Skylab 1/4 Technical Air-To-Ground Voice Transcription Vol 6 of 7

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LYNDON B. JOHNSON SPACE CENTER

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015 01 03 h9 CC Skylab, Houston. We're at stateside for the next

13 minutes, and standing by for the evening status
report.
CDR Roger, Dick. Photo first.
CC Okay.
CDR And we didn't get - didn't get that TV after all.
CC Oh, heck, sorry about that.
CDR Well, we'll try again tcmorrow evening.
CC Okay, Jerry, before you start, can we go ahead

and dump the VTR here? You guys using it?
CDR Let me check with Ed, and see what his lO1 plans
are?
CC Okay.
CDR Okay, Dick, go ahead and dump it.
CC Okay, good. And I'm standing by.
CDR Okay, 16-millimeters : Delta Papa 22, Charlie

India 128, 42, Charlie India 127. EREP 29 and 30,
VTS; Charlie Lima ii, 55; Nikon 01, Charlie
X-ray 40, Oh; 02, India Romeo ii, 41; 03, Charlie
India i13, 63; 0h, no change; 05, Bravo Hotel 06,
31. 70-millimeter is Charlie X-ray 50, 7 - 075
is the number, 075. ETC is India Romeo 03, 121.
EREP, set Yankie, 9315, 8653, 9528, 9520, 3065,
0389. Drawer A: Alfa l, 3, h, and back, no change.
i Alfa 2, 05, Charlie India 128, h2; Charlie India 127.
015 01 05 36 CC Okay, got it.
CDR Okay, here comes the evening status. Sleep: CDR,

7.0, 6.5 heavy, half light; SPT, 7.0, 7 heavy;
PLT, 5.0, 3 heavy, 2 light. Volume: CDR, 180;
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210; 240. Water gun is 8509; 4457 - correction

4456; 0588. Body mass: CDR, 6.308, 6.309, 6.312;
SPT, 6.353, 6.356, 6.355; PLT, 6.25h, 6.254, 6.253.
Exercise: no change for anyone. Medications:
CDR, none; SPT, Sudafed; PLT, Seconal. Each of
those is one. Clothing: CDR, socks; _PT, T-shirt,
socks, and shorts; PLT, none. Food log: CDR, 1.0
salt, plus one butter cookies, plus one grape
drink, plus one apple drink, plus one coffee with
sugar, minus 0.5 water; SPT, 10.0 salt, plus one
tea, plus another butter cookies, rehydration
water, zero; PLT, 10.O salt, plus two coffees
with sugar, plus one black coffee, plus one grape
drink, plus one butter cookies, minus 1.0 water.
Flight Plan deviations: None. Shopping list
accomplishments: l-l/2 hour TV-101, checklist
update 30 minutes, all housekeeping. Inoperable
equipment: None. Unscheduled stowage: None.
And that's it.
015 01 07 34 CC Okay, I got it. Let's - we'll poll around and see
if anybody has any questions.
CDR Okay. Did you get 1-1/2 hour TV-101?
CC That's affirm and we got it down.
CDR Okay.
015 01 08 18 SPT Dick, how would you like a frame count?
CC Okay, go ahead.
SPT 10616, 2790, 131, 253, 3139, 3160.
CC Okay, Ed, thank you. We got it.
CC Skylab, Houston. If you guys have a minute, I had

an item here I wanted to visit with you about.
CDR Go ahead.
CC " At a time this evening of i hour and i0 minutes

and 27 seconds, which is just about i minute
from now, you guys are going to have been on
orbit for a total of 59 days, ll hours and 9 minutes
which is the longest that anybody in the world
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has ever flown in space on a single flight. I -

I just thought I would relay to you a little bit
of information about s_ne of the records that you've
beaten. Just as short as about 7-1/2 months ago,
the world record or the United States record was
Gemini 7, Frank Bormann and Jim Lovell which was
13 days, 8 hours and 35 minutes and it took several
years to break that one. The longest one, for
your information, during Apollo was Apollo 17 which
was a total of 12 days and 13 hours and about
51 minutes. Then Conrad's mission which launched
on may 25 doubled the previous - doubled the
previous world's record. And Pete's mission, for
your information, was 28 days, 49 minutes and
49 seconds. The - the - only other record in
sight is - is A1 Bean's personal record of 69 days
and 15 hours in which you gt_s, all three, are
going to beat in about a week or so. You guys
just passed the world record mark.
015 01 l0 36 CC You're now the world champs. We're real proud to

have been here the night you set it and real proud
to have taken part in it since day 1.
CDR Thanks a lot, Dick, and all the guys on purple

team. We appreciate all the good support you've
been giving us down through the days here and let's
hang in there and get the rest of it.
CC Yes, sir. You bet you, we'll be here.
SPT It's you troops on the ground that kep us up here.

Appreciate it.
015 01 ll 51 CC SPT, Houston. On _the ATM closeout, on S054, request

SINGLE, 256 and GRATING, OUT.
SPT I keep hoping for a flare even on the darkside.
CC Roger. That's a B plus tonight.
CDR Couldn't have sweet talked your way out of that

bad grade, could _ou, Ed?
CDR Say, Dick, I'd appreciate it if you guys on the

purple team would pass our compliments on to every-
/_ body else on the ground teams that have been
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supporting us all through this mission. I think

really it's not - it's not our record; it's every-
body's record.
CC Jerry, I'll sure do it. And Phil and I were

laughing and wondering how mR uy hours and minutes
that this and other teams have been sitting here
helping you guys. Has been a lot of fun, and we'll
be sure and pass it down the line. Thank you
very much.
CDR Real fine, Dick.
PLT Dick, there's got to be a record s_newhere in the

book for flight controller man-hours.
CC Old purp says he has it, but we're not sure.
015 01 14 3_ BPT Say, Dick, is NOAA reporting anything happening

on the Sun? It looks pretty quiet from up here.
CC Standby.
CC SPT, Houston. We haven't had any reports and this

really is the year of the quiet Sun. And - and
EGIL Just said from all indications outside here
in Houston, it's gone out anyway.
CDR The Sun's been canceled due to lack of activity.
CC Roger.
SPT Hey, Dick, one thing has changed. And now let
me tell - the S052 folks might be interested.
Over on the west limb, the streamer structure
which was there, and now has broken into two
distinct ones. One going fram about 070 to 085,
and that's very - very well defined and very dis-
tinct, a]most parallel sides to it, just tapers
off a little bit as it goes out. And then at
around 950 which is relatively weak and thin.
The two which were over 230 and 250 have faded out
and are still discernible but almost gone.
015 O1 16 09 CC Okay, thanks for the update. We're about 30 seconds

from LOS here. Vanguard comes up at 01:27.
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015 01 27 33 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Vanguard for ii minutes.

We're going to be uplinking the film thread pad
for tomorrow at this site. And, Jerry, I know
you're 2 or 3 minutes away from the 201 ops, but
when you get a chance sometime this pass I'd like
to speak to you for a minute.
CDR Okay, Dick, go ahead, I'm all set up and ready

to go.
CC Okay - Okay Jerry, the last pass we uplinked a -
CDR You're dropping out, Dick.
CC Okay, stand by just a second, I'll be with you.
CC Okay, CDR, I think it's locked up solid now.

We - At the last pass we up linked a checklist
change to the Comm_nd Module Systems Checklist.
It's in the teleprinter now, has to do with re-
lieving pressure on quads Alfa, Delta and also
the PS - PSM MANIFOLD. Turns out, looking at the
.-- pressures this evening that we just determined
in the last hour that we are going to need to
relieve quad Alfa tonight. We' d like very much
to watch it during an AOS period and the only
opportunity we have frcm here on in is during
your last hour prior to going to bed which is
Hawaii at 02:38. And if possible we'd appreciate
it if you could use that procedure up in the
command module while - while we watch it there at
Hawaii.
CDR Be glad to, Dick.
CC Okay great, that time is 02:38, and we'll be

standing by there.
CDR Roger.
015 01 30 07 SPT Hello, Dick. You still there?
CC Yes, sir. Go ahead.
SPT Say, I guess we're going to be taking a couple of

more blood checks before the mission is over and
we got two scheduled and looks like a third one
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coming up. We're running out of what they call

hemolysis applicators. We only have i0 of them
left, and we need nine of them. I'm wondering
whether if they're planning on scheduling any -
having anymore unscheduled ones, that - that they
ought to be aware of this, and also tell us whether
we can use one of them over more than once. I
doubt that's the case, but if we could it would
sure increase the number of times we could do it.
CC Okay, thanks for looking ahead for us, and we'll

make sure we're putting that into our - cranking
that into our planning.
SPT Thank you.
SPT Hey, Dick, another alternative is to split them

in half. They're like wooden toothpicks and I
think a knife - we could probably split them
right down the middle, and double the number we
got, if that would work.
CC Okay, good. We'll think about that one, too.
CC Skylab, Houston. We don't see the maneuver started

back towards SOLAR INTERIAL. We're 30 seconds
from LOS. Hawaii comes up at 02 :38. We 're going
to dump the data/voice recorder there, and I'll
be standing by for that command module QUAD A
release.
CDR Roger, 02 :38.
015 01 38 13 CC Roger.
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015 02 38 15 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Hawaii for 5 minutes.

And, Jerry, if you're set or can get set to do this
QUAD A relief for us. We're looking at our data.
CDR Okay, I'm ready to go. How do you read, Dick?
CC Loud and clear, Jerry. Understand you're ready

to go; and so are we, so press on.
CDR Okay, I'm down through verification of all the

talkbacks. I'm going to throw the PSM 1 MANIFOLD
ISOLATION switch OPEN. Now.
CC Okay.
CDR I got a gray talkback.
CC And I forgot to warn you, but we're dumping the

data/voice_recorder here at Hawaii.
CDR Okay, I - I think Ed's doing TV, so you better

check and see if it's running before you dump
it.
CC Roger. The VTR is stopped. And the recorder was

free, Jerry. Thank you, though.
015 02 39 15 CDR Okay. He must have just finished.
SPT I'm not using it, Dick, go ahead.
CC Okay.
CDR I'm going to OPEN QUAD A now. Okay, QUAD A's

OPEN. I got two sets of gray flags.
CC Okay.
CDR I have a t minute wait.
CDR Okay, my 1 minute's up. I'm going to close

QUA]) Alfa now.
CC Roger.
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CDR Got two barberpoles. Now it's time to open

QUAD Delta. QUAD Delta, OPEN, now. Got a gray
flag.
CC CDR, Houston. Negative, we don't want to OPEN

QUAD Delta, Just QUAD Alfa we wanted to open
tonight.
CDR Okay, I already opened it. It was OPEN for

7 seconds. I CLOSED it again.
CC Roger, Jerry; thank you.
CDR Okay, I'm CLOSING the MANIFOLD now. Got a

barberpole.
015 02 42 33 CC Skylab, Houston; we're about a minute from LOS.

You're - The - the first station after ll:OO Zulu
in the morning is about a half an hour after it,
so l'd suggest you set your portable timers to -
to wake yourselves up at ii :00.
CDR Okay, Dick. And how does the RCS look?
CC It looks good, Jerry. And we sure appreciate

you doing the little check for us. It helped us
out a lot. See you in the morning.
015 02 43 O0 CDR Roger; no sweat. So long.
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0]5 i0 47 51 CC Skylab, Skylab, this is Houston. Over. CDR,

this is Houston. Over.
PLT Go ahead, Bruce.
CC Roger. We show a CAUTION and WARNING on QUAD A

PACKAGE TEMPERATURE. This is no real problem.
It's due to the high beta angle. And we suggest
you INHIBIT 5 Bravo in the CSM. That's 5 Bravo
in the CSM. Over.
PLT Roger. 5 Bravo being INHIBITED.
CC And we're sorry that it - it woke you up. We were

just sitting down here watching it, debating
whether to - to call you now or to - to see if it
was going to cool off any. Over.
_- 015 i0 48 40 PLT Okay. No problem.
015 ll 29 12 CC (Music: The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face)
015 ll 34 24 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Bermuda. l-l/2 min-

utes to LOS; next station contact'in 2-1/2 minutes
through the Canary Islands at 11:37. And a good
morning to you all. We apologize for the earlier
rude awakening. And looking at the - the day
remaining clock down here, it looks like it's
going to be a fairly long day since you have
74 hours even of daylight remaining. Over.
PLT That ought to keep us busy.
CC Ought to be able to set a record for

accomplishments in one day.
PLT Have you got any news there, Bruce?
CC Oh, it's still going through the loop here. I'll

have it for you next site.
PLT Okay.
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015 ii 35 39 PLT Hey, Bruce, we asked some time back how the
Houston elections came out. What's the situation
down there in the metropolitan area?
CC Okay. Hofheinz won the election for mayor in a

runoff which was fairly close. But even after a
count he came out on head - or came out ahead.
And Lo Cunningham lost for Position A of the City
Council. And do you have any other specifics
that you're interested in?
CDR No, that was it. Thank you very much.
015 ll 36 ll CC Roger. Sorry we didn't get back to you a couple

weeks ago.
015 ll 37 06 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Canary Islands and

Madrid for ll-1/2 minutes. One item of information
for Ed: active region 14 - we saw one normal
flare this morning that started at 10:50 Zulu,
peaked out at 10:51. And there is apparently
some material moving outward at about 1/2 a solar
radius above the - the limb right now from active
region 14, which is 08 at 1.0. Over.
SPT ..., Bruce.
CC Sayagain?
SPT Thank you, Bruce.
CC Roger. Out.
015 ll 40 43 CC Okay. I got some news here if you all would like
me to read it.
CDR Go ahead.
CC Okay -
015 ll hlll CC Friends have started a trust fund to help pay for
the legal expenses of John D. Ehrlichman, who
is struggling to reestablish himself with a law
practice specializing in environmental affairs.
Ehrlichman resigned as Chief Domestic Adviser to
President Nixon last spring in the wake of Water-
gate scandals. Since then, he has created a
four-person land use group designed to advise real p-
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estate developers on environmental protection

laws. He also handles other unspecified legal
business. "Knowing what I know about the facts
of the charges, I think I have got good reason
to be optimistic," he said of a dozen legal actions
pending against him in an interview on Monday.
New Attorney General William B. Saxbe's authority
within the Justice Department may soon be tested
by disputes between the FBI and the Law Enforce-
ment Assistance Administration. One conflict in-
volves proposed federal control of crime records
sent to state and local governments and how far
the federal compu - Federal Government should go
in policing those who control state and local crime
computers. The other dispute concerns an LEAA
proposal to take the job of gathering crime statis-
tics away from the FBI and other agencies now in-
volved in it.
015 ii 42 16 CC The Federal Energy Office, the FEO, issued regu-

lations Monday night that in effect will force
__ owners of oil-heatedresidencesto lower their
thermostats 6 degrees and that leaves gasoline
stations last in line for available supplies.
John Hill, an assistant director of the FEO, said
in an interview that gasoline stations probably
would get about 15 to 20 percent less gasoline than
the public would use if there were no shortage.
Essential services which purchase gasoline in bulk
were assigned all the fuel they need. Other com-
mercial bulk buyers such as taxi fleets will receive
as much as they did in 1972. The FEO has said it
expected to order - to order a cutback in gaso-
line production to a level 5 percent below 1972
production levels. But Hill said this was still
under review and the situation might improve be-
cause of the unexpectedly high stocks of fuel oils
accumulated during unusually mild winter weather.
Taking first priority for gasoline are essential
services including agriculture, emergency services,
energy production, sanitation services, telecom-
munications and passenger transportation. The new
regulations took effect at 11:59 p.m. eastern day-
light time, Monday and were to he implemented im-
mediately. Home heating oil prices have risen
sharply in the last month, and industry spokesmen
say they'll probably rise more in the future. Some
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spokesmen say it may cost you twice as much to

heat your home this winter as it did last year.
In dollars and cents, the increases can boost
yearly heating bills by $i00 or more, depending
on how much oil you use and who your supplier is.
The increases will more than offset any monetary
savings you might get from turning down your ther-
mostat 6 degrees in accordance with the federal
energy regulations.
015 ii 43 57 CC The Air Force hopes to convince residents of the

Pacific Northwest that the sky, or anything the
military puts in it, won't fall as a result of a
missile testing program. At stake in the public
relations campaign is $26.9 million the Air Force
wants from Congress to test-fire four unarmed
Minuteman intercontinental ballistic missiles from
Montana bases next winter. The tes_ would see four
of the weapons flash across the skies of Montana,
Idaha, and Oregon. Officials in those states have
expressed fear that chunks of the weapons could
fall on the heads of their constituents. But at
a briefing Monday, Major General John W. Pauly,
who heads the project, said probability of public
injury is virtually nonexistent.
015 14 44 37 CC Sixteen persons remained hospitalized Monday night

after all seven cars of Amtrak's Texas Chief pas-
senger train, southbound from Chicago to Houston,
derailed near Ardmore, Oklahoma, injuring an es-
timated 45 persons. "Everyone and everything was
going everywhere," said Priscilla Heidner of Austin,
Texas. "My first thought was, this is the end."
The train, with 115 passengers aboard, was just
moving through an industrial area on the outskirts
of this south-central Oklahoma city when the cars
left the track. Most of the cars tilted precar-
iously but did not topple onto their sides. No
one was killed. The train was reported going
55 miles an hour when it derailed at 12:05 p.m.
Monday. Two of the cars, including the diner, were
turned completely on their sides. The dining car
caught fire, and it was there where the most serious
injuries occurred. The two engines remained on the
tracks. Bing Crosby's singing is not expected to
be impaired as the result of an operation in which
two-fifths of his left lung was removed, hospital
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officials say. "Doctors said there should be no

effect on his voice," said a spokesman for Penin-
sula Hospital. Crosby was in satisfactory con-
dition on Monday, his second day in the intensive
care unit where he is recuperating from surgery.
The 69-year-old entertainer was expected to remain
in intensive care for most of this week.
015 ii 45 51 CC The merger between Libya and Tunisia appears to

be in deep trouble just 3 days after it was an-
nounced amid resounding tributes to Arab unity
from the participants and the general skepticism
from everyone else. President Habib Bourguiba
hurriedly called Tunisia's Council of the Repub-
lic to a meeting today that may decide the fate
of the agreement Bourguiba signed Saturday with
Libya's Colonel Moammar Gadafi. The council in-
cludes all members of the cabinet and the
executive - and the executive of Bourguiba's
Neo-Destour Party, Tunisia's only legal political
party. It meets at irregular intervals to deal
__ with the major policymatters.
015 ll 46 27 CC Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger and Israeli

officials today discussed Egyptian counterproposals
concerning the troops and weapons Egypt will keep
on the east bank of the Suez Canal. "I believe
we have narrowed the differences substantially
this trip. I hope to be able to narrow them fur-
ther in Israel in the next day or two," said Kis-
singer as he shuttled back from Aswan, where he
and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat discussed the
Israeli proposal for the disengagement of the
Israeli and Egyptian forces along the canal. Egypt
apparently had no objections to Israel's offer to
pull its troops back to a line about 20 miles
east of the canal. But Kissinger returned to
Israel with a map showing the positions they want
to hold on the east bank as well as the buffer
zone the United Nation's peacekeeping force would
man between the two armies. One high-ranking
American official with Kissinger said he thought
counterproposals were manageable. The principal
disagreement apparently was over the number and
kinds of antiaircraft missiles and other weapons
that Egypt would - would retain on the east side
of the canal.
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015 ii 47 46 CC Katmandu, Nepal: Tayo Suzuki says a group of

Japanese women plan to scale a Himalayan peak,
higher than any woman has climbed, to learn the
effects of such a feat on the female body. Miss
Suzuki, spokesman for the expedition, said there
was a need for such scientific studies because
there were fewer records on women at high altitudes
than there are for men. The 12 women will try to
climb a 26,760-foot peak, Manaslu, the world's
llth - 8th highest peak, and one with the reputation
for taking the lives of mountain climbers. The
record height for a woman mountain climber is
26,240 feet, set in 1970 in the Himalayas;
29,028-foot Mount Everest, the world's tallest.
"Women might be slower in mountains, but that
does not mean we are weaker than men," said Miss
Suzuki. Men have made blunders even in the Hi-
malayas. Wausau, Wisconsin: Attorney General
James Lunsdorf spent an afternoon at the Marathon
County Court House Library, studying the law on
breaking and entering, only to find when he was
finished that he was locked in. He broke a door
window to make his way out and left this note.
"As the result of this experience, Attorney Lans-
dorf has a better understanding of his clients'
problems."
015 ll 48 52 CC l0 seconds to LOS. Next station contact in

25 minutes through Carnarvon at 12:13 with a
data/voice tape recorder dump at Carnarvon.
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015 12 13 43 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Carnarvon and

Honeysuckle Creek for 15-1/2 minutes, leading off
with the data/voice tape recorder dump. And, for
the SPT, l've got some information on the hemolysis
sticks. Over.
SPT Morning, Bruce. Go ahead.
CC Okay, I think you were - you'll need them for

tomorrow morning. There should be two packs of
l0 hemolysis sticks each in IMSS can Charlie that
was taken up on your mission. They should be in
W-700. Have you checked this one?
SPT I sure haven't, Bruce. I will.
CC Okay.
_ 015 12 i5 4h CC And, Ed, we'd like to use the Merritt Island site
this rev to clean off the video tape recorder, and
in order to do this, we'll have to rewind here
at - at Honeysuckle, so we wonder if we could get
you to hold off on your ATM video until Bermuda,
and that'll be 13:10. That's 13:11 or after. Over.
SPT Okay, I'ii do that, Bruce. Would you like me to

put it to rewind now to save you a little time?
CC Negative. We'll take care of that by co--and.

And either for you or for anybody else, we've
got a configuration on panel 207.
SPT Go ahead.
CC Okay, we'd like to either configure or verify all

8 BAT CHARGE LOW, CAUTION and WARNING switches
ENABLED. You can do this at your convenience.
And since all the PCG primary amp power meters
are finally back in sync with each other, we'll
command a discharge limit for PCG 7 back to the
auto mode from down here.
SPT They're all to ENABLE now; 7 was INHIBITED.

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CC Okay. Thank you.
015 12 25 58 SPT SPT, Houston. We're in the process of doing a

GRAVITY GRADIENT DUMP maneuver how, even though
it's still daylight, and after the maneuver com-
menced we noticed that the S052 DOOR was still
OPEN, so we con_nanded it CLOSED. However, just
to clean up on configurations, next time you go
by the panel you might check that the AUTO DOOR
switch is in NORMAL rather than OVERRIDE. Over.
SPT Roger, Bruce. It's in NORMAL.
CC Okay, thank you, Ed.
015 12 28 20 CC Skylab, this is Houston, 1 minute until LOS. Next

station contact in 33 minutes through Merritt
Island at 13:01.
015 12 28 27 CC Out.
015 13 01 09 CC Skylab, Houston through MILA for 13-1/2 minutes.

Good morning,
CDR Good morning, Hank. Hank, I've got the nu change

data, if you're ready, z
_q
CC Okay. Go ahead.
CDR Okay. On Sirius, I got a shaft of 191.2 and a

trunniun of 26.9. On Canopus I got 259.9 and
37.9.
CC Roger. We copy.
SPT Morning, Hank.
CC Hello there.
SPT Say, Hank, I got the first part of the building

block i, that's chip IA at 5400 rather than O.
Would 82A like me to repeat that portion of it for
them? Tentative ROLL of ZERO?
We'll check it.
015 13 03 48 CC SPT, we'd like for you to repeat the 82A exposures.
And for info, at 11:25 Zulu, which was about an
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hour and a half ago, a surge was reported out of

active region 14 and went out to l.solar
radii[ sic].
SPT Okay. Thank you.
015 13 08 15 CC SPT, for info, the BERYLLIUM COUNT today is about

20 times what it was yesterday.
SPT Thank you, Hank. I hope that means something.
015 13 l0 18 CC SPT, Houston. We'd like the DAS for a nu z update.
SPT You have it, Hank.
015 13 12 09 CC Ed, the DAS is yours.
SPT Thank you.
CC And Skylab, the VTR is yours, and you have 20 min-

utes available.
CDR Roger, Hank.
015 13 13 h7 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute to LOS. Madrid

will be coming up at 18, 4 minutes from now.
015 13 14 00 CDR Roger, Hank. See you then.
015 13 18 23 CC Skylab, Houston through Madrid for 8 minutes.
PLT Houston, Skylab, PLT.
CC Go ahead, Bill.
PLT Reference Maneuvering Checklist, page 2h-4, step 17.

Question for the T020/M509 people. Do steps 17
and 18 apply if we're using the new restraint
system? If so, or if not, do we replace steps
17 and 18 with a new instruction to install the
different restraint system, the new restraint
system?
CC Okay, Bill. Those apply with the new restraint

system.
015 13 22 26 PLT Hank, I think we're sorting it out here and the
tr - troublewas that there'sa coordinated
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activity going on there. And I didn't realize

that there were two people supposed to be check-
ing back and forth with each other.
CC Roger.
PLT The one procedure by itself doesn't make sense.
015 13 25 23 CC Skylab, Houston. We're i minute from LOS Carnarvon

at 52.
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015 13 51 48 CC Skylab, Houston through Carnarvon for 9 minutes.

And we need the VTR for - through the next state-
side to rewind and dump there.
CC Okay. And standing by with his scintillating tales

of titanic tumults on the Sun is Bill.
SPT You've really got something to live up to, Bill.
015 13 52 lh MCC Yes, how can I follow that? A couple of quickies

here on the Sun for you this morning to update
some of the brief words you've got on active
region 14's activity this morning. At 06:19 Zulu
it started subflaring, and it was flying about one
per hour from then through about 10:50 Zulu. At
10:55 Zulu is when it gave us the - the one normal -
_ which X-ray was about a C-5, as determinedby
sol rad - plus a moderate amount of centimetric
radio burst. At ll:08, which is 13 minutes after
the one-normal commencement, ejeeta was seen out
to about 0.5 radii in H-alpha. At 11:25 it was
out to 1.O solar radii, indicating a velocity of
about 400 kilometers per second. At 11:32,
7 minutes after it reached 1.0 in H-alpha, S052
took anunattended STANDARD. And also, at 11:46,
they took another unattended STANDARD. And by that
time, you had gotten up and were on the panel and
took the synoptic BB1. And it was apparent to us
that you went out, looked around, and then looked
around the rest of the Sun. We're wondering
specifically what you saw out in the active
region 14 area.
015 13 53 33 SPT Okay. 14 was relatively hot ; it was at 4000 counts

in oxygen VI. In terms of the XUV, though, it
was not any hotter than 20 or 21. That was just
a subjective look at the XUV MONITOR with INTEGRATE
and without INTEGRATE. 20 and 21 still looked to
be the better prospects at that time, even though
the oxygen count VI - oxygen VI count was up over
in 14. I could give you a little rundown on just
about all these areas afterwards, when you get
_ through.
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015 13 54 i0 MCC Okay, fine. And 8 - 14 will be on the limb about

2 more days, where we can be looking at these
surges, et cetera. Want to remind you of the
possiblitty, should you see something out there
that looks appropriate, to initiate JOP 8 Alfa.
To us, concurring with what you said, 20/21 is
a hot area, the hottest area on the Sun. AR 21
is the hottest - hotter of the two. The 20/21 area
there, we feel that an M flare is possible within
the next 36 hours or so, and our most likely guess
would be along the north-south neutral line in
active region 21. 23's been inactive. The reason,
we feel, for the general increase in the X-REA -
the radio count, et cetera - is just for the
general rise in - in AR 14 and 20/21. And we're
sitting right now with an ambient X-ray level
of pretty close to C-I. It's not quite 103, but

it's pretty close; so it doesn't take much to go
up and over that threshold. Okay, why don't I
let you tell me about the Sun.
015 13 55 16 SPT Well, first, at least sometime today, could some

people give me a feel for what has taken place in --
the active region 14 to cause it to become a good
producer? So far as we've watched it move across
the disk, I was not too impressed with it.
MCC To tell you the truth, l'm not sure that anything
new has happened. We were talking earlier to the
extent that, had this happened on the disk, we
wouldn't have seen any of it and it would have just
been a one normal - probably not a C-5 since it's
on the limb with limb brightening. But I'ii get
some more words up to you later.
015 13 55 48 SPT Okay. First of all, the white light coronagraph.

Last night when I looked at it, I reported that
there was a fairly well defined streamer which
started at around 080 - probably at 075, in reality -
down to 090, that went almost radially out, very
well defined, and just slowly decreased in inten-
sity. That's right where active region 14 was
coming around the bend, and perhaps we should have
suspected something at that time. But now this
morning, in - on looking at it after the flare
had occurred, there is only a very bright, but
very narrow, streamer at around 075. The remainder
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of that streamer which I saw last night has just

faded away or disappeared. There's just a very
small amount of intensity in that whole general
region. There is a very faint spike at around, oh,
say 085 or so which remains, but it's nowhere near
the magnitude and size of the total streamer which
we saw last night.
015 13 56 52 SP_ The streamer which is at about 095, which was

there - Well, I shouldn't say that it was not there
yesterday, that - There is one at 095 which is no
longer parallel to the one up there around, say,
075. What it makes me think is that right out of
the center of that streamer we saw last night,
material emerged. And that caused the - Just left
the outside boundaries of it, which tended to
diverge as they go a little further outward. Now
that's a picture I have in my mind. Of course, l've
not seen that happen, but looking at the monitor,
that's what it reminds me of. We also have a very
narrow streamer down at about i00, which was there
- last night. Over on the other side of the limb at
the - well, around 3 - 300 - centered on 300, is
a broad diffuse streamer which - Intensity drops
off rather rapidly as we go outward. And the two
small streamers which we used to see at 230, 250,
just a bare trace of them - especially the one at
230 -but that's just about gone. Looking at the
Sun in the XUV monitor, active region 14 did have
one very small point, which was around 4 K in
oxygen VI, but I did not really see very much in
oxygen - in the XUV monitor, however. Active
region 18 is very - very faint. If anything,
around, say 500 in oxygen VI; very tough to see.
And in the XUV monitor, it also is small and faint.
Active region 23, fairly bright. I would say the
ones which are the brightest on the disk are - or
all about the same level in oxygen - or, l'm sorry,
in the XUV monitor - are 14, 23, 16, 21, and 20.
015 13 58 51 SPT Going back to 23, that's around i000 counts or so;
looks fairly bright. 15 is - I didn't even bother
going over and looking at it, it was so weak in the
XUV monitor. 16 looks fairly large and - and about
i000 counts in oxygen VI. Same for 17, although
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not quite as large. 21 was 2000 counts in

oxygen VI. 20 was around i000. They both look
fairly bright. And right above the sunspot in
active region 20 - here's where I get a little
confused - is the active region 20 and 22. I have
a tou_h time picking out what exactly is active
region 22. But anyway, the sunspot, which is in
the region of those two active regions, shows
around 1500 counts in oxygen VI right above it.
015 13 59 43 MCC Okay; fine, Ed. l've got all that down. We're
i minute from LOS. Honeysuckle is up in 5 minutes,
and that's a quick, l-i/2-minute pass. Texas is
after that in 35 minutes. A couple of points here
of interest on today's planning: The JOP 7, you
have 14 minutes; from 400 kilometers down to
40 kilometers because of the Beta angle. On our
last orbit, we've got a trunc, if necessary, on
the BBI. Should you be more efficient than the
planning allows, we'd be happy to get it all. We
could talk change 21 tomorrow, and S052 had some
questions as to what happened last night with
respect to the reenabling of the discriminators.
Apparently, they somehow - -
015 14 00 32 SPT Yes, I just apparently - just probably overlooked

that switch; that's all. That was my error.
MCC Okay, we were wondering if perhaps the i second

wasn't enough for the logic.
SPT No. No, I don't think that was the problem. I

get - I get in the habit of closing that door
manually and - and then never - never hit that
switch because I felt it was taken care of. And
I'ii just have to pay more attention to what's
written explicitly.
MCC Okay. If there's anything we can change to help

you out, just let us know. And we're over the
hill here; so we'll see you tomorrow.
015 14 01 Ol sPT So long, Bill.
015 14 04 45 CC Skylab, Houston. We're with you through Honey-

suckle. We have about a minute and - a minute
through Honeysuckle. Our next site will be Texas
at 34.
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015 14 34 30 CC Skylab, Houston. We're with you at Texas through

Bermuda for 17 minutes. And we'll be dumping the
voice recorder here. We know you're using it; so
we'll redesignate the recorders. And you may have
the blinking light.
CC Skylab, Houston. Did you copy about the voice

recorder?
CDR Roger.
015 14 36 46 CC SPT, Houston. We see the X-REA's gone from APER-

TURE 4 to APERTURE 3. When it's convenient, could
you tell us what you see?
SPT Stand by a minute, Hank.
015 14 37 48 SPT Okay, Hank. At the beginning of the orbit, I came ?

over and looked at active region 14. It had an
oxygen VI count of around 20,000. I figured I'd
get the building block 32 out of the way and come
right back. As soon as I came back, it looked as
though we had something going. We had a point
brighteninggoing on at the time. However, I did
not pick it up early because I was working 32. As
soon as we got back over here, I got on the point
brightening, and I got the - got us going in the
FLARE MODE. The oxygen VI count had gotten up to
around 58,000 and had tripped off several of the
detectors. We got 56 and 54 going in their FLARE
MODEs. 82A got a - an exposure; however, it was
much greater then 20 seconds because of one - the
switch was not ENABLEd. We gave them another one
which was 20 seconds. 82B got a WAVELENGTH, SHORT
exposure sequence, and 55 was going at MIRROR,
AUTO RASTERs - I'm sorry - in MIRROR, LINE SCAN.
Right now, they're going in MIRROR, AUTO RASTERs
because I see a pretty good surge on the limb and
I figure we'll cover it with truncated MIRROR AUTO
RASTERs. It's fairly extensive; it covers about
2 arc minutes or so.
015 14 39 12 PLT Hank, PLT here. Did you say you were taking the
recorders?
CC We're redesignating the recorder so you'll have

one, Bill, but the light may not work properly.
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PLT Thanks a lot.
015 14 39 46 SPT And, Hank, after I concluded that we had only

gotten right at the flare peak and not really
the - the rise itself, then I turned off the X-ray
instruments. I was just giving 54 a SINGLE se-
quence of EXPOSURE 6_, just more for reference to
follow it without expending a higher amount of
film. I 'Ii go back into the FLARE MODE on that
instrument, and I 'ii probably give 82B another
sequence of WAVELENGTH, SHORT here. We're still
at the brightest point and continue following it
with 56 - and they are LONG, AUTO mode - and
55 with truncated MIRROR AUTO RASTERs. If you
have any other suggestions, voice them up.
015 14 41 20 CC SPT, Houston. That plan sounds good. However,

in addition, we would like to run a - an S052
observation at the end of the pass since we had a
limb event.
SPT Roger, Hank. And will do. I was looking at the

limb flares, which gives us a guidance for building -_
block 8, and that's why I'm not at Sun center now.
015 14 46 h5 SPT Hank, I think this particular one pointed out

again that unless we're in a flare wait mode,
we're Just not going to pick up one of - one of
these things. There's no way, if you're busy
with the details of working the switches on the
panel, that you can pick one of these things up
early. You've got to be pretty much spring-loaded
to it and not operating - not filled with the
details of operating instruments. So I think if
we get a flare probability that is high, we ought
to just go flare mate - flare wait and maybe
give 55 some truncated MIRROR AUTO RASTERs and
leave it go at that and wait. We might not get
any data for - for hours at a time, but that's the
only way we're going to get the flare rise.
015 14 47 29 CC Roger. We copy that, Ed. And we'll consider that.
015 lh 50 32 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from LOS. We'll

see you at Madrid at 55. That's 5 minutes from
now.
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015 14 55 42 CC Skylab, Houston through Madrid, 7 minutes.
015 lh 58 20 CC Skylab, Houston. For info, the VTR is yours,

and you have 26 minutes available.
SPT Thank you.
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015 15 01 54 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from LOS. We'll

see you again at Honeysuckle at h2 in h0 minutes.
SPT Hank, that surging material: Rather than moving

outward, most of it moved to the south along the
limb; moved about l-l2 arc minutes down and about
2/3 of an arc minute off the limb. And we're
picking it all up now with 55; that's why I'm
letting it run down to line 40.
015 15 02 37 CC We copy.
015 15 h2 ll CC Skylab, Houston. We've got you through Honeysuckle

for a minute and 20 seconds. The next site is
Goldstone at ll.
015 16 l0 50 CC Skylab, Houston through Goldstone to Bermuda;

17 minutes.
i- CC Skylab, Houston. For the T020, how close are you,

using the VTR? We've got about 3-1/2 minutes left
to dump. If you're not going to use it next few
minutes, we could get that off and you could have
full VTR.
SPT Hank, could you hold off on that? We're about to

get the T020 on it.
CC And also, in regard to that TV, if you get a

little bit behind on T020, you can skip the last,
which is the third TV that's scheduled in - in
the run.
015 16 12 27 SPT Hank, is the VTR our - ours now? And how much
time is there on it?
CC Roger. It's yours. You have 27 minutes available.

And the TV that can be deleted is on page 25-18
of the checklist.
SPT Okay. The only thing that was reformed was the -
on Delta portion of it. That was all I had called
out.
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CC SPT, you're there. The T-57 [sic] Delta

is the only one you're to do. But the run -
there three runs in that, as I understand it, and
the third one can be deleted if you're behind.
015 16 15 43 SPT Hank, you're confusing me a bit by mentioning

three maneuvers. The Delta only calls for a
two-axis translation of the dogleg maneuver.
CC Okay, on page 25-6 of the checklist there, it

calls out that - follow action during familiar-
ization maneuvers. And this is the evaluation
of the nonrigid restraint system. And then there's
some TV of the rigid restraint system. And both
of those - that's on page 25-9 - and those are
called out for either the SPT or the observer to
do. And the last callout is way over on 25-18,
which is to follow the two-axis translation in
dogleg maneuver.
015 16 16 48 SPT Okay, Hank. The only thing I had on my pad was
the Delta; so I was not trying to get any of the
other material.
PLT Hank, I think they're just a little bit over-

saturated for the period of time allowed today.
And we'll get what we can and talk about it later.
CC Okay. Don't sweat it, Bill; just do the best you

can with it.
015 16 19 09 CC SPT, Houston. We just figured out what's confusing

you here. The - the TV photo - The TV ops - TV
0ps Book is in error, or at least it doesn't
agree with the Maneuvering Experiments Checklist.
The Experiment Checklist calls out three sections
on the 57-D, and your photo ops - TV Ops Book does
indeed just call out for what you mentioned awhile
ago.
015 16 21 43 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 20 seconds from a

handover, and it may drop out for a few seconds.
015 16 23 50 SPT Houston, SPT.
CC Go ahead.
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SPT Okay, Hank. We got that Delta portion of TV

finished up now. The - On the ATM, at the
begin - at the end of last orbit, I got a look
at the corona. And the region which was from -
Stand by a minute.
015 16 24 48 SPT Okay, Hank, l'm back with you. The streamer -
very small streamer which we mentioned earlier
this morning, which was present around 080 - That
is no longer there, probably as a result of a
transient which occurred. We see it over in that
area right now, at - a bright streamer which runs
from 065 to 075 and then an open space where that
very thin, narrow streamer used to be. And that
open space only runs out to around 3 solar radii,
where it - where again a faint streamer appears.
I cannot see the base of the streamer, however.
It. Just all of a sudden appears somewhere around
3 solar radii. It may be very faintly attached
to the streamer which is just north of it. That's
the one from 065 to 075. It's not detectable here.
Then from 08 - 085 on down to 100, there is another
diffuse streamer which has not changed at all in
_ appearance. At the beginningof the orbit here,
I came up and gave a STANDARD MODE at Sun center
and a PATROL mode - yes - PATROL, SHORT for 56,
and now 55 is running off the limb, looking at.
the region where the surge was. It still looks
as though it's changing; so they may be looking
at something. And 56 received a PATROL, LONG.
CC Roger. We copy. Thank you, Ed.
015 16 26 59 CC SPT, Houston. And this applies to all of you

that worked the ATM today. Since the corona seems
to be active now - and I'm sure you'd already
planned this - we'd like to squeeze in as much
Sun-centered ops with the 52 as you can.
SPT Roger, Hank. That's a good plan, and we'll

try to follow it.
015 16 27 22 CC Okay. And we're about i minute from LOS. We'll

see you again at Madrid at 33.
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015 16 33 i0 CC Skylab, Houston. We're with you through Madrid

for 8-1/2 minutes.
CDR Houston, CDR.
CC Go ahead.
CDR Okay. T020 is completed now, and we got most all

the maneuvers done except the tumble recovery.
And we got the TV done and - but we did not get
all the PA0 photos done. We'll have to get those
another time. We did not even fool with the non-
rigid restraint system. We ha/ enough trouble
and used up enough time getting the rigid system
working right. I think probably what we should
have done is schedule the evaluation of the non-
rigid system some other time, although I don't
even know why you even want to bother fooling
with it. The SL-3 crew worked that kind of system
- over pretty well, and we should probably Just
stick with the rigid.
015 16 35 20 CC Roger; we copy.
CDR However, if you want to schedule us time to do

it, we'll fool with the nonrigid system.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute to LOS.

Tananarive at 52.
015 16 41 17 PLT Roger, Hank.
015 16 53 31 CC Skylab, Houston through Tananarive for 9 minutes.
PLT Roger, Hank.
015 17 00 23 CC Skylab, Houston. We may lose you here shortly.

Honeysuckle is - is next at 18, and we plan to
dump the recorder there.
015 17 18 38 CC Skylab, Houston through Honeysuckle for

5-1/2 minutes.
PLT Roger.
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CC And we'll be dumping the recorder.
PLT How about redes_gnating? Jerry's giving a debrief

on TO20.
CC Okay.
SPT Hank, could you tell me what size flare we had

on - out of active region 14?
SPT And also, Hank, if - tell me if the NOAA folks

have changed any of their flare probabilities.
CC Okay. In answer to the first question, they think

the flares are around C-3.
SPT Thank you.
015 17 21 47 CC CDR, Houston.
SPT Jerry's recording right now.
CC Okay, Ed. We got some changes we want to make on

this upcoming pass, and we only got a couple of
minutes here. I wonder if you Could copy them
for me.
SPT I will. Go ahead.
CC Okay. In - in view of the recent activity there

on the west limb from AR-14, we'd like to change
this daylight cycle coming up here. So that
after you do the building block 32, we want to go
to a precise pointing of ROLL, minus 5400;
DOWN, minus 900; RIGHT, plus 215 and perform the
six building block lO's. In other words, do not
change the pointing. And we want to use the
following GRATING POSITIONs: all zips - that's
OPTICAL REFERENCE - 0574, 0772, 1042, 1659, and
2434. If time permits, we would like to - a
building block 32 or - or a building block 2 to
be performed after those building block 10's.
And these observations are intended to tell us
the density of the base of the streamers near
AR-14.
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015 17 23 28 SPT Okay, Hank. That's a ROLL of minus 5400, DOWN

of minus 900, RIGHT of plus 215. 55 GRATINGS are
all zips, 574, 772, 1042, 1659, 2434. And a
building block 32, if time permits.
CC That's correct, AI [sic]. Or a building block 2

would do there, also. And that's a good read-
back. And we're about 30 seconds from LOS.
Hawaii'll be coming up at 39. And - -
SPT So long, Hank.
CC - - one last word for you. The flare prob -

probabilities are now - on active region 14 are
410; active region 21 is now 510; and 24, 400.
015 17 24 17 SPT Thank you, Hank.
015 17 39 45 CC Skylab, Houston through Hawaii for 7 minutes.
SPT Hello, Hank. I got a question on the pointing.

We're at the pointing specified; however, we
-_ happento be i arc minuteto the right of the
active region 14. And also, the surge which was
seen would be going off to our left. And I'm
wondering whether this is really they - where
they want to be.
CC Okay. I'll check it.
CC SPT, Houston. I - I guess our pointing was a

little bit in error. At the comPletion of this
S056 exposure, we'd like for you to tweak up the
pointing - in your judgment.
SPT Okay, Hank. Will do.
015 17 41 57 CC And got a couple of items for you. First off,

the CALROC is GO at this time. They're sched-
uled for a 19:00 launch. And the VTR - We're
rewinding here, and we're going to need it for
the next couple of revs to clean it off.
SPT Okay.
CC PLT, Houston. Are you down in the experiment

area?
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CDR Affirmative. Go ahead.
CC Okay. We don't see a - a flow in duct 2. We'd

like to check the two circuit breakers over on
panel 614 - the DUCT 2 FANS, i and 3. And if
they are CLOSED, we'd like for you to cycle them.
015 17 43 39 CDR Okay, Hank, I did CLOSE them, but we'll go down
and cycle them.
CC Okay. We're only seeing about half the flow that

we should see here. And we're - we're thinking
that might do the trick, or if it doesn't, we'll
just have to look at it a little more.
CDR Okay, Bill just checked, and they're all CLOSED,

And he's going to cycle them.
PLT Okay, Hank. I turned them all OFF and then

turned them all back ON simultaneously. I remem-
ber a long time ago, there was talk about reverse
flow.
CC Roger. We copy you, Bill. Let's look at them a

minute here.
015 17 45 58 CC Skylab, Houston. That didn't seem to help the

situation on duct 2 flow. We'll think about it a
little bit and we - maybe I - bet - be back with
you with a little short troubleshooting.
PLT Roger, Hank.
CC And we're about i minute from LOS. We'll see you

again at Goldstone at 50.
SPT Okay, Hank. One other suggestion on the pointing.

We can stay where we are right now. But in - if
we have a active region on the limb which might
be going, it wouldn't hurt to roll so that we've
got the limb tangent to the vertical - so that in
case something does go off, we've got a good ex-
posure for 82A. And 82B would be on top of it,
also.
015 17 46 52 CC Roger, Ed. And we concur with that.

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015 17 50 05 CC Skylab, Houston through Goldstone for 7 minutes.
CC PLT, Houston. When you get into that S192 change-

out, you'll probably notice there's a typo down
there in step C: Where it refers to X and Y con-
trols, it should be X and Z.
PLT Thank you, Hank.
CC PLT, Houston. Did you happen to notice if the

duct flow in duct 2 looks normal?
015 17 56 l0 CC S_vlab, Houston. 1 minute to LOS. Bermuda on

the hour.
CDR Roger, Hank.
PLT Hank, it looks normal. It's the same as the

others. I'm sorry I didn't report that before.
I should have told you.
CC We should have asked it before. We may have a

__ telemetry problem.
CDR Hey, Hank, would you ask the ATM folks if on

GRATING setting 2434, is it okay to use detector 6?
CC Roger. You can use detector 6.
015 17 46 52 CDR Thank you.
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015 18 O0 49 CC Skylab, Houston through Bermuda; 7 minutes.
CDR Roger, Hank.
015 18 06 50 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from LOS.

Canary Islands are coming up in 3 minutes at 09.
SPT Okay, Hank.
015 18 l0 O0 CC Skylab, Houston through Madrid - make that

Canary Islands for 9-1/2 minutes.
015 18 18 35 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from LOS. We

might make a real low pass at Tananarive at 33.
If we don't, we'll see you at Honeysuckle at 55.
And Honeysuckle is 36 minutes.
CDR Roger, Hank. See you then.
CC CDR, have you made that change on the TV demos

on TV-114 ?
CDR I made a bunch of changes yesterday on the TV

demos. I don't remember ll4 being one of them,
though.
CC Okay. It came up this morning, and I just won-

dered if you had any trouble with it. It wasn't
clear to me when I read it. All we're doing is
replacing the entire procedure except for the
TV block that's on the left-hand page. You'll
see it when you go there.
015 18 19 29 CDR Okay.
015 18 55 O0 CC Skylab, Houston through Honeysuckle for

8-1/2 minutes.
015 18 55 51 CC SPT, Houston. Can you look over there and see
how the PLT's doing with the detector changeout?
PLT Hank, I'm on page 3-8, and I'm at the note in the
center of the page. Okay, the heat pipe is still
stuck. I'm going very, very slowly because I
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don't want to damage it. And the first technique

there didn't work. And I'm now in the process
of trying to use the small screwdriver to separate
the cooler and the heat pipe.
CC Roger; we copy.
015 18 56 55 PLT While l've got you here, I read through the
procedure earlier, and I have some new indium
shims in the malfunction book right here. It
isn't clear exactly - or it isn't clear precisely
at what step in the replacement that I install
those shims.
CC Okay. Bill, there should be a shim already

installed on that detector.
PLT Okay. That answers the question.
CC And the ones in the books there are spares, in

case one of the others gets buggered up.
01518 57 38 PLT Okay;thankyou.
015 19 O0 24 CC SPT, Houston. The CALROC's on it - on its way

up.
SPT Thank you, Hank.
015 19 02 42 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 45 seconds from

LOS. We'll see you again at Hawaii at 15 with
a recorder dump.
SPT Roger, Hank.
SPT Hank, in looking at the corona, the only part we

have left over there on the west limb is a - a
streamer at i00 and a streamer at 080. And the
area in between looks cleaned out.
CC Roger; we copy. And the - the rocket looks good

at this point.
015 19 03 59 CC And second sequence on the S054 are GRATING, OUT.
015 19 15 39 CC Skylab, Houston through Hawaii for 9 minutes.

And we'll be dumping the recorder. And for the
SPT, on the second S054 run, we'd like the
GRATING, OUT.
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SPT i just started it, Hank. ]'II stop it and put

the GRATING, OUT.
015 19 16 03 CC We tried to catch you before LOS last time, and

it - it was a late call. I don't think you got it.
015 19 18 47 CC SPT, Houston. if we figured right, you emptied

up a M133 electrolyte vile. It's - can be used
in the science demo today. Is that correct?
SPT You gusy figure well. That's right; I used it

up last night, and I gave it to Bill this morning.
CC Okay, good show.
015 19 22 46 CC Ed, did Bill manage to break the dewar away from
the heat pipe?
SPT Hank, you better ask him on the details.
CDR That's affirmative, Hank; he did. Hight now we're

busy browsing through our friendly Stowage Book,
_ tryingto find out where the feelergage is.
CC Okay.
PLT I give up, Hank. Rather than spend an hour looking

for it in the Stowage Book, how about having them
search it out for me?
CC We're searching right now, Bill.
015 19 24 0 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 20 seconds from LOS.

Goldstone is next in 3 minutes.
015 19 27 12 CC Skylab, Houston through Goldstone for 6-1/2 minutes.
015 19 29 28 CC Bill, the best we can come up with is, it's - that
it - it is somewhere either taped to the cover or
inside where you're working there. I - I don't
much think so. But it's a little - I don't know
whether you've seen it or not. It's a little
piece of metal about 3 inches long and about
1/2-inch wide. It's just a thin, precision-
thickness piece of metal.
PLT You hit it right on the nose, Hank. I found it.
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SKYLAB AIR-T0-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION
._m' 015 19 32 26 CC PLT, Houston. Just a little reminder. The only

constraints on doing the alignments are - are the
30-minute warmup time prior to starting and
if - when you shut it down there for your PT and
eating, that you must allow a 2-hour eooldown
period for time between the POWER, OFF and POWER
back ON again.
PLT Roger, Hank. Thank you.
015 19 32 58 CC And we're about 40 seconds from LOS. Bermuda is

the next site at 38. And that's 4-1/2 minutes.
015 19 37 52 CC Skylab, Houston through Bermuda for 9-1/2 minutes.
PLT Roger, Hank. And I got another question here.

The procedure to - Mall Book on this 192 procedure
calls for the removal of the attenuator. The pad
makes no remark; so l'm ass_m_ng that I leave the
..... attenuator out for the reinstallation. Would you
check and see if that's a correct assumption?
CC That's correct, Bill.
PLT Thank you.
SPT Are you ready for the TV downlink, Hank?
015 19 38 29 CC We're ready for it.
015 19 40 ii PLT Okay, Hank, pressing on to step Bravo, message

6133, Bravo i. And the removal and reinstallation
looked pretty clean.
CC Okay; we copy.
PLT A lot harder to get it out than it was to put

it back in.
CC Yes, from my experience, getting that thing away

from the heat pipe's a little tricky.
015 19 h0 42 PLT Yes, that's what took me so long. I went real slow
with that.
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015 19 42 i0 CC SPT, Houston. We have a few changes for your ATM

schedule pad on the JOP 12F. And they - some of
these have been precipitated by the fact that
the - the limb we were going to look at is no
longer quiet, and the others are just flat cor-
rections of errors.
SPT Okay, Hank. I got it in my hand. Go ahead.
CC Okay. On the pass beginning at 22:07, the ROLL

was omitted. We'd like to add that to the point-
ing instructions. And it's minus 2460. That's
at 45 minutes remaining.
SPT Okay, I got it.
015 19 43 06 CC Okay. On the pass at 23:44, 46 minutes remaining,

where it says ROLL, plus 3000 - and I guess that's
throughout the entire pass - the ROLL should be
plus 2940. And - and further pointing instructions
there is to point inside the left limb instead of
the right limb. And we - we want to -And at
13 minutes time remaining, we want to bisect the -
bisect the slit with the tip of the filament -
filament 76 nearest to the limb.
CC SPT, I guess we want to make that for all the slit

pointing. Bisect it with the tip of the filament
76 nearest the limb
CC You with me so far?
015 19 44 35 SPT Yes, l'm just trying to picture that one, Hank.
And I understand what you're saying, but I have to
think about it a little bit more to make sure I
really understand it.
015 19 45 O0 CC Okay. I - What - Maybe this will help you. What

we mean to do is put the slit perpendicular to the
tip of F-76 nearer the limb.
SPT You want the tip of the slit perpendicular to the

filament, F-76.
CC Negative. We want the tip of F-76 that's nearest

the limb, perpendicular to the slit.
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SPT Okay.
CC The - the slit will be parallel to the limb, Ed,

but it '11 be pa - approximately perpendicular to
the filament.
015 19 45 56 SPT Okay, Hank. iStand by just a moment.
SPT Okay. I got that written down, Hank. I'll try

and ta - take a look at it this next orbit and
make sure I understand it.
CC Okay. And on the 82B exposure, there in your

building block 26, we'd like to change that from a
NORMAL to a TIMES 4 and truncate at the end of
the building block 26.
015 19 46 59 CC And we're about 40 seconds from LOS. I have one

more change for you, Ed, on the 01:13 pass. We
can catch that later. The next site is Ascension.
It's coming up at 54.
SPT Okay, Hank. I understandyou want that changed

to TIMES 4 rather then a NORMAL for the 82B and
truncate at the end - normal ending time on build-
ing block 26.
CC That's correct, Ed. And one quickie for Bill.

Have you started your 30-minute time yet?
PLT Negative.
015 19 47 48 CC Okay. See you in about 7 minutes.
015 19 55 25 CC Skylab, Houston through Ascension for 9 minutes.
CDR Hank, in the 30-minute wake period, we'll be up

as of 20:20.
CC Roger. We copy.
CC And, Skylab, Houston. The VTR is all yours, and

it's all cleaned off.
SPT Thank you, Hank. Active region 14 was boiling

there but not really doing too much of anything
in the XUVmonitor. The oxygen VI count was
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between 4000 and ii,000 but re - never really

built up.
015 19 56 24 CC Roger; we copy. And, Ed, if you got a minute here,

a couple of more words on that pointing. I'm sorry
if I confused you there. What we really want is
the slit parallel to the limb. That'll be about
50 arc seconds inside, with the center of the slit
on the tip of the filament 76.
SPT Yes, I've got the picture now, Frank -Hank. Thank
yOU.
CC And I have the last correction for the Ol:13 pass,

whenever it's convenient for you.
015 19 57 23 SPT Go ahead, Hank.
CC Okay, the - in the 01:13 pass, change the quiet-

region-i pointing to a ROLL of plus 2940 and point
H-alpha inside the left limb instead of the right.
01519 57 49 SPT Okay,I'vegotit.
015 20 03 56 CC Skylab, Houston. We're I minute from LOS;

Carnarvon at 27, 23-1/2 minutes from now.
CC One quickie, Skylab. SPT, we need an MPC ROLL,

INHIBIT.
015 20 04 34 CC Thankk you, sir.
015 20 27 39 CC Skylab, Houston through Carnarvon for 9-1/2 minutes.
015 20 33 50 CC PLT, Houston. I have some comments on your laser

activity coming up here shortly, whenever it's
convenient.
PLT Go ahead, Hank.
CC Okay, that's coming up here in, oh, about 40 minutes

or so; 21:05. And they're going to change it from
a dash 2 to dash l, which really means they're going
to take the power up to a max of l0 watts. And
after you acquire the laser, they'll slew it ahead
and behind the spacecraft.
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PLT Okay; thank you.
PLT And I am in the middle of a square search, Hank.
015 20 34 47 CC Roger; we copy.
015 20 36 13 CC Skylab, Houston. We're i minute from LOS. The

next site is Goldstone a_ 06. And we'll be handing
over _o the purple gang there.
CDR Roger, Hank. We'll see you.
END OF TAPE
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015 21 07 14 CC Skylab, Houston. Hello from the purple gang.

We're AOS stateside. We're at Goldstone for
5 minutes.
CDR Hello, purple people.
CC Hi there, Jer. Sounds like you guys are having

another good day up there. We need the DAS, in-
cidentally; we're going to do an outer gimbal
backup.
CDR Okay. There's nobody there.
CC Okay.
CDR Hey, Dick, would you ask around and see if on T020 -
on the suited run - if they're going to have an
SOP available?
- 015 21 08 21 CC Okay, Jerry. And incidentally, while I'm talking

to you, while we're on the subject of TO20, there's
a possibility we may have to change something in
your details with regard to the M509 Echo that's
listed at about 21:56 in the details. We need
to know what the PSS pressure was after the last
TO20 run before you do that 509 Echo. And we
haven't had a chance to search the tapes yet and
get it off the tapes.
CDR Okay, it was something like 14[00] or 1500 pounds,

I think.
CC Okay, Jerry. Thank you. We'll get back to you.
CC Skylab, Houston. The DAS is yours. Thank you.
015 21 I0 22 CC CDR, Houston. In answer to your question about

the TO20, right now it appears that there will
not be an SOP available for your next T020 run.
We're going to be using them for 509. What we
are thinking about doing on T020 is using the -
the umbilical that was modified and stripped down
on the last mission for TO20.
_. CDR Roger,Dick.
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CC And also, I think I gave you a bad time there for

this AOS. It's a long stateside pass; we got you
for 14 minutes. Standing by.
CC And, PLT, Houston. Sometime during this pass -

when you get a chance, from working on the S192 -
we'd appreciate knowing where you are and where
you've been in the alignment.
PLT Roger, Dick. I'm just finishing up a VISIBLE

ALIGNMENT now. I got a THERMAL ALIGNMENT of
65 percent.
CC Roger, Bill; sounds good.
015 21 12 30 PLT I was going to give you the numbers here. Okay.
X, at approximately 500. It doesn't seem to make
too much difference ... - -
CC PLT, Houston. I think you got trapped in the

handover, and I didn't read that. Start again
with X.
PLT The VISIBLE, I'm getting saturated on right meter,

and lh to 15 percent on the left is as much as I
can get. And I have done that about four times
now, trying to get that left meter a little higher.
l'd like some advice from the ground - whether or
not that's satisfactory or are we out of the ball-
park or what?
CC Okay, Bill, we'll be getting back to you.
015 21 13 19 PLT And I got to run down and look for the laser.
CC Okay.
CC PLT, Houston. The laser's turned on.
PLT Roger.
PLT Roger. I've got the laser.
CC Okay, good.
CC PLT, Houston. The laser's being slewed ahead of

you now.
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PLT Still have it.
CC Okay.
PLT Just lost it.
CC Roger.
015 21 16 l0 PLT I'm losing Goddard under a cloud bank.
CC Roger.
PLT Got it again.
CC Roger. And be advised we're dumping the data/voice

recorder here at MILA - correction - here at Bermuda.
PLT Starting to fade now.
CC Roger.
PLT I still have it.
CC Okay.
PLT I've lost it.
CC Roger.
015 21 17 45 PLT Okay, Dick. I'm going to call that good on that
VISIBLE ALIGNMENT in the absence of any other
comment from the ground.
CC Roger, Bill. Rigjat now, we're checking our numbers

and going back to the test data and seeing on
that - checking on that VISIBLE for you. So we'll
get right back to you. We still got 7 minutes
left here.
PLT Okay. That 's great.
CC PLT, Houston. When you get a chance.
PLT Roger, Dick.
015 21 20 09 CC Bill, what we think is the best thing to do now

is go ahead and power down per page 10-18 of the
f_ checklist. We are checkingour data. We may -
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may very well be at a - at a point on the VISIBLE

where we're not going to have to use any of the
time that's scheduled in your - in your Flight
Plan later on today for the 192 align. In either
case, however, if we power down now, it'll be off
long enough so we can power it back up and try
something else if the data warrants it. And we'll
get back to you later on. So we'd suggest powering
down now per page 10-18.
PLT Okay. I was fiddling with the focus again. I

got it up to 17, and then I peaked and went past
it. I've got to refocus it now. You know, it
falls off the cliff, so to speak. So I'm going to
refocus before I power down so I can recover what
I had.
015 21 21 01 CC Okay, Bill, it will - There is a 2 - 2-hour delay

from the time that you power down until we're able
to power it up again. And so when you get through
fiddling with this one and get it peaked up, why
don't you go ahead and power down? And then later
on this evening, we may or may not ask you to do
some more.
PLT Okay, Dick. Wilco. And this shouldn't take me

but about 2 minutes.
CC No sweat. We still got you for 4 minutes here.

Standing by.
CDR Houston, CDR.
CC Go ahead, Jer.
015 21 21 50 CDH Hey, Dick. On that TO20 today, we were very, very
conservative with the film; used very little of
it. And I don't know. I just kind of feel like we
really did not give TO20 a good workout today. I
would certainly reconmend that we do it again.
Considering the fact that all you got is an um-
bilical, I think the people on TO20 ought to give
careful consideration to the possibility of getting
another good shirt sleeve run in lieu of the
suited run, because l'm convinced that that um-
bilical is going to be more trouble than it's
worth and it's going to mask a io - an awful lot
of data. You'll probably end up with better data
in the long run with a good, free, shirt sleeve run. _
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CC Okay, Jerry. Thanks for Lhe inputs, and we']l

put it in the bucket and - and let the corollary
guys talk about it. Appreciate it.
015 21 22 45 CDR Okay. At any rate, I think another short run on

TO20 would be - would probably be good, because
we had to start right into data take without even
getting any good fam work in. And I just don't
think we - we gave them really good data at all.
CC Okay, Jer. Thank you.
PLT Okay, Dick, I have VISIBLE peak back at 15 on the

left and fully saturated, full-scale high, on the
right, l'm going to go ahead and power down.
CC Okay, Bill. Thank you.
PLT EREP 192 powered down as of 21:25.
CC Okay.
015 21 25 ii CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 15 seconds from LOS.

Ascension coming up at 21:34. See you there.
015 21 36 23 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Ascension for 3 minutes.
CDR Roger, Dick.
CC And, PLT, Houston. If you have a chance, I had a

couple of questions from the 192 alignment that
might help us out. The first one was, you dropped
out when you were giving us the Z reading as to
where you ended up for the THERMAL ALIGNMENT. If
you - you gave us X of 500, we didn't Z. If you
remember that, that might be of interest to us.
Also we were wondering, on the VISIBLE ALIGNMENT,
did you ever have to go to the procedures that we -
were uplinked in the message, or did you get a
meter reading while you were in the procedures that
are in the checklist?
PLT Stand by i, Dick.
CC Okay.
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PLT Regarding the THERMAL, the final setting was X, 500

and Zulu, 489. That was at 65 percent.
015 21 38 35 CC Okay, Bill. Thank you. We're about 45 seconds

from LOS. Carnarvon comes up at 22:04. Go ahead.
PLT Roger. I used the square search on page 10-14,

and I got down to step 15 before I got a meter
reading. That's when I peaked it out; it was no
problem after that. Now on the VISIBLE, I - I
was merely de - adjusting the focus there to see
how it was. And I got a - a meter - a good reading
on the right meter. However, it took me a while
to get the left meter to come up, and it - and I got,
the general impression that I could find about
three or four focus points in that thing to satu-
rate the right meter and give me a reasonable meter
reading on the left. However, there was only one
place where I could get this final 15 percent.
CC Okay, Bill. Thank you very much. We're going

over the hill, and I'ii see you at Carnarvon.
Thanksfortheinput. _
015 21 39 27 PLT Roger.
015 22 04 28 CC Skyiab, Houston. We're AOS Carnarvon for i0 minutes.
CDR Hello, Richard.
CC Hello there."
015 22 08 58 CC Skylab, Houston. It's getting about to the time

when we'd start - we'd like to start dumping the
experiment i and experiment 2 recorders. We see
they're still running. Are you guys finished with
them, or are you still using them for the biomed
run?
CDR No, we're through with them, Dick. We must have

overlooked turning them OFF.
CC Okay, thank you. If you'll secure them, we will

go ahead and get into our dump cycle on those two
recorders. Thank you.
CDR Okay, Dick, they're OFF.

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CC Okay. Thank you, Jer.
CC CDR, Houston. One note for you here. We - We're

planning - we're about to the point where we'd like
to relieve quad - quad Alfa sometime this evening.
And to keep it out of your presleep, the best time
looks like to us would be this upcoming stateside
pass. However, any - either here or at Guam would
he okay to - is - when we get our data locked up.
That's quad Alfa only per that permanent general
message we uplinked last night.
015 22 i0 38 CDR Okay, Dick. How much time we got left now?
CC We got 4 minutes here, and then we got about a

2- or 3-minute break. And we're - we're - Right
now we're about 7 minutes from Guam AOS. That
might work good, too.
CDR Well, I can do it right now. I'm just in that

housekeeping period. I'll go right up.
CC Okay.
CDR By the way, Dick, the only PSS we used today was
number 3, and I was guessing 14100] to 1500. The
final reading on it was 1200 PSI, and l'm recharging
nOW.
015 22 3_I 51 CC Okay, Jer. Thank you.
SPT Hello, Dick. Do I have a call this evening?
CC Yes, you do, Ed. Thought Hank - Henry had reminded

you of the time. Let me look it up real quick.
SPT Thank you.
CC It's 02:22 at - and that - Let's see. 02:22 at the

Vanguard, Ed.
SPT Thank you, Dick.
CDR Okay, Dick, quad A's OPEN.
CC Okay.
015 22 13 50 CC Skylab, we're i minute to LOS. Guam comes up at

_ 4 minutesfromnow.
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CDR Quad A's CLOSED now, Dick.
015 22 14 29 CC Okay, Jerry. Thank you very much; we appreciate

it. Looks good on the data to us.
015 22 19 02 CC Skylab, Houston. Guam for 9 minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston. Guam for 8 minutes.
CC Hey, Jerry, a couple of things. Early in the day, .

we passed up that we thought there might be some -
some more hemolysis applicators in - in that IMSS
canister Charlie. We told you earlier that - that
we thought that there were two packages of ten.
Now we think there was probably only one package
of ten there. But in either case, we never found
out if you found those, and we kind of need to know
for our planning purposes.
CDR Well, Dick, we transferred those hemolysis applica-

tors over to W-708 along the day 4 transfers,
whenever that was. I know it wasn't on day 4.
And those have been being put to use all during the
mission. And there's only what few are left or
what Ed reported yesterday.
015 22 20 51 CC Okay, we'll search our records and make sure we

know why we thought they were there then with re-
gard to the day 4 transfers. Also, a note for
Bi - Bill. I think I hear him grinding away on
the bicycle. But we've done a little thinking about
the 192 alignment that he did earlier. We don't
quite understand why we should be able to get
various peaks wh - at different focus positions.
And the only possible thing that we - that we just
wanted to confirm, we believe is true, is that at
the peak that he got the VISIBLE ALIGNMENT at
15 percent, we want to make sure that we were not
on a stop on focus. Assuming that we were not on
a stop, we're happy as clams tonight. And unless
Bill wants to do a little more tweaking later on,
we'd suggest doing something more useful.
CDR Stand by.
015 22 21 52 CC There's no hurry on getting a response from that.

I just thought l'd let Bill know that we didn't
antim - intend on using that time; so he can plan
his time a little bit, as he sweats on the bike.
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PLT I'm sure it's not on the stop.
CC Okay. Bill, we were looking for some possible

visual observations opportunities or something that
we might like you to do during that period this
evening, but -unless you'd care to do some more
work on the 192 align. We're real happy with it;
it looks good to us.
PLT Okay. I tell you what. At one time I got about

16-1/2, almost 17 percent on the left meter. On
the last time, just before I signed off, I got
only 15. I would like to have more hack at it,
unless they're happy with it the way it is.
015 22 22 45 CC Okay, that's okay with us, Bill. That'll mean you
need to refer to your details at 23:30 to get the
switch on. And let it stay on for 30 minutes.
And then you can go back and see if you can do any
better. And you're welcome to do that.
PLT I'ii do it.
CC Okay.
015 22 26 58 CC Skylab, Houston. 1 minute to LOS. Goldstone

at 22:43.
CDR Roger, Dick.
CC You guys sure do get around the world in a hurry.
CDR Roger. Hey, I think I just saw lwo Jima for the
first time. I've been looking for it for weeks.
And I got a picture of it.
CC Hey, good.
CDR Guess where that's going to end up?
CC (Laughter) I know. Hey, Jerry, John Llewellyn wants

a copy of that one, too.
CDR Okay. I'ii be embarrassed if it turns out to -

Enid, Oklahoma.
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CC (Laughter) Yes, btF you _:anbeg you're never

going to get to forget it.
CI)R That's why I said I think it's lwo Jima.
015 22 28 17 CC (Laughter) Roger.
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SKYLAB ,AIR-T0-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIF_fION
015 22 43 33 CC Skylab, Houston. AOS stateside for 17 minutes.
CDR Roger, Dick. I just put some of the Aleutian

Islands, and Bristol Bay, and Dillingham and a
little bit of the Canadian Rockies down south.
How much VTR did we use?
CC You used just a hair over 4 minutes, Jerry.
015 22 44 06 CDR Okay, it looks pretty cloudy from here on in. If

you want to go ahead and rewind that and dump it
over this stateside pass, it might be a good idea.
CC Okay. We'll certainly be doing that. Inciden-

tally, got one short note here for the SPT. We
are going to uplink during this site a message on
CALROC pointing. It turns out that the CALROC
was a real fine success today and we want to -
want to do our best on JOP 12 to - to optimize
our pointing,and - so this will - will sup -
supersede the voice instructions I think Henry
gave you earlier today for the pass at 23:44.
015 22 44 46 SPT Okay, Dick. That sounds good. When Henry spoke
to me before, I had my mind working on the panel
rather than the - and it took a couple of times
for Henry to get through, but I understood what
he had voiced up, and - but I'll look for the
instruct ions.
CC Well, naturally the purple gang has got to change

it a little bit and it's on that teleprinter mes-
age. So why don't - why don't you see if you can -
why don't you read that and see how that sounds
to you.
SPT Okay, thank you, Dick.
015 22 45 13 CDR What's the weather in Houston, Dick?
CC It's high broken, it turns out, Jerry. I tell

you, it rained like cats and dogs last night.
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015 22 48 40 SPT Okay, Dick. I looked at the J0P 12 pointing

instructions, and it looks pretty clear. Thank
you.
CC Roger, Ed.
CC And SPT, Houston. We'd like you to terminate the

exposure on S054, please.
015 22 49 03 SPT Okay, Dick. I always thought that their druthers

were to get as long as possible, and that's what
I was doing in this one because we didn't get the
change of pointing. If that's not the case, why
don't you have them give me some other instructions?
CC Okay, stand by 1.
015 22 49 30 CC SPT, Houston. We would like to go ahead and ter-

minate this one. And we'll havc- we'll get our
heads together and - and get you clarified on
what S054 would like.
SPT Thank
you.
015 22 52 31 CC Skylab, Houston. We're going to - we're handing

over to MILA, and we're going to dump the data/
voice recorder. _
CDR Roger, Dick.
015 22 54 55 CC $kylab, Houston. We've dumped the VTR; we brought

it in real time here. It was a real good picture.
We did not copy any voice during the - the dump
if you did put it on there, however.
CDR We didn't have time, Dick, to even set it up. We

were lucky to get the TV.
CC Okay, well we saw it as it came in, and it looked

real pretty.
015 22 55 14 CC Did you really - really get the definition of the

mountains and the islands?
CC Certainly did. It was good T - it was good TV

just about the whole dump. A_ud now the VTR is
clean and it's all yours.
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CDR Okay, well, if it's as good on the next pass,

we'll get set up for it and try to give you some
narration with it. I might be able to get a pen-
cil in there and point out some of the islands
and tell what's what.
015 22 55 _8 CC Roger. And SPT, Houston, you've got just about

enough time to get a 5-minute sequence that's on
the schedule pad for S054. We'd like to get that;
and, Jerry, back to you. Your next descending
pass after you pass the Aleutians will be right
down the west coast of the United States and
right above Baja California.
CDR Yes, that looks like a real fruitful pass. If

the Sun angle isn't too low we might be able to
get some real good pictures. One thing you might
notice on that TV is the way theAleutian Islands
seem to affect the weather up there. You notice
the way the - the clouds - the wakes and eddies
are formed in the clouds by those islands.
015 22 56 28 CC Yes, I - I did notice several eddies and - and

some quite striking cloud formations. It would
have - it would have been a lot more helpful for
me personally if - to have had some voice narra-
ting it because having a little bit of a tough
time figuring out exactly what you were looking
at. But it was real good TV.
CDR Well this was on about 3-minutes notice.
CC Sure.
CDR If we can get set up, we'll do better.
CC Well, it was great; we enjoyed it.
015 22 59 02 CC Skylab, Houston. We're a minute from LOS; Van-

guard at 23:10.
015 23 09 39 CC Skylab, Houston. AOS Vanguard for 7 minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston. A0S Vanguard for 7 minutes.
015 23 l0 55 SPT Hello, Dick. I've got three questions on the

upcoming ATMpass.
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CC Okay, go ahead.
SPT Okay. First of all, I assume from the words we

got earlier that all of this is to be done at the
left limb, and that the positions inside the limb
as given on the pad are correct. Second, we were
told at a time of 13 minutes remaining when we
were doing the 12E, to change the last exposure 82B,
wavelength to WAVEI._NGTH SHORT and that's l/h;
was worded at the end of the building block.
That's a pretty short building block, and I want
to know whether they want to add that on or just
change the existing exposure. And thirdly, what
is the roll for the Sun-centered work?
015 23 ll _5 CC Okay, we'll get you an answer, Ed.
SPT Oh, forget the Sun-centered work. That's for the

following orbit. Oh, I'll - I'll worry about
that one afterwards.
CC Okay.
015 23 12 42 CC CDE, Houston.
CDR Go ahead.
CC Roger, Jerry. Our TV people were working up a

few technical inputs to get up to you sometime
about the success of some of the out-the-window
TV. Since it looks like we may have a - a good
chance on this next orbit, on this descending
pass next to the California coast, they asked me
to pass up a couple of particular things to you.
It turns out that the - if there's more than
about 1/10 of the cloud cover in the picture,
that at times the cloud tops are so bright that
the automatic light control in the camera closes
down and the Earth's surface is particularly hard
to see. So during your out-the-window looking,
in looking for opportune times to take some TV,
those times when it's clear or very little cloud
cover, provide real good contra - contrast; in
particular, coastlines do turn up real well. We
believe that this upcoming pass might be a good
opportunity to slew out and take a look at the
Salton Sea.
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015 23 13 56 CDR Okay, Dick. What sort of an f-stop sounds right

to them? I was using 22 on that last one.
CC That's good.
CDR Okay. How about snow cover? Shall I close it

down more - more toward 40?
015 23 14 17 CC Jerry, let me get back to you on - on that answer

here, and let me solve Ed's questions real quick.
Hang on.
CDR Okay.
015 23 14 50 CC SPT, IIouston. In answer to your questions, we

are going to do the operations on the left limb.
The pointing is correct that's in your pad. And
on 82 Bravo we _ant to replace the existing ex-
posure in there with a WAVELENGTH, SHORT, TIMES 4.
SPT Okay, that's what I thought it was; wanted to

clarify it. Thank you, Dick.
CC Okay.
015 23 16 02 CC Skylah, Houston. We're about 40 seconds from LOS.

Golds_one comes up at 00:20, and that's the site
for the evening status report. I'ii be standing
by there to catch that one.
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016 O0 20 17 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS stateside for

12-1/2 minutes; standing by for the evening
status report.
CDR Roger, Dick. We're all poised with the TV camera

ready to go, and looking for some clear area.
CC Okay.
016 O0 20 54 SPT Dick, JOP 12 is going real well, but you may want
to have the guys take a look at H-alpha. I can't
get the f_!m to advance and our picture is
degrading.
CC Okay, we'll certainly do that, Ed.
CC And we're bringing down live TV, and I see a hairy

chin.
CREW Oops.
CC And lots of clouds.
016 00 21 3h CDR Yes, it's clearing up further south, though.

Here comes the photo log.
CC Okay.
CDR You ready?
CC Yes sir. Go ahead.
CDR 16-millimeter: T020, Charlie India 79, 40,

Charlie India 126; S192, Charlie India 80, 76,
Mike Tango 08; TO20 maneuvering unit, Charlie
India 88_ 60 t Nikons: O1, Char lie Xyray hl, 63;
number 02, no change; number 03, Charlie India ll5,
ll; Oh, no change; 05, no change. 70-millimeter:
Charlie X-ray 50, 051. ETC, no change. EREP, no
change. Drawer A: Alfa 2, 4 and back, no change;
Alfa l, 02, Charlie India 80, 76, Mike Tango 08;
Alfa 3, 06, Charlie India 79, 40, Charlie India 126.
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CC Roger, Jerry. Got that.
016 00 22 44 CDR Hey, Dick. You ought to be able to see Catalina

Island, San Clemente Island and the Los Angeles
area.
CC Roger, Jerry; we're looking at it.
CDR Looks like there is either clouds or still snow

on the MoJave.
SPT Do I have a momentum dump inhibit coming up, Dick?
CC That's affirm. We sure do.
CC Jerry, ...
016 00 23 20 CDR You ought to be able to see the Salton Sea by now.
CC Yes, you might try zooming in toward that clear

area, Jerry.
016 00 23 47 CDR Okay, I'm going to use my pointer and show you
the Salton Sea.
CC Okay, we're watching you. That picture gets much

clearer when we get the clouds out of the field
of view - of the - of the surface.
CDR And you can see the cultivated Imperial Valley

there south of the sea.
CC Roger, sure can. We were Just looking at that

ours elves.
016 00 2h 25 CDR Even the coastal range has got snow on it.
CC Roger. The little amount of snow that's visible

in these pictures, Jerry, is not hurting us at
all.
CDR Okay, you ought to be able to see the great

Sonora Desert down there, and I wonder if you
gt_s can see the definition of the sand dunes.
016 00 24 57 CC Yes, now we do, Jerry, in that picture. We see

a good bit of definition. It's kind of hard to
tell exactly where we are oriented. There you go.
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CDR Can you see my pencil sticking in there?
CC Yes, sir; sure do.
CDR Okay, that was right on top of those sand dunes.
CC Roger. We see them.
CDR And just south of that area is three of our hand-

held observation areas that we're dolng a lot of
observations for Lee Silver on.
CC Roger. We - be aware, we are watching - looking

at a 6-second delay on the TV here live, Jerry.
016 00 25 31 CDR Okay, good. Okay, it might get a little shaky

now; Bill's got to do some acrobatics to keep
things going.
CC Okay.
CDB Okay, now he's lookin_ down Baja.
CC Roger, concur. It's pretty. That picture of

BaJa is going to really turn out nice when we get
it back in here and can enhance it a little bit.
That's going to be pretty.
016 00 26 27 CDR Okay, Dick. If you got your little recorder

going, I'll continue on with the report.
CC Okay, we're certainly listening. Go ahead.
CDR Okay. Sleep: CDR, 7.0 - 6.5 heavy, 1/2 light;

SPT, 6.7 - 6.7 heavy; PLT, 8 - and 8 heavy. All
three sleep periods abruptly terminated this
morning. Urine volume: CDR, 100, 230, 130.
Water gun: 8550, h577, 0690. Body mass: CDR,
6.319, 6.319, 6.318; SPT, 6.356, 6.356, 6.356;
PLT, 6.258, 6.270, 6.257. Exercise: CDR, stand-
ard, minus methods Bravo and Charlie; SPT, stand-
ard, minus method Alfa; PLT, no change.
Medications- CDR, none; SPT, none; PLT, Afrin,
twice. Clothing: CDR, shorts; SPT, T-shirt and
socks; PLT, none. Food log- -
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016 00 27 42 CC Roger, we're listening. Go ahead. We've still

got 5 minutes, Jer.
CDR Okay. CDR, salt, zero; deviations, minus a coffee

with sugar, minus one lemonade;rehydration water,
plus 1.5. SPT, 4.0 salt, plus a butter cookie,
no water; and PLT, no salt, minus one grape punch,
minus 1.0 water.
CC Roger.
CDR Okay. Flight Plan deviations: none. Shopping

list accomplishments: none. Inoperable equip"
ment: the PLT's right shoe baseplate failed just
after - Just toward the heel of the slotted in-
sert. Unscheduled stowage: none.
016 00 28 27 CC Roger.
CDR Okay, we're getting real close to the terminator,

Dick, and one of the things that Bill is shooting
right now is a cloud casting probably a 4 or
500-mileshadowalong the ground.
CC Roger, Jerry. We see it.
CDR Heck, I'll bet it's more like lO00 miles.
CC Roger.
016 00 29 28 CDR With the PLT's shoe problem, we told him if he

pulls up lame, we're going to have to shoot him.
CC (Laughter) Roger. And, PLT, Houston. If - if

that windowwill let you, we'd like you to look
as - as close to nadir - nadir as you can.
CDR That's almost impossible. We'll give you the

best we can.
CC Okay.
016 00 30 05 CDR You can s]most not see the ground at all, there's
so much haze now.
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CC And, SPT, Houston. A word for you on A-alpha.

I wonder if you'd start into malf for us. What
we'd like you to do in the ATM Malf book on
page 6-8, we'd like you to start in block h.
SPT Okay, Dick. I went through the malf and ended up

in block 10, unfortunately.
016 00 30 h3 CC Roger, Ed. Skylab, Houston. We got about

2 minutes to LOS here. I got about two or three
notes that I'd like to pass up toyou here. First
of all, for either the CD - -
CDR You dropped out, Dick. And we're terminating TV.
CC Okay, fine, Jerry. For the CDR or the PLT, any

time in about the next hour and a half, we'd like
you to do a M509 Charlie on BAT 7. That's a
terminate charge on battery 7.
CDR That was terminated this morning. We used

battery 7 on the T020 this - this morning after-
_. wards. And so what we need now is to chargeit.
CC Okay, let - let us get squared away on that one,

Jer.
CDR Okay.
016 00 32 00 CC SPT, Houston. We'd like you to CLOSE H-ALPHA 1

DOOR, and we'll take a hard look at the data and
get back to you as soon as we can. We're about
30 seconds from LOS. The next site is the Van-
guard at 00:hh. And that's the med conference.
Also we intend to dump the data/voice recorder
at - at the Vanguard.
CDR Okay, Dick. And how much VTR did we put on?
016 00 32 31 CC CDR, Houston. You still have 2h minutes remaining

on the VTR.
CDR Okay, good. The first 6 minutes is some stuff

taken by Bill over Japan. We tried to get
Sakurazjma, the volcano that's active there. But
it was pretty - pretty much straight down and
hard to get.
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01_ 00 32 48 CC Okay, Jerry. Thank you.
SPT Okay, and Dick. In order to get the prominence in

the right location I have a ROLL of plus B085 ...
016 01 ll 22 CC Skylab, Houston; Tananarive for _ minutes.
PLT Roger, Dick. The report on the 192 ALIGNMENT,

VISIBLE: 17 left and 100 plus on the right. I
was - I felt very good about it, I got a nice -
although it was a broad peak, I was able to dead-
band back and forth, and I'm - I'm sure that I
got a good peak for them.
CC Okay, Bill that sounds good. Sure do appreciate

that.
PLT Roger.
016 O1 12 05 CC And, CDR, Houston; if you have a second, I've got

one question on the - on the evening status re-
port and also comment on M509.
PLT Go ahead, Dick; he's listening.
CC Okay, on the 509 first, what we'd like is either

Jerry or you, Bill, sometime this evening to do
an M509 Bravo on battery 7 prior to going to bed,
and we'll terminate that charge in the morning.
Also, one question on the evening status report,
in the photo area under 70-millimeter you reported
51 frames and last evening's 75 frames were re-
ported. Should count up. I wonder _f you'd check
that one again and - and correct it fo_ us if
there is a correction in order.
CDR That ought to be 81 frames, Dicki Did you get

that, Dick?
016 01 1B O1 CC Yes, sir; I sure did. And, SPT, Houston. When

you get a chance, we have a couple of questions
and comments on the H-ALPHA 1.
SPT Go ahead, Dick.
CC Roger. In your - in the process of troubleshooting

on H-ALPHA l, did you try the NIGHT INTERLOCK
switch to OVerRIDE? We're assuming you did.
SPT I sure did.

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016 01 13 29 CC Okay, and no Joy that. One more question for you,
Ed: When during that pass did you first notice
that the H-ALPHA 1 was not operating?
SPT It was pretty - pretty close to thebeginning of

the pass because I was - as I did the pointing
that showed where theprominence was on the slit,
I - the thought came to my mind that I wanted to
make sure the H-alpha was running so the people
would know exactly where we were pointed. And
with that I looked up and didn't see it rlmning
and tried to make a go from there. The NIGHT
INTERLOCK switch was to OVERRIDE at that point.
It probably was left there from the previous
orbit.
016 01 14 13 CC Okay, Copy, Ed. One - one other comment, during

the - while we were not talking to you at the med
conference there at the Vanguard, you caught us
and acted properly when we had a plan there to
enable momentum dumps which was incorrect, and
we did enable them. We saw you inhibit them to
go on with the J0P that you were running. It
turned out that we got a little free piece of
troubleshooting there because the H-ALPHA 1 DOOR
did open in that sequence and the camera did not
start which was one of the things we were going
to troubleshoot. But we're still thinking about
the H-ALPHAI malfunction.
016 01 14 51 SPT Okay, Dick. I also did, as one of the last things,
take the H-ALPHA CAMERA POWER and cycle it ON or
OFF and then back ON and I can get a momentary
light, but that's all. I also have tested both
lights with the status and the lights are working,
but no film advance.
CC Oh yes, there was one other thing, Ed. We don't -

we can't think of any correlation between your
comment on the degraded _Age on the monitor and
the malfunction on H-ALPHA1.
SPT Okay, I thought maybe it could be a thermal prob-

lemwhich would shift the pass band to the filters.
CC Roger.
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016 01 16 02 CC SPT, Houston; one more question from the ATM

officer. Did you try different film rates while
you Were in OVERRIDE during - when you were
rlmning the mal?
SPT Yes, I tried different frame rates, I can't say I

trade them all - tried them all while I was in
OVERRIDE, however.
CC Okay, thank you _erymuch.
016 01 16 BB CC Skylab, Houston; suspect we may have an early LOS

here at Tananarive_ Hawaii comes up at 01:54.
PLT To save you looking at the tapes, battery charge

started on battery 7 at Ol:15.
CC Thankyou, Bill.
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016 01 5h h3 CC Skylab, Houston; we're AOS Hawaii for 2-1/2 minutes.
SPT Hello, Dick.
CC Hi, Ed. Couple of things for you up_at the ATM.

One thing, we think this evening it would be the
better part of valor to turn H-ALPHA1 POWER to
0_FF. We don't have any temperature sensors real
nearby, and we're not sure what kind of Jam we may
have. So we would appreciate - appreciate it when
you power down H-ALPHA1 POWER to OFF, and also we
are standing by for the FRAME REMAININGs.
SPT Okay, H-ALPHA 1 POWER is OFF, and the _rames are

10158, 23h9, n9, 208, 2871, 3043.
CC Okay, I got all of those. I have a little stack

of mission notes here and a few question. We can
_- get most of them out of the way right here. If
any - if you guys have anything, go ahead though,
and then I'll get to mine.
016 01 55 51 SPT Let me give you Just a couple-seconds-worth here.

On the VTR you'll see some data on the coronagraph
which shows a big snowstorm. Jerry was doing some
dumps and we really got a snowstorm outside. Al-
though I've noticed a fair number of particles out
there earlierbefore he started. Secondly, active
region 16 looks to be about as bright as active
region 21 on the disk in XUV. It's been kind of
coming up all day long and I'm looking for some
action going on there as well as 21.
016 O1 56 23 CC Okay, good, Ed. We're about h5 seconds to LOS.

The next station pass is Vanguard, 02:22, and, Ed,
that's your family conference, also we'll be dump-
ing the data/voice recorder there. Let me get a
couple of these real quick. You guys were waked
up this morning with one of the quads temp approach-
ing the trip limit. It turns out that quad Delta
package temp is also this evening approaching a
caution and warning trip limit. And so to preclude
it tripping it early in the morning, we would like
you to INHIBIT this C&W. On CSM panel 201, it's
switch 6 Delta.
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PLT Roger, 6 Delta.
016 O1 57 06 CC Okay, and for the CDR, if you did documentary photos
20 tonight, we were wondering if you could let us
know how much film is remaining in transporter 05
sometime this evening, so we can make our plans for
tomorrow.
PLT Roger. We did documentary photo 20, and stand by

fortheframe
count. \
CC 0kaywe're - -
PLT 27 percent remaining.
016 O1 57 35 CC Thank you very much, Bill. One more real quick
one here. You asked the other day about the boric
acid plans. Just be advised that we do have a new
plan that's been devised. The cue card will be
coming up this evening, and the first use of it
will be on mission day 73.
016 02 25 23 CC Skylab, Houston, A0S Vanguard for 7 minutes. And

we're dumping - -
SPT Roger, Dick.
CC Roger. And we're dumping the data/voice recorder

here.
PLT Hey, Dick, real quick, Just to confirm that inhibit,

that was 6 Delta, was it? CSMquad Delta?
CC That's affirm. INHIBIT Delta.
016 02 26 42 PLT Thank you.
016 02 30 55 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about a minute and a half

from LOS at the Vanguard. Tamanarive comes up
02:46; see you there.
016 02 46 57 CC Skylab, Houston. Hello at Tananarive for 8 minutes.
SPT Hello, Dick. We're all Just trying to catch up on

a little DAC time here.
,. CC Hello, Ed. You're real weak. Say again, please.

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SPT Dick, we're Just trying to catch up on a little

DAC time here.
016 02 h8 h6 CC Roger, guys, I think that's a good idea. Your

wakeup station in the morning is Madrid right at
ll:00 and have a gooduight's sleep. We'll see you
there.
SPT Goodnight, Dick.
CDR Goodnight, Dick.
PLT Gooduight, Dick.
CC Goodnight, everybody.
CDR Goodnight, Phil.
MCC Goodnight, Jerry.
SPT Goodnlght _ Phil.
-- MCC Gooduight,
Ed.
016 02 h9 30 PLT Goodnight, Mrs. Calabash, wherever you are.
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016 ll 00 05 CC (Music: "Spiders and Snakes").
016 ll 03 05 CC Good morning, Skylab. And here we are over Madrid

at the beginning of another beautiful day with
2 minutes to LOS.
CDR Morning, Bruce.
016 ll 04 23 CC 1 minute to LOS. Next station contact in

27 minutes through Carnarvon at 11:32. And Neil
is disappointed because you didn't like his
selection of nusic for this morning.
CDR What music?
016 3_104 49 CC (Laughter) Okay, you got it.
016 ll 32 05 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Carnarvon and

Honeysuckle Creek for about 13 minutes. And I've
got the morning news here if you all ale interested.
PLT We're ready to listen.
CC Okay, and before we get started on that, I've got

a change for the film thread pad for Bill, if
he's available.
CC Okay, under the 16-millimeter stuff, transporter 07,

location, back; supply, Charlie India 29 from
Foxtrot 18, that's F-18; takeup, Charlie India 78;
location, back; ALOC back.
016 ll 33 05 PLT Roger. Understand. Put Charlie India 29 F-18

into 07 in the supply. Thank you very much.
CC Roger. That's to provide more film for documentary

photos.
CC Washington - -
PLT Okay.
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016 ii 33 20 CC Chile and Peru appear to be engaged in an arms

race. U.S. intelligence reports that Chile is
moving to buy more than 40 French tanks to
counterbalance Soviet tanks recently bought by
Peru. The Latin American nations are now limited
in their purchases from the United States because
of a ceiling imposed by Congress on military
hardware for the area. The 1973 Congress cut
President Nixon's appropriations requests by
$3.3 billion, but nevertheless boosted overall
federal spending for fiscal 197h by $3.5 bill -
billion. The Senate House Committee on Reduction
of Federal Expenditures released the figures.
They reemphasize that congression action on
legislative bills often has a greater impact
on the spending budget than it does on appropria-
tions bills. Under the proposed federal rationing
plan, consumers who want to use more gasoline
than they have coupons to purchase would have
to buy someone else's coupons and pay his price.
A spokesman for the Federal Energy Office confirms
that well-financed brokers might buy up ration
coupons and resell them at jacked-up prices.
016 ll 34 22 CC Technical experts have eliminated the theory that

a single, accidental act caused the 18-1/2 minute
gap in one of the Watergate tapes. However,
objections from White House lawyers prevented the
experts from speculating whether there was any
way the tape could have been erased accidentally.
The Treasury Department is ready to begin a
program of paying government benefit checks by
direct deposits into a recipient's bank account.
The program begins in March for about 3.5 million
res - recipients of the new Federal supplemental
security income payments for disabled, blind,
and aged. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Robert Vander
Lean has won the Republican nomination to the
congressional seat Vice-President Gerald R. Ford
held for 25 years, and the h3-year old majority
leader of the Michigan Senate has been promised
Ford's support in a general election campaign for
the Fifth Congressional District seat the Grand
Old Party has held since 1915.
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016 ii 35 16 CC New York: Declining highway travel because of

the gasoline shortage has reduced toll collections
and is causing some budget reshuffling in state
turnpike authorities. An Associated Press survey
showed the east and northeast, where there are
more toll roads than in other areas of the country,
were hardest hit. Federal statistics show that
more than $1 billion was collected in 1972 by
bridge and toll operators. How much of that
money will be lost because of reduced highway
traffic is not clear, but preliminary figures
indicate declines of about l0 percent during
December. None of the areas checked reported
plans to cancel highway projects or to stop
construction because of the declines. Several
officials said that expenditures for maintenance
might have to be curtailed. Cambridge Mass. :
John Wayne rumbled into Harvard Square in Cambridge
today on a 13-ton Army personnel carrier to talk
to liberal - to take on liberal college students,
but they welcomed the actor with grins, cheers and
_-_ snowballs.
016 ll 36 13 CC Wayne showed up with a military escort Tuesday on

a dare from the "Harvard Lampoon" magazine.
"Lampoon" editors had challenged the conservative
Wayne to premiere his new detective movie, "McQ"
in Harvard Square, "a place full of cut-throat,
idle, rich intellectuals who would Just as soon
quote you Marx and Mao Tse-tung as look at you."
Wayne replied that he'd be happy to take his
picture "into the pseudo-intellectual swamps."
Jerusalem: Israeli informants say stumbling blocks
still remain in the way of an agreement to separate
Egyptian and Israeli troops on the Suez front
despite Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger's
efforts. Kissinger met for more than 5 hours
Tuesday with Israeli policymakers and was flying
back to Egypt today for another session with
President Anwar Sadat. One informed U.S. official
said the Israeli government had given the American
mediator further guidance, and they would like to
have him come back with Egyptians reactions before
making a final decision on disengagement plans.
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016 ii 37 12 CC Mexico City: American businessmen in foreign

countries are getting instructions on how to
protect themselves and their families from
terrorists and how to behave if kidnapped. A 5-pa -
a 5-page leaflet titled "General Security Tips
for U.S. Businessmen Abroad" is being distributed
by the American Embassy and its consulates in
Mexican cities. Embassy security officers said
the State Department drafted the pamphlet for
worldwide distribution.
016 ii 37 58 CC Jakarta, Indonesia: All was quiet today in the

wake of anti-Japanese riots Tuesday in which
hospital officials said 6 students were killed
and h9 were injured. Visiting Japanese Prime
Minister Kahuei Tanaka spent a quiet morning with
his daughter Makiko at - as a house guest on the
grounds - or at the guest house on the grounds of
the presidential palace, protected by more than
i000 armed troups ringing the palace compound and
armored cars posted at each corner. Military
authorities closed off all main streets to
university campuses while security agents searched ....
for leader - leaders of the students who went on a
rampage Tuesday during demonstrations against
Japanese economic penetration of Indonesia.
016 ii 38 20 CC Phnom Penh, Cambodia: Khmer Rouge rockets killed

14 persons and wounded 22 Tuesday night and today.
One rocket today made a direct hit on the anteroom
of the a_:mqF comander-in-chief's office, but the
cozmnander, Major General Sosthene Fernandez was
not hurt. In South Vietnam, the Saigon govern-
ment's military command said it's troops and North
Vietnamese forces battled 15 miles northeast and
20 miles southwest of Pleiku, the capital of the
central highlands, and 56 North Vietnamese and
4 government soldiers were killed. Santo Domingo,
Dominican Republic: Baseball player Cesar Cedeno
has been found guilty of involuntary m_uslaughter
in the death of a 19-year-old girl and fined $i00.
Cedeno, outfielder of the Houston Astros, immediately
paid the fine levied on Tuesday by Judge Porfirio
Natera. The Judge's ruling came despite a prose-
cution request at the trial Monday for dismissal of
charges for lack of evidence. A native of Santo
Domingo, Cedeno was accused in connection with the
shooting - shooting death of Altagraeia de la Cruz,
who died of a head wound December ii in a hotel room.
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016 ii 39 26 CC Hong Kong: President King/man Brewster of Yale

University says America universities are eager to
increase contacts with China. Brewster, who noted
his school has a Yale-in-China program before the
Communist revolution, said tha - Tuesday there is
now - there now is no - no - (whistle) there now
is no formal exchange program for American and
Chinese students. However, two Yale students
participate in programs at the Chinese University
at Hong Kong each year, said Brewster, who is
touring Asian universities.
016 Ii 39 57 CC Camp Pendleton: Colonel Mary E. Bane has become

the first woman to head a Marine Corps unit.
"Let's get to work," she said Tuesday, as she
took command of the 1800-person Headquarters and
Service Battalion at Camp Pendleton. Brig. Gen.
Robert L. Nichols, commander of the camp, earlier
told the colonel, "You have my support, confidence,
and best wishes. God speed and smooth sailing."
Col. Bane, a h5-year-old native of Normal, Illinois
_--_ joined the Marines as a reserve second lieutenant
in 1952. Houston: A detective has given a pretrial
hearing in the Texas mass murders his account of
what occurred in the home of Dean Corll the day
Corll was shot to death. The testomony of David
Mullican of the suburban Houston community of
Pasadena came Tuesday, during the pretrial hearing
for Elmer Wayne Henley, 17. Henleyhas been charged
with murder in the deaths of 6 of 27 teenaged boys
whose bodies were over - uncovered last August
but his forthcoming trial involves only one of
those slayings.
016 ll h0 53 CC We're coming up on a handover here to Honeysuckle.

We expect about a 30-second dropout due to antenna
problems.
016 ll hl 20 CC Salem, Oregon: Governor Tom McCall declared a

state of disaster across Oregon Tuesday because
of rapidly rising streams filled by heavy rain
and melting snow. "Tonight and tomorrow, Oregon-
ians face what could be their most severe test by
forces of nature," McCall said in a 5-minute
address to the state over an emergency broadcast
network. At least two deaths were attributed to
high water in a vicious Pacific storm that lashed
the coast. The National Basketball Association
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All-Star Game was played Tuesday night with the

West defeating the East, 134 to 123. Bob Lanier,
with 24 points, was named "Most Valuable Player."
In the Southwestern Conference basketball action,
Baylor defeated the Rice Owls, 93 to 91; Texas
A&M upended SMU 95 to 70; and Texas scored a
lopsided 102 to 53 victory over TCU.
016 ll 42 16 CC Gilford, England: J. Paul Getty, American oil

billionaire, says he's delaying indefinitely his
retirement to California. The 81-year-old Getty
said Tuesday that his involvement in North Sea
oil production caused the delay. The tycoon
had been planning his retirement for some years
and the first stage of it was to be return to
California upon completion of an $18 million
museum to house his art collection. The museum,
a replica of a Roman villa and garden on a
10-acre site overlooking the Pacific Ocean at
Malibu, took 3 years to build.
016 ll 42 h6 CC Rome: Police said today they have arrested

three men for the kidnapping of J. Paul Getty, III,
and are looking for three other people. They said
two men were caught in Calabria at the southern
tip of the Italian peninsula and one in Rome.
They also recovered a cache of bank notes, which
one source said was probably from the ransom paid
for Getty's release. Louisville, Kentucky: The
burglar lost his wallet and the seat of his pants
when he attempted to enter Thomas Burks' home.
Burks heard a no - noise about 1 a.m. Monday and
police later discovered someone had tampered with
the back door. Under the porch where Duchess,
the family's German shepherd lives, they made
another discovery, a wallet and threads from a
man's trousers. Identification in the wallet led
to the arrest of Hugh Mitchell, 24, who was charged
with the burglary.
016 ll 43 34 CC Paso Robles, California: A 6-foot man with a full

beard walked into Wilson's Restaurant here for a
good dinner. He order the "Turf and Surf," steak
and lobster, and ros@ wine. The bill came to
$9.31 and he wrote this note, "Thank you for your
services. I've needed this meal since I escaped
from San Quentin 5 months ago. If you nod your
head yes, I'll wait for the police, but if you
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nod your head no, I'ii walk out the door. I'm on
my way to San Francisco, to see my woman." By the
time the manager was sl,mmoned, the man was gone.
Police said the unknown man had not yet been
caught.
016 ll 43 07 CC Biloxi, Mississippi: City commissioner Frank A.

Baranovich scheduled a meeting with contractors
to work out a better system of coordination.
Baranovich asked for the meeting Tuesday after
a contractor paved a block-long street Saturday
and another one tore it up on Monday to install
a sewer line. New U]m, Minnesota: Norwegian
Rocky Schultz had almost forgotten about the
10-horsepower outboard motor stolen from a boat
parked beside his house 2 years ago. Saturday
night his daughter, Susan, received a telephone
call from a man who said he wanted to return the
motor, if she wouldn't call the police. The
man placed the motor on the floor of the garage
and left. He told Susan that he used the motor
last simmer but his conscience bothered him so
much that he couldn'tput it in thewater. He
was driving through New Ulm Saturday and wanted
to clear his conscience.
016 ll 44 53 CC And Congress is continuing its probe of the energy

crisis as the House subcommittee begins 3 days of
hearings focusing on the alleged lack of oll data
from the petroleum industry. First day's hearings
today will include testimony by a panel of oil
industry critics and a senior vice-president
from Exxon.
016 ll 45 08 CC We got 45 seconds to LOS. Next station contact

is in B_ minutes through Merritt Island at 12:19.
Out.
016 ll 45 20 CDR Roger.
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016 12 19 23 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Merritt Island and

Ber - Bermuda for 11-1/2 minutes with a few small
Flight Plan changes and the evening questions.
CDR Go ahead, Bruce.
CC Okay. I guess, since you answered first, Jerry,

Just a reminder that we're standing by to uplink
a teleprinter message to you whenever you get
involved in documentary photo 16 and want to
watch the woodpecker at work.
CDR Okay. We - we're just setting up number 15 now.

6 and 7 are complete.
CC Okay. In your details, the entry - or in your

Flight Plan, the entry that says details 19:45,
should really read details at 19:h9. Over.
CDR Roger.
016 12 20 25 CC And to your detail Flight Plan, we want to add at

15:15, not time-critical PT/PH, "Do not use
ergometer during MIBl-i 0GI." _
CDR Okay. At 15:15.
CC Roger. And, with respect to the food inventory,

in order to insure that we're all talking about
the same thing on food, we would like clarification
on whether or not the food in the drawers in the
wardroom was counted on the recent inventory. Over.
CDR N egative.
016 12 21 09 CC Okay. Thank you. And, with respect to TO20,

considering the current stowage status for the
footcontrolled maneuvering unit, how much time
would you estimate would be required to set up for
a rerun in the shirt-sleeve mode with the rigid
mount ? Over.
f_
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CDR The T020 is ready to don right now. All it needs

is a PSS in the battery. We haven't even taken
the frame off the rigid supports. I would think
probably that would be 15 minutes or so. The
time - probably the most time would be in setting
up the cameras.
016 12 22 03 CC Okay. Another note here says we're considering

deletion of hand cues for the DACs. What procedural
steps would you reco-_,end to reduce the total run
time? This is on TO20, again. And if you want
to take more time on that one you can put it on
the voice tape.
CDR Okay.
CC And for Bill, if he's listening, a couple of small

ones .
CDR Go ahead.
CC Okay. Just a reminder to you to terminate BAT 7

charge, it's M509 Charlie, this morning. The _"
time is not terribly critical, but you probably
ought to get on it when you have the opportunity.
And then later on, of course, you're putting 6
in the ASMU and putting it on charge. At 15:10
in your Flight Plan, we'd like to replace the
open housekeeping with a housekeeping 6 Alfa l;
that's housekeeping 6 Alfa 1 at 15:10.
016 12 23 12 CDR Okay. He copied that.
CC And we want to be particularly sure that on that,

you turn the fans off and open the flapper valves
up and really get in there and give the vanes a
good cleaning, because we're really trying to keep
the temperature in the workshop down to something
manageable for you. And this may help us a good
bit.
CDR Okay, Bruce.
CC And, again for the Bill, did - for Bill, did

he get a photo of the laser during the laser ops
yesterday?
CDR Negative,
he didn't.
i.
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CC And did he notice any change in appearance when

the laser was slewed ahead of the spacecraft?
016 12 23 54 PLT Not right away, as soon as they called me. And I
think the - the main difference was caused by
attenuation by angle rather than the - the slight
slewing. Now I think one time I did lose it when
they slewed the - well ahead of the spacecraft, and
I reacquired it. But I was expecting to see the
signal greatly attenuated when they slewed ahead;
I didn't notice it right away, at least. I think
the next time if they could give me a - some kind
of indications as to how much - when - when they
start slewing ahead, which they did, and how much
ahead they're going and so forth, I can watch for
a signal attenuation. Yesterday the signal was
fairly bright, and then it started flickering
and I lost it all of a sudden. So I wasn't quite
sure at what point I lost it.
CC 0kay, thank you.
CC And another -
016 12 25 O1 CC And we're going to go ahead and load the nu Z

update here. So, if anyone is near the DAS, we'd
like you to stay off it for a moment.
SPT You've got it.
CC And, SPT, Houston. We'd like to - if it's conven-

ient with you at this time - get the S054 FRAMES
REMAINING counter reset to 6000. Over.
CC Before you do that let us - tell me what you're

reading right now, so we can just keep track
of things.
SPT On S054 we're reading 3019. Now, you mean 5h or 56?
CC S054.
SPT Okay, it's being reset now.
CC Say again.
CC Okay,thankyou.
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SPT It's reading 6000.
CC Okay.
4 SPT And how about H-ALPHA i CAMERA POWER, can we turn

that on now?
CC Not yet. We're still kicking around the possible

malfunction procedures and what we want to do
on that one.
016 12 28 44 CC Okay, the nuz update's in; the DAS is yours again.
SPT Thank you.
016 12 B0 17 CC Skylab, this is Houston; 1 minute to LOS. Next

station contact in 4 minutes and 17 seconds through
Madrid at 12:34. Out.
016 12 34 45 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Madrid for

8 minutes. Out.
016 12 B7 20 PLT Bruce, you can start the teleprinter test message
any time you want, or whatever you're going to
send up.
CC Okay, it's on its way.
CC And after we finish with this extravaganza, we'd

like to get a paper change on the teleprinter,
please.
PLT Will do.
CC And I see a TELEPRINTER, ON command verified,

so it ought to be coming up any second.
PLT Roger; Just coming up.
016 12 hl 05 PLT How much longer is this current message, Bruce?
CC About B0 seconds more.
PLT Thank you.
016 12 41 57 CC Skylab, this is Houston; 1 minute to LOS. Next

station contact in 26 minutes through Carnarvon
at 13:08, as your old silver team goe s off on the
last of it's early morning shift. -
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016 13 08 07 MCC Skylab, Houston with the ATM conference.
SPT Morning, Bill. I'm ready; go ahead.
MCC Okay. A couple of quick things here on the Sun;

most of it we've already passed up. Active
region 21 continues to grow. To us it looks like
the hottest and potentially best spot for a flare
although it hasn't done much for us. The Sun
spots are growing, but, again, we haven't changed
the flare probabilities, just because it hasn't
done anything for us, and hopefully, it might Just
do that today. One note to remind you of again,
I reminded you yesterday, is that you're looking
at it. There isn't going to be any more for the
rest of the mission; so hopefully, we'll get
something exciting out of what we've got. Then
I've got some comnents on today's Plan, and actually
quite a few, because we're trying to do several
special operations here.
016 13 08 59 M_C At 20:00 the pass that you do, with 33 minutes
left, we say observing time, suggest shopping
list - list 12 on coronal loops and active
region 14. We were going to try to get you some
word this morning from S055 as to whether they
have seen them or not. Their quick-look data
from yesterday is not in yet so we're unable to
do that. However, Sac[ramento] Peak does see
loops in - in the green line of iron XIV and
experience indicates that once you see these
loops, they stick around for at least 20 to
30 hours. So at the point, it's reasonable to
assume that you probably should find loops over
AR-lh. Hopefully, before you run it, we will
have some S055 quick-look data back from yesterday,
and we will get that up to you.
SPT Okay, we have a possibility of four lines in which

to look for those loops. Have people narrowed it
down as to which might be better; essentially,
does the general message number 6 still hold as
written?
016 13 l0 O1 MCC As best I know, general message 6 still holds as

written. Although, if we do get our quick-look
_ data back, we will be able to tell you which lines
we saw them best in on 55 and make the s_Iggestion
there.
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SPT Okay. From my experience on looking for loops

when 21 was on the limb, I know it's a time-
cons1_m_ng task and if any - you have any hints
from the ground, sure would appreciate it.
MCC Okay, we'll try to get some thoughts up to you.

