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SL-IV MC2100/I

TIME: 14:48 CDT, 60:19:48 GMT


1/14/74

PAO Skylab Control, 19 hours, 48 minutes


Greenwich mean time. Now about 10-1/2 minutes away from
acquisition through the tracking station in Hawaii. We have
about 2 minutes of recorded air-to-ground over this previous
pass over Honeysuckle. We'll bring that to you now.
CC Skylab, Houston through Honeysuckle for
7-1/2 minutes.
PLT Roger, Hank.
CC And, Skylab, for info, the coolant loops
performed beautifully. We're all back to normal now.
PLT Very good.
CC SPT, Houston. If we can have a DAS, we'll
crank in a nuZ update.
SPT You have it, Hank.
CC SPT, Houston. Whenever it's convenient, I
have a I have an update for the S019 maneuver pad and it's
due to the fact that the nuZ chan_ed a little bit when we did
that update this morning with the sextant.
SPT I'ii be with you in a couple of minutes,
Hank.
CC Okay, just give me a call whenever it's
convenient. SPT, the DAS is yours.
SPT Okay, Hank, go ahead with the chan_e in
the fine maneuver.
CC Okay, the fine maneuver should be X 50003,
makin_ that a plus 103. The Y should be 51144, makln_ that a
minus 1.00 and the Z 51120, making that a minus 0.80 80.
SPT Okay, Hank, the maneuvers are 50003, 51144,
51120 for a plus 103, minus 1.00, minus 0.0 minus 0.80.
CC Roger. Good read back.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 30 seconds
from LOS. Hawaii at 59 and that*s about 13 minutes.
PAO Skylab Control, 19 hours, 50 minutes
Greenwich mean time. That concludes the recorded air-to-ground.
ScZence Pilot Ed Gibson should be at the ATM C&D panel right
now observing the Sun. Earlier today the Sun's active region
23 produced it's first flare. According to the Science people
here at Mission Control, it was a sub-faint, no X-ray flare and
it peaked at 14:31 Greenwich mean time. That region is still
growin_ and has developed a broad but short filament. Imagine
Ed Gibson will be watching that pretty _losely. We're now
about 7_i/2 minutes away from acquisition throuKh tracking
station in Hawaii. At Greenwich mean time 19:51, this is
Skylab Control.

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SL-IV MC2101/I
Time: 14:57 CDT, 60:19:57 GMT
1/14/74

PAO Skylab Control 19 hours 57 minutes


Greenwich mean time. Space station is now nearing
acquisition through Hawaii. This pass over the United
States will go through Goldstone, Flordia, and Bermuda
Just barely missing Texas as it goes over Canada during
that portion of the revolution. We'll hold the line up
live for acquisition of signal about 30 seconds from now.
CC Skylab, Houston, through Hawaii for
9 minutes.
SPT Hello_ Hank. Around 4 minutes ago we
had a outer gimbal 3 on the STOP. Took us off the Sun and -
at the reasonable rate, went to STANDBY, 3 minute maneuver
time, selected SI, and we're just working our way back there
now.
CC Okay, good show, Ed. We - we saw that
you'd had a - had something happen there when we came AOS.
SPT Hank, if you folks can foresee something
like that coming up, at least a possibility of it, you might
alert us of it. I think we can handle it a little faster.
CC Okay, I guess this is one we didn't
foresee Ed. We - we thought there might be a possibility
of some deset fires but we sure didntt think this was
going to happen.
SPT HT looked pretty good_ it was down there
around 25 30 percent or so, but outer gimbal 3 was
(garble) high.
CDR Hankp the SOl9 prep is complete. I
cycled one frame, extended one frame. And I didn't like
the feel of it. It's not - it felt very very rough and I
had to use a very very high force in order to get it into
the slide or track position. I'm not so confident that
we're going to be able to make muc_ use of this thing, I
get the feeling that we could have another one of those
jam ups anytime.
CC Okay, we copy, Jerry.
CDR Feels llke therets something definitely
dropped out of alignment now, and you Just can't get it
in the slide retract position without forcing it. I
figure sooner or later we're going to have a crunch like
on the other one.
CC Okay, you may be right. I guess the
only thing we can do is just press ahead and try it_ till
we can't use it anymore. AI _ along that line_ awhile ago you
voiced up to us that - or down to us that the - when you
had the discone number i centered up. And I assume you
the counter then at 00, that the discone was at the 6 o_clock
position and before, I guess it's been a week or so ago
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Time: 14:57 CDT, 60:19:57 GMT
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when we did this alignment check, when the numbers read


0.0, the last two digits. We had copied that the discone
was at 6:30. Now is there has there been a shift as you
recall in the location of that discone when the counter
reads 0.07
CDR That's affirmative, Hank. That's why
I made that comment. The discone is - is now to the right
by (garble) it earlier was at 6:30 or 7 o'clock and
now it's at 6:30 - I mean at 6. So, we've definitely had a
shift in what O0 is reading, not much but it's a shift.
CC Jerry, at the conclusion of your SO19
ops today, would you mind if - if giving us another check
on that?
CDR Sure will. The way I figure if you
get a little shift on an object up close that means a big
shift on an object way out. Maybe I _ my thinking's foggy
or something here, but if the dlscone which is only a few
feet away shifts, something llke 2 or S feet then it seems
to me a star is going to shift a whole bundle.
CC Well, that's right. And angular shift
llke that could cause us to miss a target.
CDR That's right.
CC Skylab, Houston, we would like to
dump some more of the VTR off here this stateside pass,
to help us in our measurements. And we're rewinding now,
and it'll be available to you again after this CONUS pass.
SPT Thank you, Hank.
CC And Ed, co - if you can answer a
couple of quick questions for you in regard to your comments
on the clarity of the H-alpha i. What was the clarity
after the back to back EREP pass? Could you tell any
difference, had it - did it get a little better after not
using it for awhile?
SPT Hank, I don't definitely recall it as
being real bad or real good. That was not on my mind at
the time. So I guess I can't give you a real good answer.
CC Okay, have you noticed any degredation
of _ of other instruments on the same monitor?
SPT No, I can't really - the monitor I
don_t think is the problem. Although, I shouldn't say that.
We_ve never really have run a test to verify that. And H-alpha
is about the only display other than white light eoronagraph
(garble) detail and a certain extent of - -

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SL-IV MC2102/I
TIME: 15:06 CDT, 60:20:06 GMT
1114/74

SPT (garble) is about the only display other


than WHITE LIGHT CORONAGRAPH and really look for a detail
then, and it certainly stands out very clearly in H-ALPHA.
That'_s H_ALPHA i on MONITOR i.
CC Roger. H-ALPHA i, MONITOR i, we copy.
CDR Hank, would you send up another copy of
chan_e 005 to the Maneuver Experiment Checklist and logs?
CC Okay, we_ll do it.
CDR Thank you.
SPT Hank, when we got the gimbal on a stop
and moved off of the position, we were pointed for
the first building block 28. We were about halfway through
that building block, (garble) standard but not complete.
And we have just started taking exposures for 54 and on 56.
l_ve not gone back and tried to redo that because the time
is just starting on the second building block 28 out here
on the llmb. If they'd like me to go back and try to get
that sometime later today, if at all possible I will.
CC Okay. WeVll - we'll talk about it and
have word for you at Goldstone. We're about 20 seconds from
LOS. Goldstone will be comin_ up in 3 minutes at ii.
PAO Skylab Control, 20 hours 8 minutes
Greenwich mean time. Now less than 2_i/2 minutes away from
reacqulsitlon through Goldstone. Flight Director Charles Lewis
has indicated that he'll be ready for a change-of-shift
briefing in the briefing room in Building i at 4:15 p.m.
central daylight time. We_ll hold the line up for this
brief LOS period. Goldstone coming up in less than 2 minutes
now.
CC Skylab, Houston through Goldstone for
5 minutes and the maneuver load looks good.
CC CDR, Houston. Your - your change 5 to
the maneuver and checklist is onboard, and the Flight Plan and
details got there ahead of it. And as a reminder, you've got
your private call at 20:20, the next site. We're about i minute
from LOS now. We'll be coming up on Bermuda in 5 minutes.
CDR Okay, thanks a lot, Hank.
PAO Skylab Control, 20 hours, 17 minutes
Greenwich mean time. Spacestation now over Canada out of
range of the Goldstone tracking antenna. Reacquistion
through Merritt Island tracking station in Florida in about
3 minutes. Earlier comment by Commander Carr that he was
having problems with the $019 film cannister advance lever. This
particular cannister is the first one that was used on this
mission. They%re had problems with it before. It was set
aside and on Mission day 58, 57 rather, Bill Pogue indicated
that he had problems with the second film cannister. And
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TIME: 15:06 CDT, 60:20:06 GMT
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then the next day, that would be this past Saturaday on


mission day 58, he performed a malfuction procedure on the
cannister. That cannister eventually broke completely though.
Unfortunate chain of circumstances with this particular
experiment. The film is held on thin metal strips by a
nylon sleeve and according to principal investigator
Karl Henize, the nylon sleeve is probably the problem.
As it's getting stuck with the levers which retract exposed
film and replace it with unexposed film, Science Pilot Ed
Gibson should still be observing the Sun. And Pilot Bill Pogue
should be in the middle of physical training exercises or
getting ready for physical training exercises. Less than 1
minute away now from reacquisition of signal through MILA. We'll
hold the llne up.

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SL-IV MC-2103/I
Time: 15:19 CDT 60:20:19 GMT
1/14/74

CC Skylab, Houston. We're through Bermuda


for 6 minutes and your maneuver load looks good.
SPT Thank you, Hank.
CC Skylab, Houston. For info, the laser
optional observing there scheduled for the next rev has been
canceled due to weather.
SPT Thank you, Hank.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from
LOS. Ascension is the next site at 00:37, 7 minutes from now.
PAO Skylab Control, 20 hours 31 minutes
Greenwich mean time. Space station now out of range of
the tracking antenna at Bermuda. Report up to the crew that
they shouldn't bother looking for the Goddard Laser as
weather is obscuring that experiment. And the guidance
officer here in Missi0n Control informs us that the space-
craft is in attitude now for the comet observations using
Dr. Karl Henize's S019 ultraviolet stellar astronomy camera.
Some problems with the film canister on that camera_ but
they are going to go ahead and try to get the pictures
anyway. Next acquisition will be through Ascension. That'll
be about 5 minutes from now. Greenwich mean time 20 hours
32 minutes, this is Skylab Control.

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SL-IV MC-2104/I
Time: 15:36 CDT 60:20:36 GMT
1/14/74

PAO Skylab Control, 20 hours 36 minutes


Greenwich mean time. Now less than a mlnute away from
acquisition of signal through Ascension. This will be about
9 minutes over Ascension. We'll have an LOS period of about
20 minutes as the next station will be Carnarvon, Australia.
Pilot Bill Pogue should be doing exercise right now. A
caution not to use the bicycle ergometer, that would upset
the picture taking session as vibration induced by using
the machine would cause vibration thoughout the entire
space station. Now less than 20 seconds from acquisition
of signal, we'll go llve air-to,ground.
CC Skylab, Houston thorugh Ascension, i0
minutes.
CDR Hank, I've got the SAL window open and
sighted out and the antenna can be put back where I had it
two weeks ago by backing down to 7.8. So that's a 2.2
degree error.
CC Roger, we copy, 7.8 puts it back where
it was a couple of weeks ago.
CDR That's affirmative, Hank.
CC Jerry_ when the counter reads 0.0, where
exactly is the discone, is it right at 6?
CDR It's right at 6, and about 0.8 radius out.
CC Roger, we copy.
CDR Okay, Hank, I'm going over on channel A
for recording now. I'ii fill you in on details when I get
finished.
CC Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston. Didn't get the word to you
but the VTR is yours and there are 23 minutes available.
CC Skylab, Houston. Would you - would you
recall what's on the first 8 minutes of that VTR?
SPT Hank, there was some TV-101 and probably
some ATM.
CC Okay, we copy.
SPT You don_t guess it was a problem
with it do you?
CC No problem, we were just curious what we -
what we were going to get when we got around to dumping it.
SPT Don't do that to me, thank.
CHR Hank, the SPT noticeably paled.
CC Roger, (laughter).
CC INCO appologles for frightening you
(laughter)
CC Incidentally, earlier today, Bill Schneider
said to pass along that the 8 month warrenty had run out on
the vehicle so y_all be earful with it. We aren't going to
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call it back.
SPT What's the blue book value on a 8 month
old vehicle?
CDR That doesn't use any gas.
CC That would probably be a big seller.
CC Skylab, Houston, we're about 45 seconds
from LOS. We'll see you again at Carnarvon at 00:ll, and
we'll be handing over the to purple gang_ see you tomorrow
Enjoyed working with you today.
CDR Roger, Hank, have a good day off.
PAO Space station Skylab now out of range
of Ascension. Interior temperature of the space craft is
about 78 degrees Fahrenheit right now_ not too uncomfortable.
Some comment earlier from Space Craft Communicator Hank
Hartsfield that the crew should take care of their vehicle
now that the 8 month warranty has gone out of effect. And
some comment from the crew that the Blue Book value of a
vehicle which uses no gas ought to be pretty high. Next
acqusition will be 21 minutes from now through Carnarvon,
Australia. Greenwich mean time 20 hours 49 minutes_ this
is Skylab Control.

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SL-IV MC2105/I
Time: 16:08 CDT, 60:21:08 GMT
1/14/74

PAO Skylab Control at 21 hours 8 minutes


Greenwich mean time. Flight Director Charles Lewis is on
route from Mission Control to Building i briefing room,
for this afternoon's change-of-shift press briefing. That'll
be at 4:15, in the briefing room in Building i. We're now
less than 2 minutes away from acquisition of signal through
Carnarvon, Australia. Flight Director Phil Shaffer has
taken over here in Mission Control, with Spacecraft
Communicator Dick Truly. We'll hold the line up for this
pass over Australia - excuse me, we'll bring the line down
for the change-of-shift press briefing and then bring you
recorded air-to-ground after the press briefing.

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SL-IV MC-2106/I
Time: 16:29 CDT 60:21:29 GMT
1114174

PAO Skylah Control, 21 hours 29 minutes


Greenwich mean time. Space station is now over Guam, however,
problems with the transmitting equipment at the Guam tracking
station preclude air-to-ground transmission during this
revolution. We have 3 minutes of recorded air-to-ground
over the Carnarvon pass which we'll now play back for you.
CC Skylab, Houston; hello at Carnarvon for
i0 minutes. Purple gang's back with you.
CDR Hi, purple gang. Where have you been hiding?
CC Well, we took the weekend off and had a
very nice weekend. We were able to watch the Super Bowl, either
on TV, maybe somebody got - got to go see it; lots of fun.
CDR Very good.
CDR Dick, I'd appreciate it if you guys would
get busy and get us up a flare right away; we're getting
tired of waiting.
CC Well, we'll work on it. I'm not sure who to
call and talk to.
CDR You're got to have a land line to the right
guy.
CC Hey, Jerry, Phil says to tell you that
you're closer than we are, so you make the call.
CDR Anybody got a nickle?
CDR That's a pay phone. We don't have any
coins.
CC Uh hu. Well, they're saying down here,
you been away from pay phones too long cause a nickle wonlt
hardly get you in the thing.
CC Hey, incidentally Jerry, last evening,
permanent general message 23 Bravo was sent up to you that
had some shopping list items on it, and turns out we found
some - couple of error in that shopping - in that permanent
general message, and so just for your information, we're going
to be redoing that this evening and - and sen - sending you
another one to replace 23 Bravo tonight.
CDR Okay, fine Dick. And one item that I've
noticed missing from the shopping list has been TV out the
window of North America. That was suggested, of golly, two or
three weeks ago as a possiblity to to be coming up soon, and
we just haven't heard anything more.
CC Okay, we'll sure take a look at it.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 30 seconds
from LOS. Next AOS is Goldstone at 21:50. Be advised we
will have a Guam pass and it starts at abo_t 4 minutes from
now and then last about 9 minutes. However, wetre having
some problems with the voice circuits out at Guam, so I will
not give you a call. If you should need to call me for some
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reason, if you'll select VHF, we'll be listening. Otherwise,


I'ii call you at Goldstone at 21:50. See you there.
CDR Roger, Dick. And I owe you some words
on SO19 first chance we get.
CC Okay. Why don't we pick them up at
Goldstone if you have a chance?
CDR Okay.
PAO Skylab Control, 21 hours 32 minutes.
That concludes the recorded air-to-ground, about 30 seconds
left in the pass over Guam. We'll stay live just in case
the problems at Guam are fixed before the space staion
moves out of acquisition range.
PAO Space station Skylab now over the hill
from Guam. About 15 minutes away from acquisition of signal
through Goldstone, California. 21 hours 34 minutes Greenwich
mean time, this is Skylab Control.

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SL-IV MC2107/I
TIME: 16:49 CDT, 60:21:49 GMT
1/14/74

PAO Skylah Control, 21 hours, 49 minutes


Greenwich mean time. Space station is now on the desendin_
node taking it through Goldstone, Texas, MILA and Bermuda
for this complete stateside pass. We'll hold the line up
for acquisition of signal less than 20 seconds from now.
CC Skylab, Houston we're AOS stateside for
a long pass about 18-1/2 minutes and we notice there's about
ii or 12 minutes of something or other on the VTR. And if
you guys aren't going to be using it in the next 17 or 18
minutes, it'll be convenience for us to take control of it
and dump it here through the states and clean it off for you.
CDR No, we won't be using the VTR, Dick.
That'll be fine, thanks.
CC Okay, good. We'll do that. And Jerry
we're willing to listen to so - the words on S019 any time
However, if you'd like to wait until after this daylight
cycle and catch us at a later pass during your PT or later.
that's fine with us.
CDR It's okay. I just got a MIRROR AUTO RASTER
going so I can talk for about 4 minutes.
CC Okay, we're listening.
CDR Okay. At the pointing that was given the
comet was on the vertical center line and down about 4/10
of the distance between the horizontal center line. The
horizontal center line and the lower horizontal llne. In
other words, in a clock it would be 6 o'clock, 4-10 of a
distance between the center line and the lower line.
CC Roger, understand.
CDR Okay, I repositioned it over to - I put
it on the horizontal center line at the intersection with
the vertical lefthand line. And that gave me a ROTATION of
263.5 and a TILT of 22.4.
CC Okay, copy, understand.
CDR And also made note of the fact that the
frame, the SLIDE RETRACT worked okay this time. It still feels
rough. I have no confidence that it's going to make it through
that entire 150 frames but we'll just keep plugging away at it.
We haven't got anything to loose, as far as I can see.
CC Well, that's the way we look at it too
Jerry. We might as well keep using it as long as it's workable
in any fashion.
CDR Okay, and I guess you got the word from
Hank as to where I found the - the antenna. That is the discore
antenna. It looks like about a 2.2 degree error in rotation
now which means either the belt is slipped or the handle
has slipped or something.
CC Roger, we did get that information from
Hank's team.
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CDR And that's it. I essentially - I repositioned


the comet within the first minute of the exposure and then
after that, left it alone.
CC Okay, good, Jerry. Thanks for letting us
know.
PAO Handover taking plane.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're going to be handing
over to MILA in about a minute and we're going to be dumping
the data/voice recorder when we get there.
CDR Roger.
CC CDR, Houston. For your information, we're
observing another little glitch on CMG 2. The bearing temps
are very close to being together and the RPM is down a
little bit. No action required by you but you might be
aware of it.
CDR Thank you, Dick.

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SL-IV MC2108/I
Time: 17:03 CDT, 60;22:03 GMT
1/14/74

CC Skylab, Houston. For your information,


we're rewinding the VTR now. When we get through rewinding
it, and stop at the proper point, there going to be
approximately 22 minutes of _ of space on the tape that's
available, should you need it later on this evening.
CDR Dick, you dropped out in the middle of
your transmission.
CC Okay, Jerry, sorry about that. We are
through dumping the VTR. We are -Inco is rewinding it now.
When he stops it at the appropriate point, there will still
be about 22 minutes of available tape left on it in case
you Buys should need it later on this evening.
CDR Okay, thanks.
CC Yes, sir.
PAO Skylab Control, 22 hours 8 minutes
Greenwich mean time. Space station now out of range of
Bermuda. Earlier comment on control moment gyro number 2,
doing another funny. Bearing temperatures for the two
bearinRs got very close to each other. Our next acquisition
will be 39 minutes from now. That'll he through Carnarvon.
Greenwich mean time 22 hours 9 minutes, this is Skylab
Control.

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SL-IV MC2109/I
Time: 17:47 CDT, 60:22:47 GMT
1/14/74

PAO Skylab Control, 22 hours 47 minutes


Greenwich mean time. Space station Skylab now less than a
minute from acquisition through Carnarvon, Australia. Durin_
this revolution, the crew, which ever one is free will have
an opportunity to take optional handheld photographs of the
Philippine fault. This fault line goes up through the
Philippine Islands from Mindanao to the east of Manila.
They'll be usln_ the Hasselblad camera if they take pictures.
Less than i0 seconds away from acquisition of signal. We'll
hold the line up now for live alr-to_ground.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're at Carnarvon for
9 minutes. It looks like the CMG's lookin_ much healthier.
SPT Thank you, Dick.
CC Skylab, Houston, we're goln_ to have a
keyhole coming up here in about I0 seconds. It should last
about a minute. I_ll give you a call out of keyhole.
CC Skylab, Houston, we're about 30 seconds
from LOS. Guam comes up at 23:02. And PLT, Houston, we
noticed the S055 GRATING is at 2234. The pad calls for
2434, you might check that.
PLT Rot, thank you, Dick.
CC Roger.
PAO Skylah Control, 22 hours 58 minutes
Greenwich mean time, Space station now out of range of the
Carnarvon tracking antenna, Less than 4 minutes away from
reacqulsltion through Guam. We'll keep the llne up.
CC Skylab, Houston, we're AOS at Guam for
about 6_i/2 minutes. And CDR, Houston, anytime it's convenient
to you prior to the S 210 - 201 ops this evening, we got
a couple of numbers to change on that $201 pad for you.
Skylab, Houston, we're AOS Guam for 6 minutes. And CDR,
Houston, anytime you get a chance this evening prior to the
201 ops that's scheduled, I've got a couple of mass numbers I'd
llke to chan_e on your 201 pad.
CDR Okay, Dick. In 15 minutes, I'Ii either
be finished with my exercise or dead or both.
CC Well, I certainly hope that it's only
finished with _ with your exercise. But this change can
certainly wait that long to find out.
CDR Oh, l_m really enjoying it.
CC Roger.
CC Skylab, Houston, we're a minute from
LOS. Goldstone comes up at 23c27. And 1%11 call you there.
PAO _ _ Control 23 kours ii minutes. Space
station now out of range of Guam. Next acquisition will be
15 minutes from now. That _ii be through Goldstone - through
Goldstone and Texas, and Flordia. At Greenwich mean time 23
hours ii minutes, this is Skylab Control.

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SL-IV MC2110/I
TIME: 18:25 CDT, 60:23:25 GMT
1/14/74

PAO Skylab Control, 23 hours 25 minutes


Greenwich mean time. Space station now nearing acquisition
through Goldstone for this stateside pass through Goldstone,
Texas and Merritt Island, Florida, On this track the space
station will be going over Portland, Oregon, Sante Fe, New Mexico_
Austin and Just south of Houston. We'll hold the llne up
for this live air,to-ground coming up less than 10 seconds
from now.
CC Skylah, Houston we're AOS stateside for
15 minutes. We noticed that nobody's using the VTR at the
moment, if you don't intend to use it in the next i0 or
15 minutes, we'd llke to go ahead and finish dumping it.
CDR Roger_ go ahead Dick.
CC Okay, thank you we'll let you know when
we're through.
CDR Roger, the Aleutians are quite good
tonight as far as visibility is concerned. I think, maybe,
the next time we're by the Aleutians about an hour and
a half from now, we're going to do a little TV out the window.
CC Hey, good that_d be n_ce.
CDR WeVll take about 4 or 5 minutes and should
look pretty good.
CC Okay_ well r when We get through we'll
let you know how we stand, we should have it free for you.
CDR Okay.
PLT Hey, Dick is the weather clear down there
in Houston.

CC Well unless it improved a let since I


walked in the building at the start of this shift, it's
(garble)
SPT That's too bad. I guess we're goin_ over
(garble) terminator and we ought to be pretty good viewing if
you had it opened.
CC Well there were a few - there were a
few breaks in overcast when I was coming in but it was a
lots of clouds as it has been.
SPT Thank you.
CREW Hello gang.
CC Hello up there.
CDR (garble) west of you,
CC Well that's nice for somebody_ you can't
see any holes at all, huh?
SPT Looks pretty solid Dick.
CDR You know it almost looks like we're
sliding right down the terminator,
CC Yeakp I imagine it _s, real close to
that r_ght now,
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CC CDR, Houston Just a reminder, I've still


got these 201 changes for you, if you're free we still got
about 4 minutes here.
CDR Are you just foolin_ me?
CC Say again please.
CDR Roger. Go ahead.
CC Roger. No Jerry, I Just called and got
trapped in a handover to remind you that I do have these
couple of changes on rotation and tilt angles on your
$201 pad, when you got a chance and the next station
Vanguard is - we're going to give to the medic for a med
conference.
CDR Well, I'm ready right now, go ahead.
CC Okay, I'd like to change rotation to
read 265.9 and tilt to read 25.0, this takes into account
the previous changes that you read to us on your last
ops.
CDR Okay.
CC One more item. We looked over the
voice tapes from the EREP this morning and we didn't find
any EREP tep - tape measurement, in case that dropped out, we'd
appreciate it if you let us know what that was anytime
this evening.
CDR Let's see it was 6.6 after the first
pass and Bill called down the second one.
PLT Stand by IVve got it,
CC Okay.

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CDR - six after the first pass and Bill


called down the second one.
PLT Stand by, I've got it.
CC Okay.
CC And Skylab, Houston. We've dumped the
VTR. It's clean and rewound so it's all yours for the rest
of the evening.
SPT Thank you, Dick.
PLT 3.8 centimeters.
CC Okay, Bill, Thank you very much.
SPT We may get hit by the lighting problem
on this Alentian idea, but we're going t O give it a try.
CC Okay, hope it works.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're a minute from
LOS, Vanguard comes up at 23252 and that's your med conference
site, and also, we're going to be dumping the data/voice
recorder at Vanguard, 23:52.
8PT Roger, Dick.
PAO Loss of signal through Merritt Island
tracking station. Earlier in this stateside pass, Ed Gibson
who was eating dinner commented on the sunset. He's right at
the terminator line. He could look out one side and watch
the Sun and out the other and watch darkness. Pilot Bill
Pogue should be joining Science Pilo't Ed Gibson for dinner
very shortly, and about 20 minutes from now Commander
Jerry Carr will be eating dinner. At that time Ed Gibson
will go back to the ATM CNG console for more solar observa-
tions and about an hour later they'll be taking pictures of
the comet Kohoutek in the $201 instrument. That'll be
Commander Carr's job. 9 minutes from now over the Vanguard
tracking ship, the evening medical conference with Dr. Eduard
Burchard will take place. At 23 hours 42 minutes, this is
Skylab Control.

END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC2112/I
TIME: 18:51 CDT, 60:23:51 GMT
1/14/74

PAO Skylab Control, 23 hours 51 minuteS.


Space station now less than 50 seconds from acquisition
through the Vanguard tracking ship. We don't expect any
live air-to-ground over this pass as it's the evening medical
conference with Dr. Eduard Burehard, German Air Force officer.
However, we'll keep the line up in case the medical conference
is short and Space Craft Communicator Dick Truly has something
to say to the crew.
CC Skylab, Houston. I've got you here for
little over a minute. I need to give you a real quick correction
to the $201 maneuver pad. If you don't have it right there,
how about grabbing a piece of paper and let me read you some
correct numbers for the fine maneuver listed on that pad.
PAO Okay, and we're ready to copy.
CC Okay. X, 51023; Y, 50433; Z 51104. The
angle that go with those are X minus 0.19 degrees, Y plus 2.83
degrees and Z minus 0.68 degrees. The change is require due
to 9 change in nuZ, go ahead.
SPT Okay, I got it. It's 51023, 50433, 51104
with a minus 0.19, plus 2.83 and minus 0.68.
CC Okay, thank you very much for getting it
for us. Your next pass is Goldstone at 01:04 and that's the
evening status report. I'ii be standing by there for that.
See you there.
PAO Skylab now out of range of the Vanguard
tracking ship. Dr. Eduard Burchard conducting this evening's
medical conference for the first portion of this pass. We'll
bring you his report as soon as he gets it to us. Next
acquistion i hour and 2 minutes from now will be Goldstone,
California and the space station will be for a record breaking
pass this next time around_ as they exceed the time in
space record set by the Skylab III crew of AI Bean, Owen Garriott
and Jack Lousma. We'll have more particulars as we come
back up for the Goldstone pass. At 1 minute Greenwich mean
time, this is Skylab Control.

END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC2113/I
Time: 19:59 CDT, 61:00:59 GMT
1/14/74

PAO Skylab Control 59 minutes Greenwich


mean time. Space station is now over the North Pacific
Ocean, Just west of Washington state right now. We're
about 3-1/2 minutes from acquisition through Goldstone.
Skylab_s astronauts Commander Jerry Carr, Science Pilot Ed
Gibson, and Pilot Bill Po_ue will break the previous space
endurance record on this pass, set by Commander Alan Bean's
crew. The record will be broken about 8 minutes and 27
seconds from now. At that time the space station will be
directly over the Pacific Ocean, 200 miles west of La Paz
and 800 miles south southeast of Los Angeles. The Bean crew, with
Owen Garriott as Science Pilot and Jack Lousma as Pilot
set a space record of 59 days, ii hours and 9 minutes.
Alan Bean still holds the record for most time in space.
This, however, includes the time he spent as Lunar Module
Pilot on the Apollo 12 mission. Bean's record is 69 days
15 hours and 45 minutes. The Skylab crew will break that
record though, if all goes well, on Friday January 25, at
17:46 Greenwich mean time, 12:46 p.m. central daylight time.
Jerry Carr_s Skylab crew has been in space 5,708 times longer
than the first American, Alan B. Shepard. And 792 times
lon_er than the first man in space Russian Cosmonaut
Yuri Ga_arin who is up in the (garble) space
caspule for 1 hour and 48 minutes on April 12, 1961. After
12 years and 9 months of experience in space, man is
providing that the dark void beyond our atmosphere is
not completely alien. And in fact can be quite useful
as data from the Skylab mission continues to be interpreted
here on Earth. Durin_ this pass we'll also be gettin_
the evening status report. Now less than a minute and a
half from acquisition through Goldstone. We_ll go llve
air.to.ground for this record breaking pass.
CC Skylab, Houston, we're at stateside
for the next 13 minutes and standin_ by for the evening
status report.
CDR Roger_ Dick, Photo first.
CC Okay.
CDR And we didn_t - didn't get that TV
after all.
CC Oh, heck, sorry about that.
CDR Yeah, we'll try again tomorrow evening.
CC Okay, Jerry, before you start can we
go ahead and dump the VTR here? You guys using it?
CDR Let me check with Ed, and see what his
i01 plans are?
CC Okay.
CDR Okay, Dick_ go ahead and dump it.
CC Okay, good. And I'm standing by.
CDR Okay, 16-millimeters, Delta Papa 22;
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Charlie India 128, 42; Charlie India 127. EREP 29 and 30,
VTS; Charlie Lima ii, 55: Nikon 01, Charlle X-ray 40, 04;
02, India Romeo ii, 41; 03, Charlle India 113, 63; 04,
no chan_e_ 05, Bravo Hotel 06, 31. 70-milllmeter, Charlle
X-ray 50, 70 - 075 is the number, 075. ETC is India Romeo
03, 121. FREP, set Yankee, 9315, 8653, 9528, 9520, 3065,
0389. Drawer A! Alfa i, 3,4, and back: no chan_e. Alfa
2, 05 Charlle India 128, 42; Charlle India 127.
CC Okay, got it.
CDR Okay, here comes the evening status.
Sleep: CDR, 7.0, 6.5 heavy, half light; SPT, 7.0, 7 heavy;
PLT, 5.0, 3 heavy, 2 light. Volume: CDR, 180; 210: 240.
Water gun is 85093 4457 - correction 4456; 0588. Body mass:
CDR, 6.208, 6.309, 6.312; SPT, 6.353, 6.356, 6.355; PLT,
6.254, 6.254, 6.253. Exercise: no change for anyone.
Medication: CDR, none; SPT, Sudafed; PLT, Seconal. Each
of those is one. Clothin_: CDR, socks; SPT, T-shirt,
socks, and shorts: PLT, none. Food log: CDR, 1.0 salt,
plus one butter cookies, plus one grape drink, plus one
apple drink, plus one coffee with sugar, minus 0.5 water;
SPT, 10.0 salt, plus one tuna, plus one biscuits, plus one
butter cookies, plus one tea, plus another butter cookies,
rehydration water zero ; PLT, 10.0 salt, plus two coffees
with sugar, plus one black coffee, plus one grape drink,
plus one butter cookies, minus 1.0 water. Fli_ht Plan
deviations: none. Shopping list accomplishments: one-half
hour TV-101, checklist update 30 minutes, all housekeeping.
Inoperable equipments: none. Unscheduled stowage: none.
And that's it.
CC Okay, I got it. This - poll call around
and see if anybody has any questions.
CDR Okay, did you _et 1-1/2 hour TV-101?

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TIME: 20:07 CDT, 61:01:07 GMT
1/14/74

CC Okay, I got it. This - we'll poll around


and see if anybody has any questions.
CDR Okay, did you get 1-1/2 hour TV-101?
CC That's affirm and we got it down.
CDR Okay.
SPT Dick, how would you like a frame count?
CC Okay, go ahead.
SPT 10616, 2790, 131, 253, 3139, 3160.
CC Okay, Ed, thank yon. We got it.
CC Skylab, Houston if you guys have a minute,
I had an item here I wanted to visit with you about.
PLT Go ahead.
CC At a time this evening of 1 hour and
10 minutes end 27 seconds, which is Just about 1 minute from
now, you Euys are going to have been on orbit for a total of
59 days, II hours and 9 minutes which is the lon_est anybody in
the world has ever flown in space on a single flight. I I Just
thought I would relay to you a little bit of information about
some of the records that you've beaten. Just as short as
about 7-1/2 months ago, the world record or the United States
record was Gemini 7, Frank Bormann and Jim Lovell which was
13 days, 8 hours and 35 minutes and it took several years
to break that one. The longest one, for your information,
during Apollo was Apollo 17 which was a total of 12 days and
13 hours and about 51 minutes. Then Conrad's mission which
launched on May 2 doubled the previous - double the previous
worldVs record and Pete's mission, for your information, was
28 days, 49 minutes and 49 seconds. The only other record
in sight is A1 Beans' personal record of 69 days and 15 hours
in which you guys all three are gonna beat in about a week
or so. You guys Just passed the world record mark. You're
now the world champs. We're real proud to have been here the
night you set it and real proud to have taken part in it
since day i.
CDR Thanks a lot, Dick, and all the guys on
purple team. We appreciate all the good support you've been
giving us down through the days here and let's hang in there
and get the rest of it.
CC Ye s , sir, you bertha, we'll be here.
SPT You troops or the ground have kept us
up here, appreciate it,
CC SPT_ Houston on the ATN closeout on
$054, request SINGLE, 256 and GRATING, OUT.
SPT I keep looking for a flare even on the
darks±de,
CC Rog! that'_s a C plus ton±gkt.
CDR You couldn't sweet talk your way out of
that bad grade could you, Ed?
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CDR Say Dick, I'd appreciate it if you guys


on the purple team would pass our compliments on to everybody
else on the ground teams that have been supporting us all
through this mission. I think really it's - it's not our
record, it's everybody's record.
CC Jerry, I'ii sure do it. And Phil and I
were laughing and wondering how many hours and minutes that
this and other teams have been sitting here helpinR you guys.
Has been a lot of fun and we_ll be sure and pass it down
the llne. Thank you very much.
CDR Real fine, Hank.
PLT Dick, there's got to be a record somewhere
in the book for Flight Controller man-hours.
CDR Old purp says he has it but we're not
sure.
SPT Say Dick, is NOAA reporting anything
happening on the Sun? It looks pretty quiet from up here.
CC Stand by, SPT, Houston, we haven't had
any reports and this really is the year of the quiet Sun.
And and EGIL just said from all indications outside here in
Houston, it's gone out anyway.
CDR The Sun's been canceled due to lack of
activity.
CC Rog.
SPT Hey Dick, one thing has changed. And now
let me tell the S052 folks; might be interested. Over on the
west limb, the streamer structure which was there_ now is
broken into two distinct one_. One going from about
070 to 085 and that's very - very well defined and very distinct,
almost parallel sides to it Just tapers off a little bit
as it goes out. And then one at around 950 which is relatively
weak and thin. The two which were over 230 and 250 have
faded out and are still discernible but almost gone.
CC Okay, thanks for the update, we're about'
30 seconds from LOS here. Vanguard comes up at 01:27.
PAO Skyla5 Control, i hour and 16 minutes
Greenwich mean time. Space station Skylab now out of
range of the tracking antennas at Texas. 858th revolution
of the Eart_ for the record breaking Skylab 4 crew, only
space record left for them is Alan Beans' record. We now have
the evening medical report which we'll read to you. According
from Dr. Eduard Burchard, the crew passed the SL-3 flight
duration record in excellent physical and mental condition.
Their phMs_cal condition will be watched extra closely from
th_s point on. Dr. Burchard personally pleased at the
condition of the crew. Commander Jerry Carr should be taking
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pictures of the Comet Kohoutek with the $201 instrument


right now. Science Pilot Ed Gibson helping him, maneuverin_
the spacecraft actually, and Pilot Bill Pogue doinK some
housekeepinK activities. Next acquisition will be 9 minutes
from now, that_ll be through the Vanguard tracking ship.
At Greenwich mean time 1 hour and 18 minutes this is Skylab
Control.

