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SL-IV MC-600/I
Time: 13:55 CST 18:19:55 GMT

12/3/73
PAO Skylab Control, Greenwich mean time

19 hours 55 minutes. Acquisition through Tananarive in
approximately 45 seconds. Network advises we might have
acquisition with the spacecraft at the tail end of this 9
minute pass. We'll hold the line up in the event we have
COMM with the Skylab space station.
CC Skylab, AOS Tananarive, 5 minutes.
CC Skylab, we're 2 minutes to LOS. See
you over Hawaii in about 36 minutes at 20:41. Be dumping
the data voice there.
PAO Skylab Control, Greenwich mean time 20
hours 7 minutes. We've had loss of signal through Tananarive
tracking station. Next acquisition in 34 minutes will be
Hawaii. Going back to the frozen food inventory aboard the
spacecraft, there are seven separate frozen food items aboard
which include fillet mignon, prime rib of beef, lobster new-
burg, pork loin with dressing and gravy, coffee cake, vanilla
ice cream, and prebuttered roll. A total of 600 cans of
these seven items, total of 600 cans in all, were launched
with the workshop loaded aboard the onboard freezers. The
inventory today is to verify the exact number of items on
board so medical people can plan the remainder of the menus
for the days left in this mission. Next acquisition in 33
minutes and i0 seconds will be Hawaii. At Greenwich mean
time 20 hours 8 minutes, this is Skylab Control.
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SL-IV MC601/I
Time: 14:40 CST, 18:20:40 GMT
12/3/73
PAO Skylab Control. Greenwich mean time

20 hours 40 minutes. Acquisition coming through the Hawaii
tracking station as Skylab concludes revolution 2934. On
tap this afternoon, a performance of M092 -
CC - - Hawaii for i0 minutes.
SPT Roger, Story.
CC And could you verify that TV-81 that you
did yesterday. We sure enjoyed seeing y'all do your flying
and the shower and all. Could you verify that you did not
put any voice on that. We didn't perceive any down here and
we wanted to be sure the system was working.
CDR That's affirmative. We didn't - what
we planned to do is send you down on the tape a little commentary
to go with the flying routine and that's about it. We just haven't
gotten around to doing it.
CC Okay. We didn't see any mike but we did
just want to make sure the system was working.
CDR Yes, unfortunately the cameraman was
laughing so hard, he couldn't talk.
CC So were we.
PLT I thought it was one of my better efforts.
CC Well, we're expecting even more in the
future.
CDR Back to the bicycle shop, Wilbur.
PLT After they see that, they probably won't
give us another day off, Jer.
CC And Skylab, the networks would like to
know who was doing the flying?
CDR That was Bill.
CC We thought so. Thanks.
CDR Wilbur Pogue.
PLT Which network? The (garble) network?
CC Skylab, we're a minute from LOS. See you
over Vanguard in about 22 minutes at 21:11.
CDR Roger.
20 hours 51 minutes with loss of signal through Hawaii tracking
station. Next acquisition, in 19 minutes 35 seconds will be
through the Vanguard tracking ship. Pilot Bill Pogue scheduled
in this hour to be concluding his exercise period_ Following
that, he will do a housekeeping chore of sampling the onboard
water system by testing it for - this will be done beginning
at about - shortly before 22:00 Greenwich mean time. During
this pass, Pilot Pogue discussing what the ground - the TV
which the crew sent down yesterday television showing Pilot
Pogue in the shower also described as Wilbur Pogue, young
William Pogue_ flying through the workshop with pieces of data
files and Flight Plans strapped to his hand and feet like
paddles and flying through the air. Pogue remarked, said after
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Time: 14::40 CST, 18:20:40 GMt
12/3/73
they see that down on the ground, they probably won't let us
have another day off. That brought little comment from CAP
COMM Dr. Story Musgrave. Next acquisition through Vanguard
in 18 minutes. At Greenwich mean time 20 hours 53 minutes,
this is Skylab Control.
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SL-IV MC-602/I
Time: 15:10 CST 18:21:10 GMT
12/3/73

21 hours 10 minutes. Acquisition coming through the Vanguard
tracking ship. Acquisition in 50 seconds. Hold the line
up for this pass.
CC Skylab, AOS Vanguard 9 minutes.
CC Bill, Houston.
PLT Okay, go Story.
CC Bill, we got a couple of telemetry points
down here which are contradictory. We'd like you check a
circuit breaker on panel 200 at OWS HEAT EXCHANGER PANS,
number 2. Tell us if that's OPEN or CLOSED. If you find it
OPEN, leave it OPEN, and it's on lower left hand corner of
panel 200.
PLT All four of those breakers are CLOSED,
Story.
CC Okay, thanks; and I got one other mes-
sage for you and the CDR, and Ed, too. You got a GO to
remove those foot restraint plates around the wardroom table.
As you all know, it'll take two bolts remove two bolts
from them_ and after you get the bolts out you'll probably
have to pry the plate off if it's bonded to a shim below the
plate.
PLT Okay. I'm sure Jerry heard that.
CC Sounds like a good idea.
PLT I think it's an excellent idea.
CC Skylab, we're about 20 seconds from LOS.
See you over Hawaii in about an hour at 22:18.
hours 21 minutes. Loss of signal through Vanguard. Next
acquisition in 58 minutes and 55 seconds will be the Hawaii
tracking station. The crew was given the green light to
remove some plates on the floor of the wardroom in the eating
area. The crew normally wears these triangle shoes with the
triangle on the front bottom of the shoe, and this deck plate
interferes with their locking their feet into the foot re-
straints. In designing the facilities the engineer apparent-
ly did not feel the crews would be eating with their triangle
shoes on all the time. Apparently Commander Carr and his
two fellow crewmembers do wear the triangle shoes more fre-
quently then the other previous crews, and they asked to
remove these deck plates to give them more freedom when
they're seated at the wardroom table eating their meals.
At Greenwich mean time 21 hours 22 minutes. Next acquisition
in 57 minutes 55 seconds through Hawaii. This is Skylab
Control.
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SL-IV MC603/I
Time: 16:17 CST 18:22:17 GMT
12/3/73
PAO Skylab Control, at 22 hours, 17 minutes,

and 22 seconds Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station now
crossing the Pacific Ocean is just ahout within range of the
tracking antenna on the Hawaiian Islands. This pass through
Hawaii should last a little less than 8 minutes, and we'll
bring the line up live for air-to-ground at this time. A
change-of-shift briefing with Flight Director, Milton Windler,
who will be going off duty shortly is expected to begin about
4:30 in the Building 1 briefing room. That's 4:30 for the
change-of-shift briefing in Building i. We're live for air-
to-ground through Hawaii.
CC Skylab Houston through Hawaii for 7 minutes.
CDR Rog Hank.
CC Hello, there. Howls it going today?
CDR Pretty good.
CDR We got old Ed in the iron lung, other than
that we're doing fine.
CC Okay.
CDR Hank, we haven't recorded that dialogue
for the TV thing yet. We'll do it shortly.
CC Okay, we copy.
CC Skylab Houston, the SPT had a question
earlier today I think in regard of the X-ray spect power
distribution. Can he hear me read this up now?
SPT Sure can Hank, go ahead.
CC Okay, the reason we're selecting bus 2
for man (garble) is so we can power up the X-ray image CDR. As
you recall it cannot be powered from bus i it keeps tripping
off. And we select bus i for the powerdown so that the frames
remaining counter will work for unattended eps. And also, and
I guess that's the main reason we go to bus 1 so we can turn
the console lights off. If we leave it in bus 2 the lights
can't be turned off with the lighting switches, and we're
concerned about the light time on the EL.
SPT Oh, okay Hank that's some good reasons
I didn't appreciate. Thank you very much.
CC Skylab Houston, we've got a couple of
Flight Plan philosophy items for you, you can listen up. In
regard to the SPT, we're going to try not to schedule anything
in it for him after 02:00 Z today so he can get a little more
rest. And also we plan with your eoncurance, to eliminate the
the extra time now being planned into the Flight Plan for the
major items like S019, SO - $201, S183 and et cetera starting
with day 20. EREP has been reduced to an hour, 30 for nominal
time line all ready. And if you concur with that we'll go
ahead and plan it that way.
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Time: 16:17 CST 18:22:17 GMT
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SPT Okay, Hank let's give it a whirl, if we

get in trouble we're going to ask for it back though.
CC Okay that's - you seem to be getting a
lot smoother with everything. So we thought we'd give it
a try and go to the nominal time line. And we're about 30 seconds
from LOS, we'll be coming up on Vanguard at 50 and we're
scheduled to dump the recorder there.
SPT Okay.
PAO Skylab Control at 22 hours, 26 minutes,
and 47 seconds Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station
is now out: of range of the tracking antenna at Hawaii. Milton
Windier is enroute to the Building I briefing room for that
change-of--shift briefing which should begin in about 2 or
3 minutes. The Spacecraft Communicator at this time is
Hank Hartsfield who's just come on duty here at Mission Con-
trol. Again the change-of-shift briefing is about to begin
in Building i in the briefing room there with the off-going
Flight Director, Milton Windler. At the present time we're
22 minutes from our next acquisition of signal. It's
27 minutes and 17 seconds after the hour.
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SL-IV MC604/I
TIME: 16:48 CST, 18:22:48 GMT
12/3/73
PAO Skylab Control at 22 hours, 48 minutes

and 54 seconds Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station is
now approaching acquisition of signal at the Vanguard tracking
antenna. That pass through Vanguard is expected to last
nearly i0 minutes and we'll bring the line up live for
air-to-greund. Spacecraft Communicator is Hank Hartsfield.
CC Skylah_ Houston through Vanguard for
l0 minutes.
CDR Roger Hank, loud and clear.
CC And CDR, Houston we had a little
telemetry funny here in regard to the OWS heat exchanger
tube valve that indicated open when all the other TM
indicates closed now we know that it is an indicator but if
you got a second you might be able to help us clear it up hy
on panel 617 your temperature selector, run it down to 65 degrees
for about i minute then you can put it back to the original
setting around 75 and that ought to tell us whether we can
clear it up or not.
CDR Okay, Hank that's in work. Okay Hank
I just put it down to 65 and incidentally Ed was doing some
vacuumn up in the heat exchanger area there, I'ii go up and
look around and see if there's anything amis in that area.
CC Okay.
CDR Houston, CDR.
CC Go ahead.
CDR Roger the heat exchanger fans are running
all four of them are running and all four switches are in
the 0WS position, everything looks okay.
CC Okay, thank you. PLT, Houston, in
regard to where you are in the buildlngblocks, we suggest that
you run the 82B, right on the sunset.
PLT PLT, roger.
CC And CDR, Houston, that little trick
cleared up our TM problem.
SPT Okay, Hank I wonder if any transducer's
up there where we might bump them while we're vacuumning.
CC You must have been listening to the
EGIL's hackroom_ Ed,
SPT Yeah, we got a hot line on the side.
CC Yeah, that's exactly what we were
wondering and apparently just the (garble) and the fans there
did the trick, all the telemetry looks okay now.
CDR Very good.
SPT Say, Hank where are the transducers
there. I guess that's what I get for cleaning, every little
nook and cranny in there.
CC Okay, we're checking on it now, Ed.
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TIME: 16:48 CST_ 18:22:48 GMT
12/3/73
CDR By the way Hank, the dialogue for that

TV thing we did yesterday is on the downlink tapes, it
was done at 22:30.
CC Roger we copy.
CC Ed, those micro-switches are on the
valves themselves and wetre trying to scare up a photo
just to see exactly where they're located, we're not quite
sure.
SPT Okay, you know you have to move those
flapper valves with your hand in order to get back into
the filters behind it to vacuumn.
CC That shouldn't have been a problem, it
could have been one of them just got disturbed and stuck
for a moment. Skylab, Houston wetre about a minute from
LOS, we should be at Ascension in about 5 minutes at 05.
SPT Roger.
PAO Skylab Control at 23 hours Greenwich
mean time. We've now passed out of range of the tracking
ship Vanguard and we're about 5 minutes from acquisition at
Ascension_ The pass through Ascension is approximately a
6-1/2 minute one 5 minutes away from us now. We'll keep the
line up live although we got about 5 minutes before we get
an acquisition there. This is Skylab Control, now 25 seconds
after the hour.
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SL-IV MC605/I
Time: 17:00 CST, 18:23:00 GMT
12/3/73
CC Skylab, Houston through Ascension for

6 minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston, just as a little reminder,

the roll actuators and MPC actuators on the canister heat up
quite a bit if they're left powered up and would like to remind
you that when you're not using the MPC, we - we need to inhibit
the pointing.
PLT Rog, Hank thank you very much.
CC And - and the roll - the roll is the
big kicker there. That's the one we have the most trouble
with. And we're coming up about 1 minute from LOS. And
we'll be seeing you at Guam at 50, that's about 39 minutes
from now.
PLT Okay.
PAO Skylab Control at 23 hours 13 minutes
and 48 seconds Greenwich mean time. We've now passed out of
range of the tracking antenna on Ascension. Our next
acquisition is 36 minutes away at Guam. Present time it's
just about 14 minutes after the hour. This is Skylab Control.
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SL-IV MC606/I
TIME: 17:49 CST, 18:23:49 GMT
12/3/73

Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station is now coming
within range of the tracking antenna at Guam. Approximately
3-1/2 minutes of air-to-ground over this pass. Spacecraft
Communieator is Hank Hartsfield and the Flight Director is
presently Charles Lewis. We have the line live now for
air-to-ground through Guam.
CC Skylab, Houston we're through Guam for
3-i/2 minutes.
CDR Hi Hank.
CC Skylab, Houston we'll be uplinking a
series of ATM cue card changes here in regard to powering
up after sunrise, how to get the H-alpha going and what
it essent_ally does is deletes the cycling of the attitude
control out of experiment (garble). And the reason we're
doing this is to eliminate as much of the canister cage
and uncage as we can.
CDR (garble) Jerry.
CDR Okay, Hank how about uplinking me a
secretary to take care of the paper work too, would you?
CC I thought that was what E99 E699 was
for?
CDR Yeah.
CC Skylab, Houston, we're i minute from LOS,
we'll see you over Vanguard at 27 and that's about 34 minutes
from now .
CDR Roger.
Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station has now passed
out of range of the tracking antenna on Guam. And wetre
about 32 minutes from acquisition of signal at the Vanguard
tracking ship. During this last pass a little bit of
conversation about the amount of paper work that the
Skylab crew is expected to take care of everyday with changes
to their checklist and instructions and scheduling and things
of that sort. Commander Jerry Carr asked if the ground -
ground if they'd be - how they'd like to uplink a secretary
to help them handle all the paperwork and Spacecraft Communicator
Hank Hartsfield's reply " I thought E699 was for that" E699
is the trash air lock. That's probably the only solution
for the quantity of paperwork that's been generated for the
Skylab crew, they regularly are getting 30 or 40 pages of
teleprinter paper everyday and that includes of course
extensive instructions on things that need to be done during that
day and during following days, including a number of permanent
general messages that are kept aboard the space station. Most
of the others are discarded after use. We're now about 31 min-
utes from acquisition of signal and this is Skylab Control at
56 minutes and 16 seconds after the hour.
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SL-IV MC607/I
Time: 18:26 CST 19:00:26 GMT
12/3/73

and 9 seconds Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station now
54 seconds from acquisition of signal at the Vanguard tracking
ship. This pass through Vanguard should last approximately
ii minutes. The Spacecraft Communicator is Hank Hartsfield.
We'll bring the line up live now for air-to-ground through
Vanguard for the next ii minutes.
CC Skylab Houston through Vanguard for
10-1/2 minutes.
PLT Rog, Hank.
CC PLT, Houston and you're shut down there on
the TV. We need to get the XUV slit to white light display.
PLT Rog, Hank.
CC Skylab Houston, we're 1 minute from LOS.
We'll be seeing you at Ascension at 40, and we're scheduled
to dump the data recorder there about 3 minutes from now.
PLT Roger Hank, we'll see you then.
passed out: of range of the tracking ship Vanguard. We're now
about a minute and 45 seconds from acquisition of signal at
Ascension. The pass through Ascension should last a little
over i0 minutes, this is a pass that goes almost directly
over head at Ascension. Astronauts Gerald Carr, Ed Gibson,
and Willian Pogue pointed Skylab's earth resources censors
at cities, farmlands, and geological features from Alabama
to California, and from Kansas to the deep interior of Venezuela
today. On back to back earth resources surveys this morning
the Skylab crew gathered data on continuing changes
in San Francisco's urban development potential areas for
mineral exploration and agricultural irregation in northern
Mexico, and on geological features in southern California.
Regular medical experiments to test the effects of long periods
of weightlessness in the human body, and studies of the Sun
occupied most of the afternoon. With 7 earth resources passes
now complete Skylab's Astronauts will soon increase their
attention to the comet Kohoutek. Now traveling at more than
i00 thousand miles per hour towards a rendezvous with the Sun
on December 28. At present the comet continues to go on
brightness, but remains far dimmer than scientists had previously
estimated. Comet Kohou -
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SL-IV MC608/i
TIME: 18:41 CST, 19:00:41 GMT
12/3/73
PAO At present the comet continues to grow

in brightness but remains far dimmer than scientists had
previously estimated. Currently the Comet Kohoutek is
about 120 million miles from the Earth and about 73 million
miles from the Sun. We'll come up live now for air-to-ground
through Ascension and a 10-1/2-minute pass.
CC Skylab, Houston through Ascension
9-1/2 minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston we had a little we
lost signal with you and we're back with you now 8-1/2 minutes.
PLT Roger, Hank.
CC Skylab, Houston we're i minute from
LOS, Guam at 24, 34 minutes from now.
PLT Roger.
PAO Skylab Control at zero hours, 51 minutes
now crossing Africa is now out of range of the tracking
antenna at Ascension. We're 32 minutes and 42 seconds
from acquisition of signal at Guam. Very quiet pass over
both Vanguard and Ascension with the crew. Our next
acquisition a little over an half a hour from now. This
is Skylab Control at 52 minutes and 4 seconds after the hour.
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SL-IV MC609/I
Time: 19::23 CST, 19:01:23 GMT
12/3/73
PAO Skylab Control at i hour 23 minutes and

35 seconds Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station is now
south of Japan just ab - about to be acquired by the Guam
tracking antenna. We're about 50 seconds from acquisition,
the pass through Guam should last about i0 minutes. And the
Spacecraft Communicator is Hank Hartsfield. We have the line
live now for air-to-ground through Guam for about i0 minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston through Guam for i0 minutes.
CDR Roger, Houston.
PLT Hello, Hank.
CC Hello.
PLT Hank, I'm - I'm up here at the ATM, I'm
working the small white dot on the WLC display, called up
earlier today to try going to (garble) discharge. When I do that
the white spot turns black when I hold the switch down and the
corona stays (garble) the same. When I release the switch the
white spot is still there.
CC Roger, we copy.
CC Skylab, Houston, we're 1 minute from LOS.
We'll be coming up on Vanguard at 05 in about 29 minutes from
now. And we're scheduled for the evening status report there.
And as a reminder, we have a NuZ update window coming up here
in about i0 minutes.
PLT Roger, Hank.
PAO Skylab Control at 1 hour 35 minutes and
passed out of range of the tracking antenna at Guam. We're
about a half an hour from our next acquisition of signal that
will be at - that will be at Vanguard. This is Skylab Control.
It's now 36 minutes after the hour.
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SL-IV MC610/l
Time: 20:03 CST, 19:02:03 GMT
12/3/73
PAO Skylab Control at 2 hours 3 minutes and

40 seconds Greenwich mean time. We're now 55 seconds from
acquisition of signal through the U.S.S. Vanguard tracking
ship. This pass through Vanguard should last approximately
I0 minutes and it's scheduled for the evening status report.
The crew will give a summary of their sleep periods, photography
activities during the day, exercise and other other details
required by Flight Controllers in keeping records on the crew's
activities and in preparing Flight Plans for future days.
Earth resources pass scheduled for tomorrow appears likely
to - to go although there are still a number of things to
be resolved including the total amount of thruster attitude
control system gas that maybe required. We're live now for
the Vanguard pass, lasting about i0 minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston, wetre through Vanguard
for i0 minutes. And we're standing by for the evening status
report, whenever you're ready. And Skylab, Houston, did you
get the NuZ update in?
CDR That's affirmative Hank, we did.
CC Okay, thank you.
CDR Okay, Hank if you're ready to copy, here
it comes. Okay, evening status report: Sleep: CDR; 7.0,
5.0/hard, 2.0/moderate. SPT; 8, 7-1/2/hard, fi i/2/light.
PLT; 7-1/2, 6/heavy, l-i/2/light. Volume: CDR; 2500, SPT;
2200, PLT; 3000. Drinking gun: CDR; 7000, SPT; 1866, PLT;
8106. Body mass: CDR; 6.288, 6.287, 6.288; SPT; 6.381, 6.387,
6.341; PLT; 6.235, 6.242, 6.241. Exercise: CDR; A1 - method
Alfa, leg, 30 minutes, 4600 watt-minutes. Method Bravo, Alfa,
Delta, Echo, Foxtrot, i0 minutes, 20 repetitions each. Method
Charlie, Charlie, Delta and Foxtrot, 6 minutes,. 15 repetitions
each. Method Echo, Hordinsky's special, 04 minutes, i0 repe-
titions each. Method Foxtrot, walk i0 minutes, toe rises,
i minute, for i00 each. SPT; method Alfa, leg, 40 minutes,
7337; method Bravo, Foxtrot, i0, 40 repetitions, Method Foxtrot,
toe rises, i0, 200 repetitions, spring_ 05, 300 repetitions.
PLT; Alfa, leg, 30, 5000; method Bravo, Alfa, Bravo, Delta,
Echo, 08, 50 repetitions each. Method Charlie, Bravo, Charlie,
Delta, Echo, Foxtrot, Golf, and Hotel, 07, 15 repetitions each.
Method Foxtrot, i0 minutes, toe rises, 1 minute for 90, springs,
30 seconds for 75. Medications: none. Clothing discarded;
SPT, shorts, socks, one each. One - One pair shorts and one
pair of socks. Okay, food log; CDR: zero salt, deviations,
plus two coffees with sugar, one lemonade and one cherry drink
all plus. Rehydration water, plus 1.5. SPT: zero salt, plus
one mints, plus two teas. Rehydration water zero. PLT; zero
salt, plus one cherry drink, no water. Now the photo log:
140 foot 16-millimeter: magazine used on EREP 8 and 9, Charlie
Lima, 09, 65 percent, N/A. Nikon, 01, Charlie, X-ray, 20,
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31, 02 is empty, 03 no change, 04 is empty, 05, Bravo, Hotel,

04, ii, and that includes what we're going to take tonight.
70-millimeter: Charlie, X-ray, 47, 036. ETC is Charlie
Tango i0, 085, EREP, set Kilo; 9738; 1925; 9461; 8830; 0601;
9506. Drawer A configuration: no change. Flight Plan devia-
tion: none. Shopping list accomplishments, D0036. No
inoperable equipment, no unscheduled stowage. Out.
CC We copy, Jer, real good. I'd like a
reverify the ergometer watt-minutes for the PLT?
CDR Five thousand.
CC Roger, copy. CDR, Houston, and - -
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SL-IV MC611/I
Time: 20:10 CST 19:02:10 GMT
12/3/73
CC CDR, Houston. In reference to the problem

you indicated today was Nikon 05, with the $233. I guess the
only thing we suggest there is we probably gonna have to make
sure the -- the film is wound everytime before we start that
set up.
CDR Yeah, that's right. This was a fresh
load this morning and I don't know why the first one didn't
work, because I was standing right there when Bill loaded it
cranked off the first two.
CC I guess that's the weird one.
CDR We'll keep plugging with it try not to waste
to many frames.
CC SPT, Houston. I have a couple of items
for you.
CDR I think he's on the tape recorder right
now .
CC Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston for whoever is available.
We didn't see any change in the gimbal angles - like we should
have. What prompted us to ask about the NuZ update, we
wonder if we can get who's ever free to try it again, so we
can take another look at it.
PLT Wetre still in the window.
CDR When do you want it Hank?
CC Right now if it's convenient?
CC Skylab, Houston we're about i minute
from LOS. Canary is the next station at 25, and that's your
med conference.
CDR Okay, we'll see you later.
CC Okay and for info the NuZ update looks
real good to us.
SPT Okay thank you Hank. Probably what
happened last time was before hitting auto, we hit the doors
closed.
CC Copy.
SPT Other than a few of those, Hank it's
been a real good day. We got 2 good EREPS in over the United
States, and we got some good medical in MO92 went real well,
and some good ATM things are looking good.
CC And it looks good to us too. And Ed
I'ii be wanting to talk to you at Madrid. I got a couple of
items for you after your med conference.
SPT Okay.
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Time: 20:10 CST 19:02:10 GMT
12/3/73
is now passing over Brazil outside the limits of the antenna

on the Vanguard ship. Our next acquisition is 9 minutes and
25 seconds from now and that will be at Canary Islands. This
morning the crew had a little discussion about the performance
of TO53 that's sighting the laser that's shot from the Goddard
Space Flight Center, and aimed directly at the Skylab space
station. Science Pilot Ed Gibson said that when the crew came
over the Washington area, there was no problem at all in sighting
the lasers. The only problem he said, that ever occurs
is that when you that you have to point your eyes in the
right general direction. He said the green is an extremely
good color and is very easy to see, especially well because
it stands out against all the other colors in a landscape.
The laser used from Goddard Space Flight Center is a very
bright green. Science Pilot also indicated this morning that
he had taken a couple of handheld photographs 14:39 Greenwich
mean time. That's 8:39 in the morning here in Houston. His
handheld photographs were taken of his home town of Buffalo
New York. This is Skylab Contol it's now 16 minutes and
28 seconds after the hour. Our next acquisition's a little
over 8 minutes away.
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SL-IV MC612/I
TIME: 20:23 CST, 19:02:23 GMT
12/3/73

and 54 seconds Greenwich mean time. We're now approaching
acquisitlen of signal at Canary Island. Pass through
Canary Island and Madrid should last about 14 minutes.
This is Skylab Control with acquisition at Canary Island.
CC Skylab, Houston we're with you through
Madrid for 6 minutes.
CDR Rog, Hank.
CC And as a reminder we will be dumping
the data voice recorder here at Madrid.
PLT Roger.
CC And SPT have you got a minute to talk
about TV 28?
SPT Sure, Hank go ahead.
CC Okay we just got a few little notes
here in regarding the voice. Good voice quality is going
to be particularly important to this TV28 and the VTR
voice channel we found out is not very forgiving. The input
modulation has got to be good or it just doesn't work well.
And we suggest that you use a comm carrier and not the
light-weight headset, you can either wear the cap or hold
it but we want to be sure that the microphones are within
a half inch of your lips. And as a backup we would like
for you to activate the voice recorder so that we will be
sure we get the voice and also try to make sure that no one
else uses channel A while you're recording on the TV28.
SPT Okay, Hank in order to get it on the
VTR, all we have to do is have it on channel A, is that
correct?
CC That's affirmitive.
SPT Okay, what I had been doing is use the
comm carrier, not the light-weight headset, only used that
for the first eouple of days and I think your comment of one
being a little bit too close to it was probably true. I
tried to move off a little bit and I was wondering how it's
been working. I'm sorry Hank, I didn't hear your comment
would you say again please.
CC Okay, Ed I haven't personally listened
to any of your dump tapes, however some of the other guys
have and I guess I guess we don't understand what the
problem is, for some reason or another it's not as good
as it could be, it is better that it was originally.
SPT Well I'ii try to use it tomorrow morning
when I'm talking and I'ii try getting a clarification
to see whether it is a problem. That is before the TV28.
CC Okay.
CC PLT, Houston we just got a report that
the active region 87 has produced a surge that's still in progress
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and it's out to about i/i0 of a solar radii radius, and when
you take a look at it here, when you start you pass and we'd
like to get a report on it at Guam. And it maybe that we
might want: to restructure the rest of that pass.
PLT Okay, Hank Ed's coming up to help.
SPT Hank, I hope that's the same surge
which I thought I saw out there on the disk and I was doing
a little work on it with the shopping list item i0 at the
conclusion of the last pass.
CC Okay, the surge occurred at 02:20, now
I don't know whether that let's see that might have still
been during the night here. We're about a minute from LOS
and Guam will be coming up at 03:05 that's 27 minutes from
now .
SPT Rog and we still have 5 minutes of

darkness ]_eft.
CC Roger, we were just telling you Ed before
went LOS here so that you can be looking for it when you
brought up the ATM.
SPT Rog, thank you Hank. Hank, that was the
shopping list item 3 rather than i0 which I was working on,
CC Okay, we copy.
PAO Skylab Control at 2 hours and 40 minutes
Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station now over Eastern
Europe is now out of range of the tracking antenna at Madrid
our next acquisition is about 25 minutes away. That will
be at Guala. The present time the Mission Control is still
giving co1_ideration to tomorrowts Earth resources pass.
The present time 18 sites are listed for scientific requirements
to be fulfilled tomorrow. Those include three geothermal
areas including Hot Springs and Wells for hydrothermal
sources in California and New Mexico and also an active
volcanic region in Guatemala. Two instruments will play an
important part in the study of the potential source of electrical
power that is virtually unlimited. Skylab S192 multispectral
scanner is used to gather broad data over a long stretch of
land and one of its 13 channels is capable of recording
thermal data that is to say it can register temperatures on
the surface of the Earth within a considerable degree of
accuracy. At the same time the S191_ the infrared spectrometer
will be pointed at specific targets along the pa_. Those
targets identified so far are Mount Lassen in California,
Lordsburg in New Mexico and the volcanic areas of Guatemala.
Two volcanoes in specific will be looked at tomorrow, that's
in addition to the general survey of the volcanic area_ those
are in Santiaquito volcano in Guate_._l a and .Acatenango volcano
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in Guatemala. There are 6 geothermal tracks where

data is hoped to be acquired during this mission. Those
include track 63 which is run today, although not for
geothermal reasons and also track 6 which is the pass for
tomorrow. In addition to that there are four ascending
passes, these are the descending passes that is to go -
they go from northwest to southeast. There are four ascending
passes going from the southwest to the northeast, two of
those cro_s Central America and South America, one crosses
Guatemala track 14 ascending and track 13 ascending across
Ecuador and Columbia. In addition to that there are two
ascending passes across the United States, 59A which crosses
the Western states and 30A which crosses the Southwest
United States. There are 6 geothermal pass areas, them
that are available for data taking and this is one of them
to be used tomorrow, provided the final runs of the computers
indicate a relatively low consumption of the thruster attitude
control system gas. A run earlier in the day indicated that
the usage might run as high as 800 pound-seconds, that
looks like it might be unacceptable at this time. However
a more recent run has brought that figure down to about
400, final runs are still being performed and we don't
have a final
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PAO - - it might be unacceptable at this

time, however a more recent run has brought that figure
down to about 400. Final runs are still being performed
and we don't have a final figure, but if it turns out that
400 is an acceptable level that will permit the Earth resources
pass for tomorrow. It's going to be a long time before the
Skylab crew gets another opportunity to pass these areas
when dayl_ght conditions are proper. With the S192, detecting
a very fine de - distinctions in the temperature, of the ground
surface, it should indicate areas where geothermal energy
is - has a high probability of being economically feasible.
At the present time, of course, anywhere on the Earth one
could gi -. drill for geothermal energy. Geothermal energy
being energy generated by the Earth itself from deep within
its center. That energy comes to the surface all over at
very low rates of power, if we drill far enough into the
Earth at any point we'd reach the center, and reach the core
and high temperature areas which can be used for producing
steam and electric power. However, there are certain areas
where temperature anomalies or high temperature areas are
distinctive and in those areas that's it's likly that
geothermal energy might be produced at a lower cost by
drilling not nearly so deep into the surface of the Earth.
And the purpose of course of 192, and these tests is to
determine exactly what characteristics those geothermal
energy areas have then it can be applied to 192 data
that's been taken over a number of places in the United States.
A great deal of the country has been covered by S192, the
multispectral scanner. Also, in preparation another Earth
resources satellite, the second one in the series, is still
being planned, is expected to carry a thermal scanner of its
own. So in addition to the Earth resources technology
satellite in orbit, we'll have the multispectral scanner on
the upcoming Earth resources satellite that will have a
thermal channel and will be - capable of identifying thermal
anomalies almost anywhere on the globe. There are a great
many other sites and we'll try and give you a brief report
on some of those a little later in the scheduled Earth resouces
pass and we'll also try and keep you up to date on the deeision
as to whether or not the pass is going to be possible. That
does still depend on the final runs of the computer to
determine total maneuvering gas required. We're about 20
minutes from our next acquisition of signal. This is
Skylab Control at 45 minutes after the hour.
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Time: 21:03 CST 19:03:03 GMT
12/3/73
PAO Skylab Control at 3 hours, 3 minutes and

33 seconds Greenwich mean time. The Skylab space station
now coming into range of the tracking antenna at Guam where
we'll have a 4 minute pass. The Spacecraft Communicator is
Hank Hartsfield. And we have the Mission Surgeon's daily report
on crew health. I'ii read that for you. Health status is
good. The Science Pilot completed his lower body negative
pressure exposure in its entirety. The crew is getting adapted
to the current Flight Plan work requirements. There is no
immediate plan to increase these work requirements. It's
signed Dr. Jerry Hordinsky for Dr. Hawkins. We'll come up
live now for the air-to-ground through Guam, a pass lasting
about 4 minutes.
PLT Building block 17 now. Ran continuous
for about i0 minutes, took another look at it. Now I'm in
a standard mode on a 52. I took i frame of 82 Alfa start with
22nd exposure. I'm going through with the 56 nominal building
block procedures. I couldn't - Ed couldn't detect anything.
(Garble) looking at the coronagraph. I took another look at
it, sort of half fooled myself. At 2 o'clock position there's
one streamer there that may have a little lump or enlargement
on it. But I sort of have to stretch my imagination to see it,
however we're pressing on with building block 17.
CC Copy.
PLT Okay and I'm running 55 mirror line scans.
CC PLT, Houston the next time you check your
monitor there, if you do not see any further activity we'd
like for you to go back and do complete building block i,
and try to get us four exposures on S054.
PLT That's building block i?
PLT Okay - -
CC That's affirmative. Four sequences there
on S054. And in our ATM schedule for tomorrow for all 3 of you
we're going to have an item that says inhibit momentum dump.
It will be the first one we're asking you to do. Normally I
think you're used to seeing ground inhibit momentum dump. I
just want to make you aware that there will be one in there
tomorrow we'll be asking you to do, because we're not in
contact.
PLT Okay. Hank in the conclusion of the last
orbit, I was doing a shopping list item 3. And I was at a
position of a roll of minus 9505, a hump down of minus 27.
I hade the slit tangent to the left and I was ii ara seconds
off the limb. I got a spectra of 55, and on 82B and also patrol
short on 56. And what I'm wondering is whether that was the
position which was the surge. The geometry to me looked like
a surge, but I cannot detect motion. When we came up the
next orbit_ however, it looked as though part cf that material
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was missing. And I'm wondering w_ther I was actually looking

at it at that time.
CC Okay, we'll check it out and we're about
25 seconds from LOS, we'll be picking you up at oneysuckle
at 14.
PLT Thank you.
PAO Skylab Control a t 3 hours, i0 minutes
and 15 seconds reenwich mean time. Skylab s pace station
has passed out of range to the trackin_ antenna at Guam.
We're about 3 minutes and a half from our acquisition at
Honeysuckle Creek in Australia. During this last pass, there's
some conversation between Hank Hartsfield here on the ground
and Pilot Bill Pogue who is now operating the ATM instruments.
The pilot says that he did see a streamer with perhaps a
lump in it but there's nothing terribly clear as a result
of surge that occurred in active region 87 which is now on the
Sun's right side about in the middle of the disk, on the
edge of the Sun, the right-hand edge, which is called the
west llmb of the Sun. 87 is rotating out of view, in another
2 days that will be gone. It has given a good deal of
activity over the last several days and the surge, today is
apparently one of its final blasts before it disappears
behind the other - disappears to the other side of the Sun.
Science Pilot Ed Gibson who was at the ATM console before the
last nighttime pass and before the surge occurred said that
he was doing some work on something that appeared to him to
be a surge though he couldn't detect any motion in it
and he said following that after the nighttime pass the
surge occurred while the space station was on the dark side
of the Earth. During the nighttime pass something did take
place because he said he was looking at the same area and
noticed that something was missing, some part of the material
was missing after the nighttime pass was completed. So the
Skylab may have gotten some early data on that surge, it
was actually before anything recorded here on the ground.
Time for the ground recording was about 16 minutes - I sorry
about 02:20 Greenwich mean time, that's about almost an hour
ago. Today's medical run on the Science Pilot was completed
successfully, the lower body negative pressure exposure run
through its full course, that's interesting information
after the Science Pilot had to cut short his run last time
because the ground surmised probably because of lack of sleep.
Last night he did get 8 hours of sleep and he performed the
lower body negative pressure run, which tests the ability of
the heart to respond to resistance provided by the lower body
device. That resistance restricts the flow of blood back
into the upper body, and the heart must work harder to pump
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blood back. And also creates a low pressure a rea in the

blood system above the waist, and this test shows whether
or not the cardiovascular system still has the capacity to
move that blood back under circumstances very much like
those encountered in gravity. All three of the crew members
have had some difficulty at one time or another with the
full run of the lower body negative pressure. The higher -
the highest stress levels which are the lowest pressure levels
have given us some - some pause. The Science Pilot stopping
his run the last time he performed it, before today. And
both the Pilot and the Commander having some problems. We're
now coming up on acquisition of signal at Honeysuckle Creek.
We'll bring the line up live for a pass lasting about
5 minutes:.
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Time: 21:13 CST, 19:03:13 GMT
12/3/73
CC Skylab, Houston through Honeysuckle for

5 minutes. For the CDR.
CDR Go ahead) Hank.
CC Okay, you reported on your film report
on the 70-millimeter Hasselblad there, CX47, 36 frames and
this was the same reading we had last night. We'd like to
confirm this frame count.
CDR That's right. It - it should be 37
frames and I don't know what that one frame went for. We
didn't shoot any today, that I know of. And I just finished
shooting a - a bundle more on HHI01, and the other HH that
was assigned for the evening here, 105, and the frame count
is now 41 or 42, it's difficult to tell.
CC Okay, we copy.
CDR Let's call it 42, it's a pretty coarse
frame count and that ma - maybe what accounts for what -
we couldn't tell whether it was 36 or 37 earlier.
CC Okay, and we got a few items of news here
if you want to listen up.
CDR Okay, let me get back to this Hasselblad
thing. Our bookkeeping shows that we should be showing frame
41 right now. But the indicator really looks like 42, so
I'm going to call it A2 and we'll just consider one frame not
not accounted for.
CC Okay, we copy.
CDR And go ahead with the news.
CC Okay, Syria and Israel are still at it.
They battled at two spots along the Golan cease fire llne today.
Military spokesman reported the Syrian tanks, cannons and
rockets blasted an Israeli half-track and bulldozer and
killed or wounded 15 Israeli soldiers. Also in that area
in Israel, David Ben-Gurion was buried in the desert with only
a single wooden plaque to mark his grave. The 87-year old
architect of modern Israel - Israel died Saturady. His
coffin was of unvarnished timber and the funeral was devoid of
pomp, following a wish he expressed in his will. The South
Vietnamese government's got its own energy problems and has
exposed a strict controls in the wake of a dawn attack by the
Viet Con on their largest oil depot 6 miles from Saigon. In
Moscow: British Foreign Secretary Sir Alex Douglas Hume told
the Russians that East-West ties must improve, in practice
rather than just in words. He made the statement after Soviet
Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko said agreement on European
security depends on the West's keeping out of Soviet domestic
affairs. You're in the news today. Associated press says,
the Skylab-III astronauts saved a little gas in space today at
the same time they were looking for new energy sources on earth.
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Astronauts Gerald Carr, William Pogue and Edward Gibson used

a third less maneuvering gas for a photo pass today than
they did in a similar mameuver on Sunday. Skylab-lll was
in its 18th day of an 84-day mission. Consumption of
electricity in the U.S. declined during November. But
utility spokesmen say it's hard to tell how much of the
cutback was due to energy-saving effors and how much was
caused by warmer weather. In Washington: Hyman Rickover
was promoted to full admiral today and said the nation needs
"quiet and harmony" to resolve the foreign and domestic
issues it faces. Rickover made the comment after President
Nixon presided over the promotion ceremonies. The Senate
today defeated for a second time efforts to cut off a
filibuster against a plan to tie public financing of
presidential election campaigns to a bill to increase the
federal debt ceiling. The vote was 10 short of the required
two thirds. Secretary of State Kissinger will visit
King Faisal of Saudi Arabia this month as part of a
five-nation trip through the Middle East. On the economic
front several of the nation's biggest banks raised their
prime leading rates to nine and three quarters percent today,
pushing the key interest rate back toward the historic peak of
I0 percent it reached a few months ago. And of course the
stock market plummeted again today. Brokers said the continued
energy shortage and higher interest rates scared away investors.
The Dow Jones fell almost 16 points. Pioneer i0 going
deeper into the radiation belts of Jupiter. And it experienced
several unexplained commands to its camera, possibly caused
by the increasing levels of radiation. It At 7 o'clock
this evening Houston time, the spacecraft was 140,000 miles
from Jupiter traveling at 67,600 miles per hour and it should
have passed its closest point at 8:25 this evening Houston
time. That's about all the news and we're about LOS.
This is the last pass for the evening. We'll say good night
and see you in the morning.
CDR Roger, Hank, good night. Thank you for
the news.
17 seconds Greenwich mean time. A good night from Hank
Hartsfield at the Honeysuckle Creek station, on our last
acquisition for the scheduled crew day. The crew has an
acquisition shortly after i0 o'clock p.m. central standard
time. That would be normally the bedtime for the crew and we
do not intend at this time to bring them back up at that time.
So, this - at present we're going to go to Ames Research Center
in California and bring you the on-going press conference there.
It's the press conference on Pioneer i0 mission to Jupiter.
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We will come up again after the press conference is concluded

and give you a final report if the press conference doesn't
run to late. We're going to go now to Ames Research Center
for the press conference on Pioneer 10's encounter with
Jupiter.
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SL-IV MC-616/I
Time: 05:58 CST 19:11:58 GMT
12/4/73
PAO Skylab Control, Greenwich mean time ii hours