Okay, also, Ed, 15:14, which is coming up here in
a bit, we're operating- well, that's the first
of two funny operations for 82B, similar to what
we did yesterday. On the building block 4 and
on subsequent orbits that Jerry does on the
building block 5, in essence we're putting S -
82B into a shopping list 7 wait kind of thing,
where we're saying to operate 82B only if the
normal building block 4 or building block 5
pointing is consistent with the fluctuating bright
points. So that, actually in pointing for 4 or
for building block 5, if you could find fluctuating
bright points that would be consistent with the
normal building block 4 or 5 pointing for that JOP,
that would be fine. Otherwise, 82B wants to
drop out. In the event that they do run, what
they would prefer is the shopping list 7 type
mode, a SHORT at a sequence of TIMES 1/4 and not
what's depicted in that particular building block.
So that the intent that's specified on the SAP
would actually be accomplished.
016 13 ll 40 SPT Okay. The time you gave was what? 157 I'm
still trying to find those specific instructions,
I seem to - -
MCC Okay. It's not on here.
SPT - - have lost them, but ... about - -
MCC It's not on here as 15:14. It's the orbit that

would have started at 15:14, if we weren't playing
momentum inhibit games here. It's right after
"15:07 is 250 K," down there where it says
63 time remaining, 2A, building block 4A, active
region you select. Down a bit it says, "82B
change: operate only if pointing at fluctuating
bright point." And what I've just given you really
augments that information.
016 13 12 20 SPT Okay. Does it say _or how would anyone know that
we should be going to TIMES 1/h on the exposure?
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MCC Unless you're clairvoyant you really wouldn't,

unless you happen to interpret the SAP comment
which says that it's lookin_ for time development
of fluctuating bright points as in shopping llst 7.
If you interpreted that as meaning run llke sh -
shopping llst 7, then you would, otherwise we've
done it in a very unclear fashion here. •
SPT Okay. If they want TIMES 1/4, I'll write it in

here explicitly.
016 13 12 51 MCC Okay, and that's on - also applicable to the

BB5 at 18:24, that orbit for Jerry. And again,
don't let that interfere with the operations of
the JOP 2A, but to the extent it's consistent,
that's what they would like. Also, here we haven't
said it per se, but whenever S054 has dropped out
of a building block, for example, the building
block 4, we were Just talking about, they'd like
to go to shopping llst 31, which I'm sure you know.
SPT 54 will? Okay.
_ 016 13 13 27 MCC Okay. And then the hard part. If that was the
easy part. For several days now we have no real
sunset. For example, on our JOP 7's today, we
don't get to 40 kilometers. We get somewhere
past i00 kilometers, but not to 40, so on the
two times when we inhibit momentum dump, we have
given you the 400 kilometer time and the 250 kilo-
meter time. When you've got observations going
obviously, you know not to operate the X-rays
below 250 kilometers, which is why we gave you
-- those times. On your JOP 7 that you're about to
do on the coming orbit, we're asking for a sequence
of 9-second exposures every 30 seconds, from
2 minutes remaining down through 30 seconds remain-
ing. Just a reminder here that 9 seconds is the
duration of the first exposure of the continuous
mode. Let that go ahead and when a OPERATE light
comes on, then you've got 18 seconds to go to
stop without expending another film. And a nice
long 9-seconds exposure gives us very good lateral
smear since we're essentially almost tangent to the
Earth surface here, without smearing vertical very
much.
016 13 14 40 SPT Okay.

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MCC And, one last thought on that. Following both

that momentum inhibit and the one later in the
day that I believe Jerry does the JOP 7 on and
Bill follows up, be careful. That's a trap. It
may look like you're way ahead of the time game
here, but when the ground enables momentum dump,
you're going to lose about 20 minutes on your
TIME REMAINING counter, so keep that in mind.
SPT Okay. And Just a note. I would hope that people

would enable the momentum at the right time.
Yesterday we were running one of these and when
we got down to 4 minutes remaining they enabled
the momentum and it all of a sudden jumped into
nighttime and I had to go in and inhibit momentum
to finish it up. Just a note to make sure that
people don't enable the momentum before we actually
get the observations done.
016 13 15 27 MCC Okay, right, and we realize that we didn't do it

quite right yesterday and that hopefully we'll
keep people more on their toes today. And, let's
see. One other thought here. On S05_, to clarify
their long exposures, in building block i, they
want 17 minutes plus or minus 1 minute as depicted.
On the other long ones they'd long - like as long
as possible consistent with the pointing changes
and so on.
SPT Okay. That's the words that you had given me

before and that was understood. Yesterday we were
doing one which called for something on the order
of 20 some odd minutes and it was geared to the
length of the building block before we did the
roll. We then were - had the second part of the
building block where the roll was not applicable.
We kept our pointing the same so I thought I'll
go ahead and give them a nice long one at which
time I got a call from the ground telling me to
terminate the exposure. I gave them something
like a 32-minute exposure. I thought that's
what they were after. So I'm wondering if people
could go back and take a look at that one and
ask - find out why I got the call in order to - to
advance the film and not give them as long as
possible.
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016 13 16 34 M_C Okay, Ed. We're 1 minute here from LOS.

Honeysuckle is next in 2 minutes. And on that,
my understanding is that there has been no
5h change there, and that you were right. And
we've made a note here to make sure that we get
all of our thoughts correct here. One last thought
is, have you put JOP 21 - change d 21 in your JOP
Summary Sheets? And if so, did you have any
quest ions ?
SPT Just a minute here, Bill. No, I have put 21

in. They're all in there and I understand what
it says.
MCC Okay. Fine. And we've only got 30 seconds left.

Sorry I talked so long, but why don't you give
us whatever rundown you've got.
016 13 l"[ 18 SPT Okay, active region 21, of course, still looks
like the hottest thing. And, believe it or not,
16 still looks relatively hot in XUV, as I mentioned
last night. Corona has not changed a great deal
overall, but some details have. Over on the east
limb, where there were two streamers yesterday
now it's very clearly that they're both helmet
streamers and the one which is further south,
let's Just take it, one is aro_hnd 3 - or call it
290 and another one up maybe around 310. The
one at 290 is the brighter and appears to be
overlapping the other one, implying it's closer
to us. The one at - over on the other limb now,
the west limb, we have some at about zero - at
about 085 or 080. It goes out quite a distance
and it's much more prominent than it was yesterday.
That's the one which disappeared when we had the
activity on active region 14. It looks as though
it has reformed and is still fairly strong.
SPT Are you still with us?
016 13 18 3h MCC Okay, Ed. Yes. We copied that. You dropped

out for just a little bit, but I think we got all
the details there and we're through Honeysuckle
now for _ minutes.
SPT Okay. I have not given you all the details on

f- these. I'll try and do that throughout the day.
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MCC Okay. Mighty fine. And we'll talk to you tomorrow.
SPT Thank you, Bill.
CC And, Skylab, we're back with you through Honeysuckle

for 4 minutes.
SPT Morning, Story.
CC Hi, Ed.
016 13 19 l0 SPT Hey, Story. Let me ask you a question about getting
the hemoglobin concentration measurements. This
morning the check - the way it was called out by
details - told me to go to certain pages of the
checklist, which had me using pipettes. When you
use that, put the blood into a pipette and then
try to put it out on the - the small glass slide
that you finally put into the meter, you find that
the blood dried so darn fast that you're going
to up your - your concentration measurements,
which is exactly what happened this morning when
I did mine. I have not done the other two. I'd
like to see whether we could not just take it
straight from- the samples straight from the
finger and put it right onto the glass slide and
forget the middleman, which is the pipette.
CC That's a good call, Ed, and an excellent idea.
016 13 20 20 CC And, Ed, you are going to repeat those ones that
dried up?
SPT I only did it on myself. So I will repeat that.

So we still have 96 left.
CC Okay. Thanks.
SPT Mine was up 2 counts, from 1B to 15. And I

suspect that it was because it dried out.
CC We concur, Ed.
016 1B 22 02 CC And we're a minute from LOS. About half an hour

to Texas at 13:51.
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016 13 51 47 CC Skylab, AOS stateside 17 minutes.
016 13 56 ii SPT Houston, SPT.
SPT Hello, Houston; SPT.
CC Go ahead, Ed.
SPT Story, the guys in the hackroom with the 55 detec-

tors may want to be watching where l'm pointing
right now. We're at active region 21 and looking
at a fluctuating bright point. The intensity
started out around 5000 or so when we first got
on it. Right now we're seeing it go on up to
around ii or 12. And I saw this characteristic
of this previous orbit while I was watching it for
a short time also. We get rise times or decays on
the order of a minute or in some cases 30 seconds.
-- So I think we'll be sittingright here for a lit-
tle while doing some shopping list items and a
flare wait.
CC Okay, Ed, thanks.
01613 59 15 CC Ed,Houston. -
SPT Go ahead, Story.
CC Did you pick up that BB-32 up there at the top on

your schedule pad at 13:477
SPT I sure did.
CC Okay, thanks.
016 14 01 09 SPT Story, let me tell you a little bit more about
what we see in the coronagraph. I didn't have too
much time last time around.
CC Okay.
016 14 01 16 SPT Okay, today appears to be the day for fairly

straight, narrow streamers, and we have a whole
F- bunch of them. I'll give you the clo - location
and general characteristics. Starting out at 055
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we have a very faint one which was there yester-

day and is still there, but is exceptionally
faint. At 070 we have a faint one which is the
edge of a fairly large group of faint streamers.
At 080 we have one which we talked about yester-
day disappearing when active region lh had some
activity in it. Had some very small streamers,
almost looks like Just a diffuse area of emis-
sion close to the disk until we come around to a
fairly - a relatively strong streamer at around
100. We then come around at 220 - there's an
exceptionally faint streamer. I don't think I
mentioned this ode yesterday. It is - it was there
yesterday and it's there today and it's exception-
ally faint. You can Just barely - I cannot really
see it in the photograph I have except for the
start of it, but it does show up on the monitor.
At 280 and 295 are two helmet streamers, the one
at 280 being relatively stronger and appears to
be overlying the one in the front - or the one in
the rear. Again, the numbers I give you here are,
as far as orientations, might be a little bit dif-
ferent than what I've quoted before because we
have a difficult time aligning the overlay to ex-
actly the same ROLL every time we look at these
features. But I think from the description you
can follow through which ones are which. I don't
see any real appreciable change, only Just slight
changes in the detail from what we saw yesterday.
CC Okay, thanks, Ed.
016 14 07 38 CC Skylab, we're a minute to LOS; 5 minutes to Mad-

rid. Be dumping the data/voice at Madrid.
016 14 13 48 CC Skylab, we're AOS through Madrid for 6 minutes;

dumping the data/voice here.
016 14 lh h5 CC Ed, Houston.
CC On that BB-32 that I queried you about earlier,

we didn't see the S054 count down. So, in any
event, we'd like a - an M, S, O, S, 64, another
one of those anyway.
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016 14 15 08 SPT Oh, okay. I did not realize that they were going
to be operating on - normally, they're Just about
out of those all the time. It was my mistake for
neglecting them.
CC Okay.
016 14 16 22 SPT Say, Story, and would you query the people at 55
as to whether they feel they're getting useful
data in the STOP MODE on the fluctuating bright
point? I find it pretty usefulto keep tabs on
what's going on when things are changing rapidly
here. I can give them truncated MIRROR, AUTO
RASTER as well and stop it periodically.
CC Okay, get with you, Ed.
SPT Just for the past couple of minutes, I'm sure

they've been watching, but we've gone from about
down to 5 - 5000 on up to 12,000. Now we're going
back down to 7[000] again. That's the oxygen VI
_ readout.
CC Okay.
016 14 18 50 CC Skylab, we're a minute until LOS; about 32 min-

utes to Carnarvon at 14:50. And, Ed, S055 is
getting useful data in the STOP MODE.
SPT Thank you, Story.
016 14 49 15 CC Skylab, AOS through Carnarvon for 3minutes.
016 14 51 h7 CC Skylab, we're a minute to LOS and about 35 min-

utes to Goldstone at 15:27.
CDR Roger, Story.
016 lh 52 25 SPT Story, I Just took a look at the corona in the

TV. And at this angle here - or the time at
which we are relative to - I should say, the
closeness to the terminator, we really see ex-
ceptionally bright airglow ... - -
016 14 52 45 CC We're going over the hill here, Ed.
SPT Okay.
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CC Keep going, though.
SPT My concern is that it's very bright and we're

taking 9-second exposures. I hope they don't
completely overexpose the film.
016 14 53 03 CC Got it.
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SIC(LAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION
016 15 27 h7 CC Skylab, we've got you stateside for 17 minutes.
016 15 30 16 PLT Story, you in position to take any real-time

t elevis ion?
CC Stand by 1.
CC We're dumping the VTR right now, Bill. How about

in _ minutes? That be okay?
PLT When, Story?
016 15 30 _0 CC About h minutes from now.
PLT Yes, I'll be ready, and we'll see how it turns

out •
CC I'll give you a call when we're done.
PLT Okay.
016 15 32 55 CC Bill, Houston.
CDB Go ahead.
CC We can't get you real-time TV back here to Houston.

We can dump it to the site, and we wondered what
you were going to take.
CDR Stateside mountains and snow_ we're about over

Albuquerque now, I think, and headed northeast.
You probably could have figured that out yourself.
016 15 33 21 CC Okay, Jer, we'll let you know when we've dumped
She VTR, and you can - Okay, you're GO right now,
and we'll record it at the site.
CC And we're rewinding the VTR, but the down-link's

available now.
CDR Okay, Story, he's going to start in Just a second.
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016 15 3h 07 SPT Story, what I was remarking to you as you went

over the hill was that when I looked in the white
light coronagraph monitor, I saw a fairly intense
brightening which caused the automatic gain con-
trol to shrink the picture down to nothing but
the spot left in the tubes. So, I went ahead and
gave a 1-second exposure after each of the
9-second exposures for 52.
016 15 34 31 CC Okay, Ed, and for the S052, the 9 seconds would
give you an overexposure low in the atmosphere,
but about on in the higher up in the atmosphere.
SPT Okay, that's good. Well, they got that plus

the i second.
CC And, Ed, we like those 1-second exposures; they're

fine.
SPT ThAnk you.
016 15 36 37 CDR Okay, Story, we're through television.
CO Okay, we're showing the VIDEO switch in - in ATM. _

Did you put it back there after you got done?
CDR No, it probably got left there.
016 15 36 52 CC Okay, we'll try to catch that earlier next time.
PLT Thank you, Story.
CC And, for Bill, tell him to top off the bottle

that you used on T020 yesterday; that's PSS
number 3.
PLT Roger. Number 3 instead of number 2.
016 15 hl 53 CC And, Ed, at your convenience let us know that the

teleprinter's working all right since your paper
changeout.
SPT Okay, be with you in a minute, Story.
CC No hurry.
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016 15 43 53 CC Skylab, we're a minute to LOS; 6 minutes to Madrid.
PLT Roger.
016 15 49 40 CC Skylab, back with you through Madrid and Canaries

for 9 minutes.
016 15 54 31 SPT Story, do you folks down there have a monitor on

the H-ALPHA 1 filter for temperature?
CC Yes, we do, Ed.
SPT Okay, this filter - or at least the appearance in

H-ALPHA 1 seems to change. This morning it looked
pretty good, and now it's beginning to get - lose
its resolution. And I'm wondering whether it's
the effect of the - the Sun heating the filter
slightly and shifting the pass band, or what could
be the problem.
016 15 55 20 CC We can get you the answer, Ed.
SPT Okay, thank you. And kind of going along with

that is that I've been looking at active region 21
and been trying to figure out where the neutral
line is. And because of this relatively low reso-
lution I believe I'm looking at some arch filaments
leading up the center of it with plage on either
side and plage on the east end of the arch fila-
ment. But if - if that is the case, I'm still
having a tough time finding out where that neutral
line is. There's Just not enough fibril structure
there of any detail which I can see in order to
figure it out.
016 15 55 57 CC Okay.
016 15 57 l0 CC Ed, we're seeing no changes in the filter tempera-

ture down here. Now could you tell us if the
image is degraded on both monitors?
f
016 15 58 03 SPT Yes, it has, Story. MONITOR 1 has - has always

been better and it's degraded there. MONITOR 2
still looks a little bit worse than MONITOR 1 an -
at all- CONTRAST and BRIGHTNESS settings.
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CO Okay, Ed. We're a minute from LOS here, about

13 minutes to Tananarive at 16:10. You might throw
some of that on the VTR if you get a chance.
016 15 58 32 SPT Okay, I'll do it now.
016 16 ll 14 CC Skylab, back with you through Tananarive for about

6 minutes. And, Bill or Ed, who's ever setting
up M171, Houston.
PLT Go ahead, Story.
CC Bill, we sent you up a general message 6263 Alfa,

and that puts down changes to your baseline level
for the 0GI. Just a friendly reminder, that applies
only to you - and keep Jer and Ed at the same level.
PLT Okay.
016 16 12 13 PLT Also, Story, a few minutes ago you gave me an up-
date on which PSS to top off. I thought you said
3 instead of 2; now, is that correct?
CC Yes, top off whichever one you used for T020 yes-
terday and we think that PSSS [sic] number 3.
PLT Okay, well, it was number 2, so I'll top it off.
CC You say you used number 2 yesterday?
016 16 12 h0 PLT I used whatever was in the pad. I - I put my ...

pad away already, so I don't have it to look at.
CC Okay.
016 16 13 16 CC Okay, Bill. The pad said number 2, but your voice
transcript said number 3.
PLT Roger, Story. I was wrong. It was number 2;

dogleg, top it off.
CC Okay, Fine.
016 16 17 00 CC Skylab, we're a couple of minutes from LOS. The

next station's Honeysuckle, about 20 minutes at
16:35. And we'll be dumping the data/voice over
Honeysuckle.
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016 16 36 23 CC Skylab, back with you through Honeysuckle for

5 minutes.
016 16 B7 50 CC CDR Roger, Story.
CC And, Jerry, you're going to get a caution and

warning. We're bringing up a sec - a second pump
in the primary loop_ Just punch her off.
CDR Okay.
016 16 _0 _2 CC Skylab, we're about a minute to LOS_ about

24 minutes to Goldstone at 17:0h.
CDR Roger. We'll see you there.
016 16 h0 56 CC Yes, sir.

/
016 17 0h 15 CC Skylab, AOS through Goldstone for 9 minutes.
SPT Roger, Story.
016 17 13 35 CC Skylab, we're 30 seconds to LOS; about 5 minutes

to Bermuda.
016 17 17 39 CC Skylab, we're back with you through Bermuda for

6 minutes.
SPT Okay, Story.
016 17 22 55 CC We're a minute to LOS; h minutes to Canaries.
016 17 26 55 CC Skylab, back with you through Canaries for

8 minutes.
SPT Roger
016 17 35 08 CC Skylab, we're about 30 seconds to LOS; about

15 minutes to Tananarive.
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016 17 50 18 CC Skylab, we've got you through Tananarive for

2 minutes.
CDR Roger.
016 17 51 35 CC And about a minute from LOS; 20 minutes to

Honeysuckle at 18:ll.
CDR Roger. See you later.
016 17 51 _2 CC Yes, sir.
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016 18 ll 38 CC Skylab, A0S through Honeysuckle for 9 minutes.
CDR Roger, Story.
016 18 19 38 CC Skylab, we're a minute from LOS; about 12 minutes

until Hawaii at 18:31. Be dumping the data/voice
there. And who's the next crewman who'll be
passing through the STS?
CDR Go ahead, Story.
CC Okay, Jer. In prep for the next M509 run on

panel 225, CABIN PRESSURE BEGS, both A and B,
CLOSE.
CDR Okay. They're both CLOSE.
016 18 20 08 CC Thank you.

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016 18 32 27 CC Skylab, we're AOS through Hawaii for 8 minutes.

We see a dump - using the data/voice and let us
know when you're done with it.
CDR Will do.
CDR Story, it's going to be awhile before he's done

with that recorder. It's Bill EREPing and that's
not due to be finished until about 19:00
CC Okay.
CC Okay. That's no problem with - with the tape

recorder. And, Jer, when you get about 30 free
seconds there at the ATM, I've got something on
H-ALPHA 1 for you.
CDR Okay. Go ahead.
016 18 3h l0 CC Okay. We'd like for you to go ahead and power

that thing up, CAMERA POWER, ON. And use 2
frames per minute. And go to AUTO and you'll
probably need the NIGHT INTERLOCK switch in
OVERRIDE.
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CDR Okay. It's on.
CC Okay, Jet. We're going to try to take some

pictures. We could have a read switch failure
or a logic failure, which will prevent you from
getting your frame counter advanced, or your
READY light. But it's possible. We are getting
good film. From down here we can't differentiate
a Ja-,ned camera from a - a logic failure.
016 18 35 05 CDR Okay. I Just saw the frame count decrement 1

and we're in - the OPERATE light is on.
CC We saw it too, and we're seeing a normal shutter

OpS.
CC And, for Bill, we're bringing up smother tape

recorder. He may see his light go out, but he
can continue recording.
PLT Okay, Story. Thank you.
CDB Okay. Wetve got another decrement on H-ALPHA I.
CC Hey, thanks for fixing that, Jet. That's 60o4

work.
CDR I'ii bet it Just got hot yesterday.
SPT When you're hot, you're hot.
Crew And when you're not --
016 18 40 26 CC Skylab, we're a minute until LOS_ about 3 minutes

to Goldstone. Press on with a normal ope on
H-ALPHA i. And, Jerry, _u'll wLnt %o ramam_.r
to get the NIGHT INTERLOCK switch to NOI%MALwhen
you power down for the next rev.
016 18 40 41 CDR Okay, S_ory. Will do.
016 18 43 41 CC Skylab, back with you throush Goldetone for

7 minutes.
PLT S_ory, are you get,thE good downlinkT
CC It's affirm, Bill

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PLT Thank you.
CDR Story, part B in building block 5 calls for a

MIRROR, AUTO RASTER and it doesn't indicate which
GRATING I ought to use.
CC Okay.
CDR My assumption is that I don't change it from the

last setting that I had.
CC That's affirm, Jer, the same one you're in right

now.
CDR Okay.
016 18 49 33 CC Skylab, we're a minute until LOS; 5 minutes to

Bermuda.
016 18 54 32 CC Skylab, back with you through Bermuda for

9 minutes.
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CDR Roger.
016 19 02 48 CC Skylab, we're a minute to LOS and 2 minutes to

Canaries.
016 19 05 45 CC Skylab, back with you through Canaries and

Ascension, 15 minutes.
016 19 18 ll CC Jer, Houston.
CC Jer, in the next few hours we'll need a _uad-A

tank pressure equalization done. We'd like to
see that over a station. You will be up in the
command module anyway for your - your star work
at about 19:51 and Carnarvon's coming up at 19:_5.
That looks like a convenient time to get it if
you can meet us up there then.
CDR Okay, it sounds fine; 19:45.
CC And that's in Command Module Systems book S/4-19.

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CDR Roger, I've got it opened to that page and

clipped.
CC Beautiful.
016 19 20 21 CC Skylab, we're a minute to LOS; about 2_ minutes

to Carnarvon at 19:44.
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016 19 44 24 CC Skylab, AOS through Carnarvon/Honeysuckle for

9 minutes.
016 19 45 42 CDE Okay, Story, QUAD A's OPEN.
CC Okay, looking at it, Jer.
CDR I was reading 190, and it immediately went down

to 180.
CC Okay.
CDR I read 190 on QUAD Delta up here, too. Do you

concttr _
CC We're looking, Jer.
016 19 h8 01 CC Jer, we concur with the 190 that you're seeing

on Delta,and we don't expectthat to need
equalization.
CDE Okay.
CC When you catch a break in that procedure, I've

got a couple of things for you on the RCS heaters.
CDR Go ahead.
CC Okay, we'd like to avoid the condition in which

we had a heater failed on, because we'd have very
little time to respond to that. So we'd like to
turn those OFF. And that's on panel 5 SERVICE
MODULE RCS HEATERS, QUAD A and D, both of them
OFF.
CDR Okay, Alfa and Delta are OFF.
CC And also there in the same location, SERVICE

MODULE ECS B-EATERS, ENGINE PACKAGE, A and D, OFF.
CDE Okay, they're OFF, too.
CC Okay, got that. And when you're done with the

RCS, your rendezvous with the stars will be
._-_ comingup about19:51.
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CDR Okay.
016 19 52 5h CC Skylab, we're a minute to LOS, about 20 minutes

to Hawaii at 20:12.
CDR Hey, Story, when - the last two times I've taken
the - the telescope out of its fixture to mount
it on - on the panel, it's felt quite hot to me
right in the area where the - the wire goes into
the box. I've made sure that the power switches
were off and the reticle was turned all the way
down, but I'm still finding that thing hot when
I open it up.
016 19 53 32 CC Copy, Jer.
016 19 54 07 SPT Houston, SPT. What are you reading for a

GRATING POSITION down on the S0557
CC We'll get them, Ed. We're going over the hill.
016 19 54 2_ CC In the blind, 1122.
016 20 ii 57 CC Skylab, AOS Hawaii for 3 minutes.
CDR Roger, Story. The angles for the G&C sextant

are Aiphard, SHAFT of 99.4, TRUNNION is ii.0; for
Regulus 78.5, and TRUNNION is 33.1. And Regulus
was so close to structure that I almost couldn't
see it due to light reflection off the structure.
CC Okay, thanks, Jer. We got it. And we're

accustomed to scheduling you for any command
module work there is, but on this sextant check
it would he real convenient if we Could schedule
Ed and Bill for it also.
CDR Yes, I think that would be okay. What - whatever

is convenient for you I think. About this heat-
ing on the optics, are there heaters up in that -
inside the optics_
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CDR The sextant - or the telescope once you take it

out cools right down. And by the time I was
finished with my sightings the sextant was down
to a nice normal temperature, you know., room
temperature. But as soon as I put it back in
the - in the slot up there it begins warming up
again. And I'm Just wondering if we have a
heater in that area.
016 20 13 42 CC We'll be going LOS here in about 15 seconds, Jer.

Be seeing you over Goldstone in about 9 minutes.
There is a eyepiece .... up there that's worth
about 10-watts. The only way to turn that off,
and we don't want to do that, is turn off the
IMU heaters.
CDR Okay, well I'm not concerned about it. I Just

wanted to know if it was nominal.
CC Is - is the wall hot up there or the stowage for

the telescope is that hot also?
CDR No, the wall is quite cool. It's strictly the

telescope itself.
CC Thank you.
CC And when we come over stateside and you're

working on the M509 checklist changes, I've got
one for you on page 3 Charlie - 13.
016 20 lh 25 CDR Okay.
016 20 22 42 CC Skylab, AOS through Goldstone for 6mlnutes.
CDR Roger, Story.
CC And, Jer, according to your details there, you'll

have the laser coming up in about 8 or 9 minutes.
CDR Say again, Story.
CC You got the laser coming up in 8 or 9 minutes.
CDR Roger.
CC Bill, Houston.
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CDR Bill's on the bike, go ahead.
CC I better catch him later.
CDR Okay.
016 20 25 56 CC Ed, Houston.
SPT Go ahead.
CC Ed, with respect to the question you raised con-

cerning loops over active region l_ while - with
Bill this morning, the loops observed yesterday
had east-to-west aligmment and were observed
mostly edge on. They were seen in oxygen V and
VI, neon VII, Lyman continuum, magnesium X, and
Silicon XII. In other words, all across the
temperature range of the transition region in
the corona.
SPT Okay, thank you, Story. I'm looking for them

nOW •
CC Okay, iron XIV and H-alpha coronal rain observed

over this region at 15:00 GMT. And your ops
are very good in this area.
SPT Tb_n_ you.
016 20 28 02 CC Skylab, we're about 30 seconds to LOS. We'll

see you over Texas in about a minute. And, Bill,
if you're not running instrumented PT, we see
EXPERIMENT 1 TAPE RECORDER running. And we'd
like to get that off cause we got a dump coming
up over Bermuda at 20: 31.
PLT Roger, copy.
CC Sorry, to get you off the bike, I didn't have

anybody else.
016 20 29 53 CC Skylab, we're back with you through MILA and

Bermuda for 12 minutes.
CC And, Jer, when you acquire the laser we'd like

you to let us know, and we'll move it off,
1 degree off the spacecraft, and see how you do.
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CDR Roger, Story. I'm using STS window number 2,

it looks like it might be a little easier to
see from here.
CC Okay.
016 20 31 31 CC And, Ed, we'd like a DAS to send an outer gimbal

backup.
SPT You've got it.
CC And, Ed, we're showing S056 shutter open. If

you go to START and back to STOP, it'll close it.
CC Thanks, Ed.
016 20 33 05 CDR Okay, I got the laser.
CC Copy, Jer.
016 20 33 24 CDR I Just lost it. It went off abruptly, as if it

were turned off.
CC They slewed it off i degree, Jer.
CDR Okay. It's now behind structure. I can't see

that part _f the ground anymore. _-_
CC -f;..
Copy. - ..: .....
CDR Story, I didn't detect any d4--,ing or fluctuation

or anything as they slewed it off. It Just - it
went off abruptly.
CC Okay. That's about to be expected, Jer, and

probably we've got cloud cover that prevents our
getting it back up to you now.
CC And the laser is back on the spacecraft. The

DAS is yours, Ed.
SFT Thank you.
016 20 35 25 CC And, Ed, when you're ready, we're ready for your
TV downlink.
SPT Be with you in 30 seconds.
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CC Okay.
CC And that's all for the laser today, Jer.
CDR Roger that.
CDR Story, the problem here is - with look angle - is

that we're looking pretty much to the north through
our best windows and when we cross right overhead,
it's Almost impossible to see anything straight
below us.
CC And I guess, Jer, you'd preferred to have run -

run that experiment the rev prior to this one,
where Washington would be a little further south.
CDR I think that would have been worse, Story, because

we can't see to the south at all. That is, except
through window 2, and there's a strut, actually
two struts, in that field of view.
CC And you need ATM on the video switch, Ed.
016 20 39 58 CC Jer, Houston.
CDR Go ahead.
CC I got a couple of things. Probably you'll want

to write them down.
CDR Ready to copy.
CC Okay. Airlock module panel 390, OWS W_&T EXCHANGER

FANS I through 4, turn all four of them ON.
CDR You want them ON or in the 0WS position?
CC Turn them 0N.
CDR Okay.
CC And 0WS panel 61_, circuit breakers, TCS LOGIC,

two of them, turn them OP]_ - put th_0PEN.
CDR Okay. Panel 614, TCS, LOGIC, OPEN.

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CC Roger. And you'll find them in the bottom two

rows to the left-hand side under the THERMAL
CONTROL SYSTEM block.
CDR Okay. What's the reason for it?
CC That'll cut down on some heat loads in the OWS.
CDR Okay.
016 20 41 21 CC And we're a minute from LOS; about 9 minutes to

Ascension.
SPT Say, Story, by looking around in the - in oxygen

VI, I've been able to find two enhancements, one
tunning pretty much straight out from the limb
in the northern part of active region 14, and one
inclined around 12 degrees from the vertical
towards the south in the southern portion of the
active region. I'm wondering whether that cor-
relates with anything they've seen.
016 20 42 28 CC Okay. We're going over the hill. See you in

about 8 minutes.
016 20 52 01 CC Skylab, back with you through Ascension for

4 minutes. And is anybody working on the Maneuver-
ing Experiments Checklist at this time?
CDR Stand by, Story. I've got it.
CDR Okay, Story. Lay them on me.
CC Okay, I'm referring to page - first of all, 17-10.

The message we sent up which is 6257 Alfa 1 refers
fairly often to the line numbers on the page. I
got those changes in without referring to the
line numbers; I don't think you'll have a problem.
If you do, the first line is the first printed
line below the picture, and counting on down in-
clude blank lines in you count.
CDR Okay, understand.
CC And got one other thing for the - a very short

change for the Cuff Checklist.
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016 20 54 59 CDR Okay, I've got the Cuff Checklist.
CC Page 3 Charlle-13.
CDR Okay, go.
CC Change the last line to read, "Change the battery

and the PSS. Go to page 3 Charlie-15."
CDR Okay, I've got it.
016 20 55 41 CC That's it. We're a minute to LOS. We'll see

you over Carnarvon in about 25 minutes at 21:20.
CDR Roger. Thank you, Story.
CDR Story, it looks like I won't be getting to any

science demo practice. There's lots of checklist
chang@s to be done here.
016 20 56 00 CC Okay, we thought that'd probably happen, too.
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016 21 21 02 CC Skylab, AOS through Carnarvon for ii minutes.
016 21 23 19 CC Skylab, Houston. We're having a little trouble

with INCO not being able to command to the tele-
printer. We're wondering if possibly the TELE-
PRINTER switch could have been bumped into the
manual position and - or out of the COMMAND posi-
tion. Wonder if somebody would check up in the
STS section.
CDR Sure will.
CC And good afternoon from the pur - purple gang.
CDR Roger. If you hadn't identified yourself, I was

going to have to call you Story.
CC Well, he made the A0S call. Just can't hardly

leave this place, but we're here now. You're in
goodhands.
016 21 24 15 CDR Okay, it's in COMMAND now.
CC Roger. Was it not in CO_MffDwhen you checked it?

f .
CDR Yes, that's right, Dick.
CC Uh-huh. Okay, thank you very much.
016 21 29 41 CC PLT, Houston, when you get a chance anytime, I'd

like to visit with you a couple of minutes on the
housekeeping 6A - the OWS heat exchanger vane
vacuuming you did this morning.
PLT Okay, Dick, I'm just changing here. I'll Just

stand by and listen to whatever you have to say
about it.
016 21 30 02 CC Okay. There's absolutely no hurry, Bill. We've

got about a minute and a half to LOS here. Next
station is Guam coming up in 4 minutes. I'll
give you a call there.
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PLT Okay, you can go ahead _nd tell m,_ now _f you
want to. I'm Just standing by here.
CC Okay. We were expecting, after you cleaned the

heat exchanger fans today, to get an increase in
heat exchanger flow by about 50 cubic feet per
minute. It turns out, however, that despite the
cleaning you did, we saw no flow increase. So I
guess we're looking for sort of a qualitative
feel from you as to the amount of debris that you
removed this morning. And if you feel - feel
good about the fact that it was a good cleaning
Job and you can't improve on it, I guess we got
to assume that we've had a transducer shift or
possibly degraded flow due to some problem with
that fan. And we'll be fa - we'll be planning a
fan checkout or replacement, but we thought we'd
ask you about it first.
016 21 31 06 PLT Okay, I took about five times as long this morning
to do the yaCuuming. I even reached down and with
my other hand, and cut a couple of fingers trying
to get into every nook and cranny. So I guess
with five times the effort I didn't do as good a
Job as I did last time.
PLT One thing, you know, I might - better do is go

back and check the seating of all the fans, that
could be the problem.
CC Okay, Bill, that might be a good idea. One of

the crews before found some real fine gray - real
fine dust on the vanes that - I believe that was
in Bean's mission. But it might not hurt for you
to recheck the seating, because we're not seeing
the flow we need to see. We're going LOS. I'll
give you a call a couple of minutes from now in
Guam.
016 21 32 0_ PLT Okay.
016 21 34 5B CC Skylab, Houston. Guam for l0 minutes.
PLT Roger, Rank.
PLT Okay, Dick. I'm up in the dome section now. I'm

going to turn all four fans off and reseat them
and then turn them on again.
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CC Okay, Bill. We'll be watching it and you can let

us know your opinions of the cleanliness when you
get all through. Just give us a call.
016 21 35 h4 PLT Well, now you understand the - the vanes down
there have always been clogged up. What I con-
sider clogged up with gray - what looks like lint.
There's been no change since - since we got here -
since we found out what part of the heat exchanger
actually required the cleaning. And although you
take the, well, I - I use the tool with the round
brush on it. And although you hold it very close
to the vanes, that is, against the face of them
and rub them back and forth, and tamp it up and
down and so forth, you never get all that stuff
out of there. So it is very difficult to tell.
And I used - I used a flashlight in my mouth, one
hand on one side of the flapper valve, and the
vacuum cleaner tool on the other and I was push-
ing the tool around with one hand well down into
the - next to the heat exchanger. So that was
the technique I was using, and I can't see how I
could really improve upon that except with a bet-
ter vacuum cleaner.
016 21 36 h7 CC Roger, I sure wish we could get a TV picture of

you working on it. That sounds like a lot of fun.
It seems that we recall that - that Bean did find
some way to get it pretty clean. But we saw - I .....
recall that - that at one point we did get a sig-
nificant increase from flow. I'll give Jack a
call over there. He's over in the office now and
see how they did it. But - But why don't you go
ahead and see if you can reseat them and we'll
take a look at the flow again.
CDR Roger, Dick. And tell INCO to hold up on the

teleprinter. The printing is not coming through
clear at all. And I think we're going to have
to put a new load of paper in.
CC Okay, we're holding up.
016 21 37 35 CC CDR, Houston. INCO says he's in the process of

uplinking the third Flight Plan. Did any of the
other two come up - come out usable, or when you
get it changed out should we upl_nk all threeLof
them again?
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CDR You'll need to do all three. They're real streaky,

big patches of them are missing. The lOth message
that came up which was that general message 30 had
a patch, you know a sort of a - a faint patch in
it so we reseated the head, but that didn't seem
to do any good. So, why don't we Just change the
paper this time?
016 21 38 09 CC Okay, we concur.
016 21 44 02 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 45 seconds to LOS. Gold-

stone comes up at 22:00.
CDR Okay, Dick, it'll be in when you come up, so Just

send up a test message.
CC Okay, Jerry, sure will. Thank you very much.

Hey, Jerry, one item for you as we go over the
hill. Sometime this afternoon before you or Bill
gets to the 509 prep, we'd like you to read us
the pressure that reads on the two SOPs, serial
numbers 006 and 013. We'd like you to read those
gages as accurately as you can. The increments
on the gage are about 400 psi. We need to make
a decision about tomorrow's 509 - which SOP we're
going to use.
CDR I Just made an inventory about 5 or 6 days ago,

Dick, and those were very accurate readings, as
accurate as I can read them.
CC Roger, Jerry. We did get that information. We

also want to make darn sure we don't have a leak
on either one of those things, which is one of
the reasons we wanted to get it again. We did in-
tend to get it again when you get a chance this
evening.
CDR Okay. What are the numbers again?
016 21 45 14 CC 6 and 13.
016 22 00 04 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS stateside for

17minutes.
CDR (Tapping) That was a woodpecker saying "Roger."

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CC (Laughter) Roger. I knew what it waS, but I

didn't know how he was talking air-to-ground.
CC And Skylab, Houston. I forgot to warn you, but

we're dumping the data/voice recorder here.
CDR Okay, we're not using it.
CC Okay.
016 22 00 47 PLT Dick, PLT here. I - I vacuumed down in there a-

long the sides facing the - the heat exchanger
vanes, and replaced the fan. I'm really at a
loss to figure out anything else to do other than
to try to rig up some tool to - to try to clean
out between the vanes. There is an awful lot of
material in between the vanes, but it's Just not
accessible with the vacuum cleaner brush.
PLT And that stuff has been in there since we were

here. So I assume it was probably collected dur-
ing the early part of the first flight.
f_
CC Okay, Bill, for now why don't you not worry about
it. I'm - I am going to - I did have a call in
to talk to Lousma and see if they had any thoughts
that might not be obvious, but we'll be getting
back to you.
• ...-
016 22 O1 42 PLT Okay.
016 22 03 57 CDR First teleprinter message looks pretty good, Dick.

It's a little bit weak on the left side and I just
loosened the Calfax and tried to pull it up even
tighter. So go ahead with the next one.
CC Okay, Jerry. Thanks for letting us know. Inci-

dentally, yo - you were just going over the hill
when you asked about those serial numbers on SOPs.
The serial numbers are: 006 and 016, and I think
they're the two that are down in the experiment
compartment, but you probably know better than me
about that.
CDR That's affirmative. They're down hanging on the

walls there.
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CC Okay, we do have the numbers that you read us the

other day. And so when you - sometime this eve-
ning why don't you read them again for us? And
let us know.
O16 22 O_ 37 CDR Okay.
016 22 15 19 CC PLT, Houston. I Just talked to Jack on the tele-

phone for a minute about cleaning the OWS heat
exchanger. He didn't have any spectacular sug-
gestions to make that were - that would have been
obvious to him and not us. So are you - he did
say _hat they had used the crevice tool in con-
Junction with the vacuum cleaner to - to get some
of the gray matter out. And that helped a lot.
And he suggested that if any of it was clumped up
in bunches enough so that it might be - could be
actually picked up but it was - you couldn't get
your fingers in there. You might use the little
tool, and I'm not sure what the name of it is.
But it's the little snake tool where you push on
a button on one end and it opens up the little
fingers on the other end to pick - that was de-
signed to pick up stuff in odd places like under
the grid and so forth. You might consider that
anyway.
PLT Okay, Dick give me .... I'll think about it

and try to get on it later on this evening when
I have a little spare time.
016 22 16 18 CC Okay, Bill, thank you much. We're about 30 sec-

onds from LO S . And you're going to go_the long
way around; Goldstone comes up at 23:36. And the
Flight Plan messages are on board. If you've
taken a look at all of them, INCO would like to
know how the rest of them turned out.
CDR They came in real well, Dick.
CC Okay, have fun going all the way around the world
without talking to us. We'll see you later.
CDR Roger. So long.
CC And, Skylab, Houston. We are going to have a low

pass at Vanguard. It was pointed out to met that -
that I didn't catch. It comes up in about
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ii minutes. I'ii give you a call there; it's a

short one.
CDR Promises, promises.
016 22 17 20 CC (Laughter) Sorry about that.
016 22 27 54 CC Skylab, Houston. "Hello at the Vanguard for

4 minutes.
016 22 28 03 CDR Hello, Dick.
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016 22 31 07 CC Skylab, Houston. We're a minute from LOS now.

You guys can go almost all the way around the
world without me bugging you. Goldstone comes
up at 23:37. See you there.
CDR Roger, Dick. See you then.
016 22 31 18 CC Okay.
016 23 37 33 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS stateside for

13-1/2 minutes. When we hand over to T_xas here,
which is going to occur in about 3 or 4 minutes,
that'll be the med conference. And you can talk
to the friendly Flight Surgeon. I'll give you a
warning when we're going to do that.
SPT Okay. Thank you, Dick. Hey, I wonder if you

could tell me something. When do we hit maximum
beta and what will it be?
CC Okay. I'll let you know.
SPT Thank you.
CDR By the way, Dick, the temperature right now is

Just a shade under 80. And it's really not too
uncomfortable at all.
016 23 38 16 CC Okay, Jerry. Thanks for letting us know. We've

been doing a lot of discussion down here about
ways we can help it stay down as low as possible.
And we're going to continue to do that.
PLT Dick, PLT here. Have you enabled momentum dump

yet?
CC Stand by. PLT, Houston. We are enabling momen-

tum dumps right now.
PLT Thank you.
016 23 39 09 CC And, SPT; Houston. I have the numbers on beta

for you.
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SPT Okay, Dick. Go ahead.
CC Roger, would you believe that max beta is going

to occur in about 21 minutes from now at an exact
time of 00:00:16. And at that time it's going
to be minus 70.9 degrees, 70.9.
SPT Okay. And that's at 00:00:16. Thank you.
CC Roger.
016 23 41 l0 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 30 seconds from

handing over to Texas. That'll be the reed con-
ference. And another - due to the lag in the
temperature even though the max beta - beta is
upon us here, it's - the max temperature we ex-
pect to be about 2 days later.
END OF TAPE
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017 00 01 i0 CC Skylab, Houston. We're A0S Vanguard for ii min-

utes. I forgot to warn you, but this is
the pass set aside for evening status. And we're
standing by for it.
PLT Roger ; stand by.
CC Okay.
CREW ...
SPT Say, Dick, in the way of an evening•status report,

we'd like to first of all give you our objective
co_nents on living at high beta angles for our
second time through it now. And I think we've
analyzed the thermal environment quite - quite
• adequately. And here are our c(.,..,._nts.
(Music:
"When You're Hot, You're Hot" by Jerry Reed. )
017 00 03 09 CC How can we possibly top that? i'm still standing

by for the photo stuff.
CDR How much time we got?
CC We got 8 minutes here, Jer.
CDR Okay, we'll be a little late.
CC Okay. Whenever you get to it, I'm standing by.
CDR We spent a little bit too much time preparing the

first part of our evening status report.
• CC Aha. Okay, I'm standing by, soo_ as you get to

it.
017 00 04 43 CC Go ahead.
PLT - - ... coming at you with the photo log.

16-milllmeter - -
CC Okay, standing by.

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PLT Roger. 16-millimeter : documentary photo 20,

which was really actually taken last night after
they logged in, Charlie India 128, 27 percent,
Charlie India 127; Documentary photos 6, 7, 15,
and 16, Ch - Charlie India 128, 00, Charlie
India 127. Nikon: Nikon i, only i used today,
Charlie X-ray 41, 56 is the frame count.
70-millimeter: Charlie X-ray 50, i17 is the
frame count. ETC: no change. EREP: no change.
Drawer A configuration: Alfa 2, transporter 05,
no supply; takeup is Charlie India 128; back is
07; Charlie India 29, 99 percent; Charlie India,
78.
CC Okay.
017 00 06 17 PLT Dick, do I have a phone call set up for tonight?
CC Let me check that real quick.
CC Yes, you do. It's set up at 02:47 at Hawaii.

I'll give you a - a reminder just before then,
Bill. And I - -
PLT Thank you.
CC And I'm standing by for the rest of the report.

We still have 5 minutes here.
PLT Roger.
017 00 06 47 CC Incidentally, while we're waiting, one quick note

for you. There's a permanent, general message
that's coming up at this site that has to do with
the next 3-d/ys' use of the trash alrTock. L Essen-
tially, what it - what we're asking for is each
time you use the trash airlock in the next few
days if you'll voice record the GMT of when you
do it and what the containers are you're dumping
and what's in them, this'll give us 3 representa-
tive days so that our habitability people can do
some - can understand sort of representatively
what Skylab has been using the trash airlock for
and point it at future missions. But that's what
that permanent, general message is about. No
response required.
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017 00 07 38 CDR Okay Dick. Sleep: CDR, 7.0, 6.0 heavy, 1.0 light;
SPT, 8.0, 8.0 heavy; PLT, 7.0, 7.0 heavy. Vol-
umes: none yet tonight. We'll have those in
tomorrow evening's report. Water gun: CDR, 8603,
4594, 0773. Body mass: CDR, 6.319, 6.320, 6.318;
SPT ia 6.367, 6.365, 6,367; PLT, 6.265, 6.266,
6.269. Exercise: no change to your standard for
any of us. Medications: CDR, none; SPT, Afrin
once today; PLT, Afrin once today. Clothing:
CDR, socks; SPT, socks and shirt; PLT, none.
Food log: CDR, salt 3.5; deviations; plus one
butter cookie, minu_ one coffee with sugar, plus 1.5
water; SPT, 1.5 salt, plus biscuit, plus tuna,
plus butter cookies, zero water; PLT, zero, zero,
and zero. Okay, Flight Plan deviations: the
only thing was I did no science demo practice to-
day. I used that time up on the checklist update,
and we're still not finished. Shopping list:
none. Inoperable equipment : none. Unscheduled
stowage: none.
CC Okay.
017_ 00 09 07 CDR You might have noticed, Dick, we're not getting
any shopping list items done anymore. And the
main reason is there's Just no - no slack left in
the schedule any more. We're running pretty tight.
And so there Just won't be any shopping llst stuff
done unless we get a little more free time.
CC Okay, Jerry; understand. We'll continue to take

a look at the Flight Plans and take that into
account.
cDR The schedule as it goes is not too tough. We're

managing to stay up with it pretty well. And we
can usually gain 5 minutes here and lose 5 minutes
somewhere else. But for the most part, there
aren't any decent little chunks of time where we
can dedicate to something like practicing for a
science demo.
017 O0 09 48 CC Roger; understand. If anybody's - I've got a

change to ATM schedule pad, if anybody's close to
the ATM. If you're not, don't worry about it.
I'll give it to you next site; it's Tananarive.
And I've also got some evening questions, a
couple of Sh_ here, for - for Bill.
J .
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PLT Press on, Dick.
CC Okay, here's one on T002, Bill. We noted in -

in - noticed in the data some large biases in the
sightings including the zero reading. And it's -
the data's sort of similar to a couple of sessions
in Bean's mission, and - when the transparent
wardroom window protective shield was left on.
And we were - Just wanted to confirm that the
sheet - the shield either was or was not removed
for this particular sighting.
PLT That might have been it. I - I'm not sure.
017 00 l0 44 CC Okay, one other quick one, Bill. Before I do,

we're about a minute from LOS; Tananarive at
00:29. Another one is you reported a triangle
show failure. We wanted to know a little bit
more about that. What were you doing when the
right shoe failed, and do you have any comments
about the design as to whether or not you think
that contributed to this particular failure?
And - and also what kind of loads did you have on
the shoe at the time it gave way?
PLT I had my foot in a triangle in front of the film

vault. And, Ed, to move the door, it hit the
side of mM foot. (Laughter) And I think, how-
ever, in all due respect to Ed, that - that the
metal had already been fatigued.
017 00 ll 32 CC Okay, we're going over the hill here. If - if

you did want to add any more about that, why
don't you Just put it on the voice recorder, and
we'll pick it up. Thank you much, Bill.
017 O0 29 19 CC Skylab, Houston. Hello, at Tananarive for

5 minutes.
CDR Roger, Dick. On those two SOPs, number 006 has

got 6000 and 013 is 5800.
CC Okay, Jerry. Sure appreciate you taking the time

to read them down to us. We appreciate that.
And I've got a change to the ATM schedule or an
addit - slight addition to the ATM schedule pad
for someone for this daylight cycle that begins -
upcoming here at 00 :35 •
j-
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SPT Go al_ead, Dick; ready to copy.
CC Okay. S055 desires JOP 6, building block 1-Alfa

to be performed at a ROLL of 10,800, Ed. This
will insure that a quiet region will be observed
by 55 and thereby providing a much-needed cali-
bration sequence.
GPT That's a JOP 6, at a ROLL of 10,800.
017 00 30 41 CC That's correct. Jop 6 - JOP 6, building

block 1-Alpha.
SPT Okay. Just caught me in time. Thank you.
CC Okay. And, Skylab, Houston. In the event we

have an early LOS, Goldstone comes up at Ol:17.
And I have one other note for you. The high beta
angle is causing the - another CAUTION and WARN-
ING switch to be smart to INHIBIT (sic) and that
is the ATM CANISTER COOLANT TEMP. And that's
from the bottom center of - of panel 207, ATM
CANISTER COOLANT TEMP. We'd recommend inhib -
INHIBITing that CAUTION and WARNING to - to - so
it won't go off during the middle of the night.
CDR Okay, Dick. Thank you.
SPT That 's INHIBITed. Thank you.
CC Okay. Incidentally, we're having some power

problems at the Goldstone site. In the event we
are unable to have that voice pass, the following
pass is the Vanguard and the time for that is
Ol :38.
017 00 31 54 CDR Roger.
END OF TAPE
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017 01 38 25 CC Skylab, Houston. We're A0S the Vanguard for

ll minutes. Bruce is standing by here to discuss
509 run with you tomorrow. Before he does, I
have one item. Since we lost the Goldstone pass
a few minutes ago, we got out of sync on our
commanding to the CMG heaters. We're - GNS is
going to turn the CMG number 2 bearing heaters on
here at the Vanguard. We need to ask you to set
your portable timer for a time of 02 plus 05 and
turn the heaters off. Those commands are listed
on the CMG number 2 heater cue card.
SPT Okay, Dick, that's 02:05, is that correct?
CC That's correct. Th_nk you very much.
SPT Okay. CMG number 2 heater off and will get that
co_msnd off the cue card. And let me give you a
frame count. 10013, 1943, 117, 172, 26_0, 5884.
017 01 39 43 CC Okay, Ed. I got it. We're dumping the data/voice

recorder here. And I'm going to turn it over to
Bruce.
MCC Okay, Jerry. If you're standing by there. I've

got a few minutes worth of discussion on the up-
coming M509 ops for you. Over.
CDR....
MCC Say again.
CDR I said, go ahead.
MCC Okay, I'm on the loop here as an M509 investiga-

tor this evening. And we thought it'd be worth-
while since there are a number of items we want
to hit to do it this way rather than trying to
send up additional teleprinter pads. First off,
with respect to the scheduling of the runs, due
to the press of other mission activities and the
approach of the deactivation phase, we probably
won't be able to sched [sic] all of the remaining
five runs that were carried in the prelaunch
baseline.
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So, to adjust for this we've cut out the balance

of the handheld maneuvering unit operations. And
we've rearranged the runs in order of decreasing
priority. And specifically, that order that we've
selected is your suited run, Bill's suited run,
your last shirt-sleeve run, and then the two
shirt-sleeve runs for Bill, if the time becomes
available. We've rearranged your upcoming run,
that is, -3 Charlie, so as to emphasize the high-
est priority items. The opportunities tomorrow
and on day of year 66 are ideal from a flight
planning scheduling standpoint and as they
fitted naturally into some blocks of time, that
were not otherwise occupied by EREP, ATM, and
things of that sort. But it may be getting a
little bit warm up there for you and that was
another factor in our consideration of deleting
the HHU - MU ops particularly suited. It it does
get too hot for you, why feel free to discontinue
the run, and we'll try to regroup down here for
another opportunity. If you're overheated, the
data probably wouldn't be all that good anyway.
Over.
017 01 41 42 CDR Okay, I copy, Bruce. And breaks my heart to lose

that HHMU time.
MCC Okay, looking at tomorrow's run specifically,

we've inserted a set of rotational cal maneuvers
in the direct mode, as the first item and the
highest _riority on the SOP operations. It's
important that when you do this, we get full
1-second commands to get good integratable data
from the rate gyros, which are being used as sen-
sors, while you're flying these cal maneuvers.
We've also rearranged the SOP baseline runs, so
that the rate gyro baseline immediately follows
the cal maneuvers, reflecting its second priority,
as we've gotten no rate gyro data suited with the
SOP at all on previous mission. Following that,
the baseline maneuvers and CMG and DIRECT should
be flown until SOP exhaustion. And while we're
on the subject of the SOP, we'd like to remind
you, per the checklist, to please insure that
you've got a full PSS and a fresh battery prior
to starting the SOP part of the run. It's our
desire that you not depressurize the PGA from -
when shifting from the lightweight LSU to the SOP.
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However, if you feel you'd like to do that for

your own comfort or to take a quick break, we'd
like you to please repressurize on the lightweight
ISU and then shift over to the SOP so that we
don't use a large part of the gas in the SOP just
for building up the pressure inside the suit.
Does that sound okay with you? Over.
017 01 h3 27 CDR Understand, Bruce. That's fine.
MCC And listening to your comments on - on this morn-

ing about TO20, it's our understanding that the
configuration in which you left T020 - it will
have to be moved or laid down in order to permit
moving the release lever on the M509 donning
station to permit undocking - -
CDR That's right, Bruce. We've already moved T020

down into the experiment compartment.
017 01 h3 57 MCC Beautiful, you're way ahead of us here. Okay.

On the subject of maneuvers: for the tumbling
object retrieval and the freely floating object
flyaround, we're looking for the largest, most
massive object that's handy and that you feel is
appropriate. I guess either the portable water
tank or the SL-3 backup parasol on the T027 long-
type canister would be fine. But whatever you
want to use is your option. The dump voice tapes
that we've listened to suggest that previously
when you did the tumbllngobject retrieval, you
sort of flew out to the t_hling object an_im-
pacted it without spinning yourself up. The
object of the maneuver, if we interpreted your -
your voice tape correctly, the object of the
maneuver is to see how accurately and delicately
you can place yourself on the spin axis of the
object and spin yourself up, match rotational
rates, close in and grab it, and then finally
despin as a single entity. Over.
017 01 h5 00 CDR Okay. We'll - we'll give it a whirl. We cert -

certainly didn't do that last time. And we'll
try it.
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MCC Okay, mighty fine. And we have suggested a lot

of discretionary maneuvers and we also recognize
that you may not be able to complete all of them.
So don't feel badly if you don't get all the way
through. And in the checklist, we have a little
phrase in there, repeat as required. And in
thinking about it ourselves, we just wanted to
say that that is intended to mean quit when you
are satisfied with the way that the maneuver
worked out. And if you have time prior to the
run, you might take a look briefly over section 6
of the Maneuvering Experiments Checklist since it's
been a few weeks since the last run. On the sub-
ject of communications, we'd appreciate hearing
comments, especially from Bill, as appropriate
during station contacts, in particular if you
have any stowage problems or any other problems
with the - with the run. We have a back run -
room full of people, but we can't do much in real
time im]ess we know what's up. And then, of
course, back to channel A to resume voice-recorded
co,_nentary after he talks to us. YOU, inside the
suit, of course, will have no comm using this
lightweight umbilical or the SOP. So you might
brush up on your hand signals before hand. We're
suggesting that you rig up the lightweight um-
bilical CCU kludge per page 17-3 of the Maneuver-
ing Experiments Checklist and then just stow it
_- out of the way in orderto have it handy in the
event that something comes up and you do want to
talk to Bill in real time. But we prefer that
you do not use it while maneuvering if you can
avoid it. Over.
017 01 46 40 CDR Okay. Understand, Bruce.
MCC On TV-36B, in spite of the checklist changes, the

SPT is scheduled to have a window for handholding
the - the camera during the run. If Bill feels
like he can handle it, he can provide other cov-
erage, if he's not too busy chasing your umbili-
cal. The coverage that we particularly want is:
(i) of the exploratory maneuvers, (2) some footage
with the lightweight umbilical, and (3) other
items as appropriate. You've got 25 minutes
available on the video tape recorder with the
possibility of more depending on how the dump
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schedule goes. You'll be needing 4 PSSs for this

run. After using the first one, the observer
should recharge it per the top-off procedure.
We're using that instead of the normal procedure
since the four-bottle supply is only 700 psi
while the two-bottle bank is up to 2350. Your
option, you could put it in, start a cba_ge, and
leave the PSS in the station to fill while you
pick up the run, or however you want to play that
one. Wrapping up here on the subject of check-
lists, you're recalling the shortage of cuff
checklist bracelets. One possibility we suggest
is the use of two long velcro watchbands over the
extended first and last pages of the cuff check-
list to hold it in place, but that's up to you,
Mr. Goldberg. And in restructuring the check-
list for tomorrow, we did not attempt to rearrange
or recalculate the maneuver times of the individ-
: us/ m_neuver elements. We thought this'd prob-
ably Just be more trouble for you all to enter
and change in the checklist than it was worth.
So Just press on through in sequence and have a
good flight. Over.
. CDR Okay Bruce; thanks.
017 01 h8 30 MCC Roger. You got about 30 seconds to LOS, Tanana-

_ rive in lh minutes at 02:02. I'ii turn it back
_ over to Richard here.
CDR Okay, Bruce. Can't think of any questions right

offhand. We m,y hit you with some in the morning.
017 0i_8 _6 MCC Okay, mighty fine.
01T 02:03 2_ CC Skylab, Houston. Hello at Tananarive for 9 min-

utes. And since we don't have any data here at
Tananarive, why don't you let us know when you
turn the CMG 2 heater off at 02:05?
PLT Wilco, Dick.
CC Okay.
PLT Did you happen to notice the telemetry on the last

station? I worked on the - the - the vanes about
another half hour.
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CC Let me check, Bill.
017 02 04 25 CC PLT, Houston. We did look at TM and we didn't

see any increase in flow. Just for our own curi-
osity, why don't you tell us what else you tried
to do up there?
PLT I took the crevice tool and taped over all but
about the three-eighths of an inch of the tip of
it. And got down and got around all the corners
and went down all of the aisles of the cooler
vanes. And it looked like I was getting scme
more stuff out. I don't see, without sort of
innovating another tool - I'm thinking right now,
as soon as I have time, I'm going to saw off
about the last three-eighths of an inch of the
crevice tool so it's flat on the end and I can
shove it up flush against the vanes. And that's
the only think I can think of to actually put -
to get more vacuum force and - and try to get that
lint or whatever it is out of the vanes.
017 02 05 16 CC Roger, Bill. One of the things we were consider-

ing and we are not going to do tonight Just cause
the time, I'm sure was sytem_tically turning the
various fans off and seeing if it - there was a
particular one of them that was - seemed to be
choking the flow. But at any rate, for now, we're
not - there's nothing else we can sched for this
evening.
PLT Yes, I'm - I'm sort of at a loss too because p -

previously, I spend, oh, not nearly as much time
on them and the ground immediately reported a
50-percent increase in flow. And today I - I
guess I spent a total of an hour and half working
on those doozies.
017 02 05 55 CC Okay.
SPT CMG heater number 2 is off.
CC Thank you very much, Ed.
017 02 06 13 CDR Hey, Dick, earlier this morning, Bruce asked us

some questions about TO20, about scheduling and
where we could save time. And I told him I
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thought we could probably prep T020 in about

15 minutes now and don it in about 25 or 30. I
think a total prep time prior to run of three-
q11a_ters of an hour would probably be adequate
i
for getting ready. Maybe you ought to make it an
hour and include all the camera set up as well.
_;_ And during the - the process of the run itself,
I think we could do well to skip the hand signals
that take a lot of time to tell the cameras what
run it is. And I can do hand signals to the dome
camera right from the maneuvering unit. And they
ought to be able to tell from the pictures that
they're seeing in the maneuvering unit camera just
exactly what run it is.
CC That's a good suggestion, Jerry. Anything else?
017 02 07 15 CDR That's all I can think of right offhand. But I

think - I think we can get the runs done a lot
quicker if we don't have to spend the - the time
running around doing hand signals to tell the
cameras what we're doing. I think they can prob-
ably figure that out pretty well along with the
narration. And Bill does a real good Job of
narrating.
CC Roger, Jerry. And we agree with that. We think

that would save a bunch of time and might get us
a - save us enough to get us another run. Who
knows ?
CDR Okay. And another thing, too, Dick. We never

did really understand the TV plan that you folks
had in mind for yesterday's T020 thing. All the
pad said was TV - I think it was 57 Delta - just
scene Delta. But, we got the definite impression
from the people on the ground yesterday that they
had expected us to do Alfa, Bravo, and Charlie as
well.
017 02 08 23 CC Okay, Jerry. We'll check that specific point.

But one's thing for sure, the next time we sched-
ule it, we'll make sure you - you - it's real
clear, whatever it is we do want.
CDR Yes, somewhere on the pad, it needs to - it needs

to actually call out Alfa, Bravo, and Charlie.
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The ehecklist calls it out, you know, but - the

same way it calls out DAC. But if you don't have
a photo pad that tells you to use a DAS, you
don't - you don't - you skip the box.
CC Sure, understand. And, Jerry, the immediate an-

swer that we get is - is that we did only expect
Delta yesterday. And so if there was some con-
fusion, we apologize about that.
017 02 09 13 CDR Okay, no problem. I just wanted to make sure

that we understood what - where the problems were
in - in signal calling. And we can improve it
next time.
CC Yes, sir; thank you. Incidentally, you might be

interested to know that last evening was really
the first evening in Houston that we've had a
good opportunity to see the comet. And it was
very dim from here in Houston, but several people
did take a look at it.
CDR Hey, that 's great.
CDR ...
CC You cut out. I'm sorry; say again.
017 02 l0 07 CC Skylab, Houston. We dropped out there for a min-

ute. We're back with you here at Tananarive for
another couple minutes. In case we have early
LOS, the last pass of the evening is the next one
at Hawaii at 02:_7. And a reminder for Bill,
that's your phone call and it's the left antenna,
02:47.
017 02 i0 25 PLT Roger; thank you.
017 02 47 28 CC Skylab, Houston. Hello at Hawaii for

8-1/2 minutes.
CDR Hello, Dick. I got the urine volumes to - to

close out the report tonight.
CC Okay.
CDR 245, 285, and 320.

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CC Okay, Jerry. Thank you very much.
017 02 54 54 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute to LOS Hawaii.

Your wakeup station in the morning is at -
during a Honeysuckle pass right at ll:00. So
we'll be sure to wake you up there. So, you all
have a nice sleep this evening. See you in the
morning.
CDR Okay, Dick. Good night.
SPT Good night, Dick.
017 02 55 12 CC Good night, guys; see you tomorrow.
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017 ii 00 0O CC (Music: "Oh, What a Beautiful Morning").
017 ii Ol 25 MCC (Laughter) Good morning, Jerry. Good morning,

Bill, and good morning, Ed. This is Little Mary
Sunshine, and it's a nice day to study the Sun.
Your coffee's waiting at the C&D panel. You've
been so busy, you must be all the way up to
JOP 100 by now. Go up and get started, and I'll
have breakfast ready in Just a minute.
CC (Music)
017 ii 02 24 CDR Ho, ho, I'm up. Where's the coffee?
017 ll 37 33 CC Good morning, Skylab. Crimson Team here with you

through MILA for l0 minutes.
CDE Good morning, Crip.
CC Goodmorning.
SPT Hey, Crip, for a while earlier, I thought maybe

your voice had changed.
CC MY voice wouldn't do that. If you guys are

interested, I've got a little news I could attempt
to read up.
CDR Have a go at it, Crip.
017 ii 38 06 CC Okeydoke. After seeing some of the world record

of verbiage that Brucehas put up, l'm afraid
to even compete. Well, I'ii start at the top.
An agreement to separate Israeli and Egyptian
forces along the Suez Canal is about 90-percent
complete, and none of the obstacles remaining is
a "gut issue," a high-ranking U.S. official
reported after Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger
returned Wednesday night from more t_1_ with
Egyptian President Anwar Sadat. Israeli - Israeli
Foreign Minister AbbaEbau conceded after talking
with Kissinger that the American mediator had made
"certain progress" on his last visit to Sadat. But
he cautioned that there remained **w "some sub-
stantial points to be clarified." Over around
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Britain, 100-mile winds whipped up 50-foot waves

in the English Channel Wednesdaynight and today,
drowning at least lh persons and sinking a 781-ton
Danish coastal freighter. Another ship, the
2447-ton Cypriot freighter Marta, was on fire,
and her captain radioed that the 20-man crew could
not launch lifeboats because of the high seas.
Indonesia's capital was quiet once again today as
Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka of Japan flew home
after a visit that sparked 2 days of student riots.
A helicopter took Tanaka, his daughter Makiko,
and President Suharto to the airport, where
cabinet ministers - members and foreign diplomats
said goodbye. But no students were on hand.
Tanaka arrived Monday night and spent his entire
visit in the heavily guarded presidential palace
compound because of the violence Tuesday and
Wednesday. At least seven persons were killed
in the street battles that grew out of demonstra-
tions accusing Japan of economic colonialism.
017 ii 39 57 CC The South Vietnamese government reported today

that two Red Chinese warships are guarding a
settlement established Wednesday by Chinese
fishermen in the disputed Paracel Islands.
Saigon's chief military spokesman said the trawlers
landed the fishermen on one of the coral islands
in the South China Sea Wednesday, and the men set
up huts and planted their flag. Then the warships
began to patrol in the area, the spokesman said.
But South Vietnam and China - both South Vietnam
and China claim the Paracels, which are a chain
of coral reefs about 250 miles east of Hue, South
Vietnam, and 175 miles southeast of the Chinese
island of Hainan. The spokesman said a South
Vietnamese unit is stationed on one of the islands
about 9 miles from one of the Chi - from the one
the Chinese landed on. The Government's top wage
controller has forcast bigger contract settlements
this year. "I would expect that the normal forces
that operate on wages will result in higher
settlements in 1974," said Director John T. Dunlop
of the Cost of Living Council. The forecast by
Dunlop may indicate a relaxation of the a_m_nistra-
tion' s pay guidelines.
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017 ii 41 06 CC Pentagon sources said a Soviet-made anti-aircraft

missile used by the Arabs in the resent Mideast war
may have been overrated. Technical analysis
indicates that SAT warhead was not powerful enough
to destroy more than a few of the Jets it did hit.
Federal Bureau - Bureau of Investigation is entering
the investigation into who could have erased a
portion of a taped presidential conversation.
An FBI spokesman said the agency was asked to
investigate by special Watergate prosecutor Leon
Jakorski [sic]. Meanwhile, a court inquiry into
the tape erasure continues.
017 ll 41 _7 CC I've got a handover coming up here, shortly, to

Bermuda. And I'll stand by and pick up with the
news after the handover 's complete.
017 ll 42 22 CC Okay, we've got you through Bermuda. And, again

picking up with the news. The American Petroleum
Institute has released figures which appear to
signal a tightening of the Arab oil embargo and
a worsening of the gasoline shortage. The White
House says its spendingon PresidentNixon's
Watergate defense is dwarfed by the cost of
Watergate investigations. A White House official
said the spending by the White House for this
fiscal will probably total about $600,000. The
official says the special Watergate prosecutor
has a $2.8 million budget, the Senate Watergate
committee $1.5 million, and the House Judiciary
Committee, $1 million. Two young Detroit policemen
were shot to death and two other wounded after
answering what Police Comm_ ssioner Philip Tannian
called the most difficult type of call, a family
fight involving a gun. Killed Wednesday were
Leonard Todd, 32, an ll-year police veteran Just
promoted to sergeant, and Patrolman Edward Bakula,
27, an ex-Marine with 4 years on the force. Each
was married and the father of one child. A
15-year old boy also was grazed by a bullet in a
hail of gunfire which cut down the four officers,
police said. Authorities would not identify the
_an who fired on the officers. They said he was
not hurt. John D. Ehrlichman said former presi-
idential energy adviser John A. Love failed in the
Job because he was a White House outsider who
could not get his hands on the Washington levers
of power. Love, who resigned as Governor of
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Colorado to take the post last June, was "in an

almost impossible position," Ehrlichman said.
"He Just didn't have the levers available to him."
Love left the Job December the 3rd. Ehrlichman,
who resigned as President Nixon's top domestic
adviser - affairs adviser last April, said Love's
job as energy adviser required the "pulling
together of vying and competing efforts of the
executive branch" of Government, a job too tough
for an outsider.
017 ll 44 33 CC Even though it's in its second year as a bestseller,

The Joy of Sex is proving no joy to bookseller
Ken Moffett of Macon, Georgia. He's the only
person in the country to be charged with distrib-
uting obscene literature for selling the book,
according to its publisher, Simon and Schuster.
Moffett was arrested last August, shortly after
a United States Supreme Court ruling broadened the
power of local committees in deciding what is
obscene. He was bound over to state court and
freed on $300 bond. The court is reviewing motions
to suppress the hearing and has set no hearing
date. Despite speeches, hearings and campaign
debate, federal tax reform remains an issue far
from final action in the Congress that reconvenes
next Monday. It has been on the agenda for a year,
with rival proposals from Democrats and the
Republican administration still pending. The
House Ways and Means Committee is expected to
resume consideration of tax reform beginning in
February.
017 ll 45 30 CC A landslide touched off by drenching rains has

smothered a telephone building in Oregon and
authorities say as many as nine persons may be
trapped. The landslide near Canyonville, in
southwestern Oregon, pushed the Pacific Northwest
Bell Co. building into Canyon Creek Wednesday
night and then covered the concrete structure
with mud.
l
CC Heavy equipment was moved to the scene, but rescue

attempts were abandoned temporarily in the face
of threats of further slides. Meanwhile, heavy
rains and an early snow melt sent already swollen
streams surging to new highs in many areas of
the Pacific Northwest. Northern California also
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felt the punch of the winter storm which brought

high water and high winds to western Montana,
Idaho, northeastern Washington and Oregon. In
marked contrast to the foul weather in the North-
west, most of the nation east of the Rockies
enjoyed fair skies and mild temperatures. There
was some minor flooding in the Mississippi and
Ohio river valleys. The fuel supply problem which
forced Consolidated Eastern [sic] Co. to increase
its voltage cutback in New York City this week
dramatizes the shortages of heavy fuel oil in the
East this winter. The utility company says it's
down to a 10-day supply instead of the normal
20-day reserve. It ordered voltage reduced
5 percent around the clock to conserve the dwindling
stocks.
017 ll h6 51 CC Until this week, the voltage cutback for New York
has been 3 percent. Prices of live slaughter
cattle have risen sharply from the low levels of
last fall and are helping push up retail meat
• prices again. Agriculture Department economists
predicted some time ago that cattle prices were
expected to go up this winter, but the jump has
been larger than expected. A little bit of sports,
as we're about 30 seconds from LOS and next station
contact is going to be over Madrid in about
3-1/2 minutes at ll:51. We'll be doing a data/voice
recorder dump there. The Houston Aeros, riding
high atop their division in the World Hockey
League, defeated Toronto last night, h to l, and
Mickey Mantle and Whitey Ford, two key players
in the glory years of the New York Yankees under
Manager Casey Stengal, have been elected to
baseball's Hall of Fame.
017 ll 47 43 CC In their careers, Mantle had 536 home runs,

presently sixth on the all-time list, and Ford
won 236 games. I'll give up the news.
017 ll 50 52 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Madrid doing a

data/voice recorder dump. We have you for about
8-1/2 minutes.
SPT Good morning, Crip. You got any news to read this
morning?
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CC Roger, that. No, I can't read news. MY Flight

won't let me do it because I don't know how. Hey,
Ed, while I've got you there we've got you
scheduled for an ED61 this morning, but we would
like you not to deactivate ED61 and 62 since we
have further plans for it, and we'll have a mes-
sage up in a day or so what we want done with it.
017 ii 51 3h SPT Okay, Crip. I have some thoughts of maybe moving

it closer to a light and getting a little more
energy on it. I'm sure we can boost that energy
up by a factor of 4 maybe - maybe 5.
CC Copy.
CC Missed you guys. Sounds like you've been busy

while I've been gone.
SPT We've been working on it, Crip. Just kind of

learning our way around here.
CC You've been setting records while we've been off.
SPT Thanks to you guys. You're keeping us up here. _
017 ll 53 57 CC Skylab, Houston, for the CDR. Jer, we had you

scheduled for ATM this morning, and we're not
showing it operating. About the only thing we
really had you doing was BB2 and we had also
scheduled a little TV downlink, which - you could
put some on the VTR for us, that would be fine.
SPT He'll be at it in a minute, Crip.
CC Okeydoke.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from LOS. Next

station contact in 26 minutes at Carnarvon at
12:24, and, for your information, active aurora
has been reported in the Northern Hemisphere.
If you get a chance you might use PGMI8 Bravo
for photos.
017 ll 58 52 SPT Okay, thanks very much, Crip. We sure would

like to do that.
CDR What kind of day do you have down there, Crip?

.p
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CC Well, we've been having foggy mornings, and I

haven't had a chance to look outside, but it was
supposed to be that way today again. Sunshine is
kind of rare. Just need you guys up there to keep
reassuring us that it's still there.
SPT We've got it all right.
017 ll 59 35 CC Yes, need to stir it up a little bit more, though.
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017 12 24 18 CC Skylab, Houston; AOS Carnarvon. We have you, oh,

about 15 minutes here through Carnarvon.
CDR Roger, Crip.
017 12 25 14 CC Skylab, Houston. The - the purple gang did good

work for you on your details last night; I didn't
have a - have a bunch of messages to read you up
this morning changing - changing your pads. One
/ item for CDR. Jer, can you tell me whether boris
acid in 'the bags was ever discussed with you?
I knew of that you did get a new card - cue card
on it.
CDR No, we haven't talked to - to anybody about it

since we got the new card.
CC 0ks_y, the o_y thlng Iw_uted to ment--i_nI know

you had called down questioningabout it since
the original- the card before this one, had de-
leted all of that. And the FMT went back and
reviewed that - that logic for deleting it and
they concluded that because you are essentially
breaking new - new ground in the portion of the
space mission that you're in that it would be
advisable to go ahead and use the boric acid to
protect ourselves against the loss of both re-
frigeration loops and losing all of that urine
data. So that's the reason that it was put back
in. And per.your re_u_t. 9_d_aY_69, we_.arep!anr
ning on scheduling s_.-%ody to go ahead and put
all the boric acid in the 15 bags that will be
i
required for the rest of the mission.
CDR Okay, that' s"good_'Crip.--_at_s-the most-econam_ ....

ical way to do it.
CC ' Roger. And that is in our planning right now.
CDR Thank you, sir.
017 12 33 30 CC Skylab, Houston. If we could have somebody check

up the ATM C&D, we stillshow H-alpha is in over-
ride and we need that goes - to go back to normal. -
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Also, Ed, when you get back on the panel, you're

going to need to set up the grating on 55. All
you need to do is fin - get a reference.
SPT Roger, Crip.
017 12 3_ 22 CC Skylab, we're getting ready to hand over to Honey-

suckle here. We'll probably drop out for a few
seconds.
017 12 35 15 CC And we're now talking to you through Honeysuckle.

Be with you for abou£ _ m0re minutes.
SPT Hello, Crip; let me talk to you about ED61.
CC Talk to me.
SPT Okay, our friendly seeds have finally really

picked up and started growing. And in compart-
ment i, the one which has received the most light,
one structure which looks, for all practical pur-
poses, like a root finally found its way to the
front part of the glass where the - most of the
light hits. And that part of the root has turned -"
green, indicating that, well, you know the full
story because you educated me on it. So it looks
as though we're getting some results, and if they
want to change the protocol at all, I would sug-
gest we just put this thing up in front of - get
a little more additional light on it which we can
do very easily. The location which was specified
for it came out with that relatively low lighting
level which we've called down. If we could move
it up closgr to the light and I think get quite
a bit more on it and let's see what happens in
the other compartments as well.
017 12 36 48 CC Okay, we'll throw that back t0 bi0med and see if

we can get some comment _ut of it. I thought I
was going to tell you how to distinguish a root
from the stem. Couldn't tell it until it turned
green, right?
SPT That's what you told me.
CC That was part of what I thought I - you could

distinguish it earlier than that because the -
the stem w_sn't supposed to be hair_.
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SPT Well, that may be a fact or, _lthough - although

most of the ones, which have grown very early,
were not hairy. The - but, lately, quite a few
very thin ones have come out which are hairy.
017 12 37 25 CC Okay. I'll advise them we got nonhairy roots.
SPT I shall not pursue that one any further.
CC Thank you.
SPT Crip, you wouldn't want to ask what we named the

roots, would you?
CC (Laughter) I don't know if I want to pursue that

one.
017 12 38 36 CC And with that bit of scintillating conversation,

I guess I'll say good morning to you here. We're
about a minute from LOS. Next station contact
is, oh, in about 31 minutes over Texas, and we'll
be turning it over to the maroon crew there.
CDR Roger, Crip. We'll be seeing you.
017 12 38 55 CC Roger, be back with you manana.
017 13 l0 33 CC Skylab, we got you stateside for l_ minutes.
SPT Morning, Story.
CC Good morning, Ed.
SPT How's the maroon time , maroon team like the day
shift?
CC Oh, we iik-e the d_y shift Just fife; just fine.

And we'll be dumping the VTR here.
017 13 ii 46 CC And, Skylab, the laser is an optional photograph

this morning hut it is coming up in about 6 min-
utes and they'll be participating,
SPT Roger, Story. We'll be looking for it.
CC Okay.
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017 13 14 05 SPT Say, Story; in case the ATM folks are wondering,
I got going on the orbit, which starts at 14:36,
and after I finish the work on building block 20
here I'll go back and - or on active region 20 -
I'll go back and pick up the Sun-centered work
for J0P 6, building block 1A/lB.
CC Okay, we'll get with you, Ed.
017 13 18 42 CC Skylab, the laser's tracking you now.
CDR 'Roger, Story. Have it in sight.
CCC Okay.
CDR Looks like they have a thin cirrus layer over

i
the area and it's getting through.
CC Okay. And, Ed, as you suggested, continue on

with that building block BS, and the VTR is yours.
SPT Thank you.
CDR It flashed bright and then dim and then bright.

Now it's dim again, and I can see it only with
binoculars in the dim phase.
CC Okay.
CDR And I lost her right after I spoke to you.
CC Okay, Jer. The laser's off now.
CDR Roger.
017 13 24 2B CC Skylab, we're a minute to LOS; 5 minutes to

Madrid. Be dumping the data/voice atMadrid.
017 1B 24 B9 CDR Roger, Story.
017 13 29 48 CC Skylab, back with you through Madrid for

7 minutes. We're dumping the data/voice here.
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017 13 36 09 CC Skylab, we're about a minute to LOS; about 28 min-

utes to Carnarvon at lh:0h. Ed, your ATM conference
will be coming up there.
SPT Thanks, Story.
017 13 37 07 CC Skylab, in the blind. Check your neck and RS and

IS electrodes.
017 14 04 51 MCC Skylab, Houston with the ATM conference for

4 minutes.
SPT Morning, Bill. Go ahead.
MCC Okay. We don't have very long here. We've got a

6-minute gap between Carnarvon and Honeysuckle and
then Honeysuckle for 1 minute, so I'll get cracking.
Not too much to say this morning about the Sun.
It looks active, but it isn't. Kind of reminds
_ me of some old girl friends,really. Today, we've
got a couple of comments on the plan here for today.
We sort of assume that that's going to keep you
happy as far as ATM time goes here for a while.
You've been asking for more, and we really did it
to you today, didn't we?
SPT You sure did. Looks like a good day.
017 14 05 38 MCC Okay. Good. Understand that there was some con-
fusion here as far as the previous orbit, being
the synoptic orbit, goes and Just wanted to clarify
that what we think you did was you went ahead and
completed the normal part of the orbit that was
scheduled next ; the JOP 21, BBB5. And on the orbit
that will be coming up shortly, you will pick up
the synoptic and then go on into the JOP 7, and so
on. Is that true?
SPT Yes. That's affirm, Bill. Jerry had what he had

done folded over and looked at the synoptic and
figured that was the first orbit that had been
done and pressed into the second one before I'd
looked at the time.
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MCC Okay, fine. No problem there. Some words from

S055 on the active region 14 surges you gave them
a couple of days ago. They're really ecstatic
about that and are very, very happy with what they
got and they think that's Just great. Sane words
on H-ALPHA I, which is now working, as you well
know. H-ALPHA i has plenty of film. In general,
they'd like to run at two frames per minute. On
periods of high activity, four frames per minute
would be Just fine.
017 14 06 h2 SPT Better take a look at it again. I think it froze

up again this morning and I turned it to OFF but
I have not turned the camera POWER OFF. We'll
work that again after we get done with the con-
ference. Go ahead.
MCC Okay. We may be playing Mickey Mouse with that

thing here for a few days. ATM conference, tomor-
row, on your crew day off, Jim Milligan will be
talking to you. Basically, he will discuss activity
results to date, which experiments have gotten
what, and how happy they are, and what we want
to do next, may -basically for the next week. So ....
Jim will talk to you tomorrow.
SPT Good, look forward to t_]king with Jim.
017 lh 07 13 MCC Good. One last thought, here. On next Monday,

each experiment is going to have a representative
at a meeting where we're going to discuss shuttle-
type planning for facilities like ATM - what kind
of things we might do now to give us a little bit
more insight into that. We've had several discus-
sions here on board. The types of things that
are running through our mind is we've been giving
you a lots of ops time; we really ought to give
Jerry and Bill some ops time. I know they would
like some. We'll probably do that; as part of an
experiment, give you several consecutive orbits
of ops time to let you plan your own program and
do what you want. And, on one extreme, is really
to put the summary inputs in for the day and then
where the planning session would go ahead and
schedule these out, pass those on up to you and
see what you Can do with those. We'd probably
want - -
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SPT I'd look forward to taking that approach.
017 lh 08 l0 MCC Okay. Well, what I was going to ask was for you
to think about it between now and Monday morning,
really. I'll talk to you Saturday morning again
and Monday morning. Right now, Owen's coming in
Sunday to talk to you. But on Saturday and Monday,
we can discuss it, and, what I would like to do is
to take your inputs to that meeting. And now we've
got - -
SPT Okay, we can get a little more definitive on that

and I would also like to get some people to schedule
maybe about an hour or so for me to debrief the
ATM panel itself. I think we've all been working
it and we've all got some thoughts on, if we were
to do this whole thing over again, Just how we
would approach it. And I think we ought to do it
whileit'sfreshin ourmind.
017 14 08 48 _CC Okay. We'll put that input. We're l0 seconds to

LOS. And I guess you'll have to give us your
_. words on the Sun later throughoutthe day. But
it is important. It turns out most of the ground-
based observatories are socked in by weather. So
we lean heavily on you and Jim will be tRiCing with
you tomorrow. Out.
SPT Okay. I'll go ahead and do that. I've got a few

things to talk about. While we're going over the
hill, let me ask you a little bit about the obser-
vations, which were done yesterday on the ]_mb,
looking for loops. Now, as I reported, I think
I was ab '- able to find some and I'm wondering
whether what I pointed out in terms of locations
and angles from local/vertical were actually what
was observed on the ground observatories.
MUC Okay, Ed. We'll look into that. And you're

disappearing in the static here.
017 14 09 35 SPT Okay .... consecutive days ... performance of ...
017 14 15 53 CC Skylab, back _-ith you through Honeysuckle for

2 minutes.
017 l_ 17 03 CC And, Skylab; we're going LOS here. See you in about
30 minutes at Texas at 1_:45.
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017 lh h5 16 CC Skylab, AOS stateside for 16 minutes.
SPT Roger, Story.
CC And, why don't you all call off that laser rendez-
vous that's coming up at l_:5h. The weather is not
satisfactory enough to do the test.
SPT Will do.
017 lh h5 56 CC Ed, Houston.
CC Ed, we'd like you to operate H-ALPHA 1 regardless

of the frame count or the READY light indications.
You're not going to hurt anything even if the camera
is Jammed, but it's possible we got a read switch
or a logic failure. And you can be getting good
data even though you don't have good indications.
SPT Okay, Story. At the beginning of this orbit, I

tried it again aud I did get good indications here
and it worked for about five counts or so, two
of them in MANUAl and three of them in AUTO. But
then it appears to have hung up again, at least t
frc_ my vantage point. But I will go ahead snd
continue to operate it two frames per minute.
CC Yes, sir, be fine.
017 lh h8 03 CC Skylab; is Bill doing some instrumented PT now?
CDR That's affirmative. He's going to do a max effort.
CC Okay. And, thank you.
SPT Story, I wonder if I could make a couple of remarks

and one question on ATM ops and then get into
describing the Sun a little bit?
CC Okay, Go, Ed.
017 lh h8 48 SPT Okay, number one is, as you know, we don't have
the beryllium count up here on the counter, and I
would like to have the backroom give us a call
whenever they see the beryllium count go up signifi-
cantly above background or when they show a signifi-
cant rise in the background level whether we're r_
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on the panel or not. That would hold for this time

where we have the active regions on the disk prob-
ably for the next, oh, 7 or 8 days. Secondly,
yesterday, during some observing time, I looked at
some loops on the limb and I gave some description
on tape, and I believe mentioned last night some-
thing about the - where I saw them. And I'm won-
dering if this correlated with what the people
had seen in the green line in the corona. And in
particular I saw a - in oxygen VI - what appeared
to be on a - on loop edge on extending out in the
north part of the region pretty much perpendicular
to the disk or along the local vertical, and then
one in the southern portion of the region inclined
around 12 degrees in the local vertical towards the
south. Both of them were seen in oxygen VI about
130 counts or so, maybe 50 or so off the disk.
017 14 50 05 SPT Thirdly, the - getting into what we see from up

here, the WHITE LIGHT CORONAGRAPH shows that the
corona has not changed greatly in - in large scale
features but some of the finer features have. Over
_ at 280 and 295, they're pretty much unchanged except
maybe the strength of the one helmet streamer 280
has increased. There's a diffuse emission around -
going frum - from maybe 265 up to 280. It looks -
it could be part of that streamer, perhaps not.
It's Just a very diffuse ... and no central -
no centralized or localized emission. Over at 060,
we see a faint streamer which we did see yesterday.
It appears perhaps a little bit stronger today.
Over at 080 we still see the fairly localized but
relatively weak emission from a streamer. We do
not see any of the weak emission from, say, 080
down to 090 which we did see yesterday. There
is a fairly prominent streamer starting to come
out at about 095, which continues on over to 105.
It's not anywhere near as strong as the helmet
streamers over on the east limb, but it is signif-
icantly decreased over and above what it was
yesterday. The faint streamer at 220, which we
saw yesterday, is Just barely discernible today,
but is still there. The XUV MONITOR shows cer-
tainly a wide belt of plage all the way across the
southern - about the southern hemisphere low lat-
itude, and we see that the brightest plage are in
active region 21 and the 16/26 complex.
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017 i_ 52 16 SPT The next brightest is - and then we have to use

integrate to see all of these now - is in the
18/23 complex and then there is a new one Just
coming around the corner at 280 right at the limb.
It looks fairly small, and I imagine most of the
limb - limb brightening that makes it show up so
well. The largest extent of plage is in the
21/2_/20 complex of activity. We do not see any
real significant coronal holes except north/south
and a little bit around, say, above active re-
gion 18 and 25. Filament channels; perhaps there
is one coming up from the - about a region of 200
extending northeastward up towards active region 20,
but it terminates very abruptly at the edge of
the plage. I understand observatories are socked
in. So, in looking at H-alpha, I'm afraid I'm
at a little disadvantage because I'm remaining
Sun center here and I can't really get over and
look at the active regions in detail.
017 14 53 32 SPT But the plage, in general, both the brightness

and the extent, are pretty much parallel to what
I've described in the XUV MONITOR. The plage
around active region 16 and 26, in both XUV and 4
H-alpha is fairly extensive. And up there at
18:23 is also fairly bright. Over at 21 and 24,
21 is the brightest. It's not too - it's not
anywhere near as extensive, however, in H-ALPHA
as what you see in XUV. The filament up at - well,
340 is filament 76; it's probably the largest and
most extensive or the disk. And in terms of other
general features, sunspot and active region 20
stands out very well in H-alpha. I've not really
had a chance to go over and look at any of these
regions, however, in detail. And that's it,
Story. I'd appreciate any feedback from the
ground on activity which they may see on the -
especially on the X-REA.
017 l_ 54 _6 CC Okay. Thanks very much, Ed.
017 i_ 57 _0 CC Ed, we show you in MECHANICAL REFERENCE on your

MIRROR, AUTO RASTER there, and you'll need to go
to GRATING 104.

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_J; CC _._. Yes, sir.
017 lh 58 58 CC _ We'll be dropping out for a minute in a keyhole,

Skyl_.
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017 15 Ol 14 CC Skylab, we're about 30 seconds to LOS here; 5 min-

utes to Madrid. They'll be looking to dump the
data/voice at Madrid.
017 15 06 47 CC Skylab, we're back with you through Madrid for 8 min-
utes. Be dumping the data/voice here.
017 15 ll 05 SPT Hello, Story. I have a question for the ATM folks.
CC Go ahead, Ed.
SPT That is, active region 25, which is a relatively

high latitude, is that reverse polarity? In other
words, is that from the new solar cycle?
CC Ed, Houston.
SPT Go ahead.
CC Ed, as best we can tell, we don't think active

region 25 is rever - re - reverse polarity indi-
cating a - a new phase of the solar cycle.
017 15 13 05 SPT Thanks, Story.
CC And, we're seeing entirely normal ops down here of

H-ALPHA1. Our best guess right now is that you
got a read switch failure and all that affects is
your - your FRAMES REMAINING count and your READY
light and nothing else. It in no way effects the
camera logic. We're seeing normal ops down here
and press on.
SPT Hey, that's good to hear. Thank you.
CC We can see the - the shutter operating and you can't.
SPT Just as long as it's working.
CC Roger.
017 15 14 3h CC Skylab, we're a minute from LOS; about 13 minutes

to Tananarive at 15:27.
017 15 31 ll CC Skylab, got you through Tananarive for 5 minutes.

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017 15 33 56 CC Skylab, we're kind of dropping out here. We got

about 2 minutes to LOS; the next one is Honeysuckle
in 17 minutes at 15:52.
017 15 52 37 CC Skylab, we got you through Honeysuckle for 5 rain'

utes. Bill, Houston.
CDR Go ahead. He's listening.
CC Okay. This pass, we'll be shipping up a procedure

to help us get some more flow across the heat ex-
changers and get y'all a little bit of cooling.
And, if possible, I'd like Bill to get that done
during this housekeeping block that he's got coming
up around 16 :30.
CDR 0kay, Story.
CC And Just a quick note of explanation on it. We'll

Just have him replace any fans that he finds in-
operative. If he doesn't find any fans inoperative,
we think there's several fans that are probably
degraded. It's the only explanation for the low
flow we can come up with now and that's why if he
finds no fans totally inoperative, we're having
him replace all that he can in the time allotted.
CDR Roger.
CC Go ahead, Ed.
SPT Say, Story, on this last J0P 7 we just did, going

through midnight, I was looking at the WHITE LIGHT
CORONAGRAPH DISPLAY and at around 6 minutes re-
maining, the TV picture dimmed and the only thing
remaining in about 15 seconds was a bright spot.
And at about 5:30, we started to get some light
coming in from the upper right-hand quadrant, which
I assumed was the airglow. So at that point, then
I gave 52 at - some 9-second exposures followed
by 1-second exposures at 5 minutes, 4 minutes, and
3 minutes remaining. And then as called out 02:00,
1:30, Ol:00, 00:30 seconds remaining, then at zero.
I'm not sure whether they anticipated a coming in
quite that early, but seeing as we don't get a
chance to do this very often, I thought I'd take
advantage of it.
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CC Okay, thanks. And we're about 10 seconds to LOS;

Goldstone, 24 minutes at 16:20. And S052's real
happy with that, Ed.
SPT Very good, Story. Hope the data looks good when
we get it back.
017 15 57 59 CC Yes, sir.
017 16 21 18 CC Skylab, AOS through Goldstone for 9 minutes.
SPT Roger, Story.
CC And, Ed, when you get the chance, float on over

there and open up the CABIN PRESSURE REGs A and B.
SPT I'm floating and they're open.
CC Okay, and they're confirmed.
SPT Actually, Story, from this position, you really

don't have to float very much at all. If you Just
_- put one foot in the triangle below the ATM, you
can reach the VTR all the way over to the circuit
breakers panel 200.
CC Okay, next time I'll say reach over there.
SPT Very good. Think one g.
017 16 23 54 SPT Hey, Story, i'm beginning to see a slight increase

in the XUV MONITOR activity around active region 21.
Is the X-REA activity going up at all?
CC I'll get with you.
CC Not now, Ed.
SPT Thank you.
017 16 27 46 SPT Say, Story, Just out of curiosity I'd like to ask
why we're looking at active region 20 rather than
21. Is this expected to be developing faster than
21?
CC Ed, that's a good question. And the reason we're

doing that is because active region 20 is nearer
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Sun center. The instruments do better there. And

when 21 gets near Sun center, we'll run the same
program on it.
SPT Okay, very good. Thank you, Story.
017 16 29 52 CC We're about 30 seconds to LOS here; about 4 minutes

to Bermuda at 16:33.
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5-1/2 minutes. And, Ed, when you're ready, l've
got a dissertation on loops over active region 14.
SPT I'm ready; hit me with it.
CC Okay, it's about what I'm going to do, and these

refer to the loops that occurred yesterday; that's
mission day 62. Lyman-alpha raster shows a single
loop and an inclined linear structure. The loop
dimensions are given in the picture. The struc-
ture to the north of the loop is inclined at about
30 degrees to the limb. Oxygen VI loops_ar _ seen,
but only roughly correspond- to Lyman-alpha struc-
tures. They're generally higher by a factor of
1.5 than the Lyman-alpha. Magnesium X data shows
only diffuse structures not well correlated with
the lower temperature material. The images show
oxygen VI loops orientation mostly east to west,
_- which are mainly vertical in the southernportion
and inclined in the northern portion. This is
the reverse of yourdownlink that occurred yes-
terday about 20:00 GMT. However, the correlation
between rasters and voice report is fairly good.
In other words, it looks like maybe you confused
north with south, that you said north but meant
south. Sac Peak Observatory reports that active
limb programs have been run on the west limb over
active region l_ using the 40-centimeter corona-
graph, but they don't have the f_Im yet.
017 16 35 50 SPT Okay, thanks, Story. No, I don't con - think I

confused north with south. The only reason - the
only way I was able to pick them up at all as far
as the orientation was to go at two different
heights, find out where the peaks were, and then:
try to - Just on the basis of ...fer Just draw a
line and assume that I was looking at the same
feature. And that probably was not true. In
other words, I started looking at one feature in
low altitude, and another feature at a higher
altitude. I really didn't have time to map the
thing out in detail.
CC Okay.
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SPT Yes, thanks for that information, Story, and time

permitting, I might be going back there today. I
I looked at it this morning and found some, they
say, some diffuse structures in magnesium X, but
there certainly were peaks. And I_think if I go
back and look in maybe Lyman-alpha I'll be able
to find a more pronounced peak, or if they'd like
me to work in oxygen VI, I could do that. If
they have any suggestions on which lines they'd
like me to peak up in, and, say, roll orienta-
tions for a particular orientation, you know, to
get fif - 82B the best exposures, I'll be glad to
do it.
017 16 37 23 CC Okay, copy, Ed.
017 16 39 12 CC And we're a minute from LOS, 5 minutes to Canary.
017 16 43 38 CC We're back with you through Canaries for 9 minutes.
017 16 51 51 CC Skylab, we're a minute to LOS. See you over

Tananarive in about 13 minutes at 17:04, and,
Bill we don't get any data over Tananarive. We
don't see any data for about 40 minutes. How's
your OWS heat exchanger fans procedure going?
PLT Okay, Story. I got c_e replaced alre_' and our

biggest problem is a 4-inch extension is tied up
in one of the science demos.
CC We think we're done with TV-IO1 if you want to

take that, Bill.
PLT I think Ed has a few more things he wants to do

there, and I'm getting by with it the way it is.
It's Just taking me Just a tad longer.
SPT I'll work it with him, Story.
CC Okay, and understand, Bill, you are going to -

you're in work changing out all four fans?
PLT That's affirmative.
CC Okay.
01716 53 30 PLT In work.

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017 17 06 hl CC Skylab, AOS through Tananarive for 3 minutes.
PLT Okay, Story. Take a look at the data. All four

fans have been replaced.
CC Okay, thanks, Bill.
CC Understand you didn't find any individual fans

that were failed.
SPT That's negative, Story.
CC Okay.
017 17 08 59 CC Skylab, we're a minute to LOS. About 20 minutes

to Honeysuckle, 17:28.
017 17 29 02 CC Skylab, AOS through Honeysuckle for 8 minutes.
CDR Roger, Story, and I'd like to ask a question of

the food people.
CC Okay, go, Jer.
CDR Okay, I'd like to add a mashed Potatoes to my

menu tonight. I think there's enough in overage.
CC Is that all? ..
CDR That's it.
CC Okay, we'll get you an answer. And while I got

you, on your M509 prep, use SOP number 13, that'll
save you a trip up to the command module.
CDR Okay, SOP-13.
CC And, that's in the experiment compartment E-632.
CDR Roger.
017 17 36 55 CC Skylab; we're a minute from LOS; about 12 minutes

to Hawaii, 17:h7. Be looking to dump the data/
voice there.
CC And, Jer, on the mashed potatoes, we'll get you

an answer as soon as we can. The food people are
out to lunchrightnow.
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017 17 39 26 PLT You're a prophet.
017 17 _8 01 CC Skylab, A0S through Hawaii for l0 minutes. Be

dumping the data/voice here.
PLT Roger, Story.
CC Ed, Houston.
CC Ed, you got some observing time here. If you

want to look at active region 14 loops during
this time, S055 suggests peaking up on oxygen VI
and obtaining spectra. 82 would like shopping
list 12. However, both these experiments and th e
rest of them I want to leave the choice of target
and the ops to you.
SPT Okay, thanks, Story. I'll be going over there

and taking a look. I thought I'd get the building
block 28 done first and then I'd know exactly how
much longer -make sure I got that in and then
I'd know how much I have for observing.
CC Okay.
SPT He's listening; go ahead.
CC Okay, the simple addition of the mashed potatoes

pushes the calcium above the - the limit, but we
got two alternatives to get th_n on, He can either
have the mashed potatoes and drop the peas, or have
the mashed potatoes sand the peas, if he'll delete
the grapefruit drink and add a - a free-calorie
drink.
CDR Okay, I already had the grapefruit, so let's drop

the peas.
CC Okay, copy, Jer.
CDR Thank you.
CC That's the best We could d0. Thank you.

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CDR I was afraid you were going to ask me to drop the

chicken and gravy.
017 17 55 31 SPT They're both bitter because I was the one who got
the prime rib tonight. They have no sense of
fairness.
CC You guys keep catching me without words, but you

know how I feel.
017 17 57 00 CC We're a minute to LOS, 3 minutes to Goldstone.
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017 18 00 08 CC Skylab, back with you through Goldstone for

7 minutes.
017 18 06 17 CC Skylab, we're a minute to LOS; 5 minutes to

Bermuda.
017 18 ll 16 CC Skylab, we're with you through Bermuda for

9 minutes. And, Ed, we need the DAS for outer
gimbal backup.
SPT You got it.
CC Okay.
017 18 13 52 SPT Story, would you ask the 54 folks if they would
accept the LONG EXPOSURE with a movement of
2 arc seconds either way during the middle of it?
I'd like togive them around a 2h-minute exposure,
but every 8 minutes or so, I'll be changing the
pointing by 2 arc seconds.
CC Okay; get with you, Ed.
017 18 15 01 CC Ed, that'll be fine on the S05h. If possible keep

that movement down to a max of 2 arc seconds.
SPT Okay, Story; will do. I'm doing a shopping list 12

along with some GRATING and MIRROR AUTO RASTERs
for 55 and LONG EXPOSURES for 56.
CC Okay, thanks. And the DAS is yours.
SPT Thank you.
O17 18 16 52 CC And, Ed, we show you running a GRATING SCAN off

the limb. You need to be in MECHANICAL REFERENCE
to get a RESET.
SPT I Just noticed that passing through 6,000. Thank

you.
SPT At about 40 arc seconds off the limb, Story, I

was able to get an oxygen VI count of about 130,
140; and a half width of around 5 are seconds.
I don't really have the time to map out the feature,
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so l'm Just going to take some spectra and try

to get a GRATING AUTO SCAN in as well, or a
MIRROR AUTO RASTER.
CC Copy, Ed.
017 18 18 h7 CC And we're a minute to LOS; 2 minutes to Canaries.
017 18 21 52 CC We're back with you through Canaries and Ascension

for 16 minutes.
017 18 36 _7 CC Skylab, we're a minute to LOS; about 27 minutes

017 19 0h 06 CC Skylab, AOS through Carnarvon and Honeysuckle

for 8 minutes.
017 19 12 06 CC Skylab, we're going LOS here. We'll see you over
Hawaii in 16 minutes.
017 19 27 h3 CC Skylab, we're with you through Hawaii for h minutes.
PLT Okay, Story. Jer is fitted and we're getting ready

to don the FMU.
CC Okay, Bill.
017 19 29 06 CC Ed, Houston.
CC Ed, you're scheduled for a TV downlink here over

Hawaii. If you can wait until Goldstone, it'll be
_ at 19:39. We'll get that back a lot faster.
SPT Okay, be glad to do it. Just give me a call.
017 19 29 29 CC Okay, give you a reminder there.
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017 19 30 55 CC And we're a minute to LOS; 9 minutes to Goldstone

at 19:39.
017 19 39 28 CC Skylab, got you through Goldstone for 5 minutes.

Ed, Houston.
CC NOAA Just picked up an eruptive prominence on the

northwest limb. Like for you to interrupt what
you're doing and do a JOP-8 Alfa, and that lifted
off Just 6 minutes ago.
SPT Thank you.
SPT You said the northwest limb?
CC That's affirm.
CC And it's over activeregion lb.
017 19 h2 29 CC Ed, Houston.
SPT Go ahead.
CC Ed, we forgot to direct you to it. But according

to the SAP and all, omit steps 1 and 2 of 8A.
Go right on to step 3; that's Sun center.
SPT Okay, Story. I wish you would have said that in

the beginning. I can see it in the XUV monitor.
I'll go Sun center.
CC Okay, we should have.
017 19 h6 36 CC Skylab, we dropped out for a minute in the hand-

over. We're still with you for 12 minutes.
CC Ed, Houston.
SPT Go ahead.
CC Ed, when you get a chance, we'd like same TV down-

link of WLC and XUV.
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SPT Okay, I'ii give it to you in a minute.
017 19 _8 36 SPT You called it well, Houston. There is a beautiful

one in the WLC at around 2 solar radii out,
exceptionally bright transient, very compact knots
of material and the whole corona in that region at
that angle looks disturbed quite a distance out.
CC Okay, thanks, Ed.
SPT Looks something like a spearhead moving out, maybe

l0 degrees or so across at the back and maybe a
90-degree point at the front.
CC Copy.
017 19 53 13 PLT Houston, Skylab.
CC Go ahead, Bill.
PLT Roger. Could you redesignate a recorder for me?

I need voice recording capability.
CC Stand
by i.
CC Bill, experiment 1 recorder is running. All you

need to do is record.
PLT Thank you.
017 19 56 23 SPT Story, you Just got another look at it on TV.

It's about 2-1/2 solar radii out. There still is
the - the wedge shape at the very front or arrow-
head, if you will, and it's exceptionally bright.
Must be a lot of material in there. And off the
north end of the - the trailing edge of that wedge,
there is some material which goes all the way down
to the - the occulting disk. And that's also
exceptionally bright.
CC Okay, beautiful, Ed.
SPT Surprisingly though, Story, I don't see any material

around it swelled out or pushed away, if you will,
as we've seen in many transients. This material
Just appeared to be moving out. There is somy
disturbance out - immediately out in front of it,
but it doesn't appear to be pushing the material
off to the side.
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CC Okay, thanks, Ed. And, Ed, keep S05h running.
SPT Will do, Story. Their timer got started a little

after their experiment.
017 19 58 01 CC Okay. We're a minute from LOS; l0 minutes to

Ascension.
SPT This looks like a great orbit to inhibit the

mem -mcmentum dump, Story. We're going to be
able to follow this all the way out.
CC Roger, Ed.
017 19 59 07 CC And, going over the hill, we'd like a MIRROR,

AUTO RASTER, Ed.

6 minutes.
SPT Roger, Story. I got one more look on the TV and

put it on the VTR. I'm going to give 82A one
exposureJustbefore400 K here.
CC Okay, and while we're on the subject of 82A, we

did have a J0P checklist change. It omitted it
after the first orbit. We'd like to leave that
one to your Judgment. If you see something very
bright in the XUV monitor, go ahead and run it
the second orbit.
-%
SPT Okay, would they like to have the exposure times

increased if we do run it?
CC I'll get you an answer to that. And as per the

J0P, for your planning purposes, the next orbit
we'll be running building block 17, and on the -
the third orbit, we'll be going to building
block 32.
SPT Thank you.
017 20 12 58 CC Skylab, we're a minute to LOS; about 25 minutes

SPT Story, the arrowhead now has become a little more

elongated. The tip of it is out to 4 solar
radii. And the material, which is l_ing behind,
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is stretched and the major part of it is around

2-1/2 solar radii. It's still ... bright.
CC Okay, Ed.
CC And, Ed, we'll need about 27 minutes for the

36 Bravo; that's the M509 VTR. But if you see
something important that you'd like to put on it,
go ahead and use it.
SPT Okay, I've been putting about 1 minutes worth on

at a time so it's just little snapshots.
CC Okay, and if in your Judgment, you want to run

82A the second orbit, you can double the exposures.
017 20 14 06 SPT Thank you.
017 20 37 30 CC Skylab, we've got you through Carnarvon for

l0 minutes.
CC Ed, Houston.
SPT Goahead.
CC Ed, could you pick up the next solar orbit at

about 20:40.
SPT Okay, I'm doing it right now. I'm looking in the

mon, and it's looking pretty good. So we're going
to start CONTINUOUS right now.
017 20 39 l0 CC Ed, we'd llke for you to hold off until 20:_0.
Start all of them then except 82A, and wait until
20:46 on 82A.
SPT Okay, you don't want me to hold off on the WLC.

We're getting a good image on the TV, so they
ought to be getting a good picture.
CC Okay, that will be fine, Ed.
CC And there is no problem with starting S055 now,

of course.
CC Bill, Houston.
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017 20 hl 08 SPT Okay, Story. We carried the observations right

up to Just about as far as I could for each instru-
ment. We got the last STANDARD MODE in for 52 at
20:21, which is a little past the 250K-time. At
20:23, we finished up the 54. I left that time
out even though that was a little past 250K also.
56 we gave a PATROL SHORT at the very end, and
finished up Just about 250K. And then for the
JOP 7, we then rolled between 6 minutes remaining
and at around 5 minutes remaining, we rolled -
we're running - I gave them a little more CONTINUOUS
after that STANDARD MODE. And then we ran some
of the JOP 7 type at 3 minutes, 2:30, 2:00, so
forth, every 30 seconds on down to -well, it
was 3 minutes after time T is equal to zero, which
came out to be around 90:30 time remaining. And
we gave 9-second and 1-second exposures. And you
saw us Just start up again.
017 20 42 23 CC Okay, Ed. And we're looking into inhibiting a

dump on the next pass. We don't know if we can
do it, but we're going to take a look at it and
seeifwe can.
SPT It sure would be could - good if you could, Story.

Beautiful looking transient. Most of the primary
head is out of the field of view. But there's a
lot to be seen in the - in the wake of it. There's
still some material, which is trailing and still
in the field of view.
CC And, Ed, when you get a chance close 82B door.

That's warming up.
PLT Go, Story.
CC Bill, we're running out of space on the - on the

tape recorders here. We're wondering where you're
progressing in 509. Is there a convenient place
in here where you'll be changing out a PSS bottle
or are you running on the SOP now?
PLT You must be psychic, l'm Just getting re - I was

Just starting my first steps in the PSS changeout
right now. So you can go ahead and redesignate
right now.
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CC Okay, we'll take it.
017 20 44 25 SPT Story, on the last orbit, the 82A exposures were
taken at around 49 minutes remaining, 34, and
20:30, which was still about a minute above 400K.
CC 0kay, Ed.
PLT Yes, Story.
CC Bill, we'll need Guam also to dump the tape

recorders. What's it going to do to you if you
hold off about 15 minutes from now to 21:01 to
start the next run.
PLT Well, it'll - it would just - probably Just delay

us about 15 minutes because I have the PSS ready
to come out now. So I'll go ahead and put in the
charging station, which only takes a couple of
minutes. So you're telling me we'll Just have to
wait, huh?
CC Stand by 1.
CC Okay, Bill, it turns out we'll get reconfigured

all right, and just press on.
PLT Okay, Story.
017 20 47 30 CC Skylab, we're a minute to LOS; about 3 minutes to

Guam. Ed, when you get a chance, and there's no
hurry on it, check the teleprinter messages to
see if we have to schedule you some head cleaning
time tcmorrow.
SPT Story, it all came out looking pretty well except

for the if-no-EREP alternate for the CDR. Every-
thing else came out exceptionally well.
017 20 48 36 CC Okay.
017 20 51 15 CC Skylab, back with you through Guam for l0 minutes.

