Skylab 1/4 Technical Air-To-Ground Voice Transcription Vol 3 of 7

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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION
3hh 01 19 h9 CC 8kylab, Houston. AOS, Canary Islands and Madrld

for i_ minutes.
SPT Hello, Dick.
CC Hello there, Ed. How - how're you guys doing?
SPT Oh, Just flnlshlngup some grits. How about tell-

ing us about the 82A door, if you could please?
CC Okay. I'll centainlydo it. And I've also got

a - in our never ending quest to keep you guys
informed, I've also got a little note here on
the ATM C&D loop status after that. Okay, first
is the 82A door. Before I go through this mission
note, Ed, let me tell you that - that we're
troubleshooting the door here at this site. We
believe that weare going to have a procedure
available prior to the first ops in the morning
f that will allow us to operate the door. However,
at this moment the analysis is not complete and
we're not sure what the cause is. But here's
essentially what the troubleshooting we did today
to - to arrive at where we are.
3_40l 20 51 CC We did a little hit of troubleshooting that was

interrupted - that was unsuccessful, ther - that
was interrupted by the stability test that you
did. So we took a timeout, and then this after-
noon, here's what we did. First we inhibited and
then enabled both door motors. We attempted the
82A door open with no _oy. Then we inhibited
and reenable both motors and attempted a closure,
and no Joy. We inhibited and reenabled again and -
and got - attempted the door open, and the door
open in about - approximately 2 seconds. This
series indicates that we were stuck in a position
that was very close to full open when this last
con,And was issued. What we then did was inhibit
the power on one motor, which was the secondary,
so that this subsequent closure of the motor -
excuse me, the subsequent closure of the door, in
case it got caught up, would be soft, so to speak;
that is, only a one motor. And, sure enough, as
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you saw and reported awhile ago, it did get hung

up. We're presently troubleshooting. We're -
we're considering pinning the door open on the
next EVA. There are a couple theories as to what's
hanEing it up, and I guess that debate is so - is
up in the air enough now not to - so we can't •
really give you an idea as to the cause. However,
we do thinkwe will have a procedure in the morning
that'll allow us to operate up until the EVA, and
then we may very well pin it open. Over.
344 01 22 40 SPT Okay, th-nk you, Dick. That's kind of surprising

that it hangs very close to the open position.
I would expect it more close to •the closed position
but maybe we can go on out and take a look and
see if there's anything possible we can do in the
EVA to restore that operation before we have to
resort to pinning it.
CC Well, it's - One of the theories is that there was

a - during testing, prior to launch, there was a -
a configuration that - where a piece of GSE was
installed behind the door, as I understand it, at
approximately the position that would allow the
closure of - excuse me, would allow full opening
to be about 2 seconds away. And the sequence of
events during testing may have caused something
to happen to the hardware. And they're taking
back - looking at the testing records now to see
if that might have had something to do with it.
But right now, that's Just one of the theories.
SPT Okay, thank you.
3_ 01 23 51 CC Okay, the other thing I wanted to tell you about

is the note here I have from the EGIL which has
• to do with the ATM control and display coolant
loop status. Several days ago we had you select
pump Charlie in this ATM C&D loop, and this was
done to see if the flow fluctuations that we had
seen on pump Bravo were pump related. Since the
fluctatlons have continued with pump Charlie,
we've concluded that the problem is not caused
by the pumps th_nselves. And we're continuing
to analyze, but so far we've reached no firm
conclusion. The possible causes that we're
considering - that are being considered now and
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being looked at - first of all, a potential of

air in the loop; secondly, a possibility of other
contamination in the loop. (Tone) Another
possibility is a - pump relief valve opening
periodically; and fi..11y, possibly an anomaly
in the flow transducer. The fluctuations are
not harmful to the pump, nor do they affect the
cooling capability. So we feel the present
condition is something we can live - live with.
SPT Okay, t_ank you, Dick. Superimposed onto your

speech, there was a busy signal.
CC Roger, and we're trying to figure out where that

busy signal is coming from. Maybe it's Santa
Claus. (Tone)
SPT Did INCO get is call through?
CC Say again, Ed.
SPT Did INCO get his call through?
CC I guess I am, Ed. We're chasing down this little

problem now and - get back to you.
34_ Ol 27 IF CC Skylab, Houston. We've located the problem, and

we're getting ready to switch lines. Just shows
you how much trouble I have _king a phone call.
SPT You Just got to start paying your phone bill, Bill
[sic].
CC That's the truth.
CC S_lab, Houston. How do you read now?
8PT Sounds good, Dick.
3M40l 28 39 CC Okay, and speaking about Santa Claus, you guys

might be interested to know that everybody down
here is beginning to thine about Christmas, and
in Houston today it's real cold. Today there
was a little boy who came through the viewing
room that was terribly worried about how Santa
Claus was going to find you guys going round and
round in the workshop. And he also couldn't
understand what Santa Claus is going to use as a
chimney.
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SPT Well, we got a spare chimney hanging off the side

of this thing and all eh's got to do is know how
to make a good orbital rendezvous and we're in.
CC Well, we're going to help him with that.
PLT Hey, Dick, are we experiencing a partial eclipse

of the Moon?
344 01 29 26 CC As a matter of fact, Bill, we are. I think I was

told earlier that it was going to be about a
10-percent eclipse, but w - I can find out real
quick a little more about it.
PLT Yes, we've got a great big old full moon up there,
and all of a sudden start losing a hunk of it.
CC Roger, Bill. Make sure the window that you're

not looking out of or - make sure that we're
leaving the wardroom window curtain closed during
S03 - 73 exposures. But that is an eclipse of
the Moon that you're looking at.
PLT Thank
you.
344 01 32 29 CC Skylab, Housto n . We're 1 minute to LOS.

Carnarvon comes up at 01:59.
PLT Roger, Dick.
344 01 32 36 CC See you there.
344 02 00 07 CC Skylab, Houston, hello - at Carnarvon and

Honeysuckle for 15 minutes.
CDR Roger, Dick. You ready for some TV downlink now?

I'm going to roll 90 degrees in Just a minute,
and I've got the WHITE LIGHT CORONAGRAPH up.
CC Stand by.
CDR A little bit earlier than scheduled, but it's

kind of more convenient right now because I got
a 90-degree roll coming up.
CC Roger, Jer. We can't take it until we hand over

to Honeysuckle. I'll let you know as soon as we
can. That's about 6 - well, somewhere in the
neighborhood of about 6minutes from now.
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CDR Okay.
34_ 02.05 l0 CC CDR, Houston. We see you've acquired a star.

We'd like to leave it up if possible.
CDR Will do it.
cC Thank you, sir.
344 02 06 58 CC Skylab, Houston. Handover is complete between

Carnarvon and Honeysuckle. Jerry, you're GO for
the TV downlink, and we're going to dump the
data/voice recorder here at Honeysuckle.
CDR Okay, Dick. I don't have a roll to give you

now, but we're at minus 5400. That looks best.
CC Okay.
CDR Hey, my ROLL has drifted. I had minus 5400, and

now it's 5385. And I haven't touched the hand
controller. In fact, I've INHIBITed. Okay, it's
the nuZ update that did it.
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CC Roger.
344 02 13 02 CC CDR, Houston. Be sure before you leave the panel

tonight, no matter what the position of the STAR
TRACKER SHUTTER is, be sure and put the SHUTTER
switch to CLOSE Just before you leave. And also
on the H-ALPHA 1 NIGHT INTERLOCK switch, we think
that one - that one ought to be in NORMAL now.
CDR Okay, Dick.
CC Roger, and we're about a minute from LOS. MILA

comes up at 02:50.
CDR We finally got some sunspots.
CC Hey, good.
CDR And region 96 has got a little sunspot.
344 02 14 08 CC Maybe that one will get very active.
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344 02 51 24 CC Skylab, Houston; AOS Bermuda for 7 minutes.
CDR Roger, Dick. And I got an ATM frame count for

you.
CC Go ahead.
CDR Okay, starting with H-ALPHA 1 and Just going

right down the line: 11548, 1129 - Correction,
4129 - 4129 is what that is on the second one.
CC Okay.
CDR The third one is 138, 1209, 5784, 3863.
CC Okay, Jerry; thank you, sir.
CC And, CDR, Houston. Since tomorrow is your

guys' day off, you're getting some messages that
i- you don'tnormallysee. We're - later on this
evening, we're going to be updating your first
update to the master anomaly list that's in the
Flight Plan that you can put in sometime Just to
keep yours and ours pretty much up to sync.
And also we uplinked, I think at the last pass,
a sort of a dictionary of Flight Data File books
versus the current changes. I'm - I'm advised
that's not on board yet, but both of those
messages will be coming up this evening.
CDR Okay, Dick. And anything that happens to come

to mind tonight or tomorrow on visual ops, go
ahead and sent them up too.
CC Okay, we'll sure do it.
344 02 54 13 CC Skylab, Houston; we got about 4 minutes left in

this pass here at Bermuda. I have some news
here for you that I could read up. I'm not sure
I'll have time but I could - if I don't, I can
catch it later. Your next pass at Madrid is
evening status, and the following one after that
is a med conference.
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CDR Go ahead and. get started, Dick.
344 02 54 B3 CC Okay. Congress is heading into the last 2 weeks

of the current session scrambling to clear the
calender of various controversial legislation:
foreign aid to Israel, the creation of an
independent special Watergate prosecutor,
confirmation of a new Attorney General, and the
resolution of a trade controversy are on tap.
The question of whether and when 30 billion [sic]
social security recipients will gain an ii per-
cent increase in benefits next year remains
unaswered today. The House and Senate have
approved a two-step boost, but they acted on
separate bills. A procedural tangle makes the
future of the two bills in the next 2 weeks un-
certain. With congressional leaders sho - shoot-
ing to end this session by the 21st of December,
a delay in social security increases is in
prospect. Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Dayan
met with U.S. Secretary of Defense, James
Schlesinger, today. They discussed Israeli's
shopping list of military hardware. The United
States has agreed to give Israel about $i billion -
worth of airplanes, tanks, and other weapons and
equipment to replace Israel's losses during the
18-day October war. Senator Hatfield says one
way to get rid of the energy crisis is to expand
the government-backed AMTRACK rail passenger
system. He _lans to introduce an amenclm_nh i-.n
the rail service bill asking AMTRACK officials
and the U.S. Transportation Department to study
new potential routes. Arab oil ministers say
they will cut back oil production another 5 per-
cent in January, but still promise to lift their
embargo against the United States Just as soon
as Israel pulls out of occupied Arab territory.
At the same time, Secretary of State Kissinger
thanks Holland and Portugal for their support
during the Middle East War and arranged to
dispatch an energy expert to help the Dutch
through the Arab boycott. Deposed President
Papadopoulos of Greece is settling down to a
life of comfort with the help of those who
toppled him 2 weeks ago. There are unconfirmed
v
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reports that he knew about the coup in advance.

Your alma maters did right handily in basketball
this weekend. Southern California sneaked by
Illinois 71 to 60; Princeton eked out Villanova
77 to 70, and Oklahoma State trounced Nebraska-
Omaha 90 to 65. I already told you one football
score; Dallas 27, Washington 7. Here's a few
more: Baltimore over Miami, 16 to 3; St. Louis
over Atlanta, 32 to 10; Pittsburgh over Houston,
33 to 7; Philadelphia over the Jets, 24 to 23;
Cincinnati over Cleveland, 3_ to 17; Detroit
over Chicago, 40 to 7; Buffalo over New England,
37 to 13; and the New Orleans Saints over San
Francisco, 16 to 10. We are about 45 seconds from
LOS; next station contact is Madrid at 03:02,
and I'll be standing by, Jerry, for the evening
status report there. You guys ought to be thank-
ful for the 75-degree temperature up there to-
night, because the predictions for Houston are
freezing temperatures with frost.
CDR Well, we appreciate it. Thanks a lot for the

news, Dick.
f
344 02 58 27 CC Yes, sir.
344 03 02 15 CC Skylab, Houston, A0S Madrid for 8-1/2 minutes

and standing by for the evening status report.
CDR Okay, Richard. Here it comes.
CC Okay.
344 03 02 35 CDR Sleep: CDR, 7.0, 6 heavy, 1 light; SPT, 7.0,

all heavy; PLT, 6.5, 6 heavy, 1/2 light. Volmne:
CDR, 1900; SPT, 2400; PLT, 2100. Water gtm
readings: CDR. 7172. 2_45. 8500: CDR. body
mass: 6.315, 6.312, 6.313; SPT, 6.%5, 6.357
6.%5; PLT, 6.228, 6.234, 6.238. Exercise.
CDR, method Alfa: leg, 30, 5100. Bray - Method
Bravo: Alfa, Delta, Echo, Foxtrot, lO minutes,
20 repetitions each. Method Charlie : Charlie,
Delta, Foxtrot, 06 minutes, 20 repetitions each.
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Method Foxtrot: walk, 9; run, i, NA on repeti-

tions; sDrin_s, 01 minute for 200; toe rises,
02 minutes for 150. SPT, method Bravo: Bravo,
Foxtrot, and curls, 16 minutes, 40 repetitions
each. Method Foxtrot: springs, 15 minutes,
1000; toe rises, 5 minutes, 200. PLT, method
Alfa: leg, 35, 5300. Method Bravo: Alfa, Bravo,
Delta, Echo, 08, 50 each. Method Charlie:
Bravo, Charlie, Delta, Echo, Foxtrot, and Golf,
10, 20 each. Method Foxtrot: walk, 10; springs,
01, 100 repetitions; toe rises, 01, 75. Method
Echo: Alfa and Bravo, 02, l0 each. Medications:
None by anyone. Garments disposed of today:
CDR, one pair of shorts; SPY, one pair of socks,
one pair of shorts, trousers, and a shirt ; PLT,
none. Food log: CDR, salt packs, 5.5; devia-
tions, one -plus one coffee with sugar, plus
one grape drink, plus one apple drink; rehy-
dration water, plus 1.5. SPT, 10.0 salt, plus
one tea, plus biscuits, minus 1.O rehydration
water. PLT, plus l0 salts, 10.0; deviations,
plus one grape drink, plus one coffee; rehy-
dration water, minus 1.0. Flight Plan devia-
tions: none. Shopping list, none. Inoperable
equipment and disposition: DAC 4, transporter 7,
tr_n-porter 3 have been tested and found to
be okay. Unscheduled stowage, none. Photo
log: 16-millimeter, Earth observations, HH-153
in eclipse of the Moon, Charlie India 125, 05,
Charlie India 124. Nikon -Nikon 02, Bravo
Victor 44, 35; Nikon 03, Charlie India ll0, 51;
Nikon _, Bravo Echo 08, 15; Nikon 05, Bravo
Hotel O1, 31. ETC, no change. EREP, no change.
Drawer A configuration : Alfa 1, 02, Charlie
India 73, 96, Charlie India 56; Alfa 2, 05,
Charlie India 93, 72, Charlie India 122; Alfa 3,
06, Charlie India 125, 05, Charlie India 12_;
Alfa 4, 03, Charlie India 71, 62, Charlie India 82.
A footnote on this one is that Alfa 4 was
reported yesterday as having transporter 3 with
82 percent in it. That was a typographical error.
That should be 62. It hasn't been used in days.
The back is transporter 07, no change. And I
owe you frame counts on Nikon 1 and the
70-millimeter. And stand by, I'll glve them
to you.
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344 03 07 06 CC Okay, Jer.
CDR Okay, on Nikon 01 is Charlie X-ray 36, _9.

70-millimeter is Charlle X-ray 47, 153. And
that' s it.
CC Okay, Jerry. Thank you very much. YOU can -

you - with all that talking, you're going to be
able to be - to Join the purple gang. You're
probably purple in the face by now.
CDR That's right. All my blood vessels are stand-

ing out.
CC (Laughter) Roger. Thank you much. We still got

about 3 minutes left in this pass. I'm standing
by.
CDR Okay. I think, Dick, we're going to - going to
standardize our exercise and Just give you
deviations. I'll work it out and put it on
tape as to what - how it's R11 going to work
out, but I think all that reading and all those
numbers is unneccessary when we do the same thing
nearly every day.
CC Okay, Jer. Why don't you think about that and

do that for us.
344 03 08 21 CDR Okay.
344 03 08 48 CC CDR, Houston. Two questions on the evening status

report. First of all, we copied no method Alfa
exercise on SPT ; and secondly on the report for
Nikon 05, would you confirm - I think you said
is BH01 and we wonder if that should be BH04.
Over.
SPT Yes, Dick, the old hod took a rest on Alfa today.
CC Okay, Thank you.
CDR You're right, Dick; it's BH04.
CC Okay, thank you.

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344 03 09 56 CC Skylab, Houston, we're about 45 seconds from

LOS. Carnarvon comes up at 03:35, and that's
a reed conference.
CDR Okay, so long.
CC So long. We do have one pass after Carnarvon,

guys, and that 's Honeysuckle ; it comes up at
about 5 minutes after Carnarvon LOS.
344 03 l0 25 CDR Okay, see you then.
344 03 45 52 CC Skylab, Houston; AOS through Honeysuckle for

5 minutes.
CDR Roger, Dick.
CC Skylab_ Houston. We were wondering if you had

a chance to look at the SIAs and see if there
was a CCU plugged into any of them and maybe
get rid of the backgromad noise. Over.
CDR Yes, I think our big problem, Dick, is the one

up by the ATM. It frequently gets left on and
we Just have to go up and remember to keep it
turned off.
CC Roger, understand.
344 03 48 46 CDR And, Dick_ I tried again on Kohoutek at 02:33

time, and it Just didn't work out. We can't
find it.
CC Well, I'Ii be darn. Sorry about that.
CDR It's got to be hidden behind that ATM solar

panel, that's all I can say. The star field
seemed to indicate that's probably where it is.
I've seen it every time we've done a 70-degree
roll to do either S063 or one of the other out-
the-SAL-windnw rolls. You can see it very
plainly in STS window nmnber 2. But I get the
distinct impression that the tail is shorter,
and I think that's because it's so close to
sunrise.
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CC Roger, Jerry.
344 03 50 22 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about a m_nute from LOS

tonight. You guys have a good night 's sleep,
and sleep in late in the morning. We'll give
you a voice call a couple of hours later than
normal. So see you tomorrow.
CDR Okay, Dick; good night.
CC Good night.
SPT Good night, Dick.
CC Good night, Ed.
MCC Good night Jerry. Good night, Bill.
PLT Good night, all.
3hh 03 50 50 SPT Good night, troops.
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(Music)
344 14 06 03 PLT Morning, Houston.
CC Good morning, guys. (MUSIC) Cram-on team's back

with you.
PLT The cram-on Crippen.
CC We got a whole team of Crimsons down here.
CDR The scarlet pumpernickels.
CC Are we going to get the toothpaste act again?

Has Ed been practicing up?
(MUSIC)
SPT No, we decided to Junk that routine.
CC Coming out with a better one?
SPT I'll brush them when I get back , Crip.
344 14 07 12 CC Okeydoke. For your information we're AOS through

the States, and we got you for about 13 more min-
utes.
(Music)
344 14 19 24 CC Skylab, Houston. We're i minute from LOS. We'll
see you over the Vanguard in about i0 minutes at
14:30, 14:30. And, we'll be doing a data/voice
recorder dump.
344 14 19 44 SPT Roger, Crip. We'll see you there.
344 14 30 16 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS at Vanguard for

9-1/2minutes.
CDR Roger, Crip.
CC Roger. And for Jer, there, we got a nu Z update

time Just starting about now, and somebody can
work that in. And wanted to call all of your
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attention, particularly Jerry's, to a permanent

general message we sent up regarding 82A's door,
PGM 10, before he gets into his ATM operations
this morning. It's basically what to do in case
the - the thing doesn't open properly. And I can
talk about that if - if there's any questions on
it.
CDR Okay, Th_k, Crip.
34_ 14 Ii 5_ CDR Okay, Crip, the nuzs complete.
CC Roger. Copy.
CC Bill, got one item, a small change on yottr details

today. If you got them handy, we can get it now,
or it's no hurry. We can get it later.
PLT Give me about 2 minutes.
CC Okay.
3&4 14 32 50 PLT Okay, Crip, PLT here. l've got the details in
front of me.
CC Okay. At 16:41 we have a 63 operation, and we

refer to a remote control cable to be used, and
actually we should have been Saying the manual
shutter release cable.
PLT No sweat; understand.
CC Okay, very good. Thank you.
344 14 B8 49 CC Skylab, Houston, we're i minute from LOS. We'll

see you again over Goldstone in an hour and 3 min-
utes at 15:42.
CDR Roger, Crip.
SPT We going to have a conversation with Paul Patterson

there, Crip?
CC I'm sorry, Ed. I couldn't hear that one. Say

again.
SPT Are we going to have a talk with Paul Patterson

sometime today? Is it over Goldstone?
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CC You've got science conference scheduled for about

02:00 this evening. And I'm not sure whether Paul's
in that group or not.
SPT Thank you.
SPT Bill Lenolr coming in, then, over Goldstone?
CC I didn't tell you the truth. At 15:h2 you do have

a conference scheduled over Goldstone ; and Paul
will be here.
3_ i_ 39 52 SPT ....
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3hh 15 h2 3h CC Skylab, Houston. We're A0S Goldstone for ll min-

utes. And before I turn the mike over to
Paul Patterson, I'd like to correct our pointing
for the CALROCK today,
CDR Okay, go ahead.
CC Okay. We're - it has for quiet region l, LEFT,

160. We would like to change that to LEFt, lh5.
Your UP/DOWN and ROLL remains the same. Okay.
And TV's looking good to us.
CDR Okay.
CC And, Jerr, Just one other item be - I don't know

if you've already activated it or not, but some-
time today you might try using your X-BAY IMAGE
scope while your X-RAY SPECT switch is in BUS 1.
We think that that should work in BUS l, and you
wouldn't have to switch it back and forth. And
I'm going to turnthe mike over to Paul Patterson
nov.
3hh 15 h3 31 MCC Good morning, Jerry, Ed, and Bill.
CDR Good morning, Paul.
MCC I have a few topics which I thought we could dis-

cuss in the time remaining. But first I'd like
to know if you have any questions you'd like to
ask of the NRL group.
SPT Yes, Paul, there is one, and that was the h-limb
coalignment which we've done. It turns out that
the bias has changed in LEFT/RIGHT, and I found
that rather strange, and also right after I did
the h-limb coali_,,_nt I went out to the limb to
see if I could put the slit tangent to the limb
and it turned out not to be an UP/DOWN of zero.
That's all on tape, and I'm wondering whether
you had a chance to look at it and tell us what
effect it has on our pointing.
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344 15 hh 13 MCC I would - came in early this morning but I

couldn't find the tape of the -the transcript of
the tape, but I will look at that. The specs and
the science console are looking into that and,
Harvard is interested in it also for CALROC today.
So we'll have some sort of an answer back to you
this morning on the results of the coalignment.
By the way, you might be interested in knowing
that the Sun is quite quiet because the west limb
is sort of located in Gibson's Gap, the central
meridian is somewhere near Pocp - Pogue's Pocket,
and the east limb will be approaching Holt's Hump
in a few days. So you can expect some - some
quiet - some lack of activity for the next couple
of days.
CDR I knew we'd get blamed for it.
MCC Yes. (Laughter)
344 15 44 58 MCC The - first topic I'd like to cover is the one
about the use of the 82B film. You may have
noticed from the curves of f_Sm rates that we gave
you, that we have roughly 450 frames to use before
we get into the type 101 fast film which we'd in-
tended to use on the comet. Our policy is that
the Sun is our highest priority, and although
we'd like to support the comet studies, we're ex-
tremely reluctant to waste the film Just to reach
the lO1. So what we thought we - we've come up
with is some sort of a strategy where we could
arrange to take as many frames as we could, as
well as we could, before that time. And what we're
going to try to do, and you can expect to see
this on the pad in the next few days, is take a
number of building block 13's; that is, three-orbit
limb scans. We'll try to take some atmospheric
extinction observations to study air pollution.
And at the end of the week, when active region 87
comes up over the east limb and the activity picks
up, we'll try to do some - we'll ask you to do
some systematic studies of the active region. And
between those three topics we hope to get much
closer to the 101 film.
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344 15 46 14 SPT Okay; that's good, Paul. We have noticed and

been aware of the problem, and the tmfortunate
part is most of the activity is rather quiet,
which calls for long exposures on most of the
features you've studied. So we've ended up taking
long exposures even in some of the shopping list
items. So it's - I kind of got caught between a
quiet Sun and Kohoutek coming up. We'll do our
best to make good use of it.
MCC Thank you. We do appreciate the unscheduled ob-

servations you have made, and please feel free -
at ease to ma_e any independent observations you
want which you - are interesting to you, as the
author of "The Quiet Sun" book, or which you think
we might like to have. We are interested in shop-
ping list 5, where we can get a real good look at
a prominent boundary and then get a reference
spectrum for comparison, which is something you
can always do on a quiet Sun.
344 15 47 07 SPT Okay. We'll try and get through to that for you,
especially get the background study. The - the
problem has always been that we do the shopping
.... list items at the end of an orbit. And you have
Just about enough time to get the first exposure
but not the second.
MCC Yes.
SPT Go ahead, Paul.
MCC Okay. The next topic I wanted to discuss was the

exposure cue card. Is it clear to you the way it
was arranged?
SPT Yes it is, Paul. It's quite well written, and I

can understand what it - what it's telling us.
And I have referred to it occasionally for shop-
ping list items.
MCC Okay. I have a couple of comments on it. The

first is - at the very first, under the section
called Activity, where I put point brightenings,
I imagined you probably figured this out, but I
Just want to make sure there was no confusion.
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What I call point brightenings are those fluctu-

ating bright spots near the neutral eye of an
active region, where you hope to sort of catch
some instability prior to the onset of a subflare
or a flare.
344 15 48 04 SPT Yes. You're tailing about a Be visible voltage

either in H-alpha or something which we are on a
bright point and we see fluctuate in one of the
55 lines.
MCC Yes. The sort of things that you saw on that

XUV monitor picture that the feet - or the 82A
picture - at the feet of the magnetic field loops
in an active region. And when you do point - now
of course, you'll be wanting to use the other in-
strtQnents at the time. But if by any chance you're
only using 82B and you feel like you could roll,
what we'd like you to do if you could is try to
locate the conjugate points of the loop. They
probably both will be bright if there's any sort
of preflare particle acceleration occurring down
the loops - the lines of the loop to the surface
of the Sun. And if you were to lay the slit along
both of those, why, we could double our intensity
in the - in the spectrum.
Sh4 15 48 49 SPT Are you saying to put the slit that perpendicular
to the neutral line?
MCC In that particular case, it would be, yes.
SPT Okay.
MCC But don't Just lock on that. You know you have -
Just use your Judgment. One spot is sufficiently
bright, as I think you remember from seeing the
spectrra at the Cape that we showed you.
SPT Okay.
344 15 49 06 MCC Another thing is - you may notice that I've said
outside 0.7 radii, and that's Just a reference to
our scattered light pro - problem in the longer
portion of the short wavelength range. And we
would like to stick as close to the limb as we
could for most studies to minimize the contamination
of our spectra there. The topic comparative
spectra - you'll notice in the observations off
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the limb on the prominence, on spicules, and on

the active region loops and polar plumes, I have
included backround. As we've talked before, the
na-_ of the game with the 82B slit is comparative
spectra, and I Just wanted to answer the question
that you raised earlier in the week. To us, that
means a systematic spatial pointing where you sort
of use the slit as a scalpel to dissect the feature
by going across it or along it in some Sort of
systematic way, or for a feature where you'd have
extraneous light, a backgr - a spectrum on the
feature and then off the feature to get a back-
ground or a reference spectrum. And then for
events or things that change with time, we'd like
a - a comparative spectra after the event has oc-
curred. So to - so you get a spectra during the
event and then after. So there are sort of three
phases to comparative spectra, and I hope I've
answered your question there.
3_4 15 50 37 SPT Yes. That's answered the question. The problem

arises in that the amount of time that it takes
to do that and also the pointing - changing of
the pointing where we have other experiments in
_ operation.And I'lltry and do as much as I
personally possibly can along that line without
interfering with the other experiment operations.
MCC Yes. We're aware of the problem. Okay. I would

like to mention one thing that we have - we tal -
discussed before, and that's the use of the 82A film.
There hasn't been much activity so we haven't
brought this topic up before, but Bill Lenoir will
be speaking to you a little later in the week, just
before activity picks up, to discuss the use of
sequences of 82A exposures and to give you free
rein to go hunting for subflares and flares. And
he'll - he'll be covering that later.
SPT Okay.
344 15 51 28 MCC Okay. The last topic I have is the question of

how well we're doing on packing the cycles for
you, and whether you'd like some more time to do
freelance observations.
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SPT Well, okay. Let's get into the - the time in

general. Bill and Jerry both feel that the time
which they're getting at the ATM is Just about
right. And, I, personally, would like to get
more. I'd like to get about an extra two orbits
a day, if there's a place for me to squeeze that
in, without squeezing it out of the sleep too much.
MCC Are you - -
MCC Excuse me, Ed.
3hh 15 52 06 SPT Okay, and also on time, the - the day off. I
could certainly use a little bit more like to -
today we - we - as I look at the pad, there's
not a lot of meat in it, in terms of the ATM
observations. And I certainly would like to see
more.
MCC Are you referring to Just time made available to

you, to use the ATM panel, or time out of the
portion of the day that we're alloted, that we
would ought not schedule, but leave open for you?
SPT What I'm talking about is both, Paul. I don't

see why I couldn't be performing some of the opera-
tions or some of the observations which the PIs
would like to see performed, but don't have time,
in the current planning. And also I still - I
would like to have some more time available also,
you know, to explore some of the things which I
find interesting. One of the problems has always
been when it comes at the end of a - a orbit,
you pretty much Just get started on something,
say like a bright point, which I was looking for
yesterday and had a tough time locating. By the
time I finally got on it, it was a little bit late,
and I'm not sure I really got on it.
3hh 15 53 15 SPT Then I could not get a comparative spectra or

could I do a GRATING, AUTO SCAN with the MIRROR
AUTO RASTER and a host of other things that are
really required in order to complete a good observa-
tion. So, I guess, I'd rather see a - maybe a
pack - a couple packed orbits and then something
free as opposed to a little bit at the end. Be-
cause it Just - The end Just doesn't allow you to
do a com_lete Job on any given thing.
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342 15 53 38 CC Skylab, Houston. 15 seconds to LOS. We'll have

you again at Vanguard in 12-1/2 minutes. 16:05
for a data/voice recorder dump.
MCC Okay, Ed. Well, we'll take that into account in

planning, and I'm sure other people have heard
what you said and we'll - we'll be considering it.
SPT Okay, let me mention a couple of other things.

One is the 56 long exposures versus the activity.
We've been trying to give them long exposures,
fairly long, because we don't have much activity,
and we realize the intensities are relatively low.
55, I'm wondering whether any of their data has
shown changes in time of - of the spicules.
52 corona has looked rather quiet and we have not
noticed any transients at all, and I'm wondering
whether there's been anything picked up via the
ground ....
322 15 52 27 MCC Over the hill, Ed
34h 16 05 52 CC Skylab, Houston. AOS Vanguard and we're doing

a data/voice recorder dump here.
CDR Okay.
CC Hey, Jer, I wanted to make sure that - with that

pointing change I gave you awhile ago for the
quiet region - that you understood that that was
applicable for the rest of the day, and the reason
is the 2-limb coalignment is changed from what -
the original numbers we gave you.
CDR Okay, Crip. We understand. We've got it written

down on the pad.
CC 0keydoke, very good. And I also did it rather

quickly. Did you understand what I was saying
about checking out your little X-RAY SCOPE there
on BUS l?
CDR Yes, that's right. We're going to check it out

now.
CC Okay. Whenever - whenever you want to.

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CDR Works fine on BUS 1.
344 16 06 52 CC Okay. That's what we concluded down here. That

means that that switching it back and forth from
all that unattended is unnecessary.
CDR How's the TV you got? I think the first WHITE

LIGHT CORONAGRAPH you got at a ROLL of 10800
probably wasn't too good. We were busy and didn't
have time to focus it up well.
CC Looked pretty good to us.
CC Jer, I know you're - you're busy there running

the pass. Would like to discuss a few things
there about scheduling of ATM, either - with you
and Ed, because we think we got some conflicting
information about what we're supposed to be doing.
We can either do it now or later on in the day.
SPT Go ahead, Crip. We're both here.
344 16 07 52 CC Okay. First, I guess, six to seven ATM passes a

day is probably pretty close to the max that we're
going to be able to - to put down for you. You --
know, some days we may be able to beat that a
little bit but not too often. And considering
the ratio that we're now giving between - splitting
it up between all three of you, Ed said that he
wanted some more passes but if we're not able to
increase the number of passes, does he want to take
some that you guys are now doing or what?
SPT No, that's negative, Crip. I think they need to

get one or two passes a day to keep up on it and
also Just because they enjoy doing it. I guess
I'm thinking further down the road when EREP is -
doesn't have a favorable observing period, at
which time I think the ATM will probably pick up
a little bit.
344 16 08 47 CC Okay. We are, you know, sort of out of the conus

EREP cycle right now. We will be getting some
over other areas, but, of course, with not the
frequency that we've been doing over conus, so -
And we are going to try to maximize corrolary
and ATM during this period, so in some circnmstances,
we may be able to - to increase the ATM passes, but
it gets pretty - pretty tight on trying to schedule.
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CDR Okay, Crip. I think if you Just give Bill and I

one, no more than two a day, I think that'll be
plenty. Why don't you do something like three a
day for us and one of us will take one and the
other one take two and then give the rest to Ed.
And, on days when you're about one ATM pass short,
Just give each of us one.
CC Okay. We got that. Now, what Ed was tasking

about, I guess he wants several in a row and to
pack them pretty tight on the first couple and
then sort of give him one that's got lots of time
for him to do shopping list kind of items, is that
correct?
3h4 16 09 47 SPT Yes - yes, that's affirm, Crip. Pack them so

that they're at least feasible to do, because I
hate to end up without getting their observations
done. And then at the - any time they choose
during the day which is, you know, at their prefer-
ence, put the observing time which they were going
to schedule into one pass. That doesn't mean that
one pass can't include other things, but I'm say-
ing try to ltnnp it all together in one continuous
time, because I think I Can do mere for them that
way.
CC Okay. Believe we got that. Now, regarding your

day off, Jer gave us some word the other day about
four ATM passes max on a day off. Now l'm sure
that when we did that we weren't planning on - or
when you said that you were - didn't know we were
going to stick you with a J0P 12, but that's the
reason, like today, that there are only four ATM
passes scheduled. And, if you have any desires,
we currently have got a couple of passes that are
scheduled for unattended ops, and we can certainly
give those to you.
344 16 i0 48 SPT Okay. I think when we got into the bind last time
was when - our last day off, if you recall, was
one of the harder days we've worked since we're
up here. That's becusse we were doing everything;
ATM, EREP, and a host of other things. When we
do have pretty much of a free cycle here - free -
free time but not EREP, then - four still looks
like a good number, and let's Just work with that,
if I can get four passes. And we'll see how things
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go from there. I have the desire for - for more,

but unfortunately, we don't get the rest if we
go for more right now. So, let's Just try to
work for four, and I'll see how that works out.
CC Okay, we'll leave the - leave the Flight Plan as

we've got it for today, then.
CDR We're going to review again. We'll - then talk

to you in a second.
CC Okay, no sweat, we got - got all day.
344 16 12 27 CDR Okay, Crip, Ed's only got three of them today.
You can - If you could spare one of your unattended
passes, I think he could use it.
CC Okay, that - that was originally supposed to have

been for four for him, but somehow in t_he scheduling
it ended up giving you the one. And let me tell
you - stand by a moment - -
CDR That's probably because we had the - the ATM con-

ference during this one.
CC That 's probably - probably the reason. At any

rate, stand by l, and I'll give - give you the
times available for the other Ones, and you can
select one.
CDR Okay.
CC SPT, Houston. Ed, I can tell you what our druthers

would be if you want to get an extra pass in today.
SPT Okay, Crip, go ahead.
34h 16 14 B2 CC Okay, Ed. We've got an unattended ops scheduled

at 17:17, and you can have all of that if you'd
like it. The other one is the 18:50 pass. That
is our midday synoptic. If you do take that one,
we would like you to do a building block 2 in it
for us. 17:17 pass, you can do anything you want
to.
SPT Crip, I'll take the 17:17. And is there anything

in there which - me moving in there which would
take out which they want done? I'd be glad to do
it.
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CC Nope, it 's all yours.
SPT Very good, thank you.
CC Have fun.
CC Skylab, HOuston; we're 1 minute from LOS.
344 16 16 25 CC We'll see you again in 16 minutes over Tananarive

at 16:32, 16:32.
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SKYLAB AIR-T0-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION
344 16 33 22 CC Skylab, Houston; AOS Tananarive for 8-1/2 minutes.
CC And, SPT, Houston. You got a moment to ta]k, Ed?
SPT Go ahead, Crip.
CC 0keydoke. I'm going to have to renege on what

I told you awhile ago. That rev at 17:17 is
being devoted to CALROC work. Consequently, we
are going to need to run that one from the
grotmd. Like to give you that 18:51 rev and
request that you do a building block 2 in there
for us for the midday synoptic.
SPT Hang on, Crip. Let me take a look at the

schedule. Be right with you.
CC Okay. That's - that's right around what current-

ly you've got scheduled as chow time.
SPT 18:50, Crip?
CC That's affirmative.
344 16 34 01 SPT Okay, I'll take it.
CC Sorry your - sorry we had to change our - change

our minds there.
SPT Okay, you want a building block I or 2?
CC 2; need a 2.
SPT Oh, okay, that's no problem. Thank you.
CDR Okay, Crip, you might have noticed I had to use

our little procedure to open the doors at sun-
rise, and now it looks like I'm going to have
to use it again for this pass.
CC Okay, we - we copy that. And, Jer, one thing

that may not be self explanatory on that pro-
cedure is - what that does for us is allows us
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to open them with two motors and close them

with one motor. And we don't want to ever
close them with two motors because - Just driving
it further into the stops.
344 16 35 34 CC And, Jer, would probably be helpful for us from -

Just to know roughly how many times you end up
having to do that.
CDR Okay.
CC And, CDR, Houston. When you finish up there at

the ATM, I got one little correction that we
need to make to the message that we sent you up
on checklist status.
CDR Okay, I'll call you in a few minutes.
CC Okay, again there's no rush on that one. We can

catch it later in the day, too, if you!d like.
344 16 38 27 CDR Okay, Crip, ... the Job here. It looks like it's
been ....
CC Skylab, Houston in the blind. Going over the

hill - hill; at - Hawaii at 17:16. And -_e
sure maneuver time is loaded at 15 minutes.
344 16 39 00 CC Skylab, Houston. How are you reading?
34_ 16 _0 02 CC Skylab, Houston. Can you read now?
CDR Loud and clear.
CC Okay. We're about ready to drop out here.

Hawaii's going to be at 17:16 in about 36 min-
utes. Like to remind you to make sure that you
load maneuver time of 15 minutes for the up-
coming maneuver.
CDR Okay. And did you copy my remarks on this 82A

door message?
CC Negative.
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CDR Okay. I said it looks like the message is

slanted toward opening the door rather than
closing it, and what I've done is inhibit the
primary motor ...
344 16 40 37 CC Going over the hill, Jerry, We'll talk to you

later about it.
344 17 15 17 CC Skylab, Houston. We are AOS through Hawaii for

6 minutes.
CDR Roger, Crip. Hey, a question comes to mind here.

On these maneuvers that we're doing for S063
and the like, those are our best opportunities
really to get a photo of Kohoutek with the Nikon.
I wonder if they would be interested in having
us do it then.
CC We'll ask around here, Jer.
344 17 17 18 CC CDR, Houston. It is our opinion that you

probably aren't able to - to mount the camera
in any way securely at S-2 window, and consequent-
_- ly, you can't take it as stable a photographas
you - as you can when we're back in the other
attitude. Can you enlighten us a little bit
about that ?
CDR Oh, I think we can Jury-rig it. We'd have to

do without a remote cable.
CC Okay, Jer. Why don't you let us think about

that. Right now we - we'd Just as soon go
ahead and schedule them out of the S-3 window,
but when you're back in solar inertial.
CDR Okay.
344 17 18 52 CC Jer, I don't really think we understood as to

why you couldn't use the little manual shutter
release on the - on the - on window S-2. Could
you enlighten us there a little?
CDR Oh, well, because Bill's using it at this pass.

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CC Ah ha. But in other situations where he wasn't

using it, you probably could, like if it - -
CDR Yes, that's affirmative.
CC Okay.
PLT I think we're a little bit ahead of you on that,

Crip. We've been talking about that, and most
of the time when Jer is able to see that, it's
during a maneuver which is being performed for
an observation at the minus-Z SAL and in which
is required the use of the manual shutter release.
PLT The remote operation and in the remote shutter

release cable.
CC Roger. I guess that since we've been talking

about getting minute-exposures, it doesn't seem
that we can reasonably do that during the
maneuver.
PLT Well, I think it said by the triggering of the

time manually and the release of it manually,
Jer could do it.
B44 17 20 2_ CDR Crip, this is not during the maneuver. This is

during that stable period of time when the guy
doe at the minus-Z SAL is doing his thing.
CC Okay. Okay. I'm sorry. We got - I got - I

got confused. I get confused easily on Monday
mornings. I'm with you. But that would mean
that you couldn't do them at the same time then
again. Okay. I guess if - if you can do that,
then certainly you could get better photographs
than you can get out of the S-B window.
CDR Yes. That's affirmative. There's Just nothing

in the S-B window to see right now. By the time
that comet would come out behind - from behind
the ATM panel, it's going to be sunrise.
CC Roger.
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PLT Also, Crip. Another flight planning note; this

is the second time since you told us about crew
gyrations that you scheduled PT, the S06B or
some observation right in the middle of a PT
period.
CC Okay. This - -
CDR Tell them it's awful hard to do PT without

moving around.
CC Yes, yes. Understand. Okay. So noted.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from LOS. We'll

see you again at Vanguard at 22 - in about 22
minutes at 17:44. And we'll be doing a data/voice
recorder dump there.
344,17 22 l0 CDR Roger. So long.
344 17 44 19 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Vanguard, and we

have you for about l0 minutes.
..... CC And, Skylab; we'll be doing a data/voice recorder

dump here.
CDR Roger.
CC CDR, Houston. Jer, earlier we were having a

discussion on that 82A door procedure, and it
was Just about the time we were breaking up and
going LOS. And we never got your - the full
gist of what you were talking about. At your
convenience, we can go ahead and talk about
that again sometime.
CDR Okay Crip, we're coming up on some HHB0 Alfa

pictures now, and I'll be back with you in Just
a couple of minutes.
CC Okay, no sweat. Just - Just wanted to let you

know that we hadn't gotten it all.
344 17 47 29 SPT Hey, Crip, I saw some pretty good-size waves

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down here by the fiords in Chile. It looks like

there's a fair amount of water moving into those.
The waves run primarily perpendicular to the flow
and perpendicular to the coastline, and kind of
bow in towards the openings in the fiords. They're
falling in fairly long wavelengths too.
CC It sounds like they're having some rough weather.

I understand you're coming up over Vanguard.
They're getting some pretty heavy rain on the
Atlantic side here.
SPT Yes, we broke out of the clouds Just in time to

see a fair amount of it. I wish we had some
fiords up around Houston, we could get a little
more energy out of them.
CC Roger. And, Ed, we need somebody to INHIBIT

the MANUAL POINTING CONTROL for us for this
unattended pass.
CDR Okay, Crip. My comments on 82 Alfa were that

it looked to me like the procedures you sent up
were mainly biased toward getting the doors -_
opened and not getting them closed. And l'm
glad you mentioned the fact that you should only
use one door to close them - or one motor to
close them with, because I think I would have
been inclined, on the basis of that pad - or
that uplink, to use both motors.
3_4 17 48 47 CC Okay, Jer, the - the thing - maybe it's misleading

a little bit, but the intent had been that this
procedure probably should handle it both ways.
It starts out if the 82A door talkback is white
at sunrise. And normally, your condition there
would have been that it failed to close at sunset
and then when you come up to sunrise to use it,
well, it's still white. Of course, since that
one doesn't automatically open - isn't automati-
cally opened by the computer, and the - the bit
of inhibiting the motors and enabling them
again there is simply to - to reset that timer.
And I guess the situation is also - the procedure
works well if for some reason you have tried to
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open them and they didn't. It allows you to go

ahead and put both motors on and to open it and
then go back to the single motor. And we do want
to stay away from any situation that would put
• both motors on trying to close it though.
CDR Okay, but I still had a white when it came to

sunset time. And in order to close it, I Just
inhibited both of them and came back on with
the primary only, and it went to barberpole.
3h_ 17 50 03 CC Yes. And unfortunately that - that's misleading.

That 's really - that 's a situation where you get
a false indication at that time. The - the
wiring is such that it Just shows the last posi-
tion that you commanded it. It doesn't really
reflect the position of the door.
CDR Okay, I understand. In other words, we won't

worry about it too much at sunset ; at sunrise,
we're concerned.
CC That - that's affirm. What we Just - you don't

-- have to pay any attentionto it at sunset,Just
go ahead and let it stay white; and then when
you get ready to - to use it at sunrise, to go
through this little procedure.
CDR Okay, very good.
3hh 17 51 hh SPT Crip, I think we got some good data on those

fiords in Chile. We got a little DAC film on
it at 2 frames a second to show the motion, some
300-millimeter and 100-millimeter.
CC Okay, real good. We'll - we'll pass that on to

Bill. And he's going to be talking to you
later on tonight about a bunch of visual ops
anyhow. You talking while you're pumping?
SPT No, I've got Bill pedaling for me now.
CC Ah ha.
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3hh 17 53 13 SPT Hey, Crip, we're looking at a ice floe which is

pretty large. We've got one large block which
is about a dime at arm's length.
CC Okeydoke. If it looks like a dime from there, it

must be a pretty big one.
CC And, Skylab, we're i minute from LOS. We'll see

you again over Tananarive in about 15 minutes
at 18:09, 18:09. And for the CDR, wondered if
he would like to - for us to resend that perma-
nent general message regarding the 82A doors to
make it a little bit clearer that that is -
exactly when that is applicable, and the fact
that we want you to use two motors to open and
one to close; Just to make sure nobody forgets
it.
SPT Crip, leave it like it is. We're putting a

little note on the bottom ourselves.
344 17 5_ 25 CC Okay, fine and dandy.
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34h 18 i0 46 CC Skylab, Houston; A0S Tananarive for 4 minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston; AOS Tananarive for 3 minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Tanansrive for about

2-1/2 more minutes. The cnmm's fading in and out;
not sure whether you got me now. In the blind,
Hs_aii at 18:51.
CDR You're ,1most impossible to read, Crip.
CC Roger. Hawaii 40 minutes, 18:51.
344 18 12 23 CDR Okay. Copy.
344 18 51 17 CC Skylab, Houston; AOS Hawaii, i0 minutes.
CC SPT, and we see that 52 is pointed off a little

bit too much for it. Need to either go a little
bit more towards Sun center or close that door.
CC Thank you, sir.
SPT Crip, I take it 82A was to be omitted from building

block 2. What about 54?
CC Checking, Ed. Stand by 1. Ed, we want 54 to run.
SPT Okay.
SPT Does 55 then want any particular GRATING POSITION?
CC Checking.
SPT Does 55 want their MIRROR, AUTO RASTER in any par-

ticular GRATING POSITION?
CC We're checking on it for you. Where we're at now

looks good, Ed.
344 18 56 18 CC CDR, Houston, if you're available, there's a couple

of questions to ask you. If not, if that's you
riding the bike or something, we can get you later.
CDR Okay. I'm on the bike, but I can listen.

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CC Jer, I was Just going to ask you on that switching

that - or taking the cs_era, the comet out of
S-2. That sounds like a pretty good option to
us, but we - we're wanting to get two photographs
a day, which would mean we'd probably be wanting
to get one out of S-2 when you were m-neuverd over
for SAL ops, and another one when you were at
solar inertial which will require you getting a
photograph out of S-3. And the question is, do
you think you can switch them back and forth? In
other words, do one like in the morning and one
in the evening; and if you do, would you like to
have a little time scheduled for that if we do it?
344 18 58 07 CDR I think the initial setup wouldtake a little time.

After that I don't think it'll be any problem.
The big thing is waiting until it comes into sight
on S-3.
CDR I guess the problem is, Crip, if we don't have two

maneuvers a day to a SAL attitude, might as well
give up on it, because we're not getting anything
out of S-3.
CC Okay, copy. You're saying that S-3 is Just not -

not at all visible.
CDR That 's right. Not ymt.
CC Copy.
CDR Either Bill or I goes up and we look about two or

three times a day and we still haven't seen it.
CC Jer, if we set up to take out of S-2, what's a

reasonable time? 15 minutes, 30 minutes for the
initial prep for getting some kind of apparatus
where you can connect it there?
CDR I think 30 minutes the first time and then after

that we'll Just need the normal time.
CC Okay, fine.
CDR What we 're doing is we 're cutting cardboard out, -

spacers and things. It makes a pretty good
restraint.
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CC Okeydoke.
CDR Bill calls it his origam_ structure.
CC Yes. Glad he's good at that.
SPT Say, Crip. If we do not plan to use 82A during

an orbit, would you want us to go through the
procedure callup or Just leave the talkback white?
344 19 00 50 CC Consensus here is leave it white. We're -we're

about 1 minute from LOS - 30 seconds rather. We're
going to have you again over the Vanguard in about
22, 22 minutes. Can you tell us, Ed, whether you
tried to cycle that door open this time?
344 19 O1 08 SPT No, I did not, Crip.
344 19 22 56 CC Skylab, Houston; AOS Vanguard. And we have you for

about 8 minutes.
CC Skylab, Hosuton we are doing a data/voice recorder

dump here.
CDR Roger, Crip.
CC Okeydoke. And for Ed's information, the CALROC

got off okay, and everything looks 100 percent.
And I've got the modification to the pointing data
for quiet region 1 for his subsequent building
blocks, if he could copy.
SPT Go ahead, Bob.
CC Roger, want to make that UP plus hO. And the LEFT

previous modification that I gave you is okay, minus
lh5.
SPT Quiet region 1 is UP, plus 40, and LEFT, minus 145.
CC Roger. And ROLL remains the same.
CC And, CDR, Houston, if you have an opportunity I

can give you the change to the message we sent you
on checklist updates. The change to the change
to the change.
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CDR Okay, Crip, let her go.
CC Okay, we sent you a message 2554 which was check-

list change status, and you can change the change
that said we changed (lal,zhter) the - the SWS mal
procedures. You can delete the SWS mal procedure
change O01. We have not made the (laughter) - no
changes to the chauge.
CDR Say again?
CC Where we have down SWS mal procedures, change 001,

you can delete that. No changes have been made
to the SWS mal procedures.
CDR Hey, _ou m-de it without laughing_ good show.
CC It was hard.
CDR I was going to keep at you until you did it right.
CC I figured you'd do that to me, Jer.
344 19 27 26 SPT Hey, Crip, I was over on channel A, could you

explain that last comment to me, please?
CC We - I'ii put it on tape for you.
CDR Don't you know it ain't dignified for CAP C0MMs

to giggle?
CC You're right. Flight's still trying to get me

to explain it to him.
344 19 27 52 CC Ed, we need HIGH VOLTAGE, OFF on 55; MAIN HIGH

VOLTAGE, OFF - Correction on my last. For
DETECTORs l, 2, 3, and 4, want the HIGH VOLTAGE,
OFF on those.
SPT Okay, Crip, I took MAIN HIGH VOLTAGE, OFF, and

DETECTORS l, 2, OFF, and I had 3 and 4 OFF.
Were you not configured right when we came up?
CC Okay, we want the MAIN HIGH VOLTAGE, ON, Ed.

That was a mistake on my part. And wanted to
ensure that DETECTORs l, 2, and 3 were OFF.
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SPT Okay, i, 2, and 3 are OFF. Do you have a problem

down there; or up here?
CC Okay, we were indicating l, 2, and 3, and 4

were all on, and when you were going to REFERENCE,
OPTICAL REFERENCE, we thought there was going
to be a problem. Apparently it was in the
configuration we came up in.
SPT Yes, Crip, when we came up, we were _mning, and

I was running both MIRROR, AUTO RASTER and a
GRATING, AUTO SCAN at the same time. So I had
to go to EXPERIMENT, STOP. I assumed you were in
unattended configuration, and I wondered whether
you also had those detectors on.
CC That's affirm. We had had the detectors on, that

was the problem. We're - we're okay right now
though.
SPT Okay, Houston commands to turn those detectors

OFF?
344 19 29 _0 CC Let me - Let me verify the status all the detectors.
oF
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344 19 29 55 CC Okay, Ed, we show all DETECTORS, OFF at this time.
SPT Hey, Crip, I show I'm in the STOP MODE with MAIN
HIGH VOLTAGE to OVERRIDE.
CC Okay, that - that all looks good. We're sqnared

away now. And the problem was that we had - had -
had left some onin the - in unattended ops.
SPT Okay, I also have a SCAN SPECT ALERT light which

I cannot get rid of, even cycling HIGH VOLTAGE
ENABLE/RESET 1 to RESET and OFF again. It's back
on.
CC You're saying that gets rid of it or does not get

rid of it?
SPT It does not get rid of it.
-_ CC Okay. We copy.
CC Okay. And, Ed, we've been doing some big dumps,

and we'd like to get in another zu - nuZ update
sometime between 20:50 and 21:14.
SPT 20:50; okay.
344 19 32 04 CC Okay, Skylab, we're about 30 seconds from LOS.

We've got a nice long period where I can't bug
you anymore, an hour and 28 minutes to the next
Vanguard pass. That's going to be at 21:00.
SPT Crip, you got any good words on how to get rid of
the SCAN SPECT ALERT light? And how does the
system look down there?
CC We're looking at it and I'm afraid I haven't got

any words.
34h 19 32 50 CC Try turning the DETECTORs back on and it should go

away: 1 and 2.
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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND TRANSCRIPTION
34h 21 00 34 CC Skylab, Houston, we're AOS Vanguard, and we have

you for about ii minutes.
SPT Hello_ Crip. We're on the fifth of the - fifth

out of six of the MIRROR, AUTO RASTER for 55.
I'm not done 82A as yet. When I tried the pro-
eedure we have, it turns out that it sends a
stop comm_nd to 55 when we turn off both motors
because they don't have a door signal. So I
wanted to make sure I got the 55's done before
I tried that again. I tried it twice now with
the 82A door with still a white talkback. And
l'm going to give it a try here as soon as I
finish up this one MIRROR, AUTO RASTER once again.
CC Okay, we got it.
3_4 21 04 _i CC And, Ed, while we were going over the hill awhile
ago and we were having thatproblem with 55, the
- problemwas that we had left the configuration
of 55 such that it had a MIRROR, AUTO RASTER and
we had not sent a STOP command to that. So you
always had a MIRROR, AUTO RASTER going, and we
had not also turned off the DETECTOR. So that
was really what was causing our problem. Wondered
if you'd got the light out on the SCAN SPECT?
SPT Yes, I did, Crip. I noticed that we had a MIRROR,

AUTO RASTER going fairly early in the game, so I
put a DAS command in through the switch selector 4.
And then I also did get the lights out by cyling
all the power - all the six HIGH VOLTAGES on and
OFF.
CC Good, Ed. Solved all of our problems ; thank you.
34h 21 03 51 SPT Crip, would you confirm then that they want me to
take these two exposures with the white indication
on the door?
CC Let me check that, Ed.
34h 21 05 15 CC Skylab, Houston. Wonder if either Bill or Jerry

are available to test - to check DUCT 2 FLOW on
panel 617 for us. We've got an indication down
here. Looks sort of like the telemetryproblem
we ha_l with DUCT i. We'd like to verify it.
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CC And, Ed, we're still trying to get your question

answered on 82A.
CDR Okay, Crip, what do you need to know?
CC Okay, Just want you to give us a reading on DUCT

2 FLOW, panel 617.
CDR Okay.
CDR It looks like it's about 490.
CC Copy; h90.
344 21 06 31 CC SPT, Houston. Regarding your question on 82A, we

do notwant to take the frames with the white
indication. What wewould like you to do is after
this - if you have time after this MIRROR, AUTO
RASTER on 55 to try going to your procedure of
inhibiting the door motors and then enabling them
again.
SPT Okay, Crip, I've been through that three times

now; I'll give it another try.
CC You've all ready tried it three times, huh?
SPT That's affirm.
SPT I'll give it a go once more with you folks looking

at it, if you like.
CC Yes, we'd like to wait until the raster finishes.

And we got you for about 4 more minutes.
SPT Okay. And, Crip, we didn't get that nuZ update
in until Just about 33 remaining in this orbit.

You changed the experiment ROLL from 5400 to 5390.
And I figure that ought to be about a 0.4 arc-second
error in the pointing for 55.
CC Okay, we got it; thank you.
344 21 08 26 CC PLT, Houston. You got a moment, Bill? We'd like

to talk a little bit about 509 and batteries. And
if you're tried up now, we'll catch you later.
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CDR He'll be right there.
PLT Go, Crip.
CC Okay, Just wanted to tell you, when you terminate

the charge on battery 7, do not start charging
battery 6. 509 has been delayed until mission
day 29, about 4 days away; and we don't want to
charge a battery until - until Just prior to the
run.
PLT Okay, after - okay, now say again that - which

batteries?
344 21 09 09 CC Battery 7; I believe you had that scheduled around

01:30 this evening.
PLT Okay, and you want me to charge battery 6, but not

7, or was it the other way around?
CC No.
PLT Okay, understand. So when I terminate 7, don't

start 6.
CC That is correct. That's good. And break for

SPT. We're seeing a little bit of funnies on the
doors, on the - the inner door and the outer door
seem to have reverse signs right now, Ed. And
we'd like you to Just stop messing with 82A right
nOW°
SPT Okay, Crip.
344 21 10 27 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from LOS. We'll

see you again in about 3-1/2 minutes over Ascension
at 21:14, and we'll be doing a data/voice recorder
dump there.
SPT Okay Crip. On the permanent general message

n,-,_er l0 which you sent up, I pres1_m_ then that
the last line on there which says, "Repeat steps
1 and 2 up to three times and then complete steps
3 and 4," you probably want us to eliminate that -
that word, "then complete steps 3 and 4."
CC Well the 3 and 4 was assuming that we. got the

thing open.
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SPT Oh, Okay, that's not the way I read it. And -
but I did hold up anyway. Thank you.
344 21 ll 21 CC Ed, would you put it back on a single motor for -

for leavlng it?
344 21 15 16 CC Skylab, Houston. We're A0S Ascension, 9 minutes
CC SPT, Houston, Did you copy my last regarding the

82A door motor that we wanted to leave it with
only - -
SPT Affirm.
CC - - only one motor on. So we wanted to go back

through step 3, but we, of course, do not want
to operate until we sort out the problem a little
bit.
SPT We've got 40047 entered twice, Crip.
CC Okay, thank you.
3_4 21 18 31 PLT Houston, Skylab; pLT.
CC Go, Bill.
PLT Roger. Subject is the SO6B comet cue card.
CC Roger.
PLT Under S063, Charlie, Sierra, Tango i, 2, 3, I

have a suggestion for them to research. Following
the line on the - I guess it's near the end of it,
there is a line that says, stow T025 filter holder,
(S)(F502). The next step is install canister
dust cover, F-502 on canister adapter. Then the
next step is remove T025 canister with i/4-inch
Allen bit, et cetera. Somewhere right along in
there I think we should have, pressurize SAL or
pressurize AMS, or something procedure on the
SAL decal.
CC Okay, we'll - we'll look into that.
344 21 20 30 SPT Hey Crip, I suggest that I continue on using the

ROLL I have right now of 5390, unless they'd like
me to ROLL to the 5_00.
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CC We'll check t_nat for you.
CC Ed, minus 5390's fine; you can stay right there.
SPT Thank you.
344 21 23 30 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from LOS.
344 21 23 32 CC We'll see you again at Guam in 35 minutes at

21:58, 21:58.
34h 21 58 29 CC Skylab, Houston; A0S Guam, 9 minutes.
SPT Roger. Hello, Houston. We're still looking at

a white talkback on 82A, and I have not tried to
reconfigure or enter command since your last re-
quest Anything you'd llke me to try on it?
CC No, I think we need - need to think about that

one for a while, Ed.
SPT Okay, Crip, your last comment was that the doors
had opposite signs, which I didn't quite understand.
CC Okay, we're talking about the locked door on -

on 82A, and we'll see if we can get that clarified.
344 21 59 30 CC And, Ed, that's - that still didn't clear it.

We get telemetry information which tell s us what
that little inner door or locked door on 89A is
doing, but you - you can't see that of course.
And yours is usually reflecting the position of
the outer door, the thermal shield door.
SPT Okay, I understand, Crip. Is the inner door

hanging up, also?
CC Ed, a little bit more information about that. No,

the inner door is not hanging up. The - the pro-
blem was that we got an indication here that -
that they were in opposite conditions that we had
not seen before, and that was causing us a little
bit of concern. But we believe that we - we under-
stand that problem now. The only problem is really
association with the - the thermal shield door in -
in trying to open it up.
SPT Okay. Thank you, Crip.

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344 22 07 24 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 20 seconds from

LOS. We have two of the three Flight Plan sets
on board. And we realize that tomorrow is a very
long day. We've tried to make up for it in the
following day being a shorter - about a 20 total
mAu-hours. Crimson team's going off for now.
We'll have you AOS again at Vanguard in about
30 minutes at 22:38,22:38.
SPT So long, Crip.
CC Bye-bye.
CDR We'll see you, Bob.
CC See you manana.
344 22 08 06 CC And ATM promises me we're going to have a better

day.
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344 22 37 48 CC Skylab Houston. Hello from the purple gang at

the Vanguard for l0 minutes.
PLT Hello, there.
CC Good afternoon. You guys having fun today?
PLT Yes, we're having a lot of fun. We've been taking

quite a few handheld photographs. I Just - there
was a tropical storm down thereby the FiJis. We
got a series of about l0 on the feeder band. Looks
like there's a lot of associated activity with
that thing too.
CC Roger, I think you've already heard that the CALROC

launch went very well. We have now recovered the
payload and the films have been developed. And
as a matter of fact, I have a change for Ed on the
ATM schedule pad, a pointing change for the day-
light cycle starting at 23:30.
SPT Go ahead, Dick.
344 22 38 42 CC Okay, where - those UP and LEFT numbers that were

previously changed, the UP number remains at
plus 40, the LEFT number I'd like to change again.
And this is based on the CALROC data. It should
read minus 120 for L_T.
SPT Okay, Dick, plus 40, and minus 120. Thank you.
CC Yes, sir.
SPT And, Dick, as you probably know, we've had a few

problems with the 82A door again, today. If the
folks down there could find any way to assure
themselves they got a good door open, I'd be glad
to get some exposures, either this orbit or the
next one for them.
CC Roger, Ed. We have been - our team has been get-

ting up to speed and getting handover of the last
hour, and if we get to that point this evening,
we - you'll be the first to know.
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SPT Thank you.
344 22 43 28 CC SPT, HOuston. Back to the subject of the 82 door.

When we get to Ascension, the upcoming pass - and
I'Ii remind you again when we get there - it'll
be during the night - we are going to be doing
some ground commanding to re-establish our confi-
dence in door operations, and then maybe we can
go back to operating 8 - 82.
SPT Okay, Dick. Thank you.
CC Yes, sir.
344 22 48 03 CC Skylab, Houston; i minute to LOS. Ascension comes

up at 22:55.
344 22 55 51 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Ascension and Canary

for the next 13 minutes, and we're going to be
doing some ATM cnmmanding on the S082 door here.
SPT Houston, SPT.
CC Go ahead, Ed. SPT, Houston. Go ahead.
SPT Hello, Dick, I'm wondering if I have any -
CC SPT, Houston. You got caught right in the middle

of a handover, and I didn't copy what you said.
Say again, please. Over.
PLT Roger, Dick. He was wondering if he had a VHF

comm set up for today.
CC Yes, sir. As a matter of fact he does, and it's

Canary Island at a time of 00:36.
PLT Roger ; 00 :36.
344 23 00 23 CC Roger, Bill. And for you tomorrow, I haven't

set it up yet because we haven't picked a pass
yet, but I'ii let you know.
PLT Thank you.
SPT Thank you, Dick.
CC Roger.
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BPT Dick, I know that there is a little lead time

involved and it does make it hard, but is there
a way for us to either get an - an update in the
morning or sometime maybe a couple - at least -
at least 6 hours ahead of time so we can plan the
day accordingly.
CC It certainly Is, Ed. We'll get it up to you.
BPT Thank you.
CC Skylab, Houston, for the CDR. Just for our in-

formation, are you gt_,s planning on doing any
crew option TV today?
CDH Yes, we're Just kind of ginning it up now.
CC Okay, good. Thank you.
344 23 09 16 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 30 seconds from LOS.
344 23 09 18 CC Guam comes up at 23:36 and the preliminary results

from our commanding on the S082 is that we are
unable to get a - get the thermal shield door
openedusing either of the - eitherthe primary
or the secondary motor. So we're going to continue
to think about it and keep you updated.
344 23 35 53 CC AOS Guam for 7 minutes.
CDR Roger, Dick. Have you folks down there noticed

the hnm_dity - relative hnm_dity's gone up some
in here?
CC Roger, Jerry. Stand by and let me check on that.
CDR The reason why I'm asking is our old friend the
icy spot in the wardroom window is forming a little
fog right where the ice was before. And we sus-
pect that Just because we took the showers and
everything today, we probably got the relative
humidity up quite a bit.
CC Roger, Jerry. Hang on a second.
CC CDR, Houston. The answer to your question is yes,

the relative h1_m_dity has increased, and we do
think it's due to the showers. The dewpoint is
about 4 degrees higher than it normally runs and
so that probablyis the source of that moisture.
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344 23 37 28 CDR Roger. Just about the time sunrise occurs and
when the Sun angle is low, we see the moisture.
About the middle of the dayside pass when the
Sun angle gets pretty high, it seems to disappear,
and then it comes back again.
CC Roger. Probably won't be too long before you guys

have to clean it out again.
CDR Yes, I think you're right.
CC Hey, Jerry, l'm not sure what you all are up to,
but a bunch of passes this evening are going to
be devoted to science conference. And l've got
a little of evening questions and notes and this
and that, and so whenever you're in a listening
or visiting mood, l'd like to talk to you about
them.
CDR Go ahead. We're Just puttering around.
34h 23 38 08 CC Okay, let me go through them as I get to them.

First of all, this one is on EREP. I have two
here on EREP; one is a question. After the last
EREP pass, we looked at the voice tapes and we
couldn't find any tape measurement listed on the
tapes. And so when you have a minute, we wonder
if you would make a tape measurement of the EREP
tape remaining, and that'll help us in our planning.
CDR That was 4.h centimeters.
CC Okay. Thank you very much. Next one is not a

question but Just a note here, and it goes back
to EREP 14. And I didn't hear you guys ask this
question, but apparently there was a question or
some conversation as to why the S193 RADIOMETER
was switched from STANDBY then to OFF and then
later back to STANDBY. It turns out that the
radiometer AGC will saturate if the RADIOMETER is
left in STANDBY during altimeter operations.
There is a mention of this on page 12-23 of the
checklist if you're that interested. But we Just
thought we' d let you know that that was an accu-
rate callout on the pad, and that was the reason
for it.
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CDR Okay. I remember questioning that at the time.

It didn't seem too logical.
3h4 23 39 27 CC Okay. Here's another one we're interested in.

You reported that - some wear on the treadmill.
And we've been talking about some ways that we
could use some things on board to replace the
treadm_ll. Specifically, one of the things that's
been discussed is those - you know on the inside
of the film vault doors, those desiccant covers
are made of milled Teflon. And we've had some
guys looking at how those might be substituted for
the treadmill. In order to help us, we were won-
dering if you could expand any on the - on the
magnitude of the wear on the tr - of the treadmill
Teflon pad. And also another question was, does
the pad itself appear to be cold flowing?
CDR Well, we'll have to look at it a little bit. The

area I was talking about - the wear is in the for-
ward third where the - where the metal folds, you
know, the metal plate underneath it. There's
sort of Just a trace of a ridge there. And the
Teflon there - you can feel it in your socks as
you' re walking.
3hh 23 40 3h CC Okay, Jerry. We're going to continue to try to

think of a way to replace that thing or use some-
thing different if it does get to the point where
you need to - Stand by.
CDR Okay.
CC And, Jerry, while we're on this subject, can you

make any estimation of - of the magnitude of how
much the Teflon is worn at the place that you can
feel the ridge with your toes? And no sense in
answering right now, but you might take a look at
it and let us know later.
CDR Dick, I Just went over and looked it over again,

and it doesn't look like to me like it's worn much
at all. The thing is, I was Just trying to point
out when I mentioned it the first time is that
sure does look like a wear point. And that's the
place where it's going to go if it goes.
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344 23 hi 35 CC Roger; understand. Maybe we're expending a little

more energy down here than necessary in trying to
solve it for you.
CDR Yes, you might be. It doesn't look too bad, yet.
I was Just kind of raising the alarm flag so people
wouldn't be surprised if it did break up later.
CC Okay. I do have a couple of more notes here, but

I'm going to have to get briefed on this one, so
hang on a second. I'll get back with you.
CDR Okay.
344 23 42 h0 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 40 seconds from LOS.

Honeysuckle comes up here in Just about 5 more min-
utes. And for the SPT, all of our indications on
the 82A door are that the thing is stuck open.
What we'd like you to do is to operate the door
this pass, normally. You will have no READY light.
We want you to ignore the door talkback and be
sure and confirm the grating SHORT or LONG before
starting the exposure. Over.
SPT Okay, Dick. I sure will. There's only two ex-

posures called out for this orbit. Would they
like me to go back and try and pick up a few of
them previous? I can do that quite easily.
CC Stand by.
3h4 23 43 38 CC Skylab, Houston, for the SPT. We would like one

extra 5-minute exposure, WAVELENGTH, LONG.
SPT 5 minutes long. I'll get it. Thank you, Dick.
CC Roger. And, Jerry, I've got another couple of

questions, and I'll get them at Honeysuckle.
CDR Okay, Dick.
CC And, SPT, Houston. If you read in the operations

of the door we want you to ignore for this next
pass that permanent general message i0 to change
your procedures. Just operate the door normally
per the original cue card.
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SPT You mean with the door switch?
CC That' s affirmative.
344 23 h4 29 SPT Okay, Dick. I'm also looking at a white talkback

for the WAVEI._NGTH, and I'm not sure what that's
telling me. Is there a way I can clear that, and
find out where I really am?
CC Roger. We think it 'ii clear when you open the

door.
SPT It did. Th-_k you.
CC Roger.
CDR Say, Dick, Just as I did that, I got - when I had

the door open, I got - the FLARE ENABLE talkback
went white, which it ususally does during door
opening. And then it went barberpole, which it
usually does when it 's full open. I'm not sure
whether that fits in with your diagnosis, but it
looks good.
3_h 23 45 20 CC Okay, Ed. Thank you.
3h4 23 50 02 CC Skylab, HOuston; AOS Honeysuckle. A short pass

for about 3 minutes. And I got a couple of more
questions I can get out if you guys still are near
the phone.
CDR Go ahead.
CC Okay, the other day I mentioned to Ed and requested

him to estimate the amount in inches - this is on
the ED63 - the amount in inches of agar left in
the vials. He said he'd to that, but we haven't
found that recorded on channel A anywhere. And if
you haven't done it, we would like you to re-record
that data. We're interested in this, since we're
planning on planting some rice in the vials and
growing some rice to help satisfy your - satisfy
your voracious appetite.
SPT I knew you'd find a way to get me to do it, Dick.

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344 23 50 48 CC Well I'm going to keep trying. I got one more

for you gt_s. And this is on the subject of the
. Nikon batteries. We're interested in keeping good
track of the batteries because we want to make
sure we have - we understand the status and have
good batteries for the EVAs toward the end of the
mission. Sometime when you get a chance, we'd
llke to know the serial ntunbers of the batteries
in Nikon 01 and 02. We'd also like to know whether
the battery that's in Nikon 01 has been changed out
since EVA number i. And finally, one reminder.
Since everybody around here is conserving energy,
when you're - this is in the cue cards - but when
you are using the electrick Nikons, we'd prefer
you to use them in the manual mode whenever that's
possible.
CDR Roger, Dick. We've been trying to do that.
CC Okay.
CDR And the one in Nikon 01 is 1052.
CC Thank you.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 45 seconds from

LOS. Vanguard comes up at 00:16. And, Jerry,
have you guys changed that one in Nikon Ol since
the EVA?
CDR That 's negative.
344 23 52 35 CC Okay.
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345 00 16 30 CC Skylab, Houston; AOS Vanguard for 6 minutes.
PLT Roger, Dick.
345 00 20 01 SPT Houston, SPT.
CC Go ahead, Ed.
SPT Okay, for the unattended ops, Dick, I've been able
to locate a bright point. It's not one of the
brighter ones I've ever seen. It only gets up to
around 700 or so. It's fairly small; that is, it
takes fairly precise pointing to get on top of it.
It is fairly close to the equator, but I did not
see any activity around it in H-alpha, so I didn't
think we really had a bright point. And I've
identified it as such in the XUVMONITOR picture.
The coordinates are a ROLL of minus 5400, an UP/
DOWN of minus 0127, and a LEFT/RIGHT of minus 0182.
And I maximized this location using oxygen VI,
DETECTOR 3, at a GRATING of all balls.
345 00 21 02 CC Okay, Ed. Stand by a second.
SPT Okay. Also right now i have the 55 mirror in the

slit position. If they'd like me to move that down
to 25 I can, but I thought that - and then move up
a corresponding 85 arc seconds. What I was hoping
to do is to get on it in time enough to give 82B an
exposure, but I never got there.
CC And, Skylab, Houston. We'd like you to leave the

pointing as it is and go to line 25. I thought
you must be listening to the AMT's baekroom loop
because when you started talking about that they
were starting - they were talking about where to
ask you to point for this unattended ops. Sounds
good.

Canary Islands comes up at 00:36. And a reminder
for Ed, your family co_n is set up there at Canary,
00:36.
SPT Very good. Thank you, Dick.

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345 00 22 50 CC Roger.
345 00 36 29 CC Skylab, Houston. AOS Canary. and Madrid for

13 minutes.
PLT Roger, Dick.
CC And I forgot to mention to Ed, but he should use

the LEF_ ANTENNA. We think that's the best.
345 O0 39 39 CC Skylab, Houston. For the CDR or the PLT, in ATM

closeout we need one item, which is an S056 STOP;
we see the shutter open. And we'd also like a
frame count when convenient.
PLT Stand by; i'ii get it right for you.
CC Roger.
345 00 40 24 CDR Okay, Dick; there's the 56 STOP.
CC 0kay.
CDR Okay, the frame count is 11355, 3987, 133, 1198,

5697, and 3791.
CC And, Roger, Jerry. Don't leave the panel. Just

a second, I think we may have one more request.
Stand by.
CDR Okay.
345 00 41 12 CC CDR, Houston. We did not get a shutter close

there. What - on 56, what we'd like you to do is
OPEN the AIRLOCK then issue a STOP, and then CLOSE
the AIRLOCK. Over.
CDR Okay; how's that?
CC Roger. Stand by i.
CC CDR, Houston. We still show the shutter open, so

we're going to have to think about it and under-
stand the problem. For now we'd like CAMERA POWER
to go OFF and then you can go ahead and leave the
panel. Thank you much.
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CDR You were cut, Dick. Say again.
CC Roger. We still show the shutter open, so we're

going to have to think about that one for a little
while. So before you leave the panel, we'd like
you to go CAMERA POWER to OFF, and then it's okay
for you to go back to what you were doing.
CDR Okay, what do you say I cycle the CAMERA AIRLOCK

switch again, but this time leave a good 5 seconds
between that and the STOP switch? I gave about 2
last time.
CC Okay, we're willing to try that again, Jerry.
CDR All right we'll put 5 seconds between each switch

throwing.
345 00 42 h2 CC Okay.
345 00 43 00 CDR Okay, how does that look?
CC No joy, Jerry. The shutter's still open. So I

guess we'd like the C_4ERA POWER, OFF, and then
you can secure.
f
345 00 43 13 CDR Okay, CAMERA POWER's OFF.
345 01 23 52 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Honeysuckle for the

next 8 minutes. And we're dumping the data/voice
recorder here.
CDR Roger, Dick. We're just finishing up our dinner,

and then we're going to get on with our TV session.
CC Roger, Jerry. I'd like to read a message to you

if you're listening.
CDR Go ahead.
345 01 24 31 CC Roger. Dr. NikoKay Gurovskiy and members of the

Soviet delegation of the joint working group in
space biology and medicine wish to extend sincere
congratulations to the Skylab 4 crew for the tre-
mendous contribution you are making toward pro-
curing medical data which will provide the base
for future manned spaceflight efforts. The dele-
gation has been privileged to visit the control
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center and to hear reports on your progress while

exchanging data on the two previous Skylab flights
with Dr. Berry and his delegation. They wish you
a most successful mission and a safe landing.
CDR Thank you, Dick. And please tell the gentlemen

that we appreciate their good wishes. Thank you.
345 01 25 22 CC We'll certainly do that. Thank you.
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355 01 30 48 CC Skylab, Houston. We're i minute to LOS. Bermuda

comes up at 02:07, and that'll be the first of
the science conferences and our guest, Dr. Story
Musgrave, will be talking to you there, I think.
CDR Roger, Dick.
345 01 31 34 CC Skylab, Houston. One last switch on the ATM con-

figuration; wonder if somebody would - would check
the EVA aut - AUTO DOOR switch to STOWAGE, please.
CDR Will do. Ed's on his way.
CC Okay.
SPT What's the status on 56?
345 01 31 51 CC See you later.
345 02 07 ll CC Skylab, AOS through Bermuda for 7 minutes.
r CDR Roger.
CC And, Jer, this is your med science conference.
CDR Roger. Go ahead.
345 02 07 34 CC Okay, we'll discuss things a little bit out of

order here to be sure that I get to some questions
that have been sent down by Ed. The first one
is the purpose of TV-117. Although it's not
entitled such, it really is an experiment in
electrophoresis ; although it is entitled a par-
ticle mobility. And electrophoresis is used here
on the ground to separate things such as proteins
which have electrical charges on them and to
separate cells in hnmAn blood and the like. And
the advantages of doing this in zero g are that
you don't have the convective currents or don't
have the sedimentation that you have down here in
one g. And we did fly a - an electrophoresis
experiment successfully on Apollo 17, and we also
had one, a large one, it was going to be launched
on Skylab, but we ran out of weight and space.
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And we're sure that we will be using electropho-

resis on the Shuttle for things like separation
of proteins and vaccines and the like.
345 02 08 36 SPT Okay, thank you, Story. Think they got some use-
ful information from what was done?
CC So that was going to be just a photographic demon-

stration of electrophoresis in the zero-g environ-
ment. Now I'll skip ahead on to M133 because I
caught one of your questions that came down on
the tapes, Ed.
SPT Okay.
345 02 08 59 CC First of all, Dr. Frost wants to thank you for

running his experiment, even though it wasn't
scheduled for your mission. He's very appreciative
of it, and he's getting a lot of data. I'll quick-
ly s,_mmarize the data you're getting. In terms
of total rest, that's, of course, when you've got
the cap on and the machine running, you're aver-
aging - that's over the runs we got - 6.8 hours a
night of total rest ; total sleep about 6.1. And
in terms of stages, stage l, you're running
6.9 percent; stage 2, 41; stage 3, 19; stage 4, 12;
and REM sleep, about 20. Now in terms of compari-
son with the other two missions, you're running a
little bit closer to Joe Kerwin on SL-2 than
Owen Garriott. In other words you're running
a little heavier in the deeper stages of sleep,
that's stage 3 and stage 4. For a comparison,
Owen, his stage 3 was only 6 percent, your's is -
is - is 19 percent. Owen's stage 4 was 0.5 per-
cent and yours is 12. So you're running a little
bit more higher percentage in the deeper stages
of sleep.
345 02 i0 04 SPT Okay, thank you, Story. Shows what you can do if
you work at it.
CC And you also had a question on channel B about how

your last run went. You had some skepticism about
the data. The data came out fine.
SPT Very good; thank you.

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CC And some of this stuff may be a little redundant

to you because you may be plotting this data on
your onboard charts, but I'll press on anyway. As
you probably know, Jer and Bill, their weights are
very close to prelaunch weights. Jer's is only
within a half pound of launch weight, which is
doing extremely well, and Bill is only down
h pounds. Ed's down about 5 pounds. And, Ed, your
caloric intake prelaunch was about 200 kilocalories
above what the nominal menu was, and Jer and Bill's
stayed about the same. You probably need at least
about 200 kilocalories above the normal during
flight. At present you're running, oh, less than
a hundred above the nominal. And considering all
the exercise you're doing, you probably need Just
a little more.
345 02 ll l0 SPT Okay, I'm all for that, Story, if we can find a
way of working it out.
CC Yes, that's true. We've got a lot to do there.

We are going to Flight Plan, when we get a chance,
an inventory of our - the food - that total inven-
tory of the food. The ground inventory that we
have down here we don't have a awful lot of reli-
ance in. But we think the total overage that we
have for a fully-planned mission amounts to about
350 calories per day above the nominal menu.
SPT Okay, that ought to be enough to go around.
CDR I hope it is, otherwise he's going to start

gnawing on our leg.
CC Okay. And, Ed, the PIs thank you for the exer-
cising weight-loss measurements you take. The
weight loss is about 1.85 potmds. And at
7000 watt-minutes they put it about h00 kilocalories
which represents 2 ounces of fat, or if you were
burning protein or sugar, that's be about h ounces
of protein or _ ounces of sugar.
SPT Okay, thank you, Story. I think I'm in better

shape now then when I came up here. I certainly
feel that way on the bike.
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345 02 12 31 CC Yes I think we can agree with that. I've got a

couple interesting questions on fluid balance.
Could you say something about any subjective feel-
ings for the mechanisms of thirst and a desire for
salt? I know that's a difficult question to answer,
but have you any feelings, differences in how you
thirst up there or an urge to eat salt?
345 02 13 03 SPT I usually have a desire for salt with meals just
because I like the seasonings. I guess I have a
subconscious knowledge or desire Just because I
know I'd lose a lot of salt when I exercise.
Thirst usually goes along with salt intake or with
the water output. But mostly with the - in cor-
relation with the salt intake. If I take all my
salt at one meal in a particular item, then the
thirst shows up about half an hour to 2 hours
later.
CC Okay. Anything, Jer and Bill, on that?
CDR My salt and thirst sensations are just about, oh,

the same as Ed's really. And Bill - Bill pretty
pretty much agrees, too. And some of the food is
pretty bland and you really want salt with that.
And that - that really, in Bill's and my case, is
what causes us to want salt. There doesn't seem
to be any other. And, of course, like Ed says
when you take the salt then you get thirsty.
345 02 lh 04 CC Okay. As far as M092 goes, you've been following

that data Just as closely as we have on ESS, of
course. You've had high rate elevations and blood
pressure decreases, are more exaggerated than
preflight and of course that's to be expected.
As per other flights on the changes in the leg
volumes have been off scale and we did change -
change out that legband, and since the new legband,
we've gotten most of those back on scale, but
they're pretty exaggerated. The leg blood flow,
that's been up. And I got about 20 seconds to LOS.
We'll see you over Madrid in about 3 minutes.
We'll be picking up Bill Lenoir with the ATM
science conference.
SPT Okay, Story. I have a feeling that Bill Thornton's

device is helping us out quite a bit, and I'm
wondering whether the blood vol - leg volume is -
has not changed as much since we've been using that.
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CC Yes, that - that may be keeping up the maximum

calf girth, was the next thing I was going to get
to. It did not show as abrupt a decrease as on
our previous missions.
345 02 15 08 CDR Yes, we think that's the reason. And another thing,
would you let us know the next time you're up how
much tape is left on the recorder?
345 02 15 19 CC We'll get you an answer to that.
CDR Yes, the VTR.
345 02 15 28 CC You got 20 minutes left on the VTR.
345 02 18 36 MCC Hello, Skylab, this is Houston. Are you ready

for the visual observations conference.
SPT Sure are, Bill. We're ready. Go ahead.
MCC Okay, in spite of what Story said, I think we'll

talk about visual observations here. We got the
ATM this morning. Like to just start off here
talking about handheld sites 33Alfa which you
don't have yet. Actually you've done it once
under specialdesignation,not Alfa. That's the
cold eddies in the warm water thatyou located
for us off of Yucatan. Don't know whether any-
body's told you yet, but that created quite a bit
of excitement down here and made the papers and
all that. And we think it's a very significant
finding. We are preparing a new topic for the
book, 33 Alfa, which will have you looking for
similar phenomena in the - well in six specific
areas in the world's oceans and potentially in
others if we find it in a significant number
of those. Just wanted to pass on the fact that
we are doing that and give you a couple of "atta-
boys" here for some good work in helping us out on
that. Over.
345 02 19 48 SPT Okay, Bill. Sure hope we can find a few more
instances like that. It's been interesting.
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MCC Okay. It really impressed us. It's one of the

few occasions that we get to ask you to do some-
thing, be able to take your answer and pump it back
into the system and have you do something based
on your answers, so that we make use of you being
there in real time. Next topic is upwelling and
plankton blooms. You've done some excellent work
on those for us, both off of the coast of Argentina
and east of New Zealand. We see that you detected
some there, also. We certainly want to pass on
good words about the descriptions you're giving
us. The observations are really coming through
in a splendid fashion as far as being descriptive
in allowing us to make - get good information out
of your words. I presently am writing up a new
topic, 34 Alfa, which will use the fact that you
can detect these upwellings and plankton blooms,
trying to detect water temperature differences
around some of these small islands. And as the
new site will explain, this will - has the poten-
tial of being used in an energy-generation fashion,
replacing petroleum imports. Over.
345 02 21 04 CDR Roger, Bill. In the area of plankton gro_h and

blooms and all that, we've been particularly
impressed by the Falkland - Falkland current down
off the eastern coast of Argentina.
MCC Yes, so have we. The area where that and the
South Atlantic current are converging in there.
We've certainly found your observations there
interesting, and we're going to begin concentrating
more heavily on that area.
345 02 01 29 CDR Yes, we've got an awful lot of photo coverage of

that - that serpentine bloom area.
MCC Good, we're hoping you'll keep an eye on it and

not necessarily take more shots of it unless you
begin to notice some changes in it.
SPT Okay. Would you at some time discuss the tempera-

ture differences, and how we're going to see those
visually?
CC Okay, actually you don't see the temperature

difference. You see the effects of the cold water
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coming to the top. Basically you're seeing the

plankton and the algae, things of this nature in
the colder, more nutrient-fed waters.
SPT Okay, yes; that we do understand.
MCC Okay, moving on here. This Friday, _e'll be

holding our first team meeting here on the ground
where all of the visual observations team members
will be coming in, going over the transcripts one
at a time, then we'll meet and discuss these from
an assessment point of view to see how we're doing,
and making some changes based on that. I would
anticipate that we will probably have quite a few
new sites come out of that meeting. And we will
certainly keep you up to d_te on the results of
that meeting. As a matter of fact, the next day-
off conference we'll probably devote most of it
to the results and discussions emanating from
that meeting.
345 02 22 46 SPT I think the material we have up here which all

went into that book is excellent, Bill. And we're
getting a little more proficient in the use of
it. Our only regret is we don't have time to do
_ that as extensiveas we like to do all the other
good things.
MCC Well, we certainly appreciate the problem. The

additions that we have sent up and your handling
of them, has this proven satisfactory, or would
you suggest that we handle this in a different
fashion?
345 02 23 13 CDR Yes, it's coming up fine, and I - we're not having
a bit of trouble with it, we Just - we enjoy doing
it, too.
MCC Okay, one other question here. We would like to

try very hard to keep you in our loop, so to speak,
so that we meet every day, selecting sites and
looking at what happened the day before and the
day before that. And what we've been hashing over
here is trying to decide a format or what to keep
you up to date with how we're doing. For instance,
such things as the fact that i_6-4, the rangeland
and the pampas, we feel has been adequately covered
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for now. We'd like to come back in a month or so

and look at time changes to it, but we don't feel
that anything more is required there at this time.
Other areas we would like to change the concen-
tration from several of the procedures to some
of the other procedures, but we haven't yet homed
in on what we think the best format for doing this
is. It's probably not worth the time to discuss
it now, but if you would, think about it and put
some comments on the tape recorder for us whenever
you've got some thoughts. We are getting your
comments, and it takes about - oh, about a day
to a day and a half before we get them and we do
act on them accordingly.
345 02 2h 30 CDR Okay, and I would - think it'd be a good idea if

you got a list up to us right away of those areas
that you think we've covered adequately and we
should lay off of.
MCC Okay, we'll do that. It turns out most of them

have gone away because of the changing Sun angles
here, but we'll certainly get it up to you within
the next day or so.
CDR Okay, are you going to talk about New Zealand?
MCC Hadn't planned on it, but we can. Go ahead.
CDR Okay, you can tell the geologists that we've got
some beautiful coverage on it. We did not do the
thing tonight because of clouds, but we got that
yesterday in the evening after bedtime. And we
got some beautiful coverage. I don't - I think
they should be able to find their faultlines
without any problems.
MCC Okay, that sounds pretty good on New Zealand. And

as I recall if you've done that, about the only
open item would be the north part of South Island
from overhead. I think we have missed that, and
we'll probably try to schedule that and we'll lay
off of the rest of it.
345 02 25 27 CDR Okay.

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MCC Okay. And I want to also pass on some good words

and "attaboys" here for the way you're helping us
out on the things that are impossible to schedule,
things like the atmosphere and tropical storms,
some of the ocean phenomena. I notice all three
of you are picking these up on a site-of-opportunity
basis, and we find we're covering these Just about
as rapidly as we're covering the ones that we do
schedule. So, that - keep up that good work. And
one other point on those sites where you give us
an observation only, with no photograph, we want
to emphasize that those are every bit as important
to us as the photographs, and we treat those just
like photographs. They will be analyzed by the
team members especially so, since we have them in
our hands now. And keep up that good work. We've
got about 1 more minute here.
345 02 26 19 SPT Okay, Bill, one thing I've wondered is we've never
used the data acquisition camera, and as we were
going across Australia yesterday, I thought, gee,
that'd be an excellent way to use it at 2 frames
a second or so. We could get a sweep across
there and find an awful, lot about the possible
water resources,and als0 about the various
discoloration for other phenomena which we've
been looking for.
MCC Yes, that sounds like a good idea, Ed. We don't -

we - the visual observations program don't own
any DAC film, but if you've got some that you're
going to shoot up anyway, that's an excellent
way to do it.
CDR Now that's what we Just did with transporter

number 6. We got about, oh, 8 percent of pretty
good scattered information.
345 02 27 01 MCC Okay, and l'm supposed to remind you. Bill is

supposed to be doing $233 now, and Carnarvon is
next at 02:52, that'll be Bob Parker talking
corollaries and general science.
CDR Okay, he's up there now.

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MCC Okay, good. And according to the clock here we're

over the hill, but if you got any quicky for us,
we'll take it.
SPT No, Just a thanks for you, Bill. You've been

carrying ATM and visual ops, and they're both
coming out real well thanks to your help; appreciate
it.
345 02 27 32 MCC It's a pleasure to help you.
345 02 51 57 MCC Skylab, Houston through Carnarvon. Over.
SPT Hello, Bob. Go ahead.
MCC Roger. Evening, gentlemen. I guess I should warn

you that at the end of this, you'll be going to
evening status report as soon as I finish. So
I'll try and get off before we get to Honeysuckle,
so we'll have that time. Let me start off by
telling you a little bit more about the 201 obser-
vation that I know you're aware of having tomorrow
evening. You're aware of the rocket observations
of the atmosphere ; just reminding you or refreshing
your memory in case you weren't really told about _
it premission, because it was put on late, that
we're looking at carefully timed changes of the
tilt and rotation. And the backup crew, if you
haven't heard, finds that usually two-man operation
for this is the easiest one handling the tilt and
one handling the rotation. As far as we've been
able to tell by watching your other work on *** 01
so far, your changes have met the time constraints
very nicely, and we're not very worried at all about
being able to meet these 15-second intervals. The
idea of having to keep you up this late for the
rocket obviously bothers us, probably more than it
bothers you. I guess I must say that as long as
we're interested in observing the effect of night
atmosphere of a rocket launch - near midnight and
doing it from a U.S. launching site - there's not
much we can do to launch it in the middle of your
work day. So, it - it was sort of a requirement,
to launch it either very early in the morning or
rather late at night, and this looked like the
first hard opportunity. So we had to press on with
that. Over.
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345 02 53 36 SPY Okay, good enough, Bob.
MCC ()kay. As you probably realize if you've been

doing any adding and substracting on your Flight
Plans recently in the last couple of days - although
we have a major exception coming up tomorrow -we
seem to have been able to figure out a schedule,
which as far as we can tell, is working out fairly
well, of about 25 man-hours a day for experiments
and something like 2 hours a day for housekeeping.
And if you fellows want some changes to that we'd
be - you know - very interested in knowing about
them. But right now, that's the sort of planning
we're doing in the long term, and that's the sort
of planning that went into the 7-day forecast you
got up today. Over.
345 02 54 14 CDR We're beginning to hit our stride now, and it -

I think it's going to work out okay. That seems
to be a good plan.
345 02 54 19 MCC ()kay. Something that requires probably a bit

more talk - or at least I'd like to emphasize a
bit more, it's to encourage you to keep us up
to date on the time requirements of the individual
performances of things. Particularly, I guess,
the thing that really has the potential of biting
us is - I'm sure you're well aware at this point -
is all the yanking things in and out of the
scientific airlock. In particular, all of you
undoubtedly do a lot of time-critical items on
your own, at your own time and convenience which
helps you out. It also increases our flexibility
in efficiency in scheduling if we know what those
times actually are. For instance, if something's
taking - we're scheduling for 20 minutes; it
actually takes 10, and you think that's fine and
you're using that l0 for something else, we got
nothing wrong with that. But it would probably
help us in the scheduling items from time to time
as far as efficiency isconcerned if we knew that
that was 10, even if you said, hey, but leave us
_he other l0 for free time. We'd still be ahead
in efficiency. So we'd like you to keep that in
_nd if you find things are taking - well, either
more or less time, keep us informed, but that
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doesn't mean that we're necessarily going to jap

you with more stuff. Just it makes it more effi-
cient for us and more flexible for us on the
ground in figuring out what can be done. Over.
CDR Okay, Bob. We'll sure do it.
3h5 02 55 38 MCC Okay. On the - As I say, particularly - As I'm

sure you're well aware and it frustrates us on
the ground too, but the Kohoutek program is kind
of driving us to it. We're spending an awful lot
of time yanking stuff in and out of the airlock,
and I guess any - any particular increases in
efficiency you find there will certainly be a
help. In general outlook, you've seen the 7-day
forecast. I might amplify on that a little bit,
that yOu'll be seeing a fairly greatly increased
ATM program this week. The EREP CONUS window is
closed, and so we'll be increasing - having
increasing time available and decreasing EREP time.
Although it doesn't really show on the 7-day
forecast, at the very end, you'll find a geothermal
path on day 32, in the evening. This is down over
Italy. That's why it can still be sort of within
your work day. But then if we're going - just
like the rocket launch, if we're going to do
geothermal passes over the United States and do
them at decent hours as far as the scientists are
concerned in terms of having it fairly much in the
middle of the night, we're again forced to a
constraint of having to do them on - during times
which really aren't in the regular crew work day.
On day 33 and 3h, we're currently looking at passe s
which would probably require 3-hour early wakeups
in order to get these areas in the western U.S.
before the Sun gets even too close to the horizon.
Further stuff that we're looking at during the
next 7 days is an increase in Kohoutek program,
now that the comet is getting closer to the Sun
and brighter. And I might just add as a note of
general interest to you guys, you probably get to
see the comet better and better. Here in Houston,
since the Moon is getting fuller and actually
therefore occupying more of the sky over toward
the comet as time goes on, we probably won't have
another good view of it until after perihelion.
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So you got something on us up there in addition

to everything else. Druing this coming week,
we'll also start our first JOP 18 Delta. And in
anticipation of that this week, you'll probably
find an awful lot of SO82B usage. Although we
won't probably use S082B on the first JOP 18 Delta,
we are right now using a fair amount of film to
get down to the sensitive film for the J0P 18
Deltas that are coming up a few days after the
end of this coming 7-day period. So you'll see
a lot of 8 - S082B usage in the next week. On
the comet also, on day 31, S019 will be observing
an occultation of star Pi Scorpii by the comet.
So we'll be getting a pass which looks at the star
before occ_Lltation by the comet and then a few
hours later, a pass when we again look at the same
stars, but this time with the comet in front of it,
trying to look for absorption. Over.
345 02 58 36 CDR Roger, Bob. And tonight Bill was doing 233, and
the comet has finally peeked out from behind the
ATM panel. So we should be able to get a few more
pictures.
MCC Very good. I'm sure they'll be happy to hear that.

The other night or yesterday evening, you guys did
that late S073 pass during the lunar eclipse, and
I'm not sure whether anybody told you or not, but
the observations that we've been doing the last
3 days of S063 and that observation with S073 were
aimed at making observations as the Earth passed
through the plane of the comet, looking for a par-
ticularly heavy concentrations of dust particles
in that plane. Over.
3h5 02 59 14 CDR Okay, that's very interesting. I wished we'd known

that a little earlier.
CC Sorry to tell you. I think Dick's coming on the

line.
345 02 59 25 CC Skylab, Houston. I'd like to break in here, and

we have a procedure here to close the S056. We
need to close the S056 and H-alpha doors. On that
S056 shutter, we think what happened by looking
at the TM that Ed took a LONG EXPOSURE on S056,
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and the START/STOP was not issued to terminate

the experiment. And this left the shutter open.
If somebody could clear if for us, the filter's
in the sunlight, we'd like to go ahead and do this.
We'd like to turn 56 CAMERA POWER to ON, wait
3 seconds, then issue a START, wait 5 more seconds
and issue a STOP.
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345 03 00 03 CDR Okay, he's up there now, Dick.
CC Okay, good. I'll give it back to Bob, and when

you guys are through, I'll be standing by for
evening status report.
MCC Okay, and Skylab, I guess I'll Just use my time

that was handed back to me to say good evening,
wish you well, and talk to you in 7 days.
345 03 O0 27 CDR Okay, Bob; thanks for calling. It was good to

talk to you.
MCC Okay. Send us some questions if you have them.
CDR We sure will.
345 03 00 39 CC And, Jerry, when you get your book out and you're
ready to start reading, go ahead.
345 03 O1 O0 CDR Okay, here it goes. Sleep, CDR, 9.0 - 7 heavy,

2 light; SPT, 10.0 - 8 heavy, 2 light; PL2 [sic]
10.5 - l0 heavy, 1/2 light. Volume: CDR, 2000;
SPT, 1400; PLT, 1250. Water gun reading: CDR,
7257; SPT, 2392; PLT, 8585. Body mass: CDR,
6.310, 6.311, 6.311; SPT, 6.359, 6.349, 6.354;
PLT, 6.238, 6.232, 6.236. Exercise: CDR, Alfa,
leg, 5000. Bravo; Alfa, Delta, Echo, Foxtrot;
10; 20 each. Method Charlie is Charlie, Delta,
Foxtrot; 06; 20 each. Method Foxtrot, walk, 09;
run, 01; spring, 01; 200. Toe rises, 02, 150.
SPT, Alfa, leg, 8340. Method Bravo; Bravo, Fox-
trot, and curls ; 16; 40 repetitions. Method
Foxtrot, spring, 15, lO00; toe rise, 05, 200.
***T, Method Alfa, leg, 6000. Method Bravo;
Alfa, Bravo, Delta, Echo; 08; 550 each. Method
Charlie; Bravo, Charlie, Delta, Echo, Foxtrot,
and Golf; lO; 20 each. Method Foxtrot, walk,
10; spring, 01, 100; Toe rises, O1, 75. Method
Echo; Alfa and Bravo; 02; lO each. Medication:
none. Garments disposed of: CDR, one pair of
shorts - correction, yes, one pair of shorts,
one T-shirt, one pair of socks; SPT, none; PLT,
none. Flight Plan deviation: none. Shopping
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list accomplishments: we did some TV-81. We

got some garbled word; we asked how much tape
was left on the video tape recorder, and some-
body said 3 minutes, and we'd only - we'd only
used about 5 of what we thought was 30, so it
kind of had us nonplused. We went ahead and
did it, and it didn't run dry on us, so you've
got some in there.
345 03 03 47 CC Okay, Jerry. Jerry, I think you misunderstand -

understood what he said. It was 20 minutes left.
So there's no problem. It's on; whatever you
put on there is on there.
CDR Okay, very good. Okay, inoperable equipment is

none. Unscheduled stowage: none. On the food
menu: CDR, salt, zero; deviations, minus one
coffee with sugar; rehydration water, plus 2.0.
SPT, four salt, no deviations, no water devia-
tions. PLT - was no salt, plus one coffee, and
minus 1 ounce of rehydration water. And here
comes the photo pad: 16-millimeter: Earth ob-
servations, HH30 Alfa, Charlie India 125, now
has 00, Charlie India 124. Nikon 01, Charlie
X-ray 36, 35; 02, no change; 03, no change;
04, Bravo Echo 08, 18; 05 is Bravo Hotel 04, 36.
70-millimeter is Charlie X-ray 47, 173, needs
to be changed. ETC, no change; EREP, no change.
Drawer A configuration: Alfa i, 02, no change;
Alfa 2, 05, no change; Alfa 3, 06, Charlie India
125, 00, Charlie India 124; Alfa 4 is 03, no
change; and the back is 07, no change.
345 03 05 48 CC Okay, Jerry, thank you very much, and for Ed,
let me - I think there was - we left one step
out of what we'd like you to do to get the S056
shutters squared away. We see the CAMERA POWER
is ON. What we'd like now is the following steps:
AIRLOCK DOOR to OPEN, then issue a START, wait
5 seconds, issue a STOP. Over.
345 03 06 04 CDR Okay, he's on his way back up.
CC Okay. And also we'd like to get the H-ALPHA

and the 56 DOORS, CLOSED.
345 03 06 29 SPT Okay, Dick; that looks like it did it.

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CC Okay, ths.nk you much.
SPT Okay, Dick, could you tell me what was the prob-
lem that it was never closed after the last
long exposure?
CC That 's right. We think what the problem was,

Ed, and this is based on looking at the TM
after we got it on the ground, that you did a
long exposure on S056, and you Just forgot to -
or omitted the START/STOP command to terminate
the exposure. And that's what left the sh -
shutter open, so there's no problem with the
hardware.
345 03 07 03 SPT Okay, we'll Just have to _atch that one. It's
an off-nominal operation, and if you get busy,
you get distracted; we'll Just have to pay very
close attention to it. Thank you.
3h5 03 07 12 CC Roger, Ed. And the procedure for the long expo -
exposure is listed in the - in the building blocks.
But it is kind of an off-nominal thing. We're
about 30 seconds from LOS. We're going to come
.... up on Texas at 03i39, and the doctor will be
there and you'll have your medical conference
there.
345 03 07 37 SPT Thank you, Dick.
345 03 43 32 CDR Well, it's usually the day after, but they offered
us one on the day before and we took it.
CC Skylab, Houston. We've handed over now and we're

back on air-to-ground. We still got you in
Bermuda for the next 9 minutes.
PLT Okay, Dick, we've changed out - or l've removed

Charlie X-ray 47, which is the 70-millimeter
mag on the Hasselblad and with - I would like,
if you could give me quickly, another magazine;
I'Ii load that tonight. We do have handheld
tomorrow scheduled, and either that or on the
film pad; study the pad in the morning.
CC Okay, Bill. Stand by, please.

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CDR And, Dick, on our television tonight, part of

it was - we did a suit donning exercise; we
didn't . ..
345 03 44 52 CC Skylab, Houston. How do you read now?
CDR Loud and clear. Did you hear my last comment?
CC Roger. What I got was, is on the TV tonight

you did a suit donning and then you dropped
out. I don't know what happened at the moment,
but say again please.
345 03 45 06 CDR Okay. The - we thought that hadn't ever been

done - it hadn't ever been televised, so we
thought we would do that. And we kind of killed
two birds with one stone because some folks
last week wanted us to open one up and look in
anyway. So we looked at it and it doesn't -
there's no sign of mildew or anything like that.
It's a good suit. We got it back in the drying
cycle, and we're going to bake out the desiccants
and put it all back where it belongs. Also the
TV thing is pretty broken up because we had to
stop and go several times, but I think the tele-
vision folks down there can edit it and make a
pretty good piece of information out of it.
345 03 45 52 CC Okay, Jerry; thank you very much.
SPT Yes, Dick, if you want an ATM frame count, I'm

ready.
CC Roger; we already got the frame count from Jerry

when you were in the command module I think, Ed.
SPT Oh, okay, very good.
345 03 45 59 CC One thing we are interested in knowing though,

we're looking at star tracker gimbal angles and
we suspect that the nu Z update at 01:22 was not
performed. Is that right? That was on Bill's
details pad.
345 03 46 29 PLT I don't have anything on my details pad. He's

the one - -
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CC Roger, Bill. The pad I'm looking at is - it's

pad 2504 Charlie and down there at the time of
01:22, nu Z update.
CDR Yes, he was looking at the wrong details. Ed's

going up to take care of it.
CC Well, I'm not sure there's - I'm not sure there's

a star available now, Jerry, so - stand by 1.
SPT Well, we can't do it now, Dick. We're in a

dump; we'll have to wait. As I recall there is
nothing available until around 33 or so remaining
in the day.
CC Roger; stand by a second please.
345 03 47 36 CC Skylab, Houston. It's about another hour before

another opportunity for a nu Z update. We Just
wanted to make sure we understood what was going
on and didn't have some kind of star tracker
problem, so we're willing to skip that nu Z update

for tonight. So don't sweat it.
345 03 48 06 CC And, PLT, Houston. We'd like you to use - in

answer to you earlier question, we'd like you
to use Charlie X-ray 17, and that's located in
slot Charlie 29.
3h5 03 48 20 PLT Charlie 29.
345 03 51 59 CC Skylab, Houston; we're 1 minute to LOS. Madrid

is going to come up 4 minutes from now at 03:57.
And since we are doing a JOP 12 today, if any
of you guys are up, the next nu z opportunity
is 04:30; if you're still up, we would appreciate
an update. And when we get to Madrid, I'll have
some news if you'd like to listen.
CDR Okay, Dick, I'll be up.
345 03 52 25 CC Okay.
345 03 57 06 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Madrid for the next

7-1/2 minutes. And if you'd like to hear some
news from the purple people tonight, I got some.
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CDR Let her go, Richard.
345 03 57 23 CC Okay. The Nixon Administration announced today

that it will unveil a new national health in-
surance proposal later this month. Detailed
legislation on the subject is expected in Jan-
uary. The Government and an environmental group
are considering separate suits asserting the
Alaska pipeline will give oil giants an unfair
monopoly. One suit seeks to halt pipeline con-
struction scheduled to begin in a few weeks. When
complete in 1977, the line will tap the rich oil
fields of Alaska's North Slope. President Nixon's
Operation Candor continues with the disclosure
today that a significant nl,mber of - White Hou -
White House tapes were turned over to special
Watergate prosecutor Leon Jaworski. Jaworski
has also received two subpoenaed Watergate con-
versations from U.S. District Judge - Judge
John J. Sirica. Secretary of State Kissinger
in Brussels today told European allies they
should close ranks with the United States to
avoid European-American competition. Kissinger
defended U.S. policy during the Middle East War,
telling the NATO organization council Washington's
decisions were in the interests of Europe as well
as America. Army officials armounced today that
Rita Johnson of Eldon, Missouri and Joyce Kutsch
of Sarver, Pennsylvania, two teenage WACs, will
become the Army's first female paratroopers.
When they complete the five mandatory Jumps next
week, they'll be sent to Fort Lee, Virginia, for
parachute rigger training. The girls began
training about 2 weeks ago. Charitable agencies
that distribute food baskets and serve holiday
dinners - dinners to the needy say their costs
are up. Some say budget-price substitutes will
have to replace more expensive items normally
included in the yuletide gifts. The stock market
went up today for the third gaining session.
Analysts say investors are shaking off fears of
an energy crisis, and they've gotten back to the
business of buying stocks. The Dow Jones average
of 30 industrials added 13.09 points today to
close at 851.44. Active trading on the New York
Stock Exchange showed advanced issues better
than 2 to 1 over declines. Gasoline retailers
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f_
said today they want Phase 4 price controls lifted

so they can hike prices by at least 1 to 3 cents
per gallon. In Houston, meanwhile, the Oil Daily
reported that last week's average retail price of
regular brand gas, less taxes, was 29.23 cents
a gallon compared to 28.96 1 week earlier, and back
in 1972, a price of 24.45. On the sports scene
tonight, Bill, your alma mater is playing basket-
ball tonight. Oklahoma State University takes
on the University of Texas at Stillwater. And,
Jerry, the sports writers report today that the
University of Southern California is nnmher 19
in the nation. And here's a halftime score from
Monday Night Football: the Rams 17, the Giants 3.
We're about 45 seconds from LOS, for the last
pas s of the evening. So we'll give you a call
in the _morning. See you tomorrow.
345 04 00 54 CDR Thanks, a lot, Dick. Good night, gang.
345 Oh 00 58 CC Roger, and the purple gang is going to take a

day or so off, and then we'll be back on the
grave-yard shift for another 5 days. Boo.
CDR You guys behave yourselves.
345 04 01 09 CC They're keeping us off the streets so much we

can't help it.
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345 13 00 09 MCC (Music: "The Peanut Vender" by Chet Atkins)
345 13 02 42 CC Skylab, Houston. How are you doing this morning?
CDR Morning, Hank. Just gathering your marbles.
CC Okay. Is it sleepy up there this morning?
CDR Yes, indeed.

see you at Goldstone in 16-1/2 minutes. And
that will be coming up at about 21.
B45 13 21 h9 CC Skylab, Houston through Goldstone and MILA for

14-1/2 minutes.
CDR Roger, Hank.
3h5 13 23 13 CDR Would - -
- 345 13 29 32 CC SPT, Houston.
SPT Good morning, Hank. Go ahead.
CC Good morning. Sorry to bother you here, but

Bill's going to be talking to you at the next
pass at Vanguard, and I won't get you again
before you're on the ATM. This is really for
all three of you. We've sent up some checklist
changes for the ATM cue cards which you probably
noticed. And we want to cancel the use of the
permanent general message number i0. And we
think that the 82A outer door is Jsmmed open and
so you're not going to get the appropriate door
talk-back indication. But we still need the -
open the inner door so the instrument can see
the Sun, and the checklist changes we - we sent
up will do that.
345 13 30 23 SPT Okay, thank you, Hank. We're going to let the
ESS signal then close the door automatically?
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3h5 13 31 00 CC And Just to remind you, and I'm sure you're

aware of it, you also won't have a READY light
because it needs that DOOR OPEN signal.
SPT Okay, Hank. I think we will get an OPERATE

light, though.
3h5 IB 31 3h CDR Hank, CDR. Would you give me a S009 pad - time
for the next pass?
CC Okay, we'll work on it, Jer.
345 13 32 47 CC PLT, Houston.
PLT Go, Hank.
CC Roger. Just a quick one for you, Bill. I need

to get to you too, because Bill's going to talk
ATM the next pass. When you do your S063 prep
here, coming up about 14:45, Just want to give
you a little reminder that on the pad it calls
for you to install both the manual release
shutter cable and the remote control timer. Just
wanted to point that out because the checklist
cue card that you use there doesn't call for the
manual release shutter cable, but we want both
of them on there.
PLT Okay, now I thought those were one and the same.
Now, say that again.
345 13 33 34 CC We want the manual release shutter cable and the

remote control timer cable. The - the timer -
you need both of them there, and I guess you
need them to swap them over, but the - the
cue card only calls for the - the remote control.
PLT Okay, thank you, Hank.
345 13 33 57 PLT Hey, to be perfectly frank, I don't know what

that timer is that you're talking about.
PLT Okay, Hank. l'm with you now; I know what you
mean by the S063 timer.
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345 13 3h 57 CC And, CDR, Houston. The next S009 set time will
be over the next stateside, and we'll give you a
reminder there.
CDR Okay.
3h5 13 35 h2 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from LOS. Van-

guard will be coming up at 47, and that's about
10-1/2 minutes 1_rom now.
345 1B B5 50 PLT Okay, Hank.
345 13 47 14 CC Skylab, Houston. We're through Vanguard for

8-1/2 minutes. And for the CDR, a reminder that
we're in the nu Z update window. And, SPT, Bill's
standing by for you're ATM conference.
SPT Good morning, Bill. Go ahead.
345 13 47 33 MCC Okay. We've got about 8 minutes here. And let
me start off here with a quickie, some good news.
ATM scheduling over the next week or so, the
number of ATM passes, is up on a tentative
basis here. Today we have nine, tomorrow, tenta-
tively we had six, and then on the rest of the
week, it's seven, once, and eight the rest of
the time with two right now scheduled on your
day off. But you can change that at your option.
You might consider Just asking for s_ne totally
open orbits to work on your own there.
SPT Yes, I would like to go with the ground rule we

established yesterday of trying to get four in
or so on the day off.
345 13 48 l0 MCC Okay. And I'm sure we will be more than happy
to acco_nodate that for you. We had one question
here regarding scheduling of ATMs. Tomorrow, on
mission day 28, apparently we can get another
ATM pass that we don't presently own, if you can
do it in the time frame from 02 to 03 Zulu. And
there's been a lot of confusion here as to Just
what our guidelines are inside of the presleep
period there. And maybe we can get those straight
right now if you have a minute.
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3h5 13 48 41 SPT No. That's fine. We have said that we don't

want to be working - extend far after 9 o'clock
or 0 - 03. So, heck, something going from 2 to
3 is great. And I've been kind of sad not to
see them coming up in that time frame. Go ahead
and put it in.
3h5 13 49 02 MCC Okay. That's the way I remembered it. But that
was one of those things that you get any group
of four people together, and you had five different
opinions as to what had been said.
SPT Ok_. Go ahead and do it.
345 13 49 12 MCC Okay. We have one other question here regarding

special one-time-only type operations. The
situation arises - well, would have arisen today.
Later on we wanted to do a special one-time-only
thing with 82B. We were debating whether to Just
go ahead, put it in the schedule _-ith the explana-
tion out in the right-hand side or whether it would
be better Just to refer to a separate one-time gen-
eral message describing the duties and things.
It's - for instance, it involves something on the
order of taking some systematic 82B pointings in-
side a coronal hole and outside of it, right across
the boundary there, and squeezing off a couple of
normal sequences. Do you have a feeling for which
way you guys would find the easiest to work with
that ?
345 13 49 58 SPT Well, if you could put it with the schedule pad,
it would make it a little more convenient. How-
ever, I don't want you to shorten the thing up
to the point that we end up not doing it the
way which you had designed. So the guidelines
are, I guess, if it's relatively short and simple,
put it with the schedule pad; if it requires a
little further explanation, make a general message
out of it in the same way as you did the other
day with the additional work for the four - limb
coalignment for 82B. We - we don't mind having
additional information up here at all. We wel-
come it.
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345 13 50 32 _C Okay. And one other thought here. Some open

questions on 400 kilometers versus 250 kilometers.
In general, you can run, as you know, the white
light coronograph, 54, and 56 down to 250 kilo-
meters, 82B, sometimes; 82A, no; and 55, prefer-
ably not, especially in something like CALROC,
where the information is very definitely important.
And a rule of thumb: 250 kilometers, in time,
is about halfway between 400 kilometers and the
400-kilometer computer sunset signal.
SPT Okay. That's good to know. Thank you.
MCC Okay, Ed. I've got one question here, regarding

the 0300 ground rule, here. Did your answer
apply to Just you or to everybody? We have a
pass this afternoon- tomorrow, I'm sorry, for
Bill that runs from about 02:30 to 03:30, and do
we need to truncate that or is he willing to go
ahead and do that?
345 13 51 38 PLT I'll go ahead and do it.
MCC Okay. Fine. Thank you. And, Ed, on the four-

limb coalign that we did, we planned to do another
one tomorrow. The quote, unquote non-round Sun
has us somewhat confused. We suspect that it may
be the fact the left/right Sun sensor axis is not
perfectly aligned with the gimbal axis for moving
the canister. Either it has changed or maybe it
never was alighed. And we're going to be sched-
uling another one tomorrow to look at this. We,
frankly, Just don't understand all that's going
on here.
SPT Well, I certainly don't either. And I was fairly

careful in going through it. I think most of
the numbers reflect that, except the very end
result with the "non-round Sun." And that was
quite a surprise.
345 13 52 27 MCC I can imagine.
SPT However, we did have - an appreciable change in

the bias from the fine Sun sensors in up and
down. And I would expect the drift to be as
large as that turned out to be.
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MCC Right. And there's indications from 52 that

all of that change came in within the last
2 days. That their PES Just seem to be going
to pot in here, as far as the signal they were
getting. So that's one of the reasons we want
to repeat it. We could not schedule it in today,
but we will tomorrow.
SPT Okay.
345 1B 53 57 MCC And last night, 56 filter 1 was open for some-
think like 1-plus orbit. We're going to not
take long exposures on filter 1 for a while here,
letting it cool off and settle down and really
getting our own confidence back. You might take
note of that. I know that's not one of your nor-
mal shopping list long filters, but you might
Just hang off of filter 1 for awhile.
SPT Okay. We certainly will, Bill.
MCC And Just a note of interest here. Rusty's over

at Marshall today, looking at the 54 EVA proce-
dure to see what we could do with them. And I
guess the sequence sort of is to see whether or
not you can see and reach in there once the
camera's removed from the center work station,
then see if you can free it, get it back to total
normal operation, and if not, then spin it back-
wards to filter 3 and press on from there. So,
within a couple days we should have some more
words on that.
345 13 53 55 SPT Okay.
MCC Okay. Let me take a pause here. We've got only

2 minutes left, and I haven't given you time to
say much of anything. Why don't you go ahead?
SPT Well. The - it looks as though we're going at it

with another quiet Sun today, and I was just
looking at the XUV monitor picture. The coronal
hole up north, which I guess we want to work on,
looks about as pronounced as the one in the south,
maybe not quite as large, but the boundary is
there. There's a filament channel leading down
from it, which you kno - you know which - what
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it's associated with. I don't see much in the

way of bright points on the disk. I was able
to locate one or two yesterday and put one on
for unattended. But there does not appear to
be many - many there today. The ones that are
there are relatively faint. The active regions
coming around the corner on the east limb are
not very bright. So it's going to be another
good day for quiet Sun. The white light corono-
graph picture has got a very prominent and bright
streamer up at - around at about 8 o'clock or
so, running radial and it's fairly broad at the
base; it's out quite far and is very bright. The
second brightest one is Just about completely
opposite that at 2 o'clock. But that does not
extend out as far and is not as bright ; it's
about as wide - running from maybe 2:30 to - or
1:30 to 3:30 - 1:30 to 2:30. Excuse me. And
then there's two very faint ones. One at around
9 o'clock - excuse me, l0 o'clock and one over
there at about 8:30, which is superimposed on
the - the broad base of the first one I mentioned.
But, no evidence of a transient. Just the slowly
changing corona as it rotates.
-- 345 13 55 h6 MCC Okay, Ed. And we asked everybody yesterday - and

every discipline here concur - they don't see any
significant motion on the Sun, either. We're
going LOS right about now. Next contact is
Goldstone in 1 hour and 3 minutes, which will be
at about 14:59.
SPT Okay. Thank you, Bill.
345 13 56 04 MCC Okay. We'll see you tomorrow.
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Time: 3hS:lh:00 to 3h5:15:30
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345 lh 59 33 CC Good morning, Skylab. The crimson team's with

you; A0S across Goldstone for 12 minutes.
PLT Roger, Crip.
CC PLT, Bill, you got a moment to talk about the

131 run that you're going to be doing on Ed coming
up later?
PLT Okay. I'm right here by the minus-Z SAL setting

up the 63. Go ahead.
CC Okay. There was a checklist change which changed

the levels for the 131 OGI test and we wanted to
make sure that those got in. It sepmg they were
omitted the last time we did it. It's checklist
change 03 to the Biomed Checklist and if you've
got a pencil handy, I can give you the test levels
that we wanted to do.
PLT Stand by. I'm going to go down there and get

.... the cue card - and put it right on that.
CC Okay, fine.
PLT Okay, Crip. Fire away.
CC Okay. The levels are i, h, 8, i0, and lb. And

Ed, it's - you can select one of the monitors for
the TV downling. We're standing by for it.
3h5 15 01 43 PLT Okay, Bob. Those are already on the cue card.
I guess we just overlooked it the last time.
CC Okay, fine.
CC And for the CDR, if you wanted S009 set time, we've
got one coming up in about a minute if you can
get it.
CDR I'm on my way.
345 15 02 42 CC And, Jer, if you're in the vicinity and can hear

me, the set time specifically is 15:03:46, beta
plus 2, and periods I00.
js
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CDR Roger. Thank you.
3h5 15 Oh 17 CDR Okay, Crip. It's running right on time.
CC 0keydoke.
CC And PLT - Bill, one another item on that 131 run

coming up - if you're copying, it's counterclockwise,
30 rpm.
PLT Counterclockwise at 30.
CC SPT, Houston. If you're - can on the ATM panel,

if you'd select one of the monitors for TV down-
link, please.
3h5 15 i0 h9 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from LOS. We'll

see you again in about 12 minutes over the Vanguard
at 15:23, 15:23.
3h5 15 2h 26 CC Skylab, Houston_ AOS over the Vanguard for

9-1/2 minutes.
CC For the CDR. Jerry, you got time to chat a minute

in the - in amongst this housekeeping you're doing?
CDR Say again, Crip
CC Jerry, I was wondering if you would mind taking

a look at the waste processors for us. We saw -
have been seeing an elevated temperature since
late yesterday afternoon - elevated pressure,
pardon me, since late yesterday afternoon on those
things. We want to make sure that they're all
sealed properly. Or have you recently put any-
thing in them that might cause it to be going up?
CDR Well, let's see, Crip. We had to put a fecal

bag in yesterday and some desiccants. Possibly it
was the desiccants.
3h5 15 25 35 CC Was that suit desiccants you did?
CDR Yes, that's right. You know we took a - opened

a suit yesterday for our television thing and I
baked the desiccants and one of them may not have
been sealed properly.
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CC Okay. That - that's probably what's caused it

and we appreciate the info. Did you get a chance
to - look at Wolf volcano a while ago?
CDR We were a bit late. Fernandin volcano is the one

that's really smoking up a storm, and we saw a
long straight plume headed due east from the
mouth of the volcano.
CC 0keydoke.
CDR Our photos are obliques.
CC Okay, fine, thank you. Another thing, Jer, it

may not be clear to you on your pad there, but
we called out housekeeping 2 Bravo dash 12A, it's
not a - 2 Bravo dash, it's a housekeeping 12A we
want there, too.
CDR Okay, Crip. And also, how about our waste pro-
cessor exhaust pressure. What does it look like
right now? I'm pegged out.
CC We' re checking.
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345 15 26 h5 CDR When we started our urine dump today, it went

from 0.05 up to about 0.075 and stabilized and so
I went away from it and now it's pegged out high.
CC Okay. We have been showing it elevated since

about the past 16 hours and I have to check to
see if I can get a reading for you right now.
CDR Okay.
345 15 27 23 CC Okay. We're reading about 0.08, which coincides

with - 0.008, which coincides, I believe, with
what you were reading as pegged high.
CDR Yes, that looks about right.
CC Jer, why - while I'm talking to you here, there's

another item that I'd like you to all be aware
of. We're still seeing the fluctuations in that
ATM C&D cooland loop, and we would appreciate it
that if you might periodically check or if you
f
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happen to hear any noise in the - the place where

A1 left you the - the noise sign, if you would
inform us about it so we can see if they coincide
with our - our data showing the glitches. Also
notice if you get a - a pump DELTA-P light, LOW
light.
CDR Will do, Crip.
3h5 15 28 19 CC Thank you.
END OF TAPE
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S_/LAB AIR-T0-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION
345 15 32 35 CC Skylab, Houston. We're probably going to lose

you a little bit early here. Liable to go LOS
at any time. We've got Tananarive in about
17 minutes.
CDR Roger.
CC Okay, and Jer, a little misinformation I gave

you on that wa - waste processer pressure. What
we're reading is 0.008, and your meter should
not be pegged HIGH. We've had problems with
that pegging HIGH before, and it's probably Just
your meter. If you got any questions on it in
the future, why don't you Just give us a call,
and we'll tell you what it is.
CDR Okay, I figured it was the meter, but I thought

I'd better make sure every time I see it.
345 15 33 ii CC Okeydoke, thank you.
345 15 h9 O0 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS at Tananarive; and

we have you for about 5 minutes.
345 15 52 _0 CC Skylab, Houston. Seems that we've might - COMM's

breaking up a little bit here. Hawaii going to
be at about 40 minutes at 16:33, 16:33.
345 16 33 l0 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS through Hawaii for

about 5 minutes; and we're going to be needing
the DAS for this - this pass. We'll be giving
you a nav update. You might see your orbit
phase timer Jump about 6 seconds during the
process.
CDR Okay, you got it.
PLT And Crip, could you verify that our EXPERIMENT I

RECORDER is, in fact, running?
CC It is verified runnning, Bill.
PLT Thank you.

