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Time: 05:36 CST, 47:11:36 GMt

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PAO Skylab Control at Ii hours 36 minutes and

7 seconds Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station is now
54 seconds from acquisition of signal through the Vanguard
tracking ship. The pass through Vanguard will last approxi-
mately i0 m£nutes and the spacecraft communicator is Bob
Crippen. The crew is all ready up and we'll bring the line
up llve non for air-to,ground.
CC Skylab, Houston. AOS Vanguard, i0 minutes.
We'll be doing a data/voice recorder dump here.
CDR Roger, Crip.
CC Okay Jer and I know got you in a little
bit of rush here but there're a couple items I need to - need
you to get for me. I need you to get pump Charlie on the C&D
loop and I need you to add a couple of items to that C&D power-
down and I need a reg adjust. I can give you those whenever
it's convenient.
CDR Okay. Bill's on his way.
PLT Slip the reg adjust to me.
CC Okeydoke. If you've got your initial
position marked, we need adjust reg BUS i, 45 degrees clock-
wise. BUS 2, 40 degrees clockwise.
PLT Okay, take a look at that.
CC Okay. We're taking a look at it and we
show that you've got the C&D pump on now. Bill, if it's
handy, on _ have you got your details, with you now?
PLT Affirmative.
CC Okay. At 14:30_ we have you doing the powerup
after the EREP _ Housekeeping 90 Bravo. We need you to add
steps 3 and 4 to that and I want to add some to Jet's detail
to have kim do some extra powerdown to catch those.
PLT Got it.
CC Thank you, sir.
CDR Jerry's listening,
CC Okay, fine. For his 11:40 coming up here,
housekeeping 90 Alpha, I need to add steps 5 and 6.
CDR Okay.
CC With that, I_ii get off your back and let
you get set up for your maneuver that's upcoming.
CC And for your info, the reg adjust looks
good to us.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from LOS.
See you again in 6_i/2 minutes over Ascension at 11:55 and we
can verify that your tile looks good for the maneuver.
PAO Skylab Control at ii hours 48 minutes
Greenwick mean time. Skylab space station passed out of range
of the tracking sh_p Vanguard. Our next acquisition is 4_i/2
minutes away at Ascension. This morning, the crew was awakened
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a little after 5 o'clock central standard time, about 45

minutes ago at Hawaii with "Auld Lang Syne." They"re now on
the new year to stay, They won't be going back into 1973 anymore
although they did that a number of times during the last
24 hours. We'll keep the line up llve now since we're only
4 minutes from our next acquisition and that pass at Ascen-
sion will be a 7-1/2 minute pass.
PAO Skylab Control. We"re now comin_ within
range of the tracking antenna at Ascension where we_ll have
a 7-1/2 minute pass. Bob Crippen, the spacecraft communicator
and Flight Director is Don Puddy.
CC Skylab, Houston. AOS Ascension.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MCI601/I
Time: 05:54 CST, 47:11:54 GMT
1/1/74
CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from LOS.

Next station contact is Guam in 37 minutes and that's at 12:37,
12:37.
PAO Skylab Control at 12 hours 1 minute and
about to cross the coast of Africa. 35 minutes to our next
acquisition of signal at Guam. This morning, the Skylab crew
awakened early at 5 a.m. central standard time or about ii
Greenwich mean time shortly after there and they're preparin_
now for their early Earth rescources pass that's scheduled
to begin on the next revolution around the Earth. They will
beginning as they cross over South America. Also scheduled
for today are operations of $063_ an ozone operation to look
at the ozone in the upper atmosphere. That's scheduled to take place
during the Earth resources pass. Science Pilot Ed Gibson will
be operating $063 at the same time that the Earth resources
control and display panel is being handled by Commander Cart
and the viewfinder tracking system for the S191 infrared
spectrometer is being handled by Bill Pogue. Commander Cart
will undergo the M092 lower body negative pressure device
run this morning and he'll be observed by Pilot Bill Pogue. That
will follow the Earth resources pass this morning. Skylab crew
has now officially started their change of time for central
daylight time. They did so because of another early Earth
resources pass that's scheduled for day after tomorrow. To-
morrow, the crew has a day off. The following day at least
as the present schedule calls for it, the crew is suppose to
get up at 9:20 Greenwich mean time or 3:20 a.m, central standard
time. That early Earth resources pass is to take advantage
of lighting conditions that would not normally be available
during the regular crew day. Later in the afternoon today,
JOP 18B, comet observations with the solar instruments is
scheduled with Science Pilot Ed Gibson again conducting that
operation. And there's several runs of the MI31 human vesti-
bular function experiment today. Actually_ as in previous
days, about an hour and a half has been set aside for each
of the three crew members to exercise. This is Skylab Control.
ItVs 33 minutes to our next acquisition of signal. It's now
3 minutes and 18 seconds after the hour.
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SL-IV MC-1602/I
Time: 06:35 CST 47:12:35 GMT
1/1/74
PAO Skylab Control at 12 hours 35-1/2 minutes

Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station is now 55 seconds
from acquisition of signal through the Guam tracking antenna.
Pass at Guam will last about 6 minutes. The Spacecraft
Communicator is Bob Crippen.
CC Skylab, Houston. AOS Guam 5-1/2 minutes.
CDR Hello, Hello.
CC Howdy, howdy. You guys got time to hear
a little briefing on what you going to - as to the state of
weather for this EREP pass?
CDR Sure. Go ahead.
CC Rog. The tip of South America coming
across Chile and Argentina is going to be pretty cloudy.
And (garble) there is somewhat questionable. Right after
you clear the Atlantic coast, though, you pick up the Falk-
land Current in the clear, and then coming up the South At-
lantic there are actually three frontal systems which I would
llke to after I go through this, tell Bill where he might be
able to pick up several places to get that special 05. We've
only got listed at one. But you come across - correction. The
special 02. After you cross somewhat just below the equator
it's going to clear off pretty good and then you'll of
course cloudy up again when you come to the ITCZ. And the
whole northern portion of - the whole portion of north Africa
is clear today.
CDR Roger. We Just took at look at that out
the wardroom window on the last pass. Looks nice.
CC Rog.
CC Bill, do you have time to copy down three
times I can give you that would give you a chance of catching
those frontal systems for that second special oz? We
copy. We copy a CAUTION and WARNING right now.
9LT The ACS Malfunction Checklist out.
CC Copy. ACS malf.
PLT CMG sat.
CC Copy. And we're showing right now that
you executed the - the second fine maneuver to go into actual
Z_LV attitude. The one that was supposed to be in been done
at 13_06,
PLT That's affirmative. I did that at 12:06.
CC Copy.
PLT Can I take that one out, Crip?
CC We're talking about it right now.
PLT Okay,
CC Bill, we suggest you go ahead with the
5 minute tal, and put the reverse of the signs so that second
fine maneuver, IN.
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PLT Yes. First tape I hear you did say a

5 minute maneuver time.
CC That's correct.
PLT Okay.
CC And I need to give you three DAS codes
going over the hill. 30015, 30103, 30141. That's heaters
OFF. Heaters OFF, CMG 2. You didn't get that you can
get it out of your book, systems - on your ATM Systems book.
PLT Okay.
CC See you at Vanguard, 13:14.
PAO Skylab Control at 12 hours 43-i/2 minutes
Greenwich mean time. This present pass we had a brief CAUTION
warn CAUTION signal to the crew on ACS. That's attitude
control system caution. That's primarily due apparently to an
executed maneuver by Bill Pogue. He executed a maneuver to
true Z_local vertical, which is of course is space station
to continue pointing directly at the Earth. That maneuver
was executed an hour before it was planned at 12:06 instead
of 13_06, Cost a few mibs of TACS, probably about 15
pound-seconds recorded here in Mission Control. It may
have been a little more than that. And during that pass
the _ Bill Pogue was asked to institute a change to put it
back in the attitude prior to the Z_LV again, and then they'll
go back to Z_local vertical again at 13:06. That should prevent
further desaturatlon firings on the control ma - control
moment gyros. Those are changes that have to be made in the
attitude gyros when they reach a point where they have no
lonBer enough momentum to keep the vehicle moving. This is
Skylab Control at 12 hours 44 minutes 42 seconds Greenwich
mean time.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC1603/I
Time: 07:13 CST, 47:13:13 GMT
1/1/74
PAO Skylab Control at 13 hours 13 minutes

Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station is now just about
to be acquired through the Vanguard tracking ship as the
Skylab crew begins their Earth resources pass. We'll hring
the line up live now for air,to-ground through Vanguard.
CC Skylab, Houston. AOS through the Vanguard.
We have you for ii minutes.
SPT Roger. Read you loud and clear, Crlp.
Burn number 2 coming up for S063.
PLT There we go. Hey, Crip. I got a couple
of questions.
CC Go.
PLT Okay. We both - or all three of us copied
orally a an instruction on CMGs-2 hack. But the numbers
you gave me were consistent for CMG-3 configuration.
CDR On my mark, it'll be 15:13. Stand by -
CDR MARK. 190 to AUTO.
PLT Anyway, Crlp, I did at 3 30001, 30103,
and a
30141. Like to verify that that was correct.
CC Was the first part 30015?
PLT Negative.
CC Understand you gave -
CDR Okay. The S - the S191 READY light came
on at 15:26. Right on time, we're in REFERENCE 6.
CDR On my mark, it'll be 17 a minute from now.
Go ahead, Crip.
CC Okay. We're just going to say verify that
you - the first command you loaded was 30001.
PLT That's affirm.
CC Okay. Wetll go ahead and take care of the
CMG thing. First command was supposed to have turned all the
heaters off and then turn them back on for CMG-3 and that was
certainly not clear to you when - when the info that I gave
you going over the hill.
PLT (Garble)
SPT Coming up on S063 frame number 4.
CDR Okay, on my mark, it'll be 13:17:00. Stand by -
CDR MARK. RADIOMETER, OFF.
CC If somebody gets a chance, we'd appreciate
verifying that the coolant loop is in flow.
CDR That's verified.
CC Thank you.
CDR On my mark, it'll be 17:30. Stand by -
CDR MARK. ALTIMETER's ON.
PLT Hack. Hack.
SPT Frame number 5 for S063 coming up on number 6.
CDR Okay and
CDR MARK. At 20:06, SHUTTER SPEED to FAST on
190. Coming up on 21.
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PLT (Garble) are you taking pictures of I wonder?

CDR Oh, let's see. Could be the Falkland
Current. Actually, we're not doing anything yet.
SPT S063, frame number 6.
PLT Oh, I thought that you'd - that's Just the
shutter. Yeah, Falkland Current coming up next.
CDR Okay. We're coming up on 21. Stand by
PLT Hack.
CDR MARK at 13:21. ALTIMETFR, STANDBY. Range
being changed to 92, MODE to 5. 21:20 is coming up next. On
my mark, it'll be 21:20. Stand by
CDR MARK. ALTIMETER's ON. 21:46 is the next
call. Okay. On my mark, at 21:46.
CDR MARK. 21:46. SHUTTER SPEED to SLOW.
SPT Stand by, frame number 7.
CDR I hope the confluence is clear today.
PLT Yeah.
CDR And lots of red splotches.
PLT Okay. Now I'm going to (garble) back to
start a narrative on the Falkland Current if I see it.
CDR Oh.
PLT And tell me when you've got a sequence
coming up and I'ii stop talking. So
CDR I'm good till 24:34 and then I have to do a
little talking.
PLT Well, that's when I start - we start taking
data on the Falkland Current at that time.
CDR Oh.
PLT So Just tell me that you've got a hack or
something coming up.
CDR All right.
PLT Just say, "Coming up on a (garble)" or something.
I'ii stop.
CDR I'ii tell you, I'ii just tap you on the shoulder.
PLT Okay. You may have to shake me (laughter).
CC Yeah, we can really almost hear you guys
if you just give a hack with one talking with the other.
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Time: 07:23 CST 47:13:23 GMT
1/1/74
CDR What - are we swinging across to land-

fall now, or - -
PLT Not yet.
CDR We're still on the Pacific side, huh.
CC Negative. You're on the Atlantic side.
CDR Okay, We got about a minute to go.
CC Bill, we showed that you had a - one Falkland
Current sequence at 16:34 on your VTS and you got another one
coming up here at 24:17. You concur?
PLT 16:34 and 24:17. Affirmative.
SPT S063, frame 8.
CC Did you manage to get - -
CDR 30 seconds. Go ahead.
CC Did you manage to get in that first
Falkland? The one at 16:347
PLT Negative. Negative. I did not.
CC Rog.
PLT Didn't even see that first time there.
CDR Okay. Coming up on 24:34 pretty quick
here. We'll be goingto SHUTTER SPEED, FAST. Okay. On my
mark it'll be 13:24:34. Stand by - -
CDR MARK. SHUTTER SPEED going to FAST.
PLT And I don't see anything.
CDR Hack.
CDR MARK. ALTIMETER to STANDBY. RANGE to 88.
CC LOS 9n i minute. Ascension in 3.
CDR Roger. Dick - Crip. Okay. I'm coming
up on 25:10. 25:10 coming up. Stand by - -
CDR MARK. ALTIMETER's ON.
PLT Yeah, I don't see a thing.
SPT S063, frame 9.
CDR Clouds or water?
PLT Can't decide. Well, I got clouds and water,
but I don't see any of the currents. Course the optics are so - -
CDR Yes.
SPT Hack.
CDR Okay, now at 26:04 I want to stop this.
PLT Okay. CAMERA's OFF. 26:04, 45 up.
CC Better time for that second special 02.
than 28:03 is about 28:05.
PLT 28:05. Okay.
CDR Okay. We're coming up on 26:00. I'm
looking for $90 READY out.
Greenwich mean time. And loss of signal there at Vanguard.
We're about to be acquired through Ascension. Skylab Earth
resources pass now in progress as they look at the Falkland
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Current and keep their eyes open for some storm fronts that
are across the Atlantic. There are three major storm fronts.
One of them an electrical storm just north of the Vanguard
tracking shJ.p. We'll leave the line up live now for air-to-
ground with the crew.
SPT - eleven. $063
PLT And I got so doggone much cirrus I don't
know whether it's any useful data or not. Okay. Here's some
good buildup. It's the green (garble). Gad, it's bright.
CDR Yes. The light coming in around the window
looks bright.
PLT And a 28:23 here at special 05. 33:21, ITZ
check.
SPT Okay, got 'em both.
CC AOS with you. We got you for about 15 minutes.
SPT Okay. I'm going to invert the order of 13
and 12, Just to keep the procedure simple.
PLT Okay, I'm looking for a thunderstorm.
SPT Starting out with a 2-second exposure and
2700 wavelength.
CDR Okay. The next mark's going to be 28:30.
PLT I may have been off a little on that front.
Got lover it before I ran out of time, I think.
CDR Okay. On my mark it'll be 13:28:30.
Stand by - -.
CDR MARK. ALTIMETER is going to STANDBY.
RANGE set to 84. SCATTEROMETER to STANDBY.
SPT It's 13 and 12, in that order, coming up
on 63.
CDR Coming up -
CDR MARK 2850. The ALTIMETER's ON.
SPT Hack.
SPT Hack.
PLT Okay. I never did see the Falkland Current
on the VTS.
PLT Stand by for 33:21. The rates still look
good.
SPT 14, S063. Stand by.
SPT Hack.
CDR Okay. On my mark it's 32:10. Stand by
CDR MARK. ALTIMETER to STANDBY. RANGE to
80. On my mark it'll be 32:30. Stand by -
CDR MARK. Altimeter_s ON.
SPT Frame 15 coming up.
SPT Hack.
CDR Sounds like a rare jungle bird down there,
Ed.
CC All that hacking I thought you had a
cough.
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CDR Yes. Nlcotlne hangover or something.

PLT Standing by. 33:21.
SPT (Garble).
PLT Hang in there, Ed. You're doing a good Job.
PLT There may be - -
SPT Left hanRing.
CDR (Laughter) Okay.
CDR Wish I was qualified for S063.
SPT Okay. Coming up on frame 16 another two
(garble).
PLT Okay. I'm into my time, but I don't have
anything. Might as well turn the camera on so I can get a good
thunder bumper here.
SPT Actually it was Crip who was in on the
initial design (garble).
CDR Oh, is that right?
SPT That's right. That's (garble).
CC Thought you'd love that.
PLT (Garble) seems to me to be pretty active.
CDR Okay. On my mark it'll be 34:28. Stand by -
CDR MARK. SHUTTER SPEED, SLOW on the SI90.
PLT There we go.
PLT Okay - -
SPT Frame 16.
PLT - - no2 I've got a thunderstorm. There
we go. Hang in there.
SPT Hack.
PLT Okay, overshooting cloud tops in the clear
area, (garble) OFF.
CDR Okay. On my mark it'll be 35:24. Stand by -
CDR MARK. 192 MODE to READY.
SPT Frame 17.
CDR Okay, we've picked up speed on the tape recorder.
ALTIMETER UNLOCK light on and at - -
SPT Hack.
CDR - - on my mark it'll be 35:50. I'm going
to be going to STANDBY anyway.
CDR MARK.
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Time: 07_36 CST, 47:13:36 GMT
1/I/74
CDR - - the light on. And a hack. On my

mark it'll be 35:50. I'm going to be going to STANDBY anyway.
CDR MARK. At 35:50 the ALTIMETER is STANDBY,
RADIOMETER to STANDBY. 36:02 is coming up.
CDR MARK. At 36:02. SCATTEROMETER is ON, and
the RADIOMETER is ON.
PLT A thunderstorm over land.
PLT We may Be coming up on land here. Yes,
there. Land ho.
SPT Good ship wake down there.
CDR Okay, on my mark you'll be 36:42. Stand By.
CDR MARK. 92 is MODE CHECK.
CDR Okay, I'm looking - there we go at 36:54
we've got the S190 ready light out. And the MODE is goin_ to
STANDBY. FRAMES is going to 21.
PLT No thunderstorms over land.
CDR Nice clear day over Africa.
PLT Boy, it sure is.
CDR Let's see, we must be coming close to the
Niger River Delta area there.
PLT I've got the Niger - I had the Niger River
a moment ago.
CDR I think that's a
SPT I wonder if they would like an exposure of
this rather than the one 1-minute down the pike. Why don't
you ask them, Crip.
CC Checking.
SPT I'm Just about losing it.
CDR Go ahead and take it, Ed.
CC Yeah, go ahead, Ed.
SPT Okay.
PLT I'm going to paint that lake, Arrowhead
lake. I've got nothing else to do.
PLT My nadir swath starts at 40:43.
CDR Okay, on my mark it's going to be 38:23.
Stand by.
CDR MARK. L90 is going to mode AUTO. bill,
try to get the delta land that's to the south and the west
slightly and the lake there. Pick up a couple of those other
lakes, those are our handhelds. 38:37 coming up. Stand by.
CDR MARK. 192 mode to READY. Tape recorder's
picking up speed. All that delta land around there they're
interested in vegetation, and water color.
PLT Yeah.
CDR And water content. Frame 19.
CDR Okay, I'm flooded with green lights here.
Everything is running properly.
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PLT I'm painting down the Niger River.

PLT I'm going to push the data pushbutton.
PLT Okay, and a the Niger River Delta right,
pushing the data puehbutton. Now l'm going to go into the
rangeland.
CDR Frame. Turned off. (Garble) frame. Light
off.
PLT About one - -
CDR Okay, we're coming up on 13:40:00.
CDR Okay, 40:00 stand by. MARK. Shutter
speed to MEDIUM.
CDR Next mark is at 40:30. On my mark, 40:30.
PLT Okay, standing by for a desert (garble).
CDR Stand by -
CDR MARK. 192 mode to CHECK.
PLT Okay, we're going to get some good desert.
PLT Stand by.
PLT MARK. Camera ON.
SPT Frame 20.
PLT Okay.
SPT Hack.
CDR What kind of a thing are you doing, Bill?
PLT I'm doing a nadir swath on desert right now.
CDR Okay. This is the area where all those dunes
are, the chains
PLT Yeah.
CDK and star dunes.
PLT Yeah.
PLT I don't see any of them right here, but
there's a lot of that outcropping and bedrock.
CDR Okay, we're looking for the S190 READY
light to go out at 41:50.
PLT 42:19 is out. (garble)
SPT Frame 21.
CDR Okay, the READY light went out at 52.
The mode is STANDBY, FRAMES is going to - okay, this pad says
8 and it ought to say 08.
SPT Hack.
CC One on us, Ed - Jer.
CREW Stand by.
CDR Okay, MARK. The trouble is when I see 8
by itself it makes me wonder if it's 90 something and a number's
been dropped or what.
CC Roger. Understand that
CDK Okay, coming up on 42:50.
PLT All right, now we've got - -
CDR See those there, there long strings, the
chains.
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PLT No so much, but I'm starting to pick

them up. Boy, this is a good view here.
CDR Okay, on my mark, it's going to be 42:50.
Stand by.
CDR MARK. REFERENCE is going to 2 on S191.
PLT Oh_ now I've got the dunes_ man.
PLT That is rough-looking country down there.
CDR I'd hate to get lost down there.
PLT Man, The low Sun angle here these pictures
ought to really show up the geology.
CDR (Garble) have the camera going though.
PLT No, no it's off. I'm just eyeballing
right now.
CC Uh-huh.
PLT And there's a lot of dune activity there.
CC You can shoot off some 190A single frames
if you'd like on those dunes.
CDR Okay.
PLT Okay, we're going to give you a nadir here.
SPT Frame 22.
PLT Okay.
CDR Okay.
PLT You can start - you can squeeze off one
now_ Jer. It m on nadir and we're right over a lot of dunes.
CDR All right. There's one.
SPT Hack.
PLT Okay_ let me look ahead here. That was
about it. Let me look on further ahead.
PLT No, we're coming up on the Med, I guess, or
the Red Sea. I don_t know where we are.
CDR No, that's the Med. We're coming out over
Tunis.
CDR Okay, coming up on 44:27.
CDR MARK it. 192 is to READY.
CDR 44:34 and 191 to mode AUTO. I was 1 second
late on that. 45 even is next. Stand by.
SPT Hack.
CDR On my mark it will be 45:00. Stand by.
CDR MARK. Shutter seped slow.
PLT 13:46.
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Time: 07:45 CST, 47:13:45 GMT
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CDR You got 45 seconds, Bill.

PLT Rog.
CDR On my mark, it's going to be 45:34. Stand
by -
CDR MARK. 192 to STANDBY. Stand by - 45:44
is the next mark. Stand by -
CDR MARK. VTS AUTO CAL.
SPT Hack.
PLT i0 seconds to SI.
CDR Okay. 190 READY's out at 45:52.
PLT Stand by -
CDR MARK. 194 to MANUAL at -
PLT MARK.
CDR 45:57.
PLT SI.
CDR Okay.
PLT Think you're building up.
CC LOS in about 30 seconds. Guam in 26 minutes,
14:12. Be doing a data/voice recorder dump. Crimson
team saying good night good day. We'll see you in about
3 or 4 days on the next (garble).
CDR Okay, Crip. Take it easy there .
SPT So long, Crip.
CC Have a good day.
PLT Happy New Year.
CC Same to you guys.
PLT Enjoy the feets - enjoy the feetsball games.
CC Will do. I'ii be popeyed before the
day's over.
CDR Going to - Going to stay up to watch them or
you going home and going to bed?
CC Going to go out and celebrate New Year's.
PLT Hey, hey.
SPT I didn't realize it was New Year's.
CC You guys didn't see your invite.
CDR Who's had time?
PAO Skylab Control at 13 hours 47 minutes and
over the Mediterranean after completing a long Earth resources
pass covering a 9100-mile pass from the Pacific coast of Chile,
across the Atlantic Ocean and north Africa, to the Mediterranean
Sea. Prime features on the study just completed were the
Falkland Current which Pilot Bill Pogue said he was not able
to see in the viewfinder tracking system which is used for
pointing the Sl91 infrared spectrometer and also a number
of thunderstorms over the Atlantic 0 - Ocean. There were
three major storms once identified earlier this morning here
in Mission Control on the Earth resources officer_ and the crew
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was informed that they should point at the cloud tops as they
went over those storms which were interspersed among the
Falkland Current area. And also, they did some data taking
over the drought stricken Mali area, attempting to gather
data on the natural resources in that area on water resources,
as Commander Carr pointed out, as they were passing over. When
they cross the Intertropical Convergence Zone, or the ITCZ as
Bill Pogue called it, he first said that it looks pretty in-
active but then said that I now have a thunderstorm in that
area. The Intertropical Conversion Zone is an area where the
rotation of provided by the Earth's surface, causes the
winds along the Equator to line up on different directions and
produces a constant cloud band in that area. And they got some
very good data on dune areas in the Sahara and said that low Sun
angle should enhance the geology of that area. Cloud studies
and weather fronts over the ocean should be of some interest
to the weather forecasting investigators of the Skylab mission.
And the photographs of Mali and also Tunisia should gather
some information on the geology of those areas and potentially
some water resources in the Mali area which has been subject
to drought because of the southward movement of the Sahara
Desert. Resources pass is out of the way. During the pass,
Science Pilot Ed Gibson was occupied with S063. That's the
ultraviolet airglow horizon photography. Today he was photo-
graphing the ozone layer to attempt to determine how much
ultraviolet rays are absorbed by that layer in the upper atmosphere.
During the day, Science Pilot Gibson will keep an eye on Bill
Pogue during a series of medical tests just after lunch.
Gibson will point the space station's solar telescopes at the
comet Kohoutek later in the day. Comet Kohoutek is now moving
rapidly away from the Sun. It should become visible to
Earth-bound observers in the latter part of this week. It
will be in the southwestern sky just after sunset. Some sharp
eyed observer is - I believe, it may possible to see it tomorrow
evening. 21-1/2 minutes to our next acquisition of signal and
50-1/2 minutes after the hour. This is Skylab Control.
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PAO Skylab Control at 14 hours ii minutes

from acquisition at Guam. Pass through Guam will last i0
minutes. Present time a change of shift has taken place in
Mission Control and Spacecraft Communicator Bob Crippen has
gone off duty now. New Spacecraft Communicator Bruce McCand-
less and the Flight Director on duty now is Neil Hutchinson,
replacing Don Puddy.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Guam
for i0 minutes. The data/voice tape recorder dump, up.
CDR Hello, Bruce. Happy New Year.
CC Roger. The same to you, Jerry, and of
course to Bill and Ed, too.
SPT Happy New Year to you, Bruce.
CC SPT, this is Houston. Over.
SPT Hello, Bruce. Go ahead.
CC Yes. We've got what could be considered
an update to the film threader/film load pad. That is that
(garble) now that you've finished, the S063 operations, we'd like you
to download cassette Bravo Victor 22 out of Nikon 2 and load
Bravo Victor 26 before the S073 op i. Over.
SPT Okay. Download Nikon 2 and put in Bravo
26. Thank you.
CC Roger. Out.
PLT While we're talking about film loading,
Bruce. We were given instructions to load Charlie X-ray 38
in Nikon i. The location was given at drawer F, and I think
that's - I got it out of drawer H, and I'm just wondering if I
have a configuration problem here.
CC No problem, Bill. We understand that
it should have been drawer Hotel all along, Over.
PLT Okay. And also, one other thing. I did
a Charlie Oscar l-Alfa yesterday, as scheduled yesterday,
and that's been completed, and then Ed had this morning the re-
moval of the atmospheric volatiles concentrator, the AVC.
I did the Charlie Oscar l-Alfa with the CO moni-
tor. What confuses me is that they may have meant or in-
tended for me to do the AVC because the AVC is installed in a
bag which is marked CO monitor but there are two such bags
and in one bag the atmospheric volatiles concentrators are
located and in the other bag, which is identical, the CO monitor.
Question is, which one should I have done yesterday and/or
should I also install an AVC?
CC We wanted the CO monitor done yesterday,

Ed. You did it, and we think everything's is straight so far.
PLT What's the AVC stow then?
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CC Bill, our understanding on this is that

that needs to be disconnected so you can do the M092 as its
using the same vent system.
PLT Okay. Well, no. The question is, the
AVC was not installed yesterday, and I did a CO monitor.
Carbon dloxi Carbon monoxide monitor. And I guess we're
stowing something that was never put there. That's the
instructions. There were no instructions to install the
AVC monitor on the hose yesterday.
CC Okay, Bill. Looking at yesterday's
flight plan, a copy of which we still happen to have in the
archives down here, the AVC should have been installed by
the SPT at 02:00 Zulu yesterday, and our assumption then is
that it would have been running overnight and we'd go ahead
and take it out this morning before M092. Over.
PLT Okay. Then was I to do that with a 24-hour
time delay with your concurrence?
CC Well, why don't you let us take a squint
at it and we'll call you back later today and tell you what
to do.
PLT Okay. Thank you.
CDR Houston, CDR.
CC Go ahead, CDR.
CDR Hey, Bruce. You don't really want us
to download that Bravo Victor 22 do you? Why don't we just
forget them. Pull them off the end and just remove the roll.
There's only two frames left. I don't think the risk of
downloading is worth trying to save two frames.
CC Okay. We concur with that, Jerry. Just
go ahead and unload, or whatever, to wind it all back in
the cassette and then take her out.
CDR Okay. Good enough.
CC And we got a little over a minute to
LOS here. Next station contact in 31 minutes through the
Vanguard at 14:52, and just a comment or two in passing as
long as we've got you here, Jerry. One is that we've got a
general message 4737 up on searching for sample bags and
we'd just like to ask you to hang on to that message until to-
morrow because we won't get it into the flight plan until
tomorrow, or day 48, and a question for you. Do you all
still want the maneuver rates on the maneuver in JOP 18 pads
now that the maneuver monitoring task is no longer
required? Over.
CDR I think that's a good thing to have.
Ask them to continue putting those rates on.
CC We'll do it.
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Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station is now passed
out of range of the tracking antenna at Guam. Our next
acquisition is half an hour away at Vanguard. Some questions
this time on the automatic vo - atmospheric volatile concen-
trator which is a device that's used to detect the concentration
of volatiles in the atmosphere of Skylab. A 24-hour test
being run to acquire that data. Bill Pogue had some problems
with it. That's been solved. Now it's - the idea is just
to schedule it at a convenient time so it can be monitored
and removed 24 hours later. 28-1/2 minutes to our next
acquisition of signal. This is Skylab Control.
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SL-IV MC1608/I
Time: 08:51 CST, 47:14:51 GMT
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Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station is now Just 55
seconds from acquisition of signal at Vanguard. The pass
through Vanguard will last about 9-1/2 minutes. Spacecraft
communicator on duty here in Mission Control is Bruce McCandless.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Vanguard
for 9-1/2 minutes. For the SPT, if he has a second.
SPT Sure do, Bruce. Go ahead.
CC Okay. I've got two items for you. If
you would, over on panel 206, we need to get the reg adjust
BUS i and 2 pots, that's both of them, turned to 25 degrees
counterclockwise. That's 25 degrees counterclockwise and then
I have a change to the one of the exposure times on the
pad for your first S073 pass for today. Over.
SPT Okay, Bruce. You've got the adjustments
on the regs and stand by on that. I don't have that pad
with me. Is it very long? I wonder, can I copy it down?
CC You can copy it. On frame 4, we want to
change the start time from 17:13 - to 17:13 from 17:11 in
order to avoid having the target occulted by the Earth's
atmosphere. Over.
SPT Frame 4, change 17:11 to 17:13. Will do.
CC You got it. Thank you.
CC And, Ed, we show that H-alpha I is not run-
ning automatically now. Apparently it missed getting the
door-open signal. Over.
SPT Thank you, Bruce. It's going now.
CC Roger. Thank yon.
CC Skylab, this is Houston. i minute to LOS.
Next station contact in 11-1/2 minutes through the Canary
Islands at 15:12. Out.
SPT So long, Houston.
PAO Skylab Control at 15 hours, 2 minutes, and
i0 seconds Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station now
over Brazil, is out of range of the tracking ship Vanguard.
9-1/2 minutes to our next acquisition at Canary Islands and
Madrid. Quiet morning on Skylab since they got up this morning
at 5 o'clock central standard time, about 4 hours ago. They've
all ready completed an Earth resources pass that covered more
than 9000 miles including both the South America, continent,
the Atlantic Ocean and part of north Africa. This is Skylab
Control. It's now 2 minutes and 45 seconds after the hour.
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PAO Skylab Control at 15 hours ll minutes

Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station has now just
crossed the Equator and we're about be acquired through
Canary Island tracking antenna. Pass through Canary Island
and Madrid is an overlapping one lasting about 15 minutes.
The Spacecraft Communicator is Bruce McCandless.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Canary
Island and Madrid for 14 minutes. Out.
CC Skylab, this is Houston. I minute to
LOS. Next station contact in 35 minutes through Honeysuckle
Creek with a data/voice tape recorder dump at 16:01 Zuln.
Out.
SPT Bruce, could you at that time tell me
how much time is allotted for TV-77 on the VTR today?
CC I can probably tell you at this time.
We have an even 30 minutes there, and I show right now that
3.4 have been used up on the display. But we'll - We'll
get that dumped and out of the way before you start so you'll
have a full 30.
SPT Okay. I may want to get some of that
done before that TV-77 time comes up. I got a little time.
I think I can do it in the next couple of hours.
CC Okay. And on the message that we sent
up giving you background information, the velocity is in
error. It should be 207,000, that's 207,000 instead of
163,000. Over.
Greenwich mean time. The Skylab space station has now passed
out of range of the tracking antenna at Madridid as it crosses
eastern Europe. We're 33-1/2 minutes from our next acqui-
sition at Honeysuckle. At the present time a total of 38 minimum
impulse burns of nitrogen gas have been used for the Earth
resources pass today. That's approximately 170 pound-seconds.
That's about 20 pound-seconds more than were planned that
originally called for. About 30 mibs usage. Part of the
problem due to the fact that the maneuver to Z-local vertical
was made a little bit early today. True Z-local vertical
for an Earth resources pass was scheduled to begin at 13:06
this morning. In fact, Pilot Bill Pogue by error put it in
at 12:06. That was corrected later, but a small amount of
that TACS was used at that time. We do expect a few more
uses of TAS - TACS gas as the space station corrects its
attitude momentum over the next hour or so. This is
Skylab Control; 32-1/2 minutes to our next acquisition. It's
now 28 minutes and 17 seconds after the hour.
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45 seconds. Skylab space station now over northern Australia,
is about to come within range of the Honeysuckle Creek tracking
antenna. The pass through Honeysuckle will last about 7-1/2
minutes and we'll bring the line up live now for air-to-ground
there.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Honeysuckle
Creek for 7 minutes with a data/voice tape recorder dump. And
for the SPT, we noticed that you have not put anything on the
VTR since we talked to you last. Our plan is to take the
VTR over Honeysuckle next rev at 17:40. Do a rewind and then
dump it when you hit Merritt Island following so that you'll
have a clean VTR for your TV-77. Over.
SPT Okay, Bruce. What I had hoped to do was to
finish up the ATM TV which I had done completely yesterday but
unfortunately ran out of tape about half way through it. I
know where I had run out of tape, and I hope to get that done
sometime this next pass before the S073 ops. Probably be about
i0 - maybe at the most 12 minutes or so on it. Would that be
sufficient for you folks to go ahead and dump it in the mode you
planned and then pick up the stuff by the airlock this afternoon?
CC Yes, indeed, Ed. As long as whatever it is
you're doing is finished by 17:40, we can rewind and get a
pretty good dump on it that way and have it all cleaned up
for you for TV-77.
SPT Okay. Very good. I sure will have it done
by then.
CC And with respect to that, that transmission
I made as we were going over the hill there, what we've got is
a different velocity figure for the comet that you might want
to reference in your narration, and the correct velocity is
207,000 miles per hour - that's 207,000 miles per hour. Over.
SPT 207. Roger.
CC SPT, Houston. Minor revision to my previous
statements on the VTR. We can dump about 7 minutes worth of
the VTR at Merritt Island next rev. So if you put i0 minutes
more onto the 3-1/2 that are currently on there for a total of
about 13-1/2, we can get it dumped back to about 6, and that'll
give you 24 minutes for use during your scheduled TV-77. Is
that satisfactory? Over.
SPT Yeah, that'll work out fine, Bruce. Can I
help you at all by putting it to rewind when I'm done?
CC Negative. We want to rewind back only far
enough to get us to the point that we think we can dump that
amount during the pass over Merritt Island. That is, we're
not going all the way back to the headend of the tape.
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SPT Okay, I see. Very good. Thank you.