And no need to acknowledge, Bill, but disregard
your voice record light flickering on and off.
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017 20 51 58 _PT Story, the last look at it Showed a bright knot

of material still out at around 3 solar radii,
....
._ which was one of the primary trailing pieces of
material.
017 20 52 08 CC Okay, Ed.
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1 ofV i3989
017 21 00 36 CC Skylab, we're a minute to LOS; about l_ minutes _

to Guam. And, Ed, We'd like you to press on with
S054.
CC And, Bill, Houston.
SPT He's listening.
CC Okay, just a friendly reminder; tell him when

Jer gets on to the SOP to - to get on with
page 17-10, to go there with a limited lifetime
of the SOP. It's just a friendly reminder,
no change.
SPT 17-10. Thank you.
017 21 01 17 CC That's it.
017 21 18 ll CC Skylab, Houston. Hello from the purple gang.

--_ We're with you for 16 minutes stateside.
SPT Hello, purple people.
CC Hi there.
_ : _ CC And, Ed, Houston. A couple of suggestions on

theATM.
SPT Go ahead, Dick.
017 21 18 41 CC Okay, you'll notice coming up at that - where

it - at the time of 22:24, there's a building
block 35 scheduled. We'd like, if possible, to
get a building block 32 Just prior to and also
another one right after the - that building
block 35 at 22:24. And you can start the
building block 32 at a time of 22:20.
SPT Okay, Dick. Copy, 22:20, building block 32,

then building block 35 and another 32.
CC That's correct. One more request, which is

strictly your choice. At a time of around 23:56,
which is in the middle of your PT and PH period,
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if we could we'd like to get about a 6-minute

building block - truncated building block 2,
about a 6-minute observation.
PLT Houston, Skylab.
017 21 20 54 CC Skylab, Houston. I copied a scratchy thing, but

didn't understand it. Say again, please.
PLT How do you read, Dick?
CC Loud and clear that time, Bill.
PLT Roger. We're running a little bit shy on

battery power here in the M509 run, and we
wondered if they wanted us to deplete this CMG
baseline as a means of conserving battery power.
I put the battery 6 back in and I've got it
under CHARGE right now.
CC Standby.
PLT Battery 7, rather.
CC Roger. Battery 7.
PLT Battery 7 went down fairly fast.
CC Roger.
017 21 21 h8 PLT What we've done, we've delayed the CMG baseline
just a tad here. Actually, we're right at the
tail end of limb motion.
CC Roger, Bill.
CC And_ PLT, Houston. Could you give us the

voltage on the battery?
017 21 22 16 CC PLT, Houston. I think I got caught in a handover.

We're requesting a voltage on the battery, if
you got a chance.
PLT Be right with you.
SPT Okay, Dick. I copied your request as you faded

in the background for a building block 2 at
23:56. And I'll go ahead and do that.
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CC Okay, Ed. Thank you very much.
017 21 22 _6 CC Roger. And that request was strictly for a

truncated 6 minutes of observing time, Ed.
SPT Roger. Understand. You might want to give me

some information later on for the Other experi-
ments, GRATING POSITION infor 55 and 54.
PLT ... on the battery.
PLT Okay, it's 28-1/2 volts on battery 7, which is

in the pack now. It was battery 6 I used first.
I was trying to read the number at a bad angle
here from across the room.
CC Roger. 28.5 •
PLT That's affirm and that's bat 67 which is in

, the ASMU now. And we've just completedlimb
motion.
CC Roger.
Ol7 21 o7 PLT SkyZab.

CO Go ahead.
PLT Roger. We have actually Skipped the baseline

CMG in favor of doing the limb motions to wait
until you came up on the ground pass and
contact, because we seem to be running the
battery down prematurely. And we wondered if
you - if we could go ahead and omit that first
baseline CMG and press on with the procedure -
SOP portion of the procedure.
CC Roger, Bill. We're trying to get you an answer

right back now. I'll be right back with you.
PLT Okay.
PLT We also ran the first PSS down quite prematurely.
017 21 25 45 CC Roger. Are you on SOP now?

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PLT Negative, we're waiting to get _'eading l'rom you.
CC Roger.
SPT Dick, and if you could, give me a 400K time.
CC Roger. Stand by.
017 21 27 00 CC PLT, Houston. What we'd prefer that you do is,

on page 17-10, do the SOP cal m_neuver with the
fresh PSS on the SOP.
PLT I got caught trying to talk to Jer there

through his helmet. Say again, Dick.
CC Roger. We'd like you to do the SOP cal

maneuver on page 17-10 in the checklist, Bill,
with a fresh PSS on SOP. And it is okay to
skip that first baseline CMG that you've already
passed by.
PLT Okay. And the PSS has just been installed.

It's got Just a - Just a few squirts on it, so
I'm going to go ahead and use it.
CC Roger.
017 21 29 09 CC SPT, Houston. I have your times for you.

400K is 21:h6, 250K is 21:53. Be advised, we
do intend to go ahead and inhibit dumps again.
It's possible that you may get some desat - or you
can expect some desat firings. And there's an
outside chance you might also get a gimbal on
the stops, but we don't think so.
PLT 21:46 and 53. Thank you, Dick.
CC Roger.
017 21 33 48 CC Skylab, Houston. We're going LOS; Carnarvon

comes up at 22:17. See you there.
017 21 33 57 SPT So long, Dick.
017 22 17 56 CC Sk21ab_ Houston. Hello at Carnarvon for

5 minutes.
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PLT Roger. I've got a little status report on M509.

We're really having to patch this together because
of the repeated changes. And I put the first
battery back in - battery 6 and recharged it
while I was using the second battery and now
I've got 6 back in, and I have 7 in but I
haven't started charging it yet. We got number
6 back up to 29 volts but our expendables are
sort of fouling up the run.
CC Roger, Bill, thank you for the update.
017 22 19 01 PLT Yes, they'll probably see all kinds of funny

things in the telemetry but that's because we
had to interrupt a lot of runs and - and make
PSS changeouts and battery changeouts prematurely.
CC Roger. Understand. I may have a question for

you here in a second. Sta/ad by.
CC PLT, Houston. Just a couple of things. First

_ of all, we want to make sure that you are using
the batteries down to the 26-volt level. And
then, also, real quickly, could you let us know
where you are in the procedure?
PLT Yes, we are using them down to 26. And we are

in a baseline CMG right now with umbilical sort of
picking that up, we changed that one to start
with. And we've done a baseline rate gyro on
the SOP. We did the SOP cal, and we started the
baseline in CMG and had to term_uate it because of
of SOP depletion. We did not get an SOP baseline
direct. We have not gotten down to the third
sequence of baseline, that's what I would call
it, down about two-thirds of the way in the snmmary
on page 17-1, I would call the present maneuver
that he's doing a sort of a catchup on the original
CMG baseline.
017 22 20 35 CC Okay, Bill, thank you very much.
017 22 21 35 CC Skylab,_-Ho-t_s:6on--.
-We're coming up oI/ amiz/ute
to LOS, Guam comes up about i0 minutes from now
at 22 :31. See you there.
CC PLT, Houston.
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CC Skylab, Houston. We got about 15 seconds here.

Bill, suggestion to save electrical power. What
we suggest is you cage the CMGs and then CMG
POWER switch OFF and then move to page 17-14
and to the baseline direct maneuver.
PLT We've already done that, Dick. And the

battery now is down below 26 so I think we're
going to have to can the run.
CC Roger, Bill. We're going to go LOS here for

about l0 minutes. I'll call you at Guam.
017 22 23 18 PLT Okay.
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017 22 54 26 CC Skylab, Houston. We're A0S stateside for

13-1/2 minutes. And be advised we are going to
ENABLE MOMENTUM DUMPs here. So that will affect
the time remaining clock.
CDR Okay, Dick.
SPT Dick, a couple of ATM questions. One, my GRATING

POSITION, is that reading 1654 right now? And I
also assume that in this building block I should
be pointing with H-alpha 2 rather than H-alpha i.
CC Stand by.
CDR Dick, for the M509 guys, we're pretty disappointed.

We just didn't get very far at all. The consum-
ables Just ate us alive.
CC Roger, Jer - Jerry. Sure sorry about that. And '_

- for SPT, we would like you to point with H-alpha i.
And we're showing a GRATING of 1594.
017 22 55 37 SPT Okay, that's - Yes, that's a surprise to me on

94 because I was Just tweaking it up to 54, and
I got a Jump in the reading, and I thought it was
only the reading. Okay, and I assume that seeing
as we're doing MIRROR, AUTO RASTERs we wanted to -
to center the MIRROR, AU - MIRROR, AUTO RASTERs
on active region 20.
CC Roger, stand by.
017 22 57 05 CC SPT, Houston. We are pointing with H-alpha l,

because we're running 82 Bravo here. And we talked
to the 55 folks, and they're satisfied with that.
SPT Okay, we're not running 82B because we really don't

have fluctuating bright points.
CC Okay, with that input then, we'd say use H-alpha 2.
SPT Thank you.

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CDR Now, Dick, I'll get it all on tape in a blow by

blow. Bill's narration is all on tape. Essentially
what happened is that changeout of consumables
got all out of phase, and we ended up sitting -
running on the batteries while we were changing out
other things. And Just got ourselves into a
position to where everything just fell apart at
once, all of a sudden. We ran out of SOP in the
middle of a run and ran out of battery and Just
didn't have enough to do the job.
CC Okay, Jerry. If you'll put that blow byblow on

the voice recorder, will help it. And we'll take
a look, and we'll squeeze what data we can out of
the run. Thanks much.
CDR Okay.
017 22 58 31 CC And, SPT, Houston. I do have a little more

information for you on the building block 2. We
want you to run it at 2356 on the GRATING.
SPT Okay, Dick, go ahead.
CC Okay. What you - we would like you to do is run

the building block 2 as shown in JOP 8 with the
5h GRATING, IN and truncate at 6 minutes.
SPT Okay, I got that. Thank you.
CC Roger.
017 22 59 5_ S1°T Houston, SPT. .
CC Go ahead, Ed.
SPT Dick, during the nightside pass while I was down

working the 509 trying to get some TV, after I
came back up here, it turned out we had gotten
one of the experiment doors closed as though we
had gotten a night signalsomehow. Eitherthat
or off attitude, although we looked good when I
got back and didn't see anything that would cause
it. I'm wondering when you look back to telemetry
whether you'd let me know what happened?
CC We'll certainly do that, Ed. Thank you for warning

us about it.
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CC And, SPT, Houston. On the GRATING, we see on TM,

2334; the pad is 2434.
SPT Okay, I'm reading 2434 right now. So, apparently

we got all out of syne here. Must be related to
the last problem we've had, although it sure doesn't
make sense to me. I'll go around back to REF and
start over.
CC Okay, it is kind of confusing.
017 23 03 50 CC SPT, Houston. When you got a second.
SPT Yes, Dick. Go ahead.
CC Ed, it turns out with beta Just coming off the

peak from yesterday, we had our first 40 K sunset,
we think, here on this pass. And that more than
likely was what caused the experiment doors to
close. That is a preliminary evaluation though,
but it looks like that's what happened. Nothing
is wrong.
SPT Okay, very good. Thank you.
CC Roger.
SPT Dick, I'm wondering if you folks should give me

a prediction as to whether the cabin will be
relieving pressure anytime this evening during
our sleep period.
CC Okay, stand by.
017 23 05 16 CC SPT, Houston. Answer is negative, we do not think

it'll relieve this evening. We're about 0.4 of a
psi below the relief pressure, and we think it'll
go all night without relieving.
SPT Very good, Dick, thank you. I had moved my - my

cot up into the airlock because of the thermal
problem down in my sleep compartment. My head
would be located 3 feet from that push relief
valve, and I Just wanted to make sure.
CC Well, I think that's a good thing to look ahead and

wonder about. I'm sure if we're wrong and it does
relieve, you'll let us know in the morning.
f
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017 23 05 51 SPT It won't be in the morning.
CDR He'll let us know too.
CC (Laughter) Roger. Incidentally, we've been having

a problem - the INCO's been having a problem with
attaining some of our data - data here recently.
We were scheduled for a data/voice recorder dump
here at Texas. We have slipped that to the next
Vanguard pass, which is the next pass. That A0S
time is 23:18.
CDR Okay, I'll try to get a quick recap of the events

on 509, and then a more detailed debriefing after
Vanguard.
CC Okay, Jerry.
017 23 07 l0 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute to LOS; Vanguard

at 23:18. And, SPT, Houston. Could you give us
a reading on the S055 GRATING, please.
SPT Yes, now it's 1634. I thought I moved it to 5_.
CC Okay, we're now in sync with you. Thank you

very much, Ed. Incidentally, in preparation for
509, the relief valves in the airloek module
were closed off, and we're going to leave them
that way until the pressure gets down. So the
only active relief valve that we do have now is
up in the command module.
017 23 18 12 CC Skylab, Houston. We're A0S Vanguard for l0 minutes.

And we're going to dump the data/voice recorder
here.
CDR Okay, Dick. Give me _about 1 minute.
- CC Okay, let us know as soon as we can dump it, please,

Jer.
CDR Will do it.
CDR Okay, Dick. Go ahead.

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CC Okay, Jerry, we 'ii do that. Thank you very much.

Incidentally, the - the problem that we're chasing
in that system is - is we're able to get data only
through transmitter A on the 2-watt. We're unable
to get it either Bravo or Charlie, so we're hustling
down here to see if we can figure out what's -
what's the matter. I go - have a couple of notes
for you, Jerry. At 23:53 on you details when you
whiz up to the co_nand module to do your sextant
work we'd appreciate it if you'd do the procedure
to relieve quad Alfa only while you are up there.
017 23 19 36 CDR Okay, will do it.
CC Also, one other thing; the last thing that Bill

told us about the 509 batteries was that battery 7
was in the charger but not being charged. Assuming
you haven't gone ahead and charged it, we'd Just
as soon you not charge either of the batteries
until we have a look at our data.
CDR Okay, Dick, it's not being charged. We tried to

throw 6 onto a chargewhile we were using 7, because
we knew we were down on batteries. And we got it
up to 29 volts, but it - it Just wouldn't hold it.
So we gave up.
CC Okay. Well, there is no problem with that. But

why don't we stand pat with what are - we have
until we get a chance to try to understand the
whole run.
CDR Okay, we'll do it.
CC Okay.
017 23 20 56 CC And, Skylab, Houston. Information only, we do

have a gimbal that's getting fairly close to a
stop. You might get some desat firings, no action
required. Or a reset.
017 23 23 3_ CC And, Skylab, Houston. We're still looking at the

gimbal situation. We do not want you to take any
action here. We are in a dump and we - we want
the - if we get a reset, we want it to happen and -
so we can go ahead and get this dump complete.
CDR Roger, Dick.

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CC And we did Just get a reset. We're watching it.
SPT Dick, I tried to get some good M509 data on the

VTR. It got just pretty much lined up, and the
batteryfailed. So then we had to call it quits
there. So you - you'll find a little flying on it,
but not too much.
CC Okay, Ed. Thank you.
017 23 27 19 CC Skylab, Houston. We're a minute to LOS. We have

a low pass coming up at Tananarive at 23:46. 111
event we should miss that, the Gold - next pass
is Goldstone at 00:33, and that's you reed confer-
, ence. See you at Tananarive.
017 23 46 30 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Tananarive for about

3 minutes. Just in case we have an early LOS,
Goldstone comes up at 00:33, and that's your med
conference. Also one note for Jerry, no response
required. You might expect, Jerry, to have to
look in the telescope to find the stars, when you
go up to the command module. We have a change in
nu Z •
CDR Roge r.
017 23 47 03 CC And bone up on your star gazing this evening, maybe.
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018 00 54 38 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Vanguard for ll min-

utes, and I didn't get to warn you, but this is
the site for the evening status report. I'm
standing by for that and also the results of the
sextant check.
PLT Jer's busy; he's cleaning chicken and gravy off

the dome; he'll be right down.
CC Roger.
PLT Roger, Dick. Photo log. M151 -16-millimeter:

M151, Charlie India 79, 35 percent, Charlie
India 126; M509 - this is transporter 02 - Charlie
India 80, 0 percent, MT08, Mike Tango 08; M509,
transporter 05, Charlie India 94, 30 percent,
Charlie India 128. Status on Nikons: 1 - Nikon l,
Charlie X-ray 41, 53, the remaining, or 53 the
frame count; Nikon 02, India Romeo ll, the count
is 41; Nikon 03, Charlie India ll5, the count is
21. I only got a chance to take two photos of
Jer today. Nikon 04, Bravo Echo 10, it's reading
00, still hasn't been used yet; Nikon 05, Bravo
Hotel 06, count's 31. T0-millimeter: Charlie
X-ray 50, the count is 139. ETC: no chance.
EREP: no change. Drawer A configuration:
Alfa 01, transporter 02, supply has been moved
over to the takeup. It's Charlie India 80. Alfa 2
is transporter 05, Charlie India 94, 30 percent,
Charlie Inida 128; Trans - p - Alfa 03 is trans-
porter 06, Charlie India 79, 35 percent, Charlle
Inida 126. PLT out on the photo log.
018 00 57 22 CC Roger, Bill.
CDR Okay, Dick, on the evening status. Sleep: CDR,

6.5, 5.5 heavy, 1.0 light; SPT, 6.0, 3.0 hea_-/,
3.0 light; PLT, 6.5, all heavy. Volumes: N/A to-
night. Water gun: CDR, 8634, 4665, 0858. Body
mass: CDR, 6.319, 6.317, 6.317; SPT is 6.371,
6.371, 6.B71; PLT, 6.260, 6.260, 6.266. Exercise:
CDR, no change; SPT, standard, minus Alfa; PLT,
no change. Medications: CDR, none; SPT, one
Dalmane tonight; PLT, none. Clothing: CDR, none;
SPT, socks and shirt ; PLT, socks, shorts, and
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shirt. Food log: CDR, 2.5 saAt; deviations,

minus cream peas, plus mashed potatoes, plus
Apollo grape drink, plus one lemonade, plus one
butter cookies_ rehydration water, plus 1.5.
SPT, 1.4.0 salt, plus ni - plus two butter cookies,
plus one buscuits, plus one lemonade, no water.
PLT, zero salt, plus one grape punch, minus 1.0
water. Flight Plan deviations: none. Shopping
list : none. Inoperable equipment : none. But
we do have a question and that is, what are the
results on the heat exchanger fan changeout?
Unscheduled stowage: SOP number ]3, PCU number 13,
and the light-weight umbilical have all been
stowed in F - Foxtrot 550. Okay.
018 00 59 28 CC Roger, Jerry. Anything else?
CDR Well, let's see. I owe you some data on the

sextant. Alphard: SHAFt, 158.8; TRUNNION, 12.8.
Regulus : SHAFt, 86.2 ; TRUNNION, 23.7. And
with the lighting the way it is, there's no sense
in even trying. If it doesn't come up in the
sextant, I'll never see it, because there's so
much scattered light going into the telescope
that it's useless. I can't even see the reticle.
CC Okay, Jerry, that's a good input. Incidentally,

your question about the heat exchanger fans you
changed out, we didn't see any change at all on
the telemetry, so we still don't quite understand
it. We may have had a TM shift. Also, we need
to get the duct fans hack on after you get the
509 run. One other thing, Jerry. At the moment,
our - all our comm gear is back working okay,
and we don't have any explanation for the funnies
that we saw on the transmitters awhile ago, as
of now.
CDR Roger. I hope we don't lose them wholesale.
018 01 00 37 CC Boy, you're right there. And also, Jerry, while

I got you there, l'm not sure whether Ed is
listening, the detail shift CAP COMM doesn't
get to read up the news. However, there are two
or three items I thought you all might he inter-
ested in this evening.
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CDR Roger. Go ahead.
CC Okay, for Ed Gibson. In the current issue of

PHYSICS TODAY, there's a very favorable review
of your book, Ed, that you wrote on the Sun. I'll
be sure and put it on your desk so you cam read
the whole thing. It's about two pages long. But
it says some very good words about the book. It
does offer some constructive criticism in two
or three areas, but those are quite minor. In
all of the - the reviewing, the guy who reviewed
it thought it was an excellent Job. Just thought
we'd pass that up to you.
018 01 01 26 SPT Th-n_s very much, Dick. Appreciate the good word.
CC Okay. Also, for - for Jerry, you might be interes-

ted to know that the Marine Corps Enlisted Pilots
Association is having their semiannual meeting
out at Tustin. I got this word from Jack Lousma,
and that's this cnmlng Saturday night. So if
there's anything you'd like to pass to those guys,
I 'm sure Jack would be glad to do it.
CDR Okay. Is Jack going to be there?
CC I'm not sure. He passed this on to Story, and

I haven't talked to h4m yet. I was going to
wait until I t-lked to you and then call him up.
018 01 02 03 CDR Roger. Let me think about it a little bit.
CC Okay. Also, one item out of the news that I

Just can't help but read up to you. It turns out
an elevator in a Chinese housing project was
hijacked Wednesday night. With two passengers
aboard, the elevator stopped abruptly between the
second and third floors. The trapdoor in the
roof opened and a hand holding a blue steel
revolver emerged. Following instructions, the
passengers gave up the contents of their wallets
totaling $27, then the trapdoor sl-mmed shut and
• the elevator began to rise, out of control of the
passengers. After ascending several floors, it
returned to the second floor and opened its door
permitting the passengers to get off.
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SPT That's beautiful, Dick.
CC Did you hear about the Judge out in Maui?
CDR Yes. We heard that one. That was funny too.
CC (Laughter) Right.
CDR That pun's _lmost as bad as Gibson's.
CDR Dick, tell the M509 guys that I still owe them
a detailed debriefing, and I'll get it done
tonight before I go to bed.
CC Okay, Jerry. Thank you.
018 01 04 52 CC Skylab, Houston. We'd like the H-ALPHA NIGHT

INTERLOCK switch to NORMAL. We're about a minute
from LOS. Next site is Tananarive at 01:20. See
you there.
CDR See you, Dick.
SPT Say, Dick. A note on the ATM. After that last

building block 2, which I did at the beginning
of the orbit, I went over and looked at the region
where the transient originated, right close to
where the loops were above active region 14, and
there was Just hardly anything there in oxygen VI
at all. I could Just barely get a couple of
counts of 30 or so at the most, 40 arc seconds
off the limb.
018 01 05 53 SPT So I put the 55 - -
018 01 20 08 CC Skylab, Houston. Hello at Tananarive for

9-1/2 minutes.
SPT Hello, Dick. Did you get the comments on ATM

as you were going over the hill before?
CC Ed, we got I think about 95 percent of them and

you finally did drop out. The last thing that I
copied that you said was the fact that you were
pointed at about 40 arc seconds off the limb and
then it sounded like you were going to make one
final comment, and I didn't get the very last one.
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SPT Okay, the only thing that I added is that after

that, we put 55 over on the limb at a GRATING
POSITION of 772, and let them take a look at
what might be re-forming if anything. It seems
like a reasonable thing to be looking at. I don't
know whether we'll have much time here on out,
however, to do it. I don't know what they have
planned for the unattended, but there was Just
hardly anything left there in oxygen VI. So that
thing really blew it out, and sometimes, they tend
to re-form, and that might be an interesting thing
to watch.
CC Roger, Ed, copy. That must have been really

co - some site to see. Incidentally we uplinked
several teleprinter messages the last site, in-
cluding the agenda for the science conference
tomorrow evening. And we were wondering if you
guys -we sent up a message about the status of
the thermal situation last evening, and we Just
wanted to make sure you got it and if you had
any comments about that, we'd be happy to enter-
tain them.
018 01 21 46 CDR Roger, Dick. We read that with interest and don't
really have any comments at all.
CC Okay, we'll keep you posted. And did you turn off
any speaker intercom boxes? How are you working
that problem?
CDR Yes, we have turned _Imost all the ones we're not
using regularly, off, and then Just turn them on
when we need them. I'll get you a list of the
numbers by - well, sometime this evening.
CC Okay, that'd be interesting but it's - it's

certainly not - not a big thing and you're wel-
come to voice record it if you want to, Jerry.
Also I can't find any record you've been reminded,
so excuse me if I remind you again, but your
family cow,, this evening is Vanguard at 02:33 and
that's - probably be our last pass of the evening.
018 01 22 32 CDR Okay, I was going to ask you because I hadn't

•_ heard yet. Which antenna?
p
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CC Hang on.
CC Jerry, I don't - I can't seem to find it in front

of me right now, but I'll - I'll get it. Ah ha.
It's e RIGHT ANTENNA, Jerry, RIGHT.
CDR Okay, thanks.
018 01 25 50 CC Skylab, Houston. Like to speak to somebody about

a format thing on the maneuver pads - a little
trap we think we have found and want to suggest
a slight change to it.
PLT Whose maneuver pad was that?
CC Well, Bill, actually you don't have it up there,

it's a pad that's addressed to - actually to you
tomorrow. With the days of the year at 24 or
less, when we put the days on there, it can easily
be confused with an hour. And we don't see any
sense in listing the day with the _T. And since
the potential of misreading it and confusing it
with an ho - with an hour is - we'd Just like to
drop the days from the times that are listed there
for the maneuver entries.
018 01 26 44 PLT Yes, it's been bothering us; I've been marking
it out with my marker pencil already anyway.
CC Well, I'll tell you what, why don't we save you

the trouble of marking it out by not uplinking
it. And we'll start that with these maneuver -
this maneuver pad that's coming up this evening.
And we'll try to pass it along to continue to do
that.
PLT That's a very good idea; we wholeheartedly concur.
CC Okay.
PLT I Just about got bit on that the last time it was
on my last maneuver pad.
CC Roger, consider it done.
018 01 27 53 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about a couple of minutes

from LOS here at Tananarive, next station is
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Hawaii at 02:04, and we're going to be dumping

the data/voice recorder at Hawaii.
018 01 28 06 PLT Roger Dick.
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018 02 04 29 CC Skylab, Houston. Hello at Hawaii for

7-1/2 minutes. We're going to dump the data/
voice recorder and ASC0 would like to make a
command. Wetd like to have the DAS.
PLT Roger. You've got it, Dick. I can give you a

frame count it you'd like.
CC Okay, go ahee.d.
PLT 9910, 1177, ll0, 169, 2174, 5198.
018 02 05 00 CC Okay, Bill. Thank you very much. The only note
I had was, the next site while Jerry's on his
phone call, we are - that is our last site of the
evening - we are going to be uplinking a infor-
mational message on the entry checklist. It is
not a checklist change. But I Just thought I
would let him know, so he'd be sure to pick it
up out of the teleprinter if he wanted to and -
and take a look at it. And if he has any ques-
tion tomorrow, or whenever, Just ask them.
PLT Okay, Dick. I'm sure he heard that.
CC Okay, great.
CDR Roger, Dick. I got that. And we've been kind of

giving a little occasional thought to deactivation
here lately. And I would sure like to have some
people go back to the guys working the Deactiva-
tion Checklist, and look it over again, and see
what more can be put on a shopping list in order -
the things that we can get done well before de-
activation time, sort of piecemeal. And start
sending that information up on a shopping list
as well as what we already have up here.
CC Okay, Jerry. Be advised there is a good bit of

work going on looking ahead to the deactivation
now. And that checklist, I can assure you, is
being reviewed. I'm not sure it's being reviewed
from that point of view, but it's a good input
and will make it to the guys.
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CDR Yes, if we can avoid any last-minute rush it

would certainly be, I think, better all the way
around and would make sure we didn't forget
anything.
CC We sure agree with you, and we'll do that.
CDR Okay.
018 02 06 36 CC And, Skylab, Houston. The DAS is yours.
PLT Roger, Dick.
018 02 ll 17 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 45 seconds to LOS.

Vanguard comes up at 02:33. And another reminder,
that's RIGHT ANTENNA for Jerry and his phone call,
02:33.
018 02 ii 29 CDR Roger.
018 02 33 54 CC Skylab, Houston. We're A0S Vanguard for

9 minutes.
PLT Roger, Dick. Jer's up getting his phone call,

and I have a message I'd like to read down for
you.
CC Okay, Go ahead, Bill.
PLT A message for Jack Lousma to relay to the Marine

aviators in Tustin. Greetings from the Marine
on the 85-day FAC mission. I'm up where the flak
can't get me, and I can see everything. Have a
great evening, superfine.
CC Okay, Bill, I'll - I talked to Jack awhile ago,

and I can assure you that message will get out
to him. Tell Jerry thanks very much.
PLT Okay, thank you, Dick.
018 02 35 27 SPT Say, Dick, for the next couple of nights that I'm
sleeping in the airlock I would like to turn off
the ATM C&D coolant loop pumps.
CC Okay, let us think about that one real quickly,

Ed.
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CC Also, real quick for you, there's a general mes-

sag sage that's going to be coming up during this
pass that talks about the - our plans on the 82A
sequence that you'll be talking with Bill Lenoir
tomorrow during the science conference. In case
you want to smoke it over this evening, it'll be
in the teleprinter.
CC And, SPT, Houston. You're GO to turn OFF the

coolant loop - ATM C&D COOLANT LOOP PUMPS. Just
don't forget to turn them back ON in the morning
prior to starting ops.
SPT Roger. Will do, Dick. Thanks very much.
CC Okay.
018 02 38 ll CC SPT, Houston. We have a couple of doors open

we'd like to get closed. It's 82 Bravo and
__ H-Alpha1. Also since you're going to be sleep-
ing forward tonight, we're going - we're planning
not to upl_nk those pads that we have left until
in the morning. They're primarily - everything's
on board primarily except med status and the EREP
pads, and there's plenty of time to get them up
after you wake up in the morning. So we'll try
to keep that quite also.
SPT Okay, I appreciate that, Dick. But if you have

something to send up, don't hesitate to do it.
CC Okay.
018 02 41 55 CC Skylab, Houston. We're a minute from LOS. We'll

be giving you a call in the morning about - at
Carnarvon at about a time of 13:20. So you guys
get a good night's sleep, and see you tomorrow.
CDR Good night, Dick.
CC Good night.
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SPT Good night, Dick and purple gang.
018 02 42 19 CC Good night, Ed. See you.
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.... SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROt_TD VOICE TRANSCRIPTION
018 13 23 49 CC Good morning, Skylab. Got you for 2 more minutes

thr ou@h Carnarvon.
• PLT Morning, Story.
CC Hi, Bill. Happy day off.
PLT It started out that way, anyway.
CC Yes. And th_n_ God it's Friday for scme people.
CC And if Ed's not awake yet, he's going to be awake

pretty soon.
CC And we're B0 seconds fr_n LOS here; about 6 minutes

to Honeysuckle.
018 1B 25 17 PLT Roger.
018 13 32 05 CC Skylab, we've got you through Honeysuckle for

Just i minute.
CC Jer, Houston.
PLT He's listening. Go.
CC Okay, tell him his rendezvous with the stars there,

the sextant activity in the co--._nd module, move
that onstation time up to 13:52 instead of 14:00.
PLT Roger. 13: 52.
CC Yes, sir, Bill. And cancel your laser rendezvous

at - at 14:02 on - on everybody's details. The
overcast is thick enough that it's not even worth
trying •
PLT Okay, will do.
018 13 32 51 CC And one more thing I need to get to you here; have
• Ed crank up the ATM C&D COOLANT LOOP by turning
on PUMP Charlie prior to starting his ATM pass.
PLT Roger. PUMP Charlie prior to ATM.

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CC And while we're getting the pads up to you; I

don't know when you take your - your food supple-
ments, but none are required of anyone today.
PLT Oh, thank you.
CC And we're going LOS here. See you over Texas in

about 30 minutes at 14:01. We're planning on dump-
ing the data/voice there.
018 13 33 28 PLT Okay.
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018 Ik 02 37 CC Skylab, we've got you stateside for 16 minutes.
PLT Roger, Story.
CC And, Bill, we'll be dumping the data/voice here.
PLT Roger. How' s the weather in Houston this morning,

Story?
CC Surprisingly, we had a very pleasant night last

night, and it's clear this morning also. It's
really the first clear morning we've had, in it
seems like 2 or 3 weeks.
PLT Good show.
(DR Story, I've got your star s_htings.
CC Go, JeT.
CDR Okay. A1ph--d 167.5, 15.8; Regulus is 91.5 and

2l._.o.
CC Thank you.
018 14 _07 59 CC E_, Houston.
SPT Go ahead.
CC Could you turn on PJMP Charlie in the A_ C&D

COOLANT LOOP?
SPT Got it.
• CC ThAnk_.
CC Skylab, I've got some news down here for you. You
may want me to stand by until Ed gets off of the
A_M. There's plenty of other open periods. Let
me know.
SPT No, go ahead, Story; that's fine.
018 lh G8 _7 CC Okay. Cairo: Cairo radio troadcast the news

T_,z_aday of the ngreement between F6ypt and Israel
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on a disengagement of forces along the Suez Canal.

It gave no details. The announcement climaxed
intensive negotiations by U.S. Secretary of State
Henry Kissinger who traveled repeatedly between"
Egypt and Israel to bridge differences over how
the disengagement could be achieved. Kissinger
conferred with President Sadat at Aswan over the
past week of shuttling back and forth between
Egypt and Israel. The secretary of State is
scheduled to fly to Egypt again on Fridayj hut
for all intents and purposes, his roll as a
mediator on the disengagement issue appears to be
over. He'll also visit Jordan and Syria before
flying back to Washington on Sunday. The basic
agreement gives 8 miles east of the Suez Canal to
Egypt ; the next 8 miles moving east will be 0c-
cupayed - occupied by the U.N. and Israel will
occupy 8 miles to the west of a ridge of mountains.
It's on the east side of the Canal.
018 14 09 56 CC Algiers: Algeria has increased the posted price

of its crude oil from about $9.50 to $16 a barrel,
the Ministry of Industry and Energy announced
Thursday. The Ministry said the increase was
ordered Wednesday by the President and is effec-
tive for all exports starting last January 1. The
Ministry said the increase followed the price
hike decided by oil-producing countries in Decem-
ber in Teheran and was set on the basis of the
new prices now effective in the Persian Gulf and
taking account of the freight advantages and
quality of the Algerian oil. The prices of
Algerian oil were $3.60 a barrel before increases
began last October.
018 14 l0 44 CC The nation used less power for the week ending
January 12, the first full week of daylight sav-
ing time, than it did during the same week ago,
according to the Edison Electric Institute. But
utility companies, in an Associated Press spot
check, agreed that it was too early to say whether
the savings were due to warmer weather or the time
change, or conservation efforts by consumers.
Power output in the 48 continental states was
under 36.6 billion kilowatt hours for the week,
said the institute, which collects national
power statistics. That was _.l percent less than
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a year ago. Under normal growth conditions, the

institute said, the electrical output would have
been 7 percest higher this year instead of
4.1 percent lower. So that was about ll percent
savings. '_Naat you do now is transfer part of
the peak load in the afternoon to the morning,"
said Gene Sturgeon, spokesmau for Northeast Util-
ities in Hartford, Connecticut. This gives greater
flexibility in the use of peak generating equip-
ment which is more costly to run." The Utah
Power & Light Company made a survey some time ago
on the effects of daylight saving time. They con-
cluded that it would save less than I percent of
power use. A spokesman for the utility said there
has been no savings in power since the time change,
probably because of unseasonable warm weather
through most of this winter.
018 14 12 i0 CC Burlingame: Bing Crosby, recuperating from lung

surgery, was moved out of intensive care unit
Thursday and was able to sit up and wAl_ around
and eat a soft diet, the hospital said. Two-fifths
of the singer's left lung was removed Sunday
because of a growth which initial tests indicated
was caused by a rare fungus. St. Charles, Mis-
souri : The first young woman nominated to the
Air Force Academy has been rejected because of
the school's policy of admitting only males.
Representative Ted Hungate, Democrat from Mis-
souri, said Thursday the application of Karen
Dwyer, 18, of St. Charles, was returned to him
with a note saying that "established Air Force
policy limits admissions to males only." Hungate
said the Air Force indicated it would accept young
women after July 1975, if clarifying legislation
is enacted. Karen is an honor student and a mem-
ber of the high school Air Force Junior ROTC
Honor Guard. Karen said at the time of her nom-
ination: '_ven if l'm not accepted, l'm going to
frame the nomination letter." And that's about
it for this morning.
018 14 1B B0 PLT Thank you, Story.
CC Yes, sir. Anytlme.
CC And, Bill, you want - you may want to spend a

little more time studying, over in your site
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book, your VTS site number 365. That's a new one

to you. You've had no training at all on that
one. You may want to spend some more time on it.
PLT Okay. Thanks for the suggestion.
CC And it's probably snow covered and there may be

some clouds also. So it's - it's going to be a
tough one even with good training.
PLT That 's okay. I like a good handicap.
CC Okay. We'll be rooting for you.
CC Ed, we'd like to do an outer gimbal backup here;

need the DAS.
SPT You have it.
CC Okay.
018 14 17 04 CC You got the DAS, Ed.
SPT Thanks, Story.
CC And we're a minute from LOS; 5 minutes to Madrid.
SPT Say, Story, I missed the fact that that was a TV

downlink as opposed some VTR. So I got some in-
formation on the VTR for the ATM folks. Could
you give me a call next time and let me know
that you're up and ready to receive?
CC Okay. We'll do that, Ed. And, Ed, we'll - we'll

try to give you a reminder on that, but we're
always ready to receive TV.
SPT Okay. I - that, I didn't realize. Thank you.
CC There's times we don't have lines called up so

we don't get it real time back here in Houston.
But the site is always ready.
SPT Okay. Now which sites are those?
CC That's all of them except Tananarive.

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SPT Which boat gets it back to Houston fastest?
018 14 18 50 CC I missed that one. I'll catch it at Madrid.
018 14 23 07 CC Skylab, we're back with you through Madrid for

8 minutes.
PLT Roger, Story.
CC And, Ed, we did receive at the site real-time TV

and what you put on the VTR. But, of course, we
don't get the voice real time.
SPT Okay. You got it back in Houston real time, you

mean?
CC No, sir. We Just get it at the site. We didn't

have the lines called up.
SPT Oh, okay. Which is the quickest way for the

people back in Houston to get it?
CC We need to call the lines up, and the only three

sites we use for that are MILA, Texas, and Gold-
stone. So we can get real-time from them if we
have the lines called up. Otherwise, the sites
have to ma_l the images in.
SPT So in most - most cases, the VTR will get it there

quickest unless the lines are called up.
018 14 24 44 CC Tho - Those three stations I called out, Ed;

that - that's the quickest way to get it back
here whether it's real-time TV or - or VTR down-
link. We can call up lines and get the VTR that's
been du - dumped to them also.
CC 0nly other - one other point on that while we're

on it : After getting station OS - AOS, we use
i minute to warm up the FM transmitters and the
wide band transmitters in the command module.
So we can't get real-time TV until 1 minute after
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SPT Okay. That, I didn't appreciate. Thank you.
CC And, Ed, while I've got you; we're working on

the - the Flight Plan for tomorrow. The
M133 people are interested in - in how long you
may be sleeping up in the MDA.
CC They're looking at a possible procedure to

get - get data - M133 data while you're in the
MDA. Have you got any idea on that?
SPT Probably be about another 2 or 3 days, at least,

until this place starts to cool down, Story.
CC Okay.
018 14 26 26 SPT Story, one thing I was really interested in the

people at Houston getting a look at was the tran-
sient that we put on the VTR yesterday. Have you
dumped that yet or is that still sitting on a
VTR here?
CC No, sir. We - we reviewed that already. It's

beautiful. -_
SPT Ah! Very good.
CC It's one of the first things we did when we csme

on shift this morning.
SPT There's a lot of material moving out fast there.

It sure was interesting to watch.
CC Yes, sir.

to Tananarive at l_:_h.
SPT Say, Story, I'd like to take the next three ATM
orbits. If the folks in the backroom have any
suggestions other than - over and above what's
already on the pads here, I'd appreciate it.
018 14 32 25 CC Okay, got that. I'll catch you at Tananarive.

We're going over the hill here.
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018 14 45 34 CC Skylab, we're A0S through Tananarive for 7 minutes.
PLT Roger.
CC And sometime in the next 4 hours, I've got a change

to the CDR's detail Flight Plan.
PLT He's listening, Story. Go ahead with it.
CC Okay. At 19:37, EREP C&D pad, that's a warmup,

change that to 19:32.
PLT It's done.
CC And for everybody, there's a very active aurora

reported in the Northern Hemisphere. If you want
to take any photos today, refer to permanent
general message 18 Bravo; that's 18 Bravo.
PLT Roger. 18 Bravo.
018 14 47 46 CC And, Ed, everybody's very, very pleased with the

superb operations on the coronal transient of
.... yesterday. It appearsto be a very unique event,
and the coverage was really super. It was
excellent.
SPT Thanks, Story. I think what was exceptionally good

about it is that we learned about it from the
ground and apparently thewhole loop appears to
be working real well from observatories all the
way through the chain on up to here. To catch
something that quick, I think, speaks well for
the system.
CC Yes, sir. We think it was Mauna Loa first ob-

served it. We had a total transit time from
there up to you all of 6 minutes.
SPT As a result of all that, I think we got some real

good data on the f_Sm.
CC And out of that 6 minutes, 3 minutes was because

we didn't have AOS yet.
018 14 49 19 SPT Story, I'm wondering if the folks in the backroom

today could work up about an M-5 out of active
region 21.
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CC Okay, Ed. We'll get the ATM down here to send

a - send a command out to the Sun to get you Just
that, but we don't want to tell you when because
we want to surprise you.
SPT You folks in Houston can do anything if you put

your mind to it.
CC Thank you.
018 lh 50 43 CC And we're a couple of minutes from LOS here. See

you over Honeysuckle in 18 minutes at 15:09.
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018 15 I0 ll CC Skylab, we're AOS through Honeysuckle for a short

pass, about a minute.
CC And, Ed, if you're ready to copy, I can hurry along

here and get you some shopping list items that the
PIs in experiments recommend.
SPT Go ahead, Story. Ready to copy.
CC Okay. S052, shopping list l, in building block 32;

54, shopping list 33, and 32 occasionally to
normalize the data. S055, shopping list 26 Bravo
on the brightest regions; 56, SINGLE FRAME, LONG
EXP0@JRE; 82, shopping list 7 and/or 12, on
fluctuating bright areas in active regions, espe-
cially near the limb.
018 15 ll 55 CC And we're going LOS here. We'll see you over
Goldstone in about 27 minutes at 15:37.
SPT Got that. Tb_nk you, Story.
CC Okay. But they sure want you to use your own

discretion, Ed.
018 15 12 i0 SPT Roger.
018 15 38 07 CC Skylab, we're AOS stateside, 17 minutes.
CDR Roger, Story.
CC Jer, while I got you, I got a flight planning

question for you.
CDR Go ahead.
CC Bill is prime on Mh79, but we're planning on

running - that takes 9 hours of crew time in a
single day. We're planning on doing that the day
after EVA. Bill's got to be subject on two medi-
cals, 131 and MO92/MI71 and observe - do two duties
as observer on M131. We're wondering if it's okay
with you if we schedule you for that the day after
EVA.
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CDR That should be no problem; and what's EVA day going

to be?
CC That'll be day 80.
018 15 39 15 CDR Okay.
018 15 49 55 CC Skylab, we'll be dropping out here for about

a minute as we hand over to Bermuda. The VTR's
your s.
CC And we're back with you for 5 minutes.
CDR Roger.
CC Jer, Nikon 02 has got about 41 frames of IR film

ramaining, and we recn_mend that this film be ex-
panded on extra handheld targets of opportunity,
your option.
CDR Very good; we'll try to make good use of it.
018 15 55 27 CC Skylab, we're a minute to LOS; 5 minutes to Canaries.

We'll be looking to dump the data/voice at Canary. -_
018 16 01 04 CC Skylab, we're back with you through Canaries for

8 minutes. We're dumping the data/voice here.
CDR Roger, Story.
018 16 03 35 SPT Story, would you ask the ATM folks to see whether
they are aware of any loops above the limb at
around 285? I'm able to get about - an oxygen VI
count, about 130 or so, 1 arc minute off the limb
and I can see what looks like either the start of
a prominence with two feet, or the start of a loop.
It's kind of hard to tell right in that region.
CC Okay, Ed, we'll take a look at it.
CC While I got you, you got a phone call over Vanguard

at 22:35; it's ANTENNA, LEFT. And we'll remind
you the pass before.

to Tananarive at 16:20.
Tape018-061-'i',9
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018 16 23 02 CC Skylab, we got you through Tananarive for 5 mi_tes.
CC Ed, Houston.
CC Ed, as you requested yesterday, we're planning on

the Flight Plan tomorrow to give you an hour to
debrief the layout of the A_ panel. _nd at pres-
ent, we have you scheduled to do that while Jar
is operating it, if that's all right. Or do you
need it - need to have the panel yourself?
SPT No, that's all right. I can Just go on off in the

corner ana - as long as I have it visually to
refer to, I can do that. No problem.
CC Okay. We'll have an hour for you tomorrow, then.
CC Okay. And in the area that you described around

285, there is a small prominence there BAt it's
_ not associatedwith activeregion 27. We didn't
put that on the SAP.
018 16 24 26 SPT Okay. Thank you, Story. I'll talk with you more
in a minute.
018 16 27 S0 CC Skylab, we're a minute to LOS, about 18 minutes

to Honeysuckle. And you'll have an A_M conference
with Dr. Milligan at that time.
018 16 27 41 SPT Okay, Story. Thank you.
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018 16 45 05 CC Skylab, A0S through Honeysuckle for 9 minutes.

And here's Dr. Milligan with your first ATM
conference.
MCC Hello, Ed.
SPT Morning, Jim. How are you? Good to tR1k with you.
MCC Just fine; and you?
SPT Good. Thank you.
MCC Okay. The first thing, I guess, is a news item.

Since the CAP COMM has been reading _p news every-
ds_v, we thought we ought to, too. This week's
issue of Aviation Week has a big spread on the
Sun with RS_ kinds of ATM pictures in it, S05h
picture on the front page. There's also an
editorial on the Sun. The main thing in the
editorialis, that they recommend everybody read
your book.
018 16 h5 41 SPT (Laughter) Very good.
MCC Okay. The first item this morning, I'd like to

answer some questions to you that you raised about
the active region 14 and about some other things
on the Sun. On AR-14 - -
SPT Okay.
MCC On AR-14, NOAA said they're - they're sorry about

the fact they weren't able to predict anything.
It turns out that the region really didn't start
getting active until it went about west 80 and
as a result they Just couldn't see enough of the
growth on the ground to predict what was going to
happen.
SPT Okay. That's understandable.
MCC Now, the other one is on the fibrils that you

talked about in AR-21 the other day. It turns out
on reexamination of the NOAA data that AR-20 is old
00, not AR-21. And AR-21 is Just ahead of old AR-2.
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SPT Okay. So it's 20, which is the old 00.
MCC Right. And the spot's right on top of the - the

old 00. And that's why you're getting the fibrils
this time because AR-21 ir really a new region.
SPT Okay.
018 16 46 49 MCC Okay, now, about four cormnents on the operations,

if that's okay. We'll just take them one at a
time; I'Ii talk about them, and then let you com-
ment if you want to.
SPT Okay. Go ahead.
MCC Okay. The first one is on the flare wait program

that we went into on area AR-20 and 21 on the llth,
you know the - you know, when they were over on
the east limb. You guys did a super Job over -
over on that activity. I don't know how much of
it we got up to you from the ground, but that
whole day, the X-REA and the PMEC were running
about a factor of 2 or 3 less than a class C event.
We had several type 3's and you know we had a -_
couple of flares go off. The one flare that you
missed on board, NOAA has not been able to identify
anything on the ground with it. And the other
flare, you - you did a very good job of starting
into the JOP - you know the JOP 3 program and -
and stopping it when the flare went away. We
really want to compliment you on it. We think
55 and 56, particularly, got exvellent data in
that time period.
SPT Okay, Jim. As - As I recall, I was just coming

out of a building block 32 at the time, and had
I been in a flare wait, I think we could have
picked it up earlier.
MCC Yes. But, anyway, the observations were very good.
SPT Well, that's good to hear.
018 16 47 58 MCC Okay. The next thing is on the mini-MARs and the
bright point observations. And some of this -
some of the comments I'll make here refer to
some questions that you voiced down about the
mini-MAR operation. It turns out that S055 is
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seeing some time correlation on intensity changes

on the chromospheric, the transition region lines,
and the coronal line. And the time periods are
of the order of a minute or so. There has been
no eveidence in the data yet on the 5-minute
osciallation you people are looking for. And,
hence, this is the reason why they're going into
the mini-MAR operation so often, recently.
SPT Oh, okay. That I had not realized. That's a-

That's an interesting thing, very - potentially
very useful. What - Is there a GRATING POSITION
in order to pick up those lines at different alti-
tudes? Is a GRATING of ZERO the best one for them?
MCC I think that's affirm.
SPT Okay. I noticed they've been using 772 a lot,

recently, also.
018 16 h8 54 MCC Okay, now your question. You - You asked a

question the other day on running a STOP MODE
because the mini-MAR operation was getting your
fingerstired out. 55 is makingthe suggestion
that if you do get tired running the mini-MAR,
what might be worthwhile is to run a spectral
scan where the oxygen VI is high. Because when
you do this, they're picking up a lot of ions of
lithium, aluminum, and sodium and other things
that they don't get otherwise.
SPT Okay. What I was - There wasn't any real problem

with the fingers getting tired out. What I was
looking at though, in the active region, was the
fact that the intensity was changing so rapidly,
that was over a period of 30 seconds, that if
they were going to get a mini-MAR, which looked
at a time scale of 1 or 1-1/2 minutes the way we
actually run it, they were going to be missing it.
So I thought they might be able to get some
relatively short tlme-period changes by Just -
from working in the STOP MODE or the MLS.
MOC Okay - -
SPT That was the intent of making that.
MCC Okay. That's a good suggestion. We had not seen

that yet down here in the data.
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SPT Okay.
018 16 50 00 MCC Now the other thing is that they would like to
get an occasional GRATING, SCAN over regions where
oxygen VI peaks out in the active region too, be-
cause they don't have a great wealth of that kind
of data.
SPT Okay. I'ii - I'ii try to do that. l've been

trying to get more GRATING, AUTO SCANS in on
wherever we maximize now.
MCC Okay. The next one's on the AR-14 limb event

that you guys looked at the other day. I guess
we voiced the message up to you and I guess the
co_nnander looked at it. This is, you know, when
we had the surges and the loops over there. Ac-
cording to the 55 people, this is the best surge
data they've seen in Skylab and it's really ex-
cellent. The results are extremely exciting.
Of course, they've only been able to look at the
preliminary data. They're getting good color,
temperatures, and densities. The densities look
like they're ranging in the 109 - i0I0 i0 II region, -

election densities, that is. They're about one-
quarter of a million degrees. The very interest-
ing thing about it is that they're seeing very
fine - very fine structure in the chromospheric
and transition region line, but line-like magne-
sium X is Just showing a great bit glow with only
a few bright points and doesn't show nearly the
structure that the transition region lines show.
SPT Okay. Yes, I - I think from looking at their

data before, I would expect that.
018 16 51 15 MCC They were a little bit surprised by it.
SPT Oh, really?

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MCC Yes.
SPT Okay, maybe there's something that's subtle there

I don understand. I'ii talk with them when I get
back.
MCC Okay. In addition on that event SOC peak reported

they saw very, very little in calcium XV at that
point in time.
SPT Okay. What exactly - What mission day was that,

Jim?
MCC That was the NRL CAL rocket data. That's the
only thing I can remember right now.
SPT Okay.
MCC Okay. Now, I'd like to give you a - some GRATING

POSITIONS for that kind of an observation if
you'll want to go into it on your own in the
future.
SPT Okay. If you would give me the GRATING POSITIONS

that - and also the feature that your - you feel
you're most interested in with these GRATING
POSITIONS.
MCC Okay. This is for the limb events, like surges

and things of this sort. Okay - -
SPT Okay. That would not include loops, though,

would it?
MCC I think it would.
SPT That includes dynamic events.
MCC Yes, it would include the loop.
SPT Okay.
MCC Okay. The first GRATING POSITION is all balls.

And, Of course, that's Just a polychromatic position.
You got that one?
SPT Yes, Just go ahead. Fire away, Jim. I'ii write

it down real quick here.
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NCC Okay. Then second position is 772; this gives

them alignment continum in neon VII line. The
third GRATING POSITION is 1042 which gives them
the oxygen V and the iron XVI line. Third position
is 1652 which gives them the oxygen V plus another
line.
SPT Okay.
MCC 1654, not 52. l'm sorry.
SPT Okay.
018 16 52 54 MCC Okay. Now the other day when we read those up
to you, we gave you two other GRATING POSITIONS.
Those turned out to be not so useful. 574 was
one of them. They were hoping you'd see some
resonant scattering in that - in that position,
but it didn't work very well. So they don't think
they'll get much out of that one. And GRATING
POSITION 2434 was apparently just giving them
redundant data. So it's these four that I read
up to you that have given the best data.
SPT Okay. I'ii make a little note and have another

little - an extra little cue card here.
CC And we're about a minute from LOS, Skylab. And

Hawaii's coming up in ii minutes. Bill Lenoir
will have the second ATM pass, and you can press
on until going over the hill.
MCC Okay, Ed. Only - Only one other thing to talk

about this morning and that is that you guys did
a great job on that transient yesterday. 52 is
particularly happy about it. One thing that you
may not have heard about is that we did have
increased X-ray activity up in the PMEC and the
X-REA. They're up about a factor of l0 above
background. I'll - I'll have Bill read up some
comments to you about the S052 operations because
of all the film we used yesterday on the Hawaii
pass.
SPT Okay. I could not see anything in the XUV monitor

after the initial surge from the surface. I could
see that going out. I looked about an arc minute
or so above the surface and inclined about the
same direction the material was moving.
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018 16 54 19 SPT And I think initially, because of the call, I

was - I thought that perhaps - -
018 17 04 26 MCC Skylab, this is Houston with the rest of the ATM
conference. 0ver.
SPT Go ahead, Bill.
MCC Okay. Jim is still here if you've got any more

discussion you'd like to carry on with him. We
could do that now and if now I'll Just press on to
my agenda.
MCC O--
SPT No, I think I've understood - what information Jim

gave. It was most useful and I'll try and follow
it through, especially in working on that area
I Just worked this morning.
MCC Okay; fine. Now let's see, the first thing I

want to talk about real quick was what Jim didn't
quite get time for, and that's the 52 film budget.
- Their FRAMES REMAININGnow dictatesthe following
policy, and if you would like, when I'm finished
you can ask us and we can send you a note on it.
The first really, is Just telling you how they'll
operate. They'll operate in option B and every
evening synoptic building block 1 they will cancel
a proposed JOP 9 and they will real locate those
frames into their transient reserve. There is
sufficient film remaining for continued BB32's,
quickies, that is, every manned orbit and for their
continued unattended operations on - during your
sleep period. They now have sufficient JOP 7 data
and desire no further JOP 7's, the atmospheric
extinction. And the big message here is, should
another transient occur, they would very dearly
desire as complete operations as possible, Just
like yesterday. And they're very encouraged about
that and are not at all unhappy about real locating
their film for that. Over.
018 17 06 09 SPT That's good to hear. I hope we can have another

opportunity like that for them.
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MCC Okay; fine. So do we. Now the next thing is the

82A sequence. You got a general message up last
night and i guess the first thing I ought to do is
to let me ask - you ask me some questions about it,
if you have any, and then if not I'ii ask you
some about it.
SPT Okay. Let me just go right on down to a couple

of things I noted here. One was, you talk about
them running two AUTO MODES during the unattended,
and I would prefer, if anyone is available at all,
to just come on up here and run off an exposure of
1 minute or 20 seconds, whatever they would desire.
And rather than have them go through the ATU0 MODES,
since apparently 50 percent of that film is com-
pletely overexposed. So if at all possible, at
least whenever I'm around, I sure would be glad
to do that. But Just let the planners try to
work that in wherever possible. It doesn't take
but a second to come on up here and run off those -
a time mode for a minute or 20 seconds. Secondly,
they asked whether we could run this program, which
is laid out here down to - well, while you're
doing say 35 - building block B5 or 34. You can
I would say down to around a time of 8 minutes
remaining. At that point, you could not pay any
attention to the other experiment, Just because
you're, you're down then to every B0 seconds
making a 20-second exposure. The - one of - run-
ning these other experiments while we've got the -
well, even 2 minutes between there - 6 minutes is
probably no problem. When you get down to 2 min-
utes, we can run the 92A, but it's going to be
hit or miss as to whether we get the other exper-
iment turned around in time. For example 54, when
we get them started without a wait period in there
of maybe l, 2, or 3 minutes. Selecting a new
GRATING POSITION for 55 can be particularly bother-
some. Because that requires your full attention
sometimes for a minute or two if you don't want to
miss the GRATING POSITION. And some for 56, giving
them repeated ACTIVE 1 LONG, there might be some
good wait periods in there while you're making
sure you don't miss the 82A exposure. So it can be
done as long as they put the prime emphasis on
82A and the other experiments understand that
they will not get turned around as quickly as they
would like under normal conditions.
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018 17 08 49 MCC Okay, Ed. Thanks for that. And we'll take that
under advisement here and discuss it again with
all of the experiments. Regarding your suggestion
of if at all possible, let the crewmen take it
rather than doing the unattended with the AUTO 2,
as you know, that's the only command they have.
So, it does necessarily waste film that way.
We're very pleased for your offer. Obviously, the
thought had occurred to us, but we were very hes-
itant to ask about it. And we're quite happy that
you initiated it.
SPT Well, we don't have many frames left. And that

really gives useful data. Each frame is - is
valuable, and I hate to see us waste it. Another
question there was JOP 3. Could you run that
sequence during JOP 3? Now, that - I didn't quite
understand that question. Certainly if you had
a flare going, I don't think we could be running
a 20-second exposure every 30 seconds and expect
to pay proper attention to the other experiments
as well as monitoring the progression of the flare.
_ 018 17 09 57 MCC Yes. That was - The real question there, is that,
as the message states, 82A would like for this
particular sequence to be initiated at crewman's
discretion at the beginning - beginning of an
orbit when the activity looks high. And, ideally,
if you could look ahead in time and could predict
flares, that's when they would like it the most.
So if you have been successful at picking a high
flare probability orbit, you always have to address
the question of what happens if we get a flare
during this? Obviously, that says that we go into
J0P 3. 82A, if they were the only experiment
operating that day would ver - would like very much
to continue on through their sequence here with
the exception of Jumping ahead to the 30-second
exposures during the most active period picking
up the other exposures later. Obviously, that's
inconsistent with the operation of J0P 3 and
attention to the other four experiments. And I
guess our main question there concerned over and
above what we could guess, and that is that in
the 30-second frame interval; obviously, there's
a severe conflict. And JOP 3, we're not going
to be able to ignore the other experiments so that
82A would have to take what they get there. And I
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guess, our real question is, what do you think we

could get there, and how much problem is this
going to be for you?
018 17 ii 23 SPT Well, I think, once the flare starts, if we really

want to catch one, we're going to have our eyes
glued on the XUV monitor. And I think we could
probably spend the time to start and stop the 82A
for 20 - every 30 seconds for 20-second exposures,
if we weren't doing much else except looking at
the XUV monitor. But once we get into the flare
rise itself, that's another ball game, because
you've got to get everybody else running, make
sure they're in their proper mode, and monitor the
flare. And that - during that time period, I
don't think we could continue to give them 20-sec-
ond exposures every 30. We could give it a go,
but I don't think it would come out anywhere near
as uniform a series of exposures as we could other-
wise that they would like.
MCC Yes, I - I concur just having thought about it

here. It sounds like what we're saying is, that
in essence, this 82A sequence and JOP 3 are in-
compatible, in that, you cannot do them both and
do each of them well. And what we'll do here on
the ground is to take a look at it again with
all of the experiments represented and get some
words up to you as to guidelines as to how to
operate; to press on with 82A or to terminate
and go to JOP 3. Is that reasonable?
SPT Yes, I think so. Or if - if they'll settle for

a more sporadic timing on it, that's fine. I'd
also - I'd like to say yes on that, but I Just
the realities of it say that I know it wouldn't
be possible.
MCC Right, we - we con - -
SPT - - The other ones during the periods of high

activity, that is when we have fluctuating bright
points and, you know, the X-ray counts drop and
so forth but we really didn't have a flare. There
I think we can go ahead and continue on with this
sequence if they would like it initated.
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018 17 13 lh M_C Okay, I'm sure they would there. And we concur
with you wholeheartedly that we certainly don't
want to do two things poorly simultaneously when
we could pick one thing and do it very well. And
we're i minute from LOS. Goldstone is next in
3 minutes. And Dr. Musgrave is change - taking
off his CAP COMM hat right now and putting on his
medic hat; he'll be talking with you then. And
we've got another h0 seconds here. Okay, Ed;
well, that was basically about all I had here other
than to remind you to think some more about shuttle-
type planning as we discussed yesterday, and I'll
talk with you tomorrow about that. And I guess
for now we got 20 seconds left. I'll sign off,
and say I'll see you tomorrow as ATM and I'll
see you in about h5 minutes as visual observations.
SPT Okay, thanks very much, Bill. I haven't had a

chance to talk a little bit about what I see this
morning on the Sun, but I'll do that when we get
a pass.
CDR Hey, Story, the VTS has got some stuff on it; you
might want to dump it over Goldstone.
018 17 lh lh CC Okay, Jer.
018 17 16 53 CC Skylab, we're back with you through Goldstone for

7 minutes here. We're rewinding the VTR and then
we'll get a dump on it. And in the medical world
before I get into my agenda and all, have you got
_something for me?
SPT No, I don't think so, Story. We're looking at the

agenda you had lined up and it sounded pretty
good. Why don't you go ahead?
CC Okay. Before Jumping right into it, the M070

series people want to thank you very much for a
superb Job in managing your diets for the sparing
use of the extra foods containing minerals and
proteins. You've stayed within very close day-
to-day limits on the key nutrients. The collection
of urine for 36-hour periods in - in no way impacts
M071, but it does somewhat the - the M073, of
course, because they're looking for circadian
variations in the excretion hormone.
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SPT That's too bad, Story.
CC And moving on to the taste and aroma. The results

of all those tests as far as smell goes, they're
seeing no evidence for changes there. So they are
seeing changes with respect to taste that Joe
mentioned last week. And all the - all the com-
ments from here on refer to taste as opposed to
smell. The changes we are seeing are highly
individualized for each crewman. For Jer, he
had no change in his threshold of the four basic
flavors. He did snow a - he increased his ability
to detect anomatic flavor - that is, orange, but
remained unchanged in threshold for the aromatic
flavor of onion. So, overall for Jer, there's
no overall dramatic change in - in flavor response,
comparing his inflight to preflight responses.
For Bill, he showed an increased sensitivity to
salt and a very diminished sensitivity to both the
aromatic flavors orange and onion. The other
flavors remained essentially unchanged. These
test would suggest that foods would taste some-
what differently to him inflight than preflight.
As for Ed, he showed a marked enhancement in
ability to detect sweet things, and an associated
loss in ability to de - to detect the bitter
foods. This is coupled with enhanced ability to
detect orange flavor; other flavors remained
unchanged. These also suggest that foods might
taste sweeter and different to - to Ed in flight.
So these findings are supporting the need for
inflight condiments so that individuals can season
food to - to their own taste preferences, which
may change from preflight to inflight. And they'll -
these Pls will appreciate any further observed
changes in - in - in your appetite for food.
018 17 19 40 CDR Roger, Story. We agree with the condiments idea

that we've still got a few things to - wrinkles
that need ironing out in the way of dispensing the
condiments, but we'll talk about that on the ground.
And thanks for the information on taste and smell.
I was just about to ask you a day or so ago about -
if they'd give us any results.
CC Okay, and I just gave those to you in summary.

He's got another, oh, dozen pages beyond the summary,
and I just don't have time to get all that in-
formation to you.
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CDR Well, what you gave was fine. Thank you.
CC Okay. And M092 there's no really significant

changes. You're all hanging in there even closer
to preflight now than you were about a month ago.
Again, the only really significant things are the
extreme changes we're - that we're seeing in -
in venous compliance or the leg volume changes
with respect to lower body negative pressure.
Both Ed and Bill are - are pretty much stable now,
and Jer, you've gone a little further in that.
You're down to about minus 15 to minus 18 percent
on that once we crank in the - the new cal curves
for that CJ legband.
SPT Okay, what - what am I down to in terms of percent?
CC For Jer, on mission day 57, you were minus 18.5.
CDR That 's in venous compliance. Right?
CC That's in the total, the venous compliance plus

any fluids. In other words, filtration of fluids
out of the vessels into the leg. That's the total
calf change.
CDR I see; and I'm not using the Charlie Juliett leg-
band. I'm using Charlie Sierra.
CC Okay, that's affirm. And we - we concur with that.

That 's fine, Jer.
018 17 21 30 CC Okay, that's it for M092. The MllO is showing a

lot of interesting data. We appreciate the good
work on that. In general, your results of course
showed an initial rise in hemoglobin due most
likely to a reduction to plasma volume early in
the mission. And then you've shown a - a general
downward trend throughout the mission probably
due to a slight loss of circulating red blood
cells. Ed has shown the most variation in that.
Bill has shown the least in terms of variation.
The trend that we're seeing there is very similar
to what we saw on SL-3.
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CDR Roger. We've had a lot of talks to Dr. Hordinsky

about that, too. So we're pretty well up on the
hemoglobin situation.
CC Okay, let me - let me skip on over to MI31 then

since you're - you're up on that. The PIs there
are taking a look and trying to do some kind of
analysis and come up with some experiments not -
not for your mission but future experiments on
the correlation between the - the significant role
that fluid shifts and other types of inputs besides
the vestibular system may have on motion sickness.
However, they do still put a lot of emphasis on
the vestibular system due to their ground-based
studies and things like are possible to make
poeple motion sick that do not have vestibular
systems. They are coming up with, you might call
it a one time good deal, a test on mission day 73
or 74 in which you'll run the standard _3 mode
and after about 1 or 2 minutes of rest in the
chair, if you don't have any symptoms, they'll
run another N_3 mode with a reverse rotation.
They're thinking that maybe you adapt somewhat to
the stimulus during - during the chair actually
itself, a short duration adaptation, and you should
have an aggravated response on the second run.
CDR Well, sounds like it's worth a try.
018 17 23 35 CC Yes, sir. And I'll be able to get more to you

on that. I'm about going LOS here. And the next
one coming up will be corollary with Dr. Parker
at Bermudas in about 5 minutes. Your next day
off looks like about day 72, and I'll be able to
finish up that M131 and M171 at that time.
018 17 23 54 CDR Roger.

8 minutes with Dr. Parker and the corollary. We
got 5 minutes off the VTR. You got 21 minutes of
recording time on it between now and the next
stateside pass.
MCC Afternoon, Skylab.

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MCC Skylab, Houston. Do you read?
018 17 29 06 CC Skylab, apparently, we're getting up to you,

but we're - we're getting your voice at the - at
the site, but we're not getting you back in Houston.
CDR Roger. How do you read now, Story?
CC Loud and clear. Here's Bob.
CDR Hi, Bob.
MCC Afternoon.
PLT Hello, Bob.
MEC Hello. Afternoon, Skylab. Let me say first of

all, we had intended to have an S063 message up
to Bill answering s_ne of his questions. It's
still in work, and should be up today sometime,
I hope. In general, let me say that if - it
emphasizes the PIs' concern about the use of
reticles that tract the airglow layer itself,
and is a response to some comments you sent down
- a week or two ago, Bill. If - Let me say, if it
doesn't answer all of your questions, don't hes-
itate to pulse us again, and we'll try and do better
next time. Or a suggestion that I might make is
that has Ed seemed happy with the procedures, you
might - the two of you might try and work out some-
thing with you as well. It's - it's better to
talk between the two of you on board than to try
and get this sort of limited communication between
us on the ground and you up there. Over.
CDR Roger, Bob. We'll get those two together.
MCC Okay. As I say, it's in work coming up. I hope

it answers the questions that Bill had. On T020,
the PIs were especially pleased with the debriefing.
I guess I might say that one of the reasons that
they're probably especially pleased, is the fact
that it was enough to convince people to give them
a second unsuited run as you suggested. That run
right now we're trying to get on mission day 70.
And I might say that following your comments in
the debriefing, we are planning on deemphasizing
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the nonrigid modes, and sticking pretty well with

the rigid modes. We'll be sending you updates on
that later on in the next couple of days. Over.
018 17 30 58 CDR Okay, that's very good, Bob. I really do feel like
we owe them more data, and there's more data to
be gotten. And I agree, wholeheartedly, the rigid
system is the way to go.
MCC Okay, and on to the next maneuvering unit, M509.

Even though we didn't get all of the things that
we planned yesterday, they are quite pleased be-
cause it turned out that we got the highest priority
items anyway. And things are fitting pretty well
in with the stuff we got on AI Bean's run. In
terms of Bill's ran, which is coming up on Sunday,
we've gotten his comments on checklist modifications
and they're going to try to avoid confusing con-
struction as happened. The - Bill's run, they're
going to try and streamline a bit to reduce some
of the calibration maneuvers, which you got so
well yesterday, Jerry. And they'll try and sched-
ule all the CMG work early so that the power prob-
lems should not be as severe as they were yesterday.
The emphasis in Bill's run, - his suited run, will
probably be on the exploratory and discri - 1 dis-
criminatory tasks and those sort of maneuvers.
Over.
CDE That's excellent, Bob. I think there's some good

information to be gained there, and I think we
ought to give it a little priority. One question:
Do the folks down there think that our battery
capacities are beginning to diminish considerably?
018 17 32 16 MCC We've had a bit of discussion on that, and I guess

I'd really like to defer on that. The general
feeling right here at the moment, though, is that
the batteries are performing as expected and we're
not terribly concerned about them. But there is
some discussion still going on and let me take an
action item and have somebody give you an update
on that tonight or tomorrow morning when we get
more data in. We had a little bit of trouble
getting data back from the sites yesterday after-
noon so we're a little slow on getting those facts
for you.
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CDR Okay. Well, we'll Just have to do a better Job

then of consumables management. We'll get all
cranked up and - and try to be a lot more efficient.
M_C Okay. Let me say, before I forget it, that on

the comet people today it'll be Stan Fields, who's
another one of the fellows who's been working with
Bill Snoddy. Bill's back at Marshall today, and
so Stan'll be giving you their report.
CDR Roger.
MCC On the - on the science demos, people down here,

as all PIs, are extremely pleased with the results
to daye. I guess one particular thing we might
mention: Apparently, Ed, you sent down a question
last night about was there anything left to do
with the liquid floating zone, and the only com-
ment from the people on that was that the -
they - they might be interested in putting a
solid cylinder with its axis perpendicular to the
liquid axis, if you get that picture; but with
an end in contact with the liquid, hoping to
reducethis C-shapedinstabilitywhich sometimes
occurs when you were spinning it, particularly
fairly rapidly. Over.
018 17 33 50 SPT Yes, I didn't quite get the picture there, the
geometry of what they were trying to come up with.
MCC Okay. We're talking about another cylinder, this

time a solid one, though. And I'm not sure what
they're suggesting, but with its axis perpendic-
ular, but one of its end-faces in contact with
the liquid floating zone.
SPT Okay. And that would be rigidly hooked up to

one of the plates on the end?
MCC I'm not sure about that. Let me get them to get
me a fuller picture on that one. Either that or
a sky hook.
SPT Okay. Why don't you have someone put together

another story on that one. That in - that instru-
mentation is now dismantled, and I've started
to work on spheres.
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MCC Okay. i've Just gotten work that they're saying

Just floating in the middle, not attached to any-
thing. But if we get any more info, we'll send
it up to you.
SPT Okay. We gave them one with a little ice floating

in the middle and - and that, of course, went to
the center.
018 17 34 53 MCC Right. On the - We hope to get some more of those

in, but I might Just eonnnent that those are shop-
ping list items and I - I might push on beyond
that to a comment that Jet sent down a couple of
days ago on getting more time for shopping list
items. In general, things that are on the shop-
ping list are items that we don't feel as strongly
about scheduling, as the items that we schedule
in the Flight Plans. And, therefore, if we get
a - what we would down here call a successful
science Flight Plan with not too many holes in
it, we're more happy having those individual items
accomplished than the items that are on the - on
the shopping list. Some items are on the shopping
list hoping to get them done, items which are due --.
a long time in advance. M487 is - is in particular
one of those. And if we don't get those done by
the time they need to be done, we'll take them
off the shopping list and schedule them. So the
shopping list really has to be, if we don't take
the work too seriously, lower priority items which
we'd like to fit in if we can, but ones we don't
feel strongly enough to interrupt say on ATM pass
or an S063 pass. Over.
CDR Okay. I understand that. I see documentary

photos are being treated that way too. We've
seen them on the shopping list, and then they've
dripped off and shown up on the schedule.
MCC That's - that's exactly right.
CC And we're going LOS here. See you in Canaries in

about 1 minute. Be looking to dump the data/voice
there, and it'll be Bill Lenoir with the visual
ORS.
018 17 36 23 SPT So long, Story.

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018 17 37 27 MCC Skylab, Houston with the visual observation con-

ference followed by the comet conference for a
total of 16 minutes. And ! understand l've got
about 9 minutes here. So I'ii Just start right
in, if that's okay.
SPT Press on.
_C Okay. One thought, today being the crew day off,

we're wondering if we're going to have another
bunch of film like last crew day off. And one
thought we wanted to get up to you in case that
was the case is, we have a lot of infrared film
that we must shoot up today or else we'll be
rewinding it and not taking pictures on it. And
I believe it's like 51 frames. We recommend
that you take those on target of opportunity
basis out the window based on your training.
And you know as well as we do what infrared is
best for. And the optionals in schedules that
we've given you, other than the Connecticut River
ice, probably aren't very good for IR, but lots
of things out the window should pop up for IR
today.
CDR Roger, Bill. One of the best targets we've had

today has been the Gulf of St. Lawrence. It's
very clear there, and we got some very good photo-
graphy of the ice, polynyas, and leads and all
the rest of it there.
MCC Okay, good. Now getting into the agenda for

today, let me, if I could here - let me start
at the back and talk about the postlight because
I don't want to miss that. I have to get an answer
from you on this. The AGUs spring meeting in
Washington in - in April has got a day that's set
up half EREP and half ERTS. The EREP half is
being divided up between some visual observations
and EREP, Owen being the chief mover here. Dick
Wilmarth and I have been planning the visual
observations presentation. We're recommending
a paper entitled something like, "Man's Role in
Earth Observations from Space." And with your
permission, we'd like right now to submit an
abstract for you guys with you three as the
coauthors. If your schedule doesn't permit you
to actually deliver the paper, I can do it for
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you since I"ll be there for another one. But

abstract deadline is today, so I needed to talk
to you about that today.
CDR Roger, Bill. Go ahead.
018 17 39 40 MCC Okay, we'll do it. Another thought, thinking

ahead toward postflight. We haven't done any-
thing that we would steal some time from EREP on
postflight debriefing time. We've been thinking
the kind of things that we need to do, which is
really to spend a significant amount of time we
think with each of the investigators and go at
it area by area looking at the transparencies
that have resulted. We've asked for EREPs post-
flight debriefing to be as late as we can, so
that we can get as much of the film developed and
have time to assess it beforehand, and also to
look at it in real time with you. And we would
hope we could get enough time here to do this
area by area. Wondered if you could do some
thinking about this and come back with some rec-
ommendations on your part as to how long you think
we ought to request of management for that
debriefing.
CDR Okay, Bill. We've already given that some thought.

we think that - we agree with you that it ought to
be done late, so that all photographs are -have
been developed and are ready to go and I think
we - we ought to very definitely lay aside some
time if we get with each different PI. I would
su - suggest a minimum of a couple of hours with
each one.
MCC Roger. That's what we were thinking. And when

we start adding that up, it looks on the order of
day or two type timing.
CDR Yes. That sounds about right.
018 17 41 06 MCC Okay. We'll put the input in. Okay, now getting
back to the first part. The things that we will
be emphasizing here in the future over the next
2 weeks are the oceans. We'll be looking at the
Falkland Current, the New Zealand Current area,
the interesting area that you have found upwelling
off of Mexico, and island wakes. These are all as
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Sun becomes available over these. We'll continue

our lakes and ice investigation. The message we
sent you on river deltas, we will not be sched-
uling. Any time you happen to be looking out the
window and spot one, Just click off a shot or two
of it. Again, we will be scheduling lots of dunes.
We perfer the photographs first, observation sec-
ond on those. Similarly, we'll be scheduling
snow cover in the Cascades and in the Kings River
and Salt Verde River basin areas. What we would
like there is 300-millimeter Nikons of the edge
of the snow cover. Presently, you may not know
that the northwest United States up in the
Washington/0regon/Alaska/Northern California/Idaho
range are having severe floods right now. I mention
this to you on a target of opportunity basis.
You might get some photographic coverage of that.
Geology will be concentrating on the Africa Rift,
the San Andreas Fault, and the Rc_anche trench
extension. The 119 Alfa we sent up will be hitting
rangeland, metropolitan complexes, dim light. We
will not be scheduling any atmospheric sites be-
cause we don't know where they are. We'll have
to depend on that as a target of opportunity. So
you can see we'll be quite busy scheduling these
things. We don't anticipate getting anywhere near
as much as we would like. But anything we get
here is really Just great.
018 17 42 53 MCC On some of the results that we have gotten so far,

going back down pretty much the same type of a
list here: Oceans, the Falkland Current area is
very much new. Until 1967, they did very little
fishing out there, Just not knowing the potential.
In '67, Russia moved in and took 61,000 tons of
fish. The following year, Argentina declared an
200-mile coastal limit for their nation, and they're
now taking several hundred thousand tons per year.
They Just don't have the scientific or technical
capability to do the kinds of things that will
enhance that potential. All of your observations
around New Zealand on the current and the upwelling
is all new. It Just was totally unknown prior
to the flight. We're anxious to look some more
at the upwelling that you discovered off the Gulf
of Tehvantepec in Mexico there, and begin to try
to take this apart. See is it a local upwelling;
is it like you suspected, a confluence of an
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equatorial countercurrent with the California

Current; Just what is it? In addition, the infor-
mation that you gave us much earlier in the mission,
I believe Jerry did it, on the Sakurazima volcanic
eruption clouds, gave us lmique information on
the size, the distribution downwind, and the color
variations of the plume. And we're anxiously
awaiting the photography that was taken of that.
In the - -
018 17 44 21 CDR Roger. There seems to be some very strange winds

down there too. I noticed how it - the smoke
moves all in one direction in kind of a straight
llne and then just suddenly it plumes off to the
side like there's a good shear wind.
MCC Okay. Good - -
CDR By the way, I'm looking out the window right

now at the Coast of Mauritania and they've got
one heck of a duststorm going on. The wind's
blowing from the northeast and blowing dust out
over the ocean.
--4
MCC Okay. Good. If you get a chance give us a

good observation, put it on the recording, and
we'll take a look at it. We've got one - -
CDR Just got two H - HDC photos of it.
MCC Okay. We've got lots of film. And what we would

we would prefer on any sites in the future is to
take a minimum of three frames of whatever it is
and try to get a stereo of virtually everything.
We've got all sorts of film left.
CDR Good show.
018 17 45 07 MCC Okay. A couple of other inputs here on accom-

plishments: The fire that was discovered in
Australia was new and unknown. We turned that
over to them. We've recently made perhaps a
connection between the duststorm that you dis-
covered several weeks ago up off of Algeria with
dust that is appearing in the Caribbean that's
brought in on the norhteast tradewinds. We wonder
if there's any connection here. We'll be looking
at it from the ground site. If you see any evidence
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of dust borne in the northeast trades, get us some

pictures of it. Similarly, the geologic feature
that you pointed out to us in Wisconsin appears
to us to be Just fortuitous that it appears like
a feature. Although, of course, we raise our
eyebrows and say, well, we better go back and
look at that. Perhaps you have discovered a fea-
ture that's real that was previously undetected.
So that's kind of a broad brush example across
our various regions here as to the types of real
contributions that has been made to date Just based
on the words without even looking at the pictures.
And I've also tried here to give you an idea of
what we'll be concentrating on in the next 2 weeks.
And obviously, I've given you a list of 300 per-
cent of what we can really get done, and we'll
Just do what we can on it. And I'll turn it over
to you for a comment or so, here. And then when
you're finished, we'll turn it over to comet.
CDR Okay, Bill. The last 30 seconds were - you

dropped out so we missed all of that.
___ MCC Okay, I was Just carrying on here. It wasn't

all that important, probably not worth repeating.
If you don't have any further co--,ents, we'll
turn it over here to Stan Fields for the comet.
CDR Okay, Hello Stan.
018 17 46 50 MCC Hello. I'd like to take the next few minutes
to discuss with you the comet. First of all, I
want to tell you how we appreciate the sketches
you've prepared for us, and also the descriptions
you gave. These have been very valuable to us and
Maurry Dubin points out that your sketches and
descriptions may possibly form the bases for one
of the best scientific publications to come out
of our entire observations ops - observational
programs. Also I'd like to point out that we
believe that on mission day 50, when you saw the
violet color in the white tail, you were probably
seeing the gas tail. Ed, we agree with you that
JOP 18 has been very successful, and the ATM
observations around perihelion plus your sketches
and descriptions are going to be very valuable.
z--
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SPT Start, I was hesitant to say we were really looking

at the dust tail because - or the gas tail because
it appeared to be pretty much coinciding with the -
with the dust tail up to that - to where we - the
point we could still see the dust tail, and I
expected the two to diverge.
018 17 h8 03 MCC Okay, we Just thought from the - the color des-
cription there that there was some possibility.
Now then I would like to tell you a little bit
about what's going on down here. First of all,
I'd like to report to you the detection of a
new molecule since the last time we talked to
you; that's hydrogen cyanide. Also during the
last conference we told you somewhat prematurely
about the detection of water from the comet for
the first time. This, however, has now been
confirmed by other groups. Also Just this morning
the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory reports
the observance of CH in radio emission. The
importance of this is that it's the first observance
of a molecule in radio emission that has also
been observed in emission in the visible regions.
There's been a couple of rocket - rocket launches
since the - the last conference. The John [s]
Hopkins University on 5 January obtained a spec-
trum in the UV and identified Lyman-alpha and
atomic oxygen. Surface brightness was estimated
at 80 hilora - rayleigh in Lyman-alpha and h.5 in
OH. This observance occurred near the time that
you were performing an SO19 operation. An EL
on a rocket off on the 8th of January with three
carruthers cameras on board observed a cloud in
Lyman-alpha which was nearly spherical in a central
region out to about 1/9 degree, then the intensity
dropped rapidly with a - with a cloud distorted
in the antisolar direction. In this period you
made several S201 observations which should prove
very interesting in following the development of
the cloud. The image in the 1230 to 2000 angstrom
range had a 5-arc-minute diameter and an integrated
brightness about the same as the star eta Capricorn.
The spectrum showed atomic oxygen at 1304 angstroms
and atomic carbon at 1657 augstrom. The carbon
emission was about h times stronger than the
oxygen. Also, some --
SPT Very good; go ahead.

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018 17 50 19 MCC Okay. On some photographic results, the University

of Minnesota reports IR observations with an anti-
tail beginning about - observed through _ January.
The coma and regular tail showed the silicate
structure as identifed in Comet Bennett, whereas
the antitail showed irregular black body spectrum
cooler than the coma and consistent with the pre-
sence of large particles. The Joint observatory
cometary research at South Baldy Mountain, New
Mexico, has been photographing the comet daily.
The latest report on 15 January gave a gas tail
measured of 25 degrees long with a distinct curva-
ture at the end, and a dust tail i0 degrees long,
also an antitail 1/2 degree long. the visual
observations these days are estimating tail lengths
approximately 6 degrees.
SPT The antitail, which exact direction was that? Was

that still solar or what was the orientation?
MCC Yes, that would be solar.
018 17 51 27 SPT So that would correlate with what we were able to

see visually at - for the first 3 or 4 days after
perihelion.
MUC Yes, that seems to - to agree. Also, the -the

comet magnitude is not as bright as we'd hoped
it would be at this time. As you remember, prior
to perihelion, we had given you some visual ops
to compare with the curve you have on board, and
those magnitudes were running 1 to 2 magnitudes
below the Arend-Roland curve. The postperihelion
visual obs at this time seem to show the comet
being 3 to 4 magnitudes below the Arend-Roland curve.
Incidentally, we did observe the comet here at
Houston for the past 3 nights and this has been
the first time we've been able to see it since
perihelion. From the astronomers point of view,
there is no reason for disappointment in this low
visual magnitude of Kohoutek. In fact, we're wait-
ing the opportunity to correlate the data gathered
on the ground with the Skylab observations. There
are a number of theories as to why the magnitude
of Kohoutek has not lived up to its advanced bill-
ing. Some astronomers theorize that Comet Kohoutek
is a new comet not previously affected by solar
radition and that the head of the comet is covered
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by a low-vapor layered crust that in some way in-

hibits the brilliance that could otherwise be ex-
pected. Others believe it is - it is possible that
Comet Kohoutek conists of hi_]ly volatile gases
that vaporized soon after the comet was discovered,
leading to a prediction of a higher brillance than
finally occurred. Additional theory holds that
Kohoutek approached perihelion - as it approached
perihelion, the Sun quieted down considerably
thus producing less effects on the comet. However
you know that comets are very unpredictable. And
in wrapping up here, I'd like to day that at -
starting about mission day 71, we do plan some
more comet observation with the corollary exper-
iments. Thank you.
CC And we're 20 - -
SPT Thanks very much. Excellent rundown Start. Appre-

ciate it.
018 17 53 40 CC 25 minutes to Carnarvon at 18:19.
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018 18 20 i0 CC Skylab, A0S through Carnarvon and Honeysuckle for

9 minutes.
SPT Roger, Story.
SPT Story, do you have an ear for listening to what

the Sun looks like from up here?
CC Say again, Ed.
SPT How'd you like to hear what the Sun looks like
from up here?
CC Yes, sir; we're always interested in that.
018 18 23 29 SPT Okay, we'll start out with the WHITE LIGHT CORO-
NAGRAPH. And the region where we saw the large
activity yesterday has not changed greatly in the
appearance from what it was originally. There
- was a - there is a few small changes,and I'ii
go through those. First off, all there is is a
very faint streamer still visible at 060; narrow,
very faint, but goes out quite far in the display,
maybe out to, say, B solar radii.
CC Okay.
SPT ... No real prominence streamers imbedded in that.

Yesterday at 095 there was a - a streamer which
extended out quite far. Now this whole region is
Just diffuse emission. The largest change is over
on the opposite limb, over at 280, where we yes-
terday had a helmet streamer. Now we've got a
very intense, bright streamer which goes out about
as far as the helmet streamer did. But the sides
are now straight but still converging slightly.
But it looks exceptionally intense, especially
in the display itself. The photograph doesn't
show it quite as well. The other streamer which
was over there, a helmet streamer which looked to
be behind it or - at least the two were super-
imposed to a degree at the bases - that's at
295. That is now exceptionally faint and can
barely be seen. The XUV MONITOR shows the active
regions not changing greatly from yesterday
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except due to - due to rotation. We see the

active region 23 over on the disk - over on the
limb. And even though it's on the limb, it's not
enhanced at all. Active region 25 shows up fairly
faint; 16 looks relatively bright and large, a
couple of arc minutes - maybe 3 arc minutes or
so in the XUV MONITOR. And the active region
21 and 20 is the most - the largest and by far
the brightest. The new regions which have been
talked about - active region 28 shows up as a
faint region about, oh, 1 arc minute or
so - l-l/2 arc minute in diameter. The active
region 29 also shows up, but it looks almost
like a bright spot rather than an active region.
018 18 26 32 SPT There is another one going further right out to

the northeast, about 2 arc minutes, which looks
to be about the same intensity, maybe a little
but smaller than active region 29. But without
the labeling here, I would not be able to say
what was the active region and what wasn't.
They both appeared to be about the same. That is,
if you go from active region 28, 29, and then
about - almost an equal distance, maybe two-thirds
of the distance between 28 and 29, you find another
bright spot. Active region 27 shows up on the
limb and it's not anywhere near as bright as it
was yesterday. In looking at the active regions,
in oxygen VI this morning, everything looked
pretty quiet. There was not too much - not very
many gradients in the intensity; in other words,
no real bright point. They were up around 1000 to
a thousand and a half or so, in the two regions
I looked at - or three regions at 20, 21, and 16.
So that's why this morning I elected not to work
with the active regions but rather to look off
the disk and see what I could find there. This
last orbit, I looked off the disk again at about
285, and used Lyman-beta to look for the prom-
inence. And I just found a very diffuse area of
emission all the way out to around - I'm guessing
now, because I didn't take the f_gures exactly,
but they were about 6 - 60 to 70 arc seconds
whereupon it dropped off quite rapidly. So may-
be we do have something there in the way of a
prominence, although I was able on the previous
orbit to find fairly distinct local maximum in
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oxygen VI which I did take data on. This past

orbit I took data on oxygen - or on Lyman-beta
MIRROR, AUTO RASTER and gave 82B a WAVET.W_GTH,
LONG exposure, hoping that if there was relatively
cool material, we could see that. In the next
orbit, I think I'll go on back and start looking
at the active regions again. That does it.
018 18 28 36 CC Okay, Ed. Thanks a lot. And we'd like a STOP on

S055. We saw the GRATING running with the DOOR
shut.
SPT Roger, Story. I was trying to line it up to get

it close to zero again. And I got talking and
Just forgot about it. Thank you.
CC Okay; thank you. And we're about 30 seconds to

LOS, about 15 minutes to Hawaii at 18:43. And
for everybody, Goddard is totally clouded over.
We'd like to cancel your laser runs at 19:05 and
20:42. That's for everyone. Just cancel on your
details, 19:05 and 20:42.
018 18 29 15 SPT Thank you, Story. So long.
018 18 44 06 CC Ed, Houston.
SPT Go ahead.
CC Ed, it's our lucky day again. We're seeing a

disk transient in filsment 81. Like you to per-
form a JOP 8A, step 5; that's a building block 10.
SPT Say again, location.
CC It's filament 81. That's at 270; 0.2 radii.
CDR Story, you never did talk to us about M171 today.

And I would propose that sometime after it ge_s
cooled down here a little bit, Ed and I still
plan on giving you one more fully instrumented
with the MA max effort. And I would suggest that
we do it in lieu of a 171 sometime. And let us
call it. When we're scheduled for 171, we'll Just
let you know that that's going to be a max effort;
it'll be about 30 - 35 minutes of heavy pumping.
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CDR Houston, CDR.
018 18 46 31 CC Yes, sir. I got it. Jer, we're just working it

over here. We were flight planning that type of
run around mission day 78 or 79, but we're not
yet sure that we can do that in lieu of an MiT1.
CDR Okay.
CC And if you're not using the VTR, we'd like to

rewind it here at Hawaii for a dump stateside.
CDR Okay, we're through with it. And, Story, I think

I'd prefer that we not Flight Plan it, that we
go ahead and let us try to get it ad lib as best
as we can.
CC Copy, Jer.
CDR We'll try to do it on a day when you give us

171 plus PT/PH afterwards.
CC Okay.
CDR It certainly would seem to be to me a whole lot

more efficient to let us do a regular exercise
routine in lieu of a 171.
018 18 47 4h CC Copy, Jer. And while I've got you, I've got two
changes to your EREP C&D pad.
CDR Okay, go ahead.
CC I'm going to get with Bill shortly about doing

another thermal alignment. And pertaining to
that, for you, 8192 POWER; ON at 19:33.
CDR Okay, 09:33 instead of 9 - 09:30 - 19:33 instead

of 19 :37 •
CC Yes. Bring it up at 19:33. And then at 20:00,

S192 to CHECK.
CDR Okay, 19:33, S192 POWER, ON; 19 - or 20:00 would

be MODE to CHECK.
CC That's affirm; and is Bill right there?

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CDR Okay, he's ready to copy.
018 18 49 14 CC Okay, the alignment he did, we got an excellent

VISIBLE ALIGNMENT. The T_ ALIGNMENT - all
we're seeing in terms of the data was noise. So
we'd llke him to perform an ALIGN check for THER-
MAL only at 20:06 and voice record the meter
reading.
PLT Hey, Story, you say that the - that's the THERMAL.
I thought I got a fairly good one, but I'll re-
check at 20 :06.
SPT Story, would you confirm that I got the right

pointing? It doesn't - the - the numbers don't
quite agree with what I 'm seeing.
CC Okay, Ed. That's Just an ALIGN check, Bill.
PLT Roger, ALIGN check.
CC And regardless of what you get, go ahead and GO

for the data.
PLT Roger.
SPT Story, could you confirm we got the right pointing?

The numbers don't quite correspond to what I see
on the disk.
018 18 50 28 CC We're checking. Okay, Ed. Go RIGHT, 200 and

leave UP/DOWN where it is, and you ought to be
right on it.
CC Okay, go to 200, UP/DOWN the same as it is. It

ought to be there.
T
SPT Story, that's Just about what I was on. Moving
out from sub - Sun center, there are two filaments.
Is it the one fUrthest out or the one closest to
the center?
CC Closest to the center, Ed.
018 18 52 09 CC And as you're reading the 21, itls got a flare

probability of about 75 percent now.
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018 18 54 37 CDR Houston, CDR.
CC Go ahead, Jer.
CC Go ahead, Jer. We're just coming up on Goldstone.
CC Go ahead, Jer. We got Goldstone for 5 minutes.
CDR How do you read, Story?
CC Loud and clear. How're you reading me?
CDR Okay. Reading you okay now. I repeat, permanent

general message number 7B that just came up on
the food excess situation, in paragraph 2 on free
calories, does not list butter cookies. Is it
an oversight or have we now eaten up the excess,
and the only butter cookies left are for planned
menus?
CC We'll get you an answer to that, Jer.
CDR Thank you.
018 18 56 43 SPT Story, would you confirm? The filament which I

was - was on now has lifted off. Would 82B and
82A like to continue on in the building block i0
which I plan to run consecutively now?
CC We'll get you the answer to that. And you're

probably not seeing it because it did lift off,
Ed.
SPT Yes, I understand that now, Story. It was still

on the disk at the time when we got over there.
CC Okay.
SPT The same question goes for 5_ also, Story.
CC Okay, Ed. Take data on S054, and Just take - you

probably have taken them already. We want Just
one frame of 82A and one of 82B.
018 18 58 56 SPT Okay, 82A got one frame, 82B got what was called
for in the building block, WAVELENGTH, SHORT of
20 and 240.
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CC Okay, you can leave her right there.
SPT Excuse me, that was i0 and 240 that I got.
CC That's good, Ed.
SPT Story, your instructions for 54 was one more or

to continue on in the whole sequence?
CC That's continue on, Ed.
CC We're about SO seconds from LOS, about 3 minutes

to MILA.
CC Ed, in terms of the pointing now, we think you

got the correct RIGHT/LEFT, but you ought to move
UP to 300.
SFT Okay, Story, I sure will. That's - for H-ALPHA i.

That's where I saw it when I moved over there.
018 19 01 20 CC Okay.
-- 018 19 03 51 CC Skylab, we're back with you through MILA, and

Bermuda for ll minutes.

to Ascension, 19:21. And Ed, that's the first
disk transient that we've caught in the Skylab
program. And we had a 4-minute response time
from observation down here until you started the
experiment s.
SPT That,s very good, Story. Sorry it took a little

long - time up here. I had a weird ROLL in there
and I was trying to figure out exactly which one
of the two it was.
CC Yes, sir.
SPT And tell the planners to delay the flare, if it's

going to occur, until after the Z-local vertical
pass.
CC Okay, but there may well be some action when she

falls back in.
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018 19 31 00 CC Skylab, we're a minute to LOS; about 2h minutes

to Carnarvon at 19:5h. Be looking to dump the
data/voice there. And you got 18 minutes on the
VTR.
018 19 55 13 CC Skylab, AOS through Carnarvon for i0 minutes.

We're dumping the data/voice here.
CDR Roger, Story.
CDR Story, on the S190 FII=M ADVANCE sequence, I got

a MALFUNCTION light on camera hi-,her 6. All the
cameras did advance three frames, however.
CC Copy, Jer.
CC And whenever you get the S190 ALIGN check, we'd

like the reading on the right meter on panel 136
there, when you got the switch in the THERMAL
position.
CDR Okay, we'll let you know. It's a little early

yet.
CC Yes, sir.
018 19 58 26 CC And you got a good maneuver time, Skylab.
PLT Okay, Story Just so you'll know where we started,

Just taking the readings on left and right THERMAL.
Left is reading 17; right is reading 12.
CC ThAnks, Bill.
CC Skylab, we're a minute to LOS. We won't have

Guam this pass, so the next one will be Goldstone
in about 30 minutes at 20:33. And Jer, we'd like -
after the ALIGN check we'd like to get the read-
ings on Alfa 5 and Bravo 5 as well.
CDR Okay; Alfa 5 and Bravo 5.
018 20 Oh 22 CC Thank you.

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018 20 32 30 CDR Looking for a READY, on.
PLT Be seeing the coast here pretty soon.
CDR Yes.
PLT I see clouds is what I see. Okay as you pick up

Van - Vancouver is clear. We should pick it up
about 33-1/2, so it must not be clear.
CC Skylab, we're reading you loud and clear down here.

And got you stateside for 16 minutes.
CDR Okay, Story. Alfa 4 is 92, Alfa 5 is 35. Are

those the two you wanted?
CC We wanted Alfa 5 and Bravo 5.
CDR Okay, let's see. Bravo 5 is 54.
PLT And Story, the ALIGNMENT worked out about 14 to 15

on the left and about 6_-1/2 on the right.
CC Okay. Sounds good, Bill.
PLT But the - the readings were down. When I opened

up and checked the ALIGNMENT, they were reading
17 and 12, left and right respectively. I guess
that left was reading 17 instead of 14 and - When
we - when we maxed out the reading. And for the
people there on the ground, I had - The focus
had been all the way to the extreme position.
And that's the only reason - possible explanation
I can give for the fact that the - the good reading
I gave fell off. I backed off from the extreme
travel away from the micrometers. I was all the
way away from the micrometers. I backed off from
that about - Almost three-quarters of a turn -
about five-eighths of a turn - -
018 20 34 50 CDR MARK. S191 READY light's on, going to

REFERENCE, 6.
PLT - - to get that reading.
CDR At 35 even, stand by-
018 20 35 01 CDR MARK. SCATTEROMETER, ON; RADIOMETER, ON.

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CC Okay. And, Bill, for your VTS tracking, a

special 01, the clouds, you'll have 8/10 to - to
overcast; That ought to be good. Your 365 is
clear but probably snow covered. And your
special 02 is slightly doubtful. We'll call it
about 8/10 to an overcast on that one.
PLT Okay. That's a snow cover, anyway. M_vbe I can

find a place between the clouds. MAG MIN; DAC is
coming on. .** even.
PLT And you're getting - -
CDR Okay, we're coming up on 36:03 - -
018 20 36 Ol PLT MARK.
CDR - - with an ETC POWER, ON.
PLT DAC, on.
CDR Stand by -
_- 018 20 36 0_ CDR MARK. ETC POWER, ON.
PLT Run until 36:40. Stand by.
PLT Stand by -
018 20 36 41 PLT MARK. DAC, off. Okay going from the lead or led,
or whatever it is. There is the Black Hills.
There are the Black Hills.
CDR Okay, on m_ mark it'll be 37:03 with an ETC to

AUTO on 190 -
018 20 37 05 CDR MARK. 190 is in AUTO and ETC should be in AUTO.

Next m,_k at 37:_0. Hey I got a MALF light on
camera 6. Okay the next mark is 37:40. Stand by -
018 20 37 _l CDR MARK. And 192 MODE to READY. Got good tape
motion, an occasional flicker in the TAPE MOTION
light.
PLT Okay, I got the target. How about that, sports

fans. DAC's on; good data. I wouldn't have bet
money on this at all. Stone center. You know
that analogy I drew between the glimpse?
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CDR Yes.
PLT That's how I caught it. (Chuckle)
PLT This made my whole day. Ease back. Okay; DAC,

off. Going for special 02. Any late update,
Story? Well, I'll Just go ahead and see what I
can find.
CC No, sir; nothing new here.
PLT Okay.
CDR Still got our MALF light on camera 6.
PLT Okay, 02 at 39:20.
PLT *** I might. I never ... snow. I'll go ahead

and look at that.
CDR Okay, my next mark is at 39:h0.
PLT Okay, it's also - -
CDR Stand by -
018 20 39 41 CDR MARK. 193 POLARIZATION to 4. At 50 - All right,

at 50 A-5 is 40 - correction, 37; B-5 is 54; C-3
is 88; and Delta 3 is 83.
PLT Now I can see the ground. Don't see any snow.
That 's unusual.
CC And when anyone gets a break up there, don't

forget to load the new maneuver time for going
back to SI. it's 21 minutes or 50025.
PLT Thank you. Okay, I've missed the snow cover;

I'm going to the Blake Escarpment, and that's
at 44:36. I've still got a couple of minutes,
here.
PLT Now here's a break in the clouds. I'm going to

go for somthing.
CDR Okay, at 41:10 we're looking for an S190 READY

out. Still got my MALF light.
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PLT Okay, I've been taking data on a single, homo-

geneous spot through the clouds, and it's not
got snow cover on it.
018 20 hl 15 CDR MARK. At 12, 190 READY light went out. ETC
ought to be in STANDBY now, Ed. 190 MODE to
STANDBY. Setting up FRAME _5: hl:30 is m_ next
mark. Stand by -
018 20 hi 31 CDR MARK. 192 MODE to CHECK.
PLT 0k_y, hh--
CDE Story, did you copy those monitor readouts

at 39:50?
CC Yes, sir. I got them, Jer.
CDR Okay.
PLT Okay, Story, would you check maneuver time,

please?
CC Yes, sir. It's verifiedcorrect.
PLT Thank you. 20:hh:36.
CDR Okay, coming up on h2:53, h2:53, stand by -
018 20 h2 5h CDR MARK. S190 to MODE, AUTO.
CDR Okay, m_ next mark is at h3:28. Stand by -
018 20 h3 29 CDR MARK. SCATTEROMETER to STANDBY.
018 20 h3 31 CDR MARK. RADIOMETER to STANDBY. Ha, I said STANDBY

instead of OFF. How about that?
018 20 h3 38 CDR MARK. ALTIMETER is ON. At h5, Ed, we want ETC

POWER, ON. Stand by -
018 20 h3 h6 CDR MARK. 43:45, Okay, I turned the ALTIMETER, ON

instead of the SCA_I?EROMm"I'_. I've got it ON now
and - RADIOMETER is OFF and the SCATTEROMETER is
OFF. RADIOMETER went to STANDBY, I should say.
SCATTEROMETER went to STANDBY, the RADIOMETER
went OFF. hh, the ETC should have been AUTO.
193 ALTIMETER's ON AT 44:19.
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PLT Okay, we Just coasted out.
CDR Okay, I guess I blew some SCATTEROMET_R data there

at 51 then. 41:30, ETC to STANDBY. The downlink
switch going to 7.
018 20 44 37 PLT MARK.
CDR There's 7. Next mark is at 45.
PLT Okay, I've got the radir swath. Started that

at 44:36, on time.
CDR Stand by for 20:45:00.
018 20 45 01 CDR MARK. 192 MODE to READY. Tape speed is up,

45:10.
PLT Looks about - like about 1/10 or 3/10 coverage - -
CDR Alfa 5 is 36; Bravo 5 is 40 - 54; Charlie B is 88;

Delta 3 is 83.
CC Gotthem.
CDR 46:01's the next one.
PLT Standing by for 46:06. On the Blake Escrapment

nadir swath, clouds vary from clear in the swath
to about, oh, 3/i0.
CDR TAPE MOTION light's flickering. Still got a

MALF light on 6. Got an ALTIMETER UNLOCK light;
going to STANDBY on the ALTIMETER at 55.
CDR 46:01, Ed, is ETC, STANDBY.
018 20 46 02 CDR MARK.
PLT Stand by for _6:06.
018 20 46 07 PLT MARK. DAC off.
CDR Okay, the ALTIMETER is going back ON. Looking

for 46:30 next. Stand by -
018 20 46 31 CDR MARK. 191 REFERENCE is 2. 47 is next.

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PLT Okay, I got some good data here on one of the

Bermudas I'm going to go ahead and take. It's
for m_ l0 seconds of clear film.
CDR Got an ALTIMETER UNLOCK light - -
PLT ...
CDR - - READY light's still good. TAPE MOTION's

flickering.
CDR 47 :00 coming up. Stand by -
018 20 47 01 CDR MARK. Downlink to position 9.
PLT Okay, I'm going to pa -
CDR Need a VTS AUTO CAL at 47:00, Bill.
PLT Okay, I'll get it. I'm not seeing a lagoon on

one of the Bahamas.
CDR Still got an ALTIMETER UNLOCK light; still got

a READY light. TAPE MOTIONsflickering.
PLT Okay, I'm starting to lose. I'm going to

CROSSTRACK. Okay, what time is that, 47 - -
CDR 30; 8 seconds.
PLT Roger.
CDR Stand by.
018 20 47 31 CDR/PLT MARK.
CDR Okay, coming up on 47:40. Stand by -
018 20 47 41 CDR MARK. Downlink to position I.
PLT Now you need some - -
CDR 47:55 is the next m_k. Stand by -
018 20 47 56 CDR MARK. SCATTEROMETER - CORRECTION, ALTIMETER to

STANDBY. MODE n,_m1_er 5; RANGE, 62.
CDR 48:20. ALTIMETER, ON.

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018 20 48 27 CDR MARK. It was 6 seconds late. Downlink to

position 4. 48:45 coming up next.
CDR TAPE MOTION light is out. 48:45, Ed, ETC power

ON. MODE to MANUAL on 194.
CDR 49 coming up. Stand by -
018 20 49 01 CDR MARK. Downlink's to position 5- ETC to AUTO,

Ed. At 49:40 is the next one. NO TAPE MOTION
light. Looks like we are are out of tape. No,
it's still turning. 49:40 coming up. I got it,
Bill.
CC Skylab, we're a minute to LOS; 43 minutes to

CARNARVON at 21:32. Looks like you'll have a
good trip back to SI.
CDR Roger. Downlink position to 6 at 49:40. Waiting

for a _Y light on 191. We still have tape, and
it's still moving, but I have no TAPE MOTION
light.
CDR S190 READY coming up in about 7 seconds.
018 20 50 22 CDR MARK. The 190 READY went out on time. ETC to
STANDBY, Ed. 50:32's my next one. Stand by -
018 20 50 33 CDR MARK. 192 to STANDBY, 190 to STANDBY. 51:00 is

next.
CDR All right, I'm going to turn off the ALTIMETER

early. The READY light went out. It apparently
has been out for some time while I was busy doing
other things. Downlink pos - switch position is
is going to OFF. And EREP, STOP.
CREW Got the film running.
CDR Okay, Story, I don't have to do a tape recorder

depletion.
CC Okay, we're still with you.
CDR Tape recorder done shot its wad.
PLT My X-rate looks awfully high there Story, how

about taking a look at it.
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CC What 's high?
PLT My X-rate.
CC Okay, we're looking.
PLT Okay, it's coming back down now.
CC We're getting outer gimbal drive. We think it

looks good, Bill.
CDR Okay - -
PLT Really scared me there for a minute.
018 20 51 51 CDR Bravo 7's at 35 percent. S192 DOOR going to

CLOSEd.
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SKYIAB AIR-T0-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION
018 21 32 30 CC Skylab, Houston. Hello from the purple gang.

We're at Carnarvon for 7 minutes.
SPT Hello, Dick.
CC Hi, Ed. You guys having a good day today?
SPT Certainly are. Enjoying it and doing lots of

useful things.
CC Good show.
018 21 33 54 SPT Dick, could you please give me again the time and
the antenna for the phone call?
CC Yes, sir. It's LEF_ ANTENNA. It's Vanguard, and

the time is 22:35.
SPT Thank you.
018 21 34 13 CC Incidentally, Ed, since EREP is fresh on your mind

and the ETC, long time ago you guys told us that
you were going to take care of the ETC desiccants
and - and make sure that they stayed dry, and we
haven't heard much about it. Just to make us feel
warm, we were wondering how that had been going.
How often have you had to replace them and how
many blue ones do you have on hand now?
SPT - - blue one in today, Dick. And we have comple-

ted ... every time we replaced one up here.
SC ...
SPT Roger ....
PLT Guess I should have said 190 Alfa.
CC Guys, right after I asked that question, we - we

dropped out on the downlink, and I did not hear
the answer.
018 21 35 12 SPT Okay, the answer was, Dick, I Just replaced one
today, and that was the last blue one we have.
And it's about the third one or so that I've put
" in.
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CC Roger.
PLT Dick, I missed the first part. Did - that also

apply - the question also apply to i90 Alfa?
CC We're intere - it really didn't. I had asked it

about ETC, but we are interested about 190 Alfa.
You might as we - well tell us, and then I won't
have to ask you again later.
018 21 35 52 PLT Okay, we've been replacing them, you know, on a

rotational basis about every second or third pass.
And sometimes they seem to last longer than others,
but it's no big problem. We ju - we've Just been
taking care of it on a as necessary basis.
CC Okay, real fine. Thank you much.
018 21 37 00 SPT Dick, have the people down on the ground seen any
effect of the filament which blew off?
CC I haven't gotten a real recent word. Let me check

again real quick, Ed.
018 21 38 13 CC SPT, Houston, negative. We haven't seen any more -

any more observations of that filament since it blew
off. We'll let you know as - if we do.
SPT Okay, Dick. I think l'd like to work this next

orbit and then I'ii leave that following one un-
attended. And then I think I have a scheduled one
after that.
CC Okay, let me make sure I understand that. You're

going to work the upcoming one, and then the fol-
lowing one after that we're going to do unattended,
and then you'll get the scheduled one later on.
Thank you.
SPT Thank you, Dick. If there's anything in particular

they'd like for me to do this orbit, I can go ahead
and do it like a STANDARD MODE, Sun center, or any
other MODE.
CC Okay, we'll certainly give it some thought - thought

and if we have anything to get up to you, I'ii do
that. We're about 30 seconds from LOS. Guam comes
up at 21:47, just about 7 minutes from now.
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CC And, SPT, Houston. Our druthers are the optional

pad that we sent up to you last night.
PLT Go ahead.
CC Roger, I was Just telling Ed on this upcoming day-

light pass that what we'd like is that optional
pad that we sent up last night.
PLT Roger; he read.
018 21 39 37 CC Okay.
018 2i 47 12 CC Skylab, Houston. Guam for 6 minutes.
PLT Roger, Dick.
018 21 h8 54 CC SPT, Houston. No response required, but in re-

sponse to the discussion you had earlier today about
TV-101 during the Science conference, I think we
have uplimked a general message entitled GMrV-101.
It's number 64hl, and it came up today. You might
take a glance at that and see if that clears things
_ up.
SPT Okay, Dick, thank you.
CC Okay.
018 21 51 51 CC Skylab, Houston. We' re 1 minute to LOS. Goldstone

comes up at 22:10, and we're going to dump the
data/voice recorder at Goldstone.
018 22 l0 16 C0 Skylab, Houston. Hello at stateside for 15 minutes.

