antipodes here in another
20 minutes or i0 minutes or something.

232 01 42 31 CC Roger. We copy.

232 01 47 35 CC Skylab, Houston. We got 4 more minutes through

Honeysuckle.

CC Skylab, Houston. We have about 3-1/2 minutes

here through Honeysuckle. How would you like to
hear some news?

CDR We'd love to.

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232 01 48 24 CC Today's Houston Post carried a front page story

headlined "Skylab Helps Spot Growing Gulf Storm."
The story stated that, "Weathermen aided by
Skylab astronauts watched tropical storm Brenda
blossom 800 miles southeast of Houston in the
Gulf of Mexico." The story further reported
that as the Skylab television cameras recorded
the swirling cloud mass, Astronaut Alan Bean
said, "We'll try to keep an eye on it for you
on a day-to-day basis. Not only where it is,
but how it's developing as far as size and
intensity is concerned." The story also
mentioned ATM operations and a newly hatched
minnow, the first recorded birth in spaceflight
history. Another story in the Post today talked
about the Skylab astronauts losing pounds and
gave their weights as Alan Bean, 145 pounds;
Owen Garriott, 129 pounds ; and called Jack Lousma
the space station heavyweight at a 189 pounds.
The story was a feature on the mass measuring
device developed by Dr. Bill Thornton and pointed
out the importance of being able to weight things
in space including the space traveler himself.
In another news item, fire fighters from l0 states
have flown in to Join those already battling
flames sweeping across timberland in Idaho,
Montana, Oregon, Washington, and california. The
Forest Service in Montana said a call for help
went out to every forest service region in
the country Friday. Nearly 9000 men were re-
ported battling the flames today. On the sports
scene, placekicker Chester Marcol booted four
field goals and added 3 extra points as the
Packers defeated the Oilers 33 to lb. The
Astros traded outfielder To_ Agee to the
St. Louis Cardinals Saturday, obtaining infielder
and outfielder Dave Campbell, and a player to be
nAmPd later. The Astros defeated the Phillies
B-2 last night by a two-run homer by Lee May.
However, today's game the Phillies won 5 to 3.
Also yesterday Hank Aaron hit n1_mber 704 and,
in hitting that home run, he also established
a new major league record for extra base hits
as the Braves defeated the Montreal Expos 3 to 1.
The homer was the 2378 extra base hit for Aaron
and moved him ahead of Stan Musial on the
all-time list. And the following story Just
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came in. It - Headline, Space Center, Houston.

Says, "Dr. Owen Garriott doubled in brass as a
barber for his fellow Skylab astronaut, Alan Bean.
A f_]m videotaped by the astronauts on Saturday
and beamed back to Earth on Sunday, showed
Garriott carefully cutting Bean's hair, then
vacuuming it away to prevent it from floating
around in the weightlessness of the cabin. The
astronauts go_ up early Sunday to look at
tropical - tropical storm Brenda, which was
moving across the Yucatan Peninsula. 'My
first date with a lady since being up here,'
Joked the third astronaut, Jack Lousma." And
that's about it for the evening. We're about
30 seconds from LOS. We'll be coming up on
Tex_q at 20 and we plan to dump the voice data
recorder.

232 01 51 35 CDR Okay. Thank you, Hank.

CC And also for the SPT, when you get through with
the VTR here on this pass, we'd appreciate your
hitting your REWIND switch, and then we'll be
ready to dump stateside.

SPT Okay.

232 01 51 57 CC That's for the PLT. Sorry.

232 02 20 38 CC Skylab, Houston through Texas and Bern_da for

16 minutes. And as a reminder, we'll be dumping
the data recorder here at Texas and also at
Bermuda. At about 27 will be your med conference.

CDR We're looking forward to it.

CDR Hey, was the photo report okay - right tonight,

Hank?

PLT If we got the photo report right tonight, we got

one in a row now.

232 02 21 26 CC Okay. We were Just t_Iking about it. We think

it's okay. And we understand from the pad that
you didn't get the film thread this morning.
Is that correct?
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CDR Didn't understand what you say. Say again.

CC Roger. We - we think the pad looks real good

to us - your - your calldown on the photos.
And we understand from the photo report that
you did not do the film thread this morning.
Is that correct?

PLT No, that's a negative. We did the film thread

and the "No change" means there was no change
to the pad you sent up.

CC Oh, okay. We copy that now.

232 02 22 03 SPT We always get our work done.

CDR Hey, Hank. Are y'all going to send up a

procedure on the teleprinter for ops doing this
condensate check tomorrow?

CC That's affirmative. And we're in the process

of reviewing that now, A1.

CDR Okay, we'll be ready.

232 02 23 13 CC It's going to be a - a - a real long procedure,

and we hesitated about it a little bit, but we
decided we might as well get the thing from
stem to stern once and for all and Just nail
down every leak that's in the system.

CDR Okay.

232 02 23 41 CC CDR, Houston. Basically, what we're planning

on doing is rigging up the water umbilical and -
through the nitrogen system and putting 35-psi
pressure in the lines, and then start tracing
all the lines that are easily accessible. And
use the stethoscope if necessary and listen for
audible leaks. At 35-psi, we ought to be able
to hear them. Then go back into the tool sieve
area and in - in - in - like panel 393 or 316
and 390 where we have lines that are hidden,
remove some of those panels with the high
torques, and get in there; listen to those.
After we've done all that, go back and do some
bubble checks with soap to see if there's any
little seeping leaks that we missed.
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232 02 24 28 CDR Okay, we'll rebuild the spacecraft for you.

CC Skylab, Houston. If it' s convenient, we' d like

to get the frames remaining off the ATM.

SPT We'll give it to you in a little bit - next

pass or so, Hank.

CC Okay.

SPT Whoops. A1 said he's on the way.

CDR Okay, H-alpha, 2081; 56, 1701_ 82A, 47;

82B, 34; 52, 2478; 54, 2327. How's that?

232 02 26 15 CC Roger; we copy.

CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 1 minute from

handover to Bermuda, and that'll be your reed
conference. If we don't pick you up the last
part of that pass, the next contact will be
Madrid at 41.

232 02 27 25 CDR Okay.

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232 02 34 Ii CC Skylab, Houston. We're back with you for about

3 minutes through Bermuda.

232 02 36 12 CC Skylab, Houston. One minute to LOS; Madrid at 41.

232 02 41 14 CC Skylab, Houston through Madrid 7-1/2 minutes.

PLT Okay, Hank. I wonder if you could enter a little

late exercise for the Kid here?

CC Would you say again? What did you say about late
exercise?

PLT I didn't have all my exercise finished when the

evening status report came in, but I got it done
now. You want to copy it down?

CC Okay. Go ahead.

232 02 42 01 PLT Okay. 2/32/7050.

CC We copy.

PLT Thank you, Hank.

232 02 h7 51 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about i minute from LOS.

We'll say good night to you now and see you in
the morning.

PLT Okay, Hank. Sleep tight and thanks a lot for all
your good work today.

232 02 48 05 CC Roger; thank you.

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232 i0 45 05 CC Good morning, Skylab. We've got you for i more

minute through MLA. And we're sorry to wake you
up 15 minutes early, but the next call won't be
for an hour and 20 minutes.

CDR Okay, we're awake. Thanks.

CC And, AI, I've got Just one thing for you here.
On closing down the ATM panel for unattended ops,
we think we see HIGH VOLTAGE DETECTOR number 1
left on. It's ENABLED and we can't tell the dif-
ference between the switch being in ENABLED or
a - or a - relay failure, so you might just check
the position of that switch when you go to the
ATM.

CC And we're i0 seconds until LOS. We'll see you

over Goldstone in about an hour and 20 minutes,
at 12:05.

CDR Okay that switch was on.

CC Okay. Thanks.

PLT What's that storm like this morning, Story?

CC It's up to about 90 knots now, picking up, and

still moving about 285.

232 i0 46 26 PLT Okay -

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232 12 06 00 CC Skylab, we're A0S Goldstone and Texas for

14, minutes.

SPT Okay, fine Story. And, have any rea-tile -

real-time TV down-link or what are your plans this
orbit?

CC We'll take real time on that, Owen.

SPT Okay. Looks like it'll be a couple of minutes

before l've got any ATM pictures for you.

CC Okay. And, CDR; Houston.

3 232 12 06 54 CDR Hey, Story, did I mention to you the other day that
I tried your harness on the ergometer?

CC It was passed on to me, A1.

CDR Yes, it worked okay. They - apparently somewhere

in the manufacture they doubled up some straps
that go through that little elongated loop at the
front, and it doesn't fit in there too well, so
I don't think the SL 2 group could fit it in there
Just right. I removed it from there and put it on
and it worked real well. It stabilizes you. You
don't wobble from side to side. You don't have
to hold yourself down; worked real good. I'm not
sure that now that we've got these super handle
bars that reach all the way around, you really
need it that much. But it sure does do the Job
for what it was designed. You don't have to strain,
Just stand there and pedal and use your legs.

232 12 07 48 CC Okay, thanks. I put enough parabolas on that

thing. In about 2 minutes, you'll be passing
close to a 6000-acre forest fire in Oregon, and
2 minutes beyond that there is a 26,000-acre
forest fire in California. You might be looking
out STS window number 1.

PLT Do we pass over the storm on this rev, Story?

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232 12 08 Ii CC Yes, that one will be at about 12:16. And you'll

be pretty far west of it.

CDR Tell us the exact time on that forest fire. We'll

see if we can catch that on TV.

CC It's about a minute and a half in STS window 1.

And the LOS of the California fire_ and no need
to acknowledge, will be about 4 minutes from now.

CC We recommend Just visually looking for the fires.

The ATM has priority on the TV down-link.

SPT How much time do we have on the TV down-link Story?

232 12 09 22 CC Stand by i. You've got all the way until 12:20

on the TV down-link.

SPT Okay, thank you.

CC And, Owen, for the SO19, we'll need a star tracker

lockon, and we'll also need star tracker control
enabled and that's 52011, 50004. And we passed
up a pad last night that ought to be good.

232 12 l0 35 CC And, Owen, an update on your solar activity. It's

been minimal. No flares reported; region 93 shows
a little growth, minor surges at 260 on the limb.
And UV data indicates that old region 77 is
rotating into the east limb.

SPT Okay. Maybe you could Just see, if you were

watching, I don't know whether you've got this real
time or not yet, that active region 96 still shows
that loop structure that it developed last evening
and we got another spot coming over the east limb,
it looks like.

CC Okay. We Just got through reviewing those films

about an hour ago.

SPT Did you see active region 96 develop?

232 12 ii 24 CC
We saw the loop, the U-shaped horn, Owen.
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SPT 0kay. That' s fine. It 's now developed a double

loop. It developed it, oh, about 02:00 Zulu last
night and still shows that double, multilooped
configuration on the XUV MON this morning.

CC Okay. After we put y'all to bed, we noticed some-

one up there integrating on the panel.

SPT That happened to be me. I wanted to get another

picture about 03:30 Zulu and I came up and took
a picture and closed the door again.

CC Okay.

232 12 12 15 CDR I think that computer had a breakdown. We couldn't

even see the Earth out of window 1.

CC Okay. Use any window you'd like.

CC And - it's still dark up - where we're looking

down now, A1. You'll be coming up on the termina-
tor in about another 5 or 6 minutes.

CDR The Earth is not situated exactly right for these

windows at the moment, Story. And in addition to
that, of course, like you said, it's still dark
here.

CC Okay. We thought maybe the fires would look a

little brighter during the - the nighttime.

SPT We must have Just had some bright transient go

by the front of the S052 aperture because we got
an automatic door closure. I'll reopen it in
Just a moment.

2B2 12 14 08 CC We saw it, Owen.

SPT AI says he saw it go by the window out here.

CDR Are we close to the tropical storm now, Story?

CC About a minute and a half away from it.

CDR Jack thinks he has it in sight.

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PLT Are we going to have a better view of it on the

next rev, Story?

232 12 14 50 CC No; you'll be out in the Pacific on the next rev.

It's about 55 knots now and forecasted to build
a little more. It's still moving west.

PLT Okay, Story. We got it on TV now. It's a good pic-

ture. It's somewhat at a distance, but it's
quite well-defined from this distance more so
than it was yesterday.

CC Okay. We're looking at it.

232 12 15 46 PLT I think you can see the circular structure of it

better today than you could from a close-up
yesterday.

CC That's a great picture, Jack. And when you get

a chance, you might tell us what window you're
using.

PLT We used window number 3 on that, Story.

CC Okay.

232 12 17 07 CC And, Jack, when you get a chance to copy, I got

three changes to your Flight Plan.

PLT Okay. Just a minute. I got to go get it.

SPT And the reason for that door closure here, a cou-
ple of minutes ago, Story, is something I don't
understand. Because I was Just rolling from
minus 5400 around to 10800 when this transient
developed and when I tried to reopen the doors,
they went open and closed again immediately. I
looked at H-alpha 2, and for some reason, the
pointing had changed by about l0 arc minutes.
We'd slid off to the left by about lO arc minutes
from the center of the Sun. So I had to repoint and
and open the doors normally. Now what caused the
pointing to change by that l0 arc minutes is some-
thing that I can't explain.

CC The MPC was not enabled, was it?

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CDR As I recall, it was inh_bited but I was not on

the MPC at the time. So, I don't know what might
have done it.

PLT Go ahead with the changes to the Flight Plan.

232 12 18 09 CC Okay. We noticed you on TV using bottle number 4

on the T020 yesterday. We'd like you to top off
bottle number 4, Vice ntg_ber 2, which is on the
Flight Plan. And your S019 at 13:00 should be
canister 3 instead of canister 4.

PLT Okay. Now 14:05 says bottles 2 and 3. You want

2 and 4?

CC Yes, that's an error. Top off bottle 4.

PLT Okay. That 's 4 only?

CC Yes, sir. And one other thing, we'd like a digi-

tal thermometer reading of the S019 film canister
while it's still in the film vault, before the
mot - morning installation.

PLT Okay.

232 12 19 05 CC And you can use the thermometer that's located

W749 Alfa.

PLT Okay. We've got it. I'll take it to the wardroom

Just so we can measure temperature ... take it
up there.

CC Okay. Copy.

Plt It measures the temperature in the wardroom of

68.4. How does that concur with the reading
guys are getting?

CC Stand by 1. Was that an air temperature of 68?

232 12 20 06 PLT Yes, that's air temperature in the wardroom,

degrees, Fahrenheit.

232 12 20 l0 CC Okay. We'll get you an answer. We're about

l0 seconds to LOS here. We'll see you over the
Vanguard in l0 minutes.
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232 12 30 37 CC Skylab, we're A0S over the Vanguard for l0 minutes.

SPT Okay, Story, I have the star tracker locked on,

I've closedthe door again and - no, it's still
locked on the star. Now I've - The commands you
gave me were to reenable star tracker control,
not a - update, I guess that _._aswhat you wanted,
I've not entered it in yet. Is that correct?

CC Yes, sir; that's fine.

SPT When do you want to give it a star tracker update?

232 12 31 12 CC That's already enabled, 0wen.

HPT Okay, and the other thing is I do have a BAT CHARGE

alert light on now and I have REG VOLT flag on the
power system. Yet as I rotate my CBRM SELECT around,
the barber pole on BEG VOLTS never disappears and
I never do get a barber pole until the BAT VOLTS
flag - in order to tell me what battery apparently
has the bat charge low. So it's a little puzzling
again this morning.

CC We copied that, 0wen.

232 12 32 13 CC 0wen, we're not getting any AM or ATM data yet.

As soon as we do, we'll look it over.

CC And, Owen, we did not flight-plan your collecting

the spider web today. If you get it done, it'll
be fine; otherwise, we'll schedule it for mission
day 25, tomorrow.

PLT Okay, Story, I take it to mean from the Flight

Plan that you don't want bed number 2 baked out.
Is that correct?

CC Stand by l, Jack.

CC Jack, that - we don't want bed 2 baked out.

PLT Thank you.

232 12 34 08 CC And on those PSS bottles, charge up any ones that

you've used.
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PLT Okay, we've got them all recharged, we don't have

them all topped off. Understand you want them all
topped off.

CC That's affi_native, Jack.

PLT Okay, thank you.

CDR Hey, Story, Just finished photographing the plains

of Nasca and I couldn't see the - for sure, the
area that was described or called the airfield of
the ancient astronaut. But I did photograph the
entire area there. The - -

CC Okay.

232 12 35 33 CDR It was scattered clouds in most areas, and some

places it was clear. Where I could see the ground
in that vicinity, I did photograph. And maybe
some of these will come out.

CC Okay.

CDR You know, we need to be thinking about a new

approach to this picture-taklng business. For
the simple reason - in aSmost all the sites that
we've taken pictures of or couldn't take pictures
of because of clouds, we've seen previously in
really fantastic weather. And if we'd Just known
that those were the sites that eventually we're
going to want taken, we could have very simply
taken them. Because, for example, the - at Tiffany
Isles we saw - 3 or _ days ago or maybe longer ago -
beautiful weather; we could have taken some mag-
nificent shots. Yesterday when we tried, it was all
socked in and couldn't even find the islands. Same
with this area of Peru, we passed over it for 3 weeks
now and 50 percent of the time it's been Just clear
as a bell. Now maybe there's some way to get a list
of these pads up here, and get them all listed in a
little - we'll put them on a file or somewhere. And
then you can send up then and say, "We're thinking
that it's about time to get the plains of Nasca."
And we can say, "Well, we got it 2 weeks ago because
the weather was Just perfect then.
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232 12 37 30 CC Okay. We'll do it.

CDR Yes, because we're ending up trying to shoot pic-

tures of things we've seen. And then when.we try
to shoot them, we can't see them Just because the
weather is socked in about 50 percent of the time
or some percent. And we could kind of work it
both ways, you could schedule them at the same
time - we could try to get them in advance. We'd
notice what part of the world seems to be clear -
we could look on our list - if they were somehow
set up in geographical groups. And then we can
say, "Well, let's take this - looks like South
America; the whole west coast is clear today."
And then kind of - next time we pass that way
look and see if we've got anything in that vivinity
and try to take it.

CC Okay. Sounds good.

232 12 38 14 CDR That's not the complete answer but there must -
somehow we - there's a better combination than
we're working at the moment.

CC AI, do you think if we send you coordinates you

can use the slider map to find the locations?

232 12 38 hl CDR Yes, We can do that. But this description of

what you're looking for, I think, is real good.
I guess what we'd need is almost everything that's
on here with the exception of - we wouldn't need
the camera settings because we can usually figure
those out. And we wouldn't need the window. We'd
need the geographical location and the na,e of
the place so that we could look at it on the map.
And then maybe the top of it would give us a gen-
eral hint as to the area, like northwest coast of
South America. And all the northwest coast of
South America type sites would be kind of together.
And then southern tip of South America could -
sites, and then they'd be together. So we
could see if things were nice down there, and
then if they were, we could kind of glance at
the file, find the coordinates, look at the
map, and then shoot the picture.
CC

Okay.
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CDR Just leaving them up to us completely won't do the

Job either because we don't always have time to
look out. But some - we need a better way. I
don't know what it is exactly. We probably ought
to try another one - or another one or two.

CC Roger.

CC Skylab, we're 15 seconds to LOS. We'll see you

in a little over an hour at Goldstone at 13:h5.
And we never did get systems data through the
Vanguard.

SPT Okay. And have you inhibited momentum dump for

me on this S019 pass, Story?

232 12 40 47 CC That's affirmative.

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232 13 45 37 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Goldstone for

the next h minutes. Over.

CDR Morning, Bruce.

CC Morning, Alan. If you all could stay off the

DAS for a few seconds, we're going to enable
the momentum dumps that were inhibited to per-
nit you to make the S019 pass this morning.
And also, due to our con_mmications - data
communications problem through Vanguard, we're
going to have to dump the data voice recorder
this pass here at Goldstone. Over.

CDR Okay. We understand. We had MOL SIEVE A

SIEVE FLOW light come on several times; msybe
i0 times over the last 20 minutes. We went
through the mal procedure, first step, it says
to shift fans, which we did, went to PRIMARY.
It still activated the SIEVE light. The
answer to this goes on to block 18. It says,
sensor failure. If it happened right out of
the blue, we'd kind of agree with it. But we
Just finished baking out BED 1 and we noticed
that it only occurs when BED 1 is in ADSORB.
When BED 1 is in DESORB, then it seems to flow
okay. The fans feel good. Both of them are
running when we select them. One is running
when we select it. When we select the other,
it runs. So we're presently sort of in a hold
mode to get some advice from you.

232 13 47 08 CC Okay. We copy all that, A1. And I'll have to

say that we'll work on it and get back with you.

CDR Okay. We're Just going to leave it alone.

We've got SIEVE A FLOW, disabled. And we're
going to enable it because it Just shifted to
DESORB in BED 1. We'll see how it lasts this
15 minutes.

PLT Hey, Bruce, I got a question on S019. When-

ever Karl asked for an unwidened exposure, of
course, we can't use his little timing knob.
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So we're wondering if we ought to time a full

90 seconds on our watch or if we ought to time
some reduced time which is equal to his timer.
For example, his - his 90-second timer times
on something less than 90. And if he wants those
to - times in unwidened exposures to match the
ones which are widened he ought to shoot us up
the 3 DELTA - Delta's or differences of time to
the 30 90, two 70-second exposures.

CC Okay. You've got a real valid point there,

Jack. We'll get an answer for you. How did
you do it this morning?

PLT This morning I did it full 90 seconds on the

watch and I believe that's the way we've
taken the few unwidened exposures that we have
taken in the past. Although I noticed I've
got a couple coming up on the next pass. So
I'd like to know exactly how he wants them so
we can do it precisely the way he wants.

232 13 48 35 CC Okay. We'll get it to you. We got 1 minute to

LOS here at Goldstone. Next station contact is
Vanguard in approximately 18 minutes. And back
to A1 again, we'd like you to go ahead and Just
leave the SIEVE A FLOW, disabled on the - or
INHIBITED on the CAUTION and WARNING. And press
on with the condensate systems checkout and we'll
be back with an answer to you. This is the
same. sort of problem that we saw in SL-1 - 2.

CDR Oh, okay. Do you think it had something to do

with bed bakeout or it Just happened at the
same time -by chance?

CC Okay. This is associated with bed bakeout.

And we've found out that every time after
you do a bakeout - and put it back on the line,
it seems to take about 6 hours to stabilize
and then everything's hunkydorey. Over.

232 13 _9 3_ CDR Okay. Well, then we'll quit worrying about

it. We've INHIBITED SIEVE A FLOW, CAUTION
and WARNING on 207.
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CC Yes. In case you didn't understand that last

hunkydorey it's the sa_ as peekaboo. Over.

CDR ...

2B2 l_ 07 16 CC Skylab, this is Houston; through Vanguard for

10-1/2 minutes. A couple of quick items for
you, if you're ready.

CDR Okay. Go ahead.

CC Okay. For the PLT and CDR at S019 operators,

we want to use the ... coronagraph for all
unwidened exposures, that is all U exposures.
And use the widener knob as your time reference
on all widened exposures. This should clear
up the misunderstanding on the pad this
morning. Over.

SPT Okay, that's clear now. Thank you.

CC And - -

CDR Okay. That's what we've been doing all along.

So everything' s okay.

CC Okay. And we'd like - -

2B2 14 08 01 CDR I've got a question on - on this procedure.

l'm working the condensate system. And l'm
over here at M168. It says "Open cabinet,
remove vent cap and flare saver from inboard
heat exchanger plate service holder storage
gimbal." I don't know what a vent cap and a
flare saver are.

CDR If that's the thing that the heat exchanger

plate sort of mounts on for stowage - is
sort of a - a stowage point and I use a
crescent wrench or the like to get it off,
I could sure do that.
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CC Okay. If you take a look at that QD, which

is the stowage location, on the inside of
it, it has a little fitting on it that has
a screen in it, thereby making the fitting
and everything hooked to it vented assembly.
That's the vent cap that we're talking about.
And I believe the flare saver is a little
ring or circular fitting that gets assem-
bled inside the cap on the B-nut or inside
the vent cap there.

CC Okay, it'll be - -

232 14 09 16 CDR If I could see, I could take off that little

screened arrangement that you were talking
about, that's that vent cap. Now will I have
to - what I'm trying to figure out is if
I'll have to remove that whole rig to get
the parts I want or when I pull off the
little vent cap will the flare saver come
with it?

CC Yes, Alan, the flare saver should be inside

the vent cap and concealed from your view
at the present time. Over.

CDR Okay, understand. Thanks.

CC And for the SPT, if he's up by the ATM,

we'd like to get the startracker shutter
closed, please.

232 lh l0 05 SPT For the S06h group, the last building block
required is _03-64. And when I actuated that,
it actually took a double sequence for
unexplained reasons. I Just happened to
be watching the frames and it took the normal
sequence, then immediately picked up and did
another sequence which I terminated about -
probably during the last one or two exposures.

CC We copy that, Owen. We've seen it before

and that was logged as an idiosyncrasy on the
instE_m_nt. Thank you.
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232 14 i0 45 CDR Okay. I've taken off the vent cap. I gather
the flare saver is the sort of cone - truncated
cone affair that seems to be in there.

CC Yes, sir.

232 14 ii 30 CC And, 0wen, some time today when you get a

chance, l've got a few questions here with
regard to the NK-02, the Nikon that you
use on S063. I don't know, you might want to
give us a call when you're ready to talk
about it, and maybe have the camera on hand
or something like that. Over.

SPT Okay.

232 14 13 57 SPT Bruce, again for the back - backroom, ATM

science room there. I've slightly modified
the procedure on steps 3 and 4 here,
because there is another bright spot to
the left of the one I'm looking at. So on
step 3, I went to the right, 5 arc seconds
for the 82B exposure to give them better
contrast. And then on step 4, I'm going to
move to the left, 5 are seconds Just re-
versing that, where I do not give them an
82B. And I think that will make the data
somewhat more meaningful for 82B.

CC We copy.

232 14 14 27 CDR Okay; still talking about flare savers.

I took off the vent cap, as I mentioned.
As I lifted the vent cap off I noticed this
truncated cone affair at which I was looking
at the Small end. Then it said remove the
outside nipple, which I did. Now, when I
removed the outside nipple, along with it came
this truncated cone and a nut and two washers.
So what I have now in one hand is a - a
little vent cap. What I have in the other is
this nipple with about a 1-inch-long, 3/8-inah-
diameter, threaded operation with a
truncated cone on the end which I thought
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was the thread - was the flare saver, but

it looks like it's part of the nipple really.

CC Okay. When you took the vent cap off, the

flare saver should have come loose with it.
Maybe it's up inside the vent cap. And
that should be two separate pieces that you
can place in the disposal bag. And then you
should have in your hand the QD nipple with
the two loose washers and I believe a large
nut. Over.

232 14 15 41 CDR Okay. Well, I looked up inside and was

careful that nothing floated free. And inside
this thing, as I look up in here, there's
the outside nut. Then there's the sort
of inside cylinder with a screen at the front
end. If I turn the screen and look in the back
end, I can see that the inside's turning.
It doesn't - That little filter thing seems
to be Just a - one piece - it's two pieces
but it's Joined together.

CC Okay. So what you're trying to tell us is that

there doesn't seem to be a flare saver up
inside that nut.

232 14 16 18 CDR No, there doesn't. There seems to be a

total of a - a nipple that's attached to this
long, 1-1nch-long thing with a truncated
cone on the end. There's two washers,
there's a nut, and then there's the - the
end piece that I took off of the vent cap.
Inside there's nothing - there's nothing
in there. Now, I could look at the outboard
one and see what's inside it. Which I'll do.

CC Okay. The flare saver hasn't become pressed

onto the end of the nipple in such a fashion
that it looks like it's part of the nipple,
has it?

PLT He's checking it.

232 14 17 35 CC Here, we got 30 seconds until LOS through

Vanguard here. Next station contact is Hawaii
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in 58 minutes. I understand that - go ahead

and press on if you can't find the flare
saver. I think we can get another one
later on.

CC Okay. You don't need the first flare saver,

really. You can use the one that you come
up with later in step 5.

232 lh 18 08 CDR I took a look in one of the ones earlier

and it's the same way.

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SKYLABAIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

232 15 15 59 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Hawaii for 8 min-

utes and h5 seconds. Due to our continuing
problem with data command through Vanguard, we'll
be doing a data voice tape recorder dump this
site. Over.

CDR Okay. Understand. Say, Bruce, I figured out

after looking at another QD, there Just weren't
any savers in those two that we checked. Apparent-
ly, they don't need them, one because there's no
other cone-shaped fitting that that cone-shaped
fitting is mating with; and secondly, since it's
not passing anything but Just venting air. I
guess they figured they could - not have to get
a good tight seal - because I saw one of them
later on, They're like cone-shaped washers.

232 15 16 44 CC Okay, Alan. We copy. And in the mean time, we've

gone back and checkedthe documentation and have
confirmed that in the flight vehicle, there was
no flare saver installed in the location called
out in step 3 in your procedure. Over.

CDR Okay. I've Just finished pressurizing the system

to 35 psi with nitrogen and I'm getting out my
little stethoscope and go listen here and there.

CC Okay. Let's see, copy - then you're - all right,

we'll find it.

232 15 17 25 SPT Hey, Bruce, something I noticed on the AT_ pass

today is that on this rev, for example, the JOP 9
is supposed to start at 57 minutes. And we don't
get ESR until 54:43. So it looks like they're
starting it a little early. And I plan to wait
until ESR.

CC 0kay_ We copy.

232 15 18 43 CC Skylab, this is Houston. For the PLT, if you'll

stay off the DAS for a minute, we will inhibit
momentum dump in preparation for S019 ops. And
this should give you a few extra minutes on your
time remaining clock. Over_
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PLT Okay, Bruce. You got the DAS, and when I see
the ... go barber pole, I'ii start.

CC Okay.

232 15 20 19 CC Okay, Jack. Dump has been inhibited. It's your

DAS, and we think we added about 7 minutes to your
time remaining clock.

PLT Right. You sure did. Now I can't start for 7

more - yes - 7 more minutes - correction,
4 minutes.

CC Okay. We'll Just keep you honest there.

PLT So what did we wind up doing? Wind up giving me

more time this orbit or less?

CC We wind up giving you more time this orbit. We're

trying to figure right now what the effective
sunset time will be, now that we have no dump
involved.

PLT All right. That's what I was wondering about

because as it was, I was about a minute away from
beginning.

CC Roger,

PLT Say, Bruce. I got a PO - PAO request today.

CC Go ahead, Jack •

232 15 21 49 PLT Today is the birthday of a special person in my

life. It's my dad, and I was hoping that somebody
could give him a call and wish h_m happy birthday
for me. He lives in Jackson, Michigan. And he's
always - he always provided a good homelife for us
and took plenty of time with me and got me off to
a good start and I'm mighty thankful to him for
it. And I'd Just like somebody to call him and
tell him - and Just tell him I 'm mighty proud of
him. Happy birthday.

CC Okay. How's the telephone listed, or do you

know the number?
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PLT Just give my wife a Jingle and she'll probably

be able to give him a call.

CC Okay. We'll do that.

232 15 22 h7 PLT Say, Bruce, if there's a way to set it up, I'd

appreciate having the opportunity to talk to him
personally on the phone, if therets a way to work
it out.

CC Okay. Let us work on it.

PLT Okay. And one other thing. Today is Ron Whitten-

hagen day. Another special day for people we want
to recognize. Ron is the guy who collected to-
gether all the maps and charts and organized the
whole S191 operation with - looking for sites on
the ground through the tracking system. And he
was instrumental in getting all the sites together
and he was always very cooperative in getting us
what we needed at the time. And I'm sure he's
busy down there now working on the same thing,
and we Just want to recognize him for his extra
effort and thank him for all he's done to get the
S190 thing going well.

CC Roger. Out.

232 15 2h 05 CC Skylab, this is Houston. One minute to LOS

Hawaii. Next station contact is Vanguard at
15:h5 in approximately 21 minutes. And based on
your onboard charts, it looks like effective sun-
set will be at 7-1/2 minutes on your time-
remaining clock, taking into account the fact that
momentum dllm!_
_ has been inhibited. Over.

PLT Okay, Bruce. Thank you, I_ll work on 07:30,

232 15 2h 33 CC Roger. And I think - I think actually JOP 7 is

an extension and is set up to take you on right
down to zero there, So you might keep an eye on
that.

PLT Roger.

232 15 h6 08 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Vanguard for the

next 9 minutes. Over.
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PLT Go ahead, Bruce.

CC Roger. We're standing by down here. I guess

we're curious as to how A1 is coming along with
the condensate system leak check. Other than
that, no traffic.

PLT Oh, he's applying his best medical stethoscope ...

Looks like he' s making progress.

CC Roger.

PLT How does the M509 data look, Bruce?

232 15 47 _7 CC In general it's looking real good, Jack. And

we certainly appreciate your voice commentary.
It's been outstanding. We're able to follow
things very clearly as they go along.

PLT Well, we hope so. How about the data on the tape.
Were you able to correlate it all okay?

CC Yes, we seem to have. All that we've actually

gotten out of the system has been a quick-look
data which gives us a sample every I0 seconds,
and we're processing that. We may have a change
to the plan for tomorrow coming up so that we can
get some better accelerometer data, but that one's
still in the mill. And if we process it through,
why you'll get it on the teleprinter tonight.
Over •

PLT Good, that's great_ We'll help out all we can

to make it as good as possible.

232 15 48 36 CC Okay, much obliged. And we were Just _ratching

the - the playback of the television recorders
on T020 yesterday, here in the Control Room• And
it looks like you got real good coverage on that,
too.

PLT Yes, we did. We were able to work the procedures

without a hitch. The procedures were very clear,
and well-written, and that sure made a difference.
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PLT I didn't mean to imply that they weren't for

509, also. They were very well written for 509
as well.

CC Yes, okay, Well, as you undoubtedly know, Lou

Ramon was working the procedures for TO13, T20,
and 509 and all of them in the same shop there.

232 15 49 28 PLT Right. They were very good too. Oh, by the
way, we started the bat charge on bat 6 on time.
And we also topped off that other bottle.

CC Okay, we copy. And I guess you got the - the

bottle that you used yesterday on T20 to fill -
to top off.

PLT Yes, sir.

232 15 54 29 CC Skylab, this is Houston; 1 minute remaining until

LOS at Vanguard. Next station contact in 58 min-
utes is Hawaii at 16:52. Over.

232 15 5h 43 PLT Okay, Bruce .... , thank you.

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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

232 16 52 47 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Hawaii for

7 minutes and 40 seconds. Out. And we will be
dumping the data - the data voice tape recorder
this pass.

CDR Hey, Bruce, so far in the procedure I have checked

all the lines accessible, found no leaks. I'm
busily taking off the covers to the mol sieve A
and B heat exchangers, 1 and 2. I've got mol
sieve A, heat exchanger B looked at. I couldn't
find a leak in there. I'm working on heat
exchanger A, then I'm going to go over to mol
sieve B and work on it. My guess is that we can't
possibly finish this thing even near to the sche-
duled time. These fasteners up here are in pretty
doggone tight. Plus, they've all been painted two
or three times to make them look nice and so the
f little cam - you know, the high torque fastener
doesn't want to unfasten them. It doesn't want
to get down in the groove. So that takes a little
fooling around with. My guess is we're going to
have to power the - the water system up, so we
can have lunch. And could you give me qui - the
quickest procedure to do that up and down so that
once it's up, then we can eat. And then I'll
bring it back down again and continue to work on
them: except for M092.

232 16 54 35 CC Okay. Stand by. We'll get it to you.

CDR And I don't believe I'll be making that S019 ops

at all.

CC Say again, please, A1.

CC We got it.

CDE I don't think I'll be getting to that S019

because I'll be - still be working in here, I'm
pretty sure.

CC Roger. We got that.

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232 16 55 25 CC CDR, Houston. We don't believe there's anything

that you have to do to bring the wardroom water
system back up. You have tank l0 still hooked up
and there should be sufficient ullage pressure in
the tank to supply you for lunch. Over.

CDR Okay. I was wondering about that. That's good.

Okay.

SPT ... us right now and I think we all got the word.

CC Say again, Owen.

SPT We got the word..

CC Roger. Out.

232 16 56 13 CC SPT, Houston. We show that momentum dump has

already been enabled here, even though it was our
plan to do so. Did you enable it? Over.

CC SPT, Houston. Over.

SPT Hello, how do you read me now, Bruce?

CC Loud and clear now, Owen. Did you copy our

question about mementum enable.

SPT Yes, I did. In fact, that's the first thing I

told you when I came up, but I didn't get out, also
because of a switch - I had the switch in the wrong
position up here. But I - when you first came
up, I tried to tell you that I did do that by
switch, because I wanted to be sure and get ESR
right, and I couldn't get the correct ESR until
I enabled it - my switch. Is that a satisfactory
procedure when I know you're going to do it anyway?
And as I come around sunrise Just go ahead and
flip it up here. Over.

CC Let us work that. I certainly agree with your

logic. But we'll have a plan for you.

SPT Okay. And we got the word on the ullage pressure

for lunch.

CC Roger.
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232 16 58 83 PLT Hey, Bruce, we got a S019 problem for you to worry
about.

CC Okay. Let us have it.

PLT Okay. It worked normally first pass today, and it

went out normally on this pass, but I can't get it
back in. And I made sure everything was set
at 00, of course, to bring it back in and I tried
offsetting both the ROTATION and the TILT individ-
ually, plus or minus lO degrees from zero in
2-degree increments, and it still won't come in.
And when I first started working on it, it would
come in 2 turns and then quit. And now, it's
somewhere between there and out and it won't turn
at all, although the ROTATION and the TILT are
free to rotate in the present position. And I'm
kind of wondering if that drive train that brings
the thing in has got cold or something.

232 16 59 35 CC Okay, Jack. We copy all that. Do you get the

I
normal amount of force or resistance on ROTATION
and TILT mounts when you turn them? Or does it
feel like maybe they're free wheeling?

PLT No, feels like they're doing about the thing

they're supposed to do.

232 17 O0 02 CC Okay, Jack. We got 30 seconds until LOS here.

Next station contact is the Vanguard at 17:24. We
will try to work the problem in the backroom. If
you so desire, you can continue working it - up
there. And we'll be back to you over Vanguard.
Over.

PLT Okay. I notice the whole case feels pretty cold

and the TILT and ROTATION Just rotates as pretty
as can be, Just like the mirror is all the way
out there. And it went out very easily and, up
until this point, has been working very smoothly.

CC Roger. We copy. And sounds like a real good

description of the problem.

232 17 24 48 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Vanguard for

9 minutes. Over.
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SPT Okay, Bruce; we've got you. And one word for the
82B experimenters in the backroom. Going through
building block 36A here, I'm doing in AUTO. I also
used the PRS to accurately hold my position
l0 arc seconds off the Sun. So at the time, I
overlooked the fact that's when you scale up the
lengths of all these exposures. So you're going
to get some long exposures off the limb here.
And I'll plan to stop this sequence in another
minute or so, at the end of this MIRROR AUTO RASTER.
So it's a slight modification. I'd overlooked the
fact that the exposures were going to be scaled
up when I used the PRS.

232 17 25 38 CC Roger, we copy. And for your information, we will

continue to manage the momentudump enable and
inhibit. We understand your concern regarding the
uncertainty when sunrise is, but the way the pad
was set up we had scheduled to enable momentum
dump right at 16:55, which was during our station
pass over Hawaii and within our capability. And
guess we had intended that we would enable it at 55
and then get your clock counting down properly and
you'd have a couple of minutes to 54 remaining to
get all set up and get going. Over.

SPT Okay, sounds fine. I'll be now quite so impatient

next time. And Just for my own information,
though, is there anything wrong with me Just using
the switch here ahead of you and giving you a call
about it?

232 17 26 36 CC Well, Owen, the pad and the ground commands are all
integrated and there may be an occasion arising
where the enable momentum dump is down very -
partway through the pass. And we had Just as soon
stick with doing it by ground command if it's
feasible, although there is certainly no harm
done to the mechanical part of the stystem or
anything like that. Over.

SPT Okay, that's the answer to my question.

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CC And for the PLT, we're still working the problem

of the S019 auxillary mirror system. However, the
best that we can suggest, at this time, is that
you are nearing orbital noon right about now, and we
suggest that maybe the warming effect of the
Earth's albedo will help if there is something
frozen up. And if you get a chance, I'd like to
give you - like you to try it again, gently, and
see what the status is. Over.

232 17 27 31 PLT Yes, Bruce, I just tried that about a minute ago,
and it won't come in. And I'm able to look through
the optics and the mirror works okay in TILT and
ROTATION. And Just for your thinking purpose,
when it's at 00, in the bottom of the field of
view, I can just barely see the little rod that
goes along the edge of the - one of the discone
antennas. That's Just barely in the bottom of the
field of view. So you'll be able to know if
it's pointing at 00 by working out the geometry
on that. It's a rod that is parallel to the axis
of the discone antenna boom. It - just before you
get to the boom it makes a right angle break and
goes up around the outside of the antenna. You'll
be able to see it in a picture. But I can just
barely see that rod in the bottom of the field
of view at 00.

CC Okay, thank you. That's a good input. And we'll

start working on it here. I gather it feels to you
as though it's hitting some sort of a very heavy,
definite stop, as you try to retract it; as opposed
to something soft and mushy.

232 17 28 38 PLT Yes, it - when it was working it came to a fairly

rapid halt, although it wasn't a hard clanking
halt. It was like it was pushing into a - a
piece of stiff Mozite or something like that.

CC Okay. And I understand it now. On the retract

knob it's not moving either way, but the knob -
the knob itself, I think, has a clutch in it.

PLT That's right, it's not moving either way right now.
And it's out so as it's far enough you can rotate
it around.
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232 17 29 09 CC Okay. We should have enough to keep us busy here,

for a couple of passes. We got about 4 minutes
left in this pass. When we get a chance, we'd
like to know how A1 is coming on his condensate
system troubleshooting.

CDR I just finished getting one side of mol sieve B,

the A side - the B - the A side, and no leaks in
there. And so I'm now - I'm now taking lunch,
but I'm - then I'm going to go work on the B side.
When that's finished, I'll start working on the
panels back through the lock. When that's
finished, then I'll come get some soapy water and
do the whole thing with soap.

CC Roger, we copy. Thank you, AI.

CDR I'm getting concerned that this leak is some

sort of O-ring seal, or something where pressure
inside the line won't let the air out - the
nitrogen out, but if you pulled a vacuum on it,
something is unseating and then letting air in
from the other direction.

232 17 30 19 CC Roger. Sort of a check valve effect. We'll take

that into consideration. And we hope you - you
come up with something that is not a feature of that
sort of thing.

SPT Still with us, Bruce.

CC Yes, still here for another 2-1/2 minutes, Owen.

232 17 31 16 SPT Okay, just a word about the pointing on these

limb 1 and quite region 1 for the ATM backroom.
And the limb 1 position, it turns out, and I
presume this is where you intended, it was just
south of the dark east-west band in XUV. The
dark band being, I presume, the old filament
channel. This is just south of that, where there
is a bit of limb brightening. And it's well below
the dark band portion. Now on the quiet region l,
we're Just to the north, sort of on the boundary
between the normal chromospheric network and that
dark east-west band. I expect that part of the
55 auto raster will encompass both the normal
background and a portion of the dark east-west
band. Over.
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CC Roger. Out.

232 17 32 38 CC CDR, this is Houston, with a minute and 18 seconds

left through Vanguard. Next station contact is
Ascension at 17 plus 39 in 7 minutes. Based on
your progress, we're concerned as to whether you
think you'll be able to finish up the condensate
system check this afternoon or not, bearing in
mind that you have a M092/93, PT, and ATM pass to
get in this evening. If not, or if you have some
feelings about a breakpoint on it, we'll start
trying to jimmy the Flight Plan around. Over.

CDH I don't think I'll be able to finish it before

92/93. And I've got all - of course, I've got
all these panels off now and the screws out, and
haven't done the soap, and it's just taking a
long time to get those things out. The other's
fairly straightforward. I don't - if I meet the
rest of the schedule today, which sounds like it
is a higher priority but I don't know, then we'll
just have to pick up on it again tomorrow,
somewhere.

232 17 33 46 CC Okay. We're coming right up on LOS here. Our

feelings are that we'd like to get the condensate
system finished up today, but let us talk to you
again over Ascension in about 5 minutes.

232 17 40 12 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Ascension for

5-1/2 minutes. For the PLT, we can't tell which
discone it is you're looking at since they both
look the same in the photos. However, if it's
the one that is sticking out on the workshop
plus-Y side, then we confirm that you are indeed
very near the O0 position on the S019 mirror.
Over.

PLT Okay. I can also see the Earth when I see that one
at the horizon about midway through the viewfinder
about i0 minutes ago.

CC Okay; we'll check it out.

232 17 41 43 CDR And, Bruce, I thought the thing to do was once I

get this thing sort of out in the open, get all
the covers off, and everything, we'll get Owen and
Jack to listen in and look too and see if any of
us can find these leaks.
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CC Roger.

232 17 43 59 CC Skylab, this i$ _Quston. for th_ PT,__ W,'_

working that input you gave us on being able to

see the Earth's horizon and the mirror about
l0 minutes from your call, if you're interested
in trying it. If you use a TILT of zero and
ROTATION of 265 degrees, if the system is still
in calibration you should be able to then see the
opposite discone antenna. Over.

PLT Okay, that's a TILT of zero and ROTATION of 265.

232 17 4h 33 CC Roger. And for the Commander, we'd like you to

keep working on the condensate system checks right
straight through until it's time for you to pick
up on the M092/93 run this afternoon. We copy
that you're either eating now or you've completed
eating. Over.

SPT He's completed with eating and he's working away.

232 17 45 00 CC Roger. And that implies a scrub of the S019 ops so

although we understand that the mirror system would
probably still be operative for data taking. And
we got 43 seconds until LOS here at Ascension.
Next station contact in 39 minutes at Guam at
18:24. It's going to be a real low elevation pass.
It'll be a short contact too, about 2 to 3 minutes,
so it may be pretty noisy but we'll call you.

232 17 45 35 SPT Roger.

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SKYLAB AIR-T0-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

232 18 25 45 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Guam for 2 min-

utes. How do you read? Over.

CDR Loud and clear, Bruce.

CC Okay. And for the SPT, since we are not inhibi-

ting momentum dump, due to the cancellation of
S019 ops this afternoon, add 5 minutes to the
values indicated for your clock start times for
the last half of the ATM pass, following the
ground inhibit momentum dump callout in your pad.
Over.

SPT (Laughter) Add 5 minutes to a bunch of other

stuff. Okay. I'll - I'm not at the panel right
now, Bruce, so I'll add 5 minutes to those times
when I get up there.

PLT Does that add 5 to 16 and 5 to 4 minutes, I take

it? Right?

CC That's right and we got - we'll be back to you.

232 18 27 14 CC Okay. We got 30 seconds to LOS here at Guam.

Next station contact will be good old Vanguard
again, in 3h minutes, at 19:01. And we'll have
some more words for you on the ATM schedule pad
because it appears that the last JOP there is
JOP 7, atmospheric extension. Over.

232 18 27 42 PLT Okay.

232 19 01 35 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Vanguard, with

a i0 minute and 50 second pass for the SPT. Over.

CC Skylab SPT, this is Houston. Over.

CC Hey, Owen.

CC Belay that. Skylab Pilot, this is Houston. Over.

SPT Hello, Bruce. How do you read me on this box?

CC Okay, loud and clear. You may disregard all of

our previous transmissions regarding momentum
dump enable, inhibit for this ATM pass. This is
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actually addressed to Jack. We will inhibit mo-

mentum dump, fr_ the ground here, at 19:03,
which is like 20 seconds. We're c_mmsnding right
now, so you 9an stay off the DAS for a second.
Vanguard is back up. They apparently had a short
circuit in one of the cables that drives the
least of their antenna drive motor, but they've
got that repaired. And we're back in normal op-
erations all the way around. Over.

232 19 03 05 PLT Okay, real good. I'll stay off the DAS, and I've
started to do J0P 9.

CC Roger. And you'll wind up with J0P 7 as sche-

duled, and everything should work out beautifully.
If the commander is around, we've got a question
for him.

SPT How do you read this squawk box now?

CC Loud and clear.

SPT Okay. You might have had a down-link problem

there for a few minutes. This is the same box
I called you three times on and you couldn't hear
it.

CC Okay. We'll check it out.

SPT Okay, Bruce, A1 can read you. Why don't you go

ahead with your message?

232 19 03 58 CC Okay, Owen. We understand that the comm tech

aboard the Vanguard was able to read you on those
transmissions, so apparently, the problem was
somewhere between the Vanguard itself and Houston,
maybe going through Goddard. And for the CDR,
evening before last we inquired about your will-
ingness to run a M131-1. And our intent at the
time was to determine whether you would go ahead
and run the OGI and the motion sensitivity part
of it, although we only specifically addressed
OGI. But we are looking at building up a Flight
Plan now with that scheduled in. And we wondered
what your feelings are on the subject?
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232 19 04 h4 CDR Okay. Either one or both or whatever you all

would like to do down there is sure okay with
me.

CC Okay. We'li plan on putting in the 131-1, which

is both OGI, and the MSI on the tail end of it.

CDR Say, who was - who ran through this whole proce-
dure before I'm running through it up here?

CC On the condensate system?

CDR You bet.

CC Hank went up to St. Louis and ran through it on

the backup flight article up there. However, he
tells me that they were not able to put a simu-
lated leak into the - the backup flight hardware
and they wouldn't let him actually put the soap
film or anything on the fittings. But he did as
thorough a Job as he could, under the circum-
stances. Over.

CDR Okay. I was just looking for a little advice on

cutting away this fairing with the wire cutter
or metal cutters. The fairing is a fiber - fiber-
glass sort of stuff, not fiber but some sort of
rosin build up, and I got the one away in the
forward compartment, but I - you have to be very
careful of these hatch dogs. They are right in
the spot where you want to cut. And I just
thought maybe he had a sneaky technique of doing
it. I'm still working on it. I've only got one
to go and that's this aft fairing, to cut it
away, and then that's it. And Jack Lousma has
been listening to all the places and he hasn't
heard any leaks either. So we're going to try
soap in a little while.

CC Okay. Hank was here up until Just a few seconds

ago because he's coming on at h to relieve me.
I asked him specifically about this. And what
he recommends is starting at one of the hatch
dog locations, if you can, and cutting that piece
about 2 inches wide out, working your way down
toward the condensate line to gain access there.
Over.
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232 19 06 36 CDR Okay, that's essentially what I'm doing. The

gaps in the fairing are Just not wide - are
barely wide enough to support both the hatch dog
and the tool. That's the problem.

CC Okay, I copy. Is that a problem from the - the

rounded points on the metal cutter? That is,
would it be better if the points were still sharp?

232 19 07 01 CDR Yes, that's the problem there. What I really

need is a chisel. If I hit that thing a few
licks with a chisel, I could get it started. It's
rather fragile stuff anyway. And then go from
there. I may go doe and get a screwdriver and
try to get it started. It's right at the start
place where you don't want to touch those hatch
dogs that's a little tight. Once you get through
there, you're okay.

232 19 07 21 CC Okay, we copy.

CC And, PLT, we believe that you are probably through

rolling the canister. And if you could, we'd
like to get the MPC ROLL to INHIBIT, please, to
avoid overheating the actuator.

CC And, CDR, we'd like to get the fair - 0WS HEAT

EXCHANGER FANS turned OFF since we show the dew-
point in the cluster now up above 57 degrees
Fahrenheit due to the condensate system being
shut down. Over.

232 19 08 50 SPT Bruce, say again what you wanted turned off.

CC Roger. The 0WS HEAT EXCHANGER FANS. It's back

there, I think, in the aft lock compartment.

232 19 09 02 PLT They're off now.

SPT Okay, they Just went off.

CC Okay. Thank you.

PLT Okay, Bruce, now what time do you want me to

start the extension field, 9 minutes and go to
ESS?
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CC Do it exactly as it is carried on the ATM sche-

dule pad since we have inhibit - inhibited mo-
mentum dump. And that will be at 4 minutes time
remaining on your clock. And we'd like you to
INHIBIT the MPC ROLL when you get a chance because
we think you're through rolling.

232 19 l0 09 PLT Okay.

232 19 ll 35 CC One minute to LOS at Vanguard. Next station

contact in 3 minutes; Ascension at 19:14. Out.

232 19 15 22 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Ascension for

the next l0 minutes. Out.

232 19 16 50 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Ascension for

the next 8 minutes. Out.

232 19 21 38 CC Skylab, Houston; 3-1/2 minutes till LOS. Out.

232 19 24 21 CC Skylab, this is Houston. One minute till LOS

at Ascension. Next station contact in 3h minutes;
Guam at 19 plus 58. Over.

232 19 24 33 CDR Okay, Bruce. We'll see you at Guam. Thank you.
r

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SKYLAB AIR-T0-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

232 19 59 13 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Guam for the

next l0 minutes. And for the ATM operator,
we'll he enabling momentum dump here in about
3 minutes.

SPT Okay. I was Just waiting for it. What's the

delay?

CC Make that about a minute.

SPT Okeydoke.

CC And for the CDR, sometime during this station

pass here at Guam, we'd like to get a status
report from you on your troubleshooting of the
condensate loop procedure so that we can plan
s-
out the rest of the day's activities, Over.

232 20 O0 00 SPT Okay. He heard that, Bruce. And could you get
confirmation from the ATM room, for me, that in
building block 36Alfa, they do not want the
pointing reference system operative, even
though it was two orbits ago when I ran that
similar, building block 36A instead. But on
this one, I'll leave it inoperative unless there
is a request otherwise.

CC That is correct, Owen. The pointing reference

system should be inoperative, that is, not
operative. Over.

CDR Bruce, we've got the cleanest vacuum system in

space flight history at the moment.

232 20 01 12 CC Okay, Owen, it's your DAS. Momentum dump's

enabled, and we're standing by for your tale
of cleanliness and virtue, Alan.

CDR Okay. I'll only be talking about the first

part because it's a bad system at the moment.
We have listened - Jack and I listened to all
the different places that were in the pad; no
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sound. I put soap suds on all but the one interior

to the mol sieves_ which I'm working on at
the moment. And those suds stay there for
minutes or hours almost, Just hanging around
and no bubbles. What worries me is l've
suspicion we either can't get to it, wherever
the leak is, or it's some O-ring somewhere that
seals up nice when you put pressure on it. But
you pull a little vacuum on it and it pulls
away from it's seat, and then that's it.

CC Okay. We copy. Do you have any feel for the

amount of additional time it will take you to
properly treat the Joints inside the mol sieves?

232 20 02 18 CDR I think I can get to all of them within the

next 30 minutes to an hour. And then putting
it all back together is going to take another
2 to B hours, would he my guess. These little
screws don't go in too easy.

CC Okay. We copy that, We're still looking at

having you do the M092/93 on time.

CDR Okay. We'll make that window, and then when

it's over, come back and work on this some more.

CC Mighty fine.

232 20 03 52 CC Skylab, this is Houston. Two items for you here.

One is that we'd like to terminate the atmos-
pheric purge through the wardroom dump fitting.
We've got the atmosphere down to the point
where we want it for the 509 run tomorrow. And
secondly, we are cancelling the coolant loop
inspection which was scheduled for the PLT
later on this afternoon at around 22:16 or 22:10.
And we're ms king this block of time available for
the PLT to assist with the condensate system:
reassembly and reconfiguration. And we will
reschedule the coolant loop inspection on a later
date. Over. So, save your con - confederate
coolant loop procedures, boys; the subject will
come up again.
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232 20 05 05 CDR Okay, Bruce. The dump's stopped now.

CC Okay. And wetll let you know if th_ets any-

th_ng additional that needs to be done along
those lines.

CC SPT, Houston. Over.

SPT Go ahead.

232 20 07 34 CC Roger. Looking over your shoulder on S05_

operations, we saw that you did the -you
started out with the M30S 64 and we thought
maybe you were Just reversing the order, but
we do not see an initiate yet on the first se-
quence which was MIOS 256. Over,

SPT I appreciate the reminder. I thought I had

it on the first one instead of the second one.
I'll Just turn them around. Thank you,

CC Roger.

SPT I had m_ little timer set on the 256-second

exposure timer and it hadn't turned yellow.
In fact, it Just turned yellow about the time
you called. And I hadn't noticed that I was
really on a 64 on the panel,

232 20 08 29 CC Okeydoke. And we have _2 seconds to LOS here

at Guam. Next station contact in 30 minutes at
Vanguard at 20:38, Out.

232 20 29 13 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Vanguard for the

next 9 minutes and 50 seconds, For your infor-
mation, the momentum state is about i0 percent
higher than what we anticipated and we would
like to have you enable the TACS, six switches,
on the ATM panel, And also to enable TACS in
the computer at this time. Over.

CC Okay, And we do expect about one or two

minimum impulse bit firing during the
dump - during M092.

SPT Okay. I've got the six switches, and are you
looking for a 52010 plus a 50001.
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232 20 40 33 CC 52011 for enable, Owen. I thought you spoke

octal. And -

SPT We need another data word in there and I think

it's 50001 after the function command,

CC Roger, That is correct ° But 52011 is the first.

SPT Roger. I was Just checking to make sure that

we agreed on the data word that went with it,
Br uc e.

232 20 41 18 PLT Say, Bruce, I got a little more word on S019.

It's still hung up, but in looking around for
those two antennas, I found the other one by
giving myself h degrees of tilt at about
268 rotation and that's the one that's got
black background. And so it looks like I'm
pointing it at about the right place, Do you
concur?

CC Roger, Jack; we do, And have you - when you

were trying to retract, were you looking
though the optics and could you tell whether
the thing was coming in at all? Over.

PLT No, At the time I tried to retract, I was

not looking through the optics, l've been
looking through the optics since, but the
thing won't retract or extend either one.

232 20 42 ii CC Okay. We're - we're still working on the

problem in the backroom.

PLT Okay. But it looked like to me that we've

now verified that the rotation and tilt have
not slipped out of position, Is that right?

CC Roger. That's correct.

232 20 44 23 CC PLT, Houston. One more question when you have

a moment. We're wondering if you've tried
tilt to determine whether you have a full
30 degrees of tilt capability. If you haven't
already done it and you decide to do so, why
he gentle with it. We think that if it's not
completely extended, you may have something on
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the order of i0 degrees of tilt capability, and

then the backside of the mirror would come up
against the inside of the telescoping canister.
Over.

PLT Okay. After I get an opportunity to do that, why

I'ii try it out and let you know how it works,

CC Roger. It's NTC, as we say in the space program.

PLT Okay.

232 20 _8 I0 CC Skylab, this is Houston, One minute until LOS

here at Vanguard, Next station contact is
though the Canaries at 20:59 in about ii minutes.
And for the PLT, we're working on setting up your
private family conversation for this evening.
tentatively planning on Bermuda at 01:44 for a
9-minute pass. And we'll let you know when
things are firmed up and when we've contacted
the other party to confirm it. Over.

PLT Okay, Bruce. Thank you.

232 20 59 18 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Canary and

Madrid for 13-1/2 minutes, Out,

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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

232 21 06 54 CC Skylab, Houston now coming to you though Madrid.

We will be dumping the data/voice tape recorder
this pass.

232 21 08 40 CC Skylab, Houston; 4 minutes to LOS. Out.

232 21 ll 59 CC Skylab, this is Houston; 1 minute to LOS here

at Madrid. Next station contact in 27 minutes
over Guam at 21:39. Out,

232 21 38 27 CC Skylab, Houston through Guam for 4-1/2 minutes.

232 21 42 44 CC Skylab, Houston; 40 seconds to LOS. Honeysuckle

at 48.

SPT Okay, Hank. Glad to see you're back on the Job.

CC Oh, I've been listeningall day while they run

through that condensate thing. I guess we had
no luck with it.

SPT Well, not yet, anyway. But we haven't put her

back together yet. Understand you went through
it all up in St. Louis.

CC Well, I went through the mechanical part of it.

I wasn't allowed to really check the leaks or
cut anything.

232 21 48 22 CC Skylab, Houston through Honeysuckle, .

4-1/2 minutes.

CC Skylab, Houston; 1 minute to LOS. Canaries at 37.

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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

232 22 37 37 CC Skylab, Houston through Canaries and Madrid for

13 minutes.

CC And, Skylab; Houston. We would like someone

to - if it's convenient, to get up to the
ATM console and inhibit the TACS, first in the
software and then with the switches.

CDR Owen's on the way.

CC And while you're there, we'd like to get the

MANUAL POINTING CONTROL ROLL to INHIBIT.

CDR He'll do that, too.

SPT And just for accounting purposes, we're down

to 82 frames at this point on 82B.

CC Roger; we copy.

232 22 40 32 CC Skylab, Houston. Do we still have somebody up

in the MDA?

SPT Nearby.

CC Okay. What we want to do is re - reinitiate

the cabin purge per Maneuver Checklist M509
Foxtrol 3 Alfa. And I thought while you're up
at the MDA to go ahead and get the AM FILL
PRIMARY and 02 FILL PRIMARY valves OPEN. And
as before, we'll leave those open until we
we either get h psi partial pressure 02 or
5.7 psi cabin, whichever comes first, and then
at that time we'll turn both of those switches
to COMMAND.

SPT Okay. Say again the switches, Hank.

CC Okay. On panel 225 there, the AM FILL PRIMARY,

OPEN, and the 02 FILL PRIMARY we'd like to
have OPEN.

232 22 41 49 SPT Okay. I think we got them.

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CC Okay. And then when - whenever it's convenient,

we'd like you to pick up in the Maneuver Experi-
ment Checklist there the cabin purge per Foxtrot 3
Alfa. I think that's on page 18-3.

SPT Stand by, Hank. I don't have that book up here.

Maybe A1 has it down in the wardroom.

CC Okay, whenever it's convenient. All we need from

you is a time or a mark whenever you do turn the
valve to dump and start the purge.

SPT Roger. Jack's got it.

232 22 42 27 CDR I just turned on the heater.

CC Roger; we copy.

232 22 42 30 CDR Okay. We finished the bubble check, Hank, and no

bubbles nowhere; and so we're breaking down the
system.

232 22 42 hl CC All right; we copy. And I guess we are a little

disappointed we didn't find anything.

CDR Not half as disappointed as we are, I'll tell you.

CC I know that was a lot of work, but we really

appreciate you trying.

232 22 44 54 SPT Hank, just a brief comment, for the stowage peo-
ple, we talked about a couple of times before.
We don't seem to have enough of these large paper
clips up here. They're about 2 inches wide and
they have a spring that clamps them together and
then a snap on the - one of the levers - push-
buttons on the back; it will allow you to clip it
onto any of the snaps we have placed around the
spacecraft. And we need them here on the ATM
panel; we need them down in the wardroom, and
we've only got about half a dozen on board. We
could probably use three times that many. And
they might want to bring them up on the next
flight. Over.

CC Roger; we copy, Owen.

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232 22 50 25 CC Skylab, Houston; we're about 20 seconds from LOS.

We'll be coming up on Carnarvon at 18.

232 23 17 55 CC Skylab, HousZon through Carnarvon and Honeysuckle

for 14 minutes. And we'll be dumping the data/
voice recorder here at Carnarvon.

232 23 20 15 CC Skylab, Houston. Do you have a time for us,

approximately, when you started the purge?

SPT A1 reports that it's not started yet; he's work-

ing on the condensate. But he will be starting
it in a few minutes.

CC Okay, no problem. We Just - It looked like, by

our telemetry down here, you may have already
started it. No problem.

232 23 21 45 CC Skylab, Houston; for the PLT or CDR, did the CDR
get the full protocol on the M0927

SPT Affirmative.

CC Thank you, sir.

232 23 29 09 CDR Okay, Hank, I've just started the purge for 509.

CC Roger. Thank you, AI.

CDR And l'm also going to start dumping the condensate -

the waste tank now.

232 23 29 23 CC Roger. We copy.

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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

233:00:04:52 CC Skylab, Houston, through MLA for 16 minutes. Cor-

rection, make that ii minutes.

CC Skylab, Houston, for the PLT if it's convenient.

Did you ever do the full TILT tests on the S0197

CC Skylab, Houston, for the PLT. Did you do the full

tip test - fUll TILT tests on the S019?

PLT I did a partial one. I didn't do a full one. I'll

do it right now. We just got done with - we just
got done with the condensate system.

CC And, Skylab, Houston. PLT, while you're up there,

we have a question on the post-ops on S019. If you
did not do those, we need to set the film advance
lever counterclockwise to STOWAGE and close the
film hatch.

233 O0 07 16 PLT Oh, I did all that, Hank. And I Just did the full
TILT test and I get a 32.7 out of it.

CC PLT, Roger; we copy.

CC SPT, Houston. We have a few questions on S063.

SPT Go ahead.

CC Roger. First, what was the exposure setting on the

Nikon, NK02, when the film ran through?

SPT Okay, I was just turning it out of STOP, up to

either i or 2 seconds. And as I rotated the timer
out of STOP was when the - the sequencing began
and ran on through for about 9 or i0 frames. Is
that the exposure setting you're talking about or
are you talking of the one on top of the camera?

CC We wanted to know the one on the camera and also

the exposure setting on the timer.

233 00 09 34 SPT Okay, well, I was just rotating the timer settings
out of - out of OFF. Now there are two settings
on the - on the camera. The one on the back nor-
mally sets in T, and it might have been slightly
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out of T _ Just a few degrees - you know,

5 or i0 degrees. It was not over in C or whatever
the third letter is. It was very near T, but it
might have been slightly out of that detent. And
the exposure setting on top should have been in T,
as I recall that it was also. I - I don't remember
making an extra_check on it after the - the - the
frames moved through. But, as I recall, it was
also in T.

233 00 l0 20 CC Roger; we copy. What did the frame downcounter

read before connecting the counter? The ti - the
downcounter is on the electric drive.

SPT Ten. 10.

CC Okay, and do you recall what the frame upcounter

read at that time?

SPT It was reading 30, I believe - either 30 or 32.

It was reading correctly because I think there
were h2 exposures and there were i0 remaining;
so the frames up checked with that at 32.

CC Okay, and one last question. What was the posi-

tion of the camera lens when the film ran through?

SPT I'm not quite sure what the - what you're asking
me, Hank. Position of the lens in what way? The
lens was attached. Is that what you mean?

CC I'm thinking we want an f-stop here, Owen.

23B 00 ii 18 SPT Okay, the f-stop was - must have been in MIN at
that time. I forgot what the MIN setting on the
B5 - on the 35-millimeter is, but I think that it's
about 4.

CC Okay, what we're trying to do here, Owen, is de-

termine if this BB15 film can be used again.

SPT Oh, okay; fair enough. I had assumed that it

could not. And I assumed that the reason that
the film cycled through was because I might have
had that knob on the back slightly out of T. Is
that the general consensus down there, that that
wastheproblem?
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CC We suspect that may be the - the - the problem,

Owen; we're not sure. I - I know from my experi-
ences with that camera, I know it's pretty touchy
there.

SPT Okay.

233 00 13 35 CDR Say, Hank, when we finished putting those panels

back on with several screws, we decided to put all
the screws in gray tape and put them in locker 620
in a screw drawer we've got there. We were afraid
they might get looe down there in the heat ex-
changers and things and cause some problem. So
they're all down there in 620, in case anybody
i everwantsto put themback.

CC Roger; we copy, and we concur in that.

233 00 15 17 CC CDR, Houston. If we've got the mol sieves up and

running, I guess what we'd like to do is verify
that the M0L SIEVE A TIMER is in PRImaRY.

SPT We're checking, Hank.

CDR Okay. It is now, Hank. Let me ask you a position

you'll probably want to verify. Where do you want
to AUTO DISCONNECT switches and where do you really
want the FILL 0D on 216 connected?

CC Say again your question regarding the auto -

disconnect.

CDR On the AUTO DISCONNECT for the FANS, should they

be in AUTO or OFF? They've been in OFF up to now.
I'm not sure if you want them to stay there. And
about the FILL disconnect on 216.

233 00 16 43 CC Roger. We'll check it and we'll have a short LOS

here for about 3 minutes and we'll be back up over
Madrid at 19.

233 00 19 51 CC Skylab, Houston through Madrid for 8 minutes. And

CDR, Houston. In regard to your questions on the
CONDENSATE module in step 19 there, we want to
connect the FILL line that has been dangling all
during the test, back up to the FILL O_ on the
condensate module and then disconnect your water
surge and umbilical from the dump line QD and
hook that line back up to the dump 0D on the con-
densate module.
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233 00 20 29 CDR Okay. That's what we did and it's sitting there
right now. I Just didn't know if you wanted it
that way or not.

CC Right. We're putting the - the small condensate

tank back in the loop as it was when We started.

CDR Okay.

CC CDR, Houston. We're still working on that FANS

DISCONNECT switch. We think it should be in AUTO,
but we're not sure yet. We're going to give you
an answer. You say you found it in OFF?

233 00 22 61 CDR I can't remember, Hank. I have to go look at my

onboard data, but I - I don't remember. It's pre-
sently in OFF. Another question, we want to make
sure that we don't - As soon as y'all decide what
we're going to do about the condensate system, and
if we're not going to do any more, I'd like to get
that hose and things put back into a configuration
we use them in because what I'm afraid is we might
forget it, and then we get down to deactivation or
something and get in a time-critical sequence and
suddenly discover that hose is configured sort of
funny, like it is right now.

CC Roger. We - We're - we copy; and we'll stay on

top of that, A1.

233 00 25 56 CC CDR, Houston. We've checked and the FANS DISCON-

NECT switch should be in AUTO.

233 00 27 14 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about i minute from LOS.

We'll be coming up on Carnarvon at 53. And I'd
like to verify that the CDR copied my switch pos-
ition. FANS DISCONNECT, AUTO.

PLT Righto. Hank. And it's there.

CC Thank you very much, sir.

233 00 28 27 CC Skylab, Houston. For info, our telemetry shows

psi on the PP02.

233 00 53 4h CC Skylab, Houston through Carnarvon and Honeysuckle

for lh-i/2 minutes.
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CDR Okay.

CC And Skylab, we've been looking at this housekeep-

ing 60 Charlie you're doing here - bed bakeout.
And we notice an oversight during the checklist
that the MOL SIEVE A FAN DISCONNECT switch should
be in the OFF position for this bed bakeout. And
it's not called out there on page 9-8, and we're
in the process of working on the checklist change
for you; however, we'd like to get it OFF. And
it should go back to the AUTO position in - in
housekeeping 60 Charlie 4.

CDR Okay. We just turned it to OFF.

233 O0 55 05 CDR And, Hank, Just cranked up the tape recorder.

Going to record a little UV MON.

CC I think you must have read ATOM's mind. He was

just going to talk about that.

CDR We won't forget him.

CDR Okay. He's got several sequences and a few extra

thrown in.

CC Roger; we copy.

233 01 00 09 CDR I don't know what we did, but I noticed that the
condensate DELTA-P is higher than it's been since
we've been up here. It's up at 5.

CC Roger; we copy.

CDR That thing's never been above 4.2 since we've

been here. Maybe we - maybe the soap got in the
crack.

CDR If it gets any higher, we're going to get worried.

CC Roger; we copy.

CDR We just figured it out. We got 5.7 in the cab -

in the cabin.

CC Okay. EGIL had Just come to that same conclusion.

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CDR Yes, he's raining on our parade again. Hey, I'll

tell you. Are you aware that aft light h and
aft light 2 in the MDA are not working and they're
not burned-out bulbs. Apparently just had some
sort of a switch failure.

CC Understand aft h and aft 2 are not working?

CDR That's affirmative. That switch doesn't seem to

turn them off and on. I changed the bulbs because
as I thonght it was - perhaps they Just burned
out, but no - no luck. I checked the circuit
breakers, too, and they're closed.

CC Let us study that one a bit.

CDR Okay.

233 01 02 2h CDR What's the latest thoughts down there on SO19?

CC CDR, Houston. We're going to plan on normal ops

here tomorrow with it, since it seems to be free
in the tilt and the roll; however, we still don't
have an answer on the retraction problem.

CDR Okay. I guess we can Just leave it there and use

all the film up. Maybe by then we would have
solved it somehow.

CC Well, that's what we're hoping for; and I think

in general that's our plan, A1.

CDR Good one.

233 01 03 07 CC Skylab, We're about to hand over to Honeysuckle.

There'll be a short dropout here.

233 01 03 35 CC Skylab, Houston. We're back with you through

Honeysuckle. We have about 4-1/2 minutes left.

CDR Okay.

CC Skylab, Houston. Our telemetry shows that the

AM FAN, DUCT switch is still OFF and it should
be in HIGH.

CDR Just a second, Jack was Just configuring this thing

for bakeout. Now which is it?
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CC That's the AM FANS, DUCT. That was one of the

fans that was turned off for the condensate thing,
panel 203.

CDR Okay; Thank you, you were right. They were off;
we got them now.

CC Thank you, sir.

CC Skylab, Houston; 1 minute to LOS. Texas at 39.

233 01 07 36 CDR Okay.

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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

233 01 39 09 CC Skylab, Houston, we're stateside for 14-1/2 minutes.

PLT What time is my phone call, Hank?

CC Roger, Jack. It is set up now for 01:h3, which

is about 4 minutes from now over Bermuda. However,
we have been unable to contact your father.

233 01 4l 16 PLT Hey, Hank, how about my wife? Is she home tonight?
Give her a call and if she's home, why, I'll talk
to her.

CC PLT, Houston. We've been trying to get in touch

with her to see if we had another phone number
for your dad. We'd like to keep trying and perhaos
as we can reschedule uP to as late as the next
stateside.

PLT Okay, that's fine with me, Hank. That'll be -

I'll Just be standing by. I thinl maybe the next
stateside's going to be a little late, though,
isn't it?

CC Roger, that's in your sleep period. We might be

able to work something out, though, on one of the
other sites prior to that.
P

PLT Okay. Well, I'm going to make sure I hit the sack
by 3 o'clock. So if it's after that, why we'll
do it a different time. Otherwise, it'd be nice
if you'd keep trying to get something before that
time.

CC Okay, we'll keep trying.

PLT Thank you.

233 01 k3 08 CC SPT, Houston. We show from our calculations that

the spacecraft is going to pass within about
125 nautical miles of - of Enid tonight. At about
03:20 will be your first acquisition and you should
be able to see that out of STS window B. And the
town is planning to turn on all their lights for
you, including the National Guard's searchlights
and all the football field lights and everything,
at about 03:20 Zttlu.
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SPT Amazing. Okay, I'll be watching at 03:20 and - -

PLT ...

SPT - - I don't know whether they have any link to the

MOCR to hear any cormments or not, but I'll be
looking out the window at that time. And I'll
be talking to you; let you know what I see.

CC Okay, we'll have the comm up over that pass. It's

a little past your bedtime, but this looks like
the best time to work it in.

SPT Okay, fine. Thank you very much, Hank.

233 01 44 lh CC And, CDR, Houston. If it's convenient, could you

give us the frames remaining on the ATM this pass?

SPT Yes, I'll give it to you in Just a minute, Hank.

You ssid STS window which?

CC Number 3 appears to be the best. And we were won-

dering if the wardroom window was somewhat aligned
in that direction. We're not sure. We can't seem
to get ahold of a good model here.

SPT The wardroom window is, at the moment, looking out

course flight A, somewhat to the right side of our
track if you face in a forward direction, because
of the high Beta angle. But I'll try it out of
STS 3.

CC Roger, The - Enid will be off the left side of

your groundtrack, about 125 miles northwest of
your groundt rack.

CDR Did you want a nightly report?

CC Roger, we're standing by for the status report.

CDR Well, hang on; here it comes. 139, 135, 172;

5280, 8716, 5951; 6.238, 6.238, 6.2_i; 5.980,
5.978, 5.979; 6.975, 6.971, 6.973. Exercise: CDR,
none; SPT, 2/B0/h300, 1/20 - and it's Mark I with
60 A's, 60 B's, and 40 D's; Pilot, 1/05/0554,
2/30/6760, 3/05/Mark i, 50 A, 20 B, 20 D, and
20 backbends. No medications. Sleep: 7/G; 7/G;
6-1/2/G. Here comes the food log: CDR, 13 salt,
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no deviations; SPT, four salt, one butter cookie

and one Jam added; PLT, 2-1/2 salt, one orange
drink, and one butter cookie added. Photo log:
no 16 millimeter; 35 millimeter follows: CXl3,
52; CI101, 37; CX25, 039. No change in drawer A
configuration. Flight Plan looks good tomorrow;
shopping list accomplished, none. Inoperable
equipment: MDA lights 2 and 4; SO19 retract.
Unscheduled stowage item location change: screws
from the heat exchanger and assorted work there
is in E-620; all water equipment fittings and the
hoses and things that came out a little bit extra,
because it hasn't been put back into configuration,
is in D-44h. That's it.

233 Ol 47 h8 CC Roger; we copied that, Skylab. And we are won-

define, on day 23, the PLT was scheduled for an
M487-3 Bravo, and we didn't get a dump tape on
that and we expected he picked that up tods,v and
wonder if he did?

PLT That's affirm. I did, Hank.

CC Okay; good show.

CC Skylab, Houston. The other day we voiced up a

little task on your shopping list for removing
the 53 high torques, or most of them, from the
cabin heat exchanger. We wondered, Just for our
planning here, did you get any of that accomplished?

CDR No, we've only got - I got - I pulled out about

seven or eight the other day and that was about
it.

CC Okay, we copy.

233 01 49 ll PLT Hank, I wouldn't be surprised but what - my father

is over at my sister's house. Name there is
Marvin Gertz - C-E-R-T-Z, Jackson, Michigan.

CC Okay. We'll check it.

PLT Thank you.

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233 01 52 35 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about I minute from LOS.

We'll be coming up on Madrid at 57. That was
originally scheduled for your reed conference.
We're _oing. to move that to Carnarvon. And, Jack,
we have your father on the line and we'll be all
set up for Madrid at 57.

PLT Okay. Thanks a lot.

CC We - We don't have the best antenna for you here.

We'll - You may have to fidget with that a little.

PLT Okay. I 'll find it, Hank. Thank you.

CC PLT, Houston. If you read still, we suggest the

right antenna.

233 01 53 52 PLT Okay. Thank you, Hank.

233 01 58 36 CC Skylab, Houston through Madrid for 7 minutes.

CC Skylab, Houston. How do you read? Over.

SPT Loud and clear, Hank.

CC Okay. Skylab, Houston. We're still standing by

for those frame counts from the - at the end of
the last pass.

SPT Stand by.

SPT Okay, Hank, H-alpha is 1424, 56 reads 1263,

82A reads 25, 82B reads 69, 52 reads 210h, and
54 reads 1950. Over.

CC Roger. We copy. And Just to pass up some info

that - so you can be thinking about it, the in-
stallation of the rate gyro six pack is under
consideration now for the EVA on Frids_f. The
final decision probably won't be made for a couple
of days yet. But tonight, we're going to be
up-linking a message in which we will run a temp-
erature test on the rate gyros and that must be
accomplished prior to the EVA so we got to do it
so that if they do make a decision to do that
Friday, we'Ii be ready for it. And what this
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procedure does in simple terms is to compare the

temperature outputs of the - through the test
connector there with measurements that we'll make
with the digital thermometer there and see if we
can use a digital thermometer during flight to
monitor the temperatures of the case and get an
idea of what the gyro is doing inside. And we'll
be up-linking that procedure now and we'll prob-
ably give you a Flight Plan Delta tomorrow for
the SPT in which we will start you on that by
rearrangin_ and deleting some of your items there.
Probably delete the science demo, but ED52 we'll
move around and let you start on it and the
housekeeping about 14:30 around the ATM pass.

233 02 01 52 SPT Okay. Sounds fine. We'll be looking for it.

CC We have a few news items here if you'd be inter-

ested in listening here. We got about 3-1/2 min-
utes left here in Madrid.

SPT Let 's hear them.

CC Okay. The former Commander of the Laotian Air

Force was killed in a plane crash today leading
an aborted plot against the 13-year old govern-
ment of Prince Souvanna Phouma who said that his
forces smashed the coup 7 hours after it started.
Houston public schools opened today and all the
school teachers were on strike for higher wages
and other benefits. The Houston Teacher's Asso-
ciation represents most of the school district's
9000 teachers. All Mexican gulf port were closed
todaw because of Brenda. The National Hurricane
Center at Miami said the storm was moving slightly
south of due west, having reached hurricane force.
The greatest threat appears to be the coastal
sections of Mexico, between Vera Cruz and Tampico,
on Tuesday. However, forecasters say the storm
could strike anywhere along the 800 miles between
Corous Christi and the southern portion of Mexico.
The l0 fires that we ta]ked about the other day are
still out of control on more than ll0,000 acres
of range and forest lands in the west today, as
fire fighting efforts focused on northern
California near Yosemite National Park. The blazes
in four states are being fought by 6500 trained
forest fire fighters and 2000 support personnel.
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The United States and six European countries have

signed a new agreement for Joint space research.
The program calls for, among other projects, co-
operative construction of a space laboratory to
be launched under our Space Shuttle Program in
Joint European development of the French-designed
LB5 rocket. A windup document covering the agree-
ment is to be signed by NASA and Israel in
Washington on September 24th. The Skylab news
today focused on your TV coverage of Brenda, the
TO20 flight yesterday, today's checks for leaks,
and your television variety show, which got good
coverage on the networks last night. In sports,
Bill Robinson, the Philadelphia Phillies B0-year
old outfielder, was having his first really solid
year in the major leagues knocked in all five runs
yesterday as the Phils beat the Astros 5 to 3.
He got four of them with a grand-slam homer in
the third inning. Today's papers report that
George Forman is expected to defend his heavy-
weight boxing championship against Joe Frazer
in the Astrodome this November. One final note,
the public affairs newsroom here reports that they
received quite a few calls these days from peonle
all over the country who have seen Skylab, and
who would like their best wishes to be rels_ved
to you.

23B 02 Oh 40 SPT Well, we want to acknowledge all those good wishes,

Hank, and relay our interest in all the folks down
there and our appreciation for having us in mind.

CC Thank you, Owen. And we're about 40 second from

LOS. We'll be coming up on Carnarvon at 33 and
that will be your med conference.

CC And, Skylab, in the event that we don't get to

talk to you past Carnarvon, Honeysuckle is a very
short pass and the next pass would be at stateside
after your bedtime, so we'll say good night now.
But we'll be standing by, have the comm up in
case you have any comments on looking at Enid -
Enid. The forecast there tonight is clear.