CC And it is now 1 minute to LOS. Next station
contact is in 38 minutes through Bermuda, and 44 minutes through
Canary Island at 16:51. Out.
I0 seconds Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station is now
crossing New Zealand. Our next acquisition of signal is
42 minutes away at Canary Islands. Ed Gibson and Bill Pogue
are each scheduled today to operate the S073 Gegenschein/
zodiacal light experiment. Gibson will operate the device
this morning at ii o'clock Central Standard Time. Pogue will
be operating the S073 this afternoon at 01:57. Purpose of the
experiment is to measure the surface brightness from 5 types
of astronomical sources: the Gegenschein region - an area per-
pendicular to and within the Sun's ecliptic areas in the plane
of the comet Kohoutek's orbit two areas between the Earth
and Moon where particles are suspected to be suspended in
the area between the gravitational pulls of the bodies, and
galactic regions including interstellar light in the Milky Way.
The surface brightness of these areas can provide scientists
with information on concentration of particles and their lo-
cation. In addition, the same experiment will be performed
at the terminator and with sunlight on the space station,
to determine the nature and extent of any contamination sur-
rounding Skylab. Equipment used for this experiment is
shared by the T027 contamination experiment. The T027 pho-
tometer will be used with three different film magazines asigned
to the Gegenschein experiment. This morning's photography
will take two contamination pictures and a view of the coma
cluster and another view of the Virgo cluster - clusters of
galaxies. For this morning's experiment the ultraviolet lens
is being used. 40 minutes to our next acquisition of signal.
i0 minutes and 48 seconds after the hour. This is Skylab
Control.
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PAO Skylah Control at 16 hours 50 minutes

and 18 seconds Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station's
over the North Atlantic about 54 seconds from acquisition
of signal at Canary Island. We have acquisition there and
we'll bring the line up live. Spacecraft Communicator is Bruce
McCandless.
Islands and Madrid for 12 minutes. Out.
CC CDR, this is Houston. When you have a
moment free here I've got a change to the step 3 of the
procedure for TV_II8, which you're doing around 21:30 this
afternoon. Over.
CDR Houston, CDR.
CC Go ahead.
CDR Okay. You dropped out, Bruce.
CC Okay, Jer. You're doing TV-II8, a
science demo, on cloud formation this afternoon, and we have
a change to the procedure if you're in a position where I can
read it to you or we can get with you later.
CDR No. Go ahead.
CC Okay. On Step 3 it currently says, "Place
dispenser into waste processor chamber 5 or 6 to remove remaining
water from dispenser. Use vacuum only." We would like to
replace that step with one which reads "dry wipe the dis-
penser and shake with plunger depressed to expel water."
In other words, we're getting it out of the waste processor.
Over. Says we're never putting it in.
CDR Okay, Bruce. I got that. We got two
problems, however. Number one, we do not have a M133 elec-
trolyte dispenser available. The last one that was used
was thrown away, and so we'll have to try to do with some-
thing else, and I think Ed has passed down the word a couple
of times now that before we do science demonstrations we
need some time to set them up and make sure they do work,
and dry run them before we actually do them. And usually
trying to do them on the very - you know on that same day
is a _ is a little difficult. I'm wondering if they think
down there an hour is enough to dry run it, make sure
it works, and then go ahead and do the TV on it. Seems to
me, Bruce_ what they ought to do is the day before you're
going to do a science demo they ought to schedule some time
for a science demo setup and Just make sure the whole thing
works and gets worked out properly before you start putting
it either on film or TV.
CC Okay, Jer. TV-II8 you got to add it in
here, fairly late in the game as a target of opportunity,
you might say, when we dropped out the maneuver monitor re-
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quirement for JOP 18, and it is - it's as pretty much your call
whether you'd like to go ahead and do it for real or whether
you'd like to go the dry run route, but in today's Flight
Plan I can point out to you that you have an hour of free
housekeeping immediately following and contiguous with the
TV-II8 block, and there's probably enough flexibility in
that setup to allow you to play it by ear however you like.
Over.
CDR Okay. I think in this particular case
we might be able to work it, but the point here is, people,
when they schedule science demos have got to give time and
allow time for setup and dry run before we do them.
CC Okay. If we schedule any more we'll
adhere to that.
CC Skylabp this is Houston. 1 minute to
LOS. Next station contact in 27 minutes through Carnarvon,
and for the SPT, we see that you put i0.I minutes on the
VTR for us and I assume that you you've completed so
we"ll go ahead at Honeysuckle and rewind and dump at MILA
as we announced previously.
CDR That's fine, Bruce.
_reenwich mean time. Skylab space station is now out of
range of Madrid. Our next acquisition is 25-1/2 minutes
away. Here in Mission Control flight team of Neil Hutchin-
son is now reviewing a permanent message on comet television
for the Skylab crew. In response to a request from the
crew instructions are being sent up to allow them to make
an attempt to put the comet photography - comet television
pictures on their video tape recorder. The data Mission
Control has produced indicates that the color television is
probably not adequate to view the comet out of the window.
However, if they want to try instructions are being sent up
to allow them to get the best possible picture, and the
ground indicates that they may try to enhance the image
after it gets back to Earth if it turns out that it's pos-
sible to view it that way. So the crew may be making an
attempt tomorrow to do some comet television. We don't know
whether or not it's going to work out but that's a possibility
for the day off television by the crew. Tomorrow is the
Skylab crew's day off and they are scheduled to have a press
conference during the day tomorrow. This is Skylab Control,
our next acquisition is 24-1/2 minutes away. It is now
5 minutes and 46 seconds after the hour.
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PAO Skylab Control at 17 hours 29 minutes.

We're live now for air-to-ground at Carnarvon, Australia.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Carnarvon
and Honeysuckle for about 14 minutes. Out.
CC Skylab, this is Houston. About 3 minutes
until LOS here at Honeysuckle, and we show that Jerry should
be down - he's getting ready for lunch or eating. So with that,
I'ii just read one off and see if we're in sync on the way
we're thinking down here with respect to scheduling and
planning of housekeeping. From what you said last night, we
think that the plan is to schedule only those housekeeping
tasks that require greater than 30 minutes each to complete
and then leave some open housekeeping time in the Flight
Plan and give you a message each evening along with the
normal Flight Plan in the Crewmen's Details Pads that would
state only nonscheduled housekeeping that needs to be worked
in the next day. And then how you get it in is your option.
Is that agreeable with you all? Over.
PLT Roger, Bruce. That's great.
CC Okay, and since you answered up there,
Bill, I've got a a couple of changes to your S073 pad for
later on this afternoon if you have it handy, or I can hold
it for a couple of hours. It's no rush.
PLT Give me 30 seconds.
CC Okay.
SPT Bruce, while you're waiting for Bill to
get his papers, the high density day transfer is scheduled
today, and I think you can go ahead. And from now on put that
on the shopping list thing too. And we'll take care of that
separately. We've got most of the high usage items have now
been moved down into the wardroom and that's become quite a bit
shorter task.
CC Okay. We copy. Thank you.
PLT Go ahead, Bruce.
CC Okay. Message 4726A, on frame i, we want
to change the start time from 21:57 to 21:51. Frame 2,
change the start from 22:04 to 21:58 and in the remarks, change
the beginning of the JOP 18D maneuver from 22:17 to 22:06.
And the reason for changing these is that we had a change in the
maneuver time on JOP 18. We'd like to add a remark, "If
required, terminate frame i early, in order to start frame
2 on time." Over. In that connection, of course, Bill, frame
2 is intended to have the higher priority there, and we're about
to go over the hill here.
PLT Okay, Bruce. I got it all. I'ii check with
you next pass?
CC Yeah. Basically, it's moving everything
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up 6 minutes there.
PLT Rog.
Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station is now crossing
the south island of New Zealand. Our next acquisition is
32 minutes away. Yesterday on the channel B tape that's been
recorded during the overnight period and transcribed here in
Mission Control, Pilot Bill Pogue said that all three crew
members saw the comet yesterday and that it was much longer -
the tail length was a great deal larger than in previous
observations. Scientists here in Mission Control believe
that may be due to the fact that the angle of view is a little
bit better now that the tail is swung out more at right angles
to the Sun and that allows the crew a better view of it.
Although it's not entirely clear from the discussion with
the ground on l_ve air-to-ground yesterday, the crew indicated
that the tail length seemed to go out to a very bright planet
or star. That's believed to be Venus which is about 15 degrees
away from the comet's head. If that's the case, that would
mean the tail length might be now visible up to about
25,000,000 miles which would be unusually long - much longer
than had been reported in previous days. That is quite con-
ceivable. The tail length is expected to grow very substantially
as it skirts the Sun. At the present time, the comet has
slowed down to about 200,000 miles an hour. It's about
95,000,000 miles from Earth. It'll come about 20,000,000
miles closer in the next two weeks and this is just under
20,000,000 miles from the Sun; that's moved out about 7,000,000
miles in the last four days. May be attempting to do some TV
of the comet tomorrow although we're not certain that we're
going to be able to see a very good view as they try to point
the color camera out the window. 30 minutes to our next
acquisition of signal. This is Skylab Control at 47 minutes
and 15 seconds after the hour.
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Time: 12:17 CST 47:18:17 GMT
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Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station is now crossing
the Panama Canal Zone about to come within range of the
tracking antenna at Merritt Island, Florida. This pass
through Merritt Island and Bermuda will last approximately
11-1/2 minutes. We'll bring the line up live now for air-
to-ground. Spacecraft Communicator is Bruce McCandless and
the Flight Director on duty is Nell Hutchinson. Today the
change of shift briefing will be about an hour earlier then
usual because of the change of crew schedules to daylight
time. That adjustment should indicate a change of shift
time probably around 3:30 to 4:00. We'll get a better time
on that a little bit later. We'll bring the line up live
now for air,to-ground.
CC Skylab, this is Houston. We're with
you through Merritt Island and Bermuda here for about
11-1/2 minutes. Couple of quick ones for the CDR if he's
handy.
CDR Go aheadp Bruce.
CC Okay. The optional handheld 170 photo
scheduled for 19:58 should not even be attempted due to bad
weather in the target area, and with respect to the TV-IIg
science demo, at the end of Skylab III Owen Garriott stored
a few items for science demo use and we think that there is
an M133 electrolyte dispenser located in the SPT's sleep
compartment either in $900 or $908. Over.
CDR Okay. Thank you. We_ll look.
CC And the - the original comment that I
passed up about using the dry wipe and holding the - the
plunger down to shake the water out still stands.
However, before you put the little mosite on the end
of the electrolyte dispenser you ought to go ahead and pull
the plunger back so that you get some atmosphere within the
thing. Since during the operation the cloud will be formed
when the plunger comes back out after the compression, and
after you push it in to compress it you should allow a few
seconds in the compressed position to permit equilibrium to
take place prior to pulling the plunger back out for the
cloud formation. The back lighting is essential to see it,
and it is our intent that you do not exercise the TV option
today. That is_ use DAC photography only if it - if it
looks llke it's a good one to record and you think that the
demo is coming off as anticipated. We'd like to get your
comments on any motion of the cloud that is formed, i.e., to or
from the walls. Comments regarding coalescence of the droplets
or the ability of the things to combine, and roughly an
estimate of the droplet lifetime. We don't think it'll be a
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problem but if holding it in position is a problem you might

be able to adapt the vice on the tool kit, too, in some manner
to hold it steady. Over.
CDR Roger, Bruce.
CC Okay. Roger; out.
CC CDR, this is Houston. Over.
CDR Roger. Go ahead.
CC Okay. We don't want to bother Ed down
there in the chair for OGI, but in the course of dumping
the TV-77 segment that he recorded this morning, we have
good video but absolutely no audio on it. Over.
CDR Roger. He'll be delighted to hear that.
CC Well, more significantly he goes right
from the OGI into the - the next segment of TV-77 and our
desire was that you recheck your configuration and - to
get the voice with the segment this afternoon. We'd hate
to have it all come down speechless.
CDR Okay.
SPT Bruce, I had that rigged up so it would
go on both the VTR and on Channel A. Have you checked
Channel A?
CC Negative, Ed. We have not yet dumped
Channel A and we'll check for it there.
SPT Okay, Bruce. We figured it out. We
had a switch from the command module which was out of
configuration in that time period. So I'ii have to take
another whack at it.
CC Okay; we copy. Did you get on Channel A?
SPT That's negative.
CDR Bruce, what's the VTR plan look llke for
tomorrow? Do you suppose you got about another 15 minutes
available?
CC We'll have to check that. We're about
a minute and a half to LOS here at Bermuda. I'ii talk to
you in 5 minutes or to somebody in 5 minutes through Madrid
at 18:33, if that's okay.
CC SPT, this is Houston. We think we in-
terpret your wishes correctly here, and what we're going to
de is give you the max TV time available for TV-27, which
will be 27 minutes, and that'll involve scrubbing the
the first 3 minutes of the work you did this morning without
voice and we'll try and set it up for you to - to rerun that
sometime in the near future. Over.
SPT Bruce, do you mean TV-77?
CC Right. TV-77 you will have two 7-minutes
on the VTR available to you.
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SPT Okay. What time will that be available?

CC As soon as you're through with the MI31.
SPT All right. Thank you.
Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station is over the North
Atlantic out of range of Bermuda tracking antenna, about
2_i/2 minutes to acquisition at Madrid. In this pass TV being
dumped, and we first discovered that there was no sound.
Although we could see Ed Gibson moving his lips on the TV
there was no sound coming down with it, and as a result of
that TV recorder will be reround so that he can put on a
new bit of television a tour of the interior of the vehicle
and crew activities, particularly involving the comet Ko-
houtek, which Gibson will be observing later today.
(Garble) about several minutes of tape had been run off
but Gibson will be repeating that activity again. This
is Skylab Control. We'll come up live now for air-to-ground
at Madrid where we have a pass lasting about 8 minutes.
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CC Skylab, this is Houston through Madrid

for 7-1/2 minutes. Out.
CC Skylab, this is Houston. A minute and
40 seconds to LOS. Next station contact in 27 minutes
through Carnarvon at 19:06. And for the CDR, when he
has a minute free here after the dark photos, we'd appreciate
if he could verify for us that the C&D coolant loop flow
valve is back to bypass following completion of the EREP
run here and we were also curious to know whether you
found the IMSS _ not the IMSS, the M133 dispenser that we
mentioned Owen had stowed. Out.
CDR Bruce, the flow's in bypass.
CC CDR, this is Houston. Just a little bit
of background. The flow through the EREP C&D coolant loop
dropped off about 30 pounds an hour for the EREP pass when
you selected flow on it and did not come back up following
the pass and that's why we were suspicious that maybe the
valve wasn't in the bypass position. But thank you very
much for checking on it and we'll talk to you over Carnarvon.
Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station now out of range
of Madrid as Ed Gibson and Pilot Bill Pogue are engaged in
MI31, the human vestibular function experiment. 24 minutes
to our next acquisition of signal. 42 minutes after the
hour. This is Skylab Control.
from acquisition of signal through Carnarvon, Australia.
This pass through Carnarvon will last about 9 minutes and
50 seconds. Immediately after, we'll have about a minute
and a half LOS and then we'll be back at Honeysuckle for
about 4-1/2 minutes. Spacecraft communicator is still
Bruce McCandless and we'll come up live now for air-to-ground.
for 9-I/2 minutes. Out.
CC Skylab, this is Houston. I minute to LOS.
Next station contact in 30 minutes through Corpus Christi
at 19:49. Out.
Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station south of New Zea-
land is out of range of the tracking antenna at Honeysuckle
Creek. 28 minutes to our next acquisition of signal at
Texas. This is Skylab Control. It's 22 minutes after the
hour.
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PAO This is Skylab Control, 19:48 Greenwich

mean time. Acquisition through tracking stations Texas, MILA,
Bermuda, Madrid, starting in about 40 seconds. Skylab space
station nearing the end of revolution number 3352.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Corpus
Christi, Texas, and Bermuda for 16-1/2 minuts. Out.
CDR Houston, CDR.
CC Go ahead, CDR.
CDR Okay, no luck finding that electrolyte
dispenser so what we're doing is we're taking the one that
Ed's got left with a little bit of electroyte left in it.
We're going to try to transfer that to some other container
and use it.
SPT Houston, SPT.
CC Go ahead, SPT.
SPT Will you be upllnking a teleprinter
message in the next 5 to i0 minutes? Make it i0 minutes?
CC Would you like us to?
SPT No, I would like you not to. I have
dust started this TV thing again for the third time
and our woodpecker started.
CC Okay. We will strangle the woodpecker.
SPT Very good. Thank you.
CC Garrgh!
CC Skylab, this is Houston. For the
CDR. Our preference on this TV-II8 is to scrub it for to-
day. We'd rather not _eopardize any of the electrolyte
that we currently have available for M133. And I think if
when that one is empty you could hang on to it and let us
know, why we'll probably go ahead and try and work it back
in a later in the mission. Over.
CDR When's your next 133?
CC We're checking on that now. It'll be
B days from now, Jerry, on day 50.
CDR Okay. Fine.
CDR Houston, CDR.
CC Go ahead, Jerry.
CDR Okay. I think this demo would have been
a good one - good candidate for the shopping list that we
suggested last night. We suggested that some of the science
demos be put on a shopping list so that we could kind of
get them set up in our leisure. If you've got any more like
that that are fairly simple but require gathering up used
equipment or something like that, you might put them on the
shopping list. I think we could get to those with a lot less
fuss and feathers. And with this spare time I've got now,
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what do you say I go ahead and do the urine sample bag

search, and if you can think of any other things that are
hanging down there, let me know.
CC That sounds right great, Jerry. A urine
sample bag search would help us out a lot. And we'll be
scratching our heads here to see what else we can come up
with for you to fill in with.
CDR While I'm at it, I think I'm also
going to sample going to inventory the urine collection
bags and make sure we have enough.
CC That's also great. You got us on the
run down here. Skylab, this is Houston. Understand we
had a keying failure on my last transmission. We were
agreeing with you on the urine bags. I think that's an
excellent thing to do to fill in the time, and you got us on
the run down here. But we'll look around for some other
items to fill in.
CDR Okay. If you can't find anything, then
I'll go to the shopping list and see what I can find there.
CC Skylab, this is Houston. 1 minute to
LOS. Next station contact in 5 minutes through Madrid at
20:11, with a data/voice tape recorder dump at Madrid, if
it's convenient with you all. Out.
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for 6-1/2 minutes and we're going to pullthe old dump the data/voice
and turn on experiment 2 tape recorders trick from the ground here.
So that even though the little green light may go out, indi-
cating you don't have voice being recorded, we will be catching
it on the experiment 2 recorder which we can then salvage the
voice from later on at our option. Out.
CDR Roger, Bruce.
CC And is the PLT handy for a minute or is
he tied up getting ready for PT?
PLT Say Bruce.
CC Yeah, Bill. On this AVC, the atmospheric
volvo concentrator (?), we'd like to put that in the - the schedule
this evening at 02:00 if either yourself or Ed could set the
thing up, and we'll get it out tomorrow morning at about the
same time or actually, a little later, since you're getting
up later and we'll put it in the Flight Plan for tomorrow.
Over.
PLT Okay, I'll do it at 02:00.
CC Right. Thank you. And when we were talking
earlier about your S073 pad, we talked on into an LOS. Did you
get all the times and stuff on that satisfactorily? Basically,
the exposure start times were backed up 6 minutes and the
beginning of the JOP 18D maneuver is going to add (?) holes
backed up about ii minutes toward you.
PLT Stand by just a second, Bruce. Okay Bruce,
what I copied was change to 4 -2:26 Alfa - or 47:26 Alfa
for the S073. For frame i, time was changed to 21:5 from
21:57 to 21:51 and we have another chime - time change from
22:04 21:58. And the maneuver time was slipped from 22:17
to 22:06.
CC Rog. You've got it and we're giving top
priority to the number 2 frames so that if you need to cut
off the first one early, do so in order to start frame 2 on
time.
PLT Oh, yeah. I've got that written down too
and duly noted. Thank you.
CC Roger.
SPT Houston, you can turn the teleprinter loose
if you'd like.
CC Okay. We'll open the cage and let the
old woodpecker out and I think we've got a message or 2 up
there for you. You might check it when it's convenient.
CC And for the SPT, since you answered up,
maybe you have a second there. Tomorrow on your day off,
you'll be scheduled for TV 81 and we'll have a full 30 minutes
available on the VTR which you can use as you see fit. Should
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you require additional TV 77 time after your day off, why we can
work that into the schedule but we'll have to work on that
as the next teams comes on to whip out the Summary Flight Plan.,
Over.
SPT Gee Bruce, I hope to be able to finish this
up within the next 45 minutes or so. How much time do
you show remaining on it?
CC I show 15.8 remaining.
SPT That ought to do it, thank you.
CC Skylab, this is Houston i minute to LOS.
Next station contact in 39 minutes through Honeysuckle Creek
at 20:57. Out.
PAO This is Skylab Control, loss of signal
through Madrid tracking station. Next station contact will be
Carnarvon. Pullation (?) angle at Tananarive this revolution is
below the normal minimum for bringing that station on to the
line, only 1.4 degrees. Upcoming at 04:21 central daylight time
is another run of the joint observation program 18D. Science
Pilot Ed Gibson will man the Apollo telescope mount control
and display panel for just over 2 hours this afternoon as
five instruments record data from the comet Kohoutek. The
instruments are being turned on as the space station
continues its joint observation programs. The comet, described
by Pogue on the B channel data/voice has a greatly elongated
tail now and is visible to the crew without special instruments.
The comet is presently speeding back toward the solar
system' far reaches at about 200,000 miles per hour and is
just over 94 million miles from Earth and is about 19-1/2
million miles from the Sun. Instruments being used for this
joint observation program are the S02 S082A, extreme
ultraviolet camera; SO82B, extreme ultraviolet spectrograph;
S054, X-ray spectrographic telescope; S055, ultraviolet
scanner; and the S056, X-ray telescope. Two exposures are
planned for the S082A, extreme ultraviolet coronal camera.
This instrument is mounted behind the ATM sunshield and
is protected by a door which is opened for exposures. The
extremely short wavelengths which the camera _s designed
to photograph are directed to the film by an optical grading
and mirrors. The eamera uses 200 exposures of filmpacks loaded
with 35-millimeter short wavelength film. The S082B extreme
ultraviolet spectrographic camera will also be taking two
exposures. This instrument consists of the white light or
all color telescope and the spectrograph. The unit takes
one of four removable film strip canisters, each containing
i01 inches of 35-millmeter film. An automatic shutter mechanism
varies exposure times from less than i/i0 of a second to
over 17 minutes. Today's exposure times are for 5 minutes and
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for 40 minutes. Other solar instruments being used in this

experiment are the $054 X-ray spectrographic telescope,
which will take three exposures of the soft X-rays of the
comet. Cometary scientists here in Mission Control don't
expect any X-ray of emissions from the comet, hut the S054
experiments will allow them to verify this. 70-millimeter
film is used in this instrument and two 17-minute and one 40-
minute exposures are planned. Each frame of the three planned
will include one X-ray and one visible light image. The S055
ultraviolet scanner and the S056 X-ray telescope complete
the instrument complement for today's JOP 18. The ultraviolet
scanner doesn't record its information on film. Rather the
data is converted to digital information and transmitted to
ground stations. This scanner is able to record data in far
ultraviolet wavelengths simultaneously. The S056 X-ray
telescope records extremely short wavelengths on 35-millimeter
film. Three exposures are planned for this device, all of them
through a 5 - to 20-angstrom aluminum filter. Two of the exposures
are for 8 minutes and one is for 5 minutes. These five instruments
are all mounted on the Sun end of the Apollo telescope
mount canister_and are protected from the Sun's harmful
radiations by doors which open prior to each exposure. All
instruments are normally examining events from the Sun. An
ATM conference while the space station is over the Canary
Island tracking site will occur abont midway through the Joint
observing program experiment. This will be at 23:25 Greenwich
mean time. Next station, in 22 minutes, will he the
Carnarvon_ Australia tracking station. We shall return at
that time, and at 20:26 Greenwich mean time this is Skylab
Control.
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PAO This is Skylab Control 20:47 Greenwich

mean time acquisition through Carnarvon, very briefly. And
following that the Honeysuckle Creek, Australia, station.
Flight Director, Nell Hutchinson now handing over to the
maroon team headed up by Milt Windier, who will be in
the Houston newsroom for a change of shift briefing at
3:15 central time. That's Flight Director, Neil Hutchinson,
change-of-shift briefing at 3:15. Standing by for AOS,
Carnarvon and Honeysuckle.
CC Skylab, this is Houston, we'll pass
through Carnarvon for about a minute and a half. And a
quick one for the PLT, we have a phone call set up for you
at 00:52 through Bermuda this evening on the left antenna.
Over.
PLT Roger, at 00:52, a left antenna.
CC Roger. Out.
PLT Bruce, PLT on the ATM. Would you ask
in the backroom if we have any problems with our white light
display oll a sllp.
CC Okay, I will. And I'll talk to you
over Honeysuckle, we're fading out here.
PLT Rog.
PAO This is Skylab Control, LOS at Carnarvon
and 4 minutes until reacquisition through Honeysuckle Creek.
And we're standing by.
for about a minute and a half. For the PLT, we saw you go
from white light to limb scan and back to white light, but
it looked okay to us. Are you having some problems with the
82 white light display.
PLT (Garble)
CC Say again please, Bill you didn't come
through very clearly.
PLT Roger, when I select a slit display
I don't get anything. Let me check it out again here.
CC I'm not copying if your transferring.
PLT Ed just asked me a question.
CC And we got about 45 seconds until LOS.
Next station contact in 29 minutes through Goldstone at
21:26.
CC Hey, Bill we're fading out here at
Honeysuckle. It is 28 minutes to Goldstone and we'll
have to talk to you there. We don't see anything significant
on the downlink here.
PLT Okay, thank you.
CC Are you still having difficulties.
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PLT Could be that I'm off the limb to far

to see anything.
CC Okay, we copy. We'll see you at
Goldstone.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Loss of signal
through Honeysuckle Creek, Australia. Twenty-six minutes
to Goldstone tracking station and a stateside pass. Change-
of-shift briefing with the off-going Flight Director, Neil
Hutchinson scheduled to begin in about 15 minutes in the
Houston newsroom. Stateside pass will be taped for delayed
playback at the conclusion of the change-of-shift briefing.
This is Skylab Control at 21:00 Zulu.
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PA0 This is Skylab Control, 21:49 Greenwich

mean time Space station now in acquisition at the Madrid
and Canary Island stations. However, durin_ the change-of-shift
briefing just completed, we accumulated about 5-1/2 minutes
of tape over the stateside pass, which we'll play back at this
time and play catch-up - roll the tape.
CC Skylab, we've got you stateside for
16 minutes.
PLT Rog, Story.
CC Hello, Bill.
PLT Hey, Story, PLT on the ATM. I reported a
problem on the white light display earlier. I've pretty
well convinced myself now it's because I'm too far off the
limb.
CC Yes sir, we concur with that, Bill.
CC Ed, Houston.
SPT He's listening. Go ahead.
CC We're wondering if he's done with our
TV 77 for our VTR management.
SPT Story, I just got to cover 233 and I'll
probably be just a few minutes once I get it going. How
much has shown last time for VTR?
CC We got 15.8 minutes now.
SPT 15.8 left?
CC No sir, I just got the update. Since we
took a look at it, you got 4 minutes left now.
SPT Okay, that'll just be about enough to
finish it up, Story. I'm working on it now.
CC Ed, you got 2 minutes of WLC scheduled
for that later, but we can get that on a TV downlink. Go
ahead and use all 4 of those minutes to finish that up.
SPT Story, I could probably do it in two.
It's goin_ to be a real short blurb but I guess the folks
want it covered.
CC Yes sir, we'd like to get it, so if you need
the 4 take it, if you don't use it, that'll give us more
flexibility, but use it if you need it.
SPT Thank you.
CC Bill, I don't want to interfere with your
ATM ops, _[ do have some updates to the JOP 18 Delta maneuver
pad. It's going to be run next orbit. If you can work it in
here, I'll give it to you here. If not_ I'll take it up with
Ed over Madrid in about 15 minutes.
PLT Story, go ahead.
CC Understand you're ready to go?
PLT Ready to copy.
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CC Okay, step 4 maneuver time, 50010 for

8 minutes.
SPT Okay, step 4, 50010 for 8 minutes.
CC That's correct. Step 6, do your ATT HOLD
CMG at 22:06.
SPT 22:06. Roger.
CC And the fine maneuver X, 50057 for plus
0.47 degrees; Y, 50045 for plus 0.37; g 51205 for minus
1.33.
CDR Okay, ATT HOLD at 22:06 and we're - commands
are 50057, 50045, 51205. That's for a plus 0.47 plus 0.37 and
a minus 1.33.
CC Okay, all correct and the final attitude
expected: X, 8.49; Y, 11.55, and I'm back with you after the
handover, did you get Y?
SPT Negative.
CC Did you get X, 8.49?
SPT That I did 8.49 go ahead.
CC Y, 11.55; Z 356.73.
SPT 8.49, 11.55, and 356.73.
CC That's correct and the vehicle rates:
X, plus 0_017; Y, plus 0.024; Z, minus 0.009.
SPT Plus 0.017, plus 0.024, and a minus 0.009.
CC Correct, thanks.
SPT Thank you, Story.
CC Skylab, we're a minute from LOS and about
4 minutes to Madrid.
CC Skylab, we're back with you through Madrid
for 9 minutes.
SPT Houston, SPT.
CC Go ahead, Ed.
SPT Say, Story, move - moving the maneuver time
up on me here in these changes, I'm not going to be able to get
233 coverage in on this before we start 18D. I'ii have to get
it on the next side dump, either side of the ATM conference, I'm
not sure which. Maybe you want to change your dump plan?
CC Okay, thanks Ed.
CC Skylab, we're a minute from LOS and about
12 minutes to Tananarive at 22:08.
through the Madrid station, Tananarive voice relay station
coming up in I0 minutes. This is Skylab Control at 21:58
Greenwich mean time.
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mean time. Voice relay station at Tananarive in 50 seconds.
And we're standing by.
CC Skylab, we've got you through Tananarive
for 7 minutes.
CC Ed, Houston. I got a couple of words
for you sometime in the next 2 or 3 minutes.
SPT Go ahead Story, right now is fine.
CC Okay, you can put the WLC TV on the
VTR. And if you want the VTR for your TV 77 at Hawaii at
22:54, we can rewind it and reeonfigure it for you.
SPT Okay, that sounds real good, Story. I'll
go ahead and put - what about 2 minutes or so, or I
guess we got 4 minutes left for WLC. I'll just used what's
required though. There's really not a heok of a lot we can
see in that thing any more.
CC Okay, we'll be rewinding it. If we get
the word that you put that in the V TR (?), he rewinding at
Hawaii and then dumping at Goldstone and reeonfinguring it
for you.
CC Skylab, we drop out there awhile. We're
3 minutes until LOS, 15 minutes until Hawaii.
CC Skylab, if I didn't get up last time
weVre 15 minutes to Hawaii.
through Tananarive voice relay station. And the next station
to pick up space station Skylab will be Honeysuckle Creek
in 15 minutes. At 22:18 Greenwich mean time, 15 minutes
tO Honeysuckle, this is Skylab Control.
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PAO This is Skylab Control. 22:33 Greenwich

mean time and 50 seconds until acquisition of space station
Skylab by the Honeysuckle Creek, Australia station. We're
standing by for acquisition.
CC Skylab, AOS Honeysuckle for 5 minutes.
SPT Hello, Story.
CC Hello, Ed.
SPT Story on this time around, the comet is
so faint that I could not see it's initial location. Go ahead
and play the hunch and move it further out, and sure enough
it appeared. But I could only see it when it was at least
outside a radius of 120. And it was more easily seen if it
was in motion which I had to do when I was making the
maneuver. It won't be long before we're going to be in a
tough situation as far as finding it optically on the WLC.
CC Copy, Ed.
CC It's a - Disregard.
SPT Story, l'm picking up a ready light again
on 52. l'm wondering if people down there see anything different
than what they've seen before. Wouldn't you know it, Just
as I spoke the ready light went out.
CC Okay, looks normal from here.
CC Bill, Houston.
PLT Go ahead, Story.
CC Bill, we're working up the M092/M093 data.
Now we assume you did use did - leg bands CS with the left
leg band and a AQ with the right leg band and if you get
300 watt-minutes on the MO93.
PLT Oh, that's affirmative. That's exactly
right. I thought you were referring to something else of
exercise. And that is on tape.
CC Okay, we missed it on the tapes.
PLT Okay, I attempted to record it, I'ii put
it that way. I made the attempt. But you are correct:
Charlie Sierra, Alfa Quebec and 300 watt-minutes for the 93.
CC Okay, and the only other thing we need to
complete it is the left and right leg girths, which did
you write those down?
PLT Yes, I Did. Stand by.
PLT They're both 12-3/4.
CC Okay, thanks. And we're going LOS here and
pick you up over Hawaii in 15 minutes at 22:54.
PLT Okay.
PAO Skylab Control. Loss of signal at
Honeysuckle Creek, Australia. Space station Skylab passing
just north of the northeren island of New Zealand and is
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halfway around on revolution 3354. Hawaii in 13 minutes,

at which time we shall return. This is Skylab Control at
22:41 Greenwich mean time.
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mean time. Tracking station Hawaii coming up in 50 seconds,
first pass this afternoon. And we're standing by for the
next 35 minutes or so as the space station crosses Hawaii
and the states and Madrid/Canary combination of stations.
CC Skylab, AOS Hawaii for 7 minutes.
CC Ed, Houston.
SPT Go ahead, Story.
CC Ed_ we don't show that you've put the
WLU on the VTR yet. And if you could early in this pass
get that on, we can do a rewind here at Hawaii for a dump
over stateside.
SPT Do it right now Story. I'll set the
manuever.
CC Okay, thanks and if you get to the TV 77
give us a call later on before you do that so we can
reconfigure the VTR for you.
SPT Okay, I planned to get to it after
conclusion of this first orbit of operation.
CC Okay, just give us a call and we'll
configure the VTR for you.
SPT Thank you.
SPT Okay_ Story. I_m finished with the VTR.
CC Thanks Ed.
CC Skylab, we're a minute from LOS, 2 minutes
to Goldstone. Be dumping the data/voice at Goldstone.
SPT (Garble)
CC Skylab, AOS Goldstone for 9 minutes, be
dumping the data/voice here.
CC Here now Bill or Jet.
CDR Go ahead.
CC Jer, we have absolutely no voice recording -
no channel A from 13:58 on to 16:54. And possibly after
reconfiguring from the CSM after EREP we did hear some comments
about-after TV 77 not seeing any voice on the VTR that you did
reconfigure some switch up there. We'd like to know if you know
about that that switch and also like to tell you that we did
not have any voice from about 13:58 to 16:54, if there's
something you wanted to put on.
CDR (Garble)
CC Skylab, if you answered my question on
the loss of voice recording from 13:58 to 16:54. I
thought I heard some intercom cross talk, but l'm not sure.
CDR Houston, Skylab, how do you read.
CC Loud and clear now Jer.
CDR Okay. Story, we think we know what the
problem was. It was a command module configuration problem.
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And we had already figured that we lost all that recording

and we're thinking about what needs to be re-recorded.
CC Okay, thanks.
CC Skylab, we're a minute from LOS, 4 minutes
to Bermuda.
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CC Skylab, AOS through Bermuda, 5 minutes.

CC Ed, Houston.
CC Ed, we got the VTR wound. You got
4 minutes on it for your TV 77, and then you get to end the
tape.
SPT Thanks very much Story.
CC Ed, if you got a minute I got a message
on 82B XUV monitor doors.
CC Okay, further analysis indicates there's
no thermal problem associated with the leaving the XUV monitor
door open during maneuvers. 82B and XUV mon doors are presently
open with motor power inhibited, and will remain in this
configuration. This configuration will preclude closure of the
malfunctioning 82B door. Your 82B door ready light and XUV mon
door talkback will be inoperative.
SPT Okay_ will you be controlling it from
the ground then during these maneuvers?
CC No, we'll just let it stay open Ed.
SPT Okay. At the conclusion of the maneuver
is there anything we should perform?
CC (Garble) this permanent configuration aside
from 18D also Ed.
SPT Okay, Story thank you.
CC Skylab, we're a minute from LOS, about
4 minutes to Canaries and the ATM conference with Bill Lenoir.
MCC Skylab, Houston, with the ATM
conference. Over.
SPT Hello, Bill go ahead.
MCC Okay, before we get back to talking
again about 54, let me just mention one thing. Since we're
talking so late today we have already planned tomorrow's
orbits which being a crew day off there wasn't that much
to do anyway. As long as we're on the quiet Sun it seems
to me that the inputs that you would have would probably
take the form of a particular program or set of programs
that you would like to see run on the Sun, that would not
necessarily be tied down to any particular feature that
you would be looking at as for instance on the active regions.
So anytime you've got some thoughts regarding programs
you'd llke to see run let me know and we'll pass these on to
the planning committee, When we get back to the active Sun
we'll keep track on a day to day basis of exactly what things are
looking llke to you. And if you don't have anything else to
talk about here wetll get into 54 again for a minute. Over.
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SPT Bill, I'd just make a comment on your

last statement. It's a little difficult for me to specify
observing program without getting a feedback from PIs and
knowing what has been successful before and what has not.
So I can make suggestions but they're in much better viewpoint
to say which ones are most constructive since (garble) lead
term item. One thing I was wondering about is limb or line
profiles and whether there's particular features and particular
lines which are worthwhile running those profiles on, and what
success they've had to date. And also on the 55 limb offset
or the modified limb stem, if you will which they use 1 arch
- trying to get 1 arch second resolution. And I'm wondering
whether they've been able to decipher that data to see whether
it's worthwhile.
MCC Okay, let me have them take a look at
that. I know they're interested in the line profiles,
because we almost scheduled some for you I believe it was
today scheduled yesterday. And they were going to specify
the lines and it was on the prominence P60 I believe. So I
know they're interested in those and we will definitely be
giving you that information on the SAP as far as shopping list
30 type items go.
SPT That would be useful to have a list of -
we do have a list of lines up here the line list it's called
the line list. But we don't have a - anything which tells us
which ones they feel are the best lines for specific features.
I can probably take a (garble) at it, but I'm sure after
analysing the data they can do much better.
MCC Okay, fine and we'll follow up on that for
you. We sent up a change 18 to the JOP summary sheets which was
two particular building blocks for S054, the JOP 1 Bravo, sent
up that change mainly because that made our - the schedule pad
not quite so complicated. Gave you an opportunity to look at
that particular method. The BBI7 was a different scheme where
it looks to me like it was probably easier to pen and ink that
in than it: was to cut and paste, but we gave you the option. We're
wondering how that worked out and then maybe we ought to talk
about the others and we could get up a message tonight
or tomorrow to finish this whole thing. Over.
SPT Okay Bill, I think they both worked
out real well. The problem with penning - penning and
inking over is that many times you don't have the space
unless you use the space immediately below it for all of
the 54_s and that I_m a little reluctant to do. So I'd just
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as soon you go ahead and send up the - the whole pile of those
things, and I guess you can put them - fair number of them
since they're all the same. Now, I'm talking about the second
ones now -- the ones you had for building block 17.
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TIME: 17:29 CST, 47:23:29 GMT
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SPT - - yeah, the whole pile of those things

and I guess you can put a fair number of them since they're
all the same. I'm talking about the second ones. They are
the ones you had for building block 17. You put those all on
one big page and, if necessary, we'll have to do a little
cutting and pasting, but I think it might be better than (garble)
in most cases.
CC Okay, then we'll send the rest of them up
for you with the appropriate cutouts repeated the appropriate
number of times for however often that particular building
block appears. At the same time we'll send you shopping list
32 and shopping list 33, which are new entities for S054. Does
that sound reasonable to you then?
SPT Yeah, that's fine Bill. Go ahead and we'll
just put those either on an additional sheet or (garble)
sheet to be (garble) in.
CC Okay. And then after our talk yesterday I
still haw_ some questions in my mind as to what's the best
way to handle this cue card and whether a cue card is necessary
after having spoken with you. On the films format, you mentioned
that you didn't think the picture was necessary but you
wanted some words, and I'm not totally sure here on exactly
what words to give you. Can you clarify?
SPT Well, maybe I need to understand the
picture a little bit better. To me, what it was telling me is
what was dispersion afis relative to what we see in the display.
And that, to me, can be done with a double headed arrow as
easily as anything else. Maybe there's something other there
that l_m not seeing.
CC Okay. Well, it was intended to show you
two things. One was that the film format is oval shaped the
way it's shown. It's actually 48 arc-minutes by 96 arc-minutes
so that the format on the film itself is as depicted and the
grading dispersion axis is along that long axis. It's
apparently a transmission grading and the zero order falls
straight on as you would see it with first order then on
either side, second order outboard of those on either side.
And what I was hoping to do here was to give you a format of
the film so that you could look at this and see what the
long axis of the film was with respect to you monitor. And
the fact that the grading dispersed along that long axis. If
that's not necessary, we can send up some words or something
else. Over.
SPT Bill, I guess I'm still a little unclear
as to whether that long axis on the film really allows you
to see more Sun in that given axis or whether it's strictly
the dispersion.
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CC It's both. It's for dispersion and it also