And we need the DAS; we're going to do - do a nu z
update.
SPT You' ve got it.
CC All righty.
CC And a couple of other things, Skylab : We 're dumping

the data/voice recorder here at Goldstone, and also
we're taking the VTR here, and we're going to start
into our dump sequence.
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018 22 12 0h CC Skylab, Houston. The DAS is yours.
018 22 18 58 CC SPT, Houston. We believe on H-ALPHA you need NIGHT

INTERLOCK to OVERRIDE.
CC Roger.
018 22 19 43 PLT Dick, we have a fairly decent view of Houston today.
CC Yes, it - it has been a little bit better today.

The - Kind of broken clouds, but very clear. Looks
like the rain stopped for a little while, I hope.
E1 Paso was pretty this morning.
PLT Yes, we Just took a look at White Sands.
018 22 21 44 CC CDR, Houston. One note for you: In the event you
have not already done HKCM7 today, when you do,
we'd like you to pass down to us what the entry
batts are reading. If you've already done it and
don't remember, don't worry about it, we'll catch
it next time.
CDR No, I haven't done it yet. I'll do it a little

later.
CC Okay, when you do, if you'll Just Jot down the

numbers and tell them to me, I'd appreciate it.
CDR Okay.
018 22 2_ 57 CC Skylab, Houston. We're a minute from LOS. Van-

guard comes up at 22:35. And a reminder for the
SPT: That's your phone cal - call, Ed, and the
ANTENNA was LEgal.
018 22 25 12 CC Roger.
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SKYT_JtB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION
018 22 36 05 CC Skylab, Houston; AOS Vanguard for 9 minutes.
018 22 37 57 CC CDR, Houston. Sometime this afternoon, I'd like to

get back to the case of the butter cookies with you.
I have a couple of questions before I can an - an-
swer your question directly.
CDR Go ahead, Dick.
018 22 38 ll CC Yes. Okay, first of all of course, the butter

cookies appear on your cu - on your menu cue cards
with an asterisk on them. And we think that the
butter cookies on board are Just enough to satisfy
that requirement. However, we'd like you to verify
in locker F-563 - in the rear of it, we think that
there are some small cans numbered 22-26 through
22-32. And you might have a look in there, and we'd
like to verify that those butter cookies have been
removed. If they have been removed, then the answer
-- is there are no overageones. If there are any in
those cans and the numbers again were 22-26 through
32, then those would be overage. Over.
CDR Okay, I'm pretty sure we got those out, but I'll
check. That locker again was 67?
CC 56 - F-56B.
CDR 563. Okay, I'll check, but I think we've already

used them.
CC Okay. Incidentally, this - there's another item

here, and before I tell it to you, I'd like you to
know that it really doesn't m_ke much of a hill of
beans to us, but you reported 21 grape pun - grape
punches in Apollo packages, and it turns out we
never had that many. We - we had some grape punches
and some grape drinks. The quantities that we sent
were 9 grape punches and 18 grape drinks. And so
if you ever run into them again and would like to
tell us how many of each, we'd be appreciative to
hear it.
018 22 39 h6 CDR Okay, I noticed that, oh, a day or so ago, that they
were two different things in there; not Just grape
punch.
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CC Well, that's no big thing. Also be _v'_e_ the

message you sent yesterday evening, I did get it
from Bill; and it has been transmitted, aua tme
guys l'm sure will appreciate it tomorrow might.
Thank you.
CDR Okay.
018 22 41 18 CDR Well, Dick, I guess I need my sad music for this
report.
CC Go ahead.
CDR Well, there aren't anymore butter cookies, I guess.

And I guess by this time tomorrow, Ed'll be in
withdrawal.
CC (Laughter) Roger. Understand. Would you like to

pass any special message to Bean's crew and Conrad's
crew on the subject?
CDR I don't have anything, but Ed might.
CC (Laughter) Okay, well, sorryabout that.
CDR We'll have to give him a sedative tomorrow night.
018 22 41 54 CC Okay, take care of him.
PLT Ed says he'll take a piece of fruitcake instead.
CC Okay.
018 22 43 34 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about a minute from LOS

Vanguard. We got about an hour to go to Goldstone
at 23:47. And Jerry, and Bill, if Ed can't hear me,
you might just remind him to please close out for
un - anattended this ops because we're planning on
running unattended next daylight cycle. See you at
Goldstone.
PLT Roger. l'm finishing the closeout.
018 22 43 59 CC Okay.
018 23 47 _7 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Goldstone for ll minutes.

We do have a keyhole coming up in about - in about
45 seconds for about a minute. And I'll give you
a call out of keyhole.
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SPT Hello, Dick. Do we have any VTR time available?
CC Let me check, Ed. Stand by.
SPT Thank you.
CC That's affirmative, Ed. It's available, and it's

clean. You can have it.
SPT Thanks very much.
018 23 _8 _5 CC Hey, Ed, incidentally on your question on ED61 and 62,

we've decided that since the plant growth has been
so good lately, the objectives of the experiment
really have been met. We do have ll frames of
35-millimeter film left in our film budget for that
experiment though, and so what we're planning on
doing was scheduling some photos at opportune times
on the photo pads based on your reported observation.
SPT Okay, Dick. Good, thank you. I think I'll go ahead

and let it get a little more light also.
CC Ed, stand by on that one please. Let me get an answer.
018 23 49 37 CC SPT, Houston. Our recommendation, rather than mov-

ing it closer and putting more light on it is since
they've - we've had that light on it so far and
they're going, and we - and they've been growing
under those conditions that we leave it as is and
see what happens from here on in.
SPT Okay. Will do.
cC Okay.
018 23 50 54 CC CDR, Houston. Sometime when you get a chance and

can talk to me, I've got three or four questions
from the EREP people concerning the - the END OF
TAPE light and the events surrounding that little
event at the end of the EREP pass today. It's no
particular hurry, but it's the last mission note I
have here in front of me.
018 23 52 59 CC Skylab, Houston. We'd like the DAS to do a command.

Also up at the ATM, we'd appreciate it if somebody
could giv e us MPC and MPC ROLL both to INHIBIT.
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And also on 82B, we'd ii_e you to command the DOOR

open and then get an open indication and then command
it closed.
018 23 53 26 SPT Well, that's done Dick.
CC Okay, Ed, thank you very much.
CDR Okay, Dick. Go ahead with the EREP question.
CC Okay, real quick. The - During the EREP data take

did the END OF TAPE light ever come on?
CDR Negative. It didn't.
CC Okay, second question: You reported that the tape

was depleted at EREP, STOP; and also you reported
about 1 minute before EREP, STOP, that it was moving.
Did you happen to notice if the tape was depleted
at any time prior to EREP, STOP?
CDR No, it didn't look like it, Dick. The reel was still
moving, and it looked like there was about oh, a
centimeter to go. And what I did is I picked -
picked up the lid and peeked under there Just to see
how it was going, and it was still moving. It looked
like it was still threaded through all the rollers,
so I assumed there was still tape on it.
018 23 54 25 CC Okay, here's another one, Did the TAPE RECORDER

READY light ever go out?
CDR Negative. It did not. And when I did - did the

tape depletion; that is, went to FAST FORWARD, and
it probably couldn't have turned more than three or
four times, then we got an END OF TAPE light.
CC Okay, one - one final question Jerry. Did the tape

RECORDER MALF light blink when the tape speed changed?
It should do that normally. We wouldn't expect you
to report it, but we were just wondering.
CDR Yes, it sure did.
CC Okay, Jerry. Sure appreciate it. Thank you very

much.
018 23 55 03 CDR Okay.

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018 23 57 52 CC Skylab, Houston. We're a minute from LOS. Van-

guard comes up at 00:14. We're going to dump the
data/voice recorder at the Van_,-_d, and also I'll
be standing by for the evening status report there.
CDR What time is that, Dick?
018 23 58 ll CC It's about 13 minutes from now, Jerry, at 00:14.
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019 00 12 45 CC Skylab, Houston. We're A0S Vanguard for 9 min-

utes. We're goint to dump the data/voice re-
corder here at the Vanguard, and I'm standing by
for the evening status report.
CDR Okay, Dick. I'll be right with you.
CC Okay.
019 00 13 43 CDR Okay, the photo log's first. 16-milllmeter: no

change. 35-millimeter: number l, Charlie X-ray
41, 40; 2, India Romeo ii, 34; 3, 4, and 5, no
change. Charlie X-ray 50, 165; Charlie India 12,
073. EREP: set Yankee, 9390, 8728, 9603, 9595,
3140, 0464. Drawer A configuration: no change.
CC Okay, Jerry, got it. Thank you.
019 00 14 49 CDR Okay, Dick, on the sleep: CDR, 7.0, 7 heavy;

SPT, 10.3, 10.3 heavy; PLT 9.0, 8.5 heavy, 0.5
light. Volumes: 175, lh0, 170. Water gun: 8670,
4683, and 0991. Body mass: CDR, 6.318, three
times; SPT, 6.365, 6.372, 6.380; PLT, 6.245, 6.243,
6.237. Exercise: no change for all crewmen.
Medications: none for all crewmen. Clothing:
CDR, socks and shorts; SPT, socks and shorts and
shirt; PLT, T-shirt and shirt. Food log: CDR,
zero salt, minus a lemonade, minus a coffee with
sugar, plus 1.0 water. SPT, ll.5 salt, zero de-
viation, zero water. PLT, 7.0 salt, plus one
butter cookies, and zero water. Flight Plan
deviations: none. Shopping list accomplishments:
TV-107, 2-i/2 hours by the PLT, 2 hours by the
SPT. All housekeeping. Inoperable equipment:
none. Unscheduled stowage: none. And man-hours
spent looking out the window: about 7-1/2.
CDR out.
019 O0 16 21 CC Hey, that sounds good; that last one. And I got
it; we still have about 6 minutes here at the
Vanguard.
CDR Yes, that last part m-kes the whole day off.
CC Yes, sir.
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CDR I tell you, Dick, we did _ot get _ mu_:h _ f]im

taken as we should're, and the reason is we're
Just out of the habit of reaching for chat other
camera. And we - Every time we see something, we
either grab the Nikon or we gr_o the Hasselblad.
We have a third camera down here with IR in it,
and we Just keep forgetting to grab it.
CC Roger, Jer1_y.
CDR So we'll try to get at it tomorrow.
CC Roger.
019 00 17 42 CC And Skylab, Houston. For your information, the

film-thread pad is on the way up.
CDR Thank you, Dick.
CC Okay.
019 00 21 lO CC Skylab, Houston. We're a minute from LOS;

Tananarive at - Tananarive is at 00:37. Just in
case we miss that pass, the next pass is Hawaii at
01:22. And that's the med pass.
019 00 21 36 CDR Roger, Dick.
019 00 37 48 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Tananarive for

8-1/2 minutes.
CDR Roger, Dick. And on those batteries, Alfa is

35.0, Bravo is 34.3 and Charlie is 36.2.
CC Okay, Jet. Sure appreciate that. Incidentally,

while I'm talking to you, I have some good news
and some bad news. Good news - -
CDR Slip it to us.
CC Okay. Good news first. When we did the EREP

today, QUA]) A really did cool down, which means
that we are not going to have to relieve it this
evening. And as a matter of fact, it cooled
down enough that we may - may not have to relieve
QUA/) A anymore. And the bad news is - is you
know how we lie so we may be asking you to relieve
it tomorrow night.
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019 00 38 h5 CDR That's neat (laughter).
CC Thanks for the - thanks for entry batt stuff.
CDR Okay. And also on this test, systems, test 9

Bravo was 1.3. And 1.4's supposed to be the
minimum.
CC Okay, thank you. We'll get back to you on that

one.
CDR Okay.
019 00 40 26 CC And, CDR, Houston. We have one request for

amplification on the evening status report. Did
you get around to doing the documentry photos
today?
CDR Not yet, Dick. We'll try to catch it later on

this evening.
CC Okay. Thank you much.
019 00 44 34 CC Skylab, Houston. We're a minute from LOS.

Hawaii comes up at 01:22, and that's your med
conference. Following that pass, I'll talk to
you again at 01:49 at Vanguard.
019 00 44 h8 CDR Roger, Dick.
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019 01 50 22 CC Skylab, Houston. Hello at the Vanguard for 9 minutes,

and we're dumping the data/voice recorder here.
PLT Roger. Looks like Edmaybe finishing up something.
CC Okay; stand by.
SPT Dick, I Just finished up; go ahead and take it.
CC Okay. Thank you very much, Ed.
CC And, incidentally, guys, it's a little bit early

this evening, but we thought we'd - I don't have a
single thing left this evening. Since it's day off
I figured we might make this last pass of the even-
ing, if that's okay with you. I do have a couple
of pieces of information to give you though, you
might Jot down.
SPT Okay; go ahead, Dick.
CC Okay. There are two more passes that are available

to talk before 03:00. I'd give you the times I
thought, Tananarive at 02:14 and Hawaii at 02:56.
Be advised, the Hawaii pass we've given up the S-band
for another commitment. So if you need to call us
there you can call us on VHF; we'll be listening.
Also, Ed, I'm assuming you're going to sleep up in
the airlock MDA tonight. And - and assuming that's
the case, we'll stop uplinking the teleprinter mes-
sages after this pass.
SPT Okay, Dick I'll appreciate that. Although, I won't

be getting in there for about another 2 or 3 hours;
so press on if you like.
019 Ol 51 59 CC Okay. Well, we may very well, with that input then,
uplink some stuff at Hawaii at 02:56.
SPT Yes, that would be fine.
CC One - -
CDR Hey, Dick, on the great grape punch/grape drink con-

troversy, there are 3 Apollo grape punches left and
- 15 grape drinks right now.
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CC Thank you, Jerry. Also, we still have about 7 min-

utes left here. And, if possible, we wonder if we
could go ahead and close out the ATM so we could
see it on the downlink at this site.
SPT Okay; will do. And at around 01:i0, we got outer

gimbal on CMG number 3 on a stop. And took us off
Sun center for around 6 minutes and so we got out
to 7 degrees. And did the usual of 2-minute maneuver
times, STANDBY, and back to SOLAR INERTIAL.
CC Roger, Ed. As a matter of fact, GNS had about de-

aided that something like it - that had happened
because he did notice that the maneuver time had
changed back there when we were A0S Hawaii and you
were talking to Doc.
019 01 53 04 SPT Let me give you the FRAMES R}_4AINING here real quick.
CC Okay.
SPT 9790, 951, 106, 167, 2007, 4946.
CC Thank you, Ed.
PLT Dicked, I worked on the OWS heat exchanger cleaning

problem again today.
CC Roger.
PLT I modified the crevice tool. I took a lid off of

one of the food cans and bent it around there so as
to make it a 90 degree end point which I extended
to the crevice tool out until it was more than 90 de-
grees at the end. Then I wrapped some Mosite around
and extended it about 1/8 of an inch beyond the metal.
I was able to get down flush next to _the heat ex-
changer vanes all along. I was pulling all kinds
of crud out with it, and I - I got so much water in,
the vacuum cleaner stopped working. I can - I wondered
if you noticed any change in the flow, and also, the
fact that I got water out there sort of makes me a
little bit concerned there because those aren't
condensive heat exchangers. However, if the flow
is slow enough, I guess it could - it could stagnate
in there and get water.
CC Roger, Bill. We're looking at the flow now; and I'll

get right back to you.
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PLT About a half cup of water total, I'd say.
019 01 54 36 CC Okay.
019 01 55 08 CC Bill, we looked at the flow, and the transducer

shows that the flow is not any better than it was,
but if you got the crud and the water out of there,
it's bound to have helped, so we appreciate it.
PLT Okay. Well there may be some more in there. When

I get the time tomorrow, I'm going to take four
vacuum cleaner bags and use one on each one of those
heat exchangers because it was - I could tell I was
getting stuff out of there. I was opening holes
that hadn't been opened since we've been here, you
know, in between the little vanes.
CC Okay; sounds like a good idea. And, Ed, you get

an A-plus on the closeout; looks good to us. Thank
you.
019 01 57 29 CC Skylab, Houston. We're a couple of minutes from

LOS. Your wakeup station in the morning is right
at ll:00, so we should be able to wake you up there.
And Ed, based on what you said, we are going to
use the next couple of opportunities to - if we
need to, to uplink all the teleprinter messages
this evening. This is the last good night that the
purple gang gets to say for the Skylab program. We
do have a few more good mornings to go. And one
other reminder, we'd like you to be sure and turn
off the ATM C&D loop. If you want to, before you
go to bed, that's okay with us. But this is our
last good night for the program and so, everybody
say "Good night Dick."
PLT Good night, Dick.
SPT Good night, Dick.
CDR Good night, Dick. Good night Phil. Good night,

purple guys
PLT Good night, Bill.

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MCC Good night, crew. Y'all drive careful_ hear?
SPT We will, Bill, good night all - to all the purple

people.
PLT Good night purple gang.
CC And Mrs, Callabash, wherever you are, say good

night to Bill.
MCC Nighty night, Bill.
PLT That's the kind of CAP COMM to have.
MCC You're right.
PLT We've been going it wrong all these years.
CC Well y'all sleep tight; see you in the morning.
019 01 59 03 PLT Okay.
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019 ii 02 ll CC (Music: Air Force Song, "Anchors Away," and the

"Ear Splitting Louder Boomer" by Steppenwolf)
019 ll 07 17 CC Morning, gents. We're with you through Honeysuckle

for about 5-1/2 more minutes. The Air Force Song
there was for Bill this morning, and I had to give
him a little bit of "Anchors Away" in behind it
Just to - Just to make me feel better.
SPT Hey, Crip. Where was the "Civilian March?"
CC I'm still hunting for something appropriate for

you, Ed.
CC I thought the last little stuff was quite appro-

priate for a civilian march too, though.
CC Ed, I would think that the last stuff was quite

appropriate for a civilian to march to, but you
/-_ really think you're civilian up there with a
marine and an Air Force guy taking care of you?
019 ll 08 32 SPT I feel like I've just gone through boot camp.
CDR runs a pretty tight ship.
CC Everybody needs a good marine DI to take care of

him.
019 ll 12 00 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from LOS. Next

station contact in 32 minutes through Texas and
that's at about 11:44. At that time, we'll have
a little news for you if you'd like to hear it.
Also, Ed, reminding on your ATM pass this morning,
you - you'll need to turn the ATM C&D COOLANT a -
LOOP back on PUMP Charlie.
SPT Thank you, Crip. So long.
019 ll 44 42 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Texas. We have you

for 13-1/2 minutes. Ed, we show that the ATM
C&D COOLANT LOOP is not on. Could you give us
PUMP Charlie, please?
SPT You got it.

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CDR Hey, Crip -
019 ii 45 09 CC CDR, Houston. Jer, you cut out there. C_u!d you
say again, please?
CDR On channel B now. That - It's about 6 beats per

second and it's been with us for about the last
day and a half, and it kind of corresponds with
when we had our little flareup of communications
problems with transmitters and things like that
about a day and a half ago.
CC I'm sorry, Jer. For some reason all - nearly all

of your conversation was cut out. Could you say
it again, please?
CDR How are you reading now, Crip?
CC I'm okay now. Could you repeat it again, please?
CDR Okay. We have a beat frequency on channel B

running about 6 beats per second, and it's been
with us for about a day and a half now. And it
kind of corresponds with the communications diffi-
culties we had about a day and a half ago when
they were switching transmitters and things around.
019 ll h6 ll CC Okay. We've got that. Is it a very loud kind

of thing or Just in the background?
CDR Well, it's in the background and it's - it depends

on - of course, on your volume setting. And it
sounds about like tapping a pencil on a piece of
paper that's been stretched over a glass or some-
thing like that.
CC Okay. Appreciate that - that input. We - we've

got you for about ll-1/2 more minutes here. You
guys interested in hearing any news this morning?
SPT Crip, let me ask you, is the VTR available now

for TV?
CC We're dumping here and we're going to be through

MILA in about, oh, 7-1/2 minutes, and we can
give it to you then, Ed.
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PLT We're ready for the news, Crip. Hit us.
CC Okay. Well, I - I brought in a professional new -

newscaster this morning since I keep fouling the
things up, and I'm going to turn you over to
our own supersci Dr. Robert Parker to give you a
little bit of update on Skylab.
MCC Morning, Skylab.
PLT Hi, Bob.
SPT Hello, Bob.
019 ii _7 37 MCC I wanted to catch up on the last item of the

agenda yesterday which I didn't get through and
thought I'd sneak in a little extra goody here
this morning. As far as where we stand in the
mission, what the outlook is, let me give you a
sort of a brief rundown by areas. The area that's
hurting most at the present time on the mission
- is EREP, and we're working our best to get as
much EREP as possible, considering the circum-
stances. The constraints that are currently
bothering EREP are twofold, really. One's the
weather and two is the restrictions that we're
operating under for momentum because of the
two CMGs. But given these constraints, we're
currently trying to do our best to bring EREP up
to a reasonable par for the mission. Of interest,
you might note that coming up on the next - let's
see - it's day 66 and 67 - 67 and 60 - 67 and 68
we've got the thermal passes early in the morning
going over the western U.S. in darkness with the
new X-5 detector which is one of the reasons we
changed the route. As far as ATM's concerned,
ATM's doing quite well, and we're expecting to
get them something like 300 data-take hours. On
corollary, you'll be seeing in the next couple of
weeks, less SO19 time than you might expect, com-
pared to the other, particularly S183, which we're
trying to emphasize. S019's done so well, parti-
cularly piggybacking on its Kohoutek maneuvers,
that it's essentially finished out its MRD require-
ments. And even though there's film on board, we're
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emphasizing 183, S063, and S073, to bring them

up to M - MRD requirements. So we'll be emphasiz-
ing them over SO19. S183: Our assessment of the
carrousels at the present time is that there're
presently about ll good frames of stellar film
left in the canisters, and we'll be trying to
get through those ll frames during the rest of the
mission. The comet is coming back for our - your
observations in Skylab beginning about mission
day 71, and we'll probably be running through_ at
least one set of observations per instrument there
during the mission day 70 through 75 time line.
As I said at the beginning, we are right now
looking down towards just about 2 weeks of experi-
ments left. We can see the light at the end of
our tunnel down here, and we're trying to put things
together fairly well to see what the whole end of
the mission's going to look like. Guess I might
say one thing and that is, in terms of 509, we
do see limited performance of 509 here, but not
a great deal of it between now and the end of the
mission. So it won't be coming up to what we had
hoped in terms of the number run premission. The
big constraints, as I said before, that we're
operating on right now are the momentum situation
for EEEP, Kohoutek, and the SAL experiments. The -
The two-CMG operation is still reducing our opera-
tion in - for those three areas to some degree
and particularly the sometimes exceptionally foul
winter weather we've been having, particularly
in the eastern U.S., in certainly also pre -
presenting a constraint to EREP. Over.
019 ll 51 07 CDR Roger, Bob. What's the problem with 509? It's
just lack of crew time available?
MCC Roger on that. Unfortunately, when we try to

schedule something that takes 3 hours or - to
4 hours for two men, that's a pretty big block of
time, particularly at the same time we're trying
to do EREP and medicals and ATM. So it's kind of
one of those things that it - it's hard to fit in
because of its size. And it's probably Just not
going to get all eight runs that we thought about.
PLT Bob, how did 192 thermal look yesterday?

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MCC Everything that we've seen so far looks good.
PLT Thank you.
MCC And, unless you have other questions, I'll let

you go on those accomplishments and we'll keep you
up to date. As I said we've got about 2 weeks
left, and we can see the end of the tunnel and
things look pretty good running out towards the
end of the mission. Over and out.
CDR Thanks a lot, Bob. We appreciate you coming in

and - and tuning us up on this.
MCC Okay. I'll turn you over to your amateur.

.i
019 ll 52 07 CDR Thanks, Bob. i
CC Anateur. I really wanted to make him read the

rest of the news. Ed, we show that H-ALPHA is
not on. You might take care of that for us,
please. And also, before I go on, I see, Bill,
that you're going to be preping S063 here shortly.
If - if you could, what we'd like you to do is to
_-_ give us the position of the - or the rotation, and
read out the position of the alignment mark on the
rotation knob relative to the index. And if that
alignment mark is not aligned to the index after
you do your first operation today, we would like
you to align it and then give us what the rotation
reads with it aligned.
PLT I'm sorry, Crip. I got the last part of it. Would
you say the first part over again?
019 ll 53 03 CC Yes, all we want you to do is - this morning

when you're prepping it, is to report the A_
rotation readout and the position of the alignment
mark on the rotation knob relative to the index.
PLT Okay.
CC And then if it's not aligned, that is, if the

alignment mark is not aligned to the index, after
you do your first ops today, we'd like you to go
ahead and align it and then re - report what the
rotation readout is with it aligned.
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PLT Okay. Well all those ind_xes ani _!±_i_"

.... _,_
are what we've put on there and ±_:,_,t
'_ ,,_a. y _'re
referring to, I s_ppose.
CC Yes, sir. That's what I'm referri_ _ . L_L_'re

just trying to find out if anyLh_l_g h:_d s_ipped.
PLT Okay. Yes, we had one on there. We '_e already

erased that one, and we've got a new one on. Jer's
got it set, and I've got it set.
CC I think that might have done away with corollary's

good idea.
019 ll 54 40 CC Okay, Skylab, we Just handed over to Bermuda there

and we've got you for about another 3-1/2 minutes
here. I can read you a little bit of the news.
In the ma - with that - that amount of time, I
can't - can't read too fast though. Suez/Cairo -
Cairo Road, Egypt: Egyptian and Israeli generals
signed an American initiated agreement today that
separates combat forces on the Suez Canal front
and sends Israeli troops into new positions well
back into the Sinai desert. While hundreds of
journalists and soldiers looked on under bright
but blustery skies, Lieutenant Generals Mohammed
Gamasy and David Ela - Elazar, I suppose, opposing
chiefs of staff, initiated the disengagement
pact at a tent at Kilometer 101. Hours earlier,
the chief architect of the agreemnt, Secretary of
State Henry Kissinger took off for Aswan in upper
Egypt for a meeting with President Anwat - Anwar
Sadat. It had taken Kissinger a week of intensive
diplomatic maneuvering and comnuting between the
two countries to win an acceptance for both ideas -
both sides. Bulletin, Saigon: Fighting broke out
today between South Vietnamese and Communist
Chinese forces in the - (laughter) in the disputed
Paracel Islands, 250 miles off the South Vietnamese
coast and warships exchanged fire, the Saigon
government commander said(laughter). I've got too
many guys trying to help me read the news (laughter).
I offered it to you awhile ago, Robert. Supersci
wants to read it now (laughter). Seattle: Rain-
storms and wind that raked five Northwest and
Pacific Coast States during the week have begun
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subsiding, leaving - I think we've been having a

little bit of that around here too; tried to
f]ood out here last night - leaving thousands of
flood victims the task of cleaning up and counting
losses. Flood damage in California, Oregon,
Washington, Idaho, and northwestern - correction,
western Montana, has been estimated at over
$100 million. The weather has been blamed for at
least 16 deaths. The National Weather Service
said gale-force winds and rain would decrease in
the northwest early Saturday, _rith showers expected
the remainder of the weekend. Most of the damage
was done early in the week, but another storm hit
the area Friday. New Orleans, Louisiana: A woman
and her 5-year-old son were among about 13 persons
still being sought by rescue team_ as darkness fell
over the Mississippi River, site of a flaming
tanker/freighter collision. Rescuers waited for
fog to lift today to resume searching for the
missing from the 551-foot tanker Key Trader, loaded
with 18,000 tons of fuel oil, gasoline, and aviation
fuel and the 657-foot Norwegian freighter Baune,
carrying al_im_num ore. Two persons were known
dead but 61 persons, including the woman's husband
and another son were saved Friday after the colli-
sion, about 75 miles south of New Orleans, the
Coast Guard said. The spokesman said language
problems and confusion over how many were aboard
left in doubt the number missing.
019 ll 57 45 CC We're about 30 seconds from LOS. Next station

contact is in 4 minutes over Madrid at 12:02. See
here that Admiral Hyman Rickover, known as the
father of the atomic submarine, has taken out a
license here to marry a Navy nurse. A top Navy
spokesman in Washington said the 73-year-old
Rickover and Commander Ann BednowTez, 43, may be
married today. The license was obtained during
the first week of January. From the Cape: An
un - attempt to put an unmanned military communica-
tions spacecraft from England's Skynet 2 program
into permanent orbit has failed. And I guess I'm
going over the hill. And the VTR belongs to you
guys as we go over the hill.
019 ll 58 33 SPT Thanks, Crip.
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019 12 02 32 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS through Madrid; we

have you for 7 minutes.
CDR Roger, Crip.
CC SPT, Houston. Ed, do you have a moment to answer.

a question for us?
SPT Go ahead.
CC Okay. Last night after we left you alone around,

oh, 0_:00, a little after that, we saw that our
82A and B POWER DOOR switches were - were placed
ON. And then we later found out that the - the
inner door on 82A did - was open. And it - it
looked like that - what happened was that the
switch had been put back to OFF before the thing
had made a complete transient. Can you confirm
that that's what occurred?
SPT Yes, Crip. I got up and I was looking at - Just

trying to see what the activity was, and it
looked as though something was brightening it up
but then it didn't. And so I had things opened
up, and then I closed it all down. And apparently
that's what happened.
019 12 05 27 CC Okay. We figured you were up there keeping -

keeping the old eagle eye on the Sun to find out
what was happening.
SPT Okay, what was the - the problem, Crip? I closed

the door, and what else was there to do?
CC What the deal on that is that it had not - the

door apparently had not got completely opened
and consequently the door then did not - did not
indicate, I guess, closed.
SPT How do you get around that?
CC You - You have to go ahead and - and wait and

m-ke sure that you got a good - your talkback on
the door indicates gray, and then go ahead and
give it the closed signal then.
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SPT Okay. We don't have thst t_L '_'k _u: ::_r#.
CC Oh, that's right, that's right. Yes, i_'s about a

15-second duration, and I guess you have to allow
at least that.
SPT Okay; thank you.
019 12 09 i0 CC Skylab, Houston. We're i minute from LOS. Next

station contact is Carnarvon in 27 minutes
at 12:36. And, Jer, if you got one - a moment,
I'd like to confirm on what you reported earlier
about the - the beat problem that on - that was
on channel B. And we'd like to find out if you
hear it on both air-to-ground and INTERCOM.
CDR Yes, we could hear it when we - the TRANSMIT

button is not punched, and we could also hear it
layed over your conversations from the ground.
We cannot hear it, though, when we'd TRANSMIT.
CC Okay; fine. I'm being told that that was a - a

problem we saw on last flight, and it Just went
away.
CDR Well, we had it for a little while at the begin-

ning of this flight, and then it went away, and
now it's back.
CC Okay; thank you.
CDR But it seemed to coincide with when you were

having some comm troubles, about a day and a half
ago when you said they had a - the only transmitter
they could use or something, I think, with the
2Jwatt.
019 12 i0 i0 CC Yes, right. Okay, over the hill.
019 12 36 12 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Carnarvon; we have you

for 5-1/2 minutes.
CC And, PLT, Houston. Bill, if you have an oppor-

tunity at this pass, I would like to give you
a couple of corrections - or additions to your
PLT details.
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019 12 39 51 CC SPT, Houston. We show H-ALPHA as doing 2 FRAME8 .

a MINUTE right now, and we kind of hid a little
deal on you. We stuck in the SAP that we would
like to go ahead and run that at 1 FRAME PER MIN-
UTE now because of our indicator problem. And
then use 4 FRAMES PER MINUTE for flares.
SPT Got it, Crip.
PLT Houston, the Skylab PLT. How do you read?
CC Loud and clear, Bill. How me?
PLT Okay, I read you 5 square now, I guess you weren't

reading me awhile ago. *** had said something
about details?
CC Roger. If you got some time l'd like to make

a couple of corrections to your details.
CC And then - -
PLT Ready to copy.
CC Okeydoke. If you'll look at about 15:57, we talk

about the S063 photos of noctilucent clouds, and
we tell you to use a permanent general message
2 Alpha. That is incorrect. You should - should
use the 8063H op message that we sent, number 6525,
last night.
PLT Roger.
cC Okay. Also, on you details at Just before 23:00,

I believe, about 22:57, we have an MSOgF-7 Bravo.
We would also in addition to that, like to do a -
an M509F-4 Alfa.
019 12 41 57 CC We're going LOS here, and we'll have you shortly
in about 6-1/2 minutes at Honeysuckle.
019 12 48 32 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS at Honeysuckle, and

we've got you for a real long pass of about a
minute and a half. Next station contact is over
the States at Texas in 30 minutes at 13:18. We'll
be doing a data/voice recorder dump there and
we'll also have handed you over to the m_oon
team by then.
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019 1B 18 _6 CC Skylab; AOS stateside for 16 minutes.
CDR Morning, Story.
CC Hi, Jer.
CDR Houston, CDR.
CC Go ahead, Jer.
CDH Roger. Does S056 look like it's hung on the

6 FILTER?
CC That's affirm, Jer.
CDR Okay.
CC Looking good now.
CDR Yes, I Just hit STOP.
019 13 28 ll SPT Houston, SPT.
CC Go ahead, Ed.
SPT Okay, Story. We're at the sextant star check.

We got for Alphard SHAFT, 17_.8; TRUNNION 22.2.
Regulus, 107.7 for SHAFT; TRUNNION, 18.3; and
Regulus is awful - awfully faint. And without
getting dark adapted, it sure is hard to see. If
you could come up with a little - a little better
one than that in the future, it sure would help.
They were both off scale.
CC Okay. We'll try, Ed.
019 13 29 25 SPT Say, Story, check the star angle differences there
and make sure I was looking at Regulus, because
Jerry tells me that that is supposed to be brighter
than Alphard, and I - what I was seeing was awful
faint. I had to go off scale to find Alphard,
and I'm not sure what direction Regulus was. So
I had to do a square search and took the faint
star that I found.
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019 13 29 47 CC You want to give us the TRUNNION again on Regulus?

We were thinking it should're been 7 - about 17.7.
Did you get 180.37
SPT 18.3.
CC Okay.
019 13 31 03 CC And, Jer, S054 would like a little bit of data in

here.
CDR Okay. They don't care about fluctuating bright

points or anything like that then, huh?
CC Not on 5h, Jer.
019 13 31 h4 CDR Okay. I see what I'm doing. I'm running 56 when
I shouldn't be.
___ 019 13 33 55 CC Skylab, we're a minute to LOS; about 5 minutes to

Madrid. We'll be looking for dumping the data/voice
at Madrid. And that star data looks good, Ed. And
at present, those are the best two stars we can
get you.
CC And we're working on thermal and humidity kind of

stuff. Could you tell us how many showers you
t6ok yesterday?
CDR Three showers, Story.
019 13 34 33 CC Okay. That's what we figured.
CDR That's three apiece.
019 13 41 02 CC Skylab, we're AOS through Madrid for 7 minutes

here. We see you using the voice recorder, so
we 'll delay our dump. Jer, Houston.

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CC Jer, we're seeing a slight, but unexpected change

in momentum here. Are you doing anything up there
that might cause a vent? Is there any indication
of a vent?
CDR Negative. Not that I know of. Bill's on the

ergometer, Ed's talking on the recorder, and I'm
working ATM.
019 13 42 06 CC And has M509, 7 Alpha been started yet?
CDR That's affirmative. It was started on time.
CC And, Jer, we'd like the DAS for a nuZ update.
CDR You have it.
019 1B 44 07 CC The DAS is yours.
CDR Roger; thanks.
019 1B 47 12 CC Skylab, we're a minute from LOS; Tananarive's got

circuit problems. If we pick them up, it'll be
in 15 minutes. We'll probably see you over
Honeysuckle in about 40 minutes at 14:25. Our
momentum analysis shows you may have a slight
vent through the minus-Z SAL. We'd like you to
check that area and then close that vent valve.
CDR Roger, Story. We'll check it out.
019 IB 47 42 CC And we show the present configuration there'll be

the DOOR CLOSED but the vent valve open and through
this long LOS, after checking it out and looking
for leaks, CLOSE that vent valve.
019 1B 47 53 PLT That's complete.
019 14 03 40 CC Skylab, we got you for 5 minutes through Tana_larive.

And we're expecting marginal comm here.
CDR Roger; you're pretty weak.
PLT How do you read, Story?
CC We're reading you guys 5 square.

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PLT Okay, Story, I found the problem in minus-Z SAL."

I left the purge .... It's removed and it looks
okay.
019 14 04 06 CC Okay. Thanks, Bill.
CC And, Bill, if you haven't already, you can open

up the SAL vent valve.
PLT Roger, Story. And thanks; that was a good call.
019 14 05 15 CC We've still got 3 minutes with you; but in case

Tananarive drops out, Honeysuckle's next at 14:25.
CDR Roger, Story.
019 lh 26 12 CC Skylab, we got you through Honeysuckle for about

a minute and a half.
SPT Roger, Story.
CDR Got any theories on this beat frequency yet, Story?
CC Say again, Jer.
CDR You got any theories yet on this 6-cycle per

second beat that we got going?
CC Nothing yet, Jer. We're working it.
CDR Roger. It's pretty aggravating.
019 14 27 45 CC And we're going LOS here in about 15, 20 seconds.

See you over Goldstone at 14:54. And we've got
a procedure here that'll get us some of that
6 cps down here.
CDR Okay.
CC On - in the CSM on channel - on panel 9, go to

INTERCOM, T/R. And we'll run a low bit rate in
the DSC and that'll get it to us down here.
CDR Okay.
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019 14 54 52 CC Skylab, we've got you stateside for ;i6 mii_utes.
CDR Roger, Story.
CC And, Jer, a friendly reminder on a checklist

change we sent up a couple of days ago: at event
time r's 15, go to AUTO 250 on the BTMS mode.
That's Just before starting level 2 on the M171.
CDR Okay.
019 14 56 06 CC And, Bill, for information only: on CBRM 5, you'll

see the CHARGER BATTERY light go out. We're going
to start charging that battery.
019 14 56 15 PLT Roger
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019 15 06 22 PLT Houston, Skylab. How do you read?
CC Okay. I'm back with you, Bill. We Just dropped

out during the handover. I've got some ATM stuff
for you.
PLT Go ahead.
CC 56 looks hung up again, or maybe you stopped it.
PLT Negative.
CC And on your schedule pad opposite TIME REMAINING

48 there, it was pretty unclear to us here too.
You want to omit 82A and 52. Omit them in - in
any case. 8213 and 56, you want to operate them
only at a fluctuating bright point. So in this
case, we'd like 82B and 56 not operating.
PLT Yes, I figured that out after I started 56, and I

was going to go ahead and let it finish the se-
quence, but I'll stop it. Okay, I've put it in
STOP. Okay. I got a good READY light, so it
should be all right now. Also, since I'm getting
only MIRROR, AUTO RASTERs, I was wondering why I
was using H-ALPHA 1 for pointing, why not
H-ALPHA 2?
CC Stand by i.
019 15 07 _5 CC In the pointing, Bill, we'd like the UP/DOWN at

plus 100.
PLT Roger.
019 15 08 46 CC And Story's story's changing again. How about

plus 150, Bill?
PLT Okay. Plus 150.
019 15 ll 55 CC Skylab, we're about 30 seconds to LOS here and

about 5 minutes to Madrid. And, Bill, the reason
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for using H-ALPHA 1 here is that it's aligned to

82 Bravo, which we'd be using if we had a fluctu-
ating bright point.
019 15 12 ll PLT Okay.
019 15 16 _5 CC Skylab, we're back with you through Madrid for

9 minutes.
019 15 19 06 CC And, Bill, S05_ would like some data here.
PLT Okay. I was Just trying to space it evenly.
019 15 2_ 57 CC We're a minute from LOS, about ll minutes to Ta-

nanarive at 15:36.
019 15 25 05 PLT Roger, Story.
019 15 38 07 CC Skylab, AOS through Tananarive for 5 minutes.
CDR Roger.
019 15 h4 07 CC Skylab, we're a minute to LOS t 7 minutes to - 17

minutes to Honeysuckle at 16:01.
019 16 01 hl CC Skylab, AOS Honeysuckle for 9 minutes.
CDR Roger, Story.
019 16 02 00 CC Jerry, you - you finished up with Ml?l there?
CDR Yes, we finished it up and Ed is starting right

now on instrumented exercise, max effort.
CC Okay, and we've got a tape recording cleaning

general message, up to you there; maybe you've
got it already. The next housekeeping period you
got coming up here or the EREP tape period around
19:h0 might be a good time to do it.
CDR Okay.
019 16 02 33 CC And, if you got - if you can copy something now,

we've got a tape change to use on your EREP pass.
CDR Ready to copy.

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CC Okay, instead of T-25 use T-37. That's located •

in D-_20. And load that into tape recorder num-
ber 1.
019 16 03 16 CC And that's got a hundred feet of lapping film on

it that you'll need to remove. It's colored
white, so you'll have no trouble seeing what's
lapping film. And there are some scissors and
tape located in M-130 to help you.
CDR Okay, let's see, T-37 vice T-25, and I can find
it in location D-420.
019 16 03 _l CC Yes, sir. And get that lapping film, that hund-
red feet of lapping f_Im off it before loading.
CDR Okay.
019 16 07 20 CC Bill, you up in the STS or near the ATM panel?
PLT Roger. I'm doing the noctilucent cloud photog-

raphy. What do you want, Story?
019 16 07 _ CC We'd like to know that the CBRM SELECT switch is

in OFF, and the position of the rotary switch
there. In commauding to 5 we got some crossover
into CBRM 3. And we got 3 minutes to LOS here,
and we've got some commanding to do.
PLT Okay, what switch was that again?
019 16 08 06 CC That's on the POWER SYSTEM, CBRM SELECT switch.

Is it in OFF, and the position of the rotary
switch?
PLT It was not in OFF; it is now.
CC Was it in 1 through 12_ Bill?
PLT Yes.
CC And was the rotary in 3?
PLT Yes, it was; 3/15.
CC Okay, we're in good shape.

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CC And while I got you, Bill, we'll be running those

building block 35's all day for you and the other
crewmen. I know you're trying to help us out with
spacing out those M, S, O, L, 64's on S054. Just
go ahead and run them consecutively. As soon as
one gets finished, start the next one.
PLT Okay, will do.
019 16 09 00 CC You've about got to do that anyway to get four of

them in each pass.
PLT Okay.
CC Thank you.
019 16 lO 05 CC Skylab, we're a minute to LOS; about 12 minutes

to Hawaii. We're looking to dump the data/voice
at Hawaii.
019 16 l0 12 CDR Roger.
019 16 23 ll CC Skylab; A0S through Hawaii for 8 minutes. Dumping

the data/voice here.
CDR Roger, Story.
CC Jer, by chance, did you get that ICOM to T/R on

panel 9?
PLT That's affirmative, Story.
019 16 24 06 CC Okay' and one other question for you. We're

tracking this 6-cycle per second noise here.
Did that happen to come on when you turned some
SIAs off for our thermal problem?
CDR Not that I know of, Story. I think it was more

associated with the transmitter problems we had.
CC Okay. And could you clarify one other thing that

you did turn off those SIAs at our request or had
they been off all along?
CDR No, we turned them off, and I taped down the num-
bers that we - going to be left off.
CC Yes, we've got them here.

L
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019 16 26 00 CC Jer, we need the DAS for a momentum bias update.
CDR Roger. It 's yours.
CC Okay.
019 16 27 _l CC DAS is yours, Jer.
CDR Roger, thanks.
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019 16 30 ii CC Sk_lab, we're a minute to LOS; 3 m_nutea to

Goldstone.
019 16 33 58 CC We're back with you through Goldstone for

7 minutea.
CDR Roger, Story.
CC Jer, we're showing the outer gimbal on CMG 2's

on a stop. You may get a canister cage.
CDR Okay, thanks Story. I'll keep an eye on it.
019 16 39 20 CC Jet, Houston.
CDR Go ahead.
CC Suggest you get that gimbal off the stop. Just

go to standby. We show you've all ready got a
_-- 3-minute tau loaded. Then go back to SI.
CDR Okay. The cam - The canister Just unlocked while

you were talking.
CC And we're about 30 seconds to LOS, 5 minutes to

Bermuda.
019 16 40 13 CDR Roger.
019 16 44 46 CC Skylab, back with you through Bermuda for

7 minutes.
CC We're a minute to LOS; 2 minutes to Canaries.
CDR See you later.
019 16 51 26 CC We'll be here.
019 16 54 04 CC Skylab, we're back with you through Canaries and

Ascension, 16 minutes.
CDR Roger.
CC Skylab, we're a minute to LOS; about half an hour

to Honeysuckle at 17:39. And, Jer, chasing this
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6-cycle per second, we'd like a verification of

the switch positions on comms/qd module panel 9
and 10. We think the easiest way for you to do
it is to meet us in the command module at 17:39
and give us a real-tlme readout, as opposed to
chasing any checklists or writing it down.
CDR Okay, fine. I'll see you then.
019 17 08 47 CC Yes, sir, about 17:39, Honeysuckle.
019 17 39 08 CC Skylab, we've got you through Honeysuckle for

8minutes.
CDR Roger, Story. I'm in the command module.
CC Okay. When you're ready, give us a configuration

of panels 9 and 10.
CDR Okay.
CDR Okay. On panel 9, the S-BAND and the INTERCOM

are in T/R and we're in ICOM/PTT. On panel 10,
we've got S-BAND on, INTERCOM to T/R and every-
thing else is OFF.
CC And, everything else, other than what you read

out, was OFF on panel 9, wasn't it, Jet?
CDR Yes, unless you want to talk about POWER, AUDIO/

TONE, AUDIO CONTROL and all that stuff.
CDR Panel 9 is - AUDIO CONTROL is NORMAL and the

POWER is in AUDIO/TONE.
CC Okay.
019 17 41 08 CDR Correction. It's in AUDIO. Okay, on panel 10,

AUDIO CONTROL is NORMAL and POWER's in AUDIO/TONE.
CC Okay.
CC Okay, Jer, that's it.
CDR Roger.
CC And I got a change to your details there. You're

scheduled for the laser about 19:&9. You can
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cancel that. And you got the laser on an option.al

for everybody at 18:12; cancel that for everybody.
CDR Okay. And how about the one around 20:00?
CC Yes. That one's cancelled too. Goddard's

overcast.
CDR Okay.
CC That's listed at 19:49 in your details. No need

to acknowledge.
019 17 43 26 CC Ed, Houston.
CC Ed, we can't work the fruitcake into your menu

cycle. There's too much potassium in it.
SPT (Laughter_ The heat news I've had all day, Story.
I'm not a big fruitcake man.
CC Well, we got the word you were going to replace

the butter cookies for that.
SPT Tell _ouwhat, I'll donate aome of my fruitcake

to the other two crew members if I get a few but-
ter cookies in return.
CC You'll have about the same problem. I guess you're

Just going to have to go cold turkey on the butter
cookies.
019 17 46 02 CC Skylab, we're a minute to LOS, about 14 minutes

to Hawaii, 17:59.
019 17 59 30 CC Skylab, AOS Hawaii; 9 minutes.
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SKYLAB AIR-T0-GROU_D VOICE TRANSCRIPTION
019 18 07 25 CC Skylab, we're a minute to LOS. 4 minutes to

Goldstone.
PLT By the way, Story, I have a quick question. You

know when I was operating ATM and you said we'd
like to have 54 running, I had reinitiated 5_
about a minute prior to your call, and so I was
a bit mystified. That is, I've now reached - or
convinced myself that it was genuine 13-minute
sequence. Do - do they know when the machine is -
when that 54 is operating there; can they tell?
CC That's affirm, Bill.
019 18 08 09 PLT Okay, then. I must Just have not initiated it

properly. It must not have hit the switch all
the way up to start it.
CC Bill, the best guess is here that you - the ATOM

F was passing the message on to get it going, and
between that and my getting it up to you, you
already got it going.
PLT Okay. I - I think I initiated it before that and

that Just kind of ... position.
019 18 09 00 CC Yes. We're going over the hill here. See you in
about 3 minutes.
019 18 ll 43 CC We're back with you through Goldstone for 6 minutes.
PLT Roger, Story.
019 18 16 57 CC Skylab, we're a minute to LOS; 5 minutes to

Bermuda. Be looking to dump the data/voice at
Bermuda.
SPT Okay, Story. I'ii try to fill you in on what

we're seeing up here on our displays at that time.
We haven't had much of a chance this morning.
And also, I'm wondering, is 56 - not want to
operate becausethey would be operating in the
ACTIVE l, LONG mode? Or would they like some
LONG EXPOSURES while we're sitting here? Or are
they getting a little film l_m_ted?
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019 18 17 37 CC We'll get with you, Ed.
SPT Okay. And also, the mode which we're going

through now for 55, the remark was made that
we're doing this so they can try to locate the
feet of the loops which were seen previously on a
limb. And l'm wondering, were they actually able
to see the loops in their MIRROR, AUTO RASTERs?
Or was if from some - perhaps my own observations
or some other source which they saw- the loops?
019 18 18 07 CC Okay. Got it; and we'll get back with you in
about 3 minutes.
019 18 21 _6 CC Skylab, we're back with you through Bermuda for

l0 minutes.
CC And we'll be dumping the data/voice recorder here.

And, Ed, that's a good call on S056. Go ahead
and take some LONG EXPOSURES. We are film
limited, but go ahead and take some LONG EXPOSURES.
Use your own Judgement on how many.
SPT Okay, thank you, Story. Maybe we can get a

feeling from them on just how film limited they
are because ... gone from - from ...
019 18 26 15 SPT Story, let me tell you what we see in WLC and the
XUV MONITOR.
CC Okay, Ed, Just before you do that, after the next -

After you finish up the S054 that's running, I'd
like you to point at active region 21. Down here
we show you between 2h and 20.
SPT Yes, I was doing that so that their MIRROR, AUTO

RASTER would cover a little more activity. Be-
cause of the size of their MIRROR, AUTO RASTER,
I thought they'd be able to cover it all. If they
want that square in the center of the frame, we'll
go ahead and do that.
CC Yes, it was S055 that wanted you to repoint to 21.
$PT Okay, good. I was - looked like there was a lot

of activity over on the other side which they
could be picking up as well, but if they want the
center, I'll go ahead and do that.
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CC Okay. And you do have 2000 usable frames left

on S056.
SPT Okay, thank you.
019 18 28 06 SPT Okay, Story, in the WLC we see a very stoat1 change,
if any at all. The enhancements, if you will,
or very - very small streamer we had at 080, or
075, is still there, although it 's fainter yet
than it was yesterday. Down at the region from 1 -
from 85 on down to around 105, that's decreased in
intensity and does not extend out as far. The
fairly strong and wide streamer which we had at
around 280 is still there and about as strong.
XUV MONITOR shows up Just about all of the active
regions which have been called out. And there
sure is a whole host of them, but they're very
small ones. The one which they have not given
a number to, which is at 00.3, that one shows up
as a fairly sizeable plage relative to some of
the others which we h_ve named; in particular
30 and 31 are relatively sm-]l. The two brighteat
ones, of course, are still 21 and 16. That -
.... most - most of the plage is around 21, running
east/west. And 16 Just appears bright, I think,
because it's getting closer to the limb, as does
20 - 25. Just a quick look at the active regions,
the H-ALPHA and in oxygen VI shows them to still
be pretty much static, around 1500 counts is
about all. And I can't see the field gradients
from up here, but it looks as though things have
pretty well smoothed out. And there's not going
tobe - there's not much happening right now,
anyway.
CC Okay, thanks a lot, Ed.
019 18 31 14 CC Skylab, about, 30 seconds to LOS here and about

7 minutes to Ascension, 18:37.
019 18 38 26 CC Skylab; AOS through Ascension for l0 minutes.
SPT Story, I wonder if I could get and answer to a

question about some information which was on the
solar activity pad this morning.
CC Okay. Go ahead, Ed.

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SPT About the filament 81 which lifted off yesterday,

and it said a minor sympathetic flare followed
in active region 21, I'm wondering if they could
tell me what time that was and what was the magni-
tude of the flare ... then I can - -
CC We'll get that for you.
SPT I was trying to keep pretty close tabs on that

active region after that, and I sure never saw
anything.
019 18 43 58 CC Ed, that sympathetic flare out of active region 21

was a sub-subfaint. It occurred at 19:50, which
was on the dark side. And this was Just prior to
beginning the EREP pass ; that's why you missed it.
SPT Okay, thank you, Story. They made a good call on -

that something was going to happen. I wish I'd
... it.
CC And, Ed, could you reach on over and turn the

CABIN PRESSURE REGS off?
SPT I've reached and they're off.
CC Thank you.

to Carnarvon. And, Ed, your ATM conference will
be coming up then.
CC And S054 needs another START, Ed.
SPT Story, we got a problem with our timer box up

here, though, because I started that thing exactly
at the time we startedthe experiment,and it
still hasn't timed out.
CC Okay, the box is a little conservative. It takes

a little longer to run out than the experiment.
019 18 48 56 SPT That hasn't always been the case, Story. I've
found it to be the other way around a couple of
times.
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019 19 ii 06 CC Skylab, AOS through Carnarvon for i0 minutes.

And before we get on with the ATM conference, I've
got about three things for Jer.
CC Okay. There's no EREP. The weather for that

track was very poor. The EREP's been canceled.
We'll be moving into the alternate Flight Plan.
CDR Okay.
CC And Ed can be looking over the ATM possibilities

and discuss those with Bill during the ATM con-
ference. And we need another sextant check on
our nu Z here due to our momentum still being a
little bit off. We naven't- The dumps haven't
brought it back in after that vent this morning.
And let me know when you're ready to copy that.
019 19 12 05 CDR Okay. Go ahead.
CC The window is 19:29 to 19:36. The stars are the

._- same. Alphard, 176.8 and 24.8; Regulus, 112.5
and 17.4. And that's SHAFT and TRUNNION,
respectively.
SPT Okay. The window 19 :29 to 19 :36. Alphar_,

shaft 176.8, trunnion 24.8; Regulus, 112.5
and 17.4.
CC Okay. And we're going ahead with the EREP tape

transfer and the head clean. And here's Ed for
the A - Bill for the ATM conference.
SPT Hello, Bill. Go ahead.
019 19 13 07 MCC Okay, Ed. I've got a couple of goodies here for
you. A couple of them are related to the no EREP.
On the Sun, today, it's generally continued decline
although it appears late - Just recently, there's
been a little bit more activity. There is some
good news for the J0P 21 that's in progress. We've
noticed moving magnetic fields in and around the
spot that's in active region 20. Filament 81
appears to be re-forming slowly. Just recently,
at 18:42, which is like a half an hour ago, Boulder
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reported a subnormal flare in active region 31.

That's at north 6, west 20. We have no X-ray
indication of it at the time. So we can't rate
it there. And subsequent to that, there is a
bright surge that is going northeast that; again,
has been detected by Boulder. The only thing of
note today is the J0P 21 and a - -
SPT Bill, you said that was 30 - active region 30 it

came from?
019 19 lh 06 MCC No. That's active region 31, which should have
been on your update this morning. In any event,
it's at north 6, west 20. It was on our plans for
this morning. It looked so unimportant to us, by
this afternoon we dropped it from our planning
package, but we're obviously going to have to
stick it back on.
SPT Okay.
MCC Okay. And then today, we've got the J0P 21 going
on the continuing in next orbit with the poten-
tial for the 82 Alia nested sequence to happen
here. I'm ready to talk to you about the message
that went up on that, if you would like to, and
with the no EREP alternate, let me point out a
few possibilities. One is that you can perform
your 19:33 orbit as advertised, and Jerry can do
the 21:06 EREP alternate as advertised. Should
you elect, based on the activity, to initiate
the 82A nested sequence this coming orbit, we
would then recommend that the orbit you would have
done at 19:33 would slide into the no EREP alter-
nate. Let Jerry do that and Just forget what we
planned as the alternate. That's the second
possibility. A third possibility would be for
you to do the planned orbit this time and perhaps
Jerry might elect to do the nested sequence on the
EREP alternate. So there's three possibilities
there. I bring this to your attention because we
have only one full pass tomorrow that would be
appropriate for the 82A sequence in - in its en-
tirety. And that's some time in the morning, and
Bill has it. So, in the event that we don't get
through that today, we may well have to take it
tomorrow, independent of what we're looking at.
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Let me see now If you've got any questions on the"

message itself or any of the things I've Just said.
Over.
019 19 15 58 SPT Yes. The way you put it, it looks llke we ought
to have a go at it today. Unless you can forecast
that you're going to see more activity tomorrow.
The problem is that if we start this thing at
_8 MINUTES REMAINING, you really can't tell whether
you're going to have significant time rates of
change of field. The only thing you can tell is
whether the counts are up a little bit in oxygen VI.
And we've got some building blocks preceding the
48 MINUTE R_4AINING. So you really don't have
much time, even, to get in there and do that. So
the only way we're ever going to start this thing
and have confidence that something's happening is
something happening on the previous orbit, or
that the whole day has been one in which we've
seen a lot - lot of activity in the region. If
you've seen activity now, then that's probably
the best indication we have that we ought to go
ahead and get the thing done. I've looked it
over and I believe I understand what's going on
here. Wouldn't want to saddle one of these other
guys with starting from scratch on it. If it's
going to give us better data, though, if we were
assured that it - we - tomorrow's going to be a
better day than today, we'll go ahead and wait
and I'ii brief them on it. My own feeling is,
though, that maybe we ought to Just get going on
the thing.
019 19 17 16 MCC Ok_. That's sort of in concert with our feelings

here, although we feel you've got the best perch
to be looking at this from and to make the final
decision. And I concur with what you have Just
said, that basically, it's a weather forecast
kind of a thing. If it's raining today, it'll
probably rain tomorrow, is the best way to do it
on - What's next orbit going to do? Well, I have
to look at the past orbit. But it's too long,
really, to see what's happening on an orbit and
then initiate it. So it's totally your option.
If you do do it on this coming orbit, have Jerry
do the originally planned 19:33 orbit as the EREP
alternate and forget the JOP 2 Bravo on the EREP
alternate then.
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SPT Okay. Is there shy way I could get the thing done
tomorrow?
MCC Not unless the Flight Plan _inds up changing sig-

nificantly between now and then. We have a couple
of orbits that you might get part of it in, But
we've only got the one full orbit tomorrow that
w - it would fit in. Right now that's scheduled
for Bill.
SPT I see.
019 19 18 2B MCC Okay. Just continuing on here, briefly. We've

got 2-1/2 minutes left here, and if Bill ever
has an answer or a question that he wants, just
have him break in, and I'll have him talk with
Story here. Tomorrow, Owen Garriott will be in
to talk to you on the conference. And a reminder
that on Monday morning, we'll be having the ATM
advanced planning session where we can shoot the
breeze on some thoughts for some advanced planning.
And whenever you've got some inputs that you want
me to ma_e, either weak or strong, let me know,
and I'll certainly take them over for you.
SPT Advanced planning. How far in advance?
MCC What I really mean here is this is taking a look

at the kind of planning we might do for a shuttle
type mode.
019 19 19 05 SPT Oh, okay. I'm trying to put some things on tape
right now. Specifics on the panel, and then I'll
try to get into some of those others.
MCC Okay, fine. And I'll just read them off the tape.
That's the mose efficient way do doing it. Also,
Just one interesting point here, next week on
Thursday, the 24th of January, which is 5 days
away now, we have about a B-hour session here
where the ATM PIs will be presenting brief papers
to us, talking about the preliminary results from
Skylab as they know it so far. And I will attend
that for you and pass up some interesting comments
that come out of that in the subsequent days.
019 19 19 42 SPT Good. Yes, I sure would appreciate hearing that.

One question I just put on tape is, what is 56
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r
getting with their LONG EXPOSURES in the way of

details on the corona? I never had a chance to
see those pictures before I left. Another ques-
tion I have is, on the activity pad, they tAl_ed
about the loops which had been observed in active
region 21 and that's why we're working at these
two GRATING POSITIONS of all balls and 772. Were
these based on mF observations - based on 55 results,
or observatories on the ground or exactly how
many - how have we confirmed that we really did
have loops there?
I_CC Okay. My understanding is, that's based on history

of interconnection of those areas and 55 and
Story has a message he needs to get up, so I'll
be ta1_ing with you Monday. Owen will see you
tomorrow.
_PT Thank you, Bill. So long.
_C I don't think I got any more except we're 30 sec-

onds to LOS, and it'll be Goldstone in 30 minutes
at 19:50. And the only other thing: Have - prob-
ably haven'thad much chanceto look at it; amy
questions about the alternate Flight Plan?
019 19 21 15 _C Bill will be picking up S063 AS2 - AST-2 as

opposed to ASTP-1.
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019 19 51 _6 CC Skylab, A0S stateside for 17 minutes.
CDR Roger, Story. I got so busy working on this

darned tape recorder that I missed the star win-
dow. Can you give me another window?
CC Understand you want another window and some dif-

ferent angles?
CDR That's affirmative.
CC Okay. We'll get them.
019 19 54 08 SPT Story, you asked for a building block 35. I've
gone ahead and operated 56. If they would elect
to drop out, let me know. Also I've got some
hangups in their operation: One on a PATROL,
SHORT in FILTER 6, and also in ACTIVE l, LONG and
FILTER 3.
CC Okay, Ed.
CDR Story, we got a new sound now. You got rid of

the 6 beats per minute thing and now it sounds
like somebody'srattling a bag of marbles at
6 rattles per second.
CC When we played it back down her, Jer, we sure

heard the & to 6 cycles, and we got a lot of
sympathy with you. We also heard an owl in the
background.
019 19 55 19 CDR We're not getting the owl.
CC Okay. While we're on the subject, if you get a

chance, go back to panel 9 in the co-,,Aud module
and get your INTERCOM switch OFF, center. Other-
wise, the DSC will pick up the med conference
tonight.
CDR Okay.
CC That's panel 9, the INTERCOM switch to OFF, center.

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CC And Ed, both 5_ and 56 want a run.
019 19 56 08 CDR Story, going to OFF on that INTERCOM switch on

panel 9 got rid of the rumble, but now the click-
ing is back.
CC Okay. And we've got some evening questions con-

cerning that noise problem that we'll put up to-
night, or - or any time it's convenient.
CC If you didn't hear me during the handover there,

Jet, we got an evening question on - on the noise
problem that we can get up to you this evening or
right now.
CDR Go ahead with it now.
019 19 57 03 CC Has that problem of the 6-beats-per-second noise

occurred only on audio channel B, and not on •
channel A?
CC Okay. On INTERCOM, when the TRANSMIT/ICOM but-

ton is pushed, does the noise disappear from the
SIA speakers on all SIAs on channel B?
CDR Negative.
CC One more. Was a decrease in overall audio level

on channel B noticed in association with the
start of the 6-cycle-per-second noise problem?
CDR Negative. We didn't notice any decrease in audio

level.
CC Okay. We'll keep working it as hard as we c_.

We know what you're putting up with now; we -
we've heard it.
019 20 06 41 CC Ed, Houston.
SPT Go ahead.
CC Ed, I got a change to page 2 of that thing you're

running with 82A now, on general message 6557
Alfa 1.
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SPT Yes. I'm working off 6557 Alfa - Alfa 2. Go

ahead.
CC Okay. That's fine. We'd like you to terminate

at 02:30.
SPT Okay. Last exposure at 02:30.
CC Okay. And to use up those extra frames that we

lost down there, start the 30-second intervals
up there at 09:00. In other words, after I0:00
you'll run one at 09:00, then 08:30, then 08:00,
then 07: 30.
SPT Okay, Story. Start at 09:00, and then - or start

at 10:00, and then 09:30.
CC You can start at 09:00. Make it start at 09:00,

then 08:30, 08:00, 07:30.
SPT Okay, we go i0:00, 09:00, 08:30, 8, 07:30, so on.
019 20 08 i0 CC Beautiful. Thank's Ed. And we're 30 seconds

I-- from LOS here. We'll see you over Carnarvon at
about 20:48. That's 40 minutes, and we're intend-
ing to dump the data/voice at Carnarvon.
019 20 50 37 CC Skylab, AOS through Carnarvon for 7 minutes. And

we see you voice recording; we'll hold off the
dump.
CDR Roger, Story. And at the termination of GRAVITY

GRADIENT DUMP, would those angles you gave me for
Alphard and Regulus still be reasonably good?
CC They're off about - be off about lO now. And

we're trying to recompu[te] right now, and we've
got some new ones for you. Just stand by 1 on
those.
CDR Okay.
019 20 5E 05 CC Ed, Houston.
CC Ed, we need to get a - a new nUZ here for S073

and also to get our momentum straightened out.
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And I've got some new numbers for you. And even
they are going to be pretty far off, but we need
you to try.
CDR Houston, this is CDR. He's got something going

right now. ]_'ll do it.
CC Okay, Jer. You ready to copy?
CDR Go ahead.
CC Okay. I'm coming up on a keyhole, but I'll go.

The windows, 21:0B to 21:10; stars are the same,
Alphard and Regulus. Alphard, 176.9 and 25.2;
Regulus, 113.5 and 17.3.
CDR Okay, the optics are all set up and ready to go.
I should have it within a minute or two after
the 0 - window opens.
CC Okay, thanks.
019 20 57 46 CC Skylab, we're 30 "seconds to L_S and 5 minutes to

Guam.
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019 21 0_ 35 CC Skylab, back with you through Guam for 8 minutes.
019 21 0_ 20 CC Bill, Houston.
CC I got three things for you, Bill. One of them'll

be a change to your detail, your phone call to-
night. And the rest of it will require some
copying.
PLT Ready to copy.
CC Okay, your phone call's Hawaii at 02:13. It'll

be a LEFT to RIGHT.
PLT Roger.
CC And in the next housekeeping periods you've got

_ there, if possible,work in two thingswe got for
you. One of them is to reclean that OWS heat
exchanger duct. And that's a housekeeping 6
Alfa 1. And give that the first priority.
PLT Roger.
CC And the second one, if you get to it, is a mall

procedure on SIg0A at station 6. And the malf is
on page 1-7, the EREP Malf Book.
PLT Roger. Understand. Do the 1-7 EREPmalf on

station 6, 190A.
CC Yes, and I've got some switches here that'll get

you up to speed so you can Jump right into step 1
there.
PLT Press on.
019 21 06 l0 CC Film, drawer L, set Y. Panel - panel llO: EREP

BUS l, ON; EREP BUS 2, ON; PANEL POWER DISPLAY, ON;
S190 POWER, ON;and prior to getting into step 7,
mark the film.
PLT Roger. Understand, set up - set up for malfunction

f-_ procedure on page 1-7 is film drawer L, set Yankee.
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On panel ii0: BUS i, ON; _US 2, ON; DISPLAY, ON;

S190 POWER, ON. And mark the f_]m before going
into step 7.
CC Yes, sir; that's it. And just for your own plan-
ning purposes, we may be unable to inhibit momen-
tum dump the next run around. And that'll cancel
your S073 ops for the first time around. But we
won't be able to make that decision until state-
side. We Just wanted to let you know what we were
working.
019 21 07 31 PLT Okay. And I put on tape earlier this morning, I

was unable to complete the noctilucent clouds.
Had 3 minutes of prep, and also we had that power
problem on the CBRM. However, I did pick it up on
this last night pass. I got 9 minutes. So it
was lO sequences, total, of noctilucent of the
southern aurora area.
CC Okay.
PLT I did not, however, visually see the aurora.
CC Copy.
PLT So that brings S063 up to speed on noctilucent

clouds; for today, anyway.
CC Okay.
019 21 08 23 PLT And, Story, when can you let me know about the
S0737
CC It looks like it'll be either leaving MILA, which

is about 21:41, or at the Vanguard at 21:52.
PLT Okay, that's - that's great for planning. Thank

you.
SPT Story, what's the X-REA look like down there?
CC We're down around background; low, right now, Ed.
SPT Okay. For the first time in a couple of days we

have seen some counts in oxygen VI up around
4 - 6000 or so in active region 21. They're back
down now around 2000.
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CC Okay, thanks.
SPT During the last orbit they were up to around i to,

at one point, to around 4000 or so while we were
doing the ...
019 21 l0 314 CC Skylab, we're a minute from LOS; about 16 minutes

to Goldstone at 21:26.
CC And going over the hill, you may see a blinking

light on the voice record. It's no problem; we've
changed recorders.
CC And, Jer, we're seeing some enhancement in the

plage in active region 21.
SPT Roger, Story. He's up in the CSM now. I'm

working it ...
CC Thanks, Ed.
CDR Story, I found Regulus at 113.7 and 16.0, and I'm

still looking for Alphard.
019 21 ii 41 CC Okay, Jer; got it.
019 21 27 05 CC Skylab, Houston through Goldstone and MILA for

14-1/2 minutes. Hello from the bronze team.
CDR Hello, Henry. Hello, bronze gt_,s.
019 21 28 16 CDR Hank, I think I've finally found Alphard. Try

174.3 and 25.6.
cC Roger. _e copy, Jer.
019 21 33 0_I CC PLT, Houston. Our momentum situation now is still

a - a little wormy. We want to look at it a little
more, so we're not going to do the momentum dump
inhibit. HoWever, we do want to go ahead with the
S073 ops as scheduled on the alternate Flight
Plan.
CDR Okay, I'll pass the word to him. He's vacuuming.

I don't even think he heard you.
CC Okay, thank you.

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019 21 40 56 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from LOS; Vanguard

at 53.
019 21 hl 02 CDR Roger, Hank.
019 21 53 17 CC Skylab, Houston through Vanguard; 7-1/2 minutes.
CDR Roger, Hank.
019 22 00 02 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 40 seconds from LOS.

The next site is Goldstone, a little over an
hour now - from now at 23:04. One quick question:
You said you weren't going to use the S054 aux-
iliary timer again, but - since about 18:00 when
you reported the problem, have you looked at it
any time since then? And, if so, what were the
results?
CDR Hank, I've been using it, and it's running about
l0 or 12 seconds behind the - the instrument. But
I haven't noticed any trouble with it.
CC Okay, we copy. Thank you.
CDR I don't mean minutes; I mean seconds.
PLT Hank, I Just got through giving the heat exchangers

another treatment. Could you check the flow before
you go over the hill?
CC Okay, it's 147 now. It's up some.
019 22 01 12 PLT I think it's the water film in there. I'm going
to take some towels up there next time.
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And, SPT, we need the DAS for a mcmentum bias
update.
SPT You've got it, Hank.
CDR Hank, are you set up for TV downlind?
CC About another 90 seconds, Ed [sic].
CDR Okay, this is Jer. We're ginned up and ready for

television of the west coast if the clouds clear.
CC Oh, I got you.
CC SPT, the DAS is yours.
SPT Thank you.
CC CDR, we're GO on TV.
019 23 07 53 CDR Okay, we got it on wide, zoomed all the way back.
And you can see the islands off of Santa Barbara.
You can see Catalina Island down there, but it
looks like the Los Angeles basin's pretty well
clouded in.
CC Roger. We copy.
CDR Looks like I'm going to miss a picture of my

hometown, Santa Ana.
CC We're getting good signal down here, Jerry.
019 23 09 13 CDR Boy, our California is clear as a bell, so we'll

get some real good television of that.
CC Okay, real good.
CDR And you ought to be able to see San Diego.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from LOS. Van-

guard will be coming up at 30, and we plan to
dump the recorder there.
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019 23 16 15 CDR Roger, Hank.
019 23 31 18 CC Skylab, Houston. We're through Vanguard for

5-1/2 minutes and we're due to dump the recorder.
SPT Roger, Hank.
PLT Hank, Just after we passed BaJa, we caught the

Gal_pagos or the Galap_gos fairly open, and we
have about 3 minutes, maybe 4 minutes on the VTR
of the Gal_pagos Islands.
CC Roger. We copy.
CC And Skylab, for info, the aurora has been mod-

erately active in the Northern Hemisphere. If
you desire to take pictures, you can use perma-
nent message 18 Bravo.
PLT Roger. 18 Bravo.
019 23 33 08 CC Skylab, Houston. We'll drop out here for a couple

of seconds.
CDR ..., Hank.
019 23 33 36 CC Skylab, Houston. We' re back with you.
PLT Roger. Loud and clear.
CC PLT, are you free to answer a few questions now,

or are you busy eating?
PLT I'm - I can do both.
CC Okay. If it's convenient to answer, we - we're

not really sure we understand the changing of the
zero reference on the ROTATION knob. We didn't
understand the rationale. Wonder if you'd mind
running that through again? That's on the AMS.
019 23 34 23 PLT Roger. It looks like - now I know the message

says the belt couldn't slip or anything - the
drive belt, but looks like we've got a new zero
point on the handle, the crank. And we have
marked - made marks on the - the handle and also
on the case so that we can - we have a new zero
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point for the handle. We're still using the

number of rotations and so forth that are given
to us, and that roughly corres - corresponds to
0.0 on the - at this new position.
CO Ok - so the counters now read - do they read

0.0 when you've got it lined up to your new marks?
PLT Well, they did until I Just did S073, and they're
not quite on zero now, in order to - for, you
know - for the mirror to be retracted. But they're
very close.
019 23 35 22 CC Okay, do you recall what they do read when you

can retract?
PLT Okay. Stand by. I'll get it for you.
CC And while you're there, Bill, if you can still

hear me, how about giving us what the counters
read when you're at the old setting, if you can
still see those.
019 23 36 BO PLT Okay. For the one we've been using for, I guess,
_-" about the last week: When I put it back to that,
it now reads 8.9.
CC --
PLT About a 1.1-degree shift.
CC Okay, we copy. And we're about l0 seconds from

LOS. Our next site is Tananarive at 54.
P#.T Roger.
CC And, Bill, you did get the 7 Bravo terminator,

didn't you?
PLT That's affirmative. And I've also done the heat

exchanger vanes. Did a real good Job on those.
Got more water out of them.
019 23 37 lO CC Roger. Good show. Thank you.
019 23 54 h9 CC Skylab, Houston through Tananarive for

7-1/2 minutes.
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CC CDR, Houston.
CDR Go ahead, Hank.
CC Hey, Jerry, we - we're still wrapped around the

axle on this nu z business, and we're not really
right sure where we are. We're - got - looks -
based on your last star shots, that we're about
l0 degrees away from what we were this morning.
So due to the uncertainty, what we're going to try
to do is schedule, if - if you can work it in,
a star shot during the S073 while we're INHIBITED
and that will allow you to do it at night and use
the telescope to get a positive ID.
019 23 56 00 CDR Hey, that's a good idea, Hank. You - you're really
flying blind doing it the way we're doing it.
CC Roger. I know the field of view of the sextant's

too small to make a positive identification and
you're sort of lost there in the daylight.
CDR You're not kidding.
SPT Hank, how have the star angle differences come out?
Have they been within reason?
CDR That ought to be kind of ache - validity check

on the ground. Can't you - from the data we've
given you, can you get a star angle difference?
CC They look good to us, Jer, and we're frankly very

puzzled. And that's why we want to get another
one that we know is right and Just see if - if
our nu Z has really shifted by that much.
CDR Okay, Hank, no problem. Be glad to do it.
CC And I do have the SHAFT and TRUNNION for the stars

whenever it's convenient for you to copy them.
CDR Okay, I'm cleaning up right now. Probably - how

about the next pass? When will that be?
CC Okay, the next pass is at Hawaii. And that's the

evening status; we ought to be able to work it in
there.
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CDR Okay. Well, Bill says he'll copy it for me now..
PLT Go ahead and give them to me, H_n_.
019 23 57 ;5 CC 0kay. Alphard, 177.1, 26.2 ; Regulus, 116.3, 17.3,

and they should be available from 01:21 to 01:33;
And that's during the S073 ops. And it's also,
I think, during the - no, we got a Tananarive
pass after that. And if we don't get it down at
that time, then we would like for you to call us
after you - the 02:00 PSA time.
CDR Okay.
PLT And a readback Just for kicks. Alphard, 177.1,

26.2; Regulus, 116.3, 17.3; available 01:21 to
01:33 during the S073 ops.
CC Good readback, Bill. Thnnk you.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're I minute to LOS. Hawaii

will be coming up at 00:38, and we're scheduling
another recorder dump there.
019 23 59 _ PLT Roger, Hank.
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020 00 38 32 CC Skylab, Houston, through Hawaii for 5 minutes.
SPT Howdy, Hank.
CC And we'll be dumping the recorder here. And we're

standing by for eyeing status.
020 00 39 48 CDR Okay, Hank, here comes the photo log.
CC Go ahead.
CDR It's 16-millimeter: Delta Papa 5, Charlie

India 129, 90, Charlie India 78; Ml51 of M092/171,
Charlie India 79, 23, Charlie India 126; Mh87-4 Delta,
Charlie India 9h, 18, Charlie India 128. Nikons:
number l, Charlie X-ray 41, 19; number 2, Bravo
Victor 29, 18. Earlier, number 2 had India Romeo ll
in it; it was downloaded with 37 frames re-
maining. Nikon 03, no change; Nikon 0h, Bravo
-- Echo i0, 41; Nikon 05, no change. 70-millimeter:
Charlie X-ray 46, 025. ETC: no change. EREP:
no change. Drawer A configuration: Alfa is trans-
porter 02, no supply, takeup is Charlie India 80;
Alfa 2, 05, Charlie India 9h, 18, Charlie India 128;
Alfa 3, 06, Charlie India 79, 23, Charlie
India 126; Alfa 4, 08, Charlie India 81, 99,
Charlie India 77; Back 07, Charlie India 129, 90,
Charlie India 78. The EREP set have got some
frames used, and they'll be reported tomorrow. They
were frames used in checkoutby the PLT_ And that's
it on the photo log.
020 00 42 06 CC Okay, Jerry, that sounds good to us.
CDR Okay, Hank and on Nikon 02, that frame count anti-
cipates seven frames tonight on S073.
CC Okay.
CDR Okay, eyeing status. Sleep: CDR, 6.0, 6 heavy;

SPT, 6.0, 5 heavy, 1 light; PLT, 5.0, 3 heavy,
2 light. Volumes: none taken yet. Water gun:
8688, 4764, 1033. Body mass: CDR, 6.31_, 6.316,
6.318; SPT, 6.385, 6.386, 6.390; PLT, 6.237,
6.2h0, 6.234. Exercise: no change for anyone.
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Medications: CDR, Sudafed at noon; SPT, none;

PLT, Sudafed at noon. Clothing: CDR, shorts,
socks, and T-shirt; SPT, socks, T-shirt, and
shorts; PLT, shorts and shirt. Food log: CDR,
salt 18.0; deviations, minus one lemonade; rehydra-
tion water, plus 1.5. SPT, salt 4.0; deviations,
plus one lemon pudding; rehydration water, plus 20 -
2.0. PLT, salt 4.0; deviations, minus one
butter cookies; rehydration water, zero. And on
the CDR, skip the deviation of minus one lemonade.
That should - that was last night's . Okay, Flight
Plan deviations: none. Shopping list is Delta
Papa 55 - was done last night. Did not get Delta
Papa 8 done. We did all housekeeping today plus
housekeeping 6 Alfa 1. Inoperable equipment and
disposition: ... malfunction, no lights, changed
the batteries and ... -
020 00 44 19 CC Okay, we're going LOS; Vanguard at 01:05 with the

reed _onferenc e.
020 01 14 31 PLT Hank, how do you read?
CC Roger. Read you loud and clear, Bill.
PLT Okay, I'm 30 seconds from starting data take on

S073. You weren't going to change that, were you?
CC Well, what I wanted to change was the ROTATION

from where it reads 7.7 to 3.7.
PLT Okay, I'ii be just a little late starting then.
CC Okay, I don't think that will affect when - That

first exposure is a real short one. The reason
for that was we're Just doing our best to guess
on this nu Z until we get some more data from Jerry.
And for info, AM recorder number i is bombed out,
and we've redesignated, and it won't affect your
operations. We'll talk more about that at Tanan-
arive. We're about 30 seconds from LOS, and
Tananarive will be coming up at 30.
PLT Roger, Hank. If you're not gone yet, I've done

the EREP malf. I ended up in boxnumber 13,
page 1-7, mag film motion sensing drive failure.
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020 Ol 15 52 CC Roger, copy.
020 01 31 14 CC Skylab, Houston through Tananarive for 6-1/2 minutes.
PLT Roger, Hank.
CC I got several things that we need to get up here.

This is essentially our last pass of the evening.
And one is in regard to the changeout of an AM
tape recorder, and the other is a few comments on
the - the photo pad for the CDR.
PLT Why don't you go ahead and give them to me, Hank?
He's busy up there with the sextant.
CDR No, it's okay. I'm through. Go ahead.
CC Okay, we copied in the photo downlink that you

gave us there, that transporter 02 was in A-1.
And our records show that - that transporter 04
is there. Could you verify - verify that for us?
PLT I can verify that it's transporter 02. I've been

meaning to call your attentionto that discrepancy,
and last 2 or 3 nights, Jer's read it down.
/ CC Okay, then the correction to the CDR's photo pad

is - where it says in A-2, transporter 05, we'd like
to change that to A-3, transporter 06.
SPT Hank, before the end of this pass, if you could

give me the 82A exposure for the next daylight
site, I'd be glad to pick that up for them.
CC Okay, we'll check it.
CDR Okay, Hank, I've got some stars for you. I over-
killed it. I've got Alphard Regulus Denebola
Gienah and Spica.
CC Roger. Go ahead.
CDR Okay, Alphard was 177.3 and 26.h. You guys were
real close. Regulus was 116.9 and 17.2. Denebola,
23.2 and 16.8. Gienah, 284.8 and 26.2. Spica,
312.2 and 37.4
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020 01 33 49 CC Roger. We uopy, Jet. Thank you. Okay, Ed, we

need a 20-second SHORT on 82A. That's the info
you wanted. And would you please put the
WAV_J.F.NGTH back to LONG when you're through?
SPT Will do, Hank.
CC And CDR, did you copy the change to your MI51 on

the photo pad?
CDR Okay, hit again, Hank.
CC Okay, it says, A-2, transporter 05; it should be

A-3, transporter 06.
CDR 3, transporter 06.
CC Okay, and I promised you a few more words on that

recorder. We don't know really what data we have
lost until we get the tapes back and look at them.
It was recorder number i. It may be that we've lost
an undetermined _nount of data and maybe some voice
since 21:10 this afternoon. At your earliest
convenience, and hopefully before the M092 in the
morning which requires all three recorders, we'd
like for you to do housekeeping 80 Romeo on page 5-8
of your System Checklist. And if you got a
pencil and paper handy, I got some serial numbers
and stuff for you to copy.
CDR Okay, go ahead.
CC Okay, we'd like for you to install serial number 21.

It should be in Dog h38. And the one that's
in there now that you'll replace is serial nl_mber 32.
And after you replace it and get recorders back
on the line - you'll have to turn them all off
when you replace it - we would like you to put,
on the dump tape, the hours of operation they read
you in the little window there on serial number 32.
020 01 35 41 CDR Okay, Hank. Housekeeping 80 Romeo, install number 21

which is in Delta 438. And the old one, replace
with - that's being replaced is nnmher 32. And
you'd like a voice record on the hours of operation.
CC That's correct, Jer. And I have one correction

for Bill's photo pad that - it was an omission
that - for his film-thread pad. I wonder if you
could copy that for him?
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CDR Sure, go ahead.
CC Okay, we should have added for him to strip off

6 feet of film from C186 and cut with the film
profiling tool before threading.
CDR Okay, I'll tell him.
SPT Hank, could you say again the time at which you
think we lost voice recording capabilty?
CC Okay, that was 21:10. We're not really sure we

lost it, but it's a possibility.
SPT Thank you.
CC And that recorder we want to replace, Just to

make sure we understand, is in slot number l, it's
recorder number 1.
CDR Roger; recorder number 1. I'll get right on it.
020 01 37 0" CC And we're about 30 seconds from LOS and we'll keep
the comm up the rest of the evening,but we won't
talk to you anymore. We'll say good night to you
now. Unless you need something later, give us a
call.
020 01 37 19 CC As a reminder to Bill, his private comm is at

02:13, LEFT to RIGHT.
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020 02 15 18 SPT Hello, Hank. Would you like a frame count?
CC Okay, go ahead.
SPT 9510 ,3 , 71, 167, 1875 4228.
CDR Hank, that AM tape recorder has been changed out.
CC We copy. Thank you.
CDR Anybody got any wild guesses as to what the cause

of our beat frequency is on channel B?
CC Not at this point, Jerry. We're still talking about

it, and we did listen to those tapes in regard
to that recorder failure. And the times that we're
missing both data and voices are 22:37 to 22 -
23:37 and 23:43 to 00:37.
CDR Okay, it sounds like you probably lost the voice

on the S073, then.
020 02 17 08 CC Okay, we redesignated so he'd have voice, so

shouldn't be any problem there. The - the - the
way this thing looks is that - like it's - the
thing is not recording on the front part of the
tape.
CDR Does this new recorder look okay? Have you done
anything with it yet?
CC Okay, we'll - we'll do that. We're dumping now.

And when we get through, we'll take a look at it.
CDR Okay. And the time on that's 03:87 [sic].
CC 0 - -
CDR Hey, Hank, one thing you can add to the - to the
comm - bit of information here is I went around,
and I've turned on, now, every SIA that I turned
off for thermal reasons. And we still have our
beat frequency. So I think we can eliminate
the SIA powerdown for thermal reasons as any kind
of a causative factor here. I'm going to go back
- aroundnow and turn them all back OFF.
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020 02 18 04 CC Roger. We copy.
SPT Hank, I 'ii probably be up long enough to get one

more 82A exposure in. If you could give me a GMT
and the exposure duration, I - be probably a LONG
for i minute. And then give me the earliest GMT
I can get, I'ii go ahead and you can plan on it.
CC Okay, we'll cheek it, Ed.
CC And, Skylab, Houston. We need the DAS for a nu Z

update.
SPT You got it.
CC And, Ed, we need a few things to clean up the panel

there. We need the 56 DOOR, CLOSE, the 55 experi-
ment NIGHT INTERLOCK to NORMAL, and close the
55 - I mean OPEN the 55 DOOR.
020 02 20 46 CC SPT, Houston. On that 82A exposure, the earliest

time we can get it is 03:20, about an hour from
now, with a WAVELENGTH, LONG, 1-minute exposure.
SPT 03:20, WAVELENGTH, LONG, 1 minute. Okay, Hank,

I'll do - go ahead and do that. And do they want
the WAVELENGTH left in LONG?
CC That 's affirmative.
SPT Okay, Hank.
020 02 21 33 CC And, CDR, Houston. We've got the new recorder

redesignated into the position number l, and it
appears to be working normally. We won't know until
we get a dump from it.
CDR Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 20 seconds from LOS.

Vanguard is the next site, if you need us, at 44.
We'll be standing by. And the DAS is yours.
CDR Roger, Hank.
SPT Thanks, Hank. Good night.
020 02 22 54 CC Good night.
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020 ii 00 59 CC (Music: The Marine's Hymn)
020 ll 01 55 CDR Good morning, Crip.
CC (Music: Quiet Village)
CC Good morning.
CDE You're playing our song.
CC Yes, yes. Had to get one special for you there,

Jet. Natives are restless down here tonight.
CC (Music: Hawaiian War Chant)
020 ii 14 ii CC Skylab, Houston. We are i minute from LOS. Next

station contact in 4 minutes through Madrid at
11:18. For your information, the _R is all
cleaned off, and you got a full 30 minutes avail-
able toyou.
020 ll 14 30 SPT Thank you, Crip. Talk to you later.
020 ll 18 42 CC Skylab, Houston; AOS Madrid, 8 minutes.
CDR Roger, Crip.
CC Don't know whether it's too early for you guys,

but I could attempt a short news broadcast. Or
we can hold it up until Carnarvon, which is about
33minutes away.
CDR Yes. Might as well have it now, Crip.
020 ll 19 12 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 eight consecutive goals
to come from behind in the last game - in the last
30 seconds. I understand they made those goals
in about the last 2 minutes too. The two teams
meet again next week in Los Angeles. That was
televised, but I didn't get a chance to see it
myself. I understand it was really an exciting
game. HeavyweightchampionGeorge For_m_nhas
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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 - in Texas are going to be facing is we
got a new speed limit of 55 miles an hour that
went into effect at 12:01 this morning. Law
enforcement agencies are set to enforce the new
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.
020 ii 20 34 CC In Pennsylvania, a retired Philadelphia policeman

who went rabbit hunting ended up bagging three
escapees from the 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. Toban had been advised the men might be in
the area, police said, and had given their des-
criptions, or had been given their descriptions.
The three fled through the woods, Toban 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 home
and called state troopers and the three were
returned to jail. So I guess that was a enjoyable
hunt or a busman's holiday for that particular
policeman. And the news was kind of short this
morning. That was all l'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.
020 ii 21 38 CC Oh, no. That's done - unwound. It's probably the

last time you guys are going to have to listen to
a news broadcast from me. l'm going to try to
take a - take a day off so I can go - go out to
California tomorrow. And Bill is going to be
sitting in for me. So he can read the news to
you. Bill Thornton, that is.
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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 won. Actually, I'm going
to San Diego, not Los Angeles. Ed, while you're
talking to me there, can you answer the great
mystery question for us? Is - where is the SPT
sleeping? We noticed that the coolant loop was
on last night.
SlY2 I let it sing me to sleep, Crip. I was up in the

airlock.
020 ll 23 18 CC Ah ha; okay. I suspected that might have been the

case. Also, ATOM 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?
SlTf Yes, that's the case, Crip, because that's what

_-_ it said on the powerdown. It had MLS DET, all,
and a GRATING POSITION of ZERO.
CC Ah ha! Looks like you caught us. Thank you.
020 ll 25 45 CC And, guys, we're 1 minute from LOS; next station

contact is Carnarvon in 27 minutes at 11:52. See
you there.
020 ll 25 54 PLT Roger, Crip.
020 ll 54 54 CC Skylab, Houston. We're A0S 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 Roger, 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
somenotations to details.
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CDR Okay; Go ahead, Crip.
CC Okay. First, for you, Jer: I don't know if you

noticed it or not, but you have two CDR photos
on board. We sent up one last night and then
another one this morning after we discovered the
original one had several errors in it. And I
think you even made a voice update on - on the
one last night. But the one we want you to use
is one we've upiinked this morning; CDR photos,
message number 6607 Charlie.
CDR Okay.
020 ii 56 25 CC Okeydoke. And I guess for everybody on a couple

of the optional handheld sites designated as HHI0.
You have two of them, one at 12:12 and one at
14:50. Th@ one at 12:12 is a dash 7; and the one
at 50 is a dash 8. And that's applicable to all
three of you guys, if anybody gets a chance to
look at it.
CDR I got one at 13:12 and one at - -
CC l'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 lh:40's a dash 8.
020 ii 57 25 CC That's correct. Okay. And originally, Jer, we

had you scheduled to do the sextant. And what
we're going to try to do is put it at a time in
the future where if we have an - 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 sched-
ule Ed for one at 13:43. And we've sent up a -
another sextant message for Ed for that.
CDR Okay.
CC Okeydoke. I'm assllm_ng that Ed was copying that

one also.
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SPY No, I'm not, Crip. I'll get with you in a minute.
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 AMH. I think most of
those that you've been doing this mission so far
have been with the AMH.
CDR Okay.
020 ll 58 45 CC Okay, and that does it. Thank you very much.
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D20 ii 59 59 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
they were down to h000 and now, up to 20,000
Just since we went over the hill here. I saw it
fluctuating quite rapidly over a pa - a matter of
a minute or so, it would change by 10,000. 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 it's
relatively small and it doesn't show up very
much in the XUV monitor. H-alpha and oxygen VI
sure shows it to be hot and not stable.
CC Okay, we copy t_at. We're about 30 seconds from

LOS, and we'll see you again over Honeysuckle in
4 minutes, q
020 12 00 51 CC And all of your pads are on board.
020 12 05 O0 CC Skylah, Houston, we're AOS at Honeysuckle for a

whole minute and a half. And so we're about a
minute and a half from LOS, and we'll see you at
Texas at 12:35. We'll be doing a data/voice
recorder dump there.
CDR Hello, goodbye.
020 12 05 18 CC Hi, bye.
020 12 34 50 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS through Texas. Got

you across the States for 17 minutes.
SPT Hello, Crip. I'd appreciate knowing what the

NOAA people have been seeing in active region 31
over the past 12 hours.
CC See, if we can get a summary of that for you.
012 12 36 38 CC SPT, Houston. While we're trying to get some infor-

mation for you there on 31, believe you were the last
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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 on board, and then if we can refil them -
SPT That was Bill who was working with those - -
CC Sorry about that.
PLT Both of those 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 of 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.
012 12 37 31 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 ot throw out, and
you can throw it right back; actually for FA0s _
and flight controllers. After the second run yes-
terday, it appeared to me that the best way to
schedule some of these airlock things, particularly
in view of the fact of - at least what we get
in from Bob Parker's briefing, that 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 l'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, a half a day or three-quarters of a day,
and really get a big slug of data for them rather
than Mickey Mouse around and spend my time thrash-
ing around, taking stuff in and out of the trash
airlock. 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.
020 12 38 45 CC Okay, Bill. We'll - we'll put that one in the -

in the loop here. Of course it's the problem we
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run into, of course, is that when you're doing

those, we normally have to inhibit dump, and
that runs into problems with doing the EREPs and
trying to mesh it all together. But it's certainly
a good valid input. And naturally, you do things
better when you - when you're not hopping around
to do a bunch of different things and you're
consistently running something. But we'll - we'll
see if we can geL some feedback to you on it.
PLT Okay. Of course, I was thinking forward to the

time when we hopefully will go ahead and fill
the EREP squares. And if I sound a little dis-
organized, I just got off the bicycle.
CC That - that ergometer will disorgainize 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) - at least we're going to attempt to.
PLT The weather sure isn't cooperating.
020 12 39 40 CC Yes. It always seems like it does. Noth - nothing

ever meshes together. When we're going over the
sites, the weather isn't good. For Ed, we're get-
ting 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 probably the

hotter thing going, although it's so darn small
that it may not produce anything really gigantic.
But it might be interesting to watch it. I was
watching the - just for over a period of i0 min-
utes 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. It's interesting to watch.
CC Okeydoke. Very good.
020 12 42 49 PLT Houston, Skylab, PLT.
CC Go, Bill.
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PLT Crip, I want to report a - an anomaly on the AMS

that I experienced yesterday. First one is that
the ROTATION crank or knob action has developed
a sort of a springy or spongy feel. And there is
a little springback in - in some of the ROTATION
and TILTs. 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, l'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.
CC Okay. Appreciate that rundown on it. Sounds

like this thing's beginning to give 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.
020 12 43 39 CC Roger. I'ii - think we'll be scheduling some of

those for you tomorrow. Roger. And -
CC Skylab, Houston. Sorry about that, Bill. But -

just had a handover; that's the reason we dropped
out. One item regarding the A/_3: We do have
currently scheduled for tomorrow evening a check
of the ROTATION on that in conjunction with doing
a sextant observation, hoping to find out, you
know, what kind of exact differences we do have
between the two.
CDR Okay, good.
020 12 44 50 CC One other time 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 the so-called glitches on CMG 2, where the
bearing temperatureare - 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 - then it goes away. Normally, bearing 1
is hotter than - hotter than 2, or higher temper-
ature than 2, I should say. And, it - in the -
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earlier we started _ee[n_ it approach bearing ]

and now it - a couple of cases, we've been seeing
it has actually been exceeding it by a degree or
something like that.
_DR Tell it to hang in there, Crip.
CC Roger; It's going to hang in there. The - we - we

have been seeing, of course, the - the amps increase
and the rpm drop off about the same as they have
been doing.
SPT Same changes there, but the DELTA-P is different

though.
020 12 46 03 CC That's correct. The temperatures 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 - if we get into this
situation more frequently?
_-- CC You've got me on that one, Jer. 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 Now - putting the brake on, which stops it, is -

no - no, there's - right now, we're not doing
anything with wheel speed. We are managing the
heaters, as you're aware of.
CDR Yes.
020 12 47 13 CC And, we _ I guess, in general, the problem occurs

tovard 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
baiters - the high - yes, higher beta that we've
been experiencing lately.
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SPT Crip, where is that located in terms of the

quandrants X, Y, Z?
020 12 48 02 CC You got me right now. I'ii see if I can get an

answer for you on it. And, I think, I realize
what - now what the CDR was talking about awhile
ago. There had been a - a concern that if we
really did get into a problem and it exceeded
some limits that we had set down here, and, I
believe, those that you got a report on - on a
PGM, we said we'd go ahead and take the power off
and let it spin down for a while. And then we'd
reapply power and let it spin back up to see
whether - 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 - the limits -
approach - the values that we will be talking
about doing that.
020 12 50 53 CC Skylab, Houston. We're i minute from going over

the hill.
020 12 50 55 CC We'll have you again in 5 minutes at Madrid.
020 12 56 23 CC Skylab, Houston, we're back with you once more,

6-1/2 minutes through Madrid.
SPT Crip, the 56 people may be noticing that occasion-

ally we've been getting some more hangups on
FILTER positions. I had a PATROL, SHORT hangup
on FILTER, l, previous orbit. And we Just go to
STOP, START, again, and press _h.-_ So, unless
they'd like to have every one of them reported,
we'll just continue on on that procedure. We
can report every one, however, if - if they'd
like.
CC Okay, Ed. You - This is the only one you've seen

this mo/ning, is that correct?
SPT So, far, this morning, that's correct. Yesterday,

there was - I personally saw about three or
four of them. Fortunately, I called out the first
two and Jerry and Bill have also seen some.
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020 12 57 46 CC Okay, you',',-right. Your suggestion is fine.

Just keep on; press on. We don't - don't need
to be advised of each one of them.
! [
::, 'SPT Okay, thank you.
020 13 02 i0 CC Skylab, Houston. We're i minute from LOS. Next

station contact is Tananarive in about 17 minutes.
Crimson team will go ahead ans say good morning
here. As I told you earlier, Bill Thornton'll
be standing in for me tomorrow while I do a
groundtruth on that TV that gave us yesterday.
And we'll be back with you again on about day 72
for some executes. Have a good day.
_PT Thank you, Crip. So long, and I appreciate the

saeri fi ce you 're making tomorrow.
CC That's good, that's good. Anything to serve. My

FLIGHT, Don Puddy, also appreciates the sacrifice.
020 13 02 56 CC He wants to get r_d of me.
020 13 20 05 (_'C Skylab, we got you through Tananarive for

4 minutes. They do have an antennatracking
problem there ; we may drop out. The next one will
be Honeysuckle at 13:h2.
SPT Hello, Story; you Just came in. How are you
doing this morning?
CC I'm doing beautiful, Ed. How about you?
SPT Real good, Story.
CC It's another great Sunday in the MOCR.
SPT You have all the fun.
CC Wouldn't miss it for anything.
_(;PT You could have the bad luck of Crip and have to
go out to L.A. tomorrow.
CC I'm going to Lubbock on Tuedsay.
020 13 20 56 _PT There's a biggie.
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3KYLAB AIR-TO-GROUNDVOICE TRANSCRIPTION
020 13 42 57 CC Skylab, we got you through Honeysuckle for a short

pass, 1 minute. We're I minute to LOS; the next
one's Goldstone in 29 minutes at lh:ll. We'll be
looking to dump the data/voice at Goldstone.
CC Hello, Ed; got you stateside 16 minutes, and we'll

dump some VTR here if you're not using it.
SPT No we're not. Let me give you some star informa-

tion first. Regulus, SHAFT, 124.75; TRUNNION,
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.
020 14 12 h4 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 diffuse,
a little bit wider, but now 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 - not as intense. There is another very
faint diffuse area at around, say 295 or so which
was very prominent yesterday morning; at least it
could be seen. It was diffuse 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 disappeared, 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.
020 14 13 05 SPT The region, however, around 120, about 25 degrees

or so wide at its base, centered at 120, about
25 degrees or so wide at its bases, centered at
120, was relatively weak yesterday. There was
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just {_ little diffused emission above the occulting

disk there. Last night it extended out to around
2 solar radii, 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 that's at 120. Looking at
the XUV MONITOR we see the active region as called
out. The brightest one is active region 21, and
then 31 is 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. Then active
region 16 over on the disk, and I believe that's
probably mostly due to limb brightening, but 31
is brighter then 16, even though 16 had the
advantage of limb brightening. And then there
is also another one which is about the same inten-
sity as 16, and that's at 090.5.
020 14 15 33 SPT I don't see that called out anywhere as a - as a

listed active region. That's 090.5. That's a re-
latively 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 active region 32, which is also
imminent. In looking at the active regions this
morning, I think the one we ought to be working on
•.. 31. I did some - some work on that already
in the orbit, and now l'm looking at it in H-ALPHA,
and where I believe we used to .., what to me
appeared up here with the resolution, I had a series
of arch filaments. Now it looks like just a very
strong filament running parallel to some plage,
east/west ... the east end of the arch filament
system. And I'm not quite too sure what that is;
right now, it's probably a filament which is -
which is forming.
020 14 16 49 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 H-alpha, and we've also
seeen some fairly high counts and fluctation in
oxygen VI. We had counts up to 20,000 this morn-
ing in oxygen VI at the base of the filament
system which intersects a plage in the west - I'm
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sorry, in the east quarter, and that fluctuated

between 4000 up to 20,000, and the fluctuation's
occurring quite rapidly. I did get some data on
that this morning, with some 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 time, I'd
recomnend 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 it this morning. App-
arently, you've seen 2 ... normal for the past
6 hours and I was hoping for something here, but I
didn't see any enhance in the XUV to go along with
the increases that I saw in oxygen VI.
_ 020 14 18 24 SPT 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.
CC We've got a short, oh, about a 3-minute trouble-

shooting 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 when we get a long station passage
and you're free.
CDR Okay, let;s catch it a little later.
CC Okay.
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020 14 20 44 CC Skylab, _he VPR is yours; the tape's clean.
020 14 27 45 CC Skylab, we're a minute to LOS: 5 minutes to Madrid.
020 lh 33 40 CC Skylab, we got you through Madrid here for 9 min-

utes. We need the DAS for an outer gimbal backup,
Bill.
PLT You got it.
CC And also - after you're off and running on that

BB32, starting about now, l'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 remaining: cross

out active region 28; put in active region 31.
020 14 34 16 PLT You mean active region 20?
CC Yes. Make that 31.
PLT Okay, I've already started that - that one, but

I can - I'ii 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 one SHORT for 20 seconds.
PLT Roger.
CC And for 82B. One SHORT, 1/4 sequence.
PLT Roger.
CC Those are all the changes for 37 of day remaining.

Now for 19, day remaining.
020 14 35 Ii PLT Go.

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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 one SHORT for 1/4 sequence.
:?LT Roger.
_C And finally there, run 54 as you did above there,

and sequence 2; GRATING, IN.
:?LT Roger. Got it, Story.
_C Thanks, Bill.
_C And the DAS is yours.
PLT Roger. And we haven't lost much. I've only got

about 3-1/2 minutes to go on 56, first LONG ex-
posure.
CC Okay.
f_
020 14 41 01 CC Skylab, we're a minute from LOS; 12 minutes to

Tananarive.
020 14 54 13 CC Skylab; AOS through Tanarive for 9 minutes.
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PLT Go, Story.
CC You got i0 seconds in here?
PLT Roger.
CC Okay, we've reselected; tape recorders are back in

the nominal configuration. We'd like to get
your onboard configuration as - 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 1 to DATA/VOICE, 2 to EXPERIMENT 1 VOICE, and 3

to EXPERIMENT 2.
PLT Okay, that's selected.
CC Thanks.
CC And you won't 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 Honey-

suckle at 15:18.
PLT Roger.
020 15 02 55 SPT Story, ...
020 15 18 44 CC Sklab, got you through Honeysuckle for 6 minutes.
PLT Roger, Story.

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CC Bill, there's no hurry at all. Any time its con-

venient with you all, we'll run a little trouble-
shooting on that channnel 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'll be up there.
CC Okay.
020 15 20 44 PLT Okay, Story.
CC Okay. Panel 9, the bottom row, AUDIO CONTROL to

BACKUP.
PLT Roger.
CC And on panel 10, INTERCOM, OFF.
PLT Complete.
CC And panel 3, the bottom row on the right-hand

side, PTT BACKUP to LE_f/CENTER; that's up.
PLT That 's complete.
CC Okay. You might try intercom, or how you reading

me now? Have you still got that six cps in the
background?
020 15 21 29 PLT Well, I'm on the speaker box here in the co_uand
module. I'll have to go to an SIA to check
that out. Stand by.
CC 0kay.
PLT Story, Jet 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 - that
hasn't helped the problem?
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PLT Okay. Well, the situation is still the same,

Story. We still have the beat.
CC Okay. For now, then, let's go ask and regroup

and we'll reconfigure panels 9, I0, and 3 right
now.
020 15 22 22 PLT Okay. And before I do that, it sort of - it may

be - of some significance: I just turned the volume
all the way up on the spes-ker 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.
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 on panel 98, - on speaker box 98, in the
command module and I can - I can hear the beat
in the background but it's not nearly so distract-
_ ing as it is on the SIAs in the workshop.
CDR Story, the beat has not dismisnished down here.
CC Okay. Got you.
020 15 23 08 PLT PTT BACKUP is now going to center.
CC Okay. So we'll reconfigure back to where we were;

that's panel ni - -
PLT To NORMAL, I should say.
CC - - yes, panel 9, AUDIO CONTROL, NORMAL.

i0 to INTERCOM T/R, and panel 3 to PTT BACKUP
to NORMAL.
PLT Those there are all complete.
CC Okay; thanks for help. We'll keep working.
PLT Okay. Thanks for your efforts.
020 15 23 51 CC Skylab, we're a minute from LOS; about 16 minutes

to Hawaii, 15:39.
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020 15 40 12 CC Skylab, back with you through Hawaii for 7 minutes.
CC Go ahead, Ed.
SPT Hey, Story. Just wanted to let you know we saw,

going over Africa, some good brush fires at around
14:51 in the Cental African Republic. Saw about
1/2 dozen brush fires which were over an area
of around 30 to 50 miles, isolated. They were
not in a line; could have been flash burning, but
there's a fair number of them down there and
winds were going from the northwest and - showed
them up quite clearly.
CC Thanks, Ed.
020 15 46 16 CC Skylab, we're a minute to LOS and 4 minutes to

Goldstone.
020 15 51 01 CC Skylab, got you through Goldstone for 6 minutes.
020 15 56 38 CC Skylav, we're a minute to LOS; about 5 minutes to

Bermuda. Ed, Owen will hold an ATM conference
with you over Bermuda.
PLT And, Story, l'm having a little trouble with H-

ALPHA i again.
CC Bill, you referring to the FRAMES REMAINING eo_tnt

and the READY light on the TV picture?
PLT The TV picture and also the - the door didn't open
this sunside pass. I think l've got it open
now. l'be got an OPERATE light now.
PLT Okay. Now I have a picture.
020 15 57 46 CC Okay, we're going over the hill here; see you in
about 3 minutes.
020 16 01 05 CC Skylab, back with you through Bermuda for 7 minutes.

Here 's Owen.
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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 fellows again.

And let me give you the first word here to our
friend Billy Whiskers, up there at the ATM panel,
since it has to do withthe present orbit. Are
you with us, Bill?
PLT Roger, Owen. Go, 'Stache.
MCC Okay, Bill. Still thinking about that for a

minute. Just going to remind you on this JOP 26
that you're e_ther starting now or will start
there shortly: I guess it's probably obvious
that's a micro-LIMB SCAN for 82B principally,
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 seconds in and on the limb and
off the limb again. I guess that should be clear
_ enough.
020 16 02 00 PLT Well, actually I'm using the WHITE LIGHT DISPLAY
for the on and off limb and Ed's 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 lo-
cating 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 fellows cought about 3 days
ago now. We looked at it again yesterday after-
noon and the spear, as you described it, is
certainly spectacular as it moves out to about
2 solar radii, at 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 a uniform bubble, with the
peak of the bubble on out to 2-1/2 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
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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.
020 16 03 20 SPT Okay, Owen. I think if you go back over the

voice records you'll find out that I did indicate
that there was something out ahead which - you
know - that the region out 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.
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 nevertheless, 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 - 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 restarting. Just
let it go, except under the two circumstances of
a transient event like a flare; or on the next
2 days, tomorrow and the next day, we're going
to be doing collaborative rocket operations.
And, so during those collaborative measurements,
why, they would appreciate an extra-close eye
out for a hangup so that they can be restarted
on these collaborative works. Over.
020 16 04 40 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 from the
schedule. The 17:31 pass, I guess the next rev,
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will have some maxi-RASTERs 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 oc-
culting 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, 20-arc-second
and 5-arc-minute, discriminators do get reeanabled
and the pad will provide you with the reminders on
how to get that done. And I guess that'll be on
one of your revs, Ed. And you've been through
it several times before. Over.
020 16 05 49 SPT Yes, you're right, Bill. You've got to make sure
before you move on that you get those last 2 steps
done.
P_ MCC Absolutely. Okay. Well, that's about all the

reminders we have from the ground here, fellows.
How's Jerry Whiskers doing up there today?
SPT Well, 'Stache, he's pedaling - 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 other comments about expected growth

from 31, and of course the flare probabilities
don't show anything particularly interesting. I'll
Just take one brief check here before we're through
and see if they have any later information for
you, Ed.
020 16 06 36 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 as this active longitude came
around the corner. And so far, it's 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 we stay on top of it.
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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 M0N that you've got up there, your
guess may be better then anyone else's down here
at this point.
020 16 07 24 SPY 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 real-time magnetographs
can 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 enhancement in oxygen VI 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 I didn't go back to it. I spend most of the
time looking at 31.
020 16 08 23 CC We'll be dropping out here and see you in

Canaries in 2 minutes.
020 16 ll 40 CC Skylab, we're back with you through Canaries for

8 minutes. We'll be dumping the data/voice here.
SPT Okay, Story. Tell 0wen thanks for sitting in.