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SPT Good trip. We're Just now getting started with

the MI31-1. We had to work a little hit on
S063. It turns out that the information which
Bill needed to set up the S063 was in my pad,
and that wasn't figured out until awhile ago.
So we've all - we've both been working on it.
We think we've got it set up. But we're a little
late with 131. We may have to ... it off in
order to get 63 in.
345 16 34 04 CC Okay. Copy and understand that the - the 63 ops

was in your pad when it was supposed to have
been in Bill's.
SPT No, the information for the setup was supposed

to be in Bill's. That's the camera prep.
CC CDR, Houston._ We need to be in MECHANICAL REF-

ERENCE for this observation on the ATM panel -
on the S055.
345 16 3h 50 CDR Roger.
3h5 16 37 30 CC Skylab, Houston. We're ! minute from LOS. We'll

see you again in 23 minutes over the Vanguard.
We'll be doing a data/voice recorder dump, and
that's at 17:01, 17:O1. And, Ed, if either you
or Bill get a chance on the subsequent pass,
we'd appreciate it if you could relate to us
what it was that was confusing that was in your
pad vis Bill's because - so we can keep it straight
in the future. We don't exactly understand where
it - what was missing.
345 16 38 31 PLT Okay, Crip. What it was, I was scheduled for

Alfa Papa Romeo 3 on S063, which it should,
apparently carry up to the A - Alfa Oscar Papa
of S063. But part of the information for the
camera setup and all, and the filters and every-
thing was on Ed's pad. His Alfa Oscar Papa pad.
CC Okay. We were under the impression that all that

info should of been on - on the ops pad, since
that's - was assigned to - to Ed. But we'll -
we'll take a look at that. Thank you.
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PLT Oh, actually that's the equipment that I worked

with, you see, that's experiment ... - -
345 16 39 13 CC Over the hill.
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347 17 00 48 CC Skylab, Houston. We're A0S over the Vanguard for

the next i0 minutes and we'll be doing a data/voice
recorder dump.
SPT Roger.
CC And, we - we found the problem that Bill and Ed

were relating to and we'll - we'll fix it up such
that they get two pads next time. Sorry about that.
3h5 17 06 0h CDR Houston, CDR.
CC Go, CDR.
CDR Roger. The guys in the backroom have probably

noticed that I'm begind on S055 and got a question
for them. Would they like me to have this MIRROR,
3 RASTER, would they like me to truncate it in
order to get more of the MIRROR, AUTO RASTER, at -
at a GRATING of 528, or shall I just go ahead and
finish the MIRROR, 3, and get as much MIRROR, AUTO,
as I can?
CC Checking.
CDR Which will only be about a minute.
CC Jer, what we'd like you to do is after on good

RASTER on the 102, we'd like you to go ahead and
go to 528 at - for the MIRROR, AUTO RASTER.
CDR Okay. Will do.
345 17 09 52 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 1 minute from LOS.

We're going to see you again at Tananarive in
15 minutes, 17:25. Jet, can you tell us whether
you had a chance to get a GRATING 302 RASTER in
or not?
CDR Yes. What happened is, I was having trouble get-

ting the grating set at the right position. I kept
missing my opportunity, so I got 302 frist, l'm
doing 102 now and I'll do 528 last.
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CC Okay. That's - that's good. That's what we

thought, but we weren't positive. And, no need
for Bill to acknowledge, but his phone call this
evening is set up for Just about 03:00, and I
can make sure he understands that later.
PLT Okay, Crip.
345 17 l0 36 CC Thank you, Bill.
345 17 26 l0 CC Skylab, Houston. AOS Tananarive. We have you

for about 6 minutes.
CC PLT, Houston. You have a - have a moment to talk?

Are you busy pedaling?
CC PLT, HOuston. Got a moment to chat, Bill?
CDR He'll be right with you.
CC Okay. No hurry.
CDR We've got another exercise period and a no-movement

situation both scheduled at the same time, again.
PLT Go, Crip.
345 17 27 51 CC Okay. Bill, we copied that you did not get to do

the 131 _ portion of the run a while ago on Ed.
And our recommendation would be - if you've got
your Summary Flight Plan handy - is for you to
eat early, around 19:00 where we've got a house-
keeping period scheduled for you. And then for
you to shift it in at about 19:45, there approxi-
mately where Ed has bot a housekeeping period
and what is currently scheduled for your eat period.
PLT Sounds like an excellent suggestion, Crip. We'll

do it.
345 17 28 31 CC And, Skylab, Houston. There is no constraint on

motion for this S063 ops. On this one here. We
will identify on the pad where there is a constaint.
CDR Okay. Fine.
CC CDH, Houston. Jer, do you have a moment to chat

about handhelds and how much time you need to prep
for them?
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CDR Go ahead.
CC Okay. We're considering right now about putting

down on your details, whatever it's applicable,
3 minutes prior to time of closest approach. Do
you consider that an adequate - adequate amount
of time?
CDR Yes. I think 3 to 5 minutes is okay. We Just

blew it on the one this morning.
CC Okay. You want 3 or you want 5?
CDR I think 5 would be better.
CC 5 it is.

We'll have you again in 37 minutes over Hawaii
at 18:08, 18:08.
345 18 07 55 CC Skylab, Houston. A0S Hawaii and we have you for

about l0 minutes.
SPT Hello, Crip. Let me tell you about S063.
CC Tell me, tell me.
SPT Okay. Started off with timer did not work properly,
and I've got to dig into it and find out what hap-
pened there. So all those exposures that were
made were done with the manual timing, using the
cable. It - as expected - took a little 0JT at
the beginning to work it all out. Turns out to
get any kind of adequate tracking, you've got to
track it two directions, both in the with the ro-
tation with the ring and also with the up/down to
keep the dashed line on the airglow. I think I
got around six or seven good photos, reasonable
photos with some reasonable tracking. They got
better as they went on and gave them about a
2-minute one at the conclusion. But I consider
that one pretty much of a 0JT one and we'll see
if we can't get you some - ones as called out for
in the future. The six or seven were done all
alternating filters, back and forth. So essentially,
what we did get was around two or three exposures
which were called out for but most of that was
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taken up figuring out the three things you've got

to change: the rotation on the EMS-AMS, the rate
track, and finally the track, plus the manual
timing. It's a real octopus operation but I think
we' re getting there.
345 18 09 52 CC Okay, Ed. Copy. Can you be a little bit more

specific about which frsmes you - you missed?
SPT You'll have to get that off a tape, Crip - -
CC Okay.
SPT - - essentially what it amounted to is - well -

hold on - I'll - let me give you some ...
CC That's fine. If you've got it on tape, that's

good, Ed. We'll get it off of that.
345 18 l0 26 SPT Okay, Crip. What was called out for in the way
of exposures, frames 1 through 9 were essentially
every 3 minutes, take a 6h-second exposure alter-
nating between the two filters. Except the first
one had two - the first two filters were the same.
They're essentially the same exposure. What I did
was, seeing as we got a little behind there at the
beginning, Just alternate back and forth filters
trying to get them roughly 60-to 65-second ex-
posures - they may be a little different than
that - using the manual timer. The problem is,
you have to track and also try to keep an eye on
a watch and work the other three hands too.
CC Okay. Appreciate the problem there with the timer

being out. Can you say any more words about that
other than it Just didn't work?
SPT I hit the button and it didn't move the shutter.

I tried it trice - twice, but I didn't have the
time to dig into it; so I Just had to go MANUAL
from there on. I'll go take a look at it now.
345 18 ll 30 CC Okay. Copy.
CC Ed. one suggestion we have from here is you might

check the down counter on that timer - if it -
on the camera, excuse me. If it's sitting at
zero, you cannot take a - a photograph with the
timer.
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SPT Okay. Would you say what to check again, please,

Crip?
CC Okay. On the - on the camera itself, there is a

down counter; and if that's sitting at zero, it
will not take timed photographs with the - with
the timer.
SPT No, it's not, Crip. It's now sitting on 21.
CC Okay. Very good.
3h5 18 12 39 CC Ed, while I'm talking to you here, I wanted to

tell you that that T - and this is for all of you,
actually, that TV you gave us yesterday on your
day off was real good. The camera work and the
lighting worked out well. The voice quality was
good, but they would appreciate it if you would
still hole the microphone Just a little bit closer
to your lips. The quality of the voice that Bill
gave later, while you were doing that suit donning,
came through very clean. So - and yours was Just
a little bit, on the weak side. So if you might
try when you're using that mike, putting it a
_-_ little bit closer to your lips, we would appreciate
it.
SPT Okay, Crip. Will do. Bill was wearning - actually

wearing the Snoopy cap when he was working. I'll
try and do that. Thank you.
3h5 18 13 22 CC Okay. Thank you.
CC Okay, Ed, there's one other item is that before

you take that exposure with the timer, you have
to insure that you manually cock the camera. The
first time, that is.
SPT That was done, Crip.
CC Okay. That Just about exhausts our ideas right

now. Let us think about it for a while.
3h5 18 17 15 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from LOS. We'll

have you again over the Vanguard in about 22 min-
utes at 18:39. And, Ed, we assume that you did
put the batteries in the timer. And - I guess
we're checking to see if we got some other bat-
teries on board now that we might try.
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SPT Okay, Crip. That turned out to be the problem.

We took one of the timers out of there and ap-
parently one of the timers had a battery in and
one didn't. We were - we got the one without it.
I'd like to find out where in the procedures some-
where along the way in either putting battery
timers in - we went astray.
345 18 18 00 CC Okay. We'll - we'll look into it. Looks like

we might have had a problem in the way the pro-
cedures were set up there.
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345 18 39 17 CC Skylab, Houston; AOS Vanguard 9-1/2 minutes.

Doing a data/voice recorder dump.
345 18 hl 45 CC Skylab, Houston. We've had the woodpecker working,

and all your Flight Plans are on board. CDR,
when you have a chance, I would like to ts]k to
you a little bit about the S019 canister that
we're scheduling for tomorrow's ops. It's Just -
I think it deserves a little bit of explanation.
SPT He heard you, Crip, and he'll be with you in a

little bit.
345 18 42 20 CC Okay, Ed, while I've got you there, we're trying
to understand the problem of the batteries in
the timers, and there was an S063 activation
which was on - on one of your cue cards. It's
S063 act handheld which called for installing
batteries in - in the timers. And I guess,
right now, we are a little bit uncertain as to
what of that was done and whether we got the
batteries in the timers; also as to which battery
is in Nikon 02. So maybe if you could give us
an update on that sometine, we could understand
the problem better.
SPT Okay, Crip. The problem was that on activation

we had two of us working the problem, and one
assumed that the other guy got that particular
thing. We had a timer battery in number l, but
not in number 2. And number 2 is the one we
picked. Now, you want a timer battery number
in - in the camera or in the timer?
345 18 43 20 CC In - well, I guess we - we could use them all:

Nikon 02 and the timers if you could. And it's
not necessary to get that right now, but if we
could have that down sometime today, we would
appreciate it.
SPT Okay, Crip.
345 18 47 56 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from LOS. Got

a nice long one; have you again at Hawaii, a
little over an hour from now, at 19:49, 19:49.
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345 19 49 l0 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Hawaii for 3 minutes.
CC Skylab, the MOCR down here looks like we reverted

back to that other program. It's all of a sudden
full of Apollo 17 people.
PLT It's always nice to have company. Crip, I have

those nl,mbers for you - battery numbers.
CC Appreciate them.
345 19 49 41 PLT Okay. In Nikon number 2 the battery number is

16054; the timer battery is - I think it's 16090.
if it's not that, it's 1890.
345 19 49 57 CC Okay. What - what about the other timer? There -

there are two timers, or did you get a battery
in the other timer yet?
PLT That was timer number 2 that I gave you, and

stand by for timer number 1.
CC What I was talking about awhile ago regarding

Apollo 17, we've got Captain Cernan and Dr. Rock
down here making a presentation in - in the MOCR
to the flight controllers of Apollo 17.
PLT Oh, good show.
345 19 50 51 SPT Crip, the serial number on the 1 in - timer

number 1 is 1090, or perhaps 1890° It's - the
ink is rather unclear. I believe it's a zero,
lO9O.
345 19 51 06 PLT Okay.
CC Those are the same numbers I got for 2.
PLT Stand by, Crip.
345 19 51 13 CC Okay. No - no sweat. If there's any confusion

there, we can get it squared away later. We're
about i minute from LOS now. And we're going to
see you over the Vanguard in 26 minutes at 20:17,
20:17.
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3h5 19 52 08 PLT Okay, Crip. Clarification, 1088 is on timer

number 2. 1090 or 1890 is in timer nl,mber 1.
3h5 19 52 20 CC Okay, we copy, Bill. Thank you very much.
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345 20 17 12 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS at Vanguard for

10-1/2 minutes.
CDR Roger.
CC Hey, Jer, you got a moment to chat a little bit

about S019 ops and what we got scheduled for you
tomorrow?
CDR Yes. Go ahead, Crip.
CC Okay. Tomorrow, we call out for you to do an S019

using canister 2. In the past, you've been using
canister 3. Couple days ago. you did an operation
where we had intended for you to use canister 2.
But apparently, it was overlooked and you continued
using 3. And in the process of that last operation,
you did make a focus adjustment which set it up for
camera - or canister 2. However, it was incorrect
since you were still on 3. I guess tomorrow we're
going to schedule you for 2. We believe the focus
is set correctly for 2 right now. And one of the
reasons we're going to 2, is that Karl has dis-
covered that by evacuating his canisters to vacuum,
he's getting some fogging of the film. So he does
want them pressurized now. And since we want to
pressurize it, we figure we might as well go ahead
and use it. So we will be using canister 2 now
and - would like for you to check the focus to
make sure you are set on the correct tooth.
CDR Okay. This is the second tooth for canister 2.

Right?
CC That's correct.
CDR Okay. I sure will.
3h5 20 18 50 CC Okay. And Just wanted you to understand the

reason we were going ahead and picking it up now
was so that we could get that - that canister
pressurized and prevent any - any fogging.
CDR Okay. Good enough. I suggest you put a reminder

on tomorrow's detail somewhere about - or in the
pad - the operations pad for 19 to recheck the
focus.
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CC Okay. Sounds like a good suggestion. I think

that maybe we might have said that already.
CDR Yes, a good check and balauce that way.
CC Okay, Jer, your Flight Plan details are on board,

and it does tell you to do that.
CDR Okay.
CC PLT, Houston; Bill, do you have a moment to Jot

down one small correction on your details for
today?
PLT Roger, Crip. Go.
CC Okay. At 01:32. We've got you scheduled for

S201 ops (comet). We'd like to give you a little
bit more lead time on that and make that 01:25
that's S201K ops or comet ops.
PLT Will do.
CC Thank you.
345 20 21 iB SPT Hello, Crip. I got a question on the post-S063

ops.
CC Go, Edward.
SPT Okay. It says "door closing" and that includes

pressurizing the AMS. You want to leave the AMS
pressurized for a long time, or would you want to
leave it vented the way it is now? Right now the
door is closed but it's in VENT.
CC We'll check that for you.
SPT Okay. And the second time through the airglow -

it went pretty smoothly this time. No major prob-
lems encountered.
CC Okay. Very good. I'm sure the Packers appreciate

that.
345 20 21 53 CDR Okay, Crip. And we were trying to go back to

figure out where - where we ran a snag with those
batteries. And where we did was when Bill was
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doing on page 8-1 of the photoactivation, it said

activation of electric Nikon and Nikon timer. And
he went ahead and put the batteries in one timer.
And I asked him if he had done anything with the
timer. He said yes, and we let it go at that.
The insturctions there do not - referred any fur-
thered to a timer than that. So, it was a miscue
on our part. We should're crosschecked each other.
CC Okay. We got it. Thank you.
CC SPT, Houston. Ed, in answer to your question, we

have Bill scheduled to perform the S063 ASP opera-
tions, which will take care of the SAL. So you
can leave that up to him.
345 20 26 l0 SPT Oh, okay. Thank you, Bob. He does have door
closing under the completion of my ops and that's
why I did ask. Thank you.
CC That's affirm. They have it closed under yours

and then under - STOWAGE takes care of the pres-
surization.
I SPT Very good.
SPT Have the 17 troops done their works?
CC That 's affirmative. They have completed it, and

they have presented us with a new American flag.
SPT Very good.
CC And - -
SPT Tell the folks down there in the MOCR they deserve
it. They do good work.
CC That's affirm. Good bunch of guys down here. Brag

a little bit. We're about 30 seconds from LOS now.
We're going to see you at Ascension at about 4 min-
utes from now at 20:31, 20:31. We'll be doing a
data/voice recorder dump there.
345 20 27 28 CDH Okay. So long.
3_5 20 B0 43 CC Skylab, Houston. We're back with you once more

through Ascension for 9-1/2 minutes doing a data/
voice recorder dump.
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CDR Can't hear you.
CC SPT, Houston.
CDR Go ahead, he's listening.
CC Okay. Actually, I guess it's really for you, Bill.

We had told Ed earlier that he did not need to
pressurize the SAL. And we took away that one
"Attaboy" that Ed gave us awhile ago (laughter),
and we were mistaken. The - It looks like we've
got a problem on our cue cards there. He should
have had it pressurized for you - for you to do
the stow. You may have already caught that.
PLT Roger, Crip.
CDR That's okay, Crip. You've got more "Attaboys"

left than we do.
CC Not so sure about that.
345 20 39 12 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from LOS. We're

going to see you over Guam in about 38 minutes.
That's 21:17. And for Jer, on your ATM pass
coming up, for the XUV MON TV downlink, would you
hold that to 5 minutes to make sure we don't over-
fill the VTR?
CDR Will do.
CDR Houston, CDR.
CC Go, CDR. About to go over the hill.
CDR Will you ask the 183 people if they're satisfied

that they understand the situation on S183? The
last batch of questions they sent up indicated
that they probably didn't understand too much what
I had debriefed.
CC We'll check it and talk to you at Guam.
345 20 41 08 CDR Okay.
B45 21 16 41 CC Guam, 6-1/2 minutes.

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CC And, for the CDR. Jer, in reference to your last

question Just before we went over the hill as to
whether we didn't - had any more 183 questions.
We are satisfied with all the answers you've given
us to the 183 questions, and we were wondering if
what prompted your query into that was whether
you'd noticed on the Flight Plan tomorrow we've
got a me]. scheduled on 183 for Bill to perform.
And that was Just in reference to making a final
check on carrousel 1-1 prior to doing ops with it
on day 28.
CDR No, the reason why I asked the question, Crip,

was that the question list that came up to me here
a couple of days ago asked a lot of the questions
that I answered in my debriefing. And I Just
wanted to make sure that everybody had gotten the
answers to these questions and were satisfied.
3h5 21 17 51 CC Okay, Jer. We have got the answers and we are

satisfied. That covered them all.
CDR Okay.
_- CC And, the ATOM wishes to pass on his congratulations

for the past three orbits of limb scan. Those were
real fine ops you guys been doing.
CDR We kind of shorted the S055 guys, but we got most

of it.
CC Believe you got - got everything that was required

in there.
PLT Crip, PLT, with a comment and a question.
CC Go, Bill.
CC Go ahead, Bill.
3h5 21 18 _2 PLT Roger. I've completed the instructions contained

in the general message for the S201, and let's see -
the number on that is 2673 Alfa. And step 2 was
performed, and there was no movement of the film
transport box when I tried to go counterclockwise.
So I think that'll probably make the PIs feel a
little more comfortable. And also got a question
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on the cue card, S063 airglow cue card. The last -

the flip side in the last column asked a question
under S - Sierra Tango 2, it says perform S019,
PR-2; 183, PR-3; S073, PR-2. And I wonder if we
shouldn't put $201-2 as another - an alternate
possibliity so that there's a total of four alter-
nate possibilities there. And that is a question.
I'm not volunteering information.
CC Volunteer information for us. We'll look into it.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from LOS.
3h5 21 22 43 CC We'll see you again over the Vanguard in about

32 minutes at 21:5h, and we'll be doing a data/
voice recorder dump there.
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SKYLAB AIR-T0-GR0UND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION
345 21 54 31 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS through the Vanguard

for ll minutes doing a data/voice recorder dump.
3h5 21 56 13 SPT Hello, Crip. I've got an easy one for you.
CC Go I could use one.
SPT What do moth eggs look like when they approach

the diapause?
CC I don't know if I'd touch that one at all.
SPT Crip - -
345 21 56 50 PLT Better ask another moth there, Crip.
CC I'm looking for another moth down here (Laughter).
SPT I didn't mean to stump you, Crip. Let me clarify

a little bit more. You can either answer for
j--.
tame or for wild ones.
CC (Laughter)
345 21 57 21 SPT I've been staring at these little fellows for

days and I'll be darned if I can notice any
change and I'm wondering what I should be looking
for.
CC Haven't seen any eclosion, huh?
CC Hello? I've got Bruce back here backing me up.

You think you've been staring at moth eggs; we've
been staring at them up on here on our l0 by 20
for as long as you've been up there, too. That's
said with respect.
PLT I think they're all waiting for the Mh79.
345 21 58 28 SPT I wish they'd do their thing, Crip. We need

samething for the spiders to eat.
CC You shouldn't say that with the silver team

coming on. You guys take any mothballs along
in case they do hatch?
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PLT I wouldn't touch that line with a lO-foot pole.
345 22 03 35 PLT Crip, PLT here. The 131 was finished as per
your suggestion, if you have not known that
alreadY.
CC Okay. We suspected that from telemetry down

here. Appreciate it.
345 22 04 38 CC Skylab, HOuston. We're 1 minute from LOS. As-

cension at about 3-1/2 minutes from now, 22:08.
Crimson guys are turning it over to the silver
guys and the cripson CAP COMM's going to go
look up what diapause means.
CC See you manana.
CDR We'll see you, Crip. Thanks for the pleasant

words.
CC Roger. Hope you guys don't work too late tonight.
CDR I think we've lost control over that one.
CC (Laughter) I think you're right. We'll regain --

it though.
CC Next time, I'm bringing my dictionary with me

to work.
345 22 05 38 CDR Old Ed's been laying in the weeds with that one.
345 22 09 50 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Ascension for

6 minutes. Out.
345 22 15 09 CC Skylab, this is Houston; i minute to LOS. Next

station contact in l-l2 minutes through Canary
Islands at 22:16. Out.
345 22 15 20 PLT Roger, Bruce.
345 22 17 h7 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Canary and Madrid

for 8-1/2 minutes. Out.
345 22 25 36 CC Skylab, this is Houston; 1 minute to LOS. Next

station contact in 26-1/2 minutes through Guam
at 22:52. Out.
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345 22 52 02 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Guam for

l0 minutes. Out.
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Time: 345:23:00 to 345:00:30
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345 23 Ol 01 CC Skylab, this is Houston. i minute to LOS; next

station contact in 31-1/2 minutes through the
Vanguard at 23:33 with a data/voice tape recorder
dump. Out.
345 23 32 18 CC Skylab, this is Houston through the Vanguard for

8 minutes. Over.
CDR Hello, Bruce.
CC Okay, we'll dump your data/voice tape recorder

here. How y'all doing?
CDR Oh, doing great. We got Bill through the LBNP,

and he's pedaling himself to - blind now.
CC (_ay.
345 23 _0 03 CC Skylab, this is Houston. 1 minute to LOS. Next

station contact in 12-1/2 minutes through Canary
Islands at 23:52, with a data/voice tape recorder
dump. We were unable to dump the recorders over
the Vanguard here due to propagation problems.
Out.
SPT Houston, SPT.
CC Go ahead, Ed. You got about 5 seconds. Over
SPT Okay, I've noticed an appreciable change in the

streamer up at 8 o'clock or so. The base has
narrowed quite a bit and the whole thing has be-
come elongated. And I've been trying to get in
as many shopping list items 1 as I possibly can.
It Just looks like a helmet streamer which has
been stretched out.
345 23 41 i0 SPT The base is actually narrowing down now very close
to the disk.
345 23 52 23 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Canary Island and

Madrid for 14-i/2 minutes. Data/voice tape recorder
dump here at Canary. Out.
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SPT Hello, Houston ; SPT.
CC Hello, Ed. Go ahead.
SPT Okay, Bruce. What I was trying to squeeze in there

when you went over the hill, was that in looking
at the corona the very prominent streamer at
8 o'clock has both elongated and started to neck
down close to the disk. Relative to this morning
it looks like a helmet streamer which has been
stretched out. Still very bright, but at the base
it has started to neck down a little bit at the
conclusion of this last orbit. I've picked up a
shopping list item 1 at the beginning of the orbit
and one at the conclusion of the orbit, and I'll
be taking another look at it at the beginning of
the next orbit.
CC Okay, mighty fine, Ed. Sounds like you're right

on top of it there.
SPT If the folks in the backroom have any other desires

for it, let me know; I'll be glad to do it.
CC Sounds fine to us, Ed. Just keep it up.
SPT Okay. I wouldn't call a real coronal transient,

but it certainly has a fairly swift changing
structure.
CC Yes. We're in complete agreement with what you

have done and what you are doing.
345 23 54 30 CDR Houston, CDR.
CC Go ahead, Jer.
CDR Roger. Transporter 05 - I've been fooling with it

a little bit. And looks like we have broken film
with about 30 percent used and about 70 percent
remaining. The question we have is do we have
any empty cassettes up here to use as takeup reels?
CC I'm sure we do. Stand by a second, and we'll get

you an answer.
CDR Okay.
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CC Okay, Jer. Would you believe the one to use is

Mr05?
CDR Thank you.
CC Empty 05; that is, Mike Tango 05. And it's lo-
cated in S-52_.
CDR Okay, thank you.
CC (Laughter). They really got you on the pneumonics

on that one.
345 23 56 47 CDR Bruce, on M - how about MT06, 7, 8 or 9? 05 is

not there.
CC Okay, Jer. Go ahead and take 6.
CDR Okay. I'll look around a little while and see if

I can locate 5 later.
CC Yes, all right. But for right now, we'll plan on

your using 6 in this application and if you find
5 around let us know where it is.
CDR Wilco.
346 O0 05 12 CC Skylab, this is Houston. Minute and a half to

LOS. Next station contact through Honeysuckle Creek
at 40 or 00:hO Greenwich mean time in 35 minutes.
Out.
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Time: 346:00:30 to 346:02:12
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3h6 00 40 24 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Honeysuckle for

4 minutes. Out. Make that 8 minutes. Out.
346 00 45 52 CC Skylab, this is Houston. For the SPT. Over.
SPT Go ahead, Bruce.
CC Roger, Ed. I have a change here to your 201 Kohoutek

maneuver pad. Over.
SPT Okay, Bruce. Which pad is it, the first or second?
CC It's 2636 Bravo.
SPT Go ahead.
CC Okay. Under the fine maneuver part, you'll see

where it says 52021, 50000, 50001, 50000. Over.
SPT Yes, go ahead.
CC Okay, we want to change these. Change Y to read

50153, which is equivalent to plus 1.07 degrees;
change Zulu to read 51035, equivalent to
minus 0.29 degrees. And read back the fine_er,
maneuver, please.
aPT Okay, the total fine maneuver is a 52021, X is

50000, Y is 50153, Z is 51035. And that's zero de-
grees in X, plus 1.17 degrees in Y, and
minus 0.29 degrees in Z.
CC Okay, your octal is correct. The equivalent in the

Y axis is 1.07 positive.
SPT 1.07.
346 00 47 35 CC Okay, thank you, Ed. And 1 minute to LOS; next

station contact in 37 minutes through Bermuda at
01:2h. Happy maneuvering. Out.
SPT Bruce, I've got a question for the ATM folks.
CC Okay, you got 7 seconds; fire away.

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346 00 48 32 SPT Looks like the coronal hole boundary at the north
is very diffusely defined, and I'm not sure we're
getting the kind of data they're after. I would
recommend that, if we do any more work in the near
future on it, we try the one in the south. The
boundary looks to be much straighter and much better
defined.
346 01 25 03 CC Skylab, this is Houston with you through Ber_ada

for 5-1/2 minutes. The maneuver looks good to us.
Out.
CC And just for information, for the SPT. We agree

with you on the point of using the southern boundary
of the coronal hole in future operations. Out.
SPT Okay, thanks very much, Bruce. I was going to do

that in the next observing period we have. See if
I can't go back and repeat some of the work we did
at the north, which I don't think was too
satisfactory.
CC Okay.
SPT Bruce, also we've been giving shopping list item 1

at the beginning and conclusion of each orbit, and
we can continue to do that. If they would like to
get a STANDARD MODE in there to look at the polar-
ization and Election density, we can go ahead and
do that for them, also. That is not a shopping list
item, however, and I'd like to find out from the
ground if that's really what they want.
CC Okay, we'll get back to you on that.
346 01 28 42 CC SPT, this is Houston. You're cleared to include

an S052 STANDARD in connection with the performance
of shopping list 1 whenever you do it on a non-
interference basis - not to interfere with the other
items in - in the shopping list item or with your
regular observing time. Over. With your regular
performances. Over.
SPT Okay, I understand. Thank you, Bruce.

station contact in 2-1/2 minutes through Canary
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346 01 32 21 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Canary Islands and

Madrid for ii minutes. Out.
346 Ol 35 39 CC Skylab, this is Houston; 30 seconds to handover to

Madrid. We'll he dumping your data/voice tape
recorder through Madrid. Out.
346 Ol 37 33 PLT Houston, Skylab, PLT.
CC Go ahead, PLT.
PLT Roger. Did y'all take the recorders?
CC Yes, I called you at the handover. We're dumping

the data/voice tape recorder here at Madrid.
PLT Okay, thank you.
CC Roger.
PLT I didn't hear you. I was right in the middle of

201.
CC Okay, sorry.
PLT Don't sweat it. I'll Just report a nominal procedure

after the experiment's over.
346 01 39 19 CC PLT, this is Houston. We're going to start another

recorder to give you voice recording capability for
the balance of this pass. Out.
PLT Thank you.
346 Ol 42 42 CC Skylab, this is Houston; i minute to LOS. 26 min-

utes to the next station, which is Carnarvon, at
02:08. Out.
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Time: 346:02:12 to 346:03:30
Page i of h/1663
346 02 12 20 ' CC - - change the rotation while the other one changes
the TILT and control to RESET switch. And if you
have a minute or so before the actual occurrence,
CDR and the PLT might give it a few minutes and try
a run through on it. Over.
CDR Yes, we plan to do that, Bruce. One question here:

I guess the - I can assume then that I'm not going
to go the short way from the ROTATION of 11.9 to
358.7. They want to go the long way?
346 02 13 24 CC Negative, Jerry. We want you to go the short way.

That is, from ii through i0, 9, 8, 7, 6 just like
you're running your own countdown around the 358.7,
and then next time keep on going to 353.4.
CDR Okay. Understand, Bruce.
pLT Also, Bruce, I have a question on the T-2 site

just above.
CC Fire away.
346 02 13 55 PLT Okay. Now I don't understand it - of course, too

deeply how this machine works. But all the other
field exposures have included a four-line entry
with a RESET switch to START 1 second before POWER
switch, OFF, and T-2 doesn't have that line entry.
I have some typographical problems in the T-12
which I've sorted out. I thought that maybe they
might have carried over and dumped a line in the
T-2 pad.
CC Okay. What sort of typo errors do you have? We

only have - -
PLT I've got double line entries and spaces inserted

in the middle of the pad. And under the T-2 field -
well normally, you've got a POWER switch, ON and
a RESET switch, START. Okay, that starts the
sequence. Then you've got a RESET switch, START
followed 1 second later by a POWER switch, OFF
which stops the sequence. Now T-2 field doesn't
have that RESET switch to START followed by POWER
switch OFF 1 second later.
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CC Okay, we copy you, Bill. Stand by a second. And

would you like us to uplink another a pad to you?
PLT No, we - this is all right if I can just get it

squared away.
CC Okay.
PLT I - I'm asking that question out of ignorance,

Bruce. I Just don't know.
CC We're answering - we're working on answering that

question with about the same status right here at
the mike, and we're getting the answer from the
backroom.
346 02 18 47 CC Skylab, Houston, I've got a 1 minute keyhole coming

up here. I'll be back to you shortly. Out.
346 02 23 56 CC Skylab, this is Houston; i minute to LOS. Next sta-

tion contact in 32 minutes through Merritt Island
at 02:56. Out.
346 02 56 ii CC Skylab, this is Houston through Merritt Island

and Bermuda for a grand total of 13 minutes and
20 seconds. We got PLT's private comm coming up
here at Bermuda at 02:58, which is in about a
minute and a half. And they'll pick him up on
VHF before we do the S-band handover. Over.
SPT Bruce, which antenna for the VHF?
CC Roger. Start out on RIGHT, go to LEFT.
SPT Thank you.
CC And it's for the other guy. Over.
3_6 02 59 51 CC Skylab, this is Houston. Houston con_n tech reports

no joy on VHF. Are you configured? Over.
CC Skylab, Skylab, this is Houston. Houston comm

tech reports no Joy on VHF. Is the PLT in the
command module configured? Over.
SPT He's up there and Bill - or Jer's going up to check.

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346 03 01 35 CC Skylab, this is Houston; comm tech is reading you

on VHF. You apparently aren't reading him. If
somebody goes out to the command module, you might
tell the PLT to go to the LEFT ANTENNA now.
346 03 13 33 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Madrid for 7-1/2 min-

utes. Data/voice tape recorder dump next station,
Carnarvon. And if we have someone handy to the
EREP coolant valve on panel 135, would you answer
up? Over.
CDR Bill 's on his way.
CC Okay, I thought I might catch him as he came back

by from the command module.
PLT I'm too fast for you, Bruce. Okay what do you
want ?
346 03 14 07 CC Just call you Speedy. Okay, we'd like you to cycle
a valve four or five times between the FLOW and the
BYPASS position. And when you get through with the
cycling, leave it in BYPASS. Over.
PLT Cycle five times and leave it in by - in BYPASS;

in work.
CC Roger. Out.
CC You might log it as exercise also. Never can tell.
PLT You must have worked it before, Bruce.
PLT It's complete.
346 03 15 i0 CC Okay, thank you, Bill. We're watching the flow

rate here. And our hope was that by cycling it
back and forth, if we had some contam_uation
lodged in the seats, this might jar it loose.
PLT Okay, I'll stand by here for a couple of minutes,

if you want me to do it again.
CC That's not required, Bill. These flow glitches

occur typically with a couple of hours between
them. And it'll take us a while to watch and see
if there's been any real effect on it.
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346 03 15 35 PLT Okay, now the valve is in BYPASS.
CC Roger. Thank you.
CC And, Skylab, for your general information, last

time we left the valve in BYPASS, the flow glitches
that we saw were smaller in magnitude than in the
FLOW position. So we ire going to try that for a
while. No answer required.

station contact in 26-1/2 minutes through Carnarvon
at 03:47. Out.
END OF TAPE
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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTIONS
3h6 03 46 31 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Carnarvon for

9-1/2 minutes with the data/voice tape recorder
dump. And if you have a second, Bill, I've got
some explanation for you on this 201 atmospheric
operations pad.
PLT Okay, Bruce, fire away.
346 03 47 04 CC Okay. Every time that you wind up a set of opera-

tions on 201, the frame of film which is currently
in position to be exposed gets wasted because it -
it stays there until the next time you turn the
POWER ON and hit the RESET switch. And every time
you hit the RESET switch, it takes you back to
the beginning of a sequence of ii frames, the
llth frame of which remains in position and
remains - continues to be exposed until you hit
the RESET switch the next time. And as long as
power's ON, the intensifier's working and all that
good stuff. So what we are doing in the T-12,
T-21, and T-10 operations is turning the power on,
hitting the RESET switch the first time to bring
a fresh frame of film into position, and then let-
ting the thing run through it's sequence, which
takes 3 minutes and 25 seconds, leaving the
llth frame in position. Now the 10th frame is
about i00 and some seconds or, say, a minute and
40 seconds. And by leaving the llth frame in posi-
tion, you'll notice that the time between the two
resets is on the order of 9 minutes there - or
8-1/2 minutes; so we're getting a long time ex-
postu'e on that llth frame. Hitting the RESET
switch the second time brings a fresh frame of film
up, and thereupon you turn the POWER OFF. And that
is the frame that's wasted instead of the llth frame,
which has already got some time accumulated on it.
When we come down into T-2, the desired operation
is only to get the standard sequence of i0 frames
and to shut it OFF on the llth frame. That is,
we're not trying for an llth frame time exposure;
consequently, there's only one operation of the
RESET switch. And then when you turn the power
back on, hit RESET at 09:51, you're bringing a
fresh frame in again, and that llth frame is the
one that got wasted. Over.
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PLT Okay, Bruce, that's a very good explanation. And

thank you very much.
CC Right.
SPT Houston, SPT.
CC Go ahead, SPT.
346 03 49 43 SPT Okay, Bruce, the streamer which we've been talking
about earlier today is - the past hour or so has
undergone a fairly marked change. Previously
reported that it necked down very close to the
limb. It has done that some more. And now it
appears as though it is very thin at the base
and has bloomed out about l-l/2, maybe 2, solar
radiant and is arcing gener - very slowly up
towards the north. It looks as though there has
been some activity associating with that in a
fairly large magnetic field reconfiguration in the
corona. And I would suspect hat some observations
ought to be taken on this with a time resolution of
1/2 hour to an hour, whatever is feasible. Right
now we're in a building block l, and we're getting
some good Sun-centered data on it. And I'm wonder-
ing if the people in the backroom would rather
that we continue on with some Sun-centered opera-
tions or move on to building block 28 in J0P 24?
CC Go ahead, Ed.
SPT Hey, do - do the folks in the backroom have any

comment on that, or should we Just press on with
business as usual doing J0P 24?
CC Roger. No comment yet. We have it in work. And

are you at the ATM now or what?
SPT Bill is up here, and I'm kind of periodically

coming back and forth.
346 03 53 15 PLT Okay; we copy. And for your information, we're

taking control of the video tape recorder at this
time to configure - to rewind and configure for
dump.
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346 03 53 33 PLT Okay, Bruce. I didn't quite get all I wanted on

there, but that's okay; fire away. I did get a
little of the coronagraph on it. I didn't get the
XUV MON on it yet.
CC Okay; that's all right. We're going to go ahead

and take it here.
PLT Fine.
346 03 54 19 CC PLT, this is Houston. On your schedule pad it calls

for two building blocks number 28. We'd like to
go ahead and get those in. And then if you're
fleet of foot and swift of hand, maybe you can work
in a building block 32 at the end. Over. That'll
be on the - -
PLT Okay, I'll call them back.
CC That would be on the streamer.
PLT Okay.

station contact in a little over 2 minutes through
Honeysuckle Creek at 03:57. Out.
346 03 57 31 Cc Skylab, this is Houston through Honeysuckle Creek

for 4 minutes. And for the PLT, that building
block 32 is a part of JOP 20; in fact, it is
J0P 20. And in that connection, we would also like
you to omit S05h. Over.
346 0B 57 53 PLT Roger. Omit 54 on JOP 20.
CC Roger.
PLT Building block 32.
CC Roger.
PLT If I get around to it.
346 Oh 00 30 CC Skylab, this is Houston; 1 minute to LOS. Next

station contact in 29 minutes through Corpus Christi
at 04:29. 0ut.
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346 04 29 50 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Corpus Christi,

Merritt Island, and Bermuda for 16-1/2 minutes.
Standing by for the evening status report. Over.
CDR Roger, Bruce. Here it comes.
CC Let her rip.
346 04 30 13 CDR CDR: sleep, 7.5; 6.0 heavy, 1.5 light. " SPT, 9.0;
8 heavy, i light. PLT, 7.5; 7 heavy, half light.
Volume: CDR, 1300; SPT, 1200; PLT, 2200. Water
gun: CDR, 7272; SPT, 2h92; PLT, 8641. Body mass:
CDR, 6.323, 6.322, 6.321; SPT, 6.392, 6.392, 6.393,
PLT, 6.245, 6.247, 6.248. Exercise, CDR, method
Alfa: leg, 29; 5000. Method Bravo: Alfa, Delta,
Echo, Foxtrot, i0; 20 each. Method Charlie:
Charlie, Delta, Foxtrot, 06; 20 each. Method Echo:
Alfa, Bravo, 03 ; i0 each. Method Foxtrot : walk,
i0; run, 01; spring, 02, 300; toe rise, 03, 200.
SPT, method Alfa: leg, 40; 8341. Method Bravo:
Bravo, Foxtrot, and Curl[?], 15; 40 each. Method
Foxtrot: springs, 10, 1000; toe rises, 10, 200.
PLT, Alfa: leg, 37; 6000. Bravo -Method Bravo,
I should say: Alfa, Bravo, Delta, Echo, 08; 50
each. Method Charlie : Bravo, Charlie, Delta, Echo,
Foxtrot, Gulf, I0; 20 each. Method Echo: Alfa,
Bravo, 02; l0 each. Method Foxtrot: walk, i0;
springs, 01, 100; toe rise, 01, 75. Medication:
none. Garments disposed of: none. And the food
log (CDR): 3.5 salt, minus one coffee with sugar,
plus 2.5 water. SPT: 1.5 salt, plus tuna spread,
plus one grape drink, plus 3.5 water. PLT: zero
salt, plus one mint, zero water. Flight Plan
deviations: SPT ran the 02:13 ATM pad, instead
of the CDR. Shopping list accomplishments: house-
keeping 8 Alfa, boric acid 13. Inoperable equipment
disposition: Transporter 05 and DAC 09 are okay.
DAC 08 is still red taped. Unscheduled stowage:
none. Now for the photo log: Okay, 16-millimeter:
N/A. Nikon 01: Charlie X-ray 36, 30. Zero Ch -
Nikon 02: Bravo Victor 44, 36. Nikon on - 03:
Charlie India ll0, 51. Nikon 04: Bravo India
08, 18. Nikon 05: Bravo Hotel 04, 41. Anticipa-
ting 3 exposures tonight for Kohoutek. 70 milli-
meter: Charlie X-ray 17, 014. ETC: no change.
EREP: no change. Drawer A configuration:
Alfa 2: 05; Charlie India 93, 74; Mike Tango 06.
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No change on the rest of the Alfas. Alfa i, Alfa 3,

4 in the back. And that's it.
346 04 34 39 CC CDR, Houston. On Nikon 04, we show it probably

should be Baker Echo - that is, BE08 for the film
type.
CDR That's affirmative. Bravo Echo 08.
CC Okay, we got all that. The evening questions are

pretty minimal here. Where was C122 stowed?
That's CI122, which is the former takeup reel there
that - that you wanted to use MT06 to replace.
CDR Okay, that's down in drawer Foxtrot with all the

rest of them.
346 04 35 23 CC Okay, thank you. And to update the information

required for our radiation model for the film,
when you're using NK05, is it - excuse me - when
you're not using NK05, is it left at STS window
number 3 when not in use or where? Over.
CDR Yes; that's affirmative. It's left at the window.
CC And how about the Hasselblad, when it's not in use?
CDR Left at - in the wardroom.
CC And what - -
CDR And the same for Nikon 01.
CC Okay, Hasselblad's in the wardroom window and

NK01 is there, also.
CDR That 's affirmative.
CC 0kay, thank you.
CDR And at night, all of these cameras are put away.
3h6 Oh 36 03 CC Right ; we copy. Thank you.
PLT And I have an ATM frame count, if you want.
CC Go with the ATM frame count.

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3h6 Oh 36 12 PLT H-ALPHA, 01915; 56, 3733; 82 Alfa, 127; 82 Bravo,

1075; 52, 551h; and 54 is reading 3680.
346 04 36 35 CC Okay, we got those, Bill. And I have here a retrac-

tion of some of my previous detail remarks regarding
S201 operations. You may recall how I explained
to you how to caref_1]ly, uniformly, and smoothly
change the ROTATION and TILT, spacing it out over
the period of time given on the pad. That is
incorrect. We are not tracking the vehicle during
that period of time. We're changing from one
pointing coordinate to another, and what you have
is about a frame - exposure on that frame of about
14 seconds. And the time that's given is - The
start time for change ROTATION and TILT is the time
after which you should start. And you should be at
the new settings by the time listed beside the new
ROTATION and TILT. And it doesn't make any
difference whether you go there in one big inpulse
or whether you go there smoothly and slowly. Over.
346 Oh 37 30 PLT Thanks a lot. That makes that a lot easier.
CC I thought that would brighten your whole day up.

I've been going through quite an evolution down
here looking at the ll-frame sequence and seeing
where all this stuff fits in. It turns out that
out of a given ll-frame sequence, we get about
four or five usable exposures, and the rest of them
are - are blurred during filter changes and re-
pointing and things like that ; so it's something
you got to really look at to understand.
PLT I can believe it.
346 04 38 O0 CC And if you have no traffic for us here, I have a

news s,_,._,,amy
which I can read you after our
handover.
PLT Standing by, Bruce. Go.
346 04 38 h2 CC Okay, we're now coming to you through the auspices

of the Bermuda tracking station. And the Navy
reported today that six men were killed when fire
broke out aboard the aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk,
under the cnmmand of Captain Robert E1 Kirksey of
California, located about 700 miles east of the
Philippines. Thirty-eight other men suffered minor
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burns or smoke inhalation. The blaze erupted about

8 a. m. eastern standard time and was extinguished
an hour later. The ship is still capable of con-
ducting flights. No explosion was reported, and
the cause of the fire has not yet been determined.
New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller announced
today that he is resigning from his office next
Tuesday after 15 years. Lieutenant Governor
Malcolm Wilson, Rockefeller's running mate in four
campaigns, will take over. Rockefeller, age 65,
whose term expires December 31 next year, said
he can serve the nation and the State of New York
better as chairman of the bi-partisan National
Commission on Water Quality. Great Britain's
29,000 locomotive engineers have rejected a last-
ditch government appeal to call off their go-slow
campaign. The action starts tonight at midnight
and could paralyze England's already battered
economy. It could also tie up the state-ovned
railroad system. Cgsar Cede_o, the 23 - 22-year-
old star outfielder of the Houston Astros baseball
team was questioned today by police in Santo Domingo,
Dominican Republic, in the shooting death of a
19-year-old woman. CedeSo, in the Dominican
Republic for winter baseball, says the shooting was
an accident. King Hussein of Jordan said today
there is "acute danger" of renewed fighting in the
Middle East. In West Germany, Chancellor Willy
Brandt signed an agreement in Prague today that
ends 35 years of Czech-German hostility.
3_6 0h 40 28 CC The treaty opens diplomatic ties between Prague

and Bonn and buries forever the 1938 Munich Pact
that Hitler used to annex part of pre-war Czech-
oslovakia. Washington: The Supreme Court voted
six to three to give police blanket authority to
conduct a complete search of anyone that they arrest
lawfully. The decision represented a victory for
advocates of greater police latitude but brought
dissent from the court's three liberal members.
Eli T. Reich, Director of the Office of Petroleum
Allocation reportedly told Interior Secretary
Rogers Morton yesterday that he is on the verge
of resigning. Washington spokesmen say if he does,
he'll be replaced by an official from the Office
of Management and Budget. Reich, a former Navy
admiral, retired last November to accept the
position. Use of census information in a federal
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computer program aimed at getting millions of

Americans into car pools was announced at Washington
today. Under Secretary of Commerce, John Tabor -
excuse me - Undersecretary of Commerce, John Tabor,
said at a press conference that 1970 census infor-
mation from 125 metropolitan areas of 250 thousand
people or more showed over 31 million workers drove
to work alone. The House voted overwhelmingly
today to prohibit more than 5 billion dollars in
U. S. credit loans for Soviet trade until the
Soviets permit easier emigration. The bill now
goes to the Senate.
346 04 41 53 CC A congressional committee was told today by Herbert

Stein, Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors,
that fuel price increases could raise the cost of
living in the United States 27 billion dollars
next year. Stein said he based his estimate on
an expected 50 percent increase in fuel prices.
He also predicted that a cer - that a 30-cent-per-
gallon increase in gasoline prices would be required
to balance supply and demand. Pope Paul's Christmas
Mass schedule is somewhat in doubt due to the
feast driving-ban rules placed in effect today in
Italy. The pope will say Mass in St. Peter's
Basilica at midnight on Christmas Eve only if the
government suspends the driving ban for the holiday
s eas on.
346 04 h2 35 If not, the Vatican says Pope Paul will say Mass
in the Sistine Chapel for prelates and diplomats
only. On Christmas Day, however, the pope will say
Mass at St. Peter's at ll a.m. and give the aposto-
lic blessing from St. Peter's balcony at noon.
Katherine Graham, publisher of the Washington Post,
will become the first woman ever to receive the
John Peter Zenger Award. University of Arizona
spokesmen say Mrs. Graham earned the honor for her
paper's coverage of the Watergate affair. The
award is named after the colonial publisher who won
a major court battle leading to a free Press in
America. New York: The stock market closed sharply
lower today, ending a 3-day rise. The Dow Jones
average of 30 industrials, up briefly in midmorning
trading, closed off 16.96 points at 834.18. Volume
on the New York Stock Exchange was 20. I0 million
shares, and declines led advances by a two-to-one
margin. The big board's composite index of
1500 common stocks was down 0.95 at 51 dollars and
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20 cents, and the American Stock Exchange market-

value index fell 1.05 to 91.03. Finally, for Bill,
Oklahoma State clobbered the University of Texas
in that basketball game last night; 83 to 73. And
the final score on the Monday night football game
was Rams 40, Giants 6. And as we say in the
publications business, that's 30, sports fans.
SPT Thank you, Bruce,
346 04 44 07 CC And I've got a note, here that at 04:50 in Madrid,

there'll be a subframe 1 dump, which I assume is
the same as a voicetape recorder dump. And for
the CDR: Also, another note passed to me during
the reading of the news is, we'd like you to confirm
the quantity remaining on the transporter - on
transporter 05 that's - you read down 74 percent,
and I think earlier in the day you'd referred to
about 30 percent already in the takeup reel.
346 04 hh 48 CDR Yes, that was Just a wild estimate. Takeup reel
bubble shows right around 30 percent. That's the
one we filed away, and it Just happens that the
supply reel _hows about 74. Sorry about that.
CC Okay, now we're - we expect things like this on

the takeup reel, since it can go on a symmetrically.
And 7_ percent it is?
CDR Yes, that 's right.
346 0h 45 32 CC Skylab, i minute to LOS. The next station contact

in 5 minutes through Madrid at 04:51. Out. And
Madrid is the medical conference private comm; so
we'll next be talking to you through Honeysuckle
Creek in 51 minutes at 05:37.
PLT Roger, Bruce.
346 0h h6 32 CC Skylab, this is Houston. We'd like to get a nominal

H-CAGE l0 minutes prior to the S201 maneuver this
evening. Acknowledge. Over.
CDR Nominal H-CAGE l0 minutes before the maneuver.
346 0h 46 45 CC Roger. That's l0 minutes before.
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346 05 37 lh CC Skylab, this is Houston through Honeysuckle Creek.

Short pass, l-l/2 minutes. Next station contact
through Goldstone in 29 minutes at 06:06. And for
your information, we're having range problems
with the launch vehicle. It may be scrubbed.
We'll call you at AOS over Goldstone with the in-
formation. If it is scrubbed, only that part of
the 201 atmospheric ops pad which is concerned
with the block headed "Launch" will be scrubbed.
You will still do T12, T2, T20, and T10. Over.
PLT Roger, Bruce. Skylab. Copy.
CC Okay. How's everything going with the maneuver?
PLT Don't know, Bruce; I'm down here at the wardroom.

Ed's doing the maneuver.
CC SPT, this is Houston. You having some difficulties

with the maneuver?
CC Okay. LOS; we'll talk to you at Goldstone.
CC SPT, Houston. LOS.
SPT Yes. Go ahead, Bruce.
CC We were Just wondering - we didn't see the maneuver

starting on time there. Wondering if you're having
problems.
SPT Yes, Bruce. We tried it without going to ATT HOLD,

and we're back to SI. And now we're maneuvering
right now.
3h6 05 39 25 CC Okay, we copy. We'll see you over Goldstone.
3h6 06 06 03 CC Skylab, this is Houston through the Goldstone,

Corpus Christi, Merritt Island, and Bermuda.
Break, break; the launch has been scrubbed. Over.
PLT Roger, Bruce. We're continuing with the exposures.

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CC Roger. And you'll skip the part that's entitled

"Launch" and pick up again with the T20.
PLT Roger.
346 06 08 06 PLT Houston, Skylab ; PLT.
CC Go ahead, Bill.
PLT Roger. On Tango 12 field, we were Just a bit late

getting to ATTITUDE. We started - we waited until
we were reasonably stable within a degree and
a half. I started the sequence and I terminated
it on the pad time, so we probably lost the last -
maybe the last two exposures in the sequence.
The rest of them we should have no problem.
CC Okay. We copy that, Bill.
346 06 21 58 CC Skylab, this is Houston. 1 minute to LOS. Next

station contact in 6 minutes through Madrid at
06:28. And we'd Just like to say here, even
though the -the launch got scrubbed we all appre-
ciate your staying up the extra 3 hours to give
it the old college try for s201.
PLT Roger, Bruce. No sweat. Glad to do it.
CC And the old silver team here says good night.

We're going to hand over to our buddies.
PLT Roger. Good night.
346 06 22 34 CC On the tarnished silver team - which is bronze.
346 06 28 00 CC Skylab, Houston through Madrid for 9 minutes.
346 06 28 05 SPT Roger.
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346 06 32 01 CC CDR, Houston. One thing we'd like to clean up

tonight before y'all go to bed, if it's okay,
is on the photo status report - you listed
Nikon 02 Bravo Victor 44 as 36 frames and we're
not sure we copied that right. If that's correct,
there - there were - there were no frames counted
off of it. And that was the caw_ra I think that
you used for S063.
CDR Okay, Hank. Stand by. I'll check it again.
CC And, Skylab, Houston; we need one more item on

the ATM closeout. We need to get the S052 MIRROR
POSITION to CAMERA.
CC Thank you, sir.
CDR Yes, you're right, Hank. I read you the mechan-

ical counter instead of the electrical. The
proper frame count is 12.
CC Roger; we copy. Thank you Jer.
CDR That's a real coincidence that they happen to be

the same.
346 06 36 i0 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 1 minute from LOS.

Thank you for staying up late. We'll see you
in the morning; get a good night's rest.
346 06 36 16 CDR Good night, Hank.
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346 15 12 34 CC Good morning, Skylab. Houston in the blind.

We're Just passing over Tananarive, so we can't
get a good lockup. We'll see you again at Hawaii
at 15:h9, 15:49. That's about 37 minutes away.
And we have the dump inhibited for your upcoming
233.
346 15 49 51 CC Good morning, Skylab. We're AOS through Hawaii,

and we only got you for about 2 minutes. GNS
and EGIL tell me it looks like you're awake. So
I assume you got that call through Tananarive.
CDR Negative. We didn't get the call, but we kind of

got up by ourselves.
CC Okay. Glad you had a chance to sleep in late.

We had a little antenna problems trying to acquire
through Tananarive, where we were originally going
to wake you up. And I guess Just a brief reminder
here. We've got a S009 set coming up at 15:54:20.
And that's about all going right now. A little
bit later, perhaps over Vanguard, we might talk
about the - the upcoming trim burn.
CDR Okay.

have you over the Vanguard in about 26 minutes at
16:17, 16:17. And we'll be doing a data/voice
recorder dump_. Can you tell us whether we managed
to get in the 233 this morning?
PLT That's affirmative, Bob. Got two very good ex-

posures. The last one was executed properly, but
there's an awful lot of sunrise, as was there one -
on the one last night, the last exposure I took.
And I'm standing by up here to do a S009, also.
CC Okay, Bill. Thank you very much. That's excellent.

We were a little bit concerned about not having
woke you up, whether you got up there in time.
See you guys are on the ball. And we're assuming
that we will be bringing up the G&N at - at Van-
guard in prep for the trim burn.
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346 15 52 21 CDR And that S009 time was 16:54:20. Is that

affi rmat ive?
CC That 's affirm.
CC And, Jer, you copy, when we get to Vanguard _-ill

be when we're bringing up the G&N for the trim
burn?
CDR Okay. I'll have my pad ready.
CC Very good.
346 15 52 51 CC Bill, in the blind, that S009 time was 15:54:20.
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346 16 16 52 CC Skylab, Houston; AOS Vanguard doing a data/voice

recorder dump. And sorry I misunderstood a number,
Jer read back to me on the time of the S009, set.
Did you guys get it, that it was 15:54:207
PLT Roger. I got it, Bob. I was - I was up there

I didn't answer you because I was waiting for the
time to come up.
CC Okay. Very good. And if Jer is available and

also you, Bill, I guess, since you're participating
in this trim burn, might like to run through a few
items if you can, please.
PLT Li stening.
CC Okay. I guess we're blocked up and ready for you

to go ahead and start Jer on powering things up.
A couple of items I want to run over is - of course,
we are using the CSM doing the attitude hold with
f . no M - _MP on your G&C Checklists, 6-14 Alfa and
wanted to make sure that you do have the change 2
entered.
346 16 17 56 PLT That's affirmative, Bob.
CC Okay. And that was Just that little step about

tape recorder and when to do your I_4S FUNCTION,
DELTA-V. The other item was - it's not very
clear in the checklist, and we saw it last time,
that there was several minutes between when
STANDBY was collected at the ATM C&D and when
CMC, AUTO, was selected in the command module.
And of course, you're in free drift any time you
go to STANDBY until that AUTO is selected, so
that time should be minimized. In other words,
some coordination should go on there to - to make
sure you - you switch it over with the minimum
amount of time in no control.
PLT Okay. We weren't aware of any lag last time. But

we'll watch it.
346 16 18 44 CC Okay. And there is a note at the bottom of your

trim pad regarding powering up the optics to look
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for the OCDU failure that we saw during renedezvous.

The - of course, you'll be monitoring that look-
ing for your tracker light and - but the one thing
we would - did want to emphasize was that if you
get a tracker light, we would like to go ahead and
tra - troubleshoot it since it had been intermittent
previously. However, we don't want that in any way
to interfere with your time for your trim burn.
We'll come back and get it later if - if it's neces-
sary.
PLT Copy.
CC Okay. And one other item. I guess we don't an-

ticipate having to do it, but the last time we
did have to kill some attitude errors with the
command module Just to minimize the perturbations
when we turned it back over to the APCS. And it
looked like you had tried to use the translational
hand controller, and that won't work in CMC, AUTO.
So you'd have to do that with the RHC or a VERB 49.
PLT Copy.
346 16 19 50 CC Okay. That's all the items here that we wanted

to - to cover, and if you got any questions about
it, we'd be glad to try to cover them. We still
got you for about 8 more minutes.
PLT That ought to about cover it, Crip. If you think

of anything else, why just come back.
CC Okay. Very good. I guess you'all can press on

with the powerup so we can look at it from the
ground here.
346 16 20 19 PLT Crip, we're Just finishing breakfast and it may

be a few minutes before we get up there.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're going LOS. We'll have

you at Tananarive in about 14 minutes at 16:41.
346 16 27 45 PLT Roger, Crip.
346 16 42 19 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS through Tananarive

for 7 minutes.
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CDR Roger, Houston. We're all powered up and ready

to go.
CC Very good. Then there's no problems with the

powerup?
CDR No. Everything went Just fine.
CC That's good.
3h6 16 48 _9 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from LOS. We'll

see you again in 37 minutes over Hawaii at 17:25,
17:25.
346 16 _9 32 CC Skylab, Houston. I believe my last transmission

was broken. We'll see you again at Hawaii at
17:25 after the burn.
CDR Okay. It'll be all over but the shouting.
CC We'll hope there's no shouting.
3h6 16 _9 h7 CDR Roger.
346 17 2h 27 CC Skylab, Houston. AOS Hawaii for 9 minutes; standing

by for a burn status.
CDR Hello, Crip. The burnwent on time; no problems

with it at all. I got so interested in rates I
didn't monitor the optic CDU, so I guess you'll
have to get that off the down data tape. Every-
thing looked real good. We spent very little time
in STANDBY, and I think it only took about
2-1/2 minutes or so for it to get down below
0.03 degrees so we could shift control back. It
took what we consider to be a rather uncommonly
long time for the CMG CAGE talkback to go from bar-
berpole to gray and that's what held us up. We had
low rates very, very early. The burn itself was
smooth as glass for about the first ll seconds
when we finally got over to the edge of the
deadband, and then we got a bunch of firings for
attitude control and finished the burn with nice
low rates.
CC Okay. Sounds good, Jerry. Appreciate that full

a report.
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346 17 25 36 CC And, for the SPT. Ed, you got a moment to chat
about your upcoming ATM ops?
SPT Sure do, Bob; go ahead.
CC Okay, you got a little squeal there, but I take

it you can read me okay. If - if you noticed in
this upcoming pass, we've got you scheduled for
a four-limb coali_ent and I believe Bill Lenoir
ran through with you the other day about the -
every time we do a four-limb coalignment, we've
been seeing a wider discrepancy between the 82B
and the FINE SUN SENSOR, and it's all in the
left/right axis, going to the left. Consequently
today what we'd like to do is to do the four-
limb coalign on the SECONDARY FINE SUN SENSOR to -
as a matter of comparison. And if you've got your
pad handy and you've got a pencil and paper I'd
like to tell you about how we'd like to go through
about switching.
SPT Go ahead, Bob. Ready to copy.
346 17 26 41 CC Okay. Following the JOP 9, what we would like you

to do is to select SOLAR INERTIAL, MODE, and then
select SECONDARY FINE SUN SENSOR, and then open
the FINE SUN SENSOR DOOR, and then go back to
EXPERIMENT POINTING and then press on with your
pad.
CC I can run through that again slower if you'd like.

All we're doing is trying to get out of EXPERIMENT
POINTING so that we don't get a transient in when
we switch FINE SUN SENSOR.
SPT No, I got it, Bob. We go to SI and go to SECONDARY

FINE SUN SENSOR, open the FINE SUN SENSOR DOOR,
go to EXPERIMENT POINTING and then press on. How
about at the end of the orbit? You want us to go
back to the prim?
346 17 27 33 CC No. We want to remain on SECONDARY with that

four-limb coalignment, and we'll look at that
data and make a decision later as to what else we
want to do about it. A point I probably should
bring up - it is quite possible that when you go
on to the SECONDARY FINE SUN SENSOR, at first you
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are going to have to zero the wedges and it's

quite possible you might be on the back side of
them. Are - are you familiar with that little
ditty where you might have to straighten them out?
SPT Yes. That Just involves driving it through Sun

center.
CC That's affirmative. And if they are on the back

side, it could mean that the thing is actually
going to be moving in the opposite direction from
your MPC and it would mean you would have to take
it all the way around.
SPT Yes. You Just hold the MPC full over until when
it goes through Sun center then it comes up as
you move away from Sun center. I've seen that
in the simulator.
CC Okay. Very good.
SPT ... thank you, Bob.
3h7 17 29 15 Cc And, Skylab, Houston. I guess, Ed, for you, if

you're up at the panel, we did not give you the
numbers to put in for reenablingRATE GYRO REDUN-
DANCY MANAGEMENT, and if somebodY' s got the ATM
Systems Checklist and Data Book, page 2-22, handy -
I can give that so you can go ahead and reenable
it.
SPT Give me 5 seconds, Bob.
CC Okay.
SPT Okay, go ahead.
CC Okay, Ed. If you - are you looking at page 2-22

about, oh, three-quarters of the way down the page
it has a series of DAS commands. The last five
of them having blanks in the last - not the last
five of them, every other one has a blank in it
where it says enable per STDN. That should be
a h in each one of those slots. That is a 5 - -
3h6 17 30 29 SPT Yes, that's what I've written in here. Let me

check with Bill and see what he put in. Hold on.
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346 17 30 20 CC Okay. We show that they have not been reenabled.
SPT Oh. Okay. I'll go - How about the maneuver time?
CC We can't see maneuver time, so we're not - not

sure about it and - And, Ed, see you putting the
DAS commands in. If you could also reenable
dumps for us, we would appreciate it.
PLT Crip, could you verify my EXPERIMENT 1 RECORDER

is running?
346 16 31 06 CC It is Verified running, Bill.
PLT Thank you.
SPT Okay, Crip. The rate gyro redundancy management

is set up, and you got the dump enabled.
CC Okay, we copy all that down here. Very good.

Thank you, Ed.
SPT Thank you, Bob. One thing we also added, as a -

as a writein to - of 2-22, is where it says,
about the center of the page, "When rates are
less then 0.03," we also have written in "and
MOMENTUM talkback changes from CAGE to gray".
CC Copy.
SPT That of course is implied by the previous step,

but we wanted to make it more explicit.
346 17 32 17 CC Roger that. Okay, and don't know which one of

those is necessarily going to take longer. I
guess, from what Jerry implied, that it took a
long time to get the talkback to - to gray today.
It wouldn't hurt to even let the rates get below
that 0.03 a little bit, too.
SPT Yes, we did that. We got about an order of

magnitude below that. They were - I tnink the
highest one was 0.004.
CC Okay, very good.

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SPT If you'd like to go ahead and change that number,

we could do it; it's very feasible to get the
number - delete the factor of 5 or maybe 10.
CC Okay, Ed. We'll look into possibly getting you

a checklist changeup on that number.
• 346 17 33 h0 CC Skylab, Houston. We're I minute from LOS. We'll

" see you again over the Vanguard in 22 minutes
at 17:55, 17:55.
347 17 33 48 CC And we'll be doing a data/voice recorder dump

the re.
346 17 55 45 CC Skylab, Houston. AOS Vanguard for 9-1/2 minutes.

And we are doing a data/voice recorder dump here.
3h6 17 58 37 CC SPT, Houston. Ed we're looking at a LEFT count

that's minus 2500, which would - almost looks
like you're back on the backside of the wedge
there. Did you check that?
SPT No, I didn't get the LEFT/RIGHT, Bob. I'll do

it now - or the UP/DOWN. Excuse me, the
LEFT/RIGHT.
346 18 01 51 SPT Yes, Bob. I got busy working the UP/DOWN and
hadn't looked at the LEFT/RIGHT, yet. They're
both squared away.
CC Okay. Looks good to us down here now, Ed.
346 18 04 21 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from LOS. Next

AOS is 59 minutes away over Hawaii at 19:03, and
got that one scheduled for Bill to come in and
ta]k to you, Ed.
346 18 05 ll CC Ed, as we go over the hill, since you're a little

bit behind, we do want to get that four-limb
coalign in if you can, and forget about the 82B
exposures if you get behind.
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346 19 02 30 MCC Skylab, this is Houston with the ATM conference,

if you're ready, Ed.
SPT Okay, Bill. You're a bit broken up, but go ahead.
5EC Okay. I'd like to start off here in a little dif-

ferent tack this morning, First thing I'd like to
talk about a little ... is the conference useful-
ness as we have been holding it, and tell you about
a - one slight change here that I'd like to make
in the way we're going. Over the past few days
I've been thinking about the conference and how
it's been getting along here, and it seemed to
me in a couple areas here I've really failed to
get at some of the things we wanted to get at.
One of the changes that I propose doing here is
the first thing of today's conference and several
of the next few here. What I1d like to do first
is to tell you the sense of the planning meeting
that went on the day before, that went into the
Flight Plan and the ATM Schedule that you will be
using that day. Usually these conferences will
be in the morning, so it'll _Ake more sense. Then
I'd like for you to give me inputs that you would
like me to make on your behalf to the planning
session. For instance, good science that you think
we ought to be doing on the Sun as you see it from
your vantage point. And in addition to that,
every Wednesday and Sunday, if you've got any
long-term things, we go through a regular 7-day
forecast. So that tomorrow morning when I call
and talk to you, I'll tell you the thinking that
went into the schedule you have for that day, and
maybe you will have had a chance to do some think-
ing on your part. And I will make some inputs
into that day's planning session which starts at
about noon every day, 18:00 Zulu, as to what you
think we ought to be doing. And we'll throw it
up on the board along with everybody else's inputs
by discipline and see what happens. Do you have
any other thoughts?
346 19 04 20 SPT No, Bill. I think you've got some good ideas
there. I've been thinking a little bit shout it
also, and I find that, from my standpoint, if we
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could move this thing to about midmorning, or at

least after the first ATM pass, it would have
given me time to look at the Sun and to be think-
ing a little bit about what is really happening.
As it is right now, I pretty much get my feet on
the deck and c_ne roaring up here. And really
am not as fully prepared and mentally awake for
it as I'd like to be. So I would like to see if
we could move this thing back a little bit further
in the morning. I don't want to move it back so
far that input could not be making 12 o'clock
planning session, however.
MCC Okay. Fine, Ed. We'll give that a try. Inci-

dentally, this morning, the reason that - I should
say this afternoon, the reason itls so late, we
had an opportunity to do it about m_amorning, but
it would have knocked you out of an ATM pass and
given it on to Jerry. And I did not want to do
that. I chose to hold it now, rather than earlier.
SPT Okay.
346 19 05 19 MCC Okay. Just some quick thoughts on what went into
today's plan here. I think it's fairly obvious
that what we're trying to do is to study the quiet
Sun in such a fashion that 82B gets good science
and uses lots of film at the Same time. The J0P 26
is a JOP that we amended last night in order to
accommodate this small limb scan, microllmB scan,
whatever you want to call it to look at the chro-
mospheric structure on the quiet west l_mb. And
Jerry will be starting that later on in the orbit
that he's in right now. And I think Jerry and
Bill will pick up two more instances later on
in the day. And then finally, on your next orbit,
55 will be looking for velocities in active
region 96. And - -
SPT Okay.
MCC - - so, you might make sure you did put in the
change to JOP 26 that came up this morning.
346 19 06 17 SPT I certainly did, and I have a couple of questions

along that line which all fit into the four-limb
coalignment. So when you've got a few moments,
I'd like to talk about it.
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f-_" MCC Okay. We've got 3-i/2 minutes left. Why don't
you go ahead_rith that? And also if you've got
any inputs you'd like me to take back to the
planning meeting that's still going on, l'd be
more than happy to do it.
SPT Okay, I think what we're doing right now is - is

pretty much it. There's not a heck of a lot in
the way of activity on the Sun so we might as
well be concentrating either on - either spicules
which we have or chr_nospheric structure -
chromospheric spectra, which apparently is what
you're lining up, or chromospheric network. And
I've noticed we have not been doing much chromo-
spheric network, and I've been Wondering whether
they have gotten enough data on the previous two
missions from it. I won't ask for a response to
that one right now, however. The four-limb
coalignment came out pretty well. I got it done
this past orbit. One thing that I did notice
that in going back through all the information
for all the previous alignments I flnd that the
Sun is not the same diameter UP/D0WN as it is
LE_/RIGHT. Today the diameter came out to be
1950 in UP/DOWN and 1968 in LEI_2/RIGHT. And it's
_ not greatly differentthan what we've seen before.
That I don't understand. I did not get a chance
to get the 82B exposures in at the limb. I only
got one of them in I will pick those up later on
today. Now when we call out for a slit parallel
or tangent to the limb, I have always taken that
to be - let's work with the slit as we actually
see it, as opposed to the UP/D0WN equals 000.
But it does call out in the J0P $1.......ary Sheet,
they have the UP/DOWN in the four zeros. And I
think we are not getting the data we wanted then.
I don't think the slit is always tangent to the
limb. Why that is true is still yet to be found
out, but seeing as we're really looking at the
real slit and the real limb in the white light
display, I feel that's what we ought to go with.
346 19 08 12 MCC Yes. I concur with that.
SPT Okay. A second point. Now that we've got solar

north available to us, where possible, I'd like
to work with that rather than 1080. I think it
Just helps us keep our thinking straight as far
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as where the flares are on the - on the disk.

Thirdly is the 52 coverage of the transient -
relatively long if you will - coronal restructuring
which we saw last night. In looking back at the
pictures and thinking about it, it looks as though
the streamer at 8 o'clock had a fair amount of
material thrown out from it. And essentially
all the material which wasn't the base of a
helmet streamer, was thrown out and the field lines
appear relatively straight and a very little
material was left close to the disk now. I
think we did get some good coverage on it.
Yesterday, we gave a lot of quickie building
blocks whenever we could, beginning and end of
orbit, and a couple at other times also.
346 19 09 IB MCC Okay, Ed. Break through for Just a minute. We've
got about 40 seconds to LOS. Vanguard is next at
19:34, and that's in about 25 minutes. Now go
ahead.
SPT Okay. I think the thing we need a fairly quick

response on, seeing as Jerry's going to be doing
it very soon - is, do we want to put the slit tan-
gent to the limb or UP/DOWN equal to four zeros.
I prefer the former, and I think that's the way
we'll go unless we hear different_
MCC Okay. I concur with that. Unless we tell you

differently, do what you see on the TV with the
slit and take whatever UP/DOWN you get.
SPT Okay. And I guess the second question as far as

the planning I've not seen much chromospheric
network work and I've been wondering why that's
been true? I'm not asking for it if they feel
they've already gotten adequate coverage on the
previous missions.
MCC Okay, fine. I'll make that input. And the NOAA
people thank you very much for your description
of the southeast limb streamer from last night.
And I'll talk to you tomorrow.
SPT Very good. Thank you, Bill. Getting more useful

all the time. Keep up the good work.
3_6 19 i0 22 N_C Okay. We keep trying.

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346 19 34 19 CC Skylab, Houston. We're A0S Vanguard for

9-1/2 minutes.
SPT Houston, SPT.
CC Go, SPT.
SPT Hey, Crip, I'm sorry; maybe I've been inattentive

and I didn't hear it, but I never did get your
response yesterday about the appearance of moth
eggs, when they go into diapause.
CC Okay. I've Just been waiting for appropriate time

to come back with you on that. It so happens there
are two vials of 500 eggs each. One labeled tame
and one labeled wild. Diapause refers to the hiber-
nation (laughter).
SPT Stay cool, Crip.
CC I knew I couldn't do it,
SPT I knew I could only get you once though.
346 19 35 45 CC I think that's at least two times. Actually dia-

_ pause refersto the hi - _laughter__ if I could
get Procedures to quit laughing over here - hiber-
nation cycle of the larvae and the egg which lasts
6 to 9 months, normally. Upon hatching (laughter) -
I can't believe it (laughter).
SPT You want to save it for Bruce, Crip?
CC I Just hate to read it during your lunch.

(Laughter). Actually when the larvae hatch, they're
about 3 millimeters long (laughter) and are pure
white (laughter) and hairy.
SPT Go ahead, Crip_ we're all ears.
CC White thinks I need help.
346 19 37 ll CC Well, I'll take Biomed's word. He says they're

3 millimeters long and appear white and hairy.
He says they're primarily veget - vegetarian, so
I don't guess you guys have got any worry, but
they may eat the remaining eggs. And since we've
got no food for those larvae, they are going to
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die at - die shortly. Now in the wild vial, there

may be eggs of other insects; so you might have to
watch out for that, such as wasps (laughter).
Since those eggs were gathered in the field rather
than grown in the laboratory. Lots of luck.
SPT Hey, Crip, would you repeat all after "the first
vial contains?" Thanks, Crip. We got it. We
really would - Seriously, we were interested in
knowing because we've been staring at these fellows
for a long time now and trying to figure out what
we should be looking for. We have not noticed
say change or seen any - any hatching at all. We'll
keep an eye on them.
3_6 19 38 20 CC Okay, Ed. Actually, to be a little bit serious,

the -the time between diapause and hatching is -
is a very short period of tlme,: so actually since
you're not staring at them for every- every mo-
ment, at least I assume that you're not, you prob-
ably are not going to see the diapause phase that -
the first thing that you should notice is the
little larvae crawling around there amongst the
copper eggs, I guess. And since they're white and
hairy, they should really stand out. And, Ed, one
other item I ought to mention. There was a comment
earlier about the time that it took this morning
for the cage flag to go from cage to gray and that
should have been 160 seconds. Now I know it's
kind of hard to estimate, but it should be a
standard time anytime you do a nominal H-CAGE for
it to stay in CAGE for 160 seconds.
SPT You know, Crip, I think it probably was 160 seconds.

We were up here watching it, and when you stare at
a flag 160 seconds seems like a long time. We did
not time it, however.
CC About as long as when you stare at vials, huh?
3h6 19 39 37 SPT Crip, I hate to keep pressing you but, you - you
did say if you could see diapause before the hatch-
ing - or did you indicate that you could actually
see it before the larvae came out?
CC I guess what we're getting down here is - is that,

no, we don't - That's going to he a very short
period of time, and we don't think that you're
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really going to be able to catch any of that so -

you know, it's on the order of minutes. So we
really think that the first thing that you'll be
able to see is - is the hatching.
SPT Thank you, Crip. Appreciate your hanging in there.
CC Anything for you guys. One item for the CDR, if

he happens to be listening, we've got his phone
call set up tonight at 00:48 and that's going to
be over the Canary-Madrid pass.
346 19 40 49 CDR 'l_nk you, Crip.

see you again in shout 6-1/2 minutes over Ascension
at 19:49, 19:49. We'll be doing a data/voice
recorder dump there; and, Ed, in regard to the
82B exposures you missed earlier today. That had
been a set of exposures, so there's really no place
for you to go back and pick them up. And you can
Just forget them and we'll reschedule them.
SPT Crip - okay. I was - It was my impression that

they were trying to learn a little bit about where
their slit looks relative to the white light limb
and that kind of thing. If there're some very
short exposures, I can whistle on over to the
right la - the right limb and pick that up, heck,
inside 3 or 4 minutes.
CC Talk to you about it over Ascension.
346 19 44 04 SPT Thank you.
346 19 49 57 CC b_xylab, Houston AOS Ascension, 6-1/2 minutes, and

we'll be doing a data/voice recorder dump here.
And, Ed, regarding our previous discussion on the
82B exposures on the limb, the feeling here is
that it would be kind of crowded to - to put them
in today. We anticipate probably having to do
another four-limb coalign, maybe tomorrow or the
day after, and we can reschedule the 82B exposures
at that time. So we'd Just as soon you'd forget
about them today and we 'ii get them later.
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SPT Okay, thank you, Crip. Certainly will do. If

anyone's got some thoughts on that four-limb co-
alignement, and the problems - or unanswered ques-
tions we have, I'd appreciate hearing from them.
CC I don't believe we've got a good explanation for

it right now. We're still pondering it ourselves.
3_6 19 55 53 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from LOS. We'll

have you again over Gnam in 37 minutes at 20:33,
20 :33.
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346 20 33 18 CC Skylab, Houston; A0S G1,am, 6 minutes.
CDR Roger, Crip. Have you looked at the tapes yet to

see how the LCDUs went?
CC I don't believe we've - we've got that data in yet.
CDR Okay.
CC We'll - we'll look at it as soon as we get a chance.
3h6 20 38 22 CC Skylab, Houston; i minute to LOS. Vanguard in

33 minutes at 21:11, 21:11.
SPT Crip, I see you haven 't inhibited momentum dump.

Would you like me to do that from here?
CC Yes, Ed. I'd appreciate it if you would.
SPT It 's inhibited.
CC Thank you, sir. That's (laughter) -
Cc That's worth at least one "attaboy" for you.
SPT I'm trying to get back up to ground zero.
346 20 39 30 CC You're doing okay. GNS Just lost one.
346 21 ii ii CC Skylab, Houston; A0S Vanguard, ii minutes.
CDR Roger, Houston.
SPT Houston, SPT.
CC Go, Edward.
SPT Okay, Crip. I'm Just finishing up the building

block 19 here. And it's running along real smooth;
right on schedule. I was looking at the XUV MONITOR
and noticed that the active region coming around the
corner which is 97 is now the brightest one on the
disk. The one which we're working on, 96, is rela-
tively bright, but looks like a fairly old region
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in the chromospheric network is right up to around

1 arc minute on the center of it and it looks as
though it's pretty washed out .... we may see some-
thing on the one that's coming around the corner
and the chromos - the corona and that streamer which
blew off yesterday or the material which moved out
through it ... stretched it out so that there's
only a very faint streamer left ; one at 8 and one
at lO, almost identical to one another. And the
one over there at 230 still remains fairly wide,
going from around B to 2, and it climbs slightly
to the north. No evidence of a transient right
no_.
CC Okay, Ed. Thank you. That's a good rundown on it.
B46 21 14 26 CC Ed, while you're there and - and looking at the

TVs, could I ask you a question that we've been
trying to go over some of the data from the sta-
bility test you ran for us the other day? Can you
tell us have you ever seen any clocking between
the H-alpha reticles and the electronic crosshairs?
Like rotation?
_PT I believe there may be a slight amount. I think

we knew about that before we went though. Hold on,
let me take a look again.
346 21 17 18 CC And, Ed, the consensus here seams to be that the

effect of seeing 97 brighter than 96 is probably
attributable to limb brightening. Also data on it
indicates that they're probably both about the -
about the same brightness and we did See the same
effect, I guess, when 96 was coming around the limb.
SPT Yes, thank you, Crip. I was Just thinking that

after I said it. We Just lined of sight. Thank
yOU.
SPT Right now, I cannot see any clogging. The reticles

themselves are not - you know, they both appear
straight; that is, electronic and mechanical. They
don't exactly lie along one another. There's a
little waviness in there, but I can't see any evi-
dence of blocking, in either H-ALPHA 1 or H-ALPHA 2.
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CC Okay. The reason I asked the question - It would

almost appear from some of the data that we had a -
a bias off of about oh - h to 8 degrees on those
maneuvers that you were doing the other day and
we're still looking at that.
3h6 21 18 52 SPT Crip, I'm afraid I didn't follow you on the - how
you arrived at that biasing from the maneuvers.
Which maneuvers in particular?
CC The little series of maneuvers you did while you

were looking at Mercury. In moving it around, the
fact that it didn't end up in the exact spot that
you were trying to maneuver it to, we can aSmost
account for the differences in all cases by a slight
roll of about oh - h degrees or 6 or depending on
who you're talking to. And, the - and the fact that
the the maneuvers always ended up going a little bit
further than what you - what you desired.
SPT Okay. The clocking may be in the coronagraph itself

then, and not in the H-alpha.
CC Now, we're - we're still Just looking at it in time -

in prep for the 18 Delta that's coming up.
SPT What is the intensity of Kohoutek _elative to Mer-

cury, and should we be able to see it? I think
there's some information there when - at what point
we're able to see Mercury relative to the occulting
disk. I think we can probably extra polate from
that.
CC I'll try to get you some data back on that, Ed.
SPT Thank you.
3_6 21 21 28 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from LOS. We'll

see you again at Ascension in about 3 minutes at
21:25, 21:25.
3h6 21 25 08 SPT Okay.
3h6 21 25 1O CC Skylab, Houston. We're hack with you through

Ascension for 9-1/2 minutes. And, Ed, in answer
to your previous question regarding the br -
relative brightness between Mercury and Kohoutek.
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Kohoutek currently is somewhere between fourth

and fifth m-gnitude, should be getting closer to
the plus 4 by the time we do 18D. Mercury, when
you looked at it, was minus 0.5, so that's at
least a factor of a hundred. Rots of ruck. [sic].
SPT Yes, okay; thank you, Bob. However, we were able

to notice - we were able to observe Mercury when
it came out from behind the occulting disk. And
I don't recall the exact dimensions but, the filter
does have an apprec - an appreciable radio gradient
in it of about a factor of a hundred. So we're not
quite that bad off, and if we might - it might be
on the border line.
CC Roger.
SPT That's if we're unable to initially place it right

on the outside of the WHITE LIGHT CORONAGRAPH DIS-
PLAY. I hope that's what they're shooting for -
putting it right close to the edge.
CC Well, where you saw Mercury end up was Just about

where they were shooting for, and that's relatively -
the relative position they're aiming for right now.
346 21 26 37 SPT Yes, okay, that one's pretty good. They might
want to look in to see where they can move that
out any further or whether you b_ much in terms
of the gradient in that filter. Trade that off
versus the uncertainty you get in there.
CC Well, I think we may be a little bit concerned that

we might miss it a little bit, and have it end up
out of the field of view.
SPT Okay, understand.
346 21 33 50 CC Skylab, Houston. We're going to drop out here in

about 1 minute, and we'll have you again in about
2 minutes over Canary.
346 21 36 44 CC Skylab, Houston. We are back with you. We have

you for about 6-1/2 minutes. And all of your Flight
Plans are on board.
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CC Skylab, Houston. CDR, you - you got a moment to

chat?
346 21 38 21 PLT He's right in the middle of an SO19, Crip.
CC Okay, sorry about that. Bill, I can go ahead and

talk if you got a moment, and talk to you.
PLT Go ahead.
CC Okay, I guess - I'm sure you're probably concerned

about this too, the - the little problem we had
with the 190A filters not being installed. We've
been doing an evaluation of that to see exactly
what it means, and - in terms of sites and what
was affected. As it turns out after investigating
fairly thoroughly, we found out that we've got six
mandatory sites which we're going to have to repeat
and five sites for sensor performance data. And
we can pick all of those up with no problem.
PLT Oh, that's very nice to hear, Crip. I'm really

sorry about that.
_ 346 21 39 13 CC Yes, but - as it turns out it turns out it doesn't

look like it's going to be that big of an impact
at all.
PLT Thank you very much. Takes a terrific load off

of my mind.
CC Roger that.

site is Guam in 26 minutes at 22:09, 22:09 where
we'll be doing a data/voice recorder dump. And by
that team - by that time, the next team should be
on which is the big silver team, and crimson guys
are going off.
SPT So long to the Crimson Crippens.

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SPT Thanks for all that good information on the moth

eggs, Crip.
3h6 21 h3 02 CC That's why I'm crimson.
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3h6 22 08 37 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Guam for i0 minutes

with the data/voice tape recorder dump. Out.
346 22 17 51 CC Skylab, this is Houston. 1 minute to LOS. Next

station contact in Bl minutes through the Van-
guard at 21:_8. Out. Make that 22:48.
346 22 18 06 PLT Roger.
3h6 22 h8 42 CC Skylab, this is Houston through the Vanguard

346 22 53 01 CC Skylab, this is Houston. For the CDR, looking

at the S055 telemetry, we show that DETECTOR 1
is off and we're wondering if that tripped off
or if you turned it off. And are you running
per the schedule pad or are you doing something
additional for us? Over.
CDR Did you copy, Houston?
CC Negative, Jerry, we did not.
3h6 22 53 57 CDR Okay, that was inadvertent on that DETECTOR 1.

I got it on now. What happened is I located a
spray on the limb Just up above the area where
I was doing a J0P 26, and I've got same time left
over here now after the completion of my work.
I'm running a shopping list number 3 on it. I've
taken a 82B frame, 2h0 short, and a zero offset.
I'm now at a plus 2 offset. I thought I'd try
again at a plus 6 offset.
CC Beautiful. Sounds great to us. Thank you.
Bh6 22 55 20 CDR This spray extends above the spicule height in

this area about, oh, l-l/2 times the height of
the spicules.
CC Okay, we copy that, Jer.
346 22 56 44 CC CDR, Houston. We'd like to get an S082A SHORT

WAVELENGTH 40-second long time exposure, if you
would, please.
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CDR The only problem is we're down below 400 K now.
CC Okay. Roger, Jerry. Disregard that. Thank

you.
CDR Roger. I had to truncate the last 82B up to

1 minute and 40 seconds.
CC Roger; we copy.
346 22 57 14 CC And we have about 1 minute to LOS. Next station

contact in ll-1/2 minutes through Canary Islands
at 23:09. Out.
346 23 09 42 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Canary Islands

and Madrid for 13-1/2 minutes. Out.
346 33 21 36 CC Skylab, this is Houston. 1-1/2 minutes until

LOS. Next station contact in 36 minutes through
Honeysuckle Creek at 23:5Y. Out.
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3h6 23 57 56 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Honeysuckle Creek

for 7minutes with the data/voice tape recorder
dump. And CDR private comm coming up next station
contact at Canary Island at 00:48. Out.
CDR Roger, Bruce; thank you.
347 00 04 01 CC Skylab, this is Houston; 1 minute until LOS.

Next station contact in 39 - belay that - in
h4 minutes through Canary Island at 00:48. Out.
3h7 00 48 l0 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Canary Island

and M_idrid for 12 minutes. CDR private phone
call, LEFT ANTENNA on VHF. Out.
347 00 59 51 CC Skylab, this is Houston; 30 seconds to LOS. Next

station contact in 27 minutes through Carnarvon
at 01:27; see you there. Out.
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347 01 26 17 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Carnarvon for

8-1/2 minutes. We'll be dumping the data/voice
tape recorder at Honeysuckle on the tail end of
this overlapping pass. Out.
347 01 35 i0 CC Skylab, this is Houston now coming to you through

Honeysuckle Creek with a data/voice tape recorder
dump. Out.
CDR Houston, CDR.
CC Go ahead, CDR.
CDR Roger. In my phone call, my wife mentioned that

we might be visible over Houston tomorrow morning
about 6:04 or something like that. Would you check
that out?
CC We will indeed.
CDR Okay.
CC You want to turn your lights on or something?
CDR Yes, we thought we'd wave or something.
347 01 37 37 CC And, Skylab. We've taken control of the VTR to

dump same.
CDR Roger.
347 01 40 35 CC Skylab, this is Houston; 30 seconds to LOS. Next

station contact in 34 minutes through Merritt Island
at 02:14. Out. And at Merritt Island we'll be
standing by for the evening status report. Also,
we're working on the verification of the time you
gave us as being the time of closest approach to
Houston. We'll get back to you as soon as we get
the word on it.
347 Ol 41 i0 CDR Thank you, Bruce.
347 02 14 31 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Merritt Island and

Bermuda. Standing by for the evening status report.
And we're with you for 11-1/2 minutes. Over.
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CDR Roger, Bruce. Be right with you.
CDR Okay. You ready to copy?
CC Let her rip.
347 02 15 17 CDR Okay. Sleep: CDR, 8.0, 6 heavy, 2 light; SPT,

8.0, 8.0 heavy; PLT, 8.0, 7 heavy, i light. Volume:
CDR, 2250; SPT, 1500; PLT, 1850. Water gun: CDR,
7298; SPT 2531; PLT, 8691. Body mass: CDR, - cor-
rection, 6.307, 6.307, 6.308; SPT, 6.365, 6.366,
6.364; PLT, 6.242, 6.240, 6.234. Exercise. CDR,
standard routine with the exception of method Alfa,
minus 2 minutes. SPT, no change. PLT, no change.
Medications: CDR, SPT, and PLT, none. Garments
discarded: CDR, one pair of socks; SPT, one pair
of shorts, one T-shirt; PLT, none. Food log: CDR,
zero salt, plus one cherry drink, plus 1.0 water;
SPT, 9.0 salt, plus one tea, zero water; PLT, zero
salt, plus one cherry drink, minus 1 ounce of water.
Okay. Flight Plan deviations, none. Shopping list
accomplishments, none. Inoperable equipment dis-
position: the S183 1-1 carrousel has been checked
out and restowed. Unscheduled stowage, none.
Photo log: no 16-millimeter DAC used today. _
Nikon 01, Charlie X-ray 36, 30; Nikon 2, no change;
Nikons 3 and h, no change; Nikon 5, Bravo Hotel 04,
42. 70-millimeter. Charlie X-ray 17, 032; ETC,
no change; EREP, no change. Dra_r A configuration,
no change. That 's it.
3h7 02 17 55 CC Okay, Jerry. We copy all that. And does that

Nikon 05 include an allowance for the $233 stuff
coming up here shortly?
CDR That' s affirmative.
CC All righty. And on S183 in the mal, is canis-

ter 1-1 considered serviceable now?
PLT I can't really tell, Bruce. I went through the

procedure; however, I found it extremely difficult
to rotate the - the small gear down below with my
finger. So I took some pin-pliers and reached down
in there, and it moved quite eas - quite easily
with the pliers. I aligned it, and I will put the
rest of the information on tape. The drilled hole
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was 45 degrees to - counterclockwise from the

12 o'clock position using the hatch opening as a
12 o'clock position reference. I did everything
it said, and we'll - Just remains to be seen as to
whether or not it will function.
CC Okay. Thank you very much, Bill. Sounds like you

did a real fine Job of checking it out there. Now,
for the evening questions. We have one here that
concerns television operations and planning in the
future. On the second time that you run through
JOP 18, which is 5 days from now on - excuse me -
on day 33, we would like you to set up the color
camera to watch you make the observations. You
would use the VIDEO select switch to go from the
color camera to ATM video after the comet is in
view, Which is essentially what Ed did on TV-28 a
few days ago. The voice we'd be looking for would
not be planned narration, but Just some conversation
about what you're doing. How does that sound to
you all?
SPT Sounds all right for the second time through, Bruce.
347 02 19 52 CC Okeydoke. And also sometime next week, we'd like

to schedule a tour of the cameras and instruments
that you're using to study Kohoutek. This partic-
ular item is not scripted or arranged in the TV
Ops Book. We can send you up a short pad, giving
the sort of things that we want, but you'll pretty
much be on your own; have to wing it. We're esti-
mating it will take about an hour of two-man time,
one for the cameraman and one for the tour guide
and narrator. How does it sound to you?
PLT That sounds great. The more information you give

us, of course, the better. We understand the limi-
tations of the teleprinter, of course. But $201,
I don't know too much about, and it's the only one
that we ne - we've never really studied as far as
the theory of its operation, so if there's just a
few words on how that thing functions.
CC Okay. We'll certainly do that, and we'll try to

work up a - a series of things that you can do in
sort of a coherent fashion to have some coherency
to the thing as you work through. Last item on the
subject of TV is TV-6 of the M092 operations. Stand
by a second.
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347 02 21 ii CC Okay, we're going to have a handover here in about

30 seconds, so I may drop out for a few of them.
On M092, we'll be scheduling TV-6 in the not too
far distant future here. And as you may recall,
it's a relatively complex telecast; it uses'both
cameras. And I don't believe you've been through
exactly this configuration, so you'd probably have
to pay fairly close attention to the book to get
the scenes to work out right in the ground editing.
You'll probably want to put a little extra time
into preparation for it. And we have two options ;
we can either give you 15 minutes or half an hour
extra before you perform it for you to spend some
time with the checklist and the cameras and the TV
Ops Book. Or if you like to try dry running it once
without the VTR before you do it for real, we could
schedule it that way. And we'd like your feelings
on which way would be preferable. Over.
PLT We'd much prefer the dry run so we can look at the
monitor and get a feel for the time involved, and,
you know, change of scenes and that sort of thing.
347 02 22 21 CC Okay, we copy that. And from the biomed side of

the house, if you think back - back on good old
mission day ll, the question has been raised as
to whether the limb volume measurements were per-
formed on the PLT. We apologize for letting this
much time go by before we check on it, but we've
been looking for the data in the voice recorder
dumps and haven't seen it. And were Ju - we're
not sure whether you, in fact, performed it or not.
If you did do it on mission day ll, at your con-
venience we'd like for you to put the information
on the voice recorder again. Over.
CDR Bruce, where would that be recorded? Would it still

have been in the biomed? Or there was still some
data going into the activation.
CC No, that should have been in the section l_ pages,

like 14-3 or 4 of the - -
CDR Okay, we're taking a look.
CC - - Biomed Experiments Checklist.

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PLT Okay, and while we 're looking that up, going back
to your suggestion re - regarding some sort of
coherent scenario for the review of the comet obser-
vations. We buy that lO0 percent and - based on
chronology or any sort of systematic runthrough
in the description of what we've done to date.
CC Okay.
347 02 23 56 PLT What day of the year, DOY, was mission day ii?
CC Day 330.
PLT 330. Thank you.
CC And for the SPT, if you're not flipping pages there,

question from the ATM world. They'd like to know
if the S052 occulting disk image indicates any
obliqueness. If so, is the obliqueness the same
as displayed on MONITOR 1 as on MONITOR 2? Over.
SPT Subjectively, Bruce, there is some obliqueness, and

also I cannot now say that there is a difference
between the two. However, I can go up and - next
.- time I'm up there, make a few measurementsand give
you any eccentricities that there might be involved.
CC Okay, we'd appreciate that. And you can either

give it to us in real time or put it on the dump
tape, either way.
CC Skylab, this is Houston; 30 seconds to LOS. Next

station contact through Madrid in 4 minutes at
02:29. And we'll see you there. Out.
SPT Roger, Bruce. Just a quick question: will I be

using that carrousel 1-1 tomorrow? Haven't got
that 183 pad yet.
CC Yes, you will, Bill.
347 02 25 53 PLT ThAn1_you.
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347 02 30 06 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Madrid for

7-1/2 minutes. And for the CDR, we confirm that
12:0h Zulu, or 06:Oh local time, for essentially
your closest approach to Houston. Actually
it's 12:04:32, and you will be northeast of
Houston at that time at an elevation of about
35 degrees and a slant range of about 383 miles.
Over.
CDR Roger. Thank you, Bruce.
CC You still want to flash the lights when you go

over?
CDR We'll do awing roll.
347 02 30 59 CC Wait'll we run that one on the MMP, the SLS,

and STAC [?], if you really want to.
347 02 36 57 CC Skylab, this is Houston; i minute until LOS. Next

i station contact in 26 minutes through Carnarvon
at 03:03, private medical conference. And
for the CDR, we have reviewed the dump data from
your trim burn. And looking at the OCDUs, we
have found no problems with that. Over.
PLT Thanks a lot, Bruce. He's doing a 233 right now.
CC Okeydoke, you pass it on to him later.
CDR I got it, Bruce. Comet's rising right on time.
347 02 37 36 CC We're glad to hear that.
347 03 13 56 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Honeysuckle for

4minutes. Out.
347 03 14 45 CC Skylab, this is Houston. For the CDR, we need

to get another frame count on Nikon 5. When you
read it down earlier this evening in the photo
log, it showed a count of 42, which would indicate
that you only took one frame on the S233 operations
today instead of the six that were intended. Over.
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CDR I knew you'd catch us, eagle eye.
CC What does that mean?
CDR It means you're right. The frame count's 47.
CC Okay, thank you very much.
347 03 17 O0 CC Skylab, this is Houston; 1 minute to LOS. Next

station contact in 33 minutes through Corpus
Christi at 03: 46. Out.

Merritt Island, and Bermuda for 16 minutes. And
I've got a few items for the CDR here and then
the evening news. Over.
CDR Go ahead, Bruce.
347 03 47 00 CC Okay, Jer. Both of these concern the trim burn

which you did the other day. During that burn
once again we noticed the SERVICE MODULE RCS
quad Bravo FUEL MANIFOLD PRESSURE and the HELIUM
PRESSURE tracking the PSM fuel pressure as the
burn progressed. From that we infer that the
RCS quad Bravo FUEL QUAD ISOLATION valve is still
not feeding properly. There will be a checklist
change coming up to you shortly that will shut
quad Bravo off from the PSM; that is, close the
quad Bravo to PSM interconnect, but don't do it
until we get that up to you. Over.
CDR Okay, Bruce. Thank you.
347 03 h7 51 CC About all that that's doing is guarding you

against leakage through the thrusters in quads A,
C, or D, so that if that happened, it would not
be able to pull the B fuel down. The other item
concerns your question on the cage talkback
associated with the nominal H-CAGE which you
did after the trim burn. We've analyzed the
data and it shows that it was on for 160 seconds,
which is exactly right. And we think the system
is functioning as advertised. Over.
3h7 03 h8 29 CDR Yes, we discussed that with Crip a little earlier

this afternoon. I guess Just standing there and
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looking at it and waiting for it to go, 160 seconds

seems like a long time.
PLT And, Bruce, PLT with the ATM frame count, if you
want.
CC Okay, let her rip, Bill. No need to read off the

identification of the instruments, Just read them
in order from the top down.
347 03 48 53 PLT i0, 623, 3577, !23, 1014, 5269, 3504.
CC Mighty fine, thank you. And I understand from our

GNS that we Just got the final reduction of the
data here on this nominal H-CAGE and talkback
performance, so we got the numbers to back it up
now.
347 03 49 26 CDR Good enough, Bruce. You might have - you might
notice on there that the rates were very small
this time. And in fact we were well below the
0.03 degrees per second very, very quickly after
the termination of the burn. I &mess that's what
made it seem like such a long time while we were
waiting for that talkback to go gray.
CC Roger. We copy.
CC And if you're ready, I can hold forth with a couple

of minutes of world news here.
347 03 50 06 CC And before I go on that, on S055 we need the HIGH

VOLTAGE switch to DETECTOR 1 off and also the
GRATING POSITION to 630. And for the CDR, wakeup
in the morning will be through Corpus Christi at
ll: 59 Zulu.
CDR Roger. Thank you, Bruce.
347 03 50 38 CC Okay, the big news stories of today, centered on

the energy crisis as the White House proposed
cutting gasoline production 25 percent, effective
December 27. The regulations proposed would give
priority to emergency service, a_ricultural pro-
duction, public transportation services, and energy
producers who buy gasoline in bulk. But retail
service stations are at the bottom of the priorities,
getting what is left over. Stand by for handover.
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347 03 51 14 CC In related energy stories, President and Mrs. Nixon

will participate Friday in the traditional lighting
of the national Christmas tree, but the tree itself
will not carry lights this year as an energy con-
servation move; however, it will be spotlighted.
And the University of Mi_ml launched an advertising
campaign today directed at attracting students
who may be forced to miss winter semesters at
northern universities due to fuel shortages.
London: Secretary of State Henry Kissinger proposed
today that the European allies and Japan Join the
United States in a crash program to surmount the
oil shortage by developing new energy sources and
conserving _upplies. Kissinger spoke at the end
of a crowded day in which he added Algeria to his
tour of Arab countries before leaving England.
U.S. District Judge John J. Sirica plans to turn
over copies of two more subpoenaed presidential
tapes to special Watergate prosecutor Leon Jaworski
of Houston. The tapes turned over today contain
conversations held between President Nixon and aides
on March 21, 1973. Foreign Minister Abba Eban
reaffirmed that Israel will attend the Arab-Israeli
peace conference in Geneva next week despite the
threat of an Israeli boycott from Defense Minisher -
Minister Moshe Dayan. Storms raked the nation's
northernmost corners today, spreading rain and
snow in the northwest and snow in the northeast.
Winds gusting to nearly 60 miles per hour whipped
snow and rain in the northern intermountain region
and the northern Rockies.
347 03 52 _0 6 to 7 inches of snow covered the ground in Maine.

Aboard the Queen Elizabeth II, the weary skygazers
failed to view the comet Kohoutek early today in
their last sighting attempt before steAm_ng back
to New York. About 200 passengers roused to stand
on the soggy afterdecks vainly searching for an
opening in the stubborn mass of gray clouds over
the Eastern seaboard. The most celebrated passenger
aboard, Lubos Kohoutek, has been trailed by auto-
graph hunters and a television film crew. The
Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory said that
the comet appears as a white blob about l0 to 15
degrees above the southeast horizon Just before
sunrise each day this week, But I guess that's
no news to you all. Today it was reported that
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an instrument aboard Mariner i0 has detected

ultraviolet ra - radiation from the Gum Nebula
so intense that it corresponds to temperatures as
high as I00,000 degrees, l0 times the surface
temperature of the Sun and twice the temperature
of the hottest stars seen frc_ the Earth and from
orbiting satellites. The wire services carried
stories today about your trim burn. They quote
Jerry as saying, "The burn was smooth as glass."
347 03 53 50 The stock market, which brokers say is confused

and bewildered over the extent and impact of the
nation's fuel shortages, fell sharply today. The
Dow Jones average of 30 industrials slumped 23.h5
points to 810.73. Not too much in the way of
sports today, but one interesting sidelight reports
that Dallas Cowboy Coach Tom Landry has filed a
protest with the National Football League over
irregularities by the Washington Redskins in their
Sunday clash. Landry said, "We had six illegal
procedure penalties because the Redskin defense
was yelling hut-hut-hut when Roger Staubach was
calling signals. We protested to the League
office because it's illegal to Jam quarterback
F signals." And that's 30 for tonight. Over.
3h7 03 5h 37 CDR Hut-hut-hut.
CC (Laughter) I'm taking enough flack down here in the

Control Room right now without you guys adding
to it.
CDR Just thought we'd do a little JAmming of our own.
3h7 03 55 13 CDR Bruce, I think the passengers on the Queen Elizabeth

probably shouldn't feel too badly; we can't even
see it here with the naked eye, really.
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347 04 02 21 CC Skylab, this is Houston; i minute to LOS, last

pass of the evening. We'll see you over Corpus
Christi at 11:59 Zulu. Out.
CDR Roger. Good night, Bruce. And good night,

silver team.
CC Roger. Good night. And you can say "Good

night, Dick," if you want, because Dick Truly
is down here too.
MCC Say good night, Dick.
CDR Dick who?
MCC Thanks a lot.
SPT Good night, Dick.
PLT Good night, Dick.
_ MCC Good night, guys. I'ii wake you up in the

morning.
347 04 03 06 SPT We're looking forward to it.
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347 ii 58 17 (Music: "Eli's Coming" by Three Dog Night)
347 ll 58 57 CDR Morning, Houston, this is Skylab. Time to get

up and watch us fly over.
347 ll 59 02 CC Hey, thanks for waking us up down here. That

was great. We're all going to run out of Mission
Control and look up at you as you go over.
SPT Morning, gang.
CC Good morning up there.
347 ll 59 40 PLT Morning, Dick.
CC Good morning, sir. You guys get a good night's

sleep?
PLT Pretty good.
_ 3h7 12 03 23 CC Skylab, Houston. As you guys get prepared, I

hope, to look down and see what the city of
Houston looks like real early in the morning,
you might tell us what it does look like. I'm
sure that Bill is hustling due to that note on
the first part of his details about eating early
so he can have a little time in between break-
fast and PT. I have one correction to the
detail Flight Plans that I'd like to get up here
at this site. And that is - is on - on the SPT
and the PLT details at 12:17, the handheld op-
portunity is the wrong number. It should be
lOl-15 vice 105-15, and that's a metropolitan
area, the city of Brazilia. And the EREP officer
reports that the weather over Brazilia is sup-
posed to be good. So if Jerry or Ed has a chance
to get it, it's handheld 101-15. Out.
347 12 04 24 CDR Roger, Dick. Thanks.
CC Okay.
347 12 05 20 SPT Houston looks pretty good early in the morning

there, Dick. It's pretty sprawling; it reaches
a lot more - further out than I thought it would.
Looks like a good place to live.
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CC Well, it is. We had a couple of guys go out

awhile ago to look up into the sky and try to
see the comet this morning, but from down here
the haze was kind of bad and no chance.
347 12 ii 21 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about a minute from

LOS. The purple gang isn't going to see you for
about another hour and 20 minutes. I'l! give
you a call at Goldstone at 13:32.
347 12 ii 34 CDR Roger. We'll see you then.
CC Roger. Have fun on the long way around.
CDR I think we'll Just go back to bed.
CC Me too.
347 12 12 15 CC Skylab, Houston. As we go over the hill, looks

like the flow on the ATM C&D loop is going down.
You might go up and listen to it and see if you
hear that gurgle sound we've been trying to get
you to listen for.
CDR Okay.
347 12 12 34 CC Roger. You might also check the DELTA-P light

on panel 203. We Just saw the flow begin to
start down.
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SKYLABAIR-T0-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION
347 13 32 07 CC Skylab, Houston. Hello, stateside for 14 minutes.
CDR Hello, Richard. On that EREP - or ATM coolant loop,

yea verily, old Charlie was right. We got a - a
LOW DELTA-P light up there, but he blew it on the
noise. It's not a gurgle; it's Just a whine.
CC No gurgle but a whine,-huh?
CDR Right. Actually, it's lack of a whine. Sounds

like the pump is - oh, you're pumping air on it's -
no, it would - yes, I think it would probably whine
more if it was pumping air. But there's a definite
decrease in the whine that you hear of a pump run-
ning. And then when the DELTA-P light came back
off again and the pump started pumping again, you
could hear it coming in louder.
347 13 32 59 CC Roger. About how long did this last, Jerry?
CDR Oh, I think it was about 3 minutes.

f-
CC Roger. Well, I'm glad we were AOS at least there

for a few seconds so we could see it coming and get
you up there to look at it.
347 13 3B 16 CDR Yes. That was a good call, Dick.
CC Say, Jerry, while I'm talking to you, I'd like to

make one mirror correction to your detail pad for
today.
3h7 13 33 30 CDR Okay. Go ahead.
CC Roger. At a time of 19:28 down there where it says

S183 FI, and it says use PLT ops pad, there is
PLT ops pad. It's your pad and - and so you can
Just delete that or put it in parentheses that the
film installation information is on the S183 pad
that's addressed to you.
CDR Okay. Copy, Dick.
CC Okay. A couple other things, l'm sure you've look-

ed through the pads already this morning, but there
is one concerning S183 and - and its status; some
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words on S18 - 83 that we thought you ought to be

a_are of and you might take a look at. And also
for the friendly SPT today so he can make his plans:
His family COMM is set up this evening at a time
of 01:32 at Bermuda. And we'll remind him again
later. Ol :32.
347 13 34 30 CDR Okay. Very good, Dick, and one thing for you. At
05:00 Zulu this morning I sent down a special mes-
sage for Jerry Hordinsky. It's a little farewell
note to Dee 0'Hara. So would you give Jerry a call
and let him know that it's on tape, and it's ti -
time tagged 05:00 Zulu, and ask him to get it?
CC I will certainly do that, Jerry.
PLT Dick -
347 13 35 26 PLT - And - Houston, Skylab; PLT.
CC Roger, Bill. Go ahead.
PLT Roger. Kohoutek has really got a significant tail

now. I can see it with the naked eye and also in
the - the binoculars. It looks like it's grown
quite a bit since the last time I took observation.
So it ought to become, you know, visible from the
ground shortly if it isn't already.
CC Roger. We'd love to have any description you can

give us of it.
3h7 13 36 02 PLT Okay. There's a fairly bright star near the end
of its tail. Actually, I don't know; the astonomers
would probably know which star I'm talking about.
But the tail extends from the head of the comet back
to - to that star which - for which I don't know
the name. And I don't know - Just Judging, I'd say
2 to 3 degrees is the length of the tail. And it's
significantly brighter and longer and more distinct
than it was previously. That was, I guess, yester-
day morning or day before yesterday, the last time
I took a good look at it with the binocs. And I
was able to keep it in view even as the Sun was
coming up, so it seems to be brightening consider-
ably. I haven't - I don't want to give any undue
hope of it being very - you know, real bright, but
I can definitely see it with the unaided eye and I
can see the tail.
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CC ()kay. Thank you very much for the information.