SPT That sounds good, H-nk. I'll be on the comm up

here in the ATM area.

233 02 05 41 CC Okay.
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233 02 44 12 CC Skylab, Houston. We're through Honeysuckle. We've

got about a minute here.

CC Skylab, Houston. We have about a minute through

Honeysuckle.

CC And Skylab, Houston. We'd like to verify that

you did get the cabin purge started?

SPT The answer is yes, Hank, and it was - A1 reported

it earlier.

CC Okay, very good. And, 0wen, the channel 5 in Enid

is going to be carrying live any comments you may
have. And we got a late score in here. The Astros
beat the Pirates l0 to 2 and J.R. Richard is now
five and one.

SPT Okay, that's fine. And I'll be on the headset

up there in about a half hour.

233 02 45 17 CC Okay, and we're about l0 seconds from LOS. We'll

say good night and we'll be listening up over
stateside.

PLT Good night, Hank.

PLT Hey, Hank, thanks again for setting up that phone

call. My dad was amazed and very pleased.

233 02 45 hl CC Okay, glad to do it. The guys down here really -

really did good work getting switched over to
Madrid in time.

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SKYLAB AIR-T0-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

233 03 17 17 SPT Hello, Houston; Skylab.

CC Hello, there.

SPT Say again there, Houston.

CC Roger. We copy you, Owen, and reading you loud

and clear.

SPT Okay. Fine, Hank. I don't think anybody's

asleep yet down below. They Just went down to
hit the pad a couple of minutes ago and we're
Just now crossing BaJa, California. I Just see
the first few lights on the land as they - as we
come across and about 30 seconds ago we Just had
sunset in the spacecraft coming over the western
Pacific - eastern Pacific, I guess.

CC Okay. And I think that window's going to be all

right for you. We ran it through the computer
and Enid should be as I said about 125 miles
north of your groundtrack.

SPT Yes, it looks real good. It looks to me like out

this window I can look - Almost - I can look
straight down essentially, on the pass over Okla-
homa City about directly over - directly beneath
me and Enid will be off a little bit to my left,
which I can see quite well. Letts see, ought to
be over Mexico about this time and coming up
north toward the border. I meant to mention, too,
Hank, about 15 minutes ago I collected Arabella's
web. She wasn't too happy about the whole idea
and have it filed away in the container for return
back when we come back in about 5 weeks.

233 03 18 55 CC Roger; we copy.

SPT Okay. We ought to Just be about ready to cross

the Mexico/U.S. border about this time and it does
look nice and clear down there. I can see several
large cities. We should be passing a little bit
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to the east of E1 Paso, according to our ground-

track up here. So these cities are probably still
in southern Mexico. How about northern Mexico?

23B 03 20 03 SPT Okay. Now that looks like Dallas-Ft. Worth down
there slightly to my right all lit up very clearly.

SPT And Alan Bean says to have - tell the friends

down in Ft. Worth for him and _allas as well,
hello, from him.

CC Roger.

SPT Okay. Now that must be Ardmore and up ahead of

us a little ways is Oklahoma City. And I see
Enid Just coming in at the top part of the window
now. Stands out very clearly. Boy, it's a
beautiful clear night. I can see a few thunder-
storms way off toward the northwest, towards Colo-
rado, but not a thing in the Texas/Oklahoma area.
And there's Tulsa over to the east.

233 03 22 01 SPT Okay. Wetve Just passed over Oklahoma City, I

believe, and we see Enid quite clearly off to the
northwest. It's a beautiful night out, as I
mentioned, and it's certainly the best opportunity
we've had to see this part of the country in the
evening. One of our first evening passes over
the southwest U.S. We did have a few passes in
the afternoon intervals a couple of weeks ago.
Now we're quite a ways up to the north. Looks
like we can see up into Illinois.

CC Okay. The folks in Enid should have all the

lights up for you.

SPT Okay. We've Just passed over St. Louis. We

covered it so quickly and we can see clear up
to Chicago, Illinois, now, Lake Michigan up
here. So we really have to talk fast and cover
a lot of ground, It was only about i0 minutes
ago that we saw - sped over the Pacific and we
can see - Chicago a]1 the _y around the southern
tip of Lake Michigan. So it only takes a brief
minute to pass by. And we did have a good look
all the way across the U.S. southwest and we
want to say hello and best wishes to all of our
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good friends down there in the southwest, espe-

cially in Enid and down in Texas where Alan's
from as well. So we appreciate very much you
folks going to all the extra trouble to get your
lights out on and so brightly that we couldn't
miss it and we'll be looking down at your direc-
tion many other times during the daytime when we
won't have to use lights to see you. So best
wishes to you all.

233 03 23 42 CC Thank you very much , Owen, and on - before you

leave the MDA there, we'd like for you to get the
SO56 door open. That - that'll clean up the panel
there.

SPT Okay. We'll open that door for you and certainly
appreciate having a chance to stay up a little
late and see all these sites. It was a beautiful
night, Hank. It's the prettiest night over the
U.S. we_ve had since we've been up here.

233 03 2_ 02 CC Okay. Sandy said it was supposed to be good

weather there tonight.

CC We'll say good night now. We'll close down our

COmm.

SPT Okay. Just a minute here. Let me get the doors

open for you up here.

CC We Just needed that one door, S056.

SPT It's a - it's a gray right now, so you ought to

have it opened.

233 03 24 37 CC Roger; we see it.

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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

233 ii 00 18 Music "Girl From Ipanema"

CDR Come in, Rio; come in, Rio.

233 ii 01 13 CDR Hello, Rio.

Music "Anchors Aweigh"

233 ii 01 50 CC Good morning, Skylab. The Cr_m_on Team's back

watching over you.

CDR Sounds great. We thought we must have Just been

passing over Rio there, Robert.

CC Well, you did, you Just passed over Ipanema Beach

about 30 minutes ago.

CDE Thought that might have been because of a local

radio station.

CC Yes, they got extended coverage.

CDR On the last Apollo flight I understood they got

a little extra music. It was local from Spain
and this time I guess we pick it up from Brazil.

CC Right.

233 ii 03 52 CC Skylab, we_ll have LOS in about i minute. We'll

see you again over the States at 11:22, about
18 minutes from now.

PLT Okay, trip, good morning.

CC Good morning, sir.

PLT What was that music you were playing, trip?

CC I think your skipper there could remind you.

CC We'll get one for you, Jack. The first one was
the "Girl From Ipanema." You guys Just passed over
Rio on this last trip.
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PLT How's that storm doing this morning, Bob?

CC She's a hurricane now.

CC She's a hurricane now, Jack.

PLT Are we going to make it over her this pass?

233 ll 05 30 CC Pretty close to it, yes.

233 ll 22 17 CC Skylab, Houston. AOS over the States for

lh-1/2 minutes.

CDR Okay, Crip. We wish you'd give Gary Hanisch

a call this morning and tell him we're thinking
about him up here. And we've decided to call
this one Gary Hanisch day up in Skylab. As you
know, he was our training coordinator and we
probably worked more closely with him than any-
body that we worked with during our 2-1/2 year
training period. We think he went way out of
his way to try to get us all the training that
we could think of, that he could think of.
Whatever he did - whatever it took to get us ready
to - to go on this mission in the best way pos-
sible. Sometimes I'd get up in the morning and
he'd be over there at the trainer collecting
film or leaving off some pictures or something,
and when I'd go to bed at night in the trainer,
he'd be over there picking up something else or
leaving something. So, he put in some long hard
hours and did a fantastic Job in a rather diffi-
cult and changeable atmosphere. And we really
appreciate it, so if you'd give him a call and
thank him and tell him we're dedicating this day
to him, we'd appreciate it.

233 ll 23 h2 CC Okay, we'll put that in work and in answer to

Jack's last question, you are guys - you guys
are coming over hurricane Brenda probably around
ll:3h, 35, something like that on this pass.

CDR Okay, he_s up there with his little TV camera and

I'm going up to the ATM.

CC Okeydoke, Also, we're going to need to get Jack

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to change out the teleprinter paper for us, please.

And we've got one more pad to come up when - when
that 's done.

CDR He 's way ahead of you, he 's already done it. So

send it up.

233 ll 24 14 CC Very good. And when you get a chance, A1, I've
got a couple of mods I need to - to make to your
Flight Plan for today.

CDR I know, you want me to do that condensate system

over again.

CC I heard you had fun with that yesterday. No, no

we're going to let you rest from that one for a
while. No, really what we want to do is put in
this rate gyro six-pack temperature-measurement
calibration that I think was mentioned to you
yesterday evening.

233 ii 25 26 CDR Okay, Crip; call it up.

CC Okay, on the general Flight Plan for -under the

SPT at 15:30, we need to delete all from "Desert
through science demo study." And to insert the
rate gyro temperature cue card procedures that
was up-linked to you this morning.

CDR Okay ; got that.

CC Okay, and under your colnmn, A1, for -you have

SO19 film installation scheduled at 13:45. Of
course, that won't be necessary because of our
problem with SO19, We want to substitute the
water servicing umbilical reconfiguration, which
we have just sent up a message also on for what
to do, because that's going to he necessary for
Jack to perform his housekeeping 8h that's coming
up,

233 ll 26 42 CC And also, A1, you'_ve got a SO19 film stowage called
out at 24:00 and assuming that we don_t solve our
SO19 problem, you can - you can scru - that_ll be
scratched also.
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CDR Okay.

233 ii 26 56 CC Okay, and if - if Owen's detail pads are available,

he can delete his 15:30 and 15:20 entries just to
coincide with that rate gyro temp thing that we
talked about.

CC Okay, we have rewound the VTR and it belongs to

you guys 8_ain. And for your information, we will
not be updating the SAP today.

PLT What's going to be the best window for looking at

that hurricane, Crip?

233 ii 27 36 CC I'll see if I can give you one.

PLT Give you a picture of the sunrise, if you'd like

to see it, Houston.

CC Sorry, Jack. I couldn't copy that.

233 ll 29 01 CC PLT, Houston. We were - we lost you in the hand-

over there. Would you say again, please?

CDR Jack's got the TV on the sunrise. Not the sun

part, but near it.

233 ll 31 21 CC PLT, Houston. You sh - You're going to be coming

up pretty close to the Yucatan area where Brenda's
located and still haven't got a correct window
for you. Should be probably 1 or 4 in the STS.

PLT Hey, Crip, have you guys - are you guys getting
any TV of the sunrise?

CC Stand by. I think that's - we're having to record

that,

PLT Okay. Well, maybe we better get the VTR on then

if you're not going to get it real time, we'll - -

CC No. We - we were getting it at the site I under-

stand but we were recording at the site. We
just weren't bringing it in here.

PLT Oh,I see,

Okay.
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233 ii 33 19 CC And you should be Just shout over Brenda at

this - at this time. And window i is the best
one.

CC Jack, correction on my last _ you need to put

that on the VTR.

PLT Okay. We may not get it today, Crip, because it's

still dark down there.

CC Yes, we were afraid of that,

233 ll 34 19 PLT Hey, yes, Crip, it's still dark down there.

CC Skylab, Houston. All of the messages that we got

for you this morning are on board now.

CDR Okay. Thanks.

CDR I'll give the site a little XUV MON, Houston.

233 ii 36 07 CC Okay, A1. We'll appreciate that and we're about

1 minute from LOS. We'll see you again over the
Vanguard at 11:47, 11:47. And that's about a
little over 10-1/2 minutes.

233 ii 47 18 CC Skylab, Houston. A0S over the Vanguard for

i0 minutes.

CC And Skylab; Houston. We'll be doing a data/voice

recorder dump while you're over Vanguard.

SPT Say, Bob, my mineral supplements did not come

through very clearly on the pad here. I think
it's 00012. Would you check that for me, please?

CC Stand by, 0wen.

CC 0wen, that's correct, It's three zeros one two.

Music "A Whole Lot of Shaking Going On."

233 ll 53 18 CC I knew you guys had some good music up there

somewhere.

CDR Say again, Crip.

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CC I said, I knew you had some good music tucked

back there somewhere.

CDR You bet. Makes you get up fast.

Music "A Whole Lot, etc."

233 ll 56 26 CC Sure going to miss that but we're going over the
hill in about 30 seconds. See you again at Gold-
stone in an hour and 5 minutes from now at
13:02, 13:02.

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SKYLAB AIR-T0-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

233 13 02 21 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Goldstone for

5 minutes. Out.

CC Skylab, this is Houston through Goldstone for

4 minutes. Out.

CDR Good morning, Bruce.

CC Good morning, you all.

233 13 06 30 CC Skylab, this is Houston, 45 seconds to LOS here at

Goldstone. Next station contact in 6 minutes at
Vanguard, 13 plus 23. And we will be dumping the
data voice tape recorder at Vanguard. Over.

233 13 24 43 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Vanguard for

9 minutes and 45 seconds. We will be dumping the
data voice tape recorder this pass. Over.

CDR Bruce, I measured the iodine in water tanks 2, 8,

and 9 last night, and there's 5 parts per million
in 2, B parts per million in 8, and in tank 9, I
saw no evidence of iodine remaining.

CC Okay. Copy, tanks 2, 8, and 9 with concentrations

of 5, of 3, and nothing detectable.

CDR You're right.

SPT Hey Bruce? How long are you going to be using the
tape recorder?

CC Just as long as it takes to dump it. Probably

about 2 or 3 minutes.

2BB 13 25 35 SPT Okay. Well, I'm needing to put something on it

when you're finished with it. So if you'll let
me know, I'd appreciate it. I'm trying to get
these operational stadimeter sightings in.

CC Okay. I got an update that it's 4 minutes, but

if you want to Just go ahead, send them down
over air-to-ground, why, we got recorders going
down here. We don't have a great deal of - -
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SPT Stand by.

CC - - traffic for you this pass. And for the SPT,

we're getting ready to do a momentum dump inhibit.
So if you'd stay off the DAS for a few seconds,
we '11 put it in.

SPT Okay.

233 13 26 23 PLT Okay, Bruce, here's a m_rk for stadimeter 4.029.

CC And for Owen, we're through with the DAS.

Momenutm dump is inhibited.

SPT Okay. Confirmed onboard.

233 13 27 30 PLT And, Bruce, here's another mark for stadi-

meter 4.071.

CC Okay. We got it.

PLT Did you get the one before that?

CC Yes, sir.

PLT Okay. Hope they got a time tagged on them too.

CC Yes, we get - everything coming down here is time

armotated.

SPT Hey, Bruce, can ATM confirm that we're Just about
through with the 60-rev study of solar wind?

233 13 28 23 PLT There's another m,_k for stad_meter 4.056.

CC Okay. We got the mark and ATM is counting to 60.

He says we're Just about there.

SPT Good. We were Just about to run out of fingers

and toes up here.

CC Yes, I guess three guys, i0 fingers and i0 toes

each, we're really pushing you to the limit.

SPT That 's right.

PLT And, Bruce, did you guys get the third mark I
made there? __

CC Say again, Jack.

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PLT Did you get the third mark that I made there?

233 13 29 02 CC Yes, we did. And data voice recorder dump is

complete. You can have the recorder back, Jack.
Break - break for the CDR. We're performing the
preparations for the SUS coolant loop sneakup
procedure per general at 2532 Bravo, i.e., disabling
SECONDARY AM COOLANT LOOP AUTO switchover and
turning on the second pump.

CDR Okay.

CC And - -

CDR I gather the PLT is going to be running that

procedure later.

CC That's affirm. However, we've got part of it

split up between the PLT and you. I think you
wind up turning the pumps off when you're all
through. And you will get a caution and warning
alarm when we do this procedure on the pumps.

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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

233 13 31 36 CC The CDR, Houston. When you have a minute, we

have some tilt and rotation settings for S019
that we'd like to set it at when you're through
with the pass that commences at 14:00. These
are to maximize the heating of the instrument
if it still will not retract. Over.

PLT Okay, Bruce. We're getting secondary coolant

flow warning tone and light and it's pump C.

CC Roger. We expected that. When we put on pump C,

the inverter momentarily stalled out, so you went
down to zero pumps and we're bringing them back
up now. So, that'll go away in a minute.

PLT Okay. We've got two of them.

233 13 32 23 CDR Okay. Standing by to copy those values, Bruce.

SPT Make that three of them.

CC Three what? Three in succession or three lights

on at once?

SPT No, three in succession.

CC Okay.

CDR Standing by to copy.

CC Okay, A1. That's 020 on tilt and 034 on rotation.

And we can't get the pumps back on the secondary
loop. We'll be back to you in a second.

233 13 33 41 CC Jack, Houston. Would you check circuit breakers

on - I was trying to locate it. I think it's on
panel 200 or 201 here. We think we've got one
popped on the coolant loop. COOLANT PUMP INVER-
T_S, PRIMARY number 2. Make that SECONDARY
number 2. I think it's on 202. Make that
panel 200.

PLT Yes, number 2 is popped and we closed it.

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CC Okay. I understand you got it reset. We're

coming up on LOS here. Next station contact,
Hawaii, in 1 hour.

CDR Did you get all the pumps started you wanted on
us ...?

CC Okay. We got pump B turned on, I believe. And

we'll talk to you over Hawaii.

233 13 35 07 CC Skylab, this is Houston in the blind. Request

you delay initiating housekeeping ]0-Alfa, if
you read. Delay in initiating housekeeping
i0-Alfa. Houston, out.

233 14 33 02 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Hawaii for

7-1/2 minutes, for the C_ander. Over.

CDR Go ahead.

CC Roger, Alan. We are still looking at the data

here on the results of our attempted coolant
loop reconfiguration over Vanguard. Based on
that, we would like to postpone the housekeeping
i0 Alfa until further notice. And we'll get back
to you on a reschedule for that. Over.

CDR Roger. What new data did you see that m_kes you
want to do that?

CC Nothing. Our problem - -

CDR That's fairly cryptic. Those numbers you gave

me to reposition S019, I gather they're to the
nearest whole degree?

233 i_ 33 52 CC That is correct.

CC 20. - degrees tilt and 0Bh.0 in rotation. We're

sorry if there is confusion on that. And we are
enabling momentum dump at this time. To amplify
a little bit on the - the coolant system, when
we selected the second pump, that is, pump Charlie
on the secondary loop, we apparently caused the
inverter to blow the circuit breaker supplying
power to the inverter. And we're reviewing the
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transactions earlier in the mission, that is on

SL 112. And we'd like to make sure that we com-
pletely understand the reason for popping that
breaker before we try to reconfigure the system
again. And we feel that we have still plenty
of time before Friday to give this a real thor-
ough working over. So we'd Just like to post-
pone l0 Alfa at the present time.

233 l_ 34 50 CDR Okay. Sounds good to us.

CC And for the SPT, I have some solar information

for you.

SPT Okay. Go ahead.

CC Okay. A feature located at 330 degrees, 1.B

solar radii is designated as prominence 47, that's
P-47, and is lifting off. We would like you to
go ahead and run JOP 9 as scheduled at 14:42
except that we would like S052 to operate in the
standard mode. And then if you're ready to copy,
I have a request for a procedure to follow the
JOP 9 operation to look at _this prominence. Over.

SPT Go ahead.

233 14 35 h5 CC Okay. Point H-alpha 1 to the prominence, that's

P-47. S055 MIRROR AUTO RASTERS 0000, and all
detectors; S082B, SHORT WAV_T,_GTH, LIMB POINTING
mode, time 5 minutes exposure; S056, PATROL,
NORMAL. And the approximate pointing coordinates
of the feature are ROLL, minus 5400; UP, 967;
RIGHT, 500. Over.

SPT Okay. Have all that and we'll do it right now.

CC No, we want you to do it after the JOP 9.

SPT Understand.

CC And then in order to squeeze everything into this

pass, when you finish with that, go ahead and do
JOP 1 Delta and Just drop off or truncate the
building block ll's when you have to do the sun-
set. Over.
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SPT Roger.

233 lh 37 18 CC And, Owen, we're starting to get some C-I flare

activity associated with that prominence.

SPT Hello, Bruce. We don't see a very pronounced -

or very clear pr_inenee at 330. There is one
at 270. Would you check those coordinates again?

CC Okay, we will do it. It's already 0.3 of a solar

radii above the surface. That's at 1.3 R solar.
Over.

SPT Yes, I understand. I expected to see some feet

of it down on the disk, however, and - we'll pro-
ceed.

233 lh 39 07 CC Okay, Owen, we've confirmed our coordinates. They

are correct.

SPT Thank you.

CC Okay, Owen. We're coming up h0 seconds to LOS

here at Hawaii. Next station contact in 22 min-
utes at Vanguard, that's 15:02. With regard to
P-h7, the word is that there's not a great deal
of optical substance to it, but it is nonetheless
there. And we' d like you to run through the pro-
cedures.

SPT Okay. And we're on our way to do them as you've

described. Thank you.

233 lh h0 28 CC Roger.

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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

233 15 03 06 CC Skylab, this is Houston through the Vanguard for

8-1/2 minutes. Out.

CDR Okay, took a look on the white light coronagraph

and you can see a big bubble out there in the
corona right around the spot that you pointed out.
We took some white light coronagraph data and then
we were over -ye're ove_ t_e no_l_ointingat in i
and the bubble was about three-quarters the size of
the Sun. It's really a nice discontinuity out in
the corona. We're running 56 on an ACTIVE i, LONG
because that's what JOP 8 said to do and we're
also running 54 on a M30 f/256 and if they want
anything else other than that let us know. But
looks like we got a nice little thing going out
there.

CC We copy, A1.

CDR And we'll give 56 a PARTOL, SHORT and a PATROL,

NORMAL also; if they'd like it.

233 15 0_ 37 CC That's affirmative, A1. We'll take the PATROL,

SHORT and the PATROL, NORMAL. Our intent had been
Just to do those things that we voiced up to Owen;
however, we'll press on with what you're doing
there.

CDR Okay, well, we'll give you that and then we'll
move off, because it's an awfully nice tranmient.
One of the nicer we've seen.

CC Roger; sounds beautiful.

CDR Like a big bubble setting on the edge of the disk.

CC Roger.

CC Okay, A1, and we're going to update your ATM sched-

ule pad for the next daylight pass to continue
observations of this. We'll have that update for
you over Hawaii at 16:08 which is Just before the
start of the pass.
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CDR Okay. Now we've got an additional 29 minutes

right now. Do you want me to stay here and work
this problem using JOP 8, although that's a big
user of film or do you want me to do like we said,
go back and pick up on the pad per the discussion
about 30 minutes ago.

233 15 06 20 CC We'd like you to go back, pick up on the pad

J0P I Delta, and then go on through cutting off
as many of the building block ll's as are re-
quired by sunrise - by sunset. Over.

CDR Okay. And we gave you a little white light

coronagraph on the VTR, so it's on there, a
couple of minutes worth.

CC Okay, as I recall, the VTR was completely empty,

so that's good and we'll dump it when we can.

CDR 0kay.

PLT Hey, Bruce, l've done the housekeeping 84 November

is the word, starting off on the i0 Alfa, but
I was kind of wondering why there was a constraint
on doing 84 November before i0 Alfa?

233 15 07 21 CC There was no real constraint on that, Jack.

We Just felt more comfortable having the heaters
shut up so that if we had any problems with the
thermal control valve, we could put the heater in
the loop and recover right away.

PLT Oh, Okay; I understand now. I got the line in

heater, fill.

CC Roger.

CDR And I put a little XUV MON on; 2-, 4-, 6-second
integration. So for - now that we're finished
with that, we're going to press on to - I only
gave a - an - a ACTIVE I, SHORT. I didn't give
an ACTIVE i, NORMAL. We'll go ahead and pick
up on the building block.
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233 15 07 58 CC Okay.

CDR I didn't mean an ACTIVE i, SHORT; I meant a

PATROL, SHORT.

CC Roger.

233 15 i0 49 CC Skylab, this is Houston. One minute until LOS

here at the Vanguard; next station contact in
58 minutes over Hawaii at 16:08, and we will
be dumping the data voice tape recorder over
Hawaii.

233 16 09 43 CC Let's try it this way. Skylab, Houston. How

do you read?

233 16 l0 37 CC Skylab, Skylab, this is Houston through Hawaii.

How do you read? Over.

SPT Loud and clear, Bruce. Do you want anything

different on theATM this rev?

CC Skylab, Skylab, that's affirmative, Jack. We

have a change to your ATM schedule pad. Are
you ready to copy? Over.

PLT Go ahead.

CC Skylab, Skylab, this is Houston. At 16:15, we

want to do a building block 2 sun centered;
ROLL, minus 9000; that's ROLL, minus 9000. And
on the buildlngblock 2 for S082A, it's SHORT,
WAVE_._GTH, and exposure 40 seconds; that's
S082A, WAVELENGTH, SHORT, h0-second exposure;
S055, MIRROR AUTO RASTER; GRATING, 00, DETECTOR,
all. And we will also do another building block 2
with the same data at the end of the pass. Now
your t_m_ng; 16:15 is the beginning of the first
building block 2. Time remaining of 4h for
J0P 4B, time remaining of 19 for J0P 12D, time
remaining of 9 minutes for the second building
block 2 with the same info as before. And we
want to delete the entire shopping llst item 13,
which appears at 26 minutes remaining. Over.

PLT Okay, l've got it all, Bruce.

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233 16 12 23 CC Skylab, Skylab, this is Houston. Roger; out.

SPT Hello, Bruce, I'm about i0 minutes into the rate

gyro temp t.est. And the pad indicates that some-
thing like 95 volts is the expected voltage out
of J-3. I'm only reading 2.8 volts off that
temperature sensor, and the digital thermometer
has begun a slow increase. It started at about
69 up to about 71 degrees. And I'm wondering if
these temperature of 2.8 volts is a reasonable
number to expect off of J-3 on the rate gyro
pack. Over.

233 16 13 08 CC Skylab, Skylab, this is Houston. Stand by, 0wen.

We 're checking on that. Out.

CC Skylab, Skylab, this is Houston. For the SPT, in

step 7 of your RGP temp cue card thing, it should
read "steady state gyro temp voltage" - should
read "2.95;" that's "2.95 volts; record time of
measurements." We believe that the 2.8 that
you're reading is reasonable. Over.

SPT Okay, the 2 did not print on our copy. It look-

ed like it was a blank space on the pad. So
that should read 2.95; is that what you said?

CC Skylab, Skylab, Houston. Roger. 2.95, that is

Just less than 3 volts. Over.

233 16 14 21 SPT Okay, I'Ii update on my pad and make that more
clear. Thank you.

CDH Houston, CDR. On that temp test, we have not

had our rate gyros on all this time. They've
been Just sitting there dormant, so we Just turned
them on this morning to start the test. So it's
conceivable that they would come up to that temp.

CC Skylab, Skylab, this is Houston. Roger, AI. We

understand that. We are getting the baseline data
and we'll power them up and track the temperature
as it increases. And I believe the thing runs
for 36 hours. Over.
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233 16 15 12 CDR Okay. We were kind of concerned that maybe you

thought that they had been on for the last 3 weeks
which they have not been.

233 3.6 16 58 CC And, Skylab, we are dumping the data voice tape
recorder, but we're _Imost through with it.

CC Skylab, Houston. One minute to LOS here at Hawaii.

Next station contact in 23 minutes over the
Vanguard at 16:h0. Out.

PLT See you in South America, Se_or.

233 16 18 04 CC Si, se_or.

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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

233 16 h2 17 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Vanguard for

the next 7-1/2 minutes. Over.

SPT Bruce, another thing thing that didn't print

clearly on my teleprinter message on the rate
gyro amps iS the last time in this first set
of sequences here after 45 minutes. I assume
the next time is 60 minutes. But it's not
printed clearly. Would you confirm that,
please?

CC That's affirmative, Owen. It is 60.

SPT Thank you.

233 16 42 50 CC And for the CDR, we've been looking at our

telemetry data on the A - airlock module
secondary coolant loop. We've been unable to
find any current spikes. HoWever, the bilevel
data indicates that the pump - both pumps
kicked off within about a tenth of a second
after the second pump, - pump Charlie, was
started. The sample rate may have been such
that we didn't catch a current spike. What
we're proposing to do now, is to check out
the system by using inverter 3 and pump
Charlie. And we're tentatively scheduling
this for the Vanguard-Ascension pass next rev.
That is Vanguard at about 18:18 Zulu, followed
by Ascension. This should only take a minute
or so. What we really need is the PLT to stand
by to reconfigure the system in case it's
required, and we'll probably Just ask him to
break out of the M509 preps for a minute or
so. Over.

SPT Okay, Bruce. We'll be waiting for your call.

CC Okay.

CC And also for the CDR on the message we sent

up regarding the M509 checklist - the improved
restraint, we left off a - last s_ep, step
Lima, which reads, "Include evaluation-of this
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restraint system on the debriefing." So, I

don't think you need to write that in, but if
you would comment on whether it's an improve-
ment or not, if you use the system, we'd
appreciate it. Over.

CDR Okay. We're going to try to use it, Bruce.

233 16 44 42 CC Roger; out.

CDR Bruce, are you still there?

CC Yes, we are, A1.

CDR Would you set up a phone call with my wife

this evening?

233 16 46 3h CC We'll do that.

CDR Okay.

SPT Same for me, Bruce. Owen here.

CC You guys don't want a party line, do you?

SPT Affirm.

CDR Looking out the window down here, we must be

down south somewhere, because I can see some
huge ice flows and a bunch of little icebergs
broken off that are floating up - I assume
they're floating towards the north. Where
are we right now?

CC Okay. You're about 15 degrees east of the

southern tip of South America. Actually, you're
up about 5 degrees from the Straits of Magellan
and you - may be down by the Falklands.

CDR Some of the biggest I've seen. They're - what

are the big ones, growlers or something? I
can't remember the name of them.

233 16 48 02 CC And, Skylab; Houston. For the CDR, if you

have time, we have some new tilt and rotation
values to luther optimize the heating of the
SO19 mirror, based on our updated value of
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Nu Z and a new computer program down here.

Basically, it's tilt, zero degrees, and rotation,
055 degrees. These are whole degrees. Over.

CDR Zero and - zero on tilt and 055 on rotation.

I'ii put it there right now.

233 16 48 34 CC Roger. Thank you. A minute and a half to

LOS at Vanguard. Next station contact in
9 minutes at Ascension. It's a real low
pass - 2 - minute duration, and that's at
16:57. Out.

233 16 56 43 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Ascenston. How

do you read? Over.

CDR Reading you fine, Bruce.

CC Okay, we're getting you about a minute early

here, so we'll have about a 3-minute pass then.
If you got any traffic for us, let us know.

CC Skylab, this is Houston. One minute to LOS at

Ascension. Next station contact in 1 hour
and 18 minutes at the Vanguard, 18:17 Zulu.
Over.

PLT Okay, Bruce. We're getting the final building

block 2 at this pass at the moment.

233 16 59 33 CC Roger; thank you for the update, Jack.

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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

233 18 18 05 CC Skylab, this is Houston through the Vanguard for

10-1/2 minutes, for the PLT. Over.

PLT Here I am with my trusty little velometer. What

can I do for you?

CC Well, you can put down your trusty little velometer

for a minute and stand by up by the airlock module
coolant pump switches and circuit breakers for us,
if you would please, and I'll tell you what we're
going to do. Over.

PLT Okay, why don't you blow into the microphone,

and I'll measure your breath velocity.

CC Blowing.

PLT Twenty feet per minute.

PLT Never lose your sense of humor. Here I am Bruce.

Go ahead.

233 18 19 40 CC Okay, the configuration that we're'in right now

on the SECONDARY loop is that we have INVERTER
_umber 2 commA uded ON and PUMP Bravo operating
off of it. We're going to send a series of
real-time comm-nds here. If we wind up in a
situation where we can't co-.--_d or you are going
over the hill with the system off, we would like
for you to manually select INVERTER 3 and PUMP
Charlie. What we're going to do is chin.and
_T_R 21 OFF; and the _TER 3, ON _rith
PUMP Charlie. If that works all right, we will
then COmmAnd INVERTER 3, OFF; PUMP Cha_lie to
INVERTER 2, and bring INVERT_ 2, ON with both
Bravo and Charlie operating off it to get to the
2 PUMP configuration for EVA. Over.

233 18 20 34 PLT Okay, go ahead. And if we go over the h_ll, I

have a valve that's in maD,A1 3 C_A_lSe, in the
SECONDARY LOOP.

CC That 's affirmative.

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CC Okay, the SECONDARY loop is OFF. You'll proba-

bly get a CAUTION and WARNING when we power
back up.

233 18 23_17 CC Okay, PUMP Charlie is ON.

PLT Okay, no light. I had one, but it went out there.

CC Roger.

233 18 22 00 CC Okay, we're pressing on with the reconfiguration

to bring Charlie onto loop 2 and then - or on
INVERTER 2 and then power it up. Your loop is
powered down again now.

PLT Okay. Did we Just cross the coast of South

America?

CC That's affirmative, Jack.

PLT Okay, with the Sun angle and Beta angle the way
it is, it - looking out the STS window with the
solar panel out there , it looks like we are Just
making a nice smooth left turn over the - like
an airplane over the coast.

CC Roger. We show you Just about due south of the

Vanguard. Okay - -

233 18 22 48 PLT ... had momentary SECONDARY light Just about

now.

CC Roger. We show both PUMP Bravo and Cb-_lie run-

ninz at this time.

PLT Okay, what's next?

CC Okay, what's next, Jack, is wherever you put your

velometer when I told you to put it some place,
you can pick it up again and resume operations.

PLT Okay, thank you, Bruce.

CC Right. Thank you very much for monitoring for us.

233 18 28 00 CC Skylab, this is Houston, 45 seconds to LOS. Next

station contact in 3 minutes over Ascension at
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18:31, where we will be dumping the data voice

tape recorder. And if you think .you can work it
in with the M509 preparations, we'd like to get
the PLT to do a housekeeping i0 A/fa; that is, to
start up the SUS sneak-up procedure over Ascension
for us. EstimAted take about 5 to 7 minutes of
his time. Over.

PLT Okay, Houston. Give me a call when you're there,

Bruce.

233 18 28 47 CC Okay, we'll give you a call.

233 18 31 22 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Ascension for

10-1/2 minutes. Out.

CC Skylab, this is Houston. For the PLT, we're

ready to start the housekeeping i0 alfa procedure,
if you are. It's page 17-2 of the SWH Syst_mR
Checklist. Except that we want to do it on the
SUS 2 PUMP switch on panel 323. Your general
message, 25:32 Bravo applies.

233 18 32 56 CC Skylab, this is Houston. For the PLT, we'd like

to go ahead and start the housekeeping i0 Alfa
per page 17-2 of the SWS Systems Checklist,
except that we're doing it on SUS 2. Over.

PLT Okay. We'll do it like the checklist says. I

also have this teleprinter pad, but you prefer
the checklist, right?

CC Okay, now 2532-B, the teleprinter pad, merely

tells you to do it, but to do it using SUS 2 in
the SECONDARY loop. And it also gives you a con-
figuration to go to if a LOW TEMP CAUTION and
WARNING occurs out of station contact; that is,
manually to I_T_ 2, I_/MP B, which is what we
want you to do if that occurs. Over.

233 18 33 hh PLT Okay. PUMP 2, INVERT_ - _TER 2, PUMP B, if

we have to go manually.

CC Right; per the teleprinter Message.

PLT Okay. That's different that you told me awh_Se

ago if we had a problem there, which was 3 Cha_lie.
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CC That's correct, and that was for the test on the

INVERTER 3 and PUMP Charlie.

PLT Understand.

233 18 37 39 CC PLT, Houston. We're watching telemetry here, and

we haven't seen any change in SUS 2 configuration.
Are you cycling the SUS 2 PUMP switch at the
present time? We'd certainly like to see it be
before we go LOS. Over.

PLT Nop I'm not yet, but will. How long you got?

CC We got 3 minutes and 52 seconds.

PLT Okay.

233 18 40 12 CC Skylab, this is Houston. l-l/2 minutes to LOS.

Next station contact in 35 minutes over Guam at
19:15. And a review of the voice dump tapes
connected with the T020 experiment revealed that
you all were interested in operating the M509
unit with one or both of the hand controller arms
in the down position. We'd like to request you
not to fire the thrusters with the arms down, as
we're concerned that the gas from the thrusters
impinging on the other - underside of the arm
may work its way back up and possibly dRm_ge
one of the wire bundles inside. Over.

CDR 0kay. Understand.

PLT Bruce, do you want me to go through the full SUS

PUMP cycling, PUMP 1 on for 45 minutes and
then do the same thing to PUMP 2 SECONDARY PUMP?

CC Negative. We're Just concerned with SUS 2 PUMP.

PLT Okay. But you do want the 45-minute on time,

right?

CC That 's affirmative.

PLT Okay.

233 18 41 43 CC All Right. We want to exercise both PUMP in

_JS 2. Over.
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PLT Right. You want the PRIMARY on for 45 minutes

and turn that one off and do the same thing to
the SECONDARY; sneak-up on it for 45 minutes for
that too, right?

CC Roger. And - -

PLT ... Okay.

CC - - the full sneak-up procedure; however, the

multiple cycle sneaking up to it. Over.

PLT Right. I'll do it Just like the checklist says,

steps 1 through 3.

CDR I don't understand why you have to sneak up on it

with the other pump.

CC You don't with the other one. Once you get snuck
up to and operating on PRIMARY, you can switch
right over to SECONDARY and run for _5 minutes.
Over.

PLT That 's how we'll do it.

233 18 42 27 CDR Okay ....

233 19 15 35 CC Sk_lab, this is Houston through G,_am for 9 minutes

and 45 seconds. Over.

PLT Okay, Bruce. We got PRIMARY PUMP running in the

SUS 2 loop, and you can look at it. In the mean-
time, we're starting another episode of the
Orville/Wilbur show.

CC Are you Orville or Wilbur? And we're watching

the telemetry; it looks good.

PLT I'm Wilbur; he's Orville.

CC Just so long as you're both Wright. (Chuckle)

PLT Say again.

CC I said Just so long as you're both Wright.

PLT That's pretty good. Pretty good.

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233 19 18 30 PLT How does the EVA water loop look, Bruce?

CC It's looking good, Jack.

PLT Good. I'll leave that pump run for l0 more min-
utes; then I'm going to turn on a SECONDARY.

CC Roger. We concur with that.

233 19 19 49 SPT We Just had our kamikaze ceremony and now we're
ready to go, Bruce.

CC You Just had what and are ready to go?

SPT We just had our kamikaze ceremony in preparation

for flying 509. Now we're ready to go.

CC You got the wrong experiment, but go ahead.

233 19 24 30 CC Skylab, this is Houston. One minute until LOS;

next station contact in 31 minutes over the
Vanguard at 19:55. Out.

END OF TAPE
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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

233 19 55 33 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Vanguard for

l0 minutes. Out.

SPT Hello, Houston. Is Vanguard configured to

• record down-link TV?

CC That's affirmative, Owen, go ahead.

SPT Okay, they should be getting the XUV MON down

now. And I wonder if the backroomhas reported
or had any reports of any transient on the
northwest limb, up around 030, 040?

CC We'll check on that, 0wen.

SPT And I'd like to know how much time I have

remaining on the VTR.

233 19 58 30 SPT The reason for asking, Bruce: I can see on my

XUVMON now, in the northwest quadrant, a
large arch extending 1 foot. It looks like
it perhaps starts at about 060 and extends
on out from the limb of the Sun, out beyond
the two solar radii, and then more or less -
somewhat in the center of that arch - I can
only see the one half of the arch. Somewhat
in the center is another brighter blob or
area about three-quarters of a solar radius
from the limb. And it's also reasonably
bright in the XUV. I do not detect any
movement yet, but I put a couple of short seg-
ments of this on the VTR so that you can see
it when you dump the tape. And it looks
like it might well have been associated with
another transient that I cannot see. Over.

233 19 59 20 CC Okay. This is 30 degrees on the opposite side

of north from T-47. Is that correct?

SPT That's correct. Over on the northwest quadrant.

CC Sounds like you have a lot of activity up there

today.

SPT Very surprisingly for a quiet Sun.

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CC Okay, 0wen. We show that 5.h minutes of the

VTR have been used up, so you got 25 minutes
left. We Just point out to you that TV-28,
your SPT highlights, are Scheduled for the VTR.
So as long as you can work that in, we're all
set. NOAA doesn't see anything on the north-
west limb. Over.

233 20 00 07 SPT Okay. That's fine. I did have TV-28 in mind,

and I've obviously not done it yet. I'll get
to it later this afternoon or evening. Probably
have to do it after Mo9e. And I will put a
little bit more - few segments of this
XUV MON, because it's a arch on into the corona
like we haven't seen since we've been up here.
So I 'd appreciate knowing whether or not it 's
been recorded before, as a ma%ter of fact, if
they have any other TV data that looks like
this. And I'll have several segments on it, so
they can - you folks can look at it tonight.

233 20 00 39 CC Okay. We'll do that.

CC Skylab, this is Houston for the SPT. Scientists

in our backroam report that we have no record
of having seen a similar phenomenon in XUV
previously. This may be a - a unique case, and
we'll certainly look over the images on the VTR
very carefully when they come down and get
back to you with some sort of positive feed-
back. 0ver.

SPT Okay. Sounds interesting. I wasn't really

sure but what it was a reflection in the tube
somewhere to begin with, but it brightens
and only stands out when I release the INTEGRATE
switch, so it is clearly XUV. And then I saw
the arch, why, that confirmed it in my view.
So I think it should be interesting to look at
tonight.

233 20 0_ 25 CC Yes indeed. We have a minute and a half to

LOS here at the Vanguard. Next station
contact in 8 minutes over Ascension at 20:12.

233 20 12 35 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Ascension for

2-1/2 minutes. Out.
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233 20 14 h0 CC Skylab, Houston; 30 seconds to LOS at Ascen-

sion. Next station contact in 1 minute at
Canary.

233 20 16 19 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Canary Islands

and Madrid for 12-1/2 minutes. Out.

CC SPT, Houston. When you leave the A_M panel,

and before you get wrapped up in your photog-
raphy, we have a suit loop reconfiguration
you'd like to do for us. Give us a call when
you're free please.

SPT Bruce, I was over on channel A for a minute and

didn't hear the first of your transmission.
I'm not sure whether the other two fellows
down there on the M0509 [sic] did or not. Would
you repeat it?

CC Yes. When you get ready to leave the ATM panel,

would you give us a call, please. We'd like
you to reconfigure a suit loop for us.

233 20 18 12 SPT Oh, okay. Just a minute.

CC PLT, Houston. Are you at a convenient point in

the run where we could interrupt you for about
4 minutes and dump the experiment 1 tape
recorder, so we have an empty one for starting
up M092 later? Over.

PLT Yes. We Just made the changeout, and we 're

off the recorder. We're ready to go when you
are, but this will be a good time to dump it.

CC Okay. We're going to dump. We'll give you

the word when we're clear.

233 20 20 21 FLT Okay.

PLT This would also be a convenient point to turn

off that secondary pump. It's about i0 minutes
early, but if you think the system's running
okay, l'd Just as soon go up and do it.

CC Okay, Jack. We'd like that very much. Panel 323,

SUS 2 to OFF.
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PLT Okay.

SPT Now, was that what you were going to ask me to

do, Bruce?

CC That's affirmative, Owen.

SPT Okay. I'll go get it if Jack doesn't get here.

233 20 20 52 CC That's all right with us.

233 20 25 33 CC Skylab, Houston. We're through with the exper-

iment 1 tape recorder dump. The recorder is
yours, and you can press on with the run. Over.

CC And for your information, Skylab, at the present

time we're co-,,Anding the SECONDARY COOLANT
LOOP back to the normal configuration which
is, INVERTER 2, PUMP Bravo. Out.

SPT Bruce, a question for the back - ATM backroom.

The pointing on the next orbit at time r-mAinlng
35 is not entirely clear to me. I'd like to
know at 35, how many arc seconds above the
limb, the lower - or the edge of the 82B slit
is intended to be left. I'm not sure whether
it's a total of 5 or a total of 8 arc seconds
off the limb.

CC Okay, we're working that, Owen. And what was

the time remaining again?

SPT Time remaining 35 this next orbit.

CC Roger.

233 20 27 45 SPT Guess I should m._e that 6 or 9. I'm not sure

whether it's 6 or 9.

CC Roger. Is that the experiment duration you're

talking about, is 6 or 9?

SPT No, it's the end of the 82B slit is intended

to be pointed off the limb of the Sun either
6 or 9 arc seconds. And I wasn't sure which
because I - it repeats step 5 twice there, and
that's sort of an unusual way to specify it on
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that schedule. And I wasn't certain whether on

the second specification of step 5 they intended
for me to point another 3 arc seconds off the
limb.

CC Skylab, Houston. Point it another 3 seconds

off the limb the second time you do it. And
we're 15 seconds to LOS here at Madrid. Next
station contact in 25 minutes over Guam at
20 :53.
w

233 20 28 53 SPT Thanks, Bruce.

233 20 5h 26 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Guam for

6-1/2 minutes. Over.

CC Okay, who, was that hitting the switch?

SPT SPT.

CC Okay, Owen. We'd like to get a readout on the

data that was gathered on the rate gyro
six-pack temperature test to date. Putting
it on the evening status report would probably
be a good time to do it. Over.

233 20 54 53 SPT It's already on channel A, if you can get it

off of there. I read it down about 3 - 2 hours
ago.

CC We shall do that. And, with respect to the

M092 run coming up here, the ground data's
been showing random VCG variations on all
three crewmen, indicative of poor electrode
contact. We'd like you to use extra
care - tender loving care in electrode appli-
cations for today's run, especially for the
neck electrode. If this doesn't resolve the
problem, why, further instructions will be
sent up after analysis of the data for today.

SPT I understand they have the record of the

impedances and the impedance ... looks good,
especially on Jack and myself. And that se_ms
to be about the best indication we've got,
but we'll use the TLC that you recommended.
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233 20 55 44 CC Okay. - -

SPT ...

CC - - Snd - -

SPT - - I don't know what TLC you can give it

beyond impedance below about 25 k, and ours
always have been.

CC Okay, and for the CDR, if he's listening.

CC Are you - -

PLT Go ahead, Bruce. We're all listening. We

Just docked the 509. Nice run.

CC Okay. Prior to the MO92/MITI vent, in order

to minimize the contamination to the auxiliary
mirror system on the S019, we'd like to change
the ROTATION to 270 degrees, that's ROTATION, 270,
and leave the TILT at 0. If you can fit it in,
you might try a_ain on the retraction, and of
course for retraction, it's TILT and ROTATION,
both equal to zero. Over.

233 20 56 42 CC And with respect to M509, before you tear

down the 16-millimeter DAC's off the universal
mounts, we'd like to get readouts on what you
have set the cameras so that we can correlate
this with the checklist for next run or for
SL-_. Over.

CC And for the PLT, I need to get you an ATM

schedule change here, when you're available.

CDR Okay, Bruce, I'ii give you the angles on the

dome. And the ones - the ones at f/10 and the
other spot are Just right. Now let me tell
you what we've been using here. Just a second.

223 20 57 44 PLT Okay, go ahead with your change, Bruce.

CC Okay, Jack. We're changing the Sun-side pass

that starts here at about 21:00. The first
thing we'd like you to do, as soon as possible,
is a building block 2.
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SPT Hey, break, break.

CC Go ahead.

SPT Bruce, I'm already doing that run, right now.

I'm up here at the panel for him. And I've
already done a FAST SCAN for h3 seconds on
S052 to give him three pictures, and now I've
picked up the other - LIMB SCAN that's - that's
already on the schedule. So if there's an
alteration from that, maybe you better let me
know about it now. I'm already into it.

233 20 58 26 CC Okay, we didn't show you starting that until

21:07. Let us regroup here a second.

CC Go ahead with the camera readouts, A1.

CC And for your information, Owen, we've double

checked, and we do want an additional
3 arc seconds each time you repeat the JOP 1E,
step 5, so you go 3, 6, 9, 12, and so on.

SPT Okay, I understand the 3, 6, and 9. After that

it says don't change it anymore, but might
check - The ATM schedule specifically says
don't go beyond that 9. But whatever you say.

233 20 59 17 CDR Bruce, the - angles are 314, 26_, and 228.
31h, 22- 2 - 31h, 264, and 228, X, Y, Z. And
the mount is on the dome handrail right next
to the sign about D-l, and the trigger's facing
toward the dome, and the camera's obviously
facing towards the center of the workshop.

233 20 59 54 CC Okay, we got that, AI.

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SKYLAB AIR-T0-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

233 21 O0 21 CDR The run went real well on 509 today. That new
restraint you dreamed up is a real goer. It's
a little hard to get on, but that's okay. When
you've got it on, you're restrained in the
vehicle real well. And so it feels - -

CC Break, break. Hey, Owen, we want you to do that

building block 2 after you get finished with the
first J0P IE, step 5. And the data for that - our -
S is ROLL, minus 2_00, S082A, WAVELENGTH, SHORT;
exposure 2 plus 40, that's 2 minutes 40 seconds;
S055, MIRROR Ab_O RASTER, GRATING, 0; EETECTORS,
OFF. That's ROLL, minus 2400; building block 2;
Sun centered; S082A WAVELW_G_, SHORT; exposure,
2 plus 40; S055 MIRROR AUTO RASTER, GRATING O;
and DETECTOR, OFF. Next station contact is Honey-
suckle in about 4minutes. Over.

SPT Okay, Bruce. We understand it.

CC Go ahead, AI.

233 21 01 39 CDR Okay, the - anyway, that strap made all the
difference in the world, because now you -
you're fairly rigid - -

233 21 06 22 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Honeysuckle for

3-1/2 minutes. For the SPT; you're right on
the pointing there. We want to go 3, 6, 9 arc
min - arc seconds and then stick wi_h 9 arc sec-
onds. Now since you started early, you may be
able to get that building block 2 in addition to
everything else that's already scheduled. If
you don't, we want to drop off the last run of
building block 27, that is the one that appears
opposite the ii minutes time r_maining. Over.

SPT Got you, Bruce.

CC And for the C - -

CDR Hey, Bruce, got - -

CC - - For the CDR, we didn't mean to cut you off

there. Tried to get the ATM stuff in. We only
copied the pointing coordinates on the camera
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mounted up near D-I. We'd like to get the F-10

coordinates if you still have them, and go ahead
with your counts about the restraints.

233 21 07 18 CDR Okay. The other DAC is as per the checklist.

CC Roger.

CDR The only one at the dome. Okay. I got good

news. I Just got S019 in.

CC Very good. That is good news.

CDR I'll tell you how I did it. I was fooling with
it out there. I moved it in and out, and you
know, it would move in and out about an inch,
and then it would - and then quit doing that.
So I Just tried to retract it fairly hard because
it didn't feel like it was bumping against any-
thing. It felt sort of spongy. And so, I pulled
it in a little bit and then I pushed it out and
then I kind of moved it in and out about two
times and all of a sudden it freed up and it Just
came in real easy. So it's in now with the door
closed and we'll be able to get it off and maybe
see what happened. I have the feeling that some-
thing was out of sync in the drive train, and
rocking it back and forth it must have accidental-
ly got in synchronization because then it wheeled
right in as easy as it always does. It didn't
act like it was cold. It acted more like some-
thing was just not quite on the drive, you know,
sort of like a screw thread was not exactly
threading right and once it gets on its grooves,
then it's okay.

233 21 08 48 CC Okay, AI, we copy. That's real good news. What

we_d like you to do is let it sit there with the
SAL door closed but not pressurized, warm up
for a couple of hours and we'll have a procedure
up to you a little bit later. You may assume
that S019 operations scheduled for 23:30 this
evening are cancelled. We may want to give you
something else to do in that time period. Over.

CDR Okay, We'll need something to do in that time

period. And that's exactly where it's in now;
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door closed, still in vent, and we'll let it

warm up. Now I won't go into any more 509, be-
cause you're about running out of time also. I'll
put it on A.'

23B 21 09 31 CC Okay, we got BO seconds to LOS here at Honeysuckle.

Next station contact in 25 minutes over the Van-
guard at 21:35 Zulu. Over.

SPT Okay, Bruce, and at that time, I'd appreciate it

if youtd wind the VTR back about lO minutes of
real time for me. I've had it r,lnnlng the last
i0 minutes when I didn't want it runnin 6 . If
you could do that, I'd appreciate it. That'd
give us more like the reasonable amount of time
for TV-28. Over.

CC Okay, we'll give you a 1G-minute windback. You'll

erase over whatever you had on there when you go
to record again. Your phone calls are set up.
SPT, Bermuda at 00:59; CDR, Madrid 02:51. We can
send that up again to you.

SPT Thank you, Bruce.

233 21 lO 30 CC" And if you still hear me, next site will be Canary
at 21:53 instead of the Vanguard. Out.

233 21 53 54 PLT I hear you knocking on my teleprinter, Houston.

CC Roger. That _s affirmative.

PLT Hello there, _,nk. Say, we want to know, does

S082A want to take any extra frames of this ap-
parent XUV loop, that's emanatin 6 frc_ the north-
west limb? We can see it with the persistent
image scope on the XUV monitor.

CC Okay. Stand by.

PLT Can't do it right now, anyway. They've got

27 minutes and 20 seconds to think about it.

CC All righty. And Skylah _-

233 21 54 41 CDR We're calling it Garriott waves up here.

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CC (Chuckle) Roger. Garriott waves. Okay. For

info here, we're going to be commanding the auto
switchover - enable that, for the cooler AM
coolant loops. And we're also going to command
the dump inhibit so we can do the JOP 7, even
though we're not doing S019. And for the VTR
request while ago, we were too close to LOS to
do the rewind, and we're going to do the rewind
in Just - Stand by.

CC Okay. INC0 said hers pretty quick. He just got

it rewound, so you do have i0 more minutes of
VTR left.

233 21 55 27 PLT Okay. Thank you, Hank. Is there enough coolant

in the primary loop to h_ndle a switchover, if
one occurred?

CC What we have there, Jack, is we got both loops

running now. And the only reason we have the
switchover enabled is that if - if the primary loop
does do its thing and dies on us, the switchover
will turn the pumps off.

PLT Oh, okay. I thought maybe it was all washed up,

because I_ve been looking at this reservoir low
light for over three weeks now. So, I thought
maybe it was done in. Glad to hear it's still
working

233 21 57 45 CC Skylab, Houston. A little more on that pump.

The pnmp inlet pressure is 18.5 psi, and the
DELTA-P's still holding good, up - better than 50.
Switchover will occur when the DELTA-P drop
to sc_ewhere around 18 psi. The whole issue is
the inlet pressure's dropping very, very slowly,
and we're still not sure when ,it'll happen.

PLT Okay. That sounds good. Thank you, Hank.

CC And, Skylab, To further clarify the tape recorder

thing there. We rewound it for l0 minutes, per
your request, and that leaves a total of 20 min-
utes remaining on the VTR.

CDR Hew does the SPT's VCGs look? %leave got good low
impedances. This ought to be a good run.
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233 21 59 08 CC They look real good to us, A1.

CDR Okay. We'd had a call earlier that they were

somewhat erratic. The only erratic one we can
think of was - is the other day, Owen ran in the -
His neck electrode fell off, and we put it back
on a couple of times. So we're a little mysti-
fied because our impedances have all been down
low.

CC Roger. We copy.

CC And Skylah, Houston. A few more words on that

inhibit. I said we would do a dump inhibit for
the JOP 7. That's -that's on the next rev. It's
not this rev. It'll be at the tlme the S019 was
originally schedaled.

233 22 03 B9 CC PLT, Houston.

SPT Is that your call, Houston?

CC Roger. For the PLT.

CDR Go ahead, he_s listening.

CC Okay. He had a question in regard to the loop

that's seen on the XUV, In the next daylight
cycle, in the crew observing time that occurs
at 17 minutes of daylight remaining, we would
like to take one 82A exposure, SHORT WAVELENGTH,
a minute and 20 seconds. And we want the pointing
at the limb near the loop, with a ROLL of
minus 2400.

233 22 04 32 PLT Okay. That's WAVE, SHORT; a minute 20; ROLL,

minus 2400; and point H_alpha i near a limb
somewhere.

CC Roger. We want it at the limb near the loop that

you see there on the XUV.

PLT Say again, please.

CC Roger, The pointing should he at the limb near

the loop there, where you saw the loop.
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PLT Roger. And it's not Just a loop there, Hank.

That's a Garriott loop.

CC Sorry. The Garriott loop. Roger.

233 22 06 32 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about h0 seconds from

LOS. We'll be coming up on Carnarvon at 34.
And a quick answer to the CDR's question about
the VCG electrodes. We were Just seeing some
variations during the run, due to normal impe-
dance changes, I guess, during the run. And you
wouldn't be able to observe those there.

CDR Thank you, Hank.

CDR We haventt been able to observe too much. Every-

body's been awfully healthy up here.

233 22 07 13 CC Roger. That's good, isntt it?

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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

233 22 35 17 CC Skylab, Houston. We're through Carnarvon and

Honeysuckle for 13 minutes and we'll be dt_nping
the data voice recorder at Honeysuckle at 41.

CC And, Skylab, for info, we will be inhibiting

momentum dump on this pass.

233 22 hl 09 CC Skylab, we're through Honeysuckle now; we'll be

dumping the recorder.

233 22 h5 ii CC PLT, Houston.

PLT Yes, sir; go ahead.

CC Okay, in - in addition to the 82A exposure, we

requested a Garriott loop in this daylight cycle.
We'd like also - cancel the JOP 7 that's
scheduled later down the line, and substitute
from the teleprinter fail JOP sheets, a JOP 6,
step 2, building block 2, with the 82A omitted.

PLT (Music) Okay, Hank, instead of a atmospheric

extinction there, you want JOP 6, step 2,
building block 2, omit 82A. Right?

CC That's affirmative.

PLT Thank you.

233 22 47 42 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from LOS. We'll

be coming up on Bermuda at 25.

PLT Okay, Hank; see you at Bermuda.

233 22 48 04 CC Okay.

233 23 24 55 CC Skylab, Houston through Bermuda for 7-1/2 minutes.

SPT Hello, there, Hank.

SPT Hey, Hank, somebody's using the recorder, so how

about if I Just tell you what this ATM pass was
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like? We went down through it Just as adver-

tised and we got down to taking the picture of
the - the XUV phenomena and now we're also doing
a shopping list item 13 with the same pointing
for S056. It'll be about an 8-minute exposure.
The ROLL is minus 2400 and I'm pointed out on
the limb for 0958. And we're getting that shop-
ping list item 13 taken care of in FILT_ j.
And I 'm also getting the MIRROR RASTER with all
DETECTORS at - all balls on the GRATING out
there. Otherwise, the pass is pretty much as
you advertised.

CC Roger; we copy. And Skylab, Houston. We've

Just up-linked a message for inspecting S019 in
place of the ops that's coming up right now.
And it 's on board.

233 23 26 52 SPT Okay_ I got it. Thank you, Hank.

CC Roger.

CC And, Skylab, Houston. The surgeon would like to

know if the full protocol on M092 was run on the
SPT.

SPT Affirmative.

CC We copy.

233 23 31 12 CC Skylab, Houston. As soon as someone is avail-

able, we are ready to terminate the cabin purge
for the Maneuvering Experiment Checklist, M509,
Foxtrot 3 Bravo, page 18-3.

CDR Okay, it'll be terminated in less than i0 seconds.

CC Can't ask for it any quicker than that, can you?

CC And, Skylab, Houston. We're about 1 minute from

LOS. We'll be coming up on Madrid at 03:06.

CDR Okeydoke.

CDR How's life treating you down there _Hank?

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CC Well, it couldn't - couldn't be much better.

CDR Well, that's good; that's kind of the way it is

up here. Owen Just went thro1_b an M092/171; he
looked Just about llke he did on Earth.

CC I won't touch that one.

CDR Yes, he's - he's looking good. Everybody feels

healthy and hungry,

233 23 32 36 CC Then the Commander can authorize a special ra-

tion of sugar cookies this evening.

CDR That's not a bad idea. I had a strawberry

drink for celebration a few moments ago - on get-
ting S019 in.

CC Yes, we're all happy about that one.

233 23 32 51 CDR Yes, it felt Just llke it had been misthreaded

or something and all of a sudden it got threaded
right and it's easier ....

233 23 35 49 CC Skylab, Houston. We're back with you through

Madrid for 8-1/2 minutes. And if we can have
the D_.q, we're going to enable momentum dmnp.

CDR You got it.

233 23 36 57 CC Skylab, Houston. The DAS is yours.

CDR Are you still there, Hsnk?

CC Roger. We're here for another 5-1/2 minutes.

233 23 39 02 CDR Okay. Let me tell you of a housekeeping task

we probably ought to get scheduled about twice a
week. And I don't know the number, but it's the
one where you biocide clean - make it once a
week - biocide clean the metabolic 'analyzer
hose.

CC Roger; Understand. You want to schedule bioclde

the metabolic analyzer hose?
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CDR Yes; make that about once a week. And then we

got several other bioclding, like that fecal
collector seat that really ought to be done no
more than once a week. I don't know how often
it comes around, but it seems to come around
frequently. This place is cleaner than a hos-
pital up here.

CC Roger; we copy that.

233 23 43 37 CC Skylab, Houston. We're i minute from LOS.

Carnarvon at 09.

END OF TAPE
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f Time: 23h:00:Oh to 234:01:30
Page 1 of 8/1965

SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

23h 00 09 13 CC Skylab, Houston through Carnarvon and Honeysuckle

for 15-1/2 minutes.

SPT Say, Hank. What time do you have my call set up?

CC Roger, SPT. Your call is set up for 00:59 at

Bermuda.

SPT Thank you, Hank.

234 00 l0 38 SPT Say, Hsak. You may remember, last night I told
you I took down Arabella's web and put it around
the little end of a swab so I could - so we could
bring it back home and have it for ground analysis
later on. Well, last night, she really did her-
self in. She spun the prettiest web that she's
ever come up with. It would do grace to any sort
of spider's den hack on Earth.

CC Roger. We copy.

SPT Fills the full little cage, from corner to corner,

all the way across, with nice circles and radials
and everything the way you would expect one to
spin it in one g. Now, how she did it is another
question. None of us were - have ever been around
to watch her work. But she managed to get them
all done, Just as if there were gravity around to
help her.

PLT Hey, Hank. Are you configured for TV down-link?

234 00 ll 32 CC That's affirmative. And we're ready.

PLT Okay. Here it comes.

234 00 19 21 CC Skylab, Houston. For info, active region 96

produced a subnormal flare at 23:27.

SPT What active region did you say, Hank?

CC Roger. That was active region 96,

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234 00 20 4i CC Skylab, Houston. We dropped out for a minute

there at handover to Honeysuckle.

23h 00 22 54 CDR Say, Hank, is it okay if I execute this message

2536-A?

CC That's affirmative. We'd like you to go through

that at the - well, the ones you started last -
a little while ago here; the time that was
scheduled S019 ops.

CDR Okay. Well, l'm going to go work on it right

this minute.

234 00 23 22 CC Okay.

234 O0 55 01 CC Skylab, Houston stateside for 15 minutes.

SPT Okay, Hank.

CC SPT, Houston. I have a - an update for your

ATM pass coming up,

SPT Go ahead, Hank_

CC Okay. Due to the extra frames we expended on the

coronial [sic] transit - Coronsl transient today,
we'd like to omit the S052 in chip A of building
block 1. That's in your JOP 6 there_ And we'd
also like to truncate the CONTINUOUS MODE on
S052 in chip B after approximately 5 minutes.

SPT Okay.

234 00 56 27 CC And I have one quick question for the SPT? Is -

We got his time hacks down on the dump tapes but
we didn't get when he turned the - the GMT that
he turned the rate gyro pack on. I wonder if he
has that data?

CC PLT, Houston. Just a little reminder. Your

private co,_,,is - or SPT, your private comm is coming
up in 2 minutes.

PLT He's ready,

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CDR Say, Hank. I've had - took out S019 and took
a look at it. There's nothing obviously wrong
with it. What I think occurred, after looking
in both ends, is there's a chain drive in there
that synchronizes all four of the screws that
move out the mirror. And that thing has got a
little more slack in it than I would guess ought -
it ought to have in it. And there's an idler
gear there that takes up the slack. And m_ im-
pression would be, we probably ought to take up
some of the slack on the chain and then be very
careful that we do not take and put any loads
on the chain either going in or out. Because my
guess now from, you know, looking at it and the
way it felt, I bet it slipped a cog there somehow
and that's why it wouldn't move, And then all
of a sudden it freed itself up. It Just finally
grooved back in on the teeth.

234 00 58 34 CC Roger, AI. We copy.

CDR I won't make that adjustment until I hear from

yOU •

CC Okay. We _ll - we _ll study that one.

CDR I'm ready to give you the night report if you

want it.

CC Skylab, Houston. Everybody's GO, Go ahead.

234 00 59 08 CDR Okay. Here it Comes: 105, 135, 210; 5314, 8783,
5970% 6.254, 6.253, 6.256; 5.973, 5.976, 5.978;
6.955, 6.949, 6.950. Exercise now: 2/38/5005;
3/15/Mark I, 50, A; 20, B; 20, C; 20, D; 2/10/
Mark II, 20, A; 20, B; 10, C; 10, G. SPT, 3/15/20_
Mark I - correction - 3/15/Mark I, 60 A's; 30, B;
30, D; 2/20/2900 plus his M171. The Dilot:
2/30/6768; 1/05/0547; 3/20/Mark I, 50, A; 20, B;
20, D; 20 backbends. No medication. Sleep
6-1/2/G; 6-1/2/F, and 6-I/2/G. Here's the food
log: CDR, l0 salt drinks [sic] plus one strawberry
drink. I didn't say that right - ten salt packs
plus one strawberry drink. SPT: four salt - five
salt packs plus one Jam and a bit of asparagus ;
PLT, 5-1/2 salt packs, add one orange drink and
one butter cookie. Here's the movie log: 509,
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CI50, 60, CIh0; M509, CI46, 22, CI41; M092/

171 (MI71) CI50, 32, CI40. 35-millimeter.
CII01, 44; CXI3,50; CX25, 045. Drawer A: 07,
CIS0, 30, CIh0. Better make that 32, that's
07, CI50, 32, CI40; 05, CI46, 22, CIhl; 06,
cIhg, 05, CIh7; 03, CIS1, 99, CI48. The back is
02, with CIhh, 19, CI42. Okay, Flight Plan
deviation: We did not do M487-hE today. I'd
already cleaned the screen, and Jack had already
changed the teleprinter before we got - looked
at our pads. So the next time we do it, we'll
get it. I'll clean the screens again tomorrow
and get that sent back to you. Shopping list
accomplishment: I did M509D on both bottles
today, and I noticed you had them scheduled
tomorrow. Inoperable equipment: SO19 at the
moment.

CDR And unscheduled stowage items location changes :

Nothing new. That 's it.

23h 01 03 13 CC Okay, I think we have it, AI. Thank you.

CDR And also, Hank, I'd like to leave S019 out of

the lock. There's still some condensation on
the mirror because it's still cool when I re-
moved it. And it might be best if I left it
out and let it evaporate here rather than
stick it back outside. What do you think? I'm
afraid it might freeze. Although the - In the
inside of the metal part on the drive train it's
dry. It's nothing in there. Just the mirror
itself, because I guess it's a good cold thing.

234 01 Oh 57 CC Okay. I'll get an answer on that shortly.

PLT Say_ Hank, since therets condensation drops on

the mirror, what would he the less likely way
of leaving spots on the mirror? To let it
evaporate off inside or to stick it outside and
let it freeze and let it sublimate? I know you
got that kind of information in your hip pocket.

CC Well, I don't personally have, hut I hope

somebody has. We're discussing that very
argument right now.
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234 01 08 35 CC CDR, Houston. In regard to the $019, do you

think that you have the equipment and accessibility
to make an adjustment on that idler arm so we
could get optimum on the chain?

CDR It looks to me, without getting down in there and

it's not hard to get to, that it takes an Allen
wrench, and I have not attempted to see if we
have the right size. But it looks like it's
simply loosing an Allen - loosening an Allen
wren - an Allen screw and moving the Jidler
over and then retightening it and then working
the chain a few times to see if that's about the
right amount of slack. And, of course, Jack and
I and Owen could all look at it and try to get
the best opinion of the three of us.

CC Roger; we copy.

PLT Hey, Hank, would that thing work if we only put

it on 12-1/2 turns instead of 13?

234 01 09 33 CC I have to get an answer on that one. We're -

we're about 30 seconds from LOS now. We'll be
coming up on Madrid at 14 and I'll try to have
an answer for you there.

234 01 14 45 CC Skylab, Houston through Madrid for 7 minutes.

SPT Okay.

CC And we've discussed this thing; we would like for

you to go out the full 13 turns when you do it.
And if you think you can do it, CDR, we_d like
you to go ahead and adjust the idler on SO19
and then go ahead and finish the pad we sent up.

PLT Okay, the pictures have already been taken and

we_ll fool around with the idler.

CC Okay, and then when _ then we'll put it outside

• and vent it and let the moisture sumblime. And
I got a - -

PLT Do you want to put it out tonight?

232 01 15 35 CC I - I think the pad calls for that; doesn't it?

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PLT I don't know, but you want to get it outdoors

and let it sublimate as opposed to evaporating
in here, right?

CC Okay, the - the - the pad calls for you just

opening the SAL door, depressurizing the SAL,
actually, when it's in the SAL, and letting that
do the trick.

PLT Okay, we'll do it your way.

CC And, Skylab; Houston. I've got a few words on

the EVA thinking that I'd like to talk over with
you now, if it's convenient.

PLT Go ahead, Hank.

23h 01 16 27 CC Okay, the general EVA outline is as follows:

We - the first thing we'll do is the rate gyro
six pack installation and that's constrained
to commence at any sunrise. We will then put out
the - the JSC sail samples. We didntt get the
data we wanted on the first set that were put out
in SL-20. We're going to do the ATM film change-
out, and then we're going to remove the ramp
latch - the ramp latches on S082A and S056. And
we think that the total EVA time will be con-
servatively somewhere around _ hours.

CDR Sounds good to us.

CC Okay, the - the final procedure updates are in

work and should be on hoard no later than - no
later than your wakeup on Thursday_ And we're
pl_uing right now that we will - the ground -
STDN will do the powerdown management. Now the
reason we're going to do this is to be in the
best posture for an out-of-attitude time that -
at the time we're doing the six_pack installation.
We_ve got a couple of questions, I guess. First,
do you feel that - that you'll have to remove
panel 130_s kickplate to gain access to the J-21
plug?

CDR No, we took a look at it. It looks like it's

possible to do it without doing that; but, you
know, only trying it will tell,
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234 Ol 17 55 CC Okay, I guess the message is, if you think you're

going to have to do that, you can be playing
around, getting a few screws out. Now on the
last E - the first EVA, you used a procedure on
the S055 door there to remove the latch. Do we -
we need to up-link you that procedure again for
the other two doors?

CDR You sure do.

CC Okay, we'll do that then.

CDR What's going to be the attitude hold method here

when we're changing out the six-pack - the EVA?

234 01 18 53 CC Okay, we're going to be a - in nominal H-CAGE,

which should help, but essentially adrift and
we'll have the command module configurated -
configured, Just in case we have to use it.

SPT Okay, so this concept of using the ACQ Sun sensor,

et cetera, we decided not to use that, huh?

CC That's affirmative.

CDR Okay, another thought. You said it will begin

at a sunrise. Say a few more words about any
time - I need to know a couple of things we were
talking about it - the last couple of days. One,
how late in the game do you make that plug change
und - with the kickplate under the ATM panel -
or how early, would be the question, how early
can you do that? And next, I get the impression
you "want to have this thing put in in one daylight
pass. Is that correct?

234 01 19 57 CC Roger; we'd like to try to get that in in one

pas s.

CDR Okay, well, maybe our plans ought to be to "-

to plan and get out in the night and be standing
there out with all the equipment ready and then
when the Sun comes up and we can see, then we
can press on out and start working. That'll give
us a full daylight pass.
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234 O1 20 25 CC CDR, Rusty has been working on this and he's

really the expert. But he's run this whole
procedure changeout thing in 20 minutes.

END OF TAPE
 TAG Tape 23h-O2/T-305
Time: 23h:01:30 to 23h:03:00
Page 1 of 6/1973

SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

23h Ol h8 37 CC Skylab, Houston through Carnarvon for

5-1/2minutes.

CC Skylab, Houston, For the SPT, I asked a question

awhile ago and I'd still like to get an answer to
it if I could, if he remembers what GMT he turned
the rate gyro six-pack power on. We have all the
ma_ks, but we didn't get the power-on time.

SPT Oh, okay. I hadn't heard the question. Let's

see, the temperature started at 16:00 and that
was T equals zero.

23h Ol h9 h0 CC Roger. We copy.

CC And, Skylab; Houston. I have a couple of ques-

tions regarding the - the bubbles you saw on P-hT,
prominence h7, on daylight cycle beginning at
lh:_O. We'd like to know how fast the bubble
moved out on the WLC TV?

PLT Just a minute, HAnk.

23h Ol 50 35 CDR You could not see the bubble in motion, Han_, be-
cause it was about seven-eighths as large as the
Sun when we first viewed it. And we only ob-
served it for about i0 minutes. And then we
moved on to a different JOP. Now here's what my
guess is - We ta]_ed about it later - Is I -
I had a pass earlier in the day, and I took some
data, and then we had a night pass, and then the
next day, which is when we saw the bubble. And
my guess is, we probably had part of the bubble
the - the pass previous to that because I couldn't
see how it could expand that fast, otherwise. So
we're probably going to have some coverage over
several orbits of that discontinuity. Although
you couldn't see it move. You couldn't - It
was imperceptible from the times we looked at it,
except when we'd come around next orbit and look
at it, it would be different.

CC Okay. So you did observe it on the following

orbits, so that it Just - and it did appear to
move between orbits?
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CDR It appeared to expand, yes, and go off the scope.

So it was in motion.
I
I
234 01 51 50 CC And for the PLT, if he can answer. During build-
ing block 2 at 23:07, did he see anything on the
white light coronagraph TV in the area of Garriott
loop?

SPT Okay, Hank. I'll answer for him. He's hollering

at me up the t1_nnel here. And he said he could
see nothing on the white light coronagraph, al-
though it was still visible on the XUV MON. And
any sort of name like that, I've - I'm not sure
is applicable, unless perhaps I'm the only fellow
who can see it. That was the thing that was worry-
ing me for a little while, but it's since been
confirmed. So, is that the asnwer to your
question?

CC Okay. Good. Thank you.

234 01 53 51 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 20 seconds from LOS.

We'll be picking up Honeysuckle on the hour.

234 02 00 44 CC Skylab, Houston. We got about a minute here

through Honeysuckle, and then our next contact
will be Texas at 30.

SPT By the way, Hank, what - magnitude is Alpha Leo?

Probably somebody in the corollary room knows
the answer to that.

CC Okay. We'll try to get that.

SPT It certainly shows up brightly on the white light

coronagraph. It's - it looks like a very bright
star with the fine sensitivity of the 52
instrument.

234 02 O1 27 CC Roger. We copy. And Just a quick question here.

Did - did you work on S019?

SPT AI will answer that, if we can get him.

CC We're about to go LOS now; 0, we'll - we'll get

it stateside.
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234 02 01 52 SPT Okay. The answer is yes, but A1 can explain it

to you.

234 02 30 16 CC Skylab, Houston stateside for 16-1/2 minutes.

SPT Roger, Hank.

CC If - if it's convenient, we'd like to get the

ATM fil - FRAMES RI_4AINING.

SPT Going to be a short count tonight. H-ALPHA

reads 798; 56 is 859; 82A is 7; 82B is 28, 28;
52 is 1868; and 5h reads 1487. Over.

CC Roger. We copy. And we also got a couple of

questions regarding the _fl)Alight failure reported
yesterday, the aft lights 2 and h. We've got two
questions. First, did the lights fail while
switching, and, secondly, were the forward 2 and
4 lights on at the time?

234 02 31 h5 CDR Hank, we adjusted the tension on both the chains

in there. We tightened one chain, that was the
middle chain, and then the chain that leads from
the drive handle right to the main force shaft,
we loosened it a bit. So we think we've got them
both adjusted to optimum tension.

CC Roger. We copy. And, CDR, did you copy the

question regarding the MDA lights?

CDR No, I sure didn't.

CC Okay. We would like to know if the - the lights

failed, you know, the aft 2 and 4 failed while
you were switching, and also were the forward 2
and 4 lights on at the time?

23h 02 32 29 CDR No. We noticed they were both out. Actually, I

noticed one was out day before yesterday. And I
went over and checked it and noticed that it
wouldn't turn on. I said, "Well, I guess I bet-
ter change the bulb. I'll get to it tomorrow."
Tomorrow came and I looked at them and they were
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both out. And I said, "That's strange, they both

went out." I checked the switch and they still
wouldn't come on. So my feeling is now, that -
that either the switches failed, or somehow the
circuit failed serially. I know it doesn't
exactly Jibe with normal electrical failures,
but it seems to me that's what occurred.

CC Roger. We copy.

234 02 34 05 CC Skylab, Houston. We didn't get any - some of

our data down on the last rev, frame 2. We'd
like to check on panel 617 at the MODE SELECT
EXPERIMENT 1 switches in A through E, one of
those positions.

CDR It was not, it was in G. It's now in ... A,

I Just put it there for you. Do you have any
other place you'd like it?

23h 02 34 40 CC That'll be fine. Thank you, sir.

CC Skylab, Houston. How would you like to hear a

little news?

CDR Real well.

234 02 35 27 CC Okay. I'ii read off a few of them here. Authori-

ties today are seeking a man accused of threaten-
ing President Nixon's life and who fired three
shots at Secret Service agents trying to arrest
him in a New Mexico commune. The striking Houston
teachers returned to classrooms and the bargaining
table today, ending a 1-day work stoppage by a
minority of the district's 9,000 teachers. Teach-
ers called off their strike late Monday in the
face of possible loss of their jobs, fringe bene-
fits, and state certification. Hurricane Brenda's
gusting winds, exceeding 100 miles per hour in
drenching rain that threatened flooding, today
raked the Gulf Coast of Mexico 600 miles southeast
of Brownsville. Dangerous flood conditions along
the coast and northern slopes of interior moun-
tains will prevail through Wednesday, the Miami
Hurricane Center said. General of the Army Omar
Bradley continues to show improvement after under-
going surgery to prevent blood clots from entering
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his lungs. Terrorists, today - Terrorists

planted 17 fire bombs and letter bombs in London
department stores and offices today, increasing
official fears that the Irish Republican Army is
extending its guerrilla campaign to Britain. A
financial note, stock market prices fell again
today amid what brokers describe as an atmosphere
of caution and uncertainty among investors. News
about Skylab today covered your efforts to find
the leak in the coolant loop; the lights being
turned on last night in Enid, Oklahoma, for Owen
Garriott; the checks of the gyro six-pack; and
the sighting of the eruptive prominence on the
Sun. We're going to have a handover here, so
I'll continue after that.

234 02 37 50 CC Okay. We're back with you again. The stories

gave a running account of Owen Garriott's com-
mentary as he sighted the different cities on
the pass across the U.S. last night. The stories
began with "The lights shone bright in Enid, Okla-
homa, Monday night, as a greeting to a hometown
boy, Dr. Owen K. Garriott, orbiting 270 miles
overhead." Most interest on Skylab today seemed
to be centered on the possible installation of
the gyro six-pack and the sighting of the erup-
tive prominence on the Sun. The prominence was
the main topic at today's change-of-shift brief-
ing to the press. Hank Aaron, who has hit homers
in three consecutive games for a life-time total
of 704 in his effort to catch Babe Ruth's record
714, was named the National League player of the
week last year [sic]. Cynthia Potter of Houston
has captured her 18th national diving title. The
sandy-haired Miss Potter won the 1-meter champion-
ship as the 1973 National AAU Swimming and Diving
Meet opened in Louisville, Kentucky. She now owns
i0 indoor and outdoor first-place awards in the
1-meter event. The big interest around here to-
night, since the weather is clear, is that you're
going to pass almost directly overhead at 9:20
and all the watchers are getting out to look. I
guess that time should be about 9:30. And we're
about 30 seconds from handover to Bermuda and
that will be your med conference.
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234 02 39 26 SPT It looks like we passed overhead about i0 or

15 minutes ago then, Hank.

CC Roger. Everybody was out.

SPT No wonder we couldn't raise you on the loop.

CC (Laughter)

234 02 39 42 CC One quickie for the ATM; on the S052, we'd like
the MIRROR switched to CAMERA.

234 02 46 04 CC Skylab, Houston. We've got you back for about

45 seconds. Madrid will be coming up at 5 - 51.
And as a reminder, that's CDR's private call.

SPT Is this it right now, Hank?

234 02 46 31 CC Roger. We've got about 20 seconds.

END OF TAPE
 TAG Tape 234-03/T-306
Time: 234:03:00 to 234:10:30
Page 1 of 1/1979

SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

23h 03 39 h2 SPT Hello, Hank; let me send you a message here in

the blind. I presume you're listening down
there because heal - hear the teleprinter chug-
ging away and I can see a couple of the experi-
ments operating. When you du_np the VTR you're
going to find a lot of blank tape there until I
finally wised up and put the video switch from
M0N - ATM MON back to TV, a mistake which you
know that I've made before. And then after that
was finally done correctly, I recorded more in-
formation to time relate to the down-linkedTV
on channel A. So if you get the PA0 people to
take a look at the channel A tape, that can also
be related to the stuff I have on the VTR. Oven

233 03 h0 25 CC We copy.

END OF TAPE
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Page 1 of 2/1981

SKYLA2 AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

234 ll 04 03 CC (Music: The Party's Over by Julie London)

23h ll 07 24 CC Good morning, Skylab. You can rub the sleep out
of your eyes and it's time to go to work.

PLT Who's the vocalist, Bob?

CC I figured you'd like Julie London's voice better

than mine this morning.

PLT Today is Julie London day.

CC Shall I give her a call? (Laughter)

CC We're now over Vanguard and we've got you for

about 5 more minutes.

PLT Can you play that back in Spanish then?

CC We'll work on it. Since you're so talkative

this morning, Jack. I'll tell you before you go
get your teleprinter messages, there is a bum
star tracker pad, sitting right after the SAP
and then right below that there is a good one.
The machine burped on us this morning.

PLT Okay, I'll pick it up, Bob. Thank you.

234 ll 08 h6 CC And also, Jack, for your information, I guess we

could say that song might have been dedicated to
the primary coolant loop. The a - It looks like
it's going to get ready to go here any minute -
pressure inlet - pressure on the pump was down
below lO and we're going to turn it off when it
get's to be 5.