Good talking with him.
CC Okay. He's sitting right here. Bill, Houston.
PLT Go, Story.
CC Bill, we're Just still retrieving data on that

H-ALPHA 1. We did see the TV monitor POWER, OFF
at one time, and at present that's the only thing
we're tracking.
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PLT Yes, that was off. I turned that ON right after

I reported that. I don't 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.
020 16 12 h2 CC Okay.
PLT In other words, it looked like there was two

separate problems there. I had - I was out of
configuration and
I the H-ALPHA 1 didn't start
working when we came around sunside.
SPT They don't 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 usaul, first thing in
the morning, it was very crisp and clear, and I
had that excellent resolution, excellent contrast.
About 15 minutes into the orbit, it started de -
to degrade. 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 the bandpass and the
filter changes even though your temperature mon-
itors don't change it - don_t show it. I wonder
if you would take a look at it and advise us if
there's anything we could do to keep that good,
crisp resolution throughout the day.
020 16 13 55 CC Okay, Ed, and for Bill: We did show H-alpha 1

operating; it may be that FRAMES REMAINING and
READY light read switch problem again.
PLT That's entirely possible. It's also possible that

I read the gray t_]kback as a white.
CC Okay.
PLT And I think I turned the H-ALPHA 1 POWER, OFF when

I thought I was killing the 52, - closing the
52 door.
CC Okay. That's the experiment CAMERA POWER?
PLT No, the DOORs; when I stopped my Sun centered

activities.
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020 16 14 48 CC Okay. That Just might do her.
020 16 17 30 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.
MCC I'll 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 and I keep finding holes
in all of the drawers where they were supposed to
be.
020 16 18 20 MCC You've got a good point there, Ed. There's just
(laughter) might not be any of that left.
CC And for Bill, taking a look at the H-alpha 1

image, if you ever see that severely degraded, you
might put some of that on the _TR for us so we "_
can see it.
PLT Roger.
MCC Ed, A1 was big on lemonade, but I'll - -
SPT Say again, Owen.
MCC I was just saying, Ed, that A1 was big on lemonade,

and I'll 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. The most interesting

spots on the spacecraft are the TV monitors on the
ATM and the window in the wardroom.
02016 20 16 MCC Verytrue. _
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020 16 56 01 CC Skylab; got you through Honeysuckle for 8 minutes.
PLT Roger, Story. I've Just changed out the inlet

filters on mol sieve A and B and the outlet on
mol sieve A - and MOL SIEVE A, OUT - it's giving
sort of an abnormal reading, but it was coming
down the last time I checked. It checked out full-
scale high after I first installed them.
CC Okay, Bill.

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.
020 17 02 47 PLT Roger, Story.
020 17 15 53 CC Skylab, we got you through Hawaii for 9 minutes.
CDR Roger, Story. And at 17:13 and 15 seconds the

6-cycle beat stopped for about 20 seconds and then
picked up again.
CC Want to say the time again, Jer?
CDR 17:13 and 15 seconds.
020 17 2h 16 CC Skylab, we're a minute to LOS; about 3 minutes to

Goldstone at 17:27. The EREP pass is on, and some-
where along here in the next hour, I need to pass
up a change to your ETC and - 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 Carnarvon at 18:27'11 be good.
SPT Okay; thank you, Story.

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PLT And, Story, PLT standing by to copy changes to the

C&D pad.
020 17 25 17 CC l'm losing you here. I'll get you stateside.
020 17 27 45 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, 0N.
PLT Roger; I got that.
CC And then at 07:00, ETC, AUT0.
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 to POWER ON; at 7 minutes, ETC AUTO. At 8:30,
ETC to STANDBY.
020 17 29 43 CC That's it. Thanks, Bill. It'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 1 is still degraded, you could

put some of that on the VTR for us.
SPT Okay, Story. Will do.
SPT Story, just before I started into the building

block 10, I was taking a look above the limb and
the silicon 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
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around - at the most 20. Most of them are

below i0. If we're looking for loops, then I think
they' re going to be very faint.
020 17 33 07 CC Thanks, Ed.
CC And we're a minute to LOS; 4 minutes to Bermuda.
020 17 38 17 CC We're back with you through Bermuda for l0 minutes.

And, Ed, Sac Peak reports coronal rain over active
region 16. You ought to see something.
SPT Okay; thank you, Story.
CC Go ahead, Ed.
SPT Story, why don't you go ahead and give me the

changes to 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.
020 17 44 32 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 08:30.

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.
020 17 47 27 CC Skylah, we're a minute to LOS. About 8 minutes

to Ascension, 17:5h. Be looking to dump the data/
voice there.
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020 17 54 36 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 on permanent
general message for the silicon XII 521 line.
Apparently we're looking at the very low end of
it right now.
020 17 56 33 CC Okay.
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020 18 02 34 CC Skylab, we were - 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 any-

thing 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.
_-_ 020 18 05 19 CC Yes, sir.
020 18 28 37 CC Skylab; AOS through Carnarvon for 9 minutes.
CDR Roger.
CC And, Jer, I've got some weather for you for your
hunting today.
CDR Okay, go ahead.
CC On special 02, the uniform snowfield, the cloud

cover is predominantly about 8/10 to 10. There
are some areas that are about 4/i0 to 7/10. 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 snowfield that
you can find. And you may find better hunting
north of track.
CDR Okay, I'll start early then.
020 18 29 26 CC Okay, you can start a little early or a little

late, but don't miss the special 07 in terms of
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the timing. A]i we'd like is - is 20 or 30 sec-

onds 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 5/8 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 8/10 to i0 also, Jer.
020 18 36 28 CC Skylab, we're a minute to LOS; 6 minutes to Guam.
020 18 42 54 CC Skylab, we're back with you through Guam for 7 min-
utes. And, Jer, you got a good maneuver time.
CDR Roger, Story.
CC And, who's ever nearest to the ATM, we need an

MPC, INHIBIT, and an MPC ROLL, INHIBIT. Thanks,
and your APCS looks good for this maneuver.
CDR Roger, Story.
CC Skylab, we're a minute to LOS; about 17 minutes

to Goldstone at 19:06.
CDR Roger.
CC And your maneuver's looking good, Jer.
020 18 50 03 CDR Roger, Story.
020 19 05 39 PLT Stand by -
020 19 05 h0 PLT MABK. 05:40 EREP, START; and, Jer, on my mark,

5 seconds from now, AUTO CAL.
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CDR Okay.
PLT Stand by -
020 19 05 50 PLT MARK.
CDR ...
PLT VTS AUTO CAL. And 194 MODE to MANUAL in 6 minutes.

ETC POWER, ON, Ed, on my mark.
CDR Coming in over the Canadian Rockies.
020 19 06 O0 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-minuteETC, AUTO.
CC Yes sir. We're here reading you loud and clear

for 18 minutes stateside.
CDR Okay.
PLT Stand by -
020 19 07 00 PLT MARK. ETC, AUTO at 7 minutes.
PLT Standing by for 07:20. And -
020 19 07 20 PLT MARK. 07:20. SCAT, ON and RAD, ON.
CDR Tell me when that 191 - -
PLT I will. It should - -
CDR - - AUTO CAL comes on.
PLT It should come on at 08:30 and I'm - my next event.
CDR Okay.
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CDR Doggone it, it's clouding up.
PLT And at 08:30, I'll give Ed a call for ETC, STANDBY.

And--
CDR There's 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 the north.
PLT Okay. 15 seconds to 08:30. ETC, STANDBY. I'ii

give a mark. Stand by -
020 19 08 30 PLT MARK. REFERENCE, 6; we do have a READY light,

Jerry. You can start DATA take.
CDR *** fortunately, I got not 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 CAMERA 's ON.
PLT Okay, I guess it goes to STANDBY for warmup. I

have not had the ALTIMETER, ON. Yes, that's
probably what it is.
CDR Data ...
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 it's - it's

snow.
PLT Stand by for ALTIMETER's going to STANDBY.
020 19 i0 00 PLT MARK. ALTIMETER to STANDBY. 10:13--
CDR Okay.
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PLT - - 190 MODE, AUTO.
CDR It's the end of that.
PLT Stand by -
020 19 l0 14 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 ll:20, which is about 15 seconds from

now, ETC to AUTO. I'll give a mark. Stand by -
020 19 ll 20 PLT MARK. ETC to AUTO.
CDR 1 more minute. Should be over the Garrison

Reservoir.
_- PLT On my mark it'llbe 11:48 -
020 19 ll 48 PLT MARK. SCAT to STANDBY and RAD to STANDBY. Wait-

ing for 11:56 -
020 19 ll 56 PLT MARK. 11:56, RAD, ON. 12:10; my mark it'll be

12 :lO -
020 19 12 l0 PLT MARK. 190 INTERVAL to 10. It still looks good.
CDR Okay, DAC is ON. Got no Minneapolis; over lots

of clouds. 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.
PLT Stand by for 13 minutes even.
PLT l0 - FRAMES PER minute go - should go to l0 on

my mark.
020 19 13 ll PLT MARK. And you got a good speed shift and the light
is steady. Nice and steady on 192, 60 inches
per second. Waitingfor 13:45.
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CDR Like a hungry mosquito, no place to go. Now I'm

turning off the DAC, there's nothing to -
020 19 13 45 PLT MARK. 192 MODE to STANDBY at 13:45.
CDR Too bad.
PLT And 14 minutes, which is coming up very shortly

here, Ed. ETC to STANDBY in 5 seconds.
020 19 14 00 PLT MARK. EC - ETC to STANDBY. 6 -
020 19 14 06 PLT MARK. RAD to STANDBY. And RAD, OFF; ... ALTIMETER
coming ON.
020 19 14 21 PLT MARK. ALTIMETER, ON.
PLT And waiting for 15 minutes, to get the timeout

sequence on 190. Okay, I did not - The light is
out and MODE to STANDBY. It is. FRAME 15, INTER-
VAL to 20. And waiting for 15:40. We do have an
ALTIMETER UNLOCK light.
CDR Okay, looking at the Appalachians. They seem to

be - -
020 19 15 40 PLT Okay, we're on 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 want - want to brief on some-

thing 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.
020 19 17 03 PLT MARK. 17:03. 190 MODE to AUTO. I do have a

READY light.
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CDR Oh Kitty Hawk's Just underneath the clouds. Set-

ting up for a nadir swath.
PLT Waiting for 17:45. Still have a READY light on

the ALTIMETER. Okay, 17:45. Stand by -
020 19 17 45 PLT MARK. ALTIMETER, STANDBY. MODE to 5; RANGE, 70-

And 192 is still cranking away.
CC Jet, 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 - -
020 19 18 03 PLT MARK. 18:03. ALTIMETER, ON.
CDR - - right over Cape Hatteras. The Cape Hatteras

itself is sticking out in the clear. Nags Head
is - and Kitty Hawk are in the - in the soup.
CC Okay.
CDR P_m]ico Sound is clear, and Marine Air Station,

- Cherrypoint,I mightadd.
CC Know it well.
CDR Got blue water, occasional scattered cu.
PLT Okay, I may not have gotten the full 190 sequence,
Story. When I went to turn the 190 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. I suspect I
turned it off early. 190 SHUTTER SP_.k_ngoing to
SLOW -
020 19 19 01 PLT MARK.
CDR Okay. Coming up on a full overcast now. While

over the water, I could see no evidence of a - of
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 a good bit away, I'll give a call for an
p AUTOCAL. 31:15.
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CDR Okay. Okay, stopping the VTR at 20.
PLT Okay.
CDR Correction, stopping the camera, the DAC camera.
PLT 20:15, REFERENCE to 2.
020 19 20 16 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 --
CC Bill.
PLT I may have left 192 on too long.
CC Yes, sir. We were just going to call you. Go

to STANDBY on the S192.
PLT Yes. It's a double-line entry. The doggone pad's

printed out double. I scratched one of them out.
Okay. Press on here.
CDR 21:15, Bill?
PLT 21:15 I - -
CDR Okay.
PLT Going to the VTS AUTO CAL.
CDR All right.
PLT And 194 MODE to MANUAL.
020 19 21 16 CDR MARK. AUTO CAL.
PLT 21:40, ALTIMETER to STANDBY. Man, that's terrible.
CDR SOLAR INERTIAL coming up at 21:22. 19:22 1 should

say.
020 19 21 41 PLT MARK. 21:40, ALTIMETER to STANDBY.

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CDR 15 second_¢ to _;0_.1¢ INERTIAL.
PLT Okay. I know what I did, Story. I went to STANDBY

on the 190 camera at - at the time, 1 - 13:h5,
instead of going 192 MODE, STANDBY. That was
where I made the mistake.
CDR Okay. We're going into SOLAR INERTIAL.
PLT Okay. We got the READY out. MODE to STANDBY.
CDR 12 minutes. And the rates look pretty good.
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 -
--" 020 19 23 46 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
measurements. Yes, that was a sorry performance.
This pad looks like a patchwork quilt.
CDR Yes. 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 Yes. Just have them send up another pad.
CDR Just too darn dangerous.
PLT That's just - that's sorry. Use up all that tape.

It doesn'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
l0 minutes.
020 19 2h 30 PLT Okay. I'll go get the tape and get that for you.
I'm sorry about that. That was lousy.
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SPT Okay. Killed a lot of time.
CC And we're a minute from LOS; and about i0 minutes

to Ascension, 19:34.
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020 19 35 56 CC Skylab, we got you through Ascension for 4 minutes.

Your maneuver's looking good.
PLT Roger, 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 Well, 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 was
to study overcast decks?
CC Stand by l, Ed.
020 19 38 08 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, we'd ap-
preciate it.
SPT Okay, Story, will do.
CC And, Ed, in answer to your question, the ETC, we

wanted to correlate 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 Can't forget the cloud men - -

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CC - - Better tl_'ow in the clouds, too.
SPT - - Can't forget the cloud men.
SPT Got nothing against cloud men, Story, hut it's just
what your objectives are.
CC That's affirm, Ed. The next time you pass on up

to the Northern H@misphere, active aurora have been
reported up there. And if you can, take photos
per permanent message 18 Bravo.
020 19 39 42 SPT Thank you, Story.
020 20 05 50 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 - 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 - that's a good call to get that out of the
way while flying 509 through.
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 in the airlock after 509 and be ready to go
in the morning.
CC Okay, great, Ed.
020 20 12 34 CC Ed, Houston.
CC That's a filter 5 for the ETC.
SPT Thank you.
CC And when you can, here, we'd like for you to change
out the teleprinter paper. We've got a Flight Plan,
an alternate Flight Plan, details, and alternate
F
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details. And we want to get ahead as much as we

can so you ca n sleep in the MDA in quiet tonight.
SPT You know how to get to me. I'ii do it whenever

the woodpecker stops here.
020 20 13 l0 CC Okay, it'll be stopped in about 2 minutes.
CC Skylab, we're a minute to LOS. We won't get you

at Guam this pass. It'll be Goldstone in about
1/2 hour, at 20:43. And, Ed, no need to acknow-
ledge. Check 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.
020 20 43 49 CC Skylab; A0S stateside for 17 minutes.
CDR Story, the M509 powerupco_enced at 37.
CC Okay, thanks, Jer. And you 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.
020 20 54 2] 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 l0 minutes

to the Vanguard at 21:10. Jer, could you let us
know how you're coming along with M5097
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CDR Story, we're ready to start suit donning, and then

we'll go right into ASMU don.
020 20 59 56 CC Okay.
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020 21 O0 08 CDR Story, documenting - documentary photos 24 is going

to take three guys to do it. I don't think we
can do it today.
020 21 (_ 19 CC Copy, Jet.
020 21 ].0 19 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. i
020 21 13 28 CDR Hank, the 6-cycle-per-second beat 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 68 - 618-1; and it's a false one.
020 21 16 ii CC Roger.
020 22 20 40 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?
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CDR Say again, Hank.
CC Roger. Which baseline 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?
020 22 26 ii CC Skylab, Houston. We need the DAS for a nuZ update.
CC CDR, Houston. If you - If there's time remaining

in your Flight Plan there and you want to use a
fifth bottle, you have a GO to do that. And we
recommend that if you're going to do that, 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'll ask him.
SPT Yes. He copied, Hank. And he'll get with you

when he can. He's kind of busy right now.
CC Okay. No problem.
020 22 29 34 CDR Hank, I copied your last transmission and we're

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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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIpTION
020 22 [31 57 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from LOS.

Vanguard'll be coming up at h5 inlabout 12-1/2 min-
utes. And we're scheduled to dump the recorder.
202 22 45 12 CC Skylab, Houston through Vanguard for 8 minutes.
CDR Roger, Hank. Grasp and hold is completed. We

Just changed out PSS number 3 - correction, number 4.
We got 3 in it 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.
CC 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 M509. 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 wasn't getting
there, or what he didn't get.
020 22 52 20 CC SPT, Houston. What mode are you in now for S0557
We got some invalid mode readings back at Goldstone
about 20 minutes ago.
SPT Say again, Hank.
CC Roger. What mode are you in in S0557
SPT I'm in the STOP mode doing a line profile, Hank.

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CC Okay, our data indicates you're in SINGLE.

We're about 35 seconds fr9m LOS; Tananarive coming
up at 12. i
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020 23 ii 55 CC Skylab, Houston through T_nanarive, 6-1/2 minutes.
CC CDR, Houston. Whenever it's convenient here, we've

got 5 minutes left on this pass, we'd like to get
a progress report, i
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CC SPT, Houston. The high b_ta angle period is gone

past and our coolant temperature is stable back -
stabilized back to its nominal value of 50 degrees.
So whatever's convenient pn panel 207 under
ATMCANISTER THERMAL you _an go ahead and ENABLE
the CAUTION and WARNING fbr COOLANT T_P.
020 23 15 23 CC Skylab, Houston. 1 minut_ to LOS; Hawaii at 55.
020 23 55 40 CC Skylab, Houston through Hawaii for 2 minutes. Did

you read us at Tananarive We copied no downlink.
CDR Negative, Hank. We didn'_ hear you.
CC Okay, we must have had some sort of a problem there,

Jerry. I - I gave a call to the SPT there regarding
the CANISTER THERMAL CAUTEON and WARNING on panel
207. Our coolant temps h_ve stabilized back to
nominal values. And whenever it's convenient you
can go ahead and ENABLE theCAUTION and WARNING
under CANISTER THERMAL fo_ COOLANT
i TEMP.
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CDR Okay. And we terminated _509. We did all the first

three discretionary maneuvers and we got maneuver
Bravo done on the - the s_cond set of discretion-
aries before we had to q_it.
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CC Roger. We copy; good sho_.
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CDR Yes, we went through 5 PSFSs and about a battery
and a half.
020 23 56 51 CC Sounds like you did a go_d job there, Jet. We're
about 45 seconds from LOS. Vanguard will be coming
up at 22. And that's th_ l evening status.
SPT Hank, as you were going _er

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the hill last time we
had contact with you, yo_ were mentioning something

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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 -

that you could go ahead and ENABLE the CAUTION
and WARNING for COOLANT TEMP under CANISTER T_UmqMAL.
The temperatures are back to normal.
SPT Oh, okay. I thought you were talking about 55 and

SINGLE and I din't 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 a h007 for 67 in.
020 23 57 49 CC We copy.
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021 O0 22 55 CC Skylab, Houston through Vanguard for 9-1/2 minutes,

and we're standing by for the evening status report.
021 00 2_ 30 CDR You ready to copy, Hank?
CC Okay, we're back with you now, Jer. We - we had

a little trouble acquiring there. We broke lock
right after we got you. Yes, we're ready to go
right now.
021 O0 2h 37 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, 4765; PLT, ll06. No volumes tonight.
CDR's, on weight: 6320, 6321, 6317; SPT, 6385, 6387;
PLT, 6248, 6251, 6250. Exercise: no change
for anyone. Medication: CDR, none; SPT, none;
PLT, Sudafed and Afrin 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 list accomplishments: all house-
keeping is done - or will be done by the end of
the day; SPT, l-l2 day passes of ATM. Inoperable
equipment: none. Unscheduled stowage: none.
Okay, the photo log. 16-millimeter: M151, M092/
171, Charlie India 79, 09, Charlie India 126;
EREP VTS, Charlie Lima ll, hl; M509-3 Papa Delta 10,
Charlie India 86, 35, Charlie India 80; M509-3
Papa Delta l, Charlie India 81, 38, Charlie
India 77. Nikons: number l, Charlie
X-ray hl, 05; 2, Bravo Victor 20, 13; 3, Charlie
India ll5, 26; 4, Bravo Echo 10, 41; 5, Bravo
Hotel 06, 31. 70-millimeter: Charlie X-ray 46, 090.
ETC: Charlie India 12, 027. EREP: set
Yankee 9h25, 876h, 9639, 9630, 3176, 0050. Drawer A
configuration: Alfa l, 02, Charlie India 86, 35,
Charlie India 80; Alfa 2, no change; Alfa 3, 06,
Charlie India 79, 09, Charlie India 126; Alfa h, 08,
Charlie India 81, 38, Charlie India 77. Back, no
change.
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Okay, Hank, I guess you'_ better add a Flight

Plan deviation. That is ithat we did not do a
Delta Papa 24. i
021 00 27 48 CC Roger, we copy.

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CDR And, Hank, what again is lthe time for my private

call? i
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CC Roger, Jerry. It's at 0_:30 at Hawaii, LEFT

ANTENNA. It could be a _ittle ratty right in the
middle, but it's the bes_ 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 dour private call.
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CDR Okay, 01:30, LEFT ANTENNa.

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CC And the M509 PIs were very pleased with your runs.
They said to pass that t_ you and they're anxiously
waiting to get the data _ack.
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CDR Okay. We got quite a bi_ done. We feel pretty
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good about it.
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CC It sounds like it went r_al smooth.
021 00 30 l0 CC CDR, Houston. You closed out the urine volumes
yesterday evening after _he evening status report.
And apparently, we - we _ay have lost that data
on the tapes that we had trouble with there losing
data on. I wonder if yol could repeat those for
us, if you still have them.
CDR Sure can. 260, 275, 260_
CC That was quick.
CDR You caught me in the hea6 where the information

is.
CC CDR, Hou - -
SPT Hank - -
CDR Go ahead Hank.

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CC Okay. I was Just going to tell you we're about

a minute from LOS, and the next site is Tananarive
at 46 with your reed conference and after that it's
Hawaii at 01:30 with a data recorder dump. And
also we're tyring to build a little message here,
it's Just about completed - on doing some more
troubleshooting on this beat frequency that's
bugging you up there. You want us to do that and
go ahead and ship it up? Looks like we aren't
going to have any real time to work on it here
this evening.
CDR That's 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.
aPT 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.
021 00 33 02 CC SPT, If you still read, the 82A will be completed

as of the last pass today.
021 01 29 45 CC Skylab, Houston through Hawaii for about I0 minutes,

and we'll be dumping the recorder here.
PLT Roger, Hank.
sPT Houston, SPT.
CC 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 on the ground
to correlate with that brightening? Either a
plage see in H-ALPHA, which I can see a slight
enhancement in, but not very much, or anything
in the X-REA or any other indicators they might
have available.
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CC Okay. We'll check it, an, our X-ERA is reading

background.
SPT Thank you. The last sola:- activity update we got

said that the probability may be going up for
a flare in that region du._ to the configuration
changing a bit, and I'm w>ndering whether we're
seeing the result of that
CC Skylab, Houston. For info, we've uplinked

two messages regarding the. checkout - comm checkout
with
on the 6-hertz buzz that'_ been bugging you
the beep frequency, and t_is is our last pass of
the evening unless you go_ the chance to do any
of that tonight during t_ PSA and wanted to call
down some results.
021 01 34 51 SPT Okay. Th_nk you, Hank. ire they planning on

operating in unattended the next two passes
for ATM?
CC That's affirmative.
SPT Okay. I may be up here J!ustlooking over their

shoulder, but I won't interrupt their programs.
P
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cc wegota = aw Jot oo,

tonight.
padstogetup
As you not_a_ we had to send you up
two complete Flight Plan_, a prime and an alternate,
and - we'd like to continue uplinking as long as
possible. So if you pla_ to stay up a little
late, I wonder if it'd b_ convenient to, oh, I
don't know how we'd work|it, but some way, if we
knew
stop when
unlinking.
you were going to go to sleep, we could
SPT Hank, it probably won't _ake you more than 2 or

3 hours, and I'll probably be up at least another
2, so why don't you Just_go ahead and uplink
until you're finished, a_d I'll probably be able
to get to sleep.
SPT The beep kind of cancelsiour the woodpecker.
CC (Laughter) Roger. We c(py.
CC Okay, Ed, how does it solmd if we plan to uplink

through 04:00? Would that bother you?
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021 01 36 5_ SPT No. That's fine, Hank. Go ahead.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from LOS. The

next site is Vanguard at 02:01. We'll say good
night to you now. We won't talk any more unless
you need us. And we'll Just keep the loop up.
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021 O1 39 08 SPT Okay, Hank. Thanks; good night.
021 02 05 25 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.
SPT And, Hank, I didn't get the pointing right at

active region 16. I'ii 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.
021 02 06 4:. CC We copy.
021 02 07 _6 CC And, CDR, Houston. Just for info, since we'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, we're in the process of
getting your maneuver pads up, if they're not
already up. And the EREP pads won't come until
later.
CDR No problem, Hank. Boy, we got a bundle of EREP

tomorrow, don't we?
CC We sure do.
PLT 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.

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CDR Yes, we're getting kindiof tired of nadir swaths

and special 02's up hera. We'd like to see some -
good targets for a chan_e.
021 02 08 47 CC So would we.
CDR Have you sent that commtroubleshooting pad up yet?

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CC Roger. They should bot_ be on board there.
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CDR Okay, I think I'ii jump iright into it right now.
CC Okay. We're about 40 sqconds from LOS. The next

site will be Ha - Hawaii at 03:08, if you need us.
CDR Okay, 03, 08. If I find anything special, I'ii

call you.
021 02 09 39 CC Okay.
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021 03 i0 _0 CDR Houston, CDR.
CC Go ahead.
CC CDR, we read you; go ahead.
CDR Roger, Hank. I did the two tests that you - you
sent up. And test number 2 was a b1,--,er; there's
nothing happened there. But on test number i,
AUDIO SYSTEM BUFFERAMPNUMBER I, when you OPEN
that breaker, the beep frequency stops. When you
close the breaker IN, the beep frequency fades
back in again very slowly.
021 03 12 (2 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 comments.
021 03 12 56 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 and thought maybe he was at the
panel. We need - do have or need to get DETECTOR
n11mher B OFF on S055.
CDR Okay.
PLT Hank, do you have the recorders?
CC We had to take those, Bill. I'm sorry I didn't

tell you. We're - we're all full up and short of
sites; all the recorders are full.
PLT Okay, I'll give the 509 debrief tomorrow, then.
021 0B 13 i_6 CC Okay, as soon as this pass is over, Bill, you can
have it back.
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CC Skylab, Houston; we're abgut 50 seconds from LOS.

We'll smoke over that report you gave us, Jerry.
And for the SPT, - if you just close out for
unattended ops for us whe_ it gets through, we'll -
that'll be fine. And we'Ll say good night to you;
have a good night's rest. i
CDR Okay; thank you, Hank. _od night.
SPT Thank you, Hank. I=think I got the panel set up,
so you should be able to _perate it. If there is
anything, let me know now. 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 the H-ALPHA 1
DOOR. D - it doesn't sh_ CLOSED or OPEN.

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SPT Yes, I have a white indiclation here also, Hank.
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CC Okay, Ed. If you want t_ 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.
021 03 15 34 SPT Okay, Hank.
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021 I0 50 _8 CC (Music: "The Party's Over" by Julie London)
021 ll 15 10 CC Skylab, Houston. LOS in 2 minutes; Honeysuckle

at ll:18.
SPT Morning, Bill.
CC Good morning. How goes it?
SPT Pretty good, Bill. How's things down there?
CC Well, the Sun was out for the first time in a long
time yesterday, shining on all the water.
021 ll 16 24 SPT Good. M_ybe we'll get a good look at you today.
021 ll 19 ]2 CC Skylab, we're AOS for another 4 minutes here.
021 ll 21 ]2 CC Skylab; LOS in 2 minutes. Texas at ll:51.
CDR Okay, Bill, are you going to have some news for
us at Texas?
CC That 's affirmative.
021 ll 21 [8 CDR Good show.
021 ll 23 (4 CC (Music: "Misty" by Julie London)
021 ll 51 58 CC Skylab, Houston; AOS for 16 minutes. We'll be

dumping the tape recorder over MILA at ll:5h.
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 - a
change from the primary to the alternate Flight
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Plan. That will - that means that track 35 is the
only good track on the EREP; the others are canceled.
And there're a couple of questions 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.
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021 ii 53 18 PLT Bill, after checking it, it looks like it probably
was. It was checked - it iwas found on this morning.
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CC Okay. And the OWS bus currents were higher last
night than previous night_. Were you doing anything
different in the OWS during the sleep period?
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PLT We can't think of anything else, Bill, that we were
doing.
CC Okay, we copy that. And @e mentioned that the -

the Z-LV maneuver pads, fcbr pass 33 were sent
before 33 and 34 were canceled, so just ignore
those. Also, sometime toeLay, bring up all the
SIAs as you go by them.
021 ll 54 24 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 t_rn over a list of about
120 Israeli POWs held in Syria. This could mean
a breakthrough in Kissing@r's efforts to get a
troop pullback between th& Syrians and Israelis
similar to the one he got|lastL week between the
Egyptians and Israelis. _rom Saigon: A Chinese
amphibious force of up to1500 men backed up by
MIGs seized the last of tle Paracel Islands in the
South China Sea. Said thE_ Chinese overran 150
South Vietnamese troups s_d ended the 2-day air,
sea, and ground battle fo] the islands, which are
prized as a possible Jump_ ng off point for
offshore oil exploration, i
021 ll 55 35 CC Anything that happens now seems to be interpreted

in terms of oil. For ex_Lple, the next ar - item
is President Arnold Mille] of the United Mine Workers
Union said oil reserves o_ued by oil companies
have gone - that's coal r_ serves owned by oil
companies have gone undewloped because the oil
industry seeks - seeks to keep petroleum dominant
in the energy market. An@ Miller's calling for
pro - congressional inves_igation_ in this practice.
And
Representative Harrin_on, D-Massachusetts,
said he will introduce a _ill to the House of
Representatives for publi_ financing of at least
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seven new oil refineries. Stock would be offered

to encourage broad-based ownership, and individual
corporations would be set up to run each refinery.
021 ]i 56 52 CC And France is allowing the franc to float on the

market, as you may have been told. They 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.
021 ll 57 I_5 CC Finally, in Lexington, Kentucky some 10,000 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 8-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 ?
PLT We're pressing on, Bill.
SPT Generate a flare today down there, will you, Bill?
021 ].l59 29 CC Try to.
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CC Go ahead, SPT.
SPT Okay. What had you done with the H-ALPHA DOORs
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, CLOSEd and then OPEN, and I finally
got the display and a gray t_lkback.
021 12 05 29 CC SPT, what happened is that the motor was inhibited

and then reenabled, and this simply changes the
talkback without actually changing the configura-
tion. And we understand that you do have the
DOOR, OPEN now.
SPT That's affirm, Bill. As they 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 Th_k you.
CC And to repeat, the DOOR was CLOSEd all night, Ed.
021 12 06 Ii SPT Thankyou, Bill.
021 12 07 48 CC Skylab, we'll be LOS in 1 minute. We'll have you

at Madrid at 12:12.
SPT Roger.
021 12 13 02 CC Skylab, Houston; AOS for 7 minutes.

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SPT Hello, Bill. Is the VTR available?
CC That's affirm; it's available. And, Ed, we want

you to put the H-ALPHA 1 NIGHT Ih_fERLOCK switch
into the NORMAL position.
SPT It 's there.
021 12 13 3h CC Thank you.
021 12 18 51 CC Skylab, we'll be LOS in 1 ninute. Carnarvon at

12 :50.
SPT So long, Bill.
021 12 50 26 CC Skylab, this is Houston thcough Carnarvon for 2 min-

utes. Over.
021 12 50 52 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Carnarvon. Over.
CC Okay, Jerry. After the tr_m burn and before 13:24,

we'd like you to get us a_extant sighting, and
I've got the SHAFT and TRU_NION an - angles for
you.
CDR Okay, go ahead.
CC Okay, first star is Regulus: SHAFT, 135.7;

TRUNNION, 18.7. Second star, Spica: 292.2, 36.5.
Read back. Over. r
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CDR Okay. Regulus: 135.7, 181.7. Spica: 292.2, 36.5.

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021 12 51 51 CC Roger; you've got it. And!I following

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the trim burn,
when you come back to reconflgure the ATM rate
gyros, you've got some bla_ks. And we'd like to
use a h in the redundancy _anagement commands.
Over.
CDR Roger.
CC Roger. That's a 4 in the )lanks; three places.
021 12 52 23 CC Now we got about 20 second to LOS. Next station

contact in 36 minutes through Goldstone at 13:28.
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021 13 28 2C CC Skylab, this is 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 SHA_ and TRUNNION

readouts from the sextant shots that Jerry took.
And a point of information, the handheld 170 op-
tional first opportunity on TO53, that is this
track past Goddard, has been scrubbed due to
weather. Over.
$PT Roger, Bruce. Jerry will be with you in a minute.
CDR Roger, Bruce; copy. The SHAFT and TRUNNION; you're

real close today. Regulus, 135.8, 18.8; Spica is
292.3 and 36.7.
021 13 29 23 CC Roger; we copy that. And we'd like to take the

VTR at this time and start reeonfiguring for dump.
Also, there's been an active aurora, class 4 out
of 5, reported in the Northern Hemisphere. You
_- can take photos per permanentmessage 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 alternatives,
that is, leaving the BUFFER AMPS 1 circuit breaker
OPEN and reconfiguring, are not all that desirable.
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021 13 30 09 CC One option has us doing everything - that is re-

cording 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 capa-
bility to redesignate recorders from the ground.
Over.
CDR Roger, Bruce. We already did that yesterday and

it had no effect.
CC Okay. Understand all the SIAs are on.
021 13 30 4] 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.
CC Okay, we copy. And, now I'll turn you over to

the ATM scientist here for ATM conference. Over.
021 13 31 13 SPT Okay, we're ready up here; go ahead.
MCC Okay, Ed. Fine. You've got -
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 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 of also possible,
maybe an occasional subflare out of 21. 21 does
retain the possibility ofminor 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.
021 13 32 05 SPT Bill, you cut out after saying the information
about active region 21 white light.
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MCC Okay, the only other thing I added was that

active regionl6 maintains good potential for
surging throughout the day here.
SPT Okay.
MCC Okay, and we have a handbver coming up, so stand

by. Okay, it's finished i so we can press on
here. One last - well, let me get to the last
point first here so I don't miss it. The shuttle-
type planning meeting welre
_ going to hold this
morning, if you've got any particular inputs as
to operations modes thatiyou specifically do want
to try, pass them on to _e now. I've read the
comments that you've pution the recorder through
about noon yesterday, but I haven't seen anything
sincethen.
021 13 31 51 SPT I think that's Just about when I finished it up.

Maybe if you can let me know some of the lines
that you're thinking alohg; in other words, spec-
ific questions, I could Live you some answers.
MCC Okay, for right now, we haven't had our first

meeting, so other than w_at I mentioned the other
day, potentials of givin _ you expanded observing
time all the way up to the extreme of just giving
you s_m_._y inputs as tolwhat individual experi-
ments want and giving yo_ 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.
021 13 33 26 SPT Okay. I would think thetnominal position would

be to move us a little step further in the di-
rection of letting the people on board determine
the specific details, bug letting the ground
keep up with the overall!mission requirements,
if you will, film budgeting and requirements on
specific types of observations. But let the in-
dividual people in the m6rning, for example, decide
which would be the - theloptimum programs to
carry out that day, base_ 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 s@y, well let's hit a pro-
minence today, and then you allow the onboard
observer to come up withithe way in which you
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would - ways in which you would explore that. In

other words, rather than calling out every step
•.. another JOP s,_mmary sheet, but we
wouldn't - wouldn't dance quite as much by the
nm_mhers 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
away in the future as we get people who are more
specialized and can afford to be more specialized
in training and on orbit.
021 13 34 _2 MCC Okay, Ed, fine. I'll m_ke 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'll give you a report
on what we've been looking at on the Sun soon as
I get lined up here.
021 13 35 (2 MCC Okay, fine.
021 13 35 56 CC And, CDR, Houston. If we can, without interrupting

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

anOmal ies.
CC Roger. Out.
021 13 39 [6 aPT Houston, SPT. I'm using H-ALPHA 2 for pointing

in active region 21 rather than H-ALPHA 1 as speci-
fied. 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 nu z update.
SPT It 's done.
CC Roger. Let our fingers do the walking.
021 3.341 59 CC SPT, Houston. We're through with the nu Z 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 and dump a little more.
- Over.
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SPT Thank you, Bruce.
SPT How much do we have left iinthis pass?
021 13 43 07 CC You've got 2 minutes left ihere at Bermuda.
SPT When do we pick you up a_ain?

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CC Okay. 1 minute and 54 seconds to LOS. Next

station contact in 6-1/2 minutes through Madrid
at 49. i
021 13 43 27 SPT Okay. Thank you. i
021 13 49 53 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Madrid for 9 min-

utes. For the SPT.
SPT Go ahead.
CC Never mind.
021 13 51 20 SPT Okay, Houston. Let me g_ve you a short solar

update.
SPT Houston, SPT.
CC Go ahead, Ed. Over.
SPT Okay. Are you ready for !a short solar up - update?
CC Go ahead, r
021 13 51 57 SPT WHITE LIGHT CORONAGRAPH _hows a very small amount

of change except there a_e some more details
visible. Starting out a_ 060 we have a fairly
faint streamer, which ex_ends out quite a distance.
It's Just about radial, 11rom 100 down to 120.
This is at 3 solar radii !- these dimensions are
made. We have a series _f overlapping streamers,
and I could see very faint indications of three
streamers as we moved further out at around
4 solar radii. Over on _he east limb, we have
centered at 270, going td 26 to - about 275 or
so, a fairly wide streamer. And then a very dif-
rise one but not extending out anywhere near as
far, at around 270 to 289 . A little bit
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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 being 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 - a step down from
the three major ones, II, 21 and 16. And then
there's a number of bright points in the region
of around 0.4 to 0.7 radi - solar radii 260 to
say, 300. I see nothing else coming around the
corner on the west limb.
021 13 54 (18 CC Okay. Thank you, Ed.
021 13 56 3.0 SPT Houston, would you ask the S056 people if they
would like some LONG EXPOSURES?
CC That's affirmative, Ed.
SPT Thank you.

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021 13 58 ]5 CC Skylab, this is Houston; 1 minute to LOS. Next

station contact in 12 minutes, voice only, through
Tananarive at 14:10. Out.
021 14 l0 _19 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Tananarive for

9 minutes. Out.
021 14 16 36 CC Skylab, this is Houston; estimated a minute and

a half to LOS. Next station contact in 20 min-
utes through Honeysuckle Creek at 14:36. Out.
021 14 17 C4 CC Skylab, this is Houston; 1 minute to LOS. Next

station contact in 19 minutes through Honeysuckle
Creek at 14:36. Out.
021 14 36 (9 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Honeysuckle Creek

for 5-1/2 minutes, starting out with a data/voice
tape recorder dump overdead [?]. Over.
SI_T Could you give me about another 30 seconds with

it, Bruce?
CC Okay, we'll do that.

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021 14 37 35 SPT Okay, Bruce. I'm throughiwith it. Thanks for

holding off.
CC Okay, Ed. We'll go ahead!and dump it. And a

note here. TV, as natura_ phenomena, is not re-
quired to be scheduled in _the s11mmary Flight
Plan cycle, as you may or may not have been aware.
Over. I
SPT
Okay. I think we had tha_ general understanding,
but it's never been made pxplicit. Thank you.
CC Okay. And as an example,i today a natural phenom-

enon is that we have clea_ weather over the
Mississippi delta and southern Mississippi, so
we'd like to schedule yo_ for some out-the-win-dow
TV of that area during yoL_r EREP pass. And
since none of you will ha_e time to handhold the
camera, we'd like you to iount it in the ward-
room window per TV-32. B_ sure the VIDEO select
switch is in TV and Just _urn the camera on and
let it run during the pasS. We'll take the
pictures live through Corous Christi and MILA
down here, and we'll manage things from the
ground. Over.
021 14 38 38 SPT Okay, Bruce. Could you gLve us a start and stop
time, or essentially a tine over the delta?
CC Well, we'd Just like you _o turn it on coming up

over the States and leavel her on until after you
pass the States. Over.
SPT Okay.
CC And we'll take care of itlfrom there.
021 14 40 44 CC Skylab, this is Houston; _ minute to LOS. Next

station contact in 15-1/21minutes through Hawaii
at 14:56. Out. r
021 14 56 18 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Hawaii for

7 minutes. Out.
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station contact in 2 minutes, Goldstone at
15:0h-1/2. Out.
021 15 04 Z_8 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Goldstone for

9-1/2 minutes. Out.
021 15 05 ].2 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 and preparations today,
you prep the PLT's 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
that he answered the questions starting on
page 33-11 or, at his convenience, go ahead and
put them on tape. That's 33-11 in the M_neuvering
Experiments Checklist.
021 15 06 ]_ CDR Okay. He's on the bike now. I'll 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.
CC You with met

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CDR I'm still looking.
021 15 07 13 CC Okay. It's on - 6728 is _he pad.
CC You come down - it's abou_ the fourth line of text

down there. Sunset 01:261 and it's really 01:28.
CDR Okay; I got it. !
CC Okay. Next line down, field ref should be avail-

able 01:17 to 01:28 instead of 16 to 26.
CDR Okay.
CC First line in the next block, field Charlie 46

available 01:28 to 01:52 instead of 26 to 50.
021 15 08 08 CDR Okay.
CC Two more lines down, cha_e 0.6 to 0.h turns

counterclockwise.
CDR Okay.
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CC And under remsrks, it sayi we want you to stop

exposures at 01:52 instea I of 50, and we change
3.9 to read 3.7 turns. _d we're sorry about all
this.
CDR Okay. I have it.
021 15 08 36 CC And that's about it for r_t now.
021 15 13 l0 CC Skylab, this is Houston; ! minute to LOS. Next

station contact in 4-1/2 minutes through Bermuda
at 15:17. Out. i
021 15 17 44 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Bermuda for

6 minutes. The VTR is ya_rs; we're through dumping
it. And when the PLT is ifree, I've got some
changes to his S183 pad. r
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PLT Give you a call later, Bruce.
021 15 18 00 CC Roger. Will do.

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station contact in 4 minutes through Canary Islands
at 15:27. Out.
021 15 27 i!) CC Skylab, this is Houston through Canary for 8 min-

utes. Out.
021 15 34 42 CC Skylab, this is Houston; i minute to LOS. Next

station contact in 14 minutes through Tananarive at
15:48. Out.
021 15 50 15 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Tananarive for

3 minutes. Out.

021 16 12 39 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Honeysuckle Creek

for 8-1/2 minutes. Out.
021 16 17 l_ CDR Houston, CDR.
CC Go ahead, Jer.
CDR Roger, Bruce. I ram a test run on the DAC camera

and S183, and the magazine Uniform Alfa 04 J_med.
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? Do you have the numbers
around?
CDR Okay, I got 09 back on again. That's the one that

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 J_med.
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.
021 16 18 29 CC Okay. Understand not even the - the green light

comes on when you put the magazine on the side.
Is that correct?
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CDR That's affirmative. Now _hat I need is a new

magazine because this one! is J_mmed.
CC Okay. We'll work on thatI. And can you see if the

perf holes and the film i_ the magazine are - are
torn like it had been claWing at it? Or - the
film look good in the magazine?
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CDR No, they're clawed and to_n.
CC Okay. We'll be back to you in a minute.

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021 16 18 57 CDR Okay. i
021 16 19 26 CC Okay, Jerry. The spare f_es are located in the

DACs themselves. You might go ahead and try a
spare fuse in that 09. !
CDR Bruce, I Just tried DAC 0_ on the film threading

power cable, I do get a g_een light. So we've
got a good fuse.
CC Okay. That's a good deteDtive 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. W_ got about 40 seconds
to LOS; Hawaii in ll-1/2 _inutes at a time of
16:32. And we'll be coming up with a data/voice
tape recorder dump at HaWaii.
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021 16 20 29 CDR Okay. And I tried the mahual handcrank there to
free DAC 04, and that di_'t do any good either.
Not DAC 4, but I mean Unilform Alfa 04.
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CC Okay. Our cup runneth ovpr with inputs to the

malfunction procedures, and it sounds like it's
the (laughter) - I won't hake an opinion; we'll
get back to you.
021 16 20 49 CDR Oksy.
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021 16 32 L6 CC Skylah, this is Houston through Hawaii for 9 min-

utes. And we've got a data/voice tape recorder
dump here, if it's not interfering with you.
CC That's okay, Bruce. Go ahead.
021 ].6 37 08 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 - is
free or during lunch here, l've got a couple of
notes for him, mostly on EREP pads.
PLT Roger, Bruce. Which pad is it?
CC Okay. For your VTS pad.
PLT Okay. I have 6743 out.
CC Roger. We want to change drawer Lima, set Yankee,

to read drawer Kilo, set X-ray. About six lines
down.
021 16 38 15 PLT Roger; got it.
CC Okay. Then I've got a tape recorder changeout that

we'd like you to do. It's not in any particular
message; you probably Just have to copy it down.
PLT Sure, Bruce. Just give me the particulars.
CC Okay. At about 21:lB in the housekeeping there,

we'd like you, in slot number 3, to install tape
recorder 14 from D-438 per SWS Systems Checklist
80 Romeo, pages 5-8.
CC You still with me?
PLT Okay, Roger. That was - you say in slot 3 you

want tape recorder number 14, which is located
in D-4B8, dome locker 438. Procedure's 80 Romeo.
021 16 39 25 CC That's correct. And we'd like 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 channel A, please.
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PLT Roger. Read the elapsed t_me on the old tape

recorder and put it on tape or give it to the -
by voice to the ground.
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CC Roger. And the reason we're changing this out is
that it's approaching its lifetime limit. So far
it's still working fine. And I've got a change
to your S183 alternate pad!here, and we got about
a minute and a half to LOS_
PLT Okay. I have message 6729_in front of me.
CC Roger. Sunset time, about ifour lines down, should

read 17:42 instead of 17:40.
021 16 h0 32 PLT Got it.
CC Next line, the reference f_eld should read, avail-

able to - from 17:34 to 17_42.
PLT Roger. 17:3h to 17:42. i
CC Okay. The next block - th_ next paragraph down,

field Charlie 52 Bravo, shpuld be available 17:42
to 18:05. Over.
PLT Roger. Field Charlie 52 B_avo available from

17:42 until 18:05.
CC And under remarks, the stop exposure sentence

should read, stop exposure* at 18:05 insead of
18:03. b
PLT Roger; 18:05. i
CC Okay; thank you. And we'rpe sorry for all the

change s.
[
PLT No sweat.
021 16 hl 32 CC We're going LOS here. Our next station contact

in 2 minutes at Goldstone]
021 16 4h 0h CC Skylab, this is Houston through Goldstone for

6-1/2 minutes. And we're Lgoing to try the old
data/voice tape recorder dump trick again. For
the CDR, looking over you_ shoulder at the ATM,
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we'd like to get you to rerun 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 early in order to work
that in, that's okay with us. Over.
CDR Okay. You're right, Bruce.
021 16 45 39 CC And, PLT, this is Houston. At your leisure some-

time this afternoon we wonder if you could verify
the three CABIN PRESSURE RELIEF VALVEs to the
CLOSEd 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.
021 16 47 _9 CC And, Bill, with respect to this RELIEF VALVE

_ check, the reason that we're concernedabout 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 building outside to casue a 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 Yes, don't break away. This is a very low priority

item here.
PLT Roger.
021 ]6 h9 47 CC Skylab, this is Houston; 1 minute to LOS. Next

station contact in 5 minutes through Bermuda at
16:55. Out.
021 3.6 5h I_i CC Skylab, this is Houston through Bermuda for

9-1/2 minutes. And I hate to bother you again,
Bill, but if you were following Jerry's trials
and tribulations on checking out the DAC and the
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film for S183, one of our concerns is that there

may possibly be a fl - fu_e inside S183 blown
which would prevent the - the motors and the relay
logic from operating, alti_ough the display panel
would still be properly i Lluminated. And when
you get a chance, could y)u go up there and
ADVANCE the PLATE to the D2 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 g_od. Over.
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PLT
Okay, I'll get right on t_at, Bruce. We'll see if
we have an operative piec_ of equipment.
CC Okay, thank you.
021 16 57 53 PLT Okay, Bruce, how do you r_ad?
CC Loud and clear, Bill. Send your message.
PLT Roger. I tried to advanc_ the film carrousel;

turned the POWER ON with _he - well, I was follow-
ing the cue card, on the Flip side. And - you
know, it takes a little %flile,while it sort of
does its little Jig inside. And I waited for the
advance to start and - weLl, first off, when I
turned the POWER ON, I go _ the 01 illllm_nated when
I went to the RESET posit on. Then I waited for
the - the timing sequence, and then instead of doing
its cliekety-click, the illumination Ol went out,
and I have no lights from the panel now.
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CC Okay, we copy that, Bill. Thank you for interrupt-

ing lunch.
021 16 58 h3 PLT Too bad. Tell me what you want me to do here as

soon as you get your signals straight. I'll 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
• . E
being. I'd say go flnlshr lunch, and we'll call
you when we get our mandsl
" Imadeup.
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PLT Okay, I haven't touched a!thing.

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CC Okay. Understand your RESET went back to off

but the POWER switch is still ON?
PLT That 's affirmative.
CC Okay, let's Just leave it in that configuration.
021 17 03 _2 CC Skylab, this is Houston; 1 minute to LOS. Next

station contact in 2 minutes through Canary Islands,
at 17:05. Out.
021 17 05 _-7 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Canary and Ascen-

sion for 16 minutes. Out.
021 17 13 54 CC Skylab, this is Houston. Over.
CC Okay, Jerry, we're going to reENABLE MOMENTUM

DUMP here in about l0 seconds, so your TIME
REMAINING clock will Jump some. And for Bill,
we'd like to delete S183 ops this pass and sub-
stitue the airlock module tape recorder changeout
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for it. Go ahead and do S183 stow 1 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.
021 -_7 20 i[5 CC Skylab, this is Houston. 1-1/2 minutes to LOS.

Next station contact in 24 minutes through
Carnarvon at 17:45. For the PLT, when you remove
the carrousel frc_ S183 during stow l, we request
you dim the lights in the forward compartment
area there so that in case there is a plate in-
advertently pulled out 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-B2 at the end of this
pass, we'd like to omit S054. Over.
CDR Okay, omit 54 and I'll run 32 in time so that it'll

be finished by 250K.
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021 17 21 02 CC Roger. You got it.
021 17 44 50 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Cararvon and

Honeysuckle Creek for 9 m_nutes. And when he's
free,
for theI've
CDR.got a couple .rc_anges to the EREP pads
CC Okay. You need you C&D p@d out, here.
CDR I have it.
CC Okay. Under ready verifi(ation we want to change

the 193A MODE switch, ALT]METER to read 193A MODE,
1. Over.
CDR Okay;copy.
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CC Okay. After READY out, $i90 at 13:00, change
frame ll to frames 99. T_at's way on down.
E
CDR Frames ii to frames 99. i
021 17 45 56 CC Roger. And we're coming dp on a keyhole here.

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I'll keep on talklng in an effort, though, to get
through it. Delete the R_ADY out S190 that shows
up at 18:20. i
CDR Okay. It's done. t

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CC And also delete the MODE, ISTANDBY there.
CDR Copy.
CC And, in remarks, run S190ito depletion after EREP,

STOP while still in Z-LV.i I'll take that from
the beginning again. Run!S190 to depletion.
CDR Okay.
CC (After EREP STOP and while still in Z-LV) -

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CDR Okay. I've got it.
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021 17 47 03 CC And do S190 film depletion. I think that's pretty
self-explanatory there. And I got another one here.
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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.
021 17 48 07 CC And at 13:06 you want to do S192, MODE, CHECK.
CDR Okay.
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 into the MODE,
STANDBY, and the FRAME to 99 and all that.
CDR Okay. I've got it.
CC Okay, and that about does it. Thank you very much.
And, again, we're sorry for all the changes here.
CDR No problem.
021 17 48 53 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, elapded time,

2525.
CC Roger, 2525 hours.
PLT Affirmative.
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CC Oh, hey, I'm getting - getting a feedback that

that's Just a number and has not particular rela-
tionship to the actual number of hours it's run.
021 17 49 5_ PLT Roger. By the way, Bruce,iI took the switch out
of COMMAND to turn that - that tape recorder
number 3 off, and then I r¢configured it, so I
don't know. I don't thinkithat has any effect on
ground configuration, i
CC That's correct. Looks like we're back in the

business. And the word i'm getting now is that
that 2525 indicates about 1800 acutal hours of
operation.
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PLT How much was on recorder l?
PLT That's the one Jer changedlyesterday.
CC Okay, Bill. The one that was replaced yesterday

had 1446 hours on it, and _he one that was in-
stalled yesterday had abou_ _80.
PLT Roger. Thankyou for the _nfo.
021 17 52 47 CC Skylab, this is Houston; 1Lminute to LOS. Next

station contact in 7 minutes through Guam at
17:59. Out. i
021 17 59 45 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Guam for 6 minutes.

Out.
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021 18 01 23 SPT Houston, SPT. Standing by to copy change to

schedule pad.
CC Okay, Ed. On your upcoming ATM pass, we'd like

to change the TIME REMAINING of S055 initiation
to 48. Stand by. Okay, you've got a - a call-
out of 55 TIME REMAINING. We'd like to change
that to 48. And at 18:25, delete ground-enabled
momentum dump TR decreases to 43. And the ration-
ale for this is that we enabled momentum early
since the 183 operations were scrubbed. Over.
021 _3 02 19 SPT Okay, Bruce. I was not at the ATM panel at the
time. I am now, so would you go ahead and - again
with the 55 change?
CC Okay, there is no change to S055. 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 got it, and I understandthe rationale.

Thank you.
CC Okay.
021 18 05 (2 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.
021 18 12 L4 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Hawaii for a min-

ute and a half. If the commander's got a minute,
could you give us a detailed blow-by blow descrip-
tion on 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 1837
021 18 13 23 CDR As best I can figure out, Bruce, the DAC appar-
ently loaded up the system to the point, when it
Jammed, that it must have blown the fuse in 183,
because I turned on the power, then reached over
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and punched the DAC button to 12 frames per seconds

to see if it would advance, and it would not.
It advanced a couple and then started sounding
peculiar where the - yo9 know, when the claw is
busy p1_]]ing holes in t_e film. I took it off
and checked it, and yea i verily, the film was
damaged. And so I took iit over and put the hand
crank on it and tried to pull the damaged part
through and - and free it up, and it - that would
not work. So I gave uplon the transport, or I
should say the - the lh0-foot magazine. And -
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021 18 14 18 CC Okay, we're going LOS here at Kawaii; Goldstone
in 9 minutes at 18:23. iAnd we copy that the
camera started out working and then quit while
you were standing therej
CDR Yes, it - you know, it T about four or five frames,

and then it Jammed up. !And what I did was went
back and put my fingersion the two interlock
mechanisms to see if th_ green light would come
on. And it would not come on, so I took it off,
tried DAC i. DAC 1 wor_ed okay.
[
CC Understand DAC 1 worked iokay on S183?
CDR I beg your pardon. Not ion 183. I tried it on

the film station; it lo0ked okay there. Then I
went over to 183 and tried it and it would not
work. t
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O21 18 15 01 CC Okay. Thank you very m_eh.
CDR And then later, after I italked to you, is when

I put DAC number 9 on t_e film thread station and
checked it. And wh - that's what I saw that the
green light was all right. Therefore, I felt
that the fuse in the DAd was not blown.
CC Okay;we copy.
SPT And, Houston, while you're going over the hill;

in the white light coronagraph we see that the
region from 120 to lO0, iwhich was mentioned as
a fairly strong but diffuse emission this morning,
having three streamers, ils now essentially just
one very dim streamer, iAnd it looks like the
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fairly strong diffuse emission close to the oc-

culting disk has completely disappeared.
CC Okay, th=-_ you. And it sure is ta_ing us a long

t_-_ to gO over the hill this time. Low tide at
Hawaii, we understand.
0_i 18 16.21 CDR Brae, on that ma_azine. It's been reading

79 percent for about the last four S183 exercises.
An_ we decided that - or we had thought that prob-
ably the reason why is Just because we were using
so few frames, but I thought I'd check it out.
That's how we got started today.
CC Okay; but you had not previously noticed any

holes in the sprock - any tearing of the sprocket
holes or anything l_ke that?
C_ That's ne_tive. I put an X on it this morning

tried to rUn it and that's when we had our
trouble.
021 18 16 _8 CC 0kay_ we copy. Thank you.
_i 18 23 '_) (_ Sk_lab, this is Houston through Goldstone for

5 minutes. Out.
0_I 18 25 ;_ SPT ROu|ton, we have as a pointing discrepancy here,

I believe. We're pointed with H-ALPHA 2 and yet
we're 8oing a mini-MAR, which takes us only down
to line: 13. This morning when we started out we
pointed with H-ALPHA 2 to center the active region
in MIRROR, AUTO RASTER. And if people would like
Us to go change the UP/DOWN to get H-ALPHA i and
looming at the active region and centered in the
mini-MAR, we could do that at this time.
We're checking on that, E_. And for Bill, if

you're near a box. When you attempted to advance
the183 plate this morning, wu the DAC installed
at that t4_T Over.
0_i 18 26 "_9 PIE The DAC was installed; however, there was no mag-
azine in. it •
CC " Okay. You described a clicking noise. Did the

PLATE ADVANCE indicator go blank synchronous with
the noise during the pl_te advance? Over.
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PLT I'm sorry. I said that i_ did not do the clicking.

And, you know, normally yDu turn it on, 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 nor - at the time when it normally
would start the clicking aoise, instead of doing
that, the display went out.
CC Okay. We got that. And lid any - did all the

panel lights ever go out during your troubleshoot-
ing procedure, or did yo_ always have some sort
of a light on? !
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021 18 27 06 PLT At that time there were _o lights at all when
that went out. Now I didn't notice; I don't think
there were any other lights on. I'm - I'm not -
there's some of
on sometime, nextthose l_le green lights
to theEXPOSURES that
- meters, butare
I don't recall any of th_se being on. I - I know
there were no lights on _fter I noticed the display
went out. b
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CC Okay. Thank you very mu_h.
CC Do you still have 183 iniplace or have you gotten

it out yet? ri
PLT It's -no, it's stowed _d it's venting right now.
CC Okay. Thank you. 1 minute to LOS. Next station

contact in 2 minutes thr@ugh Corpus Christi at
18:30. I
CC SPT, use H-ALPHA i and llne 13. Over.
021 18 28 53 SPT Okay, Bruce. I'll have 4o change the pointing.
021 18 29 55 CC Skylab, this is Houston Shrough Merritt Island

and Bermuda for 12-1/2 minutes. Out.
CC And, for Ed; we back sen drivers down here would

like to use your DAS for a minute.
SPT You got it.
CC We'll give you a NAV upd_Ze.

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021 18 3h 03 CC And the DAS is yours, Ed.
SPT Roger.
CC And if you're not using the data/voice tape re-

corder, we'll dump it here at Bermuda.
PLT Roger, Bruce; you can take it.
CC Thar_kyou.
021 18 41 _'_ CC Skylab, this is Houston; 1 minute to LOS. Next

station contact in 9-1/2 minutes through Ascension
at 18:51. Out.
021 18 51 56 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.
021 .1_8 57 58 CC Skylab, this is Houston. 1 minute to LOS. Next

stationcontactin 23 minutesthroughCarnarvon
at 19:21. Out.
021 19 23 43 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Carnarvon for

8 minutes. Out.
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021 19 ll II CC Skylab, this is Houston; i minute to LOS. Next

19 :34-1/2. Out.
021 19 34 37 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Guam for 10-1/2 min-

utes. 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 20:01

plus 30 seconds, you'll be in an areathat'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 h/10 to
7/10 coverage, as you pass over the Cascade Moun-
tains and move on down toward the Yellowstone
region. About the time you approach the Yellow-
stone region, at about 04 to 0h: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.
021 19 35 43 CC The solid undercast persists until you get down

Just about to Tulsa, Oklahoma, at a time of around
08 after the hour. And then it goes to 4/10 to
7/10 with 4/10 to 7/10 being the conditions until
you get up Just about Little Rock at 09, and from
09 on down it's zero to 3/10. So we expect that
VTS site 460 near Greenwood should be in good
shape. Essentially clear thereafter, going on
down toward Key West, except that about abeam 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
undercast again about the time you go past the
Keys. Over.
PLT Roger, Bruce. Copy. And I'll Just about forget

about 285 then.
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CC Roger.
021 19 hh 09 CC Skylab, this is Houston. !l minute to LOS. Next

station contact in 16 mln_%es
" through Goldstone
at 20:00. And we'll be l_oking forward to seeing
TV of the States in glorious white on white.
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PLT Roger, Bruce. Ed's got i_ all laid on for you.
021 19 _ 28 CC Beautiful.
021 19 59 53 CDR That ETC down there sounds like a rock crusher,
Ed.
PLT Sure does.
SPT I'll give you another sample here.
CDR Oh, that's neat.
SPT I'm not sure that's what _t's doing; it may be.
i
CDR One more minute and you can turn the POWEH, ON.
Every time I hear that ETq, it sounds like a
lapidary - rock polisher, irunning.
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PLT Yes. It's actually chiselling down tintype.
SPT That's why I always keep Wondering how long it's

going to last. Converts gig pieces of metal into
little ones.
CDR Right.
021 20 00 hh CC Skylab -
CDR That's half the - go ahead, Bruce.
CC This is Houston; we're wi_h you.
CDR Okay. That's half the f_ of reducing the data,

Ed, as putting all the pidces back together.
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CDR Okay, coming up on 20:Ol:QO. Stand by -

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021 20 01 01 CDR MARK. SCATTEROMETER'S on ito STANDBY, ALTIMETER'S
to STANDBY. ETC POWER shduld be ON, Ed.
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CDR Okay. Next mark will be 01:40. Coming up on

01:40; stand by -
021 20 01 41 CDR MARK. RADIOMETER'S ON. 01:50 looking for a

S191, READY light.
021 20 01 50 CDR MARK. READY light at 50; REFERENCE going to 6.

00:20's the next call. Stand by -
021 20 02 C1 CDR MARK. 192 READY; ETC should be AUTO.
SPT AUTO 13's the next mark. Stand by -
021 20 02 _4 CDR MARK. 190, MODE to AUTO.
CDR Okay, that doggone TAPE MOTION light's flickering

again. I put those hubs on good and light, too,
when I loaded that tape. On my mark it will be
03:00. Stand by -
021 20 03 £1 CDR MARK. Went to MODE, CHECK on 192. The TAPE

MOTION light's on steady now. Just during that
high speed work does the TAPE MOTION light do this
flicker.
SPT Got a good view of the Rockies as we come across

them.
PLT Yes, they're beautiful.
CDR Okay. Next mark is at 03:00. Correction -

03:30 - 30. Stand by -
021 20 03 ?,I CDR MARK it. SHUTTER speed is FAST. ETC to STANDBY.
Next mark's at 04:00.
CDR Okay. Stand by. 4 seconds to 04:00. Stand by -
021 20 04 01 CDR MARK. RADIOMETER, STANDBY. 193 is going to a

ROLL of plus 30. On my mark it will be 04:12.
Stand by -
021 210 04 -3 CDR MARK. 190 INTERVAL going to i0. ETC FRAMES,
l0 FRAMES per MINUTE.
SPT Checked.
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CDR Okay. Next mark is at 0h:i2h. Stand by -

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021 20 0h 25 CDR MARK. SCATTEROMETER's ON.i
021 20 0h 26 CDR MARK. RADIOMETER's ON. i
021 20 Oh 41 CDR MARK. S192, MODE to READ_.[ Got a RECORDER MALF

light. And the TAPE MOTION light is flickering.
CC Hey - -
CDR 05:12's the next mark.
CC - - TV is looking beautiful.
SPT Very good, Houston. I th_nk you can see the snow
cover on the Rockies. Th@ snow really brings
out the relief. Okay. W@'re pretty much past
them now. We're coming i_to
• some cirrus ... - -
CDR My next mark is 05:12. S_and by -
021 20 05 13 CDR MARK. POIAEIZARION going ito h on 193.
CDR Next mark is coming up at ll05:hh. Stand by -
PLT Sure do hope this cloud cover is starting to break.
021 20 05 h5 CDR MARK. 192 to MODE, CHECK.
CDR Okay. On my mark it will be 06:10 with an ETC

to STANDBY. Stand by -
021 20 06 l0 CDR MARK it.
SPT Stand by.
CDR Next mark's at 7 minutes.
CDR Okay. We're coming up on !7 minutes. 7 minutes

on my mark. Stand by - r
021 20 07 00 CDR MARK. 193, POLARIZATION to i. At 07:10 the ETC
will go to AUTO. Stand b_ -

021 20 07 l0 CDR MARK it. Next mark at 07_55.
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CDR On my mark, it will be 07:55. Stand by -
021 20 07 55 CDR MARK. S190, INTERVAL going to 20. SHUTTER SPEED

to MEDIUM. _TC FRAMg_, 4.8 PER MINUTE.
SPT Got it.
CDR Next mark 's at 09:14.
PLT If I can - Eufaula Reservoir. Okay. Let's see.

2345; that's 2hl.
CDR Well, did you find it, Bill?
PLT No.
CDR Son of a gun. Cloudy?
PLT Yes... 43-
SPT Certainly a good view of the Mississippi as we

come down here. Can see how it snakes around.
PLT Well, by the way, I got the Mississippisite,

anyway.
CDR DAC ON. On my mark it will be 09:14. Stand by -
021 20 09 15 CDR MARK. S192 MODE to READY. At 09:20 -
021 20 09 21 CDR MARK. SCATTEROMETER to STANDBY.
021 20 09 23 CDR MARK at 22; RADIOMETER to STANDBY. 193 ANGLE going

to zero.
CDR Looking for 34. Stand by -
021 20 09 35 CDR MARK. SCATTEEOMETER, ON.
021 20 09 36 CDR MARK. RADIOMETER, ON. 09:50 is next. Stand by.
SPT Look at all the water down there.
021 20 09 50 CDR MARK. S190, INTERVAL down to l0 again.

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CDR There's a little burning down there. I think you

can see it on the TV. It's coming in from the
top ...
PLT Okay, going back up now.
CDR On my mark, i0:I0, Ed, you want a frame at i0 -

FRAMES PER MINUTE.
PLT 1/125.
CDR Standby -
021 20 lO l0 CDR MARK at 10:10.
SPT Got it.
CDR And then at ii, you'll go back to 5.1.
PLT There's Apalachicola.
SPT Get your site okay? t
CDR Yes. Very good.
PLT Okay, now let's see, therei's Florida. There are

the Keys. Okay, cloud-fre_ sight. There's bloom-
ing. We'll take blooming,i when I get to it.
SPT Houston, were you able to isee the delta there?
021 20 I0 47 PLT DAC on, IMC ON.
CDR Okay, on my mark, it'll be IIi:00 and ETC to

5.1 frames per minute. Stiand by.
021 20 ii 00 CDR MARK.
CC Is somebody bumping the TV camera in the wardroom?
PLT Okay.
SPT Pogue, got them so you could see the delta, Bruce.
CDR Got a MALF flight on camer_ number 3.
CC Okay, it's probably a film depletion light.

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PLT I would think so, yes.
PLT Okay, the VTS, I'm ... the - the blooming that's
on the - right down to the ... the Keys. Okay,
if I changed my location to another area of
blooming -
CDR All right, MALF number 6 came on. Two out of 6

gone..
CDR All right, the next mark will be 12:48. That'll

be an ETC to STANDBY in about 25 seconds.
SPT Roger.
CDR Coming up on 12 :48.
PLT ...
CDR Stand by.
PLT Okay, camera off.
021 2!0 12 I_8 CDR MARK.
PLT Pick another site.
CDR ETC to STANDBY.
PLT Oh, it 's cloud cover.
CDR Got 54 coming up.
021 20 12 5h CDR MARK. SCATTEROMETER to STANDBY.
021 _'_ 12 55 CDR MARK. RADIOMETER - going to STANDBY. 13:06.
021 20 13 06 CDR MARK. 192 MODE to CHECK. Frames going to 99.

Houston, you want the INTERVAL to stay i0 or
should I move it do%m to 2 on this oneY 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.

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PLT Okay.
SPT Are you still picking up _V, Houston?
CC Yes, indeed, and it's loo_ing beautiful.

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PLT lh:l_,you say? i
CDR Right, uh-huh. I

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PLT Okay, I'm finishing the l_st nadir swath.
CDR Standby.
PLT ... special ... - -
021 20 14 I_ MB MARK.
CDR VTS AUTO CAL.
// CDR All right at 20, the ALTImETER's going ON. Stand

/ by.
021 20 lh 20 CDR MARK. ALTIMETER, ON. 15is the next one, 15:00.
/
021 20 14 32 PLT MARK. CAMERA off.
CDR Got an ALTIMETER UNLOCK l_ght; still got a READY.

UNLOCK light's out. i
CDR No new camera MALF lights i Okay, coming up on

F
15:00. Stand by. !
021 20 15 00 CDR MARK. S190, MODE, SINGLE!

[
CDR ALTIMETER UNLOCK light islflickering occasionally,

but remaining out for theimost_ part. Charlie 8
is reading about 50 perce#t.
br
PLT Well, we've got Greenville, anyway.
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CDR Next mark will be at 16 -!16:00. Stand by -
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021 20 16 01 CDR MARK. S190, MODE, SINGLE i Okay, at 16:25 it'll

be ETC, POWEH ON. Stand 9y -
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021 20 16 25 CDR MARK. 16:25 ETC, POWER ON. Power up. On my

mark it'll be 16:33. Stand by -
021 20 16 3[_ CDR MARK. S190, MODE to AUTO. At 16:40 ETC, MODE
to AUTO. Stand by.
021 20 16 h|) CDR MARK. Looking for a READY light on 191 at 16:54.
Stand by -
021 20 16 53 CDR MARK, at 54. 17:00 192 -
021 20 17 00 CDR MARK. 17:00, 192, MODE to READY. Okay, got a

flickering TAPE MOTION, and a flash - had a flash
in the RECORDER MALF. Ready.
CC l0 seconds to LOS; see you over the Vanguard in

12 minutes. Out.
CDR So long.
SPT It looks like we're getting a good view of Venezuela, _--

looking for some fault systems along here.
CDR Next mark' s at 17 :42.
CC Venezuela is booming in here loud and clear.
SPT Very good.
CDR Coming in on 42, stand by -
021 20 17 h2 CDR MARK it. 192 to MODE STANDBY. 18:14 is next.
021 20 28 C2 CC Skylab, this is Houston through the Vanguard for

h-l/2 - 3-1/2 minutes. Out.
CDR Roger.
CC And while you guys are shutting down, could we

get a tape remaining in 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.
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station contact in i hour _nd 7 minutes through
Goldstone at 21:37. Goodnlght, now.
END OF TAPE
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021 211 37 20 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 21:08, classified through Vela in
X-ray an M-I.
SPT Okay, Hank. Can I have those times again, please?
CC 0kaM, it started at 20:40, which was about an hour

ago. It ms_xed out at 20:43 and was over at 21:08.
021 21 38 17 SPT Okay, H_k, that's what I'm sitting 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 - h5,000 /
counts in oxygen VI on 55, an/ I have gone into
MIRROR, LINE SCAN for them. I can give - 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
have 54 running in the - their sequence of M, S,
I, L, 64 and I've been giving 56 some PATROL, SHORT
occasionally. If they'd like for me to go into
an AUTO, LONG, if they feel they have the film
for it, I'd be glad to. And I'm ready to go with
82 - 82B if - if necessary.
CC Okay, Ed. And we need the recorder for - for

a dump.
SPT Okay, someone else has got it, Hank; it's not
myself.
CDR Bill's debriefing 509; he'll be through in a

minute.
021 21 40 01 CC PLT, for info, the recorder is out of tape, you're

at the end of tape.
PLT Okay, thank you.

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CC And, Bill, I've got a couple of notes here for

you. We're going to replace the S183 prep with
some S073 whenever you'r@ ready to copy.
PLT Hank, I'm coming right dOwn_ the California coast

taking a bunch of handhe_d photographs. Can I
hold off for about l0 minutes?
CC Sure thing, Bill. We got about ll minutes left

in this pass, if you'll _ust give me a call when
you're through.
021 21 41 23 CC And, SPT, Houston. We p_efer the PATROL, SHORTs,

in answer to your question; and also, we don't
see H-ALPHA 1 running, i
CC And, SPT, if we could ha#e the DAS a minute, we'd

like to work on nu .
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SPT You've got it, Hank.
SPT Okay, Hank, I'm staying in MIRROR, LINE SCAN with

55 because the counts ar_ relatively high, still
up around 50,000. If they'd like me to start
looking at the total actSve region with a MIRROR,
AUTO RASTER down at lineal3, I can do that.
Jf
CC Okay, we'll check that, Ed.
021 21 43 12 CC SPT, Houston. We preferithe MIRROR, LINE SCAN.
SPT Thankyou.
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CC And the DAS is yours. !

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CC SPT, Houston. Since we'#e getting kind of tight

on our film budget with 1054 and we are in a flare
fall, we'd prefer to terminate the S054 pictures
now.
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021 21 44 47 SPT Okay, Hank; they are.
PLT Clear day in Houston?
CC Say again.
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PLT Looks like a clear day in Houston; I can see all

the way.
CC Boy, it was really nice out there today.
PLT I 'm over GuadalaJara.
021 21 46 _,_IPLT Okay, Hsnk, what was the correction on the SO -

to 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 S073 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 S073 ops 2.
And in addition, after sunrise which comes at
22:46, if you could work it in, we'd like to do
contA_uation 1 Alfa and Bravo of STS windows l,
3, and _. 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.
021 21 47 41 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 speed of

1/lO00, for window l, f-stop of 1.2 and 1/4 second.
PLT Okay, I got it, Hank.
CC And we suggest that you do window 1 last.
PLT Roger.
021 21 h8 52 CC And, Skylab, for info, the tape recorder's yours.
PLT Thank you, Hank.
SPT Hank, is - how is 82B situated for looking at

fluctuating bright points with their sequences
of time - TIMES l/h? What's their budget look
like relative to what we're looking at now?
CC Okay, we'll check that.

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021 21 50 30 CC SPT, Houston. In answer to your question, we

have approximately50 f_ames remaining. It's
okay to do that on the point brightning; your
Judgment on whether we'@e getting good data or not.
You're clear to use it @s you see fit. And we're
about 1 minute from LOS _, Vanguard will be coming
up at 02.
SPT Okay, Hank. I think the answer I just got was for
82A, which was a good ome. I was wondering about
82B. b
CC Roger. That was 82B I @as talking about, Bill.

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SPT Oh, okay. They have 50!allotted for - for this
type of observation, as part of this. Because
righ now I'm reading i$9.
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CC Roger. We have - I guess what I should - I didn't

m_ke that very clear; w@ have 50 spare frames,
according to what we've igot planned.
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021 21 51 22 CC And do - do you have EREP tape measurement for us?
CDR I'll get it for you at the next station.
CC Okay.
CDR Still taking photos. T_e weather's so beautiful,

I can't get away from the windows.
CC I don't blame you.

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021 22 02 07 CC Skylab, Houston through Vanguard, 9-1/2 minutes.
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021 22 02 h9 CDR Hank, that EREP tape recorder measurement is
2.3 centimeters.
CC Roger. Copy, 2.3. Andtfor info, we'll be send-

ing up a - a pad here to support your S073 ops
this evening.
CDR Okay.
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021 22 03 19 SPT Hank, if you could, would you please tell me what
the X-REA has been doing over the past orbit?
CC Okay. I'll check it out.
SPT Thank you.
021 22 05 26 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 comm_uder some butter
cookies when we get back if I could have the orbit.
CDR You should hear him snivel, Hank.
CC He's getting desperate, isn't he?
CDR He's worse than a flight time log hog.
SPT Go ahead, Hank.
021 22 06 i-_3 CC 0ks_, Ed. The - the last pass over Texas and
Goldstone, the X-REA looked pretty much like back-
ground,but right now it appearsto be about
l0 times that.
SPT Okay. And I guess it's just holding steaby -

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.
021 22 07 44 SPT We could get a building block 32 in. Done at -

soon as we get above 250 K 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 -

you're way ahead of us.
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SPT I wish I could for once g@t ahead of old Sol here.
He's been particularly sneaky.
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CC Looks like he's waiting u_til nightime to do his
flaring.
SPT That' s right,
021 22 09 51 CC Ed, looks liek the X-REA'_ starting to come back

down now.
SPT Maybe it'll rest for just 30 minutes and then

start up again. We can'tlbe always out of phase
withit. !
CC You'd think we'd get luck_ once in a while, wouldn't

|
you?
021 22 l0 B3 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1L_minute from LOS.

Tananarive will be coming Iup in 19 minutes. And
that'll be at 22:29. Ii
021 22 i0 _J4 SPT So long, Hank. Talk to YOU then.
021 22 29 55 CC Skylab, Houston through T_nanarive, 4 minutes.
021 22 32 02 CC Skylab, Houston. We're i minute from LOS. We'll

see you again at Goldston, at 23:17. That's in
45 minutes.
021 22 32 12 CDR Roger, Hank. See you lat_.,r.
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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 possibility we may

get a - 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 com-
ing back from one. We got a gimbal on a stop
about 39 minutes remaining and I went into a
3-minute maneuver back.
021 23 18 44 CC Roger. Copy.
SPT The region south of the original bright point has

brightenedup a lot and we got a point brightening
in XUV monitor, quite strong, and IMAGE INT_SITY
COUNT was up when we went over to - to BERYLLIUM
AP_TURE 3. We started into the flare mode at
around 23: 16.
CC Roger. We copy. And Just for info, at 22:16,

which was about an hour ago, we had a bright surge
on the limb at 070. And at 22:44, which was Just
about sunrise for you, there was a subnormal in
B1. 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 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.
021 23 20 l0 CC And we saw the X-REA climbing on up here now,

still. And we're about 1 minute from LOS. Van-
guard will be coming up at 39 with a recorder
dump.
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SPT Okay.
CC Ed, could we get four fr_unes a minute on H-ALPHA i?
SPT You already got it, Hanki.

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021 23 21 0B CC Thank you.
021 23 39 09 CC Skylab, Houston through _anguard for l0 minutes.

And we're planning
to dump the recorder here.
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CDR Hey, Hank, Ed would like,to know if the 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 y)u another one.
021 23 41 55 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.
CC PLT, Houston.
PLT Roger, Hank.
021 23 43 16 CC Hey, Bill, you're scheduled for the last ATM pass
of the day and we have airequest for you, and that
is that somewhere duringi that pass you give us
1 minute of H-ALPHA 1 zopmed all the way in on
the VTR. And the reason|we're wanting this is to
try to get some info on _his degradation in
H-ALPHA image - H-ALPHA _ image as - as it goes
through the day. And for info, we're going to be
asking for the same thin_ 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 air_ock. And I'm not sure
that I'll be able to mak_ it up to the ATM panel
but if I can get on ther_ I'Ii give you the
l-m_uut e.
CC Okay, we understand, Bil,_; that - that AR-31 really

seems to be cutting up h_re this evening.
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PLT Got his SWS army knife out waiting for me.
021 23 h5 27 CC SPT, Houston. Whenever it's convenient, we'd like

to get the H-ALPHA 1 NIGHT INTERLOCK switch to
NORMAL.
3PT Got it, Hank.
021 23 h8 23 _C Skylab, Houston. We're i minute to LOS; Tananarive

at 03.
3PT Well, Hank, I think this time we finally got one

on the rise.
021 23 413 50 CC Sure looks like it, Ed. We're real pleased down
here. That X-REAwas really climbing up there a
while ago.
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022 O0 04 24 CC Skylab, Houston through Tananarive, 8 minutes.
SPT Hello, Hank. Let me tell you about a flare.
CC Hey, we're - we're 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 over the past couple of
orbits, but it was now more intense, and I saw
a slight configurati0n.., and the PMECwas at
a reasonable count. I don't recall what it was.
I think it was probably around 3 or - 300 to h00.
And it was not fluctuating, which led me to be-
lieve that we rgall_ydid hayeX-REA. An_yith
_ that I started the instruments all in their flare
modes. 5h in its FLARE - FLARE_MODE__M_ s__!_N_
6h; AUTO, SHORT. For 5_-, I might add, I had to -
severaltimes here, I noticedthat it was hung
up and I think it was probably around a half dozen
times we restarted it. 55 was already going in
the MIRROR, LINE SCAN and they were right on the
brightest point at the beginning. 82A got a
20-second exposure right away as we had that set
up with the)EVENT TIMER and all we had to do _ras
hit the button. 82B, I gave a WAV_W.ENGTH, SHORT,
TIMES 1/4 and then looked it over again. At that
time the flare had spread a little further to the
south in H-alpha. The X-REA had come up in the
PMEC and the image intensity count was going up.
And it was brighter yet in the XUVmonito2 and I
committed ourselves to flare modes in 82A and 82B.
I think I might've given them another WAVELENGTH,
SHORT in there for - sequence for 82B before we
did that.
022 0C,06 40 SPT At flare peak, we came out of the flare modes
for 82A and 82B. The other instruments r_ined
in their flare modes. And I was counting number
of days left versus the number of frames left -
82A and B - and we sure did use up a bugd_l_e_but
probably moreso in 82B' So I-then played it by
trying to give them a reasonable data rate. On
82A we gave 20-second exposures at 24 minutes
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remaining, 21, 18, 13, 18 and 3 after we came

out of their flare mode!. For 82B, we gave them
WAVELENGTH SHORT TIMES _/h at 25, 22, 20, 17,
12 minutes remaining an_ then a - Went to a WAVE-
LENGTH - well, data WAV_,_GTH SHORT and EXPOSURE
NORMAL. When the oxyge_ VI count was down appreciably,
that was at 9 minutes r_ining and h minutes
remaining, I had to tru_ate that last one at
about l-l/2 minutes remaining which was slightly
below h00 K. I put a ttle longer version of
what I've Just said on tape. We have a - the
max we saw was 710 on the FMEC 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 sub-
i stance of it and I'ii _e glad to talk about it
in more detail on tapelor on the air-to-ground
_l_Gg_eq_s_ i_h_t_ at°UrtheFRAMEStop

RE__
9389, 284, 30, 60, 168_ and 3286.
022 00 08 46 SPT The time at which I no_iced it when I had gone

into the flare mode or had started the instrument
in a rapid data-taking mode was at around 23:16.
I'd be interested to find out what the rise ob-
served on the ground w_s.
CC Thank you, Ed. Let me!see if there are any ques-

tions from the backroo_.
I'm not sure

SPT While you're getting t_ose, Hank,
what you have in the w_=6f H-alpha _wn%here_
but it was really niceito watch it change there.
The point that we've been seeing in active region 31
has been relatively sm_l withit's been on the
order of 5 to i0 arc_s_onds, round circular .....
point that's been bri_Lten-ing off and on all
afternoon. Finally whqm the flare did cut loose,
the region to the sout]L spread out from that
point and then turned _;o the east. And then a
little while after th_ ... came out from that
point, and went a littl.e but north, about as much
as the point ...
022 00 i0 32 CC Ed, we dropped out the:'e a little bit. We lost

you there at Tananariw about - about a minute
ago, so we didn't copyaz4ything you said there.
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_PT What was the last thing that you copied, Hank?
cC Okay. You were - you were telling us how the

flare progressed through the region.
SPT Oh, okay. It - it went to the south, initially,

and then spread 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 -
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 point-
ing because it did spread out on e_her si_e
of where we were - or the roll. I think we had
had a good roll for it each way, and 82B certainly
had the slit filled with plage, flaring plage.
I shouldn't say filled, but had a good portion
of the slit, maybe one-q_rteror s9 filled ,
which means that - I think that their spectra
_- will be dominatedby that. 55 was lookingat
that bright point there before it flared, and
even though the oxygen VI count was not always
pegged high as the flare progress, I still think
they probably got some pretty good time histories
on them.
022 O0 12 0L CC Break, Ed. 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 for the X-ray, and also instrument
start time. I'd like to see how close we really
came to it.
022 O0 12 23 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
2 can make quite a bit Of difference. So, I'd be
interested in knowing right down to the minute
what - what it was. That's when I - I took a
glance at my watch at that point when - after I
had started the instruments. And that was what
I was - that's what I saw. But I might have been
a minute before that. I'm not sure.
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022 00 47 05 SPT }lello, ]lank; how do you_ read?
022 00 49 03 SPT Hello, Hank; how do you read?
022 00 49 25 CC Skylab, Houston. How dO you read?

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SPT I got you loud and clear, Hank. How me?
CC Okay, loud and clear noW. We had a little prob-

lem right there. We got about 6-1/2 minutes left
through Hawaii.
SPT Okay, I need some - some words from you on post

flare. What I'm - what I'm working right now is
we did a building blocM 32 at the very beginning.
I looked at the corona_ did not see any appreci-
able change except for_some small streamers I'll
mention in a minute. _ight n6_-, 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 PATROL4 SHORTs, PATROL, NORMALS
with a little spacing in between. And 54 is
getting their M, S, I,!S, 256 which I had to kind
of read into what is _r_itten here on the building
block. And a little s_acing in between those.
I'd like to hear from the backroomwhat they
desire, i
022 O0 50 39 CC Okay, I'll try to get &n answer for you and we're
supposed to get the evening status report this
site.
CC And, SPT, one quick th_ng here. So we can get

some correlation between
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H-ALPHA 1 and H-ALPHA 2,
wonder if we can get you to zoom in all the way
on H-ALPHA 1 and zoom put all the wKy with
H-ALPHA 2 and keep that configuration for about
1 minute.
SPT Okay, that's the wayne are not. And would you
like me to select? I have H-ALPHA 1 selected on
MONITOR 1 and wafer sMitch in MON i. Also, Hank,
do I have a call tonight?
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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 synoptic.
SPT Okay. The building - building block 1A and lB.

Is that right?
022 00 51 58 CC That's affirmative.
SPT Okay.
CDR Hank, whenever you're ready for evening status,

I'll give it to you.
CC Okay; go ahead, Jerry,.
CDR Okay, you all finished with Ed? Why don't you _
get all that squared away before I start? He
needs to know when his - his call is tonight too.
CC That's right. I forgot to give him that. His

phone call is at Hawaii at 2i24. And it's RIGHT
ANTENNA.
SPT I got that, Hank; thank you.
022 00 53 03 CDR Okay, Hank, here it comes. Photo log:

16-millimeter, M151. ETC prep: Charlie India 81,
30, Charlie India 77. And there's a footnote
here. It says 2 to B seconds of the cover was
partially off the supply. And the - all the de-
tails on that are on tape. And they went on
about 19:h0; that's transporter 08. 0kay_ EREP,
VTS: Charlie Lima ll, 39. Nikon l, Charlie
X-ray 4229; 02, Bravo Victor 29, 07 and that an-
ticipates 6 frames for the S073. Char - number 03,
Charlie India ll5, 31; number 04, Bravo Echo 10,
41; 5, Bravo Hotel 06, 31, 70-millimeter:
Charlie X-ray 46, 150. ETC: Charlie India 12,
080. EREP: set X-ray, 0396, 2576, 0--120,_9481,
1252, 0188. Drawer A: transporter 02, Charlie
India 81, 30; Charlie India 77.
022 00 54 50 CDR Okay, in - in case I might have confused you, it

looks like the M151 data was put on transporter
number 2. Transporter number 8 is the one where
the cover came off.
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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 correc_ it.
CC Okay, Skylab, we're about a minute from LOS; the

next pass is at Vanguar_ at 17. And that's your
med conference. Also, _s a reminder here, you
have a sextant thing tol be done at 01:30. If
you wouldn't mind we'd like for you to voice that
data down to us at 02:2_. And I've - I got a
couple of more items fo_ you. I guess I'll have
to get them there and m_ybe the rest of the eve-
ning status, if you ca_ do it, Jer.
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022 00 55 55 CDR Okay, I'll hustle the e_ening status. Sleep:
CDR, 7.0 - 6 heavy, 1 _ight; SPT, 6.0 - 5 heavy,
1 light; PLT, 6.5, all _eavy. Volumes: 1B0,
130, 180. Water gun: i8739, 4781, 1186. Body
mass: 6.312, 6.308, 6.1314; 6.359, 6.365, 6.364;
6.249, 6.254, 6.256. Exercise: CDR, no change;
PLT, no change; SPT, s_andard minus Alfa. Medi-
cation: CDR, none; SP_, two aspirin; PLT, Afrin
at noon. Clothing: CDR, T-shirts, some shorts
andtrousers; SPT- - _ -_
022 Ol 25 20 CC Skylab, Houston. We'r_ AO - got you for about

another minute and 20 _econds. I know the SPT
and the CDR are about go be real busy here. We
missed everything afte_ he started into the
closing on the eveningistatus. If it was conven-
ient, we sure would li_e to get that data at
02:24. Have two otheriquickies for you. For the
PLT, don't forget to g_ve us a little VTR on the
H-ALPHA l, and - so we ican look at that degrada-
tion. Also, in regardito the beep you've been
having, on panel 200 w@ could open up tonight,
that AUDIO SYSTEM, BUFFER AMP 1 circuit breaker
and leave it open all _ight. And that - we're -
we're wondering if we _eave it open awhile, that
might cure the problem i We don't know, but it's
worth a try. And the 9nly thing, with that
breaker open, you willinot 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
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at 02:24. And
that's the SPT's phone icall with a RIGHT ANTENNA.
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022 01 26 _7 PLT Okay, Hank. I didn't put anything on the VTR

because I thought you w_re 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 d_t_ we're missing.
CDR The voice data?
CC That's affirmativeS'
CDR Okay.
022 01 27 36 SPT Hank. I already did .....
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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

you when you were telling us the clothing items
that were changed.
CDR Okay. First of all let's get the photo log

straightened out. I found a blunder in it that
we'd better get squared away.
CC Okay.
022 02 28 05 CDR Up under 16-millimeter, M151, 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 takeup reel. And then go down to drawer A
configuration, and it should read as follows:
A-l, A-2, A-3 and back should be no change; A-4
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.
022 02 28 50 CDR You still with me? 0kay_ we'll start out with
medications and clothing. Medication: CDR, none;
SPT, two aspirins; PLT, Afrin at noon. Clothing:
CDR, T-shirt, socks, shorts and trousers; SPT,
socks and shirt; PLT, shorts, socks, T-shirt and
shirt. Food log: CDR, zero salt, minus one cof-
fee with sugar, plus 1.5 rehydration water; SPT,
zero salt, two lemonades, plus 2.0 rehydration
water; PLT, 1.5 salt, plus one coffee with sugar,
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plus one pea soup, minus 1.O rehydration water.

Let's see. Flight Plan deviations: none. Shop-
ping list accomplishme[ts - well, yes, there was
a Flight Plan deviatio[. The SPT took the last
two ATM passes. Shopping list accomplishments:
TV-32, TV-107 for 1 ho_r, ETC prep, ETC stow,
TV-103 for three-quarters of an hour. Inoperable
equipment is transporter 08. Not inoperable, but
that was the one we ha_ the problem with. The
details are on tape, time tag 19:40, 19:40 Zulu.
Unscheduled stowage: _one.
022 02 30 18 CDR Okay, we got it. I wonder if Ed passed the sex-

tant info to you befor_ he went for his private
comm.
CDR He sure did; stand by. Okay, Regulus, sex -

SHAFT, lh0.0, 19.7; fo_ Spica, 286.6, TRUN-
NION 36.9.
CC Okay, we got it, Jet. iAnd a couple of quickies

here. Did you copy th_ - what we said in regard
to pulling the AUDIO S]STEM, BUFFER AMP i circuit
breaker to stop your bq_eping?
CDR We sure did. We'll p_.l that breaker tonight af-

ter everybody's finish_d with their tape recording
and we'll be prepared ;o put it on again in the
morning, iL
F
cc Okay. And one item oni closeout on the ATM panel,
if it's convenient. W_ show the H-ALPNA DOOR
OPEN; we'd like to get ithat CLOSEd. Also we're
showing that the VTR i_ full of tape. How much
did you all - I mean t_at it is full. How much
did you put on it?
O22 O2 31 35 CC I don't think we put _ whole load on it. There

must be a problem. I'll
_ go up and check it.
CC Okay, if the POWER's _FF, that will give us the

same imitation - indication, Jerry.
CDR Say again, i
CC If the POWER is OFF o_ it, that would give us that

indication of a tape _ull and - -
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CDR Okay.
CC - - if it's okay with Ed, I don't guess we'll

find out. We'd sure like to uplink _ads until
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.
022 02 32 31 PLT Take care.
CC Go ahead.
SPT Hey, Hank. You can go ahead and turn the wood-
pecker loose. I'ii probably 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 any more 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 23:142 matched out at 23:24 and was declared
over at 0O: 16 and a Vela report gave it prelimi-
nary as a C-9.
SPT Hey, very good. Pump it up to a M-1. What - do

you have from DM - the time we got the instruments
going?
022 02'58 30 CC Ed, we're still pulling the data out to 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 earli-

est; they were a little bit before that.
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CC Okay, it's going to ta_e us a little bit longer

to get all the data stripped out of the MDRS, but
it looks like we got i_ well before max.
SPT Yes, what - well, mayb@ Bill Lenoir can go into the
details tomorrow morning, when they say it begin
at 14 what - what thatbreally means.
CC Okay, Ed, I guess l'm ioing to need to dig into

that a little more but Vela reported that it
started and - it was -iat that time and that it
was below C-I at that ime.
SPT Okay. Thanks very much, Hank.
SPT Good night, Hank. We'll talk to you tomorrow.
CC Okay, good night. Getla good night's rest, guys.

i
022 02 59 52 SPT Will do and try to arrange another one of those
for tomorrow, Hank. S@nd us some more film.
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022 02 59 56 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.
022 03 00 18 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.
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022 ii l0 24 CC (Music: "Spiders and Snakes")
022 iI 13 Bl 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 purple gang.
CC Hi, Ed. How are ya'll doing?
SPT We'll know in a little while.
022 ii 17 57 CC SPT, Houston. We've closed the ATM - ATM down

from our unattended ops and it's all yours when-
ever you want it.
022 ii 24 31 CC Skylab, Houston. We're a minute from LOS. Madrid

comes up at 11:29. And SPT, Houston. One reminder
for you on the - 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. 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.
022 ii 25 17 CC Okay.
022 ii 29 29 CC Skylab, Houston; AOS Madrid for 8 minutes. If

you guys would like to hear some news, I have
some here for you.
PLT Roger. Go ahead, Dick.

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CC Okay. Washington: President Nixon will deliver

his State of the Union _ddress before a Joint
session of Congress and a nationwide broadcast
audience at 9:30 p.m. eastern daylight time on
January the 30th. The _hite House and Congres-
sional leaders announced the scheduling Monday.
Nixon had originally arranged to give the ad-
dress at 12:30 on the 2_th, then changed it to
8:30 that day at the suggestion of Senate Minor-
ity Leader Hugh Scott. ilt later turned out, how-
ever, that an evening a_dress on the 29th would
conflict with a Nationa$ Press Club dinner honor-
ing returning members of Congress. The President
is said to be considering February i for trans-
mission of his annual e_onomic message and
February 4 for submission of his budget. Again
Washington: Early actign by the Senate Rules
Committee is expected on a comprehensive reform
bill including the use bf tax funds to finance
Federal election campaigns. Committee Chairman
Howard Cannon, Democrat iof Nevada, is committed
to reporting a bill within 30 days and a tenta-
tive draft is already b_ing circulated for comment.
It also includes a meashre passed by the Senate
last year, but not - b_t not acted on by the
House, that would sharply limit campaign contri-
butions and expenditures.
022 ll 30 55 CC Tel Aviv: The Israeli bstate radio says the with-
drawal 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 _he cease-fire since they
signed the disengagement agreement last week.
Meanwhile, the Foreign iMinister of Kuwait said
speculation that the cutbacks in Ara - Arab oil
production would be restored because of the
agreement was premature, and the oil minister of
Qatar indicated there _ould be no change in the
situation.
i
022 ii 31 32 CC Washington: The head of the Justice Department's

organized crime sectio_ 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
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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 4. The acting governor says drivers
with even-numbered license plates can buy fuel
on even-numbered day - days and those with odd-
numbered plates can pursh - purchase gasoline on
other days. Service stations will be open Mon-
day through Friday and drivers will be allowed to
fill up only if their tanks are at least half
empty. The governor has said 92 percent of the
state's service station operators have agreed to
comply with the voluntary plan. The state pro-
posal 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.
022 ii 32 44 CC The Internal Revenue Service said that it - 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.
022 ii 33 ii CC Chicago: Aam_ral Hyman G. Rickover 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 Rickover, 73, who led America's
atomic submarine development program and Commander
Eleanore Bed - 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 -
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stuck the note in his mouth and ran from the First
National Bank of MemphiS. Brandon Davis, bank
public relations directer, said the robber had
handed the teller a depCsit slip Monday on which
he had made some uncompleted markings, and also
showed her a note sayin@, "This could be the biggest
moment of your of your _ife. Give me all your
money." Davis said theiteller told the man he had
written the note on the iwrong form and would have
to fill it out again. The bank robber fled.
p
022 Ii 34 40 CC One final note here. In San Antonio, when the
Government Employees' C_edit Union turned off its
giant downtown electric itime-and-temperature sign
to save energy, some nearby residents asked that
it be turned back on. _he sign is near the county
jail. An in_te said, !'There are 500 i_m_tes de-
pendent upon the clock iso far as time goes, plus
the temperature keeps t_s informed of the outside
environment. Needless _o 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 to, we'd like you to -
if you haven't already, to close the AUDIO SYSTEM,
BUFFER AMPLIFIER 1 cir_ uit breaker that you opened
to get rid of the osci:Llating tone, and let us know
whether or not the ton_ returns to you. If it does,
l'll have a couple mor_ words for you.
PLT We have and it did.
CC Assumed that you did close it and the tone did

return. Is that corre@t?
PLT That's affirmative.
022 ll 35 47 CC Okay, Bill. Be advise_ that nothing will be hurt

if you want to procedurally close that circuit
breaker only when you _esire to do voice recording.
That's perfectly okay. i 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 circui_ breaker is not closed. In
other words when you h_t the VOICE RECORD switch on
the SIA, you will get _ green light and you will
think you're - you wil,_ think that you are recording,
however, no recording _ill be done unless that
circuit breaker is cloised.
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CDR Roger, Dick, thanks. I doubt if we'll close it

very often - or open it very often during the day.
022 ii 36 39 CC Roger, Jerry. We're about 35 seconds from LOS.

Carnarvon at 12:05.
CDR Roger, Dick.
022 12 08 22 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 Dick, for the 82A folks, I gave them two exposures
at a ROLL of 5400. Tell them I'm sorry; I gave
them two additional exposures at the correct roll.
022 12 09 0[ CC Roger,Ed.
022 12 15 50 CC Skylab, Houston. We're A0S at Honeysuckle for a

very short pass. Texas comes up at 12:_5. See
you there.
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022 12 [_5 40 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Goldstone,

Corpus Christi, Merritt Island, and Bermuda for
16 minutes. Good morning.
PLT Good morning, Bruce.
022 12 15806 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 dtnnp, why
it - it went back the other wa_ agai n. And you,r e
r still in a distressconditionwith bearing 2 temp-
erature running about 0.8 to 0.7 of a degree
above the bearing 1 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.
022 13 01 2C CC Skylab, 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 fol-
lowed by going into the flare wait mode on active
region 31. In active region 31, we currently
show a background of Charlie 1, BERYLLIUM COUNT
above 3300. For the CDR, transitiqn to the alter-
nate Flight Plan, you need to close off the 02
valves, M509-F5 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 4-1/2 minutes. Over.
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022 13 02 I0 PLT Roger.
022 13 06 42 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Madrid for

9 minutes. Catching up on our Flight Plan here,
we'd like Bill, duringihis currently carried open
housekeeping at aroundil4:00, to do an S073 PR-4
and plan on catching t_e S073 operations block
that starts a little after 15:00. Over.
PD_ Roger, Bruce.

i
CC And we show that you will not have to do the film

changeout. Go ahead and use the camera and lens
, referencefor the first set of S073. That's
Bravo Victor 29. Overi
PLT Roger. Go ahead and use the magazine that's in

the camera.
022 13 07 38 CC Okay. Correction: us_ the lens specified for

the second set of operations, just carry over the
film; don't reload, i
PLT Okay.
CC And we're going to dump your data/voice tape re-

corder 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 do not want to
operate 82A or 82B at _ll during flares. Over.
022 13 08 47 SPT Roger, Bruce.
022 13 12 09 CC SPT, this is Houston. I've got a solar activity

update for you.
SI_ Go ahead.
CC Okay. Latest box scones in active region 31, con-

tinuing to flare. You had a subfaint class flare
at ll:00, peak at ll:O6, ending at ll:16. Sub-
normal starting befor_ 12:00, peak at 12:05, end-
ing at 12:12. And the Vela satellite reports
X-ray background at lJl times l0 to the minus 3
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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 No, I got the picture, that's all I need.
CC Okay.

station contact in 13 minutes through Tananarive
at 13:28. Out.
022 13 28 l_ CC Skylab, this is Houston through Tananarive for

8 minu_es. Over.
_ CDR Go ahead,Bruce.
CC Roger. Just checking with you here at Tananarive.

Things are - as far as we can tell, things are
unchanged and have - have at it.
022 13 31 45 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 out-
lined as 509-F-5 Bravo?
CDR That's affirmative, Bruce.
CC Okay. Thank you.

022 13 53 0_' 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 Honeysuckle. Really no significant
change; the situation is about the same as it was
before. And got an ATM update for the SPT - or
for _he 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;iand because of increased
activity in active region 31, the rocket from
White Sands will be pointed at active region 31
instead of 21. And weF'd like you to run the
building block 28 flrs_
" and 14 second, that is,
reverse the order of t_e two so as to put 14 closer
to the rocket launch w_ndow, 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 run

on active region 31 inl conjunction with this rocket
launch. !
022 13 54 59 SPT Houston, SPT. i

!
CC Go ahead, Ed.
SPT At 13:36 we got a PMECi started up in a point

brightening. Within _ fraction of a minute, we
were up to 600. At 13i:36 we went into the FLARE
MODEs for 5h and 56. iWe reached about 615 maximum
on PMEC and approximatiely 40 on the IMAGE INTENSITY.
At 13:44 56 was put i_to PATROL, SHORT and timed
out just about at 400 _, a little less than 400 K.
13:46, 56 stopped. T_at was a little bit below
400 K. And at 13:45 _5 was put into one truncated
MIRROR, AUTO RASTER down to line 14 in order to
get a look at the configuration of the active
region before we went iover the hill. To that time
they had been in MIRROR, LINE SCAN.
022 13 56 00 CC Okay. We copy. Thank you.
CI)R Okay, Bruce. Hit me _gain on that ATM scheduling

now.
CC Okay. Your pass star_ing around 16:00, you'll

notice you got two building blocks. You got a
building block 14 and ia building block 28. We
would like to reverse rthe order in which you run
them, and we'd like bqlldlng block 14 pointed at
active region 31 instead of active region 21. Over.
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CDR Okay.
CC And that'll put the building block 14 roughly

time coincident with the rocket launch, which is
in the 16:30 to 17:00 window.
CDR Okay. Good enough. I've got it.
CC Roger. Out.
022 13 57 43 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 A_ conference at that

time?
022 13 58 05 CC Yes, we're planning to.
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022 14 14 16 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Hawaii for 3 min-

utes and 50 seconds. Your CMG 2 situation is
looking better; the bearing crossover has been
eliminated. And with that I give you Dr. Lenoir,
speaking for all the ATM scientists in the backroom.
Over.
SPT Hey, good morning, Bill. Go ahead.
022 14 14 35 MCC Okay, Ed. A couple words here of background infor-

mation on the Sun that you may or may not be
aware of. The general X-ray background right now
is running about 1.1 times l0 -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 some-
F- thing 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 Bill, you said 21?
MCC 33.
SPT Okay.
022 14 15 21 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 33 - you're expecting an M out of 33? There is 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,
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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 mayDe a little bit of weak
type-3 burst with the lone that you observed
yesterday, which was _ C-8, and none that was
observed at the M-l's iprior to that.
SPT Bill?
MCC Yes.
022 14 16 28 SPT From the way you put the chronology there, it
sounds as though 54 came after it. Now that was
the first button I hit and then 56, then the
82 instruments, l'm mot sure whether everybody's
looking at a different time base, but that's the
order in which it was texecuted from up here.
t
MCC Okay, what I have her_ 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 flhctuating bright point. I
don't recall right now whether that was - how
close that was to the flare rise.
MCC Okay, that- -
SPT It was probably not done for the flare purpose,

but rather a fluctuating bright point and it was
fortuitous that we happened to get it that close.
MCC Yes, I think - -
SPT So that's really what it was.
022 14 17 20 MCC I think that's right. And both 82A and B went
into FLARE modes later. We're a minute from LOS
now; Goldston is next in 4 minutes. And a couple
of other good words: For today, of course, we
wish you good huntin4 and everybody is quite
pleased with the way things have gone on the
activity to date. 8_A and B are to be used only
as scheduled, and that means that they are not
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operating in the unscheduled events, the tran-

sients, and so on. They're 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 l0 - -
SPT Okay. How tight - -
MCC Go ahead.
SPT All right, 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 in 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.
I_CC Okay, fine. And we'll be talking to you tomorrow

morning.
3PT 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.
022 14 18 42 CC Okay, 2-1/2 minutes to A0S Goldstone.
022 14 211 17 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Goldstone, Corpus

Christi, Merritt Island, for 9-1/2 minutes. Out.

lh :34. Out.
022 14 34 19 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Bermuda for 6 min-

utes. We'll be dumping your data/voice tape re-
corder at A0S Canary. Out.
022 14 39 18 CC Skylab, this is Hosuton; I minute to LOS. Next

station contact in 4-1/2 minutes through Canary
_ at 14:44 with a data/voice tape recorder dump.
Out.
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022 14 43 55 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Canary Island for

9-1/2 minutes. Data/voice recorder dump, and
we are canceling the momentum inhibit - MOMENTOM
DUMP INHIBIT for this p_ss due to the CMG situa-
tion. We thought things had pretty well recovered,
but the last dump maneuver of the last dump brought
the situation about agai_n. And we've got bearing
crossover, and bearing 2 is running higher than
bearing i by about 0.5 or 0.6 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 4o some other pieces of
data. And for the ATM, SPT will not see a change
in the TIME R}_4AINING clock this pass because
we're not doing the inhibit. Over.
022 14 44 54 PLT PLT, copy; relative S073.
CC Roger, Bill.
PLT Roger.
SPT Thanks for the info, Bruce.
CC Okay. Hang in there.
PLT Yes. Keep us posted on the unfolding dr_m_.
CC Roger. Book 37, chapter 29. Tune in again next

station.
PLT Hey, Bruce, I'd like for you to research a question.

Would you check and see if the plane of rotation
of that CMG intersects _he 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 momen-
tum with the basic vehicle. Over.
PL_ Roger. I Just wondered - of course, there's -

well I gues s you're right. There's quite a large
latitude in movement. _'m just wondering if -
if per chance, it did. I'm sure it does.
022 14 46 l0 CC Yes. You're not worried about disintegration or

anything like that, are you?
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PLT No, I'm not worried about it. I was Just sort of
worried - was concerned about it from an academic
standpoint.
CC There is no problem whatsoever from the disintegra-

tion standpoint. We'll see if we can come up with
an answer to your question although it's - it's
obviously going to have to be broader in scope
than a simple yes or no.
PLT Okay. Just give it for the cage position, Bruce.

That 's okay.
CC Okay. We'll do that.
022 14 52 2_ CC Skylab, this is Houston; i minute to LOS. Next

station contact in 12-1/2 minutes through Tanana-
rive at 15: 04. Out.
022 15 06 0_iCC Skylab, this is Houston through Tananarive for

5 minutes. Out.
022 15 i0 30 CC Skylab, this is Houston; i minute to LOS. Next


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 l, as is the nominal condition. And
for Bill, we've been looking around trying to come
up with an answer on he CMG-2 orientation. And
about he best that we can - best way we can
describe it is that 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 zero zero gimbal
angle position, its spin axis is along - is
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parallel to the Y - Y-axis of the vehicle, so that

the plane of rotation o_ the wheel would, in fact,
come through the plus-Y_most side of the N - MDA -
just barely inside the _nvelope, and then on down
outboard of the lock seqtion of the airlock, and
then reintersecting the i- the liquid hydrogen
tank as you get back into the workshop and running
parallel with the long Axis of the vehicle.
022 15 30 33 CC Over.
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022 15 30 35 PLT Roger; understand. I got the picture, and thank

you very much, Bruce.
CC Now, in amplification of that, I think it's only

fair to say that it's unlikely that the gyro, for
any given congifuration, will be at zero zero gimbal
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 that we could pick with the CMG 2
and CMG 3 spin-axes antiparallel. Over.
PLT Roger, understand.
f PLT And, Bruce, thank you very much for the research.
CC Okay.
022 15 31 5_ 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 see-

ing 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 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 oc-
culting disk. It _as 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 fairlybright and inclined
slightly toward the north. Looks like 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 oc-
culting 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 much weaker.
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022 15 33 34 SPT The _ MONITOR shows a section of the activity

which we al] know about, active region 31 being
of course the brightest, then 21, and that plage
and the other active regions mentioned. There's
very little coming ove r on the east limb or in
the east hemisphere. The flare watch, this past
orbit, showed that thel- in H-ALPHA and also in
counts I was getting in oxygen Vl, that the
bright points are fluctuating quite rapidly. Time
scale's considerably Ipss than a minute in many
cases. H-ALPHA has three
[ bright points which tend
to be exchanging intensities between them; that
is, the central one, w_ich is north - I - excuse
me, which is to the northeast side, is the most
intense one and had oxygen VI counts running between
4000 to 40,000 this past orbit. 55 was looking at
it with truncated MIRROR, AUTO RASTERs, so they
were getting a good time history of the activity
in that region. Towards the end of the orbit, it
looked like the PMEC, _he XUV MON and IMAGE INTEN-
SITY COUNTS were all declining. I imagine that
would correspond to wh_t you're seeing on the
ground. That's it. I_ there's any questions, I'll
be glad to answer them.
CC Okay, thank you, Ed.
CC And, we have no questions for you.

station contact in ll minutes through Hawaii at
15:48. Out.
E
022 15 48 18 CC Houston through Hawaiii for i0 minutes. And a quick

ouestion 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-hertz
problem on the intercom system is that when you
are not recording, yo_ are opening the BUFFER
AMPS i circuit breaker, closing it to record, and
then opening it up again. And you're certainly GO
to continue this, and _hat we're wondering about
is, is this, in fact, _our mode of operation; and
if so, about how many ktimes a day would you esti-
mate that circuit breaker is getting cycled? Over.
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CDR Bruce, that is not our mode of operation. I indi-

cated 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-hertz noise and keep - what
we're trying to do is Just keep the volumes down.
CC Okay. We copy. Thank you.
CDR Roger. Go.
CC Yes, 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.

station contact in 2-1/2 minutes through Goldstone
at 16:00. Out.
CC Hey, 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!
022 15 58 0_ 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.
022 16 00 l_ CC Skylab, this is Houston through Goldstone for

7 minutes. Out.
CDR Roger, Bruce. I'm in the FLARE MODE.
CC Roger. We saw the FLARE alarm go off.