I'm looking at a star chart now. And you might
glance if you have a chance at that message we sent
up of those - of that little star chart. I'm not
sure if it's detailed enough, but probably if we
could identify the star that'd help us in tail len -
length and dimensions.
3_7 13 37 23 PLT ()kay. I'ii sure do that. I - I Just hope I've got
the right star.
3h7 13 h00l CC And, Skylab, Houston; for CDR and PLT. We were kind
of expecting to see some TV from TV-16 on the VTR
so far, and I notice it's not there. Just a re-
minder that it - it was listed for this morning's
operation.
CDR Yes. We're just getting ready to start it now,

Dick.
3h7 13 h0 19 CC Okay. Good.
3h7 13 _5 h2 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about h5 seconds from LOS.

Vanguard comes up at 13:57.
3h7 13 56 25 CC Good morning, Skylab. The crimson team is with you.

AOS over Vanguard for ll minutes. And I hope we're
not going to talk about moth eggs today.
CDR Now that you mention it, Crip.
CC I heard you guys gave us a little music this morning.

Sorry I missed it.
CDR Well, we decided you were about due for a little

Three Dog Night.
CC We'll see if we can't return the favor some day.

One of my favorite groups.
CDR Why don't you play us a little Three Dog Night

Christmas music some time, like "Joy to the World"?
3h7 13 57 21 CC You're reading my mind.
SPT Houston, Sl°T.
CC Go, SPT.
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SPT Hey, Crip, the Sun center position for S052 has
changed a little bit on the FINE SUN SENSOR read-
out.
347 13 58 35 CC Copy. The Sun center position has changed. Can

you - -
SPT Yes. Yes, it was in LEFT/RIGHT minus 33_ it still

is that. It used to be plus 3 in UP/DOWN; now
it's plus 6; 3 arc seconds' drift in about 2 days.
CC Our initial thought on that is that it is probably

due to switching fine Sun sensors. And I'm assum-
ing this is with no BIAS in, right?
SPT No, right after we switched fine Sun sensors, I

looked at it and wrote down the numbers. So it
was - actually it was yesterday, I guess then.
So it really is only over 1 day. I - I had a
plus B in - I'm sorry, plus 3 in LEFT/RIGHT is
what has changed. Now it's plus 6. UP/DOWN is
a minus S and that's remained the same.
CC Okay, copy. It was from plus 3 to plus 6 since

yesterday in UP - in - correction, LEFT/RIGHT.
And the UP/DOWN is minus 33.
SPT That's right. I've noticed a - a similar drift

when we were on the other fine Sun sensor. I
didn't report the details, however. I'll try to
keep up with this one.
347 13 59 54 CC Okay. And Just for clarification, Ed, can you

say that is with BIAS IN or OUT?
347 14 02 17 CDR Crip, we're all finished with the VTR.
SPT Hold on, CRIP; I'll put the ATM work on it, and
then it'll be all set.
CC Copy that.
347 14 04 52 CC SPT, Houston. Ed, regarding the difference you've

seen in S052 from that LEFT/RIGHT drift, I guess
we don't consider that 52 is probably that accurate
and that could - could explain that - that slight
change. Regarding our - our switch to the SECONDARY
FINE SUN SENSOR, we told you yesterday we may be
doing another four-limb coalignment and switching
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back to the PRIMARY. We're probably going to go

ahead and get another four-limb coalignment on
the SECONDARY as another data point within the
next couple of days before we do any switching,
if we do any switching.
347 lh 05 29 SPT Okay. Thank you, Bob.
CC Roger. And, Ed, for you, or for CDR or somebody,

I guess, we've got Tananarive coming up in about
19 minutes. It's not obvious to us that we really
need corm through there, but we don't have any
co_m_nd capability through Vanguard here, and so
we can't select the correct antenna. It's your
option. If we want co_ through Tananarive, we
need somebody to go to the command module and get
about three switches for us. And I can give you
those if somebody can copy them down.
347 14 06 07 SPT Go ahead, Crip.
CC Okay, all it is, is select OMNI B TAPE RECORDER,

FORWARD/REWIND switch off; and then a COMMAND
RESET. Correction on that. Instead of OMNI B,
it's OMNI Delta.
SPT Okay, OMNI Delta; TAPE RECORDER, FORWARD to off

and COMMAND RESET.
CC That's correct. And if you do it, we need you to

do it in that order to keep from losing some data.
And we're about 30 seconds from LOS. Tananarive
is in 17-1/2 minutes at 14:25, 14:25. If we miss
that pass or you elect not to sele - make that
selection, Goldstone is an hour and 5 minutes at
15:12, 15:12.
SPT Okay, Crip; looking at the corona, the streamer

structure which is ou - up at l0 o'clock which
was a single one yesterday has split into two
very strange streamers. The one down there at
8 o'clock, the single one, is still there but
there is some structure between 8 and 08:30 - about
half the distance out to the edge of the display
which is now there - fairly diffused, but it was
not there yesterday. The one over there at
3 o'clock or so remains unchanged. But the ... - -
J
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347 14 07 42 CC Over the hill, Ed. We'll try to look at it on

the downlink.
347 14 24 06 SPT Houston, Skylab.
CC Hello, Edward, we're with you here for about 2-1/2

minutes.
SPT Okay, just checking to see if you were there. Do

you want me to reconfigure after you go over the
hill?
CC No, we can handle that at Goldstone when we get

yOU.
CDR Houston, CDR.
CC Go, CDR.
CDR Looking over some checklist cue card changes here,

I find that we do not have change number 1 to S063
comet cue card. I'm wondering if that's the cue
card itself. Now that's the entire cue card that
was tele - teleprintedup to us.
CC We'll check that for you.
CDR Okay.
CC Okay, Jerry, you're right. That was the whole

new card was classified as change 1.
CDR Okay, thanks.
347 14 25 32 CC Skylab, Houston. We're probably going to go LOS

here in about 1 minute. And we'll see you again
in 46 minutes over Goldstone at 15:12, 15:12.
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347 15 12 14 CC Skylab, Houston; AOS Goldstone for 2-1/2 minutes.

We see you en route back to solar inertial.
CDR Houston, did you send a crew alert?
CC Negative. Stand by.
CC Skylab, Houston. We copy the crew alert. We're

checking systems, and we haven't seen anything
yet that - for the - that would cause it.
3h7 15 lh 14 SPT Okay, Houston, we Just got a second crew alert

about 15 seconds ago.
CC Okay. We copied that one also. We're still

looking.
CC Skylab, Houston. We seem to be getting that alert

coincident with us trying to do some antenna com-
manding. Would you check the CO_9@/_D RESET in
_-- the commandmodule that went back to center posi-
tion. We're 1 minute from LOS. We'll see you
again at Vanguard in about 18 minutes. At - Van-
guard is at 15:33; we'll be doing a data/voice
recorder dump there. It's also scheduled for the
ATM conference. And we don't - don't see any
system problems at this time.
CDR Okay, Crip. The switch is now back to the center

position. It was not.
3h7 15 15 37 CC Okay. That was probably our problem.
3h7 15 33 19 CC Skylab, Houston. AOS Vanguard ll minutes ; doing

a data/voice recorder dump. Turning the mike over
to Bill Lenoir.
SPT Okay. Very good. Go ahead, Bill.
MCC Okay, Ed. Let me Just start off going real quick
through today's plan here. We've got seven sets
of J0P 26 BB10's where we're looking at the limb,
plus 2 and minus 2 - that's backwards, minus 2
and plus 2 arc minutes, primarily to get comparative
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spectra for 82B. At the same time 55 will be

getting a - Oh, I don't know what the right word,
is - a mini-supuraster of the limb. They'll be
getting a limb swath there. We chose the south pole
because its boundary is sharper at the coronal hole
there, and, historically, it's better - a little
bit more active with plumes and things of this
nature than the north pole has been. During this,
one of the S055 detector settings is 874 MECHANICAL,
which has an OPTICAL equivalent of 772. And Just
for your information, that's the old 766 OPTICAL,
although this is now optimized to put neon VII in
the middle of the band rather than on the edge.
The old n1_mher was a compromise to get a little
bit of both neon VII and carbon III. And now we're
optimizing to get the neon VII limb to 465 line
right in the middle.
347 15 34 45 SPT May I have that wavelength again, Bill? I'ii

write it down here.
MCC Okay. It's neon VII line at limb of 465.
SPT GRATING setting from 766 to what?
MCC 772 OPTICAL, and we're listing it today at

874 MECHANICAL, which brings me to my next point.
Early in the day, we put the switch to MECHANICAL
REFERENCE and we leave it there for a major part
of the day because if we did not do that you had
something like 9 or lO times on five orbits that
you had to swap back and forth from OPTICAL to
MECHANICAL. We thought that was probably bad, so
we put it in MECHANICAL early, left it there for
the whole time, and then we put it back to OPTICAL
later on.
347 15 35 28 SPT Okay. That's a good way to work. We'll all re-
member that we 're at MECHANICAL.
MCC Okay. Basically, that's a quick look at today,

other than what you could see yourself looking at
the schedule. One point for tomorrow. We have
no JOP 18D, as you're probably aware by now. This
was deleted. It appeared that only 52 would be
able to see it and get any useful data. We're not
a 100 percent sure we understand all the r-m_ fica-
tions of the pointing test, so we have deleted that
J0P 18D. We will be picking up the next one at
mission day 33, which is 5 days from now.
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SPT Okay. Did you delete it because of - you wanted

more time to study it or because you wanted an
increased brightness?
347 15 36 12 MCC Both. And at this point, the brightness isn't

sufficient that we think very many experiments
will be getting any useful data. So we wanted
really a little bit of both.
SPT Okay.
MCC Okay. Now on tomorrow's plan, let me get any in-

puts you've got to tomorrow's plan. We're looking
at like about 5-1/2 orbits' worth of ATM. One
thing here, we do not have the TV downlink today
in order to get XUV MON. If you've got any thoughts
from the XUV MON or anything that looks different
and worth pointing out to us for our planning
conference at noon, if you tell it to me now, I'll
mske sure everybody's aware of it.
SPT I Just put some on the VTR. You will not have
that in time?
MCC Negative. Apparently we don't have the time to

dump that and get it back in to here prior to
the planning conference.
SPT Okay, on the XUV MONITOR, what showed up essentially

is the active regions, which have been called out
on the pad. And also some plage over by - -
CC Could I break in for a minute? Bill, would you

turn off HIGH VOLTAGE DETECTORS 6 and 7, please?
347 15 37 26 SPT Okay, it shows up over there by filament 53. In

the XUV monitor, I don't see anything that's out
of the ordinary or worth pursuing. The corona
over on the east limb has been changing. The
streamer now at i0 o'clock has broken into two
very distinct, very sharply defined streamers,
seeing as we have had a fair amount of change over
there recently. And also the Smith longitude is
pretty much close to the limb, and the Herman
longitude is Just coming around right after that.
I think we ought to keep a close eye on the corona
and try to schedule in as many observations of
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that as we can. We'll try to slip in as many

shopping list items as we can. That's the only
thing that I see on the Stm that has any appreciable
time rate of change.
3h7 15 38 08 SPT A coronal hole boundary to the south is good to

work. It's not as sharply defined as we've seen
before; that is, 2 days ago. The prominence and
filsments are not very dense. I did see a prom-
inence, if you will, or maybe it was a s_mSl surge
up at the north pole earlier this morning. That's
in deference to your statement about most of it
being in the south. I guess there happened to be
one up there this morning. What you're doing as
far as the spectra of the limb - the southeast
quadrant looks good. It's probably as useful as
we can do with the Sun we have. And the other
question is chromospheric network again. And I'm
wondering whether they have really explored that,
in particular looked for spectra of downdrafts, or
looked at downdrafts at all in - in detail to try
to understand the - what really goes on at the
vertices of several cells coming together. We
have carbon lines which we're supposed to be able
to find themin.
347 15 39 00 SPT I've not tried that yet, and I'm wondering how
useful it is. And I'm wondering whether we want
to get some spectra there. We could - matter of
fact, we could do on any one of these a 9 by 9
spectra. That is, take the grating of one particu-
lar position, and then eight different, positions
around it and get spectra. Whether that would be
useful in the downdraft, I'm not sure - or line
profiles. And again we need information here on
which lines would be the best to do line profiles
for. And that holds true for almost all the phe-
nomena we have up here. We know which lines are
most prominent, but they may not be the best lines
to do line profiles in .... - -
MCC Okay - Okay, Ed, one thing here we did talk about,
the chromospheric networks, a bit earlier. For
now, the reason we are not doing it is there's a
conclusion that the 82B slit is too long to really
look at the boundaries there without any - inter-
nal part of the network - without filling in too
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much with other things. 55 does have some data,

and they will be returning later. But the other
thing that's appropriate here is that particular
JOP and series of building blocks does not burn
up 82B film as much as the JOPs that we're
concentrating on now. So in our attempt to
usefully use the 82B film prior to the comet
observations, we've gone away from chromospheric
networks. We will return to them later, primarily
with S055 though.
347 15 40 28 SPT Okay. I understand that. In use of a nonchromo-

spheric network - that is, the slit - there may
be some portions where we - excess - especially
at cell center where we would only get the spectra
from the relatively bright portions of the cells
or in Certain lines of the boundaries. And maybe
they can think a little more about that. But I
won't push that one.
MCC Okay, and your remarks on the corona are well

taken here. The 52 PIs and team here certainly
do want to thank you for the SL-l's you've been
giving; that's good work and you got the word on
the STANDARD MODE being okay occasionally, when
that looks like a good thing to do that'll fit
in. So that they're very happy with the way those
are coming along.
347 15 hl 13 CDR Okay. Very good. That's where we've put a

little of the emphasis because that's where the
activity looks. I certainly hope that when
Herman shows up, we're going to see a lot more
activity.
MCC Yes, so do we. Incidentally, speaking of that,

the forecast here for the next 7 days as to what's
coming up, we've got a couple of filaments. We've
got F-37, which should be coming over the limb
beginning tomorrow, finishing limb passage the -
the following day - no, make that day after
tomorrow - finishing the following day, at which
time active regions 93 and 98 should be returning.
The day after that is a crew day off. The following
day is a big day. Active regions 87/92 return.
We have a comet, 18-D, that day. And also L-h,
the lunar libration point JOP 10, will be worked
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that day. Then F-39 returns, active region 96.

And finally on mission day 36, which is 8 days
m_ay, we have another comet JOP. And right now
the target is at the first one that 82B will
participate in.
347 15 h2 21 SPT Okay, that all sounds very good. That - that
brings up a point. If you ever want to send up
a 7-day forcast on ATM activity major blocks -
feel free. That would be useful information
for the planning. Also on 18-D, I would llke
to have about an hour or so of time to look over
and correlate the pad which you send up with
the JOP Sl_ma/_ Sheet; get all the information
in there, and make sure we understand it all.
MCC Okay, We'll start sending 7-day forcasts. We've

put those out twice a week, Wednesday afternoon
and Sunday afternoon, and I didn't copy the
request on the 82B.
SPT Okay, that's 18 Delta. I would like to have

about an hour in which time to take the pad
which is sent up and transpose that information
into the JOP S_m_ary Sheet and make sure I
understand it all before we actually get going.
And I think maybe the night before would be a
better time to do it, or at least 2 to 3 hours
ahead of time.
MCC Okay. We copy that request, and we'll see what

we can do.
SPT Okay. Other than that, the Sun looks relatively

quiet, and probably what you've got lined up for
today is a reasonable compromise.
347 15 h3 31 MCC Okay, Ed. We're i minute from LOS. Tananarive

is next at 15:58. And, let's see, that's in about
lh minutes. Couple of other quickies here. S05h
work on EVA repairs is proceeding. Rusty's getting
pretty deeply involved in that. We're looking at
adding that on, may - perhaps to the Christmas Day
EVA for a fix to put it in FILTER 3 permanently.
One con_nent here on visibility. The pointing
test - I don't know whether you noticed it or not,
but when you had Mercury at the 6 o'clock position,
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_t 2 o'clock, right at the edge of the field of

view, was Beta Sco, and it shows up on the downlink.
At that time, Beta Sco had a magnitude of 2.9,
Mercury had a magnitude of minus 0.5. Being right
at the edge there, we feel that's the best
visibility, but it does show us perhaps a lower
limit to what we hoped to be able to see. Over.
SPT Okay, I wish I had known it was there. We - we

got fixated on Mercury and starting working ...
before and didn't really look around to see
anything else ....
347 15 hh 34 CC Okay, Ed. You're over the hill and we can't

see you anymore, so we'll talk to you tomorrow.
347 15 58 52 CC Skylab, Houston. AOS Tananarive, 8-1/2 minutes.
347 15 59 47 CC Skylab, Houston. Does either the CDR or SPT have

a moment to chat?
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CC ... moment to chat.
347 15 59 56 SPT Go ahead, Crip.
CC Roger, Ed. Last night we sent a M092 observer

cue card changer regarding configuration of the
experiment recorder selection. And basically, the
intent of it was Just to tell you to leave it -
leave B selected on EXPERIMENT 1 and 2, because
of that - that knob slipping. And did you all get
a chance to look at that, and do you understand
it?
SPT Okay, Crip. We've got it, and we understand it.
347 16 00 38 CC Okay, Ed. There was one thing on that - the first
portion there - looks a little bit misleading.
It tells you to put a verify after EXPERIMENT 1
and EXPERIMENT 2 ON. Actually that verify really
refers to the EXPERIMENT 1-B and EXPERIMENT 2-B.
SPT Okay, Crip. We understand that. I don't think

we'll have a problem with it again because we're
all aware of the bind you can get into. We all
now, anytime we have to select it, if it's not there
already, go over to A. And then Just up one.
347 16 01 16 CC Roger. Okay. We were Just trying to save you

from that problem. And about the only time, I
think, we'll go out of B now is when we're running
5O9.
SPT Okay. Very good.

see you again at Hawaii in 36 minutes at 16:42,
16:42.
347 16 42 12 CC Skylab, Houston; AOS Hawaii, 8-1/2 minutes.
347 16 48 20 CC PLT, Houston. Bill, we aren't seeing any H-ALPHA

being taken here on the ground. Could you verify
for us that you are in AUTO and we've got 1 FRAME
PER MINUTE selected?
347 16 50 l0 CC Okay. We copy. H-alpha working now.

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347 16 50 i0 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from LOS. We'll

see you again over the Vanguard in 22 minutes
where we'll be doing a data/voice recorder dump.
That's at 17:12, 17:12.
347 17 12 07 CC Skylab, Houston; A0S Vanguard, doing a data/voice

recorder dump.
347 17 20 57 CC Skylab, Houston. LOS in 1 minute. Hawaii in 58

minutes at 18:51, 18: 51. Correction on that ;
Hawaii at 18:19, 18:19.
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3_7 18 18 51 CC Skylab, Houston. Back with you through Hawaii for

I'-1/2 minutes.
CC Bet you guys didn't even miss us during that long

LOS. CDR, you happen to have an opportunity to
maybe chat a little bit?
SPT Hold on, Crip. He Just stepped out.
CC ()kay. Hope he - hope he didn't step out too far.
SPT He and the Mark I are tussling with each other.

He'll be with you in a minute.
CC ()kay, no sweat. Just wanted to talk about future

planning and ops, and we can do that any time.
3h7 18 25 00 CDR Houston, CDR. Go ahead.
CC Hello, Jer. Is this a convenient time to talk?

__ We've got about a minute and a half left here.
CDR [mat's fine. Is that enough time?
CC Oh, yes. I - gave you time to - I can tell you what

we want to talk about and then you can think about
it for a while.
CDR (_ay.
CC During this morning's ATM conference, Bill and Ed,

Bill Lenoir, when he was talking to Ed, was talking
about the ATM future ops and trying to give him a
rundown on it and talked about perhaps trying to
give him some detail as to what particular JOP they
were planning in the future. That sort of falls in
line with the 7-day forecast that we now send you
up. However, with the science conference going on
down here, that - that thing quite often changes in
quite a bit - you know - less time than the 7 days.
So we've been pondering perhaps adding some more
details to that and covering perhaps not 7 days,
but 5 to 7 days, or something that you might think
would be worthwhile and uplinking it to you with a
little bit more frequency. And would like for you
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to ponder whether that might be a good idea or not.

We're about 30 seconds from LOS. We'll have you
again at Vanguard in 24 minutes at 18:51, 18:51.
CDR Okay, Bob. Let us think about it. Right offhand

it sounds like a real good idea. And we'll talk
about it again next pass.
CC Okay, and we would also be thinking about including

more detail in such items as EREP and perhaps
corollary if it seemed applicable.
347 18 26 41 CDR Yes, I think that sounds pretty good.
347 18 50 19 CC Skylab, Houston; A0S Vanguard, l0 minutes.
CDR Roger, Crip.
CC And for the CDR, regarding our previous discussion

regarding forecasting, we would appreciate it, Jer
if you'd come up with that's - a reasonable idea
for you to give us some guidelines on how often you
would like it uplinked to you and for what duration
you would recommend that we cover - n_ber of days.
CDR Okay, Crip, we sure will.
347 18 56 56 CC PLT, Houston. If you can work it in for us at the

end of this rev, we would appreciate it if you can
give us a - a STANDARD on 52, a STANDARD MODE at
a ROLL of minus 5400.
SPT Will do, Crip.
CC Thank you.

see you again in 6-1/2 minutes over Ascension at
19:06, 19:06. And we'll be doing a data/voice
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347 19 Ol 08 CC Bill, in the blind. If you can hear me, we'd like
XUV SLIT to WHITE LIGHT DISPLAY.
347 19 06 O1 CC Skylab, Houston. AOS Ascension, and we have you

for about 6-1/2 minutes. Doing the data/voice
recorder dump. And, Bill, under the TV section
,on XUV SLIT, would you take that to WHITE LIGHT
DISPLAY for us?
PLT Roger; I've already got it on.
CC We show you in - still in the LIMB POINTING mode,

and we need to go to WHITE LIGHT DISPLAY. Should
ihave warned you of that awhile ago when I asked
for that STANDARD MODE.
PLT Okay. I've got it.
CC Thank you.
347 19 ii 36 CC $kylab, Houston. We're i minute from LOS. We'll

see you again in about 40 minutes over Guam for
a short pass at 19:51; 19:51.
SPT Hey, Crip, I see you folks left me the tape re-
corder while I finished up M487. Thanks. I
appreciate it.
347 19 12 05 CC Okeydoke.
347 19 5129 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Guam for 2-1/2 minutes,
and we're going to be doing a data/voice recorder
dump here.
CDR Roger, Houston.

We'll see you again over Goldstone in - in
35 minutes, and also be doing a data/voice re-
corder d_np there to - to pick up some data that
we missed out on earlier.
347 19 53 50 CC And that's at 20:28; 20:28.

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347 20 27 54 CC Skylab, Houston. We're A0S through Vanguard for

ii minutes. We'll be doing a data/voice recorder
dump here.
CDR Roger, Crip. And on the subject of forecast, I

think maybe - What I'd like to suggest is that we
do something like a 5-day forecast every 3 days.
That way, it gives us two - two chances to mull
over about every day that you got forecasted. And
5 days probably is as far as you guys would want
to forecast anyway, I would imagine. And every
3 days sounds like a reasonable frequency.
347 20 28 36 CC Okay. It so happens you hit pretty close to what

Mr. Puddy here was thinking you would. So 5 -
every - a forecast for 5 days every 3 days, and
we'll " we'll try to get that in work and get that
up to you pretty soon. Hey, Jet, while I got you
on the line here, we've been seeing that you've
been cranking down your temperature or trying to
crank down your temperature in - in the workshop
there. And we - And it's getting up about 78 de-
grees or so. And it so happens that the cooling
system's putting out about all it's got; so it's
not really accomplishing much turning that thing
down. A recommendation if - if you're getting a
little bit warm is, you might use the technique
they tried on previous flights, of taking a por-
table fan up in the dome area by the hatch there
and blowing from the workshop back up towards -
over that heat exchanger and toward the MDA.
CDR Okay. Thank you, Crip. We'll give it a go.
347 20 29 32 CC Okeydoke. Is it - I take it, it is getting a little

bit warm in there.
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CC C_, Jer.
CDR A little comment for the S082 folks. On the first

LIMB SCAN I did, where the LIMB OFFSET was minus 2,
just as I was finishing the last you know, the
second and last exposure, which was a times 1/4,
the mirror went unstable. It really went bananas.
Well, it was going from minus 45 down to about
plus i or 2 and then back out to minus h5. I
stopped it and got it going on the next one. It
seems to have stabilized now, and is not pulling
any more f_nnies. I tried to shift to a SHORT
WAVELENGTH on the last one, and it wouldn't do it.
! waited a little while and tried it again, and it
shifted over to a SHORT now. So l'm redoing the -
the one on this one. It's a NORMAL; WAVELENGTH,
SH 0RT.
CC Okay; believe we copied all that. Let us think

about it for a while. And if we get any recurrence,
please let us know.
CDR ()kay. They seem to be Just kind of random funnies.
347 20 32 41 CDR Houston, I might add, also, that very frequently

the LIMB OFFSET will dither between i and 2, rather
than staying stable at one offset value.
CC I'm - l'm being told that that's a normal condition,

Jer. And we're looking at it right now, and it
looks pretty good to us at this moment.
CDR Yes, it's looking very stable right now.
CC Okeydoke.

have you again over Ascension in 3 minutes, and
that's at 20:41. And for your information, we show
the VTR is essentially full right now. We're going
to take control of it, and we'll be dumping it to-
night during your sleep period.
347 20 38 15 CDR Okay.

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347 20 41 34 CC Skylab, Houston. A0S Ascension, 9 minutes.
CDR Roger, Crip. And you better have them teleprint

up a message 2904 Alfa again, the PLT details.
Looks like the first couple of lines didn't make
it.
CC Okay. You're very much on the alert for the wood-

pecker working.
CDR Yes, he's doing such a good Job, we'll have to feed
him some moth eggs.
CC We'll never know if they go into diapause if you

do that.
CDR We've given up hope.
CC We got more than 40 days yet. Never give up hope.
CDR It's kind of nerve racking, waiting another 40 days

to become parents, though.
CC You ought to know, Jerry.
347 20 45 49 CC CDR, Houston. We've re-sent that message; it should

be on board now. And when you get a chance - Were
the first two lines completely missing or Just un-
readable on that message?
CDR No, they were missing, Crip.
CC Okay; understand. Just skipped a couple of blanks.
CDR That's affirmative. It's coming in now.
347 20 49 21 CC Jer, we copy we're dropping off in flow again on

the ATM C&D. If you've got time, we'd appreciate
if you could check the sound also of the DELTA-P
light.
CDR Okay, we got the DELTA-P light, and the message

came up okay for the PLT.
CC Copy that. We're 1 minute from LOS. We'll have

you again at Guam in 36 minutes at 21:25; 21:25.
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p_
We'll be doing a data/voice recorder dump there.

And can you tell us if you hit a STOP on the 82B
AUXILIARY TIMER prior to selecting WAVELENGTH,
SHORT when you had the problem awhile ago?
CDR As I remember, Crip, it had already timed out on

a NORMAL, and it was due for a TIMES i/4, and it
was sitting there with a READY light. I tried
going to - to SHORT to see if would go there,
and it wouldn't go to SHORT. And it appeared
that I'd just done a NORMAL sequence in LONG.
So I left it in SHORT and did the TIMES 1/4
sequence and then after that put it to LONG, and
it went right in with no problem.
3h7 20 50 43 CC Okay, you did not - I take it you did not hit a
STOP then?
CDR Not that I remember.
CC And can you tell us if that stop problem - the

wavelength problem occurred in the building
block l0 just after the mirror oscillation?
347 20 51 07 CDR No, that was about two building blocks later.
CC Okay; thank you.
CDR That's why I said it appeared to be a random

fUnny, because it didn't occur close enough to
the mirror oscillation to be connected with it.
CC Okeydoke. And we copy the flow is starting to

come back up about now. For your information,
we indicated it went all the way to zero.
CDR Crip, it sounds like that noise in the airlock

module is where the pump is. It's sort of a
whining noise and as you were talking to me and
saying that the pressure was ..., it - it
sounded like the pump was ... - -
3h7 20 52 23 CC Over the hill, Jer; I can't get you.

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347 21 25 40 CC Skylab, Houston. A0S Guam, i0 minutes. And,

Skylab, we'll be doing a data/voice recorder
dump here.
CC For the CDR: Jer, we missed your dissertation

on what the sound of the pump was like as you
were going over the hill. If you have time this
pass, we'd appreciate hearing what you have to
say.
CDR Roger, Crip. Is that a pump we're listening to,

or is that a flow control valve?
CC Should be a pump.
347 21 26 18 CDR Okay, it really sounds very, very un-well. The

normal, fUll-up running pump sound is a nice,
high hum or buzz. And when the - when the
light starts flashing, you go over and listen to
it, and you can hear the pump lugging down like
it's being loaded down very badly. And the -
the hum or the buzz or the whine, whatever you
want to call it, begins to sort of undulate in a
random fashion. It's not a - not a constant
frequency oscillation of any kind. It goes down
to a low frequency and then creeps its way part
way up and then staggers back down though. It
sounds Just like a pump being loaded down very,
very heavily. And finally, when the light goes
out and everything is balanced out again, the
pump sounds norm_]. And once during this last
night pass, it did it again. And Ed and I both
laid there and listened to it. It Just sounds
like that the - the pump is being loaded down
something fierce.
CC Okay, we copy all that. Appreciate you taking

the time to check it for us.
CDR Roger.
347 21 29 23 CC Skylab, for your information regarding the moth

eggs, I'm being told that really we might expect
a few of them to break diapause in late January
or early February but most should be in March
unless something unexpected happens. Would you
believe I said all that without giggling once?
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PLT You're doing better, Crip.
CC I keep trying.
SPT Any idea as to how we can create the unexpected?
CC Well, the zero is supposedly the unexpected.
CC But knowing you, Ed -
SPT You have a thought in mind, Crip?
CC Oh, I was just thinking that you're so inventive

that you might come up with something.
347 21 34 36 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from LOS. •We'll

see you again over the Vanguard in 31 minutes.
That's at 22:05; 22:05. That's assllm_ng that
Bruce hasn't taken the mike by then.
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3h7 22 05 14 CC Skylab, this is Houston through the Vanguard

for l0 minutes. A question for the PLT: When
we went over the hill at LOS, we didn't notice
you _mmersed in the S183 operations. Did they
come off as scheduled? Over.
PLT I got one of the exposures. The M131 did not

finish until h5, and that only gave me time,
when I got set up, to do the one 1260 exposure.
CC Okay; we copy.
CDR Houston, CDR.
CC Go ahead; Houston.
CDR Roger. I don't know if it was planned or not,

but when we put the carrousel in and turned the
POWER ON, we found it sitting at position 9.
We had to ADVANCE it on up to 21.
CC Okay. Wait a minute. Run that one by again,

Jerry. You installed the carrousel, you turned
the POWER ON, and the PLATE thing read number 9,
right?
CDR That's affirmative. So we had to go ahead and

RESET until it went up to nnmber 21. And I won-
der if that's what you expected on the ground?
3h7 22 06 4i CC I don't think that's what we expected, but con-

firm for me that you made - the one exposure
that you made was 12 plates farther down from
where you installed it. Is that correct?
CDR Well, I guess that's what it means, if you take

9 from 21.
CC Yes. Okay. I'm Just trying to make sure we

were all talking the same language. Okay, we've
got a little bit of time until the next set of
ops, in 2 hours. We'll get back to you with
some thoughts on the subject, but don't try to
remove the carrousel or do anything to it in
the meantime.
f
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CDR Okay.
347 22 i0 03 PLT Bruce, I have a question for ATM.
CC Fire when ready.
PLT I'm finishing up a pass here, and I was getting

ready to set up the gratings for the next watch.
And the GRATING called out is 59h, and I think
that's OPTICAL REFERENCE. Everything all day
long has been me - MECHANICAL REFERENCE, but I
think that's probably the 492 llne. Would you
check on that so I can get the setup and get
the next person briefed properly?
CC PLT, this is Houston. That's correct ; the num-

ber is 59h, and it is intended to be on OPTICAL
REFERENCE.
PLT Roger. 59h, OPTICAL REFERENCE. Thank you very

much.
CC Roger.
347 22 lh 46 CC Skylab, this is Houston. 1 minute to LOS. Next

station contact in ii minutes through Canary
347 22 26 29 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Canary Island

and Madrid for 13 minutes. Out.
CC Okay, it sounds like we've got a better lockon

now, and 12-1/2 minutes remaining in the Canary/
Madrid pass. Out.

station contact in 27 minutes through Guam at
23:06. Out.
347 23 05 49 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Guam for

4 minutes. Out.
347 23 08 h? CC Skylab, this is Houston; 1 minute to LOS. Next

station contact in 6 minutes through Honeysuckle
Creek at 23:15. Out.
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347 23 15 07 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Honeysuckle

Creek for 4-1/2 minutes ; for the CDR. Over.
CDR Go ahead, Bruce.
CC Okay. I've got some words for you on the S183

situation but first off, a question. I believe
you were the last person to operate S183 with
the other carrousel, carrousel 2-2, in place.
And can you recall ADVANCING the film back to
the 01 position prior to turning the POWER, OFF
at the end of your operation period? Over.
CDR Frankly, no, Bruce. It was much too long ago.
347 23 15 49 CC Roger, we copy. And we understand. Sometime

later on today, if you could, check carrousel 2-2
and see if the dot is lined up with the film
gate. We think that probably what hppened is,
between maybe one person doing the operation
and another doing the stow, it was removed while
sitting on PLATE 9, which would be about a
90-degree misalignment. But getting back to the
183K operations impending, what we would like
you to do is not to ADVANCE the carrousel. Take
the Kohoutek exposure using the next film plate.
The indicator should read nnmher 22 when you
power up; however, if it does not read 22, record
the number and press on with the exposure and
the ops. And at the end of the operations, ad-
vise us of your status. If the indicator - And
do not turn the POWER OFF until we get back to
you. If the indicator does read 22 when you power
up, then you're GO to go ahead and remove the
carrousel at the end of operations in accordance
with the stow by ADVANCING it to the 09 position
and then remove it on that. After carrousel
removal, you want to resyne the spectrograph
assembly back to 1 - that is, back to 01 by
turning POWER ON, the PLATE ADVANCE switch to
RESET and hold it, and then OFF when the indica-
tor reads 01, and POWER back to OFF. Over.
CDR Okay, that's with the film carrousel out. Is

that right?
CC That 's correct.

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347 23 17 35 CDR Okay, now going back to carrousel number 2-2,

if the procedure said to go back to zero, then
that's what I did. I think if they will review
the - the tape of that last operation - I - I -
I think I probably taped it. I - I was putting
every single step that I was doing on tape; so
they should be able to dig it out of the data.
On this particular one now, we'll expect it to
come up on PLATE number 22. If it does, we'll
go ahead and remove it and then step it on down
to zero - or correction - to 1. If it does not
come up on 22, we'll take the next plate anyway
and then hold until we hear from you.
CC That's correct. If it - If it does come up on

22, go ahead and make the exposure on that plate.
And when you get through with the exposure,
remove it by ADVANCING it to 9 and remove on 9.
Then resync things. If it doesn't come up on
22, as you said, record the number, take the
exposure, and leave the POWER ON until you get
back to us. Over.
CDR Okay, Bruce. Understand.
CC And we got 1 minute to LOS here. Next station

contact through Canary Islands in 45 minutes, at
the time of 00:04. See you there.
347 23 18 54 CDR See you later, Bruce.
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348 00 04 40 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Canary and Madrid

for 14 minutes. We'll be dumping your data/voice
tape recorder at Madrid. Out.
348 O0 16 03 CC Skylab, this is Houston, i minute to LOS. Next

station contact in 28 minutes - 34 minutes through
CDR Roger, Bruce. And we're looking at frame 22 on

S183.
_ 0O 16 22 CC Hey, that's good news, Jerry. Thank you.
3h8 O0 50 56 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Honeysuckle Creek

for 7-i/2 minutes. Out.
348 00 51 05 CDR Roger, Bruce. On S183, I sequenced it around to

station number 9, removed the canister, and we
had one frame sticking out again - clear out. I
looked it over, and it was intact. I pushed it
in, and the hatch closed. And I removed a piece
ofglass.
CC Okay; we copy. What did the piece of glass look

like?
CDR Stand by; I'll describe it to you.
348 O0 51 h3 CDR Okay, it's another piece of the emulsion glass.

This time I got a corner. The sides of the corner
are about 1/2 inch by about 5/8 of an inch, re-
spectively, and the third side of it is almost
a - a smooth perfect arc. And there's about 1/8
of an inch or 3/32 of an inch boundary around
the glass before you get to the - the - the
emulsion that is a clear boundary. And the
emulsion is the whitish-yellow-looking emulsion.
CC Okay; we copy that. On the one that was sticking

out, which you pushed back in, did you notice
the number on it? Over.
CC No, the light was too dim to see the number on

it.
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CC Okay; we copy. Thank you for your report.
CDR Roger •
348 00 53 ll CC Skylab, for the CDR: In ao_nection with S183, if

we come up with another instance of a plate Jam-
ruing in the partially exten_e_ poaition, what we
would like you to So is remove that plate, rather
than pushing it back in, and let the hatch go close.
And then we can get the n_,ber off it SA_d find out
where we really stand on things. Over.
CDR Okay.
CC And for the SPT, go ahead. Sorry about that.
3&8 00 53 40 SPT Okay, Bruce. l'd like to verify that 82B or 82A
was to participate in J0P i or building block
I-C rather than - or I-B rather than I-A. I
would think they'd rather have a ROLL of zero
rather than minus 5400.
CC SPT, this is Houston. We'd like to go with the

pad that you have on board, which is operating
82A as a part of chip Bravo rather than Alfa.
Over.
SPT Okay, Bruce. I'm wondering if sometime they

could give me some reasoning for that, because
it goes against everything we've learned about
the instrument.
CC That's fair enough request; we'll do that.
348 00 55 17 CC And, CDR, this is Houston again. If you can work

it in for the evening status report this eve-
ning, we'd like to get the daily describe-mark-
position report on carrousels ll and 22. Over.
CDR Okay, Bruce.
348 00 55 51 CC And we don't want you to - to realign anything

there, Jerry. Just use one of the ATM overlays
or something and get us an angle reading as close
as you could, so we can figure what it's really
sitting on and what it's doing. We'd appreciate
it.
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PLT Roger, Bruce.
348 00 56 24 PLT Bruce, we Just took a look at l-l, the one he Just
got through using. The drill hole m_rk was
clocked about l0 degrees counterclockwise from
the slot position, using that as the 12 o'clock
position. So it's at, you know, like around ll:15
on the clock.
CC Okay. Thank you. We copy l0 degrees

counterclockwise.
PLT Roger.

station contact in 34 minutes through Merritt
Island at 01:31. Bermuda, at 01:32, will be SPT
private phone call. RIGHT ANTENNA shifting to
LEFT as the pass progresses. Over.
3h8 00 57 46 SPT Thank you, Bruce.
END OF TAPE
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348 Ol 31 05 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Merritt Island

and Bermuda for 12-1/2minutes. SPT private
phone call coming up over Bermuda in about
_ 45 seconds; RIGHT ANTENNA switching to L_FT.
Out.
SPT Roger, Bruce.
348 01 42 31 CC Skylab, this is Houston; 30 seconds to LOS.

_. Next station contact in 3-i/3 minutes through
Madrid at 01:46. Out.

8-1/2 minutes. We'll be dumping the data/voice
tape recorder at Carnarvon, next site; and also
the evening status report at Carnarvon,
3_8 01 53 33 CC Skylab, this is Houston; 1 minute to LOS. Next

station contact in 26 minutes through Carnarvon
- at 02:19, with a data/voice tape recorder dump.
And we'll be standing by at A0S for the evening
status and carrousel report. Over.
348 01 53 55 CDR Roger, Bruce.
348 02 19 32 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Carnarvon and

Honeysuckle for 15 minutes. Go ahead with the
evening status report. Over.
CDR Okay, Bruce. Sleep: CDR, 7.0, 5 heavy, 2 light;

Sl_f, 7.5, 5 heavy, 2-1/2 light; PLT, 6.5,
6-1/2 heavy. Volume: CDR, 1200; SPT, 1250; PLT,
1500. Water gun: ,CDR, 7357; SPT, 2684; PLT, 8790.
Body mass: CDR, 6.319, 6.318, 6.317; SPT, 6.366,
6.369, 636 - correction, 6,371; PLT, 6.240, 6.246,
6.246. Exercise. CDR, method Alfa - correction,
method Foxtrot, wa1_, plus2minutes; SPT, no
change; PLT, no change. Medications: none for
anyone. Garment disposed of: CDR, one pair of
shorts, (me T-shirt, one pair of socks; SPT, none;
PLT, none. Food log: CDR, salt, zero; deviations,
minus one coffee with sugar; rehydration water,
zero. SPT, ll.5 salt; deviations, none; water,
plus 28 ounces. PLT, salt, zero; plus - devi-
ations, plus one butter cookies; rehydration
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water, zero. Flight Plan deviations, none.

Shopping list accomplishments, none. Inoperable
equipment none. Unscheduled stowage, none. Photo
log. 16-millimeter; one 40-foot DAC, S183 ops,
Uniform Alfa 04, 88, N/A. Nikon, 01, Charlie
X-ray 36, 27; 02, no change; 03, Charlie India ll0,
55; 04, no change; 05, Bravo Hotel 04, 53.
70-millimeter; Charlie X-ray 47, 050. ETC, no
change. EREP, no change. Drawer A configuration:
no change. S183 carrousels: l-l, the drilled
hole is 15 degrees counterclockwise from the
shutter; 2-2, the line is perpendicular to the
shutter, that's 90 degrees. Andwe don't know
which way. CDR out.
348 02 22 51 CC Okay, Jerry, we copy that, and that's where we

expected - sort of anticipated the S183 thing
would sit. And I've got a couple of evening ques-
tions for you if you all feel like meet-the-press
time here.
CDR Okay. Go ahead.
CC For the PLT, tomorrow on the M509 preparation, _

during prep, battery number 6 will be installed
in the AS_; battery 7 left in the donning
station where it will be put on charge for 3 or
4 hours as a top off. In his details - or in
his Flight Plan at about 18:45, there's a bat 7
termination and bat 6 initiate CHARGE, and we'd
like to do the bat 6 CHARGE with the battery
left in place in the ASMU. And you can follow
the appropriate page in the checklist - Maneuvering
exper - Experiments Checklist - 1-2 for battery
charging while installed. Over.
PLT Roger. Copy, Bruce.
CC Okay. And in the ATM world, we're still looking

at the S082B mirror problem. And you could help
us out on this in a couple of ways. First is,
if you observe the 82B mirror oscillation again,
we'd like you to switch inmediately to the XUV
SLIT WHITE LIGHT DISPLAY, and report any oscil-
lations of offselet - or offsets. Then you can
go ahead and reselect LIMB SCAN, LIMB POINTING
and resume operations. With regard to what you
have seen on the mirror oscillations, did you see
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the oscillation on both the XUV MIRROR meter

display and on the COUNTER 3 display of LIMB
OFFSET? Over.
348 02 2h 47 PLT Bruce, I was only looking at COUNTER 3.
CC Okay, we're Just trying to get all our ducks in

a row here. And with respect to S082B WAVE_._NGTH
talkback predisperser, I saw you're to go to the
co_,_nded position during today's operations.
This is an idiosyncrasy of the instrument which
has occurred frequency [sic] during the prelaunch
testing. It shows up either when operating in an
AUTO MODE or when commanded from the C&D console.
The cause of the anomaly is - is tmknown, and
and further details and corrective actions on this
can be found under XUV slit operational procedures,
page 13-3 of the ATM Malfunction Procedures. Over.
PLT Okay, Bruce. i guess all it cost us was a few

fr_m_s of film taken at the wrong - wrong value.
CC Roger. And for Ed, have you been able to measure

- the WHITE LIGHT CORONAGRAPH obliquenessbetween
MON 1 and MON 2? Over.
SPT No, not yet, Bruce.
CC Okay. Now for some good news. On tomorrow's

Flight Plan, day 29, we're deleting the leg blood
pressure activity from the Flight Plan. This
affect s PLT. Over.
CDR He heard you, Bruce.
3_8 02 26 18 CC Okay, when we'll - we'll remind you again tomorrow;

that's at about 21:00 Zulu. Also for the PLT,
in looking through the dump tapes, we have not
yet received data on the mission day ll limb
volume measurements. And our conclusion is that
it was not accomplished. Is this correct?
CDR Bruce, this is CDR. I am going to go back and

research my whole Flight Plan. But the latest -
the last data we have on the measurements was
day 327.
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CC Okay, we copy. Thank you. For the SPT. Were

you able to accomplish M487-2 Bravo yesterday?
SPT Did it this morning.
CC Okay, mighty fine. Sorry to bug you.
CC And then again for the SPT, we have a note here

from time and motion study people. After looking
at the TV presentation of your suit donning -
after seeing the playback of the suit donning
tonight it brings to mind that during one-g
training, Dr. Gibson always had the most pained
expressions during the donning of the suit.
The }4151 personnel commented on this several
times and developed the "SPT grimace quotient."
They would like to pass along to you that they
have reviewed the suit donning TV dump_ and feel
that your grimace quotient for the zero-g opera-
tion is several magnitude less than the one-g
one. Over.
SPT I kept them honest on the DAC though, Bruce.
CC (Laughter) Okay, we copy. Thank you.
CDR You should have heard what he way saying while

he _asn't grimacing though.
CC I think I'm glad I couldn't hear.
348 02 28 2h CC And that about winds up the evening status re-

port evening questions. When we get the news,
if we get it before you turn in, we'll read
some up. A reminder; the med conference is the
Merritt Island pass at 03:06. And we've got
about 6 minutes of station time remaining here,
but I have no further traffic. Over.
CDR Bruce, tomorrow I see on the schedule we have

an ETC setup again and an _LI51. I wonder, would
you like to have somebody take a picture of Ed
setting up to take a picture of ETC?
348 02 29 07 CC Well, he's been through that routine so many

times he probably has that pretty well polished.
I think we better just stick with the Flight Plan.
END OF TAPE
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SKYLAB AIR-i_O-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION
348 02 34 08 CC Skylab, this is Houston I minute to LOS. Next

station contact in 31minutes through Corpus
Christi, but Merritt Island in 32 minutes at
03:06 is your private medical conference for
this evening, running on through 03:16. We may
see you at the tail end over Bermuda. Out.
348 03 03 56 CC Skylab, this Houston for - through Corpus Christi

for about 30 seconds to a minute. We got one
quick item for you here. We'd like you - shut
the ATM C&D COOLANT LOOP down for the evening
after you finish your last pass. It's panel 203,
A_COOLANT LOOP - COOLANT PUMP C switch to OFF.
And we'll have some rationale for you on this
situation after the medical conference, either
through Bermuda or Madrid. Over.
348 03 0h 29 PLT ...
3h8 03 05 hl CC Skylab, Houston. We're back in again. We see

that you've shut down the coolant loop. This
is nothing critical and I've got about a minute
or so worth of background on it for you which
we'll try and get up overBermuda or Madrid
after the medical conference. And I guess from
the time standpoint, I'll turn you over to the
medics after one question.
348 03 06 12 CC In fact, I think I'll hold that question until

Bermuda. Out.
348 03 16 30 CC Skylab, this is Houston back with you after the

medical conference. Over.
CDR Roger.
3h8 03 16 45 CC Okay, we had a little bit of a comm problem there

with the noise and all that before. What we
asked you to do was to shut down the ATM C&D
coolant loop after unattended operations. And,
of course, this you did, and it's going to be
standard operating procedure for the foreseeable
future here. As you're undoubtedly aware, the
frequency of deep flow stoppages in the C&D loop
hasbeen increasing over the last few da_s. We're
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still investigating the causes of this. And in

this connection, in the near future we will be
scheduling you to do a detailed inspection of
the ATM coolant loop reservoir bladder probably
with a penlight and anything else that we can
work out in the way of inspection procedures.
Later on, we will probably also ask you to do a
filter changeout and then dismantle and inspect
the filter that was removed. And, of course,
as the third step of this, as I mentioned, we'll
be shutting the coolant loop down every evening
after the last scheduled operation and powering
it up in the morning. For the next couple of
days, we'll give you calls for the powerup and
down until we get a checklist change processed
through the mill here. The three leading can-
didates for the causes of the problems with the
coolant loop are gas, contamination in the loop,
and pump anomalies. As you know, we have shut
down pump A, figuring it to be failed; pumps
Bravo and Charlie are, if it's a pump anomaly,
exhibiting the same sort of anomalies, maybe
slightly different levels. The testing and
analysis that's been done to date in particular
at St. Louis, do not support thecirculating gas
theory. In fact, the results they got were ac-
tually contrary indicators of circulating gas.
So we feel pretty sure that it's either contami-
nation or a pump problem. Over.
CDR Okay, Bruce. I can hardly wait for that check-

list change.
348 03 19 04 CC Well, surprising you mentioned that, because I

have the singular honor of informing you that
the teleprinter paper is low again. And we would
like very much for you to change it out before
you turn in this evening so we can press on with
our checklist change uplink, although the one
that you referenced won't be amongst them tonight.
CC And we've got about 45 seconds until LOS. Next

station contact is in 4-1/2 minutes through Madrid
at 03:24, and I'll be talking to you there. Over.
CDR Okay, Bruce. So long.

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3_8 03 19 38 CC And as we go over the hill, in the photo status

report this evening, you reported that Charlie
X-ray 47 was in the Hasselblad. We think this
probably should have been Charlie X-ray 17 in-
stead of h7, which you reported last evening.
I wonder, if you could check it during the LOS
period? And if you did change it out, where was
Charlie X-ray 17 stowed? Over.
CDR No. You're right. It was 17.
348 03 20 06 CC Okay. Talk to you over Madrid with the news.

7-1/2 minutes with a little bit of information
on system reconfiguration up in the airlock mo-
dule. Over.
CDR Roger; go ahead.
348 03 24 48 CC Okay. During some of the earlier EREP passes

on this mission, the secondary amp hour inte-
grator on some of the PCGs got out of sync with
the primary switch were in control, and they've
been very slowly catching up. However, to hasten
this process of catching up, we are going to
comm_nd the secona_y amp hour integrators on
PCGs 5 and 6 into control of PCGs 5 and 6 and
catch them up a lot more rapidly. And we'll
keep you advised of the status. Over.
CDR Roger.
348 03 25 29 CC And in the news this evening, there's some good

news and bad news. First the bad news. General
Motors Corporation upped it's wholesale prices
to dealers by an average of $150 per car and
truck shipped out today. This is about a 4 percent
price hike, bringing the price increase at
retail for equipped vehicles to an average of
$188 dollars. Chrysler, Ford, and American Motors
say they will do likewise. Although the increase
beeo_s effective today, bona fide orders in
dealers' hands would have customer protection
through December 15th. Billionaire recluse Howard
Hughes made the news today. Officials at the
Aviation Hall of Fame in Dayton, Ohio say he and
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three other aviation pioneers will be inducted

into the Hall of Fame tomorrow. Hughes is credited
for furthering commercial aviation and medical
research and for his prototype of the revolu-
tionary fighter interceptor airplane used in
World War II. He also took active part in the
development of the Lockheed Constellation air-
craft and that famous wooden flying boat, the
Hercules. Colonel Bernt Balchen, who died
earlier this year, is to be honored as the first
man to pilot a plane over both the North and
South Poles. Brigadier General Charles Yeager
will be honored as a double Ace of World War II
and the first person to fly faster than the speed
of sound. Dr. E. A. Soerry gets honored for
solving a number of aeronautical problems and
his - and for his work with the gyroscope. The
British government cut England's 40-hour work
week in half today. Prime Minister Edward Heath
said he was ordering the action, effective next
Monday, because work slowdowns by coal miners,
electrical workers, and railroad engineers were
cutting into Britains power output at a time of
oil shortages due to the Arab boycott. Three
airlines announced flight personnel cutbacks
today because of fuel shortages. Allegheny
Airlines, which serves the northeast part of the
U. S., said it will cut flights by 30 percent.
Eastern Airlines say they will lay off h40 pilots
by the first quarter of 74. This is in addition
to the 360 pilots due for furlough come January.
They're also laying off another 2100 mechanics,
agents, and 350 management personnel over and
above the 500 already announced. Pan American
World Airways says 1000 cabin attendants will
be furloughed effective January 10th. And they've
already laid off 160 pilots. Independent truck
drivers began a 2-day work stoppage today. The
big rigs still plying the highways occasionally
ran into flyingbullets and bricks. Incidents
of violence and vandalism have been reported at
Pennsylvaniaand Ohio.
348 03 28 04 CC Washington: The Senate Judiciary Committee today

approved Ohio Senator William B. Saxbe to be
Attorney General. The vote was 15 to 1. Senator
Ervin of North Carolina cast the no vote. He
claims Saxbe is constitutionally ineligible for
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appointment. Again in Washington, the House

voted 221 to 192 to bar fuel for busing children
beyond neighborhood schools. It also voted 256
to 155 to remove coal from the emergency energy
bill's restrictions on profits by in - industry.
The Agriculture Department said today an inves-
tigation by the department's Inspector General
has clearedKenneth Frick, head of the Agricul-
tural Stabilization and Conservation Service, of
any wrong doing. The investigation was triggered
by an anonymous letter questioning Frick's tra-
veling to his home state of California at govern-
merit expense. U. S. Secretary of State Kissinger
arrived in Cairo today preparing for the Middle
East peaca conference scheduled next week. While
in Algiers yesterday, he met with Algerian Presi-
dent Ho1_-_i Bou_dienne and made progress on re-
s11m_ug diplomatic relations broken in 1967.
Algerian Foreign Minister Aziz Boutaflika called
the meeting a turning point in relations between
the two countries.
3_8 03 29 19 CC Police in Rome say billionaire J. Paul Getty's

17-year-old grandsone may be returned by kid-
nappers any day now. It is rumored the family
has paid out 3.4 million dollars in ransom. James
Vorenberg, the Harvard Law School professor who
quit as special consultant to the special Water-
gate Prosecutor when Archibald Cox was fired,
announced today he is returning to aid Cox's
successor, Leon Jaworski, who reportedly made a
personal request for his services. George Matesky,
the "Mad Bomber" of yesteryear was freed in New
York today after 17 years in a mentalwar d. He
was arrested January 21, 1957 after planting
32 bombs in public places of New York City, includ-
ing Radio City Music Hall and Grand Central Station
during the years from 1940 to 1957. Nobody was
every killed, but 22 persons were inJured by his
bomb explosions. Matesky allegedly terrorized
New York to draw attention to his claim that
Consolidated Edison Company had cheated him out
of compensation for tuberculosis generated by an
on-the-Job accident. When questioned today as
to his plans, Matesky said, he would write a
book.
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348 03 30 27 CC Tornadoes struck Tennessee and Georgia today

after causing havoc at Denver, Colorado, yester-
day. Today's estimates run well over $2-million
worth of damage and injuries to at least
24 persons ; 44 houses and 8 mobile homes were
reported destroyed and about 30 houses damaged.
Most of the havoc was in the residential areas
located 50 miles north - of Atlantic - the st -
of Atlanta. The stock market nosedived lower
again today. Analysts blame worries about the
energy crisis. The Dow Jones industrial average,
which sank more than 40 points Tuesday and Wed-
nesday, lost another l0 points more to close at
800.43. Declines overran advances by a more than
3 to 1 margin in moderately active trading on
the New York Stock Exchange. The market staged
a brief rally this morning but lost ground after
the British announcement that a drastic cut in
energy supplies in that country would mean a
2-1/2 day work week for most businesses. Analysts
also say Wall Street was disturbed by the con-
fusion caused by the new Federal Energy Agency's
announcement yesterday of a 25 percent cut in
domestic gasoline production, that we passed on
to you; however, this was later announced by
White House aides to be only a 5 percent cut.
And the good news is that's all of the bad news
for tonight. Over.
SPT How'd you like a frame count, Bruce?
CC Lay it on us, fast.
348 03 31 50 SPT 3349, ll9, 911, 4984, 3320, and I neglected H-ALPHA
at the beginning, which is 10310.
348 03 32 04 CC Okay, we got them, Ed. Zero seconds to LOS.

Next station contact in 28 minutes, Carnarvon at
03:59; last pass of the evening. Out.
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348 04 O0 08 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Carnarvon for

h minutes. Last pass of the evening. Out.
348 04 02 21 CC Skylab, this is Houston. 2 minutes to LOS. There's

no real convenient wakeup site in the morning.
We'll give you a call through Carnarvon at 12:12
Zulu; however, we suggest you set your Dortable
timers as alarm clocks to wake up at 12:00 Z.
Over.
CDR Okay, Bruce.
CC Roger.Goodnight.
348 04 02 h8 CDR Good night.
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348 12 ii 56 CC (Music: "The Blue Tail Fly" by Burl Ives)
348 12 14 05 CC Skylab, Houston. Good morning. We've got

4 minutes left here in the pass at Carnarvon.
CDR Good morning, Richard.
348 12 17 04 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute to LOS. Guam

comes up at 12:27.
3h8 12 27 02 CC Skylab, Houston; Guam for 4 minutes. Out.
348 12 30 12 CC Skylab, Houston; we're 1 minute from LOS, Guam.

Goldstone comes up at 12:49, and We're going to
dump the data/voice recorder at Goldstone. Out.
348 12 48 49 CC Hello, Skylab, Houston stateside for 15 minutes.
PLT Roger, Dick.

!
CC Roger. And we're going to be dumping the data/

voice recorder here at Goldstone.
348 12 52 i0 CC Skylab, Houston. This morning whenever you've

collected your load of paper from the woodpecker,
I've got a couple of comments for the SPT and the
PLT.
SPT We'll be with you in a few minutes, Dick.
CC Okay, no problem. We still have Ii minutes left

in this pass; lots of time.
348 12 53 25 CC And, SPT, Houston. We see a couple of switch

throwings on the ATM. If you're up there, I need
to give you a couple of reminders about a couple
of the pads that are up there.
SPT. Go ahead,Dick.
CC Roger, Ed. First thing is, is we'd like to make

sure you get the ATM COOLANT PUMPS Charlie on
panel 203 ON prior to doing any extensive op-
erations this morning, since we turned it off last
night. Second item is, is we sent up a - in
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addition to the SAP pad, we sent up a solar

activity update pad that was message two -
2952 Alfa. We want you to be sure and read that
one before you start operations this morning. And
Just a reminder, down at the bottom of it, it in-
cludes a pen and ink correction to the ATM sched-
ule pad. Also, on your details pad this morning,
you've got the first bright and early nu Z update.
And that opportunity's coming up in about 8 minutes
at 13:02.
348 1 _ 25 SPT Okay, Dick, I got them all. Thank you.
cC Yes, sir.
PLT Dick, PLT. What pad do you have a change for me

on?
CC Roger, Bill. It isn't even a change; I can tell

you real fast. We sent up - in preparations for
your M509 prep we inadvertently uplinked the
wrong message and then we sent the correct one.
Your message number that you should use for that
time this morning is 2937 Alfa. And 2937 with no
change letter should be thrown in the trash this
morning.
PLT ... 37 Alfa.
CC That's right, 2937 Alfa. And Just a re - another

reminder on that pad and also the one for Jerry
that supports M509: You'll need to use those
same pads tomorrow. So after you get through with
the prep today, be sure and don't throw them away
and you can use them again tomorrow.
34,_12 56 34 CC And, Bill, I have one more item for you that you
might want to Jot down for your own planning. Your
family comm is set up this afternoon at 01:35 Zulu;
the Carnarvon pass, 01:35.
PLT Roger. 01 :35.
CC HYes.
CC Yes, sir, Ed; go ahead.

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SPT I 'IniLooklng at the W]_ITE LIGHT CORONAGRAPH DISPLAY.

The streamer which was there at ll o'clock, I'm
sorry, at 8 o'clock, which was fairly intent and
very narrow, is still evident but it's a little less
bright, Just barely discernible. And the remainder
of the corona looks pretty much unchanged. I'm
going over there and take a look and see what it
looks like in H-ALPHA after I get my shopping list 1.
348 12 58 lO CC Okay, Ed. Thanks for the update.
3h8 13 02 42 CC Skylab, Houston; we're 1 minute to LOS. Vanguard
i comesup at lh:50.
348 13 02 52 CDR Roger.
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348 13 16 41 CC Skylab, Houston. Vanguard for 7 minutes.
CC Go ahead, Ed.
SPT Yes. Hello, Dick. I had a chance to go over

and look at the limb in H-alpha now over at the
east side, and I don't see any prominence activity
around 26 there; however, down around 240, there is
some. I'vegot to get some coverage with the
55 MIRROR AUTO RASTERS down to line 13 or so,
all the way from 240 up to 270, and some PATROL,
SHORTs with 56 - that's the shopping list item 2.
But I'll - got a little time; so I'll wait and
roll the 82B SLIT then parallel to - tangent to
the limb and give them some NORMAL exposures Just
a couple of arc seconds off the limb, all the
way up.
348 13 22 03 CC Okay, Ed; copy.
sPT Looking at the XUV monitor picture, the - the

general - the disk pretty much remains the
same except over there on the east limb, that
are between 260 and 270. Looks like we have
something fairly hot coming around the corner.
Even though we do get a lot of limb brightening
and line-of-sight increase because of the double
limb effect over there, it still looks pretty
bright.
CC Good show. Maybe something hot's coming.
SPT Sure hope so.
CC Roger.
348 13 23 O0 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 45 seconds from LOS at

the Vanguard. Tananarive comes up at 13:42.
348 13 41 39 CC Skylab, Houston. AOS Tananarive for 3 minutes.

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348 13 43 54 CC Skylab, Houston. We're i minute to LOS from

Tananarive. Goldstone comes up about 45 minutes
from now at 14:29. And we're going to be turning
over to the famed crimson team; so we'll see
you guys in the morning.
348 14 29 Ol CC Good morning, Skylab. AOS Goldst0ne 4-1/2 minutes.
CDR Good morning, red man.
348 ]4 29 Ii CC Good morning. How's everything up in the sky?
348 14 29 16 CDR Doing fine. Just finished looking at Kohoutek.

It's getting longer and stronger.
CC Well and good. Been going out trying to see it

in the morning. Haven't been ab - able to do it
with the naked eye yet.
CDR No? Bill's been able to see it tmaided for

some time. And I saw it a couple of times out
of the command module and hadn't see it since
until last night and this morning. And you can
seeitagain.
348 14 29 40 CC Very good.
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348 14 31 34 CC PLT, Houston, You got a moment, Bill?
PLT Stand by l, Crip.
CC Okay. No rush.

see you again over the Vanguard in about 17 minutes
at 14:50; 1450. We'll be doing a data/voice
recorder dump. And, Bill, all I was wanting to
do was to make sure that you'd gotten the pen and
inks that were called up this morning for this
upcoming pass, which Just said in the first - or
in the two J0P 24's you have coming up that we
wanted MIRROE AUTO RASTER for 55 and do an
option B.
PLT That's written in there, Crip.
CC Very good.
PLT I see it.
CC Okay.
348 14 33 22 PLT Thank you for reminding me.
SPT Houston, SPT.
CC About to go over the hill. Go.
SPT Get you in the acquisition.
348 14 34 19 CC You're unreadable. Have to catch you later.
348 14 49 57 CC Skylab, Houston. A0S Vanguard. We have you for

about ll minutes, and we'll be doing a data/voice
recorder dump here.
CDR Roger, Crip.
CC i0, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 -
348 14 51 12 CC MARK. You guys have now been in orbit as long as

the SL-2 crew. Congratulations.
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CDR Thank you, Crip. Hey, I see you finally learned

how to count down from l0 backwards, too.
CC Truly retrained me this morning.
CDR By golly, you're trainable.
CC He claims that he's got to do it every time I

leave the console, though.
CDR Now maybe you'll teach us, Crip.
CC Lots of luck on that. I can't teach myself any-

thing.
CDR You know, Crip, it's hard to believe that Pete

and his guys went home on - on the 28th day,
because we kind of get the feeling we're just
getting started.
CC Well, it probably all depends on your point of

view. When you go up there planning to stay
80-some-odd days, well, that's - that's the best
view to look at it.
CDR I guess so.
CC Go, SPT.
SPT Morning, Crip.
CC Good morning, Edward.
SPT l'm looking at teh XUV monitor, and one thing

which I did not mention earlier was that there is
a very prominent bright point located at around
241 degrees at 0.39 radii. Or more specifically,
it was at a ROLL of minus 1728, UP/DOWN a plus 2,
and a LEFT/RIGHT of 378. It appears as an enhance-
ment in the chromospheric network close to the
vertice [sic] of a couple of cells. And it also
has pretty much filled in a small filament channel
which was running east/west yesterday off of a
larger filament channel running north/south from
the south pole. And I'ii talk a little bit more
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to :it about - when we get to Bill in the conference

later on. But it may be something we want to keep
an eye on today.
CC Okay, appreciate that rundown on it, Ed.
348 14 55 45 SPY You know, Crip, something's missing from your life
until you've tried to biocide the inside of a trash
_ airlock.
CC That's lots of fun, huh?
SPT This place is superclean.
CC Very good. Everybody's good housekeepers.
SPT The CDR said they plan for the SPY to go EVA through
the trash airlock to straighten up the 02 bank.
CC That'd be kind of a tight squeeze, I believe. Think

you could curl up and - -
SPT Figures a strong arm of the ejector ought to do it.
CC If you curl up enough to climb in there.
CC That's at least got to be more fun than the WMC,

though, when you biocide it.
SPT Had a little of that, too, Crip.
CC Yes, I can - I can sympathize with that one.
CDR Ed is captain of the head today.
CC Congratulations, captain of the head.
CC That's good training.
B48 14 57 4B SPT I told the CDR I wanted to get ahead and have a
little authority; so he put me in the head and
gave me a little authority.
CC Very little. Try to get ahead in this world.

see you again in 14 minutes over Tananarive at
15:14; 15 :i_.
f_
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SPT Roger, Crip. We'll see you then.
348 15 00 32 CC Roger, dodger.
B48 15 16 06 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Tananarive for 9 minutes.
CDR TV-47 is complete,Crip.
CC Velly [sic] go0d.
CC CDR, Houston. Are you busy now, Jer, or could I

give you something that we need to change on the
upcoming housekeeping in the command module today?
CDR No; go ahead.
CC Okay, I can tell you what it is; might give you

time to pull out the CSM Systems Checklist to -
to note it. It - this is going to be a change for
today only, and it's not a permanent change to the
checklist. Do you have that CSM Systems Checklist
handy?
CDR It's up in the command module, but I'll take notes.
348 15 17 39 CC Okay. On page 4-3 of the Systems Checklist, we

would like you, for today only, on the suits, to
not do the SUIT HEAT EXCHANGER PRIMARY GLYCOL valve
to FLOW, 1 minute, and then back to BYPASS. We're
Just going to leave it where it is. And the
reasoning behindthis is, you might recall that
it - it leaked back on Al's flight, and in test at
the rescue vehicle at the Cape, it has leaked also.
And since it's not leaking now, we decided to -
think that we'd be better off not cycling it. Or
at least it's going to minimize the probability of
inducing a leak. And we're considering making this
a permanent change, but we haven't done that yet.
CDR Okay, that's page 4-3. It's the SUIT HEAT EXCHANGER
PRIMARY, FLOW; test for 1 minute.
CC That's affirmative. We do not want to do that one.
CDR Okay.
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3h_ 15 23 23 CC Skylab, Houston. We're I minute from IA%S. We'll

have you again at Hawaii in 36 minutes at fir - oh,
it's just about 16:00. And guess you'll be out
looking at - at the comet at that time. I'm being
told that we're mispronouncing the name of it - that
it's not Ka-hoo-tek but Ka-ho-tek.
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348 16 01 16 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS over Hawaii for

6 minutes and see you're going back to SOLAR
INERTIAL.
348 16 02 57 CC Skylab, Houston. We are AOS over Hawaii for

about h minutes, I think.
SPT We got you, Crip. Maneuver looks good from

here.
CC Very good.
348 16 03 3h CC Ed, while you're there, there's a small discrepancy

on the bottom of the S019 maueuvering pad and
your details as to when to do a nuz update, and
the 16:18 time is probably the best one to start
with.
SPT Copy, Crip. 16:18.

i -

see you again at Vanguard in 22 minutes at 16:28,
and that one's scheduled for Dr. Lenoir to talk
to you, Ed.
348 16 06 33 SPT Okay, Crip. Look forward to it.
3h8 16 29 05 MCC Skylab, Houston with the ATMpass here through

the Vanguard for 9-1/2 minutes.
SPT Hello, Bill. Go ahead.
MCC Okay, Ed. This morning we've got quiet Sun

revisited here, and it's dedicated to that
well-knownbiographer of solar inactivity,
what's-his-nR_.
3h8 16 29 29 MCC Okay, Ed. A couple of quick items here on today's

plan. The first thing to point out is, you do
have two orbits with significant amounts of
observing time. This is in response to your
request at the conference a couple of days ago
that your observing time be saved up and given
to you in blocks. You've already had part of it.
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The other reasoning behind it was that we were

really unable to schedule in some of the inputs
that you had to the planning conference - in
particular, studying the _ast limb. We thought
we'd give you significant time here, that if you
chose, you could put together a program of your
own in that area; so that - -
SPT Okay.
MCC - - that's available for you. the JOP 24, which

is really 82 Bravo's synoptic-type JOP here, is
just coming up on about a day and a - day and
a half, 2-day centers. J0P 26, we repeat on
the west limb. We chose the west limb really
because we thought we knew what to expect there.
And on the east limb, with some of the activity
that's behind it, we weren't totally sure what to
expect on that.
SPT Okay. I'ii ask you question on that one later,

but go ahead.
348 16 30 40 MCC Okay. I've got one extra here on that, and it
concerns the 82B's operation in those BB10s.
Today we're doing an exposure NORMAL sequence of
three for the first 82B, and then we're doing
a single 2-1/2-second exposure for the second
sequence in there. And a reminder as to the
most accurate way of timing: That is to use
the 82B and timer. And - -
SPT Okay. I got that.
MCC Okay. And be sure to turn it off. You might

remind Jerry about that in case there's no EREP,
because he will be doing those similar things
during his, in the no-EREP alternates.
SPT Okay.
348 16 31 20 MCC Similarly, we have a four-limb eoalign in the

no-EREP alternate. We'll pick that up tomorrow
or the next day if - in the likely event that
EREP does fly.
SFr Okay.
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3h8 16 31 32 MCC That's about it for the day. We've got the
quiet Sun, and that's what motivated our choice
of selected shopping list items. The NOAA people
tell me that they greatly appreciate your comments,
both on the white light coronagraph and the XUV
MON, and it definitely is a significant input to
their forcasting. Tomorrow, filament 37 starts
it's limb passage, which it will finish the
following day. Similarly 2 days from now, active
regions 93 and 98 will begin limb passage. So
those ideas are in our mind here for future
planning. And right now, why don't I turn it
back over to you and let you tell me what you
see and what you think we ought to be doing?
3_8 16 32 16 SPT Okay. First of all, on the corona, the bright

narrow streamers which were at the edge of the
streamer activity at around 8 and l0 have decreased
intensity significantly, and they're still there.
The one at l0 appears to have moved up a little
more towards the north. So there is some changes
going on, on the corona in that area. I did not
see any real evidence, though, of a - a blowup
of a filamentor any kind of a transientwhen I
looked at it. In the XUV monitor, we have a bright
area on the limb, which we would expect, of around
2h0 to 270. And it's exceptionally bright. Even
considering looking at a double limb and limb
brightening, it still looks significantly bright;
so I think we've got something Just around the
corner. The third point is a bright point which
has come up over the past - one day and which
I'm taking some observations on right now. It
appears at around 241 degrees at 0.39 radii, or
right now, what I'm looking at is a ROLL of
minus 5393, UP/D0WN of plus 311, and a LE_T/RIGHT
of minus 182. It appears as a enchancement in
the chromospheric network in H-alpha and is
very localized when looking at it in the XUV
monitor. However, the - the whole area appears
rather broad in looking at it with the 55 in
oxygen VI. So I would think that this ought to
be something we ought to be following also today.
It looks like - I wouldn't say - call it an EFR
[sic]. I'm not quite too sure what label to put
on it as yet. But it is an enhancement in the
chromospheric network and a significant bright
point, which has grown in 2h hours in the XUV.
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34_ ]6 33 59 SPT So as far as making any recommendations, I guess

I would look, say, for a JOP 17A, step i, building
block ii, followed by step h, building block 36-A,
on that bright point sometime today. Right now
I'm doing a little shopping list item on it;
getting a MIRROR AUTO RASTER and an EXPOSUEE
SHORT, WAVELENGTH ... NORMAL, 82B, on it and a
PATROL, SHORT for 56. Second thing is that I
was going to ask about JOP 26 and why we are
working over in the part of the limb we were as
opposed to, say, working at the left limb at ROLLs
of 0000, 0600, 1200, and 1800 to study the
activity which is slipping [?] around the corner.
SPT Now if you want to be able to predict what you're

going to see, then perhaps the east limb is - or
the west limb is the safest.
348 16 35 Ol MCC Okay. That was our feeling here, that we were
going after quiet limb. And we thought that we
could more reliably get it on the west limb.
SPT Okay. There's also a filament, which I took a

few observations on this morning, at around
236 degrees solar north. That's on your promi-
nence. And there's another segment south of that
location, and I cannot see whether they're joined
in the H-alpha as yet.
MCC Okay. Thank you. Got that.
SPT Okay. That's the only things that I see from here.
I think the bright point's kind of interesting
because it has come up and it appears as a
enhancement on the network.
348 16 35 41 MCC Okay; fine. We have seen a little bit of that,

and we were tentatively calling it an emerging
flux region. But I think from your vantage point,
you've got a lot more visibility into that than
we do in real time.
SPT It may very well be. But I didn't want to put

that label on it until I saw some more manifesta-
tions of a flux region. Something magnetically
is happening there, but I'm not sure we're going
to see sunspots in the dipole up here.
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MCC Okay. Sounds - sounds real fine. Let me answer

a question you asked yesterday regarding the ROLL
for 82 Alfa on a building block 1. The question
wss whywe were running at the minus 5400 ROLL
rather than the zero ROLL. And the answer was
related to the J0P 26's we were doing, where we
were studying the south polar regions. We wanted
to get an 82A spectrum where the dispersion was
clear in the polar region for supporting the JOP.
SPT Oh, okay. I understand that.
3_8 16 36 42 MCC Okay, and that's not an everyday occurrence. That's

that time only. Call your attention to the fact
there is a - the solar update pad, which t_]_ed
about the eruptive prominence on the limb, et
cetera - At the tail end of it, there are a few
schedule changes. Just want to remind you that
they're down there. That's sort of a hidden trap
that you might forget. Got a few words here
from 55.
SPT I think we're past that time. Those were at

- 14:30 pass.
348 16 37 09 MCC Oh. Sorry about that. You're right. I'd forgotten
we're a little bit later in the day here. A
couple of words here from 55.
348 16 37 17 MCC Let's see. First, we've got 1 minute until LOS,
and the next station is Tananarive in 16 minutes.
And some words from 55. They want you to know
that they do see spicules and they find them very
interesting. The crew day off, on Monday, I've
got George Withbroe coming in to talk to you about
the details of what 55 sees there and also what
their plans are for the active Sun when it rounds
the limb the following day, the active Sun being
defined as 87/92. And also, at some point in the
next 2, 3, h days, what I'd like to do is, at the
tail end of one of these, just give you a real
quickie outline and look-see into the ATM experi-
ment's comet plan, based on what - how we under-
stand the pointing test went and what each
individual experiment intends to do and hopes to
get. Does that sound okay to you?
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°,)l_16 38 08 SPT Yes, that sounds very good, Rill ; I'd like to
hear that. And also, if we could get sent up on
a teleprinter the comet magnitude versus time
that we've experienced so far, I'd like to plot
that out here versus the expected data, Just to
get a feel for how it's coming along.
MCC Okay; fine. We'll do that for you.
SI_T Very good. I'll give you some words on the comet
probably the next pass. I had a chance to look
at it this past night side.
348 16 38 34 MCC Okay; fine. And we'll talk to you tomorrow then.
348 16 55 29 CC Skylab, Houston. We're A08 through Tananarive for

about 2-1/2 minutes.
CC And for the CDR: Jer, if you've got a - got a

minute, we'd appreciate hearing that the SO19
operations on Kohoutek came off okay.
CDR Yes, they did, Crip; no hitches.
348 16 56 20 CC Okeydoke; very good. I don't know if you heard.

We had a sort of a scratchy pass the last time
over Tananarive, and I was informed that we've
been pronouncing the comet's name incorrectly;
That whereas I've been calling it Kohootek, it's
actually Kohotek.
CDR Roger.
CDR Can't win them all, Crip.
CC Roger that. FLIGHT tells me that goes along with

the gypsy mooth [sic].
CDR Right ; at least you knew how to pronounce diapause.
CC I only did that after Ed said it.
348 16 57 08 CC We're 1 minute from LOS, and we'll see you again
over Hawaii in about 39 minutes at 17:36; 17:36.
We'll be doing a data/voice recorder dump there.
348 16 57 21 SPT I never should have let you brief me before I

left, Crip.
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348 16 57 27 CC You're lucky you didn't make that mistake.
348 17 35 Ii CC Skylab, Houston. AOS Hawaii. Doing a data/voice

recorder dump. We've got you for about l0 minutes.
SPT Hello, Crip. Let me talk to you about comet

Hohout ek.
CC Talk to me, Edward.
348 17 36 12 SPT Okay. The nightside before last, I got a chance

to look at it while the folks were working on
SO19. And it certainly is growing fast from what
I saw yesterday. The tail appears to be about
4 degrees in arc length and visible with the
binoculars. The length-to-width ratio is estimated
to be around 20. That puts the width at something
like 1/5 of a degree. That full width is achieved
around, say, three widths back, if you will, or
3/5 of a degree. And from there on, it's pretty
uniform and very straight. It starts to - -
CC Hey, Ed.
SPT - - increase in intensity.
CC Ed, I 'm having a hard time hearing you. Either

you're a little far from the mike or something.
CC Didn't mean for you to stop talking, though.
SPT Okay, Crip. I'll talk to you again on another

pass. I've got to get the ATM going.
CC Okay; fine.
348 17 37 25 CC And you're coming through loud and clear now.
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3h8 17 44 21 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from LOS. We'll

have you again in about 23 minutes over Vanguard
at 18:07. And maybe, Bill, you can tell us how
the - the Fslkland current photograph turned out
at that time.
3h8 17 4_ 37 PLT Okay.
3h8 18 07 13 CC Skylab, Houston. A0S Vanguard, 9-1/2 minutes.
CC CDR, Houston. You got a chance to chat this pass,

or have I caught you right in the middle of your
exercises?
CDR I'm right in the middle right now. What do you _

need?
CC Oh, there're a couple of items - questions and so

forth I wanted to go over with you. Why don't you -
we - We'll pick them up later. •
CDR Go ahead. I'm taking a short rest period.
CC Okay. Yesterday, on 183, you stated that the comet

was not centered in the field of view, and you
said it was about 0.6 or 0.7 from the center. Can
you tell us whether you were talking about in - as
a percentage of the total field of view, or were
you t_]king about degrees?
CDR No, I was using the same sort of pointing reference

as we do from the Sun. That is, the center of the
viewing area is zero, and you got to radius out.
It was about 0.6 of a radius out.
348 18 09 31 CC Okay. Copy. 0.6 of a radius.
Cc Okay. And, Jer, one - one other item we have is

that - You may have seen the checklist changes we
sent up in the comm_nd module about isolating the
RCS PSM B valve, and we're going to ask you to
end up closing that thing. We'd like you to do it
over a ground pass an - at your convenience. And
you do have that CM 7 scheduled which you can do at
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just about _ny time. And if you want to delay

that until when we have another ground station
pass, well, that will he fine, and we can pick it
all up at once.
CDR Okay. I'd say sometime in the next 1/2 to 3/4 of

an hour'd be fine.
CC Okay. I - To tell you what we got coming up on

passes, we have Ascension at 18:23, and that's
about 13 minutes away. And, unfortunately, we
don't have another pass until 19:44. That's back
around over Vanguard again. But there's no hurry.
If you want to go pick up the CM 7 and pick up
this valve later, that'll he fine.
CDR Okay. i've already done the first part of CM 7.

I'ii pick up the last part of it and this valve
deal on the Vanguard pass.
CC Okay. That'll be fine. And - -
B48 18 ii 05 CDR That is, unless the boys object to leaving that on
the secondary loop so long.
CC There's no objection to that.
CDR Very good.
CC One other item is on the upcoming 92 run that we've

got today. We have switched you over to check out
a different legband. I believe you've been running
on the Alfa November band, and - but we're seeing
the same clipping we - we've seen on the Charlie
Juliett. But the Charlie Juliett hands have a
wi - a higher range, and we want you to go back
to using those. And that's going to be applicable
from now on - on all your 92 runs.
CDR Okay. Charlie Juliett.
CC I'ii leave you alone for a while, and you can go

back to working up a sweat.
CDR Okay. l'm looking out the wardroom window, and I

see some big ice islands out there again. It's
kind of strange. The clouds stay away from the
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ice islands. There are stratus clouds right up

to the edge of the island and then clear over the
island.
CC That's interesting. (laughter) I'll let some of

the Earth resources kind of guys wonder about that.
Assume it has something to do with being so cold.
CDR Must be.
3h8 18 12 h6 SPT Houston, SPT with a comm check.
CC Loud and clear, SPT.
SPT Okay. You can hear me now. Is that correct?
CC That's correct. I didn't mean to make you go away

mad awhile ago.
SPT No, you didn't do that . I Just didn't nearly

have the time to start it over again before I got
a ATM pass going here. And I got a period where
f -
the instruments are taking it by themselves right
now.
CC Tell us about Kohoutek.
SPT What I was - The problem - the problem I've been

having is to use the headset and to get it at the
right distance. Apparently, what I had before, it
was too close. And before I've had it too far.
And now I've got a measured one-half film-width
from the lower lip, and I hope that works.
CC Right. Nothing like precision.
348 18 13 34 SPT Okay. Let me tell you about comet Kohoutek. I

got a chance to look at it the night before last,
the orbit night before last. And in looking at
it through the binoculars, I saw it around - the
tail around 4 degrees. Yesterday, I had estimated
it to be around 3 degrees, and I did this by Just
comparing the field of view in the binoculars with
something I could see inside. And, you know,
measuring distances and angles and so forth, came
up with around h degrees. I'd estimate a length
to-wfdth ratio of around 2h. That'll give you
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a width of around 1/5 of a degree. And again, all

this is eYeball. The - It gets its full width
around three widths back - that is, 3/5 of a degree
back from the coma. The edges of the tail are very
straight from those three widths back. And at
around i0 or so back, it starts to fade away, and
gradually, by 20, it's disappeared. I think a i0 -
a lot of it is dark adaptation. Now the coma
itself, relative to the tail, is relatively bright.
And I could see nothing in the way of a second
' tail that is either a bluish-white tail anywhere.
This one was come primarily white, which I saw.
I could not identify yellow as yet, any yellow
tinge to it; it's primarily white. I could not
see whether the coma itself was eliptical. I
think we're a little bit too far out for that.
However, comparing it with yesterday, the bright-
ness certainly has increased and - as it moves in
rapidly toward the Sun. I guess it's now almost
a half a solar radius out, and it's picking up
speed and moving fast. I expect in the next 2 or
3 days we ought to see a - some dramatic changes,
and it's going to be pretty interesting from there
on.
CC Very good. Thank - -
SPT We'll keep looking.
348 18 15 35 CC Thank you for the excellent description.
348 18 16 00 CC Skylab, Houston. We are 1 minute from LOS. We'll

see you again at Ascension in about 8 minutes from
now at 18:24, 18:24.
348 18 23 35 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Ascension, 3-1/2 minutes.
CC PLT, Houston. You got a moment to talk, Bill,

about the upcoming EREP ops this afternoon?
PLT Go ahead, Crip.
CC Okay, first item is, we do want you to go to - to

take the EREP COOLANT valve to FLOW prior to - in
your prep. And I guess your procedures call for
that and everything, but since we've been switching
it back and forth on you, we didn't know whether
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you realized what we wanted. But we do want to go

to - go to FLOW at the beginning. And then at the
-_ end of the thing, we'll go back - go back to BYPASS.
PLT Has the coolant system settled down now?
CC Negative. It - it - we're still investigating

possibilities as to what we might have - be having
you do about it, but for today's ops, this is what
we'd like to do.
PLT Okay, it 's duly noted. Anything else?
348 18 25 35 CC Okay, one other item regarding that. I guess we

kind of like - appreciate it if somebody might sort
of watch that DELTA-P light on panel 203 during
the " _s:-long LOSwe got coming up here. We'd
be interested to know if the - the thing does go
down. One other item is, we call out for you to
do a 192 alignment check in - in your C&D prep;
and we would like you to go ahead and do the align-
ment chec_k but we don't want you to-- to f0ol
f
around with the focus either on the VISIBLE or the
THERMAL channels. You can go ahead and try to
peak it with your - with your mike, you know, the X
and - X and Y for VISIBLE, and X and Z for THERMAL.
And if we find out later they are peaked satisfac-
tory, well, we'll go ahead and schedule a complete
alignment.
PLT Okay, I'll try my best on those things.
CC Okay, the - the thing about it is that tha_ focus,

of course, has been so sensitive, we don't want to
take a chance on - on messing it up. One other
item is the - If you've got your C&D pads handy,
I'd like to make a couple of corrections. And we
are 1 minute from LOS. Next AOS is over Vanguard
again in an hour and 18 minutes
PLT 0kay, keep tal king.
CC Okay, if you've got it handy, we - -
PLT I got it.
3)_818 27 09 CC Okay. We would like to delete the period following

22:37:00 and "start fine maneuver at 23:42." In
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other words, we Just didn't put in the - the fine

maneuver.
PLT I don't see it on my pad, but go ahead and give

me anything else you have.
CC Okay - -
PLT Got that other written down.
CC Well, basically, all we were doing was to put in -

We would like to indicate the fine maneuver times
on both yours and Jerry's pad at 23:42. And one
other item: If you see the DELTA-P light come
on while we're LOS, we would like you to secure
the ATM monitors. We do not want to leave them on
with the pump down.
PLT Okay, Crip, I got that one.
CC And, Bill, where I was referring previously on that

fine maneuver, it goes under your operations remarks,
under the ops remarks.
PLT Yes, I found it.
CC Okay, you might also tell Jer to note it on his

pad. Actually, Ed's going to be taking care of
it; so it's really no sweat for you.
348 18 28 31 PLT Okay, now we asked to have it, though. Thank you.
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SKYLAB AIR-TO -GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION
348 19 44 30 CC Skylab, Houston; AOS Vanguard ii minutes. And

we'll be doing a data/voice recorder dump here.
Jer, if - whenever you work your way up into the
command module we can get this one switch.
CDR Okay, I'm on m_ way.
348 19 46 29 CDR Okay, Crip, go ahead.
CC Okay, Jer; what we want you to do is to take the

SERVICE MODULE RCS PSM PROPELLENT B to CLOSED and
verify the talkback as barberpole.
CDR Okay. Understand PSM Bravo to CLOSE and then get

a barberpole.
348 19 46 55 CC That's affirm. And to give you a little rationale

here, I think we told you about it before, but the
data from both of the trim burns indicate that
either the primary or secondary fuel propellent
valves on quad B is still - is still leaking
through the valve. In order to keep quad B secure
from leaks in any of the other quads' thruster
systems and to preclude the nes - necessity for a
real time critical action, we recommend changing
the glass [?] at the configuration like we've done
now to keep the PSM B valve CLOSED. Did you get a
chance to look at those checklist changes regarding
this new configuration that we sent up this morning?
348 19 47 39 CC Okay. We, unfortunately, have made a minor error

in one of them on the SWS Deact Checklist that we
would like to - to correct. And we can either - we
could pick that up a little bit later, but what
we had done was we had left out PSM on one of them
right at the last. We had said SERVICE MOD_ RCS
PROPELLENT B, OPEN; talkback gray, and what we'd
meant was SERVICE MODULE RCS PSM PROP_.T.T.k_NTB,OPEN;
talkback gray. And IIll get that when you've got
the checklist later.
CDR Okay, I've got it in my hand here, and I haven't

got to that checklist yet. So I put that in the pad.
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CDR Okay, that's on message 2942, and it was the last

line on that one.
CDR All right, I got it.
3h8 19 48 28 CC Okay, that makes all of our onboard checklists,

except the CSM Systems Checklist contingency pro-
cedure for CSM soft undocking and reclocking,
compatible with our new change. And we are - Just
elected not to put it in there since it would -
if we knew we were going to have to go in and do
that soft undocking thing, we could be aware of it.
And we'll do it real time.
CDR Okay, good enough.
CC Velly [sic] good; that handles it for us. Thank

you.
CDR Okay, Crip, I'll go ahead and get a stack on a

primary loop now.
CC Very good.
3_8 19 49 17 CDE By the way, Crip, I've done and undone this over-
board vent valve with the cryogenics system so many
times that I've kind of forgotten what the configu-
ration ought to be. Where do we stand right now?
CC We're - we're checking on it for you, Jer.
CDR Okay.
3h8 19 50 O0 CC Jer, we're under the impression that we should be

venting into the vehicle now, and that that should
have been the situation for about the past week.
CDR The polychoke is out, the cryo vent valve is in,

and the inner connect hose that connects the cryo
vent to the hatch dump has been completely removed.
CC Okay, that's - that's the configuration that we

thought you were in and that's the one we want you
to remain in.
CDR Okay, go_d--I-netted t3_: Cryo tanks and-the surge

tank this morning were bot[l within Just a few pounds
of each other.
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CC Okay, that coincides with what we're seeing down

here. And one other item, Jer, unrelated to that,
is that we told you last night that we would remind
you today on your original Flight Plan that we sent
you up yesterday, we called out for a leg blood
pressure on - on Bill this afternoon, and we wanted
that scrubbed.
CDR Roger. We remembered that.
CC Very good.
348 19 53 15 CC And, CDR, Houston. Jer, if it's convenient, we've

got AsCension coming up in about 5 minutes. And I'd
like to give you ali - a short briefing on some-
thing that we've been seeing with CMG 2 that - that
you ought to be aware of, if that's the convenient
place to talk about it.
CDR Okay, we'll be ready and waiting.
CC Okeydoke.
.... 348 19 54 h5 CC Skylab, Houston; we're i minute from LOS. We'll

have you again in 3 minutes over Ascension at 19:58,
19:58. And we'll talk about that CMG 2 thing there.
348 19 57 50 CC Skylab, Houston; we're AOS As - Ascension, and we

have you for about ll minutes.
CDR Roger.
CC Okay. And, Jer, if you've got some time and if

the other guys have - are available they might -
might want to listen to this little briefing I got
on CMG 2.
PLT Jerry's listening and we're standing by.
SPT Okay, Crip.
CC Okay. I certainly don't want to say anything that's

alarming, but we premission said we're going to ki -
try to keep you advised of everything we were saying
on the ground here. And that's what I'm going to
to try to do now to tell you something that we been
seeing on CMG number 2. Normally, bearing 2 is
about - has a temperature about 4 degrees lower
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than bearing I on a CMG. And we have seen on

four different occasions this delta temperature
decreases by a small amount. And accompanying
that we've also seen an increase in wheel current
which is indicative of some increase in friction
somewhere. Now, nothing we have seen here is - is
an alarming increase, but we did see, on CMG n_mber l,
about 21 days prior to its failure, a signature
very similar to this, only of much greater magnitude.
Consequently, we're doing some advance pl-_ning
here on the ground regarding what we would do if
we did lose another CMG. And we hope to uplink
you some - some details of what this planning
consists of, probably by tomorrow.
348 19 59 hO CDR Okay, Crip. I got a little preliminary from you,

I guess about a week ago, and that was interesting
to read. I also made a few comments to the data
priority folks, Phil Shaffer, namely, yesterday
on tape. And he - I expect he'll be getting them
today sometime.
CC Okay; fine. Can you elaborate on that Just a little

bit more, Jer, as to what you were talking about?
CDR Why don't you wait and let Phil fill you in on it?
CC Okay, fine.
CDR One question I have is in the event we do end up

going into the wide deadband mode, ass1_mlng no
other RCS usage in the occasional trim burn, what
sort of a time period have we got available to us
on the wide deadband mode?
CC Well, actually, we - we're referring to a couple

of things there. And I'm not specifically which
wide deadband you're referring to right now, Jer.
So maybe I'd prefer to wait until we get this
message up to you tomorrow which will go into
details on all of these.
CDR Okay. Those are some of the details that we're

going to be interested in. And that is what sort
of - of endurance do we have with the different
types of modes that we could go into.
B_8 20 O1 17 CC Okay. Apparently, you were made aware of - of this

problem at some earlier date. And I was not aware
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that you had been told about it. So it sounds

like you're aware of the s_ation.
CDR Yes, we _d about the CMG problems - oh gosh, it's

been 2 we_ ago, I think, is when it was first
mentione_. _ And, oh, 5 or 7 days ago, or so, a
little preliminary message came up indicating the
. three major theories as to what the problems might
be and what sc_e of the courses of action might
possibly be. But it was emphasized that that was
strictly a preliminary and that there was more study
going on.
CC Okay. One small amount of information in addition

to what you got before. Subsequent research
following that last message you got, I guess, was
that we've been seeing these little glitches on
the bottom part of the heater duty cycle, in other
words, at the co - at the colder temperature.
And so we're - we're looking at maybe doing some
kind of managing of that to - to keep it from
getting down on the colder side.
SPT Crip, have they been able to dig back into the
data on the - on all the CMGs and find out whether
these things have actually occurred at other times
other than Just before the CMG 1 went out, or,
at this particular time, for CMG 2?
3h8 20 03 20 CC In our data search it is - we have not turned up

any - any more cases of this than - than what
we've reported.
CDR Thank you.
CC Skylab, Houston. One other additional informa-

tion is that we have developed what we caS I a
quasi-inertial patch to he loaded in the ATMDC,
which reduces the cost per rev around to about
lO0 to 150 seconds each rev. Also we're working on
something similar to that for the - for the command
module, which would reduce the - the RCS cost down
to about a third of what it is now.
SPT Crip, what's our useful nnmher of pound seconds

remaining?
i
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348 20 04 57 CC We have 26,000 pound seconds total. We've saved

6000 pound seconds for - as a rescue dead redline,
and that leaves us 20,000 pOund seconds available.
SPT Thank you.
CC Okay. And as I said, we're going to be uplinking

a message to you, hopefully, maybe by tomorrow.
It'll probably be about the same time we would
be loading this APCS quasi-inertial patch. And
that will go into a lot more detail as to, you
know, fuel usage in both - with RCS or with the
APCS.
SPT Okay. That sounds like a little over a week, Crip.

I hope we can come up with some other methods.

see you again over Guam in 35 minutes. That's at
20:42, 20:42.
CDR Okay, Crip. We'll see you then.
348 20 07 57 CC Roger.
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348 20 42 20 CC Skylab, Houston. AOS Hawaii, 9-1/2minutes.

Correction, AOS Guam.
348 20 51 l0 CC Skylab, Houston. We are 1 minute from LOS. We'll

see you again over the Vanguard in about 31 minutes
at 21:22, 21:22. We'll be doing a data/voice re-
corder dump there.
348 20 51 27 PLT Roger, Crip.
348 21 21 32 SPT Hello, Crip; SPT.
CC You're really on the ball, Ed. We've got you for

about ll minutes through Vanguard doing a data/voice
recorder dump. What can we do you for?
SPT Okay, in th@ ATM schedule at ll minutes remaining,

we have a 55 MIRROR, AUTO RASTER; DETECTOR all;
MECHANICAL REF, but no GRATING position.
CC Looks like you've caught us again.
CC Okay, Ed. It's MECHANICAL 102 or OPTICAL all

balls.
348 21 25 20 CC Skylab, Houston. You guys might have noticed

the woodpecker pecking. We've got your Flight
Plans on board for tomorrow. One item of note,
of course, we've got you running 509 tomorrow,
and we had sent up a couple of pads today that
actually carry over until tomorrow. We're assum-
ing that you gt_rs are holding on to those.
SPT Yes, we got them Crip. We're going to hang on

to them.
348 21 25 49 CC Thank you.
348 21 29 52 CC SPT, Houston. For your information only, we

noticed a surge at - over on the limb at 25/1.0.
If you get some observing time, you might be in-
terested to take a look at it.
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SPT Yes, I'd like to, Crip. They want me to - at

least the pad says to run this thing below 400 K.
I'm wondering how mandatory that is as to whether
that's to give me leeway or whether that's the
observation they really want.
348 21 31 27 SPT Crip, say the position of that surge again, please.
CC Okay, Ed, you've got a GO on pointing at it, and

it's at 25/1.0. If you elect to go ahead and
look at it, 82A would like an 80-second exposure
SHORT WAVELENGTH, and 55 would Just continue to
run like they are.
SPT Th_nk you.

see you again over Ascension in 7-1/2 minutes at
21:39, 21:39.
348 21 39 29 CC Skylab, Houston; we're AOS through Ascension.

We've got you for about 2-1/2 minutes with a short
break, and then we'll pick you up again at Canary.
348 21 42 ll CC Skylab, Houston. We're going to lose you here

in about 30 seconds and pick you up in another
minute over - over Canary.
348 21 43 35 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS through Canary, and

we have you for about lO minutes.
SPT Hey, Crip, it was a very good looking surge. It

was about an arc minute or so above the limb and
very straight out. I got a fair AUTO RASTER work
on it. And 82A got one exposure; however, it was
not 80 seconds, but more like a half of that be-
cause of the ESS - or 400 K.
CC I'm - I'm sorry, Ed; I didn't understand how long

the exposure was.
SPT About 40 seconds rather than 80.
CC Copy.
348 21 44 54 SPT I cut it off at 400 K.

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_48 21 54 47 CC Skylab, Houston_ we're 1 minute from LOS. Next

station contact is over Guam in 26 minutes at
22:21, 22:21; be a data/voice recorder dump there.
Crimson team is going off execute shift for a
while. They'll take a day off and come back
Sunday evening doing details and be with you in
the evening. You guys have a good time, and we'll
see you Sunday.
SPT You too, troops. Enjoy the day off.
CDR Sayonara.
348 21 55 20 CC Roger, I'll probably spend it in the SLS. I finally

get a chance to use it now that you guys are gone.
END OF TAPE
Time: 348:22:00 to 3h8:23:30
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348 22 20 52 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Guam for 7 minutes.

Silver team on down here, and we've got some in-
formation for you regarding your EREP configuration.
PLT Roger, Bruce. Go.
345 22 21 ll CC Okay, Bill. Due to the energy shortage up there,

prior to the EREP pass this evening on panel 206,
we'd like to get you to adjust the REG BUS pots
as follows: REG ADJUST BUS l, 20 degrees clock-
wise, that's 20 degrees clockwise; BUS 2 pot,
25 degrees clockwise, that's 25 degrees clockwise.
Also on your SWS Systems Checklist, page 2-15,
pre-EREPpowerdown, we'd like you to perform
steps 2 and 7 which is turning out the - some of
the lighting down in the workshop and turning off
a number of the fans. After the EREP pass is
completed, you flip to page2-16 and perform 2
and 7 of the post-EREP powerup which reverses all
that. Also we will command all the amp hour in-
tegrators in the airlock module back to PRIMARY
and by telemetry command turn off the heaters in
the front end of the MDA. Over.
348 22 22 21 PLT Okay, Bruce. REG l, 20 degrees clockwise; 2,

25 degrees clockwise. And do you want me to do that
right now?
CC At your convenience. If it's convenient now, it'd

be fine.
PLT Okay. And then do the steps 2 and 7 on page 2-15

of the Systems - SWS Systems Checklist ; EREP prep
and reverse that follow - on the following page
following the EREP.
CC Roger; out. And we're dumping your data/voice

tape recorder at the present time.
348 22 24 22 CC Skylab, this is Houston. Just to keep you up to

date on the latest situation with the A - ATM
C&D coolant loop. When you came over the hill
here at Guam, we noticed that your flow was some-
what below normal. To be more specific, it was
f-.
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zero. And in fact, it's been coming back up since

then and now looks normal. We're working on a
procedure down here that involves a partial re-
servicing of the loop which we hope to have up
to you in a couple of days. Over.
343 22 24 56 SPT Okay, Bruce. Thank you. I looked at the reser-

voir Just last orbit and it looked pretty good,
looked full with no bubbles.
CC Okay. Thank you, Ed.
_ 348 22 25 35 CC SPT, this is Houston. In the ATM schedule pad

_ for today, we neglectedto indicate that the
closeout at last pass should have been a power-
down for EREP. That was our fault, we do - we
would like to get the panel powered down prior
to the EREP pass. Over.
SPT Okay, Bruce. I'll be doing that in a few moments.

_. Thank you.
CC Roger. Thank you.
348 22 26 26 CC Skylab, this is Houston. l-l/2 minutes to LOS;

next station contact in 7 minutes through Honey-
suckle Creek at 22:33. Out.
348 22 23 44 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Honeysuckle Creek

for 4 minutes. Out.

station contact in 26-1/2 minutes through the
Vanguard at 23:02. Out.
348 22 36 06 CC Skylab, this is Houston. Correction, next site

is Canary Islands in 44 minutes at 23:20.
348 23 20 46 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Canary Island and

Madrid for 13 minutes. For the SPT, we'd like to
get a REG BUS 2 open circuit voltage adjust, please.
Over.
PLT I can get it for you, Bruce. I'm up here.
CC Okay, Bill. REG BUS 2 counterclockwise by 5 degrees.

Over.
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3h8 23 21 i0 PLT Roger. I'll be doing it in the next i0 seconds,

if they want to watch.
tC Okay.
348 23 21 27 PLT Okay, take a look at that.
CC Looks perfect, Bill. Thank you.
348 23 29 36 PLT Bruce, we're - we're looking at a fairly large

city lighted down here and real clear weather
and we were Just wondering if we were mostly about
50 miles to the northwest of Madrid, m_ybe i00.
CC That's affirmative. You're about due north of

Madrid now over the - I guess it's the Bay of
: Biscay and approaching the coast of France.
PLT Yes, that checks. Thank you.
348 23 30 09 CC If you're looking ahead along - off to the right

of your track, it could conceivably be Barcelona
and/or Bordeau/Marseilles.
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348 23 30 22 PLT Roger. We got Barcelona over on the right and a

large - a larger city - a large city coming up on
the left. PerhapsParis?
CC Yes, that sounds about right.
PLT We got the full south coast of England and Dover

in sight. It's beautiful; the channel's clear.
CC Roger, It sounds like you got a good view. Can

you see the White Cliffs? And since I asked you
about White Cliffs, the Flight Director wants to
know if you can see any grapes.
3h8 23 31 07 PLT (Laughter) No. It's really a beautiful view,

though. It's - Western Europe - about half of
Western Europe is completely clear. We can see,
oh, I'd say, about the southern quarter of England.
Of course, it's a nice view. It's Just a very
rare view of Western Europe.
CC It sounds like you hit it right on the nose as

far as ideal conditions go. You ought to be able
to see the Alps about now.
PLT Boy, it looks like a Dresden fairyland. It's

beautiful.
CC I gather you're picking up all the lights there.
PLT That's affirmative. There's Monaco and Cannes

in sight.
CC Okay, you should be passing Munich and Vienna

shortly, with maybe - maybe even Berlin visible
up to the north.
PLT Yes, we have Berlin, and we're starting to pick

up quite a bit of cloud cover now.
*Time track was unreadable through tape. Time

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CC Roger; we copy. And i minute to LOS. Next sta-

tion contact in 27-1/2 minutes through Carnarvon -
at 00:00 Zulu.
348 23 33 14 PLT Roger, Bruce. We're knocking off the ... now;
going to get back to work.
349 00 00 25 CDR -- Might be able to get it for you. Two isolated

cells side by side.
PLT Okay, I made a - okay, 190 MODE, STANDBY, MEDIUM,

INTERVAL, and FRAME 08, INTERVAL 20. RADIOMETER
to STANDBY. 93 yellow light is - -
CDR One of the cells - -
PLT - - on.
CDR - - even has an overshooting top.
3h9 00 01 00 PLT ALTIMETER ON at 50 - on the .... 2 seconds slow on

the MODE to AUTO on the 190.
CDR Oh, here's - Just a couple of real classic cells,

just all out by themselves for the world to see.
I thought I'd missed my chance to get a good
thunderstorm.
349 00 01 27 CC Skylab, this is Houston, with you through Carnarvon

and Honeysuckle Creek for 13-1/2 minutes. Out.
CDR Roger, Bruce.
349 00 01 50 CDR Okay, we got a good thunderstorm here, with a

nice little overshooting top on it. Taking data.
Right now going for the anvil. Taking data.
A dual cell. All right, going for clear water
and data. Termination.
PLT Is it very clear down there?
CDR It is now. Got to go for Alice Springs now.

44.9. And set that camera to 12 - 125th. Then,
LEFT 6 for Alice. Made it over the north Austra-
lian coast, I believe. Got clouds.
PLT Standing by for 03:20. Man, thatts unusual right

there in that area, too.
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CDR Well, maybe I'm a little bit too quick to call

that Australia.
PLT Stand by.
349 O0 03 20 PLT MARK. STANDBY, FAST, 08, and INTERVAL to 10.
PLT ALTIMETER UNLOCK light, turning it off for

15 seconds.
CDR Okay, we're interested in rangeland and rock

outcroppings
PLT Ought to bea lot of them.
CDR Unfortunately, all there is now is a lot of

clouds.
349 O0 0h 16 PLT Okay, 193 is back ON, and I do have a READY light.
Standing by 04:30. And it's going to turn it
back to STANDBY. I got the ALTIMETER UNLOCK
blinking now. On my mark 04:30 -
349 O0 04 30 PLT MARK. And the ALTIMETER to STANDBY.
349 00 04 45 PLT Be soaking up the 192 data here. Not either;

we're in CHECK.
CDR Okay, the clouds are beginning to break it up -

break up.
CDR Scattered cirrus, scattered to broken cirrus now,

it looks like.
CDR A]I right, from northern Australia down to about

central Australia Just north of Alice Springs,
it was broken to overcast. It's now broken to
scattered cirrus and breaking up. Now we're -
looks like we're headed for - it's broken low
deck, broken stratocu. Okay, CAMERA's going ON
at 45-degreetime. Alice Springs, where are you?
PLT Stand by for 06:13.
349 00 06 13 PLT MARK. 190 MODE to AUTO.
CDR Okay.
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PLT 06:20, stand by -
3h9 00 06 20 PLT MARK. 192 MODE to READY. ETC to AUTO, Ed.
CDR Looking for some rangeland and not finding any.

All right, this looks like it's probably range-
land. Won't buy that either; no, it's all wind
streaked. Don't see how you could grow anything
there. Back out and take another look.
PLT Now we're taking 192 data over this area. Stand-
ing by for 07:20. And at 07:20, Ed, ETC to STAND-
BY. And 07:20 on my -
349 00 07 20 PLT MARK.
SPY MARK; CHECK, ETC to STANDBY.
CDR All right, there's some good outeroppings right

there. Data.
PLT And I've got - light out and ... 31 MODE is going
to STANDBY. SHUTTER SPEED, MEDIUM; FRAME, i0 - -
CDR Okay, little or no outcroppings there.
PLT - - and INTERVAL, 20. Waiting for 09:53.
349 O0 07 53 CDR 10.7 right. Okay, the clouds over the Alice
Springs area were clear to, oh, scattered or
broken, I would say, and most of it was low cum-
ulus. At this moment, I'm looking 45 degrees
ahead, and we're coming into overcast conditions
now. And I must be looking very close to the
woomera test Site area. Now we have scattered -
or broken to overcast clouds, very little ground
vi s ible.
CDR Looking for vegetation. Oh, that's rocks.
PLT Looking up ahead there, do you see - is the clouds

._3tarting to thin out?
CDR Negative, solid overcast.
PLT 09 :53 we got to 190, MODE, AUTO again.
349 00 09 15 CDR No, there is little or no ground available to be

seen.
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PLT Ckay.
CDR All right, I'm now 15 degrees to the left of track,

and I've got a little patch of ground. However,
it is not vegetated; it is dry and sandy looking.
PLT Standing by for 09:53.
349 00 09 41 CC Skylab, this is Houston. With the overcast, you

can scrub the S190 ETC and the DAC operations
on 191 for the balance of the pass. Over.
PLT Thank you, Bruce; that's a very good call.
CDR Okay, Bruce. I'm going to ta_e - I'm going to

look for Canberra. If I don't have any luck
there, we'll give her up.
CC Roger. That's the alternate site; sounds like a

good plan.
CDR ()kay, the clouds break, they're broken up until

about 15 or 20 miles from the coast, and then
over the coastline they're scattered cu.
349 O0 lO 32 CC Okay, which side of that break is Canberra on?

Can you see it?
CDR I haven't located Canberra yet, but I've got a

good vegetation area which is what I'm supposed
to be going for.
CC Okay.
CDR Might be the eucalyptus groves are interested

in H}LI46, I think it is.
CC Okay.
349 O0 ii 09 PLT I didn't understand you, Ed, but at 11:45, that's

coming up in about 30 seconds, the ETC is - was -
we scrubbed that, though. We scrubbed it.
CDR Hey, Canberra, where are you? Some more dark

vegetation, very dark vegetation - -
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PLT And, I'm going to go ahead - -
CDR - - which l'm going to go for.
PLT - - ..., if I can. And, 11:45 callout to NO GO -

no - no ETC. Negative on the ETC, Ed. l'm
sl/re - -
CDR All right -
PLT - - you heard that call.
CDR - - got data on light vegetation area and data

on dark vegetation area.
PLT Stand by for 12 minutes -
349 00 12 00 PLT MARK. 191, REFERENCE to 2.
CDR Got a farmland area now.
349 O0 12 04 PLT And 194, MODE to MANUAL.
CDR Data on farmland.
PLT What are you doing, just going in the breaks of

clouds there?
CDR Yes. Okay, we've about run out of opportunities.
PLT Okay, the SOLAR INERTIAL maneuver is supposed to

start here at - in about 30 seconds.
CC Okay. And, Bill, we do want to get the SHUTTER

SPEED on Slg0 to the SLOW posit on before you
do the Earth limb stuff.
349 00 12 39 PLT Okay, it's going to SLOW now.
CC And 191 AUTO CAL, of course.
PLT Yes, and stand by in about 5 seconds - or

l0 seconds - -
CDR Okay - -
PLT - - Jer.
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CDR - - I'm ready.
PLT Stand by on my mark -
349 00 13 00 PLT MARK. VTS AUTO CAL.
CDR Okay, you got it.
PLT Thank you .... to SLOW. Okay, we're configured

for 190 all right.
349 00 14 05 PLT And the S190 INTERVAL is 10. So I think I'm up

to date on my 190 configuration. SLOW; l, 0; and
i0.
CC Can you verify S190 is in MODE, STANDBY, Bill?
PLT That is affirmative.
CC Okay, 46 seconds till LOS. Next station contact

in 37 minutes through Be_-mada at 00:52. Out.
PLT Thanksfor the help, Bruce.
CC Roger. Sounds like a good Job there.
PLT And coming up 15:40. I should get the READY on

the VTS, 191.
349 00 15 19 CDR Must be headed over New Zealand.
CC Yes, sir, passing over South Island.
CDR Hey, how about that. I got a good - good picture

of it. I'm going to take a couple of pictures.
PLT Okay, stand by for 15:40.
CDR Okay, I'm taking pictures - -
349 O0 15 39 PLT Okay, READY light off.
CDR - - of the - the Alpene Fault.
349 00 52 21 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Bermuda for

7-1/2 minutes. Out.
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SPT Skylab.
CC Go ahead, but we're getting a loud squeal in the

background, Ed.
SPT Okay, Bruce. You got anu Z update at O0:2h. Do

you want the one that's called for at the beginn-
•ing of the next daylight cycle?
CC Stand by, please.
CC Skylab, this is Houston for SPT. Understand that

you gave us anu Z update at 00:2h, is that the
st at ement ?
SPT That's affirmative.
CC Okay, we didn't see it called out as being re-

quired anywhere here. But that eliminates the
need for the one at 01:2h.
3h9 01 00 13 CC Skylab, this is Houston; 30 seconds to LOS. Next

station contact 3-1/2 minutes through Madrid.
Out.
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SKYLAB AIR-T0-GR0bq_D VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

8-1/2 minutes with a data/voice tape recorder
dump. Out,
349 01 09 32 CC Skylab, this is Houston. A minute and half to

LOS. Next station contact in 26-1/2 minutes
through Carnarvon at 01:36. PLT phone call, Car-
narvon and Honeysuckle, 01:36 through 01:52, start
out on left antenna and switch to right. Over.
PLT Roger, Bruce. Thank you very much, left then right.
349 01 09 58 CC Roger; out.

Honeysuckle. And PLT private comm, antenna left,
switching to right. We're with you for Just about
16 minutes. Out.
349 0! 49 22 CC Skylab, this is Houston, for the SiT. We Just

- saw the last segment of ATM video going on the
VTR. If you're finished with the recorder, we'll
take it and rewind preparatory to dumpimg. Over.
SPT Roger, Bruce. It's all on there; go ahead. It's

your's thank you.
349 01 49 44 CC Okay, we've got it and we have 2 minutes to LOS.

Next station contact in 32 minutes through Corpus
Christi, Merritt Island, and Bermuda. The evening
status report is Merritt Island at 02:23. Corpus
Christi is A0S at 02:21. Out.