END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC-2115/I
Time: 20:26 CDT 61:01:26 GMT
1/14/74

PAO Skylab Control, 1 hour 26 minutes


Greenwich mean time. Space station nearing acquisition
through the Vanguard trackin_ ship now. We'll keep the
line up for this pass.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Vanguard
for ii minutes, we're going to be uplinking the film thread
pad for tomorrow at this site. And Jerry I know you're 2
or 3 minutes away from the 201 ops but when you get a
chance sometime this pass I'd like to speak to you for a
minute.
CDR Okay Dick, go ahead, I'm all set up and
ready to go.
CC Okay - okay Jerry, the last pass we up
linked a
CDR You're dropping out Dick.
CC Okay, stand by just a second, I'll be
with you.
CC Okay CDR, I think it's locked up solid
now. We at the last pass we up linked a checklist change
to the command module systems checklist it's in the
teleprinter now, has to do with rellevin_ pressure on quads
Alfa, Delta and also the PS - the PSM manifold, turns out
lookin_ at the pressures this evening that we Just determined
in the last hour that we are going to need to releave quad
Alfa tonight. We_d llke very much to watch it durin_ an
AOS period and the only opportunity we have from here on in
is that during your last hour prior to goinK to bed which
is Hawaii at 02_38, and if possible we'd appreciate it if
you could use that procedure up in the command module while -
while we watch you there at Hawaii.
CDR Be glad to Dick.
CC Okay great, that time is 02:38, and
we_ll be standin_ by then.
CDR Roger.
SPT Hello Dick, you still there?
CC Yes sir, go ahead.
SPT Say, I guess we're going to be takin_
a couple of more blood checks before the mission's over
and we got two scheduled and looks like a third one coming
up. _e_'re runnlng out of what they call (garble) applicators.
We only kave i0 of them left, and we need 9 of them. I'm
wondering whether if they're planning on schedulin_ any -
havin_ anymore unscheduled ones, that they ought to be aware
of tkis and also tell us whether we can use one of them
over more than once. I doubt that's the case but if we
could it would sure increase the number of times we could
do it.
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CC Okay, thanks for looking ahead for us


and we'll make sure we're putting that into our - cranking
that into our planning.
SPT Thank you.
SPT Hey Dick, another alternative is to
split them in half. They're like wooden tooth picks and I
think a knife we could probably split them right down the
middle, and double the number we got, if that would work.
CC Okay good, we'll think about that one,
too.
CC Skylab, Houston. We don't see the
maneuver's started back towards solar inertial, we're 30
seconds from LOS, Hawaii comes up at 02;38 and we're going
to dump the data/voice recorder there and I'ii be standing
by for that command module quad A release.
CDR Roger, 02:38.
CC Roger.
PAO Skylab Control. i hour 38 minutes,
tracking station Tananarive is down for this revolution,
although the space station goes directly over the Malagasy
Republic. Ed Gibson commenting earlier that they did not
think they had enough _garble) sticks on board to continue
with the blood sampling, This is a popsiele type stick
which is used to smear blood on a glass slide for visual
analysis. However Ed Gibsonk suggested that they could take
a knife and split them down the middle and double their
supply. Flight surgeon here in Mission Control indicates
they_ll think on that one. Space station temperature is
now hovering in the upper 70_s. Sleep compartment ceiling
temperature is around 78, the rest of the space craft
ranges from 77 to 79, warm but not uncomfortable. 58
minutes now from acquisition through Hawaii. At Greenwich
mean time 1 hour 39 minutes this is Skylab Control.

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SL-IV MC2116/I
Time: 21:37 CDT, 61:02:37 GMT
1/14/74

PAO Skylab Control at 2 hours and 37 minutes


Greenwich mean time. Brief pass over Hawaii will be the
good night pass for the crew. They're all in their presleep
activity period. And normally, we wouldn't be talking to
them during this time but there's some unfinished business.
When they do go to bed it won't be too uncomfortable for
them as the temperature in the sleep compartment is now
77 degrees Fahrenheit. We'll hold the line up for this pass
over Hawaii. About 4-1/2 minutes duration.
CC Skylab, Houston, we're AOS, Hawaii for
5 minutes. And Jerry, if you're set or can get set to do
this QUAD A relief for us. We're looking at our data.
CDR Okay, I'm ready to go. How do you
read, Dick?
CC Loud and clear, Jerry. Understand you're
ready to GO and so are we. So press on.
CDR Okay, I'm down through verification of
all the talkbacks. I'm going to throw the PSM one manifold
isolation switch OPEN, now.
CC Okay.
CDR I got a GREEN talkback.
CC And I forgot to warn you, but we're
dumping the data/voice recorder here at Hawaii.
CDR Okay, I think Ed's doing TV, so you
better check and see if it's running before you dump it.
CC Roger. The VTR is stopped. And the
recorder was free, Jerry, thank you, though.
CDR Okay, he must have Just finished.
SPT I'm not using it Dick, go ahead.
CC Okay.
CDR I'm going to OPEN QUAD A now. Okay,
QUAD A's OPEN. I got two sets of GREY flags.
CC Okay.
CDR - - 1 minute wait. Okay, my i minute's
up. I'm going to close QUAD Alfa now.
CC Roger.
CDR Got two barber poles. And now it's time
to open QUAD DELTA. QUAD DELTA OPEN, now. (Garble)
CC CDR, Houston, negative, we don't want
to OPEN QUAD DELTA, just QUAD Alfa we want to open tonight.
CDR Okay, I already opened it. It was open
for 7 seconds. I closed it again.
CC Roger, Jerry, thank you.
CDR Okay, I'm the closing MANIFOLD now. Got
a barber pole.
CC Skylab, Houston, we're about a minute
from LOS. You're - the - the first station after ii:00
Zulu in the morning is about a half an hour after it, so
I'd suggest you set your portable timers to - to wake yourselves
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up at ii:00.
CDR Okay, Dick. And how does the RCS
look?
CC It looks good Jerry. And we sure
appreciate you doing the little chec k for us. It helps
us out a lot. See you in the morning.
CDR Roger, no sweat. So long.
PAO Skylab Control 2 hours 43 minutes
Greenwich mean time. Spacecraft Communicator Dick Truly
bidding the crew good night as they're well into their
presleep period right now. Wakeup tomorrow will be by
the crew alarm clock as the space station will be over the
south Pacific Ocean on an ascending node at ll:00 Greenwich
mean time. Their wakeup call - first voice contact tomorrow
will be through Bermuda. We're now 21 minutes away from
acquisition of signal over the Vanguard tracking ship.
We'll stay here for this next pass, Just in case the crew
has something to say before they go to bed. They have
another - approximately 26 minutes before their bedtime.
At Greenwich mean time 2 hours and 44 minutes, this is Skylab
Control.

END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC2117/I
TIME: 22:04 CDT, 61:03:04 GMT
1/14/74

PAO Skylab Control, 3 hours 4 minutes


Greenwich mean time. Space station now almost over the
Vanguard tracking ship's antennas. We don't expect any conver-
sation over this pass however. Crew should be in bed, powering
down to go to sleep. Tomorrow's Flight Plan calls for
Commander Jerry Cart and Pilot Bill Pogue to perform about
3-i/2 hours worth of experiments on the TO20 foot control
maneuvering unit. This along with the M509 astronaut maneuvering
unit are the two devices which will propell astronauts around
in a weighless environment. Both of them use a gas as the
propulsion unit, M509 usin_ gyroscopes in addition to the
gas. Commander Carr and Science Pilot Ed Gibson with Gibson
as the subject will also be performing medical experiments
tomorrow. The M092 lower body negative pressure device will
be measuring Ed Gibson's cardiovascular system and the M093
vectorcardiogram will be measuring electrical activity of
his heart as he works out on the bicycle ergometer. M092
is the experiment of Dr. Robert L. Johnson of the Johnson
Space Center, and the M093 is an experiment of Caption Newton
W. Allebach of the Naval Medical Research Labarotry in Pensacola.
Rounding out the day for Commander Cart will be some time
spent at the ATM C&D panel looking at the Sun. Ed Gibson
will be starting his day looking at the Sun, then he'll have
some physical training and then later on in the day in the
evening he_ll be performing JOPI2 F which is an alignment
procedure for the S082A extreme ultraviolet coronal spectro-
heliograph and the S082B ultraviolet spectrograph. Both
of these are experiments for Dr. Richard Tousey of the
Naval Research Labratory in Washington. And Pilot Bill Pogue
will be changing a thermal detector in the S192 multrispectral
scanner, there are 12 such thermal detectors in the unit.
These devices are endure flasks and are cooled and are spectrally
separated from each other through a use of prisms and mirrors.
These detectors are the actual devices which measure the
thermal activity that the instrument is designed to detect.
Bill Pogue will be changing one of those detectors and then
after some physical training and his evenin_ meal he'll be
aligning the S192 instrument. A total of 29 hours and 34 minutes
of scientific experiments scheduled for tomorrow. Commander
Carr gets off easy with only 8 hours and 21 minutes of them.
Bill Pogue carries the heavy burden with over i0 hours and
40 minutes. We_ll hold the line up for this pass, once again
not expecting any conversation as the crew should be asleep.
PAO Skylab Control, 3 hours 15 minutes
Greenwich mean time, Space stalon now out of range of the
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trackin_ ship Vanguard. All three crew members in their


sleep restraints. We_ll bring the llne down now for this
evening and we'll be back with you tomorrow morning, ii:00
Greenwich mean time, 6 a.m. central daylight time. At
3 hours 16 minutes, this is Skylab Control.

END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC-2118/I
Time: 06:27 CDT 61:11:27 GMT
, 1/15/74

PAO Good morning. This is Skylab Control


at 11:27 Greenwich mean time. AOS Bermuda in a minute and
20 seconds. However, an early - earlier wakeup call was given
to the crew back over Honeysuckle Creek, and we'll play back
that tape and go live for Bermuda, Madrid, and Canary passes.
CC Skylab, Skylab, this is Houston. Over.
CDR, this is Houston. Over.
CDR Go ahead, Bruce.
CC Roger. We show a caution and warning
on quad A package temperature. This is no real problem.
It's due to the high Beta angle and we suggest you inhibit
5 Bravo in the CSM. That's 5 Bravo in the CSM. Over.
CDR Roger. 5 Bravo being inhibited.
CC And we're sorry that it -it woke you up.
We were just sitting down here watching it, debating whether
to call you now or to see if it was going to cool off any.
Over.
CDR Okay. No problem.
MCC (Music: The First Time Ever I Saw Your
Face)
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Bermuda.
1-1/2 minutes to LOS. Next station contact in 2-1/2 minutes
through the Canary Islands at 11:37, and a good morning to
you all. We apologize for the earlier rude awakening, and
looking at the day remaining clock down here it looks like
it's going to be a fairly long day since you have 74 hours
even of daylight remaining. Over.
CDR That ought to keep us busy.
CC Ought to be able to set a record for
accomplishments in one day.
PLT Have you got any news there, Bruce?
CC It's still going through the loop here.
I'Ii have it for you next site.
CDR Okay.
CDR Hey; Bruce, we asked some time back how
the Houston elections came out. What's _he situation down
there in the metropolitan area?
CC Okay. Hofheinz won the election for
mayor in a runoff which was fairly close, but even after a
recount he came out on head - or came out ahead, and eo
Cunningham lost for Position A as (sic) the city council, and
do you have any other specifics that you're interested in?
CDR No, that was it. Thank you very much.
CC Roger. Sorry we didn't get back to you
a couple weeks ago.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Canary
Island and Madrid for 11-1/2 minutes. One item of informa-
tion for Ed. Active region 14 we saw one normal flare this
morning. It started at 10:50 Zulu, peaked out at 10:51, and
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there's apparently some material moving outward at about half


a solar radius above the limb right now from active region 14,
which is 08 at 1.0. Over.
SPT (Garble) , Bruce.
CC Say again?
SPT Thank you, Bruce.
CC Roger. Out.

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SL-IV MC-2119/I
Time: 06:38 CDT 61:11:38 GMT
01/15/74

CDR (Garble) Bruce.


CC Say again.
CDR Thank you, Bruce.
CC Roger; Out.
CC Okay, I got some news here, if y'all
like me to read it.
CDR Go ahead.
CC (Garble)
CC Friends have started a trust fund to
help pay for the legal expenses of John D. Ehrllchman, who
is struggling to reestablish himself with a law practice
specializing in environmental affairs. Ehrlichman resigned
as chief domestic adviser to President Nixon last spring in
the wake of Watergate scandals. Since then he has created a
four-person Land Use Group designed to advise real estate
developers on environmental protection laws. He also handles
other, unspecified legal business. "Knowing what I know about
the facts of the charges I think I've got good reason to be
optimistic," he said of a dozen legal actions pending against
him in an interview on Monday. New Attorney General William
B. Saxbe's authority wilthin the Justice _Department may soon be
tested by disputes between the _Bl and the Law Enforcement
Assistance Administration. One conflict involves proposed
federal control of crime records sent to state and local
governments, and how far the federal government should go in
policing those who control state and local crime computers.
The other dispute concerns an LEAA proposal to take the job
of gathering crime statistics away from the FBI and other
agencies now involved in it. The Federal Energy Office, the
FEO issued regulations Monday night that in effect will force
owners of oil-heated residences to lower their thermostats
6 degrees, and that leave gasoline stations last in line for
available supplies. John Hill, an assistant director of the
FEO, said in an interview that gasoline stations probably
would get about 15 to 20 percent less gasoline than the public
would use if there were no shortage. Essential services which
purchase gasoline in bulk were assigned all the fuel they need.
Other commercial bulk buyers such as taxi fleets will receive
as much as they did in 1972. The FEO has said _t expected to
order - to order a cutback in gasoline production to a level
5 percent below 1972 production levels. But Hill said this was
still under review and the situation might improve because
of the unexpectedly high stocks of fuel oils accumulated
during unusually mild winter weather. Taking first priority
for gasoline are essential services including agriculture,
emergency services, energy production, sanitation services,
telecommunications and passenger transportation. The new
regulations took effect at 11:59 p.m. eastern daylight time
Monday and were to be implemented immediately. Home heating
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oil prices have risen sharply in the last month, and industry
spokesmen say they'll probably rise more in the future. Some
spokesmen say it may cost you twice as much to heat your home
this winter as it did last year. In dollars and cents, the
increases can boost your yearly heating bill by $i00 or more
depending on how much oil you use and who your supplier is.
The increases will more than offset any monetary savings
you might get from turning down your thermostat 6 degrees in
accordance with the federal energy regulations. The Air
Force hopes to convince residents of the Pacific Northwest
that the sky, or anything the military puts in it_ won't fall
as a result of a missile testing program. At stake in the
public relations campaign is $26.9 million the Air Force wants
from Congress to test-fire four unarmed Minuteman inter-
continental ballistic missiles from Montana bases next winter.
The test would see four of the weapons flash across the skies
of Montana, Idaho and Oregon. Officials in those states have
expressed fear that chunks of the weapons could fall on the
heads of their constituents. But at a briefing Monday,
Major General John W. Pauly, who heads the project, said
probability of public injury is virtually nonexistent.
Sixteen persons remained hospitalized Monday night after all
seven cars of Amtrak's Texas Chief passenger train, southbound
from Chicago to Houston, derailed near Ardmore, Oklahoma,
injuring an estimated 45 persons. "Everyone and everything
was going everywhere," said Priscilla Heldner of Austin,
Texas. "My first thought was, this is the end." The train
with 115 passengers aboard was just moving through an
industrial area on the outskirts of this south-central
Oklahoma city when the cars left the track. Most of the
cars tilted precariously but did not topple onto their sides.
No one was killed. The train was reportedgoing 55 miles
an hour when it derailed at 12:05 p.m. Monday. Two of the cars,
including the diner, were turned completely on their sides.
The dining car caught fire, and it was there where the most
serious injuries occurred. The two engines remained on the
tracks. Bing Crosby's singing is not expected to be impaired
as the result of an operation in which two-fifths of his left
lung was removed, hospital officials say. "Doctors said there
should be no effect on his voice," said a spokesman for
Peninsula Hospital. Crosby was in satisfactory condition on
Monday, his second day in the intensive care unit where he is
recuperating from surgery. The 69-year-old entertainer was
expected to remain in intensive care for most of this week.

The merger between Libya and Tunisia appears to be in deep


trouble just 3 days after it was announced amid resounding
tributes to Arab unity from the participants and the general
skepticism from everyone else. President Habib Bourguiba
hurriedly called Tunisia's Council of the Republic to a
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meeting today that may decide the fate of the agreement


gourguiba signed Saturday with Libya's Col. Moammar Khadafy.
The council includes all members of the cabinet and the
executive - and the executive of Bourgulba's Neo-Destour party,
Tunisia's only legal political party. It meets at irregular
intervals to deal with the major policy matters. Secretary
of State Henry A. K issinger and Israeli officials today
discussed Egyptian counterproposals concerning the troops
and weapons Egypt would keep on the east bank of the Suez
Canal. "I believe we have narrowed the differences substan-
tially this trip. I hope to be able to narrow them further in
Israel in the next day or two," said Kissinger as he shuttled
back from Aswan, where he and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat
discussed the Israeli proposal for disengagement of Israeli
and Egyptian forces along the canal. Egypt apparently had
no objections to Israel's offer to pull its troops back to
a line about 20 miles east of the canal. But Kissinger re-
turned to Israel with a map showing the positions they want to
hold on the east bank as well as the buffer zone the Uni[ed
Nationals peacekeeping force would man between the two armies.
One high-ranking American official with Kissinger said he
thought counterproposal s were manageable. The principal
disagreement apparently was over the number and kinds of
antiaircraft missiles and other weapons that Egypt would
would retain on the east side of the canal. Katmandu, Nepal:
(Garble) Suzuki says a group of Japanese women plan to scale a
Himalayan peak higher than any woman has climbed, to learn
the effect of such a feat on the female body. Miss Suzuki,
spokesman for the expedition_ said, there was a need for
such scientific studies, because there were fewer records on
women at high altitudes than there are for men. The 12 women
will try to climb a 26,760-foot peak (garble) the world's
llth - 8th highest peak, and one with the reputation for taking
the lives of mountain climbers. The record height for a
woman mountain climber is 26,240 feet, set in 1970 in the
Himalayas, 29,028-foot Mount Everest, the world's tallest. Women
might be slower on mountains, but that does not mean we are
weaker than men, said Miss Suzuki. Men have made blunders
even in the Himalayas. (Garble) Wisconsin: Attorney General
James Lansdorf (?) spent an afternoon at the Marathon County
Court House Library, studying the law on breaking and entering
only to find when he was finished that he was locked in. He broke
a door window to make his way out and left this note. "As
the result of this experience, Attorney Lansdorf has a better
understanding of his clients' problems." i0 seconds to LOS.
Next station contact in 25 minutes through Carnarvon at 12:13
with a datavoice tape recorder dump at Carnarvon.

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1115174

CC - climber was 26,240 feet, set in 1970


in the Himalayas. 29,028 at Mr. Everest, the world's tallest.
Women might be slower at mountains but that does not mean we
are weaker then men," said Miss Suzuki. Men have made blunders,
even in the Himalayas. Wasaw (?), Wisconsin: Attorney General
James Lonsdorf (?) spent an afternoon at the Marathon (?) County
Court House library studying the law on breaking and entering
only to find that when he was finished he was locked in. He
broke a door window to make his way out then left this note.
"As a result of this experience of (garble) locked up I have
a better understanding of the his client's problem." i0 seconds
to LOS. Next station contact in 25 minutes through Carnarvon at
12:13 with a data/voice tape recorder dump at Carnarvon.
PAO Skylab Control. 11:49 Greenwich mean
time. Next station in 24 minutes, Carnarvon and Honeysuckle.
Wakeup call over Bermuda, the second wakeup call, that is,
was Roberta Flack singing "The First Time Ever I Saw Your
Face". For those who are still asleep, or otherwise away
from the black boxes, at the first wakeup call playback, back
over Carnarvon Just before 6 a.m., we'll replay that at this
time.
CDR Go ahead, Bruce.
CC Roger. We show a caution and warning on
quad A package temeprature. This is no real problem. It's
due to the high Beta angle, and we suggest you inhibit
5 Bravo in the CSM. That's 5 Bravo in the CSM. Over.
CDR Roger. 5 Bravo being inhibited.
CC And we're sorry that it woke you up. We
were just sitting down here watching it, debating it whether
to call you now or to see if it was going to cool off any.
Over.
CDR Okay. No problem.
PAO Skylab Control. That was a replay of
the premature wakeup back at Honeysuckle. The ground's
caution and warning signal on the command service module.
RCS quad A package temperatures which went up because of the
higher Beta angle at this particular time in the mission when
the Sun peers over the Earth's poles to give increasingly
more sunlight. Toward the middle of January we'll be back
in a situation with i00 percent daylight all the way around
each orbit for a couple of days. We'll be back in 22 minutes
at Carnarvon and Honeysuckle. At 11:51, Skylab Control.

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PAO This is Skylab Control, 12:12 Greenwich


mean time. Combined station passes through both Australian
tracking stations, Carnarvon and Honeysuckle Creek, starting
in about 40 seconds. Standing by for Carnarvon and Honeysuckle.
Total pass time about 15 minutes.
CC Skylab this is Houston through Carnarvon
and Honeysuckle Creek for 15-1/2 minutes, leading off with
the data/voice tape recorder dump. And for the SPT I've got
some information on the hemolysis sticks. Over.
SPT Morning, Bruce. Go ahead.
CC Okay, I think you were - you'll need
them for tomorrow morning. There should be two packs of
i0 hemolysis sticks each in IMSS can Charl_e was taken up
on your mission. They should be in W-700. Have you checked
this one?
SPT I sure haven't, Bruce. I will.
CC Okay.
CC And Ed, we'd like to use the Merritt
Island site this rev to clean off the video tape recorder,
and in order to do this we'll have to rewind here at - at
Honeysuckle, so we wonder if we could get you to hold off
on your ATM video until Bermuda, and that'll be 13:10 - that's
13:11 or after. Over.
SPT Okay, I'll do that, Bruce. Would you like
me to put it to rewind now to save you a little time?
CC Negative. We'll take care of that by
command and, either for you or for anybody else, we've got
a configuration on panel 207.
SPT Go ahead.
CC Okay, we'd like to e%ther configure or
verify all 8 BAT CHARGE LOW CAUTION AND WARNING switches
enabled. You can do this at your con_i_c_, and since all
the PCG primary FR meters are finally back in SYNC with
each other, we'll command a discharge limit for PCG 7 back
to the auto mode from down here.
SPT They're all to enable now; 7 was inhibited.
CC Okay. Thank you.
SPT SPT Houston. We're in the process of
doing a gravity grating and dump maneuver, even though it's
still daylight, and after the maneuver commenced we noticed
that the S052 door was still open, so we commanded it closed.
However, just to clean up on configurations, next time you go
by the panel you might check that the AUTO DOOR switch is
at NORMAL rather than OVERRIDE. Over.
SPT Roger, Bruce. It's in normal.
CC Okay, thank you Ed.
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CC Skylab this is Houston, i minute till


LOS. Next station contact in 33 minutes through Merritt
Island at 13:01. Out.
PAO This is Skylab Control. LOS at Honey-
suckle Creek after a quiet pass over the two Australian
stations. Skylab IV crew began their 61st day in orbit this
morning after having broken the record for a continuous
time in space last night at 8:10 central time. Today the
crew will observe the Sun during eight orbits of the Earth.
Also today is a coordinated calibration rocket or CALROC
launch to calibrate instruments in the Apollo telescope
mount. The CALROC is scheduled for launch from White Sands
missle range in Mexico at 1:30 p.m. central daylight time.
Calibration of ATM instruments will take place during the
three succeeding revolutions ofi Skylab after the CALROC
is launched. Some 6 hours and 23 minutes of ATM observing
time is scheduled, with allthree crewman taking turns at
the console in the multiple docking adapter of the space
station. Today's ATM studies include looking at coronal
structures on the east limb of the Sun, looking at the Sun
through the Earth's atmosphere at sunset, and observing active
regions of interest. The first chores for the crew after
they are up and about will be preparations by Jerry Carr for
flying the T020 foot control maneuvering unit while Ed
Gibson takes photos of the student experiment on plant
growth from rice seeds in the Skylab environment. Bill
Pogue will stow the XUV electronographic camera, which here-
tofore has been used to photograph comet Kohoutek. The camera
will be stowed until later this month, when more Kohoutek
photography is scheduled with it. Jerry Carr is then
scheduled to fly the foot control maneuvering unit while
Bill Pogue assists him. At the same time Ed Gibson will
be on the ATM console doing synoptic viewing of the Sun and
looking at points of interest on the Sun which he feels
will yield some useful data. Gibson will also put some
television on the video tape recorder of Carr flying the
maneuvering unit. In the afternoon Gibson will be the
subject for the M092/M093 lower body negative pressure
vectorcardiogram pair of medical experiments while Carr
observes. Pogue is scheduled to change out a thermal
detector in the S192 multispectral scanner right after
lunch and later in the evening do an S192 camera alignment.
Bill Pogue is scheduled to take handheld photos of the
laser beam as Skylab crosses over the Goddard Space Flight
Center in Maryland at 4:15 p.m. central daylight. At 8:42
Carr has -

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PAO - at 14:15 p.m. central daylight. At 08:42


Carr has scheduled some handheld photos of ice plumes and pack
ice formation in the Sea of Okhotsk near Sakhalin Island off
the coast of Sibera. Other optional photo targets during the
day include the Goddard laser beam in the morning at 9:43, and
at 11:13 a.m. the San Andreas Fault in California, mountains
and deserts of northern Baja California, looking at faults
and other geological features. Two other photo options are
wind/water circulation patterns and ice features in Lake
Ontario at 11:20 a.m. and fault zones in the northern Rocky
Mountains at 2:29 p.m. The crew will go to bed at i0 p.m.
central time with Jerry Carr being the duty man for any
potentiality of waking the crew up during the night. He'll
wear a headset, in other words, so while hanging in his
papooselike sleeping bag. It's now 12:34 Greenwich mean time,
25 minutes to the next station at Merritt Island Launch Area,
at which time we shall return. This is Skylab Control at 12:35.
PAO This is Skylah Control. 12:59 Greenwich
mean time. AOS Merritt Island Launch Area and Bermuda in
about 50 seconds. Space station Skylab is currently flying
in a orbital track that is experiencing an increasingly
higher Beta angle, or relative angle of the Earth/Sun line,
so that the Sun peeks over the poles at the orbital track
for i00 percent of the time. In fact, this condition will
last for the next three days, 72 hours 34 minutes at the
current time, at the present time. Average internal temperature
today is hovering around 77 degrees Fahrenheit. It'll likely
increase over the next day or two as the Beta angle and period
of i00 percent sunlight continues.
CC - through MILA for 13-1/2 minutes.
Good morning.
CDR Good morning, Hank. Hank, I've got the
nuZ change data if you're ready.
CC Okay. Go ahead.
CDR Okay. on Sirius I got a shaft of 191.2
and a trunnion of 26.9. On Canopus I got 259.9 and 37.9.
CC Roger. We copy.
SPT Morning, Hank.
CC Hello there.
SPT Say, Hank, Itve got the first part of the
building block I, that's chip I-A at 5400 rather then O. Would
82A like me to repeat that portion of the form? Tentative roll
of zero?
CC We'll check it. SPT_ we'd like for you
to repeat the 82A exposures, and for info, at 11:25 Zulu,
which was about an hour and a half ago, a surge was reported
out of active region 14 and went out to 1 solar radius.
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SPT Okay. Thank you.


CC SPT, for info, the beryllium count today
is about 20 times what it was yesterday.
SPT Thank you, Hank. I hope that means some-
ting.
CC SPT, Houston, we'd like the DAS for a
nuZ update.
SPT You have it, Hank.
CC Ed, the DAS is yours.
SPT Thank you.
CC And Skylab, the VTR is yours and you
have 20 minutes available.
CDR Roger, Hank.
CC Skylab, Houston, we're 1 minute to LOS.
Madrid'll be coming up at 18, 4 minutes from now.
CDR Roger, Hank. See you then.

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1/15/74

CDR Roger, Hank. See you then.


PA0 Skylab Control. LOS Bermuda. Reacquisi-
tion through Madrid 2-i/2 minutes. Standing by, start of
space station Earth orbit number 3551.
CC Skylab, Houston through Madrid for 8 min-
utes.
PLT Houston, Skylab, PLT.
CC Go ahead, Bill.
PLT Reference maneuverSng checklist. Page 24-4,
step 17. Question for the T020/M509 people. Do steps 17 and
18 of apply if we're using the new restraint system. If so,
or if not, do we replace step 17 and 18 with a new instruction
to install the different restraint system, the new restraint
system?
CC Okay, Bill. Those apply with the new restraint
system.
PLT Hank, I think we're sorting it out here.
And the trouble was that there's a coordinated activity going
on there and I didn't realize that there were two people
supposed we'll be checking back and forth with each other.
CC Roger.
PLT The one procedure by itself doesn't make
sense.
CC Skylab, Houston, we're i minute from LOS.
Carnarvon at 52.
PAO Skylab Control, LOS Madrid. Commander
Jerry Carr and Pilot Bill Pogue currently preparing the T020
foot control maneuvering unit experiment for today's operation
in which Carr will be the test pilot and Pogue the observer.
This experiment is aimed toward gathering data for design
of future personal maneuvering equipment, for moving an
individual in a suited mode in and around space stations or
orbiting vehicles. The T020 principal investigator is Donald E.
Hewes, H-e-w-e-s, of NASA Langley Research in Hampton, Virginia.
Where hand controllers are Used on the M509 astronaut maneu-
vering unit, the feet are used for controlling movement of
the T020 foot control maneuvering unit. In effect you follow
your feet. 23 minutes to Carnarvon and Honeysuckle. At
13:28 this is Skylab Control.

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SL-IV MC-2124/I
Time: 08:50 CDT 61:13:50 GMT
1/15/74

PAO This is Skylab Control, 13:50 Greenwich


mean time, 50 seconds away from acquisition at Carnarvon and
Honeysuckle Creek, Australia. We're standing by for this com-
Bined pass over the two Australian stations.
CC Skylab, Houston through Carnarvon for
9 minutes, and we need the VTR for through the next stateside
to rewind and dump there.
SPT You have it, Hank.
CC Okay, and standing by with his scintillating
tales of titanic tumults on the Sun is Bill.
SPT You really got something to live up to,
Bill.
MCC Yes, how can I follow that. A couple of
quickies here for you on the Sun this mornin_ to update some
of the brief words you got on active region 14's, activity
this morning. AT 06:19 Zulu it started sub-flaring and it
was giving about one per hour from then through about 10:50
Zulu. At 10:55 Zulu is when it gave us the i normal which
X-ray was about a C-5 as determined by sol rad, plus a mod-
erate amount of centimetric radio burst. At 11:08, which is
13 minutes after the 1 normal commencement, eJecta was
seen out to about 0,5 radii in H-alpha. At 11:25 it was out
to 1.0 solar radii indicating a velocity of about 400 kilo-
meters per second. At 11:32, 7 minutes after it reached 1.0
in H-Alfa, S052 took an unattended standard and also at
11:46 it took another unattended standard, and by that time
you had gotten up and were on the panel and took the synoptic
BBI, and it was apparent to us that you went out, looked
around, and then looked around the rest of the Sun. We're
wondering specifically what you saw out in the active region
14 area?
SPT Okay. 14 was relatively hot. It was
at 4000 counts in oxygen VI. In terms of the XUV, though, it
was not any hotter than 20 or 21. That was just a subjective
look at the XUV monitor with the integrate and without inte-
Krate. 20 and 21 still looked to me the better prospects at
that time even though the oxygen count VI - oxyKen VI count
was up over on 14. I could give you a little rundown on Just
about all these areas afterwards when you get through.
MCC Okay, fine. And H 14 will be on the limb
about 2 more days where we can be looking at the surges, et
cetera. Want to remind you of the possibility, should you
see something out there that looks appropriate to initiate
JOP 8 alfa. To us, concurring with what you said, 20/21 is
a hot area, the hottest area on the Sun. Area 21 is the hot-
test hotter of the two. The 20/21 area there we feel that
an M flare is possible within the next 36 hours or so, and
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our most likely guess would be along the north-south neutral


line in active region 21. 23's been inactive. The reason
we feel for the general increase in the X-REA, the radio
count, et cetera, is just for the general rise in AR 14 and
20/21, and we're sitting right now with an ambient X-ray level
of pretty close to CI. It's not quite i0 to the 3rd but it's
pretty close, so it doesn't take much to go up and over that
threshold. Okay. Why don't I let you tell me about the Sun.
SPT Well, first, at least sometime today could
the people give me a feel for what has taken place in the
active region 14 to cause it to become a good producer? So
far as we've watched it move across the disk I was not too im-
pressed with it.
MCC To tell you the truth I'm not sure that
anything new has happened. We were talking earlier to
the extent that had this happened on the disk we wouldn't
have seen any of it and it would have just been a i normal
probably not a C5, but since it's on the limb with limb
brightening, but I'ii get some more words up to you later.
SPT Okay. First of all, the white light
coronagraph. Last night when I looked at it I reported that
there was a fairly well defined streamer which started at
around 080, probably at 075 in reality, down to 090, that
went almost radially out, very well-defined, and just slowly
decreased in intensity, That's right where active region 14
was coming around the bend and perhaps we should have suspected
something at that time, but now this morning in looking at
it after the flare had occurred there is only a very bright
but very narrow streamer at around 075. The remainder of
that streamer which I saw last night has just faded away, or
disappeared, there's just a very small amount of intensity in
that whole general region. There is a very faint spike at around
oh say, 085 or so which remains, but it's nowhere near the mag-
nitude and size of the total streamer which we saw last night.
The streamer which is at about 095, which was there - well, I
should'nt say that it was not there yesterday, that there is one
at 095 which is no longer parallel to the one up there around
say 075. What it makes me think is that right out of the center
of that streamer we saw last night material emerged and then
caused the - just left the outside boundaries of it which tend to
diverge as they go a little further outward. That's the
picture I have in my mind. Of course I've not seen that happen,
but looking at the monito that's what it reminds me of. We
also have a very narrow streamer down at about i00 which
was there last night. Over on the other side of the limb
oh, around 300 centered on 300 is a broad diffuse streamer
which intensity drop off rather rapidly as we go
outward, and the two small streamers which we used to see at
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230/250, just a bare trac e of them, especially the one at 230,


but that's just about gone. Looking at the Sun in the XUV
monitor active region 14 did have one very small point which
was around 4K in the oxygen VI, but I did not really see very
much in oxygen - in the XUV monitor, however. Active region 18
is very - very faint. If anything, around say, 500 in oxygen VI
very tough to see, and in the XUV monitor it also is small
and faint. Active region 23, fairly bright. I would say
the ones which are the brightest on the disk are are all
about the same level in oxygen, or I'm sorry, in the XUV
monitor, are 14, 23, 16, 21, 20. Going back to 23 that's around
1000 counts or so, looks fairly bright. 15 is I didn't even
bother going over and looking at it, it was so weak in the XUV
monitor. 16 looks fairly large and - and about I000 counts in
oxygen VI. Same for 17, although not quite as large. 21 was
2000 counts in oxygen VI. 20 was around 1000. They both look
fairly bright. And right above the sunspot in active region 20,
here's where I get a little confused is the active region
20 and 22 I have a tough time picking out what exactly is
active region 22. But anyway, the sunspot which is in the
region of those two active regions shows around 1-1/2 thousand
counts in oxygen VI right above it.
MCC Okay, fine, Ed. I've got all that down.
We're 1 minute from LOS. Honeysuckle is up in 5 minutes and
that's a quick l_i/2-minute pass - -

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SPT large. 21 was 2000 counts of oxygen Vl;


20 was around i000. They both looked fairly bright. And
right above the Sun spot, in active region 20 - here's where
I get a little confused is the active region 20 and 22. I have
a tough time picking out what exactly is active region 22.
But anyway, the sun spot, which is in the region of those
two active regions, shows around 1-1/2 thousand counts in
oxygen Vl right above it.
MCC Okay, fine Ed, I've got all that down.
We're i minute from LOS. Honeysuckle is up in 5 minutes and
that's a quick 1-1/2-minute pass. Texas is after that in
35 minutes. A couple of points here of interest on today's
planning: the JOP 7, you have 14 minutes from 400 kilometers
down to 40 kilometers because of the Beta angle. On our
last orbit we've got a trunk if necessary on the BB-I.
Should you be more efficient than the planning allows, we'd
be happy to get it all. We could talk change 21 tomorrow,
and S052 had some questions as to what happened last night
with respect to the reenabllng of the discriminators. Apparently
they somehow - -
SPT Yeah, I just apparently - just probably
over looked that switch. That's all. That was my error..
MCC Okay, we were wondering if perhaps the
i second wasn't enough for the logic.
SPT No - no I don't think that was the problem.
I get I get in the habit of closing that door manually and -
and then never - never hit that switch because I thought
it was taken care of, and I just have to pay more attention
to what's written explicitly.
MCC Okay, if there's anything we can change
to help you out, just let us know. And we're over the hill
here, so we'll see you tomorrow.
SPT So long Bill.
CC Skylab Houston,, we're with yon through
Honeysuckle. We have about a minute and - a minute through
Honeysuckle. Our next site will be Texas at 34.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Loss of signal
through Honeysuckle Creek, Australia. Stateside!s coming up
in 27 minutes. The daily mission report came out this
morning based on day 60, or yesterday. Has a couple of items
in the workshop systems section regarding control moment gyro
performance. To quote directly this section, another control
moment gyro, number 2, bearing distress occurred on day 14, which
was yesterday, at 4:55 p.m. The temperature for bearings
i and 2 was the same, 78.4 degrees Fahrenheit. Currents
were 1.03 amperes and wheel speed was 8870 revolutions per
minute. The distress was not triggered by a maneuver. Also
on day 14 at 5:02 the bearing temperatures reversed. That
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is, bearing i was 78.3 degrees and bearing 2 was 78.5.


