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Time: 06:00 CDT 66:11:00 GMT

1/20/74
PAO Skylab Control, Greenwich mean time

ll hours, January 20, day 66 for the crew of Skylab IV.
Wakeup call coming through the MILA tracking station as
Skylab space station now on its 3621 revolution. On duty,
flight director Don Puddy, flight CAP COMM is Bob Crippen.
The wakeup call scheduled to go through the MILA tracking
station in approximately 30 seconds. Throughout the night
CMG number 2 acted up periodically, frequent glitches
throughout the night. However, flight director Puddy des-
cribes these glitches as within the parameters of all prev-
ious -
MUSIC Marines Hymn
CDR Morning, Crip.
CC Good morning.
MUSIC
CDR Playing our song.
CC Yes, yes. Had to get one special
for you there, Jer. _ - was down here tonight.
CC Skylab, Houston, we are 1 minute from
LOS, Next station contact in 4 minutes through Madrid at
11:18. For your information, the VTR is all cleaned off
and you got a full 30 minutes available to you.
CDR Thank you, Crip. Talk to you later.
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SL-IV MC-2301/I
Time: 06:14 CDT 66:11:14 GMT
1/20/74

ii hours 15 minutes with loss of signal through Bermuda.
Next acquisition in 2 minutes 25 seconds will be the Madrid
tracking station. Today, mission day 66, finds astronauts
Gerald Carr, Ed Gibson, Bill Pogue, spending 5 hours of
solar observations. The astronauts t activities today in-
clude photographic and electronic sensing of Earth resources,
experiments with the astronaut maneuvering unit 509, medical
life science experiments, lower body negative pressure and
metaBilic activities, M092, MI71, and astrophysics experi-
ments and Gegenschein's zodiacal light, the S073. Pilot
Bill Pogue and Science Pilot Ed Gibson will share solar
study periods at the Apollo telescope mount console
throughout the day between 6:35 a°m, central daylight
time and 9 p.m. shortly before tKeir sleep period begins.
Commander Carr is the sugJect for the lower body negative
pressure and metabolic activity experiments today. Science
Pilot Gibson is the observor. The EREP pass, a descending
along track 47, starts off Vancouver Island, Canada, con-
t_nues down across the United States, over North Dakota,
Chicago, Columbus, Ohio, and Cape Hatteras into the Atlantic
Ocean to a point 420 miles north of the Virgin Islands.
The data take begins at 2:07 p.m. and runs for 15 minutes
covering a 3600_mile track. 45 seconds to AOS through
Madrid. We_ll keep the ]ine up for CAP COMM Bob Crippen.
CC Skylab, Houston_ AOS Madrid 8 minutes.
CDR Rog, Crip.
CC Dontt know whether itts too early for
you guys but I could attempt to shorten the news broadcast,
or we can hold it up till Carnarvon, which is about 33 min_
utes away.
CDR Yes, might as well have it now, Crip.
CC Okeydoke. A little surprising upset
in the sports world was a 71 to 70 upset by UC - of UCLA
by Notre Dame. Broke an 88_game winning streak by UCLA.
The Irish made 8 consecutive goals to come from behind in
the last game in the last 30 seconds. I understand they
made those goals in about last 2 minutes, too. The two
teams meet again next week in Los Angeles. That was tele-
vised but I didn't get a chance to see it myself. I under-
stand it was really an exciting game. Heavyweight champion
George Foreman has signed a contract to defend his title on
March 25 against Ken Norton. Foreman, 24, undefeated in
39 professional bouts, won the title last January 21 in an
upset knockout of Joe Frazier, He, incidentally, is guaranteed
$700,000 for the championship fight. And something all of
us down here in Texas are going to be facing is we got a
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new speed limit now of 55 miles an hour that went into

effect at 12:01 this morning. Law enforcement agencies
are set to enforce the speed limit everywhere it is posted,
so enjoy your speed. It won't be the same when you get
back, and I guess all of us driving home down here today are
going to have to remember that. In Pennsylvania, a retired
Philadelphia policeman who went rabbit hunting ended up
bagging three escapees from a Cambria County Jail. George
Toban told state police he was hunting in the woods near
his home 3 miles south of the central Pennsylvania
community where he spotted the three men. Tohan had been
advised the men might be in the area, police said, and
had given their description, or had been given their
descriptions. The three fled through the woods, Toben said,
but he gave chase and caught up with them a short time
later. Keeping the men covered with a shotgun, Toban said,
he then marched them back to his house and called state
troopers and the three were returned to jail_ so I guess that
was a enjoyable hunt of a busman's holiday for that particular
policeman_ and the news was kind of short this morning.
That was all I've got available. What it was, I don!t think
they wanted to give me anything with big words in it.
CDR Thanks_ Crip. I thought you were
Just getting started.
CC Oh no. That's been unwound. Probably
the last time you guys are going to have to listen to a
news broadcast from me, l_m goint to try to take a _ take
a day off if I can go out to California tomorrow and Bill
is going to be sitting in for me, So ke can read the news
to you. B_II Thornton, that is,
SPT Crip_ I can't understand it. You want
to go off to Los Angeles rather then read the news to us?
CC Well_ I was just split between several
desires. And you know which one it won. Actually, I'm
going to San Diego, not Los Angeles. Ed, while you're
talking to me there_ can you answer the great the three
questions for us? It's where is the SPT sleeping? We noticed
that the coolant loop was on last night.
SPT I let it sing me to sleep, Crip. I
was up in the airlock.
CC Ah ha_ okay. I thought that might
have been the case. Also_ ATM was trying to do some work
with the detectors on 55 last night and he couldn't get them
off, and we're suspecting they might have been left on.
Can you tell us that that might have been the case?
SPT Yes, that's the case, Crip, because
that's what it said on the powerdown. I had MLS DET (garble)
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at grating position of zero.

CC Ah ha. Looks like you caught us. Thank
you.
CC And, guys, we're 1 minute from LOS.
Next station contact is Carnarvon in 27 minutes at 11:52.
See you then.
CDR Roger, Crip.
ii hours 27 minutes. Loss of signal through Madrid. Next
acquisition in 24 minutes 35 seconds will be through the
Carnarvon tracking station, as the crew of Skylab IV begins
their 66th day of the mission. Wakeup call coming through
MILA station at 6:01 this morning. The INCO officer reports
in _ G&N officer reports two glitches during the night.
The first one occuring at 03:51 Greenwich mean time this
morning. This one lasted 2-_2hours. The second one was
at 07:58 Greenwich mean time. This - This one lasting
45 minutes. The separate anomalies followed the same pattern
of previous glitches in the CMG number 2 where the amperes
of the - rose from their scheduled rate of 1.01 amps to 1.02,
up i amp, and the temperatures increased along the same
l_ne. Temperatures went almost to 79 degrees, where they
should be in the 60 _ 60 to 70 level.
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SL-IV MC2302/I
TIME: 06:29 CDT, 66:11:29 GMT
1/20/74
PAO 60, 60 to 70 level. Three CMGs

occurred (sic) yesterday and two during today - at the start of
today. Today's activities, the EREP pass coming this afternoon
at 2:07. The cameras and sensors will gather continental
water resources data in the upper Mississippi River basin
to access the extent of snow covering through aid and predicting
runoff. This will lead to a better management of the U.S.
water resources and map revisions. Some of the data will
aid in land pattern recognition and microwave signatures
for development of improved remote sensing techniques. Coverage
over the East Coast of the United States will provide data
for altimeter calibration as baseline data for study and
design of future aircraft altimeter systems. The pass today
will include photography of clouds and storm fronts form
atmospheric and wind velocity studies. A continuation of
flight tests to determine the flying qualties and powered
incapabilitles of the astronaut maneuvering unit, the M509,
begins at 60 _ 3:06 p.m. today central daylight time. Pogue
will test the unit and Commander Gerald Carr will be the
observer during this flight test. Test period will last about
4 hours. Several handheld camera photo options are included
in today's flight plan. Targets include the African rift zone
for fracture and fault studies, the RomanShe fracture, a
major transcurrent fault across Africa, east of Cameron, and
Lake Michigan for ice structure and circulation patterns
studies, as well as the San Andreas fault in California. The
crew's day is scheduled to end at I0 p.m. central daylight time
with Science Pilot Ed Gibson being the duty officer in the
event the ground has to awaken the crew for some reason. To
recap_ there were two glitches in the CMG2 since last night.
The first coming at 03:51 Greenwich mean time, and the sec -
this lasted 2_i/2 hours_ and the second coming at 07:58 Greenwich
mean time, this one lasting 45 minutes. The same pattern, the
wheel speed dropping, the temperatures rising, and the amperes
also rising. Todays Earth resources pass is predicted tO use
17 minimum impulse seconds of TACS fuel. EREP pass coming this
afternoon at 2=07 p.m. Next acquisition will be Carnarvon
in 20 minutes. At Greenwich mean time ii hours 32 minutes,
this is Skylab Control.
PAO Skylab Control, Greenwich mean time ii hours
51 minutes. Acquisition coming through Carnarvon in 45 seconds.
Spacecraft Skylab currently in an orbit of 241 by 231 nautical
miles, traveling at a speed of 25,073 feet per second. Tempera-
tures in the vehicle tkis morning, average at wakeup time is 77
degrees Fahrenheit, 2 degrees down from yesterday morninK, which at
wakeup time was 79 degrees. Leave the line up here for the
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TIME: 06:29 CDT, 66:11:29 GMT
1/20/74
pass through Carnarvon. CAP COMM is Bob Crippen, Flight

Director Don Puddy.
CC Skylab, Houston; we're AOS through
Carnarvon for 6 minutes.
CC And Skylab, if it's convenient I have
a few notes and small minor changes to some pads that need
to make probably through Carnarvon or Honeysuckle here.
CDR Rogerp Crip. Be with you in a second.
CC Okay, no big rush.
CC We'll be talking about our details; and
I guess that's probably about all we need to do is to make
some notations of the details.
CDR Okay, go ahead, Crip.
CC Okay, first for you Jer, don't know if
you noticed it or not, but you have two CDR photos on board.
We sent up one last night and another one this morning after
we discovered the original one had several errors in it.
And I think he even made a voice update on the one last night.
But the one we want you to use is one we've uplinked this
morning, CDR photos message number 6607 Charlie,
CDR Okay,
CC Okeydoke. And I guess for everybody on
a couple of the optional handheld sites designated, therets
HH_II0. You have two of them, one at 12:12 and one at 14:50.
The one at 12:12 is a dash 7_ and the one at 50 is a dash
8. That's appl_ca_le to all three of you guys (garble) try to
get the chance to look at it,
CDR I got one at 13:12 and one at - -
CC I'm sorry_ I misread it. You're correct,
it"s 13:12.
CDR Okay, that's a dash what?
CC Dash 7.
CDR Okay, then 14:50 to dash 8.
CC That's correct.
CC Okay, and originally, Jer, we had you
scheduled to do the sextant, and what wetre going to try to
do is put it at a time in the future where if we hae an (sic)
momentum dump inhibit, so we can go ahead and do it at night
and make it a little bit easier. And we_d like to scrub you
from that one this morning and schedule Ed for one at 13:43.
And we sent up a _ another sextant message for Ed for that.
CDR Okay.
CC Okeydoke. I've a feeling that Ed was
copying that one also.
SPT No I'm not, Crip. I'ii get with you in
a minute.
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CC Okay, no sweat.
CDR I'll give him the information.
CC Okay, fine. And, Jer, that really
covers all the changes I had. One little reminder, you're
doing a 73 this morning and it - it's scheduled as a prep 4.
That's without the AMS. I think most of those that you've
been doing this mission so far have been with the AMS.
CDR Okay.
CC Okay, and that does it. Thank you very
much.
SPT Say, Crip, I have an input for some of
the ATM guys.
CC Go ahead, Ed.
SPT Okay, active region 31 looks as though
it's a little unstable. We're getting some oxygen VI counts
that vary between - well this morning we're down to 4000
and now up to 20,000 just since we went over the hill here.
I saw it fluctuating quite rapidly over apa- a matter of a
minute or so it would change by i0,000. So I suspect that's
a good one we ought to be watching today. And you might want
to divert some of our targets over to that region. Even
though it's relatively small and it doesnlt show up very much
in the XUV monitor, H_alpha and oxygen VI sure shows it to
be hot and unstable.
CC Okay_ we copy that. We're about 30 seconds
from LOS, and we'll see you over Honeysuckle in 4 minutes.
And all of your pads are on board.
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Time: 07:00 CDT 66:12:00 GMT
01/20/74
SPT - - (Garble) minute or so it would

change by i0,00; so I suspect that's a good one we ought to
be watching today and we might want to divert some of our
targets over to that region, even though itts relatively
small and it doesn't show up very much in the XUV monitor.
H_alpha and oxygen Vl sure shows it to be hot and unstable.
CC Okay, we copy that. We're about
30 seconds from LOS, and we'll see you again over Honeysuckle
in 4 minutes; and all of your pads are on board.
CC Skylab, Houston, we're AOS at Honey-
suckle, for a whole minute and a half. And so, wetre about
a minute and a half from LOS, and wetll see you at Texas at
12:35, We'll be doing a data/voice recorder dump there.
CDR Hello, goodbye.
CC Bye_ bye.
PAO Skylab Control. Greenwich mean time
12 hours 7 minutes with loss of signal through Honeysuckle.
Next acquisition in 27 minutes and 15 seconds will be the
Texas tracking station. In about 2 hours from now, Commander
Gerald Cart will perform the pair of medical experiments
scheduled for todayp the M092, lower body negative pressure
device and MI71, metabolic analyzer. This will be the 17th
performance of this M092 by Commander Cart. He is scheduled
to conduct this experiment 26 times throughout the 84_day
mission. It's the 9th performance by Commander Carr of the Ml71.
12 scheduled performances are in the Flight Plan for the
entire mission. Today"s run of the M509 will be the fifth run
of this flying unit. Eight are scheduled for the entire mission.
Today's run by tes _ test pilot will be Pilot Bill Pogue.
This run will be a suited mode. It will be pressurized in
a Apollo_type flight suit. Next acquisition through Texas in
26 minutes. At Greenwich mean time 12 hours 8 minutes, this
_s Skylab Control.
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SL-IV MC-2304/1
Time: 07:33 CDT 66:12:33 GMT
1/20/74
PAO Skylab Control, Greenwich

mean time 12 hours 33 minutes. Acquisition coming through
the Texas tracking station as Skylab, at the conclusion of its
3622 revolution of the Earth. Acquistion coming in 40 seconds.
We'll hold the line up for CAP COMM Bob Crippen, as a change-
over in progress here at the Mission Control Center with on-
coming flight director of the maroon team.
CC Skylab, Houston, we're AOS through Texas.
Got you across the States for 17 minutes.
SPT Hello, Crip. I'd appreaclate knowing
what the NOAA people have seen in active region 31 over the
past 12 hours.
CC See if I can get a summary of that for
you. SPT, Houston, while we're trying to get some informa-
tion for you there on 31, believe you were the last guy
that was working with ED72 on those capillary tubes, and
the ones that had leaked. If so, can you tell us if those
things were disposed of or not? There's some consideration
that they're still onboard, then if we can refill them.
SPT That was Bill who was working with those - -
CC Sorry about that.
PLT Both of those tubes have been disposed of
down the trash airlock.
CC Okay, Bill. Thank you very much. Also,
I guess I got a little note here from the Pls at 63, and
they understand your concern yesterday on that first run
and they offer their congratulations on the second run. It
sounded like an excellent effort.
PLT I was pretty pleased with the second
one. The first one was a fiasco. I have a suggestion,
Crip, which I'm just going to throw out, and you can throw
it right back. Actually for FA0s and flight controllors.
After the second run yesterday it appeared to me that the
best way to schedule some of these airlock things, particu-
larly in view of the fact that at least what we get from Bob Parker's
briefing, that we we're way behind in some of those. It
would be much more efficient if you could schedule a heavy
dose, let's say S063 or S073, and I'm volunteering, I guess; I
don't want to speak for the other two. I would much prefer,
if - unless it degrades data because of time reservation, I would
much prefer to go ahead and concentrate on one experiment
say half a day or three-quarters of a day, and really get a big
slug of data for them rather than Miekey Mouse around and spend
my time thrashing around taking stuff in and out of the trash
alrlocks. Now I understand that there's - the SAL; excuse me
(laughter). A Freudian slip. Anyway, I think we'd be much more
efficient, we'd get much more data over a given period of time.
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CC Okay, Bill. We'll put that one in the -

in the loop here. Of course the problem we run into of course
is that when you're doing those we normally have to inhibit
dump, and that runs us problems with doing EREPs and trying to
mesh it altogether, but it's certainly a good, valid input and
naturally you do things better when you - when you're not hopping
around doing a bunch of different things and you're consistently
running something. But we'll - we'll see if we can't get some
feedback to you on it.
PLT Okay. Of course, I was thinking forward,
to a time when we hopefully go ahead and fill the EREP squares.
And if I sound a little disorganized I Just got off the bicycle.
CC That - that ergometer will disorganize
anything. Yes, and if you - we're we're start - we're
going to - at least down here on paper we're starting to
fill some squares on EREP. We'll (laughter) - I think
we're going to attempt to - -
PLT The weather sure isn't cooperating.
CC Yes. It always seems like it does -
nothing ever meshes together when we're going over the sites.
The weather isn't good. For Ed, we're getting reports from
NOAA that we've had two subnormal flares from active
region 31 in the past 6 hours.
SPT Thank you, Crip. Looks like it's prob-
ably the hotter thing going, although it's so darn small
that it might not produce anything really gigantic but it
might be interesting to watch it. I've been watching the (garble)
over a period of i0 minutes this morning and I've already told you
about the fluctuations, but the points were brightening on one end
and then the other. There's some good arch filaments in there and
one end of the arch filament would brighten off and then the other
one would pick up. So it was transfering some energy back and
forth. Interesting to watch.
CC Okeydoke. Very good.
PLT Houston, Skylab, PLT.
CC Go, Bill.
PLT Crlp, I want to report an anomaly on
the AMS that I experienced yesterday. First one is that the
rotation crank, or knob, action had developed sort of a
springy or spongy feel, and there is a little springback in -
in some of the rotation and tilt. Also, there seems to be
some kind of interplay between the rotation and tilt and I
don't know how, unless I got the thing slightly cocked, and
when I retracted it, but it seemed to come in pretty smoothly.
I'm going to check it, or I guess Jer'll be the next one
to use it. We'll check it out. I Just wanted to let you
know ahead of time.
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CC Okay. Appreciate that rundown on it.

Sounds like this thing's giving us more and more problems.
PLT We'll check it out good next time, and
particularly the next time we got an eyepiece in because I
want to check it or Jerry's going to check the alignment
the next time we have an eyepiece in.
CC Rog. I'ii think we'll be scheduling
some of those for you tomorrow. Roger. And -
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Time: 07:45 CDT 66:12:45 GMT
01/20/74
CC Skylab, Houston. Sorry about that

Bill. But - just had a handover; that's the reason we dropped
out. One item regarding the AMS. We do have currently scheduled
for tomorrow evening a check of the rotation on that in conjunc-
tion with doing a sextant observation hoping to find out what
kind of exact differences we do have between the two.
PLT Okay, good.
CC One other item I should mention to
you, I'm not really sure how much was told to you yesterday,
but we have been observing an increase in frequency of so-called
glitches on CMG 2, where the bearing temperatures are approaching
one another. And, we had a couple during - during the evening
while you guys were asleep. They'll_ you know, they're there
for a little while and then it goes away. Normally bearing 1
is hotter than _ hotter than 2, or higher temperature than 2, I
should say. And, it earlier we started seeing it approach
bearing i and now it a couple of cases, we've been seeing it
has actually been exceeding it by a degree or something like that.
CDR Tell it to hang in there_ Crip.
CC Roger. It's going to hang in there.
CC The - We have been seeing of course, the amps
increase in the rpm drop off about the same as they have been
doing.
CDR Same changes there, but the DELTA-P is
different, though.
CC That's correct. The temperature seems
to _ on 2 seems to be increasing a little bit more than it has
been.
CDR Are people down there, Crip, still
thinking about slowing down the CMG if we get into this
situation more frequently?
CC You got me on that one, Jet. I don't
believe _ to my knowledge_ or our knowledge right now there
is no _ no plan to try to do anything of that nature.
CDR Can it be done? Can you control wheel
speed at all?
CC Not putting the brake on_ which
stops it, is _ no _ No_ right now, we're not doing anything
w_th wheel speed. We are managing the heaters, as you're
aware of.
CDR Yeah.
CC And, we I guess in general, the
problem occurs toward the lower end of the heater cycle, but
we have seen it occur throughout the entire range of what the -
the heater cycle variation and also there has seemed to be
perhaps a correlation of increase of the problems with the
higher basters (sic) _ the high - yes, higher Beta that we've
been experiencing lately.
SPT Cripp where is that located, in terms
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of the quadrants, X, Y, and Z?

CC You got me right now. I'll see if I
can get an answer for you on it. And, I think, I realize
what - now what CDR was talking about awhile ago. There had
been a confirm that if we really did get into a problem that
had exceeded some limits that we have set down here, and I
believe those - you got a report on them on a PTM (sic),
we said we'd go ahead and take the power off and let it spin
down for awhile and then weld reapply power and let it spin
back up, to see whether that got rid of the problem or not,
but we really can't just reduce the speed by some finite
amount and leave it at that.
CDR Okay, thanks, Crip.
CC And, just so you won't get concerned
there, that we are nowhere near being the limit - approach the
values that we will be talking about doing that.
CC Skylab, Houston, we're i minute from
going over the hill. Wetll have you again in 5 minutes at
Madrid.
12 hours 52 minutes. Stateside pass as Skylab begins it's
3,623rd revolution. Discussion with the crew - the CMG, a
continuous frequency of glitches. 3 control moment gyros
bearing stress occurances were observed during the past
24 hours since the crew woke up and two were recorded during
the night, making a total of 5 within the last 24 hours.
The crew was advised there is no major concern on the ground
of the problem at this time. Commander Carr questioning
what steps would be taken in the event these frequencies
occurances do get greater. However, the ground advised
Commander Carr that the magnitude of the distress signals
from the CMGs have not reached the point where they will
make a decision to turn the CMG power off. Next acquisition
through Madrid in 2 minutes and 20 seconds, as the crew in
their 66 day - workshop now in orbit 251 days, since launch
from Cape Kennedy on May 14th. Command module now in its
938th revolution of the Earth. Acquisition will be coming
through Madrid as the changeover in progress here at the
Mission Control center. Oncoming Flight Director Milt Windler,
head of the maroon team, CAP COMM for the maroon team is Dr.
Story Musgrave. We_ll leave the line up for this Madrid pass.
CC Skylab, Houston, we're back with you
once more, 6_i/2 minutes through Madrid.
SPT Crip, the 56 people may be noticing that
occasionally we_ve been getting some more hangups on filter
positions. I had a PATROL short hangup on FILTER i, previous
orbit, and we just go to stop, start again and press on. So,
unless they'd like to have every one of them reported we'll
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just continue on on that procedure. We can report everyone,

however, if they'd like.
CC Okay, Ed. You - This is the only one
you've seen this morning, is that correct?
SPT So far_ this morningp that's correct.
Yesterday, there were, I personally saw about three or four
of them. Fortunately, I called out the first two and Jerry
and Bill have also seen some.
CC Okay, you're right. Your suggestion
is fine. Just keep on, press on, we donVt need to be advised
of each one of them.
SPT Okay, thank you.
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TIME: 07:58 CDT, 66:12:58 GMT
1/20/74
CC Skylab, Houston; we're i minute from

LOS. Next station contact is Tananarive in about 17 minutes.
Crimpson team will go ahead and say good morning here. As
I told you earlier Bill Thornton will be standing in for me
tomorrow while I do a groundtruth on that TV that you gave
us yesterday. And will be back with you again on about
day 72 for some executes. Have a good day.
SPT Thank you_ Crip. So long, and I appreciate
the sacrifice you're making tomorrow.
CC That's good, that's good. Anything to
serve.
CC My Flight, Don Puddy, also appreciates

the sacrifice. He wants to get rid of me.
PAO Skylab Control_ Greenwich mean time
13 hours and 5 minutes. Loss of signal through Madrid. Next
acquisition in 14 minutes and 20 seconds will be Tananarive
tracking station. On this revolution over South Africa
the crew has been offered the option of taking a photograph
with handheld cameras out the wardroom window of the area
along the groundtrack over Port Sudan on the west coast of
the Red Sea. This is part of the visual observation programs.
Today's target is the area referred to as the FR triangle in
the East African Rift Zone. Photography and visual observations
of this area hopefully will provide geological analysis of
the major pull-apart type structures for understanding
continental drift processes. On a subsequent revolution over
this same area the opporutnity arises again at Greenwich mean
time 14:50 as the spacecraft crosses over this area just west
of Lake Victoria. Next acquisition in 13 minutes through
Tananarive. This is Skylab Control at Greenwich mean time
13 hours and 6 minutes.
13 hours 18 minutes. Acquisition coming through the Tananarive
tracking station in 30 seconds. We'll brin_ the line up for
CAP COMM Dr. Story Musgrave.
CC Skylab, we got you through Tananarive
for 4 minutes. They do have an antenna tracking problem there;
we may drop out. The next one will he Honeysuckle at 13:42.
SPT Hello, Story; you just came in. How are
you doing this morning?
CC I'm doing beautiful, Ed. How about you?
SPT Doing good, Story.
CC Another great Sunday in the MOCR.
SPT You have all the fun.
CC Wouldn't miss it for anything.
SPT You could have the bad luck of Crip and
have to go out to L.A. tomorrow.
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CC I'm going to Lubbock on Tuesday.

SPT There's a biggie.
PAO Skylab Control_ Greenwich mean time
13 hours 24 minutes. Wetve had loss of signal through
Tananarive. Next acquisition in 17 minutes and 25 seconds
will be the Honeysuckle tracking station. This afternoons
Earth resources pass scheduled to began at 2:07 in 15 minutes
will be the 27th EREP pass of this mission covering a ground-
track from off the Vancouver Island in Canada across Central
Northern U.S., crossing Lake Michigan, Lake Michigan is one
of the targets for the S191 viewfinder tracking system today
as the spaceceaft crosses over the northeast-east coast of
the United States. Again a target for the S191 will be the
Durant Island in Albemarle Soundp just southeast of Portsmouthp
Virginia. Next acquisition in 16 minutes and 25 secondsp
will be Honeysuckle. This is Skylab Control at Greenwich
mean time 13 hours 26 minutes.
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Time: 08:41 CDT 66:13:41 GMT
1/20/74

13 hours 41 minutes. Acquistion coming through Honeysuckle
tracking station in 45 seconds. Commander Gerald Carr will
be performing the MO92/MI71 medical experiments shortly.
This will be the 17th time Commander Carr has performed
the M092, and the 9th time he has performed the MI71,
Science pilot Ed Gibson will serve as the observor for
these experiments while pilot Bill Pogue will be spending
a one-hour block of time now at the ATM console control and
display panel.
CC Skylab, we got you through Honeysuckle
for a short pass, 1 minute. We're 1 minute to LOS, the
next one's Goldstone in 29 minutes at 14:11. We'll be
looking to dump the data/voice at Goldstone.
13 hours 45 minutes, with loss of signal through Honeysuckle.
Next acquisition in 25 minutes and 40 seconds will be the
Goldstone tracking station. Flight Director Milt Windler
reviewing with his flight eontrollors the status of the
vehicle and the systems. Currently temp temperatures_
average temperatures on board the workshop are 77.4 degrees
Fahrenheit, 2 degrees lower than the - this same time yes_
terday. The spacecraft is gradually easing out of the high
Beta angle it has been in for the last several days. Flight
director Windler has asked his flight controllors to -
they - he would like them to look at the gy - the control
moment gyroscope problems with a microscope generally and
review all procedures to make sure we are happy with the
systems and the procedures that would be instituted in the
event that the CMG number 2 did cease to operate properly.
Next acquisition in 24 minutes and 30 seconds through
Goldstone. This is Skylab Control at Greenwich mean time
13 hours 46 minutes.
14 hours i0 minutes. Acquisition coming through Goldstone
in 50 seconds, with Commander Gerald Carr subject of a pair
of medical experiment_, M092/MI71, lower body negative
pressure and metabolic analyzer experiment. Science Pilot
Gibson serving as the observor- while pilot Bill Pogue is
spending his time at the control and display panel of the
ATM during this orbit. Leave the line up for this state-
side pass. Acquisition through Goldstone, Texas, MILA,
and Bermuda. CAP COMM is Dr. Story Musgrave.
SPT Houston, SPT.
CC Hello, Ed; got you stateside 16 minutes,
and we_ll the VTR here if you're not using it.
SPT No we're not. Let me give you some
star information first. Regulus shaft 124.75, trunnion
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17.45; Spica, 304.62 and 36.84.

CC Thanks.
SPT And let me give you a few words on the
Sun if you're ready to listen.
CC We're always ready to listen.
SPT Very good. Okay. Looking at the
white light coronagraph I have three pictures. I'm looking
at the one from yesterday morning, one I took last night,
and this morning. Yesterday we had a fairly pronounced
streamer over at 270 to 285. That one has faded slowly.
It's become diffused, a little bit wider_ but not anywhere
near as intense, and it does not extend out as far as it
was. It is still at the base about 270 to 285, but it
goes almost now straight out but not as far and not -
net as intense. There is a another very faint diffused
area at around, Day 295 or so which was very prominent yester-
day morning, at least it could be seen, and was diffused
last night, and it*s disappeared now. Over on the west limb,
yesterday where we noticed some fairly faint streamers, one
at 080 and one at 060. Last night they had all but disap-
ppeared and this morning they are just about gone, except
there's maybe a hint of one at 065_ but it's exceptionally
faint, and I wouldn't see it unless I was really looking
for it. The region, however, around 120_ about 25 degrees
or so wide at its face, eentered at 120, was relatively
weak yesterday. There was just a little diffused emission
above the occulting disk there. Last night it extended out
to around 2 solar radli_ or 2-1/2, and now it's out to around
3-1/2 and quite prominent, by far the most intense and widest
streamer we have going on the disk right now_ and at that 120.
Looking at the XUV monitor we see the active regions as
called out. The brightest one is active region 21, and then
31 is a a little bit less than that. 21 I believe shows up
the best just because it's larger, but 31 is coming up in
intensity. And active region 16 over on the disk_ and I
believe that's probably due mostly to limb brightening;
but 31 is brighter then 16, even though 16 had the advantage
of limb brightening. Then there is also another one which
is about the same intensity as 16, and that's at 090.5.
I dontt see it called out anywhere as a - as a listed
active region, lt's 090.5. That's a relatively small plage
but about the appears to be about the same size plage as
the one we see in active region 31 but not quite as intense.
And then comes back to region 32, whick is also evident.
In looking at the active regions this morning I think the
one we ought to be working on (static) 31. I did some
work on that already. Now I'm looking at in
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H-alpha and where I believe we used to (static) what to me

appeared up here in the revolution I had a series of
arch filaments. Now it looks like just a very strong fila-
ment running from parallel to the plage, (garble) eastwest
(static). The east end of the arch filament system, and l'n
not quite too sure what that is right now, it's probably a
filament which is - which is forming.
CC Ed, we lost you there in the handover.
Could you say again what you thought we ought to be looking
at after - -?
SPT Okay. I think active region 31 is the
one to be keeping the eye on this morning. Two reasons: it's
changing rapidly in N-alpha_ and we've also seen some fairly
high counts and fluctuation in oxygen VI. We had counts
up to 20,000 this morning in oxygen VI at the base of the
filament system which interselts a plage in the west -
Itm sorry, in the east quarter, and that fluctuated seems
4000 up to 20,000, and the fluctuations oceuring quite
rapidly. I think that's the data on that this morning.
Those truncated mirror auto rasters and wavelength
short sequences for 82B. This next orbit we got coming
up I see we"re supposed to be looking at sunspots over
in active region 20. If those people are really vitally
interested in sunspots at this timep I'd recommend
that we stick over here to active region 31, and maybe
the ground could call up some program to be working on
it. But I think certainly 55 might want to be doing some
truncated mirror auto rasters on that, and I'm not sure
what some of the others might be wanting to do. I was
hoping we might see a flare out of this morning. Apparently
it's (garble). Normal (garble) hours and I was hoping for
something here, but l_didn't see any inhancement in the XUV
to go along with the increases that I saw in oxygen VI.
Bill's on the panel now, so I'ii let you folks work it
through him.
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01/20/74
SPT - - if most people are really vitally

interested in Sun spots, at this time, I'd reeommend we stick
over here to active region 31 and maybe the ground could call
up some program to be working on it. But I think, certainly
55 might want to be doing some truncated mirror auto rasters
on that and I'm not sure what some of the others might be
wanting to do. I was hoping we might see a flare out of it
this morning, apparently you've seen two (garble) normal for the
past 6 hours and I was hoping for something here but I didn't see
any enhancement in the XUV to go along with the increases
that I saw on oxygen VI. Bill's on the panel now, so I'll
let you folks work it through him.
CC Okay, Ed. Thanks very much and we're
working that.
CC Jer, Houston.
CDR Go ahead, Story.
CC We've got a short, oh, about a 3-minute
troubleshooting procedure on your audio problems on channel B,
sometime when you want to go through that today.
CDR Okay. We're just getting started on
M092 and maybe a little bit later in the morning, we can get
to it.
CC Okay, it's just a three stepper you
can do on your own sometime. Or we can talk through the
whole thing now, when we get a long station passage and you're
free.
CDR Okay, let's catch it a little later.
CC Okay.
CC Skylab, the VTR is yours, the tape's
clean.
CC Skylab, we're a minute to LOS, 5 minutes
to Madrid.
14 hours 30 minutes with loss of signal through Bermuda.
Next acquisition will be Madrid, Canary tracking stations
in 2 minutes. On this the 66th day in the mission of Skylab IV,
251st day in the life of the Skylah space station. EREP pass
scheduled later today. A stateside pass, covering a ground
track of 4,000 miles, beginning off the coast of Northwest
United States and passing over Portsmouth, Virginia; ending
400 miles into the Atlantic Ocean. Next acqu2sition in
2 minutes. On this pass the crew has another opportunity
option photography, out the wardroom window of the fault
rifts in South Africa, as the spacecraft passes west of Lake
Victoria in southern most South Africa. We'll bring the line
up for this pass through - through Canary and Madrid.
CC Skylab, we got you through Madrid here,
for 9 minutes. We need the DAS for an outer gimbal backup,
Bill.
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PLT You got it.

CC And also - after you're off and running
on that BB-32, starting about now, I've got a couple of changes
to your ATM schedule pad here. Let me know when you're ready.
PLT Ready to go, Story.
CC Okay. Starting at 37, daylight remain-
ing. Cross out active region 28. Put in active region 31.
PLT You mean active region 20?
CC Yeah. Make that 31.
PLT Okay, I've already started that - that
one, but I can - I'll terminate that as soon as I get my first
long exposure on 56.
CC That'd be fine, Bill.
PLT Okay. Is everything else the same?
CC No, I've got a couple of changes there.
PLT Press on.
CC For 82A. Take 1 SHORT for 20 seconds.
PLT Roger.
CC And for 82B. 1 SHORT, one-quarter SEQUENCE.
PLT Roger.
CC Those are all the changes for 37 of
day remaining. Now for 19 day remaining.
PLT Go.
CC Change that pointing to active region 31.
PLT Roger.
CC Omit 82A, as on the pad here. For 82B
did as you did above. That's i SHORT for a quarter SEQUENCE.
PLT Roger.
CC And finally there, run 54 as you did
above there. A SEQUENCE 2, GRATING IN.
PLT Rog. Got it, Story.
CC Thanks, Bill.
CC And the DAS is yours.
PLT Rog. And we haven't loss much. I've
only got about 3-1/2 minutes to go on 56, first long exposure.
CC Okay.
CC Skylab, we're a minute from LOS,
12 minutes to Tananarive.
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SL-IV MC2309/I
TIME: 09:42 CDT, 66:14:42 GMT
1/20/74

14 hours 43 minutes. We've had loss of signal through
Canary and Madrid tracking stations. Next acquisition
in 9 minutes and 30 seconds will be the Tananarive tracking
station. Biomed officer reporting to Flight Director Milt
Windler that the American - the medical experiments being
performed by Gerald Carr are in progress at this time. This
is the ninth time that Commander Carr has performed the
MI71, the metabolic analyzer. To perform this experiment
he rides the bicycle ergometer, and (sic) to which he has at-
tached a hose which captures his the breath he exhales and
the amount of oxygen he draws in. This measures his performance,
his workload, and from this they can determine his ability
to perform workloads at perscribed work rates on the
bicycle-ergometer. Next acquisition in 8 minutes and 35 seconds
through Tananarive. This is Skylab Control at Greenwich mean
time 14 hours 44 minutes.
14 hours 52 minntes. Acquisition coming through Tananarive
in 50 seconds. This will be a 10-minute pass. We_ll bring
the line up for CAP COMM Dr. Story Musgrave.
CC Skylab, AOS through Tananarive for
9 minutes.
CC Bill, Houston.
PLT Go_ Story.
CC You got i0 seconds in here?
PLT Rog.
CC Okayp we_ve reselected tape recorders
are back in the nominal configuration. We'd llke to get
your onboard configuration as we're running it. And that's
on panel 204, recorder i the data/voice.
PLT Roger. RECORDER i, EXPERIMENT VOICE.
CC No, we'd like RECORDER 1 to DATA/VOICE.
PLT Oh, I'm sorry, I didn't hear you.
CC i to DATA/VOICE, 2 to EXPERIMENT i VOICE,
and 3 to EXPERIMENT 2.
PLT Okay, that's selected.
CC Thanks.
CC And you wonlt have that blinking light
problem on the SIAs associated with that recorder anymore.
PLT Ah, good.
CC We're a minute to LOS; about 16 minutes
to Honeysuckle at 15:18.
PLT Roger.
15 hours 3 minntes. Loss of signal through Tananarive tracking
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station. Next acquisition in 14 minutes 35 seconds will

be through the Honeysuckle tracking station. Today's EREP
pass still on schedule for starting at 2:07 p.m. central
daylight time, a pass crossing the northwest coast of United
States and ending as the spacecraft passes over Portsmouth,
Virginia. Currently here at Mission Control Center
Flight Director Milt Windler reviewing with his flight
controllers the scheduled EREP pass for tomorrow. This will
be pass number 28 in the Skylab (garble). Tomorrow's pass,
if all goes well, will be a double pass, one over Africa
catching sites yet to be captured during the Skylab mission,
picking up African sites especially in the Chad area. This
will be on track 59. And then another pass later in the day
to catch sites yet to be accomplished in the United States,
one specifically the cotton fields in Mississippip and also
some areas in Venezuela. Next acquisition in 13 minutes
i0 seconds through Honeysuckle. And this is Skylab Control
at Greenwich mean time 15 hours 5 minutes.
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SL-IV MC-2310/I
Time: 10:17 CDT 66:15:17 GMT
1/20/74

15 hours 17 minutes. Acquisition coming through Honeysuckle
in 50 seconds. We'll bring the line up for CAP COMM Story
Nusgrave.
CC Skylab, got you through Honeysuckle for
6 minutes.
CDR Rog, Story.
CC Bill, there's no hurry at all. Any time
that's convenient with you all we'll run a little trouble-
shooting on that channel B.
PLT Okay. How long is this pass?
CC Oh, we got 5 minutes here.
PLT Okay. What do you want to do?
CC Just got three switch changes in the
command module.
PLT Give me about 30 seconds, I'Ii be up
there.
CC Okay.
PLT Okay, Story.
CC Okay. Panel 9, the bottom row, AUDIO
CONTROL to BACKUP.
PLT Roger.
CC And panel I0, INTERCOM, OFF.
PLT Complete.
CC In panel 3, the bottom row on the right-
hand side, PTT BACKUP to left center; that's up.
PLT That's complete.
CC Okay. You might try intercom, or how
you reading me now? Have you still got the six Vps in the
background?
PLT I'm on the speaker box here in the
command module. I have to go to SIA to cheek that out.
Stand by.
CC Okay.
PLT Story_ Jer says he_s still got it down
there.
CC Okay. Do you want any more voice checks
or do you think we_ve established that that hasn't helped
the problem?
PLT Okay. Well, the situation is still the
same, Story. We do have the beat.
CC Okay. For now, then, let's go back and
regroup and we_ll raconfigure panels 9, i0, and 3 right now.
PLT Okay. And before I do that, it sort of
sound it may be of some significance; I Just turned the
volume all the way up on the speaker Box in the command module
and I don't have the beat here. Correction. I do have it
when I turn the volume full up, but it's very low.
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CC Did it diminish at all?

