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CC Okay, no sweat.
CDR I'll give him the information.
CC Okay, fine. And, Jer, that really
covers all the changes I had. One little reminder, you're
doing a 73 this morning and it - it's scheduled as a prep 4.
That's without the AMS. I think most of those that you've
been doing this mission so far have been with the AMS.
CDR Okay.
CC Okay, and that does it. Thank you very
much.
SPT Say, Crip, I have an input for some of
the ATM guys.
CC Go ahead, Ed.
SPT Okay, active region 31 looks as though
it's a little unstable. We're getting some oxygen VI counts
that vary between - well this morning we're down to 4000
and now up to 20,000 just since we went over the hill here.
I saw it fluctuating quite rapidly over apa- a matter of a
minute or so it would change by i0,000. So I suspect that's
a good one we ought to be watching today. And you might want
to divert some of our targets over to that region. Even
though it's relatively small and it doesnlt show up very much
in the XUV monitor, H_alpha and oxygen VI sure shows it to
be hot and unstable.
CC Okay_ we copy that. We're about 30 seconds
from LOS, and we'll see you over Honeysuckle in 4 minutes.
And all of your pads are on board.
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CC Okay.
PLT That was - looked like it was two separate
problems there. I had - I was out of configuration and the
H-alpha 1 didn't start working when we came around sunslde.
SPT They dontt seem related to H-alpha i,
Story. As soon as we came up this morning I looked at the
H-alpha 1 display and, as usual first thing in the morning_
it was very crystal clear and I had that excellent resolu-
tion, excellent contrast. About 15 minutes into the orbit
it started de - to degrate. At the very beginning of the
orbit when we did have the good resolution I put a little
of it on the VTR. That's before the XUV mon and the WLC,
and maybe the guys down there can take a look at it. It
must have something to do with the heating and maybe a
damp [?] the filter changes even though your temperature
monitors don't change it - don't show it. I wonder if you
would take a look at it in the light and if there's anything
we could do to keep that good crisp resolution throughout
the day.
CC Okay_ Ed, and for Bill we did show
H-alpha 1 operating and maybe that frames REMAINING in
READY light read switch problem again.
PLT That's entirely possible. It's also
possible that I read the gray talkback with the white.
CC Okay.
PLT And I think I turned the H-alpha 1
power OFF when I thought I was killing the 52. Closed the
52 DOOR.
CC Okay. That's the experiment camera
power?
PLT No, the DOORs. When I stopped my
Sun-centered activities.
CC Okay. That just might do her.
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PLT Okay.
CC And finally, right up above the i0:00,
put in 08:30, ETC to STANDBY.
PLT Roger. Delete 10:20, ETC POWER, ON.
At 6 minutes, ETC POWER to ON, at 7 minutes ETC AUTO, at 8:30
ETC, STANDBY.
CC That's it. Thanks Bill. That'll get
us some more ETC data and I'll get the same changes up to
Ed at Carnarvon.
PLT Okay.
CC And Ed, if H-alpha l's still degraded,
you can put some of that on the VTR for us.
SPT Okay, Story. Will do.
SPT Story, Just before I started into these
building block i0, I was taking a look above the limb and the
silicone XII, which is where we are now on the grating. I really
don't see very much even 30 arc-seconds off the limb. Counts
are down around - at the most 20, most of them are below i0.
We're looking for loops, and I think they're going to be very
faint.
SPT Okay.
CC And finally at 08:30, go to STANDBY.
CC And from there on down, it's as the
pad indicates, going back to AUTO at 11:20 and so forth.
SPT Okay. We go to AUTO at 7 even. STANDBY
at 8:30. At 11:20, back to AUTO and press on as nominal.
CC Yes, sir. We're Just picking up that
extra minute and a half of data there.
SPT Okay, Story.
CC Skylab, we're a minuLe to LOS. About
8 minutes to Ascension, 17:54. Be looking to dump the
data/voice there.
PAO Skylab Control. Greenwich mean time
17 hours 48 minutes. Loss of signal through Bermuda as
Skylab space station now begins its 3626th revolution of the
Earth. The crew given go ahead for the EREP pass number 27
in the mission of Skylab IV. An update for the ETC, Earth
terrain camera pad. The cameras will be turned on early as
the spacecraft passes over the Seattle, Washington area in
attempt to take photographs with the Earth terrain camera
through the scientific airlock - the antisolar scientific
airlock. The majority of the track under the vehicle today
will be cloud covered. However, the majority of targets
today are atmospheric-type cloud cumulations. The crew will
attempt to get data over northern Montana from the Canadian-
Montana border to Bismarck in effort to capture photographs
of the snow covered fields. Acquisition in 5 minutes through
Ascension. This is Skylab Control at Greenwich mean time
17 hours 49 minutes.