Wheel speed was 8849 revolutions per minute and the currents
remained the same at 1.03 amperes. A questionable period
of control moment gyro 2 bearing distress was recorded on
day 13, which was day before yesterday, at 8:10 a.m., but the
bearing temperature differential was never equal to O.
That is they never converged. Bearing i temperature was
75 - 75.5 75.7 degrees Fahrenheit and bearing 2 was
75.0 Fahrenheit. Current w@s 1.03 amperes and wheel speed
was 8870 rpm. A review of average internal temperatures
aboard space station Skylab: right after Skylab I, or the
space station, itself, was launched and the unintentional
jettison of the thermal shield, the maximum temperature was
125 degrees Fahrenheit. After the parasol was deployed in
Skylab II, the maximum temperature rose to 82 degrees. And
during the unmanned period between Skylab II and III, prior
to the time that twin pole sail was erected, the temperature
rose to 85 degrees. And the maximum thus far, after the
twin pole, during both Skylab III and Skylab IV, the maximum
has risen to 80.3. and during this current high Beta angle
period, which still has almost three days to go before we
begin getting sunsets - orbital sun sets, a predicted high
temperature of 83 to 85 degrees is predicted. Over Carnarvon
and Honeysuckle we had the morning ATM conference between
Science pilot Ed Gibson and Scientist Astronaut Dr. Bill
Lenoir. We'll be back in 23 minutes for stateside. And
the two European stations - Madrid only, I beg your pardon.
No Canary this time. Tananarive is marginal as to whether
they will be ready to support this rev or not. The antenna
is still on the blink. At 14:10 - 14:11 GMT, this is
Skylab Control.

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SL-IV MC-2126/I
Time: 09:33 CDT 61:14:33 GMT
1/15/74

PAO This is Skylab Control, 14:33 Greenwich


mean time. Tracking station in Corpus Christi, Texas will
pick up space station Skylab in about 45 seconds. Stateside
pass through Texas, Merritt Island launch area_ Bermuda_ and
across to Madrid for the next 28 minutes. Standing by for
AOS Texas.
CC Skylab, Houston, we're with you at Texas
through Bermuda for 17 minutes, and we'll be dumping the
voice recorder here. We know we're using it so we'll redesig-
nate the recorders and you may have the blinking light.
CC Skylab, Houston. Did you copy about the
voice recorder?
CDR Roger.
CC SPT, Houston; we see the X-REA's gone from
aperture 4 to aperture 3. When it's convenient could you tell
us what you see?
SPT Stand by a minute, Hank.
SPT Okay, Hank. At the beginning of the orbit
I came over and looked at active region 14, had an oxygen VI
count of around 20,000. I figured I'd get the building block 32
out of the way and come right back. As soon as I came back
it looked as though we had something going. We had a point
brightening going on at the time. However, I did not pick
it up early because I was working 32. Soon as I got back over
here I got on the point brightening and I got the - got us
going in the flare mode. Oxygen VI count had gotten up around
58,000 and had tripped off several of the detectors. We got 56
and 54 going in their flare modes. 82A got a exposure; however,
it was much greater then 20 seconds because the switch was not
enabled. Gave them another one which was 20 a seconds. 82B got a
wavelength short exposure sequence, and 55 was going at mirror
auto rasters - I'm sorry, a mirror llne scan. Right now their
going at mirror auto rasters because I see a pretty good surge
on the llmb and I figure we'll cover it with truncated mirror
auto rasters. It's fairly extensive. It covers about 2 are
minutes or so.
PLT Hank, PLT here. Did you say you were
taking the recorders?
CC We're redesignating the recorder so you'll
have one, Bill, but the light may not work properly.
PLT Thanks a lot.
SPT And Hank, after I concluded that we had only
gotten right at the flare peak and not really the rise itself
and I turned off the X-ray ins[ruments. I was just glving 54 a
single sequenee of exposure 64 just more for reference to follow
it without expending a higher amount of film. I'll go back in
the flare mode on that instrument and I'll probably give 82B
another sequence of wavelength short here. We're still at the
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brightest point and continue following it with 56 and their


long auto mode and 55 with truncated mirror auto rasters. If
you have any other suggestions, voice them up.
CC SPT, Houston; that plan sounds good.
However, in addition we would like to run a - an S052 ob-
servation at the end of the pass since we had a limb event.
SPT Roger, Hank, and will do. I was looking
at the limb flares which gives us a guidance for building
block 8 and that's why I'm not at Sun center now.
SPT Hank, I think this particular one, I'ii
point it out again, that unless we're in a flare wait mode
we're just not going to pick up one of one of these things.
There's no way if you're busy with the details of working
the switches on the panel that you can pick one of these
things up early. Got to be pretty much spring-loaded to it.
and not operating - not filled with the details of the oper-
ating instrument. I think if we get a flare probability
that is high we ought to just go flare mate -flare wait
and maybe give 55 some truncated mirror auto rasters and leave
it go at that and wait. We might not get any data for - for
hours at a time, but that's the only way we're going to get the
flare rise.
CC Roger; we copy that, Ed, and we'll con-
sider that.
CC Skylab, Houston, we're i minute from LOS.
We'll see you at Madrid at 55. That's 5 minutes from now.

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SL-IV MC2128/I
TIME: 10:41 CDT, 61:15:41 GMT
1-15-74

PAO Skylab Control, 15:41 Greenwich mean


time. Extremely brief pass of a minute and a half at Honey-
suckle Creek, Australia. Predicted acquisition in about
40 seconds. And we're standing by for Honeysuckle Creek,
Australia.
CC Skylab Houston we've got you through
Honeysuckle for a minute and 20 seconds. The next site
is Goldstone at ii.
PAO Skylab Control. Passed through Honeysuckle
Creek without acknowledgment from the crew. Hank Hartsfield's
call. Even though elevation angle was fairly high, theoretically,
the pass was only a minute and a half. There is a range of
mountains between the station north of Canberra. And all
passes to the south - partly the so-called great dividing
range of mountains, and the Australian Alps_ which includes
the highest point in Australia, Mr. Kosciusko, at 7316 feet above
sea level. The mountians get in the way. 15:45 Greenwich
mean time. 24 minutes to next stateside pass. This
is Skylab Control.

END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC2129/I
TIME: 11:09 CDT, 61:16:09 GMT
1-15-74

PAO This is Skylab Control. 16:09 Greenwich


mean time. 50 seconds away from acquisition at Goldstone.
And a solid stateside pass followed by both Canary and
Madrid. Also this rev the Tananarive voice relay station
is back in business and will support. The fourth and final
EVA of Skylab IV is now moved back to February 2 to allow
better scheduling of the deactivation of the space station,
stowage of return items, and crew sleep periods on that - on
those days. Should have acquisition at Goldstone about
now. We'll stand by.
CC Skylab Houston through Goldstone to Bermuda
17 minutes.
CC Skylab Houston for the T020. How close
are you using the VTR? We've got about 3-1/2 minutes left
to dump. If you're not gonna use it in the next few minutes
we could get that off and you would have full VTR.
CDR Hank, could you hold off on that?
We're about to get the T020 on.
CC And also in regard to that TV, if you
get a little bit behind on T020 you can skip the last - which
is the third TV that's scheduled in the run.
SPT Hank, is the VTR ours now, and how
much time is there on it?
CC Roger. It's yours. You have 27 minutes
available and the TV that can be deleted is on page 25-18
of the checklist.
SPT Okay, the only thing that wasn't reformed
was the - on Delta portion of it. That was all I had
culled out.
CC SPT, you're right there. The T 6 (?) 7 Delta
is the only one you're to do but the run - there're three
runs in that as I understand it, and the third one can be
deleted if you're behind.
SPT Hank, you're confusing me a bit by mentioning
three maneuvers. The Delta only calls for a two-axis trans-
lation of the dog leg maneuver.
CC Okay, on page 25-6 of the checklist there
it calls out that - follow action during familiarization
maneuvers. And this is the evaluation of the nonrigid
restraint system. And then there is some TV of the rigid re-
straint system, and both of those - that's on page 25-9, and
those are called out for either the SPT or the observer to do.
And the last callout is way over on 25-18, which is to follow the
two-axis translation in dog leg maneuver.
SPT Okay Hank, the only thing I had on my
tag was the Delta, so I was not trying to get any of the other
material.
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PLT Hank, I think - they're just a little bit


over saturated for the period of time allowed today. We'll
get what we can and talk about it later.
CC Okay, don't sweat it Bill, just do the
best you can with it.
CC SPT Houston, we just figured out what's
confusing you here. The - the TV photo - the TV ops - the
TV op book is in error, or at least it doesn't agree with
the maneuvering experiment checklist. The experiment checklist
calls out three sections on the 57 D and your photo ops - TV
ops books does indeed just call out for what you mentioned
a while ago.
CC Skylab Houston, we're about 20 seconds
from a handover (?). It may drop out for a few seconds.
SPT Houston, SPT.
CC Go ahead.
SPT Okay Hank, we got that Delta portion of
the TV finished up now. The - on the ATM at the beg - at the
end of last orbit I got a look at the corona and the region
which was from - Stand by a minute.
SPT Okay Hank, I'm back with you. The streamer -
a very small streamer which we mentioned earlier this morning,
which was present around 080, that is no longer there, probably
as a result of a transient which occurred. We see it over in
that area right now at - a bright streamer which runs from
065 to 075 and then an open space, where that very thin narrow
streamer used to be. And that open space only runs out to
around 3 solar radii where - where again a faint streamer
appears. I cannot see the base of the streamer, however. It
just all of a sudden appears somewhere around 3 solar radii.
It may be very faintly attached to the streamer which is just
north of it. That's the one from 065 to 075. It's not detectable
here. Then from 08 - 085 on down to i00 there is another
diffused streamer which has not changed at all in appearance.
At the beginning of the orbit here I came up and gave a
standard mode at Sun center and a patrol mode - yeah - PATROL
SHORT for 56 and now 55 is running off the limb looking at
the region where the surge was. It still looks as though it's
changing, so they may be looking at something. And 56 received
a PATROL on.
CC Roger. We copy. Thank you, Ed.
CC SPT Houston. And this applies to all
of you that worked the ATM today. Since the corona seems
to be active, and I'm sure you've already planned this, we'd
like to squeeze in as much Sun-centered ops with the 52 as
you can.
SPT Roger, Hank. That's a good plan and we'll
try to follow it.
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CC Okay, and we're about 1 minute from LOS.


We'll see you again at Madrid at 33.

END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC-2130/I
Time: 11:27 CDT 61:16:27 GMT
1/15/74

CC SPT, Houston, and this applies to all


of you that worked the ATM today. Since the corona seems
to be active now and I'm sure yon already planned this, we'd
like to squeeze in as much Sun-centered ops with the 52 as you
can.
SPT Roger, Hank. That's a good plan and we'll
try to follow it.
CC Okay, and we're about i minute from LOS.
We'll see you again at Madrid at 33.
CC Skylab, Houston, we're with you through
Madrid for 8-1/2 minutes.
CDR Houston, CDR.
CC Go ahead.
CDR Okay. T020 is completed now and we got
most all the maneuvers done except the tumble recovery and
we got the TV done and - but we did not get all the PAO photos
done. We'll have to get those another time. We did not even
fool with the nonrigid restraint system. We had enough
trouble and used up enough time getting the rigid system
working right. I think probably what we should have done is
schedule the evaluation of the nonrigid system some other
time, although I don't even know why you even want to bother
fooling with it. The SL-III crew worked that kind of system
over pretty well and we should probably Just stick with the
rigid.
CC Roger; we copy.
CDR However, if you want to schedule us time
to do it we'll fool with the nonrigid system.
CC Skylab, Houston, we're i minute to LOS.
Tananarive at 52.
PLT Roger, Hank.
PAO This is Skylab Control, LOS Madrid.
9-1/2 minutes to voice relay station Tananarive which is
back with us now, the antenna having been repaired. We'll
return at that time. At 16:42 Greenwich mean time this is
Skylab Control.

END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC-2131/I
Time: 11:51 CDT 61:16:51 GMT
1/15/74

PAO Skylab Control. 16:51 Greenwich mean time,


50 seconds away from acquisition through voice relay station
Tananarive, back in business with a repaired antenna. Stand-
ing by for Tananarive.
CC Skylab, Houston through Tananarive for
9 minutes.
PLT Rog_ Hank.
CC Skylab_ Houston, we may lose you here
shortly. Honeysuckle is _ is next at 18, and we plan to dump
the recorder there.
PAO Skylab Control, final loss of signal
through Tananarlve voice relay station. Probably the (gar-
ble) of the day. The next revolution the elevation angle is
less then 3 degrees. Space station Skylab now about a third
of the way through revolution 3553. 14 minutes to Honeysuckle
Creek, Australia. This is Skylab Control at 17:04 Greenwich
mean time.
PAO Skylab Control, 17:17 Greenwich mean time.
Acquisition at Honeysuckle Creek, Australia tracking station
in about 50 seconds. Commander Carr and Pilot Pogue are
scheduled at this time to be in their noon meal period while
the science pilot is doin_ his daily exercise. We_ll stand
by here for the Honeysuckle pass.
CC Skylab, Houston through Honeysuckle for
5-i/2 minutes.
CDR Roger.
CC And we'll be dumping the recorder.
PLT How about redesignatlng. Jerry's giving
a debrief on T020.
CC Okay.
SPT Rank, could you tell me what size flare
we had on out of active region 14? And also_ Hank, if
tell me if the (garble folks have changed any of their flare
probability.
CC Okay. In answer to the first question
they think the flares are around C-3.
SPT Thank you.
CC CDR, Houston.
SPT Jerry's recording right now.
CC Okay, Ed. We got some changes we want
to make on this upcoming pass and we only got a couple of
minutes here. I wonder if you could copy them for me.
SPT I will. Go ahead.
CC In in view of the recent activity there
on the west limb from AR_I4 we_d like to change this daylight
cycle coming up here so that after you do the building block
32 we want to go to a precise point in a roll minus 5400; dawn,
minus 900; right plus 215; and perform the six building block 10's.
SL-IV MC-2131/2
Time: 11:51 CDT 61:16:51 GMT
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In other words do not change the pointing. And we want to use


the following grating position: All zips at optical refer-
ence, 0574, 0772_ 1042, 16599 and 2434. If time permits, we
would like a building block 32, or a building block 2 to be
performed after those building block 10's, and these obser-
vations are intended to tell us the density of the base of
the streamers near AR-14.
SPT Okay, Hank. That's a roll of minus 5400,
down of minus 900, right of plus 215. 55 gratings are allzlps.
574, 772, 1042, 1659, 2434, and a buillng block 32 if time
permits.
CC That's correct, Ed, or a building block 2
would do there also_ and that's a good readback and we're about
30 seconds from LOS. Hawaii_ll be coming up at 39. And - -
SPT So long, Hank.
CC - - one last word for you. The flare prob -
probabilities are now on active region 14 are 410, active re-
gion 21 is now 510, and 24, 400.
SPT Thank you, Hank.
PAO This is Sky lab Control, loss of signal
at Honeysuckle Creek, ii minutes away from reacquisitlon for
the first t_me today through Kawali_ We_ll return then.
At 17:28 Greenwich mean time, Sky lab Control.

END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC2132/I
TIME: 12:38 CDT, 61:17:38 GMT
1-15-74

PAO Skylab Control. 17:38 GMT, 50 seconds


from acquisition at tracking Hawaii. Solid stateside
pass following and the European stations Canary and Madrid
for about the next 36 minutes. We're standing by for AOS
Hawaii.
CC Skylab Houston through Hawaii for 7 minutes.
SPT Hello, Hank. I got a question on the
pointing. We're at the pointing specified; however, we
happen to be 1 arc-minute to the right of the active region
14 and also the surge which was seen would be going off
to our left. And I'm wondering whether - really they're
where they want to be.
CC Okay. I'll check it. SPT, Houston.
I I guess our pointer was a little bit in error. At the
completion this S056 exposure, we'd like for you to tweak up the
point in - in your judgment.
SPT Okay, Hank, will do.
CC And got a couple of items for you. First
off, the CALROC is GO at this time. They're scheduled for
a 19:00 launch. And the VTR - we're rewinding here and
we're gonna need it for the next couple of revs to pay
it off.
SPT Okay.
CC PLT, Houston. Are you down in the -
experiment area?
PLT Affirmative. Go ahead.
CC Okay, we don't see the flow in duct 2.
We'd like to check the two circuit breakers over on panel
614, the duct 2 fans i and 3. And if they are closed they'd
would like for you to cycle them.
CDR Okay Hank, I did close them but we'll
go down and cycle them.
CC Okay, we're only seeing about half the
flow that we should see here and we're - we're thinking
that might do the trick, or if it doesn't, we'll just have
to look at it a little more.
CDR Okay, Bill just checked and they're all
closed and he's gonna cycle them.
PLT Okay, Hank, I turned them all off and then
turned them all back on simutaneously. I remember a long
time ago there was talk about reverse flow.
CC Roger. We copy you, Bill. Let's look at
them a minute here.
CC Skylab, Houston. That didn't seem to
help the situation on duct 2 flow. We'll think about it a
little bit and we may be - ber - be back with you with a little
short troubleshooting.
PLT Roger, Hank.
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TIME: 12:38 CDT, 61:17:38 GMT
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CC And we're about 1 minute from LOS. We'll


see you again at Goldstone at 50.
SPT Okay, Hank. One other suggestion on the
pointing. We can stay where we are right now, but if we have
a active region on the limb which might be going it wouldn't
hurt to roll so that we got the limb tangent to that vertical,
so that in case something does go off we've got a good exposure
for 82A. And 82B could be on top of it also.
CC Roger, Ed. And we could cover that.
CC Skylab Houston through Goldstone for
7 minutes.
CC PLT Houston, when you get into that S192
changeout you'll probably notice there's a typo down there in
step C where it refers to X and Y controls, it should be X and Z.
PLT (Garble) Hank.
CC PLT Houston. Did you happen to notice
if the duct flow and the duct 2 looks normal?
CC Skylab Houston, 1 minute till LOS. Bermuda
on the hour.
CDR Roger, Hank.
PLT Hank, it looks normal. It's the same
as the others. I'm sorry I didn't report thet before. I
should have told you.
CC We should have asked it before. We may
have a telemetry problem.
CDR Hey, Hank, would you ask the ATM folks
if on GRATING setting 2434 is it okay to use detector 6?
CC Roger. You can use detector 6.
CDR Thank you.

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SL-IV MC-2133/I
Time: 12:57 CDT 61:17:57 GMT
1/15/74

CDR Hey, Hank, would you ask the ATM folks


if ongrating setting 2434 is it okay to use detector 6?
CC Roger, you can use detector 6.
CDR Thank you.
CC Skylab, Houston through Bermuda 7 minutes.
CDR Roger, Hank.
CC Skylab, Houston, we're i minute from LOS.
Canary Island's are coming up in 3 minutes at 09.
CDR Okay, Hank.
PAO Skylab Control. Space station out over
the Atlantic now and about a minute and 20 seconds away from
reacquisition through Canary Islands. Standing by 18:08.
CC Skylab, Houston through Madrid - make
that Canary Island for 9-i/2 minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston; we're i minute from LOS.
We might make a real low pass at Tananarive at 33. If we
don't we'll see you at Honeysuckle at 55, and Honeysuckle is
36 minutes.
SPT Roger, Hank. See you then.
CC CDR, have you made that change on the TV
demos on TV-II4?
CR I made a bunch of changes yesterday on
the TV demos. I don't remember 114 being one of them though.
CC Okay. It came up this morning and I just
wondered if you had any trouble with it. It wasn't clear to
me when I read it. All we're doing is replacing the entire
procedure except for the TV block that's on the left-hand page.
You'll see it when you go there.
CDR Okay.
PAO Skylab Control. LOS Canary Islands, 12
minutes to voice relay station Tananari_e with a marginal
elevation angle of less than 3 degrees across the southeast -
southwest quadrant from that station. We'll be back at that
time in case anybody says anything. This is Skylab Control
at 18:21.

END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC-2134/I
Time: 13:32 CDT 61:18:32 GMT
1/15/7_

PAO Skylab Control. 18:32 and coming up on


voice relay station at Tananarlve for a 2-1/2 minute pass,
which may or may not produce any conversation on the air-to-
ground loop but we'll stand by Just in case.
PAO Skylab Control. LOS at voice relay station
Tananarive. No calls either direction though, and the lockon
of the Tananarive antenna was somewhat sporadic, dropping
in and out. 14 minutes to AOS Honeysuckle Creek, at which
time we_ll return. At 18:40 Gmt Skylah Control.
PAO Skyla5 Control, 18:53 Greenwich mean time.
This final Honeysuckle Creek pass of tke evening coming up
in about 50 seconds, followed by the final Hawaii pass of the
day. Standing by for space station Skylab to be acquired at
Honeysuckle Creek.
CC Skylab, Houston through Honeysuckle for
8-1/2 minutes. SPT, Houston. Can you look over there and
see how the PLT's doing with the detector changeout?
PLT Hank, I'm on page 3_8 and I'm at the note
in the center of the page. Okay, the pipe is still stuck, l'm
going very, very slowly because I don_t want to damage it.
And the first technique there didn't work, and l_m now in the
process of trying to install screwdriver to separate the
cooler in the heat pipe.
CC Roger; we copy.
PLT While I got you here. I read through proced-
ure earlier and I have some little indium shims in the mal-
function book right here. It isn't clearly cut we - or it isn't
clear precisely at what step in the replacement that I in-
stall those shims.
CC Okay, Bill. There should be a shim al-
ready installed on that detector.
PLT Okay. Tkat_answers'the question.
CC And the ones in the book there are spares
in case one of the others gets buggered up.
PLT Okay_ thank you.
CC SPT, Houston. Tke cal lock_s on - on
its way up..
SPT Thank you, Hank.
CC Skylab, Houston, we're about 45 seconds
from LOS. See you again at Hawaii in 15 with a recorder
dump.
SPT Roger, Hank. Hank_ in lookin_ at the
corona the only part we kave left over there on the west llmb
is a v a streamer at 100 and a streamer at 080 and the area
between looks cleaned out.
CC Roger_ we copy, And a - the rocket looks
good at this point.
CC And second sequence on the S054 we're
GRATING OUT.
SL-IV MC-2134/2
Time: 13:32 CDT 61:18:32 GMT
1/15/74

PAO Skylab Control. LOS Honeysuckle Creek,


next station Hawaii in i0 minutes. This is Skylab Control
at 19:04 Greenwich mean time.

END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC2135/I
TIME: 14:14 CDT, 61:19:14 GMT
1-15-74

PA0 This is Skylab Control. 19:14 Greenwich


mean time. AOS Hawaii in 50 seconds. With brief dropouts
between Hawaii and the States and between Bermuda and
Canary Islands and Ascension. We'll have a combined pass
running almost 40 minutes. Standing by for acquisition
at Hawaii for the final time this afternoon. In about
25 seconds.
CC Skylab Houston through Hawaii for
9 minutes and we'll be dumping the recorder and for the
SPT on the second S054 run we'd like the grating out.
SPT I just started it Hank. I'ii stop it
and put the grating out.
CC We tried to catch you before LOS last
time and it it was a late call. I don't think you got it.
CC SPT, Houston, if we figured right you
emptied up a M133 electrolyte vile it's - can be used
in the science demo today. Is that correct?
SPT You got (garble). That's right, I used it
up last night and I gave it to Bill this morning.
CC Okay, good show.
CC Ed, did Bill manage to break the (garble)
away from the heat pipe?
SPT Hank, you better ask him on the details.
CDR That's affirmative Hank, he did. Right
now we're busy brous_ng through our friendly stowage book,
trying to find out where the feeler gage is.
CC Okay.
PLT I give up Hank. Rather than spend an
hour looking for it in the stowage book, how about having
them search it out for me.
CC We're searching right now Bill.
CC Houston, we're about 20 seconds from
LOS. Goldstone is next in 3 minutes.
PAO Brief loss of signal carried as Skylab
bridges between Hawaii and Goldstone tracking stations.
Reacquisition less than 2 minutes away. We'll hold
the line up.
CC Skylab Houston through Goldstone for
6-1/2 minutes.
CC Bill the best we can come up with is -
it's - that it is somewhere either taped to the cover or
inside where you're working there, I don't much think so but
it's a little - I don't know whether you've seen it or not;
it's a little piece of metal about 3 inches long and about a
half inch wide. It's just a thin precision thickness piece
of metal.
PLT Hit it right on the nose Hank. I found it.
SL-IV MC2135/2
TIME: 14:14 CDT, 61:19:14 GHT
1-15-74

CC PLT, Houston, Just a little reminder,


the only constraints on - doing the alignments a_e - are
the 30 minute warm-up time prior to startin B and if - when
you shut it down there for your PT and eating that you must
allow a 2-hour cool-down period for time between the power
off and power back on again.
PLT Reg, Hank, thank you.
CC And we're about 40 seconds from LOS.
Bermuda is the next site at 38. And that's 4-1/2 minutes.

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PAO Another brief loss of signal period for


the Skylab as it goes over Canada. Interior temperatures of
the workshop are now about 78 degrees Fahrenheit. Crew hasn't
complained about the temperature so we presume it's satisfac-
tory. We_ll keep the line up for pass through Bermuda about
3 minutes from now.
CC Skylab, Houston through Bermuda for
9-1/2 minutes.
PLT Rog_ Hank, and I got another _uestion
here. The procedure to mall for tkls 192 procedure calls
for the removal of the attenuator. The pad makes no remark,
so I'm assuming that I leave the attenuator out for the re-
installation. Would you check and see if that's a correct
assumption.
CC That's correct, Bill.
PLT Thank you.
CDR Are you ready for the TV downlink, Hank?
CC We're ready for it.
PLT Hey, Hank; pressing on to step Bravo,
message 6133, Bravo i, and the removal and reinstallation
looks pretty clean.
CC Okay, We copy.
PLT A lot harder to get it out then it was
to put it back in.
CC From my experience getting that thing
away from the heat pipe's a little tricky.
PLT That's what took me so long. I went real
slow with that.
CC SPT, Houston. We have a few changes for
your ATM schedule pad on the JOP 12F, and they some of
these have been precipitated by the fact that the limb we
were going to look at is no longer quiet and the others are
Just flat corrections of errors.
SPT Okayp Hank. I got it in my hand. Go
ahead.
CC Okay. On the pass beginning at 22:07,
the roll was omitted. We_d like to add that to the pointing
instructions and it's minus 2460. That's at 45-minutes re-
maining.
SPT Okay9 I got it.
CC Okay. On the pass at 23:44, 46-minutes
remaining where it says roll plus 3000, and I guess that's
throughout the entire pass, the roll should be plus 2940.
And further pointing instructions there is to point inside the
left limb instead of the right llmb, and we want to - -
And at 13 minutes time remaining we want to bisect - bisect
the sllt with the tip of the filament, filament 76, nearest
to the limb.
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CC SPT, I guess we want to make that for all


the slits pointing bisect the with the tip of the filament 76
nearest the llmb. You with me so far?
SPT Yes, I'm Just trying to picture that one_
Hank, and I understand what you're saying but I had to ,kink
about it a little more and make sure I really understand it.
CC Okay. I - what - maybe this will keep you.
What we mean to do is put the slit perpendicular to the tip of
F76 nearer the limb.
SPT You want the tip of the sllt perpendicu-
lar to the filament, F76.
CC Negative. We want the tip of F76, thatts
nearest the llmb, perpendicular to the sllt.
SPT Okay,
CC The - the sllt will be parallel to the llmb,
Ed, but it_ll be pa _ approximately perpendicular to the
filament.
SPT Okay, Hank. Stand by Just a moment. Okay.
I got that written down Hank. I'll try and ta - take a look
at it this next orbit and make sure I udnerstand it.
CC Okay. And on the 82B exposures there in
your building block 26, we'd llke to change that from a NORMAL
to a times 4 and truncate at the end of the building block 26.
And we're about 40 seconds from LOS. I have one more change
for you, Ed, on the 113 pass. We can catch that later. The
next site is Ascension. It's coming up at 54.
SPT Okay, Hank. I undstand you want that
changed to times 4 rather then a NORMAL for the 82B and trun-
cate at the end - normal ending time of building block 26.
CC That's correct, Ed, and one quickie
for Bill - -

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SPT a times 4 rather than a NORMAL for the


82B, and trucate at the end normal ending time of building
block 26.
CC That's correct Ed. And one quickie for
Bill, have you started you 30 minute time yet?
PLT Negative.
CC Okay, see you in about 7 minutes.
PAO Skylab Control, 19 hours 47 minutes
Greenwich mean time. Space station now 6 minutes away from
acquisition though Ascension. Pilot Bill Pogue, working on
changing the thermal detector in the S192 multlspectral
scanner. This is a relatively sophisticated and quite
optically complicated instrument. Radiant energy from the
Earth is collected by spherical primary mirror and folded to
the planes secondary mirror to a focal plane where a scan-
mirror assembly is located. This assembly consist of an
outboard and inboard mirror mechanically coupled. The
mirror assembly is rotated at approximately i00 times a
second. The rotation of the scan mirror assembly results
in mapping the Earth beneath the spacecraft. Target data
is gathered durin_ the forward 120 degree portion of each
scan-mlrror revolution. The remaining 240 degrees of arc
are used for calabration. The field stop view of this
instrument at 235 nautical miles is approximately 260 feet
square on the ground. Following the field stop the dichroic
beam splitter refects visible and near infrared radiation
bands those are band 1 through 12 on the instrument and
passes thermal infrared radiation which is band 13. Energy
split by the dichroic beam splitter is then sent in several
different directions through prisms, associated lenses,
and mirrors, and then enters the cooler detector assembly
at two different points: visible and near infrared from one
dircection, and thermal or infrared energy from another
direction. The cooler detector assembly physically cools
the 13 detectors, This reduces electronic noise from the
machinery and then the spectral energy which at this point
in the machine is split into 13 bands is directed toward the
13 sensors. The thermal sensor is mercury cadmium tellurlde,
T-E_L-L-U-R_I_D-E it's an alloy filament, picks up the infrared
energy that's been scanned from the Earth below. For
calabrat_on purposes there are five radlometeric sources
in the equipment which are used to provide inflight cala-
bratlon of all the detector channels. The sources are located
such that tkey are introduced as the sean_mlrror assembly
in one of tke _ or rather i_ the 240 degrees of scan that
the mirror is not looking at the Earth. Three black bodies
are available for calabratlon for the thermal sensor, two are
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primary and one is redunant. One represents the hot and


the other represents cold. Warm up time for this machine
is about 20 minutes in the STANDBY MODE, and that is
necessary so that the various components can reach tempera-
ture stability. Bill Pogue should be in that 20-minute
period right now. Ground controllers have allowed 30 minutes
for warmup. He should aligning the S192 after this pass
over Ascension. He has to perform two alignment procedures,
one is visual and one is thermal. The visual is used - or
rather uses light admitting diodes as a reference and
the thermal uses the black bodies. Now less than 2 minutes
from reacqulsition through Ascension. We'll keep the line
up.

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TIME: 14:52 CDT, 61:19:52 GMT
1/15/74

CC Skylab, Houston through Ascension for


9 minutes.
CREW Hank, in the 30 minute wake period, we'll
be up as of - by 20:20.
CC Roger. We copy.
CC And Skylab, Houston the VTR is all yours
and it's all cleaned off.
SPT Thank you, Hank. Active region 14 was
boiling there but not really doin_ too much of anything
in the XUV monitor. The oxygen at VI count was between
4000 and Ii000 but it never really builtup.
CC Roger, we copy and Ed if you got a minute
here - a couple of more words on that pointing. I'm sorry
if I confuse you there. What we really want is the slit parallel
to the limb. That'll be about 50 arc-seconds inside with
the center of the sllt on the tip of filament 76.
SPT Yeah, I've got the picture now, Frank - Hank,
thank you.
CC And I have the last correction for the
113 pass whenever it's convenient for you.
SPT Go ahead, Hank.
CC Okay, the - in the 113 pass chanKe the
quiet re_ion I pointing to a roll of plus 2940 and point
H-alpha inside the left llmb instead of the right.
SPT Okay, I've got it.
CC Skylab, Houston we're i minute from LOS,
Carnarvon at 27, 23-i/2 minutes from now.
CC One tricky, Skylab, or SPT we need an MPC
roll inhibit.
CC Thank you sir.
PAO Skylab now out of range of the tracking
antennas at Ascension. Ed Gibson finishing up some solar
observations at the ATM C&D panel. His attention was directed
towards the Sun east limb about 45 degrees north of the
Sun's equator. Filament 76 which is now in three parts
usin_ the extreme ultraviolet monitor to look at the Sun.
21 minutes now from acquistlon through Carnarvon, Australia.
At 20 hours 5 minutes Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab
Control.

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SL-IV MC2139/I
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1/15/74

PAO Skylab Control 20 hours 27 minutes.


Space station now almost within range of the tracking
antennas at Carnarvon. We're getting data now. We'll
hold the llne up for this pass.
CC Skylab, Kouston_ through Carnarvon
for 9-1/2 minutes.
CC PLT_ Houston. I have some comments on
your laser activity coming up here shortlyp whenever it's
convenient.
PLT Go ahead, Hank.
CC Okay, that's coming up here in, oh,
about 40 minutes or so, 21:05. And they're going to change
it from a -2 to a -I, which really means they're going to
take the power up to a max of 10 watts. And after you
acquire the laser they'll slew it ahead and behind the
spacecraft.
PLT Okay, thank you.
PLT And_ I am in the middle of a square
search, Hank.
CC Roger, we copy.
CC Skylab, Houston, we're 1 minute from
LOS. The next site is Goldstone at 06. And we'll be handing
over to the purple gan_ there.
CDR Roger_ Hank_ we_ll see you,
PAO Skylab Control 20 hours 37 minutes
Greenwich mean tfme. Space station now out of range of the
tracking antennas at Carnarvonp Australia. Tracking site
on Guam is down for this pass. Problem is low power with
the transmitter there. Next acquisition is 28 minutes from
now. That_ll be through Goldstone, California. Science
Pilot Ed Gibson is the subject in medical experiments going
on right now in the space station. Commander Cart is the
observer. These experiments use the M092 inflight lower
body negative pressure device to measure cardiovascular
changes in crewmen over a period of time, to determine
whether or not the effects of weightlessness are detrimental
to a person's heart and circulatory system. And also being
used is the M093 vectorcardiogram. This experiment measures
electrical activity of the heart while the subject is working
out on the bicycle ergometer. Also part of today's experiment -
a limb blood flow measurement of Ed Gibson. This measures
the velnous blood - blood which is returning to the heart.
And that's measured in his legs while he is in the lower
body negative device and also uses a blood pressure cuff,
much as you would have blood pressure taken here on Earth.
Fl_ght Director Charles Lewis is indicated that he'll be
free for a changer.of_shift press briefing at 4:15 in the
briefing room in Building i. That _s approximately 35 minutes
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from now. Acquisition through Goldstone is now just under


27 minutes away. At Greenwich mean time 20 hours 39 minutes,
this is Skylab Control.

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TIME: 16:02 CDT, 61:21:02 GMT
1/15/74

PAO Skylab Control, 21 hours 2 minutes


Greenwich mean time. Space station is nearing acquisition
through Goldstone for a complete stateside pass. However,
Flight Director Charles Lewis is on his way to the Building
i briefing room for a change of shift press briefing in about
12 minutes so we'll be recording air-to-ground over this
stateside pass and we'll bring it to you after the conclusion
of the change-of-shlft press briefing. At 21 hours
and 3 minutes, this is Skylab Control.

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SL-IV MC2141/I
Time: 16:32 CDT, 61:21:32 GMT
1/15/74

PAO Skylab Control 21 hours 32 minutes


Greenwich mean time. We have a little over 8_i/2 minutes
of recorded air-to-ground which took place over this
previous stateside pass. Space station is now nearing
acquisition through Ascension. We'll be bringing that to
you recorded also.
CDR Hey, Dick, would you ask around and
see if on T020 on the suited run if they're going to have
a SOP available?
CC Okay, Jerry. And incidentally, while
I'm talking to you while we're on the subject of TO20.
There's a possibility we may have to change something in
your details with regard to the M509 Echo that's listed
at about 21_56 in the details. We need to know what the
PSS pressure was, after the last T020 run before you do that
509 Echo. And we haven't had a chance to search the tapes
yet and get it off the tapes.
CDR Okay, it was something like 14 or 1500
pounds, I think.
CC Okay, Jerry_ thmnk you, We'll get
back to you. Skylab, Kouston, the DAS is yours, Thank you.
CDR, Houston, in answer to your question about the T020,
right now it appears that there will not be an SOP available
for your next T020 run. We're going to be usin_ them for
509. What we are thinking about doing on T020 is using the
umbilical that was modified and stripped down on the last
mission for T020.
CDR Roger, Dick.
CC And also I think I gave you a had time
there for this AOS, it"s a long stateside pass. We got you
for 14 minutes. Standing by.
CC And PLT_ Houston, sometime during this
pass when you get a chance from working on the S192. We'd
appreciate knowing where you are and where you've been
in the alignment.
PLT l_m just finishing up a visible alignment
now. I got a thermal alignment of 65 percent.
CC Roger, Bill, sounds good.
PLT I was going to give you the numbers here.
Okay, X at approximately 500. (Static)
CC PLT, Houston_ I think you got trapped
in the handover, And I didntt read that, start again with X.
PLT The visible l_m getting saturated on
right meter, and 14 to 15 percent on the left is as as much
as I can get. And I have done that about four times now,
trying to get that left heater a little higher. I'd like
some advice from the ground, whether or not that's
satisfactory or are we out of the ballpark or what?
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CC Okay, Bill, we'll be getting back to you.