PLT I couldn't hear it before because I had
a normal volume. I just turned the volume all the way
way up from panel 98 - on speaker box 98 in the commend
module and I can - I can hear the beat in the background
but it's not nearly as so distracting as it is on the SIAs
in the workshop.
CDR Story, the beat has not diminished down
here.
CC Okay. Got you.
PLT PTT backup is now going to center.
CC Okay. So we'll reconfigure back to
where we were, that's panel ni - -
PLT (Garble) it should say.
CC - - yes, panel 9, AUDIO CONTROL, NORMAL.
And to INTERCOM, TR, and panel 3 to PTT BACKUP to NORMAL.
PLT Those three are all complete.
CC Okay; thanks for your help. We'll keep
working.
PLT Okay. Thanks for your efforts.
CC Skylab, welre a minute from LOS, about
16 minutes to Hawaii, 15:39.
Next acquisition will be Hawaii in ii minutes and 30 seconds.
Discussions here at Mission Control Center concerning tomorrow's
scheduled EREP pass. One is a geothermal pass over the western
United States starting off the coast of San Francisco and
running through California_ ending near Rapid City, North
Dakota.- Rapid City, South Dakota. The other pass over
Africa picking up sites yet to be accomplished in the EREP
program through the Central Africa area. Later today on
the Earth resources pass, weather permitting, the crew may
be asked to turn Earth terrain camera on a few minutes
early as spacecraft Skylab crosses the western coast of
Washington to take pictures of the Seattle area. Photo-
graphs of Seattle have not been made yet on Skylab IV, and
if weather permits, the crew will turn on the - will be
asked to turn on the Earth terrain camera early to get
pictures of Seattle. Next acquisition in i0 minutes and
I0 seconds through Hawaii. This is Skylab Control at
Greenwich mean time 15 hours 29 minutes.
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Time: 10:39 CDT 66:15:39 GMT
01/20/74

15 hours 38 minutes. Acquisition coming thrugh the Hawaii
tracking station. A 7-minute pass through Hawaii. We'll
bring the line up for this pass, as Skylab is in it's 3624
revolution.
CC Skylab, back with you through Hawaii
for 7 minutes.
SPT Houston, SPT.
CC Go ahead, Ed.
SPT Hey, Story. Just wanted to let you
know we saw, going over Africa, some good brush fires at
14:51 in the Central African Republic. About a half dozen
brush fires which were over an area around 30 to 50 miles,
isolated. They were not in a line_ could have been trash
burning, but there were a fair number of them down there and
winds were going from the northwest and showed them up quite
clearly.
CC Thanks, Ed.
CC Skylab, we're a minute to LOS and
4 minutes to Goldstone.
15 hours 48 minutes with loss of signal through Hawaii.
Next acquisition will be Goldstone. During this pass Science
Pilot Gibson informed the ground of the brush fires - extensive
brush fires the crew spotted on the last pass through Africa.
At - On that pass the crew had the option of looking out the
wardroom window and taking photographs of the Afar Triangle
in Southeast Africa, an area geogologists are interested in in
determining geological faults and to study - further study
the the continental drift theory, The fires were noticed
on revolution 3624, just concluded over South Africa.
Acquisition in 50 seconds through Goldstone. We'll bring
the line up for this stateside pass.
CC Skylab, got you through Goldstone for
6 minutes.
CC Skylab, wetre a minute to LOS, about

5 minutes to Bermuda. Ed_ I want - to hold an ATM conference
with you over Bermuda.
SPT Thank you, Story,
PLT And, Story, I'm having a little trouble
with H-alpha 1 again.
CC Bill, you referring to the FRAMES
REMAINING count and the READY light or the TV picture?
PLT The TV picture and also the door didn't
open this snnside pass. I think I've got it open now. I've
got an OPERATE light now.
PLT Okay, Now I have a picture.
CC Okay, we're going over the hill here,
see you in about 3 minutes.
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CC Skylab, back with you through Bermuda

for 7 minutes. Here's Owen.
MCC Hello there, Ed. Are you free from
171 yet?
SPT I sure am_ Owen. Go ahead.
MCC Okay, fine. Glad to talk to you fellas
again, and let me give the first word here to our friend Billy
Whiskers, up there at the ATM panel, since it has to do with
the present orbit. Are you with us, Bill?
PLT Rog, Owen. Go, Stache.
MCC Okay, Bill. Still thinking about that
for a minute. Just going to remind you on this JOP 26 that
youtre either starting now or will start there shortly, I guess
it's probably obvious that's a micro limb scan for 82B prin-
cipaly; with the other experiments, just sort of along for the
ride. And, you do need the H-alpha, which I guess you've
got now to get the pointing close there on the 2 arc-second
in and on the limb and off the limb again. I guess that
should be clear enough.
PLT Well, actually I_ve using the white
light display for the on and off limb and Edts briefed me
on where to put the slit for on the limb and 2 inside and
2 outside. My - I wanted H-alpha 1 for locating the feature,
I got it now, so we're in business. We're running.
MCC Okay. Sounds real good, Bill. And,
next thing there, Ed, several of us did take another look at
the transient you fellas caught about 3 days ago now, we
looked at it again yesterday afternoon and the spear, as you
described it, is certainly spectacular as it moves out to
about 2 solar radii, the time you had it on the TV downlink.
It looks very bright - brighter than I would say most if
not any of the blobs that we saw on the second mission,
moving outward. However, one thing you didn't comment on
which was noticeable was surrounding this blob or spear was
a sort of uniform bubble, with the peak of the bubble on out
to 2-i/2 to 3 solar radii. In other words still above the
spear and surrounding it much in the same way that we were
observing bubbles a few months ago. And I mention that just
to point out that these bubble structures may be more subtle
and certainly less bright than the spear which you saw and
just to suggest that you keep an eye - keep your eyes open
of course for these more subtle features as well in the hopes
that you might catch a few more of these transients. Over.
SPT Okay, Owen. I think if you go back
over the voice records you find out that I did indicate that
there was something out ahead which (garble) region on ahead
had been disturbed and there was a bulged-out appearance,
but I did not describe it as a bubble. You're quite correct
there.
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MCC Okay. Well, that's fine, Ed. I'm sure

that you were looking at the same thing that we noticed then
and in looking at it on the downlink TV, this structure out
in front was a more uniform background. It didn't have the
fine structure that we normally saw and associated with
the bubbles, so it was sort of an intermediate thing, but
never the less, just as you apparently already had seen it
is the sort of thing to keep your eye open for. Okay, let
me then mention a point here that 56 people have brought up.
They have noticed three or four hangups today - or excuse me,
yesterday, mission day 65, three or four hangups yesterday and
just want to reiterate the fact they're not worried about re-
starting, Just let it go, except under the two circumstances of
a transient event like a flare, or on the next two days,
tomorrow and the next day, we're going to be doing collaborative
rocket operations. And, so during those collaborative measure-
ments, why, they would appreciate an extra close eye out for
a hangup so that they can be restarted on these collaborative
works.
SPT Okay. We understand that, Owen. We
will do that.
MCC Okay, now, the next couple of items
here are again just sort of reminders on the work ahead
today which will probably be pretty obvious on the schedule.
The 17:31 pass_ I guess the next rev, will have some maxi-
RASTERS but that's all pretty straight forward. It's just
like on the
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MCC Okay. Now the next couple items here

are again Just sort of reminders on the work ahead today
which will probably be pretty obvious from the schedule.
The 17:31 pass, I guess the next rev, and we'll have the
maxi-RFSTER but that's all pretty straightforward. It's
just like on the JOP sheets, and a little later in the day
we will be going to the prescribed location to center the
S052 occulting disk dead center on the solar disk. That'll
of course not have the cross pointers exactly zeroed and
the numbers to be read on the fine Sun sensor and the pointing
error sensor are listed on the pad. So you've been through
this before, and I guess the only thing to remind you is
that there is a little procedure on the end to make sure
that the two discriminators, 20arc-second and 5-arc-minute
discriminators do get reanabled and the pad will provide you
with the reminders on how to get that done, and I guess that'll
be one of your reus, Ed, and youtve been through it several
times before. Over.
SPT Yes, you're right, Bill. You've got to
make sure before you move on that you get those (garble) steps
done.
MCC Absolutely. Okay. Well, that's about
all the reminders we have on the ground here, fellows. How's
Jerry Whiskers doing up there today?
SPT Well_ stach, he_s pedaling pretty hard
on the bike right now. What do the folks down there think
about active region 31 and the possibility for future growth,
or does it look like it's pretty much limited to subflares?
MCC I've heard no others comments about ex-
pected growth from 31, and of course the flare probabilities
don't show anything particularly interesting. I'ii just
take one brief check before we're through here and see if
they have any later information for you, Ed.
SPT Okay. Very good, Owen. We're getting
some fairly intense emission from there, even though it is
relatively small and we've been hoping for a lot of activity
i_ this active longitude that came around the corner, and so
far itts been a lot of tired out active regions, and this
is the only one that looks like it's got a little life to
it, but it is relatively small. But nonetheless we may be
able to still get a flare rise out of it if - if we stayed
on top of it.
MCC Okay, Ed. Well, I was just trying to
listen to the ATM loop at the same time there, and
they did mention that subflare activity seems to be possible
but nothing much more energetic than that, although it'd
be my guess that of course with the XUV mon that you've got
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up there, your guess may be better then anyone else's

down here at this point.
SPT It's the second brightest active
region. 21 is the brightest, but unfortunately that one is
just uniform plage without very _ without any real
bright points in it_ and unless something happens there_ a
new magnetic disturbance somehow moved in I don't see much
happening there. Maybe the guys on the ground looking at
it at real time magnetograph could tell much better, however.
MCC Okay. We'll - I've got no other info
from the magnetograph area, Ed, although our last H-alpha
picture confirms just about what you said, relative to 21
and 31.
SPT Very good. I also took a little time
this morning to look off the limb, that's the west limb and
did find some (garble) in oxygen Vl up around, oh, 200 or so
when I was 30 arc-seconds off the limb, but I did not see
any corresponding H-alpha feature, and I know we will be
working that region so may go back to it. I spent most
of the time looking at 31.
CC We'll be dropping out here and see you
at Canaries in 2 minutes.
16 hours 8 minutes. A discussion through the Bermuda range
with Skylab III Science Pilot Owen Garriott on this end
and science pilot Ed Gibson in the spacecraft discussing
going over the daily ATM conference. Lighthearted refer-
ence to Billy Whiskers, Pilot Bill Pogue, and Jerry
Whiskers, Commander Gerald Carr. They referred back to
Owen's mustache. He sports a fancy almost handlebar mus-
tache now. Next acquisition in 50 seconds through Canary.
We'll bring the line up for this Canary pass which is 9
minutes 48 seconds in duration.
CC Skylab, we're back with you through
Canaries for 8 minutes. We'll be dumping the data/voice
here.
SPT Okay, Story. Tell Owen thanks for
sitting in. Good talking with him.
CC Okay. He's sitting here. Bill,
Houston.
PLT Go, Story.
CC Bill, we're just still retrieving data
on that H-alpha I. We did see the TV monitor power off at
one time, and at present that's the only thing we're
tracking.
PLT Yes, that was off. I turned that on right
after I reported that. I donlt know how it got off, but
that's sort of irrespective of the fact that the H-alpha i
didn't start on a daylight cycle, when it was in auto.
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CC Okay.
PLT That was - looked like it was two separate
problems there. I had - I was out of configuration and the
H-alpha 1 didn't start working when we came around sunslde.
SPT They dontt seem related to H-alpha i,
Story. As soon as we came up this morning I looked at the
H-alpha 1 display and, as usual first thing in the morning_
it was very crystal clear and I had that excellent resolu-
tion, excellent contrast. About 15 minutes into the orbit
it started de - to degrate. At the very beginning of the
orbit when we did have the good resolution I put a little
of it on the VTR. That's before the XUV mon and the WLC,
and maybe the guys down there can take a look at it. It
must have something to do with the heating and maybe a
damp [?] the filter changes even though your temperature
monitors don't change it - don't show it. I wonder if you
would take a look at it in the light and if there's anything
we could do to keep that good crisp resolution throughout
the day.
CC Okay_ Ed, and for Bill we did show
H-alpha 1 operating and maybe that frames REMAINING in
READY light read switch problem again.
PLT That's entirely possible. It's also
possible that I read the gray talkback with the white.
CC Okay.
PLT And I think I turned the H-alpha 1
power OFF when I thought I was killing the 52. Closed the
52 DOOR.
CC Okay. That's the experiment camera
power?
PLT No, the DOORs. When I stopped my
Sun-centered activities.
CC Okay. That just might do her.
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CDR Hey, Story?

CC Go ahead.
CDR Okay. Tell Owen that Bill and I can't
find the mustache wax, and we wonder where he stowed it.
CC I tell you, Jerry. We didn't have to
use it. You break out your Swiss army knife and can trim it
up any shape you like.
CDR Got to get it up out of the soup.
CC You've eaten so many calories up there
anyway, Jerry, I don't think you need the soup.
SPT Strange thing though, Owen. We keep
looking around for some lemonade like we'd find at home in
all of the drawers where there was supposed to be.
MCC You've got a good point there, Ed. There's
just (laughter) must not be any of that left.
CC And for Bill, taking a look at the H-alpha
i image, if you ever see that severely degraded, you might
put some of that on the VTR for us so we can see it.
PLT Roger.
MCC Ed, AI was big on lemonade, but I'ii - -
SPT Say again, Owen.
MCC I'm Just saying, Ed, that AI was big on
lemonade and I'ii relay that message.
SPT Oh, okay.
CC Skylab, we're 30 seconds to LOS. The
next one's Honeysuckle at 16:55. Be about 35 minutes.
SPT Owen, I think you were right. Most in-
teresting spots on the spacecraft are the TV monitors on the
ATM on the window in the wardroom.
MCC Very true.
16 hours 21 minutes. Loss of signal through Bermuda. Next
acquisition in 33 minutes 45 seconds will be the Honeysuckle
tracking station. On this pass, we will not have Tananarive.
Although the spacecraft does come within the range of the
tracking antennas on the island, the Tananarive tracking
station will not support this pass. Next acquisiton in
33 minutes and 20 seconds through Honeysuckle. This is
Skylah Control at Greenwich mean time 16 hours 21 minutes.
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Time: 11:54 CDT 66:16:54 GMT
1/20/74

16 hours 54 minutes. Acquistion coming through Honeysuckle
in 45 seconds. We'll bring the line up for Dr. Story.
Musgrave, capsule communicator.
CC Skylab, got you through Honeysuckle for
8 minutes.
PLT Rog, Story. I've Just changed out the
inlets filters on MOL SIEVE A and B and the outlet on MOL SIEVE A
and MOL SIEVE A out, it's given sort of an abnormal reading as it
was coming down the last time I checked. It picked up full scale
high after I first installed them.
CC Okay, Bill.
CC Skylab, we're a minute to LOS, about 13 minutes
to Hawaii at 17:15, and Goddard has total cloud cover so we'll have
to cancel both your rendezvous with the lasers, and that's at -
on your detail pad, all three crewmen at 17:29 and at 19:05.
PLT Roger, Story.
17 hours 4 minutes. Loss of signal through Honeysuckle, the
next acquisition in ii minutes will be through Hawaii. At
Greenwich mean time 17 hours 4 minutes, this is Skylab
Control.
17 hours 14 minutes, with acquisition coming through the
Hawaii tracking station, as Flight Director Milt Windler
reviews with the EREP officer and the weather officer on
the condition for the upcoming EREP pass, the entire track
almost covered by clouds now. Review presently underway
to determine the GO or NO GO for that EREP pass.
CC Skylab, we got you through Hawaii for
9 minutes.
CDR Roger, Story, and at 17:13 and 15 seconds
the 6-cycle beep stopped for about 20 seconds and then picked up
again.
CC Want to say the time again, Jer?
CDR 17:13 and 15 seconds.
CC Skylab, we're a minute to LOS, about
3 minutes to Goldstone at 17:27. The EREP pass is on, and
somewhere along here in the next hour I need to pass up a
change to your ETC and C&D pad which concerns only the
ETC camera.
SPT Is there a pass you could get me after
the ATM ops are over, Story?
CC Stand by i.
CC Ed, looks like our Carnarvon at 18:27'11
be good.
SPT Okay; thank you, Story.
PLT And, Story, PLT standing by to copy changes
to the C&D pad.
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CC I'm losing you here. 1'11 get you

stateside.
PAO Skylab Control Greenwich mean time
17 hours 26 minutes. Loss of signal through Hawaii. The
crew given a GO for EREP pass today, the 27th in the mission of
Skylab IV; however, the groundtrack is predominantly cloud
covered from 4 to 7/10 and from 8 until - to 8/10 coverage
of clouds across the groundtrack. However, the majority of
data take today is for atmospheric studies, so therefore
this will not interfere too greatly with the pass. There
two sites have been lost because of the cloud cover. One,
Minneapolis/St. Paul area, is the central evaluation site.
However, the S190 cameras hopefully will be able to poke
through some of the cloud cover to capture snowfield cover
in northern Montana from the Canadian border to Bismarck.
CC Skylab, back with you through Goldstone
for 6 minutes.
SPT Roger.
PLT And, Story, I have my C&D pad, if you'll
pass me the changes.
CC Okay, Bill. Delete at 19:10:20, delete
that ETC POWER ON. And move up to between 19:05:50 and 19:07:20
and put in 06:00 ETC POWER ON.
PLT Roger; got that.
CC And then at 07:00, ETC AUTO.
PLT Okay.
CC And finally, right above the i0:00 put
in 08:30, ETC to STANDBY.
PLT Roger. Delete 10:20, ETC POWER ON; at
6 minutes, ETC POWER to ON; at 7 minutes, ETC AUTO; at 8:30,
ETC to STANDBY.
CC That's it. Thanks, Bill.
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PLT Okay.
CC And finally, right up above the i0:00,
put in 08:30, ETC to STANDBY.
PLT Roger. Delete 10:20, ETC POWER, ON.
At 6 minutes, ETC POWER to ON, at 7 minutes ETC AUTO, at 8:30
ETC, STANDBY.
CC That's it. Thanks Bill. That'll get
us some more ETC data and I'll get the same changes up to
Ed at Carnarvon.
PLT Okay.
CC And Ed, if H-alpha l's still degraded,
you can put some of that on the VTR for us.
SPT Okay, Story. Will do.
SPT Story, Just before I started into these
building block i0, I was taking a look above the limb and the
silicone XII, which is where we are now on the grating. I really
don't see very much even 30 arc-seconds off the limb. Counts
are down around - at the most 20, most of them are below i0.
We're looking for loops, and I think they're going to be very
faint.
CC Thanks, Ed. And we're a minute to LOS,

4 minutes to Bermuda.
17 hours 35 minutes with loss of signal as spacecraft crosses
over the northern limits of the U.S. with acquisition coming
through again through the Bermuda tracking station as Skylab
crew members prepare for the upcoming EREP pass on the next
revolution across the United States. The EREP maneuver will
be initiated at Greenwich mean time 18 hours 49 minutes,
less than 1 hour from now. G&N - G&N officer predicts use
of 18 mibs for this maneuver. More than 16,100 pound-seconds
of TACS fuel remain aboard Skylab for the 18 days remaining
in the mission. We'll bring the line up now for this Bermuda
pass.
CC We're back with you through Bermuda for
i0 minutes. And Ed, Sack Peak (?) reports coronal rain over
active region 16. You ought to see something.
SPT Okay, thank you, Story.
SPT Houston, SPT.
CC Go ahead, Ed.
SPT Story, why don't you go ahead and give
me the changes on the pad now on the ETC. I have it in
front of me.
CC Okay. At 19:10:20, cross that out and
move that POWER ON up to 19:06:00.
SPT Okay.
CC And at 19:07:00, to AUTO.
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SPT Okay.
CC And finally at 08:30, go to STANDBY.
CC And from there on down, it's as the
pad indicates, going back to AUTO at 11:20 and so forth.
SPT Okay. We go to AUTO at 7 even. STANDBY
at 8:30. At 11:20, back to AUTO and press on as nominal.
CC Yes, sir. We're Just picking up that
extra minute and a half of data there.
SPT Okay, Story.
CC Skylab, we're a minuLe to LOS. About
8 minutes to Ascension, 17:54. Be looking to dump the
data/voice there.
17 hours 48 minutes. Loss of signal through Bermuda as
Skylab space station now begins its 3626th revolution of the
Earth. The crew given go ahead for the EREP pass number 27
in the mission of Skylab IV. An update for the ETC, Earth
terrain camera pad. The cameras will be turned on early as
the spacecraft passes over the Seattle, Washington area in
attempt to take photographs with the Earth terrain camera
through the scientific airlock - the antisolar scientific
airlock. The majority of the track under the vehicle today
will be cloud covered. However, the majority of targets
today are atmospheric-type cloud cumulations. The crew will
attempt to get data over northern Montana from the Canadian-
Montana border to Bismarck in effort to capture photographs
of the snow covered fields. Acquisition in 5 minutes through
Ascension. This is Skylab Control at Greenwich mean time
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Time: 12:53 CDT 66:17:53 GMT
01/20/74

17 hours 53 minutes. Acquisition coming though Ascension.
The Ascension pass will be i0 minutes and 27 seconds in
duration as the crew prepares for the EREP pass on the next
stateside pass beginning off the coast of Washington and
ending off the coast - northeast - northsouth coast of the
southeast coast of the United States, over Portsmouth, Virginia.
CC Skylab, AOS through Ascension for
Ii minutes.
CDR Roger, Story.
SPT Story, what grating position do you
show down there?
CC Stand by i.
CC 2435.
SPT Okay, it's reading 34 here, 2434, but
that shouldn't make much difference. I just don't see many
counts at all on detector 3. I think I should be seeing
quite a bit more. A quiet disk ought to be giving me at
least 20 or 30.
CC We're showing the same thing down here,
Ed, and think that's normal.
SPT Okay, Story. I was going on the basis
of some information which they sent me up permanent general
message for the silicone XII 521 line. Apparently we're
looking at the very low end of it right now.
CC Okay.
CC Skylab. We just finished dumping the
data/voice about a minute or two ago and we think we saw
someone trying to record something. You might want to record
that again.
PLT Thanks, Story.
CDR Story, have the wizards been able to
strip anything out of the data that might indicate why we
had that little 20-second dropout on our beat?
CC We just dumped it at this pass right
here.
CDR Okay.
CC And we're going LOS here, Jer, the
next station is Carnarvon, 18:27, it's about 22 minutes.
CDR We'll see you.
CC Yes, sir.
18 hours 6 minutes. Loss of signal through Ascension. Next
acqusition in 21 minutes and 30 seconds will be Carnarvon
tracking station. Commander Jerry Carr asking the ground if
they were able to find what - out what caused the beep problem
they had on the tape - on-board tape recorder yesterday. The
glitch mysteriously went away at Greenwich mean time 17:13 while
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the spacecraft was - was just before the spacecraft was in

contact with the Hawaii tracking station. That data is now
on the ground, being dumped at the Ascension tracking station.
Flight controllers will now look at the data see to
determine what may have caused that beeping noise in the
onboard tape recorder the EGIL officer here at the flight
control center informing Flight Director Milt Windier that
the current average temperature is 77.4 degrees aboard the
workshop. This is the same temperature that was recorded
when the crew awoke this morning, therefore the temperatures
have not risen today and EGIL says we_ve more than likely
reached our peak during this high beta angle. Temperatures
not increasing at all inside the workshop today. Next
acquisition in 20 minutes through the Carnarvon tracking
station. This is Skylab Control at Greenwich mean time
18 hours 7 minutes.
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TIME: 13:26 CDT, 66:18:26 GMT
1/20/74

18 hours 26 minutes. Acquisition coming through the
Carnarvon tracking station in 50 seconds. We'll bring the
line up for CAP COMM Dr. Story Musgrave.
CC Skylab, AOS through Carnarvon for
9 minutes.
CDR Roger.
CC And, Jet, I've got some weather for
you for your hunting today.
CDR Okay, go ahead.
CC On special 02, the uniform snow field,
the cloud cover is predominantly about 0.8 to i0. There are
some areas that are about 0.4 to 0.7. The important thing
on that is not to be constrained to a specific pointing
but get any 20- to 30-second stretches of data at any -
any snow field that you can find. You may find better hunting
north of track.
CDR Okay, I_ii start early than.
CC Okay, you can start a little early or
a little late, but don't miss the special 07 in terms of
the timing. All we'd like is 20 or 30 seconds of uniform
snow anywhere you can find it down through a hole in the
overcast.
CDR Okay.
CC Special 07 Minneapolis is also overcast.
Their aviation report is 300 obscured and about five-eights
of a mile. So_ you probably will not get the city. Take a
quick look to try to find the city, if you don't get that
also look for a hole that you can pick up some snow and take
data on that.
CDR Okay, we'll do it.
CDR How's the weather down on the coast
around target 605?
CC That's 0.8 to i0 also, Jer.
CC Skylab, we're a minute to LOS; 6 minutes
to Guam,
18 hours 38 minutes with loss of signal through Carnarvon.
Next tracking station acquisition will be Guam, the first
acquisition for the Guam tracking station today, in 3 minutes
and 40 seconds. The EREP pass number 27 today has the
following principal investigators who will receive data.
In the atmospheric studies, Dr. John C. Alishouse of
the National Oceanographic Atmospheric Agency, Allan Shapiro
of the U.S. Naval Research Labo _ Laboratory, Dr. R. K.
Moore, University of Kansas Center for Research, he is also
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1/20/74
working on a project with the Johnson Space Center, Skylab

Program Office in gathering data today. Topographic studies
will be William J. Kosco of The USGS Service. Environmental
studies will data will go to James L. Barnes of the
Environmental Research and Technology Incorporated. On this
pass, mostly cloud covered. However_ the groundls advised
the crew to look for some open - openings in the clouds
in hopes to get photographs of the Minneapolis, St. Paul
area. The ETC ETC camera, Earth terrain camera, will be
turned on a few minutes early today hopefully to get photo-
graphs of the Seattlet Washington area. A target hereto-
fore not on the Skylab cameras. Wetll bring the line up
here at Guam for this pass 7 minutes and 30 seconds in
duration.
CC Skylab, we're back with you through Guam
for 7 minutes. And_ Jert you got a good maneuver time.
CDR Roger, Story.
CC And_ whols ever nearest to the ATM, we
need an MPC INKIBIT, and an MPC ROLL INHIBIT.
CC Thanks, and your APCS looks good for
this maneuver.
CDR Roger, Story.
CC Skylab, welre a minute to LOS_ about
17 minutes to Goldstone at 19:06.
CDR Roger.
CC And your maneuverts looking good, Jer.
CDR Roger, Story,
18 hours 15 minutes. Skylab space station maneuvered to
Z_local vertical attitude to aim the EREP instruments at
the intended groundtrack, was started at 18:49 as the
spacecraft was still within range of the Guam tracking
station. G&N officer informs the Flight Director, Milt
Windler that the maneuver looks good. The data take will
begin at 2:07 central daylight time as the spacecraft
crosses over Vancouver Island. Data today will be taken
on atmospheric conditions across the United States_ snow
fields in the Dakota, Montana area as well as geographic
and oceanographic information off the coast of North Carolina
and Virginia. Next acquisition in 13 minutes and 50 seconds
through Goldstone. At Greenwich mean time 18 hours 52 minutes,
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC-2318/I
Time: 14:03 CDT 66:19:03 GMT
01/20/74

19 hours 3 minutes. The Earth resources pass scheduled to
start in 4 minutes as spacecraft crosses Vancouver - the Island
of Vancouver, off the Canadian coast. The Earth terrain camera
will be toned - turned on early in hopes to catch pictures of
Seattle. We'll bring the line up at this time. The crew will
be on VOX eomm at this time, and wetll leave the llne up for
this Earth resources pass.
PLT Stand by,
PLT MARK. 05:40 EREP START, and Jer, on
my mark, 5 seconds from now, AUTO CAL.
CDR Okay.
PLT Stand by.
PLT MARK.
CDR (Garble)
PLT AUTO CAL and 194 MODE to MANUAL in
6 minutes. ETC POWER ON, Ed, on my mark.
CDR Coming in over the Canadian Rockies.
PLT MARK.
CDR Vancouver Island.
PLT I do have a good TAPE MOTION light.
Pretty sure I called it, but 194 went to MANUAL at 05:50.
And at 7 minutes, Ed, ETC AUTO.
CDR Lots of snow on the Canadian Rockies,
Story,
PLT Okay, 15 seconds to a 7 minute ETC AUTO.
CC Yes sir, we're here reading you loud
and clear for 18 minutes stateside.
CDR Okay,
PLT Stand by.
PLT MARK. ETC AUTO at 7 minutes.
PLT Standing by for 7:20. And
PLT MARK. 7:20. SCAT, ON and RAD, ON.
CDR Tell me when that 191 - -
PLT I will. It should - -
CDR - - AUTO CAL comes ON.
PLT That should come on at 08:30 and l_m - this
is my next event.
CDR Okay,
CDR Doggone it, it's clouding up.
PLT And at 08:30, I'ii give Ed a call for
ETC STANDBY.
CDR And, therets a hole in the clouds, but
there ain't no snow under it. Looks like I better look over
to the left a little ways, a little to tke north.
PLT Okay. 15 seconds to 08:30. ETC
STANDBY. I_ii give a mark. Stand by.
PLT MARK. REFERENCE 6, we do have a READY
iigkt_ Jerry, You can start data take.
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CDR Fortunately I got no place to take data.

PLT ETC STANDBY.
PLT You can do uniform cloud layer.
CDR There's a little snow. Uniform snow
through the clouds.
PLT Okay, did I miss it? Or did I not?
i0 minutes
CDR Cameras on.
PLT Okay, I guess it goes to STANDBY for warm-
up. I have not had the ALTIMETER ON. Yes, that's probably what
it is.
CDR Data (Garble)
CDR It's right in a cultivated area. Lots
of land patterns around.
PLT Everything looks good on the C&D panel.
CDR Okay, I don_t know where it is, but itVs
snow.
PLT Stand by for ALTIMETER's going to STANDBY.
PLT MARK. ALTIMETER to STANDBY. 10:13 - -
CDR Okay.
PLT - - 190 MODE AUTO.
CDR End of that.
PLT Stand by.
PLT MARK. 190 MODE to AUTO. And, I do
have the FILM ADVANCE MALFUNCTION light on CAMERA 6,
which was to be expected.
CDR Okay. Looking for Minneapolis at 12:24,
now. Pretty cloudy.
CDR Okay, this is data and film.
PLT Okay, Ed, at 11:20, which is about
15 seconds from now, ETC to AUTO. I'ii give a mark. Stand by.
PLT MARK. ETC to AUTO.
CDR One more minute. Should be over the
Garrison Reservoir.
PLT On my mark it_ll be 11:48.
PLT MARK. SCAT to STANDBY and RAD to STANDBY.
Waiting for 11:56.
PLT MARK. 11:56, RAD, ON. 12:10, my mark
it_ll be 12:10.
PLT MARK. 190 INTERVAL to i0. Still looks
good.
CDR Okay_ DAC is ON. Got no Minneapolis,
over lots of clouds.
CDR Man, I don_t even see a hole.
CC We'll be dropping out for a minute,
handing over to MILA, Skylab.
CDR Roger. Looks like Minneapolis is solid
over.
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PLT Stand by for 13 minutes, even.

PLT (Garble) frames per minute should go
to i0 on my mark.
PLT MARK. And you got a good SPEED (garble)
and the light is steady. Nice and steady on 192 60 inches
per second. Waiting for 13:45.
CDR Like a hungry mosquito, no place to go.
Nope, turning off the DAC, there's nothing to -
PLT MARK. 192 MODE to STANDBY at 13:45.
CDR Too bad.
PLT And 14 minutes, which is coming up
very shortly herep Ed. ETC to STANDBY in 5 seconds.
PLT MARK. ETC to STANDBY. 6,
PLT MARK. RAD to STANDBY. And RAD, OFF;
(garble) ALTIMETER coming ON.
PLT MARK. ALTIMETER_ ON.
PLT And waiting for 15 minutes, we got the
timeout to see what's on 190. Okay, I did not - the light
is out and MODE to STANDBY. It is. FRAME 15, INTERVAL to
20. Waiting for 15:40. We do have an ALTIMETER UNLOCK light.
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PLT - - and RAD, OFF. Okay, ALTIMETER coming

ON -
PLT MARK. ALTIMETER, ON. And waiting for
15 minutes to get a timeout and see what's on 190. Okay. I
did not - the light is out and MODE to STANDBY. It is.
Frame 15. INTERVAL to 20. Waiting for 15:40. Do have an
ALTIMETER UNLOCK light.
CDR Okay, looking at the Appalachians they
seem to be
PLT Okay, 1 - 15:40, ALTIMETER to STANDBY.
MODE going to 3, and RANGE to 74.
CDR Appalachians are pretty cloud free.
PLT Okay. ALTIMETER ON. 17:03 standing by.
CDR Looking at a big muddy reservoir now.
PLT Okay. Now, when I went, when I brief
on something here. We'll get through, I guess we got
20 seconds here. When I went to turn the 190 MODE AUTO
SEQUEN SEQUENCE switch to STANDBY it was already there.
However, I know the sequence started because I got a MALF
light. It's possible I turned the MODE AUTO SEQUENCE to
STANDBY early. Waiting for 17:03.
PLT MARK. 17:03, 190 MODE to AUTO. I do
have a READY light.
CDR Oh, Kitty Hawk's just underneath the
clouds. Setting up for a nadir swath.
PLT Waiting for 17:45. Still have a READY
light on the ALTIMETER. Okay, 17:45. Stand by -
PLT MARK. ALTIMETER, STANDBY. MODE to 5,
RANGE, 70, and 192 is still cranking away.
CC Jer, if you got good weather there, get
the DAC back ON, if you haven't already.
CDR Okay. We just broke into the clear right
over - -
PLT MARK. 18:03. ALTIMETER, ON.

CDR - - right over Cape Hatteras. The Cape
Hatteras itself is sticking out in the clear. (Garble) is -
and Kitty Hawk are in the - in the soup.
EC Okay.
CDR Pimlieo Sound is clear, and Marine Air
Station Cherry Point, I might add.
CC Know it well.
CDR Got blue water, occasiona] scattered cu.
PLT Okay, I may not have gotten the full
190 sequence, Story. When I went to turn the 190 to STANDBY
at 15 minutes it was already there. So I don't know if I
turned it on prematurely, or what. But I did - I was - I was
taking 190 data, because I got a FILM ADVANCE malfunction light.
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I suspect I turned it off for a 190 shutter speed going to

SLOW -
PLT MARK.
CDR Okay. Coming up on a full overcast
now. While over the water I could see no evidence of a
a Gulf Stream. I can see no blooming or anything like that.
Now we're in the clear blue again. 30 seconds to go.
PLT Standing by 20:15. At 21 minutes even,
which is still good. In a way I'ii give a call for an AUTO
CAL. 21:15.
CDR Okay. Okay. Stopping the VTR at 20.
PLT Okay.
CDR Correction. Stopping the camera, the
DAC camera.
PLT 20:15, REFERENCE to 2.
PLT MARK. REFERENCE TO 2 on 191 at 20:15.
CDR And 21:15 is the cal, right? And we got
a solar inertial at 19:22, it says here.
PLT Okay. At 20 - M. I may have left 192
on to long.
CC Yes, sir, we're Just going to call you -
GO to STANDBY on the S192.
PLT Yes. It's a double line entry. The
doggone pad printed out double. I scratched one of them
out. Okay. Press on here.
CDR 21:15, Bill?
PLT 21:15 I - -
CDR Okay.
PLT - (garble) VTS AUTO CAL.
CDR All right.
PLT And 194 MODE to MANUAL.
CDR MARK, AUTO CAL.
PLT 21:40. ALTIMETER to STANDBY. Man, that's
terrible.
CDR Solar inertial coml_g up st 21:22.
19:22 1 should say.
PLT MARK. 21:40, ALTIMETER to STANDBY.
CDR 15 seconds to solar inertial,
PLT Okay. I know what I did, Story. I
went to STANDBY on the 190 camera at - at the time. One -
13:45 instead of going 192 MODE STANDBY, That was where
I made the mistake.
CDR Okay. We're going into solar inertial.
PLT Okay. l've got the READY out. MODE
to STANDBY.
CDR 12 minutes. And the rates look pretty
good.
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CDR No, X is getting kind of high now. There

it goes. Now we're looking good.
PLT Waiting for 23:55.
CDR Well, sorry about that Minneapolis.
PLT 23:45
PLT MARK. EREP to STOP. Okay. Darn it.
That should have been 23:55. Okay, there it is. READY
light's ON at 23:55. EREP to STOP. It is. New tape
measurement. Yes, that was a sorry performance. This pad
looks like a patchwork quilt.
CDR Yeah. I think maybe if we get any more
pads with all those double lines on them. We Just - we'll
ask them to send up --
PLT Yeah. Just have them send up another
pad.
CDR Just too darn dangerous.
PLT Sorry. Used up all that tape. It didn't
take that long to tell them to send up a new pad.
CC Okay. We're copying all that, Bill.
We would like a tape measurement and get the results back if
possible over Ascension. That's in about i0 minutes.
PLT Okay. I'ii go get the tape and get
that for you. I'm sorry about that. That was lousy.
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CC - if possible over Ascension. It's

in about i0 minutes.
PLT Okay. I'ii go get the tape and get that
for you. I'm sorry about that. That was lousy. Okay. What
line?
CC And we're a minute from LOS. In about
i0 minutes through Ascension, 19:34.
CDR Roger, Story.
19 hours 26 minutes with loss of signal through Bermuda as
the Skylab space station concluded EREP pass number 27, adding
to the data all ready collected on the previous 2 missions
of the Earth's natural resources. Next acqnisiton in 7
minutes and 50 seconds will be through the Ascension tracking
station. At Greenwich mean time 19 hours 26 minutes, this
is Skylab Control.
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SL-IV MC2321/I
Time: 14:33 CDT 66:19:33 GMT
1/20/74
PAO Skylab Control at 19 hours 33 hours

Greenwich mean time. The Skylab space station now over the
coast of Brazil is about a minute and 25 seconds from acquisi-
tion through the Ascension tracking antenna. The pass through
Ascension will last a little more than 5 minutes. We'll
bring the line up live now in case the crew still has their
helmets on and can talk a little bit earlier than normal.
CC Skylab, we_ve got y_u through Ascension
for 4 minutes and maneuver's looking good.
PLT All right, Story, 5.3 centimeters.
CC Copy, 5.3, Bill, and we think we've
probably got the good data on S192.
PLT Thank you, that makes me feel a little
bit better anyway.
CC Wellp we got plenty of tape too.
SPT Story, could you have the guys who are
worried about the ETC tell me whether we were the objective
or to studu overcast (garble)
CC Stand by one, Ed.
CC Skylab, we're a minute and a half from
LOS, Carnarvon_s next at 20:04. Planning to dump the data/
voice there. And we're showing a teleprinter low. If you
could change it out for us_ wetd appreciate it.
PLT Okay_ Story, will do.
CC And, Edp in answer to your question,
the ETC_ we wanted to corollate that data with the S191. And
it's very hard for us to tell whether we_ll get any openings
in the overcast or not.
SPT Okay_ Story, we sure were taking an
awful lot of pictures of good overcast, and I - from the ETC
standpoint, you kind of hate to see that film used for that.
CC Well, it's sort of like the Sun, Ed,
some like it hot, some cold, some land, some water, some ice.
Guess I'd better throw in
SPT Got nothing against the cloud - -
CC - better throw in the clouds too.
SPT Got nothing against cloud men, Story,
but is this what your objectives are?
CC That's affirm_ Ed. The next time you
pass on up the Northern Hemisphere, an active aurora has
been reported up there, and if you can, take photos per
Permanent Mmessage 18 Bravo.
SPT Thank you, Story.
PAO Skylab Control at 19:41 Greenwich mean
time. Skylab space station is out of range of Ascension.
23_i/2 minutes to our next acquisition of signal at Carnarvon,
Australia. The return to solar inertial was completed during
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this period just before the Ascension pass. Apparently no

TACS fired for the return from Z local vertical to solar
inertial, that is to say from pointing at the Earth to - back
to pointing at the Sun, a i0 minute maneuver. However, the -
if that does not appear to be (garble) without its effect,
we do have some indications now that another glitch on the
CMG number 2 is in progress. Currents have again moved up
about 2 to 3 percent, speed is down about half a percent,
and the temperatures appear to be converging. They're now
about 8/10 apart as opposed to the usual 2 to 3 degrees. So
it looks llke we[re now in the process of another - another
anomaly on CMG number 2. We've had a good many of those
in the last couple of days, possibly attributed to the high
Sun angles. However, still a matter of concern for the Sky-
lab mission. 22 minutes to our next acquisition of signal.
During this last pass, Ed Gibson asked about the Earth ter-
rain camera_ which he said got pictures of a lot of overcast.
And the ground informed him that there was a requirement for
photography to support other activities in the Earth's re-
sources passp and they were uncertain as to how much overcast
they might run into during the pass. 22 minutes to our
next acquisition of signal_ this is Skylab Control.
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TIME: 15:03 CDT, 66:20:03 GMT
1/20/74
PAO Skylab Control at 20 hours, 4 minutes

Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station is now 52 seconds
from acquisition at Carnarvon, Australia. The pass through
Carnarvon will last approximately 10-i/2 minutes. We'll
bring the line up llve now for air-to-ground, the
Spacecraft Communicator is Story Musgrave.
J CC Skylab, AOS through Carnarvon for
9 minutes, we'll be dumping the data/voice here.
SPT Houston, SPT.
CC Go ahead.
SPT Story, I assume that they did not want
the ETC left up during the M509 so that's stowed.
CC Okay, that's a good call, Ed. We didn't
plan to stow it because we are running an EREP pass tomorrow
on the ETC Ops start about 13:30. That's a good call to get
that out of the way while applying 509.
SPT Story, if later on you give me what
filter is going to be put into the ETC, I can get that thing
put back inot the airlock after 509 and be ready to go in the
morning.
CC Okay, great, Ed.
CC Ed, Houston.
SPT Go ahead Story.
CC That's a filter 5 for the ETC.
SPT Thank you.
CC And when you can, here, we'd llke for you
to change out the teleprinter paper. We've got a Flight Plan
and alternate Flight Plan, and a detail for the alternate
detail because we want to get ahead as much as we can so
you can sleep in the MDA in quiet tonight.
SPT You know how to get to me. I'll do it
whenever the woodpecker stops here.
CC Okay, it'll be stopped in about 2 minutes.
Skylab, we're a minute to LOS. We won't get you at Guam this
pass. It'll be Goldstone in about half an hour, at 20:43.
And Ed, no need to acknowledge, I checked that last message
in the teleprinter and if it's not legible you can let us
know over Goldstone.
SPT Just looked at it, Story. It looks good.
It's not even down to the red line yet.
CDR Thank you.
PAO Skylab Control at 20 hours 16 minutes
Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station is out of range
of Carnarvon. Our next acquisition is 27 minutes away at
Goldstone. Astronauts Cart, Gibson and Pogue with more than
26 million miles in Earth orbit completed another survey of
their home planet this afternoon. The survey along a
4300 mile pass from the Pacific Ocean, west of Canada's
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Vancover Island across the northern United States to the

Atlantic Ocean more than a thousand miles east of Miami,
Florida was a very successful one. Despite some unexpected
changes in cloud cover, the survey included some bonus information
gathered over clear areas of Appalachia. When an
electronic scanner was left on longer than planned. That
means that right now we think that we may have gotten some
extra information by them because of a mistake made in reading
of the pad. The teleprinter message had a repeat line in
it and the repeat line seemed to indicate to Bill Pogue that
he should leave the 192 on instead of turning it off so it
was !eft on a little longer than planned. However, it
inadvertently may have gotten some good data over the
Appalachian area where clouds were expected but in fact some
clear areas were reported. That's going to have to evaluated
yet tonight but that could be a bonus for the Skylab Earth
resourses pass this afternoon. The maneuver back to pointing
Skylab's solar instruments at the active Sun, however, strained
the space station's number 2 control gyroscope once again. The
irregular behavior was the third since the crew went to sleep
last night and the sixth in the last two days. Brings to
a total of more than 2 dozen, the number of irregularities in
the behavior of control moment gyroscope number 2. At the
present time, during the Carnarvon pass that gyroscope appears
to be continuing it's anomaly. Temperatures now have crossed
over very slightly but the two bearing temperatures being
about the same. The wheel speed is down approximately
40 r.p.m.'s or about half of a percent and the currents are up
about two to three percent. So this appears to be another
one of the CMG glitches that have been reported frequently
over the last two months. Also, we're checking now on information
on the Earth terrain camera photography of overcast. We believe
that part of the study that's primarily intended for sensor
preformance evaluation of other sensors, the Earth terrian
camera to give supporting information to data gathered with
the 192. 25 minutes to our next acquisition of signal.
Change-of-shift briefing is scheduled for room 137 in the
Building i; this is an office in building i, room 137. It
will be scheduled for about 4:15 today. Flight Director
Milton Windler is the off-going Flight Director. Again,
that change-of-shift briefing will be held in room 137; that's
the chief office of Public Information in Building i. This
is Skylab Control, it is now 19 minutes after the hour.
END OF TAPE
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Greenwich mean time. The Skylab space station is now 55 sec-
onds from acquisition at Goldstone. Pass through Goldstone
will last about 7 minutes, or through Golds,one, Texas, and
Merrltt Island, a total pass of about 17 minutes. We'll
bring the line up live now for air-to-ground here. The
Spacecraft Communicator still on duty is Story Musgrave,
although a handover is now in progress here in Mission Control.
We're live now at Goldstone.
CC Skylab, AOS stateside for 17 minutes.
CDR Story, the M509 powerup commenced at
37.
CC Okay, thanks, Jer, and youtve got a phone
call tonight at 01:30, Hawaii, and it's a left.
CDR Thank you.
CC We'll remind you the pass before.
CDR Okay.
CC Ed, could you reach over and put the
teleprinter to COMMAND please?
SPT You got it.
CC Okay, and note those messages coming up.
SPT The first one looks good, Story.
CC Thanks, Ed.
CC Skylab, we're a minute from LOS, about
i0 minutes to Vanguard at 21:10. Jet, could you let us know
how you're comin B along with M509?
CDR Story, we're ready to start suit donning,
and then we'll go right into ASMU donning.
CC Okay.
CDR Story, documenting - documentary photos
24 is going to take three guys to do it. I don't think we
can do it today.
CC Copy_ Jer.
PA0 Skylab Control at 21:01 Greenwich mean
time. Skylab space station is now over the northern part of
su _ South America. Our next acquisition is a little less
than 9 minutes away at Vanguard. CMG number 2 is still ex-
periencing an anomaly with the traditional signature. Tem-
peratures have crossed over slightly. At one point there,
about 1.2 degrees higher on bearing number 2 than they were
on bearing number i. This is for the second control moment
gyroscope. And currents up about 2 percent - 2 to 3 percent
at maximum. They still remain about a percent and a half above
normal, and the wheel speed down about 40 rpms - or about 1/2
percent. That's about where they are now and that's about
where they've been since shortly after the Earth resources
maneuver brought the space station back to solar inertial or
pointing at the Sun. That problem doesn't appear to, however,
to have gotten any worse, and it does appear - slightly now
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that it is clearing up. 8 minutes to our next acquisition of

signal. Skylab crew now scheduled to be working on the astro-
naut maneuvering unit, M509. Pilot Bill Pogue this afternoon
is testing test flying the astronaut maneuvering unit. Com-
mander Carr is observing the experiment which is scheduled
to last about 4 hours. There is a question just asked by
Story Musgrave about documentary photographs of that which
the crew required - would require three people. There are
not three people available, as Ed Gibson is working now at
the solar telescope. Although one crewman flys the nitrogen
powered backpack, the other is available to offer assistance
provide for the test pilots safety, and carefully observe his
performance at various phases in the experiment, The partici-
pating crewman may perform either a shirtsleeve or spacesuited
evaluation of the maneuvering equipment. Principle investi-
gators for the maneuvering unit experiment are Major Charles
Whitsett of - Junior_ Bruce McCandless, and Dave Schultz, all
located at Johnson Space Center, 7 minutes to our next ac-
qulsition of s%gnal, and we expect ehange-of_shift briefing
to begin at 4:15 or shortly thereafter in Building i, in room
137 t_ere. This is Skylab Control at 3 minutes 15 seconds
after the _our.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC2324/I
TIME: 16:09 CDT, 66:21:09 GMT
1/20/74

time. Skylab space station is now 54 seconds away from
acquisition at Vanguard. This pass through Vanguard should
last approximately 7 minutes and we_ll bring the line up
live for that pass. And handover is just about completed
here in Mission Control with Charles Lewis and his
Spacecraft Communicator Hank Hartsfield coming on duty. We'll
bring the line up live now for the pass through Vanguard.
CC Skylab, Houston through Vanguard for
6 minutes.
PLT Roger_ Hank.
CC CDR, Houston, in regard to the documentary
24, if you do have the camera mounted so that you can get
about 60 seconds press ahead, if you don't it's not a
requirement.
CDR Roger. Hank the 6 cycle per second
beep just got noisier_ got louder.
CC Roger, we copy.
CC Skylab, Houston 1 minute from LOS, the
next station is Goldstone at 22:20 that!s an hour and 4 minutes
from now.
CDR Okay_ Hank we just got a FIRE alarm. It's
SENSOR 61 - 618-1 and it's a false one.
CC Roger.
time. Skylab space station is over the South Atlantic, more
than an hour before our next acquisition at Goldstone. A
caution and warning sound heard by the Skylab crew, they
checked it out, however it was just an anomaly and nothing
of any importance, The control moment gyroscope apparently
is still acting up, Does not appear to have improved substant-
ially although it seems to have stabilized. The Vanguard site
is not a particularly good one for gathering data, the data is
interfered with frequently there by - by other radio frequency
bursts in the immediate surroundings of the ship and for that
reason we can't entirely depend on the information we got here
but it looks like the anomaly is still in progress. Again the
temperatures are slightly crossed over with bearing number 2
a little bit warmer than bearing number i_ the wheel speed
still down a fraction of a percent. The current is still up
about a percent and a half. Flight Director Milton Windler
has left the Mission Control Center and we believe he's now
en route to the Building i briefing that will be in room 137
in Building i. Change-of_shift briefing should begin probably
in the next 5 to i0 minutes. This is Skylab Control at
18 minutes and 40 seconds after the hour.
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SL IV MC-2325/I
Time: 17:19 CDT 66:22:19 GMT
1/20/74

time. The Skylab space station is now about 56 seconds from
acquisition of signal through the tracking antenna at
Goldstone. This pass through Goldstone and Texas stations
should last approximately 12-i/2 minutes and we'll bring
the line up live now for air-to-ground. The Spacecraft
Communicator is Hank Hartsfield and the flight director on
duty is Charles Lewis.
CC Skylab, Houston through Goldstone and
Texas for 12 minutes.
SPT Hello Hank, we Just had CMG number 3 gimbal
on a stop and we're getting back to attitude now.
CC Roger. We copy.
CDR Hank, the PLT has finished his baseline
maneuvers and we're changing out the PSS to press on. This
is PSS number 3 that we're taking out.
CC CDR, Houston. Which baseline was it
that you just finished up?
CDR Say again, Hank.
CC Roger. Which baselines have you finished?
CDR I said we finished all of them.
CC Okay. We copy, and you're starting on
your third bottle. Is that correct?
CDR That's affirmative.
CC Skylab, Houston. We need the DAS for
a nuZ update.
SPT You have it, Hank.
CC CDR, Houston. If you - if there's
time remaining in your Flight Plan there and you want to
use a fifth bottle, you're GO to do that. And we recommend
that if you're going to do t_at, that you put PSS number 4
on top-off as soon as you remove it.
CC Skylab, Houston. The DAS is yours.
SPT Thank you, Hank.
CDR Hey, Ed. Did Jerry copy my comments on
using another PSS?
SPT Hold on, Hank. I'Ii ask him.
SPT Yeah. He copied, Hank. And he'll get
with you when _e can. He_s kind of busy right now.
CC Okay. No problem.
CDR Hank, I copied your last transmission
and wetre starting off again. We've got the PSS changed
out. Number 3 is in the recharge.
CC Roger copy, and CMG power is OFF. Is
that correct?
CDR What power is off?
CC CMG. You're through with that now, right?
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CDR That's affirmative.

CC Skylab, Houston. We're i minute from
LOS. Vanguard will be coming up at 45 in about 12-1/2
minutes, and we're scheduled to dump the recorder.
time. The Skylab space station is now out of range of the
tracking antenna at Texas. i0_i/2 minutes to acquisition
at Vanguard. During this last pass we had the first opport-
unity to look at some data from Skylab for about an hour.
Apparently that anomaly now on control moment gyro number 2
is at an end. The wheel speed at acquisition at Goldstone
appeared to be back around on the normal level, at back
at around 8912, with currents back down at their normal level
and the temperatures approximately recovered with about a
1.6 degrees difference at Goldstone. That does appear to
be a sign that the speed and currents are stabalizing on
CMG number 2. And that anomaly apparently now is over. Also
got a little information on - from the crew that CMG number 3
reached a gimbal stop. No problem associated with that. That
was quickly corrected. Two TACS firings, both very brief, a
total of about i0 pound-seconds fired while the space station
was out of range of signal. The cabin pressure in Skylab has
moved up about two tenths of a pound a square inch, a result
of the use of the astronaut maneuvering unit, which fires
nitrogen gas in the cabin. The cabin pressure up very
slightly_ about as would be expected, All of the baseline
or essential runs of the M509 have been completed. And they're
now beginning work with their third bottle of nitrogen. Two
bottles already used. Strangely enough, as the flight director
noted_ they have three bottles on board. They're numbered 2, 3,
and 4, which he thought was a little added confusion and
couldn't understand. He had a good laugh out of that. They
are now goin_ to refill number 4 if they want to do a little
extra flying. And for fair weather friends of the Comet
Kohoutek, that once famous comet is still visible. It now
has a magnitude of about 5, which makes it about twice as
bright as the dimmest stars that are visible to people
living outside the cities. It appears to be a faint, fuzzy
star. A Johnson Space Center observer, who has seen it over
the last couple of nights, says that he could see a tail
approximately 3.6 degrees in length using his 7-power
binoculars. That would indicate a tail length of about
5 million miles, The comet is now 76 million miles from
Earth, 71 million miles from the Sun. It passed outside
the orbit of Venus yesterday. It's current speed is about
104,000 miles an hour. That's less than half of it's max-
imum, whick at one time passed a quarter of a million miles
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an hour as it skirted the Sun. The comet is visible in the

south southwest and west sky. It's against the background
of the constellation Pices or the fish. At 7-1/2 minutes to
our next acquisition of signal, this is Skylab Control.
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SL-IV MC2326/I
TIME: 17:44 CDT, 66:22:44 GMT
1/20/74
PAO Skylab Control at 22 hours, 44 minutes

Greenwich mean time. The Skylab space station is now just
crossing the coast of South America. 52 seconds from
acquisition of signal at Vanguard. This pass through Vanguard
should last for ii minutes and the Spacecraft Communicator
is Hank Hartsfield.
8 minutes.
CDR Roger, Hank. Grasp and hold is completed.
We just changed out PSS number 3 - correction, number 4, we got
3 in again now and he_s starting his first discretionary.
CC Roger_ we copy.
SPT You ready for some TV downlink, Hank.
CC It'll be about 1 minute Ed.
CC CDR, Houston. Are you topping off PSS
number 4?
SPT Yes he is Hank.
CC Okay, thank you. SPT, Houston we're
ready for TV downlink.
SPT Okay_ Hank you might have to hold it
a minute, right now Jerry;s got the VTR going for M509p he
just picked it up.
CC Roger, we copy. Okay, you need portable,
you need to go to TV on the switch.
CC I don't think you lost much there, I
think the site probably got what - what you weren't getting
there, or what he didn't get.
CC SPT_ Houston what mode are you in now
for $055, we got some invalid mode readings back at
Goldstone about 20 minutes ago.
SPT Say again, Hank.
CC What mode are you in in $0557
SPT I'm in the south mode doing a line profile,
Hank.
CC Okay, our data indicates you're in
single but we're about 35 seconds from LOS, Tananarive
coming up at 12.
time. Skylab space station is out of range of the Vanguard
and during that pass you could hear probably Bill Pogue
firing rockets on the astronaut maneuvering unit, the gas
jets. Those nitrogen firing indication that the M509 run
is still in progress_ that was scheduled to take place over
a four hour period concludes about 2 hours or an hour and
a half from now. And at this time Pilot - Science Pilot
Ed Gibson should be in an ATM run as they're concluding a
daylight pass. Immediately following the run of the
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astronaut maneuvering unit, the backpack that's powered by

nitrogen gas bottles. Crew members will sit down and have
a meal. This is Skylab Control, it's now 54 minutes and
49 seconds after the hour. We're 17 minutes from our next
acquisition.
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SL-IV MC2327/I
TIME: 18:10 CDT, 66:23:10 GMT
1/20/74

time. The Skylab space station is now 56 seconds from
acquisition of signal through the voice relay station at
Tananarive. This pass through Tananarive on the Island
of Madagascar should last a little less than 7 minutes. We'll
bring the line up live now for air-to-ground, Spacecraft
Communicator is Hank Hartsfield.
CC Skylab, Houston through Tananarlve
6-1/2 minutes.
CC CDR, Houston whenever it's convenient here
we got 5 minutes left on this pass, we'd like to get a progress
report.
CC SPT, Houston the high beta angle period
is gone passed and our coolant temperature is stable back -
stabilized back to its nominal value of 50 degrees. So
whatever is convenient on panel 207 under ATM CANISTER
thermal you can go ahead and enable the caution and warning
for coolant temp.
CC Skylab, Houston i minute to LOS, Hawaii
at 55,
time, wetve had final loss of signal through Tananarive.
Our next acquisition at Hawaii is approximately 36-1/2 minutes
away. Astronauts Jerry Carr_ Ed Gibson and Bill Pogue
completed their 27tk Earth survey this afternoon, but the
evening activities center on studies of the Sun and a test
flight of the astronaut maneuvering unit on nitrogen powered
backpack. Skylab's number 2 controlled gyroscope behaved
erratically again this afternoon for the third time since the
crew went to sleep last night, But it has again returned to
normal. The brief slowdown on the large wheel which is used
to hold Skylab steady during scientific studies of the
Earth_ stars and Sun was the 26th to occur during the past
2 months. Bill Pogne is testing the nitrogen backpack
which should be an important part of construction and repair
activities in the 1980ts. Pogue's checkout includes a make-
believe rescue of Skylab Commander Jerry Cart. Installation
of the TV camera and work with a 5-gallon water tank. Pogne
flight tested the backpack while wearing his spacesuit inside
the space station's working area. And also the Comet Kohoutek
object should be visible tonight in the evening sky. Sunset
is at 6:47 Houston time and that's the approximate time for
most of the Southern part of the United States. The comet
set time is about 4 hours after the sunset, so it should be
especially eas Z to see during the period of 2 hours after
the sunset to 4 hours after the sunset across the U.S.
That time is approximately accurate for tomorrow night as
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well. But the comet setting 4 hours after sunset in most

U. S. areas and it should be visible as a relatively dim star
particularly easy to see with binoculars. Again it's located
in the southwest to west sky and near the constellation
Pisces. 20 minutes after the hour and 34-1/2 minutes to our
next acquisition, this is Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
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TIME: 18:53 CDT, 66:23:53 GMT
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Greenwich mean time. The Skylab space station 55 seconds
from acquisition through the tracking antenna at Hawaii.
We'll have a very short pass here only 3 minutes in length.
And we'll bring the line up live now for air-to-ground
through Hawaii.
CC Skylab, Houston through Hawaii for
2 minutes, did you read us at Tananarive, we copied no
downlink.
CDR Negative Hank we didn't hear you.
CC Okay, we must have had some sort of a
problem there Jerry, I gave a call to the SPT there regarding
the CANISTER THERMAL CAUTION and WARNING on panel 207. Our
COOLANT TEMPS have stabilized back to nominal values and
whenever it's convenient you can go ahead and ENABLE the
CAUTION and WARNING on your CANISTER THERMAL for COOLANT TEMPS.
CDR Okay, and we terminated M509, we did all
the first three discretionary maneuvers and we got maneuver
Bravo done on the second set of discretionaries before we had
to quit.
CC Roger, we copy_ good show.
CDR Yeah, we went through 5 PSS's and about
a battery and a half.
CC Sounds like you did a good job there Jerry.
We're about 45 seconds from LOS. Vanguard will be coming
up at 22 and that's the evening status.
SPT Hank, as you were going over the hill last
time we had contact with you, you were mentioning something
about the ATM, and I didn't quite understand what you were
saying.
CC Okay_ what I was trying to tell you about
was that you could go ahead and ENABLE the CAUTION and WARNING
for COOLANT TEMP under CANISTER THERMAL. The temperatures are
back to normal.
SPT Oh, okay I thought you were talking about
55 and SINGLE and I didntt quite understand that call. Thank
you.
CC Oh Oh, that call yes, we wanted to know
what configuration you were in because we saw some funny modes
back at Goldstone a rev ago.
SPT At that particular time I was doing a line
profile so I had the 4007 for 67 in.
CC We copy.
time. We're out of range of Hawaii. After a very brief
pass through that tracking antenna, crew informing us they
did not hear a call at Tananarive, apparently that signal
going up to the crew was not very strong. And also at this
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pass we've been informed that the M509 run has been completed
with several of the discretionary maneuvers, that included
the rescue activity and also the work with maneuvering a
large water can, 5-gallon water can. Several discretionary
maneuvers in addition to the basic or base line maneuvers that
were scheduled for the crew today. That's the fifth run of
the M509 astronaut maneuvering unit for this flight. However,
we have no idea of how many more may be available during the
next couple of weeks as the Skylab crew completes their Mission.
And the ATM activities have been working been concluded except
for one pass which Science Pilot Ed Gibson will make during
the presleep period tonight is one more opportunity in daylight
cycle. Right now we're in daylight, coming up to the end
of the daylight period. And the crew should be sitting down
to eat some meals at this point. This is their evening meal
period coming up. This is Skylab Control, the evening status
report is scheduled for 22 minutes after the hour, that's the
next coming pass at Vanguard. It's now 59 minutes and 45 seconds
after the hour.
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SL-IV MC2329/I
Time: 19:21 CDT 67:00:21 GMT
1/20/74
PAO SkylaL Control at zero hours 21 minutes

Greenwich mean time. The Skylab space station now off the
coast of Chile is 50 seconds from acquisition of signal through
the Vanguard tracking ship. This pass through Vanguard
should last about 10-1/2 minutes. Spacecraft Communicator is
Hank Hartsfleld. This is the evening status report. We should
get a rundown on todays photographic activities and sleep
periods and other details about the crews activities since
they awakened this morning at 11:00 Greenwich mean time.
We're live now for air-to-ground at Vanguard.
CC Skylab, Houston, through Vanguard for
9-1/2 minutes, and we're standing by for the evening status
report.
CDR You ready to copy, Hank?
CC Okay, we're back with you now, Jet. We
we had a little trouble acquiring there. We broke (garble)
We got you - yeah, we're ready to go right now.
CDR Okay, photo log will be along in a minute.
Sleep: CDR, 7.0, 5 heavy, 2 light; SPT, 7.0, 6 heavy, 1
light; PLT, 7.0, all heavy. Water gun: CDR, 8722; SPT,
4675; PLT, 1106. No volumes tonight. CDR's, on weight:
6320, 6321, 6317; SPT, 6385, 6387, 6387; PLT, 6248, 6251,
6250. Exercise: no change for anyone. Medication: CDR,
none; SPT, none; PLT, Sudafed and Afrln times 2 - Afrin
once at noon and once this evening. Clothing: CDR, socks;
SPT, shorts, shirt, and socks; and PLT, none. Food log:
CDR, 8.5 salt, plus one lemonade, plus one peaches_ plus 1.0
water; SPT, 5.0 salt, plus applesauce, no water; PLT, 7.0
salt, plus one coffee, plus one grape punch, plus one tuna,
minus 1.0 rehydration water. Flight deviations: none.
Shopping llst accomplishments: all housekeeping is done -
or will he done by the end of the day; SPT, 1-1/2 day passes
of ATM. Inoperable equipment: none. Unscheduled stowage:
none. Okay, the photo log, 16-milllmeter, Mlbl, M092, 171,
Charlie India 79, 09, Charlie India 126. EREP VTS: Charlie
Lima ii, 41. M509 dash 3 Papa, Delta i0, Charlie India 86,
35, Charlle India 80. M509 3 Papa Delta I, Charlle India 81,
38, Charlie India 77. Nikons: number i, Charlle X-ray 41,
05; 2, Bravo Victor, 20, 13; 3, Charlle India 115, 26; 4,
Bravo Echo, i0, 41; 5, Bravo Hotel 06, 31. 70-milllmeter:
Charlie X-ray 46, 090. ETC: Charlle India 12, 027. EREP:
Set Yankle 9425, 8764, 9639, 9630, 3176, 0050. Drawer A
configuration: Alfa i, 02, Charlie India 86, 35, Charlle
India 80. Alfa 2, no change, Alfa 3, 06, Charlle India 79,
09, Charlie India 126, Alfa 4, 08, Charlie India 81, 38,
Charlie India 77. Back: no change. Okay, Hank, I guess
you'd better add a flight plan deviation. That is we did
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not do Delta Papa 24.

CC Roger, we copy.
CDR And, Hank, what again is the time for my
private call?
CC Roger, Jerry, it's at 01:30 at Hawaii,
left antenna. It could be a little ratty right in the middle,
but it's the best we could do. And there won't be another
warning for this because the next pass is your med conference
at Tananarive and then the next one's your private call.
CDR Okay, 01:30, left antenna.
CC And the M509 Pls were very pleased with
your runs. They said to pass that to you and they're anxiously
awaiting to get the data back.
CDR Okay. We got quite a bit done. We feel
pretty good about it.
CC It sounds like it went real smooth.
CC CDR, Houston, you closed out the urine
volumes yesterday evening after the evening status report.
And apparently, we may have lost tha= data on the tapes that
we had trouble with there losing data on. I wonder if you could
repeat those for us, if you still have them.
CDR Sure can, 260, 175, 260.
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CC That was quick.

CDR You caught me in the head where the
information is.
CC CDR, Hou - -
SPT Hank - -
CDR Go ahead Hank.
CC Okay, I was just going to tell you that
we're about a minute from LOS and the next site is Tananarive
at 46 with your med conference and after that it's Hawaii at
01:30 with a data recorder dump, And also we're trying to build
a little message here, it's just about completed on doing some
more troubleshooting on this beep frequency that's bugging you
up there, You want us to do that and go ahead and ship it up.
Looks like we arenlt going to have any real time to work
on it here this evening,
CDR Thetis a good idea, Hank.
SpT Hank, could you tell me how many more
orbits 82A has to go on their sequence of of photos?
CC We'll try to get it and where are you
going to sleep tonight Ed.
SPT Probably be in the airlock.
CC Okay, we copy.
SPT I'll try and get a few more in for 82A
tonight after our last run here, but I was just wondering how
many more they had.
PAO Skylab Control at 33 minutes after zero
hour Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station is out of
range of the tracking ship Vanguard. Our next acquisition
is 13 minutes away at Tananarive where we have a private
medical conference scheduled. Evening status report given
up here by the crew indicates 7 hours of sleep for all three
crewmembers last night. And the ground asked the question
about last night's urine volume measurements which were not
gotten at the time of the status report last night and
Jerry Carr came back with a quick reply on the data and the
ground said, "that was really, quick Jerry" and he said, "you
caught me in the head with the information is." And Ed Gibson
informed the ground that he_s going to sleep in the airlock again
tonight. The airlock sleeping compartments a hit cooler than
the rest of the space station and that's no doubt the reason he's
chosen that as a place to sleep_ At the present time the
Skylab temperatures are in the range of about 77 to 78 degrees,
that's down about 3 or 4 degrees from their peak 3 days
ago, And they're expected to continue to come down now over
the nextseveral days as longer night periods are available
for the Skylab crew. And another hit of news, as we came
into acquisition at the Vanguard tracking station we saw
an anomaly again on CMG number 2_ it's getting to be an old
story, This one's the 27th anomaly recorded during the mission.
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And again it follows the usual pattern with a slight increase

in current and a slight reduction in speed and once again the
bearing temperature is crossing over as bearing number 2
becomes warmer than the bearing number 1 and this time by about
1/2 degree or so. In the past of course, bearing number 1
is normally or what we_d usually call normally, bearing number
1 is usually about 2 to 3 degrees warmer than number 2 and
during these so-called anomalies we see bearing number 2 warm
up a bit and surpass temperature of bearing number i. It's
getting to the point where the anomalies are more normal than
the normal periods. 35 minutes after the hour, our next
acquisition at Tananarive will be a private medical conference
and we do not expect to have air-to-ground with the crew. So
the pass after that is Hawaii at 55 minutes away and we expect
to hear from the crew there, this is Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
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Time: 20:29 CDT 67:01:29 GMT
1/20/74

CC - through Hawaii for about i0 minutes
and we'll be dumping the recorder here.
CDR Roger, Hank.
SPT Houston, SPT.
CDR Go ahead.
SPT Hello Hank. I'm beginning to see a
little brightening in the XUV in active region 21, and I'm
wondering if there's anything down on the ground to correlate
with that brightening? Either a plage or in the H-alpha,
which I can see a slight enhancement in, but not very much,
but anything in the X-REA or any other indicators they might
have available.
CC Okay. We'll check it and our X-REA is
reading background.
SPT Thank you. The last solar activity
update we got said that the probability may be going up for
a flare in that region due to the configuration changing a
bit, and I'm wondering whether we're seeing the result of
that.
CC Skylab_ Houston. For info, we've up-
linked two messages regarding the checkout comm checkout
on the 6-hertz buzz that's been bugging you with the B
frequency, and this is our last pass of the evening unless
you got the chance to do any of that tonight during the
PSA and wanted to call down some results.
SPT Okay. Thank you Hank. Are they planning
on operating in unattended on the next two passes for ATM?
CC That's affirmative.
SPT Okay. I may be up here just looking
over their shoulder, but I won't interrupt their program.
CC Ed, we got an awful lot of pads to get
up tonight. As you noticed we had to send you up two com-
plete Flight Plans_ a primary and an alternate, and we'd like
to continue uplinking as long as possible, so if you plan
to stay up a little late, I wonder if it'd be convenient to,
oh, I don_t know how wetd work it, but some way if we knew
when you were going to go to sleep, we could stop uplinking.
SPT Hank, it probably won't take you more
than 2 or 3 hours, and I'ii probably be up at least another
2, so why don't you go ahead and uplink until you're finished,
and I'Ii probably be able to get to sleep.
SPT The beep kind of cancels out the wood-
pecker.
CC (Laughter) Roger. We copy.
CC Okay Ed_ how does it sound if we plan to
uplink through 04:00? Would that bother you?
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SPT No. That's fine, Hank. Go ahead.

CC Skylab, Houston. We're i minute from
LOS. The next site is Vanguard at 02:01. We'll say good
night to you now. We won't talk anymore unless you need us.
And we'll just keep the loop up.
SPT Okay Hank. Thanks. Good night.
time. The Skylab space station is out of range of Hawaii.
That pass through the Hawaiian Islands was described by
Hank Hartsfield as the final pass of the evening. We may
hear from the crew again, but it's not planned to communicate
with them, And Ed Gihson indicated that he would be sleeping
in the airloek module earlier in the evening. That's the
cooler area in the workshop. The workshop area itself is
about 77 to 78 degrees right new, so that's a bit warm for
the science pilot. And down in the airlock module he can
hear the sound of a beep tkat_s been produced by one of the
Skylab's _ some of the Skylab hardware, but he says that the
beep cancels out the woodpeckerp whick is the name the crew
has been using for the teleprinter, The teleprinter is going
to be kept running until 04:00 Greenwich mean time. That's
about an kour past the normal sleep time for the crew. But
Ed Gibson indicated that wouldn't disturb him particurlarly
and ke did expect to he up, probably a little later than
the schedule calls for. Last night the crew - all three
crewmembers slept 7 hours, wkich would indicate that they
went to bed a little bit beyond the normal sleep time schedule.
And yesterday Science Pilot Ed Gibson took some time to
describe the ATM operations in detail. This is part of an
extended program to determine the suitability of the equipment
for future space missions. All of the Skylab hardware is
evaluated very carefully by the crewmemhers for its per-
formance, its limitations, and its advantages. All of these
things will help future mission planners in determining the
type of hardware and the type of facilities that should be
available for astronauts iR the shuttle era. And Commander
Carr indicated that yesterday or last evening he had taken
a number of photographs during the day. Part of the optional
assignments under the visual observations program, that's
probably the most important of the new activities on the final
Skylab mission. Among his photographic activities yesterday
were
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Time: 20:42 CDT 66:01:42 GMT
1/20/74
PAO - photography assignments under visual

observations program that's probably the most important of
the new ac activities on the final Skylab mission. Among
his photographic activities yesterday were taking - he took
some photographs of the Rocky Mountains at a low Sun angle.
The Denver area, he said that he thought with the snow cover
showing up very clearly, it should be interesting photographs
for geologists. He also took photographs of the sand dunes in
Saudi Arabia, using the stereo photography technique that the
Skylab crew was taught before they went into orbit. That -
that technique calls for them to take pictures at about 4 to
5 second intervals, which gives a slightly different angle
on each photo and allows them to be combined into stereo
photography. And also he indicated he had taken pictures of
the Black Hills of South Dakota_ and of lake ice and lake
circulation in the Great Lakes, particularly in Lake Superior
near the south shore. Said he saw some nice indications of
the flow of ice there. And some pictures of the Hudson Bay
area in particular James Bay. That Hudson Bay area had been
photographed about a week and a half ago, and it should give
some indications, because the weather was fairly clear, of
changes in the Hudson Bay over a period of time. And then,
they also took some photographs of pack ice and ice plumes in
the area off Newfoundland to the northeast of Newfoundland,
up in the - near the Arctic Circle. Crew indicated earlier
that other members of the crew had taken pictures of Yugoslavia
and also some pictures of the Hawaiian Islands with their
telephoto camera. They also took pictures of the Aleutians
of Alaska. And the commander also indicated last night that
he had taken some pictures of the southern end of Kamchotka
in the Soviet Union. Our next acquisition is about 17 minutes
away. We do net expect to ha_e communications there. We'll
record any pass any activity during the pass over Vanguard.
We're still awaiting the evening health report from the
mission surgeon_ and we_ll bring that to you as soon as it's
available, This is Skylab Control at 44_I/2 minutes after the
hour.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC2333/I
TIME: 21:00 CDT, 67:02:00 GMT
1/20/74
PAO Skylab Control at 2 hours Greenwich mean

time. We're now comin up on Vanguard. We believe there may be
some conversation here as the teleprinter pads are being
completed here at Mission Control. They're going to send
up the messages slightly out of the usual order and they want
to - probably inform the crew this evening of that fact. They
may postpone that until tomorrow morning, but we'll bring
the line up anyway, We also have the Mission Surgeon's
daily report on crew health. We'll read that for you after
the conclusion of this pass. The present time at over the
Hawaii station, we thought we had a sign that the CMG problem
was clearing up, however, by the end of that pass we noticed
that the CMG still seems to be slightly out of it's proper
range of behavior with the temperatures very close together
and a very slight reduction in speed and a slight increase
in the current on wheel for CMG number 2. We're coming up
live now at Vanguard and we_ll bring the line up here.
CMG number 2 now does appear to be back towards it's normal
range. The speed has increased slightly and the currents
are about normal.
SPT Hello Hank, how would you like an H-alpha

frame count and all of the others.
CC Okay, go ahead Ed.
SPT 9391, 552, 51, 131, 1769, 4035. And Hank
I didn't get the pointing right at active region 16. I'll do
that at the beginning of the next orbit.
CC Okay, we copy.
CDR Hank, I've got an addition to evening
status.
CC Go ahead.
CDR Okay_ on my menu, have them add another
grape drink.
CC We copy,
CC And CDR, Houston Just for info, since
wet've got such a backlog of pads to get up tonight, we are
not getting them up in the order we generally get them up.
For example, wetre in the process of getting your maneuver
pads up if they're not already up, And the EREP pad won't
come until later.
CDR No problem, Hank. Oh, we got a bundle
of EREP tomorrow dontt we?
CC You sure do.
CDR I sure hope the weather holds.
CC If we knew now which - which one we were
going to do, we could sure save ourselves a lot of pads.
CDR You bet. Well, we're getting kind of
tired of nadir swaths and special 02s up here. We'd llke to
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TIME: 21:00 CDT, 67:02:00 GMT
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see some good targets for a change.

CC So would we.
CDR Have you sent that comm troubleshooting
pad up yet?
CC Roger, they should both be onboard there.
CDR Okay, I think I'ii jump right into it
right now.
CC Okay and we're about 40 seconds from LOS,
the next site will be Hawaii at 03:08 if you need us.
CDR Okay, 03:08 if I find anything special,
I'ii call you.
CC Okay.
PAO Skylab Control at 2 hours ii minutes
Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station now out of range
at Vanguard and about an hour before our next acquisition.
That should be the final pass of the evening. CMG number 2
as I reported a little earlier was behaving erratically for
about an hour and a half, it's now apparently moved back
into the normal range. The temperatures difference about
i_i/2 degrees now. Speed's still a little bit low but
approximately moving back towards the normal range and the
currents are right about where they should be. And also
a number of teleprinter pad's being sent up, a very extensive
package for tomorrow's activity. Tomorrow schedule includes
three Earth resources passes although two of them will be made
on the same maneuver, Those Earth resources pass include a
geothermal sites on on the west coast of the United States
and also an Earth resources pass over Africa. Tomorrow's
activities should keep the crew very busy, they have a medical
experiment scheduled for Pilot Bill Pogue, the M092, MO93
experiments. That includes limb blood flow and that's scheduled
for around lunch tomorrow, just before the crew sits down
to eat. And total of almost 4 hours of data gathering on
the Sun. Most of that time set aside for Science Pilot Ed Gibson.
And also a number of minor experiments including a changeout
of Earth resources tape tomorrow, one of the things scheduled
to take place tomorrow is S190 - S183 operations. That's
scheduled for late evening and Jerry Carr will probably be
performing the operations, And a great many handheld photo-
graphic opportunities tomorrow including a number of scheduled
opportunities and about half a dozen optional opportunities,
handheld photography getting a special emphasis here at the
end of the mission as scientist on the ground become more
aRd more aware of it's potential, And a great deal of film
still left available for the crew so they're making very
good use of that. During the last pass Jerry Carr mentioned
that he hoped that the three Earth resources passes for tomorrow
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are good ones and that the weather's good. Right now
weather conditions appear to be fairly satisfactory for
those passes. He said that he is pretty tired of nadir
swaths and special 02s. A nadir swath is a path in which
the S191 which is the infarred spectrometer, the only pointable
instrument that the Skylab craw uses. A nadir swath just
asked that the 191 he pointed directly at the ground below
the space station and it catches essentially anything that's
underneath. And special 02s are general searches where
the operator of the viewflnder tracking system for 191
searches the area to see what looks like it might he
interesting to point at and that generally is an indication
that the cloud cover is rather heavy and there's not much to do
except to make a search for a target that has not been seen
before. The crew has had an opportunity to look a great deal
of weather activity and -
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SL-IV" MC2334/I
Time: 21:13 CDT 67:02:13 GMT
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PAO - that the cloud cover's rather heavy and

there's not much to do except to make a search for targets that
have not been seen before. Crew has had an opportunity to look
at a great deal of weather activity and spend a lot of time
studying the oceans with the Earth resources instruments and - of
course, that's not nearly so interesting to the observer as
a good pass over the Earth. But tomorrow's activities should
give them a good chance to see a fairly large part of the
United States on two passes, and also a section of Africa
on a third pass. Astronauts Cart, Gibson, and Pogue made
their 27th Earth survey today using electronic sensors and
cameras along a 4300 man - 4300 mile pass that covered the
northern United States. Our solar physiist Gibson observed
the Sun through Skylab's large telescopes. His fellow
astronauts tested a nitrogen powered backpack that should be a
valuable aid to space workers in the 1980_s. Today's test flight
of the maneuvering unit will help designers at Johnson Space
Center determine whether the backpack will permit astronauts
to repair satellites_ assemble space stations, or other com-
plex hardware, and perhaps perform rescues with the space
shuttle that's now being developed. Skylab's number 2 gyro-
scope which is used to hold the laboratory steady during
studies of the Earth_ Sun, and stars, behaved erratically
much of the day. Flight controllers are hopeful that the
c - crew can complete their 84 day flight using the two back-
up systems, the thruster attitude control system and the
control _ the command module's reaction control system. A
real time decision on that will have to be made, of course.
We have the mission surgeon's daily report on crew health.
And I'ii read that for you at this time. The crew remains
in good health, to prevent ear blockage during or after his
suited M509 run, the pilot took an oral and a topical medica-
tion with good results. The crew indicated during their
status report this evening that they had - that the pilot
had used a Sudafed and Afrin Sudafed, an inJested or
swallowed medication and Afrin is a topical or rubdown medi_
cation for the ear. So everything see-ms to be workin B smoothly
now, as the CMG has come back to a normal operation again.
Seven anomalies in the last two days, though, and that's a
cause for some concern here in Mission Control. It is, however,
quite conceivable now that they have the capability of re-
maining in space through the 84 day mission with the splash-
down on February 8. A real time decision will have to be made,
however, if CMG number 2 does fail. This is our final pass of
the evening. Skylab will be back tomorrow morning at 6 a.m.,
this is Skylab Control at 16 minutes and 18 seconds after the
hour.
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SL-IV MC2335/I
Time: 22:22 CDT 67:03:22 GMT
1/20/74
PAO This is Skylab Control, this is Skylab

Control, 03:21 Greenwich mean time. Skylab IV crew still
not in bed, and we had a brief exchange between Mission Control
and the crew of space station Skylab over the Hawaii tracking
station, this last pass, which we'll replay now.
CDR Houston, CDR.
CC Go ahead.
CC CDR, we read you, go ahead.
CDR Roger, Hank, I did the two tests that you
sent up. And test number 2 was a bummer and nothing happened
there, but on test number ip audio system buffer amp number I,
when you open that breaker, the beep frequency stops. When
you close the breaker amp, the b frequency fades back in again very
slowly.
CC Roger, we copy.
CDR And I've got it on the video tape recorder
as well. So if you want to dump that over the States, you
can listen to it and hear my comment.
CC Skylab_ Houston, is the SPT still at the
ATM console?
CDR He's moving back and forth between them,
what do you need?
CC Okay, we just had indications that some
of the doors were open. Thought he was maybe at the panel.
We need - do have or need to get detector number 3 off on
S055,
CDR Okay.
PLT Hank, do you have the recorders?
CC We had to take these, Bill, l'm sorry I
didn't tell you. We're - wetre all full up and short of
sites, all the recorders are full.
PLT Okay, I'ii give the 509 debrief tomorrow,
then.
CC Okay_ as soon as this pass is over, Bill,
you can have it back.
CC Skylab, Houstonp we're about 50 seconds
from LOS. We'll smoke over t_at report you gave us, Jerry,
and for t_e SPT. If you just close out for unattended ops
for us when it gets through, that_ll be fine and wetll say
good night to you. Have a good night's rest.
CDR Okay, thank you, Hank_ good night.
SPT Thank you, Hank. I think I got the panel
set up, so you should be able to operate it, if there is any_
thing, let me know new. The only thing I plan to do when I
leave is to turn off the monitors and close the XUV monitor
door.
CC Okay_ and we're seeing a funny on H-alpha i
door. D - That doesn't show closed or open.
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SPT Yeah, I have a white indication here, also.