incidentally allows you to see more Sun. The resolution out
from the center is not nearly so good as it is in the middle
but, for instance, looking at coronal structures and things like
that_ if you displace the Sun off along the long axis, then
you will _et the other opposite llmb on the film as well,
whereas if you put it crossaxis you would not. So that you
do actually get more Sun on the long axis, as well as the
grating dispersion in there when you have the grating (garble).
Over.
SPT Okay. I understand now. I think what you
could do, though, is make it quite a bit smaller and we could
just tape it right above one of the monitors and that'll do it
for us.
CC Okay. The other thought was, the re - reset
of that, was the definition of the 54 long exposure. In as many
detailed words describing what happened as we could come up
with, which would allow us then to abbreviate it the way we
did with building block s should we send that up again, or
do you want a different form or nothing at all?
SPT I don't think it would hurt to send it
up again, Just as a general message. But we don't need a - we
don't need to change the format or anything and we can all
read it. We may want to change some words in there. We'll
all read it again to make sure we understand it (garble) got (?)
operating that way, it shouldn't be a problem from there on out.
CC Okay, Ed, thanks. And I notice LOS has
slipped upon me, it's 5 seconds away. Let's see, Tananarive
is next in 14 minutes and I'ii be talking to y'all tomorrow
on ATM and vis ops. See you then.
SPT Thanks very much Bill, so long.
PAO Skylab Control, LOS, Madrid and the ATM
conference between Science Pilot Ed Gibson and Bill Lenoir,
Dr. Bill Lenoir. That'll (?) pass for several hours upcoming
with the Tananarive voice relay station in ii minutes. Returning
at that time. This is Skylab Control at 23:36 Greenwich mean
time.
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SL-IV MC1624/I
TIME: 17:46 CST, 47:23:46 GMT
1/1/74
PAO Tananarive voice relay station, final

pass coming up in 50 seconds.
CC Skylab, AOS through Tananarive for
2 minutes.
CC Skylab, we're a minute from LOS, see you

over Honeysuckle in 20 minutes, at 00:09.
SPT Roger, Story. The VTR is yours.
CC Okay, thanks Ed.
through Tananarive voice relay station. 15 minutes to
Honeysuckle Creek. We'll return at that time at 23:54
GMT. Skylab Control.
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SL-IV MC1625/I
TIME: 18:09 CST, 48:00:09 GMT
1/1/74
PAO This is Skylab Control. 8 minutes after

midnight Greenwich mean time. Honeysuckle Creek, Australia
upcoming :in 50 seconds. Standing by.
CC Skylab, AOS through Honeysuckle for
8 minutes.
CC Bill, Houston.
PLT Go ahead, Story.
CC Stand by i, Bill.
CC Ed, we're showing 8055 in STOP and we think
it ought to be in MIRROR AUTO RASTER at this point.
SPT Right, Story thank you.
CC Okay and Bill, I got a message on shooting
up BE08 that's on Nikon 04.
PLT Okay go ahead.
CC Shoot up BE08 in NiKon 04, and we'll be
loading up NiKon 04 with BE 09 tomorrow.
PLT Okay, thank you.
CC And I got a couple of more things for
you while I have you. We did not get the tape measurement
after EREP pass 18. Do you remember what that was?
PLT Stand by. 2.9 centimeters.
CC Okay and have you got any thoughts or
comments on why we missed the Falkland Current through the
VTS this morning? In other wo
PLT That's a goofup on my part, I'm sitting
there looking at the wrong time, and I went right by it.
CC Okay. We were just wondering was it
worth while scheduling it on later VTSs.
PLT I think so. I just couldn't see it today
in a VTS and I think we ought to take one more look at it
just to make sure that we can see it or not. You know I -
it's very easy to see out the window, and I kept looking and
looking for it but I never saw the shading difference.
CC Okay those are just the kind of
comments wetre looking for. On EREP coolant loop, since
the EREP coolant valve was put to FLOW this morning those
1-minute downward flow spikes that we've been seeing
now for several weeks disappeared and the loop flow (garble)
stablised out at about 20 pounds per hour less than achieved
prior to this. Did you notice any change in the noise level
associated with the ATMCC&D coolant loop today?
PLT We haven't noticed but we haven't really
concentrated on it either. Now I'ii go up and take a
look at the - listen to the pumps if you want. I know right
where the noise is generated.
CC Okay. And while you+re doing that we're
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wondering would it be accessible (?) to leave the loop flowing

during the night. We feel the gas bubbles are probably less
likely to conglomerate in a loop that's flowing.
PLT Why don't we go ahead and try that tonight,
Story, with the pumps. It's the noise that's bothering us,
I think it's worth a try for one night, Jerry says.
CC Okay, we'd like to try that for one night.
PLT Okay, we'll go along with that. And I'll
go up there and take a listen at the bulk end where the
pump is located to see if I can detect any difference from
memory at least.
CC Okay, fine. That's all I got for you now.
Thanks.
PLT Story, I just went up there and the noise
is the same pitch and everything but the intensity isn't as
great. Doesn't seem as loud. It could be because we don't
- you know there's a lot of other extraneous noise, too. I
think we'll probably be able to tell tonight, you know.
It was because it seemed unusually loud that we requested
to turn it off (garble) the evenings.
CC Copy, Bill.
PLT And going back to the Falkland Current,
I'm sure I missed the first go at the Falkland Current, but
I hit the second one. And it's based upon that that I think
that we ought to - to take another look for it because I
was scanning the entire area there looking for it. And I
got a very good look on the second one. And it was - I say it
was the first opportunity that I missed due to error on
my part.
CC Okay, Bill. Skylab, we're a minute from
LOS and about 12 minutes to Hawaii at 00:30. Cotton Bowl
score was Nebraska 19, Texas 3.
CDR Roger. Thank you Story.
from Honeysuckle Creek, Australia as space station
Skylab goes over the northeastern horizon of that station.
And in i0 minutes, we'll be acquired again by tracking
station Hawaii. At 20 minutes past midnight Greenwich mean
time, this is Skylab Control.
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SL-IV MC1626/I
TIME: 18:29 CST, 47:00:29 GMT
1/1/74
PAO This is Skylab Control. 29 minutes past

midnight Greenwich mean time, tracking station Hawaii coming
up in 50 seconds, followed by the station across the
continental United States. Canary and Ascension with gaps
in between, so they'll be up for about the next about 50 minutes.
CC Skylab, AOS Hawaii for 9 minutes. Ed,
Houston.
SPT Go ahead Story.
CC Ed your APCS looks good from down here.
And a friendly reminder be sure to get the APCS mode
ATT HOLD to CMG prior to entering the last part of your course
maneuver.
SPT Roger, Story I sure will. What time is
(garble)?
CC That's at 00:50 Ed.
SPT Thank you.
CDR Houston, Skylab.
CC Go ahead.
CDR Story I got some good news and some
bad news which do you want first.
CC I think we always like the bad news first.
But if it's more convenient we can take the good first.
CDR Okay, the urine sample bag inventory is
complete. I've searched through all the dome lockers and we
only have 91 sample bags. That means we're 23 short. Okay
and the good news is that we have 75 urine collection bags
on hand and that just meets the need.
CC Okay, thanks for all the searching Jer.
CDR Story, kidding aside, we've checked everyone
of the dome lockers and all the waste management compartment
lockers and let me give you a count here. In dome locker
426, we have two racks up there and that makes 50 full sample
bags. Down in 823 we've got 2 racks and one of them has got
19 full sample bags; the other one's got 22 half sample bags.
And that's just about it, we've looked every possible place we
could think of plus all the lockers that were listed on that
message.
CC Okay, thanks Jer and I've got some good
news and some bad news for you.
CDR Okay, go ahead give us the good news first.
CC Okay the good news is that USC is playing
in the Rose Bowl. The bad news is they're getting beat Ohio
State 27, USC 21.
CDR What quarter is it?
CC Just starting the fourth quarter.
CDR Oh, there's lots of time.
SPT Play that music again Jer.
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TIME: 18:29 CST, 47:00:29 GMT
1/1/74
CC And Ohio State's on the 2 yard llne.

SPT Play it louder.
CC Okay. Story as usual is changing his story,
they have scored.
CDR Son of a gun. I'll play my sad music
again.
CC Ed your maneuver time looks good.

SPT Thank you Story.
CC Skylab it's 35 to 21 now.
CDR Bad scene.
CC Skylab, we're a minute from LOS, 3 minutes to
Goldstone.
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SL-IV MC1627/I
Time: 18:39 CST 48:00:39 GMT
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CC Skylab, back with you through Goldstone

for 7 minutes, your maneuver looks good.
SPT Thank you, Story. And for the 55 optical
ref, again this question of 102, 103, 104. I assume now
it's 102, but I'm wondering - I guess I've never gotten clear
in my mind what the 104 was. Apparently there was an uncertainty
which they felt they had at one time, but - has that changed
or what is the status on that?
CC (Garble)
CC Ed, Houston.
CC Let me try this on you. If you reset
the mechanical reference, you want a step degrading (?) 104 to
be the same position as optical reference. Outside of
the mechanical reference position the bias between those
two anywhere else is 102.
SPT Okay, well - I'ii have to talk more
about it when I get back down_ but I'ii do that from here
on out. Thank you.
CC Skylab, we're a minute from LOS,
4 minutes to Bermuda.
CC Skylab, we've got you through Bermuda
for i0 minutes.
CC And a reminder to Bill, he's got a
family conference this pass. And Ed, Houston.
CC Ed, did you get that safety exposure
on 82B to move the film one frame?
SPT That's affirm, Story.
CC Thank you.
CC Skylab, we're 30 seconds to LOS and
2 minutes to Canary.
SPT Roger.
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SL-IV MC1628/I
Time: 19:02 CST 48:01:02 GMT
1/1/74
CC Skylab, back with you through Canaries

for 5 minutes.
SPT Hey Story, I've been just wondering you
and the maroon team must be - must have an awful lot of
pull. You guys were lucky enough to be able to spend
New Year's Eve with us and now here you are New Year's
Day. And nothing to do but go home and relax and watch
good football games.
CC Yeah, we're such a super team we also
had 4 days during Thanksgiving.
SPT They always give the hard work to the
hardest workers. It doesn't make you feel any better, huh,
Story.
CC I already said New Year's Eve how super
glad we were to be here.
SPT Would you like us to continue Jerry's
tune?
MCC He didn't tell you that he left early.

CC Skylab, we're a minute to LOS, 2 minutes
to Ascension. Be dumping the data/voice at Ascension.
CC Skylab, we're back with you through
Ascension for 8 minutes dumping the data/voice here.
CC Skylab, we're a minute and half to
LOS about 25 minutes to Carnarvon at 01:42. Anybody near
the STS?
PLT Jerry's on his way up there pretty
soon.
CC Okay, I'll catch him when he gets

there.
CDR Go ahead Story.
CC Jer, on AM panel 206 REG ADJUST both BUS i
and BUS 2, rotate counterclockwise 20 degrees each.
CDR Counterclockwise 20.
CC Yes sir, that'll do her.
CC And the final score in the Rose Bowl,
Ohio State 42, USC 21.
CDR Boy, they stomped them cold in the
last quarter.
CC That they did.
PAO This is Skylab Control, loss of
signal through the Ascension Island tracking station.
Twenty_two minutes to Carnarvon, Australia, and over-
lapping coverage with Honeysuckle Creek, and Guam. We'll
be back then. This is Skylab Control at 01:20 Greenwich mean
time.
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SL-IV MC1629/1
TIME: 19:42 CST, 48:01:42 GMT
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mean time. 50 seconds away from acquisition at Carnarvon,
Australia as space station Skylab takes a small slice out
of three tracking station circles here. Carnarvon, the
final Honeysuckle pass, and the first Guam pass. A dropout
of about 6 minutes between Honeysuckle LOS and Guam, we're
standing by.
CC Skylab, AOS through Carnarvon and Honeysuckle
l0 minutes.
CDR Roger, Story. Story would you mention to
the guys in the back room that we've got a new bright spot of
plague and what looks like it might be a little spot in
the middle of it. I'ii get over to it in a little while and
check it. It's at 220 at about 0.2.
CC Thanks, Jer.
CDR This is on H-alpha 2 and shows up nice
and bright on XUV.
CC Okay.
CC Skylab, I've got some evening questions
on the comet for either Ed or Bill since Jerry's at the ATm.
SPT Go ahead.
CC Okay. These come from Dr. Keller, co-Pl
on the S082. Calculations of the cometts dust tail for today
show the tail length to be about 4 to 5 degrees from the
coma and pointed in an antisolar direction. Could you
say something about the length of the dust tail that you
observed to compare the actual length to the therectical length?
SPT I'm thinking 4 or 5 degrees is probably a
reasonable figure. I think it was a little larger than that
last night when I saw it yesterday when I saw it. The
underestimation (?) using the figures that you gave us for
the distance of Venus and Jupiter are worth looking at just
about a half or so of that length to what I saw it as previously
and that's when you're really getting yourself dark adapted and
- but today I could probably always say it went back maybe a
third or so of that so that might (garble) degrees or so.
CC Okay, how much of the field of view of the
binoculars is filled?
SPT Probably just about almost a full field,
maybe 3/4 of it or so. I never really have tried to make
that measurment, but it's just about 3/4 l'd say.
CC Okay we expect the gas (?) tail to be
fainter but longer than the dust tail. Dominantly blue in color
and on the leading edge, that's the east side of the dust tail.
Tails will be hardly separated since the Earth is only
5 degrees above the comet's orbital plane. We'd like to know
if you could discern any blue streamers or kinks in this location.
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SPT No, I know what they're looking for

Story and I've not been able to do that. Once you get
away from the coma itself it is very faint, and trying to
distinguish whether you're seeing something of just a uniform
dust or whether you're seeing something which is a kink
got a kink in it is really extremely difficult. The color
has changed though, significantly, from what we reported as
orange a couple days ago through a yellow-orange yesterday
to almost a yellow-white today, l'm going to try - I've
been putting some drawings together and maybe we'll give you
a little more insight on that tomorrow when we get a little TV
time.
CC Okay, thanks Ed. That's it, and you may
want to do the atmospheric volume concentrate tonight.
SPT Okay, we got that going right now.
What's the field of view of the teleo - binocalars?
CC Stand by i. And, Skylab, as per you request
- request we got the film tread pad on board tonight and I'ii
be doing that in the future. Any time during the evening status
report we catch any differences between what we planned to
today's activities and how it turned out, we may have to
give you a real time change to that pad.
SPT Thank you, Story. Hey, Story, there certainly
is a good fire right immediately below us blowing opposite
our track.
CC Thanks.
PLT Where are we, Ed?
CC About the middle of Australia_ we think
down here_
CDR That's a good_sized fire_ too.
CC Okay, we'll see if you can get a _ we can get
you a ground truth on that. We're a minute from LOS, we'll see
you over at Guam in about 5 minutes at 01:57, and for Bill,
we'll be ready for the evening status report at that time.
SPT Okay, Story. Thank you.
SPT That was a good one.
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SL-IV MC1630/I
Time: 19:54 CST, 48:01:54 GMT
01/01/74
PAO Skylab Control, a minute and 50 seconds

from acquisition at Guam. Evening status report scheduled
over this station. Standing by at a 01:56.
CC Skylab, AOS, Guam for 8 minutes.
SPT (Garble), Story.
PLT Story, you still there?
CC Yes sir.
PLT Are you ready to copy the status report.
CC Sure are. Go.
PLT Sleep: CDR, 6.5, 6.5 heavy_ SPT, 6.0,
5 heavy, 1 light; PLT, 6.0, 6 heavy. Urine: CDR, 1800;
SPT, 2100_ PLT, 1750. Water gun: 8026; 3811; 9900. Body
mass: CDR, 6.299, 6.301, 6.302; SPT, 6.358, 6.357, 6.364;
PLT, 6.238, 6.236, 6.240. Exercise: CDR, exercise method
Charlie; Echo plus 5, these are deviations. Exercise method
Foxtrot; springs, front i00, toe r_ses, plus 50. SPT, no
exercise. PLT, no change from standard. Medications, et
cetera; CDR, none, none; SPT, none, one pair of socks; PLT,
none, one shirt. Flight Plan deviations: none. Shopping
list accomplishments: M172 CAL, which is on tape, and urine
bags garble. Flight Plan deviations: that's supposed clitl
include the AVc which was just activated about 5 minutes
ago; serial number 1002. Inoperable equipment: none.
Unscheduled stowage: none. Food: CDR, salt packs, 16,
deviations, minus one tea, minus one strawberry drink, plus
1.5 water, rehydratlon; SPT, four salt packs, no rehydration
water, no other deviation; PLT, plus two salts, zero on
rehydrations. Stand by for the film log.
CC Okay.
PLT Okay. 16-millimeter: EREP, VTS, 120-
foot mag Charlie Lima 01, at 61 precent remaining: Transporter
05, Charlie India 127, 44 percent remaining; Charlie India 93,
that was used on documentary photo ii, Alfa and Delta. Okay,
35-millimeter: Nikon i, Charlie X-ray 38, 31, Nikon 2, Bravo
Victor 26, 37 remaining; 3, 4, and 5 Nikons, no change. 70-
millimeter: Charlie X-ray 52, 120; ETC, no change. Set Tango,
(garble) EREP, 88 81, 8219, 9094, 9088, 2631, 9953. Drawer A
configuration: A1 no change, 82, Transporter 05, Charlie
India 127, 44; Charlie India 93. A - Alfa 3 drawer, 06;
Transporter, Charlie India 79, 99 percent, new load; Charlie
India 126, takeup: Position Alfa 4 and back, no change.
CC Okay, Bill. Bill, you reported no
exercise for the SPT. Did you mean to say no deviations?
PLT (Garble)
SPT No, Story I had no exercise.
PLT No exercise.
CC Okay.
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SL-IV MC1631/I
Time: 20:03 CST 48:02:03 GMT
1/I/74
CC Skylab, we're a minute from LOS and

7 minutes to Hawaii at 02:10.
CREW Roger, Story.
PAO This is Skylab Control, LOS Guam,
Hawaii in 6 minutes 02:04 Greenwich mean time. We'll
just stay up live for the gap across here to Hawaii and
the succeeding stateside pass.
CC Go ahead, Jer.
CDR Almost forgot my TV downlink. Do you
want any?
CDR Now l_ve centered on that new little
(garble) area, that's giving us a count of better than
i0,000 in oxygen 6.
CC Okay, we'd like some of that Jer, and
when you get down with that MIRROR AUTO RASTER there we'd
like a GRATING AUTO SCAN of the same region.
CDR Okay. I'm looking at H-alpha i right
now, I'ii shift over to XUV in a little bit.
CC Jer, we'd like also for S082A a
20 second exposure wave lenght short.
CDR Short 20.
CC That's it.
CC And we're 20 seconds to LOS here. We'll
see you over Goldstone in about i0 minutes at 02:21.
CDR Roger.
CDR And we'll get the frame count from you
there and then put you to bed there.
CDR Okay.
PAO Skylab Control, loss of signal at
Hawaii tracking site. Goldstone in about 7 minutes and
we'll stay up live and waiting for the Goldstone, MILA,
and Texas pass.
PAO Skylab Control, about 15 seconds away
from reacquisition at Goldstone. The Bermuda pass on
this revolution will be used by the crew physician for
the medical conference. And as agreed to yesterday the
people in the Mission Control will keep to a minimum their
contacts with the crew on the air,ground during the final
hour before sleep period begins.
CC Skylab_ AOS stateside about 20 minutes.
CDR Roger, Story.
CDR You ready for a frame count?
CC Yes sir.
CDR Okay. 14387, 5194, 172, 448, 5592,
and 4681.
CC Got it.
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SL-IV MC1632/I
TIME: 20:23 CST, 48:02:23 GMT
1/1/74
CC Bill, Houston.
CDR He'll be with you in a minute, they're
both looking at the comet right now.
CC Okay. In the Orange Bowl, Penn State 16,
LSU 7.
CDR Roger.
CC Jer, after I get one question answered from
Bill, I will - per your request here, we'll be putting you
to bed within an hour. At 03:00 your medical conference is
coming up at Bermuda at 02:29 and except for a few dropouts
and handovers, you'll have us stateside here for about - till
02:40.
CDR Okay, Story.
CC And the wakeups I can give you are about
12:55 at Ascension and 13:28 at Guam, which would you like?
CDR We'll take the later one.
CC Okay. We'll be dropping out a minute here
handing over to Texas.
CDR Roger.
CC We're back with you through Texas, Jer.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Medical conference
currently underway between the crew physican Dr. Jerry Hordinsky
and Skylab IV crew through the Bermuda station. We'll be back
for Ascension Island in 17 miuutes in case there is further
air,to-ground conversation. 02:31, 02:32 Greenwich mean time,
this is Skylah Control.
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1/1/74
PAO This is Skylab Control. During the

Bermuda pass the medical conference was concluded between
the crew and the crew physican here on the ground. A few
seconds before Bermuda LOS and the line was handed back to
Spacecraft Communicator Story Musgrave, we have some 40,
45 seconds of the final portion of the Bermuda pass which
we'll play back at this time.
CC Skylab we got you for a couple of minutes
here and Jerry, Houston.
CDR Go ahead Story.
CC You closed out the ATM panel yet Jer?
CDR I think so.
CC Okay we got a couple of things here, that's
the S056 airlock door to close and the S055 high voltages off.
CDR Okay, those are done.
CC Panel looks good Jet, Bill, Houston.
PLT Go ahead Story.
CC Bill did you have any rehydratable water
deviations today.
PLT Negative.
CC Okay, thanks and it's goodnight Skylab,
the next station, we won't call you-will be Ascension at
02:49 about i0 minutes from now.
CDR Okay, Story goodnight.
CC Goodnight.
SPT St6ry, before you disappear, did you ever
find the (garble) binoculars.
CC That's 7 degrees Ed.
SPT Thank you.
PAO That completes playback of the final few
seconds of the Bermuda pass after the medical conference was
complete and the line came back to Story Musgrave the Spacecraft
Communicator. And he signed off for the night, and as soon
as we get the summary statement from the crew physican, we'll
do likewise. Wakeup tomorrow is at the Guam pass at 7:28 a.m.
central time. Returning shortly with the medical status
summary. At 02:46 GMT, this is Skylab Control.
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mean time with the Mission surgeon's daily report for mission
day 47. "No health problems exist at this time. The crew has
made an early adjustment to daylight savings time, to assist
with potential early wakeup EREP passes in the upcoming week."
That's the end of the statement by Dr. Jerry Hordinsky. Signing
off until crew wakeup at 7:28 a.m. over Guam, Wednesday
morning, this is Skylab Control.
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SL-IV MC-1635/I
Time: 06:44 CST 48:12:44 GMT
1/2/74

and 4 seconds Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station is
now within acquisition of signal at the Ascention tracking
antenna. We expect the crew will be awak - awakened here
within the next i0 minutes. We'll leave the line up live
now for air-to-_round throuFh the Ascension tracking antenna.
Greenwich mean time. Skylab crew is not awakened there at
the station at Ascension. Our next acquisition is 32-1/2
minutes away, about which time the crew should be up and
around. They're scheduled for presleep activities this morning
for the first hour or so, and they won't be doing any serious
work until the ATM pass which is scheduled to begin about
15:50. The ATM pass this morning will be Science Pilot Ed
Gibson's. Commander after breakfast will be doing his physical
trainin_ and this morning Pilot Bill Pogue has most of the
mornin_ off. Press conference scheduled today will begin
about 19:08 Greenwich mean time. The schedule for 17 minutes
of television, with perhaps a bit of an extension beyond that.
And immediately after that the crew will sit down to eat their
midday meal. In the afternoon Commander Carr has a bit of
off-duty time and also will be operating the $201, that's
the comet camera, on - to photograph the comet Kohoutek.
So relatively lower activity today then most of the previous
days, but there are a number of experiments scheduled,
including $201 and also an S063 ozone, an S063 operation
scheduled for later in the day. And about a total of about
three passes on the ATM today. This is Skylab Control, half
an hour before our next acquisition of signal. It's now
57-1/2 minutes after the hour.
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SL-IV MC1636/I
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and 43 seconds Greenwich mean time. Skylah space station
is now 55 seconds from acquisition of signal through the
Guam tracking antenna. We'll bring the line up llve for
air-to,ground throuKh Guam,
PAO Skylab Control. We're having some com-
munications difficulties at Guam, but we expect we'll get
acquisition shortly. Flight director on duty is Nell Hutchingson
right now, and the spacecraft communicator is Bruce McCandless.
CC (Music)
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Guam
with about 3-1/2 minutes remaininR. Good morninR. Over.
CDR Good morning, Bruce.
CC And how is every little thing up there
in orbit this morning?
CDR Very well rested at the moment.
CC Beautiful.
CC I feel like I ought to be able to read
you the Sunday funnies or something since this is the day
off, but it isn't Sunday.
CDR Read us last Sunday's funnies.
CC Skylab, this is Houston; 30 seconds to
LOS. Next station contact in 30 minutes through the Vanguard
at 14:08. Out.
Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station is now out of
range at Guam after a wakeup call here from Bruce McCandless
at the Guam station. The crew was scheduled for a wakeup
at 7 o_cloek this morning and presumably awokened - were
awaken at a place out of range of ground stations. 28 minutes
and 20 seconds to our next acquisition of signal at Vanguard.
This is Skylab Control.
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SL-IV MC-1637/I
Time: 08:07 CST 48:14:07 GMT
01/02/74

Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station now off the coast
of Chili, about to be acquired through the Vanguard tracking
ship. This pass through Vanguard will last approximately
i0_i/2 minutes and handover is in progress here in Mission
Control at this time. Today's press conference should begin
at 1:09:28 p.m. central standard time, 19:08:28 - uh -
19:09:28, at Merritt Island, and we'll give you details on
the press conference timing at the end of the pass. We're
llve now for alr-to-ground at Vanguard.
CC Skylab, this is Houston, through the
Vanguard for I0 minutes. A quick question for the CDR. We
left the ATM C&D loop pumps on last night and we're wondering
whether the noise was bothersome to you or whether we can
continue to leave them on. Over.
CDR It was - It was nice and quiet last night,
Bruce.
CC Okay, that's great. Then subject to further
comment from you, we'll just plan on leaving it on for - from
here on out.
CDR Okay, unless they start howling again,
llke they were, there's no reason why we can't.
CC Right. And, of course, if they do start
howling, let us know.
CDR Will do.
CC And, SPT, this is Houston. We've sent
you up a small maneuver reminder pad, it should be in the
teleprinter at this time. We'd like to emphasize in executing
these at hold maneuvers like you've got for S063 coming up
here in about 18 minutes that it is necessary to select att hold
control mode prior to doing the enter on the last entry for
the coarse maneuver. Over.
SPT Roger, Bruce.
CC Roger, Out.
CC Skylab, this is Houston. I minute til
LOS. Next station contact in II minutes through the Canary Islands
at 14:29, with a data/voice tape recorder dump. Out.
Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station now over Brazil
is out of range of the tracking ship Vanguard. 9 minutes to
our next acquisition. In a short time the Skylab crew - Ed Gibson
will be beginning the maneuver for comet observation. He's
using the S063 ultraviolet airglow horizon camera. That pass
is scheduled to begin in about 30 minutes from now, after the
Skylab space station starts moving into the darkness period
of its orbit. And, that will take place just at at twilight
on t_e space station. The maneuver is scheduled to begin at
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21 minutes after the hour, that's just about a minute from

now. We'll hear from them, l'm sure, as we get acquisition
about the success of that maneuver. Today's press conference
is scheduled to begin at Merritt Island pass. That begins
at I:09:2B central standard time, about i0 minutes after 9.
Uh - i0 minutes after i. And, there will be TV for the
first i0 minutes over Merritt Island then 3-1/2 minutes of
voice only immediately following at Bermuda, and if it's
required to complete the series of questions, an additional
8 minutes of voice only will be scheduled at Madrid, with
an interruption of about 4 minutes between those two periods.
The times again, Merritt Island pass begins at 1:09:28
central standard time or 19:09:28 Greenwich mean time, and
ends at 1:20 p.m.. The Bermuda pass is from 1:20 to 1:23:26
p.m. central standard time and the Madrid pass is from 1:27:24
to 1:35:19 p.m. central standard time. I'ii repeat those
again. 1:09:28 p.m. central standard time for the beginning
of the Merritt Island TV part of the pass. Endin_ at 1:20
exactly, then Bermuda from 1:20 to 1:23:26 and then Madrid
at 1:27:24 to 1:35:19. That will give the crew altogether
about i0 minutes of television and ii minutes of voice
only to answer a series of questions that have been submitted
by the press. Tomorrow morning the crew will be getting up
a lot later than they did today. Today the crew wakeup was
scheduled at 7 a.m. central standard time. We were out of
range of signal at that time, but at the next pass, about
7:30 we did have an acquisition and talked to the crew there.
The crew has not had much conversation this morning and they
have not been interrupted by the ground. That's part of a
new policy to allow them to get more of their work accomplished
in less time. They will not be interfered with during the
presleep and postsleep periods. Today's execute package
which includes teleprinter messages that went up to the crew last
night. A message on visual observations was included for all
three of the crewmembers, they'll be making a pass during
the next revolution around the Earth, just before they get
acquisition - just before they reach the coast of South
America, during which they'll be asked to look for evidence
of elninial (?), which is a large fish and plankton kill, caused
by the entry of warmer, lower salinity water into the Humbolt
current. The effect on fish in that area - it reaches its
peak in February, so they'll be observing that area during
the next month to try and get some information about the
changes of the water and the salinity and colors along the
current boundaries. That's something they've discovered they're
very good at observing from space. The color differences are
quite obvious to them. They'll no doubt be taking some
photographs of that as well. So, they'll be watching for a
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fish killing current off the coast of South America. The

pass will be - the visual observation opportunity will begin
at 90 de_rees west on this next revolution, which follows
track 69. That'll begin at approximately 1,000 miles off
the coast of Chile, and then will follow up to the coast
of South America. That will allow them to watch the areas
of the two currents, one of which is lower in salinity and
warmer and for that reason not comfortable for fish to live
in. Visual observations have been a major
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SL-IV MC-1638/I
Time: 08:23 CST 48:14:23 GMT
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PAO - right off the coast of South America.

The pass will be - the visual observation opportunity will
begin at 90 degrees west on this next revolution, which
follows track 69. That'll begin approximately i000 miles
off the coast of Chile and then will follow up to the coast
of South America. That will allow them to watch the areas of the
two currents, one of which is lower in salinity and warmer
and for that reason not comfortable for fish to live in.
Visual observations have been a major i - activity of the
Skylab crew, although not scheduled to take up a great deal
of time in the Flight Plan. The Pilot that's in this morn-
ing's dump tape, which was prepared yesterday, late yesterday,
this space station, said that he had photographed San Fran-
cisco and the western United States including Salt Lake City
to photograph snow cover in the west. That area, fairly well
covered by snow, has been photographed now by the Skylab
crew with a series of pictures taken yesterday at approxi-
mately 23:00 Greenwich mean time. And also the Pilot repor-
ted that took about i0 pictures of the Australian range lands
yesterday at this was reported yesterday although he had
actually taken it early the night before from the coast on
in, and he said that that's most of the range land that
the crew has been waiting to get during the mission, and
earlier in the day he pointed out that - that he had taken
some additional frames of snow cover over the U.S. This is
Skylab Control. Comet activities being a major activity to-
day as the crew takes the day off. A series of photos to
be taken with the $201 and the S063. The $201 is of course
the comet camera the crew carried up with them at the begin-
ning of the mission. Some off-duty time scheduled today
but work schedule indicates that although they did get a
couple of extra hours sleep this morning they will be busy
and put in about a half day of work in today, with a number
of activities scheduled including science conferences, the
TV press conference, just after just before their lunch,
and also a number of other minor housekeeping activities
today. There's five optional handheld photo opportunities
listed on their message today. That should keep them fairly
busy if they have a chance to do those. They have normally
been doing about five to six every day and during the missionp
probably reaching around the 300 level now on total number
of frames taken of sights taken over the Earth. About 3
minutes from acquisition of signal at Canary Island. We'll
leave the line up there for live for air-to-ground. Hand-
over still in progress here in Mission Control as Nell
Hutchinson has just taken over from Charles Lewis, and Bruce
McCandless the spacecraft communicator on duty here in Mis-
sion Control. Wetll leave the line up live now for air-to-ground
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through Canary Island and Madrid. This pass will last

a total of about 14 minutes. We're live. It's about
2-1/2 minutes before we'll get acquisition at Canary Island.
and Madrid for 13-1/2 minutes with a data/voice tape recorder
dump here at Canary. Out.
PLT Go ahead.
CC Go ahead, Skylab.
PLT Roger. l'm just looking through the
archives from yesterday and I had a stow of S073 (garble) at
Sierra Tango i which had me break down the T025 canister,
stow the AMS depressurize it and everything, SAL wasn't
used in between and then this morning I had a Charlie Oscar
Bupper - a Charlle Papa Romeo 3, which had me putting
it back in again. Just a comment, it would save us a lot of
time if they'd look ahead and see that the SAL is not
going to be used. Of course, it could be entirely possible
that they had other plans when they scheduled the previous. In any
event the Charlie Papa Romeo it says the AM - in and
pressurized I think. So how about checking that out.
It would save us a little time if they'd sort of look ahead and see
what the present configuration is.
CC Okay, Bill. We'll do that, and that's
the sort of comments we really like to get back from you so
we can improve our efficiency down here. PLT, this is
Houston. Over.
PLT Go, Bruce.
CC Right. Having been temporarily lost in
our own archives here it took us a minute or so to track
all this down. I think that the problem yesterday must have
originated from the fact that what we did was on your detail
pad. At 24:00 we called out, or amplified your remark for
S073 still i with the comment that it was supposed to be
lines 2 through 15, (AMS depressurlzed), and digging up
the S073 cue card S073 still i, or S073 still lines 2 through
15 sicks up with disconnect and load control cable from the
camera and basically takes the camera off puts the lens cap
on, takes the adapter off, but it stops short of removing the
S07-63 AMS adapter and leaves the AMS in the SAL and it
leaves it depressurized. Over
PLT Stand by i. I'm putting equipment up.
CC Hey, don't let me interrupt. We got
all day today at your leisure to talk about this if you
llke.
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SL-IV MC1639/I
TIME: 08:41 CST, 48:14:41 GMT
1/2/73
PLT We get the thing just a little bit

confused because the Sierra Tango i, which is called out here
as the reference on the cue card, says AMS stowed.
CC Okay, Bill, I see what you're looking at,
and where we were looking is actually the okay, it's actually
up above the SO73 stow i, 2, 3 in the middle of a dashline. If
you look up the lefthand column there a little more we got
SO73 stow i, 2, 3, 4 with the llne drawn under it which, I guess,
is more properly part of the op i.
PLT Okay, which column are you looking in?
CC Hey, we got 20 seconds to LOS here with
the next station contact is in 27 minutes through Guam at
15:09. I'm looking in the lefthand column of the backside
of the cue card, and if you come down about an inch, inch and
a half from the top we start out with S073 stow 1234 underlined.
We were looking at the second through the fifteen lines under
that. But I think what happened is that we've got our - our
headings mixed up here. Let us talk about it again some more
and maybe we can see you over Guam.
PLT Okay.
PAO Skylab Control at 43 minutes and 38 seconds
after the hour. Skylab space station is now over eastern
Europe. 25_i/2 minutes from acquisition at Guam. During this
last pass some discussion of S073 instructions given to the
crew yesterday on removal and stowage of that piece of hardware,
and that discussion may be continued a little bit later. Apparently
some misunderstanding between the instructions given to Bill
Pogue and those that were transmitted from the ground. 25 minutes
to our next acquisition of signal. 44 minutes after the hour,
this is Skylab Control.
PAO Skylab Control at 15 hours 8 minutes Greenwich
mean time. Skylab space station is now coming within range
of the tracking antenna at Guam where we'll have a 3-1/2 minute
pass. We'll bring the llne up live for Bruce McCandless, the
spacecraft communicator.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Guam for 3 minutes
for the PLT.
PLT Go, Bruce.
CC Yeah, Bill, not to beat a dead horse to death
here on this S073 thing_ but the way the - the cue card is set
up the underlined heading which in our case reads S073 ST for
stow i, 2, 3, and 4, applies to all of the stow options. And then
when you come down below the the heading set in the middle
of the column prefers to subparts of that, such as stow i, 2,
and 3 and stow 4 separately. So the way that we had intended
the instructions on your detailed pad to be interpreted was under
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the S073 stow i, 2, 3, and 4, do lines 2 through 15, and

then knock it off leaving AMS in the SAL and pressurized
and all that. Over.
PLT Yeah, Bruce, I got to looking at it and
I agree with you. However, we have another problem now
I'm going to describe. First of all there's been a gradual
degradation in the numeral, the indicator on the rotation
part of the S019 AMS.
CC Roger.
PLT The - you'll recall all of the little
all of the material came out of the numerals on the unit
digit. The thing I want to report now is after extending
the mirror and getting ready to take my first exposure in
S063, the i0 in the hundred drum came lose. Now, I noticed
two days ago that it looked like it popped a little bit, but
it always made a lot of noise so I didn't pay any attention
to it. And today when I was getting ready to set the rotation
the drum, although the crank was turning in the tenth and
the unit_s digits were moving, the, I guess it was the tens
and the hundred's drum are combined, and they came lose and
they don't move anymore although the crank is turning. Now
by trial and error I was able to get back to a position
so I could retract the mirror, and that is my present con-
figuration.
CC Okay, we copy. We'll talk to you in about
3 minutes here over Honeysuckle - make that 6 minutes over
Honeysuckle. In the meantime sort of hang lose on that. And
we got 45 seconds to LOS. Also over Honeysuckle we'll have
a message on brush fires that you reported in Australia
yesterday, and some options that you might be interested in
if you'd like to take some pictures of them over Australia
about an hour and a half from now.
PLT Sounds good, Bruce.
CC Roger; out.
CC And, Bill, just a last quick question
as we go over the hill. With that problem with the AMS,
did you take the exposures that were scheduled for this
pass, or did that preclude you doing it?
PLT It precluded, I couldn't even get the first
rotation. I was trying to get the first rotation when the
failure occurred.
CC Okay, we copy. See you over Honeysuckle
in 5 minutes.
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SL-IV MC-1640/I
Time: 09:13 CST 48:15:13 GMT
01/02/74

and 33 seconds Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station is
now over New Guinea, out of range of the Guam tracking antenna
Pilot Bill Pogue just informed us that he had no luck with
the S063 operation scheduled for this morning. Pogue was
scheduled to be using the Nikon camera to take pictures of
the comet Kohoutek as part of the ultraviolet airglow experi-
ment. In this morning's photography Pogue was - had planned to
take five exposures using the 55-millimeter ultraviolet lens,
after about 2_i/2 hours of off-duty time, Pogue will take
six more photographs or scheduled to at 18:10 Greenwich mean
time, using the same instrument. This afternoon Ed Gibson
will take more pictures of the comet also using the Nikon.
Gibson will mount the camera in front of the four small windows,
in one of the four small windows of the structural transition
section, between the airlock module and multiple docking
area. Gibson will be taking i0 exposures. The Nikon will be
used with various filters ranking from red through shorter
wavelengths, including the ultraviolet. This continues the
Skylab program of observations of the comet which is now
expected to become visible at least from some sites around
the world, in the next few days. About 3 minutes to our
next acquisition of signal so we'll leave the llne up live
for Honeysuckle pass. The pass through Honeysuckle will last
about 5 minutes and we're still about 3 minutes from acquisi-
tlon there.
CC Skylab, this is Houston. Through Honey-
suckle Creek for 4-1/2 minutes. Over.
PLT Roger, Bruce.
CC Okay, on this brush fire. It turns out
that you're about 30 seconds away from closest point of
approach here. It can best be viewed through window S-3,
closest point of approach is 15:19:08, and this will be at
night where you are. We'll send you up a teleprinter message
on other opportunities today. If you're out for it, it's
about 60 degrees off nadir. The fire is a brush fire, it's
burning along a 5-mile front. It's located near Dubbo,
D-u-b-b-o, Australia, at 148 east, 32 south. That's 148 east
32 south. Over.
SPT Okay, Bruce. We copy that. And, I did
get a photo of that yesterday and put the information on tape.
It was put on early this morning, however, so that's why they
perhaps did not know we got a photo, along with the description.
CC Okay, thank you.
CC Skylab, this is Houston. i minute to LOS.
Next station contact in 45 minutes through the Canary Islands,
at 16:07, and Just sort of hang loose on the AMS functions.
We'll get you some information on that, shortly.
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CDR Roger, Bruce.

