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VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

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027 00 25 52 CDR Houston, CDR.

CC Hello, Jer. Got you through Hawaii for 7 minutes.

CDR Okay. I've got an evening status report for you

now, and Bill will have a photo for you shortly.

CC Okay. Stand by while I get people cranked up.

CC Okay, we're ready for the evening status.

027 00 26 h5 CDR Okay. Sleep: CDR, 6.5, 6.5 heavy; SPT, 10.5,
l0 heavy, 5 - 0.5 light; PLT, 8.5, 6 heavy,
w.5 light. No volumes today. Water gun: 8841;
h853; 1528. Body mass: 6.312, 6.311, 6.312;
6.361, 6.367, 6.360; 6.260, 6.259. Exercise:
standard for everybody; no change. Medication:
CDR, none; SPT, none: PLT, three Actifed as
directed. Clothing: CDR, shorts, socks and
_--- shirt; SPT, shorts, socks, and T-shirt; PLT, shorts
and socks. Food log: CDR, zero salt. plus
one lemonade, plus one Apollo grape punch, plus
pears, plus ketchup; rehydration water, plus 1.0;
SPT, zero salt, plus strawberries, plus two
lemonades, plus a grape drink, plus peaches -
the grape drinks Apollo drink - and rehydration
water; PLT, zero salt, one tuna, plus one
coffee with sugar, plus peaches, plus green
beans; rehydration water is zero. And that tuna
is plus one tuna. Okay, Flight Plan deviations.
Well, yes, there is one; that is the tape - EREP
TAPE RECORDER has been delayed, and we're going
to get that one after we've finished up dinner
and gotten things cleaned up. Shopping list
accomplishments; TV-104 repeat, l-l/2 hours;
TV-107 add-on, 2-1/2 hours ; 7 ATM passes. In-
operable equipment : none. Unscheduled stowage :
none. And by the way, Story, did both of those
TVs come down okay?

027 00 28 54 CC We'll get you an answer, Jet.

PLT Okay, Story, tell me when you're ready to copy

the photo log.

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CC Okay, we're ready, Bill.

PLT Roger. 16-millimeter: EREP VTS, Charlie Lima 12,

72 percent. Nikon: Nikon 01, Charlie X-ray h3,
18: Nikon 03, Charlie India 115, 55; Nikon 02,
Oh, and 05, no change. 70-millimeter: Charlie
X-ray 18, count is 106; ETC, Charlie India 12,
067; EREP Set Zulu, 0577, 2755, 0302, 9660, 1431,
0368. Drawer A configuration: no change.

CC Okay.

027 00 30 08 C])R Story, you can pass the word to the Earth obs people
that we did not get as - a lot of the photos done
that we usually do on our day off; we kind of made
this a TV day to try to clean up some of the
backlog in that area, on these two, anyway. And
we'll try to do better for them as the week
progresses.

•CC Okay, Jer, and we do have 107 and 77 down, and

we haven't dumped the other yet.

PLT Roger.

CC Bill, Houston.

PLT Go.

027 00 30 h5 CC We haven't seen the M509-5 - F5 Alfa started yet.

I've got a - I can read you a couple of switch
postions which will get that started and save
you a little time.

PLT 0kay, go ahead.

CC Okay. It's on page 23-3 of the SWS Systems, but

it is on the - the atmospheric panel. AM FILL,
PRIMARY and SECONDARY switches, two of them to
OPEN; and 02 FILL, PRIMARY and SECONDARY switches,
two to Open.

CDR Okay, he's on his way to do it.

CC Yes, that's in the Maneuvering Experiments Check-

list.
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CDR Roger.

027 00 Bl 41 CC And, Jer, did you get those photos of the BMMD
and SMMD today?

CDR No, not yet, Story.

CC Okay.

CDR l'm carrying the_ around in my hip pocket shopping

list, though.

CC Okay.

PLT Okay, Story, that's complete.

CC Okay, Bill. And about an hour from now we can

do the Bravo to that. It's Just going back
to COMMAND on those switches.

PLT Roger. Understand.

CC And we're 20 seconds - we're 20 seconds to LOS

here. We'll see you over the Vanguard at about
00:56. Your call's coming up there, Jer, and it's
aRIGHT.

CC And you might get out your EREP odds-and-ends cue --"
card and let us know if you've got any problems.
At the Vanguard. We can give you some answers.

027 00 33 14 CDR Okay, Story,

027 00 56 50 CC Slqrlab, A0S through the Vanguard for 9 minutes.

Be dumping the data/voice here.

SPT Hello, Story. How do you read?

CC Read you loud and clear, Ed.

027 00 57 15 SPT Okay, we've got a purge going here and it makes
a lot of noise in the background. I didn't know
whether it was picking it up. Let me Just
quickly tell you where we stand in the ATM ops.
The last orbit, that'sprevious to this, we
looked at the polar plumes and tried to find
some in oxygen VI, and later this - earlier
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this orbit I tried to find them in magnesium X

and - with no luck either way, both the north
and the south pole. So I looked at a prominence
which is at around ll0 and sticks about 80 arc
seconds above the limb. It's a linear feature
declined around 20 degrees towards the south,
and was fairly bright in oxygen VI, maybe 150
counts, 50 to 40 out. I worked it - with fif -
82B last orbit, but I didn't really have the time
to do the JOP satisfactorily. I couldn't give
them any comparative spectra; so they got a
WAVELENGTH, SHORT and a WAVELENGTH, LONG. At
about 15 minutes - let me get my notes here,
and I'll give you the exact. No, it was shorter
than that. One was 8 and one was 7 - because
we Just flat ran out of time. So this orbit
I've come back and - giving them a fairly long
exposure on it - one at - -

027 00 59 09 SPT Not only lost my place, I lost my whole book.

Hold on.

CC Okay.

SPT Yes, first one was WAVELENGTH, SHORT, 16 minutes,

and the second one was 17 minutes ; and that's
completely removed from the prominence, although
at the same altitude. I Just rotated about Sun
center. 55 got a GRATING, AUTO SCAN at the
brightest point in the prominence, which
surprisingly enough in oxygen VI, showed up quite
well. So I'm not really sure what - what the
nature of that is that we're looking at. I'd
have to think about it a little bit more. They
got three GRATING, AUTO SCANs there and a MIRROR,
AUTO RASTERS, and now they're just getting a series
of MIRROR, AUTO RASTERs where we are. And 56,
SINGLE FRAMES, 5, 17 minutes and SINGLE FRAME, 4,
about 18 minutes.

027 01 00 01 SPT Next orbit I'll pick up essentially a building

blocking 1B and let the two X-ray instruments run
for the full orbit, for exceptionally long ex-
posures - SINGLE FRAME, 5 on - on 56. And 54,
if they're willing, I'll let them run for the
whole orbit also, which is essentially one of
their shopping list items. That 's in execution
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of lB. I don't think it's necessary to do IA

since 82A is not running. And 56, unless they
want a PATROL, NORMAL, which I - believe they'd
just as soon have the LONG EXPOSURE. If 52
wants a CONTINUOUS MODE for 1 minute with a ROLL
of 1080, I can give that to them. I'm not sure
whether that's the type of data they're really
after; however, I'd be glad to give it to them
at the beginning of the orbit if that's what they
desire. And 54 also, if they'd like a M, 2, 0, S,
256 at the beginning of the orbit, I'll be glad
to give that to them also. But I thought that
first part was designed primarily for 82A which
is a mini.

CC Okay.

027 01 01 21 CC And I've got about four things for you, Ed.

SPT Go ahead, Story.

CC Okay, Just a reminder to run M133 tonight.

SPT Will do it.

CC And on TV-10B, that's the liquid f_Ims, - your

perfor - perfomance was really superb, and as
far as - we are thinking down here you're probably __
complete on that, although you mentioned you might
run some more. We suggest proceeding on to some
of the other science demos that are in the shopping
list rather than TV-10B.

027 01 01 58 CC And if we pick up some time later, we can get

back to it.

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027 01 02 02 SPT Story, l'm glad to hear all that good stuff about
me doing 103, but I never went near it. I think
it was probably Jerry.

CC Okay, !'ii get that to b_m later.

SPT I worked in 107.

CC And missing from the evening status report tonight

was your - any deviations in your rehydration water
and also the breakdown on your sleep last night.

SPT Okay, no deviations for me in water, and sleep

was i0 heavy, 0.5 light.

cC Okay. And we're showing a teleprinter paper low.

You could change that out for us during the next
LOS here.

SPT Okay,be gladto, Story.

027 01 03 07 CC And that's _11 I got for you now.

SPT That 'ii hold us. Thank you.

CC What's Bill up to right now?

SPT Bill's cleaning the tape recorder right now.

CC Okay.

PLT What do you have in mind, Story?

CC Bill, for the MI - the Mh87 people. They got your

message on maintenance of the heat exchanger fans.
They'd llke a little more details. Don't necessarily
follow the checklist M_87-3 Delta. Just elaborate
ca the procedures you used to - to fix those.

027 01 04 i0 PLT Okay, l'm not quite sure that I understand. I -

_now I made a comment about removing - diffieutly
in removing the fans from stowage, but that was
because of specific questions in the debriefing
form.
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CC Yes, they're looking - -

PLT That had nothing to do with the fans per se.

CC Okay, we'll take another look at that and get back

with you, Bill.

CC Ed, Houston.

SPT Go ahead, Story.

027 01 05 13 CC 52 and 56 are real happy with what you proposed.

54 would like their normal building block 1 ops,
and that's a 17-minute exposure with a GRATING, IN.

SPT Okay, and nothing after that, I take it. Would

they like to get the building block 1A and 1B?
And specifically what are their desire? Anything
after that? Why don't you just have them tell me
precisely what they'd like in the orbit.

CC Okay, I'll get with you. We're about 20 seconds

to LOS here. Ascension in about 5 minutes at 01:ll,
and the medical conference will be coming up then.

SPT Story, in lieu of hearing anything else, I'ii give

them - I'll start the ROLL out at 5400; and press
on from there and give them a 256, and then a - a
17-minute one unless - unless I hear differently.

027 01 06 28 CC 52 and 56, your option; that's fine. And for 54,
a 1A and 1B on building block 1.

027 01 16 32 CC Skylab, we got you through Ascension for 2 more

minutes. And, Ed, did you copy my comments on ATM?

SPT I understand that 54 wants to run the A and the B

part of the building block, but do they care at
all about what ROLL it's run at? Should A be run
at 5400?

CC That 'll be fine, Ed.

SPT Okay, very good; thank you, Story.

CC Jer, Houston.

CDR Go ahead, Story.

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027 Ol 17 26 CC Jet, that TV-103 on liquid films, the performance

was super, and we think you've done about as good
a job as you can do on that. And we suggest that
you move on to some of the others. If you pick
up some extra time later, you can go back to TV-I03.

CDR Okay. About the only improvement I can put on that

thing - I didn't like it at all - was to get the
eloseup lens and get some of those thin f_Ims where
the people can see them on the closuep lens and then
call it quits.

CC Okay. And we're thinking up - we're thinking of

sending you a single handheld pad that's got all
the - the sites on it, and we're wondering if -
what you think of that and how many copies you'd
like. And we'd also like some comments from you
on the number we're sending up. We think that you'd
probably like to have an awful lot of them and catch
those ones that you can, like we're sending up
13 tomorrow.

027 01 18 21 CDR Okay, that's fine; I think we ought to have three

copies. And on a separate pad: It makes no
difference to us whether it's in the details or
separate. I guess the only thing we regret is
frequently we get one of those goodies while
we're laying [sic] in the LBNP or something like
that and we kind of hate to miss them.

CC Okay. Which would you prefer, a separate handheld

pad or in the details?

CDR We're - we're satisified with the way it's going

right now in the details, unless you folks would
rather change it.

CC We'd rather put in on a sep -

CDR Just put it in the details.

CC We'd rather put in on a separate pad if that's okay

with you.

CDR Okay, let's give it a try; if it gives us trouble,

we 'll holler.
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CC Okay, and we'll send you three copies. And we're

about to go LOS here. The next one's Guam in about
40 minutes at 01:56.

027 01 19 14 CDR We'll see you.

027 01 56 h5 CC Skylab, we got you for a short pass, about 3 minutes,

through Guam.

CDR Roger, Story. The EREP TAPE RECORDER changeout is

complete; no problems.

CC Okay, thanks, Jet. And we need the DAS for an

OUTER GIMBAL backup.

CDR You've got it.

PLT And M509-Foxtrot 5 Bravo is complete.

CC Yes, we see that; thanks j Bill.

027 01 58 56 CC Skylab, the DAS is yours. And we're still showing

the teleprinter paper has not been changed out yet.

PLT Roger, Story. It's in work.

027 01 59 16 CC Okay, we won't need it. We'll need it in about

35 minutes which is the next station. We're a
minute to LOS and that will be the Vanguard at
02:33, and we're planning on that being the last
pass for the night.

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027 02 33 55 CC Skylab, we've got you through the Vanguard for

ii minutes.

SPT Roger, Story.

CC Okay, and we're planning on this being the last

pass for the night. Ed, you could check the
teleprinter messages we'll be sending up here to
be sure they're legible before you go to bed.

SPT Will do, Story. You ready for a frame count?

CC Go.

SPT 0864 - 0806_, that is, 85632, 0010, 24, 1020,

2656. And the pointing coordinates for the un-
attended are ROLL of minus 5400 - stand by.
Minus 704 and minus 329.

CC Okay.

CC And we got another 9 minutes of A0S here, we'll

be looking for the - to look over your panel.

SPT Teleprinter looks good, Story.

CC Thanks.

027 02 36 26 CC Bill, Houston.

PLT Go ahead, Story.

CC Bill, regarding that M487-people question on the -

the heat exchanger fan maintenance, I've got the -
your channel A recording here; I'll read you the
excerpt and maybe that will jog your memory.
"I got bit on this one, the OWS heat exchanger
fans. That ought to be color coded somehow
to the other, say the same color for the first
one to take off or some color for the - don't "
and it - and it broke off there - " or something
of this sort of thing because it'll slip out.
And that's how I got bit on that one and I'll
tell you more about that later." It's that "I'll
tell you more about later" that M487 people
werelooking for.

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PLT Yes, I was talking about postflight debriefing.

However, if it has them that interested, I'll go
ahead and put it on tape tonight.

CC Okay, that'll be fine.

027 28 37 B3 PLT And the subject I was debriefing was fasteners -

tiedowns and fasteners.

CC Okay, you can either record that now or we can

get that in the postflight debriefing - at your
convenience.

PLT Okay.

PLT And, Story, it'll only take a second to tell you,

what I had in mind on that was the - color coding
that one key tiedown that releases the whole as-
sembly. And that - that's the point, that's
the one that should be coded, so that we know
which one to take off first to avoid having to
• take off three i or four when one would do.

CC Okay, thanks, Bill.

027 03 38 56 PLT That particular assembly has only two straps, but
it take - it was fairly difficult access. You
take the - if you take the right one off first,
then the whole assembly flops back and you can
just take the fan right out.

CC Okay, thanks. And, Ed, your ATM panel looks good

except for S05_. I'd like that to be left at the
EXPOSURE 256.

SPT Roger, Story.

CC Thanks. Looks good.

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027 02 43 17 CC Skylab, we're a couple of minutes from LOS here;

we're planning on this being the last pass for
the night. We're proposing a wakeup time at
Texas at 10:45_ That's because of your early
EREP. And that's 30 minutes prior to the start
of EREP prep, if that's okay.

CDR Yes, that's fine, Story.

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CC Okay. Texas at 10:45 it'll be. And if you _

want us, Ascension is just about 5 minutes up
the road from here.

CDR Okay, good night.

CC Night, Jer.

SPT Good night, Story and maroon team.

CC Okay, same to you, Ed. Have a good one.

MCC Good night, Skylab.

027 02 44 34 CDR Good night, Bill.

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027 i0 46 26 CC (Music: "El Manicero")

027 lO 49 08 CC Skylab, Houston. Good morning.

CDR Good morning.

CC Hate to hit you right - right off the bat here.

We got one little item to get up to you and then
we'll leave you alone for a little bit. But your
details, as you'll see when you tear them off there,
in the Flight Plan call for getting on station, I
think, at about ll:16 for PLT and CDR on the EREP,
and we need to get you on station a little earlier
than that because we're going to change out the -
change over tape recorders. So we'd like to get
you on station about ll:08 if it's okay.

CDR Okay. Are we going back to tape recorder number l?

027 lO 50 02 CC I believe that's what it calls for; yes, sir. I

stand corrected on that. We're changing over from
lto2.

CDR Well, we've already completed that, Hank. It's

all set up and ready to go.

CC Okay. You're ahead of us this morning.

027 l0 5h 07 CC Skylab, Houston. No response required. Since

you've already done the tape recorder changeover,
you can stick with your detail time there of ll:16.

027 l0 55 49 CC Maneuver time looks good.

SPT Thank you.

027 ll 01 52 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from LOS.

Madrid'll be coming up in 5-1/2 minutes at 07.

027 ll 07 15 CC Skylab, Houston through Madrid for 9 minutes. And,

SPT, your maneuver load looks good.

CC Skylab, Houston. If- if it's convenient, someone

near the STS there, we'd like to get our REG BUS
ADJUST out of the way so we get a chance to look
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at it here a few minutes before the maneuver starts.

We'd like to get both REG BUS i and BEG BUS 2
adjusted 30 degrees clockwise.

CC And also I'd like to point out, be sure to mark your

original setting there.

CDR Okay. It's done, Hank.

027 ii ll 01 CC Skylab, Houston. We need one more little tweak

on BEG BUS !, 5 degrees further clockwise.

PLT Take a look at that, Hank.

CC Okay; thank you, Bill.

CC BEG BUSes look good to us now.

027 3_115 45 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from LOS.

Tananarive will be coming up in 13 minutes at 29.

027 ii 15 53 SPT Roger, Hank. So long.

027 ii 29 21 CC Skylab, Houston through Tananarive, 8 minutes.

027 ii 35 58 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about a minute from LOS

here at Tauanarive. We'll see you again at
Honeysuckle at 54 with a recorder dtm_.

027 ii 53 48 CC Skylab, Houston through Honeysuckle for 5 minutes.

And we need the recorder for a dump.

CDR Okay.

CC And, Skylab, Houston_ a _uick weather update for

you. The weather over the Pacific, approaching
the ea - the west coast is pretty - pretty much
olouaea over. However, if you get risht up on
the west coast for your geothermal, we have zero
to 3/10, which holds except for a little patch
there in the San Joaquin where they have a little
fog. Zt'_ zero to 3/10 right on up approaching
the Salt Lake City area; then you,re pretty much
cloud cover the - the reet of the w_y over - clear
across the Atlantic. There,s one patch in the
Lake Superior area that might be zero to 3/10.
However, the part of your track that goes over the
west coast of Africa there again is zero to 3/i0 and
should be good weather for the data that we're going _-"
to get there.
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SPT Roger, Hank. Thanks.

027 ll 57 56 CC Skylab, Houston; we're 1 minute from LOS. Hawaii

is next at 15; that's 17 minutes from now. We'll
see you there EREPing.

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027 12 14 51 PLT EREP, START at 16, you say; or 137

CDR 15.

PLT Okay.

CDR On my mark it'll be 12:15:00 with an EREP, START.

Stand by.

027 12 15 01 CDR MABK it. EREP, START. 06 stand by.

027 12 15 07 CDR MARK. 194 to MANUAL. 15:30 is next.

CC Skylab, we're with you for 3-1/2 minutes, Hawaii.

CDR Hi, Hank. Okay, stand by for 15:30. Stand by -

027 12 15 31 CDR MARK it. SCATTEROMETER, RADIOMETER is ON. We're

cutting a wide swath through the Pacific.

PLT Man, I don't see anything out of this VTS.

CDR Must have left the cover on.

PLT Yes.

PLT See nothing or anything you want to, depending on

your frame of mind. I tend to concentrate on
keeping 0000 here. Looks like it wants to drift
a little, this morning.

CDR Hank, out of the monitor checkout, the only one

that was not at the proper value was Delta 4. And
it's reading about 45 percent. MY little cue card
says it ought to be between 57 and 87.

CC Okay; we copy, Jer.

027 12 16 34 PLT What's the first time you do 192 to READY?

CDR 92 goes to READY at 25:36.

PLT Okay. That's Just about the time we coast in.

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PLT What is that?

CDR Noise.

PLT Sounds like an ATM pump. Hank - -

CDR I'd like to know what it is. Take a look at ATM

coolant. We just heard a tame - change in noise
up here.

CC Okay, we will.

PLT Going to get the San Joaquin Valley there, coming

across.

CDR Good. Well, that's where you got your low stratus.
That's typical for this time of the year too ....
sound like it's coming from?

PLT I - I - Just sort of a general direction. You go

ahead - -

027 12 17 34 CDR Yes.

PLT - - You go ahead and watch that. I'll - -

CDR I've still got 8 minutes.

CC Skylab, Houston. The - the ATM C&D Loop flow has

dropped down a little bit since you started your
pass. And the flow seems to be a little bit erra-
tic and it may have been the pump.

CDR Okay, the 191 cooler is sounding very bad. That's

what it is. It's beginning to quiet down now.
It's just all of a -well, there it - -

PLT There it went again.

CDR Sounds like a high speed electric motor - -

PLT Grabbing.

CDR - - grabbing or loaded down and then released.

Hope we don't lose that rascal.
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027 ]2 18 24 CDR So you might have the guys on the ground keep an
eye on their 191 temperature - -

PLT That's - -

CDR - - and everything.

PLT - - what is it, Charlie 7?

CDR Let's look it up.

PLT No.

CDR Also, Hank, would you - here it is. Yes, Charlie 7-

PLT It might pay to keep an eye on Charlie 7 there.

CDR Okay.

CDR That's where it balked right now.

027 12 18 45 CC We're about l0 seconds from LOS. See you in

3 minutes at Goldstone.

CDR Okay, Hank.

PLT There it goes again.

CDR Yes.

PLT (Chuckle) The whole thing is coming down around

our ears, Jer.

CDR (Laughter). Let's take a look at Bravo 7 and 8.

Those are a couple of them too. Bravo 8 is sup-
posed to be very low on that Dewar pressure. It's
1. And thermal detector temp looks good too.

PLT Okay, I've had to make about, oh, I'd say about
a half dozen corrections in UP/DOWN to keep it
zeroed, and two corrections in _/RIGHT. It's
a - it's a bit unusual to have - I never noticed
this many corrections being required before.

027 12 19 45 CDR I noticed yesterday it was a little bit erratic.

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PLT Swathing the nadir.

027 12 20 14 PLT You don't have any spares for that thing, either;
I 'm sure.

027 12 21 42 PLT Okay, went to i LEFT again.

PLT Goldstone's locking up. Okay, about ... --

CC Skylab, we're with you for 9-1/2 minutes.

CDR Okay, Hank.

CDR The 191 COOLER case temp's hanging in there,

right - very steady. That cooler motor or whatever
it is, is sure changing tone every Once in a while.

CC I thought I heard it there once while you were

transmitting. Does the pitch drop down?

CDR No, it goes up. You got a - -

PLT I'll tell you what, let me put my mike down there
and see if we can get it.

CDR If there's enough to key the - well, let's key

the PUSH TO TEST.

CDR Key your transmit button.

027 12 22 56 CDR Can you hear that, Hank?

CC Roger.

CDR See if we can't get it while it's oscillating.

CDR It's a - there, did you hear that?

PLT ... right here.

CDR There, you ought to have heard that, Hank.

CC Roger; we heard that. Sound like a bird chirping

on top of it.

CDR Yes, it's - it's a considerably - very, very

significant change in frequency.
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PLT Just did it again.

027 12 23 33 PLT And that - that the bird chirping is more or less -
is the steady state. There is a definite change
in frequency that we were talking about, Hank.
No, I don't know if you heard it or not.

CDR Yes. What is it? About h000 --

PLT Oh, gosh, I don't know.

CDR - - 4000 hertz, Bill?

PLT Yes, I'd buy that.

CDR It bumps up to about 6 or 8 and then back down to

4.

PLT Yes it's wooo! Wo0o!

CDR Yes.

027 12 23 55 CC Roger. Sounds like a squeal there, it's - like

something was - metal on metal or something.

PLT Yes, - -

CDR Yes.

PLT - - that's what I say, a grabbing; sort of sounds

like something's grabbing in there.

CDR Sounds like a high speed electric motor that every

once in a while grabs or - -

PLT Bearing shaft.

CDR - - gets a - gets a load on it, and it - it bears

down on the load and then frees up again.

PLT Or a punp cavitating.

CDR Yes, it could be that too.

CDR Okay, I've got a mark coming up here at 25:16.

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027 12 2h 27 PLT Okay, we're coming up on the coast.

CDR Let's see; you ought to be able to see Santa Bar-

bara and some of those places - -

PLT No, you can't do anything with the VTS, though.

CDR - - down to your right.

PLT I 'm in a nadir swath?

CDR Yes. Let's see; you going in over Vandinberg?

PLT Just about.

CDR Okay, you're just north of Santa Barbara then,

right on the coast.

PLT Right.

027 12 24 49 CDR Beautiful city.

CDR Okay. Coming up on 25:16 for the next mark.

PLT Going to pass right over Tonopah, Nevada. The

garden spot.

CDR Right.

CDR 25:16. Stand by.

027 12 25 16 CDR MARK. SCATTEROMETER, OFF.

027 12 25 18 CDR MARK. RADIOMETER, OFF. MODE to XTC. POLARIZA-

TION, I. 25:36 is next. Stand by -

027 12 25 36 CDR MARK. 192 MODE to HEADY. Got a high speed. TAPE
MOTION's looking steady.

027 12 25 44 CDR 42, RADIOMETER, ON. I was 2 seconds late. RADIO-

METER came on at 25:44. Next mark's at 28:20.

CC Bill, when we get up here a little further, we'd

like to have you cogent on whether you can see
the Gulf of St. Lawerence. The times that you'd
be able to see it are approximately 37:30 to 39:00.
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PLT Okay.

CC What we're interestedin there, Bill, is the cloud

c over.

PLT Okay. Yes, it's dark over California.

CDR Yes. It's a tad early in the morning there. 5:30

in the morning.

PLT Time they got up and went to work.

027 12 27 0h CDR Right. Get an early start on the freeway.

PLT Make a low pass .... in a couple of times to wake

them up.

CDR Okay. 1 minute to my next mark.

PLT Now - should be coming up on Salt Lake. I still

don't see anything. In fact, we're Just going to
catch the southern end of it.

CDR You still nadir swathing?

PLT Yes. Yes. This goes right up to -yes -actually

it's two segments, but it really doesn't any dif-
ference; it's all the s_me. 30:46.

CDR Okay. We're coming up on 28:20 now. Stand by -

027 12 28 21 CDR MARK. 192 MODE to CHECK. Give the tape recorder
and the 192 a rest and then put it back in.

CDR Next mark's at 29:10. Stand by -

027 12 29 lO CDR MARK. 192 back to READY. TAPE MDTION, we've

shifted gears and looking good. 30:20 is next.
191 COOLER case is still hanging in there, 55 per-
cent. Hank, would you ask the guys on the ground
if there's anything else I could be looking at?

CC Okay. Will do.

PLT Okay. We're just starting to get some light.

30:46 - yes. 30:_6 ... Coming up on 30:20.

J
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CDR Stand by -

027 12 30 20 CDR MARK. 192 MODE to CHECK. 30:40's next. Coming

up on 30:40. Stand by -

027 12 30 40 CDR MARK. RADIOMETER to STANDBY. An angle roll of

plus 1 - -

PLT 30 :46.

CDR - - plus a 15.

PLT Okay. I 'm going to look ahead here.

CDR Next mark's at 12:31:00. Stand by-

027 12 31 00 CDR MARK. RADIOMETER, ON.

027 13 31 02 CDR MARK. SCATTEEOMETER, ON. 15 is next.

PLT Okay, now I have an auto - VTS AUTO CAL along in

here somewhere, don't I?

CDR Yes; you're coming up at 32:15. At 31:15, stand

by -

027 12 31 15 CDR MARK. 191, REFERENCE going to 2. We're 1 minute

from a _S AUTO CAL.

CC Roger. And we're about 15 seconds from LOS.

Bermuda'll be coming up in 3-1/2 minutes, and
when you get a chance, Jer, we'd like to get a
readout on Bravo 7 and Charlie 7.

CDR Okay. Bravo 7 is 33 percent; Charlie 7's reading

55.

CDR Aha! Sunlight in the window. You got no excuses

now, Bill; you can see the ground.

PLT I can't. Still not light enough.

CDR Oh.

027 12 32 05 PLT Okay. Let's see .... VTS AUTO CAL ...
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057 12 3h 49 CDR Coming up on 34:55. Looking for a 30 - S191 READY

light on.

027 12 34 55 CDR READY is on at 55, EREP to STOP. 191, REFERENCE

to 6. ALTIMETER is going to STANDBY. Waiting for
36:43.

CC Skylab, we're back with you for 6 minutes.

CDR Okay, Hank. Hank, on the READY verification, the

guys in the back room on S190 should remember the
frames cal] out to give us two digits, not one.

CC We copy.

PLT Also, on the maneuvers, Hank, I've got the SOLAR

INERTIAL maneuver, but it's only indicated on the
maneuver pad itself which was given to the SPT.
It'd be nice, in the middle of the column of the
teleprinter - here in my VTS pad, put PLT there
for SI. SI maneuver where it's called out. If
it calls out all the maneuvers, Just because you
got a maneuver on your VTS or C&D pad doesn't mean
you do it.

CC Okay, we copy.

PLT And I'm looking for clouds. There's - I'm starting

to see surface features now, barely.

CDR Okay, Ed. I've got an ETC POWER ON at 36:43.

Coming up on 36:43.

PLT Okay ... 37 ...

CDR Stand by -

PLT ... right over the Gulf of St. Lawerence ...

027 12 36 h3 CDR MARK. ETC POWER, ON.

PLT Okay. The Gulf of St. Lawerence is overlaid by

very thin stratus, and looks like high cirrus or
haze layer. That's about all I can tell, Hank.
It's so diffuse it sort of puts everything out of
focus. It does not look like a heacy cloud layer
at all.
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CDR Okay. On my mark it'll be 37:31 with an EREP,

START. Stand by -

027 12 37 31 CDR MARK. EREP, START at 37:31. At 37; stand by -

027 12 37 38 CDR MARK. The RADIOMETER is ON. At 43, stand by -

027 12 37 44 CDR MARK. S190 went to ATUO. ETC to AUTO at the same
time. 37:55 is next. Stand by -

027 12 37 55 CDR MARK. 192 to MODE, READY. 38:37's our next mark.
We got a shift in tape speed, looking good. I got
a MALF light on magazine number 5.

PLT Okay. The Gulf of St. Lawerence is clear. I can

see the ice plumes. Gosh, beautiful. Got the
upper Gulf of St. Lawerence - probably.

CDR Okay. Coming up on 38:37.

PLT Okay.

CDR Standby for 37. Standby.

027 12 38 37 CDR MARK. 192 MODE to CHECK.

PLT Since we're probably taking data here anyway, I'm

going to put a - mark the DATA pushbutton, and
I'm on ice plumes right now, 38:46.

CDR Coming up on 38:54. Stand by.

027 12 38 54 CDR MARK. RADIOMETER's to STANDBY.

PLT Okay, I'm going to go to clearer area of the water.

027 12 39 00 CDR DATA MARK at 39 even.

027 12 39 03 CDR Okay, 190 READY light went out at 03. ETC to
STANDBY. 39 :02 coming up.

PLT Okay, now I'm going to go - -

027 12 39 12 CDR MARK. 190 to STANDBY. SHUTTER SPEED to MEDIUM.

FRAME's 55. 39:30 is next.

PLT 39:15 I started painting a snow and ice-covered

island - land area.
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CDR 39:30, stand by.

027 12 39 31 CDR MARK. 193 to XTNC L/R. POLARIZATION is 5. 39:42

coming up.

027 12 39 42 CDR MARK. RADIOMETER, OFF.

CDR 39:50's coming up.

PLT Okay, I'm going to use m_ l0 - -

027 12 39 50 CDR MARK. ALTIMETER is ON.

PLT Okay, l0 frames.

CDR Carried a MALF light on magazine number 5 all the

way through. That last pass with S190 got an
ALTIMETER UNLOCK light. Oh, 39 :58.

PLT Ahh. Come on.

CDR I missed a SINGLE; I got it at 10, 40:10.

f
PLT Ahh. Darned camera.

CC Skylab, see you at Canaries in 4 minutes.

CDR Okay. Still got an ALTIMETER UNLOCK, but still

have a READY.

PLT Okay, my c_mera is continuing to run, but it's

not clicking off frames. I don't understand that
noise it's making. I've cycled the POWER OFF and
ON about five times now on 191.

CDR Coming up on 40:58. Stand by -

027 12 40 58 CDR MARK. 190 MODE, SINGLE. 42:16 is the next mark.

CDR Ed, you said something on the intercom, and I didn't

hear what you said.

CDR Roger.

CDR Just got an ALTIMETER UNLCOK. Just lost the READY

light; it's going off at 25 - correction, STANDBY
at 25.
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027 12 41 h0 CDR ALTIMETER back ON at 41:40.

027 12 44 30 CDR Coming up on 44:33. Stand by -

027 12 44 34 CDR MARK. 190, SINGLE.

027 12 44 39 CDR ALTIMETER UNLOCK light at 39.

CC Skylab, we're back with you 9-1/2 minutes.

CDR Roger.

CDR ALTIMETER just doesn't want to stay locked up.

CDR ALTIMETER light's out at - on the hour - or on the

minute, I should say. I just turned it to STANDBY
at 03.

027 12 45 18 CDR ALTIMETER's back on at 18; UNLOCK light's out.

CDR There comes the ALTIMETER UNLOCK light again.

CDR Coming up on 45:51.

CDR Stand by -

027 12 45 52 CDR MARK. 190 MODE, SINGLE.

027 12 46 04 CDR ALTIMER, READY out at 04; 46:04. Turned it off

at 05 -STANDBY, I should say, at 05.

027 12 46 20 CDR ALTIMETER ON again at 20.

CDR Next mark's at 46:45. Got an ALTIMETER UNLOCK

light at 39. Stand by-

027 12 46 46 CDR MARK. ALTIMETER to STANDBY. RANGE is now going

to 78. 47:00 is next.

CDR Stand by -

027 12 47 01 CDR MARK. ALTIMETER, ON. 47:08 is next.

027 12 47 09 CDR MARK. 190 MODE, SINGLE.

027 12 47 15 CDR ALTIMETER UNLOCK light at 15.

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PLT Quite a change in sea state; it was pretty rough

there about 2 minutes ago.

CDR Coming up at 48:08. Stand by -

027 12 48 09 CDR MARK. SINGLE on 190. ALTIMETER READY light is

out. Going to STANDBY at 13.

CDR 48:38, Ed, we'll Want the ETC POWER, ON.

027 12 48 28 CDR Okay, at 48:28 the ALTIMETER's back ON again.

48:38. Stand by -

027 12 48 38 CDR MARK. ETC POWER, ON. 48:53 is next.

PLT Just saw a boat wake.

CDR 48:53. Stand by -

027 12 48 53 CDR MARK. S190 MODE to AUTO. Still got a MALF light
on number 5. ETC should be AUTO now. 49:05 is
coming up.

PLT Standingby for nadir swath.

027 12 49 06 CDR MARK. S192 MODE to READY. 49:30 is next.

027 12 49 12 CDR ALTIMETER UNLOCK on - is on at 12.

CDR Coming up on 49:30. We'll need an ETC STANDBY at

49:30.

027 12 49 30 CDR/PLT MARK.

CDR SHL_TER SPEED, FAST; ETC, STANDBY. Next mark's

at 50:00.

PLT ... few clouds - -

CDR Still got a MALF on magazine 5.

PLT Low, stratocu. Clear water.

027 12 49 50 CDR ALTIMETER, OFF at 50. READY light was off at 50

and I went to STANDBY. That was 49:50. At 50:00
ETC to STANDBY.

PLT ...
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027 12 50 O1 CDR MARK. 06 coming up, 12:50:06.

027 12 50 07 CDR MARK. 192 MODE to CHECK.

PLT Stand by - Atlas Mountains. ll, CAMERA, OFF.

CDR ALTIMETER 's back ON.

PLT Can't get stopped.

CDR It's going to have to come off again at 20, 50:20.

CDR Stand by to mark at ALTIMETER to STANDBY at 26.

027 12 50 26 CDR MARK. The RADIOMETER to STANDBY. 193 MODE to

XTC, plus 30. POLARIZATION is 1. 50:55 is the
next move.

PLT Okay, now I think I'm getting some Jet-stream

cirrus over the desert - sub ... jet. I'll be
pushing the DkTA button Just for kicks.

CDR 50:55 coming up. Stand by -

027 12 50 56 CDR MARK. SCATT_:ROMETER, ON.

027 12 50 58 CDR MARK. RADIOMETER, ON.

CC How does the COOLER sound now?

CDR It's still doing the same thing. Still cycling.

i

CDR Doesn't seem to be getting any worse now.

CDR Charlie 7 is reading - 58. Bravo 7 is reading

33. 51:35, Ed, ETC to AUTO. Stand by -

027 12 51 35 CDR MARK. 51:35. Next mark's at 52:00.

PLT Tracking up for a clear point in the desert. Wait

until I get to a zero UP/DOWN and then I'll let
the thing do a nadir swath across the cirrus.

CDR Coming up on 52:00_ Stand by -

027 12 52 01 CDR MARK. 190 - i REFERENCE is going to 2. Got a

191 READY on at the same time. 53:h5 is the next
mark.
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CDR I did not notice when the S191 READY light went
to off. It came on just as I was moving the
REFERENCE from 6 to 2. Still got a MALF light
on magazine number 5.

CC Skylab, we're 1 minute from LOS. Honeysuckle is

next at 29. That's 36 minutes from now.

CDR Okay. We'll see you then, Hank.

CDR Coming up on 53:45. Stand by -

027 12 53 46 CDR MARK. RADIOMETER to STANDBY. Correction -

SCATTEROMETER.

027 12 53 48 CDR Now the RADIOMETER to STANDBY at 47.

PLT 53:57. Okay. l'm going to go do the SI maneuver.

CDR Stand by -

027 12 53 58 CDR MARK it. SCATTEROMETER's back to ON again. 54:20's

next.

CDR Coming up on 54:20. Stand by -

027 12 54 20 CDR MARK. 192 MODE to READY. SCATTEROMETER to STANDBY.

54:55 is next. At 54:55, Ed, we want the ETC to
STANDBY. Coming up on 55. Stand by -

027 12 54 56 CDR MARK. SHUTTER SPEED to MEDIUM on 190. ETC to

STANDBY. 55:07 is next. Stand by -

027 12 55 07 CDR MARK. S1 - -

027 13 29 29 CC Good morning, Skylab. We're AOS Honeysuckle,

9 minutes.

CDR Good morning, Crip. The EREP tape recorder film

rem - tape remaining is 4.7 centimeters.

CC 4.7. Thank you.

SPT Morning, Crip. How's the crimson team doing this

morning?
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027 13 29 53 CC Oh, wide awake and alert and ready to go to work.

Say, I know I promised I never would do this to
you again, but because of the early EREP this
morning you never did get any morning news, and
l'm willing to attempt it if you're willing to -
listen at some time that might be convenient.

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I

027 13 30 l0 SPT We're all ears, Crip. Fire s_ay.

CC I was afraid that was what you were going to say.

PLT Yes, we've had our breakfast, Crip. We can stand

anything now.

027 13 30 19 CC I don't know. With me reading the news that's

quite a bit, especially after breadfast. Okay.
To start it out: With the energy crisis taking
its toll of jobs, the Nixon administration is
weighing a proposal to help workers hunt new
employment and relocate at goverment expense.
The government provided limited financial help to
aerospace workers hit hard by layoffs in 1971 to
explore job prospects and for moving expenses that
year. Although there's been no decision on the
new proposal, the Labor Department has already
put to work a number of other measures used in 1971.
Among them are an early warning system to provide
- advance notice on plant closings and computer
job banks to relay job opportunities thronv_hOut a
network of 2h00 state and Federal employment
service offices. Another item from Washington:
The Senate Watergate Committee has postponed a new
round of hearings scheduled to begin next week to
aviod prejudicing the trial of two former Nixon
Cabinet members. Chairban- Chairman Sam Ervin, Jr.
did not say when they would he rescheduled. A
one-sentence statement offered no explanation for
the action beyond the reference to the impending
trial of former Attorney General John Mitchell
and former Commerce Secretary Mauriee Stans.
Arab oil ministers are expected to debate the
future of the oil boycott against the United States
at a meeting of the orgainization of Arab petroleum
exporting countries in Tripoli and Libya next month.
The Arabs are split between moderates who advocate
relaxing the ban and hardliners who want to con-
tinue it. King Faisal of Saudi Arabia, holder of
the world's biggest known oil reserves and the
leader of the embargo, is one of those who oppose
the halt of the ban until Washington presses
Israel to withdraw from all occupied Arab lands.
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Democratic Congressional leaders promised to help

solve the nation's energy problems and called on
President Nixon to work as a partner.

027 13 32 16 CC They commented in response to President Nixon's

energy address to the nation a week ago. The
Democrats' reply was make in a nationwide radio
address by Representative John McFall, Democrat
of California, House Majority Leader. Here's an
interesting one. A well-dressed man in a pin-
striped suit walked out of Tiffany's well-guarded
5th Avenue jewelry with a diamond and ruby - ruby
necklace worth $45,000. The clerk said the stocky
man had taken off his overcoat and put it on the
glass showcase in which the necklace was displayed.
As he retrieved his coat, he reached into the show-
case and took the wreath-like platinum and gold
necklace. A photograph of the necklace adorns
the cover of the paperbat - paperback book, The
Tiffany Touch, a history of the store. Store
detectives ran after him but lost him in the crush
of shoppers. The detective commented, "You probably
couldn't get out of John's Bargain Store with a
pocket comb nowadays because they always have some
gorilla at the door, but you can walk out of Tif-
fany's and get $45,000. It's incredible."

027 13 33 22 CC Well, the luck of the Irish ran out last night.
Their juhilance in breaking UCLA's 88-game winning
streak lasted only i week. Last night in Los Ange-
les the Irish were no match for the Bruins. The
Irishwent down 19 points at the bell, or were down
19 points at the bell with the score 94 to 75.
And another little sports item: Joe Frazier and
Muhammed All will meet tomorrow night in a 12-round
rematch at Madison SquareGarden. The Garden is
sold out, and some 400 arenas and theaters around
the country will carry the fight on closed-circuit
television. Both Frazier and All are guaranteed
$850,000 each, but there is a dis - distinct possi-
bility that each man will - could receive as much
as $3 million about what they made on their first
encounter. I might even get in the ring for that.
But what both men want is their pride restored and
it can only be done in the ring and only by one
of them. We'll let you know the outcome tomorrow.
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027 53 34 23 CC That does the news. One item for CDR and PLT:
we mentioned practicing for TV-6 on the upcoming
M092 run today, and we're planning to schedule
you to do it on the VTR on day after tomorrow,
day 75. We expect that you may have streamlined
M092 procedures by now and the exact TV callouts
in your books and cue cards may not exactly fit.
If you'll Just spend a little time looking at the
pictures and notes in the TV Ops Book, we think
you'll see what the intent is, and you guys are
getting so smooth on TV that we're confident that
you can get the pictures we want without sticking
to the exact words in the checklist. And I believe
that's all I got for you right now.

027 13 35 06 CDR Okay, Crip. Thank you. And on the S190 film, we
could see no good reason for downloading the - the
S190 cameras and taking all that back to the film
vault so we left it loaded. Wonder if there's any
reason why we shouldn't do that?

CC We'll check it for you.

CC We'll look into it for you, Jer. The - the reason

it was originally scheduled was the couple of
passes through the South Atlantic anomaly, but we'll
check it out and see whether that's a real con-
straint or not.

CDR Okay.

027 13 35 56 SPT Say, Crip, I've been trying to find aurora out the
STS windows now for about three different occasions,
and I can see nothing. I suspect a good part of
it is that I'm not looking at the times when we're
either furthest[sic] south or furthest[sic] north.
I'm wondering if the people down there could figure
out the optimum times, not Just before sunset and
before sunrise. We can't be doing that every
orbit coming up here with a camera. If they could
figure out the optimum times and Which window to
be looking, I think we can stand a much better
chance of getting something.

CC We'll do that for you. That's a reasonable request.

Should have it for you.

SPT Thank you.

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027 13 36 56 CC Skylab, Houston. At anybody's convenience, we're

showing our DUCT 2 FLOW a little bit low. We'd
appreciate a confirmation on what your reading is
on board on panel 617 whenever you can get to it.

CDR We're showing h75, Crip. It does look low.

CC Oh, okay. I think we were showing something sub-

stantially less than that. So, it sounds like we
may have a little telemetry problem. 475, copy.

CC We're about 1 minute from LOS. Next station con-

tact is through Hawaii in ii minutes at 13:49.
We'll be doing a data/voice recorder dump there.

PLT And, Crip, just for your information, there is a

sort of a variation of about 5 to i0 psi, in that
DUCT 2 FLOW.

CC Okay, thank you, Bill.

PLT That's - cfm.

027 13 38 12 CC Roger.

027 13 49 28 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS at Hawaii for 9 minutes,

and we'll be doing a data/voice recorder dump here.

CDR Roger, Crip. And a question - on this TV-6, if

we get it set up and feel good about it, can we
go ahead and shoot it today?

CC Let me - you've got a GO for that.

CC Okay, we dropped out there a little bit. Don't

know if you heard me, Jer, but you've got a CO to
do the TV if you feel comfortable with it. And
regarding the film for 190, it's fine to leave it
loaded.

CDR Okay, great.

CC For CDR or PLT, also regarding the 190 film, we

• would appreciate at some time between the two passes
here to get a frame count on air-to-ground because -
primarilybecause of mag 5's problem.

027 13 51 39 PLT Okay, it looks good, Crip. The frame count as

follows: 0656, 2834, 0381, 9739, 1510, 0h47.
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CC Okay, real good, Bi]l. And during your pass -

during the EREP pass there was a comment made
regarding a cgmera being inoperative or something
not running film. Were you ta]king about the DAC,
or were you referring to one of the 190 m_gs?

PLT I was talking about the DAC not going off. You
know, sometimes the DAC on the VTS hangs up, and
when you turn the CAMERA switch OFF it continues
to run. It may or may not be working the shutter.
I had that problem today. It's the first time I've
even encountered it. I cycled the POWER switch
about five times; that didn't work. I finally
turned the POWER OFF and pulled the magazine off
and reinstalled it and it then started working
all right. It apparently was not moving a whole
lot of film because I only used 3 percent during
the pass and that was on that one short nadir swath
just off of Morocco.

027 13 52 49 CC Okay, and did it operate normally after you - I

mean after you put the mag in, did you have a
chance to have it cut back on and off then?

PLT Yes, I'd used up my l0 seconds of throwaway film

out on the desert, and it turned off properly
after that.

CC Okay, real fine. Thank you.

027 13 58 13 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from a 1-minute

LOS.

027 14 00 50 CC And we're back with you once more through -

Goldstone for 7-1/2 minutes.

027 14 07 51 SPT Hello, Crip. Are you with us?

CC Oh, going to lose you here in about 30 seconds,

Ed. We'll have you again in about 4 minutes
throu@h Bermuda.

SPT Okay. I'm just wondering whether you have enough

V_R on the ground of H-ALPHA 1 in its good state
and degraded state.

CC We'll check that out. We were just pondering here

whether it's going to be any problem with - we gave
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Jer a GO a while ago on the TV-6, and you're also

scheduled to do some ATM VTR stuff and we're
saying - making sure we can coordinate all that.

SPT Okay. We can probably work that out here as far

as coordination, but I just got a good H-ALPHA
picture now, and if you've already got enough of
it, I won't give you any even a smidgin.

027 14 08 50 CC We've got plenty of good H-alpha, so you don't

have to use the VTB for that. Over the hill.

027 14 12 36 CC Skylab, Houston, with you through Bermuda for

9 minutes.

027 14 20 2_ CC Skylab, Houston. We're i minute from LOS. We'll

have you again in 2 minutes through Canary. And
we show 26-1/2 minutes remaining on the VTR for
your use.

027 14 22 40 CC Skylab, Houston. We're back with you once more

for 16 minutes through Canary and Ascension.

027 14 26 05 CC SPT, Houston. Ed, would this be a convenient

place to talk about your aurora request or you
want to hold up until a little bit later when
you're not working ATM?

SPT No. Go ahead now, Crip.

CC Okay. In reviewing the situation down here looking

at this PGM 18 Charlie that you have, the - where
it tells you that you can't get the southern
hemisphere from sunset to sunset plus 8 minutes
and the northern from 8 minutes before sunrise to
sunrise, those are, of course, the times that you
are at max latitudes for picking it up. And what
we do down here - unfortunately we only have
observatories available to us in the northern
hemisphere, but when we pick up a report from
them of active aurora, we'll go ahead and give you
a call and tell you your next available GNT for
going up and taking a look at it. And, also, I
guess, - naturally when it's active in he northern
hemisphere it - there's a good possibility that
it's going to be active in the southern; so
we'll go ahead and give you corresponding times
to those. But we'll also try to select a window
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for you. However, I guess our past experience

has been that you guys usually ended up picking
up the best windows rather than us.

027 14 27 31 SPT Okay, Crip. That was our concern is that when we
would be 8 - in that 8-minute block we might not
be at a high latitude. And I'm wondering - it
would be useful if you just want to go ahead and
give us that information anyways from whatever the
particular times happen to fall during the day.
Maybe it'd only be two or three times and we could
come on up and take a look during that time, but
we could not do it every orbit, which is the way
it was working before.

CC Roger. Well, it - it so happens that I'm still

trying to puzzle out the geometry of it, but you
are high latitude at these times that we have given
you, with respect to sunrise and sunset; so- for
this day period that it specifies which goes through
day 78 now.

027 14 28 23 SPT I'm sorry, Crip. I had something going here.

- Would you repeat the last sentence,please?

CC Roger. I was just repeating what I'd said earlier -

that for the day period through today, through 78 -
the times that we have given you with respect to
sunrise and sunset do designate when you are at
the high latitudes.

SPT For any time during the day?

CC Yes, sir.

SPT Okay. Thank you.

027 14 37 39 CC SPT, Houston. Ed, you got a moment to jot some

number s down?

$PT Go ahead, Crip.

CC Okay. All of our discussion about aurora must

have generated some. All of a sudden we were
flooded by indications that we had sighted some.
To give you some next times down in the southern
hemisphere, at 14:44 to 15:02 would be a good time
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to look out. And iu the northern hemisphere,

15:28 to 15:36. I'm still trying to come up with
a window.

SPT 14:44 south and 15 - -

CC 28.

SPT - - 28 north. Thank you.

027 14 38 23 CC Roger. That's good, and we're about 30 seconds

from LOS. Next station contact is through Honey-
suckle in about 31 minutes at 15:09, and you guys
have about 20-1/2 minutes remaining on your VTR for
your use. Correction on that. We've got Carnarvon
at 15:05 instead of Honeysukle, so that's about
26 minutes away.

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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

027 15 04 44 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS through Carnarvon.

We have you for about 8 minutes. And for the SPT.
Ed, we went the wrong way with our 8 minutes in
giving you the max latitude on - for the southern
auroa. It so happens that you're still in the
time frame that might get it, though, and until
about 15:lO, and our recommendation for a window
would be S-3.

SPT Thanks, Crip.

027 15 ii ii SPT Houston, SPT.

CC Go SPT.

SPT Yes, Crip. I was able to get off two shots, but
one of the problems we have is that, in the south
we've got the ATM solar panel obscuring the horizon
and I was able to get a couple of shots through
F the open spaces in the solar panel, although they're
not too spectacular. And then up to the north,
when we're looking out these windows, we've got
the ATM itself blocking out the view. So, I think,
at this - when we're on this side of the beta -
that's the negative beta angle - it sure makes it
hard. When we had the positive beta - on the -
a little over a month ago or so, earlier in the
mission, gee, we had beautiful displays of it and
I wish we had all the film data at that time.

027 15 ii 53 CC Roger. Understand the problem. Understand you

could see some visible aurora this time. Is that
correct?

SPT Yes. It was a green glow above the horizon maybe -

well, I couldn't say how far across the horizon
it - it branched, because I couldn't say how far
across the horizon at all. It was not anywhere
near as spectacular as what we saw a little over
a month ago, about 5 weeks ago.

CC Okay, very good. Appreciate the info. Incidentally,

the handheld 170, the laser operations coming
up at 15:hl, lo and behold, Goddard is clear and
you're GO for that. Incidentally, we left the
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the solar angle off of that and it's off your pad.
It happens to be 28 degrees.

SPT Thank you.

027 15 12 45 CC Okay, we're about 30 seconds from LOS. Next station

contact is through Hawaii in 16 minutes, at
15:29, 15:29.

027 15 28 37 CC Skylab, Houston. AOS Hawaii for 4 minutes.

027 15 32 23 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 30 seconds from LOS.

Next station contact is over Goldstone in 8 minutes
at 15:40, 15:40. And as I see Jer working away
there on his - on the bike for 171, you guys are
GO for the EREP pass coming up. We are getting
some final weather updates here, but right now she
is GO.

027 15 32 49 PLT Thanks, Crip.

027 15 _0 59 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS through Goldstone. We

have you for about 5 minutes.

SPT Roger, Crip.

CC And, SPT, for your infor_stion, your phone call is

set up this evening at 01:50, and it'll be ANTENNA
RIGHT all the way. And we'll give you another
reminder of that a little later.

CC SPT, Houston. We show two GIMBALS on a STOP,

drifting out of attitude. If you can do the little
maneuver back, we would appreciate it.

SPT On my way.

CC You're pretty close; you may get a reset out of it.

027 15 h2 42 CC Okay, Ed, we show a reset. You can forget about it.

SPT I just hit STANDBY when you called, Crip.

CC Copy.

SPT Once it makes its mind up to do a reset, it presses

on no matter what?
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CC Let us check that for you.

!
SPT I did hit STANDBY and I didn't know whether that
had cleared it or not, but it looks as though it's
really steaming out to do a reset.

CC Yes, I believe it - it does go ahead and complete

the -the full process.

027 15 45 16 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from LOS. We'll

see you again in 2 minutes through Texas.

027 15 47 4B CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS through Texas at this

time. We have you for about 12 minutes. And at
Bermuda upcoming in, oh, about a minute, we're
going to be wanting to do a data/voice recorder
dump.

CDR Dump away.

CC Okeydoke. And for the SPT. On the laser, instead

of having it red this time, it will be yellow-orange.

SPT Thanks, Crip. Glad you told me that.

CC I figured you would appreciate that piece of

in format i on.

027 15 52 05 PLT Okay, Crip, we have it.

CC Very good.

CC Can you tell that it's yelloe-orange?

PLT That' s affirm.

PLT Okay, it just blinked and Ed's getting pictures.

CC Very good.

027 15 53 05 SPT We can still see it, Crip.

PLT We can still see it, Crip.

CC Roger, copied him.

SPT How many watts is that, Crip?

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CC Let me check it for you.

CC 1 watt.

PLT Roger.

SPT That's pretty impressive, Crip. 1/60 of a light

bulb; that's doing all right from this distance.

CC Yes, they really know how to concentrate the energy.

.......................... cC _'_ "_F_bm_what i_derstand I don't think you would

like 60 watts.

PLT Probably wouldn't be looking at it very long.

027 15 54 00 CC Roger.

CC Bill, while you're there, for this EREP pass

upcoming, we got a couple of caution and warnings
that we recomment inhibiting. That's a BAT CHARGE
LOW on 2, 3, 7, and 8.

PLT 2, 3, 7, and 8. Roger.

CC Roger.

027 15 54 33 SPT Still got it, Crip.

CC And you can really see it. You're out in almost

mid-Atlantic now.

SPT Okay, I've lost it visually, but I can track it

with 200-millimeter lens.

CC Roger.

027 15 55 46 CDR Still got it with binoculars, Crip.

CC That's fantastic.

SPT How far out are we now, Crip?

CC Oh, - pretty far. Let me see if I can get a

milege. Okay, I - -

SPT What I wondered is just how much that beam has

spread out at this distance.
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CC If you can see it now, we're in trouble because

it's off. (Laughter) But you're - you're out in
the vicinity of Bermuda right - right now.

SPT I was wondering just before they turned it off

what the beam width was when it finally ... - -

CC I'll see if I - Let me see if I can get it for you.

027 15 57 51 CDR Crip, the yellow-gold is not as easy to find as the

green is, but you can sure see it for a long ways.

CC Okay, that's a good comment. You were in excess

of 1200 miles there when they - when they turned
if off.

SPT I had it in the 300-millimeter lens up to just

about a little before they turned it off, probably
around 1000 miles.

CC Roger.

027 15 59 O0 CC Skylab, Houston. Incidentally_ for - in case you

guys start getting ahead today anyplace today,
although I haven't see where you would do it,
later on this evening we have Jer and Ed scheduled
to - to do some IR photos, and we would like to
change the subject from the CDR to the SPT. And
we'll reschedule for Jer and Bill tomorrow.

CDR Okay, Crip.

CC Okay, we're about 30 seconds from LOS. Next

station contact in 9 minutes through Ascension
at - that's at 16:09, 16:09.

PLT So long, Crip.

027 15 59 _5 CC Bye.

027 16 08 50 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS through Ascension.

We have you for 7 minutes.

027 16 13 21 CC For the SPT and the PLT, it looks like we confused
you a little bit on the way we wrote the plans
out. We had meant to schedule an _ only and we
see you doing OGI. We would like for you to go
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ahead and terminate the OGI and do the MS only

because we don't _have enough time to do both.

SPT Okay, Crip.

CC We got a keyhole coming up here shortly, and I'll

call you out of it. Incidentally, that same thing
is applicable this a - on this afternoon's 131 run.

027 16 14 08 SPT Roger.

027 16 15 09 CC Skylab, Houston. We're I minute from LOS. Next

station contact in 24 minutes through Carnarvon
at 16:39, 16:39. And for the SPT and PLT, just
in case there might be any confusion about it,
what we want today on the 131 is a full set of
head motions in each direction, or in one direction
first and if there's no problem, with it, then
reverse and go a full set the next way.

027 16 15 45 PLT Roger.

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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

027 16 39 05 CC Skylab, Houston; A0S Carnarvon, i0-1/2 minutes.

027 16 h8 39 CC Skylab, Houston; we're 1 minute from LOS. Next

station contact is Guam in about 3-1/2 minutes at
16:52, and Dr. William Lenoir is standing by to
chat with Ed a little bit there.

027 16 48 57 SPT Okay, Crip.

027 16 52 37 MCC Skylab, Houston through Guam for l0 minutes with

the ATM conference. Over.

SPT Hello, Bill. How are you this morning?

MCC Oh, not bad. One thing here, we'd like to rewind
the VTR here so we can dump it over the States
if that's all right with you.

SPT That 's great. Go ahead.

027 16 52 53 MCC Okay. A couple of words here on the Sun before

we get into some other things here. Prominence 77,
NOAA advises me that detection here indicates that
it is slowly fading. We still see a small amount
of material out between 0.08 and 0.13 solar radii
off the disk. No streaming is visible. A fairly
significant Doppler shifting is detected. We have
made no attempt to correct for rotation here,
though. What is detected is shifts greater than
1 angstrom to the red and also up to 0.3 of an ang-
strom to the blue, and that's at H-alpha. Then
I've got some words on the coronal hole that we've
been studying the last few days. I just talked
to Pat McIntosh just before I walked in here and
he showed me an interesting sequence of this par-
ticular region of the Sun starting in September with
some activity that he feels relates to the develop-
ment of this that triggered this X-event that we
saw in the SL-3 mission. A negative polarity bay
that was initially up north of there developed and
coalesced with another one and has then been
squeezed from the east by a stronger negative
polarity bay. And in between we had a positive
area that has apparently become the initial part
of the coronal hole at least and we have been
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able to see that - how we think it has evolved

over this time frame, and in addition, it is def-
initely related to solar wind as observed here at
the Earth, is that when the coronal hole is on
the front and on the west side we detect signifi-
cant solar _rind here and that's one of the reasons
why recently you've had more auroral activity to
look at. You might find that this is an interes-
ting thing to get more into when you get back
here. I mention it to you now because I thought
you'd be interested even though it is disappearing
over the west limb.

027 16 54 53 SPT Okay. You're saying that the there're open field
lines there and that allows the m-terial to come
out quite rapidly.

MCC Apparently that 's what 's happening.

SPT Okay. I'm surprised that it results from the

squeezing of - from both sides. I would think that
would tend to produce acti_-ity, but I guess the
activity is produced on either edge of it; that's
what - but not in the center.

MCC I think that's right. And I'm not totally up on

it myself, but it would appear that what was
squeezed in the middle wasn't very strong anyway
and may have Just formed a - sort of submerged and
formed a big, negative bay.

027 16 55 29 SPT Okay-. _u_ it %;as going over t-he-l_b-llere, it looked

as tl%ough it were getting pinched in two.

MCC Okay; fine. Let's see. Couple of words on today's

activities. You have an orbit that begins at
21:54 Zulu and Jerry has one beginning at
23:27 Zulu, and what's happening there is JOP 17A,
building block 28 that I'm referring to. We
scheduled an "if" on 82 Alfa. For 82 Alfa's syn-
optics for the day, they still want a LONG 1-minute
and a SHORT 20-second EXPOSURE. If we can get this
in concert with the JOP 17 studies, this would
help to give additional information about the
subject there, in particular, to supply 55 with
some collaborating data there. SO if these bright
points can be found _rithin a half solar radius of
the center, we would like to take these
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82A exposures one at a time, the LONG for you and the
SHORT for Jerry.

027 16 56 31 MCC If not, then we would go ahead and do them as

scheduled in the building block l, the following
orbit that you do. If either or both are obtained
during the 17A, then we want to delete that one or
both from the BB1, and I think our words say that
but I wanted to make sure that I brought it up.

SPT Yes. You said that on the solar activity pad,

but I've not had a chance to go through it in detail
and read the schedule. Does it say it there also?

MCC It says it there also, but I wanted to make sure

• that in case the words were confusing that we got
a chance to talk about it here.

027 16 57 Oh SPT Okay. So on one of the orbits, the first one, I

would take one exposure and Jerry would take the
second one, if the conditions are met.

MCC Right, and on the BBI then, you would have to check
"-- with Jerry to see if he took his or not. If he
did not then you would take it there. Otherwise
you would delete it.

SPT Okay.

MCC Also, we're doing the JOP 7 sunrise look-see for

82B here to see when it settles down when the
FINE SUN SENSORS have properly acquired and H-ALPHA
stops moving; and unless you've got some more
questions on that I won't talk any more about that.

SPT No, I don't.

027 16 57 39 MCC Okay. Then a look into the future. Tomorrow is

JOP 25 Bravo super-RASTER, and that will take
seven of the eight orbits we have scheduled for
tomorrow. The following day we will be doing a
JOP 13, and we will be using JOP 18 techniques to
do it since we do not have a star tracker any more.
The subject is Gamma Velorum, which is a magnitude
of plus 2. The reason for wanting to do it and the
reason why it's very important is that it has po-
tential implications for changing the way we would
design the LST for Shuttle. Apparently, between us
F
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and GAmma Velorum, the interstellar hydrogen has

been significantly ionized, removing most of the
atomic hydrogen so that we can have the potential
for seeing wavelengths below the hydrogen absorption
edge at 912, in other words below the Lyman continu-
ums here. Detection of radiation in the region 300
to 500 angstroms would be of great significance to
astronomy. There has been a tentative detection
below this. However, the - and it was a significant
detection, greatly above any optimistic predictions,
but the spectra of scattered light being the real
cause of what was seen is a possibility. Confir-
mation by an independent instrument would certainly
help. We know that scattered light is negligible
in S055 and on the basis of what was seen, 55 would
be able to detect it. So, we will be trying to
make this detection out there well below the Lyman
continum. We will be moving out and taking several
different rasters of observations, some of which
would be associated with looking at the radiation
below the Lyman continuum, other would be associated
with just trying to look at the integrated light
as best we could to verify that indeed we have
G_ma Velorum in the field of view. So, that's
coming up in 2 days and I thought you'd be inter-
ested in some of the background.

SPT Yes, I would, and getting that on the 52 - 55 field

of view is going to be a trick also. I - as you
know, in the JOP 18 we always were questionable as
to what we were really looking at; we didn't give
a strong enough signal to even confirm that we
really had the nucleus at any given time. I'd
appreciate any further thoughts you folks have on
how we can do that; if you've got any other stars
that would be in the field of view we could use
as a reference that would be very useful.

027 17 O0 i0 MCC Right now, it doesn't look like that would be the
case and I've got the Harvard people in the back-
room trying to come up with some numbers for ex-
pected counts, although I suspect this would be a lot
like the comet; it would be an expected count, plus
or minus several orders of magnitude type of thing.

SPT Okay, if we're looking at a count where - which is

like a half a count or something, then we're back
into the same problems we had before.
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MCC Right; understand. And, right now, I don't know

what it is, but hopefully, by tomorrow, I should
be able to tell you more.

027 17 O0 41 SPT Will it be a J0P 13 or JOP 18, in format?

MCC Right now, I believe, it's a JOP 13 in format,

although we're doctoring it up in the middle, to
have you come out reacquired in 52's field of view
and - and then recenter it after each of the rasters.

SPT Okay.

MCC Okay, I'm sorry. Crip, has Just corrected me. It

is to use a JOP 18 Delta J0P itself.

SPT Okay, that I think would be a little cleaner and

heater.

MCC Okay, fine. And then one last thing here on my

notes for today was, if you had any comments or
observations that you wanted to make about our
operations yesterday. We were all extremely pleased
_ here with the way things went and, from what we see
it looks like you worked super hard on it and prob-
ably worked more orbits than either you or we had
• initially intended. Just hope you enjoyed it as
much as we did,

027 17 01 33 SPT Yes I did, Bill. I enjoyed it quite a bit. When

you're able to home in on a given problem or given
set of problems, and not have to do three or four -
three - three or four different things in the same
day, I think it's a little enjoyable. First, I
was able to use the flexibility of not having to
come up with a J0P and a building block by number
and then go into the observations for those. I
knew what each instx-_m_nt wanted and what was on
the Sun and Just went into it with that and if I
could fit a name on it afterwards, fine; if I
couldn't then fine, too. And I think that's the
way we may be working more in the future, once we
can get set up like we did yesterday, Now the
way we were initially had been set up in Skylab
and the way we've been operating, Of course, won't
permit that. But, I think, certainly in Shuttle
we ought to look to that type of operation, ' " ..
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although having building blocks and Joint observing

programs written out I think is useful, and may
be used explicitly at some times; but we shouldn't
feel confined to it, nor should the operator.

MCC Okay, break i minute here, Ed. According to the

clock here, we're going LOS from Guam right now.
Goldstone is next in 15 minutes at 17:18, and we
can probably talk another 30 seconds here over
the hill.

SPT Okay, the other advantage I had was in the fluid

schedule. Had I been restricted to, say, four
orbits or five orbits, I would not have been able
to accomplish some of those things which ...
certain learning ...

027 17 03 04 MCC Break, Ed. You're disappearing in the static; we

can talk some more tomorrow about it and see if
there's anything we need to do in the future.

027 17 19 35 CC Skylab, Houston. We are A0S across the States for

15-1/2 minutes. Also - -

PLT Okay, Crip.

CC Okay. Also, we'll be doing a data/voice recorder

dump through MILA here in about 5 minutes and I've
got a couple of items I need to talk about. One
to Ed and one to Bill, if - whoever's convenient.
i

SpT Go ahead, crip.

CC Okay, Ed. On this upcoming Z-LV maneuver, we got

called out for you to initiate it. If you have that
pad or can get it, I would like to give you some
new rates. The ones that we have on there are
in error.

027 17 20 ii SPT Go ahead, Crip. I'm ready to copy.

CC Okay. Starting off with the maneuver to Z-LV OFF-

SET, X is minus 0.057, Y is plus 0.006; and Z is
minus 0.006. For the maneuver to SOLAR INERTIAL
attitude, X is plus 0.022, Y is minus 0.042, and
Z is plus 0.013.
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SPT Okay. Going to Z-LV OFFSET is minus 0.057,

plus 0.006, minus 0.006. Going to SI is plus 0.022,
minus 0.042, and plus 0.013.

CC Okay, and that's a good readback. For your infor-

mation, our _ run down here showed that there is
a possibility of a couple of more resets after the
EREP that we're going to do this afternoon. The
first potential one that will be around 21:50 while
you're at the ATM panel and I think we'll also
have ground contact so we can kind of be looking
at - at that situation again. If we - if you have
to take action on that one, there's a - a high
probability that we may get into one around 02:30,
normally when we're not talking to you, and we'll
keep you advised of - of that in case that situation
arises.

027 17 21 56 SPT Crip, if you see one coming up at the very begin-
ning of the orblt, as soon as you come out of the
dump, do you go ahead and initiate it then and
save yourself a problem during the ATM data take
period?

CC Normally, I think you are going to see it coming

right after the dump and - So that, you - you would
normally have a chance to take opportunity on -
take action on it, rather, before you really get
into the ATM stuff very - very much.

SPT Okay. Thank you.

CC Also, I was incorrect on that 21:50. We will not

have station contact with you but on the last one
prior to that, I'll remind you of it.

027 17 22 _4 SPT Okay.

CC Okay and if Bill is handy, a couple of - I need

to run over a couple of items with him too, please.

PLT Go, Crip.

CC Okay. Can you verify for us, Bill, that you did
INHIBIT those CAUTION AND WARNING BATTERY CHARGE
LOW that I gave you so we can go ahead. We're
going to in - inhibit the discharge limit on them.
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PLT Negative. I have not done that yet. I'ii go do

that right now, though.

CC Okay. Real fine. One other item before you go do

that I want to mention to you. You gave us a read-
out on the 190 mags and I guess it - the indication
is that it was still clicking over. However, that
is not conclusive and what we would like to do,
if you have an opportunity prior to that next
EREP pass, is to go ahead and take that station
5 mag off and mark a spot on it with a felt tip
pen and put it back. Do a - a single to see if we
can get it advanced and go back and take a look at
it to verify whether it did advance or not. If -
if it did advance, go ahead and reinstall it and
do a normal prep f_]m advance, and if it does not
advance, we want to go ahead and replace it with
a mag L-5.

PLT Stand by.

027 17 25 03 PLT Roger, Crip. Understand the check you want me to

do and if it doesn't turn out well, I'ii replace
it with magazine Lima 5.

CC Very good. Thank you, Bill.

PLT Correction - Okay.

CC Lima 5 is the correct one.

SPT Crip, before I get the Z-LV going here, why don't
I give you a short update on the Sun?

CC Please do.