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022 16 01 24 CC CDR, Houston. We've got - we'd like to get the

S05_ EXPOSURE mode changed to 64 when this se -
present sequence is o_er.
022 16 02 44 CDR Okay, Bruce, the plage in the very center of the
active region - a very bright little area built
up, and now it's fade_ out. It looks like 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 of4. Probably ought to
terminate.
022 16 04 27 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 it's peaked and is
headed down.
022 16 06 28 CC Skylab, this is HoustQn; 1 minute to LOS. Next

16 :ii. Out.
022 16 12 36 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Bermuda for 8 min-

utes. Out.
022 16 19 33 CC Skylab, this is HoustOn; 1 minute to LOS. Next

station contact in 2 minutes through Canary Islands
at 16:21. Out.
022 16 21 36 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Canary and Ascen-

sion Islands for 16-1/2 minutes. Out.
022 16 23 23 CC CDR, Houston. In ampiifieation of our previous

comment regarding not ',
interrupting building
block 14 for flares, since you are on active
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region 13, if act - 31 - if active region 31 flares,

go ahead and terminate building block i_ and run
FLARE MODE on active region 31. Over.
CDR Okay, Bruce. Irma little confused _s to what

kind of pointing I ought to be using on this ac-
tive region. Do I use the pointing that's spec-
ified in JOP ll, step 2?
CDR Okay.
022 16 37 l0 CC Skylah, this is Houston; 1 minute to LOS. Next

with a data/voice tape recorder dump at 17:0_.
CC And we're getting ready to send you up a new batch

of EREP pads for the maneuver - or for the evolution
this afternoon, based on a couple of small ch_ges
from canceling this morning's. We figure we'd Just
send the whole thing up again.
022 16 37 _(' CDR Roger, Bruce.
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022 17 04 00 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Carnazvon for

8 minutes leading off with a data/voice tape
recorder dump. And for your information, it
looks like the CMG slitch has resolved itself.
So I guess we're through with chapter 37, book 12,
of the latest CMG sage.
CDR Roger.
022 17 Ii 25 CC Skylab, this is Houston; 1 minute to 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.
022 17 39 41 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Goldstone for

5-i/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 NAV update. We request you
CLEAR and do a 52040 ENTER for us please. Over.
PLT That's complete.
CC Okay. Sorry about that. wWe'll let you know

when we're through.
PLT Okay.
022 17 42 30 CC PLT, Houston. The DAS is yours. You're going

to have to go ahead and reload the fine mR neuver.
We verify the m_neuver time, i0 minutes, is cor-
rectly entered.
PLT Thank you, Bruce.
CC And for the CDB, we have a new EREB 37 C&D pad

on board.
CDR Okay. Thanks, Bruce.
7_
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CC All rig_at. 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 9peration around a little
and has you reload tape_ afterwards. And looking
at CMG 2, it is back t9 norms! . It's showing
about 8900 rpm and be_n_ temperature looking
good. And it's been l_klng that way for just
about a complete rev n@w. So you're GO for the
EREP.
CDR Roger.
022 17 _4 25 CC Skylab, this is Houston; 1 minute to LOS. Next

station contact in 2 minutes through Corpus
Christi at 17:46. Out i
L
022 17 46 50 CC Skylab, this is Housto_ through Merritt Island
for 12 minutes. Out.
CDR How's the weather at Go'ddard, Bruce?

r
CC We'll check for you. _tand 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. Yes, I misread _y pad.
PLT Looking good.
022 17 49 58 CC SPT, Houston.
SPT Go ahead.
CC Weather s_mmary for th 0 Goddard area indicates

broken cloud coverage, Ilocally overcast to locally
clear and out - out-th_-wlndow report from station
at Goddard indicates that right now, they're in
the clear. So we think you should be able to
see it.
CDR Thank you.

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CDH Got a red beacon, Bruce.
CC Beautiful, Jer.
CDR You can just barely see it with the unaided eye.
It takes binoculars to see it well.
CC Roger.
022 17 53 19 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, Bruce, 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

he sort of freelancing it here within the struc-
ture of the pad, to be sure to incorporate the
shutter speed and frame rate changes at the times
specified on the pad and remember you should be
in STANDBY to change SHUTTER SPEED, and be
cautious on interpreting snow as cloud cover.
SPT Roger. Very good remarks. Thank you, Bruce.
CC 0keydoke.
022 17 58 17 CC Skylab, this is Houston. 1 minute to LOS. Next

station contact in 9-i/2 minutes through Ascen-
sion at 18:08. Out.

8 minutes. A 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 config-
uration; that is, bearing 2 temp is up to within
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about 0.2 or 0.3 of bearing i temperature. And

the current in all phasies is up and the WHEEL
Sp_F_D 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 thee EREP, unless, of course,
your onboard or the grqthud criteria, here, are
violated. Over.
PLT Roger. Understand. He's debriefing, but I'll

tell him, Bruce.
CC Okay.
PLT Okay. Ke copied.
022 18 14 48 CC Skylab, this is Houston; LOS in about 30 seconds.

Next station contact in 23 minutes through Car-
narvon at 18:38. see you there.
022 18 14 58 PLT Roger.
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022 18 38 i0 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, I've got a nut -
a capsule weather briefing for you. And Just
for your information, the CM [sic] 2 situation is
going through one of its standard anomalies
here; we won't bother you with the details.
CDR Roger, Bruce.
022 18 39 55 PLT Roger. 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 - on the VTS and that's -
I think it's supposedto start about 21 - runs from
20:00 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 pub-
lished 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 sites 406 and 407, as well as special 7, which
is Kansas City, are expected to be under 8/10 to
i0/i0 cloud cover. So there's a good possibility
that you won't be able to acquire them; however,
we recommend you give it a try. And, about the
time that you pass the beam of Springfield, Mis-
souri or thereabouts, you should be crossing
over a cold front and over a - a cloudy area
that breaks up around Memphis. And from about
Memphis on downtrack you should be in the clear
with 0 to 3/10 cloud comer - cover, which puts
your next VTS site, 530, and its alternate in
pretty good shape there. We expect you'll be
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 bit
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of photography during the maneuver back to solar

inertial. Over. !
PLT Roger, Bruce. Copy and thank you very much.
CC Roger. Out.

station contact in 3-1_2 minutes through Guam
at 18:51 with a data/vqice tape recorder dump
at AOS. Out. i
022 18 51 24 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Guam for

10-1/2 minutes with a data/voice tape recorder
dump. Out. t
SPT Houston, I was in the debriefing at this point.

Can you hold off with _hat tape dump?
CC Will do.
S_ Thank you.

at 19:17. Out. i
022 19 16 16 CDR MODE to MANUAL.
CDR We've got all three 19_s on STANDBY now. Next

mark is 16:36. Correction, 18:36. About 2 more
minutes.
022 19 16 38 CC Skylab, Hou - Houston. Looking over your shoulder

for about i0 minutes.
CC Skylab, this is Houstor through Goldstone, Corpus

Christi, Merritt Island for 16-1/2 minutes.
CDR Roger, Bruce. i minut_ to my next mark.

PLT We should be coming in !right over Vancouver Island
now but I can't see it_
CDR Cloudy? i
PLT Yes. Solid cloud cove_, just as advertised.

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CDR On my mark, it'll be 18:36. Stand by -
022 19 18 36 CDR MARK. SCATTEROMETER, ON. RADIOMETER, ON. Looking

for a 191 READY.
022 19 18 48 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 -
022 19 19 23 CDR MARK. ETC POWER, ON. Next mark's 20:23.
PLT The camera used 2 of my l0 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'll go with 190 to AUTO.
PLT Oh, good. That's - -
CDR Stand by. 20:23 -
022 19 20 23 CDR MARK. 190 MODE, AUTO; ETC, AUTO.
PLT Ah, beautiful. I'm going to get this special 02.
022 19 20 34 PLT DATA MARK. Ah, ha. Got it.
CDR Okay, we got a MALF light on camera 6 as we expected

for S190. Bad magazine. Crying wolf. Next mark
will be 21:06. Stand by -
022 19 21 C6 CDR MARK. S192 MODE to READY. Okay, the TAPE MOTION
light is back on again. We're at 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. Charlie 8 showing

38 percent. Charlie 8 - Charlie 8 showing 36 percent.
PLT *** minus 6 degrees - 7, 8, 9, 10. DAC, off.

Okay. IMC OFF and going to 23, lO, 45; RIGHT,
4.9.
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CDR And the TAPE MOTION light is starting to flicker

at 35 percent tape remaining. Stand by for 22:28.
Standby -
L
022 19 22 28 CDR MARK. 192 MODE to CHE_K. S190 INTERVAL - Stand
by-
022 19 22 35 CDR MARK. At 22:35, S190 INTERVAL to 20. ETC to

STANDBY. Next mark's _t 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. it was the Tuttle!Creek. I'm going for

Kansas City now. 23, 33,
[
45; LEFT, 2.4.
CDR Okay, on my mark it'lllbe 23:30. Stand by -
022 19 23 30 CDR MARK. S190 INTERVAL is I0.

L
PLT No Joy. Okay, we're getting set up for Atlanta.
CDR Okay, coming up, next _ark will be 23:50. Going

to want an ETC to AUTOiand then STANDBY, Ed.
Standby -
[
022 19 23 50 CDR MARK. 23:50, 193 goin_ to POLARIZATION 4,
S190 SHUTTER SPEED to _EDIUM. ETC to STANDBY.
PLT Kansas was hopeless. _
CDR That's too bad.
PLr Okay, 25:20, pair of s_tes.
CDR What are you working om now? Geog - Atlanta?
PLT Well, I got - Say Bruc@ - a little clarification,

I should have asked it iearlier. Is Atlanta indeed
just the alternate? YOu would prefer to have a
uniform site? i
PLT My pad lists special 02 as a primary and 530 as

a secondary or the alt,_rnate.
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CC That's affirmative, 530 is the alternate, and

special 02 area is the prime.
PLT Okay, any uniform site.
CDR Well, a test site's a uniform site, isn't it?
PLT Yes.
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 -
022 19 25 14 CDR MARK. RADIOMETER to STANDBY. ETC to STANDBY.
PLT Stand by -
CDR 25:20 is next.
022 19 25 23 PLT MARK. I got a uniformed site.
022 19 25 21 CDR MARK. SCATI_ROMETER is ON.
PLT Okay, I got a uniformed site. I'm tracking.
CDR 25:37 is the next mark.
PLT DAC's on and my DATA pushbutton - -
CDR Stand by -
022 19 25 -_7 CDR MARK. SCATTEROMETER to STANDBY. ALTIMETER to ON.
CDR Next mark's 26:03 with a ETC, AUTO, Ed_
CDR Coming up, 26:03. Stand by -
022 19 26 03 CDR MARK. ETC, AUTO. 26:20's next. Still got some
tape left.
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PLT Okay, there's a good 30 seconds on the uniform

site; DAC, off. 0kay 30 degrees.
CDR On my mark, 26:20.
FLT 30 degrees to 621.
CDR Stand by -
022 19 26 20 CDR MARK. 192 MODE, READY. Tape recorders have

shifted gears. We got motion.
CDR Flickering TAPE MOTIO N light.
CDR Seems to start flickering when you get - get low

on tape. It runs sol_d when you've got a lot of
t ape.
PLT I've got the sites. _ot Atlanta.
(',DR Hey. Good show.
PLT Yes. That's it.
(]DR Okay, that TAPE MOTION light is more off than

on now.
]?LT On.
CDR It's still flickering. Charlie 8 is reading

30 percent.
,]DR No - no END OF TAPE light, so we're still good.

Still got our TAPE RECORDER READY light. Got
an ALTIMETER UNLOCK light; going to STANDBY.
PLT CAMERA, OFF. Okay, that's it.
CDR Next mark will be 27:55. Okay, ALTIMETER'S back

to - to ON now.
022 19 27 56 CDR MARK. 27:55 going t@ INTERVAL, 20 on S190.

4.8 FRAMES PER MINUTE on the ETC.
CDR Got an ALTIMETER UNLOCK light again. Still got a

READY light. 28:h0'_ my next mark.
CDR Okay. On my mark, 28:40.

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022 19 28 40 CDR MARK. ALTYMETER to STANDBY, MODE to 5. RANGE

is 69. 28:58 is next. Stand by -
022 19 28 58 CDR MARK. 28:58, the ALTIMETER's ON. 29:04 is next.
022 19 29 04 CDR MARK. 192 MODE to STANDBY. 29:10. ETC to

STANDBY.
022 19 29 IC CDR MARK. 29:30's next.
CDR Coming up 29:30. Stand by -
022 19 29 3( CDR MARK. SHUTTER SPEED to SLOW. 29:40 coming up.
CDR Stand by -
022 19 29 40 CDR MARK. 29:40. S191 REFERENCE to 2. Okay. At

30:40, Bill, we want a VTS AUTO CAL.
PLT Okay.
CDR Charlie 8 's reading about 25 percent. It's

oscillating between
i
20 and 30.
CDR 20 seconds to AUTO CAL, Bill.
PLT Roger. Okay. I used my l0 seconds of film to

get *** Lagoon and the Bahamas.
CDR l0 seconds.
CDR On my mark it'll be 30:40. Stand by -
022 19 30 4c) PLT/CDR MARK.
CDR VTS AUTO CAL.
CDR Next mark at 31:40.
PLT Okay, I've got a Z-LV. Got an end-of-f_]m light

on the DAC.
CDR Uh, oh. That's your clock. Okay.
CDE Got an ALTIMETER UNLOCK light. Going to STANDBY

at 05.
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CDR TAPE MOTION still hanging in there. Okay, going

back to ON on the ALTIMETER at 20. READY light
is on, the ALTIMETER UNLOCK light is off. 31:40's
my next mark. Stand by -
022 19 31 40 CDR MARK. SHUTTER SPEED tO MEDIUM. 31:50's the next

mark. Stand by -
022 19 31 50 CDR MARK. INTERVAL going to i0. ETC to AUTO, Ed.

Next mark's at 32:20. ALTIMETER's got an UNLOCK
light; still got a READY light. For 32:20. Stand
by for 32:20.
022 19 32 20 CDR MARK. ALTIMETER to ST_DBY, RANGE set at 65.

32:35's - is next. On my mark, 32:35. Stand
by- i
022 19 32 35 6T,R M_a_RK. ALTIMETER is ON. 32:45's next mark. Stand

by -
022 19 32 45 CDR MARK. 190 SHUTTER SPED, SLOW. Got an ALTIMETER

UNLOCK light. 32:55 is next mark. Stand by -
022 19 32 55 CDR MARK. 32:55, 190 INTERVAL to 20. ETC to STANDBY,

Ed. Okay, you're going to SI. ALTIMETER's still
hanging in there. Looking for S191 READY at 33:20.
Tape's still hanging in there.
i
CC Leave S192 in STANDBY i- 193 in STANDBY, 193 in
STANDBY, please.
CDR 193 what?
CC ALTIMETER.
CI)R Okay, going to ALT, STANDBY now. All right, we

missed - 191 was a lititle bit late, but made it.
33:30, 190 INTERVAL t(_ I0. ETC to AUTO, Ed. No,
INTERVAL going back tQ 20. Cut the INTERVAL
i minute too early. Got it back to lO and back
to 20 before it clipped off, so I think we may be
all right.
022 19 33 57 CC i0 seconds to LOS. Next station contact in

43 minutes through Carnarvon at 20:17. Out.
PLT I don't understand, th_is end of film light in

this DAC.
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CDR Coming up on 34:30.
PLT Yes, I still have film.
CDR Stand by -
022 19 34 30 CDR MARK. At 34:30, MO - S190 INTERVAL is i0. Hey,

Ed, I gave you bum call on ETC, I hope it didn't
mess you up.
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022 20 17 3h CC Skylab, this is Houston through Carnarvon for

5-1/2 minutes. Out.

20:31. Out.
022 20 31 38 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Guam for 5 min-

utes. Out.
022 20 32 42 CC CDR, _his is Houston. Over.
CDR Stand by a minut@, Bruce.
022 20 33 38 CDR Go ahead, Bruce.
CC Roger, Jerry. It may be a moot point by now,

but we weren't certain whether H-ALPHA 1 DOOR
was going to open properlyor not. And it did
open properly.
CDR Okay.
CC At last sunset - at last ATM sunset, the indi-

cation we got down here on the ground was that
it had closed only partially. So we selected
motor power off and then reenabledit and got
it closed. And we Just wanted to alert you to
the fact that we had had some difficulty with it.
CDR Okay. Now that'S the second or third haagup

we've had on that door, isn't it, in the last
few days? I wonder if we might not be wise to
open that rascal up and then inhibit the motors.
CC It's the second one, Jerry. And probably before

we'd do that, we'll go to two-motor operations.
022 20 34 40 CDR Okay.

at 20:54.
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CC Okay, Jerry. Active region 33 looks like it's

about to erupt, although 31 is showing more
activity. We'd like ypu to stick with the build-
ing blocks as schedule_ for your pass ; however,
shift over to active r_gion 33 for pointing.
Make that, shift to active region 31 for pointing.
CDR Okay, point at active _egion 31 and Just do the

same building block.
022 20 36 25 CC Right.
022 20 54 09 CC Skylab, Houston through Goldstone for

14-1/2 minutes.
CDR Hi, Hank.
CC Hello, there. How goes it today?
CDR Oh, pretty busy. We'_e had a few minor flares,

and an EREP pass, and _staying with it.
i
CC Goodshow.
022 20 57 44 CDR Hank, is the X-REA pidking up on 31 now? l'm

seeing H-ALPHA looking a little brighter, and
XUV is picking up, an_ the oxygen VI count Jumped
from about 400 up to _bout 4000.
CC Jerry, we had some sollt of a power glitch down

here or something. E_erything.went black for
a while, and we still !don't have our computers
up and don't have any !data.
022 20 58 08 CDR Okay.
022 20 59 37 CC Skylab, Houston. We need to dump the data/voice

recorder, but we don'_ have any telemetry. Is
anybody using it?
CDR No, I think they 're available now.
CC Okay, we'll go ahead _nd dump.
022 21 05 28 CC CDR, Houston. Do you have your CMG number 2

heater cue card handy?
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CDR ... |louston, CDR.
CC CDR, Houston. We're reading you very, very weak.
022 21 06 18 CDR Okay, I have the cue card.
022 21 06 h9 CC CDR, Houston. If you read, we're going to be

probably asking you at Vanguard, the next site,
to turn the heaters off for us. I was just want-
ing to know if you had that cue card handy.
Maybe we'll have better voice there.
CDR Reading you loud and clear, Houston.
022 21 07 4" CC CDR, Houston. How do you read now?
CDR I've been reading you loud and clear all the time.
I have the cue card.
CC Okay. We apparently had a problem there with

Texas. We're with MILA now, and it's coming
through loud and clear. Just wanted to make sure
you had it handy, Jerry, because we get to
Vanguard, because of their computer problems, we
won't have anything but telemetry. We won't
have command capability, and we'll probably be
wanting to turn the heaters off there. And we're
about 30 seconds from LOS, and Vanguard will be
coming up at 19.
022 21 08 ]9 CDR Roger.
022 21 19 -_l CC Skylab, Houston through Vanguard for 9 minutes.
CDR Roger. Got a flare cooking here.
CC Hey, good show. And Just for info, because of

the site problems at Vanguard, we'll be having -
may have some bad comm during the last half of
the pass.
CDR Say again, Hank.
CC Roger. Because of the site problems at Vanguard,

the comm may be a little ratty during the last
part of the pass.
P 022 21 19 55 CDR Okay. I'm getting PMECs up to 790.

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022 21 20 57 CC CDR, Houston. You're s_arting into the South

Atlantic anomaly, so yo_r PMECs are going to
become less reliable. _o Just rely on the other
indicators you have theire, the XUV MON_land the
APERTURE on your X-REA laud so forth.
CDR Roger. I'm looking at _ERTURE 3, and I've got -

still got a fairly str_ g hot point in the XUV.
CC Roger. We copy.
CC PLT, Houston.
PLT Go ahead, Hank.
CC Roger, Bill. We saw the blood pressure go off

what appeared to be a _ittle early to us. Are
you having any problems with the equipment?
PLT Stand by. Doing blood iflow, I didn't think we

!
needed it.
CC Well, where we saw it _as back on the 92 run.

It seemed like it stopped" early and during the
recovery phase.
PLT No, we had it on for qgite a long period of time,

after the time zero, i$ fact.
022 21 22 28 CC We copy. i
CC CDR, Houston. Wheneve_ it 's convenient in the

next 4 or 5 minutes, w_'d like you to get - to
turn CMG number 2 heaters off.
CDR Okay.
CDR That' s complete, Hank.
.CC Thank you, Jerry.
022 21 24 28 CDR Okay, Hank. I'm termiiLating from the FLARE MODE
now. The XUV is down;iBERYLLIUM APERTURE's still
at 3, but the XUV's w_ down.
CC Roger. We copy.
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022 21 25 57 CC Skylab, Houston. There's a good chance we're

going to lose commhere in the next 30 seconds
or so. The next site is Tananarive at 47.
022 21 26 06 CDR Roger.
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022 22 3h 00 CC Skylab, Houston through Goldstone for 5 minutes.

And we need to - to do an unscheduled voice re-
corder dump here because of the unreliability of
Vanguard.
CDR Roger, Hank. Go ahead; they're not in use.
CC Okay , we'll dump it.
SPT Hello, Hank. Is there any VTR time available for

TV-107?
CC We're checking.
SPT Thank you.
CC Okay, Ed. There are 27 minutes available if you've

already put on your ATM TV. If you haven't, you
can use about 23, leaving a little bit for the ATM
work.
022 22 35 40 SPT Okay; thank you.
022 22 37 58 CC Skylab, Houston. We're i minute from LOS; Vanguard

is the next site. And we see you putting, I think,
ATM on the TV, is that correct?
SPT That's affirmative, Hank.
022 22 56 22 CC Skylab, Houston through Vanguard, 9-1/2 minutes.
CDR Roger.
CC CDR, Houston. When it's convenient to answer, got

a question for you on H-ALPHA 1. Last night's
frame count showed only two frames taken, but we
estimate %here were approximately 500 taken. And
we may have a failure of the FRAMES REMAINING
counter if the OPERATE light is still working.
Does the0PERATE light come on?
CDR It sure does, Hank.
CC Okay; we copy.
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CC You've probably been asked this before, but we're

just trying to get another data point, Jerry. It's
about this degradation _n the ATM TV - H-ALPHA i
TV image. How long after you turn it on in the
morning do you notice the degradation?
CDR I guess I don't really _otice it until we're about

halfway through the passe, like around 30 minutes
or so.
CC Okay; we copy.
CDR All right, now it's beglnning to look pretty ratty.

In fact I'm beginning t¢ see some horizontal lines
in it.
CDR When you get near the emd of the pass, you just
don't see as much of that good dark/light contrast.
It's not as sharp and ciear as it is early in the
pass.
CC Roger. We copy.
022 22 58 57 CC And for info, there are 20 minutes remaining on

the VTR.
022 23 02 18 CC CDR, Houston. On your closeout for the day here,

we'd like to get you tolpoint at ac - active re-
gion 31, if you would, Sir.
CDB Okay, active region 31.i You want 54 and 55 set

up as per the pad?
CDR Okay.
CDR Hank, would they prefer_ H-ALPHA 2 pointing at 317
CC Okay, Jer; I guess use your Judgement on whether

it'd be H-ALPHA i or H-ALPHA 2.
CDR Well, looks to me like 156, 82A and 82_B don't have
a whole lot of film to _spend, so probably about
all I can do is 55. S_ we ought to le - leave
it on line 25 and poin_ with H-ALPHA 2.
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CC Okay, we'll buy 5hat.
022 23 04 28 CC And, CDR, Houston. One more thing we'd like to

get you to do. We've got a real low-elevation
pass coming up here at Tananarive at 23:19. I
don't know whether we'll get you or not. If we
don't_ the next station is Ka%raii at 00:04 with
your reed conference. But at 23:25, we would like
for you to turn CMG number 2 heaters off per the
cue card you have.
END OF TAPE
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i
022 23 05 03 CDR Did you say turn them off, o-f-f?
CC That's affirmative, o-f-f. We - we may get you

at Tananarive and remind you, but in case we don't,
we'd like to get you to turn them off.
CDR Okay, I assume then that you turned them on a llt-

tle while ago.
CDR Okay.
022 23 05 h0 CC And, Skylab, we're about 30 seconds from LOS.

Tananarive in another lh minutes.
022 23 20 5h CC Skylab, Houston through Tananarive for 9 minutes.
_- CDR Roger, Hank. You want a frame count?
CC Okay, go ahead.
CDR 9085, 78, 20, 5_, 15_6, and 3023.
CC We copy.
022 23 23 5_ CC SPT, Houston. Are you free to answer a question?
CDR He's working TV-107 right now.
CC Okay, Jer. We'll - we'll catch him later.
CDR And I'm going in with the commands now to turn off
the heaters.
CC Okay, Jer; thank you.
022 23 25 07 CDR Okay, number 2 bearing heaters are off.
CC Thank you, Jerry.
CC CDR, Houston. Your Flight Plan for the early EREP

calls for you to get up around 08:h5, and the
closest site we've got to that is Bermuda at 08:5h.
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CDR Hank, you cut out. We'll look for you at the next
site.
CC Okay_ I think we're bac_ with you. I was just say-

ing that the Flight Plan calls for you to get up
at - the Flight Plan ca_is for you to get up at
08:45, and the closest Kite to that is at 08:54.
Do you want to set yo_ric!ocks or - or we - I
guess we can go ahead and call you at 08:54.
F
CDR yes, why don't you givelus a call at 08:54.
022 23 27 31 CC Skylab, Houston. It sounds like we may be starting

to break lock here. Ha@all is your next pass at
05, and that's your medlconference.
END OF TAPE
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Sk'YLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION
023 00 34 32 CC Skylab, Houston through Vanguard for 8-1/2 minutes.
CDR Be right with you, Hank.
CC Okay, I got a quick question for you. Do you h_ve

the cover closed on the teleprinter? When we
talked to you in - up at the ATM console, that
thing sounds pretty loud when it's pecking away.
CDR Well, sometimes we do and sometimes we don't, it

just kind of depends. I think it was covered
today though when you and I were talk{rig.
CC Does it - does it - you know, when it - during

testing at the Cape, it seemed to me it made a lot
of difference whether that thing was opened or
closed in the level of the sound. I don't know
how it is in 5 psi.
_- SPT Yes, it really does make a difference. Hank, I'm

sleeping at home tonight, so you can run the tele-
printer all you like.
CC Boy, I'm sure glad to hear that. We had a problem

on this short night and needing to get the EREP
pads up. And they're never built, you know, until
late in the evening.
SPT Yes, things have cooled down here, and - so I've

moved back home. And you can let her run all night.
CC We need one little item on the ATM panel, whenever

it's convenient for someone. We need to get
DETECTOR 3 OFF on S055. You probably won't see
a change in the display because we've got it
eon_aanded on in parallel.
023 00 36 28 CDR Roger, Hank. Coming at you with photo log.

16-millimeter: EHEP, Charlie Lima ii, 30 percent.
35-m_]Timeter. Nikon 01, Charlie X-ray 42, frame -
frame count is 21; Nikon 02, Bravo Victor hg,
frame count's 48; Nikon 03, Charlie India 115,
" ' frame count's 41; Nikon 04, Bravo Echo i0, frame
" count is 41; Nikon 05, Bravo Hotel 06, frR_e
• count is 31. 70-millimeter: Charlie X-ray 18,
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frame count's 31. ETC: India Romeo 03, frame

count's 84. EREP: seti Yankee; 9507, 8846, 9721,
9712, 3258, 0582. Drawer A configuration: no
change.
CC Okay; we copy •
023 O0 38 02 CDR Okay, Hank, here comes !the status report. Sleep:
CDR, 6.0, 4 heavy, 2 l_ght; SPT, 6.0, 5 heavy,
i light; PLT, 7.0, 7 h_avy. Volumes: 265, 400,
and 265. Water gun: 8756, 4795, 1224. Mass:
6.317, 6.318, 6.321; 6J380, 6.381, 6.384; 6.245,
6.247, 6.240. Exercise: standard for everyone.
Medications: CDR and SPT none; PLT, Afrin times 2.
Clothing: CDR, socks; ISPT, socks and shirt; PLT,
none. Food log: CDR, salt 5.5; deviation, zero;
rehydration water, plus 2.0. SPT, 1.5 salt, plus
a grape drink, zero water. PLT, 8.5 salt, plus
a green beans, plus on_ coffee with sugar, zero
water. Flight Plan de"_ations : none. Shopping
list: all housekeepinl done; TV-107, 1.5 hours.
Inoperable equipment : none. Unscheduled stowage :
none.
CC Okay; we copy, Jerry. And I've got a question for

Ed, if he's available.
CDR Go ahead; he's listening.
CC Okay, this morning on _he - or this afternoon on

the EREP, they gave hi_ the option of eliminating
any ETC pictures that were 75 percent or greater
cloud covered. And I wonder if he exercised that
opt ion.
SPT Yes, I did on just oneIoccasion, Hank. And I'ii

get you the numbers; I put it on tape. Hold on.
SPT Okay, Hank. At the time of 25:14, we were supposed

to go to STANDBY. I _ent to STANDBY at 24:40;
that's about 30 second_ early. The reason, we
had 100-percent cloud Cover as we came over the
front.
023 O0 40 38 CC Okay, we copy, Ed. A_d I guess - if we could do

this maybe like an eveming status, or even real
time during the pass in the future, it would really
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help us out, because the EREP people start working

i_nediately on the next day's passes and start
thinking about the amount of film they have left.
SPT Okay, Hank. That being the case, I'll try and
give it to you after the EREP pass and the guys
at the VTS have calmed down and the loop is open.
CC Okay, that'll work out real well, Ed.
PLT Also, Hank, I got an end of film light on Charlie

Lima II; I had 30 percent remaining. I did a
functional check on it, and it's still moving film.
\ CC Okay_ we copy.
SPT Hank, on TV-107, which I got almost 20 minutes

of new - a little bit less - which I'll be finish-
ing up later tonight - But there is something on
there I think Joe A]]en and I talked about before
flight. And he'd like to take a look at it, I'm
sure. And I'd likehim to get back with me on
any comment that he might have at his convenience.
023 00 41 57 CC Okay, I'll pass that. And I've got one more im-
portant thing to get up to you here. We're about
a minute from LOS. And that is, at Ol:00 we would
like for you to turn the CMG number 2 bearing
heaters off, o-f-f, off. We've got a pass there at
00:58 at Tananarive, but it's real low elevation
and we're probably not going to get you.
SPT 01:00, CMG number 2 bearing off.
CC And for info, we're cycling those heaters now -

one complete cycle every rev is about what it's
working out. And if we don't get you at Tananarive,
Hawaii is the next site at 01:40 with a recorder
dump and also the PLT's phone call, RIGHT ANTENNA.
And we won't be talking to you any more this evening
since you're scheduled for sleep at 02:00. We
will have the comm up in ease you need us. We'll
say good night to you now and see you at 08:54 Zulu.
023 00 43 09 SPT Okay, Hank; thanks. Enjoy the night down there.
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023 01 40 56 CC Skylab, Houston.
SPT Hello, Hank.
CC Hey, Ed. Sorry to bother you. We promised you

we wouldn't, but we thought this was important
enough to tell you. We just got some weather in
on your early EREP tomorrow, and right now, it's
marginal. So what we!d like to do is have you -
don't do anything until you hear from us. It -
if it's GO, we'll go Shead and call you at 08:54
as
•
we said we would.
t
IIf
r.
the weather is NO GO,
just sleep and we ll _ive you a call somewhere
around 10:30 or ll:00iand - because the EREP will
be scrubbed.
z
SPT Okay, Hank. Sounds like a good way to do it. Hope

we can get some good @eather and get some good
EREP done.
I
CC So for the second tim¢ this evening, we'll say

good night to you. Amd we'll talk to you at either
08:54 or 10:30.
023 01 41 59 SPT Good night to the brol_ze team.
END OF TAPE
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SKYLAB AIR-TC-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

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023 i0 30 01 CC Skylab, Houston. Good morning to you; it's

10:30. We're stateside for 12 minutes.
CDR Morning, Dick.
CC Good morning. You'll notice by the slightly

later hour that we had to cancel the first EREP
on the Flight Plan this morning. That change has
made us redo the Flight Plan a little bit, so we
have reuplinked a new Flight Plan and details.
They're not significantly changed, but we figured
it would save you some - some paperwork and pen-
cil pushing. It's mainly at the end of the day
that the changes are, but one of the first things
you might do this morning is go up and smoke them
over.
023 lO 30 4" CDR Very good. Thank you, appreciate it.
CC Okay. One other thing; we have the VTR. We're

in the middle of a dump cycle, and I'll Just be
standing by here for the rest of this pass.
We've still got ll minutes to go.
CDR Okay.
023 l0 _0 54 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about a minute and a half

from LOS. We're going to drop out for @bout
5 minutes and then pick up Madrid at 10_46.
Incidentally, during the evening, we've had -
CMG 2 has had two or three long glitches on it,
and also we saw the ATM C&D COOLAN_LOOP pressure
go to - flow go to zero a couple of times. And
ass_im_ng that you guys didn't get up in the mid-
dle of the night and turn it off and then back
on, we're assuming that something else caused it.
SPT The assumption's right, Dick.
023 I0 41 _2 CC Roger.
023 i0 46 ]2 CC - Skylab, Houston. We're A0S Madrid for 8 minutes.
CDR Roger, Dick. I went up and had a listen to the

._ ATM C&D COOLANT PUMP. It sounds pretty c_]m
right now.
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CC Okay, Jerry. Thank you for the words. And PLT,

Houston. When you get ia chance, no hurry, I'd
like to speak to you far a second.
L
PLT Go ahead, Dick.
CC Roger, Bill. All your lfriends down here on the

purple gang would like }to wish you a happy birth-
day this morning. We _ure hope you have a nice
day, and I've - I've g_t a special message on
tape that I think you'll enjoy hearing.
L
023 l0 46 57 PLT Well thank you, purple Igang- I'd forgotten.
CC (Music: "Happy BirthdAy" and "For He's a Jolly

Good Fellow" by Pogue _amily.)
MCC Happy birthday, Bill.
MCC You're not getting old_r, you're getting better.
MCC Hang in there.
PLT Hey, Dick, that's really great. I wish I could

hug them all. i
CC I know you do, Bill. Happy birthday to you.
PLT Thanks again, j
023 l0 52 56 CC Skylab, Houston. We're a minute from LOS;

Carnarvon comes up at _l:21. There's one item
that came up last nigh_ on the evening status
report that I'd like t4|
pass up to you. And
that is, it was reported that Nikon 02 Bravo
Victor 49 had 48 frame_. We expected that to be
46 because we thought _ou should set it to 48
and then click off two !frames. If you did not
do this, Jerry, prior go doing S073 this morning,
we'd like you to do th@t. If you did click off -
whoever loaded it, if Mou did click off the
two frames, Just reset the counter to 46.
PLT We'll do that, Dick.
023 lO 53 34 CC Okay.
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023 ii 21 08 CC Skylab, Houston. We're A0S through Carnarvon

for 5 minutes. And I have some news here if
you'd like to hear it this morning.
PLT Roger. Go ahead, Dick.
CC Okay. Washington D.C. : Secretary of State Henry

A. Kissinger indicated that the unrestricted
flow of Arab - Arab oil to the United States may
resume in less than two months as a result of
the Egyptian/Israeli troop agreement. Kissinger
said, at his first news conference since return-
ing from the Middle East, that he has every rea-
son to believe that our success in the negotiations
mark a major step towards ending the oil embargo.
According to the agreement, Egypt and Israel must
complete their disengagement along the Suez Canal
within 40 to 60 days. The process is expected
to start on Friday. In London, the miners' union
threatened a national strike after the British
government refused to lift its wage controls to
_ permit a larger wage increasethan it is - than
it has allowed to other workers. A strike by
the miners, whose refusal to work overtime has
already created an energy shortage, could halt
most of the British industry by this spring.
023 ii 22 20 CC In New York, a $240,000 collection of Civil War

art, hidden for 60 years in a New Orleans attic,
went on exhibition here. The American Heritage
Society, which owns the collection, called it
the most important discovery of its kind in this
country. It consists of 754 pen-and-ink drawings,
pencil sketches, water colors and wash -wash
drawings by 56 artists. None has ever been pub-
licly displayed before. In Fresno, California,
a woman who got a traffic ticket for following
President Nixon's plea to slow down and save fuel
has beaten the rap. Irene Hodges, secretary of
the Hartford Chamber of Commerce, demanded a jury
trial after the California Highway Patrol cited
her November 18 for driving 57 miles per hour
instead of the posted 70 along Highway 99 near
here. Mrs. Hodges said she pleaded innocent
because only days before Nixon had called on
motorists to slow to 50 to save fuel. But she
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didn't have to go to trial on Monday because the

Municipal Court Judge Moradian dismissed the
citation without comment.
i
023 ii 23 33 CC One final item. From Niles, Ohio: City police
checked a report Tuesday that someone was inside
a Goodwill Industries u_ed clothing deposit box
near a local store, andlthey found out it was
true. The unidentified iman said he fell in while
putting clothing and other items into the box
and then couldn't - andithen could not reopen
the flap. We still hay& about 2 minutes here at
Carnarvon. I'm standin_ by.
SPT Roger, Dick. Thank you r
CC Roger.
023 ii 25 01 CC Skylab, Houston. We're!about a minute from LOS.

Honeysuckle comes up in_7 minutes, and I'll give
you a call there. Incidentally, the biomed offi-
cer has searched throug_ the transcripts and is
unable to find the M092i voice data on yesterday's
SPT run. If you - one Of you guys has a chance
to rerecord that, we'd _ure appreciate it.
PLT Okay, Dick. I have it _itten down. I'll

rerecord it.
CC Thank you very much.
CDR Dick, would you send us Iup another copy of mes-

sage 6961Alfa 2?
CC We'll certainly get that up to you, Jerry.
CDR Okay. This one got a l_ttle garbled. Looks like

maybe it slewed in the _iddle of it or something.
i
023 ll 26 O0 CC Okay. We'll re-uplink that message.
END OF TAPE
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023 ii 32 36 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Honeysuckle, very

short oass of about i minute. Texas comes up at
12:02. Be advised, since this pass is so short,
we're not going to try to uplink that message you
asked for, but we'll get it up to you at Texas.
So we'll see you then.
023 ii 32 53 SPT Okay, Dick.
023 12 02 09 CC Skylab, Houston. Hello stateside for 17 minutes.
023 12 04 22 CC Skylab, Houston; sort of in the blind. We're having

a problem receiving downlink from the site. I - I
understand I am getting up okay. We still have
about 14 minutes left in this stateside pass. I
have not received anything from you here, although
I understand you did answer me. When we get it
squared away, I'ii give you another call.
f
CDR Houston, CDR. How do you read?
CC CDR, Houston. Loud and clear now. How me?
CDR Okay, good, Dick. The question was, Dr. Biomed

down there is probably interested in getting his
throat samples before we eat or brush our teeth,
or anything like that. It's a little too late for
that today. We're going to go ahead and take - in
fact we've taken about three-quarters of the rest
of the samples. I would suggest that we take the
throat sample tomorrow morning before we eat.
023 12 05 22 CC Okay, Jerry. We concur with that one. And inci-

dentally, Jerry, we checked back and on that tele-
printer message that you said had some kind of a
problem, we checked at the site and INCO saw no
problems at all on his TMon the command history.
We're wondering if you could give us a little more
detailed description of what happened to the message.
CDR Don't really know. It's Just the - either the

middle of it or the - the - the two - the top and
the bottom have been separated by a slew. And
the - the message itself has got a bunch of hash
marks above it. Let me get it, and I'Ii kind of
describe it to you in detail.
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CC Okay, good; we'd appreciate it.
CDB Okay, it picks up in on e of the starred boxes,

and the first line is, l'About l0 minutes (no DACs).
For TV-57 Delta, obs, fbllow the action during
these maneuvers." And above that is Just a - a
bunch of funny hash mar_s repeated l, 2, 3 -
5 times. And they're a_out the height of about
three lines. And, you know, kind of looks like
an Indian blanket or something like that.
i
CC Roger, Jerry. We appreciate the description. And
we certainly don't havei an immediate answer, but
we'll take a look at it!. Thank you.
CDR Okay.
CC Go ahead, Jer.
CDR Okay. I've got the ful_ message now, and it looks
like there were about li, 2, 3 - 5 lines that were
missed right out of the! middle of this message,
and that's where we have all of that funny slewing.
CC Now this is the - this _s the first one that we

had the problem with, n_t the one we just uplinked;
is that right?
CDR Yes, the one you Just uplinked is in good shape.

And I've got the first part and the last part of
the - of this same message up here, and it's Just
the part in the middle _hat's missing.
F
CC Uh-huh. Okay. Thank you very much for letting

us know.
CC Go, Ed
SPT Dick, we've got a COMPUTER REJECT light up here.

Is that an anomaly thatieame up while sending up
some commands, or do yoh know what the problem
is?
_k
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CC Stand by i.
CC SPT, Houston. The problem is a command error on

the ground. We'll - it'll - it'll be rectified
in just a minute. No problem with you.
023 12 14 32 SPT The sPr activity light is out, Dick.
CC Roger.
SPT Dick, l'd like to go ahead and put a little H-

ALPHA i on the VTR. Yesterday when we did that,
we had the DOORS OPEN for about a half an orbit
before we were actually able to get to it.
CC Stand by just a second. Let me check the status.

We - we have been doing some VTR dumping. Stand
by.
f 023 12 16 32 CC SPT, Houston. We're in a rewind mo - mode at the

moment. It's going to take at least 5 minutes to
complete that at that - and at that point, it
should be available to you. So I'ii let you know
the status when we get AOS Madrid.
SPT Okay. Thank you, Dick. We won't need more than

15 - 30 seconds, whatever it takes for it to c_e
up to speed and start recording.
CC Roger.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're i minute from LOS. Madrid

comes up in 5 minutes. See you there.
023 12 18 00 SPT Roger, Dick. So long.
023 12 23 42 CC Skylab, Houston. We're A0S Madrid for 9 minutes,

and the VTR is yours.
CC Also, we're dumping the data/voice recorder here

at Madrid.
_ 023 12 28 50 CC SPT, Houston. We think you need the H-ALPHA NIGHT

INTERLOCK to OVERRIDE to get H-ALPHA running.
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CC Roger.
SPT Can't tell without a RElY or an OPERATE light.

b
CC Rogerthat. i
CC Skylab, Houston. We'rela minute from LOS. Tanan-

arive at 12:45. I
023 12 31 51 SPT So long, Houston. i
023 12 45 22 CC Skylab, Houston. We're iAOS Tananarive for about

5 minutes. And, SPT, Hduston. Back there when
you put the NIGHT INTERLOCK switch to OVERRIDE for
us, we were looking at @ur data and we didn't see
the shutter operate, wonder if you'd verify H-
ALPHA 1 mode switch to _UT0?
SPT Yes. I've got it now, Dick.
CC Roger.Thank
you.
023 12 50 04 CC Skylab, Houston. We're sxpecting an early LOS

from Tananarive. Honeysuckle at 13:10.
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023 13 i0 24 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Honeysuckle for

1-1/2 minutes. We need the CMG bearing heaters
off on bearing 2, please. Over. Roger. That's
on CMG 2 in_nediately, please.
SPT In work.
CC Skylab, this is Houston. 40 seconds to LOS. Next

at 13:38. Out.
SPT CMG nigher 2 bearing heaters are off.
CC Roger. We verify that. Thank you.
023 13 12 05 CC And, Ed, while you're up there, we see the H-ALPHA 1

NIGHT INTERLOCK is still in OVERRIDE. We're using
film at night. We'd like to get it back to NORMAL,
please.
023 13 37 _ CC Skylab, this is Houston through Goldstone and

Corpus Christi for ll-1/2 minutes, Out. And,
we're taking the VTR here.
CC And, Ed, we need the DAS here for a few minutes

to load momentum bias for the EREP coming up.
SPT You got it.
CC And we 're through with the DAS, Ed.
SPT Roger.
023 13 48 28 CC Skylab, this is Houston; 1 minute to LOS; 2 minutes

to Bermuda.
023 13 50 ll CC Skylab, this is Houston through Bermuda for

5-1/2 minutes.
CC Skylab, this is Houston; 1 minute to LOS. Next

station in 5 minutes at Canary Islands at lh:01.
023 13 55 55 CDR Roger, Bruce.

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023 14 00 59 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Canary for 9 min-

utes. Out.
CDR Houston, CDR. The S1831 malfunction procedure is

complete. Terminated b_eause of failure of the
system and the details are on tape; time tag,
13:50 Zulu. I
CC Okay, we copy that. Do you remember which block

it was you spun out in, rblock 9 maybe?
CDB No, I got as far as - Lgot the POWER ON and got

the PLATE light illnm_nated, and as soon as I
started the SEQUENCE, START - 35 seconds after
SEQUENCE, START we lost ithe PLATE light.
CC Okay; thank you.
023 14 09 03 CC Skylab, this is Houstonb; 1 minute to LOS. Next

station contact in 12 minutes through Tananarive.
Out. F
023 14 22 39 CC Skylab, this is Houstonl through Tananarive for

6 minutes. Out.
SPT Houston, SPT with the solar update.
SPT Houston, SPT with the solar update.

P
CC Go ahead, Ed. You're coming in awful weak, though.

Could you get up a little closer to the mike?
SPT How do you read me now,L Bruce?
CC Very, very weak.
SPT Okay. Apparently the cpmm is bad at this station.

I'll wait until the next.
CC Okay.
023 14 27 07 CC Skylab, this is Houston, i-1/2 minutes to LOS.

Next station contact in 18 minutes through Honey-
suckle Creek at 14:45. Out.
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023 14 45 21 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Honey._uckle Creek

for about 9 minutes. There'll be a data/voice
tape recorder dump at Hawaii AOS next site. And
for SPT, I guess we have better comm here. Did
you have some comments on the Sun?
CDR Houston, CDB.
CC Go ahead, CDR.
CDR Roger. Would you ask the food people today - l'd
like to add mash potatoes to my menu tonight. I
would like to find out what adjustments I have
to make.
CC Okay. We'll do that, and if Ed has no comments

on the Sun, why, we'll press on with the ATM
conference. I'ii turn it over to Bill.
SPT Morning, Bill. Go ahead.
023 14 46 16 MCC Okay, Ed. A couple of words here on the Sun. The
first is, I've Just gotten word from the backroom
that we presently have an active prominence on the
southwest limb. It is out to 0.03 solar radii now
and it is growing. You may want to be taking a look
at that as the Sun comes over the hill. In active
region 33 we show a few bright points coming out
today in the plage. That may indicate that we're
going to get some resurgence of activity there.
There is some new plage west - that is, toward the
limb of active region 33 - shows some sign of
development and almost certainly would be inter-
acting with active region 33 through loops. It
will be on the west limb in 1 day. Based on what
we have seen here over the last few days and some
speculation, there's obvious connections between
active regions 31 and 32 which are up in the
northern hemisphere and 33, which is in the southern
hemisphere. And - -
SPT Wait. Wait. You're saying that - Bill, there's

connections between 33 and 32 and 317 In other
words, across the equator?
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MCC Yes, that's - I specifically asked NOAA that this

]::orning,and they were pretty strong in their
answer about _hat. That they - There did appear
to be a lot of sympathe@ic brightening among all
three of these - with a_y of the events going on
yesterds_", i
023 14 47 36 SPT Okay. We've not seen anything other than the time
correlations in brightening.
MCC That's - that's affirma£ive. One - -
SPT Okay.
MCC - - One last point here r then on the Sun, on the

southeast limb where active region 12 would be
returning, we see nothiDg. At some point during
the day, if you see anything over there, just pass
us down a word, and we'll take a look at it. The
other things here on myl agenda today - the basic
plan is fairly obvious ! We have gotten some extra
orbits at the end of th, day due to the cancellation
of the early EREP. On _he orbit starting at
23:06 Zulu that CDR has presently there's a BB1
followed by a BB2 sche@_led with a powerdown to
unattended. The only dlange we're making is he
now has that full orbit, and he will have observing
time for the last porti)n of it. The orbit after
that, beginning at 00:3_ Zulu, is SPT orbit, yours;
what we want to schedul_ there is a BB32 at the
beginning, and observin_ time for the entire rest
of that orbit. We can Bend you a pad on that if
you like. But if you @n't say anything, we
probably won't. !
023 14 48 49 SPT No, I'll take the observing time. If someone has
something specific they!'d like carried out, though,
let me know. But I'm -iI'm sure I'll be able to
make good use of that time.
I
MCC That was our feeling al_o. Okay, we've got

5-1/2 minutes left. Th_ next thing I'd like to
get to here is a - a discussion on the planning
for the the nex crew d_y off, which is Saturday.
We have had several mee,tings here, and we just
finished a meeting with! Gene Kranz, on a proposal
for taking a look at so_e different types of planning
and operations for ATM _hat might be applicable to
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shuttle-type facilities. Basically, what we would

like to propose is the following - that really
involves you doing 95 percent of the planning
rather than we doing it down here. The one point
I would like to make is that we do not in any way
intend for this day off to be a hectic day off
for you or any way worse than any other crew day
off and maybe not even as bad. So don't let us -
don't let this pressure you into doing more than
you really want to. We certainly don't intend
that. But the plan would be that on Thursday night,
that's 2 days from now and 2 days prior to the
execute day, we would send you up $1111TaI_planning;
the goals as we see them, 2 days in advance, so
that you could begin to think about it. The
fol_1o_ing night, we would send a detailed lengthy
message, mostly words, as to what the scientific
goals of the individual experiments would be the
following day.
023 14 50 25 MCC And then you could, on your own, piece those to-
gether and accomplish those goals in the way that
you saw that was best fit. During the day itself,
we would schedule some time in the morning for a
science conference that would be handled basically
by the planning chairman acting as the - the czar
so to speak, as far as the air-to-ground goes.
The planning chairman that discussed all the details
and the requests from the experiments the day
before. We could have as much time at that as we
wanted. We would propose it after you have seen
the Sun, and that he could also handle a detailed
NOAA briefing to you with NOAA in the background
to answer questions for him that you might have on
the Sun. Then you could plan out and take as many
or as few orbits as you wanted that day that were
available to ATM to accomplish the goals, and
we're also proposing on about 3-hottr centers that
we would schedule a conference between you and the
planning chairman again as a how-goes-it, what's-
changed, what's-new; with the understanding that
in addition to that, any time you wanted, you could
call down and talk to the planning chairman,or for
that matter, the PI from any of the individual
experiments would be on call to run out, plug in
and talk to you if necessary. And, basically,
that 's what we 're looking at, and we' re wondering
_- if you have any thoughtson it.
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023 lh 51 51 SPT You've outlined it well Bill, and I think you've

got a good plan in mind I look forward to that.
I think one thing I woli.d like to make sure though,
is that the day before, which I do get the lengthy
message - message outlilling the objectives of the -
each experiment, the foZ.lowing day, that I have
at least an hour or so of time in order to go over
that and become fs/nilia_ and to work out a tentative
plan for the following lay.
MCC Okay. We'll take that into the system here and
see about getting that _or you. That'd be Friday
night.
SPT That's right.
023 lh 52 2_ MCC Okay. And then following that, ss a matter of fact,

the suggestion was that iwe really ought to do it
more than 1 day i a rowl here, although our original
intent was 1 day. So right now we don't have hard
plans to follow it up, _lthough we would like to
be ready to do more of _hat type of thing, if it
looks like that's a way to operate or if it looks
like we would like to i_ivestigate that method more.
So throughout that day, keep us up-to-date on your
thoughts on how the sys;em is working, how we
might improve it, and s on. With the detailed
message the night before, will also be coming up
a film budget. Obviously, we're down to the point
now where quite a few e_eriments just down to the
i
point now where quite aifew experiments Just don't

have any film left. That will limit our test here
somewhat, in that therel won't be everybody able to
participate. But I thihk we can do as much as we
can this way. !
t
SPT Yes. I understand that i. My only reticence about
the - the whole operatibn is that sufficient time
'_e allotted for planning. I think we can handle
it well from up here, g_ven the information that
you said will be coming! up. All we need is the
time to put it together I.
MCC Okay. And that's really our job because _e way

I look at it, this method cannot be properly
looked at unless we do indeed give you the time
to plm_ it. And we re_ize that your time isn't
free any more than oursJ is down here.
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SPT That's right.
023 14 53 5( MCC Okay, Ed. We're 52 seconds until LOS. Honey -

No, Hawaii is next in ii minutes, and that would
be at 15:05.
SPT Okay. And I do have some comments on the Sun,

which I'ii save until then. I couldn't get to a
speaker box when they first came over the hill
here. So I'ii hold off until Hawaii. Thanks
very much, Bill. I appreciate your hard work on
this, and as a matter of fact, your hard work on
this whole effort. I think you've played a major
role in keeping this whole thing alive and making
it work well. I appreciate it.
MCC Okay. Well thanks a lot for your co_ents, but

as l'm sure you're well aware, l'm just the visible
tip of a huge iceberg here. So we'll be talking
to you tomorrow and any other thoughts on this,
keep passing them on to us. We want to be able
to react quickly.
023 14 54 3T SPT Okay. Sure will. Thank you, Bill.
023 15 05 0T CC Skylab, this is Houston through Hawaii for

9-1/2 minutes with a data/voice tape recorder
dump. Out.
SPT Okay, Houston, I have the solar update.
CC Go ahead.
SPT Okay. Looking at the WHITE LIGHT CORONAGRAPH, we

see some subtle changes. One fairly large one is
over on the east limb at 270, extending from 26
to 28 at around 3 radii. We still see the same
streamer structure we saw yesterday, perhaps two
overlapping. That's a little hard to tell, but
the intensity is greatly decreased, very signi-
ficantly decreased. Relatively the same form
but does not extend out as far and it's not
anywhere near as intense as the base. On the
west limb there's two faint streamers, one at
060 and one at 080, both radial. Over at about
120, or ll5 actually, there are two streamers
crossing there, and they cross at around 3 solar
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radii. They're fairly inarrow. One is radial; the

other one is directed about 090. That crosses at -
I said 3 solar radii out and diverge from there on
out. Before they divegge, or before they cross
the - they appear as a isingle streamer. XUV
MONITOR shows the active regions which we're aware
of. 32 is very dim, 31 is - even though it's on
the limb, is not as bright as the 20 - 21 complex.
And 33 can be seen there almost distinctly, but it -
the plage doesn't blen_ in with the other two.
Active region 17 stand_ out above the limb in a
distinct way from the @lage on the limb. By that
I mean, it looks the m_st spherical above the
limb - above the normal limb brightening.
i
023 14 07 28 SPT A longer integration o4 the XUV MONITOR shows over

on the east limb. There are - there is the active
region 34, which is atiabout 260, as I see it.
Then at 270 and at 280 there are also two - two
limb brightenings but much smaller magnitude.
i
There are some bright _oints at 000 about 3 so ar
radii out, in that general neighborhood, three or
four of them; four if you count a very faint one,
spread out over about 0.2 or 0.3 of a solar radii.
There is a coronal hol@ at about 130, 0.3 radi out
and it's about 0.2 solar radi in diameter. It's
not completely circular, but - fairly ragged edges
to it, but it's close _o circular. There is also
a filament channel up _orth of that - up around -
believe it's filament _6. And even though fila-
ment 86 is relatively _hort, the channel in which
it is embedded is quite long, extends from Just
about 010 on the - about 0.5 radii directly to
the west. And then asl it gets around 0.8 radii
out, it starts to curv_ up to the north. The
active regions in - Looking at it with S055 and
H-ALPHA, all appear to Ibe diminished in intensity
very significantly, especially 31. I shouldn't
say that about 21 because it pretty much remains
the same as I saw it y_sterday in intensity. 31
is certainly way down;f the oxygen VI count is down
to around 4000, 5000 m_x, and I don't see the rapid
time variations which We saw yesterday. Hopefully
it's just rebuilding _d is going to give us a
good spectacular eventllwhen it gets right at the
limb. And we'll be wa_tchlng for what the NOAA
guys have called out h_re, an M-1 or greater. I
hope we can get it. That concludes it.
023 15 i0 02 CC Okay, thank you, Ed.

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CC And, Skylab, this is Houston. We're taking the

VTR at this time in order to prepare it for a dump
over Goldstone coming up.

at 15:17. Out.

7-1/2 minutes. We need the DAS for a NAV update
please.
SPT You got it.
023 15 19 27 CC The NAV update's in, Ed, and now you've got the
DAS back.
SPT Thank_ you. And in looking at the WHITE LIGHT

CORONAGRAPH DISPLAY, I do not see any change from
the previous orbit. The streamer structure in
which I discussed the crossing at 3 solar radii
is still in the same configuration and nothing
else at it's base.
CC Roger.
023 15 23 4_ CC Skylab, this is Houston; i minute to LOS. Next

at 15:28. out.
023 15 30 0L CC Skylab, this is Houston. 6-1/2 minutes remaining

in Bermuda.
023 15 31 413 CC And, Skylab, this is Houston. We have rewound

the VTR. It's clean and it's all yours.
SPT ThanX you, Houston.
021 15 35 5L CC Skylab, this is Houston; i minute to LOS. Next

station contact in 2 minutes. Canary at 15:38.
Out.
SPT Houston, SPT. I'd like you to clarify something

for me. On the pad for the orbit we've just
previously finished, we had 56, SINGLE FRAME, 2,
exposure, 16 minutes; and from the message which
we received on the order of a month ago for filter
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duration - or exposure duration versus filter

position, we show that 2 has the max allowable of
8 minutes. Could you tell us whether that max
allowable is now up tO 16 or some other number?
CC Okay. That was on th_ pass that started at 15:19.

And you're looking at iSINGLE FRAME, l, is it for
16 minutes? !
SPT Negative, negative. Last orbit ... 2, exposures -
023 15 37 55 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Canary and Ascension

for 16 minutes. For _he SPT, we're having troubles
reading you again. COuld you either speak up
closer to the mike or _change comm carriers if
you're wearing a hat. L I guess the only time when
you really came throu_ loud and clear this
morning was during th_ ATM conference. Over.
!
SPT That's right, Bruce. iI was using the handheld
mike at that moment.
CC Okay. That's a lot b_tter. Loud and clear now.

i
SPT Okay. What part of that last transmission or the
question do you not umderstand?
CC We 've got it all here i Stand by.
023 15 39 54 CC SPT, Houston.
SPT Go ahead.
CC Roger. The 16-minute Iexposure on filter 2, S056,

was correct as carrie_ in the schedule pad and
your recollection was ialso correct. This
represents a change in pholosophy in relaxing
constraints in that w# had been concerned about
overheating filter 2, rbut with so little time
left in the mission, We're no longer that
concerned about it. So what we'd like you to do
is keep on questioning these things in advance
as you see them. But otherwise, go ahead and run
them according to the ischedule pad. Over.
SPT Okay. How about shopping list work then, for

filter 2 and also filter 3, which is 15 minutes
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max allowable? Can we go ahead and assume that

those things will be up to 16 or 20 minutes?
023 15 41 06 CC The answer to that, Ed, is yes, but - in the

interim. But we'll go ahead and update the
message and send you a new version of it.
SPT Okay. That'llbe helpful. Thank you.
CC Roger. Out. And if you can spare the DAS for a

minute, we'll send you a nu z update.
SPT You've got it.
023 15 h2 39 CC And the nu Z update's in, so you've got the DAS

again.
SPT Roger.
023 15 53 23 CC Skylab, this is Houston; 1 minute to LOS, next

at 16:20. Out _.
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023 16 20 51 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Carnarvon and

Honeysuckle Creek for 9-1/2 minutes. Out.
023 16 29 03 CC Skylab, this is Houston. We're i minute to LOS.

Next station contact in 14-1/2 minutes through
Hawaii at 16:51. Out. And for the CDR; we'd like
to cancel the EREP pass for today. Go ahead and
activate your no-EREP alternate Flight Plan. Over.
CDR Roger, Bruce. What's the reason? Weather, or what?
023 16 29 31 CC Roger. Concern over CMG 2. You're currently

running about 2.1 degrees, bearing 2 temp over
bearing 1 temperature. We've been having a dis-
cussion here with the HOSC. We'll get you some
more information as it becomes available. Right
now we're looking at continuing our watch for a
period of - of about 24 hours, winding up tonight,
and thenn making a decision as to whether to resume
_- EREP or what mode of operationto go in. Over.
CDR Okay. Thank you.
023 16 30 04 CC Roger. Out. Happy alternating.

8-1/2 minutes with a message for the colander.
CDR Go ahead.
CC Okay. You can substitute mashed potatoes for bread

if you've not already eaten the bread today. Over.
CDR Okay, thank you.
CC No bread sand - no mashed potato sandwiches, I

guess, is the message on that though. And, since
the beta angle is decreasing and the CSM temps
are returning to normal, we'd like you to reenable
QUA]9 Alfa and Delta PACKAGE TEMP. INPUTS to CAUTION
and WARNING, panel 201 in the command module;
Bravo 5 and Delta 6 to ENABLE at your convenience.
023 16 44 22 CDR Okay, Bruce. And how about the OWS HEAT EXCHANGER
FANS? Can we go back to the logic in the OWS
position?
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CC That' s affirmative, Jerry.
CDR Okay.
023 16 46 22 CC And for Bill, if you're listening, on your details

at 22:26, that is the T002-1 operation this evening,
when you do that, we'd like you to verify that the
transparent plastic protective shield is removed
from the wardroom window prior to making the
sightings. Over.
PL_ Roger ; copy.
023 16 51 i0 CC Skylab, this is Houston; i minute to LOS. Next

at 16-%. And for your information, you may
relax the constraint on minimizing the number of
lights that are on. The beta angle's gone down
enough so that the workshop's cooled off, and you
can use whatever lighting you desire.
023 16 51 35 CDR Roger, Bruce.

5-1/2 minutes.
SPT Houston, SPT.
CC Go ahead, SPT.
SPT Looking at the 9063 pad and the mode of operation,

I see that they suggest holding the TILT constant
and changing ROTATION while you're also working
with the RING as well as the arc travel. At the
end, if everything has worked out perfect, you
will then know where you are in ROTATION. If it
does not work out perfect, you do not know where
you are in ROTATION, and you have trouble bringing
in the mirror. I have found in previous working
with this that I was able to get, I thought,
satisfactory data by holding ROTATION constant,
changing the TILT and the RING, as well as moving
the arc where necessary. I think it's putting the
AMS in jeopardy, and other experiments that use
it, to use this other procedure. If they feel
strongly enough about it, I'll go ahead and do it.
But I do not advise it.
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CC Okay. Let us check on that. We've always got the

center-the-discone-and-the-mirror trick to get us
back, but we'll check on it for you.
023 17 00 ii CC Skylab, this is Houston; a little over a minute

to LOS. Next station contact in 4 minutes through
Merritt Island at 17:04. And for Ed; we concur
with your recommendation. We put the pad together
differently from the way we normally do. So go
ahead and lock your ROTATION and use TILT for
acquisition and tracking. Do you need any changes
to the pad, or can you handle it like it is?
SPT No, I've got it. I'll handle it the way it is.
Thank you.
023 17 00 42 CC Okay. Thank you.
023 17 Oh 08 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Merritt Island

and Bermuda for ll-1/2 minutes. Out.
CC SPT, Houston. Over.
CC SPT, this is Houston through Bermuda. Over.
SPT Go ahead.
023 17 08 22 CC Roger, Ed. In closing the loop on this S063

tracking situation, the information we're getting
from the backroom now is that you cannot track the
target fully across the field of view using the
rota - using TILT only. So that we will modify
your pad. The way it's looking right now is
we'll give you a couple or three discrete
ROTATION settings and within those settings, you
can track in TILT. Over.
SPT Okay, Bruce. That sounds better than the other

procedure.
CC And we should have that up to you at Ascension

this [sic] pass, and 15, 20 minutes.
SPT Roger.
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023 17 15 ii CC Skylab, this is Houston. 40 seconds to LOS. Next

station contact in 7 minutes through Ascension at
17:22. Out.

5 minutes. Out.
CC SPT, Houston. l've got an update to your S063

tracking procedure here.
SPT Let me get the pad, Bruce. I'll be with you in

a minute.
CC Okay.
SPT Go ahead.
023 17 24 00 CC Okay. Your starting position will be a ROTATION

of 35 degrees; that's 35 degrees, which is 1.2
turns clockwise; TILT at 30. Lock your ROTATION
and track toward 0 TILT for starters. Over.
SPT 35 degrees in ROTATION, 2.1 turns, and 30 degrees

in TILT.
CC That's 1.2 turns.
SPT 1.2 turns. Okay.
CC Clockwise. When the TILT equals 0, change the

ROTATION to 75 degrees - that's an additional
1.4 turns clockwise - and track back toward TILT
equal B0. Over.
SPT Standby a minute, Bruce.
CC Okay.

station contact in 28-1/2 minutes through Carnarvon
at 17:55; opening up with a data/voice tape
recorder dump. Out.
SPT Okay, Bruce. Why don't you take it from the

top and let me copy it through again. I think
there's a point which I'm missing here. Go ahead.
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CC Okay. Start at ROTATION of 35 degrees, 1.2 turns

clockwise. TILT equal 30, and track back toward
0 TILT for tk_ first step.
SPT Go ahead.
CC When the TILT equals O, change your ROTATION to

75 degrees - that's 1.4 more turns clockwise -
and track towards TILT 30. That'sreturning to
your original TILT setting. Over.
SPT Okay. We start on a ROTATION of 35 degrees,

1.2 turns, TILT of 30, track toward 0. We get
to 0 then we put the TILT back to 30 - or put the
ROTATION to 75, which is an additional 1.h turns,
and track back to 30 on the TILT.
023 17 27 35 CC Roger. And retraction is 2.6 turns counter-

clockwise, and we'll see you at Carnarvon.
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i0 minutes with a data/voice tape recorder dump
and a question. And we'll hold off on the dump
until you're through using it. And a question for
the CDR. In running the S193 ms/ procedure,
step 14 read, "voice record time at start and end
of each two series of clicks in normal exposure
sequence." And we're wondering if you got any of
those clicks at all, since we didn't hear any
reference to it on the tape. Over.
CDR Negative. The clicks don't start until i minute

after you initate. And this thing quit at
35 seconds.
CC Roger_ we copy.
023 18 04 08 CC Skylab, this is Houston. 1 minute to LOS; next

station contact in 4 minutes through Guam at 18:08.
And the data/volce tape recorder is just about
filled up, so it's imperative that we get it at
Guam for a dump. Over.
CDR Bruce, can you redesignate another one? He's -

Ed's in the middle of S063.
Cc We'll do that.
023 18 04 44 CDR Okay.
023 18 08 18 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Guam for i0 minutes.

Out.
CC And for the SPT. You need to interrupt your

S073 ops here for a minute so we can redesignate
recorders. That's S063 ops.
SPT ...
CDR Go ahead, Bruce, he's waiting.
CC We're doing it. And, you're GO, Ed; you can resume
dictation. And for Jerry. When you come up to
the ATM panel your next scheduled pass here, you're
going to have to do a powerup from the EREP power-
down configuration. And we'd like you to observe
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the H - the MON i and MON 2 on H-ALPHA i and 2 and

see if the image quality is any higher when the
monitors come up from being cold than after they've
been warmed up for a while. Over.
023 18 09 56 CDR Okay, Bruce. I was wondering why my details had

me up there at 17:48; there wasn't a whole lot to
be done.
CC Let us check on that. I think we - we've been

allowing a - a fair amount of time before the pass
to get oriented and make yourself comfortable at
the panel, and we only show about 9 minutes of -
of night remaining.
CDR Yes, but at 17:48 there was better than 30 minutes.
CC Roger.
CC Roger. We didn't have anything else to stick in

there, in the alternate, Jerry, so I guess we got
a little over - over eager in getting you time to
get up there and get Set up at the - the panel.
023 18 ll ll CDR Okay, no problem. I'm getting a little housekeeping

done. By the way, would you ask the food people
to send us the day 84 and day 85 menus? In our
spare time, we ought be able to get those packed
and put away in the command module.
CC Okay, we'll check that one out for you, Jer.
CDR They sent us up a food list, but it - I don't know

if it's the whole menu or what.
023 18 12 47 CC CDR, this is Houston. We have the day 84 menu down

here still being discussed. We should get this up
to you in a day or so. But I guess the salient
point about the whole situation is that day 84 and
day 85 may as well be eaten in the workshop, and
need never be packed into the CSM. :Over.
CDR Okay. The thing is, I want to get that kind of

stuff done early, so that when we get to the real
tough stuff in deactivation we won't have to fool
with the trivia.
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CC Hight. We're with you. I remember the flap we

had on SL-3.
CC And just for information, we're taking control of

the VTR for a short dump at Goldstone coming up
here.
CDR Roger.
023 18 16 09 CC And, CDR, Houston.
CC Yes. Just to put your mind a little bit at ease

here about up-and-coming deactivation, we've been
working this over fairly heavily the last week or
so. And we have a - a message that's being pre-
pared to come up to you hopefully in a - a few days
to a week. Basically, we're cutting way back on
the deactivation activities, eliminating all the
bioeiding and things like the WMC filters replace-
ment and the urine collectorseparator flush, things
of this sort. So that we think we've already taken
quite a number of man-hours out of deact for you.
And the final day remains just about the same, since
you're just closing out and getting yourself con-
figured and powered up and moved out. But the
preceding days are getting a lot lighter. Over.
CDR Well, that's good to hear. It sounds like maybe

they're not quite so interested in the revisit idea.
CC Well, we intend to leave the vehicle in a safe

configuration for revisit if that should materialize.
CDR Okay.
CC And we got 1 minute to LOS. Next station contact

is 16-1/2 minutes through Goldstone at 18:34. And
for Ed, we just scrubbed the laser pass over Goddard
this rev, so you can scratch that one off.
CDR Roger. Weather?
023 18 17 58 CC Yes, indeed.
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Christi, Merritt Island, and Bermuda for 16-1/2 min-
utes. Continuing saga of return menus, Jerry.
We owe you a menu for mission day 84. In the Deact
Checklist we promise it to you in real time, but
we'll try and have it shortly. For day 85, things
are in a little better shape. We still have one
or two of the details to iron out. The items that
are referenced by you in the permanent general
massage in steps 1 and 2, with the possible ex-
ception of corn flakes and coffee, which may be
treated as snacks, comprise all of meal A. That
menu is in the Deact Checklist. We may modify
it. It will be eaten in the workshop. Meal B,
as called out in the Deact Checklist and stowed
in L-3, is complete, and you'll go ahead and eat
that in the command module. Over.
CDR Okay. I guess what bugs me is the stuff that's

labeled day 57 in - on paragraph 3. Is that in
the canisters in - in the food lockers in the
forward compartment, or is that the day 57 stuff
that's in L-37
CC It's the day 57 items in the OWS lockers. I

think you can consider L-3 as sacrosanct for your
return.
CDB Okay. Very good. Thank you, Bruce.
023 18 41 23 CD5 Houston, CDR.
CC S055 DETECTORS 6 and 7, off, please.
CDB Okay.
CC Go ahead.
CDE The H-ALPHA 1 was significantly clearer and sharper

when I powered it up this time than it was compared
to last night, when I had the last pass of the
day and it'd been running most of the day.
CC What MONITOR was that on?
CDE MONITOR 1.
CC Okay.
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at 19:33. And the VTR has been wiped clean, and
it's all yours.
023 18 50 09 CDR Roger. Thanks.
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6-1/2 minutes. Out.
023 19 39 25 CC Skylab, this is Houston; 1 minute to LOS; next

19 :h7. Out.

And for the CDR, if he's listening; I've got the
details on his private comm for this evening.
CC Skylab, this is Houston. We see some time accumu-

lated on the video tape recorder. Would you like
us to clean it off here at Goldstone and give it
back to you? Over.
PLT Yes, go ahead, Bruce.
_- CC Okay. We'll do that,Bill.
023 19 48 48 PLT I tried to get some stuff on the mouth of the

Amazon River. There's not over - what I put
on there - probably not over about 3 minutes.
CC Okay, Just - our INC0 watching things here.
PLT I think there were too many clouds. It sort of

zapped the - the integrator.
CC Okay.
023 19 50 19 CC And for the CDR, got a few words on the state of
the Sun for you here.
023 19 52 25 CC Skylab, this is Houston; 1 minute to LOS; next

station contact in 18-1/2 minutes through Gold-
stone at 20:11. Out.
023 19 52 57 CC ...

Christi, and Merritt Island for lh minutes with
a data/voice tape recorder dump impending at
Corpus Christi.
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PLT Roger, Bruce.
CDR That sounds ominous.
CC Impend, impend.
CC And for the PLT. We're sitting here looking at the

TV being dumped down at the present time. I guess
that's the Amazon River we're looking at, you
mentioned.
PLT Yes, right. It's the mouth of the Amazon.
CC Yes. Really, it's coming through in pretty good

shape.
PLT Well, that's good. It was sort of violating our

ru - rules, but it - it was wide open there, or
at least as wide open as we've seen it for a while,
so I thought I'd go ahead. It was worth 3 or
4 minutes of VTR.
CC Yes. Man, that's beautiful.
PLT Great, I'll try it again.
CDR Brace, the S056 FRAME REMAINING counter is read-

ing zero now. Do you want a reset? Or how do
they want to work it?
CC Affirmative. Reset to 6000. 20 seconds to hand-

over. We'll be dumping the data/voice tape re-
corder on AOS here at Corpus Christi.
CC And for Jerry; we still have this little update

on the solar activity if you're listening.
CDR Be right with you.
023 20 16 05 CC Okay, new active region, designated AR-35, 100 de-

grees at 1.O, has had several minor enhancements.
One of them at 16:30 Z, about 4 hours ago, was
followed by disk surges and limb surges to a max
of 0.04 solar radius above the limb. And another
note, active region 35 is Just west - that is,
west limbwa_d of active region 33. That's about it.
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CDR Roger. I saw that last pass and thought it was

17. I got a PATROL, SHORT on that, last pass.
CC Okay, very good.
023 20 19 23 CC CDR, this is Houston. When you've got a second,

I've got some more ATM schedule changes for you.
CDR Okay, go ahead.
CC Okay. We're catching up with Dr. Lenoir here.

On your schedule on the cycle beginning at
23:06 Zulu, at 15 minutes time remaining, change
from powerdown unattended to observing time.
Over.
CC And at 00:39 Zulu, we want to generate a new cycle

of observations assigned to the SPT. 52 minutes -
00:39 Zulu, building block 32 at Sun center with
ROLL minus 5400 - you still with me?
CDR Okay, go ahead.
023 20 20 34 CC At 52 minutes time remaining, observing time, on

down to 3 minutes time remaining, at which point:
powerdown unattended, 54 GRATING, OUT. Over.
CDR Okay. At 00:39, building block 32, Sun centered,

minus 5400, and then from 52 remaining, down to
3, it's observing time. And 03 will go unattended;
54 GRATING, OUT.
CC Roger. You got it.
023 20 24 46 CC Skylab, this is Houston. A minute and a half

until LOS. Next station contact in ll minutes -
ll-1/2 minutes through the Vanguard at sea, at
20:36. And for the CDR, if you're listening;
we've got your phone call set up this evening
through Hawaii at 00 :57, RIGHT ANTENNA. That 's
Hawaii, 00 :57, a RIGHT ANTENNA.
CDR Roger.
023 20 25 13 CC Okay.
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023 20 36 48 CC Skylab, this is Houston through the Vanguard in

port for 8 minutes. That was a quick trip.
CDR Roger.
CC And this is probably going to be a handovershift.

So After we say LOS here, be Hank coming on.
And I guess Just a quick comment, the CMG situation
is about the same as it - it has been all day. And
we're working on perhaps some - some alternate
plans for doing the maneuvers tomorrow. We're
still looking at getting in the EREP for tomorrow,
and we sure would like to do that.
023 20 37 33 CDR Yes, we would too, Bruce.
CC Okay. We'll keep you posted on the way things are.

Right now it looks like you got about a 2-degree
or 2.2-degree bearing temp in the wrong direction;
that is, with bearing 2 is hotter than bearing i,
holding that way.
CDR Okay, thank you.
023 20 44 27 CC Skylab, this is Houston; 30 seconds to LOS. Next

station contact in i hour and 4 nLinutes through
Goldstone at 21:48. Good night now.
023 20 44 37 CDR Good night, Bruce.
023 21 48 33 CC Skylab, Houston through Goldstone for ii minutes.
CDR Hello, Hank.
CC Hello, there. How's it going there today?
CDR Fair to middling.
SPT Pretty good, Hank. How are - how are you and the
bronze team?
CC Oh, the bronze team's doing fine. We've got a new

leader here today.
SPT Who's the new one and what happened to the old one?
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CC The old one's ali - little under the weather

today, and we got Gene sitting in here.
CDR You mean Robin Redbreast?
SPT The new guy?
CC Roger. New guy.
CDR You guys on the bronze team keep him out of trouble,
then.
023 21 50 ii PLT Hank, if Goldstone's ready to take video down

for recording, we can give you some shots of the
west coast.
CC Okay. Give us 90 seconds, Bill, to get it - get

get the transmitter warmed up.
SPT It 's there.
CDR San Francisco's clear as a bell.
023 21 52 01 CC Skylab, Houston. We're ready for the TV downlink.
CDR Okay, you ought to be getting it.
CDR The clouds just south of San Diego started fading

out the camera, so we're going to point now more to
the south, along BaJa.
CC We copy.
CDR Got the whole Gulf of California there. And the

inlet across the way is Guadalajara.
PLT Okay, Hank, we 're going to terminate downlink.
CC Okay.
023 21 57 21 CDR Houston, you still with us?
CC Roger, Jer. Another 2 minutes.
CDR Okay, essentially what we got on TV was San Fran-

cisco down to, oh, Santa Barbara, a little bit
south. We could see some of the Channel Islands
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down there. And then we got a little bit of cloud

cover, and L. A. area was a little bit hard to see.
Then south of San Diego, we got another batch of
clouds, and we just had to shift away from that on
down into Baja California.
CC Okay. We copy.
CDR Coming up on the Gal_pagos Islands next, and if the

weather holds, we might be able to see two active
volcanoes.
CC Okay. And we're about 45 seconds from LOS now.

Vanguard's the next site at 14 - 13 minutes from
now, and we're scheduled to dump the voice recorder
there.
023 21 58 59 CDR Okay, Hank. We'll see you then.
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SKYLAB AIR-T0-GROUND VOICE T_IANSCI_I[_'ION
023 22 13 41 CC Skylab, Houston through Vanguard for 9-1/2 min-

utes. And, Skylab, we'll be dumping the recorder
here.
CDR Roger, Hank.
SPT Hey, Hank, we're getting a little action out of

active region 33. We're looking at it with the
55 instrument and right on top of a surge. The
surge started at around 22:00 even, and reached
a peak at around 22:08, and is now on the way
down again.
CC Roger. We copy.
SPT Went up around 30 arc seconds from its base, which

put it around i0 arc seconds above the limb.
We're, - the only thing we can look at right now
in the way of a readout is the hydrogen continum
count at 873 and that didn't change too much, but
it sure - sure looked good in H-ALPHA. The count
went from 600 up to 800 and back down to 600.
CC Ed, are you using the - the VTR?
SPT Hank, Bill and Jerry are using it down there.
CC Okay. That's - that's fine. We were just wanting

to verify the VIDEO switch. It's in the right
position, then.
SPT Yes, we're getting more and more careful about

that one, Hank. After you've been bit by the
same dog around a dozen times, you start to get
careful.
CC Roger.
023 22 16 hl CDR Hank, the VTR is OFF. Can you tell us how much
time is left on it?
CC Okay, we'll check it. Okay, there're 25 minutes

remaining.
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PLT Okay, Hank, there's probably about 5 minutes of

video on the - the recorder right now. We came
in across the Andes Just a bit north of Santiago,
Chile. I panned down - oh, probably as far south
as about ***
023 22 19 38 CC Skylab, Houston. We lost lock there, and we're

back with you now. And, Bill, we didn't copy
anything after you said you panned through
Santiago.
PLT Roger, Hank. Just about 5 minutes on the VTR pass

coming in Just over Santiago, Chile, I panned up
and down the Andes a couple of times and then got
overhead shot in the area of Santiago. And then
some obliques that - looking out to the east,
which probably are not very good. I was trying
to find the Falkland Current. So about the last
minute and half probably is not very good quality.
CC Okay. we'll get back and take a look at it. And,

Bill, the bronze team would like to add their
greetings to you on your birthday.
SPT Well, thank you, bronze team.
023 22 21 50 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 1 minute from LOS.

Tananarive will be coming up at 38. And we have
a paper-low indication on the teleprinter. And,
SPT, if it would be convenient in this housekeeping
you got caning up, we would appreciate it if you
could give us some new paper.
SPT Okay, I sure will, Hank. And I'll change her out,
about another 5 minutes here. Say, Hank, I'm
wondering also whether the - any of the TV-107 folks
have had a chance to look at what's been done so
far. And I'd like some feedback to know whether
it's worthwhile to pursue that line which I'm
going much further or to move on to something else.
I've got a couple of id - other ideas in mind,
but it's kind of an amplification of what's been
done already. And if they feel they're - they've
got their data, then I can move on.
CC Okay, I'll check it.

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023 22 38 35 CC Skylab, Houston through Tananarive, minutes.
CDR Roger, Hank.
CC And, SPT, Houston. We Just got the TV-IO7, the

last you did, in this afternoon. And Marshall -
the people there are going to take a look at it.
And it'll probably be tamorrow before we can get
you an answer on how the thing is going.
SPT Okay, thank you. And if - if Joe Allen could

get a look at it too, that would probably be good.
I know he's got some thoughts on it.
CC Roger. I Just called over to his house. He's due

back in this evening. He's been out of town.
SPT Okay. Thank you, Hank. Woodpecker's got a new

tree to work on.
CC Did you get our paper changed out for us?
SPT That's affirm.
023 22 39 39 CC Okay, good show.
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023 23 51 38 CC Skylab, Houston through Vanguard for 8 minutes.
CDR Roger, Hank.
CC And, Jer, if you get a chance to reach over there

and take a look at the PLT's Flight Plan, we can
see how the teleprinter is working after the paper
change.
CDR Looks just fine.
CC PLT, Houston.
PLT Go, Hank.
CC Bill, if it's not too much trouble, we'd like to

get you to copy down the pointing data on SO19 so
that we can use it to build pads and try to take
out some of this bias we know is in there. And
maybe you can voice it down later this evening.
PLT Fire away.
CC No, what - what we want you to do is tell us how

the pointing comes out compared to the pad. In
other words, what your actual values are. If you
can write those down, then we'll get them from
you later this evening for use in tomorrow's
preparation.
PLT Okay, will do.
CC Go ahead.
CDR Hank, on the TV demos, the science demos, today

Ed was assigned number 118 and Bill was assigned
that a couple of days ago and has already started
work on it. So we're going to keep Bill on it.
I'd suggest in the future on assigning time to
practice science demos, why don't we Just call
them science demos instead of trying to put a
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number on it, because, so far on 118, all three

of us have been assigned that thing at one time
or another, and it gets kind of confusing. It'd
be a whole lot easier if we could Just either pick
the one we want to do and do it, or else give us -
give us an assignment, and then from then on Just
sa_v science demo in the Flight Plan.
023 23 5h h4 CC Okay, we copy that, Jet, and we'll crank it in.
023 23 58 49 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from LOS. Tanan-

arive is next at 15; that's 15-1/2 minutes from
now.
023 23 58 59 CDR Roger, Hank.
024 00 16 59 CC Skylab, Houston through Tananarive, 3-1/2 minutes.
CC Go ahead.
CDR Okay Hank, those stars Denebola, 27h.6 and 2.6.

... 23.2 and since that first one on the shaft on
Denebola was out a little bit, I went ahead and
got a Spica. And that's 273.2 and 37.7.
CC Jerry, you cut out on the second one. Could you

say again please?
CDR Okay, Regulus 146.3 and 23.2 and did you get the
Spica?
CC Roger, we're going LOS, Jerry. The next site is

Hawaii. That 's your private phone call, and it 's
also the evening status report. It comes up at
57 past the hour.
024 00 19 12 CDR Roger. Did you copy the stars?
02h 00 57 20 PLT Houston, Skylab. How do you read?
CC Go ahead, Bill.
PLT Roger. Let me give you some star data here.

Denebola, SHAFt, 274.6; TRUNNION, 2.6. Regulus,
146.3, S_; and the TRUNNION is 23.2. Spica,
273.2 and 37.7.
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CC Okay, we copied those, Bill, and do you have any

S019 data for us?
PLT Roger, I do. It took a bit of fumbling around,

but I finally got what I think was the right angles.
And I got a 8.7 on Canopus, which I interpreted as
a 288.7 and it took a TILT of 15.4 to center the
star. For Spica I got a 7.6, which I took as a
196.7, and I went back and forth between these to
verify for reason - reasonableness check. And the
TILT on Spica, once I got 20.1 and once I got
19.9, which islfairly close. But there's inter-
play and sticktion [sic] and springback now in the
mechanism; so it - you wouldn't expect perfect
repeatability. I got wrapped around the axle on
procedures and wasn't able to find our Arcturus,
and neither was I able to get any of the exposures
in. Because of the difficulty involved in finding
the stars, I got a late start and got all out of
sequence there, but at least I did get two angles
there for the Canopus and for Spica.
024 00 59 13 CC Okay, we copy.
PLT Ready with the photo log.
CC Okay, let her rip.
PLT ... 16-millimeter: okay, documentary photo 8,

Charlie India 129, 85 percent, Charlie India 78.
Nikon 01, Charlie X-ray 43, 66; Nikon 02, Bravo
Victor 49, 24; Nikon 03, 04, 05, no change. 70-mill-
imeter: Charlie X-ray 18, 070. ETC, no change.
EREP, no change. Drawer A configuration: transport -
transporters A-l, 2, 3, and 4, no change; and the
Back, transporter 07, Charlie India 129, 85,
Charlie India 78. Now with the evening status.
CC Okay, go ahead with the status, Bill_
024 01 00 24 PLT Sleep: CDR, 7.5, 6.5 heavy, 1.0 light; SPT,
7.5, 6.0 heavy, 1.5 light; PLT, 6.0, 4.0 heavy,
2.0 light. Urinevolume: not applicable.
Drinking - water gun reading: CDR, 8780; SPT, 4800;
PLT, 1271. BMMD: CDR, 6.318, 6.315, 6.313; SPT,
6.367, 6.359, 6.364; PLT, 6.240, 6.236, 6.237.
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Exercise: all three, standard. Okay, medication

and other expendables: CDR, no medications, shorts
and socks; SPT, no medications, socks, shirt, plus
shorts; PLT, Afrin twice, and no clothing. Shopping
list accomplishments: TV-107, 1 hour and 30 minutes
replacing 1 hour scheduled for TV-II8; T002-1:
stars 22 and 21 thrown in on the tail end on the
standard TO02 is on tape with the scheduled T002,
and that was 20 minutes.
024 01 Ol 47 PLT Food.
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024 Ol Ol 48 FLT Okay, CDR, 6.5 salt, plus one coffee with sugar,
plus - yes that was right. I thought I was on the
wrong day there for a minute. Plus one coffee
with sugar for the CDR, plus one lemonade, plus
one peach ambrosia, plus one grape drink, Apollo
type; rehydration water, i plus 1.0. SPT,
salt 10.0, plus one lemon pudding, plus lemonade,
no rehydration water. PLT, plus one coffee with
sugar, plus green beans, and no - share which I
intended to put in before. High density 4 was
eaten today instead of high density 2 because I
ate the high density 2 on day 66. And we should
tell the food people that. Rehydration water,
minus 1.0. Okay, that's the end of the evening
status.
CC Okay, thank you, Bill.
CC SPT, Houston. We need the DAS for an outer gimbal

backup,bring up - the nuZ up to date.
SPT Roger, Hank, you got it.
CC PLT, Houston, if you have your SWS Systems

checkup-checklist handy, I've got one small correc-
tion to a stow - stowage location on housekeeping 71
that we uplinked to you.
024 01 03 30 PLT Stand by 1.
CC Bill, if you haven't brought that checklist up to

date, that was on message 6955.
CC SPT, your DAS.
SPT Thanks, Hank.
PLT What change number was that, Hank?
CC Okay, that sould have been change number 8, Bill,

and it was uplinked last night. I don't know
whether you brought the checklist up to date, or
not, I'm - I'm - the change in the stowage in on
housekeeping 71 Charlie. That's the charcoal return.
_-" 02h 01 04 19 PLT Okay, what page number is that?
E
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CC It was on page 5 - oh, you mean the new checklist?

16-10 of the checklist is where it should have been
taped in.
PLT It's been done. I just forgot what you said.

Okay, Hank, I'm looking at it. Give me the change.
CC Okay, you go down there where the initial list of

equipment is until you get down to vacuum cleaner
bags 3. The stowage location should have been in
Foxtrot 520 instead of W-750.
PLT Roger, I have that incorporated.
CC Okay, thank you, Bill. And I have a couple of

, commentsin regard to the water loss that's
scheduled on your Flight Plan this evening just
prior to beddie-bye. That's the procedure that's
on your unscheduled exercise cue card. And one
other little reminder, we'd like to get those
B_4D readings when the vehicle is not in a dump.
In other words, we don't want any vehicle motion
to influence the readings.
PLT Okay, Hank, thank you.
CC And, Skylab, we're about 1 minute from LOS now.

Vanguard is next at 01:29; that's 22 minutes from
now. And there, we'd like to give you a few words
on how we see this CMG problem.
02h 01 06 50 PLT Okay, we'll be standing by.
02h 01 29 09 CC Skylab, Houston through Vanguard for 7-1/2 minutes.
PLT Roger Hank.
SPT Hello, Hank, what's the 250 K time?
CC SPT, subtract 4 minutes from the ESS.
Sl__ Okay, Hank. For this orbit, unfortunately, I

wasn't given an ESS. Oh, that's the same as the
previous one. I'll work that. Thank you.
CC Okay.
PLT Hank, I have a question for the doctor.

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CC Go ahead.
024 01 30 45 PLT I was told to take an Actifed before evening -

before going to bed this evening, and I could not
find any other than some decongestant tablets
There as decongestants in the command module.
There were about five of them. They're sort of a
buff colored and with a weakened zone down the
center for craking in half.
CC Okay, I'll check it out, Bill.
CC CDR, Houston.
PLT Roger, he's listening; go.
024 O1 31 31 CC Okay, like to give you a few words of how we see

the CMG number 2 thing as of now. It appears to
us that - well, it is a fact that the CMG has been
under distress for approximately the last 18 hours,
and it appears that it's very, very slowly getting
worse. We've seen over that period approximately
l0 to 12 millamp increase in the currents - phase
currents and approximately a 1-degree bearing
temperature rise. And of course, as you can
imagine, all the experts have got their heads
together and had several conferences today. And
the consensus of opinion seems to be we definitely
have some damage in the bearings, hut that maneuver-
ind does not significantly increase the amount of
the d_mage, and we don't see too much difference
in doing maneuvers. So based on that, we're going
to go ahead and plan an EREP for tomorrow. We
looked at TACS only, but just too expensive. So
we're going to plan the EREP, and if the rate of
degradation doesn't increase, we'll go ahead and
• do it. However if we see some rapid deterioration
or - in the CMG, of course, we'll go ahead and
scrub the EREP. But that's about the way it is
now - we see it, and we'll certainly keep you
posted.
02h Ol 32 54 CDR Okay, Hank, thanks a lot. I guess we'll have to

break out the oars and the galley slaves.
SPT You know who they'll be.
CC (Laughter)
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CDR I'ii put Bill on the port side and Ed on the

starboard side.
CC And for Bill, we have verified that that is Actifed

that you have from the command module, and you have
a GO to take them as you described.
PLT Thank you Hank.
CC And we didn't copy the PLT's salt from the evening

status.
PLT Stand by 1.
PLT 7.5.
4
CC We copy.
CDR Hey Hank, it's been some time since we got a list-
ing from you folks on the status of changes and
permanent general messages. And I think we've
probably got a lot of PGM's up here that can be
thrown away. Would you fire us up a status next
day or so.
CC Okay, we'll sure work on it, Jerry. And in refer-

ence to getting up tomorrow, the scheduled getup
time is ll:00, and we have a site at 10:h0, roughly,
and another one at ll:lS. So which one would you
prefer, or do you want to set your clock?
024 01 35 21 CDR Well why don't you call us at ll:18, and we'll go
ahead and set our clocks and be up by ll:00.
CC Okay, will do.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're 30 seconds from LOS. One

last item on the ATM; we need to get the S055
HIGH VOLTAGES OFF. And we won't have another site
until Vanguard again. This is a Vanguard to
Vanguard, and that comes up about an hour and a
half from now. And we're - so we'll say good
night to you now and talk to you in the morning.
PLT Good night, Hank.
SPT. Good night, Hank. Enjoy the team - the night down
there, bronze team.
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CDR Good night, Hank; good night, Gene.
CC We forgot to update you since that. Since Gene

we've had Milt, and before that was Chuck, and
now we have MAlt.
CDR Playing musical chairs, huh?
SPT You go through them so fast, Hank. You must be

pretty hard on them.
024 01 37 30 CDR What color vest is Milt wearing?
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024 ii 19.02 CC (Music: "Misty")
02h ii 20 36 CC Skylab, Houston. Good morning from the purple

gang. We've_still got you stateside here for
g. 15 minutes. HMorning , Dick. We're standing around
C_£W // with our legs crossed waiting for the momentum
dump to finish (laughter) so that we can do our
weighing.
CREW (Laughter)
CC Roger, that. I know that was hard to top. We

have the VTR this pass, so don't try to put any-
thing on it while we're - while INC0's dumping it.
CDR Okay, we'll try hard to resist.
CC Okay.
024 ll 31 18 CC Skylab, Houston. Be advised this morning, we're

showing a temperature in the SWS of about 71.6 de-
grees, and we're turning off the second ATM
COOLANT LOOP PUMP. We're now - We're now - excuse
me, the second AM COOLANT LOOP PUMP. We're now
running on pump Bravo, and that's the way we'll be
staying. Also one other thing that I think you
might be interested in knowing: The purple gang
is very proud this morning. Our biomed officer
Bob White is the proud father of a baby boy, Wesley
Andrew White, 7 pounds 6 ounces, and he was born
on Bill Pogue's birthday.
SPT Hey, very good. Give him our congratulations,

especially from Bill, who is right now in the BMMD.
CC Sure do it.
024 ll 34 39 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about a minute from LOS.

Madrid comes up about 5 minutes from now, and
we're going to dump the data/voice recorder at
Madrid. And also I'll have some news there if
you guys would like to hear it.
SPT Roger, Dick. We sure would; thanks.

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CC Okay.
CC Roger. And available for the ATM VTR that's

scheduled is 4 minutes on the VTR tape.
024 ii 35 14 SPT Thank you.
024 ii 40 07 CC Skylab, Houston'. We're AOS madrid for 9 minutes,

and l've got the news if you'd like to hear that,
if you're ready to listen.
SPT Sure, Dick. Please go ahead.
CC Okay, Ed. Before I do, let me remind you, we're

dumping the data/voice recorder here. Tel Avlv:
Israeli tanks and troops began withdrawing from
the west bank of the Suez Canal 2 days ahead of
schedule. At the same time, the Israeli state
radio reported, Israel permitted Egyptian medical
teams through Israeli lines to evacuate wounded
soldiers trapped in the city of Suez since the
October war. North Chelmsford, Massachusetts:
The New England Telephone Co. says it wants to
see if it can save up to 60 percent of its heat-
ing costs hy using solar energy, The company
said it is installing a solar heating system on
an addition to one of its buildings to test
whether solar energy can be used to heat, either
i_ully or partially, mA_y of its other buildings.
Washington, D.C. : The Federal Trade Commission
urged Congress today to order a stronger health
warning printed on cigarette packages, require the
same warning on packs of little cigars and launch
a government advertising campaign to discourage
smoking. The agency also said Congress should
appropriate money for a government research pro-
Ject to develop a safe cigarette.
CC Pine Ridge, South Dakota: American Indian Move-

ment leader Russell Means and incumbent President
Richard Wilson finished 1-2 in the primary elec-
tion for president of the Oglala Sioux Tribe.
Means and Wilson, adversaries during the occupation
of Wounded Knee, South Dakota, will meet in the
February 7 runoff election for president of the
tribe on the Pine Ridge Reservation. The tribal
election board said final, unofficial results
give - gave Means 667 votes and Wilson 511. In
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Houston, Colleen Gray, 17, a senior at Sam Houston

High School, was the 100,000th person in the
United States to see an exhibit depicting Soviet
life and arts that is touring the nation and
currently on view at the Albert Thomas Convention
Center. As a memento of the occasion, Miss Gray
was presented with a statuette of a horse carved
hy hand by Soviet artist Vlad_mT_ Gradov. The
exhibit consists of photographs, ibooks, paintings,
sculptures, and scientific models and make -
mockups.
024 ii h2 45 CC Finally, in Tulsa, Oklahoma, with gasoline prices

rising, Dick Cokeley thinks it may be cheaper to
ride a horse. Cokeley, a 2h-year-old mechanic,
decided last weekend to ride his horse Dixie to
work, about 3 miles away. He made the test run
and found it takes about 16 minutes longer to
ride than drive through heavy traffic. That's
it for this morning.
CDR Thank you, Dick.
CC Roger, and I got two or three more official kind

of notes, one of them is to everybody. Our
present feeling on the - that the problem in the
H-ALPHA 1 image clarity exists in the TV system,
so we would encourage you to continue to turn off
the TV camera for H-ALPHA 1 when - when that's not
in use. And also, any time in - this morning
I've got a change to the details for both the
CDR and the SPT.
PLT CDE is ready to copy.
CC Okay. For the CDR, at 21:30 there's a TV-106 that's

listed in there. That TV-106 th - correction, the
TV coverage of TV-106 is strictly your option,
Jerry. It's not required.
PLT Roger.
02h ii 48 07 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute to LOS. Tanana-

rive at 12:03.
02h 12 03 25 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Tananarive for

6 m_nutes.
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CR_ Roger, Dick.
CC And, Skylab, Houston. You might be interested

to know that CMG 2 now has been in a continuous
glitch for more than 30 hours. Not much to tell
you more than that except that we're watching
it very closely. Also a reminder for the SPT:
I 're got one change for your - one addition to
your detail Flight Plan.
SI_ Okay, Dick, I'm ready to copy. Go ahead.
CC Okay, we'd like you to add in at a time of lh:05

a T003-8. And one comment about that, Ed; the
purpose of it is to get a T003-8 after T020 has
started mixing up the atmosphere. So we'd like
for it to be done any t_me during the - after
T020 has started or immediately thereafter.
SPT Okay, Dick, I understand.
CC Roger.
024 12 06 34 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about a minute from LOS

at Tananarive. Honeysuckle comes up at 12:26.
See you there.
02h 12 26 37 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Honeysuckle. It is

a short pass, couple of minutes long. Goldstone
comes up at 12:55.
SPT Say, Dick, we ran into a little problem with the

scheduling for the ATM work here. I think the
pass was a little tight to begin with, but the
B_4D [sic] problem this morning thrown in means
that we really didn't have time to get properly
set up nor understand what was going to be done
in this last building block, the J0P 7. So it
%ras Just not done. And I'll wait until we get in
the orbit where it can be done properly.
CC Okay, Ed, copy. Thank you.
CC And, Skylab_ Houston. We are taking the VTR so

that we can dump - dump it when we get up there
stateside.
CDR Okay, Dick.

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SPT Dick, apparently this JOP 7 involves inhibiting

a momentum dump, and it's probably going to call
for a little Juggling. And I hope we can squeeze
it in sometime later today. Let me know what you
can come up with.
024 12 27 49 CC Okay, Ed, we'll be looking at it and let you know.
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Christi, and Merritt Island for ii minutes. Out.
024 13 04 42 CC Skylab, this is Kouston for the SPT. Apparently

when JOP 7 was &borted last pass, the EVA AUTO
DOOR switch was left in the STORAGE position. So
we'd like you to reconfigure EVA AUTO DOOR switch
to ENABLE and H-ALPHA NIGHT INTERLOCK switch to
NORMAL, please.
SPT Got it.
CC Thank you.
024 13 05 23 CC Coming up on a 1-minute LOS in 1 minute, then

back to you through Bermuda. Out.

5-1/2 minutes. Out.
024 13 08 I0 SPT Houston, SPT. I'd like to ask the S052 folks if
they have sufficient film for a STANDARD MDDE at
the beginning of this orbit and one at the end
of the orbit.
cc Stand by. That 's affirmat ire, Ed. Go ahead.
SPT Thank you.
024 13 ll 49 CC skylab, this is Houston. The VTR is yours.
SPT Roger.
CC Skylab, this is Houston; 1 minute to LOS. Next

station contact in 5 minutes through Madrid at
13:17. Out.
PLT Bruce, how much time is left in the VTR, or is it

clean?
CC It's all clear and rewound, Bill.
024 13 i2 45 PLT Thank you.

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024 13 17 25 CC Skylab, this is IIouston through Canary and Madrid

CC And, Ed, we need the DAS for a NAV update for a

minute.
SPT You have it.
024 13 20 02 CC DAS is yours.
SI_! Roger.
024 13 23 34 CC SPT, this is Houston. We're not taking frames

with H-ALPHA i. We'd like to go back to OVERRIDE
until the end of this pass and then back to NORMAL,
so we get the computer start signal for the start
of the next rev.
SPT Roger, Houston. I thought maybe you were trying

to save film.
CC No, sir. We thought we were smarter than we turned

outtobe.

Creek at 14:02 with the data/voice tape recorder
dump planned for A0S. Out.
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for 9 minutes with a data/voice tape recorder
dump, if we're not interrupting you. And, if we
could, also, we'd like to get a TO20 progress
report out of the PLT.
PLT Roger, Bruce. We've finished the single axis and

translation maneuvers. Now we're starting into
the two axis and dogleg.
CC Okay. We copy, Bill. Thank you.
024 14 04 26 CC SPT, Houston. Would you believe H-ALPHA 1 NIGHT

INTERLOCK is still to OVERRIDE?
SPT Now, it 's not
CC I didn't think it was.
024 lh 06 39 SPT Houston, I've got a solar upd te if you're ready.
CC We're ready.
SPT Okay. Couple of interesting features have devel-

oped which we've seen coming on f - yesterday
and now they're very evident today, especially
the WHITE LIGHT CORONAGRAPH. We show that at
about 120 to i00 degrees, where we had some faint
streamers which were crossing in the past 2 days,
now appears to be a single well-defined heSmet
streamer, which is not - not radial but inclined,
maybe 095. The remainder of that limb has got
two faint streamers over around 080 to 070 diffuse
at the base but only a single streamer when it
gets out to about 080 and 3 radii. There's also
a very faint, but discernible streamer at
035 degrees, quite far north. And I found that
kind of interesting, l'd like to 10ok at it later
today, see if we can see anything at its base.
024 14 07 51 SPT Over on the east limb, it's pretty much unchanged;
if anything, slightly enhanced from what it was
yesterday. And at the region from 260 to 280
at 3 solar radii is a - a fairly well defined
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streamer. But it's a little bit enhanced at

around 270 from 2 to 3 radii. So the progression
we've seen over the past 2 days is a filling of
the corona; first with faint streamers and then a
filling at the base and now finally a fairly
broad streamer extending on outward over at the
region of I00 to 120. And I imagine this is all
related to the surging activity we've seen on
that southwest limb. XUV MONITOR shows the - the
limb activity to be the dominant bright features,
of course, 31 and 33. The active region 34 is
also quite evident over on the opposite limb.
024 14 09 03 SPT Then we have the coronal holes which are at the
north and south and then also one, which I perhaps
not - did not mention yesterday, but was evident
and is now exceptionally evident today. And that
is Just to the east of the active regions 21 and
20, around, say, 120, 0.5 radii out. It's about
0.2 solar radii in diameter. I believe I did
mention that one yesterday. And it 's quite
strong, quite pronounced with exceptionally long
integrations and still nothing appears in it. So
it appears to be a exceptionally well defined
coronal hole. The coronal - or excuse me, the
filament channel up north, which we mentioned
yesterday - I believe it was filament 41; I don't
recall the nt_nber we had in there yesterday.
Filament 86, it is, at 050 0.6. That is still
evident running from, oh, about 030 0.5 radii
directly to the west. And then we can still see
it curving slightly up towards the north as it
gets right•to the limb. So, I think we got some
good, interesting features to work with in terms
of coronal holes, which we will be working on
today, and also active regions at the limb and
changes in the corona. That completes it.
024 14 i0 27 CC Okay, Ed. We'll fracture that into the system.

And in the Flight Plan we're• making up for
tcmorrow, we have you down for about an hour and
a half of ATM planning time in the evening -
planning out your activities on the ATM panel
for your day off. You might be keeping this in
mind as you observe some of these features emerging
and changing. And, of course, also anything that
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you have in real time that would influence the

balance of the day's operations. We got about
30 seconds to LOS. Next station contact in
ii minutes through Hawaii at 14:22. Over.
SPT Okay, Bruce. Glad to - sure we got that time in

there, and I'll certainly do it. Thank you.
024 lh ii ii CC Roger.
024 14 22 07 CC Skylab, this is HOuston through Hawaii for

9-1/2 minutes. Out.

station contact is 3 minutes through Goldstone
at lh :34. Out.
024 lh 34 45 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Goldstone for

6-1/2 minutes. Out.

atlh:45.
024 14 45 19 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Bermuda for a

little o - over 7 minutes. And how's the old
FCMU coming along?

station contact in 2-1/2 minutes through the
Canary Islands at 14:54. Out.
O24 lh 55 03 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Canary and Ascen-

sion Islands for 14-1/2 minutes. Out.
CC And for the CDR, PLT, at your convenience, any

time from now on I've got the weather concerned
with your upcoming EREP track available. And if
you do have a second, we'd like to get a status
report on the T020 run.
• PLT Okay, Bruce. We're Just finishing up the nonrigid

restraint. We did the tumble recovery and now
he's doing discretionary maneuvers. We have about
4 minutes to go now and we'll start buttoning up.
And go ahead, I can listen on the weather.
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CC Oh, why don't I wait until you're through with

this, and I'll catch you later.
PLT Very well.
024 15 08 51 CC Skylab, this is Houston. 1 minute to LOS ; next

at 15:37. Out.
SPT Houston, SPT. We were Just - as we came across

Africa there, about the last 500 miles, there
was a series of brush fires. I'd estimate we
probably saw 50 - 70 or so of them. They extended
right along our path and to the southwest. Winds
were from the northeast - excuse me, from the north-
west. Certainly a large number of them and I'm
sure they're well aware of them. But I'm sur-
prised at the exceptionally large area which was
covered by them.
CC Okay. We copy that, Ed. Thank you.
SPT Hey, Bruce, these winds were from the northeast

rather than northwest, as I quoted.
CC The winds were from the northeast, you say?
SPT That 's affirmative.
02h 15 lO 12 CC Okay.
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024 15 37 28 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Ca_narvon and

Honeysuckle Creek for 9-1/2 minutes. Over.
CC Roger. Just wanted to pass on a word or two to

Jerry here with respect to the EREP pass and the
CMG situation. I guess we could sum up the CMG
situation by saying we got somebad news and some
good news. And the bad news is that it's still
in a state of continual distress; and the good
news is that the rate of discress- rate of increase
off distress has slowed down. And it's been our
judgment - or it is our judgment that the maneuvers
associated with the EREP will not affect the rate
of degradation of the CMG. And consequently, taking
that together with the weather and the sites that
we've got, we're GO for the EREP. Over.
024 15 38 28 PLT Roger; understand. Go for EREP. Thank you very

much.
CC And whenever it's convenient I - I can give you

the weather or I can wait until we get a little
closer to the pass.
PLT Yes, why don't you wait; Just stand by for an hour
or so.
CC Roger that.
024 15 39 54 PLT And, Bruce, for your information, we did get quite
a bit of TV on VTR on the T020 run.
CC Okay, we're showing a little over iI minutes.