and 43 seconds. We now have loss of signal at the Honeysuckle
tracking antenna. Our next acquisition is 41-1/2 minutes
away, that will be at Canary Islands. During this last pass
the crew was informed that they would have an opportunity to
see a brush fire at - in Australia. In the southeastern
section of Australia. That was a brush fire photographed
last nlght_ Ed Gibson reported, by the crew. They not only
photographed it they also put on a visual description on the
channel B, and that should be received here in Mission Control
very shortly. They will be reviewed and a teleprinter pad
informing the crew of additional details and other things
they may do with the brush fire may be added. The brush
fire is 5 miles long and it's reported to be near a city
called Dubbo in southeast Australia. It's a common of - uh -
It's a common event in that area, the fire was reported
yesterday by the crew. Earth resources investigators here
in Mission Control are trying to schedule some handheld
photographs of the location and may perhaps add some to the
photograph already taken by Ed Gibson. They may be scheduled
sometime tomorrow, although Gibson did report that he had
a photograph taken last night. This is Skylab Control. 40
minutes to our next acquisition of signal. It's now 27 minutes
and 9 seconds after the hour.
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SL-IV MC-1641/I
Time: 10:06 CST 48:16:06 GMT
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54 seconds from acquisition of signal through Canary Island.
This pass through Canary Island and Madrid will last about
14 minutes. Flight Director on duty here in Mission Control
is Neil Hutchinson and the Spacecraft Communicator is Bruce
McCandless.
and Madrid for 13 minutes. We'll have a data/voice tape
recorder coming up at Madrid at 16:13. Out.
CDR Houston, CDR.
CC Go ahead, Jerry.
CDR Bruce, we'd like to have you guys cancel
this maneuver reminder cue card change number 001. That's
something we all know about. It's kind of like reminding
yourself not to - with a gear-shift type manual transmission
car, not to hit the starter without putting in the clutch.
It's happened once so far this mission and will probably
statistically happen at least once more, and we all know
better, and I don't think a little piece of paper stuck to
the ATM C&D panel's going to deter us from doing it again if
it's going to happen. Our problem here is we've got so many
notes and things on the ATM C&D now that something this small
is just going to be overlooked anyway. We'll get used to
seeing it and we won't even notice it.
CC Okay. Roger. We'll cancel it. It has
happened more than once, however.
CDR How many times and what's the effect,
Bruce?
CC Okay. We'll have to go back and look
for a complete count on it.
CDR Well, the fact of the matter is, Bruce, we
know better then to do it but it does happen and I don't
think the paper's going to help keep us from doing it.
CC Roger. We concur.
PLT Houston, Skylab; PLT.
CC Roger. Go ahead, Bill.
PLT Rog, Bruce. I'd like for you to check
something in the archives for me. 2 days ago, I think it
was, I put some stuff in the multipurpose furnace, 560-something-
or_the-other, and was told to stop short of turning the
ON switch on. Question. Did I fail to see something yes-
terday in the Flight Plan, or today? It may be in - actually
I didn't check with Ed, may be in his detail, to turn that
switch on. I'm sort of concerned that I overlooked some-
thing.
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CC PLT, this is Houston. No, you're quite

correct. Our plan right now is to schedule starting the
operation sometime on day 50, which is day after tomorrow.
PLT Okay. Then I have left the bulkhead
valve in vent since getting down to the specified pressure
and I'm going to stay in that configuration with your con-
currence.
CC Roger. That's exactly what we're looking
for and sorry if it seemed a little obtuse. We probably
ought to give you some statement of our intentions on these
things when we set them up.
PLT I was afraid I'd let something slip by
the board.
CC No indeed, but it's good to ask about
that. You might
have caught us.
CC PLT, this is Houston. A quick question
if you're not busy.
CDR Go ahead, Bruce. He_s listening.
CC Okay. We were just wondering if when
he ran through Housekeeping 6 Alfa this morning he noticed any unusual
accumulation of dirt or dust on the heat exchanger veins. Over.
CDR Stand by just a second.
CC Roger.
PLT Yes, Bruce. I noticed a little bit more
of a cloud of larger particulates in the area now that you
mention it. Now, one thing. I did not take the flashlight
and look at the veins. I just took the vacuum cleaner down
in there and vacuumed by feel. If you're concerned, I can
open the cover and go back in there again. In fact, I just
finished vacuuming about 2 or 3 minutes ago.
CC Yes. We saw the fan cycling. I assume that
that's what you've been doing. We're checking with the
EGILs right now. Our possible concern is you're approaching
a region of high beta angles and we may need all we can get
in the way of cooling capacity here, but stand by until I get
some readback on that.
PLT Okay. I still have the vacuum cleaner
right in the area so it's no problem at all.
CC Okay, Bill. If you would, if yon do have
the time here, we'd like you to go back and take a look with
the flashlight there and maybe with the vacuum cleaner to get
everything that we possibly can out and we're a little con-
cerned about the temperature you may be encountering as we
head for the high beta angles here this time and we sure
would like to have everything running at peak efficiency.
We got about a minute to LOS here. The next station contact
will be in 28 minutes through Carnarvon at 16:47. Over.
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CDR Roger_ Bruce, and he's working on those

things.
CC Okay. Thank you.
Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station is out of range
of Madrid. Out next acquisition is 26-1/4 minutes from now.
That'll be at Carnarvon, Australia. Skylab moving along
fairly well. This last pass we had a little cleanin_ going
on with Bill Pogue working on cleaning the heat exchanger.
The purpose of that is to make sure the heat exchanger is
working at maximum efficiency. It operates much like an
air conditioner to keep the atmosphere aboard the Skylab
as cool as possible. During the next few weeks the Skylab
space station will be in the Sun more often then it has been
for the last period of time, and at high Sun angle with long
periods in the Sun will tend to heat the space station up.
The long-range effect of that may be to raise the temperature
to the nelghb - neighborhood of 80 degrees_ and if the heat
exchanger's working properly_ and with some powering down
of the lights, they expect they'll be able to reduce the
temperature in the space station to some degree. The pre-
sent time aboard the Skylab space station the temperatures
are ranging about 73 to 74 degrees, which is quite comfor-
table and about as cool as they've been during the entire
mission. They hope they'll be able to hold it to 79 degrees
with that powerdown. Without the powerdown it would be
about 83 degrees. That period will reach its maximum point
about January 2 - about January 18. This is Skylab Control.
We're now about 25 minutes from acquisition of signal at
Carnarvon. It's now 22-1/2 minutes after the hour.
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23 seconds Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station about
to cross Fiji is coming within range of the tracking antenna
at Carnarvon, Australia. This pass through Carnarvon and
Honeysuekle will last approximately 14 minutes. And the
spacecraft communicator is Bruce McCandless.
CC Skylab, this is Houston; through Carnarvon
and Honeysuckle Creek for 13 minutes. Over.
PLT Roger, Bruce.
CC Okay, Bill, we're still cogitating on
the subject of the AMS. We expect that by the time we get to
the States we'll have a posture on it and perhaps a request
for you to do some checkout for us. What we're looking at
is a way to check out the - the mirror system and then to operate in
perhaps a slower and more deliberate mode and still get some
data gathered with the system. Just for your information,
in looking at the counter breakdown down here, it turns out
that the hundreds and the tens digits are both carried on the
same fiberglass belt which has a series of sprocket holes
where teeth engage it in between the digits, and it's carried over
a drum with tension rollers and all this sort of stuff. And
the units and tenths of units digits are on individual counter
drums of the type that you'd normally expect to see in a counter
like this. Over.
PLT Yeah, Bruce, I think I didn't know how it
worked but I saw that the hundreds and the tens drum, the
number drum, was an integral unit. And, of course, what you're
proposing is an entirely feasible operation because that's
the way I got back to zero. I just kept rotating until I
got zero in the units digit and then I had 36 possibilities
for getting it indexed for a retraction. So, that information
ought to be of a little use anyway.
CC Actually the tens and hundreds are not a
drum it's a continuous belt. And maybe I'm talking out of school
here, but it's possible that your belt broke or something
like that is causing the problem. And, of course, yeah, trying
36 possibilities every time is sort of tedious. I suspect that
knowing that the thing is out in the future, maybe we can just
keep track of the number of times the - the unit drum goes
all the way around and delta from that if you take it
slowly, but we're working on some procedures here.
PLT Okay, now with that bit of information
l_m afraid I might have some more unplesant news. I noticed
a distinct change in the hundreds and tens number presentation
about 2 days ago. I was changing rotation and it sort of
changed noises and I looked down and I thought I was deceiving
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myself, but it looked like the number was - the numbers were
sticking out a little further than the units and the tenths.
So we may have the last 2 days of data I'm saying right
now is suspect.
CC Okay, I copy what you're saying, Bill,
but we'll just have to research that one and there's no point
in even speculating on it. I guess if the units and tenths
were lined up properly unless we slipped i0 degrees or so,
it probably wasn't any problem with that. And you were able
to retract it all right each time, so I guess that we'll just
press on with what we've already accomplished. And if you'll hold on
a minute here, I got some more info for you.
PLT Yeah, that's a good point you just made.
CC And for the ATM, we show on S056 the
shutter is still open. We need to get that terminated, please.
CDR In work, Bruce.
PLT And, Bruce, I'm sure you're giving it
consideration_ but is there any easy way to get in there and
take a look at that belt drive? I didn't know it was a belt
drive; I thought they were drums.
CC Okayp we're - we're considering that. The
units and tenths of units are drums. Therets only one belt
in the thing, that's the the one with the 36 sets of numbers
on it.
CC And to answer your question a little further,
there's a problem with getting into the belt drum area because
the numerals on the belt and drum are self-luminous and there's
a small amount of radioactivity present, and that is a sealed
assembly from the radiation safety standpoint. And since the
numbers have already come off on one of the drums, I think
people would be very reluctant to let you go in there.
PLT Okay, well, now you remember that we - of
course I know it's a different situation entirely 9 but if we
worked with the vacuum cleaner ah, you know more about it
than I do. You all think it over and we_ll do whatever you
say.
CC Okay.
CDR Go ahead.
CC Okay, for your information we're looking
at CMG number 2 and we're seeing another recurrence of its
characteristic trait. The bearing temperatures are about equal
now. And it just started up over Carnarvon here about 5 minutes
ago, so you might _ might be alert for anything out of the
ordinary. And we're considering canceling your next maneuver
for this reason. Over.
CDR Roger, Bruce. I think if the AMS doesn't work
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we won't need the maneuver anyway.

CC That's a fact. However, I've got some
stuff for Bill if he's ready to copy on checking it out.
PLT Stand by Just a second, Bruce.
CDR Bruce, what co - -
PLT (Garble) I've got to reconfigure things here.
CDR Bruce, while we're standing by I want to
talk a little bit more about this possibility of taking
it apart and trying to fix the belt drive or whatever it is
in there. Seems to me that if we put a vacuum cleaner up
there we can suck up all the loose particles immediately
and we can put the vacuum cleaner bag down the trash airlock
immediately too and pretty much alleviate any prohlems there.
I find it hard to believe that there's any more radioactive
material on those numbers than there is on the three watches
we have up here.
CC Okay, well look, we're going to have to
get a radiation safety on the act in that. The real concern
of course, is that if you ingest any of this material, or
inhale it then it's with you for good. And - -
CDR Yeah, that's right.
CC And we'll certainly exercise that, but we can't
do it right now. And for the PLT, I've got some procedures
for checking it out if you're there.
PLT Press on.
CC Okay, we need for you to go through the
SAL repress procedure and all that, and remove the AMS
from the SAL. Then we'd like you to check the rotation of
the mirror by removing - after removing the AMS extend the
mirror and attempt to rotate the tilt and rotation settings
to the values that are on the pad for the next SO63 operation.
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PLT - and suck up all the lose particles

immediately, and we can put the vacuum cleaner back down the
trash airlock immediately, too, and pretty much alleviate any
problems there. I find it hard to believe that there's any
more radioactive material on those numbers than there is on
the three watches we have up here
CC Okay. Well, look; we're going to have
to get a radiation safety on the active inithal. The real
concern, of course, is that if you ingest any of this ma-
terial or inhale it then it's with you for good, and - -
CDR Yes, that's right.
CC And we'll certainly exercise that, but
we can't do it right now. And for the PLT I've got some pro-
cedures for checking it out if you're there.
PLT Press on.
CC Okay. We need for you to go through the
SAL repress procedure and all that and remove the AMS
from the SAL. Then we'd llke you to check the rotation of
the mirror by removing - after removing the AMS, extend the
mirror and attempt to rotate the tilt and rotation settings
to the values that are on the pad for the next S063
operation, which looks like about 256 in ROTATION and 21.1
in TILT if you've got that on board, and then verify that
you can get from that back to the retract configuration and re-
tract with no problem. We show that from 00 approximately
3.65 turns, that's 3.65 turns counterclockwise, it should
be adequate to get you over to that position, and then a
reverse to get you back, and the - when you get back the
counter should read XX 0.0, that is anything and 0.0 for
retrackp and we'd llke to get your - your comments. We'd
hoped to do it real time but I guess if you're GO on board
you can go ahead and reinstall it for the S063 operations,
and we'll have to get to you whether we're actually going to
go through with the maneuver or not as we make up our
mind on it. You might also form an opinion in your mind
as to how well you think you could operate Just by watching
the - the units counter go all the way around every time.
Over.
PLT Yes, and also, you've given me a real
good hint as to how many degrees I get out of each turn of
the crank.
CC Okay. And for the CDR, cancel the up-
coming S063 maneuver. We're concerned about CMG 2 so that's
out, period. At your leisure here you can check ou - you
can proceed on with checking out the AMS but there's no
real point in reinstalling it until we see you over the
states. It's a minute to LOS. We'll talk to you over
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Merritt Island in 35 minutes, and the time at Merritt Island

will be 17:34. Over.
CDR Roger, Bruce, and one other question.
Is it possible to retract the AMS with the rotation of 180?
CC That's affirmative. It is possible to
pull it in at 180.
CDR Okay.
PLT How - how do we verify this?
CC Okay. One i - one item is 28.42 degrees
on the knob. One rotation of the knob equals 28.42 degrees
of change, and my thoughts on verifying it would be to give
you some object that you could sight out through the AMS
like a discone that would give you a fixed reference
and then you could delta off from that if you had to. Over.
PLT Sounds like a good idea.
CDR Okay. I'ii press on with the checkout.
CC Okay. We'll see you over the States.
21 seconds Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station is
now crossing the south an - south island of New Zealand.
We're out of acquisition at Honeysuckle Creek. That ex-
tended pass of Australia brought a number of things to the
attention of the crew. First was the technique for the
manual operation of the articulated mirror system. That's
the mirror system that's used for pointing a number of
Skylab's instruments, including the S019, which is a primary
instrument to which - to which it's attached. It's being
used today with the S063, the ultraviolet airglow instrument.
It's the primary technique for using the scientific airlock
to point at star fields and also at the comet Kohoutek.
The AMS did not operate properly earlier this morning on a
scheduled airglow photography activity_ and Bill Pogue at
that time during a comet maneuver, a maneuver to photograph
the comet Kohoutek, was not successful in operating the
articuled mirror system, the problem being a problem with
the coarse controls for the mirror, that is to say to adjust
the mirror to its proper position coarsely. However, the
fine control does seem to be working fairly well. There
was a schedule to get additional comet photography at 18:10
Greenwich mean time, about an hour from now. However, that
maneuver has now been cancelled. The maneuver was sche_
duled to begin about 17:45. Photo - Pogue did add, though,
when the ground told him that there was a means o - of
manually pointing the articulated mirror system without the
main controls without the course controls which now appear
not to be operating properly. Pogue indicated that he has
noticed some variation in the fine controls as well and
there may be some problem there. He said during the last
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couple of days he considers the pointing of - the fine point_

ing of the articulated mirror system to be suspect. Right
now the belt drive, which is used to drive the coarse con-
trol for the mirror system to point the mirror system, is
now apparently not operating properly. Whether or not a
repair can be effected is not yet known. There's a small
amount of radioactivity associated with that belt drive.
Radioactive material is used to provide luminous numbers on
the belt drive, and some of the luminous material has flaked
off of the belt itself. The area is, however, sealed so
the crewts quite safe from it. However, to make a repair
it may be necessary to open the seal, and that would not be
approved without a thorough analysis of radiation danger
before any steps are taken in that area. At least at this
time it seems improbable that the area will be opened, the
main danger being that the flaked material would float in
space and might very well be inhaled by one of the crew-
members, at which time would present a considerable danger.
Commander Jerry Carr indicated he'd be interested in the
possibility of repairing it and possibly could vacuum the
area out. However, there is a danger involved there and
the radioactive safety team will have to investigate the
problem before any suggestions can be made to the crew. At
the beginning of the Carnarvon pass over Australia we noticed
some variations on the monitors here in Mission Control in
the operation of control moment gyro number 2. Although the
control moment gyro has been operating quite well for an
extended period of time, we again have indications of a
slight anomaly in its behavior. A temperature difference
which is normally maintained between the first and second
bearings on that control moment gyro was down sharply.
Normally the difference in temperature_s about 2 to 3 dew
grees. During the beginning of this pass we noticed tem-
perature is virtually the same. Unlike previous problems,
or at least some of the early problems we had with the con-
trol moment gyre number 2, the temperature problem didn't
the change in speed did not occur. At the low end
of the temperature range the temperatures were reading about
75 degrees at AOS Carnarvon. However, both the temperatures
were about the same level. The speed had moved down about
half of a percent to the range of 8870 to 8881. That's
below its normal speed of 8912 revolutions per minute. And
there was a slight current surge, a surge of approximately
i to 2 percent, for part of that time. That is very
typical of the problem that has been seen before on control
moment gyro number 2, a very slight anomaly with a very
slight increase in current_ a slight reduction in wheel
speed - -
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PAO - - at the low end of the temperature

range, the temperatures were reading about 75 degrees at
AOS, Carnarvon. However, both the temperatures were about
the same level. The speed had moved down about half of a
percent to the range of 8870 to 8881, that's below its
normal speed of 8912 revolutions per minute. And, there
was a slight current surge. A surge of approximately i to
2 percent for part of that time. That's very typical of
the problem that has been seen before on control moment
gyro number 2, a very slight anomaly, with a slight increase
in current, a slight reduction in wheel speed and a reduction
of the differences in temperatures between the two bearings.
Apparently that anomaly was produced by the momentum dump
that was required after the last S063 comet observations, that
was the one performed this morning. Which, as it turns out
gave us no data at all because of the problem with the
articulated mirror system. The heaters were turned off at
Honeysuckle, Just before we went loss of signal, because the
temperature range was near its highest level. It could not
be allowed to go beyond that level without having high temp-
erature problems, by the time we encountered our next signal
upcoming at the Merritt Island station about 27 minutes from
now. So, that problem was associated with a momentum dump
that is to say the correction of the CMG performance after
they had been required to hold attitude for the comet
operations. Momentum dump occurred after the S063 observation
scheduled earlier this morning, and the anomaly, a very
slight one, again was sufficient cause in addition of course
to the problem with the articulated mirror system for cancelling
the comet observation. That articulated mirror system will
undoubtedly be investigated very thoroughly during the
remainder of the day since it's an essential instrument for
comet observation using the scientific airlock during the
next several days. This is Skylab Control. It's now 27
minutes to our next acquisition of signal. 17 hours 7 minutes
50 seconds Greenwich mean time.
over Colombia, about to be acquired through the tracking
station at Merritt Island, Florida. This pass through Merritt
Island and Bermuda is an extended one. We're live now for
air,to-ground.
CC Skylab, this is Houston. Through Merritt
Island and Bermuda for ii minutes. Over.
SPT Roger, Bruce.
CC And, for your information, our monitoring
of CMG 2 indicates that the situation is improving. The currents
are down and things are looking a lot better on it, so I guess,
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you can relax a little bit on that subject, with respect

to the radiation or the quantities of radioactive material
involved in the AMS. There are approximately 200 milllcuries
of radioactive material in the in the counters there and
in your wrist watch you have about 4.2 milllcurles of
material_ so you've got almost a factor of 50 to i there.
Over.
CDR Thanks for the data, Bruce.
PLT Okay, Bruce, I have a report on this
troubleshooting that you gave me.
CC All right, go ahead, Bill.
PLT Okay. No problem removing and everything.
And also, I don't think there is any problem in resolving
the 180 degree ambiguity, because I took the mirror-end
plate and put it into position and the it went into position
with the alignment mark in the proper place, so I assume I
have the mirror at zero - rotation of zero, and not rotation
of 180. The mirror-end stowage plate.
CC Okay. And, there's some alignment marks
on the end of that plate, are there not? And, alignment
marks lined up with the AMS itself?
PLT That's what I said. With the alignment marks
lined up _ when the alignment marks lined up properly I assumed
I was indexed properly at zero rotation.
CC Roger, we concur with that.
PLT Okay. I extended the mirror and went
through the exercise you proposed. I got the proper rotation
in tilt at about 3.65 with the following exception. There
seems to be about a i degree ambiguity in the uaits
drum or belt, when the tenth, on 0.i digit goes from zero
to 9, I don't get a clean break from one to the other. I
_ead halfway in between on the units digit always. However,
I was able to get the - within i degree, say of the proper
rotation by using the 3.65 turns.
CC Okay, but let's say you're reading 0.5
of a degree over in the tenths. Are you indicating right
on and integral used at that time or are you still between
digits?
PLT Still between digits. And, when it goes
through from 9 to O, it indexes again, hut it goes to the
halfway mark between two digits.
CC Okay, we copy that, Bill. Let us - let
us think about that one. And, thank you for the checkout.
CC For the - for the SPT. At your
convenience on S056, we need to get the camera power switch
turned on and the door closed. Over. Or maybe CDR or PLT
if they're handy.
CC Skylab, this is Houston. We were going
through a handover there to Bermuda. I guess I must have cut
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out. When it's convenient we'd like someone to - on S056

experiment, turn the camera power switch to on and door
switch to closed. Over.
CDR You've got it.
CC Okay, thank you. And_ for the CDR. We've
got a few words with respect to the press conference, which
we have scheduled coming up as TV-27 here at about 19:08. Over.
CDR Okay, go ahead, Bruce.
CC The press conference TV picture will be
carried live here on the ground, through Merritt Island.
You'll have LOS on the video signal at about 19:20 Zulu, with
a momentary dropout in voice and then we'll pick up the voice
immediately thereafter through Bermuda and carry voice through
Bermuda up til about 23:26, and should the discussion and the
amount of time you want to put into it require, we have Madrid
available from 27:24 to 35:19 for voice only option to give
you an extra 7 or 8 minutes to talk about it. You'll be on
camera throughout the entire video part of the press conference
and of course, we'll be releasing the audio live also. What
we would llke you to do is to wear your Snoopy hats, all three
of you, so that we get the best possible quality audio and if we
do have any problems down here on the ground why, I'll let
you know as they come up so we can get it through. We - stand
by.
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i12174
CC - - Correct my last. Even after we lose

you at Merritt Island we will be recording the video at
the remote sites, i.e., Bermuda and Madrid. So although
you may not be live on camera, you'll be on camera after
the fact so to speak. So we'd like to hang in there all
the way with the video as well as the audio. We're getting
a list of about 18 questions prepared by representatives
of the news media through their pool. I'll be reading them
up to you verbatim as they were furnished to me. And then
it will be up to you with the answers. Over.
CDR Roger.
CC Okay. I guess you probably get the picture
on that. And that's about all we've have for right now although
we have 5 minutes left in the pass, so we'll be standing by
down here.
CDR Okay, Bruce, just one little side comment
about 30 or 45 seconds after you went over the hill on the
last pass after telling us about our CMG problem , you know, that
was beginning to act up again, we got a caution light and
a ACS malf. And we went up there and needless to say, we
were spring loaded. We went up there and checked bearing
temps and wheel speed and currents and all that. And everything
was real good. If you want the data we can give it to you
otherwise just let it be - let it suffice that the data was all
good.
SPT The last indication we had was of a CMG
SAT Bruce, and it was up around 50 percent when we first got
there. And we did not hear any TACS fire, although it could
have happened.
CC Okay, looking at our data here we verify
that the cause of the light was CMG SAT. We showed 2 mibs
having been fired in connection with it. And we appreciate
your taking the time to record all the data. And we hope
that our intelligence didn't cause you to pump too much
adrenaline through your systems going up there in response to
that, but I think we've got all the data that we need down here
on the ground to support our analysis. And it looks like it was
another transient. We try not to alarm you unduly, but we
figured that we ought to keep you posted when there is something
that looks suspicious. Over.
CDR Oh yeah, mo we got no complaint at all.
It was a good fire drill for us anyway.
CC Roger. Out.
SPT Houston, this particular one seemed
to come close on the heels of the maneuver which we made
this morning, which (garble) maneuver rate was relatively
large.: We exchanged our maneuver times from 20 to
i0 in coming back. (Garble) the relationship there.
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CC Our suspicion right now, Ed, is that it

was the dump maneuver after the maneuver that led to this
incident. But it's a little early for us to say for sure
whether that's correct or not, but we'll be lookin_
at it. Over.
SPT Okay, thank you, Bruce. (Garble) understanding
og it.
CC We'll do it.
PLT Bruce, Jerry just brought up a point
I may have misled you on my previous report on the AMS rotation
reading.
CC Go.
PLT The i degree ambiguity is related to the
ability to read the number on the belt and not to - I wasn't
guaranteeing teat you'll be within i degree when I did the
proper number of turns like the 03.65 turn. That'll put you
in the ball park_ and then when you try to make a fine adjustment
say the unit digit is 3 and halfway between two of them so
I would be uncertain to within i degree.
CC Roger, Bill. We copy that. Thank you.
CC 40 seconds to LOS. Next station contact
in 4 minutes through Madrid at 17:49. And if you all are
interested in going to such length, we could get a voice check
from you all through your comm carriers in whatever configuration
you all have set up for the press conference when we pass
Honeysuckle at 18:33 to 18:38. Over.
CDR Okay Bruce, I guess that would be a smart
thing to try.
CC at your option.
46 seconds Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station has
passed out of range of Bermuda. Our next acquisition about
2-i/2 minutes away is at Madrid. During this last pass, at
the very beginning of this pass it looked as if the control
moment gyro number 2 currents had come back down and looked
a good deal better, And that glitch that was observed over
Carnarvon and Honeysuckle Australia appeared have pretty much
gone away. However, at the very end of the Bermuda pass the
bearing temperatures again had come very close to each other.
At the beginning of the pass they were about 2-1/2 degrees
apartp by the end of the pass, they were within a degree
of each other. So it looks like that CMG anomaly is still
not quite completed. The attitude control system malfunction
caution and warning the crew got was due to the fact that
the attitude was slightly off nominal because of the control
moment gyros being saturated_ which is to say that they
were no longer capable of completlely fulfilling the function
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and a very brief firing of TACS was required. That was not
a problem however, it had nothing to do essentially with
the problem of the anomaly. So it did give the crew a bit
of a start. They said they were spring loaded when they
heard the ACS malfunction. They did go up and check that
right away and CMG saturation seemsed to have been the reason.
That's a common occurrence, and no cause for any alarm. However
that - that problem is still not quite completed, 8870 the
current speed at the very end of the pass over Bermuda and we'll
get some additional data on that as we're coming up for another
signal at Madrid. Temperature differences again around - right
now boCh temperatures hovering around the 71 degree mark.
That delta temperature is a difference between bearing 1 and
hearing 2 within a degree of each other which is one of the
characteristic signs, however the currents have come down
which is an indication that the situation has at least improved
itself. We'll bring the llne up live now for air-to-ground
through Madrid. The Madrid pass will last about 8-1/2 minutes.
The spacecraft communicator is Bruce McCandless.
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CC Skylab, this is Houston; through Madrid

for 8 minutes. Out.
CDR Roger, Bruce. We Just ran a check on the
zero position, and it appears to us that the mirror can he
retracted with the rotation anywhere from plus 5 degrees to
minus 5 degrees, or something llke that. And you can still
put the retainer bracket in as well, all lined up and everything.
So the message here is so far, I guess, that we can't even
tell you where zero zero rotation is within 5 degrees.
CC Okay, Jerry, we were just discussing that
down here right now. I think what we'll probably wind up
doing is giving you something to sight on and see if we can
resolve it. But let us kick that around a little more.
CDR Okay, that sounds like the smartest thing.
We may need a reference star prior to every sighting.
CC Roger; out.
CC And, just for your information Skylab, we
have a nominal regularly scheduled momentum dump commencing
in about 3 minutes here.
CC PLT, this is Houston; just a little systems
data feedback. Following your cleaning of the heat exchanger
veins we've noticed about a 30 to 40 percent - 30 to 40 cubic
foot per minute increase in flow through the heat exchanger.
Before you started the whole procedure we were getting about
130 to 140 cubic feet per minute. And then after you did
both the cleaning operations we're reading 170 to 190. Over.
PLT Okay, so if I - if we get hot the answer
is to go clean those things.
CC Well, I don't know if you ought to be
spring loaded to do that. Let us look at things down here,
if you wind up getting uncomfortable and maybe that'll do it.
Over.
PLT Okay.
CC Skylah, this is Houston; 1 minute to LOS.
Next station contact in 26 minutes through Carnarvon at 18:22
with a data/voice tape recorder dump. See you over Carnarvon.
Greenwich mean time. The Skylab space station is over eastern
Europe out of range of Madrid. Our next acquisition is
approximately 24 minutes from now, that will be at Carnarvon
Australia. During this last pass the crew was instructed that
there would be a scheduled momentum dump that's again on the
control moment gyros. That was to adjust them, to give them
wider range of attitude control over the next few minutes.
That will add some stress to the control moment gyros which
at the end of this pass apparently are still in the middle
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of part of that anomaly. Currents now have come up a bit

currents have come up - a slight amount since the Bermuda
pass when they were down. Back - they were originally at
their nominal about at the nominal level at the acquisition
at Bermuda but by Madrid they had moved up about a percent.
And the wheel speed still remains below its normal level
of 8912. At the end of the pass at Madrid it was at 8881,
that's down, of course, just a fraction of a percent and
has improved some from the more serious time as the space
station was over Australia. And the temperature difference
has come back up to a little bit closer to its normal level.
About 1-1/2 degrees seperate the two bearing temperatures
at this time. That anomaly certainly seems to be one of the
longer lasting ones that we've seen on the Skylab mission.
And it's one of the first we've seen in several days. The
last problem with the control moment gyro number 2 occurred
in 1973 occurred the day before the last spacewalk on December
28th. That's the last one reported by the guidance officer
here in Mission Control. And he says the conditions at that
time were very similar to those seen now. Temperatures
approximately at the same level, around the 74 or 75 degree
mark which makes them quite a different condition from the
early control moment gyro problems which had temperatures
at 60 degrees. Since that time we've taken control manually of
the temperature cycle, which normally ran from 60 to 80 degrees.
Temperatures are now brought on line about 65 degrees and warmed
up immediately from there. Brought up near their peak level
and then turned off again. But that temperature control has
not solved the problem entirely and there is still some
anomaly in the performance. One additional factor in its
performance today is frame temperatures on the equipment
which normally run quite a bit cooler than the bearing
temperatures, have been very low due to the maneuver this
morning. They were placed in a shaded area for an extended
period of time and that did bring the temperatures of the
frame itself down. There's no knowledge here in Mission
Control of whether that might affect the performance of the
wheel speed, this is a problem that is still being studied
very throughly. And undoubtedly a good deal of evidence
will be gained over the next several weeks. At the very end
of the pass Bruce McCandless observing that we've seen a good
improvement in the flow of air through the heat exchanger.
That was cleaned today by Bill Pogue during his off-duty time.
The heat exchanger is used like an air conditioner to keep
the temperatures of the space station as low as possible. And
very substantial increase in its flow - about 25 percent
increase in the flow of the heat exchanger air after the cleaning
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was performed. That's a important fact because Skylab will

soon be faced with a little hit higher temperatures as it
faces longer periods in the Sun about mid-January. Comet
operations this afternoon for $201, which is the comet camera
that was carried up by the Skylab crew, do not appear likely
to take place. They do require the articulated mirror system
which is not performing properly. That articulated mirror
system may or may not be repaired. We're having that
analyzed here in Mission Control. An analysis, so far, has
shown that the radioactive material in there is substantially
larger in quantity and power than the radioactive material
in the crew members watch - watches, and for that reason seems
improbable, at least at this time that the seal container which
includes the numbers for maneuvering and pointing that articulated
mirror system seems unlikely that that seal container will
be open. However, an analysis will be made of that and it
may be possible to develope techniques for reducing the risk
to exposure to radioactivity. The exposure itself is not the
main problem, but rather the possibility that some of it may
be inhaled by one of the crew members. This is Skylab Control.
Our next acquisition of signal is about 20 minutes away. It's
now 3 minutes and 17 seconds after the hour.
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and 40 seconds Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station
is now 54 seconds from acquisition of signal through Carnarvon,
Australia. The pass through Carnarvon will last about i0
minutes and 20 seconds after a brief interruption, we'll
have about 5 minute longer pass at Honeysuckle. We'll bring
the line up live now for air-to-ground through Carnarvon and
Honeysuckle and a chance to look again at the control moment
gyro system which experienced about a 40 minute anomaly so
far. And we haven't had data for approximately 20 minutes, so
we_ll look and see what's happened since then.
for i0 minutes. Out.
PAO Control moment gyro looks nominal at
this point.
CC And, we'll be dumping your data/voice
tape recorder here.
PLT Bruce, could you hold off about 3 or
4 minutes° I'm finishing up T002 shopping list.
CC Okay, we're holding. Thank you, Bill.
PLT Okay, Bruce. It's all yours.
CC Okay_ thank you very much, Bill. We'll
go ahead and dump it. And_ while we're talking to yon, do
you happen to have at your finger tips the time that you
disconnected the AVC, this morning, so we can get that data
for post slot analysis?
PLT Roger. I'ii go get my book, Stand by.
CC Okay.
PLT All rightp Bruce, that time was 14:55.
CC Okay, 14:55, thank you.
PLT And, it's written on the little container.
I had it really &n the container, not on the book.
CC Oh, beautiful. Thank you, Bill.
CDR Bruce, before we abandon completely the
handheld mike idea, what do you say we get an audio check on
that too, and consider giving that a whirl, through the
first part of the press conference? And if it Just doesn't
work, we'll quickly don our comm caps.
CC Okay, that sounds good to us. Just have
the comm caps handy in the background somewhere in case we
need it. Over.
CDR Okay. Good, we'll play on passing the
mike around. And if things get bad_ just holler at us real
quick to put it closer to the mouth or something like that.
CC Okay. We will, and I guess what we want
is about a quarter inch away from - excuse me - from you
llps with the long axis of the mike parallel to your llps as
much as it would be if you were wearing the comm carrier itself
for the best reception and noise cancelling.
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CDR Okay.
CC Mighty fine.
LOS. Next station contact in 32 minutes through Corpus
Christi, where we'll be coming up for the press conference
live. Over.
PLT Roger.
CC That's at 19:08:48 or there abouts.
Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station is out of range
of Honeysuckle as it passes south of New Zealand. Our next
acquisition is a half an hour away. At that time, we'll
have the beginning of that press conference with the crew.
The press conference is scheduled to have live TV provided
for the first i0 minutes, and then after that there will be
a continuation on voice only from Bermuda for about 3-1/2
minutes, a brief interruption, lasting about 4 minutes and
then another 7 or 8 minutes from Madrid, voice only. There
will, however, be television provided later of that Bermuda
and Madrid part of the pass. That's going to be downlinked
directly to those tracking stations and delivered here later.
Again press conference begins about 30 minutes from now. During
this last pass another look at the control moment gyro
number 2 anomaly appears that has now gone away, at least to
a very large extent. The currents have come down to approxi-
mate range they normally operate in. Wheel speed has moved
back up to approximately 8900 level and the bearing tempera-
ture again shows a normal difference of about 2 degrees, so
that anomaly does appear to have gone away after lasting the
better part of a revolution, about an hour and a half on the
variation there. That's not an unusually long although it's
longer than many of them have been. And it hasn't caused any
additional concern here for the guidance officer although
it's one more thing to put in the book. It's first time it's
happened in about a week. This is Skylab Control, 28 minutes
to the live press conference with the 8kylab crew, a mid-mission
press conference. It's now 40 minutes and 32 seconds after
the hour.
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PAO Skylab Control at 19:07. We have live

air-to-ground and video from the Merritt Island station.
We're live now. Brief keyhole here. We're coming up on
TV from Texas first of all and then Merritt Island very
shortly thereafter.
Christi, Merritt Island, and Bermuda for 14-1/2 minutes.
Over.
CDR Roger. We're reading you loud and clear.
How do you read?
CC Roger. Reading you loud and clear,
Jerry. As you're undoubtedly aware, this is a first Skylab IV
live news conference. I have a list of questions here
which have been prepared by the news representatives to the
Johnson Space Center working through their news media pool.
I'ii be reading them off to you verbatim and in the order
that's requested by the newsmen. Over.
CDR Okay. We're ready to go.
CC Okay. First question for you, Jerry.
You're past the half way point now. What have been the
flight's main accomplishments, and do you feel you'll go
the full 84 days? Over.
CDR The flight's main accomplishments, I
think, have been the the accomplishment of the EVAs. I
think one of the prime accomplishments was to get the S193
running. We're real happy we got that going and that cer-
tainly does enhance the Earth resources situation. We've
got a second load of film in for the ATM work and we have
our outside Kohontek observations done right close to peri-
helion. I think those are really some of the main mileage
milestones that we had to look forward to. I think that
the changes are very, very good that we'll go the full limit.
Things seem to be pretty stable. The CMGs seem to be rea-
sonably stable, and only once in a while do they indicate
any indication that they might be ready to give us a little
problem, and I think that the fact that the problems we're
having with them are so few and far between kind of give us
a little feeling of confidence.
CC Okay. Thank you very much. The next
question is addressed to Bill, and it's a continuation of
the first one. What does the crew hope to accomplish in the
second half of the mission? Over. We're not reading Bill
at all, Jer. Very, very weakly. Negative, Bill. It's
it's unreadable. You're way down in the mud.
PLT Testing. i, 2, 3, 4. How do you read
me now, Bruce?
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CC Okay, that's better. Try holding the