PLT Okay. Will that be giving us a CAUTION and

WARNING or will that shut it off before we get
it?

234 ii 09 15 CC I understand that y'all INHIBITED that CAUTION

and WARNING parameter yesterday.
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PLT Okay.

23h ii i0 50 SPT Hello, Robert.

CC Yes.

SPT Say, if you can't make that phone call through

to Julie, why don't you make this Gene Cagle
Day. You know, Gene is over at Marshall and
he's a hard man to catch early in the morning
and I know you spent a lot of time working with
him, as all of us have. He's done such a fine
Job making that ATM work right and get it de-
signed properly and put together right, that
we'd like to call this Gene Cagle Day, and ap-
preciate if you'd give him a call and let him
know how much his work has contributed towards
making the ATM and Skylab a going effort and a
success up here. Over.

CC Okay, 0wen. I'm sure he'd appreciate those fine

words and I'll - I'll give him a call.

SPT Thank you.

CC Still like to give Julie a call.

SPT Well I think Gene might not mind waiting a day

if you can get through to her.

CC Might try them both.

23h ll 12 22 CC And, Skylab, we're 1 minute from LOS. We'll see

you again over Goldstone in a little over an
hour at 12:16, 12:16. And we'll be doing a data
voice recorder dump there. Also I'll have a few
messages for you concerning Flight Plan updates
and so forth.

END OF TAPE
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Time: 234:12:00 to 234:13:30
Page i of 9/1983

SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

234 12 16 16 CC Skylab, Houston. AOS Goldstone for Ii minutes,

and we'll be doing a data voice recorder dump.
Also, in about a minute, we're going to have a
keyhole.

SPT Bob, has anybody looked at the VTR from last

night yet?

CC We have started looking at it and we didn't -

haven't gotten all the way into it yet, Owen.

SPT Okay. There was a blank segment on there.

Probably lO minutes long or so, when I made my
usual forgetful mistake of switching the video
select switch and then I put TV-28 on again
after that. And I wanted to check with Fred
Koons or one of the other people associated with
some of that down-link TV stuff to see if there
was an adequate amount put on the end along with
the voice commentary, or whether or not there
was any segment that needed to be repeated. And
the next question was, I wonder about the rewind
speed on that VTR. Is there any way - if we
say no - that we_ve messed up the last lO minutes
that we, onboard, can rewind l0 minutes of real
time and X seconds of rewind time and then stop
it at that point? Over.

234 12 17 23 CC Stand by for a keyhole and I_ii try to answer

you shortly,

234 12 18 19 CC Okay, Skylab, we're out of the keyhole and we've

still got you for about 8 minutes. And Owen, in
answer to your question, wetre - we're researching
to see if that TV-28 was adequate and also about
rewind speed; it's 4 to i.

SPT Okay. And we can rewind it at 4 to i and then

stop it at that point and just as - Just as
well as you're doing it on the ground, I guess?

CC That's affirmative, Owen. And probably should

comment to you that, as you probably are aware,
that any comments that you make on channel A
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r

while the VTR - VTR is going, will be recorded

on the VTR. We got some comments that you had
been making to the doctors, I guess, on the VTR
recording one evening.

234 12 20 04 SPT Okay. Yes, that - understand that. That's no

problem, The way that happened, I suppose, was
Just that I had some comments I was recording on
channel A - AM recorder, at the same time some-
body else was running the VTR. And it just gets
put on both recorders that way,

CC Okay, Owen_ And Just also had another comment

about 55, The last couple of nights, 55 mirror
has been rastering continuously during the night
orbit as well as during the day. And we sus-
picioned that the experiment NIGHT INTERLOCK
switch might be in OVERRIDE, because that's the
° only thing of - that we can think of that would
give that condition. And we'd appreciate it if
maybe when A1 or somebody goes up to check that
would - somebody verify it one way or the other
for us.

CDR Okay, it is. I'm looking at it right now.

234 12 20 53 CC Okay. There's really no reason why that one

should be - should be in OVERRIDE. It's - could
you elaborate on it or ... - -

SPT Yes. I can elaborate, Bob. I don't know exactly

how it happened either time, but my guess is as
follows: There was - during one of the night
portions, we wanted to set the grating in prepa-
ration for the next dayts orbit. And after setting
it, then it simply was not returned back to the
NORMAL position. It's not in our checklist to
check that anywhere. So, Jack just suggested -
I think it's a good idea, that we'll include as
part of our powerdown procedure that we check to
make sure that NIGHT INTERLOCK is put back to
NORMAL.

234 12 21 31 CC Okay. That was what we were going to recommend

that you might put it on the unattended cue card.
Would you like us to go ahead and officially do
that through the paper - papermill?
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SPT If it's real short.

CDR You bet. We got another problem with the ATM

up here, Crip, Looking at the DAS display, and
the top half of all the numbers is blank. The
lower half - or dark, I should say - the lower
half is - are real dim and they're all zeros.
Or the bottom half is zeros.

CC Okay, A1. Is the DAS switch in - in BUS l?

23h 12 22 13 CDR In BUS 1 and integral and NUMERICS are in FI_

and all the displays are in BUS i, So it's kind
of a strange one. I was thinking maybe somehow
y'all had it locked up down there.

CC Negative. We shouldn't get that kind of effect.

We'll - we'll take a look at it.

CDR Itve never seen this one.

f

CC Yes, there is - is a way you can get into that,

but it normally requires being in BUS so -

CC And AI, while -while I_m looking in -we can -

researching your orbit phase timer problem, I've
got a small Flight Plan change I_d like to make,
if you've got yours handy.

23h 12 23 25 CDR Go ahead_

CC Okay. Since you were nice enough to pressurize

the 509 bottles earlier, we would like you to add
at your 17:08 time slot an S019 film installation.

CDR Okay.

CC And, if Jack's handy l_ve got a similar one for

h_m.

PLT Go ahead, Crip.

234 12 23 52 CC Okay. You'Ve got a lh:00 time which was original-

ly scheduled to pressurize 509 bottle; if you
would - could add in there a T003-2, 3, and 4
for us.
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PLT I got it,

CC Okeydoke.

CDR Okay. I need to get some questions that maybe -

sent up - answered some way - maybe sent up on a
pad or the EVA, Crip.

CC Okay, A1, Go ahead.

234 12 22 37 CDR Okay. We need to know what our plans are with
the S149. We kind of suspicion we're going to
have to bring it in because it's open and right
near the station, although we didn't hear. We
don't have any procedures on board for the swatch
removal and the new one installation, if that's
the plan. So we'll have to get that. We'd like
you to send us another complete six-pack procedures.
Now we've got ours installed on our card already,
but I'd like tc have two copies on board. And
then there's another couple of questions and
those are requests. Here come the question.

CC Okay. Stand by.

CC Okay, A1, on that S129, we've got procedures in

work for you and the intent will be - You're
going to have to move it to get out to - to the
Sun end there and then you'll be putting it back
out. So you're not going to be bringing it all
the way in.

CDR Okay. Well1 be standing by for those procedures.

CC Okeydoke,

234 12 22 53 CDR Okay. Here comes the questions. Is there a plan

within the next few days, prior to the EVA, to
go to the same control system we're going to use
during the actual changeout at the same period
in the orbit; mainly, Just after sunrise or
i0 minutes after sunrise, or whatever you feel
is the nominal; and then watch it and see what
happens? In other words, I'm thinking about the
advisability of trying that for the first time
when we've got two guys outside and one other
guy inside. Seems to me it might be interesting
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to try it a couple of days early with all three

of us in here - sort of in a much more controlled
condition Just to see what happens. Then we'll
be alert to what actually would happen on EVA
day.

CC Okay. I assume you're talking about there, A1,

where we essentially go to a free and standby
mode with the CMG still in the cage. Is that
right?

CDR That's affirmative, nominal cage and - and let

it stay Just as long as it's going to do it on
EVA day and then see what happens here.

234 12 27 06 CC Okay, we'll - we'll look into that and try to

get you some feedback on it.

CDR Okay. Need to know how early we can disconnect

J-21 under the ATM panel, relative to EVA, and
also, if you, of course, cross-connect the six-
z pack signal cable., and what effect that actually
has when we do it, What capabilities do we lose,
if any, from the minute we do that until we get
the final connection?

CC Okay, We're working that one for you, AI. Should

have answer for you tomorrow morning. You'll
probably be able to do it the night before. We're
going LOS, and we'll see you again over Vanguard
at 12:42, 12:42.

23h 12 27 51 CDR Okay_ The last one is, is the actual period of
standhy and no control only from the time that
we make - or break the connection, P-1 out there
in the J-3 box until we make the new connection?
So it could he as short as 3 or 4 minutes or as
long as l0 or 15.

CC The answer to that is affirmative.

234 12 28 14 CDR Okay, sounds good. And we've been working the
problem up here, and we'll talk about it a little
bit more.

23h 12 40 48 CC Skylab, Houston. A0S over the Vanguard for

l0 minutes.
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CDR Okay, and we're running the ATM now. And the
way I got them back, by the way, is ...

23h 12 hi 32 CC Okay, AI, we've got you back once more. We

_iropped out Just as soon as you started to tell
me something.

CDR Okay. I got the displays back for EVENT TIMER,

the COUNTERS and the DAS by putting my DISPLAY
switch from ORB BUS i to BUS 2, those four
switches. And it's working properly now in
BUS 2. BUS i, if you put them over there, it
doesn't work; it works like I mentioned.

CC Okay. Understand that they were all inoperative

on BUS i and you had to go to BUS 2 on all of
them.

CDR That 's a fact.

CC Okay. We copied that. And did you get my trans-

mission before we went LOS, previously, regarding
your question on no control?

23h 12 42 23 CDR Yes.

CC And PLT, have you got some time to get some

changes for today, please?

CC CDR, I should also alert you to the fact that

your CRT is - your CRT is not going to he
operative unless you've got the X-RAY SPECT
switch in BUS 2 under the CONSOLE POWER DISTRI-
BUTION panel.

CDR Okay, that 's where we put it, Thanks.

CC And AI, can you verify for us the status of the

circuit breakers on the - the C&D?

CDR Theytre all in with the exception of STATUS

LIGHT BACKUP 1 and 2 which are always out.

234 12 44 40 CC Okay, copy;

PLT Crip, were you calling me awhile ago?

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CC Yes, Jack, if you've got some time, I had a

couple of things I need to run over with you.

PLT Go ahead.

CC Okay. Do you - you have one SO19 pad message

number 2625 today.

PLT Yes, sir. Got it right before me.

CC Okay. On field number 457, the TILT on that

should be 6.4.

23_ 12 45 17 PLT Okay, TILT 6.4 on the first field, vice 6.7.

CC That's - that's affirmative. Also regarding

T002 6 Bravo, we understand from some of the
transcripts that l0 marks on each star is pressing
you. You can relax the marks count on each star
to 6 to 8 marks. Also use the stars given in
your details, which are the same today as yester-
day, and that 's - and Dabiho

PLT Okay. It's really not the number of marks that's

pressing me. Once you get the stars in the sex-
tant you can rip off a whole bunch of marks in a
hurry. The problem is in going from one star
to another, trying to reacquire the star. The
time-consuming thing is finding the star in the
s ext ant.

234 12 46 07 CC Okay.

PLT And so I was vondering if I can't get two sets

of marks on the - both stars individually if one
set of marks on each star is acceptable?

CC Okay, we'll check that,

PLT Normally what they want me to do is to take l0

on one star and then Jump to another and then
jump hack to another st _ the first star and
then Jump back to the second star. The time-
consuming part is to reacquire those stars those
four different times. And if I were able Just
do it two times, why that'd be better. Or if
I could make 20 marks in a row on one star
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instead of breaking it up into four separate

sets, why that would be more acceptable, or
less time consuming anyway, and more likely to
get the Job done.

234 12 46 58 CC Okay, we copy that. And we'll try to get an

answer back to you.

PLT Okay. If they could work on that and give me the

answer in another 20 minutes when it's going to
get dark, why, it would help me because I'm at
the window working on this experiment now.

CC Okay, I've got about 3-1/2 more minutes and we'll

see if we can get an answer for you. Also while
you're - see if we can talk you into something
else for tilt corollary. You've got a pretty
crowded evening in your pre-sleep, and this is
up to you, but we like to know if you would con-
sider doing an additional SO19 run for us in
that period. It would be a - -

PLT I'll do it.

234 12 47 36 CC Okay. It would be around 01:58, we've got a pad

for you, and we'll - we'll send it up to you.

PLT Okay, thank you.

CC CDR, Houston.

CDR Go ahead.

CC Wonder if you could cycle the - the MAIN INVERTER/

LCA breaker number 1 for us; pull it out and put
it back in and then try BUS 1 again.

CDR Okay, that's called INVERTER/LCA-1, top row left,

second from the right.

CC That's affirmative.

234 12 48 45 CDR Made it work. I'll just stay on BUS 1.

CC Okay, You can put them all back to l. And that

BUS can trip _ that inverter can trip off like
that.
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CDR Okay. And I don't know who psyched it out,

but good job.

CC And CDR, I guess when you get an opportunity we

would appreciate getting a Nu Z update.

CDR Okay. I got started a little late here and

soon as I get it going, I'ii get the ... for you.

CDR Can you tell if the number indicated on my panel

for GRATING position is 200, OPTICAL?

234 12 50 27 CC Understand you want us to verify that for you,

Al?

CDR That's affirm. I want to make sure it isn't

200, MECHANICAL.

CC Okay, that is affirmative. It is 200, OPTICAL.

We're going LOS in about 30 seconds; we'll see
you again over Hawaii in about an hour from now.

SPT Hey, Crip, one more thing I noticed on the pads

that came up last night: Where it says at the
bottom the various times to cross the equator -
on the ascending node - that the times are wrong.
They're all - they all got two zeros in front of
them, and there's three of them spaced within
i0 minutes apart.

234 12 51 14 CC Break, break, Jack. If we've still got you, you

are supposed to do T002 as per checklist.

END OF TAPE
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Time: 234:13:30 to 234:15:02
Page 1 of 2/1993

SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

234 13 51 19 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Hawaii for 5

minutes. Over.

PLT Okay, Bruce.

CC Now, when you're - have a minute on your hand,

I have some corrections to EREP slider map as-
cending node times; they're fairly minor ones,
if you want to take them or not. Over.

SPT Okay, Jack's on channel A, recording, and A1 and

I are doing 131 right now, Bruce, so why don't
we wait a while?

CC Will do.

234 13 55 34 CC Skylab, this is Houston. One minute to LOS over

Hawaii. Next station contact in 22 minutes at
the Vanguard at 14:18, and we will be dumping
your data voice tape recorder at the Vanguard.
Out.

234 14 18 48 CC Skylab, this is Houston through the Vanguard for

9 minutes. Out.

CC And for your information, we will be dumping the

data voice tape recorder this pass.

234 14 22 52 CC CDB, Houston. We show scheduled ATM operations

this pass. Do you have any changes to the
Flight Plan or deviations? Over.

CDR No, I been up here for several minutes trying to

find a good network cell to work on. Network
cells Just aren't that hot today on the Sun.
And I think I finally found one. But we started
working it; it's been tough to find a good net-
work cell that we thought we could follow. I'm
not sure I can even follow this one. Cells
aren't that defined today for some reason.

CC Mighty fine. I sympathize with your problem

there.
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CDR Some days are real good up here. This is Just

one day wh_n they're - very mottled and not one
for ... side, the contrast was low on them and
it's Just tough to find a good one. I think
I've got one now, though.

234 14 27 i0 CC Skylab, this is Houston. One minute to LOS over

the Vanguard. Next station contact in 58min-
utes at Hawaii at 15:25. Out.

CDR Boy, we don't see you all too often these days,
do we?

CC There seems to be some problem about the Earth

being turned around the wrong way here.

CDR I know there's a problem with cloud scheduling.

So far, those have interfered a little bit.

CC Well, we're planning on resuming EREP ops on

about day B7, I believe. So presumably then,
we'll start having you daytime over the States
again.

CDR Yes, I guess it'll be ascending nodes the rest

of the time.

234 14 28 04 CC Roger.

END OF TAPE
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Time: 234:15:02 to 23h:16:30
Page 1 of 3/1995

SKYLAB AIR-T0-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

234 15 25 26 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Hawaii for

9-1/2 minutes, and we'll be dumping the data
voice tape recorder, next station, Vanguard.
Out.

SPT Okay, Bruce. We Just completed the run on

Jack's M092; we're transferring over to the
M171 now.

CC Okay. If Jack's listening, in case he missed

our call up earlier with respect to the T002
runs, we'd like him to stay with the experiment
protocol per the checklist. I - Ifihe gets
short on time, relax the marks count on each
star, but stick with the stars. And for you,
Owen, in about 4 hours you got some handheld
photography of a lagoon south of Rio de Janiero.
I have some additionalverbal descriptionon how
to locate it that I could pass up to you over
Vanguard Just before that site, if you'd like
it. Over.

SPT Okay, now we're getting ready.

234 15 27 49 CDR Say, Bruce, let me do some discussion with you

for a few seconds about this EVA.

CC Fire away, AI.

CDR I think what we'll plan to do is to do it this

way. Jack and 0wen will be the two fellows that
go out; I'll stay in here. Jack will go out in
part of a daylight pass and reconnoiter both of
the areas - make sure that he can get to both
of the areas and if the connectors, in fact,
look like we've trained on, then that'll end that
day pass. He'll come back, we'll get the rest
of the gear out that night, and then when the
day starts, he'll go out and attach the - both
ends of the rate gyro EVA cables. Then when
that's finished, he'll come back into the FAS
and switch positions.
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234 15 28 49 CDR Then (>wen will go out and do the lhg, the film
change, the swatch putup - and bring in the
other one, if they want it brought in, and re-
lease - release the bolts on the - and take off
the ramps on the two experiments. That's kind
of my thinking on the personnel that might do
the Job and the sequence. Now the sequence
during the time Owen's out there might end up
being a little bit different than that, but,
essentially, he'll do those tasks.

CC Okay, A1, that sounds great to us.

CDR It's amazing. I found the network cell again.

Not a very good cell, but it's got some good
landmarks around it; some clumps around it_ some
other things. We 're on the right place so we 'll
Just keep working there.

CC Sorry, A1. I didn't copy at the beginning

there.

23h 15 32 03 CDR I said I found the network cell I was working

on. It isn't a very classic cell in terms of
what we've trained to look for, because I Just
couldn't find any of those. But it looks like
there's enough clumps around so that we might be
able to track it and get the data we need.

CC Roger. Out.

CC Skylab, this is Houston; 45 seconds to LOS here

at Hawaii. Next station contact in 22 minutes
at the Vanguard at 15:56. Out.

23h 15 57 17 CC Skylab, this is Houston over the Straits of

Magellan through Vanguard for 8 plus &8. Out.

CC And we will be dumping the data voice tape re-

corder this pass through Vanguard.

CDR Say, Bruce, could you give me the best guess

right now of what the star tracker should have
to get Canopus ....

CC I believe Canopus is excluded right now, and

Alpha Crucis is your star. I can read you the
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pad or we can get you an update if you're having

troubles with the pad values.

CDR I spent l0 minutes trying to get it in minus 637

and plus 1319 all around. But I haven't had a
lot of luck.

CC Okay. We'll get you Achernar, and we'll have

the gimbal angles for you in Just a second.

234 16 04 05 CC Skylab, this is Houston. We recommend use of

Achernar with the star tracker. INNER GIMBAL,
plus 1800; OUTER GIMBAL, zero. If that doesn't
work, close the STAR TRACKER SHUTTER, and we'll
give you an outer gimbal backup real quicklike
here. Achernar was available until ll minutes
of daylight remaining. Over.

CC Okay, and, Skylab; we've received word that an

aurora is in progress. Although the spacecraft
is not in the best position to observe the
aurora, you may be able to see it out the S-h
window, STS, Just before sunrise at about
16:hO Z. We'll give you later advisories if the
aurora is still active.

234 16 05 16 CC And they're viewing the aurora and observing it

in Alaska at the present time. h5 seconds to
LOS; next station contact in 1 hour and 29 min-
utes. Back over the Vanguard at 7 - 17:Bh. Did
you copy the star tracker information, Al? In
the blind? Star tracker information again:
Achernar, star; OUTER GIMBAL, zero; INNER GIMBAI_
plus 1800. If you don't get it, close the
SHUTTER. We'll give you an outer gimbal backup,
next Vanguard. It's available until ii minutes
of daylight remaining. Acknowledge. Over.

CDR You were blocked out by some sort of other talk-

ing, Bruce, and we haven't heard you since you
mentioned the word "aurora."

234 16 06 16 CC Okay. Did you copy about Achernar?

END OF TAPE
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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

234 17 35 26 CC Sky'lab, Skylab, this is Houston through the Van-

guard for 9-1/2 minutes. Over.

SPT Okayp Bruce. It 1OOkq like be need a little in_

formation on star tracker here so _e can get
an update there. We' re pretty badly out of
alignment now.

CC Skylab, Skylab, this is Houston. Okay. For

the SPT, new star tracker pad, star Achernar,
which is a DAS code of 50000; INNER GIMBAL,
plus 1764; OUTER GIMBAL, minus 1450; and that's
available from 6 minutes of night to 13 minutes
of day remaining. Over.

SPT Okay, it looks like we can pick it up right

now so I'll go try to find Achernar at this
point.

234 17 36 21 CC Skylab, Skylab, Roger. Go ahead and work on

Achernar - stand by on that, we're going to
inhibit momentum dump for you. We'll give you
GO when we're through with that and you can get
on the DAS. If the CDR is listening, I have
some comments for him on SO19. Over.

CDR I'm listening.

234 17 36 43 CC Skylab, Skylab, for the CDR. The adjustments

you made to the AMS chain drive affect the
phasing of eight ball-screw drives in the
auxiliary mirror system. This adjustment is
very critical; an attempt to adjust the chain
drive of the training unit has caused it to lock
up. What we'd like you to do, time permitting,
is to remove the auxiliary mirror system from
the SAL - by the way the dump is inhibited;
the SPT is cleared to go ahead with the star
tracker acquisition. Remove the auxiliary
mirror system from the SAL and extend and
retract the mirror six times. While you've
got the mirror fully extended on a couple of
these, you might move the TILT and ROTATION
off of the zero position, then bring them back
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to zero for the retraction. And if you find

no change in loading of the extension knob
during extension and retraction or any indication
of roughness, you're then cleared to go ahead
and reinstall the whole works in the SAL and
proceed with the S019 operations as scheduled.
We understand that you did extend and retract
a couple of times last evening. Approximately
how many times did you do this after adjusting
the chain? Over.

234 17 38 05 CDR MY guess is about three or four. Some were

full extension, some were partial extension,
but it won't take me very long to _ take the
mirror system and check it out again.

CC Skylab, Skylab, Roger; AI. Did you notice

any variations in the loading on the EXTEND
RETRACK knob at that time? Over.

PLT Yes, it got easier to work.

CDR Also, note the chain drive mechanism is the

synchronization mechanism for all four of those
drives. And it appeared to me that the
slack that I took up or didn't take up, as long
as it was moderate, which it was, didn't slip
any chain links or anything like that and so
the - the little screws couldn't get out of
phase if you see what I mean. In other words,
any time one link goes a link - any time one
sprocket goes a length, all the rest have
got to go. I don't understand the problem
actually, but I'ii go up there and check it out.

234 17 39 15 CC Skylab, Skylab, Roger; AI. When we asked

you about the loads, we weren't asking about
the difference between the load when it was
installed in the SAL and when you were
extending it ; we're concerned about the
uniformity of loading as the mirror is extended
and retracted. Over.

CDR I - I think it was uniform - Let me go - It felt

good all the way in and out and operated
well and we watched the screw drives; they all
looked good. The mirror reached the end of the
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travel; it was perpendicular to the screw drive

as it should be. Let me pull it back out and give
it a check. I'll run it in and out and tilt it
maximum directions and things and probably we'll
have a better feel for the problem then. Also
it'll be cool now and that will be a more true
test; it was warmed up by the time we checked it
out.

234 17 40 12 CC Skylab, Skylab, Roger; A1. We'll stand by to hear

the results from you on that one. For the SPT,
we expected to get rate gyro six-pack temperature
readouts yesterday, at approximately 20:00 and
23:00, also today at 02:00 Z. And we were looking
for these on channel A. We didn't - haven't found
them yet; did you put them on and, if so, at approx-
imately what time? Could you tell us? Over.

SPT Yes. We - I did not put those measurements on

channel A, I'm prepared to give them to you now.
I put on the ones in the first 30-minute interval
.... where the ra_id transient was. I'ii give you the
readings that we've got. We were not able to get
all the readings that were requested every 3 hours,
but I'll tell you what we have got in Just a moment
here as soon as I get this other building block
going.

234 17 hi 02 CC Skylab, Skylab, Roger. And for your information - -

SPT And as it is, it looks like we've got a good star

now and, if you're happy, I'll close the shutter
door.

CC Skylab, Skylab, this is Houston. We're looking

at the star and we're happy. You can go ahead
and close the STAR TRACKER door. For your infor-
mation, we're having difficulties with the data
circuits through Ascension, so it'll probably be
voice only. We may dump the data voice tape re-
corder at Ascension, if we get our cow,hand circuits
back up, but I'll keep you posted on that one.
Ore r.

SPT Okay.

SPT Okay, Bruce, here comes some temperatures. Do we

have a couple of minutes left?
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CC Skylab, Skylab, this is Houston. Roger, 0wen;

we've got 2 minutes and 50 seconds left. Go ahead.
Out.

23h 17 42 i0 SPT Okay, on X-5 I only got the following measurement

at 20:45 last night: 87.0 degrees, 2.98 volts.
Next will be three sequences and I'll give the
voltage and then X-5, 6, Y-5, 6, in that order:
day 233 at 22:30, minus 2.98 volts, 91.5, 90.2,
92.5, 90.1, 92.6, 89.7; on day 234 at 13:00,
2.98 volts, 92.3, 91.0, 92.0, 91.2, 92.6, 89.6;
on day 2Bh at 16:30, 2.98 volts, 91.9, 91.3, 92.6,
91.6, 93.h, 89.6. You'll note the last reading
on Z-6. Zebra 6 is a little lower in temperature
than the others. I think this is probably due to
the fact that there is an air blower blowing air
almost on this face plate and it probably accounts
for a couple of degrees difference in temperature
there. Over.

234 17 43 31 CC Skylab, Skylab, this is Houston. Roger, Owen. We

copied the data, thank you. We're a little over
a minute from LOS, next station contact in
h-l/2 minutes over Ascension at 17:47. Over.

23h 17 48 ii CC Skylab, this is Houston through Ascension for the

next 9-1/2 minutes. How do you read? Over.

CC Skylab, this is Houston through Ascension for

9-1/2 minutes. How do you read? Over.

SPT We're reading you loud and clear, Bruce.

CC Okay, 0wen. We will not be dumping the data voice

tape recorder, as we're down to one data circuit
and one voice circuit here through Ascension. On
your subsequent rate gyro six-pack temperature
readings, we'd like you to send them down to us
in real time or near real time on the air-to-ground
loop. As we're coordinating the final details of
the rate gyro procedure, we'd like to check it out
as we go along. Over.

23h 17 49 23 SPT Okay. It looks like they're pretty well stabilized

from the measurement, Just looking at the numbers
I sent down.
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CC Roger. We concur.

SPT And would you ask the ATM science room, please,
if they had. a chance to look at those XUV tran-
sients we saw off the northwest limb of the Sun
yesterday afternoon and what their interpretation
of them is.

CC Yes, indeed. They've already done that, Owen. In

fact, I've got some traffic backed up here for
you. The down-link was looked at by the S082 per-
sonnel in the SAR and by NOAA. The XUV MON showed
some brightening on the northwest limb, but an arch
was not visible. NOAA cannot confirm the arch by
ground data and the consensus is that the phenomena
was instrument-scattered light caused by offset
pointing. Over.

234 17 50 16 SPT Okay. If it was instrument scattered, I'd say

scattered into the XUV MON, so the display here
would've shown it. Now if that were so, I would've
noticed it shown up on the - shown up on the TV
also, since the same thing I'm seeing should have
been on the tape recorder. I'm a little puzzled
why they couldn't see it when we could, unless it's
a question of sensitivity.

CC You make a very convincing case.

SPT We tried a number of things to verify that it was

not instrumental. For example, we rotated our
viewing hood u o here to make sure that it was no
light leaking into the instruments. The briEht-
ness only appeared with the integrate switch. So
it did disanpear and - and become brighter when
the integrate switch was released, as did all of
the other XUV features. We also rotated the ATM
canister durin_ the time we were viewing it, to
make sure that the features did rotate with the
rotation of the canister, which it did. So it
seemed that every check we could make did verify
it was a legitimate feature and we're still a
little puzzled by it.

234 17 51 30 CC Okay. Needless to say, Owen, we'll go back and

have another look at that. Couple of other items
here is that your TV-28 yesterday did not work out
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]
well enough for release. We got only about
1 minute of color pictures and the voice was not
good enough for broadcast. We tried the channel-A
voice tape, _0ut the lightweight headset appeared
to be too far from your lips. We've considered
rescheduling, but we'd like your input. If you
want to, we'll reschedule it. If you don't, we
have plenty of other television to do. If you
want to try it again and you desire, we can send
you a little checklist with cue cards for the
switches and voice procedures. Over.

SPT (Laughter) No requirement for the checklist and

voice procedures and let's reschedule it after the
EVA.

23h 17 52 19 CC Okay. We'll do that and when you have some time
up there, you or Jack, we have a PCG number 7 reg-
ulator fine adjustment, but this is not time crit-
ical at all.

CDR Okay, Bruce. We took out the canister and ran it

in and out five times, rotated it to limit, tilt
and shaft ; everything works just great.

SPT Bruce, did you copy? Over.

CC Okay, Alan. You got us convinced - you're GO for

the S019 ouerations per the Flight Plan.

CDR Okeydoke. We think our best bet is to keep every-

thing neat and clean and to not run it - to run it
out 12 turns and then - just regular speed and then
the last turn, run it very slowly so it doesn't
bump up against any stops or have any problem with
maybe Jumping the chain off a sprocket tooth and
then work it from there. We'll get it full out,
but - but ease it out; Same coming back in.

23h 17 53 h3 CC That sounds like a good way to do it to us.

CDR Houston, do you concur with this minus 12.2 Nu Z

that we read up here?

CC Stand by. That 's affirmative, A1. We show a Nu Z

of minus 12.2 degrees.
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23h 17 5h hl CDR Okeydoke. I'll change the S019 and make the runs.

23h 17 56 24 CC Were you calling us, Skylab?

SPT Negative.

234 17 57 15 CC Skylab, this is Houston. Forty-five seconds until

LOS. Next station contact in 35 minutes over Guam
at 18:32. We will be dumping the data voice tape
recorder over Guam. Out.

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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

234 18 32 28 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Guam for the next

8-1/2 minutes. Out.

CC We will be doing a data voice tape recorder this

pass - dump, that is.

SPT Bruce, did you have some information for me about

the handheld photo update?

CC Yes, indeed, 0wen. With reference to the photogra-

phy at about 19:19 on Lagoa Freitas. We've got an
Atlas down here, and if you look at it - Stand by.
We're enabling momentum dump in 30 seconds for the
PLT, if you can stay off the DAS for a minute.
You'll actually be in contact with us through the
Vanguard at the time you come up on the site here,
but I can give you a little bit of a briefing. If
you locate Rio de Janeiro, it's on the Baia de
Guanabara - Guanabara Bay, which is fairly large,
and at the south-western edge of that bay is the
famous mountain, Sugar Loaf, and Just to the
southwest of Sugar Loaf is the Laguna or Lagoa
Freitas that's your objective in the photo pass.
Over.

234 18 34 00 SPT Good enough. Used to swim there.

CC Right. Sort of behind the beach is Copacabana.

SPT Right.

CC Actually, it's Copacabana on one side and Ipanema

on the other.

SPT That's right; I've been there a couple of times.

CC Okay, then you ought to have no trouble picking it

out.

CDR Just finished S019 ops. It worked like a charm and

retracted like a charm too. Everything seems okay.
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CC Beautiful, A1; that's music to our ears.

CDR Okay.

CC For the PLT.

PLT Go ahead, Bruce.

CC Yes, if you have time, we'd like on PCG number 7

REGULATOR, FINE ADJUSTMENT, to rotate that
clockwise by l0 degrees from it's present posi-
tion, that is, one-third of one division on the
panel. PCG 7, FINE ADJUST, clockwise, l0 degrees.
Over.

PLT Okay.

234 18 37 33 PLT How do you like PCG 7, Bruce?

CC Stand by a second.

CC Okay, Jack. We can't give you definitive answer

right now, we'll have to watch it as it charges
and discharges over an orbit or two, and we'll
get back to you.

PLT Okay.

234 18 h0 23 CC Skylab, this is Houston. One minute until LOS

at Guam. Next station contact in 31 minutes
over the Vanguard at 19:11. Over.

234 18 40 36 PLT See you over the Vanguard, Bruce.

234 19 12 13 CC Skylab, this is Houston through the Vanguard, for

i0 minutes and 20 seconds. Out.

234 19 14 07 PLT Going to fire a little TV down-link down now,

Bruce.

CC Okay. You want to send it down live, you say,

or put it in the VTR?

PLT Well, the pad says to shoot a little down. I

Just thought we'd - I thought that meant that
we would be set up live.
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CC Okay. Let her rip, Jack. We're configured.

PLT Thank you.

SPT Okay, Bruce. How do you read me?

CC Loud and clear, 0wen.

SPT Okay. I'm over at the window on a headset. We're

just coming up the coast of South America at this
time. And weather looks pretty good from here. - -

CC Okay. And did you confirm the MDA video switch

is in the portable position?

SPT It's in the M0N 2 position.

CC Okay. We got it now. That's correct. Go ahead,

0wen.

23_ 19 15 12 SPT I was just going to point out that the EREP slider
.- map apparently had - or the table of longitude
versus time was apparently in error this morning.
I thought perhaps you could send us up an update,
if it's convenient, and give us the right longi-
tude. All the times were about the same, even
though they were distinctly different longitudes
on our pad.

CC Okay. The time for 01.3 west should be 17:56:46.

Over.

SPT Okay. I didn't have a pencil out, Bruce. Just

let it go for now and I'll get it as soon as I'm
through with this photography here.

CC Okay. This is the one that we told you earlier

that we had on hand when you had a minute to
update.

SPT Sorry.

234 19 16 00 CC Just disregard the leading zeros, and it's

accurate to the nearest minute.
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SPT Oh, that's good. That's all we need to know.

SPT Looks like an excellent view of Rio de la Plata

today ... Uruguay.

CC Understand you got a view going over Rio de la

Plata. We've got a dropout here.

234 19 18 05 CC Skylab, Houston. We're back with you. We had

a dropout Just about the time you mentioned
Rio de la Plata, Owen. I suspect we went right
overhead the Vanguard.

SPT Okay, very likely so. It was clear all the way
up to Uruguay, and now crossing into southern
Brazil, we've picked up clouds here. So as
far as I can see at the moment, we've got clouds
ahead of us. We'll have to see whether or not
Sao Paulo and Rio are in the clear.

CC Okay, and on that slider map update, the middle

time needs to have 2 hours added on to it_ making
it 17:56.

234 19 19 00 CDR Say, Bruce, have they dedicated the Johnson

Spacecraft Center yet?

CC Negative, Alan. That's coming up on Monday

afternoon.

CDR What time is that going to he?

CC 21:00 Z.

CDR 21:00 Z on Monday. That'd be about the - that

would be the 31st, huh?

CC Right - -

CDR On August 27th.

CC Right. Mission day - -

CDR August 27th?

CC Right. Mission day 31 at 21:00 Zulu.

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CDR Thank you.

SPT How does this microphone sound to you, Bruce?

CC It sounds pretty weak, Owen.

234 19 20 08 SPT Okay. We've still got cloud cover, it looks like.
Not quite yet at - up to Rio, but we're probably
passing Sao Paulo.

CC Okay. We were expecting 0.5 cloud cover. I'll

show you 30 seconds from closest point of approach.

SPT Okay. I can see the edge of the front on up ahead

of us here, to the northeast. And let's hope by
the time we get to Rio, we might be out of this
cloud cover.

CC Beautiful.

234 19 21 06 SPT Unfortunately, it's solid overcast beneath us

right here, so it looks like we'll probably
not get out from under this front until we're
already north of Rio.

CC Roger ; we copy, Owen. Good try.

234 19 21 40 CC One minute until LOS over the Vanguard. Next

station contact in 7 minutes over Ascension at
19 plus 28.

SPT Okay. No luck on Rio. We did get a couple of

good shots at Rio de la Plata and Montevideo
and northern Argentina.

CC Roger. Don't forget to log them.

234 19 22 47 SPT Okay, Bruce. I take it back ...

234 19 29 14 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Ascension for

4 minutes. We will be dumping the data voice
tape recorder over the Canaries at the next sta-
tion. Out.

SPT Hello, Bruce. Just to keep your weatherman happy,

Just after you went LOS at Vanguard, we did get
a visual on Rio. And did get a couple of pic-
tures of the bay on which Rio is located, although
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it was a little too hazy to pick out that small

lagoon that was the specific target. But it was
reasonably clear over Rio ...

234 19 29 56 CC Okay, Owen, I copied that after you lost us

through the Vanguard, you did get a couple of
pictures looking back at the - lagoon there. I'm
having extreme difficulty reading you through
noise on the down-link. Over.

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234 19 30 12 SPT That's about" the size of it, Bruce. It was un -

not possible to get any specific visual identifi-
cation of that lagoon but we do have a couple of
photographs of the Rio Bay.

CC Oh, okay. I copy. You got pictures of the Baia

de Guanabara there at Rio.

234 19 30 32 SPT That's affirm.

234 19 31 39 CC Okay, we're back with you with 2 minutes until

LOS through the Canaries. We had a brief data
dropout. Next station contact is in 2-1/2 minutes
at the Canaries.

CC PLT, Houston. We show you in the PROGRAM mode

on S054_ We'd like you to stop the operation,
select SINGLE and reinitiate. Over.

PLT I Just did it. Th_n_ you very much.

234 19 32 52 CC Roger; out.

234 19 34 50 CC Skylab, this is Houston, back with you through

the Canaries and Madrid for 8-1/2 minutes. We
will be dumping the. voice data tape recorder
this pass. Out.

234 19 41 19 CC Okay, Skylab. We_ve finished dumping your

data voice tape recorder. Out.

234 19 42 21 CC Skylab, this is Houston. One minute to LOS.

Next station contact in 27 minutes through
Guam at 20 :09, Out.

234 20 09 52 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Guam for the

next 7 minutes. For the CDR.

CDR Go ahead.

CC Okay, AI, we'd like to get a readout on the

K-ALPHA 1 fr_-_ counter so that we can assess
our film budget. And when you have a moment
handy, I have an update to your general message
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2425 Alfa regarding the coolant loop procedures

for this afternoon. Over.

CDR Okay, give me a few seconds, and I'll be ready

to copy.

234 20 l0 26 PLT And one thing we noticed, Bruce, is that we can't

get the H-ALPHA to run. We put the - put the
switch in AUTO and the light won't come on; no
OPERATE light or READY light either one. And no
manual pictures. Are you sure you're maybe not
out of film early?

CC Okay. The preliminary word I'm getting, Jack, is

that that's a possibility. Wetd like to get your
fra-_ counter reading and we'll assess the
situation.

PLT Okay. We'll have that for you in a Jiffy.

234 20 ll 16 PLT And in a few short moments, our friendly professor,

Owen Garriott, will have same rate gyro package
temperatures for you.

CC Go ahead, Dr. Garriott.

PLT He's busy in the chair right now, and I won't let
him out. But when hers finished with that, why
he can give them to you.

CC Okay.

CDR Readout on K-ALPHA is 595.

CC I understand; 595, 595? Over.

SPT You're right.

CC Okay, thank you.

CDR Okay, Bruce, go ahead on that update.

234 20 13 13 CC Okay. This is change to the coolant loop proce-

dure. If you look through it - let's see, about
half to two-thlrds of the way through, you come
down to panel 230. It says, "remove prima_ry
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and secondary coolant heat exchanger valves,

knobs." Theu it goes down a little further,
"Inspect B nuts." Then you get down to, "Replace
coolant exchanger valves, _nobs (2) (38 standard
socket, ratchet and handle)." Have you found
that place?

CDR That n11mher 3, sentence 3?

CC Say again.

CDR Is that numbered paragraph 3 - paragraph 3?

CC No, it's down in paragraph 5, -Imost to para-

graph 6.

234 20 14 20 CDR Yes, it's the same place. It looks like a little
sub 3. Oh, driver bit 3, ratchet handle - okay,
I_m there.

CC No, I don't see a driver bit - Oh, okay, yes,

right. "Driver bit 3, ratched handle, replace
coolant" heat exchanger valve knobs (2)" and
so on and so on. After that statement insert,
Verify valves are closed." Over.

CDR Okay.

CC The next stat_nt says, "Replace two condensate

isolation valve handles (quarter standard socket
ratchet handle)." We want to add, "Verify conden-
sing heat exchanger A water valves, open; con-
densing heat exchanger B water valves, closed."
Over.

23_ 20 15 22 CDR Okay, we want to verify condensing heat exchanger A

valves, open and B, close. In other words, Just
llke it is now.

CC That's affirmative_ These are verifies.

CDR Okay, got that written down, Is that it?

CC That _s it, A1. And if you want the updated times

for the EREP slider map nodes, we_ve still got
them here, hut they're of minimal value to you
now.
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CDE No, late in the day is about the only time we

really get to use them. Go ahead, and I'ii
copy them down.

234 20 16 00 CC Okay. The time for the 01.3 west ascending node
should be 17:56:h6. That's 17:56:46. The time
for the 72.3 west ascending node is 22:36:13.
That's 22:36:13. Over.

CDR 0kay, thank you.

CC And we tre 33 seconds to LOS here at Guam. Next

station contact in 7 minutes at Honeysuckle.
And the time at Honeysuckle will be 20:23. Out.

CDR Can I give you a report now on some batteries

that - questions asked earlier today?

CC We've only got a couple of seconds to LOS. You

probably don't have time, but start it.

CDR Okay, well, Just call me at the next one, and

I'll give them to you.

234 20 17 08 CC Wilco,

234 20 24 29 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Honeysuckle for

2 minutes. So we_d like to get a momentum dump
inhibit in if youtd stay off the DAS, please.
Go ahead with your message, Commander.

CDR Okay, I'm making -working on this. I'll try

to get it in or maybe the next station.

CC Okay. This is a real short one. Next station

contact is over the Vanguard in 25 minutes, so
we can catch you there.

23h 20 25 02 CC Okay. Dump inhibit's complete. You're back

on your own on the DAS.

PLT Say, Bruce, this is Jack, I wonder if you

could set up a call to my family this evening,
please?

CC Understand you'd like a call to your wife?

Over.
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PLT That 's affirm.

CC Okay. We'll work on it.

CC And, Skylab, we're 37 seconds from LOS at

Honeysuckle. Next station contact in 2h minutes
over the Vanguard at 20:50. Out.

CC And for your information, itts 100 days since the

launch of the workshop today.

CDR Working pretty doggone nice, isn't it? For

being 100 days old?

CC Yes. Have a 100-day party on us.

CDR Okay.

CC Have a 100-day party on us, Over.

234 20 26 49 CDR All right.

23h 20 54 53 CC Skylab, this is Houston through the Vanguard

for 2 minutes. Over.

CC For the CDR. We're going to be working the

questions of the EVA time line, the APCS control
modes, and your question regarding whether we
can put the - make the J-21 connection the night
before and check it out. And what we'd like to
plan on doing is getting hack to you during a
series of passes, starting over Texas at 12 minutes
after midnight Zulu. That Is in your first block
of presleep activities, right after the end of
the first b, lf of the coolant loop troubleshoot-
ing procedure. And we expect to be able to dis-
cuss these items in detail with you at that time.
Over.

234 20 55 48 CDR Okay. Sounds good, Bruce. Another procedure

that we don't have on board, I guess you're
going to he sending up a new rate gyro procedure.
Although we have one on our card, I'd like to
have two aboard. We don't have a procedure that
you might call a backout procedure. In the event
we connect this up and power it up per the card,
and it doesn't work exactly like anybody thinks,
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we'd probably like to back out of it and put

it back like it was, at least for an hour or 2.
And it's probable we won't be over a station
during this time, since it's got to be done in
the daylight. And in the daylight, we're -
we're a lot of times not with you. We probably
ought to have that procedure on board, although
we'd probably never - use it.

CC Roger. We'll work on that item, AI, and see

what we can come up with. It's 20 seconds to
LOS Vanguard. Next station contact in 12 minutes
over Canary at 21:09. And for the SPT, if he's
listening, we understand you were instrumental
in the early development work on this white light
pointingtelescope. If you have time this after-
noon or evening, we'd like to get your comments
put on channel A on the tape recorder, which we
can dump. The CCB meets tomorrow. Over.

SPT Okay. I_ll put the comments on channel A, and

let you know when it's here so you can dump it.

CC Okay, Thank you. You have a general message

on board pertaining to it. Out.

SPT I saw one earlier this morning, Is that what

you mean?

CC Right. Insert a verb - wetre looking for your

comment s.

23h 20 57 15 SPT Okay.

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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

234 21 i0 58 CC Skylab, Houston through Canaries and Madrid for

12-1/2 minutes.

CDR Roger.

PLT Rank, the question is on SO19. Our Nu z is reading

minus 7.2 up here, and - and the one on the pad
is minus 9.1. I'm wondering if, Hank, everybody
down there thinks we ought to go with the onboard
one or not?

234 21 ll 52 CC Did - Would - would you say the question again?

I didn't quite understand it.

PLT All right. I'm looking at the NuZ for SO19 pad.
I'm wondering if the one we got on board is con-
sidered to be any good? We're reading minus 7.2
on board, and the one on the pad is point -
minus 9.1. I'm wondering if everybody thinks the
one on board's good enough to go ahead and use
it to m_ke the correction?

CC Okay. Standby 1.

234 21 12 31 SPT Hank, here comes some rate gyro temps, if you're
ready to copy.

CC Roger; go ahead, SPT.

SPT Okay. These were made at 19:40 Zulu today. The

voltage is reading 2.98. X-5, 6; Y-5, 6; Z-5, 6;
in the following order: 94.1, 93.7; 93.h, 92.1,
93.7, 90.2. And that Z-6, as I mentioned before,is
in sort of a - in front of a blower; ma_es it
probably a little cooler. Over.

CC Roger. We copy.

CC PLT, Houston - -

CDR I can read you some information that y'all asked

for this morning about battery con - status up
here.
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CC Go ahead.

234 21 13 34 CDR Okay. I'm referring to message number 2629.

A, the answer is six penlights; B, the answer
is 25, which are all of them; they're still
there_ C, the answer is 16, all of tnem_ N,
the answer is four, which is all of them; F,
the answer is 12, which is all of them. Question
2 then asks, "What's the quantity of Polaroid
film used to date?" We've used two packages,
but we expect to use it all up before we return.

CC Roger, We copied it all except Delta, and you

dropped out,

SPT Delta, the answer is 15, which is all of them

except the three we put in there.

234 21 14 22 CC Roger. We copy. And for the PLT, the Nu Z he

should use is the one on board, the minus 7.2.

SPT Okay.

PLT Thank you.

CDR He was trying to find out if you wanted me to

make another lockon and update it.

CC Stand by 1.

CC ASCO advises a star is not available now, and

the minus 7.2 looks pretty good,

CDR Okay,

CDR You might mention this to the ATM backroom there,

that it looks like that S056 has hung up a
couple of times today, in PATROL, SHORT. It
stayed - the operate stayed light - ight - light
stayed on. It stayed in FILTER l, but nothing - but
it Just stayed there like that, never - the light
never went out.

CC Roger. We copy.

234 21 15 32 CDR The latest one was the one about 3 minutes ago.
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23h 21 17 07 SPT Hello, Hank.

CC Go ahead.

SPT Jack's going to be using channel A during this

night pass, and I'm supposed to go down and
run 131 here with AI. So it's going to he a
little while before I can get these comments
on that portable telescope down to Ed Gibson.
Now what I tll try to do is to get them on chan-
nel A as soon as I can, until this afternoon or
evening. And I don't know how soon they can
be transferred off the tape and over to Ed and
others who are interested in it. But I'll get
them on there, probably within the next couple
of hours. Do you think that will be useful?

CC Okay. I think we can hack it from there, Owen.

SPT Okay.

234 21 22 35 CC Skylab, Houston. One minute to LOS; Honeysuckle

at 57 with a voice data recorder dump.

23h 21 57 hl CC Skylab, Houston through Honeysuckle for

7-1/2 minutes.

PLT Okay, Hank, l_m hack up on the ATM.

CC And, Skylab, Houston. We need the DAS for a

few minutes for a dump enable.

2Bh 21 58 17 PLT She's all yours, Hank.

CC PLT, Houston. Your panel looks good, and if it's

convenient, Itd like to ask a couple of questions
about the H-alpha funnies.

PLT Okay.

CC Okay. What is the FRAMES R_MAINING read-out

now?

PLT 595, Hank.

23h 21 59 32 CC Okay, and does the READY light remain on when the
prerequisites are met? In other words, DOOR, OPEN;
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HEATER, ON ; CAMERA POWER, ON ; and any frame

rate selected on the H-ALPHA FRAMES PER MINUTE?

PLT We've got all - all of those prerequisites met

and the READY light and the OPERATE light have
both remained out.

CC Roger ; understand. Both out.

PLT That's affirmative.

PLT The light has not burned out. It's working.

CC PLT, Houston. We suspect we're out of film.

234 22 O0 44 PLT We're sort of guessing the same thing. What's

your frame count show down there?

CC PLT, Houston. We keep up with that manually

down here, amd our count last night was 798.
We haven't brought it up to date yet.

234 22 01 26 CC And, Skylab, Houston. The DAS is yours.

PLT Thank you, Hank.

PLT Say, Hank, does Milligan's mob think that S056

is hung up in ACTIVE l, LONG?

CC Stand by l,

234 22 04 24 CC PLT, Houston, It looks like to us that we -

we Just finished ACTIVE l, LONG.

PLT Okay, I've got the OPERATE light stuck on, and
nothingts happening. I'm back in filter l,
so I_ll give it a STOP and restart it,

234 22 04 43 CC We copy.

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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

234 22 41 42 CC Skylab, Houston through Bermuda for 6-1/2 minutes.

CC Skylab, Houston. Some comments on the aurora.

The probability of an aurora is high for the next
couple of days. In fact, one was observed in
Alaska earlier today. The spacecraft will be
in position to see the aurora this evening
between approximately sunset and orbital mid-
night. The two best times will be 00:24 to
00:B5, and 01:57 to 02:08. And the best window
is STS _mber 4.

234 22 45 51 CC Skylab, Houston. We'd like to know if you had

any trouble with the MIB1 chair. We saw it
shut down at Honeysuckle in the OGI mode.

SPT Hank, there was no problem with the run on the

chair. We Just threw an armor leg out a little
bit, and it caused the chair to fault. And
we Just reset it and completed 150 head
mov_entswith no symptoms. And Itm Just now
putting on channel A the information for Ed
Gibson and A1 Holt for your next tape dump.
Over.

CC Okay. Good show, Owen. Did you copy the message

on the aurora?

SPT I think we got all that. Just a high probability

tonight. And Jack or A1, I think, has the rest.

CC Okay. Good show. Thank you.

2B4 22 47 38 CC Skylab, Houston. We're i minute from LOS.

We'll be coming up on Madrid at 52.

2B4 22 50 29 CC Skylab, Houston through Canary and Madrid for

l0 minutes.

CC Skylab, Houston for the PLT. Reference your

request for private phone commtonight, your
wife's not available in the earlier part of
the evening, and we've got the comm coming up
on the EVA and the evening status report, and
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your S019 ops. That Just sort of precluded

being done this evening. We'll have to try again
tomorrow, I suppose.

PLT Okay. Thank you.

234 22 52 05 SPT Hello, Hank, are you there?

CC Roger; about 8-1/2 minutes.

SPT Great. Looks like Jack just made some more

temperature measurements over here. I'll read
them down to you, if you like.

CC Okay. Go ahead.

SPT Okay. The measurements were made at 22:40 Zulu.

And voltage was 2.96 volts. And we have it
connected so the polarity is minus, but that
doesn't really make any difference. And in the
same order, X-5, 6; Y-5, 6; Z-5, 6: 94.4,
92.5; 94.0, 90.6; 95.3, 89.3. Over.

CC Roger. We copy.

234 22 59 ]2 CC PLT, Houston.

CC PLT, Houston.

SPT Go ahead, Hank. He can hear you.

CC Okay. On this next daylight cycle, any time

after start of day, we'd like to acquire the -
bring up the star according to the pad, with the
one exception that we think the OUTER GIMBAL
would be better at minus 1690. It - that angle
is changing rather rapidly now. And we'd like to
bring it up and get some data for a Z-axis
rate gyro drift check. And we want the SHUTTER
closed at no later than 23:42.

PLT Okay, Hank. I'll do that. And what is the

star again, Achernar? I don't have the pad in
front of me. I guess it's on the pad.

234 23 00 30 CC Roger. It's Achernar.

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PLT Okay.

CC And we're about 20 seconds from LOS. We'll be

coming up On Carnarvon at 25.

234 23 O1 12 CC PLT, if you can still read me, we want to get at

least 20 minutes of drift data there.

234 23 25 07 CC Skylab, Houston through Carnarvon and Honey-

suckle for 16-1/2 minutes.

CC PLT, Houston. Would you bring up the star

tracker for us, please?

PLT Say again, Hank.

CC Roger. Would you bring up the star tracker for

us, please?

PLT Okay.

CDR Say, Hank, I'm working this coolant problem, and

there's just some of these screws that don't
want to come out. They - they were put in here
pretty hard. I don't know whether it was with
impact or what. And they've been painted a
couple of times and, man, they Just don't come
out.

234 23 27 53 CC Roger. I suspected some of those would be

difficult. I guess if we can't get them out,
we 're really stuck.

CDR The only thing we got left is Jack Louqm-; he

can give _nem a go. We'll pick out the hard ones,
and let's see how he does it. If he doesn't do
it, we can forget it. I'm at a drift punch
on one, and it Just doesn't want to budge.

CC Okay, if - if - if . l_u_m_ can't do it, I don_t

think it's _im, nly possible. And then we'll let
you tell us which ones you couldntt get out, and
then we'll kind of figure it from there what we're
going to do.

PLT Okay, I'm at your gimbal angles, Hank, but I

don't see any star there.
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234 23 29 i0 CC PLT, Houston. ASCO says you had the star at

minus 1538 on the outer gimbal.

PLT Looks like she's locked up, Hank.

CC Okay, we see that. Thank you, Jack.

PLT Want me to close her now, or do you want to

leave it open for a while?

CC Negative. We want to leave it open until 23:42

to get some data.

PLT Okay, I thought you wanted to close it not

later than. You wanted me to leave it and get
it precisely at 23:42. Is that right?

CC That's affirmative. I - I misread that to you

a while ago, Jack.

PLT Okay, so, close it not earlier than 23:42.

Is that correct?

CC That's affirmative.

234 23 30 26 PLT Okay, thank you, Hank.

CC Skylab, Houston. If - if it's convenient for one

of you to answer, when you're taking the tempera-
ture measurements on the rate gyros, how long
on the average does it take for the temperature
reading to stabilize on that digital Job?

PLT I believe they're on there about a minute, Hank.

Owen's down there, he'll probably answer, too.

CC Okay, I guess - I guess what we were wondering

is if the temperatures are stabilized out real
well at the end of a minute. Is it still chang-
ing a little bit, or does it seem to be pretty
steady at the end of a minute?

PLT Seems to be pretty steady; it Jumps plus or

minus 0.2 or 0.3.

234 23 34 08 CC Roger; we copy.

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234 23 36 02 CC PLT, Houston. Just a little r_m_nder, there.

Since we did bring the star tracker up and got a
Nu Z update, your roll read-out probably changed.
So for the rest of the pass, we waut you to use
whatever's on the counter now. Don't roll back
to the pad values. Stay where you are.

234 23 37 15 CC Skylab, Houston. We dropped out for a minute

there, during handover. Do - did - PLT, did you
copy what I said about the roll?

PLT Yes, Hank. I remember distinctly putting that

at 10,800. I looked up there after the star
tracker and rolled it back to the experimenz
position, and I couldn't figure out what
happened. I thought I was losing my m_ud, but
I'm glad to hear there's an explanation for it.
And I copied that you want me to leave it there
for the rest of the rev, or the rest of the
coronal hole JOPS at any rate. Is that right?

CC That's affirmative. In other words, when we did

a Nu Z update, it changed your roll counter. But
we want your pointing to stay right where you are
right now. Don - In other words, don't try to
go to the pad value, again.

234 23 37 54 PLT Okay. You want me to stay there for the step 2
of 15 Alfa, building block 33A, right?

CC That 's affirmative.

• PLT Okay. I won't move it. Thank you.

234 23 40 28 CC Skylab, Houston. We're i minute from LOS. We'll

be coming up on Texas at 12. And as a reminder,
over that stateside pass, we plan to discuss the
EVA with you.

PLT Okay, Hank. And with the little roll misalign-

ment l've got put in there, it looks like we're
still pointed at the coronal hole, according to
the XUV MONITOR.

CC Roger. We copy. The canister should not have

moved at all, Jack. It's Just when Gamma R
changed, that changed your read-out there.
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PLT What is my experiment roll now, then? Is it

10,615, or 10,8007

CC 10,615. whatever you're reading on your counter

is your roll, now.

PLT Okay. What I'm saying is, it looks like even

with 10,615, instead of 10,800 that we're still
in coronal hole.

234 23 hl 3_ CC Roger. That's affirmative. We are satisfied

with your pointing.

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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

235 00 12 55 MCC Skylab, Houston; over the States for the next
14 minutes.

CDR Hello, Rusty.

MCC Hello, You guys ready to talk EVA?

CDR You bet. Start talking.

MCC Okay. First, in answer to a couple of questions

you came down with. We do not want to do the
J-21 connection out of sequence. That is,
tomorrow, rather than during the EVA prep,
because there are crossed wires in that J-21 Y -
connector down there which would preclude us
fr_n getting a lot of signals into the ATM C&D.
We would prefer not to do that, but rather stick
with the sequence as it is listed right now.
In case, for whatever reason, you run into prob-
lems during the EVA prep in performing that, we
can simply slip the hatch opening for you.

CDR Okay, in other words - see, we have not seen an

integrated procedure up here as far as what time
each of these comes off. We've got most of the
parts. We've got all of the, for example, that
particular procedure; but when we do that rela-
tive to when we put on suits is not so clear,
for example.

235 00 14 01 MCC Okay. We've been going like a bunch of beavers

down here, and we expect to get you the procedure
up there tonight_ Let me go on to answer your
second question here. We would prefer not to do
the simulation of the APCS thing tomorrow; that
is, the control mode thing. We have done it
down here on about four different simulators.
All of them look very good, We have, essentially,
no questions about that procedure and the tech-
nique. We feel what we need to do for you is
give you a good understanding of what it is we're
asking you to do. And we intend to do that both
tonight, within the next few minutes, and then
following the procedures which as I said are
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coming up tonight. We hope, tomorrow night at

about this same time, to go into any more detail
that youtd like and answer any questions that
you've come up with after you've had a chance
to go over them.

CDR Okay. That sounds good.

235 DO 15 16 MCC Okay, then, unless youtve got some other questions,
I'll go ahead and start into the EVA and give
you what we would consider an overview on what
that will look like.

CDR Okay.

MCC Okay. We agree with your suggestion about having

Jack reconnoiter the connectors out there for
the rate gyro replacement. We plan, at this time,
to have hatch opening during the daylight, during
a daylight pass, with about 20 minutes of day re-
maining. That should give Jack plenty of time
to go ahead out and take a look at the connectors,
and compare them with what he's got in his memory
locations from the photographs as to what they
were supposed to look like.

235 O0 16 02 MCC We propose that at that time, going into night,

you can press on with the remainder of the EVA
work or any part of it you feel that you'd like
to do along the EVA trail at night. That is,
you can put out the sail samples or start the
center work station activity if you feel com-
fortable with the time. Our only constraint
is that, prior to the next sunrise, you be in a
position where you're read_ to start the rate
gyro pack activities, The plan - Go ahead, AI.

CDR No, I was going to say, we - from my experience

up here, our chances of hitting the hatch opening
20 minutes prior to sunset are small - I mean
sunrise_ or after sunrise, or whatever. Because
Just the amount of variables that are taking
place serially there, an_ one of which can throw
you off schedule. So, it seems to me that what
we_ll do is _ is sort of work toward - with the
idea in mind that wh_tever daylight pass we get
out on, then wetll use that one; whatever amount
of timethereis to do.
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235 O0 17 13 MCC Right. As far as we're concerned, A1, you

guys seem to enjoy EVA, and we don't have very
many constraints down here on the time. You
can take whatever time you want to get - to get
a comfortable feeling that you know what - what
you're going to be doing out there. As I say, we
are - right now, the hatch opening is scheduled
with 20 minutes of day remaining. If you beat
that, fine. You can do whatever part of the
EVA you want. The only thing that we want to
do is to start the actual rate gyro cable in-
stallation at sunrise.

CDR Wetre with you and we'll do that.

235 O0 17 53 MCC Yes, at any sunrise, you know, after you get out,
but preferably the first sunrise after you get
out. That's - that's your choice, though, de-
pending on how you feel. Okay, going into that
pass, then, we will have, during the EVA prep,
configured the CSM in a standby condition for
takeover; in case of loss of attitude control,
and I'll say a few more words later about the
rules that we_ve got here or the guidelines that
we'd like to suggest for takeover, In any case,
youtll be Just a couple of DAS entries and a
couple of circuit breakers and throwing the CMC
to AUTO, away from attitude control with the
command module.

235 00 18 35 CDR Roger. That's the procedure that seems to already

be in the checklist that we have pasted in at
the moment,

MCC That's correct. And the _ our only change to

that one, which you're going to notice on this
stuff we're sending up to you tonight, is that
we want you to be in solar inertial when you
throw the switch to get IMU power on. That is,
we want to have the IMU 000 in solar inertial.
That's our only change. Okay, the activities,
then. At sunrise, we would want EV 1 and 2 to
press on with the cable installation outside,
up to, but not including, the J-3 WCIU work.
That is, we would want the trunnion plug plate
activities completed, and you can be out there
and in position to break the WCIU connector.
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And at that point, we would have to hold for

these other internal activities. Okay, inde-
pendent of what EV i and 2 are doing, AI, as
EV 3 inside, you have one task to do there,
which is to switch the control mode to a TACS
only, solar inertial mode at a minimum HT con-
dition.

235 00 19 5h MCC Now that'll occur 45 degrees before local noon.

On your orbit phase clock, that'll be 42 minutes
of day remaining. At that time, you're just
going to inhibit CMG control and do a nominal
H-cage.

CDR At h2 minutes, or whenever Jack's ready?

MCC Negative. At 42 minutes. We want you to do that

control mode switching at a minimum }IT. Now,
minimum HT should occur at 42 minutes of day re-
maining. So what we're saying is Just at 42 min-
utes of day remaining on your orbit phase clock,
you'll be doing that, And you'll see that in
this checklist that's coming up.

CDR Okay.

235 00 20 35 MCC Okay. The only reason we're doing that on mini-
mum H_, is to save TACS, It's not really critical,
but we would like to save as much TACS as we can,
for obvious reasons. Okay. About 5 minutes
after you've been in that control mode, we figure
thst you're over again -you're stable, that the
TACS rates are down, that you're essentially firing
one .. _ on a rare occasion, Just bouncing off the
edge of the dead bands. If Jack is ready, at
that point, you'll go ahead and switch hack to
CMG control, you':ll then go into standhy, and
Look, there's no sense in copying this stuff
down; it'll be in the checklist; hut I'm Just
giving you the briefing here. You'll switch into
standby mode, you'll inb_hit CMG again, and you'll
do a nominal H_cage. Now this puts you into a
standby mode with the CMGs driving to nominal H.
In other words, you're - we're open loops, com-
manding the spacecraft attitude. The CMGs will
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be tracking nominal H, and you should have a

very, very slow attitude drift, if any, with the
vehicle off solar inertial attitude.

235 00 21 h2 CDR Okay. Looking at the procedure, my only question

was, when you do that nominal E-cage right then,
it looks like it's going to give you some rate -
at that moment. And then any drift will be
superimposed upon those rates.

MCC When you switch back into - into nominal K-cage,

there, you will get a slight attitude excursion
and back in again. The rates should essentially
go back tq zero. You may have a slight bump in
your attitude, but that's all. The rates should
be essentially zero after you do that nominal
K-cage.

CDR Okay.

235 O0 22 12 MCC Okay. Jack will then go ahead with his J-3
WCIU connection outside. After he gets that
complete, then you will hook the J-2 connector
into the control distrihutor on the six pack.
That doesn't get connected until after the ex-
ternal connections are made. And you_ll hit the
circuit breakers off momentarily, hook up J-2,
and then turn the circuit breakers right back
on again on the six pack.

CDR Okay. Understand that.

MCC Okay_ At that point, you_ll bring the rate gyros

hack on on the rack, do some other DAS commands,
which you'll find in the checklist, and then
we_ll switch back into solar inertial mode.

CDR Okay.

MCC Okay, We'll save anymore details on that until

tomorrow night. Let me hit a couple of other
things here. Uh

CDR Let me ask you a question.

MCC Go ahead,
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235 00 2B 12 CDR How long - could this thing drift two orbits and
still be satisfactory?

MCC We would expect that we can't go that long, A1.

We see that the only time you're in standby mode,
here, is while you're breaking and remaking the
J-3 connector outside, and then plugging J-2 in
on inside. That's the only time that you have
to be in standby. We think that that's about a
5- to 10-minute pass. We should have no trouble
in doing that with the daylight remaining, if we
get started at sunrise. However, we can keep
on going. If we run into any kind of a problem,
we can always bring up the CSM. There's no
problem with bringing it up. And I'll talk to
you about that in a minute.

235 00 23 59 CDR Okay. I was trying to get a feel for the time
available as opposed to the time required. Well,
I think we've got a feel for the time required.

MCC Okay. The time available - we see you've got

until next sunrise. We would like to be some-
where near solar inertial attitude for power
considerations at the following sunrise. Now,
if - at the J-3 connector in WCIU, we think that
you have enough light there that you can go ahead
and work that, even after sunset. But we expect
youtll get it done during daytime.

CDR Okay. We do too, but Just trying to understand

it. Okay. Go ahead,

235 O0 2h 41 CC Okay, A1. It looks to us, if we work out the

numbers, you've got 30 minutes - 37 minutes of
daylight plus about 30 minutes of night. So it
looks like you've got about an hour and l0 minutes
that you can take to do this before we get sun-
rise. Okay. Let me press on here, We've got
about a minute and 50 seconds left in this pass.
The night before the EVA, that is, tomorrow night,
there are a couple of things we're going to be
doing here on the ground in order to prepare for
this rate gyro switchover. We're going to be
taking the coarse patch out and going back to
fine control on the rate gyros. We _re also going
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to be setting all the scale factors to unity in

anticipation of getting the six pack in. And
we're also going to set up the drift - the drift
compensation in the ATM DC, again anticipating
the six-pack hookup. All of those things will
be done tomorrow night, commanded from the ground.
Okay.

235 00 25 38 MCC Let me say Just a word here about the CSM takeover
reco,,_,endations. As far as attitude constraints
are concerned during this free mode or during this
so-called drift mode or while you're in standby,
the only attitude constraint we see is that we'd
like to make sure that you stay out of command
module gimbal lock so that we have a viable CSM
takeover capability. There are no other atti-
tude constraints during it, except that, the
following sunrise, we do want to get into solar
inertial to get the power up. On the rate take-
over, that is, takeover for unusual rates or
anything of that kind, we're saying we want you
to use your Judgment on that. If it looks as
though you're not going to get control of the
rates and they're disturbing you, do go ahead
and feel to take over wi_h the command module.
We've got 15 seconds left in the pass. If you
activate the CSM for control, there's no con-
straint as far as the impingement of the RCS
thrusters on the crew is concerned. We're
about to go LOS here. We_ve got Madrid coming
up at 30:16.

235 00 26 47 CDR See you at Madrid, Ask the flight planners to

take a look at this Flight Plan for tomorrow,
and see if they can figure out a way to give us
an additional hour and a half to 2 hours for
EVA pre-prep, so that we can _e sure we under-
stand it, we walk through it ourselves. We'll
have the procedures ..o

MCC Skylab, Houston, at Madrid.

PLT Hello, there, Rusty, We're listening.

235 00 30 48 MCC Okay, we -you cut out on us there as we were

going over the hill. We got your request for
some extra time for the EVA pre_prep. And
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be advised, we're taking a look at that. We've

got a CBRM test scheduled tomorrow, which we
consider high priority, that'll take somebody
during the night passes. But we are looking at
trying to give you as much time as we can. We
do have quite a bit scheduled for you as you'll
see in the Flight Plan. Let me say one more
word, A1, to give you a little better feel for
this attitude control on how much time you've
got. If we need it any time, we can bring up
the CSM and get ourselves back into solar inertial
at a relatively low cost.

235 00 31 36 MCC If we wanted to go CSM control, it'd cost us about

8 to l0 pounds per rev to maintain solar inertial,
using CSM active. We obviously would prefer not
to do that, but there's no problem at all in
doing that to get ourselves back into solar iner-
tial. And we could do that coming up to second
sunrise and then simply inhibit the CSM control
again during the next daylight pass. So we got
a lot of flexibility there, and we want to make
sureyou understand that.

CDR Okay. The way I understand it is, wetd prefer to

do it with the auto mode. But, talking about
excessive rates or anything which we don't accept
[sic] - don't expect, hut let's say it did tip
the gyro, I mean the platform, we still would
have SCS, would we not?

MCC That 's correct.

CDR Okay, I understand. I Just want to make sure.

Okay.

235 O0 32 h2 CDR Go ahead; we're not hearing you right now.

MCC Stand by. That's because I ain't talking right

now_ I_ll be right back with you.

CDR Think maybe we could _ we think maybe we could

come up with some extra time tomorrow if we did
some of the synoptic ATM early in the morning,
and then dropped out a few of the ATM passes
during the day along with some things like the
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BMMD sub, and TV-_q5, and a couple of others that

would bread it open where we could - all three of
us get together and work the problem.

235 00 33 34 MCC Okay, I'll tell you what. We copy that, and we'll
be looking at it, A1. Okay, Just a couple of
other words on - on our plans here. We intend,
A1, to have the batteries up to 100 percent state
of charge within about 20 to 25 minutes into the
daylight pass on - on the revs that you're going
to be doing this rate gyro pack thing. That is,
we - we expect to have 100 percent state of charge
in the batteries before we go into the standby
mode. Now, one of the things that we plan to do
is to reduce the total workshop load, electrical
load that is, during the EVA prep. Our primary
means of doing this is going to be by utilizing
ground-commanded loads, such as MDA wall heaters,
and the like. However, we do anticipate some
likelihood of asking you to turn off the OWS
lights and the OWS fans prior to egressing the
0WS. This will improve our situation as far as
any demand on the batteries is concerned.

CDR Sounds reasonable.

235 00 Bh 53 MCC Okay, aside frQm that, we have no particular other

things to add. And if you've got any questions,
why don't you fire away?

CDR Okay, give me a little synopsis of the sequence

of events. For example, before we suit up, do we
go power up the command module? Then we go in-
stall the plug under the ATM kickplate, then we
go down and put on our suits, and then we go down
kind of nominal from there? I think I understand
it from that point on. It's the sequence before
that.

MCC Okay, the answer to the first part is that we do

the configuration on the command module prior to
suiting up. Stand by Just a second and I'll tell
you where we stand on the others.

235 00 35 56 MCC Okay, the answer is that you also do the J-21
before you suit up. So all of the rate gyro
prep is done prior the suit-up. In fact - -
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CDR Okay, that sounds real good, because then if we

ran into problems, which we don't expect to, we
could - would be in a good clothing condition to
fix them.

MCC Right. And - and that is the case. In fact, it's

essentially the first thing you do during the EVA
prep is to go ahead with the rate gyro prep cue
card. And we are going to be sending you up a
complete rate gyro cue card this evening, with all
of the changes in it, that'll replace the one you
got on board.

CDR Okay, sendme two, then, if you would.

MCC We copy.

235 00 36 39 CDR I have - in this prep, I noticed the prep that

I have now doesntt go into the details of exactly
how the tether, the EVA cable, the tools, and the
like. Now, does this new prep have the technique
or should - That's why I_m kind of concerned about
having enough time tomorrow to work it out.

MCC The - the one we're sending up tonight does not

go into any detail. We felt that you were in a
better position up there to figure out how you'd
like the details on that tether ring. Then -
all we did was ask you to go ahead and - and do
that.

235 00 37 26 CDR Okay, that's good. That's why we need the time
to - to walk it through and get them all laid
out and make sure everybody understands his role.
And so that's the reason for the time right there.
I understand.

MCC Okay. By the way, we've got about 40 seconds left

here at Madrid.

CDR Okay.

MCC Okay. Carnarvon, by the way, will be at 01:04,

and we_ll be expecting the evening status report
there.
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CDR Okay, now on this - when we do make the J-21,

or whatever it is under the ATM panel, whatever
the official name is, what capability have we
lost? Like we up here - can we still - we still
hold attitude, we still see what the gyre is doing
and everything else? Is that correct?

235 00 38 15 MCC Yes, sir. You have done nothing with the APCS
at that point. The only you've done is inter-
rupt some TV signals flowing in and out of the
ATMDC - in and out of the ATM C&D. And
some of your alert condition lights.

CDR Okay.

MCC Sayonara.

235 01 04 15 CC Bkylab, Houston, through Carnarvon for 6 minutes.

PLT Hello, Hank. Is this evening status time?

CC That's affirmative. We are ready to go.

PLT Okay, Urine volume: 168; 200; 165. Water gun:

5371; 8836; 6009. Are you with me?

CC Stand by 1. We're copying here, hut we'd like

to get someone to bring up Achernar on the -
on the star tracker prior to these SO19 ops here.
Just for a few seconds. The outer gimbal should
be minus 1700.

PLT Okay. The Big 0 will get that. You want me to

go on?

CC Roger. And if - and if we could get the DAS for

a minute, we'll do a dump inhibit, and then you
may proceed,

PLT O_y. Okay. BMMD: Commander, 6,257, 6.259,

6.266, SPT, 54967, 5,966, 5,9634 PLT, 6.952,
6.949, 6,951_ Exercise: Commander, 2/35/5002,
3/15/Mark I. Stand by.

235 01 06 38 PLT Okay, continuing with the Commander, he had -

that's 3/15/Mark I was 50 A'a, 20 B's, 20 C's,
2G D's and 20 Eta. In addition, he had number
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3/i0 minutes Mark II: 40 A's, 20 B's, 20 C's,

i0 B's, and i0 of the other thing, whatever it
is. Okay, SPT--

CC On that star tracker the inner gimbal should be

plus 1765.

PLT SPT: 2/30/h350, 2/lO/Mark I. PLT: 2/33/7229,

1/05/0567, 3/20 Mark I, 50 A's, 20 B's, 20 Dogs,
20 backhends. Sleep: Commander 6 good; all
6 good. Flight Plan deviations: The PLT did
not do his hs/_d-held photos of South America due
to a conflict with other activities. Unscheduled
:stowage item location change: towels, five blue
and three white fr_n 737 to the waste management
compartment. Towels, three red from 738 to waste
management compartment. Salt packs: The Cc_-
mander used four, the SPT used four. Deviations
for the SPT: add one peanut and 3 ounces of
water. I don't know if he had that with the
peanuts or not. PLT, 12-1/2 salt packs, add one
apple drink, one butter cookie. Any question on
the evening report? If not, I'ii go on to the
photo log, You there?

235 01 09 17 CC Roger, There are no questions. We can close

the star tracker and go on with the photo log.

PLT Okay. Day 234, 16-millimeter activity was :

M151, that was for S092/171; supply CI50, percent
21, takeup CIh0. Number 2: M487-4 Echo, CI44,
16 percent rpm_ining, CI42. 35-millimeter:
CI101 has 55, CXl3 has 46. 70-millimeter: CX25
has 045. Drawer A: Alfa l, transporter 07,
CI50, 21 percent, CI40. No change - correction,
no change on A-2, A-B, or A-4. And at the back
we got transporter 02, supply CIh4, 16 percent,
C142, That it -- That's it.

235 01 l0 43 CC Roger. We copy, Jack. And we're Just about LOS.

We'll be coming up on Honeysuckle at 16.

SPT Say, Hank, I'd like to do a little VTR recording

here, and the knob has come off our video selec-
tor switch. Can you tell me, at the moment,
whether or not it is in MONITOR 1 or TV, MONITOR 2,
or whatever it 's in?
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CC It's in MONITOR 2.

235 01 ii 03 SPT Thank you.

235 01 16 59 CC Skylab, Houston. Wetre through Honeysuckle for

about a minute. And for the SPT, you're clear
to close the star tracker shutter.

SPT Okay.

CC And we'd like to get you, if you would, whoever's

using the VTR, to do us a rewind, so we'll be
ready to dump at the States when you're through
with it.

SPT Okay, That's about 5 minutes on there now. So

I'll stop it and rewind it now.

235 01 17 24 CC Okay, and real quick, in the few seconds we've

got left here, with your concurrence, we're
going to give you a little more time for the EVA
prep tomorrow; start working on the prads [sic].
About what it amounts to is, for the CDR: deleting
the BMMD sub, the TV 25, and reducing the last
ATM pass to synoptic only. For the SPT: delet-
ing an ATM pass and TV 25, and deleting an ATM
pass for the PLT.

CDR Okay, Hank. That sounds good. We'll work on

that, with that in mind. And we'll expect some
new pads that are that way, I guess.

CC Roger, We'll work on those, and we'll he

getting them up to you.

235 01 18 12 CC And, Skylab, we're about LOS, We'll be coming

up on Texas at 46 for your med conference.

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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

235 01 50 49 CC Skylab, Houston. We're back with you for

12-1/2 minutes.

235 01 59 04 CC Skylab, Houston. If it's convenient, we'd like

to get the frames remaining on the ATM.

SPT Okay, I'llread numbers out. H-alpha reads

595, which may be out of film; 56 is 537;
82A is 2; 82B is 15; 52 is 1775; 54 is ll20.

CC Roger; we copy. Thank you, sir.

CDR Let me give you a status on the Coolanol check.

CC Go ahead.

235 01 59 42 CDR Okay. Jack made a breakthrough in removing

these nuts -these little screws, by using the
vise grips, instead of our screwdriver. And
we still haven't got that panel off, but while
he was working on the last l0 nuts there, I
checked both mol sieves per the procedures,
and they're clean as a whistle. So we're
knocking off this - after right now so we can
get ready to go to bed, and get in bed on time.
And then when - when you reschedule it again
or when we get some spare time we'll pick up
again on it and finish it. We'll keep it in
our pockets ready to go.

CC Roger; we copy.

CC Skylab, Houston. While Jack was holding on to

the - the screw, did it take both of you to
turn it?

235 02 01 O1 CDR No, the main problem is these things are put
in, we think, by scme autcmatic tool, that a
certain part Jumps out of it's slot. And
sometimes the tool, like an impact wrench maybe,
gets it in a little tight and sometimes it
bothers - it gets the top of it and you - so
you get your screwdriver in there and it - it
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won't stay in. It's - you know, it's like it's

got a smoothed off top. I know you're famil-
iar with it from other screws. Also, these !
things hate been painted a couple of times, so
you have to chip all the Daint out first. And
sometimes after you do, it'll work and sc_e-
times it won't. We had - I got 40 of them out
and there were l0 that wouldn't. And Jack got
the inspiration to use that vise grips ; they
worked well.

CC Roger. That's a good thing to keep in the

back of our minds about the vise grips. I
assume that all those lines in the cabin heat
exchanger looked okay.

235 02 01 57 CDR Well, we hadn't got in there, yet.

CC Oh, that's the one you hadn't finished up.

That's the step 2.

CDR The ones we've done are the mol sieves, both
molsieves.

CC Okay. We copy.

CC SPT, or whoever's at the ATM, we'd like to get

the S052 MIRROR POSITION switch to CAMERA.

235 02 02 43 CC Thank you. And we're about 40 seconds from

LOS. We'll be coming up over Madrid at 07.
And we're scheduled for data recorder dump
there.

235 02 07 47 CC Skylab, Houston through Madrid for 7 minutes,

and if we could have the DAS, we'll enable
momentum dump.

PLT Hank, could you let us know when you're going

to be finished with the recorder? We're right
in the middle of SO19.

CC Wilco. Skylab, Houston. You might be inter-

ested in the fact that we just passed day 100
for the workshop. It lifted off on day 134.

CDR The older she gets, the better she does, huh?
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CC Roger; and is the DAS ours for a minute?

235 02 09 ll CDR Yes. I got off all those heat exchanger cov-
ers and it's nice and clean in there. No
smell, no discolorations, no swellings, no
nothing. Everything's Just dandy back there.

CC Roger. We copy.

CC Skylab, the DAS is yours. And I'd like to -

If it's convenient, get an answer to a couple
of questions here that has impact on SL 4 train-
ing. During SL 2 debriefing, it was stated that
the - when rolling about Sun center with the
MPC enabled, that the WLC align indicators
drifted such that you had to use the MPC to
keep centered up. And we were wondering, what
is the procedure that you have been using for
roll during S052, in building block l?

235 02 l0 13 CDR We haven't noticed that phencmena. In fact,

we've noticed it being very, very accurate when
you roll about Sun center.

CC I think that Just killed my second question.

It was, how bad did the thing drift?

SPT Hank, can you give me a couple of minutes to

finish this temperature and I'll be right
back - right back with you.
%

CC Wilco.

PLT While Owen's doing that Hank, I found that

it - it drifts when you roll about a point.
But I've never found it to - I've never found
it to drift at a point where it closed the
52 door. It's always stayed on the cross
pointer somewhere.

235 02 ii 19 CC Roger. We copy.

PLT But that's about a point; now, that's not about

Sun center. When it's rolling around Sun cen-
ter, like Garriott said, it's very good.
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CC Skylab, Houston. We need the S054 exposure

range switched to 256.