Merritt island, and Bermuda for 14 minutes. And
we're ready for the evening status report when-
ever you are.
CDR Okay Bruce. Here it comes. Sleep: CDR, 7.5,

7, heavy, half, light; SPT, 8.0, 7, heavy, i, light;
PLT, 8, 8, heavy. Volume: CDR, 1600; SPT, 1500;
PLT, 1900. Water gun readings: CDR, 7384; SPT,
2717; PLT, 8823. Body mass: CDR, 6.308, 6.309,
6.307; SPT, 6.377, 6.372, 6.374; PLT, 6.227,
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6.226, 6.231. Exercise: CDR, method Alfa,

minus O1 minutes; SPT, no change; PLT, no change.
Medications : none. Clothing discarded: CDR,
none; SPT, one pair of shorts; PLT, none. Plus
one tuna spread, one biscuits; PLT, plus four
salt, zero deviations and zero water ...
CC Break, break. Break, break. Negative. We picked

up with plus one tuna spread and plus one biscuits,
which, I - I gather, must be the SPT. Would you
Just start over, please, on the food?
CDR Okay. CDR, 16.5, 16.5 salt, plus one butter

cookies, zero water; SPT, 4.0 salt, plus one tuna
spread, plus one biscuits, and 2 ounces of water;
PLT, plus 4 salts, zero deviations, zero water.
Flight Plan deviations: none. Shopping list
accomplishments : none. Inoperable equipment :
DAC 4, transporter 3 combination has Jammed again.
The transporter was okay on DAC number 2. We will
troubleshoot and try to find the cause. Unscheduled
stowage : none.
349 02 25 23 CDR Okay. We copy. Did you get the M151 coverage of
ETC prep with DAC 4 on another mag. Over.
CDR Okay. That 's coming. 16-millimeter film: ETC

prep was don - done with DAC 9, transporter 05;
supplies, Charlie India 93, 63, Michael Tango 06;
140-foot DAC, EREP 15, Charlie Lima 09, 42; M509
prep (Ml51), Charlie India 71, 42, Charlie
India 82; Nikon status: 01, Charlie X-ray 36, 22;
02, no change; 03, no change; 04, no change ; 05,
Bravo Hotel 04, 59. 70-millimeter: Charlie
X-ray 17, 077. ETC is Charlie Tango ll, 070. _REP,
set Tango, that's 8716, 8054, 8929, 8923, 2466,
9787. Drawer A: Alfa i, 02, no change; Alfa 2,
05, Charlie India 93, 63, Mike Tango 06; Alfa 3,
06, no change; Alfa h, 03, Charlie India 71, 42,
Charlie India 82; DAC 07, no change.
349 02 27 14 CC Okay, we got all that. And the frame count for
Nikon 5, is that after your last 233 this evening?
CC 0kay.
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SPT Would you like an ATM frame count?
CC Fire when ready, Ed.
SPT 09 - 09974, 03140, O0112, 00828, 04790, 0B168.
349 02 27 46 CC 0ks_y. And if you would, please, Ed, ATM C_D

COOLANT loop PUMPS are all OFF. Jump pump Charlie
is ON, panel 203.
SPT Roger. That 's done already.
CC And we're reconfiguring the MDA heaters back ON

following your EREP pass. And I guss that takes
care of the evening status report.
349 02 28 22 CC And we've got some evening questions, if you all

are of a mood.
PLT Go ahead, Bruce, if the price is right.
CC Okay, off the top, this morning we - or last night

we sent you up for use this morning two general
messages concerning the M509 prep for today and
r tomorrow. Have you hung onto these? If not, we
can send up duplicates.
PLT I got it in my little warm hand right now looking

at it.
CC Ok - Okay, beautifUl. If the CDR's the same, we

will save paper and not send it up again.
PLT He has his.
CC All right. For the CDR, whan you did the S019K
ops today, did you look for the comet in the
telescope viewfinder of the S019? Over.
PLT Yes, and it's - all those comments are on tape,

Bruce.
CC Okay, the thing that we're ask - concerned about

is whether it appeared with the head on the inter-
section of horizontal reticle line with the left
vertical line, if that's on tape, we'll buy it.
B49 02 29 B5 CDR Okay, Bruce, the - the head of the comet was at
about 5SO, out about I think it was - I think I
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said 03 of a radius out. And the tail was _Imost

radially out from it. It was streAm4ug at 530 and
it looked to me like it probably was out of the
field of the view, the very end of it. I would
suggest pointing to put the head of the comet in
the upper left quadrant, and that should get the
whole thing, spike and tail.
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349 02 30 06 CC Okay, our intent had been to put the head of the
comet over toward the 9 o'clock position, with
the tail going either straight up or straight
down. I'm not sure which from the drawing here.
And we'll take your comment and work on the
pointing.
CDR Okay, it was close to being straight down, but

not very good as far as getting out to 9 o'clock.
B49 02 B0 25 CC Roger. And for you and Bill, with reference to

the sunrise problems that you've been having
with $233 ops, you'll notice that we've been
having you take the first photo in the direction
of the comet, but about a minute before comet-rise
We've also started giving you the anticipated
time of comet-rise to the nearest second and
would like you to begin the second frame - that
is, the frame that's focused on infinity for the
comet - at comet-rise time. One of the purposes
/--
of the third frame is to determine how the sky
• is brightening prior to sunrise. However, we
want to complete it before actual sunrise or
before the sky gets significantly brighter. If
you can give us a mark over the intercom system
or on tape when the sky does seem to get sig-
nificantly brighter or when you first become
aware that the Sun is about to peek over the
horizon, we'll use this factor in adjusting our
sunrise times. And in the light of that, did
today's pass give you any problem with the sun-
rise? Over.
3h9 02 31 27 CDR Okay, this morning the 233 pass went well. The
sunrise came after the final exposure was taken,
and we were in good shape. The comet is now
bright enough so that you can see it in the
airglow, and so that first - that first photo
early is probably a pretty good photo and you're
probably getting something, too.
CC Okay, mighty fine.
CDR I'll tell you what, though, I think you were

3 or 4 seconds late on comet-rise. I wonder,
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do you want us to watch the comet and start the

exposure the instant it clears the airglow, or
do you want us to go by the time?
349 02 32 14 CC Okay, we'd like to go by the time as published

on the pad for the time being.
CDR Okay.
CC And for you, Jerry, in your detailed Flight Plan

for tomorrow, that's message 3002 Alfa, we need
to change the time for the S063 Kohoutek maneuver
from 14:56 to 14:48. This is necessitated by
changing the maneuver duration.
CDR Okay, Bruce, that's noted.
349 02 32 57 CC And one more question dealing with M509. Can

you estimate for us the time that was actually
required to do the M509 prep today with this
prep-today-run-tomorrow - type situation? We -
we'd like to use this figure to be able to better
schedule the future runs. And how did it seem
to work out? Did I get broken up by handover
there? Skylab, this is Houston. How do you read?
349 02 33 50 CC Skylab, this is Houston. How do you read?
CC Skylab, Skylab, this is Houston. How do you

read?
349 02 34 23 CC Skylab, this is Houston. We've lost one of our

land lines receiving from you. We understand the
COMM TECH at the site is copying you. Madrid
in 6-1/2 minutes at 02:41 for the private medical
conference, also for a data/voice tape recorder
dump. No acknowledgement required. If we get
you back through Bermuda before LOS, I'll call
again.
349 02 36 O1 CC Skylab, this is Houston_ 1 minute to LOS. Madrid

in 5 minutes, 02:41; private medical conference
and data/voice tape recorder dump. Out.
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5 minutes and Honeysuckle Creek a little later
for 1 minute. Over.
PLT Roger, Bruce; the PLT here.
CC Okay, Bill. Due to the problems we had with

Bermuda and the land lines, we missed two items
here. One is on the M509 prep, which you did today
for the operation tomorrow. We'd like to get an
estimate of the time that was required to do
this from you, so that we can better schedule
future runs. And in connection with the run
tomorrow, if you'd indicate whether you think this
is the way to go or not. Over. And we're sending
a NAV update up to the ATMDC. We don't think
there's anybody on the DAS.
3h9 03 16 h2 PLT Okay.
CC And while you're thinking about that one on 509,

for the SPT, in the evening status report, we
got a frame count of 070 frames in the ETC, and
we were expecting to hear about 35 ra - frames
used. Can you confirm that it was 70, and if
so, do you know where the other frames went?
349 03 17 21 PLT Stand by. And while we' re getting that squared
away, our best estimate is for the subject, for
Jerry's prep this morning, that about 30 minutes
was right. However, I was - I should run serial
to him because, see, my activity takes place
afterwards, and I was a little bit late getting
to the ATM panel because I had to wait until he
got through. Now 15 minutes is enough for the
observer, I think. But it had to be after the
subject has done his prep.
CC Okay, beautiful comments. Those are the sort

of words we like to hear, and we'll schedule it
that way in the future. And this is our last
pass of the evening. We suggest that you set
your alarm clocks for 12:00 Zulu for wakeup.
Closest site is 12:05 at Goldstone, but we're
afraid if you wait until then to get up, the
SPT may be a little pressed for the ETC operations
early in the morning. Over.
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349 03 18 20 PLT Okay• I copy that. And, Bruce, I was talking

to the medic• and I missed my comet. If you
can get me some other times• I'll get that about,
oh, 22:20, somewhere along in there. Excuse me•
04:20.
3_9 03 18 47 CC Hey• Bill• let's Just scrub the comet ops there.
I think we are getting enough data so that one gap
in the - the data take with the comet ops won't
seriously compromise anything. And we'll Just
put you all to bed at the regular time and press
on. Over.
PLT Okay. And stand by for that ETC comment.
SPT That count should be 40 • Bruce, 040 not 070.
CC Okay• thank you very much Bi - Ed. And I got

some evening news here. It's going to be broken
into a couple of chunks• but I'll give it a
whirl here.
PLT Go ahead.
349 03 19 27 CC The house passed and sent to the Senate today

legislation that could put the nation on year-
around daylight saving time by the second week
in Januaryr The bill would require clocks to be
set ahead 1 hour on the fourth Sunday after it's
signed into law. Year-around daylight savings
is one of the measures requested by the President
to help save fUel.
CC A few hours before the arrival of U.S. Secretary

of State Henry Kissinger today, Government officials
and Western diplomats in the Saudi Arabian capital
indicated that King Hus - King Faisal might be
willing to consider a limited resumption of oil
deliveries. This would occur only if Kissinger
or President Nixon makes a public announcement
calling for Israeli withdrawal from occupied
Arab land. Sea bottoms off the shores of
Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida will be offered
to drillers next Thursday in an effort to uncover
2 to B billion new barrels of oil. A total of
147 tracts of Continental Shelf sea bottom will be
offered for le_se by the Department of Interior
despite environmentalists' objections.
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349 03 20 24 CC We got 38 seconds to LOS. We're coming up on

Honeysuckle in 7 minute_ for a 1-minute pass -
a minute and a half pass. That'll be the last
pass of the evening. President Nixon lit the
powered-down national Christmas tree tonight
and said, "The spirit of Christmas is not measured
by the number of lights on a tree. The spirit
of Christmas is measured by the love that each
of us has in his heart." Before he pushed the
button that illuminated a single star at the top
of the 40-foot Colorado blue spruce, the President
called attention to the energy crisis that dimmed
the usual bright display. The Greek military
regime began releasing political detainees today,
a day after it promised to free all 300 persons
arrested for involvement in demonstrations last
month. The Senate passed and sent to the House
today a bill to permit the Government to use
alumluum instead of copper in making pennies.
The authority was requested because of the high
price of copper.
349 03 21 16 CC The U.S. announced today that seismic signals,

presumably from a relatively large Soviet under-
f
ground nuclear explosion were recorded in the
early morning. Also today, the U.S.G.S. said
that it had determined a moderately strong earth-
quake about 100 miles southwest of Adak A1 - Island,
Alaska. The agency said there were no reports of
damage, although the quake was felt on Adak.
U.S. District Judge John J. Sirica said today that
he may rule Monday on whether three Watergate
tape recordings the White House wants kept secret
may be played for a grand Jury. Stock prices
Jumped today as brokers cited renewed hope for
a possible end to the Arab oil embargo. The Dow
Jones average of 30 industrials rose 15.22 to
815.62. The widely watched index had lost over
50 points in the previous 3 days. Skylab news
today centered on your EREP pass and comet
observations. In sports, tonight the Houston
Aeros seek undisputed possession of second place
in the World Hockey Association, West Division,
when they visit Minnesota's Fighting Saints.
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349 03 22 18 CC One final word, which will be of particular

interest to the SPT, concerns a review of The
Quiet Sun which appeared in Science Ma_azine.
Donald E. Billings of the University of Colorado
says the technique you used in discussing the
photosphere and chromosphere makes the book an
excellent supplement to previous compilations on
the Sun. And that's it; we may have had LOS. Over.
349 03 22 53 CC Skylab, this is Houston. Are you still reading me?
CDR Loud and clear, Bruce.
SPT -- ...
CC Okay, we had a - a little keyhole, and I guess

our calculations on coverage are off here. Did
you copy as much of the news as you wanted to copy?
SPT We sure did. We got the whole thing.
CC Okay, very good. We'll talk to you over

Honeysuckle and see you in the morning.
CDR Actually, we got everything but the reviews on

Ed's book. You'll have to do that again.
349 03 23 20 CC Okay, once more with how - we're getting into the
noise here. I'll do it once more with gusto
over Honeysuckle.
3h9 03 27 20 CC Skylab, this is Houston; with you through

Honeysuckle Creek for a minute and 27 seconds.
Final pass of the evening first call in the morning,
as I mentioned before, will be Goldstone at 12:05.
Recommend you set your alarms. And once more
with glowing eloquence, the item for Ed. His
book The Quiet Sun was reviewed in Science Ma_azine
by Donald E. Billings of the University of Colorado,
and he says that the technique that you used in
discussing the photosphere and chromosphere makes
the book an excellent supplement to previous
compilations on the Sun. Over.
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SPT Thank you, Bruce.
CC If you like, we could record that and play it

every morning for wakeup or something?
SPT l'm being Jerked enough now, Bruce.
349 03 28 36 CC Time to say good night, Dick.
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349 04 02 32 CC Skylab, this is Houston. Observing on telemetry,

we noticed a MASTER CAUTION AND WARNING indication.
It's system 2 only. You got both a CAUTION and
a WARNING on system 2. All your spacecraft systems
look good and we'll continue watching on through
Bermuda, which is 04:13 and catch it again in
Madrid as you go over the hill. Over. Or, no
reply required. Out.
SPT Houston, there was a circuit breaker thrown inadver-

tently on the STS panel. No problem up here at all.
349 04 03 19 CC Okay. Mighty fine. Sorry to bother you, but we

Just wanted to - to let you know we were keeping
an eye out for you. Good night.
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349 12 05 46 CC Skylab, Houston. A good morning to you. We're

stateside for 15 minutes.
CDR Good morning, Dick.
CC Good morning.
349 12 06 56 CC And, Skylab, Houston. For the SPT, your day starts
off with a real hustle this morning. You got a
solar inertial ETC ops coming up in Just a few
minutes over Paraguay. You have a pad in the
teleprinter for it and later on this morning, when
you guys get the pads out of the teleprinter, I
have a few comments to make about them.
CDR Okay, Dick. He's up and hustling.
CC Roger, Jerry. And - However, that particular pad

has no corrections at all to it. So problem there.
CDR Okay.
349 12 l0 14 CC Skylab, Houston. We're going to be handing over

from Goldstone to Texas very shortly and we're going
to be dumping the data/voice recorder at Texas.
CDR Roger.
349 12 16 56 CC Skylab, Houston. For your information, since we've

come AOS here at this pass at Goldstone, we are -
have observed a - another glitch on the CMG number 2
that's very similar in all its indications to
the previous ones we've seen. The situation looks
fairly stable to us at this time. The momentum
dump is over and no problems with the - ATTITUDE
CONTROL. But I Just thought we'd advise you of
what's going on.
CDR Okay, Dick. Thank you. You dropped out Just

as you were starting the message and we Just heard
the last part of it.
CC Okay. I guess I got caught in the handover, Jerry.

What I said was is since we've been AOS here at
Goldstone and we did not see it - the previous
site before I called you for wakeup at Guam, we've
been observing another glitch on CMG-2 which is
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similar in all its indications with regard to

wheel speed, current, and bearing temps, to the
previous glitches. The situation looks stable now.
Your - completed your momentum dump and you're
back in SOLAR INERTIAL. No problems with ATTITUDE
CONTROL, but Just thought we'd keep you advised.
And we still got about 3 minutes here before LOS.
349 12 18 12 CDR Okay. Thanks a lot, Dick.
CC Yes, sir.
_4
o 9 12 20 08 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from LOS. The
situation on CMG still remains the same. It looks
stable. We'll - I'll give you a call at Vanguard
at 12:31. And on the subject of a the CMGs, there
is one of the messages that we uplinked during the
evening is a permanent general message. It
discusses some of our philosophy in operating
guidelines with regard to potential CMG failures.
CDR Thank you, Dick.
349 12 20 37 CC Roger.
349 12 31 55 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Vanguard for about

8-1/2 minutes. The CMG status at AOS looks
essentially like it did when we left you at the
States. A couple of things. We are going to have
about a little over an hour LOS between Vanguard
and our next AOS at Goldstone. One of the things
we'd like to do here is get the ATM C&D coolant
loop running so we could take a look at it while
we have AOS° And, I've got a couple or three things
to mention to you about the pads. The only correc-
tion I have is on the ATM schedule pad, but I do
have - there are two or three pads that were - that
you can end up throwing away and I'd like to make
sure you know about them.
CDR Okay, Dick, I'm ready to copy.
3h9 12 32 54 CC Okay, first of all - And you can pass this on to -

to Ed, Jerry. We sent up a - the S063, Ed's S063
pad and immediately followed it with - without a
space with the PLT's S063 pad. That error was
noticed and then a space was put into the teleprinter
and we uplinked again the PLT's S063 pad.
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So Ed should be careful there. He'll get to the

end of his pad and he can Just cut off the pad
that's immediately following it and throw it away.
Another thing, we had a problem with the command
line and we inadvertently uplinked a portion of a
permanent general message that had to do with CMGs.
After - after that problem we did uplink two
complete copies of that same message, and that was
permanent general message 12. So, you have two
good copies and one partial copy and you can throw
the partial copy away.
CDR Okay.
349 12 34 l0 CC Another reminder for Ed and Jerry this morning.

There - one of the message on board is the - has
to do with the food inventory and you ought to
read that one pretty carefully before you get
started on the ambient food inventory that you're
scheduled for today. Here's a - I - I have a note
here for the PLT, which has to do with his S063.
If he looks - when you look at it closely, Bill,
you'll notice that the vehicle arrives at the S063
attitude about 9 minutes prior to the first data-
f_ take, start time and that is not a mistake. We
did - It Just happened to turn out that way due
to momentum management considerations and we thought
you ought to at least be aware of it, if you happen
to dig out that fact and possibly think something
was wrong.
CC Yes, sir. And Jerry, if you've got the ATM sched-

ule pad, I have one pen and ink correction to it
and then I'll be through for - on the pads this
morning.
CDR Okay, that'll take a second.
CC Okay.
349 12 35 40 CDR Ed, will be right with you with the schedule.
CC Okay.
349 12 36 49 SPT Okay, Dick, go ahead with the change of the schedule
pad.
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CC Okay, in the daylight cycle that starts at 16:57,

down to the time of 13 minutes remaining in J0P 17
Alfa, step 2, we'd like you to Jot in there
15 arc seconds. And this is the off-pointing
required to take you from the bright spot to get
the background spectra. Over.
SPT Okay, Dick, I got that. That's pretty much the

way I've been doing it in the shopping list. Thank
you.
CC Okay, and Ed, if you're through with the ETC and

got another second, I did have a question for you.
SPT Go ahead.
CC Okay, you did a - you wore the M133 gear last

evening and the - our requirements for the mission
on M133 are a total of - of nine performances, and
you've - you've accomplished about five of them
so far. There is some talk and some desire on
some people part to get more than nine performances,
as a matter of fact, up to as many as 18. And about
the only thing that really bears on whether we do
this or not is your desires. If - if you care to _
do more, we can certainly schedule them in. If
you care not to, the requirement is nine and we'll
stick with that. So you might think about that and
let us know.
349 12 38 20 SPT Yeah, okay, Dick. That - that thing really is no

problem at all. It's 5 minutes before, 5 minutes
after sleep and the guys get good data. I don't
see any reason why not to continue on.
CC Okay, we'll - we'll take that into consideration,

Ed, and you may be seeing more of the 133's other
than what was originally planned.
SPT Roger. That was the intent when I sent down to

those folks and asked what was required in order
to get them a little better data or more of it.
It's a very small impact and I don't mind doing it.
CC Okay, real fine. Thank you.

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349 12 39 28 CC Skylab, Houston. We're i minute from LOS.

Goldstone comes up at 13:43, and we're going
to dump the data/voice recorder when we get to
Goldstone. I'll remind you again there.
349 12 40 02 CC And, CDR, Houston; as we go over the hill you've

got the pleasure of being assigned the first nu Z
update of the morning. Just a reminder there, it
comes up at 13:00. Out.
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349 13 43 22 CC Skylab, Houston. We're stateside for ii minutes.
SPT Good morning, Dick.
CC Good morning.
CC Jhud, Skylab, Houston. Be advised, our initial look

_ the CMG is that it looks much more healthy than
it did the last time we saw it. We are going to
look at it for a few minutes here. In the event
we continue to be worried about it, we will scrub
the S063 Kohoutek maneuver and ops. And in that
event, I have some Flight Plan changes for you.
But there's no sense reading them to you unless we
make that decision, and so I'll get back to you
as soon as we know.
SPT Okay, Dick; thank you. One thing we could use

a little extra time for is the checklist changes
which have been mounting up. And right now I can't
see Jerry behind all the paper on the wall.
349 13 44 30 CC Okay.
349 13 47 53 CC Skylab, Houston. We've decided not to do the S063

maneuver and the Kohoutek S063 comet ops coming up.
So I have some Flight Plan changes I'd like to get
up there, primarily for the PLT. Over. And, Bill,
they're changes to your details pad and also the
Flight Plan itself.
PLT Give me about 30 seconds and start talking; I'll

be ready to copy.
CC Okay, Bill. I sure will.
PLT I'm ready now, Dick. Go.
349 13 48 31 CC Okay. Let's take the Flight Plan first, Bill,

which is overview. At a time of around ih:30 or
so in your column, I want to change the S063 CPR-I
to an APR-I. We're going to do a atmosphere ops
on S063. Down below that, where it says S063 OP
at a time of about 15:20, delete that. Below that,
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where it says S063 CS two - correction, CST-2,

delete that. Okay, we're going to - now during
that period that we Just made those two deletions,
we're going to -_ke a - put in an ATM pad. So I
want you to Jot in there ATM, and your own station
time there is 15:13 Zulu. Okay. Furthermore,
down below that at about 16:40, where it says S063
APR-2, I want to change that to read S063 AOP.
And that's the only changes co the Flight Plan.
Well - correction, let me make one more over in
CDR's column; it's very simple. At about 15:20
where it says S063-K maneuver, just delete that.
Go - over.
349 13 50 17 CC PLT, Houston. We just handed over. Did you

copy those checklist changes? If so, I'll go on -
I mean, those pad changes?
PLT Houston, Skylab. Houston, Skylab.
CC Roger, PLT. Go ahead.
PLT You dropped out Just about the time you were
explaining the 15:20. Say again all after 15:20
on CDR column.
349 13 50 53 CC Okay. That was a real simple one. I just want to

delete the S063-K maneuver at 15:20. That might
be a good chance for him to work on those checklist
changes Ed was talking about.
SC . . .
CC And - -
PLT Okay, I'ii just read back very quickly.
CC Okay, go ahead.
PLT All right. Instead of S063 PR - APR - CPR-I, it'll

be APR-I. And that's at approximately lh:20. In
that period, also I delete S063 COP at approximately
15:20. Instead, I pick up an ATM pass starting, on
station, 15:13. I delete APR-2 and make it A0P at
approximately 16:45.
_4!)13 51 48 CC That's correct. Be advised, there's a pad in work

to support that AOP maneuver. And Just to be
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complete, Bill, why don't we - let me make a

couple of changes on your details pad, and then
we'll be sure we are together.
PLT Okay. And I did delete the CST-2.
CC Roger.
PLT Go with detail changes.
349 13 52 08 CC Okay. At the entry that's listed there at 15:05,

Just delete that entire entry. And replace it with
entry 15:13, ATM. And I'll have a mission note
for you on the - on what we want you to do on that
ATM pass. Down there below at the 16:15 entry,
delete all after S063 and replace it with AOP pad.
So that entry will read, in its entirety: 16:15
S063 AOP (pad).
PLT Roger. I delete S063 15:05. Make it 15:13 ATM,

and that 16:15 entry will read S063 AOP (pad).
CC Roger - -
CDR Houston,CDR. It looks like you have not done

the momentum dump inhibit. Shall I scratch that
off m_ pad?
349 13 53 16 CC That's affirmative, CDR. We did scratch that in-

hibit. And, Bill, one correction to what I Just
told you on your details pad. I'd like to change
that time of 16:15 to a time of 16:09 So you'll
be getting off the ATM a little bit before the
daylight period is over to - to start the S063 on
station at 16:09.
PLT Roger; 16:09.
CC Okay. We're about 50 seconds from LOS. Vanguard

comes up at 14:07. And when we get to Vanguard,
Bill, I'll have - I have a mission note here to
tell you what we'd like you to do on that daylight
cycle on ATM.
PLT Roger.
349 13 53 54 CC Thank you very much.

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349 14 07 00 CC Skylab, Houston. Good morning from the bronze

team. We're through Vanguard for ll minutes.
CDR Good morning, Hank.
349 14 09 20 CC Skylab, Houston. Just to give you a few more words

on the CMG problem we had this morning, the prob -
problems we've always seen in doing maneuvers at
low bearing temps. Now the - the CMG had gotten
back to normal readings, all except the - the bear-
ing temps were still slightly in the region where
we could have a problem. And we thought that the
smartest thing to do was Just to cancel the maneuver,
because we were in that region of possibility of
bearing stress.
CDR Okay. Thank you, Hank. Glad to know that.
SPT Hank, does momentum dumps affect it the same way

as a maneuver?
CC Say again, Ed.
349 14 l0 06 SPT Do momentum dumps, since they are maneuvers, fall

into that same category or are they slow enough?
CC Roger. The dumps fall in the category of maneuvers

but - we think this one may have started during a
dump. And, for the PLT. On the pass coming up,
no need to acknowledge, the - we've sent you up
a little pad that tells you what we want you to
do during the ATM pass we just read up to you -
Flight Plan change. And, also for the PLT. Your
S063 pad for the AOP is on board.
PLT Okay, Hank; thank you.
CC And, Bill, that S063 AOP pad has some information

you'll need for that prep, too.
349 14 ll 12 PLT Okay, I better go get it then. Thank you.

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349 14 12 32 CC SPT, Houston. I've got one sm_ll change for your
details we could get out of the way now, if it's
convenient.
SPT It'll be about I minute, Hank.
349 14 15 O0 SPT Okay, Hank; sorry to keep you waiting. Please

go ahead.
CC Oh, no - no big rush on it, Ed. In your details

out at 16:00, which is quite a ways away yet, it
calls for a nu Z update, and since we're not doing
the maneuver, we want to scrub that.
SPT Okay, will do. Thank you.
349 14 17 52 CC Skylab, Houston. We're going LOS. Out next

contact will be Tananarive in 15 minutes.
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359 14 32 39 CC Skylab, Houston. We're through Tananarive for

about 9 minutes.
349 14 36 03 CC Skylab, Houston. We dropped out there for for 3

or 4 minutes. We're back with you. We got another
5 minutes left at Tananarive.
349 14 39 33 CC Skylab, Houston. It sounds like we may be starting

to lose lock on you. Our next station is Hawaii at
17, and that's about 37 minutes from now.
349 15 16 29 SPT Good morning, Bill. Go ahead.
CC One quick thing, Ed. This is for the PLT, then

I'll let Bill talk to you. We're not going to do
the momentum dump inhibit for his ops coming up
here shortly. The rates will be under the maximum
for S063, so you should press on. But we won't be
doing the dump - the dump inhibit.
PLT Roger. It'll be easy then. Also, you might tell

the S063 people I don't have an illnm_nated reticle.
I've changed the battery again. I don't know if
I went from a - I had originally installed one on
day 328. Anyway, I don't have a light, and I've
tried both filaments.
349 15 17 ii CC We copy.
MCC Okay - okay, Ed. Beginning here on the ATM confer-

ence for today. Today's plan, we scheduled the
JOP 17A at your request, and the main reason we
did that was to give you a recommended 82A and B
exposures. We really intend for that to be essen-
tially observing time for you. Should you decide
that that emerging flux region is worth doing,
press on as you see fit. If you decide that it's
not worth doing, do anything else if something
else looks more important to you. It's really
totally your option as to what you do with that
time in the orbit. The - we have -
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SPT Okay, Bill. Yes, let me say I sure appreciate the

opportunity to work in that mode and thanks for
the - thank the PIs for that. I'll take a look at
that region. And as of last night, I have not had
a chance to work the ATM panel this morning. But
as of last night, that region was still fairly
bright in XUV, and I could see the chromospheric
network breaking around about three to four cells.
So it looked as thou_l something was happening but
I guess the NOAA people are saying there is no
sunspot. I could not see any last night either.
I would appreciate some words from them as to
whether they feel this thing's going to become a
good active region or relatively small like m_ ops.
349 15 18 33 MCC They really don't know, to tell you the truth on
that. They have not assigned it an active region
number for fear of applying the kiss of death to
it there. They're carrying it as an emerging flux
region and then going to wait and see if it stays
around or not. Right now, they don't have a good
guess. Part of our thiI_king that went into this
is - we found that on SL-3, the good bright point
B data that we got, we got our very best data when
Owen was doing it on his own. We didn't do nearly
so well when we tried to schedule it, because in- -
variably they wouldn't pan out to be as well as we
had hoped. So on this respect, really, you'll be
giving us our best crack at getting good data here.
349 15 19 12 SPT Yes, I think we do have a real advantage up here

being able to look at the XUV monitor and compare
it with the picture all the time. Because when
the bright points appear, especially like that one,
they really stand out.
MCC Okay. Good. And Just finishing up the plan here

for today. The JOP 26 and the 25 Alfas, the maxi-
raster really is - is the real JOP 26 where we're
taking the opportunity here to extend the 55 rasters
over that new active region - active area there -
out to where the 52 occulting disk leaves off so
that we can get continuous coverage there. I
wanted to mention that because the maxirasters
might not have been evident as to what we were
doing there. Similarly, as we explained, we'll be
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doing a four-limb coalign with zero roll - a dif-

ferent roll, trying to get at what's going on.
Cm the Sun as we see it this morning, we've got
two moderately new regions. We're calling active
region 99, the one that's right on the west limb,
270, bearing at about 0.95. It has a spot that
we can see so far, but not really any activity.
Active region 00, a potent n_Jmber if I ever heard
one, is at 260, right on the limb, one point on
the distance. It has no spot, but it's had a
fair amount of activity, quite a few surges and
brightenings, thing of this nature. It's possible
this might be the old active region 84. But right
now, NOAA does not believe that's the case. What
we have seen is that the things that occur in
active region 00, 00 seems to act as the source,
and 99 seems to act as the sync. So that the
things are surged or blown out of 00, many of them
splash back in the area of 99. To that extent
that - there ought to be quite a few coronal loops
evident between the two. We definitely do feel
that they are connected and talking to one another.
00 is in the same location as P55. We're not too
sure that the status of P55 is, so most of the
work we schedule on it today involves "what if s"
in case it's not there. On the orbit that Bill
is doing now, we're recommending ll, 12, and 13
on P55. In the event he finds P55 can't be found,
we recommend the next three shopping list items
in order - 21, 3, and 4 on the active region 00
essentially in the same area. And we're 50 seconds
here from LOS. Next is Vanguard in 23 minutes.
Let me give you a chance to squeeze in some words
in here. Over.
349 15 21 56 SPT Okay. Thank you, Bill, for that rundown. Looks
like we got something coming around the corner.
It's not quite the Hivman longitude I guess yet,
but the Smith longitude, I guess is there, and
they both look pretty good. I noticed a lot of
surging out there yesterday and I did get some
shopping list items done on the surging. And I
have recorded the methods that I've been using
to make some of those observations, and I'd like
some feedback as to whether those methods are the
ways in which they feel they're going to get the
optimum data. That is, shopping list items are -
are embedded in there, but sometimes the bookkeeping
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might be a little bit hard. But I think I operated

the experiment in the optimum mode.
349 15 22 35 MCC Okay. We talk - we talked about that this morning,

Ed. And our feeling is that the shopping list
items are up there for your guidance. Any time
you feel you can get more out of the experiments
in any other mode, you're really the boss up there.
We need to take advantage of you being there and
your real-time decisions. So to that extent, we
stand behind you 100 percent.
SPT Okay, and recognizing the film limitations on each

experiment and also what's been a little different
here is the 82 with the desire to use their -
their film a little more freely but still usefully.
So that had to be - I've always tried to get that
and I think they've got good background spectra
on some of these also. And I'd like some feedback
on that. Today, they recomnended a background
spectra which was 15 arc seconds distant from
where we take the other observations. And I'm
wondering whether that 15 arc seconds is a - is
an eyeball number, or whether they really want just
15 arc seconds. I foundyesterday I had to move
out somewhere around 30 or so to get the spectra
count down to where it was close to ambient.
349 15 23 38 MCC Okay. MY feeling there is that it is just an

eyeball figure. Do what you need to do. But
we'll get back with you on that. And we'll talk
to you tomorrow, Ed.
349 15 45 09 CC Skylab, Houston through Vanguard for i0 minutes.

And we'll be dumping the voice and data recorder
here.
SPT Okay, Hank.
349 15 48 40 CC PLT, Houston. Whenever it's convenient to answer,

Just so we can have all the facts in regard to the
reticle, let us try to recoup here. You did try
another battery, and you tried both reticle posi-
tions in the brightness control, all was no result?
PLT That 's affirmative.
CC Okay. Thank you.

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349 15 49 47 CC PLT, Houston. We don't have any further suggestions

for you. You'll Just have to do the best you can
with the tracking without the - the reticle to
aid you. The only other thing that - that we could
try is, try another battery. But I don't think
that would do any good.
PLT There are not any more. What I plan to do is to

try to get the darkened reticle but with a back-
ground of airglow and use a slight bias in my
tracking in order to en - enable me to see the
reticle in the airglow.
CC Roger. We copy.
PLT That'd be UP/DOWN as you're looking at the horizon

LEFT/RIGHT. And I - I - I think that that'll give
them Just about the same information.
CC Okay. We copy.
349 15 52 06 SPT Houston, SPY.
CC Go ahead.
F SPT Say, Hank. We've got an exceptionallygood view

of the Falkland current again and the plankton
blooms along the coast of South America. We were
not able to look at the fiords over by Chili, how-
ever, it was all clouded in. But I think we got
some excellent data on visual observations, which
we've put on tape. And we'll put some more on
the Faulkland current and resulting plankton
bloom. Also we saw an island wake about lO min-
utes or so on this last orbit off the coast of
South America, and we're looking for it again,
which went on for a good 150 miles or so. It was
very pronounced, and we described that on tape,
also.
CC Okay. We copy, Ed. Thank you.
349 15 52 55 PLT Incidentally, Hank, Jer and I had a chance to see

that coloration, which appears to be upwelling to
the east of New Zealand. And it's Just to the
north and east of the Chatham Islands. I'd say
about on the order of maybe B0 - 50 miles.
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CC We copy, Bill.

contact at Tananarive at 09. That's about
15 minutes from now.
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349 16 ii 16 CC Skylab, Houston. We're through Tananarive; we

have about 4 minutes left.
349 16 14 33 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 1 minute from LOS;

Hawaii at 52, and that's 38 minutes from now.
349 16 51 47 CC Skylab, Houston. Through Hawaii for i0 minutes.
PLT Roger, Hank. And I've Just finished 35-millimeter

magazine in Bravo Victor 44, and I'd like to
load another one for Ed's operation this afternoon.
Would you give me - give me a new magazine?
CC Okay, we'll get it for you.
PLT 35 - millimeter.
349 16 53 l0 CC PLT, Houston. We're planning to use IR film

for that pass this afternoon, and we'll be
sending you up a pad a little later to tell you
how to set up for it.
349 16 53 26 PLT Okay, Hank. And also the timer didn't work.
I'm going to - I had to take them all manually.
I will check out and see if the other timer
works and get it ready for Ed. We Just put
a new timer in that - a new battery in the timer.
CC Roger; we copy. And the only thing we could

tell you about the batteries, and I'm sure you've
already done it, is to maybe look for corrosion
down in the contacts or on the batteries them-
selves.
349 16 59 22 PLT Houston, Skylab; PLT.
CC Go ahead.
349 16 59 27 PLT All right, BV44 stowed in F-37, and Nikon 2 is

now empty.
349 16 59 35 CC Roger; we copy.

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PLT Also, I tried the other timer and - on Nikon 2

and - with no film in it, and I think it should
work that way, although the remote cable works
and everything the - that is, the manual remote,
the timer does not on Nikon 2.
CC Roger; we copy.
349 17 O0 44 CC CDR, Houston. No need to acknowledge, but at

Vanguard, as soon as you get through with the
photos there Just prior to LOS, we'd like to
get you to throw a switch up in the command
module. We're Just giving you a little warning
here. What's happened is the pressure is built
up in the quad Box manifold because we closed
the PSM ISOL valve, and we want to get you up
there over the site and open up QUAD Bs PROPELLANT
valve while we can look at it.
349 17 O1 31 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 45 seconds from

LOS. We'll be coming up on Vanguard at 23, and
we plan to dump the recorder there.
349 17 23 41 CC Skylab, Houston through Vanguard for 8 minutes.

And as a reminder, we're dumping the recorder
here.
349 17 24 28 SPT Hello, Hank. How's the CMG looking?
CC Okay, it's still looking good to us, Ed.
CDR Good to hear; thank you.
349 17 30 16 CC CDR, Houston; we're about 3 minutes from LOS

now. Would it be convenient now for you to run
up to the command module and get that switch
for
us? ]
CDR Okay, Hank, I'm on my way.
349 17 31 09 CDR Okay, Hank, I'm in the command module.
349 17 31 ll CC Okay, on panel 2 there, Jerry, what we want is

the SERVICE MODULE RCS QUAD PROPELLANT Bravo to
OPEN, and verify the PRIMARY and SECONDARY PRO-
PELLANT talkbacks are gray.
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CDR Okay, that's done, and they're both gray.
CC Okay, thank you a lot, Jer.
3h9 17 32 58 CC Skylab, Houston; we're about to go LOS now. We

got a long LOS coming up. We'll see you again
at Vanguard in an hour and 28 minutes at 19:01.
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Time : 3h9 :17 :36 to 3h9 :19 :06
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349 19 01 22 CC Skylab, Houston through Vanguard for

10-1/2 minutes.
CDR Roger, Hank.
CC And, PLT, while you're eating here, got a couple

of things I'll run by you. In regard to the
timer thing, the only suggestion we got is get
a new battery out of F-509 and try them - try
it in either timer, and we suggest that you - if
you do that, get a chance to do it, to verify
your timer selector switch is off before in-
stalling the batteries and also remember to
turn off afterwards, so we don't run it down.
349 19 02 36 PLT Roger; and I'll try it in an empty camera too

Just to make sure the thing's functioning prop-
erly.
CC Okay, and we've done some checking here, and

it should operate normaily on a - on an empty
camera. I don't think you have to have a mag-
azine on there.
PLT Okay.
3_9 19 04 05 CC SPT, Houston. On the TV there on panel 130,

we need to get the XUV SLIT, WHITE LIGHT DISPLAY.
SPT Thank you, Hank.
3_9 19 0_ 21 CC Thank you, sir.
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349 19 08 12 CC SPT, when you get a break at the console there,

give me a call, and I got your film load for
you for the S063 ops this evening.
SPT Okay, Hank. Go ahead. Ready to copy.
CC Okay. They used up the - the film we had up

there today, as you know. And so we want you
to load IR14, and that's in F-36, and - and put
that in Nikon 02, which is empty now. A good
time to do that might be at the end of your
PT at 23 - approximately 23:15.
SPT Okay. Thank you, Hank.
349 19 09 17 CC And, Ed, that operation does require that timer,

so if - if you don't get that checked out, you
or Bill one, you'll probably have to run in
manuel like he did.
SPT Roger, Hank. I've been through that once already.
349 19 l0 58 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 1 minute from LOS.

We'll see you at Ascension at 15, and we plan to
dtmp the voice and data recorder there.
349 19 14 43 CC Skylab, Houston through Ascension for i0 minutes.
CC Go ahead.
SPT Say, Hank, I'm looking at a beautiful surge in

H-alpha. There's three - or two large segments
to it, and it's moving off pretty fast. I was
able to get some MIRROR, LINE SCANs truncated
down to line 13 on it, and that's about all,
before we got below 400 K.
CC Roger. We copy.
SPT Looks like it's moving about 1 arc minute - for

in 2 minutes or so, which I think is whistling
right along.
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CC Roger. We copy, Ed. We Just got the report in

from NOAA.
SPT Okay. We got a little MIRROR, AUTO RASTER data

on it, and I suspect the next orbit we ought to
go Suncenter and see what's happening there.
349 19 23 37 CC SPT, on next pass - I guess it'd actually be the

CDR, we'd like to start right off with a building
block 32. And at the end of that, look at the
WLC, and if you do see a coronal transient, you
might run that program. And if you don't, we'd
like to return to the original Flight Plan
schedule.
SPT Okay, Hank. Thank you. Sure was a lot of ma-

terial moving off there in a hurry.
CC And, Skylab, we're 1 minute from LOS. We'll

see you Guam at 59. That's 35 minutes from now.
SPT Okay, Hank. This was not the usual surge which
we've seen out there before, which usually ap-
pears as Just a spike moving up and then grad-
ually fading away. Here there was two large
pieces of material which was evident in H-alpha
maybe about a third of an arc minute or so across.
Just moving out completely with no - no material
underneath reaching up to them. Looks as though
it was Just two large pieces of materail Just
blowing right off.
CC Roger; we copy. Sounds interesting.
349 19 24 54 SPT I think we got something good coming around the

corner.
349 19 59 24 CC Skylab, Houston through Guam for 8-1/2 minutes.
SPT Houston, we have an announcement.
CC Go ahead.
SPT We are pleased to announce the birth of our first

moths. The attending physicians, Carr, Gibson,
and Pogue, described the status of the babies
as alive, moving, but somewhat hairy. Their
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weights are zero, and their masses are very small.

The first day - first one was born on day 3h8,
sometime in the middle of the - middle of the
afternoon. The physicians were caught off guard
and didn't have boiled water or newspapers on
hand. At this time there are five babies crawling
over their potential brothers. The cover is not
being removed since they are all of the wild
breed. The physicians have delivered successfully
several times but, not being suitably adapted to
moth mothering, are ill-prepared to feed the
little fellows. Houston, request advice.
3h9 20 01 57 CC I think Bob is looking for an answer now.
CC Ed, I'm not sure how I'm going to break this to

you, but we really don't have any plans to - to
feed them.
SPT Don't we even have any old spider food left over?
CC At this point, we're not sure whether you owe

us cigars or we owe you cigars.
3h9 20 03 56 PLT And, Hank, a new battery in the remote timer

has fixed the problem on S063 as far as the
remote timer is concerned.
CC Roger, Bill. Thank you; that's good news.
PLT Yes, a footnote to that. It's sort of hard to

understand because both of those timers were
off, and we Just - well, I put a new battery in
one quite some time ago, but we put a new battery
in the second timer only about 3 days ago.
CC You would think it would last a little longer

than that. If the switch is in OFF at the com-
pletion of each run, I can't imagine what's
running them down.
PLT The position of both of them was in OFF, because

I pulled them both out new, you know, when I con-
figured for the first time, and then I got the
second one out to troubleshoot; both of them
were in OFF. And I'm wondering if they have
any advice as to whether or not to remove the
batteries after each use.
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CC That might be a good suggestion, Bill. Let us

talk about that one a bit.
PLT Or it may have Just been a fluke.
349 20 05 43 SPT Okay, Hank. We saw no evidence of the transient

in the WLC. We did give the building block 32,
however. And looking at it again in H-ALPHA 1
out there, we do see some - some surging still
pressing on the limb, but nothing like we saw
at the present - at the last orbit. So we're
going to go ahead and Jer's going to press on
with what's casted for the - on the pad. And
if there's time left over, we'll give you another
quickie building block at the end.
CC Okay, we copy, Ed.
CC Skylab, Houston. For your information, the

quality of the TV-47 yesterday was very good,
and the quality also of the voice and ATM TV
prior to and after the TV-47 was good.
349 20 07 33 CC Skylab, Houston; we're 1 minute from LOS. We'll _

see you at Vanguard at 38, and we plan to dt_np
the recorder there.
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3h9 20 38 37 CC Skylab, Houston. We're through Vanguard for

ii minutes. And we'll be dumping the recorder.
CDR Roger, Hank. We had - got a ATM COOLANT LOW

DELTA-P light, and the pump started moaning. It
lasted for about 2 minutes and then everything
back - went back to normal.
CC Roger. We copy.
CDR Actually, Hank, the sequence of events was: The

pump started moaning first, and I heard it. I
checked it, and then came back and checked the
light. And the light tame on - oh I suppose,
about 20 seconds after it started moaning. Then
the frequency of the pump noise, or the loudness of
the pump noise, went way down. And then it all
came back up after 2 minutes.
CC Roger. We copy, Jet. Thank you.
3h9 20 h8 19 CC PLT, Houston. Our telemetry seems to indicate

that the right legband is reading quite a bit
high. So when you go to breaking it down, we would
appreciate you taking a look there at the insulation
and see if you can find a problem with it.
PLT Will you say again on that, Hank?
CC Roger. It looks to us down here like the reading

from the right legband is a little higher - a
good bit higher than it should be. So when you are
closing out the experiment there, we'd appreciate
you taking a look and see if you can see any pro-
blem with it.
PLT Okay. And that's on the right legband. Thank you.
3h9 20 h8 59 CC And we're about a minute from LOS. We'll see

you at Ascension at 56.
3h9 20 56 27 CC Skylab, Houston. Through Ascension, Canary,

Madrid for lh minutes.
CDR Roger, Hank.

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CC And, CDR; Houston. A little while back, Bill

suggested that we might remove the battery from
the Nikon timer after every use to ensure there
isn't something in there that's dragging the
batteries down. I guess we think that's a pretty
good idea. So if - if you want to do that we'd
appreciate it and you might tape the battery to
the timer every time when you get through with
it, Just to keep up with it.
CDR Okay, fine, Hank. We'll do it.

see you at Guam at 37. And, for the SPT, the
S063 pad for the pass coming up is on board and
that's got your data in there for your prep.
349 21 09 53 SPT Thank you, Hank.
349 21 36 h2 CC Skylab, Houston. Through Guam for 7 minutes.
CDR Roger, Hank. And do I have a family call tonight?
CC Roger. You sure do, at Carnarvon/Honeysuckle 00:52.
CDR Roger.00:52.
CC And you should start on L_TANTENNA and switch

to the RIGHT.
CDR Okay.
3h9 21 38 50 CC PLT, Houston. If it's convenient, did you find

anything wrong with that right legband?
PLT Negative, Hank. I did not. I looked at it and

I put it on tape, but I saw no problem with it.
And everything else appeared to be nominal.
CC Okay, we copy.
349 21 43 l0 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from LOS.

Honeysuckle at 50.
349 21 50 51 CC Skylab, Houston, through Honeysuckle for

2-1/2 minutes. And we noticed that the - we've
got both EXPERIMENT 1 and EXPERIMENT 2 RECORDERS
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running and we'd like to get you to stop EXPERI-

MENT RECORDER 2 at panel 542.
PLT Okay, that was done per checklist, M509. Do

you still want it off?
CC That's affirmative. We're looking at page 7-5,

there, step 6. It says EXPERIMENT 1 to RECORD.
Which page did you find that - putting both of
them on?
PLT Okay, stand by, Hank. Maybe I did that by mis-

take. Okay, it's Just supposed to be 1. You're
right.
3h9 21 52 33 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 1 minute from LOS.

We'll see you at Vanguard at 17.
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349 22 17 32 CC Skylab, this is Houston through the Vanguard

349 22 23 03 CC Skylab, this is Houston. i minute to LOS.

Next station contact in 13-1/2 minutes through
the Canary Islands at 22:37. Out.
349 22 37 07 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Canary Island

and Madrid for 13-1/2 minutes. Data/voice tape
recorder dump scheduled at Madrid. Out.
SPT Hello, Bruce. I'd like to make a request on

our family comm.
CC Request away.
SPT Okay. For the next two sessions, Bill and I

would like to switch. That is, Bill would go
Sunday, myself Monday, Jer would remain unchanged
Tuesday. I would - Bill would go again Wednesday,
then myself Thursday, Jerry, Friday, and then
F we'd pick up as usual with Jerry,myself,and
Bill in that order. It amounts to Bill and I
changing twice.
_CC Okay, I think we can work that in.
SPT Thank you very much, Bruce.
349 22 48 43 CC Skylab, this is Houston; 2 minutes until LOS.

Next station contact in 35 minutes through
349 23 24 15 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Honeysuckle

for 8 minutes. Out.
349 23 25 48 CC Skylab, this is Houston. We've got about

6-1/2 minutes left in this pass. If you're
tied up, we don't want to interrupt. But if
somebody could get over to the squawk box before
the end of the pass, we'd appreciate a status
report on how 509 is going. We noticed the
VTR is not running, and the TV switch is in ATM I
instead of portable. Out.
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PLT Roger, Bruce. We're running a little late on

this first run. And have a question about
priorities in scheduling. We're Just wondering
if you wanted to scrub anything. Looks like
we're running into the S063. Either terminate
this early or we're going to run into S063.
349 23 28 35 CC PLT, this is Houston. In assessing our options

here, the position that we 're working around to
is deleting S063 if required and then eating
back into the discretionary m_neuvers. However,
to assist us, I wonder if you could give us
some status of what you've completed so far. We
can get a better hack on things, like the ma-
neuvers you've done. Over.
PLT Just doing some preliminary checkouts. Just

undocked.
CC Oh, Roger. Ths_uk you, Bill.
PLT Starting single axis ca& now.
349 23 29 19 CC Roger.
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SKYLAB I_R-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION
349 23 30 43 CC Skylab, this is Houston. A minute and half until

LOS. Next station contact in 37 minutes through
Bermuda at a time of 00:08. Scrub S063A op. And
we recommend that the SPT pick up the PLT's $233,
which is scheduled for approximately 00:30, to
give you a little more flexibility. And we'll be
talking to you at Bermuda. Over.
PLT Thank you very much, Bruce. Sounds like a good

way to go.
CC And -
349 23 31 39 CC And for the SPT, if you can do it, our preference
on the TV coverage is to be sure and get the
HHMU operations. We're not too concerned about
the cal maneuver coverage on TV. Over.
350 00 07 55 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Bermuda; for the

PLT. Over.
"- PLT Go,Bruce.
CC Roger. If you've got your Maneuvering unit -

Experiment Checklist out, on page 8-1, we've got
a little time line. Wonder if you could tell us
where you are. And then we've got some changes
to it to economize on time a little. Over.
PLT Stand by just 1.
CC And for the CDR, we've slipped your family phone

call this evening to Merritt Island at 01:40 Zulu,
and we'll call you again later on this so you
don't miss it. Out.
PLT That's real nice of you, Bruce. And where we are,

we're on the baseline rate gyro, right now.
Headed for position 2 right now.
350 00 09 07 CC Okay, Bill. What we want to do then is we want

to delete the discretionary maneuvers and you -
if you've already changed the battery out, that's
fine. Delete HHMU checkout and cal, delete HHMU
transfer, and do about 5 minutes of HHMU FAM work
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after you finish up the baseline rate gyro. And

our objective is to be completely stowed by
01:00 Z81u. So we would like you to be docked
and starting stowage by 00:15. Over.
PLT Okay, we'll have to move pretty fast then. Thank

you very much.
CC Roger. Out.
350 O0 14 38 CC Skylab, this is Houston; 1 minute to LOS. Next

station contact in 4-1/2 minutes through Madrid
at O0 :19. Out.
350 00 19 39 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Madrid for 8 min-

utes. Out.
350 O0 22 41 CDR Houston, CDR.
CC Go ahead, Jer.
CDR Okay. We're finished with 509. Tell the guys in

Denver they've got a great simulator. It flies
Just like the simulator.
CC Okay, we'll do that. Thank you.
CDR Essentially, Bruce, we made a mistake or two,

had to replow some ground, which is expected I
think on the first runthrough.
CC Okay, we copy. Is there anything we could do

to - to help out, or you think that, having been
through it once, you got it?
CDR Oh, yes. I think we've got it now. It's - this

is Just the old learning curve again. I did not
get to do any HHMU work because we need to get
started stowing. But the bird flies real well,
and I think it will be a real pleasure to work
on from now on. And we'll get the kinks worked
out of the procedures.
CC Okay, we copy, then that basically you got the

transfers in all three mode baselines and the
cals, and we'll work on the future operations.
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CDR That's affirmative. We'll put a full debriefing

on tape.
CC Roger. Out.
349 00 26 33 CC Skylab, this is Houston. A minute and 20 seconds

to LOS. Next station contact in 26 minutes through
Carnarvon at 00:52. And as I mentioned earlier,
we've slipped the CDR phone call to Merritt Island
at 01:40. Out.
PLT Roger, we copy that, Bruce. Thank you.
CC And if you're all still listening, we've also

slipped the med conference from Bermuda at 03:21
to Madrid at 03:3h in order to get better site
coverage. The problem there was Bermuda and the
evening status report at Corpus Christi were con-
flicting with each other. Out.
CDR Houston, CDR.
CC Go ahead, we've got about 2 seconds.
CDR Okay, we could not find the bracelet today for

the wrist checklist. We had to Jury-rig one.
Would you check and see if you can find out from
Bean-o where he might have put it?
CC We 'll do that.
350 00 28 Oh CDR It was not in the protective helmet kit.

Honeysuckle for 15 minutes. Out. And we'll be
dumping your data/voice tape recorder here at
Carnarvon.
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SKYL_B AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

station contact in 32 minutes through Corpus
Christi at 01:39. Out.

Merritt Island and Bermuda for 14 minutes. Out.
CC Now, for the CDR, coming up on his private comm

here at Merritt Island, antenna sequence will
be right to left and then left after the handover
to Bermuda. Out.
CDR Thank you, Bruce.
350 01 40 50 CDR Hello, Houston, Skylab; loud and clear.
CC You're coming through on S-band, Jer.
350 O1 46 05 CDR Skylab -
CC Skylab, this is Houston. We Just heard you

J- throughthe handoverthere. Go ahead.
CC Skylab, Skylab, this is Houston. Were you

calling? Over.
CC Skylab, Skylab, this is Houston. Radio check.

Over.
CC Skylab, Skylab, Skylab, this is Houston in the

blind. We believe you're out of configuration
on the comm. Nothing pressing; we'll pick you
up again. We still have you for 6 minutes
through Bermuda if you're reading us. And we'll
pick you up at Madrid at 01:58.
350 01 48 08 CC Hello, Skylab. This is Houston on S-band. How

do you read?
SPT Hello, Bruce. How do you read? i, 2, 3, 4, 5.
CC Okay. Loud and clear, Ed. The ground was out

of configuration. Had a button not punched in
on the console. They're hooking you onto GOSS i.
Were you calling during the handover? Over.
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SPT Yes, that's affirm, Bruce. On displays BUS 1

on the ATM, we're net able to get the displays.
I understand there's a circuit breaker we can
cycle in order to get those back. Do you have
the procedure available down there?
CC St and by.
CC SPT, Houston. The breaker you want to cycle is

down there in the CONSOLE POWER DISTRIBUTION.
It's the MAIN INVERTER !/LCA breaker. Over.
SPT MAIN LCA i. Thank you.
CC Roger.
350 01 51 27 CC SPT, Houston. Did that solve your problem?
SPT No, it did not, Bruce. I took the four displays

to OFF, and cycled the breaker: left it out for
about 5 seconds, pushed it back in, did not get
displays on BUS i. Tried it the second time,
with all eight switches OFF on the CONSOLE POWER
DISTRIBUTION and DISPLAYS OFF; cycled the breaker
out for about 5 seconds, back in; and still did
not have DISPLAYS on BUS i.
350 01 52 O0 CC Okay. Let us work on it. We got about a

minute and a half to LOS. Next station contact
in 5-1/2 minutes through Madrid at 01:57.
SPT Okay. Talk to you then. Thanks, Bruce.
CC Is the INVERTER A - i AC circuit breaker in?

Over.
CC The one right below it -
SPT That's affirm, Bruce. All circuit breakers on

CONSOLE POWER DISTRIBUTION are IN.
CC Okay. Thank you.
352 01 53 19 CC Okay, we're working on that one, Ed. And at

Madrid when we come up it'll be a data/voice
tape recorder dump. We'll talk to you there.
Out.
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350 01 58 32 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Madrid; data/voice

tape recorder dump. For the SPT, we'd like to
know the position of your LIGHTING, NL_EERIC and
LIGHTING, INTEGRAL switches, please. Over.
SPT They are both OFF, Bruce.
CC 0 - Okay. We want them in FIXED, please. And - -
SPT Okay, they're in FIXED.
CC Okay. And now you can go ahead and cycle the

breaker again and see if you get lights. And
we understand your original complaint that you
were getting no response to any of the four
DISPLAY switches. That 's the bunch with DAS,
ORB PHASE, POWER SYSTEM, and all that. Over.
SPT That's affirm, Bruce. And apparently having

those two switches in FIXED did the Job because
now we have it in BUS 1. Thank you.
CC Roger. Out.
SPT Bruce, you could probably give me a couple

sentences explanation of why it works with these
switches in FIXED.
350 02 O0 02 CC Okay. With those two switches in OFF, the power

to the NUMERIC and the INTEGRAL LIGHTING buses
is Just nonexistent there. That is, the experi-
ment - the BUS 1 position of the CONSOLE POWE_
DISTRIBUTION switches is - is wired up to those
two NUMERIC and INTEGRAL buses, which in turn
are wired up to the - the arm of the LIGHTING,
NUMERIC and LIGHTING, INTEGRAL switches. And
in the FIXED position, why, it's Just a straight
shot into the regulated output.
CDR Okay, thank you.
CC And, SPT, this is Houston. We show the Xtn! MON

POWER switch, OFF at the present time. We'd
like to get it back ON.
CDR Houston, CDR.
CC Go ahead, CDR.
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CDR Okay, Bruce, we have a DAC - DAC m_mber 1 down

here that's Jammed up. It's the camera itself
that's Jammed, and we haven't blown the fuse
yet. I got a hunch that the malf - the proced-
dures that they sent me up in general message 008
might apply here. I wonder if you would please
teleprinter us up another copy of permanent gen-
eral message 008.
350 02 02 14 CC Okay, we can certain]_ do that. We'll also look

into the applicability.
SPT Houston, the XUV MONITOR switch is in the ON

position, and so is M0N 1 and M0N 2. And I'm
not getting a display there.
CC Okay, we're talking on the lower right-hand corner

of the C&D panel, XUV MON POWER switch to ON.
Is that correct? And then MONITOR, M0N 1 and
MON 2?
SPT That's affirm. All in the TV block, lower top

of the lower - of the upper panel, right across -
above the monitors. XUV MON POWER switch is
right next to the XUV MON DOORS.
CC Roger.
PLT Ed, would you give me a frame?
350 02 04 01 CC SPT, this is Houston. We'd like you to cycle

XUV MON POWER switch, OFF then back ON. And
same with MON 1 and M0N 2 switches.
SPT That' s accomplished.
350 02 04 47 CC Skylab, this is Houston. 30 seconds to LOS.

Next station contact in 26 minutes through
Carnarvon at 02:31. During this LOS period,
we want you to hold your configuration on the
XUV MON, the TV MON switches, even if it means
sacrificing part of a pass. Over.
SPT Roger, Houston. Will do.
350 02 05 13 CC Roger. Out.

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6 minutes; for the SPT. Over.
SPT Go ahead, Houston.
CC Okay, Ed, I think we've got a - a story pieced

together here for you, but before we start into
it, the whole rationale hinges on one item. When
we were trying to get the lighting back, did you
cycle the H-ALPHA switch on the CONSOLE POWER
DISTRIBUTION? That's H-ALPHA switch 1 of 8.
Over.
SPT H-ALPHA POWER, yes, ON - that one, that I put

OFF and then back ON again.
CC Okay, here's the situation. Last mission, we

had a fairly hard short on TV BUS 2, and even
though an 0-meter check has shown it to be, at
least on the surface, okay, we don't want to
power that up. Consequently, we taped the
SYNC GENERATOR switch in the center OFF position.
Now, through a - a very interesting chain of
circ1_mRtance, the power to the SYNC GENERATOR
switch comes from the H-ALPHA BUS. And the H-ALPHA
_ BUS power is derived through the H-ALPHA switch
on CONSOLE POWER DISTRIBUTION from the C&D buses.
350 02 33 02 CC And when you turn the H-ALPHA switch OFF, nothing
happens. When you turn the H-ALPHA switch back
ON, the SYNC GENERATOR switch is cunningly rigged
to a series of pulsars.
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350 02 33 15 CC Therefore, you pulse both TVbuses 1 and 2 to the

OFF position since the SYNC GENERATOR switch is in
center OFF. So to recover from this position, what
you need to do is via DAS command - DAS 10131,
that's 10131 DAS, TV BUS 1 back ON, and you should
be back in commission. You all might want to make
a mental note that cycling that H-ALPHA switch to
OFF and then back ON does this to you. Over.
350 02 33 51 SPT Okay, Bruce, I understand what you're saying. That

switch has been cycled previously, however, with
now - without that effect. That - that does sur-
prise me that we have run into that now rather than
previously. I'll go ahead and give it a - give it
a go, though, 10131.
CC Roger.
SPT How's the XUV M0N look to you down there?
CC Okay, we see TV BUS 1 up now, and it looks - looks

_ good to us.
350 02 35 23 SPT Okay, in the process, however, Bruce, I can manage

to pick up a computer reject the first time I made
that entry. What was fed back to me was a lll31
and I cleared it and then put in a 10131 and it
still has got a computer reject for me.
CC Understand you got a computer reject the second

time, too?
SPT Not the second time. The second time it went in

all right, but right now I'm still having the com-
puter reject looking at me and a 52040 one will not
clear it.
CC Okay, we copy.
SPT 520h0 gives me 5 and four 7's.
CC I understand 520h0 gives you what?
SPT 57777.
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CC Okay, we copy.
350 02 36 32 CC Okay, we got 1 minute to LOS. Next station contact

in 7-1/2 minutes through Honeysuckle Creek. No
co_nand capability at Honeysuckle. It's a short
pass, we'll see you there. And actually we've got
a little more than that with you here through
Carnarvon. It's a keyhole and we'll be back up.
350 02 38 _h CC SPT, this is Houston. You still read us? Over.
SPT Sure do, Bruce; go ahead.
CC Okay, on telemetry we're showing an interrupt fail-

ure in status word 4. Something that we're going
to have to look at here, but we'd like you to stay
off the DAS until we get it psyched out.
SPT Okay, Bruce, will do.
CC Roger; thank you.
SPT And, Bruce, would you please recite the conditions

under which you cannot turn the H-ALPHA 1 or
H-ALPHA 2 POWER switches OFF?
CC Okay, we're not talking about the H-ALPHA 1 and 2

POWER switches. We're talking about the H-ALPHA
POWER switch under CONSOLE POWER DISTRIBUTION;
that's the second switch in from the left in the
group of eight over there and that's the one which,
where you turn it off and then back on causes the
problem, although I understand that in the past if
you're very, very swift and you go from BUS 1 to
BUS 2 you can get by without causing that glitch,
but we don't want you to operate that except under
our direction.
SPT Bruce, that is a switch which I did not throw. I

misunderstood your previous question, I thought you
meant the power switch down under TV which I didn't
350 02 h0 30 CC See you over Honeysuckle. We're going down.

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350 02 4h 00 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Honeysuckle Creek

for 1 minute and 30 seconds; 29-1/2 minutes until
next station contact Corpus Christi at 03:14 with
the evening status report. Break, break for the
SPT. Looking into things further here on the TV
bus situation, did you cycle either the - either
the main C&D 1 circuit breaker, that's the left-
most one in the upper row of circuit breakers, or
the C&D, EXPERIMENT 1 circuit breaker; that's the
third one in from the left in the bottom row?
Over.
SPT That's negative, Bruce. And also in response to

your previous question about cycling H-ALPHA, I
did not cycle the H-ALPHA switch under CONSOLE
POWER DISTRIBUTION. I cycled H-ALPHA 2 ON and OFF
or OFF and then ON again.
350 02 44 51 CC Roger. We copied that. I couldn't respond to you

there because we were going down in the noise pretty
fast, but we got that transmission.

Merritt Island, and Bermuda for 16-1/2 minutes;
for the CDR, over.
PLT He's right here, Bruce.
CC Roger. Postpone the evening status report please.

Cancel the meal conference and we'd like to talk to
the SPT. Over.
SPT Go ahead, Bruce.
CC Okay, Ed, we'd like you to start back when you re-
ported that you were having difficulty getting the -
the lighting on the ATM DC panel and try to walk
us through, in sequence, every switch, circuit
breaker operation that you performed. Over.
PLT He's on his way up there, Bruce.
CC Roger; thank you. And for the CDR, Just to bring

you up to date on the situation, as we see it right
now. Through a combination of events which we're
still trying to completely nail down, but we think
we have a pretty good handle on it. You all are
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locked out of the computer from the DAS; that is,

nothing that you're putting into the DAS is getting
into the computer because it thinks that there is
an inordinate amount of DAS activity and, therefore,
it's locking the DAS out. Over.
350 03 15 24 CDR Roger, Bruce. We have something we can do about it?
CC We're working on that. We've got a couple of

theories going around down here. And the first
thing that we need to do to make sure that we head
off in the proper direction, is to make sure that
we understand the exact sequence of events that
got us into this situation.
CDR Okay.
SPT Okay, Bruce, let's go back to where I requested

that we - where I stated we wanted to get the dis-
plays on the BUS 1.
CC Okay, we're with you.
SPT Say again, Bruce.
CC Go ahead; we're with you.
SPT Okay, as best I can recall, I asked you for the

circuit breakers to cycle or the circuit breaker,
And you then came back with the INVERTER LCA, num-
ber 1. At that point, I cycled it and we got no
results. I turned off the - okay, that's one point
where I did cycle the H-ALPHA. I turned off the -
first of all, the four displays and cycled it
and - -
CC Wait, wait, wait, slowly - slowly, now. Now, okay.
SPT Hold - hold on. I took the four switches under

DISPLAY, and cycled - put those to OFF - -
CC Okay, that's - -
SPT - - circuit breaker again.
CC Wait a minute, wa - wait, wa - wa - wa - okay,

that's the four displays, which is like DAS ORB
phase. And you turned - turned the four of them
to OFF.
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SPT That 's correct.
CC Okay, then you did - -
350 03 17 14 SPT Okay, then is when I turned off the - eight

switches under CONSOLE POWER DISTRIBUTION. Then
cycled the circuit breaker at that point.
CC Okay, and the circuit breaker that you cycled still

is INVERTER LCA 1.
SPT That's affirm.
CC Okay, you're - you're making - okay, you're making

sense, keep going.
SPT Okay, and then we came back with - you folks came
back with the instructions to put the INTEGRAL and
NUMERICS to FIXED. Okay, at that point, I did put
INTEGRAL and _NUMERICS to FIXED, cycled the circuit
breaker and we've got MON 1 and MON 2 back and XUV
MON.
CC Wait, okay, wait a minute - wait a minute. The

circuit breaker that you cycled again is the INVER-
TER LCA 1 breaker. Right?
SPT That's affirm, Bruce. That's the only circuit

breaker I have cycled.
350 03 18 15 CC Okay, and without any further action, you got MON 1
and M0N 2?
SPT That's affirm.
CC We had the DAS on TV BUS l, didn't - -
SPT Oh, excuse me, I'm sorry. Excuse me, I left out
the 10131.
CC Okay, now, you've told us that - or at this stage

of the game, we've got the four DISPLAY switches
OFF and we've got the eight console POWER DISTRI-
BUTION switches OFF. When did they go back on?
SPT Okay, the four DISPLAYS remained OFF, and the eight
CONSOLE POWER DISTRIBUTIONS came back ON after I
had cycled the circuit breaker and had no - no
results.
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CC Okay, when did you get the four DISPLAY circuit

breakers ON?
SPT I don't recall that exactly, Bruce. It was prob-

ably - Well, let's see, I'm pretty sure I must
have turned those on before we went through the
DAS actions, because we didn't do the DAS until
we got well into - I was well into the ATM orbit.
I'm sure I had the displays up for that.
CC Okay, at any time, do you recall cycling the - the

DAS ORBITAL PHASE switch up under displays very
rapidly from ON to OFF - from BUS 1 to off to back
to BUS l, or rapidly through the center position.
What we're looking for is an actuation that would
interrupt power for less than 1 second.
350 03 19 _2 SPT I don't recall having a specific reason to do that,

or remembering to do that Bruce, but every once in
a while when you hit those switches, you've - if
it's in the up position for example, and you go to
OFF, you can go right through the center position.
I don't recall doing it, but I couldn't say that
it wasn't done.
CC Okay, we copy.
SPT Okay, then we went to put the entry into the DAS.
And I put in the 10131 with the DAS onto BUS 1.
CC Okay, now we - -
SPT - - BUS 1.
CC When you say you put it in, you keyed - you keyed
10131 then what?
SPT I keyed - I keyed and I did not get that display

back. I got something which I do not recall ex-
actly. I think it was all - was not a 10131. It
was ll something, and I cannot recall what it was.
I cleared, tried it once again, got that same re-
sult, cleared, and on the third time, I got the
10131 looking up at me. I entered that and we got
the displays back and then I noticed a computer
reject. At that point, I tried a 520h0 and it
locked me out. I got 5 and 4 7's.
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350 03 20 56 CC ()kay,we're copying all that. The first time you

entered though was when you got a 10131 shown back
at you, right?
SPT [Rat's affirmative, Bruce.
CC ()kay,l'm not trying to - to bug you here. We

Just need to get the sequence down exactly. We
got the people up - from the house standing by
and we're trying to psych it out. The anomaly,
if you will, with respect to TV BUS i, I think we
can say is completely explained now by taking that
H-ALPHA switch in the back of 8 to OFF, and back
on, so what we're working on it right now is the
])AS problem with respect to the ATM DC. And we'll
keep you posted here. Let me sign off a minute
and see what's going on.
350 03 23 45 CC CDR, this is Houston. If you're prepared here

while we're working the problem we can copy the
evening status report from you. Over.
CDR Okay, Bruce, here it comes. CDR for sleep: 7.0,

5 heavy, 1 light; SPT, 7.0, 5 heavy, 2 light; PLT,
6.5, 6 heavy, one half, light. Volume: CDR, 2100;
SPT, 1600; PLT, 2300. Water gun: CDR, 7h00; SPT,
2758; PLT, 8862. Body mass: CDR, 6.30h, 6.303,
6.301; SPT, 6.367, 6.366, 6.368; PLT, 6.235,
6.236, 6.240. Exercise: CDR, method Alfa,
minus 3 minutes ; method Charlie, add a new position
to the standard, his position Echo, 2 minutes,
i0 repetitions. We'll add that on to the standard
format for the CDR; SPT, no change; PLT, no change.
CDR - Stand by.
CDR For the SPT, no Alfa - no method Alfa was done

today. Let's see, medication: CDR, none; SPT,
none; PLT, Afrin drops last evening and three times
today. Clothing disposed of: CDR, one pair of
shorts, one T-shirt, one pair of socks; SPT, none;
PLT, none. Food log: CDR, 8.5 salt. Are you still
with me Houston?
CC Yes, but hold for a second, please.
350 03 26 13 CC Okay, Jerry go ahead, we Just went through hand-

over. I got 8.5 salt.
_f
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CDR Okay. Plus one apple drink, plus one cherry drink,
plus 2.0 water; SPT, zero salt, zero deviations,
zero water; PLT, 2.0 salt, two coffees, one butter
cookies, zero rehydration water. Okay. Flight
Plan deviation: S063 deletion. Shopping list
items : none. Inoperable equipment: DAC number 1
is Ja_ued up, and when I get that perm_uent general
message 08, we'll see what we can do with it. We -
doesn't appear that we have blown the fuse yet. We
don't want to mess with it until we got what we
need. And unscheduled stowage is none.
CC Okay, we're still with you.
CDR Okay, photo log. 16-millimeters: transporter 05,

M509, which is 151 plus ops, Charlie India 93, 12,
Michael Tango 06. And the next one is M509 ops ;
Charlie India 72, 40, Charlie India 85. I might
advise that when we removed DAC 01 we replaced it
with DAC 09 for the dome position. Nikon 01,
Charlie X-ray 36, 22; 02, India Romeo 14, 41. Bravo
Victor 44 -gas removed and was stowed in Foxtrot 37.
Number 3, Charlie India ll0, 60. Number 4, Bravo
Echo, 08, 18. Number 5, Bravo Hotel 05, 00, roll
Bravo Hotel 04 was removed and stowed in the J-bag.
EREP: no change. 70-millimeter: Charlie X-ray
17,105, ETC is Bravo Whiskey 03, 022. Drawer A
configuration: Alfa i, 2, no change; Alfa 2, 05,
Charlie India 93, 12, Mike Tango 06; Alfa 3, 06,
no change; Alfa 4, 03, no change; DAC 07, Charlie
India 72, 40, Charlie India 185. That's it.
350 03 28 54 CC Okay. We copy all that, Jet. One thing that comes
to mind is you were asked to make a note of the
percent remaining on the supplies spool at the com-
pletion of M151 ops for 509 to separate MI51 from
509. Do you have that figure on hand?
CDR Okay. It's on the decal. We did not put it in the

log. Stand by. We can get it.
CC Okay. We'd appreciate for management purposes.

Thank you.
350 03 29 27 CC 1 minute to LOS. Next station contact in 5-1/2 min-

utes through Madrid at 03:35. This will be a normal
station pass.
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SPT Hey, Bruce. Let me real quick give you the ATM
frame count.
CC Okay. Fire when ready, Ed.
SPT 09714, 02957, 00108, 00803, 0h626, and 03072.
CC Okay, we've got those. Thank you.
CDR Okay, Bruce. At the end of 151, the frame was 52.
350 03 30 07 CC Roger. Thank you, Jet.

6-1/2 minutes. Next station contact after Madrid
is Tananarive in 22-1/2 minutes. That'll be the
last pass of the evening. In case you want us for
anything, the one after that is Honeysuckle Creek
at 0_:21. We see the S055 HIGH VOLTAGE switches
ON. We'd like to get all seven of them OFF. And
we'd also like you to do a standard ATM VC power-
down for unattended configuration on the C&D panel,
including ATM C&D pump Charlie, OFF, at the com-
pletion of panel powerdown. Over.
PLT We copy that, Bruce. Thank you.
CC You got the S055 and the powerdown?
PLT In work.
CC Okay, and as the mission goes on here this evening,

we're going to be executing ground comands to try
to clear up the situation and square things away.
We anticipate you all going to bed on - about on
schedule here, and we'll call you if we need an,V-
thing, but the status right now is that it seems
like you're locked out of the computer with the
DAS. Ove r.
PLT Understand, Bruce. Thank you.
350 03 36 58 CC Okay. I'm going to turn you over for the medical
conference now and you got a little over 5 minutes
remaining. We'll talk to you at Tananarive.
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350 03 57 23 CC Sky!ab, this is Houston through Tananarive for

about 6 minutes. This is planned as our last
pass of the evening. Next station contact would
be in 24 minutes through Honeysuckle Creek at
04:21. And I've got the evening questions for
yOU.
CDR GO ahead, Bruce. Roger, Houston. Go ahead.
CC Stand by.
CC And, CDH, for your information, our plan of attack

is forming up here. Over Honeysuckle we are
going to try to establish the ground interface
with the ATM DC to verify that we have access to
it or can gain access to it, and we'll - conse-
quently, we'll be commanding there. And there's
no real need for you all to stay up. We'll give
you a full update on the situation in the morning.
Over.
CDR Okay,Bruce. That'llbe fine.
350 03 58 35 CC Okay. The first item has to do with the gypsy

moth. It's really not a question. The control
group personnel of the Department of Agriculture
Research Labs at Beltsville, Maryland, have
reported no hatchings as of yesterday. There is
normally a statistical set of early worms or
larva approximately equal to i percent during
the 6-month diapause. Additional hatchings in the
next few days of your onboard moths will be
highly significant and has already created much
interest down here. With respect to the M509
checklist bracelet called out on page 7-2 of the
checklist, our records down here show at the
end of the SL-3 mission, it was located in W-74h,
that's W-744, along with the pressure suit bra -
bracelet. You might want to get that in sync
with your checklist. And when you run across
something like this as you do [sic] in the prep
yesterday, if you give us a yell, and give us a
little more lead-tlme to - to get rolling on
finding the thing. On the dump tapes covering
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the period of the S192 alignment check, prior to

yesterday's EREP pass, we didn't find any alignment
check, report. Can you - probably on tape would
be the way to do it - give us the final left and
right meter readings for the VISIBLE ALIGNMENT,
and the right meter, and the X and Z micrometer
settings for the THERMAL? Over.
PLT Okay, Bruce. I did that. And I followed the

checklist. And it said if there was no change
since the last time not to do anything, and I
didn't. It was the same on VISIBLE and THERMAL.
350 04 00 18 CC Okay. We copy; no change. Beautiful. And - -
PLT And I'll put it on tape next time.
CC Okay. And the name of the star that you inquired

about in the tail of the comet earlier today is
Sigma Libra, or Si@na of the constellation Libra.
And it's magnitude is about 3 or 3.5. And did you
all work $233 in this evening? Over.
SPT That's affirmative, Bruce. We got it.
CC Verygood,Ed,thankyou.
PLT You got the evening news?
CC Yes, we've got the news right here. I understand

that the frame count that you read down on the Nikon
dosen't reflect the $233 ops. Okay. President
Nixon signed into law today a bill that will tem-
porarily place the U.S. on daylight savings time,
starting January 6; I think that's fbr a period of
about 2 years. He said the action could save the
equivalent of 150,000 barrels of oil per day. Egypt
said today that the Mideast peace conference sched-
uled to begin on Tuesday in Geneva has been delayed
for 3 days. The report came after Secretary of
State Kissinger had talked for 6 hours in Damascus
with a grim-faced President Hefez Assad of Syria.
He then flew to Amman for a meeting with King
Hussein of Jordan. Protesting truckers kept their
rigs off the road again today, after threatening
to extend a violence-marked shutdown until Monday,
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to make their complaints heard by Washington and

consumers. The protesting drivers, most of them
independents who own their own trucks, are angry
over higher diesel fuel prices and low speed limits
brought on by the energy crises. Secretary of
1_bor Peter J. Brennen says his department is
studying the possibility of a nationwide 4-day
work week because of the energy situation. About
50 Conm_anist troops ambushed and killed an unarmed
American officer and wounded four other U.S. sol-
diers today as their helicopter landed to search
for the remains of a GI 12 miles south of Saigon.
350 04 02 25 CC Vice President Gerald R. Ford and President Nixon's

principal economic advisors met at the White House
with the Senate and House Republicans to discuss
posals - proposals in the economic field that the
adm_uistration will unveil next year. Vice Pres-
ident Gerald R. Ford and President Nixon's princi-
pal economic advisors met at the White House with
Senate and House Republicans to discuss proposals
in the economic field that the administration will
imveil next year. Trans World Airlines may be back
in operation in time to vote Tuesday to accept a
contract agreement reached by negotiators. The air-
:_ine has been grounded since November 4 by strikes.
J. Paul Getty, III, was found alive today, 5 months
after disappearing from Rome, Italy. His mother
said that his release cost 2.7 billion - $2.7 million
in ransom. The 1Y-year-old grandson of American
oil billionaire J. Paul Getty was in good health
despite a missing ear. In Skylab news, the wire
services have your stories about the gypsy moth eggs.
And, Ed, the stories quoted your birth announcement
in full. Also mentioned was the CMG glitch and the
cancelled comet photography. Sports: the Miami
Dolphins defeated the Detroit Lions 34 to 17. The
Pittsburgh Steelers took the San Francisco hg'ers
BY to 14. On the college basketball front, UCLA
beat North Carolina State by a score of 84 to 66,
and that's thirty for this evening. Over.
350 04 03 57 CDR Okay, Bruce. Thanks a lot. And those bracelets are
not in W-744.
CC Okay. Thanks a lot, Jer.

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CDR Yes, we looked there right after we looked in the

protective kit, and it wasn't in either place.
CC Okay. Well, I guess the bad news is that's all the

good news for tonight. Let us work on it.
CDR Okay. We did okay with a rubberband today. We

can get along that way if you can't find it.
350 0h Oh 23 CC Okay. We copy. We'll work on it.
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SKYLAB AIR-TO GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION
350 ii 50 27 CC Skylab, Houston. Good morning. We're at Vanguard.

We still have about 6 minutes left in this pass,
and I'm waking you up about i0 minutes early
this morning.
PLT Good morning, Dick.
CC Hi, Bill. Good morning.
350 ii 53 54 CC Skylab, Houston. We still have about 3 minutes

left in this pass. I thought I'd give you a
quick summation of where we are on the DAS.
And I need to ask Ed one question prior to
going LOS here so we can - you're going to have
an hour's LOS, so we'd like to think about it
prior to getting to Goldstone, and I'll tell
you why in a second. Essentially, we have
reenabled the BIT in the DAS which allows us
to command from the ground through our normal
primary DAS pass, and we have commanded several
items during the night and it's working perfectly
okay. We hope to do a short troUbleshooting
procedure with Ed on the ATM console just prior
to his first ATMpass at the Goldstone AOS at
12:59 to verify that the DAS does work, and we
do request that no DAS work be done prior to
that time. We still have about 2 minutes here,
and if Ed's available, I would like to ask him
one question about the activities last evening.
SPT Okay, Dick. GO ahead.
350 ll 55 04 CC Okay, Ed. Last night Bruce asked you about one
of the switches as to whether or not you've -
ever threw it. I'd like to ask you about another
one. And I'm referring to the DAS POWER switch
that's on the - and that one is on the lower
portion of the console just to the right of the
DAS entry keys [sic] itself. And the question
is, at any time during the procedure, did you
ever cycle this switch, and if you did was it
cycled rapidly? I did go through all the tran-
scripts and you never reported it, but we need
to ask this question just to clear up our minds
about it.
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SPT Yes, Dick; that was cycled. I believe it was

OFF at the very beginning, and I started the
entries and noticed that it was OFF, and then
turned it - turned it on. I don't recall ever
cycling it rapidly, however.
CC Okay. Understand it was OFF at the start and

you put it on, and the switch I'm referring to
is the DAS POWER switch down there on - on the
bottom right next to the entry keys.
SPT That's affirmative, Dick.
350 ll 56 08 CC Okay. Ed, if you'll be on the console at the

time when your detail pass, which is 12:59, that's
just about AOS Goldstone, I'll give you a call
there and I'll have the troubleshooting procedure
for you there. We're about 30 seconds from LOS
here. One item that I might tell yo u about.
About an hour ago we had a M-B flare in active
region O0 which is the largest flare that we've
observed on the Sun since you lauched, and so
things look like they're picking up.
SPT Say, very good. Thankyou, Dick. 4
CC Roger.
350 ll 56 50 CC And Skylab, if you're listening, llke to correct

one thing I said. The procedure we're not - we're
going to use is really not a troubleshooting pro-
cedure on the DAS. It's going to be Just a little
demonstration that you do have adequate DAS control.
350 ii 57 04 CC Out.
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SKYLAB_[R-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION
350 12 59 57 CC Skylab, Houston; we're AOS stateside for 13 minutes.

And, Ed, if you're around the ATM C&D, we can go
ahead and get on with this DAS demo.
SPT Standing by, Dick; go ahead.
CC Okay, Ed. Let me explain to you what we're going

to do very quickly, and then we'll step right
through it. What we're going to have you do is
ENTER three commands using the DAS. The first
two will be a function and data command to ENTER
the tau for your first maneuver today. And then
assuming they - those work okay, we're going
to have you ENTER the command that you were enter-
ing yesterday when we had the problem, that's
10131. Now, what I'd like to do is read the
nnmbers to you, have - and I'd like to give you
a GO prior to a - after entering the number and
prior to hitting the ENTER and then a GO for the
next one. And the first one is 52030.
350 13 01 ll SPT Okay. How's that look?
CC Roger, Ed. Looks good to us. You're GO to ENTER that.
SPT ENTER, cleared.
CC Okay. How about a 50027?
SPT That's keyed.
350 13 01 35 CC Okay, Ed. You're GO to ENTER that. Looks good

to us.
SPT ENTER, cleared.
CC Okay. The next one is the switch selector command

you entered yesterday, 10131.
SPT That's keyed.
350 13 02 02 CC Roger. You're cleared to ENTER that.
350 13 02 i0 SPT ENTERED and cleared.
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CC Okay, Ed. Looks like we've got a working DAS,

so you're GO today for normal ops and using the
DAS. Be advised, we've -have done and are going
to continue to do a whole lot of thinking about
exactly how we got into this particular situation.
But there's nothing that makes us believe now that
the DAS is not working okay. I might add that
the - one of the prime contenders for setting
the bit that caused this is the cycling of the
DAS POWER switch. And whether or not that was
the thing that caused it or not, it was centainly
inadvertent if it was. We thought it'd be a good
idea that you might review that note in - it's in
the ATM MALF book on page 1-h at the top of the
page. So each of you just might take a look at
that sometime when you have a chance.
350 13 03 07 SPT Okay, Dick; we sure will. I'll get it out. Yes,
if it was ENTERed, it centainly was an inadvertent
actuation. When I ENTERed the 10131, I got nothing
and then threw the switch on, and that made that
entry. And actually subsequent to that, everything
is as I discussed it with Bruce last night. And
it's not a neurological thing or a - a habit
pattern all to cycle that switch rapidly. However,
if you - you know yourself you can't recall every
small thing that you've done hours before, unless
you make a special note of it. So I can't
guarantee it didn't happen, but it certainly is
not the standard mode of operation.
CC Okay, no problem there. And we Just figured

that - it - that one particular note is one of
a million you - that are buried in that Flight
Data File somewhere, so this might not be a -
you know, might be a good time to review it. A
couple other things for you, Ed. A reminder,
you've got the first nu z update this morning.
It's listed on your ATM schedule pad. And we
see the ATM C&D COOLANT LOOP up.
350 13 Oh 26 SPT That's affirmative, Dick. There was some question

in my mind last night as to whether you wanted us
to put that on the unattended ops, powerdown and
powerup again cue card. Bruce implied that it was
supposed to be on there, but we have not received
anything to that effect yet.
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350 13 04 4h CC Well, that's not entirely true, we don't think.

We're still going to take a look at that filter.
And that we've been holding off putting it on the
checklist change until we can - think we understand
better the situation in the hardware in the - in
the loop. We have been considering putting it
on one of the pads, probably your detail pad, to
turn it OFF at the end of the day and turn it ON
in the morning, until we do make that checklist
change. And also - -
SPT ...
350 13 05 15 CC - - one other quick question. Could you let us

know approximately how long ago you turned the
C&D LOOP ON?
350 13 05 27 SPT At about 15 minutes ago, Dick. And the PUMP LOW
DELTA-P light came up - or went off rather slowly.
I would estimate around 15 seconds or so, which
is in contrast to - oh, the 2 to 5 - or 3 to 5
seconds we're used to.
CC Okay.
CC Roger,Ed. We copy the - your reporton the

light. The reason we were interested, the flow
does look a little bit low on the loop this
morning, but we'll keep looking at it for you.
SPT Okay, Dick; thank you. What time was the flare
again, which you mentioned earlier this morning?
350 13 06 21 CC Was ll:00 Zulu, I believe.
SPT Thank you.
CC Ed, Atom corrects me. The time on the flare

was ll:08. I was pretty close, though.
SPT Stay ahead of it.
CC Roger.
350 13 07 58 CC SPT, Houston. I wonder if I could ask you one

more question concerning the operation on the
DAS yesterday?
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SPT Sure can, Dick; go ahead.
CC Okay, here it is. During the time when you were

ENTERing - or attempting to ENTER the 10131 and
you - and you got back the ii - or whatever it
was, the incorrect DAS entry, at any time in that
period did you ENTER a DAS code that started
with a 59. Over. We - we know that you ENTERed
one after that. But in - in that sequence anywhere,
did you ENTER one that started with a 59.
SPT That's negative, Dick.
350 13 08 h2 CC Okay, Thank you.
350 13 l0 01 CC Skylab, Houston; one request. On the ATM C&D LOOP,

the pressure is still not come up - or the flow
is still not come up to its norms] - right, we
still have about 2-1/2 minutes here. What we'd
like to request, if you have a chance, is to
turn PUMP Charlie - ATM C&D COOLANT loop, PUMP
Charlie off and PUMP Bravo on. And we'll have
a chance to look at that between now and the
upcoming pass at Vanguard and see if we have the
same flow conditions in the loop.
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SPT Okay, Dick; you got it. Just as I went to turn

PUMP Charlie off, we got the LOW DELTA-P light.
That was before I turned the pump off. And it
seemed to go out just as I turned the pump off.
I'm not sure whether it was the switch actuation
or Just a - the thing coming up above the pressure
box the light to come back on - or for the light
to go off. And I turned PUMP Brave on, and PUMP
LOW DELTA-P went out within about 2 seconds.
350 13 ll 04 CC Okay, Ed; thank you very much. And before we go

LOS here, I'd like to advise you that we've
configured PCGs 5 and 6 for operation on the
SECONDARY AMP HOUR INTEGRATOR. We are going to -
and the reason for this is the difference in status
between the SECONDARY and PRIMARY AMP HOUR
INTEGRATORs. We intend to stay in this configur-
ation until the SECONDARY INTEGRATORs reach
100 percent or the next EREP pass.
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350 13 ll 36 SPT Okay, thank you. Dick, on your previous question

about the 5 - 50000 entry, I can be pretty certain
about that one. The standard bad habit, which I
do have, is always to look at the numbers after
I key in before I ENTER them. And there's no
reason I would ever hit a 5. So, for two reasons,
I'm sure that that didn't happen.
350 13 ll 57 CC Roger, Ed. We didn't think it did, but we're

Just -there's so few things that could cause
this. We're trying to cover all the bets and
make sure we understand this is - so that we
don't have a DAS problem we didn't know about.
We're about 25 seconds from LOS. Vanguard comes
up at 13:23.
350 13 23 47 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Vanguard for ll minutes,

and we're going to dump the data/voice recorder
here at Vanguard.
SPT Houston, SPT.
CC Go ahead, Ed.
SPT Say, Dick, active region O0 certainly put out

something. We can see it's evidence in XUV
MONITOR as well as WHITE LIGHT CORONAGRAPH. In
the XUV MONITOR, we can see that region without
the use of the INTEGRATE switch. Certainly is
the brightest thing on the disk right now. And
the WHITE LIGHT CORONAGRAPH shows the streamer,
which is superimposed upon a smaller one which
wasn't there yesterday, a very thin narrow one.
Now superimposed on that one is a fairly thick
one at the base, running out in that same position
right above active region 00. And it runs out
pretty much straight for a radii or so and then
starts to bend up slightly towards the north;
exceptionally strong streamer and a very
pronounced change. I do not see any sign of a
transient - short-term transient, so I did not
go into any kind of_a operation ossociated with
that. But I think monitoring this periodically
each orbit or so, at least with a building
block 32 or so, is certainly in order.
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350 13 25 38 CC Roger, Ed. We certainly concur with that and

think that's a good idea.
SPT Then you've got the WHITE LIGHT CORONAGRAPH and

XUV MONITOR information on the VTR. Any time
you want it, go ahead and take it.
CC Okay , thank you for getting it for us. And I

need to talk briefly with both the PLT and the
CDR, sometime this pass.
CDR Go ahead, Dick. We're up.
CC Okay, Jerry. For you, I've got a - first of all,

on the recommendation you made on DAC 01. What
we'd prefer that you do is to perform page 5-1
in the Photo Ops Book sometimes, rather than
permanent general message 008. However, if you
do want a copy of 008, we'll be certainly happy
to send that one right up.
CDR Okay, I think it's still an active message, and

we threw it away.
CC Okay. We'll send you one up today. Couple of

more things for you, Jerry. I've got one
correction for your - your flight - your side of
the Flight Plan. Over.
CDR Okay.
350 13 27 18 CC Okay. At a time of 2_:00, Jerry, where it says

M509 Delta? That's a charge; we'd like to change
that to an M509 Echo, which is a topoff due to
the pressure remaining in the PSS bottles
ye st er day.
CDR Okay. Good enough, Dick.
CC Okay. Jerry, let me mention one more thing to

you. Today - and you're going to be getting a
permanent general message on this in a - in a
day or so, but I thought I'd let you know here on
voice now. On your Flight Plan about 20:h5 today,
you have the first of a series of documentary
photos that are - that are referenced in Photo
Ops Book, section 9. We've been thinking about
this, and - and we believe that rather than have
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f--
you methodically go through every single sequence

and camera location and so forth in that, that
we can meet our objectives in this - in these
docl_ntary photos by Just having you review the
proper scene, in your case today DP-18, prior to
taking any shots. And then Just - at 24 frames
per second take some general photography of
unstaged activities of - of the reference to see -
In other words, we don't want you to Just have
to go by row through every one of those sequences.
We think it'll take too long, and you can get the
same thing by Just getting us some photography.
350 13 29 02 CDR Okay, Dick. Understand.
CC SPT, Houston; one more request on that active

region 00. During your observing time during
this daylight cycle, we'd appreciate it if you
could do a building block 17 for us. And I have
one note here for Bill Pogue, and then I'll be
all through.
SPT Okay, Dick. Understand; building block 17.
CC Roger.
350 13 31 05 CC SPT, Houston. Looks like to us that S055 HIGH

VOLTAGE 1 is OFF and request it on. Thank you.
350 13 33 20 CC Skylab, for the PLT. Yesterday on the S063

airglow ops that you did yesterday morning in
a in a hurry-up fashion when we had the problem
with the CMG, we've checked the voice dump tapes,
and we haven't found any voi - any co_nents
relative to S063. We're were wondering if you
did record anything, and if you didn't to be
sure and voice mark the exposures for the S063
ops that are coming up here this morning. And
for Jerry, to - this evening you'll be receiving
another status on the - the permanent general
messages, Jerry. And so you might go through
your onboard Flight Plan and take a look at tho -
all of those that are valid and you might not have
a copy of, and we'll be more than happy to send
any others up you need.
CDR Okay, Dick; thanks.

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CC Yes, sir.
PLT Dick, it's PLT here. You are correct, I did not
voice anything. I was having numerous difficulties
with various and Sundry pieces of the hardware.
And I Just flat didn't have time to get the
headset on prior to exposure time. I was also
trying to troubleshoot it as I was taking the
exposure S.
CC Okay, Bill; no problem. If you'll get it this

morning, we sure appreciate it.
PLT Do my best.
350 13 3h 52 CC Okay, and Skylab, we're going over the hill. I'll
give you a call at Tananarive at 13:50.
350 13 51 13 CC Skylab, Houston through Tananarive for 7 _,_nutes.

And, Ed, when you get a chance, I've got one small
update to your AT - ATM ops this pass.
SPY Go ahead, Dick.
CC Roger, Ed. When you get to the building block 17,

if your EXPERIMENT ROLL is not approximately 10800,
we'd like you to omit the last 82 Alfa exposure.
Over.
SPT Okay, Dick. I was going to ask you about that

one. We did not refer to a JOP when we specified
the 17. And it does make a difference with 82.
I have not taken an 82A exposure as yet, the
20-second one. We did get one at the beginning
of the orbit, which I figured would - would hold
until I could get with you folks on it. Do they
want one? I'm presently now at minus 5h00 in order
to give 52 the best view of the corona. If I go
to 10800 I'm going to putting that underneath the
pylon. No I could go to 10800 if we can tolerate
the ROLL during - 10800 will probably be pretty
good. I can do a ROLL right now, as a matter of
fact, while I got a couple of experiments between
modes. Question being, then, do they want another
20-second exposure at the very beginning of this
period and then one at the end of the orbit? Or,
we're pretty much coming up at the end right now,
so I would assume they only want one.
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350 13 52 4h CC Roger, Ed. Our recommendation would be go ahead

and roll to 10800 and take the exposure. That's
retake the 20-second exposure that you took
earlier.
CC And, SPT, Houston. That was a bad call I made

on the 2G-second exposure. The - it's a h0-second
exposure on 82 Alfa.
SPT Okay, we had a change to our JOP 811_11_a_y Sheets,

which changed those 40's to 20's.
CC Stand by.
350 13 54 07 CC SPT, Houston. For this exposure, at least, we'd

like a 40-second exposure. And we'll check the
checklist change and - and make sure on that.
SPT Okay, Dick.
CC Thank you, sir.
CC Skylab, Houston; for your information, ATM coolant

loop seems to be running real spiffy on the new
pump. So we're going to leave it like this and
Just watch it for a while.
350 13 57 02 CC Skylab, Houston; we're about a minute from LOS

at Tananarive. Hawaii comes up at 14:34.
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350 14 34 00 MCC Good morning, Skylab. Welcome to the avtive Sun.

And we'll be enabling momentum dump here, and
then I'm ready to talk to Ed about ATM.
SPT Good morning, Bill. We're ready; go ahead.
350 14 34 13 MCC Okay, let me Just give you a couple of quickies

here on today's plan. I think you can look at I
it and figure out what we're doing here with the

Alfven Wave JOP, a couple of active region double
zero pointings, the synoptic 82B work on the
latitude variation chromospheric emission. And
the important thing here is to note the change
to building block 35, which is a change for S054.
Just to cover yourself, l'd recommend you do that
in pencil if you haven't already done it, in case
after Christmas repairs we need to change that.
And a question here regarding JOP 8, building
block 17, on page S-25 - S-20 - S-26 on the JOP
sumnary sheets. Noticed this morning you had
indicated you had a pen-and-ink to change the
82 Alfa exposure from 40 to 20 seconds. And we
show it still at hO and that's where we want to
keep it.
SPT Okay, Bill, l'm not up at the panel right now,

unfortunately. Jerry's in there taking a
Kohoutek photo. Is that the third step which is
referenced on 8 Alfa, or is that 8 Charlie?
350 14 35 34 MCC Negative. It's the actual number that appears

in the building block itself on BB-17 for the
82A exposures. Should be 40 seconds. And we
think may - -
SPT Okay.
MCC We think may - -
350 14 35 46 SPT Bill, on one side of the JOP 8 s11mmary sheet I

have 40 remaining, and on the other side I had
it changed to 20. And I'm trying to go back
now for the paperwork to find that change.
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MCC Okay, it's probably not worth chasing the details

here. We've got another 3-1/2 minutes. Perhaps
when we changed building block 8, we got that
confused somehow and wound up in JOP 8. It's
the only thing I can think of.
SPT Well, I'll look into it a little bit further, but

go ahead.
350 14 36 lh MCC Okay, obviously the Sun is getting more active.

The active region double zero is a new area.
It's about 5 degrees southeast of the old 93.
It's growing and it's apparently unstable. From
over vantage point we cannot see it very well.
Any observations that you have during the day
we'd greatly appreciate your passing them on to
us. This is in the area, incidently, where all
of the S1-3 interconnections from one region to
the other were seen, and the loop structures. So
we suspect we'll have a considerable amount of
loops in here from this area and over into
brightenings around it. The - one problem here
is that the region is almost as bright as a
flare, so it's difficult to see when you do have
a flare. The flares that we had not - last night
were accompanied by a radio burst on the order 20
to 30 solar flution at delta. Active region 99
is stable, and that is, incidently, the old active
region 91. And P-59 is the old filament 37 coming
back, to give you an idea of how long that'll
be along. And while I 'm talking about active
region double zero and flares here, let me pass
on some word from 82 Alfa on their flare operations.
They've looked again at some flare data, in
particular a 15 June flare on Skylab-2, and they
found that their 40-second exposure short
wavelength showed rapidly changing spectra. AT
the peak of the flare, minus 1 minute, only the
very brightest or the highest temperature lines
showed up, in particular iron XXIV. They found
the other lines were coming in at a wa - a time
after the peak. And what they would like to
change, the words to you is that if you catch
a flare near the peak but not necessarily the
rise, if you catch it near the peak, they do want
to continue into the flare fall in order to
watch these other lines coming in as the material
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cools off. They're still very interested in the

rise, mainly for the spatial and temporal varia-
tions here of the very hottest lines, which really
is a misnomer since the triggering mechanism
here is s,lmost certainly nonthermal. But the
point is they do want to go into flare fall if
you catch it, even right at the peak as opposed
to forgetting aobut it.
350 14 38 33 MCC Over.

q
350 14 38 35 SPT Okay. I understand that's a distinction then

from the X-rays, which are concerned primarily
with the initial burst and then the other looks
like more of a relaxation - process. So they
want us - still want to observe it because there
is that time delta. I'll have to try and put
some reminders to that effect on - on cue cards
of the Sun machine.
350 lh 38 55 MCC Okay, Ed. And we're 30 seconds from LOS here.
Vanguard is next in 22 minutes, and go ahead
with anything else you have.
SPT Yes. The - since the name of the game, I think,

for the next week or 2, is to get some good
flares, one problem that came up before when we
were working on this is the PMEC. That thing is
exceptionally sensitive, as you know, to the
South Atlantic anomaly, so that leaves us in the
dilemma. If we leave it powered up all the time,
we've got the flare alarm going off in our
ears. If we turn it off, then you tend to forget
to turn it back on when you're out of the anomaly.
Then you don't get the warning, so we're kind of
caught in the middle here, and we're trying to
figure a way out of it. I think getting an
aluminum count would be helpful.
MCC Okay, Ed. We will be working on that and we

appreciate the problem and we're thinking about
it ourselves. And, let's see, we're over the hill.
George Withbroe will be talking to you tomorrow
about S055.
350 14 39 50 SPT Thank you, Bill.

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350 15 01 5_ CC Skylab, Houston through Vanguard for l0 minutes.
SPT Good morning, Hank.
CC Good morning. And, as a reminder to you, we'll

be dumping the recorder here at this site. And
also, for whoever's free, in order to complete
the closeout for unattended, we need to get the
H-ALPHA 1 INTERLOCK switch to NORMAL.
350 15 03 05 SPT Okay, Hank, it's to NORMAL. And als0, at the

conclusion of the last orbit, I left POINTING
Sun centered, so that you could look at the
corona, as the emphasis was placed on that, rather
than going to the position specified in the pad.
CC Okay, we copy, Ed. Thank you.
350 15 ll 06 CC Skylab, Houston; 1 minute to LOS. We'll see

you at Tananarive at 26.
350 15 27 34 CC Skylab, Houston through Tananarive for

5-1/2 minutes.
350 15 28 05 SPT Roger, Hank. I got S201 set up and I'm up here
doing some JOP summary sheet changes, and while
I'm at the panel, I 'm wondering if any folks would
want a shopping list item 1 or any other
observations?
CC Okay. We'll check it out, and did you find out

anything on that 40-second change there?
SPT No, I did not, Hank. Let me describe to you the

way we have it right now. On 8 Alfa, the build-
ing block 17 on that side, that's the S-25, has
got a 20-second exposure for 82A. On the reverse
side of that JOP summary sheet, for 8 - correspond-
ing to 8 Bravo, building block 17 has remained h0.
If you'd like me to go back and - -
CC Okay. On - -
SPT - - ... list of all the - -
CC - - on the building block 17 there on JOP 8 Alfa,

that one should remain 40.
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350 15 29 24 SPT Okay. You want all building block iT's then,
to be 407 Is that affirm?
CC That 's affirmative.
SPT Okay. The change which prompted that was either

number i, number 2, or number 3 on day 332 or B4
or 35, respectively.
CC Okay. We'll check those. I'm looking at change

1 now, which made a change to building block 8
and 9 in J0P 3 Alfa.
SPT Okay. Why don't you give that to me, Hank, Just
to make sure we've got this straight.
350 15 30 21 CC Okay. On - on JOP 3 Alfa, building blocks 8 and 9,

we changed the 82 Alfa 40-second exposures to 20.
And that occurred in three places in each - each
building - each building block.
SPT Okay. We have that.
CC Would you like for us to send those three changes

up again, Ed, so you can Just make - _ake sure
we got them right?
SPT I think that'd be the best thing to do.
CC Okay. We'll work that out. We'll put it together

then and ship you up those changes again so
we 'll know we 're straight.
SPT Sounds like one too many changes got in.
350 15 31 07 CC And, Ed, if you have time we could - we'd like

a shopping list l, item number 1.
SPT Okay. Coming up.
350 15 32 l0 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 1 minute from LOS.

We'll see you at Hawaii at 09, and that's about
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350 16 08 39 CC Skylab, Houston through Hawaii for i0 minutes.
CDR Houston, CDR.
350 16 09 58 CC SPT, Houston. We've gone back a_id looked at

the JOP s1_,mary sheet changes and the only one
that changes exposure time is change number i,
and we've got that in the pool now, and we'll
be uplinking that to you here. If we don't
get it up at Hawaii, we'll try to get it up to
you at Vanguard, and then that way you can
verify your changes.
SPT Thank you, Hank ....
CDR Houston, CDR.
CC Skylab, Houston. We can hear you downlinking,

but we can't read you. You're very weak. We're
trying to straighten out the situation now.
HOU Hawaii COMM TECH, Houston COMM TECH, net 1 voice

the ck.
HAW Houston COMM TECH, this is Hawaii COMM TECH.

I read you loud and clear. How me?
HAW Houston COMM TECH, Hawaii CON_4 TECH net i.
H0U Houston - Hawaii C0N_4 TECH, Houston COMM TECH,

net 2.
HAW Houston COMM TECH, this is Hawaii COMM TECH.
HOU Read you loud and clear.
HAW Roger. You're the same.
CC Skylab, Houston. How do you read?
CDR Read you loud and clear, Hank. How me?
CC Okay. Reading you loud and clear now, Jer.

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350 16 !I 44 CDR Okay. We Just finished M092 and the right -

the right leg indication meter pegged out high
again right after we got started. I'd suggest
we change legbands before the next M092 run.
CC Roger. We copy that, Jer; and we'll probably

do that.
350 16 14 35 CC Skylab, Houston. For info, we will be commanding

the inhibit momentum dump sometime during this
pass.
CC Go ahead.
350 16 16 06 SPT Okay, Hank, looking at the W_HITE LIGHT CORONA-

GRAPH display we got more streamers out there
on the limb, one at 230, 240, 270, and 290. The
one at 230 is the one most likely resulting from
the flare that was not there yesterday. It has
faded out a fair amount from what it was this
morning. It's not fluxing as much material at
its base, hut the central portion is still
fairly strong.
CC Roger. We copy.

see you at Vanguard at h0 and we plan to dump
the voice and data recorder there. And for the
CDR, we'll give you some more words on that
legband situation on the med status pad either
tonight or tomorrow.
350 16 18 35 CDR Okay. Thank you, Hank.
350 16 h0 30 CC Skylab, Houston through Vanguard for 8-1/2 min-

utes.
350 16 hl 05 SPT Roger. Hello, Hank. We got some minor surgering -

surging right in the region that we're working
_now. The 82B slit was on it. Nothing on the
X-ray intensity above around 400 or so for the
PMEC, or 400 to 450.
CC Roger. We copy, Ed.

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350 16 hh 31 CC SPT, Houston. I have a small addition to your

Flight Plan, whenever you get a break there to
copy.
SPT Go ahead, Hank.
350 16 45 17 CC Okay, Ed. Last night you read up - there were

some temperatures read up that were taken on
the gyro six pack, and they were a little bit
over our limits, and what we'd like to do today
in your open housekeeping that you have at about
18:00 is have you to repeat those measurements
so we can determine if we want to take any
further action. And the procedures to do that
with are found on page 16-3 of the SWS Systems
Checklist.
CC What we're going to do is use the digital ther-

mometer there to verify the readings that we -
you got yesterday evening.
SPT Okay, Hank. I copy.
CC Thank you, Ed.
350 16 47 57 SPT Hank, are we in the South Atlantic anomaly?
SPT Thought I had one.
350 16 48 28 SPT Hank, the difficulty with the readings on those

rate gyro six packs are that those crystal ther-
mometers, you can read them with a wide range
of interpretation. I chose to read them the
way of coming down from the top and working from
the upper colors on down and disregarding what
is below that. If you want to work from the
other direction you come up with higher readings.
I'll go ahead and put the digital thermometer
on it and see which way is correct. I know last
time I did it, it was determined that coming
down from the top was the best way to do it.
CC Okay. We would like to get it verified according

to that procedure with the digital thermometer
and if it - they are really up there, we suspect
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we may have to go in and do the procedure where

we put the grease in around the - the - the
transistors there.
350 16 h9 20 CC And we're about 30 seconds - seconds from LOS.

We'll be seeing Hawaii at 50, and that's about
an hour from now.
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Time: 350:17:30 to 350:19:00
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350 17 49 14 CC Skylab, Houston through Hawaii for 3-1/2 minutes.
CC And, SPT, Houston; the maneuver times you got

loaded for the next maneuver looks good.
SPT Thank you, Houston.
350 17 52 05 CC Skylab, Houston; we're 1 minute frun LOS. We'll

see you at Vanguard at at 18, and we're scheduled
to dump the data/voice recorder there. That's
about 25 minutes from now.
350 18 18 12 CC Skylab, Houston through Vanguard for 10-1/2 min-

utes.
PLT Hello, Hank; PLT here. Could you tell me what

time my comm - VHF comm is scheduled today?
CC Roger, Bill. 00:58 at Bermuda - MILA and Ber-

muda, and it's right to left.
PLT Thank you.
350 18 20 30 CC Skylab, Houston. Is someone free to go up and -

at panel 203 for us?
SPT Go ahead, Hank. I'll get it.
CC Okay, Ed. What we want to do is check out

ATM C&D COOLANT PUMP Charlie. And what we'd
like to get you to do is turn Bravo OFF and
bring Charlie ON, and listen for any strange
noises and watch the LOW DELTA-P light for us.
It's Just for a second there if you would.
SPT Okay, Hank. Let me go listen to the pump as it

is now and then I'll do the switch.
350 18 22 56 SPT Okay, Hank, the switch is made. The LOW DELTA-P
light stayed on for about 3 seconds. And it
sounds pretty much exactly the same as PUMP BRAVO,
both a nice, steady hum.
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CC Roger. And I guess we want to leave it that

way, Ed, and watch it. So, you can go back to
whatever you were doing. What we've planned
to do is, if it runs okay, is about a rev from
now we'll go ahead and go back to PUMP Bravo.
But we Just wanted to run a check on Charlie.
It seems to be doing okay now.
350 18 24 38 SPT Hank, how much longer do you have on this pass?
CC About 3-1/2 minutes, Ed.
SPT Okay. I can give you those rate gyro tempera-

tures. I know some folks are - down there are
interested. First in - I'll read you X, Y, and
Z for 5, the crystal first and the digital second.
96, 93.7, 94, 92.4, 94, 94.6. Doing the same
for rate gyro 6. 95, 93.5, 91, 90.5, 96, 97.5.
And there's a lot open to interpretation on
those rate gyro crystal thermometers. If you
read from the top down you can get reasonable
answers. If you read them from the bottom up
you'll come out maybe up to lO degrees higher.
CC Roger. We copy, Ed. Thank you.

LOS. We'll see you at Ascension at 32.
350 18 31 51 CC Skylab, Houston through Ascension for 9-1/2 min-

utes.
350 18 39 16 CC Skylab, Houston. For your information, there's

a message we just sent up regarding S082B oper-
ations for the rest of the day, for whoever's
got the next ATM pass.
PLT Roger, Hank.

LOS. We'll see you at Guam at 18, and that's
about 37 minutes from now.
CDR Roger, Hank.
SPT Okay, Hank. A question on the 82B, nl,mher 2.

It says to shorten by one-fourth. If we're
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taking a series of three exposures, which one

would they like us to knock off? That one-fourth
is a little uncertain in my mind.
CC What we mean there is we want the exposure time

shortened by a fourth. Well, this - this film -
this special film is four times as sensitive
as the regular film.
350 18 _l 31 SPT Oh, okay. I got you. Thank you.
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Time: 350:3.9:00 to 350:20:30
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350 19 18 27 CC Skylab, Houston through Guam for 6 minutes.
350 19 23 37 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from LOS;

we'll see you at Vanguard at 55, and we plan
to dump the voice and data recorder there.
350 19 23 hh CDR Roger.
CDR Roger, Hank.
CC Correction on that time, Jer. Should be about

ll minutes on this pass.
CDR Okay.
350 20 01 06 CC CDR, Houston. We'd like to get on TV XUV SLIT,

WHITE LIGHT DISPLAY.
CDR Okay. I'm off the limb now and going back Sun
center. Do you still want it?
CC That's affirmative. We'd like it in WHITE

LIGHT, Jer.
CDR Okay.
CC CDR, Houston. If you get a break there at the

panel, or one of the other fellows, we'd like
to get the ATM C&D COOLANT PUMPS switched over
again. We'd like to get PUMP C OFF and back
to PUMP Bravo.
CDR Okay. I'll get to it in a minute.
CC We watched that PUMP C this rev at the stations

we could see it, and it looks as steady as a
rock.
350 20 05 19 CDR Okay, Hank. You want PUMP Bravo ON and Charlie
OFF. Is that affirmative?
CC Roger, Jer. Get Charlie OFF and then bring

Bravo ON.
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CDR Okay. That 's complete, Hank.
CC Okay. Thank you, and we're about 1 minute from

LOS. We'll see you at Ascension at 09, and
that's about 3 minutes from now.
350 20 05 58 CDR Okay.
350 20 09 3h CC Skylab, Houston. We're through Ascension for

7-1/2 minutes.
CDR Okay, Hank. We got a flare going at 00, and

we 're working it.
CC Roger. We copy.
350 20 l0 55 CDR Hank, would any of the observers like us to

continue past 400 K? That's the XUV for 82A/82B.
CC We'll check.
CC Skylab, Houston. We'd like for you to continue

until 2 MINUTES REMAINING.
CDR Okay, Hank.
350 20 13 h5 CDR Hank, we plan to cut off everything except 55

at 2 MINUTES REMAINING. Is that the intent?
350 20 16 03 CC Skylab, Houston; we're about 1 minute from LOS,

and we'll pick up Canaries in about 1 minute
and a half.
SPT Okay, Hank. And could you get the folks thinking
about what we're going to be doing on the next
orbit? Do they want to look at the corona?
350 20 16 23 CC Okay. We're - we - we're thinking about that now.
350 20 18 05 CC Skylab, Houston. We're back with you through

Canary and Madrid for 9 minutes.
350 20 22 36 CC Skylab, Houston. We've got a couple of things

for you here. In regard to the plan for the -
for the next pass -
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350 20 23 18 CC Skylab, Houston. We had a handover there and

got caught. A couple of things for you regarding
the next pass. We'd like for you to go ahead
and fly the Flight Plan as we uplinked it. How-
ever, we want you to keep a close eye on that
region, and if you see another flare, we want
to go after it, of course. In answer to the
CDR, he had some question about the XUV SLIT
WHITE DISPLAY and why we wanted to go back to
that. Any time we go to Sun center and we're
in LIMB SCAN there, the PRS mirror is trying to
track the limb, and it puts it up against the
stops when we go to the Sun center position is -
And we'd prefer that we take the switch back
to the WHITE LIGHT DISPLAY position to keep
that mirror off the stop.
CDR Roger, Hank. I realized that after a couple

of minutes. At first I thought you were asking
me for some TV downlink, and then I finally
wised up and figured out what it was you meant,
and I remember that.
CC Okay, and one other thing. During this last

-- pass, we noticed that there was a very small
error in the wedges; so at the start of the
next pass prior to opening the S054 - S052 door,
we'd like you to zero the wedges.
CDR Roger, Hank. Ed will be on duty then, and I'll

mention it to him.
CC And the thing that probably happened awhile

ago, Jet, was that the - you started to drive
the wedges before the FINE SUN SENSOR DOOR was
fUlly opened; so that may have been what intro-
duced the small error there.
CDR Roger.

We'll see you at Guam at 53, and that's about
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Time: 350:_0:30 to 350:22:05
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350 20 53 Ii CC Skylab, Houston. We're through Guam for

9-1/2 minutes.
350 20 59 13 CC SPT, Houston. I have a correction or update

for your S019 maneuver pad, message 3134. If
you get a chance, the nu - we had a nu Z change,
which causes us to have to update a little bit.
$PT Okay, Hank; I have it. Go ahead.
CC Okay, under the fine maneuver there after the

52021, reading out to the right there, the first
entry should be 51063 instead of 51005. And
the rate that goes with that is minus 0.51 degrees.
The Y should be 51070 and minus 0.56 degrees.
And the Z, 50076 plus 0.62 degrees.
SPT Good, Hank. Understand for the fine maneu-

ver 52021; a 51063, 51070, and a 50076, for a
minus 0.51 degrees, a minus 0.56 degrees, and
plus 0.62.
CC That's correct, Ed.