PLT And I got to run down and look for the
lasers.
CC Okay. PLT, Houston_ the laser's turned
on.
PLT Roger. All right l_ve got the laser.
CC Okay_ good. PLT_ Houston_ the laser's
being slewed ahead of you now.
PLT Still have it.
CC Okay.
PLT Just lost it.
CC Roger.
PLT l_m losing Goddard under a cloud bank.
CC Roger.
PLT Got it again_
CC Roger, and be advised we're dumping the
data/voice recorder here at MILA _ correction here at Bermuda.
PLT Starting to fade now,
CC Roger.
PLT I still have it.
CC Okay.
PLT l_ve lost it,
CC Roger.
PLT Okay_ Dick_ l_m going to call that good
on that visible alignment in the absence of any other comment
from the ground.
CC Roger, Bill. Right now, we're checking
our numbers and going back to the test data and seeing on
checking on that visible for you. So we'll get right back
to you. We still got 7 minutes left here.
PLT Okay, that's great.
CC PLT, Houston, when you get a chance.
PLT Rog, Dick.
CC Bill, what we think is the best thing
to now, is go ahead and power down per page 1018 of the checklist.
We are checking our data, we may _ may very well be at at a
point on the visible where we are not going to have to use any
of the time that's scheduled in your Flight Plan later on today
for the 192 align. In either case however, if we power down now,
it_ll he off long enough so we can power it back up. And try
something else if the data warrants it. And we_ll get back
to you later on. So we_d suggest powering down now per page
I0=18.
PLT Okay. I was fiddling with the focus again.
I got it up to 17 and when I peaked went past it. I've got to
refocus it now. You know, it fails off the cliff, so to speak.
So, l'm going to refocus before I power down so I can recover
what I had.
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CC Okay_ Bill, it will _ there is a 2,


2 hour delay from the time that you power down until we're
able to power it up again. And so, when you get through fiddling
with this one and get it picked up why don't you go ahead and
power down. And then later on this evening we may or may
not ask you to do some more.
PLT Okay, Dick, Wilco. And this shouldn't
take me but about 2 minutes.
CC No sweat. We still got you 4 - 4 minutes
here, standing by.
CDR Houston, CDR.
CC Go ahead, Jer.
CDR Hey, Dick, on that T020 today. We were
very very conservative with the film, used very little
of it. And I don_t know_ I just kind of feel like we really
did not give T020 a good workout today. I would certainly
recommend that we do it again. Considering the fact that
all you got is an umbilical. I think the people on T020
ought to give careful consideration to the possibility of
get -

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CDR - a good workout toda$_ I would certainly


recommend that we do it again. Considering the fact that
all you've got is an umbilical, I think the people on TO20
ought to give careful consideration to the possibility of
getting another shirtsleeve run in lieu of the suited run.
Because I'm convinced that that umbilical is going to be
more trouble than it's worth and it's going to mask a io
an awful lot of data. You'll probably end up with better
data in the long run with a good free shirtsleeve run.
CC Okay, Jerry, thanks for the inputs, and
we'll put it in the bucket and let the corollary guys talk
about it. Appreciate it.
CDR Okay, at any rate, I think another short
run TO20 would be - would probably be good. Because we had
to start right into data take without getting any good FAM
work in. And I just don't think we - we gave them really
good data at all.
CC Okay, Jer, thank you.
PLT Okay, Dick, I have visible feedback at
15 on the left and fully saturated full scale HIGH on the
right, l_m going to go ahead and powerdown,
CC Okay, B_II, thank you.
PLT EREP 192 powered down as at 21:25.
CC Skylab, Houston, we're about 15 seconds
from LOS, Ascension coming up at 21:34. See you there.
CC Skylab, Houston, we're AOS Ascension for
3 minutes_
CDR Roger, Dick.
CC And PLT, Houston; if you have a chance,
I have a couple of questions from the 192 alignment that might
help us out. The first one was, you dropped out when you
were giving us the Z reading as to where you ended up for
the thermal alignment. If you - you gave us X of 500, we
didn't Z. If you remember that, that might be of interest
to us. Also, we were wondering on the visible alignment,
did you ever have to go to the procedures that we - were
uplinked in the message, or did you get a meter reading while
you were in the procedures that are in the checklist?
PLT Stand by i_ Dick,
CC Okay.
PLT Regarding the thermal, the final setting
was X, 500 and Zulup 489. That was at 65 percent.
CC Okay, Bill_ thank you. We're about 45
seconds from LOS. Carnarvon comes up at 22:04, go ahead.
PLT Rog, I used the square search on page
10r14 and I got down to step 15 before I got a meter reading.
That ks when I peaked _t out_ it was no problem after that.
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Now on the visible, I - I was merely deadJusting (sic) the


focus there to see how it was_ and I got a - a meter a good
readin_ on the_ rlgkt meter, However_ it took me a while to get
the left meter to come up and it - I got the general impression
that I could find about 3 or 4 focus points in that thing to
saturate the right meter and give me a reasonable meter reading
on the left. Howe_er, there was only one place where I could
get this final 15 percent.
CC Okay, Billy thank you very much. We're
going over the hill, and I'll see you at Carnarvon. Thanks
for the input.
PLT Roger.
PAO Skylab Controlp 21 hours 43 minutes. That
concludes our recorded air-to,ground playback. Some comment
from Commander Carr suggesting that another unsuited T020 run
would provide them with some additional data. And Bill Pogue
reporting that he could see the Goddard laser during this
previous pass over eastern United States. Todayts laser ex-
periment used the 10_watt green laser. And also Bill Pogue re-
portin_ that he had visual alignment of the S192 multispectral
scanner. The EREP officer here in Mission Control indicating
that he thought Bill Pogue alignment was probably right on.
They would buy the alignment as it was. Next acquisition will
be 20 minutes from now. That will be through Carnarvon, Aus-
tralia. At 21 hours 44 minutes, this is Skylab Control.

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SL-IV MC2143/I
TIME: 17:03 CDT, 61:22:03 GMT
1/15/74

PAO Sk_lab Control_ 22 hours 3 minutes Greenwich


mean time. Space station is nor nearing acquisition through
the tracking station in Carnarvon, Australia. Phil Shaffer
and his purple team of flight controllers have taken over
here in Mission Control. Spacecraft Communicator is
Dick Truly. Pilot Bill Pogue should be doing physical
training exercises right now. And Science Pilot Ed Gibson
should be performing alignment procedures on the S082B
ultraviolet spectrograph and the S082A extreme ultraviolet
coronal spectroheliograph. These instruments are designed to
view the Sun. Now less than i0 seconds away from acquisition,
we'll go live air,to,ground.
CC SkylaS, Houston we"re AOS Carnarvon for
i0 minutes.
CDR Hello, Richard.
CC Hello there.
CC Skylab, Houston it's getting about the
time when startled _ we_d like to start dumping the experiment i
experiment 2 recorders, we see they're still running_ are
you guys finished with them or are yon st_ll using them for
the biomed run?
CDR No_ we%re tkrougk witk it_ Dick. We
must have overlooked turning them off.
CC Okay_ thank you, if you':ll secure them
we will go ahead and get into our dump cycle on those two
recorders. Thank you.
CDR Okay, Dick they're off.
CC Okay, thank you Jer.
CC CDR, Houston one note for you herep we're
playing - we're about to the point where we'd like to relieve
quad _ quad alfa sometime this evening and to keep it out
of your presleep, the best time looks like to us would be
this upcoming stateside pass. However any - either here or
at Guam would be okay to is - when we get our data locked up,
that's quad alfa only per that permanent general message we
uplinked last night.
CDR Okay, Dick how much time we got left
NOW.

CC We got 4 minutes here and then we got


about a 2 or 3 minute break and we're right now we're about
7 minutes from Guam AOS, that might work good too.
CDR Oh, I can do it right now, I'm just in
that housekeeping period, I'ii go right up.
CC Okay.
CDR By the way Dick, the only PSS we used today
was numSer 3 and I was guessing 14 to 1500, the final reading
on it was 1200 PSI and l_m recharging now.
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CC Q_y_ Jet thank you_


SPT Rello Dick? do I h_ye a call this evening?
CC Yes, you do, Ed. Thought Hank - Henry had
reminded you of the time. Let me look it up real quick.
SPT Thank you.
CC It's 02:22 at and that - let's see,
02:22 at the Vanguard, Ed.
SPT Thank you, Dick.
CDR Okay, Dick Quad A_s open.
CC Okay.
CC SkTlah , we're I minute to LOS, Guam
comes up at 4 minutes from now.
CDR Quad A's closed now Dick.
CC Okay, Jerry thank yon very much, we appreciate
it. Looks good on the data to us.
PAO Skylab Control, space station now out
of range of the tracking antenna at Carnarvon. Less than
3 minutes from reacqulsitlon through Guam. During this pass
over Carnarvon, Command and Service Module propulsion system
quad A was relieved of some pressure. Permanent general
message onboard indicates to the crew tke procedure for that.
Also Pilot Bill Pogue is quite a hit akeaa of himself today
with the S192 detector changeout and alignment procedure.
HeSs got approximately 2 kours of free time left. Ground controllers
indicating they"ll probably kave him go to his shopping list
to fill that time. Now about a minute from acquisition
through Guam, we'll hold the line up for this pass.

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CC Skylab, Houston, Guam for 9 minutes.


Skylab, Houston, Guam for 8 minutes.
CDR Roger.
CC Hey, Jerry, a couple of things. Early
in the day we passed up that we though there might be some -
some more hemolysis applicators in - in that IMS S canister
Charlie. We told you earlier that we thought that there
were two packages of ten. Now_ we think there was probably
one package of ten, but in either the case, we never found
out if you found those. And we need to know for our
planning purposes.
CDR Well, Dick, we transferred those
hemolysis applicators over to W708 along with the day 4 transfers,
whenever that was. I know it wasn't on day 4. And those
have been - being put to use all during the mission. And
there's only what few are left or what Ed reported yesterday.
CC Okay, we_ll search our records and make
sure we know why we thought they were there then with regard
to the day 4 transfers. Alsop note for Bi Bill I think
I hear him grinding away on the bicycle. But we've done a
little thinking about 192 alignment that he did earlier.
We don't quite understand why we should be able to get
various peaks wh - at different focus positions. And the
only possible thing that we - that we just wanted to confirm
we believe is true, is at the peak that he got the visible
alignment at 15 percent, we want to make sure that we were
not on a stop on focus. Assuming that we were not on a
stop, we're happy as clams tonight, and unless Bill wants to do
a little more tweaking later on_ we'd suggest doing something
more useful.
CDR Stand by.
CC There's no hurry on getting a response
from that. I just thought l_d let Bill know that we didn't
antim intend on using that time_ so he can plan his time
a little bit, as he sweats on the bike.
PLT l_m sure _t_s not on the stop.
CC Okay. Bill, we were looking for some
possible visual observations opportunities, or something that
we might llke you to do during that period this evening. But
unless you care to do some more work on the 192 align, we're
real happy with it, it looks good to us.
PLT Okay. I tell you what, at one time I
_ot about 16_I/2 almost 17 percent on the left meter. On
the last time, just before I signed off, I got only 15, I
would like to have more hack at it. Unless they'_re happy
with it the way it is.
CC Okay_ that's okay with us, Bill. That'll
mean you need to refer to your details at 23:30 to get the
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switch ON. And let it stay ON for 30 minutes 9 and then you can
go back and see if you can do any better. And you're welcome
to do that.
PLT I'll do it.
CC Okay.
CC Skylabp Houston_ 1 minute to LOS.
Goldstone at 22:43.
CDR Roger, Dick.
CC You guys sure do get around the world
in a hurry.
CDR Kog_r_ _eyp I tkink I just saw
Iwo Jima for the first time. I_ve been looking for it
for weeks. And I got a picture of it.
CC Hey, good.
CDR Guess where that'S going to end up?
CC Hey, I know. Hey, Jerry, John Llewellyn
wants a copy of that too.
CDR Okay. I'ii be embarrassed it it turns
out to the Enid, Oklahoma.
CC (Laughter), yeah, but you can bet you'd
never going to get to forget it.
CDR That's wky I said, I think it's lwo Jima.
CC (Laughter). Roger,
PAO Space station nor out of range of the
tracking antenna at Guam. Some comment up to the crew,
apparently one of the devices used in the MII0 medical
experiments, the hemolysis sticks. They don't have enough
on hoard, or if they do they can't find them. Flight
surgeon here in Mission Control is going to work on a
procedure on getting more use out of the sticks they have.
Possibly surcoming to suggesting yesterday by one of
the crew members, that they cut the sticks in half. They're
shaped somewhat like popsicle sticks. And they'd split very
easy with a knife. Next acquistion 14 minutes will be
througk Goldstone. 22 hours 29 minutes Greenwich mean time,
this is Sky lab Control.

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Time: 17:42 CDT 61:22:42 GMT
1/15/74

PAO Skylab Control, 22 hours 42 minutes


Greenwich mean time. Space station Skylab now approaching
acquisition through Goldstone. This pass will take it over
New Orleans, very close to Houston. At this time Commander
Carr is involved in housekeeping activities. Science pilot
Ed Gibson is still doing solar instrument alignment, part
of JOP 12F. That's Joint observing program 12F. And Pilot
Bill Pogue should be cleaning up after some physical training.
About 20 minutes from now all three crew members will be
having their evening meal together. That will be Just
after loss of signal through Merritt Island tracking area.
Crew at that time will be over South America. Now less
than i0 seconds away from acquisition of signal, we_ll go
live air,to-ground.
CC Skylab, Houston, AOS stateside for
17 minutes.
CDR Roger, Dick. I just put some of the
Aleutian Islands, and Bristol Bay, and Pillingham and little
bit of the Canadian Rockies down south. How much VTR did
we use?
CC You used just a hair over 4 minutes
Jerry.
CDR Okay, it looks pretty cloudy from here
on in. If you want to go ahead and rewind that and dump
it over this stateside pass it might be a good idea.
CC Okay, we'll certainly be doing that.
Incidentally got a one short note here for the SPT. We're
going to uplink during this site a message on CALROC 20.
It turns out that the CALROC was a real fine success today
and we want to do our best on JOP 12 to - to optimize our
pointing, so this will supersede the voice instructions
I think Henry gave you earlier today for the pass at 23:44.
SPT Okay, Dick that sounds good. When Henry
spoke to me before I had my mind working on the panel rather
then _ and it took a couple of time for Henry to get through,
but I understood what he had voiced up, but I'ii look for the
instructions.
CC Well, naturally the purple gang has
got to change it a little bit and it's on that teleprinter
message, So why don't you see if you can - why don't you
read that and see how that sounds to you.
SPT Okay, thank you Dick.
CDR What's the weather in Houston, Dick?
CC It's high broken it turns out Jerry.
I tell you it rained like cats and dogs last night.
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SPT Okay, Dick, I looked at the JOP 12 pointing


instructions, and it looks pretty clear. Thank you.
CC Roger, Ed.
CC And SPT, Rouston_ We_d like you to
terminate the exposure on S054 please.
SPT Okay Dick. I always though that their
druthers were to get as long as possible and thatls what
I was doing. And I was wondering because I didn't have to
change the pointing. And if that is not the case why don't
you have them give me some other instructions.
CC Okay, stand by i.
CC SPT, Houston, we would like to go ahead
and terminate this one. And we_ll have _ get our heads together
and get you clarified on what SO54 would like.
SPT Thank you.
CC Skylab, Houston, we're going to - we're
handing over to MILA. We're going to dump the data/voice
recorder.
CDR Roger, Dick.

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SL-IV MC2146/I
TIME: 17:5_ CDT, 61:22:54 GMT
1/15/74

CC Skylah, Houston we_ve dumped the _TR.


We brought it in real time here. It was a real good
picture, we did not copy any voice during the dump if you
did put in on therep however.
CDR We didn't have time Dick, to even set
it up we were lucky to get the TV.
CC Okay, well we saw it as it came in. It
looked real pretty,
CC Did you really - really get the definition
of the mountains and the islands?
CC Certainly did it was good - it was good
TV just about the whole dump and now the VTR is clean and
it's all yours.
CDR Okay, well if it's as good on the next pass,
we_ll get set up for it and try to give you some narration
with it. I might be able to get a pencil in there and point
out some of the islands and tell what's what.
CC Roger, and SPT, Houston you've got just
about enough time to get a 5-minute sequence that's on the
schedule pad for S054. We'd like to get that and Jerry back
to you, your next descending pass after you pass the Aleutians
will be right down the west coast of the United States and
right above Baja, California.
CDR Yeah, that looks like a real fruitful
pass, if the Sun angle isn't too low we might be able to get
some real good pictures. One thing you might notice on that
TV is the way the Aleutian Islands seem to effect the weather
up there. You notice the way the clouds the wakes and
eddies are formed in the clouds by those islands.
CC Yeah, I did notice several eddies and
and some quite striking cloud formations, it would have been
a lot more helpful for me personally if - to have had some
voice narrating it, having a little bit of a tough time figuring
out exactly what you were looking at. But it was real good
TV.
CDR Well this was on about 3 minutes notice.
If we can get set up we'll do better.
CC Well it was great, we enjoyed it.
CC Skylab, Houston we're a minute from LOS,
Vanguard at 23110.
PAO Skylab Control_ 23:00 Greenwich mean time.
Space station now over the northern tip of South America,
out of range of the MILA tracking antennas. Commander Jerry
Carr commenting earlier on whether or not the handheld TV that
he shot less than 18 minutes ago out of the wardroom window was
any good_ was superb TV was the answer. Showed the Aleutian
Island chain of Alaska and the Canadian Rocky areas and the
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clouds influenced by those geoEraphic features. Next revolution


which will take the space station down the western coast
of North America. He indicated that he would probably do
the same thine again with voice. Also earlier in the day,
Commander Jerry Carr about i0 o_clock this mornln E took some
handheld pictures. He got pictures of the Galapagos Islands
usinR the Nikon camera with the 300-millimeter lens. He
indicated that he doubted that the pictures he took of the
Glapagos Islands would come out. However he also got pictures
of the Gulf of Fonseca, this is on the west coast of Honduras
between E1 Salvador and Nicaragua and he also got some
pictures of Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. So Commander Jerry Cart
is doing quite well with _and_eld pictures today. Next
acquisition will be 7 minutes from now. That_ll be over
Vanguard tracking ship. All three crew memhers should he
eating their evening meal at that time. Greenwich mean time
23 hours and 2 minutes_ this is Skylab Control.

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SL-IV MC2147/1
Time: 18:08 CDT, 61:23:08 GMT
1/15/74

PAO Skylab Control 23 hours g minutes


Greenwich mean time. Space station now nearing acquisition
through tracking ship Vanguard. This pass will be about
7 minutes long. All - all crewmembers, with the exception
of Science Pilot Ed Gibson should be in the wardroom
preparing for dinner. Ed Gihson will meet them in about i0
minutes, he's still at the ATM C&D panel. About 20 seconds
from acquisition of signal now. We'll hold the line up.
CC Skylab, Houston, AOS, Vanguard for
7 minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston, AOS Vanguard for 7
minutes.
SPT Hello, Dick. I got three questions on
the upcoming ATM pass.
CC Okay, go ahead.
SPT Okay, first of all_ I assume from the
words that we got earlier that all of this is to be done at
the left limb. And that the positions inside the limb as
given on the pad, are correct. Second_ we were told that
time of 13 minutes remaining when we were doing the 12E to
change the last exposure 82B, wave length to WAVELENGTH SHORT
that's one quarter, was worded at the end of the building block.
That's a pretty short building block, I want to know whether
they want to add that on or - or just change the existing
exposure? And thirdly, what is the roll for the Sun centered
work?
CC Okay, we'll get you an answer, Ed.
SPT Oh forget the Sun centered work. That's
for the following orbit. Oh, I'ii - I'ii worry about that
one afterwards.
CC Okay.
CC CDR, Houston.
CDR Go ahead.
CC Roger, Jerry. Our TV people were working
up a few technical inputs to get up to you sometime about
the success of some of the out-the-window TV. Since it looks
like we may have a good chance on this next orbit, on this
descending pass next to California coast, they asked me to pass up
a couple of particular things to you. It turns out that the
- if there's more than about a tenth of cloud cover in
the picture, that at times the cloud tops are so bright,
that the automatic light control in the camera closes down,
and the Earth's surface is particular hard to see. So, during
your out the window looking, and looking for opportune
times to take some TV, those times when it's clear or very
little cloud cover, provide real good contac - constract
in particlar coastlines do turn up real well. We believe
that this upcoming pass might be a good opportunity to slew
out and take a look at the Salton Sea.
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CDR Okay, Dick. What sort of an f-stop


sounds right to them. I was using 22 on that last one.
CC That's good.
CDR Okay. How about snow cover, shall I
close it down more, more towards 40?
CC Jerry, let me get back to you on - on
that answer here. And let me solve Ed_s questions real quick.
Han_ on.
CDR Okay.
CC SPTp Houston. In answer to your questions,
we are going to do the operations on the left limb. The
pointing is correct that's in your pad. And on 82 Bravo
we want to replace the existing exposure in there with a
WAVELENGTH SHORT times four.
SPT Okay, that's what I thought it was,
wanted to clarify it. Thank you, Dick.
CC Okay. Skylab, Houston, we're about
40 seconds from LOS. Goldstone comes up at 00:20, and
that's the site for the evening status report. I'ii be
standing by there to catch that one.
PAO Skylab Control 23 hours 16 minutes
Greenwich mean time. Space station now over an hour away
from reacqulsition of signal through Goldstone. This next
revolution, Commander Jerry Carr will be trying to get
pictures of the western coast of North America from about
the Oregon/California border down through and over Baja.
That'll also be the evening status report time. And the
next revolution will be - excuse me the next acquisition
Vanguard will be the evening medical conference. Acquisition
of signal through Goldstone now an hour and 2 minutes away.
At 23 hours 17 minutes, this is Skylab Control.

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SL-IV MC2148/I
Time: 19:17 CDT 61:00:17 GMT
1/15/74

PAO Seventeen minutes Greenwich mean time


Skylab Control. Space station is now about 2-i/2 minutes
away from acquisition through tracking antennas at Goldstone,
California. Pilot Bill Pogue is trying to optimise the
alignment for the S192 multispectral scanner, right now.
EREP officer here in Mission Control thinking that one more
time around on the alignment of that machine and it will be
almost perfect. Science pilot, Ed Gibson at the Apollo
telescope mount control and display panel right now observing
the Sun. And Commander Jerry Cart has about an hour of
presleep activity. He should be at the wardroom window
with the color television camera for this pass along the
Pacific Coast of the United States_ expect some real time
television. Also medical officers here in Mission Control
are a little bit consterned (sic) over the fact that there
are only 10 hemolysis sticks remaining and there are three
more runs for the Mll0 experiment, which use three sticks each
for each run, one stick for each crewman. They use these
sticks they're about 1 inch long and about a 64th of an inch
in diameter. More like toothpicks than popsicle sticks as
we said earlier. They smear blood on a half_inch_square glass
slide and then insert the slide into an optical device which
allows the crewmember to compare color densities. From a
comparison of the color density of the blood sample with a
color disc they can Judge the percent of hemoglobin in their
blood. Tomorrow morning there will he one MII0 experiment,
and then later on in the mission January 28th and right
before deactivation. Presumably 10 new sticks went up on
this mission, but nobody seems to be able to locate them.
They're still looking. Now less than 20 seconds from acquisition
of signal through Goldstone, we'll hold the line up expecting
some llve television for this pass.
CC Skylab, Houston, we're AOS Stateside for
12_1/2 minutes, standing hy for the _ve_ing status report.
CDR Roger, Dick, We're all poised with the
TV camera ready to go, and looking for some clear area.
CC Okay.
SPT Dick, JOP 12 is going real well, but
you may want to have the guys take a look at H-alpha.
I can't get the film to advance and our picture is degrading.
CC Okay, we'll certainly do that Ed.
CC (Garble) do that Ed. And we're bringing
down live TV and I see a kairy chin.
CREW Oops.
CC And lots of clouds.
CDR Yeak_ it's clearing up farther south
though. Here comes the photo log.
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CC Okay.
CDR You ready?
CC Yes sir, go ahead.
CDR 16-millimeter, T020, Charlie India 79,
40, Charlie India 126. S192, Charlie India 80, 76, Mike
Tango 08. T020 manuevering unit, Charlie India 88, 60.
Nikon 01, Charlie X-ray 41, 63; Number 2, no change_ Number
03, Charlie India 115, ll_ 04, no change_ 05, no change.
70-millimeter, Charlle X-ray 50, 051. ETC, no change.
EREP, no change. Drawer A: Alfa 2p 4 and back, no change;
Alfa i, 02 Charlie India 80, 76, M_ke Tango 08; Alfa 3_
06, Charlie India 79, 40, Charlle India 126.
CC Roger, Jerry got that,
CDR Hey, Dick you ought to be able to see
Catalina Island, San Clemente Island and the Los Angeles area.
CC Roger Jerry, we're iookinB at it.
CDR Looks like there's either clouds or
still snow on the Mohave.
SPT Do I have a momentum dump inhibit coming
up Dick?
CC That's affirm, we sure do,
CDR Yon ought to he ahla to see the salt and
sea by now.
CC Yeah_ you mlght try zooming in toward
that clear area, Jerry.
CDR Okay, I'm going to use my pointer and
show you the salt and sea.
CC Okay, we're watching you. That picture
gets much clearer when we get the clouds out of the field
of view of the surface.
CDR Here you can see the cultivated Imperial
Valley there south of the sea.
CC Koger_ sure can we were just looking at
that ourselves.
CDR Even the coastal range has got snow on
it.
CC Roger. The little amount of snow that's
visible in these pictures Jerry is not hurtin_ us.at all.
CDR Okay, you ought to be able to see the
great Sonora Desert down there and I wonder if you guys can
see the definition of the sand dunes.

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SL-IV MC2149/I
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1/15/74

CC Yeah, now we do Jerry, in that picture.


We see a good bit of definition. It's kind of hard to tell
exactly where we are oriented. There you go.
CDR Can you see my pencil sticking in there?
CC Yes sir, sure do.
CDR Okay, that was right on top of those
sand (garble)
CC Roger. We see them.
CDR And just south of that area is three of
our handheld observation areas that we're doing a lot of
observations for Lee Silveron.
CC Roger. We - be aware we are watching
- looking at a 6-second delay on the TV here, live Jerry.
CDR Okay, good, Okay, it might get a little
shakey now_ Bill's got to do some acrobatics to keep things
going. Okay, now he_s looking down BaJa.
CC Roger D concur, It's pretty. That
picture of Baja is going to really turn out nice when we
get it back in here and can enhance it a little bit. That's
_oin_ to be pretty.
CDR Okay, Dick. If you got your little
recorder going, I'll continue on with the report.
CC Okay, we're certainly listening, go
ahead,
CDR Okay. Sleep: CDR, 7.0, 6.5 heavy,
half light; SPT, 6.7, 6.7 heavy; PLT, 8, and 8 heavy. All
three sleep periods abruptly terminated this morning. Urine
volume_ CDR_ i00_ 230_ 130. Water gun: 8550; 4577; 0690.
Body mass: CDR, 6.319, 6.319, 6.318_ SPT, 6.356, 6.356,
6.356: PLT, 6.258, 6.270, 6.257. Exercise: CDR, standard,
minus methods Bravo and Charlie; SPT, standard, minus method
Alfa, PLT, no change. Medications: CDR, none. SPT, none.
PLT, Afrin, twice. Clothing: CDR, shorts; SPT, T-shirt,
socks; PLT, none. Food log; - -
CC Rogerp we're listening go ahead. We
still got 5 minutes, Jer.
CDR Okay. CDR, salt zero, deviations,
minus a coffee with sugar, minus one lemonade_ rehydration
water, plus 1.5_ SPT, 4.0 salt, plus a butter cookies, no
water[ and PLT, no salt¢ minus one grape punch, minus 1.0
water.
CC Roger.
CDR Okay. Flight Plan deviations: none.
Shopping list accomplishmentss none. Inoperable equipment:
the PLT_s right shoe, base plate failed just after - just
toward the heel of the slotted insert. Unscheduled stowage:
none.
CC Roger.
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CDR Okay, we're gettin_ real close to the


terminator, Dick. And one of the things that Bill is
shooting right now is a cloud casting probably a 4 or 5
hundred mile shadow along the ground.
CC Roger, Jerry, we see it.
CDR Heck, I'ii bet it's more like a thousand
miles.
CC Roger.
CDR With the PLT's shoe problem, we told him
if he pulls up lame we're going to have to shoot him.
CC (Lau%hter) Ro_er. And PLT, _ou_ton,
if - if that window will let you, we'd like you to look as
- as close to nadir _ nadir as you can.
CDR It's almost impossible. We_ll give
you the best we can.
CC Okay.
CD_ You can almost not see the ground at
all. There's so much haze now.
CC And SPT, Houston, a word for you on
H-alpha. I wonder if you'd start into MALF for us. What
ws_d like you to do in the ATM MALF book on page 6-8, we'd
like you to start in block 4.
SPT Okay, Dick, I went through the MALF
and ended up in block i0 unfortunately.
CC Roger, Ed. Skylab, Houston, we got
about 2 minutes to LOS here. I got about 2 or 3 notes that
I'd like to pass up to you here. First of all for either
the CD - -
CDR You dropped out Dick. And we're
terminating TV.
CC Okay, fine, Jerry. For the CDR or the
PLT, anytime in about the next hour and a halfp we'd like
you to do a MSO9-Charlie on - BAT 7. That's a terminate
charge on battery 7.
CDR That was terminated this morning.
We used battery 7 on the T020 this - this morning afterwards.
And so what we need now is to charge it.
CC Okay, let - let us get squared away
on that one, Jer.
CDR Okay.
CC SPT, Houston. We'd like you to close
H_alpah I DOOR. And we'll take a hard look at the data and
get back to you as soon as we can. We're about 30 seconds
from LOS. The next site is the Vanguard at 00:44. And that's
the med conference. Also we intend to dump the data/voice
recorder at _ at the Vanguard.
CDR Okay, Dick. And how much VTR did we
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put on?
CC CDR, Houston. You still have 24 minutes
remaining on the VTR.
CDR Okay, good the first 6 minutes is - is
some stuff taken by Bill - - Japan. We tried to get

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1/15/74

CC - - 4 minutes remaining on the VTR.


CDR Okay, _ood the first 6 minutes _s some
stuff taken by Bill on Jiapan. We triad to get Sakurazima
the volcano that's active there but it was pretty much
straight down and hard to get.
CC Okay, Jerry thank you.
PAO Skylab Control, 32 minutes Greenwich mean
time. Commander Jerry Cart looking out the wardroom window
with the handheld color TV camera
CDR Plus 3085 -
PAO Going down the coast of California and
directly over BaJa. Excellant llve pictures Of the Earth.
Also during this pass, inner sperse between comments from
Commander Carr on what he was seeing including the Salton
Sea and the Imperial Valley with the evening status report.
Coming up next over Vanguard, the evening medical conference,
that'll be i0 minutes from now. At 33 minutes Greenwich
mean time, this is Skyla5 Control.

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SL-IV MC2151/I
Time: 19:43 CDT 62:00:43 GMT
1/15/74

PAO Skylab Control, 43 minutes Greenwich mean


time. Space station now n4aring acquisition through the
Vanguard tracking ship. At this point, Commander Jerry Carr
should be preparing for some handheld photography, having
just finished some handheld TV photozraphy. Science Pilot Ed
Gibson is still the Apollo telescope mount control and display
panel, and Pilot Bill Pogue doing some items from the Shopping
List. This particular pass will be the medical conference,
Dr. Eduard Burchard tonight. We don't expect any live air-
to-_round. However, we will keep the line up in case Space-
craft Communicator Dick Truly does have something to get up
to the crew. Now about i0 seconds from acquisition of siznal.
Again, we don't expect any air-to-_round for this pass.
PAO Skylab Control, 56 minutes Greenwich mean
time. No conversation over this pass over the Vanguard
tracking ship. We'll bring you results of this evening's med-
ical conference with Dr. Eduard Burehard when he finishes
writin_ it. Next acquisition 14 minutes from now will he
over Tananarive. 56 minutes 57 minutes Greenwich mean time,
this is Skylab Control.

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SL-IV MC2152/I
TIME_ 20:10 CDT, 62:01:10 GMT
1/15/74

PAO Skylab Control, i hour and i0 minutes


Greenwich mean time. Space station is nearin_ acquisition
over the tracking antenna at Tananarive in the Malagasy
Republic. Science Pilot Ed Gibson still at the ATM C&D
panel, scheduled to put some television on the video recorder.
And Pilot Pogue operating from a shopping list as he
was 2 hours ahead of himself earlier today in changing
a detector on the S192 multrispectural scanner. That should
erase his previous image. We'll hold the line up for
this pass over Tananarive_ now less than i0 seconds from
acquisition.
CC Skylab, Houston; Tananarive for 7 minutes.
SPT Rog Dick_ the report on the 192 alignment;
visible, 17 left and i00 plus on the right. I was - I felt
very good about it, I got a nice - although it was a broad
peak, I was able to deadband back and forth and I'm sure that
I got a good peak for them.
CC Okay, Bill that sounds goodp sure do
appreciate it.
PLT Rog.
CC And CDR, Houston if you have a second
I've got one question on the - on the evenin_ status report
and also comment on the M509.
PLT Go ahead Dick he's listening.
CDR Okay on the 509 first what we'd like is
either Jerry or you Bill sometime this evening to do a MS0g
Bravo on battery 7 prior to going to bed and we'll terminate
that charge in the morning. Also, one question on the
evening status report, in the photo area under 70_millimeter
you reported 51 frames and last evening's 75 frames were
reported shouldn't count up. I wonder if you'd check that one
again and correct it for us if there is a correction in order.
CDR That ought to be 81 frames, Dick. Did you
_et that Dick?
CC Yes sir. I sure did and SPT, Houston
when you get a chance, we have a couple of questions and
comments on the H-alpha i.
SPT Go ahead Dick.
CC Roger, in your - in the process of trouble-
shooting on H-alpha i, did you try the NIGHT INTERLOCK switch
OVERRIDE? We assuming you did.
SPT I sure did.
CC Okay and no Joy that. One more question
for you Ed, when during that pass did you first notice that
the H_alpha 1 was not operating?
SPT It was pretty _ pretty close to the beginning
of the pass because I was as I did the pointin_ that showed
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where the prominence was on the sllt_ I _ the thought come to


my mind I wanted to make sure the K_alpb_a was running so the
people would know exactly where we were pointed. And w_th that
I looked up and didn't see it running and tried to make a go from
there. The NIGHT INTERLOCK switch was to OVERRIDE at that
point. It probably was left there over the previous orbit.
CC Okay, copy Ed. One other comment during
the - while we were not talking to you at the med conference
at the Vanguard, you caught us and acted properly when we had
a plan there to enable momentum dumps which was incorrect and
we did enable them. We saw you inhibit them to go on with
JOP that you were running. It turned out that we got a little
free piece of troubleshooting there because the H-alpha 1
DOOR did OPEN in that sequence and the camera did not start
which is one of the things we were going to troubleshoot. But
we're still thinking about the H-alpha 1 malfuction.
SPT Okay Dick I also did as one of the last
thing is take the H-alpha CAMERA POWER cycle it ON or OFF
and then back ON and I can get a momentary light but that's
all. I also have tested both lights with the status and the
lights are workingp no film advance.
CC Oh yeak, there was one other thing Ed,
we don't - we can't think of any correlation between the
comment on the degraded image on the monitor and the malfunction
on H-alpha i.
SPT Okay, I though maybe it could be a
thermal problem which would shift the pass bandon the filters.
CC Roger.
CC SPT, Houston; one more question from the
ATM officer, did you try different film rates while you were
in OVERRIDE during _ when you were running the malf?
SPT Yeah I tried different frame rates_ I
can't say I tried them all while I was _n OVERRIDE however.
CC Okay, thank you very much.
CC Skylab, Houston; suspect we may have an
early LOS here at Tananarive, Hawaii comes up at 01:54.
PLT In case your looking at the tapes, battery
charge started on battery 7 at 01:15.
CC Thank you Bill.
PAO Space station now out of range of Tananarlve
tracking antennas. An early LOS, according to the charts
we stZll have 30 seconds left. Commander Carr is scheduled
to take some documentary photographs between now and next
acquls±tion. He'll be taking pictures at the teleprinter,
the scene calls for a head,to-waist shot of the crewman
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standlng by the teleprinter, when it stops printing he


tears off a message, and then a close shot of the
teleprinter operating. Also scheduled for Commander Carr_
handheld photographs of the Sea of Ok_kotsh of the coast of
Sibera, near an island called Sakhel_n _ S_A-K_R-L_I-N spelling
of the sea is O-K_H-O-T-S_H. Next acquisition will be 35
minutes from now and that'll be through Hawail. At 1 hour and
18 minutes, this is Skylab Control.