CC CDR, Houston. We'd like to clarify your

request on the housekeeping 7 Bravo-2, the
fecal collector cleaning. We had the request
to change it to every h days, and then one to 7.
Which is your preference?

235 02 12 36 SPT He said 7, Hank. And here comes the last of

the temperature measurements taken right now
at 02:10. 2.99volts; X-56, Y-56, Z-56,
in order are: 93.7, 93.2, 95.0 91.6, 95.1,
and 91.5. And maybe those questions that you
asked about the ATMhave all been answered now.

CC Roger. I think that's - they've been answered

okay - satisfactorily, Owen.

SPT Okay. That's all the temps we've got now.

And I hope those are adequate for whatever
engineering purposes they were intended.

235 02 13 38 CC We're about a minute and a half to LOS here.

One quickie for - for you is we were wondering
if the S054 sequence timer today that we - that
you took up is an adequate substitute for the
ready operate light system.

SPT Well, it's a big improvement over having noth-

ing. It is not aS good as having one on the
experiment itself. In the 200 - 256 position,
it actually runs about lO to 12 seconds short.
So it will turn to rea<v before the experiment
has actually exposed its last frame, so when
you see it go yellow or orange, you have to
wait awhile before the last exposure - like
l0 seconds before the last exposure is com-
plete. The other positions seem to be timed
accurately. Now, it is certainly a big advan-
tage over having to count frames. I consider
it an adequate substitute and would not recom-
mend bringing up another one. Do you agree,
Al?

CDR Yes.
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SPT Yes, A1 agrees. I think we've found it to be

an adequate substitute, although obviously not
as good as one built in.

235 02 14 42 CC Roger. We copy. And we're about 20 seconds

from LOS. We'll be coming up on Honeysuckle
with a real low pass at 54, and as a reminder
on the Coolanol thing, when you finish up there
to be sure to get your mol sieve fans back on.

235 02 54 39 CC Skylab, Houston. We're through Honeysuckle for

a minute and a half. And I've got an item I
need to get up to you.

SPT We 're listening.

CC Okay. Sorry to hit you with it this - this

late in the day but we Just caught it. For
preconditioning o'fthe urine trays, which we're
going to have to do on day 30. We need to
_et trays number 5 and 6 out of F-518, and
take them to the W-756 wardroom freezer num-
ber 2, and get them to chill them down.

CDR Tell me the numbers again and I'll go do it

right now.

CC Okay. That's what we'd like for you to do,

A1. It's urine trays number 5 and number 6.
They're in F-518, that's the urine return con-
tainer. We need to put them in W-756, ward-
room freezer number 2. And that'll start those
preconditioning. Three day - we need 72 hours
of chilldown on those before we put them in
the urine chiller on day 30.

235 02 55 44 CDR Okay; in work.

CC Thank you, sir.

CDR Okay. Let me mention another thing for the

flight planners. We got a copy of the EVA
checklist change and they're pretty long. And
we also got - We haven't received yet a copy
of the rate gyro changes and several other
things that are probably going to come up in
the night. See if they can find about an hour
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and a half for me very early in the day. And

that's when I'd like to put all of this -
because there's no way we can all three start
working the EVA problem until we get all these
checklists in shape.

CC Okay; we copy. And we'll work on that, A1.

We're just about to go LOS. And we'll say
good night to you. And we'll try to have
everything up to you" in the morning.

235 02 56 31 CDR 0keydoke.

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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

235 ii 32 50 (Army Air Corp song)

235 ii 34 i0 CC Good morning, Skylab, and that was brought to

you courtesy of your friendly Flight Director.
And we have about ii minutes more coming across
Goldstone.

CDR Who's the Flight Director?

CC Mr. Puddy.

CDR Mr. Puddy, huh?

PLT What service was he in?

CC I think it was the sa'my.

CC Per your request last night, the Flight Plan

was reworked and because it was such an extensive
change, we have up-linked you new sl,mmaries
and which you may have already have found in
your teleprinter.

235 ll 35 07 CDR Haven't yet, but thanks.

235 ll 4h 20 CC Skylab, Houston. LOS in 1 minute. See you

over Vanguard at 11:56, 11:56, and that's
12 minutes from now.

235 ll 56 18 CC Skylab, Houston. AOS over the Vanguard for

llminutes.

CC And SPT, have you manned the ATM panel yet?

SPT Just turned it on.

CC Okay, a little word of info - that info you

were sending to Ed regarding the telescope
that tkeytreplannlng on building and goCng up
on 4, we've got the transcripts and we'll give
them to him earlythismorning.

SPT Okay, fine Bob. And then he can give me a call

if there's any further discussion desirable.
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CC Okay, also info for you. The VTR is all re-

wound and available to you if anybody needs it.

SPT Okay.

235 ii 57 03 CC And down in this first run that you're making

on the ATM in building block 28, it shows,
for 55, that for - have all the DETECTORS
on, we'd like to change that to DETECTORS
i, 2, 3, 4, and 5 only.

SPT Got it.

CC And, Owen, I got a SAP update I can give you,

if you'd like.

SPT Go ahead.

CC Okay, there are no significant changes to the

solar activity necessary because of rescheduling
ATM ops the - We do need to delete some things
if you've got - got it handy.

235 ii 57 52 SPT I've got the SAP, go ahead.

CC Okay. On page i, the first one, we'd like to

delete references to scheduled ops and PI
comments, shopping list item 17, J0P - -

SPT Robert?

CC I beg your pardon.

SPT Are you talking about the SAP or the ATM

schedule?

CC On the SAP.

SPT Okay, I haven't found yet anything about PI

comments.

235 ii 58 16 CC Stand by i.

SPT I expect you're talking about this thing that

says 52 doing film cal, et cetera.

CC That's affirmative, that's why they're talking

about. Yes, 0 - -
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SPT Okay, go ahead.

CC Okay. That item 17 we want deleted. Down

below that, *it talks about J0P 12 Delta, want
to delete that and also the building block 27
of that JOP 1 Echo. And the reference to taking
Polaroids of all paintings, if convenient.

CC Into page 2 under flare guidelines, we'd like

to change that omit 54 to 54M 30 Papa 64.

SPT Okay.

CC And that was all of that SAP update.

235 12 00 07 CC Owen, correct one item on that. They would

like you to take Polaroids of all paintings if
it is convenient.

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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

235 12 00 51 CC And, 0wen, if you'll give us the DAS for a moment,

we need to COmmRud the dump inhibit.

SPT It's yours.

CC Okay, 0wen, the DAS belongs to you, and since you

did so good measuring the rate gyro six-pack
temperatures for us, we would like to get another
set of measure - set of measurements today. What
they'd like you to do is on rate gyro X-5, they'd
like you to measure it and read it - read it out
at 1 minute and then hold it on until you got a
total of 5 minutes and read it out again, and
then to measure the other gyros, again, using a
1-minute time on it.

SPT Do you have any clues to where this can most

be - conveniently be worked into the Flight Plan?

235 12 02 l0 CC I guess that one is where ever you can do it, if

you can work it in.

SPT I understood you to say " ... if it can be worked

in."

CC That's correct.

CDR Say, Crip, send my congratulations to the flight

planners. That looks like they worked it out
real well. And also it looks like they worked it
out where we're doing this EVA prep a little bit
earlier so if it stretches out we can keep going,
and if it doesn't, we can have some time right
there to get some other things done. So looks to
me like they made a good change overnight.

235 12 02 49 CC Okay, I'm sure they'll appreciate those kind words.

A lot of hard workwas done. For your information,
we've got a total of h hours planned for that EVA
first thing out.

CDR My guess is it's going to be closer to 5 but

that's good enough because the suspicion in mind
is we're going to end up getting out and we're
going to get out either at night or in the day,
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how's that for logic? But we're going to get out

one of the other, and either way we get out that
day pass, either the one we get out on or the first
one up is going to be the one Jack reconnoiters
the areas and so that means then we're going to
have to cool it that night and then the next day
we'll go out and put in the rate gyros. So
essentially it's - it's sort of with a 50:50
chance you can say, that add 45 minutes and do it
right there. But seems to us that's the - the
conservative way to go and the way we'd like to
do it so that would be an extra h5 and that would
account for the difference between the 4 hours and
my guess of 5.

235 12 03 56 CC Okay; we copied that. Also for your information,

we got a 2 hour and 4 min - 40 minute prep time
preceeding the EVA.

CDR Okay, what did we have last time; I forgot.

CC It was approximately 2 hours, A1, and we've added

about _0 minutes on it.

CDR That's good; that'll - ought to make it just about

right.

235 12 0_ 25 CC Okay; also another item_ we've got housekeeping

3 Charlie down as one of the items that, you
know, whenever you can pick it up and I don't - I'm
not sure who would be doing that but we would
appreciate it if you would remove that VCS duct
from the 0WS mixing chamber and inspect the 0WS
mixing chamber as a screen for debris. If there is
some debri present, we'd appreciate it if you
could vacuum it off and reinstall the duct.

CDR Okay, that's a good idea; never thought of that.

We'll do it.

235 12 05 14 CDR Don Puddy must run a good ship down there?

CC Ah, yes, he runs a tight ship.

CC A1, I don't know if the other guys are listening,

I'd like to pass on some info for you. The
Fredo - Fred Haise managed to ding one of the
confederate air force planes yesterday. He is not
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serious but he is in the hospital. He got burned,

I guess second-degree burns over about 50 percent
of his body and a few third-degree burns on his
legs, but the prognosis is good, and I understand
he was sitting up talking to people last night -
pretty good shape.

CDR Guess you'd call that bad news and good news.
Well we're glad the good was last. That's great.

235 12 06 05 CC Roger.

CDR Send him our best and - and we'll be looking to

see him when we get back home in another month.
He ought to be up and around again.

CC Oh, I'm sure he will be.

CDR That's great, thanks, Bob. We like to keep up,

we kind of won - one of the things we were kind of
wondering up here the other day what was Pete
doing?

CC Pete's been loafing, I haven't seen him around

for a while.

CDR Okay, sor (chuckle) - sorry we brought it up.

235 12 06 34 CC I think he deserves a lit - to rest a little while

anyhow. We're about _5 seconds from LOS, we'll
have you again over Hawaii at 13:06, and that's
Just about an hour from now.

CDR Okay. I'm not - I'm not sure you do need to rest.
This thing is like a vacation up here. Everyday
is almost like a holiday. There's so many fun
things going on. You guys are the ones that
deserve the rest, you're the ones that take the
strain down there.

235 12 06 59 CC Okay, since everything is like a day off, can I

tASk a few seconds about your - your day off
coming up. Right now we've got a - we're kind of
planning to put in Just a - a few ATM passes and
run another CBRM battery reverification test.
I'd like you to think about that and give us some
feedback on it.
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CDR Okay, we want a full ATM schedule, Just like we've

always had and a - put in the CBRM test, and any-
thing else that has to be done and that's about
it. In other words try to shoot like the last day
off.

235 12 07 36 CC Understand. Okay, you're going over the hill.

Bye bye.

235 13 06 43 CC Skylab, Houston. AOS through Hawaii for 5 minutes.

PLT Okay, Crip.

CC You sound bright and cheerful this morning, Jack.

PLT As usual.

CC Right.

PLT I don't know how bright, but cheerful anyway.

CC I'm sure both, Jack. Say, I've got some info on

that S056 hangup that you guys reported yesterday,
if anybody's got some time to listen.

PLT Fire away.

235 13 07 43 CC Okay. From the data we looked at down here, we

indicate that the - two pro - the two PATROL,
SHORT modes ran properly and the ACTIVE l, LONG
mode took 12 frames instead of 15. And we have
seen that particular phenomenon before. In
addition, we have found a truncated PATROL, SHORT,
two frames out of six that were taken at
22:25 Zulu; and we cannot find the PATROL, SHORT
which should've been run at about 14:30 Zulu
and that may have been our hangup.

PLT The PATROL, SHORT that hung up on me, hung up

on filter 3 and it must have sat here for
or 5 minutes. The whole mode is suppose to be
over with in about 2 m_nutes.

235 13 08 28 CC Roger. Copy that and in case anybody's around

the DAS, if you'd stay away - off of it a couple
of minutes, we're going to enable momentum dump.

PLT Okay, ...

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CC And does the SPT happen to be available for a quick

note?

SPT Go ahead, Bob.

235 13 09 l0 CC Okay, 0wen. This evening you're running an S063 pass

and you've got a general message. You've probably
already picked up on it. There was no note made
of it, but you should put on a 55-milli - millimeter
lens with the Nikon 01 for that particular photo-
graphy. I think it's got a 300-millimeter mounted
on it now.

SPT Okay. 55-millimeter on Nikon 01.

CC That's correct.

235 13 l0 05 CC Okay, and the DAS belongs to you guys again.

CC Skylab, Houston; 1 minute to LOS. We'll see you

again over the Vanguard at 13:34, that's about
23 minutes from now. We'll be doing a data voice
recorder dump there.

235 13 ll 41 CC And Skylab, Houston. For your info, the rate gyro
cue card has been up-linked to you and also the
J-21 plug information.

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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

235 13 34 36 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS over the Vanguard

for i0 minutes.

SPT Okay, Robert, I Just took some battery measure-

ments up there. The voltage is reading 2.99 volts;
the temDerature measurement on.X-5, after i minute
was 91.1; after 5 minutes it was 93.1, but it
was not a problem with reaching equilibrium at
the end of 1 minute. It's a problem with keeping
the temperature sensor flat and to parallel with
the surface of the thing to be measured. During
the l- to 5-minute interval, the temperature
did fluctuate from 93 up and down a degree or so
and the - Just a problem with making sure you
got good firm flat contact between that and the
gyro package. And equilibrium is reached within
a minute if you've got good flat contact. The
grease is getting sort of dry now anyway, that
makes the contact extra difficult. I did not have
time to complete the other gyros. We've knocked
off - I've knocked off to come to 92/171. Over.

235 13 35 37 CC Okay, Owen. We copy that, and as you suspected

that extended time on that was to see if the
thing - the temperature had stabilized. Could
I ask you if you managed to get JOP 12 Delta done
last time?

SPT Negative, did not do that. I've got it noted on

the pad and the first time we have any extra
observing time, in the rest of the day, well,
we're going to work that 12 Dog in.

CC Okay , copy.

235 13 36 05 PLT Say, Crip, could you set up a couple phone calls
for me please?

CC Okay, Jack, sure.

PLT Yes, make the first one to my wife and the second
one to Fred-O, please.

CC Okay, I'll see if I can work on those.

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PLT Thank you.

CC And, CDR, Houston. If you've got a moment I

need to talk to you.

CDR Go ahead.

235 13 36 43 CC Okay, A1, as you probably heard there, Owen said

he didn't get J0P 12 Delta done on his last pass
and rather than Just kind of leave it ad-lib,
we'd appreciate it if we could go ahead and
replace your building block l0 at the end of this
pass that you've got - you're working on now,
with J0P 12 Delta and the details are on the
schedule frc_ the last rev.

CDR Okay, got them in sight; will do.

CC Thank you.

235 13 37 56 PLT Hey, Crip, on M0921171 it was implied last night

that we were doing something not according to
the cue card that was messing up the data some-
how; however, we haven't been able to - nobody
identified for us what it was, and before we get
going, we'd kind of like to know what it is so
we can either find out what it was, or make a
change or whatever is necessary to do it right.

CDR Crip, I - -

CC Roger.

CDR - - Crip, I think I can answer that. We didn't

have the selectors for experiment tape recorder
number 1 in the right position. We had it on G
and it should have been in a different position.

235 13 38 34 CC That's - That's affirmative, A1. That's correct.

And, Jack, you copy that?

PLT Yes, I got that, Crip, and I'll be looking for

it. Thank you.

CC Thank you.

CDR Crip,areyou stillthere?

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CC That 's affirmative, A1.

CDR Okay, I noticed it says, I was looking at this

capability loss of ATH C&D RGT J-21 connector
procedures - -

235 13 42 53 CC That's affirmative.

CDR It says "All ATM C_D ground DAS enable and inhibit
switch ..." That needs a little more clarification,
perhaps, because I know that after we do this, we
do all sorts of inhibiting and activating the rate
gyros, et cetera.

CC A1,'what that means is up there the - the 7 switches

you've got under GROUND. DAS in the upper left-
hand protion of the thing where you can enable
either Just for the DAS COmmAnd or DCS command.
Those switches are basically inoperative and
they're enabled right now; and that Just means
during that period that you've got J-21 disable
you cannot inhibit them.

235 13 43 3_ CDR They're all the DAS - the DAS works normally
after ground command.

CC That 's afflrmative.

CDR Okay.

CDR Yes, that's not too much to lose.

CC A1, we couldn't copy your last, please.

CDR That's not bad.

CC Okay, no that - there're not many functions lost

there. We're about 30 seconds from LOS. We'll
see you again over Hawaii at 14:41, 14:41; and
we'd like to ensure that you do close the STAR
TRACKER SHUTTER pretty soon.

CDR How about right now?

CC That's fine.
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235 13 h4 33 CDR You know, we ought to start putting it on the ATM

pad when wewant a star tracker lock-on. Like
it would have been nice to have 0wen lock it on
early this morning, then we would have had a nice
collective Nuzfor some - -
235 14 43 24 CC Skylab, Houston, we're AOS over Hawaii for
8 minutes and, Jack, if you got a moment, I'd like
to talk to you.

SPT Go ahead, Bob.

CC Okay, we've got about this pass and one more

before Jack gets into this CBRMverif - battery
verification test and I would kind a like to -
to talk to him about a few items on that.

SPT Okay, he's right in the middle of a MI71 run now,

so you'll have to do it later, Bob.

CC Okay, Jack (sic), I really couldn't read you, be-

cause of the feedback. Understand you are in the
middle of the MITI run, I guess - -

235 14 44 22 SPT That's right, Robert.

CC Okay, Owen, if you do get a chance, I would

appreciate it if you could if possible look over
that procedure prior to -to Vanguard, which is about
28minutes away, and l would like to go over with -
some items with h_m at that time if he can.

SPT Okay, I don't know if we're going to be through

with 171 or not, I guess we'll work it out again
tomorrow.

CC Okay, like to do our best. And if anybody is

available, I guess maybe, A1, Just for infor-
mAtlon, we got about, oh, a couple of minutes
until sunrise; understand you mlght see an aurora
out the F-4window.

235 14 45 15 CDR Okay, and I might mention that on JOP 12 Delta I

got the 10-second exposure, the 40, and couldn't
get the 240; ran out of time.

CC Copy that, A1. Thank you,

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CDR Crip, I gather on EVA, Our plan is to use SUS 2

loop completely and use the same co_n, config-
uration that we've always used, is that roughly
it?

CC That 's affirmative, A1.

235 14 51 02 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from LOS. We'll

see you again over the Vanguard at 15:13, that's
about 22 minutes from now, and we'll be doing a
data voice recorder dump. And if Jack's got a
chance, sure would like to talk to him about that
CBRM battery verification test.

END OF TAPE
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S_ AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

235 15 13 08 CC Skylab, Houston. AOS over the Vanguard for

9 minutes.

CDR Okay, Crip. We're still working on getting the

checklist changes in here. Say a few words about
the plan we have with 149.

CC Okay. The intent with lh9 instead of bringing it

hack in this time completely, what we tried to do
is to get it out of the road from the transfer work-
station up there, so you can go ahead and get the
Sun end, and then redeploy it,

CDR Are we going to close it or Just move it?

CC No, we have to close it.

235 15 13 _6 CDR So we're going to go out there, Owen's going to

close it, move it over, do all the Sun end work,
including the removing the ramp; and as he comes
back by, he puts it back in original position and
opens it up, huh?

CC That 's affirmative.

CDR Understand.

CC And, A1. while I've got you there, on the JOP 12

Delta exposure 2h0 that you didn't get in, we're
a little bit concerned about running out of
82B film because we expect to pretty shortly. And
on your next - next pass, which you've got coming
up at 16:30, we would like you to go ahead and get
that exposure in and then you can go ahead and pick
up JOP 2 Foxtrot, which is the first one scheduled
step l, and drop out the last building block l0 if
nec e s sary.

235 15 lh 36 CDR Okay; I understand. And forgot to mention that in

82A, when it got down to one frame, it stayed one
frame indicated, even though I attempted to take a
couple more pictures. So apparently, it's out now
with an indicated one frame.

CC We copy and concur, A1.

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pTT Okay, Bob, go ahead with this housekeeping battery

to look over that procedure?

CC Okay, Jack.. Did you have any chance at all to -

to look over that procedure?

235 15 15 21 PLT No, I Just pasted it in the book and I've been
running 171; we're still working that.

CC Yes, I understand. We sort of got a little bit

uptight here. Actually, you - I think you can get
started in the procedure without any problem and
then we can _Rybe, if you got any questions on it,
we can give you some details on it after you've
already started it. There are a few items that
I would like to e_phasize though, maybe if could
Jot them down. If you got a note pad or something
handy.

PLT Go ahead.

235 15 15 h7 CC Okay. We tell you - you - you end up with both -

testing both CHRM 18 and 10, starting with 18 first
and then getting l0 later, And in - in sharing
your monitoring, we want you to primarily monitor 18;
and I think that's clear in the procedure. We'd
like you to check l0 every 4 minutes. Okay, and
it's - it's important to us not to get an auto dis-
connect. I would like to emphasize that. And for
information purposes, 18 is one of the - one of the
CBRMs that got a little hot for us back in - on the
first Skylab and we - and also because we go ahead
and - and turn it on first, we anticipate that it
should be the first one that reaches the 27 volts,
And that 's Just information.

PLT Okay. How do you recommend that I prevent an auto

disconnect ?

235 15 16 57 CC We have a procedure for you at the bottom of step 5,

that if you get an auto disconnect, that's the pro-
cedure we want to go into. But as far as preventing
it, when you get down to 27 volts, you still got like
5 minutes before you would get an auto disconnect.
So, really by watching when we get to 27 volts,
we tell you to go on to step 6 and that will put the
thing back on the line so it will not disconnect.
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PLT Okay. So, what you're saying is when you get down
to that point, watch it real close, make sure you
don't go over the time limit to get auto disconnect.

235 15 17 32 CC No, when you get down to the 27 volts, or the talk-
back's going barber pole, that's the time to go
ahead and go on with - pick up step 6, immediately.

PLT Okay. I understand.

CC And for the •CDR. This morning, earlier, you went

over the hill t_!_ing about the star tracker and
perhaps putting on a pad getting Nu z up - updates;
and our current intent is to put - we're building
a 482 and we're going to send you up a - a change
for your unattended cue cards. Such that, basically,
every morning, you'll - you'll get a Nu z update and
then every evening on the last pass, you'll also
get another one.

235 15 19 02 CDR Okay; good idea.

CC Skylab, Houston. One minute from LOS, We'll have

you again in an hour over Hawaii at 16:21 and we'll
have - turn you over to Bruce for that one.

CDR Okay. Enjoyed it ; see you tomorrow.

CC Roger.

CDR Who's going to be on during the EVA?

CC Should be Bruce.

CDR Okay.

CC Thanks a lot.

235 15 22 01 CDR What do you mean "Th_s a lot?"

235 16 22 56 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Hawaii for 4 minutes,

for the PLT. Over,

CDR He's listening; go ahead.

CC Okay, A1, we show that bat l0 has also commenced the

the battery capacity test. That was not scheduled
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to be acco_lished until 17:31 Zulu; we would like

to turn charger i0 back on at the time and commence
to test per the PLT details. Over.

CDR Okay, we'll look at it a little closer here.

PLT Hey, Bruce, the way I read step B of the note was
that 18 and l0 will be tested simultaneously, but
I'll do whatever you say.

CC Roger. The - intent of the - maybe we didn't make

it perfectly clear - is that we would have some over-
lap in the test. However, we intended to stagger
the start so that we would get a staggered stop and
you wouldn't be in a situation where both batteries
were about to come down on 27 volts at the same time
and you had to hop back and forth on voltage rea-
dings. Over.

PLT Okay, I got the charger on l0 back on on the line

and it's charging back up again; and I'll do it
that way. They've been discharging together all
through the night and, well, discharging; they were
reading - they Rot doom to 30 volts and 9 to l0 amps
and 50 degrees. They Here both doing the same
thing and I'll check 18 for you now so you can
check you telemetry.

235 16 23 43 CC Roger; we copy, Jack, And for the PLT, could you
give us a frame counter readout on H-Alpha 1 again,
please? Over.

COR 595.

CC That's was for the CDR, I'm sorry. 595? We'd like
to, when you have a chance, we've got a shutdown
procedure, here.

CDR Okay, got a chance right now.

CC Okay, verify you're in daylight, H-Alpha 1 door is

open, and turn your H-Alpha 1 AUTO switch to OFF.
We'd like to know if the READY light comes and then,
whether the READY light came on or not, turn the
H-Alpha 1 CAMERA POWER switch OFF. Over.

CDR Okay, it's shut down, and the READY light did not
come on.
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235 16 2h 25 CC We copy; thank you.

PLT Okay, Bruce, here is the specs on the - what battery

- CBRM 18 is doing right now - battery 18 - and
at the moment it's - as best I can read it, it's
reading 31.3 volts, a minus 0.8 amps which turns
out to be zero, and 51 degrees.

235 16 24 55 CC Okay Jack; we copy that. ThAn_ you. We have 1

minute until
tact in 25 minutes over the Vanguard at 16:50.
Over.

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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

235 16 51 i0 CC Skylab, this is Houston through the Vanguard

for 9 minutes and 50 seconds. We have a note
for the Commander.

CDR Go ahead.

CC Roger. During your housekeeping comand

module 7 today at 17:00 or 18:00, we'd like
you to change the polychoke setting to position
number 2, that's position 2. Over.

CDR Okay, I'll do it.

SPT Hello, Bruce.

CC Go ahead.

SPT I'm suppose to be calibrating the SMNN - SMMD

in the head right now and notice the GG dump
is not inhibited. Are you concerned about that
conflict with the checklist?

CC Okay, how much longer do you figure it will take

you, Owen? If you're near the time line, it
shows finishing up by about 17:30, and we've
still got 38 minutes of daylight left so you
ought to come out, you know, fairly close.

SPT Stand by Just a minute.

235 16 52 32 SPT I had my daylight cycle a little out of phase,

Bruce. I actually delayed the start so I
could check with you on this. I'll get on it
right now, see if I can finish it before sunset.

CC Okay, GG dump co--hence is at 17:21, 17:21. Over.

SPT Thank you.

235 16 54 42 PLT Say, Bruce, it would save about an hour of my

time if I was able to discharge bat 18 and l0
together. Would you like to reconsider doing it
that way?
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CC Negative, acknowledge. Over.

PLT Acknowledged.

235 17 00 16 CC Skylab, this is Houston. We're 1 minute to

LOS over the Vanguard. Next station contact
in 4-1/2 minutes over Canary - over Ascension
at 17:04. And we will be dumping the data
voice tape recorder over Ascension. Out.

235 17 00 33 CDR Okay, Bruce, been thinking about that extra

45 minutes they added to the prep time in
looking over the JOP we'vegot to do extra
in addition to preping and I think they ought
to add another 30 minutes besides that.
That'll give us 30 minutes extra to prep and
then 45 minutes to do the special things for
the rate gyro six pack.

235 17 0O 57 CC Today or tomorrow?

CDR Tomorrow morning, prior to the getting out

time.

235 17 01 02 CC Okay; we'll see you over Ascension.

235 17 04 35 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Ascension for

9-1/2 minutes. We will be dumping the data
voice tape recorder at this site. And for the
CDR, we went over the hill there as you were
making a request regarding additional
30 minutes to the EVA prep for tomorrow. For
which crewman did you want this 1/2 hour
added or was it for all three? Over.

CDR No, add it for the PLT and CDR.

CC Roger ; we copy. And also, Alan, earlier today,

we asked that you make up the 2 minute and
40 second S082 - B exposure associated with
JOP 12 Delta, step l, on quiet region 1. Did
you accomplish this this daylight pass? Over.

CDR I sure did. And rather than just give them a

240, I gave them 240 first, then I gave them
40 and a l0 so they'd have - have it all in one
spot at one time. I'd given them the l0 and
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the 40 on the previous orbit, but the time ran

out. And I wanted to make sure that they had
their data correct. So I think they've got
_t now.

CC Okay. We copy and they' re happy.

235 17 07 01 CDR And, Houston, I've Just put the purge valve
on 2.

CC Roger. Out.

235 17 ll 23 CC Skylab, Houston. We have 2-1/2 minutes until

LOS here at Ascension. Next station in
39 minutes over Guam. We'd like to remind
the PLT that the procedure on charge - battery
l0 needs to be started during this night cycle
per checklist. The CHARGER needs to be
commanded off prior to sunrise. We do need
continuous monitoring of battery 18, starting
5 minutes before the next sunrise; and that time
is 17:48 Zulu. Just a little bit of rationale
or back ground now on the situation here.
We'd like to retell it, that during pre-launch
testing, we've found repeated evidence of
SAS contacters sticking in the OPEN position
and if the battery does auto disconnect, it
opens the SAS contacter associated with that
CBRM. You may recall this is the problem
we had with CBRM 15 where it stuck open. We
were unable to use that one until it was fixed
by gently tapping it with a hammer during
the EVA. Over.

235 17 12 hl PLT Okay, Bruce, I understand. Thank you.

CC Okay. And back - or on the ATM situation, we're

down to the point where we're runnin_ low on
film in S082-B. The next ATM pass, which is
schedttled for the PLT, we have two auto modes
selected; they're in J0P 17A, step i. And
we'd like to delete the second AUTO MODE. Over.

PLT Okay. That's delete the second AUTO MODE in

82B. Thank you.
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235 17 13 25 CC Roger. Actually, that's 17 Alfa, step 2,

building block ll. Delete the AUTO MODE for
82B.

CC And 20 seconds to LOS. We'll see you over

Guam at 17:50. Out.

235 17 49 26 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Guam for

7-1/2 minutes. Over.

PLT Hello, Bruce and Guam.

CC Roger, Jack; how are the old CBRMs doing today?

PLT Well, number l0 voltage is rating 2 volts above

number 18, and 18's approaching 28 volts.

CC Beautiful; thank you.

- CDR Got a little message for your CSM troops.

CC Okay, fire away. We're ready to copy.

CDR Okay, I got halfway into the procedure of house-

keeping, went down to the 382 panel, opened
the door, noted about one-third of a pint of
a liquid in there, which I believe to be water
glycol, but not sure, and it seemed to be
clinging around the SUIT HEAT EXCHANGER PRIMARY
GLYCOL valve. For those that are familiar
with that area, there are some machined frames
on the sides, rib-like affairs that hold that
whole panel. And so it sort of - it leads
a machine down into little cubby holes ; a
little cubby hole that B82 was - I mean that
the SUIT HEAT EXCHANGER PRIMARY GLYCOL was in -
was about three-quarters full of this liquid.
I then backed out of the secondary radiator
procedure that I was in the process of working
on a secondary loop - and put it back in the
nominal configuration, dried up the liquid, and
that's the situation as it presently is. Wait-
ing for some suggestions.

CC Okay, A1, we copy that. What makes you believe

that it's water glycol mix? Do you - experienced
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or smelled or felt that stuff before? Is that

your basis for saying that? Over.

235 17 51 25 CDR The answer is no. The basis for saying it is

it is not water, but it doesn't smell, and it
doesn't taste, and it has an oily feel to it.
And it's on the glycol panel, so I don't - I
mean the coolant panel so that was the only
reason. I don't have any other scientific
data at hand.

CC Okay. I wasn't - -

PLT It's a clear liq - It's a clear liquid. And

when it dries on your hands, it ma_es your
hands sticky.

CC Okay, I wasn't trying to question your analy-

sis; we're Just trying to get all the fact
through here.

CDR I knew you weren't, Bruce, be - and I should

have said that because I don't really know
what water glycol is. But I think you asked a
good question. No problem there. Just kind
of laughing.

235 17 52 _5 PLT This obviously ain't the orbit for CBRM - for
battery ms-ber 18; maybe next one, huh?

235 17 52 51 CC Say again, please, Jack.

235 17 52 54 PLT Looks like this isn't the night pass for battery
number 18. Maybe the next one, huh?

CC Okay, we don't know about that. The reason

we're running the test, of course, is to try
and get a handle on the capacity of the battery.
We need to stress that continuous monitoring
through the night passes from now on will be
required until completion of the test. And I
guess you probably want to confirm - well, I
guess it's in daylight now and you got the
CHARGER on bat l0 off. Is that correct? Over.

PLT That's affirmative. It's been off since the

time you told me to turn it off, and its
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battery's reading about 2 volts above 18, a

little less now; looks like 18's going down
more slowly now than it was originally. And
you're right, I'll - I'm continuing to stand
here at the panel and just watch it during
the night pass.

CC Roger.

235 17 54 53 CC AI, Houston. Would you confirm that the fluid

was there when you opened the panel, that is,
before you started turning any valves on 382?
Over.

CDR That's affirmative. I never turned valve on

382 because when I opened the door, I noticed
the liquid, and just cleaned it up, and then
left everything as it was. And then I backed
down from that position. I did not move any
of the valves on 382 at all.

PLT The HEAT EXCHANGER valve says FLOW and BYPASS.

And right now, it's between them pointing at
12 o'clock.

CC Say again, Jack, about the HEAT EXCHANGER FLOW

and BYPASS.

PLT Yes, the - the HEAT EXCHANGER valve says FLOW on one
side and BYPASS on the other. Right now, the
pointer is pointing at - to 12 o'clock, which
is right in between them if you look at its
schematic.

CC Okay, this is the SUIT HEAT EXCHANGER PRIMARY

valve?

PLT That's affirmative. We were thinking maybe

you'd want us to put it one way or the other
and see if we can stop whatever leak we got
in there. If that's the - if that's the
source.

CC Stand by. Okay, Jack and A1, that valve - valve

should be in BYPASS at the present time. Go
ahead and put it there.
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235 17 56 19 CC Skylab, Houston; belay the last. It should

be in BYPASS. However, leave it in its present
position until we get a little more time to
look into the system. We have 40 seconds to
LOS over Guam here; n_xt station contact in
31 minutes over the Vanguard at 18:27 Zulu.
Over.

235 17 56 48 CC Skylab, Houston; did you copy my last?

235 17 56 51 PLT Get it, Bruce.

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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

235 18 28 07 CC Skylab, thfs is Houston through the Vanguard

for ll minutes. Over.

CDR Okay.

CC Okay, A1, with respect to the leak in the

command module, we'd like you to save the rag
or rags with which you've mopped up the liquid,
preferably in a plastic bag or something that
you can seal up, maybe even a food can, so
that if we decide we want to analyze this
later, we have that option. We'll take care of
finishing up the items in housekeeping
command module 7 at our pleasure in a day or so.
Understand that you backed out and currently
have the secondary coolant loop powered down.
Is that correct? Over.

CDR That's correct. We're in the normal con-

figuration for unorbit opera_ions.

235 18 29 01 CC Okay, and did you do the fourth part of the

check, that is, topping of the command module
20 supply? Over.

CDR They were both as high as the tank.

CC Roger. We copy. We'd like to request you not

to reconfigure any valve on panel 382 until we
have a chance to work the problem and get back
to you. Over.

CDR Okeydoke.

235 18 29 27 CC Now, with respect to the airlock module primary

coolant loop, this seems to be coolant loop
day. As you know, we've been watching the
pressure in the loop go down over a period of
time. Last night the loop hit a low pressure
of 5.8 psi, and our criterion has been always
that when it got down to 5, we would shut
down the airlock module primary coolant loop.
It looks likes it would not last through the
night tonight and our decision, subject to
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your concurrence, is that we'd like to - like to

shut it down now over the Vanguard here, in order
to give the secondary loop plenty of time to
stabilize prior to the EVA tomorrow, and to
give us the option to watch the system perfor-
mance. Over.

CDR Okay. That makes sense.

235 18 30 26 CC Roger. We'll do it.

SPT Hello, Bruce. I've got a malfunction procedure

on the camera that was used for S063 to run,
using the multimeter. That's the same multi-
meter that I now have hooked up to the tempera-
ture sensor on the rate gyro pack. Is there
any problem with disconnecting that temp
sensor lead now and putting it back to the
original configuration and using the multi-
meter elsewhere. Over.

CC Stand by a second, Owen.

CC Skylab, SPT, this is Houston. Over.

SPT Go ahead.

235 18 34 01 CC Roger, Owen. We would like to leave the multi-

meter connected to the rate gyro six pack as it
is at the present time. In place of the Nikon
malfunction procedure that we sent up to you,
we suggest you replace the battery in the timer,
that is, the timery battery - the timer battery,
and then without loading film in the Nikon, see
if the system will function satisfactorily,
i.e., the Nikon with the timer. Over.

SPT Okay. I understand. And I'll get onto that

probably after we run the M092 stuff. We'll
have to delay that, but I'll check it out that
way.

CC Roger. I think that's the best we can do under

the circumstances.

235 18 34 48 SPT Sounds like a good idea anyway.

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CC Roger. Out.

PLT Are you configured for TV down-link, Bruce?

CC That's affirmative, Jack.

PLT Okay. Here it comes.

CDR Okay. We put the rags in a nice new clean

fecal bag and it's all sealed up.

CC Roger. We copy, A1.

235 18 36 18 UC And while your mind is fresh on the subject,

A1, we'd like to get the most accurate quantity
estimate you can regarding the amount of
liquid that leaked out. Our analysis here
shows that based on accumulator quantity
change, we're missing approximately 0.h of a
pound of glycol and this seems to correlate
in sort of a preliminary way, with what you're
finding. Over.

CDR I'd say that's good. My guess was a third of a

pint. And that was a pretty rough guess, but
in that neighborhood.

CC Roger. We copy.

CDR And we were wondering, Bruce, what are the

flsmmability characteristics, if any, of water
glycol, loose?

235 18 38 ll CC Okay, A1, give us a little time to work on that

one. We're a minute from LOS over the Vanguard
here. Next station contact in 3-1/2 minutes at
Ascension at 18:41 Zulu. Over.

235 18 41 44 CC Skylab, this is Houston, through Ascension for

7 minutes and 20 seconds. Out.

PLT Hey, Bruce, on this powerdown for unattended

ops, I was wondering if the S054 guys want me
to leave the grating in?

CC That's a negative, Jack. We'd like it out,

please. Over.
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PLT Okay. Well, I take it from this, they want me

to leave it M3 0P64 [?]. Is that affirm?

CC That 's affirmative, Jack.

235 18 43 24 PLT Okay. I got it now.

PLT I wasn't - I didn't read those last few lines

when I was talking to you before. I under-
stand it completely.

CC Okay. We got you.

235 18 48 28 CC Skylab, Houston. 35 secends to LOS Ascension.

Next station contact in 1 minute and 43 seconds
over the Canaries. Out.

235 18 50 19 PLT You there, Bruce.

CC Go ahead, AI.

PLT It's me, Bruce. Ask the boys in the baekroom

if they think S056 is hung up on filter 5 in
an ACTIVE 1, LONG?

CC That's affirm, Jack. It is hung up and we're

formulating a course of action for you.

PLT 0h, you want me Just to go to stop and go to

my next mode like the PATROL, SHORT or something.

CC That 's affirmative, Jack. Do that.

235 18 51 03 PLT Okay. I don't think I got time to get a NORMAL

in so I'll give them a SHORT. If they don't
mind.
CC Roger. We copy and concur.

235 18 58 27 CC Skylab, this is Houston. About 1-1/2 minutes

to LOS here at Madrid. We will be dumping the
data voice tape recorder at your next station
in 27 minutes over Guam at 19:25, and for the
PLT, we have about 4-1/2 minutes until sunset
here. If you're near the ATM panel, maybe you
could give us a quick reading on bat 18 voltage.
Over.
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PLT Yes, Bruce. I'd call it about 30.6, 30.6.

CC Okay, copy 30.6 on bat 18.

PLT Ten is reading almost 32.

CC Say again, please.

PLT Battery l0 is reading 32 volts.

235 18 59 31 CC Understand. Battery l0 is reading almost

32 volts.

235 19 26 59 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Guam for

9-1/2minutes. Out.

PLT Okay, last time around, Bruce, bat 18 seems

to be stable at the moment at 28 volts, and
bat test now reads - it went up and got to be
about 28.5 volts. And the Sun's coming up
again.

CC Roger; we copy. Thank you, Jack.

PLT Okay. In order to watch my displays, I had to

turn on the POWER SYSTEM BUS 1 switch. And
I also turned on the event timer so I could -
the ... phase timer so I could see what's going
on. I presume you want me - -

235 19 27 43 CC Break, break - -

PLT - - to go to OFF during unattended, for those.

CC Hey Jack. l'm having extreme difficulty reading

you over the music in the bacW_ound. Would
you say again, please?

PLT Yes. I had to put the POWER SYSTEM BUS 1

switch on to readthe meter over there, of
course, and I put on the ORB PHASE BUS 1 also,
so I could see my relationship to daylight.
And youwant me to turn those off for unattended
ops? I'll turn them back later, I guess, huhT

CC Jack, you might as well go ahead and leave them

on. There doesn't seem to be any problem
either way. Over.
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235 19 28 30 PLT Okay; thank you, Bruce.

CC Amd we thank you for your vigilance in monitor-

ing the voltage and the talkbacks on the bats.
I guess it's "semper vigilance", or something
like that.

PLT Roger. That's why you need the music.

CDR That's good, that's good.

CC And we are dumping the data voice tape recorder

here.

PLT Good. We'll be glad to get that stuff cleaned

off.

PLT Bruce, did somebody pass the word to you that

I'm wanting to set up two phone calls tonight,
one to my wife, and the other to Fredo?

CC That' s right Jack. We're working on them.

And we'll have some word for you later on it.
Okay?

235 19 29 h2 PLT Okay. Thank you.

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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

235 19 35 01 CC Skylab, this is Houston. One minute to LOS at

Guam. Next station contact in 31 minutes over
the Vanguard at 20:06. Out.

CC Skylab, this is Houston through the Vanguard for

8-1/2 minutes. Out.

CC Skylab, this is Houston through the Vanguard;

2 minutes to LOS. Next station contact over the
Canaries at 20:25 in 13 minutes. And is the PLT
handy?

PLT He's handy, Bruce.

235 20 12 38 CC Okay, Jack. We're working on your request. Right

now, we've got your private family conference set
up through Carnarvon at 22:h2, that's 22:h2 Zulu.
It's a 10-minute pass, and that will be on the
VHF right antenna. Over.

PLT Real good. Thanks a lot, Bruce.

CC Okay, more words for you later.

PLT Yes.

CC Skylab, this is Houston, through Canary for

l_-l/2 minutes. Over.

235 20 25 h3 PLT Okay, Bruce. Just got to thinking about this

call to Fredo. I guess, although we'd like to
do something like that, it probably doesn't meet
the ground rules under which this commlmications
was set up, so probably we ought to Just cancel
out the idea and pass our best regards along to
Fred and hope that he'll be out of the hospital
soon.

CC Roger. We'll do that, Jack.

PLT Tell him I said that I know they won't keep him
there very long, because they haven't got enough
food to feed him.
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CC (Laughter) I would say that they might not have

enough food to feed you.

PLT No, that's what Fred would say. You wouldn't

say that.

CC (Laughter) Okay. We copy.

CDR Bruce, are you there?

CC That's affirmative.

235 20 29 56 CDR Are we supposed to get out fresh LCGs and - for
this EVA - all three or Just two?

CC Nobody's supposed to use the same LCGs that you

used on the first EVA, Alan. Over.

CDR Okay.

CDR Do the stowage folks know where that little

package of - of the nylon that we're supposed
to put out EVA tomorrow is stowed?

CC Roger. That's in A-9, Alfa 9.

CDR Okay.

CC CDR, Houston. Over.

CDR Go ahead.

235 20 3_ 4_ CC Roger. After it gets dark here in about 2 minutes,

we would like you to adjust the REGULATOR CONTROL
FINE ADJUSTMENT for reg number 7 in the airlock
module 20 degrees in the clockwise direction.
That's two-thirds of a space between the marks,
clockwise, on REGULATOR, FINE ADJUSTMENT number 7.
And verify that BAT 7 discharge current increases
by 0.8 of an ampere. We're asking you to do
this so that Jack will remain free to monitor CBRM
BATs number l0 and 18 over there on the ATM panel.
Over.

235 20 35 23 CDR Okay; understand.

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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

235 20 39 06 CC Skylab, this is Houston. One minute to LOS;

next station contact in 34 minutes over
Honeysuckle at 21:13. And are you in the process
of adjusting reg 7 now, Al?

CDR Just finished.

CC Roger. We saw the telemetry change, and it looks

good to us.

235 20 39 24 CDR Okay.

235 21 14 03 CC Skylab, Houston. AOS Honeysuckle, 8 minutes.

CC PLT, Houston.

PLT Howdy, here's the PLT.

CC Jack, when and under what circumstances did you

terminate CBRM 18?

PLT Just a second. I'll give you the straight word.

Okay. I've got it written right down here.
Battery number 18: I got a BAT VOLTS talkback
to go barber pole, and the voltage was reading
about 27.8 volts, just a little less than
8 volts - 20 - Just a little less than 28 volts.
And that was a half hour ago at 20:45. And
BAT 10's still got the Juice on.

235 21 15 57 CC We copy that, Jack.

CC Jack, say again the battery temp.

PLT Battery temp, 47 degrees.

CC Copy.

CDR Who's the CAP COMM?

CC Go ahead.

CDR Hey, Bill; Alan. Say, did I ever thank you for
this doggone Mark I exerciser. I don't know what
do if we had - know what we'd do up here if we
didn't have it.
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CC Hey, you need to thank a whole lot of other

people for that one. I was Just one of several
that birddogged that one. But, Jack - I'm sorry,
John Rummel., was the one that initially found it,
but I'm glad that thing's working out. And
anything you can tell us about it will be
appreciated.

235 21 17 04 CDR Okay. Well, I'll tell you. I think maybe they
ought to try sending up some little triangles
that fit there where the gold triangles do now.
They fit your shoes better. Your shoes continue
to come out of there, and if they maybe could
change out those, they would be a lot happier
with it, although we're - that's really the -
the finest device - that and the ergometer, and
this Mark II is not bad, either. So without you
birddogging all that business, I don't think
we'd be near as healthy as we are, up here.

CC That's good, AI. Stay with it.

CDR Appreciate it.

235 21 21 33 CC Skylab, we're LOS in about 30 seconds. We'll

have you again at Bermuda, 21:57.

235 21 58 04 CC Skylab, Houston. AOS for 6 minutes.

235 21 58 37 CC Skylab, Houston. AOS for 6minutes.

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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

235 22 01 02 CC PLT, Houston.

PLT Hello, Bill. I think maybe you called up here.

The first couple of syllables in each of your
transmissions is being cut out.

CC Say again, Jack, you squealed on that one.

CC Jack, - -

PLT Can you read me?

235 22 01 43 CC Only partially, Jack. Battery 18 is charged and

we're going to ground command the reg on at this
time.

PLT Okay. I see it's already on. Thank you.

235 22 03 18 CC Skylab, Houston. LOS in 5 seconds; Canary at

22:05.

235 22 07 12 CC Skylab, Houston. AOS for lO minutes

PLT Okay.

CC We'll be dumping the tape recorder at Madrid at

22:08. And, Jack, we would like you to watch
CBRM l0 on this nightside pass.

PLT I'm watching it.

CC Also, the ground will be standing by on this

next stateside pass for a conversation about the
EVA prep or any questions on EVA.

CDR Okay.

CC And also on the stateside pass, we'll be

commanding the ATMDC to enable the gyros to
switch from fine to coarse scale and reverse.

CDR Okay.
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235 22 13 43 CC Skylab, Houston. We have a message for anyone

that's convenient.

PLT Go ahead, Bill.

CC We want you to shoot some photos, $230 photos,

with Nikon 01. Shoot two frames of the $230
spool from STS window 3 at the following settings:
One is f/8, meter 7 feet_ two, f/5.6, meter at
7 feet; and record in the 35-millimeter log book.

PLT Okay, thank you, Bill.

CC Okay, Jack, and these do have to be performed in

daylight. And we're simply getting this done
early so you don't have to bother with it
tomorrow.

PLT Okay. And the meter that you gave must be the -
whatever shutter speed we get with the light
meter at those apertures. Right?

CC That's affirm, Jack.

PLT Will do it.

PLT Okay, we got a BAT VOLTS talkback barber pole on

BATTERY l0 and it's reading 28 volts. I'm going
to see you when I finish with it.

CC We copy that, Jack.

CC We'll be LOS here in approximately 50 seconds.

We'll have you again at Carnarvon at 22:42. And,
Jack, your communications are all set up for the
family.

235 22 16 h_ FLT Okay, Bill, thank you. I've reconfigured REG ON

on CBRM number 10, and you can take a look at it.

235 22 16 56 CC We're looking now, Jack.

235 22 h2 13 CC Skylab, Houston; AOS Carnarvon for 15 minutes.

235 22 43 32 CC PLT, Houston.

CC PLT, Houston.
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SPT He's in the command module right now, Bill.

CC Okay, Jack, they want you on the VHF loop.

They're allset up for you.

PLT I've been waiting on the VHF, and I don't hear

nothing, Bill. I'll go back there.

CC Okay. Go back and try it.

CC And, Skylab; Houston.

SPT Go ahead, Bill.

CC We want you to stay off the DAS here for a while.

We're going to do some ATM commanding.

SPT Okay.

PLT Hello, Bill. How do you read?

CC You're loud and clear, Jack.

PLT Okay. These guys aren't coming through on VHF.

I've been waiting, but I don't get anything but
some background noise. I'll try again, if you say.

CC Yes, Jack. Go ahead and try again. They are

working it. They thought they had you, but
apparently don't have. They're working it, Jack.
Go back to VHF.

PLT Okay.

PLT Hello, Houston, Skylab. How do you read?

CC Jack, you're coming down on the air-to-ground one.

PLT Well, let me check.

235 22 46 54 PLT Still not hearing anybody, Bill.

CC That's affirm, Jack. They've got some problem

that they're working.

PLT Okay. Shall we postpone it until the next station?

CC Stand by 1.
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235 22 48 27 CC PLT, Houston.

PLT Go ahead, Bill.

235 22 48 32 CC Jack, we've got some up-link problems apparently,

and we'll try to reschedule this for you.

235 22 h8 39 PLT Okay. I'll reconfigure then, and stand by for a

new time. I guess we're coming up over the
States pretty soon, aren't we?

CC That's affirm. And I'll try to get your time

back, shortly.

PLT Okay. Could you give Gratia a call and tell her
to postpone for a little while.

CC Wilco.

PLT Maybe she knows. Thank you.

235 22 51 18 CC Skylab, Houston.

CDR Go ahead.

CC We have two Flight Plans on board and we'll get

the third one up on this coming stateside pass.

235 22 51 36 CDR Okay.

235 22 57 16 CC Skylab, Houston. We'll be LOS in about 30 seconds

here. Rusty will be standing by with some Flight
Plan changes on the EVA on this stateside pass
coming up. And, Jack, we're still trying to work
out a good pass for your communications.

CC Correct that Flight Plan changes to checklist

changes.

SPT Hello, Bill. You wer cutting out. We only got

about the last half sentence there. And I've
noticed that on all your transmissions for the
last hour or so it looks - sounds like the first
part of your few syllables is cut off. So
would you repeat, please?

235 22 58 06 CC Copy. We're going LOS here. Rusty will be

standing by with checklist changes this stateside
pass. We're trying to get Jack's comm set up.
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235 23 29 h9 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS for l0 minutes.

PLT Okay, Bill.

235 23 29 56 CC And, Jack, we are planning to set your VHF

comm up at 02:_1 at Texas, and we'll have a
couple of stations after that if we need them.
And I've notified Gratia.

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SKYLAB AIR-T0-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

235 23 30 lh PLT Okay. Thanks a lot, Bill. I appreciate that a

lot.

CC Also, if you choose an antenna, make it VHF right,

and we want you to stay off of the DAS. We're
going to do some ATM commanding. And a message
for the CDR.

PLT He's listening.

CC Omit S082A from JOP 6, bracket l, at GMT 00:33.

This is just a reminder.

235 23 30 51 CDR Okay. Thank you.

CC And we now have Rusty standing by for the EVA

C O_D_I.

CDR Okay . . .

MCC Okay. We've got a good bit of static on the line

Just now. What we'd like to do is find out first,
so we can go into the research mode, if you've
got any questions on what you've seen so far.
And then I'd like to have you stand by with the
S,,mmary Flight Plan, so I can go over the time
line with you. And also if you've got the EVA
checklist out, we've got some mods there. I
tell you what, why don't you standby Just a
second until it clears up? Sounds pretty good
right now. Go ahead.

235 23 31 32 CDR No questions. I had a chance to look through

the whole procedure. It's pretty straightforward
Y'all did a good job. I'm ready to listen to the
genius.

MCC Okay. Let's - let me give you some new words on

the electrical power profiles. We've rerun them
based on what we actually expect tomorrow,
including the real Beta angle and the real loads
and all of those good things. And lo and behold,
we've discovered that we've got a considerably
greater amount of time than we thought we had to
get back to solar inertial from the time we go
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into standby mode. It turns out now that we've

got on the order of 2 hours and h0 minutes from
the time we go into standby until we have to be
back in solar inertial mode. Now, we'll be taking
a look at the state of charge of the batteries as
the EVA proceeds, and in case we run into some
kind of a offuominal situation, we'll be updating
the back end of that window for you and keep you
updated on it. But if things go as we expect,
we won't have any problem with that at all. In
other words, what I'm saying is we don't - we
have no attitude constraint to get back into
solar inertial for something on the order of
2 hours and h0 minutes after we go into the
standby mode.

235 23 33 02 CDR Sounds good, Rusty.

MCC Okay. Okay. And the only attitude criteria,

again, in - in that interim from standby until
we have to be back in SI, is Just to avoid gimbal
lock.

CDR Roger. And I gather I'm going to have to go back

and forth to check to see how it's doing, there,
if we're really off that much, that long, which
I doubt. One question I had: I noticed in the
procedures, once we bring the system back up
again, I gather it doesn't know where solar
inertial is. We have to actually do a manual
maneuver close enough for the ACS Sun sensor to
catch it. Is that right?

235 23 33 37 MCC Okay. There are two conditions there, AI. One
is if the the talk - if the Sun presence talkback
is grey, that is, we're still in the field of
view of the ACS Sun sensor, we Just go right into
SI mode, and SI will take it over. If the
talkhack is barber pole, either because we're at
night, or because we went outside the field of
view, that is, 9 degrees from the ACS Sun sensor,
then we go into ATT HOLD; and we do an attitude
maneuver, either you guys using out-the-window
cues, or we can give you an attitude maneuver
from down here when we see the errors on the
command module. Either way, you do an ATT HOLD
maneuver to SI, reinitialize the strapdown,
switch into SI, and then we're off and running.
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235 23 34 27 CDR Okay. And essentially, that's the way the

procedure is written, as I understand it, the
way you Just went through.

MCC That' s correct.

CDR Okay. Understand. Go ahead.

MCC Okay. One of the things - let me - Have you

got the S1_mmary Flight Plan handy, Al?

CDR Sure do.

MCC Okay. Look at tomorrow morning there, at the

beginning of EVA prep.

CDR I 'm looking.

235 23 34 53 MCC Okay. We would like to have you do the first

part of the rate gyro pre-EVA work; that is,
bringing up the command module CMC only. That
is, do a PRO to get out of standby, a VERB 96
ENTER, and then throw the UP TLM switch to ACCEPT.
That is, you'll put the commands - the CMC into
an ACCEPT mode for a state vector. We'd like
you to do that any time starting right now. In
the morning, we will update a state vector and
time to you during your postsleep activities so
that at 12 - Stand by, I don't have it in front
of me, unfortunately. I think it's 12 o'clock,
you are free to go up and start the - the EVA -
the CMC powerup on the rate gyro pack cue card.

235 23 35 51 CDR Okay. That makes sense. The first thing I'll
do when I get up in the morning is do that.

MCC That's a negative, AI. We - we would prefer that

you do it tonight. And leave the CMC in ACCEPT
and Just do the VERB 96 ENTER after you get out
of standby.

CDR Okay. I'll do it when we quit talking.

MCC Sounds good.

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235 23 36 17 MCC Okay. Just for information purposes: We have

some hip-pocket kinds of power reductions we
can perform down here as the EVA progresses in
case we do meed to conserve even more power;
that is, to give you even more time. And just
to let you know what they are: We can power
down the thermal control on the ATM canister.
That's about the only one we can do. We can ask
you to turn off half of the caution and warning
power with a couple of breakers. We can ask you
to turn MOL SIEVE B FAN OFF. And that'll take
us down quite a bit. And as sort of a last
resort, which we in all likelihood would not ever
use, but it's there nevertheless, we could bring
up the descent BATs in the CSM, which would save
us another few hundred watts. Now, we don't
expect any of that to be required.

235 23 37 12 CDR Neither do we.

MCC Good. Okay. In the Snmmary Flight Plan in the

middle column; that is, in the SPT's column,
during the EVA, we've got listed the - what we
would consider the nominal sequence of events
outside of the rate gyro pack install; that is,
starting with the sail samples. Now, if you get
out - if we get hatch open in the middle of a
daylight pass, you can do that stuff in order as
you see fit, only being ready to do the right -
rate gyro installation at - at sunrise. So you
can - you can do whatever is convenient there on
that, or whatever you'd like to do during the
night pass or during the part of remaining day
after you get the hatch open. We've got about a
minute to LOS here and we'll be picking you up - -

CC We don't have Bermuda, we'll be picking him up

at Madrid.

MCC - - We will be picking you up at Madrid at 23:46.

235 23 38 16 CDR Okay. Be waiting for you, Rusty.

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235 23 47 17 MCC Skylab, Houston over Madrid for the next 7-1/2
minutes.

MCC Skylab, Houston over Madrid for about 7 minutes.

CDR Go ahead. Let me ask you a question, Rusty.

MCC You speak.

235 23 49 43 CDR Okay, we're rigging out the lock compartment with
the extra equipment for the rate-gyro hookup. Do
you recommend that when Owen and Jack are using
the rate gyro - taking the cable out, that they
use those hooks that are on there or that we at-
tach a separate tether to the cable itself?

MCC The recommendation is to use the hooks that are

on there and hook those to your wrist tether at-
tach point. My actual recommendation, AI, would
be not even to do that, but Just hold it in your
hand as you go out the handrail.

235 23 48 23 CDR Okay, understand. So I gather then, we don't

need - the only extra wrist tether we need then
is for the pin straightener.

MCC That's correct, and - and even that one would end
up staying in the lock compartment.

CDR Okay. Go ahead with your comments.

MCC Okay, I want to clarify one thing or make sure

that you understand the capability we have down
here. When you're ready to switch back into
APCS control at the end of the RGP installation,
we want you to know that if we have station con-
tact, we can look at the NOUN 20 on the command
module, and we'll be able to come right up to you
with a 3-axis ATT hold maneuver so that you
wouldn't have to do it out the window. We Just
want you to know that if we are in station con-
tact we can do that for you.

235 23 49 20 CDR Okay, I'll keep that in mind for sure.

MCC Okay, but we do not want you to hold up the -

you know, if you're ready to do it and go back
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to ATT hold, out the window is Just fine. Okay,

if you've got the EVA Checklist we would like to
voice you a couple of changes there that came out
of your last EVA. These were requests that you
made concerning the orientation of the VS tree
on the VS boom before sending it out there.

CDR Okay, tell me the page.

MCC Okay, 2.2-16.

CDR Okay, I'm there.

235 23 49 58 MCC Okay, in the sentence there that says to attach

tree to boom and lock hook, we'd like you to put
VS tree - that is, "Attach VS tree to boom, shoe
toward AM, and lock hook."

CDR Okay, I've got it.

MCC Okay, A1, that same comment goes in three other

places. 2.2-22 is the next one. And you can
just Jot these down. Then for EVA-3 it comes up
on 2.3-14 and -18.

235 23 50 56 CDR Okay, I've got that Jotted down.

MCC Okay, fine. And we'd like to have some idea how
your preprep is going. Have you had any problems
or any comments? And whereabout are you in the
checklist?

CDR We're nearly finished with it. Everything is go-

ing well. We've got all the items moved up to
the lock compartment; all the preprep. It has to
do not with the rate gyro, but our normal ones
are finished. The key to the whole thing was get-
ting that extra hour and a half this morning to
put in those checklist changes and then having
some time then to think about those all day, so
that when we got started tonight, we knew where
we were going. So we're in good shape.

235 23 51 33 MCC Okay, that sounds fine. And - -

CDR You go - -

MCC Go ahead, A1.

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CDR You got any questions of us?

MCC No, everybody's shaking their heads sideways.

Let me Justsay that when you guys start with the
EVA prep in the morning, you'll be going right up
into the CSM. And we've got Jack scheduled to -
to man the ATM C&D to give you star tracker angles.
And just for his information: He can actually
start the ATM DAS work and also the J-21 connector
activities while you're still doing your P51 and
setting up P20 in the CSM.

235 23 52 18 CDR Okay, we'll probably do them together.

MCC Okay, fine.

CDR Anything else?

MCC No, just a reminder that when you do the P51 you
want to make sure that you are in SI, and if you're
going to use the star tracker angles, make sure
that you are SI before you do that because the
dumps will be enabled all through the whole EVA.

CDR Okay, thank you for the tip.

MCC That's all we got, and I'm going to turn it back

over to Bill here, who's got something for you.
See you tomorrow on EVA.

235 23 52 56 CDR Okay, Rusty, thanks. These procedures were awful

straightforward. We appreciate the work that
y'all have done. And I don't know who's been
working with you. Who has been?

CC Well, it's an awful long list and we only got a

minute and 40 left at Madrid, and I better return
it to Bill.

CDR Okay, well, thank them.

MCC I'll thank them all.

CDR We'll do it right.

CC Have a message for you for - in the command module,

A1.
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235 23 53 24 CDR Go ahead.

CC Want you to select position i on the polychoke

since the pressure's falling off a little too
rapidly.

CDR Okay.

CC Second one on panel 382, use tool E and verify

that the SUIT HEAT EXCHANGE PRIMARY GLYCOL valve
is in BYPASS; that's clockwise. If it's not,
put it in BYPASS, but don't overtorque it. If
it doesn't go with a moderate force, leave it as
is. The reason for this is Apollo 16 had a valve
in an intermediate position and it leaked.

235 23 54 20 CDR Okay, I'Ii go do it right now. And I'll verify

that it is not; it's in an intermediate position
right now. I tried to recall why it might be
there, and it looks like our 7-day check has us
put it sort of open for a minute and then BYPASS
for 30 seconds. And I assume that must position
it in the middle; I don't know though.

235 23 54 38 CC We copy that. We're going LOS here. We'll see

you at Carnarvon. And also at Carnar - that's
at 00:20, and at Carnarvon we'll be dumping the
voice tape recorder.

236 00 20 27 CC Skylab, Houston. AOS for 9 minutes.

CDR Okay.

CC And we want you to stay off the DAS since we're

sending up some scale-factor commands here. And
you have 2 free minutes on the VTR tonight, should
you need it. And some news items, if you'd like
for me to read them up.

CDR Yes, like to - we'd sure like to hear it.

236 00 21 0h CC Okay. The first one is that Henry Kissinger's

been nominated as Secretary of State, and the
reaction has been generally favorable today in
this country and abroad. And Kissinger at the
western White House pledged that he will operate
American Foreign Policy on a bipartisan basis,
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with increased information to Congress and the

country. Skylab was a big story today, in antici-
pation of tomorrow's EVA. And TV networks and
press are talking about details of the "Operation
six-packs." Fred Haise is in the John Sealy Hos-
pital's burn ward. His condition is stable, but
he sustained second-degree burns over h0 to 50
percent of his body. He's fairly comfortable,
and responding satisfactorily to treatment. And
we're optimistic about the outcome. There are
l0 m_Jor forest fires out of control in the north-
west. Texas will get 800,000 new adults at a
minute past midnight Monday, when 18, 19, and 20
year-olds gain the right of adults under new laws.
It says that a substantial number of them may
celebrate at the local bars. The Pirates beat
the Astros 4 to nothing last night. And, Skylab,
the DAS is yours.

226 00 22 59 CDR Okay.

CC Skylab, Houston.

CDR Go ahead.

CC We want you to perform M509-F3A, prior to sleep.

The purpose of this is to get the cluster pressure
down in preparation for EVA prep tomorrow, which
would normally raise it 0.3 of a pound. This will
minimize venting. And a later message: We'll
give you configuration of AM relief valves for
EVA.

236 00 24 00 CDR Okay. We've been kind of wondering about that.

Let me tell you what went on in the command mod-
ule. I've got the CMC UP, and in ACCEPT, and
then too, VERB 96, ready for anything you want to
do with it. I went down there and checked the
coolant valves. And it was - it points to the
center between BYPASS and open. But that's as
close to BYPASS as it goes. It sort of hits the
stop there. I rotated it the other direction to
open to see if it went a hundred and eighty de-
grees, as it looks like it ought to go via the
nomenclature decal on the valve, but it does not.
It only goes 90 degrees. So it will point to
open, but then it won't go the other direction
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and point to BYPASS. It'll only go half way. So

it ends up pointing, essentially, up midway between
the two. And it hits a hard stop there.

236 O0 25 l0 CC Okay, A1. EGIL says that that is - the 90 degrees

is a normal sort of thing. And that under these
circl_m_tances, it is not unusual for it to be
pointing upright as you found it. However it -
this should place it in the BYPASS position in
actual fact.

CDR Okay. Understand. It was there then, all the

time.

CC We copy that, A1. Thank you.

CDR And, Houston, I did not do the 82A exposures, per

your up-voice update of an hour ago.

CC We copy that. Thank you.

236 O0 26 51 CDR What kind of airplane was Fred Flying?

CC A1, it was one of - one of Confederate Air Force's.

It was apparently, a rebuilt BT-13, one of the -
that had been converted to a Val [?I. And lost
an engine and dead-sticked it into a field, ap-
parently.

CDR I'll be darned. Well, we'll sure be thinking

about him over the next few days, here.

CC We'll keep you posted.

CDR He's in the right place for the problem he has.

That's going to be - they - they know what they're
doing over there.

236 00 27 33 CC We sure agree with that.

CDR We're com - We're completely finished with our

prep now, and Owen and Jack are eating dinner.
And then after dinner we're going to kind of talk
through the EVA and then hit the sack. We'll be
pretty late, and I think Jack still has his exer-
cise to go. So, I think this added time worked
out just perfectly.
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236 O0 28 53 CC We copy that, and we'll be going LOS for about a

minute here in 30 seconds.

236 00 31 12 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS for 4 minutes.

236 O0 34 14 CC Skylab, we're going LOS in 30 seconds. We'll

have you at Texas at 01:03.

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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

236 01 03 09 CC Skylab, Houston. AOS for 16 minutes.

CDR Okay, Houston. Just powered down the ATM panel.

CC We're looking at it. And we're setting Y-scale

factor here, now. And we'd like for you to stay
off the DAS.

CC Skylab, Houston. Did you copy to stay off the

DAS? We're setting in a Y-scale factor.

CC Skylab, Houston. If you read, we want you to

stay off the DAS. We're setting in Y-scale fac-
tors.

PLT We read. We will.

CC Skylab, Houston.

CC Skylab, Houston. It appears we're having some

comm problems, here. Are you reading me at this
time?

SPT Right now, we're reading you, Bill.

236 01 07 51 CC Okay. We want you to close the H-ALPHA 1 and 2

DOORS.

SPT Okay. Just a minute. I'll go up to the panel.

CC And we're also standing by for the evening status

report.

SPT Is there anything else on the ATM panel that looks

unusual to you? We'll - would like to get it
closed out for the night.

CC Everything else looks good, as soon as you get

those doors closed.

CDR Okay. Here it comes, 165, 185, 183. How are

you hearing?

CC We're reading you loud and clear. Go ahead.

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236 01 08 47 CDR Okay. Now for drinking water: 5403; 8882; 6026.
BMMD: 6.244, 6.244. 6.246; 5.959, 5.960, 5.957;
6.950, 6.947, 6.946. Works pretty good, doesn't
it? 2/3 - This is exercise: 2/35/5230, 3/15/
Mark I, 40, A; 20, B; 20, C; and 20, D; 3/10/
Mark II, 40, A; 10, B; 10, C; 10, D; Pilot hasn't
exercised yet. No medication. Sleep: 6-1/2/G,
7-1/2/G, 6-1/2/G. Food log: CDR, . . . Correc-
tion on that, 15 salt packs, no deviation; SPT,
five salt packs, add butter cookie and Jam; PLT;
no - 13-1/2 salt packs and one butter cookie add,
one orange drink add. So he's getting healthy.
How about a little photo log?

CC Okay. We copy.

236 01 l0 14 CDR Change that orange drink to an apple drink. Here

comes the photo log. We've got one photo to take
tonight of this maintenance 487, or whatever it
is, we'll get it. 35-mill - So there's no 16-
millimeter activity today, so no change. Here's
the 35: CI101, 55; CX13, 46, 70-millimeter:
CX25, 051, Flight Plan looks good . . . ready to
do it. And shopping list accomplishments done.
Did all the things assigned and all the house-
keeping. Unscheduled stowage item location change:
four Jams, one vanilla wafers, two lemonades from
548 to SPT's few - food shelf. That's it.

CC Okay. We copy that, A1. And there's one ques-

tion. Have any of you used the gyro-stabilized
binoculars, and If so, are they better than the
Nikon viewfinder with the 300-millimeter lens
for seeing fine ground detail?

PLT Yes. You're breaking up, Bill. We're not get-

ting your full transmission.

236 01 ll 36 CC Okay. We'll try again here. Have any of the

crew used the gyro-stabilized binoculars for
ground sightings? And if you have used them, are
they better than the Nikon viewfinder with the
300-millimeter lens, that is, for picking up fine
details?

SPT We have used it for such things as, for example,

the other day we were looking at icebergs off of
Sou - South America down towards Antarctica with
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them. And it is better than the-300 millimeter

lens of the Nikon. I think we have given them a
try, Bill.

CC Okay. And have you done the $230 film yet, and
M509-F3A?

236 Ol 12 33 PLT The answer is yes on the $230 pictures; Just took
four of them. I've done the experiment. It's
sitting out there. Everything looks nice and
gold, and it doesn't have any discoloration on it.

CDR And we started the cabin purge Just about 30 min-

utes ago.

CC Copy.

CC And, A1, do you have a current B_94D conversion

chart on board? That is, to convert your readings
into masses made off of this time's calibration.

236 01 13 ll CDR We thought we did, but we noticed that our weight

comes - well the weight that we read when we use
that chart is different than the weight that gets
sent up on a daily basis. It reads less than the
one that's sent up on a daily basis.

CC Copy that. We'll have a look and maybe correct

it.

CDR That'd be good, because we'd like to use it on

a - as - weighed basis.

CDR Also, would you tell the food people that 2 days
ago I had a cherry d_±nk, and I Just happened
to think about it today. Forgot to write it down
and report it. So, 2 days ago, one cherry drink.
It's a free item, so it won't affect their data.

CC We copy that, Al.

MCC Okay.

CC Skylab, we'll be LOS in 1 minute. And at Madrid

you'll have the medical conference at 01:24.

236 01 19 28 CDR This comm has been so bad for the last 30 minutes
or so, Bill, we thought it was a private family
co_Nn.
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CC AI, we didn't copy that last transmission.

Say it again.

CDR I said (laughter) - l'm not surprised you didn't.

I said the c_ has been so bad the last 30 min-
utes to an hour that we thought we were on a
private family conference.

CC (Laughter) We copy that one, AI.

CC Skylab, Houston. We're standing by.

CDR Let me make sure I gave you the SPT's exercise.

I may not have done that.

236 Ol 29 27 CDR It follows; 3/20/Mark i, 60, A; 30, B_ 30, B.

That's 60, A; 30, B;, 30, B. 2/20/2900 plus
in the M171 (run). My numbers included my 171
run. The PLT's on the bike now; he'll have
something for you before he goes to bed.

CC Yes, we hear him grinding away there, A1. You

think he'll make lO,O00 tonight?

CDR I hope he doesn't, that bike can't take it.

Last time he tried to go for the big numbers,
it ground to a halt.

CC We copy that.

PLT Tonight's a light night, Bill. Getting ready

for a big day tomorrow.

CC We missed that one, Jack.

236 01 30 40 PLT Tonight's going to be a light night. Getting

ready for tomorrow.

CC Yes, you'll put a few watt-minutes in that suit

tomorrow. You still fit it?

PLT No, I rattle around in it as usual.

CC Skylab, the photo people say that Nikon 01 still

has the same frame count in spite of the pictures
that were supposedly taken. We're going over
the hill here at the moment. We'll have you at
Honeysuckle at 2:10.
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PLT All right.

CC Skylab, Houston, We're A0S for about 1 minute

at HoneysBckle.

236 02 ll 29 PLT Okay. We're Just having a little chalk talk

on our game plan tomorrow.

CC All right. We want you to do something here on

the 02 system reconfiguration.

PLT Go ahead.

CC We want you to reconfigure it per page $4-7, cryo

02 vent, and begin with the step following
"note" which is in midpage. This is to adjust
some pressures to prevent a possible caution and
warning this evening, Jack.

PLT Okay. Is that the Systems Checklist? For the

CSM systems?

CC That is affirmative; and this is, in essence,

removing the pmlychoke.

PLT Okay.

CC We're going LOS here, and we will have you again

at Goldstone at 02:47.

236 02 13 00 PLT Is this time critical or can we do it in a lit-

tle while?

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SKYLAB AIR-T0-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

235 02 39 18 CC Skylab, Houston. We're A0S for 16 minutes.

CDR Say, Bill, one thing I wondered on that - I

r_oved the polychoke. I didn't know whether
you wanted me to remove the high-pressure vent,
and in so removing, if you wanted me to re-
place the original fitting in the hatch or Just
leave the quick disconnect in there for the
moment or what.

CC Standby 1 on that, A1.

PLT Hello, Bill. Are they working on the VHF?

236 02 41 35 CC That's affirm, Jack. You'll be coming up here

in Just a minute or so on it at, supposedly,
at this time. However, they say it may take
minute or two to acquire and that it will get
progressively better as you continue on over
stateside. You have it on up through Be_mada.

PLT Okay. That's great. Say thanks to all the

people. I'll be standing by.

CC Okay.

CC CDR, Houston.

CDR Go ahead

236 02 42 16 CC A1, the hose is disconnected from the hatch and

panel 603. Disconnect at both ends. The high-
pressure relief valve remains in place, and the
quick disconnect is self-sealing. You could
check that that in fact happens, but it's sup-
posed to be self-sealing. Don't - -

CDR Okay. Ill take off the hose, both ends, but
I'll leave in the little pressure device and
that way if it overpressures it Just pushes into
the cabin, huh?

CC That is affirmative, A1.

CDR Okay. How about the - the switch on the - the

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IVA panel 02 FLOW? Leave it open or on?

CC Stand by l, A1.

236 02 44 16 CC A1, on that IVA station 02 supply: leave that

on until we call it up to you. We'll be watch-
ing the temperature down here.

CC CDR, Houston. Did you copy the IVA station 02

supply message.

236 02 46 13 CC Skylab, Houston. How do you read?

CC Skylab, Houston. Do you read?

236 02 49 03 CC Skylab, Houston. Do you read?

236 02 49 31 CT Houston COMM TECH, inner voice, net 1.

CT Roger. Apparently lost net 1 to Texas. Stand

by, though.

236 02 50 45 CC Skylab, Houston. How do you read?

236 02 51 15 PLT Hello, Houston, Skylab.

CC Go ahead, Skylab.

PLT Roger, Bill, I'm hearing somebody on - I'm

hearing COMM TECH on VHF, but he's not hearing
me.

CC Yes, Jack, we got all - we have problems appar-

ently on the down-link there. I've been unable
to raise you on S-band for several minutes now.

PLT Okay. You might advise COMM TECH that we've

got up-link but no down-link on VHF, it sounds
like.

236 02 51 54 CC Jack, have you verified your switches against

the private come list?

236 02 53 52 CC Skylab, Houston. How do you read?

SPT Loud and clear, Bill.

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CC Okay. We haven't had you for some time.

A couple of messages here, Jack, we'd like to
get in. The--

SPT Stand by, Bill. Jack's up in the command

module.

SPT You still reading me there?

CC That' s affirmative.

SPT Okay. Are these for Jack, or for any of us?

CC They're for any of you. For the CDR: after -

this is per the checklist - we want you to
leave the IVA station 02 supply on until we
have observed the temperature to stabilize.
And we will give you a call on that.

236 02 54 53 CDR Okay. It's already complete. And IVA station

pressure's on, hose disconnected, pressure re-
lief valve still installed.

CC SPT, Houston. Did you see any aurora today?

SPT That's affirmative. I Just saw the more or

less quiescent aurora over the northern portion
of the orbit, and I got a - oh, six or eight
photographs of the airglow and aurora.

CC We copy.

SPT It was not a very strong one, but it did ex-

tend upward from the 80-kilometer airglow on
up probably another 100 kilometers, sort of
a diffused glow.

235 02 55 3_ CC All right, we'll be going LOS here for the

evening in 1 munute. You will have a tape
recorder dump at Madrid. And I guess that's
about it for the day.

CC And tell Jack that we are prepared to contin-

ue the family conference at Madrid if he
should like that.

235 02 56 06 SPT Okay. I'll tell him.

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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPT

236 ii 13 31 (Music: "Come Fly With Me")

236 ii 14 27 CC Good morning, Skylab. We have AOS over the Van-

guard for 9 minutes.

CDR Good morning. That was a good choice this

morning.

CC For a happy EVA. Little good news, the Oilers

won a ball game last night: 27-24 over the
Cowboys.

CDR Who were they playing?

CC Cowboys, Dallas.

SPT Say Bob, would you confirm that Biomed is getting

133 data now?

236 ll 15 14 CC Stand by.

CC Okay, Owen. We got data all night; we're show-

ing REM state right now, which I don't understand.

SPT I don't understand that either.

CC Now we're showing stage 3. Owen, while I got you

there, we would appreciate it - I know you've got
a crowded schedule ahead of you - but Just for a
little bit of reassurance, we'd like to get a
temperature measurement on each of the rate gyro
six-pack gyros this morning. And all we need is
for you to get the digital thermometer and put
it on and take it about a minute, whatever it
requires to stabilize. And we don't need the
voltage readout.

236 ll 16 13 SPT Voltage readout takes me 5 seconds and I'll give

you the temperatures in a few minutes. How about
that 1337 I'm checking my switches here. I've
got the channel B to OFF now, and can they con-
firm that they're still getting 133 data?

CC Okay, we're indicating stage 2.

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SPT Something's puzzling.

SPT With that sort of a report from the ground, Robert,

my crewmates are going to be convinced I've been
working in my sleep.

CC (Laughter) Well, if you can do that good a work

in your sleep, well, why not?

236 ll 18 54 CC And a little information: that message you have

on board about rate gyro drift in case you got to
switch over and so forth - is invalid, since
we zeroed them all out in preparation for the -
for the EVA and installation of the six-pack.

PLT Say Bob, I did my exercise last night after the

evening report and maybe you could copy it down
now. I had number - number whatever it is for
the lower body, 22 minutes, 5005.

CC Okay, Jack, copy. You got 22 minutes and 5005

watts.

PLT Right.

PLT That type exercise is a number 2.

236 ll 20 00 CC Roger; number 2.

CC And, gentlemen, we were a little bit curious. We

didn't see any dump voice after about 23:00 yes-
terday, and we're kind of wondering whether that
was - whether you didn't record anything or wheth-
er we might have a probl_n.

CDR I don't think we recorded anything after that.

We were prepping for EVA and then briefing about
it.

CC Okay. We kind of suspected that might be the

case, but it eases some people's minds down here.

236 ll 21 19 CDR Now we did notice that the little green record
light up there by the SIAby the ATM doesn't
seem to be working. But the others do. In fact,
we were wondering if there's a quick way to fix
that.
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CC Okay. That was the one up by the ATM C&D?

CDR Yes.

CDR In fact, we'd almost be tempted to swap it out

because otherwise today we're going to have trou-
ble keeping record in the proper configuration.
No, I take that back. We can always look at the
other boxes. Okay.

CC Yes, You can look at the ones up there in the

forward part of the MDA.

CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from LOS. We'll

see you again at Hawaii in about an hour from
now at 12:22, and I'll probably be off shift by
then. So have a happy EVA.

236 ii 23 20 CDR Okay. We'll work on it for you.

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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

236 12 23 09 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Hawaii for 2 mor -

2 minutes. Good morning. Over.

CDR Good morning, Bruce. Let me mention a couple of

items. We've got the command module powered up,
and went through P51. If you've got a check star
down there that I can look at through the optics
that would be good. Or even better if I could do
something to give you the REFSMMAT you could look
at it and agree that we sure enough have the right
star on the ATM tracker, and we'd have a good one
there. We need to know the NOUN 78 for P20 so
that I can put those in. And we're getting ready
to make the connection near the ATM.

CC Roger. Your NOUN 78 load is plus 17187, I say a-

gain, plus 17187. Over.

236 12 2h Ol CDR Okay, we'll make the load in the ATM, and then
I'll load this 17187. And we'll be ready to go.

CC Roger. Out.

SPT Bruce, here are your tem- Here are your tempera-
ture measurements, Bruce.

CC Go ahead, Owen.

SPT 3.03 volts, which you didn't ask for, X-5,6;Y-5,6;

Z-5,6 in order: 92.3, 92.6; 92.7, 91.7; 93.7,
89.4. Over.

CC Roger, Owen; we copy. One minute to LOS at Hawaii.

Next station contact in 3 minutes at Goldstone,
12:28. Over.

CC And, Alan, while you're in the vicinity of the

ATM, we'd like to get the S052 FRAMES R_4AINING
reported, if you could, please.

CDR 1598.

236 12 25 08 CC Roger, we got it.

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236 12 28 34 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Goldstone for

2-1/2 minutes. We will be dumping the data voice
tape recorder next station at the Vanguard. And
I have a relief valve configuration change for
you if you are ready to copy.

CDR Ready to change. And I Just finished doing all

the DAS work preparatory to removing the J-21
cable.

CC Roger, we copy, A1. We'd like to get - get the

CABIN PRESSURE RELIEF valve on 391, that's aft
lock compartment, OPEN. And panel 300, forward
section of the STS, OPEN. We're planning on
leaving 313, in the lock itself, closed, unless
you feel you need it under some particular situa-
tion to help venting. We're doing this to min-
imize the number of valves that will crack from
the purge flow and the PCU. Over.