Thank you, Bill.
024 15 40 20 CC Okay, now through Honeysuckle. And we see about

ii m_nutes on the recorder, Bill. Looks great.
PLT Good. The monitor's so bad now it's hard to tell.
024 15 _6 30 CC Skylab, this is Houston. 1 minute to LOS; next

station contact in 13-1/2 minutes through Hawaii
at 15:59. Out.
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the - with the planning chairman and the PIs that

day, we should be able to look at whatever you want
us to look at on the TV downlink when we cross the
CONUS. And we have some very good passes early
in the day. Also, weather in Houston permitting,
which right now looks like that might doubtful,
we will have real-time H-alpha called up from the
H-alpha observatory here at Houston.
024 16 13 37 MCC And one last thought that I'm sure you are already
planning on is, as we go through this exercise,
starting tonight and through tomorrow night and
through Saturday, to assess how it goes, what you
would do to change it, whether we've got enough
air-to-ground interaction, too much, whether you
could do much more without so much help, or Just
what. The main thrust here is, as an experiment,
to look at a different operations and planning
mode. And any thoughts that you have, if you
would pass them on to us, we would Dave the capa-
bility, potentially at least, of maybe trying
something - trying another iteration on it before
the mission is over. And that's about all I've
got to say on the day-off planning. Over.
024 16 14 21 SPT Okay, Bill. One thing I've been thinking about is
when I look at something, that is, I think, worth-
while making an observation on,.or possibly worth-
while, two things always come to mind. One is the
film budget for a particular experiment and then
how much data of that type they have already gotten.
I think that type of a decision will always be
coming up. So I - I would like to find out from
those experiments still participating with film
just what they have available in the way of anything
over and above - that's if at all - their nominal
synoptic program in addition to what they've already
called out for transients. For example, I wanted
to know in 52 this morning whether I could run up -
run off a couple of STANDARDS. That question may
come up again on the day off. And it may come up
in a way - in relation to bright transients or
something of that nature if it's possible to find
a way to detect them. And hat's what I still feel
I don't have a good - a good handle on. And I'm
not too sure how to do it without getting a lot
of words, which I really don't want anybody to
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have to generate. But try to put something toge-

ther, if you could, in the way of indicating what
next here, in the way of film, and what phenomenon,
like chromospheric network and all kinds of other
things which they feel they've got sufficient
data on.
024 16 15 39 CC Okay, Ed. We'll sure do that. We were planning

on, tomorrow night when we send up the detailed
objectives, to also send up the film budget.
Although we haven't addressed the exact form it
would take, we will include what you say there.
One thing that made us a little curious this
morning *** on the question with the STANDARDS for
52.
SF]? Bill?
MCC Hello?
SPT Bill, you just dropped out after the word curious.
M_C Oh yes, Okay. On this morning's request for the

STANDARDS for 52 - apparently you went over the
hill shortly thereafter. We never got a feel for
why you wanted to do it. And we were curious more
than anything else.
024 16 16 19 SPT Okay. We've been seeing, over the past 2 days,
quite a buildup in the corona on the southwest
limb. And what I was wondering is whether three
STANDARDS taken, one on the previous orbit and
two in that - that particular orbit where you
can get the electron densities out of the - from
the three different polarizations. Were they
actually able to detect any significant change in
that time - in that time period? And I also was
doing MIRROR, AUTO RASTERs on the limb, which
would show the degree of surging that took place
at that time, which might give you just a - a crude
handle on the time rates of change of material on
the limb. And, again, this can't - can't be a
quantitative assessment, but perhaps a qualitative
one, of whether you can actually see any change
and correlate that with what's happening on the
disk.
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024 16 17 i0 MCC Okay, Ed. Fine. And we'll try to include that
kind of information on the film budget message
coming up tomorrow night. We're 50 seconds from
LOS. Bermuda is next in 4-I/2 minutes. And that's
at about, oh, 22.
SPT Whether that's a good idea or not, Bill, I think,

depends on whether they can do something like
maybe photographic subtraction from frame to frame,
and - and then look at the result. And if anything
shows up, then they've got something. Whether
their data reduction makes that feasible or not.
I really can't be sure.
MCC Right. I'll talk with Ernie about it, because he's
the one that was talking with me about it and was
a little confused as to what you had in mind. And
I'll see what he's got to say.
024 16 17 51 SPT Yes. See, without a great deal more discussion

with them, those particular types of things, as
far as their - their instrument capabilities and
data reduction,I reallyhave no feel for. So
I Just had to wing it and hope that maybe something
could come out of it.
MCC Okay. Good. And hopefully, on the day off, we'll

have the capability for you to talk to that type
person on very short notice. And we're going over
the hill here, so I'll be talking to you tomorrow.
024 16 18 17 SPT Thank you, Bill. So long.
024 16 22 03 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Bermuda for i0 min-

utes. O_t.
CC Okay. Peeking over your shoulder, we see the

maneuver loaded and ready to go in good shape,
Bill.
PLT Thank you, Bruce. Please look over my shoulder

very carefully over the next 2 minutes.
CC (Laughter) You mind if I look over your bearing

instead?
PLT That's exactly what I had in mind.
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PLT Just don't be too overbearing.
CC Aw, now. That's worse than I am - that I come

up with, usually, Bill.
024 16 25 02 PLT We're moving.
CC We didn't see the ENTER on the DAS fpr the offset

maneuver.
PLT Check.
CC Got it.
FLT Okay, Bruce. Looks pretty good from here.
CC Yes, indeed. We concur. The rates and rate errors

look good.
024 16 31 19 CC Skylab, this is Houston. i minute to LOS; next

station contact in a little over 7 minutes throuKh
Ascension at 16:38 with a data/voice tape recorder
dump planned for A0S. And looking at the CMG
bearing temperature and wheel speed data, it looks
pretty good; that is as good as could be expected
under the circumstances.
•02h 16 31 38 CC No degradation noticed there over what we've already

seen.
024 16 38 43 CC Skylah, this is Houston through Ascension for

i0-1/2 minutes with a data/voice tape recorder dump.
024 16 48 01 CC 8kylab, this is Houston. A little over a minute

to LOB; next station contact in 23 minutes through
Carnarvon at 17:11. The CMGs are working about
like they always have for the past day or so. And
for the CDR, in his detail pad, with respect to
the item which now says 21:30 TV-I06, VIDEO select -
TV, optional, we'd like to change the optional to
not deslre_. That is, looking at the coverage we
would get from television of TV-106, we don't feel
that it would be - it would show up sufficiently
well. So we'd like to just scrub the TV coverage
of TV-106. Over.
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CDR Okay. And how much do we have on the VTR? During

that science demo practice I think I can start
getting 103 on.
024 16 48 56 CC Well, you get l0 minutes free for cancelling

TV-106. And at that time, why, you'll still have
only ii minutes. So, it looks like you'll have,
oh, up to - up to about 19 minutes. But let us
check that against the VT - ATM VTR.
CDR Okay.
CC CDR, if you're still reading; you'll have 25 min-

utes, 25 minutes of tape available at your
discretion for TV.
CDR Okay. Thanks, Bruce.

024 16 h9 51 CC That - that saves 5 minutes for later use by ATM.
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02h 17 ii 50 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Carnarvon for

l0 minutes. Out.
PLT Bruce, we're standing by for an update on the

weather if you have it.
CC Okay. Be right with you.
02h 17 12 5h CC Okay, Bill. As you come across the coast, that

is Washington State/Vancouver Island, at about
52 past the hour, we expect it to be relatively
clear, picking up a solid tmdercast about the
time you pass over western Washington at 53 after
the hour. Be pretty well clobbered as you cross
over western Montana. You'll be crossing over
an underlying warm front still immersed in this
solid undereast. And it isn't until about 57
after the hour, about - associated with the
special 02 site, that we expect the cloud cover
to startbreakingup. And then you'llbe coming
out initially into a- a h/10 to 7/10 cloud cover.
And then as you - as you approach the Mississippi
river, you'll be coming up on a cold front. The
cold front has clear weather associated with it
from 0 to 3/10 coverage. And it looks like you'll
be over that from somewhere around 58 after the
hour on through about 59, 59-1/2. And it should
include site 520; so that looks pretty good.
02h 17 14 30 CC And then as you approach the Appalachian Mountains,

you pick up cloud cover again, going to overcast
fairly - fairly abruptly. And expect it to stay
overcast with an embedded warm front as you pass
over North Carolina and back out to sea. Once
you get •out to sea, the weather• should be good,
probably 0 to 3/10, until you reach the area of
the intertropieal convergence zone off the coast
of South America as you come in - or pass over
• the area near the mouth of the Amazon. And then
we expect typical weather for that area, probably
about 7/10 8/10 covers_e. Over.
PLT Roger; copy. And it doesn't look too bad at all.

Thank you.
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02h 17 15 20 CC I think your site 520 should be in pretty good

shape. Site 2 with the snow cover you should
also be able to pick up about the time you come
out from on top of this undercast. And I think
you can get special 01 before you hit the coast-
line, if I'm reading it correctly.
PLT Yes. About the only thing to worry about is that -

how far off the east coast of the U.S. does the
cloud dissipate? I don't know if I'll be able
to pick up that chlorophyl blooming if it's too
close in.
CC Fairly rapidly. In f_ct, from the l_stest weather

we've got, it looks like the coast itself is
starting to bres/_ out now.
CC Roger.
024 17 16 19 CC And for Ed, if he's listening: we'd like to go

with the ETC optional Operation the way we did
yesterday, or day before, giving you the option
to terminate or to interrupt ETC coverage for
periods of greater than 75 percent Cloud cover,
but being sure to change the SHUTTER SPEED and
frame rate and things like that in accordance
with the pad. Over.
SPT Roger, Bruce. I understand. And I'll try and

give you a report on what's done, if anything is
altered, right after the pass.
CC Okay; thank you.
02h 17 20 51 CC Skylab, this is Houston; 1 minute to LOS. Next

17:25 • Out.
02h 17 25 20 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Guam for 9-1/2 min-

utes. Out.
CC And Skylab, we're taking control of the VTR at

this ti_e for a rewind and dump over the U.S.
PLT Roger, Bruce.

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02h 17 33 4h CC Skylab, this is Houston; i minute to LOS. Next

at 17: 51. And we see the maneuver time and the
maneuver loaded in the computer, and they both
look good.
PLT Thank you, Bruce.
CC Happy EREPing. And you might be interested to

know that since you've been in the Z-LV maneuver,
it looks like the CMG wheel speed has actually
increased about 20 to 25 rpm. And we now under-
stand that the actual Z-LV portion of the pass
is the least stressful of any of the attitude
modes that we have. Of course, getting there
and getting back out put a little load on the
CMGs.
PLT Roger. We'll just stay in Z-LV.
CC Well, that's what we've been talking about, but

it takes one guy EVA to keep the solar panels
pointed at the Sun •all the time.
02h 17 3h 3h PLT Get us a big crank.
024 17 49 54 CDR On my mark, it'll be 17:50:00; RTC POWER, ON.

Stand by -
02h 17 50 00 CDR MARK.
CC Okay, we agree with that.
CDR Next mark 's at 50 :43.
024 17 50 20 CC Skylab, Houston with you for about • 13 minutes.
CDR Roger, Bruce. My MONITOR readings: Alfa 4 and

Bravo 4 are both reading 92 percent. My little
card here indicates they should be reading no
more than 86. Okay, on my mark it'll be 50:43.
Stand by -
02h 17 50 4h CDR MARK. S190 MODE to AUTO.
PLT Okay, there 's Vancouver.

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CDR Next mark at 51:10; and I want an ETC MODE to

AUTO, Ed. Stand by -
024 17 51 ll CDR MARK. 192 MODE to READY. Tape has shifted gears
and running fast. 51:20 is the next ma_k.
024 17 51 19 PLT MARK. Termination of nadir swath.
024 17 51 23 CDE MARK. RADIOMET_ to STANDBY at 22.
PLT Going ahead and try to find a ... - -
CDR 193, X-TC.
PLT Area of snow cover.
CDR ROLL, minus 30 and POLARIZATION, 1. 51:44 is the

next m_k. Stand by.
PLT There 's one.
024 17 51 45 CDR MARK. SCATTEHOM_TEB, ON; RADIOMET_:_, ON. 52:00

is the next mark.
PLT Okay, 55:16 is when I want to start this.
CDP Coming up on 52; stand by -
024 17 52 01 CDP MARK. 192 MODE to CHECK. Reduce tape speed. Hey,
Ed, at 52:26 it'll be an ETC MODE, STANIBY; and
then POWER, OFF.
CDR Coming up on 26; stand by -
024 17 52 26 CDB MARK. 52:26.
CDB Bruce, verify the ANGLE on S193 should be ROLL of

minus 30.
CC That's affirmative. And we do not yet see the

lh-minute ms neuver time for the maneuver back to
SI loaded.
CDR Okay, we'll get it first chance we get.

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PLT Yes.
CDR 1 minute to my next mark. Don't sweat it, Bill,

you've got enough time.
CC And the maneuver time looks good to us.
CDR Roger.
CDR Okay, we're coming up on 54:00. Standby -
024 17 54 01 CDR MARK. POLARIZATION to 4. Standby for 06.
024 17 54 08 CDR MARK. SHUTTE_ SPEED went to MEDIUM on S190 at 07.

Okay. 17:56:00 is the next mark.
PLT 55:16. Looking for a uniform snow cover.
CC Jerry and Bill, the new A-2 - A-h, B-4 meter read-
ings are acceptable with the new cooler Dewar
installation.
CDR Okay. What's the new limit,Bruce?
PLT Okay, I'm taking the best uniform area I can find.
DAC on, DATA pushbutton.
CC Hey, Jerry.
CDR Yes.
CC New limits: Alfa 4 is 70 to 100; that's 70 to 100.

Bravo 4 is NA; the detector is bad.
CDR All right.
PLT Okay, my uniform snow cover is an agricultural

area. There's a grid pattern, but it is out in
the boonies.
CDR Coming up on 17:56:00.
PLT Going to minus l0 degrees.
CDR Standby.
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024 17 56 00 CDR MARK. SCATTEROMETF2 to STANDBY.
024 17 56_01 PLT MARK. CAMERA, OFF.
024 17 56 02 CDR MARK. RADIOMETER to STANDBY at 02.
PLT Okay, 26; RIGHT, 3.8.
CDR Coming up on 56 :12. Stand by -
02h 17 56 12 CDR MARK. RADIOMETER's back ON. 56:30, Ed, we'll want
ETC POWER, ON. Coming up in l0 seconds. Coming
up on 56:30; stand by -
024 17 56 30 CDR MARK. Next mark at 56:42.
PLT Okay, here I'll give you another uniform snow

cover.
CDR Stand by -
024 17 56 42 CDR MARK. 192 MODE to READY. Tape shifted gears ; got
a MOTION light. 93 to POLARIZATION, i. 56:50 -
024 17 56 51 CDR MARK. ETC MODE toAUTO. 57:09 is next. Coming

up on 57:09. Stand by -
024 17 57 09 CDR MARK. RADIOMETER to STANDBY. The next mark's

at 15. Stand by -
024 17 57 15 CDR MARK. SCATTEROMETER is ON; RADIOMETER is ON.
PLT 57:28 is my quitting point.
024 17 57 25 PLT DAC off. Okay, RIGHT, 3.8.
PLT Okay, at 58:26-
PLT Oh boy, I've got haze and smoke.
CDR 8.
PLT Oh, boy. Okay, 26; I'll go on time. IMC. Boy,

nothing but milk.
PLT I picked up cirrus Just as we crossed that river,

White River. Too bad.
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024 17 58 57 CDR This the reservoir you're going for?
PLT Yes. Contrails is all I mee in low deck. If I

Just had a little bit @f focusing ability I may
be able to pick it out through the cirrus, but it
goes all out of focus when you zoom in. Okay.
I got something here. Boy, it is really hazy.
I've got something, a reservoir or something. I
don't know. It's filtered by cirrus, whatever it
is.
CDR Next mark 's at 59:50. Stand by -
02h 17 59 50 CDR MARK. 192 MODE to CHECK.
PLT DAC off.
CDR Back down to slow tape motion.
PLT Okay, 58.
CDR Okay, at 18:00 even, ETC to STANDBY, Ed. Stand

by-
02h 18 00 00 CDR MARK it. Next mark's at 01:18.
PLT Doggone. Cirrus out on the coast too. Stratus.

Stratocu. Looking for blooming. Not seeing it.
Can't get close enough to the coast.
CDR Okay. My next ma_k's at 01:18, 0i:lS. Stand by -
02_ 18 O1 18 CDR MARK. S192 MODE to READY. Going to high speed.

Got a TAPE MOTION. Ol:2h.
02h 18 01 25 CDR MARK. SCATTEROMETER to STANDBY.
024 18 01 27 CDR MARK. RADIOMETER to STANDBY at 26. Next m_k's

at 36. Stand by -
02h 1801 36 CDR MARK. RADIOMETER's OFF. Next mark's at h5. Stand
by-
02h 18 01 h6 CDR MARK. ALTIMETER's ON. ALTIMETER's looking good.

ALTIMETER UNLOCK light.
PLT No blooming.
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CDR Okay. The READY light's out. ALTIMETER to

STANDBY at 25.
02h 18 02 29 CDR MARK. At 28 the 192 is MODE, STANDBY.
024 18 02 35 CDR MARK, at 3h SHUTTER SPEED to SLOW. The ALTIMETER's

back ON again. ALTIMETER unlike is off - UNLOCK
light is out; waiting for 03:00.
PLT DAC is at 1/25, but I don't think I'm even going

to use it.
CDR Stand by; 03:00.
02h 18 03 00 CDR MARK. 192 MODE - correction, REFERENCE to 2.

04:00 is next. Ah ha! Here's VT_ AUTO CAL. I
knew we couldn't get by without CALing once.
Okay the READY light's out on ALTIMETER and we
have an UN - UNLOCK light. ALTIMETER's going
to STANDBY at 20.
PLT How long before the AUTO CAL?
CDP At 35 the ALTIMET_.'_light is back On - the ALTI-

METER's back ON with a READY light. AUTO CAL's
at 4 even, 04:00, 15 seconds.
PLT Well, no joy on the blooming.
CDR ALTIMETER UNLOCK light. Stand by for a VTS AUTO

CAL.
024 18 04 O0 CDR/PLT MARK.
CD_ ALTIMETER UNLOCK light's back on again.
PLT SI maneuver.
CDR ALTIMETER READY light 's out.
PLT 13.
CDR ALTIMETEr, STANDBY at 15.

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02h 18 Oh 30 CDR MARK. ALTIMETER light is - ALTIMETER's back ON

again at 30. ALTIMETER UNLOCK light's back on,
and the READY light's on. Looks like we're
probably going to lose it again. My next mark's
at 05:10, unless the ALTIMETER READY light goes
out, and then it'll be earlier, coming up on
05:10. Okay. At 06 the READY light went out.
Turning OFF the ALTIMETEI_ at 08. Setting the
RANGE at 69. Next mark's at 25. Stand by -
024 18 05 25 CDR MARK. ALTIMETER, ON at 25 with a new RANGE of 69.
CDR ALTIMETER UNLOCK light.
CDR ALTIMETER READY is out. Going to STANDBY at

06 even.
CDR : Looking for the S191 READY light at 06:40.
024 18 06 36 CDR MARK. No; hold the mark.
024 18 G6 40 CDR MARK. 191 READY light's on at 40. 07:10's the

.... next one. Okay, I got the ALTIMETER back ON again.
CDR Got our ALTIMETER READY - UNLOCK light again.

07:10, the S190 READY light went out; putting
the MODE to STANDBY, SHUTTER SPEED to MEDIUM.
Next ma_k's at 07:53. Got a number 3 - camera 3
MALFUNCTION light as expected. Okay, the
ALTIMETER READY light's out again. Going to
STANDBY at 35. Okay. Next MARK's at 07:53.
ALTIMETER, ON at 50.
024 18 07 54 CDR MARK. 53; 190, SINGLE.
02h 18 08 03 CC Skylab, this is Houston; 1-1/2 minutes to LOS.

Next station contact in 41 minutes through Car-
narvon at 18:h9 with the data/voice tape recorder
dump at A0S.
CDR Roger, Bruce.
CC The VTH is clean. You've got 25 minutes available

for the science demo practice; 5 minutes, later,
for ATM _XfR, and the CMGs look good going over
the hill.
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CDR Okay. So long. 08:50 is the next mark. 08:50.

ALTIMETER's finally settled down and acting normal.
Just before time to quit. 08: 50. Stand by -
024 18 08 50 CDR MARK. ALTIMETER to STANDBY. MoDE to 5; RANGE to

65. 09:02's the next mark. Stand bY -
02h 18 09 02 CDR MARK. ALTIMETER's ON. Waiting for 09:16. Stand

by-
02h 18 09 16 CDR MARK. At 16, MODE, SINGLE on 190.
CDR Looks like camera number 3 is out of film already.
02h 18 09 h3 CDR Well, we're going to do a 190 depletion. I guess

they're all about finished.
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9 minutes with the data/voice tape recorder dump.
CDR Bruce, the EREP tape remaining is 5.7 centimeters.
CC Thank you, Jerry. 5.7 centimeters tape remaining.
CC And your old CMG seems to still be hanging in there.
CDR Very good. Getting older every day.
CC Not older. Better.
024 18 58 13 CC Skylab, this is Houston. 30 seconds to LOS.

Next station contact in 5 minutes through Guam
at 19:03. And we noticed just now when we finished
dumping the data/voice tape recorder, that it
started up again as soom as we let go. We hope
that you weren't dictating into the system when
we were dumping. Over.
CDR Negative, Bruce. It's okay. Thanks.
024 18 58 42 CC Okay. Thank you for waiting.

Out.
SPT Houston, SPY. The only deviation on the ETC op-

eration was that, rather than going to STANDBY
at 15:26, went STANDBY at 15:40 because of the
solid overcast. Total frames used, 38; that's
38.
CC Okay. And what time did you actually go to

STANDBY?
SPT 51:40, 51:40.
CC Okay.
024 19 lO 57 CC Skylab, this is Houston; 1 minute to LOS. Next

stone at 19:27. Out.
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024 19 27 36 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Goldstone and

Merritt Island for 14-i/2 minutes. For the CDR.
Over.
CDR Stand by a second, Bruce.
CDR Okay. Go ahead, Bruce.
CC Yes. NOAA's reporting active region 35 is giving

a bright surge on the southwest limb of the Sun.
And after you complete your present building
block 28, we'd like you to turn on S052 and take
a look at it vis,,ally but don't use any film.
Let us know what you see. Over.
02_ 19 29 O0 CDR I 'm looking at the WHITE LIGHT CORONAGRAPH right

now. Is that what you wanted?
•CC Yes, sir.
CDR Okay, I don't see any brightening in the corona

as yet. I'm watching XUV as well and don't see
anything yet.
CC Okay.
CDR I 'm through with 52 and the next two building

blocks, so I'll just leave it on WHITE LIGHT
CORONAGRAPH for a little while.
CC Roger.
02_ 19 31 08 CDR Bruce, do the guys in the backroom have any in-
structions in the event that we do see a transient
here ?
CC We're checking now, Jerry.
CDR Okay. And while they're checking, I'm comparing

the WHITE LIGHT CORONAGRAPH with the Polaroid
that was taken the first part of the day. And in
that particular area, it's about - around - between
090 and 100. It looks like we've kind of developed
an alley in the wide streamer that is in the pic-
ture at 100. And it looks like there has formed
sort of a weak streamer at 090.
CC Okay, we copy that.

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CDR Roger. Go.
CC Okay. If the area of interest remains about the

way it is, what we'd like you to do is work in a
BB32 at the end of this daylight cycle and begin-
ning and end of each subsequent daylight cycle, if
you continue to see it. If it really gets active
and erupts, why, go ahead and give it the full
J0P 8 Alfa treatment. Over.
CDR Will do it, Bruce. Thank you.
CC Roger. Thank you.
024 19 38 41 CC Skylab, this is Houston. We show you approaching

a longitude of 95 west, which means that you're
about to break another record. Over. Over?
CDR Roger, Bruce. Which one is that?
CC Okay, when you cross 80 west - we wanted to give

you 15 degrees to anticipate - it'll be the
100Oth Earth-centered rev for the command module.
CDR lO00th for the command module, huh?
CC Right.

station contact in ll minutes through the Vanguard
at sea at 19:52. Out.
024 19 hl 56 CDR Roger. So long.
024 19 54 02 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Vanguard for

7-1/2 minutes. And when someone has the time,
we'd like to get a REG ADJUST, both pots 1 and 2,
I0 degrees couterclockwise. Over.
CDR Roger. In work.
CC Thsm_k you, Jer.
CC And, CDR, Houston. We see you're trying to down-

link TV. You need to select one of the monitors
on the ATM select switch " on the TV select switch.
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CDR You're wrong; I wasn't trying to downlink TV, but

I will if you want it.
024 19 55 39 CC Yes, sir; if you would please, per the schedule

pad.
CDR Okay.
CC And Vanguard reports a good signal.
CDR Okay. I'ii give you about 3 minutes of white

light coronagraph and then some XUV and then finish
with white light eoronagraph again.
CC Roger. They're back out at sea now, and I guess

you've given them something to go to sea for, a
good signal like that.
CC REG ADJUST looks good to us ; thank you very much.
CDR Okay, Bruce. And down in the WHITE LIGHT CORONA-

GRAPH l'm beginning to see some enhancement in the
lighting down there. It's getting brighter, but
nothing definite yet.
024 19 57 09 CC Roger, we copy.
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024 20 00 50 CC Skylab, this is Houston. We're i minute to LOS.

Next station contact in i hour and 4 minutes
through Goldstone at 21:05 with a data/voice
tape recorder dump at A0S and probably a shift
handover. See you there.
024 20 01 i0 CDR Roger, Bruce.
024 21 04 55 CC Good evening, Skylab; got you through Goldstone

and Texas for 13 minutes.
CDR _ Hi, Story.
CC Hi.
CC And we'll be dumping the data/voice here.
024 21 08 32 SPT Good afternoon, Story. How are you doing?
- CC I'm swell,Ed. How aboutyou?
SPT Real good; good day. Say, let me ask you a ques-
tion and tell you something. First, do they want
a building block 32 at the end of this orbit?
Because I - I see one written in here which maybe
Jer wrote in, but they still say continued at
ZERO TIME REMAINING. And, secondly, looking at
the WHITE LIGHT CORONAGRAPH, I guess Jerry report-
ed we saw some change in the last orbit. And to
me it's very striking in the difference of what
I see from this morning to now, in that we're
now looking at three different streamers - inde-
pendent streamers out on the west _mb; one at
the occulting disk beginning at 120, one at 090,
and one at 070. When they get out to around
3 radii, they're roughly all the same intensity.
The one at 120 is probably the bri_htest at the
base, the next, 090, and then the one at 070.
And they're all pretty much parallel; they all run
in the direction of 090. Still have the very
faint one up there at 035. It might be even a
slight bit more intense, but that's hard to tell.
The east limb remains pretty machunchanged.
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CC Okay; thanks, Ed. We'll get you an answer.
SPT Thank you.
CDR Story, how soon can we have the tape recorders

• back? I'm about ready to start TV-103.
CC Stand by l, Jer.
CDR Okay.
CC 3 to 4 minutes, Jet.
CDR All right.
024 21 12 02 CC Tape recorder's yours, Jer.
CDR Thank you, Story.
CC Ed, Houston.
CC Ed, you - at the end of this orbit get a BB32.

Just get 56 and 52; delete 54 at the end.
SPT Okay; will do.
CC And, likewise, get - get one at the end Of the

next orbit that you're going to run. Get a BB32
az the end or it, and also Just run 56 and 54 on
it.
SPT Okay, looks l_ke a good idea; things are changing.
CC And Bill's orbits starting around 24:00, that

one's all taken care of. There's one BB32 in
the middle, so he's all taken care of.
PLT All right.
CC And while I've got you, you've got a phone call

through the Vanguard at 02:2B. And it's ANTENNA
RIGHT; and I'll remind you the pass before.
SPY Thanks very much.

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02h 21 16 50 CC Skylab, we're a minute to LOS; about 12 minutes

to the Vanguard at 21:28.
02h 21 28 40 CC Skylab, we're back with you through the Vanguard

for ll minutes.
CC Ed, we'd like a DAS here to do a momentum Bias.
SPT You've got it.
CC Okay.
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024 21 36 48 CC Ed, Houston.
CC The DAS is yours, and we're seeing H-ALPHA i in

OVERRIDE. When you power down for the next pass,
get that back to NORMAL, please.
SPT Okay, Story. I think I can probably put it to

NORMAL now.
CC And verify that the EVA AUTO DOOR switch is - is

in ENABLE.
SPT That's affirmed.
CC Okay.

- to Tananarive at 21:55.
024 21 55 44 CC Skylab, AOS through Tananarive for 6 minutes.
024 22 00 ii CC Skylab, we're 2 minutes to LOS. The next station,

Hawaii, in about 40 minutes at 22:39.
024 22 39 33 CC Skylab, A0S through Hawaii for 5 minutes.
SPT Hello, Story.
CC Hello, Ed.
024 22 h3 46 CC Skylab, we're a minute to LOS. Next station is

the Vanguard at 23:06. We'll be planning to dump
the data/voice there.
CC Ed, Houston.
SPT Go ahead.
CC You got 30 seconds right now?
SPT Sure do.
CC Okay, could you change Bill's pass on the ATM

starting at 23:59?
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SPT Got it.
CC Just across out the VTR there, and put real-time

downlTnk between 00:15 and 00:23.
SPT TV downlink is 00:15 to 00:23.
CC Yes, sir. And the reason for that is we're showing

only 1 minute left on the RTR. That last TV took
29 minutes. You only got 1 minute left and we
can't dump it beween now and then.
02h 22 h_ 54 SPT Okay, Story; thank you.
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024 23 07 Ii CC Skylab, we've got you through the Vanguard for

9 minutes. We'll be dumping the data/voice here.
CC Bill, Houston.
CC Bill, we read your comments on channel A yesterday

concerning your TO02-1 ops, the variations you
reported. The PI says the data is excellent, the
bias is small, and he's very happy with the pre-
cision. You've got no problem there at all.
024 23 08 53 CC Ed, we need the DAS for an outer gimbal backup.
SPT You've got it.
- CC Okay.
02h 23 15 37 CC Skylab, we're a minute to LOS; 15 minutes to Tanan-

arive at 23:30.
02h 23 33 49 CC Skylab, we're with you through Tananarive for

h minutes.
024 23 37 20 CC Skylah, we're a minute to LOS, about 38 minutes

to Hawaii at 00:lb. Your medical conference will
be coming up then, and we'll be looking to dump
the data/voice then.
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025 00 45 47 CC Skylab, AOS through Hawaii for 9 minutes. And

when you're ready with the evening status, we're
re ady.
SPT Okay, Story, coming at you first with the photo

log. 16-millimeter for T020 was Charlie India 88,
percent remaining is 20. We got the _ OF FIWM
light so we then put on transporter Charlie Indi-
go [sic] 89, 75 percent remaining. The other
camera was - forT020 was Charlie Indigo 86, 05
remaining, Charlie Indigo 80, takeup. EREP was
Charlie Lima 12, 90 percent remaining. 35 milli-
meters: 01, Charlie X-ray 43, frame 62; 02, no
change; 03, Charlie Indigo llS, 50; h and 5, no
change. 70-millimeter: Charlie Indigo 18,
frame 74. ETC, India Romeo 03, 038. EREP, 19666,
that was set Y; 02 is 9005; 03, 9880; 04, 9871;
05, 3418; 06, 0741. Dr_er A configuration:
Alfa 01, transporter 02, Charlie Indigo 86,
05 percent remaining, takeup, Charlie Indigo 80;
Alfa 02 through the back remain unchanged.
CC Okay.
025 00 47 52 SPT Evening status. CDR, sleep -_ Sleep: 7.0,

6.5 heavy, 0.5 light; SPT, 6.5, 5.5 heavy,
1.0 light; PLT, 6.5, 6.5 heavy. Volumes: 185,
190, 190. Water gun: 8804; 4842; 1355. And
for body mass, we've got five readings from last
night and this morning to five decimal places
for each crewman. What I'll read is Just the -
first total nnmber and then the last four digits
are the only ones that will change for each crew-
man. CDR last night, 6.34832, 4974, 4961, 4747,
4967; this morning, 6.33837, 3857, 3792, 3891,
3823. SPT, last night, 6.36819, 6.36578, 6.36795 -
again Just the last four digits- 6847, 6783;
this morning, 6.35818, 5661, 6101, 6248, 58_6.
PLT, last night, 6.275, and again he only got
the last three digits, rather than the last five
for last night, so I'll Just give you those.
Again, 6.275, 6.280, 6.280, 6.280, 6.272; this
morning's to five digits, 6.27072, 8036, 7414,
7303, 7156. Exercise: CDR, Standard minus Bravo
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and Charlie ; SPT and PLT, both standard. Medi-

cations: CDR, SPT, none; PLT, Afrin i, Acti-
fed 1. Clothing: CDR, socks and shorts; SPT,
shirt, socks; PLT, shorts, socks. Housekeeping -
or Shopping list accom - accomplishments were
all housekeeping and TV-107, 1 hour. Okay, over
on the menus: CDR, salt packs used zero, minus
coffee with sugar for deviation and minus lemon-
ade, rehydrate - rehydrated water deviations,
plus 1.5; SPT, sak - salt used is 4.0; deviation,
zero; and water deviations are plus 4.0; PLT,
salt packs used zero; devs, zero; and water de-
viations, minus 1.O.
CC Okay.
CC Ed, Houston.
025 00 52 19 CC Yesterday, Jer requested to substitute mashed

potatoes for bread and yet he didn't report that
deviation on the evening status report. Could
you tell us if he did that?
CDR I did it, Story; I forgot to report it.
CC Thanks, Jer.
CDR I assumed since I'd already gotten the clearance

to do it, they'd assume it was done.
CC We probably should have.
CDR One other thing, Story. I did not get TV-106

done this afternoon. I'm wondering if I get it
set up and then take the pictures first thing in
the morning, would that be okay tonight? Or
would they rather wait and start it tomorrow?
CC Stand by 1 on that, Jer.
CC You can start that anytime you want, Jer.
CDR Okay, it's Just that the photographs are kind of

spaced rather strangely, and I noticed the first
one they wanted 6 hours, and I can do it in
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8 hours if I start it'tonight and then photo-

graph it in the morning.
025 00 53 39 CC Okay, that'll _e fine, Jer. And, Bill, could

you give us a FRAMES F_w_AINING count on the ATM?
We got a minute here until LOS.
PLT Stand by. !
CC And the next station is Hawaii in about an hour

at O1:55.
PLT Okay, Story, 8475, 5830, 16_4, 1255, 2827.
025 00 54 ll CC Thanks, Bill.
025 01 53 59 CC Skylab, AOS through Hawaii for 4 minutes.
CDR Hello, Story.
CC Hi, Jer. How are you tonight?
CDR Verygood.
CC And this - we're planning on this being the last

pass for tonight, and I got about four things
for you here.
CDR Okay, press on.
CC Earlier in the mission, Jer, when you replaced

the DAC optics on S183, the cue card Just told
you to take it as well as the tool, the Allen
wrench that you took it off with, and put it in
the plenum bag. Could you locate that for us?
We're planning on bringing that home. Do you
remember where you put it?
025 O1 54 42 CDR I think I did what I was told, and there's prob-
ably a 50,50 chance of finding it, but we'll
look. We'll have to go down into the bilges and
get that plenum bag back up.
CC Okay, you might Just think about that a little

tonight and estimate a time, how long you think
it'll take to locate that. And we'll also need
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to get that Allen wrench to take off the - the

present DAC optics, which are being used at pre-
sent. We're going to bring those home also.
CDR Okay.
CC And we sent a message up to you, or will be the

next couple of passes, concerning out-the-window
TV. In general, we've got enough out-the-window
TV except for Europe. The United States stuff
is excellent and we do release, of course, the
total of the TV you take to the networks. And
we think you've got some outstanding stuff right
now, and enough except for Just Europe.
CDR Okay, let's see. We're getting some good early

morning passes on Europe; we had a great one this
morning over Spain and North Africa. We'll have
to get set up - set up in the evening before we
go to bed so we can Jump right on it in the morning.
CC Okay, that'll be super, Jer. And that's the only

place we need on the globe right now.
CDR Okay.
025 01 56 05 CC And if anyone's up there near the AT - ATM, we'd

like S055 put in the MLS mode, MIRROR, LINE SCAN
MODE per the schedule pad, closeout for unattended.
CDR Okay, we'll take care of that.
CC And - -
PLT Okay, that's complete, Story. And also I was up

here, I see that they're operating unattended.
I did not get through the WHITE LIGHT CORONAGRAPH
alignment procedure here, If they want me to
take a hack at it, I can go ahead and do it now,
but looks like they're operating unattended.
CC That's okay, Bill. We're running the unattended

right now.
PLT Okay, I'ii leave it alone.

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025 01 56 53 CC And, Jer, you're TV on the - on the gyroscope

was really excellent. Everyone enjoyed that.
They want to use it. They've been un - unable
to cut it down to about a minute in length, which
they feel they need to, to include it in a- in
a Skylab TV serial which has the entire program
in it. So we sent you up a message there on our
suggestions for cutting that down to a total of
about a minute. We may have asked you to do some
things, like some l0 or 15-second explanations,
which you can do. But read it over and then -
then give us your comments and see if you think
you can do it as per the message. If not we'll
revise it.
CDR Okay, Story, good enough. I got one for you and
that's on S019. After I did the exercise tonight,
I put the canister to zero - well actually it's at
8.9 on the other marks - and sighted on the dis-
cone antenna, and it's in a different place now.
And I don't - I Just don't know how good our
SO19 data is until we find some sort of a datum.
- It seems to me the most accurate datum we could
find is that discone antenna; but so far nobody
has been able, apparently, to tell us Just exactly
where on the reticle that discone antenna should
be so that we've got zero zero on the dials - or
zero zero on the mirror.
025 01 58 15 CC Okay, Jer, I better break in here. This will be

our last pass for the night. If you want us,
it'll be Vanguard at 02:23. Ed's got a phone
call coming up there, and it's ANTENNA, RIGHT.
And we'll wake you up over Madrid at ll:O0
tomorrow.
CDR Okay, Story, good enough.
CC Now you can press on, if you got any more on S019.
CDR Okay, that's it on SO19. I've got grave doubts

about how good our data is, our pointing. And
we need to work another datum, I think, and get
squared away on it. The other thing is TV-103
that I did. I wasn't too pleased with what came
out there. I think I'm going to have to repeat
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part of it with a closeup TV lens in order to

show some of those thin films.
CC Okay, got it.
CDR Okay, and then that's all the time I'm going to
waste on that. It didn't turn out, I don't think,
to be a very good experiment to show on TV. I'll
send down a tape description of all the data I've
gotten on thin films for the experimenter.
CC Okay, thanks and good night. If you want us,

it 'll be Vanguard 02 :23.
CDR Okay, Story, good night.
025 01 59 18 CC Good night.
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025 i0 58 05 CC (Music: "On Top of the World" by Carpenters)
025 ll 01 06 CC Skylab, Houston. Good morning to you from the

purple gang. We're at Madrid and you still -
still have 3 minutes here.
CDR Morning, Dick; top of the world to you.
CC Same to you guys.
025 ll 02 40 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about a minute from LOS

Madrid. Tananarive comes up at ll:20. A couple
of reminders for you this morning. CDR, be sure
and take the - the photos on TV-106 this morning.
And, also, we have the VTR. We're in a dump cycle,
so we'll con - we'll let you know when we're through
dumping on that. And I'll have some news for you
when we get to Tananarive.
- CDR Roger,
Dick.
025 ll 03 08 CC See you there.
025 ll 20 26 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Tananarive for 4 minutes.
PLT Dick, got a question on stowage that involves

camera equipment K-2 and K-3 extension.
CC Okay, Bill. Go ahead.
PLT Roger. In TV-106, there's an item referred to as

the K-1 adapter, extension two. And wecan't find
the location for that. And we wonder if it's the
same as K-2 and K-37
CC Okay, Bill. Just a second. Let us talk about

that.
025 ll 22 ll CC Skylab, Houston. We're expecting that we might

have an early LOS here at Tananarive. The next
station is Honeysuckle, a short pass at 11:43.
And while we're looking up this stowage info, I've
got an item I_m sure you'll be interested-in,
PLT Fire away, Dick.

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CC Roger. You three guys, last evening at a time of

05:46 Zulu, became the undisputed world's space
champions. You passed AI Bean's total flight time
record. And that record was 69 days, 15 hours,
45 minutes, and 29 seconds. So eongratul - we're -
the purple gang is very happy to he the guys to
get to congratulate you as the undisputed space
champs of the world.
025 ii 23 03 SPT Thanks very much, Dick and purple team. Thanks
very much for keeping us up here. Good work.
CDR Dick, thanks a lot. You know, records are made to

be broken, and l'm sure sooner or later someone
will break this one.
CC l'm sure you're right, Jerry. But, I think it's

going to be awhile. So congratulations to all
three of you guys.
PL_ Thanks a lot, purple people.
CC Roger.
025 Ii 24 37 CC Skylab, Houston. I believe we're about to go LOS.

And, Bill, I don't think l'm going to get an an-
swer to you here on the stowage.
025 ii 43 lh CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Honeysuckle for a

minute and a half. Goldstone comes up at 12:12,
and we're going to dump the data/voice recorder
at Goldstone. And, Bill, I have an answer to
your question on K-I.
PLT Go ahead.
CC Okay, Bill. We didn't help you very much on that

checklist change. We should've pointed out that
that's the T025 K-1 adapter. It's a real thin
shim, and it's in F-502 Alfa.
PLT F-502 Alfa. Roger.
CC Roger, Bill. And I also have one very minor cor-

rection to point out on a S019 pad that addressed
to you. That [sic] ops at 13:10. So next time
we have a chance, and you have that with you, I'd
like to pass it up to you.
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025 ii 44 01 PLT Okay.
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025 12 12 O0 CC Skylab, Houston. Hello; stateside for 17-1/2 min-

utes, and we're dumping the data/voice recorder
at Goldstone.
CDR Roger, Dick.
CC And, Jerry, I have some news here. I don't - if

you guys would like to listen. I know you're
beginning to start to work up there, and if you'd
like to listen, I'll be glad to read it up to
O_
l
you. Bef - before the get to that, though, one
note for you. On your photo pad this morning
there was a request to get a couple of photos -
S5-millimeter photos of the BMMD ops and the
S_2_D ops, and we figured it was quite likely you
might not get to that - or get to look at that
prior to doing the BS_[D. And if you didn't get
it, don't sweat it. You can just pick up the
B_D stuff in the morning. We figured the SMMD
photos might be picked up by Bill when he's do-
ing his 74 cal.
025 12 12 56 CDR Okay. You know, that's really the time we

ever use the S_D here in the wardroom. We got
documentary photos coming up now, where they
want pictures of us using that. And,-y-oU know,-
I frankly don't think anybody's ever used the
one in the wardroom. Most guys would rather eat
it than weigh it.
CC Roger that. I - I concur. Would you like to

hear some news this morning, or would it bug you?
CDR Not at all. Let's have it.
025 12 13 28 CC Okay. In a special message to Congress, Presi-

dent Nixon proposed more money for educational
programs ranging from preschool Head Start to
college student aid. He urged further consoli-
dation of some education categorical aid progr-ma
into broad grant authorities and offered to in-
crease federal aid - aid to elementary and sec-
ondary education by $180 million next year.
Senate Democrats expressed support for a proposal
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to roll back the price of domestic crude oil at

a closed party caucus. However, action on the
matter by the caucus was delayed pending hearings
by the Senate Finance Committee. In the Mideast,
Israeli and Egyptian generals signed a technical
military document today, and Egypt will begin
rolling back its a_ along the Suez Canal. Egypt
began pulling its - (cough) Egypt began pulling
its forces off the west bank of the Suez Canal
on Wednesday, 2 days ahead of schedule. Secre-
tary of State Hendry - Henry Kissinger had a
quick answer for newsmen when asked, after meet-
ing with the House Foreign Affairs Co_,._._ittee,
how he keeps up the pace of his personal diplo-
macy for a Middle East peace. He said it was
due to his clean living.
025 12 14 41 CC Egil Krogh, Jr., the boss of the White House

plumbers, was sentenced to serve 6 months in
prison for the burglary of Daniel Ellsberg's
psychiatrist. He was the first top level White
House staffer to be sent to prison. Former
Vice-President Agnew offered the outline of a
novel he is writing to Random House, but the pro-
posed book was rejected, the president of the
publishing firm said. The outline of the pro-
posed novel concerned a future Vice President of
the United States who turns out to have been pro-
gr_mmed for di - disaster by Chinese Co-,nlJnists.
The final item here that I have is one that I'm
sure that you guys will be interested to hear.
Two former Vietnamese POWs were assigned commands
by the Navy. Rear Admiral Jeremiah Denton, the
first freed American to set foot on friendly -
friendly soil last year, will command the Armed
Forces Staff College at Norfolk. And Rear Admir-
al James Stockdale will command a [sic] antisub-
marine warfare wing. Admiral Stockdale mused
over the change his life had undergone in the
past year. "One year ago," he said, "my earthly
possessions consisted of two pair of frayed paja-
mas, a pair of Ho Chi Minh sandals and a tin
drinking cup." Both Denton and Stockdale were
captured in 1965. That's it for this morning.
025 12 16 04 PLT Thank you, Dick, and congratulations to both of

those men.
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CC Roger, Bill. Bill, if you - Do you have your

SOl9 pad handy? I'd - let me point out one thing
on it to you if you do.
PLT Okay, go ahead.
CC Okay. In the - it's down in the third field that

starts at 13:36. It's a very minor error, but
I didn't want you to be confused in the middle
there. In the number of turns that - where we
give you the hint to go to - from ROTATION of
255.8; that ROTATION should be 253.8. It was
Just a little pad error that slipped by, and we
should have caught but didn't.
PLT Got it.
CC Okay, that's all the notes I have here in front

of me. We're still standing by here stateside
for 12-1/2 minutes.
PLT Thank you, Dick.
025 12 25 33 CC Skylab, Houston. For your information, the - we

have dumped the VTR. It's in the process now of
being rewound. When the rewind is complete, it's
clean and ready to go for the day. We still got
about 4 minutes here stateside.
025 12 25 49 SPT Thank you, Dick.
025 12 34 l_ CC Skylab, Houston; we're A0S Madrid for 9 minutes.
CDR Roger, Dick.
SPT Hello, Dick. I have a question for the 82B folks.
CC Okay, Ed; go ahead.
SPT Okay, it concerns trying to get 1-second expos-

ures. And - won't have time to set up the EVENT
TIMER, and I'm not sure that would be the most
accurate way. Trying to do it manually, I have
a question of whether the exposure starts when
you hit the switch to the top position or when
you release it. With the WLC it's when you re-
lease it, and I assume it was the same kind of
switch and is that way, but I'd like to confirm it.
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025 12 36 50 CC Good question, Ed. We'll talk about it. Hang

on.
CC SPT, Houston. The exposure will start when you

first push the switch up and not when you release
it. Over.
SPT Okay. Thank you, Dick.
CC Roger.
025 12 42 26 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 45 seconds to LOS. Tan-

anarive at 12:54. See you then.
025 12 42 34 SPT So long, Dick.
Q25 12 54 51 C_ Skylab, Houston. Tananarive for 9 minutes.
CDR Hello, Dick.
CC Hello, there.
025 13 02 04 C_" Skylab, Houston. We're about 1 minute from LOS.

Honeysuckle comes up at 13:19.
CDR See you later.
025 13 02 21 C_ Roger.
025 13 19 _6 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Honeysuckle Creek

025 13 25 05 SPT Bruce, I have a quick solar update if you're

ready to listen.
CC Go ahead, Ed. We got about 20 seconds to LOS

here; Hawaii in 15-1/2 minutes.
SPT Okay. I'll hold off and wait until we get you
again, Bruce.
025 13 25 23 CC Okay. 15-1/2 minutes at 13:41.
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SKYIAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION
025 13 40 h0 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Hawaii for

7-1/2 minutes.
SPT Houston, I'm ready with a solar update if you are.
CC Okay. Send your update.
025 13 42 37 SPT WHITE LIGHT CORONAGRAPH: not a significag__ amount

of change; againl Just-ln_detail. _ One thing that
is interesting, though, is that the streamer, which
is at the 030 at the occulting disk and points out
at a position - or a direction of about 0h0, is a
little stronger. I'm not quite too sure what that
is associated with. I looked on the disk and there
are some prominences up around in that region, but
I'll - which I'll mention in a moment. We still
have the streamer structure on the west limb which
we talked about; one at 060, the diffuse one at
075, 090, and ll0. The overall impression, though,
is that the intensityis decreasing,especiallyto-
wards the occulting disk or towards disk center.
Over on the east limb at 270, we still have a
fairly strong - in general a helmet streamer,
although it appears rather ragged on the edge.
But the general shape is that of a very elongated
helmet streamer. And then one at 255 which overlaps
it, and it was possible to see that yesterday if
you knew what you were really looking for. Today
it's much clearer, and there are two st - different
streamers.
025 13 44 05 SPT The region in between the two streamers at Just

about 265 or so is - is open close to the occulting
disk, a region which parallels the smaller streamer
at 255, which is kind of interesting. I wouldn't
expect that, and I'm not quite too sure what to
attribute it to. It is apparent also in the one
from yesterday, so the TV downlink, I'm sure, or
the _'I'Hhas that on there; and I'd be interested
in finding out from 52 Just why that occurs. XUV
MONITOR shows the active regions, what few r_m_in -
31 and then a 21/33/35 complex, all pretty much on
the limb - limb brightened. Perhaps - perhaps the
one at - the 21 is - extends a little bit further
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in from the limb than - than 31, which is now

relatively small. Active region 34 stands out on
the west limb also - or the east limb, but that's
not very strong. The other active region which
is mentioned, 32, I cannot even see with a long
integration. I can see what might be some bright
points, but nothing even resembling any active
region there.
025 13 45 25 SPT The coronal hole is still very prominent but appears
to be a little bit smaller than yesterday. And
that is the one at about 120 and about 2 solar
radii or so in length, and maybe one or so across.
And it extends northeast/southwest. Length to
diameter - or length to width ratio of maybe 2 or
so. We have coronal holes in the north and south,
the south being a little bit more prominent. And
lastly, looking in H-ALPHA, there are some pro--m- _
inences on the disk, relatively sma]l however,
which are not mentioned. One at 135 degrees; a
series of sm-ll ones at 120 to - well, one at
120, which is about 15 arc seconds •off the limb;
and then that series of them at 310 to 320, one of
which looks like an arch, a half a circle, essen-
tially, viewed maybe from 45 degrees out of plane,
and that is extending around 30 arc seconds off the
limb. That's just around 315 or so, 310. Other
than that, things are be - look as though •they're
pretty much calming down. And I'll task with Bill
a little bit more about some of the ideas for
observing programs for tomorrow.
025 13 47 00 CC Roger; 1 minute to LOS. Next station contact in

4 mluutes through Goldstone at 13:51.

6-1/2 minutes. Over.
CC Yes. We got somebody here who figured he'd like

to talk to you. You have - you haven't done
anything bad recently.
PLT Well, we haven't admitted to it, anyway.
MCC Hey, Bill, this is Alan Bean. I wanted to congra-

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PLT Hey, thank you, A1. It's a good one to break.
MCC Yes, you did it the hard way; all in one shot, too.
PLT I 'ii buy that.
025,,13 51 52 MCC Yes. It took Pete four times to do it, me twice,

...._ and - real congratulations. We're kind of anxious
_.._<._ to see you back here in another week and a half
or so.
SPT Thank you very much, A1. We look forward to coming

back.
MCC Okay, you're doing great.
CDR Thanks, AI. I think we're kind of getting that

short-timer' s attitude now.
MCC Okay, I know what you mean. So see you in a week

or so.
- SPT Thanks very much, A1.
CDR Okay, so long.
MCC Congratulations again.
PLT Nice talking to you.
MCC You bet. Congratulations again.
025 13 h3 13 CC And, Ed, if you can work it in - we're over

Goldstone at this time; we could take some ATM
TV downlink.
SPT Okay, Bruce. Stand by and I'll try to get you some.

at14: 02. Out.
J
025 14 02 04 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Bermuda for a total

of 6-1/2 minutes. We'll have about a 1-minute
keyhole here shortly.

station contact in 3 minutes through Canary Island
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at 14:11, with a data/voice tape record dump at

AOS. Over.
025 14 ll 03 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Canary for 9-1/2 min-

utes with a data/voice tape recorder dump. Over.
SPT Roger, Houston.
CC Roger.
025 14 19 42 CC Sk_lab, this is Houston. 1 minute to LOS. Next

station contact in 14-1/2 minutes through Tanana-
rive at 14:34. Out.
_T Houston, SPT. I just saw a TACS number 4 fire.

_. And I see no reason for it, based on our momentum
situation. I was wondering if you could explain
the reason.
CC The momentum is high. We fired 1 mib, and it was

due to the DUMP INHIBIT.
S_PT Okay. I'm only looking at 35 percent momentum

right now.
CC We show a 90 percent.
025 14 21 06 SPT Stand by. I got it.
025 14 35 28 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Tananarive;

l-l/2 minutes to LOS. Next station contact in
20-1/2 minutes through Honeysuckle Creek at
14:56. Out.

for a little over 8 minutes, with the ATM confer-
ence cc_ing up. And at Hawaii we'll have a data/
voice tape recorder dump at AOS.
CC Hello, Ed.
SPT Hello.
025 14 56 52 MCC Good morning, Ed. Not too much here to add on
the Sun. One thing that you have not been informed
of yet, that I can find out at least, is at 06:39
this morning Zulu there was a C-1.4 flare. Our
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guess is that it's the west limb, although there

was no optical event reported. It was X-ray only.
In addition, a comment on your comment earlier
about the gap on the Qoronal streamer's, east limb.
We feel we saw some of this yesterday and that
really _hat you're lo@_/ng at is a rotational
effect and no real st:_utral change in the corona.
SPT Okay, I saw it yester_, also, which I've pointed

out. But I was a llttle hard pressed to understand
why I would not be able to see the corona which is
in back, _in oth_r_ wo_g_he_l_ger streamer whlch
is at 270. For some reason it appears as though
there's something obscuring that. I would suspect -
I - I would think I ought be able to see that one
straight through, Just straight line-of-sight all
the way, and see that full streamer except for the
one which is in front which should tensify it even.
So, there's something there I - I'm missing, but
let's not get hung up on it.
025 l_ 58 l0 MCC Okay. And carrying on, then; on today's plans

_- there's nothing spectacular really left today.
We owe you an apology fo_ the 82B test this morning
on the JOP 7 sunrise. Unfortunately we didn't see
your recorded message until Just about the time
you were scheduled to he doing the sunrise test
this morning. So we apologize for that, and I'm
certainly as guilty aS anyone here. I certainly
do hope that you'll keep keeping us honest by
chewing on us a bit here when we do something that's
wrong and unreasonable.
SPT Well, that - you mean the - the problem yesterday

or - or the one this morning? Yesterday wa - was
a problem. This mornS, as far as the TV downlink,
I got distracted and that was the problem there.
025 lh 59 00 MCC Yes. What I was referring to was really on the

sunrise portion. You _ve to certainly consider
that a special operation we'd never discussed
or anything. And to schedule that for you so early
prior to giving it - yOl_ a chance to task about it
with me probably is not the way to handle it.
SPT Yes, I think if - if we would've been a little

more - money ahead to ma_e sure we do get those
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special operations squared away. But, still, this

morning was really not that much of a problem,
Bill; don't feel bad about that. No sweat.
025 lh 59 31 MCC Okay, fine. Now, a couple of thoughts for tomorrow.

If you've got any suggestions of specific programs
or anything that you'd like us to work on this
afternoon for you, just let me know and I'll put
the inputs in.
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025 14 59 44 SPT Okay, I can give you a - a quick snmmary, Just

some - some general ideas here. One is, I looked
over the suggestions which you had, and they
pretty much coincide with what's left on the disk
in the order of priorities which I would see it.
All right, first of all, I'd start off with the
J0P 6 building block l; start the day off as -
for the synoptic purposes. Building block 32
would _e-do_e-ih_each orbit, and I'd try to get
as many of those in each day even though I might
not do a full orbit's worth of observations after
that. I'm looking at operating maybe four or
five orbits tomorrow. Active region symoptic
study on the limb, I believe JOP 26, unless
something more dynamic shows up to observe. Try
to get a - a feel for the relation between the
active regions on the disk and - or right immedi-
ately on the limb and the corona which we see
above it.
1-
025 15 00 40 SPT Coronal holes, because this one is so pronounced,

I think it's worthwhile studying. And here I -
I'd like to - if there are any changes in the
active region going on, I would like to try and
get some mini-MARs which run - which cross the
active region and the coronal hole Just to see
whether there are any variations in the, say, the
location with the coronal hole boundary and any
changes at all related to the activity. Because
understanding why a coronal hole can exist so
close to an active region, and the magnetic field
configuration associated with it I think is kind
of a interesting thing to look at. I'ddo GRATING,
AUTO SCANs across the boundary, the sharpest one
we could find, and if 82B would like to operate we
could take some exposures there. And 56, of course,
would be getting LONG EXPOSURES. At the poles,
take a look at what I thought Was perhaps a surge
this morning; I didn't - I neglected to mention
it when I had the - the discussion earlier. And
that was about 040 and it was, oh, about
20 arc seconds off the limb. And I did not
actual]y see it move; it could very well be a
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prominence. And we'll just keep an eye on it.

We did see i_ once before, you know, and it was
kind of an interesting thing to follow. If we
do, we'd do mini-MARs on it. And, also, polar
plumes in the way of, I guess a 26 - JOP 26,
although that - I think I could use some suggestions
from the ground on that one.
025 15 02 09 SPT I also saw a streamer, that one at 030. And if

there really is a surge out there it's a 040.
Maybe there is some relationship between the two
in that high a latitude. It would certainly be
interesting to see what's going on. Again that
would be a J0P 26 type - type study. Bright
points, I'm - I'm not too - too enthused over
bright points; not that I don't think they're
interesting, but I think you probably have a - a
boatload of data on bright points already. And
my question to the PIs is, what questions are open,
and what observations could help answer those
questions? Prominences, I really don't see any
good ones on the limb right now. Maybe we're
going to have something rotating off or on, but
I don't see_that coming up. Last question is on
line profiles. I'm assl_mlng, unless I hear
otherwise, that 55 is best operating in mini-MAR
mode or - or their regular MIRROR, AUTO RASTER
in a JOP 26-type program, or GRATING, AUTO SCANS
as opposed to the line profiles. So that's the
way I'm looking at it very tentatively right now.
025 15 03 19 MCC Okay. Fine, Ed. Most of that sounds real good
to me. We'll - we'll take a look at this this
afternoon and send up some words accordingly.
And, also, we'll be sending you detailed film
considerations as far as what kind of film frame
usage we can use for whatever program_ we're talking
about.
SPT Okay. Very good.
MCC Okay, Ed. And we're i minute from LOS here;

Hawaii's next in 13 minutes; that's at 15:16-1/2.
And, like I say, this afternoon we will be sending
you film guidelines and our final science objectives.
We apologize for not having very much film for
you to use. We will ask during the day if - -
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SPT l'm the one who ought to apologize for that, Bill.
025 15 04 07 MCC No, no; not at all. We've got some very good
data on that film and we're anxiously waiting for
it. During the day tomorrow you might try to
debrief us as much as you can because we won't
be very much up on what you're doing if you don't.
Also, think in terms of how successful a program
such as this might have been early in the mission,
and whether you're getting sufficient science
support from the ground, or maybe we're over
supporting you. Things such as this will be of
interest to us later.
SPT I don't think you're over supportingat all. I

think we had a lot of traffic going back on the
voice loops, but I don't think it's - for the
purposes of running the ATM I don't think it's
too much at all. Whether - how it fits in with
all the other ...
MCC Break, break, Ed. You're disappearing here into

the static. We'll ta]_ to you tomorrow, frequently.
And Hawai - Hawaii is next.
025 15 05 00 SPT So long, Bill. Thank you.

9 minutes with a data/voice tape recorder dump here.
And for the SPT, we see MPC ROLL ENABLED; in fact,
both MPCs ENABLED at this time. And we'd like
to get them INHIBITed per the checklist when the -
the daylight pass is over. Over.
CDR He's on his way.
CC Roger ; thank you.
025 15 24 38 CC Skylab, this is Houston. i minute to LOS. Next

at 15:28. Out.

6-1/2 minutes. Out.

station contact at 15:39 in about 5 minutes.
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l0 minutes.
CDR Roger, Bruce.
CC And we see you've loaded the maneuver time properly,

but before you load the Z-LV maneuver, we need
to use the DAS for a minute.
CDR Okay. Take it.
CDR Bruce, concerning the message that was received

about TV-10h, trying to do a - an rerun for an
editable gyro demonstration, I think probably,
they - one of the questions they asked was should
they schedule time or do we want to shopping
list it? For right now, let's say shopping list,
and we'll see if we can't get it done tomorrow
on our day off. If we don't get to it tomorrow,
we probably should scheduled it in order to get
two guys with about an hour or so at the same time.
025 15 39 52 CC Okay. We copy that, Jerry. And we'll play it

that way. And since we're talking about TV in
the sense of science demos as opposed to TV in the
sense of television, here - -
MCC Tell them the DAS is theirs.
CC Okay. The DAS is yours. And since TV-106 was

started late yesterday, we'd like for you, Jerry,
to delay the 2h-hour photo session that's scheduled
at 19:37 until in your presleep activities tonight, _
so we get closer to 24 hours. Over.
CDR Okay. We'll do it. And the crystals are really

growing. They're beautiful.
CC Hey, very good. Glad to hear that.
CDR They seem to be forming in a pretty classical-

looking lattice structure.
CC Okay.
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025 15 43 03 CC And the maneuver load looks good to us, and the
CMG is holding its own.
CDR Roger.
CC And for your information, CMG n1_mber 3, outer

gimbal, is on the stop. At the present time,
you got about a degree-and-a-half attitude error
out of SI. When you initiate the ma, euver, that
should reenable outer gimbal drive logic. We
don't believe any further action'll be required on
your part.
CDR Roger.
CC Start the maneuver now, please. Start the maneuver

now.
025 15 43 57 CDR Okay. It's in.
CC And the maneuver and the CMG both are looking

good here.
CDR Bruce, on another question that was asked last

night as to whether or not we thought we could
locate the old S183 camera, - DAC camera adapter
and lens; my estimate is that it'll take a couple
of us about an hour probably to get down in the
plenum and check plenum bags and try to locate it.
So that means 2 man-hours, if they're willing to
pay the price.
CC Okay. We copy and we'll work that through the

sys t em.
025 15 47 20 CC l-l/2 minute to LOS. Next station contact in

8 minutes through Ascension at 15:56. Out.

lO-1/2 minutes.
CDR Roger.
CDR Bruce, would you ask Ascension what their weather

is?
CC Stand by.
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CC Skylab, this is Houston. Over.
CDR Go ahead.
025 15 58 30 CC Roger. The 15:58 Zulu weather at Ascension is

lO0-percent overcast. That's an out-the-window
report from the tracking station. We didn't get a -
a height-of-the-ceiling or anything for you because
we didn't think you were interested in that. 0ver.
CDR Yes, I was going to try to get a picture of them.

They've been added to our Earth observations list.
But I can see they got about the only fog bank
in this part of the Atlantic.
CC I think it's the properietary one.
CDR Roger.

at 16:29. Out.
025 16 28 52 CC Skylab, this is Houston through CArnarvon for

9 minutes.
CDR Roger, Bruce.
CC And, Skylab, in order to better balance our

electrical power usage during this EREP pass,
we're going to command CBRM-5 on. And we'll take
care of it all from the ground, but you'll see
your lights change if you're watching.
025 16 29 41 CDR Okay.
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025 16 29 h7 CC And I've got the weather for you, Jerry, if you're
interested.
CDR Roger. Go ahead.
CC Okay. Basically coming in over Vancouver and the

west coast, the area will be pretty well socked in
until you work your way on down into Idaho and
western Montana. That is, at about 9-1/2 minutes
after the hour and continuing up through about
ll minutes after the hour, you'll be flying over
an area of h/10 to 7/10 coverage. After which
time it socks back in 8/10 to 10/10 until you get
on down into central Wisconsin, about Madison,
which is halfway between La Crosse and Chicago,
at which point, the weather starts breaking up
fairly rapidly. We expect Lake Michigan, which is
VTS site 528, to be essentially in the clear,
with clear weather being 0 to 3/10 prevailing,
- until you get down into the area approaching the
Appalachians. And as you approach the Appalachians,
you're going back to a nearly solid undercast,
which will persist until crossing the coastline,
at which time it will clear up and run 0 to 3/10
until you get on down into the intertropical con-
vergence zone, at which time you can expect the
typical weather down there. Over.
CDR Okay, thank you, Bruce.
CC Roger. Out.
PLT Bruce, I have a question on the pads.
CC Fire away.
025 16 31 38 PLT Okay, ready verification S193, the ROLL ANGLE is

supposed to be minus - minus 30 I'm pretty sure.
I Just - I just want to verify that. We use
dashes as sort of spaces and also as a minus sign.
So, I Just want to verify that's a minus 30 on
S193.
CC That's affirmative, Bill.

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PLT Thank you.
CDR Bruce, I think we agreed some time ago to skip a

space on that before you write the minus and it
was never done.
CC I believe that that has been done in this case.
SPT Okay. It wasn't done yesterday and I assumed it

wasn't done again today. And that's why Bill was
asking the question.
CC Okay.
PLT I - I thought that's what the space meant. But I

just wanted to make sure.
CC And, Bill at your convenience, if it can be worked

in prior to this pass, we'd like you to give us
the initial frame count readings from SI90A. You
can just go _head and put them on tape or you can
give them to us real time over Guam. Whatever is
better.
PLT I have them right in front of me, if you want them.
CC Okay; read them off.
PLT 0398, 2576, 0123, 9h81, 1252, 0189, you can add
three zeros to all of those to get the present
frame count. I got MALF lights 3, 4, and 5 due
to cen- during the sensitometry advance. I got
rid of MALF light 4 during one SINGLE. I tried
another SINGLE and I still have the MALFS 3 and
5. I checked 3 and 5. They are moving film. So
we're - now we've used 30 frames total on the
sensitometry advance.
025 16 37 48 CC Okay. We copy. Thanks for the details. 18 sec-

onds until LOS. Next station in 5-1/2 minutes.
Guam at 16:43 and a h_lf.

Out.
CC And your maneuver load looks good to us.
CDR Thank you.

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stone at 17:07J
CDR Roger. See you then.
CC Roger. Roger. !
025 16 51 03 PLT Charlie - Bravo 9 is 58. Charlie 2 being 57;

Charlie 3, 88; Charlie h, 54; Charlie 5, 82;
Charlie 6, 57; Charlie 7 is 60, make that 50;
Charlie 6 is 50. Delta 2, 68; Delta 3, 82; Delta h,
46; Delta 5 - -
025 17 06 51 PLT Another flash at 06:50.
025 17 07 33 CC Skylab, this is Houston; AOS Goldstone.
CDR Hello Bruce.

i
PLT Reading you 5 square, Bruce.
_ CC Roger.
PLT Ok_, coming up on 8 minutes. RAD/SCAT GIMBAL at

07:51. Light flashed again.
PLT Okay, stand by -
025 17 08 00 PLT MARK. SCAT to STANDBY, and RAD to STANDBY at 02.

193 CROSSTRACK CONTIGUOUS, and POLARIZATION, 1.
PLT CROSSTRACK CONTROL SCAN ANGLE still minus BO degrees.

Waiting for 08:25.
PLT Stand by -
025 17 08 25 PLT MARK. SCATTEROMETER, ON; RADIOMETER, ON; and

ALTIMETER is going to STANDBY. Now waiting for
I0 :30.
CDR Lots of snow on Vancouver.
PLT Get a good picture?
CDR Yes.
PLT They were clobbered in the other day when I had - -

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SPT Okay, SPT, S063 information. We're starting visible

CXh3, frames 59 and BV for the UV, BV 49 at
frame 23.
PLT And for the monitors on the ground, I've been get-
ting an intermittent single flash of the RAD/SCAT
GIMBAL light about every minute of minute and a
half.
PLT i0 minutes.
CDR Okay, as Bruce said, the weather is clearing up.
PLT Okay, and standing by for 10:30.
025 17 l0 29 PLT MARK. POLARIZATION, h on the 193.
SPT Okay, SPT at - coming up on a test frame on both

cameras, and I'll start tracking now and give you
a mark. It's your frame nl_mher i on your frame
exposures when we actuaISy start.
025 17 ii l0 SPT HACK.
CDR There goes that rare jungle bird again.
CDR The nicotine parrott. Hack, hack.
SPT Hack, hack. (Laughter)
PLT Caution, S063 may be dangerous to your health.
SPT Okay, both cameras are working well. That was a

16-second and filter 2700.
PLT Coming up on 12 minutes even. Everything looking

good. Got a nice steady green line on TAPE MOTION.
CDR Solid clouds.
PLT Stand by; on _V mark, it'll be 12:30.
025 17 12 30 PLT MARK. SCAT, STANDBY.
PLT MARK. RAD to STANDBY.
PLT Standing by for 42.

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025 17 12 42 PLT MARK. RADIOMETER, ON at 42, 12:42, that is.
CDR Okay. We've got cloud breakup and Minneapolis is

in view. Minneapolis/St. Paul.
SPT Boy, this haze filter certainly does a great Job

picking up the land separation from the clouds
here where it's Just broken.
PLT Standing by for 13:20.
CDR Okay, I just burned up my i0 seconds of DAC time

on Minneapolis/St. Paul.
025 17 13 21 PLT Moto - POLARIZATION to 1 on 193.
PLT And standing by for 13:53.
PLT Okay, coming up on 13:50.
CDR Well, as I live and breathe, there is a great big

lake up here.
r
PLT Stand by -
025 17 13 53 PLT MARK. 13:53, 193 MODE, AUTO; READY light is on.
i
CDR Don't suppose it's Lake Michigan?
PLT 14:10 192 MODE will be going to READY.
SPT Houston, SPT.
PLT I've got it. 14:10 stand by -
025 17 14 l0 PLT MARK. 192 MODE to READY. Let's see here. Yes,
I've got to have a good looking READY light, or
TAPE MOTION light. MALF lights on3 and 5, which
is Just what I expected on 190.
CDR Okay, Houston, I'm going to give you some data on

effluence - -
PLT 14:l0
CDR Along the Chicago side of the lake and then I'ii
swing up and do my regular site work. Okay - -
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SPT Houston, SPT.•
CC Okay. And stand by for some desat firings. You're

at about 90 percent. Go, Ed.
PLT Stand by -
SPT S063 refers to frame pairs. •Does that mean on the

same point? Usually it's been specified differently,
but the thought occurred to me that's maybe - -
PLT Stand by - -
SPT - - what they're after here.
PLT - - lh:50 -
SPT ... explain pairs what you ...
025 17 lh 50 PLT MARK. BAD, STANDBY. Waiting for 15 - -
CC That's affirmative, Ed, on the same point.
SPT Okay.
025 17 15 00 PLT MARK. 15 minutes even. ALTIMETER, ON. Waiting

for 15:06. Stand by -
025 17 15 06 PLT MARK, 90 SHUTT_ SPEED to MEDIUM. Waiting for

16:2h. And I'm getting the flight- the flickering,
on the TAPE MOTION light again, TAPE RECORDER.
And I have an ALTIMETER UNLOCK at 15:19.
PLT Okay, 192 is running. Okay, I'm getting a slight

disappearance of TAPE MOTION light intermittently.
CDR Okay, looking for the Wabash Valley now.
PLT ALTIMETER UNLOCK, okay. Now lost m_ READY light.

I'm going OFF for 15 seconds on ALTIMETER.
CDR Okay, I have a large river here. I think that's

probably the Wabash.
/ 025 17 15 57 SPT Eartk's wide open.
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PLT Okay, TAPE MOTION light's looking sicker than it's

been in a long time. Waiting for 16:2h. 16:2h.
PLT 16 :24 - -
SPT Ready to track.
025 17 16 2h PLT MARK. 78 on the RANGE. Standing by for 16:30.
025 17 16 31 PLT MARK. ALTIMETER going to STANDBY and MODE to 3.
025 17 16 33 SPT HACK.
PLT 16 :h5. Stand by.
CDR Okay, I got the alternate the Wabash Valley and

tracked it to - -
025 17 16 43 PLT MARK. ALTIMETER, ON. Waiting for 18:2h.
025 17 16 h9 SPT HACK.
- PLT Okay, I've lost my TAPE MOTION light. There it

is, it's still flickering.
025 17 16 56 SPT HACK.
PLT It was Just sort of teasing me there.
PLT It's off about as much as it's on; that's the

TAPE MOTION light.
CDR Okay, starting the nadir swath.
PLT Okay, 190 READY light's still on. Everything's

looking good. Waiting for 18:2h.
CDR Starting to truck - track on nln,1_erB.
PLT ALTIMETER' s looking - -
025 17 17 h0 SPT HACK.
PLT Okay, 17:hO. I got the UNLOCK. Still have a BEADY

light.
CDR Yes, you can see a little peak of the Appalachians.

And now we're in solid over the track.
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PLT Still have a READY light. ALTIMETER UNLOCK.
CDE ... Solid overcast.
PLT 18: 24.
PLT Still have an ALTIMETER UNLOCK and still have a

READY light.
PLT Stand by; on mY mark, 18:24.
025 17 18 25 PLT MARK. RANGE to 75 and then 30. Stand by -
025 17 18 30 PLT MARK. ALTIMETER to STANDBY at 3_. 192 MODE to

STANDBY. 192.
025 17 18 38 PLT MARK. 192 MODE to STANDBY. Got a shift of speed

and I got a steady green light. At 42, ALTIMETER
MODE to 5.
CDR Okay - -
SPT Ready to track - -
PLT - - ALTIMETER, ON. Okay, we're - -
025 17 18 50 SPT HACK.
PLT - - 1 second off.
PLT I've got an ALTIMETER UNLOCK light; READY light

still on. Next event is at 20:30.
CDR And back under the clouds again.
025 17 19 14 SPT HACK. That's about 2 seconds late.
PLT The flickering of the TAPE MOTION light has stopped.
CDR Back to blue water.
SPT Sequence coming up on 7, 7 and 8.
PLT The ALTIMETER's really doing its thing now. No

UNLOCK light.
CDR ...
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PLT ... find a way to get it to come on.
SPT I'm moving our exposure set down to 20 because it's

not sufficient timing the track. Making it 16 hack.
PLT Okay, I need - at 21:30 I'm going to need an AUTO

CAL, Jet.
CDR Okay.
PLT I'll give you a call.
PLT That's a little over a minute away.
CDR Right. Stand by -
025 17 20 24 CDR MARK. DAC's off.
CDR That's the end of the nadir swath. No visual

indications of the Gulf Stream at all ... - -
PLT Okay. IR REFERENCE to 2 .... - -
CDR - - ... see one color of water.
SPT Okay, that was frames 7 and 8. We're going to give

you a couple of more here.
PLT Well, everything's looking pretty good right now.

Okay, just gotten an ALTIMETER UNLOCK right there
at 21:08.
CDR Down a little bit further yet.
PLT READY light's still on. And need a AUTO CAL at

21: 30, Jer.
CDR Okay, I'll give it to you.
SPT Put it down to 20 on the step - -
PLT ALTIMETER light - READY light's still on.
SPT ... sufficient time for the second exposure.
PLT Okay, Jer, 5 seconds.

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CDR Okay.
PLT On my mark.
025 17 21 30 PLT MARK.
CDE You got it.
PLT Okay, thank you. Waiting for 22:05. Okay, and the
READY light's out on 191.
PLT Still have an UNLOCK light on 193 ALTIMETER - -
SPT Track ...
PLT But still have the READY light on.
025 17 21 43 SPT HACK.
PLT Just lost the READY light at 45. Turning it off

in 15 seconds. Stand by.
PLT Waiting for 22:05. Ah, goes to STANDBY anyway.
PLT RANGE to 71, 22:05. And I'll turn it back on at 20.
CDF Okay, we're not getting a second exposure on this

one - sequence.
PLT Stand by -
025 17 22 20 PLT MARK. ALTIMETER, ON.
CDIq Okay, we'll pick up with another double set here.
PLT Okay, 22:30, I should have a READY out on 190.

There it goes. MODE to STANDBY. 23:30, 190 MODE
to SINGLE. 23: 30.
025 17 22 _i SPT HACK.
PLT - - Got an extra one.
025 17 23 03 SPT HACK.
CDB A terrible cough you got, Ed. Got kind of a

wheeze there too.
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SPT Okay, we're just able to do it when I moved that

down to 20. Surprised that wasn't picked up before.
Going to another sequence.
025 17 23 30 PLT MARK. 23:30, SINGLE. And waiting for 24:10 for
a READY ... - -
025 17 23 hl SPT HACK.
PLT - - on 191.
025 17 24 06 SPT HACK.
PLT Okay. There we got it. It's 24:08; we've got it.
SPT Just finishing it - -
PLT 24:45 ... - -
SPT ...
SPT Okay, I'll give you some more in here.
PLT UNLOCK light ...
SPT ...
PLT Here 'S an ALTIMETER UNLOCK light at 24: 19 • And

standing by for 24:45.
025 12 24 37 SPT HACK.
025 17 24 45 PLT MARK. 190 MODE, SINGLE.
025 17 25 01 SPT HACK.
025 17 25 03 CC Skylab, this is Houston; 1-1/2 minutes to LOS;

next station contract in i0 minutes. And we
leave you to hack your way on toward Ascension
expecting you to arrive there at 17" 35.
PLT Okay, ALTIMETER UNLOCK and HEADY light lost at

25:15, off for 15 seconds.
SPT Fourth set of extras for S063. Coming up.

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025 17 25 33 PLT MARK. Back on. RANGE - okay, that's at 25:50.

I'll wait for that. Okay, we got an UNLOCK light
almost immediately.
025 17 25 41 SPT HACK.
PLT 25: 50. Stand by.
025 17 25 50 PLT MARK. ALTIMETER, STANDBY. RANGE, 67. At 26:06,

we'll turn the ALTIMETER back ON.
025 17 25 58 SPT HACK. End of the first exposure. Picking up on

the second.
025 17 26 05 PLT MARK.
025 17 26 06 SPT HACK.
PLT At 26:05, ALTIMETER, ON.
PLT And the UNLOCK light is flickering. Still have a

READY light. Stand by -
025 17 26 16 PLT MARK. MODE to SINGLE on the 190 at 26:15.
SPT One extra exposure in there.
SPT 26:30. Picking up on your frame number 9 after

four - four extra sets and one extra exposure
i inthere.
PLT I'm not hearing those singles come off of there

so I turned POWER, off.
SPT ...
PLT I'll see if I get a MALF light again. Next one's

at 27:15.

4-1/2 minutes. Out.
025 17 36 21 CC And I've got some open circuit voltage adjust

settings for you if anyone's free.

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CC Okay. REGULATOR CONTROL, FINE ADJUSTMENT number 7.

That's one of the screw driver slotted Jobs. That's
number 7, we want to turn it l0 degrees counter-
clockwise. And then I've got the BUS adjustments.
CDR Okay. It 's done.
025 17 37 ll CC Okay. BUS l, pot, 15 degrees counterclockwise

and BUS 2, i0 degrees counterclockwise.
CDR Okay. Those are done.
CC 0kay. That's it. Thank you.
095 17 39 12 CC Skylab, this is Houston; 1-1/2 minutes to LOS.

Next station contact in 26-1/2 through Carnarvon
at 18:06 with a data/voice tape recorder dump at
AOS. The 0CV adjustments look good. And have
you got an EREP tape remaining measurement for us?
PLT Not yet, Bruce. I'ii have it at the next station.
s 025 17 39 35 CC Okay. Thank you.
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SKYLAB AIR-T0-GROUND VOICETRANSCRIPTION
025 18 05 hh CC Skylab, this is Houston through Carnarvon for 5 min-

utes. We have a data/voice tape recorder dt_np here
at AOS. And if you'd stay off the DAS for a minute,
we'll send you a nu Z update. Over.
PLT Roger. You have it.

station contact _ in 4-I/2 minutes through Guam at
18:19. Out.
025 18 20 22 CC Skylah, this is Houston through Guam for 8-1/2 min-

utes. And if all of you are within earshot of a
speaker box, I've got a message for you.
PLT Press on, Bruce.

i
Q
CC Okay. I quote, "Congratulations on breaking the

last remaining manned space flight duration record,
- and especially for the outstanding work you have
done and are continuing to do in the fields of space
science, space applications, and in learning about
man's reaction to space. Keep up the good work.
See you soon." Signed, James C. Fletcher and George
M. Lowe. Over.
PLT Roger, Bruce. We copy. We thank them very much for

the kind wor_s. And we want to thank everybody
on the ground that's been helping us. We certainly
needed a lot of help and we've received it. Thank
you.
CC Okay. And we're all looking forward to seeing you ......

back here in the not too far distant future.
PLT We're certainly looking forward to being back there.

I can tell you that.
025 18 26 O1 CC Skylab, this is Houston. We've got about 3 minutes

remaining this pass. For the PLT, have you had a
chance to make the tape remaining measurement yet
on the EREP tape? Over.
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PLT Negative. I haven't. But I'ii get it in about

30 seconds.
CC Okay.
PLT That's 2.85 centimeters.
CC 2.85 centimeters. Thank you, Bill. And you've

got about a minute and a half now to LOS. Next
station contact in 17 minutes through Goldstone at
18: 44. And that measurement will let our guys get
the pads in shape a little early for tomorrow's
run.
PLT Okay, Bruce. Now in your readback, you did say 2,

right? It's 2.85.
CC Roger. 2.85.
025 18 27 56 PLT Thank you.

Merritt Island for 16 minutes. And we're sending
up a - a handmade COmmA ud to close the evacuation
valves on all three GMGs in an effort to stabilize
the situation and maybe help out CMG 2. So it
should be coming up shortly. Over.
CDR Roger.
CC And with respect to the S183 DAC optics subject,

it's our belief that the old replaced optics may
be stowed in F-510 Bravo. If you followed the cue
card procedures word for word, it was the tools
that should've been put in the plenum bag. Can
you either confirm this or check 510 Bravo at your
convenience sometime, and let us know?
CDR Okay.
025 18 _6 49 CC And we've completed the comm_nding, successfully

closing the evacuation valves on the three CMGs.
CDR Roger.
025 18 59 _0 CC Skylab, this is Houston; a minute and a half to

LOS. Next station contact in ll minutes through
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the Vanguard at 19:11 and we're commanding C_RM 5

REG, OFF at this t_me. We'll hit the CHARGER, OFF
over the Vanguard and leave it dormant again. Over.
CDR Roger, Bruce. And on S183 optics, we have them. I

don't know about the Allen wrench. I suspect I
refused to throw it away, and if I look through
the tool box, I might find it.
CC Okay. We copy that and that's a good input, Jer.

It's a metric Allen wrench, and you probably don't
have very many o_ those on board.
CC We're getting the input that when you remove the

Allen wrench, there was a little slot in the back
of the plate which was a cover for the replacement
optics that the Allen wrench fitted into for storage.
And it's conceivable that you - you might've stuck
it back in the slot out of a - a methodo - a meth-
odical way of doing business_
025 19 00 h9 CDR Oh, I hate to throw away tools. I may have Just
- done that.
025 19 ll 35 CC Skylab, this is Houston through the Vanguard for

6 minutes. Out.
025 19 15 21 CC PLT, this is Houston. Over.
PLT Go, Bruce.
CC Yes, I've got a - a couple of comments for you,

Bill, on the TV-77 that we've got set up for Just
a little bit later in the day. What we're trying
to do with this set of sequences is to get some
very specific, fairly closely tailored _magery that
will tie in with the TV scenes that we already have
down here from the mission so that we can edit the
whole thing together. In a couple of cases, we've
suggested some topics to cover or maybe even some
sample things to say, but there's no intent that
Jerry necessarily read these verbatim into the -
into the plot, Just suggestions regarding topics.
Looking at it down here, we feel that it may wind
up taking more than the B0 minutes that we currently
have flight planned for Jerry. And we're not sure
how much additional time is involved in doing double
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takes on these scenes. If the first take is really

good and you all are happy with it, there's no need
for a second take. The segments, segment l, 2,
and 3, are scheduled or are carried in a message
in order of priority. And what we're looking for
first is good quality TV. And if you should only
get One segment done or two segments done, why that's
fine. We'll take a look at it down here on the
ground and decide whether we want to schedule it
again for some more coverage or how we want to
handle it. Over.
025 19 17 07 PLT Okay, well, that's a good call, Bruce, because they
certainly don't encourage expert work by trying to
crowd all that in at a very short period of time.
The documentary photos and the TV both have been
awfully shortchanged on the time allowed.
CC Roger, we copy. Just start through it and do a

good job, but take your time on it. And if we need
some more, why, we'll probably wind up doing that.
And we got about 15 seconds to a long LOS here.
Goldstone in an hour and 4 minutes at 20:21. Out.
025 19 17 43 PUF Roger.
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Corpus Christi for almost 12 minutes.
CDR Roger Bruce. H-ALPHA 1 seems to be acting up again.

I got - The DOOR did not OPEN. It r_mAined white
and we had no video. _ inhibited and then enabled
the H-alpha door motors and got operation okay in
H-alpha but still no video.
CC Okay, we copy that; let us look at it. And we're

ready for a data/voice tape recorder dump here.
CDR Okay. What I'm doing is I'm pointing with H-ALPHA 2.

And then I'm going to step up 85 - correction, step
down 85 arc seconds and get started on this JOP 2C.
CC Okay.
025 20 2h 2h CC Jerry, our downlink telemetry indicates that the

H-ALPHA i DOOR is still CLOSED. Would you please
issue another DOOR, OPEN command with the DOOR
switch, please?
CDR Okay.
CDR Okay, all is well.
CC Okay. We confirm that.
025 20 26 47 CDR Houston, CDR. Now that we see we've only got about
35 minutes - or 34 minutes remaining, how would
S056 like to modify the building block?
CC We're checking on that.
CDR Okay.
025 20 29 13 CC CDR, Houston. Your question on S056, we would like

to delete the two PATROL, SHORT operations. Every-
thing else the same.
CDR Okay.
CC Thank you.
CDR I'm going to cut back 55 to two MIRROR, AUTO RASTERs

per GRATING setting rather than three. And that
way I can get all three of them in.
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CC Okay, that'd be fine.
025 20 33 06 CC Skylab, this is Houston; 1 minute until LOS. Next

station contact in 12 minutes through the Vanguard
at 20:h6. Out.
025 20 45 07 CC Skylab, this is Houston through the Vanguard at

sea for ll minutes. And for either Bill or Jerry,
if you can work it in sometime this evening, we'd
like for you to clean the pinchrollers on EREP
tape recorder number l, using the swab wetting
procedure that's in general message - permanent
general message 34 Aifa. Since the pinch rollers
have not been scheduled for cleaning in between
passes, we think it's possible that they're col-
lecting tacky material from the tapes and then
transferring this material to the headstacks during
operation, and that this is giving you the flick-
ering TAPE MOTION lights during 192 ops. Over.
CDE Now, Bruce, I thought the pinch rollers were sup-

posed to be cleaned after every EREP run.
CC Well, let me ask it of you this way; have you been

cleaning them after every run?
CDR I have; let me check with Bill.
CC Okay; well, we'll check down here too, and make

sure we're coordinated.
CDR Does it look to you folks down there like S056

is hung in FILTER l?
CC We're checking.
CDR Okay, I found it hung in PATROL, NORMAL. I'm in

PATROL, LONG now, and I think it's hung again.
025 20 46 26 CC It's looks okay to us, Jerry.
025 20 47 40 CDB Yes, it's okay now.
CDR Houston, you referring to the EREP C&D post cue

card? It says take four swabs and clean the pinch
rollers and the headstacks.
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CC Roger; we've got that out now, and we concur.
CDR Houston, CDR.

i
CDR Hey, Bru_= we've got a TV monitor problem here

with one of our little m0ni_rs. " It looks like
there's a little, oh, rubber t hlng_or something
loose inside of it. And it fl_ around and is
in the field of view of the - of the monitor. It's
definitely in the monitor. It's not in the camera
because we swapped cameras and it's - it's in the
same monitor. But it looks like a little rubber
cap or something floating around loose inside the
cavity behind the - the phosphorescent - the screen
itself. And as it gets closer to the screen - or
closer to the gun it gets bigger. And gets smaller
as it gets away.
CC How can you tell it's rubber?
__ CDR I figure if it was metal, Bruce, he was going to

start sparking and smoking.
CC Okay, that's a good data point. But it looks to

you like it's actually inside the tube?
CDR That's affirmative. You could shake the monitor

and make it move all over the place.
025 20 54 34 CC Is this on the same monitor that I think Bill was

reporting difficulty with yesterday or day before?
I think when you were flying T20, he was reporting
trouble with the monitor.
CDR That was a different problem, Bruce. Can you take

television of a itelevision screen? Could we take
a picture of this monitor with the other camera?
CC We're going to have to study that one; you got sync

problems. It probably would be best to take a
picture of it with the same camera, (chuckle) oh,
I'm not sure. You get into this receding _mRge
thing. Let us - let us check on it but -
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025 20 55 16 CDR Okay, if worse comes to worse, we'll Just take a

Nikon and take a picture of it.
CD Yes. Of course, that wouldn't give us any real

time on it. But it - Can you tell us if that's
the same monitor or not?
CDR No, this is the other monitor. This was the one
that was the sharpest _m_ge.
CC Okay, we copy. Is that going to impact your TV-77

stuff this afternoon or can you still make do even
' with the rubber objectfloatingaround?
CDR No, we can work around it, but I Just wanted you
to know it was there.
025 20 55 46 CC Okay, we got 40 seconds to LOS. Next station

contact is in about 17 minutes through Tananarive
at 21:13. And Just racking my brain here, I
believe that the sync for both the monitor and
the camera is derived from the camera itself that's
driving the monitor. So if you used one camera to
photograph the other cameras monitor, I don't
think the - the sync would work out right. But
you could give it a try, I suppose.
025 20 56 26 CDR Okay, when we get to an experimenting point, we'll

do it.
END OF TAPE
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025 21 14 00 CC Good evening, space champs. Got you through Tana-

narive for 5 minutes.
025 21 17 06 CC Ed, Houston.
CC Ed, Houston.
CC Ed, Houston.
CC Ed, in the blind. There's an eruptive prominence

northwest on the limb. We'd like for you to inter-
rupt your PT, run a JOP 8 Alfa; that's on page S-25,
and run it per the SAP.
CDR Houston, CDR. How do you read?
CC I read you loud and clear, Jer.
CDR Okay, it's night now; we're behind.
CC Yes, just go ahead and pick it up when you get into

• daylight.
CDR Okay, good enough.
025 21 18 2h CC We're going LOS here. The next station will be

Hawaii at 21:55.
CDR Roger. Say again the - where it is on the limb.
025 21 18 32 CC In the blind. It's on the northwest limb.
025 21 55 42 CC Skylab, AOS through Hawaii for B minutes.
CDR Roger, Story.
SPT Hey, Story, looking at the WHITE LIGHT CORONAGRAPH,

I see no significant change from What we saw this
morning. As a matter of fact, I can see no - no
change whatsoever in any of the detail. We've got
a building blockI32 done at the beginning of the
orbit without 50 - 54, and I'll take another look
at it. R_ght now I'm over at the - about 040 look-
ing at what appears to be a prominence and perhaps
a surge. And I'll get 55 going on that in a moment
unless you want to take an unattened.
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025 21 56 21 CC Okay, Ed, if you don't pick up anything on the

WHITE LIGHT CORONAGRAPH, we'd like you to terminate
the building block 17 and do a shopping list item
nt_nber 1.
SPT Story, I did a building block 32. I don't recall

anything about a building block 17.
CC Okay, 32 is fine.
CC Jer, Houston.
SPT Story, I'm still a little at a loss as to what addi-

_. tionalthings you would like. I did a 32 - building
block 32 which is the same as a shopping list item 1.
Is there anything else which you would like?
025 21 57 59 CC Jer [sic], we'd like Just a couple more of those

building block 32's. And then use your own Judgment
including b - going back to the PT. Whatever you
think is best.
CC And also, Ed, there's extremely active aurora re-

ported in the northern hemisphere. Use permanent
general message 18 Bravo if you geta chance. And
it's got the highest classification that we can give
it in terms of activity. It's a class V.
SPT Okay, Story, we'll sure try to do that. We've been

looking some of these nights and it's kind of tough
to see up north when we had the high beta, because
of the ATM. But we'll start taking another hard
look and see if we can see anything.
025 21 58 37 CC Okay, and we're about to go LOS here. See you over
the Vanguard in about 25 minutes at 22:23.
CDR Roger Story. And can you folks recommend some

times when we might best look for the aurora?
025 21 58 50 CC Okay, we'll do it.
025 22 23 36 CC Skylab, AOS through the Vanguard l0 minutes. And

we're going to dump the data/voice here.
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SPT Hello, Story. Still nothing evident in the WHITE

LIGHT CORONAGRAPH. I put another building block 32
or shopping list item 1 in the center of the orbit,
and we're letting 55 look at the limb around 0h0 to
060. And I'll put one more shopping list item at
the end of the orbit, shopping list 1. Exactly
where did the prominence move off from?
CC It was the northwest limb. I'll get you - try to

get you a more exact answer, Ed.
SPT Okay. Thank you, Story. And the reason you coul_'t ,
contact me before was I was down there in the bowels
of the workshop and working and had a speaker right
next to my ear which was tapping away. So I turned
it down and that turned out to be the only one that
was turned up in the whole base part of the workshop.
025 22 24 46 CC Okay. You had some peace and quiet, huh?
SPT Apparently, that time too much.
.- SPT We all have a 6-cycle-per-second flicker to our

eyes.
CC That eruptive prominence was l0 degrees north of

the equator about, - or about 80 degrees, Ed.
SPT Thank you.
CC And I've got some times for you to catch those

allroras.
025 22 25 39 CC Okay. There's good evidence, although we don't

have observing stations in the Southern Hemisphere,
that they should be seen down there also. Viewing
times for the Northern H_m_sphere: 8 minutes before
sunrise, up until sunrise. For the Southern Hemi-
sphere: from sunrise to 8 minutes after sunrise -
sunset. Southern is sunset to 8 minutes after
sunset.
SPT Okay, Story; I understand. You're essentially

8 minutes into the dark at either sunrise or sunset;
sunrise in the north and sunset in the south.
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CC That's affirm.
SPT Thank you.
025 22 29 16 PLT Story, Skylab, PLT.
CC Hello, Bill.
PLT Okay. We got it back. I was just going to ask

you when we were going to get the recorder.
CC And we're done with it.
PLT Just want to report a large area of fairly extensive

plankton blooming to the south of the Gulf of San
Matlas. That's a large hammerhead peninsula there.
Pass that on. It's fairly large and extensive.
CC Okay.
PLT That's Falkland Current associated,
025 22 29 55 CC Okay.
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025 22 30 39 SPT Story, would the 52 people like a STANDARD at the

end of this orbit to go with the two they have the
following?
CC Stand by l, Ed.
CC That's affirm, Ed. We'd like one.
025 22 32 38 CC Skylab, we're a minute to LOS; about 15 minutes to

Tananarive at 22:h7. Ed, Houston.
SPT Go ahead.
cC Ed, the ATM planning message for your ops tomorrow

• is on board. We stole some of•your PT time there
so let us know if you need any help regrouping.
SPT No, it's all squared away, Story. I got things

- pretty well under control.
CC 0ks_v.
CC And you got 22 minutes left On the VTR, Skylab.
CDE Is that 22?
CC 22.
PLT We've Just finished sequence i, two runs through

it. And that's all we have accomplished on
that TV-77.
025 22 B3 h0 CC Okay.
025 22 _7 55 CC Skylab, got you through Tananarive for 8 minutes.
SPT Story, could you tell me, on Zomorrow's Flight

Plan what time we arrive back into SOLAR INERTIAL
after the Z-LV pass?
CC Okay, stand by l, Ed.

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025 22 49 22 CC Ed, that's 20:29.
CC Jer, Houston.
SPT Jer?
PLT Okay, Jerry .... ?
CDR ...
025 22 25 35 CDR Houston, CDR; say again, please.
CC Okay, Jet, how are you reading us?
PLT 5-square ; go.
CC Jer, we're got a procedure for you if you want

to take some TV pictures of - of the monitor pic-
ture. However, it's - it's your option; we're
bringing both monitors back anyway.
PLT I don't think we need to bother then, Story.
CC Okay, Bill, and I got a phone call for you tonight.
PLT Okay,go ahead.
CC The Vanguard at 01:39 and it's a RIGHT.
PLT Roger.
025 22 55 01 CC Skylab, we're a minute to LOS. Next station will

be H_aii at 23:31. That's about 35 minutes.
We'll be looking to dump the data/voice there.
CC And we'll also be looking for the evening status

report at Hawaii.
025 22 55 25 CDR Okay, we'll be ready.
025 23 32 46 CC Skylab, A0S through H_aii for 8 minutes. And

we're going to dump the data/voice here.
CDR Aloha, Houston; you ready for evening status?

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CC We're always ready, Jer.
CDR Okay, the photo pads or photo log. 16-millimeter:

Delta Papa 4 Charlie, Delta, and Echo: Charlie
India 129, 72, Charlie India 78, and these photos
were taken last night. Today, Delta Papa h Alfa
and Bravo: Charlie India 129, 65, Charlie India 78.
ERE? _TS: Charlie Lima 12, 82. Nikons: 01:
Charlie X-ray 43, 39; 02: Bravo Victor 49, 00; 03:
Charlie India ll5, 52; 04 and 05: no change.
70-millimeters: Charlie X-ray 18, 083. ETC: no
change. EREP: set Zulu; 0491, 2669, 0216, 9574,
1345, 0282. Drawer A: Alfa 1 through Alfa 4, no
change; back: 07, Charlle India 129, 82, Charlie
India 78. Okay, on sleep: CDR, 7, 7 heavy;
SPT, 6.5, 4 heavy, 2.5 light; PLT, 7.0, 6 heavy •
and 1 light. Volumes: 260, 195, 420. CDI_ - on
water gun reading: CDR, 8817; SPT, 4853;
PLT, 1424. Body mass: 6.329, 6.329, 6.330; 6.373,
6.376, 6.378; 6.256, 6,260, 6.259. Exercise:
CDR and PLT, no change; SPT, standard, with the
exception of Alfa minus 5737. Medication: CDR,
_ none; SPT, one Da]mane tonight; PLT, one Actifed
tonight. Clothing: CDR, none; SPT, socks, shirt,
trousers; PLT, socks, shorts, and T-shirt. Food
log: salt for CDR, 0.0, plus peach ambrosia,
minus one lemonade, minus one coffee with sugar;
SPT, 1.5 salt, plus lemon pudding, plus one
Apollo cocoa, plus 2.0 water; PLT, zero salt,
plus one green beans, minus one orange drink,
minus one grape drink, and zero rehydration water.
Flight Plan deviations: SPT, plus one ATM pass;
CDR, did not get the Nikons of the SMMD and BMMD.
We'll add that to the shopping list for tomorrow.
Shopping list accomplishments : none. Inoperable
equipment: none. Unscheduled stowage: none.
025 23 36 21 CC Okay, Jer. And while I got you, Jet, we're

thinking of - because of the flickering light on
EREP tape recorder nnmher l, we're thinking of
switching over to tape recorder n_Tmher 2. If you
all are doing all you possibly can - cleaning the
heads and all the rest of that, to keep number 1
in - good order - if you've been doing all that
along, we'll probably switch over to tape recorder
number 2, if there's no better way we can handle 1.
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CDR Okay; we've been doing a very good Job, I'm

sure, of cles_ing the tape recorders. We've been
working at it pretty conscientiously. So, if
that's not enough, we probably ought to switch.
CC Okay. And any water deviations on - on you today,

Jer?
CDR Roger; plus 1.0.
025 23 37 16 CC Okay.
CC And we're looking at a good maneuver _ime.
PL_ Roger.
025 23 40 19 CC Skylab, we're a minute to LOS. The next station's

at Vanguard for your medical conference in about
22 minutes at 00:01.
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026 01 09 33 CC Skylab, got you through Hawaii for 6 minutes, and

we're looking at this pass to be the last pass.
CDR Roger, Story.
CC And, Jer, we could use someone up at the ATM to

get a frames readout and also got us a couple
switches to throw up there.
CDR Roger.
PLT Story, I have the frame count.
CC Go.
PLT 8294, and this one is obviously an error 85713,

14, 28, ll30, 2743.
_- CC Okay, and I got a couple of switchesfor you

there at the ATM panel.
CDR Go ahead.
CC Okay, the C&D ACS MONITOR rotary switch, WHEEL

AMPS, 2 for l0 seconds.
CDR Okay, that's complete.
CC Stand by.
CC Now could you go to the WBAN_L Spkm_n, 2 position

for lO seconds?
CDR That 's complete.
CC Okay.
CDR What's all that for, Story?
026 01 ii _2 CC Jer, it's - it appears that positioning that

switch is putting glitches into our telementry.
And the ones that we're interested in are WNk_.L
SPk_D and current.
_- CC And could you give us the same on CMG 2 - I mean

3?
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CER Okay.
CC That will be WHEEL AMPS to 3 for l0 seconds.
CDR Okay, you got WHEE.LAMPS, 3 for i0. You want

WHEEL SPEED now?
CC Yes, sir.
CDR Okay.
CE_ That's complete.
CC Okay, that's it, Jer. We are seeing an inter-

action between switching that meter and our
telementry displays.
CDR Roger.
CC Jer, have you had a chance to look at the Flight

Plans yet?
CDR Yes, it looks like it takes a Philadelphia lswyer

to read them.
CC Yes, that's why I brought it up.
026 01 13 23 CC The one of them is in case we don't have any -

any 201. And we do have a priority for track 59
and 60 if there is no 201. But the weather does
look better now for 63.
CE_ Okay. Is 63 the early one?
CC That's the late one; 59 and 60 is the earlier one.

And that has priority, but the weather doesn't
look quite so good for it right now.
CDR Okay, and what are those, geothermal or - It's

still dark at that time, isn't it?
CC That's a geothermal one.
CI_ Roger.
CC And the other one that says, if no EREP 42, that

of course assumes that S201 is still GO.
CDR Okay.
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CC And while I've got you, do you think that 6-cycle

per-second you've got in you audio will - will
disturb your, EVA comm at ally
CDR No, I think it will be a nuisance Just like it is

now. You know, for instance, where we might miss
some calls or something because of it Just the
way we did today.
026 01 lh hl CDR Trouble is the - the darn tone, you know, the
cycles are getting longer - or getting louder,
I should say.
CC So we can get EV-3 to be the one who listens to

it instead of the two outside. Would you like
that?
CDR Oh, I don't know that it makes all that much

difference, who has to listen to it.
CC Okay. And your voice tape on TV-77 was excellent.

_- Don't do any more on that untilwe get the VTR
down and put it all together.
CDR Okay.
CC And for Ed: How long was it between his eating

and the onset of the M092 vent?
SPT Probably about an hour and a half, Story.
026 01 15 37 CC Okay, and we got about 25 seconds to LOS here.

We're not thinking of calling you at the next sta-
tion, but it's the Vanguard at 01:39. And I can
offer you wakeup that's at 10:51 - 10:53, 7 min-
utes early, or one that's 30 minutes late at
Goldstone. !
CDR Go ahead and m_ke it the late one and we'll -

we'll set our clocks. Also, you mean you don't
want us to even try - to try to do sequence 2
and 3 in TV-77?
CC Not until we call you, Jer.
CDR Okay.
- CC And I - I do have a stationI can wake you up

right on time at Madrid.
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CDR Okay, good.
SPT Hey, Story, I'd like to pick up the M133 tomorrow

night rather than this evening.
CC Standby 1. That'll be fine, Ed.
026 O1 16 42 CC You can get it tomorrow.
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026 01 h0 ii CDR Houston, CDR.
CC Go ahead, Jerry; got you through Vanguar_ for

!
9 minutes.
CDR Okay, Story, I was getting ready to do photography

on TV-106 and I'm not so sure we're using the right
f-stop on this thing. It's calling for an f-stop
of - I think it's 2.8 at 1/30 of a second. And I
think I've got a whole lot more light than that up
here, and I'm wondering what's wrong with the -
the little integral light meter that we've got
here, It's indicating that we ought to be shooting
in this kind of light of about 5.6 at l/B0.
CC Okay, stand by 1.
i
CDR Seems to me we ought to use a faster shutter speed

since it's handheld.
026 01 41 13 CC You referring to step 6-A, Jer?
CDR That's affirmative, Story.
CC While I got you, Jer, per permanent general message,

which, of course, you don't have in front of you
to record the trash airlock usage for 3 days, they
got reports on 61 and 64. Did you get any other
days? t
CDR They're apparently not reading their transcripts

then. I gave them one for 61, and then again on
65, and then I Just gave themone for last night.
And the - what they wanted was 62, 3, 4, and 5, I
think it was, and we Just don_t do that many trash
airlock dumps.
CC Okay. And for Ed, he can run that M133 tomorrow

night; that'll be fine.
CDR Story, I guess my question to the photo people is,

can I believe my little integral light meter in
the Nikon with this K-I extension on? If so, then
we ought to be doing this at more like 1/60 or
1/25.
CC We're working it.

t
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026 01 44 24 CD Jet, you c:ul believe the mcte_" :ind shoot at tile
faster speed.
CDR Okay, Story_ I just took a sighting on it and it

says f/8 at 1/250.
CC Copy.
026 01 45 2h CC Jerry, Houston.
CDR Go ahead.
CC That's a little further out than we expected there.

You are using Nikon 03?
CDR That's affirmative; Nikon 03 and the - the light

meter in it indicates it ought to be 1/250 at f/8.
I got a high intensity light that's only 2 feet
away from the vial that I'm taking the picture of.
CDR Would they rather I used a flash attachment?
CDR Roger.
CC You got ASA 500 set on the top of your speed meter
there?
CDR That's affirmative. Okay, I tried the spot meter

and it says that I ought to he using 5.6 at 1/25.
CC You're reading our minds.
CDR Say again.
CC You read our minds on the spot meter.
CDR Now the question is, what do I believe?
026 01 49 29 CC Skylab, we're about 30 seconds to LOS here. Next

station is Ascension at 01:55, about 6 minutes.
We won't call you. And we plan to dump the data/
voice at Ascension. And Jer, we got - we got
plenty
, : J
of that film; why don't you use your own
judgement and - and bracket the - the f - and
f-stop and speed settings.
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CDR Okay, I'ii do that. I'm afraid the ones this

morning are probably no good, I used the f-stop
of 2.8 and then I did 1/30 and 1/60, bu_ l'm afraid
those are too far off. Maybe processing can bring
itout. :
CC Okay, we'll see you over Madrid tomorrow at about

12:00.
026 01 50 i0 CDR Roger, so long.
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SKYLAB AIR-'II)-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION
026 ii 50 45 CC (Music: "In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning"

by Julie London)
026 ll 53 30 CC Skylab, Houston. Good morning from the purple

gang. We got you at Madrid for 6more minutes.
Standing by.
PLT Roger, Dick.
026 ll 59 01 CC Skylab, Houston. We're a minute to LOS. Tanana-

rive comes up at 12:ll. Couple of things to tell
you as we go over the hill. The S201 is GO. We're
still on the prime Flight Plan today, and the VTR
is clean and all yours for the day.
026 ll 59 18 CDR Roger, Dick.
026 12 ll 17 CC_ Skylab, Houston. Hello at Tananarive for

_-_ i0 minutes.
CDR Hello, Dick. You got any news this morning?
CC Yes, sir, I sure do. Would you like to hear it

here?
CDR Yes, that'd be fine.
CC Okay. Ford Motor Company has announced layoffs

that raise to just over 64,000 the number of auto
workers furloughed indefinitely by an industry
suffering a serious sales decline. Ford said
Friday that production cutbacks to pro - to begin
Monday would idle 13,000 workers over the next
two weeks, 4, 000 indefinitely. The firm plans
to trim 23,000 cars from its production schedule
So far this year, h0,000 GM and 13,000 Chrysler
Corporation workers have been laid off ihdefintely.
Ford, with a 175,000-man domestic hour - hourly
work force, will have laid off ll, 175 workers
indefinitely as of Febrauary ll.
026 12 12 44 CC Federal energy chief William E. Simon, testifying

before a Senate Subcommittee, declined to speculate
on the prospects of gasoline rationing. The
_'_ Senate is to vote next week on legislation that
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would authorize President Nixon to order rationing

if necessary and take other steps to cope with
the energy crisis. Billionaire Howard Hughes
failed to appear for arraingment on stock no -
manipulation charges in federal court Friday. The
Judge said he will decide next Wednesday whether
to issue a bench warrant for Hughes' arrest.
Hughes, charged with four other men, is living
in seclusion in the Bahamas. He could be declared
a fugitive if he ignored - ignored a bench warrant.
Bantam Books reported that it had made its first
sales to the People - People's Republic of China,
three paperbacks. One copy each of the following:
Battleground: Fact and Fantasy in Palestine, Wheels,
a novel about the auto industry by Arthur Halley,
and Every Night Josephine, a book by Jaequeline
Susann. Bantam said it's been sending its periodic
lists of about 1400 title to the Chinese since the
United States established relations with the Com-
munist government. The order came from the China
National Publications Import Corporation in
Peking. "Ordinarily we would not open a new
account for Just three titles," a spokesman
said. "One of the clerks almost sent it back,
but it was caught."
026 12 14 13 CC The Treasury Department confirmed that the big

three U.S. automakers have applied for licenses
for their Argentine subsidiaries to sell cars
and trucks to Cuba. A Treasury Department spokes-
man said no decision had been made on whether to
grant the licenses, and he said there was no
indication when a decision would be made. The
spokesman said Ford, Chrysler and General Motors,
all filed formal requests with the Treasury, seek-
ing authority to allow American citizens working
for their Argentine subsidiaries to engage in
business with Cuba under the Cuban assets control
regulations. These regulations currently embargo
U.S. trade with Cuba. The automakers confirmed
in Detroit that their Argentine subsidiaries have
applied - here a supplied qutotations to Cuba
on the possible sale of thousands of cars and
trucks. Sources estimate the pacts would be
worth as much as $150 million.
026 12 15 09 CC Two totally blind men say they saw specks of

lights, like constellations of stars, during
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experiments to develop an artifical eye. "It

was just a relief that I could see," said a
28-year-old graduate student in social work who
lost his sight 7 years ago in a Vietnam linement -
landmine explosion. The experiments were conducted
by a team of more than 30 researchers from the
universities of Utah and Western Ontario. The
two saw the specks when they were plugged into
a computer with 6h tiny platinum electrode points
stimulating the surface of their brains. They
said they were able to recognize simple patterns
including some letters, and draw on paper what
thy saw. Although several key problems remain
unsolved, researches estimate that an artifical
eye - a tiny television camera in the eye socket
connected to electrodes permanently implanted
through the back of the skull - may eventually be
built for $5,000 apiece, plus $2,000 for surgery
and related expenses.
026 12 16 14 CC We're going to be - the purple gang is going to

F be turning over to the crisonteam here very -
in a couple of passes to let you know what they've
been doing while they're off duty. I have one
note - one news item here from San Diego. Navy
astronaut Robert L. Crippen says space technology
may be one day permit cities to bathe themselves
in 24-hour sunlight. Crippen said this and
other techniques will provide avenues of relief
from the energy crisis. Crippen said an array of
huge mirrors up to a half mile in diameter could
be put into stationary orbit outside the Earth's
shadow, about 23,000 miles in space. By night
they would be tipped automatically to ill,,m_nate
the city below. "You could keep a city lighted
24 hours a day in this way if you wanted to,
"Crippen said," or you could Just shorten the nights
and still save a lot of energy."
026 12 17 05 CC We're about a minute or so for LOS here at Tanarive,

and Honeysuckle comes up at 12:37. See you there.
026 12 17 33 CC Skylab, Houston. We dropped out for a second

there. We still have you for a few - for about
a minute here at Tananarive.
CDR Roger, Dick. Ed says thanks for the illl,m_nating

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CC Roger that. I hope I get to go to San - San Diego

in between my time off.
026 12 36 59 CC Skylab, Houston. Honeysuckle for 6 minutes.
PLT Roger.
CC And, CDR or PLT, Houston. I'd like to visit with

you here at this site for just a minute about
this upcoming 201.
PLT Go ahead, Dick.
026 12 37 20 CC Roger. A couple of things I wanted to tell you:

First of all, the booster at Vandenberg is on in-
ternal power. It's looking good and the count
is going very smoothly, so don't anticipate any
problems. In the event that for some reason the
CMG acts up in between here and there, we are
uplinking another 201 pad for you that essentially
could be accomplished with no maneuver, which -
and that decision we would have to make here -
up - at the upcoming Hawaii pass. So I'd recommend -
that you go get this pad when it comes out of
the teleprinter here, stick it in your pocket
and then forget it unless we call you with some
problem about the upcoming maneuver. The pad
is essentially identical except the times and -
and angles changes because we're going to change
the launch time of the booster in order to still
get the 201 opportunity. Second thing I wanted
to mention to you - Yes, one thing on that item
thought, there's no reason at this time to think
we're going to scrub the maneuver. We're just
backing up our options so we mske sure that in -
in case we do, we'll still get 201. Next thing
I wanted to mention to you is, if there's some
problem and we get a launch slip out at Vanden-
berg, depending on when we find out when that
slip is going to happen and how much it's going
to be, I'm going to have some corrections to the
pad that I'll need to read up to you either just
prior to the launch or in real time. You can -
if you don't hear from me again on that, you can
also forget that call. But I do have the numbers
here, and if we do slip, I'll be giving you a
holler.
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PLT Okay, Dick.
CC Okay.
026 12 41 14 CC Skylab, Houston. We're a minute from LOS. Hawaii

comes up at 12:57. See you there.
026 12 41 21 PLT Roger, Dick.
026 12 57 36 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Hawaii for 6 minutes.