mike so tlhere's about a 1/4 of an inch from your lips and
the long axis of the mike is parallel to your lips.
PLT Okay. How do you read now?
CC I think that's better. Go ahead.
PLT All right. In the - I forgot what the
question was. Oh yes. Second half of the mission_ what
we hope to accomplish. We hope to continue the observations,
of course, with the Apollo telescope mount, and we will be
shortly resuming the intensified ob observations with our Earth
resources instrument, and we also have a large number of
corollary experiments and educational experiments, or student
experiments, which we hope to complete. I think that some
of the major maintenance activities are out of the way.
We - shortly we'll be including the motion intensified por-
tion of the cometary observations and that will be be-
hind us. We'll be concentrating on the Apollo telescope
mount and the Earth resources.
CC Okay. Thank you, Bill. We've cranked
up the gain from the sites, but we're still not getting enough
audio. We'd like you to go ahead and put on the Snoopy
hats if you would, please. The next one's addressed to Ed,
so maybe you can wire him up first.
CDR Okay. While he's wiring up you can give
us a question.
CC Okay. For Ed, while staring out the
window you've remarked about visualizing life on other
worlds. Please elaborate. And have your feelings been
heightened by this flight? Over. And I might add here
while we're waiting for Ed that we're getting excellent
quality video down of you and we're enjoying seeing you in
real time here.
SPT Okay, Bruce, and to the folks who came
up with this question. Actually, this is one I guess which
would make a lot people raise their eyebrows. And what I
said at tlhe time was that it makes you speculate perpaps a
little bit more in you own mind, because you're much more
conscious of the many different star systems that there are
out there. When you're looking out here you see the Earth
as one unit, you see the Sun as a star, and you can see
all the other stars out there and you realize that the uni_
verse is quite big. And just the number of - of possible
combinations that you could have out there which could
create life, all this enters your mind and makes it
seem very much more likely. I don't think that that is
any differet than people have thought down on the ground.
It's just that being up here and being able to see the stars
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as you can, and look back at the Earth and see your own Sun
as a star makes you much more conscious of that.
CC Roger. Thank you, Ed. Back to Jerry.
You said you were keeping notes on your impressions of the
Earth. What are some of these impressions? Over.
CDR Well, I think the most startling im-
pression to me - I've always thought of the Earth as a very
and verdant planet_ and when you're going over some of the
desolate areas we_ve seen I suddenly have gotten a very
strong impression. As I mentioned in the Christmas message,
there's a lot of desolate unhospitable - -.
CC Break; break. You just went down by
about half.
CDR Okay. How do you read now?
CC Very weak.
CDR Must be in the radio systems -_
CC Okay. You're back.
CDR There is no change in my voice volume
or anything. Okay. What I'm saying is that I've become
aware of all the desolate areas there are around the Earth
and it's become apparent to me that man is kind of huddled
in Just a few corners of the Earth. That the Earth is really
a whole lot bigger then we thought, and I tried in my
Christmas message there to kind of compare our impressions,
or my impressions any way, with other impressions of the
Apollo crews. They said the Earth is very small. And the
fact that man has to stay in the temperate areas and - and
really work in his environment kind of makes me feel that
we're going to have to spur on our efforts to really get
in tune with our environment.
CC Okay. Thank you. We copy all that.
Back to Bill again. You and the ground seem to be in dis-
agreement on who's responsible for some of the mistakes
made. How do you feel now? Over.
CDR He's going to go check the speaker box.
SPT Why don't you go ahead with the next
question and we'll pick that one up after.
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SPT - - Earth is very small. And, the fact that

man has to stay in the temperate areas and had really work
in his environment kind of makes me feel that we're going to
have to spur on our efforts to really get in tune with our
environment.
CC Okay, thank you. We copy all that. Back
to Bill again. You and the ground seem to be in disagreement
on who's responsible for some of the mistakes made. How do
you feel made now? Over.
CDR He's going to go check his speaker box.
SPT Why don't you go ahead with the next question
and we'll pick that one up after.
CC Okay, Back to Ed. Has the comet Kohontek
lived up to you expectations? Over.
SPT I think it's lived up to the expectations
in terms of what we'll learn from it scientifically. I think
we_ve made some very good observations on it. We've got
what we call good spectra on it, if you will. Especially
with - -
CC Break - break. Say again, all after
spectra. You cut out during a handover here.
SPT Okay. I think it's lived up to my
expectations in terms of the - what we're learning from it
scientifically. The - especially in terms of the spectra
which weVve taken with one of the ATM instruments, and by that
I mean the ability to analyze what is the composition of the
materials in the comet. We've been able to point to the
comet quite well using the ATM instruments, and we've been able
to get some fairly long term observations of it using many of
the corollary instruments and some of the handheld photography.
It's lived up to my expectations, also, in terms of just shear
appreciation of it. It's a beautiful sight. I would hope - I had
hoped
CC Okay, you've cut out again, after I had
hoped. We've got a little problem here right now, we've got
antenna blockage as we're moving over into the range of
Bermuda. Stand by just a minute, please.
CC Okay, it looks like we're coming back up
How do you read? Over.
SPT We've always read you loud and clear,
Bruce. How do you read us?
CC Okay. Do you have something more to go
on that question, Ed? Or shall we move on?
SPT No, let's press on.
CC Okay, the newsmen covering your mission
want to wish all three of you a Happy New Year and continued
good luck on the flight. And, we'd like to know if you
regretted not having any wine or other spirits aboard to toast
the New Year? Over.
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SPT Yes, we did. I think it would have been

a very nice thing, if we'd had a little wine as we had
originally planned to toast in the New Year. And, we regret
that we were not able to do that.
CC And, Bill are you up in a speaking
configuration now?
PLT Let's check. How do you read?
CC Reading you loudly, a little bit of
crackling, but why don't you go ahead and readdress the one
on you and the ground seem to be in disagreement on who's
responsible for some of the mistakes made and how do you
feel now? Over.
PLT Okay, well you saw an example of the
crew mistake, just a moment ago, when I forgot to turn the
switch on the cord, and I certainly have made my share. And I
wasn't aware of any (static) for at least w weeks. I'm perfectly
willing to discuss and oun up to anything I've done wrong. In
fact I think that I have been fair on my part - more or less -
more or less sparked by candor and I really admitted making some
fairly big errirs. I'm merely human, and I was not in any way
blaming the ground, except in some remote way.
CC Okay. We copy. You're a little weak
but we_ve got it here. Back to Jerry, if you would, please.
Please explain why you think it's important that your crew
should have quiet time to yourselves? Over. And, by the
way we're down right now to live voice only, although the
video is going on tape. Over.
CDR Okay, Bruce. I think that a crew, or
any man who has working long hours needs some period of time
at the end of the day where he can be quiet and wind down
in order to get a good night sleep. And you need a good
night sleep if you're going to be healthy and alert. And
you make less mistakes when you're healthy and alert, and you
are much more creative, I think, when you're healthy and alert.
And for all these reasons, I think it's Just necessary that
a guy have an opportunity sometime during the day, and I
think the end of the day is the best time, to Just sit down
and relax and either read or write or listen to music or
just stare out the window, and gather your thoughts, you've got
to get your mind in order and come - get back in peace with
yourself really_ in order to get yourself ready for the
next day's activities.
CC Roger. Back to Bill. Early in the
flight you and Commander Carr discussed hiding the fact that
you'd become ill. You said _ or Jerry said, he thought that
NASA managers under their breath would want you to do
that. Why did you feel that way? Over.
PLT I think I was not available for that
discussion that you're talking about. At at the time
the discussion took place I think that I was more less over
hiding in a corner.
CDR Bruce, I think 1 can answer that. I think
essentially, we felt we didn't want to bother the ground with
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it. We didn't want to worry the ground with it, we decided

the next morning that was a bum decision. However, we'd
already done it. It was to late to take it back, and so
that's the way it went. As far as I'm concerned that matters
finished.
CC Roger, on that. Back to Ed. Some
earlier Skylab crewmen have reported brief periods of
irritation with one another. Has there been any sign of this
on your flight? Over.
SPT No, I don't think so, Bruce. I think
all three of us have been pretty much up against the same things
and weVre cooperating and trying to get the best out of the
mission and - and meeting those various obstacles that we've
come up against. So, I think we've hung together pretty
well and I think we're all pretty proud of that fact.
CC Roger, we got about 52 seconds to LOS
here. Next station contact in 4 and i/2 minutes through
Madrid, at 19:27 Zulu. Let me throw one more out as we
go over the hill, to you, for all three of you. Aside
from your families, what do you miss most about being away
from the Earth? Over.
PLT I think go - good food and the ability
to eat any time you want to. I I miss that more than
anything.
SPT I think what I miss is going right back
to Jerry's point. The ability to recoup at the end of the
day and to be able to analyze where you're going the next
day. And to be able to take a really a fresh creative
approach to things you're doing.
CDR I think essentially, that's what I
miss the most too. I miss the opportunity to just sit down
and - and relax. And of course, with my family at home, well,
I can come home and just take it easy and be with them. I
miss football and I miss a good cold can of beer while I'm
watching the game.
CC Okay, we better break it off here for
about 3-1/2 minutes, we'll talk to you as soon as we get
signal at Madrid. Out.
CDR Roger, we'll see you then.
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Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station is now over the
North Atlantic. It has passed out of range of the tracking
antenna at Bermuda_ and about 3 minutes from now we will
have acquisition of signal at Madrid where the spa press
conference with the space crew will be completed. About
8 minutes of communications are expected at Madrid. A
good deal of problem with the antennas on the pass at
Merritt Island and at Texas and some problem also at
Madrid. The communications officer here in Mission Control
says part of the problem was due to blockage. The antenna
oriented not a very good position for the - that last pass.
Some blockage occurring as the space station was interferring
with the antenna transmission. Part of the space station
came in way of the antenna. We expect a little better
communications at Madrid where the rest of the press confer-
ence will be conducted, we're still about 2 minutes from
there. At this time the questions are about two-thirds of
the way through. That indicates that if things move along
as smoothly at Madrid we should have completion of the
eighteen questions submitted by members of the press.
We'll leave the line up live now for air-to-ground. We're
about 2 minutes from acquisition at Madrid.
CC Skylah, this is Houston through Madrid
for 7-1/2 minutes. We have a data/voice tape recorder dump
here and we_ll resume the press conference. Over.
CDR Okay, Bruce. We're reading you loud
and clear.
CC Roger, Jerry for you. Does the high

use of TACS gas and the behavior of CMG gyro scope number
2 give you any concern about completing the full mission?
Over.
CDR I think I kind of answered that in
the first question. No, I don't think it does. We've
we've only had one or two instances where we really used
up more TACS than we kind of figured we'd used I'd think.
And I'm Just thankful that the other two crews, the first
two crews ahead of us were reasonably efficient with their
TACS usage, so that they left us a bag full. And I think
that's kind of the way the planners had things figured
anyway. That the precentage, you know the possibility -
the probability of losing a CMG went up with every mission.
And I think they were planning on saving as much TACS for
that contingency as possible. Right now I still feel
pretty comfortable and we're being careful with our TACS,
and we're not wasting it and I think by golly wetre going
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to make it.
CC Okay, we're right there with you on
that one, another one. You're behind the premission schedule
on some experiments. Will you be able to make any of them
up? Over.
CDR We hope so. I think we got off to a
much too rapid a start at the beginning of the mission. We
ended up falling all over ourselves, I think about the first
i0 or 15 days so that we were extremely inefficient and
getting way way behind. I think the folks on the ground
got the message and took some of the pressure off relaxed
some of the the pressure that was on us, and we immediately
showed and improvement in efficiency. And I think if we
start at - at this level where we're at now and just start
romping up we might be able to start picking up a few.
We're at least hopeful that we can do that.
CC Roger, good. Next question addressed to
each of you individually. What impact has the flight had
on your inner self? Over.
PLT Well, I will answer first, I'm the PLT.
I think it had really great impact on me. I feel much more
inclined toward humanistic feeling toward other people
other crewmen. I think the other two men on this crew
were very solicitous toward me when I had a bit of difficulty
there. And I regret that I was personally responsible for
probably somewhat of an embarassment to them. In reflecting
on this I tried then to do a very good job. I proceeded then
to make errors, berate myself, and finally come to the scheme
of the realization that l'm a fallible human being. That I
cannot operate at a i00 percent efficiency, that I'm going
to make mistakes. But that I have to accept myself for what
I am, in that I now have a new orientation as far as I'm
personally concerned of almost a spiritual nature. In that
my attitude toward life is going to change, and toward my
family is going to change. I think that I see myself is in
a much more realistic fashion. And when I see other people
I try to see them as operating human entities and to put
myself into the human situation instead of trying to operate
llke a machine. I tried to operate like a machine and I
was a gross failure. Now l'm trying to operate as a human
being within the limitations I possess.
SPT I think in terms of my own self I've
worked pretty hard and long for this mission. And it's been
to me very satisfying in terms of the contribution that I
think this mission is making, and that I'm making to it.
That's the name of the game is contribution. And that's what
l_ve been working for and that's what we're doing right now,
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and that's why we're working so hard. And to actually be

here and finally doing it that to me is very rewarding.
And I think that's going to fill a very large part in my
life and I'm just happy to be here and doing it.
CDR For my own part I feel somewhat the
same way that Bill does. And that is that people in our
line of work very technical type work are incline to move
along with your blinders on. You you begin to get so
involved with the details of what your doing the details
of your life that I think that you forget to look around
you and see what's really going on outside. And I think
this mission is going to do me a lot of good in that I
think it's going to increase my awareness. My awareness of
what - what else is going on besides what I'm doing. And
I think that in itself is going to be the - the major
affect on my inner self.
CC Okay, thank you crew of Skylab IV.
We've got little less than 2-i/2 minutes left and four
questions remaining. For Bill, what recommendations would
you make to those who are designing space stations for long
duration future missions? Over.
PLT I think that they ought to get people
who have flown in on the very early design stages. That's
my recommendation right there, otherwise I would read, more
or less speak out a whole book.
CC Roger, that. And I guess we'll get a
lot of that out of the -
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CC - - (garble) would you make to those

who are designing space stations for long duration future
missions. Over.
PLT I think that they ought to get people who
have flown in on the very early design stages. That's my
recommendation right there. Otherwise I'd have to re- more
or less speak out a whole book.
CC Roger, that. I guess we'll get a lot
of that out of the post-mission debriefings. Over to Ed,
how are the high density food bars working out?
SPT I like the food bars they're pretty
good. Unfortunately we were not able to carry up a - a full
complement of things to go with them on that particular day.
So we end up always feeling a little bit hungry even though
we get all of the the nutriments and calories and so forth
that we need that day. So, it's - we just feel a little
extra hungry that day, but food bars are great.
CC Okay, back to Bill for a quick one.
The earlier Skylab crews generally gave up their days off
in favor of more work. Why do you think it's important for
this crew to take those off days? Over.
PLT I think, a person needs to more or less
recreate themselves, to pause and reflect occasionally -
Jerry's already eluded to that. I think that in order to
act creatively, to function creatively you have to have
certain periods of time when you have to just stop and
think and see yourself, as Jerry said be aware of the situation
and sort of involve yourself in the totality of the
experience at hand. If you just keep charging from one
task to the other, you just lose track of what you're doing.
And I think you do need time to pause, reflect and just
see what's going on around you.
CC Okay, 40 seconds to LOS. Next station
Carnarvon, at 20:03. Back to Jerry. How would you like
the people of the world to think of your mission, the last
Skylab mission? Over.
CDR And I got 20 seconds, to say that huh?
CC You got 29 seconds and counting.
PLT Good luck.
CDR I think I'd like people to think of our
mission as - as one where three guys went up and set up
housekeeping, and tried to live a normal life in space to
show that it could be done. That man can live a normal
existence in space. And that he can accomplish a - a great
many things while he's living up here, that just can't be
done on the ground.
CC Okay, thank you Skylab IV. We're going
over the hill here at Madrid. We'll see you in 28 minutes
through Carnarvon and we'll talk to you there. Out.
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PLT Okay, Bruce.

CDR Okay, Bruce.
SPT So long.
Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station now over the
Balkan Peninsula is out of range of the tracking antenna
at Madrid. And that concludes today's press conference in
which 18 questions were answered by the Skylab crew. And
fortunately at Madrid we had some much better communications
than we did over the United States. Our next acquisition
of signal is now 27 minutes away. Control moment gyro number
2 which had a slight anomaly earlier today is now performing
properly. And this is Skylab Control at 36 minutes 24
seconds after the hour.
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mean time. Tracking station Carnarvon, Australia in 50 sec-
onds. A gap between Carnarvon and Honeysuckle and we'll
stay up for both of them. As space station Skylab nears the
midpoint of revolution 3367.
for 4 minutes. Out.
LOS, 7 minutes to next station which is Honeysuckle at 20:13
for about a minute and a quarter. Out.
Creek with 1 minute to LOS. Next station contact in 30 min-
utes through Corpus Christi at a time of 20:43:41. Out.
through Honeysuckle Creek and Carnarvon. Very little word
from the crew. Next station in 27 minutes will be Texas -
Texas, MILA, Bermuda and across to Madrid and Canary. We'll
return then. At 20:16 GMT, Skylab Control.
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mean time. Acquisition through the Goldstone and Texas
stations upcoming in a few seconds for a fairly solid state-
side pass through all stations with no dropouts. And we'll
stay up through Madrid and Canaries.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Goldstone,
Merritt Island through Corpus Christi, Merritt Island, and
Bermuda for 16 minutes. We're coming up on the - the science
conference here_ so I'ii turn it over to Dr. Lenoir representing
ATM and Dr. Lenoir representing visual observations. Stand
by. Okay_ before we get into the science conference, we would
llke to plan on running 8201 this afternoon, so we'd like to
get the $201 prep underway. And for the PLT, I have some
notes on the operation of the $201 - the AMS counter when
you're in a convenient position to listen or talk for a minute.
PLT Did you want to do this before or after the
science conference?
CC Well, we wanted to talk to you before the
science conference. It looks to me like CDR has lots of -
lots of off-duty time between 21:00 up until the 201 ops, so
it could probably be accomplished after the conference.
PLT Okay, I'm ready to copy now, I Just didn't
know whether you wanted to do that now or later.
CC Okay, in reference to your plus or minus
i degree ambiguity on the AMS. It turns out that the trainer
unit has a similar problem. You might check and see if
the behavior display here is consistent with your situation.
The only time that the unit's digit is fully displayed by itself
is when the system reads 00.0 degrees. Of course, that first
zero is on your belt which is not working properly. But,
anyway, right at zero it's supposed to read properly. At any
other position, a half digit or part of a digit above and part of
another digit below appear. For instance, if you see a 2 over a i,
the i is correct. And consequently, it seems that if you
always use the number on the bottom, you'll be correct whether
the reading is increasing or decreasing. Over.
PLT Copy.
CC And when you were operating the AMS, or
on your next opportunity, you should notice that the hundred -
the hundreds digit and the tens digit have sprocket holes between
the numbers. Could you or ean you see something moving like
a sprocket beneath the holes, and the - as the rest of the
counters are incrementing? This determination - or this observa-
tion will help us determine the mode of the failure, i.e.
broken belt broken sprodket wheel or something else. Over.
PLT Check it next time, Bruce. I did not - I
can't give you a definitive answer.
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CDR Bruce, there is a broken sprocket too

floating around in there though. We saw that.
CC Okay, just one tooth?
CDR That's all we saw.
CC Okay, stand by stand by. And again for
Bill, did this half digit cellular mode appear just recently
co-incidental with the belt failure or has it been behaving
like that all mission?
PLT I don't think it was as bad as it is right
now. And I - I never did have the problem of resolving am-
biguity t before. Now I'm certain it wasn't as bad as it is
right now. Still there, Bruce?
CC Roger, stand by a second. Okay, and to
wind this up, you can go ahead and run the 201 prep as you
see fit probably starting around 21:00, would be good. How-
ever_ what we want to do is run T01 ops exactly as it is
currently carried in the Flight Planp and in this connection,
we like to remind you to change the film transports so that
you use film transport unit number 3 with the 201 canister.
And we'll ship you up a - a new operate pad before the run
comes up. Over.
PLT Copy.
CC And you were starting to say something,
I believe.
PLT No, I was just going to comment that I
I know that the sprocket can be seen with this belt pro-
blem, because I could see the sprockets.
CC Okay, we'll turn it over to Bill with a
closing remark that we hear that the sprocket is made of plastic.
So, it could easily have distorted.
PLT That's what it looked like.
MCC Okay, I'm ready here with the ATM confer-
ence, and I assume I've got all three guys listening today, is
that right?
SPT That's affirm, Bill, go ahead.
MCC Okay, let me just get a little bit into
what we're doing here. We've got quiet Sun operations of
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SPT go ahead.
MCC Okay, let me just get a little bit into what
we're doing here. We've got quiet Sun operations obviously to go
along with the quiet Sun we have. The types of operations that
you can expect are pretty much what you've been seeing, 55
is most interested in the JOP IA JOP ID types of things, and we
will be scheduling these for tomorrow's passes. 82B is
primarily interested in off the limb coronal type features
es - especially so long as they've got their 101 film in
there. The - they've found that the IA type of JOP is
not very well suited for the length of slit that we have.
That the slit is really to long and lets to much stray light
in_ to effectively study the network. So that's the type of
thing you can anticipate here on the quiet Sun. We've got
one scheduling problem that's been after us awhile here,
and we're not i00 percent sure how we want to go about
solving it right now. This concerns special procedures or
special operations as I term it. For example, 82B would
like to take some orbit long exposures off the limb between
now and Jauary 14th which is day of year 14 of course, when we
have CALROC. It's during that time frame that they'll be using
up their i01 film. For the number of orbits we've been getting
it's not exactly compatible to give up two whole orbits to
82B. We've been fiddling around trying to find the appropriate
building block that incorporates 82B and 55 and what everyone
else wants to do, we haven't been i00 percent successful at
that. We've toyed with the idea of essentially just writing
a building block in the schedule pad, and we're also now
off on the tack of getting 82B to modify some existing
building blocks for use. I wanted to talk it over with all
three of you guys and see if you had any thoughts for what's the
easiest way for you guys to handle, in first case single
operations that we will never repeat. And in the second case
some special operations that we may repeat several times.
Over.
SPT Hold on, Bill.
SPT Okay, Bill the two questions you had there,
first one is those special operations you never repeat
again. If you can send those up with the normal ATM
schedule and make sure that they're to be carried out after
the ATM science conference, the individual who's on for
performing that would have be - would have to be available
for the ATM science conference, so in case there's any
questions on it 9 you can ask them and make sure he understands
the procedures. Second one is for those that you repeat a
few times. If you could, then send up very much the same
format, but something which we could paste on the back on one
of the available J0P summary sheets or another one. Then we'll
just make another JOP summary sheet out of it.
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MCC Okay, fine, I understand. And that

sounds pretty good. Let me ask you a quick question here.
No pressure intended here, but it has something to do with
how we shut down after our next unattended pass as to
whether you intend to take the ATM optional pass at 21:32
or not Ed?
SPT Certainly do Bill.
MCC Okay, good. I'ii pass that on and
we'll know how to shut down then. Okay, on the JOP 7 for
SO52, they're going to start bracketing what they think
may be the right values, since they don't know exactly the
right value as - we got a handover, I'ii be back with you
here in 20 seconds.
MCC Okay, Ed, I'm back with you and Jerry
and Bill. On the JOP 7s on the BBI5s, you're going to
find exposure durations of i, 2, and 3 seconds and the
start time will vary from i0 seconds down to about 5
seconds. This will let 52 get various views of the
atmosphere at the v - between the 10 and the 5 seconds.
And the different exposure times are needed to bracket
the large dynamic range of the light levels that they're
seeing. So, I wanted to pass that on to you, so that
didn't surprise you. And one other thing here, apparently
there's been some more confusion on SO55 and meeh ref
versus optical ref and 102 versus 104. Let me just give you the
real quick word and that is that 102 is really the difference
between optical reference and mechanical reference. 104
is a compromise that's valid at optical reference all balls
or meeh ref 104 only. All other places the DELTA is 102.
And basically, what's happening here is that in meeh ref we've
go an un-mechanical uncertainty of on the order of two counts.
On the all balls, polychrometer setting, we have two lines
in detector 4 and detector 7, that are over near the edge
of the detector pass band. And the plus minus 2 is enough
to push them out of the pass band. So we've made the compromise
of - since we want to be sure we get those two lines of
selecting 104 which pushes those two lines more toward the
center at the expense of other not so important lines. But
that's the only time to use 104, use 102 on all the others.
Does that help clarify?
SPT Yeah, it does. It's really an uncertainty
and not a shift.
MCC That's affirmative. We got the wrong
word up to you the first time around. It is not a shift
it's an uncertainty. And there's two lines we want to be
sure to hang onto, in the all balls polychrometer.
SPT Okay, that makes sense. Thanks very
much Bill.
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MCC Okay, And I guess due to the lack of time

here, I ought to hand over to myself on visual observations.
So, if you don't have anymore ATM comments, let me start
visual observations.
SPT No, I don't Bill. Go ahead.
MCC Okay, the first thing and - is concerned
with status and emphasis update formats. We've sent you
two messages to give you a status of what has been done and
a future emphasis and
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MCC - - and - is concerned with status and

emphasis update format. We've sent you two messages to give
you a status of what has been done and a future emphasis.
And I've got to admit, I'm not terribly happy with the format
that's taken. It comes out longer and more cumbersome than
we thought. I guess the nature of my question is one do you
make use of the status part of it, and 2, do you have a
suggestion for a better method and better format to handle
this. Over.
CDR Well, Bill, as best I could tell, the ideas
are getting across and I think it's kind of nice to have the
status because I think up here you begin to forget just
exactly how much coverage. For instance, things like the
Falkland current and Southern Argentina. We're beginning to
get the idea that we got a million pictures of it, but we
probably don't. And I think the status is a good thing
to have, it just kind of refreshes your memory as to where
we stand. And right off hand, I can't think of a - of a
better format. I don't - frankly don't think it's too
terribly cumbersome, I think it's okay and what we're doing
is as these status messages come up, we're sticking them
on a special page in the visual ops handbook, and we're Just
adding pages as we fill them up. It's just like filling up
an S&H green stamp book.
MCC Okay, we'll see what you can turn them
in for when you get home then.
CDR Right.
MCC Okay, one other thing here - actually
several other things. Want to remind you all on the hard-
ware evaluation and technique evaluation to pay some atten-
tion to both of these. And in particular, I'm thinking of
binoculars and what sort of power is reasonable handheld
gyro statiblize et cetera for future programs, ASTP,
Shuttle, and so on. And we don't need to discuss that now,
but if you would put some thoughts on that on tape, we'll
be passing that on to those programs. Over.
CDR Roger, Bill, about 2 days ago, I had a
little comment about lenses in one observation thing. Did
you get a chance to see that yet?
MCC Roger, that's my next point. I've got
a couple one is I'm unable to give you any change on the
status of the 135 millimeter lens. I have checked with the Nikon
people regarding your comment on the handheld 300, and
basically, it sounds to us like it's a good idea to go to
the i/i000 of a second exposure and correspondingly opening
up the (garble) setting as you have done on several cases
in the past. Now as you get to the darker settings, obviously
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you can't do that because you run out of F stops. Then you
have to go to the 1/500 and in the very darks the 1/250s.
Now the one question I've got here is this effects the cue
card you have onboard and I guess I would like some words from
you as to how you want us to change that - if at all - we're
I minute from LOS. We'll continue at Madrid 5 minutes from
now. Okay, you - -
CDR Okay, Why don't we just pencil a note onto
our cue card just saying that if you want to use the lO00ths,
you've got to stop it down one.
MCC Okay, that sounds fine. And we're planning
later to get up to you a pad regarding the Australian fire
area that you saw yesterday. We do want to cover that again
today. I don't have much specific information on it other than
apparently it was not very well understood or discovered until
you guys pointed it out. And we're quite anxious to follow
up on it.
CDR Wasn't it northwest of Alice Springs?
MCC I'm not a hundred percent sure on thatp
Jer. We've got the Honeysuckle people trying to get some
more data for us on that. And that's what's holding up our
pad right now.
CDR Okay.
MCC We'll see you in about 4 minutes over
Madrid and we'll finish this and then handoff to the comet.
CDR Roger, Bill.
PLT Okay, Bill, this is Bill. I also had some
comments on the type of gyro (garble) they should employ. That
was on M487 (garble) about 2 days ago.
MCC Okay, we've got about a 2 day lag here.
Apparently I just haven't seen that one yet.
PAO This is Skylab Control. LOS Bermuda, AOS
coming up in 2 minutes again at Madrid and Canary Islands.
And we'll stay up.
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for 9 minutes, with a data/voice tape recorder dump. And
before I turn it back over to the science conference and
Dr. Snoddy, we'd like to get an open circuit voltage adjust
from one of you all up on panel 206. Over.
SPT Give me about i0 seconds, Bruce.
CC Okay.
SPT Go ahead.
CC Okay, both the i and 2 POTS, 20 degrees
clockwise, if you would, please Ed.
SPT Yon got it.
CC Okay. And back over to the science
conference. Out.
MCC Okay, Jerry, and Bill and Ed, this is
Bill again with the vis ops continuation then I'ii hand it
back to Bill Snoddy here. The NOAA 2 infrared detector has
detected a - an upwheaiing area in the Pacific right up
next to the country of Panama. We're working up the details
on that now, and we'll be asking you to take a look at that
in the next several days, probably about 3 or 4 days from
now. I just wanted you to be aware that we had seen that and
it was coming in the event that you are looking over that
area sometime in the next few days. Then next let me turn
to the third item on your agenda, and let's talk about an
item of your choice. You always comes to these science
conferences and wind up like getting a drink out of a fire
hose here. If there's anything you'd like to talk about
here let's do that.
CDR Well, I tell you the Falkland Current is
so interesting that l'd sure like to take another wack at
that on TV. Let's keep an eye on it and see if it blossoms
out again and gets real clear and plain. I'd like to try
that again. It looks like it's sort of - it must wax and
wane because right now it's in its wane period.
MCC Okay, the visual observations people
certainly concur with that, and why don't you just keep us
posted when it looks as - looks like it's up a bit let's give
a crack at it.
CDR Okay, did that last TV look any good at
all, it was pretty faint?
MCC The last TV, I just looked at the tape
myself earlier, and it looks pretty good. It was surprising,
we could see through the clouds more than I thought we could,
but based on your description, obviously you were seeing a
lot more than we were.
CDR Okay, let's just wait for one of those
good days, when the confluence is really beautiful and plain.
MCC Okay, let's do that. And I had a question
on that EREP pass when we looked at the Falkland Current, on
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the observations. Apparently, Bill didn't see much and I'm

wondering whether this is because the VTS optics are different
and you don't see colors that much, or Just if he hasn't
thought as to why he didn't see anything? Haybe it Just
wasn't there.
PLT Yeah, Bill, for - tw - two things that were
against me. One is that there was quite a lot of cloud
cover, so l'm not sure that it was even available to he
seen. The other is that the VTS focusing capability is very
bad. We knew this of course before the flight. We can't
focus to the degree, when - when we zoom in we can't focus
to the degree I think that's required perhaps to see it.
And those two things I think were against us the other day.
MCC Okay, good thanks. That certainly helps
us out in planning. One last thought here before I turn it
to Bill Snoddy. On the Falkland Current area, you mentioned
a red tide like appearance, wanted to pass on to yon based
on your last discussion with the red tide - the red being
inside the greens, and never touching the blues. We're con -
concluding that there really is a red tide type of thing,
although tide is really the wrong word, although it is the
popular word. It's a bunch of one-celled organisms. The
obvious manifestation is big fish kills, shell fish posioning.
and also there's a fair amount of airborne toxins on these
micro-organisms on the surface that resporatory irrations
in people living near the coast near there. So, observations
like that are most significant and do repeat them if you do
see them again. Over.
CDR Okay, we sure will. And one other question
have come to mind several times, and that is how's the fishing
along the Falkland Current? If all that good plankton is there,
I would think it's probably excellent.
MCC To tell you the truth I don't know. I'd
have to find out for you, and I'iI let you know. And - -
CDR Okay.
MCC - - let me turn it over to Bill Snoddy now
on Kohoutek.
MCC Good afternoon, how are you. Let's see
in the few minutes we have remaining discuss - -
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MCC Let me turn it over to Bill Shoddy now

on Kohoutek.
MCC Good afternoon, how are you? Let's see
I want in the few minutes we have remaining discuss - let
you guys know a little bit about what's going on the comet
down here. And a little bit about how the observing program fits
in to things. Like to mention, we just learned this morning
that water has been detected on the comet, for the first
time. This is the first time water has ever been detected
this was using the haystack antenna - some guys from Godderd,
Other than the methyl cyanide which I told you about earlier,
this is the only other molecule they've detected in emission,
and as a matter of fact there's a little bit of mystery as
to why they haven't detected other molecules, and why these
particular ones, especially the methyl cyanide. So there's a
little speculation about that going on. Also, Dr. Meisel at
Stoneybrook, is just completed an analysis where he's been
looking at the - a lot of the so-called new comets, in the
complicated procedure where he looks at the way they brighten
up as they get nearer the Sun. And on the basis of his model
and his analysis, he's concluded that Kohoutek is the newest
of the new, he calls it, which I guess means that it could
be that it is made out of material that has been least
disturbed by the Sun perhaps purest. So, this I thought was
an interesting observation I learned about this morning,
and thought I'd pass that onto you as well.
SPT That certainly is, thank you.
MCC Sure. Okay, also, Smithsonian reported
that they have received no observations or no - they have not
been notified of any success at any of the ground based
observatories, the solar observatories, to get data during
the perihelion time. I think there was cloud cover, and perhaps
there was a sensitivity problem too I don't know. So, they
pointed out that this makes your data all the more valuable and
unique. And they're very pleased that we have it. Apparently,
we would have been wiped out otherwise. SO55, like to pass on
to you the fact that they're getting real good Lyman-alfa data.
They're even getting Lyman-alpha data when the SO52 is
observing the nucleus, so this indicates, I guess a fairly
sizable and intense Lyman-alpha cloud. This gives the SO82B
people quite a bit of encouragement, they're getting good
data. And of course, the S052 guys are very pleased with the
way the perihelion operation ran and are most anxious to see
their data. I want to also remind you Smithsonian asked me to
point out, that you know there is a time delay sometimes when
these perihelion affects on comets and so we could still expect
to see some flares or things of this sort occur. In fact
flares can occur at anytime, I suppose. So, you guys have a
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chance to see the comet quite often, if you do see any of

these things, please let us know. We might want to change
our own program and we'd also especially like to alert the
ground-based guys that something seems to be happening. There's
a series of rockets scheduled to be launched, beginning January
4th, from the 4th to the 12th, there's four rockets. We're
trying to kind of set up our observing program to kind of
complement theirs, and this will be done. Also, the
rocket people were quite interested in knowing the brightness of
the comet: from the standpoint of being able to track on it
real well. And so any information you can give on the bright-
ness is - is also appreciated, like comparing it with Jupiter,
for example, that sort of thing. On this brightness point,
let me mention one other real quick thing, the nuclear
condensation which is the thing that you probably are seeing
on S052 monitor which I understand you say the signal was
fairly weak yesterday, could be being masked by the coma
being more intense. So the overall, brightness of it might
be up, so any observation you can make about the overall
brightness and so on would be appreciated. I guess I better
turn it over.
CC We got 25 seconds to LOS. Next station
contact in 12-1/2 minutes through Tananarive at 21:26. Ont.
SPT Okay, the brightness by eye does not
appear to have dropped as much as I had seen it (garble)
WLC, but still that's a very subjective thing. And they
may have different gains and it's a very hard Judgement
to make.
MCC Okay, thanks by the way. You mentioned
yesterday you had a sketch, we're very anxious to receive
that there's a lot of science in those sketches. Perhaps we - -
SPT Okay.
MCC If you can get it down to us we'd
appreciate it very much.
SPT Okay, I sure would like to do that some
time today, right now I'm working on building block changes.
And I'll try and get to it.
MCC Great, great, that - -
PAO This is Skylab Control, 21:14 and loss
of signal through Madrid tracking station, ii minutes to
voice realy station at Tananarive. Dr. Bill Lenoir discussing
the ATM science with the crew over the States. And Dr. William
Shoddy discussing the Kohoutek observations during the just
completed Madrid pass. We'll return for Tananarive voice
relay in ii minutes. This is Skylab Control at 21:15.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC1658/I
Time: 15:25 CST 48:21:25 GMT
1/2/74

mean time. 50 seconds away from acquisition at voice relay
station at Tananarive, and about 20 minutes away from change-
of-shift briefing with Flight Director Neil Hutchinson and
Dr. William Snoddy_ the Kohoutek observations coordinator.
This is at 3:45 p.m. central time in the Houston news room.
Standing by for acquisition through Tananarive voice relay
station.
CC - Tananarive for 9 minutes.
CDR Hi, Story.
CC Hi.
SPT Hello, Story.
CC Hello, Ed.
SPT Question about S063 ops coming up.
CC Go.
SPT We have - Okay, this is to be out _he
STS window number 2. We are to be changing filters in the
course of making these exposures. In the past when we've
talk - taken these type of exposures without the filters,
we've been able to mount the camera and get, I think a fairly
steady hold on the camera. If we're changing filters, though,
I see no way right now of mounting the camera and being able to
change the filters rapidly which is what they're after. If
we have something like i0 frames there and - like 8 minutes,
so it looks like they're going to have to be handheld, and
I'm wondering if the people realize it.
CC Thanks, we'll get with you.
CDR Houston, CDR.
CC Go, Jer.
CDR Hey, Story, on our housekeeping message
today, down at the bottom, it suggests that we use three
highpowered utility cables. And run them on down into the
MDA for vacuum cleaning. You know, we already have two
strung down there to run the VTR on now, and the M518 system
is running off the highpower utility area. It would seem
to be better to go ahead and just disconnect the VTR and do
the work, but the thing is just be careful that we're not
doing it when either you're dumping or rewinding or when we're
doing something. But stringing three more cables down
the down the tunnel seems to me to be a pretty cumbersome
way to go.
CC Okay, I'ii get with you, Jer.
CDR Okay, unless you folks insistp we're
going to continue doing it the way we have and we'll Just
try to be careful we don't interfer with any VTR ops. But
it looks like the only logical way to go.
CC Skylab, we dropped out for a minute there.
Be goin_ LOS here in a minute and a half. Next station
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is Honeysuckle in about 18 minutes at 21:50. And Jer, we

concur with your suggestions on the power cables. We'll be
looking at the VTR and if possible, avoid the stateside passes
when we dump the VTR.
through w)ice relay station at Tananarive. 15 minutes to
Honeysuckle Creek. The change-of-shift briefing with Flight
Director Nell Hutchinson and Dr. Bill Shoddy has slipped
15 minutes until 4:00 p.m. However_ if that changes back
earlier, we'll advise as soon as possible. At 21:35 Green_
wich mean time, this is Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC1659/1
Time: 15:43 CST, 48:21:43 GMT
01/02/74
PAO Skylab Control, Flight Director Neil