235 12 29 28 CDR Sounds good to us. We're going to close them

right now. Open the two and leave one of them
closed.

CC Roger.

CDR And how do you like the looks of the CMC IMU?

CC We're getting a star for you right now, A1.

And the REFSMMAT looks reasonable. Since we've
got 1 minute to LOS here and the next station is
Vanguard in 20 minutes at 12:50, it will probably
be then by the time we get the star for you, but
I'll have it if I can.

236 12 30 08 CDR Okay. And I like this way of powering up the

night before - CMC and getting all that infor-
mation in. Let's try to do this - -

CC Okay, Alan.

CDR - - entry day - -

CC Break, break.

CDR - - so that we can get - -

CC Break, break.

CDR - - good - behind everything real early. Just

like today.
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236 12 30 21 CC Break, break. Okay, star 4; SHAFT, 270.3; TRUNNION,

16.7. That's star number h, 270.3, 16.7. Over.

CDR Thank you.

CC Roger. And we'd like to shut off the atmospheric

purge that is going out through the wardroom vent.
Over.

PLT Okay, okay. Did you want both of those forward

fore and aft lock valves open, Bruce?

CC Negative, we want 391 open, 313 closed, and 300

open. Over.

PLT All right, that 's what I meant ; that 's the way they
got them.

236 12 31 Ol CC Roger, see you at Vanguard.

236 12 50 24 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Vanguard for i0

minutes and 30 seconds. We will be dumping your
data voice tape recorder this site. We will also
be dumping at the next site, at Hawaii. Over.

CDR Okay. For your information, Bruce, we checked with

the star and it was in the sextant. We've got the
two plugs hooked up onto the ATM panel. Every-
thing's going smoothly.

CC Beautiful, Alan. We got a couple of miscellaneous

notes for you here. One, if you're ready to copy.
Over.

CDR l'm ready; go ahead.

CC Okay. In the CMC on channel 7, we've seen a

counter fail bit - channel 77. We believe it to
be transient. The CMC itself looks okay. But we'd
like you to reset it so we can continue monitoring.
It's VERB 21, NOUN i0, ENTER, 77 E_T_/% ENTER.
Over.

236 12 51 19 CDR VERB 21, NOUN i0, ENTER, 77 ENTER, and then another
ENTER. Will do.

CC Roger. And for some load shearing adjustments on

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panel 206, a REG ADJUST pot for BUS i, we'd like

it turned 20 degrees clockwise; BUS 2, turn 30
degrees clockwise. Over.

CDR One, 20 and 2, 30. Go do it right now.

CC And please mark the position of a pots on the

panel before adjusting them. I believe we'll be
coming back to them after the EVA. Over.

236 12 52 04 CC Okay. And while you're on your way down there,

we're going to reconfigure the coolant loop for our
EVA condition the way we did it the second time -
last time that is. On loop 2, we're going to turn
INVERTER 2 OFF, command PUMP Charlie to INVERTER 2,
and INVERTER 2 back ON. So you can expect a CAU-
TION and WARNING on the airlock module secondary
loop while we're doing that. And for the SPT and
the CDR, the S056 experiment door is now operating
on primary motor only. The secondary motor was
comanded off during unattended closeout. Over.

SPT Roger, Bruce. And last night we left the 56 door

open. Now do you want that door closed prior to
the EVA or Just left open the whole time?

236 12 53 05 CC We're working on that one, Owen. And another

short one for the CDR here. We'll try and remind
you about it again later. We'd especially like
to get the videe tape recorder run when Jack is
taking the six-pack rate gyro cable from the
FAS up the EVA trail to the WCIU connection area.
Over.

CDR According to our plan, there was no EVA TV to go ,

out until after we finished the rate gyro hookup.
But we can put it out beforehand if you like.

CC Hey, look, A1, it's your option, whatever you

think is compatible with getting the Job done
in the optimal fashion is fine by us. Over.

236 12 53 50 CDR Okay, We'll go ahead and put it out. I don't

think it'll be any trouble. If it turns out we
get out at a time where we can get it done, you
know - we'll plan to put it out unless something
happens with the time, that makes it smart to go
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ahead and not fool with it, and go ahead and hook
it up. Then we'll get it out afterwards. So we'll
play it that way. We'll plan to do it.

CC Roger.

CDR Okay. I've adjusted those pots, and one question:

as you mentioned it - and also the checklist -
that I've got to go to cage the CMG in nominal
cage at 42 minutes. Would you get - sunlight re-
maining - would y'all compute and give me GMT times
for that? That way I can set my clock earlier
and get my timer set and do a little bit better
planning.

CC Okay, Alan. We'll do that for you, and we'll

up-link it on the site before it occurs each orbit
if you don't get it on the first orbit we figure
it for. Over.

236 12 54 52 CDR Sounds like a good idea. How does the electrical
system look?

CC Say again, please. And for the SPT: we want to

go ahead and close the S056 door at your conven-
ience so that we are in the nominal configuration
for EVA and also so you can verify its operation
when you're out there at the Sun end. Over.

SPT Roger.

CDR Okay the VERB 21, NOUN 10, ENTER, ENTER - correc-
tion - 77 ENTER, ENTER has been entered.

236 12 56 01 CC Roger, we copy, and it looks good on telemetry,

A1.

CC And while you're over there, Al, we'd like to get

the UP TELEM_,_RY switch to BLOCK on the CMC.

CC Skylab, this is Houston. O_ your P20 select,

we need to get you to load a 5 degree deadband;
that's 500 in the register. You went by leaving
it at 0.50 degrees. Over. And we have the first
time in Zulu computed Zor you for this h2 minutes
to go.

CDR Okay,go ahead.

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236 12 58 00 CC Roger. 16:01:16, that's 16 plus 01 plus 16

Zulu, and we'll have later increments for you
as they're required. Over

CDR Okay, say again that time; one more time, Bruce.

CC Roger; Alan. 16 plus 01 plus 16 Zulu. Over.

CC Skylab, Houston. Did you copy that time, A1,

or do you want to read it back? Over.

CDR I got it that time, it's 16:01:16.

236 12 59 19 CC Roger. We have 1 minute and 30 seconds until

LOS here at the Vanguard. Next station contact
in 59 minutes through Hawaii at 13:58. We'll be
dumping the data voice tape recorder there. The
REG ADJUST on the airlock module buses looks
good to us; the CMC is okay. Your airlock
module coolant loop - secondary loop on two pumps
is working fine, and we'd like you to confirm
that you have terminated the atmospheric purge
through the wardroom vent valve. Over.

236 12 59 51 CDR Okay, consider that terminated. I've set the

box, by the way, X-l, Y-l, Z-3, panel 161 per
the checklist.

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i SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

236 13 00 02 CC Roger; we copy that.

CDR And we finished then with the rate-gyro prep.

We're going to go back and get our regular prep
finished.

CC Okay, and by the way, Alan, on that SIA-131, we

think that you've probably come down to the point
where you install the comm kluge on channel A,
which would keep you from getting the RECORD light
there. Over.

CDR You're absolutely right; didn't realize it did

keep us from doing that. Good thought. By the
way, I've checked the coolant leak we had, and I
had a rag in there to towel up - absorb whatever
was coming out and it looked like it did a pretty
good Job and you can not tell this morning that
any additional leaked, but since we didn't do
anything, I suspect it did, but it's still not
enough to measure.

CC Okay, we copy and we'll see you over Hawaii.

236 13 00 59 CDR Okay.

236 13 58 00 CC Skylab, this is Houston. Approaching Hawaii;

with you for a little over l0 minutes. Over.

CDR Okay, everything is going along. That cabin

purge was stopped, as you requested. Could you
find out the serial numbers on our three helmets?
We want to make sure we have the right helmets
with the right suits.

CC Okay, that's in work. We'll be dumping the data

voice tape recorder over Hawaii here. We'll also
be dumping it over Vanguard next pass. We'll be
commanding to turn off the heaters to reduce your
power load for EVA. And we'll also be shifting
to the 2-watt airlock module transmitter in ac-
cordance with the nominal checklist. Also, there
is a possibility of some test activity over the
South Pacific today. Recommend heads down in
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that area. Prior to your EVA, we suggest that i

you obtain one roll of 2-inch aluminized tape
from either drawer 2 in Ml_ or drawer 2A in
E623. Andmake an EVA tab on one end of the
roll and stow it in the zipper pouch next to the
panel 316 in the airlock which is the same pouch
as the scissors are in. This will be used for
EVA repairs if required or maybe to hold the -
the cassette shut on SlY9 if you have trouble
cranking them in or out, Just sort of a general
contingency thing. Over.

236 13 59 31 CDR Sounds like a good idea and we'll put it in there.
We've got a few extra tools in there already, so
we'll throw this in with it.

CC Okay.

CDR And we're wondering if you want S052 MAIN POWER,

OFF like the checklist? We've had it taped on
for the last 20 days or so.

236 l_ 00 00 CC Okay, A1, turn S052 MAIN POWER, OFF in spite of

the tape. Make it go with the checklist.

CC And, A1, while we're working the question of the

serial numbers on your helmets, maybe you could
give us a little bit of a status as to how you're
coming along and where you are in the procedures.
Over

236 12 00 47 CDR Okay. Owen's got his LCG on and he is assisting

me in anti-fogging the helmet. Jack is Just
finishing up disconnecting the aft heat exchanger
fans from our fans down here. We've stopped the
condensate dump. And everything - I think we're
going to be putting on our LCGs and getting in
our suits in Just a few minutes.

CC Mighty fine. Thank you.

236 l_ 03 21 CC Skylab, Houston. We've got the helmet serial

numbers for you here.

CDR Okay, go ahead.

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CC For the CDR, 332; for the SPT, 315; and for the
PLT, 331. Over.

236 14 03 40 CDR Okay, Just a second.

236 14 04 21 CDR Okay, that worked out Just right. Thanks, Bruce.

CC Roger, A1.

CDR They ought to mark your names in these helmets,

too.

236 14 07 03 CC Skylab, this is Houston; 1 minute to LOS here at

Hawaii. Twenty-two minutes until next station
contact over the Vanguard at 1h:29, where we will
be dumping the data voice tape recorder. All
your systems are looking good to us on telemetry.
In particular, airlock module coolant loop 2,
with the suit umbilical system operating, looks
good. The video tape recorder has been rewound
and cleaned, and it's all yours. Over.

236 14 07 35 CDR Thank you, Bruce.

236 14 29 48 CC Skylab, this is Houston through the Vanguard for

8-1/2 minutes. Over.

236 14 29 56 CDR Okay, Bruce, we're putting on our LCGs.

236 14 29 59 CC Roger. We'll be dumping the tape recorder this

pass.

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SKYLABAIR-T0-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

236 14 30 02 CC And we've noticed that the star tracker is still

operating in AUTO. When someone gets up there
by the ATM panel, we'd like to close the shutter
on it. And it is our plan to manage the momentum
dump situation for you. However, if you do dump
the pressure in the airlock module prior to night-
fall this pass, which is about 45 minutes from
now, we need to have you force a contingency
momentum sample by inhibiting CMG control and
then reenabling it through the DAS. Over.

CDR Okay, I doubt if we'll make it. We'll probably

be getting out the next daylight pass, I hope.

CC Roger. That's our expectation, and we'll handle

it for you in that event. Also, should any con-
tingencies arise with respect to the airloek
module coolant loops, the primary coolant loop
is available to be powered up if you require it.
Over.

CDR Okay, that's good news. Thanks.

236 14 37 03 CC Skylab, this is Houston. One minute and 30

seconds remaining over the Vanguard. Next sta-
tion contact in 59 minutes through Hawaii at
15:36 Zulu. And on your way out, don't forget
to turn out the lights and turn off the air
conditioning and close the door. Over.

CDR Okay, we won't.

SPT Okay. Whatever you did there did it.

CC Skylab, this is Houston through Hawaii for

7 minutes. Over.

PLT Well, I don't know what happened. Maybe - -

SPT Hello, Bruce. How do you read?

CC Loud and clear, Owen. How us?

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236 15 36 17 SPT I'm reading you loud and clear. I'm not
sure whether A1 is. We're all three suited
right now. We're trying to get our comm
straightened out, so that A1 can get on hot
mike intercom with the two of us.

PLT How you hear me, Bruce?

CC Loud and clear, Jack.

PLT How you hearing me, Al?

CC Okay. We're not reading A1.

SPT Neither are we.

PLT Alts - we're having trouble getting A1 on the

intercom.

CC Okay. Reference the comm configuration chart on

page 1.2-13, if you can get that message to him.

PLT 1.2-13 of the EVA checklist?

236 15 36 58 CC That's affirmative. It has a diagram of how

you're supposed to be hooked up.

PLT Okay. Wetre hooked up to B in the lock, and

we got the - the kluge in the MDA hooked on A,
of course. That's the only way you can do it.
My guess is we got to do something in the
command module.

CC Okay, in the command module, panel 6, you need

the I/com switches to T/R.

PLT Fine.

CC And - and on panel 9. Both of them.

PLT Okay. I think we've got it now, Bruce. We've

been down here working on it ; we had an inter-
com switch. I'm hearing you loud and clear, AI,

SPT Ditto.

PLT Okay.
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CC Ask A1 to give us a transmission.

236 15 37 43 PLT He's got to get up in the MDA to do that, Bruce.

He will in a minute.

CC Roger. Sorry about that.

PLT We're hear - We're hearing him loud and clear

on intercom now. l, 2, 3, h, 5. Normal con-
versation seems to work okay in VOX. Okay. I'm
going to move back down into the workshop, AI.
As long as you think we've got everything. Okay.

CDR l, 2, 3, _, 5. i, 2, 3, h, 5.

PLT All right. Can hear you down there, A1.

SPT I think the VOX is in good shape on that.

PLT I hear you whispering.

SPT Nope, sounds fine.

CDR How you doing, Bruce?

CC Oh, loud and clear, A1. How are you reading

us ? Over.

236 15 39 00 CDR Reading you real well. Panel 6 was not con-
figured. I reconfigured it, and it works like
a charm,

CC Okay. We got two items for you here. One, you

probably want to write down some times. The
other is at your convenience, we'd llke you to
disconnect the multimeter from the X-5 gyro package
by the following procedure. On panel l_l, which
is the little panel on the rate gyro six pack,
open the X-5 circuit breaker, disconnect the
connector to the multimeters - that has the multi-
meter leads on it, cap the connector, that is, cap
the receptacle, and then reclose the X-5 gyro
circuit breaker. Over.

SPT Okay, Bruce, Just a moment, and he'll get it.

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CC And we apologize for having you do that after

you're suited. It slipped by us.

236 15 40 25 SPT Recorder.

PLT Attaboy! Give it a bell for Bravo.

CC And, A1, we've got about 2-1/2 minutes left here

at Hawaii. When you can _-rite, I've got some
times for you.

SPT Okay, he's still working on the connector there,

Bruc e.

PLT You guys arentt saying much these days, Bruce.

I notice that we don't talk to you a whole lot.

CC Well, it's pretty much your show up there with

the co..._coverage we've got here and - you know
the phasing.

PLT Yeah.

CDR Okay, Bruce, go ahead.

CC Okay. I passed you up one day remaining minus

h2-minute time of 16 plus 01 plus 16. The one
for the subsequent rev is 17 plus 3_ plus 36.
And the window panes for your headsdown activity
are 15:h5 to 16:05. Over.

CDR Okay. Copied all that.

SPT 25 minutes.

CC Understand you copied all that_

236 15 _2 03 CDR Sure did, Bruce. Thanks,

CC Roger, Out, We got about a minute and 15

seconds left here at Hawaii. Next station
contact in 25 minutes through the Vanguard at
16:07. Out.

CDR See you there, Bruce.

SPT Ho_ long until sunset?

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CC Actual sunset is an hour and 6 minutes. Over.

SPT Thank you.

PLT Dark outdoors now. Yes, sir.

CC We show you only about a minute and a half into

daylight. You must have just crossed the ter-
minator.

SPT Okay.

PLT Yes. It's still damk out the window. All right.

SPT ...

PLT It's on, anyway.

SPT Yes, I've got a LOW VENT FLOW on.

235 15 43 53 PLT It's been on for some time.

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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

236 16 06 59 SPT In work.

PLT Is that the one they read up last night, or a

new one?

PLT Time schedule you're talking about.

236 16 07 35 CC Skylab, this is Houston through the Vanguard for

9-1/2 minutes. Over.

CDR Okay, everything's going Just perfect. We've

got 35 minutes of daylight. We're now pressurizing
suits inside the lock compartment. We're going
to DEPRESS in a few minutes. That'll give us
about 25 minutes to do that reconnoiter Job.
We'll be back, and in the next daylight pass,
we'll do the Job.

CC Okay, we'll - -

PLT Okay, up in BEG l, 3.8.

SPT Okay - -

CC Okay, A1, we will - -

SPT I had a 2.9. "

236 16 08 ii SPT Not yet; Just a minute. I'm not quite fully
pressurized. Okay, I'm stable at 3.7. I'm in
BOTH, stable at 3.7 - BOTH in 38.

CC CDR, Houston.

CDR Go ahead.

CC Roger. We're going to go ahead and force the

contingency sample on momentum now for you,
based on your reference to opening the hatch in
the near future. So if you will, stay off the
DAS for a minute.

236 16 08 48 CDR Okay, off right now.

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PLT Okay, 0., what way are you going to turn?

SPT I'll turn to my right.

PLT All right.

SPT-EVA You can see mine then, and I'll have to turn back
the other way to see yours, probably.

236 16 09 00 PLT Okay, you're in the green, you've got about - -

about 6000. Now let me check your valve. It's
0PEN, and - -

SPT In the detent.

PLT In the detent.

SPT Okay, I'll turn back to my left to check yours.

PLT Yes, you'd have to get wrapped up if you don't.

Crew (Chuckle)

236 16 09 31 SPT Okay. That's good, Just a second; 6000, it's

in the green, in the detent.

PLT Okay, SOPs are checked, A1.

CC And, A1, we've got that in. The DAS is yours.

PLT Just a minute. I think - -

CDR Thank you.

PLT Are you sure that's yours? I think that Owen's

the EV-1, isn't he?

PLT Okay.

PLT Okay, that's mine? Great. Okay. I turn the

FLOW, OFF and do what?

CDR . . .

PLT Okay.
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CC And, CDR, Houston. We have a power reconfiguration

for you.

PLT Yes, sir. And I put it back on and the SOP FLOW
light went out, and when the SOP was working,
it was in the green.

CDR Okay ...

236 16 ll Oh CDR Okay, go ahead, Bruce.

CC Okay. On panel 203, we'd like you to turn the

SIEVE B, FAN OFF, that's SIEVE B FAN's power
switch OFF. Over.

236 16 ll 22 CDR Fan OFF.

CC Okay. On panel 207, we'd like you to inhibit

the following caution and warning switches.
EMERGENCY SENSOR, 1 and 2, that's two switches;
EMERGENCY POWER, 1 and 2, that's two more
switches.

PLT I'm all set, A1.

CDR ...

PLT Yes.

CDR Okay, we've got both of those, Bruce.

CC Okay. Then down in sort of the lower right

hand corner there on 207, the three switches
associated with caution and warning. That's
CAUTION and WARNING, POWER 1 and 2, and CAUTION
and WARNING, SIGNAL CONDITIONER. Over.

CDR Okay, got them.

236 16 12 39 CREW Okay.

CC And now we'd like to power down the number 2 part

of the CAUTION AND WARNING SYSTEM, and the
number 2 emergency system by on panel 202 we've
got a row of caution and warning circuit breakers.
We'd like to open the six circuit breakers
associated with the nl_mher 2 systems as you go
across the whole row. Over.
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236 16 13 17 CDR Okay, I opened the CAUTION - Here's what I

opened, EMERGENCY-2, CAUTION and WARNING-2,
SIGNAL/CONDITIONER-2, EMERGENCY-2, CAUTION and
WARNING-2, and CAUTION and WARNING-2.

CC Roger; that's it. And while you're out of

contact from us, if you need to power down a
little more, you can drop 550 watts in the
daytime by turning off the EVA lights and that's
on panel 202, two circuit breakers, EVA LIGHTS
nl,mher l, to open. Over. And that of
course - -

CDR Understand.

CC - - that's of course at your option. We don't

want you to do it now.

236 16 14 O0 CDR Okay.

SPT Just a minute, Jack, your feet are down in

there. I'll come up - -

PLT ...

SPT I 'll come up your way.

PLT Yes. This is far as I want to go.

SPT Okay.

PLT Okay, 0., your red one is - key is locked, your

blue one, the key is locked, and your COMM
connector is also locked; your WATER is - key
is down. I have already checked the SOP
connections. Take a look at mine now, would
you?

SPT Okay
--

PLT Your neck ring is in good shape.

SPT That's down, that's down, that key is down,

those keys are down, neck ring is fine.

236 16 lh 45 PLT Okay. We've checked them, AI.

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SPT Okay, now your feet are right around the

camera, Jack. Everyone's happy.

CDR ...

SPT Yes.

PLT Yes, sir.

CDR ...

SPT Understand.

PLT Okay.

SPT Okay, coming around until we can get a handle on

it. Okay, we got our vent -

CC Skylab, this is Houston. One minute and 30

seconds to LOS over the Vanguard. Next station
contact in 7 minutes, through Ascension at
16:22. 0ut.

236 16 15 52 CDR Roger; did you get my call? We're depressing

the lock right now.

CC Roger; we copy.

SPT Okay, we're passing h psi.

PLT Looks like the workshop will stand up.

SPT Yes. We couldn't be - Yes. We couldn't be

dropping this fast if there's a big leak in
here. Okay, we're getting a little ice on the
screen, as usual.

PLT Hey, O. - 0., do you feel like this is the first

inning of the second game of a double header?
(Laughter)

236 16 16 58 SPT With a long - long time between games, 2 weeks.

SPT Oh yes.

CDR ...
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SPT We didn't know you thought it was our problem.

236 16 17 18 PLT I wonder would they considered - -

236 16 22 45 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Ascension for

7 minutes. Out.

CDR Okay. The cabin is - correction - The LOCK is

almost down to zero press, and we're going to
open the hatch in 3 or 4 minutes.

CC Okay, why don't you give us a mark when you do

and we can start some clocks down here along
with you.

CDR Okay, will do.

SPT I'd say that left gage is reading about 0.15

now, wouldn't you, Jack, or can you see it?

PLT I can't. The parallax has got me from here - -

SPT Okay. Well, there's a little difference in the

LOCK and the AFT pressure gages, but the LOCK's
reading about 0.15 and the AgT's reading
about 0.25.

CDR Okay ... spring loaded ...

SPT It is?

CDR ...

SPT In work.

PLT Okay. That's a boy, he's got it.

CDR Here 's a mark for you.

236 16 24 08 CDR Hatch is OPEN.

PLT-EVA A few odds and ends are going in that direction.

SPT-EVA Didn't work (laughter). Give me a rubber

band [laughter). A few odds and ends going out.
Yes, that odds and end is going out too. That
odds and end is out (laughter).
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SPT-EVA And the hold-opera Tod is engaged and I'm on

my way out.

CDR All right, would you ...

SPT-EVA Okay, stand by, I'll put it there.

PLT-EVA Okay, I stabilized at 3.6.

SPT-EVA It's in BOTH and I stabilized at 3.55.

PLT-EVA Verified in BOTH.

CDR ...

PLT-EVA Stand by, EVA, NORM.

SPT-EVA Okay, Just a moment. Well, it's about 3.6 now,

it's coming up slightly.

CDR ...

SPT-EVA Yes, I'm at EVA NORM.

PLT-EVA Go ahead, O. Here's some umbilical for you.

SPT-EVA All right.

CDR ..•

PLT-EVA He Just did.

PLT-EVA Okay.

236 16 25 h5 SPT-EVA Hey, we might want to get our gold visors down
here, Jack; it's a little bright out.

PLT-EVA Okay. There's old lh9 sitting right there,

pretty as you please, collecting all that
sunlight and everything else that's coming in
it's direction. That's a boy. I guess yours
opened up okay.
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236 16 26 09 PLT-EVA Now make sure this 1_mhilical's not hung up on

anything and I'm on - You want me to go out now,
AI?

SPT-EVA D-7 is above your head.

PLT-EVA Okay.

SPT-EVA Okay. Now you could go either above or below

there, that's right. Now we have it.

PLT-EVA I go D-7, left armtoward FAS.

SPT-EVA D-2 or D-77

CDR D-2.

SPT-EVA Okay. We don't see D-2. It's probably that one

underneath the Lind experiment. Okay. I can't
verify that that's D-2, but it pres1_mably is.
Watch out for your cable there, yes, that's
right.

PLT-EVA Oh, boy. There's the world.

236 16 27 33 PLT-EVA Oh that says D-2 on it.

SPT-EVA Okay. That 's the one.

PLT-EVA I'm going right past Don Lind's experiment.

CDR ...

PLT-EVA All right, I better get out of here, then. You

mind if I Just waltz over to the trunnion? Okay.

CDR ...

PLT-EVA Okay.

PLT-EVA Okay. Here I am between the trunnion and the MDA.

Let me check m_ little tool over here and see how
it's going to work. Oh, boy! It fits right.

CDR ...
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PLT-EVA ...

SPT-EVA You've alrea_ got the tool on the connector,

don 't you?

PLT-EVA Yes, don't worry, I won't turn it (laughter)_

8130 Alfa he says. Yes, sir.

CDR ...

PLT-EVA Oh, not to get it off, it won't, and, it probably

won't to get it on'. Yes sir.

CDR Are you still there, Bruce?

CC We're still here, A1. We have 1 minute to LOS

at Ascension. Next station contact in 37 minutes
over Guam, where we'll dump the tape recorder.
Over.

CDR Okay. Jack's out of the - out at the Trunnion.

He might want to say a few words about it.

236 16 29 06 PLT-EVA Okay. I waltzed out here to the trunnion and

Just like Rusty said in th water tank, I'm
facing connector 8130A, and the trunnion box is
shading the Sun from my eyes and my tool fits
on there very well and it looks like I'll be
able to get in position and do the Job next
daylight pass with no problem. The wire bundles
will not be in a - in the way to get the connector
off. Although, I don't know if they will be or
not to insert the new connector, but the trunnion
situation looks pretty much as advertised. I
got good stability out here, and I can do this
Job, it appears, with no problem.

CDR Okay, Jack--

CC Okay, we copy you and it looks good. Going over

the hill and Guam at 17:06. Out.

CDR Okay. Jack - -

PLT-EVA Where is that hill he was talking about? Looks

like all clouds and water.

236 16 29 58 CDR Now, before you head back, how about looking
around to see where you think you're going to
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route that cable. And then as you crawl back,

you'll be able to see if you'd guessed right.
But when you're ready to do, translate to the
WCIU area using D-1 and the dual handrails.

SPT-EVA Yes, looks like to me we can go behind: some of

these trusses and it won't be exposed to the
EVA trail, whatsoever.

CDR Okay, when you've got it psyched out, well Just

head on down that way and think about it as you
go.

SPT-EVA What was the word ... truss?

CDR ...

SPT-EVA What are - what are those words you - -

236 16 30 35 CDR Let me throw some words, good. Translate the

D-I handrail close to FAS, and get other end of
the cable from EV-I.

236 17 06 22 CC Skylab, this is Houston through G,,-m for

5-1/2 minutes. Over.

SPT-EVA First connection.

CDR ...

PLT-EVA Why don't I go out and do it? See what I can

see anyway.

CC CDR, this is Houston. We'll be dumping your

data voice tape recorder this Guam pass. And I
have a new window pane time for you. It's
17:26 through 17:36 Zulu. And if you'd like me
to repeat the daylight-remA_uing-minus-h2-minute
time. l've got it here. Over.

CDR 17:26 through 36. Is that what you said?

CC That' s correct, AI.

236 17 07 27 CDR Okay, and we're going to be ready to go. We've

got everything out. All the film is standing
around. We put out the little sA,_les - nylon
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samples in position. They look good, they're

not perpendicular to the sun]ine. If you want
them perpendicular to the sunline, we can make
it that way. Also it interferes slightly with
window number - window n,,mher 3, but not
excessively. Now we've got the - cable - EVA
cable out and attached to Owen. Jack is getting
ready to go out in a few minutes and go to the
spot where he can - the trunnion and do the Job.
We found that the TV does not show that pot -
spot very well because there's a bump - an ECS
bump - between the mount and that point. But
it shows the second connector point, which is
down by the WCIU. So we'll have some good TV
there but not for the first part.

CC Roger; we understand. And in fact, I thank that

that was basically our intent. And it's great.

SPT-EVA You want me to go out there, Al? I can see it

very well.

CDR Okay.

236 17 08 _6 CC Okay, and for Jack, on the way by the sail

samples, if you could square them up perpendicular
to the sunline we'd appreciate it. Over.

236 17 08 5_ PLT-EVA Okay. Now let me reach over here and I'll make
it parallel to this panel with the little bump
on it. I can sort _f tell - -

SPT-EVA Make it parallel to the back of the ATM. That's

something you've got good reference to.

PLT-EVA Yes, that's what I was looking at earlier.

SPT-EVA Okay.

PLT-EVA Make sure it will catch the TVthere, O.

PLT-EVA Okay, you've got about a foot clearance. Now

keep your feet - -

PLT-EVA I've got big feet though, so watch out.

PLT-EVA How do you like that O?

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SPT-EVA Oh, you're okay; Just a minute. That's pretty

clos e. That 's good. That 's plenty good.

CDR ...

SPT-EVA Yes.

CDR Okay. Egress the AM, translate to the D-7 hand-

rail with back towards MDA and left arm towards
FAS.

PLT-EVA Okay, I'm at D-7. Can you get that from between
my legs there, Owen?

SPT-EVA It's clear of your two little legs.

PLT-EVA Okay.

SPT-EVA It's out of your legs.

236 17 09 52 CDR Okay, get the tether box in and you can either
tether it to yourself, but Just as long as it's
tethered to Owen you can take it in your hand
if you like, and - -

SPT-EVA Wait a minute. He's got to go up and make the

trunnion connection first.

CDR That's exactly right. You've got the box end

and he's got the other end.

SPT-EVA That 's right. And I 'm keeping it.

CDR You bet.

PLT-EVA Okay.

CDR Translate along D-2 handrail leading with the

right shoulder to the AM (sic) trunnion area
carrying the other end from the box end.

PLT-EVA Okay, I'm doing Just that. And look at the Sun
come up. Oh that's pretty. And there's a very
bright - I bet that's a planet Just above the
border between the - the black and the blue.

CDR Okay, let me read you another note. It says

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caution MDA panels are very thin and could be

bent while moving into position. Carefully
position self between trunnion and MDA.

236 17 l0 44 PLT-EVA Okay, I'm going past my friend Don Lind's experi-
ment here, my associate and back-up pilot, tal
taking care not to rub on that.

SPT-EVA You want to get this kink out of your umbilical

here? Did you stuff some of your umbilical in?

PLT-EVA A little bit.

SPT-EVA Okay, I've got to pull a little more out.

PLT-EVA Okay, here I am at the trunnion. It's dark on

the - my side of the trunnion here, the narrow
panel by the trunnion. But I'll locate myself
and work myself in as I did before.

236 17 ll 19 CDR Okay, let's wait until you've got good visibility
on the top of that panel, and then I'll read
onward.

PLT-EVA Okay, and I want to take this little hook and

kind of Just do it so I can get it out of my
hands for a moment.

CC Skylab, this is Houston. One minute to LOS at

Guam. Next station contact in 33 minutes through
the Vanguard at 17:44. Out.

236 17 ll 4h PLT-EVA Okay, Bruce, I'm sitting up here on the side of

the docking adaptor. Off to my right is our
trusty comm_nd and service module, and I'm
facing the Sun. The horizon - the Earth is
upside down as I face it. The Sun has Just
come up with a beautiful orange glow over the
horizon, and a light blue band above that and
a darker blue is diffusing into the very, very
black that is up here day and night. And I've
got the cable clipped to the side of this box,
like Rusty showed us. And I'm Just sitting here
waiting for it to get light to take this connector
off. I can see it very dimly at the moment with
the EVA lights. And I've already been up here
and tried this out on a reconnaisance pass. It
looks like I can get through the area and
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stabilize _self with no problem. In the mean-

time, if you don't mind, I'Ii Just enjoy the view.
It's a beautiful sunset, or sunrise. And I can
see that pencil-thin sickle or crescent-shaped
hor - light on the horizon spreading out, be-
coming wider as it expands around the globe,
and getting more altitude. As the - as the Sun
comes up the - the bright band gets wider and
wider.

CC Okay, well, you'r e losing altitude on us, so

we'll see you over the Vanguard.

PLT-EVA (Chuckle) Okay, see you later. What time?

CC 17:44, which is 31 minutes and 32 seconds from

now.

236 17 13 ii PLT-EVA Okay, we'll probably have the S%m by then.

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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

236 17 h5 14 SPT-EVA Okay. Got to get the TV on?

SPT-EVA All right.

236 17 h4 33 CC Skylab, this is Houston through the Vanguard for

ll minutes. Out.

CDR Okay, we Just went to standby. We Just disabled

all the rate gyros. Jack is in the midst of dis-
connecting and making the connections at the WCIU.

CC Roger.

236 17 44 52 PLT-EVA Okay, Bruce. I'm down here looking at WCIU with
all these connectors and I just got the victim
loose, and in a few minutes, the good Lord willing
and the creek don't rise, we're going to have this
hooked up.

SPT-EVA Hey, Jack.

PLT-EVA Yes, sir.

SPT-EVA Ah - -

236 17 45 13 CDR Houston, do you show all of our rate gyros off,
or can you see them?

CC That's affirmative, we can see them and we show

them off.

CDR And how's our attitudes and rates, by looking at

the command module? It'll save me going over
there.

236 17 45 32 CC They're looking good, A1.

CC Right now you're only off about 2 degrees from

SI, A1.

PLT-EVA I can't believe that went on so easy.

CDR Which axis?

CC In the Y-axis?
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CDR Okay.

PLT-EVA Okay, I got D-4 hooked to J-3 and I can verify

that the pins are in and now let me get the other -
We got 3 out of h here, Bruce.

CC Okay, we want h out of h, though.

236 17 h6 17 PLT-EVA All right, guy. You guys are never happy. We
got the VTR going down here. You have real time
on the ground?

CC Negative.

PLT-EVA Okay.

236 17 h6 45 PLT-EVA Okay, we've got h out of h, Bruce.

CC Beautiful, Jack.

PLT-EVA Now what?

PLT-EVA Hey, where are we here? Look down there. We're

over - -

CDR Okay, why don't you get back into the FAS now so
I can run through the rest of the procedure, please.

CC Uh - -

PLT-EVA You guys sure you don't have anything more I can
look at while I'm out here?

236 17 47 Oh CC No, you're over South America. On the way back

in you might take a look and make sure that the
sail sample isn't blocking the window with respect
to $230 photos and aurora photos.

SPT-EVA - - pointed back. - -

PLT-EVA Well, it's not blocking the window; it's looking

right at the Sun and - -

SPT-EVA Is the corner of it shaded there, Jack? I couldn't

tell.
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PLT-EVA There is about i inch, there's a triangle of the

corner shaded and the - the - it's about a 1 inch - -

SPT-EVA Segment ?

PLT-EVA Yes.

236 17 47 42 CDR Get back in the FAS.

SPT-EVA I take it that there's ...

PLT-EVA ...

CC Break, break, break, break. A1, you don't need

to wait until Jack gets back to the FAS. You
can go ahead and press on while he's moving in.

SPT-EVA One thing that might be of interest to you, Bruce

when we went to TACS control here a little while
ago, we did fire a few mibs, of course. I can
see them, the plumes extend out about 20 feet or
so and there was absolutely no perturbation to
either the sail or the parasol when the TACS fired.

CC Okay, thank you. That's a good data point.

236 17 48 2B CDR Okay, and I was in fact doing that Job. I dis-
connected the CBs, connected the signal cable and
I'm now - got the CBs on and we'll see what happens.

CREW ...

CC Okay, we're showing it on telemetry, A1, and you're

1 degree off in X and 4 degrees in Y right now.

CDR Thank you.

236 17 48 45 PLT-EVA Boy, we can see the whole southern part of

South America. Very, very beautiful bay down
there we're crossing. You can see clear over to
the Andes and we're crossing the east coast of
South America.

CC And for the CDR on telemetry, the six pack looking

good, and the gryos are matching each other.
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CDR Good news. And now I'm going to power up the CMG
again.

236 17 h9 18 PLT-EVA Well, 0., I guess I'll come back and we'll swap.
Okay?

SPT-EVA Okay.

PLT-EVA Sail is taking on a little t_nish color on the

top, notice. But the lines are still tight and
appears to be in good shape.

236 17 h9 42 PLT-EVA Now, there's one little corner of that sail sample
which is shaded but the - it's Just a little tri-
angular section and the altitude there on the -
the height on that triangle is about l-l/4 inches,
and its sides are about equal. It's a equilateral
triangle, and the side shaded is about - Get the
square root of 2 on that, Bruce, and you'll have
it. (laughter.)

CC (Laughter) Okay, Jack. Hey, look, there's no

problem on that. We're GO with it Just like it
is, with that little bit of the corner shaded.
Over.

236 17 50 17 PLT-EVA Okay, good. And we had to straighten it up a

little bit to get in perpendicular to the Sun,
but it's in good shape now and I think you'll
like it.

CC Okay - -

CDR Hey, Houston, Just got the CMG, ON; how does it
look? And also I put the X, Y, Z rate gyros on
the rack ON. Are they coming up to speed now?

236 17 50 37 CC Okay, A1. We tracked you on telemetry as they

came on. They're looking beautiful; we're waiting
for the 90-second time out.

CDR Okay; give me a call.

CC We'll do Just that.

SPT-EVA Okay, Jack, can you come up to the FAS here?

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PLT-EVA Do I have to?

SPT-EVA Yes, you have to.

PLT-EVA Do I have to, Al?

SPT-EVA (Laughter)

PLT-EVA Huh?

CDR ...

PLT-EVA We got - we - we born to fly in space.

236 17 51 08 CC CDR, Houston. We're ready to go ahead with the

redundancy management on the rate gyros. Over.

CDR Okay, I'm ready, too.

SPT-EVA This is going to take a while.

CDR Now I know how ... Eubank felt with one Joe Namath.
I've got a couple of them out there in operation.

PLT-EVA He won't raise our salary, though.

SPT-EVA No wonder I couldn't stuff any more umbilical in,

you weren't coming any further. (Laughter) Why
don't you forget it for awhile? Rest.

236 17 51 h8 PLT-EVA The poles are bent down real nicely in that - -

CC CDR, Houston. For your information we're showing

attitude error is now of X, minus 2-1/2, and Y of
6, Z estimated to be about 3. Over.

PLT-EVA Looks like there's 2 to 3 feet overlapped there

in the trailing edge, O.

SPT-EVA On my end here?

PLT-EVA No, the other end.

SPT-EVA Oh, I can't see the other end.

PLT-EVA Ye s.
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236 17 52 ii SPT-EVA But on my side over here, it's about a foot and
a half.

PLT-EVA Yes. The cast - the shadow of the sail is not

quite parallel to the edge of the parasol; it
widens out as you go back.

236 17 52 31 CC Okay, A1, we see Sun present still, CMG control's

ENABLE, we're going back to the real solar inertial
attitude and it 's looking beautiful.

CDR Good news, Bruce.

236 17 53 04 CDR Okay, all of those comm_nds are in, and I Just
selected solar inertial.

PLT-EVA The VOX is all set up the way you want it, I take
it, right?

PLT-EVA I understand ....

SPT-EVA That must be the coast of South America we're

Just passing there, Jack.

236 17 53 53 PLT-EVA In other words, we're coming up parallel to the

east coast, sort of.

SPT-EVA Yes.

236 17 53 58 CC Okay, 1 minute and 30 seconds until LOS, next

station contact is Ascension in _ minutes. We'll
be dumping the data voice tape recorder there.
Out.

236 17 5_ 29 CDR Turn the drive to zero. I got pretty near zero
on the X but not on the Y.

SPT-EVA They should have.

PLT-EVA Okay.

CDR Okay, here it comes.

SPT-EVA Good. You got a Y rate, and it's in the right

direction?
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236 17 54 53 CC Skylab, Houston. The acquisition Sun sensor takes

a fair amount of time to settle down, so Just be
patient with it. Over.

CDR It's coming now, Bruce. It's real good now, it

was about 98 percent and - -

SPT-EVA Now you can see it, Jack ... it's about ...

PLT-EVA ... sunrise and sunset, only bigger.

236 17 55 33 PLT-EVA O, you - Can you -

236 17 57 18 PLT-EVA Okay.

236 17 57 25 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Ascension with a

10-1/2 minute pass for you. Out.

PLT-EVA No, I got to get around here - -

CDR Okay, we're back in this side, Bruce. Everything's

settled down and we're pressing on with the rest
of the EVA.

CC Roger, A1. We saw a m_x error of about 1 degree

and you're settling down nicely. We're dumping
the data voice tape recorder.

CDR Okay.

PLT-EVA Okay. Let me get back in here and stuff some of

this stuff back - -

CDR All right.

PLT-EVA - - or it's going to be a big spaghetti bowl,

which A1 don't mind much but we don't like.

236 17 58 03 SPT-EVA First good look at the command module I've had.
Well, see if I can figure out which quad is which
here. That's right, I'm looking up the - quad A
is what it is, and some of the insulation on the
outside of the quad is sort of chipped away, it
looks like. But the quads all look to be in good
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shape and down on quad B, the paint and stuff has

chipped away all around the quad. The nozzles
themselves all look to be in good shape.

236 17 58 52 CDR That's good. Say, Houston. I think I'll float

in the command module and turn off the PSM helium
and fuel manifold, if that's okay with you.

CC Roger, A1. That 's good with us ; go ahead.

236 17 59 22 PLT-EVA Just a minute, 0., I'll be with you. I want to

get rid of this tool here so that it doesn't bang
all over.

SPT-EVA There's no hurry. Just a straight drop - straight

down into the water from here, from about 235 miles.
(Laughter )

PLT-EVA That's a long step down, isn't it?

SPT-EVA Sure is.

SPT-EVA That 's tremendous ; amazing view.

PLT-EVA I'm- I don't know whose - -

236 17 59 47 SPT-EVA Well, I'm not down by the work station yet. Just
a minute, I'll - Okay. Can I get more on my own
umbilical now, Jack? And I'll go on down to center
workstation.

PLT-EVA Well, let me find it here. Okay, number 9 umbilical

coming out there.

236 18 00 00 CDR Okay. Both those switches are off and talkback's
barber pole in the comm_nd module.

CC Okay. We copy that, A1.

PLT-EVA A1, what were those settings again on the TV -

X, Y, Z?

SPT-EVA Okay. l'm down in the center workstation now,

A1. And- -
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CC Jack, this is Houston. Over.

PLT-EVA Yes, go ahead.

236 18 00 52 CC Do you want the TV settings for the F-8 handrail,

it's X equals 60, Y equals 180, Z equals 315.
Over.

PLT-EVA Thank you. Yes.

SPT-EVA Okay. the ladder is verified and I'm clamping

it; standby. Okay, now, this is the door that
was reported to have not latched.

PLT-EVA Okay, the kid's in the foot reatraints. What are

we suppose to do to the DAC right now?

236 18 01 51 SPT-EVA Just a second there. Was not the S054 door reported
to have not locked mechanically and only been tied
in with the magnetic latches?

CC That's correct, 0wen.

SPT-EVA Okay. Well, the flag is up and it certainly doesn't

turn open. So it looks to me like it's locked
mechanically, the way it should be. Got a white
flag on the door and it does not tug open.

PLT-EVA Yes. Center boom. Get out of the way of it.

Put the flotation collar on now.

PLT-EVA 0., your umbilical came unclamped.

236 18 02 54 CDR Hey, Bruce, how about giving our congratulations

to Rusty on a - and the men that worked with him,
who developed these procedures, because they
worked out Just perfectly today. We had no problems.
And I guess we ought to thank Rocko and his boys
down there for m_king sure all the parts of the
wires were connected correctly because it looks
like, at least from what I'm looking at at the
moment that it's all running correctly.

CC Okay. We'll do that, AI. Rusty's back here on

the back row and Roeko's sitting in the viewing
room and they're both listening.
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236 18 03 25 SPT-EVA My regards to Rusty and the Colonel.

PLT-EVA What number was that O. or AI?

CDR S050 ...

PLT That's the suitcase.

SPT-EVA Yes. And the 5h door was locked normally.

236 18 03 h3 CC Okay. We copy that, Owen, and we had a problem

with it on the mag latch at the end of SL-2 EVA,
the last EVA - well, the EVA there. And we don't
have any positive report, one way or another
after your first EVA.

SPT-EVA We didn't touch the door on our first EVA, Bruce.

That's the reason I was discussing it.

CC Okay. Thank you.

236 18 Oh 07 CDR And how's the checkout going with the other rate
gyros down there?

CC I have a little quote for you. It says, "they

are absolutely impeccable."

CDR (Laughter)

PLT-EVA Okay.

CDR That 's close enough - that 's good enough.

PLT-EVA That's a pretty big word.

236 18 04 25 CDR Pete would say they're tickyboo.

PLT-EVA Okay. I got S054 up here. It's verified to be

locked onto the boom.

CDR Okay.

SPT-EVA Just send it down, Jack.

PLT-EVA Look at that go. Right at him.

SPT-EVA Yes, it is. I'm ready to do that.

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236 18 04 56 PLT-EVA Just give me the word there, professor.

SPT-EVA Okay, keep her coming.

PLT-EVA I'ii drop it right in your stride zone.

SPT-EVA That's Just where I want it.

PLT-EVA Get him in a bad place, right in the hands.

(Laught er )

PLT-EVA Stop her.

SPT-EVA Okay.

PLT-EVA You got her.

SPT-EVA Okay.

236 18 05 20 PLT-EVA Hang on to it.

SPT-EVA Okay, take her back.

PLT-EVA Okay.

PLT-EVA I'll take her back a little ways_ okay?

SPT-EVA A couple of feet.

PLT-EVA Bring back the bacon, right?

SPT-EVA Okay.

236 18 05 47 PLT-EVA Okay, and down there he's got her latched on the
hook, and he's in the process of getting the - the
used one out. How many pictures are on that -
some 4 to 5000 or wha - how many is that?

SPT-EVA How m_ny what? Oh, pictures, about - gee, I think

it's 7000, 6 - -

236 18 06 l0 CC CDR, Houston. Over.

CDR Go ahead.
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CC Roger. We'd like to get the computer switched to

AUTO on panel 130 there at the ATM.

CDR Okay.

236 18 06 39 PLT-EVA You say the word and I'll send her down, O.

SPT-EVA Okay, bring her down.

PLT-EVA And when you say, I'll stop it.

SPT-EVA Stop.

PLT-EVA Stopped. There he is, loading about 7 to 8000

pictures of the Sun on to that boom, we're going
to bring them home, and that's only a few of them.

236 18 07 06 CC And 1 minute to LOS. Next station contact in a

minute and a half over the Canaries. Out.

PLT-EVA Okay, 0wen is hooking on the - -

SPT-EVA Okay, Jack, take her back. Other way.

PLT-EVA - - S054 canister and giving me the word to bring

it back, which is what I'm doing. Coming up real
nicely on this boom.

SPT-EVA Okay, it's in work.

236 18 07 55 PLT-EVA Okay, here comes this one up to me. I'm going to
store it on this little rack. Owen's getting the
new one and putting it in. No, no, hand on to it,
you dummy.

SPT-EVA Okay.

PLT-EVA I wasn't talking to you, O.

SPT-EVA I figured that.

PLT-EVA Talking to myself there. Don't never call an 0kie

a _mmy. Okay, this one is on the rack, and it's
verified to be locked in.

236 18 08 44 SPT-EVA Okay, A1, I've got this one in, latched. I've got
a latched flag on the magazine and the double white
showing.
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CDR ...

SPT-EVA In work.

PLT-EVA Okay, I've dot the next set of film, S056, loaded
on the boom here and verified to be locked on.
Okay, 54 door is closed.

CDR Okay. White flag visible.

SPT-EVA White flag visible. Roll is enabled.

CC Skylab, Houston now through Canary and Madrid for

the next 7 minutes. Out.

236 18 09 46 CDR Okay, Bruce, are you going to be dumping this VTR?
I want to know whether to Just leave it run or
cycle it for the most interesting parts of the EVA.

CC Cycle it for the most interesting parts, A1. It

looks like you've got about 3-1/2 minutes left on
it. Over.

CDR Okay. I'll turn it off, and I'll get him trans-
lating out to the Sun end and some action out
there.

CC Beautiful.

CDR Okay.

236 18 l0 12 PLT-EVA Okay, Owen's rotating the canister around now so

he can get to the next one of the solar telescopes
that's out there. And I've got the new load on
the boom for S056 telescope. And it looks like
O. has Just about got it rotated around in front
of him where he can get it out.

SPT-EVA I'm about halfway, Jack. It's a slow rate here

I've got to do.

236 18 l0 44 PLT-EVA I noticed the DAC is running away. The way you
can tell it's running is that it wiggles every
time it takes a frame.

SPT-EVA Little vibration.

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PLT-EVA I hope the pictures come out okay. They did the
last time, the pictures of Pete's EVA, they came
out very nice.

PLT-EVA Boy, that - We're out here in broad daylight, but

that sky is black as black can be, all over.

PLT-EVA Why don't we add a couple of hours on this EVA,

Bruce?

236 18 ll 18 CC Okay, you're about an hour and 27 minutes into it

at this time. Over.

SPT-EVA We're too fast.

CC Excuse me, make that a hour and h7 into it.

PLT-EVA Well, _e're getting ahead.

CC Hey, if we told you you were h or 5 hours into it,

would it make you happy?

SPT-EVA Sure. (Laughter) I've got a watch, too. What is

the roll rate in high position down here, Bruce?
Does somebody have that number handy?

CC We'll have that for you in a second.

236 18 12 09 SPT-EVA I was just wondering whether there was any reason
to remain in low or whether or not high was an
acceptable rate.

CC Okay, Owen, we're in times i, where there's

3-1/2 degrees a second, so the high rate's accept-
able.

SPT-EVA Okay, so it does - it is affected by the switch on

the C&D. I wasn't sure of that. Good enough, I'll
use high after this.

CC Roger.

236 18 12 53 PLT-EVA That cable hookup for the gyros - for the six pack
worked real good, Bruce. The only one had to work
on a little bit was the big one up on the trunnion.
It turns out that every time I got the slot and the
key lined up that when I went to rotate - the outer
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shell - the locking shell - that it - it would

float out again, it wouldn't - wouldn 't never hold.
So I had to reposition myself up there a little
bit and work on it for a while and - and then it
went in real nicely.

CC Yes, it sounds like it wound up working real nicely,

though.

PLT-EVA It sure did. Boy, the guys did a great Job on

that, by the way, not only on the procedures but
also on the hardware. We got it strung behind a
couple of trusses there so it won't get in the way.

236 18 I4 01 SPT-EVA Okay, I'm at 56, and I'm unlocking the door.

PLT-EVA Okay, Owen's got that telescope rotated around in

front of him, he's unlocking the door and opening
it.

SPT-EVA Okay, I'm ready for your -

PLT-EVA Waiting for A1 to give him some more procedural

words. Okay, here it comes -

236 18 14 40 SPT-EVA Yes, I wouldn't want to fall off these foot

restraints; it's a long drop.

PLT-EVA (Laughter) Oh, I've got your umbilical here; I'd

grab you.

SPT-EVA That's very good. Stop her there.

PLT-EVA There you are ; you got them.

SPT-EVA Thank you.

PLT-EVA Okay, Owen is taking that new load of film - -

SPT-EVA Pull her back a ways.

PLT-EVA - - for S056, off and now I'm going to return to

the boom - -

SPT-EVA Wrong way again, Jack.

PLT-EVA - - I'm retracting the boom out of his way a little

bit.
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236 18 15 17 CC Skylab, this is Houston. A little over 1 minute

to LOS at Madrid. Next station contact in 26 minutes
through Guam, and we'll be dumping the data voice
tape recorder at Guam. We'll be dumping the video
tape recorder in about 4-1/2 hours when we come
up on the States for the first time. Out.

CDR Okay. Thanks, Bruce, that's kind of what I was

wondering, and I appreciate you keeping me informed
there, when I was punching the DAS, to get those
rate gyros back up on what was going on as far as
attitude was concerned. Thanks, I just couldn't
answer then.

236 18 15 50 CC Why, we just - We admired your fancy finger work

there on the DAS. You put them in in something
like record time, I think, so we're just keeping
you up to date and I was getting a steady flow of
info from the trench down here.

CDR Okay.

CC Make that the upper trench.

236 18 16 19 PLT-EVA Sounds like they got a little status thing going
down there.

CC You better believe it (laughter).

PLT-EVA (Laughter) We don't up here; we just do whatever

the Commander says.

CC Roger. And you better believe it's brown side out

when he says brown side out.

SPT-EVA Okay, Jack ... this way.

236 18 16 37 PLT-EVA Okay, 0.'s got the - most of the exposed film out
now and he's going to load it on the boom.

236 18 41 52 SPT-EVA Well, I think she's very well pointed now.

PLT-EVA Yes. Why don't we turn it on, 0.'s up.

SPT-EVA Okay. I'm moving.

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236 18 42 01 PLT-EVA Okay. 0wen came back and had to go around the top
the sail instead. So, that's the way he's going
now, and you can see him right there in front of
the picture, He's heading out toward the Sun end
of the solar telescopes. Hand over hand along the
handrails, umbilical trailing behind. Now you see
the rear view of an Oak - Okie, north end going
south. Okay, now he's out to the Sun end. Let
me give you a little umbilical there, O.

SPT-EVA 0kay.

PLT-EVA All right.

236 18 42 53 SPT-EVA Okay. I'm in the foot restraints.

PLT-EVA VTR is off.

SPT-EVA Okay.

PLT-EVA Let me fix this umbilical wherever it needs to be

now. I'm - I'mkind of - ... (laughter).Hey,
is that TV? You're pointed back then.

SPT-EVA Back up here? I see you over there now.

CC Skylab, this is Houston through G_m for

8-1/2 minutes. Out.

236 18 4B 41 SPT-EVA Okay, Bruce. We're about halfway through with the
film exchange now. We've got all the further
workstation exchanged. And we've got all the
cameras - there checked out, and moved out to the
Sun end now. We're Just getting ready to work on
the S149.

CC Roger. We copy you. And you've got about

2 minutes left on the VTR. And we'll probably
be dumping the data voice tape recorder this site.
Out.

SPT-EVA Okay. Let me get around here and do that. Okay,

I'll go all the way closed and a little bit open,
and when the Sun comes up, I'll adjust it. Okay.
Now I'd like to ask Jack a question here. It looks
like to me to get this 1_9 crank closed, you could
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not do it from these interim foot restraints. I

had to kick out of those and get behind the experi-
ment. Is that the way you did it, Jack?

PLT-EVA Yes. You might have to take one foot loose there,
O., and reach around there.

SPT-EVA Yes. It looks to me like that's the better. Have

to kick both loose.

236 18 h4 45 CDR And, Bruce, all the experiments that we excha -

films that we transferred into the center worksta-
tion, the four of those, checked out okay.

CC Okay. We copy that, AI.

PLT-EVA Look at the thunderstorms on the horizon, Owen.

SPT-EVA Yes, I saw them. They're really amazing.

PLT-EVA Really fierce. Looks like the limb of the Sun with
a bunch of prominences.

SPT-EVA That's right. There's a close analogy. Close

comparison.

236 18 45 i0 PLT-EVA How are you doing there, O. ? Can you work from
that position?

SPT-EVA I'm going to have to scoot back a little bit more,

yet, I think.

SPT-EVA Okay. Now I'm in a little bit better position,

I think, to crank this little machine.

236 18 45 35 SPT-EVA That was after I got a crank clamp closed.

PLT-EVA Few thunderstorms down there on the Earth.

SPT-EVA See them flashing away.

PLT-EVA The Sun's just about to come up.

SPT-EVA Might get our gold visar down, Jack.

PLT-EVA Good idea, Owen.

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236 18 46 I0 CC Owen, this is Houston. We notice there is no

talkback indications open or closed on the 52 aper-
ture door. Have you or A1 done anything with the
S052 door?

SPT-EVA Well, I've not, from out here.

CDR Yes, I think I did. Let me look at my procedure.

SPT-EVA Jack, where is that little lock on this handle?

PLT-EVA There should be a little knob sticking right in

the end of the handle that you can pull out.

SPT-EVA Yes, but not in the crank end. It's up by the

shaft isn't it, where it rotates.

236 18 46 50 CDR No, according to this I don't touch the door.

Let me - The door is indicating open. Let me
close it.

PLT-EVA Right there in the end of it.

SPT-EVA Over here?

PLT-EVA No. It should be in the end there.

236 18 46 57 CC Let's leave it alone, A1, in the present configura-

tion. Over.

CDR Okay. The door - I put the main power back on - -

SPT-EVA Yeah. I can turn it.

CDR - - And the door shows gray, which is open. And

I don't think I opened it. And normally it should
go closed anyway when the main power goes off.
Stand by. It's still in fast scan and I inter-
rupted it by going to stop when we used up l0
frames. And the EVA AUTO DOOR ENABLED is in
INHIBIT, so - -

236 18 47 35 CC CDR, this is Houston.

,CDR Go ahead.
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CC Roger. If Owen's clear of the 52 door, we'd like

to have you close it from the panel.

CDR Okay.

SPT-EVA I'm clear.

CDR That's three turns on S149.

SPT-EVA Four.

CDR Well, I still indicate open here. I'll put - Let

me put the EVA AUTO DOOR, ENABLE. He's clear of
all the doors and we'll get this thing closed.

236 18 48 lO PLT-EVA Hey, I just noticed on the - one of the S149 panels,
and it's the one that's toward the lower end.
There are four little brown patches. Two of them
are peeling up right now. One of them's about to
pop off. It's peeled half way up right now.

CC Okay. We show the S052 door closed. That is, we

show it closing.

236 18 48 38 CDR Okay. We agree. What I did was go out of EVA

AUTO DOOR INHIBIT to ENABLE, close the door and
now I'm going back to STORAGE.

CC Okay. And last pass when you were over the

Vanguard, we show that you had a caution and
warning although we couldn't tell what it was,
that you reset over Madrid. Was that ACS MALF
or CLUSTER ATT, that we expected?

SPT-EVA lO turns.

236 18 49 24 PLT-EVA Although I don't have it on, Oven, right now, but
I'm adjusting it right now and its - -

CC CDR, Houston.

CDR Go ahead.

CC Roger. WE need that EVA AUTO DOOR switch to the

INHIBIT position, vice the STORAGE position.
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CDR Okay. That's where it is. I moved it to ENABLE

and then back to INHIBIT.

236 18 49 44 CC Roger. And.we saw a caution and warning over

Vanguard that you reset over Madrid. We couldn't
tell what it was. Was that one of the ACS MALF
or CLUSTER ATT lights? Over.

CDR It - I don't know which it was, Bruce. I went

over to punch M_MORY RECALL and nothing came up,
although the master alarm was on. So, I just
turned it off.

CC Okay - -

CDR I don't exactly know what it was.

CC Mighty fine. Th_k you.

236 18 50 ii CDR Now, one of the things that we noticed on our

checklist, it says before we finish closing out,
we've got to get a GO from you for ingress and
secure to make sure that the DAS - the rate gyros
are all working. Have we a GO for that?

CC Roger. You're GO for that.

CDR Okay. We're not there yet, obviously. But I

just wanted to get it out of the way.

CC Understand. But the gyros are there.

SPT-EVA Which gyros are we using now?

236 18 50 47 CC You're still on the rack rate gyros. .We're

watching the six-pack ones for a rev or two here
to see how they track during the dump maneuvers.

SPT-EVA I see.

CC And, actually, they're doing quite well. You've

got a minute to LOS. The next station contact in
half an hour over the Vanguard at 19:22. Out.

SPT-EVA You in a hurry, Al?

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236 18 51 13 PLT-EVA Owen is still cranking the S149 closed. And he's
doing it very slowly so he don't mess up the gear
train. An I see that the petals are all closed.
And he's just cranking a little more to make sure
the locks get set on 149.

SPT-EVA Okay. Now that thing - handle is as far as it

wants to go. I never did find the lock on it.

SPT-EVA l'm going to see if I can get this thing hooked on

from my foot restraint, l'm not sure that I can
I'ii try it.

236 18 52 17 PLT-EVA You still there, Bruce?

CC Yes. We're still here for a couple of seconds;

make it fast.

PLT-EVA I was just going to tell you what's going on.

Owen's hooking the SIh9 to a tether now. He's -
We're going to bring it back in to get it out of
the way. And then we're going to put it out
later.

CC Okay; sounds good. And you've got just a little

less than 2 minutes left on the VTR.

236 18 52 36 PLT-EVA Okay. We'll use it. Thank you.

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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

236 19 21 43 SPT-EVA That rubber seal is binding a bit, causing it

to stick. But l've already done it a couple
of times. Okay, that's complete.

236 19 21 58 CC $kylab, this is Houston through the Vanguard

for 9-1/2 minutes. Out.

CDR Okay, for your information, we got another

MASTER ALARM which I checked in the C&W; it
turned out to he a CMG SAT. I checked our total
momentum and it's running around 94 percent. And
the Y momentum is the high one up around 96. So
I guess somehow during the night pass, it didn't
know exactly where it was and it didn't dump
precisely.

SPT-EVA Okay, we got all the film exchanged now, Bruce.

Just waiting for the film checks on 82A and B
out at the Sun end.

236 19 22 _5 CC Okay, for the CDR, we've seen a couple of mibs

fire from CMG SAT. The momentum is running high.
We believe it's from the crew activity associated
with EVA. Over.

CDE Okay.

PLT-EVA Don't move around so much out there, O.

SPT-EVA I can't do it. It's not my fault. It's all that

oxygen you're pumping overboard, Jack, that's
doing it. If you'd quit breathing, why, that'd
help.

236 19 23 13 CC Okay. Okay, for the CDR, again. We want to

reemphasize that this has nothing to do with
the gyro pack. We're very happy with the rate
gyro six pack. We've watched it through two
maneuvers, one dump, and one return to SI and
at this time, we're going to enable three rate
gyro redundancy managements in all three axes,
using the six-pack gyros as the two controlling
ones, and the three good rack gyros as the ones
held in reserve, but still spinning. We're also
going to shut down the unused gyros out on the
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rack. For your information, we believe this is

the first time since day i that we've had three
rate gyros redundancy managements in all axes.
Over.

SPT-EVA Great.

236 19 23 57 CC Corrections that's 76 days since we've had that

configuration.

CDR Okay, we're glad to be part of it, I'ii tell yon.

236 19 24 04 SPT-EVA Say, Bruce, l've just got to make one comment
here because this is absolutely the most
beautiful view that l've ever seen. l'm sitting
up here on top of the ATM; you can see the
horizon through a full 270-degree arc. There's
a Sun reflection out over the Pacific. We're
just now crossing the Andes, coming across from
the Pacific on to the South American coastline,
and with the Andes in sharp relief down below
with some cloud cover, it's just an utterly
amazing view.

236 19 2h 32 CC Oh, there's a whole room full of people here

that wish they could be up there with you to
see it in person.

236 19 2h 38 SPT-EVA Well, I thought views out of the wardroom window

or out the STS windows were something, but it
really cannot compare with the fishbowl view
that you've got sitting up here on top of the
ATM Sun end, with a visor - a full - essentially,
200 and - 180 degrees of visor available and
you can see the horizon just from 270 to all
the way around. One other comment, I guess,
back to business here a little bit; the 82B
door, the outside door_ was very sticky when I
went to open it. Had to, after unlocking it,
tug on it several times to get the door to open
back up. And also in closing, it was pretty
sticky but it did close satisfactorily. I
think it's the little red rubber ring that goes
all the way around the outside edge, probably
thermally it tended to stick to the canister
itself. It just takes a very hard tug to get
it loose.
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236 19 25 34 CC Okay, we copy all that, Owen. And I realize

you're not up to it right now, but let me give
you a word or two on the S149 handle lock
subject, and then if we're in contact when you
get to it, we can talk it through if there's
any more questions.

SPT-EVA The 82A door is open.

SPT-EVA Not yet. Nope. Looks like 82A door may have
hung up here, Bruce.

CC Okay; we copy.

PLT-EVA Hung up on the ramp if it is. If it is hung up,

that's the ramp that I'll be removing a little
later, I guess. Why don't you nudge it a little?

SPT-EVA Yes, I could, but I hate to.

236 19 26 35 PLT-EVA Boy, sure wish I had a camera here. Look at that
pretty little aqua blue lake down there, Owen,
right in the middle of the Andes in the middle
of all that snow-covered area.

SPT-EVA I don't see the aqua blue one. I see all those
salt flats up there to - Oh, that's the one
you're talking about up there.

PLT-EVA There's one way down to your left a little more;

very, very small. Just an aqua color. Look at
all the varying shades of and browns and tans
of the mountains there.

236 19 27 O0 SPT-EVA That's right. Remember we saw that salt bed up

there; either that or it's a glacier, I'm not
sure which.

PLT-EVA Yes, I wonder if that's a glacier? All varying

shades of brown in the mountainous area there.

SPT-EVA 82A is still open; 82B is closed.

PLT-EVA Big fire down there.

CC Say 82A is open and B is closed, Owen?

SPT-EVA Right.
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236 19 97 28 CC And for Jack, we realize we're second-guessing

you here, but looking at the telemetry on your
biomed, looks like your - the temperature across
your water and oxygen is up a little. We suggest
that maybe you might want to increase your
coolant flow. Over.

PLT-EVA Sure, I'll do that. I'm - I've got out of the

FAS a little bit and I'm just hanging on the
D-2 handrail looking up toward the command
module so I could take advantage of this good
view. You don't pass this way very often; you
might as well get out and look around a little.
And it really is inspiring.

236 19 28 01 CDR Say, Bruce, do you have any advice on the 82A
door? It doesn't seem to want to go clcsed.

CC Okay, stand by. We thought your problem was

getting it open.

SPT-EVA Oh, we're talking about the instrument door now,

the instrument aperture. I've got the EVA doors
fully closed and locked. A1 is just going to do
the checkout of the instruments and he tried to -
I guess you did open and close the doors, didn't
you, Al? And now - that's right, B closed, and
82A did not.

PLT-EVA That's positive.

SPT-EVA Wait a minute. I'm looking at the 82A hatch.

Nope, I'm glad you mentioned it. The 82A - the
82B swings over this way. It is the 82B that's
still open.

CDR Okay, everything's okay, Bruce. The door is

in fact, closed.

SPT-EVA There are two that are labled 82B up there, also,
of course.

CC Okay, we - -

PLT-EVA ... now, 0.

CC We copy that.
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PLT-EVA Say again.

CC We copy the door configuration, we're checking

our telemetry. And I've got a quick word for
Owen.

SPT-EVA Go ahead, Bruce.

236 19 29 23 CC Okay, in regard to this locking feature on S149

handle. The handle itself turns freely.
However, there is a large, narrow knob which
has a little wire tether on it, and the idea is
that once you get the experiment cranked to the
position you want to leave it, you pull the
narrow knob loose from the supporting silver-
colored bracket, and then you stick it in the
end of the handle and the length of the wire keeps
it from rotating.

SPT-EVA Okay, I think we understand.

236 19 29 55 SPT-EVA We got it inside, Bruce. Okay, 82B-1 has just

opened and closed, A1.

CC Okay. Skylab, this is Houston. We show the

82A door neither open nor closed. The timer's
timed out; we're going to reset the power from
here _]d command it. Over.

236 19 30 12 CDR Okay, that's a good idea. We got the B doors

closed, we think.

SPT-EVA B-2 is not. 82B-2 is still opened.

CC We have a minute until LOS here at Vanguard.

Next station contact in ll minutes at the
Canaries at 19:41. And for the CDR, the window
is closed. Out.

CDR The window's closed. You mean the door's

closed or the heads-down window or whatever
it is?

CC Roger; the last.

SPT-EVA Okay, B-2 just closed. Yes, everything's closed

now. Okay, did you have any cycled experiments?
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CC Okay, CDR, this is Houston. We have not yet

reenabled power on 80. Okay, CDR, Houston.
All the doors are closed. We show your
configuration satisfactory. Over.

236 19 31 19 CDR Okay, I think maybe somebody needs to take a look

at these talkbacks that are supposed to show up
on these. We've had about three or four time
holder-uppers here while we tried to figure out
why the talkbacks didn't do like the checklist.
For example, 82A and B - instead of going barber
pole are presently in the white configuration.
So it's probable that we - it was working right
except the checklist suggested it's going to
go some other direction and never get there.
Okay.

236 19 31 44 CC Roger. See you over Canary.

236 19 41 35 PLT-EVA Get it out. It reaches across. I removed it

from the surface about - oh, 200 and - 200 to
240 degrees around. They lift up and then it's
fastened down to the surface another 60 degrees
and its kind of curled up, Just like that old
isinglass used to do on those old stoves.

236 19 42 01 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Canary/Madrid

for 14 minutes. For CDR, we're going to be
enabling contingency - or forcing a contingency
momentum sample so if you'd stay off the DAS
for a minute, please?

CDR Sure will.

236 19 42 18 SPT-EVA Okay, we're just about to get the first ramp
off the S056 passage - package experiment, Bruce.
And as far as binding is concerned on the door,
for about the last 12 to 18 inches of travel,
the motion was slightly jerky on opening. And
this was not associated with the ramp. On one
of the openings, I did notice a slight binding
coming off the ramp, but it was pretty slight.
And the others - the only unusual thing noted
was a slight jerkiness in opening and closing
over the last 12 to 18 inches.

CC Okay, we copied that, Owen. Thank you.

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236 19 _2 56 SPT-EVA And the other thing is_ there's a - all the
paint on these nuts gets scraped off and
floats around. Now, I've not seen any of it
floating into an instrument aperture, but it -
it's a little uncomfortable to see this paint
chip away and there's no way to take the bolt
out without scraping the paint off the edges.

CC Okay; we copy. Understand as you're putting

the tools on and manipulating it, the paint's
coming off.

236 19 43 28 PLT-EVA Got another beautiful view toward the dark

horizon where Sun's going down and all the
different hues of blues on the clouds down
there. It's just a beautiful, beautiful view -
beautiful sight.

CC Roger; and for the CDR, the DAS is his.

CDR Okay.

236 19 43 50 PLT-EVA We're lucky guys if you're living in the land

of opportunity where we can get to do this.
Had - had some cc_ments about the cnmmand
module, Bruce. Looking at the skin on the
command module between the quads. The quads I
have in mind are the one - what's the one right
over the hatch? Is that A? And B, those are
the ones I can see. The skin appears to - in
places look like - I was mentioning to A1,
remember on those old-time stoves where you had
isinglass and then when it got real hot and
old, why, some of the layers would peel up.
The outermost layer is very thin in the c_-,r.mand
module, and it 's got that appearance. There 's
little - sort of - almost circular shapes which
are completely broken loose from the skin and
curling up. They're about 4 inches in diameter,
3 or 4 inches in diameter, and they're detached
for about 200 degrees of the circ_nference and
then they're held down by the other 100 or so
degrees. And I guess I can see about - oh, about
a dozen of them between those two quads. It
doesn't look like a hazardous situation by any
means, but I just thought it'd be interesting
to note, since we don't get very many of these
service modules back. Noticed it particularly
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toward the quad A to the left firing thruster

when it fires toward the - that particular
VHF antenna.

236 19 45 40 CC Okay, that's toward cr_mand module minus-Y,

you're saying?

PLT-EVA Yes. Yes, in the direction of the B quad.

236 19 46 04 PLT-EVA Okay, well, B quad is on the left, and then on

your left elbow, right? The B is to me. Yes,
well it 's on your side.

CC Okay - okay, Jack, B quad is on the plus-Y side,

the PLT's side of the cc_nand module. Over.

PLT-EVA Okay, well, this is on the minus-Y side.

236 19 46 38 CC Okay, so you've been describing the area between

the Alfa and the Delta quads to us and we'll make
corrections appropriately.

PLT-EVA Yes. That's correct. Yes, I thought I did.

PLT-EVA Fine; I don't care.

236 19 46 58 SFT-EVA Okay, I've got one ramp off and I'm trying to get
it over here and get it pinned down tmderneath
the tape.

PLT-EVA Don't stop until you do that.

SPT-EVA It's going to be a vhile. I've got to get this

taped. I've got two hands full, is the problem.

PLT-EVA It's starting to get dark, Bruce, and we're seeing

some stars out "there now.

CDR Have you got our EVA lights co, handed on this
time, Houston?

CC No, we haven't touched them, A1.

236 19 47 27 CDR Well, I remember last time, you know, we didn't

have them at the Sun end and then y'all did some-
thing on the ground and they started working at
the Sun end. We always had them up here at the
FAS area and center work station.
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SPT-EVA 0kay, there goes some of those little shims.

SPT-EVA Lost the shims.

236 19 47 46 CC No, we haven't touched them, A1, they ought to

all be on. And for TV camera thermal management,
we'd like you to do the following: On panel 202
in the airlock module, TELEVISION POWER circuit
breaker, AIRLOCK MODULE to OPEN, and then allow
the TV camera to cool down for 15 minutes, and
after it's cool and when you desire, reclose that
circuit breaker on 202. This lets you, inside,
turn the camera on and off and the crew outside
need not be bothered with it and you still have
about 1.9 minutes left on the VTR at your option.
Ove r.

CDR Okay.

SPT-EVA Thank you, Bruce.

CC Roger.

CDR Okay, I Just kicked off the one for the AM.

CC Okay.

236 19 48 48 PLT-EVA (Laughter) How're you doing there, O? Did a

couple of shims go?

SPT-EVA One, two, three - four, and a nut.

PLT-EVA Yes.

SPT-EVA All right. I had the nut taped down, but the
thing came right from under the tape.

PLT-EVA I know it. They're awful hard to manage with

these clumsy gloves on. They're going the right
direction though.

SPT-EVA Okay, you can close the S056 door if you want to.

236 19 49 h7 SPT-EVA It closed Just the way it did before. Slight

amount of Jerkiness in the last 12 to 18 inches.

CC Understand. Previously you mentioned that there

was the last 12 to 18 incheswhen it was opening.
Over.
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236 19 h9 59 SPT-EVA That's true. Both opening and closing on the

last 12 to 18 inches near the ramp. Near the
closed position there was a little bit of
Jerkiness. But it's essentially the same. Ob-
viously there was no hangup on the ramp, because
the ramp is not there.

CC Okay; we copy. And I guess, in a nutshell, you'd

say that moving the ramp does not appear to have
made any difference in the door operation.

SPT-EVA Except, I did notice on one of the other openings

there was a slight binding on the ramp as it
started open. And so there was a possibility of
some extra friction there or I noticed it on one
opening that will now_ of course, not be present.

CC Roger.

236 19 50 42 SPT-EVA Incidentally, the engineers probably remember that

there are a number of little shims underneath
these ramps. And the shims underneath S056 are
now in their own independent trajectories.

CC Okay. We'll watch for them when they come over

this evening.

SPT-EVA Okay.

SPT-EVA What ramp would you like to have removed next, Al?

SPT-EVA All right. Very smoothly. Still open.

236 19 51 43 SPT-EVA Okay it is new fully closed and it also moves

back and forth with a slight amount of Jerkiness.
I'm not sure that this is unusual. It might very
well be the way they were designed to run.

SPT-EVA Okay. I'm going to need it rotated more toward

me, also. If you'll continue rotating more in
the direction that it was coming in. Quite a bit
more. Keep ccming. How much room have you got?
It'll be a long reach. I may have to come out of
my foot restraints to get over there. A1, - No,
I can - okay, I can reach it.

PLT-EVA Sun's about to go down, Bruce.

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CC This is Houston. Did you call?

236 19 53 06 PLT-EVA I was just saying the Sun's about to go down.

Owen's out there taking the ramps off, having some
good success. He's got one and got one to go.
Got the film replaced. And the Skylab moves
along, swiftly, silently, smoothly, like a - like
a continuing travelogue. Moves relentlessly over
the ground.

SPT-EVA I think Jack needs a new writer.

236 19 53 39 PLT-EVA Yes. I wish there was some way to capture in words
or photos, what you can really see and feel up
here. But I don't know if there's any way at all.

CC Skylab, this is Houston, for the CDR.

CDR Go ahead.

236 19 53 5h CC Roger. We're coming up on nightfall here, and the

momentum is still off nominal. We expect you may
well get some CMG SATs a few TACS thrusters firing.
Over.

CDR Okay. Anything I can do to assist?

SPT-EVA Turn off our oxygen flow. Wouldn't hurt the

momentum, huh?

CDR You were right; Just got one.

236 19 54 36 CC Okay. We've got about a minute and a half to LOS

here. Next station contact is 36 minutes through
Honeysuckle at 20: 30. And we' ii be dumping the
data voice tape recorder at Honeysuckle.

CDR Okay; what happened? Did the X-axis just get out
of plane here as unknown - an unknown quantity
during the drifting flight, or what?

CC Okay, stand by.

236 "19 55 03 SPT-EVA I understood it was this thrusting from our EVA
suits.

CDR Yes, I'm still puzzled about this EVA sjit

business, because we didn't - we didn't have that
problem last time. And it's puzzling me.
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PLT-EVA Looked pretty random, too. There goes a thruster

firing. Wow !

CC CDR, Houston.

CDR Okay.

236 19 55 24 CC We'd like you to monlter the X-axis attitude error

and if it starts approaching 20 degrees go to
ATT HOLD, TACS. Over.

CDR Okay. I 'll understand that one.

CC We show you at ll degrees now and it wouldn't

surprise us if you have to go to ATT HOLD, TACS
in the near future. Over.

236 19 55 54 CDR Okay. I'm indicating 12 degrees at the moment.

And I'll go ATT HOLD, TACS if that occurs. I
thought maybe you'd have a feel for it frcm this
CMG - I mean the NOUN 20's in the CMC.

CC Okay, and, A1. We want you to go there before you

get to 20. If you hit 20 without being there,
it'll give you a reset.

236 19 56 16 CDR Okay. I'll watch it. It's got 6 to go and I'll
get it about 2 or 3 beforehand.

PLT-EVA Are the . ..

CC Correct that. It would go to TACS only if you get

out to 20 degrees.

CDR Okay. Understand. You know it's too bad we didn't

build this with Just a little control stick we
blip this thing and put it right back where we
wanted it.

CC Amen. And we show 16 degrees now.

CDR It's moving up pretty fast ... right now.

236 19 56 50 CC Do it now, A1. Go to ATT HOLD, TACS now.

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SKYLAB-AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

236 20 30 h7 SPT-EVA Bring her back a little, Jack.

PLT-EVA Okay.

PLT-EVA I guess you can probably take her all the way
back this time.

SPT-EVA Yes.

PLT-EVA Unless you want to ride.

SPT-EVA I do, but somehow or other, I couldn't get it

written in.

236 20 Bl 02 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Honeysuckle for

7 minutes. Over.

CDR Okay, Bruce.

PLT-EVA Well, we got the film exchange, Bruce, and now

we Just fired lh9 back out there. Owen got the
ramps off the doors and - we - re-installing the
S149. And it looks llke we're going to have to be
forced to go in, which we don't want to do too -,,ch.

CC Roger; we copy. Stand by.

PLT-EVA Sure you don't have something else we can do out

here?

CC Negative. Stand by, please.

CC And for the Commander; we'd like to re-select

solar inertial attitude now. Over.

PLT-EVA Don't do that, O.

236 20 31 59 SPT-EVA It's all right. I've got it tethered.

PLT-EVA Yes, but you ain't.

CDR My guess is it isn't the venting up here, it's

that we really didn't know where ti X-axis was,.
or our rotation of X around Z awb_le ago. It
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was probably sticking out of the orbit plane or

• somewhere. Just built up too fast.

2B6 20 32 28 CC A1, we're pretty sure it's the venting and then
the other thing is this momentum management scheme
that we have with respect to the X-axis giving up
momentum to Y and Z when you gointo dump. Over.

CDR Yes, that's what I was thinking of. That perhaps

it didn't exactly know where - where the X was
relative to the orbit plane. I haven't given you
a star tracker update. I guess you're using the
command module attitudes though, somehow. Aren't you

CC No, we're not using the command module attitudes, but

it did know where it was, and it knows where it is
now, and we're - we're real happy with the way the
attitude is being tracked and the gyros are working.
Over.

CDR "_ Okeydokey.

2J6 20 3B 15 CC However, we did use command module attitude to

confirm it, and it's in good shape.

CDR Owen's busily cranking the 1_9 to the edge of

the solar Sun- Sunshade at the moment, and so I
guess he'll extend the panels, and we'll come
back in, stow everything and get in.

CC Okay, A1. And it will be about another lO minutes

before you're all settled down in solar_ inertial
at the tail-end of the maneuver. When you are
settled down, we'd like you to go ahead and do
a nominal H-cage, and we'll get this momentum
problem under control. Over.

236 20 3_ 29 CDR Okay, we were kind of thinking that might be the

plan. Could you give me the two commands that
you would like - or the one - excuse me, the one
comm_nd you would like?

CC Roger. Standby.

SPT-EVA I'd like to verify that there's no other lock on this

handle other than Just flipping it 180 degrees.
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PLT-EVA That 's affirm. Okay.

CDR That's a ...

CC Understand that that's the handle where it clamps

on to the lip of the ATM?

SPT-EVA That 's correct.

CC That 's correct.

CC And you see that - -

SPT-EVA Okay.

CC - - knurled knob that I was telling you about

for the deployment?

SPT-EVA Iknow which one you mean, Bruce, and I'll put
that on after I have cranked the panels open.

236 20 35 19 CC Okay, Owen. And for the CDR, the DAS code
is 52023. Over.

CDR Okay. Concur. Just looked it up also.

PLT-EVA Okay, and which way would you llke it cranked,

AIY Probably counterclockwise.

PLT-EVA Okay, here we go. Counterclockwise.

PLT-EVA My tether has been removed now.

PLT-EVA Okay, Bruce, is there any particular point along

this orbit you want the nominal moment1_ cage?
I know it really doesn't make - generally make any
difference but I didn't know what you were thinking.

PLT-EVA Coming up on something here, O. ; must be

New Zealand.

SPT-EVA Yes, it is.