CC Okay, Ed, if you want to work on that
H-alpha 1 door it's fine, if you don't, okay. But, you know, to
cycle the motor power and open and close the door to try to
get it back in sync.
SPT Okay, Hank.
PAO This is Skylab Control. That completes
playback of the Hawaii pass. Past bedtime for the crew of
Skylab IV. This is Skylab Control at 03:25 Greenwich mean
time.
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SL-IV MC-2336/I
Time: 06:07 CDT 07:11:11 GMT
1/21/74
PAO Skylab Control, Greenwich mean time ii

hours 7 minutes, mission day 67 in the flight of Skylab IV,
January 21, mission day 252 for the Skylab workshop in orbit
since May 14. Wakeup call on the 67th day coming through
Carnarvon tracking station. CAP COMM is Dr. William Thornton,
Flight Director, Don Puddy. We'll bring the line up for
this Carnarvon pass.
CC (Music: The Party's Over).
CC Skylab, Houston, LOS in 2 minutes, Honey'suckle
at ii_18.
SPT Morning, Bill.
CC Good morning. How goes it?
SPT Pretty good, Bill. How are things down
there?
CC Well, the Sun was up for the first time in
a long t_me yesterday, shining on all the water.
SPT Good, maybe we'll get a good look at you
today.
CC Skylab, we're AOS for another 4 minutes
here,
CC Skylab, LOS in 2 minutes. Texas at 11:51.
SPT Okayp Bill, are you going to have some
news for us at Texas?
SPT Good show.
CC (Music: "I Get Misty").
PAO Skylab Control_ Greenwich mean time ii
hours 24 minutes. Wakeup through the Carnarvon tracking
station with a Julie London version of "The Party is Over"
Discussion between CAP COMM Ed Gibson - Science Pilot Ed Gibson,
and CAP COMM Dr. William Thronton followed by another Julie
London record of "Misty". Average temperatures aboard the
space station this morning at wakeup call is 75 degrees, down
yet another degree from yesterdayts wakeup time. Spacecraft
presently in its 3,636th revolution. The crew has been spinning
around the Earth for 951 times. The orbit is 240.6 by 231.8,
and the spacecraft is traveling at a speed of 14,895 nautical
miles per hour. Monday's Flight Plan for Skylab IV crew is
heavy on Earth resources data gathering with three passes planned,
weather permitting. The rest of the day is devoted to medical
and solar physics experiments. Science Pilot Ed Gibson will
make five telescope mount passes during the day, and the
S183_ ultraviolet panarama experiment, will be placed in the
sc_entlf£c airlock to record data. Medical experiments are
the M092, lower body negative pressure, M093 vectocardiogram
duo, with Pilot Bill Pogue as the subject and Commander
Gerald Cart as the observer. Under electronic and photographic
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scruntiy for the first Earth resources experiment pass today

are crop and forest inventories in the Sudan, and weather, ice,
and sea state studies on the following revolution across the
Atlantic with EREP 34. Under study in the third EREP pass
are such diverse features as ocean productivity off the U.S.
East Coast, snow cover and run off in the West Coast, water
resources in Kansas, weather systems over the continental United
States, crops and forests in Colombia, and storms of the South
American, off the South American continent. Data take times
are 9:00 a.m. to 9:09 a.m. central daylight time along track
59, 10:08 to 10:33 central daylight time along track 62, and
EREP 30 3:01 to 3:28 p.m. central daylight time for the third
EREP. Crew assignments for EREP are with the Commander at
t_e VTS, Science Pilot on the Earth terrain camera, and the
P_lot on the control and display panel.
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Time: 06:28 CDT 67:11:28 GMT
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PA0 3:01 to 3:28 p.m. central daylight

time for the third EREP. Crew assignments for the EREP are
with the commander at the VTS, the science pilot on the
Earth terrain camera, and the pilot on the control and dis-
play panel. Optional and scheduled and handheld photo tar-
gets are upwelling and plankton blooms, Mexican earthquake,
sea ice in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, rift zones in East
Africa, which the crew did take yesterday, the Serengeti
Plains in Tanzania, sediment plumes and lake ice in Lake
Ontario, Florida current and gulf stream, Gulf of Mexico
current, gulf stream, entral American fault zones, volcanic
fields in Mexico, and the Goddard Space Flight Center's
laser emitting a red light at watt continuous output - at
i watt continuous output. The G&N officer reports two
more glitches during the early morning hours of mission
day 67, the 20 - one beginning at 00:23 Greenwich mean
time. This lasted for approximately i hour, and one
which began at 08:53 Greenwich mean time at approximately
3:53 this morning. This one is still in progress at the
present time. The G&N officer reports that the glitch is
following the same pattern, the normal pattern of the wheel
speed, going down slightly and amp - amperes going up as
well as temperatures going up in control moment gyro number 2.
Today's glitches added to yesterday's series plus all those
that occurred since the first glitch in the CMG now total
28, 19 of which have occurred since the heaters were manually
controlled from the ground on mission - on day 356. Next
acquisition through Texas in 22 minutes. This is Skylab
Control at Greenwich mean time ii hours 29 minutes.
ii hours 50 minutes with acquisition coming through Texas,
first stateside pass for the crew today, mission day 67.
CAP COMM is Dr. William Thornton, presently a changeover
in progress here in Mission Control center. Neil Hutchin-
son, flight director for the crimson team, taking over the
reins of the MOCR from Flight Director, Don Puddy. The
plotboard here at the control center changed, the - Leave
the line up for CAP COMM William Thornton.
CC Skylab, Houston, AOS for 16 minutes.
We'll be dumping the tape recorder over MILA at 11:54.
PLT Roger, Bill. We're standing by for
the news.
CC Okay. A couple of other things first.
There's been a change here in plans specifically change
from the primary to the alternate Flight Plan. That will -
that means that track 35 is the only good track on the EREP,
the others are cancelled, and there're a couple of questions
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here for you before we get into the news. Did you leave
the blower separator of chiller 1 on last night? The urine
chiller temp is higher than normal.
PLT Bill, after checking it it looks like
it probably was. It was checked, it was still going this
morning.
CC Okay. And the OWS bus currents were
high last night and previous nights. Were you doing any-
thing different in the OWS during the sleep period?
PLT We can't think of anything else, Bill,
that we were doing.
CC Okay, we copy that. And we mentioned
that the - the Z-LV maneuver pad, for pass 33, were sent be-
fore 33 and 34 were cancelled, so just ignore those. Also,
sometime today bring up all the SIAs as you go by them.
PLT Roger.
CC And from this morning's news in Tel Aviv:
says a U.S. official Syrian President Hafez Assad has
softened his refusal to turn over a list of about 120
Israeli POWs held in Syria. This could mean a breakthrough
in Kissinger's efforts to get a troup pullback between the
Syrians and Israelis similar to the one he got last week
between the Egyptians and Israelis. From Saigon: A Chinese
amphibious force of up to 500 men backed up by MIGs seized
the last of the Paracel Islands in the South China Sea.
Said the Chinese overran 150 South Vietnamese troups and
ended the 2-day air, sea and ground battle for the islands,
which are prized as a possible jumping off point for off-
shore oil exploration. Anything that happens now seems to
be interpreted in terms of oil. For example, the Next
item is President Arnold Miller of the United Mine Workers
union said oil reserves owned by oil companies have gone -
that's coal reserves have gone undeveloped because the oil
industry seeks - seeks to keep petroleum dominant in the
energy market. And Miller's calling for pro - congressional
investigation in this practice. And Representative Harring-
ton, D-Massachusetts, said he will introduce a bill to the House of
Representatives for public financing of at least seven new
oil refineries. Stock would be offered to encourage broad-
based ownership and individual corporations would be set
up to run each refinery. And France is allowing the franc
to float on the market, as you may have been told, may
expect the value to drop when the markets open Monday, but
that the devaluation will be limited to 4.5 to 5.0 percent.
And this floating is supposed to go on for 6 months.
Maybe it_ll be a little easier to pick up French wines now.
And Argentina: Guerrillas attacked a 2000-man army garrison
at Azul but were routed after 6 hours of fighting. Front
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1/21/74
CC - - offered to encourage broad based

ownership and individual corporations would be set up to
run each refinery.
CC And France is allowing the frank to
float on the market, as yon may have been told. They expect
the value to trop (sic) when the markets open Monday, but that the
devaluation will be limited to 4-1/2 to 5 percent. And this
floating is supposed to go on for 6 months. Maybe it'll
be a little easier to pick up French wines now. In Argentina
guerrilas attacked a 2000-man army garrison at Azul but were
routed after 6 hours of fighting. Finally, in Lexington,
Kentucky some i0,000 persons registered for prizes at
the opening of a new bank building. The winner of the first
prize was a vice president of the competing bank. "Those guys
will do anything to get a competitor out of town," he said
as he left on an upcoming eight-day trip to Europe, which
was the first prize.
CC And, Skylab, that's about the extent
of the news here. What's new on Skylab.
CDR We're pressing on, Bill.
SPT Generate a flare today down there, will
you, Bill?
CC Try to.
SPT Houston, SPT.
CC Go ahead, SPT.
SPT Okay, what had you done with the H-ALPHA
DOOR last night? We had a white indication yesterday and
I think the ground worked the problem from there on.
CC Stand by 1 just a second.
SPT When I came up this morning we had a
DOOR OPEN indication, however, we had no TV display. I
Just cycled the DOOR CLOSE and then OPEN, and I finally
got the display and a gray talkback.
CC SPT, what happened is that the motor
was inhibited and then reenabled, and this simply changes
the talkback without actually changing the configuration.
And we understand that you do have the DOOR OPEN now.
SPT That's affirm, Bill. As you were going
over the hill last night they mentioned I could do it but
I wasn't sure which motor you were working on, so I declined
and let the ground do it. Which one are you working?
CC The primary.
SPT Thank you.
CC And to repeat, the DOOR was CLOSE all
night, Ed.
SPT Thank you, Bill.
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CC Skylab, we'll be LOS in i minute. We'll

have you at Madrid at 12:12.
SPT Roger.
12 hours 9 minutes. On this stateside pass the crew was
informed weather has again crept into the scene, and as
a result EREP pass number 33 and number 34, actually EREP passes
number 28 and 29, have been canceled for today due to weather.
However, EREP pass over the states later will be - later
this afternoon will be carried out. The crew now reverts
to the alternate Flight Plan which adds additional hours on
the ATM. Originally only 3 hours and 59 minutes was scheduled.
The cancellation of EREP along track 59 and track 60, those
that block of time will be used for ATM observations, raising
total ATM observation total time to 7 hours and 12 minutes.
EREP pass number 35 along groundtrack 62 is still scheduled
however. Acquisition coming through Madrid in 2 minutes.
We'll leave the line up for CAP COMM Dr. Story Musgrave.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC-2339/I
Time: 07:12 CDT 67:12:12 GMT
01/21/74
CC Skylab, Houston. AOS for 7 minutes.

SPT Hello, Bill. Is the VTR available?
CC That's affirm. It's available. And,
Ed, we want you to put the H-alpha i NIGHT INTERLOCK switch
into the NORMAL position.
SPT It's there.
CC Thank you.
CC Skylab, we'll be LOS in i minute.
Carnarvon at 12:50.
SPT So long, Bill.
PAO Skylah Control. Greenwich mean time
12 hours 22 minutes with loss of signal through Madrid. As
Skylab begins its 3637th revolution of the Earth. Brief pass
upcoming through Tananarlve, very low pass, i minute in
duration. The next pass will be Carnarvon in 27 minutes
and 30 seconds. A change in today's Flight Plan due to
bad weather, again scrubbing two of the EREP passes today
along - EREP pass number 33 and number 34, along ground-
track 59 and 60 have been cancelled. ATM viewing time will
be put in those that time slot. A total of 7 hours and
12 minutes now alotted for ATM viewing time today. EREP
pass number 35 along groundtrack number 62 is still on
schedule for today. Next acquisition in 26 minutes and
45 seconds through Carnarvon. This is Skylab Control at
Greenwich mean time 12 hours 23 minutes.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC2340/I
TIME: 07:49 CDT, 67:12:49 GMT
1/21/74

12 hours 49 minutes. Acquisition coming through the
Carnarvon tracking station. We've had a changeover here at Mission
Control Center. New Flight Director Nell Hutchinson, CAP
COMM will be Bruce McCandless. We'll bring the line up for
this Carnarvon pass 2 minutes and 12 seconds duration.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Carvarvon
for 2 minutes. Over.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Carnarvon.
Over.
CDR Go ahead, Bruce.
CC Okay, Jerry, after the trim burn and before
13:24, we'd like you to get us a sextant sighting. And I've
got the shaft and trunnion angles for you.
CDR Okay, go ahead.
CC Okay, first star is Regulus shaft 135.7,
trunnion 18.7; second star, Spiea 292.2, 36.5. Read back.
Over.
CDR Okay, Regulus 135.7, 18.7; Spica 292.2,
36.5.
CC Roger. You've got it. And following
the trim burn when you come back to reconfigure the ATM
rate gyros you've got some blanks and we'd like to use a 4 in
the redundancy management commands. Over.
CDR Roger.
CC Roger. That's a 4 in the blanks; three
places.
CC And we got about 20 seconds to LOS. Next
station contact in 36 minutes through Goldstone at 13:28.
12 hours 54 minutes. Loss of signal through Carnarvon. Next
acquisition in 33 minutes and 10 seconds through Goldstone.
Discussion with the crew concerning new star angles following
a trim burn. Trim burn is scheduled to be made between
the - this tracking station and Goldstone at Greenwich mean
time 13 hours and 12 minutes. Commander Gerald Cart will
perform a trim burn from the command module. It'll be a
10-second burn of the plus-X RCS system using 4 quads. The
resulting DELTA-V will be 7/10 of a foot per second
burn. This will increase the orbit slightly of the Skylab
space station. Its current orbit is 241 by 231.9 nautical
miles. This will put it in a 241 by 232.2 nautical-mile
altitude. The spacecraft - this maneuver is designed to
put the spacecraft back on a desired groundtrack for Earth
resources activities. Presently the spacecraft is 3.5 nautical
miles off the desired track, east of the desired track. This
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burn or roll (?) - it is being made this morning at Greenwich

13 hours and 12 minutes. It'll be approximately 6 days
before the spacecraft is back on the desired track. It's
off 3.5 right now. It'll be back on the desired track in
approximately 3 days according to the flight dynamics officer.
This is the third trim burn for this mission; two were made
in Skylab-III. So, now a total of 5 trim burns made for
the Skylab space station. Next acquisition in 31 minutes
and 20 seconds through Goldstone. This is Skylab Control
at Greenwich mean time 12 hours 57 minutes.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC-2341/I
Time: 08:27 CDT 67:13:27 GMT
01/21/74

13 hours 27 minutes. Acquisition coming through the Gold-
stone tracking station in 50 seconds. Pilot Bill Pogue,
today, the subject of a pair of medical experiments, M092,
M093, lower body negative pressure device and vectorcardio-
gram. This is the 18th time Pilot Pogue has performed the
MG92 experiment. Twenty-six experiment performances of this
M092 is scheduled for him, for the mission and this will be the
17th time he's performed the M093. Again, 26 scheduled
performances for the Skylab IV mission. Also on tap today
is the limb blood flow measurements. These have been accom-
plished on each crewman already 18 times. Leave the line
up for CAP COMM Bruce McCandless, on this stateside pass.
CC Houston, through Goldstone and Corpus
Christi, Merritt Island and Bermuda for 16-1/2 minutes. Over.
SPT Roger, Bruce.
CC Okay, we're standing by for the shaft
and trunnion readouts from the sextant shots that Jerry took.
And, point of information, the handheld 170 optional first
opportunity on T053, that is this track past Goddard, has
been scrubbeddue to weather. Over.
SPT Roger, Bruce, (garble)
CDR Roger, Bruce, copy. The shaft and
trunnion. You're real close today. Regulus, 135.8, 18.8;
Spica, 292.3 and 36.7.
CC Roger, we copy that. And, we'd llke to
take the VTR at this time, and start reconfiguring for dump.
Also, there's been an active aurora class 4 out of 5 reported
in the northern hemispherec. You can take photos per permanent
message number 18 Bravo, if desired. And, a quick comment
on the SIA status, we asked you to turn them back on this
morning, so that we could verify that there was no connection
between turning the SIAs off to conserve power and the birth
of your 6-hertz noise. We think it's fairly important to
get the source of this thing pinned down because the alter-
natives, that is leaving the buffer amps i circuit breaker
open and reconfiguring are not all that desirable. One option
has us doing everything that is recording and transmitting
on channel A, which cuts you out of your flexibility and the
other option involves patching directly into one of the tape
recorders, with the onboard patch, but that's not so good
either because that removes our capability to redesignate
recorders from the ground. Over.
CDR Roger, Bruce. We already did that yester-
day and it had no effect.
CC Okay. Understand all the SIAs are on,
CDR They were all put on yesterday and they
had no effect. I put them back off and I haven't gotten around
to putting them all back on today.
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CC Okay, we copy. And, now I'll turn you

over to the ATM scientist here, for ATM conference. Over.
SPT Okay, we're ready up here, go ahead.
MCC Okay, Ed. Fine. You -
SPT Morning, Bill.
MCC You've got a pass here to start shortly,
so don't let me talk you into missing some things here. Just
let me quickly give you a few words on the Sun. We've already
indicated prominence 83, we do expect some activity_ it's
spent most of the night with mass flowing from the fila -
from the filament prominence area itself up into the active
region 16 area. Although we do not expect anything explosive
to occur there, it is possible. An occasional subflare out
of 31 is also possible, maybe an occasional subflare out of
21. 21 does retain the possibility of minor energetic events,
although they're not very likely. In white light - active
region 21 is way down, and active region 16, good potential
for surges most of the day.
SPT Bill, you cut out after saying the
information about active region 21 white light.
MCC Okay, the only other thing I added was
that active region 16 maintains good potential for surging
throughout the day here.
SPT Okay.
MCC Okay, and we have a handover coming up,
so stand by. Okay, it's finished, so we can press on here.
One last - well, let me get t0,the last point first here so
I don't miss it. The Shuttl- type planning meeting we're
going to hold this morning, if you've got any particular inputs
as to operations modes that you specifically do want to try,
pass them on to me now. I've read the comments that you've
put on the recorder through about noon yesterday, but I haven't
seen anything since then.
SPT I think that's just about when I finished
it up. Maybe if you could let me know some of the lines that
you're thinking along, in other words specific questions, I
could give you some answers.
MCC Okay, for right now, we haven't had our
first meeting, so other than what I mentioned the other day,
potentials of giving you expanded observing time all the way
up to the extreme of just giving you summary inputs as to
what individual experiments want and givimg you the orbits and
letting you map out the plan. Those are sort of the two extremes
and we probably won't start trying to do anything until late
this week at the earliest.
SPT Okay. I would think that nominal position
would be to move a little step further in the direction of
letting the people on board determine the specific details,
but letting the (garble) mission requirements, if you will,
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film budgeting and requirements on specific types of

observations, but let the (garble) people in the morning,
for example, decide which would be the optimum programs to
carry out that day, based on what they see and then have
something like a JOP summary sheet, but not perhaps as much
detail specified and in other words you could say, well let's
hit a prominence today and then you allow the onboard observer
to come up with the way in which you would - ways in which you
would explore that, in other words rather than calling out every
step. (Static) on a JOP summary sheet, but we wouldn't - wouldn't
dance quite as much on the numbers as I think we have tried to do
here and I think we have moved a little bit away from that and
we'll probably move a little bit further in the future as we
get people who are more specialized and can afford to be more
specialized in training and on orbit.
MCC Okay, Ed, fine. I'll make those inputs
for you today and I can get back to you tomorrow with our
first round of thoughts here and from the looks of the elapsed
time count here, I'd probably sign off and let you get back
to the ATM ops.
SPT Okay, thank you, Bill. And, I'ii get a report
on what we've been looking at and the Sun soon as I get lined up
here.
MCC Okay, fine.
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SL-IV MC-2342/I
Time: 08:35 CDT 67:13:35 GMT
1/21/74
CC CDR, Houston, if we can without inter-

rupting your preps for M092, could you give us a quick
status report on the trim burn?
CDR Okay, Bruce. The trim burn went on time.
No anomalies.
CC Roger. Out.
SPT Incidentally, (garble) I'm using H-alpha 2 for
pointing in active region 21 rather than H-alpha 1 as specified.
I believe that's what we're after.
CC Roger, Ed. And if you could keep your
fingers off the DAS for about 30 seconds we'll send you a
nuZ update.
SPT It's done.
CC Rog. Let our fingers de the walking.
CC SPT, Houston, we're through with the
NuZ update. The DAS is yours, and you also have the VTR
back, 19 minutes remaining_ and we'll ask you for it again
next stateside pass to dump a little more. Over.
SPT Thank you, Bruce.
SPT How much do we have left in this pass?
CC You've got 2 minutes left here at Ber-
muda.
SPT When do we pick you up again?
CC Okay. 1 minute and 54 seconds to LOS.
Next station contact in 6-1/2 minutes through Madrid at
49.
SPT Okay. Thank you.
acquisition through the Madrid tracking station in 2 minutes
i0 seconds. The alternate flight plan today is added - is
doubled the ATM viewing time for the crew from approximately
3 hours to more than 7 hours. Also added in there was the
operation of the S181. This is the 14th time 15th time the
S183 experiment will be used on Skylab IV. Original plans
call for usage of this experiment hardware 23 times through-
out the 84-day mission. Pilot Bill Pogue currently per-
forming the M092/M093 experiment and also limb blood flow
measurements. Each crew member has undergone a limb blow
feed _ limb blood flow measurements 28 times. This is the
17th - 18th performance by Pilot Pogue of the M093 and the
19th performance of the M092. Bring the line up for this
Madrid pass. CAP COMM is Bruce McCandless.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Madrid
for 9 minutes, for the SPT.
SPT Go ahead.
CC Never mind.
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SPT Okay, Houston. Let me give you a short

solar update. Houston, SPT.
CC Go ahead, Ed. Over.
SPT Okay. Are you ready for a short solar
update?
CC Go ahead.
SPT White light coronagraph shows a very
small amount of change except there are some more details visible.
Starting out at 060 we have a fairly faint streamer, which
extends out quite a distance. It's just about radial, from
i00 down to 120. This is at 3 solar radii these dimensions
are made. We have a series of overlapping streamers, and
I could see very faint indications of three streamers as we
move further out at around 4 solar radii. Over on the
east limb we have centered at 270, going to 26 to - up
275 or so, a fairly wide streamer, and then a very diffused
one but not extending out anywhere near as far, at around
270 to 285, a little bit overlapping the previous one.
XUV monitor shows the active regions which we still
have left on the disk, 31 and 21 and 16 all gained about
the same magnitude in brightness now, 21 having a larger
plage of course with connected with 20. 17 made very
weak in XUV. There is another plage between 31 and 17, but
it's relatively weak but distinct. 32 is evident but it's
small. It's not the same intensity, about a step down from
the three major ones, 131, 21 and 16. And then there's a
number of bright points in the region up around 0.4 to 0.7.
(Garble) solar radii 260 to say 300. I see nothing else coming
around the corner on the west limb.
CC Okay. Thank you, Ed.
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TIME: 08:55 CDT, 67:13:55 GMT
1/21/74
SPT I see nothing else coming around the

corner on the west limb.
CC Okay, thank you, Ed.
SPT Houston, would you ask the SO56 people
if they would like some long exposures?
CC That's affirmative, Ed.
SPT Thank you.
CC Skylab, this is Houston; i minute to LOS.
Next station contact in 12 minutes voice only through Tananarive
at 14:10. Out.
PAO Skylab Control, Greenwich mean time 14:00
hours. Loss of signal through Madrid. Next acquisition in
i0 minutes through Tananarive tracking station as the crew
of Skylab IV working this morning on the alternate Flight
Plan following cancellation of the two scheduled EREP passes
this morning, along groundtrack - two EREP passes cancelled
along groundtrack 59 and 60. Groundtrack 62 is still on
tap for this afternoon. Next acquisition in 9 minutes. This
is Skylab Contaol at Greenwich mean time 14:00 hours.
PAO Skylab Control, Greenwich mean time 14 hours
9 minutes. Acquisition coming through Tananarive tracking
station a 9-minute pass. We'll bring the line up for CAP
COMM Bruce McCandless.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Tananarive
for 9 minutes. Out.
CC Skylab, this is Houston; estimated minute
and a half to LOS. Next station contact in 20 minutes through
Honeysuckle Creek at 14:36. Out.
CC Skylab, this is Houston; i minute to LOS.
Next station contact in 19 minutes through Honeysuckle Creek
at 14:36. Out.
PA0 Skylab Control, Greenwich mean time 14 hours
20 minutes with loss of signal through Tananarive, the final
acquisition through Tananarive today. Next acquisition in
15 minutes and i0 seconds throuBh the Honeysuckle tracking
station. At Greenwich mean time 14 hours 20 minutes, this is
Skylah Control.
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Time: 09:35 CDT 67:14:35 GMT
1/21/74

on revolution 3638 in 45 seconds. Here at Mission Control
center the giant plot board has the character of arachnid,
the mascot of the crimson team here under the direction of
Neil Hutchinson, flight director. We'll bring the line up
for CAP COMM Bruce McCandless.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Honey-
suckle Creek for 5-1/2 minutes, starting out with a data/
voice tape recorder dump overdead (?) Over.
SPT Just give me about another 30 seconds
with it, Bruce?
CC Okay; we'll do that.
SPT Okay, Bruce. l'm through with it.
Thanks for holding off.
CC Okay. We'll go ahead and dump it. And
a note here. TV and natural phenomena is not required to
be scheduled in the Summary Flight Plan cycle. You may or
may not have been aware. Over.
SPT Okay. I think we had that general under-
standing, but it's never been made explicit. Thank you.
CC Okay. And as an example today an natural
phenomenon is that we have clear weather over the Mississippi
delta and southern Mississippi, so we'd like to schedule
you for some out-the-window TV of that area during your
EREP pass, and since none of you will have time to handhold
the camera, we'd like you to mount it in the wardroom window
per TV 32. Be sure the video select switch is in TV and
just turn the camera on, and let it run during the pass. We'll
take the pictures live through Corpus Christi and MILA down
here and we'll manage things from the ground. Over.
SPT Okay, Bruce. Could you give us a start
and stop time, or essentially a time over the delta?
CC Well, we'd Just like you to turn it on
coming up over the states and leave her on until after you
pass the states. Over.
SPT Okay.
CC And we'll take care of it from there.
CC Skylab, this is Houston i minute to
LOS. Next station contact in 15-1/2 minutes through Hawaii
at 14:56. Out.
14 hours 43 minutes. Loss of signal through Honeysuckle.
Next acquisition through the Hawaiian tracking station in
12 minutes 45 seconds. The two EREP passes scheduled for
this morning have been scrubbed due to weather. However,
the EREP pass for this afternoon, which begins northwest
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coast of United States and goes down through central part

of the U.S. crossing Mississippi, through the Gulf, and
across the Florida peninsula, ending in the Atlantic Ocean.
Crew has been asked to possibly turn on the TV camera during
this pass, the EREP pass this afternoon, and hopes to catch
some clear weather TV of the gulf Grea. The camera will be
turned on as the EREP pass begins crossing the West Coast
and down through the into the southeast Atlantic, where
it'll be turned off. Next acquisition in ii minutes and
50 seconds through Hawaii. At Greenwich mean time 14 hours
44 minutes, this is Skylab Control.
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Time: 09:55 CDT 67:14:55 GMT
1/21/74
PAO Skylah Control, Greenwich mean time

14 hours 55 minutes. Acquisition coming through Hawaii in
50 seconds, a 7-minute pass. We'll leave the line up for
CAP COMM Bruce McCandless.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Hawaii
for 7 minutes. Out.
CC Skylab, this is Houston i minute to LOS.
Next station contact in 2 minutes, Goldstone at 15:04-1/2.
Out.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Gold-
stone for 9-1/2 minutes. Out.
CC And Skylab, this is Houston. We'd
like to take the VTR at this time and continue dumping,
and when the PLT and CDR are free from having finished M092
I've got a couple of notes for them.
CC Okay, Jer. One item to bear in mind
here is that on these S183 operations in preparation today,
you prep the PLTs 183 and he preps yours, and you have to
use each other's operations pads for these preparations.
Over.
CDR Roger.
CC And for Bill, we're very pleased with
the way 509 ran yesterday and with the general debriefing.
However, we've not been able to find the specific suited
run debriefing. We'd like him to verify the answer to
questions starting on page 33-11, or at his convenience go ahead
and put them on tape. That's 33-11 in maneuvering experiments
checklist.
CDR Okay. He's on the bike now. I'ii pass
the word to him,
CC Okay. And in your S183 pad, Jerry, we've
got a
couple of corrections.
CDR Okay. Go ahead.
CC Okay. The sign time for sunset is
01:28 instead of 01:26, that's about the sixth line down.
You with me?
CDR I'm still looking.
CC Okay. It's on 6728 is the pad. You
come down a - it's about the fourth line of text out there.
Sunset 01:26 and it's really 01:28.
CDR Okay; I got it.
CC Okay. Next line down, CO to REF should
be available 01:17 to 01:28 instead of 16 to 26.
CDR Okay.
CC First line in the next block, CO
Charlie 46 available 01:28 to 01:52 instead of 26 to 50.
CDR Okay.
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CC Two more lines down change 0.6 to 0.4

turns counterclockwise.
CDR Okay.
CC And under remarks it says we want you to
stop exposures to 01:52 instead of 50, and we change 3.9 to
read 3.7 turns, and we're sorry about all this.
CDR Okay. I have it.
CC And that's about it for right now.
CC Skylab, this is Houston I minute to LOS.
Next station contact in 4-1/2 minutes through Bermuda at
15::17. Out.
15 hours 14 minutes. Cancellation of the first two EREP
passes today, the one this afternoon is still scheduled
for a start at 2:59 Greenwich mean time. One of the more
elusive targets not yet captured by the Earth resources
cameras and electronic instruments are the cotton fields
outside of Greenville, Mississippi. These fields are one
of the five targets which because of weather had not been
a subject of EREP instruments during Skylab. If all goes
well, Dr. C. W. Bouchillon, of the Office of Research of Miss-
issippi State University will receive data which will be
helpful in identifying procedures and techniques in pre-
dicting cotton crop yield. Another target today will be in
the Gulf of Mexico where three roots research vessels will
be positioned in the Gulf along the groundtrack. The vessels
out of NASA's Earth Resource Laboratory at the Mississippi
test facility will be gathering ground truth as Skylab
cameras and electronic instruments gather data on the loop
currant which flows along the west coast of Florida and into
the Gulf Stream. Today's EREP pass, the 28th in this
mission, begins 420 miles nauti - 420 nautical miles west
of the coast of Washington and ends just south of the is-
land of Jamaica. The pass covers a groundtrack of 4500
nautical miles. Next acquisition will be through Bermuda,
a 6-minute pass. We'll leave the line up for CAP COMM
Bruce McCandless.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Bermuda
for 6 minutes. The VTR is yours. We're through dumping
it, and when the PLT is free I've got some changes to his S183
pad.
PLT Give you a call later, Bruce.
CC Roger. Will do.
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CC Skylab, this is Houston, i minute to LOS.

Next station contact in 4 minutes through Canary Islands at
15:27. Out.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Canary
for 8 minutes. Out.
CC Skylab, this is Houston, i minute to LOS.
Next station contact in 14 minutes through Tananarive at
15:48. Out.
PAO Skylab Control Greenwich mean time 15
hours 37 minutes with loss of signal through Canary. Next
acquisition will be Tananarive in i0 minutes. The cancellation
of the two EREP passes for this morning gave the crew more
time at the ATM. However, the NOAA people here at the Mission
Control Center report little activity is expected in the next
several days. Most of the active regions the crew has been
watching for the last week or more will slowly be moving
to the back side, out of view of the instruments of the ATM.
They do not expect any spectacular activity for the remainder
of the mission. And as a result the ATM Pl's are budgeting
their film usage for the next several days, however retaining
sufficient film in the event of activity at the latter part
of the mission. Next acquisition will be in 9 minutes and
55 seconds. This is Skylab Control at Greenwich mean time
PAO Skylab Control Greenwich mean time 15 hours
48 minutes. A brief pass through Tananarive. Acquisition
in 40 seconds. We'll bring the line up for CAP COMM Bruce
McCandless.
for 3 minutes. Out.
CC Skylab, this is Houston, I minute to LOS.
at 16:12. Out.
PAO Skylab Control, Greenwich mean time 15 hours
Very brief pass through Tananarive, little conversation with
the crew. Next acquisition in 17 minutes through Honeysuckle
Creek tracking station, with Skylab on its 3,639th revolution,
mission day 252 for the Skylab workshop. Mission day 67 for
the crew of Skylab IV. Next acquisition is 16 minutes 40 seconds.
At Greenwich mean time 15 hours 55 minutes, this is Skylab
Control.
END OF TAPE
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Time: ii:i0 CDT 67:16:10 GMT
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PAO Skylab Cqntrol. Greenwich mean time

16 hours i0 minutes. Acquisition coming through the Honey-
suckle Creek tracking station in 50 seconds. Science Pilot
Ed Gibson at the ATM at the present time with Pilot Bill
Pogue performing his daily physical exercise period and
personal hygiene. Commander Gerald Carr preparing the S183,
for use today. This will be the 15th time this instrument
has been used on Skylab IV. We'll bring the line up for
CAP COMM Bruce McCandless on Honeysuckle pass, 9 minutes and
i0 seconds in duration.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Honey-
suckle Creek for 8-1/2 minutes. Out.
CDR Houston, CDR.
CC Go ahead, Jer.
CDR Roger, Bruce. I ran a test run on the
DAC camera and S183 and the magazine Uniform Alfa 04 Jammed
and I changed DACs and it looks like that didn't do any good
and I'm not sure we even have any power now anymore on S183
to the DAC.
CC Okay. which DAC did you start with?
And which DAC was the second one? You have the numbers
around?
CDR Okay, I got 09 back on again. That's
the one we had the jam in. I tried 01 in its place, it didn't
work, I put it away, back where I got it up in the dome, and
DAC 09 is back on it again. We have no power apparently to
the DAC and the Uniform Alfa 04 magazine is definitely Jammed
and I guess the next thing to do would be to try a fuse in
the DAC. We're getting fuse power to the 183 panel, it's
just not getting to the DAC.
CC Okay. Understand, no_ even though the
green light comes on when you put the magazine on the side.
Is that correct?
CDR That's affirmative. Now what I need is
a new magazine. Because this one is jammed.
CC Okay, we'll work on that and can you
see if the perf holes and the film in the magazine are - are
torn, like it had been clawing at it? Or is the film look
good in the magazine?
CDR No, they're clawed and torn.
CC Okay, we'll be back to you in a minute.
CDR Okay.
CC Okay, Jerry. The spare fuses are located
in the DACs themselves. You might go ahead and try a spare
fuse in that 09.
CDR Bruce, I Just tried DAC 09 on the film
threading power cable and I do get a green light, so we've
got a good fuse.
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CC Okay, that's good detective work there,