027 17 25 30 SPT Okay. XUV MONITOR, we show up the active regions

which are called out, 21, 34, 36. 34 and 36 look
small, relatively weak compared to what we've seen
come across the disk previously, as we'd expect.
Also there is one up there at around 280.9, about
the same intensity. That's the one we mentioned
that may be coming over the limb, yesterday, and
that looks about as bright as 3h and 36. WHITE
LIGHT CORONAGRAPH shows a relatively small change
except that the streamers on the west limb are
not anywhere near as bright at the base and are be-
coming a little narrower, pointed, more sharply
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defined. We have one at 120, not quite radial bent

over, maybe heading ll0. A very small one at 095,
diffuse; a very sharp-pointed one at 085, and one
at 060. I don't see anything out there at 030 which
we've seen previous days. It doesn't show up in the
photograph or on the TV. A very sharp, elongated
helmet streamer at 270. The one which was at 260
yesterday, seems to have faded away. It's - I
should say the left side of - or southern side of
the one at 270 is rather ragged and that may be
it - the two of them coming together and you can't
distinguish them any more. But it certainly looks
like things have quieted down. We can Just see
the coronal hole now as it's right at the edge of
the limb and it appears to reach up to the north
from maybe 0.9 - take its northernmost part that
we saw yesterday, at, say, zero or 100.9. There's
a little channel going straight up toward to the
north, may be 0.1 radii; very thin, length to -
width ratio perhaps h, and then extends, of course,
further on south, maybe to one - 130 or so. I
think ve've got some reasonably good data on it
yesterday as well as this morning.

027 17 28 07 CC Okay. Real fine. Appreciate that - that rundown

on it. Afraid there isn't much action going on
there. From the picture that we have down here, it
looks like a big bowl of oatmeal or something.

SPT That's about it, Crip. Thereis a few interesting

things we can work on, but they're not the dy -
dynamic high-intensity type things you - that get
a little more exciting.

CC Roger. The famous Ed Gibson, "Quiet Sun."

SPT That's a heck of a thing to talk about.

CC I wouldn't do that. Well, I'll get off you back

here while you get this maneuver coming up.

027 17 28 _7 SPT Okay. 55 is still running. I'll Just stop them

andto to SI.

027 17 30 05 CC For the PLT; if you've got a moment, Bill, another

question I would like to ask you.

027 17 30 53 PLT Go, Crip.

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CC Okay, Bill. To get us an idea of how well that

191 cooler is- is working, it would probably
help if, when you're powering the thing up if you
can get a time from when you turn the power on
until the READY light comes on.

PLT Will do, Crip.

CC Okay. We'd appreciate it. Thanks very much. Also,

I got some weather for you, and we only got about
3 minutes left here and as slow as I am reading
weather, it'd probably be more convenient if I
give that to you over the upcoming Carnarvon or -
pass or through Guam.

PLT We'll just wait and get it at Guam, Crip.

CC Okay; fine.

PLT Those BATTERY LOW CHARGE lights are INHIBITED.

CC Okay; real fine. Thank you.

PLT 2, 3, 7, and 8.

CC Copy.

027 17 34 l0 CC Okay. We're 1 minute from LOS. Next station

contact is through Carnarvon in 44 minutes at 18:18.
We'll be doing a data/voice recorder dump. And
as we go over the hill, we've dumped a little of
the VTR and you've got 22 minutes available if
you need it for anything.

027 17 34 46 PLT Okay, Crip.

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SKYLAB AIR-T0-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

027 18 17 48 CC Skylab, Houston; we're AOS through Carnarvon. We

have you for 6 minutes.

027 18 19 49 PLT Crip, I did a check on the camera position 5 and

it ismoving film.

CC Beautiful; that's good news. Thank you, sir.

027 18 23 08 CC Skylab, Houston; we're 1 minute frc_ LOS. In

9 minutes, we'll have you at Guam and if you'd
like, I can read you a little bit of weather there.
That's at about 18:32.

PLT ... Crip; thank you.

027 18 24 31 PLT Crip, are you still there?

CC Yes, sir.

PLT Okay, I got the number on the 191 cooler for the
_ READY light. Itwas 28 minutes, hO seconds,
approximately.

CC 28 minutes, 40 seconds.

PLT 28 w_inutes.

CC Roger; copy. 28 minutes.

027 18 24 51 PLT Affirmative.

027 18 32 24 CC Skylab, Houston; AOS Guam, 4-1/2 minutes.

PLT Roger, Crip. And ready to copy theweather.

CC Okeydoke, I'ii make a - make a shot at it. When

you come across the California coast, it's going
to be pretty cloudy from - from broken to over-
cast. The valley, up in the upper regions where
you're coming across it, is going to be scattered,
around the Red Bluff area. Soon as you cross over
to east of the sierras, you're going to pick up
some high, thin clouds, broken - broken to over-
cast and that's going to continue all the way down

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to the Jackass Flats, Nevada. Walker Lake, tar-

get 145, is probably going to be broken to overcast
above it ; you may be able to see through it. It
might be kind of thin. From Jackass Flats - oh,
all the way to Tucson it should be fairly clear
so you should be able to get Red Lake, target 197,
with no sweat. On - From around Tucson, it's
going to - going to be broken - down to Monterrey,
Mexico, so Kathrine Playa, the site there, should
be - should be covered over. And then coming
down through Mexi - rest of Mexico and Central
America, it should be clear to scattered - all
the way down to the ITCZ and you should be able
to get the Volcano targets in Guatemala. Then
when you get to the interior of South America,
that's going to be pretty well clobbered; again,
pretty much overcast. Lake Titicaca is in the _rea
that is suppposed to be overclast [sic], but it
is - said that that - the lake itself is probably
going to be - be clear. Then the - Coming
across the north - northern Argentina, it will be
fairly clear until you get down around the coast
and you're going to pick up some overcast clouds
again.

PLT Roger. Sounds like we're still ... over the States.

027 18 35 41 CDR Crip, do we have any pictures of the volcanoes in

Guatemala in any of our - either handheld photo-
graphy book or in the EREP site book?

CC Oh, let me see if I can get you a quick answer to

that. We got about a minute left, Jer.

027 18 36 37 CC Skylab, Houston; we're about 30 seconds from LOS.

Next station contact is Goldstone in 18 minutes
at 18:55. And I'm not going to be able to give
you an answer to your question. Offhand, I'm
afraid you don't have anything on board. I'll see
if I can give you some information at Goldstone,
but you'll be in the pass then.

027 18 5_ 05 PLT That'll be at 19:03 even.

CDR Yes, we got a pretty solid overcast so far.

CC Sounds like we've locked up with you. We got you

for about 15 minutes through the States.
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CDR Roger, Bob. I'm seeing nothing but a solid over-

cast right now. I finally located those volcanoes.
I found a reference to them in the Earth observa-
tions catalog and found on the maps that we have,
the Earth observations maps, some little crosses
that show roughly where they are.

CC That's all you got. That's what I was going to

refer you to.

027 18 55 09 CDR Okay. I wish they'd have mentioned that in the -

in the pad. It would have saved me a lot of sweat
and strain looking for it.

CC Roger. Sure glad I didn't - Sure glad that - -

CDR I know I heard of them before because I had them

back on about day l0 or 12 or so, but it was
cloudy and I couldn't see them. But I couldn't
remember where it is I'd located pictures of them
or map coordinates or something.

f
PLT Okay, Ed, about 1 minute, at 56:50, we'll need
ETC POWER, 0N.

CDR Okay, coming up on Walker Lake. If I don't see

it immediately, I'm going to shift to Red Lake
and Just forget it.

PLT l0 seconds for EREP START.

CDR Okay, I see the California coast and the clouds

are breaking some.

PLT Stand by.

027 18 56 00 PLT MARK. EREP, START. 194 MODE to MANUAL. We're

off and running.

PLT Okay, another 30 seconds for ETC POWER, ON.

Stand by for 56:30.

027 18 56 30 PIT MARK. 56:30, SCAT, ON and RAD, ON.

PLT Okay, standing by for ETC POWER, ON.

027 18 56 50 PLT MARK. MODE POWER, ON.

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CDR Okay, think I got Lake Tahoe.

CDR No_ we're coming right over Ls_ke Tahoe.

PLT 57 :h3, on my mark, 190 MODE, AUTO and at 57 ._

50,
which is 20 secon%s off, ETC to AUTO.

CDE Son of a gun. _alker Lake is the only place

that's got clouds over it. It's socked in.

PLT Stand by.

027 18 57 h3 PLT MARK. 57:_3, 190 to MODE, AUTO and stand by for
ETC, AUTO.

027 18 57 51 PLT MARK. ETC, AUTO.

CDR Going for Red Lake.

PLT Getting MALF light on number 5.

CC Okay, guys, be advised, you do have an attitude

error right now, but as soon you get about 6 min-
utes into your Z-LV, you should correct it.

PLT Okay, stand by 5 seconds, 58:20.

027 18 58 20 PLT MARK. MODE, READY. And there we go; good green
TAPE MOTION light. Great.

CDR Okay, we got Red Lake loud mud clear.

PLT Okay, we got lots of good 192 data on that area

down there.

CC Okay, guys, be advised, we have an outer gimbal

drive going on currently. You got out at about
15-degrees-attitude error.

CDR Okay.

CC It should be correcting itself, though.

027 18 59 56 CDR Okay, it's still looking good here; out through
the VTS, anyway. Going for Kathrine Playa now.
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PLT Standing by. Yes, your cross-track angles are

probably all screwed up.

CDR Yes, it's kind of cloudy out here at Kathrine

Playa way.

PLT Okay, standing by for 35 seconds past. (Tone)

Okay, and there goes a CAUTION and WARNING. Stand
by.

CC That's - no sweat_ that's Just - Just a - -

PLT I'll kick it off in Just a minute. Stand by.

CC You're 20 degrees out, that's no problem.

027 19 00 35 PLT MARK. MODE to CHECK. Okay, I got a minute here;

I'm going to go punch that out. ETC to STANDBY
at 138, Ed.

CDR Okay, CROSSTRACK's the big error and that's going

to keep me from finding old Kathrine, I th_n_.
Scanning around.

PLT Get rid of the ice pick in the ear, anyway.

CDR Where are you, Kathrine?

PLT Okay, waiting for - -

CDR Okay, I got Kathrine Playa, but i can't - I don't

have enough gimbal to get there.

PLT 01:38; that's too bad.

027 19 01 21 CDR Son of a gun.

PLT ETC STANDBY at 1 plus 38; about 15 seconds, Ed.

PLT 191 REFERENCE to 2 - 44.

CDR Too bad.

CDR Okay.

PLT Stand by.

027 19 O1 42 PLT MARK. 191 REFERENCE to 2.

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027 19 01 51 PLT MARK. READY, out on the 190; MODE to STANDBY, and
FRAMES to 24.

CC Okay, look, we need one of you to break away.

We're still going out of attitude. Put in a
6-minute maneuver time and then a zero attitude - -

CDR I'll do it.

CC - :- maneuver.

CDR Okay. 6-minute maneuver time?

CC Roger.

PLT 02 :30.

CDR Want to go to STANDBY first, don't I?

PLT Crip, he wants to go to STANDBY first, doesn't he?

CC It - it doesn't m_ke any difference; you can go

whatever way you want.

027 19 02 18 CDR All right.

CC Yes, right ; go to STANDBY and then back.

PLT Okay. And I need to get an AUTO CAL here at

3 minutes. No sweat on that, I can get that easy.
• Back and make sure I haven't skipped anything.

CDR Back to Z-LV.

PLT MODE to STANDBY in FRAME 24. Okay.

CDR Okay, it's in, Crip.

CC Okay, this may not work. If it does not we'll

probably have to go ahead and terminate the - the
Z-LV.

CDR Okay.

CDR I went to STANDBY, put in 6 minutes maneuver, and

went back to Z-LV.
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PLT About 8 seconds to go in AUTO CAL, Jerry.

CDR All right.

PLT Stand by.

027 19 03 O0 PLT MARK.

CDR You got it.

PLT VTS AUTO CAL. Thank you. Okay - -

CDR Which way did we drift out, to - in roll?

CC That's affirmative; about X.

CDR Yes, it's too bad, is it roll to the right?

CC Minus X.

PLT Okay, about 1 minute for _C POW_H, ON again.

Carry on here until you tell us different, Crip.

027 19 03 hh CDR Minus X now.

PLT That would have rolled you to the south, wouldn't

it?

CDR Yes, is that right? Roll to the south, with the

error ?

CC Yes, that' s affirm. That 's affirm.

CDR Okay. That's why Kathrine Playa was clear over

on m_ left gimbal.

PLT ...

027 19 Oh 00 PLT MARK. h minutes then I'll tell you to stand by.

CDR I'll have to stay to the left to take these

volcanoes.

PLT Okay, Ed. Coming up l0 seconds for ETC POWER, ON.

CDR Okay, we're coming up on the Gulf of Mexico. What

I 'm going to do is Just track the coastline down
and when I get to - -
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PLT Okay; stand by 04:30, ETC to AUTO.

CDR - - the very bottom of it there which is - or

whatever that bottom part is, I'll Just cut across.

027 19 04 31 PLT MARK. ETC, AUTO. At 36, I want SCAT to STANDBY.

027 19 04 36 PLT MARK. SCAT, STANDBY.

027 19 04 38 PLT MARK. RAD, STANDBY. At 42, ... angle- Okay.

Angle right, and plus 30.

027 19 04 55 PLT MARK. ETC, STANDBY.

CDR Okay. I found the Pacific coast now. Let's go

down the Pacific coastline. How's the attitude
looking now?

CC It looks like it's slowly coming back.

CDR Good show.

CDR _ It'll be a miracle if I find them now.

PLT SCAT, ON and RAD, ON. I got those late because I

was trying to figure out that - we'll get 05:33,
190 MODE to AUTO.

027 19 05 33 PLT MARK. 190 MODE to AUTO. 05:40.

027 19 05 40 PLT MARK. I have a READY light on 191. REFERENCE

going to 6. And at 05:50, in about 5 seconds,
ETC, AUTO.

027 19 06 19 PLT MARK. SCAT to STANDBY.

027 19 06 23 PLT MARK. RAD to STANDBY. 06:32, Stand by for ETC

going to STANDBY.

CDR Okay. The clouds here are going from broken to

overcast. This is up around - -

027 19 06 33 PLT MARK. ETC, STANDBY.

CDR - - Cuilapa.

CDR Okay. I'm already past acquisition time for

Santiaquito and it's solid overcast.
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PLT Stand by -

CDR Occasional - -

027 19 07 06 PLT MARK. READY on 192.

CDR - - patches of broken - -

PLT Waiting for 17.

027 19 07 15 PLT MAP_. RAD, OFF. Waiting for 20.

CDR Maybe I ought to zoom in and look at some of the

holes in the clouds. Maybe I'll see a good - -

027 19 07 21 PLT MASK. ALTIMETER, ON.

CDR See a runway. Okay, let's see. ShOuld be over-

head at 07:49. Yes. I'm in the right area. We're
Just - we' re clouded over.

CDR Yes, l'm all the way into the left gimbal too.

-- PLT Standingby for 08:16.

027 19 08 17 PLT MASK. Okay, going STANDBY on 192. Okay, I got

a good shift down - ALTIMETER UNLOCK light at 08:30.

CC Okay, we're about a minute frc_ LOS. Next station

contact is through the Vanguard and that's at 19:19.
A little reminder, you do not have the correct
time in to go back to SOLAR INERTIAL now. That's
20 minutes, so you'll have to reenter that when
you do it. That should be during the Vanguard
pass and I'll give you a reminder there.

CDR Okay, thank you, Crip. We' ii certainly - -

027 19 08 56 PLT ALTIMETER to STANDBY. MODE to 5.

CDR Looks like the volcanoes in Guatemala are bln,mers.

There's Just too much - too many clouds.

CC Copy. And your attitude is looking good. You can

probably expect continued firing for desat.

PLT Waiting for 09 :l0 -

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027 19 09 l0 PLT MARK. ALTIMETER, ON.

CDR Bay of Fonseca is all clouded over.

PLT Waiting for 09:30. You should get a READY out on

190.

027 19 09 29 PLT MARK. It's - READY is out 2 seconds early. MODE

to STANDBY. Frame 50. Wow! 50. Okay, waiting
for 10:18. We're going to do ..., but I don't
know why we set that up like that.

027 19 18 50 PLT I need a VTS AUTO CAL.

CC Back with you for l0 minutes.

CDR Okay, I'm looking at those two big dry lake areas
down south. Lago - -

PLT 15 seconds to VTS AUTO CAL.

CDR Lago de PoopS.

CDR What time's that AUTO CAL?

PLT 19 :41, I'll give you a mark.

CDR All right.

PLT Stand by -

027 19 19 42 PLT MARK.

CDR Got it.

PLT VTS AUTO CAL. ETC to AUTO.

PLT Okay 21:14. 190 INTERVAL - -

CDR Okay, we're getting down into the wheat cotmtry

around Ascension. Got scattered clouds.

SPT ...

CDR Right straight below us?

PLT Stand by.

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027 19 21 15 PLT MARK. 21:14, INTERVAL to 20 on 190. And at 21:40,

ETC will be going to STANDBY, Ed.

CDR Okay, I've got the DAC going for the final i0 sec-
onds on some farmland out around Ascension and to
the east. Great looking country, nice and green
and lush; I bet that's really productive.

PLT Waiting for 22:27.

CDR Just crossed the Rio Parana.

CDR Wonder if the old Falkland Current can be seen

today?

PLT Stand by.

027 19 22 27 PLT MARK. SCAT, ON.

027 19 22 29 PLT MARK. RAD, ON.

CDR Now I can Just barely See the ocean.

PLT Waiting for 24 even.

CDR There appears to be a good deal of coastal blooming

here Just north of the Rio de la Plata - mouth of
the Rio de la Plata. It all looks like it's
coastal blooming. Now I see a big streak of it
north of there, l'm going to take a little DAC
picture of it and a few frames of data here.

027 19 24 00 PLT Okay, 190 READY light out and 194 MODE to MANUAL
and 190 - STANDBY at 19:2h.

CDR Okay, we'll look out to sea a little ways now and
see if we can find any - -

PLT Okay, start the SI maneuver at 19:25 which is

coming up in 45 seconds, plenty of time.

CDR A11 right. A little - few too many clouds.

PLT Ed came up and got the maneuver time, didn't he?

CDR Yes.

PLT 30 seconds.
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CDR Okay, I'll go on over there now. Give me a mark

at the time - -

PLT Okay, I'll give you a hack. lO seconds.

CDR Okay.

PLT Stand by -

027 19 25 00 PLT MARK.

CDR SOLAR INERTIAL.

PLT SOLAR INERTIAL. Okay, and waiting for 25:06.

CDR Let's take a look at the rates.

027 19 25 06 PLT 6, SCAT to STANDBY. 8, RAD to STANDBY, and EREP,

STOP. Okay.

CC Things - -

CDR Uh-oh - -

CC Things are looking good down here. Our congrat-

ulations on some mighty cool ops during at least
what was a confused - very confused period here
down in the MOCR.

CDR Thank you, Bob.

PLT Yes, thank you. We're -

CDR I'll tell you, our rates don't look too terribly
sterling. I guess they're headed in the right
direction. Y rates - yes, they're looking good
now.

027 19 25 hh CC Yes, they - they're looking fine to us now, and -

CDR Yes, they're - they're settling out. They looked

a little wormy right after I went to SI, but they're
looking good now.

PLT Okay, going into C&D post. Bravo 7 is reading 34.

92 DOOR going to CLOSE. Now, 26:10 and 27 ...
Close and latch window. Are you still looking
out there ?
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CDR No, there 's no problem.

PLT Just wondering if you _

CDR I was Just zeroing my gimbals,

PLT I --

CDR I hope mister S191 doesn't mind us using frames

here and there of his film to take targets of
opportunity. And also punching a DATA pushbutton
at targets of opportunity, but some of these things
you see, you kind of hate to pass up when you've
got all this kind of - -

PLT Yes, the tape's running anyway - it was voice

annotated - -

PLT - - I think that's what I was doing this morning - -

CDR - - pictures working.

CDR Yes.

PLT - when we were getting those ice plumes up there

in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. It's a shsme to pass
up a target like that. Okay, I'm going to finish
recording.

CDR Okay.

CC We concur.

PLT ...

027 19 27 12 CC Sounds too tempting; don't pass them up.

PLT Crip, the - the noise continued on the 191 cooler

or whatever it is, but it appears to be working
nominally.

CC Okay. Copy that. Hope it continues to do so.

027 19 28 09 CC We've got LOS coming up in about a minute and 1/2.

We have a pass at Tananarive at 19:47, about
19 minutes away. It's a pretty low elevation. In
case, for some reason, I don't see you there, we'll
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have you again at Goldstone about an hour and

6 minutes away at 20 :35. For your information,
all of your Flight Plans are on board if you -
if you have a chance to - to look at them, and
I'll probably talk to you a little bit about them
over the States. Your attitude mQmentum situation
is looking good and we don't anticipate any prob-
lems with it. You might keep an eye on - on your
maneuver back to SOLAR INERTIAL though. And I 'm
assuming that you do have that maneuver monitor
message available to you in case you need - do
get into gimbal problems again on the route back.

CDR Okay, Crip, and thanks to all you guys on the

crimson team for your support during the difficult
times there. It worked out great.

CC Thank you, sir.

CC Can you tell us if you saw Lake Titicaca?

CDR Yes, sir. Clear as a bell. 15 seconds of data

on each site.

027 19 29 28 CC Beautiful.

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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

027 19 47 45 CC Skylab, Houston. We're A0S through Tananarive,

3 minutes.

CDR Roger, Bob. And the EREP tape remaining is

3 centimeters.

CC Copy, 3 centimeters. And for your information,

during the - the pass back there awhile ago, we
ended up turning CBRM 5 on; so that's why your
lights are out if you happen to check that panel.

CDR Roger.

027 19 h8 51 CC And Jer, if you ever get a chance to look at - look

at your Flight Plans that we sent up, you're going
to see that we have a - a 183 alternate, and we -
to replace the S019. The - the reason we did that
was we've got that 183 mal coming up this after-
noon, and we're not, you know, surewhat the out-
come's going to be. If - if we can't get it
fixed, we'll go with 19; if we do get it fixed,
we'll go with 183.

CDR Okay, Bob.

CC Okay, we're going over the hill here, Goldstone,

20:34. And -

PLT Roger, Crip.

027 19 h9 46 CC Okay, that's about 45 minutes away.

027 20 34 54 CC Skylab, Houston; A0S Goldstone, 5 minutes.

027 20 39 ll CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 30 seconds from

LOS. Next station contact is through the Vanguard
at 20:56, and we'll be doing a data/voice recorder
dump. That's about 17 minutes away. Crimson
team will go ahead and say good afternoon. Be
talking to you tomorrow. The - for your informa-
tion, the handheld photos as per your discussion
with Story yesterday is - is on board and you
might have a chance to persue those and make some
co-,,ents, either pro or con, how you like it. Also
there was a 516 message for the CDR's upcoming
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71 Charlie photos that he's late - doing later on

this evening that is also in the teleprinter if
you haven't looked at it lately.

027 20 39 57 CDR Okay, Crip. Thanks very much.

027 20 56 22 CC Good afternoon, Skylab. Got you through the Van-

guard for i0 minutes. Be dumping the data/voice
here.

SPT Good afternoon, Story. How are you and your team
doing?

CC Ah, we're beautiful today, just beautiful.

SPT That's good to hear.

CC You near the STS?

SPT No, I'm not, but I can be. What do you want?

CC Like a REG ADJUST both - both REG BUSes at 35 de-

grees counterclockwise.

SPT Okay.

SPT How's that look, Story?

027 20 58 03 CC We're looking.

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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

027 21 05 _3 CC Skylab, we're a minute to LOS; about 15 minutes to

_.% Tananarive at 21:20. Ed, that REG BUS ADJUST looks .:
---_ good. And for Bill or Jer, could you verify that
the EREP COOLANT FLOW has gone to BYPASS already?

PLT That 's verified, Story.

027 21 05 59 CC Thank you, Bill.

027 21 23 38 CC Skylab, we're back :with you through Tananarive for

7 minutes.

CDR Roger, Story.

SPT Hey, Story, we've had the return spring on the

Mark I break again on us. We're going to have a
hack at trying to fix it up again. We don't have
a repair spring, but maybe we can ma_e the one we
have im there work if it's not busted close to the
_ end. The M516 folks wanted to get something on a
maintenance pad. They sent up "apermanent general
'," mess_e-sp-eci_-_-s-ome_-phBtos they want but the
transporter was left open. It was supposed to be
per pad, and I'm wondering if you folks could come
up with a transporter we could use for that.

i: CC Ed, could you - could you say that again? I - I

think - you're not coming through very strong
through Tananarive.

SPT How are you reading me now, Story?

CC I can make that. That - that's okay.

SPT Okay, the return spring on the Mark 1 is broken

for a second time. We want to repair it. M516
wants to watch maintenance tests with a DAC. They
sent up a permanent general message to that effect
but said the transporter would be specified on the
pad. Do you have a transporter we can use?

027 21 25 36 CC Okay,,we'll get you an answer to that. And Just 2

at the beginning of your next ATM pass, when you
get a% the panel right after the dump, we're antic-
ipating you may get a gimbal on the stop. And if
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you see the canJsLer cage and you start getting

off attitude, i'd like you to load a 3-minute tau,
go to STANDBY, and initiate a maneuver back to SI
by hitting SI.

SPT Do you think we eol_d do that as soon as we finish

the dump maneuver just to, avoid breaking up the
pass?

CC Stand by i.

027 21 27 53 CC Ed, Houston.

027 21 28 27 CC Ed, Houston.

CDR Go ahead, Story. He's listening.

CC Okay, that procedure of putting in a 3-minute tau

and reinitiating the maneuver back to SI - it'll
only help us out if we got a - a g_mbal on the stop
and we're off attitude. Also it's a low probabil-
ity that we're going to get into that situation.
So we'd prefer that he wait until the can - he sees
the canister cage and we get off attitude a little.

CDR Roger, Story.

CC And in terms of that M516, tell him transporter 06,

the film CI87. And he can find that in drawer A-3.

CDR Okay, we copy. Thank you.

CC Thanks, Jer.

027 21 29 4h CC Skylab, we're a minute from LOS; about 35 minutes

to Hawaii at 22:05.

027 22 0h h7 CC Skylab, AOS through Hawaii for 9 minutes.

CDR Houston, CDR.

CC Go ahead, Jer.

CDR Okay. Story, I finished the S183 malf procedure

and the little jumper works. We're in good shape.

CC Super, Jer; good news.

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027 22 07 f)6 CC Ed, llouston.

SPT Go.

CC Ed, your APCS is looking good. Assume you didn't

have to go through that procedure. And could you
reach over there and get on the CAUTION and WARN-
ING panel, all BAT CHARGE LOWs - get them all to
ENABLE?

SPT Okay, Story. I'll do it in a minute.

027 22 08 29 CC Jer, Houston.

CDR Go ahead, Story.

CC Jer, on your details at 23:34, that handheld photo

entry, that's a Hawaii current. And while I got
you on the subject of handheld, the scheduled hand-
helds that we'd like you to do - those'll all still
appear on your detail pads. All the ones that ap-
pear on the handheld pads - those are all optional.
So the scheduled ones will still appear on your
detail pads.

CDR Okay. Good enough, Story.

CC And let us know how that works out. And I see Bill
riding the bike so could you go down and turn off
EXPERIMENT RECORDER number 1 when you get a chance?

CDR Okay, I had it on for S183 in order to let them

see the cycle reset - the cycle clear out and I
just finished with it.

CC Yes, sir; thanks.

027 "22 12 25 CC Skylab, we're a minute to LOS. About 22 minutes

to the Vanguard at 22:34. Be looking to dump the
data/voice there. And Jer, we'll be ready for the
evening status report.

CDR What time was that again, Story?

CC That'll be at 22:3_ at the Vanguard.

CC Okay.
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SPT AI] BAT CHAR(IE bOW, (]AUTION and WARNING are EN-
ABLED, Story.

027 22 13 34 CP Thanks, Ed.

END OF TAPE

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I':l.tg' I <>1"'>/hOG1

SKYLAB AIR-Tc)-GROUND VO[CF, THANqCHIPTION

027 22 34 57 CC Skylab, AOS through the Vanguard for 9 minutes.

SPT : Hello, Story.

CC Hello, and we'll be dumping the data/voice here.

PLT Story, ready for the photo log?

CC Okay, Bill. GO on the photo log.

027 27 35 55 PLT 16-millimeter, EREP, VTS Charlie Lima 12, 65 per-

cent. Nikon: Nikon 01, Charlie X-ray 44, count 64;
Nikon 02, Bravo Victor 40, the count is 47;
Nikon 03, Charlie India ll5, coun_ is 65; Nikon 04,
Bravo Echo 10, count is 43; Nikon 05, India Romeo ll,
count is 38. 70-millimeter: Charlie X-ray 18,
count is 135. ETC: India Romeo 03, count is 62;
Charlie Tango 13, count is 67. EREP: set Zulu
0761, 2939, 0486, 9844, 1615, 0552. Drawer A con-
figuration: transporter 02, Charlie India 86,
05 percent, Charlie India 80; transporter 05, Char-
lie India 94, 18 percent, Charlie India 128. Alia
Alia 3: transporter 06, Charlie India inter 7 - 87,
count is - remaining 99 percent, Charlie India 79.
Alia 4; transporter 08, Charlie India 65, 99 percent;
Charlie India 81. In the DAC: transporter 07,
Charlie India 129, 65 percent, Charlie India 78.

CC Thanks, Bill.

027 22 38 12 CDR Okay, Story, with the evening status report. CDR:
sleep, 7.0, 6 heavy, 1 light; SPT, 7.0, 6 heavy,
1 light; PLT, 6.0, 6 heavy. Volumes: 280, 160,
420. Water gun: 8863, 4896, 1640. Body mass:
6.315, 6.316, 6.314; 6.403, 6.399, 6.405; 6.255,
6.255, 6._55. Exercise: CDR, no change; SPT, stan-
dard, minus Bravo -method Bravo; PLT, standard,
plus l0 minutes extra of Alia, and minus Bravo.
C- Medication: CDR, none; SPT, none; PLT, 3 Acti-
fed as directed. Clothing: CDR, socks and shorts;
SPT, none; PLT, shorts, socks, T-shirt, and a shirt.
Food logs : CDR, zero salt, minus one coffee with
sugar, plus 1.0 rehydration water; SPT, ll.5 salt,
plus a lemonade, zero rehydration water; PLT, 7.0
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salt, plus one grape drink, zero rehydration water.

Flight Plan deviations: none. Shopping list ac-
complishments: SMMD and BMMD photos were done last
night. Inoperable equipment: Mark I exerciser re-
turn spring broken. SPT is repairing. S183 malf
complete and successful. Unscheduled stowage: none.
That's it.

CC Thanks, Jer. And a little clarification on that

handhold photo: that optional at 23:34 should read
handheld 30. That's Observe the boundaries between
the North Pacific Currents and North Equatorial
Current.

027 22 40 17 CDR Okay, understand handheld 30.

CC Yes, sir; at 23:3_. Cross out the handheld 32.

CDR Okay. And two other comments to - might add here.

Number one, the radiation survey meter is not in-
dicating. We suspect we have a bad battery on that.
So, let's add that to inoperable equipment. And
the people - the urine people who _re interested
in the volumes and everything, there's a special
message for them on tape at 13 - correction, 18:10
Zulu.

CC Thanks, Jer. And, Jer, I guess you asked Bob Parker

to get you an analysis of your time line and how
your work was coming along. And I've got that for
you.

027 22 41 14 CDR Okay, go ahead.

CC Okay, the plan for SL-2 and SL-3 was approximately

24 man-hours per day of science and other mission
required events. The pran - the plan pre your mis-
sion was approximately 28 man-hours per day after
mission day 20. That was based on the SL-3 per-
formance for their last month. At present, you're
running 27.5 man-hours over the last I0 days. And
considering that you're getting 1-1/2 hours of PT,
you're working exactly the same as SL-3 was during
their last month. And these man-hours are based
on experiments and other mission required documents.

CDR Okay; thank you, Story.

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027 22 43 03 CC Jer, Houston.

CDR Go ahead, Story.

CC One more thing to clean up on the evening status

report. The extra grape drink that Bill had, was
that Apollo or Skylab grape drink? _

CDR That was Skylab.

CC Thanks. And we're a minute from LOS; about 15 min-

utes to Tananarive at 22:59. And Ed, were you able
to locate a - a spare spring for the Mark I
exerciser?

027 22 43 43 SPT That's negative, Story. But the one which broke
previously broke pretty close to the end and amounted
to just losing about an inch out of, oh, maybe
7 inches or so. And we're going to try and make
it work this way. Just screwing the spring back
on to the reed - the plastic insert. I'm able to
do that and I'll just coil it up a little looser
than we had it before and see how it works.

CC Okay, we couldn't find you a spare from down here.

There is an exerciser repair kit in W-700.

CDR Yes, we have that Story. We repaired this Mark I

on about day 20 or something like that and decided
to save the spring since only about an inch of it
was broken off. And it looked like it was maybe
a good thing to do.

027 22 h4 26 CC That was a good move and shades of Pete Conrad.

027 23 02 05 CC Skylab, AOS through Tananarive for 2 minutes.

027 23 02 42 CC Skylab, we're about a minute and a half to LOS.

The med conference will he coming up at Hawaii in
about 40 minutes at 23:41. Be dumping the data/
• voice there. The next•time we'll see you will be
the Vanguard in about an hour and 15 minutes at
00:13.

CDR Roger, Story. And I got a question for the photo

people, if you can answer it real quick. Bravo
Echo i0 is loaded into Nikon Oh now, and the S063
pad has got us taking that one out and reloading
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Bravo Echo ]l. And I don't [,hink that makes a

whole heck of a lot of sense. I'd like to go
ahead and use Nikon Oh with the film it's got in
it. I think all of this uploading and download-
ing of film is a dangerous practice, and we're
going to lose a roll if we don't quit it.

CC Okay, we got that. And we'll get you an answer,

Jer.

027 23 03 32 CDR Okay, you might - if you don't contact us your-

self, you might pass the word through the medical
officer.

CC Okay, and I got one other change to the film

thread pad. And that's load CII16, located in
H-8, into Nikon 03.

CDR Will do it.

CC Okay.

CC Jet, we show you out of film on BE-10 from down

here.

CDR Okay, Story. I may be out of line on that. We'll

chec_ it.

CC Okay, we'll do the best we can. We show you out

of film on BE-10 and suggest loading Nikon 04
with BE-If. And you can find that in H-27.

CDR Roger, thank you.

CDR Story, the deal is, I thought Bravo or Nikon 04

was one of the two that he just special loaded
this morning.

027 23 05 41 CC Copy, Jet.

027 23 25 28 CC Skylab, we're back up with you through Hawaii for

6 minutes.

CDR Roger, Story.

CC Jer, do you recall what the tape measurement on

the EREP was this morning?
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PLT 3 centimeters.

CC 3, thank you.

CDR Story, do you mean on the early one? On the

early rerap - EREP, I aired-to-grounded it down.
I think it was 4.7.

CC The last one is the one - the one we wanted;

thanks.

PLT Are you going to follow ... ?

027 23 50 08 CC Skylab, we're a minute to LOS. The next station,

the Vanguard in about 23 minutes at 00:13. And
for Ed or Bill, there's another radiation survey
meter used on a previous mission in F-554.

PLT 554 ; thank you.

027 23 50 27 CC Okay, Bill.

END OF TAPE
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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

028 O0 13 O_ CC Skylab, AOS through the V_,a_d for 9 minutes.

CDR Roger. Starting the maneuver.

CC Okay.

CC And you're looking good so far.

028 O0 21 2h CC Skylab, we're a minute from LOS, about 8 to

Ascension at 00:29. Your APCS is looking good
and you got a good m,-euver time.

028 00 21 37 CDR Roger, Story.

028 O0 29 50 CC Skylab, back with you through Ascension for a

short pass, 3 minutes.

PLT Are you calling someone, Story?

CC No, sir. But got I - since I got you, Bill,

could you verify that the - the EREP tape was
3.0 centimeters?

PLT That's affirmative, 3.0 centimeters, 1-3/16 inches.

028 00 32 29 CC Skylab, we're a minute from LOS. _ Next station's

the Vanguard in about an hour and 15 minutes at
01:50. We'll be planning to dumping the data/voice
there. We're showing that the OUTER GIMBAL on
CMG 3 is on and off of the stops. You may get a
reset and no other action's required.

PLT Okay, Story, thank you. And it's Just sort of

puzzling. You know, we did have two short bursts
of 192 on this second EREP. And we were Just
wondering if you had reason to suspect that we did
not get all the data on tape we should have, or
we should're used more tape than we did.

CC Yes, sir. We expected you to use about 500 more

feet than that 3 centimeters would dictate.

028 O0 33 13 PLT Okay, next time I - I'm in the MDA, I'm going to
check that. But two of us looked at the measure-
f merit, so I feel fairly certain that it's correct.
However, I will recheck it.
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CC Okay, thanks a lot. We are planning tomorrow's

run on 3 centimeters though, Bill.

PLT Okay, I won't bother to call unless I find an error.

CC Okay, thanks. And for Ed, over the Vanguard, his

phone call will be coming up and it's ANTENNA right.

PLT Roger on that.

CC And you will be getting a CMG reset here, Skylab.

028 O0 3_ 28 PLT Okay.

END OF TAPE
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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

028 01 50 33 CC Skylab, we got you through the Vanguard for

ii minutes.

CDR Roger, Story.

PLT Story, PLT with some questions on housekeeping

71 Charlie.

CC Okay, go, Bill.

PLT Roger. I had no trouble finding the canister

which was on our mission because I took it out.
The - if you have the pad there for housekeeping
71 Charlie - let me read very briefly; that -
that'll do it. Obtain one can from each of the
below categories: Sky - SL-3, midm_ssion, both
red and silver tape on crinkle finish. I can
find no canister which fits that description.
Bravo, SL-3 end of mission, red tape on name plate.
I can find three canisters which qualify for Bravo.
So I have no canister which qualifies as an Alfa
category and I have three that qualify as Bravo.
If you can give me serial n_n,bers, I'd be grateful.

028 01 51 53 CC Copy, Bill.

PLT We got everything set up and l've already sampled

our own canister, but l'm holding off for a serial
number on these other two so I don't bring back
erroneous data.

CDR Houston, CDR.

CC Go, Jer.

CDR Roger, Story. This is precisely the problem that

we've been afraid of on the deactivation or the -
the wind-down phase of this Mission and that is
we get caught in snags like this that Just eat
up the time like mad, and that's why we want to
get all this stuff done early. And I hope this
will show some of the folks down there that this
is a good case in point, that things are not al-
ways stowed Just exactly the way they expected.
_-. And there's a lot of researchha@ to be done and
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we can get burned if we don't get this - this

kind of thing done early. So if they have any
more little jobs like this, we would very much
like to get them soon so if there are glitches
we can - we'll have time to work them out.

CC Okay, Jer.

028 01 54 58 CC Ed, Houston.

028 01 57 55 CC Skylab, we need the DAS here for an outer gimbal

backup.

CC And, Skylab, we're trying to make this the last

pass for the night, if you could give u_ the ATM
FRAMES REMAINING.

PLT And, Story, if you don't get the information, then

I think that probably you ought to resehedule
housekeeping 71 Charlie when you can give us the
correct information.

CC Okay, Bill. The best I can give you right now is

we've got no serial n1_,her identification. The
only kind of clue I can give you is that silver
tape was used to help tie down the red tape on
those canisters. That's the only help I can give
you right now.

028 01 59 12 PLT Well, it wasn't silver; it was gray and three of

them are like that.

CC And is that tape holding down red tape?

PLT That's affirmative. And there are no canisters

with silver tape on anything other than the - the
inlet and outlet port. All of them have either
red tape or gray tape and there are three of them
that have red tape over the name labels and gray
tape holding that red - piece of red tape down.
The red tape doesn't hold on too well; that's
why they did that.

028 01 59 42 CC Okay, I think we'd call those Alfa canisters.

PLT I assumed that there was one in particular that

had the - the phase of the mission that was criti-
cal and there are three of them that are - that
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are taped identicaly. One other additional bit

of information which may help; one of the canis-
ters - the exterior finish is shiny black paint
and all the rest of them are a dull matte-black
finish.

CC Thanks, Bill.

028 02 00 _3 CC And we're a minute from LOS now. Ascension is

about 3 minutes down the road. We'll make Ascen-
i_ sion our last pass for the night.

_28 02 0_ 31 CC Skylab, back with you through Ascension for

l0 minutes.

PLT Hey, Story, PLT. I got a suggestion.

CC Go, Bill.

PLT Let me sample all of these canisters. It's more

work, but I think it'll take less time in the
long run if I do it. And I - maybe the chemical
anal - I can identify them with - by the serial
n_her which is the only thing I have to go by
and perhaps they can do something with the chemi-
cal analysis later.

CC We'll get with you.

028 02 07 57 CC Jer, Houston.

CDR Go ahead, Story.

CC Jer, we're still working this 6-cycle-per-second

problem in your co,_ and we've got about three
alternatives we can take now. One of them is
about a 20-minute procedure that we've worked up
where with a cable we bypass the voice recording
amplifiers and we hard wire the microphone BUS
to the recorders, and this way you can record
even with the AUDIO BUFFER 1 circuit breaker
opened. A second possibility is to ground - is
to share channel A with the ground in recording.
The third possibility is to do nothing and we'd
like to get a feel for which way you'd like to
go.

r
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CDR Well, I think the jumper cable sounds the most

promising. What kind of cable would we be using?

028 02 09 04 CC It's a cable that you got on board that's speci-

fically designed to do that task, Jer.

CDR Okay, why don't you schedule it and send us up a

pad on it and we'll get it done.

CC Okay, we'll send the procedure up to you and you

can take a look at it. If you want to change your
mind then - we think it's a good way to go.

CDR Okay, good enough.

CC And for tomorrow's wakeup, you're scheduled to get

up at about ll, I can offer you a wakeup either
l0 minutes early at Tananarive or l0 minutes late
at Honeysuckle.

CDR Okay, why don't you make it l0 minutes late and

we'll send - we'll set up our alarm clock.

028 02 09 47 CC Okay, and you can tell Ed his ATM closeout looks
good here and - all we got left is an ATM FRAMES
REMAINING.

CC Bill, Houston.

CDR Go ahead; he's listening.

CC Okay, we don't have anything better for him on

those canisters than what he suggested and that
is to sample all of them, and as he samples, take
down anycharacteristics that he can such as shiny
black or dull black, and tape configuration -
that's onthem - and the serial number and we'll
pull it together when we get on the ground.

028 02 ll 05 CDR Okay, I think Ed's doing some night photography

or something; I'll go up and get the frame count.

CC Thanks, Jer.

CDR Okay, - here's the frame count starting with

H-ALPHA 7979, 85555, all balls 8, 00024, 898, and
260_.
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CC Thanks, Jer.

CDR Story, how does the EREP C&D COOLANT loop look to
you? It - pump sounds kind of puny.

028 02 12 39 CC Jer, it is about 20-pounds-per-hour flow lower

than it was yesterday and Just over the Vanguard
about 20 minutes ago, we had a couple of glitches
where it dropped off l0 pounds and then came back
up to normal again,

CDR You want "to swap pumps ?

CC No, sir, it's fine where it is.

CDR Okay.

CC We think there's gas in the fluid, Jer, and chang-

ing p11m_ wouldn't help us out any. And also the
more gas that's in there, the quieter it seems to
be.

CDR Well, that's true; it is quieter.

CC That's really a thing we got going to let y'all

sleep better.

028 02 13 h4 CDR You're all heart.

CC And speaking of sleep, we're about 40 seconds to

LOS here and we're not going to call you again.
If you need us, the next station is Guam in 35 min-
utes at 02:h8.

CDR Roger, Story, good night.

028 02 lh 04 CC Good night, Jer.

028 02 55 59 CC Skylab, Houston through G1_am for 3 minutes.

PLT Story, on this 70 Charlie, we've sampled five of

the canisters. The only one we didn't sample was
from - the second one that we knew came from our
flight. So we'll bring back five of them. They're
identified by serial number and the best physical
description we can give of the can and also the
way it was taped and marked.
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CC Okay. Thanks, Bill. We didn't want to call you

this station _but CMG number 3, the outer gimbal's
on and off the stops continually in here and
you'll probably get a reset in here, We think
that problem will take care of itself after the
next nightsi_e idump.

SPT Thanks _ Story.

028 02 57 08 SPT Hey, Story, bow's _- bearing 2 looking? Is that

just about holding stable?

CC We're about 30 seconds to LOS here. CMG number 2,

those bearings have appeared to reach a new
plateau. They haven't degraded any or changed
their perimeters any in the last few days.

CDR Thanks, Story. They may go on for months and

months.

CC And good night again. The next station, we won't

call you, is the Vanguard at 03:27.

SPT Good night, Story and team.

CC Okay, Ed. See you in the morning.

MCC Good night, Ed.

028 02 58 32 SPT Night, Bill.

END OF TAPE
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REST PERIOD - NO COMMUNICATIONS

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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

028 ii I0 46 CC (Music)

028 ii 12 14 CC Skylab, Houston; good morning from the bronze

team. We're about BO seconds from LOS, we'll see
you at Goldstone at 38.

CDR Good morning.

028 ll 12 31 CC I guess I ought to make that the bright team. We

have the bronze team with the white flight
director.

CC (Music) -

028 ii 38 53 CC Skylab, Houston through Goldstone for i0 minutes.

SPT Hello, Hank. What's new in the news_

CC Okay, I've got a little bit here for you. Saudi

Arabia's oil minister said King Faisal was con-
sidering cutting the Saudi oil prices because of
concern over international trade. The minister
Said the monarch was worried that recently
hiked prices might contribute to balance of pay-
merit problems in both the industrialized and
underdeveloped nations. Pope Paul VI declared
a 19th century Spanish nun a saint of the Raman
Catholic church. The new saint, Teresa, forgive
me on this one, Jornet Ibars, founded the Little
Sisters of the Poor and the Aged, an order of nuns.

028 ll 39 hh CC And here's another name I may have trouble with,

Fr-nk Ikard, the president of the American Pet-
roleum Insstitute, said Sunday he did not think
gasoline prices will reach the $1.00-a-g_11on
level predicted by same people. He said he hoped
rationing wou_d not be necessary although gasoline
supplies will be tight through early s_._r. Ik-
ard made these statements during a weekly Meet
the Press program on NBC. And in Brisbane, Aus-
tralia, and you might look for this sometime
tods_, aircraft pilots have reported that the
Gulf of Carpentaria and five major river systems,
swollen by recent record rains, have merged into
an inland sea 200 miles wide. Austr_1_a, like
f
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the Houston area, has had heaven - heavy rains

this month. Mqre _than 32 inches have fallen on
Brisbane, and more is forecast.

028 ll 40 33 CC Saint Patrick's Day never had much impact on Po-

cahontas, Virginia. It will this year for Dr.
Peter O'Dwyer _as arrived. The tiny coalfield
ccm-_unity hasn't had a doctor in residence for
more than a yie_r until O'Dyer - 0'Dwyer arrived.
A grateful mayor said, "We looked everywhere; we
went to the National Health Services, state
agencies, eve r_here," except Dublin, Ireland.
That's where O'Dwyer practiced last. He heard
of the Pocahontas plight; paaked up his lock,
stock and stethoscope and matriculated to Appa-
lachia. The nation's first m_datory gasoline
rationing program goes into effect today in
Hawaii. The program is based on an odd-even li-
cense Plate concept. Cars with odd-numbered plates
can fill up on odd-numbered days. Those with even-
numbered plates get gasoline on even-numbered days.
The weekend saw lines of autos several blocks
long waiting to fill up before the rationing
started. In Indianapolis, the burglar alarm went
off. Police rushed to the scene and found two
men standing over blood soaked bodies. "Freeze,"
said the cops. The shivering gunmen froze and
their victims Sat up. It turned out that the
gangsters and their targets were students making
a movie for a class project. It %311 never be
the same at the Brebeuf Prep School.

028 ii 41 48 CC In London the State-rum gas industry is urging

couples to save fuel by sharing a bath. The
Gas Board has issued• an advertisement showing
a man and woman in a tub captioned, "Put a bit of
romance in your bath." "Vulgar," Cries one law-
maker; "I 'm shocked," cries another. And how
about the bathers? Well, none are available for
cn--,ent. Congress faces a busy legislative sched-
ule in the coming week. But it will be interrup-
ted by the President's State of the Union message.
President Nixon will address a Joint session of
Congress and the nation via TV a£ 9:00 p.m. Wed-
nesday. He will have - outline his legislative
program, and try to convince the public his ability
to govern has not been crippled by the Watergate
affair. And in sports I have one score.
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028 ll 42 34 CC The Houston Aeros knocked over Vancouver 4 to 2 in

hockey Saturday night, and I think they played
last night but I haven't been able to get that
score yet.

CDR How are the Aeros doing this year, HAnky

CC Oh, they're doing great. They've got the best

statistics of any of the teama in the World Hockey
League and they're right on top in our division.

CDR Very good.

028 ll 44 50 CC And I have that score from last night. Houston

Aeros beat the Edmonton Oilers 4 to 1.

CDR Good show.

028 ii 56 24 CC Slqflab, Houston. We're 1 minute from LOS. We'll

see you again in 5 minutes at Canary Islands at
01, and we're scheduled to dump the recorder
there.

028 ll 56 34 CDR Okay, H_k.

028 12 01 45 CC Skylab, Houston through Canaries for 9 minutes,

and we need the recorder for dump.

CDR Okay.

028 12 08 50 CC PLT, Houston. Are you free to listen up a minute?

PLT Go ahead, Hank.

CC Bill, we were looking at the dump tapes and in

regard to your operation with a RSM survey of
film vault on, I guess it was yesterday, and we
think that that meter you used yesterday's pro-
bably operating normal. What happens, we made
an error in your details and didn,t - and we told
you it was non-time critical when indeed it was.
It should've been done in the - in the - the
radiation zone there and it wasn't, And we think
that not getting any response from it is certainly
proper. And we think the meter's okay.
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PLT Okay. Fine and how about shipping me up a real

quick pad and _'ii try to work it in today. That'll
give me the - some time.

CC Okay. We'll see what we'll do.

028 12 09 49 CC And, Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from LOS.

We'll see you again a - at Honeysuckle at 46 and
that's 36 minutes from now.

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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

028 12 46 17 CC Skylab, Houston through Honeysuckle for 9 minutes.

SPT Hello, HAnk.

CC Was that you, Ed?

SPT That's affirm, Hank. How are you doing this

morning?

CC Oh, pretty good. How about yourself? We got a -

hey, while I got you here, we sent up a - ATM sched-
ule update, which you probably saw there, message
nigher 7438 Bravo. And it affects your two ATM
passes. I think you're well aware of-what we're
trying to do on J0P 7, and this pad here will
help you get the data we need in order to do JOP 7
tomorrow. That's our last chance tomorrow at it.

SPT Okay, Hank. Sorry we didn't get it last night,

- but I'll talk with Bill Lenoir a littlebit more
about it. I have not seen that update yet. I've
been working Mll0.

CC Okay. Just wanted to make you aware that it was

there.

028 12 48 26 PLT HAnk, PLT.

CC Go ahead.

PLT Couple of quick items, Hank; First, one of the

reasons that I thought that the RSMwasn't
working right because it was not reading zero,
it was reading Just off zero, but it was reading
the same on all scales; so I was getting an indi-
cation, but it was the same on all scales selected.
So I think that was on tape, but anyway I wanted
to mention that. The second, an unrelated item,
IRll, would you check out the original camera
that was installed in? I think I have made a
loading error in that. I think I took it out of
one of the electric Nikons, which is a countdown
camera, and I put it into a manualcamerawhich
is a countup. And I advanced the - the film to
r the 37 count after clickingoff two frames
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initially on loading. I advanced it to 37. I

think I should have only advanced to about 8 or
l0, somewhere along in there. Would you have
them chew on that for a bit and see if they can
sort out _V problem?

CC Okay; will do.

PLT One additional bit of information, I had scratched

out the 44, or _5 original exposures, whatever
it was, and put a 37. And I think that I inten-
ded to mean that there was a 37 - 37 exposures
left, and on a countdown camera, of course, that's
sufficient; but it was put into a countup camera.
i

CC Okay. We'll check it.

028 12 52 48 CC CDR, Houston.

CDR Roger, Hank.

CC Jerry, you probably noticed that there were two

S183 pads if - if - When you ripped them off there
this morning. You - you should disregard the
first one, and the one you want to use is the
one with the rev letters Alfa 1 and Bravo 2;
7422 is the message number. And what we've done
is added in one more frame there on the S183 ops,
which should use up that carrousel 2-2, and you
might want to change your details on your, "If
no SO19," part of your details there. Where it
seys 22:45, change that to 22:26, S183 ops.

CDR Okay. Change 22:45 to 22:26.

CC Eight, Jerry. And the reason we added in that one

extra exposure there, it takes part of your house-
keeping up there to use up that carrousel. We'll
be through with it.

CDR Okay; no sweat, and I kind of had a hunch that's

what the two 183 messages were for.

028 12 54 32 cc Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from LOS. The

next site is Hawaii at 06. And, Bill, we'll try
to have an answer for you there on the IR film,
and the bright team will be handing over to crim-
son team there.
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CDR Okay, Hank. Have a nice day.

J
CDR By the way, Hank, would you ask Crip if he would
try to get us a little briefing on TV-103 and
TV-77, the EREP TV? I'd like to try to - if those
are finished, I'd like to wash m_ hands of them.
I think we owe them some more TV-77; I'd like to
get it done.

CC Roger. We copy, and I think we got TV-77 on the

schedule here either tomorrow or the next day.
I'm not - I forget which, Jer.

028 12 55 32 CDR Okay. Good.

028 13 06 13 CC Skylab, Houston. Hello at Hawaii from the crim-

son team. We got about l0 minutes here at Hawaii.
The purple gang is in here today doing an entry
sire with Vance and company, so we've swapped CAP
COMMs.

SPT Morning, Dick. l

CC And, PLT, Houston. I know you're in- in the

middle of S073, so if you don't have time, don't
worry about it. But I do have an answer to yon
on the - the camera situation yo u told us about.

PLT Okay. I've got _ minutes terminate next exposure.

Go.

CC Okay. You were correct in what you suspicioned

as what had happened. What we'd like you to do
is download that camera with IR film in it and
then rethread it and crank off 14 frames, and
you ought to be in good shape.

PLT Okay. 14. I'll start at number 15 then.

CC That's correct.

PLT Okay, and I'm going to put a message on tape be-

cause there are four IR exposures at the end of
that roll which were taken last night. I will
explain it all on tape, and we will be very care-
ful not to go into that film.
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028 13 07 33 CC Okay, Bill.

028 13 14 18 CC Skylab, Houston. We got about a minute to LOS.

Goldstone comes up at 13:18. And, Jer, if you
have a second, I have an answer on the TV for you.

CDR Okay, Dick.

CC Roger. Our friends down here are very happy with

the TV-103, and we don't intend to schedule any
more of that for you. So we'resatisfied with
all those results. TV-77 is scheduled next time,
day after tc_orrow.

CDR Okay, and did TV-10h repeat get down today with
the voice modulation and the whole schmear?

CC I'll check on that one for you, Jer.

028 13 lh 59 CDR Okay.

028 13 19 42 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Goldstone for

6 minutes. Couple of things for you: Jerry,
answer to your question on TV-104. We've gotten
down TV-104 and it looks real good, both video
and voice, so we're really happy with that. Also,
Bill, for your _nformation on the Nikon camera
with the IR film that we talked about while ago,
after you download it and rethread it, crank it
up to 14, and then get the six IR photos that
are scheduled for today. You're welcome to use
the remainder of that roll, except for those at
the end that you've all ready used for handheld
photography. You'd like - If you'd like, we're
going to take that film out of there tonight, and
we have - and we have plenty of film. Just wanted
to let you know you're welcome to use that, if
you want.

PLT Tb_nk you, Dick.

CC Okay.

028 13 24 14 CC Skylab, Houston. We're a minute from LOS Gold-

stone. Bermuda cemes up at 13:29. See you there.
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028 13 29 h3 CC Skylab, Houston. Hello at Bermuda for 8 minutes.

And, CDR, Houston. On the ATM, on S055 we need
the OPTICAL REFERENCE all ZEROS, please.

CDR Houston, CDR. The REFERENCE GRATING is all _OS.

I put it MECHANICAL in order to keep the reset -
the SCAN COUNTER from bumping up every time the -
the scan goes across the limb.

CC Okay, stand by a second.

CC Roger' CDR. Thank you for explaining that, and

we're satisfied with what you're doing.

CDR Okay.

028 13 31 17 CC And, Skylab, Houston. We're about 15 or 20 seconds

from a keyhole that will last about a minute.
I'll give you a holler when we're out of keyhole.

028 13 32 40 CC Skylab, Houston, We're out of keyhole and still

about 5 minutes here. And, PLT, Houston. When
-- you have a chance in stowing S073 and can listen,
I got a noto talk to you Just a minute
about the light flashes experiment that's c_,_ng
up.

PLT Yes, go ahead, Dick.

CC Okay, Bill. It has to do with the data-take times.

I'm sure you've reviewed message number - perma-
nent general message number B7 about the light
flashes. The time that ended up on your details,
14:h7, included a 10-minute prep time to gather
your things together. What I' d like to give you
is the actual data-take times. It starts at
14:57, that's the time you - that you should do
the blindfold and that the timer should be set
and started at 70 minutes. So the data-take
time is 1_:57 to 16:07.

PLT Roger. Data take, 14:47 to 16:07.

CC Roger that. Have fun looking for them.

PLT I can see them right now.

_ CC Me too.
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CDR Hey, Dick, what's the penalty for sleeping through

an experiment?,

CC I don't know. I hope the tone goes off loud and

clear so he wakes up. If it doesn't, you guys
go get him up.

028 13 36 38 CC Skylab, Houstca. We're 1 minute to LOS. Canary

Islands comes up at 13:38. See you there.
!

CDR Roger, Dick.

028 13 38 5h CC Skylab, Houston. Hello at Canary Islands for

i0 minutes.

CDR Hello, Dick.

028 13 46 Oh CC Skylab, Houston. In about a minute and a half,

f we're going to hand over from Canary to Ascension.
When we get toAscension, we're going to be dump-
ing the data/voice recorder. I'll give you a
call when we've handed over.

028 13 46 15 CDR Roger, Dick.

028 13 48 38 CC Skylab, Houston. We've handed over, and we're

going to dump the data/voice recorder.

028 13 h8 44 CDR Roger.

028 13 51 56 CDR Houston, CDR.

CC Go ahead.

CDR Just a not for the food people, Dick. I noticed

this morning in my slots there was no Jam stowed
for this morning's menu, so I took it from tomor-
row morning's menu, and I thought I would do
it in order to give the food people time to think
about it a little bit. I can either Just com-
pletely skip it tomorrow morning or I can take
one out of overage if there Is one available.

CC Okay, Jerry, we'll take a look. Thank you for

letting us know.

028 13 5h 08 CDR Houston, CDR.

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CC Go ahead.

CDR Looks like I've had two hangups in successive

runs of S056 now. Last pass was - or last super-
RASTER was on FILTER l, and this time on FILTER 5.

CC Roger, Jerry. Copy.

CC CDR, Houston. We wouldn't be surprised if you

don't continue to get more and more of those
haugups. There's nothing we can do about it, so
we'll Just have to put up with them we guess.

CDR Okay, I'll Just have to keep an eye out for them.

028 13 55 O0 CC Skylab, Houston. We're a minute to LOS. Car-

natron comes up at 14:21.

END OF TAPE
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Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Carnarvon and Honey-

suckle for about 9 minutes. And, CDR, Houston.
I see that you're closing down from your ATM
operations. I have some changes to the EREP
C&D pad. Sometime prior to the EREP l'd llke to
get them up. I thought it might be convenient
for you here between ATM and prior to getting
started on PT.

CDR Okay. I'll call you back in about a minute.

028 14 22 00 CC Okay. That'll be fine.

028 14 24 57 CDR Okay, Dick. Go ahead.

CC Okay, Jerry. First of all, let me explain why

this happened. We had scheduled a VTS auto cal
in the _ C&D pad, and in sc_e careful checking
it turns out that the auto cal would have con-
flicted with one of the VTS sites. 8o we're
going to delete the auto cal. I've got four de-
letions for you to do in your EREP C&D. The first
one is at a time of 23:16, 8191 REF test.

CDR Okay.

CC Okay, the next one's 24:36, VTS AUTO CAL, _elete

that. The next one is four lines down where it
se_'s, "READY on 8191, 27:16," delete that. And
also delete the REF 6 Just below that. And that's
all.

CDR Okay. I got them. Thanks.

028 lh 25 54 CO Thank you, sir.

028 14 30 20 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about a minute to LOS.

Hawaii comes up at 14:44. See you there.

028 14 30 32 8PT 8o long, Dick.

028 14 44 34 CC 8kylab, Houston; Hawaii for 8 minutes.

PLT Roger, Dick.

028 14 50 33 CC Skylab, Houston. In about 30 seconds we're going

to have about a minute keyhole. I'll give you a
call out of keyhole.
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028 14 51 52 CC Skylab, Houston. We're out of keyhole. We are

about a minute from LOS here at Hawaii. We're
going to drop out shortly and be at Goldstone at
14:57. See you there.

028 lh 56 50 CC Skylab, Houston, we're at Goldstone for 6 minutes.

CC And, Skylab, Houston. On your optional handheld

photo message is an entry there at 15:08 which
is the laser, and we had to scrub it this morning
due to weather. J Sorry about that.

CDR Roger Dick.

PLT Also, Dick - this is PLT - I'm on 70 minutes now

and I'm recording, so be sure and tell me if you're
going to redesignate.

CC Roger, Bill.

028 14 58 i0 CC PLT, Houston. Just for your information, our next

recorder dump is a couple of minutes after the
end of your data take. If you're not using the
recorder there, we'd like to go ahead and dump it
on schedule there; that's at a time of 16:09.
However, if you do need it, we can slip that dump
one site.

PLT Okay, I got started on time. The thing is I'm

wearing a blindfold so I can't watch the recorder
light right now and I'd be along here, you know,
talking merrily away and not even be recording.
I briefed both Jer and Ed on it.

CC Roger, we d_d think of that, and we - we have no

dumps scheduled during your data take. I'll let
you know when we do. it's _-,nediately after ...
it, however.

028 15 58 49 PLT Thank you, Dick.

028 15 01 29 CC Skylab, Houston, we're a minute until LOS. MILA

comes up at 15_05. See you there.

SPT Roger, Dick. So long.

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028 15 Oh 47 CC Skylab, Houston. We're A0S MILA. We do have a

-_ keyhole in about a minute; then we're going to
hand over to Bermuda so I'll call you out of
keyhole.

028 15 07 17 CC Skylab, Houston; the handover is ccmplete, and we

stfull have about 9 minutes left here at Bermuda

028 15 15 h9 CC Skylab, Houston, we're a minute from LOS. Ascen-

sion at 15:23.

028 15 24 04 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Ascension for 9 minutes

and I 'm assuming the PLT is still _wake and busily
counting light flashes.

028 15 24 15 PLT What'd you say, Dick?

CC Just wanted to make sure you were still make

there, William.

PLT It's a real effort. No, that's pretty interesting.

CC Roger.

PLT ... from ...

CC Roger.

028 15 24 33 CDR Bill's very good at studying the insides of his

eyelids.

CC Roger.

028 15 B2 lh CC Skylab, Houston. We're a minute from LOS.

Carnarvon comes up at 15:56.

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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

028 15 32 29 SPT Roger, Dick. So long.

028 15 32 30 CC See you there.

028 15 55 55 CC Skylab, Houston, AOS Carnarvon for i0 minutes.

SPT Roger, Dick.

CC CDR, Houston, when you get a chance.

CDR Go a_ead, Dick.

CC Jerry, your friendly crimson team wants to keep

you kind of informed that we've pu t together a -
a few words on some end-of-mission testing that
we're going to do after you leave the workshop,
and it's going to have some minor effect on de-
activation. We thought you'd like to hear about
it. This next pass is a Guam pass and is devoted
- to the ATM conferencewith Bill Lenoir, who is
presently EVA from the entry sim that we're doing
right now. We thought a good time to talk to you
about the end-of-mission stuff might be the upcoming
stateside pass when you mud Bill are supposedly
eating lunch and Ed's on ATM.

CDR Sounds good, Dick.

CC Okay; great. We'll do her.

CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute to LOS. Guam

comes up at 16:09. We're planning on d,_ing the
data/voice recorder at @_Am if that's okay with
Bill. And Bill Lenoir will be here for the ATM
conference. See you there.

028 16 05 31 PLT Okay, Dick.

028 16 09 21 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Guam. We'd llke to

bump the data/voice recorder here.

PLT Okay, Dick. You got it.

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CC Thank you very much, and I'ii turn it over to Bill

Lenoir.

SPT Morning, Bill. Ready to go. How are you?

MCC Oh, pretty good here, Ed. Got a quickie here for
you on the Sun. There's not too much going on, as
I 'm sure you know. We saw a small bright mound
at north 03 on the east limb that popped up at
about 10:33 Zulu, lasted for only a few minutes,
and then disappeared. There's been small surging
going on there since, but nothing very significant
to get us excite_ to any great degree. The EUV on
OSO 7 indicates - In the area where active region 14
will be coming around the limb in another day or
so, it does not look very hot to us. We wonder
what you see in XUV on the east limb as, say,
compared to the west limb?

SPT Okay. Exactly where would that be, around 280?

MCC Yes. It would be in the area of about oh, 265 up

to maybe 280. It's not exactly clear where it's
coming, but as I! recall, it should be north, so
maybe 270 to 280.

028 16 I0 34 SPT Okay. The reason l'm asking, there is some

brightening over there. Let me describe it to
you now. Some at around 260. There is a - a
point which is right on the limb, and it's fairly
intense because of the limb brightening, not any-
where as near as intense as what we still have
remaining on the west limb, however. At around
270 we have a fainter point right on the limb,
and then at around 280 there is a line of three
points which are inclined at an angle of around,
say, 30 degrees, 030. And our spacemay be 0.1
of a solar radii apart. Just a chain of three of
them. Perhaps a - a fourth one at the end, if you
count one very faint bright point, and that was
kind of surprising to see, So there is - I imagine
that is associated with activity, and I have not
been able to take time out to look at it in H-alpha.
We still see active region B7 in 281. Okay. Well,
let's see. You were looking for 14.

MCC Yes. 14 would be behind the limb.

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SPT Okay. No, there's nothing at - in higher altitudes

except for what I see in 280, but there's nothing
at high altitude. I see active region 37 at 28 -
at - excuse me, now at - Let's - Let's go back.
You've - Let's go back. We go back to 260 where I
do see something. At 280, I only see that string
of three bright points, and they're not really
close to or right on the limb. One is - This
first one is very slightly inside. At 270, however,
there is also a - some brightening. And 28, of
course, apparently is that active region 37, but
at 260 there is a brightening.

028 16 12 34 MCC Okay, Ed. Thank you. That sounds pretty much
like what we've seen here. Active region 14 is
really about our only hope here for any significant
activity. It started acting up as it went across
the west limb and we really don't expect it to do
much, but we're still hoping. Okay, on today's
plan, as a matter of fact, at the next sunrise,
which should be coming up in about 15-1/2 minutes,
we're doing a JOP 7 test for NRL. They want to
"- rtun that on sunrise tomorrow. And the significant
thing here is, as you'll probably recall, they
have already done the sunset portion of this. What
they wanted to do was to look at the atmospheric
extinction over a relatively clean portion of the
world which they did. They would have preferred
to do it over a dirty portion of the world again
at sunset, but unfortunately or fortunately msybe,
we don't find much in the Southern Hemisphere
right now so we're forced to do it at sunrise at
Seattle, day after this. In other words, tomorrow
is about their last chance to come over a relatively
industrialized city right at a sunup. So we
wanted to get this test done today so we can get
it in tomorrow, and look at the atmospheric ex-
tinction there for a comparison.

SPT Okay. Sorry for all the delays. I am spring

loaded this time and then will be patiently
waiting here for the next 15 minutes.

028 16 13 59 MCC Okay, good. And also then for tomorrow, we have
the JOP 13 scheduled as I mentioned. Presently
we have a half an hour, I guess actually it's
25 minutes, pad review time for you to do it.
f
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We're calling it a JOP 13, although you will do

it entirely from the JOP 18 S_,mmary Sheets. We'll
use the building block 30 and all from JOP 18.
The maueuver sequence that we're looking at right
now - we will do the regular 1-D maneuver out
which should center Gamma Velorum in the 52 field
of view. In other words, behind the occulting
disk. Then we give you a cookbook maneuver that
should maneuver it out to X, 0 and Y, minus ll0,
so that you could see it. Then the idea is that
you would perform whatever tweak maneuver is
necessary to put it at exactly X, 0; Y, minus llO.
And then we give you an accurate maneuver based
on what we know and the 55/52 offset to exactly
center it in the 55 field of view. And then the
coming home from there would be nominal. But once
you get there, then we would do two BB30's. One
in - in a grating setting that would allow detec-
tors 6 and 7 to be looking down below the Lyman
continuum and - Let me think, probably some others
also. And then another grating setting that puts
the zero order image on detector 6 so that we can
see just where it is in the field of view.

SPT Okay. I'd like to get the pad up as soon as poss-

ible so I can take a look at it and make sure I
really understand what you said there in terms
of implementation.

MCC Yes. As soon as we tmderstand it here properly,

we'll send it up to you. Actually what happens
is whenever the mean time between changes gets
up to an hour, we'll probably send it to you.

SPT Okay. Very good. Send up a preliminary form that

you like. And I'd like to at least be thinking
about it.

028 16 15 52 MCC Okay. It probably won't be too much longer. It

is settling down. I've got some comments for you
from $055 regarding the operations on crew day
off. On the JOP 26 that you did on the west limb
that - on the loops in the structure out there,
they're quite excited about that J One of the con-
clusions that they've come to, looking at that,
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is that there is a large amount of mass in the

vicinity of 1/2 million degrees Kelvin, and much
more so than had been anticipated. And that's quite
surprising. In the co - -

SPT Where was it, down arotmd ll0, 1207

CC Just - It's more a general conclusion out in the

structure that's out off the limb that is seen in
the oxygen VI. There's a - a large amount of it
out there and it's quite bright.

SPT Yes, I could see some oxygen VI and I didn't have

time to really search around. But I thought that
at least giving them the MIRROR, AUTO RASTERS
would show it up for them. I had - would have
liked to have given them two MIRROR, AUTO RASTERS
in each location and also go to - go to something
which would have given them the neon VII. But
time didn't permit.

MCC Okay. And then also related to that, later on in

_-_ the day when you went down to P-77, as far as
they're concerned, that's about the best prominence
data that they have gotten where they got the MARs
and the gasses for comparison. And they feel
that's great. One of the initial looks indicates
that the Lyman-alpha and the oxygen VI are entirely
different structures, which is interesting. And,
once again here, this is a quick look.

028 16 17 22 SPT Well, I would - I would go along with that too

because in looking at it in - in H-alpha, I found
that that was not the point where the oxygen VI
was necessarily the brightest. It was _ little
bit to one side of it. So it looked as though
there was a difference, and apparently it's show-
ing up in their data.