58 minutes, December 4th, 19th day for the crew of Skylab IV.
A day where they will spend more than 7 hours of solar observations.
another EREP pass along groundtrack 6, coverln_ the western
coast and Central America. Crew wakeup is scheduled for this
Goldstone pass. CAP COMM is Bob Crippen, Flight Director,
Don Puddy. We'll hold the line up for this stateside pass
and the wakeup call.
CC (Music)
CC Good morning, Skylab. Crimson team is
with you here over the end of Goldstone. We're going
LOS in about 30 seconds and we'll see you at Bermuda at 12:06.
That's about 5 minutes away.
CDR Good morning to the big red team.
CC You guys sound rather cheerful this morning.
CDR We're ready to ramble.
CC Quite appropriate.
CC (Music).
CC Skylab, Houston, we're AOS through Bermuda
for 8-1/2 minutes.
CDR Roger, Crip.
CC Roger. I don't know how quick you guys
hustle up anti grab your messages in the morning, but we're
right at the end of our teleprinter paper, and we'll - here at
Bermuda a blinking the last of the messages for the morning.
And when you do, we'd like you to verify that the last message,
and I can give you the number whenever you want it, came in okay.
And when you get a chance to, change out the paper for us please.
CDR The last message we have is 1958, Bob.
Correction, 1950,
CC Okay, we're in the process of sending up
1951, and it will go through A-2.
CDR Okay.
CC And all we need to know is whether it is
legible or not in case cause it doeSnVt print too good sometimes
when it gets toward the end of the paper, and if it's not we can
uplink it again after you change paper.
CDR Okay, we'll give you a call.
CDR Okay Bob, message 1951 A-2 came through
okay.
CC Okay, very good. And if you guys would
just tag up with us when you get a chance to change out that
paper, we'd appreciate it.
CDR Will do.
CC Since you've got the messages there, depending
on how far you get here, you'll probably find a little conflict
with them. After we uplinked your EREP messages, we discovered
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that we had a little problem with the maneuver, and so the

maneuver pad and your EREP pad did not coincide as far as
times of starting maneuvers. And I'ii give you a little
briefing a little later on when you get some time to copy
them and tell you about what we're doing in regard to that.
CDR Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston, we're going LOS here,
and we'll have you again over Canary at 12:16, that's just
about a minute and a half away.
CC Skylab, Houston, we're back with you once
more through Canary, and we have you for 16-1/2 minutes.
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12/4/73
CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 45 seconds

from LOS. We'll see you again over Carnarvon in 27 minutes
at 12:58, 12:58. And, whenever you guys get the sleep rubbed
out of your eyes, and get a chance to start jawing down, as
I said we do ihave some changes to your pads, regarding the
(garble) of extending the EREP maneuver, today.
CDR Okay, and the teleprinter is reloaded,
Bob.
CC Okay, very good. Thanks, Bill.
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SL-IV MC618/I
Time: 06:32 CST, 19:12:32 GMT
12/4/73

12 hours 32 minutes. Loss of signal through Ascension
tracking station. Next acquisition in 25 minutes will be
Carnarvon. The crew began their day over the Goldstone
tracking station at 6 a.m. central standard time to the
tunes of "Muskrat Ramble," a version by the Firehouse Five.
The crew begins their day, this morning with Commander Carr
having eggs, coffee, bacon, bread and jam. Science Pilot
Gibson starts his day with instant breakfast drink, grape-
fruit drink, tea, bread and jam, while Pilot Pogue has coffeecake,
sausage, orange drink, Rise Krispies and coffee. More than
7 hours of solar observation command the collective attention
today of the Skylab IV crew. Science Pilot Ed Gibson will
spend approximately 5 hours at the ATM console and display
panel as the Sun once again exhibits increasing solar acti-
vity. His first session starts at 7:28 a.m. this morning.
Two sets of medical experiments also are on schedule. MI31
human vestibular function will be activated at 8 a.m. this
morning. Gerald Carr, the spacecraft commander, is the
subject. Astronaut William Pogue is the observer. MI31 is
an experiment which evaluates the need for artificial gravity
during long space flight. This is accomplished by comparing
response of the vestibular organ in space with data gath
data obtained during pre-flight. Later in the day at 2 p.m.,
Pilot Pogue will be the test subject on the M092/MI71 lower -
lower body negative pressure and metabolic activity run.
Astronaut Carr will assist in this experiment. S019 ultra-
violet stellar astronomy experiment also appears today on
the schedule. The Commander will obtain photographs of
Milky Way star fields in the ultraviolet specter starting at
5:35 p.m. Today's Skylab Earth resources survey should be
good news for this energy-hungry planet. Using two sophisiti-
cated electronic sensors, the crew will record temperature
characteristics of several geothermal hot spots. The S192
multispectral scanner will be used to gather broad data over
a long stretch of land including Mount Lassen in California,
areas in New Mexico, and volcanos in Guatemala. Astronaut
Carr will make detail studies on temperature characteristics
of these areas heated by the Earth interiors. Meanwhile, a
second electronic - a second electronic instrument, the S191
infrared spectrometer, will scan a 40-mile pass beneath the
space station recording temperatures of the data on magnetic
tape. Two volcanos along today's track, track number 6, will
be given specific attention. These are the Santiaquito volcano
and the Acatenango volcano both in Guatemala. Today's Earth
resources pass starts at approximately i0:i0 central standard time
and will continue for 15 minutes. The daily comet Kohoutek photo
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session is p%anned for 7:39 central standard time and 10:17 p.m.
today. The $233 experiment has already taken 19 important
photographs of the comet Kohoutek since the launch of Skylab IV.
$201 experiment and S019 experiment have recorded one photograph
each. The comet is presently 22,200 - 122,200,000 miles from
Earth and 75,200,000 from the Sun. Upon eompleteing his ATM
assignments this afternoon, Science Pilot Ed Gibson will attend
to the ED63 cytoplasmic streaming experiment. This is an
experiment suggested by Cheryl Peltz, a high school student
at Littleton, Colorado. Gibson will do a microscope study
of a sprig of the water plant, elodea to detect the zero-G
effects of the streaming in the plant tissue. Three television
transmissions are scheduled for today. The first dump through
the MILA tracking site in Florida and the Texas station at Corpus
Christi occurred early this morning at 1 a.m. and 2 a.m. It
was identified as TV-33_ video water tank sampling test. A
second transmission is set for approximately 9 a.m. central
standard time over Continental U.S. sites. In this, Ed Gibson
will explain function of the ATM console. A third dump will
consist of ATM data. Mission day 204 in the life of Skylah
space Station, mission day 19 for the crew of Skylsb IV, a
day of 7 hours at the ATM console, several medical experiments,
and the 8- 8th resources pass of the mission. Next acquisition
in 19 minutes 35 seconds will he Carnarvon. At Greewich mean
time 12 hours 38 minutes, this is Skylab Control.
PAO Skylab Control_ Greenwich mean time
12 hours 56 minutes. Acquisition coming through Carnarvon
in 50 seconds. We'll hold the line up for this pass. The
crew in their postsleep activity. Commander Cart scheduled
to take another photograph of Kohoutek with the $233 camera
_hich is located in the window of the command module. We'll hold
the line open for CAP COMM Bob Crippen.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Carnarvon for
8 minutes.
SPT Good morning, Bob. I'm looking at a
maneuver pad and wondering if you'd like to talk about it.
CC Roger_ Ed. You might notice that what
we're doing is we're going to go into Z-LV just before noon
so that we arrive in it at orbital noon and we're going to stay
in Z-LV all the way around for the next orbital noon because
that's where the maneuver is the smallest amount of attitude
change and in all our little runs down here - well, that
came out the cheapest. It looked like about 150 pound-seconds
on that order and we're hoping that we might've come up with
a new technique that might save us a little bit of TACS.
CC Ed, while I've got you -
SPT (garble), Bob.
CC I'm sorry. Say again, Ed.
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SPT Do you hear me with a squeal?

CC I don't hear any squeal at all.
SPT Okay. We got one buzzing in our ears
here. Okay. I see we're going in there at 15:33, and it's a 4-minute
maneuver time. That's - that's surprising.
CC Well, all you got to do is take out your
Beta angle, which right now is running about oh, approximately
8 degrees, I believe. 13 - minus 14.
SPT Okay. Do we get in there at 15:37 and stay
there until 17:06? Very good.
CC That's affirm. And as a result of that,
Ed, I need to make a few changes on - on your Flight Plan stuff.
I wonder if you've got your details and your summary handy
there and I can tell you what they are.
SPT The good news always comes first.
CC You're right. This - we're just going
to let you sit around and look at the panel there for a long
time.
SPT Go ahead.
CC Okay. Have you got your details handy -
that ATM pass at 15:02, we've had to scrub it. And the ETC
OPS film install is now at 15:07 by 16:10.
CC And at 17:17, we need you to do a NuZ
update and the times are from 17:17 to 17:38. And you might
want to take your summary and just sort of scratch through
that ATM pass there that we deleted and sort of indicate
that the ETC OPS is moved up earlier there.
SPT Looks like we're trading off (garble)
CC I'm sorry, Ed. We had a handover there
that I didn't call for you.
SPT The old fadeout trick.
CC Rog. I missed everything after you said
it looked like we're going to trade off
SPT That's all right Crip. Tell me about the
(garble).
CC Okay. We still got free static - why
don't we hold up on until we get (garble).
CC Okay. I think we got COMM established
pretty firmly back with you and we have you for about 3 more
minutes. Did you grasp all what we were doing there, Ed?
SPT All too well. Yes, I see it okay,
at 15:02 we're scratching the ATM, the 15:07 is going to be the
ETC OPS for building install 17:17. We're putting in a NuZ
update going to 17:38.
CC That's - that's all correct. And if Jer
or Bill or both are around, I need to change their EREP C&D
and VTS pads to reflect that maneuver time change.
SPT Okay. The pads are all coiled up here
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in the corner and we'll have to unwind them and take it out. Over.
Say Crip, let me ask you a general question. On these VLT
passes_ when we return to solar inertial many times there's
oh, 20 minutes or so left over. That doesn't pose problems if I
go ahead a thzough a few shopping list items in for the ATM,
does it?
CC Stand by I.
CC Ed, I guess the answer to that since the
ATM guys haw_n't exactly been getting a good deal here in the
past few days, in that they'd be so overjoyed, we probably
wouldn't be able to keep them in their chairs.
SPT We got the pads here for the EREP. Go ahead.
CC Okay. We're going to go LOS in about
i minute and we'll have you again at Hawaii at 13:22 and
I'ii be back and get in the changes. All I'm dGing is on the
C&D pad, I'd like to _ change Z-LV maneuver time from 16:03 to
15:33 and solar inertial time from 17:02 to 17:06. And you can -
you can change those times yourself by looking at the maneuver pad
to see if it's going too quick for you. And I need to make
the same changes on the PTS pad. (sic)
CDR Okay Crip. No sweat. We got it.
CC Okay. And on - for Bill, on these details,
I need to change the time he turns the EREP power BUSS 1 on
from 15:40 to 15:37 to allow adequate warm-up time.
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CC - - details. I need to change the
time he turns the EREP power BUS 1 ON from 15:30 to 15:37
to allow it adequate warm up time.
CDR 15:37.
CC Roger. Thank you, gentlemen. See you
Hawaii in about 15 minutes.
13 hours 7 minutes. Coversations through Carnarvon revolving
around updates to the - today's Flight Plan, deletion of
another ATM pass, effectively reducing the ATM viewing
time as indicated earlier from 7 hours down to 4 hours
and 33 minutes. Slight change in the maneuver pad for this
morning's EREF pass, as well as NuZ updates for the crew's
activities today. Commander Carr will be taking the
20th photo session of the comet Kohoutek with the $233
experiment. This is done through the command module
window. Tomorrow, the first opportunity to photograph
Kohoutek with another instrument, the SO63, is scheduled
as well as the second observation with the $201 cameras.
Two opportunities are scheduled today with the $233, a
35-millimeter camera at Greenwich mean time 13:28 and then
at Greenwich mean time 00:21 tonight.
13 hours 21 minutes. Acquisition coming through the Hawaii
tracking station in 50 seconds.
PAO First item on the agenda today is
performance of the MI31, human vestibular function test by
Commander Gerald Carr. This will begin at shortly before
14:00 Greenwich mean time. Observer will be Pilot Bill
Pogue. Acquisition in 25 seconds. We'll hold the line
up for CAP COMM, Bob Crlppen.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS at Hawaii
for 4 minutes.
CC And, Skylab, Houston. You might be
interested to know that active region 92 over there
in complex is 87, produced a class M1 flare awhile ago.
CDR Was that the one at 08:53?
CC No_ no. It's not the one that's
called out there. It's a new one that started around 11:42,
and it had a double peak on it. The first max was at
11:47 and tile second at 12:06.
SPT Okay, Bob. We'll take an eye of the
corona and also see what we can see in H-alpha.
CC Rog. The flare ended at about, oh,
12:22 in OPTICAL and 25 on X-RAY.
SPT Thank you.
CC And it did not have very much radium
associated with it.
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CC And, Skylab, for the CDR and PLT, I

have the directions and rpm for the 131 run coming up on
the CDR.
PLT Hold up, Bob. Jerry's in there doing
his 33 right now.
CC Okay. No sweat. I'ii get him over
the states here.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're i minute
from LOS. We'll see you again in 9 minutes over Goldstone at
13:34, 13:34.
13 hours 28 minutes. We've had loss of signal through
the Hawaii tracking station. Next acquisition will be
Goldstone in 5 minutes and i0 seconds. Science Pilot
Ed Gibson advised by CAP COMM, Bob Crlppen, the ground
tracking ground telescopes have captured an MI flare in
active region number 87/92, which ended at Greenwich mean
time 12 hours 22 minutes. However, Science Pilot Gibson
did not go to the ATM console until about 5 minutes ago.
So the onboard equipment, he didn't he was not on the C&D
console when the flare erupted. Reported this the flare
first recorded 11:42 Greenwich mean time had a double peak.
And it ended at 12:22 Greenwich mean time. The crew will
be advised on an upcoming Goldstone pass that if they
do spot the T053 laser beam from NASA Goddard Space
Flight Center_ to advise the ground_ and then the laser will be
switched from an all green color to bright blue-green
color. They have the opportunity to view the laser beam
again this morning in about 15 minutes from now, as the
spacecraft crosses the eastern coast of the United States.
Next acquisition will be Goldstone in 3 minutes 45 seconds.
At Greenwich mean time 13 hours 30 minutes, this is Skylab
Control.
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13 hours 32 minutes. Acquisition coming through the Goldstone
tracking station in i minute. Science Pilot Ed Gibson at
the ATM console. Jerry Carr getting ready to perform the
MI31 human vestibular function test with Pilot Bill Pogue
serving as tlhe observer. In this Stateside pass the crew will
attempt again to photograph the laser beam being aimed at
the spacecraft from Greenbelt, Maryland, NASA Goddard Space
Flight Center.
CC Skylab, Houston. AOS Goldstone, 5 minutes.
CC PLT, Houston. Got a moment to chat?
PLT Rog. Go ahead, Bob.
CC Hey, Bill. On this laser photograph you
got coming up at 13:40. We're gonna start that out in the
blue-green mode, and it's gonna be continuous. If you get it
and take a photograph it, we'd like you to - appreciate it
if youVd go ahead and tell us, and at that time we're gonna
switch modes. And, switch it to a blue-green color, and if
you can still visually aquire it, we'd like you to take another
photograph of it.
PLT Okay. Now you're gonna start out at
5145 angstroms and get one of that, and then switch to blue-green.
Is that what you're saying?
CC We're gonna that's fine. We're gonna
switch only if after you tell us that you've acquired it
and got the first shot.
PLT That's at i watt of power.
CC That is correct.
PLT Okay. Thank you.
CC Hey, Bill. One other item. On this
131 run, we_ve got coming up with Jer as the subject we'd
like that counterclockwise at 30 RPM.
PLT Okay. Counterclockwise.
CC Thank you.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're i minute from
LOS. And we'll see you again over Texas in about 2-1/2 minutes.
Correction, over MILA in about 2-1/2 minutes at 13:41.
PLT Roger.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS through
Bermuda, and we have you for about ii minutes.
CDR Hey, Crip, what kind of cloud cover do
you have in D.C. area?
CC Clear, supposed to be; and the laser is on.
CDR Okay.
CC It was interrupted momentarily, and it's
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back on now.
CC And_ SPT, if you get a chance at the
pamel, we have a modification to your ATM schedule pad we'd
llke to make.
SPT Go ahead, Bob.
CC Okay. I mentioned we had to scrub that
15:14 ATM pass. Stand by i.
PLT Oksy_ Bob. We've got the green one, now
you can switch to blue-green.
CC Okay, we're switching and break for Ed.
What I started to do is to give you a schedule change up for
that ATM pad concerning that we're had got - It interfered
with that one. However, we're going take and make sure that
welve got good EREP weather before we have you write that
pad up - change it. And_ we'll get it up to you later if
we need it.
SPT Okay, Bob.
CC And, Bill, the laser is blue-green now.
PLT Roger. Don't have it yet. We saw the
green go out, but I haven't seen the blue-green yet.
CC Copy.
PLT Okay, Crlp. We can see the blue-green
with binoculars, but not with the unaided eye. I did take
one 300-milimeter Nikon shot of it.
CC Copy that. Sounds good.
CT AI. Voice Bermuda. Put us back in
conference.
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CC Skylab, Houston. Welre 1 minute from

LOS, Aseenslon in 9-1/2 minutes, and that's going to be Bill
Lenoir's pass to talk to you a little bit about ATM at 14:02.
PAO Skylab Control, Greenwich mean time 13 hours
53 minutes with loss of signal through Bermuda. Pilot Pogue
reporting another successful viewing and photography of the
T053 laser beam being aimed at the spacecraft from the NASA
Goddard Space Plight Center at Greenbelt, Maryland. Two
separate bealas today, one green one and then one 51ue-green one.
A slight anomaly in the first initiation of the beam, an air-
craft got in the way outside of Goddard and the beam was turned
off but turned on back again in time for Pilot Pogue to observe
and photograph of the T053 laser beam. Next acquisition in
7 minutes 10 seconds through the Ascension tracking station.
Control.
PAO Skylab Control, Greenwich mean time 14 hours.
Acquisition coming through the Ascension tracking station in
50 minutes as the crew is into their 19th day in orbit, preparing
for the 8th resources pass of the mission. 4-1/2 hours to be
spent at the ATM console today by the three crew members
collectively. A successful observation by Pilot Bill Pogue
on the T053 laser beam from Goddard Space Flight Center. Photo-
graphy already accomplished by Commander Cart of the comet
Kohoutek through the command module window. We'll hold the llne
up for CAP COMM Story Musgrave.
CC Skylab, AOS Ascension for 7 minutes for
your ATM conference.
MCC Good morning, Ed. How are you doing?
SPT Morning_ Bill. Go ahead.
MCC Okay_ let me start off with a question_
here. On most of the orbits that we've been scheduling for you,
Jerry, and Bill, we've been trying to schedule i0 minutes
observing time. We wondered how you have been using this and
if i0 minutes is necessary or if that could be cut down to
5 or, do you have any other thoughts?
SPT Bill, I think here in the beE:inning it
has been necessary because it has taken that long many times
just to carry out the nominal operations and make sure you're
not making as many mistakes as you would if you rushed through
it. I think however, since we've got it down here we can
go with a little less, but I wouldn't want to shorten it very
much. Break it down maybe to 5 if you like. But we're
still feeling a little - a little bit tight here, and I think still
making a couple of errors we don_t want to make.
MCC Okay_ we'll work it that way for a while.
One other qu_[ckie comment here. On the VTR when we schedule
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you for 5 minutes, try to keep it to exactly 5 minutes so

that we make sure we don't mess up the VTR management.
SPT Okay.
MCC And one further comment here, on the
downlink frem the last few days I've noticed some questions regarding
S055 detector searching and onboard mapping. You asked the
question about alignment data of prominence being much brighter
than your cue card suggests. We've looked into that further
and the local expert on alignment data counts has, when put
to the fire, indicated that the count of 15 above a background
of 3 in a prominence may be low by as much as a factor of 3
but probably not any more than that. We suspect that the
combination of perhaps our cue card number may be a little
bit low and you were on an exceptionally bright prominence,
so that it looks like it's a combination of the two items that
you suspected.
SPT Okay, very good.
MCC And noticed also that in looking for coronal
loops on active region 87, I believe it was yesterday, in 06, you
indicated that you didn't see anything, We've looked at the
downlink data that we have here and we haven't looked at very
much, but what we find in active region 87 on the west limb
now is that it appears 2 to 3 times as bright as it did on
the east limb. We mean that the numbers that we passed up
should be multiplied by 2 or 3. There is not too much structure
there, We see more fingers going out radially directed rather
than actually closing the ends, and it appears to be embedded
in background count of about i00 to 180. We did get counts
up as high as 250 in loop structure that was about 1 to
2 aperture widths wide, but not very much structure. It would
be easy to skip through it searching for it in 06 and not see
it at all.
SPT Okay. Is one of the other ones which you
recommended better for seeing the detailed structure that's
magnesium 10, silica ]2, or neon 7?
MCC We don't have Complete data right now,
but what we've looked at it looks like they are all indicating
all pretty much about the same thing, and we can't, on the gzound,
where we get the whole picture to look at, we can't very well
see the coroual loopselosing without significant use of some
imagination.
SPT Okay. I had asked two questions the other
day. One was about whether I was actually at the location of a surge,
which was last night? And secondly whether I was actually at the
base of loops which I thought I could see in H-alpha also with
out good monitor. And I think the interest of those would be
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useful for some of the future onboard work.

MCC Okay, the first question: we tried to resert
the answer, and we don't have that data down yet, and we're
still looking. As soon as we get that data, we'll look it
and tell you what the answer is. On the second question, we
do think you probably were seeing it in an H-alpha. It appears some-
what bright in alignment Alia indicating that you probably
could see it in H-alpha, especially down toward the foot.
SPT Okay, that's very good.
MCC Okay, again all of the experiments are more
interested in flare rise than anything else. One comment we
discussed yesterday in the planning meeting regards when you go
on into a flare fall portion of the JOP 3. And generally what
we'd like to say is if you're not sure whether you caught
the rise or not, here on the safe side and give us some post
flare data. Also on the preflare type shopping llst and building
blocks, we recommend you be on the trigger happy side. And
82B encourages use of their film for constructive building blocks
as much as possible there. They don't want to waste it but
they ere behind their scheduled film as far as getting the
sensitive film for Kohoutek.
SPT - Okay, understand. Do you have anything
else or would you like to tell you what the corona looks like this
morning?
MCC Okay, why don't you tell me.
SPT Okay. Over there on the west limb we do
see now four different streamers. There's - They're all of them are
inclined slightly towards the north as they go outward. There's
one around 230 at the base, one at 3, one at 330 and one at around
4. And they are all parallel to one another but the (garble),
and then a very diffused one over there on the east limb.
MCC Okay, that sounds good. We'll take a look
at that. Let's see -
SPT The four of them are very much more pronounced
than they were yesterday. I can see, (garble) last night than
they did appear this morning.
MCC Okay, good. Thank you, Ed.
CC Skylab, we're about a minute to LOS. See
you over Carnarvon at 14:32, be dumping the data voice there.
And Ed, from down here we show that you're in your JOP 6 building
block I-A with a roll of minus 5400. We'd like you to repeat
that for us at a roll of 10800.
SPT Yeah, Story we got caught there too. We
just had too darn many things going on here at the same time, and
I think from now on we're just going to have to cut down the number
of things going on in here in the morning because therets no way
of getting up here and making this whole thing work. It's put
together in a hurry.
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CC Understand, Ed.
MCC Okay Ed, I'ii talk to you tomorrow. And
I've got a story for you, a preliminary story on S054,
and we've got a computation in work on the X area A aluminum
for you based on the flare data.
SPT Yeah, that would be very useful because
right now we've got PME putting out false indications
all the time, and you've got two choices. Either you set the
grades (?) on the setting real high, which means you would
already (?) for get it, and then you're going to miss a good
one when it comes along. When you turn it off it's the same thing
happens. Or you've got it going off all the time, and that'll -
that's pretty disconcerting and I think it's going to lead to
errors in operating everything if you do that. So that's not
a very satisfactory flare method of (garble)
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14 hours i0 minutes. Loss of signal through Ascension.
Next acquisition in 21 minutes 40 seconds will be the Guam
tracking station -will be the Carnarvon tracking station
in Australia. The crew entered their 19th day in orbit,
a day of the 8th EREP pass, a pass running down California
into Mexico through Central America. Prime interest on this
pass is location of geothermal sources, both in the United
States and in Central America. Commander Carr in the MI31
run_ human vestibular function test. The literature used
in this experiment will be rotated clockwise in approximately
30 rpms, revolutions per minute, for this, the experiment
performed by Commander Carr. Pilot Bill Pogue is the observer
on this particular operation this morning. Later today, Pilot
Pogue on the M092/MI71 run, lower body negative pressure
metabolic activity experiment. Also on tap today is operation
of the S019 cameras, two different times; once, by Pilot Pogue
at Greenwich mean time 18:42, and then again by Commander Carr,
Greenwich mean time 23 hours 25 minutes. Two opportunities
for the $233 again today for photography of comet Kohoutek,
one, which has already been accomplished by Commander Carr
at Greenwich mean time 13 hours 24 minutes this morning.
Another opportunity later today at 2_ hours 17 minutes
Greenwich mean time tonight. The crew entered their 19th
day in orbit, 204th day for the Skylab space station which
was launched at Cape Kennedy on May 14th. Next acquisition
in 19 minutes 25 seconds. At Greenwich mean time 14 hours
12 minutes, this is Skylab Control.
14 hours 31 minutes. Acquisition coming in 45 seconds through
the Carnarvon tracking station on this, the 2945th revolution
of the Skylah work station. We'll hold the line up for
CAP COMM, Dr. Story Musgrave. New Flight Director is Milt
Windler.
CC Skylab, AOS Carnarvon for i0 minutes;

Be dumping the data voice here.
CC Ed, Houston.
SPT Go ahead.
CC When you get done with TV 28, could you

rewind the VTR so that we can dump at stateside?
SPT Okay, Story.
CC Thank you.
CC Skylab, we're a minute to LOS. 3 minutes
to Guam.
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Time: 08:43 CST, 19:14:43 GMT
12/4/73

14 hours 43 minutes. Loss of signal through the Carnarvon
tracking station. Next acquisition in 1 minute 35 seconds
will be at the Guam tracking station. We'll hold the line
up for CAP COMM, Dr. Story Musgrave.
CC Skylab, we're back with you through
Guam for 9 minutes.
CC Skylab. We're a minute from LOS and
17 minutes to Goldstone at 15:11.
SPT Okay, Story. I'm still on the setup
for STY 28. I tell you what, I'll try to give you some
shots of it throughout out the day here. And tell me how
the VTR manual works out, and I'll try to plan it accordingly.
CC Okay. Thanks, Ed. The VTR is your's.
SPT Okay. I'll try to work on it through-
out the day and give you something useful.
CC Okay. We'll be looking.
PLT Story, did that TV 33 come through
yesterday?
CC Say again.
SC (Garble) 33 (static)
CC Skylab Control, Greenwich mean time
14 hours 56 minutes with a loss of signal through the Guam
tracking station as the Skylab crew will shortly begin
preparations for the 8th resources pass of the Skylab
mission. This pass along the coast of California, down
through Mexico, and ending in Central America will gather
data, primarily, on geothermal sources in California, Mexico,
and Central America. On this pass, Commander Jerry Carr
will be the operator of the view finder tracking system of
the S191 experiment, with Pilot Bill Pogue operating the
control and display panel of the 6-instrument EREP sensor
packages. Science Pilot Ed Gibson will again supervise the
maneuver of the Skylab space station throught the Z-LV mode,
aiming the vehiclets Earth resources cameras directly at
the intended ground track, and he will also operate the ETC
camera, Earth terrain camera located in the forward dome
of the workshop. EREP pass will be on the tail end of revolution
2946 along ground track 6. Next acquisition will be
Goldstone in 13 minutes. At Greenwich mean time 14 hours
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Time: 09:09 CST 19:15:09 GMT
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15 hours i0 minutes. Acquisition coming through the Goldstone
tracking station in 50 seconds. On this continuous Stateside
pass through Goldstone, Texas, MILA, Bermuda tracking stations.
We'll hold the line up for CAP COMM Dr. Story Musgrave.
Acquisition in 35 seconds.
CC Skylab. AOS through Goldstone, MILA, for
17 minutes.
CC Ed, Houston.
SPT Go ahead.
CC Are you working on TV 28 now, Ed?
SPT Trying to set it up. Yes, Story.
CDR Go ahead, Houston. Take the VTR, if you
want. I won't be putting anything on it before we get the
maneuver started here.
CC Okay. We just wanted to remind you, when
you're not using the TV camera, to turn it off, and if you
don't need the VTR over MILA at about 15:17, we'd like to
dump about 6 minutes of it.
SPT Okay. Go ahead.
CC Thank you.
CC Ed, Houston.
SPT Go ahead, Story.
CC You can leave the video switch in TV, if
you'd llke, and it was the TVlS that we wanted turned off when
you weren't using it.
SPT Okay. Thank you.
CC And, Ed, when you're done with the MPC
we'd like MPC inhibited and MPC roll inhibited.
CC Thank you.
CC Skylab. We're a minute from LOS and about
45 minutes to Carnarvon at 16:11. And, Ed, we'd like you to
go to SI mode.
CC We're looking at SI down here. The canister's
caged. Now you got a good maneuver time (garble) and your
fine maneuver entries are also looking good. And, the VTR
is yours for the rest of the day.
SPT Okay. Thank you, Story. A question about
monitoring the - this small maneuver into Z-LV. The monitoring of
the inner and outer gimbals on CMG 2, are they - rolls
pretty much the same as we talked with Rusty, yesterday, or
because of the new time we're going into Z-LV, are they a little
bit different?
CC Ed, the monitoring is different, but you
shouldn't have any wide excursions of the gimbal angles at all,
today.
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15 hours 29 minutes. Loss of signal through the Caner -
Bermuda tracking station. Next acquisition in 41 minutes and
50 seconds will be the Carnarvon tracking station as the crew
prepares for the 8th EREP pass of Skylab IV. Science Pilot
Ed Gibson discussing with the ground the final maneuvers for
the upcoming EREP pass. This today is a first in the Skylab
program, will[ be set today when Science Pilot Gibson as he
just initiated the maneuver to place the 100-ton space station
into its Earth looking attitude. The space station will
remain in the Z-local vertical mode for an entire revolution
around the Earth, the first time this has happened in Skylab.
This maneuver will be accomplished prior to orbital noon,
and the combination of the Beta angle, of 14 degrees, this
is the angle between the Earth-Sun line and the vehicle's
orbital plane and the desired attitude, is scheduled to cost
an estimated 150 pound-seconds of thruster propellant fuel
for this maneuver. Pound-second is a pounds of - a pound-second
is a pou_ of thrust for each second. The maneuver to Z-LV
comes at the optimum time in the orbit and the maneuver is
required - all that is required is to remove the 14-degree
Beta angle from the attitude. The Z-LV maneuver will take
place as the spacecraft is 243 nautical miles over the
Amazon Delta in Brazil and will return to solar inertial
97 minutes later, on the next revolution at the close of the
EREP pass, as the vehicle crosses over western Brazil on
track 7. Although the Skylab solar panels for the ATM and
one on the workshop will not be pointed directly at the Sun
during the 97-minute period, the EGIL officer here at the
Mission Control Center reports no excessive electrical power
usage is anticipated during this revolution. The Skylab is
currently producing about 7000 watts of electrical power and the
full rev, this Z-local vertical, will only draw about 5.6 amps
from the 13 - -
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PAO At this Z-local vertical will only draw

about 5.6 amps from the 13 amp average in the CBRM batteries,
which provide power from the 4 ATM panels, and just 8 amps
from the 27 amps average of the power conditioning group
batteries, which provides the power from the single solar
ray panel on the workshop. Again, the first time Skylab
has traveled around the Earth 1 full revolution in the Z-local
vertical, although the EREP instruments will only be for a
period of 17 minutes on a path crossing California, down
through Mexico, ending in Central America. Next acquisition
in 38 minutes and 50 seconds will be Carnarvon. At Greenwich
mean time 15 hours 32 minutes, this is Skylab Control.
16 hours 8 minutes. We will have acquisition through the
Carnarvon tracking station in 2 minutes 45 seconds. Skylab
should're been oriented into Z-local vertical attitude at
Greenwich mean time 30 - 15 hours 30 minutes. That was
35 minutes ago. The vehicle should be in Z-local vertical
right now, with its EREP instruments pointed directly on its
intended ground track. This will be the first time Skylab
has completed an orbit in the Z-local vertical attitude.
This maneuver done at the optimum time in the orbit, just
prior to orbital noon. The vehicle TACS system, CMG, only
had to bring the vehicle out of the 14 degree beta angle.
Maneuver took 4 minutes. As we come up over Carnarvon, we
should hear from Science Pilot Ed Gibson and read from ground
telemetry to confirm that the vehicle is in the proper attitude.
This maneuver done to conserve TACS propellant usage on this, the
eighth rev eight ERE - Earth resources poss in the Skylab IV
mission. We'll hold the line up for CAP COMM, Dr. Story Musgrave
through Carnarvon.
CC Skylab, AOS Carnarvon for 7 minutes.
SPT Roger. Hello, Story.
CC Hello, Ed. And your PCS is looking good
and your EPS is looking good.
SPT That looks like a pretty slick way to
do it, Story. I guess we just took out beta after orbital noon.
Is that right?
CC That's right.
SPT Have we fired A mib yet? I have not seen
any but I haven't watched the panel all the time.
CC It's 3 now, Ed.
SPT 3. Okay. Jerry's down there in the OWS,
apparently he heard them.
CC Okay.
SPT (garble) They vibrate the walls down there
a little bit. It's like having your head inside a large can and
someone whacking it from outside.
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CC That's what we've heard.

SPT If you ever have trouble getting us up
in the morning, Story, there's the way.
CC Oh, that's only one of our list.
SPT l'm down here in the wardroom, Story,
with a marker pencil. I put one mark on the wall for each
mib.
CC And when you got the whole wall covered,
I guess it's time to come home, huh?
SPT Right.
SPT Say, Story, on our display of TACS pressure,
how far down is that - can that display go? We don't know
what percent of TACS remaining before the system is unusable.
CC Stand by i.
CC Ed, if your not too busy now, I've got
a change to your ATM schedule pad. But if you are busy, there's
no hurry. It doesn't count until 18:00.
SPT No, go ahead, Story.
CC Okay. Under that pass that's starts at
15:14 there, we'd like you to run that when you get to the
panel for the first time at 18:21. In other words, cancel
all those operations at the 18:21, and simply substitute in
the 15:14 operations. That's JOP 5, step 4 and on.
SPT Okay, Story. We'll do it.
CC And of course you can cancel that ground
inhibit momentum dump at 15:14. And also, cross out with
8 minutes remaining the power down for EREP. You won't need
that, of course.
SPT Okay. The start on the pass which began
at 18:21 is there anything in there they'd like us to pick
up_ insert later if we can?
CC Stand by i.
CC Skylab, we're about 30 seconds to LOS.
We'll see you over Guam in 8 minutes at 16:25.
SPT See you then.
PAO Skylab Control - -
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16 hours 17 minutes. Loss of signal through Carnarvon.
Next acquisition in 7 minutes 45 seconds.will be at the
Guam tracking station. Maneuver into the Z local vertical
attitude, the position the spacecraft is in for the pointing
of the EREP instruments towards the ground track, most
successful according to Science Pilot Ed Gibson. He said
that's a pretty slick way of doing it. The maneuver was
made prior to orbital noon, requiring very little use of
TACS. In fact the ground telemetry here shows at the
Mission Control center only 5 mibs, 5 minimum impulse burns
were used. This is less than 20 pound-seconds of TACS
propellant. The least amount of TACS used in an EREP pass,
a Z-local EREP pass to date. The vehicle currently in the
attitude fox the upcoming EREP pass, which will begin
the instruments will be turned on about 460 miles south of Kodiak
Island, Alaska. The spacecraft begins a descending pass
down the western coast of the United States. Next acquisition
in 6 minutes 35 seconds. At Greenwich mean time 16 hours
16 hours 24 minutes. Acquisition coming through Guam
tracking station in 45 minutes. A 4-minute 20 second
pass across this Pacific Island tracking station. We'll
hold the line up for CAP COMM Dr. Story Musgrave, as the
crew makes final preparations for the 8th Earth resources
pass of the Skylab Mission Skylab IV Mission.
CC Skylab, AOS Guam for 4 minutes and you're
looking good[.
SPT Thank you, Houston.
CC And, Ed, I've got one thing to add to
your ATM schedule at 18:21.
SPT Go ahead, I'm in the 54 (garble) operate.
CC Say again, Ed.
SPT Go ahead.
CC At the beginning of that orbit 18:21,
start that off with a shopping list item number i. You can
start that below 400-K. And that's (?) to get data on the eruptive
prominence which occurred at 15:40 in active region 87.
SPT Okay.
CC And we'd like
SPT (Garble) like a I.
CC Yes, sir. That's it. And we'd like
to change your SI maneuver time. We_d like to slip it
4 minutes from 17:06:00 to 17:10:00.
SPT It's done.
CC Okay. A SLS run that we just completed
shows that'll save us about i0 mibs.
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SPT Very good. Looks like we're still up

to i0 now, what are we, around 8 or 9?
CC We're at i0 right now, Ed.
CC And in answer to your question on the
TACS pressure meter, you'll - we think you'll have control down to
about i0 percent on the meter.
SPT Okay. We haven't burned up too much
of what we had when we got here. Looking good. I think
we'll have a little left for Kohoutek.
CC Skylab, we're a minute from LOS. See
you over Goldstone in about 18 minutes at 16:47. Jer, Houston.
SPT He's listening.
CC Okay. Just to make things a little
easier for him. He's got an ETC going to auto at 58:50 and
it also shows a nadir swath terminate at 58:50. He doesn't
have to worry about terminating that swath. There's not
hurry to get back there from the ETC. And also there's no hurry
to get back down to go into standby in the ETC from operating the
VTS as we're going to run that film out anyway.
CDR Okay. Very good.
SPT Hey, Story. I think we saw that -
indications of that surge up here before I went into SI.
We got a rise in the PMEC and also our rear M (?) aperture
stepped up to 3 from 4. So we must have seen the start of
that.
CC Did you get any pictures of it, Ed?
SPT That's negative, Story. I was setting
up for the maneuvering_ actually. There was no time
allowed for for that. So I just stayed out of it.
CC Okay.
SPT See if you can't plan the activity
on the Sun a little more conveniently, Story.
16 hours 31 minutes. Next acquisition in 15 minutes
50 seconds will be the Goldstone tracking station as the
Skylab IV crew will be in the - midway into the EREP pass
at that point. Discussion by Science Pilot Ed Gibson asking
if we couldn't plan the activity on the Sun a little better.
He was getting ready for the EREP pass and he noticed a -
an alert on one of the instruments, on the PMEC_ the photo-
multiplier emission (sic) counter in the ATM console, which measures
X-rays. The ATM officer reported an X-ray event along with
a surge at Greenwich mean time 15:30, at a time that Science
Pilot Gibson was readying the vehicle for the maneuver into
the Z-local vertical attitude. Today's Earth resources pass
will begin over the north Pacific coast at about 480 miles
of Kodiak Island. The S193 radiometer/scatterometer and S191
infrared spectrometer will be on measuring wave heights,
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sea foam concentrations and gathering data to be used in

correlating sea surface conditions, wind characteristics and
long-range weather predictions. Wave heights in the
North Pacific are about l0 feet this morning. Supporting
this action,are several weather ships and buoys in the
ocean. EREP pass is on track 6, which goes over Carson
City, Nevada, Los Vegas, Chihuahua, Mexico, Veracruz,
and Guatemala. Over Nevada, the infrared spectrometer will
be measuring Earth heat in the Hoover Dam area and further east
of Lake Meade. This is the day pass for these geothermal
measurements. Ten days from now on Mission day 29, the
workshop, hopefully, will repeat this track and will measure
the Hoover Dam again during a night pass. Over Central
America, the S191 infrared spectrometer will also be
measuring geothermal activity. On mission day 29, this area
will also be surveyed at night, a predawn p_ss. The objectives
of today's pass include data gathering, which will identify
major drainage basins in California, Arizona, Utah, and
Nevada. Also in these four states geologic and titanic features
will be mapped. And in northwest Arizona and southern
Nevada, fault lines in joint structures will be photographed.
In the Sierra, Nevada region of California, the sensors will
be gathering information aimed at determining rock and
soil types in identifying mineral zones. Over Chihuahua,
Mexico, the instruments, including the S191 infrared spec-
trometer will be used for determing the feasibility of
using remote sensing for hydrocarbin exploration, that's
oil and coal. While over Guatemala, four volcanos will receive
intense attention on this pass. These are the Santiaquito, Acatenango,
Fulgo, and Pacaya volcanoes in Guatemala. The Skylab
sensors will be measuring hot water, lava, volcanic steam,
and the relationship of these with geologic faults. The
S190 multispectral camera will be on over the north Pacific
west of Oregon from Reno to the Hoover Dam area in Arizona,
over Chihuahua, Mexico, and again over Guatemala. The sIg0B Earth
terrain camera will cover the area from Reno to Hoover Dam,
Lake Meade, over Arizona, over Mexico, over the Mexican
state of Chihuahua and over Guatemala. The infrared spectrometer
sensor will cover the north Pacific through the entire pass
through the volcanic area in Guatemala. This is the primary
sensor to detect temperature changes over the Earth and
will be used in geothermal detection experiments today and
then again on Mission day 29. The S192 multispectral
scanner will gather information from west of Reno to south
of Juarez in the state of Chihuahua and again over Guatemala.
Primary instrument for the measurements over the north
Pacific will be the S193 radiometer/scatterometer. This is
the instrument repaired by the crew during their EVA, earlier
in the mission. This - -
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PAO - - will be the S193 radiometer/

seatterometer, This is the instrument repaired by the crew
during their EVA earlier in the mission. This sensor will be
on again over Nevada and Arizonia and again, over Guatemala.
Their EREP planners, hopefully, looking forward to four predawn
or night EREP passes to gather geothermal data, three in the
western hemisphere and one over Europe. Next acquisition in i0
minutes 25 seconds through Goldstone on the start of the EREP
pass number 8, at Greenwich mean time 16 hours 37 minutes.
This is Skyleb Control.
16 hours 45 minutes. The crew will be on VOX, as we make
this Stateside pass. The beginning of the 8th - 8th Earth
resources pass in the mission. We'll hold the lineup for
air-to-ground, CAP COMM will be Dr. Story Musgrave. As
Commander Jerry Carr is at the VTS_ SI_I instrument. Pilot
Pogue at the control and display panel of the Earth resources
experiment package. We'll hold the line open for this pass.
PLT 47:23
PLT MARK, 190 MODE, AUTO.
PLT Say they're pink?
CDR Yeah. Sunrise.
PLT Oh yeah. I bet that's pretty.
CDR White and light blue, below.
PLT Bad scat gimbal light continues to flicker.
Momentary flickers.
CC Skylab. We're reading you loud and clear,
for 15 minutes, Stateside.
PLT All right, Story. Reading you 5 square.
SPT Okay, Bill. I'm going to have to leave this
thing unattended, in this nadir swath. Anytime you get a
second or two, you might just peek in, over here, and make
sure that we've still got the zeros -
PLT (Garble) zeros. Okay.
SPT - - what Itm doing is, I'm keeping the
zero down and to the right, because if the drifts are in the
other way -other direction
PLT Okay.
SPT - - so if you see the zero missing from
the down and from the right window, you should switch em til
they're back there. It's got a lot of pitch drift. Not much - not
much in right/left, but the up/down (garble).
PLT And got all 6 film advances mal-
function lights.
SPT Uh-oh. Must be out of film.
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PLT I don't know.