Jerry. And, Uniform Alfa 04 is the only magazine of that
particular type of film. Why don't you Just hold off here
until Hawaii. We got about 40 seconds to LOS, Hawaii in
11-1/2 minutes at a time of 16:32, it'll be coming up with
a data/voice tape recorder dump at Hawaii.
CDR Okay, and I tried the manual handcrank
there to free DAC 04 and that didn't do any good either.
Not DAC 4, but I mean Uniform Alfa 04.
CC Okay. Our cup runneth over with inputs
to the malfunction procedures and sounds llke it's the (Laughter)
I won't make an opinion, we'll get back to you.
CDR Okay.
Next acquisition in 9 minute_ and 40 seconds will be through
the Hawaii tracking station. Commander Gerald Cart, while
preparing the S183 for use, through the antisolar scientific
airloek, reported a problem in getting the camera ready for
use. Apparently something in the power system there. He's
working on it and passed the problem to the ground. Bruce
McCandless indicated the ground will look at it and get back
to him at Hawaii with a troubleshooting procedure. This is
the 15th operation of the S183 instrument. Twenty-three scheduled
performances of the S183 have been planned for Skylab IV.
Next acquisition in 8 minutes and 55 seconds through Hawaii.
At 16 hours 23 minutes Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab
Control.
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16 hours 31 minutes. Acquisition coming through Hawaii
tracking station.
for 9 minutes, and we've got a data/voice recorder dump here
if it's not interfering with you.
CDR That's okay, Bruce. Go ahead.
CC And Skylab, this is Houston. We shifted
the data/voice tape recorder dump to Goldstone instead of
Hawaii here and whenever the PLT is free or during lunch
here, got a couple of notes for him, mostly on EREP pads.
PLT Roger, Bruce. Which pad is it?
CC Okay. For youz VTS pad.
PLT Okay. I have 67-43 out.
CC Roger. We want to change drawer Lima,
set Yankee to read drawer Kilo, set X-ray. About six lines
down.
PLT Roger; got it.
CC Okay. Then I've got a tape recorder
changeout that we'd like you to do. Itts not in any particular
message, you pro_ably Just have to copy it down.
PLT Sure, Bruce. Just give me the particulars.
CC Okay. At about 21:13 in the housekeeping
there we'd like you in slot number 3 to install tape record-
er 14 from D-438 per SWS systems checklist 80 Romeo, page 5-A.
You still with me?
PLT Okay, Roger. That was you say in slot 3,
you want tape recorder number 14, which _s located in D-438,
dome locker 438, procedure's a 80 Romeo.
CC That's correct, and we'd llke you to
read the elapsed time in the window of the old recorder which
is serial number 23, and report it to the ground or record on
channel A please.
PLT Roger. Read the elapsed time on the old tape
recorder and put it on tape or give it to the - by voice to the
ground.
CC Roger; and the reason we're changing
this out is that it's approaching its lifetime limit, and
so far it's still working fine, and I've got a change to
your S183 alternate pad here. We got about a minute and a
half to LOS.
PLT Okay. I have message 67-29 in front of
me.
CC Roger. Sunset time about four lines
down should read 17:42 instead of 17:40.
PLT Got it.
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CC Next line the reference field should

read available to - from 17:34 to 17:42.
PLT Roger. 17:34 to 17:42.
CC Okay. The next block the next para-
graph down, field Charlie 52 Bravo, should be available
17:42 to 18:05. Over.
PLT Roger. Field Charlie 52 Bravo available
from 17:42 til 18:05.
CC And under remarks the stop exposure
sentence should read, "Stop exposure at 18:05," instead of 18:03.
PLT Roger, 18:05.
CC Okay; thank you_ And we're sorry for all
the changes.
PLT No sweat.
CC We're going LOS here. Next station con-
tact in 2 minutes at Goldstone.
16 hours 41 minutes. Discussion with commander Gerald Carr
concerning the problem with the S183 data acquisition cam-
era, which is used in conjunction with the standard carousel
in the S183. The DAC camera does support the other film.
The S183 is the ultraviolet panoramic camema designed to
take color photographs of stellar objects. Apparently a
electrical problem within the DAC system, the data acqui-
sition camera, itself. The data camera in addition to
supporting the acquisition of sta_ fields with the S183 pro-
vides photographic data of a 2500-angstrom area. Next
acquisition in 35 seconds throug h Goldstone. We'll leave
the line up for this pass, stateside pans, as Skylab con-
cludes revolution 3639.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Gold-
stone for 6-1/2 minutes. We're going to try the old data/
voice tape recorder dump trick again. For the CDR, looking
over your shoulder at the ATM, we'd like to get you to re-
run building block 32 after 23 with a roll of minus 5400.
We think you were misaligned in roll when you went through it
at the beginning of the pass. If you have to truncate 23
a little bit in order to work that in. That's okay with
US.
CDR Okay. You're right, Bruce.
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CC And, PLT, this is Houston. At your

leisure sometime this afternoon, we wonder if you could
verify three CABIN PRESSURE RELEASE VALVES to the CLOSE
position, I got some panel numbers for you.
PLT Okay, Bruce, go.
CC Okay, panel 300, panel 313, and 391. Over.
PLT 300, 313, and 391. Thank you.
CC Roger. You got it.
CC And, Bill, with respect to this relief
valve check, the reason that we're concerned about it is
that if we have been relieving we'd like to know about it.
We suspect that if that's the case, we may have been getting
enough atmospheric pressure buildup outside to cause the
corona problem on transmitter B. We have been experiencing
transmitter B dropouts over the past couple of days. Over.
PLT Okay, I'll get to that Just as soon as
I get through eating.
CC Yeah, don't break away. This is a very
low priority item here.
PLT Rog.
CC Skylah, this is Houston; 1 minute to
LOS. Next station contact through Bermuda at 16:55. Out.
16 hours 51 minutes. Pilot Pogue talking with the ground
on this pass mentioning he'd get to do something after his
lunch. His lunch today is menu number 3 in the Skylab food
program. Pilot Pogue is having chicken and gravy, green beans, -
green heans_ peaches, and orange drink, while Science Pilot
Ed Gibson has macaroni, tomatoes_ shrimp, butterscotch pudding,
and lemonade. Commander Carr has the lightest lunch, he
has lemon pudding, tea, peanut butter, jam and bread. As a
result of medical experiments of yesterday it shows that
Pilot Pogue today weighs approximately 146 pounds, Science
Pilot Gibson 154, and Commander Gerald Carr weighs 150. Average
caloric intake yesterday was between 3400 and 3500 calories
for each man: 3456 for Pilot Pogue, and 3581 for Commander
Gerald Cart. Next acquisition through Bermuda in 1 minute.
We'll hold the line up for this Bermuda pass, 9 minutes and
40 seconds in duration.
for 9-1/2 minutes. And I hate to bother you again, Bill, but
if you were following Jerry's trials and tribulations on
checkin_ out the DAC and the film for us, 183, one of our
blown, is that there may possibly be a fuse inside S183
bone which would prevent the motors and the relay logic
from operating although the display panel would still be
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properly eliminated (sic). And when you get a chance, could you
go up there and advance the plate to the 02 position? And
if it moves and you hear the motor drive and all that stuff,
that will be a criterion for deciding that the basic 183
itself is good. Over.
PLT Okay, I'Ii get right on that, Bruce. Let's
see if we have an operative piece of equipment.
CC Okay, thank you.
PLT Okay, Bruce, how do you read?
CC Loud and clear, Bill. Send your message.
PLT Rog. I tried to advance the film carrousel,
turned the power on with the - well, I was following the cue
card on the flip side, and we - you know it takes a little
while while it sort of does a little jig inside, and I
waited for the dance to start and - Well, first off, when I
turned the power on I got the 01 illuminated when I
went to delete that position. Then I waited for the - the
timing sequence, and then instead of doing its clickety
click, the elimination (sic) 01 went out, and I have no lights
on the panel now.
CC Okay, we copy that, Bill. Thank you
for interrupting lunch.
PLT Too bad. Tell me what you want me to
do here as soon as you get your signals straight, I'ii
just be standing by here.
CC Okay, if you haven't turned the power
off on the thing, just leave it exactly as is for the time
being. I'd say go finish lunch and we'll call you when we
get our minds made up.
PLT Okay_ I haven't touched a thing.
PLT I take that back, I did put the reset to
off.
CC Okay, understand your reset went back
to offp but the power switch is still on?
PLT That's affirmative.
CC Okay, let's just leave it in that con-
figuration.
CC Skylab, this is Houston; I minute to
LOS. Next station contact in 2 minutes through Canary
Islands at 17:05. Out.
17 hours 5 minutes, with loss of signal through Bermuda.
Acquisition coming through Canary and Ascension, a 15-minute
pass through the two tracking stations. Acquisition coming
in 5 seconds. We'll leave the line up for this pass through
Canary and Ascension.
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and Ascension for 16 minutes. Out.
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SL-IV MC-2350/I
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17 hours 5 minutes, with loss of signal through Bermuda.
Acquisition coming through Canary and Ascension, a 15-mlnute
pass through the two tracking stations. Acquisition coming
in 5 seconds. We'll leave the line up for this pass through
Canary and Ascension.
and Ascension for 16 minutes. Out.
CC Skylab, this is Houston. Over.
CC Okay, Jerry, we're going to reenable
momentum dump here in about i0 seconds, so your time remaining
clock will jump some; and for Bill, we'd like to delete S183
ops this pass and substitute the airlock module tape recorder
changeout for it. Go ahead and do S183 stow i, as indicated
in the Flight Plan, but you can turn the power off to the
183 unit, at your convenience_ sometime before then. Over.
PLT Roger. Understand, Bruce. And, the PRESSURE
RELIEF VALVE 391 was in the OPEN position. All three of them
are now closed.
CC Okay, we copy that, Bill. Thank you.
CC Skylab, this is Houston, i-1/2 minutes
to LOS. Next station contact in 24 minutes through Carnarvon
at 17:45. For the PLT, when you remove the carrousel from
S183 during stow i, we request you dim the l_ghts in the
forward compartment area there so that in ease there is a plate
inadvertantly fall down when you remove it, will minimize
the fogging damage to that and to the rest of the contents
of the carrousel. And, for the CDR, when you rerun BB-32
at the end of this pass, we'd like to omit S054. Over.
SPT Okay, omit 54 and I'll rev 32 in time so
that it'll be finished by 250 K.
CC Roger. You got it.
17 hours 22 minutes with loss of signal through Ascension. The
Next acquisition will be the Carnarvon tracking station in
Australia in 22 minutes and 20 seconds. The crew was asked
to check panel 391 in the alrlock module, specifically panel
391, which is the cabin relief pressure valve, which has been
on - left on inadvertentaly since the last EVA, apparently.
The last EVA on December 29th. There were intermittent data
dropouts from the airlock module transmitter. Apparently this
caused by this switch being left open. Tests were run previously
as the spacecraft passed over Saint Louis, several weeks ago,
to assess the problem, determine what the problem was, and this
could not be resolved. Research at McDonnel Douglas and the
Marshall Space Flight Center presented this alternative to
the Mission Control Center today. The crew was asked to check
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that position and sure enough that switch was left open. The
closing of the switch should elide (?) that intermittent problem
they had with the data perception here on the ground. Next
acquisition through Carnarvon in 20 minutes. This is Skylab
Control at Greenwich mean time 17 hours 2S minutes.
END OF TAPE
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Time: 12:43 CDT 67:17:43 GMT
1/21/74
PAO Skylab Control, Greenwich mean t_me

17 hours 43 minutes. Acquisition coming through the Car_
narvon tracking station for a 6 - 8-minute and 40-second
pass through Carr_arvon and Honeysuckle. We'll bring the
line up for this pass with CAP COI_M Bruce McCandless.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Carnar-
von and Honeysuckle Creek for 9 minutes, and when he's free
I got a couple changes to the EREP pads for the CDR.
CC Okay. You need your C&D pad out here.
CDR I have it.
CC Okay. Under ready verification, we
want to change the 193A mode switch altimeter to read 193A
mode i. Over.
CDR Okay; copy.
CC Okay. After ready out S190 st 13:00
change frame ii to frames 99. That's way on down.
CDR Frames ii to frames 99.
CC Roger; and we're coming up on a keyhole
here. I'ii keep on talking in an effort, though, to get
through it. Delete the ready out S190 that shows up at 18:20.
CDR Okay. It's done.
CC And also delete the mode standby there.
CDR Copy.
CC And in remarks, run S190 to depletion
after EREP stop while still in Z-LV. I_ii take this from
the beginning again. Run S190 to depletion.
CDR Okay.
CC (After EREP stop and while still in ZLV)
CDR Okay. I've got it.
CC And do S190 film depletion. I think
that's pretty selfexplanatory there, and I got another one
here.
CDR Go ahead.
CC Okay. At 09:56, if you can find it.
CDR I've got it.
CC We want to delete S192 MODE CHECK. At
12:00 delete S192 MODE READY. At 12:42 delete S192 MODE
CHECK. That's right below it.
CDR Okay; copy.
CC Okay. Now we need to make an insertion.
Insert time 13:06, which looks like it's going to be Just
before 14:14.
CDR Okay.
CC And at 13:06 you want to do S192 MODE
CHECK.
CDR Okay.
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CC And I - actually I guess that 13:06

would come in right after the S190 READY OUT, 6 seconds
after 13:00 and before you get - get into the mode STANDBY,
and the frame to 99 and all that.
CDR Okay. I've got it.
CC Okay, and that abou_ does it. Thank
you very much and again we're sorry for all the changes
here.
CDR No problem.
CC And since we've cancelled the 183 pass
we've got a couple of changes for the SPT.
CDR He's recording right now. He'll get
with you in Just a minute.
CC Okay. No sweat. We can catch him over
Guam.
PLT Okay, Bruce. Tape recorder number 23
elapsed time, 25:25.
CC Roger, 2525 hours
PLT Affirmative.
CC Oh, hey - getting the feedback, that's
just a number that has no particular relationship to the
actual number of hours it's run.
PLT Rog. By the way, Bruce, I took the
switch out of command to turn that - that tape recorder
number 3 off and then I reconfigured it, so I don't know. I
don't think that has any effect on ground configurations.
CC That's correct. It looks like we're
back in business, and the word I'm getting now is that that
25:25 indicates about 1800 actual hours of operation,
PLT How much was on recorder i? That's
the one Jer changed yesterday.
CC Okay, Bill. The one that was replaced
yesterday had 1446 hours on it and the one that was in-
stalled yesterday had about 480.
PLT Roger. Thank you for the info.
CC Skylab, this is Houston i minute to
LOS. Next station contact in 7 minutes through Guam at
17:59. Out.
PAO Skylab Control, Greenwich mean t_me
Next acquisition will be Guam in 3 minutes and 25 seconds
as Skylab crew works their way through another day in
space, mission day 7 67, a day which will provide a science
product of 27 hours of data on man, the Earth and the Sun. One
EREP pass scheduled later this afternoon, a stateside pass_
gathering data on snow cover, watershed, cotton crop yields,
and oceanographic studies in the Gulf of Mexico along the
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west coast of Florida. Two EREP passes scheduled for

earlier today, one in Africa and one in - on the west coast
of the U.S., were cancelled, adding to the planned ATM
viewing time with an additional 3 hours and 50 minutes.
This block of time mostly being taken by Science Pilot Ed
Gibson as he viewed an increasingly quiet Sun after what the
crew has been used to the last several days of viewing
spectacular activity. Solar scientists here at the Johnson
Space Center report that the Sun within the next 7 days
will quiet down to a point where they do not expect major
activity. However, scientists here are budgeting the re-
maining film aboard the ATM cameras and telescopes to cap-
ture any event that may occur in the next 17 days.
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PAO Solar Scientists here at the Johnson

Space Center report that the Sun, within the next 7 days,
should quiet down to the point where they do not expect major
activity. However, scientists here budgeted the remaining
film aboard the ATM cameras and telescopes to capture any
event which may occur in the next 17 days. Acquisition through
Guam in about i minute. We'll bring the line up for CAP COMM
Bruce McCandless.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Guam
for 6 minutes. Out.
SPT Houston, SPT standing by to copy change
to schedule pad.
CC Okay Ed, on your upcoming ATH pass, we'd
like to change the time remaining of S055 initiation to 48.
Stand by.
CC Okay, you've got a callout of 55 time remaining.
We'd llke to change that to 48. And at 18:23, delete groundenabled
momentum dump TR decreases to 43. And the rationale for this is
that we enabled momentum early since the 183 operations were
scrubbed. Over.
SPT Okay, Bruce. I was not at the ATM panel
at the time I am now so, so would you go ahead and begin with
the 55 change?
CC Okay, there is no change to S053. It's
the pass starting at 18:14 down below 18:14, you see an entry
of 55 minutes time remaining. Change that to 48 time remaining.
SPT Okay, I've got it and I understand the
rationale. Thank you.
CC Okay.
CC Skylab, this is Houston, 1 minute to LOS.
Next station contact in 7-1/2 minutes, short pass at Hawaii
at 18:12. Out.
PAO Skylab Control, 1 minute 40 seconds as
the Skylab space station skirts the northern limits of the
Hawaii tracking station. Commander Cart presently in his
afternoon meal period with Science Pilot Ed Gibson spending another
block of time at the ATM. The scheduled S183 operations which
was to have started in approximately 18 minutes has been
cancelled due to a malfunction of the camera, data acquisition
camera which is used in conjunction with the carousel film
plates in the S183. S183 is the experiment of the French
experimenter, George Courtes of the Space Astronomy Laboratory
of the National Center for Scientific Reasearch at Marseille,
France. His experiment is designed to study hot stars through
spectrographic images recorded in two separate ultraviolet wave-
lengths. The instrument working in the 800-angstro_ and the
3100-angstrom wavelengths, gathers color indices of more than
i000 stars in various latitudes of the celestial sphere. Spectral
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scanning of these star fields with photometric and spacial

resolution provided by the S183 instrument has heretofore been
impossible from ground observations or from unmanned astronomical
satellites. In addition the experiment measures ultraviolet
qualities of cluster stars, large stellar clouds in the Milky Way,
and the nucleii of hrill_ant galaxies. This would have been the
15th performance of the S183. Troubleshooting procedures
will he worked out on the ground to determine the problem ap-
parently in the power system within the data acquisition camera
which is used in support of the S183 camera which is placed
through the antisolar scientific airlock. A brief pass through
Hawaii. We'll bring the line up for CAP COMM Story Musgrave CAP
for a minute and a half. If the Commander's got a minute, could
you give us a detailed blow by blow description of what happened
this morning on S183, that is was the DAC installed when you
attempted to - excuse me. Did the transporter move in any
direction when you used the transporter tool, and what the
sequence of the lights and things like that were on 183?
CDR As best I can figure out, Bruce, the DAC
apparently loaded up the system to the point when it Jammed,
that it must have blown the fuse in 183, because I tuTned on
the power then reached over and punched the DAC button at
12 frames per seconds to see if it would advance, and it
would not. It advanced a couple and then started sounding
peculiar where that, you know, when the claws (garble) pulling
holes in the film. I took it off and checked it and yea verily
the film was damaged, and so I took it over and put the
hand crank on it and tried to pull the damaged part through,
and free it up, and that would not work. So I gave up on
the transport, I should say the 140-foot magazine. And --
CC Okay, we're going LOS here at Hawaii,
Goldstone in 9 minutes at 18:23. And we copy that the camera
started out working and then quit while you were standing
there.
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CDR - where there's, you know, when the claws

(garble) pulling holes in the film. I took it off and checked
it and yea, verily, the film was damaged, and so I took it over
and put the handcrank on it and tried to pull the damaged
part through and - bring it up, and it - that would not work_
so I gave up on the - the transport. Or I should say the
40-foot magazine, and - -
CC Okay. We're going LOS here at Hawaii.
Goldstone in 9 minutes at 18:23, and we copy that the camera
started out working and then quit while you were standing
there.
CDR Yes, it, you know, at about four or five
frames, and then it jammed up. And what I did was look back
and put my fingers on the two (?) interlock mechanisms to see
if the green light would come on and it would not come on, so I
took it off, tried DAC i. DAC 1 worked okay.
CC Understand DAC 1 worked okay on S183?
CDR I beg your pardon. Not on 183. I
tried it on the film station, it looked okay ther. Then I
went over to 183 and tried it and it would not work.
CC Okay. Thank you very much.
CDR And then later, after I talked to you,
is when I put DAC number 9 on the film thread (garble) checked
it and wh - that's what I saw that the green light was all
right. Therefore I felt that the fuse in the DAC was not
blown.
CC Okay; we copy.
SPT Hey, Houston, while you're going over
the hill, in the white light eoronagraph we see that the
region from 120 to i00 which was mentioned as a fairly
strong but diffuse emission this morning, having three
streamers, is now essentially Just one very dim streamer,
and it looks like the fairly strong diffused emission close
to the occulting disk is completely disappeared.
CC Okay, thank you. And it sure has taken
a long time to go over the hill this time. Low tide at
Hawaii, we understand.
PLT Bruce, on that magazine. It's been
reading 79 percent for about the last four S183 exercises,
and we decided that we had thought that probably the reason
why is just because we were using so few frames_ but I
thought I'd check it out. Thatts how we got started
today.
CC Okay; but you have not previously
noticed a hold in the flux, any tearing of the sprocket
holes or anything like that?
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PLT No. That's negative. I put an X on it

this morning and tried to run it and that's when we had our
trouble.
CC Okay; we copy. Thank you.
18 hours 17 minutes. Loss of signal through Hawaii. Next
acquisition in 5 minutes 55 seconds will be Goldstone track-
in_ station. At Greenwich mean time 18 hours 17 minutes
18 hours 22 minutes. Acquisition coming through Goldstone
in 50 seconds. The next pass across the states will be
EREP pass number 28 in the mission of Skylab IV, where data
will be gathered on snow cover, snow patterns, agricultural
areas in Mississippi, and studies of the loop current along
the west coast of Florida on the next pass across the states.
We'll leave the line up for CAP COMM Bruce McCandless.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Goldstone
for 5 minutes. Out.
SPT Houston, we have a pointing descrepancy
here, I believe. We're pointed with H-alpha 2 and yet
we're doing a mini-MAR which takes uS only down to
line 13. This morning when we started out we pointed with
H-alpha 2 and center the active region in the mirror auto
raster. If people would like us to go change in the up-
down to get H-alpha 1 in looking at the active region and
centered in the mini-MAR we can do that at this time.
CC We're checking on that, Ed. And for
Bill, if you're near a box, when you attempted to advance the
183 plates this morning, was the DAC installed at that time?
Over.
PLT The DAC was installed; however, there
was no magazine in it.
CC You described a clicking noise. Did
the plate advance indicator go blank synchronous with the
noise during the plate advance? Over.
PLT I'm sorry. I said that it did not do
the clicking. And you know normally when you turn it on and
you have to wait about a minute or so, a fairly long pause
there before it starts its action of advancing the film
plate, and look, (?) at the time when it normally would start
the clicking noise, instead of doing that the display went
OUt.
CC Okay. We got that and did any did
all the panel lights ever go out during your troubleshooting
procedure, or did you always have some sort of a light on?
PLT At that time there were no lights at
all, when that went out. Now I didn't notice. I don't
think there were any other lights on, and there's some of
those little green lights that are on sometimes next
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tO the exposures feeders, but I don't recall any of those

heinK on. I - I know there were no liKhts on after I notieed
the display went out.
CC Okay. Thank you very much. Do you
still have 183 in place or have you gotten it out yet?
PLT It's no, it's stowed and it's venting
right now.
CC Okay. Thank you. i minute to LOS.
Next station contact in 2 minutes through Corpus Christi
at 18:30. SPT, use H-alpha i in line 13. Over.
SPT Okay, Bruce. I'ii have to change the
pointing.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Merritt
Island and Bermuda for 12-1/2 minutes. Out.
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Island and Bermuda
for 12-1/2 minutes. Out.
CC And, for Ed, we back seat drivers down
here would like to use your DAS for a minute.
SPT You got it.
CC We'll give you a nav update.
CC And, the DAS is yours, Ed.
SPT Roger.
CC And if you're not using the data/volce
tape recorder, we'll dump it here at Bermuda.
PLT Rog, Bruce; take it.
CC Thank you.
CC Skylab, this is Houston; i minute to
LOS. Next station contact in 9-1/2 minutes through Ascension
at 18:51. Out.
18 hours 43 minutes with loss of signal through Bermuda.
Next acquisition through the Ascension tracking station in
7 minutes and 50 seconds. Continued discussions concerning
the malfunction of the S183 data acquisition camera setup;
ground still looking at that problem. The camera has been
removed from the antisolar scientific alrlock and stowed,
while the ground looks at problems associated with the
malfunction earlier. Skylab will be maneuvered into the
Z-local vertical attitude in less than I hour from now as
the spacecraft approaches the west coast of United States
in the Washington area on a descending pass, EREP pass
number 28 in the mission. Pilot Pogue will be performing
the maneuver and also will perform the maneuver to return
the vehicle to the standard solar inertial mode with the ATM
and solar panels directly facing the Sun. Acquisition
through Ascension in 6 minutes and 45 seconds. At Greenwich
mean time 18 hours 44 minutes, this is Skylab Control.
18 hours and 50 minutes, a 5 minute and 48 second pass
through Ascension tracking station as Skylab begins its
3641 revolution. Skylab space station now in orbit for
252 days. Skylab-IV crew in their 67th day aboard the
space station. We'll bring the llne up here for CAP COMM
Bruce McCandless at Greenwich mean time 18 hours and 50 minutes.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Ascension
for 7 minutes. Information for the SPT. We had a subnormal
flare in active region 32, starting at 18:46. Over.
SPT Thank you.
18 hours 57 minutes, with loss of signal through Ascension.
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Next acquisition in 23 minutes and 34 seconds will be

the Carnarvon tracking station.
CC We're i minute to LOS. Next station
contact in 23 minutes through Carnarvon at 19:21. Out.
18 hours 58 minutes; a second LOS through Ascension. The
maneuver for the placement of Skylab into the proper
attitude for the Earth resources experiment cameras and
electronic data instruments takes place at Greenwich mean
time 19 hours and 46 minutes. It's a 13-minute maneuver
to place the vehicle in the right attitude. At the close
of the EREP pass which ends in the Caribbean Ocean after
a pass through the Gulf of Mexico, the maneu - return
maneuver to the solar inertial attitude is a 24-minute
maneuver, and this begins at Greenwich mean time 20 hours
and 28 minutes. The EREP pass crossing the northwest
corner of the United States down through the Central U.S.
crossing in the Mississippi and out over the Gulf, is
a 4000 mile pass taking pictures and electronic data of
the Columbia River Basin with Columbia Plateau in Washington,
Idaho, and Oregon, as well as the Columbia River and the
Walla Walla River in Washington. The EREP instruments will
also be aimed at the Yellowstone National Park area as
well as looking for snow cover in the Big Horn Mountain
region of Wyoming and Montana. Also in northeast Kansas
the instruments will be gathering data on water resources
and Tulsa, Oklahoma; Little Rock, Arkansas; Mobile Bay,
Mobile, Alabama, and Jackson, Alabama will be the targets
of EREP cameras as part of urban development studies for
the Department of Interior. A target in Mississippi, an
area of cotton fields which heretofore have not been
captured on EREP data equipment outside of Greenville,
Mississippi. This is one of the five targets yet to be
completed in the Skylab program. Others include Iran,
which was scheduled a week ago. However, bad weather in
that area prohibited data take. Also, Atlanta, Georgia
still has yet to be put into the EREP data lockers, also
the Tibesti Mountains in Central America, as well as
some areas of Vericruz, Mexico where officials there are
looking for highway engineering and regional planning
data in the geological area. This EREP pass number 28 -
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PAO - is one of three passes scheduled

for today. However, the first two were cancelled earlier
this morning due to bad weather. Next acquisition in 19
minutes through Carnarvon. At Greenwich mean time 19 hours
and 2 minutes. This is Skylab Control.
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PA0 Skylab Control at 19 hours 20 minutes

Greenwich mean time. The Skylab space station is now about
a minute and a half from acquisition of signal at Carnarvon,
Australia. We'll bring the line up for a pass through
Carnarvon lasting about 10-1/2 minutes. Spacecraft communi-
cator on duty in Mission Control is Bruce McCandless.
The flight director is Neil Hutchinson.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Carnar-
yon for 8 minutes. Out.
CC Skylab, this is Houston 1 minute to
LOS. Next station contact in 3 minutes through Guam at
19:34-1/2. Out.
time. Skylab space station is out of range of Carnarvon.
We'll have a brief interruption before we're acquired
through the Guam tracking antenna, about a minute and 40
seconds from now. At the present time the crew should be
preparing for their Earth resources pass which is coming up
very shortly. That Earth resources pass is scheduled to begin
at as the space station goes over the United States, it
begins several hundred miles off the coast of Washington.
Here in Mission Control a discussion's going on about the
weather conditions for the pass. They look to be very good.
fifteen desirable sites are expected to be acquired during the
pass, and from four to six mandatory sites. Those are sites
for which all the requirements have not yet been re - completed.
Only one of the mandatory sites appears now to be too clou -
cloudy to permit photography. Weather is especially good
over the Mississippi site, which is one of the U.S. sites not
yet acquired. We'll leave the line up live now for air-to-ground
through Guam. The pass through Guam should last about 10-1/2
minutes.
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CC Skylab, this is Houston through Guam

for 10-1/2 minutes. And, I have a weather briefing for you
if you're interested.
PLT Okay, Bruce, go ahead.
CC Okay, coming up on the coastline at
about 2,001 plus 30 seconds, you'll be in an area that's
solid overcast - excuse me, solid undercast to you, and that
will persist until about 02:30 at which time it will break
out to about a 4 to 7/10th coverage, as you pass over the
Cascade Mountains and move on down toward the Yellowstone
region. About the time you approach the Yellowstone region
at about 04 to 04:30 you'll pick up a solid undercast again
which will completely obscure VTS site 285 Just south -
just west of Casper, so I wouldn't plan on being able to see
that one. The solid undercast persists until you get down
just about to Tulsa, Oklahoma, at time of around 08, after
the hour, and then it goes to 4 to 7/10th with 4 to 7/10th
being the condition until you get up just about Little Rock at
09 and from 09 on down it's zero to 3/10th, so we expect the
VTS site 460 near Greenwood should be in good shape.
Essentially clear thereafter, going on down towards Key West,
except that about a beam of Sarasota Bradenton_ VOR, where
we've got an area of 4/10 to 5/10 coverage but it shouldn't
give you any trouble with your nadir swath excuse me with
your special 04, looking for cloud-free water sites. And
then you pick up a little more (garble) again about the time
you go past the Keys. Over.
PLT Roger Bruce, copy. And I'ii just about
forget about 285 then.
CC Rog.
CC Skylab, this is Houston. i minute to
LOS, next station contact in 16 minutes through Goldstone at
20:00, and we'll be looking forward to seeing TV of the
States in glorious white on white.
PLT Rog Bruce, Ed's got it all laid out for
yOU.
CC Beautiful.
time. The Skylab space station is out of range of Guam.
Very little conversation other than the weather report from
Spacecraft Communicator Bruce McCandless. Weather conditions
do look to be quite favorable for the Earth resources pass
this afternoon after two earlier passes today had to be
canceled because of poor weather conditions. The weather
indications now are that we'll have some overcast off the
coast of Washington and Canada were the pass begins. But
we'll have good weather conditions over the Boise, Idaho area
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and also clearing conditions over Little Rock, Arkansas and

Tulsa where some sites are located. And very good weather
conditions in the area of Mississippi and along the Gulf
Coast where a number of additional sites have been located.
So it looks like it'll be fairly good weather conditions,
we're not too certain yet about the conditions over
Venezuela where a mapping project is scheduled. Many of
today's projects for Earth resources are scheduled for
delivery to other Government agencies. A number of these
are what are called 002 code Earth resources passes. These -
the information to be gathered is gathered in addition to
ordinary mandatory sites or desired sites required by
principal investigators under Skylab, it'll be provided to
such agencies as the Department of Interior and the Corp of
Engineers, a number of other agencies including National
Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration and the Department
of Agriculture are engaged in using space research as well.
One of the interesting factors in today's activity are some
of the observations of the Gulf Coast area, and the water
off the Gulf Coast will be supported by three ships. Three
ocean surface vessels are going to be gathering data off
Mobile, Alabama, Tampa, Floria and the Florida Keys, and also
an Earth resources aircraft from the Johnson Space Center
will be flying support underneath the Skylab following the
same groundtrack and taking similar data for comparison to
the space station's data. The pass is a 7700-mile long pass
that begins about 500 miles west of Vancouver Island in the
Canada-US border, and includes nearly two dozen test sites.
27-minutes survey concludes over the Orinoco River in central
Venezuela, begins at 20:01 and concludes at 20:28 Greenwich
mean time. This is Skylab space station - Skylab Control at
12 minutes before our next acquisition of signal. It's now
48 minutes after the hour.
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time. The Skylab space station is now about 2-1/2 minutes
from acquisition of signal through the tracking antenna
at Goldstone. This pass through Goldstone should began an
Earth resources survey, a 7700 mile long pass from off the
coast of Canada and the U.S., Just to the west of Vancouver
Island, about 500 miles all the way across the central U.S.,
the Gulf Coast area of Florida Keys, the island of Cuba
and concluding in central Venezuela near the Orinoco River.
Among the projects to be included in today's Earth resources
survey are studies of water resources in Washington_ mapping
project in Venezuela, water resources of the central U.S.
including the Kansas area, study of the Tulsa, Oklahoma area
and the Little Rock area for the Department of Interior, and
an agriculture study of cotton fields in Missippi. This will
be one of the targets that the veiwfinder tracking system will
be pointed at during the Earth resources pass. That's target
set aside today for operation by Pilot Bill Pogue. He'll be
handling the viewfinder tracking system for the S191 infrared
spectrometer. That's a telescopic pointing device used to
point the very detailed instrument, the infrared instrument
that can gather data on a very, very tiny area. He'll be
trying to point that at a cotton field. This survey is to
in attempt to determine whether or not the cotton fields can be
reeongnized easily on space data and whether or not that can
it might be possible to give a yeild prediction based on the
data gathered in space. We'll bring the line up live now for the
pass beginning over Goldstone. There is going to be live
television broadcast down to Mission Control during this
pass over the U. S.. We do expect some cloud cover o
the Central United States and also over the west Coast, but
the expectation is we'll have some clear spots near the Idaho
area and also clear from Tulsa, and Little Rock area should
be partly cloudy and we should have very clear skies over
the Gulf. We'll bring the line up now for air-to-ground
through the Goldstone, Texas and Merritt Island tracking
stations. The pass lasting about 18 minutes.
CDR That ETC down there sounds like a rock
crusher, Ed.
SPT Sure does. I'ii give you another sample here.
(garble) I'm not sure that's what it's doing; it may be.
CDR One more minute and you can turn the power
on. Everytime I hear that ETC, it sounds like a lapidary,
rock polisher running.
SPT Yeah.
PLT It 's actually - it's usually (garble)
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CDR That's why I always keep wondering how

long it's going to last.
SPT (garble) middle one (garble).
CC Skylab -
CDR Go ahead,BBruce.
CC This is Houston; we're with you.
CDR Okay. That's half the fun, of reducing
the data is putting all the pieces back together.
CDR Okay, come up on 20:01:00. Standby -
CDR MARK. SCATTEROMETER'S on to STANDBY_
ALTIMETER to STANDBY, ETC POWER should be ON, Ed. Okay,
next mark will he 01:40. Coming up on 1:40, stand by -
CDR MARK. RADIOMETER's ON. 01:50 looking
for a S191 READY light.
CDR MARK. READY light at 50; reference going
to 6. 020 the next call. Stand by
CDR MARK. 192 READY, ETC should be AUTO.
SPT AUTO. 13's the next mark. Stand by
CDR MARK. 190 MODE to AUTO. Okay, that doggone
tape motion light flickered again. I put those hub on good
and tight to when I loaded that tape. On my mark it will be
03:00. Stand by -
CDR MARK. Went to mode check on 192. The
tape motion light is on steady now. Just turned that high
speed work and the tape motion light did this flicker.
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CDR 92, the TAPE MOTION light's on steady now.

Just during that high speed work that the TAPE MOTION light
did this flickering. Got a good view of the Rockies as we
come across them.
PLT Yeah, they're beautiful.
CDR Okay. Next mark is at 03:00. Correction
03:30 - 30. Stand by
CDR MARK it. SHUTTER speed is fast. ETC to
STANDBY.
CDR Next mark's at 04:00.
CDR Okay. Stand by. - - seconds 04:00.
Stand by -
CDR MARK. RADIOMETER to STANDBY. 193 is going
to a ROLL of plus 30. On my mark it will be 04:12. Stand by
CDR MARK. 190 INTERVAL going to i0. ETC
frames, i0 frames per minute. (Garble) Okay. Next mark is
at 04:24. Stand by
CDR MARK. SCATTEROMETER is ON.
CDR MARK. RADIOMETER is ON.
CDR MARK. S192 MODE to READY. Got a RECORDER
MALF light. And the TAPE MOTION light is flickering.
CDR 05:12 is the next mark.
CC TV is looking beautiful.
SPT Very good, Houston. I think you can see
the snow cover on the Rockies. The snow really brings out
the relief. Okay. We're pretty much past them now. Wetre
coming into some cirrus.
CDR My next mark is 05:12. Stand by
CDR MARK. POLARIZARION going to 4 on 193.
CDR Next mark is coming up at 05:44. Stand by -
PLT Sure do hope this cloud cover is starting
to break.
CDR MARK. 192 to MODE CHECK.
CDR Okay. On my mark it will be 06:10 with
the ETC to STANDBY. Stand by
CDR MARK it. Stand by. Next mark's at 7 minutes.
CDR Okay. We're coming up on 7 minutes.
7 minutes on my mark. Stand by
CDR MARK. 193 POLARIZATION to i. At 07:10
the ETC will go to AUTO. Stand by -
CDR MARK it. Next mark at 07:55.
CDR On my mark, it will he 07:55. Stand by -
CDR MARK. S190 INTERVAL going to 20. SHUTTER
SPEED to MEDIUM. ETC frames 4.8 per minute.
SPT GOT IT.
CDR Next's at 09:14.
(garble)
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PLT Okay. Let's see. 23:45 (garble) 0.i.

CDR Well did you find it, Bill?
PLT No.
CDR Son of a gun. Cloud?
PLT Yeah.
SPT Certainly a good view of the Mississippi
as we come down here. See how it snakes around.
CDR Well, by the way_ I got t_e Mississippi
site anyway. DAC ON. On my mark it will be 09:14. Stand by
CDR MARK. S192 MODE to READY. At 09:20 -
CDR MARK. SCATTEROMETER to - -
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CDR - I got (garble) anyway. DAC, on. On

my mark, it will be 09:14. Stand by -
CDR MARK. S192 MODE to READY. At 09:20.
MARK. SCATTEROMETER to STANDBY. MARK. at 22 RADIOMETER to
STANDBY. 193 angle going to zero. Looking for 34, stand
by. MARK. SCATTEROMETER, ON. MARK. RADIOMETER, ON. 09:56.
Stand by,
SPT Water down there.
CDR MARK. S190 interval down to i0 again.
SPT There's a little burning down there. I
think the (garble) top (garble).
PLT Okay, going back up now.
CDR On my mark, i0:i0, Ed, you want a frame
of i0, framing from (garble).
PLT From 1 127.
CDR Stand by -
CDR MARK. At i0;i0.
SPT Got it.
CDR And then at ii_ you go back to 5.1. Get
your sight okay?
PLT Yeah.
CDR Very good.
PLT Okay, now let's see, there's Flouda
(garble) Okay, cloud free sight. There's blooming. We'll
take bloom when I get to it.
SPT Are you able to see the delta there?
PLT DAC ON, IMC ON.
CDR Okay, on my mark, it'll be ii:00 and ETC
to 5.1 frames per minute. Stand by.
CDR MARK.
CC Somebody bumping the TV camera in the
wardroom?
SPT Okay, got them where you can see the delta,
Bruce.
CDR You got a malf light on jammer number 3.
CC Okay, it's probably the film depletion
light.
CDR I would think so, yeah.
PLT Okay, the VTS, I'm painting the blooming
that's on the - right down to the (garble) And I change my
location to another area of blooming.
CDR All right, malf number 6 come on. You
got a (garble) All right, the next mark will be 12:48. That'll
be ETC to STANDBY in about 25 seconds.
SPT Roger.
CDR Coming up on 12:48.
PLT DAC is off,
CDR Stand by.
PLT Okay_ camera up.
CDR MARK. ETC to STANDBY.
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PLT (Garble) cloud cover.

CDR At 54 coming up.
CDR MARK. SCATTEROMTER to STANDBY. MARK.
RADIOMETER - going to S - BY. 13:06.
CDR MARK. 192 MODE to check. Frames going
at 99. Houston, you want the interval to stay i0 or should
I move it down to 2 on this one? 191 to REFERENCE 2.
CC Go ahead and leave it at i0.
CDR Okay. Okay, Bill, we want a VTS auto
cal at 14:14.
PLT Okay.
PST Are you still picking up TV, Houston?
CC Yes, indeed and it's looking beautiful.
PLT 14:14, you say?
CDR Right, uh-huh.
PLT Okay, I'm finishing the last nadir swath.
CDR Stand by.
CDR MARK, VTS AUTO CAL.
PLT MARK.
CDR All right at 20, the ALTIMETER's going on.
Stand by.
CDR MARK. ALTIMETER ON. 15 for the next
one, 15:00.
PLT MARK. Camera off.
CDR At an ALTIMETER UNLOCK light; still got a
ready. UNLOCK light's out.
CDR No new camera MALF lights. Okay, coming
up on 15:00. Stand by.
CDR MARK. S190 MODE SINGLE.
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CDR Okay, it's coming up on 15:00. Stand

by
CDR MARK. S190 mode single. Altimeter
unlock light is flickering occasionally, but remaining out
for the most part. Charlie 8 is reading about 50 percent.
PLT Well, we've got Greenville, anyway.
CDR Next mark will be at 16 - 16:00. Stand by -
CDR MARK. S190 mode single. Okay, at 16:25
it'll be ETC power on. Stand by -
CDR MARK. 16:25 ETC power on. Power up.
On my mark it'll be 16:33. Stand by -
CDR MARK. S190 mode to auto. At 16:40 ETC
mode to auto. Stand by.
CDR MARK. Looking for a ready light on 191
at 16:54. Stand by -
CDR MARK, at 54. 17:00 192 -
CDR MARK. 17:00 192 mode to READY. Okay
got a flickering tape motion, and had a flash in the recorder
MALF. Ready.
CC i0 seconds to LOS, see you over the
Vanguard in 12 minutes. Out.
CDR So long.
SPT It looks like wetre getting a good view of
Venezuela, looking _,_ome fault systems along there.
CDR Next mark'sA_L_l_7:42.
CC Venezuela is booming i_ loud and
clear. •_":-_'_
SPT Very good.
CDR Coming in on 42, stand by -
CDR MARK it. 192 to mode standby. 18:14
is next.
time. The Skylab space station Just crossing the coast of
Venezuela as we lost signal through the tracking antenna
there at Merritt Island. That Earth resources pass looks to
be a very successful one. Some excellent television out of
the space station's wardroom window showing a number of things.
Cloud cover was fairly heavy off the coast of the Pacific
Ocean as was expected, became very clear over the Rocky
Mountains where we saw some excellent snow cover shots, the
snow cover outlining the mountains very well and that of
course will be reflected in the photography taken by Skylab's
instruments. Also there was a overcast after the Rockies
over much of the central U.S., it became clear again in the
area of Oklahoma and Kansas. There were sites in both those
areas for other Government agencies. And the TV was excellent,
the Mississippi River appearing very very clearly on the TV
camera. That would indicate that the photography of much of
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central U.S. area from Kansas on might be quite quite good.

