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Time: 14:40 CST, 18:20:40 GMT
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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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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.
PAO Skylab Control at 2 hours, 15 minutes,
and 13 seconds Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station
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TIME: 20:23 CST, 19:02:23 GMT
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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 .
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SL-IV MC618/I
Time: 06:32 CST, 19:12:32 GMT
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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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Time: 06:32 CST, 19:12:32 GMt
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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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Time: 07:06 CST, 19:13:06 GMT
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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.
PAO Skylab Control, Greenwich mean time
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.
PAO Skylab Control, Greenwich mean time
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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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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Time: 07:51 CST 19:13:51 GMT
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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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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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Time: 11:07 CST, 19:17:07 GMT
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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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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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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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- 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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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.
PAO Skylab Control. Greenwich mean time
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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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.
PAO Skylab Control, Greenwich mean time
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,
this is Skylab Control.
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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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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.
PAO Skylab Control at 2 hours 50 minutes and
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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(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.
PAO Skylab Control, Greenwich mean time
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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