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PAO Skylab Control, 1 hour 52 minutes


Greenwich mean time. Space station now less than 2 minutes
away from acquisition through Hawaii. This will be a very
short pass, about 2 minutes, as the space station will be
very low on the tracking antennas horizon. We have the
medical report from Jer _ Dr. Jerry Kordinsky. I'll quote,
"There are 24 as yet medically unexplored days of zero gravity
living remaining. Although there are no current clinical
symptoms of concern, our knowledge of red blood cell mass
loss noted in both SL-II and SL-III prompts us to more
closely track the hemoglobin in SL-IV's closinz days." And
parenthetically, Dr, Hordinsky says, "hemoglobin gives gives
indirect indication of red blood cell mass." And this is
the reason for the concern here on the of the hemolysis sticks
as noted earlier. Those sticks are used to smear blood on
glass slides for the hemoglobin sample. About 50 seconds
away from acquisition. Commander Carr is already in his
presleep activity period. Science Pilot Ed Gibson remaining
at the Apollo telescope mount control and display panel,
getting as much Sun watch as he can. And Pilot Bill Pogue
finishing up some shopping list items. He reported earlier
that he had peaked out the S192 instrument in the alignment
procedure. Trying to get the best out of the machine that
they can. People here in Mission Control very pleased with
the performance of pilot Pogue on this detector chang out.
We_ll go live air,to-ground now for this pass, Just a little
bit over 2 minutes.
CC Skylab, _ouston_ we're AOS Rawaii for
2-1/2 minutes.
SPT Hello, Dick.
CC Ki, Ed. Couple of things for you up
at the ATM. One thing we think this evening it would be the
better part of valor to turn H_alpha 1 PO_ER to OPF.
We don't have any temperature sensors real near byp and
we"re not sure what kind of Jam we may have. So we would
appreciate _ appreciate it when you power down H-alpha i
POWER to OFF_ and also we are standing by for the frame
remalnings.
SPT Okay, H_alpha 1 POWER is OFF, and
the frames are 10158, 2349, 119, 208, 2871, 3043.
CC Okay_ I've got all of those. I have
a little stack of mission notes here and a few question. We can
get most of them out of the way right here. If any - you
guys have anything go ahead though and then I'll get to mine.
SPT Let me give you Just a couple seconds
worth here. On the VTR you'll see some data on the corona-
graph which shows a big snow storm. Jerry was doing some
films and we really got a snow storm outside. Although I
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noticed a great number of particles out there earlier before


he started. Secondly active region 16 looks to be about
as bright as active region 21 on the disk. And XUV has been
kind of coming up all day long and I'm looking for some
action going on there as well as 21.
CC Okay , good E d. We're about 45 seconds
to LOS. The next station pass is Vanguard, 02:22. And
Ed that is your family conference, also we'll be dumping
the data/voice recorder there. Let me get a couple of these.,
real quick. You guys were waked up this morning with one
of the quads temp approaching the trip limit. It turns
out that quad Delta package temp is also this evening
approaching a caution and warning trip limit. And so
to preclude tripping it early in the morning, we would
llke you to inhibit this C&W. On CSM panel 201, It's switch
6 Delta.
PLT Roger, 6 Delta,
CC Okay, and for the CDR. If you did
documentary photos 20 tonight we were wondering if you could
let us know how much film is remaining in transporter 05
sometime this evening, so we tan make our plans for tomorrow.
PLT Roger, we did documentary photo 20, and
stand by for the frame count.
CC Okay we"re
PLT 27 percent remaining.
CC Thank you very much Bill. One more real
quick one here. You asked the other day about the boric
acid plans. Just he advised that we do have a new plan
that's been devised. _The cue card will Be coming up this
evening, and the first use of it will be on mission day 73.
PAO Station Skylab now over the hill. Unsure
whether or not the crew cop led_Didk Tr_ly's last comments.
Note from the ground to inhibit the caution and warning system
for quad Delta in the command ahd' servlee module, as the
crew indicated earlier they were abruptly awaken this morning
as that warning system went off. Next acquisition 22 minutes
from now through the Vanguard tracking ship. At 1 hour and
59 minutes Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab" Control.

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PAO Skylab Control 2 hours 20 minutes


Greenwich mean time. Space station now less than a minute
away from acquisition over the Vanguard tracking ship.
This pass will be about i0 minutes in duration. Should be
the good night call up to the crew. We'll hold the line
up.
CC Skylab, Houston, AOS Vanguard for 7
minutes. And we're dumping
CREW (Garble)
CC Roger. And we're dumping the data/voice
recorder here.
PLT Hey, Dick, real quick, I Just confirmed
that inhibit. That was 6 Delta was it? CSM quad Delta?
CC That's affirm. Inhibit Delta.
PLT Thank you.
CC Skylab, Houston, we're about a minute
and a half from LOS at the Vanguard. Tananarive comes up
02:46, see you there.
PAO Two hours 32 minutes Greenwich mean time.
Space station now out of range of the Vanguard tracking
ship. Next acquisition and this should be the good night
call up to the crew is 12 minutes from now, that'll be
over Tananarive, 02:33 Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab
Control.

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PAO Skylab Control, 2 hours 44 minutes


Greenwich mean time. Space station $kylab now less than a
minute away from acquisition through tracking site at
Tananarive. This pass will last just under 10 minutes.
During which time Spacecraft Communicator Dick Truly will
bid the Skylab III, Skylab IV excuse me, crewmembers goodnight
for the evening. Total science time spent today aboard
Skylab by all three crewmembers was 29 hours and 34 minutes.
Record holder today was Pilot Bill Pogue who spent i0 hours
and 40 minutes doing scientific experiments. Science Pilot
Ed Gibson spent i0 hours and 33 minutes or 7 minutes less than
Bill Pogue and Commander Jerry Carr spent 8 hours and 21 minutes.
AOS momentarily.
CC Skylab, Houston, hello at Tananarive for
8 minutes.
SPT Hello Dick. We're all just trying to
catch up on a little (garble).
CC Hello Ed, you're real weak, say again
please.
SPT Dick, we're just trying to catchup on
a little back time here.
CC Roger, guys I think that's a good idea.
Your wakeup station in the morning is Madrid right at ii:00
and have a goodnight sleep, we'll see you there.
SPT Goodnight Dick.
CDR Goodnight Dick.
PLT Goodnight, Dick.
CC Goodnight everybody.
CDR Goodnight, Phil.
MCC Goodnight, Jerry.
SPT Goodnight, Phil.
MCC Goodnight, Ed.
PLT Goodnight, Mrs. Calavase wherever you are.
PAO At 2 hours and 55 minutes Greenwich mean
time. Space station Skylab now out of range of the voice
relay station at Tananarive on the Nalagasy Republic. Goodnight
eallup from both Phll Shaffer and Spacecraft Communicator
Dick Truly and a goodnight call from all four Skylab members
including Jimmy Skylab Durante in the guise of Bill Pogue.
Tomorrow's Flight Plan calls for 23 hours and 32 minutes
worth of scientific experiments. The day will start with
Pilot Bill Pogue and Commander Jerry Cart taking some
documentary photography with the 16-millimeter data acquisition
cameras. That photography will include housekeeping, calls
for a head-to-waist shot of the crewman putting trash in
the bag. A full shot a the trash airlock and a shot of the
crewmen wiping down utensils. Also off-duty rest and relaxation
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head-to-waist shot of a crewman in a sleep restraint reading


a book, after a moment he puts the book down reaches for
a cassette, loads the tape player, puts the headphones on,
picks up the book and resumes reading. Also human
vestibular function test, full shot of the subject in the
rotating litter chair with the observer at the control console.
And a shot of blood sampling, a profile head-to-waist shot
of two crewmen seated facing each other with one of them drawing
blood from the other. Following that both Commander Carr, who
will be the subject, and Bill Pogue, who will be the observer,
will he taking medical measurements of Commander Co - Cart,
Commander Carr will be on the bicycle ergometer for the
M093 vectorcardiogram experiment. The electrical activity
of his heart will be measured during that and then later on
after that's finished the M092 inflight lower body negative
pressure device will be used to record measurements of the
Commander's heart and circulatory system activity. And also
will be used for limb blood flow measurements of his legs,
that also will be done outside of the lower body negative
pressure device with a blood pressure cuff. Commander Cart
is scheduled for some physical training and then two shots
at the ATM C&D console. And he and Pilot Pogue will also
be preparing to use the M509 astronaut maneuvering device on
the following day. Mission day 63 calls for Commander Carr
and Pilot Pogue, Commander Carr is the test pilot to once
again operate the Buck Roger's type space maneuvering unit.
Commander Carr will also be taking handheld photography
pictures right after his lunch period. Science Pilot Ed Gibson
will be spending most of his day at the Apollo telescope mount
C&D panel. His favorite subject - the Sun. He has four shots
at the panel tomorrow. He also will be taking handheld
photographic pictures of the Earth. And Pilot Bill Pogue
gets one shot at the ATM C&D panel and an opportunity to take
some handheid pictures and then he'll be operating the S192
multispectral scanner which he replaced a detector in today.
Tomorrow's run will be used to verify the quality of the
13 channels and to determine the background noise and the
electronics of the unit - a recalibration basically. Handheld
photographic targets for tomorrow's flight plan include
South Dakota, Nebraska, Iowa, Missouri and llllnois over which
the snow blanket will be the target t see how much of those
states have snow during this portion of the year. Also
Afganistan and Pakistan, the mountains dividing the two countries
are part of the major fault zone, that'll be the subject of
pictures which Science Pilot Ed Gibson will be taking. And
Commander Carr is handheld photographic subjects will be the
Goddard Laser navigation device. Tomorrow will he the green
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10-watt laser on continuous power. That about wraps up


tomorrow's flight plan, no major changes indicated here in
Mission Control. We'll bring the llne down this evening.
we'll be back with you tomorrow morning at 6:00 central
daylight time or ii:00 Greenwich mean time. At 3 hours even,
Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab Control.

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PAO - - 40 seconds, and we're expecting the


wakeup call here. We're standing by.
CC (Music: "Spiders and Snakes").
CC Good morning, Skylab. And here we are
over Madrid at the beginning o_ another beautiful day with
2 minutes to LOS.
CDR Morning_ Bruce_
CC i minute to LOS_ next _tation contact
in 27 minutes through Carnarvon at 11:32. And Nell is dis-
appointed because you didn't like his selection of music for
this morning.
CDR What music?
CC (Laughter) Okay_ you got it.
PAO Skylah Control. LOS Madridp 24 minutes
to Carnarvon and Honeysuckle.

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PAO Skylab Control. LOS Madrid, 24 minutes


to Carnarvon and Honeysuckle. Wakeup this morning was a piece
of alleged music called "Spiders and Snakes". We'll return
for Carnarvon and Honeysuckle. This is Skylab Control at
11:07.

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PAO This is Skylab Control, 11:30 Greenwich


mean time. Acquisition at Carnarvon and Honeysuckle Creek,
Australia tracking stations in abour 40 seconds. Spacecraft
communicator is Bruce McCandless, who will probably give the
crew the morning newscast over these two stations during
breakfast aboard space station Skylab. Flight Director this
morning is Neil Hutchinson and the silver team of flight
controllers. AOS Carnarvon momentarily.
CC Skylahp this is Houston through Carnarvon
and Honeysuckle Creek for about 13 minutes. And l've got the
morning news here if you all are interested.
PLT We're ready to listen.
CC Okayp and before we get started on that,
I've got a change for the film thread pad for Bill if he's
available.
PLT Go ahead, Bruce.
CC Okay_ under the 16_millimeter stuff, trans-
porter 07, location_ back; supply, Charlie India 29 from Foxtrot
18, that's F-18; takeup, Charlie India 78; location back (garble)
back.
PLT Roger. Understand, put Charlie India 29 F-18
into 07 supply. Thank you very much.
CC Rog. That's to provide more film for the
documentary photos.
CC Washington - -
PLT Okay.
CC Washington; Chile Peru appear to be engaged in
an arms race. U.S. intelligence reports that Chile is moving
to buy more than 40 French tanks to counterbalance Soviet
tanks recently bought by Peru. The Latin American nations
are now limited in their purchases from the United States because
of a ceiling imposed by Congress on military hardware for the
area. The 1973 Congress cut President Nixon's appropriations
requests by 3.3 billion but nevertheless boosted overall
federal spending for fiscal 1974 by 3.5 billion. The Senate
House Committee on Reduction of Federal Expenditures released
the figures. They reemphasize that congressional action on
legislative bills often has a greater impact on the spending
budget than it does on appropriations bills. Under the proposed
federal rationing plan, consumers who want to use more gasoline than
they have coupons to purchase would have to Buy someone else's
coupons and pay his price. A spokesman for the Federal Energy
Office confirms that well-financed brokers might buy up ration
coupons and resell them at jacked-up prices. Technical experts
have eliminated the theory that a single, accidental act caused
the 18_i/2 minute gap in one of the Watergate tapes.
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However, objections from White House lawyers prevented the


experts from speculating whether there was any way the tape
could have been erased accidentally. The Treasury Department
is ready to begin a program of paying government benefit checks
by direct deposits into a reclpient's bank account. The program
begins in March for about 3.5 million recipients of the new fed-
eral supplemental security income payments for disabled, blind,
and aged. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Robert Vander Lean has
won the Rebublican nomination to the congressional seat Vice-
President Gerald R. Ford held for 25 years. The 43-year old
majority leader of the Michigan Senate has been promised Ford's
support in a general election campaign for the Fifth Congressional
District seat. The grand old party has held since 1915. New
York: Decl_ning highway travel because of the gasoline
shortage has reduced toll collections and is causing some
budget reshuffling in state turnpike authorities. An Associated
Press survey showed the East and Northeast, where there are more
toll roads t_an £n other areas of the country, were hardest hit
Federal statistics show that more than $i billion was
collected in 1972 by bridge and toll operators. How much of
that money will be lost because of reduced highway traffic is not
clear, but preliminary figures indicate declines of about i0
percent during December_ None of the areas checked reported
plans to cancel highway projects or to stop construction because
of the declines. Several officials said that expen-
ditures for maintenance might have to he curtailed. Cambrige
Mass.: John Wayne rumbled into Harvard Square in Cambridge
today on a 13_ton Army personnel carrier to take on liberal college
students, but they welcomed the actor with grins, cheers and
snowballs. Wayne showed up with a military escort Tuesday on
a dare from the Harvard Lampoon magazine. Lampoon editors had
challenged the conservative Wayne Co premiere his new detective
movie, "McQ" in Harvard Square, "a place full of cut-throat
idle rich intellectuals who would just as soon quote you Marx
and Mao Tse_tung as look at you." Wayne replied that he'd be
happy to take his picture "into the pseudo-intellectual swamps."
Jerusalem: Israeli informants say stumbling blocks still remain
_n the way of an agreement to separate Egyptian and Israeli
troops on the Suez front despite Secretary of State Henry A.
Kissinger"s efforts. Kissinger met for more than 5 hours Tuesday
with Israeli pollcymakers and was flying back to Egypt today
for another session with President Anwar Sadat. One informed
U.S. official said the Israeli government had given the American
mediator "further guidance, and they would like to have him
come back with Egyptians reactions" before making a final
decision on disengagement plans. Mexico City: American businessmen
in fore£gn countries are getting instructions on how to
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protect themselves and their famillas from terrorists and how


to behave if kidnaped. A 5-page leaflet titled "General
Security Tips for U.S. Businessmen Abroad" is being distributed
by the American Embassy and its consulates in Mexican cities.
Embassy security officers said the State Department drafted
the pamphlet for worldwide distribution. Jakarta, Indonesia,
All was quiet today in the wake of anti-Japanese riots Tuesday
in which hospital officials said six students were killed and
49 were injured. Visiting Japanese Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka
spend a quiet morning with his daughter Makiko as a house
guest on the grounds or at the guest kouse on the grounds of
the presidential palacep protected by more than ip000 armed
troups ringing the palace compound and armored cars posted at
each corner. Military authorities closed off all main streets
to university campuses while security agents searched for leaders
of the students who went on a rampage Tuesday during demonstrations
against Ja_anese economic penetration of Indonesia. Phnom
Penh, Cambodia: Khmer Rouge rockets killed 14 persons and
wounded 22 Tuesday night and today. One rocket today made a direct
hit on the anteroom of the army commander-in-chlef's office,
but the commander, Major General Sosthesne Fernandez was not
hurt. In South Vietnam the Saigon government's military
command said its troops and North Vietnamese forces battled
15 miles northeast and 20 miles southwest of Pleiku, the capital
of the central highlands, and 56 North Vietnamese and four
government soldiers were killed. Santo Domingo_ Dominican
Republic_ Baseball player Cesar Cedeno has been found guilty
of involuntary manslaughter in the death of a 19-year-old
girl and fined $100. Cedeno, outfielder of the Houston
Astros immediately paid the fine levied on Tuesday by Judge
Porfirio Natera. The Judgers ruling came despite a prosecution
request at the trial Monday for dismissal of charges for lack
of evidence. A native of Santo Domingo, Cedeno was accused
in connection with the shooting death of Altagraeia de la Cruz,
who died of a head wound December ii in a hotel room. Hong
Kong: President Kingman Brewster of Yale University says
America universities are eager to increase contacts with China.
Brewster, who noted his school, had a Yale_in-China program - -

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CC - - (garble) Santo Domingo: Cedeno was


accused in connection with the shoot - shooting death of
Altagracia de la Cruz who died of a head wound, December ii, in
a hotel room. Hong Kong: Kingman (garble) Brewster of
Yale University, says American universities are eager to
increase contacts with China. Brewster who noted his school
had a Yale_in-China program, before the Communist revolution
said, Tuesday there is now - there is now no - (wheew)
there now is no formal exchange program for American and
Chinese students. However_ two Yale students participate in
programs at the Chinese University, Hong Kong, each year said
Brewster, who is touring Asian universities. Camp Pendleton:
Colonel Mary E. Bane has become the f_rst woman to head a
Marine Corps unit. "Let's get to work," she said Tuesday, as
she took command of the 1800_person Headquarters and Service
Battalion at Camp Pendleton. Brig. Gen. Robert L. Nichols,
commander of the camp, earlier, told the Colonel, :You have my
support, confidence, and best wishes. God speed and smooth
sailing." Col. Bane, a 45-year-old native of Normal, Illinois
Joined the Marines as a reserve second lieutenant, in 1952.
Houston: A detective has given a pretrial hearing in the
Texas mass murders_ his account of what occurred in the home
of Dean Coril the day Coril was shot to death. The testimony
of David Mullican of the suburban Houston community of Pasadena,
came Tuesday, during the pretrial hearing for Elmer Wayne
Henley, 17. Henly has been charged with murder in the deaths
of 6 of 27 teenaged boys whose bodies were uncovered last August,
but his forthcoming trial involves only one of those slayings.
We're coming up on a handover here to Honeysuckle. Expect
about a 30-second dropout due to antenna problems.
CC Salem, Oregon: Governor Tom McCall
declared a state of disaster across Oregon Tuesday because
of rapidly rising streams filled by heavy rain and melting
snow. "Tonight and tomorrow, 0regonians face what could be
their most severe test by forces of nature," McCall said in
a 5-minute address to the state over an emergency broadcast
network. At least two deaths were attributed to high water
in a vicious Pacific storm that lashed the coast. The National
Basketball Association All-Star Game was played Tuesday night
with the West defeating the East, 134 to 123. Bob Lanier,
with 24 points was named "Most Valuable Player." In the
Southwestern Conference basketball action. Baylor defeated the Rice
Owls, 93 to 91. Texas A&M, upended SMU, 95 to 70 and Texas
scored a lopsided 102 to 53 victory over TCU. Gilford,
England: J. Paul Getty, American oil billionaire, says he's
delaying indefinitely his retirement to California. The 81-
year-old Getty, said Tuesdayp that his involvement in North Sea
oil production caused the delay. The tycoon has been planning
his retirement for some years and the first stage of it was
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to be his return to California upon completion of an


$18 million museum to house his art collection. The museum
a replica of a Roman villa and Garden, on a 10-acre site,
overlooking the Pacific Ocean at Malibu, took 3 years to
build. Rome: Police said today they have arrested three men
for the kidnapping of J. Paul Getty, III, and are looking
for three other people. They said two men were caught in (garble)
at the southern tip of the Italian peninsula and one in Rome.
They also recovered a cache of bank notes, which one informed
source said was probably from the ransom paid for Getty's release.
Louisville_ Kentucky: The burglar lost his wallet and the
seat of his pants when he attempted to enter Thomas Burk's
home. Burks heard a noise about i a.m. Monday and police
later discovered someone had tampered with the back door,
under the porch where Dutchess the family's German shepherd
lives_ they made another discovery, a wallet and threads
from a man's trousers. Identification in the wallet led to
the arrest of Hugh Mitchell, 24, who was charged with the
burglary. Paso Rablesp California: A 6-foot man with a full
beard, walked into Wilson's Restaurant here for a good dinner.
He order the "Turf and Surf_" steak and lobster_ and rose
wine. The bill came to $9.31 and he wrote this note, "Thank
you for your services. I've needed this meal since I escaped
from San Quenton, 5 months ago. If you nod your head yes,
I'll wait for the police_ but if you nod your head no, I'll
walk out the door. I'm on my way to San Francisco, to see
my woman." By the time the manager was summoned, the man
was gone. Police said the unknown man had not yet been
caught. Biloxip Mississippi: City commissioner Frank A.
Baranovich (?) scheduled a meeting with contractors to work out
a better system of coordination. Baranovich asked for the
meeting Tuesday after a contractor paved a block-long street
Saturday and another one tore it up Monday to install a
sewer line. (Garble), Minnesota: Norwegian Rocky Schultz
had almost forgotten about the i0 horsepower outboard
motor stolen from a boat parked beside his house two years
ago. Saturday night his daughter, Susan, received a telephone
call from a man who said he wanted to return the motor, if
she wouldn't call the police. The man placed the motor in
the floor of the garage and left. He told Susan that he
used the motor last summer - that his conscience bothered
him so much that he couldn!t put it in the water. He was
driving through (garble) Saturday and wanted to clear his
conscience. And Congress is continuing its probe of the
energy crisis as the House Subcommittee begins 3 days of
hearings focusing on the alleged lack of oil data from the
petroleum industry. First day's hearings today will include
testimony by a panel of oil industry critics and a senior
viee_president from EXON. We got 45 seconds to LOS. Next
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contact is in 34 minutes through Merritt Island at 12:19.


Out.
CDR Roger.
PAO Skylab Control. LOS, Honeysuckle Creek.
32 minutes to stateside pass, starting at Texas through MILA
and Bermuda, across to Madrid. Today's Flight Plan is crammed
with a variety of chores for Skylab IV crewmen, Jerry Carr,
Ed Gibson, and Bill Pogue. Solar studies and medical activities
occupy the major time blocks during the day with documentary
photography, checkout of the EREP S192 camera, a navigation
update using the command module sextant and a variety of
preparations for flying the astronaut maneuvering unit tomorrow.
The activity began with Jerry Cart and Bill Pogue taking
documentary photos of staged activities, that include operating
the manual navigation equipment, a student experiment ED41,
motor sensory performance, an item called housekeeping 6OR,
which is water purification, and operation of the teleprinter.
Ed Gibson will begin the day's solar studies with synoptic
observation of the Sun, followed by observation of areas on
the Sun, that he considers will provide the most interesting
data. The majority of today's ATM solar studies will he
JOF 6 or synoptlc ohservations to obtain coronagraph pictures
X_ray images and XUV images and spectra of the quiet and
active Sun at regular intervals. During the synoptic
observations information on the evolution of the coronal layers
of quiet and active regions will be obtained by the $052,
white light coronagraph, S054, X-ray spectographic telescope,
The S056, dual X-ray telescope and the $082A, XUV coronal
spectroheliograph instrument. Other ATM viewing of the Sun
will include some JOP 26, looking at active areas on the east
limb and some JOP 2 observations of active region 21 and/or
active regions of the crew choice. On the last pass of the
day, a JOP 12E, S055 ultraviolet scanning polychromater
spectroheliogrammer _ spectroheliometer calibration will be
performed. A total of 7 hours and 21 minutes of solar data
will he gathered today, during eight sessions at the ATM console
with all three crewmen taking turns at the console. Medical
experiments today include Cart as the subject for the M092/M093
lower body negative pressure veetorcardiogram and Bill Pogue
as the observer. This pair of medical experiments will start
at 8:15 central time this morning. Two sessions with the
MI31, human vestibular function experiment are scheduled
today at 11:20 central. This morning, Ed Gibson will be the
subject and Bill Pogue the observer. They will repeat the
experiment at 2 p.m., with tke observer and subject reversed.
At 1 p.m. today_ Bill Fogue is scheduled to perform a test
the S192, multispectral scanner fnstrnment to verify tke
unit is working properly after yesterday's changeout of
the thermal detector. Skylab will be in a solar inertial
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attitude so the instrument will he ai_ed at Earth's horizon


for the data take. The Earth resources data down-link
unit will be employed to send data to the ground through
the Goldstone tracking station. At 2:49 p.m., Jerry Carr
will use the command module sextant to get what is called
a nuZ local vertical update for Skylab. Later in the
afternoon, Carr is scheduled to get out some of the science
demonstration equipment and make - -

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PAO At 2:49 p.m., Jerry Carr will use the


command module sextant to get what is called a NuZ-loeel vertical
update for Skylab. Later in the afternoonp Carr is scheduled
to get out some of the science demonstration equipment and
make preparations for demonstrations to be scheduled later.
Preparations for flying the astronaut maneuvering unit con-
sists of charging batteries for the unit, topping off the
propellant tanks and a conference with the ground at 6:00 p.m.
on tomorrow's operation of this Buck Rogers like device.
Total science scheduled for today by the three crewmen
is 23 hours and 32 minutes. The breakdown as follows:
Carr, 7 hours 18 minutes; Gibsonp 8 hours 32; and Pegue, 7 hours
42. Several handheld photo assignments and options are on
today's docket. Pogue is scheduled to take photos of the
snow blanket, the Great Plains of the U.S. at 10:14 a.m.
These photos are aimed toward helping determine the existence
of subsurface geologic or hydrologic features, which may
be enhanced by large spread snow cover in the states of
Missouri and Iowa. Handheld photos of major fault zones
in the Northeastern United States_ Rocky Mountain area will
be taken by Ed Gibson at 1:48 p.m. And Carr is scheduled
to take photos of a laser becon at 3:31 p.m. as Skylab passes
over the Goddard Space Flight Center Just outside Washington,
D.C. Optional photo targets todayp will include fault zones
in Asia Minor at 7:46 a.m. and fault zones Afghanistan add
Pakistan at 7:51 a.m. Sea ice in the Gulf of St Lawrence
will be the subject of optional photo target at 9:05 a.m.
The northern part of western rift zone in Africa will
be a subject at 9:26 a.m. Another optional photo target
at 7:59 p.m. will be ice plumes and pack ice formation in
the sea of Okhotsk off Siberia. The crew will retire at
i0:00 p,m. Ed Gibson will be the duty man wearing headset
in case the crew needs to be awaken during the night.
25 minutes to Merritt Island launch area_ Bermuda, Madrid passes.
Wet ll return then. At 11:53 Greenwich mean time, Skylab
Control.
PAO Skylab Control 12:18 Greenwich mean time.
Acquisition at Merritt launch area in about 50 seconds. First
stateside pass of the morning. Merritt Island, Bermuda and
Madrid for the next 25 minutes - 23 minutes, actually, and
we're standing by for AOS MILA.
CC Skylabp this is Houston through Merritt
Island and Bermuda for 11-1/2 minutes with a few small Flight Plan
Changes and the evening questions.
CDR Go ahead, Bruce.
CC Okay. I guess, since you answered first,
Jerry, just a reminder that we're standing by to uplink your
teleprinter message to you whenever you get involved in documentary
photo 16 and want to watch the woodpecker at work.
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CDR Okay. We're just setting up number 15


now. 6 and 7 are complete.
CC Okay. In your detailsp the entry - Or
in your Flight Plan, the entry that says details 19:45, should
really read details at 19:49. Over.
CDR Roger.
CC And to your detail Plight Plan, we want
to add at 15:15, not time critical PTPH, do not use ergometer
during MI31-1 OGI
CDR Okay. At 15:15.
CC Roger. Andp with respect to the food
inventory, in order to insure that wetre all talking about
the same thing on food, we would like clarification on
whether or not the food in the drawers in the wardroom was
counted on the recent inventory. Over.
CDR Negative.
CC Okay. Thank you. And, with respect
to TO20, considering the current stowage status of the foot-
controlled maneuvering unit, how much time would you estimate
would be required to set up for a rerun in a shirt-sleeve
mode with a rigid mount? Over.
CDR The TO20 is ready to don right now. All
it needs is a PSS in the battery. We have even taken the
frame off the rigid supports. I would think, probably that
would be 15 minutes or so. Or the time Probably the most
time would be in setting up the cameras.
CC Okay. Another note here, says, we're
considering deletion of hand cues for the DAC. What procedural
steps would you recommend to reduce the total run time?
This is on TO20, again, and if you want to take more time
on that one you can put it on the voice tape.
CDR Okay.
CC And, for Bill, if he's listening, a
couple of small ones.
PLT Go ahead.
CC Okay. Just a reminder to you to terminate
BAT 7 charge, (garble) 509 Charlie, this morning. The time is not
terribly critical, but you probably ought to get on it when
you have the opportunity and then later on, of eoursep you're
putting 6 in the ASMU and putting it on charge. At 15:10,
in your Flight Plan, we'd like to replace the open housekeeping
with a housekeeping 6 Alfa i, that's housekeeping 6 Alfa i at
15:10.
CDR Okay. He copied that.
CC And we want to be particularly sure that on
thatp you turn the fans off and open the flapper valves up
and really get in there and give the (garble) a good cleaning,
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because we're really trying to keep the temperature in the


workshop down to something manageable for you. And this
may help us a good bit.
CDR Okay, Bruce.
CC Okay -

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CC - - how we'd like to replace the open


housekeeping with a housekeeping 6 Alfa i; that's housekeeping
6 Alfa 1 at 15:10.
CDR Okay, he copied that.
CC And, we want to be particularly sure
that on that you turn the fans off and open the flapper valves
up and really get in there and give the (garble) a good cleaning
cause we're really trying to keep the temperature in the workshop
down to something managahle for you, and this may help us
a good bit.
CDR Okay_ Bruce.
CC And, again for the Bill. Did - for Bill.
Did he get a photo of the laser during the laser ops yesterday?
CDR Negative, he didn't.
CC And did he notice any change in appearance
when the laser was slewed ahead of the spacecraft?
PLT Not right away, as soon as they called
me. I think the main difference was caused by attenuation
by angle rather than the slight slewing. Now I think one time I did
lose it when they slewed the - well ahead of the spacecraft,
and I reacquired it. But I was expecting to see the signal
greatly attenuated when they slewed ahead; I didn't notice
it right away, at least. I think the next time if they could
give me a some kind of indication to how much - when they
start slewing ahead, which they did_ and how much ahead they're
going so far as I can watch for a signal attenuation. Yesterday
the signal was fairly bright, and then it started flickering
and I lost it all of a sudden. So I wasn't quite sure at what
point I lost it.
CC Okay, thank you.
CC And another -
CC And we're going to go ahead and load
in a Nuz update here. So, if anyone is near the DAS we'd
like you to stay off it for a moment.
SPT You got iy.
CC And, SPT, Houston. We'd like to - if itts
convenient with you at this time get the S054 FRAMES REMIANING
counter reset to 6000. Over.
CC Before you do that let us tell me what
you're reading right now, we can just keep track of things.
SPT On S054 we're reading 3019. Now, you mean
54 or 56?
CC S054.
SPT Okay, itls being reset now.
CC Say again.
CC Okay, thank you.
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SPT Reading 6000.


CC Okay.
SPT And how about H-alpha i CAMERA POWER,
can we turn that on now?
CC Not yet, we're still kicking around the
possible malfunction procedures and what we want to do on
that one.
CC The NuZ update_s in_ tke DAS is yours
again.
SPT T_ank you.
CC Skylah_ this is Houston; i minute to
LOS. Next station contact in 4 minutes 17 seconds through
Madrid at 12:34. Out.
PAO Skylab - Skylab Control; LOS at Bermuda.
Reacquisition at Madrid in about 2 minutes. Some vital
statistics on the space station this morning. Temperature
in the wardroom currently 77 degrees, atmosphere aboard
Skylab 5.1 pounds per square inch of which the partial
pressure of oxygen is 3.6 pounds. ATM hatterie§ are charged
up to 99.6 percent of their total capacity_ orbit measures
230.9 nautical miles at perigee by 242.2 nautical at apogee.
Period of orbit i hour 33 minutes ii seconds, and the current
velocity 25,081 feet per second. AOS Madrid in about a
minute and 20 seconds. Standing by at 12:33.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Madrid
for 8 minutes. Out.
PLT Bruce, you can start the teleprinter
test message anytime you want, or whatever you're going to
send up.
CC Oka_ it's on its way.
CC And after we finish with this extravaganza
we'd like to get a paper change on the teleprinter, please.
PLT Will do.
CC And I see a teleprinter on command
verified, so that ought to be coming up any second.
PLT Rog, just coming up.
PLT How much longer is this current message,
Bruce?
CC About 30 seconds more.
PLT Thank you.
CC Skylab, this is Houston; i minute to LOS.
Next station contact in 26 minutes through Carnarvon at
13:08 as your old silver team goes off on the last of
its early morning shift.
PAO Skylab Control, loss of signal at Madrid.
24 minutes until next station at Carnarvon and Honeysuckle
Creek, Australia. 12:43 GMT, Skylab Control.

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SL-IV MC-2162/I
Time: 08:06 CDT 62:13:06 GMT
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PAO This is Skylab Control. 13:06 GMT.


Two Australian tracking stations Carnarvon and Honeysuckle
Creek, combined pass coming up, about 15, 16 minutes, in
30 seconds. We're standing by.
MCC Skylab, Houston. With the ATM conference.
SPT Morning, Bill. I'm ready, go ahead.
MCC Okay. A couple of quick things here on
the Sun, most of it we've already passed up. Active region
21 continues to grow. To us it looks like the hottest and
potentially best spot for a flare although it hasn't done
much for us. The Sun spots are growing, but again, we
haven't changed the flare probabilities, just because it
hasn't done anything for us, and hopefully, it might just do
that today. One note to remind you of again, I reminded you
yesterday, is that you're looking at it. There isn't going
to be anymore for the rest of the mission, so hopefully, we'll
get something exciting out of what we've got. Then I've
got some comments on today's Plan and actually quite a few
because we're trying to do several special operations here.
At 20:00 the pass that you do, with 33 minutes left, we say
observing time, suggest shopping list 12 on coronal loops
and active region 14. We were going to try to get you some
word this morning from S055 as to whether they have seen them
or not. Their quick_look data from yesterday is not in yet
so we're unable to do that. However, Sac Peak does
see loops in the green line of iron XIV and experience indicates
that once you see these loops, they stick around for at least
20 to 30 hours, so at this point, it's reasonable to assume
that you probably should find loops over AR-14. Hopefully,
before you run it, we will have some S055 quick-look data
back from yesterday and we will get that up to you.
SPT Okay, we have a possibility of four lines
in which to look for those loops. Have people narrowed
it down as to which might be better essentially does the
general message number 6 still hold as written?
MCC As best I know, general message 6 still
holds as written. Although, if we do get our quick-look data
back, we will be able to tell you which lines we saw them
best in on 55 and make the suggestion narrower.
SPT Okay. From my experience on looking for
loops when 21 was on the limb_ I know it's a time consuming
task and if any of you have any hints from the groundp sure
would appreciate it.
MCC Okayp we_ll try to get some thoughts up
to you. Okay, also, Ed, 15:14 which is coming up here in a
bit, we're operating - well, that's the first of two funny
operatZons for 82B, similar to what we did yesterday. On
the building block 4 and subsequent orbits that Jerry does
on the building block 5, in essence we're putting S - 82B
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into a shopping list 7 wait kind of thing, where we're saying


to operate 82B only if the normal building block 4 or building
block 5 pointing is consistent with the fluctuating bright
points. So, that actually in pointing for 4 or for building
block 5, if you eould find fluctuating bright points it would
be consistent with the normal building block 4, 5 pointing
for that JOP, that would be fine. Otherwise 82B wants to
drop out. In the event that they do run, what they would
prefer is the shopping llst 7 type mode, a short and a sequence
of times a quarter and not what's depicted in that particular
building block. So that the intent that's specified on the SAP
would actually be accomplished.
SPT Okay. The time you gave was what? 157
I'm stfll trying to find those specific instructions, I
seem to - -
MCC Okay. It's not on here.
SPT (Garble)
MCC It's not on here as 15:14. It's the
orbit that would have started at 15:14, if we weren't playing
momentum inhibit games here. It's right after 15:07, is
250 K, down there where it says 63, time remaining 2A, building
block 4A, active region you select. Down a bit it says,
"82B change operate only as pointing at fluctuating bright
point". And what I've just given you really augments that
information.
SPT Okay. Does it say or how would anyone
know that we should be going to times one quarter on the
exposure?
MCC Unless you're clairvoyant you really wouldn't,
unless you happen to interpret the SAP comment which says
that it's looking for time development of fluctuating bright
points as in shopping llst 7. If you interpreted that as
meaning run like shopping list 7, then you would, otherwise
we've done it in a very unclear fashion here.
SPT Okay. (Garble) one times one quarter,
I'ii write it in here explicitly.
MCC Okay, and that's on - also applicable to
the BB-5 at 18:24, that orbit for Jerry. And, again, don't
let that interfer with the operations of the JOP2A, but to
the extent it's consistent, that's what they would like.
Also, here, we haven't said it per say, but whenever S054
has dropped out of the building block, for example, the
building block 4, we were just talking about, they'd like
to go to shopping list 31, which I'm sure you know.
SPT 54 will? Okay.
MCC Okay. And then the hard part. If that
was the easy part. For several days now we have no real
sunset. For example, on our JOP 7's today, we don't get
the 40 kilometers, we get somewhere past i00 kilometers, but
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not the 40, so on the two times when we inhibit momentum


dump, we have given you the 400 kilometer time and the
250 kilometer time. When you've got observations going,
obviously, you know not to operate the entries below
250 kilometers, which is why we gave you those times. On
your JOP 7 that you're about to do on the coming orbit,
we're asking for a sequence of 9-second exposures every
30 seconds, from 2 minutes remaining down through 30 seconds
remaining. Just a reminder here that 9 seconds is the
duration of the first exposure of the continuous mode. Let
that go ahead and when a operate light comes on, then you've
got 18 seconds to go to stop without expending another film-
And a nice long 9-second exposure gives us very good lateral
smear since we're essentially almost tangent to the Earth
surface here_ without smearing vertical very much.
SPT Okay.
MCC And, one last thought on that. Following
both that momentum inhibit and the one later in the day
that I believe Jerry does the JOP 7 on and Bill follows up,
be careful. There's a trap. It may look like you're way
ahead of the time game here, but when the ground enables
momentum dnmp_ you're going to loose about 20 minutes on
your time remaining counter_ so keep that in mind.
SPT Okay. And just a note. I would hope
the people would enable the momentum at the right time.
Yesterday we were running one of these and when we got down
to 4 minutes remaining they enabled the momentum and it all of
a sudden jumped into night time and I had to go in, inhibit
momentum to finish it up - -

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SL-IV MC-2163/I
Time: 08:15 CDT, 62:13:15 GMT
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MCC And one last thought on that. Following


both that momentum inhibit and the one later in the day, that
I believe Jerry does the JOP 7 on and Bill follows up, be
careful. There's a trap, it may look like you're way ahead
of the time game here, but when the ground enables momentum
dump, you're going to lose about 20 minutes on your time
reamining counter. So keep that in mind.
SPT Okay. And just a note. I would hope the
people would enable the momentum at the right time. Yesterday
we were running one of these and when we got down to 4 minutes
remaining, they enabled the momentum and it all of a sudden
jumped into nighttime and I had to go into inhibit momentum
to finish it up. Just a note to make sure that people don't
enable the momentum before we actually get the observations
done.
MCC Okay, right, and we realize we didn't
do it quite right yesterday and that_ hopefully, will keep
people ,pre pm their toes today. And_ let's see. One other
thought here. On SO54, to clarify their long exposures, in
building block i, they want 17 minutes plus or minus i minute
as depicted. On the other long ones they'd like as long as
possible consistent with the pointing changes and so on.
SPT Okay. That's the words that you had
given me before and that was understood. Yesterday we were
doing one which called for something on the order of 20 some
odd minutes and it was geared to the length of the building
block before we did the roll. We then had the second part of
the building block where the roll was not applicable. We kept
our pointing the same and I thought I'd go ahead and give them
a nice long one at which time I got a call from the ground
telling me to terminate the exposure. I gave them something
like a 32_minute exposure. I thought that was what they
were after. So, I'm wondering if the people could go back
and take a look at that again and find out why I got the call
in order to advance the film and not give them as long as
possible.
MCC Okay, Ed. We're i minute here from
LOS. Honeysuckle is next in 2 minutes. And on that, my
understanding is that there has been no 54 change there,
and that you were right. And we've made a note here to make
sure that we get all of our thoughts correct here. One last
thought is, have you put JOP 21 - changed 21 in your
JOP Summary Sheets? And if so, did you have any questions?
SPT Just a minute here, Bill. No I had
put 21 in. They're all in there and I understand what it
says.
MCC Okay. Fine. And we've only got 30 seconds
left. Sorry I talked so long_ but why don't you give us what-
ever rundown you've got.
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SPT Okay. Active region 21, of course, still


looks like the hottest thing. And, believe it or not, 16 still
looks relatively hot in XUV, as I mentioned last night. Corona
has not changed a great deal overall, but some details
have. Over on the east limb, where there were two streamers,
yesterday, now it's very clearly that they're both helmet
streamers and the one which is further south, let's just take it,
one is around 3 or call it 290 and another one up maybe
around 310. The one at 290 is the brighter and appears
to be overlapping the other one, implying it's closer to us.
The one over on the other limb, now, the west limb, we have
some at about zero - at about 085 or 080. It goes out quite a
distance and it's much more prominent than it was yesterday.
That"s the one which disappeared when we had the activity
on active region 14. It looks as though it has reformed and
is still fairly strong.
SPT Are you still with us?
MCC Okay, Ed. Yeah. We copied that. You
dropped out for just a little bit, but I think we got all the
details there and we're through Honeysuckle now for 4 minutes.
SPT Okay. I have not given you all the de-
tails on these. I'll try and do that throughout the day.
MCC Okay. Mighty fine. And we'll talk to
you tomorrow.
SPT Thank you, Bill.
CC And, Skylab, we're back with you through
Honeysuckle for 4 minutes.
SPT Morning, Story,
CC Hi, Ed.
SPT Hey_ Story. Let me ask you a question
about getting tke hemoglobin concentration measurement. This
morning, the check, the way it was called out by detail, told
me to go to certain pages of the checklist, which had me
using pipette. When you use that, put the blood into a
pipette and then try to put it out of the small glass slide
that you finally put into the meter, yon find that the blood
dries so darn fast that youtre going to up your concentration
measurements, which is exactly what happened this morning
when I did mine. I have not done the other two. I'd llke
to see whether we could not Just take it straight from - the
samples straight from the finger and put it right onto the
glass slide and forget the middleman, which is the pipette.
CC That's a good call, Ed, and an excellent
idea.
SPT Okay. Thank you.
CC And, Ed, you are going to repeat those
ones that dried up?
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SPT I only did it on myself. So I will repeat


that. So we still have 96 left.
CC Okay. Thanks.
SPT Mine was up 2 counts, from 13 to 15.
And I suspect that it was because it dried out.
CC We concur, Ed.
CC And we're a minute from LOS. About
half an hour to Texas at 13:51.
PAO Skylab Control. Loss of signal at
Honeysuckle Creek, Australia. 27 minutes to a stateside
pass beginning at tracking station Corpus Christi, Texas.
Over Carnarvon and Honeysuckle, the morning ATM conference
between science pilot, Ed Gibson aboard space station Skylab
and scientist astronaut Bill Lenoir. Currently, the flight
director on duty is Milton Windier with the Maroon team of
flight controllers. The new spacecraft communicator is
Story Musgrave. We will return in 27 minutes for the upcoming
stateside pass. Now midway through revolution 3565 for the
space station. This is Skylab Control at 13:24 GMT.