And the photography over the Mississippi area was also quite
clear. Pilot indicated that later in the pass that he said,
"we got Greenville anyway," which is of course the cotton
field site that was considered to be a primary site
for today's activities. And also what appeared to be a
distinct sediment plume flowing off of a Florida coast,
presumably a river or bay emptying into the waters of the
Gulf, a very distinct color difference could be seen in that
area and of course that would require more technical
explanation but it appears to have been a sediment area,
that is to say either pollutants or sand or other things
mixed in the water that causes discoloration off the coast
of Florida. And some good pictures of the Gulf of Mexico
including television over Cuba, which is speckled with
clouds. The Pilot not taking any data of course in that
area but the Caribbean quite clear beyond Cuba and some very
good pictures over Venezuela, the operations officer in
the Earth resources baekroom indicating that Venezuela
was a GO for a mapping project that data was very very fine
and the cloud cover as we could see it on the TV looked like
it would be quite acceptable for a mapping project to be
completed in that area, that was one of today's mandatory
sites. So Mission Control is quite enthusiastic about some
very fine televison and also about good weather conditions
for today's Earth resources pass. A little less than 8
minutes from our next acquisition of signal at Vanguard.
This is Skylab Control at 21 minutes after the hour.
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PAO Skylah Control at 20;57 Greenwich mean

time. The Skylab space station now over Brazil. It has
concluded it's Earth resources pass and we're now about
58 seconds from acquisition through the tracking ship Vanguard.
The pass through Vanguard is a short one at a very low elevation.
As the space station passes Just over the horizon from Vanguard,
we expect about 4 minutes of acquisition through this tracking
antenna. Flight Director Neil Hutchinson very enthusistie
about the high quality of the television over the U.S. and
Caribbean and all the way through Venezuela has asked the
TV to be replayed here in Mission Control for the flight
controllers. We're coming up live now at Vanguard for
Bruce McCandless, the Spacecraft Communicator.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through the
Vanguard for 4-1/2 - 3-1/2 minutes. Out.
CDR Roger.
CC And while you guys are shutting down,
could we get a tape remaing measurement from you in real time
so we can plan tomorrow's EREP pass?
CDR We'll have it for you by next pass.
CC Okay.
CC Skylab, this is Houston; 1 minute to LOS.
Next station contact in i hour and 7 minutes through Goldstone
at 21:37. Goodnight now.
time. Skylab space station is now passing out of range of
the tracking ship Vanguard. Our next acquisition is approximately
an hour and 3 minutes away. That will be at Goldstone in
California. Earth resources pass is completed. Data at
Vanguard indicates that at least so far we have no problem
with the control moment gyroscope and that's a good indication.
Does not appear to be giving us any trouble at all at this
point. We will undoubtedly learn more about that when we get
another acquisition, a little over an hour from now. Skylab
astronauts Carr_ Gibson and Pogue completed a very successful
Earth resources survey this afternoon. Providing Mission
Control with some excellent television pictures during part
of their 7700 mile pass. Ground controllers watch live
television as the space station's electronic instruments and
camera pointed at the sites from the Pacific coast of
Washington on up across the Central U. S., the Gulf of Mexico
and Caribbean Sea to the Orinoco River in the heart of
Venezuela. Nearly 2 dozen separate areas were photographed
or scanned with Skylab's instruments today. 1 hour to our
next acquisition of signal, this is Skylab Control.
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PAO Skylab Control at 20 hours 52-1/2 minutes

Greenwich mean time. The Skylab space station is now well
out of range of tracking antennas around the world. 44
minutes before we'll have out next acquisition at Goldstone.
Flight Director Nell Hutchinson informs us that things are
very hectic over here in Mission Control. It's going to be
a long time before hetll be able to get away for a change-
of-shift briefing. He gives us a preliminary estimate of
5:30 central daylight time for that change-of-shift. That's
about an hour and a half from now. And he indicates that it
may be a little bit later than that. We'll give you a better
announcement on that after our next acquisition of signal 44
minutes from now. This is Skylab Control at 53 minutes after
the hour.
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time. Skylab space station still about 37-1/2 minutes from
next acquisition of signal. We've had a request for an ex-
planation of the hectic acitvlty here at Mission Control.
Flight Planner Nell Hutchinson, who is now on duty as Flight
Director, is busy planning tomorrow's activities which include
two Earth resources passes. It's a rather complex flight" plan,
and for that reason, he's spending a good deal of time going
over it. Also, that llve TV kept flight controllers pretty
busy for an extended period of time. Right now, an evaluation
is going on tomorrow's Earth resources passes. Currently,
two of them scheduled, and the Earth resources personnel have
informed us that they will have to do a change-out of some
of the tape - magnetic tape for the Earth resources pass.
That will require some addition flight planning in the event
that one of those passes might be cancelled. For that reason,
Nell Hutchinson's going to be tied up here for at least another
hour to hour and a half, and we do not expect to have an
available any earlier than 5:30 central daylight time for a
change-of-shift briefing. And, of course, that change-of-
shift handover is now in - in progress here in Mission
Control at the same time that the final touches are being put
on the flight plan that Neil Hutchinson's be working on. So,
activity is very brisk. Flight Director Charles Lewis is now
in Mission Control, and he is in the process of taking the
handover from Neil Hutchinson. However, Neil expects to
stay around for about another hour and a half. This is
Skylab Control, it is now 46 seconds after the hour.
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PAO Sk_lah Control at 21:36 Greenwich mean

time. Skylab space station is now about 56 seconds from
asquisition of signal through the Goldstone antenna. Pass
through Goldstone and Texas will last about 15 minutes and
we'll bring the line up for - the spacecraft communicator now
on duty here in Mission Control is Hank Hartsfield, Charles
Lewis is taking over as flight director and we're still
expecting the change-of-shift to be about an hour away with
Neal Hutchinson the off-going flight director. An M-flare
was reported by Vela satellite here in Mission Control,
the crew has not had an opportunity to see it although they
are now in a daylight period with Science Pilot Ed Gibson
at the console. The flare took place just at the end of the
Earth resources pass when of course the space station was
not oriented for viewing the Sun. We're coming up live now
at the U.S., we'll bring the line up here.
CC Skylab, Houston, through Goldstone and
Texas for 14 minutes.
CC And, SPT, for info_ we had in active
region 31 a subnormal, it started at 20:40, maxed at 43 and
was over at 41:08 classified through Vela in X-ray as an
M-I.
SPT Okay Hank. Can I have t_ose times
again, please?
CC Okay, it started at 20:40 which was about
an hour ago, it maxed out at 20:43 and was over at 21:08.
SPT Okay Hank, that's what l_m setting on
right now and it still looks pretty hot. I'm not sure
whether we can get anything out of it again but I've moved
the observing program over to there right now. And I was up to
about 50,000 _ 45,000 counts in oxygen _l_on 55 and I have gone
into MIRROR LINE SCAN for them. I can go back into the
MIRROR AUTO RASTER, truncate it down to 13 if they like. I
gave them an GRATING AUTO SCAN when it was down there around
20,000, and I had 54 running in the - their sequence of MSIL64
and I've been giving 56 some PATROL SHORTS occasionally, if
they'd llke to me to go into an AUTO LONG, if they feel they
have the film for it l'd be glad to. And I'm ready to go
with 82 and 82B if _ if necessary.
CC Okay Ed. And we need the recorder for -
for a dump.
SPT Okay, someone else has got it, Hank, not
myself.
CDR Bill's debriefing 509, he'll be through
in a minute.
CC PLT, for info the _ecorder is out of tape,

you're at the end of tape.
PLT Okay, thank you,
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CC And Bill, I got a couple of notes here

for you. We're going to replace the S183 prep with some
SO73 whenever you're ready to copy.
PLT Hank, I'm coming right down the
California coast taking a bunch of handheld photographs,
can I hold off for about 10 minutes?
CC Sure thing Bill, we got about ii minutes
left in this pass, if you'll Just give me a call when
you're through.
CC And SPT, Houston. We prefer the PATROL
SHORTS in answer to your question and also we don't see
H-alpha 1 running.
CC And SPT_ if we could have the DAS a
minute, weVd like to work on nuZ.
SPT You got it Hank.
SPT Okay Hank, I understand that MIRROR LINE
SCAN on 55 because the counts are relatively hlgh_ still up
around 50,000, if they'd like me to start looking at the
total active region with a MIRROR AUTO RASTER down at line
13, I can do that.
CC Okay, we'll check that Ed.
CC SPT, Houston. We prefer the MIRROR LINE
SCAN.
SPT Thank you.
CC And the DAS is yours.
CC SPT, Houston. Since we're getting kind of
tight on our film budget with S054, and we are in a flare fall,
we'd prefer to terminate the SO54 pictures now.
SPT Okay Hank, and they are.
PLT Clear day in Houston?
CC Say again.
PLT Looks llke a clear day in Houston, I can
see all the way.
CC Oh_ it was really nice out there today.
PLT I'm over Guadalajara.
PLT Okay Hank_ what was the correction on the
S073?
CC Okay Bill. In place of the 183 prep 1
that you got scheduled there around 22:03, instead of that
we'd like to do an SO73 prep 4_ it's not time critical. Use
Nikon 02 with visible lens and later on this evening where the
S183 ops is scheduled for CDR just so he can be thinking
about it, we're going to be doing an SO73 ops 2. And in
addition after sunrise which comes at 22:46 if you could
work it in we'd like to do contamination 1 Alfa and Bravo of
STS windows I, 3 and 4_ and for that we'd like to use Nikon
03 and the light meter, if you don't use the light meter I
have some settings for you.
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PLT Give me the settings, those things are

awful hard to figure some times.
CC Okay, for windows 3 and 4 use F-4 and a
speed of i/i000 -
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SPT - - some time.

CC Okay, for windows 3 and 4 use f4 and a
speed of i/i000 and for window i, f-stop of 1.2 and one-
quarter second.
SPT Okay, I got it Hank.
CC And we suggest that you do window i last.
SPT Roger.
CC And Skylab, for info, the tape recorder's
yours.
CDR Thank you, Hank.
CDR Hank, is - how is 82B situated for looking
at fluctuating bright points with their sequences of time's
1/4? What's our budget look like in relative to what we're
looking at right now?
CC Okay, we'll check that.
CC SPT, Houston. In answer to your question,
we have approximately 50 frames remaining. It's okay to do that
on the point brightning. Your judgement on whether we're
getting good data or not. You're clear to use it as you
see fit. And we're about i minute from LOS. Vanguard
will be coming up at 02.
SPT Okay, Hank. I think the answer I just
got was for 82A, choosing a good one. I was wondering about
82B.
CC Roger. That was 82B I was talking about,
Bill.
SPT Oh, okay, they have 50 allotted for - for
this type of observation as part of this. Because right now
I'm reading 118.
CC Roger. We have - I guess what I should -
I didn't make that very clear; we have 50 spare frames
according to what we've got planned.
CC And do do you have an EREP tape measurement
for us?
CDR I'ii get it for you at the next station.
CC Okay.
CDR Still taking photos. The weather's so
beautiful. I can't get away from the windows.
CC I don't blame you.
PAO Skylab Control at 21:52 Greenwich
mean time. Skylab space station is out of range of the
tracking antenna at Corpus Christi. Our next acquisition
is 9_i/2 minutes away through the ship Vanguard. That
M-flare observed on the Sun by recorded in - through the
Vela satellite reached it's peak at 20:43 and ac - the answer
flare occured in active region 31 on the solar disc was not
viewed by crew. At that time they were completing their Earth
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resources pass and shortly after that went into darkness. However,
Ed Gibson is now at the solar panel getting some data on
the post flare activity. That M-flare was one of the largest
seen so far in this Skylab Mission although it does not compare
in output to the X-rated flare or X-I flare that was seen
by the last Skylab crew. Bill Pogue, during this last pass,
did an extensive job of photographing the west coast, photographing
the California area as he went over Baja and down across
Mexico. He said the weather was very, very clear and he could see
Houston all the way from Guadalajara, Mexico, several hundred
miles away and he also was taking pictures even as we lost
signal with the space station as they were just off the coast
of Central America. So, no doubt the visual observations people,
will be happy to hear he got some rather extensive photographs
of the Western part of North America. Nell Hutchinson
informs us that the change-of-shlft briefing is going to
have to be pushed back another hour. We're now planning on
6:30 central daylight time for the change-of-shift briefing.
That's an hours and a half away, and again he is occupied
with tomorrow's activities of a fairly complex Flight Plan
schedule for tomorrow including a couple of Earth resources
passes and a tape change out. There was a question
right on the end of that pass about how much tape was remaining
so they can determine whether or not the change out will have to
be made as it appears now between the two Earth resources passes.
7-1/2 minutes to our next acquisition at Vanguard, this is
Skylab Control at 54 and a quarter minutes after the hour.
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PAO Skylab Control at 22 hours 1 minute

Greenwich mean time. The Skylab space station is now 54
seconds from acquisition through the tracking ship Vanguard.
The pass through Vanguard will last a little less than ii
minutes. We'll bring the llne up live now for the Spacecraft
Communicator Hank Hartsfield.
CC Skylab, Houston through _anguard, 9-1/2
minutes.
CDR Hank, that EREP tape recorder measurement is
2.3 centimeters.
CC Roger. Copy. 2.3 and for Info, we'll be
sending up a pad here to support your S073 ops this evening.
CDR Okay.
SPT Hank, if you could, would you please tell
me what the X-REA has been doing over the past orbit?
CC Okay. I'ii check it out.
SPT Thank you.
SPT Hank, regarding the next orbit, if conditions
remain about the same as they are now, or increase, I would -
intend to remain in the flare wait mode. I've already promised
the commander some butter cookies when we get Back, if I could
have the orbit.
CDR Yon should hear him snivel, Hank.
CC He's getting desperate, isn't he?
CDR It's worse than a flight time (garble) hog.
SPT Go ahead, Hank.
CC Okay, Ed. The last pass over Texas and
Goldstone, the X-REA looked pretty much like background, hut
right now, it appears to be about ten times that.
SPT Okay. And I guess it's just holding
study steady pretty much at that level like the oxygen VI
is, which is now pumping between - I guess you can see it -
between 12 and 54 X-units. And I did step the mirror around
a little bit here to find out - to verify we are on the brightest
point.
CC Roger. And it seems to us that the trend
on the X-REA is upward.
SPT Okay, Hank. I propose we Just hang in here
next orbit.
SPT We could get a building block 32 in. Done
at - soon as we get above 250K and then come on over here and take
a look, at the active region 31.
CC Roger. You beat us to the draw, there Ed.
You're way ahead of us.
SPT I wish I could for once get ahead of old
Sol here. He's been particularly sneaky.
CC Looks llke he's waiting until nighttime
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to do his flying.
SPT That's right.
CC Ed, looks like the X-REA's starting to
come back down now.
SPT Maybe it'll rest for Just 30 minutes and
then start up again. We can't be always out of phase with it.
CC You'd think we'd get lucky once in a while,
wouldn't you?
CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from
LOS. Tananarive will be coming up in 19 minutes. And that'll
be at 22:29.
SPT So long, Hank. Talk to you then.
Greenwich mean time. The Skylab space station is over the
South Atlantic, out of range of the tracking ship Vanguard.
Our next acquisition is 17-1/2 minutes away. That will be
at Tananarive. Just talked to Flight Director Nell Hutchinson,
who indicates that he's going to try and arrange the change-
of-shlft briefing to he held here from Mission Control. It
will not be possible to ask questions of the flight director
under this arrangement. However, if we have questions in
advance, we'll ask him to answer them during his brief
statement on today's activities. We'll try and arrange that
perhaps in the next 15 to 20 minutes, depending upon when
he can find a break. And we'll give you a brief announcement
in advance of his statement. That will mean that we won't
have the 6:30 change-of-shlft brieflng in Building i, but
we'll instead do it from here in Mission Control. This is
Skylab Control. We're now 17 minutes from our next acquisition
of signal. It's 12 minutes and 46 seconds after the hour.
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time. The Skylab space station is out of range of signal
right now but Nell Hutchinson is about ready to sit down
for a change-of-shift briefing here from Mission Control.
That change-of-shift briefing should begin very shortly at
Mission Control Center and we'll be bringing that to you in
the next minute or so. This is Skylab Control.
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time. The Skylab space station is now 55 seconds from
acquisition at Tananarive where we'll have a 5-minute pass.
Flight Director Nell Hutchinson is getting a little refresher
course here in Mission Control before he has the change-of-shift
report. And we expect that will take place shortly after
the Tananarive pass. We'll bring the line up live now for
Hank Hartsfield, the spacecraft communicator. Charles Lewis
is the flight director on duty here in Mission Control at
this time.
CC Skylab, Houston through Tananarive, 4
minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from
LOS. We'll see you again at Goldstone at 23:17. That's
45 minutes.
CDR Roger, Hank. See you later.
time. We've had loss of signal at Tananarive. Our next
acquisition is at Goldstone, 43 minutes from now. And we_ll
try and persuade Neil Hutchinson to come up in the next
couple of minutes for that change-of-shift briefing. This
is Skylab Control at 34-1/4 minutes after the hour.
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1/21/74

time. The Skylab space station is now coming within range
of the tracking antenna at Goldstone, where we'll have a
4-1/2 minute pass. We'll bring the line up live now for the
spacecraft communicator, Hank Hartsfield.
CC Skylab, Houston through Goldstone for
4 minutes.
CDR Roger, Hank.
CC Looks like active region 31 is still
cutting up.
SPT That's right, Hank, we're working it.
CC Skylab, Houston. There's a possiblilty
that we may get a reset on this cage coming up at - on the next
dump commence, which is about 23:49.
SPT Hank, did you say reset, I just got finished
coming back from one. We got a gimbal on a stop about 39
minutes remaining and I went into a 3-minute maneuver back.
CC Roger. Copy.
SPT The region south of the original bright
point has brightened up a lot and we got a point brightening
in XUV monitor_ quite strong_ and image intensity count was
up when we went over to BERYLLIUM APERTURE 3. We started
into the flare mode at around 43:16.
CC Roger. We copy. And just for info, at
22:16, which was about an hour ago, we had bright surge on
the limb at 070. And at 22:44, which is just about sunrise
for you there was a subnormal in 31. It maxed out at 22:47.
No X-REA.
SPT When we came around the corner again_ Hank,
we were pegged high at 60_000 oxygen count and then going down.
So, I suspected we were on the backside of something. Right
after we came off of the maneuver back from gimbal on a stop,
we were also pegged high at 60,000.
CC And we saw the X-REA climbing on up here
now still. And we're about i minute from LOS. Vanguard will
be coming up at 39 with a recorder dump.
SPT Okay.
CC Ed, can we get four frames a minute on
H-alpha i?
SPT You already got it, Hank.
CC Thank you.
time. The Skylab space station is out of range of Goldstone,
as it passes far off the Pacific Coast of Mexico. We're about
16 minutes from acquisition at Vanguard. Skylab astronauts,
Jerry Carr, Ed Gibson, and Bill Pogue, were greeted with both
good and bad news today. The crew surveyed a 7700-mile-long
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pass across the United States, the Gulf of Mexico, and

Venezuela this afternoon. Excellent weather conditions
aided the Earth study as four electronic instruments and
seven cameras focused on nearly a dozen areas for investigations
of resources, geology, agriculture and for mapping and oceano-
graphy projects as well. But Skylab chief scientist, Ed Gibson,
the solar physicist who authored "The Quiet Sun" learned that
the excellent Earth research kept him from viewing a solar
flare. The flare which included a medium-sized burst of X-
radiation recorded by a satellite orbiting Earth, was one of the
largest since the crew went into orbit November 16. The
largest seen so far during Skylab IV by the crew is a C9MI,
which is approximately the same range as the flare seen
today. It was an M-I flare that peaked out about 20:43
Greenwich mean time, a little less than 3 hours ago. Pre-
dictions that indicate there was a good chance of a C-flare,
and since that time, there has been another subnormal flare
in active region 31. Both of these occurring in active
region 31. The subnormal flare did not produce any X-radiation,
however. That's the report from NOAA, and of course, solar
observations are now taking up most of the crew's evening
time, as the schedule calls for ATM activity to complete the
day, primarily todayp itts been Ed Gibson at the ATM console.
He's been there for five passes with a total of about 4 hours
scheduled for - correction - with a total today of approximately
7 hours scheduled for ATM observations in addition to that
Earth resources pass. 14-1/2 minutes to acquisition at
Vanguard, this is Skylab Control.
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time. Skylab space station is now coming within range of
the tracking antenna at Vanguard. This Vanguard pass will
last approximately 10-1/2 minutes. Bring the line up
live now for air-to-ground through Vanguard. At the present
time the crew should be engaged in ATM activities for Commander
Jerry Carr, that's scheduled next up on his list and in the
same time physical training period has been set aside for Ed
Gibson while he takes a little relaxation from the ATM, at
least that's what the schedule calls for although in the pass
he's often traded off his time to spend a little extra time
on the ATM. We have seen some solar activity today and we
expect we may see some more so he could be there very well.
And this is an eating period now for Pilot Bill Pogue. We
are live now for air-to-ground at Vanguard.
i0 minutes. And we're planning to dump the recorder here.
CDR Hey Hank, Ed would like to know if they
NOAA guys would like to send up another copy of 6752 Bravo
because he can't read paragraph 2 about active region 31.
CC Okay, we can sure ship you another one.
CC For the SPT, I think all the info is there if
you could just conjugate the heteropolarity of the desiccate
and be occonstrictor, (Sic) I think it'd be very apparent
to you.
SPT Say again Hank.
PAO Little doubletalk from Hank Hartsfield
there.
CC PLT, Houston.
PLT Rog, Hank.
CC Hey Bill, you're scheduled for the last
ATM pass of the day and we have a request for you, and that
is that somewhere during that pass you give us I minute of
H-alpha i zoomed all the way in on the VTR. And the reason
we're wantin_ this is to try to get some info on this
degradation in H-alpha image - H-alpha 1 image as it goes
through the day. And for info we're going to be asking for
the same thing tomorrow morning in the first pass so we can
compare the two.
PLT Okay Hank. Ed has the MDA hatch barricaded
up there in the forward airlock. And Itm not sure that I'll
be able to make it up to the ATM panel but if I can get on
there I'll give you a 1-minute.
CC Okay, we understand Bill, that - that
AR31 really seems to be cutting up here this evening.
PLT Got his Swiss army knife out waiting for me.
CC SPT, Houston. Whenever it's convenient
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we'd like to get the H-alpha i night INTERLOCK switch to normal.

SPT Got it Hank.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're i minute to LOS, Tananarive
at 03.
SPT Well Hank, I think this time we finally
go t one on the rise.
CC Sure looks like it Ed, we're real
pleased down here. That X-REA was really climbing up there
awhile ago.
time. Well there's another piece of good news from the
Skylab crew, it looks like they may be getting a flare rise.
This is something Ed Gibson has been waiting for for a long
time and it looks now they may have it. The XREA, that's
the X-ray event analyser is giving higher and higher
indications which indicates that we may have a flare just
in its early stages, and that would be a new first for
Skylab. They've waited for a long time to get good data on
a flare rise, that is to say the early stages of flare
activity, that has not been gotten so far by any of the
Skylab crew. Previous Skylab crews have seen flares later
on in the rise stage near the peak, but this looks, at least
right now, it looks like a good flare rise. The crew is
only going to have a little chance to get it though because
they're going over the hill right now or going back into
the darkness period. This is Skylab Control, our next
acquisition is 12-i/2 minutes away at Tananarive, it's now
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PAO Skylab Control at 1 minute after midnight

Greenwich mean time. The Skylab space station is now coming
within range of the tracking antenna at Tananarive. We'll
bring the line up for this pass through the voice relay sta-
tion there. It's about a 10 minute pass and the Spacecraft
Communicator is Hank Hartsfield_ Flight Director Charles Lewis.
Nell Hutchinson finally managed to escape from Mission Control
after a long period of working over tomorrow's instructions
for the Skylab crew.
CC Skylab, Houston through Tananarive 8 minutes.
SPT Hello, Hank. Let me tell you about a flare.
CC Okay, welre waiting.
SPT Okay. First manifestation of it was in the
XUV monitor. The brightening became more pronounced. We
always had a brightening as we've been working with active
region 31 on the pass couple of orbits but it was now more
intense and I saw a slight configuration (static) and the
PMEC was at a reasonable count. I don_t recall what it was.
I think it was probably around 3 - 300 to 400 and it was not
fluctuating which led me to believe that we really and with
that I started the instruments all in their flare modes. 54
in it's flare r - mode, MSIH, 64; AUTO, SHORT for 56 and I
might add I had to, several times here, I noticed that it
was hung up and I think we were running about a half up
there. 55 was already gone into MIRROR LINE SCAN and we
were right on the brightest point at the beginning. 82A got
a 20 second exposure right away since we had that set up,
and during that time all we had to do was hit the button.
82B, I gave it WAVE LENGTH SHORT, times 1/4 and then looked
it over again. At that time, the flare had spread a little
further into south in H-alpha. The X-rays had come in the
PMEC and the image intensity count was going on. And it was
brighter yet in the XUV monitor and we committed ourselves
to a flare mode in 82A and 82B. I think I might've given
them another WAVELENGTH SHORT in there for sequence for 82B
before we did that. At flare peak, we came out of the flare
modes for 82A and 82B, and the other instruments remained in
flare mode. And I was counting number of days left versus the
number of frames left in 82A and B. We sure did use a bundle
but probably more so in 82B. So I then played it by trying
to get a reasonable data take on 82A. We gave a 20-second
exposure at 24 seconds remaining, 21, 18 13 - 18 3 after we
came out of their flare mode. For 82B, we gave them WAVE-
LENGTH SHORT times 1/4 at 25, 22, 20, 17, 12 minutes remaining
and then went to a wavelength - well, wave - data wait was
short and exposure normal. When the oxygen VI count was
down appreciably, that was 9 minutes remaining and at 4 minutes
remaining, I had to truncate that last one at about 1-1/2
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minutes remaining which is slightly below 400 K. I put a

little longer version of what I've just done on tape. We have
a the max we saw was 710 on the PMEC and about 70 on the
image intensity count. It may have been higher than that at
one time or another when we are not looking at it and that's
the short substance of it. I'll be glad to talk about it a
little more in detail on tape or on the air-to-ground if you
got questions. Right now our frames remaining are reading -
I'll start at the top 9389, 284, 30, 60, 1684, and 3286. The
time at which I noticed it when I had gone into the flare
mode or had started the instrument in a rapid data-taking
mode was at around 22:15. I'd be interested to find out what
the rise observed on the ground was.
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CC Thank yon Ed. Let me see if there are

any questions from the backroom.
SPT While you're getting those, Hank, l'm
not sure what you have in the way of H-alpha down there.
But it was really nice to watch it change theTe. The plate
that we've been seeing in active region 31 has been relatively
small with - it's been on the order of 5 to i0 are seconds.
Round circular points of brightening off and on all after-
noon. Finally when the flare did come the region to the
south spread out from that point and then turned to the east.
And then a little while after that came out from that point,
it went a little bit north, about as much as the point
(static)
CC Ed, we dropped out there a little bit. We
lost you there at Tananarive about a minute ago, so we didn't
copy anything you said there.
SPT What was the last thing that you copied,
Hank?
CC Okay. You were telling us how the flare
progressed through the region.
SPT Oh, okay. It went to the south initially,
and then to the east, and then the region to the north of it
from that point opened up and moved - moved a little bit north
and then to the west and we were sitting right in the center
of it. Even though the oxygen VI count had gone down and we
were not always on the brightest point_ we were still pretty
much in the center of it and I didn't change the pointinB,
because it did spread out on either side of where we were,
toward a roll. I think we had a good roll for it each way, and
82B certainly had the slits filled with plage, flaring plage.
I shouldn't say filled, but we had a good portion of the slit,
maybe one quarter or so filled which means that I think that
first spectrum will be dominated by that. 55 was looking at
that bright point there before it flared, and even though the
oxygen Vl countwas not always pegged high as the flare pro-
gressed, I still think they probably got some pretty good
time histories on them.
CC Thank you, we're about 30 seconds from
LOS.
SPT Okay. If you could, let me - tell me
when the people have come up with a good flare time, or rise
time to the X-REA, and also instrument start time, I'd like to
see how close we really came to it.
CC Okay. At 23:16. Was that when you
started the 82A exposure?
SPT That's about when I recall, yes. Things
were going kind of fast there, Hank, and a minute or two
can make quite a bit of difference. So, I'd he interested
in knowing right down to the minute what - when it was. That's
when I took a glance at my watch at that point when - after
I had started the instruments. And that was what I was -
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that's what I saw. But I might have been a minute before

that. I'm not sure.
PAO Skylab Control at 13 minutes after
Greenwich midnight. The Skylab space station is now over
the Indian Ocean out of range of the tracking antenna on
the Island of Madagascar. During this pass over Tananarive
Ed Gibson went - finally went through a discussion of the
attempt to gather some data on that flare rise. He has not yet
had confirmation from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration and ground stations yet. But he has - says
he has good reason to believe that they had good flare activity
there. He could see signs of the peak spreading out to
the east from the solar region. He'd been watching a rather
small bright area, about 2 to 4000 miles across, roughly the size
of the United States, and said that flare spread was pretty
interesting to watch during that last daylight cycle. They
are now currently in a night period. And he believes that
he saw some indications of X-ray rises and for that reason
began his data take very early. Previous crews have had
only one significant problem in gathering data on a flare rise.
Most of the smaller flares do not activate the warning system
until it's really too late to gather the earliest data. And for
that reason, although most of the crews have made an attempt
to gather data on the early stages of solar flares, they've
not been able to catch the very beginnings. They've always
caught it just before the peak. The peaks coming much on the
small flares than one might like. But it does look like Ed
Gibson, at least made a very valiant effort to get very
early data on a solar flare. And we'll have to wait to see
whether this was a small sized flare or a medium sized one.
Active region 31 has been very active today. It's already
produced an M-level flare according to Vela satellite. Vela
does tend to read a little bit high, so the scientists in
the backroom are saying that it looks like it may be a very
high C-class, probably a C-9 X-ray flare, which would make
that still a medium sized flare, and one of the largest ones
so far on this Skylab in this Skylab flight, although a
good deal smaller than the X-I flare that was seen by the
Skylab - second Skylab crew. We'll have to wait to get some
background data from NOAA on that flare activity, but we'd
expect by the time we have our next acquisition, we may be
able to give Ed Gibson a more thorough report. 32 minutes
to acquisition at Hawaii. This is Skylab Control at 15
minutes and 45 seconds after the hour.
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PAO Skylab Control at zero hours 47 minutes

Greenwich mean time. We're now coming up live on Hawaii and
we'll bring the line up for a pass lasting approximately
8-1/2 minutes.
SPT Hello, Hank, how do you read?
SPT Hello, Hank, how do you read?
CC Skylab, Houston, how do you read?
SPT We got you loud and clear, Hank. How me?
CC Okay, loud and clear now. We had a little
problem right there. We got about 6-1/2 minutes
left through Hawaii.
SPT Okay, I need some words from you on
post flare. What I'm working right now is we did a building
block 32 at the very beginning. I looked at the corona,
did not see any appreciable change except for some small
streamers I'Ii mention in a minute. Right now_ I'm just kind
of stretching out what we call post flare. Every 15 minutes,
82A and B are getting a 20-second exposure wavelength short
and a wavelength short exposure normal sequence. And 56 is
getting the - alternate patrol short, the patrol normals with
a little spacing inbetween and 54 is getting their MSI $256
which I had to kind of read into what is written here on the
building block. And a little spacing inbetween those. I'd
like to hear from the backroom what they desire.
CC Okay, I'ii try to get an answer for you
and we're suppose to get the evening status report this site.
CC And SPT, one quick thing here. So we can
get some correlation between H-alpha i and H-alpha 2, wonder
if we can get you to zoom in all the way on H-alpha i and
zoom out all the way with H-alpha 2 and keep that configuration
for about i minute.
SPT Okay, that's where we are now. And would
you like me to select? I have H-alpha i selected on monitor i
and wait for a switch on mon i. Also, Hank, do I have a call
tonight?
CC SPT, Houston what we'd like to do in
regard to the rest of the schedule here is to terminate the
post flare and go ahead and get the snyoptic.
SPT Okay. In building building block IA and
IB, is that right?
CC Affirmative.
SPT Okay.
CDR Hank, whenever youtre ready for the
evening status I'ii give it to you.
CC Okay, go ahead, Jerry.
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CDR Okay, you all finish with Ed? Why don't you
get all that squared away before I start? He needs to know
when his call is tonight, too.
CC That's right. I forgot to give him that.
His phone call is at Hawaii at 2:24 and it's right antenna.
SPT I got that, Hank; thank yon.
CDR Okay, Hank, here it comes. Photo Log:
16-millimeter; MI51, ETC prep, Charlie India 81, 30, Charlie
India 77. And there's a footnote here. It says 2 to 3 seconds
of the cover partially off the supply and the - all the details
on that are on tape and they went on about 19:40. That's
transporter 08. Okay, EREP, VTS, Charlie Lima ii, 39.
Nikon i, Charlie X-ray 4229; 02, Bravo Victor 29, 07 and
that anticipates 6 frames for the S073. Char - number 03,
Charlie India 115, 31; number 04, Bravo, Echo i0, 41;
5, Bravo Hotel 06, 31. 70-millimeter, Charlie X-ray 46, 150.
ETC, Charlie India 12, 080. EREP, set X-ray 0396, 2576,
0120, 9481, 1252, 0188. Drawer A: transporter 02, Charlie
India 81, 30, Charlie India 77.
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CDR Okay, in case I might have confused you,

it looks like the MI51 data was put on transporter number 2,
transporter number 8 is the one where the cover came off.
CC Okay, we got it and we got about a
minute left.
CDR Okay, we're going to recheck that, I
think we're going to have to correct it.
CC Okay, Skylab_ we're about a minute from LOS_ the
next pass is at Vanguard at 17_ and that's your med conference.
Also as a reminder here you have a sextant thing to be done at
1:30, if you wouldntt mind we_d like you voice that data down
to us at 02:24. And I got a couple of more items for you,
I guess I'ii have to get them there and maybe the rest of
the evening status if you can do it Jerry.
CDR Okay, I'ii hustle the evening status.
Sleep: CDR, 7.0, 6.0 heavy, 1.0 light; SPT, 6.0, 5.0 heavy,
1.0 light; PLT, 6.5, all heavy. Volumes: 130; 130; 180.
Water gun: 8739; 4781; 1186. Body mass: 6.312, 6.308,
6.314; 6.359, 6.365, 6.364_ 6.249, 6.254p 6.256. Exercise:
CDR, no change; PLT, no change; SPT, standard minus Alfa.
Medication: CDR, none; SPT, 2 asprin; PLT_ Afrin at noon.
Clothing: CDR, T-shirts, socks, shirts and trousers; SPT, - -
PAO Skylab Control at zero hours 57 minutes
Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station is out of range
of Hawaii. The evening status report there not quite
concluded at the end of the pass. And our next pass coming
up at Vanguard 20 minutes away is the private medical
conference this evening. Science Pilot Ed Gibson is undoubtedly
going to be asked about his sleeping habits again tonight_
Flight Director Charles Lewis indicates that the teleprinter
pads are behind schedule again after a great many changes
had to be made this afternoon in a number of extra pads for
tomorrow's double Earth resources passes, that requires
separate sets of instructions for Earth resources pass and
also for an alternative Flight Plan in case the Earth resources
pass or passes have to be canceled. So that's a long supply
of teleprinter pads again tomorrow, and those messages will
have to be uplinked during the night. So if the science
pilot's sleeping in the airlock module he may hear the sound
of what the crew has called the woodpecker for good many
hours tonight. Our next acquisition after Vanguard is a long
way away, it's around the globe to Hawaii again an hour and
26 minutes from now. This is Skylab Control at 58 minutes
after the hour.
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time. The Skylab space station is now coming within range
of the tracking antenna at Vanguard where the private medical
conference is scheduled. This is a rather lengthy pass, about 9-1/2
minutes, so we expect that the crew will come back for at
least a brief bit of air-to-ground to finish out the evening
status report so that the crew can be left alone for the
rest of the evening period. NOAA information given here to
the scientists in Mission Control indicates that that flare
activity that Science Pilot Ed Gibson hoped he'd gotten
was in fact a good flare and the best one of the Skylab
mission so far. The flare was rated C-9, which is just
below the M- level. It's about a medium sized flare, and the
biggest one so far seen by this Skylab crew. A larger flare
activity has been seen during the three Skylab missions, but
this was the largest to be caught by the crew. The flare started
at 23:14 Greenwich mean time. At that point it was below
a C-I or a relatively low powered flare, just in its rise
period. It reached its peak at 23:24, at which time it was
a C8.8 or about a C9. It was halfway down to a normal level
by 23:48, and it ended at 00:16 Greenwich mean time. I'll
repeat those times for you. The start time for the flare is
23:14, reached its peak at 23:24, it was halfway down from
its peak by 23:48, and it had reached an end point or back
to normal by 00:16 Greenwich mean time. Ed Gibson informed
the ground earlier that he had started his activities about
23:16. He did not give an exact time, but indicated it was
around 23:16, which would have been 2 minutes after the flare
activity was first started. But the ground believes, based on
some data they have here on the instruments operation, that
the X-REA data was being taken at about 23:14:30, which would
mean that Gibson had the X-REA equipment, which is the primary
equipment for this solar activity, on within 30 seconds of
the beginning of the flare. That certainly meets the highest
desires and expectations of both the science pilot and the ground
scientists for gathering data on the flare rise. That should
give some very important information about the solar activity
that so far has not been understood well by scientists on the
ground. None of the previous crews were able to get a
flare rise. They always managed to catch the flare rather well
along into its development and this early data consisting of
photography and X-REA information should give very extensive
information about the growth of a flare, from its earliest
stages all the way to its peak, and then through its con-
clusion. Science Pilot Ed Gibson finally reaching that goal
that he had sought. Some disappointment in his voice earlier
when the Earth resources pass took place during a flare just
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about the same size as this one. The flare, of course not
observable during an Earth resources pass as the solar
instruments are not pointed at the Sun during passes over
the Earth, when the Earth instruments are on the ground.
But Ed Gibson got a second chance today and the second chance
paid off very well as he acted extremely quickly, using good
judgment and showing that some X-REA indications that were
very, very preliminary turned out to be good indications
of a growing flare. And he did get that we believe now
within 30 seconds of its very earliest stages, and that's
excellent information. We're coming up live at Vanguard and
we'll bring the line up in the event that this private
medical conference does come live to air-to-ground for Hank
Hartsfield and the flight crew on duty.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AO - got you for
about another minute and 20 seconds. I know the SPT and
the CDR are about to be real busy here. We missed every-
thing after he started into the closin B on the evenin B status.
If it was convenient, we sure would llke to get that down
at 02:24. Have two other quickies for you. For the PLT,
don't forget to give us a little VTR on the H-alpha i, and
so we can look at that degradation. Also, in regard to the
beep you've been having, on panel 200, we could open up to-
night, that audio system Buffer amp 1 circuit breaker and
leave it open all night, and that - we're wondering if we
leave it open awhile, that might cure the problem. We don't
know, but it's worth a try. And the only thing_ with that
breaker open, you will not be able to do any voice recording,
And also, regarding the M092 this morning, if you did record
the data, we didn't get it, and we're about 30 seconds from
LOS. The next site is Hawaii at 02:24, and that's the SPT's
phone call with a right antenna.
PLT Okay, Hank. I didn't put anything on the
VTR because I thought you were rewinding it. Have a green
light on when I got up here.
CDR And Hank, as far as we know, M092 should
have been recorded. We were all set up.
CC It's just the voice data we're missing.
CDR The voice data.
CDR Okay.
SPT Hank. I already did that (static)
PAO Skylab Control at i hour 28 minutes
Greenwich mean time. They're out of range _ow of Vanguard.
Out next acquisition 56 minutes away is at Hawaii. During
this pass we only had about a minute of air-to-ground as
the private medical conference took up most of the pass.
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A certain amount of time, of course, required for the

configuration to be changed so that the ground can talk
directly to the crew after the private medical conference.
Hank Hartsfield passing up a message asking them to put a
little TV on H-alpha so that the ground can determine how
much degradation may have taken place in the monitor for
that. And also the report came back from the crew that
they'd thought that the VTR was being - the video tape recorder
was being rewound. And it came as news to the ground. They
didn't realize the green light was on and they had not been
rewinding the video tape recorder. So, it looks like we
may have to talk to them again 56 minutes from now at
Hawaii, at which time we might find out what they were
saying at the end of that pass. A good deal of conversation
that did not reach the ground as the space station was going
over the hill at Vanguard. 55 minutes to acquisition at
Hawaii, it's now 29 minutes after the hour, and this is
Skylab Control.
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1/21/74
PAO Skylab Control at 2 hours 23 minutes and