PLT Jer (?) would you cheek the circuit
breakers?
SPT I'Ii get em°
PLT They're the S190, over there, on panel 202.
Up - I think they're up near the top. (Garble) there are
3 circuit breakers.
PLT All closed. Okay. Time is 49:26.
SPT They're all in.
PLT Okay. 1'11 cycle the power off here,
shortly, anyway.
PLT Stand by for 49:50.
PLT MARK. 49:50. Stand by on a 190. Okay.
Frame 05 and interval is i0. And I'm going to cycle the
power off. Stand by for a second or two. Okay. Power back
on. Standing by for 50:23. SCAT to STANDBY and RAD; STANDBY.
Okay, SCAT to STANDBY; RAD to STANDBY, 193 CROSSTRACK; US,
POLARIZATION, 4. Ready. Stand by for 51 even. Okay.
PLT MARK. Okay 192 into (garble) READY. I've
got a green light after speed change. (Garble) Okay,
at 51:33, we'll be coming up with a MODE; AUTO and at 51:33,
Jer, I'ii giw_ you a mark for ETC to auto.
CDR Okay.
PLT SCAT, ON; and RAD, ON; and stand by.
Stand by.
PLT MARK. ETC to auto; that's 190 MODE to AUTO; I'ii
take a look here and see if I get the film advance malfunction
lights. Yes, all 6 of em came on again. We must be out of
film. (Garble) Ah, shoot. 5228 radium -
PLT Okay, Jer. 52:28 ETC to go to standby. I'ii
give you a mark.
CC Bill, when you get a chance, would you
cycle the S190 AUTO switch -
PLT Stand by.
PLT MARK. ETC to standby.
CDR Okay.
PLT Which was that yes, I've already cycled
that, Story. Have also turned the power off after turning it
to STANDBY and I got the lights out. Okay, Jerry, stand by
52:53 for E -
PLT MARK. ETC to AUTO.
CDR Got it.
PLT Aah, son of a gun. Ah (garble) Jer (garble)
screwed the rest of it up at 23:50 192 (garble). It just - gives
all the symptoms, Story, of being out of film.
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CC You should not be out of film even at the

end of the pass, Bill.
PLT Okay. SCAT to STANDBY. Gayda, SCAT to
STANDBY. Okay, 193 angle roll plus 30. POLARIZAION, I. 35:30
is my next. Hey, I've got about a minute and a half here,
Story. I'm gonna start looking around.
CC Bill, while we got the mal here. Were
you able to check the shutter speed meter?
PLT Yeah, I checked it and, okay, just a second
Jer, we're REMOTE, MEDIUM. Okay.
CC You want me to read to you_ Bill?
PLT Naw, I got another item coming up here.
I got to go check on 92 at 55:30, and at 36, Jer, you got
to go ETC, standby. I'ii give you a call.
CDR Okay.
PLT Okay, you got about i0 seconds, Story,
you got anything there?
CC We'll get you at 55:36.
PLT Okay. Stand by, Jer. Okay 30, stand by,
Jer.
PLT MARK. ETC to standby. I got the MODE,
CHECK at 30 and should have the READY (garble) 57:40.
Okay, next item is 57:40, Story, so shoot.
CC Okay. I note the 6 frame counter readings.
Verify camera control switches to remote.
PLT That's correct.
CC Panel ii0 MODE switch to SINGLE.
PLT Okay.
CC And did at least 2 MAGS advance I frame?
PLT Stand by.
PLT Nothing. Not a thing.
CC Okay. Check this. Panel ii0, S190 POWER
switch to OFF.
PLT I'm sorry, Story. I did that on panel
ii0. You wanted that on 106, didn't you? That single
actuation?
CC Yeah, that's on panel ii0. We wanted
MODE switch to SINGLE.
PLT Okay, I did that. Okay, now, continue.
CC Okay. Panel ii0, S190 power switch to
OFF.
PLT OFF.
CC Panel 106, camera control switch to LOCAL.
PLT LOCAL.
CC Shutter switch to SLOW.
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PLT SLOW.
CC Camera actuate switch to SINGLE.
PLT Nothing. Looks like I had a power
problem of some kind.
CC Okay. At present, we're in block A,
camera logic failure.
PLT I was checking everything else, but I
just don't see (garble) it worked at first, you see. And,
I got a good check, when I checked them out.
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PLT I'm checking everything out_ but I just

don't see - Well, it worked at first_ you see. And I got a good
check when I checked them out.
CDR All cameras seem to be seated properly.
I checked them twice even when I installed them.
PLT Okay. Coming up on 57:40. Got about
30 seconds, Jer.
CDR No, I just don't have shutter speed,
I guess that's the problem.
CC Bill, we've got no more suggestions
on S190. Press on with the pad.
PLT Rog. Stand by for mark 57:40.
PLT MARK.
CDR SCAT and RAD ON.
PLT There are no more circuit breakers on
the two other panels, huh?
PLT Okay. Darn it. My panel - No it's
IN. I thought my panel control breaker was OUT there on
ii0 here. Tihat would have knocked out everything.
PLT Okay, 58:13° 191 MODE AUTO isn't going
to do any good.
CDR Try it.
PLT Hey_ Jer. In about 30 seconds ETC
to AUTO.
PLT i0 seconds.
PLT Stand by.
PLT MARK. 58:50 ETC to AUTO.
CDR Wait for 59:20.
PLT Stand by.
PLT MARK. POLARIZATION to 4.
PLT Hey, I'm sorry about that. 8, 9, 30,
192 MODE
PLT MARK. S192 MODE to READY.
PLT Get this thing out of your way.
PLT Poorest, thinnest pieces of hardware I ever
seen. Been beat to pieces before it ever launched.
PLT And I got a good tape motion mike.
PLT I never did get to check your drift there,
Jero
PLT There you go.
PLT MARK. 30 SCAT in RAD to STANDBY.
PLT Stand by for 17:01.
PLT MARK. 17:01. 194 to MANUAL.
PLT Number 6 reversed to 2.
PLT That's too bad too bad about those
190 cameras. Really a nice pass, too.
PLT Stand by.
PLT MARK. 154, 192 to STANDBY.
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CC Skylab, we're a minute to LOS, ii minutes

to the Vanguard. We'll be dumping the data voice at the
Vanguard and you're looking good.
PLT As long as you're working up a procedure
for us (garble) go into (garble) in the power down here.
CDR Like to get that sorted out.
PLT Okay. Ah darn it. I got put off - I
was suppose to give you an AUTO CAL, Jer, at 02:06. And
the solar inertial is
CDR Go ahead and give me one now. I notice -
PLT Okay (Garble)
CDR Okay. Fine.
CC Bill, all we've got for you, is to go
to panel 202 when you get done and check the circuit breakers
here. Circuit breakers on 202.
PLT Okay.
PLT Okay, Jer. At 02: - (static)
17 hours 3 minutes° Loss of signal through the Texas
tracking station at the conclusion of this Earth Resources
pass over Central America. Pilot Bill Pogue reporting a
MALFUNCTION light in the SI90 multispectral camera system.
This is a 6 camera unit. The troubleshooting procedures
were read up to Pilot Pogue by CAP COMM Musgrave, Story
Musgrave. However_ this did not - apparently, did not
solve the problem. Reference to panel ii0, that's the
C&D panel at which Pilot Pogue was working. Panel 202 is
the circuit breaker panel in the structural transition section a
few feet from where the MDA - a few feet from where the
EREP panel is; in the STS section. Pilot Pogue making the
comment, "It's too bad about these cameras, it was a nice
pass." As the spacecraft went over the hill out of range of
Texas tra _ing station, telemetry on the ground showed the
spacecraft to be looking good according to CAP COMM Story
Musgrave. At: this point, on telemetry on the ground shows just
24 mibs being used, minimum impulse burns well in the predicted
150-pound seconds estimated for this maneuver. Spacecraft
now, will return to solar inertial attitude as the space-
craft crosses over the western portion of Brazil on this
the 2947th revolution of Skylab. This pass, the first
geothermal pass in the mission. Some of the Pls looking for
data out of this pass include, Jack Quade of the MacKay
School of Mines, University of Nevada, Ira C. Bechtold of
the Argus Exploration Company. Looking got hydrocarbon
exploration in Chihuahua is Carlos Castillo - Tejero of the
Mexican Institute of Petroleum in Mexico; looking for
rock and soil type identification in mineral zone classification
is Dr. Kenneth Watson of the U.S.G.S. Survey. Dr. Monem-Abdel
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Gauad of Rockwell International of California is looking

for fault line detection. Using data from this pass for
volcano studies in South America, specifically Guatemala
is Dr. Richard E. Stoiber, Department of Earth Sciences,
Dartmouth College. Erosion mapping in Arizona, data from this
pass will go to Dr. R. B. Morrison of U.S.G.S. Sea surface
studies and north Pacific information will go to Duncan Ross
of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, as
well as Dr. James P. Hollinger, Naval Research Laboratories,
and Dr. Willard J. Pierson, Jr., Department of meteorology and
Oceanography, New York University. During Thermatic
development techniques for remote sensing data gathered
from this format will go to Doyle G. Smith of the U.S. Geological
Survey. Next acquisition in 5 minutes and 20 seconds through
the Vanguard tracking ship. At Greenwich mean time 17 hours
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PLT MARK.
CC Skylab, we're reading you loud and clear
down here through the Vanguard for i0 minutes. We'll be
dumping the data voice.
CDR Roger, Story. We're still looking at
S190 and still haven't found anything significant. We flew
over Lake Titicaca and I took some 16-millimeter DAC frames
of the lake and that is to one of the requirements of H
HHI24-1.
PLT Thank you.
CC Okay, Jer. Now we're wondering if you got
any information on were the shutters operating at all. Did
you hear them operating? Did you have a chance to check the
shutter speedmeter, Bill?
PLT Well, yes I did, Story. We had no
shutter speed at all. It was full scale to the left.
CDR I - I heard them running when I first
got here, I think, when you fired them up.
PLT Yes, (garble)
CDR But I never did hear them quit. I guess
I was busy doing something else.
PLT Okay, Story. I have some more information
which may assist in the troubleshooting. During the prepj
when I tested the cameras, you set them up for 3 exposures.
The number i camera took four exposures, and all the rest of them
took three. Okay. When we start our first 190 run, the number
1 camera took four again, and the other five cameras three more
exposures and shut down. Now that may help them a little bit to
sort out the logic.
CC Okay.
PLT Trying to put this carrier back on now.
Give me some more data. Okay, and just as a matter of interest,
the - I'ii give you some readings on the six cameras as they
were noted during the prep and post run. When the cameras
were loaded, I had, and this is cameras i through 6 respectively.
9738, 1925, 9462, 8830, 0601, and 9506. Okay I did my test,
you know, and then the prep. The reading after the prep was
9742, 1928, 9465, 8833, 0601, - make that 0604, and 9509.
Okay. Right now the cameras are reading 9746, 1932, 9469,
8837, 0608, 9513.
CC Okay.
PLT And I got a bit remiss about telling you
about that. I thought it could've been that I wrote it down
wrong on that camera i and I noticed it took four exposures when
the rest of them took three and I just sort of slumped it off as
a recording error on my part. But apparently that may give
some clue as to the problem in the logic.
PLT Okay, Bill.
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PLT Back to this stuff. It sounds like it's

almost hung up on that first test I ran.
CC Bill, Houston.
PLT Yes, go.
CC While you got everything powered up and
you're there and all, we suggest malfunction S190; that's
malf 6 on page i-ii.
PLT Okay. It's in work.
CC Since you weren't seeing any shutter
motion at all or hearing, we think that possibly you got
a shutter drive failure as opposed to a logic failure.
PLT Okay. See malfunction number 6, right?
CC Yes. Starts upper lefthand corner on
page l-ll.
PLT Okay. That's where I'm starting.
CDR Okay, Bill. Let me read to you.
PLT See right there in box i.
CDR Title i can SI90 POWER switch OFF.
PLT Right. Got it.
CDR Okay. 106 CONTROLS switch to CAMERA
CONTROL switch to LOCAL.
PLT LOCAL.
CDR SHUTTER CONTROL to SLOW.
PLT SLOW.
CDR Is the drive operating?
PLT Negative.
CDR All right. Check the shutter guard. Panel
106, go to REMOTE.
PLT REMOTE.
CDR Rotate the camera assembly to the INTERMEDIATE
position.
PLT Okay. Yes. Pull up the ends, moves a little
easier that way. Watch your fingers.
CDR All right.
PLT They get pretty nasty. Okay.
CDR All right. Manually rotate the shutter
drive system.
PLT Okay. l'm rotating it. Still inter-
connected here. Yes, all interconnected.
CDR All right. So it rotates without binding.
All right. Let's make a motor check.
PLT (garble)
CDR It says carefully examine both the shutter
drive motors. Is either one of them hot?
PLT Okay. Spare drive motors. That's there.
CDR Gosh, those are thick little greasy objects.
PLT Okay.
CDR All right, here's the these are the shutter
drive motors, and their both cool as cucumbers.
PLT Yes.
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CDR No. Shutter drive circuitry (Garble), it

says here.
PLT Okay. Yes, it would be -
CDR It says the motor temp cut out a 125
degrees below -
PLT Those things are cold, though.
CDR Yes, they're cool.
PLT What else does it say?
CDR That's it. Close the box and then it
says check the shutter drive speed. It says shuts shutter
speed control to remaining shutter speed and find out if
they work at any speed.
PLT Yes, I checked them already. But let's
do it.
CDR Okay. Let me release this rascal for
you.
PLT Okay. Let's try MEDIUM. No joy on
MEDIUM. REMOTE, yes. Okay.
CDR All right. If it works at no speed,
we go to box number 12.
PLT I'll put it back to OFF.
CDR It says discontinue the experiment.
PLT That's what we did.
CDR Okay. Well that smells like we got no
power to it.
PLT That's right. Sure does. I went over
and checked every breaker I could find over there.
CDR Motors are not jammed up. They're free.
PLT Sure does smell like a power problem.
CDR Shutter drive, yes.
PLT I checked those things too.
CDR Yes, that one amp breaker to the rotary
shutter is in.. I'm going to try resetting.
CC Ed, Houston.
PLT Go ahead, Story.
CC We see you operating the ATM and we suggest
our shopping ].ist item on number 3 for the rest of the pass
here .
SPT Okay. They've got the film - the one
right now and I'll go into a 3. Hmm. Well -
CE Ed, it's a - a shopping llst item number 3,
and then do what you can on the pass.
SPT Okay.
CDR Burnt ends right here.
PLT Yes. Okay, Story. We're in box number 12
on page 1-12.
CC Yes, we've followed you all the way down
through the malf, Bill.
PLT Okay. Now I'm going to go ahead and do
the rest of the EREP C&D post and let you all work up some
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kind of diagnostic future additional diagnostic or

troubleshooting for it.
CDR There's one possible reason or did you
just turn it off?
PLT No_ that's suppose to be off. It had us
turn it off in the malfunction procedure.
CDR Okay.
CC Okay. We concur with that Bill. Press on.
PLT Okay. You want me to put those up, or
you want to look at them some more?
CDR I want to look them over again.
PLT Okay.
CC And we're about 30 seconds from LOS. We'll
see you over Tananarive in 17 minutes at 17:40.
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SL-IV MC-630/I
Time: 11:23 CST, 19:17:23 GMT
12/4/73

17 hours 23 minutes. Loss of signal through Vanguard as
the crew continues to troubleshoot the SI90A, the MALFUNCTION
light came on during a portion of the pass. SI90A is
the multispectral camera facility, 6 separate cameras for
the Earth resources experiment package. These were scheduled
to be on over the north Pacific, continue to cross Oregon
from Reno to the Hoover Dam area and Arizona, and follow the
pass over Chihuahua, Mexico and again over the Guatemala
area, photographing the volcanoes in the Gatemala area.
Pilot Pogue reported a MALFUNCTION light. Troubleshooting
procedures were passed up during the EREP pass. However,
that did not correct the procedure - the problem. And
Pilot Pogue and Commander Jerry Carr, again troubleshooting
the camera system on this pass through Vanguard. Commander
Carr reporting he was able to use the DAC camera, the data
acquisition camera in photographing Lake Titicaca in Bolivia,
12,000 a lake which is 12,000 feet high in the Andes
Mountains. This is part of a handheld optional photography
under the visual observations program, item number HH-124,
of Bolivia to obtain information in multidisciplined studies
directed to resource survey of Bolivia for studies in land-
use, forestry, and geology. The procedure is to photograph
test areas throughout Bolivia on passes for test areas for
detection of geologic structures, vegetation patterns, and
drainage systems. The crew has also been asked in these
passes to describe color contrast, orientation, and location
of linear features which may indicate faults_ and their
displacement. On this pass they were able to photograph
again, Lake Titicaca in Bolivia high in the Andes Mountains.
Concludes the EREP pass for the day. At Greenwich mean time
17 hours 25 minutes, this is Skylab control.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC-631/I
Time: 11::39 CST 19:17:39 GMT
12/4/73

17 hours 39 minutes. Acquisition coming through Tananarive
in 50 seconds. The TACS usage on this Z-LV, solar inertial
maneuver, for this last EREP pass, 123 pound-seconds, accord-
ing to Flight Director Milt Windier, which is much less than
we anticipated. Prediction usage was 150 pound-seconds. This
maneuver into a Z-local vertical attitude for a period of
approximately 95 minutes came as a suggestion from the GNS
console. The GNS console headed_ last night shift, was
Terry Watson, the GNS officer for the overnight shift, which
worked out: the details for this Z-local vertical maneuver,
maintaining the spacecraft in that attitude for an entire
revolution. Thereby saying saving a considerable amount
of TACs fnel. We'll hold this up for this Tananarive pass.
CAP COMM Dr. Story Musgrave.
CC Skylab. AOS Tananarive for 3 minutes.
SPT Roger. Hello, Story.
CC Hello, Ed. And on your next ATM orbit
we'd like you to pick up, as before, our shopping list, item
number i and press on with those OPS that you've got listed
on your pad and starting at 15:14.
SPT Okay. I understand that, Story.
(Garble) on this last one a (garble) (static)
shopping list item i, that's 52 (garble).
CC Okay. And, we don't mind you repeating
that, because that is for a surge they were seeing at active
region 87..
SPT Roger, Story. Understand.
CC Bill, Houston.
PLT Right; go.
CC Bill, when you set it for S019, you might
inspect the articulating mirror system for any broken glass
or chips or emulsion plates that might have resulted from
the S193 OPS previously. If you see any, vacuum em - vacuum
them up.
PLT Okay.
CC And, sounds like we're going LOS, here.
We'll see you over Goldstone in 45 minutes at 18:27.
17 hours 44 minutes. Loss of signal through Tananarive
tracking station. Next acquisition in 43 minutes 35 seconds
will be the Goldstone tracking station. The upcoming pass
through Goldstone will be the last Stateside pass for the day
for the crew of Skylab IV. EREP people here at the Johnson
Space Center, Mission Control Center, assessing the SI90A
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problem during the last EREP pass. The camera malfunction

light came on approximately at 16 hours 48 minutes, Greenwich
mean time 16 hours and 48 minutes, which was approximately
6 minutes after the start of the EREP pass. The S190 camera
was scheduled to be on for nearly the entire pass. From
the north Pacific to off the coast of Oregon, then again over
the Reno Nevada Hoover Dam area, again over Arizona, Mexico,
and again over Guatemala. Next acquisition in 42 minutes and
20 seconds at Greenwich mean time 17 hours 45 minutes. This
is Skylab Control.
tracking station in 50 seconds. On this previous pass through
the States, Skylab concluded its 8th Earth resources pass of
this mission. A pass, which gave the dat - which gathered
data on geothermal patterns in South - Central America. A
problem developed with the SI90A camera. We'll hold the line
open for this pass.
CC Skylab. AOS Goldstone 5 minutes.
PLT Rog, Story.
CC And, Bill. On your question on TV 33. It's
super. The lighting was good. We appreciate the extra scene
showing the iodine injection. Everything was great, and your
TV 81 made nationwide TV also.
PLT Rog.
CC Ed, for your information, you fired 31 mibs
in total and could you tell me if you got the M487-5, that's
the height measurements, during the postsleep period, this
morning?
SPT Oh, no. I don't think we did.
CC Okay. Don't get it presleep tonight.
We'll just put it on the shopping list for tomorrow.
SPT Okay, and, did you get Jer's (garble)
last night?
CC Say again.
SPT Jerry made up a sound track for the short
sequence there. We were just wondering if you got that.
CC Yeah. We got it, Bill.
PLT Okay. Good. Thank you.
CC We're a minute from LOS, Skylab. And,
17 minutes to the Vanguard, 18:49, be dumping the data voice
at Vanguard.
18 hours 33 minutes. A refined figure on the mibs used on
the previous stateside EREP pass. 31 mibs, minimum impulse
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burns used during that maneuver. Refined pound-seconds figure

is now 135 pound-seconds used for this EREP pass. Still by and
far the lowest used in the EREP passes, with the exception,
of the first EREP pass, which was done on mission day 14,
along track 6. This was the solar inertial pass where the
EREP cameras were aimed at an angle ground track 260 miles
east of tile ground track. The second EREP pass, along ground
track 19 on mission day 15, used 200 pound-seconds, as did
EREP pass the following day on mission day 16, using 200
pound-seconds. The back-to-back EREP pass, the first in the
mission, on mission day 17, 2 days ago, used 1284 pound-seconds,
EREP pass, back-to-back pass, yesterday, on mission day 18,
used 797 pound-seconds, and today's refined pound-second figure
for this EREP pass is 135 pound-seconds used. Next acquisition
in 13 minutes 35 seconds will be the Vanguard tracking ship
as the spacecraft Skylab looses contact with stateside tracking
stations for today. On revolution 2947. Next acquisition
in 13 minutes 20 seconds. Greenwich mean time 18 hours
35 minutes. This is Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC-632/I
Time: 12:48 CST, 19:18:48 GMT
12/4/73

18 hours 48 minutes. Acquisition coming through Vanguard
in 50 seconds. We'll hold the line open for CAP COMM,
Dr. Story Musgrave.
CC Skylab, AOS Vanguard for i0 minutes.
We'll be dumping the data voice here.
CDR Rog, Story.
CC Skylab, wetre 2 minutes to LOS. See
you over Tananarive in 14 minutes at 19:13.
CC Skylab, we're a minute and a half from
LOS. Tananarive in 14 minutes at 19:13. And, Ed, could you
get us a serial number of the TV camera that youVre using.
SPT Stand by_ Story.
SPT Okay, Story. That's label number 2.
Why? Is the quality not all it should be?
CC No, sir. We've been showing it turned
on quite a lot here.
CC And we're doing a temperature calibration.
SPT All right. Is there any problem with
that? It'll take awhile to figure out how to get a proper
jewing of the panel here. We don't have much room to work
with.
CC No problem at all, Ed. We're showing

3.8 minutes on the VTR.
SFT Thank you.
19 hours 1 minute. Loss of signal through Vanguard. Next
acquisition in Ii minutes 45 seconds. We'll be at Tananarive
tracking station. Flight Controllers here at the Mission
Operations Control Room. From viewing tomorrow's Flight
Plan, which calls for EREP pass number 9 along ground track
number 20, again a stateside pass, consideration being given
to another full revolution within the Z-LV mode, beginning -
the maneuver beginning at 14:15 Greenwich mean time ending
at 16:34 Greenwich mean time when the Skylab will return to
the solar inertial mode. This consideration being given for
2 main primary purposes to save TACS propellant. This maneuver
being considered to be done again at the orbital noon period
at a time: when the beta angle is lowest, therefore, requiring
little TACS usage. Also on schedule for tomorrow are two
separate maneuvers for the Kohoutek viewing, one by the
S201 camera and one by the S063. Both of these maneuvers
are slight roll maneuvers of the spacecraft, rolling the
spacecraft counterclockwise to face the viewing windows in
line with the approaching comet Kohoutek. Next acquisition
will be in i0 minutes through Tananarive tracking station.
Control.
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19 hours 12 minutes. Acquisition through Tananarive tracking
station in 45 seconds. We'll hold the line open for CAP
COMM, Dr_ Story Musgrave,
CC Skylab, AOS Tananarive 9 minutes.
CDR Roger, Story.
CDR Houston, CDR.
CC Go ahead, Jer.
CDR Roger, Story. We'd like to try a new
routine on private phone calls, if we could.
CC Go.
CDR Okay. What do you say we have just
one phone call a day. And we'll just alternate through it.
And that'll work out about to the right frequency of about
twice a week. I think it'll make planning a little bit
easier fer everybody and maybe give us an opportunity to get
the best possible pass for each phone call. I think the only
ground rules that we'd like to probably set would be that
it'd be nice if we could have the phone calls in the evening
or at least in a time of the day when the kids are home. So
on Saturday's and Sunday's that could be just about any day -
any time of the day. And why don't you go ahead and start
with Ed tonight if it's not too late? If it's a little
too late tonight start tomorrow with Ed and then just check
with Helen or Jo Ann and find out who'd be available the
next night and just start alternating every night right down
the line.
CC Okay. Got it.
CDR Okay. That sounds like a fairly simple
management way to do it. It'll be easier to manage than the
other way.
CC Sounds fine, Jer.
CDR I kind of think the girls might like
it better that way too.
CC Okay.
CC Skylab, we're 3 minutes til LOS. See
you over Hawaii in about 37 minutes at 19:58.
19 hours 24 minutes. Loss of signal through Tananarive.
Next aoquisition in 34 minutes 33 minutes 55 seconds.
We_ll be in the Hawaii tracking station, Greenwich mean time
19 hours 24 minutes, this is Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC633/I
Time: 13:51 CST, 19:19:51 GMT
12/4/73

19 hours 53 minutes. Acquisition coming through Hawaii
tracking station in 5 minutes from now. Later tonight
before settling in for the night, Commander Carr and
Pilot Pogue will move up to the command module and close
out the fuel cell system which has been operating and
furnishing electrical power for the CM since launch
19 days ago. Command module which has been in a quiet
state since November 17th, will then draw its electrical
power from the Skylab workshop system. Shut down of the
command module power production unit is caused by defla-
tion of the supply of oxygen and hydrogen from which the fuel
cells have produced its electrical power. The command
module will now draw i000 watts from the Skylab electrical
power system or about 1/7 of the 7000-watt production
capability of the space station. This 1000-watt command
module demand, in no way compromises system performance
or experiment scheduling for the mission. Looking ahead
for tomorrow, mission day 20, calls for three separate maneuvers
for the 100-ton space station. The first maneuver, number
7 for the Earth resources experiment data gathering, will
be performed in the morning to allow cameras and electronic
sensors to obtain information on natural resources of the
U.S. and Central America. The second and third maneuvers
are designed to aim onboard cameras at the swiftly approaching
comet Kohoutek. The Kohoutek photographs call for the 118-
foot-long space laboratory to roll several degrees, counter-
clockwise. Consideration is being given here at the Mission
Control Center today to duplicate - duplicate for tomorrow,
the EREP maneuver which was accomplished today This -
t_omorrow's data take will gather information from the West
Coast, California, over the Southwest through Central America.
The 8th - the Earth resources pass for the mission, will be
a 20-minute data take gathering information on sensor perfor-
mance, agricultural patterns in Texas, and geothermal power
sources over Nicaragua. Once again, weather conditions over
South America may probably preclude EREP take there. The
first of the maneuvers for the comet is scheduled for about
3:33 p.m. central standard time tomorrow, mission day 20,
and is designed to align the $201 XUV electron - electronagraphic
camera for series of photos before Kohoutek reaches its pari-
helion its closest approach to the Sun. This is the second
use of the $201 camera for the mission. This is the experi-
ment of l)r. Page, Thorton Page of the Johnson Space Center.
Actual photography is set to 3:51 p.m. central standard time
by Pilot Bill Pogue. A second maneuver for comet photography,
using the S063 instrument, is scheduled for 8:15 p.m. central
standard time tomorrow with Pilot Pogue taking a series of
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photos, 20 minutes later. S063 is the UV airglow horizon

photography experiment of Dr. Don Packer of the Naval
Research Laboratory. This will be the first use of S063
for Kohoutek observations. This instrument uses filters
from the T025 contamination experiment and utilizes the
articulated mirror systems of the S019 experiment. Both
$201 and S063 will be positioned in these anti-solar scien-
tific airlock with the comet photography tomorrow. The
$233 camera which has been used almost daily in taking
2 sets of photos of the Kohoutek comet through the command
module window, is also scheduled in tomorrow's Flight Plan.
We expect acquisition through Hawaii tracking station in
i minute. We'll hold the line up for CAP COMM Dr. Story
Musgrave.
CC Skylab, AOS Hawaii, 8 minutes.
SPT Hello, Story.
CC Hello.
CDR Story, the last time we passed by the
southern end of South America, about a i00 miles or so off
to the east of the mainland there, we saw an ice island.
CC Okay. By chance, did you get a photo?
CDR It was just a fleeting glimpse underneath
a cloud. We're going to go about over the same place on this
rev. We're going to have the cameras ready, hopefully get
a picture of it.
CC Okay.
SPT Hey Story, the teleprinter message which
you Just sent up on S019, only partially printed. Let me
take a look at the system and see if I can find any problems
with it and I'ii ask you to send it again, if you would please.
SPT Houston, Skylab.
CC Go ahead, Ed.
SPT Rog. Did you hear the last comment?
CC Yes, sir.
CC Ed, we'd like to send that again.
SPT Okay Story. Hold up a minute. I got
the cartridge in my hand. Let me take a look at it and I'ii
put it back in again if youtll call in a half a minute or so.
CC Okay.
SPT Okay, Story. Go ahead. Try it again.
CC Okay.
CC Okay, Ed. We got that message up.
SPT Okay, Story. Large pieces of it are coming
out blank. It's probably the way the paper's loaded in there.
I'Ii hawe to take a look at it. Stand by.
CC Rog.
CC Skylab, we're a minute from LOS. 22 minutes
from the Vanguard and 20:27, be dumping the data voice at Vanguard.
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SPT Okay, Story. Give it a try this time.

SPT The spool on the lefthand side was a
little bit below the stop and the lefthand side of the paper
was a little dog eared. And I think maybe it was just off -
the axis was not in the right position.
CC Okay. We're sending the message up right
now. If it appears not to come out right, the next thing
to try is; probably pull out a couple feet of paper.
SPT Okay. I think that's we'll have to do
Story. This one is almost like the other one - a little more
legible but not - not much better.
CC Okay.
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SL-IV MC-634/I
Time: 14:07 CST 19:20:07 GMT
12/4/73

20 hours 7 minutes. Loss of signal through Hawaii. Next
acquisition will be Vanguard in 20 minutes from now. The
Science Pilot Gibson relating a - siting a ice island about
300 miles east of the tip of South America, on the last
pass through the Vanguard tracking ship, and he indicated he'll
attempt to take a photograph of this as they pass over the tip
of South Afri South America. The spacecraft will pass -
almost over the exact spot that it crossed on the last
revolution through the southern hemisphere. Pilot Bill Pogue
should be in the midst of starting the M092, MI71, lower
body negative pressure metabolic activity experiment, with
Science Pilot Ed Gibson at the console of the Apollo telescope
mount. He'll spend about 2 hours at the ATM this afternoon.
Commander Jerry Carr will be observing the performance of the
medical experiments by Pilot Pogue. Next acquisition in
18 minutes 45 seconds at Greenwich mean time 20 hours
9 minutes. This is Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC-635/I
Time: 14:26 CST, 19:20:26 GMT
12/4/73

and 54 seconds Greenwich mean time. We're now about
55 seconds from acquisition of signal at the Vanguard
tracking ship. The pass through Vanguard should last a
little less than i0 minutes. And we're live now for air-
to-ground through Vanguard.
CC Skylab, AOS through the Vanguard
for 9 minutes. Being dumping data voice here.
SPT Houston, why don't you go ahead and
try that teleprinter message once again?
CC Okay, Ed. And you've got a private
call set up through Guam at 00:41.
SPT Okay. Thank you very much.
CC And that's VHF LEFT. Bill's on for
tomorrow. And, Jer, the day after.
CDR Roger. Thank you.
CC And, Jer, we think we've run all the
malfunction procedures that we can right now on the SI90A.
You'll be the C&D operator tomorrow. The only thing we
can suggest is in the prep is to cycle the circuit breakers
and check a couple of cables power cables. If you need
any additional scheduled time in the prep, just for cycling
circuit breakers and checking a couple of cables.
CDR Negative. I don't think so.
CC Okay.
SPT Say, Story, the top couple of lines
are a little faint, but the remainder looks good. Why don't
we just press on from here, and we'll monitor it?
CC Okay. Let us know.
SPT Say, Story. A little while back, I
missed a TV downlink, and if we come over when we're suppose to
be receiving you're not getting it, I wouldn't mind a quick
reminder on it at all.
CC Okay. We'll do it. And did you notice
any surges the last pass on the west limb?
SPT No. I never could see where it was.
There was a large it looked like a surge head limb (garble)
if you wi%l, in other words it's not one moving out but
just the remains of one. If you will, a very large (garble)
incline in angle. I cannot notice any real time rate of
change, however, looking at it.
CC Okay.
CC We'le a minute from LOS and 17 minutes
to Tananarive at 20:53.
and ii seconds Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station
has passed out of range of the tracking ship Vanguard. We're
14 minutes and 40 seconds from acquisition of signal at
Tananariw_. At the present time Pilot Bill Pogue is in the
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MO92 device and performing that run. At Vanguard he had

just gotten to the 40 - minus 40 level on pressure inside
the lower body negative pres6ure device. That would indicate
that he's nearing the completion of the first part of the
medical experiment. The observer for that experiment
Commander Carr. And at this time, Science Pilot Ed Gibson
is working at the ATM console. He did report e little bit
about the solar activity earlier today. And indicated that
he did not see a surge, although he thought he saw what was
the after effects of a surge from the Sun - the right edge
of the Sun's disk. That's from active region number 87/92,
which originally was 2 separate active regions but they
combined as they crossed the face of the disk. They're now
going out of the view behind the solar disk and they're
expected to be out of view for an extended period of time
and may have decayed pretty much by the time they've returned
to view a few weeks from now. This is Skylab Control, it's
now 39-1/2 minutes after the hour.
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SL-IV MC637/I
Time: 15:33 CST, 19:21:33 GMT
12/4/73
PA0 Skylab Control at 21 hours 33 minutes

and 46 seconds Greenwich mean time. We have acquisition of
signal now at Hawaii. The pass through Hawaii should last
about i0 minutes_ and the spacecraft communicator at this time
is Story Musgrave.
CC Skylab, AOS Hawaii i0 minutes.
CC Skylab, we're a minute to LOS, 23 minutes
to the W_nguard at 22:06, and be dumping the data voice over
Vanguard. Ed, Houston.
SPT Go ahead.
CC Ed, you're scheduled for a M133 tonight;
but if you think it in any way interfers with your sleep,
weVd like you to delete the M133 operations for tonight.
SPT That's all right Story, I'ii press on with
it, no problem.
CC Okay.
PAO Skylab Mission Control at 21 hours 45
minutes and 33 seconds Greenwich mean time. We're now out
of range of the tracking antenna at Hawaii. Next pass begins
in a little over 20 minutes at Vanguard. This is Skylab
Control at 45 minutes after the hour.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC638/I
Time: 16:05 CST 19:22:05 GMT
12/4/73

and 24 seconds Greenwich mean time. We're now 55 seconds
from acquisition of signal through the tracking ship Vanguard,
and Spacecraft Communicator is still Story Musgrave. We're
about to have a handover here in Mission Control to Hank
Hartsfield who's now getting a briefing from Story. Milton
Windier the Flight Director offgoing, says that he'll be
available for a change of shift briefing at 4:30 in the building
i briefing room. That's about 30 minutes from now in the
building i briefing room. We have acquisition of signal at
Hawaii - at Vanguard, and we'll bring the line up live now
for air-1:o-ground.
CC Skylab AOS through the Vanguard for
9 minutes.
SPT Hello, Story.
CC Hello, Ed.
SPT Hey Story, how many minutes do I have on
the VTR.
CC Stand by one.
CC You got 21 on there now and about 9 left.
SPT Okay, I finished pretty much what I wanted
to put o11 there, if you like I'Ii just turn it on and let
them watch me at the panel. Whatever your rathers are.
CC Okay, it sounds like you got it completed
Ed. We'll go ahead and dump what you got when you're ready.
SPT Okay. You want me to put it rewind or
you folks take care of it.
CC We'll get it.
SPT Okay.
SPT Story, is there a way of picking up that
TV downlink some time later today or right now.
CC Stand by.
CC Ed, we're not going to be dumping a VTR
until after you go to bed anyway. Why don't you put that down-
link on the VTR at your convenience.
SPT Okay, I thought the folks down there wanted
the downlink for planning for tomorrow, and I don't know if
I put it on the VTR whether it'd be useful to 'em.
CC Well, we
SPT (Garble)
CC We get it down faster if you put it on
the VTR.
SPT Oh, all right I'ii go ahead and do that.
SPT Okay Story a question for the on the JOPS.
I have essentially gone through all for this particular orbit. How-
ever there was i pointing which was done in error and I've gone
back and picking that one up now. I probably will not have
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time to completely get to mirror aligh-mirror auto raster in

however. The previous one was done a i00 arch seconds off. I
wonder whether they'd like us to pick that up on the next orbit.
CC Copy.
CC And the flight plans are going up. You
might check and see if they're legible for us. And Ed you got
some observing time the next orbit. Maybe you can redo that
mirror auto raster at that time.
SPT Okay very good will do .
SPT The teleprinter looks good there's just
a little faint stripe i inch from the left-hand side but it's
still legible.
CC Okay we can hear a pounding out from here.
CC Skylab we're 30 seconds to LOS we'll see
you over Ascension 8 minutes.
PAO Skylab Control, at 22 hours 16 minutes and
22 seconds Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station has
passed out of range of the tracking antenna at Vanguard and
we're about 6-1/2 minutes from acquisition at Ascension.
Ascension pass is a very low elevation one, and we're not
certain we'll get that one, but it is scheduled for
aquisitien about 6-1/2 minutes away. Offgoing Flight Director,
Milton Windler will be available in the building i briefing
room for press conference immediately following this next
pass, that'll be about 4:30 centeral standard time, and it's
about 14 minutes from now. Solar scientists are going to have
to be satisified for the next several days with a M1 class
flare which occurred this morning in the Sun's active region
8792, an area of intense activity during the last week..
However this area is now disappearing from Skylab's view as the
Sun revolves about its axis. Forecasters in the solar
science support room here in Mission Control predict that
the active region 8297 - 8792 correction will recede by the
time the area nears completion of the Sun's revolution and
once again becomes visible to Skylab. There's continued
interest though in the area just north and south of the
solar equator. This is the area in which active region 8792,
first appeared and it has been the - an area of concentrated
solar activity during the past year. The solar equatorial
region has exhibited intense activity during two periods this
fall, once in October and again in November. In October the
activity which included several flares was centered around
2 days prior to and after the 24 of October, and in November
the equatorial region produced intense activity from the 24
through the 30, with the main activity occurring around the
26. But at the present time the face of the disc is very
quiet and on the Sunls west limb or its right edge as you look
at it, that solar active region 8792 is now fading from view
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disappearing around the side of the Sun. So a very quiet

period for the Skylab space station for observing the Sun
in the next couple of weeks. That will have an additional
benefit if - if Earth resources passes like today's are
scheduled. The Earth resources pass today required a lenghtly
maneuver_ and that lengthly maneuver did eliminate one of the -
one period of ATM observing. Skylab's Earth resources survey
this morning may be a big help in a pair of energy crises,
one on earth, and a second aboard the space station itself.
Today's pass along a 4800 mile track from the north Pacific
to Central America focused 2 of Skylab's electronic sensors
on a virtually untapped source of solar energy, source of
energy. Commander Gerald Carr pointed Skylab's infrared sensor
at several known regions of geothermal energy, hot springs and
wells in California and New Mexicoo, and an active region in
Guatemala. That active volcanic region in Guatemala is a
continuing to be active. There were 2 volcanoes specifically
set for pointing today. At the same time, a second sensor
scanned a 40 mile wide path beneath the space station measuring
temperature and other characteristics of the Earth's surface.
The multispectral scanner 192 used for that 40 mile wide
scan has been in use over a good good section of the United
States now on previous passes, and there should be several
thousand square miles of area covered by multispeetral scanner
data, which includes a thermal channel, that is to say a channel
that measures temperature of the surface. The data gathered
today should help scientists detect warm spots where the heat
of the Earth's interior is so close to the surface that it
can be used for generating electrical energy. Geothermal
electricity is alreay providing power in California and several
foreign nations including Mexico, Italy, and Iceland. Skylab's
on consumption of nitrogen gas for maneuvering was substantially
reduced today. Mission Flight Controllers developed a new
technique beginning their attitude change much earlier. And
used only about a third as much thruster gas for today's Earth
resources pass. We're now 2-i/2 minutes from our acquisition
scheduled at Ascension and we'll keep the line up live for
alr-to-ground through Ascension. The pass is expected to be
a very short one only about 3 minutes long.
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CC Skylab AOS Ascension, 4 minutes.