Hutchinson is leaving early and is en route to the News
Center. So the 4 p.m. time doesn't stand, it'll be more
llke 3:50. Nell Hutchinson accompanied by Dr. William
Snoddy, the Kohoutek Science Coordlnator_ at 3:50 in
the Houston newsroom. The Honeysuckle pass, and Hawaii and
stateside if necessary will be taped for delayed playback
at the conclusion of the press conference. At 21:44
Greenwich mean time, Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC°-1660/I
Time: 16:43 CST 48:22:43 GMT
1/2/74
PAO This is Skylab Control, 22:4S Greenwich

mean time. Space station Skylab now over the Canary Island
and Madrid tracking stations, overlapping coverage. However,
we have about half a revolution of accumulated air-to-ground
voice starting back at Honeysuckle, Hawaii and the stateside
pass recorded during the change-of-shift press conference
which we'll play back now and catchup at Madrid.
CDR Story, would you send us up another
copy of permanent general message 22 please.
CC Okay, permanent general message 22.
CDR Thank you.
CC And Jer, the power sharing with that VTR
cable for the vacuum cleaner is fine. Just communicate with
us, and most of the time we dump the VTR or handle it over
the United States passes.
CDR Okay, good enough Story.
CC And Jer, one other thing. Bill mentioned
taking some TV of the the Falkland Currents, hold off and
we may schedule that.
CDR Okay, that was me that mentioned that.
CC And for Ed, on your SO6S. Prior to
scheduling that we did understand that would be handheld.
We also understand that the pad is a rather ambitious one
considering the filters and all, and Just start from i and
get what you can.
SPT Okay Story, sure will, give them the
best I can.
CC Okay.
to Hawai_ at 22:12.
CC Skylab, and there is a new $201 pad, it's
on board now.
CDR Roger, thank you.
CC Skylab, AOS through Hawaii for 5 minutes.
CDR Roger Story, got a couple of other items
I'd like you send up.
CC Okay, go.
CDR Okay, TV OPS book change numbers 2 and 3
please.
CC TV OPS change 2 and 3.
CC And Jet, on your operation of the AMS on
$201 ops we suggest maybe you'd like to mark the zero position
on the rotation knob with a pencil or piece of tape or something
like that, it'll give us a second point of reference for the
zero position.
CDR Okay. One of the problems we've encountered,
I think we've already passed this word down, _s that we're
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i/2/74
not even sure we know where zero is plus or minus about 5

degrees. Does $201 have a wide enough field of view to
where that won't hurt it too badly?
CC Stand by i.
CC Skylab, we're a minute from LOS, and
about 4 minutes to Goldstone, be dumping the data/voice
there. Jer, we think you got the zero position within about
a degree, and you got 7 degrees field of view. We think
you're okay.
CDR Okay Story, pray for us.
CC I do everynight.
CDR We need all the help we can get babe.
CC Skylab, AOS Goldstone for 9 minutes,
CC Ed, Houston.
SPT Go ahead Story.
CC Are you going to be operating the ATM
for the rest of this dayside pass or you going to close it
out for unattended?
SPT I'll close it out.
CC Okay.
SPT One thing I'd like to do though, Story,
is when we finally do come back up SI in the day, I'd like to get
a little better reading - pointing for them on the promi-
nence and then I'RI leave the panel.
CC Ed, Houston.
SPT Go ahead Story.
CC Ed, we'd like the R-ALPHA N%GHT INTERLOCK
switch to NORMAL and there's a couple of SO55 HIGH VOLTAGES
to get OFF. Thank you.
to Bermuda.
CC Skylab, AOS Bermuda 5 minutes.
CC Skylab, wefre a minute from LOS, 4 minutes
to Canaries.
CDR Roger.
CDR Go ahead.
CC Jer, on TV OPS change number 2 that
concerns TV 117 which won't - won't be running again and
the later part of it's on TV 105. And change number 4
which we're sending up rescinds. So we'll Just be sending
you up 3 and then another new number 4.
CDR Okay, we have number 4, there's no
problem there, you just missed 2 and 3.
CC Okay, you got 4 and we'll send 3 and
you don't need 2.
CDR Okay.
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Time: 16:43 CST 48:22:43 GMT
112/74
CC Skylab, we're a minute to LOS, see you

over Tananarive in about 12 minutes at 22:02. There's a
visual ops pad we just sent up, it concerns the Australia
fires and that'll be coming up at 22:32.
CDR Thank you Story.
PAO This is Skylab Control. We've got
caught up with that playback right about LOS at Canaries,
and we're l0 minutes away from acquisition for the final time
this evening through voice relay station at Tananarive.
The Space Craft Communicator Story Musgrave mentioned a pad
or teleprinter message regarding fires in Australia. The
Earth resources ground team planners are going to aid the
Skylab astronauts get another crack at photographing the
raging brush fire which they reported seeing yesterday in
Australia. Right now the crew is scheduled to get handheld
photos of the fire during revolution 3369 at 5:32 p.m. central
time during this pass which is on this upcoming revolution
over Australia. During this pass the space station will be
just east of the fire. It was originally reported as 5 miles
long, but today it was reported as being about 10 miles wide
and 3 to 4 times that long. Pogue reported getting a photo
of it yesterday with a Hasselblad 70-millimeter camera. The
fire is burning in an area northeast of the Marobee Range of
mountains in New South Wales, and is in the low plain region
of the Darling River Basin just west of the city of Dubbo.
We'll return in 8 minutes for Tananarive; and at 22:54
Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC1661/I
Time: 17:01 CST 48:23:01 GMT
1/2/74

mean time. Tananarive voice relay station in 50 seconds and
we're standing by.
CC Skylab, AOS through Tananarive for 3 min-
utes.
CC Ed, Houston.
CC Ed, were you going to run any ATM this
next pass, or just do the pointing for us?
SPT I had planned on just doing the pointing,
Story, and then trying to get lined up on a (garble) I have
yet to do.
CC Okay.
CC Skylab, we're a minute to LOS, about 17
minutes to Honeysuckle at 22:36.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Final loss of
signal from Tananarive voice relay station. 14 minutes until
tracking station Honeysuckle Creek and an attempt to observe
and photograph the brush fires in the - in New South Wales in
Australia. We'll return at that time. And at 23:12 Greenwich
mean time, this is Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC1662/I
Time: 17:25 CST 48:23:25 GMT
1/2/74
PAO This is Skylab Control. Acquisition in

about 50 seconds at Honeysuckle Creek, Australia. Greenwich
mean time now is 23:25. And hopefully the crew of space"
station Skylab will describe whether or not they are able
to see the brush fires in Australia as they attempt to make
photographs of them. We're standing by as we get acquisition
and data through Honeysuckle Creek, a pass that will be almost
directly overhead, 87.4 degree elevation angle at this
station, and coincidentally over Hawaii, the next station.
We show you maneuvering back to SI_ looks good.
CDR Roger, Story. Story, would you send us
up another copy of permanent general message number 23 toop
please?
CC Okay, Jer.
CC Skylab_ we're a minute and a half from
LOS. i0 minutes to Hawaii, be dumping the data/voice there.
And Ed, Houston.
CDR Go ahead, he's listening.
CC Okay, and his S063 ozone prep which he'll
be doing about an hour from now, tell him don_t install a Nikon
02 - that's the UV camera. Delay that until tomorrow morning
just prior to the ops. But it's okay to install a visible
camera.
SPT Okay, Story, I understand. And we'll
try and pick up some extra photos with the Nikon 02 for the
comet whenever possible. Using the TO25 filters that they sent
up.
CC Copy.
mean time. Space station Skylab out of range now of Honey-
suckle Creek, Australia. The closest approach the space
station made on this particular orbit to the brush fires in
New South Wales in Australia was about 250 nautical miles
to the southeast of the fires - location of the fires.
Absolutely no word from the crew on this pass whether or
not they were successful in photographing or observing the
fires. Space station now over the over the island of New
Caledonia of the New Hebrides group. Coming up on Hawaii
tracking station in 8-1/2 minutes at which time, we_ll be
back. At 23:37, this is Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC1663/I
Time: 17:45 CST, 48:23:45 GMT
01/02/74
PAO - Hawaii in 50 seconds, and we'll stay

up live for the next 50 minutes, across Hawaii, Goldstone,
Bermuda, Canary, Ascension, until Ascension LOS in about
50 minutes. Standing by for Hawaii.
CC Skylab, AOS Hawaii for l0 minutes, be
CC And who's the expert on the Australian
brush fires tonight?
CDR We don't have one right now, Story. There
was quite a few clouds and we're not convinced that's the
area we were looking at last night. And so we're hoping maybe
get a little clarificaiton on our next pass over Australia.
CC Yeah, we - we think that's right. The one -
the pad we passed up to you Jer, those are known fires but we
don't think those are - are probably the ones you saw last
night, and the ones you saw last night are probably unknown. And
you'll be passing over that - about that same area at about 01:i0,
your next rev around.
CDR Okay, that's what we thought too. When we
looked at them last night, it was - it looked like it was in
that range area just northwest of Alice Springs, you know
Alice Springs has got some pretty funny looking mountains around
them, pretty much tilted geology. And I was thinking that's the
area where we had seen it last night.
CC Yes sir, those are probably unknown.
CC And Jer, in addition to some possible
photographs, if you could give us a better lat. and long., we'd
appreciate it.
CDR Okay, Story, we sure will. We're coming
up on the Hawaiian Islands right now, and this is the first
time we've had them with this few clouds in a long time. We'll
try to get some good photo coverage.
CC Okay.
SPT Story, I'm looking for P68 on the llmb
and I'ii be darned if I can see it in H-alpha 1. I see a
relatively small prominence up around 300 on the limb, but
it's not a large one either, but it's the only thing I see in that
whole area.
CC Okay, and I've - pertinent to that I've
got a change to the ATM schedule pad, that's the orbit
starting at 00:49. P68 has disappeared to us down here, too.
SPT Okay, as I maneuver off so that the only
thing left is just the - (garble) completely off the limb. It
just shows up there's a very small segment of it, would they
still like to look at it? It extends quite high but it's
extremely faint, maybe about three-quarters of an arc minute
to a minute off the limb_ maybe a hale of _ or a quarter
of an arc minute wide.
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01/02/74
CC Okay, Ed. And on the ATM schedule pad

the orbit starting 00:49, we'd like you to change your JOP
48 pointing from prominence 68 to prominence 61.
SPT 68 to 61, got it. And what would they
prefer here, be glad to put them anywhere they want to be?
CC They'd like 61.
SPT Okay.
CC And also, on that schedule pad, for
unattended ops it says to point at 68, leave that at -
pointing at 61 also.
SPT Okay. Okay, Storyp I got it confiugred_
so 55ought to be just about centered on 61.
CC Okay.
SPT I'ii power down the panel now, unless
there's anything else you'd like me to do?
CC No, that's it. And just remind Bill
that when he powers down also to point at P61.
SPT It's written in the schedule now, Story.
CC Thanks.
to Goldstone.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC1664/I
Time: 17:56 CST 48:23:56 GMT
1/2/74
PAO This is Skylab Control. LOS Hawaii

about a minute away from acquisition again at Goldstone track-
ing station. Commander Jerry Carr reported that clouds
in the eastern portion of Australia obscured the fires that
had been reported in that aera and uplinked on the teleprinter
to the crew for observation and photography near the town
of Dubbo. Carr said that last night's observations he
believed were on ground track somewhat farther to the west
towards the - central Australia. He thought near Alice
Springs in the northwest territory which is - Alice Springs
is in the Mcdonnell Range of mountains, highest of which
rises to about 4900 feel above sea level. Standing by for
reacqnisition at Goldstone.
CC Skylab, back with you through Goldstone
for 8 minutes. We'll be dumping the VTR here.
CC Skylab, we're going LOS here. See you
over Bermuda in 5 minutes.
CC Skylab, back with you through Bermuda
for 8 minutes.
CC Skylab, we're a minute to LOS. 2 minutes
to Canaries.
CC Skylab, back with you through Canaries

and Ascension 16 minutes.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC1665/I
Time: 18:22 CST 49:00:22 GMT
1/2/74
CDR Houston, CDR.

CC Go ahead, Jer.
CDR Roger, do I have a family call tonight?
CC Yes, sir, you do. Over Carnarvon and
it be 02:36. It's left for a minute or less and then
to right for the rest of the pass.
CDR Okay, 02:36, left to right and left only
for a minute.
CC That's itp Jer. You don't have your
summary Flight Plan for tomorrow, on you do you?
CDR Yes, I do, go ahead.
CC Okay_ 21:00 that ED3], put - put next
to it parenthesis photo - will be a photo for that prep.
CDR Okay.
CC And one other thing yesterday, when you
did the documentary photos, did you get a eleven - did you
get A, B, C, and D? Bill Just reported the evening status
last night that you got Ii A and D. Did you get all four
of those?
CDR No, it was A through D. Yeah, we got
them all.
CC Thanks. And got one other thing for
yOU.
CDR Okay.
CC Was the S201K pad easy to follow with
handle turns from one rotation setting to the next?
CDR Yeah, that wasn't too had. And I indica-
ted on tape that I thought they could probably cut the time
between runs down to as low as 2 minutes - 2 to 3 minutes,
I think'd be an adequate amount of time.
CC You say about 2 minutes on that?
CDR Yeah, 2 or 3 minutes. I think -well,
the whole accuracy depends on how well we know zero.
CC Okay, we're going to try to schedule
the sights so that the changes in rotation are small. Have
you got any - any other suggestions?
CDR No, I don't, Story. If nothing else
breaks on that, we'll he all right. But I - 1 should report
that the crank was still kind of hanging a little hit, and
so I guess I wouldn't he surprised in the near future to see
the rest of the numbers go over on their back too.
CC Okay, thanks. That's it.
CC And we may drop out for a minute or so
handing over to Ascension.
CC Skylab, we're a minute from LOS. ABout
25 minutes to Carnarvon'at 01:01. And we'll he ready for
the evening status report at Carnar_on.
SL-IV MC1665/2
Time: 18:22 CST 49:00:22 GMT
112174
PAO This is Skylab Control. LOS Ascension.

24-1/2 minutes to reacquisition through Carnarvon and hope-
fully another attempt to sight the brush fires in Australia,
which Commander Jerry Carr feels are more over to the west
near Alice Springs than near the sight that was passed up to
the crew, in New South Wales. We will return at that time. At
37 minutes past midnight Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab
Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC-1666/I
Time: 19:00 CST 49:01:00 GMT
1/2/74
PAO This is Skylab Control; 01:00 Greenwich

mean time. We're in acquisition at Carnarvon, Australia.
Scheduled at this pass will be evening status report and
hopefully crew sightings of the brush fires central
Australia. We're standing by for Space Craft Communicator
Story Musgrave to make his call.
CC Skylab, AOS Carnarvon and Honeysuckle
8 minutes.
CDR Roger Story, you ready for evening status?
CC Yes sir_ we're ready,
CDR Okay. Sleep: CDR, 8.5, 8.0 heavyp .5
llght9 SPT, 8.5, 7.0 heavy, 1.5 llght_ PLT_ 8.5, 8.5 heavy.
Volume: CDR, 2100; 2250; 2250. Water gun reading: 8044;
3841; 9927. Body Mass: CDR, 6.287, 6.286, 6.285; SPT, 6.350,
6.350, 6.350; PLT, 6.227, 6.227, 6.226. Exercise: CDR,
method Charlie: position Echo, change my standard to 15 now,
15 repetitions, other than that no change. SPT, no change.
PLT, method Alfa: minus 4 minutes. Medications: none;
none; and none. Clothing: CDR, T-shirt, shorts, and socks;
SPT, T-shlrt, shorts_ and socks: PLT, shirt and shorts.
Food log: CDR, salt 8.5, plus i tea, plus i lemonade, plus
3.0 rehydration water; SPT, no salt_ plus i tea, no water;
PLT, 7.0 salt, plus grape, no water. Okay Flight Plan
deviations: SI90 prep was done at 20:00 Zulu. Shopping list
accomplishments; All housekeeping was done; PLT did TOO2-1
on stars Ii and 15. Inoperable equipment: The AMF, and you
have all the data on air-to-ground. Unscheduled stowage:
none. Photos are next.
CC Okay.
CDR Okay. No 16-millimeter today_ Nikon 01_
Charlle X-ray 38, 20_ number 02, Bravo Victor 26, 319 number
3 and 5, no change_ number 04, Bravo Echo 09, 01; 70-millimeter,
Charlle X-ray 52, 141; ETC, no change. EREP set Tango, no
change. ])rawer A configuration: no change.
CC Okay.
CC Skylab, we're a minute from LOS, you're
15 minutes to Hawaii at 01:25 and that_ll be your medconference.
CDR Roger Story.
SPT Story, could you please tell me how much
VTR time is available?
CC 29 minutes.
SPT Thank you.
through the Honeysuckle station. On this rev the ground
track or the - the ground track of space station Skylab is
too far from the tracking station at Guam for this - for
that station to be up on this revolution. It's elevation
SL-IV MC-1666/2
Time: 19:00 CST 49:01:00 GMT
1/2/74
angle is 1.6 degrees. Next station will be Hawaii at which

the medical conference is scheduled. Dr. Eduard Burchard
tonight running that instead of Dr. Jerry Hordinsky. So
the next live pass will be the stateside starting at Goldstone
in 26 minutes. We'll return at that time; at 01:11 Greenwich
mean time r Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC1667/I
Time: 19:29 CST, 49:01:29 GMT
01/02/74
CC Bill, Houston.
PLT Go, Story.
CC Bill, we see a prominence lifting off
the east limb, at 02:94 at 1 radius, and we'd like a shopping
list item number I including SO52?
PLT Shopping list item i. Roger. Over on the
east limb.
CC And that's Sun centered.
PLT Thank you.
CC And get that at the end of the orbit, when
you've completed the building block you're in, Bill.
PLT Okay, you want that rather than the
atmospheric extinction?
CC That's affirm.
PLT Thank you.
PAO Skylab Control, midway through the med
conference over Hawaii.
CC We're going LOS here, see you over
Goldstone in 7 minutes.
CDR Roger.
PAO Midway through the medical conference
over Hawaii, the line was snatched away from the crew surgeon
to allow the Spacecraft Communicator to advise the crew of
a prominence lifting off the east limb of the Sun_ so that
the crew could observe this phenomena with the ATM instruments.
I guess the surgeon will get equal time during one of these
passes over the States, one of the stations over the States
coming up in 6 minutes, with acquisition at Goldstone. And
we're standing by for AOS Goldstone in about 6 minutes.
CC Skylab, AOS Goldstone 5 minutes.
CDR Roger, Story.
CC Jer, Houston.
CDR Go ahead.
CC wetre working up a procedure for
getting some shopping list S063p the comet, those will be
handheld eps. We're thinking of sending up a 3-day shopping
list including filters and exposures in order of priority. And
you can catch those as - as catch can. And in the evening
status report you can tell us how many frames you took. Now
that's what we're working toward now, the only other
possibility is our alternate pads, a Complete pads for
each day.
CDR I think the sound of the shopping list
item sounds pretty good.
CC Okay, we'll try it out.
CDR I'm going to try to get a shot of itp
this nightside coming up right now, And I'm going to use
what they sent up. I doubt if I'ii be able to get them all in_
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Time: 19:29 CST, 49:01:29 GMT
01/02/74
but have them go ahead and send up a shopping list, it sounds

good.
SPT (Garble)
CC Okay, Ed.
PLT (Garble) frame count.
CC Okay, got 50 seocnds.
PLT Roger, 14232, 5121, 170, 5439, and 4585.
CC Got it.
CC Skylab, we're going LOS here. We're 2
minutes to Texas.
CC Skylab, we're back with you through Texas
and Bermuda for 13 minutes. We'll be dumping the data/voice
at Bermuda at 01:46.
CC Bill, Houston.
CC Skylab, just handover to Bermuda for i0
minutes. And Bill, Houston.
PLT Go Story.
CC We'll be dumping the data/voice here. Bill
we need a frame count readout on 82B?
PLT All right, that's 445, and give me about 30
more seconds, on the recorder before you take it.
CC Okay, you got it.
PLT Okay, Story, through recording.
CC Okay, Bill, and I've got two updates for your
detail plan tomorrow when you're ready?
PLT Okay, Story, ready to copy.
CC Okay. At 13:40 TV 105, cross out DAC only.
That's - that's a practice only.
PLT You say cross out DAC only?
CC That's affirm.
PLT Okay, got it.
CC And the 23:39, make that S183 stow one.
PLT Roger, S183 Sierra Tango dash i.
CC And
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SL-IV MC1668/I
Time: 19:48 CST 49:01:48 GMT
1/2/74
CC - 9. Make that S183 stow one.

PLT Roger, S183 Sierra Tango dash i.
CC Yeah, and change that 22:39 to 23:39.
PLT Okay.
CC And your ATM closeout looks good and
the EREP C&D pad for tomorrow's up.
PLT Thank you,
CC And Jerry got all he wanted to get
to you when he interrupted med conference. If there's any-
thing more yon want to talk over, we can get you some more
time with him.
PLT No, I think we're fine, Story. Thank
you.
CC Okay. And we're planning to make this
our last pass for the evening. If you've got anything for
us, we can offer two wakeup times, one is Tananarive at
about 08:57, the other one's Hawaii at 09:38. On the Flight
Plan, we show you ought to get started about 09:20.
SPT Roger, Story, we'll have something on
the VTR which you may want to dump in about i hour or so.
CC Say, again, Ed.
CDR Ed says he'll have something on the
VTR for you in about an hour.
CC Okay, you've got 26-i/2 minutes left.
And would you like us to wake you up 20 minutes early or 40
minutes ]_ate? Make it 20 early or 20 late.
CDR Let's go for the 20 late. It looks like
it's going to be a fairly long day, and we'll Just hustle.
CC Okay, it'll be Hawaii at 09:38.
CDR Okay, thank you.
CC Ed, Houston.
CC Ed_ if you take more than six S063 photos
of the comet tonight, we'll have a note on your pad tomorTow
which wi].l tell you to load with another cassette. So Just
be aware that if you take more than six tonight.
SPT Okay, I had taken four Just now, Story.
The two clear and Charlie 2, Charlie 4, but l_m not getting
into the others. So I guess we're okay since it only totals
four.
CC Okay, it's no problem to us. We sure
don't want to inhibit your taking pictures.
CC Skylab, we're a minute from LOS, Wet_e
putting you to bed here. The next station, if you want us,
is Ascension in 02:05. Jer, you've got a family comm coming
up at Carnarvon at 02:36, and it's left for a minute and
then right.
CDR Roger, Story, thanks. Good night.
CC Night.
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PAO This is Skylab Control. Final call to

the crew has been made over Bermuda and in keeping with their
desire to be left alone for the final hour before actual
bedtime. The medical conference over Hawaii was cut short
when a flare was reported. It apparently lifted off at
6:45 p.m. central and by 7:15, it reached 6/10 of a solar radius
in distance away from the Sun. It's on the east limb, and one
that had not been observed heretofore in any detail by
the crew. The crew physican was essentail]y through with
his conference with the crew at that time and no further
time was scheduled for Dr. Burchard to talk to the crew.
And here is his summary of the med conference. "After the
day off, the crew is physically and mentally wel - very
well rested and prepared for tomorrow's very early activities.
They tolerated the change from daylight savings time with
out any sleep disturbance." That's the end of the state-
ment by Dr. Eduard Burchard, sitting in for Dr. Jerry
Hordinsky tonight. After Sunday's flight planning conference
on mission day 45, held between Flight Director Phil Shaffer,
Spacecraft Communicator Dick Truly, and the Skylab crew,
minor changes are starting to emerge reflecting a further
understanding of the problems of planning 24 hour periods
for a crew. During the several days since the flight plan-
ning conference, the crew and flight controllers have con-
tinued to exchange ideas on scheduling problems. As a
result of these continued interchanges, the crew has agreed
to allow their physical training periods to be split. Commander
Cart had been reluctant to allow split exercise periods to
be scheduled, explaining that the astronauts are frequently
hot and sweaty after completing the physical training and
expressing a desire that they have time to clean up prior
to moving along to other jobs. Ground controllers had
wanted to split some physical training to facilitate other ex-
periments. In the new compromise order, the crew agreed
to allow their physical training periods to split with the
exception of exercise periods on the bicycle ergometer, which
will run 45 minutes with an additional 45 minutes for set
and clean up. The ground team also agreed to schedule house-
keeping activities only if they require more than 30 minutes.
The crew felt that certain routine items could be accomplished
in the course of the day's activities, and the housekeeping
time could be rescheduled for another item such as solar observa-
tion. Crew time on certain medical experiments has been
reduced -
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PAO - items could be rescheduled for another

item such as solar observation. Crew time on certain medical
experiments has been reduced on the MI71 metabolic analyzer
and the MO92 lower body negative pressure devise, the
experiment time has been reduced from 2 hours and a quarter
to 2 hours. The M092 and MO93 vectorcardiogram experiment
has been reduced from 10 - 105 minutes to 90 minutes. Prep_
eration time for Earth resources passes has also been reduced
30 minutes reduced by 30 minutes. Perhaps the most
significant in terms of the crew's wishes are changes in the
reduction pre- and post sleep time. Presleep time has been
cut from 2-1/2 to 2 hours, and postsleep time has been reduced
to an hour - from an hour and a half. The significant
aspect of this change is that ground controllers have agreed
not to interfere or call the crew during this period. The
crew has the option of calling the ground team during this
time but prefers that for their wakeup and presleep period
they be left to themselves. Commander Carr has been a strong
proponent of free time for his crew, and this 2-1/2 hour
period each day should allow the crew to get their heads
together, as Dick Truely put it. For most of us the period
immediately after awakening can and often is a time of unclear
thoughts. Ground controllers are now going to allow the crew
some time to collect themselves prior to the busy days. The
overall feeling behind these changes is that the crew will he
_ble to get more experiments performed in the same amount of
time by these schedule shufflings. By removing the housekeeping
items from the flight plan and fitting them into the regular
day's task the crew feels that they will have more time for
shopping list items. Commander Carr has therefore asked that
the shopping list he expanded. A shopping list details extra
items in which _ which have a low priority but if times allows
will be performed. Most of these time changes haven't shown
up on the flight plan. However, this morning's wake-up was
silent, indicating the ground team was beginning to follow
the new schedule changes. For Thursday morning's Earth resources
survey on track i0, only the S190A multispectral camera will
be used. The data take begins in southeastern Sudan, about
600 miles from Khartoum. This test site covers an area east
of the Marra Mountains, and is in a high plain. Scientist
are interested in crop inventories, forest inventories, and
a survey of insect and disease damage. United Nations food
and agriculture organization is participating in ground truth
data from this site. Almost 5000 miles later on the same track
the multispectral camera will he turned on again over a site in
Iran, which includes the capitol city of Teharan and the
southernmost end of the Caspian Sea. This is a hilly region
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with dry lake beds. Photography over this site will contribute
substantially to an agriculture, forestry, and range land
inventory of Iran. Data from this site may help scientists
in Iran develope the resources of the country's nonproductive
or inaccessable lands. Pilot Bill Pogue will maneuver the
space station into Z local vertical at 4:22 a.m. central
time. Commander Cart will operate the camera starting at
4:39. Pogue will return the space laboratory to solar
inertial at about 5:55 a.m. for the data take. The Sun
will be at an oblique angle enhancing some of the images,
as it will be midmorning over Africa and late morning over the
Mideast. The weather is optimum for this pass with predicted
cloud coverage of zero to 3/10. Space station is now in
acquisition at Ascension Island, however the crew and space
craft communicator have signed off for the evening. There's
one family call coming up over Carnarvon. Signing off until
about 3:00 a.m. Thursday morning central time, this is
Skylab Control at 02:06.
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from acquisition of signal through the Hawaiian Islands tracking
antenna. The pass through Hawaii will last about 9_i/2 minutes.
At the present time the flight director on duty here in Mission
Control is Charles Lewis, and the spacecraft communicator
is Hank Hartsfield. We're live now for air=to-ground at Hawaii.
CC (Music: Medley by Peter, Paul, and Mary)
CC Skylab, Houston, good morning to you from
the Bronze Team. We're about a minute from LOS. We'll see
you again at Vanguard at i0 after the hour, and we plan to
dump the recorder there.
CDR Good morning, Hank.
CC (Music)
PAO Skylab Control at 9 hours 49 minutes 24 seconds
Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station awakened by a Peter
Paul, and Mary medley is now south of the Hawaiian Islands.
Our next acquisition is 20 minutes and 45 seconds from now,
we'll be at Vanguard. Early wakeup this morning is for an
Earth resources pass to be made beginning in southeastern Sudan
about 600 miles from Khartoum. Test site covers an area east
of the Mara (?) Mountains and is a high plain area. Scientists
are interested in crop inventories, forest inventories, and
a survey of insect or disease damage. United Nations Food
and Agricultural Organization is participating in ground truth
data gathering for the site. Almost 5000 miles later on
the same track, the multlspectral camera will be turned on
again over a site near -
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PAO - - crop inventories, forest inven-

tories, and a survey of insect or disease damage. United
Nations Food and Agricultural Organization is participating
in ground-truth data gathering for the site. Almost 5000
miles later on the same track the multispectral camera will
be turned on again over a site in Iran which includes the
capital city of Tehran and the southern most end of the
Caspian Sea. This is a hilly region with dry lakebeds.
Photography of this site will contribute substantially to
an agricultural, forestry, and rangeland inventory of Iran.
Data from this area may help scientists in lran develope
the resources of the country's nonproductive or inaccessible
lands. Pilot Bill Pogue will maneuver the space station into
Z-local vertial attitude at 10:22 Greenwich mean time.
That's less than about a half an hour from now. Commander
Jerry Carr will operate the camera, only one of the Earth
resources instruments being used this morning. Pogue will
return the space laboratory to solar inertial at 11:55
Greenwich mean time completing the maneuver. For the data
take the Sun will be at an oblique angle enhancing some of
the images, and it will be mid morning over Africa and late
morning over the mideast. The weather's optimum for the
pass with 0 to 3/10ths cloud cover over the entire region.
This is Skylab Control 19 minutes and ii seconds to our next
acquisition of signal. 51 minutes and 12 seconds after the
hour.
PAO Skylab Control at i0 hours 9 minutes
22 seconds Greenwich mean time. Skylah space station is now
about 54 seconds from acquisition of signal through the
Vanguard tracking ship. Pass will last a little more than
9-1/2 minutes. The spacecraft communicator, Hank Hartsfield
and the flight director is Charles Lewis.
CC Skylab, Houston through Vanguard for
9-1/2 minutes and we'll be dumping the recorder here.
CDR Roger, Hank.
CC PLT, Houston. Sometime during this pass
I'd llke to get a couple of words to you in regard to all
your TV coming up here. I hate to bug you this early but
the next pass is Ascension and you'll be working on the
ZL-V maneuver and we won't see you again for over an hour and
you'll be into it.
PLT Go ahead, Hank.
CC Okay. Guess things got kind of confused
down here and I'm sure you're probably a little confused now
regarding the changes we sent up on the detail. I think we
finally got it sorted out. On the TV 105 what we'd like you
to do is go ahead and do the first step seven steps of that,
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and that's a voice description part of it. On TV 107,

that's a practice only, and on TV 102, while we didn't say
it, we sent for you to do it, we do want you to do it but we
suggest that you might practice before you put it on the
VTR. Practice wasn't specified but there is sufficient
time in the schedule for you to do a little practice if you so
desire.
PLT Okay. That's TV 105, first seven steps,
and that's voice only - Let's see, is that crack TV 105, just
the voice?
CC That's affirmative. No camera, no TV
on those first seven steps.
PLT Okay. And the TV 107 is a practice, only.
TV 102 you suggest I practice before I do it.
CC Right. It's up to you. It's your option.
There is time for you to practice if you want to do it.
PLT Okay, Hank. Thank you.
CC Skylab, Houston, we're i minute from LOS.
We'll see you at Ascension in 7-1/2 minutes at 26.
SPT Thank you, Hank. Talk to you then.
PAO Skylab Control at i0 hours 21 minutes
35 seconds Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station now
over the South Atlantic has passed out of range of the track-
ing ship Vanguard. 5 minutes from now we'll have our next
acquisition at Ascension. In keeping with the new plan for
reducing the total amount of crew time required for post
sleep activites and presleep activities the ground is not
interrupting post-sleep activities. The crew is allowed to
complete their morning activities including breakfast with-
out any interruption from the ground, unless there is an
absolute requirement for it. We'll keep the line up now for
the Ascension pass and 1'11 give you the reminder about 4
minutes from now as we come closer to the station there.
The pass over Ascension's a very low elevation, only 2 degrees
above the horizon at its maximum point. However, it's being
brought up because our next acqruisition after that is again
at Vanguard about an hour and 25 minutes from now. We'll
keep the line up for Ascension 4 minutes away.
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PAO Skylab Control. We're coming up live

on Ascension at this point.
CC Skylab, Houston; through Ascension for
4 minutes.
PLT Rog, Hank, and we just went into the
Z-LV maneuver.
CC Roger, we copy.
CC PLT, Houston. Looks like you're through
with the DAS for a little while. Could we have it to command
heaters off on CMG Z?
PLT You got it, Hank.
CC Thank you, sir.
CC Skylab, Houston; we're i minute from LOS.
We'll see you again at Vanguard at 11:47, and that's an hour
and 17 minutes from now.
CDR Roger, Hank.
PAO Skylab Control at 32 minutes and 43 seconds
after the hour. Skylab space station is now about to cross
the coast of Africa, has passed out of range of the Ascension
Island tracking antenna. An hour and a quarter before our
next acquisition at Vanguard. A little correction on this
morning's Earth resources pass. The total data take time
12 minutes, and the total length of the data pass is 3400 miles.
Skylab astronauts up at 3:20 a.m. central standard time this
morning, will photograph the United Nations test site with
a matched set of six cameras. The site a high plain region in
western Sudan will be studyied in a test of techniques for
agricultural and forest inventories. The Skylab Earth photos
of Africa may also reveal crop damage due to disease or insects,
a major problem in underdeveloped nations. Later in the
3400-mile-long survey the cameras will point at the forest
and farms of Iran as part of a program to develop that nation's
natural resources. Our next acquisition will be at Vanguard
and immediately after that we'll have a morning Earth resources
pass. This is Skylab Control at 33 minutes 45 seconds after
the hour.
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45 seconds Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station is
about to be acquired through the Vanguard tracking ship
after a pass around the world, during which a 3400-mile
Earth resources pass was completed covering the area from
the Sudan to Iran. Present time the solar forecasters and
solar observatory team here had reported that a coronal
transient is probably going to be visible on the Skylab.
In this next pass the ATM console should be under operation
during this pass coming up. The ATM is set for Pilot Bill
Pogue, and there has been a lift-off of prominence on the
Sun - Sun's disk during the last half hour. We're live now
for air-to-ground at Vanguard.
CC Skylab, Houston through Vanguard for
ii minutes.
SPT Rog. Hello, Hank.
SPT Hank, we finished up the first set of
S063. Went real well, and just about to pick up on the
second set now.
CC Roger. We copy, Ed.
PAO We're seeing another anomaly in the CMG
operation which we should get a report on after this pass
over Vanguard.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're i minute from
LOS. Ascension coming up at 01 about 3 minutes from now
and we plan to dump the recorder there.
SPT Roger, Hank. We got a good look at the
Falkland Current again and saw some vegetation over the
regional part of it. We got a good description of it on
tape.
CC Okay. Real good, Ed.
CDR Hey, Hank. How much VTR have we got?
CC Have four corners available now, Jet.
CDR It just occurred to me, if the opportunity
present itself the next pass we may go over theMontevideo
area, which should be about an hour and three quarters
from now. The angle is just right for the confluence of
those two currents, the Falkland and the South Equatorial,
and if the real bright staining is there it might be a good
whack - give us a good whack at TV.
CC Okay. We'll put that in the hopper and try
to have some words for you at Ascension, Jer.
CDR Okay.
and 35 seconds. Skylab space station is passed out of range
of Vanguard. We're now moving toward acquisitlon a minute
and a half from now at Ascension, where weVll have a
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10-1/2 minute pass. During this pass we observed another

anomaly in the behavior of control moment gyro number 2,
again very similar to previous anomalies. Increase of
current about 2 percent on the wheel, a reduction in the
wheel speed of about 1/2 percent, and bearing temperatures
converging. That is to say that two bearing temperatures
about equal at 69 degrees at the end of the Vanguard pass.
We're now getting acquisition at Ascension so we'll turn
it back over for air-to-ground.
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CC Skylab, Houston, back with you through

Ascension for ii minutes, and we'll be dumping the recorder.
SPT Hank, I'm doing S063 at the present time.
I don't know whether we need the time marks or not.
CC Okay, stand by i.
CC SPT, Houston, we_ll redesignate the recorders
for you and you'll probably have the winking light after we
do that.
SPT Okay Hank, thank you.
CC And you were right about the time hacks.
We do need those.
CC PLT, Houston.
PLT Go, Hank.
CC Okay, a little word for you on your ATM
pass you've got here in a few minutes. NOAA reports that
P61 has lifted off. It took off about 11:30. It was out at
.02 solar radius, and at 11:40 it was out about .06. What
we'd like for you to do is after you get cranked up there
take a look at the WLC TV and see if there is a coronal transient
in progress. If you do see one, we'd like for you to do a
JOP 8 Bravo. And if a transient is not in progress as you see
it, we would recommend that you do a shopping list item number i
and then continue with the scheduled ops,
PLT Roger. I_ii take a look_ and if it's
looking good on the coronagraph I do a JOP 8 Bravo, if not
I do a shopping list i and press on with the scheduled ops.
CC That's right, Bill. And for the CDR, you
have a GO to get the Falkland Current if it looks good.
CDR Roger_ Hank.
CC Houston, we're about 30 seconds from LOS.
We'll see you at Guam at 45. And a couple of quickies for
the PLT if he can listen. The TV setup for TV demos doesn't
call for you to put the stuff when you get through with it.
The fast demo equipment we'd like to put into dome locker 402.
And also the photo setup is, the photo pad is correct for the
hardware and not the science demos.
over Africa. Our next acquisition is 33 minutes away at
Guam. During this last pair of passes the Skylab crew still
very busy with their morning activities. Pilot Bill Pogue
preparing for the ATM pass. That ATM pass may allow him to
gather some data on solar prominence 51. It's a short ATM
pass, we only have about 20 minutes of daylight left. But
solar prominence did llft off the disk about 11:30 Greenwich
mean time, and it was observed by ground cameras traveling
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at an estimated speed of i00,000 miles an hour away from

the solar surface located on the Sun's western limb. However
although ground-based observatories can observe the prominence
as it moves off the solar disk. It can only be observed for a
very short distance. As it moves out it becomes fainter and
ground-based observatories are not capable of seeing it as
its light is lost in the scattering of the upper atmosphere.
As a result the Skylab space station instrument, white light
coronagraph, which allows the transient event, the event which
is passing very quickly through the upper atmosphere of the
Sun to be photographed up to a distance of six times one solar
radius. Six times the solar radius is a distance of approx-
imately 2-1/2 million miles. So Pilot Bill Pogue will attempt
to see that on his TV monitor. If he does see some indication
of some transient event he'll make a series of special photographs
to get data on it. The control moment gyroscope, another anomaly
has occurred today, or was a similar anomaly yesterday. And
the one this mornin_ seems to follow a general pattern. The
anomaly occurred over a range of temperatures from about 66
to 71 degrees. Current increase is approximately 2 percent.
The wheel speed decreasing approximately 1/2 percent. This
convergence of temperature is on the two bearings, and the
increase in wheel current and the decrease of wheel speed
is a traditional signature of what is believed to be an indications
that control moment gyroscope may be doomed to eventually
fail. However, no one seems to have any idea of how long
it will last or how long it may be before we have any further
difficulties with it. Yesterday's anomaly was the first one
we'd had in about a week, so now we've had two in 2 days.
The problem is still not well understood, but one step has been
taken to help remedy it, and that is to control the temperature
within a smaller range not allowing it to drop to the lowest
level at which we saw most of the early anomalies. However
during the recent days most of these anomalies have occurred
at relatively high temperatures for the bearings on the second
control moment gyroscope. Observing changes in control moment
gyroscope number 3 is not nearly so easy. The wheel speed indicator
is broken on CMG number 3. As a result we can't detect variations
in the speed of the wheel. One can, from time to time, see
some changes in the wheel currents and of course readings are
given on the bearing temperatures which from time to time
do fluctuate but not as substantial apparently as they do on control
moment gyro number 2_ so a failure signature on control moment
gyro number 3 is not nearly so easy to detect. Our next
acquisition is about a half hour from now at Guam. It's now
16 minutes and 18 seconds after the hour. During this upcoming
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pass Science Pilot Ed Gibson will have a couple of optional

handheld photography opportunities to photograph major fault
zones. The purpose of such photography is to describe a number
of sites around the world. To observe and photograph them,
they used a Hassleblad camera. Today he has two opportunities,
one is of the Caucasus Mountains in soutkwestern Russia west
of the Caspian Sea. The other is of the Anatolian Fault Zone in
Turkey. This is Skyla5 Control. It's now 16 minutes and 50
seconds after the hour.
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Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station now Just across
Japan is about to be acquired through the tracking antenna
at Guam. Have about a 9-1/2 minute pass at Guam and a handover
is now in progress here in Mission Control. Charles Lewis
is currently the flight director. Bill Lenoir here is preparing
for an ATM conference. And a change of shift will bring
Nell Hutchinson on duty here in Mission Control as the flight
director, and Bruce McCandless will be replacing Hank Hartsfield
as spacecraft communicator very shortly. We're live now for
air-to-ground through Guam.
CC Skylab, _ouston; through Guam for 9-1/2
minutes. And I have one quick thing for the PLT regarding
TV 102 before Bill gives the ATM word.
PLT Go ahead, Hank.
CC We went LOS and I was talking about that,
Bill. I'm sorry to hit you with a couple of more things
here, but in regard to the TV 102 there are several things
we'd llke to do different from what the demo calls out for.
First off it doesn't tell you where to stow thes - the demo
equipment. When you get through, we'd like to put it in D-402.
Secondly, on steps 4 and 6, we'd like to delete those photographs
that are called out there, TV 102. And for the third thing
on 102, in setup it calls for the K2, K3 adapter. We'd
like to use the E2 adapter per the photo pad and that's it.
PLT Roger. Stow the stuff in D-402, delete
the steps 4 and 6 photos, and use the Echo 2 adapter instead
of Kilo 2, Kilo 3.
CC That's it. And Bill's standing by for
ATM conference.
SPT Hello, Bill; go ahead.
MCC Okay, Ed, not much to add on the Sun
today, Just the type of thing that you've been seeing the
last few days typified by active region 12 coming up, getting
a little bit active and then it's on the decline now. That's
typical of the Sun that you're looking at now and what you
can expect over the next few days. We've got old active
region 96 on the limb but we don't expect too much out of that.
So not really much is coming back until we get back to the
double zero region in about 7 or 8 days. One change on the
plan that you probably have now, we had a JOP 18 Delta scheduled
tomorrow. That has been moved to the following day because
of the conflict with EREP. We will be concentrating on
synoptics and quiet Sun JOPs, obviously for the next 5 to 6 days,
in as much as we really don't have any other choice. And
let me pause now and take any inputs that you've got for us
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here in planning. Over.