21 seconds Greenwich mean time. We're now coming up on
Hawaii Hawaii tracking station where we'll have the pass
lasting a little less than 8 minutes. And following this pass,
we'll give you a more thorough report on the activity here
at Mission Control following that exciting flare rise we
believe Ed Gibson caught with some quotes from some of the
people in the backroom who were observing the activity today.
We're live now at Hawaii. We don't know whether there will
be conversation but we expect there might be here at the
tracking station in the next 8 minutes.
PAO Skylab Control, we have a glitch in
progress on CMG number 2 so those of you who have been waiting
for one, this is a pretty good size one.
CDR Houston, CDR.
CC Go ahead.
CDR Roger. You ready to pick up on the
status report.
CC Sure thing, Jerry, and if we could start
with the clothing, we would appreciate it.
CDR With the what?
CC The clothing. You left off we lost contact
with us you were telling us the clothing items that were changed.
CDR Okay, first of all letls get the photo
log straightened out. I found a blunder in it that we'd better
get squared away.
CC Okay.
CDR Up under 16-millimeter, MI51 ETC prep,
that was transporter 08 and that's the one where the cover
came off for about 2 to 3 seconds and that was on the take-up
reel. And then go down to Drawer A configuration, and it
should read as follows: AI, A2, A3 and back should be no
change; A4 is transporter 08 Charlie India 81, 30, Charlie
India 77, and that should square it away. It was Charl - it
was transporter 08 that we had the problem with and no other
transporter was used today.
CC Okay, we got it.
CDR You still with me? Okay, we'll start out with
medications and clothing. Medication: CDR, none; SPT,
two asprins, PLT, Afrin at noon. Clothing: CDR, T-shirt,
socks, shorts and tronsers_ SPT, socks and shirts; PLT, shorts,
socks, T-shirt and shirt. Food log: CDR, zero salt, minus
one coffee with sugar plus 1.5 rehydration water; SPT,
0 salt, two lemonades, plus 2.0 rehydration water; PLT,
1.5 salt, plus one coffee with sugar_ plus 1 pea soup_ minus
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1.0 rehydration water. Let's see, Flight Plan deviations:

none. Shopping list accomplishments - well, yeah, there was
a Flight Plan deviation. The SPT took the last 2 ATM passes.
Shopping list accomplishments: TV 32, TV 107 for I hour,
ETC prep, ETC stow, TV i03 for three quarters of an hour.
Inoperable equipment is transporter 08. Not inoperable but
that was the one we had the problem with. The details are
on tape, time tag 19:40, 19:40 Zulu. Unscheduled stowage: none.
CDR Okay, we got it. I wonder if Ed passed
the sextant info to you before he went for his private comm.
CDR He sure did; stand by. Okay, Regulus_ sex -
shaft 140.0, 19.7; for Spica, 286.6, tunnion 36.9.
CC Okay, we got it, Jet. And a couple of quickies
here. Did you copy the - what we said regard to pulling the
audio system, BUFFER AMP i circuit breaker to stop your
beeping.
CDR We sure did. We'll pull that breaker tonight
after everybody's finished with their tape recordings and
we'll be prepared to put it on again in the morning.
CC Okay. And one item on close out on the
ATM panel, if it's conveient. We show the H-alpha door open;
we'd like to get that closed. Also we're showing that the
VTR is full of tape. How much did you all - I mean that it
is full, how much did you put on it?
CC I don't think we put a whole load on it.
There must be a problem. I'Ii go up and check it.
CC Okay, if the power's off, that will give us
the same invitation indications, Jerry.
CDR Say again.
CC If the power is off on it that would
give us that indication of a tape full and - -
CDR Okay.
CC If it's okay with Ed, I don't guess we'll
find out, we'd sure like to uplink pads till about 04:00
like we did last time. If it's not, have him give us a call
at the next site which is at Vanguard at 02:55 and we're about
LOS right now.
CDR Okay.
PLT Okay, Hank, about the first 5 minutes of
the VTR has the H-alpha information; the rest of it is no
good. I left it on.
CC OKay, we copy and we'll say goodnight to
you now. Get a good night's rest.
CDR Take care.
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PAO Skylab Control at 2 hours 33 minutes.
We're ou_ of range of Hawaii on what may be the last pass of
the evening. Hank Hartsfield passing up a message that they'd
like to uplink the teleprinter messages until 04:00 Greenwich
mean time. That's an hour passed the nominal sleep time for
the crew. If there is any disagreement from Science Pilot Ed
Gibson, he should give us a call back. That anomaly on CMG
number 2, which is first seen here at Hawaii, looks like a
fairly - fairly serious one, not tremendously different from
the earlier ones, but the currents are up a bit higher than
we've seen before - about 3 to 4 percent as opposed to the
usual 2 percent increase, and the wheel speed is down about
60 rpms, that's only slightly more than normal. And, also
the temperatures have crossed over with the temperature of
bearing number 2 about a degree higher than bearing number i,
as opposed to the usual bearing number i about 2 or 3
degrees warmer than bearing number 2. So, we do have another
CMG anomaly this evening. This is the first one since before
the crew awakened this morning. Science Pilot Ed Gibson, as
we were informed by commander crew (sic) during this last
pass, did take the final two solar passes, interestingly
enough he had borrowed a pass from Commander Jerry Carr when
he got the flare rise that was observed earlier this evening.
That was originally scheduled for Commander Carr, but Science
Pilot Ed Gibson, not wanting to get away too far from the
solar activity, kept his eye on the Sun and got some very
interesting data there. We have some information from the
people in the backroom. The chief scientist on duty in the
solar activity room is Nell R. Sheeley - S-H-E-E-L-E-Y. He
is the associate - one of the associate investigators on
SO82, which is the prime beneficiary of the solar activity
today and the central device for studying the solar flare
activity that was seen this evening. Dr. Sheeley said that
"nobody else as far as we know" - 17m quoting him "nobody
else as far as we know has been able to catch a flare from
beginning to end. It was a challenge to Gibson to do better
than anyone had ever done before on Skylab." Neil said that
he wasn't certain that we wouldn't find, in going back through
all of the data, the thousands and thousands of pictures
taken on previous Skylab missions that it might not have been
accidental - that a previous Skylab crew might have gotten
some data just by accident, having operated the equipment during
a flare rise. But so far to the best of his knowledge, we
have no data on flare rise until tonight. Nell went on to
say "The importance is that certain things happen in the
rise of a flare that don't happen any other time. One of
these is the flash phase. At some time in the increase of X-
radiation, there is a 20 - 15_ to 20_second period in which
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the energy increases very quickly. We had no way of plotting

or predicting it; it can come at any time. There is a rea-
sonable chance that he got it and we don't know exactly
when it occurred or exactly when he started. It looks like
we'll have to wait for the film to find out." Dr. Sheeley
also indicated that he thought this was extremely exciting.
He - I asked him how exciting he felt it was and he said,
"You can look at my handwriting; it gets pretty bad." He
said that he was running very quickly and trying to keep -
keep his eyes on what was happening and trying to listen to
everything. There wasn't any shouting in Mission Control,
or in the backrrom where the science officers work, but he
said there was quite a lot of excitement back there and
certainly one of the most exciting times he's had. He said_
"It was very exciting for the crew and for mission planners_
and if he got the rise it will be very exciting for scien-
tists," after the mission is over. One of the other solar
the solar planning officer in the backroom said that the
flare provided "much greater activity than anticipated. The
final magnitude of the flare, particulary excited us." And
a little note on something that was said earlier and com-
pletely went over our heads and over the heads of other
people, I'm sure. Ed Gibson asked for a repeat of a message
that had been sent up on the teleprinter last night. He
asked that the ground trans send up the message again and
indicated that the first copy of the message had been garbled
in transmission. The reference_ although we missed it at the
time, was to a solar activity pad that came up in the morning.
The solar activity pad was referring to active region 31,
where two large flares were seen today or two C-9 flares
were spoted. In looking at that active region 31 last night,
the solar activity message to the crew was sent up by tele-
printer said, referring to active region 31 on the Sun's
western half, " Although bright, it is too small to be con-
sidered a likely source of any but minor activity." That
solar activity message that Gibson described as being
garbled, of course, was not garbled at all. It came through
quite clearly, but the prediction was way off for solar
activity in active region 31, because there was certainly
a great deal of activity. Two of the largest flares seen on
this Skylab mission, although nothing to compare with the X-I
flare seen by the second Skylab crew. When the science pilot
asked for the message and saying that it was garbled and asked
for the retransmission, Hank Hartsfield replied to Ed Gibson
with doubletalk. Nell Sheely is particurarly excited about
the work with S082. It's providing him some problems now
in determining how to use his remaining film. A good deal
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of film was shot of the activity today. That film which

includes spectro - spectroheliograms and spectrograms should
indicate the temperature and density of the region of the Sun
where the flare activity occurred. It also indicates that over
a period of time by keeping close tabs on the exact activity
and showing the solar activity over time by stretching the
Sun out over a long piece of tape - a long piece of film. The
primary importance of the flare activity today and the early
rise time, we believe that crew - -
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PAO - stretching the Sun out over a long

piece of tape - long piece of film. The primary importance
of the flare activity today and the early rise time, we believe
that the crew may have gotten - Science Pilot Ed Gibson may
have gotten it as early as 30 seconds after the X-radiation
began increasing. The importance of that is it should show
us a good deal about the changes that occur in the early
stages of large flares and what conditions precede those
early rise times of the flaress when the bursts of activity
begins. Flare today began at 23:14 Greenwich mean time and
it peaked out about 23:24 Greenwich mean time at approximately
a C-9 according to the data we've received from the Vela
satellite. It was halfway down by 23:48 and the conclusion
of the flare period is estimated to be at 00:16 when the
activity in that region had returned to normal. And also
Ed Gibson thought that he had the slit of the spectrograph
directly pointed at the area where the flare began. SO82A
and 82B, Nell Sheeley_s instruments for wkich he_s co-investigator
are both under the direct supervision of principal
investigator Kichard Tousey of the Naval Kesearch Laboratory
at Washington D.C. where Nell Sheeley is also assigned. Nell
presently is carries the title of Solar czar, c-z-a-r the
chief scientist for planning of the mission at this time in
the backroom here at Mission Control. The names of those
instruments, SO82A, is the extreme ultraviolet coronal spectro-
heliograph, and the S082B is the ultraviolet spectrograph.
We'll have another acquisition 15 minutes away at Vanguard,
we do not expect conversation there, we will however come
hack up at that time and provide you with the evening report
from the medical officer. This is Skylab Control, it's now
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Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station is off the coast
of Chile, about to be acquired through the Vanguard tracking
ship. This pass through Vanguard will last a little less
than i0 minutes. We'll bring the line up live for Hank
Hartsfield. We don't expect to have any conversation
here at Vanguard. However, we may get a call out from
Science Pilot Ed Gibson who is busy with a private phone call
at Hawaii. Science Pilot still gotten full confirmation
of the times of the flare earlier tonight. We don't expect
the ground to call up with that information but he may very
well ask for it. We_ll bring the line up live now at
Vanguard.
SPT Houston_ CDR.
CC Go ahead.
SPT You can go ahead and turn the woodpecker
a loose now. I'ii probalby be up for another hour or so. Once
I go to sleep the woodpecker isn't going to keep me awake.
So just let him peck away until he's completely happy.
CC Okay, we won't do anymore after 04:00
Ed, and we sure appreciate it. We'll probably uplink for another
hour. Just a little info you might be interested it. We
recorded that the flare started at 23:14_ matched out at
23:24 and was declared over at 00:16 and a Vela report
gave it prelimary as a C-9.
SPT Okay, very good. Hook it up to a M-I.
What - do you have PM - the time we got the instrument going?
CC Ed, we're still pulling the data out.
Take a look at it but it looks like that the 82's came on
you got those going at 23:17:43.
SPT Okay. I think probably 54_and 56 were
the earliest; they were a little bit before that.
CC Okay_ itts going to take us a little bit
longer to get all the data snipped by the MDRS but it looks
like we got it well before max.
SPT Yeah, what - well, maybe Bill Lenoir can
go into details tomorrow morning, when they say it begin at
14 what _ what that really mean.
CC Okay, I guess l'm going to need to dig
into that a little more but Vela reported that it started and
at that time and that it was below CI at that time.
SPT Okay, thanks very muchp Hank.
SPT Good night_ Hank. We'll talk to you
tomorrow.
CC Okay, good night. Get a good night's rest
guys.
SPT Will do and try to arrange another one
of those for tomorrow, Hank.
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CC Okay, we're - we're shooting for an X-rated

one before you finish up up there. I think you're all over
21, aren't you? You can look at an X-rated flare.
SPT I've never seen one yet, Hank, and I'd be
curious. Beginning to realize what solar scientists were up to
all these years.
PAO Skylab Control at 3 hours and 6 minutes
Greenwich mean time. We're now out of range of the tracking
ship Vanguard. After a bit of discussion there with
Science Pilot Ed Gibson, he gave the ground an approval to
go ahead and send up teleprinter messages. A very extensive
set of messages for tomorrow's activity_ which includes 2
Earth resources passes with a total time total data take
time of more than half an hour and a total area to be covered
of more than 9,000 miles on three separate sections of track.
Two of them very near each other, during the morning EREP
and then in the afternoon_ another Earth resources pass to be
completed over a 13-minute period. And also scheduled for
tomorrow, a run of the M092 medical experiment along with
M093. That'll be performed on Science Pilot Ed Gibson. During
that last pass over Hawaii, you could hear the sounds of
jazz music being played in the background. That's Science Pilot
favorite and no doubt he's celebrating a little bit tonight
after getting some very good data on that flare. And on the
CMG glitch, apparently, is improving itself slightly now itts
still is along way from recovering but the currents have
come down a bit. This anomaly on the second control moment
gyroscope is the worse one seen since before Christmas. Thatls
when heater management began. We saw about a half a dozen
this bad before the Christmas heater management. Heater manage-
ment took place on day 356. At that point, they started taking
manual control of the heaters, trying to keep the temperatures
up near the upper end of the range. This anomaly occurred as
the temperatures were right around 70 degrees. That's pretty
close to our lower end of the range now. And currents were
up about 3 to 4 percent, wheel speed down about 60 revolutions
per minute or a little more than half a percent and the
temperatures crossed over at one point by about 1.2 degrees.
Normally they are about 2 to 3 degrees in the other direction
so there's about a 4 degree temperature change occurring on
the second bearing. And Science Pilot tried to convince the
ground they should change that C-9 flare to an M-I and then
there was some discussion later here about the possibilty of
arranging and X-flare for them. Some of the scientist in
the backroom said that they just assume not have another big
flare. They are now a little coneerned about running
out of film. Theytve been budgeting the film carefully and
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today's flare data which, of course, was very important, also

used up a good deal of film, a number of photographs taken
over a fairly extended period of time. So for that reason
now we're going to be making attempts not to pursue flare
and they think they have some very good data on this one.
They'll reduce their flare photography for the next few days
and attempt to stretch that film out to get regular data
over the entire 84-day mission. The film will, of course,
be changed out at the final space launch which is scheduled a
few days before the crew comes back to Earth. We have the
Skylab Mission surgeons daily report on crew health. We'll
read that for you at this time. The Skylab Crew has no
significant medical problems, but the Science Pilot had a
medical headache had a mild headache this morning quickly
relieved by asprin and the Pilot had mild conjestion controlled
the the topical decongestant availabe to the crew. Signed
by Dr. Jerry Hordinsky for Dr. Hawkins, the medical operations
director. That concludes the mission surgeons daily report
on crew health. We're coming up on aequisiton of signal
at Ascension where we will have a 6-1/2 minute pass,. We again
do not expect conversation. The crew is scheduled to be
retiring at this point but we'll keep thy line up live in
case there is some additional discussion and we'll also
give you the final report on that status on that control
moment gyroscope.
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and 45 seconds Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station
is now crossing the coast of Africa, 37 minutes from its
next acquisition of signal and mission controllers do not
expect to hear again from the crew tonight, they should be
going into their sleep period, we do expect a couple of the
crewmembers to be retired at this point. Science Pilot Ed
Gibson may be staying up a little late. Skylab Chief
Scientist Ed Gibson had a dream come t_ue tonight, and his
fellow solar scientists here in Mission Control Center are
still buzzing. Gibson, a solar physicist and the author of
a text book called "thThe Quiet Sun," has been spending long
hours observing the Sun in the hope that he might catch the
earliest stages of a solar flare. Tonight Dr. Gibson was
working at the controls of Skylab's solar instruments when
he thought he saw early indications of increasing radiation
in a storm center on the western half of the Sun. The X-
radiation, scientists learned later from an orbiting satellite,
was to reach a peak level as great as the Skylab crew has
seen during their 9-1/2 weeks in space. Gibson's quick action
and good judgment should provide scientists on the ground
with extensive data on the conditions that generate the
tremendous bursts of energy released in solar flares. TodayVs
combination of skill and good fortune will aid scientists
in unraveling the mystery of the Sun's explosive atmosphere.
The evening's excitement made up for the lack of information
on an equally large solar flare that the astronauts missed
this afternoon while they were surveying conditions here on
the Earth. That Earth resources pass today was an extremely
successful one and the live television picture provided for
Mission Control was certainly one of the most exciting pictures
of the mission. This has been a very successful and exciting
day marred only I guess this evening by an anomaly again
on control moment gyroscope number 2. That anominaly does
appear at this time to be in the process of correcting itself,
but if this runs as many of them have it should go on for
probably another hour before it finally disappears. That
anomaly tonight is the worst one that's been seen in the past
month since the heaters for the attitude control gyroscope
have been managed by mission controllers. However, I might
add that anomalies of equal severity have been seen at least
six occasions before heater management began just before
Christmas. Skylab crew will be awaking tomorrow at 6 o'clock
central daylight time, ii:00 Greenwich mean time a little less
than 8 hours from now. They'll be going to bed a bit early
tomorrow night in preparation for an early Earth resources
pass the following day and that schedule will be also followed
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the following night, tomorrow night their bedtime will be

i hour earlier, and the following night they'll be in bed
2 hours earlier so they can get up a bit early in the
morning for an Earth resources pass. Until 6 o'clock
tomorrow central daylight time this is Skylab Control.
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CC (Music: "Spiders and Snakes")

CC Skylab, Houston, good morning to you from
the purple gang. We've got you stateside for 12 more minutes.
CDR Good morning, Richard.
SPT Good morning, Dick and the purple gang.
CC Hi, Ed. How are ya'll doing?
SPT We'll know in a little while.
CC SPT, Houstont we've closed the ATM - ATM
down from our unattended ops and it's all yours whenever you
want .
SPT Thank you, Dick,
CC Skyla5, Houston_ we're a minute from LOS.
Madrid comes up at 11:29. And SPT, Houston, one reminder for
you. On the work you're going to do with the hemoglobin this
morning, the IMSS checklist we sent up change number 2 a couple
of days ago which allowed us to use the hemolysis applicators
for two readings instead of one. And this is the first time
we've done this since we sent up that checklist change. Just
wanted to remind you that it should be in there. Also Madrid
is about the only station this morning that I'll be able to read
up the news to you, and I have some here if you guys would like
to hear it when we get to Madrid. See you there.
SPT So long, Dick, thank you for the reminder.
CC Okay.
PAO Skylab Control, Greenwich mean time Ii hours
26 minutes. Wakeup call through stateside pass on mission day
68 for the crew of Skylab IV. Crew wakened to the music of
"Spiders and Snakes," as the crew begins their 68th day aboard
Skylab space station. CAP COMM is Dick Truly, with Flight
Director at Mission Control Center, Phil Shaffer. The space-
craft presently in orbit of 232.7 nautical miles by 240.8 nautical
miles, very close to the desired orbit following yesterday's
trim burn. The required orbit is 232.2 by 241. The spacecraft
traveling presently at a speed of 14,859 nautical miles per
hour as Skylab begins its 3651st revolution. Temperatures aboard
the spacecraft again 1 degree lower than yesterday at wakeup
time. Presently the temperature is 74.4 degrees. Since the
start of mission day 68, which began at 01:00, there has been
two CMG glitches. The first one at 02:23, this one lasting
2 hours and 22 minutes, the longest CMG glitch associated with
CMG number 2. Also the G&N officer reports this is the highest
current reported at 1.05 amps. Normally the glitches go to
1.04 amps. The second glitch which lasted 1 hour and 28 minutes
began at Greenwich mean time 08:08, and ended at Greenwich mean
time 9 hours 36 minutes. Acquisition coming through Madrid.
We'll bring the llne up for CAP COMM Dick Truly.
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CC Skylab, Houston, AOS Madrid for 8 minutes.

If you guys would like to hear some news_ I have some here for
you.
PLT Rog. Go ahead, Dick.
CC Okay. Washington: President Nixon will
deliver his State of the Union address before a Joint session
of Congress and a nationwide broadcast audience at 9:30 p.m.
eastern daylight time on January the 30th. The White House
and Congressional leaders announced the scheduling Monday.
Nixon had originally arranged to give the address at 12:30
on the 29th then changed it to 8:30 that day at the suggestion
of Senate Minority Leader Hugh Scott. It later turned out,
however, that an evening address on the 29th would
conflict with a National Press Club dinner honoring returning
members of Congress. The President is said to be considering
February i for transmission of his annual economic message
and February 4th for submission of his budget. Again Washing-
ton: Early action by the Senate Rules Committee is expected
on a comprehensive reform bill including the use of tax
funds to finance federal election campaigns. Committee
Chairman Haward Cannon, Democrat of Nevada, is committed to
reporting a bill within 30 days and a tentative draft is already
being circulated for comment. It also includes a measure
passed by the Senate last year, but not acted on by the House,
that would sharply limit campaign contributions and expenditures.
Tel Aviv: The Israeli state radio says the withdrawal of
Israeli troops on the Suez front will begin Friday from
around the city of Suez, at the southern end of the Suez Canal.
A United Nations official said Egypt and Israel have scrupulously
observed the cease-flre since they signed the disengagement
agreement last week. Meanwhile, the foreign Minister of
Kuwait said speculation that the cutbacks in Arab oil produc-
tion would be restored because of the agreement was premature_
and the oll minister of Qatar indicated there would be no
change in the situation. Washington: The head of the Justice
Department's organized crime section says arrests have caused
disorganization in some of the nation's crime syndicates.
William S. Lynch said many crime bosses have been imprisoned
causing internal disarray in their organizations, although
they can still exert some influence on the illegal operations
they ruled on the outside. Honolulu: A statewide gasoline
rationing plan similar to one used in Oregon will go into
effect in Hawaii on February the 4th. The acting governor says drivers
w±th even-numbered license plates can buy fuel on even-numbered
da_s and these with odd-numbered plates can purchase gasoline
on the other days. Service stations will be open Monday through
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Friday and drivers will be allowed to fill up only if their

tanks are at least halfempty. The governor has said 92
percent of the state's service station operators have agreed
to comply with the voluntary plan. The state proposal is
called "Gasplan." It will be publicized by a $25,000 advertising
campaign. And the plan was created by the state's energy
task force. The Internal Revenue Service says it is probin_
reports that some Chicago area service stations are charging
customers membership fees before selling them gasoline. George
Levin of the IRS price stabilization office said the
membership connection for gasoline purchases is illegal. He
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CC It will be publised by a $25,000 advertis-

ing campaign. And, the plan was created by the state's energy
task force. The Internal Revenue Service said that it is
probing reports that some Chicago area service stations are
charging customers membership fees before selling them gasoline.
George Levin of the IRS Price Stabilization Office, said the
membership connection for gasoline purchases is illegal.
He said there have been some reports across the country that
some stations have been charging up to $25 for a year-long
membership. Chicago: Admiral Hyman G. Richover and his new
wife are off on their honeymoon, but the bride's father won't
say where, so they can have some privacy. Admiral Richover,
73, who led America's atomic submarine development program
and Commander Eleonore Bednowicz, a Navy nurse were married in
a private ceremony Saturday. Rickover was married for
more than 40 years to the former Ruth Masters, before her
death in 1972. He met his bride last year when he was a pres -
a patient, at the Bethesda_ Maryland naval hospital. Memphis,
Tennessee: A would-be robber without any money when a teller -
let me start this one again. A would-be robber left without
any mon - money when a teller at a branch bank told him his
holdup note was written on the wrong type of withdrawal slip.
Police said the man apparently became frightened, struck
stuck the note in his mouth and ran from the First National
Bank of Memphis. Brandon Davis, bank public relations director,
said the robber had handed the teller a deposit sllp Monday on
which he had made some uncompleted markings, and also showed
her a note saying, "This could be the biggest moment of your
of your life. Give me all your money." Davis said the teller
told the man he had written the note on the wrong form and
would have to fill it out again. The bank robber fled. One
final note here. In San Antoniop when the Government Employees
Credit Union turned off its giant downtown electric time and
temperature sign to save energy, some nearby residents asked
that it be turned back on. The sign is near the country Jail.
An inmate said, "There are 500 inmates dependent upon the clock
so far as time goes, plus the temperature keeps us informed of
the outside environment. Needless to say, we have felt the
loss greatly." A credit union official said the request is being
studied. We still have about 2 minutes here at Madrid. One
note that I wanted to pass up to you guys is, we'd llke you
to - if you haven't already, to close the audio system buffer
amplifier 1 circuit breaker that you opened to get rid of the
oscillating tone and let us know whether or not the tone returns
to you. If it does I'll have a couple more words for you.
PLT We have and it did.
CC Assumed that you did close it and the tone
did return. Is that correct?
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PLT That's affirmative.

CC Okay, Bill. Be advised that nothing
will be hurt if you want to procedurally close that circuit
breaker, only when you desire to do voice recording, that's
perfectly okay. If you decide to do this to get rid of the
oscillating tone however, there is no indication other than
the absence of that tone that - that the circuit breaker
is not closed. In other words when you hit the voice record
switch on the SIA, you will get a green light and you will
think you're - you will think that you are recording, however,
no recording will be done unless that circuit breaker is
closed.
CDR Roger, Dick, thanks. I doubt if we'll
close it very often - or open it very often during the day.
CC Roger, Jerry, weVre about 35 seconds
from LOS, Carnarvon at 12:05,
PAO Skylab Control. @reenwich mean time
ii hours 38 minutes. The Flight Plan for Skylab IV crew's
68th day aboard space station Skylab has more than 22 man
hours scheduled for scientific investigation. Earth resources
experiment, EREP surveys account for more than half of
science man-hours, with only four Apollo telescope mount passes
scheduled today. Today's medical experiments have Science
Pilot Ed Gibson as the subject and Pilot Bill Pogue as the
observer on the MO92/M093, lower body negative pressure
vectorcardiogram experiment. EREP 36, along groundtracks
2 and 3, is actually two separate data takes. One across
the United States_ the other across North and Central Africa.
Ground sites run from the extreme sea ice (garble) measurements
in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence, to sensor performance tests
over the Sahara Desert, an analysis of surface and ground
resources in Niger. The two data takes run from 9:24 to
9:38 a.m. and from 9:50 to 9:55 a.m. central daylight time.
The second EREP pass is along groundtrack 5 and runs from
2:20 to 2:23 p.m. central daylight time, diagonally across
the United States from Washington to Florida. Ground sites
along the groundtrack range from geological surveys in
Wyoming, mapping the Rocky Mountains, weather systems across
the country, coastline ecology surveys in South Carolina and
Florida, mapping in the Dominican Republic and the usual
series of sites for development of remote sensing technology.
Optional handheld Earth feature photography sites include,
East African rift zones, soil erosion in Niger coastal
sediment and lake ice in Lake Ontario, the Florida current
or Gulf Stream, the Salt Verde River watersheds in Arizona and
again the Goddard Space Center's laser, emitting red light
at l_watt continuous output. Hopefully the weather will
cooperate with today's laser experiment. The last several
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days' performance of this experiment has been cancelled because

of inclement weather on the Eastern Seaboard. Next acquisition
in 24 minutes and 45 seconds through Carnarvon. This is
Skylab Control at Greenwich mean time ii hours and 40 minutes.
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Time: 07:04 CDT, 68:12:04 GMT
1/22/74
PAO S_ylab Control. Greenwich mean time

12 hours and 4 minutes. Acquisition coming through Carnarvon
in 50 seconds. The first Skylab EREP pass today, is from one
extreme to the other as the spacecraft crosses the west coast
of the United States. It will be at predawn over the west
coast. Instruments aboard Skylab will be gathering data on
geothermal sources, special interest, gathering information
along Imperial Valley in California through Nevada, looking
for the more active geothermal regions and also studying major
fault zones. Purpose is to provide principal investigator
information on potential geothermal sources in that area as
well as aid in mapping. As the spacecraft crosses the northern
limits of the North American continent, the instruments will
be gathering data on ice flows in the St. Lawrence River. The
data take will stop as the spacecraft begins - -
CDR Roger, Dick.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're about a minute
from LOS. Honeysuckle comes up 7 minutes from now and Bill,
Just a reminder, you might want to Jot down the time but later
on today, your phone call is set up at 01:40 at Hawaii.
PLT Roger, 01:40.
CC Roger.
SPT And Dick, for the 82A folks, I gave them two
exposures at a roll of 400. Tell them I'm sorry; I gave them
some additional exposures at the correct roll.
CC Roger, Ed.
12 hours 10 minutes with loss of signal through Carnarvon.
Acquisition will he coming through the Honeysuckle tracking
station in 4 minutes and 55 seconds as the crew of Skylab IV
begin their 68th day in orbit, day 253 for the 100-ton space
station. Systems aboard Skylab space station performing
nominally this morning. Temperature in the vehicle at wakeup
time was 74.4 degrees fahrenheit. Down 1 degree from yester-
day's temperature of 75.5. Skylab presently in orbit of 232.7 -
by 240.8_nautical mile altitude, very close to the required
232.2 and 241.0-nautical-mile altitude required as a result
of the trim burn yesterday. Spacecraft traveling 14,859
nautical miles per hour. Two glitches in CMG reported on
mission day 68. First one lasting 2 hours and 22 minutes,
the longest yet in this series. This first glitch started
at 2:23 Greenwich mean time and ran till 5 hours and 45 minutes
at 3 hours and 23 minutes long - the longest yet. The next
glitch was at Greenwich mean time 8 hours and 8 minutes and
this one returned to normal at Greenwich mean time 9 hours
and 36 minutes, Three EREP data takes today. The first, over
the United States. Two seperate takes. One over the west
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coast and one over the St. Lawrence River. The third data
take over Africa. Total of 22 hours of science time today
with science hours assigned 7 hours and 5 minutes to the
Commander, Gerald Carr. 7 hours and 28 minutes for Science
Pilot Ed Gibson and 7 hours and 40 minutes assigned to Pilot
Bill Pogue. Two hours and 44 minutes of manned observation
from the ATM control and display panel scheduled today. We'll
bring the llne up for this pass through Honeysuckle. CAP COMM
is Dick Truly. Flight Director is Phil Shaffer.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS at Honeysuckle
for a very short pass. Texas comes up at 12:45. See you
then.
Goldstone will be next acquisition in 27 minutes and 25
seconds. At Greenwich mean time 12 hours 18 minutes, this
is Skylab Control.
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SL-IV MC-2385/I
Time: 07:44 CDT, 68:12:44 GMT
1/22/74

12 hours 44 minutes. We'll have acquisition through Goldstone,
as Skylab space station now in its 3651st revolution crosses
over Baja, California. Acquisition in 40 seconds. Activities
today highlighted by three separate Earth resources data takes.
A total of 22 hours of science gathering, today. A pair of
medical experiments with the science pilot, Ed Gibson, serving
as the subject. We'll bring the line up for this state-
side pass, as we've had a changeover in command here at the
Mission Control Center. Flight Director Neil Hutchinson in
charge of the silver team of flight controllers taking over
the reigns from off-going Flight Director Phil Shaffer.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Goldstone,
Corpus Christi, Merritt Island and Bermuda for 16 minutes.
Good morning.
PLT Good morning, Bruce.
CC Skylab, this is Houston. For the CDR.
Over.
CDR Roger, Bruce.
CC Roger, Jerry. Cancel EREP 36 this
morning. And the reason for this is the CMG-2 bearing symptoms
are evident again. The thing has been in distress continually
since about the time you turned in last night except for
a couple of 1-hour periods. We thought we about had it made
here this morning and then coming up over Honeysuckle this last
pass, finishing up the gravity gradient dump, why it went
back the other way again. And you're still in a distress
condition with bearing 2 temperature running about 0.8 to 0.7
of a degree above bearing i temperature. And the wheel speed
down a little bit. Over.
CDR Okay. Thank you, Bruce.
CC Roger. So, I guess, the message here is
press on with the alternate Flight Plan and we'll have some
more words for you here in a few minutes.
CDR Okay.
CC Skylah, this is Houston, regrouping here.
As soon as the SPT is able to pick up the alternate Flight
Plan and gets up to the ATM panel, what we'd like him to do
is do a building block 32 quickie, followed by going into
the flare wait mode on active region 31. In active region 31,
we currently show a background of Charlie i, beryllium count
above 3300. For the CDR, transition to the alternate Flight
Plan, you need to close off the 02 valves, M509 Bravo,
at the time listed on the PLT's details for the nominal
Flight Plan. We're going over the hill here. We'll see you
at Madrid in 4-i/2 minutes. Over.
PLT Rog°
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13 hours and 3 minutes with loss of signal through Bermuda.
Next acquisition through Madrid in 2 minutes and 45 seconds.
The crew was informed through Bermuda that continual distress
of the CMG number 2, the planned EREP pass across the States
on the next revolution will be cancelled. The bearing tempera-
ture number 2 is 0.8 to 0.7 higher than bearing temperature
number i. Wheel speed's again down and amp - amp hours -
amperes up in CMG number 2. Flight director Nell Hutchinson
made the decision to cancel. He did not want to place any
more stress on the CMG at this time. CMG number 2 has been
active acting up frequently since the start of mission
day 68. One long anomaly occurred between Greenwich mean
time 2 hours 23 minutes lasting more than 3 hours. The
second one began at Greenwich mean time 8 hours and 8 minutes,
and ended at Greenwich mean time 9:36. However the CMG-2
has not quite returned to its normal mode. EREP pass scheduled
for later today is still on, however_ while flight controllers
assess the condition of CMG number 2. The crew has an
alternate Flight Plan on board for the day adding additional
housekeeping chores more ATM observation and operation of S073
camera through the antlsolar scientific airlock. Bringing
the line up for CAP COMM Bruce McCandless.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Madrid
for 9 minutes. Catching up on our Flight Plan here, we'd
like Bill, during his currently carried open housekeeping around
14:00 to do an SO73 PR-4 and plan on catching the SO73 operations
block that starts a little after 15:00. Over.
PLT Roger, Bruce.
CC And we show that you will not have to do
the film changeout. Go ahead and use the camera and lens
reference for the first set of SO73. That's Bravo Victer 29.
Over.
PLT Roger. Go ahead and use the magazine
that's in the camera.
CC Okay. Correction. Use the lens specified
for the second set of operations. Just carry over the film,
dontt reload.
PLT Okay.
CC And we're going to dump your data/voice
tape recorder if you're not using it.
PLT Okay, Bruce.
CC And for Ed. If you're up listening at
the ATM, we'd like to remind you that we did not want to operate
82A or 82B at all during flares. Over
SPT Roger, Bruce.
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Time: 08:09 CDT 68:13:09 GMT
01/22/74
CC SPT, this is Houston. I've got a solar

activity update for you.
SPT Go ahead.
CC Okay. Latest box scores in active region
31, continuing to flare. Got a subfaint class flare at
ii:00, peak at 11:06, ending at 11:16. Subnormal starting
before 12:00, peak at 12:05, ending at 12:12. And the (garble)
satellite reports X-ray background at 1.1 times i0 to the
minus 3 unspecified units, Charlie i, region 31, still remains
quite potent, and due to its limb proximity a significant
or M class flare may generate a coronal transient in that
area. Over.
SPT Roger.
CC You want me to read the numbers back
again so you can copy them down? Or
SPT I got the picture, that's all I need.
CC Okay.
CC Skylab_ this is Houston, 1 minute to
LOS. Next station contact in 13 minutes through Tananarive
at 13:28. Out.
13 hours and 15 minutes with loss of signal through Madrid.
CAP COMM Bruce McCandless advising the crew, specifically
Science Pilot Ed Gibson, who is at the ATM control and display
panel, of renewed activity in active region 31. Solar scientists
here had indicated yesterday that this additional activity on the Sun
was not likely in the next several days. However, active
region 31 has been flaring up with several flares reported,
some subfaint and subflares occuring at Greenwich mean time
ii:00 hours and again at 12:00 Greenwich mean time. The crew
Science Pilot Gibson will monitor that region with the ATM
instruments, however, B2A and 82B instruments will not he
used during this flare observation program in active region 31.
Next acquisition in 12 minutes through Tananarive. The crew
was advised during the previous stateside pass due to the
continued distress performance by CMG number 2, the EREP pass
scheduled for the next pass across the United States at
Greenwich mean time 14 hours and 24 minutes has been canceled.
Flight Director Nell Hutchinson making this decision, not
wanting to add additional stress on this CMG at this time.
A decision will be made later in the day, however, to - whether
or net to do the second EREP pass of the afternoon. Flight
Director Neil Hutchinson indicating he'll wait and study the
CMG system over the next several revs before giving the go
for the next EREP. Next acquisition in ii minutes through
Tananarive. This is Skylab Control at Greenwich mean time
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SL-IV MC2387/I
Time: 08:28 CDT, 68:13:28 GMT
1/22/74

13 hours 28 minutes. Acquisition coming through the Tananarive
tracking station -
for 8 minutes. Over.
CC Roger. Just checking with you here at
Tananarive. Things are - as far as we can tell, things are
unchanged and have at it.
CC CDR, Houston. We have no telemetry here
at Tananarive, as you know and could you confirm that you've
terminated the 02 enrichment that was outlined as 509-F5
Bravo?
CDR That's affirmative, Bruce.
CC Okay. Thank you.
CC Skylab, this is Houston. i minute to LOS.
at 13:53. Out.
13 hours and 37 minutes. Loss of signal coming through Ta-
nanarive tracking station. Next acquisition will be Honey-
suckle in 15 minutes and 16 minutes from now. At Greenwich
mean time 13 hours and 37 minutes, this is Skylab Control.
PAO Greenwich mean time 13 hours 50 minutes
with acquisition coming through Honeysuckle in 2 minutes and
40 seconds. Cancellation of the EREP pass for this morning -
a geothermal study across western United States and an ice flow
study in the St. Lawrence Gulf has been cancelled due to the
continuous distress of CMG number 2 which during the last
16 hours has been continually showing anomallles. There's
been only 3 hours in the last 24 which have not had an out-
of-llne performance by the CMG number 2. We've had multiple
anomallies with this system since mis - for the last 5 days.
Total of 30 anomallies now on separate instances, three during
mission day 68. One began at Greenwich mean time 02:23 and
ended 3 hours and 40 minutes - some 3 hours 40 minutes later.
A second one lasting an hour and 30 minutes, began at Green-
wich mean time 08:08; and the third anomaly still in progress,
began shortly after Greenwich mean time 11:00. We'll bring
the line up now for pass through Honeysuckle with CAP COMM
Bruce McCandless.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Honeysuckle

Creek for 5 minutes. And we're still watching your bearing
temperatures now that we've got telemetry again through Honey-
suckle. Really no significant change. The situation is about
the same as it was before; and got an ATM update for the SPT or
for the commander.
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CC Okay. At approximately 16:00 on your pass
we have two building blocks scheduled. Building block 14
and building block 28; and because of increased activity in
active region 31, the rocket from White Sands, will be pointed
at active region 31 instead of 21, and we'd like you to run
the building block 28 first and the 14 second. That is, re-
verse the order of the two so as to put 14 closer to the
rocket launch window which is currently 16:30 to 17:00. Over.
CDR Okay, Bruce. Let me go up to the MDA and
get the pad and put it on there.
CC Okay. We'd also like building block 14
to be around on active region 31 in conjunction with this
rocket launch.
SPT Houston, SPT.
CC Go ahead, Ed.
SPT At 13:36, we got a PMEC started up in
a point brightening. Within a fraction of a minute, we're
up to 600, and 13:36 we went into the FLARE MODES for 54 and
56. We reached about 6:15 maximum on PMEC and approximately
40 on the image intensity. At 13:44, 56 was put into PATROL
short and timed out just about 400K, a little less than 400 K.
13:46, 56 stopped. That was a little bit below 400 K. And
at 13:45, 55 was put into i truncate MIRROR AUTO RASTER down
to line 14, in order to get a look at the configuration
of the active region before we owned and held. To that time,
they had been in MIRROR LINE SCAN.
CC Okay. We copy. Thank you.
CDR Okay, Bruce. Hit me again on that ATM
scheduling now.
CC Okay. Your pass starting around 16:00,
you_ll notice you got two building blocks. You got a building
block 14 and a building block 28. We would like to reverse
the order in which you run them and we'd like building block
14 pointed at active region 31 instead of active region 21.
Over.
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SL-IV MC-2388/I
Time: 08:56 CDT, 68:13:56 GMT
1/22/74
CDR Okay, Bruce. Hit me again on that

ATM scheduling now.
CC Okay. Your pass starting around 16:00,
you'll notice you've got two building blocks. You've got a
building block 14 and a building block 28. We would like
to reverse the order in which you run them. And we'd like
building block 14 pointed at active region 31 instead of
active region 21. Over.
CDR Okay.
CC And that'll put the building block 14
roughly time coincident with the rocket launch, which is
in a 16:30 to 17:00 window.
CDR Okay. Good enough. I've got it.
CC Roger. Out.
CC Skylab, this is Houston. 30 seconds to
LOS. Next station contact in 16-1/2 minutes through Hawaii
at 14:14. Out.
SPT Houston. Will we have the ATM conference
at that time?
CC Yes, we're planning to.
Next acquisition will be through the Hawaii tracking station,
a 3-minute pass. Science Pilot Gibson relating to the ground
activities hers performing with the solar observatory
aboard Skylab, aiming in on active region 31. This region
has - has errupted unexpectedly. Since yesterday at Greenwich
mean time 20 hours 44 minutes, a class M-I X-ray flare was
noted by Science Pilot Gibson. And approximately 3 hours
later another smaller flare_ a C-7 was recorded. And activity
this morning quite active in that area, active region 31. Science
Pilot Gibson at the ATM console at this time due to the cancel-
lation of the EREP pass, was scheduled to begin on this
upcoming stateside pass, cancellation of the pass due to
the dur directed by Flight Director Nell Hutchinson, due
to the fact that CMG number 2 still in a distress mode, showing
reduced wheel speeds increase in temperatures and increase in
amp. Mission day 68 has recorded three separate instances
of CMG number 2 distress periods. The longest one over
3_i/2 hours in duration began at Greenwich mean time 2 hours
23 minutes. The second one began at Greenwich mean time
8 hours and 8 minutes and the third one still underway began
approximately 3 hours ago. Next acquisition through Hawaii
in 13 minutes. At Greenwich mean time 14 hours and 1 minute
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SL-IV MC-2389/I
Time: 09:13 CDT 68:14:13 GMT
01/22/74

14 hours 13 minutes. Acquisition coming through Hawaii for
a 3-minute-and-50-second pass. We'll bring the line up for
CAP COMM Bruce McCandless. The backup Science Pilot Bill
Lenoir is scheduled to discuss with Science Pilot Ed Gibson
ATM activities for the day. We'll bring the line up for this
Hawaii and stateside pass.
CC Skylab, this is Houston, through Hawaii
for 3 minutes and 50 seconds. Your CMG 2 situation is look-
ing better. The bearing crossover has been eliminated and
with that I give you Dr. Lenoir, speaking for all the ATM
scientists in the back room. Over.
SPT Hey, good morning, Bill. Go ahead.
MCC Okay, Ed. A couple words here, of back-
ground information on the Sun that you may or may not be
aware of. The general X-ray background right now is running
about i.i times 10 a minus 3, so that our background is
slightly larger than C, as it is. We've upped the flare
probability in active region 31 to a 5, 2 and 0. We feel
that there's a very good chance for an M-type flare out of
there again yet today. And, we would expect something on
the order of C-6 or better today. Active region 33 is 510
now, very much like active region 31, as far as our expectations
go, but not quite to that extent. It would not surprise us - -
SPT (Garble) 21?
MCC 33.
SPT Okay.
MCC This is 33, I'm talking about now. 31
and 33 are the two most interesting areas on the disk. Also,
it would not surprise us if 33 gave us an M today and we expect
something in the C range again before the day is over. The
flare is
SPT (Garble) you're expecting an M out of