PLT-EVA And we're going to split right between the two

islands. Looking off to the right. Oh, yes - -

SPT-EVA ... to the right.

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PLT-EVA Yes. There's South Island and North Island.

CC CDR, Houston.

236 20 37 12 PLT- EVA Go ahead, he's listening.

CC Roger. We'd like to do that nominal H-cage

at 20:50 Zulu. That's 20:50 Zulu. Over.

CDR Okay.

CC And we have about 45 seconds to LOS. Next station

contact in 43 minutes at the Canary Islands at 21:21.
Over.

PLT-EVA Okay, and are you happy with the way it's
maneuvering back to SI?

CC Yes, we are.

CDR Okay.

PLT-EVA I _Imost said our sample panels are coming uncovered

from shade where - before they were shaded - say
about i0 minutes ago.

CC I understand those are the solar sail sample panels?

PLT-EVA Right.

PLT-EVA You can tell what attitude you ought to be by

Just looking at the darker brown lines
and shadows on the spacecraft, because everything
that's shaded is kind of white and everything
else is kind of tanned.

CC You mean even on the - the struts on the t_mnion - on

the deployment assemblly and stuff like that?

236 20 38 20 PLT-EVA Well, on the side of the EPA and - in fact, you
know the little EVA light that's right by the hatch?

CC Zes.

PLT-EVA With a little hir_eage over it? -

CC Yes o we're_
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PLT- - birdaage:

236 21 20 h7 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Canary for about

6-1/2 minutes - 6 minutes. Over.

236 21 21 27 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Canary and Madrid

for 12 minutes. We're rewinding the VTR at the
present time. Over.

CDR 0kay, Bruce.

CC And we show your momentum state to be good.

PLT Very good. And we're down in the workshop now

getting out of our suits and so forth.

CC Okay, sort of figured you were from the fact

that pressurized PCU POWER, OFF. We won't bug
you then. Just go ahead.

236 21 23 34 CDR Owen, we ended up with 4 hours 30 minutes,

40 seconds EVA time. And what was it that you
mentioned, Bruce?

CC Roger, AI. I said we're rewinding the video

tape recorder preparatory to starting to dump
it a piece at a time. So I guess it belongs to us
now, until we give it back to you. Over.

236 21 23 57 CDR Okay, I thought you had some other switch that
you wanted moved.

CC I didn't mention it. However, I do have a - a

little checkoff list of reconfiguration of some
of the circuit breakers and switches that we
threw to power down for you. When somebody's up
in the airlock module, they can give me a
call. Over.

CDR Okay. A few things I noticed during the EVA is

the timer up there in the airlock on the STS
panel seems to be erratice now; it Jumps all around.
And one of the plastic lines in my LCG, about
6 inches from the port that fits into the suit
is leakin 6.
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236 21 24 49 CC Okay, we copy that, A1. That was the last wearing
on that LCG. You'll have a fresh one for the next
EVA.

CDR Okay, good. Well then, I can jettison the thing,

I guess. I guess that's what we do.

236 21 26 26 CC Coming to you now through Madrid. Just had a

handover from Canary. Out.

236 21 32 50 CC Skylab, this is Houston: h5 seconds to LOS at

Madrid. Next station contact in 26 minutes
through Carnarvon at 22:00 Zulu. For your
information, we're retaining two pumps running
on the airlock module secondary coolant loop,
as it's still going through a transient phase of
readjustment to steady state. We'll let you know
when we decide to take it - take the second
one off. Over.

236 21 33 15 CDR Okay, Bruce.

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SKYLABAIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

236 22 00 49 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS through Carnarvon

and Honeysuckle for the next 14 minutes.

236 22 00 55 PLT Hello, Dick.

CC Hello.

236 22 01 13 PLT Didn't mean to squeal at you, Dick? I guess

that's better now?

CC Roger, I hear you loud and clear now. Go ahead.

PLT Well, we're Just sitting here eating late lunch.

CC Okay, we noticed that the CMC data - we have no

CMC data, and we wanted to verify that you'd
gotten through and shut the - and turned off the
command module computer.

236 22 01 38 PLT Yes, sir, that's correct.

CC Very good. And is everybody eating lunch now Or

- sometime during this pass I have some switch
configurations and one minor checklist change
that I - in the EVA checklist - that I'd like to
read up to you. The switches - the switches are
up in the airlock module and they are not time
critical. So if you'd like to stay down in the
wardroom, that's fine with us.

236 22 02 ii PLT Yes, we'll stay hare and eat, but you can read
them off if you want.

CC Tell you what, Jack. There's about 6 or 8 of

them, so why don't you Just - guys Just go
ahead and eat and I'll catch you later when
you're - you're not eating. No problem.

236 22 02 25 PLT Well, Al's on his way up there. He'll get it.
Standby.

CC Okay.
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236 22 02 40 CDR Say the words, Dick.

CC And, Skylab, Houston. Before I start, AI, if

you'll give us the DAS, we're going to do an
outer gimbal backup commanding.

CDR Good idea. You got it.

CC Okay, here's the configurations that you may

have already gone through, but we'd like to re-
mind you of. On panel 202 circuit breakers -
the CAUTION AND WARNING 2, 6 circuit breakers,
closed. Also, the TV POWER to AM circuit break-
er CLOSED. And verify - -

CDR Back up to the second one now?

CC Roger. TV POWER AM circuit breaker, closed.

236 22 03 29 CDR Okay, that's closed.

CC Okay, and I think this is a verify, but EVA

LIGHTS 1 and 2 circuit breakers, closed.

236 22 03 38 CDR Okay ...

CC Roger, Then on panel 203, MOL SIEVE Bravo FAN to

SECONDARY.

CDR You sure you don't want that PRIMARY?

CC Stand by.

236 22 0h 13 CC A1, while we're talking about that one, on panel

207, there are 7 sensors that we can reenable:
EMERGENCY SENSOR, there's two fo those; EMERGEN-
CY POWEB, two of those; and CAUTION & WARNING,
three of those. So we can enable all seven of
those.

236 22 0h 32 CDR Okay, that's done.

CC And you were right, A1. We - The MOL SIEVE B

FAN, we'd prefer in PRIMARY.

236 22 0h 46 CDR Okay, MOL SIEVE B in PRIMARY right now. Coming

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up to speed now; I can hear it.

CC Okay.

CDR Is that it?

236 22 0h 58 CC Well, a couple of other notes, that is, while

I'm at it. There were some glycol wipes that
you sopped up some glycol with and bagged, and
we wantto m_e sure they end up getting into
the trash airlock this evening. We wanted to
ask the PLT if - yesterday there was a SWS
Systems Checklist change ll which was the house-
keeping 70 Yankee, that was the CBRM battery
capacity verification. We want to make sure that
that message is still onboard and available to
you because we're going to check another battery
tomorrow or the next day. Over.

PLT That's affirm. That was added change ntQnber ll

to the SWB Checklist. And by the way, we only
got 1 of them. So, if you could send another one
up, why we'd update our other checklist as well.

CC Roger, Jack. And one other thing. I've got a

change to the EVA checklist, that's on page 3-1
- correction 3.1-8, and that's the end of my
list.

236 22 06 _8 PLT Okay, Dick, I'm on 3.1-8.

CC Okay, there are two changes, and it's in the

right hand col_imn under X-RAY SPECT where it
says IMAGE DISSECTOR switch to ENABLE. Change
the ENABLE to OFF, parentheses, verify. And
the only other change is on the PHOTO MULTIPLIER
ENABLE switch where it says ENABLE. Make that
say OFF, parentheses, verify. And the reason
is, Jack, is the - we got pressure still -
pressure increases in the ATM canister and we
want to allow them to decrease before - to ac-
ceptable levels before we turn this equipment
back on. And this is the last time you'll be
using this section of the checklist, so you
can feel free to Just mark it right up.
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236 22 07 35 PLT Okay, thank you, Dick. I got both of those on

the IMAGE DISSECTOR, PHOTO MULTIPLIER ENABLE.
Both 0FF, verify.

CC Roger, and that's the end of my list that I have

right now. We still have about 7 minutes left
here at Honeysuckle, and I'm standing by.

236 22 09 14 CC Skylah, Houston. No response required. We're

up-linking a couple of the detailed flight plans
and also, a couple of copies of tomorrow's
flight plan here at Carnarvon and Honeysuckle.
They'll be in the teleprinter. And one reminder
that you may have already gotten, but it's not
on the checklist anywhere, and that is, Just be
sure and restow the tools and aluminum tapes
that you got out for the EVA and had up in the
airlock module, when you get a chance this
evening. I'm standing by.

236 22 09 41 PLT We'll be sure to do that, Dick.

CC Okay.

236 22 13 16 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from LOS. We're

going to see you at Merritt Island at 22:48.

236 22 14 21 CC Skylab, Houston. We're going LOS at Honey-

suckle. We'll see you at MLA at 22:48.

236 22 lh 28 SPT Okay, Dick.

236 22 l_ 30 CC Roger. See you there.

236 22 48 08 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS at MLA. We got you

for the next ll minutes, and be advised we're
going to be commanding the MDA heaters back on,
here at MLA.

236 22 50 25 CC Skylab, Houston. This was - This comment is for

the PLT. We're not sure exactly, Jack, where
you are in your checklist, but one chamge that
we wanted to m_ke was on page 3.1-6. We do not
want to make a chan_e to this checklist, but

for this time only, when you get to - in the 02,

N 2 system reconfiguration, we want the N 2 SOLENOID

VALVE SELECT left OFF, rather than PRIMARY as
it's written there.
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236 22 50 56 PLT Okay. N2 SOLENOID, off. Thank you.

CC Roger, Jack.

236 22 52 23 SPT Hello, Dick, are you with us?

CC Affirmative. Go ahead.

SPT Okay, Just taking a look at the S05_ film

canister, and instead of putting it on channel
A, ... It showed 1200 feet exposed aud the
al1_m_num filter on the front of the- underneath
the little window looks in very good condition.

CC Okay, Owen. Thank you very much.

236 22 52 49 PLT Hey, Dick. I have a note, also, to wait until

the dewpoint of the heat exchanger temperature
rather, gets up to _6. It's reading around 39,
now. And seems like, as I remember, last time we
disregarded that, but turned out the circulation
fans anyway. What do you want me to do this
time?

CC Stand by.

236 22 53 4h CC PLT, Houston. According to our TM indication,

which we think is correct, and that yours may
be reading a little low, we think we ought to
go ahead and turn the heat exchanger fans off.

PLT Yes. I think that was what the problem was last
time. We're not getting a true reading onboard.
So what are you reading, anyway?

CC Stand by, I'll get you a number.

236 22 5h 19 CC PLT, Houston. We are reading 46 degrees now.

PLT Okay. Thank you, Dick.

CC Roger.

236 22 55 00 CC Skylab, Houston. While I've got you here at

Bermuda, you might be interested to know that the
channel 77 counter-failure alarm that we saw on
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TM earlier today and talked to you about, we

think was caused by powering up the optics.
This occurred a couple of times, or occasion-
ally at least, in ground testing. And no action
is required other than clearing by loading
channel 77. And the effect of not loading that
only impacts the ground capability to see a sub-
sequent problem. So in essence, we do not
think we have any kind of a problem on that, and
Just thought we'd let you know.

236 22 55 52 CDR Thank you, Dick.

CC Roger.

CDR Appreciate it.

CC Roger.

236 22 58 38 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from LOS. We're

going to see you at Madrid in about h minutes.
And I'll call you there.

236 22 58 h6 SPT Okay, Dick.

236 23 03 O0 CC Skylab, Houston. We're A0S Madrid for 8 minutes.

236 23 06 16 CC Skylab, Houston. We still have you at Madrid

for about the next 5 minutes. I'm not sure how
you're doing on the time line. If you are be-
hind and need to give up either one of the ATM
passes this evening, our druthers wo_id be that
we give up the one that's on this next daylight
cycle that's starting at around 23:38, I believe,
rather than the later one tonight.

236 23 06 41 SPT Okay, Dick. We'll probably try to catch them

both, but we'll keep that in m_nd.

CC Okay, Owen. Thank you.

236 23 08 17 PLT Dick, here's something the EVA troops wanted to

know. The PCU that we used inside the MDA for
EV-3 was serial number 015. Number 15.

236 23 08 27 CC Okay, Jack. Thank You.

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236 23 09 59 CC Skylab, Houston. We're one minute from LOS.

See you at Carnarvon at 23:36.

236 23 i0 05 SPT Okay, Dick.

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SKYLAB-AIR-TO-GROUNDVOICETRANSCRIPTION

236 23 36 08 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS at Carnarvon for the

next l0 minutes.

236 23 37 06 CC SPT, Houston. If you'll stay off the DAS, we're

going to up-linka command to inhibit the TACS in
the software.

SPT Roger.

236 23 38 23 CC Skylab, Houston. Owen, we see you working on the

ATM, and when you get settled down after entering
this daylight cycle, I've got a couple of notes on
the Sun for you. And for Jack oral, if either
one of them can, we'd like to return the REGADJUST
BUS 1 and 2 pots to the pre-EVA settings. And
this requires the REG ADJUST BUS 1 about 20 degrees
counterclockwise, and REG ADJUST BUS 2 about 30
degrees counterclockwise.

SPT Okay; what's your update there, Dick?

236 23 38 59 CC Roger, Owen. I - I have two of them. One is fairly

transitory, and the other one could last for a
long time. The first one is - starting at 22:20,
and an importance 2 continuum burst was reported
by Manila. And the end time for that was 22:30.
And another one that I'm sure you'll be interested
in is active region Oh, which is located at 180
at about 018, appears to be the first confirmed
region of the new solar cycle. Dr. Helen Dodson
Prince says she regards the region as being an
authentic part of the new ll-year cycle. And ...
peak magnetograms show the polarities to be
bipolar but reversed from the normal order
for southern h_m_sphere regions. So far, no
spots are visible, and the region appears
stable. Over.

SPT Okay, I think I see it down there Just south of

the fil-ment that I'm looking at right now. And
that is an interesting report, also, it looks to
me like we either have some very bright plage or
a small subflare over toward the east limb under-
way at the present time. I haven't changed any
of the operating plans, but anyone who's got a
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quick look at H-alpha might see what they think

of the very small bright region over toward
the - excuse me, I meant west limb - at the
present time. And I still have the - the
PHOTO MULTIPLTk_ and the IMAGE DISSECTOR ENABLE,
OFF. If the pressures look better to you now,
I can get the X-ray information turned on again.

CC Okay, we'll check on that, 0wen. And also we'd

like S055 HIGH VOLTAGE, OFF; GRATING, ZERO.

SPT Say again what you wanted, Dick.

236 23 40 54 CC Roger. We think we have a bad grating position;

and, on S055, request HIGH VOLTAGE, OFF and
GRATING, ZERO. And then - and then - -

SPT Okay, I was showing GRATING, ZERO. I'll go

through a grating auto scan and recycle it back
again to make sure that it is properly set at
GRATING, ZERO.

CC Roger ; we concur.

CC And, SPT, Houston. On S054, we're GO to turn the

HIGH VOLTAGE back on.

236 23 41 43 SPT C_ay. And, from the looks of the ZERO-ORDER

plage, I probably was in GRATING, ZERO the way my
indicator showed on S055. But, of course, I'll
complete the grating auto scan now. And I'll
be turning the IMAGE DISSECTOR ENABLE, ON, and
the PHOTO _JLTIPLIER ENABLE.

CC Roger, Owen ; that 's right.

SPT And I wonder if we're ready to take the gray tape

off the H-ALPHA for FRAMES PER MINUTE equal to 1
now so we can adjust the H-alpha frame rate
as - according to the JOP sheet?

CC Roger, 0wen; we concur. The tape can come off.

236 23 42 34 SPT Thank you, Dick.

236 23 43 20 SpT Nice to get a little of the ATM film up in the

cow--and module and the frame remaining counters are
looking so healthy these - these days, Dick.
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CC I bet that looks good to you, doesn't it?

CC And, Skylab, Houston. Don't think I ever

got a Roger on the reg adjust that we re-
quested. And I just want to make sure you
got that request from us.

PLT Say again on the reg adjust, please, Dick.

CC Roger. We'd re - like to return to the

pre-EVA settings which reques - re - requires
a KEG ADJUST BUS 1,20 degrees counterclockwise
and BUS 2,30 degrees counterclockwise.

PLT It's in work, Dick.

CC Okay. Thank you.

CDR Complete.

CC Say again.

CDR Reg adjust complete.

CC Thank you.

236 23 45 57 CC And, CDR, Houston. You mentioned awhile ago

throwing away the LCG that had the leak in it.
We'd appreciate it if you would not throw
that away at least until a little later in the
evening. We have a - a couple of evening
questions that are being developed to ask
you about that. And be advised we are - I am
building up a good stack of questions to ask
you guys later on this after - this evening.

CDR We'll be looking forward to it, and we sus-

pected you might be.

CC Roger.

236 23 46 44 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 30 seconds from

"LOS at Carnarvon. We're going to drop out
about 1 minute, and I'll call you at Honey-
suckle. We are going to dump the data recorder
at HoneYsuckle.
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236 23 47 _6 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Honeysuckle for

the next 3-1/2 minutes. And for Owen, we
think the problem on the S055 grating was
the - the fact that when we cycled the
power switch for the EVA today, our TM got out
of sync with the instrument. So it - there - we
don't think therewas a gratingproblem,
and sorry about that. Also, I told you we'd
be dumping the data tape recorder here at
Honeysuckle; that was incorrect. We're going
to dump it at Texas.

236 23 50 49 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 30 seconds to LOS.

We'll see you at Texas at 00:20.

237 00 21 02 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS stateside for about

the next 15-1/2 minutes. And if I could get
somebody to talk to me here, I've got some
evening questions. The next stateside pass
is devoted to the evening status report, and
I was thinking, if CDR or one of the other
guys has the time to answer some of these
questions, maybe we can start getting them
out of the way.

CDR Okay. Let me ask you one for somebody to

think of, and I'm sure they've thought of it;
I'd Just like to know the answer. I noticed
that these six rate gyros are all protected
by one single circuit breaker, which is
number 2. Have you given any thought to
having Jerry Carr bring up some sort of
jumper where we split out and have half of
them running on maybe HIGH POWER 1 and the
other half running on HIGH POWER 2, or some
sort of jumper so if 2 circuit breakers
decided to open up and you couldn't close it,
then you could put them all on 2?

CC Roger, A1. I remember some discussion about

that fact, that they went through that one
circuit breaker and also that one switch at
that high power outlet. And thanks for the
reminder. We will think about it again.

237 00 23 01 CC CDR, Houston. I wasn't sure whether or not

you would have time this pass to talk to me
about the evening questions. Over.
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CDR Sure will. Just a Second, Dick.

CC Okay; fine. We still got 13 minutes, A1.

CDR I think they ought to bring up an improved

switch guard for that circuit breaker, and
they ought to bring up a guard for the
six circuit breakers we have on panel - I
think it is 141, the rate gyro distributor.

CC Roger, A1. I got that comment.

CDR Yes, we're rigging up a little makeshift

thing with tape, but I don't think it's really
good enough now that I've stood here and
thought about the gyros we've got and what
they're running on. Okay. Go ahead.

237 00 24 00 CC Roger. Stand by a second.

237 00 22 15 CC And, CDR, Houston. Before I get to you on

the questions, I have one thing for the SPT
on the ATM panel. On - this - The subject
is S055 mirror stow. Cycling the _IN POWER
OFF/ON switch for the EVA today caused a loss
of the stow memory, and the mirror returned
to the center stow position. Request you
coalign slit center position of mirror line 9,
step 32. Over.

SPT Okay. I'd already noticed that, Dick. We

just haven't had to do a grating scan yet, and
I was going to put her back on 10, 32 not
9, 32, which was our last coalign position.
Over.

CC Roger; copy, Owen. And with that, A1, I'm ready

to ask you a couple of things.

CDR Okay. Let me mention one other thing. How

about having somebody daydream up a better
switch guard and a better cover for lhl that
we can invent out of things we've got up
here, and we'll put them on ourselves to start
with.
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237 00 25 12 CC Roger, CDR. And first question that I had

here had to do with the LCG leak, you were -
described to us before. First of all, was the
leak apparent before removing the suit?
Secondly, we'd like to know the location of
the leak, such as which tube - tube and -
counting from the neck side of the water
connector. And if the opening can be seen,
we'd like a description of it, whether it's
smooth or Jagged or whatever. And the reason
we're asking these questions is we're trying
to determine if we ought to ask you to bring
the LCG home for a failure analysis.

CDR Okay; I'm not really sure. I looked at it and

noticed that it was - I noticed it was leaking
last time I was wearing it. No, what I did
was check the O-rings this morning and make
sure the O-ring was good and make sure everything
was shipshape. Then today, when it was
leaking - -

CC Roger, A1. You cut out in the middle of your

conversation. Go ahead.

237 00 26 lh CDR The bottom tube, as you have it on - mounted

on you, was about 8 inches down, and although
I can't see any opening, I suspicion it's the
place right where those - All those tubes are
molded together, as you remember, and then,
they split out and are - go their separate
ways. I have the feeling that it was right
at that point. And at that point, it actually
ripped between two tubes there and it might have
somehow started to leak. I'll go take a
look at it but it - it wasn't apparent to the
eye. Only the end result was apparent, mainly
the water that had leaked out.

237 00 26 52 CC Roger, A1. Thank you much for that comment.

And let me turn to another subject. We had a
housekeeping 3 Charlie scheduled yesterday,
which was cleaning of the 0WS mixing chamber
screen, and we're not sure who did it. We're
wondering if any debris was observed on the
mixing chamber screen when the VCS dact was
removed?
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237 00 27 14 CDR The answer was, I cleaned it and there was

some debris noted. There was a peanut on
there, there was a - a small bolt, and there
were several assorted other particles resting
on the screen, which I vacuumed away.

CC Roger, CDR. Thank you very much. This is

not a question, but a piece of information
for - for you. You asked the other day for
verification that we had the data from the
mission day 26 dump voice, particularly the
medical data. The answer is affirmative; we
do. We got it both for M074 and M131-2.
These last two are requests that are going to
have to - which you're going to have to get
some information for us. And if you will
get it and put us - put it on channel A, we'd
sure appreciate it. One is - The first one is,
in order to track the leak rates in the SOPs,
we'd like a reading from you from the high
pressure gage on the two SOPs that were not
used for today's EVA. If you'll voice record
that, we'd appreciate it, and the decision to
use one of the four remaining SOPs for TO20
will be based on this piece of information.

CDR Okay.

237 00 28 28 CC And the next thing comes from Karl Henize on

S019. We'd like you to get the Mh0 - 487
digital thermometer, which is located in
locker 7h9, drawer Bravo, and go into the
film vault, drawer D - that - that's Delta, and
make a temperature reading of the S019
canister number 5. The - What we're worried
about is what the temperature actually - the
temperature of the canister is inside the film
vault, because we want to avoid any possible
film fogging problems. Over.

CDR Okay. I'll sure do that. Are they worried

about it being too hot or too cool?

CC Too hot, we think.

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237 00 29 13 CDR Boy, I don't know what it takes, but it always

seems cool in those drawers. I'll give them
a check real quick, and I'll give you the SOP
information right now.

CC Okay; real fine.

PLT Hey, Dick, they asked me to record that temp-

erature there today, and that's what I did.
I think that I put it on tape somewhere.

CC Roger, Jack.

CC PLT, Houston. Did you - When you did that, did

you actually measure the temperature of the
canister itself? Or - or did you measure a
gas temperature? Over.

PLT I put the digital thermometer right up against

the canister.

237 00 29 58 CC Okay. Sounds like we may have dropped the

ball. But we would like to get the temperature
again today.

CDR Okay. Okay, SOP 12 has a pressure just a

smidgen out of 6000. I'd say it'd be 59 -
Hard to tell.

CC Roger. Go ahead.

CDR Okay. JOP [sic] 12 has a pressure just a

little bit out of 6000, which is about 5950.

237 00 30 37 CC Okay. I got that.

237 00 31 02 CDR SOP 15 has 6000 even.

CC Roger, AI. Thank you very much.

237 00 31 51 CC Skylab, Houston. I have one more question for

you guys, and it has to do with the timer that
was reported to be erratic earlier. One thing
was - is we were wondering if you could describe
in a little more detail exactly what happened.
Was the clock keeping time but skipping
numbers, or exactly what? And secondly, is the
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timer that's in the - on the ceiling in the

experiment compartment also erratic? Have
you noticed anything there? Over.

237 00 32 31 PLT The one in the experiment compartment is very

erratic.

CDR Okay, Dick, they're both the same way, and

here's what they do. For example, right now
it's reading 19:53:40. If I wait Just a few
minutes, I read 22:49:48. Now it's 23:06:40;
now it's 19:52:46; now it's 22:49:40. It
changes all the time almost like EMI and it's
on both of them.

CC Roger; we sure (chuckle) get the point on

those kind of numbers. And thank you much,
AI. We'll do a little thinking about that one.

237 00 33 06 CDR First time I noticed it was when Jack dis-

connected and reconnected at the trunnion.

CC Roger ; understand.

CDR Just for my own amusement, what is the rating

of that circuit breaker, HIGH POWER 2?

CC Stand by i.

CDR Add - And what's the total load of the rate

gyro's? I'd be interested in knowing the
relationship.

237 00 33 32 CC Roger, AI. I'ii get the numbers for you and
pass them up to you.

CDR And we did not get the Antipocles pictures.

It was kind of clear all around and then
it - Just as we got near the area, it became
overcast and no - no islands, period.

CC Roger ; understand.

237 O0 35 37 CC Skylab, Houston. We're i minute to LOS. We're

going to see you at Madrid in about 5 minutes.
I'll give you a call there.
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237 00 41 56 CC Skylab, Houston. We're A0S at Madrid for the

next 6 minutes. And, AI, in answer to your
question, the rating of that high power
accessory outlet is 12 amps. And with all
six gyros spun up and running, they're drawing
around 200 watts, and that represents a current
drain of about 6 to 7 amps. Over.

CDR Okay. I'm sure they did a lot of thinking

about it, but maybe Jer could bring up a
cable and connect six of them - or three
of them to the OUTLET 1 and HIGH POW_ 1 and
six - three to HIGH POWER 2. And then you'd
have some nice margin there. In fact, if
they could figure a way we could do it, why
we'd do it for them up here.

CC Roger, A1. I - I do specifically remember at

the discussion premission on - both the guards
and this subject, and we will rethink it for
Jerry's mission.

CDR Yes. I'm rethinking it _¥self. Say, now I

Just checked it; 76.1 on two or three places
there. So roughly, 76 degrees is the temp of
that SO19 canister.

237 00 43 00 CC Okay, A1. Thank you very much for going to

the trouble to get us that temp again.

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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

237 01 28 38 CC Skylab, Houston. We've been dropping in and

out trying to get locked up here at Honeysuckle.
We're going to have a very short pass. I
just thought I'd give you a call and tell you
that we'll be coming up at Goldstone at 01:57,
and I'ii be standing by for the evening status
report there at Golds%one.

237 01 29 ii CDR Okay, Dick.

237 01 56 32 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS stateside for the

next 16 minutes and we're standing by here for
your evening status report. Over.

PLT Okay, Bob, ready to copy?

CC Yes, sir. Go ahead.

PLT Oh, that's Dick down there. Okay - -

SPT AI, you've got a mirror auto raster to do after

that grating 3 scan, don't you?

PLT Urine volume: 135, 150, 187; Water gun - -

SPT ... Not supposed to do that - -

PLT 5427, 8953, 02 - 6063 - -

SPT At what grating setting, Al?

PLT BMMD . . . - -

CC Hey, Skylab; Houston. Break, break.

PLT 6.247, 6.24_, 6.243 - -

CDR Sorry to in - Sorry to interrupt you, Jack.

PLT SPT, 5.982 - -

CC Skylab, Houston. Break, break.

PLT Stand by 1.
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CC Roger; Skylab, Houston. We're hearing Owen

talking to A1 at the same time and it's con-
fusing us with your report, Jack. We need
to start again with the evening status report ;
sorry. Over.

PLT Okay. Here we go again.

CC Okay. We'll get it right this time, go ahead.

237 01 58 00 PLT Cn_ander - Urine volume: 135, 150, 187. Water

gun: 5427, 8953, and 6063. BMMD: Co-,_nder
6.247, 6.244, 6.243; SPT, 5.982, 5.981, 5.976;
PLT, 6.936, 6.940, 6.943. CDR and SPT haven't
got their exercise in yet. We'll be phoning
you later on that. I Just did a little bit.
I did a n_,mher II, for 32/7315. Sleep:
Commander, 6-1/2 good,, 6-1/2 fair, 6-1/2 good.
No deviations, inoperable equipment at the
moment, or unscheduled stowage items. Salt
packs and deviations : Salt pack, Commander,
one; no deviations. Salt packs, SPT, none;
add one lemonade, Salt packs, PLT, seven ; add
one cherry drink and one butter cookie. That's
the evening report and I've got the film log,
if you want it.

CC Roger. Stand by 1.

CC PLT, Houston; affirmative. Go ahead.

237 01 59 47 PLT Okay. Photo log for day 236; 16-millimeter

activity: M516 (housekeeping 28A) is CI40,
00, CI41; second line, MI51 for EVA prep and
post, CI52, 60, CI49; line number 3, EVA-2,
CIS1, 00, CIh8. 35-millimeter: CI101, 55;
CXI3, 20, 70-millimeter: CX25, reading
0y0. No EREP. Drawer A, Alfa l: 07, CIS0,
2-1, C140; Alfa-2: 05, C146, 00, Cl41; Alfa-3:
06, C152, 60, CI49; Alfa-h: 03, CIS1, 00, CIhS.
Back of the box, 02, CIh4, 16, CI42.
And the last transporter 02 was not rethreaded
this morning, on the film pad because we got
16 percent, and we want to use it somewhere.
And we won't unload it until we have the time
to use that 16 percent. Over.
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237 02 01 28 CC Roger, PLT. Is there anything else you got on

the evening status report for us this - this
evening?

PLT Sounds like you know something I don't. Did

I leave something out? There's nothing else
that I've got here, Dick.

CC No, no; we're happy. I've got some - a few

news items for you g_ys. I see we've still
got about 7 minutes of daylight and about
ll minutes left in this pass. If the other
guys up at the ATMwould like me to delay, I
certainly will do that.

PLT It might interrupt their concentration, but let

me ask them.

PLT Okay, Dick. We'll have the news. A1 was

trying to call you from up there. Apparently,
you didn't read them from that box, but he
says go ahead with the news.

CC Okay. First of all in a daily bulletin on

Fred Haise's condition. Fred is improving
today. He's beginning to take nourishment
o - orally today, and this means that the
intravenous feedings may be con - discontinued
totally in another day or so. Re's not yet
read - ready to receive visitors, but if his
present rate of progress continues, he - we
think he should feel up to having some company
after 7 or 8 days.

237 02 02 48 PLT Don't worry about feeding Fred. He'll be

taking it orally before you know it.

CC Yes. You betchum. It was announced, today,

that the U.S. will pull out about 3550 men
and more than a lO0 aircraft as a first step
at U.S. milStarywithdrawalfromthe Thailand
bases. The withdrawalshould start as early as
next week. In his first press conference
since being nominated for Secretary of State,
Henry Kissinger waved olive branches in all
directions - to the Congress, to the pub - public
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and to the State Department, saying that he and

the President intend to create a new and full
Dartnership with the Congress in the conduct
of foreign_olicy. Only four major fires
burned out of control Friday, after a week-long
fire fighting effort in several parched
northwestern states. Nearly 200,000 acres of
grassland and forest, some of it in national
parks has been blackened, and fire fighters
are in the process of demobilizing crews which,
at their peak, numbered over i0,000 persons.
I think you already got this information, but
in sports last night, the Hou - Houston Oilers
beat the Dallas Cowboys 27 to 24 in the Dome.
Oiler Richard Lewis recovered a Cowboy fumble,
with 55 seconds left in the game, to ice the
game for the Oilers before an overflow crowd
of 47,000 people.

237 02 04 09 CC In Skylab news today, naturally, it's centered

around your EVA. The news wire services have
stories describing the gyro repairs and the
film exchange you did. Many of the stories
are quoting you, Jack, in regretting that the
spacewalk had not been longer and really wan -
not wanting to go back inside. One final
note, that I know that A1 will be interested
in - comes from Battle Creek, Michigan. Police,
FBI agents, and a Smithsonian Institute
investigator are hunting for a spacesuit
stolen from the KingmanMuseum in Battle Creek,
Michigan. The astronaut gear, on loan from
the Smithsonian, was taken last Saturday by
thieves who smashed a museum window and cut
through a security padlock to get inside. The
suit was worn by astronaut Alan L. Bean during
his Apollo 12 mission and is valued at $6,000.
Museum officials said there was no alarm system
at the museum and nothing else had ever been
stolen before.

237 02 05 08 CDR Hey, they got a good set of clothes.

CC Roger - -

CDR Little dirty, but - needs a pressing, but

everything else is good.
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CC Roger that, A1. Well, I'm - I'm sure that, with

all those folks looking for them, that they'll
get it back for us. And that's all I had this
evening.

SPT He'll be easily recognized on the street though,

Dick.

CC (Laughter) Right.

CDR I hope he wears it to a dance somewhere.

237 02 05 36 CC Right; his silver threads. And, Skylab, we

still have about 7 minutes in this stateside
pass. There was one more little work item that
we wanted done in chasing this clock problem.
There's an in yen - in - an event time or on
panel 206. And we'd like for you - somebody
this evening to verify that it counts up at the
normal rate. It is - it's pulsed by the same
source that pulses those other timers, and
we're trying to find out if the problem with
the scrambling of the time is at the source of
it.

SPT Okay, Dick. Since you start - asked the

question, it's been counting up regularly for
about l0 seconds, and smoothly. And we'll have
to watch it a little bit longer. And while
we're watching it, I'd just like to fix one -
certain of one thing on my S063 pad. This one
and preceding ones have mentioned about
counting the seconds and "use bulb setting."
Now, are you just talking about T for time on
the top of the time setter, or what is meant
by that bulb setting? Over.

CC Okay, hang on Just a second.

237 02 08 2_ CC SPT, Houston. In an answer to your question about

the Nikon, the quote there says, "use bulb
setting" - means Just - on the camera itself,
select the position Bravo, which stands for
bulb. And then hold down the - the exposure
button for the number of seconds that the expo-
sure lasts and then release the button.
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SPT Okay, that'd be nice if I had a bulb setting

baker on the camera. I don't. I do have Tang -
Tango, time, and it's essentially the same thing.

237 02 09 00 CC Roger, Owen.

SPT Hello, Dick. On this little event timer on

panel 206, it's counting smoothly and regularly,
but it's not counting very accurately. It looks
like it's gained a second or so every minute,
but it does count smoothly.

CC Understand, Owen. Thank you for the information.

And standby. We're still talking about the
Nikon, and I'll get back - right back to you.

SPT Okay.

237 02 12 03 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute to LOS. The

next pass is a Madrid pass at 02:18, and that's
a scheduled medical conference. In the event
that we don't get an operational commback,
we suggest that we - we do have a Honeysuckle
pass that is Just after your scheduled bedtime
at 03:0h. And ass_,mlng you guys are going
to be up a little bit late tonight, we were
thinking about giving you a call there so we
could get one nore operational pass in tonight.

PLT Okay. And I guess that means if you go to bed

late you get up early. Right?

CC Right. Just like the Marine Corps. Also, for

Owen, I guess all we can say is on the - we
think that on the little shutter speed knob
there ought to be a position there - there
ought to be a position there marked T and
another one marked B and men several other -
others that are - are time settings. But
we think there should be one there marked
Bravo.

SPT Must be a different manufacturer.

CC Say again.

237 02 13 29 SPT I just said, this must be a different manufac-

turer.
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237 02 23 34 CC Skylab, Houston. I understand I have the comm

back now, and we've still got you at Madrid for
the next 3-1/2 minutes.

CDR Say, Dick, I meant to ask you something. And I'm

not making the official request. I Just want you
to look into it and see if it's difficult, easy or
whatever else. My wife's gone on vacation with
my daughter over to London and Switzerland, and
I didn't know whether it would be convenient to
private com_ through Madrid to them, or if that
was a big deal, to forget it, because - I Just
wanted to check though, to see if it was easy
or difficult.

CC Roger, AI. I'm pretty sure I have the phone num-

bers and we will - we will check and let you know.

CDR Okay. I don't want to do anything out of the

ordinary, but I didn't know if that was simple or
hard. We've got such a worldwide cnmm now that
it's hard to tell what's really hard and what's
really easy.

CC Understand, A1. I'll get back to you. Maybe not

tonight, but I'll get back to you.

237 02 26 20 CC Skylab, Houston, We're about 1 minute from LOS.

And since we got you back here, I do - I do not
intend to give you a call down at Honeysuckle.
Our AOS time there is 03:04, so if you'd like to
give us a call, p - please feel free. But I'd
like you to know that the GNS is sure happy
today with the way he's got all these new rate
gyros to work with. And they're looking real super.
So it looks like a real good day's work. So y'all
get a good night's sleep, and we'll see you in the
morning.

CDR Okay. Thank you, Dick. We'll probably be up

another 45 minutes to an hour, at least.

CC Okay. Well, the Honeysuckle time is 03:04 through

03:10, and we don't plan to give you a call unless
something comes up that makes that necessary. But
I'll be standing by.
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CDR Okay. If you got any questions anybody's got

about the EVA or else, well, call us; we'll
answer them. We're Just putting the food up for
tomorrow.

237 02 27 12 CC Okay.

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SKYLAB AIR-T0-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

237 03 07 34 SPT Hello, Dick, are you there?

CC Affirmative; for the next 2 minutes, go ahead.

SPT Hello, Houston.

CC Hello, Skylab. Houston listening; go ahead.

SPT Very good. I wonder if you'd be so kind as to

add two cans of biscuits and five salt packs to
my menu for today.

237 03 08 01 CC We certainly will do that.

SPT Thank you, Dick.

SPT We're just getting around to eating right now,

and I didn't get this M516 and S05h film put
away tonight. And I guess I'll go ahead and go
to bed after supper here. And you flight planners
might take note of that, I've got to work it into
my schedule someplace tomorrow.

CC Roger, Owen. We copied that. And we'll take

account of it.

CC Skylab, Houston. We're going over the hill in

about 30 seconds. We'll see you in the morning.

PLT That's where we're going too, Dick, over the hill.

237 07 09 40 CC You think.

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SKYIAB-AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

237 ii 46 17 (Music)

237 Ii 48 18 CC Good morning, Skylab. We have you for about

2 more minutes over Goldstone.

SPT Say again there, Robert.

CC You're welcomed.

SPT Thought maybe we were over TiJ1,__na.

CC Oh, not too far. Not too far, sort of, Just
west of there now.

CC One amAll item of interest here. In a very few

minutes, you guys are going to be passing Pete,
Joe, and Paul's mark. At about 12:00 and, oh
I guess, 40 seconds, you will pass SL 2's time
in air.

SPT Hey, that sounds good.

237 ll h9 02 CDR Yes, I think we're all equally as healthy as they

were, maybe even a little bit more, thanks to all
their advice after the flight. We all seem to
feel good. We're all eating well, we're all
sleeping well and we're sure as heck happy

CC Very good. I saw Pete yesterday and he passes his

regards. The reason I haven't seen him, he's Just
spent 5 days at sea, sailing back from Bermuda.
And he looks relatively healthy now, nice and
brown. We're about 1 m_uute from LOS. We'll
have you again over the Vanguard at 12:06. 12:06.

SPT Okay Bob. Say, the last couple of seconds there ...
over into Marshall ...

237 ll 50 47 CC Unable to copy. We'll get you over Vanguard.

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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

237 12 06 lh CC Skylab, Houston. AOS over the Vanguard for

10-1/2 minutes.

SPT Okay, Robert, I'm afraid I probably cut out of

the - the end of that last transmission. Is
that correct?

CC That's affirm. I copied you were saying some-

thing, but I couldn't understand it.

SPT Okay, we've been thinking about Jim Splawn over

in the water immersion facility at Marshall quite
a bit lately, not onlY Jim, but the whole crew of
that neutral buoyancy facility. We believe they've
done an outstanding Job over the long term, over
the last 2 or 3 years in getting us trained and
ready to do these EVAs. And we'd like to recog-
nize Jim and the whole WIF crew, Not only
our regular EVAs, but the last three or four
EVAs have all had one or two things that were
certainly unique and came up at the last minute, -
and required a lot of special training Just on
hour's and day's notice. And that whole group
has done such a professional Job over there that
we really think they deserve a lot of extra recog_
nition. And we'd like to contribute a small part
of that there this morning. Over.

237 12 07 _7 CC Roger, Owen. l'm sure that all of us in our

office will certainly have to agree with that.
Appreciate it. And we'll pass it on to them.
And if anybody's in the area of the DAS now, I -
if you could stay off, we'll go ahead and do
a momentum dump inhibit. And also if - You could
go ahead and lock on to the star for us, We'd
like to watch it track for a while, please.
We're going to take a look at Z drift.

SPT Oks_v_ Jack - l'm Just going up there in a min-

ute now. I'ii get you a star. And what about -
do we have a star pad up here yet?

237 12 08 28 CC If you don't, I'll give you the - the angles

right here.
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SPT No, Jack says it is already on the board, so

I'ii get it locked on.

CC And, Skylab_ Houston. Think I told you before

the EVA to. disregard that per - permanent mes-
sage you have regarding rate-gyro drift in case
of a switchover. That is still the case. Cur-
rently all the drifts are zero, which is good
news. And we're going to take a look at Z-axis
as you come across here when we get that star.
Hopefully, we can end up Just deleting that
message.

237 12 09 21 CDR Okay, that's great.

CC And, A1, we would appreciate a little bit more

information regarding the - some comments you
recorded last night about a washer or some object
you said you saw in using S052.

CDR Okay. We were using 52 afterwards, and we saw

a number of light flashes, little round parti-
cles going out which we assumed were some sort
of water dump. So we checked around and we
weren't dumping any water. And then we went
over and looked at the comm_nd module amain
because last time we saw something like that it
was coming out of one of the quads. We found
nothing there. In fact, we'd like the comm_nd
module troops, if they would, to give a close
look to all the quads today. But anyhow, we
looked and - looking at the white light, and all
of a sudden right across the front of the screen
comes a round object which looked like had a
hole in the middle. And we were Just kind of
laughing about it, and it came back and then it
went over again. It may have been different
ones; but the way it worked, it looked like it
could conceivably be one going back and forth.
In fact, the last time it went by, it looked
like it had some writing on it. Jack and I both
thought we saw it. Then we thought about it a
little while after we had voiced that down -

i
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after I had voiced that down. We were kidding

0wen because he had lost those - a couple of
those shims and washers. So we thought, we
realized that there probably - even if there had
been a washer in there, it wouldn't have focused
in properly. It has to have been out some number
of feet and been the size of an inner tube to
really appear on the screen like it did to us.
But anyhow there was - there seemed to be a
little more contam - not contamination, but
things floating around outside the coronagraph,
' yesterday,than normal. And we didn'tbelieve
that it was as a result of the EVA, but it may
have been. It may have been some of the oxygen
flow had gotten in there, and that was what we
were seeing. I don't know, but I Just wanted to
report it and ask them to look at their data.

237 12 ll 39 CC A1, I'm informed that an object 1 foot out from

the end of the telescope end on 52 would be in
focus. And maybe this was reported yesterday,
but I'd Just like to confirm it, that - I under-
stand Owen did lose the shim on - on one of the
wedges that he removed?

CDR The first ones that he removed were from S056,

Bob. And they are not Just a couple of shims,
they are, oh, maybe eight or l0 shims under each
of those plates. And on the 56 door, I did lose
that set of shims and one of the little washers
on the - trying to get them transferred, put
underneath that tape. I got all of them retained
on 82A, but not on the 56. Over.

CC Okay, we copy that. Thank you.

237 12 13 00 CC And, A1, we can report to you right now that the-
the quads all look good on the command module.
We'll continue to verify that.

CDR Okay. Well, we Just had wondered. We didn't

power up the ATM that quick after the last EVA,
or at least I didn't observe it, if we did. And
I was a little surprised at the total number of
particles that seemed to be leaving the space-
craft going somewhere. And I'm still not sure
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in my own mind where they are from unless somehow

when we cranked up the water loop afterwards
that caused increased dumping through the mol
sieves or something. I'm still puzzling over
that. I would have made a bigger issue of it
but it looked like it died down there after a
while.

237 12 13 48 CC Okay, copied that. And for information for a

SAP update, we have that active region 93 is
developing a new spot group rapidly and has an
arch filament system. Intensity in area is
increasing in the vestern portion of the H-alpha
plage. And we have bad no overnight flares.

SPT Okay, sounds infor - interesting. And I did

report yesterday as a matter of fact, that 93 did
look like it may have developed a small subflare
as least as a pretty bright plage. And I can
see this morning that the area of the plage has
increased a bit.

237 12 14 25 CC Okay; we copy that. Thank you, 0wen.

CDR It's Just waiting until we got a new load here.

CC And can you gentlemen eomfirm for us that we did

get rid of the towel with the glyco in it.

CDR We had several. We got rid of - of those with

the exc - most of those, with exception of two.
One of which we have in the glycol panel now
acting as the - as a continual - I hate to use
the word wick, but a continual drying agent, and
the other is in a fecal bag all sealed up and
put in the COmmAnd module lockers to return to
base.

237 12 15 27 CC Okay; we copy that, A1. Thank you very much.

CDR What we will do is go put in a new drying towel

and discard the old.

CC Copy. And one item I'd like you to think about

if you would, A1, they're reading some of the
transcripts. Seems to be a little bit of con-
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fusion about a Nu Z update. I guess we had told

you to - to do it in the morning and in the
evening, and also we wauted you to do it anytime
that you needed a Nu z value, for example on S019,
or if we get to it, 183 op. And I guess our
question is, do you think you need us to send
you a cue card change regarding S019; as that -
the fact that when you get the Nuz, you need to
use the star tracker to update it?

237 12 16 31 CDR No, I don't think so. I'Ii tell you, the thing
that still puzzles us a little bit is what the -
why - why can't we Just go ahead lock on the star
tracker and see what it's doing and then close
the shutter without affecting anything? Can
we do that?

CC That's affirmative. There's no - there' s no

problem at all ther, we Just don't want to go
off and leave with the - the shutter to be com-
manded automatically because it may not shut
normally. We're about 30 seconds from LOS and
maybe we can elaborate a little bit more on that
at the next pass. We'll see you at Hawaii at
13:15 and you can close the star tracker shutter
now.

237 12 17 ii SPT Okay, Bob. Let me mention one other thing rela-
tive to that. That is apparently if we have a
Nu z update enabled, and we lock on the wrong
star or a particle or something like that, we
get an incorrect update. And we're wondering
about whether or not we ought to inhibit Nu z
update until we're satisfied with the gimbal
angles. Over.

237 12 17 28 CC Okay, we'll - we'll - we'll talk about that at

Hawaii. And would you make sure that the star
tracker shutter is closed.

237 13 15 45 CC Skylab, we're AOS Hawaii for 8 minutes.

SPT Okay, Houston.

CC And, PLT, in the next 7 minutes, I've got two

notes concerning your MO92_gB run.
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CDR He can't listen right now, Story; he's trying to

do T002. He'll give you a call.

CC Okay, A1.

CDR Good to hear you back.

CC Yes, sir. It's good to be back.

237 13 17 37 CC And we're going to be enabling dump if you can

stay off the DAS, Owen.

CDR Okay, he's off.

CDR To give you a little bit more information about

the timer problem we've been having, this is the
STS, the general timing system. Last night it
stabilized for a while and it worked okay. This
morning it's sort of erratic again. It's like
it's getting some EMI maybe from the ATM panel
or something.

237 13 18 14 CC Okay. And the DAS is yours, Skylab. And, A1,

while I got you, those towels you're using to
soak up the glycol in the CSM, go ahead and
dump all of them - trash airlock all of them.

CDR Okay, then the one you were thinking about having
me bring home, you want me to dump it too?

CC That's correct.

CDR Okeydoke, will do, today.

237 13 18 _5 CC And also, A1, sometime today we'd like you to

check out the caution and warning lamps on
panel 206.

CDR Check the lamps; will do.

CC CDR, Houston.

CDR Just a second.

CDR Go ahead.
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CC AI, yesterday our TV camera, as you call it,

number i or serial number 3002, it got quite
hot and we lost the picture on that, and we're
thinking maybe you've set it up to run. And
how is it working?

237 13 22 04 CDR We checked it out last night and it wasn't

working too great. We haven't had a chance to
look at it this morning. We'll give you some
information on that soon as I do this TV setup.

CC Okay, if you're not getting a satisfactory

picture on the monitor, just go ahead and cancel
TV-6.

CDR Okay, we can always use the other camera.

CC That is a two-camera operation.

CDR Oh, okay; understand. Okay, thank you.

237 13 23 17 CC Skylab, we're 1 minute to LOS. We'll see you

over the Vanguard in about 22 minutes at 13:h5.
We'll be dumping the tape recorders at that time.
We do have a teleprinter low indication down
here. And when you - if you get a chance, you
could change the teleprinter paper. We have
no messages to send up right now. And a
reminder for the PLT to PLT to change out the
VTMS probe prior to starting 92/93.

CDR Okay.

237 13 2h 08 CC And, Owen, no need to acknowledge, but when you

get back on the ATM, you'll find a large
prominence on the west limb at 090.

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SKYLAB AIR-T0-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

237 13 h5 50 CC Skylab, we're AOS through the Vanguard for

9 minutes.

CDR Story, made a check of the old TV, and it looks

like the TV is out of it. It sends out, as you
saw on the screen down there, an occasional
white dot. The rest of it's black. I changed
the power cable and the monitor cable and the
monitor. Those three work well on the other
camera. The ones from the other camera, which
worked well, do not work at all on the - the
camera number i. They give the same indications
as the monitor cable and power cable did,
originally. So it looks like our camera number
1 is out of business at the moment.

CC Okay. thanks, AI.

CDR Okay, what we'll do, I noticed that change in

the pad was a change to one scene. It was
shooting the legband installation from a
different side. We'll go ahead and shoot that
and not the others, and they can use that to
put together with what they have already, I
believe, and get perhaps what they're looking
for.

CC Stand by i, AI.

237 13 47 lh CDR Okay. By the way, I turned off the S015 20-power
and _0-power cameras this morning.

CC Copy.

PLT Hey, Story, is Bill running the show down there

today?

CC Milt Windler and the maroon team. Yes, sir.

PLT How is everything? What's the latest in the

city of Friendswood?

CC He says we're percolating along and everything

is fine.
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CDR Percolating, huh? Does that mean the flood

waters, previously, are rising to the surface
again?

CC That's a good interpretation, but per Jack's

request, we legislated against floods.

PLT *** work.

237 13 48 33 CC And, Jack, the extra pipes are in the sunset

cross and it's back in operation.

PLT Good, glad to hear that. Sounds like the

council really got on the ball and got that done.

CC And for, AI, there's no way we can use that

proposed TV scenario. And we prefer just to
get you doing some Mark II.

CDR Okay, we'll do some Mark II, today, and get

that for you. Now another question.

CC Go ahead.

CDR I forgot it; just a second.

CDR Oh, yes. From your view of the TV, did it look
like we drifted into the Sun when we were out
of attitude? Or that thing got too hot?

237 13 49 55 CC We don't think the Sun got in the lens, A1. We

just think it was a gradual increase in heat,
and we saw an associated decrease in the
performance as the heat increased.

PLT Okay, I noticed also in bringing the thing in

and getting it restowed that it smelled kind
of funny. It smelled the lock compartment up,
too. It smelled like hot - hot burned rags.

CC Okay, you had me worried. I thought you were

smelling it while you were bringing it in.

PLT Well, we don 't report everything, you know.

By the way, I've been wondering how bad - how
has the TV shows that we've put on as requested
in the TV ops book come out? We know about the
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sort of ad hoc TV, but I'm wondering how well

satisfied you are with the - the canned TV shows
so far?

CC We think they've been excellent. And I'll give

you a more detailed report this evening.

PLT Okay.

237 13 51 09 CC And, A1, we're hoping you did not get a chance
i
to change the teleprinter paper.

CDR I'll bet it's because you want us to take

pictures of it, right?

CC M516.

CDR We've had it on our minds for about a week, since

we missed it last time. Jack's going to do that
soon as he gets a chance. Right now I'm getting
ready to check out the lights on 206 and 7.

CC Yes, we were thinking maybe Owen could run that

between the A_ passes.

SPT Yes, that's a possibility. I was also looking

over my Flight Plan as to where I might want to
best put in this S054 film stow, which I didn't
get yesterday. And it looks like maybe those
housekeeping items had best be the thing that
gets eliminated. But you might take a look at
what's the softest in my schedule.

CC Okay, Owen.

237 13 52 37 CC And I've got a photo pad for you, Owen.

SPT You mean on the teleprinter or where?

CC Yes, the M516 photo with the teleprinter

change-out.

SPT Okay, we'll have to worry about it a little

later, Story.

CC Okay.
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CDR Story, it looks like all the lights there are

working properly. We have had several inhibited.
I'll read you the names of them to make sure
we agree.

CC Okay, we've got a minute.

237 13 53 41 CDR Okay, I'm going to read them so I get the exact
names. We've had the sieve flow inhibited
because, since we baked it out, it kind of kicks
on and off every once in a while. I think
everyone is aware of that. PPC02, high and low,
tool sieve A, we've had out. OWS interchange
duct we've had out. And condensate DELTA-P.

CC Okay.

CC And we're 30 seconds to LOS. We'll see you over

Hawaii in about an hour at 14:51.

CDR Okay, and that was CO 2 both for sieve A and B.

Now those are the ones we have out. If there
is any disagreement or any suggestions, we
welcome them, because the status may have
changed since we turned those off.

CC Okay_ we'll look at it.

237 i_ 52 17 CC Skylab, we're AOS Hawaii for 7 minutes.

CDR Okay, Story. Say, how are the flight planners

coming on temorrow's Flight Plan?

CC Okay, we've got a rev A here.

CDR Okay, I'll tell you what I'd like them to do if

they would. We got ATM all day, I gather and
then a few other items. What do you see there
roughly?

CC Okay, we've got a MIIO for all three of you, we

got essentially ATM all day. We got some
off-duty periods scattered here and there, a
little bit of housekeeping, showers, and about
2 hours when we have station passage for a status
conference. And that's about it.
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CDR Okay, that sounds good to us. Let me get them

to make one minor change there. We want Owen
to try to get some time on his science kit and
a couple of other items that he's got here that's
been hanging for about 3 weeks. So how about
dividing those ATM periods among Jack and I and
then let's let Owen have a little bit more free
time so he can get this science thing out of the
way and seme of these other demonstrations.
We just never seem to be able to work it in.
It's always going to be tomorrow, but tomorrow
never gets there. When it does, we just can't
get it done.

237 14 54 03 CC Okay, we'll get Owen some time. And understand

you don't want any formal schedule for him, just
some time.

CDR That's right. And we'll - this will - Otherwise,

it just fills up. Like today, we added on a
couple of items already, and then the download
of the 54, I think, is still in process from
yesterday because we got finished late. So he's
got plenty to do, temorrow, to help clean up
today. So, I'd like to do that, and that way
maybe we can get this - get caught up. And we'll
take the ATM stuff.

CC Would you like us to call it science activities?

CDR That's a good idea because that's what it'll be,

all science. I'll guarantee that.

CC Okay. And we've got a battery verification test

tomorrow, too.

CDR Okay, no trouble; we'll get them.

CC Skylab, we're 30 seconds until LOS.

237 14 59 35 CC We'll see you over the Vanguard in about 25

minutes at 15:23, and we'll be dumping the
tape recorders then.

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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

237 15 25 12 CC Skylab, we're AOS over the Vanguard for

8 minutes.

237 15 29 53 SPT Okay, Story. And the new co-aligns position is

going to be for 5509/32 about back where it was
before. And I'll send the data down on channel
A.

CC Okay, thanks, Owen. I've got two o__ three notes

here for you if you've got a chance to copy.

SPT Okay.

CC You had a change to S063 pad_ tonight that you'll

run in 01:25, and that's the - -

SPT Story?

CC Yes.

SPT If I could delay on that, I'd appreciate it.

CC Okay.

SPT Anything else for the current pass or anything

like that?

237 15 30 32 CC No, only camera to use if you do do the M516

when you change the teleprinter paper.

SPT Okay, I'ii- what's that?

CC That's our transporter 06, and ll percent required.

And the M516 part of that's on Page 3-7 of the
SWS Systems Checklist.

SPT Okay ; thank you.

237 15 32 23 CC Skylab, we're i minute to LOS. We'll see you

over Ascension in 6 minutes. And, CDR, Houston.

CDR Go ahead.

CC You riding the bike now, AI?

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CDR I Just finished, go ahead.

CC Okay; on the CBRM, the bat capacity verification

on note B, we'd like to change CBRM 18 to 8,
and i0 to 5, if you haven't done that already.

CC Next we'll be - -

CDR .....

237 15 33 02 CC That's on the SWS Systems Checklist, change

number ii, we sent up. If you don't get it
now, we'll get it over Ascension in 5 minutes.

237 15 39 03 CC Skylab, we're AOS; Ascension for 6 minutes.

SPT Okay, Story, what else did you have for me?

CC Owen, on the S063 pad, we've got a change for

it. We've determined that the T settings on
Nikon 01 work the same as the B settings on
Nikon 03. So, for tonight's pass you can use
the T settings vice the B settings.

SPT Okay; understand. That's what I had assumed

before. And there's just a slight difference
in those two Nikon cameras and the way those
heads are - and the little timer system is
scaled there. The T works just the same, as
near as I can tell, also. So that'll be fine.
Thank you.

CC Yes, sir. And on your deployment of Anita at

19:35, use transporter 07 from drawer 1 and
shoot up the remaining film, that's 21 percent.
And that's on your details; that's permanent
general message number 14, step 5.

SPT Okay.

CC And are you at the ATM panel now?

SPT That 's right.

237 15 20 45 CC Can you reach over and take one of the 150 psi
nitrogen regulators - take one of them off?
They've been running low, about 122. And from
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our SL-2 experience, we've found out if we

turn one of them off for a while and bring it on
at a later time, we can get the pressure up.
It may he due to icing in the regulator.

SPT Okay.

CC And - -

SPT A is turned off.

CC Okay. That 's B e.

SPT B is on; A is off.

CC Okay.

237 15 42 06 CC And, CDR, we've got those CBRM's for you to run
those tests on.

CDR Okay, Story, I understand that we do it on 8,

and then in step 3, where it talks about 10,
we do that on 5.

CC That' s affirm.

CDR Okay; got it under control.

CC Thank you.

237 15 h3 16 CDR And understand that you - you wanted to Mark

I - of I, II on TV?

CC Stand by 1. We understand you're not using the

Mark II very much.

CDR Oh, we use it sometimes. We use them both.

CC That's Mark II, A1.

CDR That's what I thought. Okay, I'm going to run

it right now.

CC And while I've got you, one other question.

When you checked the lights on the caution and
warning panel, did you enable the switches that
were inhibited to check their lights or Just -
or did you Just leave them inhibited?
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CDR I enabled them, checked them all, and then

turned those back off.

CC Okay.

237 15 44 17 CC And we're a min - a minute from LOS. We'll see

you over the Vanguard at 17:00. That will be
an hour and 15 minutes. And, Owen, we'd like
H-alpha 1 in AUTO.

237 15 44 39 SPT Thank you.

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"SKYLAB AIR-T0-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

237 17 01 13 CC Skylab, we're A0S over the Vanguard for i0 minutes.

SPT Okay, Story.

CC And, Jack, if you got 30 seconds, I've got a

change to an ATM pad.

PLT Okay, wait a minute, Story. Just setting up a

new building block.

CC Okay, anytime.

237 17 02 20 CDR Story, while you're waiting on that one, I'm

going to start the battery check on the next
night orbit. I got up there at 14 after the
hour per plan and it was already dark and some
of the steps suggest I check it before dark.
So I will go up there and check it before dark
and start it next time.

CC Okay; copy, A1.

237 17 06 21 PLT Okay, Story, go ahead with the change.

CC That's for Al's pass that starts at 18:18.

PLT I'm looking at it.

CC Okay, at 21 minutes remA4ning, change the roll

on Theta of that coronal hole from 10/0.8 to
115/0.9. The shape and position of the coronal
hole has changed.

PLT Okay, I've got it. Thank you.

CC CDR, Houston.

CDR Go ahead.

237 17 i0 49 CC AI, we concur with your starting the bat test

on 8 the next rev and sliding bat 5 one rev
to 19: 20.

CDR Okay. That's bat test 8 next rev and slide

bat 5 to 19:20 .... put them back on ... think
you'll want, and they both work.
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237 17 ii 19 CC Okay, we're dropping out too bad here, over

Vanguard. We're about a minute to LOS. We'll
see you over Ascension in 4 minutes.

CDR Say, Story, is that bat 5 ... rev - next rev?

CC Yes, we can't read you here now, we'll have to

pick you up over Ascension.

237 17 14 00 CC Skylab, we're LOS through Ascension for l0 minutes.

And we were dropping out over Vanguard; could you
say again, A1, about the last 2 minutes?

CDR Okay. What we're going to do is, Owen is going

to go ahead and run bat 8 on the next night
rev; that would be on schedule. And then I'll
pick up bat 5 on the rev following. Is that what
you have in mind?

CC That's affirmative, A1. Bat 5 after sunset at

19:20.

CDR Okay, and that way he'll be right on s ched and

ours won't have any trouble fitting in anyway.
We got plenty of time. Okay.

CC And, AI, you can do steps i and 2 prior to

sunset.

237 17 15 03 CDR Okay, I've already done those, Story, for both
bats. Everything's nice on both bats so we're
ready to perform the rest of the test.

CC Okay.

237 17 17 53 CC Skylab, we'd like to have the DAS for a moment.

We're going to commaud rate gyros 1 and 3 ON, with
the redundancy management enabled.

PLT You got it, Story.

CC Okay.

237 17 22 03 CC Jack, the DAS is yours.

CDR Say again, Story. You were blocked.

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CC The DAS is yours.

PLT Okay.

CDR Hey_ Story, the intercom volume in the comm_nd

module - On which panel controls the overall
volume of the intercom down here?

CC Stand by 1.

CDR We've noticed since the E - EVA that our

intercom volume's very high down here but we
thought we had everything back like it was. I
went up to panel 9 and reduced the vo111m_ some-
what. It didn't appear to affect it significantly,
and I don't know whether I should go up and
reduce it some more.

CC Okay, we're working on that question.

CDR And I went and got all the regs, and they're
bye-bye already.

237 17 23 34 CC Okay, and we're a minute to LOS here. We'll see

you in 35 minutes over at Guam at 17:58. Be
dumping the tape recorders then.

CDR Okay. Now a question also, for the Coolanol

man - or glycol man - water glycol m_n. Should
we leave a towel - small towel in that area to
wick off the leak if it continues, or should we
not do that? And should we keep the little door
to that 382 panel open or closed?

CC Copy. We'll get you an answer to that over Guam.

CC In the blind, Skylab. It's panel 9, to adjust

your intercom.

CDR Sorry, I didn't hear you, Story, go ahead.

237 17 24 33 CC That's panel 9 to adjust your intercom volume.

CDR Okay, I'ii go turn it down some more in a few

minutes.
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237 17 59 25 CC Skylab, A0S through Guam for 9 minutes.

CDR 0kay, Story.

CC And, AI, in answer to your question on panel 382,

the glycol leak, we'd like you to take a used
PBI garment and push it in there in the vicinity
of leak, and if possible, close the door, maybe
Just one or two fasteners.

CDR Okay, PBI garment? Is that the words you used?

CC Yes, that's a clothes garment, one that's been

used.

CDR Okay, will do.

CC And one other thing while I have you. We've shut

off our pump Charlie on the secondary coolant
system. We're anticipating the temperature to
fall, maybe down around _0 degrees Fahrenheit.
You may get a temp low light. And Just punch off
the button, no other action required.

CDR Okay.

CDR 0wen turned the CBRM 8 charger off at 17:)48.

237 18 03 26 CC Okay.

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237 18 05 14 CDR You know, Story, one thing that puzzles me is why
these star tracker pads aren't exactly right as
opposed to being not very close.

CC Okay. I will speak to ASC0 on that.

CDR Well, what I think is occurring is they never -

He doesn't know what our Nu Z is so he can't figure
the outer gimbal; he can get the inner but he can't
get the outer. It seems to me that it might be
appropriate to put on the pad what the outer gim-
bal Nu Z is figured at; and then, if we know it's
changed, we can subtract the difference, multiply
it by 60, and come up with a new number that would
be closer to right than the old number, and we
wouldn't have to Just kind of hunt around and
hope for the best. There's got to be a better
way to find these stars than going to the star
tracker pad angles and then moving in the outer
gimbal, you know, plus or minus l0 degrees.

237 18 06 20 CC Okay; he copied that, A1.

CDR Ask him to start thinking about of - of some way

that we can - I Just got the star - Some way that
we can get these stars faster, realizing his limi-
tations maybe, because of not knowing the - the
Nu z so we can update the pad mentally ourselves.
Sort of, maybe the same sort of technique we're
using for SO19.

CC Okay.

237 18 07 31 CC Skylab, we're a minute to LOS. We'll see you

over the Vanguard in 30 minutes at 18:38.

237 18 38 2h CC Skylab, we've got you through the Vanguard for

l0 minutes.

CDR And, Story, you might mention to the science room

that I went over to action - active region 6 and
did a shopping list item 5 there; and it came
out real well. I gave 82B a 2h0-second exposure
and a 40.

CC Was that a 240 and a 40?

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CDR That 's affirm.

CC Okay, tb_nks.

237 18 43 58 CC CDR, Houston.

237 18 45 28 H0U CT Vanguard COMM TECH, Houston COMM TECH. Net 1

voice check.

VAN CT Vanguard COMM TECH on net 1. How do you copy?

H0U CT Vanguard COMM TECH, Houston COMM TECH net 1.

VAN CT Vanguard COMM TECH on net 1.

HOU CT Roger.

237 18 46 22 CC Skylab, we've had a problem with the down-link.

CDR I guess we have had a problem. I said go ahead

a while ago, when you called a couple of times.

CC Okay, we're reading you loud and clear now. A1,

while I - looking fr_n down here, we did not see
S054 filter 3 run. If you haven't done that,
with your present pointing and all, could you
give us an M, 3, 0, S, 64 with S05h?

CDR My little thing says omit 54.

CC Yes, we're talking about back in the first part

of that JOP.

CDR I gave them a 3, 0, S, 256, but I'll sure give them

another.

CC Okay, m_ke it an M, 3, 0, S, 64.

CDR Okay.

237 18 47 14 CC Thanks.

CDR Has Owen discussed with the science room this lit-
tle cusp of light we see on the 52 monitor up at
1 o'clock?

237 18 47 59 CC I'll let you know, A1. We're 30 seconds to LOS.

We'll pick you up over Canaries in ii minutes.
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237 18 59 25 CC Skylab, we're A0S Canaries and Madrid for 13 min-

utes. And no need to acknowledge, AI, but on those
lights at 1 o'clock on the S052, we don't have the
TV back yet.

CDR Okay, and for - the information of the backroom,

I just started on JOP 15A, step 3. They - We'll
have to truncate it at the end. I can't find
a real cora - coronal hole at that point of 115.9.
I go over there and, except for those very bright
points with action - active region 39, everything
is - which tends to sort of overpower all the rest
of the UV in that area. It's difficult to find
a hole. Almost everything else comes up at the
same level of intensity when you intergrate except
the active region 93. So, as far as I can tell,
there isn't a real well-defined hole over there
at 115.9. I found the best one I could which was
sort of the - the smallest UV area in that region.
But it Just didn't - I don't consider it satis-
factory. But I thought maybe you could tell some-
thing I couldn't, so I went over there and did it.

237 19 01 3h CC Okay, Thanks, A1. I'll get them working on that.

And we need the DAS here for a nay update.

CDR We prefer, when they send up those coordinates for

the holes, that they come up in roll, and up and
down, left/right, and then we can go right to that
spot. And then, if UV pointing capability exists,
we can trim it up real good. When it's given in
azimuth and percent of radius - tips of radius,
you're always unsure, too, if you're at the right
spot unless there's a well-defined hole, and then
you can go over there and find it.

CC Okay, A1. And you've probably got much better

capability of finding those holes than we do down
here. The update we gave you is - is from XUV
down-link we got a couple days ago.

237 19 03 15 CDR That may explain it right there. It's - it's

being overpowed by 93, is what's happening. And
it may still be there, but it's Just hard to dis-
cern on - with the image intensity scope, or even
without it, exactly where that little hole is.
It may have moved further to the north.
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CC Okay.

237 19 04 19 CDR We're going to be through truncating it soon. I

wouldn't re_chedule this one until we get a bet-
ter handle on where that hole is.

CC Okay, we'll be handing over here in 5 seconds, A1.

And Just pick out the best hole you can, maybe
to the south of active regions 92 and 02. Pick
out your own best hole.

CDR Okay, I did, but it's - there - it's not satis-

factory.

CC Roger.

237 19 08 41 CDR Houston, are you there?

CC Yes, we got another 3 minutes, A1.

CDR Okay. Well, I'm picking up on this coronal hole

here in the next orbit. So I'll get out my lit-
tle Polaroid cameras at the beginning of the next
orbit, and try to get a better handle on it. And
in - my suggestion would be that - but they'll
have to think about it - that I go back and do
step B again on the new place that I find, if I
find a good one. And then that means we wouldn't
be able to do something else in that orbit. So
they might _ant to think about it. I'll _ait to
hear from you, though. And I might be able to get
it better with my Polaroid picture.

CC Okay; great. And we'll be seeing you over Guam

before you start the next daylight pass. And
about an hour and a half ago, we saw a reset on
the airlock module time reference system. We're
wondering if by chance anyone could have hit the
24-HOUR RESET s_itch. That's in the STS panel
on 212. About an hour and a half ago.

237 19 09 42 CDR Let me check with my crewmates.

CC It's a momentary.

CDR Owen gave it a hit. Jack gave it a hit.

CC Okay, that's fine. Thanks.

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237 19 ll 21 CC Skylab, we're a minute from LOS. We'll pick

you up over Guam in 25 minutes at 19:38.

CC And if you're seeing any erratic time indications

on the TRS there, we'd like you to put that on
channel B, so that we can pursue that problem.

CC Okay, put it on channel A.

CDR Was that for the PLT?

CC That's for anybody. And we're also wondering why

you used the reset switch?

237 19 12 19 CC But we're going LOS here; we'll see you in

25 minutes.

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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

237 19 38 48 CC Skylab, we,re AOS through Guam for h minutes.

And before we get into sunrise here, we'd like
some bat volts on BATs 5 and 8.

CDR Okay.

CDR BAT 5, 28.2. That was BAT 8, 28.2.

CC Roger.

CDR BAT 5, 30 volts.

CC Okay. And I've got a regroup for us on the

coronal hole. Do you want to here?

237 19 39 25 CDR Okay. Just a second. I turned off the CB_M

number 5 at 19:17. And the BAT down indicated
32.2 volts.

CC Okay.

CDR Free to copy.

CC Okay. Pick out a coronal hole boundary of your

choosing. Maybe to the north of active region 93
in - at 02, you may find a bigger coronal hole up
there. Anyway - Anywhere of your choosing, pick
out a coronal hole, go back to JOP 15A, step 3,
that's back in the orbit that starts at 18:18,
and carry on with JOP 15A through steps 3, h, 5,
6, and 7.

CDR Will do.

CC And you probably won't get step 7 done during this

orbit. If you don't, Just move it on to the next
orbit, and then pick up with J0P 2B when you can.

237 19 40 27 CDR Okay. And it may take a little time, too, to get
this good coronal hole, but I'll find a good one
this time. And we'll start fresh and get it
right.

CC Okay, and if you get behind, don't worry; we'd

like to get that 15A. Get what you can of JOP 2B,
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and there is 17 minutes of observing time at the

end of your last orbit, so you can pick up some
then.

CDR Okay. That 's good news.

237 19 hl Oh CC And our curiosity down here is really - really

getting to us on why the 24-HOUR RESET switch
was thrown.

CDR I think Jack was Just unhappy about the way the
timer was running. Nsm_ely, it wasn't working;
and so he Just thought maybe somehow it would
straighten things out. It didn't do that, either.
It still doesn't work.

CC Gkay.

CDR Does it bother anything else other than those

little timers we look at?

CC That 's affirmative. It does, A1.

CDR What does it bother? Probably the time recording

on the taDes and all that other business, maybe.

CC That's affirmative. It does affect that stuff,

AI, and those things have been good down here.

237 19 41 59 CDE Okay. It sounds like we didn't do you right,

there; but we didn't know that. We thought that
it was Just our little timer boxes, and they
haven't been working and we've been needing them,
so we hoped maybe a reset would, you know, make
them work right, but it didn't. I don't think
any of us knew it was as far-reaching as you Just
suggested.

CC Okay, and are those timers still erratic, Al?

CDR Yes. They had a good period last night for about
an hour or 2, close to bedtime, but they're Just
completely screwed up. And it may be, we' ll have
to see tonight, it may be some EMI through this
ATM panel is getting to the ones we see; whereas,
the ones we don't see ... pointed out on the
tapes are okay .... - -
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237 19 42 45 CC Okay. And we're going LOS here. We'll see you
at Honeysuckle in 5 minutes.

CDR Okay. We hope you can sort that out, and we'll
keep our fingers off of that thing for a while.

CC Okay. Thanks.

237 19 h9 26 CC Skylab, we're A0S through Honeysuckle for

3 minutes.

CDR Okay. I found a good one - picturedeveloped.

It's Just to the northeast of active region 93.
And I'll go over there and get lined up on it,
and we'll pull it off here in a few minutes.

CC Okay. Great, A1. We thought there'd probably

be one up there, too.

237 19 49 50 CDR Well, there's Just very small little spots that
are a little darker down at the ll5. All the
coronal hole is either - it's the northeast, it's
on the northeast area from the rim to about 0.8
and then there's a little hole on - that's the
northwest limb, I'm sorry. On the northeast
limb above that active region is also a nice little
coronal hole. Coronal hole seems to be wide, it's
about 080 and" narrows down near the poles and
then widens out again as it gets over to the
other limb. I mean, correction, the other equator
- other side of the equator. So, I'll go over
there and get right on it, and we'll get some
good data here; I hope.

CC Okay.

CDR You couldn't do this Job without this Polaroid

and persistent image scope; it'd Just be impossible.

CC Roger.

237 19 54 29 CC Skylab, we're going LOS now. We'll see you over
Canaries in h4 minutes at 20:36. Be dumping the
tape recorders then.

237 20 37 24 CC Skylab, we're A0S through Canaries and Madrid

for 14 minutes.
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CDR Okay, Story.

CC And, A1, --

CDR Things are going well. I just finished - I'm

Just in the process of doing step 6.

CC Okay; great. And we don't have a star available

right now. We'd like a star lockon later. The
availability on the pad is good. And the inner
gimal - inner gimbal's the same at 1788; the
outer gimbal, minus 3010. And in the future we
are going to get our computed Nu Z on the pad
when we send it up to you.

CDR Okay. And you might send up the simplified

instructions on how we use it. We think we know
how, but maybe ASCO could give us some good tips
on how to do it.

CC Okay.

237 20 38 3_ CDR In other words, if it's a bigger negative number,

do we go more negative, or more positive and if
it - if you multiply it by 60 or exactly. So
we won't go through a big learning thing there.

CC Okay. We'll send it up to you. But you are

correct. If it's negative, you go negative; if
it's positive, you go positive• And you multiply
by 60•

237 20 38 53 CDR Okay. Now you might tell the science room that
I think we got them some good information on this
coronal hole. I put it on channel A, but es-
sentially we took some right on the boundaries,
then we went inside and took some. Then I moved
up so that my mirror auto raster would be con-
tinuous with the first one, and took some data
there in the hole, but the mirror auto raster
would, now cover a vertical l0 arc minute instead
of a vertical 5. And then - now I moved over a
150 arc minutes. I couldn't go the full 300 -
correction, seconds• I couldn't go the full 300
because it would have put me off the limb, the
82B slit off the limb. So the raster will go off
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the limb, but the 82B won't. And I think we'll

have a good kind of L-shaped 5 by 5 section there
that will allow them to get some good coronal
holes, though.

237 20 39 45 CC Okay. Get right back with you. That's good, AI.
Great. And as a first step to working on that
time reference system. If you haven't already,
take a look at the - how the time is operating
over there and then go to SECONDARY on panel 212.

237 20 h0 21 CDR Okay. Let me watch it awhile. It's operating

erratically, as usual. SECONDARY on panel 12.
Okay. We'll do it.

CDR Didn't help much, Story. Same operations in

SECONDARY BDFFE_ as PRIMARY BUFFER.

CC Okay. CoDy. Copy, A1. And you can put it back

to PRIMARY and leave it there.

CDR Okay,

CC And %qlile wetre on the subject, AI, when you do

your EREP check tonight, you may -might check
the EREP timer to see if itts okay.

CDR You know it isn't going to be, but we'll check

it.

CC Okay.

237 20 41 38 PLT Say, Story, I'm up in the MDA, vacunm_ng, or

trying to, and we last - we used up our last
high-power accessocy outlet with the rate gyros.
And I noticed that there's panel 115 that's got
something plugged into it, but I don't know what
it is. Wonder if you could find out what it is;
and if it's okay, we'll Just unplug it and use
that.

CC Stand by 1.

PLT I'm thinking it's got to do with M512 but I'm not
sure because the - the cord goes into the bulkhead
and disappears in there.

237 20 h2 26 CC Jack, that's the VTR, and you can use it for a
short while. When you're done, hook it up again,
because we do have about 15 minutes to dump.
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PLT Okay. I only need it for about 5 minutes.

CC Be fine.

237 20 h3 25 PLT Hey, Story, one other thing. I'm developing a

sty in my left upper eyelid, and I haven't had
one of those for about l0 years. But back in
the days that I did have them, why I use to use
an ointment called yellow mercury. The closest
thing I've come up with, here in the spacecraft,
is Neosporin topical ointment, ophthalmic type,
and I'm using that, and I wonder if that's the
same thing?

CC Okay. We'll get you an answer.

PLT Roger. And if you have a better recommendation,

why I'll use it. It seems to have stabilized
the thing, I hope anyway.

CC Okay.

PLT Must have been something Iet [sic] .

PLT The stuff I 'm using I got out of the command module.

CC Roger.

CDR Story, I never got time to get you that star

lockon. I'll have to get it the next daylight
pass.

CC Yes. You'll have to do it then, A1.

237 20 h6 31 CDR For your information, Story, BAT 8 is 30.2 volts,

BAT 5 is 31.8.

CC Okay.

CC Jack, what you're using right now from the

command module is about as good as we have.

CDR Okay. He heard you, Story.

CC And keep us posted on that. And, A1, did they get

through with the M131?
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CDR Yes.

CC Thank you.

237 20 47 24 PLT We've got almost through, Story. Due to the fact
that I've got this little thing in my eye, I did
not do the OGI part, and I did the rotating chair
part with Just m_ eyes closed.

CC Okay, copy.

237 20 49 00 CC Skylab, we' re a minute to LOS. We'll pick you

up over Carnarvon in 25 minutes, at 21:16. And
at that time, we will have handed over to Shaffer,
Truly, and the purple team.

CDR Okay. Sounds like a good team there, too. I did

not finish the PATROL, SHORT on the step 6. I'll
finish that when we come up and then press on.
We won't have any trouble, I think, getting it
all done.

237 20 49 2h CC Okay.

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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

237 21 16 58 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS at Carnarvon and Honey-

suckle for 14 minutes.

CDR Okay, I Just got a BAT VOLT barber pole on num-

ber 8, so I reset the charger.

CC Roger, AI.

CC And also, AI, we need to get the regulator off.

CC CDR, Houston. If you have a time, we'd - have

a chance, we'd like to get a time that you got
the barber pole, or was it just now? And also,
a read-out on the battery voltage, please.

237 21 17 57 CC Got a long pass and no hurry.

CDR I had 21:12. And what else did you want to know?

CC Understand 21:12 was the time, and we wanted the

battery voltage at that time, please.

CDR Just under 28 volts.

CC Okay, AI; thank you.

237 21 21 h5 CDR ASCO gave some good angles that time. I got a
star lockon right near there and closed the
shutter.

CC Good, AI. Real good.

237 21 24 28 CDR Dick, what's this science conference I note on

the schedule tomorrow?

CC Stand by i.

CC CDR, Houston. That's the time that we've set

aside tomorrow afternoon to ge the appropriate
people here for the medical area and the ATM area
and - the corollary to talk to you about the vari-
ous sci - science status and ask you questions
and answer them and just have a chitchat. There's
about - I think - as I recall, I think there's
one long pass for each of the areas that scheduled.
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CDR Okay. Just a second.

CC Roger.

237 21 29 58 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about a minute from LOS.

We're going to see you at _A at 22:04. And it's
as of this morning, it's sure nice to be talking
to the new world champions of space flight.

CDR Thank you. How about having somebody figure out

when we reach the exact halfway mark and let us
know what time that is? We're going to celebrate.

CC Okay, I'll find out, and I'll celebrate, too.

SPT We'll have a little extra apple juice and butter

cookies.

CC Me too, Jack.

PLT It's great to be on uncharted ground for once.

237 21 30 38 CC Roger.

237 22 05 50 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Bermuda for l0 minutes.

CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Bermuda for 9 minutes.

CDR Say again, Dick.

CC Ro_er. Just letting you know we were at Bermuda

for about 9 minutes.

CDR Okeydoke.

CC And i have the time for the midpoint of the mis-

sion that I'd like to give to you, if you'd like
to _rite it down.

CDR Okay. Go.

CC Okay, it's on day 239. And the time is 04:48:25.

And Phil and I noticed that there was some - both
some good news and some bad news about that time.
The bad news is that's about 2 hours after you
guys are supposed to be in bed, but it's about
12 minutes before this team gets off of shift,
so we may have to celebrate for you.
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CDR Okay. Feel free.

CC Will do her.

237 22 08 01 PLT I know that hurts you a lot, Dick. But you can
stand it.

CC Well, we'll do our best, Jack.

PLT Maybe we can celebrate a couple of hours early.

CC Roger.

PLT How long a mission is that the midpoint for?

CC That's a nominal 59-day splashdown.

PLT Okay.