SPT Story, that last Flight Plan you sent
up, there was two Flight Plans. Included the first one
came Out real well along with the details. The second one
on the left-hand side just faded off again into nothing,
and only the righthand side remained so we're going to
have to work it a little up here and if you have any ideas,
let us know we'll work it.
CC Probably the quickest thing you can
do is change the canister now.
CC Try taking the paper in the cartridge,
Ed. And also let us know what Flight Plan we need to send
up again. Skylab, we're a minute from LOS and you got a
long LOS here about a hour and 20 minutes to the Vanguard
at 23:43.
SPT Okay, Story let us work the teleprinter
and it looks like the - from the remarks for the CDR's Flight
Plan, the remarks plus the (garble) EREP are all pretty illegible.
CC Okay.
SPT AND the VTR is rewinding.
CC Okayl Did you get that ATM downlink
on it?
SPT Yes I did Story, I was playing it off
pretty far off the Sun so I just gave it a little XUV
mon, I couldn't give it any white light coronagraph, we're
pretty far out of the field (garble)
CC Okay, of course don't put any more on
now that you've rewound.
PAO Skylab Control at 22 hours_ 28 minutes
has now ]passed out of range of the tracking antenna on
Ascension and we're a little over an hour and 15 minutes
from the next acquisition of signal. That will be at
Vanguard, a long pass almost all the way around the world
before we'll have conversation with the crew again. Space-
craft Communicator Story Musgrave is now going off duty.
Milt Windler is here in Mission Control_ still it looks
like it might be a i0 to 15 minute delay before he's available
over there in Building i. He's still conducting the handover
to Charles Lewis the oncoming Flight Director. Skylab has
had a busy day already today with a very successful Earth
resources run this morning. (Garble) with excellent weather
conditions over California, it begin out over the North Pacific
at dawn on the North Pacific and cross California down through
Mexico and ended just on the southern border of Guatemala.
One of the main purposes of that run was to gather some data
on geothermal energy sources. This like many of Skylab's
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Earth resources projects is intended to gather data for future

operational satellites, that is to say satellites which can
as a matter of course provide data which has immediate
application. The next Earth satellite, that is to say
Earth resources - Earth resources technology satellite,
there is an Earth satellite in orbit now. The second Earth
satellite is planned to carry a thermal channel, channel of
multispeetral scanner that can send back to Earth data on
temperatures of the Earth's surface. That would be an application
use for the data gathered today on geothermal energy sources
and with that basic understanding of what characteristics
those energy sources have on the Earth's surface. The Earth's
B satellite, the second satellite in the series will be able
to provide data to scientists for direct application and
detecting thermal sources if this project is successful.
During the last pass over Ascension, crew indicated that the
teleprinter messages they'd been receiving today have not
been readable. There are three pads that have been sent up
and Mission Control Communications Officer will send up those
teleprinter messages again, all three of them and we assume
they will work properly at this time they did change out
the paper and reconflgure the teleprinter to receive again.
And also a half an hour about on the video-tape recorder
which will be dumped later during the night, that includes
about 21 minutes of Science Pilot highlights. Science Pilot
Ed Gibson - Science Pilot Ed Gibson showing a good deal of
TV of the ATM and other areas that he works in and also
recording some actual ATM TV, as he indicated in the end of
this last pass. He did record some of the solar instrument
data, that was recorded just before nightfall on the space
station so he wasn't able to use the white light coronagraph
which he had hoped to use at the very end. He did have some
time left over on the video-tape recorder and for that reason
ran it up about 23 minutes is the exact number on the total
amount of TV available of which about 17 minutes is Science
Pilot highlights. Our next acquisition of signal is a hour
and 12 minutes away and we'll try and give you a little
forewarning when Milton Windier leaves the Mission Control
center. We're guessing now about 15 minutes before that briefing
should start in Building i, this is Skylab Control at 32 minutes
after the hour.
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and 52 seconds Greenwich mean time. Present time Skylab
is well out of range of signal as it passes over Asia, and
it's 55 minutes before we'll have the next acquisition.
Flight Director Milton Windler who is now completed the
handover to Charles Lewis is out of the Mo - Mission Control
Room and he's on his way to Building 1 for briefing. He
should be there in approximately 5 minutes. That's the
change-of-shift briefing with Milton Windler, to begin in
about 5 minutes in the Building 1 Briefing Room. This is
Skylab Control at 48-1/2 minutes after the hour.
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is now coming within range of the antennas on tracking ship
Vanguards, but 49 seconds from acquisition at Vanguard. Pass
through Vanguard should last approximately 10-i/2 minutes
and we'll bring the line up live for Spacecraft Communicator
Hank Hartsfield now on duty in Mission Control.
10-1/2 minutes.
SPT Roger Hank, we've got an 82A door that's hung.
CC That's copied.
CC CDR, Houston did you get the teleprinter
paper changed out so we can uplink some flight plan to you.
CDR That's affirmative, Hank.
CC And if you've got a minute, we'd sure
like to get us some description again of just what the bad
message looked like.
CDR Haven't got time right now, I'm trying
to close out the ATM and get down to S019.
CC Okay, no problem.
SPT Okay, Hank I can give you a little
description of the messages. The first part of the flight plan
was all right till we got down to the it's no EREP alternative.
And at that point the left side started to fade off, and
gradually we got down to where there was only about one quarter
of the message left on the righthand side and on the left
side it completely faded out to nothing. Before that we just
had a couple of pad - small parts of the pad would he missing -
just general areas had been faded out. So we took and changed
out both the paper and the cartridge.
CC Okay, we copy and we're going to uplink
some more. If you get the chance you might check us and check
it and tell us how it looks.
SPT Okay -
CC It'll be a little while before we can
get them out.
SPT Okay. What do the people in the backroom
see of tile 82A door? We've got a white flag and we've gone
through the malfunction procedure, tried to open it once
through the DAS and with no success. So we're waiting
for you folks.
CC Okay, we're discussing now, Ed.
CC SPT, Houston did you reset both the
primary and secondary motors?
SPT That's negative, Hank we just went
through the malfunction procedure as called out for in the
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ATM malf. I don't have - I'm not up there right now - and entered
the damp command which is the only one to open the door. And
the rest is just waiting for Houston to see what the - which
door is hung and where to proceed. We did not try changing
motors.
CC Okay.
CC Okay, the reason we asked the question
there, I guess the CDR's still up there, is that we've been
operating dual motors on that door for some time. So when you
and the laalf doesn't reflect that so what we'd like to do is go
back and try to malf again and reset both motors and see
what happens. Try power with both motors.
SPT Okay, Hank. No one is up there right now,
you want me to go up and work it? I'll go on up there right
now and --
CC SPT, while you're up there, we'd like
you to configure the panel for unattended if you would. On
S054, we need to get the PICTURE RATE to SINGLE and the
EXPOSURE RANGE to 256.
CC And SPT, we'd like to wait till sunset
to run the malf.
SPT Okay, Hank could you reconfigure the
motors.
CC If you want us to do that from the
ground Ed, we can.
SPT Either that or refer me to the place in the
malfunction that gives me the proper procedures. I can look
them up and configure both motors if you like.
CC Okay, we'll command it, Ed.
CC And Skylab, we've got a flight plan and
details on board. I'd like to get a check on it sometime
soon so we'll know how we're doing on that. And also the
teleprinter switch is in ON and it should be in COMMAND.
SPT Okay I got it just as the last part of it
was coming out and that seemed to help some. They still look
a little fainter than the ones we've been working with,
however.
CC You dropped out on part of that Ed, do
we understand that the message is legible?
SPT Yeah, just barely legible. I was able
to improve it by tightening up on the four (garble) fasteners
which ho2d down the cartridge into the unit. I think for this
for the (]DR pad, I think you'd better send that one up again;
that - there's a lot of characters which are not legible.
Most of it is but there are a few which are not.
CC Okay, we'll resend that one and we have
gotten as far as getting both motors inhibited, and I don't
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whether we've got enough time left in this pass to enable.

We_ll do that -
and 14 seconds Greenwich mean time. We've passed out of
range of the tracking antenna on the ship Vanguard and we're
preparing for another acquisition. At - the pass over Vanguard
we had problems with the S082A door, indicating that - indicated
by the crew that the S082A door had hung up. Science pilot
said that he had performed the malfunction procedures listed
in the checklist there_ and that had not succeeded in opening
it. However, apparently a checklist change has not been made
to the S082 malfunction to indicate that both motors are
required to operate the doors, and that's been a case for
quite some time. There is a primary and backup motor that
but at the present time both motors are required to do that
operation, one motor cannot handle the opening of the door.
So by ground command we did set those doors down and we're
now preparing to start them up again and see if the motors can
operate the doors successfully. Also the crew indicated -
science pilot said that the teleprinter paper and cartridge
which had not been performing properly - we had some rather
faint copies and also some missing pieces of teleprinter
messages sent up for the crew - that paper was changed
out and the cartridge was also replaced. And they do appear
to be operating a little bit better, although, they're still
very faint according to the crew. So it's likely that at
least part of that will be sent up again and there may be
some further check into it. We're now coming up on acquisition
of signal at Ascension, a pass lasting about 10-1/2 minutes.
we'll bring the line up live for air-to-ground, Hank Hartsfield
is the Spacecraft Communicator.
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PAO - - still very faint according to the

crew. So it's likely that the least part of that will be
sent up again and there maybe some further check into it.
We're now coming up on acquisition of signal at Ascension,
a pass lasting about 10-1/2 minutes. We'll bring the line
up live for air-to-ground. Hank Hartsfield is the spacecraft
communicator.
CC Skylab, Houston, we're through Ascension
for 10 minutes. And I guess we got another question, so we'll
understand the problem more fully. Did the door fail to
close? Or did you have trouble getting it open?
CDR Houston, it failed to open on sunrise.
We cycled it one time and then decided we better not mess
with it anymore.
CC Okay, we copy. And why don't we go ahead
and finish up the malf from the ground? And there's no need
in you staying at the panel or - or the SPT. So we'll go
ahead and run it from the ground.
CDR Okay.
CC SPT, Houston. Are you busy or can you
answer us a question now?
SPT Go ahead, Hank.
CC Roger, wetre - we're curious as to how
ED63 worked out?
SPT I was afraid you'd ask that. I've been
working it Hank, but it looks as though the sweet plants are
no longe= alive. When I went to pull off one of the leaves
or any of the leaves they just came off real easily, implying
that there's no resistence to pulling them off the stem and
implying that they were dead. I have put them under the
microscope and I'm looking at them and I do not see any
streaming. However, I'Ii try and take some pictures of the
best looking specimens and maybe you'll be able to see some-
thing when I bring it back; but I do not see anything like I
did last time.
CC Roger, we copy.
SPT Mechanically the optical system is working
okay. I wish I had gotten the word on that last time we were
working it.
CC Skylab, Houston, no need to respond, but
the VTR voice that we got yesterday from TV33 was the best
yet; it was five byfive.
CC Skylab, Houston, we just finished commanding
on the on the 82A door and we inhibit and then reapplied
power to both motors and opened the door and closed the door.
And everything seems to be all right now. It appears there's
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possibility that the door may not have completely closed on

the prior night cycle.
CDR Hank, were we running that one motor
only at that point?
CC Say again?
CDR Were we running on one motor up to this
time?
CC We've been running on two motors.
CDR Okay, l'm a little perplexed then on how you
solved tile problem. What commands did you put in?
CC We're about 30 seconds from LOS. We'll
be coming up on Guam at 41. And we're scheduled to dump the
recorders there, and a reminder to you, Ed, that it's your
your private phone call. And in the last few seconds here,
what we did was we inhibited both motors powers_ then we enable
both of them and issued a door open command; the door opened
And we issued a door close command, and the door closed.
CDR Okay, it's kind of hard to see how that
would work but I'm glad it did. Thank you.
CC I think there's some kind of logic in
there to get reset when it runs through all of that. And we
do have some pads on board, if you get a chance we'd like you
to look at them and then at Guam we can talk to you about
how they look.
PAO Skylab Control at 0 hours, 8 minutes, and
over Africa and out of range of the tracking antenna at
Ascension, 32-1/2 minutes until our next acquisition of signal
at Guam. During this last pass, Science Pilot Ed Gibson was
asked about the progress on ED63, that's the experiment on
cytoplasmic streaming to determine what happens inside cells
- plant cells during a - weightlessness. And Science Pilot
Gibson reports that the three plants taken up, elodea plant
a water weed, appear no longer to be alive. And he said
there is no evidence of cytoplasmic streaming as he had seen
before with the op - optical part of the experiment; the
microscope and viewing equipment appear to be working fine.
So that's the - that's bad news the elodea were taken up
on last mission and they also died on that flight. The belief
was at that time that they had died because of lack of light.
Special precautions were taken this time to make sure the
elodea water weeds were exposed to the light a lot earlier,
both in the command module and inside the workshop. However,
it does appear, according to Ed Gibson, that the plants are dead.
He said !he will look at them again a little later and see
whether or not there's anything there. And he does intend to
take some photography of some better samples. Also, ground
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succeeded in getting the S082A door to open. S082A, one of

the instrument of the solar equipment, is the ultraviolet
coronal spectroheliograph. That ultraviolet ultraviolet
telescope th - equipment - they had problems with the door but
by using two - by using two motors rather than just one was
successful in opening it. Before the crew had not attempted
the two motor run on this piece of equipment as it required
both motors to open and close the doors. So ground
activation of those did work successfully. Student experimenters
also going to be busy tomorrow. Troy Crites of Kent, Washing-
ton, who is one of the high school students selected last
year in a nation wide program to add some scientific
experiments from the high school students in the United States
to the collection of Skylab experiments. His experiment
is on volcanic erruptions and the study tomorrow will be an
attempt to predlete volcanos and their erruptions by using
data from two of Skylab's electronic sensors. The infrared
scanner - the infrared spectrometer which is the S191, and
the mult_spectral scanner, which looks at a much wider area.
The multlspeetral scanner, of course, provides data of number
of different kinds, thirteen different bands or wavelengths
of data, including a thermal wavelength. And that has been
the device used today on a geothermal run over the United
States, Mexico, and Central America. Number of experiments
scheduled for tomorrow including a study of insect infestation
areas, potential areas for insect crossing from Mexico to the
United States and vice versa. That area, the Rio Grande
Valley is to be studied by Dr. Hard of the United States
Department of Agriculture, who's located in Weslaco, Texas.
Also, scheduled for part of the Texas track is a study of
saline soils and an attempt to map those soil areas by another
agriculturist. Pass tomorrow begins at 16:10 Greenwich mean
time, at iii degrees west longitude and end at 16:25, that's
71 degrees 56 minutes west longitude. Does follow track 20
and at the end of the Z-local vertical pass there will
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PAO Iii degrees west longitude and ends at

1625 at 71 degrees 56 minutes west longitude. Does follow
track 20, and at the end of the Z local vertical pass there
will be some earth limb data gathered. This is data gathered
primarily with the infrared spectrometer the SI91 pointing
through the atmosphere to gather data on the general state of the
Earth's atmosphere. And it should give some indications on
atmospheze quality and to some degree on changes that take place
in it. It does look through the atmosphere at blank space
rather tban at the ground unlike a number of other tests of
atmospheric quality. A number of the sites for tomorrow are
atmospheric studies. With one of the primary goals of those
being to determine how atmospheric changes effect data gathered
on the Earth from remote stations in space. It's hoped that
using data of this sort scientists from Johnson Space Center
may be able to develope a technique for satellites to auto-
matically correct for atmospheric changes by making measurements
of the atmosphere conditions and then putting that data into
a computer system which will automatically correct for it, and
give you more precise data on the exact state of the Earth
below. Also a mapping project in Honduras, Costa Rice,
Nicaragua, and other parts of Central America are - will be
underway tomorrow. That uses primarily the SI90B camera,
the Earth terrain camera, the SI90A camera will also be used
if it's operating properly. It's hopped that today's problem
was a temporary one, and that if the malfunction procedures
run on it: do not succeed that camera will operate properly
tomorrow. There had been some problem with the Slg0A, that's
the multispectral photographic facility. A set of 6 cameras
all 70-millimeter cameras that are bore sited on a single
target and shoot all 6 pictures at the same time using infrared
film, black and white film with a - green and red filters, and
also color films. Those 6 cameras all operate at the same
time and during the Earth resources experiment package checkout,
earlier in the mission they were not working properly, the
sequencer was not working on them. They went through a malfunc-
tion procedure and succeeded in getting the sequencer to work.
They were able to run them manually and they did have an
additional problem again this morning. And they expect that
they'll be able to solve that before tomorrow if it doesn't
solve itself. This is Skylab Control, we're now 26-1/2 minutes
from our next acquisition of signal, and it's almost 15 minutes
after the hour.
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and 21 seconds Greenwich mean time. We're approaching
acquisition of signal through the Guam Guam tracking
antenna, this pass through Guam should last about i0 minutes
and we're live for air-to-ground. The Spacecraft Communicator
is Hank Hartsfield.
CC Skylab, Houston through Guam for
8-1/2 minutes and as a reminder we're dumping the recorder
at this site.
PLT Rog, Hank.
PAO Skylab Control we have had a problem
at Guam with the antennas there. The telemetry is not working
and we've had a problem with the voice uplink, but they are
trying to rectify the voice problem now and they expect they
may get it. They did have a power failure on telemetry.
PAO Skylab Control at 50 minutes, and 29 seconds
after the: hour. We did not succeed in getting our voice
contact through Guam, they had a power failure at the
tracking antenna there and they've not succeeded in getting
an uplink. Our next acquisition of the signal will be at
the Vanguard station, that signal should be coming up in
about a half an hour. This is Skylab Control, it's now
51 minutes after the hour.
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PAO Skylab Control at i hour, 20 minutes and

7 seconds Greenwich mean time. We're now 56 seconds from
acquisition of signal through the Vanguard tracking antenna.
This pass through Vanguard should last approximately
10-1/2 minutes and the Skylab Communicator is Hank Hartsfield.
10-1/2 minutes.
SPT Hello Hank.
CC And we had a power failure at Guam on
the last site so we didn't talk to anybody on the S-band.
CDR That's alright, Hank 3 my wife told me
everything.
SPT Yeah, Hank that was nice.
CC You were able to get something done.
CDR Yeah. Guam ought to have more power
failures.
CC A little while ago, we sent up a couple
of pad checklist changes on the EREP coolant loop, where we're
going to leave the EREP loop up and I thought we owe you the
rational behind that is that we've noticed that the coolant
loop, it runs a little more stable when the path is opened
up to the EREP.
CDR Roger, that doesn't bother EREP cooling
at all though does it? Correction, ATM cooling.
CC Negative.
CDR Seems to me I remember back in the fog
somewhere that there was some sort of a flap about running
those two at the same time all the time because of - it was
a partic].e of contamination or something like that.
CC Yeah, Jer we had a problem prelaunch I
think we had some contamination in the lines and we cleaned
that out and there was some worry about it then. We brought
a filter back as you recall on SL-II or III, I forget which
and checked that and we didn't find anything in it.
CDR Oh yeah, that's right. Okay, well thanks
a lot, we'll put that in the checklist.
CC While we're on that subject, what is the
status of the check la checklist changes, we've kind of
fired up a lot of little nit pickers yesterday, are you
pretty much up to date.
CDR Well, I was up to date until yesterday
and then you guys ate us alive last night and this
morning and it's going to take us awhile to get caught up
now. We were feeling pretty proud of ourselves until we
took a look at the teleprinter this morning and then we knew
we'd been had.
CC Well wetre sorry about that but I guess
some of them had to be had to be done.
CDR Yeah, we'll try to nab a little time tomorrow
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to get it done, if we don't I'm going to ask for time allotted

day after tomorrow. I'm trying to get some of them done
tonight.
CC Okay.
SPT Say, Hank in looking at the Flight Plan for
tomorrow, I have a question of whether the ATM brief is at the
same time as the ATM pass?
CC Okay, the conference is at 14:02 and I
think you're due on the console at 14:14.
SPT Okay, that's good Hank. I wonder if we
could get ground rule_ I won't have to try to do both at
the same time. I can't do justice to both of them and I usually
end up not doing justice to either one of them.
CC Has that happened Ed, it certainly wasn't
supposed to be that way?
SPT Yeah that was this morning.
CC All I can say it shouldn't have and we'll
try not to let it happen again.
SPT Thank you, Hank.
CDR Hey, Hank do you think our EREP maneuvers
ELV maneuvers now have matured to the point where we can let
Ed run the ETC? Based on this morning's exercise, Hank I think
that it severely hampers the VTS operator, to have to hussle
between those two. _TS operator needs at least 2 or 3 minutes
to start getting his leading to his target. Now had the targets
this morning been Lake Mead instead of those volcanos, it might
have been a different story_ but I can't really be sure of
that either.
CC Roger, and I guess I would
SPT (garble) see what we can do is have the
CMG inhibit punched up on the DAS attitude errors on the
panel and I think those guys can take the (garble) back
occasionally and look at attitude errors. And if necessary
then (garble) the - hit the air button.
CC Skylab, we're still discussing that one
down here at the moment, I guess we feel like we still need
to moniter the maneuver and the ZLV pass but wetre defintely
trying to get out of that mode as soon as we have some
confidence in our MMP run.
CDR Okay.
CC Has anyone looked at the messages that
we have sent up to see if we're getting good ones now?
PLT Okay, they're legible now_ Hank just a
little fainter than normal.
CC Okay, we copy. Skylab just to clear
up a little handover item here, did - were you asked to take
a look at the EREP disiecant?
CDR Negative
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CC Okay, when you get a moment I guess we'd

like to-if you get a chance to check the conditions of those
things.
PLT Well, we checked them anyway, they're all
blue. You're talking about the S190 right.
CC That's affirmative.
CDR That's part of the VTS operator's post
operat checklist.
CC Okay.
PLT What it looks like, Hank is we get about
2 runs out of each set of desiccants that we install.
CC Okay, we copy. SPT_ Houston what did you
do with the viles from Ed 63?
SPT Hank I still have them in (garble) (garble)
storage location and I'm waiting for a suitable burial time.
CC Okay, we would like for you to hang on
to those viles. The Pls still dontt want to get rid of
them, they say that the possibility may be some live portions
of the plants way down in the viles down at the bottom
if you haven't already looked there.
SPT Okay, Hank I'ii take another look but
I looked over the two healthy viles pretty much all the way
down to the roots and they looked - there was no resistance
to pulling or they were pretty much just like mush all
the way through.
CC Roger, we copy and we're about 30 seconds
from LOS. We'll see you at Ascension at 38 and that's about
7 minutes from now.
SPT Hank, tell the folks down there, I sure
am sorry about the ED63, I have a tough time understanding
why they went if they can live in these kind of conditions
down on the ground because we had (garble) light and (garble)
get down there.
CC Roger, we copy.
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PAO Skylab Control at i hour 32 minutes and

50 seconds Greewnich mean time. Skylab space station is
passed out of range of the tracking antenna at Vanguard.
We're now about 5.-1/2 minutes from acquisition through
Ascension. The pass, beginning at Ascension, will go
through Ascenison, Canary Island, and Madrid and last about
16 minutes. Still about an hour away from the evening status
report, that will be given at Guam in this next pass.
Skylab crew will have a very busy day tomorrow just as they
did today. Earth resources pass is scheduled tomorrow. It
begins near the Colorado River at the border of Utah and Arizona,
and covers path that follows ou - down through the United
States on track 20 passing just to the south of Albuquerque
and down the Rio Grande Valley, across the southern part
of Mexico through Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Central
America, and it concludes in Brazil near the Amazon River's
source after crossing part of Columbia. Tomorrow's Earth
resources pass is got a - nearly two dozen sites on it -
listed. Several atmospheric sites and following the
conclusion of that pass, which does end over South America,
the S191 infrared spectrometer will be pointed through the
Earth's atmosphere on what's called an Earth sl Earth
limb pass. That's not a Z-local vertical part of the pass.
The space station will begin returning to attitude but the
infrared spectrometer will be pointed by the operator, is
scheduled to be the Pilot, Bill Pogue, through the atmosphere
of the Earth to get some data on exact atmospheric conditions
at that time. Also, two operations of comet instruments:
one is the $201; maneuver for that is scheduled for about
22:00 Greewnich mean time tomorrow. And the $201 has been
operated once before on this mission, it's a special
instrument called the far ultraviolet eleetronicgraphic
camera that was carried up on - by this crew for a - specially
use on the comet Kohoutek. Principal investigator on that
is Thornton A. Paige of the Naval Research Laboratory,
located here at Johnson Space Center. In addition to that,
which is an instrument primarily geared to getting an exact
data about the composition of the comet, including information
about it"s hydrogen and oxygen content, and something on
it's carbon monoxide content, if there should be such content,
there'll also be a run of the S063, which is an ultraviolet
airglow instrument, that is being converted to use on
studying the com_. It too can gather some data about oxygen
and hydroxyl emissions which is of course a combination
of oxygen and hydrogen. And it also is capable of gathering
additional data on carbon molicules that might be found in the
comet Kohoutek. The comet is - still remains much dimmer
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than scientists had expected. It is believed that because

this is the first pass through the a - through the solar
system it may be that the comet material is not activated as
much as it would be had it been through the solar system
on previous occasions, as for example, Halleyts comet has.
Comet is now still traveling at more - more than a i00,000
miles an hour and increasing it's speed daily as it approaches
the Sun. It's expected to reach its closest point, about
13 million miles from the Sun, on December 28th. Just before
and after it's passed close to the Sun, many of Skylab's
instruments now being used out of the anti-solar scientific
airlock aided by articulated mirror system - Many of those
instruments will not be useable because the comet is too
close to the Sun and the instruments themselves would be
interferred with by the Sun's closeness. The S063 uses
35-millimeter film and 35-millimeter single lens reflex
camera, a pair of them for observation. It also has a
couple of filters carried up just for this crew, including
a polarizing filter just for the use of on the comet.
We're about a minute and a half now from acquisition of
signal at Ascension, a pass that will be a overlapping pass
through Ascension, Canary Island, and Madrid. And it will
last approximately 16 minutes. We're live now for the
air-to-ground and Spacecraft Communicator Hank Hartsfield.
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CC Skylab, Houston. We've got you for about

2 minutes here through Ascension.
CDR Roger, Hank. Step 1 of housekeeping 60 alfa
is completed now.
CC Okay, thank you Jer, and if PLT is available,
or anybody for that matter, we'd like to know how the desiccants
that are baking out look.
CDR Oh, they're coming out real fine. The set
of desiccants that are in the 190 right now came out of the
oven yesterday, and they were dark blue.
CC Dark blue, copy.
PLT Hank, how's it coming along on trouble-
shooting this 190 alfa problem?
CC Okay, we're talking about that right now, Bill.
We - we've got a procedure we may want to try in the morning
try the circuit breakers and things like that. We're
working on that now, and we are looking at the possibility of
trying to extend the prep tomorrow so that we can get some
troubleshooting in on the 190.
PLT Okay you got about you got a few minutes
it can be done tonight possible, I wouldn't mind doing that
tonight.
PLT I'm not asking for work Hank. I'm just
saying if it can help out.
CC Okay, we understand and we're - we're
about to go LOS. We'll have a real short dropout and pick
up in another minute with the Canaries and Madrid.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're with you through the
Canaries and Madrid for 12 minutes.
CDR Roger.
CC Got one other thing got snowed under on
things to get up to you. And while ago when we had the problem
at Guam, we didn't get to manage the voice and data recorder like
we should have. So if you tried to record anything in the
i0 minutes prior to Vanguard, it won't be on there because the
recorder had run to end of tape and stopped.
CDR I think we are allright. I think we
were all eating about then, or Ed was exercising.
CC Okay good thing.
CC Skylab Houston, this may be grasping at straws,
I don't know, but in regard to the teleprinter, one suggestion
that came in was you might try loosening the (garble) on the
cartridge, and then push on the cartridge such that your pushing
the paper up against the head as hard as you can do it, and then
retighten the (garble), and verify that the cartridge then,
is flush to the front panel of the teleprinter.
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CDR Okay, I'Ii try that Hank.

CC And we'd like to wait till after the Madrid
pass to do that so we can send up some pads at this time.
CDR Okay I'ii hold off.
CC And PLT, Houston, I think what we're going
to do regarding the S190, this message we've put together will
stand on its own, so we're gonna go ahead and try to ship that
as soon as we can. And then you can take a look at it and
if you have any free time you can work on it if you can.
PLT Thank you Hank.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're about i minute
from LOS. Guam will be coming up at 20 pass the hour. That
will be the evening status report, too. We plan to ship up
this S190 message at Guam. And I don't know how long it will
take to run it if you get a chance to run any portion of it.
But if you do try to run it and don't try to get all of it, Just
go to step 8 on the procedure and shut it down.
PLT Roger, step 8 and shut down.
CC Roger, when you look at the pad, Bill, it
will be obvious to you there. And also after we go LOS here
if you get a chance you might try to tighten up that tele-
printer a little bit.
PLT Will do.
PAO Skylab Control at i hour, 55 minutes, and
crossing eastern Europeand has passed out of range of the
tracking antenna at Madrid. 24 minutes till our next
acquisition of signal. That a pass at Guam up coming in 24 min-
rues will be the evening status report. During this last last
few passes the crew has some additional discussion on the tele-
printer problem they had earlier. The teleprinter not
printing clear enough messages, and they were asked to tighten
it up, that is to say, to bring the paper up a little lighter
against the printing head, and they hope that will give them a
little bit better quality. It is now readable but still a little
fainter than it has been in the past. Commander Carr also
asked that arrangements be made to put Science Pilot Ed Gibson
back on the operation of the Earth terrain camera. The
last several days Dr. Gibson has been watching the maneuver
and making sure that nothing happens out of order, and the ground
thinks that still may have to go on for a day or two yet.
Tomorrow has a more than half dozen sites for the view
finder tracking system operator. That's the Astronaut who
is responsible for pointing the S191 infrared spectrometer
at very small targets on the ground. Commander Cart indicated
that it's difficult to move back and forth between the two
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instruments and have enough time to locate exactly very small

targets like a volcano. It's much earier, of course, he
pointed, if you were aiming at a target as large as Lake Mead;
it would be easier to spot that than it is to spot some of the
very small colored areas of volcanoes such as those in
Guatemala. Tomorrow's activity does include an operation
on a active volcano in Central America using the infrared
spectrometer, and that's part of one of the experiments going
on. And data from that will be used by a student named
Troy Crites of Kent, Washington
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PAO - - spectrometer. And that's part of

one of the experiments going on an and data from that will
be used by a student named Troy Crites of Kent, Washington,
who will attempt to gat - gathering data of this sort will
attempt to make some preliminary predications of when
volcanos might errupt based on data from the infrared and
multispectral scanner. Tomorrow's pass on Earth resources
begins at 16:10 Greenwich mean time near the Utah Arizona
border over the Colorado River and Lake Powell. It covers
a total of 4275 miles approximately, about 4300 miles. And
the Z-local vertical part of it, that is to say that part
in which the instruments are pointed directly at the Earth,
ends near the origin of the Amazon at the border of northern
Peru in Brazil. Following that, there will be an Earth limb
observation during which the S191 and other instruments are
pointed at the atmosphere and then off of the Earth's surface
and into deep space. The 4300 mile pass has 21 sites listed on
it. At the present time, with some possible revisions to be made
during the night. During the past half hour Commander Carr
has begun the process of shifting power from the command
module to the workshop systems. Command modules fuel cells
now virtually at the end of their lifetime after nearly 3
weeks of operating. That - they do provide about a 1,000 watts
for com_ind module use and at this time - later this evening
the shutdown will be completed on the command module's power
system and the workshop will be required to provide the power
for the command module. The fuel cells are operated with
hydrogen and oxygen as their powering mechanism are
virtually out of power at this time. They are shu - they
have shutdown and begun the vent of the hydrogen now and
that is progressing smoothly. They'll expect later, just before
the crew goes to sleep, that Pilot Bill Pogue will conclude
the comp]_icated procedures for shifting the power from the
command module system to the workshop's own solar powered
system. Solar power will then be used to keep the command
module warm and its system operating. This afternoon we had
a M092/M171 run with Pilot Bill Pogue as the subject. That
was progressing well and the few times we did have contact with
the space station and the experiment was underway, but we have
not yet had a final report. We may get a brief indication after
the health conference this evening as to whether or not the run
was completed successfully. Bill Pogue did complete his last
run comp].etely on the M092, all the way through minus 50 as the
minimum pressure that he had ran under, and he had not had
that uninterrupted. Yesterday, the science pilot completed his
successfully. So, th - although all three of the crew members
have had some fluctuation in their performance on the lower
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body negative pressure device, all three of them have now

successfully completed it after showing that fluctuation.
We'll get a further report on that either later tonight or
tomorrow morning when the tapes are processed here in
Mission Control. Also this morning there was a run for
the commander on the Ml31, that's the human vestibular function
experiment. That, in addition, of eourse_ to the Earth resources
run that was made this morning, had a very low use of
thruster attitu _ control system gas. Looks on it - right
now, although we haven't gotten the final figures, as if
tomorrow's EREP run might be very economical in terms of
nitrogen gas in the thrusters. Final calculations are
underway right now. We should have some indication of that
in the next hour or so. This is Skylab Control 18-1/2
minutes I=o acquisition of signal at Guam, and the evening
status report. It's now I minute and i0 seconds after the
hour.
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and 5 seconds Greenwich mean time. We're now about 38 seconds
from acquisition of signal at Guam tracking station. Guam
pass will last a little over 7 minutes and it's scheduled
for the evening status report from the crew. Spacecraft
Communicator is Hank Hartsfield and we have air-to-ground
now at Guam.
CC Skylab, Houston through Guam for
7 minutes.
PLT Roger, Houston.
CC And we're standing by to receive the
evening status.
CDR Okay, coming up.
CDR Okay, evening status: CDR, 7.5, 7.0 hard,
.5 lightl; SPT, 8.5, 8.2 hard, 13 light; PLT, 7-3/4, 6 heavy,
1-3/4 light. Volume: CDR, ii00; SPT, 2300; SPT, 2,000.
Water gun reading: CDT, 7045; SPT, 1995; PLT, 8239. Body mass:
CDR, 6.299, 6.297, 6.301; SPT, 6.362, 6.365, 6.370; PLT, 6.245,
6.251, 6.250. Exercise: Crewman, CDR, Method Alfa, leg, 29,
4600. Method Bravo, Alfa, Delta, Echo, Foxtrot, i0, 20 each.
Method Charlie, Charlie, Delta, Foxtrot, 06, 15 each. Method
Echo, Alfa, Bravo, 03, I0 each. Method Foxtrot, walk, i0 N/A
toe rise=. 01, i00. SPT, Method Alfa, leg, 40, 7337. Method
foxtrot, spring, 09, 400, toe rises, 01, i00. PLT, Method Alfa,
leg, 29, 5,000. Method Delta, Alfa, Bravo, Delta, 08, 50 each.
Method Charlie, Bravo, Charlie, Delta, Echo, Foxtrot, Gulf
and Hotel, 07, 15 each. Method Foxtrot, walk, 12, N/A,
toe rises, 01, 90. Medication: none. Garments discarded:
CDR, one pair of socks, one pair of shorts; SPT, one pair
of shorts, PLT, none. Food log: Salt for CDR, salt zero,
deviation, minus 1 vanilla wafers, minus one coffee with sugar;
SPT, 11.5 salt, deviation, minus jam, rehydration water zero;
and for the CDR, rehydration water is plus 1.0; PLT, salt 0,
deviation, plus vanilla wafers, rehydration water 0. Camera
Log: M487-4 Delta, Charlie India 71, 81, Charlie India 82.
EREP (garble) which is a 140 foot cassette Charlie (Garble)
09, 64 N/A, ED63 Charlie India 125, 08, Charlie India 124,
Nikon 01_, Charlie X-ray 20, 25, 02 empty, 03 Charlie India 1
1.0 no change, 04 empty, 05 Bravo Hotel 04, 16, 70-millimeter
Charlie X-ray 47 052. ETC Charlie (Garble) i0 087, EREP set
(garble) 9746, 1932, 9469, 8837, 0608, 9513. Drawer A
configuration: Alfa i transporter 07, no change; Alfa 2
transporter 05, no change; Alfa 3 06, Charlie India 125,
08 Charlie India 124; Alfa 4 03, Charlie India 71, 81,
Charlie ]india 82. Back 02, no change. Okay under Flight
Plan deviations none, shopping list accomplishments none.
Inoperable equipment and disposition: the mark I exerciser
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return mechanism, the recoil mechanism has failed. We need

time to troubleshoot it. Urine bag number 1422 failed this
morning, details are on tape. Unscheduled stowage none.
CC Roger, we copy.
CDR And that's it Hank.
CC Okay, and the S190 troubleshooting
procedure is onboard and if someone could take a look, we'd
like to see if the message prints out any better, once Bill
pulled the head in a little closer to the I mean the paper
closer to the print head.
CDR Okay.
PLT I pulled that down as tight as I could
toward the printing mechanism, when I tightened the Calfax
and we still have gaps in the print.
CC Okay, is it readable, Bill.
PLT Stand by. Let me take a look at it, Hank.
CC Okay and in the mean time, we're about
40 seconds from LOS, Honeysuckle at 32 with the med conference
and a reminder that at 36 you go into a NuZ update window.
PLT Rog, Hank got that and this is - looks
pretty good all except for the first few lines so we may be
back in business.
CC Okay, we'll just watch it then on the
next few messages.
PLT About the only thing I can't read it says
voice record something and rotate camera to intermediate
position I'm assuming part of that is left out but it's pretty
clear why it is the only thing I can't really make out is
the very first line, voice record all something or the other
I guess ]procedures or steps.
CC Roger, that's record all steps.
PLT Okay.
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is now crossing New Guinea and has passed out of range of
the tracking antenna on Guam. Our next acquisition is
3-1/2 minutes away but that is scheduled for the private
medical conference with the Flight Surgeon who is now
leaving Mission Control to go to a third floor room where
he can conduct that private health conference. Our next
acquisition following the Honeysuckle pass which is a private
conversation is to be at Canary Islands looks like right
now and that's 50 minutes away. During this last pass over
Guam we had the evening status report, Commander Cart giving
the sleep and exercise periods, film status, medical status
and some other details. Indicates the Science Pilot is catching
up on his sleep apparently, he got 8-1/2 hours last night
which is certainly a new high for him; he had only one
other time had gotten nearly that much sleep and that was before
a crew day off. Science Pilot has indicated he doesn't want
to do the late evening solar observation which had been begun
a few days ago and that had been turned over now to Pilot
Bill Pogue and the Commander both of whom have indicated a
willingness to do that late pre-sleep activity. Normally the
final few minutes before sleep are scheduled for pre-sleep activ-
ities for eating the evening meal and for personal hygiene but
ATM activities have been desirable late in the evening when it's
possible, Science Pilot said it's difficult for him to get
to sleep immediately after those, so he is now been taken
off the list for solar observations. He got 8-1/2 hours
last night, the Pilot got 7-3/4 which is an improvement and
the Commander got 7 hours. (garble) still probably not as
much sleep as some of crewmembers would like to be getting.
Pilot today did perform M092, MI71 during the afternoon
hours. All three crewmembers exercising still fairly
vigorously with the Science Pilot putting in his usual
7,337 watt minutes, we don't know whether there's a superstition
connected to that or what but that has been the figure he's
given several occasions, that's a total number of watt minutes
generated, he exercised for about 40 minutes today on the
bicycle ergometer and he also spent about 9 minutes on the
treadmill. All three crew members used both the treadmill
and the bicycle today with the Science Pilot spending
the most time, both the Commander and the Pilot put in
29 minutes on it, with 5,000 watt minutes generated by the Pilot,
4600 by the Commander. Commander and Pilot have been using
the Mark I and Mark II exercisers regularly, those are the
rope tension device and the spring tension device that are
used for building muscles and they've been using those for
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periods of i0 or 15 minutes at least everyday and both of

them also use the treadmill with Commander Carr using it
for about: i0 minutes on walking and also doing some to -
toe rises that's an exercise developed by the Science Pilot.
And the Pilot put about 12 minutes in walking on the treadmill,
that's a device deveLoped just for this mission by Bill Thornton,
a fellow astronaut. And an interesting note on the food,
Commander traded his vanilla wafers away to the Pilot tonight
the Pilot: ate the vanilla wafers meant for the Commander, which
brings up yesterday's inventory of the food supply aboard
Skylab. Pilot did an inventory yesterday morning and found
that in freezer number 1 there were 4 pork loins and a prime rib.
So they've got a little extra food they didn't know they had
before, that's some food that was not eaten by previous crews,
they do also of course have the standard supply of food that was
provided for their own mission which includes high density foods.
Well at present time we have the private medical conference
underway,, we dontt expect to hear from the crew during this pass
and our next acquisition should be about 47 minutes away,
that will be at Canary Islands. This is Skylab Control at
31 minutes, 52 seconds after the hour.
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and 25 seconds Greewnich mean time. Skylab space station
now over the North Atlantic is about to be acquired through
the Canary Island str - station. This pass through Canary
Island and Madrid should last approximately 13 minutes.
We have the mission surgeon's daily health report and we'll
read that for you at this time. No health problems exists.
The pilot completed his lower body negative pressure success-
fully; there was no assoicated dizziness or faintness.
Exercise output continues high and hopefully the mechanical
problem with the mini-gym will not hold up the crew's
favorite exercise protcol for long, signed by Dr. Hordinsky
for Dr. Hawkins. We're now live now for air-to-ground
through Canary Island and Madrid.
CC Skylab, Houston through Canary and Madrid
for 13 minutes. And we'll be dumping the data re - and voice
recorder here.
CDR Okay, Hank. Houston, CDR. We're com -
we've finished housekeeping 60-Alfa up through step number
7.
CC Roger, copy.
SPT Hank, I can give you the frames count
on the ATM, if you would like?
CC Go ahead.
SPT H-alpha, 13288, 56, 04749; XUV spec, 00149;
XUV slit, 01418; WLC, 05704. X-ray spec is 04601. Hank,
I got a question about the ETC for tomorrow.
CC Go ahead.
SPT Which film load will we be using? What
- are we going to be loading the prime mag and if so with
what?
CC Ed, in the remarks on your details it
says, load the ETC prime mag with CTII, that's in Echo 20.
That is Echo 20, stow, exposed film and CTI0 and El9.
SPT Okay, Hank, I guess that's my Flight Plan
coming up right now. Thank you.
CC Skylab, Houston in answer to an earlier
question regarding the SPT's monitoring the EREP maneuvers,
we'll be sending up a message tonight. We got a further
evalution and what we're going to do is relieve the SPT of
monitoring during the - the pass; except for those critical
parts of the maneuvers and - and the Z-LV itself where the
out gimbal drive logic is not active or reset routine is not
active.
SPT Okay, Hank.
CDR Hank, this is the CDR, I've got two
cryo vent valves up here and I - I think I'm going to use the
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- the rig that's up in locker D-400. The other cryo vent

valve was_ the one I found in A9, on the workshop floor. And
I think I'ii just leave that where it is.
CC Roger, we copy.
CC CDR, Houston.
CC CDR, Houston, are there any words you
can put on us regarding the Mark I failure that may help
us in working out something for you?
CDR Well, Hank, we really haven't even had
the time to fool with it. But we - you can pull the rope
clear out: and then it just won't wind up again. And that's
as far as: we've gone with it. We just haven't had time to
sit down and look it over and see if we can figure out what
the problem was.
CC Okay, I guess wetll just take a look
at it and[ see if we can come up with some failure modes and
then maybe something we can do about it.
CDR Okay.
CDR Also, Bill and I have not had the
opportunity to do any of the DACS troubleshooting either.
I think we're going to have to schedule some time in order
to do it, there's just no free time in the day for that.
CC Okay, we copy. And if someone is near
the STS, we'd like to do some REG BUS adjusts. And so we
can watch it here with telemetry.
CDR Okay, they're all adjusted, I believe.
CC Okay, EGIL wants a fine tweak. He says
we're a little bit too high, we'd like to rotate both of the
REG BUS adjust pots one and two, 20 degrees counterclockwise.
CDR Okay, Bill Pogue will be with you in a
see .
PLT Okay, would you say that again, Hank.