MCC Okay, good. And finally, here on the coronal hole

observations, they appreciate the difficulty in
doing it and wanted to pass on to you the fact
that to do it properly, as they feel you did it,
it's really impossible to do it with the building
blocks that we have. They have tried to do it
on an unattended basis and failed and didn't really
do a good Job of it. Wanted to pass on the word
that you did good work. And a quick look at the
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gratings, which really requires a computer to

analyze properly, especially for lines - The
Lyman continuum slope is different from inside
the coronal hole to outside. And we're 1 minute
until LOS. Goldstone is next at 16:35.

SPT Okay. That's one of the advantages, I think, of

operating in the mode we did, in that if they
send me their objectives, then I can do what's
required in order to get those objectives met as
opposed to having to go through a lot of middlemen.
I think it worked real well.

MCC Okay - -

SPT Glad we tried it.

MCC Fine. And we certainly do agree with you. For

our thinking right now, we're planning on regular-
type planning from now until the end of the mission,
unless you recommend otherwise.

SPT No, that sounds pretty good because there's not

that many unpredictable things coming up. I
think the Sun's going to be, unfortunately, rather
predictable.

MCC Yes, we sort of agree with that.

SPT Thanks very much, Bill.

MCC Okay, many thanks. And we'll see you tomorrow.

028 16 19 07 SPT So long.

028 16 35 09 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS stateside for about

16-1/2 minutes. And when you guys get in - in
a listening mood, I'd like to go over some of the
end-of-mission testing and the deactivation with
yOU •

CDR We're listening.

CC Okay. Like I said, first of all, what I'd like to

describe to you first is our - is what we're try-
ing to accomplish so you'll understand some of
the deactivation effects. Primari - primarily,
after you undock and - we plan to man the MOCB
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here for several shifts to get some engineering

data on the SWSs. And that period of time is about
a day and a half to 2 days. Most of our testing
will not commence until after you've completed the
shaping burn and are on the way home. Some examples
of the kind of testing we're going to do during
that period are as follows: We're going to operate
-'! the a - airlock module SECONDARY COOLANT LOOP on
PUMP Alfa INVERTER 1. Earlier in Skylab, that
circuit breaker popped. We did reclose it but
since then, we have not used that pump or that
inverter. And so we're going to take a look at
that performance. Next, we're going to operate
the secondary refrigeration system to get some
system performance data. And we're also going to
cycle the RADIATOR BYPASS valve on both the SEC-
ONDARY and the PRIMARY REFRIGERATION SYSTEM and
take a look at those valves since we've been stay-
ing away from them since we had the earlier trouble
in Skylab. Another thing we're going to do in
refrigeration is we're - we plan to run both sec-
ondary and primary systems simultaneously and
take a look at - at that :performance. We intend
to have an appropriate time - restart CMG 1 and
see what happens as it spins up. And in the com-
puter area, we intend to switch from the SECONDARY
to the PRIMARY ATMDC. We're going to load the
primary ATMDC 16K from the memory load unit on
board which we never have done. And also, then
we intend to load the primary computer 16K from
the ground. We're going to vent the spacecraft
to about 1/2 psi. Then we're go%ng to mRneuver
i r t_ what we think_i_ a stable of a best estimatfe
of _B-_t a stable gravity gradient attitude is.
We're going to shut down the AM and ATM trans-
mitters, and we're going to shut down the elec-
trical power system, and then we're all going to
go home. If you don't have any question about
that, I'ii go on and describe some of the effects
of this on deactivation and also a couple of other
tests that we intend to do prior to you leaving.

028 16 38 58 SPT Dick, Just one other thing. What about the future
then? Do you ever intend to, at periodic inter-
vals, try to reestablish contact and monitor any
syst eros ?

CC Negative, Ed. We do not.

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SPT Thank you.

CC Moving on to the deactivation. Generally, let me

say that the deactivation has remained even after -
We have been doing a good deal of work on this
end-of-mission planning. But the deactivation
still remains just about as you r - that it was
originally planned. We're going to do an EVA,
our final one on day 80. And then on days 81
through 84, we're - you'll be doing a bunch of
deactivation and closeout activities. And, of
course, entry day, splash day is day 85. You can
expect some minor checklist updates to configure
the SWS for this postmission testing that I've
described to you. And one major improvement in
the deactivation which will be some - generally,
some checklist deletions, we we're going to reduce
by a good margin several hours of crew work on
end-of-mission microbiological cleaning up. So
that - that's primarily going to come out of the
checklist, and we'll give you a little more pad.
The plans for the - taking care of the circadian
shift at the end of the mission are essentially
as follows : Entry minus 2 days will be a 13-hour
day, and entry minus 1 day will be a 10-hour day.
This will provide nothing but 8-hour sleep periods
for you which - and will end up with a Shift of
about 9 hours.

028 16 39 44 CC You'll wake up on the entry day at a time of

02:00 Zulu for 15:15 Zulu splash on that day.
The testing that we intend to accomplish while
you're still there and after EVA-4 is essentially
as follows: We intend to test CBRMs - well, first
of all, let me tell you what we're interested in.
On the CBRMs, as you know, we've been worried a
little bit about letting them go into auto dis-
connect because we're afraid we might not could
bring the CBRMs back on the line. And in the PCG
area we've been trying to keep them no lower than
about a 33-volt level because we're afraid that
might degrade our battery capacity. What we in-
tend to do is test CBRMs l0 and 18 down to auto
disconnect, and the only participation we're going
to be asking of you is to provide us the time of
the battery talkback. Now we will give you an
estimate at that time so it's not going to take
a great deal of time with you Just looking at the
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panel. But we do need you to help us there. Also,

PCG number 6, we plan to test it down to the
30-volt level, rather than the 33-volt level.
And there we're going to ask you to adjust the
initial test load and also note the time at the
33-volt level for us. We will not require you to
continuously monitor these tests. Ass_,m_ng at
this point that we have had no failure of either
CBRM or PCG, we intend to test the remaining
CBRMs to auto disconnect. We -we'll probably
do this at night ; will not require any effort on
your part. If any failure does occur at this
point we're going to delay all subsequent electrical
power systems testing until after the shaping
burn. Just to make you feel warm about this,
• your power margin in Sl is about 1200 watts. And
we could stand to lose about five CBRMs or about
three PCGs - either about five CBRMs or about
three PCGs and still be good shape for there. So
we don't think there's any hazard involved in this.
Couple of other things that we are going to do,
while you're still there, is that we're going to
operate the ATM thermal control system, the sec-
ondary system, which we've never used in Skylab.
And then we're going to restart the primary system
to take a look at the restart characteristics.
In conclusion, although we have no firm plans for
any revisit to Skylab at the moment, we're going
to have - you put together a, what we're calling
a revisit bag which could be retrieved by any
revisit crew to bring home so we could take a
look at how the items have survived the long term
and the vacuum that they'll be seeing. You'll
be getting a message on this; we've got it on
the tubes down here. Tonight - we'll probably
get that message up to you this evening, and
it'll allow you to put your - together Skylab's
own little time capsule to stick in the MDA and
leave. We're not planning to schedule this item.
We figure you can just do this on your own time.
That's all I had. If you have any questions or
like for us to get any more information on it,
we'll certainly do that.

028 16 43 13 CDR No questions right offhand, Dick. Thanks a lot

for the feedback on this and we'll give it some
thought. And if anything else comes up we'll get
with you.
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CC Okay. You understand, of course, this hardware

testing is -the - the items that I gave you are
examples. Probably, if we continue to talk between
now and splash day, we may have some minor changes.
But I Just thought you'd kind of be interested in
the general picture.

CDR Yes. We appreciate your letting us in on it.

CC Okay.

SPT Dick, that was an excellent rundown. Other ques-

tions that come to mind, for me anyway, are the
command module systems. And we've not been follow-
ing that too closely since we've been up here.
And I 'd like to know any of the deltas or anomalies
which you've seen on the ground which we ought to
know about before we hop in there, especially in
the RCS and other areas.

CC That's a good point, Ed. And we'll certainly put

together something for you. But in a word, it's
looking real good.

SPT Very good. Thank you.

028 16 45 29 CC Skylab, Houston. If somebody's available in the

next few minutes, we'd like to get a REG BUS
ADJUST.

SFT Glad to do it, Dick. What would you like?

CC Okay. What we'd suggest is to mark the positions

of REG ADJUST 1 and 2 and then adjust both of
those 20 degrees counterclock - correction,
20 degrees, 20 degrees clockwise. And we'll let
you know after the EREP when to bring them back.

CDR Boy, the ole Mississippi's really spewing the mud

out.

CC Roger.

SPT How do they look to you, Dick?

CC We'll take a look and let you know.

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028 16 47 50 CC Skylab, Houston. The REG ADJUST looks real good.

We appreciate it. We've just handed over to Bermuda,
and we're going to dump the data/voice recorder
here.

028 16 51 24 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 30 seconds from LOS.

Carnarvon comes up at 17:34. See you there.

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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

028 17 34 08 CC Skylab, Houston. Hello at Carnarvon for 7 minutes.

028 17 34 53 PLT How's the weather look, Dick?

CC Well, I'll tell you. I was Just getting ready to

call you and give you a briefing on it. I'll Just
do that right now if it's okay.

028 17 35 05 CC Turns out that there's a weather condition that's

out around thePacific coast, as you cross, that's
going to cause a good deal of moisture, and it's
going to be pretty heavy cloud cover out there.
It is going to break to - it's got about 8/10 to
10/10 as you cross the coast. And it'll - that'll
clear up a little bit to 4/10 to 7/10 over Reno.
And we think there's a real good chance of getting
! the VTS site 125 at Smoke Creek. Then as you
came down over Utah, it's going to get cloudy
again, back to 8/10 to I0/i0, begin to clear up
as you cc_e over about Gallup,New Mexico. And
then it'll get very clear after that, 0 to 3/10
from there on, oh, down around Brownsville. The -
There's a VTS - there's a VTS special site num.-
ber l0 at Carlsbad. They do have a potential fog
problem out there down in the valley, but we think
that site should also be attainable by you. And
then, as you get around the coast down at Browns-
ville, it's going to get cloudy again, 7/10 to
10/10 coverage down there. After you get out into
the Gulf, unfortunately, from there almost until
the - cross - exiting the South American coast,
it's going to be generally heavy broken to over-
cast. There are some holes in and out down there.
But in - generally, it's going to be a pretty
cloudy trip.

028 17 36 39 PLT Roger.

CC Okay.

PLT Would you say again the cloud coverage in the

valley ?

CC I'm sorry, Bill. iSay again, please.

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PLT Would you say again the cloud coverage in the

McAllen area?

CC Okay. Stand by.

CC That's about 4/10 to 7/10.

PLT Okay. Thank you.

CC Roger.

028 17 37 12 CC Skylab, Houston. We'd like to have the DAS, and

we'll enable dump.

028 17 37 17 PLT You got it.

CC Thank you.

CC Thank you much. The DAS is yours.

PLT ...

CC Go ahead.

PLT Negative, just acknowledging.

CC Okay. I had one other note that I'd like to men-

tion to you. We don't - On the EREP today, we
don't see or anticipate the same kind of attitude
problems that we - that showed up yesterday. But
in the event that we do get one Or more gimbals
on the stop and you are losing altitude, the pro-
cedure is to enter zero fine maneuver with a
6-minute tau. And it's not necessary to hit
STANDBY. What you guys did yesterday was real
good. And, Bill, particularly your - your con-
tinuing to take data through all that business
helped us. And we think we're going to be able
to recover scme of that. On this attitude con-
trol, if you'd like to - permanent general mes-
sage number 4 Delta, the last part of that
message ts]ks about gimbal problem recovery
procedure. And that is the procedure that we're
recc_mending, the zero fine maneuver and the
6-minut e tau.

PLT Roger. Understand, Dick.

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028 17 38 57 CC Okay.

028 17 h0 01 CC Skylab, Houstonl We're a minute from LOS. Guam

comes up at 17:48, and we're going to dump the
data/voice recorder at Guam.

028 17 hO 09 PLT Roger, Dick.

028 17 48 03 CC Skylab, Houston; Guam for 6 minutes.

CC And, Skylab, Houston. We're dumping the data/

voice recorder here at Guam.

PLT Roger, Dick.

028 17 49 24 SPT Hello, Dick. Let me take a minute here and just
give you a brief rundown on what I see on the
WHITE LIGHT CORONAGRAPH. I missed that this
morning when we were t_]king with Bill Lenoir.

CC Okay, Ed; go ahead. We're listening.

SPT Okay. A relatively small change - perhaps the

largest one is at 060. We see a streamer which
is exceptionally well defined now, not anywhere
near as bright as the one over at 275, but still
the brightest one on the east limb; looks like a
helmet streamer and extending pretty much in a
radial direction. Another very faint one origi-
nating at around 090 and heading in a direction
of 070, faint, diffuse. Over at 120 we also have
a - one that's kind of a combination of the two,
fairly - fairly bright at its base, well defined,
but gets a little diffuse out around 3 solar radii
extending in a direction of around 100. be
brightest over on the east limb is at 275, not a
very well defined one but fairly broad, maybe
20 degrees at the base and extending outward at -
all the way in our field of view out to the - to
the edge; not very sharp, however. At 260, a
very faint and very sharp one which extends out
in our ability to see, about 2-1/2 to 3 solar radii.

CC Roger, Ed. Thank you very much for the update.

028 17 51 28 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about to rewind the VTR,

and we're going to be dumping at - at Goldstone.
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PLT Roger, Dick.

._ _ SPT Dick, do the folks in the backroom have a feel

for how many frames I will have to shoot up at
the conclusion of the ETC pass today?

CC Stand by, Ed. I'll find out.

SPT Thank you.

028 17 53 ll CC SkYlab, Houston. We're 1 minute to LOS. Gold-

stone at 18:ll.

PLT Roger, Dick.

SPT SPT, at 17:54. ETC clock time. Stand by -

028 17 54 02 SPT MARK. Okay, on that mark it was by ETC clock

time anyway, is 17:49, rather than 54. I would
say the ETC clock looks like 5 minutes and a
couple seconds slow. Let me give you one at 30
here- 30 seconds. Stand by-

028 17 54 32 SPT MARK. Oh, looks like it's now 5 minutes - -

028 18 ll 55 CC Skylab, Houston; A0S stateside for 15 minutes.

CDR Hi, Dick.

028 18 12 17 CC And SPT, Houston. Sorry I didn't get back to you,

but we expect less than l0 frames to shoot up
after your ETC pass. That last auto sequence
should take approximately 5 minutes.

SPT Thank you, Dick.

CC Roger.

PLT Okay, clouds, you better start breaking up pretty

S oon.

CDR Okay, on my mark, it will be 12:h8.

CDR Stand by -

028 18 12 h9 cDR MARK. SCATTEROMETER, ON.

028 18 12 50 CDR MARK. RADIOMETER, ON.

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CDR 13:00 is next.

CDR Stand by -

028 18 13 00 CDR MARK. EREP, START.

CDR Got a TAPE RECORDER running. 13:06.

028 18 13 07 CDR MARK. Slgh MODE to MANUAL. 13:13 is next.

Stand by -

028 18 13 14 CDR MARK. S190 MODE to AUTO.

PLT This should be Klamath Falls.

CDR I take it it's cleared.

028 18 13 23 PLT Yes.

PLT Ah-hah! There's Butterfly Lake as I call it.

PLT And I've got the desert. Beautiful. IMC on LOW.

_- CAMERA,ON. I'm going to start taking data at
47 degrees. DATA pushbutton.

PLT Barely have enough authority with this thing.

PLT Okay, I'm on Black Rock first. I'm going to

bring it down to about 25 degrees and then I'll
get Smoke Creek.

PLT 0h, pretty.

028 18 14 29 PLT Okay, now going for Smoke Creek.

CC And Skylab, Houston. For your information, we

have CMG 2 outer gimbal on the stop. Attitude
errors have not built up.

CDR/PLT Okay.

PLT I'm all ready for - spring loaded for that maneu-
ver if I have to do it.

CC Okay.

PLT I'm getting Black Rock - Smoke Creek, rather.

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CDR Okay, we're coming up to 18:15:00.

4
PLT i0 -

CDR Stand by -

028 18 15 O1 CDR MARK. 192 POLARIZATION to 4.

028 18 15 06 PLT DAC, OFF.! Okay, coming back out. Ah, beautifUll
Pyramid Lake. Yes, I'm going to see if I can -
Just may be able to see Lake Tahoe.

CDR You notice how Lake Tahoe looks kind of like a

footprint ?

PLT It sure does. It looks like a bear paw print.

CDR Yes.

PLT (Laughter) Yes, I never noticed that. Okay.

CDR If you can get W_]ker Lake, grab it, because I

couldn't get it yesterday.

PLT Okay, Walker, I think I'm already by it.

CDR Yes, you probably &re.

PLT I think I had better watch what I'm doing here.

OkaM, 17: 49.

PLT Okay, there is Lake Tahoe, I think.

CDR Okay, my next make will be at 16:35.

028 18 16 20 CC Roger, Jerry, And we Just got an outer gimbal

drive logic on CMG-2. I'll keep you advised.

PLT Okay. Let me know if we have to do that maneuver.

I'd like to to get it as soon as possible so that -
Oh yes, the Grand Canyon, beautiful.

CDR 16:35 coming up. Stand by -

028 18 16 36 CDR MARK it. 190 SHUTTER SPEED, MEDIUM. 17:00 is

next.

PLT There is Lake Tahoe.

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CDR The old Grand Canyon, huh?

i
PLT Yes. Okay.

CDR How does it look through there?

PLT It looks huge. Just like looking through the

binoculars.

CDR Coming up on 17:00. Stand by -

PLT 17:49, 45 RIGHT, 1.4.

028 18 17 01 CDR MARK it. 193 POLARIZATION to i.

CDR 17:30 is next with an ETC POWER, ON, Ed.

PLT MY gosh, there's White Sands right there, the

lava. Hmm.

PLT 17:49. 45. 0.1; there we go. RIGHT, 1.4. That's

about it.

CDR Cnm_ ng up on 17: 30, Ed. Stand by -

028 18 17 31 CDR MARK it. ETC POWER, ON. 17:50 neXt.

PLT E1 Pazoo [El Paso].

PLT 17:49. Okay, want a hc_ogeneous area in here.

CDR On my mark, 17:50. Stand by -

028 18 17 49 PLT MARK, DAC, on.

028 18 17 50 CDR MARK. ALTIMETER to STANDBY. 56. Stand by -

028 18 17 57 CDR MARK. SCATTEROMETER to STANDBY.

028 18 17 59 CDR MARK. At 58 the - radar - RADIOMETER to STANDBY.

193 ROLL to minus 15. 18:10 cnm_ng up. Stand by -

028 18 18 ll CDR MARK. SCATTEROMETER, ON.

028 18 18 12 CDR MARK. RADIOMETER, ON. 18:30 next, Ed, with an

ETC AUTO.

PLT Man, this is --

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CDE 18:30 on _ mark.

PLT - - putting me r_ght out in the b0onies, but I

guess that's what they want.

CDR Stand by -

028 18 18 31 CDR MARK. 18:44 is next. Cc_ing up on 18:44.

Stand by -

028 18 18 45 CDR MARK. 192 to READY. Tape drive shifting gears;

we got MOTION.

PLT Waiting for 18: 56.

CDR 19 :33.

028 18 18 56 PLT MARK. DAC, OFF. MAX MAG, UP again. Okay, 20:01.
Okay. Del Rio. Laredo. 20 RIGHT *** 4.1. Oh,
boy.

CDR Down?

PLT Yes.

CDR Coming up on 19:33, 19:33. Stand by -

028 18 19 33 CDR MARK it. S190 INTERVAL going to 20. 19:42 is

next. Stand by -

028 18 19 43 CDR MARK it. SCATTEROMETER to STANDBY.

028 18 19 45 CDR MARK. RADIOMETER to STANDBY. ANGLE going to

ZERO on 193. 56 is next. 19:56. Stand by -

028 18 19 56 CDR MARK. SCATTEROMETER, ON.

028 18 19 58 CDR MARK. RADIOMETER, ON.

028 18 20 ll CC Skylab, Houston. The gimbals are off the stops.

You've got some small attitude errors in X and Y,
but no problem.

CDR MODE, CHECK.

PLT ... Should have been 29.8 -

PLT Yes, the attitude error I think - bit me - I

don't recognize it - I can see just enough. Oh,
therewe go. It's under clouds.

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CDR 21:14. Stand by -

i
028 18 21 15 CDR MARK. SCATTEROMETER to STANDBY.

028 18 21 17 CDR MARK. RADIOMETER to STANDBY.

PLT Okay, this is going to fool them.

CDR Coming up on 26.

PLT I've got three notched, but I don't have the

others ; taking data.

CDR Standby -

028 18 21 27 CDR MARK. ALTIMETER is ON at 21:26. 21:32, Ed. ETC

to STANDBY.

028 18 21 33 CDR MARK it. 22:36 is next.

PLT The Delta lake was under clouds, but I found 390,
which we haven't been able to get before. Okay -

028 18 21 51 PLT DAC, off.

CDR Got an ALTIMETER UNLOCK light. Watching the

READY.

028 18 22 02 PLT 27:12 for nadir swath. Okay, Dick, I'm pretty
well freed now. Just let me know if we have to
do a maneuver.

CC Oke - -

CDR Looks like we're out of the woods.

CC Roger, Bill. It's looking good now. All the

gimbals are off the stops, and the attitude errors
are slowly cnm_ng out.

028 18 22 16 PLT Great.

028 18 22 21 CDR Okay. The ALTIMETER READY light's off. Turning

the switch to STANDBY at 22.

PLT Okay, and tape's running so I'm going to get some

data on the coastal blooming of Yucat_u.
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028 18 22 34 PLT Just pressing the DATA pushbutton here, and that's
at 22:35.
i

CDR Okay, ALTIMETER is ON at 36. Alfa i is 63;

Bravo 1 is 50 percent. Got an ALTIMETER READY
and the ALTIMETER UNLOCK light is out. 23:10 is
my next mark.

PLT Okay, and this is on the eastern - north-south

trending coastline of the Yucatgn. Coastal
blooming.

CDR Stand by for 23:10. Stand by -

028 18 23 ii CDR MARK. 190 INTERVAL to i0.

PLT Well, see what else we can find here.

CDR 23:35 is next.

CDR That's on the west coast.

PLT Yes, I got it.

CDR 23: 35.

PLT ... taking data.

028 18 23 35 CDR MARK. 192 MODE to READY. Got a shift in speed

and TAPE MOTION. 24: 30's next.

PLT DATA pushbutton, Bay of Fonseca. Sedimentaiton

flows from the river mouth. Boundary of the
sediment with the coastal water. Okay, let's
take a look out to sea and see what we can find.
We've got a real nice water pattern here, Just
to the north Bay of Fonseca. Oop! Oks_, let's
see if we can find Lake Managua. Ah, beautiful|
Volcano, I'll Just have that one.

CDR Coming up on 24:30. Stand by -

028 18 24 31 CDR MARK. 192 MODE to CHECK. Shifted down on tape

speed. 25:00 is the next mark.

PLT Okay, taking data on the - on a crater.

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CDR Okay, ALTIMETER is going to STANDBY at 40.

PLT Give you Just a few frames of DAC on this, so

you'll knew which one - -

CDR The ALTIMETER UNLOCK light was on and the READY

was out. I'm setting the ALTIMETER RANGE to 68.
I probably could have caught that a little early,
but I was busy working the 192.

028 18 25 08 PLT Oh, beautiful. That one I - that volcano that's

out on that island on Lake Managua is Just about
clear.

CDR Beautiful.

PLT I'll go ahead and take a couple of frames on it.

028 18 25 22 PLT DATA pushbutton. And a little cloudy. That's

okay. Okay, now.

CDR 1 minute until the next mark.

PLT 27:12 is when m_ nadir swath starts. See what

else I can get here.

028 18 25 59 CC " Skylab, Houston. While we got a little break

here, we're abQut a minute and a half to LOS.
Vanguard at 18:36 and the VTR is clean and ready
for use.

CDR Roger. Thanks, Dick.

PLT Couple of frames here. Okay, now-

028 18 26 O0 PLT DATA pushbutton push. This the bay south of

Managua. i

028 18 26 13 PLT Release the DATA pushbutton and - Oh, snme beau-
tiful sunglints. Just the right angle. I'm
going to get some more data on - 27:01 -

CDR Coming up on 26 :_0.

CDR 26:40. Stand by -

028 18 26 41 CDR MARK. ALTIMETER is ON.

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PLT Okay, setting up for nadir swath.

028 18 27 00 CDR ALTIMETER UNLOCK at 58.

028 18 27 05 PLT Okay. Nadir swath is started. And I'm going to

go ahead and turn the DAC on and ask, Dick, there's
no - nothing in my notes about not using the DAC
on this special 01 nadir swath -

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028 18 36 01 CDR ... advance the film.

PLT Okay, I've got t_e SI maneuver , and I've got nothing
in here to do. I'm Just going to go over there.

CDR Okay. Let's see. We want a 10-second interval.

028 18 36 26 CC Skylab, Houston. i Vanguard for l0 minutes.

CDR Hi, Dick. We got a problem with 190, I think.

After about 20 - well, it was 28:05 when I put
the SHUTTER Spk_n to FAST. Just_a few seconds
after that, we heard the S190 falter and I got MALF
lights on l, 4, and 5. I've got the back open and
looking, and number 1 is still advancing film.
Number 4 is advancing film.

CC Roger, Jerry. Copy.

f CDR Okay. I'm watching nt_ber 5 to see if it's advanc-

ing film. Yes, it's advancing f_]m too. I guess
it was probably 5 or 6 seconds after I want to
SHUTTER SPEED, FAST when we heard a - sounded like
it bogged down. Slowed up and - very noticeably,
and at that instant, those three MALF lights came
on.

CC Okay.
b
CDR I'll give you on tape or I can give you air-to-
ground if you wa_t it, beginning and ending frame
count on S190.

CC Okay. We'd like to have it air-to-ground if we -

if you have the chance, Jerry. And, are you telling
that the cameras are advancing by the frame counter?

CDR That's affirmative.

CC Okay.

CDR Okay. The beginning frame count - I've got some

time here before my next effort. Beginning frame
count before sensitometry advance - and I checked
sensitometry; it was good - 28 frames and no
MALF lights. So before the sensitometry, it was
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9666, 9005, 9882, 9871, 3419, 5140. And when

we're finished, we'll give you another frame count
to see if they all took their allotted number.

CC 0 - Okay, Jerry. I got those.

CDR Next mark at 40:00. And 192 ought to use up that

B centimeters of tape this time, Bill.

PLT Yes.

CC And, CDR, Houston. When you get a chance, could you

check the meter and tell us if the SHUTTER SPEED
appears to be operating at the right speed.

CDR Okay, sure will. I didn't even think to do that.

It's at MEDIUM SPEED; looking good right now.

CDR Yes, I did, Bill. I - It was right after I shifted

to high speed.

PLT ...

CDR Okay, we're coming up on 40:00. Stand by -

028 18 40 01 CDR MARK. 192 MODE to READY.

CDR Okay. END OF TAPE. RECORDER MALF, END OF TAPE

light. Coming up on 45.

028 18 40 46 CDR MARK it. 92 MODE to STANDBY. By the way, Dick,

the 191 COOLER is considerably more quiet and
stable this afternoon - or today than it was
yesterday. Just beginning to get a little bit
of racket from it now. But up until now, it's
been rather normal.

CC 0kay, Jerry.

CDR 41 :l0 -

028 18 41 l0 CDR MARK. Got a 190 READY out. MODE's going to

STANDBY. Looking for 41 :40.

CC Roger.

CDR Want me to run the 190 SHUTTER SPEED up to FAST

and see if it'll go there?
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CC We're talking about that right now, Jerry. Stand

by, please.

CDR Okay. Coming up on 41:40. Stand by -

028 18 hl 41 CDR MARK it. The ALTIMETER's ON. 41:46 is next.

Stand by -

028 18 41 47 CDR MARK. 194 MODE to MANUAL. 18:42, Bill? Right,

7 seconds. Stand by -

PLT MARK.

028 18 42 01 CDR MARK it. ALTIMETER UNLOCK light.

028 18 42 22 CDR ALTIMETER READY, out at 21. STANDBY.

CC CDR, Houston. When you got a chance.

CDR Go ahead.

CC Okay, what we'd like you to do on 190 is go OFF

to clear the lights, then enter l0 FRAMEs, go
SHUTTER SPEED to FAST, then hit AUTO, and see
what happens there. Then after all that's
over - -

CDR Okay.

CC - - you can - you can give us the fr-me count.

028 18 42 49 CDR All right. ALTIMETER UNLOCK light came on. I

killed the ALTIMETER and put it back ON at 36.
It's looking okay. Just got an UNLOCK light again
at 55. Okay, the POWER's going OFF. Setting the
FRAMES at I0. FRAME INTERVAL is at i0. POWER
is coming back ON. All right. Going to FAST
S_ SPEED. It's Just - right up there, nice
and smooth. Going to AUTO. That was a nice, smooth
acceleration up to FAST SPEED. That's two frames
down; looking good. Three frames down; still
looking good. You said l0 frames, didn't you, Dick?

CC That 's affirm.

028 18 44 01 CDR Four frames. Still looking good. Okay. ALTIM-

ETER's READY light was out. Went to STANDBY
at 05. ALTIMETER back ON at 20. Still clicking
away. Looking good. No MALF lights.
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CDR ALTIMETER UNLOCK light at 45. Stand by for 45:00.

028 18 45 01 CDR MARK it. ALTIMETER, STANDBY; EREP, STOP.

CC Skylab, Houston.

CDR I don't have - Go ahead.

CC We're a minute from LOS, Goldstone at 19:49. Go

ahead, Jer.

CDR Roger. I was going to say I guess I don't have to

do the tape depletion, do I? It's all done for
me. Okay. We got tape depletion, Dick, at - let's
see here - about 4 - 40 minutes and around
B0 seconds, about two-thirds of the way through
the S192 sequence.

CC Okay.

028 18 46 02 CDR Okay. Bravo 7 is reading 34 percent. 192 DOOR

going CLOSEd.

028 19 49 29 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Goldstone for ii minutes.

SPT Hello, Dick.

CC Hello there, Edward.

CC And, Skylab, if somebody's available this pass,

we'd like to do the last part of the REG ADJUST.

SPT Jerry'll be with you in a minute, Dick.

CC Okay, no hurry.

CDR Okay, Dick; go ahead.

CC Roger, Jerry. What we'd like to do is go 25 degrees

counterclockwise from the present position, that's
5 degrees counterclock - further counterclockwise
from the mark - original position.

CDR Okay, you want to go 25 counterclockwise, right?

CC That 's correct.

CDR Okay.
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028 19 51 26 CC Okay, Jerry, thank you very much. Incidentally

on that EREP pass a while ago, we failed to put
on there to stow T - tape T-38 in cnmme/_d module
locker 89.

CDR Okay, we were wondering what your plans were

there.

CC Yes, sorry we left that out there. Also, I have

some - it turns out that the aurora is moderately
active, and I have some available times for both
the north and south if you'd like to get a pencil
and Jot them down.

CDR Okay, go ahead.

CC Okay, the south aurora is - the windows are 20:33

to 20:_1 and again at 22:06 to 22:14. The north
is available at 21:00 to 21:08 and again at 22:34
to 22:42.

CDR Okay, hang on a second.

CC Okay.

028 19 53 27 CDR Okay, I had to get my super-RASTER going again

there. South aurora 20:33 to 41, 22:06 to lh; and
north aurora 21:00 to 2 - to 21:08 and 22:34 to 42.

CC You've got it, Jerry, thank you much.

CDR Okay, I promised you an S190 frame count post-EREP.

That's 9857, 9196, 0073, 0062, 3610, 5331.

CC Okay, thank you, sir.

CC And, Jerry, how did the SHUTTER SPk_I_I_

look when you
checked that meter?

CDR It looked Just fine; it accelerated up very

smoothly and leveled off, and the l0 FRAMES
went through very cleanly.

CC Okay, thank you.

CDR It was Just a one-time good-deal glitch.

CC Roger that. That's what we hope.

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CC Incidentally, despite that little anomaly, Jer,

we don't think we lost hardly any data at all.

CDR Well, that 's good news.

CDR Sounded like Bill was picking you up all sorts of

good freebies down in Central America.

CC Sure did. We sure copied that. Sounded a lot

better, since the weather report was kind of grim
when I read it !up to you and when we got it.

028 19 56 16 CC PLT, Houston. Not sure how busy - busy you are
but if you get la chance, we still have about
4 minutes here. I got a - a little information
on your - on the rad size - a window for that -
and also a time for your phone call.

SPT Dick, go ahead_ Right now he is - in the M092 and

is the suckee. And I will copy down the times.

CC Hey, you're right; I - I'm sorry about that. I

read the observing subject wrong real quickly
there. Yes, the window is at a time from 01:12 to
01:2h. Bill might want to stick that in his
details. And incidentally, he will be an observer
on M131 at that time, so it's strictly an optional,
but if he can get it, that's the window. Also his
phone call is this evening; it's Guam pass at
02:05, LEFT ANTENNA.

SPT Okay, window, 01:12 to 01:24 and Guam at 02:05,

LEFT.

CC Roger.

028 19 57 h2 CDR Houston, CDR. I'm a little bit confused by my

S183 details. The details -they passed me up
a change that said to end the exposure at 22:26
and if I do that I'm going to cut it short.

CC Okay, Jerry, let me check that one out real quick.

028 19 59 h0 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about a minute from LOS.

Vanguard comes up at 20:13 and We're going to dump
the data/voice recorder at the Vanguard. And,
Jerry, I'll have an answer on S1 - 183 down there
for you.
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CDR Okay, it looks to me like the 183 pad is right; it

probably is the details that are in error.

028 19 59 57 CC Okay, we'll check it.

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028 20 13 21 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS the Vanguard for

i0 minutes. We see somebody use - using the
data/voice recorder. We - We are going to dump
that one. However, as long as the EXPERIMENT i
RECORDER is running, the voice will be going on
there okay.

028 20 15 01 CC CDR, Houston. When you get an opportunity here,

if you do, l've got an explanation on the S183.

CDR Okay, go ahead, Dick.

CC Okay, Jerry. It turns out when we corrected that

time to 22:26 in your details pad, we should have
also deleted that little remark at the end of
that line that says, "End exposure." Your S183
pad that we sent up, 7422 Alfa i and - and also
the second page of it, is correct. The idea is -
is that that first exposure that you start is the
21-minuteexposure,and the intentionwas that
time of 22:26 is approximately 5 minutes prior
to the start ofithe second exposure. Over.

CDR Okay, that clears it up.

CC Okay. I have a question for you. Tomorrow we've

got a situation that - that'll be coming up to
you that may require some crew monitoring of gim-
bal angles during an LOS type maneuver. And we're
wondering - we had an earlier report from one of
the earlier crews that there was some intermittent
operation of the CMG 3 outer gimbal meter readings.
Have you guys noticed that CMG outer gimbal -
CMG 3 outer gimbal meter has - has occasionally
being going off-scale low?

028 20 16 48 CDR That's right, Dick. And we've reported it several

times throughout the mission.

SPT Dick, the way you can work it, though, is to keep
it on CMG 3. Then just whenever you want to read
2, Just go on back there for around 5 seconds,
and there seems to be a time delay in the - CMG 3
dropping down. It appears as though it got some
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capacitance in there or something, and as long

as you only stay over on 2 for a short period of
time, you can read all you want.

CC Okay. So - So in - in essence then, you could -

you can use that meter to monitor the gimbal?

SPT That's correct.

CC On 2 and 3. Okay, thank you much.

CC CDR, Houston. If you have a chance and you'd

like to check the accuracy of that meter on CMG 3
OUTER GIMBAL. Right now.it should be reading
about plus 50 percent.

CDR I've got plus 15 percent.

CC Roger. We made a mistake and we're looking at a

different gimbal, and it was our error. We're
reading now about plus 20 percent so that one -
that looks like it is in the ball park.

CDR Yes, CMG 2 is about 50.

CC Roger.

CC Skylab, Houston. We're a minute to LOS. Tanana-

rive at 21:39 - correction, 20:39.

CDR Hey, Dick, that old ice island is still out there.

028 20 23 32 CC Roger.

028 20 hO 21 CC Skylab, Houston. Tananarive for 7 minutes.

CDR Roger, Dick. Got a question for, I guess, the

articulated mirror people.

CC Okay, Jerry they're listening; go ahead.

CDR On abouttwo occasions now, I've indicated that

if they would Just tell us where the discone antenna
should be located in the field of view when you
got zero zero in ROTATION and TILT, that we could
give them a real accurate location of where the
zero zero position is, and we could give them
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TILT and roca - ROTATION readings for that. It

seems to me this would be a real great way that's
not time critical to pretty _well assure yourself
that you're going to be pointed at the right star
field because you can open the SAL and look - and
extend the mirror and lo0k at the antenna before
it gets too dark and kind of benchmark or cali-
brate yourself. And so far, that data has not
been forthcoming. Is it because it's impossible
to get or- or what's the deal?
iI

CC Stand by and let me get you an answer, Jer.

028 20 42 49 CC CDR, Houston. I guess the answer is we believe

and - and our problem, I guess, is that we haven't
gotten this back up to you - is that we don't have
any faith in the location -, in the known location
and the stability of that location of the discone
antenna. We believe that they move around and
wobble a good bit, and are - this is affected by
each _euver that we do. And in general we Just
think it's a poor source to get real accurate
readings,particularlywhen we're able to - to
get the reference stars. So I - I guess what we
should have done is just told you that, at least
that that was our opinion several days ago, and
then you wouldn't have been expecting it. Over.

CDR Yes, that would have been a good idea because I've
been harping on that for weeks
i
now and haven't
gotten any feedback on it.

CC Sorry about that. Hey, while I got you, can I -

can I talk to you about a couple of other things.
First of all, the Jam you asked about, we think
the next day that Jam is scheduled for you, Jerry,
is on day 76. We also - our records show that
there should be enough Jam on board to cover each
time that it appears in the menu from here on out.
However, we're not real certain exactly what the
location of it is.

CDR Okay, we've got Jam up here in overage, but I was

afraid to take it out because it's not om _the list
that they sent up of food that's available, which
told me that everything that's here is accounted
for that's not on the llst.

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CC Stand by, please.

CDH Okay.

028 20 46 12 CC Skylab, Houston. Jerry, rather than repeat the

conversation we've been having about overage,
scheduled meals and jam and so forth, the simple
answer is, is that when it's scheduled in your
menu, you can eat the jam that appears in your
overage. Also we're about a minute or so from
LOS. Hawaii comes up at 21:23, and we plan on
dumping the data/voice recorder there. I do have
one over - other input that you might be inter-
ested in. You noticed - you know on recorder l,
the one we changed the other day, we had previously
been seeing some intermittent tape motion indi-
cations that were noted during dump. During to-
day, we've also noticed that condition - sometimes
when that recorder's in RECORD. We have verified
that the recorder's working okay, however, and
it's strictly a problem with the tape motion
sensor.

CDR Okay, it's - it looks like that same old flash-

ing light. We've had that today too.

028 20 47 08 CC Okay.

028 21 22 22 CC Good afternoon, Skylab. Got you through Hawaii

for 7 minutes. We're going to be dumping the
data/voice here.

CDR Hello, Story; welcome aboard.

CC Yes, sir, same to you.

028 21 28 37 CC Skylab, we're a minute to LOS, about 23 minutes

to the Vanguard at 21:51.

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028 21 51 37 CC Skylab, we're with you through the Vanguard for

9 minutes.

CDR Roger, Story.

028 21 59 55 CC Skylab, we're a minute to LOS. About 15 minutes

to Tananarive at 22:15.

028 22 16 49 CC Skylab, back with you through Tananarive for

minutes.

SPT Hello, Story. How are you doingtoday?

CC Ed, I'm doing beautiful today as are the rest of

us. And we got a beautiful day in Houston; about
the third good one ea - in the last month.

SPT Hey, that's good to hear.

f-
CC You'd be interested to know that: the back course
back there is beautiful today.

CC Well, keep it packed down there, Story. I plan

to use it in a little bit.

CC Okay, can't wait for you to get back home.

SPT Looking forward to it.

CC I might be able to keep up with you for a week or

two.

SPT The cardiovascular system is willing but I think

the legs won't be.

CC That's what I was hoping on.

SPT Sounds like a setup to me.

CC That's what Milt was saying.

028 22 19 12 CC And we're a couple of minutes from LOS here. The

next station is Hawaii at 22:58.
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028 22 58 29 CC Skylab, AOS through Hawaii for 9 minutes.

CDR Roger, Story. Story, the S183 operations are

complete - the first part of them anyway. It
looked like your - the plan - the pad they had was
unattainable in that we were not able to complete
the second exposure. We had to truncate it quite
early.

CC Copy, Jer.

CC And, Jer, this pass here probably, we'll be ship-

ping up an S183 checklist change to you. That does
not concern your S183 ops today; that's for
tomorrow.

CDR Roger, I thought we shot the last of the film today.

CC Jer, we're going back to the other carrousel, that's

l-l, that was considered unusable before, but we've
ginned up a procedure that you can still get it
aligned for installation.

028 23 00 15 CDR Okay.

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028 23 00 19 CC And Bill'll probably want to look at that procedure

a little bit tonight when he gets a chance.

028 23 03 09 CC Ed or Bill, Houston.

PLT Go, Story.

CC We're showing EXPERIMENT TAPE RECORDER number 1

running, and unless you're using it, you could
turn it OFF for us.

PLT Okay.

CDR Houston, CDR.

CC Go ahead, Jer.

CDR Roger, Story, I'm looking at permanent general

message 45, the revisit bag. And down at item
r number 3 and item number 2, it says PBI material,
one unit, any clothing; and then number 3 says
Durette material sample, one unit, any wrist or
waist tether. I think they've got their materials
mixed there. I believe it's our clothing that's
Durette and tethers are PBI, aren't they?

CC That sounds correct, Jer, and I'll -I'll check

on that.

CDR Okay.

CC Jer, Houston.

CDR Roger, Story.

028 23 05 59 CC So that we can plan ands- and get our biases in

for the articulating mirror system pads tomorrow,
could you give us the results of the reference
star sightings and any differences between the
AMS pad values and actual AMS read_ngs_when Can0pus
was centered?

CDR Yes, sir. On the reference star, I found Canopus

off to the right, and what I had to do was subtract
_ 2.0 degrees from ROTATION and add 0.3 degrees to
TILT. That put it right square in the center.
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CC Okay, thanks. And that S183 pad we just sent up,

it's labeled for the PLT, but that's for you.
And as for your Flight Plan there, you'll be
doing that early in the morning.

CDR Okay.

028 23 07 32 CC Skylab, we're a minute to LOS, about 22 minutes

to the Vanguard at 23:29. For Bill, the evening
status report will be coming up then, and we're
planning to dump the data/voice there.

PLT Roger; be ready for you, Story.

028 23 07 47 CC Okay, so will we.

028 23 30 20 CC Skylab, AOS through the Vanguard for 9 minutes.

CDR Roger.

CC Jer, we'll be shipping that S183 message up to

you this pass. I thought it had already gone up.
And we did correct it, so your name's on the top
of it. Also we hope we'll get up this Vanguard
pass that jumper wire procedure that'll get that
6-cycle-per-second noise out of your audio. And
you might take a look at that. And refer just
to the message. It does refer you to the SWS
Systems Checklist because there is a procedure
in there that might giveyou additional data,
but you can really pull it off without looking
at the SWS Systems Checklist. And you might be
interested in doing that tonight sometime; probably
be about 20 - 25 minutes for you.

CDR That's great, Story. It'll be a relief.

028 23 31 08 CC And you are correct. The clothes are Durette

and the restraints and straps are PBI.

CDR Okay. Don't bother to send up a new message;

we'll just scratch these out and correct them.

CC Good idea.

PLT Ready to copy the photo log?

CC Go, Bill.
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PLT 16-millimeter: M516 charcoal canister activity,

Charlie India 94, 15 percent, Charlie India 128;
EREP VTS, Charlie Lima 12, 58 percent; M151,
M092/93, Charlie India 87, 83 percent, Charlie
India 79; Mh87-4 Alfa, Charlie India 87, 68 per-
cent, Charlie India 79. Nikon 01, Charlie
X-ray 44, 46 frame count; Nikon 02, Bravo
Victor 40, 43; Nikon 03, Charlie India ll6, 15;
Nikon 04, Bravo Echo ll, 05; Nikon 05, India
Romeo ll, 25. 7G-millimeter: Charlie X-ray 18,
158. ETC: India Romeo 03, 105. EREP: set
Papa, 9857, 9196, 0073, 0062, 3610, 5331. Drawer A
configuration: Alfa-1, transporter 02, empty
supply reel, takeup Charlie India 86; Alfa-2,
transporter 05, no supply, takeup is Charlie
India 9h; Alfa 3, transporter 06, Charlie India 87,
68 percent, Charlie India 79; Alfa 4 and BACK,
no change.

CC Okay, Bill.

PLT See if they're ready for the evening status.

CC Go, Bill.

028 23 34 01 PLT Sleep: CDR, 6.0, 4.5 Heavy, 1.5 light; SPT, 7.0,
6.5 heavy, 015 light; PLT, 6.0, 6.0 heavy. Urine:
CDR, 170; SPT, 95; PLT, 190. Water gun: 8821,
4896, 1695; CDR, SPT, and PLT, respectively. Body
mass, BMMD: CDR, 6.314, 6.313, 6.31h; SPT, 6.406,
6.398, 6.399; PLT, 6.250, 6.257, 6.248. Exercise:
CDR, no change; PLT, no change; SPT, no change.
Medications and expendables: CDR, no medication,
socks, shorts, and shirt. SPT, Afrin once, socks
and shorts, and - shorts and shirts. PLT,
three Actifed as directed, no clothing. Shopping
list: Entry Checklist review l-l/2 hours, SPT;
mission day 84 and 85 menus package and stowed,
CDR. Inoperable equipment disposition: trans-
porter 05 jammed with 15 percent remaining. This
was during the f_Im_ng of the canister operation
last night. Film broken, transporter cleared;
takeup reel Charlie India 128 stowed. Unscheduled
stowage item location: Day 84 food, W-730; day 85
food, W-719. Food: CDR, salt packs, 19.0;
plus a black coffee ; minus One strawberry dr_ n_ ;
rehydration, plus 1'5. SPT, salt packs, 4.0; plus
a grape drink; plus an Apollo cocoa; plus an Apollo
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grape drink; plus a tuna. That first grape drink

was a Skylab. No rehydration water devs. PLT,
salt, 4.0 ; deviations, two green beans, one was
eaten last night after the status report with the
evening meal and one was eaten with lunch today;
plus one black coffee with su - or plus a coffee
with a sugar; no rehydration water deviations.

028 23 36 22 CC Okay, thanks, Bill. And on - on the film report,

drawer L, the EREP, the fifth station, you read
uh 3610, and we're thinking maybe it ought to be
9610.

PLT I copied it Out of my pad, let me look at it.

Okay, that's what Jerry copied too, 3610; but let
me go up and check the mag again Just to be sure,
Story.

CC Okay.

028 23 37 38 CC Ed, Houston. Or, CDH, Houston.

SPT He' s recording right now, Story.

CC Okay, we were interested in checking to see that

the teleprinter is printing out messages. We're
not getting any verification on that down here.

SPT Okay, stand by a moment.

PLT Okay, Story, I checked. That's what the little

numbers read.

CC Okay, thanks, Bill.

028 23 38 30 CC And, Skylab, we're about 30 seconds until LOS

here. The next station is your medical conference,
which is back again at Va - Vanguar@ in about an
hour and a half. You'll see us next at Ascension.
That 's about an hour and 42 minutes, at 01: 20.
You may get a few desat firings and you may possi-
bly also get a CMG reset. Press on with the Flight
Plan and also get that MOMENTUM DUMP INHIBIT per
the checklist for your S183 ops.

SPT Okay, Story, will do. Teleprinter is doing its

thing, working great. And I' d like to change my
exercise. That's method Alfa is 37 minutes vice 40,
and it's been that since around, say, day 023. -_
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CC Okay, got it. And Dr. RudY Hoffman, the PI in

the light flashes, thanks Bill for some good data.

SPT Bill gave it his all.

028 23 39 25 PLT Anytime' Story. That was nice.

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029 01 16 33 cC Skylab, got you here for about a minute and a

half through Vanguard.

PLT Roger, coming at you with the frame count from

ATM: 7892, 85318, 6, 24, 788, 617, 2564.

CC Okay, Bill, got it.

029 01 17 ii CC And we're already about 30 seconds to LOS here,

and we're about 3 minutes to Ascension at 01:20.

CDR Roger, Story.

CC And we'd like Jet's water gun reading sometime

along here.

PLT Stand by.

CDR Would you buy 88917

029 01 17 51 CC Yes.

029 01 22 02 CC Skylab, back with you through Ascension for

9 minutes. And Bill, Houston.

PLT Go, Story.

CC Bill, we'd like the S052 FRAMES REMAINING again

on S054, like the GRATING positioned to OUT and
the EXPOSURE RANGE to 256.

PLT Stand by.

CDR Houston, CDR.

CC Go, Jer.

CDR I don't know why, Story, but this time the pad
values for ROTATION and TILT for Canopus were
within 0.2 of a degree, so the corrections I had
last time didn't work this time.

CC Okay, thanks, Jet.

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CDR I guess all that tells me is there's a lot of

slop in the wheels there that control the mirror
or something.

PLT Story, was that 52 that you wanted over?

I

029 01 23 ll CC Yes, sir; I think you gave us two numbers on that,

was it 788 or 6177

PLT 788. Disregard 617.

CC Okay, and the panel looks good now, Bill.

PLT Thank you.

CC And, Bill, while you're up there could you check

the teleprinter and check the legibility of the
S183 ops pad and the recorder bypass pad?

PLT Stand by.

CDR Story, when they dump the tapes this time, would
you have them check and see if any of the med
conference got onto the dump tapes? If they did,
I'd like to request that we do not again schedule
a med conference and an experiment at the same
time that requires recorders.

CC Okay, we'll check that for you and let you know,
Jer.

029 01 24 42 CDR I found it almost impossible to carry on any kind

of conversation with either side of the house,
either the experiment or the doctor at the time.

CC Okay.

PLT And the teleprinter is legible, but it's sort of

poor quality.

CC Is it good enough?

PLT It 's good enough.

029 01 30 24 CC Skylab, we're 40 seconds to LOS. The next station

is Guam in about 35 minutes, 02:05. Bill, you
got a phone call there. It'll be ANTENNA, LEFT.
And we're intending to dump the data/voice at Guam.
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\ CDR Okay,Story,and he copied.

CC And, Jer, we'll be looking for any med conference

notes from the tape recorders there. And at this
time of the evening when we're scheduling phone
calls, med conference, and evening status and all -
this time.of the evening, we've been running
Vanguard to Hawaii, and we got sometimes an hour
and a half between passes - it's real hard to
work all of those things in, but we'll do the
best we can.

CDR Yes, I know. I realize it's a problem, but it's

also a pain in the neck having your darn med
conferences recorded.

029 Ol 31 09 CC Yes, sir.

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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

029 02 05 h9 CC Skylab, A0S through Gnam for 8 minutes. And we'd

like the DAS. That's an outer gimbal backup.
And we'll be dumping the data/voice here.

029 02 08 06 CC Jer, Houston.

CC The DAS is yours, Skylab.

CDR Houston, Skylab.

CC Go ahead.

CDR This is CDR; how do you read?

CC Loud and clear; you been calling us, Jer?

CDR Yes, I don't think we've been getting any downlink

to you. You called me?

CC Yes sir, I gave you an AOS and a data/volce dump,

and then I called you and also asked for the DAS.
Were you receiving me on those?

CDR Yes, we got all those.

CC Okay, Jer. We'd like you to check the - the

subsequent teleprinter messages that - that have
gone up. And if they're marginal or you have
any question about them, we'd like you to change
the paper. We've got a lot more pads to send up
tonight.

CDR Okay, Story.

SPT Story, I just checked; it looks pretty good.

Cc Okay, Ed.

029 02 09 43 SPT Story, I'm just finishing up some work on the

ATM here. We did not get block number 1 at that
last orbit, so I came up and got that one in, as
well as some others I'll mention to you in a
moment. And I'm just putting the back in unat-
tended configuration. Gave 52 a shopping list
item 1 now, and I'll be going unattended right
now.
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CC Okay, thanks Ed; we've been watching you. And,

Jerry, Houston.

CDR Go ahead, Story.

CC We're planniDg on this being the last pass for

tonight, if you've got anything for us. And
there's still a 2-degree error in the - the A_.
The reason it came out pretty good last time is
that we had about a 2-degree error in the nUzE
and that compensated for the error in the
instrument. And in future pads, we're going to
put the biases in for that 2-degree error.

CDR Okay, good enough. That had me kind of confused

there; how it could have been bad last time and
good this time.

029 02 lO 57 CC And, Jer, pass on a message to Bill. I know he's

on the - on the phone right now and that is that
if he did not get rad 5, that's radiation 5,
that's radiation 5, another window opens up for
that at 02:48 tonight.

CDR Okay, Story_ I'll tell him. 02:48.

CC Thanks, Jer.

SPT Okay, Story, the ATM is yours.

CC Okay, Ed; and you can do a favor for us up there

and change the GRATING POSITION in S055 to all
balls - to ZERO.

SPT Okay, I just ran it from all balls up to 617.

I'll run her over to ZRRO again.

CC Th_s. •

SPT Story, what we did on S055 was - we picked up

some extra ones on either side, on the right
limb and left limb at plus 395 and plus 105 and
minus 185 and UP/DOWN. We Just added some on
the left-hand side and theright-hand side to
try to pick up amy limb activity that might be
extended out there. So we figured it wasn't a
a maxi-RASTER, it wasn't a super-RASTER; it was
a hyper-RASTER.
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CC That'll keep a lot of people thinking, Ed.

SPT I think it probably was a little bit sadistic

because now all the S055 folks are going to have
to go out and buy new picture frames.

CC Or get themselves a new Sun. And while I got you,

on the general message for handheld photos that
we're sending up for tomorrow's work, there's -
there's three 'entries there that' ii need changing.
We're going to send you up an entirely new pad
so you won't have to pen-and-ink them.

SPT Thank you.

i

029 02 13 34 CC Skylab, we're a minute until LOS. The next station

is the Vanguard in about 30 minutes at 02:hh.
We won't call you. It's there if you want us.
Good night.

CDR Good night, Story.

SPT Night, Story. Enjoy the evening.

CC Yes, sir.

MCC Good night, Skylab.

CDR Good night, Milt.

029 02 13 57 SPT Night, Milt.

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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

029 ii 00 Ol CC (Music: "If" by Herbie Mann and Bread

"Gypsies, Tramps, and Thieves" by Chef)

029 ll 12 48 CC Skylab, Houston; good morning. The black team

will be back with you again in about 5 minutes
at Madrid. And we're scheduled to dump the voice
recorder.

PLT Roger, Hank.

029 ll 15 12 CC (Music: "Indian S1_mer")

029 ll 18 17 CC Skylab, Houston. We're through Madrid for

8-1/2 minutes, and we'd like to dump the recorder
here.

PLT Roger, Hank. You've got it.

PLT Hank, do you need that BUFFER AMPS breaker IN to

dump?

CC Stand by 1.

CC No, we don't need that IN, Bill.

PLT Okay. It 's in, Hank.

CC Would you care to hear a little news this morning,

or you want to wait a little while.

CDR No, Hank. Go ahead. That'll be fine.

029 ii 19 51 CC Well, we'll lead off here with a few more words
on Kohoutek. A leading comet expert says the
comet Kohoutek still could be the comet of the
century to scientists. "Kohoutek is a better
than average comet," Dr. Marsden said. '_ut
there is Just an awful lot we don't know about
these things. We never had a case like this of
a comet which came in so close to the Sun being
discovered so far out in space as this one, and
this presented _A_V interesting possibilities
about what it could do," he sai_. '_ut because
it was discovered so early, scientists could pre-
pare. And, speaking as an astronomer, I am
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delighted at the scientific observations made.

No comet has been studied as extensively as this
one, and what is learned should be incredible,"
Dr. Marsden said. Re said comets are extremely
unpredictable 9b_ects which can suddenly grow
brighter or di_ner, burn out completely, or even
split into two or more other comets. '_We feel
that there may be a volatile substance on the
outside of the comet head which is lost on the
first pass, leaving Just water, ice, and other
material which doesn't vaporize as easily." It
is the vapor reflecting light that is seen in the
sky, and Kohoutek could have lost its vaporizing
substance passing the Sun. Many experts speculate
that comets originate somewhere beyond Pluto's
orbit in a ring of cometlike snowballs, and occa-
sionally one is nudged out of place and falls
toward the Sun. The prevailing theory is that
these snowballs are composed of frozen water,
ammonia, and methane, along with dust particles
and other space debris.

021 ll 21 18 CC The surging Mississippi River, flooding thousands

of acres of lowlands in West Tennessee, has forced
about 500 people to flee their homes. Authori-
ties said the river had spilled over about 30,000
acres of unprotected farmS and from Hickman, Ken-
tucky, near the Tennessee-Kentucky border south-
ward to about 40 miles north of Memphis. The
hardest hit counties in West Tennessee were Dyer
and Lauderdale counties, where flood water covered
about 22,500 acres. The river at Dyersburg in
Dyer County was cresting Monday at more than
6 feet above the 32-foot flood stage. A spokes-
man for the National Weather Service said the
river would crest at Memphis on Sunday at 36.1 feet,
which is 2.1 feet above flood stage at the city.
Problems with Mariner l0 from Pasadena JPL. They
say about 20 percent of Mariner 10's nitrogen gas
supply w_as lost Monday, Just eight days before a
scheduled flyby of Venus, scientists reported.
They - Scientists were not _mmediately certain
whether the gas loss would have any effect on the
mission. A computer alarm alerted engineers at
Laboratory, Monday, to a sudden decrease in atti-
tude control
p gas pressure aboard the spacecraft,
a spokesman said. Proper pressure was restored
by turning off the gyros which had been controlling
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_ the craft'sattitude for the last i0 days.

Mariner i0, launched November 3, 1973, is scheduled
to fly by Venus on February 5 and Mercury on
March 29.

029 ll 22 46 CC And here's a little one from Flo - Orlando, Florida.

Little did Carlton Black realize that spitting
watermelon seeds at his sister might some day
win him a trip to Las Vegas. Black, a Jackson-
ville auto parts salesman, captured the Florida
melon spitting championship Sunday. "I didn't
get too dry a pucker," he explained after spitting
a seed 55 feet to beat all challengers, including
Florida Secretary of State Richard Stone. Black,
30, said he gained his skill sitting around the
backyard, eating watermelon, and spitting the
seeds at his sister. He won a trip to Las Vegas
for the National Spitoff. From Miami: Soviet
Communist party leader Leonid Brezhnev gets his
first chance to address the Cuban nation today at
a massive outdoor rally in Havana. Brezhnev, who
received a tumultous greeting on his arrival in
_ the Cuban capital on Monday, is expectedto ex-
press his country's solidarity with the Cuban
regime of Prime Minister Fidel Castro at cere-
monies in the Plaza de la Revo - Revolution. The
67-year-old Brezhnev is expected to spend much of
the week-long visit in meetings with Castro.
There has been no official word on the subjects
to be discussed.

029 ll 24 00 CC From Houston: When the Skylab III astronauts de-

part their orbiting home next week, they'll leave
behind a time capsule that may be retruved -
retruved, huh - retrieved by future spacemen.
Mission Control radioed the astronauts a list of
B0 items, ranging from food and clothing to elec-
trical devices, to be placed in a bag and left
in a convenient spot inside the laboratory. Carr,
Pogue, and Gibson today were in their 75th day
of the 84-day mission, heading for a February 8
splashdown. They are the third and final crew
to inhabit the 85-ton space station. Washington:
The Navy plans to argue that the energy crisis -
crisis _kes it necessary to have a bigger fleet.
Senior adam- aam_rals will tell congressional
committees in coming months that naval power is
vital in keeping open the tanker routes from
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oil producing regions. In the last five years,

the fleet has shrunk from 976 ships to 511 older
ves - as older vessels were retired. Also Wash-
ington: The fate of emergency energy legislation
appears in doubt in the Senate. A final Senate
vote on the bill was scheduled for this after-
noon. But before that, Senator Gaylord Nelson
was expected to offer a motion to send the bill
back to conference with the House. The bill would
give President Nixon the authority to order gas-
oline rationing.
i
029 ll 25 21 CC Well, they had a big fight last night. Muh_mmed
All showed up in glistening black and white terry
cloth and Joe Frazier swathed himself in white
crushed velvet, but the fighters looked like
paupers Monday night compared with some of the
fans. A noted designer reportedly made All an
$11,000 rhinestone-studded cape to wear to the
ring, but he did not use it. Earlier in the
week, he had chided Frazier for flaunting minks
while most of the world was starving. It was the
night of peacock at Madison Square Garden. In
furs and feathers, glistening platform shoes,
and blinding diamonds came the soul people,
strutting majestically into the smoky, smelly
arena to witness the most primitive of ma_'s
sports. Ringside seats went for as much as $1000
from scalpers. 20,400 fans packed the Garden to
watch All and Frazier go 12 rounds. The final
score was 7 for Ali, 4 for Frazier, 1 even. Both
fighters were cut up pretty bad. "I'd love to
give Joe another chance. He deserves everything
he can get," Muhmmmed Ali said on a possible re-
match with Joe Frazier. All won a unanimous
12-round decision on the heavy weight match. It
is estimated the fight was witnessed by a billion
people. That's hard to believe. And that's about
it. We're about 25 seconds from LOS. Tananarive
is next at 38.

CDR Thank you, Hank.

CC And for the SPT, one quickie. We've got you a

new JOP 13 pad on board, now.

CC There were just a few changes to that, Ed, from

the one you reviewed.
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029 ii 26 56 SPT Okay, thank you, Hank.

029 ll 39 09 CC Skylab, Houston through Tananarive for 7 minutes.

SPT Roger, Hank.

CC CDR, Houston.

PLT He's listening, go.

CC Okay, he had a question yesterday evening regard-

ing whether the med conference got on to the dump
tape with the M131 data. And we checked and it
did not.

PLT Okay, thank you.

CC And when you get to tearing the pads up, you'll

probably notice that there is a rev Charlie on
message 753_ regarding the optional handheld photos
that replaces theI Alfa version, so you can throw
the first one away.
f

PLT Okay.

CC And, Skylab, got one question for anybody that

can answer. What's the status of the AFC bypass
installation? Did you do that yet?
!
PLT What kind of bypass?

CC Roger. We were going

I
to install that cable, you
know, on the AM recorder there, recorder number 1
and - so we could get rid of that buzz.

PLT Okay, well we didn't do it, Hank. Was there an

uplinked procedure involved in that, or was that
right out of the book?

029 ll 41 37 CC We sent a m_ssage up yesterday to allow you to do

that. It sort of revised the procedures in the
book. It was a complete procedure. It should
have stood alone.

PLT Okay, we'll have to take a look at it.

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CC Okay. It went up yesterday. It was message

n11mher 7451. We - we were just pla - inter -
But you - you can do it any time you want to.
But we were Just curious if you did get to it
yesterday.

PLT When did that come up on the teleprinter? We

haven't found it yet.

CC It went up yesterday at 23:30 Zulu. And - and

the reason we're asking you about it is that once
that procedure is accomplished, we can no longer
redesignate recorders down here. So we do need
to know when you do it.

PLT Okay, Hank, either we didn't get it or we've mis-

laid it. How about firing another one up when it's
convenient ?

CC Okay, that's no problem, and we'll do that right

_ay.

029 ll 43 12 CC Skylab, if it's convenient to listen, you might be

• interestedin a coupleof notes we got in from
your recovery boat. The New Orleans sailed out
of San Diego Sunday morning, and it's on its way
out to get ready to pick you up. You'll make the
BOth pickup of manned spacecraft that has been
made by the Navy. The - the weather officer on
board the ship is Na - Lieutenant Comm_uder
David Sokol, and he said the long-range forecast
will be pretty good for your recovery. There is
also an interesting story coming from the ship.
The air officer on the boat is named Orville
Wright, Jr. Commander Orville Wright, Jr. was
named for his father, obviously, who was born in
the year Orville and Wilbur Wright discovered
flight at Kitty Hawk. They were not relatives,
but his family chose to commemorate that bit of
history by naming their son orville. "At least
it helped me through flight school," the naval
aviator- aviator said. No one wanted to be the
instructor who washed out Orville Wright. As -
as the air officer, he is in charge of the air
mission which is to recover you gt_ys. And he
said that he's - that Orville Wright is a proud
name to be bearing, espcially on this mission,
to recover the men who have flown longest in
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space, a mere 70 years after Orville and Wilbur

Wright launched a man into the sky. Commander
Wright grew up in Bucks County, Pa., but he says
he is - says here, discovered San - San Diego
during his Navy duty and doubts if he will ever
leave.

PLT We've got a warm heart - a warm place in our heart

for all those guys in the Navy, Hank. And pass
on our best wishes now, and we'll hope to see
them in about lO days.

CC Okay, Bill, will do.

029 ll h5 12 CC We're coming up on about a minute from LOS.

Honeysuckle is the next site at 12:03, and that's
17-1/2 minutes from now.

029 ll h5 23 SPT So long, Hank.

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029 12 03 30 CC Skylab, Houston through Honeysuckle for 9 minutes.

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

is next at 23, ll minutes from now.

029 12 ll 31 SPT So long, Hank.

029 12 23 18 CC Skylab, Houston through Hawaii for 9 minutes.

CDR Roger, Hank.

029 12 31 31 CC Skylab, Houston; i minute to LOS. Goldstone

at 35, 3-1/2 minutes from now.

029 12 35 27 CC Skylab, Houston through Goldstone, 6-1/2 minutes.

SPT Howdy, Hank.

029 12 41 03 CC Skylab, Houston; i minute to LOS. We'll see you

again in Bermuda at 46. That's about 4-1/2 min-
utes from now.

CDR Roger, Hank. Have you uplinked that teleprinter

message on the jumper?

CC Okay. The ASP is down - down here, Jer. As soon

as we can get the computer support, we'll put it
in and ship it up.

CDR Okay; good enough. I don't have any idea what

happened to the one last night. I was going to
ask you a - on the last pass if - why they hadn't
sent it up yet.

CC Roger. We - we uplinked that yesterday afternoon,

and we're a little surprised too, that it didn't
get up. I don't understand that either.

CDR No. It's probably on the end Of somebody's pad,

and we haven't noticed it yet, but we've looked
around.

CC Roger. It's three pages long.

CDR Well, that can't be it then.

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SPT Hank, is the VTR available for the ATM now?

CC That's affirmative. VTR is cleaned off, Ed.

029 12 42 05 SPT Thank you.

029 12 46 42 CC Skylab, Houston through Bermuda for 7 minutes.

029 12 47 50 CC Skylab, Houston. We're com/ng up on a keyhole.

It's about 45 seconds long. Give you a call
when we get out.

029 12 49 13 CC Skylab, we're out of keyhole and back with you.

Another 4 minutes left on this pass.

029 12 50 33 SPT Well, Hank, it looks like on the WLC we've got
another burned-in spot on the TV display. It's
on right adjacent to the one we had previously,
only this one's a little larger and Just a little
further out in a radial direction.

CC Roger. We copy.

CC Ed, would you tell us again where the new spot

is in relation to the older one?

SPT Yes, Hank; the old one is about l0 o'clock and

out about a third or so of the distance from the
center. The new one is at around 10:30 and out
around halfway, and looks to be about a factor
of B larger.

CC We copy.

SPT You'll be getting a look at it on the VTR, which

we'll be doing in a moment, after we get done
with building block 1.

029 12 52 36 CC Okay. We'll be looking to see that on our dump,

and we're about i minute to L06 n°w" Canaries
is coming up next at 55, and we plan to dump the
recorder there and the black team will be handling
over to the crimson team there; and we'll see you
tomorrow.

SPT So long, Hank. Have a good day.

CDR See you, Hank.

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CC See you later, guys. Have a good day.

i

029 12 53 42 SPT Hank, you still there?

CC Roger.

SPT Okay. When I try to look at the corona using

the TV display, put it to the TV position, I can
just barely see the inside of the corona. I
suspect that the AGC in the tube is looking at
this bright spot and Just brings everything else
down. i

029 12 54 03 SPT So, I'm looking at a corona ...

029 12 55 44 CC Skylab, Houston. Good morning, guys. We're

with you through Canary; we've got you for about -
oh, probably for about l0 minutes through here.
And, Ed, could you give us a little bit more
description of what you're talking about there
on your TV for the WLC?

CC And we're also doing a data/voice recorder dump

here.

CDR Roger, Crip.

SPT Be with you in a minute, Crip.

CC Okay. No sweat. It's at your convenience.

029 12 59 19 SPT Okay, Crip. We - to start off, we've got another

large spot, significantly larger than the other.
The - on the WLC. The first one was around
1 centimeter by 1/2 centimeter, oval shaped,
and about 3.3 centimeters from the center. This
one is 2-1/2 centimeters by 1 centimeter and
4.3 centimeters from the center. The other one
was at - the original one was at around l0 o'clock
and this one is at about 10:30. It beh_ves in
the same way; that is, it's exceptionally bright,
and the scan that goes across - and then - for
all those lines, is darker on either side. So
the AGC is doing its job and brings down the
level of light of the remainderof the total
display to such a level that with max CONTRAST
and maxBRIGHTNESS I can only see the inside of
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the corona. If I turn the CONTRAST down to 4-1/2

and the BRIGHTNESS up to 9, I can still make out
the outline of the corona out to the edge of the
display, although with nowhere near the clarity
that we could before. If we're planning on look-
ing for a very dim feature, as we may be this
afternoon with the J0P 13, then I suspect that
we are - our chances are substantially reduced,
if not down to nil with this development.

CC Okay. That's a very good description of it.

That doesn't look any too promising for that -
trying to find Gamma Vel.

SPT What's the magnitude of Gp_,ma Vel?

CC Plus 2.

SPT No, that doesn't look too promising, Crip.

029 13 09 50 CC Skylab, Houston. We're i minute from LOS. Next

station contact in 28 minutes through Honeysuckle
at 13:40. Correction on that. That's about
30 minutes away.

CDR So long, Crip.

029 13 lO 16 CC Bye, bye.

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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

.... 029 13 40 22 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS at Honeysuckle for

about 8 minutes. Got a keyhole coming up in
about I minute of 1-minute duration, and I'll
call you on the other side of it.

CDR Roger.

029 13 42 52 CC Skylab, Houston. We've cleared the keyhole.

I have a - a couple of notes here that if
somebody's available, might like to read up.

SPT Stand by a minute, Crip; then I'll be right with

you.

CC Okay. There's no hurry at all. If we don't

get them this pass, we can get them - get them
a little bit later.

CDR Okay, Crip. Go ahead.

CC Okay. One item - We have 509 scheduled on the

alternate Flight Plan tomorrow. And Just to go
ahead and - and top it off, we'd like to put
battery 7 on to CHARGE for about 4 hours. If
somebody has time to do that for us, Corollary
would very much appreciate it and so would
Mr. Bruce.

CDR Okay. I'll do that right now.

029 13 43 h9 CC Okay. One other item is tha the aurora is

moderately active today, and if you've got time,
I could give you some - some windows that -
that it would be available both north and south.