33? Or a possibility?
MCC It's a distinct possibility. I wouldn't
say we're expecting an M, but it wouldn't surprise us if we
got one. And, there was no or very little radio emission
with these flares from yesterday. The X-REA information that
you have not been given yet, it started up slowly yesterday
at 23:13:30, began it's rapid cry - rise at 23:14:30. And
right around that time frame, prior to that, is when you got
preflare modes for just about everybody and you got 54 into the
FLARE MODE at 23:15. There was maybe a little bit of weak
type free burst with the one that you observed yesterday,
which was a C-8 and none that was observed at the M l's prior
to that.
SPT Bill?
MCC Yes.
SPT From the way you put the chronology
account as though 54 came after it, and that was the first button
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I hit and then 56. Then the 82 instrument. I'm not sure
whether everybody's looking at a different type (?) date, but
that's the order in which it was executed from up here.
MCC Okay, what I have here was 82B, you got
a preflare exposure at 23:13:41, which is about a minute
20 seconds prior to putting 54 in a FLARE MODE.
SPT Okay, maybe that was a wavelength short,
a sequence done on a fluctuating bright point. I don't
recall right now whether that was - how close that was to
the flare rise.
MCC Okay, that -
SPT (Garble) not done for the flare purpose,
but rather a fluctuating bright point and it was fortuitores
that we happened to get it that close.
MCC Yeah, I think - -
SPT (Garble) what it was.
MCC I think that's right. And both 82A and B
went into FLARE MODE later. We're a minute from LOS now,
Goldstone is next in 4 minutes. And a couple of other good
words for today, of course we wish you good hunting and
everybody is quite pleased with the way things have gone
on the activity today. 82A and B are to be used only as
scheduled, and that means that they are not operating in the
unscheduled event, the transcients and so on, they are just
almost flat out of film for right now. And, we will be
getting you a new film budget message as soon as we can get
one out today. And, we've got about i0 - -
SPT (Garble)
MCC Go ahead.
SPT How tight are 54 and 56, and especially
in trying to get some patrol data, say once every 15 minutes
if the activity is high, so they'd have some reference on
which to base their data if we do get a flare?
MCC Okay, the word there, Ed, is to go ahead
and shoot. They've got the film for it, and they want you to
shoot at it.
SPT Okay, very good, thank you.
MCC Okay, fine. And we'll be talking to you
tomorrow morning.
SPT Okay, maybe we can get a longer pass
tomorrow.
MCC Sure hope so. You're Just about ready

to start looking at the Sun here anyway, though.
SPT Thanks, Bill. So long.
CC Okay, 2-1/2 minutes to AOS Goldstone.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Goldstone,
Corpus Christi, Merritt Island for 9-1/2 minutes. Out.
CC Skylab, this is Houston. I minute to LOS.
Next station contact in 4 minutes through Bermuda at 14:34. Out.
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01/22/74

14 hours 31 minutes as Skylab passes over the northern reaches
of the Texas and MILA tracking stations. Next acquisition
in 2 minutes and 30 seconds through Bermuda. Flight Director
Neil Hutchinson discussing with his G&N officer here
the status of CMG 2, still in a distress mode. Now 3 hours
and 31 minutes in duration. G&N officer reports it looks
better but he does not feel - he can not say at this time
it is back to normal. Wheel speed still degret - decreased
to about 8870, temperature's up and amps up, still in CMG
number 2, with data received through the Goldstone tracking
station. We'll bring the line up for this Bermuda pass.
The Flight Crew working on an alternate Flight Plan due to
the cancellation because of CMG 2, cancellation of this
morning"s EREP pass. EREP pass for this afternoon is still
on schedule; however, this will be reviewed, dependant upon the
status of the CMG number 2.
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SL-IV MC2390/I
Time: 09:32 CDT, 68:14:32 GMT
1/22/74

for 6 minutes. We'll be dumping the data/voice tape recorder
at AOS Canary. Out.
Next station contact in 4-1/2 minutes through Canary at 14:44
with a data/voice tape recorder dump. Out.
PAO Skylab Control. Greenwich mean time 14
hours and 40 minutes. Loss of signal through Bermuda
tracking station. Next acquisition in 3 minutes and i0 seconds
will be Canary. The CMG number 2 still exhibiting slight
anomalies here on data taken through the Bermuda tracking
station. At Greenwich mean time 14 hours and 40 minutes, this
is Skylab Control.
Island for 9-1/2 minutes. Data/voice tape recorder dump and
we are canceling the momentum inhibit - MOMENTUM DUMP INHIBIT
for this pass due to the CMG situation. We thought things had
pretty well recovered, but in the last dump maneuver of the last
dump, brought the situation about again; and we've got bearing
crossover and bearing 2 is running higher than bearing 1 by
about .5 or .6 of a degree. This will not affect your
S073 operation planned. You should go ahead and run it per the
pad, as they're getting ultraviolet photometric data off the
background in addition to some other pieces of data. And for
the ATM, SPT will not see a change in the time remaining clock
this pass because we're not doing the inhibit. Over.
PLT PLT, copy. Relative S073.
CC Roger, Bill.
PLT Roger.
PLT Thanks for the info, Bruce.
CC Okay. Hang in there.
PLT Yes. Keep us posted on the unfolding
drama.
CC Roger. Book 37, chapter 29. Tune in
again next station.
PLT Hey, Bruce, I'd like for you to research a ques-
tion. Would you check and see if the plane of rotation of
that CMG intersects the spacecraft anywhere?
CC We will check on that. Of course, bear
in mind that the CMG is driven as repositioned through a fairly
large set of angles in exchanging momentum with the basic
vehicle. Over.
PLT Rog. I Just wondered - of course, there's
quite a - I guess you're right. There's quite a large latitude
in movement. I'm just wondering if - if per chance, it did. l'm
sure it does.
CC Yeah. You're not worried about disinte-
gration or anything like that, are you?
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PLT No, I'm not worried about it. I just

sort of worried - was concerned about it from an academic stand-
point.
CC There's no problem whatsoever from the
disintegration standpoint. We'll see if we can come up with
an answer to your question, although it's obviously going to
have to be broad or enscoped in a simple "yes" or "no."
PLT Okay. Just give it for the cage position,
Bruce. That's okay.
CC Okay. We'll do that.
CC Skylab, this is Houston. 1 minute to LOS.
Next station contact in 12-1/2 minutes through Tananarive at
15:04. Out.
14 hours 55 minutes with loss of signal through Canary and Madrid
tracking stations. Next acquisition through Tananarlve in
9 minutes and 20 seconds. Discussion with the crew again
concerning the CMG number 2 distress period, still in progress
at this time. Now we'll be coming along this distress period
of the CMG since it began acting up - since it began acting
up on mission day 20, on December 5th. Next acquisition in 8
minutes and 50 seconds through Tananarive. At Greenwich mean
time 14 hours and 55 minutes, this is Skylab Control.
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SL-IV MC-2391/I
Time: 10:03 CDT, 68:15:03 GMT
1/22/74

15 hours and 3 minutes. Acquisition coming through Tananarive
in 50 seconds. Tracking station at Tananarive just voice
relay no data acquisition so flight controller will know
at this time if the CMG is still acting up. This present
distress signal began at Greenwich mean time ii hours and
i0 minutes, now the longest CMG distress in this, the 30th
incident since the mission day 20 on December 5 when CMG-2
began acting up. Bringing the line up for CAP COMM Bruce
McCandless.
for 5 minutes. Out.
LOS. Next station contact in 18 minutes through Honeysuckle
Creek at 15:28. Out.
15 hours and 12 minutes. Loss of signal through Tananarive.
Next acquisition will be in 15 minutes and 35 seconds through
the Honeysuckle tracking station, as the Skylab IV crew is
well into their day, 68th day in orbit, working on alternate
Flight Plan, because of the earlier cancellation of the EREP
pass this morning. EREP pass number 37, along groundtrack
number 5 scheduled to begin at Greenwich mean time 19:20
this afternoon is still on schedule. However, this - final
decision on this will be made later as ground controllers
continue to assess the control moment gyro number 2, which
has been in continuous distress activity since Greenwich mean
time ii hours. That's 4 hours and 13 minutes ago. This is the
longest period of out-of-line performance by the CMG number
2, which has been acting up periodically since December 5
on mission day 20. A total of 30 separate instances of the
out-of-llne performance, reduced wheel speeds, increase in
temperatures and also increase in amps in the CMG system.
Next acquisition through Honeysuckle in 14 minutes and
5 seconds. At Greenwich mean time 15 hours 14 minutes,
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SL-IV MC-2392/I
Time: 10:27 CDT 68:15:27 GMT
01/22/74

tracking station in 50 seconds. We'll bring the line up for
this pass through Honeysuckle. CAP COMM is Bruce McCandless.
CC Skylab, this is Houston, through Honey-
suckle Creek for 9 minutes. And, once again the update on
the CMG situation, it looks like things are improving a little.
Bearing 2 temp is now running lower than bearing i, as is the
nominal condition. And, for Bill, we've been looking around
trying to come up with an answer on the CMG-2 orientation. And,
about the best that we can - best way we can describe it is
if you look out along the center line axis of the ATM and
then off to the starboard side along the plus-Y axis - on the
plus-Y side of the ATM rack is the location of CMG-2. And,
are you with me so far?
PLT I think so, plus-Y is actually out the
left as you looking forward X, right?
CC Roger, and it's the CMG that's just past
the center workstation as you go out along the EVA trail.
When that CMG is in the 00 gimbal angle position, its spin
axis is along - is parallel to the YY axis of the vehicle
so that the plane of rotation of the wheel would in fact,
come through the plus-Y-most side of the N - MDA - just
barely inside the envelope and then on down outboard of the
lock section of the airloek and then reintersecting the
liquid hydrogen tank as you get back down into the workshop
and running parallel with the long axis of the vehicle. Over.
PLT Rog, understand. I got the picture.
Thank you very much, Bruce.
CC Now, in amplification of that, I think
it's only fair to say that itts unlikely that the gyro, for
any given configuration will he at 00 gimhal angle, since
with two CMGs operating, if we should decide to shut down or
cage in a zero momentum configuration there's an almost infinite
variety of orientations we could pick with the CMG-2 and CMG-3
spin axes antlparallel. Over.
PLT Rog, understand.
PLT And, Bruce, thank you very much for the
research.
CC Okay.
SPT Bruce, I'd like to give you a solar update
if you're ready.
CC Okay, we're listening.
SPT Okay, the white light coronagraph we're
not seeing as much change as I would anticipate with the
flaring activity. We have a very faint streamer at 060, it's
diffuse and - does not extend out past 3 solar radii, that I can
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see. There is a very narrow one at around 080, however it

is very faint, that was not there last evening. At least it
was not there except at very close to the occulting
disk. It was not as far out, I should say. Then another
streamer between that and 120, but it's a very faint one -
just barely discernible. And, one at 120, which is fairly
bright and inclined slightly toward the north, looks llke a
helmet streamer at the base, but appears almost as a spike
at the point we can see it. It just starts to broaden rather
quickly as it gets down to the occulting disk. Over on the
east limb we have a wide-based streamer diffuse and extending
out the full distance of the display centered at around 270
and there's a hint that another one is overlapping it at 275,
which is a much weaker. The XUV monitor shows a section of
the activity, which we all know about, active region 31 being
of course the brightest, then 21. And, (garble) plage and
the other active regions mentioned. There's very little
coming over on the east limb or in the east hemisphere. The
flare watch, this past orbit, showed that the in H-alpha and
also in counts I was getting in oxygen VI, that the bright points
are fluctuating quite rapidly. Time scales considerably less than
a minute in many cases. H-alpha has three bright points
which tend to be exehanglng intensities between them, that
is the central one, which is north - I - excuse me, which is
to the northeast side, is the most intense one and had
Oxygen VI counts running between 4,000 to 40,000, this past
orbit. 55 was looking at it with truncated mirror auto
rasters, so they're getting a good time history activity
in that region. Toward the end of the orbit it looked llke
the PMEC, the XUV MON and image intensity counts were all
declining. I imagine that would correspond to what you're seeing
on the ground. That's it. If there's any questions I'll be
glad to answer them.
CC Okay, thank you, Ed.
CC And, we have no questions for you.
LOS, next station contact in ii minutes through Hawaii at
15:48. Out.
Next acquisition will be in 9 minutes and 50 seconds through
Hawaii. Lengthy discussion with Pilot Bill Pogue concerning
answering the question he'd asked earlier, concerning the
plane of the CMG number 2. Bruce McCandless went in extensive
description of the relationship of the CMG to the vehicle.
While the CMG is not back to normal it is the - the beet that
the current flight team, under the direction of Neil Hutchinson
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has seen it since they came on duty this morning at 8 o'clock.

Although nearing the normal parameters for the CMG number 2,
it is still not exactly at the nominal point. This current
dispress distress period began at Greenwich mean time
ii hours, that's 4 hours and 39 minutes ago, the longest
period of off-line performance by the CMG, in the program.
Science Pilot Gibson again discussing his views of the Sun.
He's at - currently at the ATM console. Meanwhile the
Skylab-Kohoutek scientists here at the Center report that
the angle of the Sun with the space station still affords
an unfavorable opportunity for the crew to be viewing the
comet. However, observations of comet Kohoutek will continue
on January 25th, using the $201 far ultraviolet camera.
Further reports from the Joint Observation Program of comet
Kohoutek, researchers report that the comet is still visible
to the naked eye and that the tail as seen with 70 by 50
binoculars is about 7 degrees in length. The Sehmidt camera
observations show the tall structure has a dust tail of approx-
imately 6 degrees in length. The antitail is still visible
and the plasma tail is i0 degrees long with a large disturb-
ance about 7 degrees from the head. This report is as of
20 January. Next acquisition will be through Hawaii in
7 minutes at Greenwich mean time 15 hours and 41 minutes,
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PAO Greenwich mean time 15 hours

CC Houston through Hawaii for i0 minutes and
a quick question for the commander.
CDR Roger. Go.
CC Okay. It is our understanding that the
mode of operation you're using right now on the 6 surge problem
on the intercom system is that when you are not recording, you
are opening the bumper amps 1 circuit breaker, closing it to
record, and then opening it up again. And you're certainly GO to
continue this and what we're wondering about is, is this in
fact your mode of operation and if so, about how many times
a day would you estimate that circuit breaker is getting cycled?
Over.
CDR Bruce, that is not our mode of operation.

I indicated this morning that I didn't think we would fool
with it. Probably only do it in the evening when we go to
bed. We're just leaving it on and we're tolerating the 6
surge noise to keep - what we're trying to do is just keep
the volume down.
CC Okay. We copy. Thank you.
CC CDR, Houston.
CDR Roger. Go.
CC Yeah, Jerry. In the building block 14
that you're doing this pass, second in sequence, we'd like
to omit the 82A exposure. Over.
CDR Okay. Omit 82A.
CC Roger.
CC Skylab, this is Houston. 1 minute to LOS.
Next station contact in 2-1/2 minutes through Goldstone at
16:00. Out.
CC Say, Jerry, we show the X-REA increasing,

showing an increase in activity, possible flare. If it trips
your alarm, go ahead and go for it.
CDR Okay and skip this other?
CC Yes.
CDR Great_
CC And see if you can keep Ed off the panel. Get
him on the bicycle or something and you can have this one all
to yourself.
for 7 minutes. Out.
CDR Roger, Bruce. I'm in the FLARE MODE.
CC Roger. We saw the flare alarm go off.
CC CDR, Houston. We've got we'd like to
get the S054 EXPOSURE mode changed to 64 when this present
sequence is over.
CDR Okay Bruce. The plage in the very center
of the active region - a very bright little area build up, and
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now it's faded out. It looks llke it's exchanging energy with
a hunk of plage over to the right, about 20 arc seconds.
CC Okay.
CDR So it's still in the MIRROR LINE SCAN
anyway.
CC Beautiful.
CDR Looks like it's fading out now and we're
in a beryllium aperture of 4. Probably ought to terminate.
CC Okay, Jerry. Go ahead and terminate your
FLARE MODE operations and pick up the schedule beginning with
building block 28 and then run on through 14. Over.
CDR Okay. Last counts I saw here were 610.
CC Roger. We're watching the beryllium count
down here also, and it looks like its peak is headed down.
CC Skylah, this is Houston. I minute to
LOS. Next station contact in 5 minutes through Bermuda at
16:11. Out.
16 hours and 8 minutes. Activity aboard the Skylab space
station concentrating on the activities on the Sun right now
with Commander Gerald Carr at the ATM console and display
panel observing again activity where scientists had pre-
dicted yesterday, would be a quiet Sun, in active region 31
and 32 which is in the northwest quadrant of the Moon the
Sun. Scientists had said yesterday that they didn't antici-
pate major activity. However, in the last 18 hours or so,
the crew has been very fortunate to be on hand at the ATM
console when activities on the Sun have taken place. ATM
officer here at the Mission Control Center estimating the
flare observed by Commander Carr during this last pass was
a C-2 flare - not as high in, as one the M-2 which was recorded
during the 17th day of their mission. We'll bring the line
up for this Bermuda pass as Skylab begins its 3653rd revolution.
Bermuda pass, 9 minutes in duration.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC-2394/I
Time: ii:i0 CDT, 68:16:10 GMT
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CC Skylab_ this is Houston through Bermuda

for 8 minutes_ Out.
CC Skylab, this is Houstom_ i minute to
LOS. Next station contact in 2 minutes through Canary Islands
at 16:21. Out.
acquisition through Canary in 40 seconds. _&N officer reports
that CMG distress signal number 30 has now come to a close.
They logged it in the backroom a_ 4 hours and 30 minutes in
duration. By far, the longest. Earlier today, we had one
which lasted 3 hours and 40 minutes. We'll bring the line
up for CAP COMM Bruce McCandless.
and Ascension Islands for 16-1/2 minutes. Out.
CC CDR, Houston. In amplification of our
previous comment regarding not interrupting building block 14
for flares, since you are on active region 13, if act - 31 -
If active region 31 flares go ahead and terminate building
block 14 and run FLARE MODE on active 31. Over.
CDR Okay, Bruce. I'm a little confused as to
what kind of pointing I ought to be using on this active
region. Do I use the pointing that's specified in JOP Ii
step 2?
CDR Okay.
CC Skylab, this is Houston, i minute to
LOS. Next station contact in 26 minutes through Carnarvon
with a data/voice tape recorder dump at 17:04.
CC And we're getting ready to send you up
a new batch of EREP pads for the maneuver - or for the revolu-
tion this afternoon, based on a couple of small changes
from cancelling this morning's. We figure we'd Just send the
whole thing up again.
CDR Roger, Bruce.
16 hours 38 minutes with loss of signal through the Ascension
tracking station. In 24 minutes and 40 seconds, next acquisi-
tion will be Carnarvon. The EREP pass scheduled to start
at Greenwich mean time 19:16. This afternoon is a 19-minute
descending pass across the United States. This is still on
at the present time, barring any more distresses from CMG-2.
The previous distress signal, which started early this
morning, ended during the Hawaii pass and was logged in by
the G&N officer as lasting 4 hours and 30 minutes. The
standard anomalies, the increased amps, the increase in
temperatures and the decrease in the wheel speed. This is
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the 13th distress signal in the last 6 days. There were

17 prior to the 17th of this month, total now 30 separate
incidents where CMG has performed off-nomlnal. Next acquisi-
tion in 23 minutes and 20 seconds through Carnarvon tracking
station. This is Skylah Control at Greenwich mean time
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC-2395/I
Time: 12:03 CDT 68:17:03 GMT
01/22/74

17 hours and 2 minutes, acquisition coming through Carnarvon for
a 5 minute and 30 second pass. We'll bring the line up for CAP
CC Skylab, this is Houston, through Carnarvon

for 8 minutes, leading off with a data/voice tape recorder
dump. And, for your information, it looks like the CMG
glitch has resolved itself. So, I guess we're through with
chapter 37 book 12 of the latest CMG saga.
CDR Roger.
LOS, next station contact in 16 minutes - Delay that. Next
station contact in 28 minutes through Goldstone at 17:39.
Out. No Hawaii this pass.
17 hours and 13 minutes. Loss of signal through Honeysuckle.
Next acquisition will be Goldstone tracking station in
26 minutes. Hawaii tracking station not supporting this pass
this afternoon. The tracking station is supporting an AEC
operation, Atomic Energy Commission operation, one of their
op projects. Very quiet pass, in fact today, probably
one of the quietest days in the Skylab IV program. The crew
having little conversation with the ground the last several
passes, although the crew in their eat period at this time.
Today is menu day 4 for the crew of Skylab IV, with Commander
Gerald Carr having veal and peaches, a strawberry drink and
biscuits. Science Pilot Gibson has chicken and gravy,
tomatoes, apple sauce and grape drink_ while Pilot Pogue
menu consist of salmon, butterscotch pudding, tea and biscuits.
The scheduled EREP pass for this afternoon, the desendlng pass
over the United States is still on schedule for today. This
pass is along ground track 5. It will have Pilot Bill Pogue
at the viewfinder tracking system, Science Pilot Gibson
will be operating the Earth terrain camera through the
antisolar scientific airlock with Commander Gerald Carr
operating the instruments from the C&D panel, in the multiple
docking adapter. Today's pass will run diagonally across
the United States, from the state of Washington, and the
pass will end as the spacecraft crosses the Florida penisula.
The crew will attempt to detect insect infest infestations
within forest stands in Atlanta, Georgia. Mapping data will
be collected in Wyoming, Montana, Missouri, the Rocky Mountain
area and the Dominican Republic. The crew will attempt to
determine the spectral reflectance of several Kansas reservoirs
using the SI90A, SI90B, S191 and S192. They will attempt
also to determine the correlation of water color with water
depth and algae content. EREP scanners will be used over
Cape Kennedy, Florida to detern out - determine applications
of space derived data to mapping biological communities.
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Also the crew will scan Orlando, Florida for land use
analysis. EREP pass also includes sites, target sites for
develop development of remote sensing techniques. The
crew will scan South Carolina, Nebraska, Georgia, Alabama,
Idaho, Wyoming, and Kansas City for data ranging from radar
altimeter terrain characteristics to microwave pulse response
of rough surfaces. If this pass goes off on schedule and
data is collected over Atlanta, Georgia, this leaves only
three targets, one in Mexico, Iran, and Central America.
These three areas remain as the only remaining mandatory
sites not yet the subject of EREP data takes in the Skylab
program. On the last pass through Honeysuckle CAP COMM Bruce
McCandless advising the crew that the latest chapter in the
series of glitches in the CMG number 2 had come to a close.
Glitch number 30, this one lasting 4 hours and 30 minutes.
That was the third glitch in mission day 68. Next acquisition
in 21 minutes through Goldstone. At Greenwich mean time
17 hours and 17 minutes, this is Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC2396/I
Time: 12:38 CDT, 68:17:38 GMT
1/22/74

17 hours and 38 minutes. Acquisition coming through Goldstone
tracking station in 50 seconds. We'll bring the line up for
CAP COMM Bruce McCandless.
for 5-1/4 minutes. For the DAS operator. Over.
CC Skylab, this is Houston. For the PLT.
Over.
PLT Go ahead, Bruce.
CC Roger. We need to use the DAS here for
the heater cycle and an NAV update. We request you clear and
do a 52040 header for us please. Over.
PLT That's complete.
CC Okay. Sorry about that. We'll let you
know when we're through.
PLT Okay.
CC PLT, Houston. The DAS is yours. You're
going to have to go ahead and reload the fine maneuver. We
verify the maneuver time, l0 minutes, is correctly entered.
PLT Thank you, Bruce.
CC And for the CDR, we have a new EREP 37
C&D pad on board.
CDR Okay. Thanks, Bruce.
CC Itts not a terrible lot of change to
it. Basically, it tells you there'll be a - you can expect
tape depletion any time after 19:33, and that changes S192
operation around a little and has you reload tape afterwards.
And looking at CMG it - 2, it's back to normal. It's showing about
8900 rpms and bearing temperature looking good and it's been
looking that way for just about a complete rev now. So you're
GO for the EREP.
CDR Roger.
Next station contact in 2 minutes through Corpus Christi at
17:46. Out.
Island for 12 minutes. Out.
PLT How's the weather at Goddard, Bruce?
CC We'll check for you. Stand by.
PLT Also, are we in OUTER GIMBAL drive logic?
CC Roger, Bill. Outer gimbal drive logic is
enabled at this time, but we're not getting a call for it.
PLT Okay. Yeah, I misread my pad.
PLT Looking good.
CC SPT, Houston.
SPT Go ahead.
CC Weather summary for the Goddard area in-
dicates broken cloud coverage, locally overcast, to locally
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clear and out - out-the-window report from station at Goddard indi-

cates that right now, they're in the clear. So we think you
should be able to see it.
CDR Thank you.
CDR Got a red beacon, Bruce.
CC Beautiful, Jet.
CDR You can just barely see it with the unaided
eye. It takes binoculars to see it well.
CC Roger.
CC SPT, this is Houston. If you've got a
minute, I got a few remarks regarding your upcoming ETC ops.
SPT Let me get the pad first and I'll be right
with you. Go ahead.
CC Okay. During the run today, we'd like
to delete ETC coverage within sequences when the cloud cover
causes more than 75 percent obscuration of the ground or ocean.
And we'd like you to voice record such deviations from the times given
on the pad. Over.
SPT Okay. Very good, Bruce. Be glad to do
it.
CC And we'd like to remind you also, since

you'll be sort of free-lancing it here within the structure
of the pad, to be sure to incorporate the shutter speed and
frame rate changes at the times specified on the pad and remem-
ber you should be at STANDBY to change SHUTTER SPEED and be
cautious on interpreting snow as cloud cover.
SPT Roger. Very good remarks. Thank you, Bruce.
CC Okay.
CC Skylab, this is Houston. 1 minute to
LOS. Next station contact in 9-1/2 minutes through Ascension
at 18:08. Out.
18 hours with loss of signal through Bermuda. Next acquisition
in 7 minutes 35 seconds will be through Ascension as Pilot
Bill Pogue maneuvers Skylab space station into the Z-local
vertical attitude for the EREP pass. This was done orbital
noon before the pass to conserve propellant aboard spacecraft
as had been done frequently before. This maneuver which took
i0 minutes to accomplish began at Greenwich mean time 17:47,
about 13 minutes ago and the G&N officer reported that the
maneuver looked good as the spacecraft went over the hill
out of range of the Bermuda tracking station. However, the
backroom reported to G&N, it's possible we've had a decrease
in the wheel speed of CMG number 2 during this maneuver. And
also a report preliminary report however, that temperatures
are going up again in the bearings. We'll have to await
Ascension to see what distress this maneuver may have put into
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the CMG number 2. EREP maneuver made orbital noon before

the EREP starts. A fine maneuver will be made again at
Greenwich mean time 19:08, which is approximately 8 minutes
before the EREP pass is scheduled to start. Next acquisition
in 6 minutes through Ascension. This is Skylab Control at
Greenwich mean time 18 hours and 1 minute.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC-2397/I
Time: 13:06 CDT, 68:18:06 GMT
1/22/74

18 hours 6 minutes. Skylab space station in the maneuver
for the Earth resources pass coming up on the next revolution
across the United States. Acquisition coming through
Ascension in 40 seconds. We'll bring the line up for CAP
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Ascen-
sion for 8 minutes. Note of information for the CDR. We
are noticing that since you started the first of the Z-LV
maneuvers, the bearing situation on CMG-2 seems to have
resumed its previous configuration, that is hearing temp 2
is up to within about 0.2 or 0.3 of bearing 1 temperature. And
the current in all phases is up and the wheel speed is down
a little, but consistent with our previous ground rules,
having already started the series of maneuvers, we plan to
stick it out for the Z-LV pass in the EREP, unless, of course,
your onboard or the ground criteria, here, are violated.
Over.
PLT Roger. Understand. He's debriefing, hut I'll
tell him, Bruce.
CC Okay.
PLT Okay. He copied.
CC Skylah, this Houston. LOS in about
30 seconds. Next station contact in 23 minutes through
Carnarvon at 18:38. See you there.
PLT Roger.
18 hours 15 minutes. Loss of signal through Ascension.
The crew advised that CMG number 2 has resumed its habitual
distress parameters. Wheel speed dropped from 8912 revolu-
tions per minute down to 8850, which is the - turning out to
he the nominal distress mode. Amperes have gone up from
1.005 to 1.00 up to 1 - 1.043, a increase over the last
station through the United States. This distress obviously
imposed by the maneuver into the EREP attitude, which was
concluded at 17:57 Greenwich mean time. There'll he another
maneuver, a fine maneuver to align the vehicle to the Z-local
vertical attitude for the EREP pass, at Greenwich mean time
19 hours and 8 minutes, as the spacecraft approaches the west
coast of the United States. EREP data take begins at
Greenwich mean time 19:16. The start of the EREP pass at
Greenwich mean time 19:16 and the pass is scheduled to last 19
minutes. Next acquisition in 20 minutes and 20 seconds through
Carnarvon. This is Skylah Control at Greenwich mean time
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC-2398/I
Time: 13:37 CDT 68:18:37 GMT
01/22/74

Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station is now 55 seconds
from acquisition of signal at Carnarvon, Australia. The pass
through Carnarvon will last just under ii minutes and we'll
bring the line up live now for spacecraft communicator Bruce
McCandless.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Carnarvon
for 10-1/2 minutes. Out.
CC And, Skylab, this is Houston. Either
here or at Guam, it's immaterial to us, IVve got a nut - a
capsule weather briefing for you and just for your infor-
mation, the CM-2 (sic) situation is going through one of its
standard anomalies here, we won't bother you with the details.
CDR Roger, Bruce.
PLT Rog, I'm ready to copy the weather, if
you want to give it to us now, Bruce.
CC Okay, that that wasn't really in a form
to be copied, but the significant factors are - there's
a special observation in which you're looking for snow cover,
Bill, on the VTS and that's - I think it's suppose to start
about 21 - runs from 20 to 22:19. The word that we're getting is
that during the early part of that you can expect fairly
heavy cloud cover underneath but_ toward the end or maybe
even a little bit after the published end time of 22:19,
you should be able to pick up some snow cover, if you just
stick with it a little longer. Moving on down the track,
VTS site 406 and 407, as well as special 7, which is Kansas
City, are expected to he under 8/10 to 10/10th cloud cover
so there's a good possibility you won't he able to acquire
them however, we recommend you give it a try. And, about
the time that you pass the beam of Springfield, Missouri,
or thereabouts, you should be crossing over a cold front
and over a cloudy area that breaks up around Memphis and
from about Memphis on down track you should be in the clear
with zero to 0.3 cloud comer cover, which puts your next
VTS site 5:30 and its alternate in pretty good shape there,
we expect you'll he able to get them. Essentially clear on
down past the Caribbean Islands and picking up some clouds
again as you approach the coast of Venezuela, where we have
you scheduled to do a little hit of photography during the
maneuver back to solar inertial. Over.
PLT Rog, Bruce, copy and thank you very
much.
CC Roger, out.
CC Skylab, this is Houston, 1minute to LOS,
next station contact in 3_i/2 minutes through Guam at 18:51
with a data/voice tape recorder dump at AOS. Out.
time. We're now out of range of the tracking antenna at
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Carnarvon. About a minute and 30 seconds before we acquire

signal through Guam. This time the anomaly on control moment
gyroscope number 2 is still in progress, conditions roughly
the same as they were at Ascension during the last pass there.
The wheel speed does appear now to be improving slightly,
it has come up a little bit from its minimum point, which
is about down 60 rpm, it's now down about 40 rpm. Current
still running about 1.04 amps, which is about 2 percent above
their normal level and the bearing temperatures have crossed
over, as has been the experience over the last several days,
with number 2 bearing now about i degree warmer than the
number i bearing. And, normally this condition is, of course,
reversed with bearing number i about 2 to 3 degrees warmer
than bearing number 2, so that CMG anomaly still is in
progress as we had acquisition at Carnarvon and we expect it
will be going on for awhile longer. It began shortly after
the Earth resources maneuver to Z-local vertical was performed
after 17:00 Greenwich mean time. That Earth resources pass
is upcoming on this revolution as the space station crosses
the central U.S. We'll bring the line up live now as we're
coming into acquisition at Guam, where we'll have a 10-1/2
minute pass.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Guam for
10-1/2 minutes with a data/voice tape recorder dump. Out.
CDR Houston. Now I was in the debriefing at
this point, can you hold off for that tape dump?
CC Will do.
CDR Thank you.
LOS, next station contact in 16 minutes through Goldstone at
19:17. Out.
time. The Skylab space station is out of range of Guam, we're
a little less than 15 minutes from acquisltion at Goldstone.
At the Guam pass we see CMG number 2 still in an anomaly;
it does appear however 9 to be recovering very slowly. Temp-
eratures still crossed over, speed down about 40 rpms right
now, and the currents are still up about i to 2 percent. The
28th - 29th Earth resources pass of the mission is about to
begin, we'll hear about that as soon as we have acquisition
at Goldstone. That Earth resources pass although it has a
much larger number than 29, is in fact the 29th to be completed
this mission, provided everything goes smoothly. And, the
CMG anomaly which was first identified with any certainty at
18:08 Greenwich mean time, about an hour ago, appears to still
be underway with the usual characteristics. This current
irregularity in behavior on the part of the attitude control
gryoscope is the 30 - brings to more than 30 the total number
of anomalies we've seen so far on the gyroscope. They go back
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to very early in this mission, and they have been recurring

rather frequently during the last few days. 13 minutes to
our next acquisition at Goldstone. This is Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC2399/I
Time: 14:15 CDT, 68:19:15 GMT
1/22/74

Greenwich mean time. We're coming up on acquisition at
Goldstone. We'll bring the line up llve as an Earth resources
pass is about to begin across the United States. This pass
across the U.S. station should last about 17 minutes.
CDR 194 MODE to MANUAL.
CDR We've got all three 193 on STANDBY now.
Next mark is 16:36. Correction, 18:36. About 2 more minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston. Looking over your
shoulder for about i0 minutes.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Goldstone/
Corpus Christi/Merritt Island for 16-1/2 minutes.
CDR Roger, Bruce. i minute to my next mark.
PLT We should be coming in right over Vancouver
Island now but I can't see it.
CDR Cloudy?
PLT Yeah. Solid cloud cover Just as advertised.
CDR On my mark, it'll be 18:36. Stand by -
CDR MARK. SCATTEROMETER, ON. RADIOMETER,
ON. Looking for a 191 READY.
CDR MARK. 191 READY on at 18:48. REFERENCE
going to 6. Next mark's 19:23 with an ETC POWER, ON. Coming
up on 19:23. Stand by -
CDR MARK. ETC POWER, ON. Next mark's 20:23.
PLT Okay. I used i0 - my i0 seconds of film
on this reservoir here. OFF. I'm looking for a snow cover.
CDR Okay. On my mark, It'll be 20:23. We'll
want the ETC to AUTO and I'ii go with 190 to AUTO.
PLT Oh, good.
CDR Stand by. 20:23 -
CDR MARK. 190 MODE AUTO, ETC, AUTO.
PLT Ah, beautiful. I'm going to get the special
02. Data mark - ah, ha. Got it.
CDR Okay, we got a MALF light on camera 6 as
we expected for S190. Bad magazine. Ronny Wolf (_). Next
mark will be 21:06. Stand by -
CDR MARK. S192 MODE to READY. Okay TAPE
MOTION light is back on again. We're in high speed.
PLT We got our special 02, Bruce. I found a
clear spot.
CC Roger. I copied, Bill. Thank you.
CDR Next mark will be 22:28. Charlle 8
showing 38 percent. Charlie 8 - Charlie 8 showing 36 percent.
PLT Minus 6 degrees - 7, 8, 9, i0. DAC, OFF.
Okay. I'm dealtering to 123.10, 45 right 4.9.
CDR Ed, the TAPE MOTION light is starting
to flicker at 35 percent tape remaining. Stand by for 22:28
SL-IV MC2399/2
Time: 14:15 CDT 68:19:15 GMT
1/22/74
Stand by -
CDR MARK. 192 MODE to CHECK. S190 to INTERVAL
Stand by -
CDR MARK. At 22:35 S190 INTERVAL to 20,
ETC to STANDBY. Next mark's at 23:30.
PLT We're not going to be as lucky on this
one. Doggone it, clouds got me Just in time.
CDR Kansas City?
PLT No. That was a total freak. I'm going
for Kansas City now. 23, 33, 45, left 2.4.
CDR Okay, on my mark it well be 23:30.
Stand by -
CDR MARK. S190 INTERVAL is 20?
PLT No.joy. Okay, I get set up for Atlanta.
CDR Okay, coming up next mark will be 23:50.
Going to want an ETC to AUTO and then stand by Ed. Stand by-
CDR MARK. 23:50, 193 going to POLARAZATION
4, S190 SHUTTER SPEED to MEDIUM. ETC to STANDBY.
PLT Kansas was hopeless.
CDR That's to bad.
PLT Okay, 25:20 fair sightings.
CDR What are you working on now Geog - Atlanta?
PLT Well, I got - could Bruce a little
clarification or should I asked it earlier. Is Atlanta
indeed Just the alternate, you would prefer to have a
uniform site?
PLT My pad lists special 02 as a primary
and 530 as a secondary or as the alternate.
CC That's affirmative, 530 is the alternate.
Special 02 area is the prime.
PLT Okay any uniformed site.
CDR Well, I0 site is the uniformed sight
isn't it?
PLT Yeah.
CDR Kill two birds with one stone there.
PLT Right (?) let's see now, 25:10.
CDR Okay, next mark is at 25:12 in about
7 seconds. Be coming up on 25:12, Stand by -
PLT Stand by -
CDR MARK. SCATTEROMETER to STANDBY.
CDR MARK. RADIOMETER to STANDBY.
CDR ETC to STANDBY.
PLT Stand by.
CDR 25:20 is next.
PLT MARK. I got (garble) in sight.
CDR MARK. SCATTEROMETER is ON.
PLT Okay, I got a uniformed si_e. I'm tracking.

SL-IV MC2399/3
Time: 14:15 CDT 68:19:15 GMT
1/22/74
CDR 25:37 is the next mark.

PLT DAC's ON and got data percent.
CDR Stand by.
CDR MARK. SCATTEROMETER to STANDBY.
ALTIMETER to ON.
END OF TAPE

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SL-IV MC-2300/I

Time: 06:00 CDT 66:11:00 GMT

PAO Skylab Control, Greenwich mean time

PAO Skylab Control, Greenwich mean time

new speed limit now of 55 miles an hour that went into

at grating position of zero.

PAO 60, 60 to 70 level. Three CMGs

pass through Carnarvon. CAP COMM is Bob Crippen, Flight

SPT - - (Garble) minute or so it would

PAO Skylab Control, Greenwich

CC Okay, Bill. We'll put that one in the -

CC Okay. Appreciate that rundown on it.

CC Skylab, Houston. Sorry about that

of the quadrants, X, Y, and Z?

just continue on on that procedure. We can report everyone,

CC Skylab, Houston; we're i minute from

CC My Flight, Don Puddy, also appreciates

CC I'm going to Lubbock on Tuesday.

PAO Skylab Control, Greenwich mean time

17.45; Spica, 304.62 and 36.84.

H-alpha and where I believe we used to (static) what to me

SPT - - if most people are really vitally

PLT You got it.

PAO Skylab Control, Greenwich mean time

station. Next acquisition in 14 minutes 35 seconds will

PAO Skylab Control, Greenwich mean time

CC Did it diminish at all?

PAO Skylab Control. Greenwich mean time

CC Skylab, wetre a minute to LOS, about

CC Skylab, back with you through Bermuda

MCC Okay. Well, that's fine, Ed. I'm sure

MCC Okay. Now the next couple items here

up there, your guess may be better then anyone else's

CDR Hey, Story?

PAO Skylab Control, Greenwich mean time

CC I'm losing you here. 1'11 get you

CC Thanks, Ed. And we're a minute to LOS,

PAO Skylab Control. Greenwich mean time

the spacecraft was - was just before the spacecraft was in

PAO Skylab Control, Greenwich mean time

working on a project with the Johnson Space Center, Skylab

PAO Skylab Control. Greenwich mean time

CDR Fortunately I got no place to take data.

PLT Stand by for 13 minutes, even.

PLT - - and RAD, OFF. Okay, ALTIMETER coming

PLT MARK. 18:03. ALTIMETER, ON.

I suspect I turned it off for a 190 shutter speed going to

CDR No, X is getting kind of high now. There

CC - if possible over Ascension. It's

PAO Skylab Control at 19 hours 33 hours

this period just before the Ascension pass. Apparently no

PAO Skylab Control at 20 hours, 4 minutes

Vancover Island across the northern United States to the

PAO Skylab Control at 20 hours 42 minutes

that it is clearing up. 8 minutes to our next acquisition of

PAO Skylab Control at 21:09 Greenwich mean

PAO Skylab Control at 22:19 Greenwich mean

CDR That's affirmative.

an hour as it skirted the Sun. The comet is visible in the

PAO Skylab Control at 22 hours, 44 minutes

astronaut maneuvering unit, the backpack that's powered by

PAO Skylab Control at 23:10 Greenwich mean

well. But the comet setting 4 hours after sunset in most