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SL-IV MC2164/I
TIME: 08:50 CDT, 62:13:50 GMT
1/16/74

PAO Skylab Control 13:50 Greenwich mean


time. AOS Texas in 50 seconds. Fairly solid stateside pass
through Texas, Merritt Island Launch Area, Bermuda, and
across to Madrid. We'll stand by for the three stations
on this pass, four stations when you count Madrid, for the
next 28 minutes.
CC Skylab, AOS stateside 17 minutes.
SPT Houston, SPT.
SPT Hello, Houston, SPT.
CC Go ahead, Ed.
SPT Story, the guys in the backroom with the
55 detectors may want to be watching where I'm pointing
right now. We're in active region 21 and looking at a
fluctuating bright point. The intensity starting out around
5000 or so when we first got on it. Right now we're seeing
it going up to around ii or 12. And I saw this characteristic
of this previous orbit while I was watching it for a short
time also. We get rise times; we're decaying on the order of
a minute or in some cases 30 seconds. So, I think we'll
be sitting right here for a little while, doing some shopping
list items and a flare wait.
CC Okay_ Ed, thanks.
CC Ed, Houston.
SPT Go ahead, Story.
CC Did you pick up that BB-32 up there at
the top on your schedule pad at 13:47?
SPT I sure did.
CC Okay, thanks.
SPT Story_ let me tell you a little bit more
about what we see in the coronagraph. I didn't have too
much time last time around.
CC Okay.
SPT Okay, today appears to be the day for
fairly straight narrow streamers_ and we have a whole bunch
of them. I'ii give you the (garble) location and general
characteristics, Starting out at 055 we have a very faint
one which was there yesterday and is still there but is
exceptionally faint. At 070 we have a faint one which is the
edge of a fairly large group of faint streamers. At 080 we
have one which we talked about yesterday disappearing when
active region 14 had some activity in it. Had some very small
streamers, almost looks likes just a diffuse area of
emission close to the disk until we come around to a fairly
a relatively strong streamer right around i00. We did come
around at 220. There's an exceptionally faint streamer, I don't
think I mentioned this one yesterday. It was there yesterday
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and it's there today, and it's exceptionally faint. You can
just barely - I cannot really see it in the photograph I
have except for the start of it, but it does show up on the
monitor. At 280 and 295 are two helmet streamers, the one
at 280 being relatively stronger and appears to be overlying
the one in the front or the one in the rear. Again, the
numbers I give you here are, as far as orientations, might
be a little bit different than what live quoted before because
we have a difficult time aligning the overlay to exactly the
same roll everytime we look at these features. But I think
from the description you can follow through which ones are
which. I don't see any real appreciable change, only Just
slight changes in the detail from what we saw yesterday.
CC Okay, thanks, Ed.
CC Skylab, we're a minute to LOS; 5 minutes
to Madrid. Be dumping the data/voice at Madrid.
PAO Skylab Control; 30 seconds to reacquisition
through Madrid. Space station temperature is predicted to rise
to 78.2 degrees Fahrenheit today and peak at about 87 degrees
around the 19th of January. Standing by for reaequisition
Madrid in about 5 seconds.
CC Skylab, we're AOS through Madrid for
6 minutes_ dumpingthe data/voice here.
CC Ed, Houston.
SPT Go ahead, Story.
CC On that BB-32 that I queried you about earlier,
we didn't see the S054 count down. So, in any event, we'd
like a - an MSOS64, another one of those anyway.
SPT Oh, okay, I did not realize that they were
go_n_ to be operating on it. Normally, we're just about out of
those all the time. Was my mistake for neglecting them.
CC Okay.
SPT Say_ Story, and would you query the people
at 55 as to whether they feel they're getting useful data
in the stop mode on the fluctuating bright point. I find it
pretty useful to keep tabs on what's going on when things
aren't changing rapidly here. I can't give them truncated
MIRROR AUTO RASTERS as well as stopping periodically.
CC Okay_ get with you, Ed.
SPT Just for the past couple of minutes, I'm
sure they've been watehingp but we_ve gone through about down
to 5 _ 5000 on up to 12,000, now we're going back down to
7 again. That's the oxygen VI readout.
CC Okay.

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CC Skylab, we're a minute til LOS, about


32 minutes to Carnarvon at 14:50, and Ed, S055 is getting
useful data in the stop mode.
SPT Thank you, Story.
PAO Skylab Control. LOS, Madrid after
stateside and Madrid pass on revolutions 3565 and 66.
29 minutes to Carnarvon. Tananarive is below minimums on
elevation angle, only slightly over 1 degree on this revolu-
tion, therefore it will not support the mission, the - this
pass. We'll return in 29 minutes. This is Skylab Control
at 14:20 Greenwich mean time.
PAO Skylab Control. 14:49 GMT. A very brief
pass here at Carnarvon. Only 2 minutes and i0 seconds.
CC AOS, through Carnarvon for 3 minutes.
CC Skylah, we're a minute to LOS and about
35 minutes to Goldstone at 15:27.
SPT Roger, Story.
SPT Story, I just took a look at the corona
in the TV, and at this angle here or the time at which we are
relative to - I should say_ the closeness to the terminator.
We really see exceptionally bright airglow -
CC Wetre going over the hill here, Ed.
SPT Okay.
CC Keep going though.
SPT My concern is that it's very bright and
we're takfng 9_second exposures. I hope they don't completely
overexpose themselves (garble/static)
CC Got it. (Static)
PAO Skylab Control. LOS, Carnarvon. Although
the elevation angle maximum on Carnarvon was only i degree,
this statfon was called up to avoid having a stateside to
stateside groundtrackp without any intermediate station
coverage, Next station Goldstone in 33 minutes. And, a solid
stateside and Europian station pass. We'll return then.
Th£s is Skylab Control at 14:54 Greenwich mean time.

END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC2166/I
TIME: 10:27 CDT, 62:15:27 GMT
1/16/74

PA0 This is Skylab Control, 15:26 Greenwich


mean time. Acquisition in 50 seconds through Goldstone.
Stateside pass and combine Canary and Madrid pass lasting
for about the next 30 minutes. And we're standing by for
acquisition.
CC Skylab, we've got you stateside for
17 minutes.
PLT Story, you in position to take any real-
time television?
CC Stand by i.
CC We're dumping the VTR right new, Bill.
How about in 4 minutes_ that'd be okay?
PLT When, Story?
CC About 4 minutes from now.
PLT Yeah, I'll be ready and we'll see how it
turns out.
CC I'll give you a call when we're done.
PLT Okay.
CC Bill, Houston.
PLT Go ahead.
CC We can't get you real-time TV back here
to Houston. We can dump it to the site and we wondered what
you were going to take.
CDR Stateside mountains and snow; we're about
over Albuquerque now, I think, and headed northeast.
PLT Probably could have figured that out
yourself.
CC Okay, Jer, we'll let you know when we've
dumped the VTR, and you can - Okay_ you're GO right now, and
we'll record it at the site.
CC And we're rewinding the VTR hut the down-
link's available now.
CDR Okay, Story_ we're going to start in
just a second.
SPT Storyp what I was remarking to you as you
went over the hill was that when I looked in the white light
coronagraph monitor I saw a fairly intense brightening which
caused the automatic gain control to shrink the picture down
to nothing but the spots left in the tube. So, I went ahead
and gave a l_second exposure after each of the 9-second
exposures, 452.
CC Okay, Ed, and for the S052, the 9 seconds
would give you an over exposure_ a low in the atmosphere,
but about on in the higher up in the atmosphere.
SPT Okay_ that's good. Well, they got that
plus the 1 seconds.
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TIME: 10:27 EDT, 62:15:27 GMT
1116174

CC And, Ed, we like those 1-second exposures,


they're fine.
SPT Thank you.
CDR Okay, Story, we're through with television.
CC Okay, welre showing the VIDEO switch in
ATM. Did you put it back there after you got done?
CDR No, it probably got left there.
CC Okay, we'll try to catch that earlier
next time.
PLT Thank you, Story.
CC And, for Bill, tell him the top off the
bottle that you used on T020 yesterday, that's PSS number 3.
PLT Roger. Number 3 instead of number 2.
CC And, Ed, at your convenience let us know
that the teleprinter's working all right since your paper
changeout.
SPT Okay, be with you in a minute, Story.
CC No hurry.
CC Skylab, we're a minute to LOS; 6 minutes
to Madrid.
SPT Roger.
CC Skylab, back with you through Madrid
and Canaries for 9 minutes.
SPT Story, do you folks down there have
a monitor on the H-alpha i filter for temperature?
CC Yes, we do, Ed.
SPT Okay_ this filter release the appearence
in H_alpha i seems to change. This morning it looked pretty
good and now it's beginning to get - lose its resolution,
and l_m wondering whether it's the effect of the Sun
heating the filter slightly and shifting the (garble), or
what could he the problem.
CC We're going to get you an answer, Ed.
SPT Okay, thank you. And kind of going along
with that is that I was looking in active region 21 and
trying, to figure out where the neutral line is. And because
of this relative low resolution I believe I'm looking at
some arch filaments leading up the center of it with plage
on either side and plage on the east end of the arch filament"
But if that is the case, I'm still having a tough time finding
out where the neutral line is. There's just not enough
fibril structure there of any detail which I can see in
order to figure it out.
CC Okay.

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SL-IV MC-2167/I
Time: 10:56 CDT 62:15:56 GMT
01/16/74

CC Ed, we're seeing no changes in the filter


temperature down here. Could you tell us if the image is
degraded on both monitors?
SPT Yes, it has, Story. Monitor i is is
always been better and it's degraded there. Monitor 2 still
looks a little bit worse than monitor i and all - contrast
and brightness setting.
CC Okay, Ed. We're a minute from LOS here,
about 13 minutes to Tananarive at 16:10. You might throw
some of that on the VTR if you get a chance.
SPT Okay, I'ii do it now.
PAO This is - This is Skylab Control, 15:59
Greenwich mean time. LOS, Madrid. Attempt by the crew to
downlink some real-time TV to the Texas station and Goldstone
station of snow cover over the Rocky Mountain area was unsuc-
cessful, in as much as the TV switch on board the space station
was left in the ATM position instead of moved to the portable
camera position, so maybe they'll try again. Back in I0
minutes for Tananarive voice relay station. 16:00 GMT,
Skylab Control.
PAO This is Skylab Control. 16:09 Greenwich
mean time. Voice relay station at Tananarive in 50 seconds,
approximately, plus or minus a few seconds. A total of
i0 minutes across Tananarive_ and we're standing by.
CC Skylab, back with you through Tananarive
for about 6 minutes. And, Bill or Ed, whoever's setting up
MI71, Houston.
PLT Go ahead_ Story.
CC Bill, we sent you up a general message
62/63 Alfa, and that puts down changes to your baseline level
for the OGI, Just a friendly reminder, that applied only to
you and keep Jer and Ed at the same level.
PLT Okay.
PLT Also_ Story_ a few minutes ago, you gave
me an update on which PSS to top off. I thought you said
3 instead of 2, now. Is that correct?
CC Yeah, top off whichever one you use for
T020 yesterday and we think that CSS says number 3.
PLT Okayp well, it was number 2, so (static/
garble)
CC You say you used number 2, yesterday?
PLT I used whatever was in the pad. I I
put my (garble)(static) away already, so I don't have it to
look at.
CC Okay.
CC Okay, Bill. The pad said number 2, but
your voice transcript said number 3.
PLT Rog, Story. I was wrong. It was number 2,
dogleg, top it off.
SL-IV MC-2167/2
Time: 10:56 CDT 62:15:56 GMT
01/16/74

CC Okay, fine.
CC Skylab, we're a couple of minutes from
LOS. The next station's Honeysuckle, about 20 minutes at
16:35. And, we'll be dumping the datavoice over Honeysuckle.
PA0 This is Skylab Control. LOS, Tananarive.
Next station, Honeysuckle Creek in 15 minutes. At 16:19, this
is Skylab Control.

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SL-IV MC2168/I
TIME: 11:34 CDT, 62:16:34 GMT
1/16/74

PAO This is Skylab Control, 16:34 Greenwich


mean time. Acquisition at Honeysuckle Creek in 50 seconds.
At the present time the commander is scheduled to be in a
physical training mode and personal hygiene, while the
science pilot will be the subject, and the Pilot, Bill Pogue,
the observer on a run of the human vestibular medical experiment.
Likely won't be too much communications through Honeysuckle.
We're standing by with about 5 seconds until acquisition
of signal. Revolution 3567 for the space station.
CC Skylab, back with you through Honeysuckle
for 5 minutes.
CDR Roger, Story.
CC And, Jerry, you're going to get a caution
and warning. We're bringing up the second pump in the
primary loop; just punch it off.
CDR Okay.
CC Skylab, we're about a minute to LOS. About
24 minutes to Goldstone at 17:04.
CDR Roger; we'll see you there.
CC Yes, sir.
PAO This is Skylab Control; LOS Honeysuckle
Creek. Hawaii first pass over that station in 13 minutes.
Beg your pardon, Goldstone in 21 minutes. Hawaii is not
supporting on this revolution. Wetll be back for Goldstone
and the stateside pass. This is Skylab Control at 16:43 GMT.
PAO This is Skylab Control; 17:03 Greenwich
mean time. A combined pass of 30 minutes coming up across
t_e States and the overlapping Canary and Madrid stations.
AOS Goldstone due in about 35 seconds. Space station Skylab
nearing the end of its 3567 revolution, and 882 revolutions
for the Skylab_IV crew_ now in their 62nd day in space. Ten
seconds to AOS Goldstone_ standing by.
CC Skylab, AOS through Goldstone for 9 minutes.
SPT Roger, Story.
CC Skylab, wetre 30 seconds to LOS; about
5 minutes to Bermuda.
CC Skylab_ we're back with you through
Bermuda for 6 minutes.
SPT Okay, Story.
CC We're a minute to LOS; 4 minutes to
Canaries.
PAO Skylab Control; reacquisition at Canary
Island in about a minute and 40 seconds in a LOS gap here
between Bermuda and Canaries. Standing by for reacquisition
through Canary Islands. Madrid will not be supporting this
mission and that's the last revolution was the final Madrid
pass for the afternoon.

END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC-2169/I
Time: 12:25 CDT 62:17:25 GMT
01/16/74

PAO In an LOS gap here between Bermuda and


Canaries. Standing by for reaequlsition through Canary
Islands. Madrid will not be supporting this mission and
that's the last revolution was the final Madrid pass for
the afternoon. AOS Canary in about a minute.
CC Skylab. Back with you through Canaries
for 8 minutes.
CDR Roger.
CC Skylab. We're about 30 seconds to LOS.
About 15 minutes to Tananarive.
PAO This is Skylab Control. LOS, Canary
Islands. Extremely quiet pass over the States and Canaries.
Next station_ Tananarive, voice relay, in ii minutes. Final
Tananarive pass of the afternoon. At 17:37 GMT, back in
ii minutes, Skylab Control.

END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC-2170/I
Time: 12:47 CDT, 62:17:47 GMT
1116174

PAO This is Skylab Control 17:47 Greenwich


mean time. Voice relay station at Tananarive in 50 seconds
for a total of 4 minutes. Standing by for Tananarive.
CC Skylab, we've got you through Tananarive
for 2 minutes.
CDR Roger.
CC And, about a minute from LOS. 20 minutes
to Honeysuckle at 18:11.
CDR Roger. See you later.
CC Yes, sir.
PAO Skylab Control. LOS Tananarive. 15 min-
utes to Honeysuckle Creek. 17:56 GMT_ Skylab Control.
PAO This is Skylah Control 18:10 Greenwich
mean time. Space station Skylab will be acquired in about 50
seconds through the Honeysuckle Creek, Australia tracking
station. And wetll stand by until that station begins
receiving data and voice.
CC Skylab, AOS through Honeysuckle for
9 minutes.
CDR Roger, Story.
CC Skylab, we're a minute from LOS. About
12 minutes til Hawaii at 18:31. Be dumping the data/voice
there and who_s the next crewman who'll be passing through the
STS?
CDR Go ahead, Story.
CC Okay, Jer. In prep for the next M509 run
on panel 225, cabin pressure regs both A and B closed.
CDR Okay. They're both closed.
CC Thank you.
PAO This is Skylab Control. LOS Honeysuckle
Creek. Next station will be tracking station at Hawaii in
about I0 minutes. This is Skylab Control at 18:21 Greenwich
mean time.

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SL-IV MC-2171/I
Time: 13:32 CDT 62:18:32 GMT
01/16/74

PAO Skylab Control. Acquisition at Hawaii


in 50 seconds, followed by the stateside stations Canary and
Ascension for about the next 49 minutes. Probably the longest
single combined pass of the day. Standing by for acquisition
through Hawaii.
CC Skylab, We're AOS through Hawaii for
8 minutes. We see a dump using the data voice and let
us know when you're done with it.
CDR Will do.
CDR Story, it's going to he awhile before
he's done with that recorder. It's Bill EREPing and that's
not due to be finished until about 19:00.
CC Okay.
CC Okay. That's no problem with a - with
the tape recorder and Jer when you get about 33 seconds there
at the ATM, I've got something on H-alpha 1 for you.
CDR Okay. Go ahead.
CC Okay. We'd like for you to go ahead and
power that thing up. Camera power on and use two frames per
minute and go to auto and you'll probably need the night
interlock switch in override.
CDR Okay. It's on.
CC Okay_ Jet. We're going to try to take
some pictures. We could have a read switch failure or a logic
failure, which will prevent you from getting your frame counter
advanced, or your ready light, but it's possible. We are
getting good film. From down here we can't differentiate a
Jammed camera from a logic failure.
CDR Okay. I just saw a frame count decrement
1 and we're in _ the operate light is on.
CC We saw it too_ and we're seeing a normal
shutter ops.
CC A_d, for Bill, we're bringing up another
tape recorder. He may see his light go out, hut he can
continue recording.
PLT Okay, Story. Thank you.
CDR Okay. We've got another decrement on
H_alpha i.
CC Hey, thanks for fixing that, Jer. That's
good work.
CDR I bet it Just got hot yesterday.
SPT When you're hot you're hot.
CDR Sounds like you know.
CC Skylab, we're a minute til LOS, about
3 minutes to Goldstone. Press on with a normal ops on
H_alpha 1 and Jerry, youtll want to remember to get the night
interlock switch to normal, when you power down for the next
re_.
CDR Okay, Story. Will do.
SL-IV MC-2171/2
Time: 13:32 CDT 62:18:32 GMT
01/16/74

CC Skylab, back with you through Goldstone


for 7 minutes.
PLT Story, are you getting good downlink?
CC It's affirm, Bill.
PLT Thank you.
CDR Story, part B in building block 5 calls
for a mirror auto raster and that doesn't indicate which
grating I ought to use.
CC Okay.
CDR My assumption is that I don't change it
from the last setting that I had.
CC That's affirm, Jer, the same one you're
in right now.
CDR Okay.
CC Skylab, we're a minute til LOS. 5 minutes
to Bermuda.
CC Skylab, back with you through Bermuda
for 9 minutes.
CDR Roger.
CC Skylab, we're a minute to LOS and 2 minutes
to Canary.
PAO Skylab Control. The space station Skylab
will be acquired in about 40 seconds through Canary Islands,
with overlapping coverage through Ascension. Presently over
the central Atlantic, mid Atlantic, in a gap between Bermuda
LOS and Canary AOS. We'll stand by for reaequisition of
Skylab through Canary Islands. Final Canary pass of the day.
CC Skylab_ back with you through Canaries
and Ascension, 15 minutes.

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SL-IV MC2172/I
TIME: 14:06 CDT, 62:18:06 GMT
1/16/74

CC Jer, Houston.
CDR Go ahead, Story.
CC Jet, in the next few hours we'll need a
quad A tank pressure equalization done. We'd like to see
that over a station. You will be up in the command module
anyway for your star work at about 19:51 and Carnarvon's
coming up at 19:45. That looks like a convenient time to
get it if you can meet us up there then.
CDR Okay, it sounds fine; 19:45.
CC And that's in command module systems
book $4_19.
CDR Roger, I've got it opened to that page
and clipped.
CC Beautiful.
CC Skylab, we're a minute to LOS; about
24 minutes to Carnarvon at 19:44.
PAO This is Skylab Control; 19:22 Greenwich
mean time. LOS at Ascension Island tracking station. Next
station Carnarvon, Australia in 22 minutes. This is Skylab
Control at 19:22 Greenwich mean time.

END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC2173/I
Time: 14:43 CDT 62:19:43 GMT
1/16/74

PAO 19 hours 43 minutes Greenwich mean time,


this is Skylab Control. Space station now less than a minute
away from acquisition through Carnarvon, Australia. Earlier
in the day, Science Pilot Ed Gibson was the subject and
Pilot Bill Pogue the observer in MI31 human vestibular function
medical experiments uses the rotating litter chair. Well,
the roles are reversed now, and Ed Gibson is the observer
and Bill Pogue the subject. These medical experiments will
determine if the inner ear semicircular canals are affected
by weightlessness. Now about i0 seconds from acquisition
over Carnarvon, we'll hold the line up.
CC 8kylab, AOS through Carnarvon/Honeysuckle
for 9 minutes.
CDR Okay, Story, quad A's open.
CC Okay, looking at it, Jer.
CDR I was reading 190 and it immediately went
down to 180.
CC Okay.
CDR I read 190 on quad Delta up here too,
do you concur?
CC We're looking, Jer.
CC Jerp we concur with the 190 that you're
seeing on Delta and we don't expect that to need equalization.
CDR Okay.
CC When you catch a break in that procedure,
I've got a couple of things for you on the RCS heaters.
CDR Go ahead.
CC Okay_ we'd like to avoid the condition
in which we had a heater failed on, because we'd have very
little time to respond to that. So we'd like to turn those off.
And that's on panel 5 service module RCS heaters, quad A and D,
both of them off.
CDR Okay_ Alpha and Delta are off.
CC And also there in the same location,
service module RCS heaters engine package, A and D off.
CDR Okay, they're off too.
CC Okay, got that. And when you're done
with the RCS, you're rendezvous with the stars will be coming
up about 19_51.
CDR Okay.
CC Skylab, we're a minute to LOS, about
20 minutes to Hawaii at 20:12.
CDR Hey, Story_ when - the last two times
I've taken the - the telescope out of its fixture to mount
it on the panel, it's felt quite hot to me right in the
area where the _ the water goes into the box. I've made
sure ahat the power switches were off and the reticle
SL-IV MC2173/2
Time: 14:43 CDT 62:19:43 GMT
1/16/74

was turned all the way down, but I'm still finding that thing
hot when I open it up.
CC Copy, Jer.
PAO Skylab Control, 19 hours 54 minutes Green-
wich mean time. Space station apparently out of range of
Honeysuckle. Now back in range - brief keyhole there.
CC Going over the hill.
CC In the blind, 11:22.
PAO Skylab Control, 19 hours 56 minutes.
Now out of range of Honeysuckle. Guam tracking station
won't be used for this pass. Low power transmitter only is
in effect at Guam. We're informed by guidance systems officer
here in Mission Control at CMG number 2, has had a reduction
in wheel speed of about 50 rpm. This is an anomaly.
Bearing temperatures, however, are nominal and the current
is pretty close to nominal. Wheel speed should normally be
8900, it's now 8850. They just haven't gotten around to
explaining it yet we're told. Next acquisition will be
through Goldstone, California - excuse me, we'll get part
of Hawaii on this pass. Greenwich mean time 19 hours 58
minutes, this is Skylab Control.

END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC2174/I
Time: 15:11 CDT 62:20:11 GMT
1/16/74

PAO Skylab Control, 20 hours ii minutes


Greenwich mean time. Space station now about a minute
away from acquisition through Hawaii tracking station.
This pass will last about 6 minutes. Pilot Bill Pogue doing
physical training at this point. Science Pilot Ed Gibson
once again for the third time today at the Apollo telescope
mount control and display panel. This time using the extreme
ultraviolet coronagraphy, looking at the Sun. And Commander Carr,
checking the command and service module sextant getting an
update for the nuZ. Now about i0 seconds away from acquisition.
CC Houston for 3 minutes.
CDR Roger Story. The angles for the G&C
sextant are ALphard shaft of 99.4, trunnion is ll.0, for
Regulus 78.5, and trunnion is 33.1 and Regulus was so close
to structure that I almost couldn't see it due to light
reflection off the structure.
CC Okay 9 thanks Jerr we got it. And we're
accustomed to scheduling you for any command module work
there is, but on this sextant check it would be real convenient
if we could schedule Ed and Bill for it also.
CDR Yeah, I think that would be okay. What -
whatever is convenient for you I think. Problem is heating
on the optics, are there heaters up in that - inside the optics?
CDR Sextant or the telescopes once you
take it out it cools right down. And by the time I was
finished with my sightings the sextant was down to a nice
normal temperature, you know room temperature. But as soon
as I put it back in the slot up there it begins warming
up again, and I'm just wondering if we have a heater in that
area.
CC We'll be going LOS here in about 15 seconds
Jar. Be seeing you over Goldstone in about 9 minutes. There
is a I/P feeder up there that is worth about 10-watts. The
only way to turn that off, and we don't want to do that, is
turn off the IMU heaters.
CDR Okay, well I'm not concerned about it. I
just wanted to know if it was nominal.
CC Is - is the wall hot up there or the
stowage for the telescope is that hot also?
CDR No, but the wall is quite cool, it's strickly
the telescope itself.
CC Thank you.
CC And when we come over stateside and your
working on the M509 checklist changes, I've got one for you
on page 3 Charlie - 13.
CDR Okay.
SL-IV MC2174/2
Time: 15:11 CDT 62:20:11 GMT
1/16/74

PAO Contrary to previous indications this


was an extremely short pass, actually less than 1 minute
over Hawaii. Greenwich mean time 20 hours 14 minutes next
acquisition will be 8 minutes from now. That will be through
Goldstone for a stateside pass which will include Texas, Merritt
Island launch area and Bermuda. 20 hours 15 minutes this is
Skylab Control.

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SL-IV MC2175/I
Time: 15:21 CDT, 62:20:21 GMT
1/16/74

PAO Skylab Control 20 hours 21 minutes


Greenwich mean time. Space station now about a minute
away from acquisition through Goldstone, complete stateside
coverage for this pass. As the space station nears the
east coast the Goddard navigation experiment using the laser
beam will be tried again. We're told there's fairly good
weather ov over Washington for this pass. Cloud cover
is about 50 percent but that's high cirrus clouds. So there's
a fairly good opportunity that the commander will be able
to see the 10-watt green laser which will be used today.
Now about i0 seconds from acquisition of signal. We'll
hold the line up.
CC Skylab, AOS through Goldstone for 6
minutes.
CDR Roger, Story.
CC Good evening Jer, according to your details
there, you'll have the laser coming up in about 8 or 9 minutes.
CDR Say, again, Story.
CC You got the laser coming up in 8 or 9
minutes.
CDR Roger.
CC Bill, Houston.
CDR Bill's on the bike_ go ahead.
CC I better catch him later.
CDR Okay.
CC Edp Houston.
SPT Go ahead.
CC Ed, with respect to the question you
raised concerning loops over active region 14 with Bill this
morning. The loops that were there yesterday had east and west
alignment and were observed mostly edge on. They were
seen in oxygen V and VI, neon VII, hymen continuum, magnesium
X, and sillicon XII. In other words all across the temperature
ranges the transiston range in the corona.
SPT Okay, thank you Story. I'm looking for
them now.
CC Okay_ iron XIV and H-alpha coronal rain
observed over this region at 15:00 GMT. And your ops are
very good in this area.
SPT Thank you.
CC Skylab_ we're about 30 seconds to LOS.
We_ll see you over Texas in about a minute. And Bill, if
you_e not running instrumented PT, we see experiment 1 tape
recorder running. And we'd like to get that off cause we
got a dump coming up over Bermuda at 20:31.
PLT Roger, copy.
CC Sorry_ to get you off the bike, I didn't
have anybody else.
SL-IV MC2175/2
Time: 15:21 CDT, 62:20:21 GMT
1116174

PAO Brief LOS as the space station gets


close to acquisition through Texas. We'll stay live.
CC Skylab, we're back with you through
MILA and Bermuda for 12 minutes.
CC Hey, Jer, when you acquire the laser,
we'd like you to let us know and we'll move it off i degree
off the spacecraft, and see how you do.
CDR Roger, Story. I'm using STS window
number 2, it looks like it might be a little easier to see
from here.
CC Okay.
CC And, Ed, we'd like a DAS to send an
outer gimbal backup.
SPT You got it.
CC And Ed, we're showing SO56 shutter open.
Throw the START and back to STOP it'll CLOSE it.
Thanks, Ed.

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SL IV MC-2176/I
Time: 15:32 CDT 62:20:32 GMT
1/16/74

CDR Okay, I got the laser.


CC Copy, Jer.
CDR I just lost it. It went off abruptly,
as if it were turned off.
CC They slewed it off i degree, Jer.
CDR Okay. It's now behind structure. I can't
see that part of the ground anymore.
CC Copy.
CDR Story, I didn't detect any dimming or
flunctuation or anything as they slewed it off. It just -
It went off abruptly.
CC Okay. That's about to be expected, Jer,
and probably we've got cloud cover that prevents getting it
back up to you now.
CC And the laser is back on the spacecraft.
The DAS is yours, Ed.
SPT Thank you.
CC And_ Ed_ when you're ready, we're ready
for your TV downlink.
SPT Be with you in 30 seconds.
CC Okay.
CC And that's all for the laser today, Jer.
CDR Roger that.
CDR Story, the prohlem here is with look angle
is that we're looking pretty much to the north through our
best windows and when we cross right overhead, it's almost
impossible to see anything that's right below us.
CC And I guess, Jer, you would have perferred
to run that experiment the rev prior to this one, where
Washington would be a little further south.
CDR I think that would have been worse, Story,
because we can't see to the south at all. That is, except
through window 2, and there's a strut, actually two struts
in that field of view.
CC And you need ATM on the video switch, Ed.
CC Jerp Houston.
CDR Go ahead.
CC I got a couple of things. Probably you'll
want to write them down.
CDR Ready to copy.
CC Okay. Airlock module panel 390, OWS
heat exchanger fans i through 4. Turn all four of them on.
CDR You want them on or in the OWS position?
CC Turn them on.
CDR Okay.
CC And 0WSp panel 614. Circuit breakers
TCS logic, two of them, turn them OPEN. Put them OPEN.
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Time: 15:32 CDT 62:20:32 GMT
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CDR Okay. Panel 614, TCS logic OPEN.


CC Roger. And you'll find them in the
bottom two rows to the left-hand side under the thermal
control system block.
CDR Okay. What's the reason for it?
CC That'll cut down on some heat loads in the
OWS.
CDR Okay.
CC And we're a minute from LOS. About
9 minutes to Ascension.
SPT Say Story, by looking around in the
in oxygen VI, I've been able to find two enhancements,
one running pretty much straight out from the limb in the
northern part of active region 14 and one inclined around
12 degrees from the vertical towards the south in the southern
portion of the active region. I wonder how that corollates
with anything they've seen.
CC Okay. We're going over the hill. See
you in about 8 minutes.
PAO Loss of signal through Bermuda. Science
Pilot Ed Gibson commenting on something he'd seen off active
region 14, That's on the Sun's west limb just about at the
equator. Earlier Commander Carr indicated that he could
see the lO_watt green laser being beamed up from Goddard
Spaceflight Center just north of Washington. People at
Goddard slewed the laser i degree off the spacecraft. Jerry
Cart indicating that the loss - the visual loss of the laser
was very abrupt, no fadeout. Next acquisition will be about
8 minutes from now. That'll be Ascension. 20 hours 43
minutes, this is Skylab Control.

END OF TAPE.
SL-IV MC2177/I
Time: 15:49 CDT 62:20:49 GMT
1/16/74

PAO Skylab Control 20 hours 49 minutes Green-


wich mean time. Space station now about a minute away from
acquisition through tracking station at Ascension. Flight
Director Milton winder - Windler, has indicated that he will
possibly be ready for a change-of-shlft briefing at 4:15
this afternoon in the briefing room in Building i. He said
certainly no earlier than 4:15. We'll hold the line up
for this pass over Ascension.
CC Skylab, back with you through Ascension
for 4 minutes. And is anybody working on the maneuvering
experiments checklist at this time?
CDR Stand by, Story, I've got it.
CDR Okay, Story, lay them on me.
CC Okay, I'm referring to page - first of all,
17-10. The message we sent up which is 6257 Alfa i refers
fairly often to the line numbers on a page. I got those changes
in without reference to line numbers, I don't think you'll
have a problem. If you do, the first line is the first printed
llne below the picture. And counting on down includes blank
lines in your count.
CDR Okay, understand.
CC And got one other thing for the - a very
short change out for the Cuff Checklist.
CDR Okay, I've got the Cuff Checklist.
CC Page 3 Charlie_13.
CDR Okay, go.
CC Change the last line to read, "Change the
battery and the PSS." Go to page 3 Charlie-15.
CDR Okay, I've got it.
CC That's it, we're a minute to LOS. We'll
see you over Carnarvon in about 25 minutes at 21:20.
CDR Roger, thank you, Story.
CDR Story, it looks like I won't be getting to
any science demo practice there's lots of checklist changes
to be done here.
CC Okay, we thought that'd probably happen,
too.
PAO Skylab Control 20 hours 57 minutes Green-
wich mean time. Space station now over the horizon from the
tracking antennas at Ascension. Commander Cart indicating that
he won't have tfme to do a scheduled science demonstration
coming up in about 30 minutes. That involved the use of one
of their Sony entertainment recorders and a water droplet. It
was expected that at a particular frequency and volume, the
water droplet would break up. Next acquisition will be 23
minutes from now. That'll be through Carnarvon, Australia.
Pilot Bill Pogue should still be involved in physical training.
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Earlier he indicated he was using the bicycle ergometer.