We'll be coming up on Vanguard at 33, and we
plan to dump the recorder there.
350 21 33 32 CC Skylab, Houston. We're with you through Van-

guard for 8 minutes.
CDR Roger, Hank. I got several items for you.
CC Go ahead.
CDH On S019, Hank, two questions. Number one: I

presume we're still focusing on tooth n_mber 2
for cassett number 2, and it was not in the pad
anywhere. I would like to caution the people
writing the pads to be sure and put that stuff
in there because if we don't keep out check and
balance systems going, somebody's going to mess
up.
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CC Roger; we copy. That's a good point.
CDR Okay. Also in the S019 pad it says it would

like to have the target, eitel Be - either
Betelgeuse or Kohoutek - or I should say and.
They'd like to have them at 9 o'clock on the
left-hand reticle. Well, that doesn't tell me
enough. How far out from the center do they
want it?
CDR And then, Hank, the other question is, for the
doctlnentary photos, I assume we're going to use
a 10-millimeter lens unless otherwise specified
in the procedures. Is that correct?
350 21 35 09 CC We'll check it.
CC And, CDR, you're - in answer to the first ques-

tion, you're right. It's tooth 2 for cassette
number 2, and we'll try to keep that on the
pads. You're right; we should do that. And
in regard to the pointing, if you look into the
reticle there, there's a vertical line off to
the left of the center line and that's where
we want - where that crosses the horizontal line
is where we want it - the pointing to be.
CDR Okay; copy.
CC And as a reminder, CDR, we'd like for you to

voice record the ROTATION and TILT settings
there on the reference star so we can compare
for our pointing.
CDR Will do it, Hank.
CC Correction on that, Jer. If you could get

those to us real time, it really would help
us out in building our pads.
CDR Okay, I'll give it a try.
350 21 41 O1 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from LOS. We'll

see you at Canaries at 53.
CDR Hank, did you get my question on the lens for

the documentary photos?
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CC Roger. We're Just getting that now, Jer, and

the 10-millimeter lens is okay.
350 2i hl 21 CDR Okay. Thank you.
350 21 53 29 CC Skylab, Houston. We're through Canary and

Madrid for 13-1/2 minutes.
SPT Roger, Hank. Let me mention a - one anomaly

we have on the X-RAY IMAGE scope which I've
noticed over about the past day or so. The
lower 40 percent of the scan is not seen on the
scope. Sometimes it's present, and sometimes
it's not. And for the past two orbits, it's
not been present.
CC Understand the lower 40 percent of the scan -

you can't see it?
SPT That's affirm. On the X-RAY IMAGE scope, the

S054, Under X-RAY SPECT.
CC Roger. We copy.
CC SPT, let me verify. Was that a intermittent?
SPT Say again, Hank.
CC Roger. Let me verify. Was that a intermittent

condition or does it do that all the time?
350 21 55 ll SPT It'll be like that for several orbits. It was

okay this morning when I first looked at it,
and Just recently on the past two orbits, it
has been missing. It occurred once before,
and I neglected to mention it to you.
CC Okay, we copy.
SPT In BUS 1 or BUS 2, for the X-RAY SPECT under

CONSOLE POWER DISTRIBUTION. And, Hank, looks
like the Sun did it to us again Just as I was
powering down with around 6 minutes to go. I
believe we were close to the South Atlantic
anomaly. The PMEC count was up, but the
BERYLLIUM APERTURE bumped up to 3.
rf--.
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CC Roger. We copy.
CC Ed, we've Just checked, and we do have a class M

in progress, and - as reported by our Beta
satellite.
SPT Hank, you guys got to do a better Job of sched-

uling down there.
CC Well, if old man Sol would Just cooperate, we

could get a lot of good things done.
350 21 58 42 CC And, Skylab, Houston. Is there - for info,

we'll be dumping the recorder here at Madrid.
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Time: 350 22:05 to 350:23:30
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SKYLABAIR-T0-GROUNDVOICE TRANSCRIPTION
350 22 06"36 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from LOS, We'll

see you at Honeysuckle at hl; that's about 3h min-
utes from now.
SPT So long, Hank.
SPT Hey, Hank, what was the size of the previous flare
which Jerry did get - managed to get a portion of?
CC Our preliminary figures show it's Charlie 3.
SPT Thank you. And his other one was a M something?
CC Roger. Class M, but we don't have it any further

than that at this point, Ed,
350 22 07 23 SPT Thanks, Hank.
350 22 hl 27 CC Good afternoon, Skylab. We're AOS over Honeysuckle

for 8 minutes. And I understand congratulations
are in order, that you guys became parents while
we were off.
PLT That's right. You left at the wrong time, Crip.
CC Oh, I happened to be around - here in the MOCR

when you called it down,
PLT Oh, that's right; I remember.
SPT We owe it all to you, Crip. It really - Couldn't

have done it without you good words.
CC I'm sure of that. Did you - did you manage to

see diapause?
SPT Perhaps something resembling that, Crip. We cer-

tainly saw lots of little - of the little fellows
crawling around, and we haven't had a chance to
look at them too closely the past 6 hours or so.
But I think there might be a couple of more there,
CC Roger.
F
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SPT We're thinking of a couple of suitable names, Crip.

What's your middle name?
CC Harry.
CC For your information, in case you haven't heard the

woodpecker, all your Flight Plans should be on
board.
SPT Roger, We've been looking at them.
CDR Houston, CDR.
CC Go, CDR.
350 22 42 52 CDR Okay, on that S019 run that we Just finished, I

did no_ have time to do any repointing that -
without affecting the exposures themselves, So
all I can tell you is that the comet, rather than
being at 9 o'clock on the vertical crossh_ir to
the left, was halfway between that left-hand cross-
hair and the center crosshair at 9 o'clock.
CC Okay, copy that. Thank you, Jer.
CDR Well, I figured moving - trying to repoint would

only endanger the exposure because there was Just
very little time. In fact, the maneuver only had
about 30 seconds to settle out before it was time
for the first exposure; we really cut it tight.
CC Okay, copy that.
350 22 _ 20 CC CDR, Houston. Jer, could you tell us where Betel-

geuse showed up in it?
CDR Quite frankly, I wasn't even sure I could find

Betelgeuse0 There were no really bright stars in
the field of view, and the two that were brightest
of the bunch, I couldn't really figure out in the
star field. Can you tell me what the field of
view is of the SO19?
CC 7 degrees total field of view.
350 22 _50l CDR Well, in the star field I saw out there, there
were two brighter stars. One brighter star was
out at 3 o'clock at about 0.9 radius; the other
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one was down at 7 o'clock, right at the intersec-

tion of the lower horizontal crosshair and the
left vertical crosshair,
CC Copy.
350 22 h8 25 CC Skylab, Houston. We're i minute from LOS, We'll

see you again over Bermuda in about 37 minutes at
23:25, 23:25.
350 23 25 31 CC Skylab, Houston. We're A0S through Be_ada for

6minutes.
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see you again at Canary at 23:33, 23:33, and that's
about 2 minutes away.
350 23 33 22 CC Skylab, Houston. AOS through Canary. We have you

for about ii minutes.
CDR Say again, Crip.
CC ,lust calling AOS. We've got you for about

iI minutes now.
CDR Okay.
CC CDR, Houston. You got a - got a moment to chat

or are you still pretty tied up?
CDR Go ahead.
CC Okay, in regard to you being pretty close on time

_-- awhile ago for the maneuverand only having
about 30 seconds to settle out - In looking back
over what we were doing with the attitude hold
manuever, it sounds like maybe something got a
little bit dropped, perhaps down here on the
ground. The problem was that we have not been
allowing the - any time subsequent to the time
that we've given you for attitude hold selection
to enter the command for the maneuver. And conse-
quently, we showed down here on the ground today
that the maneuver must've taken about a - a minute
to get in because it was about a minute behind.
It may be - might have been close to a minute and
a half, because we normally allow 2 minutes
settling time on the end.
CC And just to clarify how you are entering the

maneuver commands, is it safe to assume that what
you're doing is selecting ATTITUDE HOLD and then
entering the coarse maneuver and then entering the
fine maneuver?
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350 23 35 05 CDR That's negative, Crip. What we do is we EI_TER

the coarse maneuver and leave the last ENTER -
hold the last ENTER until m_neuver time. Then
at that time, we hit attitude - CMG ATTITUDE HOLD,
and then 1 second later, we hit the final ENTER.
That gets the coarse started, then we immediately
dial in the fine, and that usually takes about
three-quarters of a minute to a minute.
CC Okay. Well, that's - that's the quickest way.

That Just saves you from having to put in those
four. But our problem has been not allowing you
that - that minute to put in the fine command.
So we'll - we'll factor that into our planning
here and make sure that that's taken care of in the
future.
CDR Okay, good enough, because, boy, we really cut it

short on that last one.
350 23 36 37 CC Skylab, Houston. We're getting ready for a hand-

over here to the Madrid, and we'll be doing a
data/voice recorder dump through Madrid.
350 23 43 43 CC Skylah, Houston. We're i minute from LOS. We'll

see you again over Honeysuckle in 37 minutes at
00:20, 00:20.
351 00 09 37 CC Skylab Houston. AOS at Honeysuckle - or Carnarvon,

rather,'for 15 minutes.
SPT Hello, Crip. I've got an easy one for you.
CC The last easy one I had from you, Ed, was about
diapause. And you aren't going to do that to me
again, are you?
SPT I wouldn't do that; this one's really easy.

Tomorrow - I've been looking at the schedule, and
with the Sun looking the way it is right now,
what I'd like to do is, during the ATM conference
and science conference, to be in the flare wait
at the ATM. And then I'm going to have the house-
keeping 7 Jerry's taking care of tonight. So I'd
like to take that period in there where I have
housekeeping 7J, PT and off duty, and fit in one
ATMwith essentially a flare wait, if the flare
probability warrants it.
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CC Okay, Ed. We copy all that.
351 00 ll 44 CC And, SPT, Houston. Ed - or actually, all of you,

we're sen - getting ready to send you up a new
message on maneuver monitoring. And sometime
this evening, I would appreciate, if you've got
time, we might - might talk about it briefly.
SPT Okay, Crip. What brings it on? Is it a change

of the system or are we getting smA_ter again?
CC Well, perhaps a little of both. We have a soft-

ware patch here that we are - are standing by to
load after we go over this procedure with you.
And, basically, it Just takes away the time cri-
ticality of getting into a problem in that you
don't actually go TACS only anymore during a
mane uve r.
SPT I'll talk to you more about it when we get a

chance, Crip. I've got lots of questions.
CC Roger.
351 O0 14 41 CC Skylab, Houston. Ed, for your information, that

maneuver monitor message is on board in the tele-
printer now, so at your convenience, you can take
a look at it. And do you have time for one more
question, please, sir?
SPT Certainly, Crip. Go ahead.
CC Okay. In reviewing what went on yesterday evening

in regard to the - the DAS problem that you had,
there was one question we were not sure that we
understood how the - the answer went. And that is
in the cycling of switches. Do you recall cycling
the - the POWER switch down by the DAS keyboard,
the POWER BUS l, OFF, BUS 2 switch?
SPT Yes, Crip, I think I answered that probably as

best as I ever could yesterday in saying that when
I first made a DAS entry, there was no - nothing
was reflected in the keyboard; I noticed that the
DAS was OFF and I put it on. And I don't recall
flicking it through BUS 1 or BUS 2. As I said
yesterday, it's - it's not out of the realm of
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possibility to happen, but it didn't, probably,

because there was no reason for me to do it, and
I don't usually operate that way.
351 00 15 58 CC Okay. We were unclear on the transcripts on - here

whether that was the switch we were talking about.
But you did Just take it and to the best of your
knowledge went from OFF to BUS l?
SPT That's affirm, Crip.
CC 0keydoke. Thank you, Ed.
SPT The - it locked me out twice there and on the

third time in, I was able to get 1 - what the
heck was it? 10131, I think. And that's when I
hit the ENTER.
CC Roger.
SPT Hey, Crip, to further clarify that request on the

ATM time - That one pass in the afternoon, what
I'd like to do is to just have the option of taking
that one if the flare probability is up.
CC Okeydoke.

We'll ha - have you again over stateside at MILA
at 00:57; that's about 32 minutes away. And for
the PLT; Bill, we've got your phone call set up
for that time.
PLT 00:57?
351 00 25 18 PLT Okay, thank you.
351 00 57 01 CC Skylab, Houston; AOS through Ma - MILA for about

12 minutes.
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S_fLAB AIR_rO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION
CC Go, Edward.
CC Skylab, Houston. Go ahead.
351 01 02 03 HOU CT Goddard voice, Houston COMM TECH. GOSS Conference.
GODD CT Goddard voice.
HOU CT I'm reading you loud and clear. MILA is not

reading our up-reading us.
GODD CT Roger. We'll check him out and see.
H0U CT MILA COMM TECH, Houston COMM TECH; net 1.
MILA CT Houston COMM TECH, MILA COMM TECH; net i.

f_
HOU CT Roger; read you - -
MILA CT ... - - loud and clear.
HOU CT Okay.
351 01 03 24 SPT Hello, Crip. Got you loud and clear.
CC Okay, we had some kind of a line problem there, I

_[ess. We have got you through Bermuda for about
7 more minutes.
SPT You see anything down there on the ground in the

way of a flare?
CC Checking.
SPT Crip, let me describe it to you.

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CC Do so.
351 01 03 59 SPT Okay, at around 29 - 25 MIN_'ES RF_4Ai_[N_, th :.

was around 00:29 or 00:30, Bill observed a plate
brightening in XUV and H-ALPHA. PMEC was rising
and going through 570. Beryllium APERTURE went
to 3. We started 54 at M, O, H, 64; 56 in AUTO,
SHORT; 82A in SHORT time mode. Gave them a
15-second exposure. 55 went to the MIRROR, LINE
SCAN with detec - the DETECTORS to OVERRIDE. We
took then and slewed over to the flare, took around,
l'd say 15 seconds, put the SLIT on the flare,
started 82A and B in the FLARE mode. PMEC went
to just a little bit above 700 and started to fall.
We waited for a little while, then shut down 82B.
We gave it a couple - or one series of SHORT,
TIME 1/4 - WAVELENGTH SHORT, TIMES 1/4, then we
got a second peak. Second peak, dim, you could
see exceeded 740. The IMAGE INTENSITY COUNT was
up to around 120, and the beryllium APERTURE
stepped up to 2; aluminum went to 3. We restarted
56 in the MIRROR, LINE SCAN, and we restarted 82B.
And we continued in that mode to the end of the
orbit.
CC Okay, we copy. You guys are really getting them

today.
SPT But it looks as though you certainly got a full

rise on the - the second one. The first one we
hit it on the way up, but we went with the plate
brightening and a P_,_C of - below the threshold,
but we got there.
CC Very good. Thank you for the good rundown on it.
351 01 06 01 SPT Crip, let me give you a couple of other things.

FRAME REMAINING for 82A are now 63; 82B, 674.
You may want to be doing some thinking about how
we handle the next orbit.
CC Copy.
CC Go, CDR.
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CDR }ley, on this PSS work I'm doing, as I understand

it, there'll he no recharges tonight. Just a top-
off on the last one.
CC ()kay, Jer, you're supposed to be topping off 2,

3, and 4.
CDR Two and 3 need a recharge, not a topoff, l'm

getting the impression, Crip, that we should have
recharged them last night.
CC No. Stand by on that, Jer.
CDR ()kay.
CC SPT, let me clarify Jerry's question. CDR, are

you still there?
SPT He's listening; go ahead.
CC ()kay. The - I guess maybe the confusion is that

we're trying to refer you to the right place in
the checklist. We do want to go ahead and - and
_-- fill the bottles up, and the pressure is down to
about 700. And if you use your recharge procedure,
it has you use all of the nitrogen tanks. And the
source pressure is down to - to two loads to fill
the bottles up. So we want you to use the topoff
procedure which only used the two nitrogen tanks,
which allows you to go ahead and fill the things
up. And the correct procedure is the - is the
topoff procedure.
CDR Okay, Crip, I understand. A little note of ex-

planation would have been kind of nice in the
details about that.
CC I concur. We're about 30 seconds from LOS, and

we're going to have you again over Madrid at 01:14,
and that's about 4 minutes. And if it's okay, I'll
catch you there, Ed.
SPT Okay, that's fine.
B51 01 i0 27 CC And we do have med conference setting up at - at

Madrid.
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351 01 47 48 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Carnarvon, 9 - 9 minutes.
T_LT Roger, Crip.
CC Roger. And we'll be - we're standing by for the

evening status report here, if Jer's got it ready.
3[J 01 48 ii CDR Okay. Here it comes. Sleep: CDR, 5.0, 5.0 heavy;
SPT, 8, 6 heavy, 2 light; PLT, 7.5, 7 heavy, half
light. Volume: CDR, i000; SPT, 1250; PLT, 1800.
Water gun: CDR, 7462; SPT, 2851; PLT, 8944. Body
mass: CDR, 6.323, 6.314, 6.314; SPr, 6.369, 6.368,
6.373; PLT, 6.227, 6.231, 6.233. Exercise. CDR,
method Alfa: minus 4 minutes. SPT, no change.
PLT, no change. Medication: CDR, none; SPT, none;
PLT, Afrin spray, once this morning, once this
evening. Clothing discarded: CDR, none; SPT, one
pair of shorts; PLT, none. Flight Plan deviations: J
we got no limb volume oI_. the SPT. There was not I

enough timy allocated. We told them some time ago I
that we needed 30 _Linutes per man to do that, and
they gave us 30 minutes for two people, so we've
got that to go. I missed $233; that was right
during the medical conference. And our plan is to
recover that 233 photo. When we do the S019 ma-
neuver for Kohoutek, we'll take the $233 photo
out of window 2. DPgO - DP-18 was not done today;
the time allowed was not sufficient. All the
time was used in just setting up, and there was
no time left for any - any photos. We'll try to
pick some up later this evening if possible.
Shopping list accomplishments: removed the CDR
foot restraints in the wardroom down around the
table pedestal, and the - the situation is much
improved. And when we get any free time, we're
go'_ng to take them up from the PLT and the SPT
spots. Inoperable equipment: same as last night.
We have had - not had time to troubleshoot DAC 01.
Unscheduled stowage: none. Food log: CDR, 6.0
salt, plus one black coffee, minus two coffee with
sugars, plus 1.5 waZer; SPT, zero salt, plus one
hard candy, zero water; PLT, 1.5 salt, plus one
coffee, minus i.0 water. Okay, the photo log:
i6-millimeter, no change. DAC 01, Charlie X-ray
36, 16; 02, india Romeo 14, 16; 03, Charlie India
iii, 12; 04, Bravo Echo 08, 18; 05, Bravo Hotel
05, 04. 70-millimeter; Charlie X-ray 17, 116.
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FTC and EREP, no change. Drawer A: Alfa i, no

change; Alfa 2, no change; Alfa 3, 06, Charlie
]ndia 126, full, Charlie India 125; Alfa 4, no
change; back, no change. And that's it, Crip.
351 01 52 01 CC Okeydoke. Very good. Say we got all that down.

We got a few questions that we're going to - going
to want to get in. First, I had an item for Ed -
up running the ATM panel - that we did want to
change some exposures for 82B, if he's got a time
to copy now. If he doesn't, I'ii get him before
this pass is out.
SPT Go ahead, Crip.
CC Okay. On this - this pass you've got going in the

JOP 24, we want those 82B exposures changed from
5 minutes to 1 minute and 15 seconds. There's one
in the 24-minute - correction, 21-minute remaining
time and one at 12-minute remaining time.
SPT Okay, Crip. I'm in the postflare. If - people

want to move out of postflare, I'd like to know
it now. I'm at building block 8, postflare.
CC We're - we're checking on it.
CC Okay, while we're looking into that, Jer, I'd -

could I talk to you a little bit about S019?
CDR Roger, Crip.
351 01 53 29 CC Okay. What we'd like you to do - do you have the

pad handy for this next - this - upcoming S019
operat ion ?
CDR I'll have it in 30 seconds. Go ahead.
CC Okay. What we're going to ask you to do is to

delete the star field 237, and instead we're going
to ask you - get you to point at a couple of refer-
ence starts to do a pointing check on the thing.
CDR Okay. You say cancel field 237, huh?
CC That's affirmative. And if you can copy, l'm

going to give you the - the reference stars we
want you to center up on.
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CDR Okay. Go ahead.
CC Okay. First star is Aldebaran: ROTATION, 28.5;

TILT of 22.8. Second star is Spica:" ROTATION,
164.1; TILT, 20.4.
CDR Okay. I copy. Aldebaran: ROTATION, 28.5; TILT,

22.8. SPICA: ROTATION, 164.7; and TILT, 20.4.
CC That Spica was 164.1.
CDR Okay.
350 01 55 O0 CC Okay. What we'd like you to do is record the tilt

and rotation when the stars are centered, and then
we'd like you to read those down real time the
next - the next chance we have. Also, the comet
has priority, so if you run behind, we want you
to go ahead and do the comet photography. And
one item we'd like to talk a little bit is about
the positioning of the comet. You know, we talked
about before where they wanted it on the left-hand
vertical line. Well, the problem is, are you
aware of the 2-degree offset that occurs when
you're running with the prism in, as we're doing
with the comet operations?
CDR l've heard of it. That's about all.
351 01 55 46 CC Okay, what happens is that there's a 2-degree

difference in your field of view and what the camera
sees. Your field of view is offset to the right
of what the camera's is. So that's why we want
to position the - the comet on that left-hand
vertical line, which is 2 degrees offset. And
one item: we'd like you to make sure that it is
positioned over there as close as you can to that
line, and we can even take shortening the exposure
on the comet up by - by as much as 30 seconds to
insure that centering occurs.
CDR Okay, CRIP, I'ii do it.
CC Okay. And it's on the left-hand vertical line.
CDR Roger.
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351 01 56 28 CC Also, one item, we can go ahead and initiate that

maneuver i minute early to go to - to the Kohoutek
pointing. And I'ii - I'll get back with you on
t_t one. We're about 30 seconds from LOS, and
we're going to have you again in about 2 minutes
at Honeysuckle. And I'ii continue with the evening
questions there, if convenient.
CDR Okay.
CC Stop postflare for Ed, stop - Start JOP 6, building

block i. We need to get that in.
351 02 O0 04 CC Skylab, Houston. We're with you through Honey-

suckle for a couple more minutes.
PLT Roger.
CC Okay. And one question for the SPT, if he has

time to answer for it now is when the S054 X-RAY
IMAGE CRT truncates the RASTER, does the Sun image
tend to move up - does it appear to move up?
SPT Crip, I can't tell right now because we don't have

enough X-ray intensity to trigger off something
_-- continuously.
CC Okay.
SPT We'll have to answer that when we get a little

more.
CC Okay. And the intent of that question is asking

is - does it - appear to shrink the Sun down in the
- in the vertical axis?
SPT When we get something hot on there again, Crip,

I'ii take a look.
CC Okay, we'd appreciate it.
351 02 01 17 CC And we're about i minute from LOS. We'll see you
again over Texas at 02:30; that's in 29 minutes
from now. One question I can leave with you as
we go over the hill is, did you - do you recall if
when - did you perform a reservoir check after
the EVA and prior to day 28? And if so, do you
remember what was the status of the reservoirs?
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And the reason we're asking the question is we're

concerned because SUS I was full prior to the EVA,
and on day 28, the reservoir check - SUS i reservoir
was reported to be 30 percent full. In other
words, there's 8 and a pound - 8-1/2 pounds of
water that we can't account for.
351 02 02 07 PLT Okay, this is the PLT. I made the checks before
the EVA, and I also made one after the EVA and
before when it was made the other day. And both
times, it appeared to me that within the con-
straints of bubbles and bladderfold, that it -
that the reservoir was full. Let us get our
signals together and give you a better and more
intelligent report.
CC Okay, Bill, we'd appreciate that - and - at your

convenience. We're going over the hill now.
PL Still there, Crip?
351 02 02 48 CC Over the hill.
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351 02 30 42 CC Skylab, Houston. We're A0S through Texas, and

we've got you for 16-1/2 minutes.
351 02 33 01 SPT Crip, while we got the maneuver going here, why
don't I tell you what we finished up on the last
pass?
CC Press on.
SPT Okay, at the beginning of the pass we got a shop-

ping list item 1 to take a look at the corona.
And that was initiated before 400 K. And then
we went to the limb, rolled the tangent - slit
tangent to the - to the limb and put the oxygen
VI - maximized in the oxygen VI and got around
27,000. And started the experiment in the
postflare mode, with 56 AUTO, SHORT and 82A SHORT,
20 seconds for lO - every lO minutes and 82B SHORT,
times 1/4. 55 MIRROR AUTO RASTER and a 5h in the
M, O, S, 256. When we got your call, we went
and did JOP 6, building block 1 and got that all
done in time. In lookingat the WLC at the
beginning of the orbit, I could see - or could
not see any structure in the corona immediately
above the region where the flare occurred. And
looking at it again here at the end of the orbit,
I think I could see a small streamer coming out.
It's kind of a subtle difference, so I'd really
have to depend upon the film to tell it. What
size flare did that come out to be? Did it Just
get a little above a C?
351 02 34 56 CC Okay, the report that we're getting is that - NOAA

said it was a C-3, and it could be higher.
SPT Okay, that's what it looked like, roughly, arolmd

here, a C-2 or so, I guessed at, with the PMEC.
And let me make one small correction to what
information I gave you previously. And that is
on the first PMEC rise, it just got up to, but
did not exceed, the threshold for a flare; that
is 672. We saw one reading of around 670 but did
not trigger the flare alarm. The second one,
however, did go above 736; it was - well, the
number I quoted was 740.
r-
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CC Okay, Ed. Very good.
CC And, Ed, if it - if it's convenient now or in one

of our subsequent passes, we would appreciate a
readout on the - on the FRA2_S REMAINING counters.
351 02 36 07 SPT Okay, Crip, here it comes. 09308, 02598, 00058,

00668, 04121, and 02701. Those flare modes sure
chew it up.
CC Okay, we got that, Ed. And, Ed, while we're

talking here during the maneuver - don't want
to distract anything from that. But if you have
an opportunity to review that maneuver monitoring
pad that we sent up earlier, we probably should
discuss it. And I think we need to have a
discussion prior to - to doing the program load
that we were considering doing later tonight
while you guys were asleep.
SPT Okay, Crip. I'm Just looking at it now and it'll

take me a little while to go through it. How
many passes yet do we have this evening?
CC Oh, we got several more passes, no big rough -

rush. I didn't want to keep you - keep you up
late.
351 02 37 56 CC Ed, for your information, we got another 9 minutes

on this stateside pass. Then we're going to have
you go through Madrid, and that's - that's a - about
7-minute pass. And then we've got you once more
through Honeysuckle a little bit later, and
that's a very short pass through Honeysuckle.
SPT Okay, Crip, we'll try and get you at Madrid.
CC Okay.
CC And, Skylab, Houston; if we could get you to go

ahead and turn PUMP B on the ATM C&D COOLANT LOOP
OFF for the night, we would appreciate it.
SPT We got it.
351 02 40 45 SPT Hey, Crip, entering a maneuver of zero degrees is

kind of tricky.
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CC Yes, well, it's king of a - kind of a neat way

to - to get the outer gimbal drive logic and still
get to where you're going.
SPT You folks are getting smarter and smarter all the
time.
CC Well, those guys are thinking all the time over

there - all over.
CDR Say Crip, does a nuZ of minus 1.8 sound about right?
CC That looks - that solmds good.
CDR Thank you.
351 02 43 29 CDR Okay, Crip. I looked through it. Do we have

much time left in this pass?
CC We've got about 3-1/2 minutes, Ed. We can - we

can certainly start talking here if you'd like.
SPT Okay.
CC How would you like to work it? Would you like me

- to sort of Just verballyrepeat what - what we've
done there and what our thinking was? Or do you
want to ask some questions on it or what?
SPT I think it's spelled out pretty clearly, Crip.

Let me Just ask a couple questions. Why do we
not change the maneuver time in going back to SI?
CC It was considered there wasn't any real reason for

you - you to go to it. Just means you're probably
going to get back there a little later. But
there's no - usually no big hurry on going back
to SI.
SPT Okay. The margin of 6 minutes for the maneuver

time, if you're trying to get to an ATT HOLD
maneuver in Z-LV - where'd the number come from,
how much pad is in it, and just how'd they arrive
at it, rather than, say, just using the number
which you would come up with by - right off the
event timer?
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351 02 44 44 CC Okay. We were trying to keep it a fairly simple

procedure for you to apply, axld the 6 minutes
came up out of knowing that you would have diverged
from your desired attitude by at least 20 degrees
prior to getting this TACS ONLY CAUTION and WARNING
to come on. And they - that was Just figured up
as a - as a low enough rate to cover the 20 degrees
plus in 6 minutes so that we wouldn't get very
many TACS mibs.
SPT Okay.
CC And it's - it's recognized that we're sacrificing

data-take time during that period.
SPT Well, it's - it's better than none at all, which

is the situation we're in before with the ATT HOLD
maneuvers.
CC That was our - -
SPT This - this is more of a universal procedure then.

It looks pretty good.
CC That's affirm. And I guess the main thing I

wanted you to understand is that the - the fact
that this patch - really, all it does is Just
actually keep you from going to a TACS ONLY
condition for - with the exceptions of SOLAR
INERTIAL and EXPERIMENT POINTING, where that -
the likelihood of that is very rare - or very
low probability of it. But you go - Everything
else will - It'll still ring the bell and it -
that does it based on the same parameters.
351 02 46 ii SPT Oka_ I think that says that first few times,
at least, we ought to really keep an eye on it.
And we have to make sure that our TACS ONLY
indication works.
CC That 's - that' s affirmative. Our initial looking

at it, what we would like you to do is to continue
monitoring, just like we've done right now, at
least to see how it's going for a while. And
we're considering the possibility of actually
taking you off the panel a little bit later if
everything looks like it's working all right.
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But what we would ask you to do is, if you were

monitoring it, was to still go ahead and to let
it go until the CAUTION and WARNING then occurred,
aud then take the action we designated.
SPT Okay, that sounds reasonable. While monitoring

most of these maneuvers, I've been able to follow
the OUTER GIMBAL. And gee, most of them, you
folks have done an excellent job in coming up with
the right maneuver times and times to do the
maneuver, because we've hardly ever gone anywhere
near the stops. Once today we got an INNER GIMBAL
up near the stops, but not an OUTER GIMBAL.
I think it's been working real well.
CC Okay. And we're about to go over the hill here.

We'll see you again at Madrid at - in about
4 minutes at 02:52, 02:52.
SPT Okay, Crip, have them patch it up.
351 02 47 27 CC Okay.
351 02 51 54 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Madrid for

6-1/2 minutes.
/
PLT Ckay, Crip, PLT here. I have a little report on

this SUS i reservoir.
CC We'd appreciate it, Bill. Go ahead.
PLT Okay. On my checks - of course you know that's

the one that's hard to see. Not only do you have
to sort of check it with the mirror, but half the
tank is not visible. And I was interpreting that
f_ll decal as pointing to the seam in the tank
there which was - which should correspond to full.
Well, by looking at the ATM coolant reservoir tank
here, I have now determined that what I was
interpreting as full was actually 50 percent.
Now when I first did this check - I don't know,
some week or so after activation or whenever it
was - I guess it was before that - I was seeing
it at about - probably 45 percent, maybe even
L0. And Ed's re - report is correct. I would
say that he's correct within - he says i0 percent.
l'd say 30 percent full to 40 percent full. So
what we're looking at is probably a loss of no
more - or change of no more than I0 percent.
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CC Okay, fine. That - that's - we understand it now.
351 02 53 i0 SPT Actually, how we pulled it off, Crip, was I was

able to wedge my head up there in the corner. And
someone attributed that to sending a smaller
pointed head, which turned out be an attribute
for once.
CC No comment. I can appreciate how hard that thing

is to read after trying to do it a few times at
the Cape.
351 02 55 41 CC For the SPT or the PLT, l've got a question l'd
like to ask you about ILCA.
SPT Go, Crip.
CC Okay. One of the things we'd been pondering is

that on day 347, about 4 days ago, we noticed
that the temperature on the ILCA decreased to
about 29 degrees, where it's previously been
reading about 39 degrees. And then after the
little bit that we went through last night with
the DAS and circling-throwing circuit breakers
around, we noticed that it came back up to the
_9 degrees and we were wondering if possibly you
might have been operating on BUS 2 - AC BUS 2
during - during that period.
SPT That's affirm, Crip. We just never got around to

try to sort it out. Wasn't until we asked the
other night that we tried to work the problem.
CC Okay, Ed, that makes the - eases the EGIL's mind

to know why his temoeratures weren't what he
anticipated. And did - did it - they clear it
up last night that when you cycled that circuit
breaker that you did not have to turn off switches?
351 02 57 09 SPT Crip, I don't quite understand the - the question.
CC No, what I was saying is that if you lose AC i,

then all you have to do is just cycle the
breakering; you did not have to turn the power
switches off to do that.
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SPT Yes, that was a misunderstanding on my part. I

partially heard what - I guess it was Dick had
told Jerry. And apparently, all you have to do
is to make sure you got FIXED on INTEGRAL and
NUMERIC.
351 02 57 42 CC Roger. Okay, very good. We're 1 minute from LOS.

We'll see you again at Tananarive in about 17 min-
utes, and that's at 03:15. And for - Just
as a reminder, we've got the VTR to - to dump it,
so it's not available to you.
351 03 15 23 CC Skylab, Houston; AOS Tananarive. We have you for

about 5 minutes.
CDR Roger, Crip. I've got the S019 results for you.
CC Ready to copy.
CDR ()kay, on Aldebaran, the rotation - I've finally

got it - got it set over at that left-hand vertical
reticle line, and on the horizontal center vertical
ra - reticle line. The ROTATION was 27.7 and the
TILT was 22.8. For Spica, I got 166.9 and 18.4.
And for Kohtu - Kohoutek, let's see, it was
ROTATIONof 204.8 and a TILT of 21.8.
CC Okay. I'm sorry, Jer, that's - those are good;

we can take them from there. I misled you a
while ago. When we - when you're getting
reference stars like that, you can go ahead and
get those in the center since you're ac - actually
not doing any photography of them. It's when
you're doing the Kohoutek photography that you
want it lined up on the left side. But that -
that 's still good. Thank you.
CDR Yes, they ought to be able to do a little

subtraction and work that out real well.
CC Yes, that - that's no problem at all. And I

think perhaps you heard me talking to Ed about
this patch that we're getting ready to uplink
you guys tonight. And our intent is to go ahead
and do that while you're asleep - due to site
coverage and to go ahead and implement it while
you're asleep. And there should be no problem
involved, but perchance you'll wake up in the
middle of the night with a computer switchover;
you'd be - that might be suspect.
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CDR Okay.
351 03 17 23 CC Everybody assures me that that won't happen though.
CDR Promises, promises.
CC Roger. And, Jer, also I'd like you to make a - a

change on your summary Flight Plan; it's a small
error that we made. That's coming up for tomorrow.
CDR Okay, stand by.
351 03 18 ii CDR Go ahead.
CC Okay, we lost you there for a minute. The change

was down at the bottom - or toward the bottom
around 00:53. We call out a detail 00:53 for Bill,
and that actually should be under your column.
So if you could make that note on yours, and also
inform the PLT about it, we'd be in good shape.
CDR Okay, the detail I have at 00:53 is EREP C&D 1

and 2 ON.
CC That's affirm. It - It - it's okay on your

details, it had Just been left off on your
summary; it had been noted under Bill's column
instead of yours.
351 03 19 00 CC I might lose you here, and we're supposed to have

you for i more minute. Honeysuckle will be at
03:38, 03:38 in about 19 minutes.
351 03 38 12 CC Skylab, Houston; AOS Honeysuckle for a whole

minute and a half.
CI)R Man, don't waste it talking.
CC You're - Roger that. I - I'm Just going to go I

ahead and tell you nighty night here. And tomorrow,
since it's your day off, we' re going to let you
sleep in a little bit. And we'll plan on waking
you up at Vanguard. We have a pass at lh:i8, so
that's the one we'll give you a call at. Is
that satisfactory?
CDR Okay, that sounds grand.

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CC Sure Ed would like to get a little extra sleep.

I was going to read the news to you if you guys
didn't have anything for me here.
SPT 0nly one question, Crip.
CC Go.
SPT How'd the Oilers do?
CC Came close.
CDR Go ahead and read it.
CC 27-24, Cincinnati.
SPT Sounds like a good game; they must have put up a

good battle.
CC Roger that. One item in news, Jerry. I'm

told they missed you at the Cub Pack 795 pancake
breakfast Saturday.
CDR Son of a gun! I didn't have my chef's hat on.
_-- 351 03 39 24 CC Roger. I hear you were pretty good at that. I

guess the Skylab news centered about yesterday's
gypsy moth eggs hatching, going through diapause
and all that good stuff. Quick rundown on
scores while we're going LOS. And for your
information, if - if you need it, Goldstone's
next pass; it's at 04:07, and we are going to be
doing a data/voice recorder dump. That about
27 minutes away. As I go over the hill: Dallas
Cowboys, 30 - St. Louis Cardinals, 3; LA Rams, 30 -
Cleveland Browns 17; Redskins, 38 - Eagles, 20 ;
Oakland Raiders, 21 - Broncos 17; Falcons, 14 -
Saints, 10; Baffalo Bills, 34 - Jets, lh; Kansas
City, 33 over San Diego 6.
351 03 h0 20 CC 0.J. broke Jim Brown's record, 2001 yards.
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SKYI_B AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION
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351 14 18 25 CC Skylab, Houston. Good morning to you.
35! 14 18 50 CC Pretty morning down here. We've got about

l0 minutes left with you through Vanguard.
351 14 27 4h CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from LOS. We'll

see you at Tananarive at 42. And if we don't
see you there, in regard to the ATM C&D loop
powerup for the ATM pass, we'd like, if you
would, to delay that to Hawaii so we can watch
the pump come up.
351 14 28 08 CDR Okay, Hank. We'll do it.
351 14 44 51 CC Skylab, Houston through Tananarive for

5-1/2 minutes.
CDR Roger, Hank.
351 14 h9 53 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from LOS. We'll

going LOS now, and we'll see you at Hawaii at 26,
about 36-1/2 minutes from now.
351 14 50 27 CC Skylab, Houston. We may have dropped out there.

We're going LOS now, and we'll see you at Hawaii
at 26.
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CC And, SPT, Houston. We're standing by any time

to get PUMP B ON, on the ATM C&D COOLANT LOOP.
SPT Okay, Hank. I'ii have to wait until 233 is

done. Jerry's in the MDA with it all dark and
he's dark adapted.
CC Okay. We copy.
351 15 31 05 SPT Okay, Hank. You want PUMP Charlie, ON, now?
CC PUMP Bravo.
SPT Okay. PUMP Bravo.
CC SPT, Houston. PUMP Bravo looks real good to us.

And we've got about 3 minutes left on this pass
and if it's possible, we'd sure like to see the
nu Z update so we can get some calculations ready
by Vanguard.
SPT You've got it, Hank.
CC Okay. Thank you, Ed.
351 15 33 04 CC And, PLT, Houston. If it's convenient, I've

got a couple of items for you on the S063 you
got coming up.
PLT Okay, Hank. Go.
CC Okay, Bill. In regard to the pad you got there,

message 3224 Alfa, we made an error in the TILT
down there. It reads 24.6 and - and it should
read 23.1.
PLT Roger. Change TILT of 24.6 to 23.1.
CC Okay. And we got one other thing for you on

the - the S063 you're running here about 16:49.
After you complete the data take, if it's -
if it's feasible or convenient to you, we'd
like for you to center, the comet nucleus in
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the can - camera FOV, field of view, and record

the TILT and ROTATION forus. And the reason
we want this is we're trying to Just get another
data point on this AMS pointing accuracy.
PLT Roger. After the data take, center the comet

nucleus and record ROTATION and TILT angle.
351 15 34 47 CC Okay, and that does it for that, Bill. Thank

you very much and we're about 45 seconds from
LOS. We will see you at Vanguard at 56 and we
351 15 35 00 PLT Thank you, Hank.
351 15 56 44 CC Skylah, Houston. We're through Vanguard for

9-1/2 minutes. And CDR, if it's convenient,
we'd like to talk a few checklist things with you
here.
SPT Hank, are you ready for the TV downlink?
CDR Roger, Hank. Go ahead, and Ed wants to know if

you're ready for the TV downlink?
CC Okay, we're checking.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're ready for the TV down-

link. And CDR, l'd like to talk to you a little
bit first about permanent general messages.
The other day, we noticed you'd called down
that you had one miss - missing. Now, how we're
working that down here is in the back of the
Flight Plan, we've inserted extra pages. And
each time we get a permanent general message,
we're pasting it in there. And we've been sending
up two copies for you. One to do that with and
the other one to put around in the vehicle wherever
you thought it would be appropriate to use it
best.
351 15 58 28 CDR Okay, Hank. Essentially, what we're doing is the

ones that are valid are stuck up on the freezer-
chiller doors, where everybody c_- see them easily.
And when they're not valid anymore, we're tossing
them out. And we made the assumption that 008
was not valid after it was used once.
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CC Okay, you might, if you like, try what we're doing,

like putting them in the Flight Plan that way and
at least you have permanent record and - and
we've - we'll try to keep you advised on which
ones are still current and tell you when to throw
them away. Now, we sent up a message last night
regarding which ones of the permanent general
_ssages were still valid. And there's a couple
of things I need to talk to you about on that.
We've indicated that permanent general message
number 4 Delta is valid and that 4 Charlie isn't
anymore. Well that's not _ally true. In 4 Delta,
we're telling you that we're considering deleting
the crew monitoring requirement on the maneuvers,
and 4 Charlie, which we indicated wasn't valid,
has the monitoring procedures in there. So what
we'd like for you to do is to hang on to 4 Charlie
until we make our final decision in regard to
crew monitoring.
CDR Okay, 4 Delta is stuck right over 4 Charlie, which

is over Bravo, which is over Alfa.
CC Okay, you're in good shape there. And, the other

thing is when we prepared that message, we gave
--- you a permanent general message 13 as being valid;
and as you probably noticed, we uplinked a 13 Alfa
last night, which will replace that one.
351 16 00 ]i CDR Roger. We got it posted.
CC And, a couple of days ago we sent up a message

for the SPT in regard to the C&D filter inspec-
tion, and we'd like to get him to throw that away.
It was just a procedure we wanted him to consider,
but we've got another one that's in review now
which we think is a little more comprehensive and
will do a better job of it.
SPT ()kay,Hank.
CC And that message, Ed, was 3041 Alfa.
SPT Roger. I got it tucked away. Thank you.
CC ()kay, one other thing, Jerry. In regard to what

happened yesterday on the limb volume measure-
ments, we weren't trying to cheat you out of any
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time there. We thought you were only doing the

left leg and left arm. We sent up a checklist
change which was supposed to indicate that, and
the - and it changed the index to the checklist,
where it just referred to left arm and left leg.
And we're the first to admit that that wasn't
very clear and the intent was to only do the left
arm and leg, which would only take 15 minutes per
crewman. And we are in the process of trying to
correct that. We should have - in addition, have
deleted - had you delete the right leg and arm
columns in your card where you post it there.
351 16 01 48 CDR Okay. Which change was that, that that word came
up at ?
CC Okay. Let me look that up. Essentially, all I

did was change the index there, which really isn't
very clear. And it's our fault, and we're going -
we're going to try to straighten it out. The
reason we got into this again - the reason we
got in the bind there was that we thought you
were only doing one leg and arm, which would have
taken a shorter time.
CDR Okay, you're right, Hank. I find it dutifully

noted in the index, but not in the text of the
limb volume measurements.
CC Yes, and that's not very clear, Jer, and we're

the first to admit it, that we should have in
addition, as I say, had you delete the column so
there'd be no doubt about it. And that was change
number 2 to that checklist and it was message
number 1437 Alfa.
351 16 02 40 CDR Okay, i'ii tell you, don't bother with any more
paper work up here. We'll just go through right
now and cancel out all the right - right arm,
right leg columns, and we 'Ii let the change 2
stand where it is.
CC Okay, we copy.
351 16 03 17 CC _%_dCDR and SPT, we'd like to apologize for the

scheduling conflict we had this morning in regard
to 233 and ATM at the same time. We did get your
note, and we'll try to see that it doesn't happen
again.
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CDR Okay. The comet is getting closer and closer to

one of the struts out there that supports the
ATM. I wouldn't be surprised, in the next day
or two, if we don't find ourselves occulted again.
CC Okay. You can keep us posted on that Jer, if you

would.
CDR Will do.
SPT Hank, you got a moment for me to tell you what

I see in the monitors?
351 16 0h 17 CC Go ahead, Ed.
SPT Okay. The corona has got a very sharply well

defined helmet streamer, which is exceptionally
well defined and very distinct, running out at
around l0 o'clock, maybe a little less than that.
Looks like it's above or at the same latitude as
active region 99, rather than 00. From there on
down to the south or around, oh, about 08:30 or
so is Just a uniform series of relatively small
streamers with a lot of material filled in between
them. I don't see anything pronounced over
zero zero. And over on the west limb, we have a
streamer which is pretty much the same angle all
the way out; that is, the sides of it are Just
linear, or straight. It's not a helmet streamer.
That's over at around, oh, 03:30 or so. XUV
MONITOR shows pretty much what we'd expect,
zero zero being the brightest, 99 showing up, and
then the other active region over there on the
east limb - or I'm sorry, on the west limb. No
surprises there.
351 16 05 29 CC Roger. We - copy, Ed, and thank you. And our

next contact will be at the Hawaii, at 17:0h and
that's 58 minutes from now.
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SKYLAB AIR-T0-GROUND VOICE TRanSCRIPTION
351 17 05 06 CC Skylab, Houston. We're through Hawaii for 6 min-

utes, and we need to up!ink you some new momentum
bias if we could have the DAS for a second.
SPT You have it, H_ik.
CC CDR, Houston. Are you involved in your PT such

that you can't answer a couple of questions?
CDR No, go ahead. There's no way I can get involved

in PT with no movement and no lights.
CC Okay. What we would like to do is ask you first,

how long does it take you to switch the 233 stuff
from one window to the other in the STS? We need
that for flight planning purposes.
CDR It'll probably take a half hour to get the - get

it all rigged. And then after that, each time,
it'll only be about - about i0 or 15 minutes.
CC Okay. So like if it's in window 3 now and we

wanted you to move it to 2, we should allow you
about 30 minutes for the new setup. Is that
correct?
CDR Yes, that's right, because we'll have to do some

cardboard cutting and taping and things like that
in order to get something set up in window 2.
351 17 07 12 CC And, CDR, in order to avoid the ATM conflict with

the 233, you had a $233 schedule for 23:07 to
19 was the window. We'd like to move that back,
if you would, to 21:34 to 46 is the new window,
and that'll avoid that conflict.
CDR Okay. 21:34. Is that the first exposure?
CC We'll be getting you a new pad up, Jer, to give

you the exact figures to support that time.
CDR Okay. Good enough.
351 17 08 14 CC And, Jer, I don't know whether you've been advised

or not; we'd like to give you a brief rundown on
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what tomorrow looks like and see how it suits you.

What we have scheduled tomorrow morning is a
geothermal EREP which is an early getup. In fact,
it starts at I0:00, will be your wakeup time in
order to do it. And we Just sort of got ourselves
in a box. We have to wait until it gets dark on
the CONUS, and then we have two opportunities.
One's tomorrow and one's today - 2 days later, and
it's an even earlier wakeup. And we're trying to
keep it within 2 hours of your normal getup. And -
and in the same day, tomorrow evening, we've got
201 ops scheduled, and because of that and - And
we can't get you to bed before your regular time,
which makes it a pretty long day. However, the
following day we've scheduled you to sleep later
to try to make some of this up.
CDR Okay. Let me get this straight. That means to-

morrow morning we'll be getting up 2 hours earlier
and staying up until normal bedtime. Next day
we'll be able to sleep in?
351 17 09 h7 CC Roger. The next morning we'll give you one extra
hour's sleep which would mean that would be a
9-hour sleep period. And we could - we did talk
DOT into moving the rocket launch up for the 201
tomorrow night. We're going to try that again.
And - and we're again running out of windows on
that thing. We're sort of caught in the - We're
losing our opportunities now, Jer, and it - it
kind of hampers the schedule in that - We're
wondering if it was okay for you to go ahead and
do this.
CDR Okay. And we'll just have you owe us one.
351 17 i0 18 CC All righty, and we're about 30 seconds from LOS.

We'll be coming up on Vanguard at 35, and I believe
we've got an ATM conference there for Ed.
CDR Ro_er.
PLT And just a quick note, Hank. The - if what I saw

in the field of view was the comet, it's relatively
centered for this S063 1 just performed. Also, I
only had 5 seconds between the time I finished
my nominal exposure and the time my maneuver starts
back. And on top of that, there was light on the
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mirrorwhen I did look in there,so I didn't-

wasn't able to perform that last action. I did
use the TILT that you prescribed.
351 17 ll 59 CC Roger. We copy, Bill.
351 17 34 56 CC Skylab, Houston. We're through Vanguard for l0 min-

utes, and as a reminder, we're in the nu Z update
window; and I'll be turning over for ATM conference.
351 17 35 42 CC Skylab, Houston. How do you read?
SPT Houston, read you loud and clear. How us?
CC Okay. Reading you loud and clear. Apparently

ndssed the AOS call. We got about 9 minutes left,
and as a reminder, we're in the nu Z window and
George is standing by for the ATM.
SPT Okay. You got the nu z update around 5 minutes

ago. And, George, go ahead. Good to talk with
you.
- 351 17 36 04 MCC Good morning, Ed. Do you read me okay? You read
me okay, Ed?
CDR Go ahead, Bill.
SPT Loud and clear. Go ahead, George.
MCC Okay. The topics for discussion this morning are,

first of all, suggestions you might have for the
planning meeting today. Then some discussion on
the JOP 1D spicule results, use of observing time,
snd then some discussion on coronal loops. So
first of all, do you have any suggestions for the
planning committee today?
SPT Well, depending upon how active region 00 looks

for the remainder of the day, I would say that's
something we ought to concentrate on fairly heavily
and see if we still can't get a good flare rise
out of it. That's what I'm shooting for right now.
And you may want to deevote some time tomorrow, as
well as just some normal patrol activity on that
as well as the corona above it.
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351 17 36 56 MCC nkay. Very good. Okay. I'ii get into the J0P ID
spicules. First of all, you recall that these are
the observations that you recorded at the limb
with building block 28, option B, where you get
!_,_s+:r_,_s oi" minirssters about a minute apart in
time. Tl,e ]:_ts ]ookec] excellent and, in fact,
cort_in_] s_,me surprises. It appears that we can
_istinguish the tops of some spicules. We, in
_act, see them appear and disappear from i minute
to the next. And the big surprise is in the data
that you took at the north pole. We see four Jets
of material sticking out from the limb. You appar-
ently could see one of these jets in H-ALPHA
accordin_ to the dump tape. The jets of material
are about I0 arc seconds wide, shoot up about 30
to I;0 arc seconds above the limb, and have a
lifetime of about i0 minutes. In Lyman-_Ipha,
their peak brightness is 5 to i0 arc - 5 to i0 per-
cent of the disk intensity. And we were really
amazed to see such dynamic phenomena because it
was in the polar re_ion and it was right in the
middle of a <_. al ii_]e. And Neil Sheeley - -
:]PT ± ceL_tain]y --
_4CC Co _,hcad.
351i 17 97 59 SPT I certainly felt that _¢ay too, George, when I saw
Jr. And I did see some other lower-lying activity,
hut I only pointed out the most prominent; and I
didn't want to get overenthused about talking about
activity at the north pole lest someone come up
and take me home.
MCC (Lauchter) Yes, in fact, we've been talking to

[[eii ,h_ _ :. _t [ _ m .] app:zrently, they see
tn_se Yeatu±'_s in 30_.. And he said looking at the
coronal - at the poles in coronal holes is a good
place to see these things. So we'll probably try
to do it again sometime in a few days, or when the
Sun auiets down again.
SPT Okay.
351 17 38 33 MCC Okay, fine. Next topic is the observing time.

You'w_ asked a number of questions about it. First
of all, you appear to be making excellent use of
the observing time and getting excellent data.
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_ 82B and 55 are particularlyhappy with the results

thus far. And as far as we're concerned, modifying
the shopping list items to take what you Judge is
the best type of data on a given phenomena [sic]
is fine with us. In fact, we get some of our best
data this way. And in the future, we'll try to
work in as much observing time as we can, since,
as you know, it's the best way we can get targets
of opportunity like the FR you got the other day.
Over.
SPT Okay. Thanks very much, George. I'd appreciate

any straightforward feedback you have on what we're
doing. I'd like to to make the optimal use of
these instruments. And any kind of information
you can give me, pro or con, I appreciate.
351 17 39 23 MCC Yes. Okay. One specific on that is we've found

that these minirasters that you've been running,
both in shopping list in the option 28, - building
block 28 - or option B on building block 28, are
very nice because the - they give us something we
didn't get before. Because the MIRROR, AUTO RASTER's
got a nice field of view, but 5-minute time reso-
lution. The MIRROR, LINE SCAN gives us good time
resolution,but has only one dimension. So these
minirasters you've been running, like you ran some
series on the limb, are really a nice compromise.
You get good time resolution and some spatial
information.
SPT Okay. Very good. Let me point out that you did
get a flare rise on the MIRROR, LINE SCAN at the
very end of this last orbit. Mother Nature did it
to us again and put off a flare right at around
4 minutes remaining.
351 17 40 09 MCC Very good. Oh, speaking of another topic is -

which I've got put on a list of the topics, is
H-alpha film. We have an abundance of film. We
have plenty of it. So when you get flares or you
get active regions, you can usually kick it up to
2 frames a minute, and in fact, we'll send you a
general message on this tonight or tomorrow.
SPT Okay. Are we in the South Atlantic anomaly?
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MCC Yes.
SPT Okay. Thank you.
351 17 40 37 MCC Okay. Now, I'll get on to the coronal loops.

We're becoming more and more fanas - fascinated
with these phenomena, and we appear to see three
separate classes of loops. First of all are the
prominence type loops which have strong emission
and low temperature lines like Lyman lines, car-
bon II, carbon III. Then a second class are the
medium temperature loops, which are usually the
prettiest loops, giving beautiful arch structures,
and these have the strongest emission in oxygen VI
and neon VII. And then, finally, are the high
temperature loops which you see in the X-ray
pictures and high temperature UV lines like sili-
cone XII and iron XVI. And one thing we'd dearly
love to see are some spectra of these features
when they're on the limb. And JOP 2C, step 5,
is a - or shopping list 26 can be used to get
these. And the best technique we s_;_m to have
come up with is to go to the n_on VT]_/ime at
DETECTOR 3, go about 20 or 30 arc seconds above
the limb, and then try rolling back and forth
Sun centered to see if you can pick up a loop.
And then when you get one, zeron - zero in on it
and get some spectra.
351 17 hl 52 SPT Okay. That sounds like a good idea. That one
time - I guess it was over a week ago or so, I
think I was actually able to see the basis of a
start of a loop in H-ALPHA. And I - I believe
someone came up and said yes, you did see some
loops there. So that may be another way in which
I could help locate it.
MCC Yes. In fact, we find that both the low tempera-

ture loops and the medium temperature loops may -
you usually can see Lyman-Alpha in both of them,
which means that you may be able to see them in
H-alpha. Surely the low temperature ones you
Can.
SPT Okay. How was that neon VII, _65 line for a
very hot phenomena - flares and subflares?
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_ MCC I don't think we have any data in neon VII on

that. The - -
SPT I think you got some yesterday.
MCC Okay. I haven't seen yesterday's data yet.
SPT Okay.
351 17 h2 h2 MCC Oh, another line you might try is the oxygen V,
629 line, which we can give you a message on that
if you want.
MCC It has a somewhat higher signal than the neon VII.
SPT Okay. The reason I asked about - Hold on. Go

ahead, George. Let me fix something here. Go
ahead.
351 17 h3 05 MCC Okay. Oh, another reason we're interested in the

loops, I just might mention is when 87 was on
east limb, we had a nice set of east/west loops
and found we got a subflare in the eastern foot
of one loop, then the entire loop brightened up
to get a EUV brightening in the western foot of
the loop. Then the whole loop faded and we got
another subflare back in eastern - end of loop,
which almost appears like we have material bounc-
ing back and forth on the loop causing flares on
either side of the loop.
351 17 43 39 SPT The reason I asked about neon VII is I was thinking
if we could get some good loops above the limb
before we move out, I might try rolling so that
we have the bottom part of your MIRROR, AUTO RASTER
above the limb and put it so we have one neon VII
on one of the DETECTORS - maybe your GRATING
POSITION 772. And if we did get a flare at that
time, then, of course, you would be getting flare
data with neon VII.
MCC Th at sounds like an excellent suggestion. Yes,

we'd be happy to see you try that.
SPT Okay.
351 17 44 13 MDC Oh, and another thing on the loops is the fact,
since we do seem to see changes in loop structure
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before and after flares, and - that getting occas-

ional snapshots of regions like double 0 to see
the preflare loops, it'd be very nice to have.
351 17 44 13 SPT Okay. Let me ask you one other thing of immediate
interest, and that is, have you been able to
detect in oxygen Vl, the rise time of intensity
near or relative to the X-ray? I've been noticing
here that in monitor - XUV MONITOR ... 30,000,
detector Just tripped off, and we're up to 50,000.
I've got it to OVERRIDE now and I'm wondering how
much of a good procedure this could be. Right
now, my PMEC is ... South Atlantic anomaly but
I have not seen the BERYLLIUM APERTURE go.
351 17 45 05 CC Okay. We're going LOS now. We'll see you at

Ascension at 50.
351 17 45 i0 MCC Yes, we'll try - we'll look at the data, Ed.
351 17 50 57 CC Skylab, Houston. We're through Ascension for

6-1/2 minutes, and we'll be dumping the tape
recorder here.
CDR Okay, Hank.
351 17 51 50 CC Skylab, Houston. We uplinked a message last night

regarding attitude control with one CMG, and what
it really is is a map. How to step through the
checklist - G&C Checklist to bring up the CSM to
control the cluster. And we are presently also
working on a long teleprinter message which would
essentially be all of it on one piece of paper.
And we're wondering if - if the map is sufficient
or should we continue to work on the big long
teleprinter message that does the whole thing?
PLT The map is sufficient, Hank.
351 17 52 36 CC Okay. We thank you for that. One other thing,

we've got TV-120 scheduled tomorrow at - that's
the moth - gypsy moth TV. And the moth people
are concerned that the larvae may not live that
long and request that if you do some optional TV
today, that you might include at least 2 minutes
of TV on the moth. And if you can't include the
moth on the _! today, we would still like for you
to get a couple of 35-millimeter picutres. And
the moth people are still wanting to do the moth
TV tomorrow, whichever way it goes today.
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/'_ SPT Okay, Hank. We'll try to do that. In order to

make a little better viewing, can we take the
two vials out of the plastic? We've got - the
top has got a couple of pieces of tape there.
CC We'll check.
CC SPT, Houston. Is the bag that they're in - is

that sealed up?
351 17 54 30 SPT Hank, right now it's not because we had to - in

order to loosen those tops, we found we could not
do that safely without taking the - the bag open.
So right now those things have a little strip of
tape which runs over the top, but still allows
some air to get in along the top of each bottle.
And I think that's probably the best way for
viewing it also, if we took it out of that plastic.
It;s in the plastic right now with the top sealed,
but we did have to go in there once in order to
loosen up the top.
CC We don't see any problem then, Ed, and since it's

already open, to go ahead and get them out so
you can get a better look.
SPT Okay.
351 17 55 29 CC And, SPT, Houston. While we've got you here, we

have your phone call set up for Canary and Madrid
at 22:49.
SPT 22:49. Thanks very much. Which antenna do we

start with?
CC Okay. Start on the RIGHT, and you'll be switching

to LEFT.
SPT Thank you.
351 17 56 12 CC And we got a couple of quickies here for you.

We're thinking of scheduling the PSS recharges
and topoff a little more diff - a little differently
here, to be a little more flexible. What we'd
like to do is schedule it in two segments. In
other words, we'd schedule you 5 minutes to go
install it in the recharge station and start the
pressurization, and then a little later, we would
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schedule another 5 minutes to terminate. We wouldn't

do that all the time; sometimes we'd schedule all
of it together. How do you feel about breaking
it up like this?
CDR Hank, I think it'll Just use a lot of extra paper.

The routine I did last night seemed to be reason-
able; that is, I just charged them and left them
on there and came by every 5 or l0 or 15 minutes
and looked at them to see how they were doing.
CC Okay. So, we'll - we'll stick to the plan we're

using right now, then.
351 17 57 04 CC And we're about 40 seconds from LOS. We'll be

seeing you again at Guam at 18:34, and I think
Story will be standing by there for more of your
science conference.
CDR Okay, Hank. We'll see you then.
CDR We'll be ready for Story's story.
351 17 57 24 CC Correction on that. It'll be Bob Parker.
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351 18 34 21 MCC $kylab, Houston. Over.
SPT Hello, Bill; go ahead.
MCC No, you find the science man down here. And,
Skylab, if you're ready, I'll go ahead with your
general and corollary science briefing.
SPT Oh, it's Bob Parker. Yes.
MCC Okay.
SPT Very good, Bob. Go _lead; we're waiting for you.
MCC Yes. Let me start out with a lttle bit of opera-

tional stuff. Today, as you probably noticed if
you read the message, we're adding Kohoutek to the
science conference. And Bill Snoddy, who's a fellow
from Marshall who's been sort of coordinating all
the ATM and corollary Kohoutek programs, will be
talking to you later on in about an hour or 2 about
_ the Kohoutekprogram; so I won't be discussingthat
very much today. Over.
351 18 35 20 SPT Okay, Bob; sounds good to us.
MCC I'll - -
SPT We'll be glad to talk to Bill.
MCC Okay. On - Let me start out with some comments on

M509. We've checked around down here, and we've
discovered that those checklist bracelets were
inadvertently returned after Skylab 3. And since
we can't resupply them to you, we are sssuming that
- for the starters anyway, that the lash-up you
worked out the other day for the shirt sleeve mode
was satisfactory. In the meanwhile and for the
suited mode, we're going to be working to see if
we can put up something a little bit better for
you. Over. Okay, as far as data is concerned, it
all looks good and seems to correlate wery well with
the simulator, so things on that 509 run seem
fairly well. The 48 people are very interested in
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your plate removal from the dining room table,

and they are interested in how it's going and
have you started to do - to remove the second
two plates. Over.
351 18 36 23 PLT No, Bob, we haven't. We'll get around to that

probably sometime today. And to go back on the
cuff checklist - this is the PLT - I just fixed
a rubber band on it with - one of the checklists
with tape. And I Just can't get all bent out of
Joint on it. It's Just sort of simple to work
around. Don't worry about it.
351 18 36 41 MCC Okay.
351 18 36 42 PLT If you come up with a better idea, fine.
MCC Okay. And we'll probably find you some a little

bit better for you for the suited run. Well,
we'll - At least we'll take a look and see what
you're doing and see if it will work out in the
suit for you. The 487 people, as I was saying
about that plate removal, will be interested, of
course, in any sort of 516-type coverage of the
removal of the other plates. Over.
PLT Well, we'll probably do that today. So what do

they want? They Just want verbal comments or
documentation?
MCC Photo documentation would be of interest to them,

also.
351 18 37 15 PLT Well, do I give this a transporter number and DAC

and so forth?
MCC Okay. We'll - -
PLT ...
MCC We'll have it sent up to you. As you're well aware,

the Sun's getting more active. That, or course,
means there - auroral activity can be expected to
increase. And we also have in work for you a pad
for handheld S063 photographs of any aurora you
might happen to see, and I guess I just handed it
up as a reminder that it might be more worthwhile
to start looking for those in the next few days.
Over.
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SPT Okay, Bob. That's a good idea. As a matter of

fact, I saw some good aurora about two nights ago
up over the Great Lakes. I was up overlooking
the - trying to see if I could see the hometown
of Buffalo, and there was beautiful auroras up
north.
351 18 37 55 MCC Very good. Yes, it happens that we're over the
fat part of the world at nighttime right now; so
it works out pretty well. Let me give you a - a
look ahead at the week ahead. In the first place,
we're starting out on the 18 deltas for Kohoutek
on day 34, and we've delayed from day 33, as we
originally told you, to day 34 so that we can get
Alpha SC0 in the field at the same time, which
we'll try to use for pointing alignment. On
mission day 39, we have both the solar eclipse,
you may remember, and the comet; and we'll be
looking for those things, both on that day. Mission
day 38, as you probably recall, is the end of the
corollary Kohoutek observing. In the meanwhile,
S183, with the carrousel problems they've been
having, we'll observe tomorrow on day 33 but will
not observe on day 6. But we hope to have the
carrousel i-i problem resolved and to get back in
observations with i-i, which, as you may recall,
is the more sensitive film, in the post-perihelion
period. But we're still working on that. I under-
stand that Hank's talked to you already today
about the rocket observations with 201 scheduled
for tomorrow night; so I won't talk about that.
The passes this afternoon and tomorrow morning
early, if you're not aware, are geothermal passes
for EREP, and the Earth itself will be dark. One
last comment before I go off: Day off right now,
if you haven't heard, we're planning for mission
day 41. Your next day off will be the day after
EVA. Seemed to work out best. Over.
351 18 39 hl SPT Okay, Bob. And on that i - $183, we'll try to -

On i-i, if we have any more plates get stuck out,
we'll do a better job of getting the serial number -
or the plate number.
MCC Okay. Well, we're working on them now for that

to send up to you right now.
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SPT Okay.
MCC Do you guys have any questions? Anything you'd

like to send down?
SPT No, I guess not, Bob.
MCC Okay. Talk to you in a week. I'm Just about to

go over the hill, anyway. See you then.
SPT Okay; we'll see you.
MCC Thanks a lot.
351 18 40 46 CC Skylab_ as we go over the hill, our next contact

will be Vanguard at 12. And at that point, we
will have Story's story.
351 19 12 09 CC Skylab, AOS through the Vanguard for ii minutes,

and it's time for Story's story.
SPT Go ahead with your story.
CC Okay. Starting out with MI31 that we didn't get

to last week. As you know, Jerry has been seeing
the OGI with greater frequency than he did on the
ground. Ed, you've been seeing it about the
same. To start with, Bill was seeing it slightly
less frequently in flight than on the ground.
And that's about all of it in terms of data. Now
we do have a question for Bill on his last run.
He only got about one or two corrects on - at the
lower levels and got four correct at level lb.
And we did get his comments on - on channel A,
but we wonder if he could tell us anything more
about his last run.
351 19 13 03 PLT No, I can't. It's Just difficult - I can't see

it. At the low levels, I think it's a matter of
the sensitivity threshold in my inner ear, or
whatever it is that gives me that. And in the -
in the - as we go up into the higher levels, I'm
convinced that one of my adaptations over years
of flying to high accelerations is me to - is for
me to block the inputs of rotational rates or to
at least attempt to do it. The ... an individual
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thing that'scausedme to not see it, becauseI

can feel I'm rotating, I can hear the motor turn-
ing, and I flat do not get the illusion. All I
get is some vertical motion sometime in that bar.
351 19 i3 48 CC Okay, Bill; fine. As far as the MS goes, after

your initial adaptation period, of course, you
all became virtually i_mlme to motion sickness.
You were the first crew, however, to advance to
30 rpm. And correlating here with SL-3, the
crewmen who have the highest resistance on the
ground appear to have less resistance to zero-g
type vestibular stimulation, in terms of producing
motion sickness and the like. And that correlates
pretty good with our SL-3 findings.
351 19 14 22 SPT Story, is that true relative to us? I was 30 on

the ground, and l'm 30 up here, and I haven't had
any problem.
351 19 14 29 CC Yes, we're thinking though, Ed, that - that you

and Jer induced the resistance down here - in
other words, it wasn't inborn - that you induced
that by using the chair and the - and the swimming
pool and that sort of thing.
SPT Yes, that's true.
CC Yes, that's a - that is a point in the data that

we got to look at, but we're - we're separating
it out in terms of natural-type resistance. But,
of course, Bill may have attained his through -
through years in the airplane. It's hard to say.
CDR I - -
SPT Okay. Thank you, Story.
CC In terms of - -
CDR Story, I'm not convinced that this is all motion

sickness either. I think a lot of the head full-
ness and - and all that has got a whole lot tc do
with it, and I don't think that's motion at all.
351 19 15 14 SPT I think a lot could be digestive track [sic] all

the way down.
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CDR I think we're overemphasizing this motion sickness

a heck of a lot. I - I think we're - we got the
blinders on and we better look around a little
bit more and look for some other ideas, because
a guy with the insensitivity to motion that Bill's
got, to have problems, I think there's something
else involved here. People better start looking
around a little more and get off this motion
sickness kick.
PLT I'll support that 100 percent. I think this -

This is not meant to be critical, but I think the
experimental design is aiming in the - entirely
in the wrong direction, that - that they got horse
blinders on and they got themselves pre-progrs_med
and they've Just closed their mind to some rather
obvious avenues of approach. I co - I Just disagree
with the discipline that's involved in this
experiment design.
351 19 16 05 CC You're thinking that there may be some other inputs

toward - toward sensing motion, such as the car-
diovascular system and the like?
PLT I think that they ought - I do not know, Story.

I don't know that much about it. But I think
they have pre-programmed themselves, and all of
their previous investigation has been in this one
area and has had limited degrees of succe - or
very good success, I guess, in - in treating motion
sickness. But they got a new arena here, a com-
pletely new ball game, and, darn it, they're going
to have to stop - open their mind again and start
looking again. It - it's - They cannot adapt
their previous investigation to this problem.
351 19 16 43 CC I think they probably are trying to - trying to

look at all those inputs, Bill.
351 19 16 48 CDR I think the re - relocation of the fluids in your

body - Apparently, there are some people, I would
guess, that are a whole lot more sensitive to that
than others, and I would be inclined to think
that's got a lot to do with this sickness up here.
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'_ CC Yes, we tend to agree with that, also.
PLT One other thing, Story. I think we're really

wasting a lot of good crew time here doing this
motion sensitivity.
351 19 17 15 CC Okay, we got your input on that. Moving on to

M171, if you don't have anything more on the M131.
And we've got a lot of good data on there ; you've
probably plotted some of that yourself. All of
you are at least up to the preflight baseline
ranges in terms of efficiency and physical fitness.
Ed is starting to improve beyond the physical
condition that he had preflight. The vital capa-
city data is - is excellent. We're seeing a
decrease of about 3 to 5 percent in vital capacity,
and some good explanations for that are that you
have a little more fluid and blood in the chest.
If you had, say, 160 or 200 cc's of blood in the
chest, this would not allow you to fill the chest
with air. That's a good explanation for the de-
crease we're seeing.
351 19 18 08 SPT Sounds logical. Thank you, Story.
-- PLT Yes, 3 to 5 percent is almost in the noise.
CC Yes, it is in the noise, and - and - so it may

be in the resolution of the experiment; but 160
or 200 cc's of - more fluid in the chest could
explain it. We like the instrumented PT very
much on - on Jer and Ed, especially when you
approach your maximum 02 flow. We'd like to get
some on Bill sometime and also something we missed
on SL-3 - and it does require a little bit of
logistics - and that is some Mark I type metabolic
studies. Now you have to get that off the upper
deck up there. And also, there's a certain limited
range of exercise you can do with that thing, when
you've got a - a mouthpiece and a hose during the
exercise. But this would be useful stuff to know -
how much work you do using the Mark I.
351 19 19 03 SPT Story, let me ask you a little about that. The
Mark I, as well as Clark's treadmill, to me are
ways of keeping your muscle tone up, as opposed
to getting any real workload or - or cardiovascular
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system workout. And it really is just ... about

how fast you want to do those exercises. And it
really is - Just varies from day to day, and I'm
wondering what you can learn from that.
351 19 19 27 PLT Hey, Story.
CC Go ahead.
PLT I'd like to add something on that. What I'd like

to say is that I'm fully prepared to do anything
you want to as long as you give us sufficient
time. Now you remember in setting up this stuff,
it may require more time than actually doing it.
So any time - if you're prepared to maybe give
us 3 hours - that's asking an awful lot, but that
may be what it takes - I'll do anything you ask.
It's Just that when you say, "Well, it only takes
15 minutes" ... takes an hour and a half Just to
do the setup, to get the rig all prepared; so
we'll cooperate anyway we can here, but you're
going to have to cooperate with us and give us
plenty of time for setup and teardown.
351 19 20 ll CC Okay; we'll do it. And, Ed, you got a good point
there, as far as the Mark I and other things go
like that. You're not involving enough muscles
to approach anywhere near maximum phi-dot 02.
But - -
SPT Okay.
CC - - even using small muscle groups, particularly

in isometrics and that type of thing, you can get
the heart rate and blood pressure up to levels
similar to a third level of M171. That's a dif-
ferent mechanism, of course.
SPT I would think the cardiovascular conditioning we

get doing those exercises is negligible; it's
really Just muscle tone.
351 19 20 53 CC That's true. Moving on - -
PLT It still feels good to do them.

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f_
• CC Okay. Moving on to the medicalDTO's, the Pls and

Dr. Thornton and - They're very thankful for what
you've gotten them. And I think we're really
trying to get at some of the mechanisms - the
physiological mechanisms causing some of these
fluid shifts and the like that we're seeing here.
During the early part of the mission, the first
3 to 5 days, we saw a shift of fluid, about 2
liters, out of each crewman - out of the legs.
SPT 2 liters, Story? That's quite a bit.
351 19 21 36 CC Yes, we saw about 2 liters. And the other very

interesting things in terms of measurements, we
didn't see much change in the arms or the necks,
but we did see a - a - a very significant decrease
in the chest circumference and the waist. And
what we're thinking is that you increased in height
between an inch and 2 inches and that's what
caused these decreases in the - in the chest and -
and the abdominal girth.
351 19 22 03 PLT But, Story, we did do an M487 height measurement,

and those didn't change. Or did they? Have you
correlated them?
351 19 22 12 CC Yes, and the data I have down here shows that -
that the -the - the range of increase in height
was from 3/h to 1-3/h inches.
PLT We're walking tall, huh?
CC That's right. And there's good reason for that

in that the - the disks, the intervertebral disks,
without any gravity forcing them together, that
they can take up a lot more water and expand.
And also, not having to use the antigravity muscles
of the back - those things tend to compress these
disks, also. So there's good rationale for think-
ing that you would grow in height, and we think
you have.
PLT Let's hope we can keep it when we get back down

to one g.
CC Okay. And I've got 30 seconds to LOS here. Hank's

got a couple things for you, and we'll be picking
•up Bill Lenoir over Ascension with the handheld.
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SPT Thanks very much, Story. Appreciate it.
CC SPT, Houston. NOAA Just reported that promi-

nence h9 is out to 2/10 of a radii [sic] and it's
feeding back on itself. And if you like, we'd
like you to do shopping list item 1 at Sun center.
351 19 23 17 SPT I'm on my way.
351 19 25 23 MCC Skylab, Houston with the visual observations

conference. Over.
CDR Hello, Bill. We're waiting for you; go ahead.
351 19 25 30 MCC Okay, good. As you may remember, we had the team
meeting last Friday. And we got a lot of good
information out of that, and I'll try to pass
you some of it now. We will be sending you an
update frequently, and I'm not sure exactly what
I mean. We'll probably start in about 2 days,
section by section in the book - so that we don't
overwhelm you to begin with - as to some of the
important facts that came out of the team meeting.
The most prevalent feeling was one that we are
really astonished by the amount of good work and
the - especially the good observations that we're
getting. The detail - things such as the colors,
textures, things of this nature - we're happy
with that. And we will be doing more things,
trying to get deeper into that actually. The
things that we're asking for frequently now,
you'll see in the next few days, will be empha-
sizing observations and not doing so many photo-
graphs, especially of areasthat we have photographs
of. We'll be trying to concentrate on observations
to detect the time changes that we can hopefully
see and maybe remember from the last time that we
looked at it. Make complete observations, as
complete as you can, factual observations. By
that, I mean what you see and then follow that
with your interpretation as to what you think it
means. One other thing we will be doing when the
Sun angle gets us back over the continental U.S.
is, we're going to try to pick out a site about
which we know considerably and have this as sort
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of a test case to test certain things to have you

look for that we feel are difficult to find and
see how we do on this. And let me break here a
minute and let you get some thoughts in before I
go meandering on here.
351 19 27 19 SPT Again, that latter point, Bill, I think we need

to know precisely what we're looking for and have
the time to - to get lined up for it. It's kind
of tough to do this effic - efficiently inside,
say, 5 to l0 minutes of preparation. I think you
need may be 15, 20, or so in order to get your
maps out, know exactly what you're coming up on,
and have everything reviewed in your mind, because
moving at 4 miles a second, you don't get too
much time to look at it.
MCC Right. We under - -
CDR And, Bill, another problem that comes to mind,

too, is the fact that every time we're passing
over the U.S. in daylight, we're usually on an
EREP pass; so we're not getting much opportunity
to look out the window.
351 19 27 57 MCC That may be true, and we'll have to pick a differ-
ent area. We do intend to write as detailed a
pad several days beforehand as we can, explaining
exactly what we're looking for, giving you time
to digest it and even talk with us about it before
we go and do it. The - We're at the period now
where the Sun angle is creeping south at the sun-
rise terminator and north at the sunset terminator
so that we're moving toward ascending tracks in
the north. And in several weeks here, we will
actually have good Sun in the United States. One
suggestion that I recommend, especially on target-
of-the-opportunity-type sites - and by that I
mean things like the weather phenomena, many of
the ocean phenomena, and things that we Just cannot
schedule - is to reread those sections in the book
when you get a chance Just to emphasize some of
the points that are harder to come by. We've
gotten a lot of good information on - some detailed
descriptions and things of this nature, but
frequently we'll have procedures that are seven,
eight, and nine steps long. And some of the later
ones involve comparisons.
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351 19 29 01 MCC I think it would be beneficial to go back and

reread that. And I don't want to take the time
now to get specific there, but when you get a chance,
I would strongly recommend doing that. Some of
the things that we're moving toward now in geo-
logy - For instance_ in New Zealand we will be
scheduling area 107, New Zealand, again_ and we
will be stressing observations. What we would
like to do is to get many detailed observations
and your detailed description of the fault as you
see it - what the fault looks like, trying to see
the fault zone itself - and also any crossfault
geology bands, as you mentioned once, in New
Zealand.
351 19 29 39 MCC So that we will be emphasizing observations, not

photographs.
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351 19 29 44 MCC The descriptions that you gave us on the volcanos,

in particular Sakurazima and the Galapagos Islands,
were excellent. And the volcanologists at the
team meetings were just beside themselves with
good words about the work that you are doing.
SPT Bill, I'm sorry we missed our opportunity to see

the Galapagos last night. It was probably a
real good opportunity, but it Just got upstaged
by the flare.
351 19 30 08 MCC Roger. We understand that. And actually, at

dark we're not too sure what you see. We're
more interested in if you see anything on the
first time around on that. We'll be repeating
that; so don't let that get you worried here.
We've got so much stuff here that we expect to
miss a little bit here and there. On the veget-
ation, we're going to again emphasize observations.
We will be repeating areas such as the pampa
more frequently than I indicated last week. We'll
.... be looking for things on the order of 5-, 10-,
and 20-day variations; again, mainly on observa-
tions, not photographs. So that when you see
something like that, try to make a mental note
on it and hang onto it. I realize that's more
difficult than it sounds, but we will be looking
at that and trying to get at how much of these
types variations so we will be able to determine
from an observations point of view.
351 19 31 02 MCC Okay. And then an area that we have done a lot
of work and intend to do a lot more work, the
Falkland current area. Again, we want to emphasize
observations and, in particular, changes that
you detect from orbit to orbit, day to day, -
colors, textures, shape, things of this nature.
One important point here is that in the southern
hemisphere, the current situation m_d the makeup
is not very well understood at all. And we want
to try to concentrate here and also the area east
of New Zeland, where you have seen interesting
features, and try to understand this very well
and do as complete a job as we can.
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351 19 31 40 MCC We will also be uplinking at some time within the

next week or so a new site which represents a -
an Antarctic - a circum Antarctic current region
to look for. It's actually south of - south of
your track all the time, but perhaps you will be
able to see something from where you are. On the
Falkland current, we'll be asking for things such
as, can you detect the edge of the current by
subtle color differentiations and surface texture
differences, can you distinguish that from the
plankton upwellings, and things of this nature.
On the subject of plankton, whenever you have IR
film that is available, we strongly would like
IR film of plankton. And this will show up very
clearly, if indeed it is plankton, as a pink on
the infrared. We've got another 3 minutes here
until LOS. And I've got about 30 minutes' worth
of things to talk about here, but let me give you
a chance here to break in again. Over.
SPT Bill, we'll try and put some questions on the

recorder. Why don't you go ahead and give us the
informat ion.
352 19 32 47 MCC Okay. Getting to the area of the atmosphere, the

cloud streets and the Von Karmon eddies, sites,
09 and 08, we would be most interested in those
over land. At this point we feel that we've got
good water coverage on those. We're most interested
in those over land and in particular, on the cloud
streets, how they might feed into cumulonimbus
systems, towering cu, and to what extent this
represents moisture feeding into the towering
cells. Same thing with Von Karmon eddies. We
have frequently seen them over the water. We're
most interested in whether or not we can find
them over land and to what extent. Again, we'll
be - -
SPT We've seen a lot of cloud streets over South

America, in the northern area around Brazil. But
that was about 2 weeks ago, and it's dark there
now.
MCC Right. And I remember those, and we're most

interested. When you see those again, try to
relate them to any cumulus that you see in the
vicinity.
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SPT Okay.
351 19 33 h_ MCC And we'll be getting up with more details on that.

In the African area, which is beginning to become
available now in the ascending part of the orbit,
the Mall area and the Okovanggo Swamp in Botswana
have many things common. In particular, it is
felt that Botswana probably represents a later
stage in development of an area much like Mall is
now. What we're interested in doing, of course,
is looking at the two areas, comparing them and
contrasting them, seeing if indeed Mali is progres-
sing toward the Okovanggo-Swamp-type phenomenon
and features and to what extent we can see where
they have common features and where they do not ;
so we'll be getting more information up to you on
that. Again, across the board, wind is a very
important parameter. You've done very good work
on that so far; give the observability of it from
space with smoke plumes and things of this nature.
We do want to emphasize that it is very important
and to continue with that.
351 19 3h 53 MCC We have 56 seconds now until LOS. Canaries are

next in a minute and a half, and Bill Snoddy will
be talking Kohoutek to you there. Also, while I 'm
talking Africa, you'll note that we will beginning
to - we are beginning to move up into the area
where we will be seeing the dunes. Let me throw -
One last noint in here you might like to look for
is E1 Nino, which is a warm current that annually
comes down the west coast of South America. It's
a great fish killer, and we would be interested in
noting any effects of that that you can see from
space; so as you come over the west coast of South
America every now and then, you may just look out.
Again we're primarily interested in observation.
Okay. I guess that's about all I'm going to try
to squeeze in here, and I'll talk to you next week.
And and comments you have, send them down. We do
copy them, and we try to respond. Over.
SPT Bill, you've gotten lots of good ideas here; I'm

wondering if you could send a little checklist up
on a teleprinter, like the E1 Nifio.
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MCC Okay. We sure will.
351 19 35 57 MCC We'll he sending these up two or three at a time

here over the next several days.
351 19 37 03 CC Skylab, Houston. We're through Canary and Madrid

for 7 minutes. And for info, we've got the S063
pad on board and a mal for the S054, and Bill
Snoddy's ready to go with the Kohoutek briefing.
MCC Good afternoon, gentlemen. Want to bring you up

to date on the status of the comet as seen from
the ground and also, if we have time, comment a
little bit on the observing program you're carry-
ing out up there. First of all, we sent you up
the visual magnitudes the other day. These are
based on a wide scatter in visual observations.
We did a root mean square fit to them. And the
points we sent you, you'll notice all slightly
below the bottom curve - if you've got it out -
that you had in your package up there. Smithsonian
says that these visual observations correspond to
photographic magnitudes that are pretty well in
agreement with your bottom curve. And they're
standing by their prediction of a maximum magnitude
of around minus 4.
351 19 38 05 MCC The scatter in visual observations points out the

importance of the S233 observations you're making.
We hope there we'll have a good continuous record
of the growth and brightness. Also, I might point
out that both tails of the comet are there. You
can't see them because they both lie in a plane
that's along your line of sight and, therefore,
the white tail is masking the blue gas tail. With
the filters you have on board, though, the sensors
are picking up the different tails. Also, I might
point out that the comet is rapidly becoming un-
observable from the ground. In fact, we Just about
lost it here. As you can probably guess, there
continues to be wide spread scientific and public
interest in the comet. This makes us all the more
interested in any kind of observations you might
make on it. In addition to the tail length infor-
mation and so forth you've been giving us, which
is great, you might also be on the lookout for any
changes in - in noticeable structure that might
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exist,any variationsin brightness. There are

some predictions that the nucleus will become
increasingly bright relative to the coma, and so
you might be on the lookout for a bright spot in
the coma.
351 19 39 16 MCC Also be on the alert for any temporal changes in

brightness or structure. It's always possible
the thing could split or flare and become maybe
1000 times brighter in a matter of a day or 2.
If you were to detect any changes like this
occurring, we'd probably would want to try to
change our observing program to get better data
on that sort of thing.
SPT Okay, Bill. We'll try to do that.
MCC Okay. Great. Also I might mention that there's

been some rather interesting observations made.
For the first time, a radio emission was detected
from comets, and, in fact, the molecule methyl
cyanAmlde was detected. This is a rather exotic
molecule and is more indicative of the kind of
stuff that exists in interstellar space. And this
makes this whole operation that much more interesting.
Also, OH was detectedfor the first time in radio
emission. Since 183 and $063 are looking for OH
in the spatial/temporal distribution - We now know
it's there, and so we hope we're getting good data
over the instruments there. H-alpha was also detected
for the first time in a comet.
351 19 h0 23 MCC We hope this means that there's a good Lyman-alpha

emission, which is needed, you know, for our
JOP 18 pointing. Let me wind up by saying that
we appreciate the good work you've been doing on
our synoptic observations. You know, I believe
that y'all did some measurements in white light
as we passed through the orbital plane on about
mission day 24. Ground-based stations were pretty
well wiped out by a full moon plus the twilight.
We're hoping that your observations will show up
some debris in the plane. The occultation you
did on Pi Scorpio last night was the first time
such an occultation has been done in UV, and it
was the only chance we had on Skylab; so we're
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real glad that went off okay. We're going to be

starting our J0P 18's on mission day 34. This
day was particularly picked because Antares will
also be in the field of view, and this will give
us a chance to do some further checks on your
pointing procedures. Messages will be sent up
to you tonight discussing exactly what we do
want to do, and Bill Lenoir will be talking with
you about this some more tomorrow. Are there
any questions you have on - on what - on the comet?
351 19 hl 31 SPT Bill, you mentioned one particular molecule before

OH. What was the first one you mentioned?
MCC Methl cyanamide. That's the - It's CH3CN is the

formula for it, and it's the first time, I guess
you might say, that a parent molecule has been
observed. And it's more exotic than - it's more
complicated than a lot of people had thought you
would - you would find in a - in a comet; so
this is a very interesting development.
SPT Any speculation then on the source of Kohoutek?
MCC I'm sorry. Say again?
SPT Any speculation then on the source or origin of

Kohout ek ?
351 19 42 15 MCC There - Haven't heard too much yet. It's still
kind of early, but it makes it look like that
perhaps the thing was formed further out in the
solar system, I would imagine, than some theories
would have it. Perhaps out on the outer fringes
instead of having been formed in the inner part
of the solar system; then somehow moved out into
that area. This would appear to me to indicate
that the comet was perhaps foxed out there.
CDR Bill, you may have heard me say a little earlier

today that it doesn't look like we have many more
days of observation of Kohoutek left out of the
STS window number 3. We have a strut that's
beginning to move into occultation.
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MCC Roger. There's a possibility the orbital path

of the comet is going to perhaps bring it kind
of tangent to that point and then back out - back
into the view again; so it may not continue in the
direction that it's going, but we appreciate your
inputs as it develops.
CDR Okay. I hope you're right.
351 19 43 14 MCC We've got our fingers crossed.
PLT Bill, a question on T025 equipment.
MCC Okay.
PLT You know we had problems on the first EVA. Do we

plan to use that on the EVA next week? And if
so, I need some maintenance suggestions on how
to make that exposure-setting knob - how to fix
that thing so it'll work outside.
MCC Yes. We're working on that. We do expect to use

that, and you can believe it's being worked very
thoroughly down here. It looks like there should
be no problem, we hope.
f-
PLT Thank you.
CC Skylab, Houston. One quickie here. Awhile ago,

I told you the S063 pad; I should have said $233
pad. That's for the CDR. Coming up here shortly.
CDR Okay.
CC We're about 20 second from LOS. We'll see you

at Guam at 09, and we plan to dump the recorder
there.
SPT Okay, Hank. And I got the S054 mal, and I'ii put
something on tape on it, next few minutes. Also,
what prominence was that you said that blew off
and location?
351 19 4h 23 CC Roger. It was 49; I think it should have been

around Ii0.
351 20 09 55 CC Skylab, Houston. We're over Guam for 9-1/2 minutes,

and we'll be dumping the recorder here.
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351 20 i0 27 CC PLT, Houston. Are you free to answer a question?
PLT Yes, sir. Go.
CC Okay. We were wondering how you'd feel about

operating as the observer on M0 - M509 with a
hot mike instead of PTT, so we could hear the
thruster sound throughout. It would help the
PI to analyze the film he has and his data a
little better if he knew exactly when the
thrusters were firing.
PLT Sounds like an excellent suggestion. I thought

of it, but I didn't want to do it because the
checklist didn't call for it.
CC Okay. Well, with the earplugs, the only problem

you'd have to worry about is the noise feeding
back, you know, into the mike there and bothering
you, but you got a feel for that running while
you were PTT. Do you think it would bother you?
351 20 ll 18 PLT Oh, I think I could turn the volume down a little
bit.
CC Okay, then we will get you a change up to do it

that way, then, if it's okay with you.
PLT Yes, I think that's a good idea. Hank, I have

one for you.
CC Go ahead.
PLT S063 is still set up. And l'm not questioning it,
but I just thought l'd mention it. Since it was
a day off and you're trying to make it easier, I
would - If we're going to remove that in the
morning, I would rather do it today. If we got
more observations tomorrow, fine; leave it the
way it is.
CC Okay. I'll take a quick look.
351 20 12 ll CC What we have scheduled right now, Bill, is a

stow 2 for in the morning and leaving the AMS
there for an S183 prep that's right behind it.
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PLT Okay. It'd be all right with me to do that today

to relax the time line in the morning, since
apparently that's going to be fairly tight.
CC PLT, Houston. Are you just going to do the 63

stow, or are you going to try to do the 80 - 183
prep also?
PLT I'll do both, if it's okay with you. Now I'm

not trying to tell you how to do it, but I'm Just
saying that since you'd already mentioned it's
going to be sort of crowded tomorrow, I - We're
going to have, you know, some spare time here,
and it isn't all that much now; but it - it does
become sort of a problem if you're really against
the time line problem.
CC Okay. We'll see if I can get an answer to that.
PLT Thank you.
351 20 lh 08 CC Skylab, Houston. Whenever it's convenient, we'd

like to get the MPC ROLL to INHIBIT at the ATM.
PLT That 's in work.
SPT Hank, I show on the time line here that I was

going to be working the flare wait, and I was
going to go Sun center and take a look at the -
the prominence and see whether there was any
effect of that blowing off. Is there something
that you folks want to carry on unattended, or
what's your plans?
CC I'll check it.
CC And while we're checking that, PLT, if you're

going to do a stow followed by the prep, we'll
do an S063 stow 2 and a 183 prep 3. If you're
Just going to stow, it'll be a stow 3.
PLT Roger. I'll do a 63 stow 2 and a 183 prep 3.
351 20 16 14 CC And, PLT, one other thing you might - if you got a
little free time, you might look at. When we read
the transcript from the EREP, we noticed that two
of the meter readings were excessively high, and
those were Alfa 2 and Charlie 4. And, for example,
p.
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Alfa 2 read 92 percent ; it should have read

52 percent. And Charlie 4, 98, when it should
have been between 65 and 75. And one thing that
might account for that would be if the ALIGN
switch down at the cooler door station was left in
the align position. So if you get a chance, wouldn't
mind you removing the 192 cover and checking the
position of that ALIGN switch. It should be in OFF.
PLT Okay, Hank. Thank you. I'll do it. And I thought

I did that, but I'll check it again.
351 20 17 19 CC And, SPT, Houston. We have nothing planned

unattended. You can continue your flare wait,
if you like.
SPT Okay. I'm on Sun center right now. Do they - do

they like a STANDARD? I can go ahead and give
them that. That's for S052.
CC Okay, we'll check.
CC Okay, Ed. We'll take the STANDARD.
SPT Okay, Hank.

see you at Vanguard at 50, and that's about 31 min-
utes from now.
SPT Okay, Hank. And my response to the S054 CRT m_l's

on tape, which you're just dumping right now. If
they want, they can pick it up.
CC If you got some quick words, go ahead.
SPT I Just show the positioning of - We're playing out

where the thing is positioned. Essentially, its
bottom 40 percent or so is - is not there. It looks
as thought the whole image has just shifted up to
the top of the display.
351 20 19 51 CC Roger; we copy.

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SPT Houston,
SPT.
CC Go ahead.
SPT Yes, Hank. At the conclusion of the STANDARD, I

took a look at the corona and could not see a
real significant change, although there certainly
was some out there on the west limb. The one
large streamer which I reported this morning
having fairly sharply defined edges - maybe a
10-degree or so across - was fairly diffusely
defined, and it looked a little bit stronger.
But I could not see any - any lines of running
across the, say, tangential, or anything reflecting
a transient as we've talked about it. But there
was some changes. I'll try to get another shopping
list item 1 in at the end of this orbit.
CC Roger; we copy.
351 20 53 l0 CC Skylab, Houston for the CDR. For information,

MMP showed TACS usage if we INHIBIT the MOMENTUM
DUMP for this $233; so we will not INHIBIT. The
dump will be in progress. However, we still
would like you to take the pictures.
CDR Roger, Hank. I Just got out of the shower. What

time is that?
CC I think it's about h5 minutes from now. Let me

make real sure here. It comes at 21:3h, Jer.
That's about 50 minutes.
CDR Okay; I'll be ready.
CC Make that 40 minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 45 seconds from LOS.
351 20 58 39 CC We'll see you at Canaries at 10, and that's about

ll minutes from now.
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351 21 09 55 CC Skylab, Houston through Canary and Madrid for

14 minutes.
351 21 16 35 CC PLT, Houston. Just for info, you really - you

really bailed us out there on that Flight Plan by
getting that stow and prep done for us. We had
to fudge a little of that time that you got rid
of there and - for C&D troubleshooting when we
got in a squeeze.
PLT Roger. 63 is stowed, and 183 is in position.
CC Good work. Thank you.
PLT Hank, PLT here.
CC Go ahead.
PLT Just so we keep each other honest, 183 prep 3's

complete with the exception of the installation
of the carrousel in the DAC, because I didn't
have any information on that.
CC Roger. Bill, that's scheduled for in the morning.
PLT Beautiful. Thank you.
351 21 23 14 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute to LOS. We'll

see you at Honeysuckle at 58 with a data recorder
dump. That's 35 minutes from now.
CDR Hank, you better quickly slip me the data on the

Kohoutek $233 event. I don't have the pad.
CC Okay, the pad should be on board there, Jer.
CDR Well, it must have got lost or something. Give

me a rise time real quick.
CC That was one we shipped up about a hour ago, Jer.

It should have been on board along with that
S05h mal.
CDR Well, the fact is I don't have it. Have you got
a time you can give me real quick?
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CC Time of rise, 21:39:17.
CDR 21:39:17. How about the first break?
351 21 24 28 CC 21:43.
351 21 58 32 CC _ylab, Houston through Honeysuckle for 7 minutes.
351 21 59 05 CC PLT, Houston. Did you ever have a chance to look

at the 192 ALIGN switch?
PLT That's affirmative, Hank, and it was in VISIBLE.

I checked it, but I guess it - it looks like it's
in OFF.
CC Roger. And you - you put it back to OFF.
PLT That 's affirmative.
CC Okay. Thank you, sir.
PLT My error.
CC No problem.
351 22 00 25 CC And, Skylab, Houston for the CDR. Do you recall

about what time you started the M509-5 Alfa?
CDR 30 minutes ago, Hank.
CC Okay. Thank you, sir.
CDR I've got my timer set. I'm going to do Bravo

when an hour has expired.
CC Roger. We copy.
CDR Houston, CDR. I've got a slider map setting of

minus - correction - 7.5 east at 175858. Is that
correct for an ascending node?
CC We'll check it.
CC CDR, Houston. That looks good to us.
CDR Okay, Thanks.

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351 22 04 00 CC And, CDR, we're watching the 02 buildup. It

looks like you'll be able to stop it a little
early, say about 22:15, at the conclusion of the
45 minutes rather than the full hour. And also,
for a note, we'_ llke to make a little change.
At the conclusion of the 5 Bravo, we would like
you to put the mwitches back to COMMAND rather
than as called out in the checklist.
CDR Will do.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 1 minute from LOS.

For information, the - we sent up a pad - it
should be on board now - entitled "any photos".
It concerns taking photos of the removal of the
wardroom plate that you asked about earlier.
And we'll see you at Canaries at 49. And as a
reminder to the SPT, that's his phone call.
351 22 05 18 SPT Okay. Thanks, Hank.
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351 22 h9 ll CC Good afternoon, Skylab. You're A0S through

Canary for 12 minutes. You guys enjoying your
day off?
CDR We're Just having a ball, Crip.
CC Sounds like it. Showering and all those good

things, right?
CDR Yes, man, we take one of those every once a week,

whether we need it or not.
CC Well, I'm glad to hear you're running a clean ship

up there.
CDR That's right.
CDR How's all the crimson gang down there? They all
got their eyes open?
CC Wide awake, wide awake. This - this detail is

easy for us. It's that s1_mmary that we kind of -
kind of drag a little sometimes.
CDR Very good.
351 22 50 18 CC It's a beautiful day here in Houston town. Pretty

nice to - to get out and see the daylight a little
bit.
CDR Good show. Is the weather nice - I mean is the

temperature nice?
CC Oh, yes. It's, you know, running like in the 60's,

nice and comfortable.
CDR Oh, that's great.
CC Of course all parts of the country can't really

say that. Some of our gentlemen here from head-
quarters have been reporting thay got like l0 inches
of snow in Washington, D.C., and still coming
dowlq.
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CDR Son-of-a-gun.
CDR Did they come down to Houston to get warm?
CC Well, I think there's some currently trying to

get down here and others trying to get back. And
the question is whether the transportation is going
to be able to get them through the weather or not.
I believe both sides are ready for the exchange.
351 22 52 19 CDR I was Just looking at my slider map; looks like

we'll be flying over there about 8 o'clock tonight.
CC Yes, looks pretty close. Might even - might even

get us a good chance to - to go out and see you
come by. I had an occasion to - to be out flying
around about a week ago and saw you pass over.
Even in AB, I couldn't catch you.
CDR Crip, I was talking about Washington; it looks like

we'll miss Houston by quite a distance.
CC Yes, you're right. I Just picked up my slider there

and just said that wouldn't work. I'm afraid it's
going to be clouded up around - around Washington;
so I don't believe they'll be able to see you.
CDR Crip, I terminated the 02 fill in about 50 minutes

rather than an hour, and it looks like our partial
pressure is a little over 3.9.
CC Okay; we concur on that pressure.
CC EGIL says you get an "atta boy" for that, Jer.
CDR I'll take all of those I can get.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 30 seconds from LOS.

See you again over Carnarvon in 27 minutes at 23:28;
23 :28.
351 23 O0 49 CDR Roger.
351 23 28 38 SPT Hank, are you ready for the TV downlink?
CC Crip here, but we're not quite ready.

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SPT Okay, and would you like me to interrupt the

EXT_TDED STANDARD going on the WLC in order to give
you some corona?
CC We'll check on that for you, Ed.
CC Ed, while I'm trying to get an answer on that

question, you got a moment for some info on
prominence 59?
SPT Go ahead, Crip.
CC I don't know whether you've noticed it or not, but

they're telling us that 59 coming over the - the
limb there now is - is fairly - fairly large and we
can - we can break the EXTENDED STANDARD to get
the TV. I'll tell you when we're ready for the
TV though. And what we would like you to do is,
in this observing time, if you would point at 59,
and suggested shoping-list items are ll, 12, 13,
and 31. And after you finished up the ops, we're
going to request that you go ahead and leave it
pointed at prominence 59 for unattended operations
tonight.
_ 351 23 30 06 SPT Okay, Crip, I'll go ahead and take a look at it.
Thank you.
CC Okay. Also, we have - we're reviewing a message

right now that is going to be coming up for closeout
on H-alpha, basically to allow us to - to go ahead
and take H-alpha photographs unattended.
SPT Okay.
CC Okay, Ed, we're ready for the TV now.
SPT Okay; coming with the XUV monitor first.
351 23 35 03 CC SPT, Houston. Ed, we'll be uplinking that message

for you shortly, and it's only applicable for the
closeout for this evening. We're going to get ready
to hand over to Honeysuckle, and I'm probably going
to drop out shortly. I'll give you a call when the
handover is complete.
SPT Okay, Crip.

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351 23 36 56 CC Skylab, Houston. We've completed the handover.

Talking to you through Honeysuckle for 5 more
minutes.

station contact is over Bermuda in 36 minutes at
00:17. At 00:17 we'll be doing a data/voice
recorder dump. And for your information, you're
GO for the EREP pass this evening. And at your
convenience, we can kind of talk a little bit about
what the weather is, although it's going to be
kind of dark down there.
CDR Go ahead, Bob; we're all ears.
CC We're going over the hill here. We can talk to you

over stateside.
351 23 42 37 CDR Okay.
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352 00 16 36 CC Skylab, Houston. A0S Bermuda for ii - correc-

tion - 10-1/2 minutes, and we'll be doing a data/
voice recorder dump here.
PLT Roger, Crip.
CC Roger. And I can give you a quick synopsis of

what the weather situation is for the EREP pass
again here or over the upcoming Madrid. And it's
really very brief and so whatever your convenience.
PLT Go on, Crip. We'll take it now.
CC Okay. Basically, the first portion of your pass

is an altimeter pass along the Atlantic coast,
and it's Just getting varying wind conditions
over the sea. And they've got about 30 knots up
around Newfoundland; so that's a pretty good sit-
uation for them. The second portion of your pass
picks up just to the west of France, over the Bay
of Biscay area, and again that's going to work
.... out okay for the RAD data. However,most of
Europe is pretty well clobbered for weather. And
it's supposed to be primarily a geothermal pass
for 192, and we don't really anticipate getting
much data on that. But the RAD and the - the
altimeter data should be good, and both of those
are - are mandatory sites; so we are GO for the
pass.
PLT Roger. Copy
352 00 18 ll CC And also, for you probably, Bill, I've got some
reconfiguring that we would like you to do prior
to going into the maneuver. And if you have time,
I'd like to give it to you so you could jot it down
and initiate it at your convenience in the preps.
PLT Ready to copy.
CC Okay. As we always do before - before an EREP

pass, on panel 206 we would like you to mark the
position of the REG ADJUST, BUS 2 pot only and
then adjust the REG ADJUST, BUS 2, l0 degrees
clockwise.
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PLT Roger. Mark the REG ADJUST, BUS 2 pot and turn
it around l0 degrees clockwise.
CC Roger. And in addition to that, we would like

to do a little bit of powering down for this pass.
And if you would, perform steps 5 and 7 of the
pre-EREP powerdown on your SWS Systems Checklist,
page 2-15.
PLT Roger. That's steps 5 and 7, not 5 through 7,

on pre-EREP powerdown, page 2-15, SWS System
Checklist.
352 00 19 34 CC That's correct; 5 and 7. Okay, after you return

to SOLAR INERTIAL, to get you back in the original
power configuration, you should perform steps 2
and 4 of the post-EREP powerup per your SWS Systems
Checklist, page 2-16, and return the REGADJUST,
BUS 2 to it's original marking.
PLT Roger. Post SOLAR INERTIAL, steps 2 and 4,

page 2-16, SWS System Checklist, post-EREP power-
up, and REG ADJUST, BUS 2 to the mark I made before.
CC That's all of it, Bill. Thank you very much.
PLT Roger.
CDR Say, Crip, would you ask the 55 people in the

backroom if they'd like me to leave the REFERENCE
switch to MECKANICAL?
CC We're - -
SPT I got a position pointed off the Sun.
CC We're checking that.
352 00 20 56 SPT I plan to leave the GRATING at MECHANICAL

REFERENCE 102.
CC Ed, what we'd like you to do is to go ahead and

set it up like that, and then you can switch
back to - to OPTICAL so it will be in good shape
for tomorrow.
SPT Oh, okay. Will do.

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SPT That prominence, Crip, certainly is a beautiful

one. It's very extensive, and I think we'll have
no trouble getting some good data on it over the
next day or so. I was just working on the foot
up north, which appeared to be the most promlnent.
But it sure is an extensive one, and it looks as
though it's right underneath the very pronounced
streamer which I mentioned this morning. And
when I looked at it tonight, it's even more pro-
nounced; a very large helmet streamer with - an
exceptionally dense streamer running all the way
out in the display here, out to the edge of the
display, which is h-l/2 radii.
352 00 22 02 CC Roger. It sounds like it. They - there's word

coming in from Mauna Loa that they think this might
be the biggest thing that's come around in 20 years.
SPT And I spent all day waiting for zero, zero to show
me her stuff, but nothing happened.
CC Oh, well, that's the way things usually go.
SPT We managed so far in the past couple of days to

get three flares Just going into the backside.
CC Good timing. We'll try to work and see if we

can't schedule it a little bit better for you.
SPT Talk to FAO, would you? We did manage, however,

to get some good mirror-line-scan data on one
flare-rise this morning.
CC Very good. And you've caught several rises then,

it sounds like.
SPT I think the one we got yesterday was reasonable.

I'd still like to get one a little bit earlier,
though.
CC Roger.

LOS.
352 O0 26 h6 CC We'll see you again in about 4 minutes over Madrid

at 00:31; 00:31.
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352 00 31 l0 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS through Madrid for

7-1/2 minutes.
CC SPT, Houston. Ed, have you got - got a moment to

answer a question, please, sir?
SPT Be glad to, Crip. Go ahead.
CC Roger. We noticed that you still got your TVMON

on and the ROLL is not set as per - for unattended
tonight. Are you planning on trying to get in some
additional observations before you commence
maneuver?
SPT Oh, no, I hadn't, Crip. I had not Just turned

off - monitors off. And as far as the roll, when
I was requested to leave the pointing where I had
it, I had not - I thought that included the roll.
I'll go ahead and roll it to what we have here on
the pad, if that's what they prefer.
CC Roger. That's what - -
SPT I'll go do it now.
CC That's what they'd like - minus 5400.
352 00 37 57 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from Los. We'll

see uou again at Carnarvon in 26 minutes at 01:04;
01:04.
352 01 03 54 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Carnarvon for i0 min-

utes, and we will need the DAS so that we can get
in the NAV update. As soon as we get through with
it, we'll give it back to you so you can get start-
ed on your maneuver prep.
SPT Okay, Crip. You have it.
CC Thank you, sir.
CC Skylab, Houston. We've completed the NAV update,

and the DAS belongs to you gentlemen again.
SPT Thank you, Crip.

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352 01 06 02 CC SPT, Houston. Looks like we caught you with one,

Ed, when we sent you back to do that ROLL. We
show it still ENABLED, and we need you to INHIBIT
it, please.
SFT Crip, I have configured the H-alpha and 56 the way

requested on that pad. Would you rather I do that
after the Z-LV?
CC No, that shouldn't make any difference, Ed. You

can have it configured now. And you did copy
about - Well, never mind. GNS says you Just turned
it off; you INHIBITED the ROLL.
352 01 07 hl SPT And, Crip, I worked a little today on trying to

get the TV, using the closeup lens set up for
coverage of your favorite topic. And I found that
the use of that closeup lens, at least on our
monitor, still does not give a very - make a
closeup-enough view of the little fellows inside
the tubes; I'm not sure that you're going to get
that much out of it. It's a closeup lens, but
it's really not meant for something that small.
CC Okay; we copy. And understood - did you take any

at all - any of the TV, then?
SPT No, I was working on trying to get the optimum

distance for focus, and it requires a little more
Jury - rigging in order to get a steady picture.
And I got part way through it, and I have not taken
any pictures yet. I see I've got it lined up for
tomorrow.
CC Okay, Ed, that sounds good. At your convenience,

when you can get it.
352 01 09 ii SPT Okay. Have anyone tried down there to see what
they can do with the closeup lens and actually
looked at the - what they get out and see what the
resolution actually is?
CC That's a good point. We'll check.
SPT The monitor that we have is not that - that good,

as you know. The resolution is not as high as you'd
like. So if someone could come up with a recom-
mended distance in order to get the correct focus -
Certainly the depth of field is not very large.
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And if someone could look at the analogous situa-

tion we're facing and recommend the distance and
settings, that might give you a better picture.
CC Sounds like an excellent idea. We'll see if we

can round something up like that and see if we
can find some hatched moth eggs to - to go look
at.
SPT You ought to have some around, Crip. Just look

around in a few drawers at home; there's got to
be some.
CC I'm sure we can either do that or - or find a

good substitute.

have you again in about a minute and a half through
Honeysuckle.
352 01 13 15 SPT Roger, Houston.
352 01 14 38 CC Skylab, Houston. AOS through Honeysuckle.
352 01 18 l0 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from LOS. We'll

have you again over Texas in 30minutes at 01:48;
01:48. Se you in the maneuver, and it's looking
good.
SPT Thank you, Houston. Talk to you then.
352 01 18 25 CC Roger.
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352 01 h7 34 CDR ***Bravo 8 is i; Bravo 9 is 58; CT_arlie 2, hh;

_arlie 3, 88_ Charlie _, 71; Charlie 5, 83;
Charlie 6, 47; Charlie 7 is 52-make that 51. And
Delta 2 is reading 86; Delta 3 is 84; Delta h is
80 - is 72; Delta 5 is *** teen; Delta 6 is down
to 57 now; and Delta 7 is 10. I'll monitor Delta
6.
CC Skylab, Houston copying you on VOX through Texas

for about 16-1/2 - 15-1/2 minutes.
CDR Okay. Just finished the monitoringchecks.
SPT Hello, Crip. I got two questions for you.
CC Go, Ed.
SPT Okay. In the first maneuver, the Y, shouldn't

that been a plus ... - -
-- CDR ...minute ... be right there.
SPT I think the entry is the same, but I think the

dus - the degrees - was - should have been plus
4.%. And, secondly - -
PLT Acapulco is over to the left.
SPT - - the maneuver we're going to do after this one

coming up - That's the last fine m_neuver before
L theSI. Is thatone for- -
PLT Kill the lights - -
SPT - - (garble) considerations or for experiment

alignment?
352 01 49 29 CC That's for going back to the offset attitude to

get the principal axis tangent to the gravity
vectors.
PLT Ed, do you mind if we kill the lights?
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PLT Well, there's Acapulco at night. Come here and

take a look at this. See that little bag down
there?
CDR Uh-huh.
PLT Beautiful.
CDR Mexico City's - -
PLT Mexico City - -
CDR - - coming up next.
PLT There it is. Gosh, really great, huh?
CDR Holy cow.
PLT Look at the visibility.
CDR Looks - Mexico City looks like a big five-pointed

star, doesn't it?
PLT There's Guadalajara up and to the left.
CDR Yes.
352 01 50 27 CC Sounds like you guys are getting a pretty view.
CDR Yes.
PLT Yes, gosh, it's tremendous.
CDE Mexico City's lights are laid out in such a way,

or the city's laid out in such a way, that it
looks like a five-pointed star.
PLT So we can even see some beacon flashing down

there. Maybe it's a search light.
CC For the SPT. Ed, did I understand your question

on the first Y fine maneuver_ the 50644? That
is supposed to be plus 4.20 degrees.
SPT Houston ...
CDR Say again.

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PLT No, no, nothing ; I'll tell you later. See that
bright spot down there at Acapulco, that very
bright spot?
CDR Yes.
PLT Illuminated church steeple.
CDR Huh.
PLT Take a look and see where we're coming there.
352 01 51 37 CDR Okay, S192 DOOR is OPEN. The READY light is out -
or the DOOR CLOSED light is out; waiting for a
READY light.
352 01 52 02 CDR READY light's on; MODE's going to CHECK. S190

HEATER SWITCH OFF light is off. ***17 window
pushes - and the 0VERTEMP both push [sic] TO
TEST, okay. Okay, let's do the peroperation
configuration. TAPE RECORDER is ON, READY light
is on. 92 POWER's ON; READY's out; MODE, CHECK;
DOOR, OPEN. 91 is ON; _Y light is on, the
.... COOLER is ON; and the DOOR is OPEN. 90 is OFF;
the READY is out, and STANDBY, and the door is
open because we're rubbernecking through it.
93 R, STANDBY; READY, out. SCATTEROMETER, OFF;
READY, out. ALTIMETER, OFF; READY, out. 94, ON-
excuse me ON; READY, on.
PLT Okay, come quick! You can see the whole Texas
coast from Brownsville to Houston, Beaumont,
Port Arthur, Lake Charles.
CDR Holy cow. Look at that.
352 01 53 05 PLT There's Brownsville. And then the - the big one
on the coast - you can see Galvestion Bay outlined
by the darkness.
CDR Yes.
PLT San Antonio, Austin. Let's see if we can see

Ft. Worth.
CDR Okay.
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PLT I can't quite crane my neck far enough.
CC Told you it was pretty weather out there.
CDR Sure is.
PLT Sure is.
CDR CAVU.
PLT Trying to see the Dome.
CDR Okay. l'm h5 seconds from my first action here.

EREP - -
PLT New Orleans.
CDR - - START's at 58:15.
PLT See New Orleans down there? Gosh, what a tremen-

dous view. This is Just like the one over
Europe, Only better. The whole Gulf Coast looks
clear as a bell. Yes.
CDR See any wells out in the water?
PLT Yes. That's what - Just talking about it_ And

quite a few of them over there. I don't see
any on fire, though.
CDR Okay, on my mark it'll be 54:15. Standby -
352 01 5h 15 CDR MARK, the ALTIMETER is going to STANDBY; RADIO-

METER is going OFF. Next mark will be at 58:15
with an EREP, START.
CC Looks like you're going to pass Just about over

Pensacola.
PLT Yes, we have the whole Florida peninsula in sight,

all the way down to the Keys. Miami's lit up,
look at - you can see Miami Beach, Tampa, St. Pete.
CDR Oh boy.
PLT You can see the whole thing.

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CDR Yes. It's Just down there around the Everglades.

It's the only place that there's no lights.
PLT There's Tallahassee. That's right.
CDR Pensacola, where I f_irst learned to fly.
PLT Hey, we're corn * the whole eastern seaboard too!

Look.
CDR Well, they got snow in Washington, so it's got to

be cloudy up there.
PLT Coming up - Atlanta.
SPT You can sure make out the major highways, can't
you?
PLT Yes. Well, that main route there goes all the
way up to Atlanta; see.
CDR Tallahassee to Atlanta?
_ PLT Yes.
CDR Old Tal - look at that - you can see the - you
can see the interstate highway all the way down
the center of Florida.
PLT That's right.
352 01 55 30 CDR Right down the middle of It, like a backbone.
PLT There's the Cape, you can see the Cape plain.
CDR Yes.
PLT Orlando.
CDR Merritt Island; the whole smear.
PLT Cocoa Beach doesn't seem - yes, it's lit up

fairly well.
CDR Boy, you guys are getting all the good looking
and I got to watch this darn C&D panel.
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PLT Well, if ... look, the east coast now is still

clear.
CDR Yes.
SPT Look at this Just -
PLT Jacksonville ...
CDH That's got to be Savannah -
PLT Yes.
CDR - - straight down- -
PLT That' s right.
CDR Charleston coming up.
PLT Cape Hatteras can't be far behind.
CDR Going to be Columbus and then Augusta. On.
352 01 56 22 PLT Say, it's too bad you can't take a picture of -
this. This is very good demographic data; it's
just too bad you can't record it. What we -
what we need is an IR cine-camera. And look at
the exquisite detail down there. With the right -
with the right camera you coul eally do a proper
job. Hey, you can see Lake - golly, You can
see all the way to Lake Michigan. Chicago.
Starting to pick up a few clouds now.
CDR Oh, yes.
PLT Wait a minute, I - is Washington clouded over?