237 22 09 27 SPT Say, Dick. Did you say that was on day of the
year 239?

CC That' s right, Owen. That 's correct.

SPT What mission day would you think that falls on?

CC It's going to be mission day 31, 0wen, like day

after tomorrow.

SPT Mission day 31, halfway through a 59-day flight,

huh?

237 22 09 55 CC Well, it turns out that lift-off was day l, which

made - the numbers come out that way. And the -
and splashdown turns out to be on day 60 is the
way the numbers fall out.

SPT I see. Okay. Thank you.

SPT Helps me with my arithmetic.

PLT You know the Professor; he's Just work - used to

working on the back of an envelope. So we got
to check him every once and awhile.

CC Well, we nee - we need the checking. So keep -

keep it up.
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SPT Well, on top of that, Phil Shaffer never makes

a mistake.

237 22 i0 38 CC Who said that?

237 22 15 00 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 1 minute from LOS.

We'd like to check and find out if the XUV monitor
door talkback is gray. We do not have an open
bit down here.

CDR That's strange. I was using it a minute ago and

the door was open. Let me close it, then open
it.

CC Okay. We're going to drop our here about 4 min-

utes, and I'll call you at Madrid, A1.

CDR Good. I'm opening it now. Has been open; I've

been using it.

CC Roger ; understand.

CDR Okay. It's open now. May have Just got a funny
bit.

CC Roger. We concur with you now, here on the ground;

our TM looked good.

CDR Maybe I hit it when I went to INTEGRATE.

237 22 16 00 CC Roger, A1.

237 22 19 16 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS again at Madrid. We

got you for 8 minutes; and, A1, when you did
recycle, we ended up in good shape on the two
doors. And we're going to take a real close -
We've never seen that before. We're going to
take a close look at the data and see if we can
psych it out, but apparently, no problem.

237 22 20 Oh CC Skylab, Houston. We Just commanded REG 8 back

on, and we did have a battery complete.

CDR Okay, that's good. The little lights out up here.

CC Roger.

CDR BAT 7 is about 30.5 volts; I mean BAT 5.

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CC Roger _ understand.

CC And, CDR; Houston. You're Just going into the

night pass, and there's probably a good chance
that battery 5 may kick off this night pass,
since 8 did it last t_me.

CDR You bet. I 'm going to watch it like a hawk.

CC (Chuckle) Roger.

237 22 21 47 CDR Now indicating 29 volts.

CC Roger.

237 22 26 23 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from LOS. We're

going to see you at Carnarvon at 22:52, and we're
going to dump the data recorder at Carnarvon.

237 22 26 35 CDR Okay, Dick.

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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

237 22 52 14 CC Skylab, Houston. We're at Carnarvon and Honeysuckle

for 15 minutes.

CDR Roger. Watch out for the kangaroos.

CC And, CDR, Houston. When you get through - get

squared away for this daylight pass, we're standing
by for the CBRM BAT 5 data.

237 22 54 45 CDR Okay, Dick, I'll give you a call in Just a

second.

CC Sure thing, AI. No hurry. 13 minutes left.

CDR Okay. It's got barber pole at 22:43 and Just

barely under 28 volts.

CC Thank you, AI, very much.

237 22 59 56 CDR Say, Dick, is it Saturday down there?

CC That's affirm. Sure is.

CDR Would - How about putting in a call to my home

in Houston, if my mother- and father-in-law are
there, and set up a private comm for me later
this evening sometime?

CC Roger, A1; sure will. I'll call them after this

pass is over.

CDR Okay. Thanks.

SPT And, Dick, I'd appreciate a call tonight, home

too.

CC Okay, Owen.

CDR You know, we're doing a lot of work on this

active region 06. And that active region, as you
view it, is just about a i0 arc - 15 arc second
round white blob. It really doesn't have a lot
of structure to it. It's setting over there on
the - close to the limb, and it doesn't have much
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in the way of unusual features to point at, if

you know what I mean.

CC Understand.

CDR I'll be finished in a minute with step 7, and I'll

be - correction - step 5 of 2B, and I'll be doing
step 2. And I guess they still want me to do
that. I can go over and work on that spot if
they want me to.

CC Roger. They're talking about it now, AI, and

I'll get back to you in a second.

237 23 02 i0 CDR I pointed at all possible places on that plage

there. It just isn't that big.

CC Understand; stand by. We're talking about it now.

CC CDH, Houston. The suggestion down here is rather

than continuing to work on active region 06, to
do a building block 5 on active region 93. Over.

237 23 03 51 CDR How's the comm now, Dick? Has it started working
again?

CC Well, I guess we drop - dropped out there, AI. I

read you loud and clear this time, and the sug-
gestion from the backroom and ATM was do a building
block 5 on active region 93. It's on your SAP.

CDR That's a good idea.

237 23 04 lO CC Okay.

CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 40 seconds from

LOS. We'll see you at Texas at 23:38.

237 23 07 17 CDR Okay.

237 23 38 32 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS stateside for

15 minutes.

CDR Okay.

CDR Say, Dick, I was getting ready for that VTR thing
tonight, and I happened to be looking at our E -
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EREP VTS prep card, and I was looking on the

second column and they're talking about how to
connect the VTR comm cable. Now I know it goes
to A tonight, but this little thing says CHAN B
and CHAN B intercom, PUSH-TO-TALK. I suspicion
that we didn't get a checklist change that should
have included that. Would you check and see if
we should change on our checklist cards, for
normal EREP VTS, colnmu 2, line i, 2, 3, h, 5; '
those Bs to As?

CC Oh. I think you are right, AI, and I sure will

check and we'll get back with you on that.
Incidentally, we're going to be commanding the
secondary electronic timer on here at Texas, and
then we're going to reset that timer to GMT - to
zero at GMT midnight, which occurs over at Madrid.
So after we command the secondary timer on, you
can - might take a look at your clock and see if
it's scrambled. It probably will read the wrong
time, but hopefully it won't be garbled.

237 23 39 55 CDR Okay, we'll sure give you the word.

CC Okay, I'ii let you know when we're commanding.

237 23 h0 02 CC Command's up. CDR, Houston. We have commanded

the secondary timer, and you're right on the VTR.
It should be channel A, and we'll check back in
the paperwork and make sure that the - there -
there's a checklist change that supports that.
I'm not sure that there is, but if there is, we'll
send it to you again. If not, we'll generate one.

CDR Thanks.

237 23 41 39 CC CDR, Houston. I made the phone call you asked,

and there was no answer. I'll keep trying. And
Owen, I'm - I'll let him know later exactly what
time that phone call will be set up. I do have
a couple of other items that I'd like to talk to
you about. One is some dump voice that we lost
and another about the ATM battery tests.

CDR Okay, go ahead.

CC Okay, this after noon we - at one of the Canary

dump passes, we had a problem with some
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fluctuating signal strength. And we - we redumped

that tape recorder and got some of the voice back
at Carnarvon. However, the sl_mmary of it is, is
that we've lost the channel A dump voice today
between the following time: 17:58 Zulu to 19:14,
which is about an hour and 16 minutes. And again
from 20:02 Zulu to 20:36 Zulu, which is about
half an hour. So if you recall anything that you
did put on those tapes, or in - if that Jogs your
memory about anything, we don't have them. So
if there's any way we can help you out, let us
know.

237 23 _2 52 SPT Dick, I did put some things on the tape, but of
course I don't remember the exact - the GMT time.
What I think I'll do is - is Just send you a note
down on channel A to see - to make sure that you
got some material on each of these subjects. Then
if you didn't, I'll try to repeat that.

CC That's a good idea, Owen, and we will go through

it and - and make sure. The second item I had
was on the ATM battery tests. It looks like so
far, the way the tests areturning out that the
- all the battery capacities are about 12 to
13 amp-hours. Instead of BATS 13 and 2 which are
called out on your Flight Plan for tomorrow, we
are considering scheduling a test on batteries 7
and lO for retest. We have - some of our data
indicates that a deep discharge actually produces
some recovery, and we'd like to demonstrate this -
that this is fact or not.

237 23 43 48 CDR Okay, we'll - won't make any changes until we

hear from you, exactly.

CC Roger. Good idea.

CDR Might tell the ATM science room we finished all

of JOP 2B, and we're doing shopping list item 13
with a h-second - correction - a h-minute exposure.
And I picked the coronal hole as a possible area
of interest and that's what we're working on at
the moment.

CC Roger, CDR.
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CDR One other thing on this VTR test tonight. It

looked like it was time critcal; I couldn't
really understand why.

CC Stand by.

CC CDR, you said VTR. Did you mean VTS or VTR?

CDR I meant VTS, sorry.

CC Roger. Stand by i.

CDR Maybe that's the time the inertial attitude

happens to be local vertical or something like
that.

237 23 h5 51 CC Roger, A1. I'm looking at the message now and

trying to figure out exactly which part you're
talking about as being time critical. Which
step?

CDR Well, I don't know. That's the question. Over

on my CDR details, it says,"00:35, VTS check:
VIDEO SELECT, TV; data take 00:h5 to 00:55."
First of all, I don't think we can pull that test
off in I0 minutes. But I'm a little bit puzzled
about the whole thing.

CC Well, let us talk about it for a second and I'll

get back to you.

237 23 h8 09 CC CDR, Houston. The only thing that's time critical

about this operation, and the reason that it is
listed on your detail pad at that 10-minute
window is the fact that while you're slewing
the VT$ around, we want an Earth scene in the VTS
so that we can therefy - thereby put it on the
VTR and have something to reference it to. So
as long as when you're - as when you're slewing
the VTS around during this - the procedure that's
set forth in this message, as long as we have
any Earth scene in the VTS at that time, we're
happy. Over.

CDR Okay. Well, I'll plan to start step 5 there

right at that time, and just keep going until I
finish, and hope that I finish in l0 minutes.
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CC Okay, AI. That's exactly what we want to do.

PLT Hey, Dick. Has there been any decision on what

we're goingto do with the ERE? S192, if anything,
prior to the resumption of EREP in a week or so?

237 23 49 19 CC Stand by.

CC PLT, Houston. We have no plans at the moment

to change the eoolent Dewar on S192; however, the
issue - it's still being talked about, and the
issue is not completely closed. And that's about
the best answer I can give you now.

PLT Okay, that's fine. Thank you, Dick.

CC Roger.

SPT Hey, Dick, while we're talking about EREP, could

you ask the EREP Officer if it is not his plan
to make sure by the end of this flight that we do
not have any 190B film that is left unexposed?

CC SPT, Houston. Be assured that we do intend to use

every frame.

SPT Okay. That sounds good. It didn't look like we'd

reached halfway on it yet, and I was Just wanting
to make sure that didn't plan to leave any un-
exposed. That's good. Thank you.

237 23 50 29 CC Roger. That's correct.

CC SPT, Houston. One thing that's going to help

us use up some of that ETC film also, is we have
some solar inertial data takes scheduled. The
first one, I think, is starting this next week,
and that will use up some of it profitably, we
think.

SPT Sure. That sounds real good, and it seemed like

there have been several good opportunities of
that nature, and I'm sure you're Just waiting
along for the best ones, and that sounds like a
good idea.

CC Roger.
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237 23 51 36 CC Skylab, Houston. We're i m_nute from LOS. I'ii

call you about 5 minutes from now at Madrid.

237 23 51 52 CC Skylab, Houston. We're got a complete on

batte_-j 5 _nd we're commanding PEG 5 ON now.

CC Skylab, Houston. We've still got about 45 seconds

left. Was any improvement in the - in the
operation of the timer after we commanded the
secondary timing back on?

CDR Looks like it's working perfectly, and the time

is a little bit off. It shows it at hour 00,
minute 13, and second 07, but they're not bouncing
around any.

CC That sounds super, and the time is going to start

reading correctly at Madrid when we set it to zero
at midnight Zulu, about 8 minutes from now. I'll
call you at Madrid.

237 23 52 56 CDR Okay. Good show.

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SKYLAB AIR-T0-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

237 23 57 02 CC Skylab, Houston; Madrid for 8 minutes.

237 23 59 56 PLT You there, Dick?

CC Affirmative. Go ahead.

PLT Okay, Dick. I guess we're all squared away now.

This concerns salt. In view of the fact that the
food people don't seem to be too worried about
the salt problem with regard to Owen's lack of
change in his cue cards, I don't have any salt
tonight, and I'd like to have a little extra to
make my meat taste better. Do you suppose it
would be all right Just to go ahead and take
some?

CC Well I do. But let me check.

CC PLT, Houston. Use the salt to suit yourself, and

just be sure and report to us what you did.

PLT Okay. I'll do that. Thank you.

CC Roger.

238 00 04 08 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about a minute from LOS.

We'll see you at Carnarvon at 00:33. And one
question for Jack. We wanted - we Just wanted to
confirm that the - that the salt request was not
any degradation in the taste of the meat, but
just a desire to make it palatable or taste as well
as possible.

PLT Yes, I'd just like to have salt on it; it makes

it taste better. The meats fine, but I'd like
to make it better.

CC Okay. Thank you very much. See you at Carnarvon.

238 00 04 40 CDR The clock looks like it's set correctly.

CC Good show. Thank you for letting us know.

238 00 32 37 CC Skylab, Houston. We're at Carnarvon for the next

6 minutes. Over.
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238 00 3h _6 CC Skylab, Houston. We're at Carnarvon. Still got

about 3 minutes left in this pass; and be advised,
in answer to your question this morning about the
television, we worked up - back in the TV - the
guys worked up some answers to that, and anytime
this evening that you're in a listening mood I'll
pass them up to you.

SPT Okay, Dick, after while, probably.

CC Roger. I figured that - I figured that you might

be busy now, so we can catch them later. And for
Owen, we've set up a phone call for him at the
Goldstone pass at 02:48 this evening.
!

SPT Okay, 2:_8.

238 00 35 36 CC Roger. And I'll remind you again.

238 00 44 03 CC Skylab, Houston. We have a very short AOS here

at Honeysuckle. We're about a minute from LOS.
And we're going to have you at Texas at 01:lB.
And I'll be standing by there at Texas to get
the evening status report.

SPT Okay, Dick.

238 01 14 26 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS at Texas for the next

15 minutes.

CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Texas for the next

14 minutes. We are receiving down-link TV, and
I'm standingby for the evening status report.

SPT Okay, Dick. And A1 will be with you in Just a

minute.

CC Okay. We've got lots of time.

CDR Okay, Dick. Here it comes. By the way, the VTS

test came off all right.

CC Okay.

238 01 16 21 CDR Okay. Start with urin volume: 148, 145, 150;
drinking water gun: 5h44, 8995, 6119. BMMD:
6.238, 6.235, 6.234; 5.966, 5.963, 5.963: 6.950,
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6.948, 6.948; Exercise: CDR: 2/33/5004; 3/15/

Mark I, 40 A; 20 B; 20 C; 20 D; 3/10/Mark II, 40 A;
20 B; I0 C; i0 D; l0 G; SPT: 2/30/4300; 3/20/
Mark I, 60 A; 60 B; 60 D; RLT: 1/05/0554,
2/32/7356, 3/20/Mark I, 50 A; 20 B; 20D; and
20 backbends. Medication: PLT had some Neosporin
ointment for a sty on his eye, which he'll talk
about with the doctor tonight. Sleep: CDR,
6-1/2 G_ SPT, 7 G; and PLT 6-1/2 G. Here comes
the food log: CDR, all salt packs were used,
which were 13 - no, no -

CC Roger. Got all that, AI.

238 01 18 07 CDR CDR used 12.5 salt packs, and had an extra cherry
drink. SPT had five salt packs, and add biscuits,
add lemonade, add jam. PLT had five salt packs,
and one cherry drink. Okay. Photo log next.

CC Okay.

238 01 18 44 CDR Photo log says: M516/S054 cassette removal, C152,

50, C149; M516 housekeeping 80B, C144, 00, C142.
30-millimeter - correction, 35-millimeter: CII01,
57; CXI3, 20. CX25. This is the 7G-millimeter:
CX25, 076. Drawer A configuration: 07, C150,
21, C140; 05, C146, 00, C141; 06, CI52, 00, CI49;
03, C151, 00, C148; in the back it's 02, C144,
00, C142. Now let me back up just a second and
look at something.

CC Okay.

CDR On the C152, here, 06, C152 and the that's 50,
not 00, C149.

CC Roger, AI.

238 01 20 12 CDR Okay. Flight plan tomorrow, tell them that's

a good Flight plan. Looks like we've got a good
day off for everybody. Owen's got some time;
we've got some good housekeeping. I'm glad they
planned it the way they did. It'll give us all
time to get our clothes out and things like that.
So, that's a good plan, and we'll pull that off
tomorrow. Our request is that you don't call us
tomorrow morning. We'll set our own little alarm
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clocks up here. 0nly Jack has to get up early,

and I have to get up next. And everybody else
can get up when they want, and nothing's time
critical for quite awhile there, so don't call us,
please, unless you have something, of course.
Shopping list: nothing. Inoperable equipment:
TB number l, as you know. Unscheduled stowage
item: nothing. So that's the evening report
unless you have some questions.

238 01 21 00 CC Roger, A1. I got two or three things that I'd

like to talk to you about. And we might as well
do it now. We - That's fine on the wakeup call.
We had planned on calling you at 12:00 clock tomor-
row, but I'm sure you guys can get the right
people up when you want them, and so we will not
call you in the morning. We did want to remind
Owen that the special specific gravity check with
Mll0 tomorrow, is due. And as long as it's taken
on the void, it can be done - actually accomplished
either before or after the urine test; his choice.
And I've got two or three evening questions that
I thought I'd pass up to you.

CDR Fire away.

238 01 21 42 CC Okay. This is from ATM. The temperatures on

S052, and S054 cameras were high after instal-
lation during the EVA. We're wondering, how long
were these cameras on the VC tree at the SAS work
station prior to installation?

SPT Well, I was Just stopping a moment to think. But

we took them out the night before, and the follow-
ing day they were installed. And so it had to
have been less than an hour.

CC Okay, Owen. Thank you very much. Next question,

has the S05_ film been stowed?

SPT It's in the comm_nd module A-8.

CC Great. Next question is, it's going to be a few

hours before - -

CDR I'm trying to remember on that canister, whether

we sent it out, you, put it there, then we moved
149, or you moved 149. Then we set out the cani-
ster, and then you did the - did the TAC.
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CC Okay. -

CDR Okay.

238 01 22 55 CC The next question we had is: it's going to be

several hours before we get some white light coro-
nagraph TV on the ground that we can look at. We're
wondering if you could describe the nature of the
cusp that is apparently visible on the white light
coronagraph now, and does the character of the
image that you see change with time, or does it
change with roll? And what would you estimate
its brightness to be relative to the coronal struc-
tures ? Over.

SPT Okay. I'm not certain whether it rolls or not.

But I'm - because I've not tried it in the couple
of times I've had a chance to look at it, Dick.
But I'm reasonable certain that it does. And it
looks like a - sort of a dish concaved outward,
located at about 01:30, at least at the times I've
seen it. And of course, that may roll. And it's
brightness relative to the streamers, I would
say that it's comparable with a bright streamer
at the edge of the occulting disks. Over.

238 01 24 07 CC Roger. I got that. And did you notice any change
in the brightness of this image with time? Over.

SPT I don't believe any of us have noticed it, Dick.

CDR Let me give you a thought that I have on it, al-

though l'm not looking at it now.

CC Okay.

CDR I get the impression it's on the occulting disk.

So as you rotate it around - rotate the canister,
then it rotates with it. So, it always stays -
as you look at the tube, it always stays at 01:30,
or so. That's my impression. The next one is,
that the cusp is most noticable because it provides
a dish-shaped shadow with the base of the dish
sort of in contact with the occulting disk. And
so then you have the bright corona on the other
side of the dish. And the dish would probably be,
in terms of angular degrees around the center of
the occulting disk, something like lO to 15 degrees
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in width there. So I see it mostly as a sort of

little shadow - dish-shaped shadows within slight
brightening in a dish-shaped, as it moves away
from there at 01:30 or so.

238 01 25 29 CC Okay. Thank you very much. Let's move on to

another question, AI, and get back to the busi-
ness of the guards on the - on the switches for
the rate gyro packs. First of all, we flew up
a guard in the rate gyro pack tool kit, which
was a little U-shaped aluminum dealy. And it was
intended to go over the high-power accessory
circuit breaker on panel 202. Did you find that
guard, and is it now on that circuit breaker?

CDR The answer is yes. I even taped the base of the

guard down. It's completely - to my mind, doesn't
do the Job, considering the criticality of that
circuit breaker staying closed all the time. Now
it's taped there and somebody will have to go to
a great effort to knock it off. But I guarantee
you when you're getting in the coolant - trying
to hunt around for the coolant, or you're trying
to get some of those screws off, like we've been
doing lately to hunt the leaks or hunt the vacuum,
then sometimes your feet flail around. They don't
usually, but once in a while they do. And you'd
sure hate to knock that circuit breaker off. So
it's on now, and it's taped down. But I think we
ought to come up with a design that we can put
on there, and screw it on, so if somebody gives
it a good kick, it still doesn't move. Right now,
if you give it a kick, it Just kind of flies off
its snap, and the circuit breaker is exposed.

238 01 26 53 CC Okay, AI. Let me go on to another couple of sug-

gestions that we had. First of all, on all these
switches for your flight, the high-power accessory
outlet, the switch that's over there, we think
it'd be okay Just to get a piece of gray tape, and
actually tape that switch to the ON position. In
the case of the circuit breakers, we obviously
want some kind of guard that will allow the circuit
breakers to pop open. And the best idea that we've
come up with, would be to get maybe one of the
Backs off one of the books that - that maybe you
can find, that Pete was using, or a piece of
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cardboard or something and just form a little

U-shaped cover over it. One that could be taken
off in a hurry if you needed to. And also, one
that would allow the circuit breaker to do its
job, but would hopefully prevent, you know, you
from getting your finger or foot in there. And
then for Jerry's mission, of course, we can do
something a little more scientific.

238 O1 27 51 CDR Okay, that's not a bad idea. We've got tape over
them now, that still allow them to throw, but
protect them somewhat. Before we launched, I
thought those things were acceptable. And I don't
think so anymore. The circuit breaker we've dis-
cussed is fixed. The problem there is, that's
a rather narrow area of the spaceship, and you
end up going by there and sometimes you're not in
complete control. You know, your feet are dangling,
and it's just not the place to have a - some open
things. I would suggest that when they do come
up with a guard - some sort of a metal guard or
something, that they go to the trouble of painting
it orangeand black or some - I mean orange-
yes, orange and black or red and silver, or some-
thing like that, so that it will be a noticeable
thing. Because there's a lot of items in there,
and those black rate gyros stand out about as
much as any other box in there. And you know you
can't avoid them all when you come through there.
So you can - those you'd want to be alert to. So
it ought to, not only protect it, it should be
color-coded so it would be obvious that those are
something you should stay away from.

238 01 29 02 CC Roger, AI. We got your suggestion. We're about

30 seconds from LOS at Bermuda. I'm going to
give you a call at Madrid in about 5 minutes, and
I had a couple of quick things I can probably get
up here. One was, we'd like to get ATM frames
remaining tonight. We could not find it on
channel A from last evening. And the second one is -
is - Okay, I'm being told to hold up, and I'll
get this one back to you later. So I'll give you
a call at Madrid in about 5 minutes.

PLT Do you want frames remaining real time, or on

channel A?
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CC We'd appreciate it real time. Maybe at Madrid,

if we could.

PLT Okay. I've got them in front of me; I'll hold

them until then.

238 01 29 39 CC Okay. I'ii be calling you very shortly, Jack.

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SKYLAB AIR-T0-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

238 01 34 23 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Madrid for 9 minutes.

PLT Okay, Dick, and here's the ATM frames remaining:

H- alpha, 14889; S056, 5370; 82A is 188; 82B is
1451; 52 is 76O8; 54 is 5615.

CC That 54 was 56157 Is that correct?

PLT Yes, sir.

CC Okay, good. Thank you for reading them down and

I got them. I have a couple more things that we
can get out the way this pass. First of all, we
intend to be - to send up to you a new procedure
for ED78 that you may - can use later. But the -
one note on that, the SL-2 student experiment
checklist has some useful pictures in it, and so
the task is to find that checklist. We think it's
in a plenum bag that you stowed just to the left
of the freezers, up in the forward compartment -
between the freezers and that duct. And there
maybe some pictures in there, you might want to
have a hack at trying to find. Also, have a
change to the CDR and the SPT details for tomorrow
and some battery number change.

SPT Okay, let's get them out.

238 01 36 00 CDR I know, right here the book is, but I still don't
understand what we're going to look for in the
book.

CC Well, I guess the note that I have, and I don't

have one of - I don't have Pete's book here at the
console, Al, but the note that I have are - there
some photographs or pictures of this experiment in
the book that would be useful for you to take a
look at.

CDR Okay, so it's in his student demonstration book?

CC l'm sorry, say again.

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CDR It's in his student experiments book?

CC That affirm. Student Experiment Checklist.

CDR We'll find it in a flash. Okay.

/

238 01 36 35 CC Okay, and I guess we want to know if you can find

it in order, so that we can tailor the procedures
assuming, youknow, that you have that information.
That's about all it is.

CDR Soon as we finish talking, we'll find it. Okay.

CDR Ready to copy bat numbers.

CC Okay, on the CDR details for tomorrow at 15 at a

time of 15:15, I want to change bat 13 to read
bat 7. And then on the SPT details at a time of
16:59, I want to change bat 2 to read bat 10.

CDR Okay, I'll - The SPT is working. I'll relay that

message to him. But now I do CDR bat 7 and PCG
bat 6. Is that correct?

238 01 37 hl CC Roger. You do 7 and Owen does 10.

CDR Oh my. I also, must be doing PCG bat 6 in between

times. Is that true?

CC That is affirmative.

CDR Okay.

CC And, Skylab_ Houston. We've still got about

5-1/2 minutes here at Madrid. Another thing, this
evening, that we wanted to get up to you. You
asked this morning about television and how things
are going. And Fred Koons worked up a pretty good
s1_mmary of what we think to date. And I'd like
to pass that up to you sometime this evening.

CDR How about right now?

238 01 38 26 CC Okay, I'm going to be half reading frQm this page

and half paraphrasing, so I'll Just go ahead and
go. We promised you a report on TV and particularly
the ones you've done from the TV Ops Book. And
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what we've done is we've taken a look at the las -

at the first 28 days of the mission and the follow-
ing is a summary of that. First of all, Just about
all the TV has been great. Both from the TV Ops
Book and others. You've done a total of 31 tele-
casts, 13, of which is from the ops book. Almost
everyone of these have been broadcast and, of
course, you know that after we get them down here
we do edit them some just to get them short enough
for the networks to use them. The reason that
there are not too many from the TV 0ps Book is
that we didn't start until day ll. And prior to
that we had trouble finding time for the TV; and,
of course, we had the VTR failure we had to contend
with. The one that you did on day ll was a real
beauty. It was one of the com - complicated
two-camera jobs with M171 and you did it almost
perfectly. You had trouble with one scene because
the light was out but we fixed that up in the
ground processing. The next day you did M131; it
didn't go as well, but that was our fault, because
the checklist, we thought, was too complicated.
You did a real good job in picking up the missed
scenes in that one. The three telecasts that
Jack did on meal prep and eating were real good.
The M509 and TV went very well and they were also -
was an impressive and the guys down here think
that Owen is a first-class zero-g cameraman. We
have one piece of constructive criticism. When
0wen did the TV-28 from the ATM C&D - this was
the time he ran out of tape. We thought he didn't
pause quite enough in his narration, so we Just
suggest a reminder to just go a little slower on
the talking. When Jack did the camera comparison
test, it showed that there was not much difference
between the two cameras. The one that you have
left may need a little more light and particularly
in the forward compartment in the MDA, and we'd
recommend an f-stop of f/4. And that - just a
note there - that will probably make - make the
focus more critical. We are starting to get some
live TV opportunities in the evenings, and that
may be a good time to look at Anita's web. The
last time that Owen televised the web, he used
close-up lens, and we'd Just like you to know that
that worked real well, and best of the choices he
had. It might even help to turn out one of the
spider box lights to get a little more contrast
on the web. Over.
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2B8 01 41 14 CDR Okay, Dick, we appreciate that, and tell Fred

thanks for working the problem.

CC I'ii sure dQ it.

CDR By the way, we did housekeeping 60-E yesterday,

so we got plenty of food around.

CC Was that that - -

CDR I forgot to put it on shopping list accomplishments.

CC Okay, and that was 60 Echo, right?

CDR Right. Ambient food transfer.

CC Okay. Fine. And one note from ATM for the

unattended closeout on the S055. We need optical
reference line 25 and a verify that the NIGHT
INTERLOCK switch is NORMAL.

CDR I'll get it.

SPT That's in MECHANICAL, 102 and - which is the same

as OPTICAL, zero.

238 01 42 14 CC Stand by.

PLT What?

CC Skylab, Houston. We do need OPTICAL REFERENCE.

You are - you are correct about the - your - what
you said about the MECHANICAL being the same;
however, during the night we do change that, so
we would appreciate OPTICAL REFERENCE.

CDR Okay. Owen's doing that right now.

SPT Dick, a thing I'm not sure of, you see if it last
went through MECHANICAL REFERENCE, we'll hav_ to
wait until sunrise, and go all the way around to
get another zero in on the OPTICAL REFERENCE. Now
is that what they want us to do? Or do they want
us Just to add 25 to this 1027 And then put the
switch to OPTICAL?
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CC We're satisfied that we see you, just put it in

OPTICAL REFERENCE now, and we think we're in good
shape now, 0wen.

SPT Okay. I understand. So you're satisfied with Just

putting the switch there. Thank you.

238 01 43 42 CC Roger. And we're going LOS here at Madrid. We'll

see you at Honeysuckle. That'll be a med confer-
ence, and the next pass is Owen's telephone call.

238 02 50 18 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Goldstone for the

next 8 minutes.

PLT Okay, Dick.

CC And, Jack, I've got a couple of questions, and I

know Owen's tied up. I - I thought I'd pass them
to you, and I can get the answers later or maybe
you'd know. And also one other thing is the pre-
caution to void the possibility of a caution and
warning tonight. We're seeing secondary loop temps
go down. We don'tthink this is anything serious
with AM secondary loop, but we don't want to risk
waking you up. So we'd suggest on panel 207
SECONDARY COOLANT TEMP LOW, INHIBIT.

PLT Okay, we'll get it.

CC Okay, and the two items that I - we wanted to

find out was - it m_es us wonder from looking at
your photo log from tonight, and that is, did
you - we'd like to know how the spider transfer
went today? Did you get any - any problems with
Arabella out of her vial? And did you get any
16-millimeter photos of it?

238 02 51 26 PLT Well, we'll have to ask the Big O. I haven't

seen Arabella around here loose. I image she's
where she belongs, but O. can answer those
questions. I don't know if he's near a mike or
not.

CDR He's not, and the answer is he's going to do it

tomorrow; he didn't get to it today.
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CC Great, A1; tb_k you very much.

CC And did he have any luck with the S063 aurora

photos tonight?

CDR I don't know. He's over there. We'll have to

ask him when he comes back.

CC Roger. I Just turned on COOL LOW and I was

wondering. Tell me a little bit more about why
this thing's going low.

CC Stand by 1.

238 02 52 _ CC CDR, Houston. What we think happened was, is

that during the EVA, the TCB valve in that loop
moved and then restuck at a position that allowed
more flow, and the loop is getting cooler. How-
ever, it's not going down at a rate that concerns
us, and in order to understand more about it we're
Just watching it go down. And we think it - and
we think it's going to stabilize at about 40
degrees, at the rate it's going now. And the trip
point is about 38.

CDR Okay, understand, and - In other words, you don't

anticipate us having to break out our SUS heaters
and all that other business?

238 02 53 24 CC Negative. Right now we do not, A1.

CDR Okay, good.

CDR Okay we're going to go and set our clock, today

238, if that's okay with y'all.

CC Roger; we'd - we concur with that. And also, A1,

we've up-linked a - a housekeeping 70 Zebra message.
It's in the teleprinter now, and that's the PCG
test that you're going to be doing in the morning.
You might want to take a look at that. And I
have a few news items for you here. We still got
about _ minutes left at Goldstone.

CDR Good; we enjoy them every night.

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CC Stand by. Okay, here we go. First thing is -

First things first. I want to tell you a little
bit about Fred. He's made real good progress today.
His conditioD is stable; he's taking food orally now.
And all the intravenous catheters have been removed.
And so we think he's improving very much.

238 02 54 39 CC And I'll go ahead and catch some of these news

items. Authorities discovered, to the horror of
many Frenchmen today, that the equivalent of 2
million bottles - bottles of fake Bordeaux wine
were in the cell - cellars of famous wine-making
region. And that's being pursued very carefully
in France. A 500-pouud bell fr_n the sunken USS
HOUSTON was delivered Friday to the U.S. Ambassodor
in Indonesia. Also handed over in the embassy
ceremony were a machine gun and a telescope from
the crusier, which the Japanese sank in the Battle
of the Java Sea in 1Rh2, in which about 500 of
the HOUSTON'S crew were lost. A group of Indonesian
frogmen found the wreck last June. General Omar
Bradley, the nation's only five-star general, has
been moved out of the intensive-care unit of a
Los Angeles hospital. A spokesman said that
Bradley continued to show satisfactory progress.
The Skylab news today is primarily centered around
your breaking the manned space flight record.
References are being made to the old record set by
Pete Conrad, Joe Kerwin, and Paul Weitz. Other
milestones being mention - ment - mentioned are
the mission midpoint, which you reach tomorrow
night. And, of course, the fact that you plan to
go more than double the old record. And, inciden-
tally, at the time that you cross the midpoint,
you would have traveled 12 million miles. Nineteen-
year-old Joyce Ann Koutch wanted to be an Army MP,
but finding the quota for women to be full, she is
settling for being Army's first woman paratrooper.
Although she will never see combat, if she
successfully completes her training, she will be
qualified to jump in emergency situations and
possibly in Army exhibitions. The helicopter
carrier New Orleans arrived in Pearl Harbor
Saturday afternoon to ready for its assignment
as prime recovery ship for the Skylab 3 astronauts.
The ship will operate in and out of Pearl Harbor,
covering several contingency landing areas, and on
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September I_ will head for the planned splashdown

point about 350 miles southwest of San Diego, and
she'll cover the other contingency points enroute
I have one more item. The floral arrangement of
Mrs. Myron Harp of Junction City, Kansas, won a
blue ribbon as the best arrangement at the Central
Kansas Free Fair. After 3 days on display, it was
confiscated by Abilene police. It seems the greenery
used to set off a smattering of red buds was
mariJunana. She said it Just grows wild in her
baekyard, and the - yard and the long lacy leaves
added to the arrangement, so she used it for fern.
Although she knew it was, she had no idea it would
create so much excitement, and no charges were filed.
We're about a minute from LOS at Goldstone. We're
going to have you - pick you up at Bermuda in about
3 or 4 minutes and I'ii give you a call there.

CDR Okay, Dick; thanks.

CC Roger.

CDR Good finale, too.

238 02 57 54 CC Roger.

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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

238 03 04 56 CC Skylab, Houston. We're Bermuda for 3 minutes.

SPT Okay, Dick.

CC And, Owen; Houston. We hope your call went okay,

and I had one question for you and that was, did
you have any luck with the S063 aurora photo-
graphs tonight?

SPT There was no visible aurora of any kind tonight.

I did look through the whole northern part of
the orbit there during that window, and Just no
luck. And the call went through very smoothly.

CC Roger.

238 03 07 0h CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 30 seconds from

LOS. In case you wamt to talk to us, we're
having a Canary AOS at - 3 - 03:ll and I won't
• call you. So, you guys get a good night's sleep
and call us in the morning. We won't call you.

SPT Okay, Dick. See you in the morning. Thank you.

238 03 07 32 CC Roger.

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SKYLAB AIR-T0-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

238 13 02 31 CC Good morning, Skylab. We've got you over the

Vanguard for 8 minutes.

PLT Okay, Story.

CC And, Jack, Just to help you to get oriented, you

do have an ATM pass coming up pretty shortly.

PLT l've already got the panel all powered up and l'm
looking at the Sun. The top of the morning to you.

CC Thank you.

CC And as a reminder, we are running some specific

gravities on the urine this morning and we'll
- we'll - need some samples from the first voids.

SPT It's already been started.

I-

CC Thanks, Owen.

238 13 03 34 CC And in the next 7 minutes, for anyone, I need to

tell you about some teleprinter messages.

PLT Okay, go ahead and tell me.

CC Okay, message 3033 AI - discard. Use in its

place 3033 Delta i.

PLT Okay, I'ii go up and pull them off.

CC And discard 3030 Alfa i; and 3025 was sent twice.

PLT That's about all I can remember at once. If you

give anymore, I'Ii have to go write them down.

CC Stand by I. I got one small change but I'ii wait

until you get the message in your hand.

PLT Okay, Story.

238 13 07 22 PLT Okay, I found 3033 Alfa i. I've disregarded that

in favor of Delta i. 3030 Alfa i, I've not yet
located but I may have already taken that off the
teleprinter and that's to be disregarded also.
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CC And that's affirm and use 3033 Charlie 2 along

with the 3033 Delta i.

PLT Now, is 3033 Charlie 2 and Delta i to be used in

place of 3030 Alfa? Is that the idea, or is
that a separate subject?

CC Stand by i.

238 13 08 42 CC Okay, the 3033 Delta i, that's the one that

supercedes the others. And the change to that is
the 3033 Charlie 2. It's a change to a checklist.

PLT Well, I hope we've got this straight.

238 13 09 13 PLT So, the only two things that I'm supposed to
throw out is 33 Alfa 1 and 30 Alfa l?

CC Stand by i.

CC Okay, we've got it straight now. We're a little

slow this morning. Discard 3033 Alfa 1 and
Alfa 2, and discard 3030 Alfa i and Alfa 2. The
3033 Delta i and the 3033 Charlie 2 are good.

PLT Okay, I'ii repeat it back; 33 Alfa i, 33 Alfa 2,

30 Alfa i, 30 Alfa 2 are all four to be disre-
garded. Good ones are 33 Delta i and 33 Charlie 2.

CC That's affirm and we sent up 3025 twice.

PLT Okay.

238 13 l0 54 CC And we're going LOS here and we'll see you over
Hawaii in about an hour.

PLT Okay, do you know any reasons why my READY light

shouldn't be ON on my panel? Have the ATM guys
look at it real quick.

CC Which experiment ?

PLT A]] of them.

238 13 ii 23 CC And put the TV on the VTR recorder.

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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

238 lh 09 02 CC Skylab, we're AOS through Hawaii for 9 minutes.

CC And, Jack, did you get your ATM straightened out?

PLT Yes, I did. I had to go to VARIABLE instead of

fixed on the ALERT/STATUS light.

CC Okay.

PLT And I've got three requests this morning. Perhaps

my wife would want to take care of them so you
could pass them on to her. I'd like to let
three different sets of people know I'm thinking
about them. Number l, today is my brother Don's
birthday. He's a student at the University of
Michigan in Ann Arbor, and like him to know that
I'm wishing him a happy birthday. Secondly, I'd
like the - the boys in my Sunday school class at
the Harris County Youth Village to know I'm
F thinkingabout them this morning. And also the
people at the church in which I'm a member, the
Clear Lake Community Church there in Clear Lake.
If you'd pass that word along, I'd appreciate it.

CC Okay, I've got it; will do.

PLT Thank you.

238 14 ll 18 PLT And, Story, one more thing. I'd like to place
a call to my wife this evening, please.

CC Okay, Jack.

PLT Thank you.

CDR Better watch out, Story. Dr. J. is getting so

good at taking blood it's fantastic. He got us
both this morning and neither of us felt it.

CC Yes, I guess that's bad news for you all.

CDR It is, he might be doing it in our sleep and we

don't know it.
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238 i_ 12 17 CC He's not working up around your neck yet, is he?

CDR We're worried, he's pretty skillful at it.

Letting his hair grow too is another strange
thing. Mustache is getting longer.

CDR How long until sunrise, Story?

CC Down here we're showing 8 minutes.

CDR Good.

238 lh lh 03 CC Jack, we got another 4 minutes before LOS and

we're still puzzling with your problem with the
lights. Could you tell us Just what the pro-
blem was and how you fixed it?

CDR Apparently, he didn't have his switch on and he

in VARIABLE instead of FIXED and as you know,
fixed is the only one that works. And he's
now taking Owen's blood, is why he can't answer
himself.

CC And he did - he didn't have any lights on any

experiments. Is that right?

CDR That's affirm. It - it was just a switch problem.

CC Okay.

CDR That's a long checklist and it's got about 25

write-ins scribbled in. It's kind of hard to
sift them out sometimes.

CC Okay.

238 14 15 26 PLT Story, I Just had to take Owen's blood. But

that problem turns out that our FI_TD position
doesn't work in and you have to go to VARIBLE
on the status - the ALERT/STATUS light.

CC It - It's the other way around, isn't it, Jack?

The VARIBLE doesn't - -

PLT No, the - hhe top two are fixed, and the bottom
one is VARIBLE. That's the way they - the only
way they work.
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CC Skylab, we're 1 minute to LOS. We'll see you

over the Vanguard in about 22 minutes at 13:01
(sic). And be dumping the tape recorders there.

238 14 17 25 PLT Okay, Story; thank you.

238 14 40 12 CC Skylab, we're AOS through the Vanguard for

9 minutes.

PLT Okay, Story. We're Just rolling along.

CC That's the way to go.

CDR Story, how about asking CSM experts what we plan

to do about that housekeeping CSM stuff, now
that we seem to have a - stopped work on the
leak and we're Just in a hold mode on the leak.
Are we going tc now go back and do the CSM
housekeeping business with the secondary loop,
et cetera?

CC Okay, I'll get you an answer and while I've got

r you, A1, that housekeeping70-Y and 70-Z, the
PCG battery checks. You need to get right on
that after you get off the ATM at 15:15.

CDR All right.

CC That's about l0 minutes prior to sunset and

there is a prep for that.

238 14 42 35 CDR Better go get a sheet of paper and brief it,

okay.

CDR Understand I've got to do bat 7 - CBRM 7, and

Owen is going to do CBRM 10, is that correct?

CC That's correct, A1.

CC And, Al, on S054 have you got the X-RAY IMAGE

switch enabled?

CDR No, I did not; I do now. Thanks.

238 14 47 44 CC Skylab, we're a minute and a half from LOS.

We'll see you over Ascension in about l0 minutes.
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And, A1, all of the CSM housekeeping will be

nominal except for the primary loop and it'll
be scheduled in the Flight Plan.

PLT Okay.

CDR We never did the secondary 3 or 4 days ago when

we found that loop, so apparently we're 3 or h
days behind at the moment on the secondary.

238 14 48 31 CC That's affirm, A1.

238 14 57 03 CC Skylab, we're AOS Ascension on a low pass for

2 minutes.

CDR Okay.

CC And, A1, on your PCG battery tests, Just a re-

mainder. On step 7, it says verify sunset; now
just be sure that step 7 and subsequent steps
are done after sunset.

CDE Okay. I'm working on the earlier ones right

at the moment.

238 14 58 02 CC And we're a minute from LOS. We'll see you

over the Vanguard in about an hour and 20 minutes
at 16:17.

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SKYLAB AIR-T0-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTIONS

238 16 17 33 CC Skylab, we're AOS over the Vanguard for

l0 minutesJ

CDR Okay. Now I tried before sunset to disconnect

the reg from CBRM 7; it wouldn't disconnect.
I tried it four times. So I just left it as
it was. We're performing the CBRM test on
bat 10. And let you think about the 7 for
a while.

CC Okay, don't touch 7, and proceed on with 10.

PLT Say, Story, would you ask the ATM guys in

the backroom if they're - playing with the
apparent region of emerging flux at 270 at
0.6 radius? I don't see it called out on
the SAP today.

238 16 18 54 CC We don't have that called out in the SAP,

Jack. And that's region 8.

PLT What - What l'm saying, it's not there and

l'm wondering if something brand new they'd
like us to look at or if they've been watching
that and Just decided not to worry about it.

CC I'ii get with you.

238 16 19 33 PLT And l've got ATM, Moniter 2 up. I guess you
can't get any real time on TV at the time
can you?

CC It'll be about a minute and a half and we'll

be able to get the TV, Jack.

PLT Okay, I'm going to be pointing it in that

same area, so I'll adjust the moniter so you
can see it.

CC Okay.

CC Jack, are you seeing any Ellerman bombs

at that region you're looking at? That is
region 8.

238 16 20 35 PLT No, that's region 3 that I'm looking at,

with - the one with the sunspot in it. And
I've been watching for the Ellerman bombs,
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but I have not seen any. I'm going into

building block 36 Bravo at the moment, and
I'll continue looking there for them.

CC Okay.

CC And we're - -

238 16 21 36 CDR - - bat 6, already down to about 56 percent

discharge. So it won't be too long before
we shut it off.

CC Copy, A1. And we're ready for the TV, Jack.

238 16 21 53 PLT Okay, I've got it on Moniter 2 at the moment

with H-alpha. Go ahead and look. I'm
setting up another building block.

CC And, A1, we don't want you to terminate the

test on bat 6 until you get a bat current
down to 7-amps and bat 33.

CDR Okay, that's different than the little plan,

but we'll do it.

CC Either one of those.

238 16 22 43 CDR Okay, either 7 amps or 33 volts, and right

now it's 15 amps, and 35-1/2 volts or some-
thing.

CC Yes, that'll be fine.

SPT Story, we've got all of the hemoglobin

specific gravity measurements; the blood
samples are in the tray. I'll put all of
that info on channel A in a few min - a few
more minutes.

238 16 2_ 31 CC Okay, good, Owen.

PLT Okay, Story. At the moment I've got H-alpha 2

on MONITER 2. I assume you're getting it.
I'm pointing at the - the sunspot in active
region 3 with the XUV but I notice that south-
southeast - correction, south-southwest of
the sunspot area there is a - a region of - of
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brightening, probably would call it an

emerging flux region. West of the sunspot
there is a filament structure which is
appearing and running north and south, and
it's getting quite long now. It's - runs
north and south at a point west of the sunspot,
then it's interrupted for a while and then
south of that yet, there is a - the beginning
of another filament structure and it is
directly west of the emerging flux region
which I'm speaking of. And I'm wondering if
you can see it on the - on the TV? I'd call
it 270.6.

CC Jack, we don't have any real time TV. It's

going down to the station and we're going to
get it later.

PLT Okay.

238 16 26 03 PLT If it's something brand new, I'm kind of

wondering if the ATM guys want us to do
f somethingabout it. If it's not new, we'd
like to know about it.

CC We're - we're getting with it, Jack.

238 16 26 53 CC Skylab, we're a minute until LOS. We'll see

you over Ascension in about 3 minutes. And,
Jack, we're working on the ATM. If there's
any update, you do have some observing time
the next orbit; we can work something in then.
At present, press on with the pad.

PLT Okay, Story. Thank you.

CC And for AI, a clarification on when to terminate

the bat capacity test. On step i0 there, it
says, "when bat amps equal 50 percent of
initial." So we think going down to 7 amps,
is about what the pad calls for.

238 16 31 31 CC Skylab, we're AOS through Ascension for

i0 minutes.

SPT Story, there's one thing that happened out

there in the EVA. I think we were out of
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ground contact at the time but I mention it,

especially for the next crew. That is, the
Sun end tree when put in that receptacle at
the Sun end, is pretty sticky. Jack and I
both had difficulty removing the tree from
that mounting location after we had put the
old cameras in it and were planning to come
back in. You get the impression that thing is
stuck in there and it's not going to come out.
The way it came out best for me was to actually
push forward on it and then release the latch.
But it does come out; it's just a tough one.
And they might not be surprised if they're
aware of that. Over.

CC Okay, copy, (>wen.

238 16 33 39 CDR Say, Story, sort of wondering, we didn't get

a general science teleprinter message that
talks about percent complete, how things are
going, and the like, today. Wonder why?

CC A1, the only stuff we sent up to you was the

agenda today. During those discussions -
we'll give you a status report then.

CDR We don't have any agenda.

CC It's in the teleprinter.

CDR Okay, I'll go look at it.

CC PLT, Houston.

PLT Go ahead, Story.

238 16 36 08 CC Jack, when you get a chance, we'd - we'd

like you to look for Ellerman mbs in region 8.
If you don't see any mbs in region 8, during
your observing period the next rev, do
shopping list item 2 on active region 8.

PLT Okay. I don't know where 8 is because it's

not listed on my solar activity pad. All I've
got listed on my activity pad is 7, "6, 3, 4,
93, and 2. I don't have an 8, Story.
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CC Okay, it's that new emerging region which is

at 270 degrees at 0.6.

PLT Okay, thatts the one I been speaking about,

huh?

CC Yes, sir. And -

PLT Ok%y, that's shopping list item number 2,

during my observing time in the next rev.
Is that correct?

CC That's if you see no Ellerman mbs in that

region. If you do see some Ellerman mbs
perform SOP 2G, building block l0 of the
teleprinter fail SOP summary sheet.

238 16 37 33 PLT 0kay, now you want me to look for your

Ellerman robs in region 8, do a 2G building
block i0, a teleprinter fail. If I don't
do that - I don't see them, do a shopping
list 2 item in active region 8. Right?

CC During your observing period. Yes, sir,

that' s right.

PLT Righto. But both - The Ellerman robs you

want me to look for will be in active
region 8. Correct?

CC Yes.

PLT Okay, I got it. Thank you, Story.

PLT You there, Story?

238 16 39 42 CC Yes, another minute.

PLT l've been trying to figure out who this guy

Ellerman is. I thought he was a quarterback
for the Los Angeles Rams years ago and used
to throw bombs.

238 16 39 54 CC Okay, we'll have that for you in the next pass.
And we need to get to A1 right now. We've
got a minute until LOS.
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PLT I guess he's listening down there.

PLT Go ahead, Story.

CC Okay, who's doing the CBRM capacity check on

bat 18, we'd like you to do the talkback
verification prior to getting sunset. That's
steps Dog and Echo. And that's message
number 2730. And also do the reg on - off
check before sunrise sunset. Right?

238 16 hl ll CC That - That's correct, on battery 18. Okay,

we're following the procedure on message 2730.
And we're going LOS here. We'll see you over
at Guam in 25 minutes.

238 16 41 &l PLT Okay.

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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

238 17 15 29 CC Skylab, we're AOS through Guam for 9 minutes.

PLT Okay, Story.

CDR Okay, Story, we've got CBRM 18 off also. And by

the way, on that bat 6, the amperage seems to go
up. It's pulling about 16 to 16-1/2 amps right now,
and the voltage is right around 35.

CC Okay, copy, AI. And we did expect that.

CDR What's it doing? Warming up and able to deliver

more or something?

CC Stand by 1.

238 17 16 _3 CC And, A1, could we get the bat volts on l0 and 18?

CDR You bet. l0 is 29, 29 - 18 looks like about 29.5.

CC Could you confirm that 29.5 versus 31.57

CDR They're both wrong. It looks like 30.5 on the

relook.

CC Okay, good. And has everyone got a good under-

standing on - on when to terminate these testy

CDR You bet.

CC Okay.

CDR Bat charge, by the way, at the moment shows

something like 12 percent remaining. Does the
CSM propulsion man like the way the service module
looks these days, particularly the SPS engine and
associated tank?

CC Okay, we'll get your reading. And the answer

to the amps volts question is that it does put out
a constant power level. And as the volts falls,
the amps has got to go up.

CDR That's what's happening.

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238 17 19 34 CC And, A1, we know we're interrupting your lunch,

but could we get a PCG battery voltage on number 6?

CDR 34.5. You're not interrupting my lunch; I'm up

here watching the bats.

CC Okay, got it.

CDR One question I've had on my mind, I know that the

CBRMs don't have to worry about kicking them off in
the daytime. They don't produce because the solar
array's higher. How about the bat 6? Do you think
it could conceivably go off in the daytime or does
it have to wait for night also?

CC Stand by i.

238 17 21 34 CC A_I, PCG will continue, number 6 will continue to

keep going down in the daytime.

CDR That's kind of what I thought. Got to still put

out the same amount of power, doesn't it?

CC Yes, sir.

CDR It shows about 34 volts right now.

CC Roger.

238 17 23 45 CC Skylab, we're i minute to LOS. We'll see you

over the Vanguard in 30 minutes at 17:54.

CDR Okay. I gather the man with the service module

engine, the SPS, never did know how it was doing?

CC It's doing fine.

CDR Oh, I didn't get that word. Okay, he likes the

pressures, the temperatures, and everything else,
huh? Tell him we think about him a couple of times
a day.

CC A1, they passed the threshold to the half_Tay

point. The only variations we're seeing are due
to the Beta angle.

CDR Okay, good.

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238 17 24 44 CDR We're at about 33-1/2 volts on bat 6 right now.

CC Okay, copy. And your questions tell

us you're on the downhill roll.

CDR You said it. But we were thinking about them

from day 1 on.

CC So were we.

238 17 25 07 CDR I know, that's what's the most encouraging thing

about it. You know when you're thinking about it,
there is about a group of, I don't know how many,
but a lot more ...

238 17 54 53 CC Skylab, we're AOS the Vanguard for i0 minutes.

CC PLT, Houston.

PLT Go ahead, Story.

CC Jack, there is a period in the flight a couple of

weeks from now when we'll start running out of
all three stars. And we'd like to do a star tracker
check today to see if we can get locked on to
Alpha Creek all right. It's the lowest magnitude
of the three stars we're doing. And it's available
between 18:08 and 18:22. And I've got a pad here
for you.

PLT Stand by i, please. How long are you going to be

there, Story?

CC I'm going to be here another 9 minutes. No hurry.

PLT Okay, let me get a report on the mons again please.

CC Sure.

238 17 58 ii PLT Okay, Story, I didn't mean to cut you off there. I
got it going again. Go ahead.

CC Okay, it's available 18:08 to 18:22. That's about

i0 minutes from now. Inner gimbal, minus 0779;
outer gimbal, minus 0822; valid for Nu z, m_nus
6.6. After you get a verification that you are locked
r on to it, go ahead and selectAchernarper the
onboard pad, Achernar is 50000. Alpha Crux select
is 52012, and a 50002.
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PLT Okay, you want me to try to find Alpha Crux, and

I've got the numbers. And after I do, you want me
to reselect Acamar - Acherm_. Right?

CC Yes. And after you've selected Achernar, go

ahead and close the shutter.

PLT Okay, thank you.

CC And we found out who Mr. Ellerman is.

PLT Oh, you mean he's not that qu_rterbaek for the Rams,
that threw the bombs?

CC He was close to it. Stand by 1.

PLT Okay.

CC Jack, there's a new prominence on the east limb in

about 290.

238 18 00 06 PLT Okay. You got any immediate plans for that or do
you want me to kind of a shopping list if I get a
chance.

CC No, just keep your eye on it for now. •

PLT Okay.

CC Dr. Jack Harvey of Kid Peak who has been providing

our magnetograms for our correlation with your
data gives us information about Mr. Ferdinand
Ellerman who is a pioneering American astronomer.
He helped George Hale set up the Mount Wilson
Solar Observatory, he made some of the first
photographs of the Sun, and he prepared a
photographic atlas of sunspots spectra between 1916
and 1919. He discovered the short-llved
brightenings that were named after him in 1916. He
had a very difficult life observing the Sun on top
of the Mount Wilson Mountain, so to amuse himself
while up there he took a squirrel rifle up with him.
He passed away in 1930.

238 18 01 O0 PLT Well, thanks a lot, Story. I've been wondering

about that for a long time ever since we first heard
about these in training. I hope we're able to find
one of these Ellerman bombs while we're up hereto
perpetuate his memory.
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CC Yes sir, and too bad you didn't bring your

squirrel rifle along.

PLT Kind of a long shot from here, Story.

SPT ... Jack.

CC Roger.

SPT Say, back on another subject. I was wondering

if we have more batteries for our multimeter? We
don't really need one yet, but it did get a pretty
good workout, and I'm wondering if we've got
some more if we need it.

238 18 O1 43 CC I'll get you an answer.

238 18 02 45 CC Jack, Houston.

PLT Here, Story.

f CC When you get a chance, we'd like you to look at that

prominence in the white light display and if you
see it liftin_ off, we'd like you to run the
coronaitransient program on it.

PLT Okay, we'll do it.

CC Skylab, we're a minute until LOS. See you over

Ascension in 7 minutes.

PLT Okay, I'll sneak up and take a look at that

prominence right now and then get back to you our
next ...

238 18 04 50 CC Okay.

238 18 12 26 CC Skylab, we're AOS for the next 16 minutes through

Ascension, Canaries, and Madrid. We'll have a
slight dropout handing over to Canaries at 18:15.

CDR Okay, Story, I'm there and I don't think on the star.

CC Okay.

PLT I've slewed outer gimbal back and forth across - plus
._ or minus4 or 500 and no luck yet.
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CC Okay, Jack. We've been watching you; you've been

doing it right, and it's just possible that Alpha
Crux is too low a magnitude.

PLT Okay.

238 18 14 51 PLT And on this new active region that appears to be

developing, I reported earlier that just a shopping
list item 2 on just now; I also get a good XUV
monitor signature on it.

CC Copy.

CDR Okay, Story, we just completed putting iodine in

all the tanks per the pad.

CC Thanks, AI.

CDR That's housekeeping 60-R2.

CC And for Owen, the multimeter uses a C battery and

they're located in W-714.

CDR Okay, thanks, Story.

238 18 16 07 CC And you need about four batteries for that machine.
There's about a hundred in the locker.

SPT That ought to hold us for a few days.

CC Say again.

SPT I just said, that ought to take care of us for a few

days anyway, Story.

CC Sure will. And you all requested a report on your

TV performance yesterday, and we've got it here if
everybody's listening.

SPT We had one report last night. I guess this is a

new one?

CC May be the same one.

SPT Might say a couple of words about it and we'll

see - I'll tell you if we heard it.
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238 18 16 53 CC Okay. You've done a total of 31 telecasts, 13

from the TV Ops Book. All of them are great; 31 of
them have been broadcast.

SPT That sounds like what we heard last night, Story.

And then there were a few comments about technique,
and so on.

CC I guess you got it already.

SPT Thank you.

CC Jack, if you're through with your attempt to lock

onto Alpha Crux, go ahead and select Achernar to
52012 and a 50000.

PLT Okay, I was - I finished up the shopping list item

2 and I can't see the Ellerman bombs on the sun-soot.
I wonder-or on active region 8 - wonder if they'd llke
to have another shopping list number 2, say in that
prominence you just mentioned at 290.
r

CC Stand by.

238 18 ]9 37 CC Jack, we'd like you to run another shopping list

item number 2 on active region 8.

PLT Okay, I'll do it again.

238 18 23 38 CDR Story, are you still there?

CC Yes, sir; about another 6 minutes.

CDR How about making a suggestion to the fellows that

work on these foot restraints? They built us some
new ones to go in the wardroom here because of
Pete's comments. Mainly his comments were you can't
get your feet under there with triangle shoes on
because they're not big enough. But we got these up
here now and you can't - My comment is you can't
get your feet under them when you got triangle
shoes; they're too little. So, whatever design
they used was erratic and they tended to make them
the same height as the old one. There may be a
fraction greater because right now you can't get
them under if you have the Velcro engaged. So, ask
them to have another go at that and get some triangle
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shoes, put feet in them, and stick them under

there and make sure that - that that's where the
Velcro begins, instead of where it ends. "Send six
up for Jerry if they can. And then also the ones
in the head - they're working better, they're not
big enough for Velcros - for triangle shoes either.
But the main thing in there is they're still just in
the way. They ought to try to figure some different
type of restraints for in there; either on the wall
or maybe on the ceiling or somewhere else besides
on the floor in front of those urine contain - urine
drawers, or maybe on the drawers themselves or
something. They ought to have another go. We
ought to learn to lick this problem in Skylab
so when it comes up in shuttle, we'll have a good
answer ready. Those are really the only two
restraints that seem to be bad.

CC Okay, got that, A1.

238 18 25 21 PLT One thing, Story. I can't seem to get the star out
of the window now. I've had a star lock up at
the proper angles for Achernar_ and - slewed outer
gimbal a11 the wayfrom say, 3300 down to 27, and it
says locked up. And it doesn't go back to where - to
any new position when I let go of the stick.

CC Stand by 1.

PLT Now it unlocked again. I'll try it again. Maybe

it's going to work right this time.

238 18 26 36 CC Jack, have you been seeing a star presence?

PLT Yes, I get a star in the window and then I slew off
a little ways and it doesn't go back to where it
was - supposed to be. I doesn't matter - seems no
matter where I put it, it - it just stays where
I leave it and still says star.

CC So you're - you're seeing a star presence over a

wide range of outer gimbal angle?

PLT Yes, I got a star flag in the - on the flip-flop

CC Jack, you can go to AUTO right now; you're close enough,

and we're a minute until LOS; we'll see you over Guam
in 25 minutes.
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238 18 27 40 PLT Okay, I went the AUTO and it closed everything.

CC Configurstion looks fine now, Jack.

PLT Okay, Nu Z is 2.2 You like that? It's

different than the one I had this morning.

PLT Yes, sir.

CC Just hold off; the shutter's closed; we're all

right, Jack.

238 18 28 19 PLT Okay.

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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

238 18 53 25 CC Skylab, AOS Guam for 7 minutes.

CC Skylab, AOS Guam, 6 minutes.

CC Skylab, AOS through Guam, 5 minutes.

238 18 5h 55 SPT Story, one of the comments on an up-link pad from

last night, mentioned the fact they only have the
calibration data on channel A from the S_4D in
the head and not the wardroom. I don't have my
Flight Plan from a couple of days ago, but I
thought that shop- or the housekeeping item only
requested the calibration on the head SMMD. If
that was for the wardroom, I's appreciate knowing
about it. And if you also want the wardroom done,
if you'd put it on my schedule, I'll get that done
whenever it shows up. Over.

CC Okay. We copythat.

SPT Okay, Just a moment, Just got a word from Jack

about it at the same time. Apparently Jack says
he did it and he hasn't read it down yet, so
that's the reason it's not on the channel A and
._ we'llget it down.

CC Okay.

238 18 55 45 CDR Okay. CBRM 10, Just about 30 seconds ago, about
5 seconds before you called in, went to barber
pole, the KEG is off and the CP_%RGE is back on.

CC Very good.

CC And if possible, A1. We'd like a battery voltage

reading on l0 and 18.

CDR Okay. 18 is 28.3, and bat l0 was Just a smidgen

below 28.0 Just like the others that have kicked
off. Let me tell you where it is now though, -
about 29.6; however, it was Just below 28 when it
kicked off.

-_ CC 0kay.
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238 18 56 56 CDR By the way, that bat 6 over on the AM - it was

17.32 when it reached 33 volts and I went through
the procedures and it started coming back up again.

CC PLT, Houston.

PLT Go ahead.

CC Jack, for M509 tomorrow we're going to he going

through our atmospheric management profile here,
prior to your going to sleep and we'd like you in
the next hour or so to perform a Maneuvering
Experiment Checklist page 18-2 option 3A. That's
the cabin purge.

P LT ... 2, 3A.

CC Yes, sir.

238 18 58 38 PLT Are we flying 509 again tomorrow?

238 18 58 h4 CC Yes, we are.

238 18 58 49 PLT It sounds like we're going to make an extra run

on that then, huh?

CC That 's affirmative.

PLT Okay.

CC And since you guys are pressing so far ahead on

the science here, we are giving you some additional
requirements here - some roods to experiments.
And on the 7-day forecast we sent up last night,
you can see some of these.

238 18 59 33 CDR That' s good. That' s Just like we want. That's

Just what we ought to be doing. That's a good
deal, Story.

CC Okay.

CDR We're going to keep pressing ahead, too.

CC Good deal. Now on that atmospheric management,

as we're feeding in 02 you'll hear the - the
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• clicking at the atmospheric C&D panel as - the

same as last time.

238 18 59 56 CDR Okay.

238 19 00 21 CC And we're going LOS here; we'll see you over
Honeysuckle in 5 minutes.

PLT Okay, Story. Was that an option three Alpha

Again?

CC That's affirmative. Three Alpha as we go over the

hi ll.

238 19 00 hl PLT Okay.

CC And we'll start our commanding over Honeysuckle,

aud maybe even before you get done, it's okay.

238 19 06 20 CC Skylab, AOS Honeysuckle for B minutes.

238 19 06 29 CDR Boy, that new active region 06, I guess it is -

no, 08, is sure hot in H-alpha.

CC Copy.

CDR It m_kes those other regions look like their

light bulbs went out. It's the only one that
really is bright. It's got several bright points
around the center area, too. It's about 30 arc
seconds in horizontal dimension - it's sort of
elliptical shape, and about l0 in vertical. And
then about each of the four corners - there isn't
four corners on an ellipse, but I think you can
imagine what I'm talking about - there's addi-
tional bright, little, small points.

CC Copy, A1. And we'll be dump inhibiting here,

so stay off the DAS.

238 19 07 25 CC And A1, we're showing we're locked onto a star

now, and it - it's at least the wrong star. It's
probably part of the structure. And we think
that's the problem Jack had, that Achernar was
occluded at that time and the reason he had a
continual star presence was looking at the Earth
or part of the structure. And we do need a - a
lock onto Achernar now. And the gimbal angles
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are inner, plus 1795; outer, minus 35h0. And

The DAS is yours.

238 19 08 Oh CDE Is that minus 1795 or 35?

CC That's plus 1795, and minus B5h0.

CDR Oks_v. Soon as I get started I'll get a lock on

it for you.

CC Okay.

238 19 08 33 CDR I want to verify one thing. I noticed on my JOP

sheet it says for step 7, it is - if successive
building block 10's are performed, don't change
the pointing. I think I could pull that off.
But I always thought when that occurred what they
did was change the mirror auto raster grating
position, but these are all grating zero. And
I assume that that's no mistake but that's what
they want. They're Just going to run several at
the same spot.

238 19 09 06 CC We got 15 seconds to LOS. See you over Canaries

in h5 minutes.

CC The pad's okay, we'd like to have that on active

region 8 instead of 3.

238 19 09 21 CDR Now, that's a good decision; I'll go over there.

I was wishing I could do it myself. That's great.

238 19 53 32 CC Skylab, we're A0S through Canaries to Madrid for

13 minutes. Be dumping the tape recorders over
Madrid at 19:56.

238 19 5h 07 CDR What station are we talking through now, Story?

CC The Canaries.

CDR Okay. I noticed I have a TV down-link. Do you

want that on the tape or real time down on the
Canary tracking station?

CC Stand by 1. That's real time, A1.

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CDR Okay, I'ii give it to them. I put a little on

the tape for them a few minutes ago.

238 19 54 46 CC Okay. And .in the next 11 minutes, before you

get away from the panel there, I've got a change
to Jack's ATM schedule pad. That's starting at
23:50.

CDR Okay, Just a second then.

238 19 55 30 CDR Okay. Go ahead, I'll copy.

CC Okay, the MOMENTUM DUMP, INHIBIT at 23:50 is

not required. And all that does is change some
times there. He can start JOP 6, 23:52; JOP 2B,
change the 22 to 19; in the TV down-link, change
the 15 to 12; and the powerdown for unattended,
change the 5 to 2.

CDR Got it.

CC And for your information, Skylab, at this same

time tomorrow we'll be dedicating the Johnson
Space Flight Center. Mrs. Johnson and family
will be among national, state, and local dig-
nitaries scheduled to attend the formal dedication
tomorrow at GMT 20:00. Activities will take place
in Building 1 auditorium and include remarks by
Governor Dolph Briscoe, Dr. Fletcher, and Dr.
Kraft.

CDR Okay, thank you, Story.

238 19 56 50 CDR I gave them a set of down-linked UV MON, I'll

give them another.

CC Okay.

CDR Okay. There's another series.

CC Okay.

238 19 57 44 CC And AI, we're seeing that the Nu z has not been
updated, and Achernar will become available at
20 :15 •

238 19 57 54 CDR Okay.

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CC PLT, Houston.

PLT Go ahead.

CC Jack, your family conversation is on through

Madrid at 00:50; we'll keep you posted on that.
And we're wondering if you started the cabin
purge.

PLT Affirmative and thank you.

CC Okay, and we're a little more than a minute from

LOS. We'll see you over Carnarvon in about half
an hour, at 20:33.

CDR Story, why don't you see if you can set up a

private commwithmy mother and father up in
Fort Worth for tonight? I think you've got the
phone number there; if not, I can give it to you
overthe next station.

238 20 05 33 CC A1, we're unable to do that.

CDR I'll have to talk to you about it. It's supposed

to be family.

CC Okay, A1.

CDR Yes, it's supposed to be direct family members

so that fits the bill. In fact, I asked
Dr. Fletcher whenever we had a conversation
withhim.

238 20 06 05 CC Okay, we'll pursue it.

238 20 33 h9 CC Skylab, we're AOS Carnarvon and Honeysuckle for

i_ minutes. CDR, Houston.

CDR Go ahead.

CC A1, I guess we responded a little rapidly to you

last time. We got you set up for a family
conversation to Fort Worth at 00:38 over Bermuda.
That's the pass Just prior to the time Jack will
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have his; so between those two passes, you can

just leave it in the VHF configuration.

CDR Okay, th-_ks.

CC And I'm ready to copy the Fort Worth phone number.

CDR WA 4-4453.

CC Say the first two digits.

CDR WA.

CC Got it.

238 20 36 29 CDR Story, I was on the bike, then. WA 4-4h53.

CC We got it, A1.

CDR Okay. That 's area code 817.

CC And before we heard you tas_ing, A1, we - we

had you confused. Looking at the watt output,
we thought that was Jack on the bike.

CDR I can only pull it for 2 minutes is the problem.

He can p,_11 it for about 30.

CC Well, that's a start.

CDR Frankly, I'm not sure we aren't in better shape

right now than we were when we first came, as
far as pedaling the bike and moving these
exercisers. Now I don't know what else is going
on inside, but as far as ability to put out work,
it looks like we're at least as good as before
we left and maybe better.

CC That looks like a true statement, and we'll be

getting to that a couple of passes from now.

CC And if possible, we'd like the time that - and

the battery voltage when you turned off CBRM 18.

PLT Okay, Story, that time was 20:33; the battery

voltage was 27.8.
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238 20 37 57 CC Thanks.

238 20 42 25 CC CDR, Houston.

CDR Go ahead.

CC A1, for the rest of the mission, we're going to

have both high power outlets in the MDA tied up
with the VTR and the rate gyro package. So,
we're thinking that it would be easier for you
instead of powering down the VTR and disconnecting
it and interfacing that with when we need the VTR,
by getting three high-power accessory cables and
running it up from the dome, that's panel 402,
into the MDA for vacuum cleaning, high-intensity
lights, and that sort of thing.

238 20 4B 06 CDR Okay, I think you're probably right.

CC And we've got - -

CDR I think you've really - -

CDR Go ahead. Excuse me.

CC We've got the three locations of three high-power

accessory cables down here when you need them.

CDR Okay, I'll probably give you a call later. We're

exercising, but I'll try to do it today though,
if I don't forget it.

CC Okay, and one other thing, and no real need to

reply, is that we sent up two messages to you,
one concerning S063, EA2 for Owen, plus a M509
procedural change. And there's a philosophy
here, we've condensed the procedures quite a hit
to save you time incorporating them into the - the
Cuff Cue Card or into the checklist and also to
save the teleprinter some. So, if possible,
before you run those, you might get a look at
them and review them to see if you have any
questions. And also, in the future, let us know
about this kind of philosophY.

CDR Okay, that's a good idea. We'll try to do those

this evening some time.
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CC Well, we haven't got them up yet, but they'll

be coming.

CDR Oh, okay. Thought you were - meant they were up

there now, we Just hadn't looked. 0keydoke,
we'll get them.

238 20 47 19 CC Skylab, we're a minute to LOS. We'll see over

Bermuda in about 40 minutes at 21:24. And Ed
Gibson will be talking ATMwith you at that time.

238 21 24 02 CC Skylab, Houston. We're A0S at Bermuda for the

next 8 minutes. This pass is scheduled to be a
discussion about ATM science and, when you guys
let me know that you're crowded around a speaker
box and ready to listen, I'm going to turn it
over to Dr. Bob MacQueen and let you talk to him.

SPT Hello there, Bob. Glad to hear from you. And

I think all three of us are within earshot range
now. Go ahead.

MCC Okay, 0wen, and guys. Before we begin, I want

to ask if you have topics or comments in addition
to, or in place of, the ones we up-linked. If
so, perhaps we should con - consider them first.
Over.

SPT I think probably you ought to go ahead with those.

At least, I don't personally have any other new
items to bring up. Most everything is covered in
that agenda.

238 21 24 44 MCC Okay, Owen. One thing that we just got, literally
a couple of minutes ago, is the output on the
mini-raster, and it looks supergood. The - the
gradients that we picked up look real good, the
slopes look excellent, and I think that data is
Just first quality.

SPT Excellent. I wasn't sure whether 1-arc-second

pointing could be discerned from one step to the
next, but apparently it could and Peter Bocol
was right on that. Very good.
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MCC Okay, the first topic we wanted to fill you in on,

all these topics are of - points of interest to
us here on the ground and they are a result of
SL2 and your own results here on SL3. And the
first topic has to do with bright points in the
X-rays. A s_,mm_ry, looking over X-ray film, shows
that the bright points have lifetimes ranging
from approxim_Zely 1 hour to approximately
100 hours. They tend to be X-ray cool, except
when they show a flaring, and I'm using that in
quotes. That flaring can result in a thousand
times increase in their brightness over l0 minutes
or less. Their typical sizes seem to be on the
order of 5 arc seconds. They - when, in this
flaring mode, if you will, they tend to grow to
some 30 arc seconds and have apparently a bright
core, which is on the order of l0 arc seconds in
extent. Now, a look at the SL2 film shows that
approximately 1 to 2 percen t of the disks are
covered with these bright points. They seem to
be uniformly distributed, but, of course, they're
easier to see in coronal holes. But it is
important to note they seem to be uniformly
distributed. And in some cases, one can barely
discern a double structure which ranges from
less than 2 arc seconds in extent to perhaps
15 arc seconds, and these double structures may
be joined by a loop structure. Over.

238 21 26 54 SPT Okay, that ties in, I think, very nicely with the
sort of things we've observed on board. We do see
these, and I would have guessed the - the lifetimes
Just what you said. We've also seen the double -
ops - the double structures, because in peaking
up with S055, moving it 5 arc seconds at a time,
very frequently we will see a double peak, perhaps
lO to 15 arc seconds displaced at the same
wavelength. And inasmuch as their lifetimes can
be as short and their quote "flaring" so-such a
large factor, I wonder if - what you would think
of our interrupting some of our more routine
observations when we think we have one of these
bright points increasing as dramatically as that.
If you don't have an answer _mmediately, if you
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all could think about that, I think we would be

able to point at it and get on it within - say,
a few minutes, and probably have a chance to look
at the time history of some of those rapid
developments. Over.

238 21 27 54 MCC Oh - Okay, Owen, I think that sounds like a good

idea and we'll talk that one over and have a
message for you in the days to come on that.
Now, another topic that I wanted to bring to your
attention, were some results from this mission
on the flares on mission day 13 and mission
day ll. The flare on mission day 13, you will
recall, was an M-2 flare, and the S055 people
have looked at quick-look data, and seen the
following interesting behaviors. That flare,
you recall, we picked up with about l0 minutes
left in the day cycle, and then picked up the
region again in the following cycle. From those
two points or two periods of time, we find that
the magnesium l0 line increased by some factor
of l0 during the flare, Lyman-alpha increased
by some factor of 3 over the next cyc - the
following cycle, and oxygen 6 increased by some
factor of 2. The Lyman-alpha showed an interesting
slow fall-off. It was still falling off in the
second cycle, and it looked like its 1 over
E-time for fall-off was on the order of 15 minutes
or so. Over.

238 21 29 16 SPT Okay, of course we couldn't tell those lifetimes

in the UV. The lifetime in the X-ray regime, as
you could'have told by the beryllium/aluminum
counter readings. I think the flare was essentially
over at the end of - by sunset that night, so
it was over within, say, 15 minutes. Was that
consistent down there? Over.

MCC It looks like that the magnesium lO may have stayed

up all the way into sunset and then the next cycle,
Owen, which is the next point, it is down by some
factor of 10. Over

SPT Okay.

238 21 29 49 MCC Now, on the smaller subfaint flare on mission

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day ii, here is a very interesting horizontal

motion discernible in magnesium i0. In fact,
magnesium l0 shows this motion of approximately
several hundred kilometers per second, and this
occurred over something like 2 minutes of time,
near the maximum time of the flare. There is
some motion discernible in oxygen 4 and in
carbon 2. In Lyman-alpha, the motion is not
nearly as pronounced. Over.

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238 21 30 21 SPT Okay, understand that. And also, you might comment
about the pointing. We think we had them pointed
about right and the operation nearly optimum.
Do you find any point there to change our proce-
dures? Over.

MCC Not at all, Owen. It looked real good.

SPT Okay.

CC Skylab, Houston. l'm going to break in here Just

a second. We're about a minute to LOS. Bob can
keep talking for this next minute. And I'll
give you a call at Madrid in about h minutes, and
he will continue.

SPT Okay, fine, Dick. Go ahead.

238 21 30 53 MCC Okay, the next topic had to do with the WLC tran-
sients that you've observed both on mission day lh
and on mission day 25. It's interesting to note
that we've been taking a detailed look at a similar
event on SL-2, and we see material piling up in
front of that transient event, a possible shock dis-
continuity and driven waves in front of that bubble.
The two events that you saw are at least similar
but not completely so, in the sense that the event
of mission day lh had no radio bursts associated
with it. On mission day 25, however, we had a
very nice type h and the precise time of maximum
of that type 4 was concurrent with the observations
on the WLC. Over.

SPT Okay, understand. And we wonder if you do expect

that you got some earlier portions of the transient
with your solar wind observations which were under-
way at the time of that mission 25 transient?

MCC I'll answer you at Madrid, 0wen.

238 21 32 02 SPT Okay.

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238 21 35 01 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Madrid for the next

9 minutes. If you hear us okay, I'll turn it
back over to Bob.

PLT We're ready to go again. Go ahead, Bob.

MCC Okay, finishing up on the WLC transients, it's

interesting to note that both the events on mission
day 14 and 25 had X-ray signatures. On mission
day 25, there was a - C-1 event at - near the time of
the eruptive prominence. Whether it proceded or
whether it was the result of the eruptive prom-
inence, we can't tell yet. Interestingly enough,
on mission day 14, the X-ray background at that
time was some 100 times lower than the solar rad
minimum since and, near time of the eruptive
prominence, there was seen on the ground, a
two-times increase on the XREA. Over

SPT Okay, I understand that. And you were going to

comment about whether or not you might have got
early stages of the transient from your solar-wind
study.

MCC Right, Owen, and we, of course, can't tell that, but
it certainly sounds hopeful; the observations were
well placed. Over.

238 21 36 09 SPT Okay, that sounds real encouraging. We were hoping

that it would be that way and just thought I'd ask
about the timing.

MCC One other thing, going back to the flare discussion,

I'm told by the X-ray people that the mission day ll
event was interesting in the sense that both hard
and soft X-ray signatures were observed for over
6 hours associated with that event. And, of course,
the fact that the hard X-rays carried on for so
long is of interest with regard to that particular
flare.

SPT Yes, we didn't have much of an indication of that

on board. Again it looked like most of the X-ray
work was complete within lO or 15 miuutes.

MCC Right. Okay, then, Owen, the next subject is limb

observations. The Harvard people have been taking
a look at the quicklook data on the Spicules or
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limb structures observation, and the interesting

thing there is that in some Lyman-alpha data these
structures range from less than 5 to 15 arc seconds
in lateral extent when you were pointed about
8 arc seconds above the limb. And the interesting
fact there is that they show a very interesting
intensity variability with time constants on the
order of 2 to 5 minutes. Now whether these are
actual motions or just that, intensity variabili-
ties, we can't tell at this time. But it's in-
teresting to see these things come in - come and
go during the course of an MLS. Over.

SPT Right; understand. Now you were commenting, to

begin with, about that mini-raster and I thought
you were referring to the one that was at the limb
then. Is that correct?

238 21 37 51 MCC I certainly was referring to the limb mini-raster,

right. I - these co_nents, however, had to do with
earlier observations. Over.

SPT Okay, I understand. And so it looks like we might

want to have that JOP scheduled again then from
time to time. It keeps us busy here but there's
nothing that we can't finish in the time available
and it looks like it might be an interesting one.

MCC I think we all agree with that. Now with regard

some other observations. Polar channels - You've,
of course, noted the bandlike structure near the
polar regions, the filament channel. And the
X-ray people have examined these from SL-2, these
structures, they find much loop structure associated
with what - with these channels and it appears that
closed-loop structures underlie a white-light-cor-
ona graph structure. Also in these unipolar
regions - these broad unipolar regions, the 82
observations from SL-2 show that in helium the
network is much more broad in these regions than
in others and, in fact, broad to the extent that
it dominates the open structures in the chromo-
spheric network. Over.

238 21 39 l0 SPT Okay, I understand. Perhaps we can see that on our

XUV MON, to some extent some of our photographs.
But I don't remember having noticed it.
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MCC Right, it probably will be very difficult to pick

up in the XUV MON. Now I have one other subject,
Owen, and this one is still pretty much a mystery
to us here on the ground. That has to do, of
course, with the very interesting arch structure
that you reported on mission day 25 and in the
XUVMON, and we certainly have been looking hard
at the down-linked photographs. Any trace of
the arch is very difficult to see on the down-link,
nor can we really discern the brighter blob in
the center of the arch that you described. So
we're not sure but what we're seeing a significant
or at least a degredation of the down-link XUV
MON. We think we're very eagerly awaiting the
results of that long exposure on 82A off-pointed
on the limb.

SPT Bob, I think it's worth looking for but, your

comment the next day was you thought it was an
internal reflection in the XUV MON - l'm inclined
to agree with now. After that suggestion, I did
again point at the limb and I can see the brightest
active regions reflected in the telescope off the
limb. Now I could not see that arch structure
again which l'm certain that I saw on mission
day 25 but my best guess at the moment is that it
might have been a limb brightening reflected inside
the telescope and that limb structure from another
portion of the disc might have produced that
arch. Now that's the only thing I can think of at
this point but I - I certainly now can reproduce
the reflection of that blob by pointing at the
limb when there is another active region on the
other side of the Sun. Over.