And Science Pilot Ed Gibson still at the Apollo telescope
mount control and display panel observing his favorite subject,
the Sun. 20 hours and 58 minutes, this is Skylab Control.

END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC2178/I
Time: 16:20 CDT 62:21:20 GMT
1/16/74

PAO Skylab Control, 21 hours and 20 minutes


Greenwich mean time. Space station nearing acquisition
through Carnarvon, Australia. This pass will last about
i0 minutes. Commander Carr should be at the ATM control
and display panel now. His turn to watch the Sun, his
second time today. Science pilot Ed Gibson involved in some
housekeeping activities. He's scheduled for physical
training shortly. And pilot Bill Pogue coming out of physical
training and cleaning up. About i0 seconds from acquisition
now, we'll hold the line up.
CC Skylab, AOS through Carnarvon for
ii minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston, we're having a little
trouble with INCO not being able to command to the tele-
printer. We're wondering if possibly the teleprinter switch
could have been bumped into the manual position or out of
the command position. I'm wonder if somebody would
check up in the STS section.
CDR Sure will.
CC And good afternoon from the purple gang.
CDR Roger, if you hadn't identified yourself
I I'd have to call you Story.
CC Well, he made the AOS call. Just can't
hardly leave this place, but we're here now, you're in good
hands.
CDR Okay, it's in command now.
CC Roger, was it not in command when you
checked it?
CDR Yeah, that's right Dick.
CC Uh-huh, okay, thank you very much.
CC PLT, Houston, when you get a chance
anytime I'd like to visit with you a couple of minutes on
the housekeeping 6A - the OWS heat exchanger vane vacuuming
you did this morning.
PLT Okay, Dick I (garble) some changes here.
I'll stand by and listen to whatever yon have to say about
it.
CC There's absolutely no hurry Bill. .We've
got about a minute and a half to LOS here. Next station is
Guam coming up in 4 minutes. I'll give you a call there.
PLT Okay, you can go ahead and tell me now
if you want to, I'm just standing by here.
CC Okay, we were expecting after you cleaned
the heat exchanger fans today to get an increase in heat
exchanger flow by about 50 cubic feet per minute. It turns
out however that despite the cleaning you did we saw no
flow increase. So I guess we're looking for sort of a
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qualitative field from you as to the amount of debris that


you removed this morning. And if you feel good about the
fact that it was a good cleaning job and you can't improve
on it, I guess we got to assume that we've had a transducer
shift or possibly degraded flow due to some problem with
that fan. And we'll be fa - planning a fan checkout or replace-
ment, but we thought we would ask you about it first.
PLT Okay, I took about five times as long
this morning to do the vacuuming. I even reached down and
with my hand and cut a couple of fingers trying to get into
every nook and cranny. So I guess with five times the effort
I didn't do as good a job as I did last time. One thing, you
know, I might better do is go back and check the seating of
all the fans, that could be the problem.
CC Okay, Bill, that might be a good idea. One
of the crews before found some real fine gray - real fine
dust on the vanes that - I believe that was in Bean's mission.
But it might not hurt for you to recheck the seating, cause
we're not seeing the flow we need to see. We're going LOS.
I'll give you a call a couple of minutes from now in
Guam.
PLT Okay.

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SL IV MC-2179/I
Time: 16:32 CDT, 62:21:32 GMT
1/16/74

PAO Skylab Control 21 hours 32 minutes


Greenwich mean time. Earlier over this pass, some comment
to the crew that they thought the - that the ground thought
the teleprinter switch was in the wrong position. It turned
out to be true, ground could not teleprint messages up.
And Bill Pogue reporting on vacuum cleaner - house cleaning
earlier in the day. He's going to go back and check the
seating of some fans to improve or see if he can't improve
the airflow in the workshop. We're going to bring the line
down and record the upcoming Guam and stateside passes,
so we can bring you change-of-shift press briefing with
Flight Director Milton Windler. This will be coming from
the briefing room in Building I. Milton Windler has already
left Mission Control heading for Building i. At 21 hours
and 33 minutes, this is Skylab Control.

END OF TAPE
SL_IV MC2180/I
Time: 16:54 CDT 62:21:54 GMT
1/16/74

PAO Skylab Control, 21 hours 54 minutes


Greenwich mean time. We have 4 minutes and i0 seconds of
recorded air-to-ground which took place over Guam, which
we'll play back for you now.
CC Skylab, Houston, Guam for i0 minutes.
PLT Rog, Dick.
PLT Needs to come up in the dome section
now. I'm going to turn all four fans off and reset them
and then turn them on again.
CC Okay, Bill we'll be watching it and you
can let us know your opinions of the cleanliness when you
get all through. Give us a call.
PLT Well, now I understand the vanes down
there have always been clogged up. What I consider clogged
up with gray - what looks like lint. There's been no change
since - since we got here - since we found out what part of
the heat exchanger actually required the cleaning. And
although you take the, well I - I use the tool with the
round brush on it. And although you hold it very close to
the vanes, and it gets the face of them and rub it back and
forth, and tamp it up and down and so forth, you never get all
that stuff out of there. So it is very difficult to tell. I
use a flash light in my mouth, and one hand on one side of
the flapper valve, and the vacuum cleaner tool on the other
and I was pushing the tool around with one hand well down
into the - next to the heater exchanger. So that was the
technique I was using and I can't see how I can really improve
on that except with a better vacuum cleaner.
CC Roger, I sure with we could get a TV
picture of you working on it, it sounds like a lot fun. It
seems that we recall that Bean did find some way to get it
pretty clean. But we saw, I recall that - that at one
point we did get a significant increase from flow. I'll
give Jack a call over there, he's over in the office and
see how they did it. But why don't you go ahead and see
if you can reseat them and we'll take a look at the flow
again.
CDR Roger Dick. And tell INCO to hold up
on the teleprinter. The printing is not coming through
clear at all. And I think we're going to have to put a
new load of paper in.
CC Okay, we're holding up.
CC CDR, Houston. INCO says he's in the
process of uplinking the third flight plan. Did any of the
other two come up - come out usable, or when you get it
changed out should we uplink all three of them again.
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CDR You will need to do all three. They're


real streaky big patches of them are missing. The tenth
message that came up which was that general message 30 had
a patch, you know sort of a faint patch in it so we reseated
the head, hut that didn't seem to do any good. So, why don't
we just change the paper this time.
CC Okay, we concur.
CC Skylab, Houston, we're 45 seconds to
LOS. Goldstone comes up at 22:00.
CDR Okay, Dick it well be in when you come
up so just send up a test message.
CC Okay, Jerry sure will, thank you very
much. Hey, Jerry one item for you as we go over the hill.
Sometime this afternoon before you or Bill gets to the
509 prep, we would like you to read us the pressure
that reads on the two SOP serial numbers 006 and 013.
We'd like for you to read those gauges as accurately as you
can. The increments on the guages are about 400 psi. We
need to make a descision about tomorrow's 509, which SOP
we're going to use.
PLT I just made an inventory about 5 or 6 days
ago, Dick, and those are very accurate readings, as accurate as
I can read them.
CC Roger, Jerry, we did get that information.
We also want to make darn sure we don't have a leak on either
one of those things which is one of the reasons we want to get
it again. We did intend to get it again when you get a chance
this evening.
CDR Okay_ What numbers again?
CC 6 and 13.
PAO That concludes the recorded air-to-ground
which took place over pass over Guam tracking station.
Space station now nearing acquisition through Goldstone.
This pass will take it though Goldstone, Texas, and Merritt
Island launch area tracking stations. Changeover has
taken place here in Mission Control. The purple team is
now on. Flight Director Phil Shaffer and Spacecraft Communicator
Dick Truly. About i0 seconds from acquisition of signal now.
We'll go live air-to-ground.
CC Skylah, Houston, we're AOS stateside
for 17 minutes.
CDR (Tapping) That was a woodpecker saying Roger.
CC (Laughter) Rog, that. I knew what it was,
but I didn't know how he was talking air-to-ground.
CC And Skylab, Houston, I forgot to
warn you, but we're dumping the data/voice recorder here.
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CDR Okay, we're not using it.


CC Okay.
PLT Dick, PLT here. I - I vacuumed down
in there along the sides facing the heat exchanger vanes,
and replaced the fan. I'm really at a loss to figure out
anything else to do other than just try to rig up some tool
to - to try to clean out between the vanes. There is an
awful lot of material in between the vanes, but it's just
not accessible with a vacuum cleaner brush.
PLT And that stuff has been in there since
we were here. That's why I assume it probably was collected
during the early part of the first flight.
CC Okay, Bill for now why don't you not
worry about it. I'm I am - I did have a call in to talk
to Lousma and see if they had any thoughts that might not
be obvious, but we'll be getting back to you.
PLT Okay.

END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC2181/I
Time: 17:02 CDT, 62:22:02 GMT
1/16/74

CDR First, teleprinter message looks pretty good


Dick. It's a little bit weak on the left side and I Just loosened
the (garble) nd tried to pull it up even tighter. So go ahead
with the next one.
CC Okay, Jerry. Thanks for letting us
know. Incidentally, you were just going over the hill when
you asked about those serial numbers on SOPs. The serial
numbers are: 006, and 016, and I think those are the two
that are down in the experiment compartment, but you probably
know better than me about that.
CDR That's affirmative. They're down
hanging on the walls there.
CC Okay, we do have the numbers that you
read us the other day. And so when you sometime this
evening why don't you read them again for us. And let us
know.
CDK Okay.
CC PLT, Houston. I just talked to Jack
on the telephone for a minute about cleaning the OWS heat
exchanger. He didn't have any spectacular suggestions to make
that were - that would have obvious to him and not us. So
are - he did say that they had used the crevice tool in
conjunction with the vacuum cleaner to - to get some of the
grey matter out. And that helped a lot. And he suggested
that if any of it was clumped up in bunches enough so that
it might be - could be actually picked up but it was you
couldn't get your fingers in there. You might use the
little tool, and I'm not sure what's the name of it is.
But it's the little snake tool where you push on a button
on one end and it opens up to little fingers on the other
end to pick - that was designed to pick up stuff in odd
places like under the grid and so forth. You might consider
that anyway.
PLT Okay, Dick (garble). I'ii think about
it and try to get on it later on this evening when I have
a little spare time.
CC Okay, Bill, thank you much. We're about
30 seconds from LOS. And you're going to go the long way
around, Goldstone comes up at 23:36. And the Flight Plan
messages are on board. If you've taken a look at all of them
INC0 would like to know how the rest of them turned out.
CDR They came in real well, Dick.
CC Okay, have fun going all the way around
the world without talking to us. We'll see you later.
CDR Roger, so long.
CC And Skylab, Houston. We are going to have
a low pass at Vanguard. It was pointed out to me that - that
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I didn't catch it. It comes up in about ii minutes. I'ii


give you a call there, it's a short one.
CDR Promises, promises.
CC (Laughter), sorry about that.
PAO Space station Skylab now over the hill
from Merritt Island launch area's tracking antenna. A
little bit of confusion here at ground control. Elevation
for the pass over Vanguard is about 1.9 degrees, the antennas
just barely looking at each other. Like to clear something
up, apparently there's been some confusion as to how many
glitches or funnies on how many control moment gyros, in
how many days. According to the Guidance and Navigation
Systems officer here at Mission Control, on mission day 60
which was Monday, control moment gyro number 2, the prime
gyro left, out of the two experienced a normal funny, which
means the wheel speed went down. Bearing temperatures went
up and current went up. Also, on Monday, mission day 60,
control moment gyro number 3 experienced low temperatures,
and high current, however, there's no way of determining
what the wheel speed did on control moment gyro number 3,
as that tranducer went out, this past October, 99 days ago,
on Skylab-I, elapse time, day 148.

END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC2182/I
Time: 17:18 CDT 62:22:18 GMT
1/16/74

PAO did on control moment gyro number 3


as that transducer went out this past October, 99 days ago
on Skylab I, elapsed time day 148. Or the 148th day that the
workshop has been in orbit, the telemetry device which reads
wheel speed for CMG number 3 quit functioning properly.
Since that time, it has been indicating a speed of 3774 rpms
which is wrong. On mission day 61, or yesterday, control
moment gyro number 2, once again, the prime gyro left, ex-
perienced another normal funny, which means current went up,
temperature went down, wheel speed went down. Today - this
morning, control moment gyro number 2 experienced then ab-
normal funny - or a glitch glitch. As the wheel speed went
down, however, there was no temperature or current change.
And the GNS officer here in Mission Control tends to believe
that that is due to faulty telemetry rather than a true
anomaly. So, once again, on Monday, we had two anomalies, on
control moment gyro number 2 and number 3. The one happening
to number 3 is currently unexplained. Yesterday on mission
day 61, we had 1 CMG anomaly - that was CMG number 2, and
this morning, we had another CMG anomaly, also CMG 2. This
one at at the moment anyway is attributed to faulty telemetry.
And as Milton Windler indicated earlier, the one which happened
this morning, nobody is particularly concerned about
it. Some conversation over this path over the United States
with Pilot Bill Pogue, who earlier in the day, vacuumed the
heat exchanger in the workshop, one of the ducts. Apparen-
tly some concern as there was low airflow through that heat
exchanger. Nominal airflow is 160 cubic feet per minute.
Just as we lost signal through MILA, it was reading 152 cubic
feet per minute, down but not downed significantly. Currently,
CMG number 2 is 50 rpms low, it's now turning 8850 times, it
should be 8900. Also, an update on MII0 medical experiments -
biomedical officers here in Mission Control indicate that
hemolysis sticks which are used to smear blood on glass slides
which are then inserted into an optical device which measures
the relative density of the subject's blood against a color
background to indicate the hemoglobin count. Three sticks are
used per experiment. That's one stick for each crewman.
Apparently, Commander Carr used two sticks this morning. There
were i0 sticks remaining, and there are 3 as of this morning,
there were 3 scheduled runs for that particular medical experiment.
There are now 6 sticks remaining and two runs, or exactly the
number of sticks remaining for the number of medical runs remaining.
The concern from the surgeon and biomedical officers was that
hemoglobin count in astronauts who have been up in space
over long periods of time decreases and they would like to get
some additional data on that, as the mission nears its completion.
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However, they haven't come up with a procedure on how to get


more than 2 runs out of 6 remaining hemolysis sticks.
Currently, the interior temperature of the workshop is hovering
between 79 and 81 degrees. Exterior temperatures at the
hottest spot, the thermal shield is 280 degrees - that's
Fahrenheit. 4 minutes before acquisition through Vanguard.
This pass should last about 2 minutes, and then we'll have
a very long period of loss of signal as the workshop misses
all tracking stations until Goldstone. At Greenwich mean
time 22 hours 23 minutes, this is Skylab Control.

END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC2183/I
Time: 17:26 CDT 62:22:26 GMT
1/16/74

PAO Skylab Control, 22 hours 26 minutes


Greenwich mean time. Space station now nearing acquisition
through the Vanguard tracking ship. Pilot Bill Pogue should
be eating his evening meal right now. And Science Pilot
Ed Gibson should be cleaning up after some physical training.
Commander Carr is watching the Sun from the Apollo telescope
mount control and display panel. About 20 seconds away from
acquisition of signal. We'll hold the line up.
CC Skylab, Houston, hello, at the Vanguard
for 4 minutes.
CDR Hello, Dick.
CC Skylab, Houston, we're a minute from
LOS. Now you guys can go almost all the way around the world
without me bugging you. Goldstone comes up at 23:37. See you
there.
CDR Roger, Dick, see you then.
CC Okay.
PAO 22 hours 32 minutes Greenwich mean time.
Space station now out of range of the tracking antennas on
the tracking ship Vanguard. Next acquisition will be i hour
and 3 minutes from now, that will he through Goldstone,
California. 22 hours and 33 minutes Greenwich mean time,
this is Skylab Control.

END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC2184/I
Time: 18:35 CDT, 62:23:35 GMT
1/16/74

PAO Skylab Control 23 hours 35 minutes


Greenwich mean time. Space station Skylab now off the west
coast of Orgeon. Approaching acquisition through Goldstone,
California. This pass over the United States will go down
the west coast to the midpoint of California and then
down through Mexico. WeVll have acquisition through Goldstone
and Texas. Also scheduled for this pass, the evening medical
conference. That will take place over Texas, or rather
through Texas tracking antenna. About 8 minutes seheduled
for the medical conference. About 15 minutes for acquisition,
now i0 seconds away from Goldstone.
CC Skylab, Houston, we're AOS stateside
for 13-1/2 minutes. When we handover to Texas here, which
is going to occur in about 3 or 4 minutes, that'll be the
med conference. And you can talk to the friendly flight
surgeon. I_ii give you a warning when we're going to do that.
SPT Okay, thank you, Dick. Hey, I wonder
if you could tell me something? When do we hit maximum beta
and what will it be?
CC Okay. I'ii let you know.
SPT Thank you.
CDR By the way, Dick, the temperature right
now is just a shade under 80, and that's really not too
uncomfortable at all.
CC Okay, Jerry. Thanks for letting us know.
We've been doing a lot of discussion down here about ways
we can help it stay down as low as possible. And we're
going to continue to do that.
PLT Dick, PLT, here. Have you enabled
momentum dump yet?
CC Stand by. PLT, Houston, we are enabling
momentum dumps right now.
PLT Thank you.
CC And SPT, Houston. I have the numbers
on beta for you.
SPT Okay, Dick, go ahead.
CC Roger, would you believe that the next
beta is going to occur in about 21 minutes from now at an
exact time of 00:00:16. And at that time it's going to be
minus 70.9 degrees, 70.9.
SPT Okay, and that's at 00:00:16, thank you.
CC Roger. Skylah, Houston, we're about 30
seconds from handing over to Texas. That'll be the med
conference. And another - due to the lag in the temperature
even though the max beta - beta is upon us here, the - the
max temperature we expect to be about 2 days later.
PAO Skylab Control 23 hours 51 minutes
Greenwich mean time. Space station now out of range of MILA -
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excuse me Texas. Evening medical conference took place


moments ago. We'll bring that to you when the flight surgeon
brings it to us. Earlier comment, crew requested a time
for maximum beta angle. That'll be about 8 minutes and ii
seconds from now. Space station Skylabs beta angle will be
minus 70.9 degrees. Space station temperature, however,
will continue to go up over the next 2 days. The electricial
and life support officer here in Mission Control, the EGIL,
informs us that is a function of the insulation on the
space station, as the insulation will continue to absorb
heat over a period of time, much as a house gets hotter in
the afternoon, long after the Sun has peaked out. So, over
the next couple of days, the 19th of January, we were told
the space station will peak out temperaturewise and then
will start to cool off. However, less than 8 minutes from
now beta angle will reach maxium. Temperature inside the
space station right now is hovering between the 80 and 81
degree mark. Comment from the crew is, the temperature they
indicated at the time was 79 degrees, however, they said,
it wasn't too uncomfortable. That's about the first time
they've mentioned the temperature over the past couple of
days, so apparently it's not bothering them too much. Next
acquisition will be 7 minutes from now. That'll be through
the Vanguard tracking ship. 23 hours 53 minutes Greenwich
mean time, this is Skylab Control.

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SL-IV MC21g5/I
Time: 19:00 CDT 63:00:00 GMT
1/16/74

PAO 23 hours excuse me zero hours zero


minutes Greenwich mean time, Skylab Control. Space station
now less than a half a minute from acquisition through the
Vanguard tracking ship. Commander Cart, Science Pilot Gibson,
and Bill Pogue will have all finished eating their evening
meal by now. Commander Carr and Pilot Pogue scheduled for
some presleep activity prior to preparing for tomorrow's
M509 astronaut maneuvering device experiment. They'll be
preparing the machine this evening. And Science Pilot Gibson
once again at the ATM C&D console. Now about 10 seconds
from acquisition, wet11 go live air-to-ground.
CC Skylab, Houston, we're AOS Vanguard for
ii minutes. I forgot to warn you, but this is the pass set
aside for evening status, and we're standing by for it.
PLT Rog, stand by.
CC Okay.
CREW On (garble) -
SPT Say, Dick, in the way of an evening
status report, we'd like to first of all give you our objective
comment on living at high beta angles for our second time through
it now, and I think we've analyzed the thermal environment
quite - quite adequately and here are our comments. (Music)
CC How can we possibly top that? I'm
still standing by for the photo stuff.
CDR How much time we got?
CC We got 8 minutes here, Jer.
CDR Okay, we'll be a little late.
CC Okay, whenever you get to it, I'm stand-
ing by.
CDR We spent a little bit too much time
preparing the first part of our evening status report.
CC Ah, ha. Okay, I'm standing by, soon as
you get to it.
CC Go ahead.
PLT Coming at you with the photo log. 16-mil-
limeter,
CC Okay, standing by.
PLT Roger_ 16-millimeter, documentary photo
20 which was really actually taken last night after the log
then, Charlie India 128, 27 percent, Charlie India 127.
Documentary photo 6, 7, 15, and 16, Ch - Charlie India 128,
00, Charlie India 127. Nikon: Nikon i, only I used today,
Charlie X_ray 41, 56 is the frame count. 70-millimeter,
Charlie X-ray 50, 117 is the frame count. ETC, no change.
EREP, no change. Drawer A configuration: Alfa 2, transporter
05, no supply, takeup is Charlie India 128, back is, 07,
Charlie India 29, 99 percent, Charlie India, 78.
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CC Okay.
PLT Dick, do I have a phone call set up £or
tonight?
CC Let me check that real quick. Yes, you
do. It's set up at 02:47 at Hawaii. I'll give you a - a
reminder just before that, Bill.
PLT Thank you.
CC And and I'm standing by for the rest
of the report. We still have 5 minutes here.
PLT Roger.

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SL-IV MC2186/I
Time: 19:06 CDT 63:00:06 GMT
1/16/74

CDR Roger.
CC Incidentally, while we're waiting one
quick note for you. There is a permanent general message
that's coming up at this site that has to do with the next
3 days use of the trash airlock. Essentially, what it -
what we're asking for is each time you use the trash airloek
in the next few days if you'll voice record the GMT of when
you do and what the containers are you're dumping and
what's in them. This will give us 3 represenative days
so that our habitability people can do some - can under-
stand sort of representatively what Skylab has been using the
trash airlock for and point it at our future missions. But
that is what that permanent general message is about.
No response required. CDR Ok
CDR Okay Dick, Sleep: CDR, 7.0, 6 heavy,
i light_ SPT, 8.0, 8 heavy; PLT, 7.0, 7 heavy. Volumes:
none yet tonight. We'll have those in tomorrow evening's
report. Water gun: CDR, 8603, 4594, 0773. Body mass:
CDR, 6.319, 6.320, 6.318; SPT is 6.367, 6.365, 6.367; PLT, 6.265,
6.266, 6.269. Exercise: no change to your standard for any
of us. Medications: CDR, none; SPT, Afrin once today;
PLT, Afrin once today. Clothing: CDR, socks; SPT, socks
and shirt; PLT, none. Food log: CDR, salt 3.5,
deviation plus one butter cookies, minus one coffee with
sugar, plus 1.5 water; SPT, 1.5 salt, plus biscult, plus
tuna, plus butter cookies, zero water; PLT, zero, zero, and
zero. Okay, flight plan deviations - the only thing was
I did no science demo practice today. I used that time up on
the checklist update, and we're still not finished. Shopping
list: none. Inoperable equipment: none. Unscheduled
stowage: none.
CC Okay.
CDR You might have noticed Dick, we're
not getting any shopping list items done anymore. The
main reason is there just no no slack left in the schedule
any more, we're running pretty tight. And so there just
want be any shopping list stuff done unless we get a little
more free time.
CC Okay Jerry, understand. We'll continue
to take a look at the flight plans and take that into
account.
CDR The schedule as it goes is not to tough.
We're managing to stay up with it pretty well, and we can
usually gain 5 minutes here and lose 5 minutes somewhere
else. But for the most part there aren't any decent little
chunks of time where we can dedicate to something like
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practicing for a science demo.


CC Roger, I understand. If anybody's -
I've got a change to an ATM schedule pad if anybody is
close to the ATM. If you're not don't worry about it
I'ii give it to you the next site is Tananarive. And
I've also got some evening questions, a couple of them
here for Bill.
PLT Press on Dick.
CC Okay, here is one on T002, Bill. We
noted in - in noticed in the data some large boxes in
the sightings including the zero reading. And the data
is sort of similar to a couple of sessions in Bean's mission.
And - when the transparent wardroom window protective shield
was left on and we were just wanted to confirm that the sheet
shield either was or was not removed for this particular
sighting.
PLT That might have been it, I'm not sure.
CC Okay_ one other quick one Bill. And
before I do we're about a minute from LOS, Tananarive at
00:29. Another one is you reported a triangle shoe failure.
We wanted to know a little bit more about that. What were
you doing when the right shoe failed, and do you have any
comments about the design as to whether or not you think
that contributed to this particular failure? And also
what kind of loads did you have on the shoe at the time
it gave way?
PLT I had my foot in a triangle in front
of the film vault. And Ed to move the door had hit
the side of my foot. (Laughter) And I think however in
all due respect to Ed that - that that metal had already
been fatigued.
CC Okay, we're going over the hill here.
If _ if you did want to add any more about that why don't
you just put it on the voice recorder, and we'll pick it
up. Thank you much Bill.
PAO Skylab Control, 11 minutes Greenwich
mean time. Space station now out of range of the Vanguard
tracking ship. This pass over Vanguard began with the crew
comment on what the temperature inside the workshop was
at a high beta angle. And the responee was "when you hot
you're hot". The temperature inside right now varies 78 degrees
in the experiment compartment_ 81 degrees in the sleep
compartment. Pilot Pogue reporting that he lost the triangle
restraint on his right shoe. Science Pilot Ed Gibson is
scheduled to be at the Apollo telescope mount control and
display panel right now. Pilot Pogue is preparing the
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M509 astronaut maneuvering unit for tomorrow's run. And


Commander Carr involved in some housekeeping activities.
He and Pogue will trade off about 30 minutes from now and
Commander Cart will work on the M509, and Bill Pogue will
be doing some housekeeping. Lot of solar experiment obser-
vation time today. Total of seven different periods for
all three crewmen. Four of them for Science Pilot Ed Gibson
for a total of 5 hours of watching the Sun. Next station
acquisition will be 15 minutes from now, that will be
Tananarive. Thirteen minutes Greenwich mean time this is
Skylab Control.

END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC2187/I
Time: 19:28 CDT, 63:00:28 GMT
1/16/74

PAO Twenty eight minutes Greenwich mean


time. Space station now nearing acquisition through
Tananarive. We have Dr. Jerry Hordinsky's evening medical
report. And I'ii quote: "the crew's last 24 hours have
been illness and injury free. Mild nasal congestion was
quickly alleviated by a topical decongestant. This congestion
was noted by the pilot yesterday, and the science pilot
and pilot today. The hemoglobin flunctuatlons noted are not
associated with any current clinical symptoms." The
decongestant used was Afrin. That's either a-p-h-r-i-n or
a-f-r-i-n. We haven't got the correct spelling on that
yet. And the hemoglobin fluctuation, we commented on
earlier. Long space periods, tend to decrease the
concentration of hemoglobin in the astronautVs blood system.
Now about 5 seconds from acquisition. We'll hold the line
up.
CC Skylab, Houston. Hello, at Tananarive
for 5 minutes.
CDR Roger, Dick. On those two SOPs number
006 has got 6,000 and 013 is 5800.
CC Okay, Jerry. Sure appreciate you
taking the time to read them down to us. We appreciate
that. And I've got a change to the ATM schedule or an addit -
- slight addition to the ATM schedule pad for someone
for this daylight cycle that begins - upcoming here at 00:35.
SPT Go ahead, Dick4, ready to copy.
CC Okay. SO55 desires JOP 6, at building
block l-Alfa to be performed at a roll of 10,800, Ed.
This will insure that a quiet region will be observed by
55, and thereby provided the much needed calibration
sequence.
SPT That's a JOP 6, and a roll of i0,800.
CC That's correct. JOP 6, - JOP 6, building
block l-Alfa.
SPT Okay, just caught me in time. Thank
you.
CC Okay. And Skylab, Houston, in the
event we have an early LOS. Goldstone comes up at 01:17.
And I have one other note for you. The high beta angle is
causing the - another caution and warning switch to be
smart to inhibit and that is the ATM canister coolant temp. And
that's from the bottom center of - of panel 207 ATM canister
coolant temp. We'd recommend en - inhibiting that caution and
warning to - to - so it won't go off during the middle of the
night.
CDR Okay, Dick. Thank you.
SPT That's inhibited, thank you.
CC Okay, incidentally, we're having some
power problems at the Goldstone site. In the event we're
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unable to have that voice pass. The following pass is


the Vanguard and the time for that is 01:38.
CDR Roger.
PAO Skylab Control 32 minutes Greenwich
mean time. Space station now out of range of the tracking
antenna at Tananarive. Acquisition through Goldstone will
be about 40 minutes from now, if the tracking station
has power back by that time. We're informed that all
power to Goldstone is out. In the event that Goldstone
does not come up next revolution. The next tracking station
to acquire space station Skylab will be Vanguard. And
that will be an hour and 6 minutes from now. Possible
next acquisition 40 minutes from now or an hour and 6
minutes from now. 33 minutes Greenwich mean time, this
is Skylab Control.

END OF TAPE
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Time: 20:15 CDT 63:01:15 GMT
1/16/74

PAO 1 hour 15 minutes Greenwich mean time,


Skylab Control. Tracking station at Goldstone, California
is down for this pass. Problem is a power outage at the
tracking station, no antenna support. Have an additional
piece of information on something we gave you earlier. The
decongestant that Bill Pogue and Ed Gibson took earlier today
is Afrin A-F-R-I-N, that's a brand name, and it's a liquid.
It's a simple topical decongestant and it's administered by
dropper. The astronauts inhale each drop and it atomizes
in their nose. Also reference, the space station's thermal
problem during this high beta angle period which we've already
passed. Beta angle is decreasing now, but the temperatures
that we noted earlier will continue to get hotter through
January 19. Some specific instructions to the crew members as
the space station heats up inside. Currently, it's up in
the 79-80 degree range. Very little deviation from the dif-
ferent stations in the space station itself. Almost all of
them between 79 and 80 degrees. The crew members are to
operate both pumps in the primary airlock module coolant loop,
and they're to minimize power usage inside the workshop.
They're to turn off as many speaker intercom assemblies as
practical. They're to reduce the lighting, they're to elimi-
nate the use of high intensity lights except when required by
the flight plan, and that would be during a period where they
were using the television camera or the data acquisition
motion picture cameras. And then they're requested to record
the number of intercoms that they've turned off and the ground
also asks for other suggestions. Also, all M092 runs are
scheduled in the morning. It turns out that the space station
has the lowest temperatures in the morning. The M092 is the
inflight lower body negative pressure device. And there are
to be no maneuvers if the resulting space station temperature
is higher than 82 degrees at the time of the M092 run, or if
resulting temperatures above 85 degrees are longer than 3 hours.
And in the event that the inside temperature exceeds 82 degrees,
they're to minimize workshop activities and concentrate on their
activities inside the multiple docking adapter. And the crew
has been told that they can sleep in the most comfortable
location, and it turns out that the same thing is true for this
crew as was true for the first Skylab crew, Commander Conrad's
crew. And that is if they want to sleep comfortably and cool,
they can take their sleep restraints back to the Apollo command
module, which is approximately 4 degrees cooler. All three
crew members have indicated that they sleep uncomfortably when
the sleep compartment is over 80 degrees. Right now, the sleep
compartment temperature is 80.3 degrees Fahrenheit. Schedule
calls for Commander Carr to be performing preparatory activity
with the M509 astronaut maneuvering unit right now. That's in
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preparation for tomorrow's run. About 3 hours scheduled -


excuse me about 5 hours scheduled for experiments tomorrow
with Commander Carr as the test pilot. That'll take place
at 18:30 Greenwich mean time. Bill Pogue is scheduled as
the observer. And Science Pilot Ed Gibson still at the
Apollo telescope mount watching the Sun who's active region
is now re revolving towards Earth. Several new active
regions noted today. And Pilot Pogue involved in house-
keeping activities having just finished his part of the
M509 preparatory activity. We can't tell you when Goldstone
will be back on line. Next acquisition, however, will be
through the Vanguard tracking ship, and that'll be about
18 minutes from now. At 1 hour 20 minutes, Greenwich mean
time, this is Skylab Control.

END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC2189/I
Time: 21:03 CDT, 63:02:03 GMT
1/16/74

PAO Two hours and 3 minutes Greenwich mean


time, Skylab Control. That concludes the first playback
of recorded air-to-ground over Vanguard. We've experienced
some release line difficulties and the beginning of this
recorded air-to-ground which took place over Vanguard was
not altogether clear. What we're going to do, we're going
to record this current pass over Tananarive and that will
follow a replay of the preceding pass over Vanguard. So,
what you will be hearing will be recorded air-to-ground
which took place about 25 minutes ago over Vanguard,
followed by Tananarive which is being recorded now. Okay,
we're going to replay the recorded air-to-ground which took
place over Vanguard starting now.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS the Vanguard
for ii minutes. Bruce is standing by here to discuss 509
run with you tomorrow. Before he does I have one item.
Since we lost the Goldstone pass a few minutes ago, we got
out of sync on our commanding to the CMG heaters. We - we're
- GNS is going to turn the CMG number 2 bearin_ heaters on
here at the Vanguard. We need to ask you to set your
portable timer, for a time of 02 plus 05 and turn the
heaters OFF. Those commands are listed on the CMG number
2 heater cue card.
SPT Okay, Dick, that's 02:05 is that correct?
CC That's correct. Thank you very much.
SPT Okay. CMG number 2 heater OFF will get
that command off the cue card. Let me give you a frame
count. 10013, 1943, 117, 172, 2640, 5884.
CC Okay, Ed. I got it. We're dumping the
data/voice recorder here. And I'm going to turn it over to
Bruce.
MCC Okay, Jerry. If you're standing by
there. I've got a few minutes worth of discussion on the
upcoming M509 ops for you. Over.
CDR (Garble).
MCC Say again.
CDR I said, go ahead.
MCC Okay, I'm on the loop here as an M509
investigator this evening. And we thought it'd be worthwhile
since there are a number of items we want to hit to do it this
way rather than trying to send up additional teleprinter pads.
First off, with respect to the scheduling of the runs, due to
the press of other mission activities and the approach of the
deactivation phase, we probably won't be able to sched all
of the remaining five runs that were carried in the pre-
launch baseline. So, to adjust for this we've cut out the
balance of the handheld maneuvering unit operations. And
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we've rearranged the runs in order of decreasing priority.