Th - looks to me like -
CDR Let's see, we're going over - is that Wilmington?
PLT ... there's ... city, ... the left - -
CDR That' s New Bern, North Carolina down there, Cherry

Point.
PLT Yes.
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PLT If you get over here a minute you can see all
the way to Lake Michigan. Move over where I am.
You can see Chicago.
SPT ... I'll bet you could almost see Buffalo. Oh,
yes.
352 01 57 47 PLT (Laughter) Okay, now we're starting to pick up

cloud cover. Okay, I - Washington has got to be
right down here.
CDR Yes, there's Norfolk down there; look at that,

Langley, Norfolk, the whole area.
PLT Now this is Washington right over here isn't it?
CDR Yes, Washington, Baltimore.
PLT Baltimore, right.
SPT Look at that one. What is that straight down

there?
CDR Hey tell your Baltimorefolks they can - -
PLT ...
CDR - - or your Washington folks they can go home ;

the clouds have cleared.
PLT Looks pretty clear. Oh, it's - some clouds but
CDR Okay, I've got an EREP, START to do here; I'm

going to need some lights, gt_s.
PLT Yes. I don't know.
CDR I'll see if I can do it without lights. Stand

by for ERE?, START.
352 01 58 21 CDR MARK. EREP, START at 58:21.
PLT See the Delaware peninsula.
352 01 58 29 CDR ALTIMETER is ON; I got behind. ALTIMETER went

on at 31, the EREP started at 21.
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PLT Ah, we're screwing up Jet; let's stop it.
FLT Okay, lights coming on.
CC Can you guys verify for us that we did get the

FLOW - the valve, EREP valve to - to FLOW, please.
PLT Verify that, Ed.
SPT It did not get there.
CC If you'd put it there for us, we'd apperciate it.
SPT It's there now.
CDR Okay, next mark will be 02:01:45.
CDR I've got an ALTIMETER UNLOCK light, but I still

got a READY light. Okay, it Just blinked and
went out; now it's back on. Now it's out.
352 02 00 19 CC Jerry, you can delay your 183 Alfa, STANDBY to

02:01:55.
CDR Okay. I'll pick up that i0 seconds I lost at

the beginning.
CC That 's fine.
CDR Okay, we're passing 01:45. On my mark it'll

be 01:55. Stand by -
352 02 01 55 CDR MARK. ALTIMETER to STANDBY; EB_P, STOP. Chang-

ing the ALTIMETER RANGE to 63, MODE to 2, RADIO-
METER is going to STANDBY.
CC We enjoyed the - the ride over the clear coast

there with you guys.
CDR Well, I tell you, we did too. I'm sorry I let

it get to the C&D panel. I was late. But it
was worth it.
CC No sweat, no problem at all.
CDR I don't believe I have ever seen it that clear

before, and it's Just - the opportunity to see
if from up here is Just fantastic.
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352 02 02 35 PLT It is, and it's - and it's Just so seldom, of

course, you're in Z-LV only in the EREP pass,
that you can look out the big picture window.
Boy, that was tremen - I Ju - the whole southeast
quarter, a little bit more - -
CDR Yes.
PLT - - was clear.
CDR It looks like a - a spider web with water droplets

on it.
PLT Yes, that's -
SPT Say, Crip, you can see every major artery running
all over the whole eastern side of the country.
CC Yes, it must have cleared up considerably up

there from where they were havingthat snow. And
consider you guys filled a visual ops DTO.
CDR Very good.
352 02 03 09 PLT Yes, it looked like the clouds started Just to

the south of the D.C. area. And right over D.C.,
it looked like - may have been a solid over if
you were looking from the city, but from up here
it looked like it had about 0.6. You know, in-
tegrated over a 100 - 200-mile area.
CC Roger. And we're about 30 seconds from LOS.

We'll pick you up again at Madrid in about 5 min-
utes, 02:08. And we'll be doing a data/voice
SPT Say, Crip, it really was a shame that we did not

have a camera out with some high-speed film be-
cause the demographic studies could really bene-
fit by a pass like that one.
CC Roger.
PLT Boy, that - -
CDR ... this would have been a good opportunity for

a camera with that super sensitive film that - -
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PLT Yes.
CDR - - some of that - for taking pictures at night.
PLT It's - it's Just a rare opportunity when you get

clear area like that.
CDR Yes.
PLT Get the country clear up.
352 02 04 03 CDR Don't you think the people - the population - -
PLT Yes, the demographers would go right out of their

gourd, looking at that.
CDR And those folks studying the metropolitan areas.
PLT Yes.
CDR Where the ... - -
PLT The areas all - -
CDR - - All the HH101 sites. Miami is one of the

sites.
PLT It was an oblique, but it was still much better

data than you could get - -
CDR Yes. _xico City's one of the sites and we were

looking right down at that. I couldn't get over
how much Mexico City looked like a star. Did
you - -
PLT Yes.
CDR - - Did you see that?
352 02 04 30 PLT Yes.
352 02 08 40 PLT On second thought, I think it'd be worth a whole

roll of film. But I imagine it's all allocated.
CC Guys, we're back with you through Madrid for

7 minutes. Doing a data/voice recorder dump.
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CDR Roger, Crip. On my mark it'll be 09:00. Stand

by-
352 02 09 01 CDR MARK. SCATTEROMETER is going to STANDBY. EREP,

START in 55 seconds. Bill, I'm going to need a
VTS AUTO CAL at 10:06.
PLT Okay, give it to you.
CDR That would be 6 seconds after auto start - EREP,

START.
PLT I'll be looking at the VTS; I'll give it to you.
CDR Okay.
CDR On my mark it'll be 02:10 and 0 seconds. Stand

by-
352 02 l0 O1 CDR MARK. EREP, START.
PLT Standing by for CAL.
CDR Stand
by -
352 02 I0 06 CDR/PLT MARK.
CDR AUTO CAL. On my mark it'll be l0:12 -
352 02 l0 12 CDR MARK. 194 MODE to MANUAL. On my mark it'll be

10:20. Stand by -
352 02 l0 20 CDR MARK. RADIOMETER, ON.
CC Coming up over the coast; don't expect you're

going to be able -
CDR Yes, it looks pretty black down there.
PLT Did you notice how he fogged that window up -

that - guard up (Chuckle ) ... looking?
CDR No, I didn't notice that. Window protector,

huh?
_ PLT Yes.
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352 02 ll 35 CDR Oh, yes, there's a few lights down there. Are
we over northern France, now?
CC That' s affirm.
CDR Okay. We can see England over to the left. I

tell you that country's really lit up.
PLT Oh, yes. Oh, yes, you can see all the way from
Lands End to London. Son of a gun.
CDR Okay, at 12:30, the RADIOMETER is going to

STANDBY.
PLT ... for 14:40.
CDR On my mark it'll be 12:30. St_md by -
352 02 12 30 CDR MARK. RADIOMETER to STANDBY. Looking for an

S191 EEADY light.
352 02 12 46 CDR MARK. S191 READY on at 45 ; going to REFERENCE

6. My mark it'll be 12:58. Stand by -
352 02 12 58 CDR MARK. And SCATTEROMETER's ON, RADIOMETER's ON.

There's a large city below us and slightly left.
PLT Straits of Gibraltar. Are we over Gibraltar,

Crip?
CC No, you should be coming up just about northern

Italy.
PLT Okay. Am I off on that one.
CDR Okay.
352 02 13 57 CDR MARK. 192 MODE to READY at 56.
PLT Okay. Stand by for lh:40. That same river mouth

I thought _as the Straits the other night. So
we were -
CDR Oh, that - that's Barcelona down there on the

coastline - -
PLT Yes.
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CDR We're coming right over what looks like maybe

the Riviera. CSte d'Azur.
352 02 14 40 PLT MARK. Okay, IMC to, - is ON/HIGH .... 2, 3, 4,

5; we're up to 5 again.
CC Okay, we're about 30 seconds from LOS. We'll

see you again at Carnarvon 02:h5, 02:45; that's
about 31 minutes away.
CDR Okay, Crip. We'll see you then. We went right

over Monaco.
PLT 4, 5, OFF, VP. 0N/HIGH ...
CC Sounds like the better - the weather was a little

bit better than we were thinking it was going
to be.
CDR Well, there a light - there's a light overcast.

You can see the lights through the clouds, I
I think. We're over a large city in Northern
Italy now; I was Just looking to see what it
might be.
PLT High. 5, 4, 3 - ... 5, ON; 4. That's off.

ON/HIGH, 4, 3;
352 02 16 25 PLT ON/HIGH -
352 02 45 49 CC Skylab, Houston. AOS Carnarvon. We have you

for about 2-1/2 minutes.
PLT Roger, Crip. I'm doing a teleprinter paper

changeout right now.
CC Okay, we copy that. Thank you, Bill.
CDR And, Crip, there was a surprisingly large amount

of tape left over; it kind of bothered me some.
Charlie 8 was reading 15 percent, and I guess
it took about 3 seconds for the tape to run off
at FAST FORWARD. That surprised me in light of
the fact that in the remarks for my pad, they
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indicated that we might not have enough for the

second EREP, START. I can confirm we had TAPE
MOTION, though, throughout the pass.
CC Okay, we copy that.
CC EREP people would like to - like to thank you for

that - that beautiful pass and description you
gave us when you went - went around. And for
your information, tomorrow morning, on a downward
pass through California and back into Mexico,
the weather should be just about the way it looked
tonight. And it should be nice and clear for you.
SPT Say, very good. Thank you Crip.
352 02 47 20 SPT Say, Crip, that was an awe-inspiring sight.

There was certainly an awful lot of major high-
ways; you could see all across the whole of the
eastern United States. And lots of - of course,
the large towns and all the ssm]l towns at inter-
sections, and even some of the smaller ones just
along the roads all showed up. It was a beautiful
sight.
CC Certainly sounded like it. And for us poor guys

that got to sit down on the ground, it's kind of
enjoyable to at least sort of seem like we're
going with you.
SPT I guess our only regret is that we didn't have

any film on board, or at least loaded in cameras
and ready to go. Like we could have brought back
some good pictures for you.
PLT One minor correction: what I called out Lake

Michigan and Chicago is actually Lake Erie and
Detroit.
CC Okay, we certainly wouldn't want to confuse those.

Thank you, Bill. Hey, regarding your comments
about being able to take pictures, we've been -
been thinking about that. And we - Would you
like us to do a little work, see if we could
set something up like that for tomorrow morning?
SPT Yes, we certainly would, Crip. I think that

would really be useful.
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CC Okay. We're going LOS, and we're going to pick

you up at Honeysuckle in about 6 minutes.
352 02 48 36 SPT I think a lot of useful information could come

out of pictures like that.
352 02 54 55 CC Skylab, Houston through Honeysuckle. And we

have you for about l-l/2 minutes.
PLT Crip, a couple of things. _Would you send us up

a teleprinter test message? It was getting awful
faint there, and I changed that roll4 And, also,
if you are going to send us up ... - I guess -
is - has the general message come up on the CMG
troubleshooting yet?
CC I don't believe we've uplinked that - yet. Let

me - Stand by 1. No, that hasn't gone yet; we're
prepared to do that shortly, though. And we
need, Bill, for you to go 5 degrees cou - clock-
wise, 5 degrees clockwise on REG ADJUST, BUS 2.
PLT Roger, 5 clockwise.
352 02 55 55 PLT How's that look to you, Crip?
CC We're checking it. And we'll be unable to get

a test message out; this is too short a pass
here. We'll try to get it over stateside. We're
about to go LOS. We'll have you again at Gold-
stone at 03:24; that's about 28 minutes away.
And we'll be - be standing by for the evening
status report there.
SPT Okay, thank you, Crip. We do hear the woodpecker

working right now. And, also, the visual ops
pad, 3332, would you read some of that please;
that's awful faint.
CC Okay, visual ops. We'll send it again.
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352 03 2h 21 CC Skylab, Houston, we're AOS stateside 17 minutes.

Standing by for your evening status report.
SPT Okay, Crip, Jer_ll be with you in a moment. I

repointed the ATM so they would be looking at the
prominence. We apparently last time rolled about
Sun center rather than about the prominence, when
we put that roll in. And so they've got the
55 MIRROR, AUTO RASTER - ought to cover it real
well. The prominence is big, so darned big though,
I'm not sure it'll fit the whole darned thing
in the MIRROR. AUTO RASTER but it's pretty much
centered on the prominence.
CC Okay, we got that_ thank youvery much.
352 03 25 02 SPT Crip, I wish we could send you down some H-alpha
to take a look at it. I'm not sure whether your
displays are good enough, but the site, from the
side of it has got beautiful structure in it. The
southern feet of it, or foot of it, has got a lot
-- of verticalthreads in it, Just numerous ones,
I'm sure we could lay the 82B slit right along
those threads, although the slit would be vertical.
The northern portion is very dense right close
to the foot, which is a little bit smaller up
north than that - Sure is _moth and it's
beautiful.
CC Sounds like it. If you got a pencil hand_, I

can give you a recommendation for film for sho -
shooting in tomorrow's EREP pass.
SPT We're ready to copy, Crip; go ahead.
352 03 25 h8 CC Okay, we recommend that you rewind the IR14,

presently in Nikon 02, leaving in a sufficient
amount of tall for rethreading, and then load
Bravo Victor h3, which is in F-30 of the vault
in Nikon 02. And recommend the 55-millimeter
lens, you got a full roll of _6 frames, and it's
all available to you to shoot as you see fit.
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SPT Okay, Crip, I understand rewind what we have on

Nikon 02, which is IRI4, and put in Bravo Victor 43
which is in F-30, 55-millimeter, 46 frames. Thank
yOU.
CC Roger. And I got a couple more notes while I'm

standing by for Jer, if he's not - not ready to
come with it yet.
CDR Okay, I'm ready now.
CC Okay, then we've got a new visual ops pad on board

in the teleprinter and if you could - -
CC Skylab, Houston, we're dropping out momentarily due

to handover, and when Jer is ready, we're standing
by for the evening stat now.
CC We would like a reading on what the teleprinter

messages look like.
CC Skylab, Houston, you copy my last?
352 03 28 19 CC Skylab, Houston, how do you read?
CDR Hello, Houston. How do you read Skylab now?
CDR Okay, looks like we're back together again. And

we're ready for the evening stat if you are. And
we got a couple of teleprinter messages up there.
We'd appreciate it if somebody takes a look at it.
CDR Houston, Skylah, how do you read?
CC How do you read, Jer?
CDR Crip, read you loud and clear. How me?
CC Same. We're standing by for the evening status re-

port. And we got a couple of new teleprinter
messages we'd appreciate if somebody'd check the
quality.
352 03 28 58 CDR Okay, they look fine. Okay, CDR, on sleep: 8.5,
8.5 heavy; SPT, 8.0, 7 heavy, 1 light; PLT, 9.0,
8.5 heavy, half light. Volume: CDR, 1350; 1700;
2000, that's CDR, SPT, and PLT, in that order.
Water gun: CDR, 7489; SPT, 2928; PLT, 8963.
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Body mass: CDR, 6.307, 6.306, 6.309; SPT, 6.363,

6.369, 6.369; PLT, 6.228, 6.225, 6.228. Exercise: ,
CDR, Method Alfa, minus 2 minutes. SPT, no change.
PLT, no change. Medications and clothing: CDR,
no medication, one pair of socks. SPT, no medica-
tion, one pair of socks. PLT, Afrin three times
today, one pair of trousers, two T-shirts, two
shorts, three pair of socks. Food log: CDR,
5.5 salt, zero deviations, plus two water. SPT,
1.5 salt, zero deviations, zero water. PLT,
8.5 salt, zero deviations, zero water. Flight Plan
deviations: none. Shopping list accomplishments :
Delta Papa 14 Bravo, Delta Papa 18. Inoperable
equipment: disposition - DAC 01 is okay for all
modes except time; in the time mode it Jams up.
Unscheduled stowage: none. And if we get time
later this evening we hope to do - to take up one
of the other foot restraints at the food table and
we'll get it on TV. Photo log: 16-millimeter,
Delta Papa 14 Bravo; Charlie India 126, 96, Charlie
India 125. Delta, Papa 18; Charlie India 126, 67,
Charlie India 125. Okay, on the Nikons we'll give
you a count on 01 when we get to it. 02 is no
_- change; 03, no change; 04, is Bro - Bravo Echo 08,
22; 05 is Bravo Hotel 05, 12. 70-millimeter is
Charlie X-ray 17, 120. ETC, no change. EREP, no
change. Alfa 1 in drawer configuration - Alfa l,
no change; Alfa 2, no change; Alfa 3, 05, Charlie
India 126, 67, Charlie India 125; Alfa 4, no change;
DAC, no change. And we owe you a count on Nikon 01.
352 03 32 25 CC Okay, very good, Jer. I've got one other item here
for the SPT regarding that TV of the - _ favorite
subject.
SPT Go ahead, Crip. I know you can't keep away from

it.
CC Roger that. Our reco_endation on the TV right now

is that you try getting 4-1/2 to 5 inches away from
it. And then take the zoom lens and go zooming in
from 50 towards 150, until you get the best picture.
And try it with that.
SPT Okay, Crip. Understand 4-1/2 to 5 inches away

and zoom in at between 50 and 150.
CC That's affirm. Start it at 50 and just start zooming

up to 150 and stop wherever it - it seems like the
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best to you. And be advised, of course, the depth

of field is fairly critical on this one. It's about
a half an inch.
SPT Roger, Crip, that's what I understand. Okay. I'ii

give it a go. Thank you.
CDR And, Crip, Nikon 01 is Charlie X-ray 36 with 16

frame s.
352 03 33 45 CC Okay, and we're getting ready to hand over to reed

conference here in about I minute. And Jerry
Hordinsky is standing by to talk to you. I'ii have
another pass at Madrid at 03:45. We'll be doing
a data/voice recorder dump, and I'ii have a couple
of items for you there.
352 03 34 05 CDR Okay.
352 03 45 43 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS through Madrid. Got

you for about 9 minutes and we're doing a data/
voice recorder dump. Got a few items I need to
run over with you, if you got ti_.
PLT I'll talk to you, Crip. They're tied up removing

one of these pedestals.
CC Removing pedestals. Very good. One item we're

going to need to get today is an _TM film counter
reading. Also - and I was talking to Ed a while
ago. In giving him that procedure for the TV,
I forgot to tell him that he needs to set the focus
at infinity.
PLT Okay, copied that.
CC And Jer's concern a while ago regarding the EREP

tape, it came out Just about like we were expecting
it. So it - al - everything was hunky-dory there.
PLT Roger.
CC And, I might as well tell you now - I'm sure you

saw it on your Flight Plan. We'll be waking you
up at 10:00 in the morning, coming up over Texas.
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; PLT Okay, I'm going to run up and get the frame count
for you.
CC Okeydoke, I'll wait until you get there.
352 03 47 28 PLT Okay, frame count, 9070, 2326, 55, 659, 3984, 2637.
CC Okay, appreciated that. And you had a question the

other night, I believe, regarding your operations
on S063 during the airglow. And you were wondering
if we centered the airglow what - whether you should
center it such that the entire field of view is in
the sight, as if you were seeing a full field of
view or the - whether it should be truncated. And
the way you were doing it was correct. It should
be centered, and it will be cut off because the
line of sight of your viewing device is offset from
that of the AMS.
PLT Okay, I - I think I was - I think I understand that,

and I'll continue doing it the same way, Crip.
Thank you.
CC Okay, I didn't say that very good, but the c_mera

does get its -the entire horizon and it's just
your viewing device there has it offset.
352 03 48 43 PLT Okay, that explains - that answers the question.

I didn't ask it very well either. But I see what
you're talking about.
CC Okay, and one other item, we talked a few nights

ago about it looked like you were getting a little
bit warm. And prior to the EREP, the airlock module
60-degree wall heaters and the MDA 70-degree wall
heaters were co_anded off for power reasons. And
we're going to co_xnand the AM 60-degree wall heaters
back on and leave the MDA 70-degree wall heaters
off to improve the thermal environment in the work-
shop. And we're wondering if you had ever installed
the portable fan. If so, did you notice any dif-
ference in the 0WS temp?
PLT Yes, Jer installed it up by the - dome hatch, pointed

down toward the aft compartment. And we couldn't
notice any difference on the reading, but we noticed
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a subjective difference - at least I thought it

made a - a little bit of difference, - a considerable
difference, in fact.
352 03 49 39 CC Okay, understand you had it blowing into the

workshop?
PLT That's affirm.
CC Okay, the way that we've been using that before

was to blow it such that it was blowing air on the
heat exchanger itself.
PLT Maybe I've got it wrong. Let me go take a look at

it.
CC Well - .
PLT It's pointed down, Crip.
CC Okay, it's entirely up to you guys, whatever way

you're comfortable. The way we had used it previ-
ously, though, was to orient it such that it was
blowing over the heat exchangers.
PLT Okay. Strange, though, but it sure did seem to

make a lot of difference the way it was.
CC Well, that may be more comfortable. I don't know

if we've tried it like that before.
PLT The woodpecker's working away.
352 03 50 43 CC Roger, and we just sent up that nice long message

on the C&D coolant lu - loop procedure you're going
to have to run tomorrow.
PLT Okay.
CC While you guys are there, I've got - got a few news
items I could Just read over while you're working,
if you would like. We've got you for about 4 more
minutes.
CDR Sure would, Crip, go ahead.
CC Okay, one item perhaps of interest. Dr. Charles

Greeley Abbot, a pioneer - pioneering astronomer
who believed the energy source of the future to
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be the Sun, died today. And he was i01 years old.

Abbot was associated with the Smithsonian Institute
for over three-quarters of a century, Joining the
Staff in 1895. In 1928 he became secretary, or
chief executive officer. The eastern United States
shivered Monday as the big - first big storm of the
season struck an area from northern Georgia to the
tip of Maine, delaying commuters and snarling traffic
everywhere. The New York and A-_rican Stock Ex-
changes - Exchanges delayed opening for an hour as
traders and clerical personnel struggled through
the snow, sleet and freezing rain to reach the
Wall Street area.
352 03 51 53 CC 6 inches of snow covered the nation's Capitol,

slowed traffic to a crawl, and resulted in hundreds
of minor auto accidents and causing the closing of
most schools. I understand that was up to l0 inches
on my last report. It sounds like maybe some of
it cleared off from what you reported earlier on
your - on your pass. Israel and Egypt may agree
quickly to separate their armies on the Suez front,
but an overall Middle East settlement may be harder
_ to get than the Vietnam truce. Secretaryof State
Henry Kissinger flew to Portugal from Israel, where
he won acceptance of agenda priorities for the
Arab-Israeli peace conference scheduled to begin
Friday in Geneva. And I believe that sort of hits
the highlights of the items that we were given here.
SPT Okay, thank you, Crip. What about Monday night

football?
CC Nobody's told me yet; I haven't had a chance to

find out.
SPT What do you do during those LOS periods?
CC Review six pages of messages worth of studying how

to repair coolant loops.
352 03 53 19 CC I understand the Liberty Bowl is going on tonight,

and North Carolina State is ahead of Kansas 7 to
nothing. And I don't believe we had a pro game
going tonight.
f-
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SPT Thank you, Crip.
CC Can you give us the status of the VTR? Are you

going to be shooting any more TV, or is that about
completed?
SPT No, we're going to use it. I got a little bit more
here, Crip° We got one bolt out and we're going to
get the other one out. Unfortunately, I had my -
I had to get my back to the camera, so we cut it
off.
CC Okay, very good. We're a minute from LOS, and we'll

leave you guys alone for the rest of the night.
I'll give you the next station contact; it's going
to be over at Tananarive at 04:06 in case you guys
need to give us a call.
CC Nighty-night.
352 03 54 28 PLT Good night, Crip.
352 04 i0 07 CC Skylab, Houston, I fibbed to you. We forgot one

item and we need to secure the ATM C&D COOLANT loop.
So if we could get somebody to go up to panel 203
and turn it OFF, PUMP Bravo, we would appreciate
it.
CDR Okay, Crip, and we've got both floor plates up.
We're going to hit the sack now. And we didn't
get any photos of it. We got it on television,
instead.
CC Okay, good work. We appreciate it. Sorry to have

to give you a call again.
CDR No sweat.
352 04 lO 58 PLT Pump Bravo's OFF.
352 04 ll 00 CC Roger, gentlemen; I'll say nighty-night once more.
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SK-YLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION
352 i0 01 38 CC Good morning, Skylab. We've got you stateside for

ll-1/2 minutes.
352 l0 Oh 58 CC Skylab, we're about 8 minutes to LOS. We are GO

for your early EREP pass. I've got about four
things for you to do between ncw and the EREP pass.
And after this stateside pass, we won't be seeing
you for an hour and 30 minutes. We've got an
hour and 30-minute LOS. So if someone could copy
some things down, appreciate it.
PLT Okay, Story. Give me about l0 seconds and you

can start talking.
CC Okay, Bill.
PLT Ready to go.
CC Okay. Panel 206, REG ADJUST, BUS 2: Rotate

clockwise l0 degrees.
PLT Got it.
CC Okay. And for Ed. On his maneuver pad, change

the SI MODE GMT to 12:15:00.
PLT 12:15:00.
SPT Got it, Story.
352 I0 06 13 CC Right. That's going back to SI. In the maneuvers

to the SI attitude, the changes will be X, no
change; Y, minus 0.040; Z, minus 0.010.
PLT Roger. X, no change; Y, minus 0.040; Z, minus 0.010.
CC That's right. And this is to avoid a zero momentum

point on going back to SI and on your photography
for - And we'd like you also to check up there,
be sure that you do have the EREP pads in the
teleprinter.
PLT Okay. I Just got the pads. I think we've got

the - all the EREP pads that we had last night.
Stand by.
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SPT How's that REG ADJUST look to you, Story?
CC Okay.
CC And one last thing, Bill.
PLT Go.
352 l0 07 34 CC On your handheld photography out the EREP window

for metropolitan areas, aperture to max; that's
f/2, shutter speed, 1/125.
PLT Roger. Understand that's - that's 4000 ASA, black

and white, right? I'm sure it is, Story. That's
the one they gave us special load on yesterday
evening.
CC Stand by 1.
CC And that's all I've got for you.
PLT Okay, Story.
CC And, Ed, if you're up in the STS, we'd like you

to back off 5 degrees on REG ADJUST, BUS 2. That's
rotate counterclockwise 5 degrees.
PLT Okay, Story. How does that look?
CC We're looking.
CC We're GO. Looks good.
PLT Anything else?
CC No. That's it. We can leave you alone now.
352 l0 12 12 CC Skylab, we're a minute from LOS. Next station

will be Goldstone in about an hour and a half.
And we'll need someone to turn on ATM C&D COOLANT
loop PUMP Bravo prior to bringing up that ATM
coolant loop. There's nothing in your checklist
that tells you to do that.
SPT Okay, Story, we've got it.
352 i0 12 43 CC Thanks, Ed.
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352 ii 32 40 PLT Kill those lights for a while if you want to, Jer.
CDR There's nothing to see. We're out over the water.
PLT Stand by. On my mark, it'll be 33 minutes. 193

ALTIMETER going ON. Stand by.
352 ii 33 00 PLT MARK. ALTIMETER, ON. I have an ALTIMETER UNLOCK

light. Stand by. I' ii watch it.
PLT ALTIMETER UNLOCK light is out. Blinking now. Stay-

ing out. Good.
CC Bill, we're reading you loud and clear, and got

you stateside 14 minutes.
PLT Good, Story. Standing by for 33:46.
PLT Okay, READY light came on at hS, REFERENCE, 6.

Stand by for 34 minutes even.
352 ll 34 00 PLT MARK. SCAT to STANDBY.
CC And, your vehicle is looking good from down here.
PLT Thank you, Story.
SPT Story, would you clarify that that f-setting was

a 1.2, I believe you said wide open this morning,
and I copied 2.0.
CC That's f/2 and shutter speed 1/125.
CDR Okay, 1 minute to go on the nadir step.
352 ll 35 18 PLT MARK. ALTIMETER to STANDBY. Stand by -
352 ii 35 2_ PLT MARK. 35:24, RADIOMETER to STANDBY at 35:30.
F
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352 ll 35 30 PLT MARK. RADIOMETER, ON and standing by for 35:39.

192 MODE to READY. Stand by -
352 ll 35 39 PLT MARK. 192 MODE to READY. TAPE MOTION green light,
good.
PLT ALTIMETER UNLOCK, okay ....
352 ll 36 00 CDR MARK at 36, we've started the nadir step. Tracking
through zero. Okay-
352 ii 36 12 CDR MARK. It's minus 5, going to plus 5.
352 ll 36 21 CDR MARK. Plus 5.
352 ll 36 32 CDR MARK. Minus 5.
SPT Okay, Story, it looks wide open again, and we're

getting some good data.
CC Okay.
352 ll 36 42 CDR MARK. Plus 5. Nadir.
352 ii 36 52 CDR MARK. Minus 5.
352 Ii 37 O0 CDR MARK. Plus 5. Nadir.
PLT Stand by -
352 ii 37 I0 PLT MARK. RAD to STANDBY.
PLT Okay, 16. SCAT, ON; RAD, ON.
352 3_I37 19 CDR MARK. Plus 5. Nadir.
352 ii 37 39 CDR MARK. Plus 5. Nadir.
352 ii 37 49 CDE MARK. Minus 5.

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352 ii 37 56 CDR MARK. Plus 5.
SPT San Francisco sure is impressive.
CDR Nadir.
PLT Getting some good pictures?
SPT Sure am.
SPT Just hope we got some good coverage for them. Got
every major artery and every small town along it.
PLT Great. Too had we didn't have that camera last

night.
352 ii 38 18 CDR MARK. Plus 5. Yes, boy, I'll say.
PLT Man that's tremendous - that was Just a tremendous

view.
CDR Nadir.
PLT And these things are looking good here.
352 ll 38 37 CDR MARK. Plus 5. Yes, lots of lights down there.
352 Ii 38 52 CDR MARK. Plus 5. Nadir.
352 ll 39 ll CDR MARK. Plus 5.
352 ll 39 24 PLT Standing by for 39:h4.
352 ll 39 3h CDR MABK. Plus 5. Nadir.

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352 ii 39 44 PLT MARK. 192 MODE to CIIECK.
PLT Check the TAPE MOTION. Okay.
PLT Stand by on my mark.
CDR Nadir.
352 ll 40 00 PLT MARK .... Downlink to OFF.
PLT And, Story, I'd like to confirm one thing.
PLT I turned the ALTIMETER to STANDBY at 35:18 and l'm

not turning it on again until 44:32.
CC We'll get you an answer.
352 ii 41 Ol CDR MARK. Minus 5.
PLT ... makes me suspicious.
CC 44:32 is verified, Bill.
SPT Must of picked up a little sunlight.
352 ii 42 ii CDR MARK. Plus 5.

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PLT Stand by -
352 ii 42 12 PLT MARK. 192 MODE to READY. ALTIMETER - -
CDR Nadir.
PLT - - going to 5. RANGE, 65.
CC 4h:32 is verified on the ALTIMETER, Bill.
352 ii 42 29 CDR Plus 5.
PLT Roger.
CDR Nadir.
PLT Thank you, Story.
PLT Everything 's looking good.
CDR Nadir.
352 ll 42 49 PLT Tape recorder's ... speed.
352 ll h3 13 CDR MARK. Minus 5.
SPT Sunrise, Story.
352 ii _3 22 CDR MARK. Plus 5.
CC Say again.
CDR Nadir.
SPT Sunrise. Completion of photos.
CC Thank you.
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PLT Coming up on 44.
CDR Nadir.
352 ii 43 53 CDR MAEK, Minus 5.
PLT Stand by.
352 ll 44 00 PLT MARK. 192 MODE to STANDBY.
PLT Take motion shift.
CDR Nadir.
352 ii 44 ii CDR MARK. Minus 5.
PLT Stand by. 44:18 on my mark.
352 ii 44 18 PLT MARK. SCAT to STANDBY at 20.
352 ii 44 21 PLT MARK. RAD to STANDBY.
PLT B-6.
CDR Nadir.
352 ii 44 27 PLT MARK. RAD, OFF.
352 ii 44 31 CDR MARK minus 5.
PLT Stand by -
352 ll 44 33 PLT MARK. ALTIMETER ON. READY light on green.
PLT ALTIMETER UNLOCK light at 41. Strong READY light.

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CDR Nadir.
PLT ALTIMETER UNLOCK light is blinking - and going

out. Good.
PLT Still have a READY light.
352 ii 45 12 SPT MARK. Minus 5.
PLT The old altimeter's hanging in there, it looks like.
352 ll 45 22 CDR MARK plus 5. Nadir.
CDR That's the end of the swath.
PLT On my mark, 46:10, it'll be REF, 2 on 191.
PLT Stand by -
352 ii 46 l0 PLT MARK. REF, 2.
PLT And Jer, in about 1 minute I'll do the VTS AUTO CAL.
I'll give you a call.
CDR All right.
CC Skylab, we're a minute from LOS. About i0 minutes

to Vanguard. Be dumping the data/voice there. We'd
like a verification that you did go to EREP COOLANT
valve to FLOW.
PLT That's affirm. We did, Story.
CC Okay. And we'd like you to go ahead and enter the

maneuver time back to SI, so we can take a look at
it over this station.
SPT Okay.
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352 ii 46 51 PLT And I've got an ALTIMETER UNLOCK now, but I still
have a READY light.
352 Ii 47 02 PLT Okay, Jer. I need - I'll get it.
PLT Good. Stand by. 47:20 - it's 15 seconds yet.

Okay. 5 seconds. Stand by -
352 ii 47 20 PLT MARK. VTS AUTO CAL.
CDR You have it.
PLT Thank you. 47:15. Okay. I still have - oh, no,

it Just went out. The READY light went out at 26.
On the ALTIMETER, turned it OFF. I go to STANDBY
in 50 seconds anyway. No, I'll go ahead and get
a little bit more.
CC You've got a good maneuver time, Skylab. See you

in about l0 minutes.
352 ii 47 44 PLT Okay, Story.
352 Ii 56 59 PLT ... looking country here, isn't it?
CDR Yes. Look at the stain in the top of that mountain

down there - -
PLT Yes.
CDR That looks like an old volcano.
CC Skylab, we're reading you loud and clear. Got you

for l0 minutes, Vanguard, and be dumping the data/
voice here.
SPT Roger, Story.
PLT Great Sun angle for relief here too. Look at that.
Man, look at all that erosion stand out.
PLT Three - -
SPT Story, this was another view you would've liked.

San Francisco is really laid out in a sprawling
manner all the way down the whole Bay area. I
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think we got some good shots of San Francisco,

Monterey, San Joaquin Valley, and all the major
arteries, and lots of small towns along the way.
The demographic guys ought to be able to use it.
CC Okay, Ed. I'd be thrilled Just to look at the watt:
SPT Story, I know that feeling.
352 ii 58 52 PLT Look at this straight line down here, Jet. Come
here. This is not that area where they were looking
for the - look over here to the - look at that
straight line through there.
CDR Hang in there, Story. It'll have - ah, yes. It

looks almost like a power llne or something.
PLT Yes.
CDR That's man made, Bill. It is straight as a die -

little town or something along here.
PLT Yes, here's a major area here. I wonder what this -

._ a built-up area. Look at all the agricultural ...
CDR Oh, yes; major city.
PLT I'm going to take a picture of that because that

looks like a - maybe a -
CDR Slider map driftoff, Ed?
SPT ...
CDR Biggie. Headed down that way last time I saw it.
PLT Four.
CDR That straight line looks like a highway. We're

past the Pan American Highway.
352 12 00 03 CDR Okay, thank you.
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352 12 O0 03 PLT Hey, Jer, this looks like that city they want us
to get a picture of some time back.
CDR Brasilia? No.
PLT No, no. Not Brasilia. You see that river down
there - that funny pattern that you - ... river
down here.
CDR Let's see. That's the Rio Paran_, I guess.
PLT Oh, no. We're too far south.
CDR We're coming out on Montevideo and Buenos Aires.

That area you took a picture of was the northern
Pampas. You should see Montevideo up ahead. Coming
up on swampland there at the left.
CDR Lots of agriculture in here. It's all very well

laid out. They got a lot of water, good rivers.
And we're comingup on Montevideo.
352 12 02 06 CDR Huge manmade lake right there below us. Looks like
Rayburn or Livingston or one of those. *** be the
reservoir for Montevideo.
352 12 03 24 CDR *** here.
PLT Okay. Thank you.
CDR See right over there?
PLT Oh, yes.
CDR Right out - *** that current to the north. Patterns

down there.
PLT Okay. That was number 127.
CDR Look out there.
PLT There's 4 and - -
CDR Now come back here and take some more.

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PLT Okay.
CDR Overtotheleft.
PLT Oh, yes.
CDR See the dark blue?
PLT Okay.
CDR Perhaps if you could wait Just a second -
352 12 05 20 PLT Today's 352, isn't it?
CDR Right.
SPT ... come from? Right down there between those two
clouds?
PLT Yes.
SPT Probably going to be difficult to get the photograph
PLT Okay.
CDR Clouds will probably be a problem.
PLT Well, I was going to stop it down. I don't know

whether I should stop it down or -
PLT Well, begin with an 0.6.
PLT 06 - I recorded that the photograph is 06.
PLT Give me a hand. I wish I had a better sense of

direction when I see this stuff.
352 12 07 14 CC Skylab, we're 30 seconds to LOS. It's about

20 minutes to Tananarlve. Your solar activity pad
is in the teleprinter. We uplinked two of them
today.
PLT Roger, Story.
SPT Okay, Story. Thanks very much. We're all absorbed

in looking at plankton blooms, would you believe,
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still way out this far. We're able to follow at

a good distance out to the east. We went over a
very good bloom at around 12:06:30.
CDR A whole lot of it out here now.
CC Okay, Ed.
PLT Yes. Now wait a minute now.
CDE They're swirling. They're eddying.
CDR Sure are.
PLT That looks llke a fairly large swirl pattern there.
352 12 08 l0 CDR Very large.
352 12 25 31 CC Skylab, AOS Tananarive 5 minutes.
352 12 27 59 CC Skylab, we're a couple of minutes from LOS; about

45 minutes to Goldstone at 13:12°
352 13 13 04 CC Skylab, A0S Goldstone 4 minutes. Ed, you at the

ATM?
CDR That 's negative, Story. He 's down in the lower

area here, right now.
PLT PLT's up here.
CC Okay, Bill, if you'll float on over to panel 206,

REG ADJUST BUS 2, counterclockwise 15 degrees, for
post-EREP adjust.
PLT That 's complete.
CC Thank you.
CDR Story, I got some data on the EREP C&D coolant

filter.
CC Go.
352 1B 14 07 CDR Okay, I followed the procedures up through step

Delta and have looked at it for debris or microbial
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growth, and I don't see any discoloration or slime

or anything like that indicating microbial growth.
I did find some debris in there, it looks like
little pieces of - well, it looks like human -
little pieces of human skin. I took one of the
larger pieces and put it on the end of my finger
and let it dry and then rubbed it with my thumb
and it immediately disappeared into sort of a dry
powder or Just kind of smeared over my finger.
And what it really looks like is little bits of
lubricant that have gathered together and become
sort of a little plate of lubricant about - and
it looks white like a little piece of skin. And
when you put it on the end of your finger and let
it dry and then smear it with your thumb, it Just
kind of disappears right into your skin.
CC Okay.
CDR All right. What I found was of less than a milli-

meter size. I found five pieces. Of 1-millimeter
size, I found six pieces, and I found four pieces
of the 2-millimeter size. And I would say -
considering the surface area of that filter and
the number of pieces I found - I'd say we probably
got a negligible amount of contamination.
CC Okay.
342 13 15 50 CDR So my question to you is - shall we consider the

filter clean, or do you want to do a flush?
351 13 16 12 CC Jet, we'd like to stand by on that one, until the

Vanguard, that's about 18 minutes from now. We're
30 seconds from LOS. Be dumping the data/voice
at Vanguard.
CDR Okay. I've reassembled the filter back on in case

you want us to bring it back or something like that,
and I'll stand by.
CC Thanks.
CDR Story, I might also add that there was an awful

lot of air in or - some sort of - an awful lot of
gas in the liquid. When I disconnected both QDs,
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I got a lot of bubbles and foam at the QD. And

when I took the filter barrel off, there was a
lot of bubbles in the water in the barrel.
CC Got it, Jer.
352 13 17 03 CDR And there are many tiny bubbles entrained along
the 10ng folds in the filter.
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SK-YLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION
352 13 35 h6 CC Skylab, AOS through the Vanguard for i0 minutes.

Be dumping the data/voice here.
CDR Roger, Story. And we got an ATM pass to go here.

What about the C&D coolant loop?
CC Okay. We think there may be even more contamination

than Just what you're seeing there, and also we're
quite surprised at having the gas bubbles in there.
So we would like you to press on with the procedure
and do the flush. As you described and as you feel,
there's probably no microbial buildup there. So
you need not go through the IMSS procedures to get
a microbial sample. But we would like some kind
of sample.
CDR Okay. We'll Just save the whole filter. Now, the
next question is, how about ATM? Are we going to
be ending up in a one-monitor for 15 minutes mode?
352 13 37 03 CC That's affirmative, Jerry. You'll have to live with

those constraints.
CDR Okay.
SPT Story, what is that constraint based on? Is it

touch temperature?
CC That's touch temperature, Ed.
SPT Okay. I had it on for around 5 minutes or so here

in the beginning to get the first building block
underway, and I haven't detected any rise in temp-
erature at all. And I will need it on for this
JOP h that we're doing. And may be longer than a
cumulative of 15. And I'm wondering whether we
can Just use the touch temperature we experience
here as opposed to a flat 15 total minutes out of
the orbit.
CC It sounds good, Ed.
SPT Thank you.

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CC And Just a reminder. The_'e's no INTEGRAL LIGHTING.
SPT Okay. We can do without that easily.
352 13 38 i0 CC And Ed, there's no hurry. I've got some - photog-

raphy pad for you for the gypsy moths any time when
you got a moment to copy.
CC CDR, Houston.
CDR Go 8_head.
CC Jer, you've got a family con_n over Ascension at

18:h2. I will be reminding you prior to that pass.
And after you get done taking a sample out, Bill
will take up the flush on that C&D loop.
CDR Okay.
SPT Go ahead with the photography information, Story.
CC Okay. Ed, since we didn't get any TV-81 on that

on mission day 32, so we're requesting a
35-millimeter photo. Locate the g_rpsy moth vials
within 1 foot of a light, not a hlgE-intensity
light. Nikon 03, CI film, 55-millimeter lens, use
E-2 adapter, f/2, and 1/160 seconds.
352 13 h0 29 SPT Okay, Story. I'll give you what I copied. I missed
a little bit. 1 foot of a light, not a high-inten-
sity light, 55-millimeter, E-2 - which I'm not
quite too sure what that refers to - f-setting of
f/2, 1/10 of a second.
CC Okay. That's 1/160 of a second, Nikon 0B and

CI film. And I'll find you the location of the
E-2 adapter.
SPT Okay. That's Nikon 02, Cl film on the E-2 adapter,

1/160 of a second.
CC Yes, Nikon 03.
CDR Houston, CDR.
CC Go ahead, Jer.
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352 13 h2 08 CDR Roger. Do you want to use a new filter now after
we flush, or do you want to reuse the old filter
and have me take samples out of it?
CC That'll be a new filter, Jer, per the procedure.
CDR Okay.
CC Jer, in reference to the new filter, your question,

that refers to the very end of the procedure,
right?
CDR That's affirmative, Story.
CC Okay. We Just didn't want you to trouble to put

a new one in at this point, prior to Bill's doing
the flush.
CDR No, I just wanted to make sure - establish that

we weren't going to try to use this filter over
again, and I was Just going to take samples from
it.
-_ CC Okay. And Bill will stow it in step 7.
352 13 h3 59 SPT Okay, Story. I got a couple of points for you;

really, I guess some questions about the Z-LV
maneuver pad we just had.
CC Okay. Go.
SPT Okay. Under the last five maneuver, there was a

52021 omitted. And I'm wondering whether that
was omitted off the original pad or we had tele-
printer problems. And the maneuver to SI, I got
a consistent y-dot of minus 0.026, plus or minus
say 0.002. That's in contrast to the 0.0h we
were given. And thirdly, a question you asked
me a long time ago about vials. We've got 4 centi-
meters from the bottom, filling three vials from
the ED63. That's with most of the plant growth
remove d.
CC Okay. We got that, Ed. And we'd like two photos

of the gypsy moths, and the E-2 adapter's located
in F-523.
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SPT Two photos and F-523. Thank you.
352 13 45 22 CC And we're going LOS here. See you over Tananarive
in 20 minutes.
352 14 00 09 CC Skylab, Houston. We've got you for 8-1/2 minutes

through Tananarive. Good morning.
SPT Hank, I wonder if you could get the ATM people

to clarify something for me, please?
CC Wilco.
SPT Okay. I'm right now doing JOP 4A, step 4, building
block ll. And it says omit 82A. And on the sheet
that I have, 82A was never in that building block.
And I'm wondering whether we've missed a change,
or whether ther's an error on the pad?
CC I'll check it.
352 14 01 15 SPT Okay. And let me tell you what the corona looks
like. The ray, which is right above the prominence
I'm working on, the large prominence at P-59,
is more extensive at the base now. It still looks
like a helmet streamer at the base. It's a very
strong streamer, high-intensity streamer structure
all the way out. But it's broader at the base
and appears to be a secondary streamer, relatively
small yet, but Just a little bit to the south
of it, that is, south of the axis of the major
one. The east lime - no, the west limb - excuse
me, is - doesn't have very much structure at all
except for one fairly prominent streamer at around
2 o'clock, but relatively low brightness.
CC We copy, Ed. And that was a pad error.
352 14 02 ll SPT Okay. Thank you, Hank. XUV MONITOR shows that
the three active regions we're concerned about
show up real well - 00, 01, and also, 02 now is
showing up as distinct brightening in XUV MON.
The rest of the disk shows the other two active
regions with their relatively low intensity. It
looks as though we've got something good coming
around the corner here.
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CC Well, we certainly hope so. And in regard to

your question regarding the Z-LV maneuver, the
Y-rate you questioned there, we got that out of
the simulator at Marshall. That's all we can tell
you at this point. We're going to take a look
at it. And the omission of the 52021 was a
pad error.
SPT Oh, okay. Th_nk you, Hank. I - I'd like to check

those Just to make sure we got a teleprinter that's
not beeping out blocks.
CC Rogers, That's a good thing to do.
B52 14 07 08 CC Skylab, Houston. This is mainly for the PLT, but

it concerns all of your. Based on the SO19 pointing
verification we did on mission day 31, we believe
that there's a l-l/2 degree bias in the AMS tilt,
And we're correcting the pads for this bias. And
this evening in the 18J, we plan to do a pointing
check in the SI attitude to verify this. This
check will rule out any possibilty a maneuver
error is causing the problem. And we've included
two reference starts on the PLT's S183 pad for
today to satisfy this pointing verification.
And there should be approximately 6 minutes of night
left for the PLT after the 18B data take to do
this pointing ver, and we'd appreciate you getting
that in. And we are about 45 seconds from LOS.
We'll see you at Hawaii at 4B.
B52 14 08 ll SPT Okay. Thank you, Hank. I 'm working on the pro-
minence right now, and we've got an awful lot of
good bright thread structure to work on. It looks
like a very useful thing to be doing right now,
and the monitor shows it up real well.
B52 14 08 24 CC Roger. We copy, Ed.
352 14 42 57 CC $kylab, Houston. We're through Hawaii for 9 min-

utes. And for the PLT, when you get a break there
in your checks, we would like to verify that on
panel 235 that's up where the reservoir is, that
the COOLANT RESERVOIR PRESSURE VALVE is OPEN.
PLT Stand by.
F-
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CC No rush on that, Bill. Get it whenever you can.

And for the SPT, Bill Lenoir is standing by for
the ATM conference.
SPT Okay, Bill. Ready, go ahead.
352 14 43 30 MCC Okay, let me hit you first here with a couple of
solar thoughts. P-59, as I'm sure you have
observed, is quite a beauty here on the east limb.
We show it about a 4h-degree arc and we're showing
doppler activity on the north and south extremes.
It 's moderately quiet in between. There appears
to be some hint of a connection between P-59 and
F-60. And if that is indeed the fact, then it
extends to about a 70-degree arc, which is quite
a long one. Active region double zero has calmed
down and appears to be fading somewhat. It has
two small imbedded filaments in it. We're - There
is some activity on and off. Active region 02 is
new and young, we feel. It's in the general area
of the old 87/92, the big performer on the last
rev. And one intriguing thought here is the
possibility of a flare or something originating
in active region 02 setting off a chain reaction
all up and down the entire prominence 59. So
that's something that you might keep in mind
while you're looking at the Sun here today.
Today' s plan obviously - -
SPT That has been in mind.
MCC Say again.
SPT That has been in mind. I'm thinking back on

19_6. That's very much in mind. Go ahead.
352 14 44 56 MCC Okay. Today's plan obviously emphasizes P-59 and

active region 00. We're getting some double duty
out of our JOP 10. That serves as both the JOP l0
and the first step in the JOP 26. The so-called
JOP 25 Alfas again are performing a JOP 26 duty
for us. Our preliminary thoughts on tomorrow are
again to study prominence 59, active region 00,
and the area of 87/92 returning. And these were
put together incidentally before 02 was known
about. And we also have a two-rev observation
of the comet. Let me give you some time here to
give us some inputs and whatever thoughts you've
got.
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352 lh h5 h5 SPT Okay, Bill, it's pretty much as you have stated
it. I was thinking pretty much along the same
lines. We ought to do some patrol work on active
region 00 and 02. 02 shows up quite distinctly
as a separate brightening in XUV MONITOR. We
ought to look at the corona at least once an orbit
with either a shopping list item 2 with a standard
or a quickie. And we certainly ought to be looking
at those - the prominence and studing the thread
structure and the spectra. The - we can do a
JOP 4, which we've Just got done doing a little
bit of. And lastly, we ought to be spring loaded
for flares, which means 54 in their flare mode.
And I would appreciate hearing anything from the
ground when activity starts to pick up again.
Only have my eyeballs pretty much glued onto the
prominence. Of course I of course I one at an
active region and if anything does start to come
up, either in the radio range or a subflare, if
we happen to be in the anomaly and not see the
PMEC, I would appreciate hearing from you so I
could put a little more attention onto that. The
prominence itself I have seen with where there's
a major arc in it, and I have put a lot on tape
in the way of a description. What I did not get
was what filament you thought it was link, reel to.
Will you clarifyed that again please?
MCC We're not 100 percent sure, but it looks like it

might be connected to filament 60. That's the one
that's right in front of 02. Between 02 and the
01/00 complex. There's a hint that it might con-
nected Just north of the east limb there.
SPT Okay. I have looked at the prominence in H-ALPHA

and I got an excellent view of it up here. I put
most of it on tape, but Just in general, 1 see
one, two, three, four arches and with a lot of
small material down to the south fairly close to
the limb, which may be that filament you're talking
of. I'll take a better look at it when I get a
chance.
352 lh 47 56 MCC Okay, Ed. Let's see, we got another h minutes.

Let me Just real quickly brief you on the comet
plans for tomorrow and the pointing test that
we would like to inbed in that.
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The plan is, it will take two orbits. Right

after a momentum dump, we will do the maneuver
out and acquire the comet at the 6 o'clock position
for SO52. We will have a 90-degree roll in it
and, frankly, I've forgottten whether it's plus
or minus. We will do the 52 data take there,
then we will go into the pointing test. ALPHA
Sco, affectionately known as antares , should be
in the field of view, and we will be - and we
will be using that to do the delta pointing test
that we - Let me get back at it in a minute here.
For the rest of that orbit, then we'll sit for the
nighttime. The following day pass will take the
82 and 55 data after having maneuvered the comet
to the center. Then we will do the maneuver back.
Now the pointing test, what we would like to do
is we will pass you a pad that will maneuver Alpha
Sco to the 6 o'clock position, a lot like Mercury
was. We will have you put the overlay on in such
a fashion that we think the roll ambiguity should
be taken out. You can maneuver UP/DOWN and we'll
give you the numbers for that. About 30 arc min-
utes octal - rather that's 0.30 of a degree octal
and you should travel parallel to your UP/DOWN
lines. If you do not, then we ask that you rotate
the grid until you think it'll work. Do the
maneuver back and again to see if you're parallel
Repeat that until you do get parallel, then take
a crosstrack LEFT/RIGHT and verify that that's
parallel. We will take all those numbers from
you. In particular, we hope that will get rid of
the roll ambiguity. We think it should also get
rid of the overshoot. So that, hopefully, we'll
be able to by - Just by rolling that grid, be
able to accurately point. This is very important
to 82. Obviously, they need to point very precise-
ly at the nucleus. They are willing to give up
their data take time on the following orbit,
the second orbit, if necessary, in order to fine
tune this pointing, in order to assure good data
later. We'll be honing up these procedures today.
Bob Crippen will be running it in SLS this after-
noon. We - Hopefully we'll get it up to you to-
night before you go to bed so that you can look
at it, and I'll be able to discuss it with you
again tomorrow morning before you do it.
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Okay, Hank's got a message for you here, and then

let me get some thoughts from you.
352 14 50 50 SPT Okay. Skylab, Houston. We are seeing that the

N2 REG pressure is dropping and it's affecting
the mol sieve bed cycles. We'd like to verify
that 150 PSI REG A is OPEN and B is off. And
if that is not the case, or if that is the case,
we would like to swap regs. Go to BEG B on and
REG off - A, OFF.
PLT It was off; it's on now.
B52 14 51 21 MCC Okay, Ed, you can go ahead. We're 1 minute from
LOS. Vanguard is next at 22 minutes.
SPT Okay, I would - I would like to have a - at least

an hour or so of time to look over that pad and
get the information incorporated into the sheet
before I really have to start it.
MCC Okay, we'll try to give you that either tonight

or in the morning.
SPT Okay, I hope it doesn't come up too late tonight.

We were up kind of late last night, and I'd like
to get a good night's sleep.
MCC Roger. I certainly do appreciate that, and we're

going great guns here with a little bit of computer
problems turning it out. One parting thought here
that I'm sure you're already doing, pass on to
Bill and Jerr_ - any time S054 is not operating
or _henever they have finished their operation
in a building block, they would be quite happy
to be put into the flare wait configuration of
shopping list 31°
SPT Okay. I'll try to remember that and do it. The

unattended pointing for this orbit - What did 56
really want to look at? They give me a roll of
minus 1000 and I'm not really sure ...
MCC Okay, Ed, you're over the hill. We'll get back
to you through Vanguard.
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352 lh 52 32 MCC I believe they're looking at the area over by 00.
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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOYCE TRANSCRIPTION
352 15 13 06 CC Skylab, Houston. We're through Vanguard for

lO minutes.
CC And, Skylab, for you info, we'll be dumping the

recorder here.
CC Skylab, Houston. And I think for the PLT, we

had a lot of noise on the loop when you reported
about the valves. I guess, we'd like to know
what the position of the 150 PSI N2 REGS valves
were, and then which one you turned on?
PLT Roger, H_nk. They both were off and I turned A

back on.
CC Okay. We copy. Thank you.
CC And, PLT. I assume that on panel 235, that the

ATM COOLANT RESERVOIR PRESSURE valve was OPEN.
Is that correct?
PLT That is correct, Hank. And I CLOSED it, per your

instructions.
CC A negative, Bill. We didn't want it CLOSED. We

Just wanted to verify that it was OPEN right there
or - at the reservoir.
352 15 15 49 PLT Okay. I closed it. I'll open it up again.
CC That'll help us when we try get to the - when you

get to the part where we're running the pumps and
trying to get the gas out of the system.
PLT Roger.
CC Got a general note here you - all of you might be

interested in. Soyuz 13 spacecraft was launched
at 11:55 Zulu this morning. The co_nander is
Piotr Klimuk and the flight engineer is Valentin
Lebedev. Both crewmen are in fine shape and all
systems are working well. The purpose of the
flight is to explore near-Earth space with
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astrophysical studies of stars and to study the

Earth surfaces. The flight will also, permit
system evaluation to be made. And they're
maintaining contact with radio aud TV with the
crew now.
CDR Roger, Hank. We wish them smooth sailing.
352 15 17 31 SPT Say, Hank. I think we dropped out at the end

of the last orbit. To clarify the pointing on
55: That is pointed with the MIRROR, LINE SCAN
going across the brightest point of the active
region - and also extending off the limb; the
brightest point in H-ALPHA, anyway.
CC Roger. That is correct, Ed, and we did that on

purpose. We've noticed in some of our data that
on a MIRROR, LINE SCAN on alternate lines,
occasionally it shifts over 2-1/2 arc seconds.
And we were just trying to get some data on
that and take a look at it.
SPT Oh, okay. Thank you, Hank. They're - they're

getting some good data on the brightest point
in that one activeregionalso.
352 15 19 31 CC And, SPT, Houston. We just got a report in that

at 14:47 Z, that's about B0 minutes ago, there
was some activeity in active region 00. There
was a dark filament beginning to form in the
leader.
SPT Oh, okay. Thank you, Hank. Going to be an

interesting next couple of orbits. While I was
setting up the pointing, I took a look at the
filament and the prominence for a possible
interconnections. And the filament, I believe
at 60, extends almost all the way up the - where
it turns and goes out to the prominence, a
distance of around 1 arc minute. I could not see
a prominence, but I - or a filament, but I can
see a filament channel. So maybe there is a
connection there.
CC Roger. We copy, Ed.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from LOS.

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352 15 22 08 CC We'll see you at Hawaii at 20, 58 minutes from

nOW.
352 16 20 08 CC Skylab, Houston. We're through Hawaii for

7-1/2 minutes.
SPT Roger; hello, Houston. At 16:00 even, we got

a caustion tone. The indication was an ACS alert ;
I singled up on rate gyro number 2 in the Y-axis
calling up the readout: 1 and 2 were within
zero of plus or minus 0.002. 3 was 0, plus or
minus 0.005, the mean fluctuation. Network 2
was a 0 of 66620, indicating a Y failure. The 2
and 3 were put back in control with redundancy
management enable, network checked, and so far it
looks okay.
CC Roger; we copy.
352 16 22 03 CC SPT, Houston. Could it have been possible that

someone bumped the six pack about the time this
happened? We, you know, discovered that those
things are very sensitive to being bumped.
SPT Hank, I don't believe so. No one was up there

at the time.
CC Okay, we copy.
PLT Houston, PLT. I have some 183 information for

you.
CC Go ahead, Ed. I mean Bill.
PLT The ROTATION and TILT on Cauopus, 225.3, 16.9;

on Regulus, ROTATION is 140.2, TILT 01.8.
CC Roger; we copy. 225.3 and 16.9 for Canopus.

140.2 and 01.8 for Regulus.
PLT That 's affirm.
352 16 23 41 PLT The ATM C&D loop troubleshooting is still in

progress, but I'm moving along, sort of slowly.
CC Okay, Bill, and we see the loop running now. Are

you on the first 15-minute run?
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PLT Negative. I'm on the second 15-minute run, and

Jerry's up there now. I had to skedaddle because
you can't have any light up there while he's
photographing the comet.
CC Okay, and I might point out that the - when you

get the 2-hour run going on the - with your
timer, that one will be okay. But when you start
the second one, which will be down around 17:45
or thereabouts, whenever your timer goes off, you
needn't to bother to see the timer for the second
long run, as the Flight Plan calls out for,
we're Just going to let it run until Jerry tears
the setup down later in the day.

see you at Vanguard at 52, and we' re scheduled
to dump the recorder there.
CC And, Skylab, for info, about an hour ago, at

15:30, we had a subfaint flare out of 00. It
peaked about a minute later and no X-rays.
352 16 27 38 CDR Thank you, Hank.
END OF TAPE
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Time: 352:16:30 to 352:18:00
Page 1 of 2 /1965
352 16 51 31 CC Skylab, Houston. Through Vanguard for

lO-1/2 minutes. And we'll be dumping the recorder
here.
352 16 53 06 CC Skylab, Houston. No need to acknowledge. For

info, the launch tonight has been scrubbed. So
S201 will be scrubbed. We're going to get you
to bed an hour early. And later on today, we'll
give you a few small Flight Plan changes to - to
accomodate that.
CDR Very good, HA_k.
352 16 53 h7 CC And, CDR, if you can answer while you're PT'n

there, to help us get tomorrow's Flight Plan
squared away, we had originally scheduled you
to get up an hour late. How would you feel about
getting up on time and having a more relaxed
morning with the one addition, And that would
be, since the Sun is active, we wouldn't - If Ed
_ is willing,we'd like to get in an ATM pass.
SPT Good idea from me, Hank.
CDR Yes. I think that's okay, Hank. We'll probably

all want to go to bed early tonight.
CC Roger. Our plan is to get you to bed an hour

earlier than normal tonight. And - and up on
time tomorrow morning.
CDR I think that would probably work out fine.
352 17 00 36 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from LOS.

Ascension at 07.
352 17 07 14 CC Skylab, Houston. Through Ascension for

6-1/2 minutes.
SPT Roger, Hank.
352 17 08 59 CC PLT, Houston. On your upcoming ATM pass at 17:55,

we have scheduled a nu z update. We would like
to leave the star tracker tracking all of that
daylight cycle, if it - through about 18:45, so
that we can get some Z-axis drift data.
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PLT Okay. I'ii leave it tracking through 18:45.
CC That's affirmative. We appreciate it and don't

worry about it. If you do forget it, we'll
remind you at Ascension to close her up.
PLT Thank you very much.
352 17 l0 23 PLT Hank, how's that coolant loop looking?
CC Flow rates a little low, but it's not totally

unexpected. That filter's a little finer than
the regular C&D filter. It looks okay right now.
PLT Roger.

see you at Vanguard at 18:29. That's an hour and
15 man - an hour and 16 minutes from now.
352 17 13 02 PLT Roger. An hour, 16.
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Time: 352:18:00 to 352:19:30
Page 1 of 6 /1967
352 18 29 37 CDR Houston, Skylab. How do you read?
CC Roger. Reading you loud and clear now. We've

got about l0 minutes through Vanguard.
CDR Okay. I'm about ready to start that water d_p.
CC Okay. Let her rip.
CDR Okay. It's open.
CC We copy.
CC CDR, Houston. Are you free to copy an update for

the Flight Plan this evening?
352 18 30 51 CC Okay. As we said earlier this applies to every-

body. We want you all to go to bed at 03:00 this
-- evening. And to get your Flight Plan up to date,
to - since we're not putting 201 in, at 23:51 on
your Flight Plan, where we have you scheduled for
a 201 prep, we would like to make that a - an
S019 prep 1. But do not do the film install.
We'll do that tomorrow. And you might change both
your Flight Plan and your details to reflect that.
And addition - in addition you have a nu E update
on your details at 03:38. We'd like to delete
that. We're going to give that to the SPT.
CDR Okay. Good enough, Hank.
CC And I do have a couple of changes for the SPT.

I'll try to get those to him when he's free -
through with this TV 120 a little later in the
day.
CDR Good enough.
352 18 32 07 CC And, this for info for the PLT, there'll be no

change in his Flight Plan, other than going to
sleep at 03:00.
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CDR He copied that, Hank.
CC Did he Just turn the COOLANT PUMP, OFF?
PLT That 's affirm.
CC Okay. Had us worried there for a minute. We

saw it drop to zero.
PLT Okay. B's coming ON shortly. I Just switched

to TAPE RECORDER COLLANT on.
CC Okay, real good. This will be the last run until,

I guess, Jerry tears it down later in the evening.
CC And for your info, the last run, the - the flow
rate, slowly moved up. We're not sure exactly
why. Until - when we acquired you at this station,
it was steady at like a prelaunch value. We
hadn't seen it this high the whole mission.
SPT Flushing is one of Bill's fortes.
CC (Laughter) Roger.
352 18 36 03 CC Skylab, Houston. We noticed that there have

been about nine sequences on S05h run off, since
we saw you last. Does anyone have any cc_ments
on that?
PLT Yes. I'll have to fess up. I set up at high 56.

Excuse me, 6_. And I thought I was doing a 256
and my Sun centered JOP. So I did it.
CC Roger. We copy.
PLT Integral lighting is a bit off, by the way. I -

I heard some talk about it earlier and it sort of
makes the panel difficult to read, at least for
me. Is it okay if I turn that back on?
CC That's Roger, Bill. We've got the loop up running

now, and so you can pa - use the panel normally.
352 18 37 18 PLT Okay. I wasn't sure if it was giving us enough

cooling yet. But from what you said earlier, I
guess it's functioning fairly well.
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CC Roger. It looks real good.
CC And for info, Skylab, there's a message we Just

sent up on - new message on 82B film schedule.
CDR Hank, my phone call's at 42, is that right? And

which ANT_NA?
CC We're checking that ANTenNA right now.
CC Roger, Jer. That's 18:42 at Ascension. And it

is RIGHT to LEFT.
CDR Okay. Thanks.
B52 18 38 50 CC And, SPT, if - if you're free to comment, we'd

like to know if the message we sent up in regard
to TV-120 helped you set it up?
SPT Hank, you mean TV-120?
SPT Okay, that's just in work right now, Hank, and

I'll have to do it in bits and snatches through-
out the day here.
CC Okay. Well, we sent up the message, you know, in

regard to the closeup lens, and we're Just wonder-
ing if that was satisfactory and helped you out
okay.
SPT Okay. I got a verbal information on the closeup

lens early this morning. Is there something in
the teleprinter now?
CC Okay. The message was within 3BB8 Alfa and it

was entitled, "General Message: TV-120."
352 18 39 54 SPT Yes. Okay. I - I got that, Hank. I see there's -

I'm Just working on step i right now and I got
the other stuff verbally this morning. And I
see exactly what was given ... Okay, thank you.
CC Okay. We're going over the hill now.
352 18 40 07 CC We'll see you at Ascension in about 2 minutes.
f--
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352 18 43 03 CC Skylab, Houston. Through Ascension for i0 minutes

and -
352 18 43 43 CC And, SPT, Houston. There's no need to acknowledge,

but if you get a chance to copy the update to
your Flight Plan this pass, just give me a call.
If not, it's okay. I'ii catch you later.
352 18 46 06 CC Skylah, Houston.
PLT Go, Hank.
CC Roger. Is the CDR trying to make his private call?

The COMM TECH reports we're - we're not getting
anything down.
PLT Stand by.
CDR Houston, this is Skylab. How do you read?
CC Roger. Loud and clear. Go ahead, Jer.
CDR Okay. I'm not getting them on VHF at all, and

I'm properly configured.
CC 0 - -
CDR I've tried both antennas -
CC Okay. We're checking. The COMM TECH just report-

ed to me that we were having a problem. We weren't
getting anything down from the bird.
CDR Okay. Houston, Skylab. How do you read?
CC I'm reading you loud and clear.
352 18 47 32 CC PLT, Houston. We've got all the data we need on

on the star tracker. You're clear to CLOSE the
SHUTTER, now. We thank you.
PLT Roger.
SPT Okay, Hank. Go ahead with the changes to the

Flight Plan, please.
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CC Okay, Ed. The - we cancelled the CDR's nuZ update,

and we'd like for you to pick that up if you want
to put that on your details. It's 02:29 to 02:39.
SPT Okay, Hank. I got it.
CC And on the ATM pass you have at 01:37, it's your

option. You can make that a complete daylight
pass instead of a partial. The alternate A_
schedule pad that we sent you covers the complete
pass.
SPT Okay, Hank. Thank you.

see you at Guam at 26 and we're scheduled to dump
the data recorder there.
352 18 52 09 PLT Roger, Hank.
352 19 26 35 CC Skylab, Houston through Guam for l0 minutes.

And as a reminder, we're dumping the recorder
F
here.
CDR Roger, Hank. we're on ATM COOLANT PUMP Charlie

right now. At about 33, pump Bravo started set-
ting up a real whine. And I got curious. I
thought I'd try to see what pump Charlie would
do in the same situation. Shifted pumps, and
it's running nice and quiet. Would you like to
go back to B and see what happens?
CC Stand by, and we'll talk about it a little bit,

J er.
CDR Okay. I did not have a DELTA-P light. Just a

lot of noise.
CC Roger. We copy.
352 19 28 17 CC CDR, Houston. We'd like to go back and try pump -

pump Bravo again. And also on the C&D panel,
we'd like to get the H-ALPHA 1 NIGHT INTERLOCK
switch to NORMAL.
CDR Okay. Okay. It's back on and kind of noisy.

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CC Jerry, could you veril'y the time? You gave us

33. That was between - on our Vanguard site
last rev. Is that correct?
CDR No, it was 23. It was about 5 minutes ago.

7 minutes ago.
CC Okay. I didn't copy correct. 23. Understand.
352 19 29 07 CDR I probably said 33.
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Time: 352:19:30 to 352:21:00
Page 1 of 2/1973
352 19 34 30 CC CDR, Houston. Pump looks real stable to us now.

How does it sound?
CDR Oh, it's still pretty noisy; a pretty loud howl.

But it - it - it's not undulating or anything
like that. It's Just a higher noise level than
Charlie.
CC Roger. We copy.
352 19 36 O0 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 40 seconds from

LOS. We'll see you at Canari@s at 27, about
30 minutes from now. Correction: Make that
50 minutes.
352 19 36 09 CDR Roger.
352 20 26 41 CC Skylab, Houston through Canary and Madrid for

13-1/2 minutes.
CDR Roger,Hank.
352 20 29 15 CDR Houston, CDR. Do you want the mirror at line 25

or line 10?
CC We'll check it.
CC Like to get that on line 25.
CDR Okay, and you want- I guess, according to the

pad, you want it left in MIRROR, LINE SCAN rather
than STOP?
352 20 31 36 CC Skylab, Houston. We'll be handing over to Madrid

in a minute or 2, and we'll be dumping the data
recorder.
CC CDR, Houston. We'd like to get a MECHANICAL

REFERENCE at 0102.
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352 20 34 i0 CC CDR, Houston. To clarify that last call,

since we're in MECHANICAL REFERENCE, we want
that - Rather than the pad's all zips there, we
need 0102.
CDR Say again. I was recording, Hank.
CC Okay, on the pad for closeout there, we give

you a GRATING of all zips. And because we've
got MECHANICAL REFERENCE, that should be 0102.
CDR Okay.
352 20 39 31 CC Skylab, Houston. We're I minute from LOS. We'll

see you at Guam at 21:06, and that's 27 minutes.
CC And, CDR, Houston. No need to acknowledge, but

when you get back to the C&D-loop troubleshooting,
we'd like to get a check on the reservoir there -
the level.
CDR Roger.
352 20 40 34 CC We're Just curious if all this flushing took any

out of the reservoir.
END OF TAPE
Time: 352:21:00 to 352:22:30
Page i of 4/1975
352 21 07 14 CC Skylab, Houston through Guam for 3 minutes.
352 2i 08 19 CC CDR, Houston. How did the reservoir look, when

you've got the chance to look at it there?
CDR Say again, Hank.
CC Roger. Wonder if you had a chance to look at the

ATM C&D coolant reservoir - with the level of the
fluid.
CDR I'm Just on my way up there.

We'll see you at Honeysuckle at 16. And, CDR,
we'll check on that reservoir then.
352 21 09 54 CC And we also got one other task on the condensate

system.
352 21 15 53 CC Skylab, Houston through Honeysuckle for 5 minutes.
CDR Roger, Hank. On that ATM reservoir, it's got the

black bladder pushed all the way down to the
full end now, where it says DUMP.
CC Okay, Jer, would you say once again for our

benefit?
CDR Roger. I said it's the - in the ATM_C&D coolant

reservoir, the black bladder has been pushed all
the way to the DUMP or full end.
CC Roger. We copy.
CDR The bubbles up in the - in the liquid are about

the size of birdshot, about the size of, oh, size
6 birdshot.
CC Roger. You can still see bubbles in there, huh?
352 21 16 59 CDR That's affirmative. There's not a lot of bubbles.

I'd say the average distance between bubbles
is about, oh, three-quarters of an inch not too
dense.
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CC CDR, Houston. I wonder if we could get you to do

one task for us on the holding - condensate hold-
ing tank. We would like to reestablish our DELTA-P
so we can keep the water removal system going
on the heat exchanger. And to do that, what we
need to do is reconnect the condensate holding
tank inlet hose to the condensate inlet QD for -
Probably Just a couple of minutes is all it'll
take to reestablish a DELTA-P. Then we'll dis-
connect it and let the dump continue.
CDR Okay. So far the bladder's moved, I quess, about

16 to 17 inches. I'll tell you when I've completed
it.
CC Skylab, Houston. We see some VTR activity. Any-

one care to comment?
CDR The boss man is hard at work.
CC Okay, we - we were seeing the VIDEO switch in

ATM MONITOR.

We - we will see you again at Canaries at 05,
and that's about 44 minutes from now. And in
regard to reestablishing that DELTA-P, Jer, I
guess you'll have to monitor it yourself on the
gage and then disconnect the hose when it's at -
reestablished.
CDR Say again, Hank. I was down at the condensate

tank and couldn't hear you.
CC Okay, we're going over the hill now, Jer, and -

and I guess - EGIL says it'll be okay to leave
it hooked up until we get to Canaries.
352 21 21 03 CDR Okay. I Just yanked it off; I'll go put it back

on again.
352 22 05 58 CC Good afternoon, Skylab. Crimson team with you

through Canary for 12 minutes.
SPT Crip, strange it should be you. I was Just going

to announce that we finally have the moths on TV.
Page 3 of 4/1977
CC I think we might have a small problem there, Ed

(laughter). Last time we showed that the - the
TV switch up there was in M0N 1 and not - not TV.
SPT I went through the whole thing all over again,

Crip. I think we Just depleted the whole tape.
CC Okay. Understand you got it. Have we seen any

new moths ?
SPT Yes, I think I saw one, possibly two new fellows

crawling around there today. They only last about
a day or 2; so the ones that are crawling are
usually fairly recent.
352 22 06 50 CDR You guys better start thinking up some names, Crip.
CC I'm not good at naming things like that ; I thought

you guys were. All these are in the wild ones ;
none in the tame yet.
SPT Yes, all wild ones.
f_ SPT There's got to be a moral there somewhere.
CDR Crip, how does our DELTA-P look across that con-
densate holding tank?
CC Say again .
CDR How does the DELTA-P look across the condensate

holding tank?
CC It's coming up. We want to leave it connected.

We'll tell you later when to disconnect it, if
. we do so.
CDR Okay.
352 22 07 hl SPT Hey, Crip, any thoughts on the singling up in

Y-axis on rate gyro number 2?
CC We're still looking at that one, Ed. No answers

as yet. And I wonder if we could find out how
far we got along on the C&D coolant loop procedure?
SPT Okay, Crip. Jerry's been holding up at step J

because of the other things we got going on here.
If you want us to press on, we'll go ahead.
Page 4 of 4 /1978
CC At - at your convenience , you can press on with

it; not to interfere with your experimental
activities here.
SPT Okay. We'll do it.
352 22 14 37 CC Skylab, Houston. Probably for Bill, it might be

more convenient. We show EXPERIMENT 1 TAPE RECORDER
running, and we'd appreciate it if you can turn
it OFF at your convenience.
PLT That run if for S18B, Crip.
CC Stand by_ sounds like we got a problem then.
CC that's one for you guys; you're right.
CDR Crip, the bladder in the holding t_k has moved

about two-thirds of the distance, about a little
over 2 feet.
CC Copy that. Thank you, Jer.
352 22 16 54 CDR You ready to shift to pump Charlie?
CC Jer, when you've completed it and got it all

hooked up as scheduled for switching to the pump,
we' re ready for it. And we're GO, I guess, to -
to leave it on tonight.
CDR Okay, well, step J said to switch to pump Charlie.

Do you want me to wait until I get it all taken
apart and set up right?
CC I'm sorry. I thought you'd already gotten through

that - that step. Stand by 1.
352 22 17 37 CC We're BO seconds from LOS. We'll see you again

at Carnarvon at 22:45. Jer, you are GO to continue
with the step J of turning the pump Charlie on.
You're GO all the way through the procedure.
352 22 18 05 CDR Okay.
END OF TAPE
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Time: 352:22:30 to 353:00:00
Page i of 7/1979
352 22 45 14 CC Skylab, Houston. AOS through Carnarvon. We have

you for 14 minutes.
CDR Pump Charlie coming on, Crip.
CC Roger, Jer. We assume that you've Just completed

Housekeeping 81 X-ray, then.
CDR That's right. The new filter's in, and I'm going
to move on now to step - step L.
CC Roger.
352 22 48 29 CC Skylab, Houston. We're getting ready to commence

a data/voice recorder dump.
CC For the CDR; Jer, you got a moment?
CDR For you, a'week, Crip.
CC Oh, you're so generous. One little item on this

liquid gas separator that the procedure calls for
you to stow a little bit later on. We think it
might be a good ideato put some red tape on that
one or some way identify it.
CDR Okay, sure will.
CC Thank you, sir.
352 22 52 55 CC Skylab, Houston. If we got somebody in the

vicinity, we would like to verify that EXPERIMENT 1
RECORDER is OFF. And we'll go ahead and dump it
here through Honeysuckle.
PLT Roger. It's OFF, Grip; you can take it.
CC ThAnk you, sir. We got a - got that motion sensor

problem on that one; so we can't really tell what
the sta - status of it is here on the ground.
352 22 58 ll CC Skylab, Houston. We're about a minute from LOS.

We'll have - have you again at MILA in about
35 minutes at 23:33; 23:33. And, Jer, if you can,
we would appreciate if you'd verify for us that
the EREP valve is in BYPASS.
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CDR That's verified, Crip. And we've completed the

procedures on that troubleshooting.
CC Outstanding. usually we can tell by decrease in

flow on the thing; but you're getting so much
better flow in it now, we're not used to looking
at the numbers. You're looking like 280 pounds
an hour right now.
CDR Hey, that's good.
CC Did good work today.
352 22 58 53 CDR There's still lots of bubbles in that reservoir

though.
CC Yes, but you must have got most of them out.
CDR When I popped that filter off the first time to

look at it, there was an awful lot of foam and
bubbles. But looks like it wouldn't happen that
way this time.
CC Very good.
CDR Okay, you about ready for me to start securing

the condensate dump tA_k?
CC When - whenever you think the thing's empty, you

can go ahead with that. And you can just press
on, leaving it connected to - to the condensate
tank.
352 22 59 30 CDR Okay, I'ii take my little - you'll pardon the

expression - stud finder and find out where it is.
352 23 32 46 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS through MILA. We have

you for about ii minutes.
CDR Roger, Crip.
CC Roger. And does the SPT have a moment to chat?
SPT Can you hold it up for about 5 minutes, Crip?
CC Yes, sir.
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f_
PLT Hey, Crip. Jer and I'd like to pass on our good
words to the people that wrote that procedure for
that ATM C&D coolant pump - troubleshooting.
CC Okay, thank you. I guess it sounded like it worked

all okay, and looks like we got lots of good
pressure in it. I guess you guys went through it
without any - any big problem.
352 23 34 19 CC Skylab, Houston. Sorry we dropped out there for

a minute; we're back with you. Regarding that
C&D procedure, it sounded like it really worked
out fine today. And kind of good to get a good
loop, and maybe we can quit bugging you about that
thing. I know Hank did - did an awful lot of
work on getting it put together for you, and I'll
pass on your words to him.
PLT Yes, he's - I know an awful lot of work was put in

on that because that was - it flows very nicely
and - and with - some of that water system hard-
ware we have to use is not labeled and everything.
And it - it was worded in such a way that we had
-_ no problems. I made - I got sloweddown once,
but that was my fault. And it was not the fault
of the procedures; they were well written.
352 23 3h 58 CC Very good. Thank you for the good words. And you
guys are certainly deserving of congratulations
in carrying them out so well.
SPT Say, Crip, can I talk about two ATM relay items
before we start talking the maneuver?
CC Yes, sir. Press on, Ed.
SPT Okay, one, an observation: The large streamer

above the prominence is getting a little bit
larger at the base, towards the south. It looks
as though there's either a new structure moving
up there or the old one is Just - is growing -
but to the south - and is asymmetrical if it is
growing on - on its own, as opposed to something
else moving up. Then, second, on the 55, they
quoted a number of MIRROR POSITIONs to do GRATING,
AUTO RASTERs here. And I think they all assumed
that we started at GRATING 32 and in - or MIRROR
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POSITION 32 in the LEFT/RIGHT rather than 33,

which we're now operating; so I went ahead and
figured we were working on 33, which we actually
are, and did 10-arc-second intervals, which I
think was the intent of their procedures. And
l'd like to see whether that is really what they're
after. And also, there may be some mod - modifi-
cations to the next orbit.
352 23 36 36 CC Okay, Ed, you - you're absolutely right on that.

We should have been using 33, and what you're
doing is correct.
SPT Okay. Thank you, Bob.
CC My turn yet?
SPT If we can answer the question about the next orbit,

which also gives MIRROR POSITIONs, although that's
not quite as straightforward as this one. And
I'm wondering whether they assumed 32 or 33 in
those positions.
CC Okay. We'll check on those.
CDR Your turn, Crip.
CC Thank you, sir. Also relating to the next orbit,

last night we sent you up a - a JOP change for
building block 39, and we built this schedule
assuming that it was not incorporated yet. Can
you tell us one way or the other?
352 23 37 38 SPT I have incorporated everything I've come up - But

let me take a look at this one specifically.
Hold on.
CC Okay, it's J0P 5, building block 39.
SPT No, that has been incorporated, but I can run it

the old way, giving them GRATING, AUTO SCAN.
That'll give a MIRROR POSITION rather than a MIRROR,
AUTO RASTER.
CC Well, I've got some info for you to - go ahead and

run it with the MIRROR, AUTO RASTER - if - if you
want to jot it down.
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SPT Okay, give me l0 seconds ; then give me the infor-

mation, please.
SPT Go ahead, Crip.
CC Okay. Want DETECTORs OFF and GRATING at 01 02,

MECH REF.
352 23 38 57 SPT Okay.
CC Also, in the subsequent orbit you are scheduled

for some TV downlink, and what we're planning on
doing is rewinding the VTR to the 8-minute blank
segment that we got when you were trying to do
that p - picture of my favorite subject. And
we'll allow that 8 minutes in there; so don't go
over 8, at least.
SPT I'm not about to try that - the moth dialogue

again. What happened there, Crip, was I had
it aq] set up, and I went whistling down there
and got delayed - doing the medical experiment -
and figured I still had it set up. Meantime,
Jerry ran an ATM pass and had to use the VTR and
there we were again.
CC Roger. And so what we saw is, we had an 8-minute

bl_nk segment on it. Then you went ahead and -
and did the moths. And what we're going to do is
rewind to that blank segment.
SPT ...
CC You're - you're lmreadable; we've got bad co_,,.

Get back with you.
352 23 _0 26 CC Okay. Sorry about that, Ed. We - we broke off

once more, and I didn't get your response to my
last, regarding going back to the last 8 minutes -
that blank 8 minutes.
SPT Yes, that 's fine ; that 's good procedure. What I
was remarking on is that there was some discussion
which went along with both attempts, and you should
use the second discussion. The second one has got
a little lead-in indicating what happened on the
first one, and the second one was the one to use.
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CC Okay, very good. I'm looking forward to seeing

the pictures of the - of the moths.
SPT The one at the top is named after you, Crip.
352 23 41 01 CC You're so sweet to me. Ed, we're looking at some

doors open right now. And it would appear that
maybe you went to STORAGE before we got our sunset
signal. So if you can go back to AUTO, we would
appreciate it.
CC Okay -
CDR Houston, CDR.
CC Go, CDR.
CDR Hey, I'm between a rock and a hard spot here. I've
got S019 set up in the minus-2 SAL, and now I've
• /
got to evacuate this condensate holdlng tank. If
the hoses will reach, is the vacuum utilization
system on the plus-2 SAL still usable?
CC Negative on that. Let us take a look at it. Just

a second.
CDR Okay.
352 23 43 Ii CC Okay, Skylab, we're about 45 seconds from LOS.

We'll see you again over Madrid in 4 minutes, and
that's at 23:33 - correction - at 23:47. And,
Jer, the onlF solution we see is that you're going
to have to pull SO19 out of the SAL to do - and
then do the dump.
CDR I was afraid of that.
352 23 43 32 CC Sorry about that.
352 23 _7 31 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS through Madrid. We

have you for about 8 minutes.
352 23 54 02 CC PLT, Houston. You got a moment, Bill?
PLT Yes. Go, Crip.
CC Roger. We're noting down here that the left/right

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f_
actuator temperature for the ATM canister is

increasing. And it's still about 3 degrees below
our limit, but you're going to have s11nrise before
we see you again. And we'd just like you to make
sure that when Slmrise does go and the can is
supposed to unlock, that you make sure that it is -
does not freeze up in left/right. If it does, to
go ahead and use your procedure of going to SOLAR
INERTIAL there.
PLT Okay, thank you very much.
CC Roger. There was also a question Ed put to us

regarding the MIRROR POSITIONs for your upcoming
orbit. And we'd like you to just go ahead and use
them as per the pad. You've got three of them
down there; use the last two.
PLT Roger. Use the last two MIRROR POSITIONs.
SPT That's the way I marked it, Crip.
352 23 55 03 CC Okay. Thank you, Ed. And we're about 30 seconds

from LOS. We'll see you again at Carnarvonat
25 minutes, 23:47; 23:47 - I can't tell time;
00:20; 00_20.
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actuator temperature for the ATM canister is

increasing. And it's still about 3 degrees below
our limit, but you're going to have sn_rise before
we see you again. And we'd just like you to make
sure that when sunrise does go and the can is
supposed to unlock, that you m_ke sure that it is -
does not freeze up in left/right. If it does, to
go ahead and use your procedure of going to SOLAR
INERTIAL there.
CC Roger. There was also a question Ed put to us

regarding the MIRROR POSITIONs for your upcoming
orbit. And we'd like you to just go ahead and use
them as per the pad. You've got three of them
down there; use the last two.
PLT Roger. Use the last two MIRROR POSITIONs.
SPT That's the way I msrked it, Crip.
352 23 55 03 CC Okay. Thank you, Ed. And we're about 30 seconds

_ from LOS. We'll see you again at Carnarvonat
25 minutes, 23:47; 23:h7 - I can't tell time;
00:20; 00:20.
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Time: 353:00:01 to 353:01:30
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353 00 30 56 CC Skylab, Houston; AOS through Honeysuckle for

5 minutes. Somebody took away Carnarvon when I
wasn't looking.
353 00 35 04 CC Skylab, Houston; we're 1 minute from LOS. Next

station contact is over Texas in 32 minutes, that's
at 01:07, 01:07. And at your convenience we can
start taking the evening status report somewhere
around there.
SPT Okay, Jer - We'll get Jerry assigned to it right

now, Crip.
CC You better watch out. Skipper's going to get

hold of you.
353 O0 35 33 SPT I'll have to tren - clean out the trash airlock
again,
--_ CC Put you in charge of the head once more.
353 O1 06 43 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS through Texas, and

we've got you for about 14-1/2 minutes. And when-
ever it's convenient for Jer, we're ready for the
evening status report.
CDR Okay. How about tomorrow?
CC (Laughter) That's convenient for me. I don't

think some people down here would agree with us
though.
CC I never have been able to write that fast when

you give it.
CDR Okay, here it goes. Sleep: CDR, 4.0, 4.0 heavy;

SPT, 4.8, 4.0 heavy, 0.8 light; PLT, 4.0, h.0 heavy.
Volume: CDR, 1550; SPT, llO0; PLT, 1500. Water
gun readings: CDR, 7513; SPT, 2959; PLT, 9039.
Body mass: CDR, 6.313, 6.315, 6.315; SPT, 6.367,
6.370, 6.368; PLT, 6.237, 6.236, 6.236. Exercise.
Deltas, CDR, method Alfa, minus 12 minutes,
minus 2000 watt-minutes; SPT, method A was not
done; PLT, no change. CDR - Let's see, all three
crewmen no - no drugs. CDR, for discarded clothing,
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there's a pair of socks; SPT, none; PLT, one

T-shirt, one pair of shorts, one shirt, one pair
of socks. The food log: CDR, 6.5 salt, plus 1
coffee with sugar, plus 1 grape drink, minus 0.5
water; SPT, plus i0.0 salt, plus i tea, minus 2.0
water; PLT, 8.0 salt, plus 2 coffee, plus i grape
drink, minus 1.0 salt. No Flight Plan deviations.
No shopping list accomplishments. No inoperable
equipment. Nope - no, hold that; transporter 03
is Js=med. Transporter 03 is j_mmed. And we'll
try to get some troubleshooting done on that;
haven't gotten to it yet. Unscheduled stowage:
none. Stand by for the photo.
CDR Okay. Photo. 16-millimeter: Mh87/housekeeping

60 Echo, Charlie India 72, 00, Charlie India 85.
We used transporter 07 in lieu of 03, which was
jammed, and percentage of film used was h0 percent.
Okay, Nikon.
353 01 09 59 CC Jer, why don't we hold up for just a minute through

tr - handover, and I'll get you after.
353 01 l0 ll CC Okay, Jet, we're back with you now through MILA,
can you go on?
CDR Okay. Nikon 01, no change; 02, Bravo Victor 43,

22; 03, Charlie India lll, 15; 04, no change; 05,
Bravo hotel 05, 17. 70-millimeter: Charlie
X-ray 17, 131. ETC, no change. EREP, no change.
Drawer A: Alfa l, no change; Alfa 2, no change;
Alfa 3, no change; Alfa 4, 03, Charlie India 71,
h2, Charlie India 82, J_=med; back, 07, Charlie
India 72, 00, Charlie India 85, used up. That's
it.
CC Okay, sounds good. Sounds like you managed to get

some shots in of that early EREP pass that you
made this morning. One - one item on wakeup in
the morning, Jet, we haven't got a convenient
station pass for that. And what we recommend is
you set the timers, and we'll give you a call
at 12:29 over Goldstone.
CDR Okay, Crip, we'll do it.

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CC Okay, also for Ed on h_s 1_com_ng ATMpass when

he's dumping the - or putting the TV on, we have
the VTR reposition for that.
353 01 ll 37 CC One item regarding his tomorrow morning's activities

that's - we've got - we've got Bill scheduled to
do a documentary photo of you, Jerry, in the BMMD.
For your information, we'll send up a photo pad
tonight so that'll be available to you.
CDR But, Crip, I'm not at my best that early in the

morning.
CC I don't know. That fuzzy face you've got there

has got to look good in the mornings.
CC We were Just enjoying some TV that you downlinked

to us the other day when you were driving around
in the 509 chine [sic].
CDR Oh yes. That's really a lot of fun.
CC Looks like it. Another question we got couple of

_ days - day before yesterday,and the day before
that, we've had you doing stereo photos, that's
mission day 31 and 32. But we haven't been able
to find the BN_MD readings associated with those,
and wonder if you've managed to write them down
some - someplace. And if so, would you please
voice record them once more, please.
CDR I suspect the problem is we didn't do a BMMD at

that moment. I guess we better go check the
checklist.
353 01 12 57 CC Okay, I think it does call out for you to do one

in association with the stereo photos.
CDR Okay, well, we blew it.
CC 0keydoke. Could I ask you a question regarding

your 509 run since we're talking about it? Could
you tell us which seat position you used?
CDR Roger. I didn't even pay that much attention to it.

Whatever is called out in the checklist is what we
used. Bill set it; let me go check.
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353 01 lh 12 CDR We used Bravo, Crip.
CC Okay, used Bravo. Did you perchance use any Mosite

on the seat, and if so, how thick a piece.
CDR Negative, we didn't, i didn't feel like I needed

it. It felt very solid to me, and I didn't feel
any slosh or slop at all.
CC Okay. The reason I'm asking the question is that

in reviewing the data, it looks like there was a
c.g. offset, and we were Just trying to see if we
could explain it a little bit. While ago when you
were going through your photo report for us, we
did not see any Ml51 film taken up which was sche-
duled in your M092 run today. Can you clarify that
for us, please?
CDR We're checking our checklist; there was none taken.
CC Okeydoke.
CDR Chalk up two for us.
353 01 15 09 CC Okay, we got that one. On - might talk a little

bit about visual ops. I don't know if you noticed,
but we've been calling out on - when we've been
sending up the special vis ops pad for you to do
observations primarily or something of that nature -
And what we're going to do in the future is to note
that on your detail pad, if it's really only ob-
servations we want, and there's no other informa-
tion required. And if there is some special
emphasis which your book does not explain to you,
we will go ahead and put avis ops pad up for
that but not Just for when we want you to observe
it only. And in - in recognition of that, we have -
we're on the SPT's details tomorrow. It says he's
got a - got a pad, and we have deleted that one.
CDR Crip, you cut out then, you must're had a little
dropout, you better try that one again.
CC Okay, I'm sorry, we - we had a handover. It calls

out on the SPT's details tomorrow, a 2340 handheld
where it says, "Observe only." And then it says,
"Pad." And there was really no additional informa-
tion to go with that, so we're not planning on
sending a pad up in associationwith it.
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CDR Okay, we'll delete that. The pad, that is.
CC Roger. Okay. Also in relation to the evening

status report, it would appear that sometimes
when you talk about throwing away clothes that
you're talking about - you've maybe been holding
them on hand for a few days to use them as rags
or something. And really, in the report, what the
PI's interested in getting is when you - when you
take them off and not necessarily when you throw
them away. So in the future in the evening status
report, if you would relate to us the clothes that
are removed for the day not planned to be put back
on, I guess.
353 01 17 13 CDR Yes, but Bill does wear his for 4 days.
CC (Laughter) Sounds like a personal problem.
CDR (Laughter) Okay, we'll do that.
CC Very good. One other item for - I think we

promised Ed we were going to have an 18D pad up
tonight so that you guys could go over that. And
we - we've tried our best, but, unfortunately, we
haven't been able to succeed. Bill Lenoir is over
in the SLS right now running what we think is the
latest pad but we aren't going to have that ready
to go before you guys retire for this evening.
And Bill gave you a pretty good rundown of what
the thing - what we're planning on doing for
tomorrow verbally this morning. And I can run
over that again if you would like or best we can
do otherwise is Just to have the pads on board
tonight while you're asleep so you can look at them
in the morning.
SPT Let's go ahead and run over it again, Crip.
353 01 18 09 CC Okay. Basically, we're going to have the JOP 18D

pad like we'd always planned, so you can fill it in
on your checklist. And you're going to go ahead
and do mov - maneuver out so that you're in a -
the comet Comes up in about the 6 o'clock of your
field of view. And you'll go ahead and do the
52 photographs. Okay, following that, in this pad,
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it's going to refer you to a special test which

is on a - a different pad, a JOP 18D pointing pad.
And in it, we're going to ask you to go through a
series of maneuvers which allows us to determine
if the problem has been associated, or the problem
we got on the last time was associatedwith roll.
And I believe that - that is fairly selfexplanatory
when you read it. What - what we're asking you to
do is basically Just moving - maneuvering it back
and forth in a single axis and making sure that it
goes along that axis. And we are giving you a
specific offset that we determined from your last
point test, a specific roll offset, that is.
SPT Okay, Crip, and we can work that straight off the
pad, we don't need a JOP Summary Sheet or any other
paper associated with it?
CC No, sir. That's straight off the pad that you can
do this maneuvering portion. And when you get to
the end of that, you go ahead and go back to the -
to the J0P 18D Summary Sheet to pick up the reposi-
tioning for doing the 82B and 55 portions of it.
Now the - the maneuvering on this special test
will probably carry you around through one - one
whole pass. We hope that you're going to be able
to complete it on that one and then get into the
82B on the next - next time that you get comet-rise.
But if you don't, we do want to do the pointing
test even to the point of overriding the 82B stuff.
SPT Okay, and to - what is the magnitude of the star

that we'll be working with?
353 01 20 18 CC Think you might have me there. We - we give you

the option on this of using the star or the comet.
They're going to be right together and I'll try to
get a magnitude here for you shortly. We're going
to go LOS in about 30 seconds and we're going to
have you again over Madrid in 5 minutes. But that's
going to be your med conference at 01:25. Honey-
suckle follows at 02:ll, 02:ll. And I can go
ahead and talk to you a little bit more about it.
SPT Okay, Crip you talked about a comet-rise before and

that would imply that it sets which makes me wonder
how much of the orbit is not usable.
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CC Okay, we're going to go around and get two - you'll

get comet-rise, you'll get set and then we'll come
around and get comet-rise again and do the other
portions Of it. For Jet's information, we got a
good delta-P on the condensate tank. And we're
going over the hill now.
SPT Thank you, Crip, I've got a couple of questions.

I'll talk to you later.
353 01 21 12 CC Yes, sir.
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Time: 353:01:30 to 353:03:00
Page i of 6/1995
353 02 12 17 CC Skylab, Houston; I've got you for 30 seconds to tell

you we're going to get you stateside at 02:41 over
Texas. That's about 30 minutes away.
CDR Roger. How's the oondensate delta-P look?
CC We show it at hl, it's dropped off from what -

slightly from what we saw it initially.
CDR Okay. That procedure's all complete now.
353 02 12 46 CC Very good, thank you. And for Ed's information,

Antares is going to be the star, and it's plus 1.2.
And I can talk to him some more over stateside.
353 02 hl 36 CC Skylab, Houston; we're AOS through Goldstone, and

we have you for about i0 minutes across the states.
Skylab, we see that we've got all of our VTR info
on. And we're going to take and rewind it for dump,
so it's not available for your use.
SPT Roger, Crip.
CC And, also, if some - if it's convenient for somebody,

we would appreciate it if they could give us a
FRAME REMAINING count on the ATM C&D tonight.
SPT Coming at you, Crip. 08h65, 02118, 00053, 00616,

03809, 02462.
CC Copy that, Ed.
CC And if the CDR is available, I would like to ask

one little question about putting things down on
Flight Plans.
CDR Go ahead.
353 02 _3 13 CC Roger, Jer, and looking at the Flight Plan that

you had today, it's obvious to me how I would have
probably ended up missing that 151 that you had
scheduled for 92, in that it sort of followed the
split in the page plus it's put down at the very
bottom. We were trying to think of ways that we
might of made that clearer to you. One of them,
of course, is to put it up before the - the item
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or the experiment that is to be photographed, which

we will try to do in the future. The other item
we were considering doing, and we were wondering
whether it was worthwhile or not, was putting it
in details. Do you - Would something like that
help or Just make your details longer?
CDR Oh, Crip, I think this was sort of an isolated case.

I think probably the way we're doing it is okay.
I thir_k probably the most helpful thing would be
for maybe to have the CAP COMM say don't forget.
CC Okay, we'll certainly try to do that in the future,

we're - we're - -
CDR That's how you kept us from messing up nuZ updates

and missing those all the time, and this might be
another good way.
353 02 hA 22 CC Okay, we'll - we'll try to remind you of those

little items as we go through the Flight Plan in -
in the future. And that's about all the items I
had - excuse me, had this evening. The delta-P is
looking good on the condensate tank, which we're
all thankful for. We didn't want to go through the
ditties that we'd had during Al's mission. And
I - we would - got some evening news for you that
I can run through at your convenience.
CDR Okay, I think we're all ready.
CC Okay, everybody down here in the MOCR enjoys hearing

me try to read the evening news, also.
CDR Do you use sound effects like Bruce does?
CC No, I don't. I'm - I'm not as good as Bruce when

it comes to doing things like evening news. Roger.
And corollary is assllm_ng that we did get S019 back
in the SAL and got it all evacuated and ready for
use tomorrow.
CDR That's affirmative.

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353 02 h5 34 CC Okay, very good. I'ii - I'ii press on and - and

try to give you some news then. Man may have walked
upright more than 3 million years ago, according
to a new find of leg bones in Ethiopia. If the
estimate of the age of the bones is confirmed, the
finding would be the first direct evidence that m_n
was walking erect that long ago. The finding was
reported by Addis Ababa by Dr. Carl Johanson of
Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio,
who said he found fossilized human bones last
October in the Hadar River basin near the town of
Dase in Wallo Province. Dr. Johanson told the
ETHIOPIAN HERALD in an interview published Sunday
that the find constitutes the only known evidence
that man was walking on two legs 3 or 4 million years
ago. In this country, Dr. fan Tattersall, physical
anthropologist at the American Museum of Natural
History in New York, said that if the report is
correct, it would push back the minimum age at which
man walked upright. Dr. Tattersall noted that
Johanson's finding would be somewhat older than the
findings last year by British anthropologist
Richard Leakey. Richard Nixon was - has scheduled
.... a meeting Wednesday afternoon with chief energy
adviser William Simon as the deadline approaches
for a_m_nistration decision on gasoline rationing.
Deputy Press Secretary Warren would not predict
whether the Wednesday meeting would bring an an-
nouncement on rationing. Simon has said he expects
a rationing decision to be made this week.
353 02 h7 18 CC And speaking of energy, we did have t_, clarify for

some of the members of the press down here, when
we talked about using gas that we were talking about
only pure nitrogen and didn't have any petroleum
products as regards to Skylab. College basketball
polls, the UPI rates the - the teama in the fol-
lowing order: UCLA, number l; North Carolina,
number 2; Notre Dame, number 3; Marquette, 4;
Maryland, 5; North Carolina State, 6; and Indiana,
7. AP poll had UCLA, number l; Maryland, number 2;
Norte Dame, 3; North Carolina, 4; North Carolina
State, 5; Marquette, 6; and Indiana, number 7. The
Wolf pack of North Carolina State beat Kansas in the
Liberty Bowl last night by a score of 31 to 18.
And the Reno Turf Club had picked the Miami Dolphins
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as a 2 to i favorite to win the Super Bowl. And

if Minnesota gets in, they're a 3 to i and Dallas
and Los Angeles are both rated at 4 to 1. And also
today, the - the ladies over in our office managed
to fix one of their great lunches to honor the first
two Skylab crews and we - we missed you guys there.
CDR Yes, I'm sorry we couldn't be there.
353 02 48 37 SpT We missed being with the folks and we missed the
lunch.
CC Roger. We'll - we'll get them to work one up when

you guys get back, must have put on another
i0 pounds.
CC I even got a round of applause from the MOCR down

here regarding my news report tonight. I didn't
fumble over three or four times.
SPT Well, that' s show biz.
CC Roger.
CDR All you guys in the MOCR better be careful, you're

going to spoil him.
CC Don't worry, they haven't done that yet.
SPT Say, Crip. You going to read the news?
CC Th_nk you.
CC You're kind of like the FOMR.
357 02 53 35 CC SPT, Houston. I'm assuming, Ed, that you've got

no more questions that I can run over with you
on that JOP 18D you got tomorrow. Still trying
to get Bill back from the SLS.
SPT Yes, Crip. The question which I had was how much
time do we have of common viewing time versus the
time that it's set?
CC I'm- I'm sorry, Ed. I didn't - didn't quite get

all that question.
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SPT Okay, Crip, I want to know in what fraction of the

orbit will we be able to see the comet and what
period Of time will we not be able to?
CC Okay, let's see if I can give you that answer

fairly quickly.
353 02 56 03 CC Okay, Ed, we've got you for about another minute
and half here. And here we had a little keyhole.
I've got the time available for you that - that
the co - comet is going to be visible.
CC SPT, Houston, you read me now okay?
SPT Right. I read you now, Crip. You were broken

up there a little while.
CC Okay, I'm sorry I dropped out. We're 1 minute

from LOS and we're going to say good night to you
here. Madrid is, if you need to call us, is going
to be at 03:02. That's only about 5-1/2 minutes
away. The times that the thing is available, it's
almost the day - the whole daylight side. And
_ it's - for example,it's on the first time. It's
going to be from 15:39 to 16:34 and 17:12 to 18:07
on the second rev.
SPT Okay, Crip, thanks very much.
353 02 57 2h CC Okeydoke, I think it'll be pretty clear once you

get a chance to take the pad and go through it
tomorrow morning. And we have allotted the - the
hour that you've requested. Take down and put it
on your JOP sheet.
SPT Okay, I see that in the Flight Plan; thanks very

much for that. Make it go a lot smoother, I'm
sure. What time is the first maneuver?
CC Maneuver time is going to be go ATT HOLD at 15:51.

And that's - that's our first estimate on this
thing that don't - well it's probably our - about
our sixth estimate, but that is still being looked
at in the SLS right now. But it should be okay.
SPT Okay, I guess that's your first and final - your

first ...
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353 02 58 i0 CC That's affirmative. You only maneuver out to it

once and then you come back later. Going over
the hill.
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353 03 03 12 CC (Music: "Goodnight Irene" by The Miteh Miller

Singers)
CDR Good night, Crip.
CC Nighty-night, guys.
353 03 07 12 CDR Okay, we'll name the next moth Irene.
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CC Skylab, Houston. We'll like to send up a nav up-

date and need the DAS for a couple of minutes.
353 12 55 26 SPT You've got it.
CC Ed, this is Houston. They say that we'd like to

go ahead with J0P 26, but following that we're
not interested in JOP 25. We'd like to have you
go ahead with the shopping list according to your
best Judgment.
CC On active region 00, they say.
SPT That's where I'd be headed; thank you.
353 12 58 59 CC Ed, This is Houston. We'd like to have the high

voltage on, on the X-REA.
353 12 59 15 CC Thank you.
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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TI_SCRIPTION
353 13 00 56 CC Skylab, this is Houston. We have LOS in I minute.

The primary coolant loop is looking in good shape,
and we hope you enjoy the slight additional cool-
ing you might get. And, we'll be seeing you over
Tananarive in about 13 minutes, that's at 13 _5.
353 13 01 17 SPT Roger.
35B 13 16 43 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Tananarive for

the next 9 minutes.
CDR Roger, Karl.
353 13 24 16 CC Skylab, this is Houston. We have 2 minutes to

LOS. The reception's pretty poor. We'll see
you over Hawaii at 14:00, about 34 minutes from
now.
353 13 24 39 CC Houston, this is Skylab. 1 minute to LOS; see

_- you over Hawaiiat 14:00.
353 13 24 46 CDR Roger, Karl.
353 14 O0 47 CC Skylab, Houston through Hawaii for 7-1/2 minutes.

Good morning from the bronze team.
353 14 00 57 CDR Good morning, good morning.
CC CDR, Houston.
CDR Roger, go ahead.
CC Jer, something we should have got up earlier and

we - we let it slip here; on - on your next ATM
pass we would like for you to align the electronic
erosshairs to the comet overlay.
353 14 Ol 52 CDR Okay, Hank, I'll align it to the center of the

occulting disk.
SPT Hank, the way we plan to align those is to put

the overlay on the occulting _isk and center
that as best we can and then use the erosshairs
at the very center to mark our overlay. But the
objective is to put it on at the center of the
occulting disk, which you can do by using the
overlay.
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353 14 03 05 CC Okay, we copy that, Ed.
353 lh 05 14 CC Skylab, Houston. We're still discussing that

pointing alignment down here on the electronic
.crosshairs. I think you said it right, but just
let's verify here. After you center the overlay
on the S052 field of view, then we align the
crosshairs - electronic crosshairs - on the dot
which is right in the center.
CDR Yes, that's right.
353 14 07 33 CC Skylab, Houston; we're about i minute from LOS.

We'll see you at Vanguard in 22 minutes. And
advise that the JOP 18 maneuver pad calls for
a nu Z update, I think, starting at a window of
about 14:08. We won't need that now since we
got one earlier today.
353 l_ 07 59 CDR Roger.
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353 14 30 32 MCC Skylab, Houston, with the ATM conference. Over.
SPT Morning, Bill, go ahead.
MCC Okay. Let me hit you real quick here with a

couple of solar topics and then I'll get into
J0P 18D discussion if you'd like. Okay, on
the Sun you've already seen that P59 lifted off
last night, the remaining smsll portion of it we
feel may not actually be the old $37, but it's
probably old $39, which is why it's still there.
00 has increased its activity, three flares last
evening; C-l, a subnormal and a 1 normal. No big
_rks required there. If you're having difficulty
locating the neutral line, you've got a lot of
company and we anticipate possibly increased
activity for the next 2h to h8 hours out of that.
If you're at the H-alpha, there's a potential new
bipolar region coming out right below 03. We
don't know what to make of that just yet. For
the - -
SPT 03?
353 14 31 39 MCC Yes; right below 03, NOAA sees a little bitty
bipolar - bipole coming out there.
SPT Okay.
MCC And, the plan for today had concentrated almost

exclusively on P59, which is no longer around.
NOAA doesn't really know whether it's liable to
reform or not. In all likelihood, we will be
replanning the ATM passes after the comet maneuver,
changing the emphasis from P59 to active region
00, and you might Just file that in the back of
your mind for thinking about here. We've got
7 minutes left on this pass. Let me see what
questions you've got, and then I'll talk 18 Delta
with you.
SPT 0kay_ just a couple of comments. Last night,

which I did - I believe we did mention air-to-
ground we did see the - the streamer out there
about P59 become a little broader at the base,
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especially towards the south, and I'm wondering

whether that was the initial part of that rising
off. I think going to active region l0 is a
good plan. I had trouble, as you Just pointed
out, finding the - the neutral line. When I
chased it all around, I ended up with an isolated
pole up here towards the north, and I'd like some
better words from you, if I could later on, once
we start working it. Over on 18 Delta, I guess
I got a couple of questions lined up here. And
unless you got something specific, why don't you
let me ask them?
353 14 33 13 MCC Okay, why don't you ask your questions and then
I've almost got a walkthrough here of it, pointing
out important things that I've picked up on the
SLS and other thoughts. So go ahead with yours.
SPT Okay. Step 21, it says star STDN data only,

do not use star tracker for maneuvering, and yet
we have all the information. I - That information
there is only to use if you cannot find anything
at all in the 52 field of view. That was the
reason it was put in there and I would still use
that in that instance, and I'm wondering why it
was put in there - do not use it for maneuvering.
MCC Okay, the problem there is that, even if you

don't see anything, you can't use it. The comet
is moving at 8 arc - 8 arc minutes per hour and
the star tracker gimbal angles are only valid at
one given time, that is, toward the beginning of
the first orbit. And really we'd have to provide
you with a matrix of gimbal angles updated every
5 minutes in order for that to be useful informa-
tion If you do the JOP as printed now, with those
star tracker angles, the maneuver you made would
point you to where the comet was probably an hour
and a half ago, by the time you get around to
doing that. We'll use your inner and outer gimbal
angle numbers to compute after the fact where the
various maneuvers had you, but we don't feel at
this time that we can use the star to point us.
We should get that fixed up for next time, but
for now, we Just can't do it. And the C's - the
C matrix probably should not have been sent.
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353 14 34 47 SPT Okay, very good. I understand now. On step 25,

it says to - Before each 82B exposure maneuver,
to place comet in the 52 field of view and repeat
step 18 to place 82B at comet - comet nucleus.
The question there is, do you mean before each
exposure - That means after the SHORT exposure,
wait for exposure of 20 minutes, we repoint before
the LONG WAVELENGTH exposure of 20 - of 7 minutes
and if so, what do we do with 56 which has got
an exposure of 27 minutes?
MCC That's affirmative. You do repoint at the end

of the 20-second SHORT prior to the initiation
of the 7 - 20-minute SHORT prior to 7-minute LONG.
You leave 56 open. You will not be off very long
and there - they've got that long integration and
don't feel that will affect - effect them adver-
sely what much. This again is due to the 8 arc
minute per hour motion. The - we did not have
enough time for the computer to compute the
motion compensation the JOP was set up for in
step 25. Again, we promise that for future
18 Deltas, but this one we just couldn't make
it. This is our work aroundthat repointsus.
Over.
353 14 36 05 SPT Okay. It also says to repoint and take additional

exposure in 82B WAVELENGTH, LONG. By repoint, do
you mean again to the comet nucleus? And also,
where is the axis of the nucleus - l'm sorry, the
axis of the comet relative to the slit, what's
the angle?
MCC Okay. Yes, we do mean to repoint again. You

should find that the comet tail will be streaming
off to your right. The motion is to your left
and the Sun would be toward the left. So that if
you had a maneuver that put the slit slightly to
the left of the nucleus, comet motion would carry
the nucleus through the slit, eventually. So
that that's the direction and attitude. Over.
SPT So, when we initially point at the nucleus,

ideally then what we're going to see is the
nucleus and then the coma and eventually the
tail, if we wait long enough.
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MCC That's right and the SHORT WAVELENGTH 82B, of

course, is looking at Lyman alpha, which is like
a 2-degree target, so there's no real criticality
on the pointing there. The LONG WAVELENGTH is
looking primarily at the OH and CN radicals, with
like a 2-arc-minute nucleus, so that those are
the ones for which the pointing is very critical.
And that's why we have to play the game to peak
up before each LONG exposure. Over.
SPT Okay. Very good. I understand.
353 14 37 35 MCC Okay. I'm not going to get anywhere near through
my list here. Incidentally, I'll be standing by
here in the MOCR, if you've got any questions
of me, I'll be standing by through your J0P 18D.
The 55 GRATING, we have initially given you both
OPTICAL and MECH REF nnmhers, because you will
be starting with it probably in OPTICAL REF. We
never change the grating so that - just leave it
in wherever it is, OPTICAL or MECH REF. A reminder
here from ASC0, in step i0, we do not do the
momentum bias, but you do do the rest of step i0,
the ACQ SUN SENSOR reconfigurations. When you
first acquire, you should find the comet at about
6 o'clock about midway in your overlay field of
view. The first thing you do is a maneuver - Let
me break here.
353 lh 38 26 MCC We've got 1 minute to LOS. Tananarive is next

in 16 minutes. And it's not very long, we may
miss it. After that is Hawaii in 58 minutes
from now. Okay, so you mFuke a slight maneuver
to put the head over to the left and get as much
of the tail into the 52 field of view as you can.
There's no hurry here. The ASAP for starting
BB30 just indicates that we don't have a time to
put there. Whenever you're ready, go ahead and
start. We will be - you'll be putting the overlay
on with our best quess as to the bias 5650, which
is plus 250. One thing is watch out, we now have
a 90-degree roll-in which makes it easy to confuse
the X- and Y-axis if you're thinking of zero roll.
And also in the simulator, especially, you need
to pay a lot of attention to the paralax problem
to repoint your head to the paralax problem to
repoint your head at the same p - up position.
Antares should be in there, and it's a 1.2 magni-
tude star.
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353 14 39 28 M_C And it looks like we're just about LOS. We can
talk to you next.
353 14 39 33 SPT Okay ...
353 14 57 00 MCC Okay, Ed, we,re back with you here through
Tananarvie. We may not last very long. Hawaii
will be the last pass prior to maneuver initiate.
That's 40 minutes from now, and it'll be about
a 9-minute pass. Let me give you opportunity
for questions. Over.
SPT Bill, l'm still working through the pointing

test. I don't see anything that - any major
questions, we've taken a little time to go
through it all.
MCC Okay, let me just hit a couple of more high

points here and then I'ii finish off at Hawaii.
On the pointing test pad, steps 2 and 3, we've
got three places where there is five - oh, like
five symbols. We apologize for that, that should
have been a line where you could write. And it's
going to be hard to write over those,but I don't
L want you to think that that's a number that we're
giving you. Those should be place to write. On
the pointing test, take as long as necessary,
even if it takes the entire second orbit.
SPT Bill, let's go back to what you Just said ....

plage .... 120 and 0. If we turn out not to be
on the axis, then you want a straight Y-axis or
X-axis maneuver. Is that affirm?
MCC That's affirmative. What we say is approximate

and then just make your maneuver. If you're
right on the axis, great; if not, you're just
looking that you parallel the proper axes.
SPT Okay, and those maneuvers, or the desired X

and Y - should have negatives in front of them.
Is that affirm?
MCC That's affirmative. We've written down XD

itself, and XM then is XP munus XD.
SPT Okay, very good. I see it written above but ...

clarify ... axes.
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SPT Okay, Bill, it's Just taking a long time to go

through all this.
353 14 59 05 MCC Okay, I certainly understand. We're sorry we

didn't get it to you last night. On the overshoot
measure when we get that number, if you downlink
that to us, we'll try to get word up to you as
to what to do about it, if anything. And looks
like we're going over the hill here. We'll see
you in Hawaii in 37 minutes.
SPT Looks like the only thing you can do with it is

try to figure out what percentage it is. That
is, going back from octals to decimals, figure
a percent, put that into our HP-35. And then
we've got to take it, convert everything back
toward the decimal and octal again to make it
work.
MCC That's one thing. There's a lot of thought

here, though, that it may not be a percentage,
it may be a constant overshoot, which will be
real easy to handle while still in octal.
SPT If you put a unit - a 0.01-degree maneuver in,

it would overshoot?
MCC Well, that's the one thing we're not sure of.
That's why we're making the 220-octal-unit
maneuvers, and then later the 30-unit to see if
if the overshoot is the same.
353 15 00 09 SPT Understand.