I was on channel A recording.
CC Okay, we want to get REG BUS i, REG BUS
2, both of them counterclockwise approximately 20 degrees.
PLT That's in work.
PLT Okay, they're all in steady now, Hank,
take a leok at that one.
CC Okay, we'll look at it.
CC PLT, Houston, we had a recorder dump
going at that last site. And we had just stopped the dump for
about 30 seconds prior to the point where you said you were
using the recorder, so I don't know whether you got every-
thing on tape or not.
PLT Okay, Hank I was just recording the
steps of this EREP procedure.
CC Okay, have you turned anything up so
far?
PLT Negative, I'm - have hung up on step 6
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right now, I'm trying to locate that gear. (Garble) drive

(garble) drive gears - I - I remember doing it a long time
ago, but it'll Just take me a while to figure it out.
CC Okay.
CC Are all the messages coming up now looking
pretty good?
PLT Stand by just a second, I'ii check them.
PLT They're all readable Hank. Looks like
you know when your typewriter ribbonts just about worn out
that's about what they look like.
CC Roger, we copy. Skylab, Houston, we're
about 40 seconds from LOS. We'll be coming up on Carnarvon
at 59, which is right after bedtime but we want to do that
just in ease you have to make a final tweak on the REG BUSes.
And if you so desire I could give you a few words of news
there. At this point in the local election your Hofhienz is
leading Gottlieb by only a couple of percentage points,
with something over 200,000 votes in. It's to close to
predicte.
CDR Roger, Hank, we'll see you then.
CC And SPT, one last thing going over the
hill, if you're going to do that ETC prep tonight there's
a 151 scheduled with it.
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_nd 33 seconds Greenwich mean time. Wetre now out of range
of tracking antenna at Madrid and 26 minutes from our final
acquisition of the evening at Carnarvon Honeysuckle. During
this last pass some discussion at the very end there of the
Earth terrain camera preparation for tomorrow. And Science
Pilot, Ed Gibson told that a 151 was scheduled (garble) 151
is a time and motion study photography - records made
of the Skylab's crew is ability to perform tasks in space to
get a little bit better idea of their efficiency at operating.
That's of course the project that's been going on since the
beginning of the Skylab program. Tomorrow's activities include
an Earth resources pass early in the morning, scheduled to
begin at about i0:i0 Houston time and conclude at 10:25. It
covers a 4300 mile stretch beginning at the southern Utah border
and concluding in - near the Paraguay near the Peru, Brazil
border in South America. As the evening health report mentioned
and was discussed at the Canary Island - Madrid pass, the mark
1 exerciser failed today, that's a rope tension device. The
rope now pulls out but it doesn't return. And the crew although
they did use the mark I for a part of the exercise today also had
to shift to the more primative mark 3 exerciser, which does not
provide isotonic force, it doesn't provide an equal force at
all times for exercising. It's not a sac - considered as satis-
factory. They will attempt to get to that in the next day or
so to repair that exerciser. That's one of several exercise
devices available to them. They've been using the mark 1 exer-
ciser which is a rope tension device much like the exer-gym.
It's they also have a-the mark 2 exerciser which is a spring
tension device a set of springs that are used for pulling and
stretching and a mark 3 which is also a rope exerciser like
the mark i. They also have a treadmill designed by Bill
Thornton, and know as Thornton's revenge and Thornton's plow.
(Garble) in addition to that they have the bicycle ergometer,
and they have been using another exercise which doesn't require
any equipment know as Hordinsky's special. The Hordinsky
special is a is a isometric exercise that consist of pushing
your legs a - apart against 2 objects that are stationary
and then reversing that and pushing them together against an
object that's stationary. And this exercise helps exercise
parts of the legs that are not exeriesed as well by the
bicycle and treadmill exercisers. Twenty-three minutes to our
next acquisition of signal_ this is Skylab Control at 36 minutes
23 seconds after the hour.
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TIME: 21:58 CST, 20:03:58 GMT
12/4/73

42 seconds Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station is
now about 54 seconds from acquisition of signal through the
Carnavonj Honeusuekle tracking stations. This pass through
both station should last approximately 15 minutes. Spacecraft
communicator is still Hank Hartsfield. And we have now completed
the ehange over, aceording to telemetry data, from the command
module's fuel cells to orbital workshop power for the command
module. The workshop now providing several hundred watts, in
the neighborhood of 800 to 1,000 watts, for the command module's
powering. We're live now for air-to-ground through Carnavon
and Honeysuckle in Australia.
CC Skylab Houston through Carnavon and
Honeysuckle for 13-i/2 minutes.
PLT Rog, Hank PLT here and I've got a report
on the (garble)
CC Okay, you faded out a little bit there, Bill,
but we're ready to copy.
PLT Rog. I've got some good news and some bad
news. First the bad news. Step 6, the end of Step 6
the FMC circuit breaker popped. That's the bad news, and it's
still out. The good news is that when I did Step 7, I got all
three shutter speeds.
CC Okay, that sound's good.
PLT Looks like we're out FMC for the moment.
CC Okay, it sounds like your good news is
gooder than the bad news is bad.
PLT That's good to know we weren't sure
exactly i_ow critical that FMC was. And the rest of the
procedure down to step A has been completed. The remote opera-
tions from panel ii0 was satisfactory. I did the checklist,
the procedure for the EREP checkout checklist.
CC Okay, and just to make sure we got it
straight. When you got down to step 6 and tried that the
FMC circuit breaker popped.
PLT That's affirmative, I turned the little
gear and moved the FMC screw a half of turn and pushed the
circuit breaker back in and then whatever the next step is
yeah when I closed the elrcuit breaker, it started turning
and popped. But when we went ahead and checked the shutter
speed - everything else worked nominaly and that FMC circuit
breaker is still out.
CC Okay, what we were looking for, then
I guess the message was worded a little poorly there, when
that screw should have turned back to the original position
and I guess we might have a problem there.
PLT Can try to but I know what the original
position was. It's got a lug that sticks out on the shaft
so I I'm in about the 12:30 position from my reference
point as I looked at it. So I know how to put it back where
it was.
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CC Okay, let us roll that over for awhile,

Bill, and for the time being we certainly don't want to try
putting that circuit breaker back in.
PLT Okay I figured you'd want to know that
I figured you want to leave it the way it is, I got it all
buttoned up and everything is on tape.
CC Okay, real good, we really appreciate it.
And if you're still up there in that area we'd like to get
one more tweak on the REG adjust.
PLT Give me about 30 seconds.
CDR Hank, the housekeeping 60 alfa is complete.
the crip vent valve, is connected up to the hatch dump, and live
got the poly (?) choke on ortho (?) setting number i.
CC Roger, we copy.
PLT PLT is in the STS ready to do REG adjust.
CC Okay, on REG BUS i, weVd like to go
5 degrees counterclockwise and we need - it's still a little
bit high:, we just want to bring it down a little bit more.
PLT Okay, you've got it. Take a look at that.
CC Okay, thank you, Bill. And we really appreciate
your efforts on that S190 tonight, we wouldn't have had time
to do that tomorrow.
PLT That's what I was afraid of, I donVt
want to miss another pass of 190 stuff. Getting to sleep is a
little easier. How critical is that FMC? We can still get
some pretty good picture without it, can't we?
CC hearing in numbers about i0 percent,
we're going to look into it over the night maybe a i0 percent
resolution loss, which is really not too bad.
PLT Okay, thank you.
CC PLT, Houston. That FMC circuit breaker
wasn't already opened when you went to the camera like it
may have popped earlier, was it?
PLT That's negative. When I got to that step
I had to pull it.
CC Okay.
CDR And Hank, it'll probably be a half an
hour before I get to sleep, so if you want to make one or two
more calls to clarify the troubleshooting during the night,
well, go ahead and give me a call up to about 10:30 or quarter
of ii.
CC CDR, Houston are you still available.
CDR Go ahead Hank.
CC Okay, we've got a question about what you
read down about housekeeping 60 alfa. did you innereonnect the
cryo vent valve and hatch QD with a high pressure vent hose?
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CDR That's affirmative.

CC Okay, we had a checklist change that
went up here today that deleted that step, went up early this
morning. We didn't want that hose
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CC - okay we had a checklist change that

went up your - today that was - deleted that step, went up
early this morning. We didn't want that hose connected up
to the side hatch there, the hatch QD.
CDR You know how it is in the paper world. Okay,
I'ii go up and disconnect it. Does (garble) one okay?
CDR Okay.
CC And CDR, Houston we want you to disconnect
the hatch QD also, get the QD and the pressure vent hose off.
CDR Wilco.
CC And PLT, that was a beautiful tweak
you did on those (garble). It's just about exactly what we want.
CDR Houston, how does weight process -
processor exhaust pressure look to you there?
CC We'll check it.
CC That looks okay to us.
CDR Okay, my leader just (garble) out high
again.
CC Ok okay, I guess that's the problem
we've had with that thing all along. We're reading .006
which is good.
CDR Okay, I'm re reinitiating the squeezer
dump.
CC Skylab, we're about a minute from LOS.
We won't talk to you anymore tonight. We'll see you in the
morning. 'm sorry we hit you with so many things this
evening, you guys are doing a real good job again today.
The only little bit of news I'ii pass on to you is the
election here locally is still pretty close. Last count I
had was Hofheinz approximately 123,000 to Gottlieb 119,000.
So I guess we won't know until it's all counted.
CDR Thanks Hank, and good night.
53 seconds Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station has
now passed out of range o f the t racking antenna at Honeysuckle.
We're 35 minutes from our next acquisition of signal but we
do not expect the crew to be awake at that time. Bill Pogue
did indicate he was going to be up for a while longer, but
we expect this is good night for the crew. Busy day
aboard Skylab and a successful one with geothermal energy
scanning pass over the west coast, Mexico and Central America
early this morning. Also, a run of M092, today on the Pilot
Bill Pogue which he accomplished and completed successfully
with no adverse symptoms which is good news. All the crew
memebers now have had brief periods of er - erratic behavior
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during the M092, that's lower body _egative pressure device.

But now all of them have succeeded in completing the run with-
out problems following some slight changes in their conditions.
That's a good sign and from that point of view their exercise
continues to be excellent. The Guidance and Navigation Officer
here in Mission Control is still reviewing the information
on tomorrow's maneuvers but at the present time it looks iike
we'll h ave a new record low for maneuvers s inca our problem
with - one of the control moment gyros. Tomorrow's predictions
according to the three sources of information that the
Guidance Officer works with, the Skylab simulator here at
Johnson Space Center, which gave only four mibs or about 20
pound-seconds of thruster attitude control system g as f or
the entire arth resources m o - maneuver tomorrow. And t he
computer run u sing the momentum management program indicated
no thruster attitude control system gas at all using a
maneuver that's very similar to that one performed today,
with a few slight changes t o it. That's unusually good news.
That would m can a reduction o f v irtually 1 00 percent if we
run to zero - today's run now used in the neighborhood o f
150 p ound-seconds of thruster a ttitude control system,_s.
About a third of that used for Earth resources passes yesterday
and tomorrow's prediction at least says that we'll use only a
fraction of the gas that we used today, hat's s till - does
prevent - p resent some risk however, he indicated t hat i t
is p ossihle for t he computer run to have an area of
inaccuracy and that area of inaccuracy could cause a n expensive
use of TACS. There are some risk involved of course in any
of the maneuvers hut if that predicted run proves successful
it would be a tremendous saving of ACS gas for tomorrow.
And of course for the maneuvers on the comet Kohoutek, much
less complicated maneuvers, the use of TACS gas is expected to
he none. Of course there is a slight amount of noise so there
may he some very very slight use of the gas during desaturation
after a Kohoutek maneuver, hut at the present time we
expect that virtually that no gas will be used at all for the
two Koh - Kohoutek observations tomorrow, using SO63, the
ultraviolet airglow equipment and also the $201, which is
the comet camera carried up by the crew. That's the far
ultraviolet the far ultraviolet electronographic camera.
During this last pass Pilot Bill Pogue talked about his work
with the malfunction procedure on the 190A, the Earth resources
set of six cameras, known as the multispectral photographic
facility. He said that everything worked beautifully with
the exception of the FMC, which is the forward motion
compensation part of the equipment. That device compensates
for the movement of the space station across the ground
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approximately 4 miles a second. If the forward mou - motion

compensation equipment does not work properly tomorrow
morning, and it's expected that during the night the Earth
resources people will look into means of correcting any
problem with that device. If it should fail to work at all,
tomorrow and the - and the equipment is not able to compensate
for forward motion, it would slightly reduce the resolution
of the photography. That is to say the pictures would not
be quite as crisp as they normally are, reduction and
resolution is very very slight however, only i0 percent
almost negligible for most expermential purposes. So that
looks like very good news for tomorrow's Earth resources pass
with the 190A, which failed during part of today's pass, being
ready for operation tomorrow and also, a very very slight
use of thruster attitude comtrol system gas for the pass
tomorrow and for the two Kohoutek maneuvers. Housekeeping
60A, which is the transfer of power from the command module
to the workshop and the close out of the fuel cells was
completed successfully tonight. However, Commander Carr
had not completed it with all details. There was a checklist
change sent up to him this morning, he missed that change
involving a connection of a vent valve from the cryogenics
to the hatch and that should have been deleted from his
list of instructions aboard the space station. He did miss
that but he said it was that's a problem with all of the
paper world that the crew has. However, that was easily
corrected tonight without any problem. The power to the
command module is now being provided by the workshop's
electrical systems. The electrical general instrumentation
and life support systems engineer who's responsible for that
el
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PAO However, that was easily corrected tonight

without any problem. The power for the command module is now
being provided by workshop's electrical systems. The electrical
general instrumentation and life support systems engineer, who's
responsible for that electrical power system, says there's no
problem in doing the maneuvers for EREP which are much longer
maneuvers and, as a result, provide less electrical power. He said
it looks quite easy to balance it and they have not yet done
any powerdowns which might be done in the event power became
a critical problem. He said that at present we can balance
it by using both airlock module batteries and ATM batteries
for balancing off the total power requirements of the work-
shop. So that's good news from the point of view that
electrical power which seems to be quite satisfactory now.
After some problems with that very early in the first mission
that's pretty much cleared up. Teleprinter is still not
printing the crispest copies possible, but they are readable.
And it's probably gonna be suggested tomorrow morning, if they
like, may want to try paper from another tube. That is to say
another batch of paper. It's possible that the paper batch is
not up to standards and that may be the problem. If that
should fail they can't changeout the teleprinter altogether
and begin working with another on. That will be left up to
crew discretion probably tomorrow morning. That concludes
our activities for today. There is an Earth resources pass
scheduled for tomorrow morning. Tomorrow's scheduledalso
includes two maneuvers for the comet Kohoutek: one using the $201
(garble) electronic graphic camera; and one using S063 for comet
photography. In addition, there is approximately 4-1/2 hours
of solar observation time on a Sun that has grown quite a bit
quieter than in the past. Most of the active regions including
87/92 row moving out of view on the Sun's west limb, right -
right edge of the disk as you look at it. And there is also a
run of the M092 and 171 experiment, that's two lower body nega-
tive pressure device that was run on Pilot Bill Pogue today. That
will be run on Seience Pilot Ed Gibson tomorrow as will the
metobolic activity experiment which uses a bicycle ergometer. Crew's
also expected to perhaps take a look at the mark i exerciser,
the rope pull device that did not perform properly today.
Expect to hear from the crew next tomorrow morning about
6 o'clock. This is Skylab Control it's 22 minutes and
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SL-IV MC-656/I
Time: 06:13 CST 20:12:13 GMT
12/5/73

14 minutes, mission day 20, December 5th. We'll leave the line
up for wakeup call from CAP COMM Bob Crippen.
CC (Music).
CC Good morning, Skylab. We're AOS through - -
PLT Good morning, Crip.
CC - - Carnarvon here. And we've got you for
about another 2 minutes, and then we'll hand it over to Honeysuckle.
PLT Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston, we're going to go LOS
from Carnarvon in about 30 seconds, and I'ii have you again
at about 45 over Honeysuckle.
PLT Okay, Crip.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're back with you through
Honeysuckle Creek for 4 minutes.
CDR Hello, hello.
CC Hello, hello. Whenever you guys get a chance
to wander up and look at the teleprinter, we're kind of anxious
to know whether the messages up there are readable or not.
SPT Okay, we'll let you know.
CDR Okay, I'm taking a look at them now, Bob.
CC Okay. There is sure a lot of reading if
I have to do it all verbally.
SPT I pity the guy thatts got to write it.
CC Roger, that.
CC Woodpecker assures me it's going to work.
PLT Okay Crip, they all look good, well let's
see, not good but readable. And you may expect one or two
calls to clarify certain letters or numbers. It looks like it's
very - it's sort of dim_ but you can read it.
CC Okay. I guess it still sounds pretty much
like it looks like you explained it to us last night then.
PLT Yes.
CC Okay, we're i minute from LOS. We'll see
you again over Hawaii in about 15 minutes at 12:38. And as
you're looking through those pads there is a few things that
I'm going to have to explain to you like we have uplinked a
couple of extra VTS and ETC pads because we're going to try
to get Ed to do those so you won't have to be hustling back
there back and forth all the time. We'll talk about those
a little later.
PAO 8kylab Control, Greenwich mean time 12 hours
24 minutes. Wakeup call through the Honeysuckle tracking station.
Pilot Pogue the first to wake up this morning. He was the on-
duty Skylab crew member last night. T053 experiment for today,
viewing of the laser beam from Goddard Space Flight Center has
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been scrubbed due to bad weather in the Goddard area. Discussion

with Pilot Pogue concerning the, the reability of the teleprinter.
The crew had remarked last night that some of the messages were
unread _le. He said this morning it all looks good, but you
might expect a few ealls for clarification of some numbers or
letters in the teleprinter load which went up during their
sleep period. Today is a day for maneuvers for comet Kohoutek,
the eleventh Earth resources pass in the mission, medical experiments,
and continued observations of the Sun. Today's schedule includes
two maneuvers for comet Kohoutek. One using the $201, a far
ultraviolet electronographio camera, and one using S063 ultra-
violet airglow horizon camera. The $201, a complex camera,
records wave - light wavelengths too short to be seen by the
human eye. The short wavelengths are scattered and absorbed
by Earth's atmosphere so ultraviolet cameras used on the ground
cannot record effectively. Used in spaee, the $201 will be
more readily - will more readily record the presence of hydrogen,
oxygen, carbon monoxide, and other substanees in the comet's
cloudlike head and tail. Astronaut William Pogue will activate
the camera from the scientific airlock for just about an hour
starting at about 3:37 p.m. central standard time. A minor
attitude maneuver of the space station is associated with $201,
a roll maneuver counterclockwise. Spacecraft Commander Gerald
Carr will make this maneuver change. The amount of nitrogen
gas used in the maneuver is slight and it is expected to have
little impact on the fuel usage in the thruster attitude
control system of the space station. A morning EREP pass
along track number 20 is on schedule. Preparation for
the survey begins at 8:20 a.m., data take beginning at i0:i0 a.m.,
and continuing for 15 minutes, with the space station traveling
southeastward near Brownsville, Texas. Water, agriculture,
beach, and ocean surveys are included in this run. An intensive
photo and sensor pass of Padre Island will be made for Dr. Thomas
L. Barnett of the Johnson Space Center, one of the EREP principal
investigators. The U.S. Department of Agriculture, Dr. C. L.
Wiegand will be looking for data on citrus fruits and other
agriculture products in the Rio Grande Valley. In addition
studies of Colombia, and Central America will be made for
Dr. O. E. Fischnich of the United States - United Nations
organization. There are approximately 4-1/2 hours of solar
observation on the Sun today. That has - a Sun that has shown
generally quiet in the recent days. Sharing equally in Sun-
watching are the Science Pilot, Ed Gibson, and Astronaut Pogue.
Astronaut Gibson is the subject during today's M092/MI71 lower
body negative pressure, and metabolic activity run. He will be assisted
by Commander Gerald Carr. The medical experiment starts at
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1:18 p.m. and are scheduled to run for about 2 hours. Other
activities on tap today include S191 Earth limb photography,
S019 UV stellar astronomy, physical exercise and training_ and
personal hygiene, and routine housekeeping. Skylab IV crewmen now in
their 20th day in orbit, 2 - -
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PAO - - besides training and personal

hygiene and routine housekeeping. Skylab IV crewmen now
in their 20th day in orbit; 205 days for the Skylab space
station. Next acquisition in 9 minutes will be through
the Hawaii tracking station. At Greenwich mean time 12
hours 28 minutes_ this is Skylab Control.
PAO Skylab Control; Greenwich mean time
12 hours 36 minutes. We will have acquisition through the
Hawaii tracking station as the crew begins their 20th day
in orbit. Another full revolution with the space station
in Z-local vertical attitude this plan for today, similar
to yesterday's maneuver. Plight Director Don Puddy predicts
little if any usage of TACS propellent for this maneuver.
This will be done at orbital noon. Maneuver to conserve
fuel and put the vehicle in the proper attitude for the
Earth Resources instruments to be aimed along the groundtraek,
groundtrack 20 for EREP pass number 9 for Skylab mission.
CC Skylab, Houston; we're AOS through
Hawaii far 8 minutes.
CC SPT, Houston. Ed, I've got several
changes I'm going to need to make to your detail Plight
Plan. If you got time, we can get them this pass; if
not we can get them a little bit later. Probably the most
immediate one is that the upcoming laser photograph has
been scrubbed due to weather.
SPT I'ii be with you in a minute, Crip.
CC Okay, no - no rush, Ed.
CC I didn't give you time to rub the
sleep out of your eyes yet.
SPT We'll be past the Z-LV pass if you
wait for that, Crip. Go ahead.
CC (Laughter) Okay, do you have your
detail pad handy, Ed?
SPT Sure do_ Itm looking at it.
CC Okay, first - first line item at
12:58 you can scrub off. Okay, the at 14:51 we have you
down for Z-LV assist; we need to change that to 14:48. And
the times will be 14:48 to 15:00. Okay, you can tell me
when you got that one.
SPT Great results from the computer came in
again, huh?
CC You're - Roger that.
CC We get a little bit smart - we get a
little bit smarter on the maneuvers as we go through the
evening. Okay, now I'm going to talk a little bit more
about this maneuvering for the Z-LV. But we're actually
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going to need you on the panel there at three separate times,

and we don't need you there continuously throughout this
thing. So, I need you back again at 16:01 to 16:13 with
the Z-LV assist. And again at 16:27 to 16:38 with the
Z-LV assist.
SPT Okay, Crip, I understand the first and
last, what's the center one for?
CC Okay, what we're doing on this particular
Z-LV, it turned out so well yesterday we're going to improve
it today_, is initially when we maneuver instead of going
directly to Z-LV we're going to what we're calling it a
Z-LV offset attitude, which actually ends up putting the
principal axis in the orbital plane. Consequently the -
the torque on the vehicle should be essentially zero. And
then to get into a data take attitude, Just prior to doing
the data take, we need to go ahead and maneuver to the
real Z-LV attitude. And that's the one I got you down there
for at 16:01. And then, of course, 16:27 is when you come
out. While I'm talking about - about those, if this one is
successful, and we think it'll probably be today, the terms
that wetre using, and if you'll look at your Z-LV maneuver
pad you'll see that down there in the monitor we're calling
them in maneuver to Z-LV bias and then maneuver to Z-LV,
and then maneuver to solar inertial. We wonder if those
terms are explanatory enough and you kind of go along with
them.
SPT I understand what you're saying verbally,
Crip, and it sounds good. Let me take a look at the pad.
CC Okay, no big rush on that. You can do
it and give us a comment on it later if you'd like. Now,
Ed, there's one other item. We have sent you an ETC ops
pad. And this is a little bit tight, but I don't think it's
any tighter than what we've been asking of Bill and Jer running
down to do the ETC. gut, I take you off the panel there
at 16:13, and we have you go ahead and go to auto on the ETC
at, I believe the time is 38, 16:13. Let me verify that.
16:13:36. And that - that time is not really critical. It
only giw_s you 36 seconds to hand - I got a keyhole coming
up here. I'm going to call you on the other side of it.
CC Okay, Skylab, we're back with you out
of keyhole, and we're only a minute from LOS. Goldstone
will be at 12:50, and that's about 5 minute away. Ed, did
you copy what I was talking there about on the ETC, the
time is - doesn't leave you but about 36 seconds. However,
it doesn't hurt if you're a little bit late on that one.
SPT Got a question here, Crip. When do we
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really arrive in Z-LV and settle down? I found before the

times were a little bit tight because I had to remain at
the pane] maybe a minute or two longer to make sure we
really had settled down.
CC Okay, we normally allow 2 minutes for
settling on any time. But wetre - we're saying at the
end of the maneuver time a moment ago over how you monitor
the maneuvers. But the times I give you is when you should
be able to leave the panel with no - no problem.
SPT Okay, sounds good. We'll see how it comes
out. Give me the good words on monitoring on this other pass.
CC We'll do that.
12 hours 46 minutes. Loss of signal through Hawaii. Next
acquisition will be the Goldstone tracking station in
3 minutes and i0 seconds. We'll come back up for the
Goldstone pass.
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SPT Crip, I'm looking at the maneuver pad and

it all looks pretty clear.
CC Okay. Very good then, Ed. Tell you what,
I think we've been updating it about once a day, but we're
planning on sending you another maneuver manitor message
this morning to replace the one you got and it's still
basically the same thing. No big changes. There's one small
note and I'ii wait til we've got it onboard before I
discuss it with you.
SPT Okay. Is the technique for monitoring
outer gimbal on CMG-2 still valid?
CC Yes, sir. All of that basic technique
that we gave you is still good. We've actually - about the
only thing, in addition, is that when you get back to solar
inertial, we're gonna ask you to stay on the panel for about
5 more minutes and that's because that the the gimbal -
or the automatic CMG reset routine is not active for -
for actually 4 minutes when you get back to solar inertial
and we're gonna make it 5 to be consistent throughout. I'ii
talk to you a little bit more about that.
SPT Okay. Do we have any monitoring techniques
on the gimbal, if we run into problems there?
CC We're gonna use attitude, strickly. And
it'll be explanatory in the message, but you don't think that
when you - when you get up, you got to be on the stop and
get out so far and you automatically get the routine.
SPT Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're i minute from LOS.
We'll see you again in about 4 minutes over MILA, at 12:58.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS through MILA
for 9-1/2 minutes.
CC CDR, Houston. If you have a little while,
I'd like to - during this pass and the next one coming up,
I'd like to discuss your 233 pad and what we're planning for
future ops in that area.
CDR Okay, Crip. I'ii catch you next pass.
CC Okay. That'll be fine.
LOS. We'll see you again over Carnarvon in 40 minutes at
13:49. 13:49. •
CDR Roger, Crip. We'll see you then.
CC Rog.
13 hours 12 minutes. Loss of signal through Bermuda tracking
station. Next acquisiton will be Carnarvon in 36 minutes
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25 seconds. Ascension is shown on the plotboard as having

acquisition on this pass, however, Ascension is not up for
the pass. Next acquisition in 36 minutes i0 seconds will be
Carnarvon.
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13 hours 47 minutes. Skylab now presently in its 2959th
revolution. Acquisition coming through Carnarvon in 40
seconds, as the Skylab_s crew prepares for the EREP pass of
the morning to put the vehicle in another full revolution
in Z-LV attitude, a mode to conserve TACS propellant.
Approximately 25 seconds to acquisition. We'll hold the line
up for CAP CO_ Bob Crippen. The Flight Director is Don
Puddy.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS at Carnarvon
and we have you for about 10-1/2 minutes.
CDR Rog, Crip.
CC Okeydoke° Need to talk to both the CDR
and PLT, when they get a chance, about some pads.
CDR Okay. You got us.
CC Okay, Jer. For you, if you noticed on
your 233 pad for today, we you'd previously reported that
you were a little bit rushed on trying to get through the photos, so
what we're going to give you is the time of comet rise and
the time of sunrise and the time for your first photo and let
you pace yourself from there.
CDR Okay. I noteced this mornlng, Bob, that
the comet is getting awful close to the solar panel. I
guess it won't be much longer before we loose it. We'll
have to go to a different window.
CC Okay. If that occurs and you think it
gets a little too close before we change, well, please -
please let us know. Another item on that, we are talking about
in the future when we schedule it, allowing you 4 minutes prior to
data take and two minutes after data take as is the total time for
that, and we wonder if that's adequate?
CDR Yeah, that's about right, Crip.
CC Okeydoke. And for Bill, I need him to
get his detail pad out and make one change to that, please.
PLT Stand by i.
CC Jer, while I've got you, if you have the
201 maneuver, I need to make a change to that pad also.
CDR Okay. You can go ahead on the 201.
CC Okeydoke. I want to change the maneuver
time and star_ time right at the first to initiate the maneuver.
Maneuver time is going to be 17 minutes and that's a 05:00:21
entry. And we want you to go to ATT HOLD CMG at 21:38:00.
CDR Okay. Maneuver time is 50:21 17 minutes,
ATT HOLD at 21[:38.
CC Hog. That's 05:00:21. And I can give you
the rates in attitude since they're going to be changed slightly
because of that. X is Stand by i.
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CC Okay. X is minus .064. Y is minus .004.

And Z is minus .006.
CDR Okay. Going to ATT HOLD, X is minus
.064. Y is minus .004 and Z is minus .006.
CC That's all correct. I believe that's
all - all the changes I have for you, Jet. That will be enough.
CDR Okay. Those are the same rates going
back to SI, right?
CC The rates going back to SI are still
correct. We're not changing that maneuver time at all.
CDR Okay.
PLT PLT, ready to copy change for details.
CC Okeydoke, Bill. We forgot to put in
one momentum dump enable that we need at 22:35. We need you
to do it for us.
CC Okay. And that's the only actual pad
change I had. We did send you an ETC pad earlier. But
we're going to have Ed do that for you so you can just forget your
pad. And consequently we sent you a new VTS pad, which
instead of having you running back doing the ETC gave you,
I believe a couple more VTS targets. So you should be using
the latter one, which is numbered 2016; Charlie I is the
first page.
PLT Roger. Charlie I is the one I use.
CC Okeydoke. And the only other item, I
guess, I've got outstanding here is, day before yesterday
we had you scheduled for a houskeeping 2 Charlie. I'm not
sure who we had scheduled for that now, but we could not
find anywhere on the dump tapes the temperatures, the rate
gyro temperatures recorded. Can you confirm for us that
that was done?
PLT Rog. I did that and I thought Ed was
going to put it on tape, but he must have misunderstood
me. It was 96 degrees.
CC Understand, 96?
PLT That's affirmative.
CC And was that for all six gyros?
PLT Negative, Bob. I only saw the little
thing on one of them. So I only read one.
CC Okay. We have the things on all six of
them. So we'll find out here. Do you know which one you
read, per chance?
PLT Stand by while I go up and check them.
CC Okay. That's not important, Bill. We'll
go ahead and find out what we - whether we want to get it
repeated or what.
CC And Skylab, Houston. We need to get some -
one of you to manually close the shutter. It is closed now,
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but we want you to go ahead and actuate the switch. That'll

keep the computer from doing it automatic - opening it back
up automatically later.
SPT Crip, which shutter is that?
CC I'm sorry. The star tracker shutter.
CC PLT, Houston. I guess we've got one
other item that we need to talk about. That 190A on the
FMC circuit breaker that opened up on you.
PLT Rog. Go.
CC Okay. Before your pass today, we need
you to rotate that FMC screw one-half turn back to it's original
position from what you did it in the mal yesterday. And
then close the FMC circuit breaker with the 190A POWER OFF.
PLT Understand.
CC Okay. And if per chance that 190A does
not operate today_ we want you to check that FMC circuit
breaker and if it's open we want it to remain open and then
reinitiate - try reinitiating camera operation.
PLT Okay, and what if it - what if it doesn't
open and it doesn't work?
CC Okay. If the circuit breaker is closed,
we want you to go ahead and open the breaker and turn off
the FMC and then reinitiate the camera operation.
PLT Okay.
CC And is the SPT available for a brief
talk?
SPT Go ahead, Bob. And first let me ask you
a question. I see on the maneuver, we're not doing a
nominal cage before we start. Is that because the maneuvers
are - don't require as much momentum because of the mode we're in
now?
CC We have previously been really doing that nominal
cage to try to get our gimbal angles in a position that we knew what
they were going to be when we did the maneuver. And also
to help the momentum situation if it was required. But we
found out that by doing the cage this time, that actually got
us into trouble with the angle. So that's the reason we're not
doing it. We've actually changed our criteria, whether
we're going to be doing a nominal H-cage now. And you probably
won't see us doing it as much.
SPT Okay. Go ahead.
CC Okay. I was just going to tell you that
we're I'm getting ready to go off and I haven't sent you up
that maneuver monitor message. Basically it's the same
thing that we've had before, except we're not going to ask
you to monitor throughout the Z-LV because the Z-LV gimbal
logic comes into play 5 minutes after you have your maneuver
time going into Z-LV is timed out. So really we only need
you on the panel for that first 5 minutes. And then one other
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additional item is that once you get back to solar inertial_

I mentioned this earlier, you don't have the auto reset for
the first 4 minutes. So we're going to ask you to go ahead
and stay there for about 5 minutes to monitor that. And I
think the thing will be fairly self explainatory. We're going to
go LOS here, shortly. We'll have you again at Guam in 3 minutes,
and that's at 14:02.
SPT Okay. And things we were saying before
the maneuver, during the maneuver, and 5 minutes after (garble)
maneuver, that ought to do it.
CC That's just about what it covers.
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SL-IV MC-660/I
Time: 07:59 CST 20:13:59 GMT
12/5/73

14:00 hours, with loss of signal through Carnarvon. Next
acquisition at i minute 40 seconds will be the Guam tracking
station as Skylab IV crew members, Gerald Carr, Ed Gibson,
Pilot Bill Pogue prepare for the ninth Earth resources pass of
the Skylab IV mission. A pass which begins near the Utah-
Arizona border along groundtrack 20 and ends at the origins
of the Amazon River at the border of northern Peru and Brazil.
Groundtrack 20 was the subject of EREP instruments last week
in the first EREP pass, however, that pass was a solar inertial
data-gathering for EREP. The vehicle actually, was traveling
along ground 6 and the EREP instruments were aimed obliquely
at groundtrack 20, 260 miles to the east of the intended
groundtraek. Today will be a straight shot down for the
EREP instruments over groundtrack 20. Next acquisition in
45 seconds. We'll hold the line up for the Guam pass.
CC Skylab. AOS Guam 9 minutes for your ATM
conference.
SPT Morning, Story. Go ahead, Bill.
CC Morning.
MCC Okay, Ed. Let me start off here with a
quickie word about 82B. We've noticed a couple of times here
the 82B exposure has continued past 400 kilometers. The 40-killmeter
door signal closing the shutter during the exposures. We'd
like to pass up some words to make sure you do terminate 82B
at the 400-kilometer time. Mainly, because, if this occurs
during the long transport, the eighth exposure, we have the
potential of jamming the camera. Also the atmospheric extinction
ruins the exposure rather than truncating it, so we'd prefer to
close door at 400 kilometers and we're passing up some words
as soon as we get them through the system here.
SPT Okay. I saw something on that this morning.
Glad you caught that one.
MCC Okay. And once one other thought here.
The 54 pad that I promised you for several days now
explaining what's going on should be up this afternoon. The
teleprinter pool was a bit overloaded yesterday and there's
a 54 meeting this morning so we intend to include those
results and that should be up this afternoon to you then.
SPT Okay. I'ii look for it.
MCC Okay. What I'd like to get into here now
and actually take the rest of the pass if necessary, otherwise
I have some things to follow, is a little bit of how-goes-it
and maybe you could - (garble) me how you, Bill, and Jerry
are operating and concentrate on anything that we can do here
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on the ground to help you out.

SPT Okay. I think, the biggest thing is
that we found this certainly a little bit different than the
simulator because you got so darn many other variables that
come into play here. Not only the other ATM activities
you got like, for example, 400 K is one thing we've never
really watched too much. Some of the off-nominal modes operation
now in the experiment. The operation of all the other things
going on in the Skylab at the same time don't allow you to prepare
as much as you'd like for a (garble) - a given pass. So I
think we're just getting adjusted to that and we made a few
errors and we regret those but I think we got some good
data in the same time and we're hoping to cut down the number of
errors and increase the quality of the data as we go. I
think we're learning and just continue with the - a little
observing time in each orbit and I think we'll get there.
MCC Okay. You'll notice on today's pads that
the observing time is 5 minutes on the average, I think, per
crewman, per orbit, with occasionally some extra time for
shopping list items and things of that nature.
SPT Yeah. I found that, I personally, would
like to get a little more time up here just to think about
what I'm doing. It's been pretty mechanical, so far, and that's
not the way it should be. I think there ought to be a little
bit more time on occasion to - not only think about what's come
up that I'm assigned to do, but, also some of the targets of
opportunity, which I've really not had that much time to
observe and think about what I'm doing and that I do regret
and I hope that'll change a little as we go along.
MCC Okay - -
SPT I'm not asking for more observing time
right now, (garble) for the EVA. But I think sometime (garble).
MCC Okay. And the other thought here is we
haven't given you as much observing time as we would have
liked to because of the conflicting things of wanting to give
you observing time and also wanting to spend as much time as
we could on the active region 87/92 complex and the filament
prominences just before they disappeared over the west limb, which
they have done.
SPT No. That's understood. And I think you're
doing it right. While wetre coming up to speed and getting
experience, we ought to be doing all those things that you
think are very worthwhile to the ground so I've no complaints.
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I think it's been handled real well.

MCC Okay. A couple of thoughts here. By now,
you've probably received the update that talks about the surge
that occurred last night with material seen in H-alpha out to
about 0.04 of a solar radius out of the 87/92 complex around
behind the limb. Thought you might be interested in knowing
that 55 was on the region and began taking data right at
sunup, shortly after the surge was noticed so that in about
48 hours from that time, which is about our average turnaround
on 55 data we should know what we saw there and we'll certainly
let you know.
SPT Hey, that's very good. Go ahead.
MCC And, one other thought here, on the complex
thatts around the limb now, some numbers that you may not be
aware of. We are presently 1 day behind the limb with active
region 92. Any material that goes out further than 0.03 radii
will be seen by you. In 2 days, in other words 1 day from
now, 2 days behind the limb, the limb extinction would be
for 0.15 radii material ejected from the region. On the third
day that becomes 0.33, so that big energetic event we saw
last night could have been seen oh, about 3-1/2 days around
the limb and you might anticipate seeing some surge type
activity on the west limb here for the next day or so.
SPT Okay. We'll look for it. I'm wondering
whether I actually was able to see the surge the other night
when I did describe it. I was wondering whether that was
actually what I was looking at. The question was on the
air-to-ground once and also once on the tape, but, I imagine
eventually they'll be able to correlate what I said with what
they saw and see whether there was any correspondence.
MCC Okay. Again, we're trying that, the data
cycle on 55 is at about 48 hours before we see it and they are
correlating things of this nature and I did have some further
thought here on some 55 data, in answer to some previous
questions of yours.
SPT Okay. Just allow me about i minute at
the end to give you a couple of questions. But go ahead.
MCC Okay. Why don't you give me the questions
now .
SPT Okay. For the prominence work today.

I would propose that, if you wanted to get the spectra, that I use
shopping list i with a - which is good, but to get the spectra, I
use shopping list 12, building block 28, with the 56 to
single frames. The 82B with long exposures and then for the
55 use the 55 grating auto scan with 2 MARS which is
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- or one MAR_. which is the 26A and for shopping list 26A,
or would that be combining two of them? A second thing is
82B. In their exposures minimum and maximum for any given
phenomenon. In other words when I'm out there looking at it in
a good prominence, I'm not sure whether I'm giving them too long or
too short of an exposure in a given wavelength. Thirdly,
are they as lightly interested in comparison spectra as I
thought they were before we left, that is taking one other
prominence and then rolling Sun center until you got the
slit completely off prominence at the same altitude and taking
another spectram of the same duration and does 55 want to go along
and same thing? And lastly, is anyone interested in shopping
list item 30,. which is micro (garble) line profiles and if so
in the prominence what line alignment beta or oxygen Vl or some
other low temperature one.
MCC Okay, Ed. We'll work on those right away
and get you answers up. On the question on the comparison
spectra 82B is interested in that and 82B and 55 worked
out some compromises in the plannings yesterday whereby
we can get comparison spectra on the slit and largely still
be in prominence with the MAR.
SPT Okay. I was trying to do that yesterday, but
I just ran out of time and some of the shopping list items I
was doing.
MCC Okay, and on these other items, we'll get
you an answer up shortly through Story here and I can give you
the 55 words tomorrow. We're about 30 seconds from going
over the hill here and it looks like Goldstone is next in
about 16 minutes. Which would be about 27 past the hour.
SPT Okay. We run out of time too quick.
Thanks very much, Bill.
CC And, Ed. We'll be dumping the data voice
over Goldstone, could you tell what kind of comm setup you're
using. You're very weak this morning.
SPT Okay. I'm using the headset, Story.
The Snoopy cap, which we've got folded up here, and I'm
speaking around 2 inches from it.
CC Oh, your holding the headset in front
of your mouth?
SPT That is correct.
CC Okay. You may need to (garble) a little bit
closer.
SPT Okay. When I get a little closer some of
the p's come through kinda hard.
CC Okay.
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TIME: 08:35 CST, 20:14:35 GMT
12/5/73

14 hours 13 minutes. Loss of signal through Guam tracking
station. Next acquisition in 14 minutes 45 seconds through
the Goldstone tracking station as Skylab readies for the
upcoming EREP pass along groundtrack 20 on the 2961 revolution
of the Earth. Presently the vehicle in revolution 2959.
Discussions during the Guam pass with backup Pilot Bill Lenoir,
concerning the daily ATM conference and activities on the Sun,
and general operations of the ATM console for today. Next
acquisition in 14 minutes. At Greenwich mean time 14 hours
14 hours 27 minutes, with the crew readying the spacecraft
for the upcoming EREP - Earth resources pass on the upcoming
revolution. WeVll hold the line up for this stateside
pass.
CC Skylab; AOS stateside 16 minutes. Be
dumping the data voice here at Goldstone.
SPT Story_ while I got the coronagraph
display up, why don't I just give you a couple of words
on how it differs from yesterday.
CC Go ahead, Ed.
SPT Okay, we got some fairly faint streamers
appearing. One at 2 o'clock, relative to solar north,
and a very faint one down there at 4 o'clock. The ones at
3 and 3:30 are still fairly pronounced, the one at 3 being
the strongest. It looks like the four which we had yesterday.
The outer two have become fainter and moved further towards the
pole. Itm not seeing the movement, of course, but I could picture
that happening. The east limb has got two fairly prominent ones;
one at 8:30 and one about 9:30. And a very faint one just
a little bit south of 9:30, and I see no evidence (garble) transient.
CC Okay, Ed.
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SPT Houston, SPT.

CC Go ahead, Ed.
SPT Okay, one other thing here in looking
at the XUV monitor, the picture which I've gotten from it.
The only things which are really evident are the three active
regions which we know ofp. and the holes at the north and south
pole, and one feature which l've noticed for several days now
is pretty much on the Equator about 0.5 or 0.4 radii from along
the Equator towards the west. And it's about (garble) diameter or
fairly round. (garble)this morning.
CC Say again, Ed.
SPT Did you copy much of the transmission,
Story?
CC All but the last sentence.
SPT Okay, it stands out very clearly, I have
seen it previously. It's a fairly uniform but faint circular
structure. It's not the type of thing which I am used to seeing
in the XUV monitor. It could be Just fortuitous that it comes
out this shape, and that uniform, but there may be more to it.
CC Okay, got it. Thank you.
CC Could you give us the diameter again please, Ed.
SPT Yeah, I'd call it about 0.15 solar radii.
CC Okay.
CC And your transmissions are a lot stronger
the last coup]_e of sentences, Ed, than they were earlier.
SPT Okay. It depends on how close I hold the
mike to my mouth, Story, and I had some comments the other day
that the p's were coming kind of hard. And I can hear it right
now on the intercom, l'll try to hold it close, and if that
sounded good to you, then let me know.
CC Okay, we'll take the hard p's. And we're
30 seconds from LOS here. About 40 minutes to Carnarvon at
15:27. Be dumping the data voice there.
SPT Okay. Talk to you then, Story.
45 minutes. Loss of signal through the Bermuda tracking station.
Today's EREP maneuver to aim Skylabts electronic instruments
and cameras at the Earth is anticipated to use little or no
attitude propellant. Like yesterday's activity, Skylah for
a full revolution will remain in an attitude with its solar
panels facing away from the Sun. Based on simulations at the
Marshall Space Flight Center and Johnson Space Center, Terry
Watson, Guidance and Navigation Officer reports very few mibs
are expected to be used to aim the EREP instruments at the intended
groundtrack which begins near the Utah, Arizona border and ends
near the origins of the Amazon River at the border of northern
Peru and Brazil. Today's maneuver starts 5 minutes before
orbital noon at GMT 14:50 in about 3 minutes from now. While
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the spacecraft passes over the Amazon River Delta in Brazil.