CDR Okay. I'm ready to copy.

CC Okeydoke. First coming up is out of window S-4.

The north aurora would be between lh:06 and 14:14,
between 15:39 and 15:47, and between 17:12 and
17:20. For the south aurora, hopefully out of
window S-3, it would be 15:12 to 15:20, 16:h5 to
16:53, and 18:18 to 18:26.
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CDR Okay. North aurora, S-4, 14:06 through 14,

15:39 through 47, 17:12 through 17:20. South
aurora, S-3, 15:12 through 20, 16:45 through 53,
18:18 through 26.

CC That's a good readbaek. Appreciate it, Jer.

CDR Okay and battery 7 is on CHARGE now.

CC Thank you very much.

029 13 h7 08 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from LOS. Next

station contact is through Hawaii in 13-1/2 minutes
at 14:00.

029 14 01 26 CC Skylab, Houston. We're A0S through Hawaii for

8 minutes.

CREW Roger, Crip.

029 14 05 Oh CC Skylab, Houston. For the CDR, do you have a

moment to cha$, Jer?

CDR Go ahead, l'm listening.

CC Okeydoke. Sounds like you're - like you're

working too. We are uplinking that message for
installing the ALC so that we can possibly get
rid of this 6-hertz noise. We would - You can
look it over - we would prefer you not to install
it until after Ed does the JOP 13 this evening.
There could possibly be some conflict with us
using the recorders during the day. You might
take a look at - especially at the end of the
message, there are certain constraints involved
once this ALC is installed. And you might want
to peruse those a little bit.

CDR Okay. Sure will.

CC Skylab, Houston. We're going to go ahead and

take the VTR, rewind it, so we can dump it over
the States.

CDR Okay.
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029 14 08 48 CC Skylab, Houston. We're i minute from LOS. Have

you again in h minutes through Goldstone at 14:13,
14:13.

029 14 08 57 PLT Roger.

CDR See you.

029 14 IB 02 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS through Goldstone.

Have you for about 6 minutes.

CDR How's the weather at Goddard, Crip?

CC Good. Going to be able to get it today.

CDR Good show.

029 lh 18 ll CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from LOS. Next

station contact in 4 minutes through Bermuda
at 14:22. IncidentA]Sy, on the laser from Goddard
today, we couldn't get the blue, so it will be
red, 1 watt to start off with.

CDR Okay, Crip. Thanks.

SPT Hey, Crip. On S056, we've got a hangup now

where the FILTER has returned to number i, but
we still have an OPERATE light on. Are they
ex - still exposing in stereo ops 6 [?] now in
FILTER i without the frame advancing?

CC Negative. The - the shutter's closed.

SPT Okay. We still have an OPERATE light, however.

That must be in the electronics and not in the
film camera.

CC We'll take a look at it for you.

029 14 19 09 SPT Thank you.

029 14 22 48 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS through Bermuda.

Have you for l0 minutes.

029 14 24 32 CC For the SPT. Ed, if you get a minute or two

out from your operations there, I've got a couple
of items I should run over wi - with you.
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SPT Okay. Hold on, Crip. I'ii be right with you.

CC Okay. No - no rush.

029 14 25 B7 CDR Okay, Crip. Got the red laser.

CC Roger. Understand you've got it.

CDR On Binocs only; I'll try in naked eye, now.

CC Okay.

029 14 26 14 CDR Okay. Got it unaided.

CC Hey, beautiful.

CC We would - would like to get a photo of that.

I don't believe we've gotten a photo of a red
laser.

SPT Okay, Crip. Go ahead.

029 14 26 51 CC Okay. One - one item we'd like to suggest trying

on the NK)NITORwhen you're looking at WLC TV is -_
see if you can cover up the - the bright spots -
sort of mark them in some way. You might put
paper across them or something like that, and
see if you can - that will allow you to turn up
the CONTRAST any. The reason that we're asking
that is that we're seeing the AGC voltage level
down here still approximately the same, and it
may be a function of Just your eye integrating
the light. And we want to see if by trying to
get some of it out that it might help you out
a little bit.

SPT Crip, I don't think that's the problem. I have

done that. Ever since we got that bright spot,
I cut out a - I have a cutout that I've been
using for photography which covers up that bright
spot. I've also used it today. Had to move it
over considerably in order to cover the spot,
and I - that didn't seem to ma_e too much dif-
ference. I don't believe it's in the eye.

CC Okay. You're always way ahead of us there. Okay.

We got it. One item regarding - You got a J0P 7
catching the sunrise on the next orbit, and we
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would like to verify that, or make sure that

we do have the 52 DOOR, CLOSEd during that
oper at ion.

SPT Okay. I'ii make a note of it right now on the

p - on the pad.

CC Roger.

029 14 28 ll CDR Okay, Crip. I lost the laser about 20 seconds

ago with the binoculars.

CC Okay. It wa - it was turned off about that time,

Jer. For Ed also, there was some mention made
on - on one of the dump tapes, when you were
doing 92, about a short associated with the
legbands, and we really couldn't understand the
entire conversation on the dump. And we're wonder-
ing whether you were - there was some kind of
electrical problem or not. If you have a chance,
we'd like you to expand on that a little bit.

SPT Holdit a sec.

CC Well, you - you mentioned something when you

were talking about legbands about "short" and
question is wh_ther the - you were talking about
the legbands being too short or whether there was
an electrical problem with it or what.
I
SPT No, the right legband, Crip. When I was looking
at the VOLUME readout on the ESS, and I would
wiggle the wire leading to the legband, it would
alternately go between the proper reading,
which was, say, maybe 3.2 for the cal, or to
zero. In other words, when I'd have a cal and
it should read 3.2, wiggling the wire would
alternately send it to zero and then back to
that position, indicating that I was getting a
signal which was intermittent, most likely due to
a wire somewhere opening or closing.

CC Okay. Appreciate that further explanation.

029 lh 29 53 SPT If it doesn't harm the data, if they're getting

good data down there, there's no reason for us
to be chancing it.

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029 14 31 05 CC Roger; copy. Understand.

CC For the CDR, Jer, as - as a word of explanation

as to why the - the laser was secured was we're
normally leaving it on as long as we can, and
the - about the only limitation is if we have an
aircraft in the area, and that was the - the
reason today oh why they went ahead and secured
it.

CDR Okay. And the laser pictures I took were with

the Nikon 300.

CC Thank you, sir. Also, it was mentioned the other

day, I believe by the SPT, regarding the Mark I
exercise spring breaking, asd we're wondering if
you guys have had a chance to try repairing that
yet. i

CDR Super Ed has done the deed.

CC Very good. I didn't know he was such a mechanic.

CDR Oh, he 's got real talent.

SPT In this business you need a backup trade, Crip.

CC Yes; yes. It's always a good idea, especially

this business.

029 14 32 23 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from LOS. Next

station contact in 7 minutes through Ascension
at 14:39, 14:39.

029 14 40 04 CC Skylab, Houston. ' We are AOS through Ascension

for l0 minutes.

029 14 44 57 SPT Hello, Crip. Even though you can see the Sun
down there now, let me tell you how it looks
from up here.

CC It always looks prettier from up there. So tell

us about it.

SPT Okay. XUV MONITOR, active region 34 is - is

there, but it's very dim. Active region 36, I
have a_heck of a touch time finding out where
that is. It's barely - barely able to see a
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brightening in the region in which it's called

w out. We don'_ have any real major coronalholes
on the disk except for north and south. We have
one at - which is just a faint - maybe perhaps
looks more like a fairly wide, diffuse filament
channel at about 180, extendingeast-west, maybe
0.4 of a solar radii, slightly curving to the
north as it g6es to the east - I'm sorry, to the
west. Over o_ the west limb - east limb, excuse
me - I'll getlthe two straight one of these days;
give me another 85 days at it.

CC No such luck. 1

029 14 46 04 SPT Active region!37 stands out. There is some bright-

ening. I assume since they say active region 37
is at 0.9, that the brightening which is right
on the limb now at about 270, maybe from 265 to 275,
that that is _ot their active region 37. So that
must be something new coming around the corner.
Right adjacent to active region 37, there are two
other brightenings in XUV which look to be of
F the samemagnitude,and they run - they're sep-
arated by a d_s_ance of around 0.1 solar radii
and run in a straight line from the active region 37
to the west-northwest, inclined around maybe
20 degrees to the equator. I'd like to go on
over and take a look at that with 55 if I get the
chance today, because all three of them look to
be about the same intensity and they're lined up -
a perfect straight lineup. I've seen this yester-
day, also. Looking at the WHITE LIGHT CORONAGRAPH,
and the picture which I was able to get out of
it, yoU could see the - essentially three streamer
structures, one at 060, which is by far the
brightest - I should say the best defined one,
looks like a helmet streamer at the base. It
extends out q_ite sharply to the edge of the
display. At 125 degrees or so, there's a very
sharp faint one, very narrow. I Could see it out
to around 3 solar radii. And then over at 275,
is that fairly wide diffuse one, radial direction,
which has not changed appreciably from yesterday.
Using an overlay which I've - another one which
I've just mad e up which covers up that spot, I'm
able to get some reasonable pictures out of it.
And it does help my eye. It does help so that
your eye can become a little better dark adapted
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and see things better on the scope. But I have

to do it with a CONTRAST of 4 and a BRIGHTNESS of 7.
And that cuts down my ability to re - resolve very
faint features. So I think we can give it a go
today, but we sure don't have the capability we
did before.

029 14 48 35 CC Okay. Appreciate that rundown, Ed, and, yes, we're

for giving it a go here. We're going to h_ve a -
a backup maneuver just in case you can't see it,
you know, to go ahead and place it and try it
anyhow. Incidentally, that is a new active region
coming around the - coming around the limb, the
one you referred to. And also regarding the 56
thing you saw a while ago when it was back to
FILTER 1 and the OPERATE light stayed on, it was
just a normal 56 hangup. It just happened to
occur right before the last frame advance at the
end of the - the picture-taking cycle. So that
was the reason it didn't go ahead and go back to -
to READY.

SPT Okay. So when the frame does not advance, the

FILTER moves for_rard but not the frame, so you
really have a double exposure then on one piece
of frame. Is that correct? A11 along here, I've
been hoping that when they get a hangup like that,
that what they're really getting is a long exposure
in one of their filters. Maybe that's not true,
however.

CC Think it kind of depends on - on where the thing

hangs up, but in this case, you - you did get one.
I'm going to go LOS here in about 15 seconds.
Next station contact is through Carnarvon in
23 minutes at 15:13, 15:13, and we'll be doing a
data/voice recorder dump there.

SI_T So long Crip.

029 14 49 59 CC Bye, bye.

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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

029 15 12 53 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS through Carnarvon for

about l0 minutes.
i
029 15 13 51 CC Slcylab, Houston. We will be doing a - a data/voice
recorder dump through Carnarvon here.

029 15 21 40 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from LOS. Next

station contac_ is through Guam in 4 minutes at
15:26, and Bill Lenoir will be standing by to
t_Ik at Ed at t_at station.

029 15 21 54 CDR Roger, Crip. i

029 15 26 19 MCC Skylab, Houston through Guam for 9 minutes with

the ATM conference. Over.

SPT Morning, Bill. What have you got to say?

i

MCC Okay. I don't have too much to say here today.

Listened to your comments earlier about not being
able to find a_tive region 36. We have already
dropped it from our list, and we're not carrying
it any more as an active region. On the west
limb activity that you talked about, we're think-
ing that there's a new active region coming Just
south of the equator around the limb there. And
the little brightening that is north is probably
from the return of active region l4, neither of
which look terriblyexciting right now.

029 15 26 58 SPT I caught you_ Bill. I think you mean the east
equator - the east limb.

MCC Yes. That's right. I'm Just like you. Another

85 days and I probably wouldn't learn it then
either, to tell you the truth.

SPT Okay. There is a fair amount of brightening over

there. It looks relatively dim.

MCC Yes, but with the limb brightening that's antici-

pated and everything, we don't look for much to
be coming around there, although we certainly can
hope. Some thoughts on today's plan: You're coming
up, as you no doubt know, on the JOP 7 that you
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took a look at yesterday and I assume that the

way the pad is written it's fairly clear. If
you have any questions on that, I can answer them
now.

SPT No. It's very clear the way it's written.

029 15 27 42 MCC Okay. And one other thing; later in the day at
the last orbit that Jerry had, beginning at 22:04
or thereabouts, 22:05, if you haven't picked it
up, we asked him in his observingtime, we suggest
shopping list 26-B, that's spectra for 55, on an
emerging flux region. I point that out to you
now so that you might start looking ahead and
thinking emerging flux region. We'll be looking
on the ground, and if we see anything noteworthy,
we'll certainly let you know. But you might spend
some time if you have it Just to look around and
see if anything looks likely.

SPT Okay. I'ii try to do that.

MCC Okay. And 2 days from now - 2 days from now is

your next crew day off. Right now we're not
planning anything special as far as ATM goes. If
you've got any inputs or requests for us, make
them, and we'll be glad to see what we can do
about it.

029 15 28 37 SPT Bill, I'll probably be taking a couple orbits

that day, but not anywhere near what we've had
before. I think we've got to start thinking
command module, _and I'm going to devote a little
time to that.

MCC Fine. That sounds great with us. And also, for
planning for tomorrow, if you have any specific
projects or progrA_a, like EVA or something like
that, that you'd like to recommend to us, I'll
take them into the planning conference this after-
noon, and we'll see what we can do about them
t_norrow, although we do not have very much time
scheduled.

029 15 29 l0 SPT The only thing I've noticed that's a little out
of the ordinary is these three bright regions
that are coming around the corner over there on
the east limb. I think it'd be kind of interesting
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to - to look at. What I had •plannedto do was

to try %o ge_ it all in the 55 MIRROR AUTO RASTER
if possible - I'm not sure I can fit them all in -
and give them some trtmcated MIRROR, AUTO RASTERS
and see how they - if'there are any changes; and
if so, whether they're related to one another
in the three brightenings._ L_oks Just like three
active regions, at least, _ertainly the - what
we've b_en calling active _gions lately.
¢

MCC Okay, fine. I'll mention that •this afternoon

then. That's all I had. Un_gss you've got some-
thing else to ta1_ about, we_ done, and we've
got about 5-1/2 minutes le_t.i_

SPT No, I don't have anything _se to bring up. I'm

wondering how their super-RASTER came out. We -
we adde_ some on the side t_@try to get to
hyper-RASTER. We put the thee more on each side
so that they could pick up whatever activity there
might be on the limb. I'm not sure whether we had
a - a sufficient n_her of MIRROR, AUTO RASTERS
in each location ... eno,_gh to bring out what was
there. But we gave it a go.
b

029 15 30 25 MCC Okay, Ed. It's going to take a while to - ob-

vious3_v, to look at the data. But at least
mechanically, in what we got, looks like it was
a success as far as the superraster goes, includ-
ing the additions that you gave us. And I've got
same c_Tments he_@ from the backroQm on 55 that
lookingat those three bright regions sounds like
an excellent idea.

SPT Okay. Very good. If we get some time today,

we'll do that. You ms_ want to - if - as long
as you're not calling them active regions, they
_st be associated with activity because they're
a little bit large for bright points. Just what
program you'd want to run on them, I'm not sure,
other than spectra plus 55 MIRROR, AUTO RASTERs.
You may want to ,i If you're stuck for things to
look at tomorrow, you may want
i
to consider that.

MCC Okay. I think we'll certainly t_l_ about that

at planning this afternoon. And, other than that,
then, I guess I'll be talking with you in the
morning.

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SPT Thanks very much, Bill. So long.

029 15 31 25 CC Ed, one item I might fill in there. Awhile ago,

when we were t_]king about 56, it - the mode
of that failure on the hangup in such that you
always end up with a - a double exposure on one
frame. The thing always goes ahead, and when it
hangs up, it'll - the filter will go ahead and
change over, and the frame will stay there. Con-
sequently, wh@n you restart the next one, you are
going to get a double.

SPT Okay. ThAnk you, Bob. That's unfortunate. This

past - after thSs psst sunset, I was able to pick
up six aurora _hotographs in the South. There
was reasonable'activity. It's not anywhere near
what we saw up in the north about 6 weeks ago,
however.

CC Okay. Very good. Appreciate that report.

029 15 34 33 CC Skylab, Houston. We are 1 minute from LOS. Next

station contact is through Goldstone in 17 minutes,
at 15:52, 15:52.

029 15 34 44 SPT Roger.

029 15 51 19 CC Skylab, Houston. We are AOS stateside. We've got

you for about - oh, it looks like about 15 minutes
across the States.

029 15 53 44 CC Skylab, Houston. If you guys are finished with

the TV for a while we'd like to go ahead and dump
it here stateside.

SPT Yes, I am, Crip. All of J0P 7's on there.

CC Thank you, sir. And, Skylab, for your information,

the laser is going to be yellow orange again to-
day at 1/2 watt.

SPY Going to be a real challenge, Crip, although we

saw the 1 watter out to a - almost a 1000 miles
the other day.

CC Roger. I remember that - 1/2 watt ought to - can

we say that's going to be 600 miles?
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SPT Let's Just wait and see.

CC Okay. Also, sometime at your convenience, Ed,

probably prior to the maneuver here, since you're
up in that area, I would like you to do a REG
ADJUST for me and then give it a few caution
and warning parameters, whenever - whenever you'd
like to.

029 15 54 59 SPT Let's go ahead with it now, Crip.

CC Okay. For CAUTION and WARNING on panel 207 we'd

like to, for BATTERY CHARGE LOW, 2, 3, 7, and 8
to - to INHIBIT those.

SPT That 's done.

CC Okay; and for REG ADJUST, we want them marked,

however you're doing it, at the original spot,
and turn the pot 1 and 2 both 40 degrees
clockwise.

SPT Is that 20 degrees,Crip?

CC Negative. 4 - 40 degrees clockwise.

SPT hO. Okay.

CC Be interested to see that panel there after you've

marked it as many times as we've asked you to.

SPT What we're doing now, Crip, is making scratches

in the pencil marks.

CC (Laughter) Okay.

029 15 57 05 CC For the SPT. Ed, we need about 5 more degrees

clockwise on pot 1.

SPT You got it.

CC Thank you, sir.

SPT Crip, it calls out to power down for EREP and

yet we're making - setting a GRATING and a ROLL.
Do they want to operate unattended, and if so,
I can so - put it for unattended ops.
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CC Let me check that for you.

029 15 59 55 CC SPY, Houston. That was a good catch on your part,

Ed. That should be power down for unattended.

SPT Okay, Crip. That's the way they are now. Thank
you.

CC Tb_k you, sir.

029 16 05 O0 CDR Never did see it, Crip.

CC Okay. Sorry about that.

SPT I couldn't either, Crip. I was looking out the

EREP window and couldn't see a thing with
binoculars.

CC Roger. We're just getting a chance to take a -

take a look at your big blivet on your WLC down
here. Pretty good size.

SPT We're pretty fortunate it didn't occur earlier.

CC Roger that. You know, in looking at the - at the

TV we're getting down here, it - it would appear
that the resolution going out in the corona is -
is still pretty good.

SPT Yes, you can still see out there, Crip, but you
can't use the BRIGHTNESS and CONTRAST the way you
could before in order to show up very faint objects.

CC Roger _ roger,

029 16 09 17 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from LOS. Next

station contact is in 41 minutes through Carnarvon
at 16:50, 16:50. We'll be doing a data/voice re -
recorder dump there. And for the CDR, I'm going
to have a few modifications to his EREP C&D pad.
So if we could probably get them up at Carnarvon,
we would appreciate It.

029 16 09 40 PLT Roger, Crip.

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SKYLAB AIR-T0-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

029 16 50 12 CC Skylab, Houston; AOS through Carnarvon for

9 minutes. We'll be doing a data/voice recorder
dump here.

CC And for the CDR, if you've got time sometime during

this pass, I'd like to get up to you some EREP C&D
changes to your pad, and also I can give you
weather either here or through Guam.

CDR Okay. Go ahead with both.

CC Okay, then. Why don't we start out with - with

the changes if you've got your pad handy there.

CDR Ready to copy.

CC Okay. On the - Starting on the first page, down

in the ready verification blocks. For S193 A we
currently have it MODE, RESET. We want to change -
_ Insteadof RESET, we want to make it NADIR ALIGN.
So you can put in a - a NAL in there.

029 16 51 33 CC Okay. And Just as a matter of interest. You don't

have to put it on, but in the remarks, we said it
was going to put the antenna to - roll angle to
the prelaunch setting. Actually it's now -with
this bit, it'll put it to the SL-3 setting. Okay.
And if you go down on into your pad, into the
operate portion at - between 32:12 and 32:34 -
Yes. We want to put a - At 32:28, we want to do
a 192 MODE, READY. Okay. And you - and you can
scratch a line through the one we have at 31:30.
Okay. Now go down to your pad between 41:33 and
, 44:24, anywhere between those 2, you can - We want
to get a record A, i; B, i.

029 16 53 02 CC Okay. That's - that's all the changes I had. And

to give you a little bit of rundown over the -
over the - about the weather : When you start out,
initially ts/(ing data out over the water, that's
going to be all cloudy, 8/10 to lO/10 coverage.
And it's going to re - continue socked in somewhere
to around central Oregon, _here the cloud coverage
is probably still going to be pretty much overcast.
However, it 's high, thin cirrus, and you may be
f- i
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able to see through it. We anticipate that getting

down to Salt Lake, where that condition still exists,
you probably should still be able to - to pick up
that target. Cloud coverage should start to break
up a little bit along in there to around 4/10 to
7/10, which will continue down to New Mexico. The
Rio Grande Reservoir at number 275 should also be
in the h/10 to 7/10 area. However, we think that
you'll - you'll be able to pick it out. And lo
and behold, it's clear all the way from northern
New Mexico - correction, yes, northern New Mexico
all the way down to - to the Gulf. And we've got
clear weather here in Houston today, and all your
targets coming through Texas here is going to -
going to be in good shape. And you pick out clouds,
well, the frontal system lying off - off the coast
here out in the Gulf. You're going to pick up
some clouds there, and it's going to be generally -
start out, probably, overcast and then maybe break
down to about h/10 to 7/10 until you get down to
your ITCZ targets. The - those cloud formations
are moved over the land there, so we - that's
going to be one of your targets, and that looks
pretty good. And South America is completely socked
in all the way across, 8/10 to 10/10 coverage all
the way down for the rest of the pass.

029 16 5h 56 CDR Okay, Crip. Thank you. And I'll read back those
corrections now. S193 A in the ready verification,
I'll go to NADIR ALIGN instead of RESET. And
then at 31:B0 we'll delete. And at 32:28, we'll
add S192 MODE, READY. And then sometime between
hl:B3 and 41:4h:24, I'll record Alfa 1 and Bravo i.

CC Okay. That's a good - good readback. Is Bill

handy there? I did have one item I wanted to men-
tion a little bit about the - the gimbal situation
for today.

PLT Okay. I've been reading the pads, but go ahead.

CC Okay. All - all I wanted to inform you was, you

notice that we did tell you right after you
initiate that fine maneuver, that there - possi-
bility of have - you having to do the little bit of
entering the zero ms neuver, and our MMP rundown
here did show that we got a gimbal on - on the
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stop during - during that particular portion of

the thing. So it is quite possible you might have
to do that.

029 16 56 05 PLT Okay. Now the pad says to wait until 19 past the
hour. Do you - Should I go ahead and do that as
soon as I get the gimbal on the stop?

CC No. The - It - there's a possibility of getting

it there at the end of the maneuver, and that
thing'll take care of itself, so you go ahead and -
and do it per the pad.

PLT Okay. Thank you.

CC Okay. We have a keyhole coming up here in about

30 seconds of about 1-minute duration and we're
only about 2 minutes from LOS. I'ii go ahead and
say goodbye here and we'll have you again over -
over Guam at 17:04. That's about 6 minutes away.

029 16 57 39 PLT Okay. So long.

I--

029 17 04 02 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS through Guam. We have

you for 8 minutes.

PLT Roger, Crip.

029 17 l0 41 CC Skylab, Houston. We have a - a short keyhole coming

up here and I'll - I'll call you out of it.

CDR Okay, Crip.

029 17 ll 50 CC Okay. We're back with you again, but we're about
1 minute from LOS. Next station contact is through
Goldstone in about 16 minuteS. That's at 17:28.
Your maneuver's looking good right now, and we'll
see you in the pass.

PLT Okay.

029 17 12 08 CDR Cripper, how's chances getting some sort of a

10-day forecast from you folks on scheduling? I
think we need to get a look at the - at the big
picture now between here and splashdown. I'd be
interested, really, in having it in the form of a
s11m_ary Flight Plan for lO days with Just the

r _
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blocks filled in that you folks know you're going

to do so far. And the areas where you don't have
anything firmed up yet, Just leave them blank.
But I think we really need to know what's ahead
as well as possible in order to kind of plan. And
I think we have an input or two on what ought to
be done. In particular, I - I would like to know
Just exactly what days we have time allowed for
study of the CSM procedures and things lik e that.

CC Don Puddy's holding it in his hand, and got one

over here on my desk. We're thinking ahead of
you, for once.

029 17 13 05 CDR Very good. Thank you.

029 17 28 18 CC Skylab, Houston. We're A0S across the States for

15 minutes. Sounds like you got a cricket up I
there or something.
!
PLT Roger. And - -

CDR Roger.

PLT Not a friendly cricket, though. He never goes

home.

CC It sounds like you got the mike right beside it.

I can hardly hear you because of it.

CDR You tR]king about the 6-cycle noise or the cooler?

CC Must be the cooler.

CDR Yes. It's pretty noisy.

PLT Yes; it's coming through my mike, I imagine, when

I lean down here.

CDR Okay. Coming up on 29, Ed, with a ETC POWER, ON.

Stand by -

029 17 29 00 CDR MARK. ETC POWER, ON. The cooler's running pretty
steady but it is running louder then it usually
has in the past.

CC Roger.
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CDR Ever since we had that intermittent noise a couple

of passes ago.

PLT Okay. I'm terminating nadir swath.

CDR Seems to be getting louder.

PLT Okay, Salt Lake .... 2.10.

CDR That is the most peculiar red and green lake I've
< ever seen. Coming up on 29:54.

029 17 29 54 CDR MARK it. S190 INTERVAL down to i0. At 30, ETC
to AUTO.

029 17 30 00 CDR MARK it. 30:06. Stand by -

029 17 30 06 CDR MARK. SCATTEROMETER to STANDBY.

029 17 30 08 CDR MARK. RADIOMETER to STANDBY at 08. 193 to XTC,

POLARIZATION, 1. 30:30's next. Stand by -

__ 029 17 30 30 CDR MARK. At 30:30, RADIOMETER, ON.

PLT Oh, now it's starting to break out.

PLT Come on, old Salt Lake, I ought to be picking

you up here.

PLT That's 2.1. There she be. Okay, I'm going to get
the green water first. Okay. IMC ; CAMERA is ON,
and taking data. Here we go. l'm taking data
in the green area first. But I'm taking data down
to about 20 degrees, then I'm going to go back and
get the red.

CDR Okay. Coming up on 31 :5h •

029 17 31 54 CDR MARK it. RADIOMETER to STANDBY.

PLT There's Salt Lake City Just as big as life.

CDR 32 even. Stand by -

029 17 32 00 CDR MARK. SCATTEROMETER, ON.

029 17 32 01 CDR MARK. RADIOMETER,, ON. 32:12. Ed, ETC to STANDBY.

Stand by -'
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029 17 32 12 CDR MARK. 32:28's next.

PLT Just a little wispy stratus or cirrus above

Salt Lake. There's 20 degrees. I'm going to go
back for the red and I 'm holding the DATA button.
I'm going to relieve the DATA button - -

CDR 32:28. Stand by.

029 17 32 28 CDR MARK. 192 MODE, READY.

029 17 32 30 PLT MARK, into the red and DATA pushbutton, push again.
I release the DATA - -

CDR We have TAPE MOTION.

PLT - - pushbutton Just as we went into the red.

CDR 32 :34. 190 SHUTTER SPEED to MEDIUM. 33 :00 's next.

PLT Okay, and I'm terminating now. I'm going for Rio
Grande. It's okay, 45, RIGHT, i.

CDR 33:00. Stand by -

029 17 33 00 CDR MARK. SCATTEROMETER to STANDBY.

029 17 33 02 CDR MARK. RADIOMETER to STANDBY at 02. Going to ANGLE

of ROLL of plus 30. 33:18 coming up. Stand by -

PLT Okay, I've got something.

PLT Ha, ha, ha, ha.

029 17 33 18 CDR MARK. SCATTEROMETER, ON.

029 17 33 20 CDR MARK. RADIOMETER, ON. You find it?

PLT Yes.

CDR Beauti ful.

PLT How about my lucky day. Okay. We're getting it.

Some snow has melted, Jer.

CDR That 's great.

PLT Okay. We got the Rio Grand reservoir.

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CC Congratulations, Bill, that's a hard one to get.

PLT Boy, are you telling me. We were both figuring

we didn't have a chance.

CDR We were trying to find a different way to find it.

Studying the maps to see if there was some diff-
erent way to look at it.

PLT How do you like that, a tie breaker. I 'm going

te - I'm going to zoom out and look at her in
just a second. I'm - I've tracked that down to
zero. Okay. I'm going to zoom back out. Yes.
I got the tie breaker. That's it. That was it.
Okay, CAMERA OFF. Now we go for Eagle Lake.

CDR What's your tie breaker? That lake south - -

PLT No, I haven't yet - That little geographic feature

that Just didn't appear anywhere else in the area.
It's a particular form, and that's - that's what
I was looking for there. 45 -
f_

CDR Okay. Coming up on 3h :h0. Stand by -

029 17 34 40 CDR MARK. 192 MODE to CHECK. TAPE MOTION's back on.
Looking good. 35:30 next.

PLT Eagle Lake 36:23. 5 RIGHT, 2. Oh, man, this is

going to be a ... 36:23. Get that map out.

CDR Coming up on 35 :30. Stand by -

029 17 35 30 CDR MARK it. POLARIZATION to 4.

PLT Beauti - beautiful day in Texas. Son of a gun.

I've never seen the rid this good in VTS.

PLT There's Austin; See .... University of Texas.

How about that ? Okay. 36:22.

CDR Okay ; there 's the river leading in. Okay, there 's
Columbus.

PLT Oh, my gosh. There we go. Come on, camera.

CDR That Eagle Lake?

-- PLT I think I've got it. Yes, it is; it's Eagle Lake.
How about that.
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CDR Coming up on 36:50.

PLT ...

PLT Okay.

029 17 36 50 CDR MARK. 36:50. 192 went to READY. Got good TAPE
_0TION.

PLT Yes, it's Eagle Lake.

CDR 37 is next.

029 17 37 00 CDR MARK. SCATTEROMETER to STANDBY.

029 17 37 02 CDR MARK. RADIOMETER to STANDBY.

PLT They finally laid on some good weather for us, Jer.
We can do the work.

CDR Beautiful. Okay. 193 XTNC, L/R. ANGLE is zero.

POLARIZATION is 5. 37:24's next. Stand by -

029 17 37 24 CDR MARK it, SCATTEROMETER's ON, RADIOMETER's ON.

37:58's next.

PLT Okay. I 'm going for San Bernard.

CDR I got six MALFUNCTION lights on S190.

PLT Taking data - -

CDR 37 :58.

PLT Camera's stopped working, but I got the San Bernard

and the rest. I'm taking data.

CDR Stand by - J

029 17 37 58 CDR MARK. 37:58. 192 MODE to STANDBY. 38, ETC to

STANDBY, Ed. 38:02. S190 MODE to INTERVAL to 20.
No sense in going to 20, I don't have anything.
Six MALFUNCTION lights all at once.

PLT I'll go check the breakers for you. Just a minute

here. Okay, CAMERA, OFF. Just got San Bernard
about 15, 20 seconds of it.
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CDR My breakers are okay under the cover.

PLT They're all IN.

CDR Crip, are we supposed to be out of film or were -

do they expect to be out of film this soon?

CC Negativ e , negative. You might try cycling the

POWER if the breaker 's IN.

CDR Okay. Okay. The MALF lights are out. Got our
power.

PLT The breakers were IN. Okay. Let's see. Special 01,
38:22. Nadir swath. Late here on my nadir swath.

CC Jer, did we understand the lights went out when

you cycled the POWER?

CDR That's affirmative, and they Just all came back.

All six - I don't hear any action going on ... S190
either. You want me to cycle the POWER switch
_-- again?

CC You might check the SHUTTER SPEED and the REMOTE

operation of the cameras, if that doesn't work.

CDR Okay. Okay. I'll set the INTERVAL back to l0

where it belongs. At 40, SCATTEROMETER to STANDBY,
RADIOMETER to STANDBY. They were both 3 seconds
late. 40:12 coming up. Stand by -

029 17 h0 12 CDR MARK. SCATTEROMETER, ON. 40:20 is next with an

ETC, STANDBY. SHUTTER SPEED, zero.

PLT Okay....

CDR 40:20, go to STANDBY on the ETC. 40:46 is next.

PLT Okay. CAMERA, OFF and nadir swath's complete

temporarily.

CDR I'm going to try LOCAL CONTROL.

PLT 43 :30.

CDR Nothing.
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PLT Okay.

CDR 40:46 coming up. Stand by -

029 17 40 46 CDR MARK.

CC Did you get the SCAT to STANDBY, 40?

CDR Yes, the SCAT's at STANDBY. 52 is next.

029 17 40 5B CDR MARK. ALTIMETER to MODE, 5. Looking for a READY,

out on 190. That's - I can skip that. 41:09 is
coming up. Standby -

029 17 41 09 CDR MARK. The ALTIMETER's ON. 41:15, 190 _DDE to

STANDBY. Just might as well give up on 190 for
now. A,1 - Alfa l's still reading 96. Bravo 1
is still reading 51. Okay. I've got until 44:24
to play here.

PLT I'm on LOCAL CONTROL, SLOW -

CC You might - you might cycle the POWER once more.

That's about all we can come up with now.

CDR All right. I'm going to go LOCAL, MEDIUM and cycle

the POWER. Nothing. Deader than a doornail. - I'm
going to try SLOW SPEED. ALTIMETER UNLOCK light.
READY light's out and so it - at lO, I went to a
STANDBY on the ALTIMETER.

CC Did you get A,1 and B,1 for us?

CDR Yes, I did. They were 96 and 51 and right now,

it's reading 69 and 51. Okay. Going back to
READY - to ON on the ALTIMETER. We're back in
business on that. Boy, that 190 Just gave up the
ghost completely.

PLT Sounds like a - power thing.

029 17 42 40 CC Okay. We're about 30 seconds from LOS. Next

station contact is going to be - I guess, must be
Guam at - correction, how about Goldstone at 19:05,
all the way around.

PLT Okay.
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CDR We'll see you.

CC About 1 hour and 22 minutes.

CDR Got an ALTIMETER UNLOCK light about i0 seconds ago.

PLT Okay. Got one more nadir swath here on the -

CDR ALTIMETER READY went out.

CC Okay. I 'm sorry.

CDR 43:15, ALTIMETER went to STANDBY.

CC Correction on that. We're going to see you at

Vanguard at 17 :54.

CDR Okay. Good. We 'ii see you then.

PLT Stand by -

CDR ALTIMETER' s back ON.

f.

029 17 43 31 PLT MARK. DAC, on. Okay. Starting this nadir swath.

CDR ALTIMETER UNLOCK light at 49.

CC At your convenience, if you can give us another

A,1, B,1 reading, we'd appreciate it.

CDR Okay. The same thing. It 's - no wait it 's at 76

now and 51. 44:h5's m_ next call. Okay. I'm
going to have to go ALTIMETER to STANDBY. Now
I did it at 30. I might as well leave it there.
4h:51 will be my next call.

029 17 44 52 CDR 51, RADIOMETER, STANDBY.

CDR 44:57.

029 17 4h 59 CDR MARK it. XTNC, POLARIZATION, i.

CC You can turn the POWER, OFF on 190.

CDR XTC. Okay. POWER, OFF on 190. 45:15 coming up.

CC Might let it cool off and try tit again a little

bit later.
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CDR Okay. Standby -

029 17 45 15 CDR MARK. SCATTEROMETER to -

029 17 53 57 CDR Way out over the water. Out over the water.

029 17 54 26 CC We're back with you through the Vanguard now for
about 8 minutes. Would it be possible,Bill, to
/ have you take a look out the window and see if you
can see the antenna moving on 1937

CDR The indicator here shows it moving now, Crip. It's

been moving about every 5 seconds. It goes from
96 down to about 84, then back up to 96.

CC Copy.

CDR Bill says it's moving.

CC Roger. Okay. Thank you.

CDR Crip, I took - I've taken a look at the malfunction

procedures. I'm on page 1-11 in symptom number 6,
and ready to start block 3, when the thing is over.

CC We copy that.

029 17 55 44 CDR Okay. At 55:45 SCA_I_EROMETER, OFF; 47 RADIOMETER,

OFF. Correction, STANDBY positions.

CDR 56:57. Stand by.

CDR Whoops. I turned them both OFF i minute too soon.

I'll get them both back ON. Sorry about that.
Nothing to do for 7 minutes and I still blow it.

CDR I guess you lost about 15 - i0 to 15 seconds of

data there.

CC No problem. Thank you.

CDR Okay. Now the SCATTEROMETER and the RADIOMETER

are OFF. SCATTEROMER coming back On at 57.
Standby.

029 17 57 03 CDR MARK. This is 194 MODE, MANUAL. 57:30's next.

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CDR 57 :30 coming up. Stand by.

029 17 57 30 CDR MARK. SCATTEROMETER to STANDBY. 58's next. 58 :00.

CC Before you do that, if we can, we'd like you to

give us a 193A, RESET.

CC And then a 193A, ON for 20 seconds.

CDR Okay. Here we go. i - A, RESET at 55.

CDR ALTIMETER, ON at 58:00, give you 20 seconds.

CC Okay. We'll hold up on the STOP here for a while.

CDR Say again, Bill.

PLT ...

CDR Okay.
I
CDR All right, coming up on 58 :20. Stand by -

029 17 58 20 CDR MARK. ALTIMETER back to STANDBY.

CC Okay. You can go ahead and do your EREP, STOP

nolg.

CDR Okay. STOPped at 27.

CDR Bravo 7 is reading 35 percent. S192 DOOR going

CLOSEd.

PLT We're on our way to SI and the rates look good.

CC Roger. We concur.
i
029 17 59 15 CDR Okay, Crip. Do you want to do the S190 MALFs while
you guys are+ looking on, or do you want to wait
until after we get everything put away and have a
special period of time for it?

CC What we'd like to do is wait until you go ahead

and get everything all secured. Then cycle EREP
BUS 1 and 2, and then go through the MALFs.
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CDR Okay.

CC And -

CDR Okay. I've got a DOOR CLOSED light. Go ahead,

Crip.

CC Okay. One item of caution is not to remove the

mags because this Just could expose the ones we
did get over the HATS area there before the thing
stopped.

029 18 00 16 SPT Okay.

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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

029 18 01 36 CC Skylab, Houston. We are 1 minute from LOS. Now

the next station contact is Goldstone in an hour
and h minutes. And that should be about 19:05,
and we'll be doing a data/voice recorder dump there.

CDR Roger. I'll hsve the tape measurements there, for

you and resets of the malf.

029 18 01 57 CC Thank you, sir.

029 19 05 55 CC Skylab, Hohston. We're back with you once more.

We've got you through Goldstone for 12 minutes.
We'll also be doing a data/voice recorder dump
here.

029 19 07 06 CC And Skylab, Houston. Is it - Would it be possible

to get somebody to go up and adjust the pots -
regs again, please?

PLT Be rightwith you, Crip.

CC Okay. All we want to do is go back to the original

position.

029 19 14 30 CC PLT, Houston. Is this a convenient place to t_]k,

Bill, or are you tied up right now?

PLT Go ahead.

CC Okay. Couple of items. First, I'd like if you

could, you've got a housekeeping period around
20:40. So I'd like you to do - is give us an
M509-F5A to add a little 02 to the - the workshop
at that time. And we're going to secure it about
an hour later, and I'll - I'll get to Jerry, or
some - somebody later to do that. Okay, also
another question, is - When you looked out the
window earlier wh - to check the 193 antenna for
us, can you give us any words about how it was
moving? Did - In other words, did it look normal,
or did you look at it that long?

PLT I looked at it two or three times there and it

was swinging back and forth, you know, that is to
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say, in the only mode it can move. And it was

moving smoothly and I didn't notice anything
untowards.

CC Okay, very good. Appreciate that info.

PLT What was the time again on that M509 Foxtrot 5 Alfa?

CC At 20:40, after your 63 ops.

PLT Roger.

CDR Crip, on the EREP tape, there's 6 centimeters re-

maining. And on S190, we powered down the panel,
then powered the whole thing back up again, went
into malfunction procedures for 190, went in
symptom 2, and bumped us immediately into symp-
tom 6. We went down the line and finally ended
up with a circuitry failure. The - the drive
motors were quite cool. There was no indication
that there - any of them had been warm, and the -
the shutter mechanisms rotate freely with no
friction problems at all. So it looks like we're
just not getting the power there.

CC Okay. Appreciate that - that word of info also.

We're just going to go ahead and leave the film -
the mags installed because we don't want to take
any chances on hurting the film or exposing the
pictures that - that we did get taken. One other
item, can you tell us whether you think that the
193 ALTIMETER ever locked up?

PLT You were cut - clipped off short there, Bob. Say
again?

CC Okay. I was asking Jer if he could tell or if he

thought that the ALTIMETER ever locked up during
the pass?

CDR During the last part of the pass? Negative. The

indication was moving from 96 to about 8h. Every
5 seconds, it would drop from 96 down to 84 and
then come right back up again; and it wasn't steady
at all. Whereas the first part of the pass it
went up to 96 and stayed there.
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CC Okay. What about the - the UNLOCK light? Was

it - was it on while you were in the ALTIMETER
MODE?

CDR Oh, negative. If it'd been on, I'd have called

it.

029 19 18 13 CC 0kay_ very good. We're about 20 seconds from LOS.

Next station contact is through the Vauguard at
19:29, and that's about ll minutes from now.

029 ]9 29 36 CC Skylab, Houston, we're AOS through the Vanguard

for ll minutes.

i I
END OF TAPE

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L

029 19 30 43 CC PLT, Houston. Bill, if you've got a chance, we'd

like to take the M509 BATTERY 7 off of CHARGE.

PLT Wilco.
f
CC Thank you, sir.
f
PLT And, Crip_ is it a terminate on BATTERY 7 or an
interrupt ?

CC It's a terminate.

029 19 31 3h PLT Okay.

029 19 57 02 CC Skylab, Houston back with you. We've got you

through Tananarive for - oh, about 4 more minutes
here. We had a little antenna problem awhile ago
back at Vanguard and lost you early.

-- CDR Roger,Crip.

029 20 00 05 CC Skylab, Houston. We are 1 minute from LOS here

through Tananarive, and we'll see you again Hawaii
at about, oh, 20:40.

CDR Roger; behave yourself.

CC I'll try to; can't hardly get into any trouble in

40 minutes. Flight won't let me get away from
console that long. And as we go over the hill
here I can tell you that your Flight Plans are
on board.

029 20 00 52 CDR Roger; thanks.

029 20 39 55 CC Skylab, Houston; AOS through Hawaii for 5 minutes.

CDR Hello, Crip. Got a question about tomorrow's

Flight plan.

CC Yes, sir.

CDR They've got the SPT scheduled for another M131-1 MS,
and he Just did one last night. I 'm wondering if
there's been a mistake?
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CC Well, let me check that.

CC Jer, while I'm getting you an answer to that,

can I ask you a couple of questions?

CDR Shoot.

CC Okay. Actually, the first is a request to do

something. The - Bill should be up putting on
that 02 flow pretty shortly here, and we'd like
you, if you would, to make a note on your Flight
Plan to - to secure it at 21:_0 with a
MS09-F5 Bravo.

CDR Okay. I've got it. You want it on for an hour.

Is that right?

CC Yes, sir. Also, while I've got you here. You

got any comments regarding the handheld messages,
the way we've done it yesterday and today?

CDR No. We don't have any objection to that - that

procedure at all. I think the only thing that
we regret is that we Just very seldom get a chance
to do anything about them. I took that list yes-
terday and marked every one of them was [sic] to
whether or not I'd had an opportunity to do it, or
if I couldn't, why. And of that whole list, I only
got an opportunity to go for two of them. And I
Just flat missed two others because I was Just
kind of busy eating or something like that, you
know, no good excuse. And all the rest I was
either at the ATM or working some assigned task
and Just couldn't get to the window.

CC Okay. Well, we appreciate that. But you guys

have had a fantastic track record going as far
as those handhelds are concerned. Everybody
here is well pleased with it. So the only thing
I wanted to find out was whether the - the system
we had now with the message was - was workable
or not. And I guess I - from your comments here,
it is.

029 20.42 38 CDR Yes, I think it's workable. It's okay here. We
Just regret that we're not getting a chance to do
more because that to us really is one of the most
enjoyable parts of the whole mission.
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CC Roger. Got to - got to split our science up in

all dirrerent ways though. One other comment
here, maybe you could give it some thought. We're -
As you recall, back on your last EVA, we had a -
a requirement to try to measure the temperature
of the S020 can while it was outside and that
didn't work out too spiffy. We would like you,
if you could, to give some ideas to - maybe if
we did Something before you went out, you know,
of either taping the thing on the can or something
like that, sc_ething simple, it might be possible.
They - they've got a requirement. They'd like to
measure it so they could help them out developing
their film after we get back. But if it's going
to be a big deal like - like it was last time, we
don't want to even try it. But if you could give
it some thought and gi - give us some words and
your opinion on it later, we would appreciate it.

CDR What kind of temperatures are they expecting?

CC Well, I guess the last time they - the temperature

reading that you ended up giving them was a little
bit higher than what they'd anticipated. I - I'm
afraid I don't have that - that temperature right
here offhand, i

CDR Well, you know, we've got some of those stickon

temperature sensors that we've got on the rate
gyros. We've got a few extra of those left. We
could stick - possibly stick one on. And - but
I think the method we used last time was probably
pretty good. Ed's got a c_,ment or two on that.
It's Just a matter of taking the time to do it.
Our problem was, we were in kind of a rush-rush
mode there at the end to get in, and really didn't
get to do that thermometer temperature measurement
the right way.

029 20 44 25 SPT Yes, Crip. That seemed like a perfectly doable

thing. And the problem we got into last time is
we were working another experiment, and when sun-
sets came around, we had to rush and try to get
a measurement fo_ them. I - I don't think it's a
hard thing to do at all. And if you want to
schedule it next time, it's no problem.
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CC Okay. We may do that. We'll also take Jer's

recommendation un - under consideration of whether
those sticky crystals will work or not. And we'll
try to have a - an answer to your question regard-
ing scheduling on 131 when we get to Vanguard.
We're about 30 seconds from LOS, and Vanguard is
our next station contact at 21:08. We'll be doing
a data/voice recorder dump there.

CDR Okay. And another question, Crip, is why are we

doing a houskeeping 90 Alfa this evening?

CC Okay. I'll see if I can get that. J0P 13 is the

reason for the 90 Alfa. I -

CDR Okay. Thanks.

CC And we sho_ EXPERIMENTS I and 2 RECORDERS, ON.

Probably you can go ahead and turn those OFF now,
we believe.

SPT Right.

029 20 h5 35 CC Thank you.

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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

029 21 07 33 CC Skylab, this is Houston through the Vanguard for

l0 minutes. We're starting out with the data/
voice tape recorder dump. And your end-of-mission
m_mmary flight planning message will be coming up
here at the Vanguard. Over.
i

CDR Hello, Bruce. Tl_ank you.

CC Roger, Jet.

029 21 17 40 CC Skylab, this is Houston. Coming up on LOS;

13-1/2 minutes to AOS, Tananarive.

029 21 17 50 CDR Roger, Bruce.

029 21 33 29 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Tananarive for

5-1/2 minutes.

CDR Hey, Bruce, I'm all humg up on acronyms. An LCCU -

is that a lightweight comm cable umbilical?

CC The -what, LWCCU?

CDR Negative. In this procedure for the - the bypassing

of the BUFFER AMPS, it calls for two LCCUs out of
M157. I think LCCU means lightweight co--, ca,-r_
umbilical, but I'm not sure. Is that the big long
Jobber that's about 8 feet long?

CC That's affirmative. That's the lightweight CCU.

That's the one that has Just the audio in it and
not the biomed.

CDR Okay, thank you.

CC You probably got a whole bunch of them hanging

around there.

CDR Yes, I thought that's what it was. But you get

so messed up in these acrqnyms that we use same-
times, that you really don't know what it really
is.

029 21 36 42 CC CDR, this is Houston.

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CC CDR, this is HousUon.

CDR Roger, Bruce

CC Yes, we gather you're doing that ALC installation,

and we'd rather you not get too close to the
JOP 13, JOP 18 time frame in installing this.
We're concerned that we might come up on 13 or 18
out of configuration and lose some recorded data.
But if you feel like you can go ahead and complete
it with plenty of time, why press on.

CDR No, I was already briefed on that, Bruce. I'm

aware of it, but I don't believe them when they
say it can be done in 20 minutes. I'll bet it
would take me 1/2 hour Just to gather the equip-
ment, and that's what I thought I'd get done.

CC Okay, beautiful. And we got a minute and a half

to LOS. Next station contact in 37 minutes through
Hawaii at 22:15. Out.

029 21 39 22 CC Skylab, this is Houston. Do you still read us?

CDR Roger. Go.

CC Okay, you wanted to be reminded here at Tanansrive

to terminate the 02 enrichment.
CC Okay, we'll do it.

029 21 39 37 CC Roger. Out.

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029 22 lh 55 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Hawaii for

I0 minutes. Out.

CDR Houston, CDR. Hope the guys in the backroom have

got a lead on an emerging flux region for me for
later on in the pass.

CC Understand we owe you an emerging flux region?

Is that correct?

CDR If there's one there, you owe it to me.

!
CC We'll see if we can find it for you.

CDR Okay.

029 22 17 00 CC CDR, this is Houston. We've got an EFR for you.

It's at 10/0.1, that's i00 degrees, O.1 solar
radii. Over.

CDR Thank you, Bruce.

CC We'll name it after you, Jer.

CDR Neato. A]most too much to ask for, having an EFR

and a grating malfunction named after you.

CC (Laughter) Beautiful, baby.

029 22 20 29 CC CDR, Houston. Over.

CDR Go ahead,Bruce.

CC Okay. When you do the housekeeping 90 Alfa at

about 23:00, we'd like to add a few steps to it.

CC You ready to copy?

CDR Go ahead.

CC Okay. Panel 206, REG ADJUST, BUS 1 pot, 55 degrees

clockwise; that's 55 degrees clockwise; BUS 2,
50 degrees clockwise. Over.
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CDR Ok%V. Add REG, BUS i, 55 clockwise; REG, BUS 2,

50 clockwise.

CC Right. And, also, INHIBIT the BATTERY CHARGE LOW

CAUTION and WARNING switches for PCGs i, 4, 5, and
6, putting in a configuration where all eight
BATTERY CHARGE LOW inputs are INHIBITed. Over.

CDR Hit that again.

CC Okay. We want to wind up with all eight BAT CHARGE

LOW input to CAUTION and WARNING INHIBITed. We
show that you should have to reposition i, 4, 5,
and 6. Over.

CDR Ok_. I copy.

CC That's it.

CDR Okay. Got it.

029 22 23 52 CC Skylab, this is Houston; 1 minute to LOS. Next

station contact in 22 minutes through the Vanguard
at 22:h6. At the Vanguard, we'd like the SPT to
be available so we can talk for a minute about
the upcoming JOP 13. And for the CDR, Just a word
of explanation about this reg bus adjust. We're
trying to more equitably balance the loads between
the airlock module and the ATM. We will be ts_king
the airlock module batteries down 19 amp-hours out
of an estimated 23 amp-hours each capacity. And
we'll be taking the ATM batteries down about
7.2 amp-hours each out of an estimated 9 amp-hour
capacity. Over.

CDR Roger, Bruce.

CC So hang on.

CC And we'll also be commanding CBRM 5 on line here,

probably over the Vanguard.

CDR Okay. We'll get the flashlights out and get them
all squared away and ready to go.

029 22 2h 56 CC Okay. Get that bicycle interconnect to BEG, BUS 1

made and you'll be all set.
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029 22 46 20 CC Skylah, this is Houston through the Vanguard for

9 minutes. Info for the CDR. Over.

CDR Go ahead, Bruce.

CC Okay, we are going to reconfigure your rate gyro

setup so that you're _muing on rate gyro six-pack
gyros only for JOP 13. Since we feel that by
doing this we can improve the accuracy of your
pointing. We will also reconfigure you back to
the current configuration afterwards by ground
co_mand. Over.

CDR Okay, fine.

CC CDR, correction on my last. We'll be doing this

in the X-axis!only. We'll leave the Y- and Z-axis
rate gyro scheme unchanged.

CDR Okay,understand.

CC And for the SPT, I've got a change to his JOP 13

pad and then a little bit of discussion.

SPT Stand by a moment, Houston. I'll be with you.

CC Okay. p

029 22 47 54 CC And also for your information, Jerry, we're

cnmmanding CBRM 5, OFF, this time in getting the
heaters off.

CDR Roger, Bruce.

SPT Okay, Houston, SPT. Go ahead, ready to copy.

CC Okay, SPT, Houston; if you'll look at step 14 of

your JOP 13 pad, 7542 Alfa 2. Over.

SPT Roger.

CC Okay, down on what turns out to be the 17th line,

it says perform fine maneuver of plus 000 X,
minus 107 Y to position Gamma Vel at center of
S055 RASTER. That minus 107 Y quantity should
be minus 105, that's minus 105 Y. Over.
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SPT Minus 105 rather than 107.

CC Right, and the way this came about is somebody

subtracted two octal quantities and got a dec -
and used the decimal technique instead of an octal
technique. We got that straightened out. And
with respect to the JOP 13 procedures in general,
we'd also like to delete step 3 of the JOP 18D
checklist, which is the one that says GRAVITY
GRADIENT ta]_back to barberpole, because we won't
have a site where we can do that conveniently
before you start the maneuver. And we don't want
you to do it because we want to make sure that we
complete the current maneuver first. But we'll
take care of that for you. Over.

029 22 50 28 SPT Roger, Bruce.

CC And also, as you may have recalled fr_n our comet

discussions, there always comes the question:
What do you dO when you get down to the tweak
maneuver and you can't find the target visually?
So let's look back at this step l_ again. As you
go through it, the - the first set of 000 X and
plus ll0 Y is a maneuver to put your target at
the second position; that is, at 000 X and minus
llO Y. And at this point you should be able to
see it. If you can't, why, we've got another
procedure to go through here. If you look down
at the one we Just corrected, the final maneuver
is a maneuver of plus 000 X and minus 105 Y, which
is supposed to put the target back underneath the
occulting disk near the center, or at the center
of the S055 RASTER, which is some 0.03 decimal
of a degree off from the centerline of the S052
instrument. If GAmma Veloritm_ is not visible
after doing that first maneuver, you can attempt
some small maneuvers in order to make the sighting
or in order to pick it up visually. And we'd like
you to spend no more than 5 minutes on this. If
after 5 minutes, you're unsuccessful, reselect
SI MODE, this will zero your attitude maneuvers
and drive you back to where, if everything has
been correct, GRmma Velorium will be centered.
Then perform a fine maneuver of 000 X plus 003 Y
and 000 Z to obtain the theoretical 0.03 of a de-
gree offset, 52 to 55 bias. You want me to repeat
that last maneuver again.
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SPT Plus 3 in Y, I got it.

CC Roger. That takes care of our commentary.

SPT Roger.
l

029 22 53 03 CC Okay, and also for your information, we expect

to see a lot of TACS used on this maneuver or on
this evolution, especially concerned with the
reset and also c_ning out of the JOP 18, J0P 13
attitude here.

SPT Roger.

CC And the total that we were talking about, Just to

give you sc_e feel for what we mean by a lot, is
sc_newhere sa'ound 70 to 80 mibs. Over.

SPT Roger.

029 22 53 h9 CC Okay, sorry to interrupt your PT and PH, Ed, but

the site coverage here gets pretty c_,m_.._j. We're
l-l/2 minutes from LOS. Next station contact in
an hour and 2 minutes through Hawaii at 23:53,
out. 23:56. Out.

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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

!

029 23 55 09 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Hawaii for about

3 minutes. Over.

PLT Roger, Bruce. i !

CC Yes. Say, looking over your shoulder and into

your computer, we see you in step l0 of the
JOP 18 Delta Procedures , down to, but not yet,
having loaded the momentum bias. We do need to
get this loaded before you do the nominal H-cage,
which is scheduled for a time of 00:13. Over.

SPT Okay, Bruce. I believe I did enter those. I'll

put them in again.

CC That was 52024 ENTER, followed by the three data

co,.,.ands in step l0 of the pad?

SPT Affirm.

029 2B 56 27 CC Okay, it looks good to us now. If you'd put some

of these commands in out of sequence, that might
explain it. We can only see the last four entries
that were made.

CC And we need the H-ALPHA 1 NIGHT INTERLOCK switch

to NORMAL, please_ Thank you.

SPT Roger, Bruce. I went back over and did some of

the RM 52014 entrles
J again, so that's probably why
you did not see it.

CC Okay. No problem, and everything looks good now.

We got about a little less than 2 minutes to LOS.
Next station contact in 27 minutes through the
Vanguard at 00:24. And we show a data/voice tape
recorder dump and the evening status report
scheduled for Vanguard. Over.

PLT Roger, Bruce.

CC And, CDR, this is Houston.

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PLT He's listening. Go.
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CC Roger. How would you feel about running a couple

of quick EREP tests for us this evening, even if
it might run a little past 02:00, so we could
be prepared for the EREP pass tomorrow - about
l0 or 15 minutes' worth? Over.

CDR I 'll be glad to, Bruce.

029 23 58 05 CC Okay, thank you very much.

030 00 24 06 CC Skylab, this is _ouston through the Vanguard for

l0 minutes. Data/voice tape recorder dump. And
let's fly with the evening status report. Over.

PLT Roger, Bruce, co_ing at you with the photo log.

CC Okay, let's fly with the photo log.

PLT 16-millimeter: EREP, VTS, Charlie Lima 12, 40 per-

cent; M151, Charlie India 87, 58 percent,
Charlie India 79. Nikons: Nikon 01,
Charlie X-ray 44, 23; Nikon 02, India Romeo 12,
26; footnote, Bravo Victor 40 down loaded with
! 24 frames remaining out of Nikon 02; Nikon 03,
Charlie India ll6, 15; Nikon 04, Bravo Echo ll,
frame count's ll; Nikon 05, India Romeo ll,
count's 32. 70-millimeter: Charlie X-ray 18,
165. ETC: Charlie Tango 13, 77. EREP: set Zulu,
which is still in the 190 camera; the n1_mbers are
0823, 3000, 0547, 9905, 1676, 0613. Drawer A
configuration: Alfa 3, 06, Charlie India 87,
58 percent, Charlie India 79; all other position,
no change.

CC Say again, that one position number you gave us?

In Drawer A.

PLT Alfa 3.
t
CC Okay, we got it.

030 00 26 20 CC Standing by for the evening status report.

CDR Roger, Bruce. Sleep: CDR, 6.5, 6.5 heavy: SPT,

6.7, 6.3 heavy, 0.4 light; PLT, 7.0, 6 heavy,
1 light. Volumes: 210, 145, 180. Water gun:
8902, 8918, 1719. Body mass: 6.B01, 6.299,
6.301: 6.402, 6.402, 6.2 - correction , 6.204,
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6.204, 6.201; _d LIien Lhe ilast three sets are

6.255, 6.250, 6.254. Exercise: CDR, no change.
SPT, standard, except Alfa is only 301 watts.
PLT, no change. Medications: CDR, none; SPT,
Afrin, one time; PLT, three Actifed as directed.
Clothing: CDR, shorts and T-shirt; SPT, socks and
shirt; PLT, socks, shorts, and T-shirt. Food logs:
CDE, 2.5 salt, plus a strs_berry drink, plus a
coffee with sugar - correction, make that a coffee
black, plus pears, plus one lemonade. SPT, 6.5
salt, plus a lemonade, plus peaches, plus corn.
PLT - correction, let me go back, rehydration water,
CDR, 1.0 rehydrati0n water, and SPT, 2.0. Now
the PL--

CC Those are both plus?

CDR They're not minus, Bruce.

CC Okay.

CDR All sor - salt packs for the PLT, 4.5; deviation,
plus green beans, plus crispybar; rehydration
water, zero. Flight Plan deviations: none.
Shopping list: SPT, entry checklist review 1 hour.
CDR, recorder ALC bypass cable installed. That'll
be 45 minutes when I finish it up. I got it
strung and ready to connect. Inoperable equip-
ment: S190 mall troubleshooting in work. Unsched-
uled stowage: none.

030 00 28 52 CC Beautiful. We've got all of that Jerry. And thank

you. While we got you on the line here, the cur-
rent EVA checklist configures both EVA crewmen
on channel B with the 6-hertz background noise.
Do you expect this will be bothersome enough to
you to want us to modify your checklist so as to
put all three crewmen on channel A on VOX? The
checklist change is relatively minor. Over.

CDR Yes, if it's Just a minor change, let's go ahead

and do it that way, and get rid of it.

CC Okay, beautiful. We'll do that then. And for

the SPT, if he's listening, we don't want to in-
terrupt, but we'll change him to a 131-2 spatial
localization in place of 131-1 double motion sick-
ness at 19:35 on tomorrow's pad.
jf-u
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SPT Roger, Bruce. And I was unable to find Gamma Vel

at all in the - either display. I maneuvered -
took several maneuvers, used the persistent image
scope, tried everything I could and couldn't find
it. So we started at 02:26 on the exposures.

030 00 30 05 CC Okay, we thank you, Ed. And to round things out

for Bill, we've been unable to find the M172 cal
data from earlier - We've been unable to find the
M172 - au- the 172 CAL data from this morning.
The following it_m_ are missing from the tape that
we got: start time, stop time, temperature, all
of sequence number l, and the first four readings
of sequence number 2. If you could, we would
appreciate your re-recording this data for us.
Over.

PLT Will do.

CC Thank you. And that winds up the evening questions.

CDR Bruce, on that food log for the CDR, drop the
extra lemonade, will you? I've decided I won't
have it.

CC Okay, consider it dropped.

030 00 31 25 CC And again, Jerry, just a reminder, we have your

phone call set up this evening for 02 - yes, 02:01
through the Vanguard. And I guess it's - that'll
last until 02:12 or ll minutes. And I guess if
you want, you can go ahead and pick it up at
Ascension also at 02:14 later. Over.

CDR Okay, that'll be fine. Which antenna?

CC Start out on the RIGHT ANTENNA and go to LEFT.

It should hold through for both sites.

CDR Okay, thank you.

CC Roger.

SPT Bruce, what kind of counts was S052 expecting to

see in ... - in S055.

CC Stand by, we'll check.

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030 00 32 55 CC And again, Jerry, in response to your question

regarding the reed conference and the recording
that was going on last evening, after a careful
review of the tape, there was nothing intelligible
on the tape relating to the med conference. You
could - you could sort of tell that maybe something
was going on in the background but you couldn't
tell what it was or what was being said or any-
thing like that. Over.

CDR Okay, thank you, Bruce.

CC And we got 1 minute to LOS, here. Next station

contact in 4-1/2 minutes through Ascension at
00: 37.

CC 1 to 4 counts on S055, Ed.

SPT Thank you, Bruce. We're seeing that now every-

where because we're in the South Alt - ...

030 00 33 55 CC Roger. We copy.

030 00 38 44 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Ascension for

8-1/2 minutes. For the CDR, we're unable to get
your EREP troubleshooting procedures pulled together
and scrubbed down sufficiently this evening. So
we're going to go ahead and work on them a little
more tonight, uplink them probably sometime tonight,
and let you run them tomorrow.

CDR Bruce, I missed your first couple of sentences.

Would you hit it again?

CC Okay, a site or two ago we called and asked if

you'd mind staying up or working on some stuff
after 02:00 for us. But we find that we're unable
to get the procedures pulled together and scrubbed
down well enough so we feel confident in sending
them up to you tonight. So we're going to take
a little more time and ship them UP in the morning
and probably schedule you to do them sometime
tomorrow, if you would.

CDR Okay, that 's fine.

CC And we would like to leave the magazines containing

film in place on S190A. Over.
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CDR We'll do it.

CC And also we are commanding DISCHARGE LIMIT over-

ride on PCG 6 at this time.

CDR Roger.

CC The lights getting dim up there yet?

CDR Not yet. We're still hanging in there.

CC Okay.

030 00 46 34 CC Skylah, this is Houston_ 1 minute to LOS. Next

station contact in 37 minutes through Guam. Pri-
vate medical conference at 01:24. It's about a
7-minute pass. Next subsequent station contact
area will be the Vanguard at 02:01. We won't
plan on calling you there since it'll be after
02:00. Will be the CDR phone call there, and at
Ascension, if desired, at 02:15. See you tomorrow
morning.

CDR Okay, Bruce. Good night.

030 00 47 l& CC Roger.

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030 01 22 32 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Guam for about

7-1/2 minutes. How do you read?

CDR Loud and clear, Bruce.

CC Okay, we need the DAS for a minute to reload a

more nominal m_nentum configuration. And also,
due to the off-nominal situation that you're
currently in 9ith respect to mcmentt_, and a
possibility of a CMG AUTO reset routine during
sleep, we'd like you to inhibit the ACS MALF,
CMG SAT CAUTIQN and WARNING input parameter on
panel 207. Over.

CDR Mind you cut out after inhibit.

CC We'd like for you to INHIBIT ACS MALF, CMG SAT

CAUTION and WARNING INHIBIT or input on panel 207
so that you don't get awakened. Over.

CDR Okay. ACS MALF, CMG SAT.

CC Right. And we also need a regulator open circuit

voltage adjust as a result of cc_ing out of this
JOP 13/18 mish mash. BEG ADJUST, BUS 1 pot, we
need 55 degrees counterclockwise; that's 55 degrees
counterclockwise, plus pot 60 degrees. That's
60 degrees counterclockwise. Over.

CDR Okay, I got it.

CC And, Jerry, we'd like to know if you've completed

the installation of the recorder ALC bypass cable?

030 O1 24 08 CDR Negative. I was waiting for things to cool down

a little bit. I think I'll do it now, and get in
touch with you at 02:01.

CC Okay, that'll be mighty fine. If you need us

later on, lO000 on the DAS, do not EB'I',R. I'm
going to hand you over to Chuck Ross here for the
reed conference. And the DAS is yours.

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CDR Okay.

030 O1 24 27 CC Good bye. We'll call you at Vanguard at 02:01

briefly.

030 01 29 57 CC Skylab, this i_ Houston; 30 seconds to LOS. Next

station contact in 31 minutes through the Vanguard
at 02:01. CDR, private phone call.

CDR Roger.

030 01 30 59 CC And we show the ATM C&D coolant loop flow glitching
down to zero at the present time, Just for your
information.

030 02 02 26 CC Skylab, this is Houston through the Vanguard for

lO minutes.

PLT Roger, Bruce. I've got four items. I'll Just

start off with number 1 here unless you've got
scmething ... -

CC Say again, please.

PLT I say I have four quick items for you, Bruce - -

CC Okay, fire away.

PLT The ATM COOLANT PUMP - problem that you pa]]ed -

called out was a good call. I went up and listened
in the area in the forward airlock compartment
where we normally hear that noise and there was
no noise. We - we had a DELTA-P light on the
ATM panel. We switched to PUMP Bravo, the
DELTA-P light went out, and I heard the noise in
the proper place.

CC Okay, great.

PLT Number 2, a different item. We need a comet

location in rise DELTA-T from sunset, in order to
get some idea of where the comet is right now.
We're having a little trouble locating it.

030 02 03 26 CC Okay, we'll work on that one.

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PLT And - we h_ve a couple of questions regarding this

recorder 2 audio load compensator installation.
First, just a matter of information, there were
no dust caps on the ends of this Cable, hut the
ends were taped. I guess that's not a particular
big deal, but we thought you ought to know about
it. And the next item which is, I think, fairly
important, and that is when Jerry was going through
the procedure, when he connected up to the SIA
number 401, before connecting, it had him turn off
the ch_nel A, that is, it was turned off in order
to make the connection, but it was not refigured
after the installation. And we were wondering if
that shouldn't be an ICOM/PTT, or at least some-
thing to give us some power.

CC That's negative, Bill; it should be OFF. The word

I'm getting here is that the microphone wires are
still tied into cable even in the OFF position.

PLT Okay, I'll run a - I'm going to run a quick test

then because I'm going to put that BMMD stuff on
the tape. And it'll be awhile I guess, though,
before you know it, but at least by morning, we'll
know whether or not the stuff got on tape.

CC Okay.

030 02 04 51 PLT And that takes care of it. Thank you.

CC Okay, but you're not going to get Off scott free.

First off, we have cleverly uplinked you a revised
film-thread pad, number 7606 Alfa based on the
info we got from the evening status report. It
should be in the teleprinter at the present time.
Secondly - Relay that. Stand by.

PLT While you're standing by, I noticed in my details

at 12:00 in the morning, I'm supposed to load set
Union to Echo 7 through Echo 12 into drawer J and,
of course, right new we're configured in such a
way we can't do that.

030 02 05 46 CC Roger. We're aware of that Bill, and we're working

on that pad. We'll have it up to you in plenty of
time in the morning. And apparently, we're
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uplinking entry checklist pad changes at the

present time for de - and we'll have the film-thread
pad 7606 Alfa coming up later on. We apologize
for that, but don't - don't use the one that you've
got on board. For the CDR, if you could shout up
to him, when hp gets to Ascension, VHF, LEFT
ANTENNA all the way. And we gathered you've
gotten - or Jerry's gotten the recorder ALC cable
installation complete except for a check of its
operati on. 0ver.

PLT That's affirmative, Bruce. And I'll get him the

word on the antenna.

030 02 06 42 CC And when we got the evening status report readings

this evening on the SPT, BMMD readings, first we
got 6. 402, 6. 402, and something. And then the
second set was 6.204, 6.204, 6.201, equaling
143.3 pounds, for a loss of 100 - of i1.4 pounds
since the last reading. And we're wondering if
maybe the first set wasn't more -wasn't more
correct than the last. And if so, we didn't get
the last value on that. You can put that -

PLT Okay, Bruce, I'm- I'm reading - I think that's

probably - bu_ let me check on this and give you
a reading later, if I could. But it's probably
6.402, 6.404, 6.401. Now that - that - those
readings make sense.

CC Okay. If you would, you can go ahead and put it

on - -

PLT I just received corroboration on that.

030 O2 O7 57 CC Okay. We copy 6.402, 6.404, and 6.4017

PLT Affirmative.

CC Okay, thank you very much. And I guess it's time

to say good night, again.

PLT Okay, unless you got any other gems.

030 02 i0 18 CC PLT, this is Houston. Guess who?

PLT Go, Bruce.

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CC Yes, Okay, ollKohoutek, it is approximately

60 degrees from the Sun at the present time, will
set 5 minutes after sunset, and is located midway
between the constellations of Aquarius and Pegasus.