And if someone is available, I'd like to get a
REG BUS ADJUST - get ready for the JOP 18.
SPT Go ahead, Hank.
CC Okay, on REG BUS l, we'd like to go 20 degrees

counterclockwise, and on REG BUS 2, 25 degrees
counterclockwise.
SPT How's that look, Hank?

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CC Okay, we'll take a look at it. And for informa-

tion, we'll be dumping the recorder this site.
And, Ed, Bill is standing by for a little more
discussion on the JOP 18.
SPT Go ahead, Bill.
352 15 37 41 MCC Okay. Let me give you a couple of goodies here

before we get into it. The station passes perti-
nent to the JOP 18, we will have Vanguard at
16:08, 16:08. Shortly after you have begun the
maneuver, we will have Ascension at 16:2h. Then
ere is a big gap until Vanguard again at 17:45,
when we're almost through with the whole JOP 18D.
I give you those so that you can plan ahead any
comme.nts that you've got to us. The Ascension
at 16:24 is a 4-minute pass, and that's probably
your only opportunity to pass us any overshoot
information you've got. Depending on what it is,
we may or may not be able to work it out in real
time. If it's a scaled overshoot, obviously, the
smaller maneuvers will give us the smaller errors,
and we'll have to try to work out something here
as quickly as we can to tell you how to account
for that. I gave you one bit of misleading infor-
mation before. The star tracker data that you
have is valid as vest as we can compute at 17:20.
That's right at the beginning of the second rev.
That means if all else fails and we never see the
comet, we can still do the 52 ops in the first
rev; we can do the pointing test on the Antares
for the rest of the first rev; and at 17:20, we
can use the startracker to point to where it thinks
the comet is and proceed with our exposures Just
based on a - ass,,m_ng that got us there. Hopefully,
we will see the comet. The TV we asked for is, if
convenient, the whole world here would like to
look over your shoulder a little bit, and hopefully
we'll have something interesting to look at. So
that's whenever that fits in, but don't let it
interfere. The time we thought was maybe while
you're doing the pointing test, just moving it
around then it won't be in your way adding time
or anything of that nature.
353 15 39 53 SPT How much time do we have on the VTR?

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MCC Stand by, we'll get that number for you. And one
thought here, when you are peaking the 55 DETECTOR,
the best word I can get is to expect about l0 times
the background, and that's a very rough idea.
You'll get a hint on the background when you run
the - the MAR during the 52 data-take, because that
ought to be out in the middle of nowhere. And what
you should expect when you're on the comet with the
grating is about lO times the background; that's
very rough. And you can decide on your own how
much time to budget to that step 19, but don't get
hung up there forever. And we can Just press on
from there with the - assuming that our maneuver
was right, and we can take a look at the star track-
er. Okay, let's see. What -what other questions,
comments have you come up with during the interim?
Over.
353 15 40 57 SPT Nothing additional, Bill; I'm just going through

it again.
MCC Okay. I'll be sitting here. If there's any way

I can help you out, Just let me know.
SPT Okay, Bill; appreciate you help.
MCC Okay, and you've got about 23 minutes on the VTR

you can use. You don't have to use it all.
SPT Okay, does that mean we have to cut it off after

23, or do you want us to run it to the end? The
reason I'm asking is if we turn it on do we have
to know a specific time to turn it off? Or can we
Just leave her running as long as we got something
up there?
MCC Okay, that's affirmative. There's 7 minutes

already on it. You can turn it on and let it run
to end of tape. So you've got about 23 minutes
in there.
SPT Thank you.
MCC Okay, and what that will do, incidentally, is that

will force us to forego the subsequent ATM solar
TV so we've got up to 23 minutes available.
Whatever you don't use on the comet, we will use
on ATM later on the Sun.
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SPT Okay, 1 understand, Bill. Thank you.
CC And, SPT, Houston; that HEG ADJUST looks good to us.
353 15 42 37 SPT Thank you, Hank.
353 15 43 55 CC Okay, and Ed, Houston again here. On the maneuver

you can expect some TACS firings. I got 7 mibs
during the pointing test in the SLS last night,
and that appears to be about what we would antic-
ipate that you should expect. It does not interfer
with the pointing test except that you can see
the - the jumps and the blips while you're doing
the maneuver.
SPT How about during the periods of ATT HOLD out there,
pointing at the comet?
CC Okay, right now we're not estimating any, but these

are only rough estimates. And that shouldn't affect
the very long integration times that we've got.
353 15 44 39 SPT Question again on 56. Should I just leave that

- shutteropen as long as we're doing the 82_Bex-
posures?
CC Roger; that's affirmative. Leave it open as long

as - as long as you've got in there for 82B. And
let's see, I believe they're asking for 27 minutes.
Is that right?
SPT That's right. They'll give us considerably longer

than that if we keep maneuvering around for 82B.
CC Roger, Ed. Why don't you leave 56 open as long

as you can in there, and we'll get more than 27
if we can.
SPT Okay.
353 15 45 32 CC And, Skylab. We're about 40 seconds from LOS.

We'll see you at Vanguard at 08, 22 minutes from
now.
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353 16 08 ii CC Skylab, Houston through Vanguard for 7-1/2 minutes.
CC SPT, Houston. We need to uplink some momentum

biases if we could have the DAS?
SPT Okay, Hank. Go ahead. We've made the maneuver

and unable to see the comet so far. We checked
to make sure we had put in the fine maneuver by
putting it in again here at SOLAR INERTIAL. We
still don't see it, so we're going to go back to
original reference, SOLAR INERTIAL, and look again.
CC We copy.
CC SPT, Houston. Did you see Antares?
SPT Negative, Hank.
CC Roger. We copy.
f .
353 16 09 37 CC And, SPT, the DAS is yours.
SPT Before we initialize attitude - or the strapdowns,

Hank, we ended up with a final of V at about
x,y,z
3.0, 342.1 and 351.5 or maybe 6. That's 351.5
or 0.6.
CC Roger. We copy.
SPT Okay, Hank, we found it. It's right down at the

very bottom edge of the tube, Just about off.
CC Good show. We copy.
CC Was - was what you found, the comet or Antares?
SPT Hank, we can't tell. We've got a - It looks like

a star, but we've not gotten a sufficient resolu-
tion on it yet, and it's right down at the very
edge of the tube and now gone off. We're going
to m_e a maneuver down in order to get a look at
it.
CC Okay. We copy.
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see you at Ascension at 25, that's about l0 minutes.
SPT Hank, it looks pretty much like a star. We cannot

see any tail on it, so we'll Just keep looking.
353 16 15 13 CC Roger. Bill advises that if it is a - a - a bright

point, it would probably be Antares. And the comet,
being more diffuse, would - wouldn't appear the
S 8x_e.
353 16 2h 02 MCC Skylab, Houston through Ascension for about h min-

utes here, Ed. And I've got some advice for you
if your situation has not changed. Over.
SPT Go ahead, Bill.
MCC Okay, I assume you can see Antares, but not the
comet. Is that true?
SPT That's affirm. We're out at about llO octal in

plus X.
353 16 24 29 MCC Okay. The advice is to go ahead and proceed with

the 52 data take if you have not already done that.
Proceed from that into the pointing test on Antares,
and complete that, taking as much time as required.
On the second daylight pass, start with the Antares,
about where it is now, compute a maneuver to center
Antares, perform that maneuver, then do the step 19,
55 search. But don't wait too long because the -
Don't dally to long at it because our pointing will
be off. Then perform steps 21, 22, and 23 after
returning the mirror to slit center. And that is
the full star tracker maneuver calculation and
maneuver. That is valid at 17:20. If you do it
after that, that is still all right. That should
give us a good 82B first exposure on the Lyman -
alfa cloud. So, since we cannot see it, we'll
do the 52 data take where we are. We can l_erform
the pointing test with no problem. We will use
the star tracker to center the comet, where we
think it is at 17:20. And we will go ahead and
proceed with the building block 30 as indicated;
except between 82B exposures, we will not make
the maneuver out and back to recenter it, since
we don't know where it is. Over.
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SPT Okay, Bill. I understand. We'll press on.
MCC Okay. Good enough. Good luck.
CC Skylab, Houston. We 're 1 minute from LOS.
353 16 27 45 CC We'll see you at Vanguard at 17:45, with a data

recorder dump, and that's an hour and 18 minutes.
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353 17 45 39 CC Skylab, Houston through Vanguard for 10-1/2 min-

utes. And we'll be dumping the recorder.
CDR Roger, Hank. We're still trying to get our align-

ment - our ROLL alignment squared away. We're
down to our last whack now, I think. We've got
the target up high. We're going to shift it down
to the bottom and I think we'll finally have her
aligned. At least to within the accuracies that
are acceptable.
CC Okay, Jer. We copy.
CDR Rather than acceptable, I should say attainable.
CDR Looks like we can't position it in ROLL much more

accurately than about 50 arc minutes.
CC Roger. We copy.
PLT Hank, I was Just voice recording when we came up

there. I hope I didn't get the tail end of it.
B5B 17 _6 51 PLT Hank, PLT here. I Just put some stuff on tape
which may be of interest to the people concerned
with ATM C&D coolant loop. It had to do with the
sound that we reported yesterday.
CC Okay, Bill. We copy.
CC And we haven't started the dump yet, so that should

be okay.
PLT Beautiful. What I did, I took a bunch of sound-

level readings around with the pump running and
with the pump off.
CC Hey, that ought to be interesting to look at.
PLT It's sure frustrating, because that pump sure makes

you perk up your ears when you hear it. But, boy,
I tell you (laughter), if you'll pardon the expres-
sion, the difference is in the noice level.
f_
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353 17 48 02 CC Skylab, Houston. We might suggest that after you

get the canister positioned to do the roll thing,
if you'll take the MPC ROLL to INHIBIT, it might
make the canister a little bit more stable during
the maneuver.
353 17 50 43 MCC Skylab, Houston. I've got another thought for

you here, when you've got just about a half a
minute to copy.
SPT Go ahead, Bill.
MCC Okay. Don't know whether you caught our call

about INHIBITing the ROLL, ENABLE; that's one
thought. It appears that, at best, you'll finish
the pointing test here with maybe l0 minutes or
so left in the day orbit. Go ahead, if you've
got any time left at all, and take the 82B SHORT
WAVELENGTH exposure with whatever time remains.
And the - forget the star tracker pointing, be-
cause some of the stars have set. The gas cloud
we're looking at in Lyman alpha is like 2 degrees
apart. So Just do the maneuver that appears to
center Antares in the center of the field of view.
And then we're almost certain to be plenty close
enough for 82B. Go into BB 30 and take data for
the remaining part of the comet-rise time. Over.
353 17 51 45 SPT Okay. You want us to pick up on step 8 then?

That's about where we are in the - the test here -
and then 8, 9, and I0?
MCC Go ahead and finish the pointing test. Don't let

what I said hurry you through there. Do all of
that until you're happy with it. In the event you
finish with some time remaining, then go ahead
and take as much 82B time as you have left after
centering Antares. Don't do the star tracker
stuff, because stars have set. But if the point-
ing test requires the remainder of the orbit, go
ahead and use it.
SPT Okay, Bill. How about us centering a position,

which is l0 in octal, to the left of Antares,
which is about where the comet would be?
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MCC That's fine, but it's not necessary, if that's

any extra trouble. But that would be fine.
SPT Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're going LOS in I minute.
353 17 55 30 CC We'll see you at Ascension at 59, 3-1/2 minutes.
353 17 58 55 CC Skylab, Houston through Ascension for

10-1/2 minutes.
353 18 05 03 CC Skylab, Houston. For info, since prominence 59

lifted off last night and we had three passes of
observing time on that this afternoon, we're going
to have to change your ATM schedule. We're going
to ship up a - a page of the schedule that will
replace the one you got. And it will cover the
18:50 rev and the 20:40 rev. The - and we'll get
the rest of it up to you at Guam. But that'll at
least cover you for the next couple of passes.
It calls out looking at a new active region 04,
which is located at 220.3, and the flare proba-
.... bility is 100. That info will also be on the pad.
CDR Okay, thank you, Hank.
CC And, Skylab, that message is on board. We'll slew

it out now, and it will not have a trailer.

Our next station contact is Guam at 43,
34-1/2 minutes.
353 18 09 42 SPT Okay, Hank. What's the possibility of staying at

this attitude any longer, or electrical and other
considerations that say we have to go back at
18:147
CC Roger. Our momentum analysis won't allow it, Ed.

We'll - we'll - we can't stay any longer than the
Flight Plan called for.
353 18 l0 06 SPT Okay.

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CDR Roger, Hank.
CC Skylab, Houston. Would it be convenient to read

down the results of the pointing test? We've
got another 18D coming up here in 2 days, and we'd
sure like to have that data to crank into the
loop, if it's convenient.
B5B 18 4_ 00 SPT Tell you, Hank, its going to take a little while
for me to go back and - and organize it and put
it in understandable manner. And I think it's
best done on - on tape. And the problem here
being I got an ATMpass and the M092 coming right
up after it. So what I might do is move the
M092 run back a little. We didn't have a real
organized format for doing that, which is one of
problems of that stuff coming up late. So we had
to make up our own little sheets of paper here
and keep track of where we were going to and from
and maneuvers and so forth. And it's going to
take me a little while to pull all that - all
those words in an understandable way so that you
folks can really use it.
CC Okay, Ed. Don't - Don't change the flight sched-

ule. Just whenever its convenient to get it on
tape. But sometime today if you'd let us know
when you do have it on, and then we can look for
it.
B5B 18 _ 52 SPT Okay, Hank. What we essentially came up with was

a roll of - 5700 appeared to be about the best we
could actually come up with. That gave us about
an error of maybe plus or minus i in Y when we
made the large X maneuvers. The large X maneuvers
always tended to overshoot. Thepercentage of
overshoot was not always a constant, which was
surprising to us. So I'ii put it on tape and see
what we can come up with.
CC Roger; we copy. And as you hear there, page 2 of

your new ATM schedule is tapping out on board.
SPT Okay, I got the one for this upcoming pass right
here. Thank you.
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SPT One of the problems during that whole test, Hank,

was that the roll on the grid which was required
did not seem to be a constant. It seemed to be
meandering around, and we found that 5700 appeared
to be about the - a good compromise. I'll give
you the data and you might be able to see what
we mean. You also have all of the maneuvers which
were put in down there, I know, on tapes, so you'll
be able to follow it - but do that also.
CC Okay. Thank you.
353 18 46 16 SPT I think what we ought to be doing in the future

is to maneuver whatever we want to look at -
whether it's a star or the comet - onto the
X-axis, and then Just make a straight X maneuver.
And we've got to figure out what percentage to
put in there or what bias to put in there in
terms of the length.
CC That sounds good, Ed. And, that - that is what

we're working towards.
SPT I'm wondering why we were so far off initially

on it. We - we Just managed to see the thing in
the bottom Of the display by putting our - you
had to put your head right up against the panel
and look down past where the metal ring around
TV was in order to actually see where - actually
see the comet - or, I'm sorry, the star.
CC The preliminary information we had, Ed, was that

Antares would be pretty close to the edge at the
end of the maneuver.
353 18 47 hl SPT Okay, I was looking at it - looking for it at

about the same position we saw Mercury last time,
and it was much further down.
CC What we did was target for the comet where Mercury

was, and that would have put Antares much closer
to the edge.
SPT My understanding was that the comet head would

have been a little bit to the left of the star,
12 octal units.
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CC Okay, Ed, if the comet had been - maneuver had

ended properly and - and the comet was at the same
place of Mercury, Antares would have been to the
right and down.
SPT Okay. I didn't expect it to be that for down.
CC We didn't either.
353 18 49 07 CC And, Ed, yesterday you commented that the maneuver

from the EREP to the SI had different Y rates than
we had given you on the pad for monitoring. And
you - We went back and looked at it, and you were
right. We had an error in the pad. It was a
ground error.
SPT Okay. No problem. It didn't change at all and

it appeared that we were - that error would narrow
it down. So it didn't pose a real problem in
monitoring, but that was Just an open question in
my mind.
CC And whenever it's convenient for anyone, sometime

today we'd like to get the VACUUM FORCE VALVE on
panel 316 CLOSEd. We left it OPEN after the C&D
troubleshooting yesterday to allow the - any mois-
ture in the line to get completely evaporated out
Of there. That ought to be clean now. We can
close that valve and eliminate a potential leak
source into the condensate system.
353 18 50 30 CDR Hank, say again. We missed the first part of that
message.
CC Okay. On panel 316 there, the lock - the VACUUM

SOURCE. Doing the procedure yesterday, we left
the VALVE, OPEN and - and crank - capped it off.
That was to allow the line to completely dry out,
and we're ready to get the VALVE, CLOSED now.
We're afraid if we leave it OPEN, we may have a
potential leak source into the condensate collec-
tion system which will destroy our delta-P.
CDR Okay, Hank. We'll take care of it. Thank you.

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353 18 51 01 CC And, by the way. We'd like to give you a couple

of attaboys for all the good work on that C&D
loop yesterday. Most of it done on our shift was
completed on the next shift, and it looks like
that system is right back up to where it was at
launch now.
CDR Thank you, Hank. We were very pleased with the

procedures too. We handed out an attaboy last
night for the condition of those procedures.
CC Thank you very much.
CC And while we're passing attaboys, we'll give one

to Ed. We took a look at the T - TV-120 on the
gypsy moths, and it worked out real well, both
the video and the voice. And will you tell us
what to look for? The larva on the cotton was
distinctly visible, which we think it was pretty
good for something that small. And I'm conveying
my thanks from all the moth people and the TV
people. And we're about 40 seconds from LOS.
We'll see you again at Ascension at 19:40. And
_ that'sabout47 minutesfrom now.
353 18 52 31 SPT I wish we could give you a nice clear picture of

a comet.
CC So do we.
SPT Hank, the corona has changed considerably from

this morning in that there is a relatively large
streamer which was only briefly able to see this
morning at around 10:30, right adjacent to the
fairly strong one which was at, say, maybe 09:30
or so. So that area of the corona looks as though
its streamers are a little wider and stronger.
CC Roger. We copy, Ed. And as we go over the hill

here, you may get a nominal H-CAGE at about 19:00.
CC It could be some minutes after that. In fact it

may be as late as 19:30, we're not sure.
353 18 53 17 CC There's a possibility.
END OF TAPE
TAG Tape 353-09/T-bOO
Time: 353:19:00 to 353:20:30
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353 19 h0 27 CC Skylab, Houston. we're through Ascension, Canary,

and Madrid for 16 minutes.
CC And, Skylab, for info, we'll be dumping the re-

corder at Canaries about h or 5 minutes from now.
SPT Hank, I believe you were trying to tell me some-

thing when we went over the hill.
i
CC Okay, we were trying to tell you that there was a

good possibility of having a nominal H-CAGE while
we were LOS, and it looks like you did.
SPT Yes, I didn't quite understand what you were

telling me and we got the - the cage apparently
because w e had a _imbal_hun_ up on the stop; OUTER
GIMBAL, number 2. And I couldn't see what was
happening there at the very beginning. We started
to drift off attitude in the solar pointing, and
_ that was the first I noticed it. And we switched
out of EXPERIMENT POINTING with the experiment
doors all closed. And then I started looking at
the rates and attitudes and HT looked good, and
saw the gimbal was hung up. And what I did do
was try to get it off the stop by putting a maneuver
command in of zero attitude, which apparently
probably would have been easier just cycling in and
out of ATT HOLD CMG to SOLAR INERTIAL or STANDBY
to SOLAR INERTIAL. But we never got a TACS - TACS
only CAUTION and WARNING and it was not a msneuver,
so that one didn't occur to me. Net result was
we ended up in Y about 5 degrees attitude off for
a little while and then I went to ATT HOLD and
SOLAR INERTIAL after the zero H-CAGE. I'm sorry,
the nominal H-CAGE, and we got back.
353 19 h2 26 CC Okay, we copy. And sorry I didn't get that call

to you sooner, but we had taken some of our real
time data that we obtained and run - run it with
the MMP an= we had Just gotten the results there
at about LOS. And we tried to get it up to you.
SPT Okay. That nominal H-CAGE came first before I

made any commands into the computer.
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CC Roger. We copy. A_id we've got a - a circuit

breaker we'd like to check.
CC Okay. Belay that; we're okay now. We had a

problem with the transmitter at an earlier site,
but INCO said it's okay now. We do have a comment
from biomed in regard to the M092 MI71 that's
coming up. We would like for you to use legband
Alfa X-ray on the right leg for the M092. And
this applies to all crewmen from now on. And
also we'll give you a reminder that you do have
MI51 scheduled with that today.
353 19 44 35 CC Skylab, Houston. We had a handover there. Did

you copy my last in regard to the M0927
SPT Negative, Hank. Say again, please?
CC Okay, for the M092 coming up this afternoon we

would like for you to use legband Alfa X-ray on
the right leg. And we'd like to use this for all
crewmen from now on. And also a reminder for
today's run, we have M151 scheduled.
SPT Alfa X-ray, and 151. Thank you.
CC CDR, Houston.
CDR Go ahead.
CC Okay, in regard to the med conference today, on

your details, we'd like to move that to 01:58
at Texas because of the trouble we had with
Tananarive.
353 19 46 30 CC SPT, Houston. We noticed DETECTOR h is off. Did

it kick off due to activity - solar activity or -
or - or is there a problem with it? Okay, we see
it now. CDR, Houston. Do you have a minute to
chat about $2337
CDR Roger; go ahead.
CC Okay, we were looking at the dump tape from

yesterday and we noticed you had a problem again
with the camera, and it got us to scratching our
heads here. And we took a look at it and when
you got the shutter setting into - into B and
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using the remote cable, we noticed that, at

least on the one we got down here, the little
lock on the remote cable is kind of loose. And
that if it's not turned to the lock position when
you press the - the shutter thing down it will in-
deed pop right back out again and let the shutter
close.
353 19 48 02 CDR Yes, after playing around we kind of thought

maybe that might he the problem. And also we're
holding the camera in place with a bunch of rub-
ber bands and things. And I think when we put
it on we might have shifted the little shutter
speed knob just a tad. And I think we got it
whipped now, it's just a matter of being care-
ful when you get those rubberbands off.
CC Okay, good show. That - that shutter control

there is very sensitive. If it's not right in
the detent she won't do what's she's supposed to
do.
CDR Yes, that's right. We found it out the hard way.
353 19 51 30 CDR Houston, Skylab.
CC Go ahead.
CDR Roger, Hank. You remember about 2 weeks ago when

we were talking about the clunkity-clunknoise
down in the command module?
CC Yes.
CC It's not back, is it?
CDR Yes, it's back. You might have the people check
their data and see if - Just as you and I were
talking about the Nikon camera for $233-it came
back again. It wasn't as severe. You couldn't
feel it as much as you could Just hear it. And
I wonder if the guys down there saw it on their
data.
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CC Okay. We'll take a look.
CDR Apparently, they saw it last time, and confirmed

that it was there. And it's still with us.
CC Okay. Is it still going on now, or Just - Just

happen - -
CDR Oh, no, It only lasts about a minute or so, or

maybe less.
CC Okay. And that was about 2 minutes ago?
CDR I'm down in the command module doing checklist

changes. And I've spent - I've apparently spent
enough time here for one cycle to hit us,
CDR I'll tell you what it sounds like. If you've

ever been in an earthq,_e_e before, and _ou've
heard the sounds that go with an earthquake, that's
what this sounds like, except you don't get the
feel atall.
353 19 53 05 CC Roger. We copy. l've never had the dubious

pleasure of being in an earthquake, however.
CDR You've got to live in California for a little while,

Hank.
CC The only one they had while I was out there, I

happened to be airborne at the time.
CDR I looked over systems in the command module. I

can't see a thing. There's no indications of any
problem. And it definitely feels like it's out-
side the - the shell of the command module. As I
remember, I was suspected that maybe it was down
in the service module,
CC Roger. We copy.
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"J53 19 5h 3] CC Sky]ab, Houston. We're coming up on a keyhole.

We may not reaequire. If we don't, we'll see
you at Guam at 22.
3-5319 56 09 CC Skylab, Houston. We're out of keyhole now. With

only 30 seconds left, we'll see you at Guam.
353 20 21 56 CC Skylab, Houston, through Guam for 7 minutes.
353 20 28 09 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about h5 seconds from

LOS. We'll see you at Honeysuckle at 33.
CDR See you, Hank.
SPT Houston, SPT.
CC Go ahead.
SPT Hank, I put the pointing test information on tape.

You may _ant to dump that and get a look at it,
if you're in a hurry.
353 20 28 46 CC Okay, thank you, Ed.
END OF TAPE
Time: 353:20:30 to 353:22:00
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353 20 33 50 CC Skylab, Houston. Through Honeysuckle for

4 minutes.

353 21 21 28 CC Skylab, Houston. Through Canary and Madrid for

13 minutes.
SPT Roger, Hank.
353 21 33 20 CC Skylab, Houston, for info. It was reported that

there was a subfaint flare out of aetive region 00
at 21:16; had two maxima, one at 21:20 and one
21:28.
353 21 33 54 CC And, Skylab, we're about i minute from LOS now.
353 21 33 57 CC We'll see you at Carnarvon at 02. That's

_-_ 28 minutes.
END OF TAPE
TAG Tame Z5_-II/T-402
Time: 35_:22:00 to _53:2_:_2
Pane 1 of 8/2037
SKYLAB AIR-T0-GROUND V01CF. TRANSC_TPmION
353 22 01 50 CC Good afternoon, Skylab. We're AOS through Car-

naravon for 14-1/2 minutes.
CDR Hi, Crip; good to hear you.
CC Good to hear you, gents. Sounds like _ou've had

a busy day.
CDR Yes, indeed.
CC All of our pretty weather in Houston finally went

away. One of our Texas blue northers Just came
in and it's cold outside.
CDR That kind of weather ehan_e really gets your

attention, doesn't it?
CC Roger that_ especially when everybody's out doin_

their late Christmas shooDing.
353 22 05 ii PLT Crip, PLT here. Could you tell me what time the
VHF call is today?
CC Stand by 1 and I'll get that to you.
353 22 07 i0 CC Bill, before I get your mhone call information

to you, we show that 54 is not in the Dromer mode,
and it should be M, O, S, 256. And re_arding your
phone call tonight, that's set uD for 00:24.
PLT Roger. And on the 54, I have 22:01 Zulu, JOO 2

Alfa, step 6, buildinK block 10: omit 82A Bravo.
Information on 56, 54, but not on 54 - 56 and 55,
but not on 54. We were told to do the AlCa omtion
unless there was a note to the contrary.
CC You're - you're correct and that's - that's our

fault. We should have had motion B there.
PLT I'm going to 256 now.
CC Thank you, sir.
353 22 ll 36 CC CDR, Houston. You got a moment to talk, Jet?

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CDR Go ahead, Crip.
CC Roger. Just to let you know we had been looking

at CMG 2 down here, and that the bearing tempera-
tures at - the delta between the has decreased
down to the point where they were pretty close
to being equal, which is indicative of a problem.
But that seems to have gone away, and they've
spread back out to 2 degrees right now. We've
been concerned about it, but it looks like it's in
good shape then. No sweat for the upcoming
manuever.
CDR Okay, thanks.
SPT Crip, at what time was the delta-P at its

minimum?
353 22 12 3h CC Stand by i, Ed, I'ii get - Ed, it was approximately

2 hours ago, about 20, 21, somewhere in there.
SPT Okay, thank you. I'm wondering if the maneuver-

ing we did this morning had anything to do with
it.
CC We - we feel it was probably - been somewhat in-

duced by that and - and, Ed, it's not clear to
us right here - now as to whether that's a thermal
effect or due to loading the bearings.
SPT Roger, Crip ; thank you.
CC And, this little quirk of the CMG temp is nempe-

tative with what we've seen before in that we are
in the lower portion of the temperature duty cycle
of the heaters. And they have - they have not
come on and that's similar to what we've seen
previously.
SPT Okay; thank you, Crip. One night previously you

mentioned you might try to put that - the heaters
on at a little higher value.
353 22 lh 2h CDR Crip, are those heaters ground commandable?
CC They're - they're not commandable. We did look

at possibly putting that at somewhat a higher
value. But it was involved - involved with
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cycling of a lot of relays, and we could have

gotten ourselves in problems if one of those re-
lays did not - not cycle properly.
CDR Roger.
CC So as a result of that we've selected - that's

not the course of action we want to take.
353 22 15 13 CC Skylab, a little bit late. Sorry about it but we

were doing a du - data/voice recorder dump through
this last portion at Ho - Honeysuckle. And we're
about 1 minute from LOS. We're going to see you
over MILA in 36 minutes at 22:51_ 22:51. And_
Skylab, Houston. Your Flight Plans are on board.
CDR Thank you.
CDR Are you through with the tape recorders, Crip?
CC That' s affirmative ; they' re yours.
CDR Okay.
..... PLT Okay, Crip; PLT here. I assume that 54 also

wants the 256 on this second performance of build-
ing block 10, JOP 2A, step 6. Is that affirm?
CC Checking it.
CC That's affirmative. We do want it, Bill.
353 22 16 42 PLT Thank you.
353 22 51 40 CC Skylab, Houston; AOS MILA for 8 minutes.
CDH Eoger.
353 22 51 50 CDR Hey, Crip, pump Charlie is getting quite noisy.

I'd like to try pump Bravo with your concurrence
down there.
CC Copy that. Stand by l, Jet.
CDR Okay.
CDR Also, Crip, if pump - pump Bravo is as bad as

pump Charlie, I think we should give some con-
sideration to securing the pumps at night.
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CC Okay; f_om a flow standpoint , pump Bravo is - is

better than Charlie. Charlie's still putting out
a good flow right now.Jer, would you elaborate
on us - on that a lit - for us a little hit? We -
everything we're looking at shows that everything
hunky-dory. Looks much better than we've ever
seen it before.
CC Jer, would you elaborate a little bit on that

pump noisiness? Looking at data down here, the
situation seems much improved and better than
we've ever seen it before.
353 22 53 30 CDR It's Just that the pumps make a lot of noise.
Just a minute - I'll put it on ICOM/PTT and put
a mike next to it and you can hear it.
CC Good.
CDR Stand by a second. I got to get m_ cord a little

longer.
CC Okay, Jar. As - is that thing bothering you at

nighttrying to sleep?
SPT That's affirm, Crip. It is a little bit noisy.
CC Okay.
353 22 54 33 SPT Another thing, Crip. The real worry about that
thing is touch temperature on the panel. The
other day I had that one tube on for about half
an hour after talking with ground on it. And I
could hardly tell the difference between the one
tube I had on and the one I had off. So, I think
they're - we're really way overconservative in the
thermal problem there.
CC Roger; are you talking about when you had the

pump off?
SPT That's affirm, Crip. The other day when they

were doing the work on it and I had to have the
one monitor on until I could tell any real sig-
nificant temperature change. In over half an
hour, I could Just barely tell the difference.
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CC That's a - that's a good data point. Thank you

for it.
353 22 55 16 _DR Here it is. I think Bill took some measurements

earlier today with 487 gear. Let me give you a
listen to the rate gyros while we're at it.
CC Okay.
CDR Had enough?
CC We couldn't hear it.
SPT I think the problem is, Crip, it's not a localized

Source of noise, so with the mike you really can't
pick it up too well.
CDR Must be.
CC Ah, so. Can we hear the pump?
CDR Do you say you did hear the pump?
__ CC No, I haven't heard it yet. Have you tried put-

ting it by the pump?
CDR Yes, I tried the pumps too. I guess it Just won't

get through.
353 22 56 28 CC Yes, could be the frequency range on it too. Is -

is it a low noise?
CDR No, it's a fairly high frequency. Let me think

now, those of - Well, you been to San - St. Louis
when they were checking out the vehicle. I think
you probably heard them then when they were going.
CC Roger.
CDR They sound Just like the command module glycol

pump.
CC Okay. Do you think they sound normal and it's

Just the fact that they're so loud that they're
bothering you? Is that the problem?
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CDR They sound like the glycol pump in the command

module is all I can tell you. I haven't heard
normal ATM coolant pumps, apparently.
353 22 57 06 CC Okay. But there's no chugging or anything assoc-

iated with it like what we had prior to - prior
to doing that C&D procedure?
CDR No, that's correct. They're running a whole lot

better, Just noisy. See - before, they were
running much quiet - much more quietly, and ever
once in a while they would begin to undulate and
you could - you could hear the changes in fre-
quency, but it never got this loud. And it wasn't
until after we did the flush and got it running
again that they got this loud.
CC Okay. And - and as I understand it, the reason

that you want to turn them off at night is Just
so that it won't bother you while you're trying
to sleep?
CDR Yes, that's right. The workshop is really a very

quiet place. And now all of a sudden it's getting
noisy.
CC Okay, we - we copy that.
CDR Okay.
353 22 58 ii CC Get it working right and it comes ba - around to

bite you.
353 22 59 45 CC Skylab, Houston; we're I minute from LOS. We'll

pick up over Madrid in about 4 minutes at 03 -
correction - 23:04, 23:04.
CDR Okay.
CC And, Jer, we're working on the - the pump problem

here, Just to make sure we got a consenus.
353 23 O0 05 CDR Roger.
353 23 03 54 CC Skylab, Houston; we're AOS over Madrid. And Jer,

you've got a GO to switch to pump Bravo on the
ATM C&D coolant loop. We would appreciate it if
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you would give us a - an idea of what the delta in

the sound is, if any.
CC CDR, Houston. Did you copy my last regarding pump

Bravo ?
353 23 06 30 CC Skylab, Houston; we're AOS through Madrid for

5-1/2 minutes. How do you read?
SPT Loud and clear, Crip.
CC 0keydoke. We had a little line problem there for

a while. Regarding Jerry's previous request, he's
got a GO to turn off pump Bravo. We'd appreciate
if you could tell us what the difference, if any,
in the sound is. And also, m-ybe, if you could
give us a comparative ana - a difference between
this pump and a SUS pump when it's running. They're
the same kind of pumps.
SPT Okay, Crip ; we' ii do it.
353 23 09 35 CDR Okay, Crip; we're on pump Bravo now, and it's
considerably quieter than pump Charlie. And I
threw on SUS pump 1 to listen to what it sounded
like and it's as loud as pump Chsrlie was. How-
ever, it's a lower frequency than Charlie is.
Charlie seems to be running quite a bit higher.
CC Okay. And understand pump Bravo is both quieter

and of a lower frequency?
CDR No, pump Bravo is the same frequency as pump

Charlie, except the - you know, it's Just not as
loud -
CC Very good.
CDR - and the SUS pump runs at a lower frequency, but

it's every bit as loud as pump Charlie.
CC Okay, copy that. Do you - what would you think

about the loudness of Bravo to run during the
sleep period?
CDR Well, let's let it run for a while and see how
it does. Sounds like a good idea right now.
p_
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CC Okay. Sounds like a winner From here.
353 23 ii 32 CC Skylab, Houston, we're i minute from LOS. Car-

narvon in 26 minutes at 23:37, 23:37.
END OF TAPE
Time: 353_23:32 to 354:01:00
Pa!_e I or 4/2045
SKYLAB AIR-TO-GI{OUND VOICE _<ANSCRIPTION
353 23 37 h4 CC Skylab, Houston, We're A0S through Carnarvon.

Have you for 15 minutes.
CDR Roger, Crip. Old pump Bravo worked all the kinks
out. Now, it's every bit as loud as pump Charlie
was.
CC Ah-ha. Okay. So I guess -
CDR It took a little while to get lathered up.
CC Okay, so I guess your druthers are you previous

statement. You would like to be able to turn it
off in the evening. Is that correct?
CDR Yes, if we can.
CC Okay.
CC We'll
-
CC Okay, you are GO for turning it off in the evening

and turn it on in the morning. And we'll get a
change up tonight for your pre- and postsleep cue
cards to reflect that.
CDR Okay, thank you, Crip.
353 23 hl 34 PLT ... Crip, PLT .... suggestion?
CC Bill, I can hear you very faintly in the background.

Are you calling?
PLT Roger. Do you have an antenna suggestion?
CC That's affirm. If you're speaking of - for your

phone call tonight, it's RIGHT to LEFT.
PLT All right. Thank you very much.
353 23 41 59 CC 0keydoke.

see you at Texas in about 31 minutes at 00:23.
And for the PLT. Bill, your phone call will be
shortly after that, at about 00:24.
T--
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PLT Roger, Crip. Thank you.
CC Roger. And antenna again is start off on RIGHT

and go to LEFT.
353 23 52 15 PLT Roger.
354 00 24 14 CC Skylab, Houston. We're A0S through Texas. We've

got you about 13-1/2 minutes.
354 00 24 49 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS through MILA at this

time. We have you for about 13 minutes.
SPT Hello, Crip.
CC Howdy, howdy.
354 00 26 ii CC _ Skylab, Houston. We've got a little dinner music

we can roll for the background if you're - you're
interested in having it.
SPT We're not eating dinner now, Crip, but maybe

it'll make us hungry. Go ahead.
CC Come on according to my Flight Plan, you're sup-

posed to be eating.
SPT What's Jerry doing?
CC He's supposed to be exercising. (Laughter) You

tell me. I can't see up there very well.
SPT Yes, that's what he's doing. I'm running a tad

late because it's kind of tough to exercise if
you can't move.
CC
Sorry about that. It's called isometics.
35_ 00 29 57 SPT Hey, Crip. We're waiting for the music. Go ahead.
CC So am I. We're - a little technical difficulties.

We'll get right back with you.
SFT Why don't you save those for the morning?
CC Yes. (Laughter) Can't get you out of bed other-

wise. In the morning, I've got all night to plot it.
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CC (Music) Bye now.
35h 00 3h 22 SPT (Music) Hey, Crip, that-'s beautiful. Thank you.
CC Thought you'd appreciate that. And by the way,

we are doing a data/voice recorder dump here in
case anybody's looking at it. (Music)
SPT Crip, you know, if you played music like that on

every pass, you guys wouldn't even have to work.
CC Okeydoke. (Music)
CC Afraid I'll put you to sleep with music like this.
354 00 37 03 CC (Music) Skylab, Houston. We're i minute from LOS.

We'll see you again at Madrid in -
354 00 37 15 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 30 seconds from LOS now.

We'll see you again over Madrid in 4-1/2 minutes.
And that's going to be a 00:42.
354 00 37 27 SPT We'll be listening for you, trip. Thanks for the
music. (Music)
354 00 42 22 CC (Music) Back with you once more through Madrid

for 7 minutes. (Music)
35h 00 h3 36 CC For the PLT. Bill, any chance you've got time
to run over panel 207 with us to determine exactly
what we've got inhibited on the CAUTION and WARNING
panel, please. (Music)
PLT Give me about 2 minutes.
CC Okeydoke. (Music)
354 00 44 47 PLT SIEVE A_ PPCO 2 and GAS FLOW. 0WS GAS INTERCHANGE.
CONDENSATE TANK, DELTA - P. SIEVE B, PPC02.

SIEVE B FLOW is at - still ENABLE.
PLT I had just counted them again. There's a total

of five. What've you got?
CC I concur. I've got five and I can verify then

that the PRIMARY COOLANT T_4P LOW and HIGH are
both ENABLE.
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PLT That's affirmative.
CC Okay, real good. Thanks, Bill. We appreciate it.
PLT Roger.
354 00 48 46 CC (Music) Skylab, Houston_ We're 1 minute from LOS.

Next station contact is Carnarvon is 28 minutes -
correction, Honeysuckle in 40 minutes, at 01:29,
01:29. (Music)
SPT Roger, Crip. Thanks for the music.
CC Roger. I'm being accused of using it as bait,

asking you a question and turning it off and when
you give me the right answer turning it back on
again. Just wanted to make sure - -
PLT Well, may work.
354 00 49 16 CC (Laughter) Just wanted to make sure I heard you

answer, though. (Music)
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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRAN[_CI<[I"['ION
354 01 28 39 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS for i whole minute.

Your next station contact is over Texas at 01:58,
and that's going to be your med conference. SPT,
for your information, we're taking control of the
VTR for handling the dump. It's full right now.
And I need to tell you something about your time
MODE exposure on 52.
SPT Go ahead, Crip.
CC Okay, we didn't specify it, but that should be

done with the FAST SCAN MODE.
SPT Okay, same as we did in J0P 18. Understand.
354 01 29 18 CC Roger.
354 02 08 53 CC Skylab, Houston. We're with you for about 5-1/2 min-
utes here through Bermuda.
F- CC And for the PLT, laser observations are canceled

for today.
PLT Roger, got it.
354 02 l0 12 SPT Crip, how would you like an ATM frame count?
CC ATOM would Just love that.
SPT Here it comes: 07831, 01952, 00040, 0 - 589,

03 ...
CC Ed, stand by. We are - we're breaking up slightly.
CC Okay, I need you to start again at 82B.
CC SPT, Houston. How do you read?
SPT Yes, I gotyou loud - loud and clear, Crip. I

Just had to change the headset all around again.
CC Okay, sorry.
354 02 ll 03 SPT 823 is 589, then 3579, 2279.

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CC Okay, thank you w_ry mu_'h.
CC Ed, while l'm talking to you here, l've got one

of the evening questions I might as well try to
get out of the road.
SPT Go ahead, Crip.
CC Okay, the 0SMP, better known as the 0n-Site Moth

Person, has viewed your video of the TV-120. And
he appreciates the show. The only problem we have
is trying to distinguish between the ar - eggs and
the larva. And we want to make sure that you did
get the 35-millimeter photos for us.
SPT Yes, I did, Crip.
CC Okay, very good. Thank you.
SPT Crip, I'm not sure though with the field of view,
even with the closeup on that Nikon or the exten-
sion, that you're going to see a heek Of a lot
more than what you saw on the TV.
CC Copy that. We got a keyhole of about 20 seconds

coming up here. I'll talk toyou on the other
side.
354 02 13 27 CC Okay, we're back with you on the other side of

the keyhole. We've - we're i minute from LOS.
We'll see you again over Madrid at 02:19, That's
about 6 minutes away, and we'll be doing a data/
voice recorder dump there.
SPT Hey, Crip, for the ATM folks on unattended. I

think they may have to point up around i00 arc
seconds to get themselves onto the center of active
region 00.
354 02 14 08 CC Copy that.
354 02 20 02 CC (Music) Skylab, Houston. We're AOS through Madrid.

We have you for about 3-1/2 minutes. And, Ed, we
need you to reset the configuration on S054 for
us, please, sir.
CC (Music)
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CC Skylab. Correction. I was looking at the wrong

clock. We have you for 7-1/2 more minutes. (Music)
CC SPT, Houston. Have you got time to correct the

configuration of S054 for us, please, sir? (Music)
Oh, I - correction; l'm not fast enough. I under-
stand you have corrected it for us. (Music) _:_,_:
. ._:
SPT Didn't want to interrupt the good music, Crip.
CC Oh, Just trying to get you guys in the - in the

spirit of things. (Music)
354 02 22 33 CC CDR, Houston. Jerry, you got a moment? (Music)
CDR Yes, sir. Go ahead.
CC Okay; you might have noticed we have got you

scheduled - well, we got Bill scheduled to do the
housekeeping 60 Dog tomorrow for changing over
the water tank 4. And we show that the current
one is getting a little bit low. And if you want
to change that over tonight, well, you've got a
GO to do so. And since we recentlyput - raised
the iodine level in tank 4 up to 6 parts per mil-
lion, there's - it's not necessary for you to go
through that check unless you want to.
CDR Okay, fine. Thank you, Crip.
354 02 23 15 CC (Music.) Also another item. We've got you sched-

uled in the morning for a DP-3 and in the evening
for a DP-h, both of those associated with - with
eating chow and - and cleaning up afterwards.
And I guess normally, that should be done with -
with all three people; and it really doesn't work
out just setting up DP-3 as we currently have it.
We were wondering if you would - think you've got
time, just move your DP-3 to the evening meal,
when we've got you all three eating pretty close
together and pick up the DP-3 and 4 together. Do
you think that might work out? (Music)
CDR Yes, I think that might work out a little better.
CC Okay, why don't you take a look at it? And if you

agree to that, well, that's fine and dandy; do it
your way.
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CDR Okay.
354 02 24 13 CC (Music) And, Jer, we'd appreciate any words you

might have on how you would like to handle docu-
mentary photos in the future? (Music) That is,
primarily whether you would like big blocks of
time all together or just segments to pick them
up as you go?
CDR Well, one thing is for sure, we - we do need time

to set them up. We found in almost every case
that it takes more time to set it up than it does
to take the photos. And I would also appreciate
it whenever possible that we keep those things
out of the PSA time.
CC (Music) Okay; copy you would like to keep them

out of the PSA and that you do need adequate time
to set them up.
354 02 25 04 CDR Yes, that's right. Particularly stuff up in the

MDA, because, you know, there's no high power
sources of electricity up there any more. And
we have to run a big extension cord in from the
domeof theworkshop.
CC (Music) Okay, copy that. (Music) Jer, do I

interpre t it correctly if you're saying because
of the setup constraints that you would perfer to
have it in large blocks like hour to 2 hours, to
pick up several scenes to - within that time?
CDR Yes, I think I - we'd like to give that a try and

see how that works.
CC (Music) Okay, we copy that. And for your infor-

mation, tomorrow morning when you're getting ready
to do your ATM C&D work, you can go back to using
pump Charlie. And we are going to be uplinking
you a - a change, as I mentioned earlier, for your
cue cards regarding that.
354 02 26 ii CDR Okay; pump Charlie.
CC We'll give you a reminder of that in the morning.

(Music)
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to rem_mber it.
CC The only way to remember that is to remember it.

(Music)
SPT Remember to remind us will you, Crip?
CC I'll remember to remind Carl to remind you.

(Music)
CDR What was it you were going to remind us of - I

forgot?
CC I was going to remember to remind me. (Music)
354 02 27 19 CC Jer, an item of interest for you. All that work

you've been doing helping us find out where the
AMS is pointed has been helping pointing verifi-
cation with the 133 yesterday plus the pointing
test with the AMS and the Kohoutek attitude indi-
cator we've got a 1.2 degree tilt bias. And
future pads will reflect that. And we're about
30 seconds from LOS. We're going to see you over
Tananarive, I guess, at 02:41. And that's about
13-1/2 minutes away.
354 02 27 50 CDR Roger, see you then.
354 02 27 52 CC (Music)
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354 02 41 18 CC (Music: "Silent Night" and song by Glen Campbell)

Slqylab, Houston. We're AOS through Tauanarive
you for about 7-1/2 minutes.
CDR Roger.
CC Jer, while you're there, question from 509 PI.

Since you didn't get any HHMU time on the first
run, how do you feel about taking 5 to lO minutes
of familiarization time after Bill finishes his
run, if time permits?
CDR Very good. I think it's a good idea.
354 02 41 58 CC Okeydoke. (Music)
354 02 46 26 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about i minute from LOS.

We'll see you again over Honeysuckle in 19 minutes
at 03:06; 03:06.
CDR Okay, Crip. We'll see you then.
CC Roger. (Music)
354 03 05 53 CC (Musfc: "HaveYourself a Merry Little Christmas"

by Johnny Mathis) Skylab, Houston. We're with
you through Honeysuckle for 2minutes.
354 03 07 30 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 30 seconds from LOB.

Goldstone in 27 minutes at 03:34, and we'll be
standing by for the evening status report there.
PLT Roger, Crip.
354 03 07 53 CC (Music: "Blue Christmas"by Johnny Mathis)

Bye-bye.
354 03 33 57 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS through Goldstone

across the States. We've got you for ii minutes
and we are standing by for the evening status
report at Jerry's convenience.
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SPT Hey, Crip, would you ask BIOMED whether he' she's
getting some good S133 data right now?
CC We'll look at it.
354 03 34 45 CDR Okay, Crip, here it comes. Sleep: CDR, 8,0;

7.5 heavy, 0.5 light. SPT, 8.7; 8.3 heavy,
0.4 light. PLT, 8.0; 7 heavy, i light. Volume:
CDR, 900; SPT, 1150; PLT, 1300. Water gun: CDR,
7565; SPT, 3025; PLT, 9144. Body mass: CDR,
6.304, 6.303, 6.304; SPT, 6.354, 6.354, 6.352;
PLT, 6.248, 6.248, 6.248. Exercise: CDR, method
Alfa, minus 2 minutes; SPT, no change; PLT, no
change. Medications: CDR, none; SPT, one pro/eph
last night; PLT, Tinactin as directed. Clothing:
CDR, one pair of shorts, one pair of socks; SPT,
none; PLT, one T-shirt, one pair of shorts.
Flight Plan deviations : none. Shopping list :
none. Inoperable equipment disposition: DAC
number 01 is - been rechecked and cleared, and
i it seems to be okay in all modes exceptthe time
mode. And we have noted it - that on the camera
with a piece of tape and put it into use. Trans-
porter 03 was reported as jammed last night. We
found the film was broken. We trimmed the film
and started it up again, rethreaded it, and are
using the same take-up reel. It has accepted
the film. And we don't know how much it will
take, but there's 40 percent left on there. We
thought we'd give it a whirl. Unscheduled stowage:
none. Food log: CDR. zero salt, zero deviations,
plus 1.5 water; SPT, 4.0 salt, zero deviations,
plus 8 ounces of water; PLT, zero salt, plus one
butter cookies, minus 2 rehyrdation water. Getting
back CDR deviations, change that zero to a minus
one coffee with sugar. And stand by for the film
log.
354 03 38 03 CC SPT, Houston. Ed, for your information, we do not

see good data on the 133 at this time.
SPT Okay, Crip. How's it look now?
CC Stand by. Well, Ed, we show that you're in REM

sleep right now.
SPT But l'm talking to you, Crip. Thank you.

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CC You don't talk in your sleep, do you, Ed?
SPT Not to you, Crip. I don't think I do. I had a

problem in the test position. I could only get
the test lights on when I went to - when I actually
grounded myself on some bare metals. So I had a
couple little alternatives here, and I wasn't sure
which was the right one. Thank you.
CC Okay.
354 03 39 25 CDR Ready for the film log, Crip?
CC Yes, sir. Shoot.
CDR Okay. 16-millimeter: Delta Papa i3, Charlie

India 126, 54; Charlie India 125, M151, M092/171,
Charlie India 73, 80; Charlie India 56, Delta
Papa 21, Charlie India 126, 40; Charlie India
125 - Nikon zer ***
354 03 40 27 CC Jet, I'm sorry. We dropped out part way through

that report, on a handover. Let me see where we
got through. Okay, we got all the 16-millimeter
stuff. We need the Nikons, please. Skylab, Hou-
ston. How do you read?
35h 03 42 09 CC Skylab, Houston. How do you read through Texas?
354 03 42 57 CC Skylab, Houston. How do you read through Texas?
354 03 43 17 CC Skylab, Houston. How do you read through Texas?
354 03 43 h4 CC Skylab, Houston. Apparently, we have a downlink

problem, and we're going to go LOS. I'll have
you again over Bermuda in about 3 mlnutes, and
we will pick up the rest of the report there.
354 03 46 44 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS through Bermuda. We

have you for 5 minutes. How do you read?
CDR Read you loud and clear - clear. How do you read
me now?
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CC Okay; very good. I'm sorry we lost our downlink,

apparently, back over the States earlier. And we
copied all of your report except when you got down
to Nikons. And we didn't get any of the Nikons
from there on.
CDR Okay, here it comes. Nikon 01, no change; 02,

Bravo Victor 43, 18; 03, no change; 04, no change;
05, Bravo Hotel 05, 23. 70-millimeter, Charlie
X-ray 171 - correction - Charlie X-ray 17, 139.
ETC, no change. EREP, no change. Alfa i, 02,
Charlie India 73, 96, Charlie India 56. Alfa 2,
05, Charlie India 93, 12, Mike Tango 06. Alfa 3,
06, Charlie India 126, 40, Charlie India 125.
Alfa 4, 03, Charlie India 71, 41, Charlie
India 82. Back 07, Charlie India 74, full, Charlie
India 72. And that's it, Crip.
354 03 48 18 CC Okay, very good. I've managed to get what few

evening questions out of the road that l've had
a little bit earlier. I've got one item that -
for Bill. If he's got his Flight Plan for tomorrow
handy, we need to make one alteration.
CDR Okay,go ahead. He'sgot it.
CC Okay. On your details, at 01:20, the handheld 170-3,

the laser, that's been scrubbed. The same problem
that we've had tonight; it's kind of cold and
snowy and sleeting. So they scrubbed the laser
out for tomorrow. You can also note that on your
summary, where it has the handheld designated down
there around 01 :30.
PLT So noted.
352 03 49 33 CDR Crip, I don't know how kosher it was to - to try

to go ahead and thread transporter 03. But it
already had film in the takeup reel, but it took
it. I wonder if you would ask the photo guys to
think about that. And if that's a bad deal, we
can go ahead and pull it back out again. But it
took the thread real well. And the question now
is, do they think it will go ahead and finish up,
or do you think it will jam up again?
CC We'll cheek that for you, Jer.

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354 03 50 19 CC Jer, it seems like we've been having problems

with transporter 03 throughout the mission, and
what we would like to do is Just to retire that
one. And we'll give you information in your
film-thread pad tomorrow morning that will tell
you what to do to replace it.
CDR Okay.
CC Jet, we've got the small problem. We - On trans-

porter 02, we got two different numbers for the
cassette remaining on different parts of the
report. Could you verify for us what is remaining
on 02?
354 03 51 35 CC We're about 30 seconds from LOS here. So we can -

can get it over Madrid - correction - over Canary,
and that's at 03:56 in about 5 minutes from now.
354 03 56 57 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS through Canary for

8-1/2 minutes.
CDR Roger, Crip. On transporter 02, let's try a

whole brand new number,79, on both of them.
CC Okeydokey. We got that.
CDR Okay.
CC I believe that more or less cleans up the items

for the night. You guys are interested, I can
run through a few news items for you.
CDR Yes ; go ahead.
354 03 57 29 CC Okay. Melvin R. Laird resigned today as President

Nixon's chief domestic counselor and called on
the House to decide by March 15 whether it will
impeach the President. Laird predicated that an
impeachment resolution would fail but said the
matter should be resolved promptly because the
continuing controversy over Watergate and other
issues is hurting America's foreign and domestic
policies. He called on his former colleagues in
the House to accept their constitutional respon-
sivil - responsibilities and vote on the issue.
The Soviet Union reported that its Soyuz 13
spaceship completed 18 orbits of the Earth and
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the rookie cosmonauts aboard feel fine. The

progress report ended a 2_-hour silence on the
new spaceship since it was reported sucessfully
launched Tuesday in a flight that coincides with
the space trip of the U.S. Skylab 3 astronauts.
It was the first time Soviet and American spacemen
were in orbit at the same time. The Soviet mission
was described as a checkup of systems on board the
redesigned Soyuz spaceship which is to be used in
a Joint Soviet-American space venture. An esti-
mated 250,000 people huddled in temporary shelters
in Connecticut early today after being driven from
frigid homes in the aftermath of a severe winter
storm, officials said. And I understand a few
people are huddling from frigid weather here out-
side, although it's nice and warm in the MOCR.
The Houston Rotary Club announced for nominations
for the Vince L_nbardi - Outstanding Collegiate
Lineman Award. They are: Bill Wyman of Texas,
Randy Gradisher of Ohio State, Lucious Selman of
Oklahoma, and John Hicks of Ohio State. (Music)
I'm informed it's 68 degrees warm in the MOCR.
And for the outstanding news item of the night:
Deep down in his basement, in a state of suspended
animation, Edward Ben Elson has i0 bushel baskets --
full of little people, he says. They are only
1 inch tall, but they weigh what normal people
weigh. Elson says they were delivered Monday by
a 10-foot-tall visitor who landed his spaceship
on Elson's lawn and make i0 trips to the basement
carrying the baskets. All told, Elson says, there
are over 143,000 miniaturized human beings. He
says it's up to him to pick up i000 more. The
whole thing is connected with Elson's theory that
the world will end Christmas Day.
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354 04 00 00 CC "The comet, Kohoutek, will mix with the atmosphere

on Christmas, and the Earth will drown in a sea
of petroleum oil," Elson said Tuesday from his
M_FarlAnd. Wis.. home. "It's ironic the wor_id's
energy crisis will be solved," he added, "but the
solution will exact such a terrible price." So
with that, we conclude the - the crimson's team
evening with you. (applaud) Yea. Twice in a'row,
I got through the newscast. (Laughter) We wish
you gt_fs a good night now. See you manana.
CDR Oh, that's beautiful, Crip. Hey, Crip, one thing.

If you get a chance, if they've been published,
we'd be interested in knowing what Soyuz 13's
orbital parameters are.
CC I believe I might have those in hand. The inclina-

tion is 51.8 degrees; period is 89.9 minutes;
and it's in a - an eliptical orbit, 183.7 nautical
I milesby 109.7nauticalmiles.
354 04 Ol 27 PLT What was the inclination? Was it 61 or 51?
CC 51.8.
CDR Sounds like they're right along with us. Tell them
to stop by for coffee sometime.
354 04 01 42 CC Okay, we - we've looked at it, and it doesn't appear

that you're coplanar at any place. Vance doesn't
want you beating him out of his mission.
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354 12 09 55 CC Skylab, this is Houston with a wake-up call.
CC Skylab, this is Houston wishing you a good morning

on mission day 35.
PLT Roger, Karl. Good morning.
CC Good morning. Thursday morning down here. Let -

let's see. We must be on the 20th of December,
and it's a very chilly Thursday morning. We're
having our first good freeze.
354 12 17 56 CC Skylab, this Houston. We have LOS in i minute.

We'll see you over Tananarive in about 15 minutes.
354 12 33 36 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Tananarive for

the next 9 minutes.
CDR Roger, Karl.
CC And I have a reminder here. l'm sure you've re-

membered already to turn on pump Charlie and the
C&D cooling loop.
354 12 34 21 CDR Thank you_ Karl.
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. SKYLAB AIR-T0-GROUND VOIC_ TRANSCRIPTION
354 13 17 08 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Hawaii for

6 minutes.
354 13 17 21 SPT Morning, Karl.
CC Good morning. How are things going up there

today?
SPT Oh, we're just getting through the postsleep

activities;measuring ourselves up, finding out
how much we're growing.
CC Right, and sounds like we got a new business grow-

ing people taller up there.
35h 13 17 hh SPT That's what it's turning out to be; we just keep
on eating and growing.
CC Maybe you found the fountain of youth, do you

think?
• SPT We only got 85 days to test it.
CC Uh-huh.
354 13 18 26 SPT You know, it's a strange thing Karl, one of the -
or the longest mission ever been flown and the
paradoxical thing is we don't have time to do all
the good things we think we should.
CC Yes, life's frustrating that way. Isn't it?
CC Say again.
CDR Karl, this is the CDR. Would you give me a time

for the next opportunity to set S0097
CC Okay. Stand by on that.
354 13 24 55 CC Jerry, the time for that next S019 set is

14:54:25.
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3_4 1132q 07 CC It _oul_ds _s though w_" h:w_. 1,0_. We'll s_e y_u -
We'll see you over Vanguard in about 15 minutes.
354 13 46 27 CC Skylab, this is ... (echo).
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Vanguard for the

next I0 minutes (echo).
354 13 46 41 CDR Roger, Karl. (Echo) We got an echo (echo).
CC Hey, this is a beautiful effect we got going

(echo).
CDR Karl, I did not get that S009 set time. (echo).
You cut out just about halfway through it (echo).
CC Righto. I have two possible times for you, if

you'd like to jot them down (echo).
CDR Go ahead (echo).
354 13 47 13 CC The first one conflicts with your photography of

the come,, but it is (echo) 14 hours (echo)
54 minutes (echo) 25 seconds (echo). A second
possibility is 18 hours (echo) 0 minutes (echo)
46 seconds. (Echo)_
CDR Okay, Karl. Copy ih:54i25 and 18:00:46. (Echo)

Karl, are you ready for the TV downlink? (Echo)
354 13 47 53 CC Roger. We're ready (echo).
354 13 54 45 CC Skylab, this is Houston. We have LOS in i minute.

We'll see you at Tamanarive in about 18 minutes
from now. And a reminder, Jerry, that we have
Ml51 today, together with the M092/171 operations.
CDR Roger. Thank you, Karl.
354 13 55 i0 CC Sure thing. And so long.
354 14 12 22 CC Skylab, Houston. Hello from the purple gang. We

got you for 4 minutes at Tananarive.
35h lh 12 35 SPT Well, good morning, Dick.
CC Good morning. You may not believe this but they

finally let the purple gang on the day shift for
the first time this mission.
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SPT Very good. Glad to have you with us. The daytime,
at least.
CC You're not half as glad as we are, and you better

keep a good watch on us today because they - we
haven't had a lot of prac - practice this mission
on this shift.
354 14 14 53 CC Skylab, Houston. We're a couple of minutes from

LOS, Tananarive. Just in case we happen to lose
you early, the next station contact is Hawaii.
That comes up at 14:53. And that's where the
ATM conference is scheduled with Bill Lenoir, and
we also intend to dump the data/voice recorder at
Hawaii. Out.
354 14 15 15 CDR Roger.
CC And, Jerry; incidentally, that first S009 set

time they gave you at 14:5h awhile ago - In case
you haven't already caught it, the conflict there
is that that turns out to be in the middle of your
$233 comet photos and that's why that - that one's
probably going to be impossible. And so the one
to shoot for is the one at 18:00, and I'll remind
you later about that.
354 14 16 05 CDR Okay, Dick. Th_nks.
CC Roger. And good morning.
CDR Good morning. How are you?
CC Pretty good. It's cold down here this morning.

Below freezing in Houston.
CDR Got your furnace running?
CC No, we're not allowed to do that any more down

here. Got to bundle up. It's below freezing in
Houston this morning.
CDR I'll bet the lumber yards are having a run on

insullation.
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35h 14 16 48 CC You bet.
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35h lh 53 15 MCC Good morning, Skylab; Houston with the ATM con-
ferenae, and we'll be dumping the data/voice
recorder here. Over.
SPT Bill, perhaps you ought to not do that - Bill's

right in the middle of a S019 and using the
recorder all the way through -unless you want
to lose that data.
MCC Okay. We'll hold that. And getting in here to

the ATMconference, on an XUV MON downlink came
down last night, we noticed a bright region that
was totally unexpected to us over behind the east
limb at about lO to 15 south. Old active region 87
is in that region, although it would appear that
the brightness is behind there. As you probably
recall, 87 died or decayed on the last disk passage
on the last rotation. We're not sure what to make
of it, although it may be a very interesting region.
And we're wonderingwhat you see of it and also
want to tip you off to keep your eye on it and do
whatever looks right today with respect to that.
Over.
354 14 54 19 SPT Okay, Bill. Let me ask you, what is the - the
location of @ctive region 2? I'm not up in the
ATM, but I believe that one was on the other side
of the filament which is in the middle of zero
zero.
CC Okay. Roger, Ed. I can Just barely hear you on

that, but active region 2 is on the disk now.
We can see it on our H-alpha, and it looks like
it's at about 0.9 radius, at about 260. And
we're talking about a limb brightness that's
well behind that, actually beyond the limb.
SPT Okay. And looking at the picture, it's tough to

tell whether that is not really Just an extension
of active region 2. I cannot discern two separate
brightenings. Now if I go on up and INTEGRATE
for a short period of time, I may be able to do
that. I have not, looking for that specifically.
On the TV downlinkwhieh - which I just sent
down, I gave you some fairly short integrations.
That ought to distinguish it some, particularly
later on.
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354 14 55 17 MCC Okay. We didn't have those in yet. We were

looking at last night's, and there was a definite
break between the 02 brightening and this bright-
ening behind the limb. And another question you
might look at when you get up there is whether
this is connected with any coronal features.
Okay. Couple more words here on active region
zero zero. Since our update this morning, we've
had two more, sub-faint, very small, and they're
in the very bright region south of the leader.
NOAA guesses that possibly within 24 hours this
thing may Just do something spectacular for us on
the order of an M-3 or M-4. And again, that's a
guess, and maybe it's wishful thinking more than
a guess. However, if it were to occur, what they
would guess is that it would start in the same
place as these two and three sub-faints that we've
had and spread along the neutral line to the east.
Possible sequence of events would be a handful of
C-ls and C-2s increasing the activity in the region
and then boom into the big one. The long X-ray,
from 8 to 20 angstroms, have increased from about
150 to 240 since yesterday. EDV at 284 angstroms
is down slightly. A similar case in SL-3 apparently
preceded some activity, although it's kind of hard
to make that comparison here. The neutral line,
again, is real difficult to trace. Thought I might
just advise you that the way NOAA draws it, you've
got a big leader spot and a spot behind the leader
spot. The spot behind the leader spot, they're
saying is opposite polarity and that there is a
little protut - protrusion of that following
polarity that juts up to grab that following spot.
There's a very bright kernel that is south of the
leader spot and a little bit to the east. That's
the area that the activity has been going on in,
and you might keep your eye on that today with
the observations on zero zero. They're guessing
als--
354 14 57 27 SPT ... that in a shopping list - in shopping list

items at the conclusion of this orbit. We got
some spectra or MIRROR, AUTO RASTER in that re-
gion .......
MCC Okay. Sounds good. And NOAA is saying that the

entire region there is - looks to them like a
beta/gamma configuration, indicating mixed polar-
ities and very tight gradients. Okay. We've --
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got another 5 minutes here. Today's plan, the

82B filler you Just did really filled the JOP 24
square. We're trying to get a 82 Alfa picture
about every other orbit for the activity in zero
zero, and, obviously, we're concentrating on
zero zero. Note that there's one new change, and
we'll be getting up an official note to you on S055.
MECHREF 104 is now the same as OPTICAL REFERENCE,
all balls. That's a change from 102. In the
future it's 104, and that's based on some engineer-
ing studies that they had done here.
354 14 58 30 SPT Okay. That seems to make a little sense. When

I've used a 102, for some reason I have not gotten
the intensities in oxygen 6 that I have seen else-
where; so maybe that's an explanation.
MCC Okay. Good. And there's not too much that we ex-
pect to be coming around the east limb with the
possible exception of this brightening that we
noticed; so there's not much to warn you about
there. Wonder what you might suggest that we take
a lookat tomorrow?
SPT First let me ask you. The neutral line in zero

zero runs primarily east-west - that's the primary
east neutral line - before it makes a couple wif-
ferdills and goes north and south. Is that correct?
354 14 59 l0 MCC That's affirmative. It's primarily east-west

through there and, like you say, a couple north-
south wifferdills to go up and enclose some bright
region.
SPT Okay. Let me tell you what I see first. In look-

•ing at the corona, I have not seen anything above
the active region 02 or in that - in that latitude.
We do have still a streamer, although greatly re-
duced in size and in intensity, where we've had
the one for the past B or 4 days at around 28, 290.
Over on the west limb, we do have a fairly prom-
inent streamer, which has been there for a period
of time, and it Just - in gereral Just changed in
intensity but not location. It looks like a good
helment streamer and extends out a fair ways.
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Most of the coronal structure is over on that side

right now in terms of overall intensity. We do
have another faint streamer up at around, oh,
3 - 310, 320, or so. And that's about it. The
corona: apparently, on the east limb anyway, most
of the material has rotated out of the disk, per-
haps, where we cannot see it. I'm speculating
there. XUV: In looking at the active regions,
I've been trying to look for interconnections, and
the only hint that I can see of it is the active
region i. At the trailing edge there's some plage
running both north and south, indicating, perhaps,
there could be something going up to 99 and some-
thing coming down to zero zero. Again, it's Just
a hint in the bright plage, which leads off in that
direction. I think active regions 3 and 4 are
interesting because they're so relatively small and
close together. It might be something that we can
at least keep an eye on but not necessarily do any
extensive observations. Active region i certainly
is the one we ought to watch for flares, and I'd
like to spend as much time sitting on that as pos-
sible, if not flare wait. But doing observing
programs on it. If we really are serious about
getting the rise time of - the rise of a flare,
then I think we ought to stay on that region as
much as possible. Over there on the limb of P-61,
it's kind of interesting where we have a prominence
and a filament, one joining the other. Rotating
onto the disk is - Maybe we can squeeze in an
observation there - at least a couple MIRROR AUTO
RASTERs and maybe some spectra with the slit Just
inside the limb and Just off the limb, where the
prominence and filament is located; maybe some
comparison spectra on rotated offset location.
354 15 O0 59 MCC Okay, Ed. I got that. And that sounds good. A
couple of words here on flare observations. The
54 people tell me that a few days ago, on the flare
work that you did, you did as well as you possibly
could have. And they want to congratulate you on
that. Let me break in here; 1 - 1 minute until
LOS, and Vanguard is next at 15:25. And back to
the flares. Both 82 and 54 feel that observing
time is required where you can dedicate your time
to looking for good brightenings and flare-rise
opportunities, that they Just cannot get things
like that on a scheduled basis. So that we
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certainly depend on you, and we'll try and give

you as much time as possible to do that. I have
some comments here from SO54. On two occasions,
long enough ago that I'm sure you don't remember
the details, there was a very slight brightening
once when you were on panel and once Just after
Jerry had gotten there. In both cases, you did
not put 5_ into the FLARE MODE for operations.
And that's easy to understand here, looking at
the situation th@t you had. What 54 wants to
emphasize is that - Don't hesitate even for small,
questionable events. If you've got any doubt at
all, go on it. They would much rather spend some
film on a false alarm than miss the real thing.
And the day after Christmas is your next crew day
off. A1 Krieger will be talking to you about
54 ops, how they fared in the EVA, and what they
want to do on flares. Over.
SPT Okay. Glad to hear that ... I've been sitting and
waiting and perhaps ... false starts ... - -
354 15 03 46 MCC Okay. Break, break, Ed. You're over the hill.
We'll see you at the next - next stop.
354 15 24 46 CC Hello, Skylab. We're at Vanguard for 8 minutes,

and we are going to dump the data recorder here.
PLT Got you, Dick.
CC Roger.
354 15 30 57 CC PLT, Houston. We've still got a couple of minutes.

Are you at the point in the pass where you could
listen to me for_about 30 seconds?
PLT Go, Dick.
CC Roger, Bill. On the subject of HK60 Delta, I'm

not sure whether or not you guys - you got that
out of the way last evening or not. It's on your
summary Flight Plan today about - listed at about
18:45. What I wanted to mention to you is - is
that there's a little remark about HK60 Delta at
the bottom:of your details pad that might be easy
to miss since it isn't listed up higher in the
chronological events in the details pad, and it
looked like a little trap to me; so if you haven't
/-- already done the 60 Delta today, when you get ready
to do it, you might be sure and read that remark.
I
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PLT Yes. I did see it. But thanks for the reminder.
It was way down there at the bottom.
CC Okay. Fine.
354 15 31 49 CC And, Skylab, we're 1 minute from LOS. We'll see

you all the way around again at Vanguard at a time
of 17:03. And we plan on dumping the data recorder
when we get back around there. So see you in an
hour and a half.
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354 17 03 ii CC Skylab, Houston, hello at the Vanguard for

l0 minutes.
SPT Hello, Dick.
CC Hello there, Edward. And also we're dumping the

data/voice recorder here at the Vanguard.
354 17 l0 42 CC PLT, Houston. We appreciate you getting your

nu Z update. We do see that the star tracker still
shows a star present indicating the shutter's
still open. We're about 2 minutes from LOS.
Ascension cc_es up at 17:16.
PLT Thank you, Dick. It's closed now.
354 17 ii 00 CC Roger.
354 17 19 36 CC Skylab, Houston. We're at Ascension for the next

-" 7 minutes. And a reminderfor Bill, this ATM pass
that you're on now is going to get short - cut
short a little bit. You're on-station time for
SO19 is 17:27 Zulu.
PLT Thank you very much. Appreicate your reminder.
CC Roger.

LOS Ascension. It'll be a while before we see
you at Guam. That time is 18:00. And, Jerry,
if you - a reminder for you. If you want to set
your portable timer so as to catch that next SO -
S009, that time again is 18:00 and 46 seconds.
And that's Just about the time we're - we'll be
having AOS at Guam. See you there.
CDR Okay. Thanks, Dick.
354 17 26 02 CC Yes, sir.
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351418 O0 29 CC Skylab, Houston; we're AOS Ou_1_,for 9 minutes.
35h 18 03 48 CDR Housbon, CDR.
CC Go ahead, Jerry.
CDR Roger. Sweet Sue is set.
CC Hey, thank you, sir.
PLT This is the PLT. Are y'all still trying to take

the recorder?
CC PLT, Houston. You were real broken and I didn't

_ copy you. Say again, please, sir.
PLT Just wondering if you were trying to take the

recorder. It keeps blinking on and off.
CC Okay, stand by.
354 18 0h 43 CC Bill, you got a erratic light indication because

_ we redesignatedrecorders. You are recording,
though, so you can press on as you like.
PLT Thank you.
CC Roger.
354 18 08 09 CC Skylab, Houston; we're about a minute and 20 seconds

from LOS here. Next station contact is Ascension
at a time of 18:56, or 57. For the CDR and SPT,
we see TV-77 is coming up in a little while. And,
Ed, whatever you did with regard to the heads -
wearing a headset or holding the mike close when
you did the gypsy moth TV yesterday worked real
good. So we'd suggest continuing that so we con-
tinue to get good voice for this TV-77. I'll see
you at Ascension.
SPT Okay. Thank you, Dick. I've been looking into

what you like on that, and it may take a little
bit longer to get that whole total Job done. We'll
start working on it, though.
CC Okay. Do what you think's best, and let us know

when - when you're through, and we'll reschedule
r_ ifwe needto.
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3%1_ I_ 09 02 _]Pq' 'L'hallk you.
354 18 56 54 CC Skylab, Houston; we're AOS Ascension, Canary and

Madrid for 15 minutes.
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354 19 02 30 CC Skylab, Houston. We've handed over to Canary

Islands. We've still got you here for 9 minutes.
354 19 l0 40 CC Skylab, Houston. We're going to have a little key-

hole right here toward the end of the Madrid pass.
Should pick you up for about a minute after that.
Just in case we don't, the next station is Guam at
19:38. And we're going to dump the data/voice
recorder at Guam.
354 19 38 24 CC Skylab, Houston, AOS Guam for 6-1/2 minutes. And,

Skylab, we're going to be dumping the data/voice
recorder here at G_Am.
CDR Roger _ Dick.
354 19 44 ii CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute to LOS Guam. We're

going to drop out Just about 6 or 7 minutes. I 'ii
_ call you at Honeysuckle at 19:52.
354 19 51 54 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Honeysuckle for

3 minutes.
CC And, Skylab, Houston. Looks like we may have a

flare starting up in active region - most probably
in active region 00.
PLT Roger. I was thinking it was 01, but we'll take

a look. I see the stuff going up.
CC Okay, Bill. We're not sure, but it does look like

one may be starting up.
PLT Yes, I think it's O1, but we'll - we'll make sure
before we start.
CC Okay.
354 19 53 09 CC And, Sylab, Houston. For the CDR or SPT, during

the period of time that we thought you'd be doing
TV-77 we have not seen any recording done on the
VTR.
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PLT Stand by, Dick. They've been working it.
CC Okay.
PLT The reason I haven't started on the flare, Dick,

is I haven't got a BERYLLIUM APERTURE shutdown.
But we're - 54 and 56 in FLARE MODE now.
CC Roger.
CDR Dick, we got about 2 minutes of VTR, and then this

flarething started. .........
CC Okay, Jet.
354 19 54 l0 CC Skylab, Houston, we're about 30 seconds from LOS.

I'll call you at Canary at 20:38.
354 19 54 27 CC And, Skylab, Houston. If you do go back to TV-77,

we'd like you to verify the position on the select -
the TV position on the selector switch.
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SKYLAB AIR-T0-GROUND VOICE T_ANSCPYPTION
354 20 38 05 CC Skylab, Houston. AOS Canary and Madrid for

14 minutes.
SI_T Hello, Dick.
CC Hello there.
SPT Say, we've been working on TV-77, and we're Just

knocking off now. I'm afraid it's _oing to take
a number of sessions more in order to do that
thing right. We Just got the introductory _oln_,
which is Just a general overall discussion of it.
And tomorrow I think we're going to be looking at
the ATM panel, and discussing instruments, the
following day, in the airlock. And the next day
after that, talking about all the other instru-
ments that are not covered in the first 2. That's
the only way we can see to do this thing right,
is to take a little time out and work each scene.
35h 20 39 23 CC Okay, Ed. The way these next few days look, it's
probably going to be a little while before we
can schedule some more time. Approximately how
many more sessions of what duration do you think
would satisfactorily do it?
SPT About three to four more sessions.
CC Okay, what's that? A half hour to 45 minutes

apiece? Is that what you're thinking?
SPT Yes. About - At least 45. It takes you a good

15 minutes to a half an hour, sometimes, Just to
get it all lined up and figure out what you're
going to do.
CC Sure. Understand. Okay. Thank you. We'll do

that.
354 20 40 39 SPT Thank you, Dick.
SPT Dick, what we sent down for the beginning was

Just a general, overall discussion along with
some scenes which Will have to get all spliced
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together. You got more time than - than the

discussion goes; so, you know, feel free to cut
it up any way they choose.
CC Okay. When it gets down here, I'm sure they'll

take a look at it. I'm assuming that - that
Jerry and Bill are gettin_ started in the M50Q
preps. And have you got any words to say about
the flare7
SPT Yes. Bill was there at the time when you came
up. Looked like a very - a subflare, and the
H-alpha only moved slightly. We did not see very
much rise in the PMEC. IMAGE INTENSITY COUNT went
up, oh, 15, 20, maybe a little over that, for a
very short period of time. And we got 5h going
in the right mode. And we looked and decided
it was on its way do_rn already.
CC Roger, Ed. Thank you.
354 20 42 16 CC And, SPT, Houston. For about the last six or

eight passes I've been meanin_ to remind you.
Sorry about that, but your phone call's set up _
this evening at Goldstone at 02:51, if you want
to plan on that.
SPT Yes. Sure will. Thank you, Dick.
CC Okay.
SPT 02:51.
CC Okay. Now I'll - we'll remind you a_aln later on.
35h 20 50 53 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from LOS at

Madrid. Next station contact is Honeysuckle at
21:25, and we're going to dumo the data/voice
recorder there.
35h 21 25 14 CC Skylab, Houston. AOS Honeysuckle for 8 minutes.
CC And, Skylab - forgot to remind you - we're going

to be dumping the data voice recorder here at
Honeysuckle. And sometime this pass, one of the
509 people - If you have a chance, might _ive us
word as how you're comin_ along in the preps and
so forth.
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B54 21 30 ii CC Skylab, Houston. We still have about 3.minutes

here at HoneYsuckle. Looking at the CMG gimbal
angles, it looks to us like it's possible that
you may experience a CMG reset in between Honey-
suckle and the next pass, Bermuda. Just so you
won't be surprised - and no action required by
you - we thought we'd let you know.
CDR Thank you, Dick.
CC Roger.
354 21 32 22 CC Skylab, Houston. We're i minute to LOS, Honey-

suckle. Bermuda comes up at 22:09. See you there.
354 21 32 35 .CDR So long, Dick.
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354 22 09 07 CC Skylab, Houston; Bermuda for 8 minutes.
SPT Hello, Dick.
CC Hello there.
CC And, SPT, Houston: the 509 guys may be on the

other loop and real busy, but sometime during
this pass if you could give us an idea how they're
• coming in their run or prep, we'd appreciate
it.
SPT Okay, Bill's been spraying the workshop down here

for quite a little while. Let me get him where
I can ask him here.
CC Okay, I can hear y'all having a shoot-out in the

background.
SPT Rate gyro baselinemaneuver.
SPT Hello, Dick; they're in the rate gyro baseline

maneuver.
CC Roger. All I copied was the rate gyro.
SPT Base - baseline maneuver.
CC Okay. Thank you.
354 22 15 49 CC Skylab, Houston; we're 1 minute to LOS. Madrid

comes up at 22:20.
354 22 20 19 CC Skylab_ Houston; AOS Canary and Madrid for 8 min-

utes.
354 22 26 hO CC Skylab, Houston; for your information, tomorrow's

Flight Plans are on board.
CC Roger.
CC And also, Ed, you might pass on to Jerry - there's

a portion of tomorrow morning where it - it
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discusses some time for him to - to take a look

at the EVA Checklist changes tliat are going to
be coming up tonight. And on his details pad
there's an entry for a - an EVA conference
scheduled at the tail end of that same time.
And Rusty will be here to discuss with Jerry
anything he wants to talk about in - in that
section of the changes.
SPT Okay, Dick. I'll talk to him about it. Thank

you.
CC 0kay. ....
354 22 28 02 CC Skylab, Houston, we're 1 minute to LOS. Carnarvon

comes up at 22:54.
354 22 54 05 CC Good afternoon, Skylab. Crimson team's you for

15 minutes through Canarvon.
35_ 22 56 25 SPT Hello, Crip. Looks like we have a small flare

going. I got theX-ray run - experiments running
in their FLARE MODE. I gave 82A one exposure and
I'm waiting for 672 before I get 82A or B going.
I can get them going right now, if they'd like. --
CC Cop - Copy that; we're - we're checking it.
CC Ed, are you planning on putting 55 in MLS?
SPT I was not in a GRATING position, so it says go

to REF and that's what I'm going.
CC Looks like you've warmed up the Sun a little.
354 22 58 h6 CC Ed, our information is that this is a subnormal,

less than a C-5, and started about 22:48, and
peaked at 22:52. Correction in that, ED.
SPT Okay, Crip, I must have gotten that close to the

peak. l'll cease the operations and go back to
the norm.
35h 23.00 38 SPT Say, Crip, would you have the 55 people look
at the information on their GRATING POSITION;
I've gone to GRATING POSITION of 0000 twice
now. And when I've gone over to a MIRROR MODE,
l've looked up and found myself in a GRATING
POSITION of 80.
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CC Copy. You've gone to a GRATING of zero and

then when you've gone to a MIRROR MODE it Jumped
to 80, that correct?
SPT That's right. Not immediately upon going to the

MIRROR MODE, but after I'd be working and I look
up and find out I'm at 80. And I confirm it's
at 80 because as soon as I change the GRATING
REFERENCE it goes to GRATING MODE - GRATING
POSITION it goes up from 80, 90, 100, and so
forth. It's not Just a problem with the COUNTER
or the readout.
CC We're reading 34 right now. What do you got?
354 23 01 35 SPT I'm reading 194.
35h 23 01 50 SPT Would you like to have me go through REF once

more?
CC Stand by, Ed.
354 23 02 48 CC Okay, Ed, why don't you try going back to REFER-
ENCE once more. And, for your information, we're
pretty convinced that the 34 we're reading here
is correct.
SPT Okay, Crip. That seems logical to me. Maybe

we've got some stray voltage getting into the
COUNTER here.
CC Okay. FLARE might - might have caused that. Why

don't you go to MECHANICAL REFERENCE first.
354 23 04 18 CC Okay, Ed, when you get back to MECHANICAL REF,

recommend you go ahead and step to 104. And we'll
use - go ahead and continue to use MECHANICAL
REFERENCE. Okay. And we're taking the VTR and
we'll give it back to you later for the ATM TV.
SPT Okay, Crip, by step to 104, you meant I can still

run it up using the grating - GRATING SCAN MODE.
CC That's fan [sic] - all we want you to do is to

just go up to 104 and to use that - that as your
reference.
I--. SPT Okay.

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CC Ed, recommendation; if you a little bit behind

because of that flare, is to go ahead and get
your BB h. And if you - then if you have time,
you can go back and pick up the 32.
SPT Okay. I got the 1 minute of CONTINUOUS in for

52. And I had to truncate the - the PATROL, SHORT
in 56.
CC Okay, copy.

see you again over Texas in 32 minutes, at 23:hl,
23:41.
SPT Say, Crip, in the sma/_l flare we have now, I just

gave 82A an EXPOSURE, SHORT, with about 15 seconds
ex - exposure time. Would they like to have that
to take the place of their 20-second exposure
they have here? I had the ROLL at minus 5400,
however.
354 23 09 58 CC Afraid I'ii never get an answer to you, Ed. Over

the hill. We agree,we agree. Yes. -
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SKYLAB ATR-T0-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION
354 23 40 12 CC Skylab, Houston. AOS through MILA. We have you

for about ll minutes.
354 23 40 39 SPT Crip, are you reading MECHANICAL REF 104 down
there ?
SPT Okay. Just as I went from lOB to 104, an 8 popped

up; so I'm now reading 184.
CC Copy.
354 23 hB 33 CC Skylab, Houston. Wonder if Jer or Bill could

give us the status of the 509 run, so we can
know whether to - to dump the recorders? We
show the recorders still - still in motion.
354 23 43 52 SPT Stand by, Crip.
CC 0keydoke.
SPT Okay, Crip. They're all done. Jer's Just

finishing up on the HHMU, so we - you can take
the recorders.
354 23 44 08 CC Fine and dandy. Thank you, Ed.
354 23 45 26 CC And, SPT, Houston. Ed, for your information,

we're feverishly working to get the JOP 18D pad
up to you to - this evening, so that you'll have
a chance to go over it. We won't run you through
the mill that you went through last time with it.
And it should be up shortly.
sPT Okay, Crip, Appreciated that. Are there any

extras thrown in there, or is it a straight 18?
CC It's - it's a straight 18D. We put in a few

thoughts about - if per chance the thing is not
visible again. We can ta]k about that later.
SPT ()kay. Thank you.

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354 23 49 16 CC Ed, we saw that you cycled the G I_TING again.

Can you give us your latest reading, please?
SPT Crip, it's now reading 285. I advanced it 21

from the last position and I did not get any
changes at that point, any - any anomalies; so
I assume I'm at 0021.
CC Okay. We're showing 125 right now. I'm -

correction, at - You're in 021 OP - OPTICAL and
that - that's right.
354 23 50 04 SPT Got to go through three different whifferdills

to get from 285 to 021 - 21, but I think we're
right.
SPT Crip, come on up here and be our bookkeeper.
CC I can't do it down here, but I'd sure love to

come up there and try.
354 23 53 42 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about i minute from LOS.

We'll have you again over Madrid in 5 minutes
at 23:59, 23:59. We'll be doing a data/voice __
recorder dump. And, Ed, we'll puzzle about 55
and it's GRATING, and I'ii try to figure out how
to keep books for you. It looks like the thing
is getting a series of 80 pulses. Right now
we're showing MECH REF number as 125 and if
you got - add two 80's onto that, that comes out
with your 285.
354 42 5h 22 SPT Okay, Crip. You know, somehow we're -l've seen
that once before; not just the 80, but an extra
80 on top Of that. That's been happening a couple
of times today. I had noticed it before today,
however.
CC Another sinister force.
PLT Crip, we need you up here. Come on.
CC I'm ready.
354 23 54 46 PLT Wish we had a way to do it.

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35h 23 58 h8 CC Skylah, Houston. AOS wi - through Madrid. We

have you for _-i/2 minutes; doing a data/voice
recorder dump.

see you again over Carnarvon in 27 minutes at
00"33, 00:33. See you there.
CDR So long, Crip.
355 00 05 h0 CC Bye-bye.
355 00 32 32 CC (Music: "We sish you a Merry. Christmas") *** get

it.
355 00 33 12 CC Skylab_ Houston. We're with you through Carnarvon

for 5 minutes.
355 00 33 22 CDR Roger, Crippen. Hey, Bob, I've decided that

we'll cancel the documentary photos for tonight.
We got behind on M509 and it's been a busy day.
And I think we'd Just as soon knock it off and
_ try to pick anothertime when we're all eating
together and we can do a better Job of it.
CC Okay, Jer. That 's fine.
355 00 3_ 3h CDR Bob, also tell the M509 guys that we're going
to be late with our debriefings, but we'll get
them done before we go to bed.
CC Okay, Jet.
355 00 37 4h CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from LOS. We'll

have you again over Honeysuckle in about 7 minutes
at 00:45, 00:h5.
355 00 38 02 CDR Roger, Crip.
355 00 h5 lh MCC Oklahoma State University sends holiday greetings

to Skylab 3 astronauts Gerald Carr, Edward Gibson,
and Bill Pogue. Here is a special Christmas
carol from Bill Pogue's _]ma mater featuring the
Oklahoma State University Singers. (Music: 'We
Wish You a Merry Christmas")
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355 00 45 42 CC Skylab, llouston. We have you for about 30 more

seconds through Honeysuckle. We'll see you again
at Texas in 29 minutes, 01:14. (Music)
CDR Roger, Crip.
(Music)
355 00 45 57 PLT Thsrakthe Cowboy Singers.
CC Roger. You're welcome, Bill. And our OU Flight

Director is proud to present that.
355 00 46 09 PLT Brightens up my whole day.
(Music: "I'm Dreaming of a White Christmas"
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Page i of 3/2093
355 01 25 ii CC S_lab, Houston. We're back with you_ we'll have

you for about 6 more minutes through Bermuda. See
you're in the maneuver. Skylab, for your informa-
tion, you're going to have about 3 minutes at the
end of this maneuver for settling out, about a min-
ute extra - over what we normally give you. So
you should have plenty of time to get nice and
st able.
CDR Roger, Crip. Looks like the weather's clear over

Chicago,
CC Roger. It's clear over Houston, too. You guys

came almost directly overhead. I think a few of
the wives went out and took a look at you come over.
CDR Yes, you were so close to the terminator it - it

was still too much Sun glare up here for us to see
- Houston though.
CC Roger. Well, it has to work that way for us to be

able to see you.
CDR Right.
355 01 27 47 CC Skylab, Houston. We've got the VTR dumped and

rewound, and it's available for your use. Jet, I
believe you're scheduled for some TV downlink on
the ATM next pass.
CDR 0kay, thanks,
CC And, Skylab, Houston, Jet if you're aroun_ ATM D -

C&D there, we are enabling dump.
CDR Say again, Crip.
CC Roger, Just calling you to tell you that we were

going to be enabling dumps in case you saw your
flag flip.
CDR Okay.
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355 Ol 30 24 CC Skylab, Houston. We're i minute from LOS. We'll

see you again over Madrid in about 5 minutes, at
01:36. And we'll be doing a data/voice recorder
dump ther_=.
355 Ol 30 36 CDR Roger, Crip. (Music: "Happy Holidays")
355 Ol 36 26 CC Skylab, Houston, we're AOS through Madrid. We have

you for 6-1/2 minutes. (Music: Christmas carols)
355 Ol 42 24 CC Skylab, Houston; we're 1 minute from LOS. We're

going to see you again over Tananarive in 17 min-
utes, at 01:59, 01:59. (Music: Christmas carols)
355 Ol 42 34 CDR Roger. (Christmas carols cease. )
355 Ol 59 lh CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Tananarive. Have you

for 6 minutes. (Music: "Silent Night")
355 02 Ol 40 CDR Hey, trip, that last maneuver kind of skimmed the
gimbal stop, didn't it?
CC We aren't privy to looking at the gimbal stops,

so I guess for right now, I didn't - didn't see
the maneuver. Did it - lay on them for a while?
CDR No, not for long. It Just kind of skin,ned by them.

We had about 62 percent _, and one of the gimbal
angles got up to about 90 - 92 percent.
CC Roger. Do you recall whether that was INNER or

OUTER, Jer on - and which CMG?
CDR Number 3 INNER.
CC Okay, copy. Normally, the INNERs aren't really -

really any problem, it's the OUTERs that can some-
times get us into problem.

see you at Honeysuckle in about 20 minutes at 02:22,
02 :22.
CDR So long, trip.
CC Bye-bye.
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SPT So long, Crip. You going to have any good wor_]s

for me on the pointing techniques for looking at
the comet?
CC Okay, we hope to have that up about stateside.

And that's going to be, oh, like 47 minutes away,
and it'll be while you're having your - your family
comm. And after you take a look at it, we'll talk
about it.
355 02 03 28 SPT Thank you. (Music ceases. )
355 02 22 _7 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS through Honeysuckle,

and we've got you for a whole minute and a half.
SPT There ought to be some songs that last only a minute

and a half.
CC Well, I'm sure that there - there probably is, but

I figures I'd foul it up if I tried to squeeze it
in that tight a time. We only got a minute left
- now. And Goldstoneis 02:51, that's about 28 min-
utes away. And for Edward, we've got his phone
call set up for there.
SPT Very good, Crip. Which antenna?
CC Start off on RIGHT and go to LEFT. And we hope

also, as I said before, during Goldstone to be up-
linking this JOP 18D pad. And then, a little bit
later, we'll - when you've had a chance to take a
look at it, we can discuss it a little bit.
SPT Okay, very good. Must have about 30 seconds, Crip,

could you hum a little?
CC Hum_.
355 02 2)414 CC I ought to sing "The Eyes of Texas" with all these
Oklahoma types around.
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355 02 50 h3 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS across the States, and

we're got you for about l0 minutes.
CDR Roger.
CC Jet, are you still at the ATMpanel?
CDR Yes, Just powering it down.
CC Okay, we - if it's convenient we would like to run

a little test on that 55 GRATING problem that Ed
was telling us about earlier, where the thing was
Jumping in courts by 80.
CDR Okay, give me a second to finish what I'm doing

and I'll be with you.
CDR Okay, go ahead.
355 02 51 26 CC Okay, and we are going to be taking the VTR to

dump it. Now let me tell you a little bit, before
we get started, what we're planning on doing. What
we're - we're going to be asking you to switch
the MODE SELECTOR on 55 between various positions
that I'ii read to you, and as you to monitor the
GRATING POSITIONs to see if you can see an increment.
And what we're trying to do is to test out if we
got a noisy relay in the panel that might be causing
this 80 counts. And if you're ready, we'd like you
to first place to 55 MODE switch to GRATING AUTO
SCAN.
355 02 52 04 CDR Okay, that's done and it's still reading 10h.
CC Okay, now if you'd cycle the switch to STOP,

please, and monitor and see if that changes.
CDR No change.
CC Okay. Go back to GRATING, AUTO SCAN.
CDR Okay. No change.
CC Okay. Now we'd like you to go to MIRROR, AUTO

RASTER.
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Ci)l_ No change.
CC Okay. Now you want to go back to GRATING, AUTO

SCAN?
CDR No change.
355 02 52 52 CC Okay. Did you see any Jumps at all during your
operations this past rev?
CDR Negative. I was watching for them and didn't see

a thing.
CC Okay, I guess that's - that concludes the little

test that we had, and we didn't get any results
from it. Wonder, if it's convenient, could I
go ahead and get your frame count for tonight?
CDR Okay. 7059, 1723, 32575, 3426, 2063.
CC Copy
that.
CC And Just to keep us updated, we would appreciate

any future reports by any of the three of you
guys if we do see that thing Jump again.
355 02 53 51 CDR Okay, we sure will.
CC And, Jer, one item I'd like to discuss with you

a little bit. We're looking at some of our future
scheduling, and one of the things to get in on
your guys is a - a limb blood measurement in -
associated with 92. I think we did one earlier
in the mission. We're kind of interested in the
- the fact that your legs - leg volumes seems
to continually peg the - off the scale. And in
doing that and trying to meet all of our constraints
of scheduling it's kind of hard to do the next
time up. And what we're pondering is if you could
go ahead and do a 92 with the - the limb blood, and
then, instead of doing 171, we could scheduled
you for an instrumented PT session where we would
only be requiring you to Just wear the blood
pressure and the VCG harness. And since that's
a - a crew option kind of thing we need - need
your opinion on it.
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355 02 55 02 CDR Just what all of the exercise do you want?
CO All we're interested in is getting the ergometer

rLln.
CDR Okay, that shouldn't be any problem.
CC Okay, and that would be for - for all three

of you on this next series of runs coming up
strafing day after tomorrow.
CDR Okay.
CC Okay, if you're GO on that we'll - we'll so sched-

ule it.
CDR Crip, I missed my nu Z update. I'll have to get

for you next time.
355 02 55 35 CC Okay, we copy that. Thank you.
.... CC And, Jet, for your information and for Ed when

he gets off his phone call, the J0P 18D-pad is in
the teleprinter.
CDR Hey, Crip, I got a star now. Do you suppose that's

the right one.
CC Well, you're in the middle of a dump; we need to

take a look at it. And, Jet, we show that 52's
TV is still on. We need that off and also 56
AIBL0CK door CLOSED.
CDR Okay.
CC Okay, and that nu Z will not be any good, so if

you haven't gone to AUTO, don't do so.
CDR Okay, I won't.
355 02 58 33 CC CDR, Houston. We have pulled the appropriate

people and that nu Z update will not be necessary
tonight. You can Just forget it.
CDR Thank you Crip.

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CC Skylab, Houston. For your infor, the VTR is

all cleaned off and rewound.
PLT Roger, Crip.
355 03 O1 36 CC Skylab, Houston; we're going to drop out here

shortly and we'll pick you up at about a min-
ute and a half over Bermuda.
355 03 03 25 CC Skylab, Houston. AOS Bermuda for 5 minutes.

(Music : Christmas carols)
335 03 07 27 CC Skylab, Houston; we're 1 minute from LOS. See

you at Madrid in 6 minutes at 03:13, and we'll
he standing by for the evening status report there
Jer, if you've had a chance to put it together.
(Music : Christmas carols)
355 03 lh 20 CDR Hey, crimson team, thanks for the Christmas card.
CC You're welcome. How's the level up there, Jet? -"

I can't really Judge it from down here, whether
it's too loud or too soft or what.
CDR It's Just about right, Crip. Over Tananarive it

was kind of weak yesterday evening, and that
was the only weak one.
CC Okay, fine and dandy. If you're ready with the

evening status reports, I'll go ahead and kill the
music for a little while so we can copy it real
good.
CDR 0kay.
355 03 lh 56 CDR Okay. Sleep: CDR, 7.0, 6.5 heavy, 0.5 light; SPT,
8.2, 5.2 heavy, 3 light; PLT, 7.0, 6.5 heavy, a
half light. Volume: CDR, 1850; SPT, 2000; PLT, 1850
Water gun: CDR, 7587; SPT, 3101; PLT, 9232. Body
mass: CDR, 6.320, 6.317, SPT, 6.36h, 6.361, 6.362;
PLT, 6.250, 6.253, 6.250. Exercise: No change for
any of us. Medications: CDR, none; SPT, none; PLT_
Tinanctin as directed. Clothing: CDR, one T-shirt ;
PLT, one shirt. Food log: CDR, zero salt, minus
one coffee with sugar, plus 1.5 water; SPT, 1.5 salt
zero deviations, zero water; PLT, zero salt, zero
deviations, zero water. Flight Plan deviations:
no documentary photos today, and no leg volume taken
on the SPT.
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Shopping list accomplishments: none. Inoperable

equipment: none. Unschedule stowage: none. Camera
log: M151 (M092/171), Charlie India 74, 82, Charlie
India 72; M509 ops, Charlie India 73, 00, Charlie
India 56; M509 ops, Charlie India 71, 00, Mike
Tango 07; Nikon 01, no change; 02, no change; 03
Charlie India lll_ 20_ Oh, Bravo Echo 08, 27: 05,
Bravo Hotel 05, 26; 70-milllmeter, no change. ETC,
no change. EREP, no change. Drawer A: Alfa l, 02,
Charlie II_ia 73, 00, Charlie India 56; Alfa 2,
no change; Alfa 3, no change; Alfa 4, 08, Charlie
India 71, 00, Mike Tango 07. Back 07, Charlie
India 7h, 82, Charlie India 72. And that's it.
355 03 17 h5 CC Very good. You really rattled all that stuff off.
Got a couple of questions for you if I could ask
them, please?
CDR Okay, go ahead.
CC Okay, got, one here from corollary. Wants to kno_

- if for future operations of TV-36 Bravo, a handheld
in conjunction with M509, we would like to utilize
the observer as a cameraman in addition to his
duties as a commentator. This arrangement would
elminate the problem associated with scheduling
all three crewmen at once for M509 runs, and if
possible, to premit addition TV coverage. Do you
think this mode of operation would be acceptable
to you?
CDR Yes, I think so. I don't think the gyrations are

- of - you know of a magnitude where you'd have
to worry about safety or anything.
355 03 18 33 CC Okay, good. We'll - we'll plan on that in the

future then. Question from the EGIL. Of a total
h20WS lights, approximately how many are left
on when you go to sleep? And the reason we're ask-
ing this question is to try to figure out ways
to maybe cool the vehicle off a little bit.
CDR Okay, we leave - we leave zero lights on in the

MDA. We leave lights 3 and 4, which ar_ forward
compartment lights in the workshop. And we leave
onone light in the waste management compartment
and that's it.
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CC Okay. Sounds like you got it darkened down pretty

good. We'd like to know also if you've noticed
any temperature changein the 0WS since we turned
on the primary coolant loop, and we - I guess we
did that about yesterday morning?
355 03 19 28 CDR That's affirmative Crip. I think it's gone down

a couple of degrees.
CC Okay. And are you still using the protable fan

up in the - by the dome. And if so have you got
it oriented now to blow over the heat exchangers?
CDR That's affirmative.
CC Okay, real good. And do you happen to have your

Flight Plan handy for tomorrow?
CDR Yes, let me get it
CDR Okay,
go ahead.
355 03 20 06 CC Okay. We have a little scheduling conflict on

Bill tomorrow morning. We got him doing the S009
set at the same time we had him doing $233. So, if
we could, we'd like you to do the S009 set in the
morning, and I can give you the - the times.
CDR Okay, go ahead.
CC Roger. The on-station time of 12:36. Set time

is 12:38:49 .... plus 3, at period 100. And
additions/ item, if Bill is lis - listening,
we ought to change that $233 on-station time to
12:38. We - we have him up there Just exactly
the time the - the data is supposed to start.
355 03 21 03 CDR Okay, I think he's up doing the 233 right now. You
want him at what time?
CC 12:38. I'll - I'll try to get him later or -

or do you think you'll be able to catch him?
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CDR Yes, I'ii get him. I'ii put it on his schedule

for tomorrow.
CC Okay, fine. We're about h5 seconds - -
PLT All right, Crip_
CC You got it. We're about 45 seconds from LOS. We

got a Tananarive pass in ll-1/2 minutes at 03:33.
And if Ed can manage to get it in, that would
probably be the last good place we're going to
have this evening to talk about ED18D.
355 03 21 _3 SPT Okay, Crip. I've Just been taking a look at it.
Most of it seems fairly straightforward until
we get down in the steps 23, 2h, 25, and so forth.
CC Okay.
SPT Hey, Crip. We're up in the co_nand module looking

up north and there's a awful lot of light up there.
_- I'd say there's going to be lots of little kids
happy around Christmas time. The old guy's really
working away up there. Judging from the amount of
light, he's got a lots of help.
CC Very good.
CC Can you clarify for us, Jer, on M151, apparently

the percentage you used was less than we had anti-
cipated. We anticipated 23, and I believe you
reported 3.
CDR No, Crip, there's 82 percent remaining on the roll,

and we started out with a _11 one
355 03 23 00 CC Okay, that's good; we misunderstood.
355 03 36 40 CC Skylab, Houston. Does that static sound as

pretty to you guys as it does to me?
SPT Crip, have you been talking to us all along here?
CC No, no. I've been waiting until (laughter) hope-

fully until the static died down a little bit.
I've got you for about 5 minutes through T_lanarive
now.
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SPT Crip, let me ask you why - in looking at the pad

here I do not see anything about your counting
for overshoot. I see we're putting the roll at
5700 but no correction for overshoot.
CC Ed, I based that on - on your comments the other

day. The way you talked about doing it as you
would go ahead and do that yourself. Because
we're assuming that you are going to compensate as
you briefed at doing it. I think you said you
would multiply the value by like 0.97.
355 03 37 31 SPT Yes, but I haven't come up with that 0.gx, what-
ever it is yet, and I was hoping the ground would
look at it and come up with a good number. I'll
go ahead and - and use that because that probably
is what I figured as Just a rough eyeball mean.
But, it was Just that - a rough eyeball.
CC I'll tell you what, we'll take a - better look

at it tonight. But that number looked pretty -
good to us - 0.97, and we'll confirm it with
you tomorrow morning. A couple of items I did
want to cover on that, but I - before I get into
it, I ought to - I need to ask Jer a couple of
questions about on Nikon 05, he reported 3 frames
tonight and we think that 9 total should have been
used. That's with the 233 ops. While he's check-
ing into that, Ed, and for all of the guys, we're
planning on loading a patch tonight which basically
Just reduces the rate at which we drive the CMG
gimbals during a GG dump. And this is Just
part of - of an idea to take some of the load
off of them. And we're going to load this patch
tonight, and - but we're not going to implement
it until we're insured that some of our ground
machine simulators that duplicate you also have
the - are loaded ready to take this. But we
wanted you to know that we were going to be doing
some computer work tonight.
355 03 39 13 SPT Okay, is that just for GG dumps or is that for

all maneuvers?
T
CC GG dumps only.
SPT Okay, so if we're ever monitory it, we just - Just

- - see a -
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CC No - -
SPT - - more acceleration to the rate.
CC I really don't think that you'd end up noticing

much difference on this at all, Ed.
SPT No, I don't think so either.
355 03 39 22 CC Okay, While - Maybe Jer is trying to find that ki

- Nikon 05.
CC Okay, we dropped out there briefly. While I'm

waiting on Jet for the Nikon 05 frame answer, Ed,
I did want - -
CDR Okay, I reported 26 and that's the right number.

That's nine more than last night.
CC Okay, that's two against the FAO.
CDR Okay, and did you get the straight skinny on the
M151 today?
CC Roger. We - that was also a problem in our inter-

pretation down here.
CDR Okay.
355 03 40 12 CC Two for you today. Two against us. On - for Ed

regarding the - the 18D, as I said, we'll try to
verify that number for multiplication on overshoot.
And Ed to clarify that a little bit more. You said
that you would like to place it on the X-axis
and then move up from there. We have ended
up putting it out - at about the third quadrant
for optimum positioning for 52. So I guess we're
going to leave that up to your technique on how
you'd do the maneuvering and put it on the X and
then move it up. But we'll get you a good number
on overshoot. Did want to point out -
SPT Okay, I'll try to put it up - I'll try to put it

on the X-axis. And I think the overshoot is
different in those two directions. But seeing as
that's the only one I really work - worked pretty
well was moving up and down the X-axis, I prefer
to stay there because that's the only territory
we really know.
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355 0B 41 07 CC Okay, we're about 30 seconds from 10S. Next sta-

tion contact is Honeysuckle, 03:58. That's only
about 2 minutes before your bedtime. And unless
you want it I'll - we can Just not call you there.
SPT Okay, let's - let's not do that, Crip. Is there

any stars visible? Where - is Antares still around?
CC No, and my information is there should be no stars

visible. For your information the other day,
Antares was about 1.2 and we were estimating the
center of the nucleus on the comet at 3. And there
should be a delta of about - so that it should be
around 2 for this pass tomorrow. Do you understand
about - we gave you a maneuver if you can - in
step 18, if you can't see it that you can go ahead
and Just book that in.
SPT Treat it like a JOP 137
CC Basically,yes. And then we - -
SPT Use the stars.
355 03 h2 03 CC Roger. And use the star tracker and we gave the
star tracker information - it's Only good for one
GMT and if you don't get it in at that tim , you
need to go ahead and do the motion comps for ever
how late you are. And we talk about that there.
SPT Okay, I'll take another look at that. I see it

here but I have not thought about it in great
detail. I'll talk some more to you about it
tomorrow.
CC Okay. Bill Lenoir will be glad to run over it

with you in the morning.
355 03 42 27 SPT Thanks very much, Crip, for all your hard work on
it. Sure appreciate it.
CC Oh, I'm - -
SPT Hope we're getting some good data.

h
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CC Okay. I'm sure you - you are, and it's - I'm

not doing very much. There's a lot of guys down
here - the ASCO is about to pull out all of his
hair for it.
SPT Yes. I bet there's a whole pile of troops down

there working hard on this one. Hope the data
comes through.
PLT Crip, a subjective report on the comet. It - to-

night it looked a heek of a lot brighter than it
did last night to these ... eyeballs.
CC Okay. Jer, We're looking at last night's report

on 05, and we see 23 as a frame count last night.
CDR We have 17 logged for last night.
CC Okay. Must have been our error then.
355 03 43 22 CC Night, guys. Merry Christmas. Happy perihelion.
355 03 43 28 CDR ...
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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANCRIPTION
355 ll 55 22 CC _%q(ylab,Houston. Good morning.
CC Skylab, Houston. Good morning. We'll be LOS

here in about a minute at Tananarive.
PLT Okay, Houston.
CC And, Skylab, we need you to change out the tele-

printer paper this morning so that ee can get up
pads over Hawaii. And we want to check that you
have on board two each of general message 17.
355 ll 57 02 PLT Okay. I'll take care of that right now.
355 12 3h 51 CDE Okay, Bill.
CC Skylab, Houston; standy by. Hawaii for 12 minutes.
CDR Roger. Goodmorning,Bill.
CC Good moning, And that's h minutes AOS we have here.
B55 12 B5 48 CC And, Skylab, we're sending up some teleprinter

messages at this time. And if you could give us
the word that you've received them over Vanguard?
CDR We'll do it, Bill.
PLT And, Bill, we did get the two copies of general

message 17.
CC Thank you.
355 12 39 09 CC Skylab, we'll be LOS in 1 minute. We'll have

you again at Vanguard at 1B:02. Also we'll be
dumping the tape recorder at Vanguard.
355 12 B9 26 CDR Roger.
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355 13 02 52 CC Skylab, Houston. AOS fDr 9 minutes at Vanguard.

We'll be dumping the tape recorder here.
PLT Roger, Bill.
CC And, SPT, Houston.
SPT Go ahead.
CC On the JOP 18]) overshoot compensation, the Ground

calculates that 0.95 vice 0.97, as calculated on
board. That's for both axes.
SPT Thank you very much, Bill.
CC Go, SPT.
SPT Bill, can I make a requestthat when we have on

the pad to turn the 56 HIGH VOLTAGE POWER, OFF,
that the following pass that we use the dlsplays,
we have another request to turn them back ON?
CC •Wilco, Ed.
SPT Thank you.
CC We copy that.
355 13 08 55 CC SPT, Houston.
SPT Go ahead.
CC Could we have the DAS for a short period here?
SPT Certainly, Bill; go ahead.
CC And, Ed, could you confirm that the teleprinter

messages got up after the paper ehangeout all
right?
SPT Yes, they did, Bill; they look good.

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CC Thank you.
CC SPT, the DAS is all yours now.
SPT Thank you.
355 13 ll 27 CC Skylab, we'll be going LOS here in about a minute.

We'll have you again at 13:26. I'ii bet it isn't
as cold up there this morning as it is down here.
PLT What' s the temperature down there, Bill?
CC Oh, it's not really that cold, but it feels that

way. It's in the 20's this morning. The East got
a good dowsing of snow, which you may have seen.
355 13 12 ii PLT That's pretty cold for Houston.
355 13 28 i0 CC Good morning, Skylab. We're at Tananarive for

6 minutes.
SPT Morning, Dick and purple team.
CC Good morning, sir.
355 13 29 34 CC SPT, Houston. The cold weather down here this

morning has done in Dr. Lenoir. He has a slight
case of the flu, and we're going to have a simula-
ted Dr. Lenoir at the next pass in the form of
Owen Garriott_ so I'm sure you'll enjoy visiting
with Owen here this morning. That comes up at
Hawaii, next pass, at 14:lO Zulu.
SPT Very good. Looking forward to talking with Owen.

He hasn't had too much experience with the area,
but I imagine he can get up treat to speed.
CC Well, he's trying hard this morning. He's hustling

around here.
355 13 33 18 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from LOS, Tanana-

rive. Hawaii comes up at 14:10, and Owen will
be talking to you there on ATM conference. And
I'll see you after that pass at Vanguard at 14:41.

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355 13 33 35 CC Roger_ See you around there.
355 14 09 20 SPT Morning, 0wen.
MCC Hello there, Ed. How are you this morning?
SPT Very good.
MCC Fine. Coming through loud and clear. A little

bit early here. I'll Just pick right up and get
all the information that I've collected sent along
quick.
SPT Very good. Go ahead.
MCC First, on Kohoutek - or Kohoutek, Bob McQueen and

Dick Monroe tell me that you shouldn't be surprised
if you don't see the comet on your display. The
brightness is Just not all it might be, and so
they really think it's unlikely that you will be
able to see it on your TV monitor. And, of course,
if you don't see it after that first maneuver, then
_ go ahead and - Can't use your overlay,but go ahead
and use the can numbers to make your second man-
euver for S055 and 82 observations. Over.
SPT Say, Owen. What I thought I might do is try to

move it down and glue it - Can't see it at 070
in active octal. I thought I might try to move
it over to a position a little further out so I
could see it. And if I don't see it, I'll Just
_TER that first command and pick up from there.
MCC ()kay,Ed. And we copy that. It does - does look

like, with the present brightness observed from
the ground, that you will not have sufficient
brightness to see it on the screen even if you do
have it positioned properly.
SPT Oh, okay; fine. Thank you.
355 14 l0 50 MCC Let me talk about ATM now for a little bit. I
think it's the last orbit of the day you'll find
you've got some observations on prominence 61 -
61, which was supposed to be nice and stable off
the east limb. It now turns out that prominence 61
has disappeared. You won't be able to see it there_
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at least we don't believe, and the Backroom will

be thinking about alternatives for observations
in that period _and should have some recommendation
for you a little later in the day before it's time
to be looking at P-61.
SPT Okay.
MCC Okay. I'ii next talk a little bit about the Sun.
As you can probably tell better than we, active
region double zero is the biggie for the day.
Should be just about at central meridian. And
maybe you have the neutral line pinned down, but
I'll give you a couple of comments about it. Joe
Hirman was telling me that they were able to count
up to 40 small sunspots in that active region today.
It has been growing. There has been increase in
plage brightness. Within the last 24 hours there's
been as many as eight small flares, with one of
them up to a Charlie 8; so active region double
zero is clearly the most important. And I think
you already do have on board the message which
increased its flare probability for the X-class
up to 20 percent. So it's the only one of that
sort of a probability for today. Now one word
that might be of some help to you. Either all
or almost all of these small flares have been
occurring right to the east of the double spots
which lead the plage. The - There is a double
spot right at the west edge - leading edge of the
plage, and the spots - or the small flares have
been occurring Just to the east of those double
leaders there. I guess they - you can see that,
Ed?
355 14 12 53 SPT I was looking at that this morning and that clearly
is a maximum in oxygen Vl. It's up around about
40,000 or so when I happened to look at it I think
it' s slightly east and slightly north.
MCC Okay. That sound like a pretty high count in

oxygen VI to me; so it must really be brightening.
And you're finding this brightness, as I understand
it, Just to the east of those leading spots?
SPT That's right. Pretty much where you had Just

specified, only slightly north.
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MCC Okay. Well, that sounds fine. Looks like you've

already identified that, and that' s where NOAA
thinks it will continue to be most probable for
the future flare activity. Next let me Just mention
building block 15, which has now finally been re-
schediled. And I believe it's going to be the
first time it has been scheduled on the flight -
or on your mission here_ Ed. And this is informa-
tion mostly for Jerry because building block 15
will come along on Jerry's turn at the panel.
And we looked back at some of the film - or some
of the photographs from our mission and have been
able to identify the Earth's horizon coming into
view; so that's provided us with the timing that's
required for building block 15. So you'll notice
some times on your pad which are a little unusual
and which may not fit exactly with the visual
report that you made the other day. And so the
intent of running building block 15 here for S052
is to start it when the time remaining clock reads
ll seconds - in other words, zero plus ll seconds
remaining - and to stop it at zero plus lO. That'll
give a 1-second manual exposure, and this is essen-
tially based on the film rec - recordings that I
brought back from SL-3. So Jerry should be alerted
to that. And if there's any question about why,
perhaps this'll straighten out the logic behind
it. Over.
355 14 lh 55 SPT Were you able to make a correlation between the

time remaining and the Beta angle? Because I've
been watching it on the white light coronagraph
display, and I found that the Beta angle has come
down here. We back off m_ybe 30 seconds or so
before we start to see a significant pluming on
the white light display - the coronagraph display.
MCC Ed, apparently the answer is, at this point, we

have made no correlation. But we'll continue to
think about that, and if there is a possibility
why we'll have to get it up to you later. But at
least at the moment, why that check's not been
complete.
SPT Okay. I think there's a relatively significant

dependence on Beta angle, and you ought to look
at that. If you'd like Jerry watching the TV
display at the same time - at least before we
initiate the exposure - so in case it gets too in-
tense, we don't try it.
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MCC Okay. I didn't quite hear you on that one, Ed.