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pass we've been informed that the M509 run has been completed
with several of the discretionary maneuvers, that included
the rescue activity and also the work with maneuvering a
large water can, 5-gallon water can. Several discretionary
maneuvers in addition to the basic or base line maneuvers that
were scheduled for the crew today. That's the fifth run of
the M509 astronaut maneuvering unit for this flight. However,
we have no idea of how many more may be available during the
next couple of weeks as the Skylab crew completes their Mission.
And the ATM activities have been working been concluded except
for one pass which Science Pilot Ed Gibson will make during
the presleep period tonight is one more opportunity in daylight
cycle. Right now we're in daylight, coming up to the end
of the daylight period. And the crew should be sitting down
to eat some meals at this point. This is their evening meal
period coming up. This is Skylab Control, the evening status
report is scheduled for 22 minutes after the hour, that's the
next coming pass at Vanguard. It's now 59 minutes and 45 seconds
after the hour.
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are good ones and that the weather's good. Right now
weather conditions appear to be fairly satisfactory for
those passes. He said that he is pretty tired of nadir
swaths and special 02s. A nadir swath is a path in which
the S191 which is the infarred spectrometer, the only pointable
instrument that the Skylab craw uses. A nadir swath just
asked that the 191 he pointed directly at the ground below
the space station and it catches essentially anything that's
underneath. And special 02s are general searches where
the operator of the viewflnder tracking system for 191
searches the area to see what looks like it might he
interesting to point at and that generally is an indication
that the cloud cover is rather heavy and there's not much to do
except to make a search for a target that has not been seen
before. The crew has had an opportunity to look a great deal
of weather activity and -
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here for you before we get into the news. Did you leave
the blower separator of chiller 1 on last night? The urine
chiller temp is higher than normal.
PLT Bill, after checking it it looks like
it probably was. It was checked, it was still going this
morning.
CC Okay. And the OWS bus currents were
high last night and previous nights. Were you doing any-
thing different in the OWS during the sleep period?
PLT We can't think of anything else, Bill,
that we were doing.
CC Okay, we copy that. And we mentioned
that the - the Z-LV maneuver pad, for pass 33, were sent be-
fore 33 and 34 were cancelled, so just ignore those. Also,
sometime today bring up all the SIAs as you go by them.
PLT Roger.
CC And from this morning's news in Tel Aviv:
says a U.S. official Syrian President Hafez Assad has
softened his refusal to turn over a list of about 120
Israeli POWs held in Syria. This could mean a breakthrough
in Kissinger's efforts to get a troup pullback between the
Syrians and Israelis similar to the one he got last week
between the Egyptians and Israelis. From Saigon: A Chinese
amphibious force of up to 500 men backed up by MIGs seized
the last of the Paracel Islands in the South China Sea.
Said the Chinese overran 150 South Vietnamese troups and
ended the 2-day air, sea and ground battle for the islands,
which are prized as a possible jumping off point for off-
shore oil exploration. Anything that happens now seems to
be interpreted in terms of oil. For example, the Next
item is President Arnold Miller of the United Mine Workers
union said oil reserves owned by oil companies have gone -
that's coal reserves have gone undeveloped because the oil
industry seeks - seeks to keep petroleum dominant in the
energy market. And Miller's calling for pro - congressional
investigation in this practice. And Representative Harring-
ton, D-Massachusetts, said he will introduce a bill to the House of
Representatives for public financing of at least seven new
oil refineries. Stock would be offered to encourage broad-
based ownership and individual corporations would be set
up to run each refinery. And France is allowing the franc
to float on the market, as you may have been told, may
expect the value to drop when the markets open Monday, but
that the devaluation will be limited to 4.5 to 5.0 percent.
And this floating is supposed to go on for 6 months.
Maybe it_ll be a little easier to pick up French wines now.
And Argentina: Guerrillas attacked a 2000-man army garrison
at Azul but were routed after 6 hours of fighting. Front
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properly eliminated (sic). And when you get a chance, could you
go up there and advance the plate to the 02 position? And
if it moves and you hear the motor drive and all that stuff,
that will be a criterion for deciding that the basic 183
itself is good. Over.