SPT Okay. Just two, Bill, one is 18D. We have
not done it yet today, of course, but the last time we took a
look at it, 2 days ago, it was fairly faint. And I think
we ought to consider that a very disstinct possibility. We
may not see it and you may want to observe - change the
observing program as a result of it. We can position it
certainly well enough without seeing it to do the work
with the coronagraph, but to try to point to the nucleus
without seeing it, I think we're asking for errors (garble)
compatible with our ability to move over there which has
been something like 4 to 8 or so in octal unit. And secondly,
the more I look back on the activity which we did have, and
the lack of activity now, and One of the primary mission
objectives for the ATM is to get the flare rise, I think
we all ought to do a little thinking about how we're going
to approsch this when we do get a good active region back
on the disk again. I think we ought to make every effort
over a period of a couple days when we do have the active
region with a high flare probability to be on the console
with a flare wait program going. I think it's a very
important thing to get a flare rise riEht from the very
slight brightening on up, something we have not done yet
in any of the flights. And I think it's something that the
equipment here is juicily designed to do and we ought to
go after it.
MCC Okay, Ed; thanks. That's a very good
input and we will plan on that. The words on the comet
touched on something that I was going to mention here_ although
you really did answer my questions. We are aware that we
may very well not see it today. Or if we see it today, in
all likelihood, that may be the last time we see it. And
we've got a couple of "ifs" Written into the program for the
future here depending on whether we see it or not. The
estimating plus or minus 0.4 to 0.04 to 0.08 pointing errors
if we go in the cookbook maneuver that we've been giving you,
very well means that we will not be pointing very well at the
nucleus with 82B, so that will probably have an effect on what
we do here.
SPT Okay, the - we figured that by eye we
could probably do about two or so which is maybe a factor
of 2 or S improvement over what we could do without the
visual siting.
MCC Okay, well thanks for the numbers, and
we'll make use of those in our thinking. Got a couple of
answers for you that I probably should're given you yesterday
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but ran out of time. On S054 with the new changes that
you have you'd asked me some questions on the timing. All
of the times that we give you on the 54 long exposures we
would like to be accurate to within plus/minus i minute.
_o that the timing of 17 minutes isn't very critical as far
as to the nearest second. Plus/minus i minute is good enough.
SPT Okay.
MCC When we asked for 17 minutes we really do
want 17 minutes. If - The particular example you used was
if you only had i0 minutes available did we want that. The
answer is negative. The 17 minutes is almost exactly four
times the 256 exposures and it forms another part of the pro-
gram there, so that if we can't get 17 we probably ought to
be doing something different.
SPT Okay, that answers the question. Glad
to know it.
MCC Okay, the third thing is, let me apologize.
We sent you up a message last night entitled S054 Long
Exposure Cue Card and didn't talk about long exposures. We
gave you the smaller film and grating axis information
but the rest of the message got dropped off, probably due
to my fault, some things that I said, although I had'nt
intended them to be interpreted that way, I see how it
happened. Unless you tell us not to we'll go ahead and
send that up again unless you've kept the old one and Just
want to hang on to that.
SPT I wish you would send it up again, please.
MCC Okay, good. We'll do that and that's
already in work. Then I've got a couple of words here
from S055. Awhile - -
SPT Bill.
MCC Yes?
SPT Before we move off 54, I'm still working
in the - the JOP summary sheet change and Itm about halfway
through so I think you ought to take that into account in
writing up the schedule, or at least writing up the pads.
Make sure that the information for those long exposures
is still put in there until I'm able to get that completed.
MCC Okay, fine. We'll incorporate all of
those changes in our schedule sheet. And whenever you've got
it all done just let us know.
SPT Okay.
MCC Okay, then on 55, oh, about a week,
i0 days ago, you found a hot spot for us, I've forgotten
the active region, and got us a spectrum on it. And 55 finds
that that was a very interesting area. The Lyman continuum
has a temperature of on the order of 12,000 to 13,000 degrees
Kelvin. And as you know generally the Lyman continuum you
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SPT That's right.
MCC Some - -
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SPT The JOP Summary Sheet changes, I'm about halfway

through so I think you ought to take that into account in writing
up the schedule, or writing up the pads, make sure that the
information for those long exposures is still put in there so
I'm able to get that completed.
MCC Okay, fine. We'll incorporate all of
those changes in our schedule sheet and whenever you've got
it all done just let us know.
SPT Okay.
CC Okay. Then on - on 55, oh, about a
week, i0 days ago, you found a hot spot for us, I've forgotten
the active region, and got us a spectrum on it. 55 finds
that that was a very interesting area. The Lyman continuum
has a temperature of on the order of 12 to 13,000 degrees
Kelvin, and as you know generally the Lyman continuum
you really have to stretch to get up to 10,000 degrees.
SPT That's right.
MCC So that was not a very hot area and
also quite dense. Density's on the order of i0 to the 12th.
And yon had peaked it at 06 at about 30 to 40,000 counts.
55 is not totally through looking at this and don't totally
have all their conclusions yet_ but they found it very interesting
and should you ever find yourself looking at a similar
situation they're most interested in more spectra.
SPT Okay. Did we get much spectrum in that
one?
CC Yes, you did.
SPT Okay. Very good. That's what we tried
to do on on those which are are changing rapidly is to give
them a truncated mirror auto raster to see where they are
within a spectrum.
MCC Okay. And another thought here. l've
got in my possession right now, but I haven't worked it up
into a change notice, all of the words from 55 on shopping
llst 30 which lines to look at for disk quiet, disk and
prominence, corona, etcetera, and a potential new mode for
operating. I'll work that up into a change and we'll try
to get that up to you in hard copy in the next day or so.
SPT Okay. One question arises on that and
when I did the last one is do we specify about a minute or so
between each step? And I'm wondering if you're a little short
on time, if then could we shorten that? I would think you'd want
to shorten it closer to line center where the intensity's
greatest and keep the ones in the wings fairly long. I'm
wondering if they concur with that.
MCC Okay. Wetve got i minute to LOS. Vanguard's
next acquisition in 30 minutes, and the change actually takes
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care of that and you can actually go down to 10-second in-

tegration time, but the recommendation is to operate it in
STOP instead of MLS. That allows you to get 240 samples
there for very good averaging. Although you don't get
the mirror line scan it doesn't matter because you're point-
ed at what you wanted to look at anyway.
SPT Okay. That's a good point. That'll
sure cut down the time and be able to give them some line profiles
on specific points and perhaps maybe a larger number of
points, more interesting points, rather than just those
randomly distributed along the line of (garble).
MCC Okay, right. And like I say, I'ii be
getting that up to you soon, and apparently we're over the
hill here so I'ii see you tomorrow.
SPT Thank you, Bill. So long.
Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station now out of range
of Guam is 29 minutes from acquisition of signal at Vanguard.
That was Bill Lenoir giving an ATM conference, discussing
the solar instruments and solar observations with Science
Pilot Ed Gibson. One of the things he reported was a very
interesting spectra reported on S055 which was the only
solar instrument that gives immediate data to ground observers.
It's an electronic instrument which records this data on
tape which - that tape is then dumped at ground stations and
transmitted back to Mission Control, and we do have almost
virtually immediate data and sometimes actual real time data
coming in on - in on the Sun. It said that the spectra
showed unusually high temperatures and high density in the
hot spots Ed Gibson manage to acquire with the solar instru-
ment. And the guidance problem, slight fluctuation again
on control moment gyro number 2, appears to have gone away
completely by the acquisition at Guam. Speeds are back
about the normal level and temperature difference between
the two bearings is once again moved up to about 2 degrees,
and currents have come down to their nominal level. They
did reach - temperatures became equal at one point and speed
was reduced about 1/2 percent and currents moved up about
2 percent. That's typical of the signature of anomalies
that we've seen a number of times on this control moment
gyroscope, about a dozen times so far now. The last anomaly
of this sort occurred yesterday and before that it'd been about
a week since we saw the last control moment gyroscope
number 2 anomaly. Otherwise everything seems to be working
fairly well. Earth resources pass is completed early this
morning. We should get a report on that a little bit later.
And the solar prominence was observed lifting off the disk about
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11:30. Pilot Bill Pogue was asked to keep his eyes open to
see what changes might have occurred in the upper atmosphere
of the Sun as a result of that lift-off_ a mass of material
moving off of the Sun's western limb at a speed of about
i00,000 miles an hour. 27 minutes to our next acquisition
of signal and 58 minutes after the hour. This is Skylab
Control.
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PAO Skylab Control at 13 hours 24 minutes Greenwich

mean time. Skylab space station is off the coast of Chile about
to be acquired by the Vanguard tracking ship. The pass through
Vanguard will last about ii minutes. And the handover is completed
here in Mission Control. Flight director Nell Hutchinson has
taken over the duty as the flight director. Spacecraft communicator
is now Bruce McCandless. We'll bring the line up live for air-
to-ground through Vanguard.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through the Vanguard
at sea for 10-1/2 minutes. Over.
CDR Got you, Bruce.
CC And I've got a couple of quick ones for the
PLT and SPT whenever they're handy.
SPT Houston_ SPT, go ahead.
CC Okay Ed, the change that we have for you
concerns your detail pad. And at 20:44 you're showing ATM
JOP 18D pad, weTd like to change that 20:44 to 20:31, that's
20:31 to put you on station 5 minutes prior to commencing the
maneuver. Over.
SPT 20:31, I copy.
CC And that's it for youp Ed.
SPT Would you please tell me what time my
comm is tonight?
CC Oh, I think we can do that if we dig into
archives here. Stand by on that.
CC Okay we have you hooked up through Canary
Islands at 23:35. And that'll be on the right antenna. Over.
SPT 23:35, right. Thank you.
CC Roger. Out.
PLT Houston, PLT.
CC Roger, Bill. l've got a couple of quick
ones here for you if you're ready.
PLT Go.
CC Okay, on your S183 K pad, the S183 carousel
i-i is in reality located in F-510 Bravo. That's Bravo as opposed
to Hotel as it is shown in the pad. Over.
PLT Roger. Thank you.
CC Okay, moving further down that same pad,
you'll find the line that about the fifth line or sixth line
into the pad that says available 15:41 to 15:45 field Kohoutek
rotation (garble) plate 14. That should be plate 15 since
we've already used plate 14. Over.
PLT Roger. Plate 15 instead of plate 14.
CC And in the basic Flight Plan for today,
at around 23:30 you_ll note that we have an S183 stow i called out
for you. We would like to delete the stow 1 and do only the
carousel i-i ops portion of the cue card. That is do the film
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stow by following the teleprinter change to your cue card

except for the one little paragraph in there that says if 183
stow i, 2, 3 schedule immediately and proceed to applicable
portion of stow option disregarding SAL pressurization. And
we want to do that because we're leading S183 in and setup
except for the film overnight, we're going to run it again
tomorrow morning. Over.
PLT Bruce, I didn't have the cue card handy
but I think I understand what you're saying. They Just want
to stow the carousel i-i, put the plate in position and all
that sort of thing and leave the 183 on the AMS for use tomorrow.
CC Roger. That's correct. And - And - Okay,
and also on your 183 pad note that the second field is called
out for this morning uses plate 21 and will require you to
advancing several frames from 15 to get there. And if you have
any questions when you get the cue card out_ go ahead and
give us a call, but I think that if you just remember the intent
is to stow the carousel without completely breaking the works
down, why wetll get there. We've got about 15 seconds to LOS.
Next station contact in 6-1/2 minutes through Ascension at
13:42. And could you tell us whether TV input station 642
was used for the press conference yesterday or not?
PLT That's affirmative. The one in the exper-
iment compartment; I'm sure that's 6:42.
CDR That's affirmative. That's the one we used.
CC Roger. Thank you very much, see you over
Canaries _ Ascension.
Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station is over Brazil about
5-1/2 minutes from our next acquisition at Ascension. This is
Skylab Control.
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PAO Skylab Control at 13 hours, 41-1/2 minutes,

Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station is about to come
within range of the tracking antennae at Ascension. This pass
through Ascension will last about 3 minutes, immediately fol-
lowing it we'll have a Canary Island pass and then a Madrid pass
with a total time of about 17 minutes. Spacecraft communicator
is Bruce McCandless.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Ascension,
Canary and Madrid for about ii minutes. Out
CDR Houston, CDR.
CC Go ahead, Jer.
CDR Okay, we got a problem with lighting, panel
lighting now on the ATM panel. We just lost them. I tried
the reset procedure of killing the four display switch, cycling
the inverter LCA switch, and, we've got no lighting whatsoever on
either BUS i or BUS 2. We've got our ready lights, our alert
lights and our, our meter lights, but we do not have the integral
or numerics.
CC Okay, tell you what, we'll work on it, but
just so that we don't get out of sync here would you hold off on
throwing any more switches until we get some words up to you.
CDR Right, we've done all we can do now by
cycling those breakers, and that didn't help, so we're standing
by.
CC Okay, we're right with you.
CC Calling Houston. I think you're on intercom.
CC You got about a 30 second dropout here.
handing over at Canary, I'ii talk to you then. And, we're sure
you're not using the data/voice tape recorder, so, we're going
to press on and do a data/voice tape recorder dump here at
Canary, if you don't mind.
CDR Okay, Bruce.
CC CDR this is Houston, starting the trouble-
shooting procedure with you on the ATM. The configuration we'd
like to be in now is with the four display switches, in
BUS i and with the lighting integral and lighting numeric
switches both in the FIXED position and then tell us whether
you've got lighting or not. Over.
CDR That's where I am and no lighting. 4
CC Okay, we'll proceed on to step 2, just for
you're own information, we're showing a little higher than nor-
mal temperature on the inverter LCA down here and we'll keep
you posted.
CDR Okay.
SPT Houston, SPT.
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CC SPT, Houston, go ahead.

SPT Okay, I'd like to have you check on an
item of that JOP 18 D coming up on step 18. The pointing command
given if we are not able to find it_ we're supposed to position
the nucleus at the center and then move on out. The magnitude
of those do not agree with the position we're supposed to put
it in the tail. I show (garble) put it in 0.7 degrees out,
0.74 degrees out and we're supposed to be 0.25.
CC Okay, we copy that Ed, and_ give us a
minute to get working on it (garble). Andp for the CDR again
up on the ATM panel, we would llke you to verify, but not
change the configuration that all 18 circuit breakers under
console power distribution are in the IN position, over.
CDR That's verified.
CC Okay, thank you.
CDR Houston, CDR, is there any Sun-centered
data that you might like to have gathered while we're sitting
here.
CC Stand by, we'll check.
CC CDR, this is Houston. For your Sun-centered opera-
tion, we'd like an SO56 patrol and i0 minutes of continuous
operation oll S052_ over.
CDR Okay, you want patrol long on 56?
CC Roger, Jer, patrol long and l0 minutes in
the continuous mode on 52.
CDR Okay. How about 55? I've got mirrior auto raster
going now, you want to just let it run?
CC Okay, just leave it running like it is,
Jerry, and we'll update you.
CDR Okay.
CC CDR, Houston, over.
CDR Go ahead, Bruce.
CC Okay, we've got 2 minutes to LOS here.
Your next station is in 27 minutes, Guam at 14:24. In the
interim we recommend ATM C&D malf procedure number 4, entitled,
Loss of Fixed Numeric Lighting on Panel 130, showing up on
page 1-14 of the ATM malfs. If you want to wait for us at
Guam to run through it with you, you may, or if you en-
counter any questions in your mind as you go through it, you
can hold off and we'll talk to it at Guam also. In the
meantime, however, on S054_ we_d like to get the X_ray image
switch to off, please, since, with the probable loss of power we've
got here, we've lost filament power to the tube down there, and
when you complete the observations of this pass go ahead and
power down for ATM operations next pass, over.
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CDR Okay, Bruce, and I've got the malf open

to this page.
CC Okay, i minute to LOS and we'll see you
over Gaum.
CDR Roger.
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CDR - - got the malf opened to this page.

CC Okay, we're i minute to LOS, and we'll
see you over Guam.
CDR Roger.
CDR Well, Bruce, do you have handy the 400K
time?
CC We'll get it for you.
CDR Thank you.
CC 14:03, Jerry, 14:03 for 400K.
CDR Thank you.
45 seconds Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station has
passed out of range of Canary Island and Madrid. A difficulty
occurring at the beginning of this pass reported by Carr is
that the ATM panel lighting has failed, failure in the
integral and numerical lighting from the ATM solar instrument
panel. That limits the amount of work that can be done at
the ATM panel. However, some of the instruments were left
running during the remainder of this pass. Sun centered,
does tend to make it more difficult to do some pointing
operations. And also SO54, one of the X-ray instruments
cannot be operated without the power that's provided to
both the lights and to that instrument. So one instrument
is disabled because of the lighting failure and control,
to some extent, of the other instruments is limited. Our
next acquisition 23-1/2 minutes away. It's now on the hour,
Skylab Control.
Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station about to be
acquired through Guam tracking antenna for a 7-minute pass.
The spacecraft communicator is Bruce MeCandless, and the
flight director on duty is Nell Hutchinson.
CC Skylah, this is Houston through Guam
for 6 minutes. Over.
CDR Roger, Bruce; loud and clear.
CC Okay, loud and clear. Where are you in
the malf? Over.
CDR Okay, Bruce, on page 1-14 did block number 1
and recovered the numeric lighting, and that leaves the
INTEGRAL switch off. So I threw the INTEGRAL switch on at
that time and it all fell off again. So I decided the
problem was with the integral lighting, and I went over
to C&D malf number 2 on page 1-8 and began with that rascal
and ended up in - ended up in block number ii that says
BUS Z integrated, or BUS 363 Delta shorted. And that seems
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to be where we stand. I got numerics now but no integral.

CC Okay, it sounds beautiful, Jerry. Let
us talk around down here a minute. It sounds like you pretty
well got things isolated and we'll get right back to you.
CDR Bruce, also would like to know how they
would like to work the next ATM pass. Would they like to
try to pick up what we did not get on the last pass or Just
take a giant step past it and pick up the regular schedule
for this one?
CC Okay, Jerry, we'll just pick up the regular

schedule. And give us a little bit of time to - to contemplate
the situation from last pass. And I expect we'll try and
work those things in either later today or tomorrow if we
need to.
CDR Okay.
CC And what is your configuration at the time -
at the present time on the panel? I mean do you have the
numeric lighting back, or are you sitting there at block ii?
CDR No, I've got everything on BUS i. I've
got numeric lighting back, and the integral is off.
CC Okay, so you essentially went on from
block ii to block 15 and you're in the malf 2 block 15
configuration?
CDR That's affirmative.
CC Okay, that sounds good to us. Thank you.
CC Skylab, this is Houston; i minmte to LOS.
Next station contact in 5-1/2 minutes through Honeysuckle
Creek at 14:36. Out.
Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station now over New Guinea
is out of range of the tracking antenna at Guam. About 3-1/2
minutes to our next acquisition of signal at Honeysuckle.
During this pass Jerry Cart reviewed his procedures that
he'd gone through on malfunction. The lighting on the
ATM control and display panel have been a problem with both
integral and numeric lighting on the ATM panel. Primary
loss of that instrument was the loss of pointing readouts
and also the loss of frame counts for the various pieces
of film, the pointing control, of course being very important.
Also there was no readout for the computer digital address
system. So that when something was punched in there was no way
of reading out to determine whether or not it had been
punched in properly. The pointing frame counts and DAS
readout of all now have been repaired. Those a_e the most
essential parts of the equipment. The numeric switches
and numeric lights are back on. They are working properly
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so that means that during the next pass the commander will
be able to point properly at his targets without any difficulty,
and will be able to read his digital address system for the
computer operation. However, the integral remains off.
Integral controls a number of things, one of which is the
electra-fluorescent lighting that's used to - for identification
of various panel parts.
PAO Skylab Control. We're now about 2 minutes
from acquisition of signal. Here in Mission Control the
flight team is still trying to determine exactly what they've
lost with the integral. The lighting system is not operating
properly but no doubt the malfunction procedure will be
continued to attempt to bring that back on line as well. Electra-
fluorescent lighting is not the is not the main problem
(garble). Now he says that it appears that it would affect some
backlighted panel switches that are again not nearly so important
as the integral lighting which provids pointing and also
frame counts on the instruments and the digital readout for
the computer. Those - -
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PAO Skylab Control. We're now about 2 min-

utes from acquisition of signal. Here in Mission Control
the flight team is still trying to determine exactly what
they've lost with the integral light systems not operating
properly but no doubt the malfunction procedure will be
continued to attempt to bring that back on llne as well.
The electra-fluorescent lighting is not be is not the main pro-
blem (garble) said that appears it would effect some
backlighted panel switches but, again, not nearly so
important as the integral lighting which provides point-
ing and also frame counts on the instruments and digital
readout for the computer. Those things are all back
on line now after the malfunction procedure was completed
between the Madrid pass and the Guam pass during the last
half hour. We're about a minute from acquisition of signal
at Honeysuckle. We'll bring the line up live there for air-
to-ground.
CC Skylab this is Houston through Honey-
suckle Creek for 4 minutes, and for the CDR, we recommend
that you put some red tape on the lighting integral switch
Just as a caution against reactivating it. Over.
CDR Roger. It's in work.
CC And also, right now it does not look
like loss of the integral lighting BUS will compromise your
operations but we're still checking to make sure there're
not some sneaky items powered from it, and if we come up
with anything out of the ordinary why we'll send you up a
detail listing of the items that you've lost. Over.
CDR Thank you, Bruce.
CC PLT, this is Houston. Over.
PLT Hello, Bruce.
CC Yes, I've got a quick little procedure
that you might be interested in for S180 AMS mirror retrac-
tion should you lose your way in following the turns clock-
wise and counterclockwise. Over.
PLT Okay. Go ahead.
CC Okay. Set the tilt on the mirror to
zero and then prime discone antenna number 1 by searching in
rotation and looking through whatever set of optics you
happen to have available. You can determine that it's an_
tenna number I instead of number 2 since it takes 3.5 coun-
terclockwise turns to go from number i to number 2, and the
zero rotation is only about one-tenth of a clockwise turn from
discone antenna number I. Do you want me to read that again
or - what, we've got about 30 seconds to LOS. The next
station is Canary at 15:23 in 45 minutes.
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PLT Roger. Set tilt 00 and find discone

number 1 with rotation. From number 1 go 3.5 counterclock-
wise, or it takes 3.5 counterclockwise to go from number 1
to number 2. When I'm sure I'm on number i, one-tenth clockwise
from dlscone number 1 for zero rotation.
CC Hey) you got a telephonic memory there.
Beautiful, Bill, and you may be - might want to write that
down on a piece of paper and tape it on the AMS or some-
thing, or would you like us to send you up a cue card?
PLT No) it wouldn't_t - wouldn't hurt just to
send up a teleprinter message on that. We'd just tape it
right on the AMS.
CC Okay. We'll send you a teleprinter
decal.
PLT Thank you, sir.
CC Roger; out. See you at Canary.
is now out of range of the Honeysuckle Creek, Australia
trackinK antenna. 42-1/2 to our next acquisition of signal.
Here in Mission Control as Bruce McCandless mentioned during
this last pass they're still analyzing the integral problem
on the ATM panel lighting. That's the panel lighting for
solar instruments. It doesn't seem to have much impact now
but they're going to go through the circuits and make sure
there are no hidden impacts from the loss of that one part
of the lighting system for the ATM panel. The numerical lighting
has been returned and is operating properly. That does allow
them the main things that they were concerned about which are
pointing of the solar instruments. This is detailed fine
pointing on the solar surface. Also) a computer display
readout for the what is called the DA8, the digital address
system, for the Skylab computer. That is working properly
again) and also the frame counts on the various instruments
tell how much film has been consumed. That again is also
working properly. So the major problem with the ATM lighting
which had cut off has been solved. First analysis indicates
that the problem may have possibly been caused by a power
surge that was too brief to pop the circuit breaker. That
might have caused an adjustment in the solid state electro-
nics, and once the thing was switched off completely and
the malfunction procedure and then brought back on line it
began operating properly again. That's of course Just a first
look at it and no doubt during the next several hours we_ll
get a more thorough analysis of the problem. Yesterday's
use of nitrogen attitude control system gas was relatively
low and only 55 pound seconds used yesterday, The remaining
gas at that time was something over 18,000 pound seconds of
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gas, of which 12,000 pounds may be used for experiments at

a rate of approximately 55 poun seconds a day. Of course
that would last far beyond the end of the mission. For this
morning's Earth resources pass only about 45 pound seconds
were used. That indicates that for most of the activities
going on now, unless there are major problems with the atti_
tude control system, it looks as if the gas supply may well
be more then adequate. 40 minutes to our next acquisition
of signal and 43 minutes and 14 seconds after the hour.
This is Skylab Control.
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PAO Skylab Control at 15 hours, 22 minutes,

Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station now over the North
Atlantic, is out of range of the tracking ship at Vanguard,
but we're about to be acquired at Canary Islands. Pass through
Canary Islands and Madrid is a pass lasting about 14-1/2 min-
utes, the spacecraft communicator is Bruce McCandless.
CC Skylab, this is Houston, through Canary
and Madrid for 12-1/2 minutes with a data/voice tape recorder
dump commencing now at Canary and for the SPT, we have some
information on JOP 18.
SPT Roger Houston, go ahead.
CC Okay, on that step ig which you have ques-
tioned, if it is visible of course, we want you to do the first
part of 18 if the comet is not visible perform the following
fine maneuver to point 82B and 55 at the tail. X, 51105 and
that's in decimal a minus 0.69 degrees Y, 50105, which is in
decimal a plus 0.69 degrees and Z, 50000. Read back, over.
CC Rog, 51105, 50105, 5000 (sic). minus
0.69 plus 0.69 and zero. The objective, though, is from the
first part, was to get 0.25 degrees back, and now looks as though
we're getting even further out, I don't understand the
difference between the two.
CC Okay, stand by a minute.
CDR Houston, CDR.
CC Go ahead, CDR.
CDR Okay, I checked the schematics; it looks
like it's okay for the X-ray image enable to be back on
again, so I turned it on. Also, you might tell the S082B folks
that when I tried to go to limb scan or llmb pointing, that
the mirror goes unstable, and itts worse in limb pointing than
it is in llmb scan. It'll go from plus or minus 45 in limb
pointing. So, the last building block that I did was done with
it in white light display only and I just took the offset of
12 arc Seconds on the H-ALPHA i.
CC Okay we copy that, Jerry.
CDK Bruce have a status report on carrousel i-i,
S183.
CC Okay, send the rest of the good news there
Bill.
PLT Roger. Bad news is that the carrousel
was, would not go in when I tried to put it in. I removed it,
there was a _ part of a plate sticking out and I pulled the part
plate out, I have it. Checked the alignment drill mark. It was
not lined up with the patch, I reclocked it and the thing
inserted properly and I'm in the process of continue with nor-
mal operations, there is not a number on the piece of the plate
that I do have.
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CC Okay, we copy that.

CDR Houston, CDR.
CC Go ahead, CDR.
CDR Okay I might add on this SO82B mirror
situation that, while it was so wildly unstable in the llmb
pointing mode when I would go back to limb scan and then to
white light, it took a little while for it to settle on.
You could see it undulating back and forth in the white light
display.
CC Okay we copy. And for the PLT, was the
carrousel (static) We're handing over, I'll talk to you in a
minute. And for the PLT, was carrousel i_i lined up when you
tried to install, but the thing just wouldn't go in, is that
the situation?
PLT That's affirmative, I know_ looked in
there, saw the drill hole wasn't lined up and I thought well
maybe it's because of the progression of the plate, tried to put
it in and it would not, not go in, so I pulled it back out, and
when I pulled it back out, that's when the piece of the plate
was protruding from the hatch.
CC Okay, you say when you started, the drill
hole was or was not lined up?
PLT It was not. When I started to putp put
it in initially, I checked it. Saw that it was about 10 degrees
off and you look at - with the hatch at 12 o'clock, the drill mark
was about ii o'clock. I pulled it out as soon as I encountered
resistance, you know, or difficulty and when I did, part of the
plate was protruding, I pulled it out.
CC Okay, we copy that Bill. In the details
for today we've mentioned sync carrousel for carrousel i-i
ops only on the S183 cue card and I guess it had been our intent
that you should reset that to zero prior to, trying to insert the
i-i carrousel.
PLT Yeah, I see that Bruce, thank you.

CC SPT, Houston, over. Skylab, this is
Houston, 1-1/2 minutes to LOS, next station contact in 28 min-
utes through Carnarvon at 16:04 and for the SPT, we're continu-
ing to work on the problems of JOP 18 pointing, if the comet
is not visible. Let us get back to you on another station
or two, we_ve still got a good bit of time before the maneuver's
scheduled to run, over.
SPT Roger, all you've got to do is tell me
which direction the tail is pointing and I can figure it out
from there. Also on these Kohoutek observations we're supposed
to be making right now with S063, we established yesterday that
you can not take them out of the STS window when we've got a
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90-degree roll in, and we had set up to have a pad set up

for taking them on an optional basis, which I'd just started
to dop however, we have, we did not have any black and white
film, we used that this morning, we need a new roll, would you
like to (garble) there and the other film has got the E-2 adapter
on it for the TV which Bill is doing.
CC And, CDR, this is Houston, we don't want
you to use limb pointing or llmb scan on 82B until further
notice, just the white light, over.
CDR Okay Bruce, I'll put a piece of tape on
it with a notice.
CC Okay.
PAO Skylab Control at 15 hours, 38 minutes,
Greenwich mean time. Skylab has passed out of range of the
tracking antennae at Madrid. Our next acquisition is 26 min-
utes away at Carnarvon, Australia. This is Skylab Control at
38 minutes after the hour.
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Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station is now coming
within range of the tracking antenna at Carnarvon. This
pass through Carnarvon and Honeysuckle with the exception
of a brief period of dropout in the middle, will last approx_
imately 15 minutes. Bring the line up live now for alr-to_
ground. Bruce McCandless is the spacecraft communicator and
Nell Hutchinson the flight director on duty. His shift goes
off at approximately 3 o'clock central standard time today
and a change-of-shift will be scheduled for sometime after
that. We're live now for air-to-ground at Carnarvon.
for 7 minutes. Over.
CC And also Honeysuckle, making a total of
14_i/2.
CDR Thank you, Bruce.
CC SPT, this is Houston. Over.
SPT Go ahead.
CC Okay, Ed, you probably wouldn't believe
everything that's been going on down here on the film loads
for your SO63 optional comet photography, but our desire is
that you load Bravo Victor 27 in - in KO2 if you want to
do the comet photography. And ii0 had been - we referenced
Bravo Victor 27 for use on the SO63 ozone ops if you run
low on film, and I guess our intent got buried down there
in that footnote; it's pretty obtuse. But if you want to
do it later on today, go ahead and use BV27 out of location
F33. Over.
SPT Bravo Victor 27 at 10:33. Okay.
CC And on NK03 which is tied up on TV 102,
I guess that's a problem on our part, hut if you want to
use it when it's not tied up for photography of the immiscable
liquids Iuess you'd have to remove the E2 ring and re_
configure it for your work and then give it back to Bill to
reconfigure for TV 102. Over.
SPT Roger, I had thought of doing that and
I think I declined because we had already gotten them some
exposures without filters. And I thought it best to go
ahead and try to get some work with the filters though. I'll
try and pick up some of that later today. We have it in
shop - continuing shopping list item,
CC Roger, we concur. I imagine it sort
of caught you by surprise to have the E2 tube in there.
We're going LOS right now. Our next station contact is
in 35 minutes through Bermuda at 16:52. See you there.
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CDR To keep the film guys happy, what's

the next IR roll we're going to use for film?
CC We'll have that for you at Bermuda.
Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station is now out of
range of the Honeysuckle Creek, Australia tracking antenna.
Our next acquisition is 33-1/2 minutes away at Bermuda. The
very end of that pass Jerry Carr asking a question about
infrared photo, I believe, and Bruce McCandless trying to
yell over the loss of signal that we can get them again at
Bermuda 33 minutes from now. This is Skylab Control.
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Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station is now over
Venezuela about to be acquired through the tracking antenna
at Bermuda. Pass over Bermuda will last about i0 minutes,
and we'll bring the line up live now for air-to-ground there.
CC Skylab, this is Houston. For the CDR,
first we'd like you to stay off the DAS for a couple of
moments while we give you a nuZ update, and reload the mo-
mentum biases consistent with JOP 18 Delta maneuver as
opposed to the corollary maneuver. And also, for anybody,
we showed a experiment i tape recorder still running since
the S183 operations, I wonder if you're through with it.
We need to dump it this pass. Over.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Bermuda
for 8-i/2 minutes. Do you read? Over.
CDR Hello Houston, Skylab. How do you read?
CC Roger. Loud and clear, Jerry. How me?
CDR Okay. We got you loud and clear. You're
clear to take the DAS and you can take the experiment tape
recorder.
CC CDR, Houston. We're through with the
DAS. It's yours again, and for the SPT, if you're free,
we've got a comment or two for you on JOP 18.
SPT He's listening, Bruce.
CC Okay, Ed. The problem that we've been
trying to resolve here is what you do if the comet is visi-
ble or if it is not visible. Okay. In step 14 of the pad
that we sent you it says the comet, if visible should be
at a position of minus i00 in X, plus 70 Y octal coordina_ts
on the overlay with the overlay at minus 6900 ROLL. Okay.
If it is visible then in step 16 you maneuver to place the
nucleus of the comet at X equal to minus 60 Y equal to
plus 70 on the overlay. If the comet is not, which may or
may not be an exact maneuver or at exact Delta from the
position we gave you in 14 - If the comet is not visible
in step 14 assume that it's at that position and when you
go on to step 16 you enter the Delta maneuvers, that is a
Delta from minus i00 in X to minus 60 in X which is an octal
Delta of plus 20, and no Delta in Y, then since you did not
see it we have the the center line of the ATM instruments
pointing on the anti-tail side of the comet nucleus, and
the maneuver that we gave you for use if the comet is not
visible would reposition the instruments so that the 82B
slit is pointed a quarter of a degree on the tail side of
the head. That is, you're looking at a change from one
side of the comet, through the nucleus, over to the other
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side and into the tail, and the 18 step 18 maneuver is a