238 21 40 55 MCC Okay, Owen, that's real interesting to hear and

that may be the explanation. We'll just have to
wait to look at the data on that. That's - those
are the major topics that we wanted to cover in
this little discussion. I had a couple of specific
questions or comments for you which I'd like to
move on to unless you have some co_ents on the
above. Over.

SPT I had one other question, Bob, and that is it

appears that we can go through a load of ATM film
in something like in 15, 18 days of hard work.
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And that would suggest for later half of the mission

here there might be some sort of reevaluation of
the - of the planning to be m_de in order to make
sure you do not get the film exposed too early.
And I'm wondering if you're thinking of providing
a little more time in each of the days for, say,
independent activity or more time to say, search
and find interesting structures like the bright
spots or if you've gotten down to a specific discus-
sion of how best to distribute the film. Over.

238 21 h2 01 MCC We agree completely, Oven. I think the very high-

est priority item we're working now is indeed a
coherent budget of the film for SL-3 and, needless
to say, for SL-4. And we were very interested in
your comments down to Ed today, but I agree with
you we want to make sure that it's used in the
most efficient way and I think the emphasis that
you - in your sentence that you didn't mALe -
was the fact that you guys have been working hard
and that's where the film goes. Over.

SPT Okay; go ahead with your other questions, Bob.

238 21 42 26 MCC Okay. One specific question was, can you see
Spicules well enough that you think you might be
able to put the 82B slit on those? Over.

SPT Um, I wished I had thought to look more specifi-

cally but I believe in some cases the answer is
going to be yes. You cannot Just go to the limb
anywhere but certainly I'm convinced in some
places that Spicule orientation can be discerned
particularly with H-alpha 1 which seems to be
not only a slightly larger more expanded field,
in other words, a larger field of view. But
also you get better rev - resolution on H-alpha 1.
And I think we should try that and then ask me
again in a day or 2.

CC Skylab, Houston, I'm going to break in with 30 sec-

onds from LOS. The biomed conference will be at
Carnarvon at 22:08. Back to Bob.
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238 21 43 26 MCC Okay, one final comment, which is not a question,

is that the S056 people have looked at their
data and find that it looks like a 10-minute
exposure is about the minimum exposure for them
to see outside active regions with their hard
filters and you'll see that appearing on the pad.
Over.

SPT Okay, that'll apply to - I believe it's number

third - item number 13. But we'll make - expect
to see that coming up and if you do have other
questions perhaps you can work them into a pad
for the teleprinter and we'll get around to answer-
ing them on channel B, Bob. Thanks very much for
the very interesting update.

238 21 44 02 MCC Thank you.

238 22 08 39 CC Skylab, we're AOS Carnarvon and Honeysuckle for

15 minutes and we will be using the DAS.

CDR Okay. Go ahead.

CC Okay, and this is your med-science conference.

We'll be covering the cardiovascular, the vesti-
bular, and the bone and m_scle and diet in that
order.

SPT Okay, Story, go ahead.

MCC And most important here, we'd like to get your

comments and any revision or changes in that
protocol that you'd like. Starting off with
M092, we think you're doing very well at mission
day 30 to be getting to the 50-millimeter mercury
level. As you can remember, on SL-2, that Joe
and P.J. got down to 40 millers - mil -
40 millimeters of mercury about the last l0 days.
At mission day 5, when two of you dropped down to
40 millimeters, it was probably due to a little
dehydration, from not eating very much, and -
and possibly a - a little residual motion sick-
ness. And we're wondering if you have any symptoms
running at 50 now?

238 22 09 53 SPT Well, I think you can tell pretty well from the
way our blood pressures and heart rates are running.
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If anything, each of us seems to be improving at

this stage. Our heart rates are lowering and
our blood pressures are maintaining more their
normal range, And so I would think, if anything,
any symptoms are minimizing as time has progressed
over the last 3 weeks.

CDR Story?

CC Go ahead.

SPT He's just transfering mikes. Just a minute.

238 22 l0 25 CDR Okay, the only sympton I've noticed - Incidentally,

I agree with you about the dehydzation, because
urine volume had gone way down, and also the water,
and I've built it back up, but I'll tell you what I
noticed in me. _en I get to h0, I can feel a
little tingling in the arm that's wearing the
blood pressure cuff, because when it squeezes it
apparently doesn't have enough pressure to really
get out toward the end. Then when it's at 50
I can feel a little tingling in my right shoulder
then, in addition to my left arm, so apparently
it's pumping the blood down there and there just
isn't that much to go around, but there is, however,
enough to keep going with the rest of the test.
But I can tell when I'm at those two levels, simply
by referencing my - my arms and how they feel.

238 22 ll 09 CC Okay, and while you're on the subject of tingling,

have you noticed any in the feet or the legs when
you're not in the can?

CDR No, everything's normal all the rest of the time,

as far as I can tell. It Just feels like - a
little bit like you do when you get up in the
morning, you know, a little fast, and all of a
sudden you - you feel a little faint. I don't
feel faint, but I feel that tingling in my arms
and I - I really feel it's the blood just isn't
around there. That it's been pumped somewhere
else.

CC Okay. The reason I brought that question up is

the last l0 days of SL-2, those crewmen did notice
_ tingling in their feet, especially with contact
with any structure.
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CDR Boy, never - None of us, as far as I know, have

ever noticed it. We'll start looking out for
it, though.

SPT That's negative here, Story.

CC Okay. Now, we're going to continue to run on up

to 50 millimeters with the lower body negative
pressure, at least until we have two successive
aborts. Now one important thing we've been seeing
is that your heart rates during the control period -
that's at rest are - are elevated over the ground
values. And with _71 during the control period,
they're about even to the preflight values, and
in space flight all along, Merucy, Gemini, and
Apollo, inflight we've seen lower heart rates
than is on the ground.

238 22 12 23 SPT That puzzles me a little bit too. Now the only
way to explain the 92/171 rest-period differen-
tial, I suppose, might be the anticipation of the
events to come, and I suppose that could elevate
it a little bit, but why it's not dropping lower,
my own for example, say 65 or 70 at the moment
instead of down in the 50s, I don't really know
the answer to that, Story.

CDR !'II give you an opinion, which isn't worth a

darn and that's all before we just never had done
any work, and so it just gradually decreased,
partly from zero g and partly from inactivity.
Whereas now, we're working all the time, exercis-
ing, moving around, jumping here and there and
everything else, so our heart stays up. And -
it - it's doing a lot of work.

CC Yes. I think both of those are real excellent

points. That the resting heart rate in anticipa-
tion of exercise is - is really not a baseline
heart rate, and also that your standard basal
metabolism during the day is a little bit higher.
I think it's a real good observation.

238 22 13 22 CC And one other thing on the lower body negative

pressure. We see that you're using saddle posi-
tions of 6, 6, 7 versus 9, 9, i0 for the crewmen,
in that order. And I know it's real important,
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having been in the water tank with it, that the

friction along you back tends to hold you out
and in zero g, it's only the saddle that's holding
you out, but if you get more abdomen in the lower
body negative pressure, you're going to pool a
little more blood because the - you see sub 1
atmospheric pressure is really in the esophagus
and the rest of the intestines. We're wondering
though, if you - if you think you've arrived at
the right level on a saddle position.

SPT I think we're all happy with the present position,

Story. And we do believe that the iris, with
respect to our hipbones, is very close to the
position it was on ground leve. And so we think
that we were not fooling the system there, but
are pretty close to the way that it should be.

CDR Not only that, I've noticed up here when you get
down inside it, it hurts. That rubber seal when
you get your stomach down inside, really squeezes,
and that was a phenomenom I'd never noticed on
Earth. I assume it's because I never got that
deep down inside the - the can. Now up where
our hips are right on it - By the way, your hips
are at different position with each pressure.
When you start off, they're - they're out a
little bit. By the time you get to 50, they're
down at the point they are all the time on the
ground, which is right at the edge of the - the
metal iris.

238 22 14 59 CC Okay, fine. That's just the way we _ant it. And,
0wen, those - -

SPT Hey, Story. I had one other question, which pro-

bably can't be answered right now, but I would
appreciate it on the teleprinter, and that's the
interpretation of the leg volumes. Now we, of
course, expected larger leg volume increases,
because not in one g, the leg - blood is not
pooled in the leg. I'd like to know what the
larger increase that we do see are interpreted
as, in terms of total blood volume and so on, and
if you get a chance to work up a little answer to
that on the teleprinter, I'd appreciate it. Over.
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CC Okay. We'll sure do it. Now the SL-2 crews no-

ticed a little bit of venous distension in their
legs at rest and outside of the can. Have you
noticed thattoo?

238 22 15 42 SPT I've noticed no distension in the legs. The only

think I have noticed is a very slight distension
in the neck. I can see the veins in my neck a
little more prominent than I think I could a month
ago, but the leg veins look normal to me.

CDR Same here.

PLT Hey, Story, I got a question.

CC Go, Jack.

PLT Yes, when can we quit taking manual blood - blood

pressure measurements?

CDR Now!

PLT Seems like we got enough to have calibrated the

system by now.

CC Okay, we're still using those. They're extremely

helpful to us, and have you been taking them mostly
on the left arm with the m_l_al pump up at the
cuff, or the right arm?

238 22 16 18 PLT Right arm.

SPT And also, I just quit taking those, because the

message only asked for three in a row.

CC Okay. And moving on here, since we're running out

of time. In terms of PVCs or premature ventricular
contractions, we did see those earlier on Owen
during the EVA, on Jack at the third level of M171,
and on the CDR at one release of the M092. You'll
be interested to know that we've not seen them
during any of the later M092 or M171 runs, and
we saw none on the last EVA.

SPT That is interesting. Any suggestion you might have

as an explanation, we'd appreciate that on the
teleprinter.
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CC Okay. Just at the moment, we agree with you that

you are increasing your proficiency and - and -
and fitness on MlT1 and other areas and this -
this may - may have a part in it.

238 22 17 13 SPT I see.

MCC Moving on to M131 on the 0GI, both Jack and Owen

are - are showing slightly increased proficiency
in perceiving the OGI. And we're wondering whether
you see any oscillation of the line targets,
either if you happen to open your eyes and see
it at rest, or during the acceleration or decelera-
tion?

SPT What?

CC We're wondering - -

238 22 17 40 SPT We've note - I've made all those comments. I

think each of us have on the channel A debrief-
ing at the end of the run, but I personally do
notice some vertical oscillation, and I think we
have commented from time to time about some amount
of left/right.

CC Okay, and we saw, on AI, when the 0GI was run

mission day 26, that he ran 12 times at level 8.
We're wondering if there was a purpose to that?

238 22 18 06 SPT I don't know who the observer was, I - I didn't

quite hear you say which man, but I expect that
it was an accident.

CC Okay, and you've reported some times that the line

target's out of focus. Could you say a little
more about that?

SPT Yes, it's always out of focus, there's no way to

focus it in our - It Just - There's something -
It will not make a distinct line. It's a fuzzy
vertical line, and then to me it actually looks
like it has a second or third sort of fainter
image to the left. And there's Just no way to
get the target properly in focus.

CC Have you noticed any other changes in visual

r acuity?
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SPT The answer is no. In fact, I do not interpret

this as a change in vilulal ac - visual acuity.
I don't think you really intended to imply that.
We all see the same thing. And as far as acuity
is concerned, either in close or at distant vision,
I've see no change at all.

238 22 19 l0 CC Okay, one thing we're thinking about, the venous

congestion in - in the head and - could produce
a slightly larger eyeball, which would, of course,
change the focal length of the eye.

SPT Good point, I don't know whether that affects near

or far vision or what; but, of course, we don't
have very, very - a very objective way of measur-
ing it without an eye-testing machine up here,
but at least, to my knowledge, we haven't noticed
anything.

CC Okay, and moving on, on the spatial localization.

Your inflight variability is much less than we
saw on the ground which is rather surprising,
and we're wondering if your restraint system has
been improved?

238 22 19 45 SPT Gee, I would have guessed exactly the opposite.

It seems to me that we have a3_most no reference
for pitch on that spatial localization and I'm
surprised that the variability is as good as you
just mentioned. I - I thought it was probably
two or three times worse. And the restraint
system, is just the one we use on the ground. We
Just have to cinch that one belt strap down tight-
ly. And that's all we've been using.

CC Okay, it's going real well. And another surpris-

ing thing is that your internal reference - you're
shifting in the same direction as SL-2 did, but
your internal reference has shifted more than
your external frame of reference, the internal
being about 5 to 25, and the external 5 to 15.

238 22 20 27 SPT Now that - that's sort of consistent with what

I'd thought we were doing. Ot_r internal refer-
ence seems to change as we pro - progress. We
can see the readings as you log them, pitching
down as each measurement progresses.
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CC Okay, and I'm moving on now to the bone/muscle,

because we've got about 3-1/2 minutes left. That's
going real well. AI and Jack's weight's stable
and, Owen, you're down Just about 1.7 pounds in
the last 21 days. And we're real glad that you're
eating up - which is approaching the ground level,
as opposed to SL-2, why, they ate about an average
of 300 calories less than their preflight level.

238 22 21 08 SPT Right, I'm stuffing in more everyday.

CC Okay, that's good and we wish you had a lot -

we had more to offer you. As - In retrospect,
we did not ship up enough overage in the workshop,
and in SL-4, for a standard mission, we are having
to put 40 pounds of food on board.

SPT That sounds good. I was Just trying to find some

overage tonight, and I certainly agree with that.
One other question I might have. I suppose that
there's - you've - you've been alerted to the
fact that there may be some error in our cue cards,
and we're still waiting an update and discussion
of the proper supplements, in particular, salt,
on our cue cards.

CC Okay, I was discussing that earlier today. It

ought to be up by tonight or tomorrow on that.
We think, regarding the weight loss, probably,
whatever water you've lost is - is lost already
and that you do have adequate protein, and pro-
bably all that good exercise you're doing is
keeping the muscle up.

238 22 22 I0 SPT Okay, sounds encouraging. We feel fine, we - I

really don't feel like I've lost any weight. I
feel the same way I did at 6 or 7 pounds heavier,
so it's apparently, some sort of a zero-g pheno-
menom that you really - you body thinks that it
needs a little bit less weight.

CC Roger. In regar - regarding your question on in-

sensible loss, we really have to back into that
kind of analysis. We've got to look at what the
intake was and what the output is and the diff-
erence between those two is insensible loss.
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SPT That sounds to me like a dandy way of covering

up all your other mistakes.

CC Well, we - we hope that - that - that - that isn't

what it is. Historically, we did have some sweat
patches and did take samples in the past for
analysis too. We might do some of that on the
ground. Can you tell us, if - if during your
exercise M171, your optional exercise periods,
that you work up enough of a sweat so that it
beads up and maybe gets flinged off?

238 22 23 05 SPT Well, on 171, both Jack and I work up a good

sweat, although I don't think the exercise is
long enough. We're only at the high levels for
about 5 minutes to lose more than a quarter of
a pound. Now, we normally continue then on, for
our normal exercise for about another 20 minutes,
and both Jack and myself sweat heavily during
that time. So, l'm convinced that - of course,
the measurement showed that I lose on the order
of a pound and a half, and I think that's a
daily sort of an event, and it's certainly much
larger than losses to be expected due to res-
piration and that sort of thing.

CC Okay, Owen, thanks a lot here. We'll be going

LOS in about 30 seconds. We'll see you stateside
at Texas in 30 minutes, and Bob Parker will be
talking to you about corollary and giving you a
science progress surmnary at that time.

SPT Okay, and I might just add one thing. AI, of

course, is delivering, essentially, the same
amount of work, but he is not - doesn't happen
to sweat heavily during that process, so he
probably is not losing any - very large amount due
to sweating during his exercise period.

CC Okay, thanks, Owen.

CDR Naval officers don't sweat.

CC You're right.

238 22 24 17 PLT Only in their navels.

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238 22 54 16 CC Skylab, Houston. We're A0S for 15 minutes state-

side. And if you hear me okay, I'm going to turn
it over to Bob Parker to talk about an overall
science sugary and also about the corollary
experiment s.

CDR Okay. Go ahead, Robert.

MCC Okay. Evening, men. First of all, there haven't

been any real major changes in the general experi-
ment mission outlook since the one I sent you up
last week, but I could add a couple of particulars
in. Right now, we're forecasting ATM viewing time
to be somewhere in the vicinity of 250 to 270 hours
for the mission. This is primarily predicated
only - predicated upon continuing the present
heavy schedule, including the early-morning and
late-afternoon passes. But this does make allow-
ances for EREP and particularly for EREP during
days off towards the end of the mission. As a
breakdown, we had 109 hours up through EVA-2,
and we're right now planning on getting somewhere
in the vicinity of 150 hours through EVA-3, and
that goes along with what you fellows were talking
about earlier this afternoon in terms of budget-
ing film. And the PIs have that information, as
you might well expect. Right now, we - we have
added some runs over and above premission plans for
some of the experiments. I - -

238 22 55 31 CDR Okay, fine, Robert. Go ahead.

MCC I think some of them you are aware of, particu-

larly the 131 run that A1 ran the other day, and
the 509 run that we're planning for tomorrow,
which would be the fifth 509 run.

238 22 55 4_ CDR Can't hear you, Bob. Do you read me?

MCC Read you loud and clear.

CC Skylab, Houston. Do you read me okay?

PLT Okay, now we read you. Must have been a small

keyhole there, but that sounds flne, Bob, and we
hope we can follow those plans right on down
through the next EVA.
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MCC Okay, and I don't know if you caught me, but

we have added some runs of other experiments above
the premission baselines. One of which, of course,
is that 131 run that A1 did the other day, another
one of which iB the 509 run which is the fifth one
which is scheduled for tomorrow, and we're - we're
doing this because of the extra time that has
become available. I guess our - our key reas -
keyword here to describe the mission at the
present time is that we're ahead and gaining.

238 22 56 26 CDR Like I said, that's the way we like to be.

MCC Okay, and in particular though I might note that

on day 32 and the 3 or 4 days coming up in the
near future, right now we do not think we'll be
keeping you quite as busy as you have been in the
last several days, and you might think about
areas or items that you yourselves feel have been
neglected, which might be interesting to pursue
at greater lengths between now and the beginning
of the start of EREP, which would be on day 37.

PLT Okay, we will think about that and try to provide

you with some suggestions, Bob.

MCC Okay. one question along those lines, sort of,

is how are the science demonstrations coming?

238 22 57 07 SPT Okay, I sent you down some TV today, as a matter

of fact. Arabella has been placed back in her
vial, and Anita is scrambling around in the cage,
and we have that on TV for you tonight. Also
have a couple of other short ones, which may be
of some interest to people with the water drop
and rocket stability demonstration. So you'll
have a couple of those tonight and the kit itself,
which you may be interested in, I'll send you down
a longer message on channel B. For example,
the pip balls with string are so small as to
be unusuable, and we're having - I'm having diffi-
culty with any sort of electrostatic generation.
But there are some revisions that I think ought
to be made in that basic procedure ....
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238 22 58 02 MCC Okay, Skylab. Do you read us again?

SPT Okay. I read you again. Did you copy my last

comment s?

MCC I copied down through the end to where you were

having trouble generating electrostatic charges.

SPT Okay. That was about the end of it, and I'll send
it in more detail on channel B, and I think there
ought to be a fairly substantial revision of that
little kit for the next flight.

MCC Okay. Copy that.

SPT Go ahead.

MCC Okay, I -

238 22 58 33 CC Owen, stand by just a second. We're having a

little antenna-management problem We'll start up
in just a second.

238 22 59 12 CC Skylab, you with us again?

238 22 59 32 CC Okay, $kylab. We're back with you. Do you read?

CC Skylab, Houston. How do you read now?

238 22 59 42 CDR Loud and clear, Dick.

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238 22 59 43 MCC Okay, this is Science again, and let me answer a

couple of questions on EREP. First of all, you
sent down a question the other day which I believe
was at least partially answered last night about
using 190B film for some of these targets of
opportunity. And basically, let me Just point out
that our planning so far has been that we've used
seven ETC passes and we have some 16 to - some
lh to 16 left to go with the ETC, so we - we
really haven't expected to use very much of our
film thus far in the mission from that point of
view.

SPT Okay, and Dick did get assurance from the EREP
Officers. He plans to leave an area - an area
of frames blank, so that's good news.

MCC Okay. Roger. The second item is on visual obser-

vations. We'd still appreciate any comment you
have about two particular items in addition to
the Science itself. The first of those would be
the appropriateness of the various types of sites
we've been sending up, and the second would be
any suggestions about our methods of scheduling.
You'll notice that we sent up, I think last night,
the - a whole set of schedules and descriptions
which we're trying to change the pattern around
a bit, but you might continue to send us conments
on that.

238 23 00 57 SPT Okay. I think we all like the idea of having a

h or 5 day schedule ahead telling us what the
interesting things to come around might be. It's
probably more economical on our time as well, so
that we can, not have to say, block our a whole
hour or 30 minutes to go take a look at a particu-
lar site. And this way we can plan it further
ahead and snatch %P a camera 5 minutes ahead of
time and go look. Also, it turns out that a lot
of these things we're catching on our own are
already caught, and that's a - that's a help in
saving time.

PLT Hey, Bob. I find it difficultto find time to do

those things. And like, for example, yesterday, I
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think I had to schedule Just handheld photography

for a certain length of time. That means I got
to go digging through all of those things to find
out - find out which one's coming up. What I'd
like you to do is to, on the Flight Plan, tell
me I've got to do handheld photography and tell
me which one to look up in our little library
to - to do that.

238 23 01 51 MCC Okay. You'd like that sent up in each day?

SPT Yes. I'd prefer to have it as a - as a scheduled

item, which I'ii get if I can. But I don't want
to just schedule this handheld photography. I
want a schedule, one of these specific areas so
I'll know which right - exactly which one to go
to without hunting through the whole bunch to see
where I'm going to be at a certain time.

238 23 02 12 MCC Okay, and Dick Just tells me that he's got some
stuff to pass up to you about that at the next
pass anyway.

SPT Okay.

MCC Okay. Let's go on to corollaries. SO19 is givin_

about 30 frames of film to S183. In fact, the
pass that you got on SO19 yesterday was indeed to
get data for S183. The only S183 instrument acti-
vities that we're presently anticipating is
probably one orbital pass in the next week or so
with the DAC camera, and this will be mainly for
troubleshooting to try and find out the cause of
the focus problem, which we discovered close to
launch, but it was on the SL-2 film. That's the
status of S183 and we will be getting some obser-
vations for the PI with Carl's equipment.

SPT Okay.

238 23 03 00 MCC On T020 we are scheduling a rerun of that first

objective of the first run, the unsuited run, and
this will be primarily a look at the belt problem.
We will be sending up a checklist and items de-
scribing new configurations of that in the next
day or so. We're looking for that run to be on _
day 33. I think a couple of questions we might ask,
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as we're continuing to work on these procedures

which are _Imost but not quite frozen right now
is, first of all: why was the seat - why did you
use the height adjustment at 50 which wasn't what
was anticipated preflight, and second if you could
expand on the problem which you did mention of a
backpack strap during your setuo? Over.

CDR We used 50 because it seem to me to provide the

right distance, seat to foot pedal.

238 23 04 00 CDR And the backpack straps, they Just don't hold -
they don't hold the device rigid to you. But even
if they did, your waist is not rigid relative to the
whole rest of your body, you know, rest relative
to the seat, of the other part of the maneuvering
unit. And so you're like a guy riding a bucking
bronc, if you've watched them in rodeos there. The
upper body is relaxed relative to their lower body
and that just fouls up the L.C. for T20.

MCC Okay, 5 seconds to handover; we'll be standing by

here a minute.

238 23 04 42 MCC Okay, what some of the fixes are and they'll be
described a great deal more when you get the pad.
But the equivalent of the butt belts on a para-
chute are what appear to be loose and slipping,
I think that's your observation. It's also our
observation from TV. And we're trying to add on
new straps that will come down from the waist strap
somewhere back near where straps, for instance,
on the survival - that attaches the survival kit
with a parachute, somewhere from there down toward
the thruster assemblies. This will be to - be to
try to hold the waist strap down onto the seat.
Also the fix entails adding a V-2 belt arrangement,
which again is sort of like on a para2hute, coming
up from the front of the saddle back over the
thighs into the same area near and back by the
hipbones to try and tie you physically down
better onto the saddle. Other changes, particularly
with the saddle, include padding out the saddle
to keep it from slipping from side to side between
your legs which we've also noticed. Over.

238 23 05 47 CDR Okay, that sounds like a good idea. I like that
slde-to-side saddle padding. I still think we still
ought to figure out a way to rigidize the - the
maneuvering - the maneuvering unit body to the back-
pack.
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MCC Okay, but there all - are also some other fixes
which I just didn't bother to go into great detail
because it's a fairly long pad to describe them,
that do also involve trying to rigidize the
backpack as well. At the same time allowing you
still to have some torso motion. There is a belief,
in general however, that the present harness would
work much better with the suit than it does
unsuited and so we expect things to be much better
with the suited run in any case. Over.

238 23 06 24 CDR I would tend to a_ree. You would also be able to

pull yourself down on the saddle harder and not hurt
yourself. I was sore for about h days after that
ride, down in the crotch area. And I don't think
that's the way we ought to do but I think the
previous [? ] wedges and that would help. But
without the suit, we certainly need to come up with
something and we got so many things aboard here
that - C-clamps and all that other business that it
seems to me we could come up with some good
clamodown. Flus we got all sorts of clamps up here
that were used during activation to tie things
down and rods and straps; there ought to be a way we
could do it.

MCC Okay, we - we have looked at some straDs; and

the straps that we're talking about using, we
feel won't slip as much as the ones that are part
of the equipment right now. T020-2, the suited
run, will take place at least after day 38,
probably in the - in the 40's and this de -
depends upon the need to verify that the SOP, a
fourth SOP, one of the four that are remaining, is
sat - well, that three of the four are satisfactory
for the last EVA before we commit to using the
fourth one for the T020 suited run. This comes
about because we deleted one SOP at the last
minute before the launch as I'm sure you'll
understand.

238 23 07 36 CDR Yes, we're - we're with you on that.

MCC Okay. S063 originally was to be used out the

Solar airlock a long while ago to observe an
air_low and that became impossible, of course,
after the launch of SL-I. And there was a device or
a procedure worked up to use the S019 mirror
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system. This is not planned to initiate this until

SL-h but with the time that we have available now,
between now and, say, about day 37, we have
planned tomorow on trying this configure out -
configuration out. And the pad has been reviewed
this afternoon; in fact, it was being reviewed
during the last reed pass and will be sent up to-
night for Owen. And what we've aside, a fair
amount of 0JT time, in fact, tomorrow to allow
you to work through this - and - and - and make
some practice observations before we actually make
the set of observations tomorrow with this system.
0ve r.

238 23 08 30 SPT Okay, I think we'll need some. It'll probably also
require some of A1 and Jack's time because I've
not been doing any of the S019 AMS work and so
it's going to require a little bit of Joint
effort to - to figure out how to use it and we'll
Just take a look at the pad and make ourselves

CDR I'll tell you what might be a good idea, Bob. It

might be a good idea for Jack and I to handle that
part because there's plenty of the other S063 out
the windows that 0wen can do. In that way, we
can have another experiment we can work on that
won't take Owen's time. He ends up doing up quite
a lot of corollary things, counting the medical
he does. Jack and I do not, and we're not looking
to - you mentioned earlier about decreasing the
workload; we don't want that to happen, so maybe
this is a good way to keep it up.

238 23 09 20 CC Skylab; Houston. We're about 15 seconds from LOS.

We're going to see you at 23:13 at Madrid. I'll
give you a call there and give it back to Bob and
you all can continue this discussion.

SPT Okay.

238 23 09 32 CDR I think it would be better for us to do that 63

out of the AMS and that would split off some of
Owen's time.

_- 238 23 13 18 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Madrid. If you hear

me okay, I'll give it back to Bob.
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SPT Go ahead, Dick.

MCC Okay, con - continuing on S063, we'll - we'll fol-

low those ideas and try to shuffle the Flight Plan.
The thought had b_een that Owen was more familiar
with 63 than you people. On 63, we would be inter-
ested sometime, on channel A, for any verbal descrip-
tions you could give of the auroras that you've
seen, such as color, motion, shape, or - and in
terms of arcs or rays, et cetera. Also the part-
icular windows that you're finding useful to observe
these out of, in terms of obstructions to the
view out the window.

SPT The first aurora I observed was on mission day 6,

early morning. And I sent down a description of all
that on channel A. And then there was another one
a week or so later, and I wonder if this stuff is
all getting transcribed and transferred over to
Drs. Packer and others interested. Over.

238 23 14 21 MCC I'll check with them on that. The T002 PI would
be interested if you - if Jack thinks that the
airglow is bright enough as an horizon to be used
as a star-horizon check. Over.

PLT That's affirmative. I've co_ented on that on sev-

eral of the tanes. And it would be better than
the Earth horizon.

MCC Okay. Copy that. And on T002, also, is that we

have a continuing interest in the F - on the F06
procedures. You noticed we've changed them the
last time around and we'll be continuing to be
interested in how they work out. On T003, from
Skylab 2, reports come back that the workshop is
cleaner than most operating rooms. It says 3000
particles per cubic foot, which isn't necessarily
clean, I guess, but it's, they say, cleaner than
most operating rooms. Another input, briefly,
from Skylab 2, is that ED76, the neutron flux
that was brought back on Skylab 2 indicated that
the nen- thermal neutrons are a factor of l0 higher
than predicted, and they were still investigating
this rather interesting result. One last final
question, on T020, the PI would be interested if
on that run, what the impact or interference was
of SO19 being in the SAL. Was there, or is it a
rain - minimal influence? Over.
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238 23 15 h5 CDR Zero influence.

MCC Okay. Copy that. I'ii hand you back over to Dick
and talk to you guys in a week or so.

PLT I got one more con_ent, Bob. On the T002, if the

PI wants me to use the airglow horizon instead of
the Earth horizon, he better tell me to do it that
way, because until I hear different, I'll - I'll
continue using the Earth horizon, of course, as the
procedures say.

MCC Roger. We agree with that. We'll send you up

changes if - if they decide to make them. Thank
you.

PLT Thank you, Bob.

238 23 16 18 CC Skylab, houston. We still got you in Madrid for

the next 5 minutes and to get back to the S06 I'm
sorry, the Earth observation handheld photos that
we were tslking about Just a second ago, Jack.
I had a mission note here to talk to you about.
And I think it goes along with your su_w_estion a
while ago. What we propose to do, and why don't
you see if this sounds okay, is we'll continue up-
linking the photo data as represented in the general
messages that we send up 22, 21, and 20. In add-
ition, what we an - proposed to do is, when we can,
we will schedule these opportunities in the Flight
Plan, using our normal scheduling groundrules.
And these will show up in your detail pad as an
Earth-observation photo with the time, and in par-
entheses it will say, "Scheduled". The opportunities
that we cannot schedule, we would also like to call
out on - in your detailed Flight Plan Just in case
you'd - you might be ahead that day and you could
get them. We - they will show up in exactly the
same way in your details, except in - in parentheses,
instead of saying, "Scheduled", we'll Just say,
"Optional". And with that, we think you have
enough onboard data to accomplish these photos.
Over.

PLT I think that's a good plan, Dick. And, will that

also include the site which we are supposed to get
r at that particular time?
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238 23 17 47 CC Well, the proposal has been, Jack, is that since

is - rather than list the name of the site, is
just to list the AOS time, because if you go to
per - in either ease, you'll have to go to per-
manal - permanent general message 22 to find it,
and then for each mission day, they've listed in
order of AOS times. Over.

PLT We think that the name of the site ought to be in

there. I think that'd - would ease the situation
in finding it, Dick.

CC Okay. We'll certainly do that. And while we're

talking about this, I have for - for tomorrow,
mission day 31, I have a pen-and-ink correction
to that gereral message, which is number 22 and
it's probably taped in - in your onboard Flight
Plan.

238 23 18 41 PLT We could copy down some now, if you want.

CC Okay. It's - it's the first entry on mission

day 31. And the A0S time now reads 19:00, It
should read 22:13. And then i_ediately follow-
ing that, the number 36 should read 2h. Over.

PLT Okay. And where's that change going to be made in?

Is that the little catalog of sites that you sent
up or the Flight Plan for tomorrow?

238 23 19 20 CC Yes, I'm - I'm sorry. It's in the permanent general

message number 22, for mission day 31.

PLT Okay.

238 23 20 Ii CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 1 minute from LOS

at Madrid. I'm going to see you at Cararvon at
23:h8 and here's a note for information for the
PLT. We - When we were doin_ the un - unattended
operations, the S055 grating was left at a position
of 3750.

PLT Thanks. I know just what to do with it.

CC RoKer.
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PLT Last time they left it in exactly the right place.

CC Well, this time it seems that we got it caught in

one of the handovers and didn't get the cormuands
comoleted and so we Just left it there.

PLT That 's fine. Thank you.

CC Roger.

PLT That's one for me. You got a whole bunch of them.

238 23 20 58 CC Yeah. That's a gatcha.

238 23 h8 27 CDR Hello, Dick.

CC Skylab, Houston. Hello. Go ahead.

CDR Say, Dick, since we've had those briefings today

I - I'm - Just one question I was going to ask
and forgot. What is - what is the status of Jerry
bringing up a full load of ATM film? Now that he
has - doesn't have to take up parasol or set of
rate gyros which amounted to a total of about
200 pounds for us and a lot of space. I was wonder-
ing if they had taken Pete's ATM cans that he
brought back you know all those film cans and
reloaded them and were planning to bring them up
here for Jerry so he could have two full sets.
He's sure going to need them, I tell you. It's -
there's a lot of opportunities for ATM film usage.
I'd hate to see him get up here with Just one, and
I wondered if - if that's what they've been doing
down there?

CC Stand by.

238 23 49 30 CC AI, I - I don't have an i_ediate answer. I do

know that the SL-h stowage situation is right now
just about as in - as fluid as yours was at this
point because we are looking at all the science
and figuring out where we would get the most re-
turn for the, you know, wei6,jatand volume. I know
we're also considering islmching some - and we're
going to launch some new experiments for the Kohoutek
Comet that they're going to see. But maybe we can
f get a - can get a - an idea of how this will be
reflected in the ATM film load.
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CDR Good idea. I'd heard some comments before I left

that some part of the reason was we didn't have
any cans and we didn't have some other things. I
was - we were thinking and you know with all that
Pete brought back, maybe they're still in good
shape, could be Just reloaded, and shot up here.

CC Roger; we'll try to get you more specific answer

on that and get back to you.

238 23 50 36 CDR Okay, we know they're thinking about it a lot more

than we are but I was Just kind of wondering what
the status was.

CC Roger.

CC And, CDR; Houston. On the - on your recommendation

for tomorrow's Flight Plan on S063, we've been
doin_ some t_]king about it down here and we would
prefer to leave tomorrow's Flight Plan as is with
Owen doing the S063 for a couple of reasons. One,
of course, is - is we think he's a little bit farther
along or quite a bit farther along on the - in the
training for o_eration of it and is probably would
be, you know, more likely to not fall into any pit-
falls that perhaps even we haven't found in the
checklist and will only find when you run through
it one time. And the second reason is, is we've
got about 16 hours of flight planning for tomorrow
that's already behind us that we would have to cram
into a much shorter period this evening and it
might - the end result, you know, might be a - a
worse product for the next day. So we'd like to
encourage you to - to make more inputs along that
line when you see us doing things that - that don't
seem to be efficient, but in this case we'd prefer
to leave tomorrow's Flight Plan as is.

238 23 52 ii CDR No trouble, and y'all are superefficient. The only

thought that I had is I noticed that Owen has a lot
of extra work each day, where Jack and I don't and
that seemed - and we've been trying to figure out
how we could spread it around a little bit. And
it seemed to us maybe that was one way that in the
future, not necessarily tomorrow, we could keep -
Jack and I working on scientific experiments; Owen
always seems to be doing it, and try to relieve
some of his burden.
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CC Okay, AI, good point and we'll - we'll consider

that and try to crank it into the Flight Plans.
We're about 30 seconds from LOS and I'ii call you
at Honeysuckle in about 6 or 7 minutes.

CDR Okay. What time is my phone call? I want to make

sure I make it.

CC Oh, let me see here. It's at 00:37 at Bermuda.

CDR 0kay.

PLT What time is mine again then, Dick?

CC It's the next pass, Jack, at Madrid at 00:50.

PLT Okay, thank you.

238 23 53 20 CC Roger.

239 00 00 24 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS at Honeysuckle, Just

about in time for me to tell you we're i minute
from LOS at Honeysuckle. We're going to he AOS
at Texas at 00:29, and l've got some evening ques-
tions, and I thought I'd start getting them out of
the way at Texas if you had the time.

SPT Okay, no unusual X-ray activity reported in the

last 5 minutes, is there?

CC Stand by.

239 00 00 59 CC Owen, Houston. The answer is negative.

SPT Thank you.

SPT Go ahead with your questions.

239 00 01 i0 CC Well, we're just about LOS here at Honeysuckle.

l'm going to have to wait until we get to Texas.

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SKYLAB AIR-T0-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

239 00 29 40 CC Skylab, Houston, we're AOS stateside.

CC And, Skylab, I have three or four comments and

a couple of evening questions. I thought I'd
start getting them out of the way here. This
pass - when we get - handover to Bermuda will be
Al's phone call, and you should start on the right
antenna. INCO thinks you probably can stay there
the whole pass.

CDR Okay. I've already got the comm Set up, so I'll
be ready. (Music). Let me mention one other thing.
I went over and looked at the command module down
at 380 coolant panel again where it was leaking.
We weren't having any leaking around the valves,
but right on the edge of the door and the edge of
the door Jam, there was a thin coating of this
material also. And I dried that off the other
day, so - but I've been leaving the door open; I
closed it earlier this morning. And I don't know
whether this is a new leak that's migrating down
from somewhere - the original leak was not the
valve - or whether this had been up around the door
through capillary action previously when we closed
the door and Just came back and evenly covered it.
So I'll keep a watch on it for a couple days.
But they might w_nt to entertain the thought of
me removing the panel covers around it and Just
looking in to see in that whole area, if there's
a leak that's visible. It might not be this valve;
it might be - just happened to collect there but
really be leaking, behind one of the panels that's
on there now that we could take off and look in and
view.

239 00 31 17 CC Okay, AI, we'll get back to you on an answer to

that one.

CDR Okay, go with your questions, Dick.

CC 0 - okay, the first one is for Owen and it's not

, really a question. We just wanted him - to let
him know that tNe message of - for Deana Sanford
and Gene Reed has been recieved by them and we
sent it over there. We'll up-link an answer to you
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as soon as we get it back from them.

SPT Okay.

CC Okay. On the ATM, we want to know if you've placed

the S052 camera load number 2 in the food freezer
551 yet?

SPT Affirmative.

239 00 32 00 CC Okay. Next thing on S054, they've noted that

the filter B exposure in building block 2 of J0P 6
has been 256 seconds for the last 3 or 4 days,
instead of the desired 64 seconds. And we're
wondering if possibly we got a pen and ink in-
correctly put into JOP 6. We did send one up like
this for JOP 9 the other day. So the question is,
"Do the onboard snmmary sheets indicate the proper
filter 3 exposure of 64 seconds for JOP 6?" And
you can get back to us after you get a chance to
look at the book.

SPT I wasn't listening. Just a minute, I'll ... you

down as soon as I ... with the ...

239 00 32 58 SPT J0P 6, building block what, Dick?

CC Let's see, building block 2.

J

SPT Thank you.

SPT Our building block tells us that's M, l, O, S, 256

and M, 3, O, S, 64, Dick.

CC Okay, stand by just a second.

CC Okay, that's what it's supposed to be, so we're

happy with that one. Okay, the next question is
for some engineering data on the speaker intercom
box that was - failed the other day. I have three
questions. One is "Was the spring tension lost
in both the INTERCOM and the PTT switch positions?"

CDR Ye s.
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239 00 34 00 CC Okay. Next one was, "Was the mike disabled in the
center position by holding it there?"

CDR No. It was all very loose and limber and you got
the feeling, almost, that the -the switch wasn't
really connected to the inside. I know that it
was, but it was awful loose in several axes.

CC Okay. And the only other one, and this is one

we certainly should have gotten earlier, but we
need to get the serial number of the box - of
that new intercom box you put up there. So some-
time you might record that on channel A or - or
send it down to us on the air to ground.

239 00 3h 40 CC The - the next thing that I wanted to talk to

Owen about - and this is a message that we sent
up last night and we were Just talking about it
and we've - are afraid we may have created a little
trap and wanted Just to chat with you a little
bit about it, Owen. And that's the one on the -
the general message on the IMSS drugs, message
number 3034. In looking back at it - Well, let
me tell you what the intent was. We intended to
send this up to you and have you do it. We did
not intend to schedule it, and then when it was
completed, for you to let us know. And then at
that point, you could throw this message away.
However, none of those good words got on the
message, only the procedure itself. Over.

SPT Okay, I understand. And we were just about to

request a little time in the Flight Plan in the
next day or so to - about an hour and a half to do
all that. (Music). If you want to Just not
schedule it, why it's a question of when it will
get done.

239 00 35 42 CC stand by.

CC Owen, our intent is to go ahead and try to get it

scheduled in the next day or so. So if you will -
we probably should have made that a permanent
general message. So if you would Just hang on to
that IMSS drugs message, we'll get it on the
Flight Plan.

SPT Okay, that 's fine.

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239 00 36 06 CC Okay. The next thing that I had to talk to you

about is the change that we're going to - unusual
thing that's coming up on the star tracker in a
few days. In between days 240 and 255, or about
a 2-week period, we're going to be fresh out of
star tracker stars that are already loaded in the
ATMDC. And we have two choices of how we can
handle the situation. The first one is, we could
build a software patch to - to pick a new star
and account for it in the software in the ATMDC,
and we particularly don't want to do that if we
can help it. Stand by 1.

239 00 36 45 CC We are, however, looking into what it takes to do

that. The other option is the following: It
turns out that the star Rigel Kent will be avail-
able and its brightness is somewhere between
Achernar and C_lopus. The procedure that we pro-
pose to use is the following: We'll send you a
star tracker pad that has the - the name of
Rigel Kent on it. However, the DAS code that
is on the star tracker pad will still be the same
DAS code for Achernar. The proper gimbal angles
will be listed on the star tracker pad and your
procedures will be exactly the same as they have
been before, except that when you do get an update,
you need to note the exact gimbal angles of the
star. And then when we have AOS, tell us what
they are. Based on that information, the ASCO
will make up an outer gimbal backup command and
we'll up-link it to you. And - so the only change
to your procedure would be to note the exact gimbal
angles and let us know if we're not looking at the
data ourselves. Over.

CDR Sounds good.

CC Okay, we'll - -

239 00 37 57 SPT Dick, this just corresponds to putting the appro-

priate location for Rigel in this - *** as now
loaded, does it not? And then we just pretend
that Achernar is Rigel, is that correct?
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CC That's correct, Owen. The DAS code - As a

matter of fact, the ATMDC is going to think it's
Achernar all the way. But we would put the name
of the - the real name of the star you're using
on the pad.

CC Skylab, Houston. On that same subject, and Phil

[?] points out to me, we want to make sure that
you understand that, during this period of time,
the star tracker input enables to the computer.
Star tracker updates would be inhibited and we
would require this outer gimbal backup command
to get a proper Nu Z update.

SPT Pointed that out to me up here, also.

CC Roger.

239 O0 39 07 CC Okay, let me go through my paperwork real quick

and see if I have anything else.

CDR 1059, serial number on that box.

CC Roger. And I think we're handing over to Bermuda

now, A1, you might get on that there.

CDR Okay, 1059.

CC I got it.

2B9 O0 45 07 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 1 minute from LOS.

We're going to see you at Madrid in about 5 min-
utes. I'll give you a call, and Jack, your call
will be set up there.

2B9 O0 45 18 PLT Thank you, Dick.

239 O0 50 45 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS at Madrid for 9 min-

utes.

239 O0 52 42 CC Skylab, Houston. We got you at Madrid still for

another 7 minutes.

CC And, Skylab, back to the subject we were talking

about awhile ago on the handheld photos. As far
as tomorrow goes, it turns out that the - all
four of the opportunities that are listed in
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permanent general message 22 are not schedulable,

so we're not going to change your detailed. Flight
Plans that are already on board. You might look
over those opportunities and, if anybody has a
chance to get any of those sites, we'd appreciate
it; if not, no problem. And starting the next day,
we will list those scheduled and optional sites
on the detailed Flight Plan.

CDR Okay, Dick.

239 00 59 03 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 45 seconds from LOS. We'll

see you at Honeysuckle at 01:37.

239 01 37 26 CC Skylab, Houston. We're A0S Honeysuckle for 2 min-

utes.

239 01 37 54 CDR Going to have a newscast for us tonight, Dick?

CC I'm sorry, AI; say again.

CDR Wonder if you have any news items for us tonight?

CC Yes; as a matter of fact, I do. l'm - we're

about i minute from LOS here at Honeysuckle. I
was waiting on a little longer pass. As long as
we are here, I'ii tell you that we're going to
be at Goldstone at 02:05, and I'ii get the evening
status from you there and then give you some news
while we're going - The most important item,
though, I'ii read you here, and then the rest
when we get up there. The prognosis for Fred
Haise is still favorable and his physical condition
remains good and is stable. Facial burns are
only minor, secondary degree, and are healing
nicely. Fred still has some fluid accumulation
in the lungs as a result of the inhalation of hot
gases, but this condition is improving without
supplemental oxygen - oxygen therapy. Generalized
body swelling is subsiding, and he's able to get
up and walk around for short periods. Over.

CDR That's great. He's really pulling along.

239 01 39 02 CC Roger. And we' re about 15 seconds from going over

the hill now. After we get the evening status
report or - and the later pass of the evening,
I'll give you the rest of the stuff.

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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

239 02 05 08 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS at stateside and I'm

standing by for evening status report. Go ahead.

CDR Okay. Here it is.

CC Okay. Go ahead.

CDR Okay. Urine; 118, 175, 165. DrimkCug water gun

reading; _ - correction, 5_72; 0989; 61_6.
_MMD: 6.232, 6.2_2, 6.2_2; 5.958, 5.959, 5.957;
6.93_, 6.935. Evercise: CDR 2/35/5009,
3/15/Mark I, 3/151M-_k If. SPT, 2130/_300,
320Mark I, 60 A, _0B, _OD. PLT, 2/32/7292,
05 - correction 1/05/0560, 3/20Mark I, 60 A,
20 B, 20 D, and 20 backbends. No medications.
Sleep: CDE, 9 G; Spt, 7-1/2 F; PLT - According
to this he didn't get any sleep. I'll read you
the food log.

PLT 6-1/2 G.

CDR 6-1/2 G, Bill.

CC Roger.

239 02 07 27 CDR Okay. Food: CDR, 13 salt packs, and add one
cherry drink; SPT, four salt packs, add peanuts
and grape drink; PLT, seven salt packs, and add
a cherry drink.

CC Go ahead.

CDR Here comes the photo log: 16-millimeter, ED52,

Arabella/Anita transfer - that's the A/A
transfer - CI50, 00, CIh0. 35-millimeter: CI10,
160, CX13, 20. 70 millimeter: CX25, 083.
Drawer A: A-l, 07, CI50, 00, CIh0; A-2, 3, h in
the back, no change.

CC Okay.

CDR Flight Plan deviations: Please schedule

l-l/2 hours for SPT to activate usage drugs, per
message 303h. TO03 - We got that done. We
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didn't have it done when we wrote these notes,

but we have it done now. We did all the shopping
list items for today, and did all the stowage,
did all the cleanups, and all that other business.
Inoperable equipment: Nothing new. You got the
box numbers 1059. Unscheduled stowage item
location changes: We changed some food around_
but we won't go into that. We'll wait until we
give you a complete inventory. 0therwise, this
food really becomes - we're moving a lot of
drinks around because we're all drinking extra
drinks. And I believe that's it.

239 02 09 21 CC Okay, A1. I have a couple of things for you.

One thing I forgot to ask awhile ago. Are the
timers still working okay - I mean the clocks?

CDH Yes, they sure are. We fixed them, and now

they're working good and it's really helped out.

CC Okay. One more item before I can get onto news,

and if the - if you don't have anything else.
it turns out. awhile ago when Jack was reading
the wardroom SMMD, we started dumping the tape
recorder on channel A, and we only got the first
three sequences. So we need for him, sometimes,
to rerecord sequences 4 through I0. And that
was my mistake. I failed to warn you that the
data recorder was going - going to be dumped,
so I guess you can take it out on me when you
get home, Jack. And if you guys don't have
anything else, I'll read you some news.

239 03 l0 17 PLT Go ahead, Dick.

CC Okay. The formal dedication of the Johnson Space

Center will be held tomorrow, beginning at
3 p.m. central daylight time. This will be on the
65th anniversary of L.B.J.'s birth. The cere-
monies will consist of opening remarks by
Dr. Kraft' an invocation; the Pledge of Alle-
giance, led by Admiral Shepard; a welcome by
Governor Briscoe; address by Dr. Fletcher; a
short speed - speech by Lady Bird Johnson; and
a benediction. The ceremony will be followed by
a motorcade - motorcade downtown and a dinner
sponsored by the Houston Chamber of Commerce.
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These ceremonies follow a round of receptions in

Austin at the LBJ Library and the Federal Office
Building at LBJ's old office suite.

239 02 ll 06 CC Another item: the Red River Valley's Fighter

Pilots' Association held a reunion in Las Vegas
this past weekend. Con - This association, as
you know, consists of pilots who are former
prisoner of wars and others who flew oMer
North Viet Nam. The men caus - call themselves
River Reds and rang for the first time a
freedom bell, which was cast in Thailand in 1967
when the association was formed. The bell has
remained silent awaiting return of the POWs and
their reunion. Flight-suit-garbed men broke
down and wept as they greeted comrades they had
not seen in years. One note: At midnight to-
night a couple of Texas laws go into effect that
you have heard about. And I'll just mention it,
since it happens tonight. One is the - that
18-year-olds in Texas become of legal age. And
another one that has - will have a great bearing
on traffic. Texans will be able to turn right
on red after a full stop at a stoplight. The
Guinness Book of World Records lists Roy Sullivan,
A Shenandoah National Park Ranger, as the only
living man to be struck by lightning four times.
Now Guinness can make it five. Sullivan said
the bolt hit him on the head - (Laughter)

PLT We're breaking up here, too.

CC I - I really tried (laughter).

239 02 12 53 CC Okay. Let me continue with this important item.

Sullivan said the bolt hit him on the head,
setting his hair on fire, (laughter) and
knocking his - and knocking him lO feet from
where he was struck. He poured water on his
head and drove to a ranger's station where he
got first aid. He was driven to a hospital and
then returned to work this week.

239 02 13 17 CC A1 Bean's comments about his stolen spacesuit

needing to be pressed is in many of the papers
today. There must have been some truth to i_
because thieves apparentlydecided it was too
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wrinkled to wear to a dance. The Michigan

police, acting on an anonymous telephone tip
from a young woman, found the suit in a green
bag in front of a mausoleum at the local
cemetery. There are nc suspects yet, but the
FBI has been asked for assistance. I only have
one final note. Tonight, a little bit later,
is the midpoint of this mission and so the
purple team gets to celebrate passing the mid-
point of you mission. A great job so far and
keep it up.

CDR ... Have a beer for us.

239 02 14 04 CC You bet.

239 02 14 43 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about a minute and a half

from LOS. We are going to have to handover here
and may drop into a keyhole. The next pass is
at Madrid at 02:28, and that will be the
medical conference. And if we don't get the
comm back, you guys get a good nights' sleep
and we'll see you in the morning. Also, during
that pass - during a portion of that pass, when
we're AOS at Canary, we will dump the data
recorder.

239 02 18 05 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS through Bermuda for

about 5 minutes for a pass that I was unaware
that we were going to get. So I'm standing by
for the next 5 minutes.

239 02 23 44 CC Skylab, Houston. We're going over the hill.

Med conference will be at Madrid at 02:28.

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SKYLAB AIR-TO'GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

239 i0 44 44 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Vanguard.

Good morning, gentlemen. This morning we
have some music for you to wake up by.

CC (Music)

239 i0 48 39 CC Thought you guys - -

PLT That's the way it is.

CC Thought you guys might - -

SPT Very nice, Karl.

239 i0 _8 hh CC Good morning. Thought you guys might like to

know how popular you are down here.

PLT Who's the writer?

CC That was written and played by Charles Morley

of Cocoa Beach. And I got a tape of it through
Bill Cummings of Titusville radio station WRMF.

SPT Oh, very nice. Our best regards to him. I

think it's quite a pleasant tune and as Jack Just
said, pretty doggone accurate.

CC Yes, it sounded like a pretty good tune to me.

239 i0 h9 34 CC In case you didn't get the title of that that

was, "My Skylab Home". And we've got about
30 seconds to LOS. We'll see you again in
about 1 hour. Exact time coming up is ll:h9
over Hawaii.

239 ll 49 48 CC. Skylab, this is Houston through Hawaii for the

next 5 minutes,

SPT Aloha.

CC Aloha.

239 ll 50 12 CC I expect you guys have been through the pile

of paper by now, but just in case you haven't,
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be advised that there are rather extensive

checklist additions for S063 and M509. And in
case of M509, we goofed up in sending it up
and sent you a second copy complete and correc-
ted.

SPT Okay.

SPT Karl, I noticed on the Flight Plan for this

evening there is 9 minutes of real-time TV of
the spider over Goldstone. I was just looking
at Anita's effort from last night in here a
few minutes ago, and she's only managed to
spin a couple of strands up in one corner. And
I would suggest, if your flight planners can
work it out, that We delay this another day and
give her another day to make a better effort.
If you remember, Arabella took one day of no
work and the second night as a rudimentary
effort. And I expect Anita may well follow
the same pattern, it looks like it so far.
Her first night's effort was essentially a
couple of szrands. And I think we'd do better
to wait another day or so until we can get a
little bit better television photograph, if
that's satisfactory with your flight planning
down there. Over.

239 ii 51 31 CC Okay, Owen, that sounds like a good suggestion

and we'll let the people down here chew on
that for a while.

CC And, Owen, as we looked at that fine demonstra-

tion on surface tension during the night, our
brilliant program scientists suggested that
you might have got that water out of the bottle
better if you'd just turned it upside down.

239 ll 52 O0 SPT Oh, you've already seen that overnight televi-

sion look. Well, I've tried that too, and you
know it didn't flow uphill or downhill one
way any better than the other.

CC (Laughter)

239 ll 52 20 CC No, unfortunately, I missed that demonstration

on TV but Bob Parker was watching it and said
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it was extremely impressive the way surface

tension affects things up there.

SPT Well, water is very sticky. If you just give

it the slightest encouragement, it will run
right around the lip of a drinking bottle, or
it will attach itself to your hand and run up
between your fingers, or whatever it sticks
to it really holds on. And it's a bit of a
problem to get a very large bubble of water
floating freely.

CC Okay.

239 ll 54 36 CC And while I'm still talking to you guys, thanks

for fixing my S19 mirror system. That was a
great job.

SPT Well, we're glad it worked out that way, Karl.

239 ll 54 56 CC And we've got 1 milit - 1 minute to LOS. We'll

see you over Vanguard at 12:17.

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SKYLABAIR-T0-GROUNDVOICETRANSCRIPTION

239 12 17 38 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Vanguard for the

next 9 minutes.

CC And A1, if it's convenient, we'd be pleased to

have the DAS in order to get up a dump inhibit.

CDR You got it.

CC Okay.

239 12 18 24 CC And Owen, be advised that FAO has agreed to slip

Anita's TV debut for 24 hours. He also says to
tell her to get on the ball. That we - the NASA
program doesn't allow prima donnas,

SPT Well, I think she Just followed in the footsteps

of Arabella here and FAO didn't get the word to
her in time either.

CC (Laughter) We understand. Incidentally, I have

a small update on S063, if you have a moment to
- to - copy. Actually, it doesn't require copy-
ing. At 12:50, on the familiarization pad, we'd
like to el_m_nate the non-time-critical comment
and note that there's a pad for that. The pad's
necessary to give you tilt and rotation angles.
We also give you photograph information there,
but be reminded that the photographs are at your
option.

239 12 19 18 SPT Okay. I'm working on that right now but I think
our chance of getting this thing operative in the
next 30 minutes is very small. We're working as
fast as we can on the thing.

CC We understand.

SPT But, I'm - I really don't think there's time

enough to get this worked into the Flight Plan
the way it is now. We're just working at it as
fast as we can.

CC Right, O. I think we understand the situation.

F 239 12 20 12 CC AI, the DAS is yours again.

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239 12 22 23 CC AI, this is Houston. As we look at the inner

gimbal angle, it looks like you might be locked
up on the wrong star, and we'd like to have you
to reacquire Achernar again.

CDR Okay.

239 12 23 24 CDR It shows it right at 18:01.

CC That looks okay, AI. Thank you.

CDR Okay, there are the pad numbers right there.

Let's see what star it does now.

CC We're ready for AUTO.

CDR Okay. That's better.

239 12 25 46 CC Okay, AI. We can go ahead and close the star

tracker SHUTTER.

CDR Okay.

239 12 26 43 CC Skylab, Houston. The guys down here think that

we should turn off the VTR. We have 7 minutes
and we only needed 3. We have 30 seconds to LOS.
See you again over Hawaii at 13:24 and we will
be dumping the recorders over Hawaii.

239 12 27 00 CDR Okay.

239 13 24 28 CC Skylab, A0S Hawaii for i0 minutes.

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SKYLAB AIR-T0-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

239 13 30 44 CC Skylab, we'd like to reconfigure your rate gyros

for the rate gyro maneuver later on. So, we'll
need the DAS and we're going to gyros 1,2 in each
axis with redundancy management enabled in each
axis.

CDR You got it.

CC Okay.

239 13 33 02 CC Skylab, we're 2 minutes to LOS. We'll be seeing

you over the Vanguard in about 25 minutes. And
after that Vanguard, the next time we'll be seeing
you is another rev later at the Vanguard, so we'll
have an hour and 30 minutes there. And if you got
any questions for us, you might be hitting us with
them over the Vanguard in 25 minutes.

CDR Okay, let me hit you with a couple right now.

CC The DAS is yours, and go.

239 13 33 32 CDR Okay, we're still trying to figure out what we

should do with the LCGs and FCSs that we wore on
the last several times. They're hanging up in
here drying out. We don't know whether to throw
them away or to stow them somewhere. Second, I
tried to find a leak in my LCG after it dried off
and was unable to do it. The place that I thought
it was, down near the lower tube, I couldn't make
leak by squeezing on it or anything else. So it
must be some sort of pressure leak and Just squeez-
ing it or looking at it is not enough to - to make
the fluid come out. We need another copy of gen-
eral message 23. And would you ask Ted Guillory
and his troop to start working on some way for
Jerry Carr's flight - some adaptors, some fittings,
or something that they can put on the top of one
of these food tables and make sort of a desk out
of it. Just a spring and a clip and a couple of
other things like that don't seem to do the Job up
here and it's one of the things you need the most.

F
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He came up with an awful nice fix to this double B

board [?] to keep it from coming off the wall and
maybe he can come up with some sort of rig that
Jerry can carry up. It will give him a desk for
these checklist changes.

CC Okay, we got all of that, A1. And see you in about

23 minutes.

2B9 13 34 48 CDR Okay, I've got a few then when we get over the
Vanguard. You need something to hold the books
you're changing; you need something to hold the
scotch tape; you need something to hold the changes
themselves and something to hold the scissors.
And seems to be - it's something that we use a lot
and we could save time ... Well organized ...

239 13 35 i0 CC Okay, got it. We're going over the hill.

239 13 56 i0 CC Skylab, A0S over the Vanguard for 9 minutes.

CC And, Skylab, we need the DAS here to enable TACS

in the software.

CDR You got it.

239 13 56 31 CC Okay. And, AI, for the LCGs and FCSs, you can stow
them all in D-422. We'll be putting them down the
TAL after the third EVA. And your comment on
the leak has been passed on to CSD, and they're
working it.

CDR Thanks, Story.

239 13 59 24 CDR Story, are you still there?

CC Yes, sir, another 6 minutes.

239 13 59 29 CDR Okay. Say, Owen; Jack, and I would like to send
our best wishes to Mrs. Johnson and Governor
Briscoe, Dr. Fletcher, Dr. Kraft, and all the
other distinguished guests and officials at the
dedication of the Lyndon Baines Johnson Space
Center today. We think the work - that - in which
we are engaged right now in Skylab would not have
been possible except for his strong support and
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leadership in the Senate and in the Presidency.

Our present preeminence in space is in no small
way a result of his grasp of the fact that a pro-
gressive program of space exploration contributes
significantly to the future well-being of our
nation and all its people. We are proud to be
representing NASA and the Lyndon Baines Johnson
Space Center as we circle the Earth. We believe
the work we do here now is an extension of that
which he chartered and championed.

CC Okay, A1, we'll pass that on for all of you.

CDR Thank you.

239 1)4 00 58 CC No need to acknowledge, the DAS is yours.

239 1)4 01 h5 CDR Also, we - Bob Parker asked us the other day if we
had some possible thoughts for some science we
could do mission day 33, I believe it was. And
I thought I might mention something we've talked
about here.

CC I'm standing by.

CDR Yes, sir.

CDR You read me?

CC Another 3 minutes.

239 lh 02 19 CDR Okay. Well, the ones that - that - several we've
thought of - one was the Achilles tendon response
photos on TV. That'll take about l0 minutes of
VTR time and probably 30 minutes for all three of
us to do it. And I think you're f_m_liar with it.
But looks like that might be a good thing to do
that day. Another might be - another might be
photos of all three of us in our shorts. Profile
front, back, and et cetera to take a look at
possible skin and fat placement. That would pro-
bably take about 20 to 30 minutes per person.
Maybe - maybe an hour we can do all three, I don't
know. And then we need to do a - some girth
measurements on all the limbs, and waist, et cetera,
and we can send that down on channel A - and they
might be able to correlate that with some of the
f preflight data. And, of course,would be very useful
postflight and this is midpoint in the mission,
so it might also be a good time to do it.
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CC Okay. We'll get with you, A1. And we're a minute

and a half from LOS. We'll see you next rev over
Vanguard at 15:33.

239 14 04 01 CDR 0wen just informed me that the Achilles tendon

idea was yours. So you're probably very familiar
with it.

CQ Yes, sir. That's affirm.

CC Skylab, no need to acknowledge; it looks like

day 33 will be busy with TO20, so we're looking
at mission day 34 for those demonstrations.

239 14 04 58 CDR Okay, any time.

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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

239 15 33 44 CC Skylab, we're A0S over the Vanguard for

i0 minutes.

CDR Okay, we're in the midst of our Z-maneuver,

and everything's going dandy.

CC Okay. How'd the first one go?

CDR Perfect. We even kept a star lockon.

SPT Hello, Story. Just completed the S063 ops

and went quite well, I think. Now, since I
didn't use any film at all on that fam run
which preceded this one - let me get that feed-
back cleared up first. Just a minute. Okay,
that ought to be a little better. Since I
didn't use any film on that faro run, I'm
wondering about getting our planners busy and
scheduling at about 24:00. There'd be another
night pass somewhere in the vicinity of 01:30
that I could make another run on while it's
all set up here in the airlock. And if that
looks like it would be a - an opportune time
to do it, I'm sure we can work it into the
schedule. And, of course, I'm not doing that
ED52 TV as we talked about before, and a couple
other alterations this morning, but I'll let
you think about that one for a minute.

239 15 35 18 CC Okay, good. Got the flight planners working

on it. And did you use an infinity on the
focus, Owen?

SPT I'll go doublecheck it.

CC No, we hear you're riding the bike, we'll get

that later.

SPT That's Jack on the bicycle right now. And with

setting up for that fam run and the ops run
and everything, I've not gotten my ED74 run.
We were also in and out of that f_]m vault so
much, there was no opportunity to get the 74
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and photo ops on schedule. So I'ii have to

try to get that worked in sometime today. I'm
not sure whether I'll be able to get 74 and
TV - 28 or not, but we'll see if we can.

CC Okay, and while I've got you there, I've got

a little update on your JOP 5 later. You
won't need to copy.

SPT Go ahead.

239 15 36 06 CC Okay, we gave you on J0P 5, that limb scan, a

coronal hole in the northwest limb. That hole
may have filled in with XUV activity. If this
is so, select your own best latitude for coro-
nal hole based on real-time study of the XUV
MONITER, and then use coordinates on the
table.

SPT Okay, and it is a coronsl hole at the limb,

however, so I'll have to find a hole on the
limb. Right?

CC That's affirm.

SPT Thank you.

239 15 36 45 CC Say, Story, I noticed that at the end of these

maneuvers we don't put the maneuver time back
to 13 minutes from 3 minutes. You want me to
do that?

CC Stand by 1.

239 15 37 12 CC That's affirm, A1. When you get done with the
pad, go back to 13 minute maneuver time.

CC And, Owen, no need to acknowledge. We think

that S063 is a good thing to do. We'll be
sending the pad up.

SPT Fine, Story.

CC And, A1, when you get a chance, you might turn

off DETECTOR number 1 S055.

23915 40 44 SPT Hello,

Story. _.
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CC Hello, Owen.

SPT Glad you asked about the focus because I had

left the UV lens on the Nikon 02 rather than
switching to the UV lens, which does not have
a focus. It's permanently INFINITY, I believe.
And I'm going to switch it over to the visible
35-millimeter lens at this time, and you might
let me know what the transmission characteris-
tics of that UV lens, whether or not it made
any significant difference. One difference is
I did have it on the f-stop 16 rather than the
1.2, which of course, will make a difference.
And let me - know what you think.

CC Okay, will do.

239 15 43 26 CC Skylab, we're i minute to LOS. We'll see you

over Ascens [sic] in 4 minutes. Be dumping
the tape recorders there.

239 15 47 50 CC Skylab, we're AOS Ascension for 9 minutes.

SPT Story, I noticed the pad doesn't call out

whether you wanted the 35 or the 55-millimeter
visible lens. However the 55 is the only one
which will hit the f-stop of 1.2, while the
35 has a minimum of 1.4. I installed the 35 mil-
limeter, but it may be that you really
wanted the 55. Could you check to see what
the intent was?

CC Okay, I will do that Owen. And we don't think

we've got any data at f/16.

SPT I was afraid of that.

239 15 48 52 CC And you're correct, Owen. It is the 55 milli-

meter we want.

SPT Thank you.

CC Skylab, we're a minute to LOS. We'll see you

in 35 minutes over Guam at 16:31.

239 15 56 55 SPT Okay, Story.

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SKYLAB AIR-T0-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

239 16 31 40 CC Skylab, we're AOS through Guam for 9 minutes.

CC PLT, Houston.

PLT Yes, sir. Go ahead.

CC Jack, we think you're in the vicinity of the STS

and we'd like a - a reading on your PCG-8 bat
volts to correlate with our telemetry readings.

PLT Okay. I'll give it to you, Story. Okay. The

voltage is now reading 39 volts and the amperage
is between 16 and 17 amps.

CC Okay.

239 16 34 25 CC Jack, could we get you to verify that BAT 8 volts

is 37? We're reading 39 down here.

PLT Roger. That's what I read to you - it's 39 volts

and the amperage is 16 to 17.

CC Okay. We're reading 37. Yours is 39?

PLT That's affirmative, 39.

CC Okay.

CC Skylab, we're 1 minute to LOS. We'll see you

over the Vanguard at 17:10 - about a half an hour.
And Just a reminder to terminate the test on
battery 8 at 7 amps or 33 volts - whichever
comes first.

239 16 40 06 PLT Roger, Story. I'ii do it. Thank you.

239 17 ii 34 CC Skylab, we're AOS over the Vanguard for i0 minutes.

And, Jack, we need the DAS for a nay update and
rate gyro configuration.

239 17 15 i0 CC PLT, Houston.

PLT Go ahead, Story.

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CC Jack, we're going to be inhibiting the TACS in

the software here and we'd like you to turn those
6 switches off.

PLT I didn't get all your ...

PLT ...

PLT Say again please, Story.

CC We're going to inhibit TACS in the software.

Could you turn the TAC switches off?

PLT Wilco.

CC And we'll be on the DAS here. And we're also

changing your rate gyro configuration. We're
going to be running on gyros 1 and 3 in all axes
and redundancy management enabled in all axes.

PLT Okay, you got it.

239 17 19 34 CC Skylab, the DAS is yours.

PLT Okay, Story. Thank you.

PLT Story, do you want us to secure this battery on

33 volts as read here, or 33 volts as read on
the ground?

CC On board.

PLT Okay.

CC Skylab, we're a minute to LOS. We'll see you

over Ascension in 7 minutes.

PLT See you there.

239 17 22 12 CC And then, Skylab, in the blind, we'd like H-alpha

in 2 FRAMES instead of 1.

239 17 27 59 CC Skylab, we're AOS through Ascension for 5 minutes.

SPT Story, I wonder if there was TV intended on

ED7_. It's called out in the experiment check-
list, but not on the Flight Plan for the day.
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CC I'ii check on that, 0wen.

SPT TV-45 is what it's called on the checklist.

CC Stand by 1.

CC Okay, Owen, no TV on ED74.

SPT Thank you.

239 17 32 18 CC Skylab, we're a minute from LOS. We'll be seeing

you over Canaries in 2 minutes.

SPT 0kay, Story.

CC And who's on the bike now?

SPT Say again.

CC Who's riding the bike now?

239 17 32 50 SPT It looks like the beetle's riding the bike.

239 17 34 18 CC Skylab, we're AOS Canaries and Madrid for

9 minutes. We'll be dumping the tape recorder
here at Canaries.

SPT Who'd you say was on the bike?

SPT Al's riding the bike.

CC Okay.

SPT How did you know?

SPT Did you see the spacecraft rocking around?

CC Yes, we're seeing that, but the work levels are

getting so high on everybody, we can't tell who's
riding it any more.

239 17 38 25 CC Jack, some time in the next 4 minutes we'd like

another bat voltage reading on PCG bat n13mher 8.

PLT It's reading 36 volts, Story.

f CC Thank you.
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CC Skylab, we're a minute from LOS. We'll see you

over Guam in about 27 minutes at 18:08. And
we're estimating a termination of that bat number
8 test in about 25 minutes.

239 17 42 21 PLT Okay. Thank you, Story.

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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

239 18 09 07 CC Skylab, we're A0S through Gusm for 7 minutes.

CC And, Jack, we're seeing you terminated the test on

battery number 8. In the next 7 minutes, if pos-
sible, we'd like your bat voltage reading on PCG
bat number 8.

239 18 i0 08 PLT Okay, Story, I terminated the charge at 18:05.

The volt - voltage is now reading _7

CC Okay.

239 18 15 33 CC Skylab, we're i minute from LOS. See you over

Honeysuckle in 7 minutes.

PLT You there, Sto177

CC Yes, just barely. Go ahead.

239 18 17 04 PLT I replaced the PPC02 IN SENSORS on both mol sieves

like the procedure says. Mol sieve B in reading
is offscale high as opposed to around 5.0, and
maybe you can give me some word on that.

CC Okay, we've seen it before. Let it come on down.

PLT Okay. And of course, I'm replacing the OUT SENSORS

on MOL SIEVE A only.

239 18 17 40 CC Copy.

239 18 23 34 CC Skylab, we're A0S through Honeysuckle for 2 min-

utes.

PLT What have we got after Honeysuckle, Story?

CC We're going to the Vanguard at 18:49, and Canaries

and Madrid after that.

PLT Okay. Story, same thing hapoened after I replaced

the PPCO 2 OUT SENSORS, the reading went of fscale
high. I sunDose that will come down too, huh?

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CC That 's affirmative, Jack.

PLT Okay, thank you.

239 18 24 23 SPT Story, I just wanted to report a few minutes a_o I

had comnleted the EDT4 student experiment. The
student investigator on this project is a young
man names Vincent Converse from Rockford, Illinois.
And he has a very. interesting experiment which
enables masses to be measured in zero g, somewhat
similar to the devices we're actually using up
here for measurement of our body weight, body
mass, and small samples in the wardroom and head.
And I just calibrated that device. The information
is on channel A, but I thought I would give you
these calibration numbers, and if this can be
transmitted to him, he can compare it against his
own calibration data. There are some small effects
noted in zero g because he couldn't calibrate it
in zero g, obviously, on the ground. And I'll
give you those numbers if we still got a few more
seconds. Over.

CC We got B0 seconds, Owen.

239 18 25 15 SPT Okay, the stud plus one weight is - has a period
of 0.567; plus - with the second weight, it's
0.9 - 0.692; with the third weight, 0.797;
fourth weight is 0.891; fifth wei_jnt is 0.976.
And you'll be able to tell if there is a small
effect noted difference in zero g as best he could
measure it on the ground. And it now appears to be
ver_ accurately calibrated with the masses that
he sent along with his experiment. So it seems to
have been performed successfully. We have it
all - on photo film as well as recorded on the
other voice channel. Over.

CC Okay, he'll appreciate that very much 0wen. We're

going LOS here, we'll see you over the Vanguard in
25 minutes.

SPT Okay, sounds fine. And you can send that along to
Vincent Converse up in Rockford, Illinois.

239 18 26 06 CC Okay, we'll do it.

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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

239 18 49 28 CC Skylab, we!re AOS over the Vanguard for 6 minutes.

SPT Okay, Story. And I'm looking in the northwest

limb of the Sun now, and I think your coordinates
for that coronal hole are still pretty good. Even
though 93 looks pretty active, the coronal hole
is still there and the coordinates on the pad, I
think, are as good as I might have selected.

CC Okay. Thanks, Owen. And, Owen, we'd like the

DAS for a while for a momentum dump inhibit for
JOP 7.

SI°T Okay.

239 18 52 05 CC And, Jack and A1, no need to acknowledge, just a

friendly reminder that you are taking some pho-
tographs during the M092.

PLT Roger.

239 18 52 20 CC And, Oven, the DAS is yours.

SPT The pad doesn't show what exposure length S056

wants to run. I presume they want an EXPOSURE,
LONG, here on this building block 10.

CC That's affirmative, Owen.

CC Skylab, we're a minute to LOS. See you over

Canaries in 13 minutes at 19:08.

239 18 55 51 PLT A1, I hope we can get that film vault open in
the next half hour or so. Did you nail it shut
or what?

239 18 09 01 CC Skylab, we're A0S through Canaries and Madrid

for 14 minutes.

SPT Okay, and for my last two limb-pointing posi--

tions_ I moved north instead of south, in order
to stay within the bounds of the coronal hole.

CC Copy, Owen.
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CC Owen, we'd like H-alpha at 4 frames for a minute

here.

SPT Story, the ATM schedule does not show 82 Alfa

omitted on this last limb position, but yet
there's no information about the time or wave-
length. Would they want to omit, or give me
the information?

239 18 13 23 CC Okay_ we'll get it for you, Owen.

CC Owen, we'd like a SHORT and 40 seconds.

SPT SHORT, _0.

CC And, 0wen, in your first building block i0, we're

showing that S054 did not start. That's a
FILTER 6 now, it'd be fine.

SPT You cut out, Story.

CC Owen, on building block - the first building

block I0, we're -we did not see an S054, the
FILTER 6 - start. Could you start that now?

239 18 15 24 SPT I've just now given you one, and I believe I
ran it. So, I'm not sure whether it just missed
the telemetry, or whether I forgot it. I think
I ran it.

239 18 22 09 CC Skylab, we're i minute to LOS. We'll see you in

35 minutes over Honeysuckle at 19:56. Be dumping
the tape recorders there.

239 18 56 40 CC Skylab, we're A0S through Honeysuckle for

8 minutes.

PLT Hey Story, to prevent me from having to look it

up, I wonder if you could find out where I could
get some of those smA11 batteries for the light
meter in the Nikon.

CC Okay.

SPT Hey Story, I guess you're going to enable dump

for us here.

CC Say again, 0wen.

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239 18 58 26 SPT You're going to be enabling dump here shortly, I

as sume.

CC That' s affirm.

PLT And one other thing, Story, I been carrying

around in m_ pocket for about 4 weeks, a spare
fuse for the 16-millimeter DAC. Could you please
tell me where to unload that, please?

CC And what type of piece is that, Jack?

PLT It's a fuse for the 16-millimeter camera.

239 18 59 48 CC Okay. Okay.

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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

239 20 00 32 CC Jack, Houston.

239 20 00 50 PLT Go ahead, Story.

CC The batteries for the light meter on the Nikon

are in F-510G. Also the batteries for the flash,
if you need them in the future, are also located
in F-510G. And if possible, when you change
those out, you could tell us.

PLT Okay. I'ii go look in there again, but I didn't

see any batteries for the light meter, but maybe
I didn't look hard enough.

CC Okay, and the fuses for the DAC you can put in
F-527.

PLT Thank you.

239 20 01 26 SPT And Story, I need that dump enabled, so I can

tell when l'm down to effective sunrise.

CC Okay. If you'll stay off the DAS a minute, we'll

do it for you.

239 20 02 17 CC Owen, the dump's enabled; the DAS is yours.

SPT Thank you.

239 20 03 55 CC Skylab, we're going LOS in 1 minute. We'll see

you over Bermuda in 35 minutes, at 20:39. We
had a little trouble sending up message 3135.
We sent it up again. Use the second one.

239 20 h0 21 CC Skylab, we're AOS through Bermuda for 7 minutes.

SPT Okay, Story.

239 20 43 48 CC SPT, Houston.

SPT Go ahead.

239 20 43 54 CC 0wen, if you can work it in, we'd like some TV-36
Bravo of the M509 operations. We want ATM opera-
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tions to have priority and we also want your TV-28

to have priority, but on a non-interference basis
for those two. If you could work in some TV-36
Bravo, thatwould be fine. And we can take it
over any ground station.

SPT Okay. I'm not sure how we can do that. I'm just
setting up a TV-28 in here, but we'll see what we
can do, Story.

CC Okay. But give it the third priority. The ATM

and the TV-28 first.

239 20 44 29 SPT Understand, and one note for the backroom, the
ATM room, although we've been - we're working in
a very well - defined coronal hole at this time,
there is enhanced llmb brightenings above the
coronal hole. it's _]most as if the limb bright-
enings were in somehow enhanced - in some way
enhanced by the presence of the coronal hole. It
covers almost the exact portion of the limb that
the coronal hole encompasses. So I don't know
whether that's true in general or not, but it
seems to be true in this particular case.

CC Okay. Copy.

239 20 45 45 SPT What is the number on that 509 TV page?

CC It's 36 Bravo, and it's on page 1-36.

SPT 36 Bravo was what I was wondering about. Thank

you.

239 20 46 54 CC Skylab, we're 1 minute to LOS. We'll see you

over the Canaries in a couple of minutes.

239 20 49 33 CC Skylab, we're AOS, Canaries and Madrid for

i0 minutes.

239 20 59 20 CC Skylab, we're i minute to LOS. We'll be picking

you up over Carnarvon in 25 minutes at 21:24, and
we will have handed over to Shaffer/Truly and
their team.

SPT Okay, Story. That's fine. Be seeing you tomorrow,

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I expect. And who's that, purple coming up? I

forget those colors.

CC Yes, sir. Maroon going off. Purple coming up.

239 20 59 44 SPT That's too close. I can hardly tell the differ-
ence.

239 21 24 54 CC Good afternoon_ Skylab. This is Houston. We got

you through Carnarvon and Honeysuckle for
16 minutes.

SPT Golly, it sounds like the dynamic duo; and we'll

be standing by.

239 21 25 07 CC Roger that.

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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

239 21 37 hi CC Skylab, Houston; for Owen. We'd like you to stay

off the DAS. We're going to inhibit momentum
dumps.

SPT Okay.

239 21 38 34 CC SPT, Houston. The DA_q is yours again. Thank you.

CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 1 minute from LOS.

We're going to pick you up at Texas at 22:12.
And one of those stateside passes at MLA, we're
going to be dumping the data tape recorder.

SPT Say again, please, Dick?

CC I was ,_ust giving you an LOS call, Owen. We're

going to see you at stateside at 22:12. And when
f we get to the MLA station,we're going to be
dumping the data tape recorder.

SPT Okay, fine.

CC Roger.

SPT Say, one other comment. Did you suggest that

this 509 TV be direct down-link to the ground
station or was that to go on the VTR?

CC Down-link to the ground station, Owen.

SPT Okay. That's better anyway. Thank you.

239 21 h0 h8 CC Roger.

239 22 12 06 SPT Hello, Houston.

CC Hello there, Owen. Go ahead.

Sl°T Okay, Dick, are they cleared for their third

nitrogen bottle?

CC As a matter of fact, they are, and that was the

t_ first item on my list. Sorryyou got to it before
we told you you had a go.
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SPT Okay, and how long are you ready for a TV down-link?

CC We are ready right now.

SPT For how lona?

239 22 12 32 cC We're ready for the next I0 minutes, Owen.

SPT Okay, that's fine. You've not i0 minutes coming

uD riaht now.

CC Very _ood. Thank you.

CC And, SPT; Houston. No answer required. All the

AOS - all the stations will be configured for
down-link TV anytime you have a chance to get it.
And so, any of the AOSs I give you, that comnlete
time will be available to you.

239 22 23 35 SPT Are you still with us, Dick?

CC Yes sir, I am, for 2-1/2 minutes.

SPT Okay, and when's the next station?

PLT Yes, we need a C_ on the third PSS, Dick.

CC You've got a C_).

SPT We've got a GO. Understand.

CC Roger.

PLT I can't hear him, Did you say GO?

CC Affirmative. You do have - -

SPT Okay. Thanks you, Dick.

CC Roger. And we have 2-1/2 minutes. The next sta-

tion is Madrid at 22:29, that's about 6 minutes
from now, Owen.

239 22 24 01 SPT Okay, thank you.

239 22 29 49 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS, Madrid, for 8 min-

utes.
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SPT Ro_er.

SPT Okay, _¢e'll give you some more down-link for

Madrid here• Dick.

CC Very good, Owen. Thank you.

239 22 33 05 CC Skylab, Houston. Please stay off the D/kS. I don't

think it's any problem. We' re going to reenable
old momentum dumps. I'ii let you know when we'r -
comDlete.

239 22 34 27 CC Skylab, Houston. The DAS is yours and you've still

got 3 minutes left in this _ass. We're standing
hy.

239 22 36 46 CC Skyl_b, Houston. We're i minute to LOS We'll

pick you u_ at Carnarvon at 23:04.

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