PLT Okay, I'Ii get right on that, Bruce. Let's
see if we have an operative piece of equipment.
CC Okay, thank you.
PLT Okay, Bruce, how do you read?
CC Loud and clear, Bill. Send your message.
PLT Rog. I tried to advance the film carrousel,
turned the power on with the - well, I was following the cue
card on the flip side, and we - you know it takes a little
while while it sort of does a little jig inside, and I
waited for the dance to start and - Well, first off, when I
turned the power on I got the 01 illuminated when I
went to delete that position. Then I waited for the - the
timing sequence, and then instead of doing its clickety
click, the elimination (sic) 01 went out, and I have no lights
on the panel now.
CC Okay, we copy that, Bill. Thank you
for interrupting lunch.
PLT Too bad. Tell me what you want me to
do here as soon as you get your signals straight, I'ii
just be standing by here.
CC Okay, if you haven't turned the power
off on the thing, just leave it exactly as is for the time
being. I'd say go finish lunch and we'll call you when we
get our minds made up.
PLT Okay_ I haven't touched a thing.
PLT I take that back, I did put the reset to
off.
CC Okay, understand your reset went back
to offp but the power switch is still on?
PLT That's affirmative.
CC Okay, let's just leave it in that con-
figuration.
CC Skylab, this is Houston; I minute to
LOS. Next station contact in 2 minutes through Canary
Islands at 17:05. Out.
PAO Skylab Control, Greenwich mean time
17 hours 5 minutes, with loss of signal through Bermuda.
Acquisition coming through Canary and Ascension, a 15-minute
pass through the two tracking stations. Acquisition coming
in 5 seconds. We'll leave the line up for this pass through
Canary and Ascension.
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that position and sure enough that switch was left open. The
closing of the switch should elide (?) that intermittent problem
they had with the data perception here on the ground. Next
acquisition through Carnarvon in 20 minutes. This is Skylab
Control at Greenwich mean time 17 hours 2S minutes.
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resources pass and shortly after that went into darkness. However,
Ed Gibson is now at the solar panel getting some data on
the post flare activity. That M-flare was one of the largest
seen so far in this Skylab Mission although it does not compare
in output to the X-rated flare or X-I flare that was seen
by the last Skylab crew. Bill Pogue, during this last pass,
did an extensive job of photographing the west coast, photographing
the California area as he went over Baja and down across
Mexico. He said the weather was very, very clear and he could see
Houston all the way from Guadalajara, Mexico, several hundred
miles away and he also was taking pictures even as we lost
signal with the space station as they were just off the coast
of Central America. So, no doubt the visual observations people,
will be happy to hear he got some rather extensive photographs
of the Western part of North America. Nell Hutchinson
informs us that the change-of-shlft briefing is going to
have to be pushed back another hour. We're now planning on
6:30 central daylight time for the change-of-shift briefing.
That's an hours and a half away, and again he is occupied
with tomorrow's activities of a fairly complex Flight Plan
schedule for tomorrow including a couple of Earth resources
passes and a tape change out. There was a question
right on the end of that pass about how much tape was remaining
so they can determine whether or not the change out will have to
be made as it appears now between the two Earth resources passes.
7-1/2 minutes to our next acquisition at Vanguard, this is
Skylab Control at 54 and a quarter minutes after the hour.
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Time: 17:01 CDT 67:22:01 GMT
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to do his flying.
SPT That's right.
CC Ed, looks like the X-REA's starting to
come back down now.
SPT Okay, thank you.
SPT Maybe it'll rest for Just 30 minutes and
then start up again. We can't be always out of phase with it.
CC You'd think we'd get lucky once in a while,
wouldn't you?
CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from
LOS. Tananarive will be coming up in 19 minutes. And that'll
be at 22:29.
SPT So long, Hank. Talk to you then.
PAO Skylab Control at 22 hours 12 minutes
Greenwich mean time. The Skylab space station is over the
South Atlantic, out of range of the tracking ship Vanguard.
Our next acquisition is 17-1/2 minutes away. That will be
at Tananarive. Just talked to Flight Director Nell Hutchinson,
who indicates that he's going to try and arrange the change-
of-shlft briefing to he held here from Mission Control. It
will not be possible to ask questions of the flight director
under this arrangement. However, if we have questions in
advance, we'll ask him to answer them during his brief
statement on today's activities. We'll try and arrange that
perhaps in the next 15 to 20 minutes, depending upon when
he can find a break. And we'll give you a brief announcement
in advance of his statement. That will mean that we won't
have the 6:30 change-of-shlft brieflng in Building i, but
we'll instead do it from here in Mission Control. This is
Skylab Control. We're now 17 minutes from our next acquisition
of signal. It's 12 minutes and 46 seconds after the hour.