The 201 is still GO, and we've looked at the
maneuver time and - that's loaded, and looks
good to us.
SlY2 Morning, Dick ; thank you.
CC Roger.
026 13 03 Ol CC Skylab, Houston. We're a minute from LOS.

Goldstone - we're going to drop out Just a couple
of minutes, and I'll give you a call at Goldstone.
$201 is still GO. You're GO for the maneuver,
r lookingreal good. And, CDR and PLT, you can
verify that you're operating from pad number
7259 Alfa, which is the original pad we sent up
for 201. I'll see you at Goldstone.
PLT That's affirmative, Dick.
cC Very good.
026 13 XX XX CC Skylab, Houston, AOS Goldstone for 8 minutes.
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026 13 08 07 CC Skylab, Houston; the 201 t_rget vehicle has

lifted off.
SPT Dick, which STS window should that be visible from?
CC Standby.
026 13 ll 01 CC SPT, Houston. You've probably already found it,

but we think S-3 is probably the best window.
SPT Thanks very much, Dick.
CC Roger.
026 13 12 52CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute to LOS. We'll

drop out about 5 minutes, and the crimson te_m
will give you a call at Bermuda.
S_ Thank you, Dick.
CC Roger.
SPT So long, purple team. Enjoy the day.
CC We certainly will. We Just did our last summary

shift of the Skylab mission.
SPT Sounds like something to have a celebration about.
CC You bet you.
MCC I secon_ that. (Laughter)
CDR Good night, purple guys. Get a good day's rest.
026 13 14 00 cC Tl_ank you, sir.
026 13 18 27 CC Good morning, Skylab. Crimson crews with you,

5 minutes through Bermuda.
PLT How's the after-dinner circuit?
CC Great, great. I checked it out in San Diego; still

for splash.
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SPT The golden warble of the crimson Cripper. How

are you this morning?
CC Pretty good, pretty good. You guys ready to

enjoy a theoretical day off?
SPT We' re working at it.
CC I noticed that. It looks like we filled the

201 square.
CDR Colored in with blood.
CC There and here.
026 13 20 ll CC Skylab, we have a keyhole coming up in about

15 seconds, so I'll call you out of it.
CDR Roger, Crip.
026 13 21 35 CC Okay, we're back with you once more; still about
2-1/2 minutes to Bermuda.
026 13 23 O0 CC LOS in i minute; Canary in 5 at 13:28, 13:28.
026 13 28 0h CC Skylab, Houston; AOS CAnary, 7-1/2 minutes.
CC CDR, Houston; when you or Bill get a - get an

opportunity, we'd appreciate a little synopsis of
how you felt the 201 ops went today.
026 13 32 53 CDR Houston, CDR. How do you read?
CC Loud and clear. Go, Jer.
CDR Okay. We were answering your call there earlier,

and I guess you dropped out.
CC Okay, sorry; didn't - didn't copy it.
CDR Bill's got a debrief for you on 201.
CC Beautiful. Thank you.

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PLT Okay, on the 201 ops, everything was fine until

we got down to the 13:12 RESET switch to!START.
And that was grouped with the i3:11:02 and I
read the 12 as the 12 seconds, so I hit a RESET
switch to START at 13:ll:12 as an additional action.
At 13:12 I reinitiated the RESET switch to START.
Everything else was nominal except 13:12:27 PET
switch START, and 13:12:29 the RESET switch
started at that 1 second late. 13:12:30 POWER
switch OFF.
CC Okay, real fine, Bill. Thank you.
026 13 34 22 CC For the SPT. Just out of curiosity, Ed, did you
happen to get a look at the - the launch vehicle
when it was coming up through the atmosphere?
SPT No, I didn't Crip.
CC Okay, thank you.
_ CDR Crip, you guys finally did it to us.
CC What 's that, Jer?
CDR We got so many permanent general messages up here

we're out of room on the chiller for pasting them
up.
CC I thought we'd finally overflow you there if we

kept at it. And it looks like they really did it
last night.
CDR Well, our system is saturated up here. I don't

know what we're going to do. Could you cancel
a few of them, maybe?
CC That's a good idea. We'll - we'll go through it.
026 13 36 lO CC Skylab, Houston; we're about 15 seconds from LOS.

Next station contact is Tananarive in lh minutes
at 13:50, !3:50.
026 13 36 19 CDR Roger.
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026 13 51 27 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS at Tananarive, a very

short pass - a little over a minute here. Next
station contact is Honeysuckle at 14:12. That's
about 21 minutes away, and we'll be doing a
data/voice recorder dump when we get there.
026 13 51 4h CDR Roger, Bob.
026 14 13 33 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS through Honeysuckle.

We have you for 8-1/2 minutes. And if we could
have the recorder, we'd like to go ahead and do
a data/voice recorder dump here.
SPT Can you give me around h0 seconds, Crip?
CC Will do.
SPT You've got it, Crip. Thank you.
CC Okay, Ed. We'll go ahead and take it. One item

I should mention to you, last night during
unattended ops while you guys were asleep, we had
a - a glitch of some sort that we - sort of -
probably a power glitch, occur which zeroed the
up/down, left/right counters in the computer. If
per chance you see anything like that today, of
course, the only required action is to go ahead
and rezero the fine - fine Sun sensor.
SPT Okay, Crip. How did you get rid of it last night?
Were - are you able to do that from the ground?
026 14 15 26 CC That - that's affirm. They can go ahead and - and

do it by maneuvering the - the fine Sun sensor,
or they can from the ground always zero it.
SPT Hey, Crip; let me give you a little description

of how old sol looks from up herethis morning.
CC Shoot.
026 14 16 40 SPT MITE LIGHT CORONAGRAPH, probably the most

significant change is that there is a helmat
streamer now at about 1080 on over to 075 or so.
That's close to the base at around 3 solar radii;
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it's 080 - 075. It is inclined slightly towards

the south, and it's fairly prominent. It was
there - that - in that form yesterday. There was
a little indication of it, but it was not anywhere
near as well formed; and perhaps that is due to
the activity which was seen on the ]_mb at that
time yesterday afternoon. There still is a faint
streamer at 060 and a very faint one up at 030
which is pointed at around 045. Another strong but
very narrow streamer at 115. Over on the east
limb, we' re looking at pretty much what we saw
yesterday, maybe d_minished a little bit in
intensity. That's hard to say. Actually, it's
probably Just about the same. Centered at 270
is a fairly prominent helpmet streamer and then
one over at 260, superimposed on that which does
not extend out anywhere near as far. They're
maybe l0 degrees or so in width - in and around
l-l/2 solar radii.
026 14 18 14 SPT XUV MONITOR shows all our good active regions
disappearing on us. We see the - every active
_- region on the east limb is Just on the limb. It!s
not even close to it anymore. They're all right
on the very edge. 21 and 33: The coronal hole
which follows the 21 is - appears to be _Imost
in two sections now. The center being closed in,
so it's more of a dumbbell-shaped coronal hole.
We'll take a look at that today. Still fairly
pronounced, though, are the segments that remain.
The part that has closed it in does have some
bright points, or the series of three bright points
right in a row are running almost east-w@st
inclined slightly towards the_south as you go to
the west. There is the active region which has been
called out, 36. It' s relatively seal I but stands
out in XUV. Just opposite that, right across to
the other side of the equator, there 's another
one. It's slightly more to the west - about
0.2 radii out, maybe 355 degrees; not quite as
bright, but Just about as large. There is a series
of bright points, if you will, or small active
regions out around 040 to 090 Just running along
a radius of about, oh, 0.7 or so. I see one, two, -
four of them.
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026 14 20 01 SPT Then active region 34 shows up real well. And

coming around the limb, there's a slight enhance-
ment at around 270 -maybe 275 or so. Very slight
enhancement, though, for being on a limb. If -
if it was a respectable active region at all, it
ought to be quite a bit brighter than it is.
But it is an enhancement over the normal limb
brightening; and a coronal hole also over in that
region which has Just come off the limb at around
270 to 2 - well, 26 to 280. It's relatively thin.
Coronal holes to the north and the south and a
filament channel perhaps, up at around 020, 0.7,
or so, out, runing east-west. I really haven't
had too much chance to look at the - the limb
today. I plan to in the following orbits. The
active region 34 has only got oxygen VI counts of
around 2000, so it's not really working up a -
to a real hot state yet. We just keep an eye on
it as the day goes on and try to give you some
more information on what _e see on the limb. There's
a couple of small features, prominences, and so
forth, all relatively minor, but maybe significant.
I'll t_lk more with Bill, when he comes - shows up.
Thanks, Crip.
CC Okay, thanks for an excellent rundown on it, Ed.

We're about 30 seconds from LOS. Next station
contact is going to be Hawaii, and that's about
ll minutes from now at 14:33. And instead of
Bill, we're going to have Neil Sheeley to talk to
you there.
026 14 21 46 SPT Very good; look forward to talking with Nell.
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026 14 33 05 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Hawaii for 9-1/2 min-

utes, and here's Nell.
SPT Good morning, Nell. How are you?
MCC Good morning, Ed.
MCC Fine, thank you, Ed. How are you? Good morning,
Jerry and Bill, if you're there.
SPT They'd better be.
MCC Okay. (Laughter)
MCC Bill Lenoir - -
CDR Go ahead, Nell.
MCC Okay. Bill's going to be here all day, but he

says that you'd be t_ing to me duringeach of
the three ATM conferences we had - have scheduled
up.
SPT Okay.
MCC Thank - thank you for letting usknow about the

current status of the XUV mon /nd white light
coronagraph. I was going to remind you, if you
wanted us to know what you're doing today in real
time, you'll have to debrief us because the voice
taped information will be too late.
026 lh 33 47 SPT Okay. Try to do that as soon as we get an

opportunity here, maybe at the end of this.
MCC Okay. Also, our purpose is to assist you with

what you decide to do today, and hope the experi-
ment does not give you too much time - too ex -
too much extra work today on your day off.
SPT No, I enjoy it. This is kind of a challenge, and

it's fun, so it's a good busman's holiday.
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MCC Okay. Also, tomorrow will be a normal day, unless

we hear any suggestions to the contrary from you.
That is, the ATM planners will meet in the planning
room around 18:00 Z today, and if you have any
suggestions for us to consider in planning
tomorrow's program, mission day 73, we'll need
them by approximately this time, 800 - 18:00 Z.
026 14 34 35 SPT Okay, well, let's have a look at how today goes,
and I'll certainly try to come up with suggest -
suggestions on what to do tomorrow and how we
implement it. That's something, I guess, will
depend upon today and how you folks feel it went
_]-gO.
MCC Okay. One additional point for your interest: The

coronal hole that's on the southwest pro - rapidly
approaching the limb is a repeat from last rotation,
and it was visible to some extent even the rotation
before that.
SPT Oh, that's interesting. I see it closing in right

now. At the very center of it there appears to
be some bright points which have started to deck
it off down at the very center, so it's now dumbbell
shaped.
MCC Perhaps we're looking at the dying stages of a

coronal hole.
026 i_ 35 24 SPT Well, maybe we can do a little study on it. I

plan to do that both these orbits. Now I can give
you a rough outline of what l've - what I got
lined up for today whenever you're ready, but I
don't want to cut you off from anything you've got
to say.
MCC No, only other additional solar information is

that you've probably noticed the south polar cap
as seen in the XUV monitor is much more pronounced
than in the north, and has been; more or less, all
during the last 27 days and previous to that. The
north pole has kind of been irregular. It may have
to do with the tip of the south pole more toward us,
but I suspect it's more related to the magnetic
structure. But really, that's all I have for
input to you, and I think I'd better stand ready
to listen to what you plan to do today.
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026 l_ 36 06 SPT Okay, here's a - a rough outline of what I'm doing.

First orbit we did get the synoptic work done,
building block i, with 82A getting the two exposures
and putting same information on the VTR. The
reason I did that is that during the other phases
of the - where we actually get the TV downlink,
it turns out we'll be not in solar inertial. So
I thought it was best to get something on the VTR
early which they could be dumping at that time.
We did the building block 32, null bias, for 52,
and I used the rest for observing time, which,
since we started late, really didn't amount to a
heck of a lot. Next orbit we'll be doing a
building block 32 with 5h included, building block
l0 - l0 from J0P 26, looking into the structure
above the west limb. It's more of a synoptic-type
thing; it doesn't involve a lot of dyn_m_ c pointing
or anything, but it's still worthwhile doing since
we've been following these all the way across the
disk. Third orbit, going to look at the coronal
hole, and here I hope to be able to pick a pointing.
We'll start out with building block 32 again with
/" 54 and then point 55 so that we can get the - the
three different - many different pointings;
GRATING, AUTO SCANs, if you will, in without
changing the pointing of - canister. And in that
way, I hope I can get two exceptionally long
exposures for the X-ray instrument almost up to
a full orbit, FILTER 5 in 56, and a very long one
for 54. To what degree I'll be able to get their
grating dispersion optimum still remains to be
seen because I would pick the best place to look
for the boundary of a coronal hole and then get
same GRATING, AUTO SCANs, four of them inside and -
and two out of it, which has been recommended
30 seconds either way; and maybe some additional
ones in there, some back-to-back MIRROR, AUTO
RASTERs of - at GRATING 0 and 772, maybe before
and after each GRATING, AUTO SCANs. It Just remains
to be seenhow long it takes to set it all up.
026 14 38 i0 MCC Okay - okay, Ed. That sounds great. It reminds

me of making up the pad yesterday.
SPT That would be orbit 3, beginning at 16:22. Orbit

2 is the one beginning at 14:49. Orbit 4, beginning
at 21:02, do a building block 2 to get the STANDARD
/_ in for 52, and then a choice of two things. Looking
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for either polar plumes or prominences to try to

get 82B some exposures on one or the other, depend-
ing upon what we can find. I did not really have
a chance to look over the north pole with magnesium X
this morning, and I plan to do that when I try to
line up that particular one; that one's just kind
of open. And 56 will receive some LONG EXPOSURES;
and 55, MIRROR, AUTO RASTERs or GRATING, AUTO SCANs,
whatever is appropriate for where we happen to be.
026 14 39 02 MCC Ed, Just for curiosity, it might be interesting to

compare how magnesiom X looks over the two - two
different poles ; the south pole being of different
appearance than the north. And also, what's on
the back may be relevant to the polar plumes too.
SPT Yes, that's - I think that would be - The problem

I face is that it takes a little While to do studies,
so what I would have to do is to pick out a given
distance off the limb, like 30 arc seconds, and
then Just try to make sc_e mental calculations,
as I roll about Sun center, of what magnesium X
intensity looks like on one or the other. But
that's a good thought. I'll - That might be the
best way to pick a pole at which to work.
MCC You - you might try one and succeed or try one and
fail and then try the other and succeed. I remember
you tried this once before, and I'm not up on
exactly how it did work.
SPT That specific thing I have not. Now I have usually

many times rolled about Sun center 30 arc seconds
off the limb looking for features, and that works
quite well. I've done that mostly close to the
equator and around active regions, however. I've
not worked too much at the poles, but I will today.
MCC Okay.
SPT Orbit 5, which is the one at 22:35, we pick up the

last building block 1 without omitting 82A and
52 with the option B. And the rest I have not
tired to - to fill in because I feel things will
come up during the day, and I'll try to work them
in. That's the tentative plan, and the way the
Sun looks this morning, it looks as though it's
pretty well eared for, but things might change.
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026 lh 40 _5 MCC Okay, Ed, that sounds great. I'm really sorry we
didn't have more activity for you today and more
film to use on it.
SPT Well, without much film and without much activity

it makes the challenge all the bigger, so - it'll
be fun.
MCC Okay, I hope so.
SPT What have you gotten out of the interpretation of

82A data so far?
026 14 41 07 MCC Well, we made a movie of the long wavelength mag-

nesium IX line that you get when you've got a
minus 5400 roll. And we could look at the north
pole and see the plumes moving right to left, when
on the disk the stuff goes left to right. In other
words, in that case we're seeing plumes fr_n the
back, which is very interesting. And looking at
the other pole we saw a mixture. On further think-
ing about this, we found that the North Pole is
f tipped in August down toward us, and as a result
we were seeing the geomtrical effects and the
combination of that with the fact that the plumes
fade out with height. And that was very interest-
ing to see, actually, in - in a movie.
026 14 41 49 CC Let me go ahead and break in here. We're about

30 seconds from LOS, and we'll see you again at
Goldstone in 2-1/2 minutes at 14:45, lh:45.
SPT Okay, when's Neil come up again?
CC Well, we got - got him scheduled again at, oh,

18:01. However, he's going to be available any-
time you want to ta]k to him today, Ed.
SPT Oh, okay.
CC In fact, do you want to continue it over the States?

We can.
SPT Okay, why don't - Nell, what I'm really having in

mind is from the - what you've been able to see
so far on 82A and - especially 82A. What have you
learned that's really new and significant which
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we could use in our observations especially today

and the remainder of the ...
MCC Okay, I'ii work it.
026 14 42 42 CC Over the hill.
026 lh 44 h4 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS through Goldstone for

7 minutes. And if it's convenient, we'd like to
take the VTR here and do a little dumping through
Goldstone.
026 lh 45 39 CC CDR, Houston. Jerry, you got a moment to chat?
CDR Yes, I was asking you what the subject is of

permanent general message 38. And we need another
copy of 39.
CC Okay, l'm sorry I wasn't copying you there. Second

time I guess we'd lost you, and didn't - didn't
get a voice in it. 38 is end-of mission meals.
And we'll send you up a new copy of 39.
CDR Okay, and I have 38.
CC Okeydoke. What I was going to ask you, Jet, was

there's been some discussion down here. We're
interested in the deterioration of your wardroom
window due to possible hits from micrometeroids.
And it's felt that you should be able to see
wheather there has been any impact just by observ-
ing out the window, kind of looking at it from
different angles. And we thought if during -
enjoying your day off observing out the window,
if you could give us any comments regarding any
things that look like they might have been meteroid
impacts on the windows, we'd appreciate it.
CDR Okay, Crip. None of us_have noticed anything

just off hand, but we'll look at it a little bit
and see.
026 14 46 49 CC Okay, appreciate it.
026 14 50 50 CC Skylab, Houston; 1 minute until LOS. Bermuda in

5 minutes at 14: 56, 14: 56.
026 14 56 07 CC Skylab, Houston; AOS Bermuda, 9 minutes.

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026 14 58 51 CC Skylab, Houston. The VTR belongs to you guys again,

and also we have uplinked that PGM 39 once more.
PLT Thank you, Crip.
CC Roger. And, Bill, s_netime, at you guys' conven-

ience today, we would appreciate getting a read-
out on the status of the 509 bottles as far as
charge is concerned.
PLT They're all up, Crip. We went ahead and did that.
CC Okay.
PLT They 're all in l0,000, roughly.
CC Okay. Th_nk you very much for the information.
CC Go, Ed. And be advised, you're way down in the mud.
F SPT Okay. How'sit now?
CC Little bit better.
SPT Okay. I was Just trying to advise people what I'm

up to in this orbit. And that is to use building
block 10, looking off the west limb, Just a series
of RASTERS - max - maxi RASTERS, I guess we're
calling them. Not quite a super - RASTER. A
series of three of them at the base. And then
three will be stacked on top of that using a dif-
ference of 250 arc seconds. And also trying to
give 56 a series of 5-minute exposures, FILTER 2,
which apparently is the only one that we could get
in with 5 minutes. So we'll get some - hopefully,
some time history on about six different exposures,
taken 6 or 7 minutes apart on FILTER 2.
026 15 05 04 CC Ed, let me interrupt you here. We're going to go

LOS here for about a little over a minute, and we'll
pick you back up again at Canary. And be advised,
you're still way, way down in the mud.
SPT Okay, Crip. Haven't done anything different than

before. So I suspect it's somewhere in the c_
- loop.
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026 15 05 24 CC 0keydoke.
i i
026 15 07 O1 CC Skylab, Houston. We're back with you once more
through Canary. We have you for a total of about
15-1/2 minutes. And, Ed, we'd appreciate hearing
what you've - what you are doing if you can continue
now.
SPT With you in a minute, Crip.
CC Okay. No rush at all.
SPT Crip, how do you read me now?
CC That's much better, Ed.
026 15 08 18 SPT Okay. We're picking up on what we outlined pre-

viously. Looking at the west limb, trying to get
s_ne more synoptic data on active regions as they
go over the limb and see how far out they extend
into the corona. So we're doing a JOP 26, step 9,
if you will, where I'm coming up with the pad
coordinates. And we're working close to the limb
at minus 900 in UP/DOWN. We started off at minus
20 - 270 LEFT/RIGHT, and we're Just going to march
across three steps, 270 each time. And then move
out 270 and repeat that. And I'll see how much
time I have at the end to do anything further over
and above that. The further we go out, the more
MIRROR, AUTO RASTERs
i I'd have to give, in order
to get some real statistics. So I may Just choose
one where it looks like we have something worth
watching and sit on top of that one after we finish
up these first six. The 56 is also getting some
exposures. Seeing as they did not indicate they
were low on film, I put a SINGLE FRAME, 2 in with
each one of these 56 MIRROR AUTO RASTERs. So
they're getting a 5-minute exposure on FILTER 2
every 6 or 7 minutes. And maybe they'll see some
time rates in change, maybe they won't. Any sug-
gestions from the ground will by appreciated.
MCC That Sounds great, Ed. We like it.
026 15 l0 06 SPT Thank you, Nell. At the beginning we did give a

building block 32 to start it off with 54 operating
and 56.
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MCC Okay, Ed. Thank you very much. We thought we

wouldn't speak to you too much while you were
observing because we don't want to interfere with
your getting all this great data. We thought we'd
pick you up at CE0, perhaps, when you're Just - just
going into dark.
SI_ Okay. Very good, Neil. So long.
026 15 13 15 CC SPT, Houston. For your information, Ed, that pass

at Carnarvon coming up is set for "The Legend"
Parker to be discussing corollary experiments with
you. So Nell did have a few other items and if,
you know, you get some period here during this
pass, we still have you for about 9 minutes, he
can go ahead and giv e you a little feedback from
same of your earlier questions.
SPT Sure, that's fine. These are pretty much routine

panel operations. So, no problem. Press on.
MCC Okay. Pressing on, I guess, Ed, interrupt me when

F you're - when you're bothered. Sounds like - I
imagine this is like the phone ringing in the
observatory roan. Okay. We have a number of -
of things here that we've learned that you might
find interesting. Probably the most relevant one
seems to be a tendency for the coronal holes at
the poles to be biggest when the magnetic fields
in the southern hemisphere - well, when the magnetic
fields in that hemisphere are of the same sign as
the polar fields. And they tend to be smaller
when it's opposite sign and there's a filament
channel.
026 15 lh 40 MCC So if the south pole has a strong polar cap today,
we would guess that the magnetic field not far from
it has a minus polarity, black on these pictures
that we have down here. And we did notice a few
days ago when this coronal hole that you're ta]king
about today near the - near the southwest limb,
when that was more or less disk center and
apparently almost connected to the south pole,
there was a large negative magnetic field region
more or less centered along the - the central
meridian and in the southern hemisphere approaching
the pole.
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SPT What does that say about the construction of a

coronal hole itself, on how it originates?
MCC I think it's consistent with this diverging magnetic

field idea.
MCC In other words, the field - the magnetic field in

the coronal hole is a diverging magnetic field.
And why that makes it dark there, don't ask me.
SPT The field strengths have been observed to be

relatively low, though, in the center of the hole.
MCC More or less on the average.
SPT Pretty much of a reticle and - and low.
MCC As far as I know.
026 15 16 07 MCC 0k_. Other - other topics - this long spicule

idea. The spicules whose length are about - about
as long as a super granule in diameter, we've
taken s_ne movies of them in SL-III and seeing
as Harvard has mentioned to you before, that they
have about a 10-minute rise time and fade time;
and in addition, the 82A data shows that they have
funny wiggles. They're sort of kinks. But that's
more for your interest.
SPT Do they move up? In other words, does it look

like a wave pattern?
026 15 16 41 MCC I don't know if we've got enough frames to see,

that, but that may be true. Good point. As far
as flare development, we've seen the iron XXIV
images brighten up first, in the first few minutes,
and then they're followed with the transition
region and other lines brightening up a few minutes
later - brightening up to their peaks and a few
minutes later. So we've been able to distinguish
different the rise and fall of different lines
at different times, and we suspect with your -
your superb data of the other day, that we'll see
a lot more of this.
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SPT If iron XXIV comes up first, that says it all

happens at the very hard end of the spectrum
early and then relaxes on down further. And that's
surprising in light of being able to see something
in H-alpha as early as we see it in X-ray.
MCC Oh, that's a good point. But we did see that for I
think it was the June 15 flare.
SPT Well, okay. Got a lot to think about.
026 15 17 56 MCC We also see the shape changes and loop changes and
tops of loops fading and bottoms of loops brighten-
ing and all this changing as a function of time.
But I guess you may have seen a movie of that
prior to launch.
SPT No, I didn't get to see that, Neil. How was that
• related to what else was going on? Coronal
rain cnm_ng down brightening the top was a
possibility or what?
r Mcc Well, this looks like the - the postflare loops

that one hears about on the limb as seen against
the disk in the case of - In th_s case, I'm now
thinking of the - the flare fall of the X flare we
got in SL-3. And the loops brightened sad some -
in some cases they expanded, getting larger in
diameter. And the tops of them faded, leaving the
bottnm_ brighter. It - it -Imost looked like the
ionization propagated downward from the top to the
bottom of the loop.
SPT Well, if the material's originating at the top,

could it be Just a slow transition of a large
slug of material as it moves down the loops and
ends up at•the bottom?
026 15 19 03 MCC I guess that's a possibility, although I really

don't know what it is we're observing. We haven't
really studied it much. We made the movie and
looked at it, and then we got busy on mission
operations. So your thought is as good as ours
at this stage.
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SPT Okay. Be interesting to look at it when I get

back.
MCC Anxious to show it to you.
026 15 19 34 MCC Oh also, Ed, regarding this attempt to get the

polar plume sector with the 82B, in the event that
we're successful and you think that you can see
them well and get - get the data, 82 has asked that
you support this observation sometime within an
hour or two of that time by taking a WAVELENGTH,
SHORT exposure, 2 minutes. I'm sorry, a WAVELENGTH,
LONG exposure, 2 minutes with a ROLL minus 5400
in order to bring up the polar plumes and the
magnesium IX line. Is that convenient?
SPT For 82A?
MCC That 's affirmative.
SPT Yes, that could be done. One of the problems with

trying to do what you mentioned is you don't
really know the exact direction of the polar plume,
and we might be able to locate something at the
base by Just searching around 20 - 30 arc seconds
off the limb and find a maximum in magnesium X.
But to actually find the direction in which it's
going means a lot more searching and trying to
dig out the geometry. And that takes a lot of
time, and I'm not quite too sure how we could go
about that.
026 15 20 42 MCC It seems to me that if they're near the pole, you

might assume that they are radial- about an
arc minute wide. And if they're a little bit off
the pole, like the ones you sometimes see in eclipse
pictures, then you might anticipate they're slightly
inclined, say 20 degrees from north.
SPT Well, they would always be radial, or were you

saying they'd be always inclined a little bit
towards the north?
MCC What I'm saying is near - -
SPT On the south?

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MCC - - Near• the pole, they'd be more or less radial.

But if you get away from the pole, I would
anticipate that they would begin to lean down a
little bit, if you know what I mean, Similar to the
eclipse photograph.
SPT Okay. Now I've got you. It had to be 20 degrees

away from the vertical towards the equator.
026 15 21 26 MCC That's right. Like dipole field, I guess.
SPT I got you.
SPT I'ii be busy for a couple of minutes here, Neil.
CC And - -
MCC Okay.
026 15 21 50 CC We are currently 1 minute from LOS. Next station

contact, as we mentioned before, is Caraarvon
at 15:45; that"s about 24 minutes away, and we'll
f be turning it over to Robert "The Legend"
Parker, for a little corollary discussion.
SPT ThA_ka, Bob. Nell, be talking to you later.
026 15 22 13 MCC 0kay, Ed.
026 15 45 50 MCC **e your friendly science.
MCC SkMlab, Houston. Over.
CC I wouldn't talk to him either.
SPT Houston, how do you read?
MCC Loud and clear.
S_ r Hello, Robert. Press on.
026 15 _6 17 MCC Yes, okay. Glad to ta .I_ to you gu_s again. Let
me ta1_ to - I guess the first Couple of c_ents
here apply primarily to Ed. With regard to your
c,_.._._ents
on S063 airglow last week, and also, then,
yesterday or the day before on 8063 ozone, first
of all, let me try and straighten out a bit, the
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question of the ROTATION and TILT in that sequence

in the operation of the airglow. At one point a
couple of weeks ago, we had operations with the
S063 airglow; I suspect both you and Bill were
involved in those. And at that point, the beta
angle was such that we could keep it fixed in
ROTATION and just move it in TILT. Over.
SPT Okay, Bob. Yes, it sure worked out well that

one time.
026 15 47 i0 CC We got a keyhole here; about half a minute. We'll

call you out of it.
026 15 47 52 MCC Skylab, Houston again.
SPT Hello, Bob. Go ahead.
MCC Okay, continuing on there. There are times, very

much a function of beta angle, when we can stay
fixed in ROTATION and just move in TILT. And
obviously that is the most convenient thing for
you. But there are other times when the - if you
stay fixed in ROTATION and move in TILT, that there
are times in the orbit when the TILT cannot be
maneuvered far enough to allow you to still see the
horizon. So that depending upon the beta angle
it - it's Just a function of time mud this happens
to be a time when it works out best to move it in
ROTATION while keeping it fixed in TILT. There
are in-between situations where we could try to
keep it fixed more or less in ROTATION and move it
in TILT, and then during part of the orbit, move
it ROTATION and move it in TILT. But obviously,
that complicates the procedures quite a bit. So
by-and-large, we have tried in the past to keep
one fixed and move the other just to simplify the
situation. Over.
026 15 48 5_ SPT Okay, Bob. That was not initially made clear, and
that's why I had the confusion when I came up to
it to see the procedures changed. And I also
thought it was a little bit risky to start changing
ROTATION around when you're not really watching
it, keeping track of the number of turns. And
course, if you do everything right, you end up
with the right spot; however, with the S063 window
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on there, you can line it up visually and get it

back in. So that did not prove to be as much of
a problem as I thought it would be as far as getting
the mirror back in. And I would suggest if we do
it again, that - just kind of give some initial
positions and I may Just press on from there; I
had to wing it. First of all, the initial positions
which they called up to me, real time there - or
Just about real time, did not pu t me on the
horizon; which meant I had to get that grand -
started a big search and eventually found it. But
I started the observations a little bit later
because of it and did not get the first three
vi s ib le.
026 15 49 55 MCC Right, and - and I guess I - I guess s11mmarizing,

we on the ground are not overly concerned with
the problem of - of finding it again in ROTATION,
particularly with S063. And the second thing is,
you're right again on the problem of finding it,
that that was at least partially a problem of trying
to call that stuff up in real time. And we'll
f try and have the thing better organizedand be
sure that you understand whether we're trying to
move in ROTATION or TILT on the particular day
• on the next pass. On the - yesterday, when you
did the ozone, you in fact did exactly what the
PIs wanted in trying to shoot both filters at the
same site. However, because of the high beta
angle they had decided not to request this, and
had not really fixed the pad to do this for
reasons which became obvious to you as you tried
to do it. However, in your trying to do a - do it
and to the extent you got it, that makes them
extremely happy. _ It's just something that they
had felt that they were not in a position to request
because of the added difficulty with it. Over.
026 15 51 00 SPT Yes, what - well, what was called up from the
ground when I asked, was yes they did desire to
get this on the same point, and I thought that's
what was meant in the pad. So I pressed on, and
it turned out that the 16-second exposure, if you
initially set the slider on the left-hand side
for - which sets the triggering of the UV camera,
set that at 16, by the time you get - make the
change and get to the top, you're already bumped
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into the stop before the 8-second one is timed out.

And so I then had to move that slider on down to
20 to even have !ahope of getting it done.
MCC Right, and that's why the pad actually was written
with the intent of not trying to do that Just
because of the high beta angle and that problem.
026 15 52 00 SPT Okay. If I had known that was not the intent, it
would have made the operations a hack of a lot
easier. Because I also ended up with your - which
you might appreciate as you are trying to change
that filter, you start the first exposure with
your hand on the knob coming out of the filter,
and when you get all the way up to the top you
find out that the machine has locked your arm into
the device and there is no way to pull your arm
out and make the second exposure.
MCC Right, understand that. Okay,, let me fill you in -

people in, and probably doesn't concern you so
much, Ed, because you don't do 183. But on S183,
the status on that, we are currently working on
a malfunction procedure and hope to have it sent
up tonight where we'll try and wire her around
what we feel is a blown fuse. And if this is
successful, we will then begin - resume using S183;
only this time without the DAC camera, just with
the carrousel. Over.
026 15 52 hO CDR Roger, Bob. And also on S183, we found the metric
Allen wrench. I had a hunch I wouldn't throw it
away, and I got to looking through the Allen wrench
bag and found it.
MCC Okay, I'll pass that on to them. Thank you.
MCC On M509 and T020 we thought until this morning,

about 8 hours ago, that we had time to get in
another run on one of these units. And then going
back over the actual requirements and then
ferreting in it and finding everything was coming
out of the woodwork, it turns out that we have
gotten to the point where we do not have time, as
we forsee the end of the mission right now, to do
any more runs on the maneuvering units. Over.
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026 15 53 27 CDR Roger.
MCC And let me continue here. We're going to have a

handover, but I'll continue until the handover.
On EREP, the weather for track 2 tomorrow morning
for the geothermal looks quite good, and we're
still right now very much in a GO position for both
track 2 and track 6 tc_orrow, which will do some
important geothermal work for us. Over.
CDR Okay, are those early in the morning?
MCC The track 2 is early in the morning. I think you

may have about a 15-minute early wakeup, but it's
essentially within the normal work day.
CDR Okay, that 's good.
026 15 54 12 MCC And the EREPs after the one today, we're looking
at about seven more EREPs for the rest of the
mission. I might say we've gotten to the point
where after today we can look at approximately
I- 5-working-experiment days until EVA, at which
point we all get quite much fixed as far as what's
going on. And we can right now really look down
and figure out exactly what we're doing for the
rest of the mission, which is one reason I have
that bad news on M509.
026 15 54 44 MCC We'll see you at Guam at 16:00 and - with the
comet people, and I'll continue t_Iking here as we
go over the hill. ATM, currently, we've gotten
approximately 280 hours sad things seem to be
going very well for them. This essentially brings
them up to the mission. And I don't know if you've
been told recently, but on day 74 we're planning
on doing the super-RASTER. Over.
SPT Super-RASTER, okay; sounds good.
CDR Okay, Bob, essentially where do we stand on all the

corollaries and everything? Are we - we finally
managed to catch up or are we still behind in one
or two?
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026 15 55 19 MCC Well, M509 is one of these that's behind. We've

gotten, as you well know, five of the eight runs
we planned.
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SKYLAB AIR-T0-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTIONS
026 16 00 38 MCC Skylab, through Guam for 6 minutes.
SPT Hello, Bob. Go ahead.
MCC Yes, I cheated a little bit on the comet people;

I'm still with you. I wanted to just finish up
here on the overall mission status. We were
talking about EREP. And on EREP, currently have
gotten 31 passes. We're looking forward to count-
ing today about 8 more which puts us at 39, which
is pretty close to the h2 we were forecasting.
On ATM, we've gotten currently about 280 hours.
This puts us at just about where we wanted to do
premission. As I said, the only thing we're
looking for big on ATM for the rest of the mission
is the super-RASTER. And we 're pls_uing, in fact,
to help the other experiments catch up, we're
planning really to be probably running only
three, maybe four orbits a day on ATM. So, it's
going to be fairly quiet for ATM, unfortunately,
for the rest of the mission except for day 7h.
Kohoutek: as you saw yesterday, we started out
on Kohoutek again. We'll have _ few Kohoutek
observations, and I'll let them talk about that
in a few minutes if they want to. The medicals:
We're sort of power on down to the end of the
mission; 92's Just keep coming along. There's
nothing we can do about them. And the 131's:
We've got these one set of 131's left to go in
the mission which I'm sure you're aware of, and
Story will talk about that as well. The corol-
laries: We're primary right now looking at trying
to finish up observations for S063 airglow and
ozone, and S073. And if we can get S183 working
again, we'll try and help them come up to speed.
Both of those are probably working at something
like 80 to 90 percent of our premlssion objectives
at this present time. And that's about what our
overall status is right now. We can see our way
• to the end of the time that we've basically set
aside for experiments and we think we know what
we're going to do and what we want to do. Over.
i
026 16 02 36 CDR Okay, Bob. Thanks a lot.

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MCC And it looks pretty good from here, I might say,

before I turn you over to Kohoutek.
SFT Okay, Bob. One question l'd be interested in

getting some data on one time is how - what you
planned premission for SL-4 in terms of rate of
accomplishment versus what you planned premission
for SL-3.
MCC Okay. I got all of that except the word that

came in front of accomplishment. Did you say
rate of accomplishment?
SPT Yes. I would - l'd like to understand what percent

of accomplishment or, I should say, what rate of
experiment data did we actually get relative to
what rate you - you planned for us initially and
how does that compare for the rate which you
initially planned before SL-3?
MCC Okay. You're talking about ATM in particular;

in other words, data-take hours at the console?
SPT No, everything. Corollary - corollary and ATM.
MCC Okay. Don't really have those figures and let

me see if I understand exactly what you mean by
rate though, Ed. Over.
SPT I'ii t_]k with you more later, Bob. Let's not
waste the time now.
MCC Okay. Why don't you downlink some - some explicit

questions on tape and we'll look at it and get
the figures for you. And here's Mr. Kohoutek.
026 16 03 49 MCC Good morning, gentlemen.
SPT Good morning. How are you this morning?
MCC Oh, fine. I think it might be appropriate that

I mention that this part of the science conference
is brought to you through the sponsorship of your
friendly Edsel dealers (laughter). You'd be
surprised how much the people are disappointed
over the brightness of the comet, including us,
of course. It got so bad, for example, that I
quit wearing my Kohoutek T-shirt except when I
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take a shower. But, at least, anyway, the science

part of it's going real well, and let me bring
you up to date on that. We got a pretty good
olongation angle now, around 60 degrees, which
allows our good ground-based observations. You
can get long exposures at high zenith angles.
To give you some examples: From the Joint
Observatory-Research Center at South Baldy,
they're reporting some good measurements on the
gas and dust tail. On January 15, I think we
told you last time, they measured a gas tail
25 degrees long and a dust tail l0 degrees long.
These two tails were right together. However,
in the photographs, if you - the left side of
the tail appears straight, and this is primarily
the gas tail. And the right side is curved, and
this is the dust tail. And you might recall
seeing that in some of your observation; I don't
know. They also see in the antitail, the one
that you were the first to report at perihelion,
this is the larger particles that are following
the nucleus. On the 20th, the gas tail had
r decreased from 25 degrees down to i0 degrees and
the dust tail, 6 degrees, the antitail still being
visible. And then last night, the gas tail was
still 7 degrees and the dust tail was also
7 degrees, with an antitail being about a quarter
of a degree.
026 16 05 39 MCC We're getting into some real interesting space

observations now. The elongation angle has gotten
great enough that Copernicus is beginning -
scheduled to begin their observations. That's
on OAO-3 on January 29. They'll do an extensive
series of measurements with high-resolution
spectrographs. They'll be doing primarily around
th Lyman-alpha region and also around the OH region.
I think we're going to run out of time here before
I get through. I understand that I'll be coming
back up on the next tracking station. Let me go
ahead and continue talking. We're interested
in getting these additional corollary measurements
right now to give us an overlap with the Copernicus
data and with Mariner X data, which I - which I'll
mention a little bit more about when we come back
up as well. You know, the S201 measures the
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Lyman-alpha _d that's what both Copernicus and

Mariner is getting data on. And S063 and S183
measures the OH, and that's what the Copernicus
would also be getting data on. I think we're
ab out - -
026 16 06 40 CC We'll see you at Hawaii in about 7 minutes.
MCC Okay, and at that time or a little bit later,

sometime this morning, I'll tell you about the
Mariner X results that we've already got so far
and about the results from Hawaii and also the
200-inch Mount Palcmar, the Convair 990, and
mention one or two other minor brief things, not
minor but brief. So we'll pretty well close out
for now, I suppose. I might mention - go ahead
and continue talking as long as we have you.
The Convair 990 has continued to fly and they
report getting good OH imagery. We haven't seen
the results yet, but we'll be interested to
compare that with S063 and S183 results.
026 16 07 26 MCC I think we're about to lose you.
026 16 12 49 MCC Okay. We're back with you now.
SPT Okay. Go ahead, Bill.
MCC Okay, fine. I thought l'd mention that Jesse

Greenstein on January 13 and 14 took a series
of measurements at the 200-inch at Mount Palomare
and reported measuring more than 200 lines pre-
viously unseen in - in the mission. These were
all longer wavelengths greater than 6700 angstroms.
And also he reported that for the first time,
that he had made a series of measurements of -
prior to perihelion. On four separate occasions,
he did imagery at i0 emision wavelengths. So
it'll be interesting to compare his results with
the stuff you guys have been getting. Lonnie
Lang from headquarters, and also from JPL is out
at Mauna Kea this week with the - at the 880-inch -
88-inch telescope out there making measurements
down in the near [IV, getting down hopefully almost
to OH and using image - image to- on the
spectrograph; that's a 2-day focus. One of the
most interesting results that we have is from
MariNer X. This is the Mariner that was launched
after you fellows were - the one that's going to _
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Venus and Mercury_ It - The comet came into its

field of view on January 17 andthey began a series
of _observations in the UV wavelengths. At
Lyman-alpha, for example, they were able to get
good data out of _ degrees in front of the - in
the solar directions, away from the nucleus and
up to 12 degrees in the antisolar direction. So .
that Lyman-alpha payload is indeed quite extensive.
They also measured emissions at other wavelengths
going all the way down possible to as low as
4BG angstroms. They also are getting TV images
of the cc_et and sending them down. And these
images, together with the images that we're getting
here from the ground, will give us a three
dimensional look at the way this thing really
appears, and that should be quit e interesting.
The other thing I wanted to mention is Copernicus.
Let me - -
026 16 l_ 59 CC I Just wanted - we're going LOS shortly here and

we'll have you again at Goldstone in 9 minutes
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and Bill can go ahead and continue there.
MCC Okay, I'm about to wind up. ButCopernicus, as

the 0AO-B, will start their observations on
January the 29th, mission day 75. They'll be
doing some really high-resolution spectrograms
and they'll be doing a series of observations on
each day they observe. They'll be looking at
the nucleus and then ahead of it, behind it, and
back in the tail and so forth; be looking at the
Lyman-alpha wavelengths at S201 and the OH wave-
lengths also, which is - tie in with S06B and S183.
I guess the only thing I mightmention is that
we've tried to make first cut _t doing some color
illustrations based on your sketches and your
c_mments that you sent down, an@ we 'll be inter-
ested to let you look at them when you get back
and see if we can work on them again and try to
get it as accurately as possibie_
026 16 15 52 SPT That sounds like a good idea. Looking forward to

that. If you do get another shot at it,
appreciate - what the people are learning. In
other words, start tying all the ... together and
hope for whatever conclusion coming out of it.
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MCC Okay, I'm having trouble reading you there. Let

me close by mentioning, there's been one other
theory as to what was wrong with the comet. This
was put out by Art Buchwald. He claims he checked
and found out that it was actually recalled by
the manufacturer for repair. Seems like it had
a faulty tail and a bad paint Job, he said. That's
probably about as good as I've heard so far, I
think. (Laughter) So as you can see with these
Copernius and Mariner things beginning now, we
are anxious to get these last corollary measure-
ments in so we have the overlap with them, and
so we have to continuous history from the time
you fellows went up. Copernicus, I believe,
will continue for quite a while longer. So I
think, scientifically, we're doing great. Sure
appreciate all your help.
CDR Okay, Bill. Thank you very much for the inform-
ation and I'm sure glad we got the - the real
good wrap-up from Dr. Buchwald, there. That
really clears things up.
026 16 17 O0 MCC Right.
026 16 24 04 CC' Skylab, IIouston; AOS Goldstone, 5-1/2 minutes.
CC And, for all of you, we have had to scrub the -

scrub the laser due to weather at Goddard. So
you can forget about that at 16:24 on your details.
PLT Roger, Crip.
026 16 24 55 MCC Ed, this is Neil. Have you got a moment, or are
you right in the middle of the JOP 157
SPT I've Just started it, Nell, but go ahead.
MCC Okay, it's probably too late, but Harvard was going
to ask you to peak up oxygen VI on the network
boundary somewhere in the whole so that they got
higher signal in the chromospheric Lyman continua.
But, maybe you've done it already, and it's too
late.
SPT No, I haven't. And would you please say that

again, please?
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MCC They give - like in the all balls position, in

oxygen Vl, that is DETECTOR 3, peak it up, so
that wherever _ou're pointed in the coronal hole,
you get a good signal. Like you'll be on a network
boundary somewhere in the hole, the chromospheric
network boundary. That way, the Lyman continua
will be as bright ss possible, and they get better
statistics in their measurements.
MCC This - -
SPT Okay. That's so that during theGRATING, AUTO

SCAN they' ii pick up a max. Okay.
MCC That's right.
026 16 28 52 CC Skylab, Houston. LOS in 1 minute; we'll see you

again in 2 minutes over Texas.
026 16 31 Ol CC Skylab, Houston. We're back with you once more;

12 minutes.
_-_ CC And, we'll be doing a data/voice recorder dump

here.
026 16 42 Oh CC Skylab, Houston. we're about a minute and

15 seconds from LOS. The next station contact
is Ascension in l0 minutes. We see somebody's
using the recorder, and the tape's Just about
full, so - but since we didn't get to dump it,
we'd like to go ahead and redesignate it. And
we'll need you to stop recording for a minute
while we do that.
CC Skylab, Houston. Can we get somebody to confirm.

We'll be redesignating the recorder?
PLT Okay, Crip, go ahead. Tell me when we're ready.
CC Okay.
026 16 43 02 CC Okay, Skylab; she belongs to you again as we go

over the hill.
026 16 52 03 CC Skylab, HoustOn; AOS Ascension, 5-1/2 minutes.
PLT Roger, Crip.

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SPT Say, Neil, were they also expected to be peaked

in magnesium X at that io - at that location where
we have peaked it in oxygen VI on a chromospheric
network boundary in the hole?
MCC Was that a ques -
MCC No.
SPT I don't think it is, hut I'm not sure whether

we're really looking at the coronal hole in that
case.
MCC We do not expect it. If it were, it would be

just a minor thing and would be almost a
concidence.
MCC It may be a bright point.
026 16 54 h8 MCC Ed, the idea was to be on something that's bright

in the chromosphere, but not the corona. Therefore,
bright in the chromospheric lines but not magnesi-
umX.
SPT Yes, okay, Neil. I understand the objective;

the problem is with the displays we have available
to us. And the time it takes to take a couple
of laps around the GRATING is just chewing up
the whole orbit.
MCC Okay.
MCC Peter Foukal recommended trying your H-ALPHA

MONITOR for determining where the network is.
SPT Yes, that was done, Nell, but it didn't coincide.

I could not see any real strong peaks where I
saw network, except for this one location which
was also very - relatively high in magnisium X.
MCC Okay.
MCC I guess it's up to you to use your own Judgment

now, although 55 says Just use the H-ALPHA and
go, rather than use up any more time.
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at 17:22; 17:22. And story's standing by to talk

to you a little about medical science there.
026 17 22 0h MCC Skylab, we got you through Carnarvon for

i0 minutes.
CDR Story, can you tell how much VTR time is left?
MCC Stand by i. You got 13 minutes.
CDR Thank you, Story.
SPT Hello, Story, go ahead.
MCC Okay, Ed, and I've got some - On M133, some total
accumulated data here on sleep on the CDR and the
PLT from their report, even though they haven't
had the good fortune of being able to participate
in the experiment.
sPT They've been trying to wrestle that cap away from

f
me every night, but I hold on.
CC I bet they have, but you've done a good job.

Okay, in terms of average total sleep, Jer's been
_iouing 6.9 hours and Bill's been also running
6.9 hours. And according to your reports, exclu-
sive of your M133 data, you've been running a
total sleep of 7.2 hours. In terms of your M133
data, you've shown an increase of about 1 hour in
both your total rest and total sleep, moving on
up to where we are from day 19.
02617 23 24 SPT Okay.
MCC And the only other significant thing in terms of

percentage of time spent in each stage, that you've
moved more, you've increased more in stage 3 and 4
and shown a corresponding decrease in stage 2
from your preflight baseline. There's been no
change at all in your percentage of REM sleep.
SPT Okay. That's a -rpretty much variable from time

to time. I suspect the last two weeks or so would
have been the reverse of that.
MCC Okay, and in terms of total sleep, you're averaging

-_ Just about 0.2 hours less then you were preflight_
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Owen, on SL-3, he increased his total sleep by a

plus 0.2 hours. And, Joe, on his mission, he
decreased his total amount of sleep about an hour.
So that's a c_nparison between your mission and
the other two.
026 17 24 15 SPT Okay, I think you could probably decrease it

significantly for a short period of time but not
over the long haul.
MCC Yes, we agree with that, and one other thing here
we've seen postflight and that is the tremendous
increase in the amount of REM sleep postflight,
and that goes on up to even 7 days after recovery.
SPT Okay.
026 17 24 41 MCC And this is possibly due to a deprivation of

REM sleep the last couple of days before cc_ing
home. Or possibly some effect of the read -
adaptation to one g.
SPT Okay, Story. I'd like to know what the protocol

is, not right now, but whenever you get the chance,
for postmission on this.
MCC Okay, I'ii get it to you presently. I think the

last inflight measurement is mission day 82.
SPT Thank you.
MCC The M093; I don't have a lot of data for you,

but it is an experiment in which you have no
onboard data. Again, we've seen slight changes
in the PR interval and slight changes in the
QRS - a widening of the QRS - but no significant
changes in the vectors and no significant arrhythmia
at all; an occasional PVC during M171, but really
nothing significant.
026 17 25 35 SPT Very good.
MCC Okay, and the M171: There's been really no change

in the resting and exercise heart rate and the
systolic blood pressure and-_the minute volumes,
they're all pretty much right on the preflight
baseline, for all people. We have seen, for all
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crewmen, a decreased recovery heart rate, and of

course, this would indicate a slight increase in -
in fitness.
SPT Yes, I suspect that'll be true here, Story.
MCC Okay, we've also seen a decreased diastolic blood

pressure during the exercise of both Jer and Bill,
and I don't know what the significance of that is
in terms of fitness or efficiency.
SPT Okay.
MCC And also, Bill has shown a slight decrease in his

V-dot 02, meaning he's getting the same amount of
work done for a little bit - a little bit less
oxygen and this may also be an increase in
efficiency.
MCC The vital capacity measurements. After showing

a - a pretty significant trend down, a decrease
around 8 to i0 percent of all three crewmen, is
tended to be trending up toward the - toward the
baseline now, at the last times that you ran them.
026 17 26 51 SPT Yes, i think that's Just the zero-g effect and
has nothing to do with the lungs themselves.
MCC Yes, it's probably Just a shift in the - a shift

of fluid up into the chest out of the limbs.
That'll decrease the -mount of air that you can
bring into the chest, and possibly with a readapta-
tion and - and losing some of that fluid, you
gain some of it back. That might be one
explanation.
SPT Why don't you have some subject down on the ground
stand on his head and see whether his vital capa-
city changes ?
MCC We've already done that, both on the head and -

and lying down and we see those kind of changes.
SPT Okay.
026 17 27 26 MCC And you can see the same changes with - with lower
body negative pressure or something like that,
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where you bring the fluid oub. You - you do temd

to gain a little bit in the vital capacity.
SPT Sounds like it fits.
MCC Got a proposal here for you you might be interested

in doing, and that's on your treadmill exercise.
Try doing that hands off. And also possibly, when
you're good and secure, try to do a little bit with
the eye closed to try to build up your balance,
so when you get back down here to Earth and you
have to walk around, this may be a way of im-
proving your balance when you get back here.
SPT Yes, I've been thinking about that and maybe also
a little work on the dome lockers might help.
CDR Bill and I have been doing all of our treadmill

work with no hands, so we're in pretty good shape
there, although we haven't tried the eyes-closed
bit.
026 17 28 18 MCC There were a few - a few groans here particularly

from the GNS when the dome locker thing was
proposed.
SPT I thought I'd hear those all the way up here.
MCC In fact, we saw a little twinge there in CMG 2;

he didn't know what to think about that either.
MCC The M151 people haven't been able to get your -

the - the photographs back yet, but from voice
data supplied by you and by telemetry when the
experiments were started and - and finished, they
do have some thing for you. Again, as I mentioned
previously, you bettered your best preflight time
by your second inflight performance.
SPT Okay.
026 17 29 02 MCC There was some variability in the data up until

about mission day 30, then it became very steady
and has been in a consistent decreasing trend in
the time it takes to do thlngs, even up until
•the present date. Any time the time were - were
boosted up - any time you took longer than expected,
it turns out it was the - the add-on type DTOs,
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such as limb blood flow and the leg blood pressure

measurements and these sort of things, which you
didn't have long training periods on ....
SPT Yes, l'm sure that was true the first 30 d_ys.
MCC And there's no significant difference in - between

your getting the Job done and the times, and also
the quality and a11 between your own mission and
SL-3; the data looks very comparable. M151 people
have got a question for you here. We'd - They'd
like to know about what point in the mission you
felt ccmpletely adapted to zero g, not in terms
of the vestibular system but in terms of when you
thought you had a complete handle on operating
in the zero g environment and when it was no longer
a constraint to your getting the job done?
SPT Story, for me, I would say after the first week
or so, even though I became very much more profi-
cient after that. However, I think all of our
proficiencies in operating in zero g depended quite
f a bit on the time line and how much effort - mental
effort you could really put into trying to do the
Job efficiently rather than Just fast.
MCC Yes, that'sabout-
026 17 30 33 CDR Story?
MCC ' Yes, go ahead.
CDR I don't think I really felt fully adapted to

zero g so that I could function without consciously
thinking about it all the time until about day 25
or day 30, I think, is a more reasonable figure
for me. And I don't think we're really completely
adapted right now. I think there are some areas
where we still have to do a lot of thinking or
we'll get all messed up.
MCC Oks_f, the M151 people were thinking about 7 to

14 days. But of course, that depends upon how -
how closely you want to refine the data and get
an absolute point. But, no doubt, with life having
evolved here over a hundred million years or
whatever it is and - and - and also our being here
for 30 or 40 years in - in one g, you shouldn't
f_
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expect to readapt entirely in a week or even a
month or Feven 3jmonths for that matter.
026 17 31 29 CDR Yes, that's right, Story, and I think that the
adaptation or the idea of being comfortable in
zero g is a lot affected by, like Ed was saying,
what the workload is, how fast you're trying to
go. If you can take your time and go at your own
speed, I think you'll adapt a lot quicker than
if you're in a full-throttle mode trying to do
something.
MCC Yes, that's certainly correct. I think it's a

real tribute to nature that y'all are doing the
super job you are here cc_ing on 85 days in a
totally new environment.
026 17 32 O0 MCC Well, we're about 30 seconds to LOS here. Guam

will be coming up in about 5 minutes, and it'll
be Bill Lenoir and the vis obs at that time.
SPT Okay, thank you, Story.
026 17 32 13 MCC Yes, sir.
026 17 35 39 MCC Skylab, Houston, with visual observations. Over.
PLT Go ahead, Bill.
MCC Okay, first a couple of words here on film; we're

looking forward, hopefully, to another film orgy
by you guys here today. According to our account-
ing, it looks to us, and we don't know how you've
done yet today, but it looks to us as though
there's about l-l/2 magazines of Hasselblad film
remaining for the visual observations. On the
Nikon color exterior, we hkve many, many magazines
of film and several of the 2485, the very fast
black and white. And we will begin scheduling
that. You may need to take snm_ of the informa-
tion into account in scheduling your photos,
and potentially depending on how much you take
here, you may have to take some Nikon 55's
instead of Hasselblads later on.
SPT Bill, if you'd like to help that situation, you

can come up with another camera we can load color
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026 17 36 47 MCC Okay, Ed, I'ii bring one up myself. Okay, as

far as the program here goes, we have like another
week and a half's worth of the observations that
we'll be scheduling. The things that we would
like to emphasize. First, in the geology area,
the ll9 Alfa, the Rc_anche fracture onshore
extensi_ons, we will be scheduling those. When
I say scheduling, I mean listing them of your
details as either schedules or optionals, usually
optionals. We will continue to schedule those;
we're most interested in that. And in particular,
over and above getting photographs, we would like
to, hopefully, get some repetitive type observations
so that you can look at it once, see what you see,
look again, and see sort of past what you saw the
last time; things such as this. The way these
tend to fall is, generally on a given track, we
can pick it up on the African side; two tracks
later, we could pick it up on the South American
side, so that we do get almost always a capability
to compare it to itself on both sides during the
same day. Also in the geological area here, BaJa
r C_]_forniais very interestingfor us and this is
primarily for the CDR, for Jerry, who has begun
a extensive set of observations there and would
like to continue, and we certainly would like
for him to continue. Also San Andreas for
everyone; observations there are of most importance.
Central American fault, observations plus some
more photos ; the East African rift, we have quite
a few photos already, but it's a big area and
we're anxious for more coverage, but photographi-
cally and observations. And also the Sierra Madre
occidental volcanic - volcanic area, the HH56.
It turns out we thought for a while that we were
not very interesting in that on - mainly because
of SL-2 EREP data. It turns out on further
analysis that the western part of RH56 is totally
overcast; so we have no coverage on that. We are
quite interested in photographic coverage of that
as well as observations. And _henever we schedule
that, we will give you a pad asking you to empha-
size the western portion of that.
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026 17 39 13 MCC Okay, then leaving geology and going to the ocean.
The areas that are of primary interest to us there
will be the Faukland Current, obviously, and you've
already spotted that again for the first time
since Sun came back. Primary importance here is
time variations and how has it changed since a
month ago when we were making all of our observa-
tions on it.
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026 17 39 33 CC Also the New Zealand Current area, although here

we have a problem. We won't be able to see that
until quite late in the mission, mainly because
right now when we do pass over even with good
Sun angle, it's well after you've gone to sleep.
But that will be pressing forward on us and right -
last few days it will occur at hour or so prior
to your bedtime; and again, time variation compari-
sons to previous observations. The current area in
and around Hawaii: You've made observations both
east and west of the islands of upwellings, current
boundaries, and so on. We're most anxious to
examine that further and also to look at the effect
of the chain of islands on the current flow there
as opposed to a single island. The upwelling off
of Mexico, off the Gulf of Tehauntepec, and out
west of the Gulf of Fonseca are also interesting
to us primarily from a point of view of how this
ties in, if at all, with the Equatorial Currents
and Countercurrents or whether it's Just an
isolated upwelling area. About a month ago, Ed
made the very interesting observation that this
appeared to be the result of the confluence of the
California Current and one branch of the Equatorial
Countercurrent. We'd be most anxious to learn
some more about that.
026 17 40 56 MCC Also with increasing Sun angle here, we have

sunglint-Pattern capability coming up to us, and
we will try to take advantage of that. Another
important area in the oceans to us is the B4 Alfa,
the island wakes, which would potentially
indicate the existence of the temperature difference
that we could use. And here again, sunglint may
very well help us. Similarly, sea mounts, which
right now is important to us mostly from the point
of view of learning what man can and cannot see
from space, to date, it would appear that sea
mounts are very, very difficult to find. And we're
anxious to get a little bit deeper into that and
know whether that's in general true or what are
the types of things that enhance it. And again,
sunglint on the - the effect of the sunglint on
the ocean surface - perhaps the higher sea mounts
will affect the surface texture, and we can pick
_-_ themup thatway.
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026 17 41 57 CDR Yes, Bil_. Right now, I'm pretty discouraged about
our ability to find them. I haven't been able
to see one yet.
MCC Okay. We've got several coming up in about 3 days

that we're forecasting should be in or around some
sunglint, and we'll keep scheduling them, putting
them on the pad about 1 per day, seeing what we
can find out on them.
MCC Okay. Then going on, African drought is another

area that we would like to cover more and more
here. Any of the handhelds in the 90 series -
90, 91, 92, et cetera, in the Niger inland delta
area or the Lake Chad area, also the 151, Okovanggo
swamp. We've already mentioned the interest in
comparing the two regions. In addition, vegetation:
primary areas here of interest will be Argentina,
the rangeland in the Pampas, ans also the wheat
Argentina.
026 17 42 53 MCC In addition, the Serengheti Plains which we will

schedule once or twice before it pops out of the
early morning part of your day, and that's a
rangeland area. Australia, unfortunately, will
not come into your day unt_l after the mission is
over. So we will not be able to make those
comparisons. And finally, another area that we're
going to begin emphasizing is the dimlight to
use the 2485 film. And primarily, what this will
be, because of the way the orbits are located -
this is the HHI71 I'm talking about - will be the
gas flaring in Saudi Arabia peninsula and Iran
and also selected cities that we cross over at
night, and those are about the only sites there
that we will have the opportunity to look at from
the 171 in the darkness.
CDR How about flash burning in central Africa?
026 17 43 _6 MCC That's certainly one. We have a difficulty in

scheduling that, but any time you see it or
anything interesting out the window, for that
matter, at night, we're more than interested in
photography as well as observations on it.
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CDR There's apparently a great deal of that burning

going on right now in Nigeria and Cameroon. And
I saw some last night in - in a - Just a hug
area - it must be 200 or 300 miles long and 50 to
60 miles wide.
026 17 44 13 MCC Very good. That should be a prime target for the
dlmlight photography as well then. Okay. If
we don't have any in addition here, let's see,
we're a minute and a half until LOS. Goldstone
is next in 17 minutes. And pressing on then into
results, regarding the Gal_pagos eruptions, it
turns out that you three were the first Human
beings to see the Gel&pagos eruptions. And it
wasn't until much later that a team was able to
get onto the islands and investigate it first hand.
Also answering an earlier question regarding
some features on the Indian subcontinent, what
you ware referring to, we feel, is the Deccans
Trap [?] which is a big fault structure within
a volcanic basaltic pile. And you're to be
congratulated on seeing that because that's a
f very difficult thing to pick out. And again,
that gives us some data as to what can and cannot
be detected from space.
CC Can I break in here for a minute? If it's possible,

we'd like to go ahead and rewind the VTR here to
use this upcoming (DNUS pass to dump any - when
we got time.
cDR Press, Bob.
026 17 45 22 MCC Okay, and two last thoughts here. The coverage
you have on lake and sea ice is excellent. And
even though we will not be listing it much because
of the low Sun angle, any opportunities you get,
we certainly would like some more coverage. We
copied the CDR's comments, Jerry, earlier on -
several days ago on the Mexican - Mexico City
feature that we felt we had figured out. Now
maybe we think we don't. It looks like we'll
have to wait until you're down here and take a
look at the photos before we get final word on
Just what it was. We'll be talking to you - Yes,
Crip's saying that maybe a trip to Mexico City is
required here. We'll be talking to you in a week
i- or so on the last vis obs conference and we'll see
you then.
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PLT Be working on that trip.
CDR Good words, Bill. Thanks.
026 17 46 12 MCC Okay. We'll see you later.
026 18 01 29 CC Skylab, Houston. We're A0S across the States.

We have you for 17 minutes, and we're set up
again for Neil to talk to Ed. But in addition,
I also need to get a couple of reg adjusts and
make a couple of small changes to Bill's C&D pad,
and we can work those in as you're - at your
convenience through the pass.
SPT Why don't you go ahead and give me the reg adjust
right now, Bob.
CC Okay, want both pots, REG ADJUST i and 2 to

25 degrees clockwise.
PLT Okay, I've got my C&D pad out, if you want to go

over the changes there.
CC Okay, fine. It's right down toward the end of

it, Bill. You have an entry at 20:05:00 which
is an S192 MODE, READY. We want to move that up
a little bit and make that at 04:45.
026 18 03 3h PLT Roger. Oh:_5, 192, READY.
CC Okay, and the following entry at 05:30 %There you

take 192 MODE to STANDBY. In preparation for doing
the alignment later, we would like you to change
that STANDBY to CHECK, C-H-E-C-K. And then you
might make a note down at the bottom of the pad
after you do the alignment to go ahead and put
the MODE switch back to STANDBY.
PLT Roger. I have that.
CC Okay, and that's all I've really got. Except

that they would like you to do the alignment prior
to doing any other post op task.
PLT Okay.
CC Okay, and one more for Ed. I need 5 degrees

counterclockwise on REG I.
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SPT You've got it, CrOp. Standing by, Nell.
CC It 's all yours, Nell.
026 18 03 38 MCC Okay, Ed. I guess we have a - a number of items

that we have to cover this pass before the day's
over. And that is, what are your impressions as
to how it is going today, and do you have any
inputs for today's planning meeting which is be-
ginning to meet right about now?
SPT Okay, Nell. In general, I think it's going pretty

well. The only difficulties that I have run up
in - up into right of now is the last orbit where
we were trying to do several things simultaneously,
and we Just didn't have simultaneously - simultane-
ous displays in order to make it work. We can
get into that problem in a little bit. But as
far as the way in which you've scheduled and the
way it sh - I'm able to work it in, I think is no
problem at all. I think I have a little more
flexibility up here than you do on the ground. I
r know that every time one of you wanted to come up
with an idea in a planning meeting on how to get
something across you'd have to shuffle through
mountains of J0P Summary Sheets and try to figure
out which one fit the road you wanted to take,
as well as everybody else's road. Here I think
we can just state what are the observing objectives
of each instrument and with the individual knowing
the capabilities of each instrument, you can make
then - you can fit it all together, I think, a
little bit easier with the existing film situations
and all the multitude of things that are going on.
So I think the guy up here being able to have that
flexibility which you have not, at this point,
had on the ground, it makes it flow a lot easier,
at least in terms of the amount of effort. I
know you folks on the ground have had to put a
momumental effort - effort into every day's planning.
And I think up here we do have an additional degree
of flexibility that - which does make it easier,
and I've been able to take advantage of it.
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026 18 05 33 SPT As far as getting the - the science done or meeting

your objectives, I've found out that you have
not overstated anything at all in the methods
which came up, so it was very easy to sit down
and Just put together a proposed plan. Now the
only place this whole_'thing has fallen apart
is in this last orbit where we were trying to do
a couple of things at one time. Now the way I
plan to recoup from that is to take and have
orbit 6 going here, and I'll just essentially end
up with one orbit's worth of trying to figure out
how to do the pointing for the coronal hole which
I have just done. And now I think I've got a
good handle on it. And in the next orbit we'll
make the observations, and we'll just slip
everything downstream one. Also, I did not
realize you'd have this little short blip of a
daylight pass here. So we've got another building
block 32 in here at the beginning of this one.
026 18 06 29 SPT As far as planning for tomorrow, I would think

that some - most of the topics that we're talking
about right now seem to be good ones. Although
I have not had a chance to go on around and really
look at the limb in detail, which is what I had
planned to do on my orbit - used to be number 4
now it's nuber 5. And that one is going on at
21:02. There may be some features out there on the
limb, light prominence - I did see a few in the
early look, but they were not really outstanding,
that may be worth working on. I would imagine you
probably still want to do some synoptic work, as
active regions go, over the limb and get on the
other side, although not a great deal. And you
may want to work on the coronal hole on the limb,
which this - apparently this one is still a
fairly strong one, even though it appears to be
starting to divide into two. That would be a
perhaps useful thing to be working on. Then the
rest is quiet Sun ph_aonena, looking at the poles,
for example, to find out what you could see up
there. Although I guess most of you - most of
the people feel they have sufficient data on
that, although i planned to give 82B some of that
this afternoon if the prominences do not stand out.
I think pretty much what we've been working on
today; unless - unless something new comes up, I
odon't see any significant change.
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026 18 08 05 MCC Okay, that - see, I'm looking these over here.
I think that there may be some suggestions in the
planning meeting today to do something that we
didn't - to do something tomorrow that we weren't
enthusiastic about today. And that is these bright
points. So, don't be surprised if you get
information about running some bright point
observations rather than a J0P ll on oscillations
or something. The JOP ll oscillations that
people were anticipating for tomorrow were going
to be collaborations, but the ground-based sites
apparently are not going to be up at that time
or at least collaborating. So we may suggest the
bright points which we didn't suggest today;
there' s - there's one change.
026 18 09 09 SPT Okay, that's - is one thing, if I ever had a

chance to look over today, was try to find some
bright points with oxygen VI counts up around 1000
or so. But again that takes a fair amount of
observing time. One thing that would be useful,
when and if we ever really get into this mode
f in the future, is to allow the individualsone
orbit's worth of Just straight looking at the
Sun, not having to feel that observations should
be made, that is, in the way of data gathering.
If we operate in a different mode where we're
operating more around the clock than we are now,
that would probably be possible and I think it
would be very useful.
026 18 l0 00 MCC Okay. I guess there are a couple things: NOAA

has Just said to us that the active region north
of the equator that you described on the XUV's
MONITOR this morning, about central meridian and
somewhat north of the equator, may develop to the
extent that the one south of the equator, I guess
we call it 36, did. And, if when you're trying
to do plumes down the line - I'm not sure if - if
you still are or not - but if you do get to the
plumes down the line today, and they don't work,
that 's another possibility. I hope that 's useful.
I 'm not sure I understand completely your plan
for the rest of the day.
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SPT Okay. Well, the plan for the rest of the day is
to - on the next orbit which I have available,
which is the one beginning at 21:02, I'll pick
up on the coronal hole observations and try to
actually get the data this time. I spent this last
orbit Just trying to figure out how to get lined
up. Then the following orbit, we'll be working
the plumes or prominences. And again, if those
don't pan out, we'll go take a look at what's
on the disk in the way of that new active region
and even a strong bright point. And then the
last orbit, which is the one beginning at 00:09,
we will do the observations Sun centered building
block l, option being for 52 and omitting 82A
and B.
026 18 ll _2 MCC That sounds very good, Ed. And we're - we appreci-
ate using your off-duty time for this and hope
it's not too much work. Let us know if it is.
SPT No, I enjoy it.
MCC Okay, I -I could--
CC Could I interject one - one remark here. Ed, we

need you to take that BUS 2, REG ADJUST 2 pot
5 degrees clockwise now, please.
SPT Number 2, 5 degrees clockwise.
CC Also, one item here, while you're enroute to Z-LV.

You mentioned - would like to get some additional
cameras. If you would like, you can load Nikon 02
with Bravo Victor 40 out of Drawer F, got about
30 frames available there, and Nikon 05 with IR ll.
There are 34 frames in that one, but we need 9 of
them for tomorrow. That leaves you 25 of -
you're welcome to use them today.
SPT Copy, Houston.
CC If you didn't get those, I'll - I'll be glad to

give them to you again.
CDR Okay, say them again. I got a pencil handy now.

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026 18 13 03 CC Okay. Nikon 02, with Bravo Victor 40, which

is in Drawer F. There are 30 frames available
on that for low level - low light level photography
out the window.
CDR Okay.
CC Okay, on Nikon 05, it's - you can reload it with

IR ll, which has already been downloaded once, and
there are 34 frames left on thatmag. We need
9 of them tomorrow, so you can use 25 of them
today
CDR Roger.
CC Happy hunting.
MCC Okay, Ed. This is Neil back again. Are you with
me?
SPT Sure am. Go ahead.
F MCC Maybe I should talk a little about some of the

other things we've learned, especially if it would
help you when you get to the - the polar plumes in
what we call orbit 6, I guess. The one after -
not the 21:02, but the next one down.
SPT Okay.
MCC If you don't find them, which is a distinct

possibility, I guess, in the magnesium X - well,
I guess this is a - this is a clue as to where to
look so that you might maximize your chances of
finding them. One: The south pole has the better
polar caps, so maybe we can anticipate polar plumes
that are coming from behind to be there. So
maybe that's one possibility. Now, again, I see
there' s - perhaps there' s a problem with rolling,
but the north pole is tipped away from us and it
may be that something on the front of the disk,
on our side of the disk, would be sticking up
over the edge. There's some debate down here as
to whether bright points are - are ever or are
sometimes the source of these polar plumes. And
there is some smattering of bright point or net-
work or something very close to the north pole,
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and that might be a place to look too. So there's

two - two possible ways to go at it. I don't
know whether either one of them will be successful.
026 18 15 18 SPT Okay, as long as they're supposed to stand out in

magnesium X above the line - above the limb, a
very easy way to - to find that out is to Just
go 20, 30 arc seconds off the limb and Just rotate
about Sun center and watch for peaks.
MCC Right, right. Might be interesting to compare

what you get at the two poles or something. I
don't know if you have that much time.
SPT l'd like to do that if we can.
CC Okay. And it is especially interesting with this

particular polar field configuration that I Just
described. Let's see, what else do we have here
that I've been given. Oh, Just for your information
because it's interesting, we took some of HA0's
bubble pictures involving one of the eruptive
prominences, and we made the 82A helium 30h sequence
of eruptions to the same scale and stuck them right
in the occulting disk. So we have a sequence of
pictures of both of them put together, and you can
see the prominence erupt right up - oh, sort of -
It looks like a pin sticking up - pricking right
up into a bubble. And then the bubble expands out
and takes, oh, 2 or 3 hours to reach the ou - other
side of the occulting disk for - for the August 21
eruption, at least. I know some of them are faster.
But that might be of interest to you. The - One
of the special remaining things of interest now, is
what happens to the inner corona when - when we
get these eruptions, especially like the iron XV
loops that arch over the filaments and prominences,
or arch in them, wherever they are. What happens
to those inner loops when these filaments erupt?
That's Just a point for your interest, I guess.
026 18 16 5h SPT I had pictured that these field lines which tended
to - to bow out and looked like bubbles, were pretty
much erupted from the surface that way. You know,
it was relatively closed and tight, and then when
they erupted, they'd start to open up. And all the
way out through the low corona, all the way out to
the - what we can see at 6 radii, it would show
that pattern. But apparently what you're saying
is not true - or what I'm saying is not true.
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MCC Well, I don't know. I guess we haven't got - Well,

I guess I haven't looked at all the data, but I'm
not sure whether we have data that shows what
happens to the inner corona. Maybe AS&E had some -
some data on that, but we've all been involved in
the mission and haven't unraveled that problem.
026 18 17 41 CC We're about 30 seconds from LOS. We'll have you

again at Vanguard in ii minutes at 18:29. And if
you'd like, I can give you a little EREP weather
at that time.
MCC 0aky, have you anything 9urther, Ed?
SPT No, I don 't, Neil. Thanks very much.
MCC Okay, nice talking to you. I'll see you later.
SPT So long.
CDR Crip_ is the VTR finished now?
CC It'll be yours it's - at LOS. We're still dumping

right now.
CDR Okay.
CC Looking at Bill playing with some water drops

running up and down a string. It's fantastic.
026 18 18 22 CC I think it's Bill. I'm getting you guys confused

behind all that hair you got on your faces.
027 18 28 52 CC Skylab, Houston. We're A0S through the Vanguard.

We have you for about 3-1/2 minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston. Do you have an opportunity to

listen to a little of what the weather's going
to be like on the upcoming pass?
CDR Roger. Go ahead, Crip.
CC Roger. Picked it up for you the other day. The

weather in California is nice and clear. No prob-
lems with your San Francisco or your other target
there. Should be clear all the way down to about
the Salton Sea area. And there has been some fog
_. in the San Joaquin Valley this morning. However,
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we do anticipate that it should burn off, so that

you may see some scattered for patches. But in
general, we expect it to be clear. You going to
pick up the thin broken cirrus deck down around
the Imperial Valley which should carry through
into northernNew Mexico, around Guadalajara.
026 18 30 28 CC That is not going to be in the Jet stream though,

so the jet stream cirrus won't be applicable
really. Then you're going to pick up a frontal
system and go out over the water with - you'll
be running into anywhere from scattered to broken
clouds down through the ITCZ and pick it up broken
! to overcastI guess, again, along the South American
coast. Should break up and be clear around Paraguay
and then you're going to pick up the frontal system
that we've got targeted for the VTS when you hit
the Atlantic coast. In general it looks like a
real good EREP pass, picking up lots of good
targets.
CDR Roger, Crip. Ask them to start a fire and make

red smoke over the la - dry lake that I'm supposed
to get. Would you?
026 18 31 16 CC (Laughter) Well, if I had time to get back out

there, I might try that. Somebody would accuse
me of polluting the atmosphere though. One item
I need to pass on to - to - Bill here - is he
available?
CDR Yes. He's listening.
CC Okay. Where we talked at the end of his C&D pad

about cutting off that 100 feet of tape, we want
him to leave about the last lO feet of it on there.
And also, we're going to take a look at the
operation - we're going to take a look at the opera-
tion of the - the tape recorder in this, and if -
depending on how it works, we may change our mind
about loading that into Tape Recorder i.
026 18 32 08 PLT Okay Crip. I'm studying this. I might have a few
questions on that.
CC Okay. I guess I'm about - I was confused here.

Apparently it was on - on your pad, and we've got
the CDR scheduled to do it, so I guess y'all can
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CC Also, Bill, one item I need - I guess I got a little

bit confused a while ago when I was talking about
doing that 192 alignment, and I told you to do it
before you get into your other post ops stuff.
You will need to get the DOOR CLOSED, of course,
to do the proper 192 alignment.
PLT Roger. Understand. One quick question. I Just

persued this, more or less superficially, but should
I have a - an ETC callout after 48:107
026 18 33 15 CC Let me check it.
PLT I know that Ed's probably got it on his pad. It's

all right. However, I call out an AUTO and I never
call it out verify OFF.
CC Oh -
PLT STANDBY, rather.
CC It sounds like you're correct, and I don't see it

there. His pad shouldbe the correct one. We're
going LOS, and we'll see you again over Goldstone
at 19:38, 19:B8. Normally we don't call the
POWER, OFF on the ETC. That's the only - only
reason it's not put down on your pad.
PLT I should have said STANDBY. ETC, STANDBY.
CC And a reminder, the BYPASS valve should go to

FLOW. For the EREP ...
026 18 34 00 PLT Roger. Okay.
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026 19 37 32 PLT The AUTO CAL's at 50. Let me find it here, 50:30,
50 minutes and 30 seconds after the hour.
CDE Okay, that's well down into the - -
PLT Yes.
CDR - - Caribbean. Okay.
PLTI Let's see. I'_ better give you a - a call on

that because there's nothing up above.
CC We're with you here stateside. Got you for about

15 minutes.
PLT You're coming through way down in the mud, Crip.
CDE Yes. Yes. You're very, very weak.
CC Okeydoke.
PLT Hey, that's better.
CC Is that better?
CDE Oh, man, that's neat.
PLT We got a quick question for you, Crip, before I

start here.
CC Go.
PLT Okay. Check S - READY, on, S191 a 53:10. It looks

to be out of chronological sequence. Okay, stand
by for 38:20. Stand by -
026 19 38 20 PLT MARK. SCAT to STANDBY. Standing by for 38:_1.

It's down there_ You see that callout 53:2_,
S193 ALTIM_I'ER, STANDBY; and a MODE and a RANGE
change and thenthe READY, ON for 191 at 53:10.
CC We - we got it. Let me get right back with you.
PLT RADIOMETER, ON. _7 ERE?, START.

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026 19 38 48 PLT MARK. And let's see here. We have a green

TAPE MOTION light. Waiting for 39:53. We got a
READY light on the RAD. ETC at h0 minutes even,
Ed. POWER, ON, that is.
CDR Here comes the coast of Californy.
PLT Okay. Waiting for 39:53. Okay, Ed, about

20 seconds for an ETC POWER, ON.
CDR Oh, boy, it's nice and clear.
PLT Beautiful. Stand by for 39 :53 •
026 19 39 53 PLT MARK. 190 MODE, AUTO. Standing by for

h0 minutes even.
026 19 40 00 PLT MARK. Okay, 194 MODE to MANUAL. And I got a

malf light on number 5 and _C was to go to POWER,
ON at that time. Waiting for 40:50.
CDR Now it's clouding up. Wouldn't you kn w it.
CC Okay, it should break out pretty clear for you,

Jer. And, Bill, you're correct. It is - the
time is correct and it's out of sequence. Also
that REF, 6 does go with the 53:10.
PLT Understand; thank you. Standing by for 40:50.

Ed, at hl minutes even, 15 seconds from now, ETC
will be going to AUTO. Oh -
026 19 40 51 PLT MARK.
CDR There it is. Hello, San Francisco.
PLT Okay, 192 MODE to READY, on time. Got a TAPE

MOTION green light and it's nice and steady.
CDR All right, I 'm going to track in the lower

San Francisco Bay; that's the good uniform area.
PLT ...... And ETC is in AUTO.
CDR Right off Alameda.
PLT Stand by. Waiting for hl:20. Stand by -

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026 19 4i 20 PLT MARK. RAD to STANDBY and SCAT, ON. Okay, SCAT,
ON went on 3 seconds early. Okay RAD, ON, now.
Ed, at 42 minutes even, ETC to STANDBY, Ed.
CDR Okay. Okay, my tracking point was right off -

right near the Bay Bridge, right off the coast
where you can find Alameda.
PLT I0 seconds, ETC, STANDBY.
CDR All right, I'm looking for lavic lake now.
PLT Stand by for 42:04 -
CDR Oh, brother.
026 19 42 04 PLT MARK. SHUTgER SPEED, MEDIUM.
CDR Found it.
PLT Okay, we are in 192 mode of operation. We go OFF

at 43:50.
f
CDR DAC's on. And tracking the lava.
PLT Okay, waiting for 42:48.
PLT And at h3 minutes even, ETC to STANDBY begins

again. Two re ... Okay. 42:48.
026 19 42 48 PLT MARK. POLARIZATION, 4. At 43 even we go to ETC

STANDBY.
CDR All right. Going for Sunshine Peak.
PLT There it is.
026 19 43 00 PLT MARK. 43 minutes; ETC, STANDBY.
PLT TAPE MOTION's nice and steady and green.
CDR Okay. We got our data. Very good.
PLT Great.
CDR Now how about a little Salton Sea? Just - Just

for grabs. Pick up an alternate here.
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CDR Okay, get some Salton Sea. That's enough of that.
PLT Stand by. 43 :50.
CDR Okay, going for the cirrus now.
026 19 43 50 PLT MARK. Okay. 43:50. 192, the MODE is to CHECK.

Waiting for 44:20.
CDR I missed the cirrus altogether.
PLT And at 44:30, Ed, ETC to STANDBY again.
PLT Okay. Stand by -
026 19 43 20 PLT MARK. 44:20. POLARIZATION to l, and at 44:30,

coming up in about 5 seconds, ETC to STANDBY.
CDR Okay. I haven't seen anything that even - even

looked like cirrus clouds. It's clear as a bell.
PLT Waiting for 45:04. Things looking good here.
CDR Okay. I left it in IMC so the first minute of

the cirrus tracking was not at a good nadir swath.
It was in IMC.
PLT Stand by.
CDR Now we're getting the cirrus.
026 19 45 05 PLT MARK. INTERVAL to 20.
CDR Oh, yes.
CDR Good cirrus.
PLT 44:05 [sic].
CDR That's 45:08. I'm going to continue tracking

this nadir swath because we were north of the
cirrus for our swath.
PLT Okay, waiting for 45:30. Stand by -
026 19 45 30 PLT MARK. 45 :30. ALTIM_%'ER to STANDBY. 45 :36.

Stand by -
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026 19 45 36 PLT MARK. REFERENCE to 2 on the 191. 47:10,

ETC POWER, ON again, Ed.
CDR Okay. Terminating the nadir swath at 45:44. The

cirrus was considerably south of where we figured
it was.
CC Copy that, Jer.
CDR GuadalaJara. Can't find Mexico City here.
PLT Okay. It's 46:40. In 30 seconds, ETC POWER, ON

again.
PLT Okay, POWER's ON, ETC. Waiting for 47:40.

Stand by -
026 19 47 40 PLT MARK. 47:40. 13"I',:_VALto I0. Waiting for 48

minutes and SHUTTER SPEED to 140 on the ETC. Then
at 48:10, ETC to AUTO.
PLT Coming up on 48:10, ETC to AUTO. Waiting for 48:40.

f
PLT Stand by.
026 19 48 40 PLT MARK. SCAT to STAND BY.
026 19 48 42 PLT MARK. At 42, RAD to STANDBY. Waiting for 49.

Okay, VTS AUTO CAL at 50 plus 03.
CDR Okay.
CDR No, son of a gun.
PLT Stand by -
026 19 49 00 PLT MARK. 192 MODE to READY. Now I got a shift in

speed and I got a green light. Okay I Just lost
the green light, and stand by. 15, ALTIMETER, ON.
Okay, waiting for 50.
CDR Looks like Mexico City has a little smog problem

today.
PLT Stand by for 50.

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026 19 50 00 PLT MARK. 192 MODE to CHECK. Here's some changes

made; waiting for 50:lb. And at 50:30, I need a
VTS AUTO CAL, Jer.
CDR All right.
PLT Waiting for 50:lb. Stand by -
026 19 50 14 PLT MARK. INTERVAL to 20 on the 190; and at 50 plus

30 in l0 seconds roughly - -
CDR All right.
PLT - - VTS AUTO CAL. On my mark.
026 19 50 30 PLT MARK.
CDR You got it.
PLT Okay, thank you. Waiting for 52. Okay, I got an

ALTIMETER UNLOCK light, I didn't no - I did not
notice when it came on, but I still have a READY
light. Camera 5 MALF light's still on. Okay,
I Just lost my READY light on the ALTIMETER;
going to STA_NDBY at 18. 52:53, ALTIMETER back ON.
Okay, it's looking good. Everything else is
looking good; I'm waiting for 52 minutes for a
READY light. READY out on the 190.
CDR Okay, I'd thought I'd swing out to the right and
look for the Gal_pagos. Not sure I can see that
far to the right though, I'm afraid.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 30 seconds from LOS.

See you again at the Vanguard in l0 minutes.
PLT MODE to STANDBY - -
CDR Roger, Crip.
PLT - - on 190; FRAME 7. And to i0. Okay, waiting

for 53:10. 190 checked out good. Now I'm going
to cycle the POWER, OFF just to give that number 5
camera a better chance. I got an ALTIMETER
UNLOCK light again at 29.
026 19 52 38 PLT Waiting for 53:10.

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026 20 01 53 CDR - - limit.
PLT Okay, waiting for 02:30.
cc Back with you through the Vanguard for l0 minutes.
026 20 02 30 PLT MARK. READY, out.
CDR Roger, Crip.
PLT And EREP to STOP. 190 MODE to STANDBY. SLOW, ii,

20 - -
CDR I saw a lot of plankton blooming right off the

coast, right at Lima. There's a little off-shore
island Just off of Lima. And mixed in with the
blooming - the green blooming was some red. And
I took some DAC of it and also got some 191 data
from it.
CC Great; thanks for the info.
- PLT Okay, waiting for 04:27. Stand by.
026 20 04 27 PLT MARK. 04 :27, EREP, START. 04 :33, 190 MODE, AUTO.
Stand by -
026 20 04 33 PLT MARK. 190 MODE AUTO; READY light on. 04:45,
waiting for 92 MODE to READY. Stand by -
026 20 04 45 CDR MARK. MODE, READY. RECORDER MALF light. Change

in speed and the MALF light is out. And I got a
green light. Waiting for 05:30.
CDR Okay, it looks likewe're coming in over the -

an agricultural area up around Asunci6n. And we
have scattered clouds. And we're coming up on
nadir swath time.
PLT Stand by.
CDR Crossing the Rio Paran_ now.
026 20 05 30 PLT MARK. 05:30, 192 MODE to CHECK.

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CDR Okay, looks llke we're starling to get into the

frontal weather now. A lot of stratocu down
there in this area. Must not be a very strong
front.
PLT And waiting for 07:12.
CDR Coming up on 060 - 06:57, nadir swath time. DAC

is on. Lots of nice green ground - -
PLT 07:12, stand by -
026 20 07 12 PLT MARK. SHUTTER SPEED to MEDIUM and then to FAST.
CDR Crossing over the coastline, hardly a cloud in

sight.
PLT Okay, at 20:09 we need to start the SI maneuver.
CDR Right.
PLT Okay. Past 8 minutes I should get a READY out on

my 190.
CDR Okay, now we're starting to get to some clouds

here.
026 20 08 01 PLT Okay, Jer, I didn't look at the pad. Do I

perform SI?
CDR No, I do.
PLT Okay. All right, I should - Yes I do have a

READY out on Sl90.
CDR Okay, at 08:25 I terminate the nadir swath and

initiate the SOLAR INERTIAL. Houston, I'm going
to leave the nadir swath going while I go do the
SOLAR INERTIAL start because I think we're Just
getting into that front now.
PLT Stand by.
CDR So for the duration of 35 seconds or so I have

some data.
026 20 08 30 PLT MARK. 191 REFERENCE, 2 at 08:30.

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CC Copy that, Jer, that's fine.
CDR Okay, coming up on solar inertial time. Okay,

going to SOLAR INERTIAL.
CC Okay, very good. As a matter of info, you might

get a BAT CHARGE LOW CAUTION and WARNING, but it's
no problem.
CDR Okay, we got a BAT CHARGE LOW light - alert light

• right now.
PLT Stand by for 09:30. And give me a VTS AUTO CAL

at 09:30, Jerry.
CDR Will do her. Okay, I'm killing the DAC now.
PLT Stand by -
026 20 09 30 PLT MARK. VTS AUTO CAL.
CDR You got it. Okay, so essentially, the nadir swath

lasted an extra minute.
CDR Would you believe that Lavie Lake looked Just like
the picture?
PLT Yes. I Just couldn't believe it. What a pleasant

surprise.
CC PLT, Houston. Bill, can you tell us what the

situation was with the tape recorder light that
time? Did - Was it continous, was it intermittent
or what?
PLT Okay, on that 192 sequence, the first 192 sequence,

the light was steady for a long period of time
after th - the change into 60 ips. Then it
started flickering and very shortly thereafter,
before I could even report the flickering, it
went out and stayed out, oh, for lO or 15 seconds.
And, however on the next sequence it operated
normally.
CDR Well, you know, it's done that with me, too.
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PLT Yes ...
CDR And I flipped open the cover of the tape recorder

just to look and then closed it up again. And
it was running fast - -
026 20 l0 58 PLT Yes, well the - unless you get a RECORDER MALF
light, you assume that all you've done is maybe
failed one logic test and not both of them. The -
the malfunction procedures say, if you have a
RECORDER MALF light and you still have a READY
light - excuse me - if you lose the TAPE MOTION
light, and you still have a READY light, it's
supposed to be working, I think. Or maybe it's
the RECORDER MALF and TAPE MOTION both on; I don't
know. It's just sort of - just the opposite of
that.
CDR Yes, I was thinking, it seems to me that

RECORDER MALF light doesn't - it ... - -
PLT Yes, it doesn't, by itself mean that the thing is

bad. If you got TAPE MOTION green light and the
RECORDER MALF light's on, you assume it's all
right. What I had, I had both lights out.
CDR Well, what I'm saying is the RECORDER MALF light,

it seems to me, that has to do with whether or not
there's modulation on one of those two frequecles -
two channels, doesn't it?
026 20 ll 59 PLT No, I thought it had - had to do with the speed

too.
CDR Yes, it's a function of speed. I - I'll have to

look that up, I guess.
PLT Waiting for 12:30 - 12:10 - excuse me. And there

we go. 191 READY light is on; EREP to STOP. And I
will do the door closed but go do the 192 re-
alignment before I do anything else. Okay.
EREP post.
CC Okay, we're about 30 seconds from LOS. Next

station contact is in about 18 minutes at
Tananarive, 20:30.
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026 20 12 49 PLT Okay, Crip. I assume there's no reason to leave

all the rest of this stuff running and hold Jer
up. He can go ahead and clean up the 190 and all
that. Right?
CC That's affirmative. And when we get to the tape

load, we're going to load that tape and tape
recorder too. And I'll talk to you more at
Tananarive about it.
PLT/CDR Okay.
PLT I thought it already had tape in it.
CDR It does.
026 20 13 12 CC It does.
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026 21 18 08 CC Good evening, Skylab, got you through Goldstone

for 4 minutes.
CDR Hi, Story. The short course in gyroscopes is on

the TV now if you want to get it off this pass.
CC Okay, thanks, Jer.
CC Jerry, we dropped out there for a while. And I

guess we owe you some things on the tape recorder_
and the tapes.
CDR Yes, sir, go ahead. We're going to exercise first

and then later on this afternoon, we'll take care
of all of that.
CC Okay, do you want to copy that now_
CDR Sure, go ahead.
CC Okay, take tape 25out of tape recorder l, you've

probably already done it, and it goes in command
module A-9.
026 21 19 19 CDR Okay, we had not done it because there was nothing
about tape depletion in the pad. And we were kind
of wondering what you had up your sleeve.
CC Okay, go ahead and do that. Tape recorder 25 out

of tape recorder 1 and put in command module A-9.
Tape 38, that's T-38, take off all the lapping tape,
except l0 feet and put it in tape recorder 2 after
cleaning tape recorder 2.
PLT Story, tape recorder 2, I thought, was already

loaded.
CC It is and we're going to unload it; that comes

next here.
PLT Press.
CC Okay, T-31, tape T-31, it's presently in tape

recorder 2, put it in M-130. And finally tape T-7)
that you'll find in M-130, put it in tape recorder 1.
d
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026 21 20 28 CDR Okay, let's see if I got it straight now. Tape

25 goes to A-9. Tape B8, we're to remove all
but i0 feet of the first part of that gray tape
and put it in tape recorder 2. Tape Bl comes
out of 2 and goes into M-130. Tape number 7 goes
from M-30 - 130 to tape recorder I.
CC That's all correct.
CDR Okay.
CC And, Jer, you don't have to measure that tape,

about 2 arms' lengths will be fine.
CDR Okay.
CC Who's up in the STS right now?
CDR Ed's up there making like a solar physicist.
CC Okay, Ed, would you like to make like an engineer

right now?
SPT I can hold on for i minute, Story. Engineer it

up.
026 21 21 35 CC Okay, a REG ADJUST, both BUS 1 and BUS 2, like

45 degrees counterclockwise. And we're about
l0 seconds to LOS here, we'll see you over the
Vanguard at 21:39. It's about 18 minutes, and
we'll be intending to dump the data/voice there.
CC And - -
• CDR How much VTR did we use, Story?
026 21 22 1B CC • We'll let you know. And, Ed, we're not showing
any detectors on in S055. And•going over the
hill, you got 15 minutes left on the VTR.
026 21 39 4B CC Skylab, we're back with you through the Vanguard

for l0 minutes.
CDR Roger, Story.
CC Jer, is anybody using the tape recorder now?
CDR The light's not on.

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CC Okay, we'll dump it here.
CDR Okay.
026 21 41 05 CC Ed, Houston.
SPT Go ahead.
CC REG, BUS 2, could you reach over there and give

us 5 more degrees cotmterclockwise?
SPT You've got it.
CC Thanks.
026 21 _ 45 CC Ed, Houston.
CC Like REG, BUS 2, counterclockwise lO degrees.
SPT How does that look, Story?
CC We're looking.
026 21 49 l0 CC Skylab, we're a minute to LOS, about 15 minutes

to Tananarive. Ed, your ATM conference will be
coming up with Dr. Sheeley at that time. Your
REG BUSes are looking good. And you may get
a small CMG reset at the end of the dump, your
next nightside pass. And we're predicting if it
happens, maybe about a utilization of B mibs.
026 21 49 BB SPT Thank you, Story.
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026 22 06 34 CC Skylab, got you through Tananarive for 7 minutes.

Here's Dr. Sheeley, Ed. I'll give the L0S call
here, so I won't have to interrupt you. It'll be
Hawaii, about 35 minutes after LOS at 22:)48.
We'll be looking to dump the data/voice at Hawaii.
Here's Dr. Sheeley.
MCC Hello, Ed; we've got a lot of information for you

this time.
SPT Okay, Nell, go ahead.
MCC Okay. First of all, something that I wanted -

something that I wanted to get in for tomorrow's
ops because it involves the first operation of
the day. That is the S052 operations in the
first JOP 6, building block l, tomorrow. They
would like you to run their secondary program for
6 minutes after the 52 CONTINUOUS MODE. This
is to give them additionalexposuresfor their
film calibration.
026 22 07 27 SPT Okay, Nell, we'll be glad to do it. We've not

worked with their secondary program at all, so
I'll have to get started on that before ...
MCC Okay, I barely heard you, but I - I see that you

did get that information.
SPT Yes, Neil, how - how do you read? Can you hear
me now?
MCC Pardon me?
CC He asked you how you were reading him now.
MCC You're still a little down - -
SPT Cs_n you hear me now?
MCC You're still a little down in the noise.
SPT Okay, I've tried headset and speakers, so it must

be the comm.
f-_ CC I thinkwe got a site problem,Ed.

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MCC How - how are you reading us, Ed?
SPT Nell, I can hear you loud and clear, so why don't
you go ahead.
026 22 08 05 MCC Okay, I will. I'll - !'ii continue here. 82A has
been doing a collaborative experiment with
Mauna Loa in Hawaii, and they have been using
the coronagraph to observe polar plumes. But
they've been cloudy and their instrument hasn't
been working for several days now. But we got a
call this afternoon that they were successful
today, and we would like to take a frame of
82A film to support their polar plume observation,
to compare the plumes in our data with their data.
And it's really nice that it occurred at the same
time that you're planning to study polar plumes.
Therefore, the next convenient chance, whether it's
in a building block 32 or in chip B of building
block i at the end of the day, we would like a
5400 ROLL - minus 5400, WAVELENGTH, LONG exposure,
2 minutes, if that's convenient.
SPT That'll be the first thing done next orbit, Nell.

We'll work it in.
026 22 09 ii MCC Okay, good. There's some other things here.

55 has seen their yesterday's data, and I think
you'll be interested in it. Their oxygen VI loops
over the west limb active regions was counts
ranging from 75 to i00 in loop structures. That's
what they saw last night. And, in addition, they
got a surge in the same general area.
SPT Is that the one they were running unattended on

the anti - the active regions?
MCC That's correct. And they - say that if sometime

or other you get a chance to use your cue card
for GRATING POSITION 0000, 0772, 1042, and 1654 -
GRATING POSITIONs, that would perhaps give them
useful information.
SPT Understand.
026 22 l0 09 MCC Okay. To continue: this 82B test or special

procedure, which I aam_ttedly don't understand
very well and which has been discussed the last
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few days, is now on the pad to be run tomorrow.

Bill Lenoir's conference is prior to it. Perhaps
you would like for him to discuss it with you
then.
SPT Yes, I'd like to see what comes up on the pad and
then I'll ask the questions I think I need.
MCC Okay. The pad will come up as usual tomorrow,

according to the normal schedule. Finally, NOAA
has some inputs as to present activity - -
MCC Neil.
MCC Okay, north 3 on the central meridian there's an

emerging flux region giving absorption structures
in H-ALPHA plus or minus 1 angstrom. In addition,
a dark surge is in active region 3h, running
southeast-northeast about 7 to i0 degrees long.
That's all I've got.
026 22 ii 25 SPT What was it you mentioned before 3h, Nell? I

/-_ think you dropped out.
MCC Okay, there is an emerging flux region at north 3

on the central meridian. And it's showing
absoption structures in H-ALPHA that run out to
plus or minus 1 angstrom. This - I don't know
if it's the same one we discussed earlier this
morning or not, but that's for your information.
SPT Okay, it may well be.
MCC Now before I lose you, I want to say that I've

enjoyed talking to you. And I - now I have a good
contact with you, why don't you tell me what you
have.
026 22 12 00 SPT Okay, Neil, I'ii try to keep you up to speed on

what we were doing this last orbit. We tried to
finish up the coronal hole observation, and did
manage to get done what I had intended, although
the setup again took a little bit longer than
anticipated. We did get four GRATING, AUTO SCANs
done inside the coronal hole with the oxygen VI
count of around i00 and 120 and magnesium X down
around 6. It's con - convinced we're right in -
,f-_ pretty close to the center of the coronal hole

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itself. Then we got one outside where the

oxygen Vl was up around 200; magnesium X, 30 or 40,
which is essentially there back in the background,
outside. And then two MIRROR, AUTO RASTERs, one
down to line 40 at GRATING POSITION of all balls,
and one at 772, which we got down to line 30
before h00 K. So I think we got in all the intent
of what they had there, and I - it ought to be some
good data, although it was taken in a little more
rapid manner than I like.
MCC One more thing, Ed. I forgot to say the Mauna

Loa data was down in the south pole, in case -
for collaboration with the 82B operations in the
next orbit.
026 22 13 12 SPT Okay, that's what I have lined up for the next
orbit is a building block 2 to start off with
in order to get the extra STANDARD MODE in there.
And while we're doing that we'll give WAVELENGTH,
LONG, 2 minutes, for 82A, and then go on down to
the south pole and look for plumes.
MCC Wonderful.
CC Okay, we're going LOS here. See you in Hawaii

in 35 minutes.
SPT Okay, Story. Other things that were done on this

past orbit were 54 and 56; both got 36-minute
exposures, 54 in FILTER 5.
MCC Very good, Ed. It's nice talking with you. I'ii
still be around, if you need me, for a while.
SPT I enjoyed it too, Nell. Have fun down there.
026 22 13 59 MCC Okay, you too.
026 22 49 04 CC Skylab, A0S through Hawaii for 8 minutes; be dumping

the data/voice here.
026 22 56 12 CC Skylab, we're a minute to LOS. About 22 minutes

to the Vanguard at 23:18.
026 23 18 36 CC Skylab, A0S through the Vanguard for 9 minutes.

/_ TAG Tape 026-10/T-Sh5
_ Page 5 of 6/4581
CC Jet, Houston.
CDR Go ahead,
Story.
CC Have you changed out the - the EREP tape yet, Jer?
CDR Negative, Story. Just had my shower.
CC Okay, press on with the shower. And we'll have

some more words for you later on - on changing
out those tapes, so just hold on until we get
those up to you.
CDR Okay. Well, I've finished my shower. If you've

got words, go ahead.
CDR Go ahead, Story, I finished my shower. I'm all

ready to copy.
CC Okay. we're still working on those procedures,

i Jer.
/'_ CDR Okay.
026 23 20 14 CC But while I got you, Jet, the only permanent

general message that we could scratch is number 26;
that's the comet sketches.
CDR (Laughter) Okay, I was Just kidding.
CC Oh, we were working on getting you all we could.
CDR Well, it sure is getting kind of full.
CC Bet it is. And you got a phone call at the Vanguard

at 00:56 and it's a RIGHT.
CDR 00 :56, RIGHT ANTENNA.
CC And you're going to have to give the status report

with your other mouth. That's also going to
be 00:56. You can give those - give that one to
one - one of your friends.
CDR Okay. Why don't I read it to m_ wife and have

hercall you?
CC That's satisfactory also.

TAG Tape O26-10/T-845
Page 6 of 6/2582 "T_
i '
CDR I don't think it would be with her,
026 23 25 50 CC Jer, Houston. I got that EREP tape chs.ngeout

procedure foryou. i
CD_" Okay,goahead.
C_C
_ Okay, on loading tape T-38 on tape recorder 2,
do the tap recordercleaningper your odds-and-ends
cue card and per that permanent general message
6855 Alfa; that's the one about - that has the
EREP swabs and alcohol.
_DR Okay.
CC And you can use one swab for every roller.
CDR Will do.
CC And the rest of this concerns that l0 feet of

opaque tape: do the tape loading per odds-and-ends
card, but make sure that S192 remains in STANDBY
until you got that - I0 feet of lapping film has '
been pulled past the heads. And I know you don't _ _-,
have the cue card down there, but when you get
on down to EREP SYSTEM, START, after that, and
you got the tape moving, don't go to S192 MODE,
READY until you get that l0 feet of opaque tape
past the heads.
026 23 27 lh CC And if the TAPE RECORDER fails to operate and you

get a - END OF TAPE light comes on, if you'll take
an opaque piece of adhesive tape and cover up the
photosensor holes and then move that opaque tape
past the heads. And after you get it past the
heads go ahead and remove the opaque tape.
CDR Okay.
CC • And that's it; and we're going over the hill lhere.
We'll see you in Hawaii at 00:25; _that's about
anhour. .
-CDR _ " Roger. '_
CC _ And the Flight Plans are on board, J_.
ENDOFTAPE

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National ,4eronantirs anti Spare ,tdministralion

LYNDON B. JOHNSON SPACE CENTER

,.._,_, NOVEMBER 1973

SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION .

015 01 03 h9 CC Skylab, Houston. We're at stateside for the next

CDR Roger, Dick. Photo first.

CDR And we didn't get - didn't get that TV after all.

CC Oh, heck, sorry about that.

CDR Well, we'll try again tcmorrow evening.

CC Okay, Jerry, before you start, can we go ahead

CDR Okay, Dick, go ahead and dump it.

CC Okay, good. And I'm standing by.

CDR Okay, 16-millimeters : Delta Papa 22, Charlie

015 01 05 36 CC Okay, got it.

CDR Okay, here comes the evening status. Sleep: CDR,

210; 240. Water gun is 8509; 4457 - correction

CDR Okay. Did you get 1-1/2 hour TV-101?

CC That's affirm and we got it down.

015 01 08 18 SPT Dick, how would you like a frame count?

SPT 10616, 2790, 131, 253, 3139, 3160.

CC Okay, Ed, thank you. We got it.

CC Skylab, Houston. If you guys have a minute, I had

CC " At a time this evening of i hour and i0 minutes

has ever flown in space on a single flight. I -

015 01 l0 36 CC You're now the world champs. We're real proud to

CDR Thanks a lot, Dick, and all the guys on purple

CC Yes, sir. You bet you, we'll be here.

SPT It's you troops on the ground that kep us up here.

015 01 ll 51 CC SPT, Houston. On _the ATM closeout, on S054, request

SPT I keep hoping for a flare even on the darkside.

CC Roger. That's a B plus tonight.

CDR Couldn't have sweet talked your way out of that

CDR Say, Dick, I'd appreciate it if you guys on the

supporting us all through this mission. I think

CC Jerry, I'll sure do it. And Phil and I were

CDR Real fine, Dick.

PLT Dick, there's got to be a record s_newhere in the

CC Old purp says he has it, but we're not sure.

015 01 14 3_ BPT Say, Dick, is NOAA reporting anything happening

CC SPT, Houston. We haven't had any reports and this

CDR The Sun's been canceled due to lack of activity.

015 O1 16 09 CC Okay, thanks for the update. We're about 30 seconds

015 01 27 33 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Vanguard for ii minutes.

CDR Okay, Dick, go ahead, I'm all set up and ready

CC Okay - Okay Jerry, the last pass we uplinked a -

CDR You're dropping out, Dick.

CC Okay, stand by just a second, I'll be with you.

CC Okay, CDR, I think it's locked up solid now.

CDR Be glad to, Dick.

CC Okay great, that time is 02:38, and we'll be

015 01 30 07 SPT Hello, Dick. You still there?

CC Yes, sir. Go ahead.

SPT Say, I guess we're going to be taking a couple of

coming up. We're running out of what they call

CC Okay, thanks for looking ahead for us, and we'll

SPT Thank you.

SPT Hey, Dick, another alternative is to split them

CC Okay, good. We'll think about that one, too.

CC Skylab, Houston. We don't see the maneuver started

CDR Roger, 02 :38.

SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

015 02 38 15 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Hawaii for 5 minutes.