Understood you thought it might be Beta-angle
dependent. But at least for today, those times
I gave you - and it should be on the pad - of
ll seconds on, l0 seconds off should be used. Over.
SPT Okay. We'll assume that there's no degradation and

the instrument has received a fair amount of sun-
light - *** sunlight from the Earth's atmosphere.
MCC Okay. And incidentally, it's a little off the

subject, but - It's related subject but no on the
ATM observations. We definitely can see some
scattering in the upper atmosphere from our hand-
held photography, looking at the sunrise/sunsets.
So these are the sorts of things Larry Dunkleman
provided us with a picture of before we left. You
probably remember them, little white - blue tran-
sitions in the top of the atmosphere, and those
will of course correlate with the stuff that's
coming down from the - I hope we see on the
S052photographs. Over.
SPT Okay.
355 14 16 34 MCC Okay. One other item on the comet. You'll notice
there are two orbits, of course, just come - ahead
of you here for Kohoutek maneuvering. And the
first one does not have any VTR operations for
the comet in it because Jerry will be doing a
TV-78. Now if we should be wrong and there should
have been any visual signature on your television
monitor of the comet during the S052 portion,
we'd like, if at all possible, to at least get a
short segment switched over to the ATM. Just
switch over to whichever monitor you've got so that
we can get a little bit of the comet video on the
tape during that first orbit, even though it's
not called for on your Flight Plan, if you can do
that. Over.
SPT Okay, we'll make a mental note of that.
CC And then one last item which may be of interest.

We have had a report of considerable magnetic
disturbance here in the Earth's environment for
about the last 24 hours. The magnetic activity
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has really increased substantially, which suggests

that there might very well be a good opportunity
for getting haudheld photography of the aurora.
Now your dark portion of the orbit comes at north-
ern latitudes. Your southern latitudes are, of
course, in daylight. And the only opportunity then
would be somewhere your - near the northern auro-
ral zone, Looking at the phase of your orbit, your
best opportunity for photography will be somewhere
near bedtime because the Earth's magnetic pole, as
you know, is tipped off towards Greenland• and
you'll need to wait until you're near Greenland,
which occurs in - in the evening - or in our Hous-
ton evening near your bedtime; so if you get a
chance to be looking out your STS windows near
the time you're passing up Canadian or Greenland
areas • why you should have a good chance to - to
get some aurora tonight. Over.
SPT Okay. We looked at it last night as we were going

over the Great Lakes, and we saw a good lO minutes
or so worth of good aurora activity. And we put
.... some on tape, describedit, and asked S063 to
give us some exposure times• film, and so forth
because we have not received that as yet.
CC Oh, very good. So you already caught it and just -

Just those times. And that's the right spot.
I'll doublecheck to make sure you get those times
sent up. And we got some good photography on our
color interior film. I'll make sure - doubleeheck
to make sure you've got exposure times for both
24,85 fast black and white, as well as your color
interior. Well, we're down to about 30 - 40 sec-
onds before LOS here, Ed. I'm Just trying to find
the right clock. It looks like it will be l0 or
15 minutes until we can pick you up down around
Vanguard. And I see - Phil Just corrected me ;
22 minutes until we're AOS at Vanguard. Over.
355 14 19 34 SPT Okay. The corona for today, the spike which is -
or the streamer which is above -well• it's at 03 -
make that 300, maybe 290 - is a very sharply spiked
one. That is, it's not wide, and it's got a
fairly significant point to it, much more so than
yesterday. And it goes out to one and a half solar
radii before it starts to fade out significantly.
The one on the west limb has diminished signifi-
cantly, and it tends to be without form.
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CC Okay, we copy that. Thank you, Ed.
355 14 20 13 CC Good luck to you fellows. Glad to talk to you

again.
355 14 20 16 SPT Very good. Thank you, 0wen_ appreciate your help.
Looking at the active regions 3 and 4, they appear
to increase in intensity relative to the background.
As a matter of fact, all of the active regions
relative to the background have increased inten-
sity. Their positions _nd so forth are pretty
much ...
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355 14 41 29 CC Skylab, Houston. Hello at the Vanguard for

8-1/2 minutes.
CDR Hello, Dick.
CC Hello there and good morning to you. We're going

to be dumping the data/voice recorder here.
PLT Dick, PLT here. I got a couple of questions.
CC Roger, Bill. Go ahead.
PLT Roger. Reference the MDA checklist, and the first

question has to do with page 1-1. Have them ver-
ify the first step there; missed step number 1.
Just check that and make sure they want that done
the way it's written. And also on page 10-1,
step 7, I'd like a verification on that.
CC Okay, the first page was l-l, step 1. Is that

correct? And the second one was 10-1, step 7.
Is that right?
PLT That's affirmative.
CC Okay, Bill; standby.
355 14 43 19 CC PLT, Houston. On the second part of your ques-

tion, on page 10-1, step 7, the answer is affirma-
tive. We do wsmt that one done as - as it's
printed. There is - We're wondering why you're
asking the question. There is one note. There
is a teleprinter change to this checklist - that
change 2 that went up last night, that I'm assum-
ing you got, in which is the VTR prep for
M518 operation - that does add a step 6-A just
prior to that step 7.
PLT Roger. And I guess the question there had to do

with channel Bravo. Did you want channel Bravo
or channel Alfa?
CC Roger, Bill. We do want channel Bravo, and that

is for telemetry purposes. And Bravo is correct.
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CC And on step 1 - I mean page l-l, step l, we're

still looking at that one.
PLT It's sort of con - I think it means down, there,

instead of up.
CC Co - PLT, Houston. In either case, we certainly

want it closed. And we are checking the panel
configuration now.
PLT I'm sorry. I was almost positive, but I wanted

to ask anyway.
CC No, good question. No problem.
355 14 47 04 CC And, Skylab, Houston. On the - on the ATM, request

H-ALPHA, 2 FRAMES/MINUTE. We don't see it running.
PLT You're right; it wasn't.
CC Thank you, sir.

Hawaii comes up at 15:51. I'ii see you there.
355 14 _9 50 PLT Roger, Dick.
355 15 51 00 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Hawaii for 3 minutes.

We're looking at the bird. Everything looks pretty
shipshape to us, and this is the first time that
l've talked to you since you were scheduled to
put all the information or take a look at the
JOP 18 pad. l've got my JOP 18 summary sheets put
together per the pad; so if there're any questions,
we'll be more than happy to entertain them. Other-
wise, l'm standing by.
SPT Okay, Dick. Thank you. Looking at the display,

I can see a very faint object at 070 in X and
130 in Y.
CC Roger, Ed.
SPT Okay, Dick. It shows up on both displays; so I

think we are getting a look at it. But it's right
at the very edge of the displays. We'll have to
be careful in the maneuvering so we don't lose it.
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CC Okay, Ed. We're taking a quick look down here to

see if it could be another object, but roger on
that.
SPT Let me correct that position. It's plus 130 in Y

and plus 100 in X.
CC Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute to LOS, Hawaii.

Vanguard comes up at 16:19. And for the CDR:
Jerry, sometime in these next couple of passes,
prior to you doing the CM HKT, I need to have a
word with you. I'll - We can talk about it either
at Vanguard or Ascension after that.
CDR Okay, Dick. The later, the better. And concerning

your message 36h7, we already - I guess we antici-
pated you a little bit. There's a request on tape,
time tagged 13:00 Z this morning.
- 355 15 53 hi CC Thank you, Jer. We'll look it up.
355 15 55 Oh SPT Dick, the object does disappear when we go to the

CAMERA mode in 52; so we are looking at something
external.
CC Roger, Ed. Thank you.
355 15 55 21 CC And as we go over the hill, those units you gave

us, Ed, make us think that that probably is the
comet you're looking at. A very small pointing
error would be - would go along with those
numbers.
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355 16 19 12 CC Skylab, Houston. AOS Vanguard for ii minutes.
SPT Okay, Dick. We've n_neuvered it to the center,

using the scale-factor correction, and starting
out at about 12h on the X-axis. We're now just
finishing up the h-minute exposure, and we're
going to start into the - the longer one on 82B.
And we're looking for it on 55. So far, no luck.
CC Roger, Ed.
CC And, SPT, Houston. For your information, you

are Just getting ready to pass through the South
Atlantic anomaly; so you may see some spurious
counts due to that.
CC Roger.
355 16 22 25 SPT Dick, as I read in the pad, the 82B would like
to make this exposure 12 minutes more, as long
as possible. Is that affirm?
CC Stand by.
CC SPT, Houston. The purpose - Stand by l, please.
355 16 23 39 CC SPT, Houston. The original intent of the way we

built the pad was - was three exposures: one
minutes, one 12 minutes, and one as long as
possible. Now we've taken another thought about
the matter, and we would like the second exposure -
we'd like a total of two exposures, the second
one being as long as possible. Over.
SPT Okay, Dick; very good. The second one will be

an 18-minute exposure.
CC Okay, good. Thank you.
SPT Dick, we could not see anything in the H-alpha

display, which was no surprise. But we did get
a TACS firing, and it showed up very clearly in
the white light coronagraph; Just a short flash.
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CC Roger.
355 16 26 07 CC And, Skylab, Houston; again for the CDR. Not

pushing you, Jerry. We still have 3 minutes left
here at Vanguard, and then I have another opportu-
nity to talk to you at Ascension, coming up, oh,
6 or 7 minutes from now. And that's about a
10-minute pass.
CDR Okay, Dick, we can do it now. I tried to do

TV-78-1, and I'm afraid this is the wrong pass
to be doing it on. We ought to be doing it on -
on the next pass, which crosses the confluence
of the Falkland and the south equatorial currents.
I got a few shots down around the Straits of
Magellan and the Falkland Islands and I put a
little bit of narration with them. I think now
and for the next few minutes, I'm going to do a
little classroom work, essentially with charts,
and show with some drawings what we're doing.
And then about 18:00 Z, during the noon meal, I
think we're going to have a lot better pass in
that area, and I'll take some more TV out the
window.
CC Roger, Jerry. There's one problem there that

we'd - which is - we think is more important.
That 18:00 is about the time that we had set up
for Rusty to get on the phone with you and discuss
the EVA Checklist changes. We will take a look
at the geometry of the passes, though, and - and
see if there was a problem there, but we would
prefer to get that EVA Checklist discussion out
of the way.
355 16 27 34 CDR Well, we were much too far south and east to get
any good pictures of the blooming that glows -
goes with the current.
CC Okay. We still have a couple of minutes here.

Can I talk to you about a couple of paperwork
changes?
CDR Go ahead.
CC Okay. First of all, Jet, on the - this upcoming

HK CM7 that you're going to do here in a little
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while, there are two checklist changes, depending

on whether you use the cue card or the Systems
Checklist, but you ought to be sure - They came
up last night. Very short; deleted a couple of
lines. Systems Checklist change 006 and the cue
card change 002. Prior to doing the CM7 today,
you ought to have those changes in. There is one
thing we want you to do first thing, prior to
doing HK CM7 up there. That's panel 382; SUIT
HEAT EXCHANGER PRIMARY GLYCOL valve to FLOW and
then leave it there.
CDR Okay, understand you want the SUIT WE.AR EXCHANGER

PRIMARY GLYCOL to FLOW?
355 16 28 h2 CC That's right; SUIT HEAT EXCHANGER PRIMARY GLYCOL

valve to FLOW. We're about h5 seconds from LOS.
I'll give you a call at Ascension; about h minutes.
The second thing I have for you, Jerry, is on
your summary Flight Plan today. At a time of
about 20:15 Zulu, there's an M509 Delta and Bravo
scheduled. We'd like to change the Delta to an
- Echo. The reasonis - is that a top-offis its
present configuration is more efficient that a
charge. So that ought to read M509 Echo and Bravo.
One more thing for you. Your phone call, for
planning purposes, is set up this evening at
Carnarvon at 23:48.
CDR Okay, 23:h8 at Carnarvon.
CC Roger. And M509 Echo and Bravo.
CDR Right. I got that, and I got the checklist

changes done this morning.
355 16 29 35 CC Outstanding; thank you much. See you guys at

Ascension,
355 16 33 O1 CC Hello, Skylab. You're at - got you at Ascension

for lO minutes.
CC And we' re going to be dumping - -
Crew Morning.
CC Hello there. And - and be advised we're going to

be dumping the data/voice recorder here at Ascension.
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355 16 35 28 CC Skylab, Houston. I've got a no - one comment here

for the CDR and also one for the PLT. No response
required. Jerry, os the - on your discussions
about the EVA deal with Rusty, that's scheduled
on your details at the next Ascension pass at a
time of 18:10 Z_lu. What really Rusty wanted
to discuss with you was not the checklist changes
themselves but the two messages we sent up last
night entitled "54 technique and 54 geometry,"
with - which have to do with positioning the
filter wheel in S054 during the EVA. So be sure
prior to then to at least have smoked over those
two changes and - and - so you can get on with
that discussion. Also, for Bill: Later on,
Bill, you have a HKSAlfa scheduled this afternoon,
which is fixing up some urine bags, and we realize
there's not enough time there to do all 24 bags.
You are going to be scheduled for some time again
tomorrow to finish that Job_ so don't worry about
it if we've cheated you on a little time there.
CC Go ahead.
SPT Okay, Dick. I can give you the STAR TRACKER

angles. We've not used them, of course, for the
calculation, but at 16:30 on star l, we had an
OUTER of minus 626 and an INNER of plus 545.
At 16:B8, number 2 was OUTER of plus 16B1 and
an INNER of minus 180. And that's after we had
made one correction for compensating for star -
for common motion.
CC Okay, Ed. Thans for the data.
355 16 41 39 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from LOS, Ascen-

sion. I'll give you a call at Guam at 17:19.
SPT So long, Dick.
CC Roger.
355 16 42 44 CC Skylab, Houston. As you go over the hill, we see

you've loaded the maneuver time for going out of
the maneuver. Remember that you may have some
more motion - maneuver compensations to do after
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comet-rise again. So don't forget that. You

might ought to reset the maneuver time to zero,
rather than - -
SPT You're right, Dick. Thank you.
355 16 43 02 CC Roger.
355 17 18 50 CC Skylab, Houston. Guam for 6-1/2 minutes.
CDR Roger, Dick. Dick, is there any possibility of

getting the VTR rewound back about, say, lO minutes
or so and dumped?
CC Roger. We were just talking about that, Jerry.

Stand by Just a second.
CDR Okay. We've run the VTR to the end. We got

9 minutes of the JOP 18, and I guess if there was
only 13 minutes on there, you only got 4 of mine.
CC Okay. Stand by 1.
CC CDR, Houston. Before we make a decision on the

VTR, say again your estimate of how many minutes
of JOP 18 Delta you have put on it already.
CDR 9 minutes.
CC Okay. That's what I copied. Thank you much.
355 17 20 31 CC Skylab, Houston. We're happy with the TV we've

gotten on J0P 18 Delta so far. We're going to
delay dumping the VTR until we get our stateside
coverage_ so we'd like to scrub the TV - the ATM TV
that's scheduled about now and also the one at
19:00. We're satisfied with what we get, and
we'll dump the VTR in a systematic manner over
the States and - and get back with it after it's
dumped.
CDR Roger, Dick.
CC And, Skylab, Houston. We do not see M518 running.

If - Bill, if you have a chance, if you could
give us the status as to how far you got in that
setup there.
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PLT Roger, Dick. It's been all ready to go for, oh,

I guess over a couple hours, and l'm waiting for
the vacuum to get down.
CC Okay, Bill. Could we - could we get a readout

from you on the vacuum, if you get a chance?
PLT Okay. I'II go up there right now. It was getting

closed a moment ago; so I'll run up there and give
it to you.
CC Okay. Real fine.
355 17 23 13 PLT It's reading 0.6 torr, Dick.
CC That's 0.6 tort. Is that right?
PLT That's affirm, l'm waiting for 0.5.
CC Okay. Okay, Bill. Thank you very much, and we

suggest you do wait until you get that, like you
say. Incidentally, I failed to get up as an
answer to you while ago on the circuit breaker,
but you - you caught that correctly. Those
circuit breakers are CLOSED in the position that's
away from the nomenclature; so if you - if you're -
if you were in one g and did a backbend and looked
at them straight toward the nomenclature, that
would be down and not up.
PLT Yes, that was okay. I caught that one. I - I

was pretty stule, as I say, of it, but I just
wanted to make certain. And in the other prep_
it - in the operational prep, they caught that - -
CC Roger. You were - -
PLT - - error.
CC That's right, and you were correct.
PLT Okay. And I'm going straight by the checklist on

this vacuum and everything; so I'll give you a
report later on, on tape, on when I started it
and so forth.
CC Okay. Real fine. Thank you, sir.

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355 17 24 30 PLT I thought that gage was broken there for a whiSe,
it took so long for it to start down. I was Just
about ready to give you a call, and finally it
started down. It's been over a couple of hours
since I had everything ready to go.
CC Roger. Understand.
355 17 24 49 CC Roger. And we're about a minute from LOS. Next

station contact is Ascension at 18:10. Rusty
will be standing by there. And for the SPT, we
want to make sure that we get the maneuvers
started back to solar na - SOLAR INERTIAL right
on time. We're very close to dump commence at
that time.
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355 18 lO 15 MCC Skylab, Houston here through Ascension, Canaries

and Madrid for the next 18minutes.
CDR Roger.
MCC And, Jerry, if you got time to listen here during

your eat period, I've got a lot of words for you.
CDR Roger. Go ahead, Rusty.
MCC Okay. I guess I'm going to assume_ Jerry, that

you've had a chance to look at, in particular, the
two messages regarding S054, called geometry and
5h technique, which do the basic explaining, and
I'll he t_]king basically around those messages
with fill-in material.
CDR Okay, Rusty, I've got them in front of me and I've

got a note tablet open and ready to copy.
MCC Okay, have you had a chance to read them, Jerry,

and if you have do you have any questions before
we start out here?
CDR Yes, I have_ Ru_ty. The only question I might

have is in the area of paragraph number 3 there_
under geometry. These five parallel surfaces I
assume - are the surfaces are - parallel to the
filter wheel?
355 18 ii 29 MCC That's affirmative.
CDR Okay, and these distances are the distances down

from the shutter plate.
MCC That's also correct. The shutter plate is the

surface you see when you look in there and those
distauces are all measured from that surface.
CDR Okay. Are you reading me okay? I've got a head-

set on. I'm kind of off in a corner here.
MCC Yes, I can read you a lltt]e bit weak., but r ,Jo
read you, Jer.
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CDR Okay, go_ahead.
MCC Okay, before I get in with this, we'd like to CLOSE

the H-AIr'HA 1 DOOR. We see the temp's coming up
so if - I guess Bill may still be up there, or
Ed, and if they can, take care of that.
SPT Got it.
355 18 12 l0 MCC Okay, Jerry - Okay, Jerry, let me say a word here
about the present condition of the filter wheel
as best as we understand it. We have positive
indication that it left position 5 on the way to
position 6, and after that it never arrived in
position 6 on our telemetry. So we think that it
is somewhere between position 5 and 6, but as I'll
explain in a minute there are really two conditions
that can be present. In other words, when you
look in there, you may see filter 5 almost in
position. You may see filter 6 almost in position
or anywhere in between. Now in the EVA procedure,
which you may or may not have - have had a chance
to look at yet, we have one branch point, that is,
there are two basic failure modes. One is a
mechanical jam, or a relay failure but Just think
of it as a mechanical Jam - and in that case, you
have to manl_a]ly rotate the filter wheel using
the screwdriver technique. The other option - -
CDR What that does, Rusty, then is destroy each one

as you go through it until it get to 3.
MCC That's affirmative, but since we will not be using

anything other than 3 from here on out in any case
it doesn't make any difference. All it does is
leave a few beryllium chips around, and we take
care of that by putting the shutter override
mechanism on the magazine that's going in.
CDR Okay.
355 18 13 48 MCC Okay, the other failure possibility there is that

we have a 5-volt ground line that may have opened
up. In that case we would get the same telemetry
indications; however, any time we have power to
the filter wheels, that is, if the selector is in
any position 1 through 6, the wheel will continu-
ally rotate. And so when you look at the EVA _
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procedure,3 you'll see that when you first get out

there you'll be looking down inside, we'll go to
filter 1 just to get power on the filter wheel.
If it starts to rotate then we've got the 5-volt
return problem and then vour task is simply to
shut off the Dower when filter 3 gets in the right
position. That is, you'll be giving Bill a GCA
when to go to STORAGE with the switch.
CDR Okay, I copy that. Where are these EVA procedures

coming up? I've got, so far, geometry and tech-
nique but not procedures.
MCC Negative. Last night we sent up quite a long

messa@;e which had the EVA Drep and post and -
excuse me, and in the middle of that are the EVA
procedures themselves. If it will help, I can
give you a message number on there.
355 18 15 Oh CDR Okay.
MCC Okay, it's 3637 is the message number. Okay, and

_- that's throughAlfa 9. Okay, what we expect is
the most likely condition is the mechanical jam
in which case when Bill puts power on the wheel,
you will not see it move, and you'll have to go
in with the screwdriver and rotate manually.
CDR Okay, understand that.
355 18 15 48 MCC Okay, if I can quit coughing here, the next item
I got for you is sort of a good news/bad news Job.
The good news being that the task that we're ask-
ing you do - to do here on 54 is a piece of cake.
The bad news is that it's a piece of cake the
second time you do it. The first time - the trick
in this thing is to be able to know what you're
looking at when you look down in there with that
mirror and flashlight combination. And in order
to help you do that we sent up that geometry mes-
sage. What I'd like you to do with that, if you
can find the time, and we're going to try to open
it up so that you will, is take a pen and pencil -
or rather a pencil and paper - and actually draw
what we've described there, and I think in drawing
_r trying to draw thaZ to scale that'll probably
illuminate any questions in your mind, and you
can come down with them and we'll try give you
.... the answers.
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CDR Yes. I kind of had decided that was what I was

going to have to do, if I was really going to
picture it. i,ve read your geometry about three
times and I discover something new each time I
read it. I think it's going to take a drawing.
I think you're right.
355 18 16 45 MCC Yes. There's a lot - That's high information

density in those two messages. Okay, Just a
co_nent here. The checklist change including the
EVA procedure was addressed to the PLT. And so
Bill may have that. Okay, another thing that
will help you, Jerry, I think, is to look - to
look at the - one of the old 5h magazines and
that 'll also give you a good idea when you slide
back the little protector plate, there, that 'll
give you an idea of the X-ray aperture and what
it looks like. That's not quite elliptical like
the plate that it goes against, but it's pretty
nearly the right shape. 0 -
CDR Yes. That's the racetrack-shaped one. Right? -_
MCC Yes. If you slide back that protector that's

spring-loaded there, it's got a couple of little
bars across it. But it's basically elliptical.
And that's what mates with the ellipse there in
the shutter plate. We're going to drop out here
in about 3 or h seconds, for about half a minute.
And I'll be back with you.
CDR Okay.
B55 18 19 08 MCC Okay, Skylab. We should be back with you at this

time through Canaries.
CDR Loud and clear.
MCC Okay.
CDR I've got that EVA procedures in hand now.
MCC Okay. Fine. If you'll look back there in the -

in the big asterisked box, you'll see the EVA
procedure and we've got the 5_ malfunction proce-
dure in there as steps i through 12. And step -
the end of step 2, you'll see that branch point.
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And you and Bill can Just coordinate that. It's

Just him putting power on the wheel to see if it
rotates while you're looking in with the mirror.
B55 18 19 50 MCC Okay. Let me say a - a word here about scheduling

during the EVA. We've got the T025/S020 and S201
operations firs-;. We get them out of the way and
then we go to a normal filter I mean a - rather a
normal film remove and replace, including the new
54 magazine, which, as you're going to notice in
going through the prep procedures, we have you put
the shutter override butterfly on it - the shutter
override mechanism. And following the film remove
replace, then we go into the 5h malfunction pro-
cedure. Now the reason we have it in that order,
and that means you're Just going to take out the
magazine you Just finished putting in - in the
film remove/replace. But there are two reasons
for that. One is that we want to put the lowest
priority item - which we consider the 54 filter
fix, last in the EVA, in case for some reason We
have to terminate early. And secondly, when you
-_ put the new magazine in with the shutteroverride
mechanism on it, it automatically opens up the
shutter blades on the shutter plate there. And
they will stay open even after you pull the maga-
zine out. That gives you access to the filter
wheel.
CDR Okay. Understand.
355 18 21 07 MCC Okay, now. If for some strange reason) Jerry,

the shutter blades are closed when you look in
there, what I want you to do then is to look at
the shutter override mechanism when you're in-
stalling it on the magazine, pre-EVA, and you'll
see that there are two little buttons that stick
out at the i0 o'clock and - rather the ii o'clock
and 1 o'clock positions to the ellipse - to the
opening. Those two little buttons press on two
buttons that are located on the shutter plate.
So in case the shutters are closed, all you've
got to do is take the screwdriver vertically and
Just push down on those two silver buttons and
the shutters will spring open and stay open. We
don't expect you'll have to do that.
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CDR Okay. I think I understand. I'ii get a hold of

the - one of the cameras and look at it.
MCC Okay. And when you look in the schematics book

it also shows that to you.
CDR Okay.
355 18 22 l0 MCC Okay. When you do look in with the mirror, the
filter wheel description - I - I did not go into
too much detail on that. I want to cover just a
couple of things here with you on it. Paragraph 5
in geometry describes what you're going to see
when you look in there. And I want you to realize
that the worst-case condition is when you have a
filter centered. And now you want to stick the
screwdriver through thee next filter to the left.
That is not through the one that's centered, but
you want to stick it into the next one so you can
pry it into position.
MCC And the worst-case of course, for seeing the next -

filter is when there is one - the present filter
is centered. If the present filter has moved at
all to the right, then the - the next filter is
going to be more accessible. And so we want to
emphasize that what you need to do when you go in
there is stick the screwdriver into the next fil-
ter to the left from the one that's - that you're
going to see most of when you look in. Did I make
that - Did I confuse you on that one?
355 18 23 17 CDE Negative. I understand that.
MCC Okay. Now, the filter wheel itself, there are no

really good drawings on board which show it to
you. The elongated octagon that I mentioned there
is the shape of the filter, pretty closely. And
where the filters come closest together, that is
toward the inboard section of the pie, the filter
wheel, the web is only about 3/8 inch thick. Of
course, as you move toward the rim of the filter
wheel that web increases in thickness _nd as yo_
get toward the outer portion of the filter wheel,
there is a lightening hole about 3/4 of an inch
in diameter which is Just a hole drilled right
through the filter - the aluminum portion of the
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filter wheel. So when you look in there you may

see that round hole toward the outboard edge of
the filter wheel.
CDR Okay. Understand.
355 18 2h Ii MCC Okay. We've got another handover coming up. Stand
by JUst 1.
MCC Okay. We're back with you again, here. Jerry,

the other thing, +to help out in our knowledge of
what we have on the present film that's out there
for 54, we would like a description of what you
see when you first look in there so if you can
sort of mentally Jot that down. We'll know whether
the - a web is in the middle or whether it's almost
in a - fully on the filter or whatever you see
there. And then as you rotate the filter around,
we'd llke you to count how many half - if you can
do this - count how many you rotated in order to
get to filter 3. And that will assist us in - in
knowing where we were for the present magazine.
CDR Okay.
MCC Okay. Just a reminder that we keep talking about

filter 3. Filter 3 really is a nonfilter. That
is, it's a hole in the filter wheel, the same
shape as the filters, but there really is nothing
there. And I Just want to make sure that that
you recognize it and you'll see that as it comes
into position.
CDR Okay. Understand that.
355 18 25 49 MCC Okay. And the last item I've got here is that -
and I mentioned that also in the techniques. But
you'll find out as you pry the filter wheel around,
using the screwdriver there as a crowbar that -
when you move the screwdriver - the handle, as
far to the left as you can, thereby prying the
filter wheel to the right, you will move the
filter wheel slightly past the center position.
That is, you will move the filter, through which
you've got the screwdriver, past the center by
probably l0 degrees of rotation on the filter
wheel. So that when you are ready to move filter 3
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into position, if you can tell ahead of time that

that's the one that's coming up, you'll probably
want to go a little bit less than full throw. Now
in case you go full throw, thereby getting it over
center, you're going to have to rotate your right
wrist. You're doing this with your right hand and
you're going to rotate your right wrist counter-
clockwise 180 degrees, that is, thumbs down, grab
the screwdriver and then move the - pry it on the
right hand side to move the filter wheel back. I
point that out because you can't hold the screw-
driver naturally because your gloves prevent you
from prying to the right.
CDR Okay.
355 18 27 05 MCC All right. Now that's all I had planned on here.
We've got another minute before LOS. Our next
contact is going to be Guam in about 27 minutes.
That's at 18:54. And at this point I'd like to
ask you to go ahead with any questions. And if
you come up with any between now and the next
couple of days after smoking this stuff over,
feel free to pass it down and we'll draw up a
list and give you some answers.
CDR Okay, Rusty. I think I have the general picture

here. And I think it'll probably crystalize a
little more once I get busy and do a drawing and
think about it some more. And I may have some
more definite questions for you later, but right
now I think I have about what I need in order to
get started and to get to thinking about it.
MCC Okay, Jerry. Fine. We'll be standing by for

anything like that. l'd like to remind you you
got a thing on your detail pad coming up here
which is state vector update for the CMC coming
up at Guam. And we're going to want you to go to
PO0 and ACCEPT there to pick up the state vector.
CDR Okay, what time is Guam again?
MCC 18 :5h.
CDR Okay, good enough.

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CDR Thank you kindly, Rust_r. Appreciate all your work.
MCC Okay, feel free to fire the questions at us.
CDR Sure will.
355 18 28 27 MCC Jer, as we go over the hill here, we'd like to

know if you do want us to schedule any more time
to look at this stuff or for another Q&A session,
Just let us know.
355 18 54 I0 CC Skylab, Houston; AOS Guam, 9-1/2 minutes. You got

a crimson CAP COMM on with the purple gang.
CDR Ow!
CC Howdy, howdy. Bill, do you have time to cover a

few notes for your upcoming ATM pass?
PLT Give me about 30 seconds.
CC 0keydoke.
SPT Say, Crip, all the hard work of those folks down
on the ground I think paid off. We certainly got
pretty close to it if not right on top of it.
We could not see it in 55 but if it has any
appreciable halo and light malf at all, I'm
82B's OFF.
CC Very good. Ed, can you verify for us that you did
do - perform step 36 where you reenabled a bunch
of stuff by the DAS - the star tracker.
SPT Stand by.
355 18 55 16 CDR You got PO0 and ACCEPT, Crip.
CC Copy, PO0 and ACCEPT. Thank'you.
CDR Your color combination down there makes me think

of m_ lunch combination up here. Raspberry crispy
bars and spaghetti.
cc Ugh!
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SPT No, Crip. That 36, I did not get. I'ii get it
right now. Reason being, as soon as I got back I
got distracted by noticing we went to - right into
a graphic gradient delta as soon as I get the SI
switch or immediately thereafter. And I was still
thinking about that one. I'ii go ahead and get
36 right now.
CC Okeydoke. Very good, Ed. Would like a comment

from you, Ed, or all the total group, about two
people for JOP 18D for the future ones. Do you
still think we require two people to be
scheduled? Jer, we're not showing that you're
in ACCEPT. Would you reverify that for us, please?
355 18 56 35 CDR You're right. I'm sorry.
CC Okay. We got it. Thank you.
PLT Crip, you know, I think - I think we do, if pri-

marily for the areas of where we make the maneuver
out and perhaps maneuver back although that's no -_
real problem. If we ever have to use the star
tracker and make some of the calculations based
on 55, it will be helpful to have someone else
here as a check and balance. I don't think for
the total duration of it, though, we - the guy
is required.
CC Okay. We have not been scheduling somebody there -

two people there on the maneuver back. Previously
355 18 57 14 SPT No, I don't think that's required, Crip, for the
maneuver back, ... think. Perhaps the maneuver
out and getting on the comet, I - it's helpful
to have two guy._ . Bill certainly was very help-
ful today. After that, during the long exposures,
I don't think we need two people, certainly.
CDR Crip, I think a good scheduling for you here would

be to assign things like housekeeping - stuff that
are absolutely nontime critical - that when the -
the guy that's riding shotgun on this thing sees
that he's got a few minutes to spare, he can wisk
off and do it.
CC Okay, Jer. We copy.

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PLT And, Crip, PLT's ready to copy any notes you have
on the upcoming ATM pass.
CC Okay. First thing, before you get the doors open,

, we'd like to get the grating off of 574. Move it
about l0 or 20 steps at least. So - It happens
that DETECTOR 1 is pretty sen_sitive to Lyman alpha
on the Sun which is the configuration we used for
ths comet. We'll probably be getting a JOP 18
change up to reflect that to have the grating
moved.
355 18 58 23 PLT Okay.
SPT It's done, Crip.
CC Okay. Very good and like to remind you, Bill, you

did have a VTR downlink scheduled - or VTR for TV
on the ATM schedule this time. But we've been -
we've cancelled that due to the fact we've already
got enough TV.
PLT Okay. That's scratched.
CC Okeydoke. And for Jerry, you can go ahead and go

back to BLOCK and powerdown the CMC. And for Bill
again, active region 00 is - looks like it's
developing up pretty good. It's got a new polar -
polarity field northeast of a strong leader spot
and this makes a very complex configuration with
C gradients and the chances for an X-class flare
has increased in the last couple of hours. We
expect the flare location 30 arc seconds east of
the leader spot and the ribbon, northeast/south-
west, with secondary peaks possible north and east
off this ribbon, And we would like, Bill, if dur-
ing your observing time if you could, to perform a
shopping list 26 on the bright points during this
upcoming daylight cycle. And I can go - go back
over those flare locations for you a little bit
slower if you'd like.
PLT Yes. Hit the ribbon again.
355 18 59 42 CC Okay. We expect it to be 30 arc seconds east of

the leader spot in the ribbon northeast to south-
west. We expect secondary peaks north and east of
thatribbon.
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355 19 00 06 PLT Okay, and that's - is a ribbon that runs north-

east to southwest.
CC That's affirmative. And that ribbon - -
PLT I've got it; thank you.
CC Okeydoke. Hope you get one.
PLT Thank you.
CC And, CDR, Houston. Jer, will you verify for us

that you put the SUIT HEAT EXCHANGER valve to
FLOW, please?
CDR That's affirmative, Crip. I put it to FLOW, but

you know it rides right back to where it wants to
go.
p
CC Would you clarify that for us a little bit, Jer?

How far does it ride back?
355 19 01 20 CDR It seems to be self-modulating, and it goes back

to about 30 percent of the distance from - between
FLOW and BYPASS.
CC Okay, we copy that.
CC Jer, one item on that - making that valve ride

back. If you would check panel 2, the SUIT CIR-
CUIT HEAT EXCHANGER switch, to make sure that it's
OFF.
CDR Okay. It was in BYPASS; that's the problem.
CC Okeydoke.
CC And after you - after you've turned it OFF, would

you reset the valve to FLOW, please?
355 19 02 43 CDR Okay, we're in FLOW.

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CC Velly [sic] good. 0keydoke. We're i minute from

LOS. Next station contact is going to be over
Canary in 51 minutes at 19:54. And, Jer, you've
got a GO to power down the CMC any time you're
ready.
CDR You caught me in the act.
SPT Hey, Crip, one more data point on the maneuver

during 18D. When we got back the - and when we
just first came up now, l've looked at the dif-
ference between the location of H-alpha and in
SI. And it looks as though when we got back,
there were about 0.3 degrees UP and to the RIGHT -
say 45 degrees from the location nominally in SI.
So that was probably an error that we encountered
during the maneuver.
CC Was that before activating the SUN SENSOR?
SPT That's affirm, Crip.
CC Okay, copy.
355 19 03 46 SPT And it looked like the ACQ SUN SENSOR had done
all its thing; the rates were zero.
355 19 54 32 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS through Canary. We

have you for 14-1/2 minutes.
PLT Roger, Crip.
CC Roger. For the PLT, Bill, we notice that 518 is

heating up. Could you give us the GMT of when
you started that, please?
PLT 19:00.
CC Thank you, sir.
PLT Just on the hour.
CC Very good.
CC And for the SPT. Ed, if you've got - got a moment,

I'd like to ask you about the comments that you
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made as we were going over the hill there, about

apparently being off a little hit in attitude -
observing it in H-alpha. If - If you're crowded
getting ready to go into 131, we can get that later.
355 19 55 17 SPT I can give it to you now, Crip. We're just work-
ing our way through 131. I - I'll wake up Jerry
to get in the chair when we get done here. When -
Just when we finished up before we went - hit the
SI switch, that's right before the gravity gradient
delta had started and before we hit the SI switch
when we were still in CMG ATT HOLD and we came
back. The Sun - I drew a little picture of where
it was relative to - to the crosshairs. Essen-
tially it was in the upper right-hand quadrant in
the display. It was not quite touching the hori-
zontal crosshair and it intersected the vertical
crosshair about halfway between the center and the
top. So that was the first position. When we
came back around after the dump and before we went
to EXPERIMENT POINTING and the ACQUISITION SUN
SENSOR and, as far as I could tell, updated the
F strapdowns,we did not see any rate or any atti-
tude errors when I looked at it. And the Sun was
at a different position, and I don't have the
paperwork down here with me, but my conclusion was
it was about 0.3 degrees down and to the left
ITommyprevious position, which is more - about
45 degrees, essentially or, as I stated earlier,
the error was at 0.3 degrees up and to the right.
355 19 56 hl CC Okay. One thing you're saying there has confused

me a little bit. I understand that you observed it
there when you're - but the mode was still CMG
ATT HOLD, in which case the Sun sensors haven't
come into play yet because you haven't gone back
to SOLAR I_RTIAL. Is that correct?
SPT That's my initial observation. That's correct.

And then after I hit SI, right after that, it
went into the dump. And I had hoped to observe
it that time to see where it would come in. But
the dump started right away so we had no oppor-
tunity, and [ had to wait for the next orbit.
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CC Okay. Got that one straight. _Jo it looks like

you had about a 0.3 of a degree error maneuvering
hack to SOLAR INERTIAL. And you did not have a
chance'to observe it - take it out after you hit
SI because you went to a dump right immediately.
SPT That's affirmative, Crip.
355 19 57 30 CC Okay. Appreciate it. I just looked back into

the - to our viewing room over my left shoulder
there, and I see a jolly little man with a red
suit and a white beard.
SPT Yes. We saw him working last night, Crip.
CC Yes. You were talking about all those lights.

Goodness gracious what have they done to our boards?
SPT I'ii tell you. He really had help.
CC Well, he does good work, like you guys.
CDR You're turning into a Santa Claus yourself, Crip.
CC Oh, yes.
355 20 08 ii CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from LOS. Next

station contact is over Honeysuckle in 33 minutes.
That's at 20:42, 20:42. And for your information,
the Flight Plans are all on board.
CDR Thank you, Crip. Talk to you later.
355 20 08 32 CC Roger.
END OF TAPE
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Time: 355:20.:30 to 355:22:00
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SKYTJ_B AIR-TO-(]I_OUNI)VO[CI,:''_ANSCRIT_ION
355 20 h2 25 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS at Honeysuckle, and

we have you for 8"minutes.
CDR Roger, Crip.
CDR Crip, I keep bombing out on the nu Z update. Would

you check the outer and inner gimbal angles for me,
and see if there's any new values.
CC ()kay. We'll look at it.
CC Okay, Jer, we're showing you off Sun center

would you CLOSE the 52 DOOR.
CDR You're right. Sorry.
SPT Hey, Crip, one more JOP 18D item.
CC Okay.
355 20 34 25 SPT I'm wondering if in the future you could put down
at the very end the time in which you'd have dump
commence. You called it pretty close this last
time, and, had I known Where we stood, I might
have done things a little differently.
CC We'll try to do that.
SPT Thank you.
CC Try a bigger negative number on the outer gimbal,

Jer. We can't help you much better than that on
the star tracking thing. Try minus 1200, some-
where in that area.
CDR Okay.
CDR Still no dice.
CC We'll get you another nu Z time, Jer. It looks

like the w_ndow's closed now.
CDR Okay.
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CC Jet, if you can, we'd like to go ahead and put

5_ and run shopping list 31 on it.
CDR Wilco.
355 20 h9 18 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from LOS. We'll

see you again over Bermuda in about 37 minutes.
That's at 21:26, 21:26.
CDR Roger.
CC And, Jet, we'll give you a new - new nu z time at -

over - over the States.
355 20 h9 35 CDR Okay.
355 21 26 13 CC Skylab, Houston; A0S Bermuda. We have you for

6-1/2 minutes.
CDR Roger.
CC CDR, Houston. Regarding your getting the star

tracker locked off another nu Z update, when you go
on console again with another sunrise, the star
should be available. And our recommendation for
the OUTER GIMBAL is around a minus 1000, about
minus 1015, specifically.
CDR Okay, I'll give it a try.
CC And that is a guestimate. For the SPT, Ed, you

got a moment to talk here or would it be better to
wait for upcoming Canary/Madrid pass, about
6 minutes away?
SPT Go ahead, Crip. Now's good.
355 21 28 l0 CC Okay. A couple of item_ I wanted to run over with

you. In regard to that 0.3 you estimated you were
off after getting back to what should be solar
inertial before initializing the strapdowns and so
forth, if you'll look at the pad or if you still
have it handy, we normally only give a course
maneuver in going back to SOLAR INERTIAL. So we
don't try to get back real accurately because we
know as soon as we go to so - select SOLAR INERTIAL
mode and get the SUN SESSORS in, that they're going
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to go ahead and take out any error. Now we have' t

confirmed it, but it's a - 0.3, of an error could
be considered normal for that.
SPT Oh, yes, you're perfectly right, Crip. It certainly

could. I guess the question is whether that 0.3,
when you figure out the angles, turns out to be in
the right ball park for where we should have been.
355 21 29 01 CC Okay, and I - I think we can take a look at the

data on that and try to - to compare it. One
other item been meaning to - to try to talk to you;
was going to get to it last night and didn't -
didn't quite get around to it. The other day after
the first 18D, when you got into the reset
rout ine ?
SPT Yes?
CC Okay, we've been looking at that data and trying

to puzzle out exactly what happened. And I don't
F know if it - l'm sure it's a coupleof days old
and it's not too fresh in your memory, but if you
could go through the sequence of operations that
you performed there, we would appreciate it.
355 21 29 40 SPT Yes. Okay, as best I can recall, Crip. Hank said
something when we went over the hill which I did
not fully understand. And I was operating Sun
center, and all of a sudden I saw us moving off
of Sun center. And apparently, we had not gone
into reset at that point. We did not have a CAGE.
We Just had started to drift off when I saw that
OUTER GIMBAL 2 was up against a stop. And our
HT was relatively low. It was not - we were not
saturated. What I did was to put in a 6-minute
manuever time and a zero angle maneuver. But what
I should have done was gone to ATT HOLD in order
to do it. I did it in SI, and of course the gim-
bal logic is not active in SI. After that, I
guess I'd have to give it a little bit of think-
ing. Does that initial part clarify your - what
you were trying to psych out?
CC Okay, copy that. I guess it was after you - the

reset routine occurred that we were looking at the
data and we were puzzledby exactlywhat was going
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on. You said some words about having selected

ATT HOLD in SOLAR INERTIAL. Did you do that after
the reset routine commenced?
355 21 31 12 SPT Yes, it is a little way back. As best I can re-

call, Crip what I ran into there was after the
reset routine was over. As the rates were taken
out, and were still not going back towards Sun
center. And as I recall, I though, well, I prob-
bly had put that maneuver in; so what I did was
put in the ATT HOLD and then go back to SI. I
think that was it. I think I had figured I had prob-
bly put an OFFS_f into SI and I had to get rid of
it.
CC Okay. And that - -
SPT As I - as I recall, if you - Maybe you can see on

the record. I tried just switching - just going
and hitting the SI switch to take out the biases.
And that, for some reason, did not seem to work.
So I went to and then back into SI and that did _
work.
355 21 31 56 CC Okay, that's - that's what the data said. I guess

what we really didn't understand was, after the
reset routine that - and the rates were killed,
that for some reason the error was not. And there
doesn't seem to be any - any logic for that, and
none of your action would have - would have caused
it. I guess one item - we got about - we got about
30 seconds until LOS. Then we're going to pick
up your over Madrid, and we - I guess we can talk
a little bit more there, if you'd like. And that's
at 21:37, in about 5 minutes, and we'll be doing a
data/voice recorder dump there. While we're going
over the hill, though, I guess normally if - if
you're going into a reset routine like and it -
and it's obvious, it's probably best to Just go
ahead and - and let it do it's thing. It - In
fact, we'll go ahead and secure the - It'll go out
of EXPERIMENT POINTING for you even after it gets
out past about 1.2 degrees.
355 21 32 48 SPT Yes, it wasn't obvious to me that it was, because

we had not gotten the CAGE talk back. And I thought
we were just drifting off attitude the same way we
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have in ... without going into a reset routine.

What I didn't realize is, we were running an ATT
HOLD MODE as such with SI, and that's different.
CC Okay, it - it actually would not go into it until

it - until you got out to - About 5.2 degrees
is the - the pla,,'ewhel___ that's activated.
SPT Oh, okay. That was what I was - I didn't know

that number. And I saw it drifting off kind far,
and I thought all I had to do was get that outer
gimbal lined up and we're back in business.
355 21 3B 26 CC 0keydoke. We'll t_Ik to you a little bit later

here at Madrid.
355 21 34 25 CC Skylab, Houston. We're back with you through

Canary. And I was a little bit mistaken in there.
I didn't think we had Canary. We do, and we'll
be doing a data/voice recorder dump in about
3 minutes over Madrid. And, Ed, appreciate the
words. I think we're still puzzling as to why you
f did not - after the reset routine - why the thing
didn't return to attitude and we'll - we'll .lust
have to think about it a little bit more.
SPT If I had put a bias into SI, would it not go back

to that biased attitude, or would the reset routine
null the biases?
CC Well, it - it would go, as soon as you selected -

No, it would go to the biased attitude, but you
said you put in zeroes.
SPT Yes, that's true, but - let's see - I had put that
maneuver in when we were off attitude.
CC That - that wouldn't have made any difference.
SPT Okay, then I'm puzzled, too.
355 21 35 20 CC Welcome to the chub. I'll let you get on to your

exercise, which is more than I can say that I'v
been doing.
SPT I'd ss_ you been getting your exercises on JOP 18D.
It looked real good shape.
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CC Well, you can - All the grand and glorious applause

goes to ASCO for working so hard on it - he and
the ATOM guys.
SPT Sure worked smocth, and I - I think we probably

got some data. And I hope it'll be along the
line that we're really interested in, good spectra
of the comet.
CC Hope so.
355 21 36 14 SPT Hey, Crip, let me ask you about that particular
instance we ran into, though, where HT was re-
latively low and we Just had an OUTER GIMBAL on
a stop. Could that be cleared by, say, going to
STANDBY and back into SI.?
CC That would activate the - the outer gimbal drive

logic and - bu - would probably clear it up.Yes,
sir.
CC That would Just initiate a maneuver - for whatever

your maneuver time is - back to SI, and - and it
would be in the maneuver logic for - for the du-
ration of the maneuver time. And the first minute
thereof, it would activate the outer gimbal drive
logic, which should get the gimbals out of the
problem, which is the reason the thing was drifting
off attitude.
SPT Wouldn't that be a better solution then, rather

than going to the reset, which uses TACS?
CC Let's get back to you on that one, Ed.
SPT Okay, Crip. Thank you.
355 21 4h h0 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from LOS. We'll

see you again over Carnarvon in 26 minutes. That's
at 22:10. And in case I've given up the mike by
that time, I'd like to wish you a Merry Christmas
from the Crimson team even though the purple gang's
flight director is looking at me. I didn't get to
do that last night. Also, your secretary, Sylvia,
sends greetings. Happy perihelion.
PLT Merry Christmas to you, Crip. Thanks for all your

good words. -_
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CC _ye-bye.
CDR Thank you, Crip. We'll see you.
355 21 45 18 CC Take care, guys.
END OF TAPE
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Time: 355:22:00 to 355:23:30
Page i of 2/2157
355 22 ii 13 CC Skylab, Houston. Hello from the bronze team.

We're with through Carnarvon and Honeysuckle
for 15 minutes.
CDR Hi, Hank. Got the nu update okay this time.

Z
CC Okay. Thank you, Jer.
355 22 25 59 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 20 seconds from LOS.

We'll see you at MILA at 58.
355 22 26 07 CDR Roger. See you then, Hank.
355 23 00 27 CC Skylab, Houston through MILA and Bermuda for

ii minutes. And for info, we'll be dumping
the recorder at Bermuda.
- CDR/PLT Roger, Hank.
355 23 09 41 CDR Houston, CDR. Can you give me the time again
on my private comm and the ANTENNA?
CC Roger. Stand by i. Okay, Jer, it's at Carnarvon

at 23:48, LEFT to RIGIIT.
CDR Okay, Carnarvon, 23:48, LEFT to Rl_hl.
CC And, Skylab, we're about i minute from LOS.

We'll see you at Madrid at 15.
355 23 i0 42 CDR Roger.
355 23 16 08 CC Skylab, Houston, through Madrid for 7 minutes.
PLT Roger, Hank.
355 23 18 51 CC CDR, Houston, for info, we're uplinking to you

a - an ATM pad that will cover the last ATI4
pass today. We'd like to change it because
P61 is partially lifted off and that was the
area of interest for that pass. Arid alzo, AR
00 is really looking like it might be ready
to spit somethingout.
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CDR Okay, Hank. It looked like it wanted to try

while I was watching it. We had a couple of
bright spots oscillate a little bit, light
and dark. But nothing happened.
[;PT }[_, Jla_ik, coming up on this next orbit, I'll

[_robabiy have _L little bit of time when I
might be one ui_ there. Arid if they'd like me
to carry out any building blocks, I'ii be glad
to do it,or just observing or flare wait.
CC 0kay, we copy.
355 23 20 50 CC SPT, if you're willing, we'd like to get a

shopping list item number 1 on Sun center, and
then some flare waits.
SPT Okay, Hank, sounds good. I'll have to clean up

after the S063 work, put the camera away
and then I'll be right up there.
CC Okay, and we won't be able to get that new sched-

ule pad up for the 01:19 pass until Carnarvon.
355 23 22 15 CC Skylab, Houston, we're 1 minute from LOS. We'll

see you at Carnarvon at hS. And another re-
minder, that's the CDR's private phone call.
355 23 22 40 CC And, Skylab, for info, as you go over the hill

there, the maneuver looks real good to us.
END OF TAPE
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T_me: 355:23:30 to 356:01:00
Page 1 of 3/2159
SKYLAB AIR TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION
355 23 48 44 CC Skylab, Houston, through Carnarvon for 9 minutes.
CDR Roger, Hank.
PLT We gO about 35 degrees out, moving back.
CC Roger, we copy.
355 23 50 38 CC Skylab, for info, your ATM schedule pad for the
last pass of the day should be on board now.
355 23 57 03 CC Skylab, Houston. We're i minute to LOS. We'll

see you in a couple of minutes at Honeysuckle
at 59.
355 23 59 2h CC Skylab, Houston. We're back with you through

Honeysuckle for 3-1/2minutes.

see you at Texas at 31 and we'll be dumping the
recorder there.
356 00 02 45 SPT So long, Hank.
356 00 31 38 CC Skylab, Houston through Texas and MILA and

Bermuda for 16-1/2 minutes, and we'll be dumping
the recorder here at Texas.
SPT Roger, hello, Ham_k. Looks like we _Imost - I

thought we had one there for a moment. We got
ourselves a good point brightening in the XUV
MONITOR in H - H-alpha. And we initiated the
X-ray experiment in 82A and 82B. But it was
Just a sub - subflare. We got the oxygen VI
intensity. It went from 20,000 up to 58. But
it was all over in a matter of minutes and no
appreciable X-rays on it.
CC Roger. We copy.
356 O0 33 13 SPT 'l_at happened at 23 after the hour.

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CC Roger. We copy.
SPT And, Hank, by initiating the experiment from that

as called out for in shopping list item 10, -
82Awith a 20-second exposure and 82B with the
WAVET._NGTH, SHORT TIMES 1/4.
CC We copy.
356 00 43 31 CC SPT, IIouston. On your shopping lis_ page A

there, on your scorecard, put a fourth one in;
•we'll award you one hit, one run, no errors.
SPT Thank you, Hank. Maybe that'll take care of the

two errors we had a couple weeks ago. I think
55 got some real good data on the flare - or
on - well, it was a subflare, on the rise time
of that. _e vere sitting right on the bright
point as - did go.
CC Okay, everybody seems to be real happy down -_

here, Ed.
SPT Well, it was kind of a tiny one, though, Hank,

not the real one we're looking for. We're still
sitting on the surfboard waiting for the big wave.

see you at Madrid at 53.
356 O0 _7 28 SPT Roger.
356 00 52 59 CC Skylab, Houston through Madrid for 6-1/2 minutes.

And Skylab, Houston, for info, we've come to a
decision on the - _naging the bearing heater
CMG - for CMG 2. For the reminder of the mission,
we will COmmAud the heaters ON to keep the bearing
temperature above 68 degrees. All our problems
seem to have occurred when the bearing temperatures
are low, down around 60 degrees or so. So from now
on through the reminder of the mission, we will
be ground commanding the heaters ON in order to
keep the bearing temps up on CMG number 2.
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SPT Sounds like a good idea, Hank. Hope it works out.
356 00 58 46 CC Skylab, Houston, we're 1 minute from LOS, we'll

see you at Tananarive at 16.
END OF TAPE
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Time: 356:01:00 to 356:02:30
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SKYLAB AIR TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION
356 01 16 30 CC Skylab, Houston through Tananarive for 5 minutes.
356 Ol 19 51 CDR Houston, CDR.
CC Co ahead.
CDR Hey, Hank, it Just occurred to me, when I was

talking to Rusty this afternoon, Rusty mentioned
that - He was talking in terms of Bill being inside
handling the C&D panel. As I understand it, this
next EVA is - is Bill being EV-I, I'll be EV-2,
and Ed's EV-3. Would you check and make sure
everybody's thinking the same way down there?
CC Okay, we'll do it, Jerry. And we're about a - a

minute from LOS now. We'll see you again at
Honeysuckle at 39.
- 356 01 20 28 CDR Okay.
356 01 39 23 CC Skylab, Houston, we're through Honeysuckle. We've

got a short pass; we're about a minute from LOS.
We'll see you again at Goldstone at 08, and we
SPT Houston, SPT.
CC Go ahead.
356 01 41 19 SPT Say, active region 00 still looks like ... - -
356 02 07 58 CC Skylab, Houston through Goldstone for 10-1/2 min-

utes.

We'll be right back with you again in about a
minute at Bermuda at 19.
CDR Roger, Hank. You want a quick frame count?
CC Go.
CC Go ahead.
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CDR Okay. 5526, 1467, 23, 553, 3255, 1881.
356 02 18 28 CC Okay, we copy.
_56 02 19 35 CC Skylab, Houston. We're back with you through

Bermuda for 5 minutes.
CDH Roger.
356 02 22 56 CC Skylab, Houston. We need a couple of items on

the ATM closeout. We need to get the EXPOSURE
to 256 and PICTURE RATE to SINGLE.
CDR Okay. I thought sure you'd want it all set up

for flare mode.

see you at Madrid at 30 and we'll be standing by
for the evening status report.
356 02 24 i0 CDR Roger.
356 02 29 52 CC Skylab, Houston through Madrid for 9 minutes.
CDR Roger, Hank. Got a problem developing, $233 and

S073 both need the remote shutter release. And
I have two choices. We can - three choices, we
can cancel $233; we can delay it unitl the next
opportunity, which is about an hour and three
quarters, from now; or I can try to take them
timed and not move the camera by pushing the
button. And while they're thinking about that,
I'ii give you the evening status report.
356 02 30 45 CC Okay, go ahead.
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Time: 356:02:30 to 356:0h:00
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356 02 30 53 CDR Okay. Sleep: CDR, 7.0, 6 heavy, 1 light; SPT,

7.0, 5 heavy, 2 light; PLT, 6.0, 5 heavy, 1 light.
Volume: CDR, 2000; SPT, ll00; PLT, 2300; CDR,
7620_ SPT, 3146; PLT, 9256. Body mass: CDR,
6.316, 6.314, 6.316; SPT, 6.347, 6.350, 6.3h9;
PLT, 6.252, 6.253, 6.254. Exercise: CDR, method
Alfa, minus 2 minutes; SPT, no change; PLT, no
exercise today. Medication: CDR, none; SPT, none;
PLT, Tinactin as directed. Clothing: CDR, one
pair shorts, one pair socks; SPT, none; PLT, one
shirt. Food log: CDR, 2.5 salt, plus one apple
drink, plus two coffees with sugar, all - let's
see; SPT, zero salt, plus one tea, plus 24 ounces
of water; PLT, zero salt, plus one cherry drink,
zero water. The Flight Plan deviations: none.
Shopping list accomplishments: none. Inoperable
equipment: none. Unscheduled stowage: none.
Photo log: no DAC usage today. Nikon, camera 01,
- no change;02, Bravo Victor 43, and we'll give you
a frame count later in the evening after the ex-
periment's finished; 03, no change; 04, Bravo Echo
08, 33; 05, Bravo Hotel 05, and we'll give you a
frame count after 233. 70-millimeter, we'll give
you a frame count later. ETC, no change. EREP,
no change. Drawer A: no change. Did you get all
that, Hank?
356 02 33 l0 CC Roger, we copied that, Jer.
CDR Okay.
CC And, Skylab, since we're shut down on the ATM now,

you're clear to go ahead and cut the pump Charlie
off on the ATM C&D loop.
CDR Okay.
CC And, CDR, I guess we're going to have to go a_ong

with your suggestion to handhold the $2,., ,_e -
do the best you can.
CDR Okay, we've got her lashed down pretty tight.

What I'm going to do is put the shutter speed kn_
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on T for timed, and do the exposures by squeezing

the camera. And I think I can do a fairly steady
Job.
CC Okay.
356 02 35 25 CC And, CDR, while you're up there in the MDA the

M518 Experiment Checklist, at the bottom of
page ll-3 notes that you put the bulkhead vent valve
into VENT position for the night. If you haven't
already done that, that's a good time to do it.
CDR Okay, thanks, Hank. The bulkhead vent wo_lve to

the VENT position.
356 02 37 i0 CC CDR, in reference to the S2BB, if you choose to

use a T position, just a little reminder there,
when you press the button it'll open the shutter,
then you'll have to turn the speed knob to release
the shutter.
CDR Okay, turn the speed knob to release the shutter.
CC Right. You probably remembered that. You know if

you punch the button down it hol - it holds the
shutter open until you turn the little - speed
knob a little bit and that releases it to close.
CDR Okay, thanks. I had forgotten, it, frankly.
356 02 37 57 CC Skylab, Houston. We're I minute from LOS. And

we will see you again at Tananarive at 49.
356 02 52 52 CC Skylab, Houston through Tananarive for 7 minutes.
356 02 53 3_ CC Skylab, Houston. As a reminder that - you're in

the nu Z update window if you hadn't already got
it.
SPT Roger, Hank.
CDR Thank you, Hank.

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CC Go ahead.
SPT Hey, Hank, what do the NOAA people in the backroom

think about the likelihood of a - a flare in the
immediate future out of 007
CC Okay, I'll check with them.
SPT Thank you.
SPT Over the past couple of orbits, which I'v,_ been

watching it, there's ... a bright point: one
immediately to the east of the - the sunspot,
and one a little bit further - further east and
south, and both of those have been alternately
brightening and waning. And the one I got was the
one closest to the sunspot, and the other one when
we came around the orbit this last time, when I
was up there, it was relatively bright. We did
not catch a bright point rise on it, however.
When we got into above 400 K, it'll all be one
r brightening.
356 02 57 04 CC Roger, we copy that, Ed, and we're checking on the

flare probability. I - I imagine it's still the
same, 962, but we're checking.
SPT Okay. Thank you, Hank. I may be up here just

looking over the - someone's shoulder up there and
if they've got no objection, I might do a flare
wait.
CC We don't have any objection to that for sure. And

while we got you here, we might say a few words
about the moths. The moth people are very en-
thusiastic about the results so far, and they're
anxiously awaiting the results of the observations
for the next few weeks, whether there're amy new
hatchings. Have you seen any new ones today?
SPT No, I have not, Hank. I glanced at them this

morning, but not too much. I'll go take a look
at it sometime before I go to bed tonight.
-_56 02 58 57 CC Okay, and we got some more informatior-_ you migh_

be interested in. We've now found cut _.hat there's
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a 6-week delta between the - the laying of the

wild eggs which were about the first of September
and the tame eggs, which were about the 15th of
October. And so therefore, the tame hatchings
that we now would be - if - if we had them now,
would be very early. And also, the statistical
i percent early hatchers usually are strung out
over a long period of time like several days and
you previously reported five hatchings in i day,
which is rather unusual.
SPT Yes, it was over a period of 2 days - 2 or 3 days,

I think, Hank. I'll have to go back and look at
the record, but I noticed a couple of them and
then the following day we had five.
356 02 58 46 CC Okay, and we're also answering your comments in

regard to what you said were partial hatchings
or - or probable hatchings.
SPT Yes, Hank. The only way I could tell that is

that you got one of the eggs which has got a - a
shell on it, which looks partially open _nd the
egg itself is much larger than the - the surround-
ing ones, and yet there still appears to be a
nucleus or something inside of it. That's the
only way I can describe a partial hatching. I
saw a fair number of those, more than I saw of the
little fellows crawling around so I knew that
not all of them were used eggs or shells of eggs,
if you will.
CC Okay, when did you see those in relation to the

first five you saw, and before you answer, we're
about B0 seconds from LOS. And Honeysuckle will
be at 15.
356 02 59 38 SPT Hank, that's - It was sometime after I saw those

crawling around, but you can only see those par-
tial hatchings unless you really look close and
know what you're looking for. And it wazn't un-
til I saw those very small ones that - the hatch-
ing itself, which I really got on the m_%gnifying
glass. Of course, one way to tell also is when
they start clumping together and, again, [ think
it ... clumping together ... hatching - -
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CC Okay, we're going LOS and the next station is

your med conference °
356 03 00 09 SPT Thank you, Hank,
356 03 36 46 CC Skylab, Houston through Hawaii for 7 minutes.
CDR Roger, Hank. I got the data on the photo log

for you.
CC Okay, go ahead.
CDR Okay, - let's see, it was 04, wasn't it, that I

owed you one on, or 03?
CC That was 02 and 05.
CDR Okay, here we go. 02 has got 8 frames left on it.

And 05 has got 38, and you'll have to correct
last night's report. We reported 05 as having -
I think it was 27, and the right - the right
n_saher was 32 for last night on 05, and 38 tonight.
And the 70-millimeter, no change - no frames used
today.
356 03 37 50 CC 0k_y, we copy. And do you - also, we don't re-

call hearing the n!rmber of bags completed on the
housekeeping 8A by the PLT.
CDR He di_ all 2_.
CC Roger, we copy.
CDR Okay, and one correction to the evening status

report on medication. Put the PLT down for one
chloral hydrate tonight. And if Dr. Hordinsky
or Dr. Burchard are still around there, you might
notify them of that. I forgot to mention it when
we had a medical conference.
CC Okay, will do.
356 03 39 27 CC Skylab, Houston. You might be interested to know

that today is the fifth anniversity of the lunar
program. It was 5 years ago today that Apollo 8
launched to go to the Moon, and one year ago to-
day, the Apollo 17 crew arrived back in Houston
followingthe last flightto the Moon.
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CDR Roger, Hank, that's interesting. Rather coinci-

dental they both happened on the same day.
CC And also, Jerry, we did some checking on the EVA

assignments, and you're absolutely correct.
CDR Okay, that's a relief. I was afraid somebody down

there was working in a different direction than us.
356 03 40 _4 SPT Okay, Hank, active region 00 looks relatively quiet

for right now. The two bright areas, which were
immediately to the east of the leader spot, have
subsided substantially. And the - there's two
other areas a little bit further east of that which
appear a little bit brighter now. But I'd still
be betting on the bigger ones coming out of the
areas right adjacent to the leader spot where the
field gradients are probably the highest.
CC Roger, we copy.
356 03 41 52 CC CDR, Houston, when you take a look at your Flight

Plan this evening, you'll probably notice we got
that same conflict in the morning between $233 and
S073. And we're looking at it to see if there's
anything we can do. If we don't - if we're not
able to work something out, you'll probably have
to use your same little trick again.
CDR Roger, Hank. How come they're scheduling corollar-

ies during the PSA time?
356 03 42 59 CC Okay, Jer, I guess the problem there i:;we_ _oI;

hit with the momentum management. You know, the
inhibits and working only with two MCG - two (JMGs.
In order to get all the maneuvers in, we kind of
had to spread things out. We tried to give you
back all the PSA that - that - that was missing
there. We're about _0 seconds from LOS. We'll
be coming up at Goldstone at 47 and we can talk
about it a little more there.
356 03 43 27 CDR Okay.
356 03 47 13 CC Skylab, Houston, we're through Goldstone for

6-1/2 minutes. And, Jet, in looking at the F]ight
Plan here, each of you have an hour and a half of
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PSA time except that the PLT is shorted about

3 minutes and his is a little bit broken up by
the experiments. We got a Kohoutek msmeuver at
16:12 there, roughly, and we have to have at least
one rev without a momentum dump prior to that in
order to have our momentum state right ; so we got
backed up on the S073. However, also point out
that that rev really wasn't one of those things
that we did send up as a guideline that we would
put in the post-sleep.
CDR Comments on those guidelines. I think a broken

up PSA is really not worth much. The - the - the
purpose of those things, as far as I'm concerned,
is to give you a chance to get your motor running
in the morning, get yourself squared away and be
ready to go to work and do a good day's work.
And the PSA after dinner is the time to start
slowing your motor down so you can go to bed .%nd
get a good night's sleep. And we keep £eLtin_:
those things hacked up with all sorts of little
-- picayuney jobs, you're not going to have an effi-
cient crew up here. I've talked about this on
tape several times, and now we're on air-to-ground
talking about it.
356 03 h8 36 CC Roger, we copy.
CC Okay, Jer, we were in error there, and so we're

going to delete the S073 ops in the morning in
order to stick by our guidelines. And try to
prevent it from happening in the future.
CDR Okay, Hank, thank you.
CC Skylab, Houston we're 1 minute from LOS. We'll

see you again at Bermuda in about 5 minutez.
CDR Roger.
SPT Goodnight, Hank.
356 03 53 ii CC Go ahead [sic].

'l'fJI '1':_,I,
_: _'jt_-O;.,/'l'-h2_
356 03 57 50 CC Skylab, Houston. We're through Bermuda for

6-1/2 minutes and this is the last site for the
evening. I have some news if you want to listen
to it.
CDR Fine, Hank. Go ahead. And by the way, I'm going

to be, hopefully, taking some pictures of the
aurora tonight so on that photo report, you might
tell the camera folks not to bank on there being
eight frames left on it in the morning - on
Nikon 02.
CC Okay, will do. Here's a few words of news. The

Associated Press just announced their top lO uews
stories of the - of the year, and Bkylab made it
in there, in the top lO. The number l, of course,
was Watergate. The first Arab-lsraeli peace con-
ference in the 25-year existence of the Jewish
state opened today in the Palace of Nations with
the chief antagonists, Israel and Egypt, at
opposite sides of a seven-tablecircle.
356 0B 58 52 CC The historic conference opened 40 minutes late.

United Nations Secretary, General Kurt Waldheim
presided at the ceremonial opening session and
told the delegations there was no need to remind
them "of the concern of the international com-
munity for the success of their deliberations."
There's a gentleman by the name of Robert L. May,
who wrote "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" in 1939.
And he has a big 9-foot-high statue of Rudolph on
his front lawn with a red light bulb in his nose.
Well, according to - because of the energy crisis,
he's turned out Rudolph's light. He says, "I
think Rudolph would go along with m_ decision.
He's always been a pretty well-behaved fellow and
has tried to do the right thing." Here's another
good one. A homeowner opened his door Thursday
and found his outdoor Christmas lights dismantled,
neatly wrapped in ribbon and left undamaged on his
street - stoop, the police reported.
B56 03 59 46 CC Attached was a note reading, "Energy crisis, ener-

gy crisis, rah, rah, rah; Energy crisis, energy
crisis, sis, boom, bah; We sha31 win; We shall
fight; We shall get your Christmas light." Th_
note was signed "PowerProtectors. " -
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_']KYIAB AIR-'D']-GROUND VOICE TRAHSCRIPTIOH
]56 Oh O0 01 CC Russia's latest manned space flight is being used

to test a self-supporting ecological system to feed
cosmonauts on interplanetary space missions, a
Soviet newspaper said today. The goal is a kind
of self-sustaining farm on board spaceships shut-
tling to and from Mars or Venus. The labor news-
paper Trud - Trud - Trud - something - said the
experiment on Soyuz 13 which carried two men into
Earth orbit last Tuesday was called Oasis 2 and
involved growing and "harvesting" micro-organisms.
The paper's science writer said that the experiment
was among the first steps in preparing for long
distance space flight. "The most important goal
is to supply normal conditions of life to members
of the crew - their need for air, food :rod w;_t,:r."
Official reports on Soyuz 13 have not dJse]ose_!
how long it and its crew will be aloft. Latest.
reports indicated no problems on board. Well, our
_ State Legislature here in Texas has finished a
3-1/2 day special session and on Thursday night
they passed a bill allowing the state highway
commissioner to lower speed limits to deal with
fuel - fuel shortages or to prevent the loss of
federal highway funds. The bill was signed by the
governor this morning. A special session in the
neighboring state of Louisiana and their legislature
last month resulted in establishment of a state
energy czar with the power to alter private con-
tracts in a more - in a move designed to ensure
that the state retains an adequate share of its
resources. It also approved sharp increases in
state taxes on oil and gas taken from state land.
356 04 Ol 37 CC The Senate and House today passed an ii per_'ent

social security increase Friday. And they sent
the measure to President Nixon. Its sponsors said
they were confident Nixon would sign _it, although
he was reportedly unhappy with some aspects of the
legis lati on.
CC And inflation is still with us, the worst since

the Korean War. The Labor Department said consumer
prices in November rose eight-tenths of 1 percent,
'/A"; T:,.;,,: ";'/,-rV;/?-430
::_u::,,r,:_bl;i ;_/Jju:;'Lr_J, rn:J._,c}'t, ifl(r ()CLI,_ r'l:: _'i:;,:.
'J'w,J-thJ r(J3 of' the increase came ih f'r,,j_J ;u:,J J'Uel

prices. All is not glum though. Honesty paid an
elderly widow $4,000 for Christmas. Mary Eastwood
was shopping 6 months ago when she trip - tripped
over a paper bag. She picked it up and discovered
it was stuffed with $4,000. She turned it over to
the police, who attempted to find the owner, but
the money was never claimed. On Tuesday police
gave the money back to Mrs. Eastwood - an early
Christmas present.
CC Well, .old Grover Cleveland showed up in a Salvation

Army kettle again this year. Last December, a
gratelh/l but perplexed Captain Williaxn Crabson -
Salvation Army, I assume - found a $i,000 bill,
which bears the President's picture in the donation
kettle in front of a local bank. Crabson said he
had no idea who the donor could have been. Thurs-
day, Crabson found another $i,000 bill in the pot.
Well, that's about it for the evening. We'll say
good night to you and see you in the morning.
356 04 03 01 SPT Hey, Hank, would you read the one with the cheer
in it again?
CC Okay, a fellow opened his door and he found all his

Christmas - -
SPT No, no, no. I'm only kidding. Thanks for the news,
Hank.
CDR Good night, Hank.
CC Good night.
CDR Good night, all you bronze guys.
CC Bronze team says good night.
356 04 03 34 SPT Good night, bronze team.
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SKYIAB AIR-T0-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION
356 12 19 3<9 CC Skylab, llouston; AOS for 9 minutes, V_u,_u:Lrd.

Good morning.
CDR Good morning, William.
CC And, Skylab, we have some moderately extensive

changes in the Flight Plan whenever it's convenient
for you to copy them.
CDR Go ahead.
CC Okay. The first one, at - Okay, that first one at

about 12:45 on the Flight Plan. Eliminate the
S073 op i, also the DET 12:b0; and in place of the
DET 13:49, add housekeeping. Also at the pres]eep
activity just past 14:00 for the PLT, add house-
keeping. And the handheld photography st.%ys in.
356 12 21 15 CDR Okay. That's done.
CC Moving on down the Flight Plan for - again for

the PLT at 23:30, change housekeeping 8 Alfa to
housekeeping 12 Alfa and 14 Charlie.
CDR Okay. 12 Alfa, 14 Charlie.
CC All right. For the CDR at 24:45, add M509-2C prep.

This is with the M151 photography and refer to
general message 3742 Baker doing this, and this
will be followed by eating.
CDR Roger. Copied.
CC All right. Going over to the PLT at 01, says

presleep activity and M509-2C prep, and thi._ will
be reference general messag_e 37_I Echo. Thi'_ i:;
to be accomplished after the CDI_ has completed his
509 prep.
"_5612 2q 38 CDR Okay. We got it, TJ_]].
CC All right. Moving on down to the SPT at 03:00,

delete $201 operations. And for the PLT, delete
_ $201 maneuver. Also for the CDR, eliminate$201
operations.
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CDR Roger. We got _t.
CC For the CDR at 03:_5, add housekeeping 3A. And for

the SPT at 03:45, delet - correction on that, for
the PLT at 03:45, delete S201-K maneuver.
CDR Roger. We have it.
CC And all of you are scheduled to sleep now at 0h:O0.
CDR Roge r. 0_ :00.
356 12 25 42 CC And the PLT can now eat at approximately 02:00 or

prior to that.
CDR Roger.
CC Going through the details on the CDR, the ew:ning

status report is changed to 03:01 at Goldstone.
CDR 03:01,
Goldstone.
CC And at 02:53, delete the $201 ops. Change the

0h:08 medical conference to 03:2h at Canary. And -
and moving on to the SPT details, at 02:53 delete
$201 Ops assists.
CDR Roge r.
356 12 27 44 CC On the PLT details at 12:h0, delete the line NTC

S073 camera install. At 12:50, delete S073 ops 1
pad. Also delete, at 13:49, the NTC remove and
stow S073 camera and leave in install S063 C0P
camera and reference S063 COP pad 3724.
CDR Roger, Bill.
CC At 02:31, delete $201 maneuver pad. At 03:36,

delete $201 maneuver pad. At 03:55, delete the
nu Z update, that's the 03:55 to 04:10.
356 12 29 29 CC That's it and we're going LOS. We'll have you

again at 12 :43.
356 12 h4 29 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS for 7 minutes.

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SPT Good morning, Bill. What did active region O0 do

last night when we were asleep?
CC Ed, 3752 pad is up and has a description of what

occurred during the evening, qhat's the solar
activity pad.
SPT _ank you, Bill.
CC Did you get all the messages at the last minute

that I sent up before?
CDR Roger. We copied them all, Bill. Thank you.
CC How's your Christmas decoration coming up there

today?
CDR Well, we still got to trim our tree, but we got

it built now.
CC I'm afraid to ask you what you used.
CDR We'll have show and tell later.
CC Copy.
356 12 46 08 CDR We can't find the mistletoe, Bill.
CC Hey, you better not find it, under the circum-

stances.
CDR Bill, we grew a 4-foot tree out of the ED 63 agar.
CC Hey, be sure you keep the gypsy moths out of the

tree you're growing.
CDR It does have that moth-eaten quality to it.
356 12 50 53 CC Skylab, we'll be LOS in a minute. We'll have you

again at Hawaii at 13:27.
CDR All right. So long, Bill. T_s/k to you ther,.
SPT Garble
SPT Hey, Bill, what color shirt are you w,:ar'in_,

this
f_ morning? What team you working with?
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CC This is the maroon team on, Ed.
SPT Hello, maroon team.
356 12 51 53 CC Maroon says hi.
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356 13 27 32 CC Skylab, Houston. AOS for 9 minutes.
356 13 35 41 CC Skylab, 1 minute to LOS. We'll be dumping the

tape recorder the next pass at Vanguard at 13:57.
And if I'm not talking to you fellows again, why,
have happy holidays up there.
PLT Same to you, Bill.
CDR So long, Bill. Same to you.
SPT Merry Christmas, Bill, and enjoy yourscl['.
356 13 36 ]6 CC ']'h:ink
you. And you may not rea]_ize it., but .y_u
gave me some pretty good presents to p]:_y with down
here over Christmas. Sure appreciate it.
356 13 58 27 CC Skylah, Houston through Vanguard for 8 minutes.

Good morning from the purple team for the guest
CAP C0_4 from the bronze team.
CDR Good morning, good morning. It's kind of a short

night for you, wasn't it, Hank?
CC It sure was.
CC And, Skylab, for a reminder, we'll be dumping the

recorder here.
CDR Roger. You catching cold?
CC You're right.
CDR Merry Christmas.
• CC And, SPT, Houston. We'd like to get the H-ALPHA 1

DOOR, OPEN, please.
356 lh 00 44 SPT Morning, Hank.
CC Good morning.
SPT Say, when I got up here this morning, we ended up

_ with a UP/DOWN reading of 2531, I believe it was,
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or 2532, implying that the wedges had to be zeroed,

which I went ahead and did. And I'm wondering
whether the operations last night caused that.
That's the unattended ops. I don't recall seeing
that - the wedges in that position when we left the
panel.
CC Okay. We're checking it out now.
SPT Thank you.
_56 14 02 36 CC SPT, Houston. About 2 hours ago, we comm_id_'d il

to center from the ground, and apparentTly it has
drifted. And you did the proper thing by
re centering.
SPT Okay. Thank you. We were pointed Su_u center as

seen on H-alpha, but the reading was off.
CC We copy.
SPT And, Hank. Also for the past - about day and a
half or so, our X-RAY SPECT IMAGE, the CRT has been
working properly. That is, it's a full scan all
the way down.
CC Roger. That 's good news.
356 14 05 56 CC Skylab, Houston. We're i minute from ]l)._].We'll

see you again at Hawaii 59 minutes from now.
356 14 06 08 CC And Hawaii, is at 15:05.
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CDR Roger, Hank.
CC _hkylab, Houston. Got a general question for all

of you. If you would like to have a tradition_l
turkey dinner on Christmas, we have a plan that
will accomplish it. What it would require would
be, do housekeeping 60E on mission day 39 instead
of mission day 42 and follow a rearranged daily
menu schedule which we've prepared for mission
days h0 through h_. Your preference.
CDR Hank, I think we'll Just take the menu as it comes.
CC Okay. We copy, Jer, and while I've got you here,

last night, we shipped up some messages regarding
CSM takeover. Have you had chance to look at those
and do you have any comments on them?
356 15 06 50 CDR I've looked st them Briefly. Haven't really gotten

into them in depth. I'd hope to get to that some-
time today. And Ed and I are both going to walk
through it, since he'll be inside while Bill and
I are outside. We'll walk throuy_1 the r.ntire
procedure per the EVA takeover.
CC Okay. %_at sounds real good, Jet,j, ,'_ I got a

note here from Rusty. He says, '_4ith regards to
who does what during EVA, Jerry, you're exactly
right. EV-I is PLT, EV-2 is CDR and EV-3, SPT.
I have subjected m_self to 40 lashes and added
five VSs to my hook. Sorry for the confusion."
CDR Okay. Tell Rusty his apology is accepted.
CC He said, "Thank you."
CDR Also, I was suggesting yesterday that we might

possibly need some time assigned to us to study
some of this stuff for the _054 and I think th_n
walk-throu_a that Ed and T need to dr zh_)u]d h:_'le
some time _l].owed. So m_kyh,,the p_%y::w,,rkir*_."
,Jp
tomorrow's Flight Plan ought to fi_<ur,:,:; ::,,m,r
tim,..
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356 15 08 19 CC Okay. What we have set up for tomorrow, Jer, in

taking a look at it is around 21:00, we've got
about an hour set up for you to go through the
checklist changes and review them for the EVA.
And along about the last part of that period, we
have some site coverage through MILA/Bermuda and
we can have Rusty standing by to answer any
questions.
CDR Okay. I think that 'll be Just fine, and Ed and

I'll try to get through the w_Ik-through then too.
CC CDR, Houston. The way that Flight Plan looks now

is you're the only one available at that time. q_e
SPT will be finishing up his JOP 18 Delta along
about that time.
PLT He's listening, Hank. He w_s Just going down to

the experiment compartment.
CC Okay. What I said there was that at the time we

have set up for the checklist change, the SPT is
finishing up the JOP 18D. And so Jer will be the
only one available at that time.
CDR Okay, Hank. We'll try to get along without it.

If Ed and I can get that walkthrough done between
now and then, well, it'll be fine. If not, I'll
holler for relief.
CC Okay.

see you at Vanguard at 36. We plan to dump the
recorder there and that's about 25 minutes from
now.
356 15 ii 19 SPT Thanks, Hank. So long.
356 15 36 21 CC Skylab, Houston through Vanguard for 9-1/2 minutes,

and as a reminder, we're dumping the recorder here.
PLT Roger.
CC CDR, Houston. We took a look at your TV-78 ar,_]Y

had them play it back for me this morning, an0 7'_
like to give you a pat on the back. It w_'_sout-
standing. You could really see the currents real
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well in there and the whole thing was well put.

together.
CDR Hank, I'm sorry. I was too far away from the box
and none of us heard what you said.
CC Okay. We took at look at TV-78, and T b:ul th_:m

play it back for me this morning. And it wa': an
outstanding piece of work. You put that together
real well. The comments and everything fitted
together real nicely. And you could see the
currents plainly in the television.
CDR Yes, Hank. What really makes me sick, is that

very next pass, at noon, we were up there right by
Montevideo and we could look out and see the con-
fluence and I considered that to be the most im-
portant part. And, doggone it, we missed it, and
I really felt bad about that.
CDR I would suggest if possible, that we t:_e a - m_¢ _

another try at 78 and try to get a picture of that
confluence and add it to that partic1_]ar little
program because I think it would really rotund i t
out very nicely.
CC Okay, we'll take a look at that, Jerry.
356 15 4h 56 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from LOS. We'll

see you again at Ascension at 51, and that's about
6-1/2 minutes.
356 15 51 26 CC Skylah, Houston. Through Ascension for 7 minutes.
PLT Roge r, Hank.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 1 minute from LOS.

We'll see you again at Guam at 16:35. That's
37 minutes from now. And as you go ow:r the hill
there, everything looks real good to u_; on the bird.
Looks like you're all set For the mancuv,:_.
Z56 15 57 54 PLT Roger, Hank. We're remedy t_) f_(_.
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PLT Roger, Hank, Got about h minutes left in the

maneuver.
CC Roger. We copy.
CC CDR, Houston. Are you free to listen now?
CDR Standby just a minute. I'll be right back.
CC Okay. Nothing urgent.
PLT Okay. He's listening.
CC Okay, Jerry. Just to let you know what we're

doing with the Flight Plan for Christmas Eve. We
had to do a little shovingaround, but we think
i- we fitted in your TV-81 and get plenty of time for
your preprep too. What we have scheduled now is
an hour of TV-81 at 14:50 Zulu in the morning.
It'll be a VTR only, with no stations during that
time, and it's the only place we could fit it in
there. So if you want to be thinking about that -
356 16 38 06 CDR Okay, Hank. That's fine. Around lh:50, you say,
and I had heard that there might be a possibility
of direct downlink later on in the afternoon. I
don't know how compatible that is with your train-
ing but we're amenable to that too - I mean com-
patible with your schedule.
CC Okay. I don't think that's going to work out,

Jer. We've got a pretty tight schedule with all
the EVA prepep - prep for most of the afternoon
from about lunchtime on.
CDR That's kind of what we thought too when we sent

down our suggestion yesterday morning. But I
had heard that they were looking into the DOnZ_-
bility of that late afternoon or evening_ an,] we
are amenable to it if the schedule can br: m:,v,:d.
But we'll take whatever you can do.
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CC Oka_v. We did the best we could, Jerry. We just

couldn't work it out.
CDR Okay. Fine. Thank you, Hank.
356 ]6 40 06 CC gkylab, Houston. We're i miDute from ],O_;. ']_r.

ne_:t site is Ascension at 26, and that's 46 m_n-
utes from now.
356 17 26 31 CC Skylah, Houston through Ascension/Csmary/Madrid

for 18-1/2 minutes.
CDR Houston, CDR.
CC Go ahead.
CDR Got a quick peek at the comet on that last night

pass 8_id really is long and bright. I didn't
have time to do much more than just glance at it.
I'd like to take a look at it again. Can you
give me the next comet-rise time?
CC Okay. Y'II see if I can get that.
CDR Okay. In fact, Hank, why don't you go _h, _uJ _id
give us the rise times for the next three or four
night passes.
356 17 28 34 CC Okay. Will do.
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356 17 30 49 CC SPT, Houston. We've called out the MI5] on both

the Flight Plan and your details. Is that going
to be sufficient?
SPT (L_ghter) Yes, Hank. I think we're going to g_t

it this t_me. I tested the camera, _d we're a l]
lined up. And just tell Rudy to hang in there.
CC Okay. Will do. And the info for your - I have

info for your phone call if you want to copy that
dow-rl.
SPT Oh, okay. Sure enough. Thank you, Hank. Go ahead.
CC Okay. It's tonight at 03:01 and - Stand by i.

Okay. It's - it's at Goldstone, and RIGHT to LEFT.
- 356 17 31 h3 SPT Okay. 03:01 Goldstone, RIGHT to LEFT. And Hank,

you sound like you got a real cold. I could re-
commend you to a good doctor.
CC I think I need one. Okay. I have those n_:xt

comet-rise times if somebody wants to copy them
down.
CDR Yes, go ahead.
CC Okay. 18:17, 19:50, 21:23, and 22:56.
CDR Okay. 18:17, 19:50, 21:23, and 22:56.
CC That's correct. And, SFT, whenever you get the

S063 stow complete, Bill is standing by to t_]k
ATM.
SPT Oh, okay. Very good. I'll go up into the MDA

right now. Hold on.
_56 17 %_ 20 SPT Hello, Bill. Go ahead.
MCC .Okay, Ed. Goor] morrling. A littl,:,hit ,,l'::,,l:Lr

upd_;e here. As you'w: _l_rjy :;een :u_ti;,: r,-di,,n
00 is quieting down a bit. q%le - I g,_,:::::
w,_',]h:_l,
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to say the flare probability is less today than

yesterday, or we would expect less energetic flares
today, I should say. However, the neutral line is
still pretty kinked and predominantly east/west,
and this is expected to straighten up. And, of
course, associated with this there will be some
flaring activity. That's about all I can add new
to 00. There's apparently a new bipole coming up
just east of 04. You might want to Just take a
look at that and see if it looks reasonable to you.
Our emphasis for the day still emphasizes active
region 00, and we are still looking for a flare-type
activity there. During your operations today,
you'll notice that essentially what you have is
observing time for your three consecutive orbits
later on. The main feeling here is that this is
the best way that the flare interested experiments
get their best flare data, being 54, 56, 82B, and
so on. During the operations there, both 54 and
56 have requested that, when convenient during
each orbit,try to get 5_ - -
356 17 34 41 MCC HIGH VOLTAGE 7, off please.
MCC Oh, okay. Ed, HIGH VOLTAGE 7, off, please.
SPT Bill's got it.
MCC Okay. 54 asks for a 256-second sequence once per

orbit whenever it's convenient, and you plan to
be still that long anyway. At about that same
time, 56 would like a PATROL, NORMAL. And they'll
take as many as they can get, preferably PATROL,
NORMAL once and then PATROL, SHORTs as frequently
as possible as is mentioned. 82B - -
SPT In other words, you've -you've got one PATROL,

NORMAL per - per orbit and then as many PATROL,
SHORTS. That's what I understand; is that correct?
MCC Right. That's correct. And 82B's main _:m_.h_zLs

is on fluctuating bright points _.syou w,,,_],J ,Je-
tect on the 711V men ;md pos:;_bly 'on H-:,l[_ha. An,l
again, you ._;houldbe f_miliar w_th th;D., ._;oI wen'l.
go into any gree_ter depth on that. W, 'rr: hoping
you have good - -
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356 17 35 Bh SPT Yes, you could. On that particular item, I carried

out a shopping list item the other day which took
2-12-second exposures every h minutes on it. Was
that a reasonable approach or wou3d they prefer
another way to go at it.
MCC This is shopping list 7?
SPT I think it was - the new shopping list item.
356 17 36 00 MCC Okay. I think what -
B56 17 36 09 MCC Okay, Ed, we Just had a handover -
356 17 36 52 MCC Okay, Ed. Sorry about that. We Just had a handover
here. The preferred item is shopping list 7 which
involves SHORT WAVELENGTH exposure TIMES I/h. And
that's 82B's main interest on the fluctuating bright
points. And for that matter, I'll get to later on
flare-type activities. Do you have any more ques-
tions on that?
SPT Yes, I do. In order to get a time history there,

it means you got to take a fair number of them.
I was trying to conserve film, and that's why I
gave Just the 2-1/2-second exposure knowing they
had very sensitive film in there. What do they
presume - How may times would they like the building
block - or shopping list 7 repeated in order to
get any time history?
356 17 37 34 MCC Okay. Well, 82B will be passing you up a message

later on today or early tomorrow about film here.
Let me get into that now. They don't want any more
FLARE modes, which means even if you get them flared
today, they preferred not to go into FLARE mode.
You might Just put a piece of tape or something
there to remind you of that. What they are budg_ %-
ing is some 30 to 40 TIMES i/h exposures either
on the flare or on fluctuating bright point:: which
they feel are very similar to flares in ;_ vJu,:h
smaller scale. We will be lJplinking th;O, ]:%t,f,
but that's sort Of the total budget b,:tw,:e_, n(,w :m,i
well, actually, the next couple of week:; - _boul,
2 more weeks, until the comet ob - observations are
over. They have gotten fairly deeply into the lOl
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film. As a matter of fact, about half of it has

been expended already. So they would like, over
the next few weeks, to hold it to 30 to h0 _ _eq -
3-exposure sequences to observe the flare :_l the
preflare brightenings. It seems to me that you
may have a good idea here for shortening some of
these up. Let me get a better answer from them
and get it back to you later.
SPT Okay.
356 17 38 h6 MCC And while I'm on that, 82A wants to save two frames
per day for synoptic. Should you go into a flare
mode on that, try to stop it at 4 if you catch it
today, or 2 if you catch it tomorrow. And I under-
stand the problems with trying to catch that at
those numbers.
SPT Okay.
MCC Okay. On the flare detecting now, the best infor-

mation that we can _.et for you to confirm the PNFEC
with is still the X-REA BERYLLIUM APIIRTURI.T. A_ly
time the A]_ERTT/[E.:
goes to _, we feel that you're
looking at area] C-type flare. Any time it goes
to 2, you're looking at a real M-type flare. And
this is - has been reconfirmed, at least into the
C level on the Ci5 that they observed the other
day. The general feeling is that the aluminum is
not good at all as a flare indicator. For one
thing, you're up in the longer wavelengths and you
get a smaller delta in the activity in a flare
from - out of a flare. There's a significant amount
of scatter, and it's Just not a very good flare
indicator at all. Have you found that - We've
been putting the FLARE THRESHHOLD at C-5. Have
you been getting a inordinate amound of false alarms
here or is this the tolerable level.
356 17 hO 03 SPT Well, Bill, I've been working it, rea]]y, at - at

all different levels, depending upon where we are
relative to the anomaly. If we're irJ the _oma/y,
I turn it way up; if we're not, Y turr_ it down to
usually around 512. And every once in a wh_ lc if
it'll bump up above that, it'll catch tKf af_tention.
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But I find the way to really get a flare like we're

looking for today is to monitor the XUV monitor
and, surprisingly enough, H-alpha. And the two
bright point rises I've seen so far, both came up
together. So - I find _self keeping m_ eyes glued
on the scope and occasionally looking at the PMEC
and, if I have any reason to believe we got any
X-ray activity at all, checking the beryllium
aperture.
MCC Okay, Ed. That sounds real good. Some words from
S05h. They've been real happy on your flare search-
ing operations. They want to pass up the word not
to get discouraged with false alarms. '[_,_y'r_"
q, ite
happy to take those, because by gettir_g Lh_)::e,that
means that when one comes along, they're going to
get the real McCoy. So they're happy with the w_%y
you've been operating that. On 55, we've noticed
on the transcript that several times you've mention-
ed a oxygen VI count of on the order of h0,000 and
50,000. S055 has not found any of these in their
rasters, so we assume this happens when you're
looking around peaking up. If you get a chance,
when you see any of these, take a spectrum of it.
And we've got a handover coming up here. And let's
see, on S052 on the - -
356 17 41 hl SPT Bill.
CC Yes ?
SPT Okay. One for example, yesterday, when we did get

the bright point there at the peak, we were up to
around 58. And I'm sure if you go back :_nd look
at that data, it should certainly ind_ c:_t_:that.
We were in a MIRROR, LINE SCAN and I stopped it
once. I think I went a little past it - the - the
most intenst point of the brightening. And we were
out to 58 at that point. And I did get a detector
tripping off when I was looking at that point
previously also, although it could not confirm
what the count is.
MCC Okay. That's good. They - Normally, they're a

day or so behind. So I'm sure they Just have not
looked at that one yet.
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356 17 42 22 SPT Okay. The one we did - bright point rise we did
get yesterday, I made some comments about not being
happy about it because it was small. And I real_ze
that small flares are as good as large ones if
they truly are flares. But what I observed is that
their bright points, which are very isolated, and
that there's no propagation along the neutral line
on ... on either side, and I think that probably
is what we're really looking for. The bright points
may act as a trigger, but the real release of the
energy, in my mind, would be when you propagate
along the neutral line and you involve a much ex-
tenzive area. So that's really what l'm looking
for. And that's why I was a little discourage
when it did not propagate.
356 17 43 06 MCC Okay. Understand. And let's see, Flight says he

needs about 90 seconds here real quick. Let's give
it to him and then I'ii come back at the end.
SPT Okay.
CC Okay. Skylab, Houston. On panel 203, we'd like

to check the MOL SIEVE A TIMER in PRIMARY. We
don't see the bed cycling and like to make sure
the switch is in the right position.
PLT Roger. It's in PRIMARY.
CC Okay. We copy.
356 17 44 01 MCC Okay, Ed, and while they're talking here let me
just get you with a couple of quickies.
SPT Bill.
MCC Yes?
SPT Let me give them the information they need. The

nitrogen was off. It's coming back on.
MCC Okay.
SPT We're squared _CJ!!.

aw:_y h<.rr,.._]o ;JL<_a'l.c;,,,j),,::,,],
"556 17 44 14 MCC Okay. On [',052on the comet ops, 18D, apparemtly

the way the JOP - the building block 30 is writterJ,
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it's easy to confuse. What is desired there, and

we'll try to clarify it on the pad, is a STANDARD
sequence followed by three SINGLE exposures, fo] Inw-
ed by FAST SCAN until the BB truncation point. And
the FAST SCAN is required for picture averaging,
especially on the din_aer comet. And the FAST SCAN
has been deleted. And we Just - -
SPT Yes, that - yes, sure that was confusing. The way
I saw it was - The way I read it was to use the
FAST SCAN for the - the three 1-second exposures,
which I did not quite understand why so many were
involved in teir experiment logic.
356 17 44 54 MCC Okay.
SPT You're right, I did - I did misread that.
MCC That's what we thought it was and about half of the

people misunderstood that. On the JOP 7, BB 15,
yesterday the single 1-second exposure was not
gotten. I think we got somethinglike an ll-second
exposure. That's Just a reminder that that's an
off/on kind of a thing. And we will he sending up
a change on 55 per 18D ops to make sure that we
don't have Lyman-alpha on DETECTOR 1 while we're
on the Sun. And let me turn it over to you here.
356 17 45 26 MCC Okay. I have to take that back. We're over the
hill here, Ed. The S201 pad is not on board, we'll
get it up at Guam in 25 minutes.
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356 18 Ii 05 CC Skylab, Houston through Guam for 9-1/2 minutes,

and we'll be dumping the recorder here.
SPT Roger, Hank. In setting up the ETC, I had to put

the END OF FILM light and also, the other day when
we were to put in that seal, we could never locate
the seal. It was never in the location specified,
so we still have that chattering seal. It poses
no problem to us, as long as it doesn't in any
way degrade the data.
CC Roger. We copy.
356 18 13 3h CC CDR, Houston. Last night - and we were - revis-

ing the Flight Plan, we scrubbed that late
201 maneuver for tonight. We scrubbed out the
pad, not realizing that the - both 201 pads were
on the same - same pad. And, so, we just uplinked
..... you a new pad to cover the 201 ops, _md it's on
board now.
CDR Roger, Hank.
CC And, SPT. The END OF FILM light you have. Is

that on the DAC or the ETC?
SPT That's on the ETC, Hank. The - the DAC works

for M051 is all set and accomplished.
CC 0kay, we copy.
SPT The last time I used that spare mag in the ETC,
Hank, I did not get a END OF FILM light. The
first time I've - seen an _D OF FILM light since
I've been working on it.
CC Ed, would you say again. I - I didn't _mderstand

you.
356 18 lh 56 SPT Okay. The last time which I used this spare mag
with this film in it, I did not get an _D OF FILM
light at the conclusion of those operations. This
is the first time I've seen the _D OF FILM light.
_-_ 356 18 ]5 09 CC Okay. You do have the magazine installed now, is

that correct?
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SPT 'IY_at'saffirm, IIank. It's all set to lY,, :_nd i'm

just checking it out, and got to get the film ILght.
CC Let us think about that one a bit.
CC SPT, Houston. When you cycled the film after it

advanced couple of frames, did you see both of
those knobs turning?
SPT No, I did not, Hank. Would you like me tc cycle

one more and verify that?
356 18 17 43 CC That's affirmative.
356 18 18 04 CO And Ed, if that supply knob doesn't turn, that's

going to be an indication that the film is broken.
SPT Say again, ;lauk.
CC Roger. If the supp]y knob doesn't turf,, lh_.L'.._

an indication that the film is broken.
SPT Okay.
SPT Hank, both the supply and the takeup turns with
a single mode.
CC Okay. I guess we suspect that the camera's work-

ing all right, and we just have a faulty light.
356 18 18 55 SPT Okay, Hank. Then I'Ii press on with the operation
as planned and check the camera - check the film
when I take it out.
CC Okay. We concur.
SPT And I'ii keep an eye on the supply spool also

during the operation.
CC Okay. That sounds like a real good plan, Ed.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're i minute from LOS. We'll

see you again at Canaries at 11 and that's
356 ]8 20 02 SPT So long, Houston.
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356 19 ii i0 CC Skylab, Houston through Csnary/Madrid for

13-1/2 minutes. And for the SPT, did the END OF
FILM light stay on during the ops or did it go
off?
SPT Okay, Hank. During the total ops in the AUTO

MODE, the light stayed on. The film appeared to
advance normally. At the end when I went to the
SINGLE MODE to shoot up three frames, as soon as
I shot thy first one, the END OF FILM light went
out and the frames advanced - advanced normally.
We used a total count of 35.
CC Okay. We copy. Thank you, Ed.
356 19 12 02 CC Okay, Ed, and we've did a ]_ttle hen d .neratch_ng

on this seal for the ETC ma_ .%nd Owen uze4 one of
the seals on the spare mag and there [;hould be two
more seals. And we think they're in the 35-mil]i-
meter flash bag in drawer G of the film vault.
They're individually hagged with instruction decals
and the bag is about, oh, 2 inches by 4 inches -
a little flat plastic bag with a little seal in
there about the size of a dime or a penny.
SPT Okay, Hank. I know what the seal looks like -

could you say again the bag it's in - as far as
being in drawer G, that's where we're keeping all
the Nikons and from day i, we never ran into any
extra supplies in that drawer.
CC Okay. We think it's in the 35-millimeter flash

bag.
SPT Okay. I'll go on up and take a look. 'l_lank you,

Hank.
356 19 19 lh SPT Hello, Hank. I finally located the seal. It was

in the flash bag, but the flash bag was in a
different drawer. It never occurred to me to
look into the flash bag. I'm glad you finally
mentioned that particular item, and we turned it
up.
CC Okay. Which drawer was it in?

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SPT It was in drawer H, Hank.
CC Roger, copy. Drawer H. Did you leave it there,

Ed?
SPT That's right_ Hank. That's where it is - the

flash bag is now. We got Nikons up in G, and
there's just no way of putting anything else in
there.
CC Okay. We copy.
356 19 24 i0 CC Skylab, Houston. We're i minute from LOS. We'll

see you again at Honeysuckle at 59, and we'll
dump the recorder there. And for the SPT, did -
did you go ahead and put the seal in? If - If
not, we will schedule it some later date.
SPT They don't have to do that, Hank. I already got

it in. It's doing too good a job.
356 19 24 30 CC Okay. Thank you.
356 19 59 30 CC Skylab, Houston through Uoneysuckle for 7 minutes.

And as a reminder, we're dumping the recorder here.
CDR Roger, Hank. And I took a look at the comet and

I'm disappointed. S-3 now, we're losing all but
about 30 percent of it, I think. I - I imagine
the tail of that comet's probably 6 or 7 or maybe
8 degrees of it. And then it's oeculated behind
that strut out there. So we're really missing a
lot of data by not being able to see that full
comet.
CC Roger. We copy, Jer.
CC Which part of it can you see, Jer, the - the head

or the tail?
CDR You can see the first 30 percent_ the head p]u._
about 30 percent of the tail.
356 20 04 14 CC PLT, Houston. You haf] a question earlier ret,arc]-

ing the M509 as reference to the gogg]es Jn the
bump hat. We've studied that, ans we say it's
okay to do away with the goggles, hut we would
like to see you retain the bump hat for a safety
reasons.
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PLT Sounds good, Hank. I']i try it next time.
356 20 05 53 CC Skylah, Houston. We're i minute forom LOS. We'll

see you for a short pass at Bermuda at h5.
SPT Okay, Hank. I was looking at the XUV monitor. I

can see the two bright spots just to the east of
active regions 3 and _, which apparent]y is
supposed to be a new bipolar group breaking out.
They're very faint, but they were visible this
morning and still are visible.
CC Roger. We copy.
SPT The streamer over in the east limb at about 300,

is still fairly sharply peaked, but a little
broader at the base. And over at the west limb,
the streamer itself is becoming a little more
dense, especially to the south. Other than that
it looks pretty much unchanged.
CC Roger. We copy. And for info, your Flight Plans

• fortomorroware on board.
CC That - Make that two of them.
B56 02 08 02 CDR Thank you, Hank.
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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VoIcE TRANSCRIPTION
356 20 4h 55 CC Skylab, Houston. We're with you through Bermuda

for 3 minutes.
SPT Hello, Hank.
CC Hello, there. And for the CDR, we did a little

checking, and it's possible he might be able to
see the comet out of CM-I.
CDR Okay, Hank, We'll try a look out there. And we

are changing our right legbands back to Alfa Quebec.
Alfa X-ray must havy an open or something in it
because the righthand leg volume meter Just pegs
out to the top of the meter; and we got it back
down to zero now by changing the deadbands - or
changing the legbands.
CC Roger. We copy.
SPT Hank, I didn't tell you the full story about the
corona when I talked to you last. There's
stresmer which _s becoming more prominent over on
the west limb at around 3:30. It's a diffused
one - pretty much like the one at 2:30 _nd maybe
associated with active region 97.
CC Okay. We copy, Ed.

356 20 50 08 CC Skylab, Houston. We're with you through Canary

and Madrid for 12 minutes.
CC SPT, Houston. When you get a moment there after

you've closed out the panel, between passes, could
you give us _ few words on the condition of the
ETC seal you moved?
SPT Yes, Hank. I could not tell any real _[fVLifiican_

difference other th_n Just a few superficial _,ra-
sions on it. It looked in reasonable shape. 'I_err:
,/
/
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Pa_,e 2 of B/2202
was a small piece of tape on the back side oF the

canister with S written on it, for spare, I guess.
l'm not sure whether this prevented complete seat-
ing it or not. We'll see next time we put it in
the ETC.
CC Okay. We copy. _nank you.
356 20 56 26 CC Skylab, Houston. For info the first of the pro

football playoff gave is over. The Vikings beat
ther _dskins 27 to 20, and they'll play the
winner of the Cowboys-Rams game.
356 20 56 41 CDR Say, thank you, Hank. That must have been a good
one to watch.
356 20 56 46 CC It got pretty wild toward tileend. It was sort

of back and forth all the way through.
CC Skylah, IIouston. We' re I minute from I,O_. We'll

see you at Carnarvon at 29. That's about 20 -
B56 21 01 32 SPT Roger.
356 21 28 58 CC Skylab, Houston, through Carnarvon and Honeysuckle

for 14 minutes.
356 2] 30 16 SPT Hello, Hank.
CC Hello, there.
SPT I was looking at the comet at this last Sun up.

And command module window i is a much better way
to go. I was able to see the tail quite far
back. The coma has gotten a lot higher in intensity
and much larger than l've seen it about a week ago
when I looked at it Jn detail. I only wa._z_b]e
to see one tail, however. Strictly a _J:: tail -
I mean a dust tail going straight back. Fa_ fly
wide, the coma itself has become quite a bit
larger and the tail just picks up that nize and
goes straight back. I think command module
window i is the one to follow it from here on out.
CC Okay, we copy. Do you thik you can do S2BB out

of that window?
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SPT Yes, I think so, Hank.
356 21 h2 07 JC Skylab, Houston, we're 1 minute from LOS. We'll

be handing over now and the bronze team will see
you at MILA at 16. The purple gang wants you to
know that they've enjoyed the day very much. It's
been a super day.
SPT Well, thank you Hank. We've enjoyed it too,

enjoy the holidays, for all you folks.
356 21 42 29 CC Will do.
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356 22 16 h7 CC Skylab, Houston. Hello at MTLA and Bermuda for

ll-1/2 minutes from the bronze team.
SPT Hello, bronze team.
CC It only sounds like the purple gang, b_ the

CAP COMMs are switching around today. So I'll
be with you for the rest of the day with Chuck
Lewis and the guys.
SPT Very good, Dick.
CC Sounds like you guys are having a very nice day

today.
SPT Yes, we're enjoying it. It's a good day, thank

you.
_- CC Looks good from down here. And, Skylab, Houston.

We're going to be handing over to Bermuda shortly
here, and when we do we're going to dump the
data/voice recorder.
356 22 18 O1 CDR Houston, CDR.
CC Go ahead.
CDR [Hey, Dick, we're doing instrumented exercise

today rather than MITI. The assumption we're
making is that we still have to set up the MA
in the same manner as we do for 171 except
we'll omit the vital e_paeities. Is that - that
the way you guysknow about it?
CC Let us make a quick check, Jerr_ stand by.
CDR Okay.
B56 22 19 27 CC CDR, Houston. The answer to your question, what

we're looking for in the instrumented exere_n_:
is for you to wear the VCG only, _nd w_: _:_:en_,
requirement for you to use the _ _t _11. _Jv,:r.
CDH Okay. Did they tell uz that nomet_rr_: ,,r :_r',:

w,:
/-_ supposedto know that?
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CC Well, I'm not sure. Let us see if we can re-

search and square it away, Jerry, but for this
afternoon VCG is plenty good enough for us.
CDR Well, he's already got the MA on. We set the

whole thing up and did it that way. Last time
we did instrumented exercise they wanted the MA,
so we assumed they wanted it again this time.
CC Okay, we're - we'll research it, Jerry, and get

it squared away for sure and - and get you and
us together.
CC Okay.

LOS; Madrid comes up at 22:32. We had a couple
of problems on the dump of the data/voice record-
er, and we're going to redump it at Madrid.
356 22 31 55 CC Skylab, Houston. We're A0S Madrid for 8 minutes.

And as a reminder again, we're going to be dump-
ing the data/voice recorder here again.
PLT Dick, I think Jet's right in the middle of 201.
CC Roger, Bill. We'll make sure that we redesignate

recorders or something. And I'ii check on that
before he gets started. Hang on.
PLT He's already running.
CC Skylab, Houston. The experiment 2 recorder is

running; we'll recover Jerry's voice off that
and go ahead and get out dumping out of th_ way.
PI,T Okay.
CC And, Bill_ I have a - a sort of a ]oJneexplana-

tion for this PT thing; I thought I'd mention
it to you. I'm not sure Jerry can listen, but
here's what the deal was. The other evening,
about 3 or 4 days ago, there was an evening
question that discussed future plans for instru-
mented PT, and it was mentioned in there that we
were pondering going ahead and scheduling some
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instrumented PT, the only requirement being a

VCG and blood pressures to be taken. And I think,
rereading the way that was stated, I think we - we
read a little bit too much into that. And we
should have been a little more specific on the
pad today, and we will be in the future. But in
essence, the requirement is when we schedule an
instrumented PT, that we'd like the VCG and the
blood pressures. If it turns out that the MA is
already set up after an MlT1 run, we certainly
don't have any objections to you using it. So
we'll try to do a little better on the pads and
to make it a little more specific to you.
Z56 22 3B 56 PLT No sweat. The thing was that we didn't - we -

we - we didn't know for sure there. It took a
little while to set it up and re - almost got us
in a bind on time for finishing the ergometer and
starting 201.
_ CC Yes, we - we looked at the Flight Plans and saw

the little trap we built for you there.
PLT I set the work rate up 25 watts and we made it.
CC Good show.
356 22 38 22 CC Skylab, Houston. Weve just got about a minute

and a half left here. If - we noticed that both
experiment recorders have stopped. If you have
any voice comments you'd like to put on the -
on tape between here and the end of this pass,
we'd like you to start one of the experiment 2
recorders and then stop it after LOS. And
Skylab, Houston. The dump is completed now, so
we're in good shape. The - we're 1 minute from
LOS; Canarvon comes up at 23:05.
CDR Okay, Dick. Thank you.
Z56 22 38 56 CC Roger.
356 23 05 05 CC Skylab, Houston. Carnarvon for i0 minutez.
SPT Hello, Dick.
CC Hello, there.
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356 23 07 35 CC SPT, Houston. We still got about 7 minutes left

here at Honeysuckle. When you get a chance l'd
like to taTk to you for 45 seconds or a minute,
please, sir.
SPT Sure enough, Dick. Go ahead.
CC Hey, Ed, on the subject of 233 and where best to -

which window to best look out to see the famed
comet; in looking at the Flight Plans and - and
on a previous estimate that y'all gave us about
like half an hour to set up the cameras between
windows, .we've elected to not schedule in that
time prior to supporting $233 - $233 operations
day after tomorrow. So we did get the comment
about changing the windows, but we - unless it's
a much simpler Job than the 30 minutes, we're
going to stick with what we have on the Flight
Plans until day after tomorrow and by that time
we'll have it scheduled in there and we can
change.
356 23 08 31 SPT Hey, Dick, I already changed it. It's over

there in CM wdndow 1 and I got one exposure off
this past orbit but I didn't have it lined up in
time to get two off. I'll get two off this next
orbit, however. It's much easier going into the
cor_nand module when you can mount it on the wim-
dow mirror as opposed to having to cut up card-
board and go through what we had to for the STS
windows. So it's already there and all set to
go.
CC Well, you might very well suspect that that's

what I was hoping you were going to say, and we
sure do appreciate it. Thank you much.
356 23 lh 40 CC Skylab, Houston, we're about to go LOS Carnarvon

in about 15 seconds. We're going to drop out
less than a minute, and I'll give you a call
when we're locked up good and sound at Honey-
suckle.
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SPT Okay, Dick; so long.
356 23 15 51 CC Skylab, Houston. We're locked up AOS at Honey-

suckle for the next 4 minutes. And, Ed, I can't
find any mention in my air-to-ground notes here
if you've been r_._mindedabout the family eomm
this evening. So if it's a double reminder,
sorry about that, but it's set up at Goldstone
at 03:01. It's the same pass as Jerry will use
for the evening status report.
$PT Thank you, Dick. I got it.
CC Roger.
356 23 19 02 CC Skylab, Houston_ 1 minute to LOS. Give you a

call at Texas at 23:49.
END OF TAPE
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356 23 48 37 CC Skylab, Houston. AOS stateside for ]6-7/9 minutes.
_['T Hello, Houston.
CC Hi, there. You might be interested to know th;_

this afternoon out - that Oakland beat Pittsburgh
33 to ib in a playoff. And they're going to next
week play the winner of tomorrow's game between
the Miami Dolphins and the Cincinnati Bengals.
SPT That must have been a real barn burner. I under-

stand the Vikings did pretty well.
CC Yes, they did.
SPT Dick, I sure wish that TV downlink was a two-way

street.
CC (Chuckle) l']l bet you do. You rea]]y are going

to want it that way on New Year's Day.
SPT On the dark side we could play the - a]l the good
bowl - all the good ballgames on the A'I_ TV.
CC Roger. If we'd only give you time to look at it.
CDR Roger, we have a solar flare on the 50-yard line.
CC (Chuckle) Roger.
356 23 51 05 CC Skylab, Houston. Another co_nent on the - in the

football scene. Local team does good: Friends-
wood beat Hooks High School, Texas, 28 to 15 this
afternoon and won the State Championship in
class AA.
SPT Hey, give them our congratulations. Sounds _ike

a good job.
CC Roger. And all the folks _,rol_,_Jher,. th:_t :;v_

out in that :*.r'e:_
_rr: really ti,'k},_,l T,_r_V t,,d_.y.
:;I_'[
' Well, they got a right to he very i,r_u,J.

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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

3hh 01 19 h9 CC 8kylab, Houston. AOS, Canary Islands and Madrld

SPT Hello, Dick.

CC Hello there, Ed. How - how're you guys doing?

SPT Oh, Just flnlshlngup some grits. How about tell-

CC Okay. I'll centainlydo it. And I've also got

3_40l 20 51 CC We did a little hit of troubleshooting that was

you saw and reported awhile ago, it did get hung

344 01 22 40 SPT Okay, th-nk you, Dick. That's kind of surprising

CC Well, it's - One of the theories is that there was

SPT Okay, thank you.

3_ 01 23 51 CC Okay, the other thing I wanted to tell you about

being looked at - first of all, a potential of

SPT Okay, t_ank you, Dick. Superimposed onto your

CC Roger, and we're trying to figure out where that

SPT Did INCO get is call through?

CC Say again, Ed.

SPT Did INCO get his call through?

CC I guess I am, Ed. We're chasing down this little

34_ Ol 27 IF CC Skylab, Houston. We've located the problem, and

CC S_lab, Houston. How do you read now?

8PT Sounds good, Dick.

3M40l 28 39 CC Okay, and speaking about Santa Claus, you guys

SPT Well, we got a spare chimney hanging off the side

CC Well, we're going to help him with that.

PLT Hey, Dick, are we experiencing a partial eclipse

344 01 29 26 CC As a matter of fact, Bill, we are. I think I was

CC Roger, Bill. Make sure the window that you're

344 01 32 29 CC Skylab, Housto n . We're 1 minute to LOS.

PLT Roger, Dick.

344 01 32 36 CC See you there.

344 02 00 07 CC Skylab, Houston, hello - at Carnarvon and

CDR Roger, Dick. You ready for some TV downlink now?

CDR A little bit earlier than scheduled, but it's

CC Roger, Jer. We can't take it until we hand over

34_ 02.05 l0 CC CDR, Houston. We see you've acquired a star.

CDR Will do it.

cC Thank you, sir.

344 02 06 58 CC Skylab, Houston. Handover is complete between

CDR Okay, Dick. I don't have a roll to give you

CDR Hey, my ROLL has drifted. I had minus 5400, and

344 02 13 02 CC CDR, Houston. Be sure before you leave the panel

CDR Okay, Dick.

CC Roger, and we're about a minute from LOS. MILA

CDR We finally got some sunspots.

CDR And region 96 has got a little sunspot.

344 02 14 08 CC Maybe that one will get very active.

SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

344 02 51 24 CC Skylab, Houston; AOS Bermuda for 7 minutes.

CDR Roger, Dick. And I got an ATM frame count for

CDR Okay, starting with H-ALPHA 1 and Just going

CDR The third one is 138, 1209, 5784, 3863.

CC Okay, Jerry; thank you, sir.

CC And, CDR, Houston. Since tomorrow is your

CDR Okay, Dick. And anything that happens to come

CC Okay, we'll sure do it.

344 02 54 13 CC Skylab, Houston; we got about 4 minutes left in

CDR Go ahead and. get started, Dick.

344 02 54 B3 CC Okay. Congress is heading into the last 2 weeks

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reports that he knew about the coup in advance.