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CDR Okay, you all finish with Ed? Why don't you
get all that squared away before I start? He needs to know
when his call is tonight, too.
CC That's right. I forgot to give him that.
His phone call is at Hawaii at 2:24 and it's right antenna.
SPT I got that, Hank; thank yon.
CDR Okay, Hank, here it comes. Photo Log:
16-millimeter; MI51, ETC prep, Charlie India 81, 30, Charlie
India 77. And there's a footnote here. It says 2 to 3 seconds
of the cover partially off the supply and the - all the details
on that are on tape and they went on about 19:40. That's
transporter 08. Okay, EREP, VTS, Charlie Lima ii, 39.
Nikon i, Charlie X-ray 4229; 02, Bravo Victor 29, 07 and
that anticipates 6 frames for the S073. Char - number 03,
Charlie India 115, 31; number 04, Bravo, Echo i0, 41;
5, Bravo Hotel 06, 31. 70-millimeter, Charlie X-ray 46, 150.
ETC, Charlie India 12, 080. EREP, set X-ray 0396, 2576,
0120, 9481, 1252, 0188. Drawer A: transporter 02, Charlie
India 81, 30, Charlie India 77.
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about the same size as this one. The flare, of course not
observable during an Earth resources pass as the solar
instruments are not pointed at the Sun during passes over
the Earth, when the Earth instruments are on the ground.
But Ed Gibson got a second chance today and the second chance
paid off very well as he acted extremely quickly, using good
judgment and showing that some X-REA indications that were
very, very preliminary turned out to be good indications
of a growing flare. And he did get that we believe now
within 30 seconds of its very earliest stages, and that's
excellent information. We're coming up live at Vanguard and
we'll bring the line up in the event that this private
medical conference does come live to air-to-ground for Hank
Hartsfield and the flight crew on duty.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AO - got you for
about another minute and 20 seconds. I know the SPT and
the CDR are about to be real busy here. We missed every-
thing after he started into the closin B on the evenin B status.
If it was convenient, we sure would llke to get that down
at 02:24. Have two other quickies for you. For the PLT,
don't forget to give us a little VTR on the H-alpha i, and
so we can look at that degradation. Also, in regard to the
beep you've been having, on panel 200, we could open up to-
night, that audio system Buffer amp 1 circuit breaker and
leave it open all night, and that - we're wondering if we
leave it open awhile, that might cure the problem. We don't
know, but it's worth a try. And the only thing_ with that
breaker open, you will not be able to do any voice recording,
And also, regarding the M092 this morning, if you did record
the data, we didn't get it, and we're about 30 seconds from
LOS. The next site is Hawaii at 02:24, and that's the SPT's
phone call with a right antenna.
PLT Okay, Hank. I didn't put anything on the
VTR because I thought you were rewinding it. Have a green
light on when I got up here.
CDR And Hank, as far as we know, M092 should
have been recorded. We were all set up.
CC It's just the voice data we're missing.
CDR The voice data.
CC That's affirmative.
CDR Okay.
SPT Hank. I already did that (static)
PAO Skylab Control at i hour 28 minutes
Greenwich mean time. They're out of range _ow of Vanguard.
Out next acquisition 56 minutes away is at Hawaii. During
this pass we only had about a minute of air-to-ground as
the private medical conference took up most of the pass.
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PAO Skylab Control at 2 hours 33 minutes.
We're ou_ of range of Hawaii on what may be the last pass of
the evening. Hank Hartsfield passing up a message that they'd
like to uplink the teleprinter messages until 04:00 Greenwich
mean time. That's an hour passed the nominal sleep time for
the crew. If there is any disagreement from Science Pilot Ed
Gibson, he should give us a call back. That anomaly on CMG
number 2, which is first seen here at Hawaii, looks like a
fairly - fairly serious one, not tremendously different from
the earlier ones, but the currents are up a bit higher than
we've seen before - about 3 to 4 percent as opposed to the
usual 2 percent increase, and the wheel speed is down about
60 rpms, that's only slightly more than normal. And, also
the temperatures have crossed over with the temperature of
bearing number 2 about a degree higher than bearing number i,
as opposed to the usual bearing number i about 2 or 3
degrees warmer than bearing number 2. So, we do have another
CMG anomaly this evening. This is the first one since before
the crew awakened this morning. Science Pilot Ed Gibson, as
we were informed by commander crew (sic) during this last
pass, did take the final two solar passes, interestingly
enough he had borrowed a pass from Commander Jerry Carr when
he got the flare rise that was observed earlier this evening.