Delta from the position in step 16, which is a Delta from
the assumed position in step 14, all if you can't see the
nucleus of the comet. If you can see the nucleus I don't
think we've got any problem. In step 16 you put in whatever
commands are necessary to locate it at X - X equal minus 60
and Y equals plus 70, and step 18 you put in whatever maneu-
vers are required to point it a quarter of a degree out
in the tail. Over.
SPT Okay Bruce. I understand what you're
saying. What was confusing though in step 18 was the
statement, "If comet is not visible perform fine maneuver
S182B and 55 in nucleus and then proceed to point at tail,"
and it gave the maneuver there, which I assume were the ones
to point you out into the tail, and that's what was confusing.
Thank you.
CC Okay, Ed. A further word on the thing.
The maneuver values that we uplinked to you on the tele-
printer when the 18D pad came up last night, were in fact
consistent with that statement. They were the values to
point you at the head of the comet, and you then had to do
another maneuver to point a quarter of a degree out into
the tail. The Delta, or the maneuver that we uplinked to
you by voice this morning was one maneuver to do the whole
thing at once_ and was intended as a replacement. Not as
a supplement to the teleprinter uplinked values. Over.
SPT Okay. Thank you_ Bruce.
CC Roger. We're sorry for the confusion.
PAO Skylab Control at 3 minutes and 20 se-
conds after the hour. We have loss of signal at Bermuda.
2_i/2 minutes to our next acquisition at Madrid. Skylab
astronauts up and at work at 3:20 a.m. central standard time
today completed a 3400-mile-long Earth resources pass from
the high plains of the western Sudan to the forests and
farms of Iran before 5 a.m. this morning. Just as they com_
pleted their Earth resources maneuver solar scientists on
the ground told Pilot Bill Pogue to keep his eyes open for
some dramatic changes in the Sun's atmosphere. A solar
observatory in the Canary Islands off west coast of Africa
reported a massive cool material tearing free of the Sun's
surface and moving out at a speed of i00,000 miles an hour.
Although ground observations saw the beginning of the event_
Skylab has special telescopes that can see the Sun's thin
atmosphere as far as 2-1/2 million miles above the surface.
Such detail can't be seen at all through the atmosphere of
the Earth. This morning Earth resources survey caused another
slight fluctuation in the performance of one of the space
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station's large attitude control gyroscopes. The wheel

slowed down by a fraction of a percent but now that has
returned to normal. Later in the morning some of the num-
bered displays that aid the astronauts in pointing small -
at small features on the Sun went blank. Jerry Carr made
a thorough checkout and had the central lighting system
working fine in a few minutes.
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PAO Now about i minute from acquisition of

signal at Madrid. We'll bring the line up live for Bruce
McCandless during a pass that will last about 8-1/2 minutes.
for 8 minutes, with a data/voice tape recorder dump. Over.
CC Skylab, this is Houston, 1 minute till
LOS. Next station contact in 25 minutes through Carnarvon,
at 17:40. Out.
PAO Skylab Control, at 17 hours 15 minutes
Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station is now over
eastern Europe. Our next acquisition is 23-1/2 minutes
away at Carnarvon. This is Skylab Control.
PAO Skylab Control, at 17 hours 38 minutes
Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station is about to be
acquired through the Carnarvon, Australia, trackin_ antenna.
Pass through Carnarvon will last about 10-1/2 minutes. There
will be a brief interruption and then we'll have 5-1/2 minutes
through Honeysuckle Creek, in Australia. Spacecraft
communicator is Bruce McCandless, and the flight director is
Nell Hutchinson.
and Honeysuckle Creek for 15-1/2 minutes. Out.
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CC Skylab, this is Houston, 1 minute until

LOS, next station contact in 31 minutes through Corpus Christi
at 18:25. And we're taking over the VTR at this time to
rewind and dump later. Over.
CDR Roger Bruce.
is now passing out of range of the Honeysuckle Creek antenna,
our next acquisition is 30 minutes away at Texas. During
this pass Pilot Bill Pogue was the subject of a medical
experiment that's underway, that's MI31, the human vestibular
function experiment which used the rotating litter chair.
Observer on the - the run of MI31 today is Science Pilot Ed
Gibson, so the final answer to space craft communicator was
from Jerry Cart. Cart right now is scheduled to be working
at the ATM panel. This is Skylab Control, 56 minutes
after the hour.
mean time. Texas acquisition coming up in 50 seconds. Almost
continuous tracking and communications possible during the
next 27 minutes or so. Texas, MILA, Bermuda with a gap over
to Madrid, and we'll stay up for all off them. Flight director
is Neal Hutchinson space craft communicator - stand by - yeah,
he's hidden down there, it's Bruce McCandless.
Christi, Merritt Island, and Bermuda for 14-1/2 minutes.
Out.
CDR Houston, CDR, on the last ATM pass I

missed an 82 Alfa 1 minute exposure. Looks like I'll have
a little time at the end of this pass would they like me to
pick it _ up?
CC We'll check.
CC CDR, this is Houston, that's affirmative
if you ican work it in, we'd like you to pick that 82A exposure
you mislsed earlier.
CbR Okay.
CC Skylab, this is Houston. When we get to
Bermud_ we'll be doing the data/voice recorder dump. Out.
CC Skylab, this is Houston. 1 minutes to LOS,
next station contact in 4-1/2 minutes through Madrid at 18:44.
Out.
PAO This is Skylah Control. Loss of signal

at Bermuda, reacquisition in 3 minutes at Madrid. Standing
by at 18:41 Greenwich mean time.
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for 6-1/2 minutes, out.
CC Skylab, this is Houston, 1 minute to
LOS, next station contact in 28 minutes through Carnarvon.
And for the CDR, I have a quick note here.
PLT He seems to be pretty busy on channel A,
can we take it?
CC Yeah, just tell him that handheld 170-9
optional's been scrubbed due to bad weather, that was laser
sighting at 20:04 over the U.S. next pass.
PLT Okay.
CC And see you at Carnarvon 19:19, out.
through Madrid. Space station Skylab groundtrack coming
down the GNC over Asia Minor. Groundtraek will carry it down
over oil country, Saudi Arabia. Next station in 26 minutes,
Carnarvon. 18:52 Greenwich mean time, Skylab Control.
mean time. Carnarvon, Australia followed by Honeysuckle
Creek tracking station, upcoming in about 45 seconds.
Standing by midway through revolution 3,361 for the space
station.
for 4-1/2 minutes, out.
CC Skylab, this is Houston 20 seconds to
LOS, next station contact in 6-1/2 minutes through
Honeysuckle Creek at 19:30, out.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through
Honeysuckle Creek for a minute and a half. Next station
contact will be Corpus Christi at 20:00 Zulu, with a data/voice
tape recorder dump, out.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Space station
Skylab over the hill from Honeysuckle Creek, next station
in 27 minutes Texas, overlapping coverage with Goldstone,
Merritt Island Launch Area, Bermuda and with a brief gap
over to Madrid. We'll return at that time. At 19:33 GMT
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PAO This is Skylab ControZ, 19:59 Greenwich

mean time. AOS Texas upcoming in 50 seconds, and a fairly
solid stateside pass through all the Continental Unl - U.S.
tracking stations, with a skip across the Atlantic
into Madrid tracking station. And we're standing by.
Christi, Merritt Island, and Bermuda for 16 minutes and
20 seconds, with a couple of short ones here for the CDR.
First off is a data/voice tape recorder dump, and the second
is at this pass we will be inhibiting the momentum dump
maneuver in preparation for JOP 18. This didn't make it
onto you schedule pad, but it should have no effect on the
time remaining clock. Over.
CDR Okay, Bruce. And somebody is recording
right now, wait just a second on that dump.
CC Okay, we_ll hold off.
CC And when ever you may have a minute or
so free we got a REG open circuit VOLTAGE ADJUST. It should
take about 5 seconds.
CDR Okay, go ahead.
CC Okay, BUS l, POT only, turn 25 degrees
counterclockwise, that's 25 degrees counterclockwise. Over.
CDR Okay, that's done.
CC Thank you. And it looks to us like the
voice recording has been terminated, can we go to dump?
CDR Affirmative.
CC Roger. Out.
CC And for the PLT, no response required
right now, but we got some procedures that will shorten up
the TV 102. I can get back to you later when you have a
free minute.
CDR Roger Bruce, he copied.
CC And a new pristine JOP 18 Delta pad is
on it's way up to you. It's either on board now or will
be in a couple of minutes with all the mods that we voiced
to you in it.
CC Plus one we haven't.
SPT Does it presume the ones that's been
changed or is it necessary to go through the whole pad?
CC It's a brand new pad.
CC The only things that were changed really
is that the change maneuver and the wording indicating that
you know if the comet is not visible this will point you at
the tail. And then right at the tail end of it we have modified
the procedure for during a nominal H-CAGE in the CMGs.
Instead of just throwing a nominal H_CAGE what we're asking
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you to do is to is DAS in to inhibit CMG control which puts

you over in TACS in and 3, 2, 2 deadband, then do the nominal
H-CAGE. And after the nominal H-CAGE reenable CMG control.
This is being done to avoid running the CMGs into gimbal
stops when they take out the attitude deviation following
the nominal H-CAGE. Over.
SPT Roger.
CC Those are the only two changes.
CC And the good news is that that's all
the hanky-panky with the APCS for today. The bad news is
that the as the Beta angle gets worse and worse we're going
to become more and more ingenious in our techniques for
managing the APCS and maybe even the bearing used. Out.
SPT Keep on trucking.
CC Tell your friend CMG number 2 to keep on
trucking, we're with you.
SPT (Garble)
CC And for the CDR, on building block 28
which we believe your running through at the present time.
It looks to us that SO54 is being run with the GRATING IN.
What we would like you to do is go ahead and complete the
sequence that your in - GRATING IN, and then if you would
please give us one more like the others, but with GRATING
OUT. Over.
CDR Will do it.
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SPT Houston, SPT.

CC Go ahead Ed.
SPT Rog, next time if you do change the
18, it would be, I think a lot simpler on everybody if you
just send up the steps which were changed.
CC Okay, we can do that. Our thought was
that rather than just send up a - a step and have you cut
and paste or rather than just send up a - a single page. And
of course a page to us is - is a segment that gets spliced
into yours without headers or anything like that, that it
would just be simpler for us to rerun the whole thing. Over.
SPT Bruce, I copy it all off onto the JOP
Summary Sheet and now it just means that I go through each
step make sure that there are no changes.
CC Okay, we copy that. And then for your
your reference, as far as I know down here the only changes
were in step 34 which is the last one_ and in step 18. Over.
SPT Roger, I copy.
CC Skylab, this is Houston; i minute to
LOS, next station contact in 5-i/2 minutes through Madrid at
20:21. Out.
CC Skylab, this is _ouston through Madrid
for 9 minutes. Out.
CDR Say again Bruce.
CC Roger, the Sun having set_ we wonder if
we could get you to replace the paper in the teleprinter in
about 4 minutes right after LOS? You should have on board
at that time the Flight Plan for tomorrow and three sets of
details. You might take a check and if you're missing anything
due to paper low or run out, let us know over Tananarive.
And if you could replace the paper, we_d appreciate it. Over.
CDR Okay, will do Bruce.
CC And I think Bill's probably tied up in
PT, but wonder if we could ask you to relay to him later with
respect to the AMS rotation problem. We gather from your
comments yesterday that Bill could see what appeared to be a
sprocket tooth floating around inside the rotation counter.
During the next operation which is S183 coming up here about
21:45, we'd llke him to inspect the 100's and 10's belt. In
looking at it he_ll notice the sprocket hole between the
numbers and the question we have is is there a sprocket tooth
engaged in the hole and when you turn the rotation crank does
the sprocket turn beneath the belt or does it remain stationary?
Over.
CDR Okay, we'll check it.
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CC Roger.
CC Skylab, this is Houston; i minute to
LOS, next station contact in 14 minutes through Tananarive
at 20:43. The VTR has been rewound and dumped, it is
completely clean and is yours for use with the comet later
on. And we would like to get that teleprinter roll change
after LOS here. Out.
through the Madrid station, Tananarive coming up in 12 minutes,
voice relay station at Tananarive. Flight Director Nell
Hutchinson estimates that he will be available for change-of-
shift briefing at 3:15 central time in the Houston newsroom.
Chan_e-of-shift briefing with Flight Director Neil Hutchinson
estimated time of 3:15. We'll return in 12 minutes for
Tananarive, this is Skylab Control at 20:31 GMT.
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mean time. Tananarive voice relay station in 50 seconds,
Meanwhile in the Mission Operations Control room or MOCR
as it's known in acronymese (sic) the change-of-shift
handover underway, Flight Director Neil Hutchinson handing
over to Milt Windler. The new Spacecraft Communicator will
be Story Musgrave replacing Bruce McCandless. Nell Hutchinson
has given an estimate of 3:15 p.m. for his change-of-shift
news briefing in the Houston newsroom, AOS in about
5 seconds at Tananarive voice relay station. Wetre standing
by.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through
Tananarive for 7 minutes, out.
SPT Houston, teleprinter roll is changed out.
CC Roger, thank you Ed.
CC And SPTp Houston did you get all the
flight plans we sent the big one and then the three sets
of the three details.
SPT Yeah, we still had paper left and
everything that came out looked good.
CC Right, thank you.
CC Skylab, this is Houston. 2 minutes
to LOS, we may lose you a little bit early though here at"
Tananarive. Next station contact in 18 minutes through
Honeysuckle Creek at 21:08. I guess the word for today is
keep on trucking.
PAO This is Skylah Control. Loss of signal
from voice relay station at Tananarive. 16 minutes to
Honeysuckle Creek. This is Skylab Control at 20:51 with
a change_of-shift briefing coming up at 3:15 central time,
the Houston newsroom witk Flight Director Nell Hutchinson.
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mean time. A brief pass of 2-1/2 minutes over Honeysuckle,
coming up in about 40 seconds. Following that the llne will
be shut down for the change-of-shlft briefing, estimated
time of 3:15 for Flight Director Nell Hutchinson and Robert
Pace of Marshall Space Flight Center. This is in the Houston
newsroom. Standing by for AOS Honeysuckle.
CC Skylab, AOS Honeysuckle, for a couple
of minutes.
SPT Hello Story.
CC Hi.
CC Bill, Houston.
CDR He's on the treadmill Story, he's listening.
CC Okay, on his TV 102. After the 10-hour
photo preform step 6, that's a centrifuge and photograph
again. And then that will complete the procedure. We're
going to delete the 24-hour photo. So it's after the 10-hour
photo perform step 6, that's the centrifuge and phot 9 again.
And then he's finished.
CDR Okay, he copies. He says he did not
take a photograph after the last centrifuge that he did,
he put that on television. And he'll take a photo this time.
CC Okay, I wouldn't bother him now_ but I
know that 10-hour is coming up pretty soon.
CC Skylab, we're 30 seconds to LOS. We'll
see you at Goldstone, over 21 - at 21:35, that's about
26 minutes. We'll be dumping the data/voice there.
PAO Skylab Control, loss of signal from
Honeysuckle Creek, Australia, tracking station. Signing
off until after the change-of-shift briefing with Flight
Director, Nell Hutchinson. This is Skylab Control at
21:10 Greenwich mean time.
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mean time. We're in acquisition at Goldstone and there's
been several seconds of air-to-ground, 2-i/2 minutes they
tell me of air-to-ground conversation during the press
conference which we_ll play back at this time and be in
a catchup mode to go llve.
CC Skylab, AOS Goldstone, Texas 12 minutes
CC Jet, Houston.
PLT He's listening Story.
CC Well, maybe I can talk to you Bill.
It was an oversight on our part, we dldn_t tell you on
the pad to do an EREP tape measurement, we wonder if you
did and if you did what is it?
PLT Stand by, be right down. 2.5 centimeters.
CC 2.5, thank you. And who is the expert
on the Australian fires last night?
PLT We didn't see them Story.
CC Okay, you did take a look the next rev
after we went off for them?
PLT Yes, we were a little late and we did
not see them. It's not certain whether or not just because we
were a little hit late or whether they - (garble) appeared.
CC Okay.
SPT Hello, Story how are you today?
CC l'm fine Ed, how are you?
SPT Just barely able to see a comet. The
only way I can see it is when you get it out to the very
edge of the display and you move it and it's Just like
moving noise on the scope. I was able to pick it up,
however and got it located and we are doing the work on
the tail right now. I - from the only information I got
previously, I conclude that what I was suppose to do
was go from the position of which I had, which I reaffirmed
after the long exposure from the first building block that
was minus 60 and plus 70 and enter a 50105, 51105 and
about 50000. _oping I had no traverse I actually put that
negative in X and positive in Y. I think it would be useful
to have the location in which I was to put the nucleus and
that might have made it a little more straight forward.
CC Okay, thanks Ed, we're real glad to have
that information.
CDR Looks like itts snowed on the Grand Canyon
in the last couple of days.
SPT Story, your original pointing put it
somwkere around minus 60 in X and plus 30 in Y and it was a
little difficult to see. I had to move out - move it out quite
a bit.
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TIME: 1543 CST, 49:21:43 GMT
1/3/74
CC Okay. And when you get a chance no

hurry, look over there and see how your teleprinter
messages are coming out after the paper change.
CDR Thank you Story, will do.
CDR They all look good Story.
CC Thanks.
CC through Bermuda.
CC Skylab, back with you for 6 minutes
through Bermuda.
SPT Hello, Story could you tell us how the
audio came out on TV 81.
CC Will do.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC1692/I
Time: 15:52 CST 49:21:52 GMT
1/3/74

to Canary.
CC Skylab, AOS Canaries for 8 minutes. And
Ed your audio on TV 81 was excellent.
SPT Very good. Thank you Story.
PLT Story, PLT.
CC Go ahead, Bill.
PLT Status report on the AMS rotation indicator.
Earlier question from ground was, does the sprocket gear
driving the 10's and 100's digits move when you change
rotation drive? Answer, negative. I just set up for S183
and watched carefully below the belt that is sort of standing
above sprocket or seems to appears to be, and the sprocket
gear did not turn.
CC Got it Bill.
PLT And of course that's only for the
10's and 100's digits. The other two are working, the
units and the one-tenths.
CC Roger.
PLT Houston_ PLT.
CC Go ahead, Bill.
PLT Question on science gimbal kit. There
is in the can containing the items that are used for science
demo kit a vial containing a colorless liquid. Is that
liquid alcohol?
CC If you'd asked that a few days ago lld
understand your intensions.
PLT Yeah, I just got a few guffaws here from
my compadres.
CC Got a few more down here.
PLT If I would have thought carefully I
would have worded that question differently. No, I need
to clean some surfaces with alcohol. I used some - I stole
a swab out of the tape recorder cleaning kit this morning
to prepare a surface. But I ran across this vial and I
didn't it didn't have a fable on it or anything. I was
just wondering if I could use it.
CC It's okay_ Bill.
CC Skylab, we're a minute to LOS, i0 minutes
to Tananarive.
through the Canary Islands and Madrid tracking stations.
Nine minutes until space station Skylab comes over voice
relay station at Tananarive. At 22:09 GreenwicE mean timep
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC-1693/I
Time: 16:18 CST 49:22:18 GMT
1/3/74
PAO This is Skylab Control, voice relay station

Tananarive. Hopefully we'll lock onto the space station
Skylab with its antenna in 40 seconds. And we're standing
by.
CC Skylab, AOS Tananarive for 5 minutes.
CDR Roger Story, and ED31 prep is complete,
it took an extra 30 minutes. It seems to be more the rule
than not with these ED experiments, suggest maybe we have the
planners add a little bit more time to the first runthrough
on some of these things, they seem to be real time eaters.
CC Okay, the FAO copies that Jer.
CC And we're 2 minutes until LOS, 20 minutes
to Honeysuckle at 22:43.
CC And for Bill_ no need to acknowledge_ we
know you're running S183. That colorless liquid silver nitrate
we are looking for some alcohol for you.
PAO This is Skylab Control_ LOS for the final
time this evening through voice relay station at Tananarive,
next station in 14 minutes will be Honeysuckle Creek, Australia.
Immediately following their lunch period Friday Skylab Commander
Jerry Carr and Pilot Bill Pogue will operate the Earth resources
experiment package instruments for a survey covering parts
of Mexico, the Gulf Coast of the United States including the
Houston area up through New England and out into the North
Atlantic ending in the Bay of Biscay off the French port of
Bordeaux. Ground planners expect a minimum of thruster
propellant to be used in the maneuver to bring the Skylab's
Earth looking sensors into the right position. Presently
eight minimum impulse burns or about 37 pound seconds of gas
are estimated to be required. Jerry Carr will operate the
EREP control and display panel and Pogue will operate the
visual tracking system. The VTS is used to align the S191
multispectral scanner. All five of the Earth resources
instruments will be used for tomorrow's pass which will be
looking at mineral resources in Mexico, land classification
in Texas, geology and hydrology in Maine, and the upper
atmosphere over Nova Scotia. The sea surface in the North
Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico will also be scanned in
efforts to see if _eather, sea ti _ weather and sea foam
densities and water surface conditions have direct relationship
with each other. 14 mandatory and ii desirable test sites make
up tomorrow's EREP pass. One of the sites is a cloud view over
the continental United States and is 1 of 7 sites which remained
incomplete as a result of Bill Pogues_s accidentally leaving
the SI90A filters off for the first few EREP passes. A C130
aircraft will be taking low altitude truth data over the North
Atlantic in support of Skylab's remote sensor data. Currently
SL-IV MC-1693/2
Time: 16:18 CST 49:22:18 GMT
1/3/74
the groundtrack for tomorrow's EREP is completely socked in by

almost I00 percent cloud cover, however this is expected to
change by noon Friday in time for the pass. Some of the
sites and investigators involved in tomorrow:s EREP pass
include W.G. Hart of the U.S. Department of Agriculture who
is looking at insect infestation and detection of it in the
lower Rio Grande Valley. Dr. C.L. Wiegand of the Department
of Agriculture
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC1694/I
TIME: 16:31 CST, 49:22:31 GMT
1/3/73
PAO W. G. Hart of the U. S. Department of

Agriculture who is looking at insect infectation and a
detection of it in the lower Rio Grande Valley. Dr. C.L.
Weigand of the Department of Agriculture is looking at saline
soil mapping in Hidalgo and Cameron Counties in Texas.
V. I. Myers of the Remote Sensing Institute of South Dakota State
University is looking at techniques for identfying physical
and thermal characteristics of plants and soil in test area
in Weslaco, Texas. Dr. Luis Del Castillo of the Geophysical
Explorational Institute of Mexico is looking at data to
determine the usefulness of Skylab data for detecting metals
in an area around Durango, Mexico. Dr. R. K. Moore,
University of Kansas is looking at techniques development
for Spacecraft - future generation spacecraft instruments.
And over the main test site, Dr. - Ernest G. Stoekler of
Maine State Highway Commission is looking at Skylab or will
look at Skylab data from S190A and B and S192 for detecting -
identifying of land surface features as they are related
to geology, hydrogology and geography. We will return in
9 minutes for tke Honeysuckle tracking station pass. And at
22:34 Greenwich mean time, this is S kylab Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC1695/I
Time: 16:42 CST 49:22:42 GMT
1/3/74
PAO This is Skylab Control, AOS upcoming

at Honeysuckle Creek, Australia, tracking station in
50 seconds. Revolution 3383 at it's midpoint about this
time, halfway around the world from where the space station
was launched last Hay. We're standing by for AOS Honeysuckle
Creek.
CC Skylab, we're a minute from LOS, ii minutes
to Hawaii at 23:03.
mean time. Loss of signal from Honeysuckle Creek, Australia,
tracking station. Nine and a half minutes to reaequisition
at Hawaii. Back on the EVA on December 29th the crew
reported that a protective shield or clip had apparently
been knocked off by an umbilical, from the experiment $230
magnetospheric composition experiment. And the - some erroneous
newspaper accounts in Europe were read by one of the
co-investigators, Dr. Johannes Geiss, of the University of
Bern, Switzerland, who cabled to Astronaut Scientist,
Dr. Don Lind, his co-investigator in this country on that
experiment, inquiring as to whether only the clip was
missing or the whole experiment. Apparently the impression
was given of some of the stories that the experiment has been
knocked loose and was lost. Don Lind cabled back to Dr. Geiss
the following teletype, "On the December 29 EVA the crew reported
that the protective shield for experiment $230 was missing. The
assumption is that it was inadvertently knocked off by an
umbilical cable during the closeout of the December 25th
EVA. Pictures were taken of $230 on December 24th, so we
will be able to verify that the shield was in place at that
time. We asked the crew to inspect the collectors for
deformation and scratches. They reported that there were
none, so the collectors are in good shape. The only effect
of this mishap is that the shielded area of the collector,
which was to have been exposed starting December 29, actually
was exposed December 25. The exposure time will be change
by less than I0 percent. But since the geomagnetic activity
was very low when Skylab was near the auoral arc during
those four days, the number of collected particles will
not be changed at all. That means there is only a four
day increase in the exposure time of the foil that was
covered by the clip that was knocked loose. Rather like
a piece of venetian blind metal stripping over the foil
portion of the cylindrical foil experiment. And the intent
was to remove it on the December 29 EVA and bring back the
experiment on the final EVA in early February. Six minutes
SL-IV MC1695/2
Time: 16:42 CST 49:22:42 GMT
1/3/74
to reacquisition at tracking station Hawaii. At 22:56

Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC-1696/I
Time: 17:02 CST 49:23:02 GMT
1/3/74
PAO This is Skylab Control; 23:02 Greenwich

mean time. Acquisition through tracking station Hawaii in
50 seconds. And we'll stay up across the States and through
Canaries and Ascension for about the next 49 minutes. Skylab
Control standing by.
CC Skylab, AOS through Hawaii for 9 minutes
and we saw you just finish a tweak maneuver Ed and at your
convenience we need the DAS for i minimum bias.
SPT Okay, could you hold up a minute, Story,
l'm Just maneuvering out to get a look at the nucleus and move
it back in.
CC Okay.
SPT Okay Story, the DAS is yours,
CC Thanks Ed.
CC Bill, Houston.
PLT Go Story.
CC Wetre having a little trouble locating
some alcohol, if you tell us what you're trying to clean maybe
we can help you out some.
PLT Trying to clean the surface of the spider
cage per the procedures for one of those scientific demos. I
got it clean enough I think with one of the cloth - tape
recorder cleaning cloths. I was thinking of maybe cleaning
the larger surface and I thought maybe since they had specified
alcohol in the procedure, they had an idea of where there was
some.
CC Okay, thanks, we'll keep looking.
CC DAS is yours Ed,
SPT Thank you.
CC Skylab, we're a minute from LOS and 4
minutes to Goldstone.
Goldstone for 7 minutes.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC-1697/I
Time: 17:17 CST 49:23:17 GMT
i/3/74
SPT Story, you can go ahead and tell you the

S054 people we have all the changes into the JOP Summary
Sheet so they can send it up just in a nominal fashion from
now on.
CC Okay, thanks Ed.
CC Skylab, we're a minute from LOS; see you
over Bermuda in 4 minutes.
CC Skylab, back with you through Berumuda
for 8 minutes.
SPT Houston, SPT.
CC Go ahead Ed.
SPT (Garble) see the rates buildup bearing X,
I'm wondering if we had a gimbal positioning problem.
CC That's affirm, you got an outer gimbal
drive at that point, you're looking good Ed.
CC Skylab, we're a minute from LOS; 2 minutes
Canaries. Be dumping the data/voice at Canaries and we'll
be ready for the evening statis report.
CDR Okay, and Ed's getting ready for the family
call.
CC Okay, we knew he was busy with JOP 18D
so we're going to put it off to Carnarvon at 00:18, if that's
okay.
CDR Well, he's already in there, I'm doing
the finishing up the i the 18D for him.
CC Okay, that'll be fine.
CDR Okay.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC1698/I
TIME: 17:35 CST, 49:23:35 GMT
1/3/74

Canaries and Ascension for 17 minutes, be dumping the data/voice
here.
CDR Okay, ready for evening status?
CC Stand by just i.
CDR Okay and we'll be coming down with all
but the photo log, we might have to catch that at Canary at
the next pass, did you say Canaries?
CC The med conference is coming up at
Ascension at 23:44, the next one will be Carnarvon at 00:18.
CDR Okay, we'll - we'll see if we can get it
in time.
CC Okay, go ahead on the evening status.
CDR Okay, I'ii be stopping once in awhile
to swing out and take a look at the rates.
CC Okay.
CDR Okay, Sleep: CDR, 4.0, 4.0 heavy;
SPT, 4.5, 3 heavy, 1.5 light, PLT, 5.0, 5.0 heavy. Volume:
900, 750_ 1450. Water gun: 8106, 31 3986, and 0033.
Body mass is: 6.327, 6.325, 6.321; SPT, 6.356, 6.358, 6.357;
PLT, 6.227, 6.225, 6.230.
CC Okay, now we can watch the shop while
you're giving us the report now Jerry.
CDR Okay, exercise: CDR, no change; SPT,
no Alfa; PLT, no change. Medication: CDR, Sudafed; SPT,
Dalmane; PLT, none. Those are one Sudafed and one Dalmane.
Okay_ the clothing is: none, none and none. Flight Plan
deviations: ED31 took 30 minutes extra, no MlSl was run on
M092/171. Shopping llst accomplishments: M47-1A, B and C,
Ii locations and it's on tape at 03:00. CDR taste test,
samples 4 thru 6, taped at 16:00 Zuln; SPT, complete Alfa,
Romeo, Tango on tape at 16:35. Housekeeping, all the
housekeeping for today was - well it was 7 Delta that's been
done and 3 Alfa will be done tonight. Inoperable equipment:
S183 carrousel i-i, during the sinking operation when you
pick your finger in the hole and llne up the - the - the
PLT Alignment mark.
CDR - - the alignment mark, the little E-clip
came out and allowed the spring to pop out and the E-clip is
broken, we can not get the spring back in and we can not
find another E-clip of proper size. unscheduled stowage, none.
Food log: salt pack, 6.0_ deviations, minus i coffee with
sugar, rehydration water plus 1.5; for the SPT, zero, zero,
and zero; for the PLT, 1.5 salt, zero deviations and minus
1.0 rehydration water. And we'll have the photo log for you
in a few minutes.
CC Okay, Jerry, thanks.
SL-IV MC1698/2
TIME: 17:35 CST, 49:23:35 GMT
1/3/74
CDR Okay, I've got the photo log now.

CC Go.
CDR Okay, 16-millimeter, Uniform Alfa 4 is
the - S183 as 85 percent remaining. 35-millimeters,
Nikons i, Charlie X-ray 39, 481 2 Bravo Victor 27, 37;
3 Charlie India iii_ 58; 4, no change; 5, no change. 70-milli-
meter, Charlie X-ray 52, 150. ETC, no change. EREP, set Tango
8918, 8256, 9132_ 9125, 2668, 9992. Drawer A configuration: no
change.
CC Okay.
CC And Jer, we won't be handing over for
the medical conference until this maneuver is complete so
we can follow it to completion.
PLT Story, PLT.
CC Go ahead Bill.
PLT Yeah, would you pass the word along to
Rudy Rusnick that I'm sorry about that. We don't have anything
against that experiment. That was just a goof on my part.
CC Okay, go it. And Jerry when you're
in the vicinity, we could get the frames remaining on the
ATM.
CDR Okay, 13962, 4977_ 167, 430, 5252 and
4506.
CC Okay. And Jerry, I'd like to talk over
some checklist philosophy with you, we_ve got a lot of changes
here because we're flying with 82B and the XUV monitor door
is open all the time. And it would take an awful lot of
changes to get both the checklist and the _u_ cards updated
precisely. What we're thinking down here is we probably
what we only ought to update your cue cards and only those
things where we have switch throwing as opposed to update
all the places where the talkbacks will be inconsistence
with your readings -
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC-1699/I
Time: 17:43 CST 49:23:43 GMT
i/3/74
CC - - probably only ought to up date your

oue cards and only those things where we have switch throwing
as opposed to updating all the places where the talkbacks
will he inconsistent with your readings up there. And we
feel that you'le well aware of the position of the doors and
with respect to all the checklists and all we don't feel like
we should be updating all the talkback changes, if you want
us to we can.
CDR We'd prefer not to, I think let's go the
easiest route we can, that's - all that is just bean counting.
CC Yes sir, that's the way we feel so we'll
Just take a look at just the cue cards that we know you're
using as opposed to the checklists and Just change the ones
that actually have switch operations.
CDR That sounds fine Story.
CC And how about for other parts of the
mission aside from 82B and XUV monitor, you think that's a
good philosophy to follow?
CDR Yeah, I do, I don't think we're likely to
get burned doing things like that. XUV MON- (comm dropout)
CC Jer, we broke up there while we were
handing over.
CDR Okay, I said I agree with you, I think it's
a good idea. And XUV MON is another one that's in the same
boat.
CC Yeah.
CDR Okay, and do you want this nominal H-CAGE
to be on time or just when the rates are damped out, they
are pretty low right now.
CC Do it right now Jet.
CDR Okay, I'ii just pick up the procedure and
ignore the times and go right down the line.
CC That'll he fine Jer.
CC And be sure to zero the strap downs first.
CDR You want to do it first?
CC Stand by i.
CC Jer, just follow the checklist and youlre
correct, get the CAGE first.
CDR Okay.
PLT Houston, PLT.
CC Go ahead Bill.
PLT Roger, I did the carrousel i-i ops which is
a long or fairly lengthy procedure we're supposed to go
through in taking the carrousel off and also there's one step
in here where one of the - I think - it impl_es at least, one
of the plates was supposed to be pulled from the carrousel
SL-IV MC-1699/2
Time: 17:43 CST 49:23:43 GMT
1/3/74
before I took dis - before I took the carrousel off. And then
afterwards I was supposed to go through a procedure which
would, I think eject the plates. Now I have gone through the
procedure down past three I'ii read 3 or 4 steps here so
the people that are listening will know where I - what I'm
talking about. Power switch on, plate advance reset,
plates advance off, (after plate indicates 01, power
switch off, and install blank door.) Well, I did not get a
plate pulled from the carrousel and I'm not sure if was
supposed to have occurred prior to this or when, in any event no
plate came out. And that's what I wanted to report.
CC Okay Bill.
CC And Rudy says no problem on the M51, we'll
.schedule it later.
PLT I can get it next time.
SPT Say Story, I think I agree with your
original call on doing the strap down initialization before this,
won't we have comparable to the TACS deadband when we finally
do initializing item strap down?
CC Stand by i.
CC Ed, that's correct and it'll only be a
couple of degrees and it would take care of itself once you
get into sunset and the acquisition Sun sensors take out
the errors.
SPT Thank you Story.
CC And Ed, sorry about the schedule on that
phone call, I did that myself. I was working on three constraints,
the Flight Plan, the constraints on Julie being home and also
the site passes.
SPT That's all right Story, I was able to work
around it. Thank you.
CC Yeah, we tried - we wanted to keep you at
the console throughout the maneuver if we could.
SPT Well, I got Jerry up here and explained to
him where we were so we picked up and we didn't leave anything
on the console.
CC Yeah.
CC And we're ready for you to enable to CMGs,
we got about 30 seconds to LOS here, the next station is
Carnarvon in 27 minutes that'll be at 00:18. That'll be your
medical conference, and we plan to put you to bed over
Honeysuckle at 00:23.
CDR I think we're ready for the bed tonight.
CC Okay, it'll be the other way around though.
We're going to be talking to you at Carnarvon at 00:18, the
mad conference will be 00:23.
SPT Story, it looks as though it might be all
SL-IV MC-1699/3
Time: 17:43 CST 49:23:43 GMT
113174
right after all because I let the CMGs take out the attitude
error before I initialized the strap down here.
CC That's fine Ed.
CDR Hey Story, tell Dr. Hordinsky to brush up
on his lullabies.
CC Okay, will do.
through Honeysuckle Creek - I beg your pardon, through Ascension
Island tracking station. The medical conference which had
been scheduled at Ascension was delayed until Honeysuckle later
this revolution and the final signoff will be at Carnarvon
just prior to the medical conference. This signoff at 6
o'clock or slightly thereafter is in keeping with the crews
position of "don't call us, we'll call you for the hour prior
to bedtime and the hour after arising in the morning. We'll
return for that final conversation over Carnarvon in 24 minutes.
This is Skylab Control at 23:54 Greenwich mean time.
END OF TAPE

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SL-IV MCI600/I

Time: 05:36 CST, 47:11:36 GMt

PAO Skylab Control at Ii hours 36 minutes and

a little after 5 o'clock central standard time, about 45

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

PAO Skylab Control at 12 hours 35-1/2 minutes

PLT Yes. First tape I hear you did say a

PAO Skylab Control at 13 hours 13 minutes

PLT (Garble) are you taking pictures of I wonder?

CDR What - are we swinging across to land-

CDR Yes. Nlcotlne hangover or something.

CDR - - the light on. And a hack. On my

PLT I'm painting down the Niger River.

PLT No so much, but I'm starting to pick

CDR You got 45 seconds, Bill.

PAO Skylab Control at 14 hours ii minutes

CC We wanted the CO monitor done yesterday,

CC Bill, our understanding on this is that

PAO Skylab Control at 14 hours 23 minutes

PAO Skylab Control at 14 hours 51 minutes

PAO Skylab Control at 15 hours ll minutes

PAO Skylab Control at 15 hours, 59 minutes, and

SPT Okay, I see. Very good. Thank you.

PAO Skylah Control at 16 hours 50 minutes

PAO Skylab Control at 17 hours 29 minutes.

PAO Skylab Control at 18 hours 17 minutes

problem but if holding it in position is a problem you might

SPT Okay. What time will that be available?

CC Skylab, this is Houston through Madrid

PAO This is Skylab Control, 19:48 Greenwich

what do you say I go ahead and do the urine sample bag

CC Skylab, this is Houston through Madrid

for 40 minutes. Other solar instruments being used in this

PAO This is Skylab Control 20:47 Greenwich

PLT Could be that I'm off the limb to far

PA0 This is Skylab Control, 21:49 Greenwich

CC Okay, step 4 maneuver time, 50010 for

PAO This is Skylab Control, 22:07 Greenwich

PAO This is Skylab Control. 22:33 Greenwich

halfway around on revolution 3354. Hawaii in 13 minutes,

PAO This is Skylab Control, 22:53 Greenwich

And we had already figured that we lost all that recording

CC Skylab, AOS through Bermuda, 5 minutes.

SPT Bill, I'd just make a comment on your

SPT - - yeah, the whole pile of those things

CC It's both. It's for dispersion and it also

PAO Tananarive voice relay station, final

CC Skylab, we're a minute from LOS, see you

PAO This is Skylab Control. 8 minutes after

wondering would it be accessible (?) to leave the loop flowing

PAO This is Skylab Control. 29 minutes past

CC And Ohio State's on the 2 yard llne.

CC Ed your maneuver time looks good.

CC Skylab, back with you through Goldstone

CC Skylab, back with you through Canaries

MCC He didn't tell you that he left early.

CC Okay, I'll catch him when he gets

PAO This is Skylab Control, 01:41 Greenwich

SPT No, I know what they're looking for

PAO Skylab Control, a minute and 50 seconds

CC Skylab, we're a minute from LOS and

PAO This is Skylab Control. During the

PAO This is Skylab Control, 03:17 Greenwich