PLT It was 5 minutes after sunset?

CC That's affirmative,

PLT Okay.

CC And _1_o in your housekeeping 90A, you powered

down two of the fans in OWS duct 2. In 90B we
believe you probably powered both of those back
up. However, our flow transducer down here has
been intermittent on an unpredictabl e basis and
we're currently showing off- nonearly off-scale
low. And Just before you go to bed, we'd like you
to verify you're getting good flow through OWS
duct 2.

PLT Will do.

CC And good night again.

PLT Good night, Bruce.

CC Cross our hearts, good night.

PLT Just so you'll rest easy, we are getting good

flow on duct 2.

030 02 ll 55 CC Okay, th_nk you Bill, and good night.

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030 ii 00 08 CC (Music: "Ghost Riders in the Sky")

030 ii 01 03 CC Skylab, Houston.

SPT Go ahead, Hank.

CC Skylab, Houston. I hate to bother you so early

in the morning, but we have an indication that the
teleprinter paper is out, and we'd - have to call
on one of you to change the paper out for us.
And we'd also like to get a reading on what the
latest message you had was, the latest legible
message.

CC Skylab, Houston, we may have dropped out there.

We have an indication that the teleprinter paper
is all out, and we need to know what the last
message you got was so we can plan our uplinks.

CDR Yes, Hank, you're still dropping out, but Bill is

up checking the teleprinter right now.

CC Okay, good show.

PLT Roger, Hank. 7615 started but did not complete,

so you'll have to send that one again.

CC Okay, appreciate it, Bill. Sorry we had to bother

you right off the bat, but we needed to get our
messages in order. So we'll transmit everything
including that that we' ve sent up and have it -
try to have it up for you. And we'll be - -

PLT Roger.

030 ll 03 4h CC - - we'll be going LOS here shortly. Honeysuckle

is next at 20, so we'll talk to you there.

030 ll 20 16 CC • Skylab, Houston through Honeysuckle for 6 minutes.

PLT Roger, Hank.

0BO ll 21 Oh CC Skylab, Houston, we're sending up another message

now and if it's convenient, we sure would like to
get one of you to take a look at it and see if
it'sacceptable.
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PLT Stand by, Hank; we're on our way.

SPT Hank, it's coming out a little light on the

right-hand - on the left-hand side. After you
get finished with this message, I'll readjust it.

CC Okay. Okay. We've stopped uplinking.

SPT Okay, Hank. Give her another go.

030 ll 25 23 CC Okay.

CC Skylab, Houston; 1 minute to LOS. Hawaii is the

next - is the next site at 41, and that's 16 min-
utes from now. How did that next message look?

SPT It's looking okay, Hank. Just keep sending them

up.

CC Okay. Thank you a lot. Again, I say I'm sorry to

have to bother you right off the bat, but we _ere
in a pinch here to get the EREP real message up.
You'll need that by 12:00.

030 ll 25 49 SPT No problem, Hank.

030 ii 41 28 CC Skylab, Houston through Hawaii for 7 minutes.

PLT Roger, Hank. Standing by for the news.

CC Okay. Let's see what we've got here this morning.

First story's from Las Vegas, says a $219 million
class action suit was filed Tuesday charging
Howard Hughes and others with fraud and stock
manipulation in the purchase of Air West Ainlines.
The suit asked $119 million in compensatory damages
and another $100 million in punitive damages.
Washington: A Senate com_ttee is demanding resma
of secret information on Justice Department eaves-
dropping practices for the past 6 years. And I
guess this must be Senator Jackson said at the
time, '_We must start by identifying, isolating, and
eliminating all unwarranted surveillance activities
by the Government itself. The civil liberties of
all our citizens are at stake." The FBI and the
department periodically disclose the n_,m1_er of
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wiretaps in operation, but normally make public

no other details _unless forced to do so in court
or under pressure from Congress. Also Washington:
CIA Director William E. Colby said Tuesday night
that the CIA can find only one tape recording
bearing on the Watergate affair and that it has
destroyed all its other tapes from that period.
In a telephone interview, Colby said, '_We had
periodic destruction of our tapes." CBS News,
meanwhile, reported that the CIA made the record-
ings secretly and that some of them may have
included conversations with the President. CBS
said the tapes apparently were being sought to
throw light on the CIA's role in the break-in at
the office of Ellsberg's psychiatrist and other
Watergate-related matters. Los Angeles : A sub-
poena ordering President Nixon to testify per-
sonally in the Ellsberg burglary ease is awaiting
the signature of a California state Judge follow-
ing his ruling that the President is a material
witness. The unprecedented subpoen a was drafted
and delivered to Superior Court Judge Gordon Ringer
late Tuesday by attorneysfor John D, Ehrlichman
who requested Nixon's appearances. •Washington:
Controversy over oil industry profits appears to
have killed the emergency energy bill that Congress
wrestled with for 2 months. "It's all in a shambles
now," Senate Interior Committee Chairman Henry M.
Jackson, Democrat, Washington, said. House Commerce
Committee Chairman Harley O. Staggers, Democrat
from West Virginia, agreed that the Senate vote
probably would kill the bill. Washington: Presi-
dent Nixon addresses Congress and the Nation
Wednesday night on the State of the Union, and
quite possibly on the Watergate crisis. With the
general shape and nature of the President's 1974
legislative program already well known, interest
in his address• centered on the question of whether
he would talk about the troubles that beset him
and his Presidency. Washington: Russia is report-
edly seeking a naval base on the West African
coast from which its warships could patrol sea
lanes connecting Europe with Latin America and
South Africa. U.S. intelligence sources said
there have been recent indications that the
Soviet Union is putting pressure on President
Sekou Toure of Guinea for permission to build
a naval base on an island off Conkary - Conakry,
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the Guinean capal - capital. Raleigh, North Car-

olina: Customers at a Raleigh service station
make appointments to bt_ gas. "Customers just
love it," station operation - operator William E.
Congleton said Tuesday. "No one thinks it's
anything less than a tremendous idea." When a
customer fails to show up for an appointment,
the allotment goes to drop-in customers. Seattle:
James H. Wheeler, age lO1, known as "The Cat Man
of the Yukon," died Monday. He made a small for-
tune during the Alaska Gold Rush, not in prospec-
ting, but in picking up stray cats in Seattle for
50 cents and selling them to Y_kon dance hall
girls for $300 each. Space Center, Houston: De-
spite some spac e station and weather problems,
Skylab's three astronauts will complete about
90 percent of the experiments plRnned for their
8_day mission. Flight Director Don Puddy made
that assessment for newsmen Tuesday as the astro-
nauts soared through the home stretch of their
record flight. Carr, Pogue, and Gibson today were
in their 76th day in orbit, with return to Earth
set for February 8. The Flight Plan today included
a f_111 slate of solar astronomy, medical, and
Earth resources tasks. Washington: The senior
Republican on the House Judiciary Committee says
', President Nixon is not entitled to withhold in-
o
formation from the panel's impeachment inquiry -
inquiry. Representative Edward Hutchinson said
the impeachment power overshadows the President's
claim of executive privilege. So far, the com-
mittee has not asked the White House for any
material, but it is seeking to obtain broad sub-
poena power from the House. Crofton, Maryland:
Former Vice President Spiro T. Agnew is reported
to be house-hunting in and around Anne Arundel
County in his home state of Maryland. "They want
to stay here," a representative of Charles H.
Steffey, Inc. said Monday. He said the Agnews
have been trying to keep their shopping quiet.
The Agnew's current home in Bethesda, Just outside
Washington, is for sale for $325,000. And in
Houston: Prosecution lawyers. Plan to call "10 av-
erage cit - citizens" to testify in their effort
to have the trial of Elmer WayneHenley moved to
another city. And that about does it for this
morning.
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PLT Thankyou,Hank. !

CC And one word for you, Bill. The track _8 we're

running on the EREP today is not dependent on the
completion of these real procedures that you're
going to be starting here shortly. If the S -
S190 doesn't check out, we'll Just do wlth the
ETC photographs that we have schedule_._ And if
you don't get the 193 m_1 finished them, we'll
just take Alfa 1 and Delta 9 readings auring
the pass.

PLT That's the 190 Alfa. Right?

CC Affirmative.

PLT Okay, thank you.

030 ll 47 51 CC And, we're about 1 minute from LOS. Goldstone is

next at 52. And that's only about 3-1/2 minutes
from now.

030 ii 51 47 CC Skylab, Houston through Goldstone for 7 minutes.

And, Skylab, we plan to dump the voice recorder
here.

PLT Roger, Hank.

CC Skylab, Houston. Since we put in that bypass

cable on the voice recorder, you know, that de-
grades the voice a little bit, and we're - we're
getting Jerry very plainly but Bill and Ed, you're
coming in a little bit weak now. And if you would,
We'd like for you to try to speak a little more
loudly and distinctly. And if you're using the
microphone to kind of - I don't know, I guess get
it closer to your lips there to help us out.

PLT Okay, Hank.

030 ll 57 52 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from LOS. Ber-

muda is next at 02.

CDR Roger, Hank. And on $233, I don't hold out much

hope for finding the comet right _ay. I managed
to look one time, and I haven't seen it yet. We'll
keep plugging away at it, but I'm a_aid that
things don't look too good for this first try.
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030 ll 58 28 CC Okay, we copy, Jerry.

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030 12 03 44 CC Skylab, Houston through Bermuda, 6 minutes.

CDR Roger, Hank. And if you can for scheduling to-

morrow, would you see if they can't slip in some
checklist update time in there? This mountain of
paperwork up here is beginning to get to us.

CC Okay, on tomorrow we got you - about an hour set

aside for that.

CDR Okay, I ought be able to make a good dent in it

with that.

CC Plus since tomorrow is an off-duty day, there's a

good bit open - open time there too.

CDR Oh, yes, that's right. I forgot about thaat.

030 12 08 39 CC Skylab, Houston, we're 1 minute from LOS.

030 12 08 41 CC Canaries is next at ll, 3 minutes.

030 12 ll 55 CC Skylab, Houston through Canaries for 9-1/2 minutes.

030 12 18 30 CC CDR, Houston.

CDR Go ahead, Hank.

CC Okay. Jerry, I was just atlking to Karl there,

here about trying to find the comet on $233. If
you orient yourself so you're looking regularly
outward through STS window number 4 and - the
comet should appear at about the upper third part
of the window. When I say upper, I mean towards
the - the CSM plus-X and about halfway from the
centerline of the window - of the lon- long -
longway eenterline to the righthand edge as you
look toward the CSM.

CDR Okay, Hank. Thank you. I'll give that a try.

Last night periodI looked out there and the
horizon was well over to the right. And I was
afraid maybe it was going to be impossible even
to get a camera in there to look out.
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CC Well, all we can - I guess all we can do is Just

give it a go. If we can't, then we can't.

CDR I thought l'd try to t_ke a look out the command

module side-hatch window. It looks like it may
be aligned with window number _.

030 12 21 15 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 20 seconds from

LOS. Tananarive will be coming up at 35. And
for Bill, I d0n't know whether we made it clear
or not, this EREP mal we kind of wanted you to
run during the time we had scheduled for the EREP
mag at 12:00.

CDR Yes, Hank, he figured that out. He's doing a

couple of film threading problems right now and
then - whistle right up there.

030 12 21 43 CC Okay, good show. You - He - He's doing the right

thing, must have read our mind.

030 12 36 20 CC Skylab, Houston. We have you on a real low ele-

vation pass through Tananarive. We may have you
for about i minute. The next site is Honeysuckle
at 57, and that'll be coming up in about 20 minutes.

PLT Roger, Hank. EREP malf procedures complete; looks

like we're back in business. It worked.

CC Outstanding. Is that for both of them?

PLT No, it's for the 190 ack - A magazines.

CC Okay. 190A's working and you haven't had a chance

to work on 193 yet?

PLT Negative. i
i
CC Okay. That's really good news about the 190.

030 12 37 14 PLT I haven't seen the procedure on 193, Hank. I'll

start looking for it.

CC Okay. That should have came as the third page of

that EREP test, Bill.
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PLT Okay. Well, better send it again because it was

cut off right in the middle of step 8, which I
didn't - fortunately, I did not need for - because
it worked out all right. So you better send that
one up again.

CC Okay, we'll do that. Step 8 had you Just shutting

everything down and step - step 9 was where we
were removing the film if we couldn't get 8 done,
but you didn't need all that.

PLT That's affirmative, and I got about the first

three lines of step 8 and then it was blan_ and
I thought all - all I lost was the end-of-message
line.

CC Okay. What step seemed to cure everything up,

Bill?

030 12 38 05 PLT When I cycled the three breakers on 202 I think

is what did it.

_- 030 12 57 00 CC Good morning, Skylab. We're A0S with you through

. Honeysuckle
for 7 minutes.

_ CDR Roger, Crip.

CC Bill, we have a question down here regarding your

teleprinter pad since you mentioned that EREP
malf, you'd only gotten a portio n of it. After
we sent that one we also sent up a center-of-mass
measurement Which you're scheduled to be doing
about now, and you - your EREP pads. Can you
tell us whether you got those on board?

PLT We have center-of-mass and EREP. I still am

waiting for the 193 part of the malf.

CC Okay, very good. We'll - we'll try to get that •

up to you.

PLT And, Crip, you can save me a few minutes, here,

I'm sort of in a bind for time, if you can have the
film people quickly confirm or Clarify on Nikon 2
and Nikon 4 if there's downloading involved. I
think there is.
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CC We'll see if we can get - get you a quick answer

on that, Bill.

PLT I can sort it out checking through Flight Plans,

but it'd take me a few minutes.

CC Roger ; we got - I think we got the word. Just

a sac°

030 13 00 21 CC PLT, Houston. You're absolutely correct, Bill.

We do need to download both 2 and 4.

PLT Thank you. And Crip, I have in m_ hand, mes-

sage 76632, which is, I guess, the completion of
the troubleshooting on EREP.

CC There should be a third page to that. It's actu-

ally page 3, and it should be coming in now.

PLT I'm going to go out and see what - how much of

this 193 I can get - 193 I can get through here
on this pass.

CC Okay, copy that. Wonder if the - what the status

is with the SPT this morning. Ed, are you all
tied up? The reason I'm asking is a little prob-
lem with the conflict on where we scheduled the
ATM conference, and Bill Lenoir said he only had
a couple of - couple minutes' worth for you this
morning. We could either do it at the end of
this pass or pick it up over Goldstone.

030 13 02 13 SPT Crip, right now I'm working on setting up the

cameras for this center-of-mass measurement.

CC Okay, Ed. No problem. We'll - we'll see if we

can work it when we get to the stateside.

SPT Look, if he wants to go ahead, I can - I don't

have a hack of a lot more, so if he's sitting
right there let's go ahead and press on. I can
listen to him.

CC Okay, that's fine. He's present.

030 13 02 38 MCC Okay, Ed. This morning on the Sun, don't really
have anything to add other than so far we have
no hard evidence of the return of active region 14.
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The main thing I wanted to mention here or give

you a chance to ask questions about is - the next
orbit's worth of operations we've scheduled -
well, we haven't really called it ops time, but
that's in effect what it is. We're attempting to
schedule what you recommended yesterday on that
line of three bright points. Where we want to
try to get as much of it into mini-MARs as we can
and run repetitive mini-MARs for about half the
available time - little less than half actually.
Go to one of the brightest points, take a GRATING,
SCAN and go back and finish off the rest of that
time with mini-MARs as we started. And if you
don't have any questions on that, that was the
main thing. Also to point out to you that we are
in the process of negotiating for another JOP 13,
2 days from now. But there are many conflicts
and problems with computations, so whether or not
that comes about is unclear right now. Other than
that, inputs from you was about all else I had on
my list.

030 13 04 13 SPT Bill, l'm not in the A - by the ATM. We got that
locked up for $233. The only thing I can say is
that the bright points which I looked at yester-
day are - started to fade, and the one on the end
is not anywhere near as bright as it was before.
So it doesn't look as good a target as it did
yesterday, but I'll go ahead and work it or some-
thing similar to it.

MCC Okay, sounds fine. And if it doesn't look like

the right thing to do, Just press on and do what-
ever looks right.

SPT Okay.

CC Okay. We're about 30 seconds from LOS, and next

station contact is going to be through Goldstone
in 24 minutes at 13:29, 13:29. We don't have
Hawaii this pass.

030 13 04 58 CDR Roger, Crip, and $233 was a b1_mmer. There's a

Moon out there which makes it even more difficult
to find and I just couldn't find the comet.

CC There's a what out there? A Moon? Okay.

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CDR Moon.

CC A Moon. Roger.

CDR A half a Moon.

CC Okeydokey. Well, do you think it's worth trying

to pursue? I believe Ed's got it a little later
on today.

CDR Well, the big thing is if we can just find the

comet we'll be all right, but it's going to take
a little looking, you know, for a couple of passes
probably to find it.

030 13 05 33 CC Okeydoke.

030 13 29 23 CC Skylab, _Houston. AOS through Goldstone. We've

got you for about 6 minutes.

CC Also, Skylab, we'd like to go ahead and take the

VTR and dump it here through Goldstone.

030 13 29 42 SPT That's fine, Crip. Go ahead.

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030 13 34 43 CC Skylab, Houston. We're i minute from LOS. Next

station contact is through Bermuda; that's in
about 4 minutes from now at 13:39. We'll be doing
i_;_ a data/voice recorder dump. Also on the upcoming
laser pass, it's 1 watt, yellow. And our - I
would also like to get an ATM frame count from -
from you, Ed, when you man the panel through that
pass.

030 13 35 lh PLT Roger, Crip.

030 13 40 00 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS through Bermuda. We

have you for 9-1/2 minutes. The VTR is all cleaned
off and belongs to you guys again. You got a
full 30 minutes. We'll also be doing a data/voice
recorder dump here. And whenever it's convenient,
Ed, I would like to get a frame count from you off
the ATM.

CDR He'll be with you shortly, Crip.

CC Okay, no problem.

PLT And we've got it sighted, Crip, unaided.

030 13 42 12 PLT Crip, cut it back to 1/2 watt if they can.

CC Okay, understand you got it in sight now. We'll

check and see if we can cut it back.

CC We show that the data - the recorder's running

and we need it to - to do a dump here. we're -
we 're all full.

PLT You've got it, Crip. And also, we still have the
laser in sight.

CC Very good.

030 13 43 04 CC Bill, time does not permit reducing the power down
to 1/2 watt this pass. We'll check and see if
that may be feasible for the next one.

PLT Okay, Crip. It's still coming through loud and

clear.
f -
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CC Thank you, sir.

SPT Hello, Crip. You ready for the frame count?

CC Yes, sir.

SPT 7644, 85238, 2, 7, 602, 2488. And Crip, the

reason l'm getting - going slow here is that
between ATM passes we had - had me scheduled for
setting up some cameras, some lights, taking
center-of-mass measurements, and an ATM conference,
and we needed about a factor of times 2 more than
what we were allowed. And that's why we're going
a little bit slow here.

CC Copy that, and understand the problem.

SPT Okay, as long as the people down there understand

how much time these things are taking and plan
accordingly, and they'll know what they're going
to get. We're charging full-bore, but there's no
way of getting through that in a - in a nightside
pass.

CC Roger that.

PLT Lost the laser, Crip, visually at 44:10. And

Jer still has it on the binocs.

CC Okay, you're getting pretty far out there again.

030 13 44 35 PLT The - I got an atten - started getting a very

definite attenuation about 43 minutes, and it was,
you know, it was sort of dropping in and out,
but I was still able to maintain visual contact
in about - for a minute and a half here and then
finally lost it completely.

CC Okay.

PLT Still have it on the binoculars.

CC Roger.

PLT Still have it on the binoculars. And another

point of interest was that when I was making the
transmissions, I was also leaning down. So I was
reacquiring that thing visually right up until -
until I gave you that last call.
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CC Roger. You guys got strong eyeballs.

030 13 h5 50 PLT MARK. Lost it on the binoculars.

CC Roger.

CC SPT, Houston. Ed, if- if you've got another

moment, I'd like to give you some words regarding
the 82A and B frames and how much we've got remain-
ing and where you're going to have to stop, and
so forth.

SPT Go ahead.

CC Okay, on 82A, understand you got two frames on

there now. I believe you've got an 89A exposure
scheduled a little bit later in the day and it
should, of course, decrement to 1. Subsequent to
that, we'll have you go ahead and try one more
exposure to see if it does decrement. If it does
not, we'll just go ahead and leave it alone at 1.
If it does, we will go ahead and take one more
F exposurewith it at zero. On B, we - we show that
you are now reading 7 frames and we can go ahead
and take exposures all the way down to zero.

SPT Okay. As I understand that, what you're saying

on 82A is that when it gets down to either 1 or
zero you try one more, and if it doesn't change,
then you stop at that point.

030 13 47 27 CC Okay, that's on A. It should really stop at 1 we

think, but we want you to go ahead and try it
when it does - when it is reading 1. And if it -
when you try it, it does go to zero, we'll try
taking one more.

SPT Understood.

CC Would - would you like any - any words on a - a

general message regarding that, or is this dis-
cus si on adequate ?

CC I - I - I guess we'll probably go ahead and send

it up, that way it will be available there on the
panel if - the rest of you want to take a look at
it. And it will be applicable for the next couple
of days, probably.
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SPT Yes, why don't you go ahead and do that. Whenever

we have the exposure coming up where we' d fall
into that situation, it wouldn't hurt for the
CAP COMM to give whoever is on the panel a reminder
at that time.

CC Roger.

030 13 48 29 CC Okay, we're about a minute from LOS. Next station

contact is going to be through Ascension in
8 minutes at 13:56. We are complete with the
data/voice recorder dump, and it belongs to you
again.

030 13 56 28 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS through Ascension.

We have you for l0 minutes,

CC Skylab, Houston, for CDR and PLT. We've copied

because of a little bit tight scheduling there
that you're running a little bit behind on 92/93.
If - if you think you need some catchup time in
order to allow us to get to the ERE? on - on
schedule, it is possible to go ahead and eliminate
the limb blood from - from this run righ now.
i

PLT Roger. We'll eliminate the limb blood flow.

CC Okay. That - that's if you think you need to -

to get to the EREP.

PLT Okay. We'll take a look at it when the time comes.

CC Okeydoke.

030 14 00 41 CC Skylab, Houston, no need to acknowledge, matter

of information. We calculated that time that you
had the laser out to 1000 nautical miles, visually,
and about 15 nautical miles with the binoculars.

030 14 05 54 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from LOS. Next

station contact is through Carnarvon in 24 minutes
at 14:30, 14:30.

PLT Crip, how do you read?

CC Loud and clear.

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PLT Okay. One comment on the successful 190 Alfa

film ... troubleshooting.

CC Bill. Break, break. We got a lot of static here,

just as soon as I told you I was reading you.
I'll try to get your comment a bit - a little bit
later, if I may.

030 14 06 34 PLT Okay.

030 14 29 52 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS through Carnarvon

for 9 minutes.

030 14 37 51 CC Skylab, Houston; 1 minute from LOS. Next station

contact is through Guam in 6 minutes at 14:h4.
See you there.

SPT Okay, Crip. Hey, before I whistle away from the

panel here, let me give you a quick overview. It
won't take long here. The XUV MONITOR showed the
brightest regions coming around the east limb,
looking at about 270; fairly bright one about 0.9 -
0.95. Some brightening above that at - at 270 or
around 280, there's some limb brightening. Several
bright points around on the disk. The active
region 37 is very difficult to distinguish from
bright points. There's a bright point at around
lh0, 0.2 and 120, 0.h and one at 060. 0.5, and
a few others scattered around filament channel
down - running east-west down pretty much close
to the - the center about 0.5 degrees, or 0.5 solar
radii down. We have coronal holes at the north
and south. At the north, we've got a filament
channel running parallel to the coronal hole.
Pretty much what we've talked about in terms of
helitm 304 banding. Maybe that's what we're look-
ing at here in the oxygen VI - I'm sorry, in the
XUV MONITOR, WHITE LIGHT CORONAGRAPH *** strong
streamers on 10, very prominent - -

030 14 39 37 CC We're going over the hill on you here now, Ed.

030 14 4h 18 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS thro_ Guam. We have

you for 7 minutes.

030 lh 50 41 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from LOS. See

you again in 17 minutes over the States ; Goldstone
at 15:08.

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030 15 08 46 CC Skylab, Houston, we're AOS through Goldstone for

5-1/2 minutes.

PLT Roger, Crip.

CC Skylab, Houston. I don't know whether you're going

to have an opportunity to try for it this time,
but if you do, the laser again will be yellow.
We'll start out with 1 watt. We'd like to get one
photo of it if you find it, which we assume you
will. And if - after you report that, we can go
shead and reduce it down to 1/2 •watt per your
previous request and get another photo of it then.

PLT Okay.

030 15 ll 46 CC Skylab, Houston. At your convenience, we can -

we need somebody to adjust the REGs for us for the
upcoming EREP pass. It'll be both pots 1 and 2,
_- 30 degreesclockwise.

CDR Roger. And, Crip, I've got something to pass to

you before I forget it again. Last night's even-
ing status report, we should have included under
• inoperable equipment the blood pressure cuff, serial
number 011, broke yesterday in that it failed to
send a signal to the ESS apparently. We were
getting no blood pressure light or reading. We
swapped out ; we have a new cuff which is serial
n11mher 12, and everything's working fine.

CC Okay. Appreciate that report. And when somebody

does get up to the - around the are of the STS there,
there 're a couple of things that I want to check.

SPT You've got 30 degrees clockwise on each one, Crip

What else do you need?

CC Okay. We copy that pump Charlie apparently quit

on us last night, and we wondered if - like to
verify, that the switch for pump Charlle on panel
203 is in OFF now and also that the circuit breaker
on panel 202 for pump Charlie on the ATM coolant
loop - COOLANT PUMP, rather, is - is CLOSED.
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SPT Circuit breakers for Bravo and Charlie are both

CLOSED and all pumps are turned OFF at the present
time. Would you like that reconfigured?

CC Okay. We thought we were running on - on pump

Bravo.

SPT I did too, as of last night, but the switch is

OFF now. Hold on.

CC Ed, we're talking about the ATM COOLANT PUMPS

now. We're going to LOS here for about 30 seconds,
and I'll give you a call on the other side.

SPT No, we got Bravo running on the ATM COOLANT.

CC Okay. Also Ed, would you ckeck 52's POWER, ON?

It looks like it might have got turned off
accidently.

SPT Yes, it sure did. It's ON.

030 15 lh 53 CC Thank you, sir.

CC I'm back with you through Texas now. We got you

for about 12-1/2 minutes. That REG ADJUST you did
for us looks good.

SPT Okay, thank you, Crip. Just as you were going over
the hill, when I was talking to the - the WHITE
LIGHT CORONAGRAPH, there's two real faint features,
one at 120 and one at 090, both very narrow
streamers, radial. I don't believe I was able to
get those in. Otherwise, no significant change.

CC Okay. Pre - appreciate your keeping us updated

on what's happening with old Sol.

SPT Crip, I'd like to move 133 if - again, if I could,

back one night. That's not tonight but tomorrow
night. If there's any question on that, why don't
they channel them through Chuck Ross and I'll talk
to him tonight.

CC We copy.

CC SPT, Houston. Ed, I take it that the 133 cap is

causing you a little bit of difficulty in sleeping,
or is that the problem?
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SPT It's not really that. Why don't you Just let me
talk to Chuck Ross tonight, Crip?

CC Okeydoke.

030 15 18 32 PLT Crip, I'm all ready to get a picture of the laser,
but how gout - how about giving me a call about
2h past the hour, so I don't miss the mAueuver.

CC Roger. We'll keep a watch on it for you.

030 15 18 52 PLT Okay. I've got it, Crip.

CC Very good.

CC And PLT, Houston. Bill, whenever you'd like to get

the photo and everything and you'd like to try to
reduce power on it, well give us a word.

PLT Go ahead now, Crip, and reduce the power.

CC Okay, in work. Okay. You're about half - 1/2 watt

now.

PLT Okay. I got a 300 millimeter of both power levels.

SPT Crip, you can hardly tell the difference.

CC Very interesting.

CDR Crip, it looked like to me it got more yellow

when they reduced the power.

CC Okay.

030 15 21 37 CDR Okay, Crip, I just lost it with the unaided eye.

CC Okay.

CC And if you guys are intersted, when you lost it with

the binocs, we can go ahead and try craking the
power up some and see what that does to it.

PLT Okay. I Just lost it with the unaided eye, and

Ed's still got it in the binoculars. Crank it up
again.

CC In work.
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PLT Ed still has it in the binoculars.

CC Okeydoke.

PLT I never reacquired it visually.

030 15 23 35 SPT Okay, Crip. I just dropped- it just dropped out

of sight. I think we just got the slant range and
the haze just finally got to us.

CDR Same here.

CC Okay. We copy that.

SPT How far out are we?

CC About 1400 miles now.

SPT Probab]_y around 1200 or so is what it was. Well,

maybe - maybe not quite that far back. It was
only about 5 seconds before I called you that I
lost it; so maybe 13.

CC Okay. We're coming up on 24 minutes after the

hour here, so Bill probably ought to be going up
to the C&D to take care of the maneuver.

PLT Thank you, Crip.

SPT That yellow shows up pretty well, Crip.

CC Sound like it. You guys've done a fantastic job

of seeing that. It sounds like more - not a func-
tion of wattage so much as just getting out and
getting a slant range down through the haze - may
be the big problem there at that distance.

CDR Looks like probably the way to go is use a green

or something for acquisition and then once you
acquire, shift over to yellow for range.

SPT It terminated rather abruptly, Crip. I could see

it getting dimmer, then all of a sudden it Just cut
off and - and I'm not sure whether a cloud - a
cirrus all of a sudden got in our line or slight
and obscured it.
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CC Okay, copy that. While I'm talking to you, and

Bill's busy there at the panel, but I'm going to
have a - one modification, Ed, to your ETC pad.
And I've got several roods to his C&D pad, if we
can catch those. We got about three sites before
the pass.

SPT I'ii be going that way in about 20 seconds. I'ii

give you a call.

CC Okay, we;re got about 2 more minutes here, no sweat.

We can probably pick them up a little bit later.
It might be easier for - for you.

SPT Okay, Crip, go ahead with the mind.

CC Okay, the only one I had was down at 58:30 for the
STANDBY. We wanted to change that to 57:15.

SPT 58:30 is changed to 57:15 for STANDBY.

CC And that's it.

SPT Thank you.

CC Okay, we're 1 minute from LOS. Next station contact

is in i0 minutes through Ascension. And that'll
be like 36.

030 15 26 25 SPT So long, Crip.

030 15 36 15 CC Skylah, Houston. We're AOS through Ascension for

5 minutes.

CDR Roger, Crip.

CC For the PLT, Bill, would this be a convenient place

to give you some C&D pad changes, or would you
rather wait about 30 minutes and get them over
Carnarvon ?

PLT Get them right now. Stand by about i0 seconds.

CC Okay, no hurry.

PLT Go, Crip.

CC Bill, did you - did you give me a call then?

PLT Roger. You can go ahead with the changes.

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CC Okay, fine. I'd like to start out down in the -

the operate portion of your pad. Let me just basic-
ally tell you what we're going to do first and
then we can mark it. At around 45 minutes after
the hour, we're got a SCAT and RAD to STANDBY.
We're going to move those down to 46 after the
hour, and then we're going to cross out some stuff
here in between. To start out the - again at 45:00
and 45:02, the S193 SCAT and S193 RAD, both STAND-
BYs are to be deleted. And at 45:08, the 193 RAD,
OFF and 193 A, ON are to be deleted.

PLT Wait a minute. That was 46:18?

CC Negative, negative. At 45:08 the S193 RAD, OFF

and 193 A, ON are to be deleted.

PLT Roger.

CC Okay. Also the 46:18 calls of S193 A, STANDBY

and S193 RAD are to be deleted. And then we need
to add in at 46:00, S193 S, STANDBY and 46:02,
S193 RAD, STANDBY.

PLT Okay, now the way I have it now we - at 44:_0,

we have DOWNLINK switch position to 7; next event
45:08, S193 MODE, CROSSTRACK CONTIGUOUS, ANGLE
ROLL plus 30, POLARIZATION, I. At 46 even,
I have 193 SCAT STANDBY; at 46:02 1 have RAD
to STANDBY. Those are the corrections I have put
in so far.

CC Okay, that's - that's a good readback. You've got

in also the 46:18 193 A and 193 RAD to STANDBY
are eliminated. Is that correct?

PLT That's affirmative.

CC Okay, would you also add in at - over at 55:30

after that and before the 57:45, a call for
57:15, ETC, STANDBY.

PLT 57:15, ETC, STANDBY.

CC Okay. And I would like to eliminate the callout

for ETC, STANDBY at 58:30. And that is all of the
changes. We're about i0 seconds from LOS. Next
station contact is through Carnarvon in about
38 minutes at 16:07. We'll he doing a data/voice
recorder dump there.
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PLT Roger, Crip. And the record Alfa i, Charlie i,

Delta 9 at 58:30 is still good.

030 15 41 53 CC That's affirmative.

030 16 06 45 CC Skylab, Houston. We are A0S through Carnarvon.

We'll be doing a data/voice recorder dump here.

PLT Roger, Crip.

CC For the PLT. Bill, I got a - I got a change to

the change. If you've got that C&D pad handy, I
could give you the rood to it.

PLT Ready to copy.

CC Okay. All it is back at 45:08, the operations that

we have, S193 MODE, CROSS - CONTIGUOUS, ANGLE right
[sic], plus 30 and POLARIZATION, i, should be
moved after the 46:02 operation of 193 RAD,
STANDBY.

f
PLT Got it.

CC Thank you, sir. Is this a convenient place to

give you a brief rundown on today's weather for the
pass ?

SPT Roger. Go ahead.

CC Okay. It - actually it sounds pretty similar to

what - what we ss_ yesterday. You're going to
find it socked in over the water, ,overcast all
the way down to the Washington-0regon border,
and about there, it's like 8/10, I0/i0 coverage
all the way down to the Denver area, where it'll
break down to about 4/i0 to 7/10 coverage, which
is high, thin cirrus. So the Dil!ion Reservoir,
we really think should be visible in that, and
you should probably be able to see through the
high, thin cirrus, probably look kind of hazy all
the way down to - to the Texas-0klahoma border,
and low and behold the state of Texas has got nice
clear weather again today. So you should have
no problems picking up the Toledo Bend area and
all the way down to the coast.

CDR Okay, good enough, thanks.

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PLT Hey Crip, I think I missed one thing. When I get

down to 46:30 when I put 193 ALTIMETER MODE, 5;
RANGE, 73, I have put it to STANDBY up at 16:38:30,
but I have not turned it ON. Perhaps I missed one
of your corrections.

CC Okay. I believe it's still on from the previous

operation. Stand by i.

PLT Okay. I deleted it at 45:08. I thought you said

delete it.

CC We did.

PLT Okay. Is it on at 46:187

CC Standby by l, Bill.

030 16 ll ll CC Okay, Bill. In answer to your question, we do

have you change the MODE there at 46:30 on the
ALTIMETER; however, we're not going to be opera-
ting it until a bit later at - at 58:03 and that
- that is the way we want to run it. It has - the
operations sound a little bit different there be-
cause of the change we made, but we went shead
and elected to leave the mode change where it was.

PLT No sweat, I agree with you. I was afraid I had

missed a callout ALTIMETER, ON somewhere.

CC Okeydoke.

CC And also, Skylab, Houston; for PLT and the CDR.

If we get into problems with S190A today, I can
give our recon_mended procedure, which is basically
what Bill ended up doing in his little trouble-
shooting procedure earlier today.

PLT Go ahead.

CC Okay. I don't believe it's necessary for you to

write this down, but basically, all we want to
do if we get all the lights on again, is to take
the S190A POWER to OFF, and then on panel 202,
we want you to cycle the three $190A circuit
breakers to OFF and back CLOSED, and then turn the
POWER back ON and hopefully she'll run.
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PLT Okay. Now you want to put the MODE switch to

STANDBY and wait 2 seconds first, or can I Just
_ whip rightintothe POWER,OFF?

CC Let me verify that if there's any necessity to

go to STANDBY.

CC Bill, that sounds like a good idea to go ahead and

do the de - delay in STANDBY.

030 16 13 39 PLT Okay.

030 16 16 32 CC Okay. We're shout to go LOS here in shout

15 seconds. We'll see you again at Guam in about
B minutes at 16:20.

030 16 16 53 CDR Roger, Crip.

030 16 20 07 CC Skylab, Houston. We're with you through Guam for

9-1/2 minutes.

CDR Roger, Crip. We're doing the S193 test now.

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CC Copy.

030 16 23 05 CC CDR, Houston. Jerry, you got a moment to talk?

CDR Ne gatire.

CC PLT, Houston. You got a moment to chat, Bill?

CDR He doesn't either. We're doing the 193 test.

CC Roger; Roger.

SPT I'll talk to you, Crip.

CC You're so sweet to me, Ed.

CC Okay. Let me - let me tell you the problem and

you all can discuss it up there later, Ed. We -
installed that cable last night to get rid of the
6 hertz, and we're somewhat concerned about - since
we haven't had a chance to test the recording
circuits with all three of you talking at once, as
to whether we're going to be able to record that.
And if you g_s can hack it for the duration of

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the - of the pass, we would appreciate it if you

could go ahead and CLOSE that audio system BUFFER
AMP n11mBer 1 circuit breaker on panel 200, which,
of course, is going to give you the 6 cycles back.
And you can open that up as soon as the data take
is complete.

SPT Is that the only configuration change required?

CC Yes, sir. We'll be turning on another recorder

down here, Ed, so that we've got it backed up.
We'll have two recorders covering it. We'll be
able to evaluate it subsequent to this pass, as
to whether this will be necessary in the future
when we're running EREP passes.

SPT Okay. I'm on mE way.

CC Okay. And for the CDH. Jer, we gee you've got

1 minute coming up until the fine maneuvers to be
initiated.

CDR Overload look okay?

CC Looks good from here.

CDR Okay. We've finished the 193 test.

CC Okay. Thank you. Sorry to keep bugging you.

030 16 26 28 CDR Crip, was what you wanted to talk to us about

that BUFFER AMP breaker?

CC Yes, sir.

CDR Okay. It's tak - Ed took care of it.

CC Fine. Appreciate you putting up with the noise

again for this pass just to make sure we don't
lose any of the data.

CDR Yes, that's no sweat.

PLT 83. There you go; that's all right. Charlie 6,

47; Charlie 7 is reading 50. Delta 2, 68; Delta 3,
82; Delta h is _5; Delta 5, 13; Delta 6, 55. And,
left the record also. I just couldn't get the
recorder when it came up but at T-2, Delta 6 was
also reading 55, just for the record.
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CC Okay. We're about 30 seconds from LOS. Goldstone

in 16 minutes at 16:_5.

CDR Roger, Crip. How do you read?

CC Loud and clear.

CDR Okay. We're on hot mike now.

CC You guys have really been hustling this morning.

CDR Yes, it's been a very, very busy morning.

030 16 29 35 CC Yes. Sorry about that. Just a little bit - little

too pushy.

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030 16 30 07 PLT My shoes getting worse all the time. Just about
tore my foot off.

030 16 30 l0 CDR Oh ... hush.

030 16 44 41 PLT Okay, downling switch, position 7.

CDR Okay, there are scattered to broken clouds.

CC We're with you guys across the States. Probably

got you about 15 minutes.

PLT Okay.

CDR Okay, Crip.

030 16 45 26 PLT Okay, waiting for 46 even.

CDR Okay, Dillon Reservoir, if you can Just kind of

Jump out and hit me right in the eye.

CC You might get wet that way.

CDR That's okay. At least I'd get the data.

PLT Stand by for 46.

CDR Okay, that's the end of the nadir swath, I can

start -

PLT Stand by -

030 16 h6 00 PLT MASK. SCAT, STANDBY. And -

030 16 h6 02 PLT MASK. PAD, STANDBY. 193 MODE, CROSSTRACK CONTIG-

UOUS. And ANGLE ROLL, plus SO. POLARIZATION,
i. Waiting for 46:30.

CDR Everybody's socked in up in the northwest.

PLT Staredby -

030 16 46 30 PLT MARK. SCAT, ON and RAD, ON. 193 ALTIMETER MDDE
to 5; RANGE, 73; POLAR - Okay, that's that one.
_w* link, 7. And you might confirm our downlink
switch posit_on 7 if you would, Crip.

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CC Checking.

PLT Stand by, 47.

030 16 47 01 PLT MARK. POLARIZATION, 4 at 47 minutes.

PLT Waitingfor 47:36. •

PLT Stand by, 36 -

030 16 47 36 PLT MARK. SCAT to STANDBY. 30 -

030 16 47 38 PLT MARKs. RADIOMETER to STANDBY. Waiting for 47:53.

CC Downlink position 7, confirmed.

PLT Stand by -

030 16 47 53 PLT MARK. Roger, thank you. At 48, ETC POWER, ON,
Ed. And it's coming up -

030 16 48 O0 PLT MARK. 93 ANGLE to -

030 16 48 07 PLT MARK. ANGLE to O, and POLARIZATION, 1 on the 193.

CDR Okay, we're getting into some snow-covered ground

now.

030 16 48 20 PLT MARK. SCAT, ON and RADIOMETER, ON.

PLT Okay, Charlie i and Delta i. Charlie i is reading

15 and Delta 1 is reading full-scale low.

CDR There' s Snake River.

PLT Okay, 49 minutes I want ETC, AUTO. And that's

about 15 seconds away yet.

PLT Stand by for 49:06.

PLT Okay -

030 16 49 O0 PLT MARK. It's 49 minutes even. ETC to AUTO, and

stand by -

030 16 49 06 PLT MARK. 49:06 and 192 to READY. I got a speed

change and a solid green TAPE _0TION light.
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PLT ...

CDR Okay, we got a few clouds over the area. _9:30.

030 16 49 30 CDR MARK. We're in IMC. Now, where's the reservoir?

Where did you went, Dillon Reservoir? Nothing
but snow.

PLT Okay, in 30 seconds the ETC will be switched to

FRAMES per MINUTE to 10. 10.0.

PLT Okay, 5 seconds for ETC frame rate change. On

my mark.

030 16 50 15 PLT MARK. 50:15. FRAMES per MINUTE to 10.

CDR Okay, I'm not finding the Dillon Reservoir. It's

down there somewhere, but it must be either snow
or cloud covered.

CC You pick up Denver?

CDR Well***

PLT And the Cherry Hills Reservoir out there.

CDR No, Denver's got clouds over it. There is an area

might be around Colorado Springs. Well, so much
for that one. DAC is off. Sure couldn't see that
reservoir.

PLT All right, I'm waiting for -

CC Sorry about that.

PLT And running 192. It doesn't go off to CHECK until

55:30. In about 30 seconds, Ed, at 52, I'll give
a call. FRAME rate per MINUTE will be changed
to 4.8.

CDR Okay, now looking for Toledo Bend. We got scattered

cirrus.

PLT Okay. Stand by for a call at 52 minutes.

030 16 52 00 PLT MARK. ETC frame rate, 4.8.

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CDR Okay, seeing a lake or two now. Looking for

Toledo Bend at 53:12.

CC Bill, can you give us a reading on D, 9, Dog 9?

PLT Delta 9 is reading - Let me get the - to the range

of values here; 63 on the top, hl on the bottom - -

CC I got --

PLT 62 on the top, 41 on the bottom, hl to 62.

CC Copy.

CDR Okay. Cedar Lake and Lake Tawakoni coming up.

PLT 53:10 next mark.

CDR There's Toledo Bend.

PLT Stand by -

030 16 53 l0 PLT MARK. SCAT to STANDBY.

030 16 53 12 PLT MARK. RAD to STANDBY. 193 MODE, CBOSSTRACK

NONCONTIGUOUS, LEFT/RIGHT, POLARIZATION to 5 •
Waiting for 53:3h.

PLT Stand by -

CDR Okay, data coming in.

030 16 53 34 PLT MARK. SCAT, ON.

030 16 53 35 PLT MARK. HAD, ON.

PLT 55:30. Don't miss the 192.

i

CDR You know, I think the last time I did Toledo Bend,
I was pointed at the next - next figure of land
up - down to the south from here. Got the right
target this time.

PLT Well they can compare the two areas.

CDR Yes. Pretty weather, pretty weather. Wonder if

the bass are biting in Toledo Bend.
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PLT Bast. Getting a flicker on the TAPE MOTION

light again. Well then, it can't be cleaning,
that's all I've got to say. That thing's cleaned
so well it can't stand it.

030 16 5& 31 CDR Okay. That's the end of the data on Toledo Bend.
See if we can pick up a little Houstonian action
here.

PLT I wonder if it's a light bulb. It could be that

light bulb there. It just went out a couple of
times there, Crip, the TAPE MOTION light, but
I 'm not getting a RECORDER MALF light.

CDR Okay. Nadir swath is coming on. Crossing the

Gulf Coast now. Lots of silt.

PLT Waiting for 55:30. Stand by -

030 16 55 30 PLT MARK. MODE to CHECK on 192. Charlie 1 is

reading 15 percent. Delta 1 is reading full-scale
low.

CC We think that TAPE MOTION li - flicker was just

• : due to the fact that we've had it on for a long
time. We believe that's normal for tape recorder 2.

PLT Okay. That's good news.

CDR Okay. The problem with Dillon Reservoir, is

I just flat couldn't see it. We were probably
pointed right near by, but I just couldn't find
it. And with Denver, looked like there were clouds
over it, or else we had just gone by it and I
couldn't get over to it.

PLT Yes. White on white is pretty hard to see.

CC Roger, that.

PLT Okay, in little less than a minute, ETC to - will

be going to STANDBY, Ed. At 57:15.

PLT Okay. Stand by for mark at 57:15.

030 16 57 15 PLT MARK. , ETC to STANDBY.

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CDR Okay. Coming up on the Yucatan Peninsula.

PLT Waiting for 57:45.

030 16 57 45 PLT MARK. SCAT to STANDBY.

030 16 57 47 PLT MARK. RAD to STANDBY. And RAD went OFF. 58:03,
ALTIMETER will be coming ON.

030 16 58 03 PLT MARK. ALTIMETER, ON. And Alfa i MONITOR at

58:30.

PLT Okay. At 58:30, on my mark. Alfa 1 is reading

5 - 67 percent. Alfa l, 67; Charlie i is reading
3_ to 35; and Delta 9 is reading 51.

PLT And I do not have a READY light on the ALTIMETER.

And I do not have an UNLOCK light. I'm going
to go to STANDBY here for 15 seconds and see what's
happening.

030 16 59 25 PLT ALTIMETER back ON. Still don't have it. Okay.
Going to leave it in STANDBY for awhile. Pick up
the time line again, here. For 17:01.

CDR Okay. I've got an end of film light going here,

which I don't believe. Yes. We're empty.

PLT Okay. Did not get a READY light when I turned

the 193 ALTIMETER, ON.

CC Copy that.

PLT And I'm - went back to STANDBY. Neither did I

gettheUNLOCK
light. I

CDR Okay. I'm going to go ahead and kill the camera. I

We've got an end of film light. The indicator
say's it's empty. That's it for the DAC. I
think our - our film indicator is no good on
that 140-millimeter magazine - or 140 magazine,
because we started out this pass - pass with it
indicating 40. Right now it's indicating, oh,
about 20 - 25 maybe. We got an end of film light.

PLT Stand by -
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030 17 Ol i0 PLT MARK. 192 MODE to READY. Speed change.

030 17 01 14 PLT MARK. Good TAPE MOTION light. Waiting for O1:23.

CDR I'll check and see if there's any f_Im showing

in the window.

PLT Okay, asked for ALTIMETER to STANDBY, and it's

already there. I'll wait and try to pick it up
on the next sequence again. That's all I know
to do. Ed, at 01:30, in 5 seconds, ETC to AUTO.

CDR We've still got film in the frame ...

PLT Okay. 01:36.

CDR So we're coming over South America.

030 17 Ol 36 PLT MARK. PAD to STANDBY. 19 - 193 MODE, CROSSTRACK

CONTIGUOUS, POLARIZATION to i.

CDR Barranquilla.

PLT 01:54.

030 17 01 55 PLT Okay, SCAT, ON and RAD, ON at 01:54.

CC Going LOS. See you at Vanguard 17:11.

CDR Roger.

PLT Okay, Crip.

CDR I'm going for some - If there's any film left in

the DAC, I'm getting some cloud streets over land.
This looks like it's a couple, 300 miles inland
from Barranquilla.

PLT 0kay. One ... 02:24, I want to go to INTERVAL, 20.

030 17 02 24 PLT MARK. INTERVAL, 20.

030 17 ii i0 FLT I don't know why it is I don't miss any other

callout on this sheet. That's twice I've missed
a 192 to STANDBY. I've even put a star by it.

cDR (Laughter). Oh golly.

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CC Like stars. We're with you for 7 minutes.

PLT Yes. Yes, I ran the 192 about 4 minutes too

long, Crip, --

CC Okeydoke.

PLT - - on the last sequence.

CDR Sounds like 190 is still running too.

PLT It is. And we're in a sequence until 13:40.

CDR Okay we're coming up on the coastline of South

America. It's all cloudy.

030 17 12 05 cC Jer, as a little reminder here, we - we show that

you have not loaded the maueuver time in for the
maneuver back, so you will have to do that before
you initiate it.

CDR Oh. Roger, Crip. Thanks for the reminder.

CC And for the PLT, I'll call it to you when we get

there, but instead of going to EREP, STOP where
we've got it called out, we're going to have you
turn the ALTIMETER back ON.

PLT Okay. We're waiting for 13 minutes.

CDR Well, we're not going to be able to see R_o de

Janeiro today. It's all cloudy up there.

030 17 13 O1 PLT MARK. MODE to MANUAL on 194.

CDR Taking a little DAC film footage here of an island

off the coast of South America. My big chart
doesn't indicate the n_e of the town, but there's
a jetty built out in the straits between the
island and the land. And it's just about halfway -
or a third of the way up to Rio de Janeiro from
S_o Paulo, as best I can tell.

PLT Okay, stand by -

0B0 17 1B 40 PLT MARK. The 190 READY light is out. Going to

STANDBY.
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CDR Okay. I better ge t on the stick with the maneuver

here. _ "

PLT 14:h0 SCAT to STANDBY and RAD to STANDBY.

CC And, you can just follow those up with the ALTIM-

ETER, ON. _.

PLT Okay.

CDR Maneuver time's in, Crip.

CC Thankyou, sir. _'

030 17 14 40 PLT SCAT to STANDBY....

CDR Say again, Ed.

030 17 14 42 PLT MARK. BAD to STANDBY and ALTIMETER,_ON. I've

got a READY light. :

SPT ...

CDR No, I didn't. I had to leave in order to do

PLT And I've got an ALTIMETER UNLOCK light, but I

stillhave a READY light. _..

CDR Goingto SI. i",

:_

PLT Well, it looks like it's working, sort of normally.

CC Could you read A, 1 and D, 9 for us again, please?

PLT A, 1 is reading 64 and Delta 9 is readlng 50.

Bravo 9 is reading 58.

CC Would - copy A, 1 was 58?

PLT Yes Alfa 1 is reading now - No, _fa i is

reading
64. '_'

cc 64.

PLT Roger. :,

f-., PLT Now

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CC Is A, 1 changing at all?

030 17 15 46 PLT Negative, and I've lost n_ READY light. Do you

want me to switch to STANDBY for 15 seconds?

CDR You want me to look at the antenna?

PLT Yes, it wouldn't hurt. Jerry's going to look at

the antenna down there. Oh, he's on hot mike.

CDR Okay I'll - I'll get off if I can Just get this -
umbilical undone.

CC Okay. You can -

PLT Okay. The READY light is out.

CC You can go a - you can go ahead and go to STAND-

BY on the ALTIMETER and EREP, STOP.

030 17 16 15 PLT Okay. EREP, STOP. Okay. Do tape recorder

depletion. Oh well, I guess we're not hurting
too bad anyway, then.

CDR Hey, Crip, what seems to be the problem with the

antenna? We keep getting these things they want
us to do, but nobody tells us why.

CC I don't - I'm - The thing isn't working properly

apparently, and we haven't been able to figure
out exactly what's wrong. Well, let me see if I
can get some good words for you.

CDR Okay. Maybe we can do their little S193 test over

again for them, and maybe do it while we're in
air-to-grotmd, in contact with you folks.

PLT If you can have somebody that can ask questions

or something, because I was watching it move
and it - -

CC You didn't - you didn't notice anything wrong

with it when you were doing the test out there,
right?

PLT _ Well, Crip, I didn't know what to look for to say

what was wrong and what was right. I described
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the discrete movement of the antenna and the -

the mode they had it set up in was - the antenna
was going all the way to - to the right and then
coming back to roughly null in three increments.
The first two increments were rather - rather
brisk and the last one was - It started out sort
of sluggish and then sort of wiggled its way over
to null - nadir.

030 17 17 41 CDR Which - which was - Was it right? Facing toward

you?

PLT Yes, I - I was looking the wrong way. It was

actually pointed to spacecraft right, looking
at plus X or Z-LV.

CC Copy. It didn't - -

PLT The first call I gave you.

CC Roger. It didn't go all the way to,the other side.

It was just going between sort of center and
J_ to oneside?

FLT That's correct.

030 17 18 01 CC Okay. We're about 30 seconds from LOS, and we're

going to be out of your hair a good long while
here. We'll see you over Goldstone in about an
hour and 4 minutes away at 18:22. The reason
that we're concerned - Well, the ALTIMETER
apparently is not working properly and we were
talking about doing this 360-degree pass with
it tomorrow. That was one of the reasons we
wanted to find out how it was operating.

CDR Ah, yes.

FLT How about that?

CDR Well, Crip. If you want us to, we could do that

193 test over again, and we'll try to find a
little spare time to do it in.

CC Well, let - let us talk about it, and we'll get

back with you at - at Goldstone.
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CDR Okay. So long.

CC Have a good lunch.

030 17 18 43 PLT Thank you.

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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

030 18 22 i0 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS through Goldstone

for 12 minutes.

CDR Roger, Crip.

CC CDR, Houston. If it's convenient here, I could

try to give you a few words about the 193 ALTIM-
ETER and what we were trying to do aud where we
think we are.

CDR Okay, Fine.

030 18 23 ii CC Okay. The reason we've been concerned is that we

haven't been get - able to get the ALTIMETER MODE
to lock up. It keeps unlocking; it's probably
been obvious to you in the passes. So we were
trying with that little test that we had Bill
run - Bill a_d you - both of you run earlier
today, to find out if the antenna itself was
tracking properly. I guess we've just about
concluded that the altimeter - or in the ALTIMETER
MODE, the antenna is positioned to the right a
little over a degree. At least that's - that's
what the readings that you're giving us indicate.
We would also conclude it from what you said in
that test that you ran. What was supposed to
have happened was the antenna was supposed to go
to the right and then step back to the center
and then go to the left and step back to the center
once more. And it sounded as though it never did
go to the left. However, during the last pass,
in - in a RAD/SCAT mode, the antenna did track
properly both right and left. And also, I guess
right there at the last, Just before we left you
through Vanguard, it would have appeared that
the ALTIMETER mode locked up very briefly. Quick
synopsis; that's - that's about where we're at.
We're still not - don't understand why it doesn't
appear to be centering itself properly in the
ALTIMETER mode.

030 18 2_ 40 CDR Okay, Crip. Thanks for the cre- the fill-in.
Let Bill think about it a little bit. But, as I
remember from what he was telling me, that it
just wasn'tgoingto the left at all.
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CC Okay. That - that's what we got out of that

last briefing. Also, I can give you couple of
words here. We're sitting down trying to - trying
to get your Flight Plan for your day off put
together. Then, going back and forth a little
bit, I mentioned earlier that we were talking
about around-the-world altimeter pass. We're
still considering that. We do have an ERE? - If
for some reason, we conclude the altimeter's not
working properly, we will still have an EEEP pass
for tomorrow. I believe we've got one ATM pass
scheduled, which is just the synoptic. All total,
I believe it's coming out to somewhere around
ll-1/2 or so hours. We do not have a science
conference scheduled tomorrow, but we do have a
press conference scheduled for you.

CDR That 's neat.

030 18 25 42 CC I thought you would like that. The - we were -

we know that you want to start getting some cheek-
list changes in. I'm sure you've been putting
up quite a few. We gave you all the entry stuff
last night. We're planning on giving you the
deact stuff tonight. And we're going to be con- -"
sidering that in the future Flight Plans that
we're building for you, got try to allow you
enough time to put those in, and also to allow
you to do a little bit of thinking about cormmand
module and entry and what's required.

CDR Okay. Very good.

030 18 26 27 CC And the following day is also going to be fairly -

fairly busy. We're going to try to do another
JOP 13 early in the morning. And we're going
to, hopefully, get that pad up to Ed tomorrow
in the afternoon so that he can have plenty of
time to look at it and get it - get it all entered,
because it is going to be one of the first
things - first activities of the day. Got
another EREP through tack 6 plus a lunar cal, and
then we're going to be doing a - a 201 maneuver
in the afternoon. So right now, that's a pretty
packed one as far as momentum and all the calcu-
lations that GNS has to do for us.
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030 18
"u
32 19 CC Skylab, Houston. For your information, we've got
live TV coming down, but apparentlythe TV is
Just floating free and on and getting good pic-
_ ture of a wall here, better known in the Navy
as the bulkhead.

Sl_f Yes, Crip. We were doing TV-87, but we inter-

rupted to take a little look at California.

CC Ah, so.

CC Skylab, Houston. We are 1 minute from LOS. Next

station contact is through the Vanguard at 18:26.
That's about 13 minutes away.

030 18 33 56 CDR Roger, Crip.

030 18 26 28 CC Skylab, Hosuton; A0S through the Vanguard for

i0-1/2 minutes.

CDR Roger, Crip.

CC And, Skylab, if we could, we'd like'somebody to

go do a EEG ADJUST for us. We need pots 1 and 2,
25 degrees counterclockwise.

030 18 49 04 CC Skylab, Houston. Sorry to bother you, hut I need

about 5 more degrees on both of those pots,
counterclockwis e.

CDR Okay. That's in work.

cC Thank - -

PLT You got it.

CC Thank you, sir.

CC Okay. That last adjustment did it; that's fine.

Thank you very much.

030 18 54 08 CDR You still with us, Crip?

CC Yes, sir. We're breaking up a little bit. Got

you about 3 more minutes here.
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CDR Roger. The ocean all the way - from the position
we're at right now al!the way back tO Montevideo
is just a - it looks like a surrealis_ painting;
all the different colors of green and - and
strange reds and things that are involved with
the Falkland Current. I've never seen such a
profusion of - of different colors and shades of
green in the water. And unfortunately, we don't
have an IR camera loaded up, so we burned up
some Hasselblad. But it's really something. It
extends 1000 miles, at least, out to sea.

CC That sounds pretty fantastic. Thank you for the

report.

030 18 55 31 cC CDR, Houston. You know, talking about your visual

observations, you guys have been doing a fantastic
job on that. We talked a litle ab - a little bit
about it yesterday. The only regret was you
didn't get more. One of the questions that's
been raised down here was whether you had made
sufficient notes, sketches, on your Vis Obs Book
to warrant either bringing back the whole book
or a portion thereof.

CDR Crip, for the most part we haven't put any sketches
into it all. Most of all of our - all of our
notes have been on tape to you folks, and we
really haven't done any sketching at all in the
book.

030 18 56 07 CC Okay. Appreciate that note. Thank you very much.

We're about 1 minute from LOS. Next station con-
tact is going to be at Tananarive, and that's
about 17 minutes away at 19:13. Thank you.

030 19 13 25 CC Skylab, Houston; AOS Tananarive. We have you for

about 4 minutes.

CDR Roger.

CC Jer, are you all tied up right now, or could I -

could I ask you a question?

CDR No. Go ahead. I'm between exposures right now.

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CC Okay. Well, don't let me interfere with that,

but we tripped you up in that Entry Checklist
change last night. That - the Hasselblad film
you were to be using for - for entry was CXIS;
and I guess - we copy now, in going back and
reviewing everything, that that's the one that
you are - you are currently using. And you prob-
ably don't have but about three frames remaining
on that. We would like to get a clarification
of that sometime a little bit later. And you
may have already gone ahead and put CX45 in.
And if so, that's, as we copy, the last film for -
for entry. So you might want to consider about
how many frames you want to save for - for the
flyaround and so forth.

030 19 14 29 CDR Roger, Crip. You're correct. We've already got

CX45 on. And right now - tentatively, we've
thought about saving about 50 frames, but we
might - it might be less. I don't know. We'd
like to hear from the - from you guys if you
have any recommendations as to how many we should
hang onto.

CC Okay. On the order of 40 or 50 is - is about

what we've been doing, and that's pretty much
your preference.

CDR Okay. I guess we're going to have to start

rationing this Hasselblad film now.

CC Yes. We had been getting ready to send up a

handheld photo that was going to include a bunch
of Hasselblad. We're probably going to take that
back and change it to Nikon in order to conserve
some.

CDR Okay.

030 19 15 42 CC And just a little matter of info. We will get it

squared away in your - in your pad that we'll be
uplinking a little bit later, of course. Hassel-
blad is the preferred photography for the high-
priority targets, and we will go ahead and
schedule it like that or put it in your handheld
optional. But it is still your option; if you
see something that you think deserves Hasselblad,
_- feelfree.
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CDR Okay.

CDE If we've got I_ film to shoot, I'd sure like to

get some back into a camera just as soon as
possible.

CC Yes, I copied what you were saying awhile ago

about the - the Falkland. We'll look into that
for you also.

CDR Okay.

030 19 16 23 CC Okay. We're about 1 minute from LOS. The next

station contact is through Hawaii in 40 minutes
at 19:46.

030 19 19 l0 CC CDR, if you're still reading, Nikon 4, you can

load up with IR13.

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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE. !TRANSCRIPTION

030 19 56 31 CC Skylab, Houston; we're AOS through Hawaii for

3 minutes.

CC CDR, Houston. You up in the ATM STS area?

CDR Negative, but I was just getting ready to go up

there.

CC Okay. What we were going to ask you to do, Jer,

was we'd like to go ahead and try that PUMP
Charlie on the ATM C&D COOLANT LOOP once more to
see whether it's really out for good. You might -
might try that when you go up there. Also, we
are planning on having you secure the coolant -
ATM C&D COOLANT LOOP at night, Just so we don't
put any more wear and tear on the pump than we
have to.

CDR Okay, I'll be right up there.

030 19 58 33 CC Skylab, Houston_ We're about 1 minute from LOS.

Next station contact is through the Vanguard in
26 minutes at 20:24. Jer, what we'd suggest that
you have PUMP Charlie ON now to go ahead and leave
it ON for a while. We'll - we'll keep a look at
it here. And we'd like for you to monitor the
DELTA P light. If DELTA P light comes on, you
can go ahead and secure it and go ahead and -
back on Bravo.

CDH Roger, Crip.

CDR Okay, I just turned OFF PUMP Bravo and I don't

have a DELTA P light, yet.

CC Yes, it looks like your flow's gone down, so -

stand by.

CDR I have not yet turned ON PUMP Charlie. You want

me to turn it ON - -

CC Yes, please.
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CDR - - before we get a DELTA P light or wait for it?

CC Go ahead and turn ON Charlie now - go ahead and

turn ON Charlie.

030 19 59 53 CDR Okay.

030 20 24 16 CC Skylab, Houston, we're A0S through the Vanguard.

We've got you for i0 minutes. And the flow on
PUMP Charlie is looking good right now.

PLT Yes, it hasn't quivered.

CC For the CDR; Jer, I forgot to give it to you at

Hawaii. But just as we left Tananarive awhile
ago I did tell you that you could load Nikon 04
with IR 13. Did you copy that?

CDR That's affirmative, Crip; and it's been done.

CC Very good. I saw you coming up over that Falkland

area again; thought you might want to take a look
at it.

030 20 26 34 CDR Crip, is the Vanguard ready for TV downlink?

CC Be about a minute and a half yet, Jer, before we

can take it.

CDR Okay.

030 20 29 16 CC Okay, CDR, we're ready for the TV downlink.

CDR Okay you've got it. I've got WHITE LIGHT CORONA-
GRAPH going and I'm starting the rotation to
minus 5400.

CC Copy.

030 20 30 21 CDR Hey, Crip, I've got a dollar sign in my twenty-

thirly - at twenty-thirty in my - in my S11mmary
Flight Plan and nothing in the details. Is it
anything important?

CC Let me check it for you, just a second.

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CC It - It's a mistake; it should not be on there.

CDR Okay.
w

CC As a matter of information, the reason it was on

there was that we did have you - telling you not
to do ergometer during those upcoming S073 ops,
but we found out that wasn't a constraint. So
we took it out of your details but we forgot to
get the dollar sign.

CDR I see; that's fine.

CC And, CDR, for your information, you might have

heard the woodpecker working there. We just sent
up avis obs pad for a handheld, which is optional,
for this evening at 02:22. The reason it wasn't
set up originally was that that was in your TSA.
But we thought we'd send it up and leave it to
your option, whether it was available or not. It's
that little Pikel6t Island that's so hard to find
out there.
f

CDR Okay, Crip.

CC Skylab, we're about I minute from LOS. The next

station contact is Tananarive at 20:48, that's
about 14 minutes away. And - And we have noticed
a significant drop in - in 02 - PP02 in the last
4 hours, and wonder if anything's changed that -
that you're aware of?

CC Part of that we'll talk - -

CDR Negative, Crip; the - the cabin regs are open.

CC Okay. Think about it. We'll talk to you about

it at Tananarive.

030 20 34 02 CDR Okay.

030 20 48 52 CC Skylab, Houston. We're A0S through Tananarive.

We have you for 7-1/2 minutes.

SPT Hello, Crip.

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CC Hello, Ed.

SPT WE have to do - he has to do a little scheduling

on $233 ...

CC Ah, you - -

SPT ... he's got ...

CC You're way too low, Ed, I - -

SPT Say again, Crip.

CC You're way low; say again. I understood you're

talking about scheduling on 233.

SPT That's right, Crip. We have only one manual

shutter release cable. We had two requirements
for them and at the same time, S073 and 233. One I
had to give.

CC Okay, assume 233 gave, in this case?

SPT The PLT got to it first.

CC He's a rapid man. You got to watch out for those

Air Force guys.

CC Skylab, Houston, as I was saying when we went LOS

there at Vanguard, we are showing the rate of
PP02 dropping about - oh, about four times as fast
as it normally does. About the only thing that
we can think of that you might check was, we did
do an M092 today. We might verify that that
vacuum vent is closed. And also, another item
would be the WMC where you - we think you dumped
urine today.

SPT Okay, Crip, that was it. One of the bags didn't
have the nozzle closed in the WMC.

CC Okay, we copy.

030 20 5h 28 CC Skylab, Houston. I do have some words on some

aurora activity and I can give you some - some
times if - if you have time to copy.
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SPT I have times for the time, Crip.

CC I'm sorry. I couldn't copy that last. Can you

copy it?

SPT Fire away.

CC Very good. Firing coming up. I'll start off with

the windows for the northern aurora out of S-4:
21:ll to 21:19, 22:44 to 22:52, 00:17 to 00:25.
Okay, we got a possible LOS coming up here very
shortly. And we'll see you again at Hawaii, at -
it's about 36 minutes, 21:32. We'll be doing a
data/voice recorder dump there. For southern
aurora, Window S-3: 22:16 to 22:24 and 23:49 to
23:55.

SPT Okay, Crip. I got them. North S_h: 20:11 [sic]

to 19, 22:h_ to 52, 17 to 25. South S-3: 22:16,
24; 23:49 to 55.

CC Sounds good. I'm going to quit for the day. You

guys have a good time. We'll see you in a few
days.

SPT So long, Crip. You have a good time.

CC Do my best.

CDR Take the rest of the day off, trip.

CC Thank you, sir. Bet you guys wish you could.

CDR Yes, stay out of the bars, will you?

030 20 56 42 CC Ah, you know I do that. You don't read my mind?

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SKYLAB AIR-T0-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

030 21 32 17 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Hawaii for a little

over 9 minutes with a data/voice tape recorder dump.
Over.

PLT Roger, Bruce.

030 21 40 33 CC Skylab, this is Houston; I minute to LOS. Next

station contact in 22 minutes through the Vanguard
at 22:03. Out.

030 22 03 02 CC Skylab, this is Houston through the Vanguard for

8-1/2 minutes. Over.

CDR Roger,Bruce.

CC Okay. If you'll look in the teleprinter, you should

find one complete Flight Plan for tomorrow and
SPT details for tomorrow. And we'd lime you to
tear that off and wad it up and throw it away,
please, and we'll start over again. We inadver-
tently uplinked rev A to all these to you instead
of rev Bravo. Over.

CDR We'll do it.

CC And for your information, we got a subfaint flare

in active region 39. Started at 20:_O Zulu, lo-
cated at 08/0.4; that's 080 degrees, 0.h solar
radii. It's a new region not on the SAP. And then
a question for you all: was H-ALPHA 1 left in
OVERRIDE during the last night cycle? The FRAMES
REMAINING are getting low, and since the counter
is not working we need to account for usage during
the night cycles. And also you may configure to
NORMAL on H-ALPHA 1. Over.

CDR I think it was left that way. I had the panel last
and I don't remember putting it backto NORMAL.

030 22 04 16 CC Okay. And we've also got a - a question on the

rice plants here with respect to ED61/62. Oh I -
I guess I can hold that one until the evening
questions. Belay that. On - here we go. Do the
rice plants appear to be alive and healthy? If
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they're alive, the stems _md roots should be full

and round and leaves should be the same light green
color as earlier observations. If they're dying
or dead they'll have dark blackish-green leaves.
Over.

SPT Last time I looked, Bruce, they were still alive

and green. I'ii go take a look again.

CC Okay.

SPT It was about i day or so ago - 24 hours or so ago

that I looked.

030 22 05 06 CC If they are still alive, the ED61 modification,

general message 7439, should be implemented before
the plants die. lf, on the other hand, when you
go and look and find they are already dead, you
shouldn't spend any further time on them or on the
ED61 mod - or the ED61/63 procedures uplinked
earlier on the shopping list.

SPT Okay. Your plan was not to schedule that. Is

that affirm?

CC Yes, that's affirmative. It is on the shopping

list, and all we're saying is that if you wait
too long, it may not be feasible to do it.

SPT Okay.

CC And, Jerry, one last one for you, and we've got
the hopper cleaned out here. On the revisit bag
subject, we - if you've got the message around,
I can talk from that, probably, most easily.

CDR Stand by a couple of minutes.

CC Okay, that's PGM-45, and if you want to wait until

later this evening we can do that.

CDR Why don't we do that? l'd like to try to finish

up my exercise.

030 22 06 32 CC Roger.

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030 23 09 56 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Hawaii for

7 minutes. We saw an auto reset while we were
LOS 6 minutes. We're going to reset your status
word. And for your information also, it looks like
the third dump maneuver is giving us a change in
nuZ on the order of 2 degrees or so. We're going
to try and compute you either a new maneuver or
some biases to the SOI9K angles. But if we don't
get it to you, why, it'll involve updating all
your rotation settings, I believe. Over.

SPT Okay.