That was originally scheduled for Commander Carr, but Science
Pilot Ed Gibson, not wanting to get away too far from the
solar activity, kept his eye on the Sun and got some very
interesting data there. We have some information from the
people in the backroom. The chief scientist on duty in the
solar activity room is Nell R. Sheeley - S-H-E-E-L-E-Y. He
is the associate - one of the associate investigators on
SO82, which is the prime beneficiary of the solar activity
today and the central device for studying the solar flare
activity that was seen this evening. Dr. Sheeley said that
"nobody else as far as we know" - 17m quoting him "nobody
else as far as we know has been able to catch a flare from
beginning to end. It was a challenge to Gibson to do better
than anyone had ever done before on Skylab." Neil said that
he wasn't certain that we wouldn't find, in going back through
all of the data, the thousands and thousands of pictures
taken on previous Skylab missions that it might not have been
accidental - that a previous Skylab crew might have gotten
some data just by accident, having operated the equipment during
a flare rise. But so far to the best of his knowledge, we
have no data on flare rise until tonight. Nell went on to
say "The importance is that certain things happen in the
rise of a flare that don't happen any other time. One of
these is the flash phase. At some time in the increase of X-
radiation, there is a 20 - 15_ to 20_second period in which
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coast and one over the St. Lawrence River. The third data
take over Africa. Total of 22 hours of science time today
with science hours assigned 7 hours and 5 minutes to the
Commander, Gerald Carr. 7 hours and 28 minutes for Science
Pilot Ed Gibson and 7 hours and 40 minutes assigned to Pilot
Bill Pogue. Two hours and 44 minutes of manned observation
from the ATM control and display panel scheduled today. We'll
bring the llne up for this pass through Honeysuckle. CAP COMM
is Dick Truly. Flight Director is Phil Shaffer.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS at Honeysuckle
for a very short pass. Texas comes up at 12:45. See you
then.
PAO Skylab Control. Greenwich mean time
12 hours 17 minutes. Loss of signal through Honeysuckle.
Goldstone will be next acquisition in 27 minutes and 25
seconds. At Greenwich mean time 12 hours 18 minutes, this
is Skylab Control.
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Time: 09:13 CDT 68:14:13 GMT
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I hit and then 56. Then the 82 instrument. I'm not sure
whether everybody's looking at a different type (?) date, but
that's the order in which it was executed from up here.
MCC Okay, what I have here was 82B, you got
a preflare exposure at 23:13:41, which is about a minute
20 seconds prior to putting 54 in a FLARE MODE.
SPT Okay, maybe that was a wavelength short,
a sequence done on a fluctuating bright point. I don't
recall right now whether that was - how close that was to
the flare rise.
MCC Okay, that -
SPT (Garble) not done for the flare purpose,
but rather a fluctuating bright point and it was fortuitores
that we happened to get it that close.
MCC Yeah, I think - -
SPT (Garble) what it was.
MCC I think that's right. And both 82A and B
went into FLARE MODE later. We're a minute from LOS now,
Goldstone is next in 4 minutes. And a couple of other good
words for today, of course we wish you good hunting and
everybody is quite pleased with the way things have gone
on the activity today. 82A and B are to be used only as
scheduled, and that means that they are not operating in the
unscheduled event, the transcients and so on, they are just
almost flat out of film for right now. And, we will be
getting you a new film budget message as soon as we can get
one out today. And, we've got about i0 - -
SPT (Garble)
MCC Go ahead.
SPT How tight are 54 and 56, and especially
in trying to get some patrol data, say once every 15 minutes
if the activity is high, so they'd have some reference on
which to base their data if we do get a flare?
MCC Okay, the word there, Ed, is to go ahead
and shoot. They've got the film for it, and they want you to
shoot at it.
SPT Okay, very good, thank you.
MCC Okay, fine. And we'll be talking to you
tomorrow morning.
SPT Okay, maybe we can get a longer pass
tomorrow.
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now it's faded out. It looks llke it's exchanging energy with
a hunk of plage over to the right, about 20 arc seconds.
CC Okay.
CDR So it's still in the MIRROR LINE SCAN
anyway.
CC Beautiful.