The control moment gyros are scheduled to pitch the spacecraft
to a bias Z--LV attitude. Skylab will be over the east coast
of Brazil when it reaches this bias Z-LV attitude with the
vehicle's X-axis parallel to the intended groundtrack. Because
of vehicle weight and center of gravity this attitude tends
to pull the workshop end down. This causes a momentum buildup
and would result in TACS firing during the EREP pass. To preclude
these firings a true LZ maneuver using a - again using the CMGs
will be made at Greenwich mean time 16 hours 3 minutes, 7 minutes
before the start of the EREP pass. The Skylab will arrive at
the EREP attitude at Greenwich mean time 16:08, as the space station
crosses over Mount Shasta in California. At the close of the
15-minute EREP pass Skylab will be remaneuvered back to solar
inertial attitude. It is scheduled for the vehicle to he back
in solar inertial when it again crosses over southern Brazil
at Greenwich mean time 16 hours 34 minutes, or for a period
of almost 99 minutes in the Z-local vertical attitude. During
this period the ATM solar panels will not be aimed directly
at the Sun. During the EREP pass the Sun will be shining at the
underside of the solar panels. No excessive electrical power
drain is anticipated during this pass since the only instruments
being used will be the EREP instruments. To better explain the
maneuver Guidance and Navigation Officer Terry Watson pictured
the maneuver like the face of a clock with Skylab traveling
counterclockwise. At 1 o'clock, or Greenwich mean time 14:50
into the mission, the bias Z-LV attitude is initiated. The
vehicle arrives at this attitude 5 minutes later or at 12 o'clock
on the face of the clock, orbital noon. The vehicle remains in
this attitude until 4 o'clock on the clock at Greenwich mean
time 16 hours 3 minutes where another CMG maneuver pitches
the workshop down slightly for the true Z-LV mode. At 2 o'clock
the EREP pass begins. It ends at 1 o'clock on the face of the
clock. Shortly before 12 o'clock orbital noon, the solar inertial
maneuver is made, and 5 minutes later or at I0 o'clock on the
face of the clock again, Skylab is returned to the solar inertial
attitude. Yesterday's similiar maneuver used 34 mibs. Today's
maneuver is expected to use little if none minimum impulse burns
to orient the vehicle into the Z-LV attitude and return to solar
inertial attitude. This maneuver should be in the process of
being begun at this moment as the spacecraft crosses over the
Amazon Delta. Next acquisition 36 minutes 35 seconds. At
Greenwich mean time 14 hours 50 minutes, this is Skylab Control.
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12/5/73

15 hours 26 minutes. We've had loss - We have acquisition
through Carnarvon in 50 seconds. We'll hold the line up
for CAP COMM Dr. Story Musgrave.
CC Skylab, AOS Carnarvon for about 7 minutes.
And be dumping the data voice here.
SPT Hello, Story. Got a good echo down
here. Your transmissions are coming through with echo
around 1-1/12 or 2 seconds later.
CC Yeah. It seems you guys are too.
SPT You're really making sure we hear what
you have to say.
SPT Story, got a question.
CC Go ahead, Ed.
SPT On the ETC, they have been turning it
on around 14 minutes before we actually go to AUTO. And I'm
wondering whether it's necessary to leave this thing grinding
away here for 14 minutes or whether I could turn it on around
i0 seconds before I go to AUTO, or 15.
CC That's a good point, Ed. We'll check
on that.
SPT This thing really sounds like a coffee
grinder. And I'd hate to leave it on for a long period of time
and burn something out.
CC And, Ed, while I've got you on that
XUV monitor circular structure, we believe that's an artifact.
We've seen it from downlink 3 or 4 days ago and we
also saw it on SL-III. And when you're at the monitor next,
you might try rolling to see if it stays in the same place
and that will differentiate an artifact from something on
the Sun.
SPT Yeah. I was going to come back with you
on that one, Story. I got to looking back through the pictures
that we've taken and noticed that it was there for 3 days
ago in the same location. So I had the feeling we were looking
at artifact. They sure stood out nice and clear, though,
and because of the integration times I'm not using on the
pictures, it hasntt come out until about 2 to 3 days ago.
CC Yeah. We think it's in the instrument.
SPT Thank you.
SPT Thought I had something real interesting
there.
CC You did.
CC Ed, Houston.
CC That's a good point on the ETC pad, good
call. You can change the power on time to 16:12:36. And
that's on pad 2017 Alpha.
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SPT Okay. Thank you.

CC Thank you.
CC Skylab, we're a minute to LOS. Six
minutes to Guam.
15 hours 34 minutes. We've had loss of signal through
Carnarvon tracking station. Next acquisition in 6 minutes
and i0 seconds will be Guam. G&N officer reporting to
Flight Director Milton Windier, the vehicle attitude looks
good. And at this point telemetry on the ground shows no
mibs have been fired, no minimum impulse burns initiated for
placing the vehicle in the Z-local verticle attitude. Next
acquisition in 5 minutes 45 seconds through Guam. At
Greenwich mean time 15 hours 35 minutes, this is Skylab
Control.
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TIME: 09:35 CST, 20:15:35 GMT
12/5/73

15 hours 40 minutes. Acquisition coming through the
Guam tracking station in 45 seeonds. Telemetry coming
from the spacecraft indicates still no mibs being initia+ed
for this maneuver. We'll hold the line up for CAP COMM
Story Musgrave.
CC Skylab; AOS Guam 6 minutes.
CDR Say again, Story.
CC Nothing, we're just here for about
5 minutes, Guam.
CDR Okay, Story, I'm in the EREP C&D Prep
Checklist. I just got finished setting the FMC and running
through the - the camera shutter speed test. We took the
FMMC and it manually rotated the shaft back to the position
we found it in yes_terday, and closed the circuit breakers.
And when I aired up the 190 power and started the shutter,
we started it at low, the FMMC circuit breaker popped again.
And what happened is the FMMC drove back to the stop that
we found it on when it popped yesterday evening. It drove
back to that stop and in the breaker box.
CC Copy, Jer.
CDR So as it stands now, Story, we've left
the breaker out; we do have shutter speed with no problem.
CC Okay.
CC Okay, Jer, and we've got nothing additional
on that, just press on.
CDR Roger, Story. What do you suppose
would happen if we backed that that screw on the FMMC back
more than one turn? That is, back to the 12 o'clock position
but go one and three quarter turns instead of just three
quarters? I wonder if it would still drive to the stop and
pop the breaker then?
CC Stand by I.
CC Jer, for this pass we recommend going
with it as is. We'll have about a i0 percent degradation
of data. And we'll work on it after this pass later.
CDR Okay.
CC Skylab, we're at 30 seconds to LOS. We'll
see you over Goldstone at 16:04. And we made another
SWS run and in the first 5 minutes of that maneuver, please
ignore the - the 70 percent criteria on the gimbal angles,
it'll take care of itself and we'll be able to look at it.
Just monitor your attitude.
CDR Okay, Story; will do.
PAO Skylab Control; 15 hours 48 minutes.
Loss of signal through Guam. Next acquisition in 16 minutes
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25 seconds will be the Goldstone tracking station. At that

time Skylab orientating to its attitude for the Earth
resources pass along groundtrack 20. Today's Earth resources
pass number ll_ actually number 9 in the program, the first
two having been cancelled earlier in the mission. A - an
important task for this EREP pass is gathering data on
important agricultural investigations being coordinated
by the food and agricultural organization of the United
Nations. Intent is to evaluate crop_ yeild, and production
in Columbia, Also, are mapping studies in Honduras, Costa
Rica, and Nicaragua, being coordinated by the Interameriean
Geodetic Survey, a U.S. agency, in cooperation with the
countries involved. No data has been acquired on previous
flights for this - this mapping studies in Honduras, Costa
Rica, and Nicaragua. Also on tap today are studies of
volcanoes in Nicaragua. Studies being conducted for principal
investigators as well as a student investigation, educational
experiment number 12, EDI2, a volcanic study. This is
an experiment composed by Troy A. Credis, a 9th grade student
at Kent Junior High School, in Kent, Washington. His proposal
using data from the S191, S192, as well as the 190 cameras,
the A and B, to determine if remote sensing can detect
increased thermal radiation from known volcanoes in order
to predict imminent eruptions. Volcanoes being looked at
in Nicaragua today, there are four. These include the
Concepcion Volcano on an island in Nicaragua and Lagoon,
the Masaya Volcano, south of Managua, Nicaragua, and
Cerro Negra at the edge of the Managua Lagoon, north of
Managua, and the Telica, which is north of Leon in
Nicaragua. Also plan for study today, by the U.S. Department
of Agriculturel is soil type studies along the groundtrack
20. This is the second time groundtrack 20 has been studied
by EREP instruments on Skylab IV. The first EREP pass, a
solar inertial pass last week, was conducted along ground-
track 6. However, the instruments were aimed at the ground-
track 20 which was approximately 240 miles east of the
intended groundtrack; the cameras and instruments aiming
obliquely at groundtrack 20. Also under investigation today
for the U.S. Department of Agriculture for Dr. W. G. Hart,
U.S. Department of Agriculture in the Rio Grande Valley,
of studies of insect infestation. Dr. Hart reported results
from Skylab II. He was able to detect insteck insect
infested - infestation in the Rio Grande area. And this is
to obtain followup data, is important to demonstrate the
progress of the infestation and detectability at a different
season. Also, scheduled for today's investigation are sensor
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performance studies by various agencies including the U.S.

Naval Research Laboratory, at the NASA Johnson Space Center
Skylab Program Office. We will have acquisition in ii minutes
and 50 seconds through the Goldstone tracking station as
the crew is prepared to begin this ER - Earth resources
pass. The vehicle still in Z-local vertical attitude,
a maneuver which was performed at Greenwich mean time
14 hours 50 minutes, over an hour ago. No TACS at this time
has been used according to ground telemetry through the
Guam station. The maneuver designed to minimize use of
TACS by putting the vehicle into Z-LV attitude at orbital
noon. Next acquisition in ii minutes i0 seconds. At
Control.
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PAO Skylab Control. Greenwich mean time 16 hours

2 minutes. Coming through the Goldstone tracking station in
approximately 2 minutes. The crew will be on VOX during this
pass, Earth resources pass, to gain mapping information on
several Central American countries, as well as crop data
for the United Nations. Studies of insect infestation in
lower Rio Grande citrus crops and volcano studies in Nicaragua.
We'll hold the line up for this pass. Acquisition scheduled in
approximately 1 minutes 45 seconds.
CDR 3 minutes to EREP, START.
CC Skylab, we're reading you loud and clear.
Stateside for 15 minutes.
CDR Roger, Story.
CC Maneuver's looking good.
CDR Have 1 minute to EREP, START.
CC And for the PLT. On site 330, we expect
it may be clear but, there are some clouds to the north,
which are moving out. Your series 300 sites all should
be clear. You series 500 sites will be about 0.4 to 0.7, Bill.
PLT Roger, copy, Story. Thank you.
CC And, Ed, you do not have to monitor the
maneuver for 5 the 5-minute settling period after 2 or
3 minutes there we'll be here looking at it and you'll feel
free to go ahead to the ETC.
SPT Okay. Thanks very much, Story.
CDR On my mark, it'll be 07 - -
SPT thinking about how I'ii monitor this
and in case - -
CDR MARK, EREP START.
SPT get to reinitiate a maneuver to the
new Z-LV attitude.
CDR Stand by for VTS AUTO CAL.
SPT I think I would need the proper DAS setting
to make up for (garble).
CDR (garble) VTS AUTO CAL.
SPT - - seeing as we've put in (garble).
CDR Standing by.
CDR MARK.
PLT MARK.
SPT I would probably need one which would take
care of the cumulative of those two, which you've already put in.
CDR On my mark, it'll be 07:30. Stand by.
CDR MARK. SCATTEROMETER to STANDBY; ALTIMETER
to STANDBY.
CDR On my mark, it'll be 08:30. Stand by.

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CDR MARK. S194 to MANUAL.

CDR Shutters are still running on Sl90.
CC Okay, Jer. And Ed, you were cut out by
the C&D ops. Could you repeat what you said, please.
SPT Yeah. I could talk with you more on it
later, but, essentially what I would need is the fine maneuver
up here, which is a cumulative of the two I've already put in,
in case I would have to reinitiate that maneuver. Z-LV plus
the fine.
CC We got it, Ed.
CDR On my mark It will be 16:10:00. Looking
for an Sl91 READY light.
CDR MARK. S191 READY light on at i0. Reference
going to 6.
CDR On my mark it'll be 10:48.
CDR Stand by.
CDR MARK. SCATTEROMETER ON, RADIOMETER ON.
CDR MARK. DOWNLINK going to POSITION 3.
CDR On my mark it will he 11:17.
CDR Stand by.
CDR MARK. S192 to READY.
CDR At 23, stand by.
CDR MARK. SI90 MODE to AUTO.
CDR Hey, it sounds like the S190 is clunking
away all right.
CC Okay.
CDR MARK. SCATTEROMETER to STANDBY.
CDR MARK. RADIOMETER to STANDBY at 46.
CDR At 11:50 the ready light on S190 went out.
CDR MARK. The 192 MODE to CHECK. That was
at 57:12:02.
CDR MARK. RADIOMETER OFF.
CDR 12:08.
CDR MARK. ALTIMETER going ON. 190 MODE to
STANDBY. FRAME RATE to 05. Next mark will be at 12:30.
CDR Stand by.
CDR MARK. S190 MODE SINGLE.
CDR Stand by.
CDR MARK. $90 to SINGLE.
CDR On my mark ETC to AUTO, Ed, at 36.
CDR MARK.
CDR Next mark is at 13:53.
CDR Stand by.
CDR MARK. S190 to MODE AUTO.
CDR Stand by.
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CDR MARK. ALTIMETER to STANDBY at 14 even.

MODE going to 3.
PLT I'ii keep the VTS operator on this one side
of
CDR MARK. At 14:12 DOWNLINK going to 7.
CDR Got a little time now. i0 seconds.
CDR Standby.
CDR At 14:28 we'll get a mark.
CDR MARK. ALTIMETER ON.
CDR MARK. At 14:34 the 192 MODE to CHECK.
CDR The S190 ready light went out at 14:40.
MODE is STANDBY. FR is going to 41.
CDR 14:51, ETC to STANDBY, okay, Ed.
CDR SHUTTER SPEED to 140. At 15 the DOWNLINK
is going OFF.
PLT Okay. PLT, here. Successful on 330, 305,
308, 307. Very good tracking sequences on all targets.
CC Great, Bill.
CDR Stand by.
CDR MARK. 190 MODE SINGLE.
CDR Stand by.
CDR MARK. 190 MODE SINGLE.
CREW Okay.
CDR Okay, Ed. At 16:26 the ETC to AUTO. In
5 seconds.
CDR Stand by.
CDR Mark it.
CDR How's the weather down there this morning,
Bill?
PLT It's was a very good on all my stateside
passes. I've started to pick up quite a few clouds down here
in Central America.
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CDR How's the weather down there this

morning, Bill?
PLT It's was very good on all my stateside
passes. I'm starting to pick up quite a few clouds down here
in Central America.
PLT Primary is 565
CDR MARK. S190 MODE to AUTO. My mark
will be :[7:40.
CDR MARK. S192 MODE to READY.
PLT Hey, got the primary target.
PLT 3 degrees; good.
PLT Thing looks like it has water in the
top of it, in the cone. Must mean we're active. Maybe it's
smoke I see.
PLT Okay, I'm going to try to get more
than one, Story. I'm getting real good data on this primary
one.
CC Okay, Bill.
PLT I'm going to track it down to about
20 degrees and see if I can get another one. Okay, there's
that one. All right (garble)
CDR On my mark 18:40; stand by.
CDR MARK. ALTIMETER to STANDBY. RANGE is - -
PLT Yes, I had it.
CDR 78.
PLT Beautiful.
CDR MODE is going to 5.
PLT This one's - No, I guess that was a cloud.
PLT (Garble) getting it about 8 degrees,
Story. (Garble).
PLT Beautiful. Got two of those boogers.
Dammit. i (garble) down the side of this thing.
PLT (Garble) I don't know if those
are clouds or that's smoke.
PLT Back on the top of it.
CC Skylab, we're 30 seconds to LOS.
i0 minutes to the Vanguard. You're looking very good.
You may get a few descent firings, that's all.
CDR Roger, Story. Thanks.
PLT Beautiful. Man, it's got an extra one
even. (Garble) is 564. Got 565 and 564. Good tracking on
both of them.
16 hours 21 minutes. Loss of signal through the MILA
tracking station at the close of the EREP pass. Commander
Gerald Carr reporting the S190A is clunking right along
okay. Apparently, the malfunction experienced yesterday
did not reoccur and the instrument followed the track
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and obtained pictures in six separate cameras in the

S190 experiment. Pilot Pogue who was operating the VTS the S191
reported very good tracking on all targets. Targets today
were the Lavae flow outside of White Sands, New Mexico,
Padre Island area, as well as volcanoes in Nicaragua. He
said that he obtained 564 which is Concepcion, it's in an
island in the Nicaraguan Lagoon, as well as Masaya which is
south of Managua. He described i volcano as it looked like
there's water in the cone, but he commented that maybe it's
just smoke I see. At the close of this EREP pass, 6 minutes
after the vehicle returns to solar inertial attitude the
VTS, viewfinder tracking system, with this 16-millimeter
camera attached, the data acquisition camera will make
photographs of the Earth's limb as the vehicle returns to
solar inertial attitude. This photography will last
approximately 6 minutes. Eight different sep - eight
seperate photographic sessions are scheduled with the
16-millimeter camera. _uring this Earth resources pass
the SI90A multispectural camera was on from New Mexico over
Texas, the U.S. over Central America, and the Isthmus vicinity
through Central Colombia, the latter gathering information
for United Nations for crop inventory studies. The SI90B
Earth terrain camera was on over the Pecos River in Texas
through the Gulf and over Centr 1 America, through Central
Columbia about 400 miles south of Bogata. Data gathered
in Columbia again being done for the United Nations food
studies. The S191 infrared spectrometer was gathering data
along the groundtrack of thermal information over the entire
track southwest of Great Salt Lake, through Colombia and
into Western Brazil. S192 multispectral scanner recorded
characteristics of Corpus Christi, Padre Island area of Texas,
and again over Central America. S193 altimeter measured
Earth terrain heights over New Mexico, Texas and the Gulf,
and over the coastal waters of Colombia and inland. S193
radiometer/scatterometer gathered data over the White Sands
test only. Briefly over Ecuador the S194 L-band microwave
radiometer was initiated. The close of EREP pass number 9
the vehicle returning to solar inertial attitude. At this
time the velhicle maneuver beginning at Greenwich mean time
16 hours 25 minutes 30 seconds from now. Vehicle should
be back in solar inertial attitude at Greenwich mean time
16 hours 34 minutes. Telemetry on the ground reflects no
mibs at all fired up to this point. The G&N officer advise
Flight Director Milt Windler when they expect to fire maybe
a few here at the close of the maneuver. Next acquisition
in 4 minutes 20 seconds through Vanguard tracking ship. At
Greenwich mean time 16 hours 25 minutes, this is Skylab Control.
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tracking ship on this the start of revolution 2961 for
Skylab space station. We'll hold the line open. CAP COMM
Dr. Story Musgrave.
CDR Town is much like (garble) area,
and thought it would be kind of an interesting five frames
for somebody interested in cultural patterns and land use.
About another 15 minutes until we start the Earth limb.
CC Skylab, we've reading you loud and clear
through the Vanguard for 9 minutes.
CDR Roger, Story. We got FILM ADVANCE
MALFUNCTION number 3 light on. I suspect that that roll's
probably out of film.
CDR ALTIMETER worked according to oil today.
CC Okay, we were expecting an UNLOCK
down through South America.
CDR Okay, if we - if we got It_ I didn't
see it.
PLT Ed, I don't think you got it, it didnVt
go out by itself. That procedure, by the way, had to put
over there.
CUR Yeah, I saw that.
PLT Okay, I'm sorry I didn't tell you about
that.
CC And, Bill, those are active volcanoes
you were looking at; you may have been seeing smoke.
PLT Yeah, I couldn't tell. Number 564 was
smoking quite a bit; 565 was not, it was pretty - pretty
clear. I got right down in the middle of the crater of it.
Very clear; good clear day.
PLT Dawn (?) is covered with clouds today.
CC Jet, our best guess is that number 3 is
out of film.
CDR Okay, Story.
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PLT Okay, I'm going to take about 5 frames at the

top of the fifth (garble) I see here. Okay, now I'm gonna go to
(garble) clear area. The DAC OFF.
PLT There's some real boomers building up
down there. (Garble)
CC PL, Houston.
CDR Go ahead, Story. He's listening.
CC Okay. At the bottom of the C&D pad, under
post remarks, enable 190 FHC, would you delete that, please.
PLT That's in work.
CDR Have about 9 minutes to go.
PLT Okay. I start some of mine (garble) at 16:40
approximately.
CDR Okay.
CC Skylab, we're a minute til LOS and about
an hour and 4 minutes to Goldstone at 17:41. You've only
used three mibs to date. We show you looking good. There may
be a couple of descent firings at orbital midnight and orbital
noon. And prior to the next sunrise you may get a barber
pole on ATM batteries 13 and 15. It's no problem.
CDR Okay. Thank you, Story.
SPT Thank you, Story. You guys down there
are getting smarter and smarter.
CC We're trying hard and it sounds like you
guys ran an excellent pass.
CDR Thank you.
16 hours 39 minutes. Loss of signal through the Vanguard
tracking station. The crew being advised that on the ground
telemetry shows only 3 mibs fired to this point, which is a
small record for Skylab. 3 mibs, about 13 pound-seconds of
TACS propellant used for this EREP maneuver. Next acquisition
in i minute 40 seconds, - i hour and i minute from now through
Goldstone. At Greenwich mean time 16 hours 40 minutes, this
is Skylab Control.
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17 hours 4] minutes. Acquisition coming through Goldstone
tracking station in 50 seconds. This is the last stateside
pass of the day for the crew of Skylab IV. Science Pilot
Ed Gibson _lhould be preparing his lunch. His meal today,
consists of veal, peaches, grapefruit drink, and biscuits.
WeVll hold the line open for this pass. Acquisition in 25
seconds, CAP COMM Dr. Story Musgrave.
CC Skylab, AOS Goldstone, ii minutes.
CC And, Ed, when you get a minute free fro-
running your JOPS. Got about three things for you.
SPT Okay, Story. Let me get this one set up
and running and I'ii be right with you.
CC Okay.
CC And who's riding the ergometer, Jet or Bill?
PLT PLT.
CC Okay, I'ii catch you later.
PLT Go ahead, Story. I can listen.
CC Okay. We sent a general message up to
you on S183 ops if we had used the alternate flight plan.
Now we will be scheduling that on a prime Flight Plan tomorrow,
so don't throw that message awav.
PLT Roger.
CC Later on today you've got an S063 CST-I
that's a stow, but you're gonna be running 183 tomorrow, so we
suggest that you leave the AMS in the south, tonight.
PLT Okay. Will do.
CC And, another one you've probably figured
out already. You got a pad of S063 ops, and we got some
wrong wording there. It says S063KOH.
PLT (Garble) it out.
CC No, that's not for you. That's for Ed.
I'ii catch him, sorry.
SPT Okay, Story. Go ahead.
CC Ed. After you changed out the paper and
the cartridge, last night, did the legibility that - the
teleprinter messages improve?
SPT Yes, it did, Story, and right now they're
all looking pretty good.
CC Okay. Understand they're satisfactory.
SPT Yes, they are.
CC Okay, and you'll be running a TV-II7, that's
the particale migration, during an ATM pass, later on today,
and it says to voice record observations, if that recording
in any way interferes with your ATM ops, it's not required and you can
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get it later.
SPT How long of an observation period is
needed there, Story?
CC It's (garble) every 5 minutes, Ed.
CC All we're saying is that the voice
voice-recorded observations are optional.
SPT Okay. Because of the large amount of
gear that thing required, rather than setting it up in the
MDA, I've worked on it a little bit last night. We've had to
move it down into the OWS, so that's where it stands right
new and I'm gonna see whether it might be easier to do it
down there with one of my other activities or take the
extra time up and move it back up here. I'ii work it.
CC And, Ed, we show you pointing off the
Sun, you'll need to be in mechanical reference.
SPT Good point. Thank you.
SPT Like putting socks on an octopus, you
just can't leave it go for an instant.
CC And, you want to be in reference mode too,
Ed.
CC Skylab, we're 30 seconds to LOS. 13 minutes
to the Vanguard. Be dumping the data voice at Vanguard.
17 hours 54 minutes. Loss of signal through the Goldstone
tracking station on the last pass, stateside pass, today for
the crew of Skylab IV. Next acquisition in i0 minutes
45 seconds will be the Vanguard tracking ship. Telemetry,
on the ground, shows 5 additional mibs have been fired since
the return to solar inertial. A G&N officer here advised
Flight Director Milt Windier, this is to be expected. The
this is due to the fact that the spacecraft is still, among
other things, venting the excess nitrogen/oxygen from the
command module fuel cells, as well as venting of the anti-
solar scientific airlock, after operation of the Earth terrain
camera. A total of 8 mibs fired for today. Well within the
range of predicted firings and well below those previous EREP
passes. Science Pilot Gibson advised to realign the experiment
pointing control of the ATM. He was advised he was off line
with the Sun and he commented it's like putting socks on an
octopus. You can't leave it alone for a minute. Next
acquisition in 9 minutes and 20 seconds through Vanguard.
At Greenwich mean time 17 hours 56 minutes. This is Skylab
Control. There'll be a news briefing in building i at 2:30 p.m.,
today, with Dr. George Courets, the prinicpal investigator
for the S183 experiment. He will review the data that he
has received from the previous flight. That's Dr. George
Courets of the S183 experiment at 2:30 in Building 1 newsroom.
Next acquisition in 8 minutes 40 seconds. This is Skylab
Control.
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LOS. We'll see you over Tananarive in about 16 minutes

at 18:31.
18 hours 17 minutes. Loss of signal through Vanguard
tracking ship. Next acquisition in 14 minutes and 15
seconds will be Tananarive_ on this the start of revolution
2962 for the Skylab space station; in it's 205th day in orbit.
Science Pilot Ed Gibson at the ATM console operating the
solar telescopes for during one Sun side pass, one of 6 passes
today the ATM will be manned. 4 hours and 30 minutes are
scheduled for manned operation of the ATM console. Already
more than 23 hours have been accumulated at manned operation
of the ATM since the crew began mannin_ the ATM more than
a week ago. Next acquisition at Tananarive in 13 minutes
and i0 seconds. At Greenwich mean time 18 hours 18 minutes,
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tracking station in 45 seconds. This is the 2961 revolution
of Skylab IV, the 20th day in the mission for crew members
Gerald Carr, Ed Gibson, and Bill Pogue. We'll hold the
line up through this Vanguard pass. CAP COMM, Dr. Story
Musgrave.
CC Skylab, we're AOS through the Vanguard
for ii minutes; be dumping the data voice here. Ed, let
me know when you got a minute.
SPT Okay, Story, I got a question for you
on the ATM pointing.
CC Go ahead.
SPT Okay, it says to point up from the
last exposure_ but from our discussion this morning I assume
that what they wanted was to get 82B moved to a positio-
off of the prominence. So I had to do a pointing down. However,
that means that 55 is not going to get as much of a mirror
auto raster of a prominence. And I thought the emphasis on
this par _cular one was placed on 82B so I went in that
direction. And I'd llke to understand whether that was
a correct decision or not.
CC Stand by i.
CC And, Ed, on your mirror auto raster, you're
still in mechanical reference, so you need to add 102 to
whatts on the pad to get to the right grating position.
CC And on your question, Ed, 82B does
have the emphasis and pointing away from the prominence is
highly desirable. Thank you.
SPT Thank you, Story. I'm wondering if
you - I could make a request for this type of schedule.
When they put something on here which we know will be
pointing off the limb, we don't have any mechanical refs
reminder in the JOP Summary Sheets for this particular building
block. Kind of helpful if they put it on the pad, because that's
what's caused me to be behind here on 55 all the way.
CC Okay, Ed, we'll do it.
CC And, Ed, we see SO54 running. The pad
deleted that for this pass. And we were going to configure
that for shopping list 31.
SPT Yeah, Story, the pad which came up
had the line from 56 printed out three times. And I quick
looked at it arld said we're set on mid-second exposure and
took that to be 54. I'ii go ahead and reconfigure them.
CC Okay, tha-ks.
CC Skylab, we're a couple of minutes to
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18 hours 30 minutes. Acquisition through Tananarive
coming in 50 seconds. We'll hold the line up for this
Tananarive pass.
CC Skylab, A0S through Tananarive for
7 minutes.
CC And, Ed, when you've got a minute,
I've got about 3 things for you.
CC Ed, the TV 117, you can finish that
any time during the day at any location that's convenient
to you. And when you get done return the experiment package
to the chiller because we'll be scheduling ops number 2 tomorrow.
SPT Okay.
CC And on your S063 pad, you've probably
already seen it, there's an error in the title. The
title reads S063 KOH, it should be S063 COP.
SPT Okay.
CC And, I've got some answers to some
of your questions that came up during the ATM conference
this morning._ And there may be a couple of them you'll
want to copy down.
SPT Okay. Very good, Story. Go ahead.
CC Your proposal to do shopping list
item 12, building block 28 for 56/82B. And shopping list
26 for 55, that's a good proposal. For 82B long exposures
use a minimum of 2 minutes and a max of 16 minutes with
12 minutes as the optimum. For 82B short exposures use
i0 minutes mln and 16 minutes max. 82B is still interested
in background specter. They get background for short wavelengths
in orbits starting - Well you've already passed that one
17:39 GMT. And for long in orbit at 23:54 GMT. 55 does
not feel a shopping list item 30 is necessary. Shopping list
26 is preferred.
SPT Okay. Could I have those times again,
real quick, please?
CC Okay. For 82B long exposures, a minimum
of 2 minutes and a max of 16, 12 is optimum. For 82B
short use i0 minutes min and 16 minutes max.
$PT Okay. Thanks very much.
CC Yes, sir.
SPT And 55 is set up for a mirror line
scan. The mirror line scan is tangent to the limb, 20 arc
seconds off the limb, which is where I've been working all
this orbit. So I'm just 90 degrees in rotation from what
I have been. You'll be looking at the whole prominence
of the mirror line scan, they've got around a little over
a minute or so going into sunset here and they'll get the
remainder codling out.
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CC Copy.
SPT Story, how did the TV effort from yesterday
come out? There was two problems that may have come in there.
One is perhaps the sound level was not high enough, as you
pointed out this morning, using that speaker. And secondly,
I did not receive the note on it or see the teleprinter pad
on what was desired until this morning.
CC That's the ATM downlink you're referring
to?
SPT That was the TV 28, I believe, it was the
picture of the ATM operation.
CC From what we saw on TV 28, it's pretty
good, Ed. We'll get you a better answer over Hawaii in
40 minutes at 19:16.
SPT Okay. Thank you. We need some feedback.
All we got here was that monitor, and we really can't tell
what the quality of it all is.
CC Yeah. We'll keep it coming up. I'ii
get you a better answer over Hawaii.
SPT Story, I think that these times that
you're (static) - -
CC Okay. We're back with you, Bill. And
you'll have to give that entire one again.
PLT Yeah, Story, that was the SPT.
SPT I was just clarifying that the information
that you gave me on 82B was exposures for prominences and
not for - to be used for anything else on the disk.
CC Stand by i.
CC You're right, Ed. Those exposures were
just for prominences.
18 hours 40 minutes. Loss of signal through Tananarive.
Next acquisition in 35 minutes and 20 seconds, will be the
Hawaii tracking station. Science Pilot Ed Gibson to be performing
the M092 and 171 runs this afternoon, that's the lower
body negative pressure metabolic activity experiment. Observer
for this pai_ of medical experiments is Commander Gerald
Carr. A block of 2 hours has been set aside this afternoon
for Science Pilot Gibson's performance of this pair of
medical experiments. Next acquisition will be in 34 minutes
and 40 seconds. At Greenwich mean time 18 hours 41 minutes,
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC-671/I
Time: 13:13 CST 20:19:13 GMT
12/5/73
PAO This is Skylab Control. Greenwich mean

time 19 hours 13 minutes. Acquisition coming through the
Hawaii tracking station in 2 minutes and 50 seconds. On this
upcoming revolution across the southern tip of South America,
the crew will have the opportunity to photograph an area south
of the 40th degrees south of or below Buenos Aires in
Argentina. Photographing the mountains, glaciers, the coast-
line, urban regions, lakes, using a Hassleblad camera with
a 100-millimeter lens. This photography will compliment other
photography taken over the area on Skylab II, the first
manned mission, and will provide aerial imagery of a poorly
known area of this planet. The second opportunity will present
itself on the following revolution at 3:19 central standard
time today. Later this evening at 7:31 central standard time,
the crew has the opportunity to photograph the eastern coast
of Taiwan. Looking particularly for evidence of fault valley
north of and parrallel to the Philippine fault zone. The
camera, again, to be used will be the Hasselblad with a
100-millimeter lens. At 9:17 central standard time, tonight
the crew will attempt to photograph the normally moist coastal
wetlands along northern Australia. These regions are
experiencing severe drought now. A drought area is being
photographed to identify the distribution and pattern of
vegtation and to catalog the distribution and color of any
surface water. We anticipate acquisition through Hawaii in
i minute. We'll hold the line up for this Hawaii pass.
Greenwich mean time 19 hours 15 minutes.
CC Skylab, AOS Hawaii for 6 minutes.
CDR Aloha.
CC Yeah.
CC And, whoever is nearest to where you've
taped up the S201K maneuver pad, I've got a second change on
it.
PLT You'll have to stand by a few minutes,
Story.
CC Okay. Plenty of time. If we don't get
it here, we can get it at Vanguard.
PLT Okay.
CC Bill, no need to acknowledge, but, stand
by on the update to that pad. We're still working something.
CC Skylab, we're 30 seconds til LOS. We'll
see you over the Vanguard in 19:44, about 22 minutes; _e
dumping the data voice there. And on your M092 run, we'd like
a change out on the left leg man. Use AN, that's Alfa,
November, on the left leg.
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PLT Roger. Alfa, November on the left.

CC Yes, sir. Thank you.
CC And, the same one on the right, Bill.
PLT You mean to continue to use the same one
we have been on the right?
CC Yes, sir. Alfa, Quebec.
PLT Okay.
19 hours 23 minutes. Loss of signal through Hawaii.
Next acquisition in 20 minutes 35 seconds will be through
the Vanguard tracking station. The crew has a busy day,
today, starting off with an Earth resources pass, two maneuvers
for photography of Comet Kohoutek, 4 hours on the ATM,
manning the ATM console and a pair of medical experiments
to be performed by Science Pilot Ed Gibson. While the crew
is busy with these and other activities aboard the spacecraft
and also while they sleep there are more than nearly a dozen
unattended experiments continually gathering data for
scientists on the ground and among these inside the orbiting
space station as well as afixed to the exterior are experiments
such as the DO24, thermal coating experiment. This is to
study the effects of space environment on selected thermal
control coatings. The coatings are polymet polymer film
to calibrate the Earth band laboratory test data. Two panels
were deployed in the first EVA and these will be retrieved
and returned by the Skylab IV crew. Carl P. Boebel of the
materials laboratory at the U.S. Air Force Wright-Patterson
Air Force Base in Ohio is the principal investigator. Also
exterior to the spacecraft is the $228, transerratic cosmic
ray experiment, which is designed to obtain data on cosmic
radiation, detectors of Lexan plastic wrapped in aluminum
tape were launched - 36 of them were launched on the
unmanned Skylab I vehicle and deployed by the Skylab II crew.
One was returned by the Skylab III crew. The 35 remaining
detectors in addition to a detector deployed by the Skylah IV
crew on their first EVA. Total of 36 detectors to be returned
by the Skylab IV crew. Dr. R. Buford Price and Professor
Kenzie A. Anderson, University of California in Berkley are
the principal investigators for this experiment. Another
experiment deployed outside the vehicle is the $230, magneto-
spheric particle composition experiment, which is designed
to measure the flux and composition of ions and trapped
particles. Cuffs of foil have been installed on the AM truss
prior to launch. 2 additional foils were installed by the
SL-III crew and the SL-IV crew will return retreive and
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return in their command module all of the foils. Astronaut -

Scientist Astronaut Dr. Don Lind of the Johnson Space Center
is principal investigator for this experiment. The S149,
partical collection experiment originally was designed to
be placed through the solar scientific airlock, which is now
blocked by the pair of solar shields, the parasol deployed
by the SL-II crew and the twin boom solar shield installed
by the SL-III crew. This experiment has been installed on
the rim of the ATM. Once by the solar - Skylab III crew
and then again by the Skylab IV crew. It's installed on a
special bracket on the rim, four cassetts, which hopefully will
collect data to determine the distribution, composition and
morphology of micrometeroids. Dr. C. L. Heminway of the
Dudley Observatory, Albany, New York is the principal investigator.
Another experiment, this one installed inside the multiple
docking adapter is the S009 experiment. Designed to investigate
galaltic cosmic radiation from outside the Earth's atmosphere,
especially heavy primary nucluei. Especially in the mass from
sulfur to nickel. A detector package was installed in the
multiple docking adapter 5 days after launch by the SL-IV
crew and this will be returned in a special package by the
crew. Dr. Maurice M. Shapiro of the Naval Research Laboratory
Washington D.C. is the principal investigator for this experiment.
Remind newsmen in the Houston area at 2:30 today, Building
i newsroom, Dr. George Courtes, principal investigator
for the S183 will discuss findings of his experiment from
previous Skylab missions. This briefing at 2:30 by Dr. George
Courtes of the S183 experiment in the Building i newsroom.
Next acquisition in 15 minutes i0 seconds will be the
Vanguard tzacking ship. At Greenwich mean time 19 hours
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC672/I
TIME: 13:43 CST, 20:19:43 GMT
12/5/73

40 - 19 hours 43 minutes. Acquisition coming through
the Vanguard tracking ship in 45 seconds. Crew should be
well into the run by Science Pilot Ed Gibson on the M092,
MI71 run. We'll hold the llne open for CAP COMM Dr. Story
Musgrave.
CC Skylah; AOS Vanguard for i0 minutes.
And we'll he dumping the data voice here.
CDR Houston, CDR; do you still want to
talk about the $201 maneuver pad?
CC Yeah_ Jer, let me know when you're ready
to copy.
CDR Ready to copy.
CC Okay, let's change some maneuver times.
The octal will be 05:00:12; that's 05:00:12. Parenthesis i0
minutes, 10 minutes. And the time will be GMT 339:21:45:00.
And this will change our maneuver rates, Just double them.
It'll be minus .108 in X; minus .004 in Y; and minus .010
in Z.
CDR Okay, the maneuver Delta-T is 05:00:12
for i0 minutes. The GMT is 21:45:00. The new rates are
minus .I081; minus .004; minus .001; minus .010.
CC All correct.
CDR Okay.
SPT Story, we had a failure of a DAC this
morning on the ETC prep. I don't think we got much of any
of it any of it. So, can we have one of those fellows
to give the (garble) to me while I reschedule it.
CC Okay, Ed.
CDR Story_ this is CDR. I used my first
part of the PT/PH period in order to repair the MARK i
exerciser. We found a broken return spring in it, and
luckily our little repair kit had a spare spring. So you
can scratch off the first part of the PT/PH for that.
CC Okay, Jer.
CC And that bides us a little time for
tomorrow. And, Ed, follow up on your TV-28; the camera work
was terrific. You need to have the comm carrier a little
closer to the lips, maybe about a half an inch when recording
on the VTR. Sorry we didn't get the TV-28 message up to
you sooner. We'll schedule another time for you to talk
about Kohoutek.
SPT Okay, Story, was it usable at all?
CC Yes, sir, very usable.
CC Skylah, no need to acknowledge. If
you haven't: pul_ed out that new legband Alfa November it's
in E-615C.
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TIME: 13:43 CST, 20:19:43 GMT
12/5/73
CC Skylab, i minute to LOS; 15 minutes to

Tananarive.
19 hours 54 minutes. Loss of signal through the Vanguard
tracking ship. Next acquisition in 13 minutes and 40 seconds
will be Tananarive for a 5 minute 50 second pass. Commander
Carr reporting on this Vanguard pass that during his physical
training period, his physical exercise period this afternoon
he repaired the Mark i exerciser which was reported broken
last night - late last night. The rope apparently pulled
lose but would not return into the - into the device. The
Mark the Mark i is a - one of several devices on board
including - the crew uses, including the bicycle ergometer,
and the arm spring exercises, as well as the poor man's
walking treadmill, which is new to Skylab IV. Commander Carr
said that he found a extra spring in the repair kit and
repaired it during his physical training exercise this after-
noon. Skylab Control at Greenwich mean time 19 hours 56 minutes.
Next acquisition in Tananarive will be 12 minutes.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC673/I
Time: 14:06 CST 20:20:06 GMT
12/5/73

20 hours 7 minutes. Acquisition coming through the Tananarive
tracking station in 1 minute i0 seconds. On the upcoming
revolution, the spacecraft will be ready for a maneuver for
the operation of the $201 experiment. The vehicle will be
rolled approximately 9 degrees counterclockwise to aim the
anti-solar scientific airlock towards the path of the comet.
In effect what it's doing if the so - scientific airloek -
airlock was at 6 o'clock, they'd be rolling the vehicle
counterclockwise to 3 o'clock in order to aim the vehicle to
the intended path of the comet. We'll have acquisition in
30 seconds through Tananarive. We'll hold the line up for
this pass.
CC Skylab, AOS Tananarive, 4 minutes.
CDR Houston_ CDR. I stowed like that number
Charlie Juliet in the locker that I found Alfa November in_
at 6:15 Charlie.
CC Thanks, Jer.
CC Bill, Houston.
PLT PLT here.
CC Okay, Bill. When Ed left the panel,
SO55 was still in mechanical reference. So we suggest when
you get there, use mechanical reference in grating position
0102 for your Building block 33 Bravo. And then after that,
go ahead and go to ref and - and optical reference and - and
after that you'll be at position 0162 on the grating.
PLT Okay, thank you.
CC And we're going LOS here. We'll see you
in Hawaii in 40 minutes.
PAO Skylab Cont Skylab Control, Greenwich
mean time 20 hou _ 16 minutes with loss of signal through the
Tananarive tracking station. When the spacecraft Skylab comes
across the south Atlantic on its next revolution_ the maneu-
ver to orient the vehicle towards the comet Kohoutek will be
made at Greenwich mean time 21 hours 45 minutes along ground
track 24 just before Skylab crosses the southeast coast of
Africa. The first instrument to be used today is the $201
the far ultraviolet electronographic camera which will record
images of the Lyman-alpha hydrogen and atomic oxygen emitted
by Koh - the Kohoutek comet or the (garble). Kohoutek's
watchers hope that the cameras imagery will provide an under-
standing of the growth and structure of the hydrogen halo as
it changes with distance from the Sun and of rates and distri-
bution of atomic oxygen production. The $201 camera is
an adaption of a Sehmidt astronomical camera which is mounted
on the S019 stellar ultraviolent astronomy experiment articulated
mirror system. The camera is also scheduled for use during
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the Christmas EVA by the crew of Skylab IV. It will be mounted

in the scientific airlock today and the spacecraft will be
rotated in the counterclockwise direction to orient the
anti-solar scientific airlock towards the comet Kohoutek.
The interest in comet Kohoutek began on March 7, 1973 while
astronomer Lou - Loubos Kohoutek was routinely looking for
asteroids with the Hamburg Observatory's 31 inch Schmidt tele-
scope. His finding astounded astronomers with a spectacular
discovery. He was first to see the enormous comet that will
be the celestial extravaganza of this century. Since its
discovery, Kohoutek has been has reported being besieged
by telephone calls, letters, interviews interview seekers,
and is complained he has very little time for his family as
a result. He plans to spend January watching his comet from
an observatory in Chile, where he hopes to have a better view
in the summer sky of the Southern Hemisphere, to view the
comet. Kohoutek is 38 years old and an astronomer and lec-
turer at the Hamburg Observatory. Re is Czech born and an
Czech citizen. Next acquisition in 32 minutes and 5 seconds
through the Hawaii tracking station. At Greenwich mean time
20 hours 19 minutes, this is Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC674/I
Time: 14:50 CST 20:20:50 GMT
12/5/73
PAO Twenty hours, 50 minutes, and 12 seconds

Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station is now 54 seconds
from acquisition of signal through the Hawaiian Islands
tracking antenna. The pass through Hawaii should last about
i0 minutes, and the spacecraft communicator is Story Musgrave.
We're live for air-to-ground now from Hawaii.
CC Skylab AOS with Hawaii for i0 minutes.
Like the DAS for a dump inhibit.
PLT Say again, Story.
CC We'd like the DAS for a dump inhibit, Bill.
PLT Roger, you got it.
CC Okay.
CC And while I got you, EREP prefers not to
use the DAC camera to support handheld photography, because
they got concern over the allotment of the film of VTS S191
operations, and the resolution of DAC imagery.
PLT Roger.
SPT Houston, SPT.
CC Say again.
CC Go ahead, Ed.
SPT Story, can you find out what the effect
of ASA is for the DAC film which we use for color interior.
When we have a little left over we may want to use some of
it outside, and we don't know the effect of ASA is.
CC Okay, we'll get it. And we showed the
metobolic analyser up, is someone doing someone doing some
instrumented DT.
SPT We got a MI71 going here just about to
start.
CC Ed, you ASA number is 500.
SPT Roger.
CC And Bill, on your ATM TV downlink, we'd
like 4 minutes on the VTR at your convenience, as opposed to
the downlink over Vangaurd.
PLT Roger, 4 minutes on the VTR.
CC Yes, sir.
CC Skylab we're a minute from LOS, about
22 minutes to the Vanguard at 21:22, be dumping the data
voice over Vanguard.
has now moved over the horizon out of range of the tracking
antenna at Hawaii, 20 minutes and 18 seconds to acquisition
on - from the Vanguard tracking ship. That pass at Vanguard
will be an 8 minute pass. This is Skylab Control at 2 minutes
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC-675/I
Time: 15:21 CST 20:21:21 GMT
12/5/73
PA0 Skylab Control at 21 hours, 21 minutes,

is now just west of Chili, about to be acquired through
the Vanguard tracking ship. The pass through Vanguard is
an 8 minute pass, and we'll going live now for air-to-
ground. Spacecraft communicator is still Story Muscrave.
CC Skylab, got you through the Vanguard
for 9 minutes. Be dumping the data voice there.
CC Bill, Houston.
PLT Go Story.
CC Bill, on S054 we show a picture rate
high. We'4 like single 256.
PLT Roger, you got it.
CC Thanks.
CC And your flight plan will be coming
up over Vanguard here. You might check them and see if
the teleprinter's doing all right tonight.
PLT Okay.
PLT That isn't the best I've ever seen,
but it's legible.
CC Understand the flight plans okay?
PLT Yes, I think you know there's faint
spots, itts dropping out a few of the dots that make the
characters, but you can still make it out.
CC And Bill, we'd like another sequence
on S054, it'll be a single 256.
PLT Roger, single 256.
CC Skylab, we're a minute and a half
from LOS. The next station we'll be back around again to
Vanguard at: - about an hour and 30 from now, 23:00. We're
seeing the instrumented PT. And Jer, on your S201K
maneuver pad, the updated NuZ tells us that the maneuver
attitude on that pad is good.
CDR Okay Story, good enough. Thank you.
and 52 seconds Greenwich mean time. We are now out of
range of the tracking antenna at Vanguard. At the present
time Science Pilot Ed Gibson is working at the MI71, that's
the metobolic activity experiment that requires the
bicycle ergometer. Over Hawaii he was in the process of
getting hooked up for that run. And that run is underway
at the present time. Some discussion of the teleprinter
problem that the crew has had, not very clear copies
coming up on their teleprinter with instructions for the
days activities. But still the crew indicated they are
readable at this time. Earlier during that Hawaii pass
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the crew was instructed to not use DAC, that's data

acquisition camera film, 16 millimeter film for support of
handheld photography for two reasons. One is that it's
felt that photography using the 16 millimeter camera is
not ve - not of much value for Earth resources studies,
it has very poor resolution. And secondly, they also want
to make sure they don't waste film and use up more than
they're required. DAC film, of course, is used for
identification purposes only on the S191, that's the
infrared Spectrometer. Infrared Spectrometer gathers
electronic data on heat sources and pollution sources and
at the same time while the viewfinder tracking system is
used by one of the crew members there is data acquisition
camera, 16 millimeter film, recorded of the sites. But that
as I said, has very poor resolution and is primarily used for
identification and is not a scientific tool. We're an hour
and 25 minutes now from our next acquisition of signal, a
long period of LOS. We'll come and give you a time for the
change of shift briefing as soon as it becomes available.
This is Skylab Control, it's 34-1/2 minutes after the hour.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC676/I
Time: 15:45 CST 20:21:45 GMT
12/5/73
PAO It's 45 minutes and 19 seconds Greenwich

mean time. Flight Director Milton Windier has now just about
completed his handover here in Mission Control and he says
he_ll be available in about 20 minutes for a change of shift
briefing in the building i briefing room. Time we're scheduling
for that is 4:05. Five minutes after 4 o'clock central standard
time for the change of shift briefing with Milton Windier.
We'll also have a surgeon available at that briefing. This
is Skylab Control it's now 45 minutes 43 seconds after the
hour.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC677/1
Time: 16:03 CST 20:22:03 GMT
12/5/73

and 8 seconds Greenwich mean time. Flight Director Milton
Windier and Flight Surgeon Jerry Hordinsky have left Mission
Control and are en route to Building I briefing room for
change of shift briefing. Again Dr. Hordinsky and - and
Flight Director Windler will be available in a few minutes
in the Building i briefing room for the change of shift
briefing. We're still about an hour from our next acquisition
of signal.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC678/I
Time: 16:59 CST 20:22:59 GMT
12/5/73

and 25 seconds Greenwich mean time. We're now just east of
Chile about to be acquired through the Vanguard tracking ship.
Pass beginning in 50 seconds through Vanguard, expected to
last in the neighborhood of about i0 minutes. Present time
handover has taken place in Mission Control, the Flight Director
on duty now is Phil Shaffer, and the Spacecraft Communicator
is Astronaut Dr. Will - Bill Thornton. We're live now for
air-to-ground through Vanguard.
CC Skylab Houston, AOS Vanguard for i0 minutes.
SPT Right Bill.
CC SPT, Houston.
SPT Go ahead.
CC This is apropos (garble) on the ATM schedule
pad at 22 minutes remaining after 23:54 GMT. It's a reminder
that a mechanical reference may be required.
SPT Okay, he copied it.
CDR Houston CDR.
CC Go CDR.
CDR We had trouble with the 82A doors again
at (garble) last pass. We went through the door motor logic,
and inhibited and re-enabled and the door closed.
CC We copy that CDR.
CC Skylab, Houston.
CDR Go ahead.
CC For your information we're going to run
an S052 mode standard.
CDR Roger.
CC That is we're going to command it from
the ground.
CDR Understand.
SPT Houston, SPT.
CC Go SPT.
SPT Hello Bill, got a couple of things for you.
One is in putting the SO63 AMF adapter out of the AMF. I
found it, the AMF adapter taped onto the wall and one of the
screws was missing out of it, there is a total of 8. I do
have the piece which fits with the screw, which holds the helps
hold down the S063 onto the adapter. So right now we're
working with 7 rather than 8 of these tie downs. And we've
taken the one out of the - we got 4 of them in the corner
in the 4 corners, and 3 of them are (garble) in between
spaces. We've looked for a screw about this size and can't
find it, it looks as though it's larger than one quarter and that's
as high as our stockpile goes.
CC We copy that Ed.
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SPT And secondly, what we did with the door

up there was to inhibit both motors and then re-enable both
motors and the flag to Earth talkback went barber pole.
CC And we copy that.
CC SPT Houston.
PLT Go ahead Bill, he's listening.
CC Okay, we need the 82A door closed to
complete the sequence that you performed, and we can do that
from the ground.
SPT Roger Bill. I was half way to the ATM
before you completed your sentence.
CC Yeah, you're getting too fast off the mark.
CC Skylab, we'll be AOS, correction LOS in
i minute. We'll have you again at Ascension at 2313 and the
PLT will have his phone call at Guam at 2358.
CDR Roger, Bill.
PAO Skylab Control at 23 hours, ii minutes,
now over the south Atlantic. It's passed out of range of
the tracking ship Vanguard. We're about 2 minutes and 15 seconds
from acquisition at Ascension where we'll have a lO minute pass.
During this last pass, could see here at Mission Control that
the bicycle egometer is in use. Presumably, that's Commander
Gerald Carr working at his physical training period for the
evening. He had about an hour set aside for physical training
and personel hygiene this evening. And we'd expect that the
Science Pilot has completed his own exercise period for the
evening. Still left scheduled for later in the evening is
operation of S063, for comet photography and also 2 periods
of ATM solar observation. At the present time the face of
the Sun looks much quieter than it has for many days. Eighty -
seven large active region that had given a number of flares
over the last several weeks has now passed from view, around
the side of the Sun and is no longer visible to the observers
on Skylab. There are however some prominences and filaments
visible, but they are very small and very little in the way
of active region or Sun spots at the present time. Wetre now
about a minute from acquisition of signal at Ascension. The
Spacecraft Communicator is Bill Thornton and we'll leave the
line up live for air-to-ground through the tracking antenna
there.
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Time: 17:13 CST 20:23:13 GMT
12/5/73
CC Skylab, Houston, AOS Ascension i0

minutes.
CC CDR, Houston.
SPT He's listening, go ahead.
CC The logic behind the ground signal to
close the 82A door was as followers. The logic the
indicator logic becomes confused when you go through the
motor inhibit and able sequence and you may get a
erroneous indication, as a matter of fact that's what
happened. So, we commanded it into a known position, which
was CLOSED.
SPT Okay.
SPT Bill, are you saying all we should have done
at the conclusion of that was to go to door CLOSED?
CC That is affirmative and further
information, the door did not CLOSE when we commanded it,
and we're continuing to troubleshoot at this time.
SPT Okay, did it partially CLOSE or is it
full OPEN?
CC Ed, it appears to be near full OPEN.
SPT Thank you.
CC Skylab, Houston. For your information
the door is CLOSED. The transit time appeared to be normal,
and ops are now normal.
SPT Roger, copy Bill.
CC SPT, Houston.
SPT Go ahead Bill.
CC Ed, during building block 32 we want
you to look for solar activity and S052. We saw surge in
active region 87.
PLT Roger, he copied that Bill.
SPT Bill, would they like me to take a
quick run up there now and get that TV powered up and see
how it looks?
CC Negative Ed. Do it - do it during your
next ATM pass.
SPT Okay, thank you.
CC Skylab, we're 1 minute from LOS, we
will have you again at Guam at 23:58. We will be dumping
the tape recorder at that time.
CC Skylab, for your information the screw
on SO63 was lost during Skylab-lll, so there's not much
point in any searching for it.
PLT Roger.
Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station is now crossing
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Africa, and we're out of range of the tracking antenna at

Ascension. During this last pass Spacecraft Communicator
Bill Thornton indicated that they'd like the crew to take
a look at active region 87. The effects of a surge in that
area. Active region 87, as I pointed out earlier, has moved
around the righthand side of the Sun and is now out of
view. However, _parently there is solar activity
continuing there, and that storm has produced a surge or
a mass of material leaving the surface of the Sun. And
apparently that's going off the right edge of the solar
disk. The S052 instrument, which is the white light
coronagraphy, is going to be used to observe the after effects
of that surge. Certain things can be observed using SO52
that cannot be seen from the surface of the ground. SO52
blocks the Sun out with occulting disk, and then looks at
the outer atmosphere of the Sun. That outer atmosphere
is very faint, and for that reason from the gound scattered
light tends to inhibit any viewing of SO52 type data that's
accurate for 3 or 4 solar radii out. By using the white
light corongraph the crew should be able to gather some
data on the after effects of the surge in the atmosphere
and that normally is produned a number of field lines and
things of tlhat sort. So that's what they'll be trying to
gather on this next ATM pass. At the present time Science
Pilot Ed Gibson is scheduled to be beginning the ATM
activities in about 20 minutes. At the present Skylab is
over Africa in the dark, and it will be back in the daylight
until about 20 minutes from now. This is Skylab Control,
it's now 26-i/2 minutes after the hour.
END OF TAPE
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Time: 17:57 CST 20:23:57 GMT
12/5/73
PAO Skylab Control at 23 hours 58 - 7 minutes

and 20 seconds Greenwich mean time. We're now 55 seconds from
acquisition of signal at the Guam tracking antenna. The pass
through Guam should last about 9 minutes and we're live for
air-to-ground there.
CC Skylab, Houston, AOS for 9 minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston, AOS 8 minutes.
CDR Hello, Houston.
CC CDR, Houston.
CDR Go ahead.
CC We have a message for you on the cryo
vent valve installation if you've got a moment.
CDR Okay, go ahead.
CC Okay, on stall, the quick disconnect of
the side hatch vent finger (garble). Interconnect cyro vent
valve and hatch quick disconnect with the high pressure
vent hose. CAUTION: attach elbow end to cryo vent valve.
This procedure is necessary because the PP02 is increasing
or it's - and is at the upper limits. The CFM cryo tanks
are forcing more 02 into the atmosphere than is needed for makeup.
And this will allow the excess 02 to dump overboard through
the command module side hatch. This is also the completion
of F9 on page 2-10 of the SWS systems checklist.
CDR Okay, Bill, I copy. Thank you.
CC Skylab, we'll be LOS in 30 seconds. We'll
have you again at 00:36.
CDR Roger, Houston.
38 seconds Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station now out
of range of the tracking antenna on Guam and passing over a
long area of the South Pacific in which we have no tracking
antenna. 28 minutes and 45 seconds from our next acquisition
of signal. That will be at the Vanguard tracking ship off
the coast of South America. Skylab crew should have com-
pleted now their photography of the comet using the $201
camera, that's the far ultraviolet electronographic camera
that they carried up in the command module at the beginning
of this mission. Second use of the $201 had been used on a
previous occasion several days ago, and later in the even-
ing they will be taking photographs with the S063 ultraviolet
airgrow - airglow instrument. This is basically, of course,
a set of Nikon cameras with special filters and apparatus
for photographing the airglow but it's being converted to photo-
graphy of the comet. The brightest comet of the century has
been so far much dimmer than original estimates predicted and it
continues to lag in brightness as it approaches its closest
encounter with the Sun. Dr. Thornton Paige, the principal
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investigator on Skylab's $201 comet camera put the luminosity

of the comet at 4.5 magnitude with a clear dust tail at
least 3 million miles in length and a gas tail that is dis-
tinctly visible over at least 6 million miles in the morning
sky. The comet is presently about 120 million miles from
Earth and is 75 million miles from the Sun. It's closest
approach to the Sun, the comet Kohoutek will be only about 13
million miles from the Sun's surface. Pilot William Pogue is the
operator for today's 201 far ultraviolet electronographic -
electronicogaf - graphic camera experiment. This Camera
combines an electronic imaging device with a film pack to
record in two band width from 1050 to 1600 angstroms and from
1230 to 1600 angstroms. This band width - these band widths
should reveal light emited by hydrogen and oxygen atoms. By
recording images in these spectra, the growth and structure
of the hydrogen halo of the comet and the atomic oxygen production
of the coma can be measured and correlated. Hydrogen radiation
in the band called Lyman-alpha for 1216 angstroms was first
discovered by rocket borne spectrographs. $201 data will
also enable scientists to determine the amount of water
contained as ice in the comet's head. For today's $201 ex-
periment, 24 photographs will be made. The first ii of these
will be a standard series of photographs of the comet. The
twelfth photograph will require a 5 minute exposure of the
comet to off-set its apparent dimness. The next eleven frames
will record far ultraviolet information from the coma cluster.
That is a galaxy - a very dense area of stars several hundred
million - - light years from our solar system. The twenty-fourth
frame will be a long 5 minute exposure of the coma cluster.
Coma cluster galaxy is not visible to the Earth bound ob-
server's unaided eye. Dr. Paige, principal investigator for
the S021 experiment, is expecting to gather information on
intergelactic hydrogen through this experiment. Later this evening
the i00 ton orbiting workshop will be maneuvered into the proper
attitude for S
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PAO Principal inveStigator for the $201 experiment

is expecting to gather information on intergalactic
hydrogen through this experiment. Later this evening the
i00 ton orbiting workshop will be maneuvered into the
proper attitude for SO63, ultraviolet airglow horizon
photography. That's of course using that experiment for
comet data. The experiment will also record photographic
images of the comet again in the ultraviolet wavelengths.
This imaging uses a modified Nikon 35 millimeter camera
that's equiped with a 55 millimeter ultraviolet lens. The
S063 camera will take 5 frames at varing exposures times
from 5 seconds to a minute and a half. Two of these
exposures will be through a 3100 angstrom filter, and two
more will be through a 4700 angstrom filter, that of course
being a deep blue colored filter. One exposure will be
made through a 3361 angstrom filter. By correlating the
images taken through the 3100 angstrom filter ground bound
scientists will be able to determine the ratios of free
hydrogen and hydroxal which combines oxygen and hydrogen
atoms. This will provide clues to changes in the comets
coma and tail. If you are an early riser we have accurate
coordinates for the comet's spacial location for tomorrow
morning. It's declination will be 22.2 degrees and right
ascension will be 212.8 degrees. The comet is located
between the constellations Corvus and Libra just below
Virgo in the morning sky. It rises about 2 hours and 45
minutes before the Sun the east southeast. Although the
comet and it's multimillion mile tail of dust and gas is
still one of the faintest objects in the sky, it can be
seen as a fuzzy blotch during the predawn hours. After
December llth the bright moon will interfere with morning
viewing, while the morning light will make viewing more
difficult _n the weeks just before the comet passes the
Sun on December 28. After December 28 the comet will be at
its brightest and will move to an evening viewing
time rather than early morning. With it's location sliding
to the southwest. Prime time for observing the comet should
be early January after solar radiation has excited the
comet's material and increased it's brightness by a i00
times or more. The original predictions made last Spring
suggested that peak brightness might reach minus 6 to minus
i0 magnitude. But scientists revised these early in the Fall
after additional information was gathered on the comet.
Using two previous comets as examples the predictions were
scaled to follow one of two paths, with a maximum brightness
of from minus 4 to minus 6 magnitude. That's about i00 times
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dimmer than the previous maximum which was nearly as

bright as the full moon. Even the revised maximum from
minus 4 from minus 6 magnitude would have made the comet
i00 times as bright Haley's Comet, which last appeared during the
first decade of the 20th Century. Now with magnitude
measurements staying below the lower estimates, which were
made from Comet (garble) in 1957, scientSst are hard put to
predict what will happen as the comet travels another
60 million miles closer to the Sun. And they remind us
the comets are after all a great mystery. This is Skylab
Control, it's now 15 minutes after the hour.
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PAO Skylab Control at 0 hours, 36 minutes, and

38 seconds Greenwich mean time. Now 55 seconds before ac-
quisition of signal through the tracking ship Vanguard. Pass
through Vanguard should last approximately i0 to ll minutes.
We'll have the line llve now for air-to-ground. Bill Thornton
is the spacecraft communicator.
CC Skylab, Houston, AOS for ii minutes.
CDR Thanks, Bill.
SPT Houston, SPT.
CC Go, SPT.
SPT Say, Bill, when I came up here, I did look
at the corona to see if I could see any evidence. And com-
paring with the picture this morning, I could not see any signi-
ficant change or any sign of a transient.
CC We copy that, Ed.
SPT Even all - most of the relatively faint
features still remain pretty much unchanged.
CC Copy.
CC SPT, Houston.
SPT Go ahead.
CC Cuuld you relay a message to the PLT
that the TV downlink at 47 on the next pass can be put on
the VTR? You have 5 minutes of time on it.
SPT Okay, Bill, I'ii write that in here.
CC Skylab, i minute to LOS. We will have
you at Ascension at 00:54.
PAO Skylab Control at 48 minutes - 49 minutes
after the hour. At the present time, we're out of range of
the tracking ship Vanguard and about 5-1/2 minutes from acqui-
sition at Ascension where we'll begin an overlapping pass
through Ascension, Canary Islands, and Madrid. During this
last pass, Science Pilot Ed Gibson, who's now at the ATM
console and has now eompleted his run there as the space
station goes back to the nightside of its orbit, said that
he didn't have any luck seeing signs of a transient; that is
to say, a transient event - short lived event am acti as a
result of an active region 87 surge that occurred behind the
righthand edge of the Sun. That active region surge was ex-
pected to produce some sort of activity in the upper atmosphere_
but if there was any such it was not visible on the white
light eoronagraph, at least to the science pilot. Does, however,
of course,produce photography and it may be possible to
identify some transients in the photography. Was an extended
period of time, however, between the surge and the time that
Skylab space station came back in view of the active area.
We'll keep the llne up live now for the next 5 minutes before
this pass begins at Ascension. The Ascension pass through
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Canary Islands and Madrid as well will last approximately

15 minutes. The line will stay live now for the next
20 minutes.
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CC Skylab, Houston AOS for 14 minutes. We

have about a 1 minute keyhole at Canary.
CC Skylab, Houston AOS for 14 minutes,
Ascension. We'll have a 1 minute keyhole at Canary.
CC Skylab, Houston AOS for 13 minutes at
Ascension. We'll have a i minute keyhole at Canary.
CC Skylab, we'll have a l minute keyhole in
about 30 seconds.
SPT (Garble) Skylab.
CC Go ahead Skylab.
SPT Bill, I'd llke to talk a little bit about
TVII7, the scheduling on it.
CC Go ahead Ed we're listening.
SPT Okay, in looking through my details I see
that at 1723 I was supposed to prep 117 and then run
the ATM at 1730, that's 7 minutes. It turns out that we never
got that thing put together. It was up in the MBA I had to
move it dow:n to the OWS, the parts are over there in the
corner with lots of gray tape wrapped around them. And it's
going to take a little more time and gray tape to get it
all put together. I now see that I've got some ops which
I was supposed to be going through before the thing was
ever put together. End result being that it appears
unlikely we're going to get the ops in today. I'm going
to work a little bit on them tonight to see how much of
that thing I can get assembled, but it's a - I don't think
there was adaquate time put in here today for that, 7
minutes won't quite do it.
CC We copy that Ed. And it's about 50
seconds here to LOS. We'll have you again at Guam at
1:35, and we'll have the Evening Status Report then, we'll
also be dumping the tape recorder. And we have a message
for the CDR.
CDR Go ahead Bill.
CC Message 2136, Vl is in the teleprinter.
Would you take a look at it this evening since we now
plan to ask you to look for this phenomenon tomorrow during
of prior to M097 prep. Correction that's M092 preps.
CDR Okay, say again the message number.
CC 2136.
CDR Okay, copy.
PAO Skylab Control at i hour ii minutes
Greenwich mean time. The Skylab space station is now
moving out of range of the tracking antenna at Madrid.
We're about 25 minutes from our next acquisition of signal
that will be at Guam. During this last pass Science Pilot
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Ed Gibson was talking about the MI - the TVII7 which is a

charge particle mobility demonstration - science demonstration
that was originally scheduled for several days ago but at
that time they had difficulty locating the equipment, and
when they did locate it there wasn't sufficient time to
complete the experiment. He said he'd put it aside for the
time being and now it turns out that there are certain steps
he had not followed in performing the experiment and he'll
have to go back and look at them again. He said that he
didn't expect he'll be able to get that done today, there
are only about 7 minutes set aside in the flight plan for it.
That will be postponed probably then for completion at a
later time. Science Pilot had a little trouble sleeping
last night. He indicated earlier in transcripts that have
been made up here in Mission Control he woke up in the night
and stayed wake for about 45 minutes. So he probably is
feeling - he was feeling a little tired this morning, he
indicated as a by product of the M133 experiment. He every
morning must record after using the sleep monitoring
equipment must record his experience of sleep, how much of
it was heavy, how much of it was light, and that indication
was that last night he did have about 45 minutes when he was
awake, and has a result was a little bit tired this
this morning when he got up. At the present time, planning
is going on for tomorrow's flight plan. It includes
extensive ATM activities including a calibration rocket
laugh. The launch window for that calibration rocket
to gather calibration data for use on - in calibrating
the ATM instruments. Approximate time is from 19:00 to 19:30,
that's the launch window for the cal roc. Also for tomorrow
there scheduled a run of the M092 MI71 for Commander
Carr. He'll be the third of the crew members in the last
3 days. Science Pilot completing that run today. Also 6-1/2
hours of ATM activity all together tomorrow, and extensive
operations of S183. They'll be a - S183 will be operated
3 seperate times during the day and in its traditional use and
then it wi].l also be used once on the Comet Kohoutek in the
evening tomorrow. 22 minutes from our next acquisition of
signal this Skylab Control at 13-1/2 minutes after the hour.
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PAO Skylab Control at i hour, 34 minutes,

and 34 seconds Greenwich mean time. We're now just about
at acquisition of signal at Guam. The pass through Guam lasting
7-1/2 minutes will begin about 50 seconds from now. The
spacecraft communicator is Bill Thornton, and flight director
is still Phil Shaffer.
CC Skylab, Houston AOS for 7 minutes. We'll
be dumping the tape recorder here at Guam and we're standing
by for ewening status.
CDR Okay, Bill here it comes. Sleep: CDR,
7.0, 6.0 hard, 1.0 light; SPT, 7.7, 6.0 heavy, 1.7 light; PLT,
6.5, 6.0 heavy and 1/2 light. Volume: CDR, 1400; SPT, 1950;
PLT, 2600. Water gun: CDR, 7055; SPT, 2099; PLT, 8303.
Body mass: CDR, 6.301, 6.300, 6.300; SPT, 6.380, 6.378, 6.388;
PLT, 6.235, 6.239, 6.238. Okay, exercise: CUR, Method Alfa,
leg, 30 minutes, 4800. Method Bravo, Alfa, Delta, Echo, and
Foxtrot, i[0, 20 each. Method Charlie, Charlle, Delta, Foxtrot,
06, 15 repertitions each. Method Echo, Alfa, Bravo, 03, 10
repertitions each. Method Foxtrot, walk, i0, N/A, toe rise, 01,
i00 repertltions. SPT, Method Alfa, leg, 40, 7337. Method
Bravo, Foxtrot, i0, 40 repertitions. Method Foxtrot, toe rise,
05, i00, spring, i0, 500_ PLT, Alfa, legs, 30, 5,000. Method
Charlie, Bravo, Charlie, Delta, Echo, Foxtrot, Gulf, and Hotel,
10, 20 repertitions. Method Foxtrot, walk, 10 minutes, N/A,
toe rises, 30 seconds 50. Medication: none for anyone.
Clothing discarded today: CDR, one pair of shorts, 1 T-shirt.
Food log: CDR, 15.0 salt, zero deviation, zero rehydration
water dew[ation; SPT, 4.0 salt, no water devia - no food
deviation, plus 24.0 water deviation; PLT, 2.0 salt, no food
deviation, no water deviation. The Photo Log: One 40-foot
magazine for EREP ii, Supply Charlie Lima i0, 79, N/A.
M092/171 (151) Charlie India 71, 62, Charlie India 82. Nikon
01, Charlie X-ray 20, 19. 02 Bravo X-ray, correction Bravo
Echo 08, 43. Nikon 3, Charlie India 110 no change, Char -
Nikon 04, empty. Nikon 05, Bravo Hotel 04, 19, 70-millimeter
Charlie X--ray 47, 056. ETC is Charlie Tango ii, 099. EREP set
kilo 9809, 1945, 9532 extended, 8900, 0671, 9576. Drawer A
configuration: Alfa i, 07, no change; Alfa 2, 05, no change;
Alfa 3, 06, no change; Alfa 4, 03, Charlie India 71, 62, Charlle
India 82. Back 02, no change. Flight Plan deviations: none,
Shopping list accomplishments: none. Inoperable equipment and
disposition: transporter 07, film jam for MISI; ETC Prep, the
PLT repaired and reloaded with the same cassette and it seems
to be okay now. Next item is we have repared the mark I
exericser. We replace the return spring and it is now working
properly. Unscheduled Storage: none. That's the end of the
report.
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CC We copy that and we have a number of

evening questions for all of you. We'll probably have to
continue on the next site, but I'ii go ahead if your ready
to copy.
CDR Go ahead.
CC For the PLT, when you did the iodine
determination on the wardroom table, this was housekeeping
14G on day 19, biomed recieved only one reading and.expected
two. We're the two reading made or we're they simply the same
readings. The reading were nine parts per mi!lion.
PLT Negagitve Bill. I only made one reading
on the chiller. Did they want one of the heater also?
CC I'ii get you an answer back on that.
Now, for the CDR. Have you or will you install the cryo vent
valve in the CSM today?
CDR That's affirmative, I intend do it between
this report and the medical conference.
CC Okay and for the PLT. The last crew
accidentally inserted a teleprinter paper roll backwards on
one occasion. This could possibly explain the low contrast
that you recently experienced. They want you to verify that
the paper is properly inserted, that is the waxy side is
normally exposed, the waxy side. Also verify that the paper
is white and not yellowish, yellow is old paper or that it
is not pinkish at the corners, which would indicate that
it had been exposed to excessive humidity.
PLT It's in work.
CC Okayp we're going LOS in about a minute
here. We'll have you again at Honeysuckle at 149 and I'ii
pick up, but I'ii keep reading.
CC Are you able to see the comet yet with
out binoculars?
PLT PLT, I saw it 2 days ago. Last night
however, I could not see it, but I think that was because
it was right - right on the edge of the solar panel. It
was only visible for a few minutes and I was busy taking the
exposures. But 2 days ago I could see it.
CDR This is the CDR. I saw it this morning
unaided.
CC We copy that, and one last question. Can
you give us additional information on the failure of DAC 04,
this was reported today. And you can be thinking about that
and I have a couple of more that I'll catch at the next pass.
CDR Okay, Bill.
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26 seconds Greenwich mean time. The Skylab space station,
now crossing east of New Guinea, is out of range of the
tracking antenna on Guam and about to be acquired in the next
4 minutes at Honeysuckle. The pass through Honeysuckle is a
very low elevation pass and will only last about 3 minutes.
During this last pass, we had the evening status report.
Commander Carr giving the indications on what went on during the
day. All three crew members getting modest amounts of
sleep with the science pilot still leading the pack, getting
more sleep than the other two crew members. He got 7.7 hours
last night despite the interruption that was indicated
earlier. All three crew members continue their exercise
program. The science pilot with his 7337 watt-mlnutes again, a
figure he's met on previous days. All three of them used
the bicycle with the other two crew members using it for
half hour apiece and the science pilot running 40 minutes
on the bicycle. Science pilot has been using the bicycle
and the treadmill exclusively. He's not been making much use of
the mark 1 and mark 2 exercises or the, so called, Hordinsky
special_ an exercise in ico - isometric exercise. The other
two crew :members have been making extensive use of both the
rope rotension and mark 1 exerciser and spring tension mark 2
exerciser in addition to the Hordinsky special. And they did
report, too, that they replaced the return spring in the mark 1
exerciser, which is llke the commercial product called
Exer-gym. That was used today and appears to be working fine.
Also the crew has asked whether they intended to install the
eryo vent valve. Earlier in the day, the ground informed
them that the total amount of oxygen in the comm - coming
out of the command module cryo system, this is oxygen that
would normally be used in the fuel cells, the ex - excess
oxygen was being vented inside the space station and the oxygen
level now is reaching its maximum permissible. This was
orginally allowed to happen because of runs planned for the
M509, an astronauts maneuvering unit, and T020, which is the
foot control maneuvering unit. They both generate nitrogen
gas. Nitrogen's used to propel the astronauts around the
space station, and because of that they put a great deal of
nitrogen :into the Skylab's atmosphere. So, to compensate for
that, they shut down the nitrogen flow several days ago, and
at the same time, they've been allowing the oxygen to build
up. And the command module cyro that's to say very
cold oxygen, is allowed to flow into the command module and into
the entire Skylab cluster. That should increase the oxygen
level to its maximum and that has been reached. And at this
time they will began venting it overboard, so the level doesn't
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go beyond the desired. There are outer limits set for a total
amount of oxygen in relation to nitrogen and that has now been
met. That is what they deseribed earlier as partial pressure
of oxygen reaching its maximum. We're about a minute from
acquisition of signal now at Honeysuckle and we'll bring the
line back up live for air-to-ground. Bill Thornton is still
spacecraft communicator.
CC Skylab, Houston, AOS for 2-1/2 minutes.
SPT Okay, Bill. We're looking at the white
light coronagraph display right now. And at 070 ab - above
active region 87, we can see a relatively bright area. Looks
like a - s small streamer incased within the larger one. And
it's relatively bright, triangular in appearanee and so we're
only doing a Sun center JOP and we want to continue on with
some continuous mode and finish up the orbit with a standard.
CC We copy that, Ed. And we concur with
what you're doing.
SPT Okay.
CDR Bill, one correction on the evening
status report.
CC Go ahead.
CDR Okay, on the SPT's detail 2355, that was
that HHII7 that he has not done, so that would be a deviation.
SPT That's TV 117, Bill.
CC Yes, listen, we're going to get you some
information up on that later.
SPT All I really need is a time to get it done,
but none's been really scheduled for me.
CC We'll take care of it tomorrow's Flight
Plan.
SPT Okay, 1'11 be working the food overage
in the MI10 this evening.
CC We copy that.
SPT If we have any time left over, I'ii take
a look at - make a few more steps into the TV 117.
CC We copy that. And we're going LOS in
about a minute. We'll have you again at Vanguard at 02:16.
CC SPT.
SPT Any q_estions that we can be working on
while you're over the hill?
CC SPT, a little reminder that you have a
NuZ update scheduled. And if you get the opportunity to
follow up the DAC 04 and the teleprinter questions.
SPT Yeah, Bill, could you just repeat your
last question to me? I didn't hear you.
CC It was just a reminder that you have a
NuZ update scheduled.
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SPT Okay, will do it. Okay, and what we were

looking in the white light coronagraph is really at about
070 which puts it a little north of active region 87, but
we'll continue on with what we're doing.
CC We concur.
PLT And, Bill, I checked the teleprinter and
it was threaded properly. It was -
now north of New Zealand has passed out of range of the
Honeysuckle Creek, Australia tracking station. A little less
that 23 minutes remain before our next acquisition of signal.
That will be at the Vanguard where we'll have about a 6 min-
ute pass. At the very end of that, satellite pilot, Bill
Pogue was trying to give a report on his findings on the
teleprinter. And from all indications, the teleprinter errors
that were possible, trea - improperly threaded teleprinter
paper, or paper that was too old; neither of those looked like
they're likely probabilities at this time. And we'll probably
get a clarification on that on the next pass. Apparently
the problems with the teleprinter had not yet been detected,
although =he crew has indicated that they can read the
information. And the teleprinter is usable even the - even
though the quality has degraded some way from earlier even-
ings. At 22 minutes before our next acquisition and 54-1/2
minutes after the hour, this is Skylab Control.
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and 33 seconds Greenwich mean time. We're now 55 seconds
from acquisition of signal through the tracking ship Vanguard.
Pass through Vanguard should last between 6 and 8 minutes,
and we'll bring the line up live now for air to ground
through that station.
CC Skylab, Houston. AOS the Vangaurd 6
minutes.
SPT Hello Bill.
CC Ed, do you have a moment free time here?
SPT Go ahead.
CC Could you get us the frames remaining
on the ATM?
SPT Coming up. H-Alpha 12962, 56 04591,82A
00147, 82B 01401, 52 05499, and 54 04378.
CC Thank you Ed, and if you have another
minute, I can read up some changes to straighten out this
TVII7 for tomorrow.
CDR Okay, Bill go ahead. And also are there
any updates or anything on the SO63 maneuver pad? We're
getting ready to get going on that.
CC Negative. We're go on the SO63 maneuver
down here.
CDR Okay, we're going to go ahead and punch
it up.
CC We copy. And Ed, on your detail flight
plan for tomorrow, today we weren't aware that the TVII7 had
been moved so hence the 7 minute prep time. Tomorrow
it occures during a 25 minute unscheduled housekeeping
period, so you should be okay. On the flight plan we want
you to change 1750 to 1735 and TVII7 ops 2 to ops i setup, on
the two i00 TVII7 again we want you to change ops 2 to ops i.
Also for the SPT flight plan we want you to leave the samples
in the chiller until the setup has been made. And finally at
2229 do not use ergometer during 5183 ops, that's S183 ops.
SPT Okay Bill, I got that. Essentially what
it amounts to is that every free moment I get tomorrow I just go
full board trying to get 17T put together and operating.
CC That's about it I'm afraid Ed.
PLT Houston, Skylab, PLT.
CC Go PLT.
PLT Roger. About DAC 4, understood there
was a query about DAC 4, I just checked it out with the
repair transporter on which we had the difficulty and they're
both working nominally.
CC We copy that.
PLT And like when I took transporter 7 apart
I found a piece of film jammed up in the the guide and I
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removed that and looks like it's okay.

CC And we copy again. And Bill_ we got
everything on the teleprinter paper except whether it was
pink or not, that's pink around the edges.
PLT Negative on the pink.
CC All right. And we're 30 minutes - 30
seconds here from LOS, we'll have you again at Canary at
235.
SPT Does the maneuver look okay Bill?
SPT Okay, we're going in about 30 seconds.
CC Copy.
32 seconds Greenwich mean time. The Skylab space station now
over Brazil is out of range of the tracking ship Vanguard,
and wetre 12 minutes from our next acquisition of signal at
Canary Island. During this last pass some updates for the
Science Pilots instructions for tomorrow. Mainly regarding
117 which is the charge particle mobility demonstration.
That's one of the science demonstrations which the crew may
attempt to per - be performing in the next couple of days
and he is going to have some time set aside for working on
that tomorrow. Also the maneuver for photographing the
comet Kohoutek with the S063 untraviolet instrument is now
underway and appears to be going well. No thruster attitude
control system gas is expected to be used for tonights
maneuver. No report of any use on the earlier maneuver today,
that's previous comet maneuver for use of the $201
electronographic camera. And of course this morning's Earth
Resources pass used a total of 40 pound seconds of TACS for
desaturation and all related things. That's of course about
less than 1/3 of the use yesterday and about i/i0 as much as
we'd used on Earth Resources passes at the beginning of the
week. So that's a substantial improvement in performance on
a thruster attitude control system and the momentum management
program. We're now about 25 minutes after the hour and this
is Skylah Control.
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now over the north Atlantic is about 55 seconds from acqui-
sition of signal through Canary Island. The pass through
Canary Island and Madrid an overlapping pass should last
approximately 14 minutes. Presently at Mission Control our
flight team is completing the pads for tomorrow's activities.
Included in one of the pads the solar activity pad to be sent
up to the crew is this comment. The next few days will be very
quiet with spotless disc and a very few subflares from active region
95. This quiet period courtest of the author of textbook
with similar title, The Quiet Sun, is a book written by
Ed Gibson as a prepare - preparatory textfor the astro-
nauts going aboard Skylab. We're now very near acquisition
of signal at Canary Island. We'll bring the line up live
for air-to-ground.
CC Skylab, Houston, AOS Canary for 13 min-
utes.
CDR Roger, Houston. We've got about 8 min-
utes to go in the maneuver and it's looking good.
CC It looks good from here. SPT, Houston.
SPT Go ahead, Bill.
CC Ed, could you verify for us that the
teleprinter switch is in command?
SPT That's verified, Bill.
CC Thank you, sir.
CC SPT, Houston.
CDR This is the CDR, go ahead.
CC Jerry, could we get someone to make a
couple of checks on the teleprinter. We're unable to command
it at the moment?
CDR Okay, I'm right next to it. What do you
need?
CC Okay, we want you to check the teleprinter
circuit breaker on panel 200, verify that it is in. If it is
in, check all the removable plugs on the rear to be sure that
they are in.
CDR Okay, it did work.
CDR Houston, CDR. I checked the plugs and
they're good and I cycled the switch to ON and back to
COMMAND.
CC And was the panel 200 circuit breaker in?
CDR That's affirmative.
CC Thank you.
CC CDR, we'd like for you to cycle the teleprinter
switch to ON and hold it there so that we can observe on telemetry.
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CDR Wilco.
CC Now, take it back to COMMAND.
CDR Okay, it's in COMMAND.
CC We now have command of it. Thank you.
We're going over the hill in about a minute. We'll have you
again at Carnarvon at 03:18.
CDR Roger.
15 seconds Greenwich mean time. We're now a little over half
an hour from our next acquisition of signal. During this
last pass, Commander Gerald Carr giving some assistance to
the ground. We had problems getting the teleprinter to obey
our commands and after cycling the switch a couple of times,
he succeeded in clearing up whatever the problem was and (garble)
commanded to the teleprinter that it turn on and accept a
message of - was properly executed from Mission Control.
The Kohoutek maneuver now nearly through its complete stage
and will be virtually completed by the time we get acquisition
of signal again. Seems to have worked very well, no use of
TACS gas so far and we also expect that we'll get about five
frames of photography with the S063 camera, that's that camera
which is a Nikon 35-millimeter single lens reflex camers that's
been modified for use as part of the S063. We'll take five
frames at exposure times ranging from 5 seconds to a minute
and a half. Two of the exposures will be through a near
ultraviolet filter, another one through a different wave
length of ultra - near ultraviolet and also one deep blue
filter visible white light photograph. S063 is the ultra-
violet airglow horizon photography experiment and that
French experiment is now being converted to use in studying
the comet Kohoutek. The crew indicated earlier in the even-
ing that two of the members of the crew, Gerald Carr and
William Pogue have both seen the comet. Commander Carr
indicating that he saw it earlier in the day. We're now
about 31 minutes from our next acquisition of signal. That -
the upcoming pass will be through Carnarvon, and immediately
after that, we'll have the medical - that's a correction.
The upcoming pass is a private medical conference. The
Carnarvon pass is tooiow elevation to be acquired and so our
next acquisition will be a private medical conference at
Honeysuckle 30 minutes away. Immediately following that,
our next pass is the Bermuda pass, that's an hour and 15 min-
utes from now. So, we wouldn't expect to have any live air-
to-ground for the next hour and 15 minutes. This is Skylab
Control at 52 minutes and 37 seconds after the hour.
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12/5/73

and 49 seconds Greenwich mean time. The Skylab space station
is now just on the coast of South America and the Caribbean
Sea, and about to be acquired through the Bermuda tracking
antenna. The pass through Bermuda should last about 7 minutes
and 50 seconds. Spacecraft communicator is William Thornton,
and we expect that this or Madrid may be the final pass of
the evening.
CC Skylab, Houston AOS for 7 minutes.
CDR Roger, Bill.
CC And we have _o last items here for you
if we can get out of the way. The first one is for the PLT,
and no further water sampling, that is iodine sampling, is
required at this time.
CDR Roger, he copied. You mean you want to
knock off the sampling the of the water tank 6 tomorrow?
CC Negative, this was in reference to the
wardroom water that was sampled some time ago, on day 19.
There was some question of doing two samples like the one
sample that he did. The one sample is adequate.
PLT Okay, I got a question for you, Bill.
CC Go ahead.
PLT Rog. We just completed ithe S063 and
hhe pad called for a stow configuration l, which called
for removal of the AMS from the minus 2 SAL. The AMS requires
the S183 for tomorrow, and S183 detail indicates a prep, too
which indicates the AMS is installed. So, what it seems to be
inconsistant or I misinterpreted something. Would you clarify
that; am I supposed to leave the AMS in the minus 2 SAL
tonight or not?
CC Stand by i.
CDR Okay, Bill while we are standing by fire
your other questions.
CC That's affirm, these are changes to the
detail pad for the CDR and the PLT. And this was changed
since you managed to get the mark i fixed today, and we're
rearranging the pad slightly as follows. For the CDR, perform
S183 ops that was scheduled for the PLT at 19:10. We want
these ops performed at this time, at 19:10. And update your
detail pad to reflect this. Also perform eating, checklist
update, EREP transfer, and housekeeping around this S183 ops
between 18:49 and 22:39. That is the only time critical thing
in this period is the S183 ops. Now for the PLT detail pad,
at 19:10 change S183 ops to S190 checkout.
PLT This is the PLT, copy.
CDR Okay, the CDR got that.
CC Okay.
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CDR Are you going to send up new pads

tomorrow morning?
CC If you would like to have them we will
send them up.
CDR No I think we can handle it the way it
is. I was just wondering if you were planning on sending
them.
CDR Let's keep as much wear and tear off
the teleprinter as we can. We'll manage these.
CC Okay.
CC PLT, Houston.
PLT Let's go Bill.
CC Following S063, that should have been
a stow 3.
PLT Stow 3, thank you very much.
CC And it's i minute to LOS, so we'll say
good night here and thank you very much.
CDR Good night Bill.
CC Good night and hey, we sure appreciate
all that data and stuff that's been coming back on lot of
the items.
CDR Roger, and be advised Thornton's revenge
is taking its toll. It's really getting to the calves.
CC That's the way it was meant to. How's
it wearing?
CDR I'm not sure that teflon's going to make
it. It gets pretty hot and it's beginning to show some lines
in the middle through it. It will be interesting to see if
it makes the whole 85 days.
CC Your a bunch of real athletes I guess
is the problem.
CDR I can hike my sock temperature up about
25, 30 degrees in no time at all.
CC Copy and good night.
CDR Hey, Bill even if the teflon goes it's
still good for (garble) break.
CC Right, copy.
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SL-IV MC-689/I
Time: 22:15 CST 21:04:15 GMT
1215/73

now crossing the north Atlantic has passed out of range of
the Bermuda tracking antenna on the final pass of the
evening. Have the mission surgeon's daily report on crew
health, we'll read that for you at this time. Crew health
and morale are excellent at this approximately quarter
point of the mission. The Science Pilot completed his lower
body negative pressure exposure. Proper sleep, exercises,
and fluid intake must certainly be considered as positive
factors working for the observed uneventful MO92, signed
Dr. Jerry Hordinsky for Dr. Hawkins. During this last pass
over Bermuda we had a conversation between Bill Thornton
who developed the Skylab treadmill and the Pilot and
Commander of the Skylab mission. They indicated that the
treadmill is having a excellent effect in building up the
calves and keeping those muscles exercised. Dr. Hordinsky
indicated earlier that that exercise on the treadmill limits
them in running, they can't run for more than about a minute, it
exhausts them completely, there's much too much stress on
the calf, and they do mostly walk on the - on the exerciser.
But in addition to that Science Pilot has been using it
for doing springs and toe rises, which are also excellent
muscle - muscle stretchers. Tomorrow December 6th is an
International Astronomical Union Comet day, it's a day when
astronomers and observers all over the world are being asked
to focus their attention on the comet and to gather as much
data as possible for later comparison. A request going out
from Mission Control and elsewhere around the United States
indicates that they observe. They urge comentary observation
by all techniques being employed as simultaneously as
possible for tomorrow. Tomorrow of course the Skylab
crew itself will be making an observation with the S183
instrument, the ultraviolet panorama instrument. That
Kohoutek manevuer is scheduled for late in the evening about
2 o'clock Greenwich mean time for the operations on the
comet tomorrow. Today the sstronauts took more than a
dozen photographs of the comet Kohoutek recording internal
changes in the comet as it moves toward the Sun at ii0,000
miles per hour. Using two special cameras to register
invisible ultraviolet light Pilot Bill Pogue took a series
of photographs that may indicate whether comets are indeed
make of ice and dust as some scientists believe. Early today
the electronic sensors and cameras designed for Earth
Resources studies were turned on agricultural areas in
Texas's Rio Grande Valley. A U.S. Department of Agriculture
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seientist will use data gathered today in a program to

prevent crop damaging insects including fruit flys from
crossing the United States - Mexico border to infest new
areas. Skylab astronauts pointed Skylab's 4 electronic sensors
and all 7 cameras at sites along a 4300 mile route from Lake
Powell in southern Utah to the upper reachs of the South
American Amazon River. The SI90A which had not been performing
properly yesterday was checked out last night and operated
beautifully this morning for the Earth Resources pass. There
is a scheduled checkout for that tomorrow that was up linked
to the crew just a few minutes ago. Pilot Bill Pogue will be
making that checkout between 19:00 and 20:00 Greenwich mean
time tomorrow. That checkout is to confirm that there are
no problems with the SI90A and also to take a closer look at
a forward motion compensation part of the instrument which is
necessary for a perfect resolution. Today's Earth Resources
survey used very little nitrogen gas from Sklab's maneuvering
thrusters. Only a total of about 40 pound seconds, a new
technique developed by flight controllers cut the use to a
10th of the amount required for Earth survey runs earlier in
the week. The 4300 mile survey today will be the last over
the United States for several weeks. Skylab's Earth sensors
will be pointed at Africa, Asia, and South America during passes
planned for the coming days. That's our final broadcast for
the evening. Tomorrow morning the crew will be up shortly
after 6:00 a.m. central standard time. This is Skylab Control
at 19-1/2 minutes after the hour.
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SL-IV MC-690/I
Time: 06:55 CST 21:11:55 GMT
12/6/73
PAO Skylab Control, Greenwich mean time ii hours