CC So youmight get out the SOI9K maneuver pad and

be standing by, because if I get the angles and
the changes, it'll probably be pretty close to
LOS here at Hawaii.

SPT Okay,I'iibe ready.

030 23 15 53 CC Skylab, this is Houston, fine maneuver change for

SOl9. Over.

CC Skylab, Skylab, this is Houston -

SPT Break, break, break_ ready to copy.

CC Okay, X, 51007; Y, 51225; Z, 51216. Read it from

the beginning again. Fine maneuver, 52021, 51007,
51225, 51216. Read back. Over.

SPT 51007, 51225, 51216.

CC Roger, Ed, and with those maneuvers, the S019

pointing angle should be approximately correct.
They convert out to X minus 0.07 degrees; Y, minus
1.49 degrees; and Z, we think 1 - minus 1.42.

SPT Okay, Bruce.

030 23 17 16 CC Roger; we're going L0S here. Next station contact

in 23-1/2 minutes through the Vanguard at 23:40.
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030 23 h0 48 CC Skylab, this is Houston through the Vanguard for

i0 minutes. And prior to starting S019 - that is,
over the Vanguard here - we'd like to get the
BUFFER AMP i circuit breaker on panel 200 CLOSED
so that we may start an additional recorder and
be sure in getting all your recorded voice for
the S019 operations. Over.

PLT Roger.

CC Let us know when it's CLOSED so we can command.

PLT Stand by, Bruce.

PLT It's CLOSED, Bruce.

CC Roger ; thank you.

SPT Houston, SPT.

CC Go ahead, Ed.

SPT Do I havea calltonight? __

CC Yes, if you'll deposit your dime, we'll give you

a dial tone and tell you when it is. Or have you
got a credit card number?

SPT I have no money and no credit.

CC So what else is new (laughter). Okay, phone

call is set up through Guam at 02:15 Zulu. Start
out on LEFT ANTENNA_ and after about 1 minute go
to RIGHT ANTENNA. Over.

SPT 2:15, LEFf to RIGKT. Thank you.

CC Roger.

030 23 49 52 CC Skylab, this is Houston; i minute to LOS. Next

station contact in 6-1/2 minutes through Ascension
at 23:56. Out.

030 23 56 52 CC Skylah, this is llouston through Ascension for

6-1/2 minutes. And we've got an oxygen enrichment
procedure here that we'd like to read up to Ed.
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SPT Go ahead.

CC Okay. At 00:i0 Zulu, about 13 minutes from now,

we'd like you on panel 225 to open the 02 FILL
PRIMARY switch and the AM FILL PRIMARY switch.
That's those two to OPEN. And if you'd request
Jerry an hour later at 01:i0 Zulu, please, we'd
llke to get those two switches returned to COMMAND.
Over.

SPT You want the prime and secondary or Just the

primaries?

CC Just the PRIMARY is okay.

030 23 57 55 SPT Roger.

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031 00 02 32 CC Skylab, this is Houston; i minute to LOS. Next

station contact in 38 minutes through Guam at
00:40, with the evening status report at AOS.
Over.

PLT Roger, Bruce.

031 00 02 48 CC See you over Guam.

031 00 40 0h CC Skylab, this is Houston through Guam for 6 minutes.

Ready to copy the photo log.

PLT Roger. 16-millimeter: Center of mass measurement,

Charlie India 87, 54, Charlie India 79; MI51, ETC
prep, and the same magazine supply and takeup as
before, 48 percent ; M487-4 Echo, same supply and
takeup, 39 percent. Are you still there, Bruce?

CC Still here. Beautiful.

031 00 40 41 PLT I thought we'd lost lock. Okay. EREP VTS, Charlie
Lima 12, 25 percent, and end of film light on the
cassette. 35-millimeter: Nikon 01, Charlie
X-ray 49, 65; Nikon 02, Bravo Victor 42, 40; 03,
no change; 04, India Romeo 13, count is 04, Nikon
05, Bravo Hotel 06, 33; Nikon 01 and 03 do not,
of course, include the stereo photos which will
be taken later. 70-millimeter: Charlie X-ray 45,
count is 19. ETC: Charlie Tango 13, count is 54.
EREP: set Papa, 9983, 9322, 0200, 0188, 3736, and
5457. Drawer A configuration: Alfa 3, transporter
06, Charlie India 87, 39 percent, Charlie India 79;
all others, no change. And for the photo people,
Nikon 02 had I - India Romeo 12 downloaded at
26 frames remaining, and Nikon 04 had Bravo Echo ii
downloaded with ll frames used; 32 remaining.

SPT Houston, are you ready for the TV downlink?

CC We're ready, Ed. And we copied all that, Bill.

We're ready for the evening status report.

031 00 42 17 PLT Roger. Evening status. Sleep: CDR, 6.5, 6.0

heavy, 5 - 0.5 light; SPT, 7.5 - Stand by, I think
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I've got the wrong day here. No, it was right,

Bruce. SPT, 7.5, 6.5 heavy, 1.0 light; PLT, 7.5_
6.5 heavy, 1.0 light. Urine: CDR, 1150: SPT,
1900; PLT, 1250. Water gun: CDR, 8914; SPT,
4946; PLT, 1874. Body mass: CDR, 6.3011, 6.302,
6.302; SPT, 6.391, 6.388, 6.382; PLT, 6.270, 6.273,
6.268. Exercise: CDR, SPT, and !'I,T,no change.
Expendables: CDR, no medication; socks, shorts,
and trousers. SPT, Dalmane on day 29; socks area
shirt. PLT, two Actifed as directed; no chang_
on clothing. No flight plan deviations. Shopping
]ist accomplishments: SPT ED61 m,d, and insensi-
tive [sic] H20 loss, exercise, SP[' did tthat; a_ld
CDR muscle girth as per permanent general message
40.

CC Hey, Bill. Okay, say again the accomplishments.

We got SPT ED61. I didn't copy after theft.

0_i O0 44 07 PLT SPT got insen- insensible If20 loss durfng exercis_ ,
and CDR got muscle girth as per fermanent general
message 40.

CC Okay.

PLT Inoperable equipment: BP_.[Scuff: , serial number

011 was changed out of 4 and repJaced serial
number 012; DAC Ol is inoperative.

_i' Ol ...

]I.T {_kay, Bruce, I stand corrected. 0]2 is the new

one; 011 is the one that broke.

}LT Food: CDR, 6.0 salt, minus one coffee with sugar,
plus 1.5 rehydration; SPT, zero salt, plus one
tuna, plus one lemonade, plus 3.0 rehydration water;
PLT, 1.5 salt, plus one green beams, plus one
chocolate chip bar, reac - rehydration water,
:_ _ro.

031 00 II',
09 dC _;kay. Beautiful. We got all that, Bill. Thank
you. And we got about i minute to LOS here. [Jexl
station contact in 33 minutes through the Vangual'd
:_t sea at 01:17. And I don't - can you copy a
_hange to the revisit bag I':IGmessage, or would
you want us to hold that?
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PLT I can copy. Standby Just about i0 seconds.

cc PGM-45.

PIT Go.

CC Okay. Delete the drawer E, entry C [sic], 2424

load UniformSlg0A, station 1 or 2, and replace
that with: from location M-124, C, cassette
November i, SIgOA. This is some SL-2 film that
we're going to leave up there instead of using
film that you'll be using for the last EREPs.

031 00 46 15 PLT Okay. You're going to have to say that last one
again. I didn't get all of that. From M - M-124
Charlie, is that?

CC That's from M-124, and forget about the Charlie.

It's Just the item. The third film item should
be cassette November l, S190A film.

PLT Got it.

CC And actually that - that replaces item Delta which

is 2424 film load U, S190A, station 1 or 2 film.

PLT Okay. I got it.

CC The Charlie is an error on our part.

PLT Roger.

031 00 47 13 CC And Vanguard AOS is the private med conference,

if you still read me.

031 01 25 44 SPT Houston, SPT.

CC Go ahead, Ed.

SPT Okay, for the unattended mode, we've got some

conflicting pointing requirements. One is to
point to the - pointing and roll we had for JOP 27,
on which I got a ROLL of 1080. Then they have
given a ROLL of 5400. Which is correct?

CC Standby, please.
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CC Okay, Ed, go ahead and ROLL it to minus 5400.

And we'll do our own pointing for filament 88.
Over.

031 O1 26 53 SPT Okay, will do. I did the pointing for filament 88.
It wasn't the exact same pointing we had this
morning in terms of numbers, but it was on the
exact same location which I pointed. So all they
have to do is roll about Sun center, and they'll
be right on there. Would you like a frame count.

CC Yes, please.

SPT 7495, 85183, i, 6, 527, 2464.

CC Okay, understand: 7495, break, 85183, break,

16, break, 527, break, 2464?

SPT Slip a break between your i and 6.

CC You only gave us four sets of numbers, then.

SPT Bruce, I gave you six sets of numbers. You

interpreted it as five. I said you need a break
between the 1 and the 6. S082_A is nu - is 1 frame,
82B is 6 frames.

CC Okay, we got it. 7495, break, 85183, break, i,

break, 6, break, 527, break 2464.

SPT You got all the breaks in the right place.

031 Ol 28 20 CC Roger. 40 seconds to LOS. Next station contact

in about 3 minutes through Ascension at 01:31.
Out.

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! !

03101 31 29 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Ascension, Canary,

_ and Madrid for 18-1/2 minutes.

CC Skylab, this is Houston. For your information,

at wakeup we'll be calling you through Hawaii at
12:33 in the morning. Wakeup nominally is about
12:30.

CDR Okay, Bruce.

031 O1 _8 05 CC Skylab, this is Houston, 2 minutes until LOS.

We'll be giving you a call at 12:33 in the morning
through Hawaii, as we mentioned earlier for wakeup.
The film-thread pad is on board right now if you
desire to take a look at it tonight. And also
for the CDR, we have a message n1_mher 7755, to be
specific, that will be coming up sometime this
evening that addresses the TV-27 comm configuration.
And you'll notice that we have TV-27 comm check
scheduled at 13:13 at Ascension in the morning.
You may want to go ahead and try and gather some
of this stuff together tonight. And you can go
- ahead and do everything except step 4 this evening.
And we do want - we do need to get it out of the
way before the EREP pass so we can check out the
comn. Over.

CDR Roger ; copy.

CC And we've been sitting down here going over the

deactivation checklist modifications. And we
anticipate having the pads prepared on the detail
shift tomorrow evening, so we'll probably get them
up to you tomorrow night while you sleep. Over.

CDR Okay, Bruce. Thank you.

CC And, I bid you a good night, i0000 on the DAS if

you want. And you can pull the BUFFER AMP 1
circuit breaker at your pleasure to get rid of
the noise. You may recall we had you put that
back in so we could redesignate tape recorders.
That evolution has passed.
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CDR Roger, Bruce, I've already pulled that breaker.

And l'd appreciate if you'd send up whatever you
could get up tomorrow on deactivation because
time's awasting as far as time available to make
chan- checklist changes, and that's a very tin_-
cons_im_ng process. I planned on trying to get a
lot of it done tomorrow.

031 Ol 50 20 CC Well, we won't have the deact checklist changes

tomorrow for you. It'll be tomorrow evening.

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REST PERIOD - NO CO_gg/NICATIONS

f_
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031 12 34 19 (Music : "Burning Love" by Elvis Presley)

031 12 37 50 CC Skylab, Houston. Good morning.

CDR Good morning, Hank.

CC Sound a little sleepy there.

CDR Just gathering up my marbles.

CC We may have to thump one of them here this morning.

You got a message up there in the teleprinter
that will support this costa check that's coming
up here in about 25 minutes. That's the only
thing I need to remind you of; so you can look
for it, message 7755, TV-27 voice, and it calls
out the configuration we want that - the co-,,
check which comes up about 13:13.

CDR Okay.

031 12 42 49 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from LOS. Gold-

stone at 45.

031 12 45 32 CC Skylab, Houston through Goldstone for 6-1/2 minutes.

CC Skylab, Hosuton; 1 minute to LOS. Bermuda at

56.

031 12 51 26 CDR Roger, Hank.

031 12 57 09 CC Skylab, Houston through Bermuda for 8-1/2 minutes.

PLT Roger.

CC Skylab, Houston, I'd like to talk to you a little

bit about the voice recording.

CDR Go ahead, Hank.

031 12 58 39 CC Okay, you probably recall yesterday that we

configured to record both on - record on two
recorders, one of which was using the bypass
cable and one wasn't. And I'm afraid that we
got some bad news in that the voice that's going
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on that bypass cable recorder is A]most totally

unreadable. I've listened to sc_e of it and it's
really bad. You can hear some of the voice on
the CDR occasionally, but most of it is down in
the mud, and the transcript people are having a
heck of a time with it. So it looks like we're
going to have to go back to the original scheme
of things. There's no urgency on removing the
cable. We do have to get it out sometime tonight
before we run MO92's back-to-back tomorrow, in
which we will need to record on both recorders.
But for the time being, we would like to get that
BD_,I_ AMPLIFIER c_rcuit breaker CLOSED so we can
redesignate and make sure that we're getting good
voice. I noticed we've got an M487-3 Echo coming
up here shortly after 13:00 in which we will need
the voice recorders. Then during the day, to
keep the noise out, if you can - if you can remem-
ber, you can Just keep the circuit breaker OPEN.
But you've got to remember that every time you
want to voice record, you're going to have to
close that circuit breaker.

PLT Okay, Hank, the breaker is IN now.

CC Okay, we'll go ahead and redesignate and then

you can use the circuit breaker as you see fit. 4
We'll give you a GO here shortly.

PLT Roger.

CC And also, Skylab, we've got a message coming up

that - number 7756, it may already be on board,
that concerns the removal of that cable. I
guess you can do that at your convenience later
this evening. And we'll be all set then to run
the MO92's tomorrow.

031 13 02 17 CC Skylab, Houston, we've redesignated the recorders,

and you're clear to use the circuit breakers as
you see fit.

SPT Okay.

CC Skylab, Houston. We've got about 2-1/2 minutes

to LOS. Would you like to get a little bit of
the news? And I'll let Dick finish it up at the
next site.
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CDR Yes, fire away.

031 13 03 29 CC Okay. Last night President Nixon delivered his

State of the Union message to Congress, diplomatic
officials, high government officials and the
American public. As you'd expect, most of today's
news deals with the President 's speech. Here' s
the State of the Union at a glance : President
Nixon said, "One year of Watergate is enough,"
and vowed never to resign, Wednesday night in
his address. He also reco_aended a 10-point
program for what he termed "a year of progress."
Energy: Break the .back of the energy crisis and,
through Project Independence, lay foundations for
future capacity to meet the nation's energy needs
from America's own resources at reasonable prices
and with protection for the environment. Peace:
Take a step toward lasting peace in the world
through continuing a policy of negotiation rather
than confrontation and helping toward achievement
of a Just and lasting settlement in the Middle
East. Prices: Check the rise in prices without
a recession and move into a period of steady
growth. Health: Establish a new system of com-
prehensive health insurance to make quality
health care available to every American in a
dignified manner at a price he can afford. Local
Government: Establish a new era of achievement
in state and local government by cutting strings
of federal control. Transportation: Strengthen
the ability of local communities to deal with
their transportation problems. Education: Reform
the system of federal aid to education to provide
it when it is needed and where it is needed.
Privacy: Make a beginning on the task of defining
and protecting the right of personal privacy.
Welfare: Start on a new road toward reform of a
welfare system. World Economy: Together with
the other nations of the world, establish a
framework within which Americans will share more
fully in expanding world trade and prosperity
in the years ahead.

031 13 05 14 CC And we're about 40 seconds from LOS. Canaries

is next at 07. And I will continue to LOS. The
President also said the Arab oil producers soon
will hold an urgent meeting and consider lifting
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their oil boycott against the United States. He __

said this announcement was based on personal
contact with friendly leaders in the Middle East
area. And also from Washington: The United States
is exporting wheat at record levels, with Commu-
nist countries leading the buyers. The Peoples
Republic of China and the Soviet Union currently
are the biggest buyers of U.S. wheat, the
Agriculture Department said Wednesday. The sta-
tistics were for the 6-month period ending
December 30. Overall, the drain has been so big
that only 178million bushels will be left in the
wheat reserve next'summer about the time a
predicted new record U.S. harvest begins to come
in. That would be the _mallest stockpile since
1947.

031 13 06 06 CC Britain's 980,000 coal miners began voting today

on whether to strike. Their leaders predicted
an overwhelming "yes" vote despite a last-minute
peace proposal from Prime Minister Edward Heath.
The balloting continues Friday. Counting of
the votes is expected to be completed by Sunday,
but the results are not to be announced until a
meeting Tuesday of the union's leadership.

031 13 07 19 CC Skylab, Houston, hello from the purple gang. -_

We're at Canary and Ascension for 16 minutes.
And wo - would you like to continue the Henry
and Richard news hour?

CDR Yes; carry on.

CC Okay, I - I'm not sure exactly where Hank dropped

out, but I'll take a guess. Britain's 280,000 coal
miners begin voting today on whether to strike.
Their leaders predicted an overwhelming "yes"
vote despite a last-minute peace proposal from
Prime Minister Edward Heath. The balloting
continues on Friday. Counting of the votes is
expected to be completed by Sunday, but the
results are not to be announced until a meeting
Tuesday of the union's leadership. If the affir-
mative vote is more than the required 55 percent
and a wage settlement is no closer, the leader-
ship has said it will strike the mines on
Sunday, the 10th of February.
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-'_- CC A group of leading university economists say

government policies here and abroad, rather than
any shortage of o - oil, are responsible for
current problems with the supply of pe - petroleum
products. The econ_nists also predicted that
in _ to 5 years oil might be a "glut" on the
world market as higher prices bring greater pro-
duction. The economists said domestic price
controls had contributed to the supply problems.
They also indicated that they believed the Arab
oil boycott has been only a half-hearted effort.
They said the Arabs were actually breaking their
own boycott and leaking supplies to this country
through such intermediaries as Romania.

CC Americans in the 23 states where speed limits have

not been lowered to 55 miles per hour are ignoring
a presidential appeal to slow down voluntarily
and save gas.

0B1 13 08 58 CC But an Associated Press road check of the 50 states

also shows drivers are staying close to 55 miles
per hour in the states where the speeds - limits
have been reduced.

CC La Paz, Bolivia: PresidentHugo Banzer'smilitary

regime claims it has put down a peasant rebellion
in central Bolivia after l0 days of sporadic
clashes in which five peasants were killed and
more than a dozen injured. The government
announced on Wednesday night its troops had
reopened three food supply roads that the
12,000 peasants blocked with tree trunks and large
rocks.

CC Clark Air Base in the Philippines: Gerald Kosh,

an American captured by the Chinese in the
battle for the Paracel Islands ll days ago, was
freed today and flown here for treatment. Kosh,
a 27-year-old Defense Department employee from
Lafayette Hill, Pennsylvania, had been re -
reported suffering from hepatitis.

CC Tampa, Florida: Police aren't sure whether they

are looking for a prankster or a burg - burglar.
A young couple filed a cemplaint Wednesday saying
they returned to their apartment and found this
note in their typewriter: "Dear Friend, I broke
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into your apartment to rip you off. But after

examining the contents of your house, I decided
you weren't worth it." The note went on to say
the thief was leaving in disgust without taking
anything because he felt his - his fence would
laugh at him. And at the bottom of his note -
his intended vic - to his intended victims,
the would-be burglar complained: "You don't
even have the - any good eats in the refrigerator."
One last thing. In hockey: Cleveland 5, the
Houston Aeros I.

PLT Thank you, Dick.

CC Yes, sir. Good morning to you guys.

PLT I was Just trying to swallow. Good morning to

all the purple gang.

CC Roger.

031 13 12 00 CC Skylab, Houston. In about 2 or 3 minutes we're

going to be handing over from Canary to Ascension.
So when you get all configured for that TV-27
voice message that Hank referred you to and get
your Snoopy hats on, I'd like to get a quick voice
check with each one of you, and then we'll be
done with that. I'll let you know when we're
locked up good at Ascension.

031 13 12 20 SPT Okay.

031 13 13 57 CC Skylab, Houston. We're A0S Ascension. We got

you for 9-1/2 minutes. And as each one of you
get configured for the comm check, if you'll
give me a call and let me know that you're con-
figured. And I'll give you a call back, and
we'll see how it sounds.

PLT Okay, Dick; PLT. How do you read?

CC Roger. Stand by 1.

CC PLT, Houston. It was a little low in volume but

it was very clear to us. How do you read me?

PLT Okay. I read you 5 square. How me now?

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CC Roger. That's a little better. Thank you much.

PLT Roger.

CDR Roger, Dick. How do you read the CDR?

CC Read you loud and clear, Jerry. Sounds real

good.

CDR Okay.

SPT Good morning, Dick and purple people. How do

you read the SPT?

031 13 15 Oh CC Good morning, Ed, from the purple people. You

sound real good this morning. Good morning to
you. It's a good comm check all the way around
and thank you very much. We'd like to set it
up this way when we have the press conference
later.

SPT Very good. Thank you, Dick.

CC Okay. We've still got 8 minutes here. And I'm

standing by.

CC And, Skylab, Houston. I forgot to warn you, but

we are dumping the data/voice recorder here
at Ascension.

PLT Roger.

CC Skylab, Houston. We're about a minute from LOS.

Carnarvon comes up at 13:46. And, PLT, Houston.
If you'd like to do a little pl-nning for your
day, your phone call is set up at Vanguard at
the time of 00:34, LEFY ANTENNA.

PLT Roger.

031 13 22 31 CC Okay. See you all at Carnarvon.

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031 13 46 hO CC Skylab, Houston. Hello at Carnarvon for

8-1/2 minutes.

SPT Hello, Dick.

CC And - -

SPT What kind of day you having - you folks having

down there?

CC It's - well, the first response from somebody

was: We don't know because it was dark when we
came towork because of daylight savings time.
But the last couple of days it's really been
beautiful outside. Doing real well.

SPT You going to have spring all ready for us when

we come back?

CC Well, the last couple of days we have it already.

I hope we don't use it up.

031 13 47 38 CC CDR, Houston. Whenever this morning, during

EREP prep, that you get your EREP C&D pad in
hand, I got a couple of remarks I wanted to visit
with you about before the EREP started. No
hurry.

CDR Okay, Dick. I'm going to get my urine sampling

done, and then I'll be up there.

CC Okay, there's no hurry, Jerry. Just whenever -

whenever you get it, I'd like to visit with you
about it.

03i 13 _8 36 _ CC And, Skylab, Houston. If one of you guys here

at Carnarvon could help me, we'd like to accom-
plish the world - the granddaddy of all the REG
BUS ADJUSTs at panel 206.

SPT Go ahead, Dick.

CC Okay. As usual, we'd like you to mark the present

position of the REG ADJUST pots. And then adjust
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both the REG ADJUSTs i and 2, 45 degrees; that's

45 degrees, clockwise.

SPT That was the granddaddy of them all. How do

they look?

CC We'll take a quick look at them, Ed. And we'll

also give you a call after the EREP when we
want them back.

SPT Roger.

031 13 50 09 CC SPT, Houston. The REG ADJUST looks real good.

We sure appreciate - sure appreciate it. Thank
you much.

SPT You're welcome, Dick.

CC Skylab, Houston. We're going LOS at Honeysuckle.

Guam comes up at si - in 6 minutes at 14:01.
See you there.

031 13 55 l0 PLT Roger.

031 14 03 09 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Guam for 4 minutes.

CDR Roger,
Dick.

SPT Hello, Dick. I got a question for you on the

configuration for Nikon 02.

CC Go ahead, Ed.

SPT Last night Bill received a message that said he

ought to put Bravo Victor 50 into Nikon 02 per
S063 pad. The S063 pad didn't come up until this
morning. So he went ahead and loaded Bravo
Victor 50 into Nikon 02, which is the way the
instructions pretty much told him to do it.
This morning the pad said that we should be using
Bravo Victor 42 for the first sequence on S063,
and then later, after that sequence, switch over
to Bravo Victor 50. So we're sitting here now
with - going through that change and out of
configuration. How would you folks like to
work it?
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031 14 0h 58 CC Okay, Ed, let us put it together. I'II get it

right back to you.

PLT Dick, this is the second day in a row they've

square waved me with in - inconsistency in the
instructions. I - Before, I said l'd like the
idea of telling me when I downloaded, but after
that, there were several days when - obviously
required downloading - they didn't mention down-
loading. And so when I - they didn't mention
downloading last night, I Just thought it was
another omission. But I know it's getting pretty
close to the end o_ the mission, but we're still
having trouble with the film pads, understanding
what it is they have in mind. And I don't
mean - I don't mind a few extra words telling me
exactly what they have in mind and what their
intent is in con - in configuring the cameras.

CC Okay, Bill. That's a good point, and we'll try

to do better. ThAnk you for that comment.

031 14 07 05 CC SPT and PLT, Houston. What we'd like to do in

S063, since you have loaded BV50 per our instruc-
tions, we'd like you to do the first S06B pass
as it is with BV50, and then prior to the
second one, load BV42.

SPT Okay. Thank you, Dick.

031 14 07 26 CC And we're close to LOS here. Hawaii comes up

at 14:14.

0Sl 14 iS 35 CC Skylah, Houston. We're AO$ Hawaii for 2 minutes.

CDR Houston, CDR. l'm ready to copy your comments

on the C&D Checklist.

CC Okay, Jerry. I got a couple of things for you.

First is on SI90A. If - if it should shut down
again during this ERE? pass, what we'd like you
to do is to be sure and leave the SIgOA POW,.'I_
switch ON, because we have some concern for
cycling the power relays. But then we - what
we'd like you to do i_ cycle the three S190 circuit
breakers on panel 202 We think that'll work.
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CDR Okay. __

031 14 14 53 CC But don't turn the POWER switch OFF. The other
comment that I had has to do with the C&D pad
itself. And it - and if you'd notice what we're
doing down there with the _LTIMETER, we have
a whole bunch of different RANGE settings that
are listed as we go over the large water expa -
expanses as you go around the world. If you'd
notice, up in the operate remarks earlier, there
are four steps there. And essentially, the
purpose of this is to allow the ALTIMETER to
run until you get an UNLOCK and a READY out
light, and at that time, turn S193 to STANDBY.
And if you have been setting these RANGEs prop-
erly per the pad, at the time you go to STANDBY,
whatever RANGE you have set there will be
recognized by the ALTIMETER. And then after
15 seconds in STANDBY, when you select the
ALTIMETER back to ON, it will take up that new
RANGE and get you a new lock. And I Just
wanted to make sure that you understood what
we were trying to do by that sequence of events.

CDR Okay; no problem, Dick.

CC Okay. Thank you very much. We're going A - _

A - LOS here at Hawaii. Goldstone comes up at
14:25. See you then.

031 l_ 16 ll CDR So long.

031 14 24 50 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Goldstone for

5-1/2 minutes. One piece of information for you.
The laser opportunity, handheld opportunity,
scheduled optional at 14:35 on handheld pad,
we've had to cancel this morning due to ground
fog up at - at Goddard. And also, anytime you
guys are in a listening mood, I've got the
EREP weather for you.

CDR Okay. Go ahead, Dick.

031 14 25 30 CC Okay. Of course, about 80 percent of the - of

the pass that - that starts off at the South
American coast will be in the darkness and over
the water. The EREP weather that I'll give you,
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though, is the data take that's over the conti-

nental United States toward the end of the rev
and then down across SOuth America. The data
take starts up in Idaho and at the time that it
starts it's overcast ul_ there. And as you come
down, it'll begin to break up when you get down
to Wyoming. And by the time you get in the
Kansas area, it'll be ¢_npletely clear. You will
then begin to cross some thin cirrus that even-
tually, about the time you get into the Arkansas
area, will be 4/10 to 7/10 cloud - broken clouds.
It'll clear up again. There's a front Just in
the Gulf of Mexico ,Just off the Mississippi Gulf
Coast and there's clear air over the state of
Mississippi that's Just behind that front. So
you should have a pretty view there and then as
you cr - cross the coast, you'll see the weather
associated with that front. Then as you come
down to the - to South America, Just as you begin
to get onto the South American Continent, the -
it's about 4/10 to 7/10 broken. And then - but
shortly after you get Over the land mass, that
will increase to a broken to overcast conditions,
which should continue through to the end of the
data take. Over.

031 lh 26 59 CDR Okay. Thanks a lot, Dick.

CC Roger.

SPT Dick, I've got a question on S063. That is, on

this first pass where they recommend taking the
frames as quickly as possible, does that mean
that we can exceed the frame count as long as
we don't move into the next time block?

CC Standby, Ed.

031 lh 28 09 CC SPT, Houston. We believe there are h6 frames

available on BVS0. And we see nothing wrong with
exceeding the scheduled frame rate if you do hit
the time blocks. So that's okay with us, if you
can do it.

SPT Thank you, Dick.

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031 lh 29 30 CC Skylab, Houston. We're a minute from LOS Gold-

stone. We're going to drop out a couple of
minutes. I'ii call you at Texas.

031 14 32 09 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS stateside again for

12 minutes.

PLT Roger, Dick.

CC And, PLT, Houston. We've reconstructed the -

the possible trap that we set on the film-thread
pad and S063 pad. If you stil have the film-
thread pad in your 'hand, I thought I'd visit with
you just a second about it. If you don't have
it now or are too busy getting prepared for
EREP, we can certainly put it off indefinitely.

PLT Well, I understand what happened. I don't have

it with me right now. I'm up in the MDA.

CC Okay. Well, real briefly, the pad is - was

technically correct in that it asked for BV_2/BV50
for the Nikon. But the remark was a little mis-
leading, or at least it - it Just said lo - load
Nikon 02 with BV50. And what it should have -
what it should have said - stand by.

CC All right, we're handing over. And I'll give you

a call in Just a second.

031 14 33 40 CC We got a - we've handed over now. I guess I

broke ou - out for a second, Bill. At any rate,
the pad was technically correct in that it
asked for 42 and then 50, but the remark itself
probably should have said, after the first S063
run, reload Nikon - you know, with BV50 per the
pad, which obviously last night you didn't have
in you hand. The only reason I wanted to point
it out to you was - is that it - it wasn't a
case of the pad being completely incorrect ; it
was the case of the remark not being worded quite
as well as it should have. And it was a trap,
and we're sorry you fell into it.

CC And, Skylab, Houston. We see you're not using

the recorder. We're dumping data/voice recorder
here at Bermuda.
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031 14 39 53 CC SPT, Houston. When you get a chance.

SPT I'll be with you in a minute, Dick.

CC No hurry.

031 14 h2 58 SPT Go ahead, Dick.

CC Okay, Ed. Just a reminder. In between the

two S063 passes when you reload BV42, it turns
out there are six frames that have been used,
so we want you to be s_re and click off about
eight frames when pou _eload. And this 'ii leave
you 38 frsmes on BV42,_ which you are free to use
on the second S - S063 ops period.

SPT Okay. Thanks for the reminder. Bill and I had

talked about that. A_d we'll sure do it.

031 14 43 27 CC Okay. Read fine. We're about _0 seconds from

LOS. Ascension comes up at 14:53. See you there.

031 14 52 _2 CDR 52:54 is coming up.

SPT Frame number 3, starting to track.

CDR Stand by -

031 14 52 53 SPT HACK.

031 14 53 55 CDR MARK. RADIOMETER's OFF. 53 even coming up.

Stand by -

031 14 53 00 CDR MARK. ALTIMEYER's ON_

031 lh 53 01 PLT MARK. Okay, starting nadir swath.

CDR I have no READY light_

031 l_ 53 08 CC Skylab, Houston. We're with you for 5 minutes

at Ascension.

031 14 53 09 SPT HACK. Okay, that waslgood; both on the same

target.
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PLT Okay, it's holding pretty well left and right.

CDR Okay, at 53:20 Alfa 1 is 76 percent. Charlie 1

Just moved from 0 to lO0 percent.

PLT Okay - -

CDR Now it's dropped down to 52.

PLT It's about 45 seconds into the nadir swath and

there's no cu at all, very few ... - -

CDR I have no ALTIMETER - a READY light. Just turned

it OFF at 50; 53:50.

SPT Going with frame 5 ; starting to track.

PLT Pickup up a few cu now, but not much. That's

at 54.

CDR Alfa l, 60 percent; 60.

PLT Less than 1/10 coverage. Readjust - -

031 14 54 06 SPT HACK.

PLT Now we're starting to pick up a few. Still less _

than 1/10. There we go ... - -

031 lh 5h 19 SPT "HACK.

PLT Okay. Now we're starting to pick up some at 54:20.

SPT Okay, that was good. Going to frame 7.

PLT Most of this nadir swath has been nothing but

blue water. And I'd say it was about i/i0 to
2/10.

CDR Coming up on 55:00.

PLT Okay, now we're getting ... - -

CDR Starting to track.

CDR Okay, at 55 Alfa 1 is 60 percent.

031 lh 55 03 SPT HACK.

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_- CDR Charlie i is 12 percent. Okay, I'm going to put

the ALTIMETER, ON again.

031 lh 55 12 SPT HACK.

031 lh 55 15 CDR ON at 14. Now l've got a READY light and no on -

UNLOCK light. Should have put that on sooner,
but got busy.

SPT Okay, coming up on 56 ... at one.

CDR Now the ALTIMETER' s working correctly.

SPT Starting frame nmnber 9-

SPT Tracking for 9.

031 11. 56 06 SPT HACK.

CDR Are we hot mike, BilL?

o31 11.56 16 SPT HACK.

PLT Yes, we are.

f-. CDR Okay.

SPT Okay, those were good.

CC I'm even - -

PLT ... for 56.

CDR Say again, Dick.

CC I was Just going to tell you I was even listening

to you.

PLT Okay, the tradewind _u nadir swath didn't get

much tradewind cu. @kay, we're terminating,
but of course, l'm JUst going to let it run.
56:1,5 -

031 11. 56 1.6 PLT MARK. Now we're starting to pick up a few
sporadic streets of it.

031 11. 56 52 CDR MARK. The S190 READy light went out at 50.
Going to STANDBY.

f--
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SPT Tracking
for frameii. 4

o CDR 190 POWER,OFF at 57.

031 lh 56 O3 aPT HACK.

PLT At 15:10 1 have to set all the apertures. Okay,

let's see what we've got coming up here.

CDR Coming up on 57:20.

031 lh 57 19 SPT HACK.

CDR Stand by -

PLT A long dry spell.

0B1 14 57 21 CDR MARK. REFERENCE set at 2. 57:30.

PLT h.3.

CDR ALTIMs"I'ER's still looking good.

031 lh 57 31 CDR MARK. At 57:30 Alfa 1 is 60 PERCENT - -

SPT ... 13 c_ning up.

CDR - - Charlie i is 53 percent.

CC Roger. And we're h5 seconds from LOS. Carnarvon

comes up at 15:23.

CDR Roger, Dick.

CDR Okay, Bill, I want a VTS AUTO CAL at 58:20.

PLT Stand by,

CDR About 30 seconds.

PLT 58:20 did you say?

CDR That 's affirmative.

SPT Starting to track.

031 14 58 08 SPT HACK.

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CDR 20 seconds.

PLT Stand by -

031 14 58 20 PLT MARK.

CDR Okay.

PLT VTS AUTO CAL.

031 lh 58 28 SPT HACK.

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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

Z
031 15 23 18 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Carnarvon for
l0 minutes. i

CDR Roger,Dick. !

CDR Charlie l's reading 56 percent, slowly creeping

up.

CDR Coming up on 24:3G, 24:30.

031 15 24 31 CDR MARK. RANGE, 70.

CDR At 25:00, Alfa 1 is 60 percent, Alfa - Charlle 1

Just Jumped to I00 percent, off-scale high and is
now drifting down to abo_t 93. Have an ALTIMETER
UNLOCK light; Just went but at 14.

CDR Charlie i Just dropped _own to nearly zero. We

lost our READY light at _5. Go ALTIMETER to
STANDBY. i

CDR 25:40. ALTIMETER ON. Charlie I off-scale high.

Drifting down, steady at 47.

CDR Cc_/ng up on 27:00.

031 15 27 O1 CDR MARK it. Going to 69 on the RANGE.

CDR READY light is steady on.

CDR Alfa 1 is 60. Charlie I is 52. Give you another

reading at 28 even.

CDR Okay. At 28:00, Alfa 1 is 60. Charlie 1 is 53.

CDR ALTIMETER UNLOCK light came on at 55, off at 57.

A rough time, it Just got another flash out of it.

CDR READY light is out.

CDR ALTIMETER to STANDBY at29:10.

CDR ALTIMETER, ON at 29:25. Charlie l's off-scale

high and drifting down.
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CDR Steady
at 50 percent.

CDR Coming up on 30 :00.

031 15 30 01 CDR MARK it. ALTIMETER, RANGE now is 68.

CC SPT, Houston. When you have - have a moment.

SPT Go ahead, Dick.

CC Ed, about a rev - a rev and a half from now, we're

going to be having the press conference. And the
site prior to that, press conference is this upcoming
stateside pass, which I figured would be pretty
busy with t_]king about the EREP. Wanted to remind
you guys of - to - in preparation for the press
conference to refer to the message that you - we
checked out the comm with awhile ago; also, the
TV-27 in the TV Ops Book. There are a couple of
switches in there that do not appear in either page.
It should be - need to be sure and verify. One
is the VIDEO SELECT switch, which is presently in
ATM, and should be in TV prior to the press confer-
ence and that can be put there anytime from here
on in. And also, on your way down to the wardroom,
in - in preparation for the press conference, be
sure that all the TV input stations north of the -
wardroom are - are off.

SPT Okay, Dick. We'll do that.

CC Okay. Thank you very much.

CDR At 32 even, Alia 1 was 60, Alf - Charlie 1 was 51.

We just went off-the-scale high on Charlie 1 and
now we're back down to 92, back up to off-scale
high.

CC Roger, Jar. And we're about 45 seconds from LOS.

Guam comes up about 3 minutes from now. I'll call
you there.

CDR Okay. At 50, we got a READY off li@ht. I went

to STANDBY.

SPT Dick, we've got i0 frames remaining in Bravo

Victor 50. We got five extra sets of data for
S063. It looked like a real good run.
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• CC Very good, Ed. Thank you much.

i

CDR ALTIMET_ went back ON _t i0. Alfa i is 60.

Charlie 1 is 57, now itl's drifting down - it's
down about 50.

CDR Time is 34:00.

03_ 15 36 04 CDR Going to 69.

CDR Terminating at the end of maneuver and back at 45.

CDR 94. Still have an'ALT]_ UNLOCK and READY is

on. Off-scale high. _Y_ADY out at h0. ALTIMETER
to STANDBY at 45.

CDR ALTIMETER, ON at 37:00,

CDR Charlie 1 steady at 50 ipercent.

031 15 37 57 CC Skylab, Houston. Gu- Skylab, Houston. Gusto for

9 minutes.

CDR Roger.

SPT Dick, on the se - the 3econd S063 set of data,

would you confirm that Ithey want a separate visible
exposure for each of the first eight frames?

CC Okay. Stand by.

CDR 38:30 RANGE is going to 70.

CDR 39 :30, RANGE, 71.

CDR ALTIMETER UNLOCK light at about 16, off at 18.

Charlie l's to 92, ALTIMETER UNLOCK, STA - ALTI-
METER READY light wend at 25, and 30 I went to
STANDBY on ALTIMETER.

CDR ALTIMETER ON at 45. _harlie 1 is settling at about

48 percent. At 41 RANGE to 72.
i

CDR At 41:30 Alfa 1 at 60_ Charlie 1 is 47.

CDR At 42 the RANGE is 73.

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CC SPT, Houston. I'm not real sure that I understood _

the question that you asked about S063. We do want
these first eight frames taken Jus - Just as it's
listed there on the pad and also including that
remark that follows the data, but perhaps I'm
confused.

SPT Okay. So far, on the first pass and all of the

second pass except for the first eight frames,
we're taking pairs; that is, all on the same spot.
That means you only get one visible exposure for -
for each. Here they say they still want to take
filter pairs, but not necessarily on the same spot.
Does that mean that I have to come back and start
tracking again additionally which was ... (whistle)
the second visible exposure with each - with each
of the UV exposures, or do they want me to Just
move back enough in order to pick up 8 seconds
more ?

CDR RANGE 74 at 43.

SPT ... to Just - -

031 15 43 08• CC Stand by.

SPT They're calling them filters pairs and I - they're -

not even pairs if you start tracking initially on
each one of them. Then it's Just an independent
set of data.

CC Roger, Ed. Understand. Stand by.

CC SPT, Houston. Turns out that the word "pairs" for

those eight frames is somewhat of a misnomer. We
do realize that they are not on the same sites,
and we do not require that you go back and retrack
them to get the other filter on the same site.

SPT Okay. We don't have to go back in order to get

another visible exposure. Is that affirm?

CC That's affirmative, Ed.

SPT Thank you.

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- CDR Okay. At 4h I had - I moved into RANGE 75. ALTIM-

ETER UNLOCK at ii, lost the READY at the same time.
Going to STANDBY at 15.

CDR 44:30 coming up. ALTIMETER, ON; RANGE to 76.

CDR RANGE to 77 at 45: 30.

031 15 46 02 CC Skylab, Houston. We'_e about 45 seconds from LOS.

Goldstone at 16:02; see you there.

CDR See you then.

031 15 46 31 CDR h6:30, RANGE to 78.

031 16 Ol 40 CDR ALTIMETER UNLOCK at 40. 01: hO.

031 16 Ol 48 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS stateside.

CDR Roger, Dick. Charlie il moved up from 47 percent

up to 57; now it's headed for off-scale high.
Off - Paused at 90 percent, now it's off-scale
high.

CDR ALTIMETER UNLOCK light is still on.

CDR There goes Charlie i. i And at 16 the READY light

went out. At 20 I'm putting it to STANDBY. And
I'll Just leave it there. ALTIMETER MODE to 1.
Okay. On my mark it'll be 02:45.

CDR Stand by -

031 16 02 45 CDR MARK. ALTIMETER ON. At 51.

031 16 02 51 CDH MARK. 190 SHUTTER SPEED SLOW. INTERVAL is i0.

FRAMES are 58. Wonde r why they reversed frames
and interval in that list?

CDR Okay, I saw the ALTIMETER UNLOCK light flashing

while I was doing tha£ 190 sequence. And it's
back on again at 18. ALTIMETER UNLOCK light.
Looking for au S191 READY on.

031 16 03 hl CDR MARK. READY on at 385 Going - REFERENCE, 6.

PLT Man, it better clear up pretty soon.

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CDR Okay. The ALTIMETER READY light's off. At 55 _-_

I'm going to STANDBY.

031 16 04 01 CDR MARK. At Oh:00 190 POWER is ON.

CDR At 10, the ALTIMETER POWER is ON - Correction.

Yes. ALTIMETER POWER.

CDR ALTIMETER UNLOCK light at 17.

CDR Coming up on 0h:h3. Stand by -

031 16 04 44 CDR MARK. S190 MODE to AUTO.

CDR READY light's out on the ALTIMETER.

CDR Going to STANDBY at 50. The READY light went out

about 48.

CDR Play me another tune on your kazoo.

PLT Oh, boy.

031 16 05 l0 CDR ALTIMETER on at 10.

PLT That doesn't look good at all. Weather is just

eating us alive.

CDR Hasn't been bothering me a bit, Bill. Visibility

between me and the clock has Just been fantastic
all morning.

PLT (Laughter)

CDR ALTIMETER UNLOCK light is on at 30.

CC It's going to get better, Bill. I promise.

PLT Okay, it 's under clouds.

CDR Better not promise, Dick.

CDR ALTIMETER READY light's out at 42.

PLT Okay, it's hopeless.

CDR - Going to STANDBY at 45. That's 05:42 and 05:45.

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--_. 03116 06 01 CDR ALTIMETER, ON at 00.

PLT Well, wait a minute, now. We were looking at an

angle through the clouds.

CDR Next mark is 06:24.

CDR Stand by -

031 16 06 24 CDR MARK. 192 MODE to READY. Shifting gears. Got

a TAPE MOTION light. Got an ALTIMETER UNLOCK
light. That came on during that 192 sequence.
06:30 ALTIMETER to. STANDBY, RADIOMETER to STANDBY.

PLT ... is at zero.

CDR ALTIMETER to MODE, 5-

PLT Now under clouds.

CDR RANGE 79.

PLT Okay,. Going for - let's see, set SHUTTER SPEED

to 1/25. Special 02, 10:52, 45 degrees.

CDR I was late getting the ALTIMETER to STANDBY there,

about 4 or 4 seconds.

CDR Coming up on 7. SHUTTER SPEED to MEDIUM on 190.

At 06, SCATTEROMETER i$ ON, RADIOMETER is ON.

031 16 07 21 CDR 17:18 MODE to CHECK on line 92. That was 3 seconds
late.

CDR 08:42's next.

CDR Okay. On the RADIOMETER to STANDBY at 06:30, I

missed it. And I went :from RADIOMETER, OFF to ON
at 07:06. That ought to be good for that glitch
in your data.

CC Roger, Jerry. I was following you down the pad.

Sorry I didn't catch it. I thought - I thought
you got it.

CDR I thought I had too. I may have called it but

gotten distracted before I actually threw it.
That got sxfully busy right there.
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CDR I think I may have read it but not even have thrown
the switch. I was busy reaching for the - the
other switches.

CC Well, that's a good way to fake off the CAP COMM,

I'll assure you.

CDR Yes, indeed.

CDR 08:42 coming up.

CDR Stand by -

031 16 08 h2 CDR MARK it. 192 MODE to READY. Got TAPE MOTION.
08:50.

031 16 08 50 CDR MARK it. POLARIZATION going to 4. 09:44 is next.

CDR That's known as hand-to-mouth coordination.

CC Roger.

CDR Sticking ice cream cones on your forehead.

SPT S063, we're picking up with frame number 37, BV42.

CDR 09:44comingup. Standby -

031 16 09 44 CDR MARK it. 192 MODE to CHECK.

PLT 5, 2 coming up. Okay_ I zoom in and track a uni-

form site.

CDR I didn't hear you. Did you find the green

mount ains ?

PLT No. It was completely cloud covered.

CDR Was it? You broke your promise, Dick. I told you
you shouldn't have done that.

CC Promise them anything.

CDR That's right.

SPT Tracking for frame number i.

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CDR God'llgetyou for tha@.

SPT Stand by.

CDR IMC.

PLT Okay, there's a unifor L site. Let's zoom in and

see what it is. Oh, I m already zoomed in. Let's
take that umiform site right there.

PLT DAC. Doing one for DAC.

031 16 ll 09 _ HACK.

PLT Do one for DAC. Okay.

PLT Back on ... DAC's on; _ATA pushbutton. Hey, it

looks like I got a si_t alongside the Mississippi
here, nice wetlands.

CDR I wonder if that's that Tennessee flooding area.

PLT It very likely could _e. It looks like the water's

_ful high along in h_re.
!
CDR Yes, we ought to be l_oking at that I would think.
Cnm4mg up on ll:50. Stand by 5 seconds.

031 16 11 53 CDR MARK it.

PLT Okay. - -

CDR 192 is MODE READY.

• PLT 12: 29 's m_ next one.

CDR Come on TAPE MOTION. I've got no TAPES - There

it goes. Got a TAPE ]lOTION light. 11:56, SCATTER-
OMETER to STANDBY, R_ IOMETER to STANDBY. Those
are all about 5 secon s - -

SPT Frame 2.
/
CDR - - late. I was watc ing that tape. Next mark.
12:15. Stand by -
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031 16 12 16 CDR MARK. The ALTIMETER's ON. Got a flashing TAPE

MOTION light for a little bit; now it's steady.
12:32 -

PLT Okay camera, off. Okay, going for- -

SPT Okay, that was at frame - filter 2700 - -

PLT - - 12:29, nadir.

SPT - - vis 2300. Try this again.

CDR 12 :32 -

031 16 12 32 CDR MARK. 192 MEDE to CHECK. l

PLT Nadir swath. No DAC.

SPT Tracking for 3.

PLT 13: 09.

CDR Must be getting low on tape. The TAPE MOTION

light's starting to flicker a little bit.

031 16 13 01 SPT HACK.

PLT Okay, there's 09. Okay going out to 45 degrees

and finding a clear area. Okay. There's a clear
area, all right. I'll use the DAC. Okay.

CDR 13:42 coming up.

PLT Csmera, ON.

031 16 13 53 CDR MARK. 92 to MODE CHECK. 48 ALTIMETER to STANDBY.

SPT Frame _.

031 16 13 52 SPT HACK.

CDR MODE 1. RANGE, 77. lh:05 coming up.

031 16 14 05 CDR MARK. The ALTIMETER's ON. Looking for a READY

out at i_:20 on S190.

--u
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s 031 16 14 21 CDR MARK. READY out at i_:20. Slg0's still hanging

in there. 14:30 coming up. Steady TAPE MOTION.

031 16 14 31 CDR MARK. 92 to MODE CHECK. 90 to MODE, STANDBY,

RANGE at 79. 17:30 _ain.
i

SPT Tracking for 5.

CDR We got a blunder here_ ALTIMETER to STANDBY, RANGE

to 73, 17:43. Oh, that's why.

PLT Okay, letting the DAC Irun for 22 seconds.

CDR Put it hack where it _as.

SPT HACK.

CDR Put that RANGE back to 77. Get the ALTIMETER, ON

again. Blunder on my part. That's where it is.
ALTIMETER UNLOCK at l_.

SPT Frame 6.

CDR Charlie 1 is - -

_ PLT 0kay, DAC, off.

CDR - - twitching betwee_ 48 and 53.

031 16 15 36 SPT HACK.

PLT Okay, waiting for 21:!11.

CDR Steady ALTIMETER UNLOCK light.

SPT Frame 7.

CDR Okay, there went the READY out. At 15 - at 16:00

the ALTIMETER went to OFF - correction to STANDBY.
ALTIMETER, ON at 15.

031 16 16 19 SPT HACK.

CDR Charlie l's reading 46. Where are you now, Bill,
out over the Atlantic?
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PLT Yes.

CDR Good blocming down there.

PLT Sure is and we're getting it on 191. Actually,

I think we're - we've Just ccme across Cuba in a
minute - -

CDR Oh, yes. Oh, that's that - blooming in that bay

there south --

SPT Going for 8- frame 8.

CDR - south of Havana.

PLT Yes, I don't know what it is - -

CDR The Isle of Pines area.

PLT Yes, that's right. Yes, Isle of Pines area is

correct.

CDR That's always green. That and the Bahamas.

SPT Okay. Going to try to see if I can give you a

couple extra sets here.

SPT 7 and 8, call them 7 Alfa and 8 Alfa.

CDR Coming up on 17:30.

SPT Starting to track.

CDR Stand by -

031 16 17 30 CDR MARK. ALTIMETER to STANDBY, RANGE 73. 17:_3

coming up.

031 16 17 37 SPT HACK.

031 16 17 h4 CDR MARK. SI90 MODE to AUTO. 17:50's next.

031 16 17 50 CDR MARK. ALTIMETER's ON.

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

going to have a very low and short pass at the
Vanguard at 16 - -
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SPT ... Alfa.

CC - - 30. In case we miBs that, Goldstone is 17:39,

and we'll see you ther_ for the press conference.

' CDR Okay.

CDR Coming up 18:22,

SPT Can get two more. We1_e going to go for a - -

ODR Stand
by-
i

SPT 7 Bravo and 8 Bravo. "

• 031 16 18 22 CDR MARK. 192 READY' TAI_ MOTION's on and flickering

a little bit. Cn_1 ng :up on 30, SHb'rl'_ SPEED to
FAST.

SPT Tracking.

031 16 18 42 SPT HACK.

CDR TAPE MOTION is steady.

" SPT Okay, that was an 8 rather than 16.

PLT Man, there's same blo_ning. I want to go ahead

and get that. Push t_e DATA pushbutton.

CDR 19:04, stand by -

03z 16 19 04 CDR MARK. 192 MODE,CHECK.

PLT Okay, I'm Just getting - -

CDR TAPE MOTION's okay at i0.

031 16 19 ii CDR MARK. ALTIMETER to S_ANDBY. Had an UNLOCK light.

RADIOMETER to STANDBY

PLT Coastal blo_ning.

SPT Okay, 8 Bravo was at $ seconds rather than 16.

Okay, I'm going to go:one more set.

PLT Now I'm going over cl_ ar blue water.

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031 16 19 2& SPT I'm going to go for Charlie 8, a couple of them .....

031 16 29 32 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Vanguard for

3-i/2 minutes.

SPT Hey, Dick, we're down to zero on the U - the high-

speed film and we gave them a few extra steps.
They all looklikegooddata.

CC Real great, Ed. Thank you very much.

031 16 32 07 CDR Dick, I set up the tape depletion to be done over

South America, and. I think we might have had an
operator glitch; I'm not sure. But I shc_ed 3
and 5 FILM ADVANCE MALFUNCTIONS indicating they
were depleted and the whole sequence Just stopped.

END OF TAPE
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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

031 16 32 26 CDR I went back to STANDBY, and then a little while

ago went back to AUTO a_ain and finished up the
depletion sequence.
i

CC Roger, Jerry. Thank you.

031 16 33 35 CC Skylab, Houston. We'reli1 minute to LOS. Goldstone

comes up at 17:38. That's the scheduled press
conference. We a_e going to dump the data/voice
recorder at Goldstone, but I won't warn you there
since you'll be - it won't matter to you, since
you'llbe on the press_onference. And, Jerry,
when you get a chance, if you would relay the tape
remaining dimension to _s so we can plan tomorrow's
pass we'd appreciate it I.

CDR Okay, I'll have it for you at Goldstone.

CC Okay, Jerry, real fine. Or we can pick it up at

the Vanguard after the press conference. I'll
see you at stateside.

CDR Okay, and I'll also pu_ it on tape. You might

catch it on your tape dump.

031 16 34 19 CC Okay.

031 17 38 _0 CC Skylab, Houston. Hella stateside for 15 minutes.

We do have TV. How do you hear me?

CDR Read you loud and clear, Dick. How me?

CC Loud and clear. I hav_ a number of questions here

to pass on to you guys_ so I'll Just read them
verbatim here, and we'll get on with it if you're
res_y.

CDR Okay.

PLT Now, lets get a c_mm c_eck on each one of the crew-
men. PLT. How do you iread?

CC Bill, I read you loud _ud clear. How me?

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PLT Fine.

SPT Okay, Dick. How do you read me?

CC Ed, I read you loud and clear also. How me?

SPT Very good. Thank you.

• CDR Lether rip.

031 17 39 09 CC Roger. The first question, Jerry, is for you, for

Commander Carr. What do you feel have been the
major accomplishments of this mission, and have
you proven that man can pretty much do as he wants
to in space, considering working, living, and
repairs ?

CDR I think the major accomplishments in this partic-

ular mission are - are severs/. I think the big-
gest major accomplishment is the - thetenure,
the - the length of the stay. We've shown that
man can do what we thought he could do, and that
is, come up here and - and set up housekeeping
in space, that he can adjust to his new environ-
ment. And I think, from a medical standpoint,
the medical experiments have already shown, so
far, that we right now appear to be in better
physical condition than when we left. And I think
the other accomplishments are, in particular -
Ed'll probably get an opportunity to talk about
it, but in the solar area, I think the fact that
we managed to catch the full rise of a solar flare
is a significant event. The fact that we caught
the brightest coronal transient that's been seen
from up here, I think, is significant.

031 17 40 19 CDR In the area of Earth resources, we have done

nearly 45 Earth resources passes around the Earth.
We've gathered a heck of a lot of data, and I think
that is indeed significant. And last but not
least, we took the time before we left to do some
studying on how to do Earth observations from out
the window and do handheld photography. And it's
our impression that we have really covered a lot
of ground as far as getting photography from hand-
held cameras. And we feel real good about that,
and I think that that's been a very significant
input from this mission.
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031 17 hO 56 SPT Dick, if you'll allow me, let me add a couple of

things on there. We al_o had, I think, quite an
extensive ccmet observimg program. And although
the brightness of the c0met was not what was
predicted, I think the all-out effort which people
all around the world put on it, and particularly
_p here, where we were _ble to make a large number .,
of attitude excursions 6f the vehicle and point
at the canet, learn sore#thing of its spectra which
is going to tell us of #hat
i .
it's ccmposed, I think
is a very significant aChlevement. And I think
one that speaks well fo_ all of Skylab, not Just
ours, but - and that is lthat in spite of some
fairly major hardware pFoblems, we've been able
to pull off all three missions and ex - and extend
ours beyond what we originally anticipated. We
put a Sunshade up to ta_e care of a problem we
had with a - a thermal _icro - micrometeoroid
shield coming off. We'_e
i
had rate gyro problems
and had to fix those onlEVA; that was - bo - both
were done on Skylab 1 a_d Skylab 2. And we've
lost a control moment _ro and have been able to
do the most extensive maneuvering yet, of any of
the missions, on two _Gs. So we're all pretty
proud of not Just our _ission, but the whole
series.

031 17 h2 08 CC Roger, guys. Appreciat_ the answer, and we cer-

tainly agree with you. This next question is for
Bill Pogue. Now that Mour mission is almost over,
do you feel disappointed about any aspect of your
flight ?

PLT Well, I don't think so_ really. I think that we

feel like w - as we - as has already been said,
we feel like that we've done very well in spite
of some of - adverse c_rcumstances. Looking back,
a couple of things we mentioned in particular
was the repair on the primary coolant loop, which
was conducted and completed early in our flight,
carrying on from - wha_ Ed said - from the earlier
flight• So that was a !major repair Job and repre-
sented a task that had not been done before. We
also have worked outside, EVA, and made two major
mods or repairs, sort Sf a combination of the two,
on one of the radar an%ennas which was a part of
the Earth resources package and also on the Apollo
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telescope mount. One of those telescopes was -_

malfunctioning. So, by and large, I think that
we have - although we would have liked to maybe
have had everything working 100 percent, in view
of the fact that it wasn't, we've done very well
in spite of that fact. And we feel like that we'll
be bringing back the best data possible for the
situation that existed when we got here.

0B1 17 43 21 CC Roger, Bill. Thank you very much. This one's

for Ed Gibson. Yours is the last American crew
that will fly for at least 18 months. How do you
feel about the long gaps between flights in the
next 6 to 8 years and what do you feel is man's
long-term future in space?

SPT Well, Of course, Dick, I think everybody associated

with the program would like to see it have more
flights in the coming years. However, I think
what we're building up to, that's the ability to
get man in and out of orbit with a lot of flexi-
bility, cheaply and easily, so that we can fly
the most competent people for the given mission
to be performed. I think we're all happy to see
that coming down the road, and we're going to have
to pay the price of not having a few missions
continuing on here in order to get that capability,
but it's going to be well worth it. And let's
hear the second part of that question again,
please, Dick.

0B1 17 44 16 CC I think you kind of answered it. It was: how

do you feel about the long gaps in the next few
years and what do you feel is man's long-term
future in space?

SPT Okay. Long-term future: I think that we're

going to be going in two directions again. One
is exploration and the other is utilization. Now
we've done both on Skylab. We've been able to
explore some new frontiers, and we've been able
to utilize. Earth resources, certainly, is one
of utilization of a capability to get up here
and use the space station. We're going to be
building space stations eventually in the future
and extending the various types of activities we
Just started here. And we're going to be exploring;
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there'sno doubt in my mind we're going to be

visiting other planets When that is, I can't
say. It's when the American people'choose to -
to m_ke that effort. _ose are two directions
which are inevitable. How fast they come is really
up to the desires of tke people.

031 17 45 12 CC Okay, Ed. ThAn_ you v_ry much. Back to Jerry

Carr. You guys have b_en in space longer than
anyone before. What p_ychological and mental
problems do you foresea for space travelers on
very long flights to, _ay, Mars?

CDR I think probably the p_ychological problems that

you would probably fac_ on a mission that long
would be the same kind iof psychological problems
you get up north in th_ winter, when you're locked
in a cabin for months qr on an island; island
fever, cabin fever, that sort of thing. That is,
the - the lack of the _bility to get away. You're
stuck with the surroundings and there's not a
whole heck of a lot you can do about changing your
surroundings. And so what you need to design
into future spacecraft ithat are going to do things
like go to Mars, is yo$'re going to have to design
lots of- of ways to divertyourself,rec - recre-
ation, reading, things like that. You've got -
you've got to be able _o, as we say in the flying
game, you've got to be|able to close the hangar
doors when you go h_ i And when you're on a year
or 2-year mission, youlre going to have to have a
place that you can call home, and you're going
to have to be able to _o to that and be by your-
, self or - and do what @hat you want to do, And
I think that's probably the major psychological
problem we're going to.have to work out. I think
the submariners understand this too. The guys
who spend SO to 60 days underwater most certainly
do understand this problem too, and they're work-
ing it as well as we are.

031 17 46 46 CC Roger, Jerry. Thank y_u very much. This one's

for Ed Gibson. Based On your medical studies,
what do you predict your physical condition will
be after splashdown?
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SPT Okay, Dick. As Jerry already pointed out, we're

in better condition than when we left in the sense

perform work with - using as - using oxygen, and -

I essentially your ability
that cardiovascular to is,
- that utilize oxygen -- to
abilityto In
that respect, we're ahead now. We, of course,
have not had any one-g stimulus to our inner ear.
We don't know exactlyhow that's going to affect
us in terms of dizziness. We're goingto try
"_ to make the best of that one, go at it slow,not
_ try to rush into it when we get down on the ground.
_ And I'm sure there's some muscles in our bodies
3 which we have not _used. And even though we have
exercised quite rigorously in many ways, the one
_ gravity down there tends to use differentmuscles,

little sore, probably. But, all in all, I think

and we're going to find that we're goingto be a
_ we're goingto come out prettywell. And, I
think, if we were in a kind of situation which

requiresus using our physical capabilitieswhen

we first got down, it - would have no fear of it.

031 17 48 01 CC Roger, Ed. Thank you very much. Back to Jerry

Carr. There's been a marked lack of public inter-
est in your flight. What do you think causes this
anddoesitbotheryou?

_L_ CDR Well, I think people Just get used to things.

_
i !
Think back about l0 or 12, 15 years ago when the
_! space program was first gettinggoing; there was
_ a decidedinterestin it then, lots of action,
_ lots of interestingthings. But I think people
get used to these things. People accept them into
their lives, and when you accept somethinginto
your life, you begin to - to kind of take it for
granted. And I must say it does kind of disturb
me, because I don't think anybody likes to see
his work taken for granted. Nobody does, but
this is a human - a human thing. It's a human -
sort of a characteristic. And I guess as long sa -
as it has been lately, I think that while we
consolidate,essentially,what we've gained in
space exploration,I think probably public interest
will stay pretty low. But when the spectaculars
come off, peoplewill be interested.
!
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CC Okay, Jerry. Thank you very much. We've got

about 4 minutes left here. I still have a nmnber
of questions. This ione's for Bill Pogue. Do you
feel your time in sl_ace has been well spent? And
what rewards has th_ American public reaped frc_
the expense?

PLT Well, I think our t_me has been well spent, of

course. I thought _hat before we cwne. I - I
still think it. An@ as far as the rewards are
concerned, I feel tBat most of the rewards will
be some time in reaShing full fruition. Now, some
of our activities 'h_ve already benefited certain
areas of the world _ready. Some of our visual
opera- observationS, observations out the window,
by eye, have reveal@d certain things around the
world, for instance i a new current off the coast
of - the northern cCast of the islands of New
Zealand. This was _ot known to exist. When we
first reported that_ we had quite a few questions
come back on that. iYes - yes, verily, we checked
it out again and it!was there, and we've documented
it with _hotographs lover a period of time. It's
also, of course, possible that some of the other
visual observations_we've made on ice nov - ice
_ movement would be o$ immediate benefit. Weather
observations will also be of immediate benefit.

031 17 50 32 PLT But, I think, a lot:of the things, for instance,

the good that will Come out of some of the solar
observations - observations with the Apollo tele-
scope mount, will b_ years in reaching full
fruition. Now, som_ of the results will probably
manifest themselves!in - in new theories and new
ideas -Imost immediately. Others will take a long
time before they will actually go through the full
process of moving t_rough basic theories into
applications. And _o - this is - it's going to
be very hard to, l0 years from now, say, "Hey look,
we went - Back on Skylab l, 2, and 3, we develop-
ed - we brought back data that led to this develop-
ment." And at thati time, it's not going to be
exciting and 811, b_cause at that time, it will
be ancient history. But I feel that those are the
kind of benefits which will probably be more dr -
dramatic in historical perspective than some of
the things which - _hich more or less excite the
imagination right nbw. And I mean - of course,

r
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those are very important, and we're very excited

about them ourselves, because we can see something
coming of it.

031 17 51 32 PLT The Earth resources is another area which may

take some time to reap benefits. Now, the photo-
graphic data - the photographic and visual imagery
will provide immediate useable data in many cases
and which will find its - find applications in
various parts of the world. We've not Just photo-
graphed the continental United States. We have
done considerable work in the continent of South
America and also fn Africa. The - these photo-
graphs, of course, will be available to these
governments and they - they will use them immedi-
ately. Now, some of the other data - it requires
much more subtle processing and consider - and
long-term consideration. It's going to be a long
time I think, not - maybe as long as - it sort
of depends on Just exactly how basic a theory
you're working with. But I think it will be
perhaps some time before all the Earth resources
data will reach application stage. And it's going -
we're going to have to more or less, I think, sell
the idea that we did this; that's - when I say we,
I mean the The National Aeronautics and Space
Administration, working in conjunction with several
other governmental agencies and foreign govern-
ments - that we in this period of time did collect
this data, which has now been used over several
years and will continue to find application.

031 17 52 49 CC Roger, Bill. Thank you very much. We're about

30 seconds to LOS. Vanguard comes up at 18:03.
See you there. Real quickly - well, I'm not sure
we have time to get an answer on one; I'll ask
it anyway. And, Ed, you can pass it down after
some thought. The other day you recorded the
birth, life, and death of a solar flare. Briefly,
what will this data tell scientists about the Sun
and its relationship to Earth? We're going over
the heel - hill here, but you might think about
that one and pass your answer down when you get
a chance.

SPT In short, learning to predict. We don't under-

stand why a flare occurs and how to be able to
predict exactly when it does. To be able to
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understandthat and predictmuch better, I think,

will be of benefit not only to people on Earth
but also future space travel.

031 17 53 34 CC Okay, Ed, I got it. Thank you very much.

END OF TAPE
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SKYL&B AIR-TO-GEOUNDVOICE TRANSCRIPTION

031 18 0S 00 CC Skylab, Houston. Hello at the Vanguard for

ll minutes.

CDR Hello, Dick.

CC I got two or three things here. For one thing,

the VTR is clean, and except for the scheduled
ATM TV after while, it's all yours for the rest
of the day. Alsoj I'd like to get somebody to
help me out with a KEG BUS ADJUST, if I could.

CDR Okay. Ed's on his way up.

CC Okay. While, he's going up there, one reminder

here. In the TV-27 pad that we sent you to se-
cure from the press conference we Just had, it
lists in there the panel 200 BUFFER AMPS 1 circuit
breaker to OPEN. Of course, that's now being han-
dled by you guys. As long as it gets closed when
you want to do voice recording, yo u can handle it
either way you want.

CDR Okay. We'regoing to leave it closed.

CC Okay.

SPT Go ahead, Dick.

CC Ed, we'd like to go back to where we were, which -

the original setting prior to the adjust we made
awhile ago which is 45 degrees counterclockwise
from where you are now.

031 i8 Oh 27 SPT You got it.

CC Thank you very much, Ed. We'll take a look at

it. And one more item, Jerry. Do you happen to
have written down the EREP tape measurement I
asked you about while ago?

CDR Yes, sir; 3 centimeters.

CC Okay, Jerry, thank you very much. You guys have

already done a full day's work, so welcome to your
day off. If we - if we can help you down here
give us a holler.
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CDR Okay, Dick. Right after lunch we're A11 three

going in the command module. We're going to re-
view some checklists for a little while. We'll
be about an hour.

CC Okay, Jerry. That 'll be fine.

CDR Actually, it's going to be right after Ed's ATM

pas s.

CC Okay. And the REG BUS ADJUST looks real good.

We sure appreciate it.

SPT Thank you, Dick. Hey Dick, let me throw a couple

more sentences onto that last question if I could.

CC Okay.

SPT Okay. Really, not Just ability to predict is

going to come out of this thing, but a flare
essentially is a way of storing energy and the
energy is all that - is stored in the atmosphere
of the Sun and now all of a sudden released very
rapidly and in large quantities. And that mech-
anism of release is something we don't understand.
And I think it's a basic problem, basic physical
problem - or a problem in physics, if you will.
And once we understand that, we may have applica-
tion for it elsewhere, in addition to Just under-
standing the Sun and other astrophysical objects.
So it's a energy conversion; basic problem, and
out comes basic knowledge which is application.

CC Okay, Ed. Thank you very much for your extra

words. And, SPT, Houston. In preparation for
your starting a little bit of ATM today, I've
got a little update on the Sun. Active region 39
rapidly emerged. It gave one small flare and is
now declining. Also, prominence 92 is quiescent
returning featured near 30/1.0.

SPT Thank you, Dick.

CC Roger.

031 18 13 02 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute to LOS.

Tananarive at 18:31.
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P 031 18 30 3h CC Skylab, Houston; hello Tananarive for 5 minutes.

PLT Hi, Dick.

CC Hi, Bill.

CC Skylab, we're about a minute and a half from LOS

at Tananarive. I'll give you a call at Goldstone
at 19:19.

031 18 34 38 PLT Roger, Dick.

031 19 18 h6 CC Sl%71ab, Houston. .We're A0S Goldstone for

4 minutes.

PLT Roger, Dick.

CC SPT, Houston. I've got another late solar ac-

tivity update for you. At 16:55 Zulu, there wsm
a subflare from active region 38 and also promi-
nence 92 that I mentioned before at 30/1.0 is
reported active by Sacramento Peak.

SPT Okay, thAn_ you, Dick.

CC Roger. And, CDR, Houston; if you have a second.

PLT Go ahead, he's listening.

CC Roger. The press conference that we had - the

time involved in answering the questions - it
turned out that there were four - four questions
that we particularly wanted to ask you. They
came from some students that did it as a class
project. And we were wondering over the next few
passes if I might read them up and you might give
us the answers to them, of course, without
television.

CDR Yes, I guess we can.

CC Okay, let me tell you a little about it, Jerry,

first, and maybe we can get one of them in here.
They came from a group of 6th grade science stu-
dents at the Gardner-Dickinson School in Wyantskill,
New York. As a class project, the students sub-
mitted questions for Skylab to the local paper,
the Troy Times-Record, which selected several and
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relayed them of a committee - to a committee of _

_ newsmen here at JSC. That committee, in turn,
picked four of them to ask you. The firstone is,
Drew Smith asks if you find it easier to live in
weightlessness than in Earth's gravity and wants
to know if you would like to exist in zero g all
the time. We still have about 2 minutes here.
And while you're thinking about that one, SPT,
Houston. We'd like H-ALPHA 1 NIGHT INTERLOCK
switch to OVERRIDE.