CDR Looks like it's fading out now and we're
in a beryllium aperture of 4. Probably ought to terminate.
CC Okay, Jerry. Go ahead and terminate your
FLARE MODE operations and pick up the schedule beginning with
building block 28 and then run on through 14. Over.
CDR Okay. Last counts I saw here were 610.
CC Roger. We're watching the beryllium count
down here also, and it looks like its peak is headed down.
CC Skylah, this is Houston. I minute to
LOS. Next station contact in 5 minutes through Bermuda at
16:11. Out.
PAO Skylab Control. Greenwich mean time
16 hours and 8 minutes. Activity aboard the Skylab space
station concentrating on the activities on the Sun right now
with Commander Gerald Carr at the ATM console and display
panel observing again activity where scientists had pre-
dicted yesterday, would be a quiet Sun, in active region 31
and 32 which is in the northwest quadrant of the Moon the
Sun. Scientists had said yesterday that they didn't antici-
pate major activity. However, in the last 18 hours or so,
the crew has been very fortunate to be on hand at the ATM
console when activities on the Sun have taken place. ATM
officer here at the Mission Control Center estimating the
flare observed by Commander Carr during this last pass was
a C-2 flare - not as high in, as one the M-2 which was recorded
during the 17th day of their mission. We'll bring the line
up for this Bermuda pass as Skylab begins its 3653rd revolution.
Bermuda pass, 9 minutes in duration.
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Also the crew will scan Orlando, Florida for land use
analysis. EREP pass also includes sites, target sites for
develop development of remote sensing techniques. The
crew will scan South Carolina, Nebraska, Georgia, Alabama,
Idaho, Wyoming, and Kansas City for data ranging from radar
altimeter terrain characteristics to microwave pulse response
of rough surfaces. If this pass goes off on schedule and
data is collected over Atlanta, Georgia, this leaves only
three targets, one in Mexico, Iran, and Central America.
These three areas remain as the only remaining mandatory
sites not yet the subject of EREP data takes in the Skylab
program. On the last pass through Honeysuckle CAP COMM Bruce
McCandless advising the crew that the latest chapter in the
series of glitches in the CMG number 2 had come to a close.
Glitch number 30, this one lasting 4 hours and 30 minutes.
That was the third glitch in mission day 68. Next acquisition
in 21 minutes through Goldstone. At Greenwich mean time
17 hours and 17 minutes, this is Skylab Control.
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Time: 14:15 CDT, 68:19:15 GMT
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Stand by -
CDR MARK. 192 MODE to CHECK. S190 to INTERVAL
Stand by -
CDR MARK. At 22:35 S190 INTERVAL to 20,
ETC to STANDBY. Next mark's at 23:30.
PLT We're not going to be as lucky on this
one. Doggone it, clouds got me Just in time.
CDR Kansas City?
PLT No. That was a total freak. I'm going
for Kansas City now. 23, 33, 45, left 2.4.
CDR Okay, on my mark it well be 23:30.
Stand by -
CDR MARK. S190 INTERVAL is 20?
PLT No.joy. Okay, I get set up for Atlanta.
CDR Okay, coming up next mark will be 23:50.
Going to want an ETC to AUTO and then stand by Ed. Stand by-
CDR MARK. 23:50, 193 going to POLARAZATION
4, S190 SHUTTER SPEED to MEDIUM. ETC to STANDBY.
PLT Kansas was hopeless.
CDR That's to bad.
PLT Okay, 25:20 fair sightings.
CDR What are you working on now Geog - Atlanta?
PLT Well, I got - could Bruce a little
clarification or should I asked it earlier. Is Atlanta
indeed Just the alternate, you would prefer to have a
uniform site?
PLT My pad lists special 02 as a primary
and 530 as a secondary or as the alternate.
CC That's affirmative, 530 is the alternate.
Special 02 area is the prime.
PLT Okay any uniformed site.
CDR Well, I0 site is the uniformed sight
isn't it?
PLT Yeah.
CDR Kill two birds with one stone there.
PLT Right (?) let's see now, 25:10.
CDR Okay, next mark is at 25:12 in about
7 seconds. Be coming up on 25:12, Stand by -
PLT Stand by -
CDR MARK. SCATTEROMETER to STANDBY.
CDR MARK. RADIOMETER to STANDBY.
CDR ETC to STANDBY.
PLT Stand by.
CDR 25:20 is next.
PLT MARK. I got (garble) in sight.
CDR MARK. SCATTEROMETER is ON.
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