55 minutes. A wakeup call for the 21st day for the crew of
Skylab IV through the Hawaii tracking station. We'll hold
the line up for CAP COMM Bob Crippen.
MCC Hello, Skylab. Is Peha (?) speaking. How are
you, Gerald? Hi Edward. How do you do, William? Merry Christmas
to all of you from all the people of Germany. Merry Christmas
with German Christmas songs.
MCC (Music). And here pilot (garble) a more
familiar voice to you, Barbara Striesand. (Music: "Silent
Night" by Barbara Striesand).
CC Good morning, Skylab. We're 30 seconds
from LOS over Hawaii. And we'll see you at Goldstone at about
4 minutes at 12:06.
CDR Morning, Crip.
CC Morning.
MCC (Music).
4 minutes. A wakeup call to the crew through Hawaii at Greenwich
mean time 12 hours 2 minutes. The crew beginning their 21st
day in orbit. This the 206th day in orbit for the Skylab space
station. Wakeup call, a message from the German people, a holiday
message to the crew. Today is Santa Claus Day in Germany.
Our selection of Christmas music played up to the crew as a
wakeup call this morning. Today the crew in the 21st day,
completing o:ne-fourth of their scheduled 84-day mission. Today
also is International Astronomical Union Comet Day. It's a day when
astronomers all over the world will be requested to focus their
attention on Kohoutek to gather data for later comparison.
Skylab IV crew of Gerald Carr, Ed Gibson, and William Pogue
also will observe Kohoutek today. They will do it from their
vantage point of more than 200 miles above the Earth while riding
in their soplhisticated scientific laboaratory. First Kohoutek
observations occur this morning at 8:43 a.m. central standard
time. Astronaut Carr will point the data acquisition camera
at the comet and capture it photographically. Kohoutek is 118,937,000
miles from Earth, and 70,587,000 miles from the Sun traveling
at a speed of ii0,000 miles per hour. Towards evening a second
Kohoutek photo session is on schedule with Jerry Cart operating
the camera. Today is a busy one with a variety of experiments,
however no Earth resources survey will be done today.
CC Skylab, Houston, we're AOS at Goldstone
for 5 minutes. How can you read the music, or can you read
it at all?
CDR Reading it loud and clear here. Last pass
it was a little bit more broken.
CC Okeydoke.
MCC (Music).
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Time: 06:06 CST 21:12:06 GMT
12/6/73
CDR fast but it was a little more broken.

CC Okeydoke.
MCC (Music)
CC i minute to LOS. We'll see you over Bermuda
in 5
minutes at 12:16, 12:16.
MCC (Music: "Silent Night".)
PAO We've had loss of signal through the Goldstone
tracking station. Next acquisition will be Bermuda in 2 minutes
15 seconds. We'll hold the llne up for this stateside pass.
MCC (Music)
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Bermuda for
i0 minutes.
MCC (Music) and here, Skylab (garble)
Barbara Streisand.
CC Skylab, Houston. The laser is on at this
time.
PLT Roger. Got it in sight. Got it in sight.
CC Understand you got it.
PLT Negative, that was an error. Stand by.
MCC (Music: "Silent Night")
PLT Crip, it's very, very hazy, and we didn't
see it.
CC Okay, very good Bill.
MCC (Music).
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Time: 07:04 CST 21:13:04 GMT
12/6/93
(Music)
CC SPT, Houston. Have you get a moment to
talk about the MI7 blood drawing this morning?
CDR He'll be with you in a minute, Crip.
CC Okay.
CDR He's still changing.
CC Okeydoke.
(Music)
CC Bill, do you have a moment to talk if
Ed doesn't? I believe you can note this down that we're
going to go LOS here shortly. I do want to tell you be-
fore you did the blood.
PLT Go.
CC Okay. We're trying to get an idea as
to why the plasma had the red color, and we'd appreciate it
if you would log the time of each blood draw and the time of
centrifuge start and then the appearance of the plasma after
it - you went to the separation.
PLT Roger. The time of the draw and the time of
the centrifuge actuation; and what was the last? I didn't
read that.
CC The appearance of the plasma after
it separates. In other words, we're interested to find out if it
still has that red color.
PLT Okay. Thank you.
CC Okeydoke. We're i minute from LOS.
We'll see you at Carnarvon in 40 minutes at 13:06.
PLT Okay, Crip.
12 hours 26 minutes. Loss of signal through Bermuda tracking
station. Christmas music for the crew from their wakeup call
this morning over Hawaii at 2 minutes after the hour. Music
played up courtesy of music submitted to the Mission Control
Center from the German people with a Christmas message to the
crew this morning. Today is Santa Claus Day in Germany.
Pilot Pogue reported he did not see the laser this morning
as the spacecraft passed over the Washington area, laser being
initiated from the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. The
lazer blue-green in color today. Pogue reporting it was hazy
over the area, he was unable to see it. Discussion also about
the blood drawing this morning. Part of the MII0 medical
experiment series of hemotology immunology program for the
mission. Purpose is to acquire blood samples from each of
the crewmembers eight separate times throughout the mission.
The purpose is analysis of inflight blood samples is impor-
tant to compliment to other pre and postflight testing done
in similar experiments. Overall purpose of the ii0 blood
series, the i12 through 115, is to evaluate changes in the
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biochemical composition of the blood which might result from

prolonged space flight. Inflight samples are necessary to
determine the effects of long duration of space flight upon
man's biochemical process to identify and establish signifi-
cant trends in this data. The blood samples are collected
eight times during the mission and crewmembers separate the
plasma and cellular phases of the blood by eentrifusion and
preserve both samples by freezing to prevent degradation of
the biochemical constituents prior to postflight analysis.
This morning a crew began their wakeup at - began their day
at 6:02 central standard time, a day without EREP passes
today. EREP passes for the next week or so will be over
South America and Africa. A joint observation program called
JOP 12 is scheduled as part of today's ATM operations. In
general the JOP 12 series is coordinated calibrations of
certain - of the ultraviolet experiments. The Sun is appar-
ently quiet today. ATM scientists on the ground say that
for the next several days the Sun will be very quiet with a
spotless disk and a very few subflares from active region
95, Teleprinter message sent up to the crew last night des-
cribing the Sun's activity saying it's very quiet, and say
this quiet period is courtesy of the author of textbook with
similar title. The book in reference is The Quiet Sun authored
by Science Pilot Ed Gibson. Next acquisition will be in 35
minutes through Carnarvon. At Greenwich mean time 12 hours
30 minutes this is Skylab Control.
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SL-IV MC-693/I
Time: 07:0.4 CST 21:13:04 GMT
12/6/73

hours 4 minutes. Acquisition coming through the Carnarvon
tracking station in 40 seconds. We'll hold the line up for
this pass.
CC Skylab, Houston; AOS Carnarvon for lO min-
utes. And, Skylab, the - the music we played for you earlier has
been sent by the people of Germany and we thought it was quite
appropriate to play it on the St. Nicholas Day.
PLT Thank you, Crip. That was very kind. And
we enjoyed it very much.
CC Glad to hear that. And, Bill, while I've
got you there could I give you a small change on your - on your
Flight Plan, and remind you about something else.
PLT Stand by.
PLT Okay, Crip. Go.
CC Okeydoke. At 13:40 this morning you've
got the S183 prep scheduled, and your're also reference to a
general message 2042 Bravo that we had requested for you to
hold over wlhich resyncs that particular carousel, and
the thing we wanted to do was emphasize to you that it was
necessary to do that prior to installation. You have to do the
alignment procedure prior to installing the carousel.
PLT Prior to installing the carousel. Roger.
CC Okay. And the other thing was, down a
little bit later in the day we have you at 23:25 scheduled
for installing Carousel l-l. We're going to continue to use
2-2 because we're still doing some thinking about l-l. So
you can just cancel that activity at 23:25 and use it for
open housekeeping.
PLT That's done.
CC Okay. I don't know whether it was you or
somebody else but we saw that the thermostat had been adjusted
down about 4 degrees, and the - there's a little funny there to
get the system into a cooling mode. If you guys think it's a
little warm now you actually have to take it down below where you
want it to get it to go into a cooling mode and then reset it
back up. So if your water tank bring the temp down, take it
and set it about 55 degrees and then put it back where you
would like it.
PLT Okay, Crip. Thanks for the word.
CC And one other item, Bill, I guess I
need you or somebody on panel_ 206 to do a REG ADJUST for us.
PLT Okay. I'II run right up there.
CC Thank you.
PLT Okay, Bob. Go with the REG ADJUST.
CC Okay. We need you to do a REG ADJUST on
BUS i, 20 degrees counterclockwise; and on BUS 2, 15 degrees
counterclockwise.
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PLT That's complete.

CC Okeydoke. Real fine. Thank you very much.
I believe that's really all I needed to hastle you about
this morning, Bill.
PLT All righty.
CC SPT, Houston. Ed, you got a moment to
talk this morning?
SPT I always do, Crip. Go ahead.
CC Very good, Edward. You'd asked for comments
about your TV scenes and a little feedback on it_ and that
TV 28, as far as we can tell right now, that you ran for us on
the ATM C&D looks real good. I can't - can't give you anything con-
structive right now because it came through all okay.
SPT Okay. I was a little bit worried worr£ed
about the voice on that because the - I was afraid I was holding
the mike just a little bit distant.
CC Voice came through by by. One item I'd
like to tell you to change on your details today if you got
your detail Flight Plan handy.
SPT Okay. Go ahead.
CC Okay. At 01:35 you - we have you stowing
the stuff for TVII7, and we would like you not to stow it
but to stow the parts - the particle mobility device in the food
chiller until tomorrow when - because we're planning on doing ops 2
tomorrow.
SPT Okay, Crip. Essentially what the mode
I've gone into on that thing is that every free moment I got
during the day I'ii be working on it, and so all of the places
where you have written in there_ Bill gave me some changes
yesterday, they all amounted to just a charge ahead on that
thing until you can try and get it done and do it as you can.
CC Okay, fine. The only - The only thing we were
really concerned about was we didn't want you take it all down
and - and put it away and then, we'll turn around and ask you to do
it again tomorrow.
SPT No, that's one reason I moved it down here
in the OWS so I wouldn't have to do that. It was pretty much
up in the way in the MDA, and it takes a fair amount of doing
to get all that stuff put together, especially the first time
and l'd never seen a gear and the procedures.
CC Okay. And understand you are working
at - down in the in the workshop now. Okay. The only thing
I wanted to emphasize is that the particle mobility vice should
go in the food chiller then.
SPT Okay. We will do it, Bob.
CC Skylab, Houston. One other remark regarding
the cooling situation. We find that the OWS heat exchanger
fans don't look like they're in OWS mode and I can tell you where
to correct that if you've got time.
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PLT Okay, Crip. Go ahead

CC Okay. It's - You might check panel 390
for the OWS EXCHANGER FANS. Those should be in the OWS po-
sition.
PLT Okay. He's on his way. Thanks a lot for
the reminder.
CC Thank you.
LOS. Next station contact is over Guam at 13:19, that's
about 4-1/2 minutes away, and we'll be turning the mike over
to Bill Lenoir for that pass for the ATM conference.
CDR Roger, Crip. And while you're at it,
would you wish Dr. Ed Buchard, our other Flight Surgeon,
a happy St. Nicholas Day.
CC We'll do that for you.
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SL-IV MC-694/I
Time: 07:15 CST 21:13:15 GMT
12/6/73

17 minutes. Loss of signal through Carnarvon. Next acquisition
2 minutes will be through Guam tracking station. The crew
is scheduled to spend 6 hours and a half today in manned
observation at the Apollo telescope mount, as well as perform
the M092, M171 experiment, lower body negative pressure device,
metabolic activity. The crew has accumulated to date in 20 days
of operation of the Skylab space station a total of 38 hours
31 minutes of manned operation of the ATM. More than 300 hours
are scheduled for the entire mission for this operation. In
addition the crew has spent more than 106 hours performin B
medical experiments aboard the space station, and have spent
approximately 68 hours in operating the EREP instruments on board
the spacecraft. We'll have acquisition through Guam tracking
station in 40 seconds. We'll hold the line open for Bob Crippen;
Flight Director is Don Puddy.
CC Skylab, Houston, we're AOS Guam, and I'm
turning the mike over to Dr. Lenoir.
SPT Morning, Bill. Go ahead.
MCC Good morning, Ed. You ready for the
harbored 55 CALROC today?
SPT Sure are. Go ahead.
MCC Okay, we've got about 8 minutes here in
the pass. ]Let me start off with a couple of questions here.
On the discretionary observing time I guess I'ii call it, I
know you do prefer a fair amount of that. We're wondering
whether Jerry and Bill also prefer a fair amount, moderate
amount, not any at all or what?
PLT This is PLT, I can answer for myself. I
like the observing time. I think last night I picked up what
I thought was a feature developing on the corona. And in
addition to that there is a practical reason for having that
observing time. If you do get yourself in a corner,
you can eat into that observing time to go ahead and take the
pres heat off of yourself so you can do a better job
on the JOP. Now that sounds like you're sort of bagging
the question, but I think it's a very practical measure to
take right now.
CC Okay.
CDR This is the CDR; I agree with that.
MCC Okay, fine. And we agree with that also
and realize that it does serve as a pad as well as good observing
time. When we schedule a lot of it in any given orbit, we're
not begging the issue, but several experiments have found that
some of their best SL-3 data came from observing time shopping
list type items. Okay, Ed, one - statement here. Active
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region 87 and 92 is about 24 degrees behind the limb this morning.

It would take an event to get out to about i/lOth to about
0.15 radii in order for you to see it around the limb.
SPT Okay.
MCC And one comment here on the white light
coronagraph. The phantom star that may have - well, it actually
is not omega (garble). Westinghouse has looked at it. Our feeling
is that it is a defect in the tube. It is not in the white
light optics, and should not appear on the film.
SPT Okay. When we reversed color it went completely
black when I went to gray-discharge. That told me it was in
the TV system. I didn't quite understand where, but I knew
it was not in the optics. So glad to hear that.
MCC Okay, fine. And that was what tipped us
off also. Looking at the CALROC plans today, and the comments
that are in the SAP, I wonder if you have any questions, or if
you totally understand exactly the four-orbit sequence we're doing
here?
SPT Okay, I have not had a chance to look through
it in detail to say I totally understand it. I have looked through
it in a general way, and believe I do. Of course the only questions
that additionally came to mind was wondering if QR-2 and LV-1,
2, 3, 4, and so forth, the ones that are called out and looking
through the pad I see that those are are defined in various
points. And we'll just have to write them down as we go along
to make sure that subsequent passes on the panel know where they
are located.
MCC Right. That's I00 percent correct. You've
got the first three CALROC passes and Jerry has the last one.
And that will certainly require coordination between the two of
you on that. And one comment here is that all of the 55 observations
must be made above 400 kilometers in order to be valid. Atmos-
pheric extinction will invalidate the calibration if any is
taken below there.
SPT Okay, we'll do our best to get it all in
there.
MCC Okay. And yesterday you should have received
the message on the S054 how-goes-it on the filter wheel. If
you've got any questions or concerns about that, I'd be happy
to answer them now.
SPT No, I don't think I can add anything to that.
other than you did get some EVA plans or JOPs, let us know
what they are and we'll try to think about them and see if
we can come up with anything additional.
MCC We certainly will. We intend to try to keep
you in the loop there in deciding what to do as much as we possibly
can. That's why I'm trying to send you all the information
SL-IV MC-694/3
Time: 07:15 CST 21:13:15 GMT
12/6/73
as we get it. Okay, moving on here to some S055 detector data,

and unfortunately several days late in answering some questions.
We have gone back and looked at prominence. You asked a question
much earlier about alignment beta on a prominence. We find that
there just is not very much data of alignment beta on a prominence.
But searching the SL-II and III records, we have found one
SL-III scan-mirror auto raster actually of alignment beta on
a prominent. And we find numbers that are very, very similar
to the numbers that you quoted. And we're beginning to suspect
that the numbers that you have in the cue card, the 15 with
a background of 3 are probably way low. Because our numbers were
essentially in very good agreement with yours.
SPT Okay.
MCC And also earlier on the west limb when you
were looking for loops out of active region 87, you mentioned
you could see fingers in H-alpha that you thought would -
if enclosed into a loop standing on its edge would go
out to about: a third of a radii. At first we tended not to
think that was the case, however again looking at further
data in the neon 7 and silicone 12, especially neon 7, we find
indeed that we do get the kind of thing that you were talking
about where we get arched structures arching up as through
they are part of a loop w_th the top i00 to 120 degrees
missing. Going up about 6 arc minutes off the limb, which is
very consistent with what you described and thought you saw,
the base is definitely visible in alignment continuum. And
that leads us to believe that it's probably also visible in H-alpha,
and that is indeed what you were seeing.
SPT Yeah, we have a very good combination up
here. The H-alpha i FILTER, I find, is a little bit better
for playing features off of the limb than the H-alpha 2. And
also the MONITOR i which we brought up - Mr. Barnes
down there at Marshall picked the best one he could find off
of the shelf and it certainly is a beauty. We can see very
faint features off the limb. And I'm looking forward to
doing some work with spicules as well as prominences and loops.
MCC Okay, good. We're sure hoping that that
matters. And we kind of hope that between the two of those
that we might even be able to see the comet later on in H-alpha
if everything has really peaked up.
SPT We hope to. I have not been able to notice
much distinction between the two monitors however, in looking
at the corona. I don't quite understand that. I would think
that MONITOR i would be better, but just comparing them side
by side I don't think I could see any fainter features in I
over 2.
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Time: 07:15 CST 21:13:15 GMT
12/6/73
MCC Okay, Ed. And let's see, we've got another

minute and a half here until LOS. Do you have any questions or
anything I can pick up for you now.
SPT Yeah. Last night Bill Pogue was going to
pick up what looked like a relatively new feature in the corona,
a relatively bright, small triangular streamer superimposed
on the other structures out there. It was probably around
080 or maybe a little closer to 070.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC-695/1
Time: 07:27 CST, 21:13:27 GMT
12/6/73
CDR Yeah. Last night, Bill Pogue was

(garble) a pickup, what looked like a relative new feature in
the corona - a relatively bright small triangular streamer
super imposed on the other structures out there, probably
around 080 maybe a little closer to 070. And we had
gotten a call earlier about the surge from active region 87.
Now it was not above 87, but I didn't know what direction
the surge went off in. So we were already Sun centered and
we just pressed on with CONINUOUS and STANDARD mode.
I'm wondering whether they were able to see anything, or
have any indications on the ground that that indeed was
the location.
MCC Okay, Ed. I don't believe that they
have indications that that was the location, but 1'11
certainly check that. And we'll send that up to you later.
CC Okay. 30 seconds to LOS. In 17 minutes
we'll see you at Goldstone, 13:45, 13:45.
SPT Okay. Bill, if you could eventually,
try to get for 82B some more of those optimal times for
various phenomenom. If you can, put it in a very compacted little
passage - compacted package on the telepringer pad, we'll
just put it right up here on the panel somewhere. We have
that for 54, for example, right above the frames remaining
and we use that as a guide for taking signal frame exposures
and we could do the same for the XUV SLIT.
CC Okay, Ed. That's already in work and
I should get that today. And we'll try to send it up this
afternoon.
SPT Very good.
CC See you tomorrow.
SPT Thank you, Bill.
13 hours 29 minutes. The daily ATM conference with Bill
Lenoir discussing ATM operations in Sun activity with
Science Pilot Ed Gibson. Earlier on the Carnarvon pass,
the crew sent word to the ground to pass along happy
St. Nicholas Day to Ed Bushard, that's Dr. Edward C.
Bushard. He is the - one of the foriegn doctors working
with NASA now, assigned to the Life Sciences Directorate.
He is from Germany. He is an officer at the German Air
Force - Medical Officer. He is the - one of the Flight
Surgeons on duty here at the Johnson Space Center. Next
acquisition in 14 minutes 25 seconds through Goldstone.
Control.
tracking station as the Skylab space station concludes its
SL-IV MC-695/2
Time: 07:27 CST, 21:13:27 GMT
12/6/73
2973rd revolution of the Earth since launce on May 14th

from Cape Kennedy. The space station now in orbit 206 days.
The crew of Skylab IV beginning their 21st day. We'll
hold the line open for CAP COMM Bob Crippen.
CC Skylab, Houston. AOS stateside for
16-1/2 minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston. If somebody's got
an opportunity, I'd like to talk to you about the Visual
observation message we sent up last night, which concerns
some observations off the Yucatan Pennisala.
CDR Go ahead, Crip.
CC Okay. First, If you've had read
the message and have any questions on it, we'll be glad
to try to answer them. A few items I thought I might
try to elaborate on a little bit. The cloud patterns that
we're talking about on the Eddys are occurring approximately
i00 miles off the coast. And the cloud streets that are
referred to, we have seen them both very well defined
streets and sometimes the streets aren't all that obvious.
But the - the Eddys which appear as a - as a break or a circle are
fairly well defined, we think. And the build up on one
side of them are also well defined, plus if you've got the
Sun glint just right, the color change in the water is also
very obvious. The time - opportunity you're going to
have for that today is your coming over the tip of
Yucatan at about 15:34 on the next rev around. And
both of you or all three of you are going to be tied up
somewhat, wetre if you can perhaps find some time to take
a look and visually observe it, we would appreciate it.
We do not want any photographs. We're just trying to determine
whether you can visually observe them from orbit.
SPT Okay, Crip. If we happen to have a
camera handy, no one would object if we took a few photos.
CC Okay. No there's no objections at all.
We just don't want it to interfer with your other observa-
tions of the things - of the other activities you have. And - -
SPT Okay.
CC And, Ed, while you're there, I guess
you confused us a little bit talking about TV-II7 and moving
it down in the workshop. It would appear that that's an
activity that should not take all day, as you refer to it, but
after you've got it set up - well go for 20 minutes, when
you're taking photographs over 20 and then repeat that
going in the other direction for another 20 minutes. That
is what you're doing with it, isn't it?
SPT Yeah, Crip. The first thing though
is to get all of that gear put down in the workshop and assembled
properly. And that's what I'm in the midst of doing right now.
SL-IV MC-695/3
Time: 07:27 CST, 21:13:27 GMT
12/6/73
There's an awful lot of gray tape used and an awful lot

of barn yard engineering to put all of that stuff together.
And it's the first time I've seen the gear and the first
time I've seen the procedures. And that's why it's been
taking a little bit of time.
CC Okay. We understand it. Thank you.
PLT Houston, Skylab.
CC Go.
PLT Roger_ Bob. Earlier when you were
giving me corrections to the Flight Plan, this is regarding
the S183, I understood you to say that the special procedure
was to be employed before installing the spectrograph
assembly and perhaps you said carousel; is that correct?
CC That's affirmative. Before installing
the carousel.
PLT Okay. Thank you very much. That makes
sense.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC-696/I
Time: 07:35 CST 21:13:53 GMT
12/6/73
CDR You getting any TV downlink, Crip?

CC Getting TV downlink 5 by 5; looks good.
CDR Okay, I'll start showing you some different
views .
CDR Houston, looks to me like you would rather
look at a rell of about minus 5400 here. When I finish the
XUV sequence do you want me to roll to a minus 5400 for the
white light photograph.
CC Yes, let me check that.
CDR Okay. I'm going to go ahead and do the
XUV sequences now.
CC Skylab, guess I'm a little late with it,
but we are doing a data voice recorder dump here.
CC Jer, the roll is fine where it is, you
can leave it at 10800.
CDR Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston. Wetre i minute from LOS
and we're not copying any H-alphas, Jer, if you haven't got
that thing started you need to go through the procedure for
starting it after after daylight.
CDR Okay, I thought I had, but it apparently
went off again.
CC Okeydoke. And next pass is going to be
at Carnarvon, that's 43 minutes away at 14:43. And to really
confuse you I'm going to turn you over to the purple CAP COMM
on the Maroon team.
CDR What a horrible color combination.
CC Roger that. And in case it wasn't clear
yesterday on the leg band for the upcoming 92 run that you've
got i Jer, we want you to continue to use the same ones that
we said yesterday, until we tell you different.
CDR Wilco.
CC Today and tomorrow.
CDR Okay, Crip.
CC Okay, Jer, you need your switch to AUTO.
Your H-alpha - -
CDR That's where it is, Crip.
CC It's in AUTO; okay, copy.
PAO This is Skylab Control, Greenwich mean time
14 hours 2 minutes with loss of signal through Bermuda tracking
station. Next acquisition will be Carnarvon in 40 minutes.
Discussions with Bob Crippen, CAP COMM, and the crew, concerning
a visual observation the crew will be made - will be asked to
make on the next revolution across the states when the space-
craft crosses the Gulf of Mexico over the Yucatan Peninsula.
Scientists are looking - are looking for additional information
SL-IV MC-696/2
Time: 07:513 CST 21:13:53 GMT
12/6/73
in support of photographs made during the Skylab II mission which

reflects an irregular shaped eddys off the coast of Yucatan
some photographs show the eddys as large as 40 mibs in diameter.
Today the crew will be asked to observe this - this phenomenon
on the the tip of Yucatan between Honduras. These photographs
taken during the previous Skylab missions reveal features
previously unknown and the characteristics from - noticed from
space should be a general pattern of cloud streaks, circular
discontinuities in the current and the cloud streets caused
by clockwise current eddys, cumulus cloud buildup on the
down-hill side of the eddy, it's extending clockwise 90 to 180
degrees and ocean surface color differences between inside
the eddys and outside when seen in glint, in the glint of the
Sun. This represents a heretofore unknown mechanism of
energy exchange between the - across the sea and
atmosphere interface. Today is the last chance the crew will
be able to observe this before mid January, but the Sun angle
will be come lower. They're being asked to observe these
eddys, common on all the features that they do see and asked to
observe this phenomenon all the way from the Yucatan Peninsula
to the South American coast as they cross the country on
revolution 2975 of the Skylab space station. Scientists believe
that these areas are observed, we can search out other sea
areas with similar characteristics, and see if we can discover such
edities, eddys elsewhere, and the teleprinter message which
went up to the crew last night the words were added to this
explanation saying the implications to air-sea energy exchange
are tremendous is the crew is able to visually describe this
phenominon. Scientist Pilot Gibson remarked that if he has
the opportunity, he will attempt to take photographs of the
Yucatan Peninsula area on this upcoming revolution across
the United States. Next acquisition in 37 minutes and
25 seconds through Carnarvon. Ascension tracking station is
not supporting the current - this current pass across South
Atlantic. At Greenwich mean time 14 hours 5 minutes, this
is Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC-697/I
Time: 08:12 CST 21:14:12 GMT
12/6/73

hours 12 minutes. We will not have Ascension on this up-
coming pass through the Ascension tracking station. Track-
ing station's not supporting Skylab this morning. Next
acquisition will be through Carnarvon in 30 minutes 40 sec-
onds. On the next revolution as spacecraft Skylab crosses
the Gulf of Mexico the crew has been asked to visually observe
a natural phenomena on the Yucatan Peninsula; desribe some
eddys which had been photographed during previous Skylab
missions. Scientists here on the ground believe proper des-
cription and photographs of these eddys, the implications to
air-sea energy exchange are tremendous. If these eddys can
be observed, scientists feel we can searth out other sea
areas with similar characteristics to see if we can discover
similar phenomena in other parts of the world. The eddys
in mention are in the Yucatan current between the Yucatan
Peninsula and the tip of Honduras. An eddy is either a move-
ment of body or air and moving against the main current.
These features have been previously unknown in this area.
The crew has been asked to visually describe the general
pattern of cloud streets which have been observed in
that area, the flow of these cloud streets in the ocean
current, any circular discontinuities in the current, and
the cloud streets caused by these clockwise current eddys,
cumulus cloud buildups on the downhill side of the eddy,
which photographs show them to extend clockwise from the tip
of Honduras, 90 to 100 degrees clockwise. The crew has also
been asked to describe the ocean surface color differences
between inside the eddys and outside when seen in the glimp
of the Sun. This represents a here-to-fore unknown mechanism
of energy exchange across the sea atmosphere interface. To-
day is the last chance the crew will have to observe this
natural phenomena before mid-January because of the Sun angle.
They've been asked to observe these eddys, comment on all
the features that they are able to see, and observe - make
these observations from the Yucatan Peninsula to the South
American coast along the groundtrack which the spacecraft
will follow on revolution 2,975. Science Pilot told the
CAP COMM, Bob Crippen, that if he has time he will attempt
to take photographs of this unusual phenomena. Scientists
are real interested in this - this natural phenomena which
heretofore until Skylab II was flown and pictures returned
this unusual situation, had never been noticed before. Next
acquision in 27 minutes 30 seconds through Carnarvon. At
Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC-698/I
Time: 08:412 CST 21:14:42 GMT
12/6/73

hours 42 minutes. Acquisition coming through Carnarvon track-
ing station in 30 seconds. We'll hold the line up for this
Carnarvon pass. Changeover at Mission Control Center, new
Flight Director, mroon team, is Milt Windler, CAP COMM is
astronaut Dick Truly.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're at Carnarvon for
6
SPT Hello, Dick. How are you doing?
CC Just fine, sir, and you? l'm the guest
CAP COMM today for the maroon team. Story and I are changing
shifts, and so, good morning to you.
SPT Good color combination.
CC Roger, that. Say, we noticed that the
H-alpha i is in OVERRIDE and we'd like to have it in NORMAL.
Over.
SPT Okay. Jerry's debriefing there and we'll
get it as soon as he gets off the tape recorder.
CDR I got it.
CC Okay. Thank you very much.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 30 seconds
from LOS. I'll give you a call at Guam at 14:57.
CC Skylab, Houston. Hello. At Guam for 8
minutes.
PLT Hello, hello.
CC And, Skylab, Houston. I thought I'd make
a mention of the - you know that call I made just a minute
ago on the H-alpha i switch. Turns out that that wasn't a
just a sphereous switch call, there was some checklist changes
that went up a couple of days ago that - that you probably haven't
gotten around to putting in and may get to today, but there
were to three of the - of the ene cards and it had to do with the
positioning of the H-alpha switch for the condition to - when
you powerup after sunrise. In In that case we will end up
putting the INNERLOCK switch to INNERLOCK and opening the
door and then verifying that's it's back to NORMAL at the end
of the day pass. So, Jerry, or whichever one of you does make
those checklist changes, when you make them to the ATM Operate
Cue Card and also the Unattend Operate Cue Card. You might
Just take a note of that.
CDR Roger, Dick. We were aware of that. Just
haven't gotten around to it yet. I was busy debriefing.
CC Okay, there's no - No problem. We just wanted
to make sure that we hadn't confused you more then helped you
with that little change there.
CDR Oh no. No sweat at all. We understood.
CC Okay.
SL-IV MC-698/2
Time: 08:42 CST 21:14:42 GMT
12/6/73
PLT Dick, PLT here.

CC Go ahead, sir.
PLT Roger. People are probably watching here.
I just did housekeeping ii Alfa. It seemed completed. And
while I'm talking with you I might as well give you - there
are nine solids traps remaining after I installed the two that
I just put in. Now what I'm calling about is - when I installed
the SIEVE A, no problem, didn't get any warning lights or
anything, but when I turned the SIEVE A FAN back to SECONDARY,
it turned up all right, came up to speed. When I turned
B FAN to OFF then I got SIEVE FLOW lights. When I changed it
as soon as I got back to primary the SIEVE FLOW light went out.
The question is, the A FANs were running, and is it just they
don't have enough poop to - to overcome that sensor tolerance,
or what?
CC Stand by just a second, Bill.
PLT And I'm going to be running down to 183.
CC Okay.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC-699/I
Time: 09:04 CST, 21:15:04 GMT
12/6/73
CC Skylab, Houston. We're about i minute

to LOS. I'ii call you at Goldstone at 15:21. And be
advised we were watching you and we did see the caution and
warning when you were changing the solid strap. We're still
thinking about your question a little bit and when we have
a good answer, we'll get back to you.
PLT And both fans did come on when I put
them back to SECONDARY, PRIMARY respectivly MOL SIEVE A and B.
CC Okay. Understand.
15 hours 6 minutes. Loss of signal through the Guam tracking
station. Next acquisition in 14 minutes 35 seconds, will
be Goldstone. On this stateside pass, the crew will - has
been asked to describe visually and possibly take photographs
of unusual formations off the Yucatan Peninsula. Scientists
are interested in this area. Unusual formations of clouds and
water patterns in the air, which were noticed from photographs
taken during previous Skylab Missions. Later today, between
Greenwich mean time 19:00 and 19:30, NASA will launch a
calibration rocket from White Sands, New Mexico. Measurements
from the instruments aboard this vehicle will be used to
calibrate - to coorolate measurements from Skylab's solar
devices. This is part of joint observation program 12, JOP 12,
a series of calibration measurements. CALROC instruments
will measure the same wavelengths as the instruments - the
ATM instruments aboard Skylab. The area on the Sun that the
rocket sensors will be aimed at is south of the solar Equator
on the central meridian. The crew will be aiming Skylab
solar sensors at this same area today to provide correlative
data. Ed Gibson will be the operator for four cycles and
commander Gerald Carr for one cycle. This will be a total of
five Skylab ATM passes in support of the rocket CALROC launch.
The rocket's instruments will gather a total of 356 seconds
of data before the rocket and payload land in the White Sands
Missile Test Range in Mexico. Next acquisition in 12 minutes
30 seconds tlhrough the Goldstone tracking station. At Greenwich
mean time 15 hours 8 minutes, this is Skylab Control.
15 hours 20 minutes. Acquisition coming through stateside,
Goldstone tracking station in 45 seconds. We'll hold the line
up for CAP COMM Dick Truly.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're stateside for
15 minutes.
CDR Roger, Dick. Could I have a new window
for the $233, I missed the last one.
CC Roger, Jerry. Let us take a look at that.
CDR Okay.
CDR PLT, Houston. I know you're busy on the
ATM. We've still got about 12 minutes here. If you get a
moment, we think the solids trap thing was operating normally,
but I can tell you about that any chance you have to listen.
SL-IV MC-699/2
Time: 09:04 CST, 21:15:04 GMT
12/6/73
PLT Okay. I'm just sort of doing a little

observing. Go ahead and talk, Dick.
CC Okay. What we think happened, was the
fact that when you did the SIEVE A changeout, you didn't
caution and warning because that sensor, that flow sensor is
inhibited in SIEVE A. If it have been enabled and if that
sensor was operated properly, you would have gotten a caution
and warning there, also. Then when you moved over to sieve B,
since we do have a good snesor there and it was enabled, you
did get the caution and warning so that worked normally too
and since there's no interaction - or expected interaction
between the two sieves and their individual caution and
warning sensors that we think it worked okay.
PLT Thank you, very much.
CC Roger.
CC Skylab, Houston. In about 5 or 6 minutes
you're going to come up on this opportunity over Yucatan
to observe this air-sea interchange - energy interchange
phenomenon and I'm looking at a satellite picture of the
weather that was taken about dawn this morning down there and
there does appear to be some cloud cover. And at that time
it was essentially, mostly between the tip of the pennisula
stretching up toward the southwestern tip of Cuba. And
we've been having a little bit of talk about here as to
whether this particular cloud cover will either assist or
hurt you in taking a view of that. So I - I guess you'll get
the best chance to see and can let us know if one of you has
a chance to look out the window.
PLT Okay. Ed and I'll both look.
CC Okay. Great.
END OF TAPE

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SL-IV MC-600/I

Time: 13:55 CST 18:19:55 GMT

PAO Skylab Control, Greenwich mean time

PAO Skylab Control. Greenwich mean time

PAO Skylab Control, Greenwich mean time

PAO Skylab Control, at 22 hours, 17 minutes,

SPT Okay, Hank let's give it a whirl, if we

PAO Skylab Control at 22 hours, 48 minutes

CDR By the way Hank, the dialogue for that

CC Skylab, Houston through Ascension for

CC Skylab, Houston, just as a little reminder,

PAO Skylab Control at 23 hours, 49 minutes

PAO Skylab Control at 0 hours, 26 minutes,

PAO At present the comet continues to grow

PAO Skylab Control at i hour 23 minutes and

PAO Skylab Control at 2 hours 3 minutes and

31, 02 is empty, 03 no change, 04 is empty, 05, Bravo, Hotel,

CC CDR, Houston. In reference to the problem

is now passing over Brazil outside the limits of the antenna

PAO Skylab Control at 2 hours, 23 minutes

SPT Rog and we still have 5 minutes of

in Guatemala. There are 6 geothermal tracks where

PAO - - it might be unacceptable at this

PAO Skylab Control at 3 hours, 3 minutes and

was missing. And I'm wondering w_ther I was actually looking

blood back. And also creates a low pressure a rea in the

CC Skylab, Houston through Honeysuckle for

Astronauts Gerald Carr, William Pogue and Edward Gibson used

We will come up again after the press conference is concluded

PAO Skylab Control, Greenwich mean time ii hours

that we had a little problem with the maneuver, and so the

CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 45 seconds

PAO Skylab Control. Greenwich mean time

SPT Do you hear me with a squeal?

CC And, Skylab, for the CDR and PLT, I

PAO Skylab Control. Greenwich mean time

CC Skylab, Houston. Welre 1 minute from

you for 5 minutes, try to keep it to exactly 5 minutes so

useful for some of the future onboard work.

PAO Skylab Control. Greenwich mean time

CC Skylab, AOS Carnarvon for i0 minutes;

CC When you get done with TV 28, could you

PAO Skylab Control, Greenwich mean time

PAO Skylab Control. Greenwich mean time

PAO Skylab Control. Greenwich mean time

PAO At this Z-local vertical will only draw

CC That's what we've heard.

PAO Skylab Control, Greenwich mean time

SPT Very good. Looks like we're still up

sea foam concentrations and gathering data to be used in

PAO - - will be the S193 radiometer/

PLT I don't know.

CC You should not be out of film even at the

PLT I'm checking everything out_ but I just

CC Skylab, we're a minute to LOS, ii minutes

Gauad of Rockwell International of California is looking

PLT Back to this stuff. It sounds like it's

CDR No. Shutter drive circuitry (Garble), it

kind of diagnostic future additional diagnostic or

PAO Skylab Control, Greenwich mean time

PAO Skylab Control. Greenwich mean time

problem during the last EREP pass. The camera malfunction

burns used during that maneuver. Refined pound-seconds figure