CDR I guess I would tell Bruce that, yes, it is

easier to get around and to do physical things
in zero g. But I don't think I would want to be
in zero g for the rest of my life because mainly,
man was born to, you know, with his Earth environ-
ment around him, and so when he's in zero g, he's
really out of his environment. And I think it
would take man mAuy years to adapt to the point
where he would feel perfectly at home in zero g.
He would have to completely adapt to his new
environment. There's lots of fun things to do
in zero g, but there's lot of fun things to do
in 1 g too.

CC Roger, Jerry, thank you very much for the answer.

Vanguard is coming up at 19:40, that'll be the ATM
conference with Bill Lenoir. And we're scheduled
15 to dump the data/voice recorder there. Maybe if

Bill
I cangets
ask you
through
the other
early three
there questions
or the next
that
pass,
I
_ have. There's threemore.

031 19 22 20 CC See you there.

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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

031 19 h0 3h MCC Skylab, Houston with the ATM conference here; ,_id
we'll be doing a data/ voice recorder dump here
through Vanguard. And we've got you for i0 minutes,
20 seconds.

SPT Hello, Bill. Go ahead.

MCC Okay. I'm not sure what you're doing right now.
So if I'm bothering you, don't hesitate to let me
know and I'll stop talking and let you talk or work.

SPT No, this is a pretty relaxed one. Go ahead.

MCC Okay. For today, actually for - starting tomorrow,

things are beginning to wind down a little bit
here as we get our end-of-mission things in. The -
there will be no ATM conference tomorrow. It Just
didn't fit into your day. We will have one early
the following day, which will be the last that we
have. Let's see; are - if you're at the panel right
now, if you could give me a frame count for 82 Alfa
and 82B, it would help us in planning.

SPT Okay. Planning for Alfa's going to be fairly

straightforward. It's at i; I tried an exposure
of 20 seconds and it remained at i. So I think
we've hit the end there. 82B is now reading 5,
and we got h0 seconds to go until it times out for
the exposure here. It'll be reading h after that.

031 19 hl hh MCC Okay; fine. That's what we wanted to know. For

tomorrow, the first thing off here, what I - well,
what I'm about to do here is Just to give you some
words about the procedures from now until the end
as far as ATM is concerned. The first thing off
the hat in the morning is another JOP 13. The
target is the same as we tried previously, G_-na
Velorum. However, we'll he doing it somewhat
differently in that we will first go - point to
and acquire Canopus. Since Canopus is significantly
brighter, we're hoping we can find Canopus, tweak
up our pointing on that, and then go by a cookbook
maneuver out to G_mma Vel, do a tweak maneuver
there, a lot like we did last time, and take our
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data. At any time that you don't find it, for _.

instance, on Canopus, you can look around until
you're wer - ready to say you cannot find it. If
that's the case, hit SI, go back to the computed
value for where it would be center, and then go
on from there by the numbers. But, hopefully,
going by way of Canopus we should be able to home
in on it.

SPT Are we going to initialize the strapdown when we

get to Cauopus and then initialize again at Gamma
Vel?

MCC That's affirmative. We initialize as - after we

get to Canopus, and then we initialize again at
G_ma Vel.

SPT Okay.

MCC Okay. On the - following on through the day, then,

54 will be doing their calibration unattended. So
at the end of the first regular ATM orbit, you
will be setting them up for unattended in what
looks like a weird configuration. They will be
shooting 102 frames unattended of the Earth -
actually of the not [?] Sun, because they no longer
have a door to take the picture of the back of.
So what they need is at night, and they will be
taking their frames there. We will also be getting
in a four-limb coalign. Although we do not require
the 55 offset any longer, the four-limb coalign
is for numbers for data purposes. 55 will be doing
a 12 Echo; that's the calibration of the DETECTORS.

031 19 43 47 MCC Also, later in the day, 82B will be doing their
polar plume sequence, assuming that you do not do
it today. If you do it today at some time, let
us know, and we will drop that out of the ops to-
morrow and substitute something else. Again, we
will be supporting that tomorrow as we're ready
to do today with exact pointings from Mauna Loa
here as to where to find the plumes that they do
see.

031 19 hh lh MCC Then following it - on Saturday, which is two days

from now, we will have a conference; it'll be the
last ATM conference. Right now our planning is we
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- _rl!lbe doing a buildingblock 16, which is a

eal_bration building block. And SO - it's primarily
for S052, although 56 and 55 will also operate.
And as a message we sent up earlier Says, 52 re-
quires 70 frames for calibration because of the
out-of-sequence bit with the counter where they
shot some unattended. There will be lh0 remaining
on the counter when there are physically 70 frames
remaining. I mention that mainlY in the unlikely
event that you go off on a coronal transient here
over the next day or so; don't forget to save lh0
on the counter for their calibration.

SPT l've got that written right above the FRAMES REMAIN-
ING counter, same for 54.

MCC Okay, good. And then the last thing that we will
do that day will be an S055 DETECTOR 5 test, where
we will be taking one MAR with all DETECTORs other
than 5 on. We will take a MAR at the same location
with only 5 on, in OVERRIDE, and then we will take
a MAR with all on, with 5 in OVEI_RIDE. And on the
last one, you will be asked to keep an eye on the
DETECTOR i counts, and in the event it gets up to
over several thousand for more than I0 seconds, to
_ turn DETECTOR5 OFF. This is to get at the effect
of DETECTOR 5 on the others, and in particular
questions such as, is it arcing or Just what is
going on there. And - -

SPT We'll be watching DETECTOR 5 at that time; is that

correct?

MCC Well, you'll be watching DETECTOR i, because you

cannot look at 5. And you'll be looking at the
effects of 5 on i, if there are any.

SPT Okay.

031 19 h6 05 MCC And as of right now, that's the way things look
for our planning, as far as planned ATM orbits
go, from now through the rest of the mission, which
brings you up to EVA. And I don't have anything
else to add; willing to answer your questions or
whatever you got in mind.
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SPT Okay, Bill. I think we'll go ahead and plan on

doing the polar plume tomorrow, then. The remainder
of today, it looks like we got start relearning the
con_mand module and entry procedure_;, so we're going
to stick with that. I don't really see a heck of
a lot going on now. I will be able to give you a
report maybe in a little bit, later on. _ut -with
the lack of film we have _d the lack of activi£y,
I think things are - are grinding down to a halt
here. And so, as you describe it, T think it's
apt that we finish it up in th_s way. I think it's
good timing.

MCC Okay, good. That's what it looked like to me also,

which is why I wanted to point out the planning
on the polar plume so you didn't feel obligated to
get at it today. And if we don't have anything else,
then, I'Ii turn it over to Dick, and he can talk
to Jerry about the press conference some more.

SPT Okay. Thanks very much, Bill.

SPT Oh, hey, Bill, one other thing. How many - how
much film does S056 have remaining, in reality?

MCC Stand by.

MCC Okay, Ed, in reality the number is 383.

SPT And how much do they need for calibration?

031 19 47 38 MUC We'll have to get you that one, Ed. My understand-
ing is they don't actually up and calibrate so
much as they Just take sequences that encompass
all of their exposures, like PATROL, SHORTs, NORMALs,
and LONGs. But we'll get back with you later on
that.

SPT Okay. It - I hate to see any camera go back down

without some frames exposed.

MCC Right.

031 19 48 04 CC Skylab, Houston. We still have about 3 minutes

here. I'll ask a couple more of these questions
here; maybe we can get them out of the way. We
appreciate you answering them for us. A young
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_- lady tamed Mary Signorelli wants to know if the

long confinement has led to any irritation among
the crewmen and whether you ever get to any - into
any fights up there?

SPT No, I think you can tell Mary that all of us end up
working towards the same things, and we get along
pretty well up here. We're all pretty much the
same nature, and it's worked out real well ; no
problem.

CC Okay, thank you. Here's one I'm sure you'll enjoy

giving some though_ to. Several of the students,
obviously concerned about your well-being, asked if
you missed female companionship.

SPT What grade did you say that was, Dick?

CC That one didn't have any name with it. It was the
sixth grade.

SPT Obviously, yes.

CC And, SPT, Houston. On 82B we'd like a 1-second

guard exposure. It's on the pad, I think. We still
have about a minute and _0 seconds here. I have
/-
one more question I'll pass up to you here.

CDR Okay, go ahead.

CC A young fellow named Mark Schnelling - Schnellbae-

cher - Mark Schnellbaecher wants to know if you
feel that you are more of a man now, as compared
with before you left, and in - if so, in what ways?

CDR Okay, we'll let the PLT answer that one.

PLT Thanks a lot, Jer. What - say it again, please,

Dick?

CC Roger. This - he wants to know if you feel that

you' re more of a man now as compared with before
you left, and if so, in what ways? We've got about
a minute, Bill.

031 19 50 02 PLT Well, I don't know what constitutes his definition

of a man. If it means dealing with problems, I
suppose that we have learned a little bit how to
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deal better with prolole_1_ cf a :............_.,_,_. _id

of a - say that - the problem:__ _, _,c 7:_t
occur in the spacecraft, be_::_ _ ._ ,_y_ ,_[_ugh
we were well trained, w_: :_er _ _. a_i_ual
situation until we got up here. So I guess in _hat -
in that regard, I suppose we're better crewmen in
that we have obviously learned something since
we've been up here. If he's directing the question
more toward a - a philosophical vein, then I would
sort of have to beg off. Because I think that this
is sort of self-analysis that takes a long period
of time. And we'd like to think that we have
matured some since.we've been up here, but we'll
Just have to wait and more and less see how we
react when we get back.

SPT Hey, Dick, I guess I'd have to answer yes to that

question, because with those beards, you'd never
mistake them for females.

031 19 51 00 CC Roger that. Both of those are good answers. We're

going LOS here at the Vanguard. I'll give you a
call when we get to Tananarive at 20:04. And we
appreciate your putting up with me and answering
those extra four questions. Thank you very much.

031 20 05 56 CC Skylab, Houston. Tananarive for 8 minutes.

SPT Roger. Hello, Dick. Say, I wanted to ask the

56 folks a question. If they have a fair amount
of film left over, 300 and some odd frames, whether
during some - -

CC Break, Break.

SPT - - ... take the given FILTERs and Just shoot one
right after the other for the duration of that
orbit, which might pick up slow or rapid time
changes ... timed exposures and ... - -

CC SPT, Houston.

SPT - - of their SHORT or LONG EXPOSUREs.

CC SPT, Houston. You were kind of weak there, and a

combination of that and - also we had this - some
static on the line, and we missed about two-thirds
of your request. I wonder if you would take the
trouble to say it again, please.
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SPT Dick, you're coming in awful weak also. Why don't

we wait until we get to a little better pass?

CC Okay; well, now - that transmission was loud and

clear.

SPT Okay. I'ii - I'ii try it this time; I am talking

pretty loud. I wanted to ask the 56 people if they
had any desires to take SINGLE FRAMEs in a given
FILTER, whatever one they'd like, either timed
exposures, manual, or with SHORT, NORMAL or LONG
automatic timing, and Just take a sequence for the
duration of an orbit. So that either, say motion
picturewise, or in some other way, might show time
changes over a orbit scale in the X-ray.

031 20 07 h5 CC Okay, Ed. Thanks for the question; we'll get an

answer to you. I have one note for you guys:
Whenever you - if you're either already in the CSM
and beginning to do that work or going up there.
Turns out tomorrow's JOP 13 maneuver may cause
QUAD PACKAGE TEMPs on{ lfa and Delfa - Delta to
trip at the lower limit. And we were going to ask
you to inhibit these CAUTION and WARNING inputs.
It's panel 201, Bravo 5 and Delta 6 to INHIBIT.
r_

CDR Okay, Dick. And we got another one for you.

CC Okay, go ahead.

CDR This is for the urine people. We got in a big

hurry this morning and we all three did our urine
sampling this morning. And after a little closer
perusal of the card, we see that it should have
been done tonight. Our recommended recovery from
this thing would be to go ahead and do a urine
sampling tomorrow night and then skip the following
day.

CC Okay, Ed. Thanks for flagging the problem. And

we will work it and get back up to you as to what
we want to do.

031 20 13 26 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 45 seconds to LOS; Hawaii

comes up at 20:_9. See you there.

031 20 _9 12 CC Skylab, Houston. Hawaii for 8 minutes.

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031 20 52 50 CC Skylab, Houston. We notice that S052 DOOR is

OPEN. And I th_nk you guys are - nobody is at the
ATM panel and in the command module, so we're
going to go ahead and send up a comand to get the
DOOR CLOSED.

031 20 57 05 CC Skylah, Houston. We're i minute to LOS; Vanguard

comes up at 21:19, and we're going to dump the
data/voice recorder at the Vanguard.

SPT So long, Dick.

031 20 57 16 CC Okay. See you there.

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SKYLAB AIR-T0-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

031 21 19 23 CC Skylab, this is Houston through the Vanguard;

9 minutes to LOS; data/voice tape recorder dump.
And next station contact in i hour and 6 minutes
through Hawaii at 22:26.

031 22 25 56 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Hawaii for

7-1/2 minutes. Next station contact in 31-1/2 min-
utes through the Vanguard at 22:58. Over.

CDR Roger, Bruce.

CC Okay, Just wanted to say hi for a second. And also

to tellyou that we'll be asking for a teleprinter
paper changeout this evening Just before you go
to bed. We've got about 35 feet of messages to
come up overnight. And when we send something
like this up, does it cause you any problem with
leaving the cover closed on the teleprinter and
a length that great acumulating inside the cover?
Over.

• CDR No, it doesn't. We'll leave the cover open as long

as we're not sleeping.

CC Okay; but in all practicality, with the site cover-

age and things of this sort, the bulk of it will
probably be coming up after you get turned in
tonight.

031 22 27 12 CDR Well, so far you haven't been able to max it out
to the point where it affected the messages.

CC Okay; thank you.

CC And Just for your information, not all that stuff

is Flight Plan, of course. In fact, the bulk of
it is split between the Deact Checklist mods and
the EVA Checklist mods. So it'll give you some-
thing to work on over the next couple of days.

CDR Okay. I hope they give us time too.

CC Well, we're going to give you time in the Flight

Plan to do it. And we're working this - as hard
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as we can to get this stuff processed and closed 4

out, so that we can get it up to you and give you
time to put it in and to understand it and to go
around the loop a couple of times here so we're
all squared away.

031 22 28 09 CDR Very good.

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SKYLABAIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

031 22 57 27 CC Skylab, this is Houston through the Vanguard;

9-1/2 minutes to LOS; data/voice tape recorder
dump. Next station contact in 15 minutes through
Ascension at 23:13. Out.

CDR Houston, CDR.

CC Go shead.

CDR Bruce, on $233 I've tried about four times now

to locate the comet, and I Just can't find it.
I would like to know if the 233 folks would like
us Just to go ahead and stick the camera in the
window and - and take a shot at the night sky or
whether they want us to wait until we can locate
it?

MCC Affirmative, go ahead and shoot it.

CC Okay, we have a little procedure here describing

how you can get it in the field of view, if you're
_- readyto listenor copy?

CDR Go ahead.

CC Okay, if you draw a line between Scheat and Algenib

and then extend it about the same distance past,
why, that'll give you the rough location of the
comet on mission day 79. Over. Or, if you - you
don't appreciate my humor, if you'll find Pegasus
up there and draw a line from homeplate through
second base it - and extend it, and you go about
the same distance past second base as the distance
from homeplate to second base, that's the location
of the comet. And from now until the end of the
mission if you aim the camera at that point, the
comet will be within the field of view. But you
ought to have the long axis of the frame - of the
camera parallel to the line from homeplate to first
base. Over.

031 22 59 2h CDR Okay, you said the line between Scheat and Algenib
and that exact same distance on further beyond?

/s
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CC Right. That's hameplate through second base and

then the same distance on past it.

CDR All right, you want the long axis of the camera
from homeplate to first base. Right?

CC Right. Parallel to that line.

CDR Okay ; we 'll try that.

CC Okay; mighty fine.

CDR One other problem,, however, is that the field of

view in that window is so - so tight that so far
I haven't really conclusively located Pegasus yet.

CC Okay. That complicates the problem a little bit

(laughter).

CDR It does indeed when you got to stand on your head

and stick your he - face up against the window.
It's very difficult to see much.

CC Roger. Stand by a second.

CC Okay, Jerry, and if you can't nail it down exactly,

why, do the best you can. Point the camera at
where you think or you hope the comet will be and
take the exposures. One of them at least - you
know the defocused one will get the - the bright-
ness of the sky background, and hopefully we'll
be able to find the comet later in the one that's
focused on infinity.

CDR Okay, Bruce. Hopefully, with these new instruc-

tions, we might be able to find it. I don't know.
We'll try.

031 23 01 05 CC Okeydoke.

031 23 12 47 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Ascension;

6-1/2 minutes to LOS. Next station contact in
44 minutes through Guam at 23: 57. Out.

031 23 lh 20 CC And Skylab, Houston in the blind. We see the S052

DOOR OPEN. We're going to send a ground command
to try and close it. Out.
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CDR Roger,
Bruce.

SPT Houston, that's the second time today in which you

had to send a c_mmand to close that door and we
have not gone near the panel. So it's - apparent-
ly there's a problem with the logic there.

CC Okay, Ed, we'll take a look at that.

CC And, Ed, it closed satisfactorily on ground command

here. And we will look at the logic situation and
see if we've got a problem. Out.

CDR Hey, Bruce, what constellation is the Moon in right

now?

CC You really know how to get to a guy, don't you?

Wait a minute and we'll find out.

CDR Okay, the Moon's pretty bright. That may be one

of our problems. There's a red star right near
the Moon.

CC Okay, this is really the - wrong program for us

to know where the Moon is, but we're trying to find
out for you.

CDR Well, dig back into the archives.

CC Okay.

031 23 18 58 CC Jerry, this is Houston; l0 seconds to LOS. Next

station contact in 38 minutes through Guam at
23:57. And we're a little embarrassed to a_t
that right now we can't give you a good hack on
the location of the Moon.

CDR Okay.

CC CDR, Houston. The word that we're getting right

now, looks like it should be fairly near Aldebaran
between - between Orion and Menkar and just below
Aldebaran.

CDR Okay ; thanks, Bruce.

031 23 19 h7 CC About h hours right ascension, which ought to be

about 060 degrees.

/--
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031 23 57 39 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Guam. 3-1/2 min-

utes to LOS. Next station contact in 37 minutes
through the Vanguard at 00:35. PLT private phone
call, T.NNT ANTENNA and the evening status report
at AOS. Over.

PLT Hey Bruce, if you could, I'd like to try to get

the evening status report here.

CC Standby a second. Go ahead, let her rip, we got

three minutes.

PLT Okay. Sleep: CDB, 7.5, 7.5 heavy; SPT, 9.0,

8.0 heavy, 1.0 light; PLT, 8.5, 6.5 heavy, 2.0 light.
Urine: 120 for the CDR; SPT, 085; PLT, 225. Water
gun: 8938, h946, 1933; CDR, SPT and PLT respec-
tively. BMMD: CDR, 6.304, 6.304, 6.308; SPT,
6.370, 6.376, 6.375; PLT, 6.258, 6.25_. No exer-
cise for any crewmen. Okay, weight of the fo -
for the - weight following the stereo photos last
night was as follows; these are three B_94D readings:
CDR, 6.321, 6.322, 6.319; SPT, 6.399, 6.405, 6.398;
PLT, 6.282, 6.283, 6.282. Medication: CDR, one
Sudafed and no clothes; SPT, no medication, socks
and shirt; PLT, two Actifed as directed, no cloth-
ing. Flight Plan deviations: No housekeeping -
7 Juliett. Shopping list accomplishments: All
crewmen got 1.8 hours Entry Checklist review; we
got documentory photos 8 Alfa and Bravo. Inoper-
able equipment: Shower blower is inoperative.
H20 - we got H20 past the filter, it looks like,
and we hear sloshing and the motor is not working.
Food: CDR, salt packs 5.5; deviations, minus 1
coffee with sugar, plus 1,5 salt; SPT, 1.5 salt,
plus 1 tuna, plus 2 rehydration water; PLT, 8.5
salt, plus 2 crispy bars, plus 1 green beans,
rehydration water, deviation water, O.

031 00 00 01 CC Okay, I'm sure we got all that on tape, Bill. If

you've got the photo log, go ahead with that.

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SKYLAB AIR-T0-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

032 00 00 06 PLT Okay. Okay , 16-millimeter: EREP VTS, Charlie

India 90, 88 percent; housekeeping 71 Bravo,
transporter 6, Charlie India 87, 30 percent,
Charlie India 79; Mike 487-4 Foxtrot, trans-
porter 6 also, u_aarlie India 87, 20 percent, Charlie
India 79; documentary photo 8 Alfa and Bravo,
transporter 7, Charlie India 129, 58 percent,
Charlie India 78. Nikon 01: Charlie X-ray 49,
count is 02; Nikon 02 is empty, and Bravo 42 and
Bravo 50 are both using S063; Nikon 03, Charlie
India 116, count is 24; Nikon 04, India Romeo 13,
count is 18; Nikon 05, Bravo Hotel 06, the count
is 34. 70-millimeter : Charlie X-ray 45, count
is 22. ETC: no change. EREP: set popa; 0187,
9526, 0405, 0392, 3940, and 5661. I'ii read num-
ber 4 again; that was 0392. Drawer A configuration:
Alfa i, Alfa 2, no change; Alfa 3, 06 transporter,
Charlie India 87, 20 percent, Charlie India 79;
Alfa 4, no change; Back, 07 is the transporter,
Charlie India 129, 58 percent, Charlie India 78.

CC BeautifUl, babe; we got it. See you over the

-- Vanguard.

PLT Roger.

CC No time for the evening questions, I guess.

PLT Depends on what kind of answers you want.

CC Short ones. We're going over the horizon here.

Your phone call is set up for the Vanguard, LEFT
ANTENNA.

032 00 01 58 PLT Roger.

032 O0 34 45 CC Skylab, this is Houston through the Vanguard for

10-1/2 minutes. For the CDR. Over.

SPT Bruce, he's up working 233.

CC Okay. Yes, we got another way of pointing 233

for him, if he can listen.
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SPT Go ahead, Bruce; he's listening.

CC Okay. The - another way to point the camera is

to first point it normal or perpendicular to the
plane of the window you're using, S-4. And then
point 20 degrees off of normal towards the command
service module. Over.

SPT He says it sounds like a good idea, and he'll try

it. Thanks, Bruce.

032 00 36 07 CC Okay. And for you, Ed, could you verify the con-
figuration of the WLC AUTO DOOR switch for us?
It should be in NORMAL. Over.

SPT I'll go take a look. No, it's - somehow it's in

OVERRIDE, Bruce.

CC Okay, thank you. We'd like it in NORMAL. And that

should solve our problem with the S052 doors. For
all of you, we have a modification to your onboard
Flight Plan for tomorrow, misson day 78. We'd
like to show full urine samples in the morning,
in your morning postsleep; and that goes in slot 51,
slot 51 of urine stowage. Over.

CDR Okay, I'd like to know what their overall plan

is.

CC Okay, the overall plan involves changing mission

day 78, 79, and 80 on the urine and blood mAnage-
ment cue cards. And we'll have that up on the
teleprinter message to you this evening for inser-
tion tomorrow.

CDR Thanks a lot.

CC Okay, if you want to get out the urine/blood man-

agement cue cards, why, we can go through the rest
of it here in real time.

CDR No need, Bruce.

CC Okay. And last night on evening status report,

you all mentioned DAC 01 was inoperable. Can you
give us any more details on it?

SPT Bruce, the only thing we can report on that is

that we tried it with different transporters,
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all of which we knew worked, or different - yes,

different transporters. And we could not get it
to function. We could hear it clicking. We have
not had a chance to troubleshoot it.

032 00 38 48 CC Okay. Thank you. And with respect to the shower

blower failure. When you changed the water filter
after your last shower, back on mission day 72,
6 days ago, did you notice whether or not the
filter was wet? Over.

CDR Yes, it was wet, Bruce. But we had no reason to

beleive there was any water on through into the
blower because every other time we change the
filter, it's wet.

CC Okay. We copy. And for Bill, have you all re-

moved the recorder ALC bypass cable yet in accord-
ance with the general message we sent you up today?

CDR Negative, Bruce. And Bill's in his private call.

CC Okay, sorry about that. And just a reminder again.

We need a teleprinterpaper changeouttonight.
And I'll let you get back to Kohoutek.

032 00 44 45 CC Skylab, this is Houston. 1 minute to LOS. Next

station contact in 3 minutes through Ascension at
00:48, private medical conference. And Just for
Jerry's info, the current estimatedmagnitude of
the great Comet Kohoutek is 7. So it's probably
pretty hard to see.

CDR You said it. We've got Perseus and Andromeda and
Cassiopeia located, and we're still looking.

032 O0 45 24 CC Okay.

032 00 53 22 CC Skylab, this is Houston. 5 minutes remaining over

Ascension.

CDR Bruce, I think I saw the comet. You're right, it

ain't much.

CC (Laughter) We copy, Jer.

CDR It really has gotten weak.

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CC What technique did you finally use for locating

it, your star charts and stars or the 20 degrees
off the normal of the window?

CDR Well, I used the Bravo/Delta/Lima technique: blind

dump luck.

CC Roger. We copy, and we'll put that in the recom-

mendations for the next program.

CDR Roger. What I was doing was Just kind of looking

all around Pegasus and finally found a little blob.
And it was getting pretty close to the comet sunset
time and it was just slightly above the airglow_
and so I decided that was it. I had already
pointed the camera and started the exposures, and
I was Just looking around.

CC Okay. Very good.

CDR I'll probably have to use the same technique to

look at it tomorrow too.

CC And Just for your information, if you do feel you

want to get some showers before you come back, you
can go ahead and use the other vacuum cleaner
blower motor to reactivate your shower assembly.

032 O0 55 09 CDR Well, we weren't too wild about using the vacuum
cleaner - committing that one to the shower, for
fear we'd get water in it and then we'd have
nothing. I think we can live without them. We can
do a pretty good Job Just washing.

CC Okay, certainly your option. We wanted to tell

you that you're GO to do that if you want.

CC And of course, Jer, we've got another one up there

in the suit drying station.

CDR Yes, that's right; we won't be drying any suits

anymore.

CC Yes, you'll be drying suits, post-EVA. But I guess

what we're thinking is that between the two of them,
the vacuum cleaner and the suit drying motor, we
if you wanted to use one of them for the - to
shower, why we'd - we'd still have a serviceable
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one. But, again, we're not trying to push you into

the shower; we're Just making the option available.

CDR 0kay, thank you.

032 00 57 37 CC 1 minute to LOS. Next station contact in 34 minutes

through Guam at 01:32, with a data/voice tape re-
corder dump at Guam. Out.

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,, sKYLAB AIR-TO-GROt_D VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

032 Ol 32 22 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Guam for i0 min-

utes. Wakeup site in the morning will be Tanan-
arive at 11:06. This is our last planned contact
of the evening. Over.

CDR Roger, Bruce.

CC And we have a data/voice tape recorder dump sched-

uled here if you're not using it.

CDR Negative; go ahead.

032 Ol 33 35 CC And, CDR, this Houston. We're ready for the tele-
printer paper changeout. We do need to confirm
that it's been changed out before you turn in.
And we'd also like you, before you turn in at 03:00
to Just take a peak up there at the teleprinter
and see if it looks lime the stuff that's coming
up is coming out legibly. Out.

CDR Okay, I'ii check it.

CC And if you'll change it out now we can probably

whip you up a test message right here at Guam.

CDR Yes, we'll be a couple of minutes. Be right with

you.

CC Okay.

032 01 38 05 PLT Okay, Bruce, it's changed out if you want to send
a test message.

CC Okay; it's on its way.

PLT And there may be something wrong with the low level
sensor because there's about, oh, five-eights of
an inch of diameter from the outer spindle to the
outer edge of the paper. It's Just almost a third
of a roll here, looks like.

CC Yes, we appreciate that fact, Bill, but what you

don't appreciate is the quantity of pads that we've
got to send up tonight. In fact, you might - you
misht watch out for an overheated teleprinter or
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something here (laughter) because we got a bunch

to ship up.

PLT Okay.

CC We - Yes, we changed it out in anticipation of our

requirements, which are something over 35 feet of
messages coming up tonight. And we Just wanted to
make absolutely sure that we could get it all up
here because we're critical on uplink time. And
you can imagine what happens if we get behind.
Should be on board. It's not the most inspiring
reading in the world, but it checks out the system.

PLT How about sending another one? That was a little

light on the right side. I've pressed it down.

CC Okay. We'll do it again.

PLT Okay, Bruce; it's readable. Press on.

032 01 40 21 CC Okay, thank you, Bill. We got about a minute and

a half to LOS here, and we're wrapping it up for
the night. One of the teams will talk to you in
the morning.

032 01 40 30 PLT Roger.

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SKYLAB AIR-T0-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

032 ii 08 22 CC Morning, Skylab. Got you through Tananarive for

4 minutes.

032 ll l0 12 CC Skylab, we're a couple of minutes to LOS; about

20 minutes to Honeysuckle at ll:30. And a friendly
reminder to take a full urine sample this morning
and store it in tray slot 51. Also for Bill, there
is no hurry on this, JOP 13 is GO, and we'll need
to perform housekeeping 90 Alfa prior to J0P 13.

CDR Roger, Story. And the teleprinter paper was

Jammed, and it looks like you probably ought to
start transmitting up on the teleprinter with
message 7836 Bravo I.

CC And how many copies of that 6836[sic] Bravo i do

you have?

CC That's deactiv - Deactivation Checklist. We're

sending three copies of each of those up.

CDR Stand by.

CC And for Bill, we'll need that housekeeping 90 Alfa

done prior to ll:30_ that's sunset.

CDR We have two complete messages and a partial, Story.

032 ll 12 26 CC That's Just what we wanted to know. Thanks, Jer.

032 ll 31 17 CC Skylab, AOS through Honeysuckle for 8 minutes.

PLT Roger, Story.

CC Morning, Bill. And anyone that's near the STS,

like to have them check the teleprinter and see
that the messages are coming up all right now.

SPT Looks good, Story.

CC Thanks, Ed. And we'll be commanding on CBRM-5 at

this time and also powering down the MDA and AM
wall heaters. And your housekeeping 90 Alfa looks
good. The only thing we can see down here that
still needs doing is the M0L SIEVE B FANS,
panel 203.

f
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032 ii 38 31 CC Skylab, we're a minute to LOS; about i0 minutes

to Hawaii.

032 ll 53 02 CC Skylab, back with you through Hawaii for 6 minutes.

CDR Roger, Story.

CC And, Ed, we Just had a reject on page 8 of the EVA

Checklist updates. Could you check and see if
page 8 is all right before we send 9?

SPT Story, it looks all right from here.

032 ll 54 17 CC Okay, Ed. And the bad news this morning is, there's
so much paper up there, you're not going to be able
to find the solar activity update pad. The good
news is, there is not one.

SPT That's too bad, Story. I miss those. There's a

little humor in there.

CC Well, if you need some more paper up there, maybe

we can send one up.

SPT We're alrays - always ready to hear from the NOAA

guys.

032 ll 58 57 CC Skylab, we're a minute to LOS; 2 minutes to

Goldstone.

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032 12 04 07 CC Skylah, AOS through Goldstone for 5 minutes.

Jer, Houston.

CDR Go ahead, Story.

CC Jer, we're at present shipping the EVA Checklist

up to you right now. Considering you got the -
the preprep tomorrow and the EVA in a couple of
days from now, you'd probably do better to work
on the EVA Checklist changes prior to getting into
the Deactivation and Entry Checklist changes.

CDR Yes, I kind of thought that'd be a good idea too.

Right now I'm Just trying to wade through all this
stuff and find out what we've got to do for today
and get that all cut apart.

CC How many feet you got up there right now?

CDR Well, let me put it this way; I can make it all

• the way from the teleprinter to the - to my table
at the wardroomwithout cuttingthe paper.

CC How -_uy times can you do that?

032 12 05 ll CDR I can't believe this spaghetti bowl.

CC I guess we shouldn't be proud of it, but it must

be some kind of record.

CDR You said it.

CC And, you all are pretty busy, but anytime you want
the news, let us know.

SPT Our ears aren't busy, Story; go ahead.

CC And you are running JOP 13 today. Right? You

got a good looking maneuver time.

SPT Do we have JOP 13 today, Story?

CC Well, that was a friendly way of reminding you,

since there must be so much other confusion up
there.
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SPT We'relookingforthe pad now.

CC So are we.

032 12 06 46 CC Pago Pago, American Samoa: Only six survivors

are reported in the crash of a Pan American World
Airways Jetliner on its approach to the Pago Pago
airport in the mid-Pacific. The airline said 36
of the i01 persons aboard the Boeing 707 Jet were
U.S. residents. An airline spokesman said the
plane crashed i00 yards short of the runway during
a heavy rain squall Thursday. Samuel Goldwyn, 91,
pioneer independent producer of American fiSma
and one of the men who found - founded the motion-
picture industry in the 1920's, died on Thursday.
One of the high points in his career came in '47
when his film "The Best Year Of Our Lives" won the
Acade_ry Award as best picture. His last film was
"Porgy and Bess" in 1959. A strong earthquake
jolted Izmir, the port city in Western Turkey,
early today, killing at least two persons, the
Anatolia News Agency reported. Kandilli Observa-
tory in Istanbul said the quake measured 5.2 on
the Richter Scale and was centered about 245 miles
southwest of Istanbul.

032 12 07 55 CC We're a minute from LOS and about 5 minutes to

Bermuda. The national health insurance plan being
readied by the a_m_uistration would guarantee that
no one would pay more than $1,500 a year in medical
expenses, according to an initial estimate. For
this protection, a single wage earner would pay a
monthly premium of $6.56. For most workers with
a f_m_ly, the premium might be $19.52 a month.
The administration still is putting finishing
touches on the proposals for introduction in Con-
gress on Tuesday. President Nixon sends - sends
his annual economic report to Congress today,
2 days after vowing in his State of the Union
speech there would be no recession in the United
States. The economic message will spell out details
of his economic policies that were not provided in
the speech to Congress and a nationwide radio and
television audience.

CC And we'll pick up the rest at Bermuda.

032 12 09 01 CDR Okay.

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032 12 13 27 CC Skylab, back with you through Bermuda for 8

minutes. And, Ed, at your convenience, we need
a REG BUS ADJUST.

PLT Go ahead, Story.

CC Okay, Bill. BUS l, 40 degrees clockwise; BUS 2,

35 degrees clockwise.

CC And we need the DAS for dump inhibit.

PLT You've got it. How about taking a look at those

buses?

CC We 're looking.

CC Skylab, the REG ADJUST looks real good. And could

you tell us if you got that recorder ALC bypass
cable out last night?

PLT That's affirmative.

CC Thanks, Bill.

032 12 15 ll CC The Egyptian Government has allocated $87.5 million

for restoration of the Suez Canal and the
war-ravaged towns along the waterway. The
cabine_ voted $50 million Thursday for
reconstruction of the towns. The remaining
$37-1/2 million will be used for removal from the
canal of about l0 vessels sunk during the 1967
Arab-Israeli war and the silt that has accumulated
in the 6-1/2 years that the waterway has been
closed. Several finns, including Murphy Pacific
Marine Salvage of San Francisco and New York, are
bidding for the contract to clear the obstruction
to Navigation. More than half the proposed
$87-billion defense budget President Nixon is
sending Congress will go to finance a smaller but
increasingly well-paid volunteer military.
• Despite plans for continuing cuts in the size of
U. S. military forces, the $47-1/2 billion in
salary, military, retirement, housing, and other
personnel costs represent about the same share of
defense spending as in the current budget.
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032 12 16 13 CC Farm prices, led by big gains for wmea_ and meat
animals, Jumped 9 percent in the month ending
January 15 and averaged 39 percent above a year
earlier, the Agriculture Department says. The
increase pushed the department's index of prices
farmers receive for raw products to 200 percent
of the 1967 base used for comparison, the
department said Thursday. That was only 7 points
below the record set last August. Los Angeles:
Richard Epstein asks you, please, for the sake of
your health and his pocketbook, to beat your wife
and children. Epstein, owner of a mail order
company called Uniquity, sells "aggression
release equipment." Clients attack each other
with Epstein's foam clubs, called batacas. They
tear apart his "encounter dolls," made to represent
parents or employers. "A lot of growth cames from
this," said Epstein, a mild, slender, 36-year-old
with a black beard and curly hair. "Psychologists
have always encouraged their clients to vent what
they feel." Epstein's four-foot people-substitute
dolls are made of foam and are suitable for
annihilation. Photographs of faces can be
attached to the figures. And that's all I've got
for you this morning, Skylab.

PLT Thank
you,Story.

032 12 21 14 CC Skylab, we're a minute to LOS and 2 minutes to

Canaries.

032 12 23 47 CC Skylab, we're back with you through Canaries

and Ascension for 16 minutes.

CDR Houston, CDR.

032 12 31 02 CC Go ahead, Jer.

CDR Roger, Story. I'm looking at the EVA Checklist

changes here, and I see they've got a EVA Nikon
for us, and they want us to change the long relief
- long eye-relief viewfinder here out with an
EVA glove. And I think the difficulty in that
task is about the same as changing the film
outside. I think it might be better if we don't
put a photnm_c head on that EVA Nikon at all.
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If it's got a 35-millimeter lens, it's got a

nice wide field of view. I think we ought to put
the - Just a flat plate on the top of it and sight
through it that way.

CDR Or, I should say sight over it.

CC Jer, we've got some time in the Flight Plan for

you tomorrow to play with that gear. And
whichever you think is the best way for you to
get the pose, that's fine.

032 12 32 26 CDR Well, right now, Bill and I think that the task
is - is nearly impossible. And that - that's
pretty hard work, I think. And it's EVA time
wasted fiddling around with a camera when you
could have the camera all ready to go and take
it out that way.

CC Okay.

PLT Story, I started to take that long eye-relief on

that first EVA when I had that problem with the
shutter speed control. And I took a look at it,
and I decided that that was not a viable
operation EVA, with EVA gloves.

CC CoPy, Bill.

032 12 38 0_ CC Skylab, we're a minute and a half to LOS. We're

about 25 minutes to Carnarvon at 13:05. And, Ed,
your maneuver is looking good. If you get into any
problem, it'll occur probably at the end of the
maneuver. So as you are doing there, monitor
your gimbal angles and your attitude error. If
your gimbals get on a stop and you get out of -
out of attitude, Just enable the outer gimbal
drive logic. And I've got that procedure, if you
don't have it handy there.

SPT Why don't you go ahead and give it to me, Story,

Just to make sure we're talking about the same
thing.

CC Okay. Load a 6-minute maneuver time. You can

put a fine maneuver in with - with all balls
X, Y, and Z all zips. Then go to STANDBY. Then go
to ATT HOLD, CMG. And then hit ENTER, and that'll
enable your outer gimbal drive logic.
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032 12 39 0_ SPT Okay. Thankyou, Story.

CC And, Ed, I've got a possible change in the final

attitude for you to expect on that step 7-A.

S_ Okay. Is it in Z?

CC It's in X, Y, and Z, if you initialize the

strapdown when centered on Canopus. The attitude
you've got there is if you don't initialize the
strapdowns when you've got Canopus. And you ready
to copy?

SPT Yes. Tell me which block. You're talk - you're

t_]_ing 7?

032 12 39 57 CC Step 7"A, the final attitude to expect.

032 13 05 17 CC Skylab, Houston. Good morning from the purple

gang at Carnarvon and Honeysuckle for the next 7
or 8 minutes.

CDR Morning, purp.

CC Morning, paper pusher. Understand you got a good

bit of pencils and paper and scissors going up
there.

CDR You better believe it. I hope I don't hurt myself.

CC Me too. And SPT, Houston. When you get a chance,

I can read up to you the information that Story
was trying to get up to you when we had the LOS
at the last site.

SPT Okay. Just hold on a minute, Dick. I'd like to

get straightened aw_V. I'm Just maneuvering
Canopus in so I can get the - the maneuver going.

CC Okay. This has to do with your final attitude

caming out of Canopus. So when you get a chance,
give me a holler.

032 13 06 12 SPT Will do.

CC SPT, Houston. We notice the VTR's still running.

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SPT Yes, th_nk's, Dick. I got absorbed in

maneuvering Canopus around.

CC Roger.

032 13 l0 18 CC Skylab, Houston. We're handed over from Carnarvon

to Honeysuckle. We've still got you for 3-1/2
minutes.

032 13 12 hO CC Skylab, Houston. We're a minute to LOS. H_waii

comes up at 13:29. Ed, we see you have them
maneuver time loaded. If you'd like the correct
final attitude to expect after this maneuver, I
have it for you.

SPT Go ahead, Dick.

CC 0- Okay. X, 350.94; Y, 344.00; Z, 355.39.

SPT Thank you.

032 13 13 13 CC Roger.

032 13 28 56 CC Skylab, Houston. Hawaii for 5 minutes.

__ SPT Hello, Dick. We were running a little behind

schedule there. Coming over to - from Canopus to
G_mma vel, I saved a little time, I believe, by -
saw Gamma vel coming in the corner down at - from
the minus Y, minus-X quadrant. So, rather than
let it go all the w_y to center, I Just went
ATT HOLD at that point and then made a maneuver
into center, then initialized the strapdown once
we got there within a ... 0.03 of a compensation
for 55 offset from WLC in that maneuver. So the
things will look a little different on the ground
when you look it over, but that's the reason.
Right now we're taking data we got going at 27
after, which is considerably after we wanted to
get going.

032 13 30 06 SPT And I wondered whether that time of 13:3h could be

extended at all?

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032 13 30 11 CC Okay, I'll check, Ed. We have been noticing you

were a little bit behind, but didn't want to bug
you because we figured you knew Just what you were
doing. And we'll check on the time real quick;
hang on.

SPT Okay. Took a lot longer to get Canopus located

and - and squared away than I had anticipated.

CC Okay; standby.

032 13 32 49 CC SPT, Houston. We're still talking about this

maneuver time. We'll get right back to you within
the next 30 seconds.

SPT Thank you.

032 13 33 16 CC SPT, Houston. G-mm_ Vel sets at 13:38. It's okay

with us if you delay the maneuver no later than
that time. Be advised our momentum studies did
not take into account maneuvering late, so we'd
like you not to use any more of that extra 4 min-
utes than you need, but you're GO to use it all
if you think so.

SPT Okay, I'd like to try and get as long as - exposures

as possible. That's the name of the ballgame we're
after here, and I ought to try to get the best data
_ can.

032 13 33 45 CC Roger, Ed; Understand. We're about a minute from

LOS, and Goldstone is 7 minutes away. I'll call
you there.

SPT Thank you.

CC And, SPT, Houston. Just a reminder, when you're

coming out, don't forget to enter the maneuver time
correctly.

SPT It's in there now. How's it look?

032 13 34 32 CC Okay, you were doing it as I was saying it. Looks

good to us. Th_n_ you, Ed.
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032 13 _l 08 CC Skylab, Houston. Goldstone for 5-1/2 minutes.

SPT Okay, Dick, after all that maneuvering around we

finally got pointed at Gamma Vel, but the exposure
times were a little shorter than we were after.
Maybe it'll show up, though. Sure hope so.

CC Roger, Ed. Thanks for trying for us; and we appre-

ciate it. We're looking forward to seeing if it
shows up also.

CC SPT, Houston. We'd like to get the shutter closed

on S056.

CC And, Skylab, Houston. Upcoming laser opportunity

at 13:52 has had to be - be scrubbed for weather.

SPT Roger, Dick.

032 13 _5 51 CC Skylab, Houston. We're a minute from LOS. We're

going to drop out a couple of minutes between
Goldstone and MILA. See you there.

SPT So long, Dick.

032 13 46 09 CC Bye.

032 13 50 04 CC Skylab, Houston. AOS again; stateside for

ii minutes.

CDR Roger, Dick.

SPT From this standpoint, Dick, gimbals and rates are

all - all look good.

CC SPT, Houston. I guess we must have dropped out

in the first part. We did hear your last comment
about the gimbals and rates looking good. I didn't
catch what preceded it.

SPT That 's essentially it, Dick.

CC Okay. Thank you.

CC And, Skylab, Houston. Even though we're not back

in SOLAR INERTIAL, we would like to go ahead and
get the BEG BUS ADJUST done.
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SPT Okay,Dick. What wouldyou like?

CC Okay, on BUS I, we'd like 45 degrees counterclock-

wise, on BUS 2, 40, 40 degrees counterclockwise.
Those are different than the numbers we originally
put in awhile ago.

032 13 52 29 SPT They're adjusted, Dick.

CC Thank you, Ed. We'll take a look when we get a

chance. It'll take awhile.

SPT We really didn't have any problems with gimbals

on a stop except once - -

CC Roger.

SPT Just moved up one maneuver as I was trying to

maneuver Casopus around, but no real problem.

CC 0kay, Ed. Thank you.

SPT You can also tell AI Holt I got a couple of changes

in the J0P 18D S_-,mary Sheets.

CC (Laughter) Okay. I'ii pass it on.

CC SPT, Houston. Thanks for adjusting the REGs for

us. First look at them by EGIL says - looks okay.
And we're not going to need any more tweaking; so
appreciate it.

SPT Thank you, Dick.

032 13 59 57 CC Skylab, Houston. We're a minute to LOS. Ascension

comes up at 14:09, and we're going to dump the
data/voice recorder at Ascension. See you there.

032 14 09 46 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Ascension for 7 minutes.

We're dumping the data/voice recorder here.

032 14 i4 19 CC Skylab, Houston. Sometime this morning prior to

the EREP we're going to need to reenable the RCS
QUADS Alfa and Delta HEATERS. I have the switches
that we need thrown. And it needs to be done some-
time in the next rev. If I could read them up,
and you guys could Just report that you've done
them, I'd appreciate it.
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SPT Go ahead, Dick.

CC Okay. Here's what we need done. All - all of this

is on panel 5. SM RCS heaters, QUAD A switch to
PRIMARY. Then SM RCS HEATERS ENGINE PACKAGE,
QUAD A switch to 1. Same thing on - Okay, then
I'll Just go down: SM RCS HFATERS QUAD Delta to
PRIMARY. SM RCS HEATERS ENGINE PACKAGE QUAD Delta
to 1.

CC And while you're up there, we'd also like to re-

enable the CAUTION and WARNING INPUTS on panel 201
for Bravo 5 and Delta 6.

SPT Okay, Dick. Understand on panel 5: SM QUAD

HEATERS A to PRIM - to PRIM ENGINE PACKAGE HEATERS
to 1 for A and the same for Delta and enable
Bravo 5 and Delta 6.

CC That's correct, Ed. And it can be done any time

in the next rev. And if you'd let us know when
you've accomplished it, we'd appreciate it. We're
about 45 seconds from LOS. Carnarvon comes up at
14 :40.

SPT So long, Dick.

CC See you there.

032 14 16 24 CDR Dick, I Just finished up the changes on the EVA

Checklist and the cue cards. It took exactly
2 hours, and I'll probably need at least the same
time to do the Deactivation Checklist.

032 lh 16 38 CC Roger, Jer. We've been sitting down here talking

about how much time you might need, and we wanted
to get that input before we decided if we needed
to do anything different. In this afternoon and
tomorrow's Flight Plan, we will get you the time.

032 lh h0 32 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Carnarvon for

i0 minutes.

CC And, SPT - And, SPT, Houston. For your information,

we're going to press on with our unattended command
plan on the ATM.
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SPT Okay, Dick. That's what I'm powered down to is

unattended.

CC Yes. We Just wanted to let you know what we were

doing. We figured you were still there, possibly
debriefing.

CC And, CDR, Houston. Jerry, it's not imortant that

we do it now, but when you get off the bike or
whatever you're doing and have a chance to talk
to me, we can talk about the time required and
what we have planned in the way of giving you some
time tomorrow on getting the checklists up to date.
And we'd like to find out if you think it either
is or is not adequate. Because if it isn't, we're
going to have to do something else.

CDR Okay, Dick.

CC Jerry, was that okay. You want to listen now; or

okay, we'll talk later?

CDR I'ii call you a little later.

CC Okay. That'll be Just fine. No problem.

032 14 47 08 CDR Okay, Dick. Go ahead if we've still got enough

t ime.

CC Yes, Jer. We sure do. We got 3 minutes here at

Carnarvon. I 'm sorry you don't have it in your
hand to look at, but let me tell you Just a little
bit about the way tomorrow's Flight Plan is shaping
up. In the morning you're going to be doing com-
mand module entry checks and you'll be working
with Crip on VHF then, and I'ii be working the
other air-to-ground on S-band like we've done on
previous checks, earlier missions. In the morning
we have about - oh, an hour and a half for the
PLT and about 2 hours for the SPT that's going
to be available for them to be able to work on the
checklists. Also, in the evening, we have - and
this is prior to the entire block of time for the
EVA pre-prep, we have about an hour and 45 minutes
for you, which is presently listed, "Entry Check-
list review." However, since y'all spent some
time in the command module yesterday, we didn't
know whether or not you'd want to do that for a
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checklist review or just work on updating the

changes. At any rate, in the afternoon, we have
an hour and 45 minutes for you. And also, at the
same time, an hour and h5 minutes for Bill. So
there is a good block of time tomorrow that is not
identified as anything except catching up on your
paperwork and any kind of regrouping you want to
do. We don't have any way in today's Flight Plan
that we can give you any more time without doing
something like canceling the 201 ops this after-
noon or something else drastic like that. And
since it's the last opportunity to get that exper -
experiment, we sure don't want to do it unless we
have to. But - So I guess my question to you is,
does this sound like a reasonable block of time
or not?

032 lh 49 01 CDR Dick, it sounds reasonable. However, sometime

after tomorrow, I think we do need another 1 or
l-1/2-hour block of time to do a checklist review
in the command module again.

CC Okay. We'll - -

CDR I was quite amazed yesterday to find out how rusty

we were around those comms/Id module switches and
everything, and another session would be very good.

CC Okay, Jerry. Well with that input, I think what

we'll undoubtedly do is go with today's Flight
Plan as it is. Give you all the times that I
listed on tomorrow's Flight Plan on checking on the
paperwork, and we'll check with you again tomorrow
afternoon to see how - how you ended up doing and
give you the necessary time after that.

CDH Okay. That sounds pretty good, Dick.

032 14 49 48 CC Okay, Jerry. Thank you very much for listening.

We're about 30 seconds from LOS. Guam comes up
in about 3 minutes, and I'll call you there.

032 14 49 57 CDR Okay.

(Music)

032 14 53 18 CC Skylab, Houston. Guam for i0 minutes.

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032 i_ 54 41 CC Skylab, Houston. We'd like to take the _ for a

little while here to be able to dmap it on this
next stateside pass and then we'll be able to give
it back to you.

SPT Roger, Dick. You have it.

CC Thank you much.

032 14 5'5 47 CC PLT, Houston, when you get an opportunity.

PLT Go, Dick.

CC Bill, on this upcoming EREP pass, we - the weath-

er's - that I haven't given you yet, but I'll
brief - brief you on later, is looking real good,
particularly in the area of the Falk - Falkland
Currents; and that makes us want to get some extra
S190 data as we come out of - of Z-LV and back
toward SOLAR INERTIAL, which is going to require
some pad changes. And they're all on your pads -
on the C&D pad. There are several additions at
the tail end of it. I 'm not sure whether you can
write them in at the end or we'll need an extra
piece of paper. But sometime in the next few
passes when you have your EREP C_D pad in front of
you, I'd like to give them to you.

PLT Okay, Dick. You can go.

032 14 56 5_ CC Okay. You know, right at the tail end of the pad,
Bill, at a time of 17 minutes, Just prior to the
entry where it says, 17:17, CDR, start SI maneuver,
I want to enter several items there for you - for
you to continue to do even though Jerry goes ahead
and starts the SI maneuver. So after SI - correc-
tion, after S190 MODE to STANI_Y, write down the
following item: S190 FRAMES to 99; then TAPE
RECORDER POWER, OFF; S190 MODE, AUTO ; EREP, START.
Then enter at a time - all of those are still at
the time of 17:17. Then enter at a time of
17:28:00, EREP, STOP_ S190 MODE, STANDBY; Tape
recap - correction, TAPE RECORDER POWER, ON. Over.

PLT Okay, Dick, the way l've got it is, at 17 minutes

after the entry: S190 MODE to STANDBY, I enter at
- still at 17:17, S190 FRAME 99; TAPE RECORDER
POWER, OFF, S190 MODE, AUTO; EREP, START. And I
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do that Just in serial sequence. And then at _

17:28:00 EREP, STOP; S190 MODE, STANDBY; TAPE
RECORDER POWER, 0N.

CC That's correct. And we - This does not delete the

maneuver start at 17:17. A couple of other minor
corrections. This will also, on your EREP cal
VTS pad, the prep time will be moved later to 17:B0.
But what it really means is you'll Just have a
little more of a hustle in getting off the C_D
and over to the _TS. I have one remark that I 'd
like to add to the top of the C_D pad, and this
has nothing to do with this change that we Just
ta]ked about. But we'd like to leave the - we'd
like to add in the prep remarks, leave TAPE
RECORDER POWER, OFF until READY verification to
save us some tape. Over.

PLT Roger. Leave TAPE RECORDER POWER, OFF until READY

verification.

032 14 59 50 cC Okay, Bill; you got it. Appreciate it. Thank you
very much.

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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

032 15 02 41 CC Sk-ylab, Houston; a minute to LOS. Goldstone at

15:19. See you there.

032 15 18 56 CC Skylah, Houston. Hello, stateside for 17 minutes.

PLT Hi, Dick.

CC And, Skylab, Houston. If somebody gets an oppor-

tunity would you give me a holler? I'd like to
get a REGAIATI_T again for the pre-EREP.

PLT Be right with you, Dick.

CC Okay.

SPT Dick, we got the RCS heaters and the CAUTION and
WARNING.

CC Okay, Ed; thank you very much. We thought you did;

we thought we saw some responses on the temps. I
was going to ask you about it.

PLT Okay, Dick, give me the REG ADJUSTS.

032 15 20 15 CC Okay. Be sure and mark the position because we're

going to come back to it. We want both pots 35 de-
grees, that's 35 degrees, clockwise.

PLT Okay, take a look.

CC Okay, Bill, we'll sure do it. That must be the

world's grubbiest little instrument out there, with
all the pencil marks you must have put on and erased.

PLT We've long since erased through the paint.

CC (Chuckle) Roger.

032 15 22 02 PLT Dick, I'm standing by up here if you need another

correction to that.

CC Okay, Bill. It's going to take us Just a little

bit here to decide if we're satisfied, but I'll
give you a holler as soon as we know.
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PLT Okay.

CC PLT, Houston. On REG l, we'd like you to crank it

about 5 more degrees clockwise, please.

PLT That's complete.

CC Thank you, Bill.

CC Thank you very much, Bill. The - the REG ADJUST

looks good. Appreciate it.

CC Skylab, Houston. In about 30 seconds we're going

to hand over from Goldstone to MILA,'and when we
get to MILAwe're going to dump the data/voice
recorder.

032 15 25 14 PLT Roger, Dick.

032 15 25 56 CC Skylab, Houston; we've handed over. We're dumping

the data/voice recorder. And we see the maneuver
time; looks good to us. We still got about lO
minutes here at MILA. Standing by.

032 15 34 54 CC Skylab, Houston; we're 1 minute from LOS. Car-

narvon comes up at 16:19. We're going to dump
the data/voice recorder again at Carnarvon to get
it all cleaned off in preparation for the upcoming
EREP activities. We've looked at the maneuver time
and it looks real good, and looks like we're GO
for the last EREP.

PLT Roger, Dick.

032 15 35 16 CC Roger; and I've got the EREP weather for you. I'll
give it to you either at Carnarvon or Guam, which-
ever one of - you're in a - best opportunity to
listen. I'll see you at Carnarvon.

032 16 18 39 CC Skylab, Houston. We're at Carnarvon for 6 minutes.

And, Skylab, Houston; we're going to dump the data/
voice recorder at Carnarvon.

CDR Roger, Dick.

CC Skylab, I have two things. One is EREP weather

briefing any time you want it; also I have a change
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r
to the - for - for Ed for the ZV - correction,
Z-LV maneuver cal pad. I realize he's doing PT,
but any one of these passes as we're coming up,
I can give him that change.

SPT Okay, Dick, I got the pad; go ahead.

032 16 19 42 CC Okay, Ed. It's a change in the maneuver due to a -

an up@ate on nu Z that we have that will not be
changing again because we're not going to do any
dumps between here and there. It's on the cal
mR ueuver pad, and it's cal maneuver number l; I
have new values of X, Y, and Z.

SPT Go ahead.

CC Okay, X DAS code of 5010_, and that's a maneuver

of plus 68.0 degrees. Y is a DAS code of 51101,
for a value of minus 65.0 degrees. And Z is a
value of 50022, plus 18.0 degrees.

SPT Dick, I copy 5010_, 51101, 50022 for plus 68.0,

minus 65.0, and plus 18.0.

CC Roger, Ed; thank you very much.

J

SPT Thank you.

CDR Dick, we're ready for the weather.

032 16 20 59 CC Okay, Jerry; looks like your last EREP pass is

really going to be a good one. The weather looks
very good. As you cross the coast of California
there is going to be some heavy clouds Just for a
short time after you cross the coast, 8/10 to 10/10
coverage; then it's going to get a lot better.
Our night forecast was about 4/10 to 7.10 until
you get down to Nevada in the Red Lake VTS site
area. However, today it looks like it may even
get better than that, and it might be zero to 3
all the way down across the rest of the United
States. At any rate, by the time you get into the
Arizona/New Mexico area it will clear up to clear
skies or very scattered conditions, and it'll stay
that way down across Mexico. As you cross the -
over into the Gulf there Just for a very short time,
there are some rpmnants of a frontal system there
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that are going to cause some clouds, but it'll -

should clear up again to zero to 3/10 coverage
over the volcano sites in Central America. Then
South America is going to be pretty much clobbered.
It's going to be broken to overcast down there
except for an area in Paraquay which is quite
clear. Also, as you cross - as - as you leave
the South American Continent and go out into the
South Atlantic, the weather predicted around the
Falkland Currents is supposed to be real good.
It's - we hope it's clear down there. So it looks
like a real good EREP pass coming up.

OB2 16 22 32 CDR Okay, Dick. One question, and that's on the site
Red Lake. You know, we got that on the last pass
we went through here before our attitude went
bananas. Do they really want that to be the prime
target this time, too?

CC Stand by.

CC Skylab, Houston; we're about 45 seconds from LOS.

I'll give you a call at Guam at 16:BB. And, Jerry,
I'll have an answer for you on Red Lake there
at - when we get to Guam.

032162414 CDR Okay.

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SKYLABAIR-T0-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

032 16 33 56 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Guam for 4 minutes.

And, Jerry, Houston. We would like to go with
the _TS pad as it's written there. We were - the
EREPhackroomw_s aware that we got Red Lake prior
to this. However, the priority of that one com-
pared to Lake Mead makes us want to get rep -
rep - repetitive sites on it. So we'd like you
to try to get Red Lake. If - if it is clobbered,
try to get Lake Mead, in that - in that order.

CDR Okay. Will do it.

CC Okay, Jerry.

PLT This is the PLT. I have the status report on S190.

032 16 35 04 CC PLT, Houston. Okay. But that was a very - you

had a lot of background noise in that transmission,
but I'm standing by to listen.

PLT Okay. Roger. When I checked out S190, the -

I got a - MALF lights on 4, 5, and 6. I tried
the technique on the cue card. I hit a i SINGLE
and I got the MALF lights again, then went over
and cycled the number i S190 circuit breaker
on panel 202, tried it again, and I got the MALF
lights again. Took the cameras 4, 5 and 6 off,
marked them, tried again. It's moving - all three
of them are moving film. So l'm ass,,m_ng they're
working all right.

032 16 36 03 CC Roger, Bill. Thank you very much for the update,
and we'll talk about it. If we want to change
your procedures for the pass, I'ii get back to
you here, right here at Guam.

PLT Okay. And Dick, one other thing, and that's the -
the transition over to this S191 cal. Do we go
ahead and do a nor-_l EREP C&D post before I
do the S191 cal, which follows after the eat
period, or do I leave the panel partially
configured?

CC I'ii get you an answer, Bill.

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032 16 37 28 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 20 seconds from LOS.

Goldstone at 16:55.

CC And, Bill, we think the problem you just reported

on 190 is probably associated with the new loaded
mags we did. And - and it looks like we are GO
and should get good data here on this pass. So
we're happy.

PLT Okay.

032 16 38 43 CDR How's the *** Dick?

032 16 55 12 PLT Okay, Ed, ETC POWER, ON in about 1 minute, coming

up at fif- 56.

032 16 55 19 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS stateside for

15 minutes.

CDR Roger, Dick.

PLT Standing by for 56:43 for 190.

032 16 56 25 PLT Okay, ETC POWER is ON. At 57, ETC will be going
to AUTO.

CC Okay.

PLT Stand by -

032 16 56 44 PLT MARK. 190 MODE, AUTO. 15 seconds for ETC to

AUTO. Okay, there goes the three MALF lights.

CDR You can hear them clunking though. Clouds are

breaking up right now. Another minute to go
on this nadir swath. Cutting a wide swath
through the North Pacific.

PLT Not too wide though.

CDR 60 miles?

PLT No, I don't know - well, with - 191 there's

pretty - pretty narrow.

CDR Yes, I guess it is.

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r PLT Standing by for 58. Stand by -

CDR Okay, cloud cover - -

032 16 58 00 PLT MARK. SCAT, OFF.

CDR Coastal clouds.

032 16 58 03 PLT MAPX. RAD, OFF. 193 MDDE, CROSSTRACK CONTI_JOUS.

POLARIZATION to i.

CDR Swath is finished. I 'm sweeping out ahead,

and we're breaking out. Very good. Looks good
out ahead of us.

PLT Okay. 58:30, 192 MODE going to READY. And I'll

turn it off at 59:36 - Go to CHECK, rather.

032 16 58 31 PLT MARK. MODE to READY. Okay, at 58:36 - stand by -

032 16 58 36 PLT MARK. SCAT, ON and RAD, ON.

CDR Looking for Red Lake at 59:32.

PLT ETC will be going to STANDBY at 59:26.

CDR And here comes Lake Mead into view.

CDR Just like advertised. Okay, I'm going to slip

in a little lower Eldorado Valley data here.

PLT Stand by -

032 16 59 27 PLT MARK. ETC, STANDBY ...

032 16 59 33 PLT MARK. READY out on the 190. Waiting for 59:36.
I'm going to CHECK on 192.

CDR Okay. I'm going - I - -

032 16 59 43 PLT S190 MODE to STANDBY; SHUTTER SPEED to MEDIUM;

FRAMES to 99.

CDR - - getting Lower Eldorado Valley data to

30 degrees, and then I'll whip up to Red Lake.

CDR We're on Red Lake, zooming in.

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PLT Okay. 17:00:23, 190 MODE going AUTO.

CDR And taking data at 25 degrees.

PLT Stand by -

032 17 00 24 PLT MARK. 190 MODE to AUTO. And at 30, Ed, ETC to
AUTO.

032 17 00 30 PLT MARK. ETC to AUTO.

CDR Okay. Kathrine Playa is next at 01:02. All right,

that's the end of that.

PLT 01:05 coming up next. Stand by -

032 17 01 06 PLT MARK. SCAT to STANDBY. 01:07, RAD to STANDBY.

193 ANGLE R, plus 30.

CDR ... it's really bad ... Yes.

PLT Going for 20. Stand by -

032 17 01 21 PLT MARK. SCAT, ON and RAD, ON.

032 17 O1 32 CDR And DATA. Started DATA at 28 degrees.

CC Skylab, Houston. There's a potential we might

get a glmbal on a stop here and get an outer
gim - gimbal drive logic initiated. No action
required by you; just letting you know.

032 17 02 00 PLT MARK. REFERENCE to 2.

CDR Okay. Thank you.

PLT Roger.

CDR Just so it doesn't do what it did last time.

CC Roger that.

CDR Little bit of water in Kathrine Playa. Okay,

DATA pushbutton off.

PLT Standing by for 02 :50.

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032 17 02 51 PLT MARK. POLARIZATION to 4 on 193. And I need a

VTS AUTO CAL in about 5 seconds, Jer.

CDR Okay.

PLT And on my -

032 17 03 01 PLT MARK.

CDR You got it.

PLT VTS AUTO CAL. Sorry I didn't give you more

warning on that.

CDR Oh, that 's okay.

PLT 03:30, I want - okay, I'm waiting for 03:30.

CDR Okay, volcanoes, you better be there this time.

Okay. We got the lower Eldorado Valley first,
then Red Lake, and then Kathrine Playa. We're
in good shape.

032 17 03 31 PLT MARK. 03:30, S190 ALTIMETER to STANDBY.

CC And, PLT, Houston. While we got about a minute

here before your next switch, we have rechecked
all the pads. There is a partial powerdown at
that point you mentioned. But we went through
all the pads, and you Just follow the pads them-
selves today. The powerdown should go real good.

PLT Okay.

PLT I guess you had that on your pad, Jer.

CDR What's that?

PLT You - you pick up - I pick up the ca - the

lunar cal, and you come over and get on the C&D,
right ?

CDR Yes, that's right.

PLT Oh, it's got to be on yours, then. That's

probably what it is.
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CDR What's
onmine?

PLT The partial powerdown. I got a special EREP VTS

CAL I come up and do later on; that's after
eating.

CDR Oh, yes. There's a special procedure at the

end of my -

PLT Standing by for 04:45.

CDR Okay. We're coming up on Tampico. There it is.

032 17 Oh 46 PLT MARK. SCAT, STANDBY.

032 17 Oh 48 PLT MARK. RAD, STANDBY. CROSSTRACK NONCONTIGUOUS,

LE_T or L. POLARIZATION to 5.

CDR Little DAC film on Tsmpico.

PLT Standing by for 05:05.

032 17 05 05 PLT MARK. SCAT, ON.

032 17 05 07 PLT MARK. RAD, ON. Waiting for 05:hO, 191 READY.

CDR Okay, I 'm taking some DAC film of Sun glitter

and coastal blooming right along the coast of
Mexico here.

PLT Hmm. I don't have a READY light. 05:40, I'm

supposed to get a 191 READY on.

CDR Okay, we got all broken to overcast right around

this part of Mexico.

032 17 06 04 PLT Okay, Dick, I did not get the 191 READY light on
at 05:h0. And my question is, do I go ahead and
select REFERENCE, 6?

CC Stand by.

CDR Okay, we're coming up on that long slender lake.

CC PLT, Houston. Go ahead to REF, 6. Give us a

mark, please.
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•_ PLT Roger.

032 17 06 32 PLT MARK. REFERENCE, 6; 06:32.

CDR Okay.

PLT Still don't have the 191 READY on.

CC Roger.

PLT The first time we've ever bombed out on that one.

CDR Which one was that?

PLT 191 HEADY light.

CDR Oh.

PLT Stand by for 7 minutes.

032 17 07 00 PLT MARK. SCAT, STANDBY.

032 17 07 03 PLT MARK. RAD, STANDBY, and then RAD to OFF. Okay,
they're coming up on a big ALTIMETER check here.
Stand by -

032 17 07 21 PLT MARK. ALTIMETERs are ON. I do have a READY

light. Stand -waiting for 08:15.

CDR Okay, I am in the area of Santiaguito, but I don't

see it especially.

CDR Go ahead and take a little data here.

032 17 07 50 PLT Have an ALTIMETER UNLOCK, but I still have the

READY light.

CDR Okay, now I'm going to try to go for - -

PLT Just lost it. Okay, going to STANDBY on the

ALTIMETER, and that was at 56.

CDR There's my little lake, and Just beyond the lake

is Acat enango.

PLT Waiting for 09.

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032 17 08 i0 PLT MARK. ALTIMETER back ON. Waiting for 08:15.

CDR Now we got clouds over Acatenango.

PLT Stand by -

032 17 08 16 PLT MARK. 192 MODE to READY.

CDR Got it. Acatenango. Oh, yes, that's a beauty.

All sorts of lava all down the flanks. All right
now, going for Fuego. Fuego is also a beauty.
Okay, looking for Pacaya now. That's a little
tougher.

PLT Stand by -

032 17 09 O0 PLT MARK. 9 minutes, 192 MODE to CHECK.

CDR Okay, I've got that done.

PLT And the ALTIMETER UNLOCK - READY light went out

again. I'm going to STANDBY, and I'll leave it
in STANDBY. I'm going to MODE, 5; FRAME, 72.

CDR Okay, I got two out of four of them for sure.

PLT That's good.

CC Hey, that sounds great. We're 45 seconds from

LOS ; Vanguard at 17:20.

PLT Stand by for 09:40.

032 17 09 h0 PLT MARK. ALTIMETER, ON at 9 plus 40.

CDR There's some - -

PLT Just got an ALTIMETER UNLOCK light ; that was at

09 :58.

CDR Bay of Fonseca.

PLT Still have a READY light.

PLT Okay, at 10:18, I should've finished m_

190 sequence.
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032 17 i0 20 PLT There we go. Okay, I was 2 seconds late. MODE

to STANDBY, FRAME to 63, and I don't change the
INTERVAL; it's still 6. Okay, 10:36. Stand by -

032 17 i0 37 PLT MARK.

032 17 19 37 PLT Is it pretty cloudy all over down there?

CDR Well, it's - it's going to scattered now, but -

scattered to broken. But it's - it's been cloudy
the whole way.

PLT That 's too bad.

032 17 19 49 CC Skylab, Houston. Vanguard for i0 minutes.

CDR Hi, Dick. We're on our back to SI.

CC Roger, Jer. Looks like - sounded like that

was a pretty good pass over the States there.
I was - wanted to ask Bill one question, and
that was, I heard him mention that he got a red -
READY light after he reported the 191 READY light
did not come on. But I didn't know whether that
was ALTIMETER or 191. Did he ever see the 191
READY light again?

PLT Negative.

CDR No, I don't have one over here, either.

CC Okay. Thank you _ch.

032 17 20 32 CDR When did we do that AUTO CAL?

PLT At 3 minutes past.

CDR Oh, shoot! I'Ii bet our 191 data that I took on
those volcanoes isn't any good if we didn't get
a READY light.

PLT I don't know. I - that's why I was making the

comment to ground.

CDR Yes.
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PLT They wanted me to go ahead and go to REFERENCE, 6.

I had - I configured the switches and everything
for nominal. If it's an indication error, then
we're - we're in business. If it's, in fact,
equipment problem, you - you're right.

CDR That's a shame.

CDR Darn volcanoes aren't clear that often.

CDR Yes, Dick. The hunting was real good over the
U.S.

032 17 21 25 CC Roger that. And we concur with your comments

about whether it was an indication or a hardware
problem. We're thinking about it still.

CDR You want us to cycle the power on that or

something?

CC Not right now, Jerry.

CDR I don't - -

CC We're still talking.

CDR Okay.

PLT Also, just for comment, that 193 was also acting
up pretty much today. And I was having to cycle
from ON to STANDBY quite a few times there.

CC Okay.

032 17 22 00 CDR Okay. I've got Montevideo on the screen here,

and oh boy, the Rio Paran_ is really pouring out
lots of red silt. And the old Atlantic Ocean
just isn't - well, it's accepting it, but boy,
that - th - there's a very sharp line of demarca-
tion between the red silt and the Rio Parang, there
in the Rio de la Plata Bay and the blue of the
ocean.