And specifically that order that we've selected is your
suited run, Bill's suited run, your last shirt sleeve run,
and then the two shirt sleeve runs for Bill, if the time
becomes available. We've rearranged your upcoming run, that
is -3 Charlie, so as to emphasize the highest priority
items. The opportunities tomorrow and on day of year 66
are ideal from a Flight Planning scheduling standpoint
and as they fitted naturally into some blocks of time, that
were not other wise occupied by EREP, ATM, and things of that
sort. But it may be getting a little bit warm up there for you
and that was another factor in our consideration of deleting
the HHU - MU ops particularly suited. If it does get to
hot for you, why feel free to discontinue the run, and we'll
try to regroup down here for another opportunity. If you're
overheated the data probably wouldn't be all that good
anyway. Over.
CDR Okay, I copy, Bruce. And breaks my
heart to lose that HHMU time.
MCC Okay, looking at tomorrow's run
specifically, we've inserted a set of rotational cal maneuvers
in the direct mode, as the first item and the highest
priority on the SOP operation. It's important that- when
you do this we get full i second ON commands, to get good
integratable data from the rate gyros which are being used
as sensors, while you're flying these cal manuevers.
We've also rearranged the SOP baseline runs, so that the
rate gyro baseline immediately follows the cal maneuvers,
reflecting its second priority. As we've gotten no rate gyro
data suited with the SOP at all, on previous mission.
Following that the baseline maneuvers and CMG indirect,
should be flown until SOP exhaustion. And while we're on
the subject of the SOP, we'd like to remind you per the
checklist to please insure that you've got a full PSS. And
a fresh battery prior to starting the SOP part of the run.
It's our desire that you not depressurize the PGA from
when shifting from the lightweight LSU to the SOP. However,
if you feel you'd like to do that for your own comfort, or to
take a quick break, we'd like you to please repressnrize on
the lightweight LSU and then shift over to the SOP, so that
we don't use a large part of the gas in the SOP just for
building up the pressure inside the suit. Does that sound
okay with you? Over.
CDR Understand, Bruce, that's fine.
MCC And listening to your comments on
on this morning about T020. It's our understanding that
the configuration in which you left TO20, it will have to
be moved or laid down in order to permit moving the release
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lever on the M509 donning station to permit undocking - -


CDR That's right Bruce. We've already moved
T020 down into the experiment compartment.
MCC Beautiful, you're way ahead of us here.
Okay, on the subject of maneuvers. For the tumbling object
retrieval and the freely floating object fly-around, we're
looking for the largest most massive object that's handy
and that you feel is appropriate. I guess either the portable
water tank or the SL-III backup parasol on the TO27 long
type canister would be fine. But whatever you want to use
is your option. The dump voice tapes that we've listened to
suggest, that previously when you did the tumbling object
retrieval, you sort of flew out to the tumbling object and
impacted it without spinning yourself up. The object of the
maneuver if we interpreted your your voice tape correctly,
the object of the maneuver is to see how accurately and
delicately you can - -

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SL-IV MC2190/I
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MCC - - with a tumbling object and impacted


it without spinning yourself up. The object of the maneuver
if we interpreted your- your voice tape correctly the object
of the maneuver is to see how accurately and delicately
you can place yourself on the spin axis of the object and
spin yourself up match rotational rates, close in and grab it
and then finally despin as a single entity. Over.
CDR Okay, we'll give it a whirl. We cert -
certainly didn't do that last time, and we'll try it.
MCC Okay, might fine. And we have suggested
a lot of discretionary maneuvers, and we also recognized
that you may not be able to complete all of them. So don't
feel badly if you don't get all the way through. And in
the checklist we have a little phrase in there, repeat is
required. And in thinking about it ourselves we just wanted
to say that is intended to mean. Quit when you are satisfied
with the way that the maneuver worked out. And if you have
time prior to the run, you might take a look briefly over
section 6 of the maneuvering experiments checklist since it's
been a few weeks since the last run. On the subject of
communications, we'd appreciate hearing comments especially
from Bill as appropiate during station contacts. And
particularly if you have any stowage problems or any other
problems with the - the run. We have a back run room full
of people, but we can't do much in real time unless we know
what's up. And then of course back to channel A to resume
voice recorded commentary after he talks to us. You inside
the suit, of course, will have no comm using this lightweight
umbilical or the SOP, so you might brush up on your hand signals
before hand, We're suggesting that you rig up the lightweight
umbilical CCU kludge per page 17-3 of the maneuvering
experiment checklist and then just stow it out of the way
in order to have it handy in the event that something comes
up and you do want to talk to Bill in real time. But we
prefer that you do not use it while maneuvering if you
can avoid it. Over.
CDR Okay, understand Bruce.
MCC On TV-36B in spite of the checklist
changes the SPT is scheduled to have a window for handholding
the camera during the run. If Bill feels like he can handle
it he can provide other coverage if he's not to busy chasing
your umbilical. We'd prefer coverage with the TV camera
near the floor rather than the dome and profile shots if
possible. The coverage that we particularly want is: i, is one
of the exploratory maneuvers, 2, some footage with the
lightweight umbilical and 3, other items as
appropriate. You've got 25 minutes available on the video
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tape recorder with the possibility of more depending on


how the dump schedule goes. You'll be needing 4 PSS for
this run. After using the first one the observer should
recharge per the top off procedure. We're using that
instead of the normal procedure since the four bottle
supply is only 700 psi while the two bottle bank is up to
2350. Your option, you could put it in start a charge and
leave the PSS in the station to fill while you pick up the
run, or how ever you want to play that one. Wrapping up
here on the subject of checklists and your recalling the
shortage of cuff checklist bracelets. One possibility
we suggest is the use of two long velcro watchbands over
the extended first and last pages of the cuff checklist
to hold it in place, but that's up to you Mr. Goldberg.
And in restructing the checklist for tomorrow we did not
attempt to rearrange or recalculate the maneuver times
of the individual maneuver elements. We thought this
would probably just be more trouble for you all to enter
and change in the checklist that was worth. So just press
on through in sequence and have a good flight. Over.
CDR Okay, Bruce thanks.
MCC Rog, you've got about 30 seconds till
LOS, Tananarive in 14 minutes at 02:02. I'ii turn it
back over to Richard here.
CDR Okay, Bruce can't think of any questions
right off hand. We may hit you with some in the morning.
MCC Okay, mighty fine.
PAO Skylab Control, 2 hours 14 minutes.
That concludes the second replay of recorded air-to-ground
which took place about 30 minutes ago over the Vanguard
tracking ship. We have 6 minutes and i0 seconds of recorded
air-to-ground which took place about 4 minutes ago over
Tananarive. We'll play that back now.
CC Skylab, Houston, hello at Tananarive
for 9 minutes. And since we don't have any data here at
Tananarive why don't you let us know when you turn the
CMG 2 heater off at 02:05.
PLT Wilco, Dick.
CC Okay.
PLT Did you happen to notice the telemetry
in the last station. I worked on the vanes about another
half hour.
CC Let me check Bill.
CC PLT, Houston. We did look at TM and
we didn't see any increase in flow. Just for our own
curiosity, why don't you tell us what else you tried to
do up there?
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PLT I took the crevice tool and taped over


all but about the three-eights of an inch of the tip of it.
And got down and got around all the corners and went down
all of the aisles of the cooler vanes. And it looks like
I was getting some more stuff out. I don't see without sort
of innovating another tool. I'm thinking right now as soon
as I have time I'm going to saw off about the last three -
eights of an inch of the crevice tool so it's flat on the
end and I can shove it up flush against the vanes. And thatVs
the only thing I can think of to actually put to get more
vacuum force and try to get that lint or what ever it is
out of the vanes.
CC Roger, Bill. One of the things we were
considering and we're not going to do tonight just cause of
the time I'm sure was systematically turning the various
fans off and seeing if it - there was a particular
one of them that was seemed to be chocking the flow. But
at any rate for now wetre not - nothing else we can
schedule for this evening.
PLT Yeah, I'm - I'm sort of at a lost too
because once previously I spent not nearly as much time on them
and the ground immediately reported a 6 percent increase
in flow. And today I - I guess I spent a total of an
hour and half working on those beauties.
CC Okay.
SPT CMG heater number 2 is off.
CC Thank you very much Ed.
CDR Hey, Dick. Earlier this morning Bruce
asked us some questions about TO20, about scheduling and
where we could save time. And I told him I felt we could
probably prep TO20 in about 15 minutes, and don it in
about 25 or 30. I think a total prep time prior to run
of three-quarter of an hour would probably be adequate.

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SL-IV MC2191/I
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CDR - we can probably prep TO20 in about


15 minutes now and don it probably in about 25 or 30. I
think the total prep time prior to run of three quarters of
an hour would probably be adequate for getting ready. Maybe
you ought to make it an hour and include all the cameras
set up as well. And during the - the process of the run
itself, I think we could do well to skip the hand signals
that take a lot of time to tell the cameras what run it is.
And I consider hand signals to the dome camera right from
the maneuvering unit, and they ought to be able to tell from
the picture that they're seeing in the maneuvering unit
camera just exactly what run it is.
CC Thatts a good suggestion, Jerry. Anything
else?

CDR That's all I can think of right off


hand. But I think - I think we can get the rest done a lot
quicker if we don't have to spend the - the time running
around doing hand signals to tell the cameras what we're
doing. I think they can probably figured that out pretty
well with the narration. And Bill does a real good job of
narrating.
CC Roger, Jerry, and we agree with that.
We think that would save a bunch of time and might get us
a - save us enough to get us another run, who knows?
CDR Okay. And another thing, too, Dick, we
never did really understand the TV plan that you folks had
in mind for yesterday's TO20 thing. All the pad said was TV -
I think it was 57 Delta - just scene Delta. But, we got the
definite impression from the people on the ground yesterday
that they had expected it to do Alfa, Bravo, and Charlie
as well.

CC Okay, Jerry, we'll check that specific


point. But one's thing for sure, the next time we schedule
it, we'll make sure you - it's real clear of whatever it is
we do want.

CDR Yeah, somewhere on the pad, it needs to


actually call out Alfa, Bravo, and Charlie. The checklist
calls it out, you know, but the same way it calls out DAC,
but if you don't have a photo pad that tells you to use a DAC_
you don't you don't just skip the box.
CC Sure, understand. And Jerry, the im-
mediate answer we get is that we did only expect Delta yester-
day_ and so if there was some confusion, we appoligize about
that.

CDR Okay, no problem. I just wanted to make


sure that we understood what - where the problems were in in
signal calling, and we can improve it next time.
CC Yes, sir_ thank you. Incidentally, you
might be interested to know that last evening was really the
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first evening in Houston that we've had a good opportunity


to see the comet, and it was very dim from here in Houston,
but several people did take a look at it.
CDR Hey, that's great.
CDR (Static).
CC You cut out, I'm sorry, say again.
CC Skylab, Houston, we dropped out there
for a minute. We're back with you here at Tananarive
for another couple minutes in case we have an early LOS, the
last pass of the evening is the next one at Hawaii at 02:47.
And a reminder for Bill, that's your phone call, and it's
the left antenna, 02:47.
PLT Roger, thank you.
PAO 2 hours 20 minutes Greenwich mean time.
That concludes recorded air-to-ground which took place over
Tananarive tracking station. Next acquisition is 26 minutes
from now. That'll be through Hawaii. Just a recap on what's
been happening for the last 30 minutes, we had some audio
line problem earlier. We've been replaying back recorded
air-to-ground for the previous Tananarive and Vanguard passes.
2 hours and 21 minutes Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab
Control.

END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC2192/I
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1/16/74

PAO Two hours 46 minutes Greenwich mean


time. Space station now nearing acquisition thorugh the
tracking antennas at Hawaii. This pass will last about 8
mintues, and will be the good night call up to the crew
from Spacecraft Communicator Dick Truly. We're standing
by here for acquisition of signal from space station Skylab.
CC Skylab, Houston, hello at Hawaii for
8-1/2 mintues.
CDR Hello, Dick. I got the urine volumes
to - to close out the report tonight.
CC Okay.
CDR 245; 285; and 320.
CC Okay, Jerry. Thank you very much.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're i minute to
LOS Hawaii. Your wakeup station in the morning is at -
during a Honeysuckle pass right at ii:00. So we'll be
sure to wake you up there. So, y'all have a nice sleep
this evening, see you in the morning.
CDR Okay, Dick. Good night.
PLT Good night, Dick.
CC Good night guys, see you tomorrow.
PAO Skylab Control 2 hour 56 minutes
Greenwich mean time. Space station now out of range of the
tracking antennas at Hawaii. This is the good night pass,
Spacecraft Communicator Dick Truly, bidding the crew a
pleasant evening. The crew responding. Tomorrow's wakeup
call will be from the ground to the crew. Space station
will be within range of the tracking antennas at Honeysuckle
at ii:00. So, the ground will wake the crew up tomorrow.
Bedtime temperatures aboard Skylab range from 79 degrees
in the experiment compartment to 81 degrees in the sleep
compartment. On tap for tomorrow, tomorrow morning has
Commander Carr as the observer, and Pilot Bill Pogue as
the subject, in MI71 metabolic activity experiments, that
uses the bicycle ergometer and measures the metabolic
activity of the crewmen who is using the ergometer to
workout. Also, M092, inflight lower body negative pressure
device, measures cardiovascular activity of the subject.
And over a period of time will allow ground doctors to
correlate whether or not weightlessness causes a decrease
in cardiovascular activity. Somemore Apollo telescope
mount observation for Ed Gibson for tomorrow. A total of
6 hours watching the Sun from the ATM control and display
panel. That plus TV-36 are about all that's scheduled for
Science Pilot Ed Gibson tomorrow, 2 hours for personal
hygiene and physical training. The big chunck of time for
the day tomorrow is taken up for M509, astronaut maneuvering
unit experiment. Almost 12 man hours with Commander Carr as
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the test pilot and Pilot Bill Pogue observing him. As they
use that device to determine whether or not it will be
applicable for future space missions. The device uses
nitrogen gas as a propellant and gyro scopes as a stablizer
and with a hand control the astronaut is able to maneuver
himself in three dimensional space. We'll bring the line
down now, as the crew is about 40 seconds away from bedtime.
The total science today was 23 hours and 32 minutes. That
was split pretty evenly, 8 hours and 32 minutes was the
record today for Science Pilot Ed Gibson. And most of that
was at the Apollo telescope mount panel watching the Sun,
whose active regions are now beginning to face the Earth.
7 hours and 42 minutes worth of science experiments today
for Pilot Bill Pogue. And that was split almost evenly
between medical, documentary photo, and Apollo telescope
mount experiments. And 7 hours and 18 minutes for Commander
Carr that was split almost evenly between medical and ATM
experiments. Once again tomorrow's wakeup pass will be
over Honeysuckle, that'll be at ii:00 even. At Greenwich
mean time 3 hours even, this is Skylab Control. We'll see
you tomorrow morning.

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PAO Skylab Control at 10:59 Greenwich mean


time. Skylab space station is now in range of Honeysuckle
Creek, Australia. We'll have a wakeup call here from Bob
Crippen, the spacecraft communicator. The Flight Director
on duty is Don Puddy. We're live now for air-to-ground for
the next 2-1/2 minutes at Honeysuckle.
CC (Music: "Oh What a Beautiful Morning").
MCC (Laughter) Good morning, Jerry. Good
morning, Bill, and good morning, Ed. This is Little Mary
Sunshine, and it's a nice day to study the Sun. Your coffee's
waiting at the C&D panel. You've been so busy, you must be
all the way up to JOP i00 by now. Get up and get started and
I'll have breakfast ready in just a minute.
CC (Music)
CDR Ho, ho, I'm up, where's the coffee?
PAO Skylab Control at 11:04 Greenwich mean
time, and Skylab space station is now out of range of Honeysuckle
Creek. Our next acquisition is 32 minutes away.

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PAO Skylab Control at 11:35 Greenwich mean


time. The Skylab space station is now over Colombia, 55 sec-
onds from acquisition of signal through the tracking antenna
at Merritt Island Florida. This pass through Merritt Island
and Bermuda will last approximately 12 minutes. We'll bring
the line up live now for Bob Crippen, the spacecraft communi-
cator. The crew was awakened this morning at 6 o'clock
over Honeysuckle.
CC Good morning, Skylab. Crimson Team here
with you through MILA for i0 minutes.
CDR Good morning, Crip.
CC Good morning.
SPT Hey, Crip, for a while earlier, I thought
maybe your voice had changed.
CC My voice wouldn't do that. If you guys
are interested, I've got a little news I could attempt to
read up.
CDR Have a go at it, Crip.
CC Okeydoke. After seeing some of the
world record of verbiage that Bruce has put up, I'm afraid
to even compete. Well, I'll start at the top. An agreement
to separate Israeli and Egyptian forces along the Suez Canal
is about 90 percent complete, and none of the obstacles
remaining is a "gut issue," a high-ranking U.S. official re-
ported after Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger returned
Wednesday night from more talks with Egyptian President Anwar
Sadat. Israeli - Israeli Foreign Minister Abba Eban conceded
after talking with Kissinger that the American mediator had
made "certain progress" on his latest visit to Sadat. But
he cautioned that there remained some (garble) - some sub-
stantial points to be clarified. Over around Britan a
100_mile wind whipped up 50-foot waves in the English
Channel Wednesday night and today, drowning at least 14 persons
and sinking a 781-ton Danish coastal freighter. Another ship,
the 2,447_ton Cypriot freighter Marta, was on fire, and her
captain radioed that the 20_man crew could not launch lifeboats
because of the high seas. Indonesia's capital was quiet once
again today as Prime Minister Tanaka of Japan flew home after
a visit that sparked 2 days of student riots. A helicopter
took Tanaka, his daughter Makiko and President Suharto to the
airport, where cabinet ministers - members and foreign diplo-
mats said goodbye. But no students were on hand. Tanaka
arrived Monday night and spent his entire visit in the heavily
guarded presidential palace compound because of the violence
Tuesday and Wednesday. At least seven persons were killed
in the street battles that grew out of demonstrations accusing
Japan of economic colonialism. The South Vietnamese government
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reported today that two Red Chinese warships are guarding a


settlement established Wednesday by Chinese fishermen in the
disputed Paracel Islands. Saigon's chief military spokesman
said the trawlers landed the fishermen on one of the coral
islands of the South China Sea Wednesday, and the men set up
huts and planted their flag. Then the warships began to
patrol in the area, the spokesman said. South Vietnam and
China - Both South Vietnam and China claim the Paracels, which
are a chain of coral reefs about 250 miles east of Hue, South
Vietnam and 170 miles southeast of the Chinese island of
Hainan. The spokesman said a South Vietnamese unit is stationed
on one of the islands about 9 miles from the one the Chinese
landed on. The government's top wage controller has forecast
bigger contract settlements this year. "I would expect that
the normal forces that operate on wages will result in higher
settlements in 1974," said Director John Dunlop of the Cost
of Living Council. The forecast by Dunlop may indicate a
relaxation of the administration's pay guidelines. Pentagon
sources said a Soviet-made antiaircraft missile used by the
Arabs in the recent Mideast war may have been overrated.
Technical analysis indicates the SA7 warhead was not powerful
enough to destroy more than a few of the Jets it did hit.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation is entering the investiga-
tion into who could have erased a portion of a taped presidential
conversation. An FBI spokesman said the agency was asked to
investigate by special Watergate prosecutor Leon Jaworski.
Meanwhile, a court inquiry into the tape erasure continues.
I've got a handover coming up here, shortly, to Bermuda and
I'ii stand by and pick up with the news after the handover
is complete.
CC Okay, we've get you through Bermuda. And,
again picking up with the news. The American Petroleum Insti-
tute has released figures which appear to signal a tightening
of the Arab oil embargo and a worsening of the gasoline shortage.
The White House says its spending on President Nixon's
Watergate defense is dwarfed by the cost of Watergate investi-
gations. A White House official said the spending by the
White House for this fiscal will probably total about
$600,000. The official says the special Watergate prosecutor
has a 2.8 million budget, the Senate Watergate committee $1.5
million and the House Judiciary Committee i million. Two
young Detroit policemen were shot to death and two others
wounded after answering what Police Commissioner Philip Tannian
called the most difficult type of call, a family fight involving
a gun. Killed Wednesday were Leonard Todd, 32 an ll-year
police veteran just promoted to sergeant, and Patrolman Edward
Bakula, 27, an ex-Marine with 4 years on the force. Each was
married and the father of one child. A 15-year old boy also
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was grazed by a bullet in a hail of gunfire which cut down


the four officers, police said. Authorities would not
identify the man who fired on the officers. They said he was
not hurt. John D. Ehrlichman said former presidential energy
adviser John Love failed in the job because he was a White House
outsider who could not get his hands on the Washington levers
of power. Love, who resigned as governor of Colorado to take
the post last June, was "inan almost impossible position,"
Ehrlichman said. "He just didn't have the levers available
to him." Love left the Job December the 3rd. Ehrllchman,
who resigned as President Nixon's top domestic adviser -
affairs adviser last April, said Love's job as energy adviser
required the "pulling together of vying and competing efforts of
the executive branch" of government, a Job too tough for an
outsider. Even though it's in its second year as bestseller,
"The Joy of Sex" is proving no Joy to bookseller Ken Moffett
of Macon, Georgia. He's the only parson in the country to be
charged with distributing obscene literature for selling the
book, according to its publisher, Simon and Schuster. Moffett
was arrested last August, shortly after a United States
Supreme Court ruling broadened the power of local committees
in deciding what is obscene. He was bound over to state
court and freed on $300 bond. The court is reviewing
motions to supress a hearing and has set no hearing date.
Despite speeches, hearings and campaign debate, federal tax
reforms remain an issue far from final action in the Congress
that reeonvenes next Monday. It has been on the agenda for
a year, with rival proposals from Democrats and the Republican
administration still pending. The House Ways and Means
Committee is expected to resume consideration of tax reform
beginning in February. A landslide touched off by drenching
rains has smothered a telephone building in Oregon and authori-
ties say as many as nine persons may be trapped. The landslide
near Canyonville, in southwestern Oregon, pushed the Pacific
Northwest Bell Co. building into Canyon Creek Wednesday night
and then covered the concrete structure with mud. Heavy
equipment was moved to the scene but rescue attempts - -

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CC He was bound over to state court and freed


on $300 bond. The court is reviwing motions to supress a
hearing and has set no hearing date. Despite speeches,
hearings and campaign debate, federal tax reform remains
an issue far from final action in the Congress the recon-
vanes next Monday. It has been on the agenda for a year, with
rival porposals from Democrats and the Republican adminis-
tration still pending. The House Ways and Means Committee
is expected to resume consideration of tax reform beginning
in February. A landslide touched off by drenching rains
has smothered a telephone building in Oregon and authorities
say as many as nine persons may be trapped. The landslide
near Canyonville, in southwestern Oregon, pushed the Pacific
Northwest Bell Co. building into Canyon Creek Wednesday night
and then covered the concrete structure with mud. Heavy
equipment was moved to the scene, but rescue attempts were
abandoned temporarily in the face of threats of further
slides. Meanwhile, heavy rains and an early snow melt sent
already swollen streams surging to new highs in many area
of the Pacific Northwest. Northern California also felt
the punch of the winter storm which brought high water and
high winds to western Montana, Idaho, northeastern Washing-
ton and Oregon. In marked contrast to the foul weather in
the Northwest, most of the nation east of the Rockies enjoyed
fair skies and mild temperatures. There was some minor
flooding in the Mississippi and Ohio river valleys. The
fuel supply problem which forced Consolidated Eastern (sic)
Co. to increase its voltage cutback in New York City this week
dramatizes the shortages of heavy fuel oil in the East this
winter. The utility company says it's down to a 10-day supply in-
stead of the normal 20-day reserve. It ordered voltage reduced
5 percent around the clock to conserve the dwindling
stocks. Until this week the voltage cutback for New York
had been 3 percent. Prices of live slaughter cattle
have risen sharply from the low levels of last fall and are
helping push up retail meat prices again. Agriculture De-
partment economists predicted some time ago that cattle
prices were expected to go up this winter, but the jump has
been larger then expected. A little bit of sports, and we're about
30 seconds from LOS and next station contact is going to be over
Madrid in about 3-1/2 minutes at 11:51. We'll be doing a
data/voice recorder dump there. The Houston Aeros, riding
high atop their division in the World Hockey League, defeated
Toronto last night, 4 to i, and Mickey Mantle and Whitey Ford,
two key players in the glory years of the New York Yankees
under Manager Casey Stengal, have been elected to baseball's
Hall of Fame. In their careers, Mantle had 536 home runs,
presently sixth on the all-time list, and Ford won 236 games.
I'll give up the news.
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PAO Skylab Control at 11:48 Greenwich mean


time. The Skylab space station is now over the North Atlantlc,
2 minutes and 40 seconds before we acquire again at Madrid.
PAO Skylab Control at 11:50 Greenwich mean
time. Skylab space station is now 56 seconds from acquisi-
tion at Madrid. We'll bring the line up live for an 8-1/2
minute pass through Madrid tracking antenna.
CC Skylab, Houston; we're AOS Madrid doing
a data/voice recorder dump. We have you for about 8-1/2
minutes.
SPT Good morning, Crip. You got any news
to read this morning?
CC Roger, that. No, I can't read news.
My flight won't let me do it because I don't know how. Hey
Ed, while I've got you there we've got you scheduled for an
ED61 this morning, but we would like you not to deactivate
ED61 and 62 since we have further plans for it, and we'll
have a message up in a day or so what we want done with it.
SPT Okay, Crip. I had some thoughts on
maybe moving it closer to a light and getting a little more
energy on it. I'm sure we can boost that energy up by a factor
of 4 maybe 5.
CC Copy. Missed you guys. Sounds like
you've been busy while I've been gone.
PLT We've been working on it, Crip. Just
kind of (garble) our way around here.
CC You've been setting records while we've
been off.
PLT Thanks to you guys. You're keeping us
up here.
PAO Slight increase in current on the CMG
number 2.
CC Skylab, Houston, for the CDR. Jer, we
had you scheduled for ATM this morning and we're not showing
it operating. About the only thing we really had you doing
was BB2 and we had also scheduled a little TV downlink,
which if you could put some on the VTR for us that would be
fine.
SPT He'll be at it in a minute, Crip.
CC Okeydoke.
CC Skylab, Houston, we're i minute from
LOS. Next station contact in 26 minutes at Carnarvon at 12:24, and
for your information active aurora has been reported in the
Northern Hemisphere. If you get a chance you might use PGMI8 Bravo
for photos.
SPT Okay, thanks very much, Crip. We sure
would like to do that.
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CDR What kind of day do you have down there,


Crip?
CC Well, we've been having foggy mornings,
and I haven't had a chance to look outside but it was
supposed to be that way today again. Sunshine is kind of
rare. Just need you guys up there to keep reassuring us
that it's still there.
SPT We've got it all right.
CC Yeah, need to stir it up a little bit
more, though.
PAO Skylab Control at 12 hours Greenwich
mean time. Skylab space station is now over Eastern Europe
out of range of the tracking antenna at Madrid. Our next
acquisition is 34 minutes away and that will be at Honey-
suckle Creek, Australia. There was a earlier acquisition
scheduled for Carnarvon. Apparently that station's been
taken down. At this time, during the pass over Madrid we
noticed again an anomaly on control moment gyroscope number 2.
This anomaly seems to follow pretty much the traditional
pattern. The difference in temperatures between the two
bearings used to allow the control moment gyroscope to ma-
neuver are - has come down. It normally runs in the 2 - to
3-degree area, it did drop to about a 1-degree difference.
That convergence of temperatures is part of the tradit -
traditional signature of this CMG when it has its anomalies.
Also, the wheel speed dropped another approximately 1/2 per-
cent, and the current increased by about i percent. Yes-
terday morning before the crew awakened control moment gyro
number 2 wheel speed indication dropped to a low of 8800 rpm.
Its nominal level had been 8912_ and subsequently it reached
an apparent steady state condition at 8850. It had been reading 8850
conslste_tly durinK the pass day.

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1/17/74

PAO - - allow the control moment gyroscope


to maneuver has come down. It normally runs in the 2 - to 3-
degree area, it did drop to about a 1-degree difference. That
convergence of temperatures is part of the traditional signature
of this CMG when it has its anomalies. Also the wheel speed
dropped another, approximately 1/2 percent, and the current
increased by 1 percent. Yesterday morning before the crew
awakened, control moment gryo number 2 wheel speed indication
dropped to a low of 8800 rpm. Its nominal level had been
8912 and subsequently it reached an apparent steady state
condition at 8850. It had been reading 8850 consistently
during the past day. Related parameters didn't show any
indication of a drop in wheel speed, and for that reason the
wheel speed indicator was believed to be giving a signal,
that it was failing. And rather than having a problem with
the wheel itself they thought perhaps that the transducter
used to measure the speed of the wheel was not operating
properly. Tests were being - are being performed to find
out whether or not that's possible. However, the signal today
seems to indicate that the transducter is performing properly
slowed down wheel speed from 8850 down to about 8800 rpm.
That's about 1/2 percent and increase from about 1.02
amps to about 1.04, 1.03 amps for 1 to 2 percent increase
in the current. So that is still in progress at the loss
of signal at Madrid. It was not observed at the last time
we had acquisition before that. Our last acquisition_ however,
on our tab is Carnarvon, Australia. We did not have data
on our monitors from the U.S. and Bermuda stations, so it
may have begun some time after Carnarvon. The present time
the temperature in the workshop of Skylab space station is
a warm 80 degrees today, as its orbit around the Earth is
keeping it constantly in the sunlight. To take advantage of
the special circumstances_ Skylab astronauts began photographing
and scanning the Sun early this morning. A total of 8 hours
of data gathering is scheduled today. This afternoon Skylab
Commander Jerry Carr will fly the nltrogen-powered backpack.
The maneuvering unit has undergone through testing within the
workshop to determine its usefulness for work in space. The
crew will also conduct medical experiments and a science
demonstration today. To keep temperatures to a minimum no
maneuvers are planned as the crew completes their 9th week
in space. This is Skylab Control, a little over 30 minutes
to our next acquisition at Honeysuckle Creek. It's now 3 minutes
and 21 seconds after the hour.
PA0 Skylab Control at 12:23 Greenwich mean time.
The Skylab space station is now 56 seconds from acquisition
at Carnarvon. The station has been brought up. The pass
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through Carnarvon will last a little more than i0 minutes.


We'll have a brief interruption before we're acquired at
Honeysuckle Creek. We're now beginning to get data and
apparently that anomaly on control moment gyroscope number 2
is still underway. Temperature difference is now about
0.2 of a degree, the current still up about 2 percent,
and the speed is still down about 1/2 percent at the
beginning at acquisition at Carnarvon. Does appear now
that it's moving back down but it still an anomaly appears
to be in progress.
CC Skylab, Houston; AOS Carnarvon. We have
you, oh, about 15 minutes here through Carnarvon.
CDR Roger, Crip.
CC Skylab, Houston; believe the purple gang
did good work for you on your details last night, I didn't
have a bunch of messages to read you up this morning changing -
changing your pads. One item for CDR. Jer, can you tell me
whether boric acid in - in the bags was ever discussed with
you? I knew that you did get a card - cue card on it.
CDR No, we haven't talked to anybody about
it since we got the new card.
CC Okay, the only thing I wanted to mention
I know you had called down questions about it since the
original - the card before this one, had deleted all of that.
And the FMT went back and reviewed that that logic for
deleting it and they concluded that because you are essentially
breaking new ground in the portion of the space mission that
you're in that it would be advisable to go ahead and use
the boric acid to protect ourselves against the loss of both
refrigeration loops and losing all of that urine data. So
that's the reason that it was put back in. And per your
request on day 69, we are planning on scheduling somebody to
go ahead and put all the boric acid in the 15 bags that will
be required for the rest of the mission.
CDR Okay, that's good, Crlp. That's the most
economical way to do it.
CC Rog. And that is in our planning right now.
CDR Thank you, sir.
CC Skylab, Houston; if we could have somebody
check up at the ATM C&D, we still show H-alpha is in override and
we need that to go back to normal. Also, Ed_ when you get back
on the panel you're going to need to set up the grating on 55.
All you need to do is find get a reference.
SPT Roger, Crip.
CC Skylab, we're getting ready to hand over
to Honeysuckle here. We'll probably drop out for a few seconds.
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CC And we're now talking to you through


Honeysuckle. Be with you for about 4 more minutes.
SPT Hello, Crip, let me talk to you about
ED61.
CC Talk to me.
SPT Okay, our friendly seeds have finally
really picked up and started growing. And in compartment 1
the one which has received the most light, one structure
which looks, for all practical purposes, llke a root finally
found its way down the front part of the glass where the
most of the light hit. And that part of the root has turned
green, indicating that, well, you know the full story because
you educated me on it. So it looks as though we're
gettin_ some results and if they want to change the protocol
at all I would suggest we just put this thing up in front
of - get a little more additional light on it which we can
do very easily. The location which was specified for it
came out with a relatively low lighting level which we've call - -

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SPT - finally found its way to the front


part of the glass where most of the white hit, and that part
of the root had turned green indicating that well, you
know the full story because you educated me on it. It looks
as though we're getting some results and - and if they want
to change the protocol at all I would suggest we Just put that
thing up in front and get a little more additional light on it,
which we can do very easily. The location which was specified
for it came out with that relatively low light level which we've
called down. We could move it up closer to the light and I
think get quite a bit more on it and let's see what happens
in the other compartments as well.
CC Okay, we'll throw that back to biomed
and see if we can get some comment out of it. I thought I was
going to tell you how to distinguish a root from the
stem. Couldn't tell it till it turned green; right?
SPT That's what you told me.
CC (Garble) I thought I could distinguish it
earlier then that Because the - the stem wasn't supposed to be
hairy.
SPT Well, that may be a fact (garble),
although most of the ones which have grown very early were
not hairy. The - but lately quite a few very thin ones
have come up which are hairy.
CC Okay. I'Ii advise them we got nonhairy
roots.
SPT I shall not pursue that one any further.
CC Thank you.
SPT Crip, you wouldn't want to ask what we
mean by roots, would you?
CC (Laughter) I don't know if I want to
pursue that one. And with that bit of scintillating con-
versation I guess I'ii say good morning to you here. We're
about a minute from LOS. Next station contact is, oh, in
about 31 minutes over Texas, and we'll be turning it over
to the maroon crew there.
CDR Roger, Crip. We'll be seeing you.
CC I'ii be back with you manana.
PAO Skylab Control at 12:40 Greenwich mean
time. The Skylab space station is now out of range at
Honeysuckle Creek. Our next acquisition is 30 minutes away
at Texas. During this pass over Honeysuckle Ed Gibson was
giving a little report on the rice seeds that are being
grown aboard the space station. He says that some are up
and growing now and he wants to increase the total amount of
light available to them so they'll grow a little bit faster.
That's experiment ED61, one of the student-proposed experiments
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That anomaly on control moment gyroscope number 2 is appar-


ently still underway. The temperatures now have crossed
over. The convergence has gone to the point where it's
actually now moved bearing number i, which is normally a
little bit warmer then number 2, is actually a now a little
bit cooler while bearing number 2 has warmed up about 0.3
of a degree above the bearing i level. So temperature con-
vergence and speed down to - down approximately 0.8 of a
percent, and the current is up about i percent on control
moment gyroscope number 2. That anomaly first observed at
Madrid a little over 30 minutes ago. This is Skylab Con-
trol, 28 minutes 28 seconds to our next acquisition of
signal. It's now 41 minutes and 54 seconds after the hour.

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PAO Skylab Control at 13:09 Greenwich mean


time. The Skylab space station is now Just 56 seconds
from acquisition through the tracking antenna at Corpus
Christi, Texas. This pass through Texas, Merrltt Island,
and Bermuda will last approximately 16 minutes. We'll
bring the llne up live now for alr-to-ground. Flight direc-
tor on duty now is Milton Windler as Don Puddy shift con-
cluded just a little while ago, and the spacecraft communi-
cator now is Story Musgrave. We'll bring the llne up for
Story at - during this pass over the U.S.
CC Skylah, we got you stateside for 14 min-
utes.
SPT Morning, Story.
CC Good morning, Ed.
SPT How's the maroon time - maroon team llke
the day shift?
CC Oh, we like the day shift Just fine;
Just fine. And we'll be dumping the VTR here. And Skylab,
the laser is an optional photograph this morning but it is
coming up in about 6 minutes and they'll he participating.
SPT Roger, Story. We'll be looking for it.
CC Okay.
SPT Hey, Story; in case the ATM folks are
wondering, I got going on the orbit which starts at
14:36, and after I finish the work on building block 20
here I'ii go back and, or on active region 20, I'ii go back
and pick up the Sun centered work for JOP 6, building
block IA and lB.

CC Okay, we'll get with you, Ed.


CC Skylab, the laser's tracking you now.
CDR Roger, Story. Have it in sight.
CC Okay.
CDR Looks like they have a thin cirrus layer
over the area and it's getting through.
CC Okay. And Ed, as you suggested continue
on with that building block 35 and the VTR is yours.
SPT Thank you.
CDR It flashed bright and then dim and then
bright. Now it's dim again, and I can see it only with
binoculars in the dim phase.
CC Okay.
CDR And I lost her right after I spoke to
yOU.
CC Okay. Jet. The laser's off now.
CDR Roger.
CC Skylab, we're a minute to LOS, 5 min-
utes to Madrid. Be dumping the data/volce at Madrid.
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CDR Roger, Story.


PAO Skylab Control at 13:26 Greenwich mean
time. Skylab space station is now over the North Atlantic
after a pass over the U.S. and Bermuda stations. We're
about 3 minutes from acquisition at Madrid. Today a medical
review is being performed to determine the state of the
crew health before giving approval for an additional
7-day mission extension. That's a regular weekly extension
that's planned after the 59-day - after the 56-day nominal
mission. This today concludes the 9th week in space for
the Skylab crew, and the approval is expected to be given
sometime today for an additional week in space beyond this.
Another approval will of course be required then continuing
approval - approvals every 7 days until the conclusion of
the planned 84-day flight. That anomaly on control moment
gyroscope number 2 appears to be over at this time. When
we had acquisition at Merritt Island and Texas during this
last pass data showed the currents had come down to their
normal level, and that temperature divergence again had
come back up to the area of about 1-1/2 degrees, that's
moving back towards the 2- to 3-degree level that's consi-
dered normal, and the wheel speed had again started moving
back up towards the 8850 mark that has now become the stan-
dard. The 8850 mark after talking with the guidance officer,
apparently that is a normal response. The transducer has
just shifted {is readout. Doesn't indicate anything of
significance except that transducer has moved in the number
that it - it's producing, even though the wheel speed itself
is not believed to have changed at all. Wheel speed at
8850, apparently corresponds to what the transducer had
been giving as 8912 a few days ago. So wheel speed now is
back to its normal level after an anomaly that lasted about
an hour and a half. We'll bring the line up llve again now
for pass through Madrid. The pass is an 8-minute one.
We're about a minute from acquisition there.

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SL-IV MC-2199/I
Time: 08:27 CDT 63:13:27 GMT
1/17/74

CC Skylab, back with you through Madrid


for 7 minutes. We're dumping the data/volce here.
CC Skylab, we're about a minute to LOS,
about 28 minutes to Carnarvon at 14:04. Ed, your ATM confer-
ence will be coming up there.
SPT Thanks, Story.
CC Skylab, in the blind, check your neck
and RS and LS electrodes.
PAO Skylab Control at 13:38 Greenwich mean
time. The Skylab space station, now over the Balkan Peninsula
is out of range of the tracking antenna at Madrid. 27 minutes
to our next acquisition at Carnarvon, Australia where the morning
conference on solar activity will be completed with Ed Gibson.
At this time the Skylah crew working on their M092/MI71 run.
That last call from Story Musgrave which is not believed to
have reached the crew is to let them know that their electrodes
had not been properly attached and they were not getting good
data. However, a medical officer did point out after the
loss of signal there that they probably had not completed the
setup for that run which is scheduled to begin operation shortly.
However, they did want to try to warn them Just in case they
had overlooked something. And Science Pilot Ed Gibson has
been at work this morning already on the ATM console taking
from Commander Cart, who began at the ATM solar activities
at 6:30 Houston time this morning. The anomaly on control
moment gyroscope number 2 which was seen this morning apparently
has completed itself. Temperatures differences now about 1-1/2
to 2 degrees. There is still some slight variation in its
performance, but currents have now come back to their normal
level, and the speed, at least daring part of the Madrid pass,
appeared to he nominal. So that anomaly had been viewed for about an
hour and a half from acquisition of Madrid to this last Madrid pass.
It is believed to be pretty much over at this point. It followed
the traditional pattern with very little difference noticeable.
Total decrease at the maximum point, and wheel speed was
about 0.8 of 1 percent. And a total increase in current
was in the neighborhood of 1 to 2 percent with the bearing
temperatures converging at one point and in fact slightly
crossing over as bearing temp number 2 rose slightly above
the bearing temp number 1 level. The usual difference is about
2 to 3 degrees. And again a reminder sometime later in the
day probably before noon Houston time today we should have
a report on medical condition of the crew and an approval
for the next 7 days. 40 minutes after the hour and 24-1/2
minutes to our next acquisition, this is Skylab Control.

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