CC Roger, Jer.

CDR Wonder if that silt's just being forced way down

deep, going on out on the bottom?
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PLT It hasa sortof a -

CDR It looks like a meniscus.

PLT Yes.

CDR On a narrow, you know, a narrow-necked straw or

something, on a pipette?

PLT Yes.

CDR Only it's inverted. And it's - The bay Just

has got this meniscus.

032 17 22 54 CDR Okay. We're coming up on the coastline now.

Let's see if we can see a little bit of South
Equaterial - Equatorial Current blooming.

PLT You looking for the Falkland now?

CDR Yes. We're a little far north of Montevideo to

see the Falkland. I think we'll be lucky if we
see any of the confluence of the two. Okay.
What bank is that? Is that the IR bank or the
visible bank?

PLT I think it's the IR; 4, 5 and 6.

032 17 23 28 CDR Right here is where we could use the IR film.

Out here over the water.

PLT Well, these cameras are all working, Jer.

CDR Yes. But for how long?

PLT Oh. They're going to be working until 28.

CDR Oh, are they?

PLT 5 more minutes.

CDR Oh, great.

PLT Well, 4 - h minutes and 20 seconds.

032 17 23 h6 CC Skylab, Hou - Skylab, Houston. For the - Skylab,

Houston. For the SPT; Just a reminder, the EREP
cal maneuver n_,mher l's coming up in about a minute.
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PLT Okay, l'm going to take a quick look and see if

I can -

CDR Is the pad there?

CDR Whenever you're ready, Bill. It doesn't make

any difference.

PLT Well -

032 17 24 35 CDR South Equatorial Current is not very plain to

see. However, there's a lot of good coastal
blooming. Go ahead and take a little DAC of the
coastal blooming.

CDR That's off Puerto Alegre.

CDR I don't know. Maybe it's all that cold water

from the Antarctic area moving up north, but it -
the Falkland Current is really very, very brightly
colored compared to any other currents we've
seen. South Equatorial and the Humboldt and the
New Zealand Currents are all very subdued greens
compared to the green of the Fa1_land Current.

032 17 25 47 CC PLT, Houston. If you get a chance, wonder if

you could give us a readout on Bravo 7 and al -
also check panel 202, the two 191 circuit breakers.

CDR I'll check them for you.

PLT Okay, and Bravo 7 is reading 5_.

CC Thank you.

PLT They're all IN, Dick.

CC Thank you.

PLT CLOSEd, I guess.

CC Roger.

032 17 26 33 PLT Okay, we just lost a READY light there on 190.

And, let's see. I have an indication on my
pad, Dick, that that was supposed to run until
28. Could you check that out real quick like?
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CC Yes - Yes, that was the time that I read you.

I'll check it again. Stand by.

PLT Just lost the READY light and - okay, I see what's
wrong. I had selected 89 instead of 99. This -
there's a lot of slop in the knob. I'm going
to reinit iate.

CC Okay, Bill.

032 17 27 25 PLT There we go. We're running again.

CC Bill, Houston. We're quite willing to go ahead

and stop the 190 per the pad. I read you at
17:28. That's right now, so you can save a
little time getting prepared for the upcoming cal.

PLT Okay. All right.

032 17 28 20 PLT Okay, going MDDE, STANDBY and EREP to STOP. And,
Jerry, I guess we could trade places now and
I will start getting ready for the cal.

CC Skylah, Houston; i minute to LOS; Tananarive at

17: 48.

PLT Roger, Dick. Okay.

CDR Okay, the SlgO READY light is out again. ***

lights.

PLT No, I didn't run it to depletion. If you want it -

you want to - if you want to watch it, there's
nothing wrong with reinitiating it. Go to MDDE,
AUTO on 190 - -

CDR Yes, I know how to do that, but I 'm wondering

if - They do want it run to depletion. Right?

032 17 30 09 PLT It'll be on your pad.

032 17 48 21 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Tananarive for about

2-1/2 minutes.

CDR Roger, Dick. The S191 cooler temperature 's up

to 70 now, and I've gone through the -_lfunction
procedures on it. It looks like we've had a
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detector cooler failure. At 40, I cycled the

COOLER switch Just to see what we could hear.
The cooler is running, and when you hit the
switch to OFF, it stops. And when we went back
to ON, it started up again. But it has not done
much for the temperature, although - wait a minute,
the temperature is now down to 68. It maxed out
at 70. So I guess our mode is to run with 191,
but we're going to have thermal channel degradation.

CC Roger, Jerry. Glad you reported that to me.

I was going to ask you about that very thing.
We suspected that that might be the problem
and the cause of the lack of li - READY light.

032 17 49 22 CDR Okay. So I guess that means that our volcano

data, Central America, was for the most part
okay, but the thermal part is probably degraded.

CC That's what - that's our best guess at the

moment, Jerry.

CDR Okay.

CDR Very good. Hey, that temperature's still coming

" down. It's 66 now.

CC Okay, good. We're - we may have an early LOS

here at Tananarive. Goldstone comes up at 18:B5.

CDR Okay.

CDR I have a lengthy post procedure too.

032 17 50 48 CDR Okay. 190 - I've got to do some things here.

190 MODE to AUTO. 92 MODE to READY.

PLT Okay.

CDR 93 RADIOMETER ...

PLT Yes. Pointingsequence

I've - - I

CDR ... to EEEP, START at 51:10. Stand by -

032 17 51 ll CDR MARK it. Okay. We got TAPE MOTION and then it
went out. Now it's flickering. 51:43 is next.
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Okay, I was some 40 secondslate gettingthe

17:50 data done, but I don't think it made any
difference. I think it was Just prep for the EREP,
START. 51:23 is coming up.

CC Skyl_b, Houston. Going over the hill. Could you

give us a readout on Charlie 7, please?

CDR Sure can. Charlie 7 is 58.

CC 58. Thank you very much.

032 17 51 29 CDR SHUTTER SPEED, _DIUM.

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SKYLAB AIR-T0-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

032 18 35 39 CC Skylab, Houston. Goldstone for 5 minutes.

CDR Roger, Dick.

CC And, Jerry, two things here at Goldstone, if some-

body gets a chance. If you could give us another
readout on Bravo 7, next time you get a chance
we'd appreciate you letting us know about that.
And also, we - I need to get the post _EP REG
BUS ADJUST done.

CDR Okay, Dick. Bill's on his way.

CC Okay.

PLT Okay. What do you want on the REG?

CC I want a return to the original setting which re-

quires a 35-degree counterclockwise movement.

PLT Okay, take a look at that.

CC Okay. We're looking.

PLT And Bravo 7 is now reading about 72.

CC Okay, Bill. Thank you much.

PLT And I - I assume they're hulling it over down there

as to whether they want to go ahead do this 191 cal.

CC That's affirm, Bill. We are talking about it.

However, as of the moment, we are still GO, so
you can make your plans accordingly.

PLT Roger.

CC And, Jerry, Houston. I don't think I've told you

today, but your phone call today is Guam at 00:48,
LEFT ANTENNA. I'll remind you again.

CDR Thank you, Dick.

CC Roger.
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032 18 38 ii SPT Hello, Dick. Two points on photography. One is,

which transporter should I be using for MI51 on
the M092 today? For some reason we can't locate
that photo pad. And secondly, I'd like to take
a picture of the ED61/62 before I do any work on
it further. Right now, I think it's probably a
good time in which to give a shot of what's growing.
Probably need around two - two exposures ought to
do it on the front side.

CC Okay, Ed. I'll - I'll get right back to you.

SPT Thank you.

CC Roger. And, Skylab, Houston. The transporter

number is 08. It's in drawer h and back to the
REG BUS ADJUST on BUS 2, we request another 5 de-
grees counterclockwise.

PLT In work.

SPT Dick, TV-67 is on tape now.

CC Thank you, Ed.

CDH Okay, Dick. REG 2 is 5 degrees counterclockwise.

CC Okay. Thank you, Jer.

CC Skylab, Houston. The REG BUS AIXVUST looks good.

We're going LOS. Vanguard comes up at 18:58. And
we're going to dump the data/voice recorder at
Vanguard. And, Ed, we agree with you on taking
the ED61 and 62 pictures. Have at it.

SPT Okay. Just use some color interior and whatever

camera happens to have it?

032 18 40 49 CC That's affirm.

032 18 57 h5 CC Sk_lab, Houston; Vanguard for i0 minutes. And

we're going to dump the data/voice recorder here.
And we need the DAS to do an OUTER GIMBAL bank up.

CDR Roger, Dick; you have it.

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CC Okay, a couple of things for you here. First of

a11, Ed asked a minute ago about the - a question
about his photo pad, and we - the reason he didn't
have that information was because we cleverly sent
his - the photo pad with that information on it to
the PLT who didn't have anything to do with it.
Sorry about that. Just in case that might have
caused con - scae confusion, though, we'd like to
verify that we do want MISI of the first biomed
run today and not the second one.

CDR Okay. That's all we're setting up for.

CC Okay; real fine. And for Bill, when you get a

chance, have you tried to close the VTS door and
if you did what were the results of that and also,
we'd like a reading on Bravo 7 and Charlie 7 when
you get an opportunity.

PLT Roger. The door is closed and everything worked

fine; 12, LEFT; zero, UP/DOWN. And I'ii go get
the readings for you right now.

CC Great.

PLT Bravo 7 is reading 75, and Charlie 7 is reading 61.

CC Okay, Bill, with those nmnbers we're certainly GO

for this cal run you're getting ready to start.

PLT Okay.

CC And, Skylab, we're going to do some col_anding to

the heaters right at LOS, so let's Just assmne
that we will keep the DAS during this entire period.
When we go LOS, it's yours.

032 19 05 56 CC Skylab, Houston. We have been dumping the data/

voice recorder here at the Vang_,-_d and so we
think you m_y have put something on it. If it
was in the last 4 minutes, it'll need to be re-
peated; we were dumping.

SPT No, it's okay, Dick, I tried to record when I

saw you were dumping and I hit the RECORD switch
and it came on after you stopped dumping.
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CC I see. Okay, thank you, Ed.

032 19 07 03 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 45 seconds from LOS; Tana-

narive at 19:21.

PLT Roger, Dick. And I'm in this VTS cal check, and
I assume that I Just press on if I don't get READY
light.

032 19 07 23 CC That's affirm, Bill.

032 19 21 49 CC Skylab, Houston at Tananarive for l0 minutes.

CDR Roger, Dick.

PLT Okay, Dick. A little status report here. on the

191 cal.

CC Okay; go ahead, Bill.

PLT ll seconds into the sequence on the - Stand by 1.

PLT ll seconds into the sequence on REFER_CE l0 I

got an _D OF TAPE light and I did-not get any
data on tape on the REFERENCE 2 sequence starting
there at 15:22. And I'm in the process of complet-
ing the sequence now - procedure.

CC Roger, Bill_ understand.

032 19 24 40 CC PLT, Houston. Before you do tape recorder depletion,

we'd appreciate your looking and see if the tape
recorder actually was depleted or whether or not
it was Just a light. Also when you get an oppor-
tunity before you shut down, we'd like to get a
final reading on Bravo 7 and Charlie 7.

PLT Okay.

PLT Would you believe that there was about lO inches

left Just starting to feed through the compliance
rollers.

CC Roger, Bill; about l0 inches. I didn't catch the

last part of the remark about where it was feeding
through.
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PLT It looks like we may have gotten it all on tape.

There was about l0 inches of tape not quite fed onto
the takeup - takeup reel. You know, this is it -
Just starts through that last set of compliance
rollers and back onto the head. It Just passed
the last head.

CC Roger, Bill.

PLT So we may have gotten all the data tape after all.
I went ahead and played it Just like it was working.

CC Okay, that's certainly good thinking. And we still

got 5 minutes here. And when you get a chance I'll
get those readings from you. And also the compare -
A and B and C and D comparisons from - as noted in
the pad there on page 9-1 of the checklist.

PLT Bravo 7 is now reading 75, and Charlie 7 is reading

62.

CC Thank you, Bill.

032 19 28 20 CC Skylab, Houston. There's a good chance we may

drop here - out here Just - in about 30 seconds or
so for a little while. We think we will pick you
back up here again at Tananarive,however. I'ii
give you a call when we do that. In case we don't,
Hawaii comes up at 20:06.

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SKYLAB AIR-T0-GROL_D VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

032 19 30 27 CC Skylab, Houston, we still have you for - at

Tananarive. We're about a minute to LOS; Hawaii
at 20:06.

032 19 3_ 29 PLT Roger; I do. l_'s addressed to you.

032 20 05 41 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Hawaii for about

8 minutes. We'd like the DAS so we can do a CMG
heater co-.--nd.

CDR You've got it.

CC Okay; thank you very much. And PLT, Houston. When

you get a moment, I had a couple of questions for
you on the tape recorder.

PLT Go ahead.

CC Well, we were wondering if you noticed if the TAPE

RECORDER READY light went out when the END OF TAPE
light came on - or - we didn't ask you to do this.
If you happen to check and see if the tape recorder
was observed to be actually moving after the END
OF TAPE light came on awhile ago during the ca/ -

PLT No, I didn't. The READY light remained on, the

MALF light came on, the END OF TAPE light came on,
at the time I previously reported.

CC Okay, we got it all, Bill. Thank you very much.

And incidentally the pad requested you give us a
comparison of - on a - on paragraphs - or items h
and 7 on page 9-1 of the checklist. And whenever
you get an opportunity, I'ii be glad to copy that.

PLT Okay. You know how to - You know what the cal
cross looks like, don't you?

CC That's affirm.

PLT Okay. The horizontal alignment line, if you will

draw a line 1/20 the width of the calibration cross
above the horizontal bar on the cross and on the
top and about a 1/20 on the inside along the bottom
and that is the way theLEFT/RIGHT aligned up.
Am l making sense to you?
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CC That's affirm, Bill. I'm followingyou.

PLT Okay, and then on the vertical bar of the cal

cross, I had to go 1/10 the distance in from the
RIGHT and it - in order to get the - the proper
indication, and I was 1/10 of the width of the
cross from the outside on the LEFT with the - the
Vertical line - as far as vertical lines are
concerned.

CC Okay, Bill, let me check with EREP real quick and

make sure we're satisfied and think we understand.

032 20 09 32 CC PLT, Houston. We appreciate your description and

we don't need any more information on the alignment ;
thank you very much. We still got about 5 minutes
left here at Hawaii. I'm standing by.

PLT Roger, and I'll bring back a sketch.

CC Okay.

032 20 13 43 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 30 seconds from LOS

Haw - at Hawaii. Vanguard comes up at 20:35; we're
going to dump the data/voice recorder at the
• Van - Vanguard. The tape recorder is - yes,
there's 24 minutes of room left on the VTR and
only 3 of those minutes are scheduled, so if you
need it for anything, it's yours from here on.
And the Flight Plans are on board, Jerry, if you
want to take a look at tomorrow's schedule. I
think it's pretty well open, and I think you'll
find that there'll be plenty of regrouping and
checklist time in there. But they're in the
teleprinter if you'd like to take a look.

CDR Okay; great, Dick. Thank you.

032 20 lh 24 CC Okay.

032 20 35 3h CC Skylab, Houston. Vanguard for 9 minutes. And

we're going to d_unp the data/voice recorder here
at the Vanguard.

PLT Roger, Dick.

032 20 37 08 PLT Dick, I have a question on the Deactivation

Checklist update.
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CC Go ahead.

PLT Page 1-21, the instruction there says change, same

as page 1-20's except - and then there are four
places. Actually there are five procedural title
callouts on page 1-21. I am going under the
assumption that the change is not being made to the
starred entry which is WMC dump heater activation.
Would you check and see if that's correct?

CC PLT, Houston. That's affirmative; you're correct.

PLT Thank you.

CC Hey, incidentally, Bill, earlier today INCO told

me - and I didn't pass it up because I didn't
think you guys would get to that Deactivation
Checklist yet - But the - he uplinked three copies
of the checklist change. And in the third copy on
page l0 of the message, there was some kind of a
fault, and so he uplinked page l0 of the message
again rather than uplinking an entire new set.
So one of those copies is going to have two page
10's in it, and the second one that's there is the
correct one.
f-

PLT Okay_ we got that.

CC Okay.

032 20 44 05 CC Skylab, Houston. We're i minute from LOS.

Tananarlve at 21:00. See you there.

032 20 hh 13 PLT Roger, Dick.

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SKYLABAIR-TO-GROUNDVOICETRANSCRIPTION

032 21 _2 24 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Hawaii for

9-1/2 minutes. Out.

032_21 48 40 CDR Houston, CDR.

CC Go ahead, Jer.

CDR Hey, Bruce, on the Deactivation Checklist, what

about page 1-177 Looks like it is part and parcel
of some of the others that probably ought to be
canceled as well.

CC Okay, hold on Just a second and let me locate it.

CC Okay, Jerry, we have canceled the whole left-hand

col_--- of 1-17 and the right-hand part is getting
the camera ready for closeout. The cancellation
of the left-hand col_-,u only is in paragraph 3 of
the first page of the Deact Checklist, change 5.

CDR Okay, I Just haven't got there yet, I guess.

CC Yes. The first block is deleting whole pages, the

second block is deleting right-hand col_ns only,
the third block is deleting left-hand columns
only.

CDR Okay.

032 21 51 33 CC Skylab, this is Houston; 30 seconds to LOS. Next

station contact in 22 minutes through the Van_,-_d
at 22:14 with a data/voice tape recorder dump.
Out.

032 22 14 08 CC Skylab, this is Houston, through the Vanguard for

9 minutes with a data/voice tape recorder dump.
And I have the precise pointing coordinates for
the next ATM pass for Ed. Over.

SPT Go ahead, Bruce.

CC Okay. These are for your special polar plume and

pol_r plume background measurements. On the first
one, the polar plume ROLL should be plus 9510; no
cha_e in the other coordinates. For the second
one, the background, ROLL should be plus 9700; no
change in the other coordinates. Over.
f--
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SPT Plus 95105 plus 9700.

CC You got it.

032 22 22 h0 CC Skylab, this is Houston; _0 seconds to LOS. Next

station contact in 8 minutes through Ascension at
22 :30. Out.

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SKYLAB AIR-T0-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

032 22 31 15 CC Skylab, this is Houston passing Ascension_

2-1/2 minutes to LOS. Next station contact in
! hour and 20 minutes through the Vanguard at 01:28.
Out.

CC M-_e that at 23:51.

SPT Houston, SPT.

CC Yes, indeed.

032 22 32 23 SPT We're looking at a counting - count of 2309 for

54 FRAMES R_ING. As I understand it, we
should cease all 54 operations.

CC Stand by. Say again the count, please.

SPT 2309 •

CC Okay, Ed, you can take it on down to 2232. Over.

SPT 2232 ; thank you.

032 22 33 21 CC Roger. Out.

032 23 51 21 CC Skylah, this is Houston through the Vanguard for

10-1/2 minutes. For the CDR. Over.

CDR Go ahead, Bruce.

CC Roger, Jerry. We have a new S201K operate pad

coming up to you on the teleprinter now. This is
occasioned by a new value of nu Z which we figured
out over _,am. Basically it changes your rotation
angle about a degree and a half. If you could grab
that before you start it, it would probably help
out. Over.

CDR Yes, it probably would help.

CC And we're dumping the data/voice tape recorder

here. Oh, no, we're not. I'm sorry.

032 23 52 5_ SPT Hello, Houston. How'd you like a frame count?

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CC Oh, we wouldn't object. Go ahead.

SPT 7S7B, 85119, l, l, S12, 2302.

CC 7BTB break, 85119/i/1/B12/2B02.

SPT Correct.

CC Sounds like you're running low up there, Ed.

SPT On everything.

0B2 2B 53 55 CC And we show that 201K operate pad should be on

board in its entirety now.

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SKYLAB AIR-T0-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

I

033 00 01 ll CC Skylab, this is Houston; 1 minute to LOS. Next

station contact in 3 minutes through Asc_ension
at 00:0_. Out.

033 00 04 32 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Ascension for

10-1/2 mlnutes. Out.

_ 033 O0 13 53 CC Skylab, this is Houston; 1 minute to LOS. Next

station contact in 35 minutes through Guam at
00:49 with a data/voice tape recorder dump. And
you may be interested in knowing that you have
Just completed the last planned manned ,_neuver
• with the orbital workshop. Over.

PLT Thank you, Bruce.

CDR The last planned one, huh?

CC Yes, indeed.

CC And we're showing'- By the way, CDR private phone

call through Guam at 00:48. And that will be
LEFT ANTENNA •all the way.

033 00 lh 55 CDE Okay, Bruce. Thank you.

033 O0 48 55 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Guam for 9 minutes

and 50 seconds with a data/voice tape recorder
dump, a private phone call, and standing by for
the evening status and photo reports. Over.

033 00 h9 16 PLT Roger, Bruce. Evening status follows. Sleep:

CDR, 5.5, 3.5 heavy, 2 light; SPT, 8.7, 7.5
heavy, 1.2 light; PLT, 7.0, 6.0 heavy, 1.0 light.
Urine: CDR, 210; SPT, 200; PLT, 260. Water gun:
8954, _973, 1990. Body mass: 6.323, 6,323, 6.321;
SPT, 6.393, 6.400, 6.394; PLT, 6.277, 6.277, 6.276.
Exercise: CDR, no change; SPT, Alfa equal 200
and - 2600 watt-minutes; PLT, no change. CDR,
no medication, shorts, socks; SPT, no medication,
socks, shorts, shirt, and trousers; PLT, one
Actifed as directed, socks, shirt - socks, T-shlrt,
and shorts. Flight Plan deviations: ED41 done
early, at 18:00 Zulu. Shopping list acco_llsh-
merits: SPT, muscle girth PGM - re PGM - 40,
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plus ED61/62 photos. Inoperable equipment

disposition: B_D release, intermittent; I'ii
explain that later. Unscheduled stowage: none.
Menu: CDR, salt packs, 8.5; deviations, plus
lemonade, plus pears, plus one grape drink.
SlY, 10.0 salt packs, plus lemon pudding, plus
lemonade, plus tuna. PLT, 7.0 salt, plus green
beans, plus chocolate chip bar, plus tuna;
rehydration water, zero for the PLT. And
let me go back and get the rehydration water
on the CDR and SPT: CDR, plus 2.5 rehydration
water deviation; SPT, plus 8.0 rehydration
water deviation. And the BMMD is - the way that's
working now is that when you push the RWJ.WASE
button, or rather when you cock it, it releases
_mmediately rather than waiting until you hit
the RELEASE button. So sometimes we have to
use the CALIBRATION release in order to get the
weight on the - the crewman. Okay, photo log
coming next.

033 00 51 39 CC Okay, do you think that that's a problem with

the BN_D, or do you want to just press on until
the end of mission doing it the way you are?

PLT Oh, press on. I don't want to try to - to do

any maintenance on it unless I just take - we've
taken a quick look.

CC Okay, mighty fine.

PLT And unless somebody has, you know, an inspired

thought that doesn't take too much time, we can
live with it the way it is.

CC I'm sure we can find-isome inspired thoughts, but

they'll probably take some time up there. You'd
probably be better off just keeping it the
way it is.

033 O0 52 05 PLT I agree. Okay, photo log. 16-millimeter: EREP

VTS, Charlie India 90, 80 percent; M151, Charlie
India 65, 89 percent, Charlie India 81. Nikon:
Nikon 01, Charlie X-ray 56, count is 61; Nikon 02
is empty; Nikon 03, Charlie India 116, count is 28;
Nikon 0_, India Romeo 13, count is 41; Nikon 05,
Bravo Hotel 06, count is 41, anticipates the use
of two more exposures later on on 2 - $233.
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70-millimeter: Charlie X-ray 45, the count is

22. RTC: Charlie Tango 13, count is 219.
ERE_: set Uniform; 1320, 3_94, 1047, 0399,
2170, 1108. Drawer A configuration: the only
change is in Alfa 4, transporter 08, Charlie
India 65, 89 percent, Charlie India 81.

033 00 53 ll CC Okay. Thank you, Bill. We copy all that. And

there are no evening questions this evening.

PLT Thank you.

033 00 57 55 CC Skylab, this is Houston. 1 minute to LOS. Next

station contact in 31 minutes throi_gh the Vanguard
at 01:29 at sea; private medical conference. Out.

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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

033 01 35 16 CC Skylab, this is Houston; 4 minutes left here at

the Vanguard.

PLT Roger, Bruce.

CDR Understand you're going to teleprinter up the

Old Testament tonight.
p

CC Well, gee whiz, I told you guys to put a fire

watch on that thing last night. And I guess we
should have asked you also to go to panel 207
and inhibit the teleprint overheater - overheat
input to caution and warning.

CC Would you believe we - -

CDR You guys - You guys dumped a lot of manure in

that 5 pound bag, I'll tell you. It exploded
when I opened it.

CC Yes, all we can say is we asked you about that

last night, you know.

CDR Like I say it never happened before.

CC Probably never will again either. And believe

me, tonight we're Just about through already,
in fact, sending up messages. We haven't got
much at all.

CC And just for our information, a couple of hours

ago you were - you asked _ question on Deact
Checklist mods. And we're wondering how you -
hc_ you all are progressing towards getting your
Deact Checklist modified, if you've gotten any of
that out of the way?

CDR Well, we've all - each of us got a little bit.

We've got - we've got our checklist on our
tables and when we get aminute or two we come
in and put a few more changes in on a page,
or something like that. It's a slow Job.
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CC Okay, very good. Well we're hopeful that there

won't be any more - there won't be any changes
to the changes. And you've got some time
tomorrow also to work on them.

CDR Roger.

033 01 38 30 CC Skylab, this is Houston; 1 minute to LOS. Next

station contact in 7 minutes through Ascension
at 01:45. Out.

033 01 46 06 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Ascension for

2-1/2 minutes. Out.

033 01 47 47 CC Skylab, this is Houston; 1 minute to LOS. Next

i
station contact in 1 minute and 26 seconds
through Canary Islands. And we'll be calling you
through Hawaii at ll:06 for wakeup. Over.

PLT Roger, Hawaii.

CC I'm Just fine; thank you.

CREW (Groan)

PLT That's a new aloha in puns.

CC (Langhter) That's even worse, there.

MCC We've gotten to the point where we Just can't get

control, Bruce any longer.

CC (Laughter)

033 01 48 42 PLT We can tell, we can tell.

033 01 49 28 CC Skylab, this is Hous_t_n through Canary and

Madrid for 13 minutes. Out.

033 02 01 41 CC Skylab, this is Houston; 1 minute to LOS. Next

scheduled call in the morning at ll:06, I believe
it is, through Hawaii.

PLT No comment.

CC Okay, (laughter) good night.

033 02 02 O1 PLT Good night, Bruce.

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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

REST PERIOD - NO COMMUNICATIONS

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SKYLAB AIR-T0-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

033 ll 07 38 CC Good morning Skylab. Got you through Hawaii for

8minutes.

PLT Roger, Story.

CC Hi.

CC And, Skylab, we've got a CBRMitestin progress.

When you go up to the ATM panel, you'll see the
CHARGERs off on CBRMs lO and 18.

CDR Roger, Story.

CC Morning, Jer.

CDR Good morning.

033 ll 15 35 CC Skylab, we're a minute to LOS, 3 minutes to

Goldstone.

033 ll 19 20 CC Skylab, we're back with you through Goldstone

for 7 minutes. And you'll also notice at the
ATM panel that BAT CHARGER talkback is barberpole.
That's a test, we've been running on 2 aud
13 CBRMs. They won't get fully charged until
the next daylight pass. And the message 7935
for Bill, his participation in the CBRMtesting,
is on board. No action required for about an
hour and l0 minutes.

CDR Roger, Story. Th_ks.

CC And let me know when you get to the breakfast

table, and you're ready for the news.

_-_. CDR Oh, we're ready now.

CC Okay. And from the dump tapes, it looks like all

three of you ran the maze yesterday. If you did
that, Ed does not need to run it again this
morning.

CDR Okay. Good enough. We'll do it that way.

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CC Unless he's looking for a little exercise.

CC Washington: A key energy official said the United

States cannot break the back of the energy crisis
in 1974, as President Nixon seemed to promise in
his State of Union Message. John C. Sawhill,
Deputy Administrator of the Federal Energy Office_
told newsmen that because of insufficient refinery
capacity, the nation will continue to suffer
shortages for 2 or 3 years, even if the Arab oil
embargo is lifted. With the fuel shortage
tightening its economic grip, the Nation's unem-
ployment rate rose from 4.8 percent to 5.2 percent
in January, the biggest monthly increase in
4 years. The labor department blamed actual or
anticipated shortage of gssoline and other petro-
leum products for a substantial loss of Jobs
last month in aviation, auto, and recreational
industries. Several oil companies posted whole-
sale gasoline price increase Friday ranging from
2.6 to 5.5 cents a gallon. Most of them also
announced increases for heating fuel and other
petroleum products. Producers do not specify
how the increases will affect prices at service -_
stations, but observers said they expected dealers
to pass most or all of the additional cost on to
motorists.

033 Ii 21 51 CC Washington: Here are key points in Senate Demo-

cratic Leader Mike Mansfield's Friday night
response to President Nixon's State of the Union
Message. On Watergate: "The crimes of Watergate
cannot be put to rest by Congress." Congress has
had to tackle the problems of Watergate and
impeachment "in order to cleanse the political
processes." Energy: The Federal Government
must ensure that the energy shortage does not
devastate the economy, an_ that sacrifices are
borne equitably. Congress _ in 1974: Mansfield
predicted Congress this year will consider a
national health insurance system, no-fault auto-
mobile insurance, better housing assistance,
pension reform, a fair minimum wage, a renewed
c_itment to excellence in education and greater
congressional control over the budget, "to end
[sic] that the President's more than $300 billion
spending requests will be reduced. Soviet Foreign
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Minister Andrei Grc_yko and King Hussein of

Jordan will visit the United States next week as
a part of continuing Middle East diplomatic activ-
ity. The two officials will meet separately
with President Nixon, Secre - Secretary of State
Henry Kissinger, and other American officials.
Governor David Hall of Oklahoma says he's asking
the other 49 governors to help him outlsx emer-
gency daylight savings time. In letters to the
other governors, Hall said he willl introduce
a resolution to repeal daylight savings time at
the National Governor's Conference in Washington
in early March. Daylight time in midwinter
has "plunged millions of moving vehicles and
school children into predawn darkness, causing
many injuries and even fatalities," Hall said.

033 ll 23 46 CC Cairo: The Egyptian Government began moves to

reopen the Suez Canal, closed since the 1967
Middle East War. President Sadat said Egypt
will not allow Israel to use the Canal until the
_ Jewish state withdraws from all occupiedArab
lands and recognizes the rights of the Palestinians.
He made this statement after meeting with
Palestinian guerrilla Ararat. Sadat's cabinet
allocated an initial $87 million to rebuild cities
along the canal and to dredge the waterway. Tel
Aviv: The Israeli army continued to withdr_
across the Suez Canal and military reports on the
state radio said Egypt appeared to be reducing its
forces east of the Canal in return. A field
commander said on the radio that Israelis had
"seen the first signs of evacuation of soldiers
and arms" by the Egyptians. Israeli television
showed Egyptian military installations being%
blown up by the departing Israeli troops. Sao
Paulo: A short circuit in an air conditioning
system triggered a blaze in a 25-story bank
building that claimed 177 lives.

CC And I got about 30 seconds to LOS. We'll finish

up the news at Bermuda. Be cnm_ug up in about
4 minutes.

033 ll 25 21 PLT Okay, Story. Thank you.

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033 ll 30 17 CC And, Skylab, we're back with you through Bermuda

for 8 minutes. Green Springs, Ohio: Columbia
Gas System, Incooperated, says it expects to
begin synthetic gas production within a week at
its new $43-million reforming plant here. The
plant converts liquid propane-naptha, a petroleum
project - product with a spokesman said is not
in short supply, into a synthetic which is
similar to natural gas. The spokesman said the
plant is capable of producing 250 million cubic
feet of the gas a day, enough to fill the needs
of 1/2 million hc_es. Sacramento, California:
The state of California sold Squaw Valley, site
of the 1960 Winter Olympics, for $2.55 million
Friday to an Australian-based land development
firm. The buyers announced a $200-million i
development plan to turn the resort into a
year-around tourist center. They said they might
attempt to bring future Olympic games back to
the high Sierra resort, which is 160 miles east
of San Francisco. And that's about it this
morning.

PLT Thank you, Story.

CC And we need the DAS here for dump inhibit.

PLT You got it.

033 ll 37 16 CC Skylab, we're a minute to LOS; couple minutes

to Canaries. We'll be looking to dump the data/
voice at Canaries.

033 ll 37 25 PLT Roger, Story.

033 ll 39 39 CC Skylab, we're back with you through Canaries and

Ascension for 14 minutes. We're dumping the data/
voice here.

PLT Roger, Story.

033 ll 52 40 CC Skylab, we're a minute to LOS. About 1/2 hour

to Carnarvon at 12:22.

033 ll 52 49 PLT Roger, Story.

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SKYLAB AiR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

033 12 22 22 CC Skylab, Houston. Good morning to you from the

purple gang.

SPT Hello, Crippen.

CC I'm on S-band for 9 minutes.

SPT Morning, Dick and purple gang. How's things going

down there?

CC Real fine, Ed.

CDR Houston, CDR.

CC CDR, Houston. l'm on the S-band. How do you read

me?

CDR I read you load and clear and I'm reading Crip on
VHF as well, but he doesn't read me.

03B 12 23 53 CC Okay, I think he just wasn't listening up. I

think I heard you on air-to-ground too. Why don't
you give it another try on VHF.

CDR Okay, I'm going to kill S-band.

CC And, CDR, Houston. We'd like to have ACCEPT.

CDR Say again, Dick.

CC we'd like to get ACCEPT, please.

CDR Okay. You got it.

CC Thank you.

033 12 2_ 37 CDR Hello, Houston, CDR on VHF. How do you read?

CDR Hey, Dick, which ANTENNA would they recommend?

CC CDR, Houston. I've been hearing all your trans-

missions. And I've punched off VHF so - or air-
to-ground too, which is hooked up to VHF down
here, so if you transmit again, I'll be sure and
know whether or not it's %_£Fonly or not. And,
CDR ver - -
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CDR We ought to kill S-band again?

CDR Roger. And verify you on RIGHT ANTENNA.

CDR RIGHT ANTENNA. Okay.

033 12 26 52 CDR Houston, CDR on S-band.

CC CDR, Houston on - loud and clear.

CDR Okay, were you reading me on VHF?

CC Jerry, we were reading you VHF. Apparently you

were not reading Crip's response.

CDR Okay, - -

CC Okay - -

CDR - - I 'm SIMPLEX Alfa now.

CDR Roger, Crip. Loud and clear. How me?

033 12 27 38 CC CDR, Houston. Request you select the LEFT ANTENNA.

I heard you and Crip did not, that transmission.

CDR Okay. I'm - I've got simul right now.

CDR Hello, Houston; CDR on VHF and S-band. How do

you read me? Okay, reading you load and clear.
I 'm killing S-band.

CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute to LOS. Hawaii

comes up at 12:45. See you there.

033 12 31 00 CDR Roger, Dick.

033 12 45 19 PLT Houston, Skylab.

CC Skylab, Houston; go ahead.

_ PLT Roger, Dick. On the CBRM test, number l0 kicked

' off at 12:39:20; VOLTAGE was 28. Number 18 at
12 :43 :20 ; VOLTAGE was 27.9.
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CC PLT, Houston, let me confirm those times; 12:39:20

for i0, and 12:43:20 for 20 - for 18. Was that
correct?

PLT That's correct.

033 12 45 48 CC Okay, and I got the voltages. Thank you very much
for watching them for us, Bill. We sure appreciate
it. I have one more note for you. Last evening
we sent up a general message; the number is
7940 Alfa. It has to do with APCS control during
the EVA. We really should've made that a perma-
nent message and sent you a couple of copies. We
want to make sure you hang on to it; and are -
it's available to you to use during EVA tomorrow.
If you need another copy, we'll be more than happy
to send it up.

PLT I don't think so, but I'll take a look.

CC Okay. If you do, give us a holler.

PLT Roger.

033 12 47 05 SPT Hello, Dick. Got a question on heat sink fabrica-

tion of the IMSS/ED31 return.

CC Okay, Ed. Go ahead.

SPT Turns out in going through this slide'stainer that

there is only one water bag from the slide stainer
I found only one which was unused and have not
been able to find two. Why don't you ask the folks
who came up with the idea what else they'd like
me to use?

CC Okay. Understand you're only able to find one

water bag and unable to find two, and I'll see if
I can get an answer for you. Standby.

SPT Thank you.

033 12 51 12 CC Skylab, Houston; we're going to be in a keyhole in

about 15 seconds; it'll - will last about h5 sec-
onds. I'll give you a call out of keyhole.
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033 12 52 32 CC Skylah, Houston_ we're out of keyhole, We still

have about a minute left here at Haw_il, Goldstone
comes up in about 5 minutes. And, Ed, I should
have an answer for you here with _ before LOS,
but if not, I'Ii have it at A0S Goldstone.

033 12 52 48 SPT Thank you, Dick.

033 12 57 43 CC Skylab, Houston; hello at Goldstone for 5 minutes.

And SPT, Houston, I have a couple of words here on
the heat sink fabrication,

SPT Go ahead, Dick.

CC Roger. Let me give you a couple of more hints

about where we think you might could find them_
perhaps you've already looked here, First of all,
you might look in the _ look sc_e more in the slide
stainer, There are two compartments, both of
on the front and the right-hand side, and we think
there m_y be some that are stuffed in there. If
not, it's possible that Joe Kerwin put one or more
in W-707 in the upper left_hand corner, possibly
in one of those little cardboard_like boxes that
are like 4 by 5 - 4 in the front and fi - go all
the way to the depth of the locker. In the event
you can't find the second slide stainer bag, let
us know. But what we'd llke you to do is go ahead
and complete the beverage bag heat sink, which
you can do, and then on the second one, Just use
one slide stainer bag and forget the other one.

033 12 59 01 PLT Stand by, Dick.

CC Okay, Bill. And, while I'm talking to you, the

first laser opportunity this morning that Is sched_
uled at 13:08 is canceled due to weather.

PLT Roger.

033 13 00 17 SPT Hello, Dick. No Joy in either location. I do

have another idea though, is - We have sc_e of the
Apollo bag Juice dispensers which I can make up,
I think, to Just about the exact same geometry of -
of what we're using already with the one bag. So
why don't I go ahead and do that, and put it
together, and it it's useable, it is. We'll go
ahead and do it that way. Otherwise we Just leave
it out.
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CC Okay, let me check real quick with biomed and _,ke

sure it's okay with us, and - and we_ll give you a
GO. I'll be right back with you.

CC SPT, Houston. We certainly agree with you. If

you have the time and can construct another bag
for us that you think will do, we'd be happy to
have it. Thank you.

SPT You're welcome, Dick.

033 13 01 37 CC Roger. The only advice we can pass up is that we

are a little bit critical on the dimensions, so
you will have to construct it kind of carefully
to get it about the same size, but I'm sure you
can do that with no problem. We've got about a
minute left to LOS here at Goldstone. Bermuda
comes up at 13:06, and Bill Lenoir is - is here
to have the ATM conference with you at Bermuda.
And we are gping to dump the data/voice recorder
when we get there.

SPT Okay, Dick. No sweat on the dimensions. It turns

out the Apollo Juice bags - they're the exact
same width of the other bags. It's Just a question
of folding it at the right location to make it the
right length.

033 13 02 17 CC Okay, thanks for impro - improvising for us.

033 13 08 lO MCC Skylab, Houston with the ATM conference for about
9 minutes. And we're dumping the data/voice re-
corder here.

SPT Morning, Bill. Go ahead.

MCC Okay. I've Just got a couple of things for you

here today at the last day of our operations. The
first thing - Is Bill listening, as well?

PLT Affirmative.

MCC Okay, good, because it turns out the first thing

on my list here, you're actually doing. And that
regards the S055 DETECTOR 5 test. Just wanted to
give you the words that went along with the pad
that you have, which, I think, is reasonably clear.
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Basically, what we're doing is we're going to start

off with a partial MAR, which is why we truncated
line -whatever it is; it's about B minutes into
it. We'll be running all DETECTORS except for 5
at a GRATING of all balls, and that's pretty much
standard configuration. Then we will run another
MAR with DETECTOR 5 only on - in OVERRIDE to take
a look at that all by itself. On the ground data,
we'll be able to look at that; you won't be able
to observe it on board. Then for the last MAR,
we'll run all D_TECTORS on i, 2, 3, 4, 6 and 7 in
the NORMAL configuration, DETECTOR 5 still in
OVERRIDE. And we ask you to monitor DETECTOR 1.
If the count gets above 10,000 for l0 seconds,
turn them all OFF and terminate the test. Then
when we're all done, we'll make sure that we take
DETECTOR 5 back to OFF so that it's out of OVER-
RIDE. And that concludes the test. Do you have
any questions on that, Bill?

033 13 09 46 PLT You were - cut out Just a little bit there in the
middle, but I think I got it all. And everything
is on the pad, and I guess you're Just trying to
tell me that we will be playing with DETECTOR 5
off and on.

MCC Right. The basic message was the first MAR is

with all except 5, the second MAR is with 5 only,
and the third MAR is with th_n all.

PLT Roger.

MCC Okay. And then, Ed, your orbit after the building
block 16, we say in your observing time there we
give you 7minutes, which is a big deal here.
52 and 54, omit; they are essentially done. 52
will take no more frames. They don't want to take
a chance of J_ing the camera and heating it up,
anything like that. 54 will not operate in that
observing time. Theywill later take two unattended
sequences to clear the BB1 that they have done.
And make sure when you clip the film that we get
all of their good data. Of course, on S055, you
can do anything you want during that time. Sim-
ilarly with 56 and 82B; any film that remains,
you're more than welcome to shoot it up on any
interesting _eature that you find. However, the
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time that you're given to do it certainly will

not let you do very much there. But it's all yours
except for 52 and 54 there. And that's about all
that I had on my list here for today.

033 13 ll 08 SPT All of the 82B film, huh? That means one right
now.

MCC Right. Don't spend it all at once.

SPT (Laughter) Okay. Is that all you got_

MCC Yes, that's all I got and I wanted to pass you up

some thanks from NOAA in the backroom for the
help that you've given them in their solar fore-
cast with your unique data.

SPT Well, we sure appreciate the NOAA folks. Matter

of fact, I think we appreciate the work of every-
body involved in this. We've kin@ of reached a -
the end of a phase here, if you _zill, in ATM.
We still have a major phase left, and that's all
the data analysis. And over the years we're going
to see a lot of that turning into some pretty, I
think, productive and useful results, and a lot
of understanding of the Sun will result. I think
the quality and the quanity of the data that we've
gotten out of ATM has far exceeded our early expec-
tations. They certainly have mine, and I'm sure
they have other people's. The quality of the data
that we're getting out, however, I think is a
direct result of the quality of the people that
we've had working it. We've had about, I would
guess, thousands of people working this ATM for
many years now. And the results are going to give
a large step forward in our understanding of the
Sun. I think everybody that's been involved in
it should take pride in what is really their accom-
plishment. I know the three of us up here certainly
have been happy to be apart of it. And we thank
everybody out - down there on the ground for giving
us excellent support during the mission.

033 1B 12 42 MCC Okay, Ed. Thanks for the words. And we certainly
want to thank the three of you for the excellent
Job that you've done. The quality of data that
we'll be getting back is due in no _mall part to
_ the work that you three guys have done.
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SPT Look forward to bringing it back. We won't forget

the f_Sm.

MCC Okay. Good enough. And let's see; we've still

got 4-1/2 minutes here at this pass. I'll turn it
back to Dick Truly. And then Ascension comes up
in ll minutes, and that'll be the vis obs confer-
ence with whoever is available.

SPT So long Bill.

CC Roger, Ed. I'm back with you and we still have

4 minutes left here at Bermuda. Standing by.

033 13 14 59 CC PLT, Houston. Our TM on CBRM-18 makes us suspicion

that possibly the POWER monitor switch and the
SELECT swish - switch were not turned to OFF after
you did that. We may not have good enough granu-
larity on the TM to be sure that that's true or not
But we'd like you to verify that at the end of that
procedure you - on panel - on the ATM panel you
turned the POWER monitor switch and the SELECT
switch, both, OFF.

PLT I did not. I read it, and I failed to do it. I'll

go do that right now.

CC Okay, Bill. Thank you very much.

PLT Okay Dick, we're configured properly now.

033 13 16 02 CC Thank you very much, Bill. Appreciate it. We're

about a minute and 20 seconds to LOS. Ascension
comes up at 13:24, and Bill will be back with you
again there to talk about vis obs.

033 13 23 54 MCC Skylab, Houston with the visual observations con-

ference for l0 minutes.

PLT Go ahead, Bill.

MCC Okay. Let me Just start off by giving you some

brief words here on the mode we'll be operating
in now - between now and splashdown. The pads
that you got today on the optional, along with the
vis obs pads, will be the last of those that you'll
get. We will not be scheduling anything from now
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through splashdown, including an_optionals. So

what we're thinkdng of here is, anything that we
get will be on a purely target-of-opportunity
basis, where you happen to have the time and the
desire to be looking out the window aud get us
whatever is outside the window. We - -

PLT Bill.

MCC Yes, go ahead.

033 13 24 38 PLT Hey, there's something that you - some other addi-
tional information you can provide us for these
last 2 offbeat days. We'll be on peculiar sched-
ules. There's just a possibilitywe maybe able -
we may be up when western Europe is in light phase.
Would you check that out? And we'd like to have
that information available.

MCC Okay, sure will, Bill. I looked at that myself

last night, and as I recall, you will not be
catching Europe when it's lit, that you'll Just
be missing Europe.i The one thing that you will
catch is that oneday that you get up superearly,
youwill catch some spots in Africa, potentially,
that we're interested in, but youwill be missing
Europe.

PLT Thank you.

i
033 13 25 24 MCC Okay. And the main reason that we didn't want to
schedule anything here is we didn't want you to be
trying to reorganize or to plan around anything
here. And really!it's whatever time you've got
available to give to it, and we'll tske whatever
is outside the window. Now, having said that, let
me also mention some things here that are higher
priority to us in various areas than other itAma.
As an example, in the oceans, our number one thought
right now is in the South African area, where the
Circum-Antarctic, the Benguela, and the Currents
Algulhas are sort_to coming together. This is a
direct outgrowth of the blooming that you reported
earlier. We would like to follow up on it;how-
ever, this is one that really comes too early in
the day, except for the one day that you're up
early. In the event that you are in that vicinity
•_ and have the time and desire to look out the window,
that would be great, but we really don't anticipate
it. Other than - -
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PLT Yes, but did you get my comments from about 2 or

3 days ago? This is PLT.

MCC Yes, i did, Bill, and that's really what we're

talking about following up on.

PLT Okay. I got one more picture yesterday.

033 13 26 32 MCC Okay, very good. Other current areas, then, are
the Falkland and Brazil Current areas. New Zea-
land will begin to come into - into your day on
the nightside, in that we move up about an hour
a pass here, so that it will begin to come up before
your nominal bedtime. S_m_larly, Hawaii, which
has been available -we're still interested in
that. The west coast of Central America and the
upwellings in current confluences there. We're
still interested in learning more about the visi-
bility of sea mounts and likewise island wakes,
that's the HH34 Alfa, which you have been giving
us some. We're interested in doing smne more of
that.

-_ 033 1B 27 16 MCC Okay, moving on to volcanoes: the number one area

"" that we would like to get some more data on is the
Gal_pagos. Also, as I mentioned earlier, the
_ Sierra Madre Occidentals ; that's the HH56. We
would like some photographic coverage of the western
side of that,•since we missed that on SL-2's
_ S190A. We potentially_y_ scheduleyou one thing
here, in spite of what I said earlier. Mt. Etna
blew its top a couple of days ago, Unfortunately
it comes too early in the day for you to ever get;
however, we do have one ascending•pass through
it at nighttime on- I believe it's mission day 81.
No, cheek that; I think that's mission day 80, the
day of the EVA, at about 24:00 Zulu. We'll take a
look at that and, if we think that there's anything
you could get on the Bravo Victor film, we may
send you up s_ne words on it. Also, any volcanoes
that we have previously covered, such as Sakurazim_,
the Hawaiian shield volcanoes, and Guatemala, Just
for time development.

_• 033 13 28 24 MCC Okay, then in the deserts, the dunes - primarily

the dunes that we will have availablewill be in
• the Far East, in China, in the Gobi Desert, and
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so on. And they will be coming up late in the

day. The African dunes, the Saudi Arabian dunes,
and so on, are out of the early morning side of
your orbit. Also, there are somedunes in BaJa
California that we would be interested in. On all
of the dunes, photographic coverage is our first
priority with the Nikon 300. And keep the obser-
vations of wind, colors - the vivid descriptions,
et cetera, that you have given us - coming. We
will be looking at that. On HHTh, which is the
dune site by Tashkent, in Russia, you had earlier
remarked about some white spots in them, and it
occurred to me that we never passed _p any words
about that. It ap - apparently is due to the high
salinity soil there that causes those white spots.

033 13 29 27 MCC Okay then, moving to the African drought area,

this again, as I mentioned, is a highpriority
area to us. We don't have nearly as much as we
would like. However, it comes too early in the
day. With the exception of the one day that you
do get up early, you spend no time awake over
Africa in this area. In the event anything should
-- change or you do have some time on that early day,
any of the HH90's or HH-151 area are of interest
to us. In geology, number •1 is we'd like some
more data on the Romanche fracture extension,
repetitive-type coverage to see what you're seeing
and what you see the second and third times and
so on, which I reslize is unrealistic for the time
and effort that we have available. Also, should
Jerry want to continue in the BaJa California
lll area, we'd be happy to have him •do that on an
observations basis. The San Andreas and the Mexican
faults, the 114/13/12; also Central American
fault 109. And if you're in that area, we would
slightly prefer that coverage to the Guatemala
fau - volcanoes, if it came to one or the other.
However, it appears to us that, generally, you
can get both. 119_7, that Japan fault, we don't
have very much on that, and that tends to come up
later in your day. Again, should you find your-
self looking out at that time frame, We're inter-
ested in some data on that.

033 13 31 00 MCC Vegetation, south - well, the African area has

moved out of our awake cycle, so we're •primarily
interested in South America and Australia, which
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will be coming up late in your day more and more

now - between now and splash. There has been
some extensive flooding really all throughout
Australia, in particular in the Alice Springs area,
the Broken Hill area. And Just on television last
night, saw some pictures of the - of Brisbane with
severe flooding and going around in boats in the
streets and things like that. Any photographic
documentation of that would certainly prove useful.
Okay. And appropriate results, I have really told
you about here as we went through the things that
we're following up on that you have spotted for us
since the last vis obs conference, are the
observations of the currents off of South Africa
and also the island wakes that you have given us.
And knowing that a given island does not have a
turbulent wake is also useful information. So
don't feel that we're failing on that basis.

MCC Okay, so far in the mission, we find on our book-

keeping that we have taken over 700 observations
and over ii00 photos. Your f_]m status for the
visual observations film remaining: Presently, I
believe, Charlie X-ray h5 is in the Hasselblad.
At the beginning of yesterday there were 151 frames
remaining, and that's it for the Hasselblad. The
Nik0n, we have 8 frames - 8 magazines of color
exterior remaining after Charlie X-ray 53. So, in
effect, that's almost an infinite supply, since
there's no way we can come close to that. Similarily,
on the low-light level, the Bravo Victor, we have
three magazines remaining, which is, in effect,
infinite. There should be some color IR available,
but since it's not ours in the bookkeeping scheme,
we never really know until we have it, and then
it's usually a day or so. And we'll keep you up
on that. And we're a minute until LOS. Carnarvon
is next at 13:56, and that's about 23 minutes from
now. And I've talked longer here than I should
have. Let me see if you guys have any questions
for me. Otherwise I'll sign off here.

PLT Ne - negative, Bill, not from our side. I think

that's a good briefing.

MCC Okay, good. And thanks a lot, guys ; it's sure

been a pleasure working with you. And I'll see
you a week from tomorrow at W.]]ington.
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033 13 33 38 PLT We'll be looking forward to it.

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SKYLABAIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

033 13 56 26 CC Skylab, Houston. AOS Carnarvon for i0 minutes.

CC And, SPT or PLT, Houston. There was one point

on cameras and fi3_m that Bill Lenoir wanted-me
to clear up here, if you got a chance.

SPT Dick, Stand by - -

CC Okay, Ed.

SPT Bill and Jerry have been working a problem.

CC Okay. Go ahead and don't worry about this. It's

nonconsequential.

033 13 58 19 PLT Houston, PLT. How do you read?

CC Loud and clear, Bill. How me?

f- PLT 5 square. Thankyou.

CDR Dick, would you tell Crip that we're reading him
5square, but apparently he's not reading us.

CC Certainly will, Jerry.

033 13 59 15 CDH Houston, CDR.

CC UDR, Houston. Go ahead.

CDR Hey, Dick. Would you pass the word to Crip we

have a problem with BAT BUS A, we've been trying
to tell him about. BAT BUS A won't stay on the
line. It keeps falling off.

CC Roger, Jerry. Copy. Is any - any other partic-

ulars you want to - that you cam tell us about it
right not?

CDH Okay, let me gibe you the sequence on it. When

we closed the BAT BUS A circuit breaker in the
275 pahel honfl-gurKtTo_ BATBUS A to_ _A, and
we took main - took it off of MAIN A -And at
that time, we had zero volt indication. So we
cycled the BAT BUS A breaker. We OPENED it and
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then CLOSED it again and we got a good voltage

indication. And so we thought everything was
copacetic until we closed, or threw the MAIN BUS
TIE, BAT A/C breaker to ON, the switch to ON.
And at that time, we got a good indication of
switch tie. And then shortly after that, BAT A
voltage dropped back to zero again. And the cur-
rent also dropped to zero, and that's where we
stand right now.

CC Roger, Jerry. I was _iting and thinking there.

One question on v hat you said. After you cycled
the BAT BUS A circuit breaker OPEN, CLOSED and
got good voltage, and then you threw one of the
MAIN BUS TIE switches. What was that switch again?

CDR Alfa/Charlie.

CC Okay. We believe we've configured properly now

to have VHF - VHF, Jerry. Why don't you give us

CDR Roger. Crip says he reads. So I'll get off

S-bandand getback on VHF.

033 14 00 58 CC Okay. Thank you very much.

03B 14 06 06 CC Skylab, Houston. 30 seconds to LOS. Guam at

14:10.

OBB 14 09 56 CC Skylab, Houston on S-band. Guam for lO minutes.

END OF TAPE
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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

033 14 19 06 CC Skylab, Houston; 4 seconds to LOS. Goldstone

at 14:35.

033 14 19 13 CDR Roger, Dick.

033 14 35 40 CC Skylab, Houston. Goldstone for iT minutes.

CC And, the SPT, Houston. On S-band if you get an

opportunity.

SPT Go ahead, Dick.

CC Roger, Ed. Did I detect the riding of the ergom-

\ eter in the backgroundthere? If - That's one
of the things I wanted to talk to you about.

SPT No, not the ergometer, Dick, but go ahead.

CC Okay, are you - If you're up in the command mod-

ule withJerry and Bill, there's no reason to
bug you with this. It has to do with today's
Flight Plan caused by the fact that Bill is up
there helping Jerry, and I don't know where you
are. I thought I could help you out a little
bit.

SPT Go ahead.

033 14 36 50 CC Okay, because Bill is obviously in the command

module, he's getting way behind on his - on the
scheduled PT. One way we might ease up later in
the day, if you want to, it's strictly your option,
is to go ahead and use the ergometer during Bill's
scheduled PT/PH period. This will free it up for
him later during your period or when he's sched-
uled there for checklist update review, and y'all
can swap that later. One other thing, on your
Flight Plan, you'll notice on your sl,mmary it
shows you eating Just prior to PT. That was a
mistake by us. The Slh9 prep 4 and the S020 prep
are not time critical. If you'd like to swapthe
eat and those preps, that'll give you some time
between eating and PT.
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SPT Understand. Thank you, Dick.

CC Roger. One more thing, the laser opportunity at

14:45 is scrubbed for weather.

SPT Thank you.

CC Roger.

033 14 41 24 CC Skylab, Houston. We're going to hand over from -

over to MILA in about a minute or so. And when
we get handed over we're going to dump the
data/voice recorder.

OBS 14 51 38 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 45 seconds to LOS.

Carnarvon at 15:35.

033 14 53 04 CC CDR, Houston. How do you read simul?

CDR Houston, CDR. Reading you loud and clear simul.

CC Okeydoke. Jer, did you copy my last regarding

GIMBAL MOTORS, OFF; QUAD and PACKAGE HEATERS on
on Bravo and Charlie, and batteries off by open-
ing up the MAIN BUS TIE?

CDR Okay, we'll take care of all of that.

CC Okay, over the hill.

CDR Okay, understand Carnarvon's around 46.

CC That's affirm.

CDR Okay.

CC That - Carnarvon's - no, it's at about 35.

033 14 53 46 CDR Okay.

END OF TAPE
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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

033 15 34 25 CC Skylab, Houston. AOS Carnarvon for I0 minutes -

correction, 7 minutes.

PLT BAT C is back on BAT BUS A and BAT B is back on

BAT BUS C.

033 15 40 06 PLT Crip, I have another little anomaly, I think has

occurred. I'd_ like to explain it to you. Okay,
when we're coming up there to reconfigure the
275 panel, I closed the BAT - BUS A BAT C breaker.
That's the 80M breaker on 275. Now the BAT BUS
TIE switch, see, they were already closed. So I
should have gotten a good BAT BUS A at that time.
I did not. I finally had to end Up closing the
BAT - the MAIN B - the MAIN A BAT C breaker, in
order to get MAIN - the BUS - the BA'I'A'_YC tied
to MAIN A. If I have not done it too confusing
there, the - I still have no current showing on
BAT BUS A.

033 15 hO 57 CC SPT, Houston. We're about 30 seconds from LOS.

Guam at 15:h9. No response required.

033 15 48 44 CC SPT, Houston. Guam for 6 minutes.

CC SPT, Houston. If you have a chance, I see - we see

you're off the bicycle - or the ergometer now. If
you have a chance, I'd like to talk to you about
a minute on the - the - today's Flight Plan.

033 15 49 25 SPT Go ahead, Dick.

CC Roger, Ed. Real quick, I - I'm sure that you guys

can figure out most of it better than we can. But,
I wanted to tell you what this c_w-._nd module
problem, we think, has done to tods_'s Flight Plan
and what is time critical and what isn't. The
crewmen, one at a time, - Jerry's the only one
that's really got a - a big problem; and that is -
is that as soon as he's out of the co---and module we
think he ought to go ahead and do his M092/171 run,
then get whatever PT he wants to get today and eat
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right away, in order not to bunch that eat period

down there with the second eat period that's later
this evening. Along that line, what I'm telling
you is in effort to try to - to get you guys to
be able to start the EVA preprep on time at 21:00.
As far as you're concerned, there's nothing time
critical at all except that we'd suggest that you
make yourself available to be the observer for
Jerry as soon as he's available on the M092. The
rest of your items you can figure out better how
to do than we can. For Bill, the only thing time
critical in his Flight Plan is that ATM pass. It
is that S055 detector test. We'd like to get it
if possible. If it gets real bunched up, we could -
it would be okay to slip that one daylight cycle.
But we'd prefer, if possible, to go ahead and get
it on time. Everything else in his Flight Plan is -
he can - is non-time-critical and he can do as he
can find time to do it.

033 15 50 52 SPY Okay, Dick. I understand that, and I'm sure I can
work around it. And I'll try and help Bill out
if possible.

CC Okay, if you'll pass it on to the other guys as

soon as they're available, we'd appreciate it.
And if you need any help from us or you get bunched
up and you need to cancel sc_ething, give us a
holler.

SPT Okay. Th_nk you, Dick.

CC Roger.

CC Ed, Houston. We're 1 minute to LOS. Goldstone

comes up 18 minutes from now.

033 15 54 07 CC That time for Goldstone is 16:12.

033 16 12 09 CC Skylab, Houston. AOS stateside for 16 minutes.

033 16 13 04 CC Skylab, Houston. We're igoing to be dumping the

data/voice recorder here at Goldstone. We see
you're not using it, so we're going to go ahead
and dump.
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033 16 27 ii CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 30 seconds from LOS.

Vanguard comes up at 16:37. Just in the event that
we do not have A0S at Vanguard with voice, at a
time of 16:40, we'd like for you to turn off the
CMG-2 heaters per the cue card that we sent up -
the CMG number 2 heater cue card. We're having
some problems with the command computer down
at the Vanguard, and we don't think that we can
do it ourselves. I'll remind you again at the
Vanguard as soon - as_ng that we do have voice.
See you there.

SPT Okay, Dick. We'll do it. So long.

033 16 27 46 CC Roger.

033 16 37 35 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Vanguard for 9 minutes.

And we would like someone to turn off the CMG
number 2 heaters for us per the cue card, anytime,
from here on, right about now. And let us know
when you do it.

i_ 033 16 39 00 CC Skylab, Houston; we've got telemetry here but no

command capability. We see that you have turned
the heaters off and we appreciate it. Thank you
much.

SPT You're welcome, Dick.

CC Roger.

033 16 46 00 CC Skylab, Houston; we're about a minute from LOS.

Ooldstone comes up at 17:50. See you there.

SPT Roger, Dick; so long.

033 16 46 24 CC And, SPT, Houston; I never got a chance to tell

you earlier, but your phone call this afternoon is
set up at 00:45 at the Vanguard; _ to RIGHT
ANTENNA. I'll rem_ud you again. No response
required.

END OF TAPE
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SKXLAB AIR-T0-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

033 17 50 03 CC Skylab, Houston. Hello at Goldstone for

ll minutes.

SPT Hello, Dick.

CC Hi, Ed. How are y'all doing now? Why don't you
give us an idea of how you're doing on the - the
Flight Plan since you were a little bit late -
everybody - from the command module problem.

SPT Doing pretty good. Bill's up working the ATM.

Jerry's Just finishing the M092/171. I got the -
a section of the EVA prep and also the 149 to go.

CC Have you done your PT, Ed?

SPT Yes, I have, Dick.

033 17 51 15 CC Okay. Thank you much. I had a couple of things

to tell Jerry. I see he's on the bike and work-
f ing hard. I can delay them if he's not listening.

SPT Yes, he's able to listen. He's just got a mouth

full of tube right now, but - -

CC (Laughter) Okay. Why don't I Just mention these,

and it'll give him - maybe it'll take his mind
off what he's doing. First of all, there's a
permanent general message that we uplinked, ntun-
ber 19 Bravo, while ago; that's the powering up
the - It's a slight change from the last EVA and
it's what he'll use in the morning to power up
the CSM in preparation for the EVA tomorrow.
Just wanted to let him know it was on board and -
and his details tell him tomorrow to be sure to
use Bravo instead of Alfa. And he'll also need
permanent message 15 at the same time. The other
thing that I wanted to reaffirm, when he's able
to think about it and let us know, is to the -
his desire of a couple of days ago to get about
an hour and a half of command module switch -
switch time after the EVA for you guys.
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033 17 52 36 SPT Dick, the thumbs up says that we will - we do

want it.

CC Okay. We 're making plans for it and we 'll get

it in there somewhere.

SPT Thank you.

CC And, PLT, Houston. We didn't hear from you. If

you get a chance in doing your _TM work, why don't
you let us know how you're doing on your Flight
Plan with regard to the EHEP tape recorder dis-
assembly or P2 - PT or wherever it is that you
are.

03B 17 53 42 PLT 0ks_y, Dick. The tape recorder work is all done,
and everything is stowed in M-11h. The - I had
to skip the PT today because we had this problem
in the cn_,_and module, and I spent my time up
there. And right now I'm doing the ATM assign -
as assigned per pad.

CC Okay. Well, we had planned possibly for - Since

we - Ed did his PT earlier, we had kind of thought
that maybe you could slip yours in, maybe after
that. Hope you get the chance.

PLT Yes. I intend to, if I get the chance.

CC Okay.

033 17 58 13 CC PLT, Houston. We need the DAS to do a nuZ update.

PLT Roger. You've got it.

CC Roger. And this update is going to change your

roll slightly.

PLT Okay. _)

PLT Also, Dick, I said I put the tape recorder parts

in M-II4. I meant 141, in case amy of the people
were getting concerned down there.

CC Roger, Bill. Thank you much for the correction.

CC PLT, Houston. The DAS is yours. Thank you.

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PLT Roger.

033 18 O1 02 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 15 seconds from

LOS. Vanguard comes up at 18:16. We're going
to dump the data/voice recorder down there.

033 18 13 26 CC Skylab, Houston. Hello at Vanguard for ll minutes.

We're going to dump the data/voice recorder here.

SPT Hello, Dick. I've got a question on Slh9.

CC Go ahead, Ed.

SPT I'm trying to figure out what is the objective

of tomorrow's operations with lh9. I see we're
taking it out, but what's going to happen beyond
that?

CC Oks_v, Ed. Let's talk about it a little. I'll

get back with you.

SPT Thank you.

033 18 15 51 CC SPT, Houston. It's the same purpose as that

revisit bag I was telling you awhile ago. If,
in fact, we ever do make plans to have a revisit
crew, we could retrieve 149 and it, having been
left outside, might be returned by them and pro-
vide us some - some data. But - there are no
plans right now to do that, but that's the pur-
pose of it.

SPT Okay. Thank you, Dick. I - I thought perhaps

that was it, but I wanted to make sure we weren't
missing any kind of step in the procedure. Very
good.

CC Roger. Good question.

033 18 18 34 CC Skyl - Skylab, Houston. For your information, all

of tomorrow's Flight Plans and the housekeeping
message is in the teleprinter.

PLT Thank you, Dick.

033 18 22 22 CC Skylab, Houston. On S055 we'd like HIGH VOLTAGE

n_mher 2 on.
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PLT Thank you, Dick.

CC Roger.

CC Skylab, Houston. We're a minute from LOS. I'll

give you a call at Tananarlve at 18:39. See you
there.

033 18 23 42 PLT Roger, Dick.

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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

033 18 39 13 CC Skylab, Houston; Tananarive for 9 minutes.

033 18 46 43 CC Skylab, Houston. We're I minute to LOS. Hawaii

comes up at 19:24.

SPT Roger, Dick. So long.

033 18 47 03 CC Bye.

033 19 24 31 CC Skylab, Houston. Hello at Hawaii for 6 minutes.

SPT Hello, Dick. Say, Dick, in doing the S020 prep

I looked at the two filters we have available.
And the one which we had in there was serial
number 41. And that had a number of pin-holes
in it, about two which I could se e by eye, and -
- na_ed eye - and about another six which I could
detect with a magnifying glass - that's with a
flashlight behind it. Serial number 31 had about
one which I could detect by naked eye, and an
additional five or so which I could see with a
flashlight or with a flashlight plus magnifying
glass. It looked as though there was considerably
less light coming in with 31, so I've gone ahead
and installed it. But there are pinholes in
both of them, and S020 people may want to think
about it.

CC Okay, Ed. We certainly will think about it.

We appreciate you taking the trouble to look
carefully at them. And we'll get back to you.

SPY Thank you.

033 19 26 17 CC Skylab, Houston. We're going to do an ATM

MISSION TIMER update. We'll need the DAS.

SPT You've got it.

CC ThAnk you.

CC Skylab, Houston. The DAS is yours.

CDR Okay. Don't you guys have an awful long shift

today, Dick?
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CC Well, it se - it seems that way, Jerry. With -

I'm sure it seemed that way to you guys too,
this morning when you started in that command
module stuff. But since you were going to do
the command module business, Crip came in early
to handle that; and since Phil was taking over,
I started off a little early too. Don't worry,
it 's fun though.

CDR Oh, I see. Thought maybe you're doing a double

shift or something.

CC No, sir.

033 19 28 24 CDR By the way, Dick, somebody asked about a week

ago for comments on the wardroom window, if
there'd been any indications of any micrometeorite
impacts or anything like that. The window's quite
smooth. There - there are no indications of any
pits or anything in it at all. About the only
problem we have with it is our little ice thing
forms about once every 2 weeks. And there's some
sort of a deposit on it - on the outside that -
it kind of look§ like water stains, the sort of
thing that when you wash a car window but don't
get it clean - rinsed off clean.

CC Okay, Jerry. Thank you very much for the infor-

mation. We're about a minute to LOS here at
Hawaii. Vanguard comes up at 19:526 so we'll
see you down there. And I 'm talking to Joanne
on the telephone and she says to tell you hi.

CDR Hi.

CC See you later.

033 19 29 24 CDR Okay, Dick.

033 19 51 55 CC Skylab, Houston at the Vanguard for i0 minutes.

CDR Roger, Dick.

SPT Hello, Dick. I have a question for you on

deactivation.

CC Okay, Ed; go ahead.

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SPT Okay, it's on page 2-17, INSS container transfer.

The IMSS/ED31 :contents configuration verification,
step i.

CC Why don't you let me get - -

SPT ... first--

03B 19 52 58 CC Ed, why don't let me turn to that page and then -
that would help me.

SPT Okay.

CC Okay, Ed, go ahead, l'm - l'm looking at it.

SPT Okay. Step one, I have not seen where that is

called out anywhere in the deactivation phase.
And l'm wondering when that's going to he done.
Second part is that we only have two boric acid
cans up here. We do, however, have the large cans
in which the charged particle mobility demonstra-
tion and ED31 were launched in, and which very
well could be used as a return container. I
would propose that we return the charged particle
mobility demostrator and ED31, all of the petri
dishes, 15 of them, in the same container they
were launched, rather than coming up with something
new like we - apparently we've got here.

033 19 54 03 CC Okay, Ed. I'm afraid I can't answer it _,,ediately.

But we will take the question and get you an
answer back.

SPT Thank you.

CC SPT, Houston. I can answer at least the first

half of your question. The - We have blocked
out time for you, and it is presently in the
Flight Plan on day 82, a period of time to do
the step 1. So we have taken that into considera-
tion. And the time is on our schedule for that,
although you haven't seen it yet. The answer
on the cans will come later.

SPT Thanks very much, Dick.

033 19 55 h3 CC Roger.

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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

033 20 00 37 CC Skylab, Houston. Tauanarive comes up at 20:16.

We're about a minute from LOS at Vanguard; see
you at Tananarive.

CDR Roger. See you then.

033 20 16 56 CC Skylab, Houston. We're at Tananarive for 5 min-

utes. And - - ,

SPT Go ahead, Dick.

CC And, CDR, Houston; when you get a_ opportunity.

PLT He's listening. Go ahead, Dick.

CC Okay, this morning there was a little conversa-

tion that we think we have •explained when Jerry
was doing the entry test in the co_m_md module.
We asked him if he had done entry test twice
because we had seen two SPS THRUST lights, We
believe that we have - we have an expl_uation
as how this may have happened. I thought I'd
. •tellit to you and see if it sounds reasonable
i / ! and- so you'll Just realize that nothing's wrong.
• .i- . After
• the entry
-. test - after you do it, you
should - would be in the E_ TEST 5 position.
If - and the next step calls you to go - take
that rotary switch to OFF. If you happen to
move it to OFF in the counterclockwise position,
one of the positions that you move through is a
DELTA-V TEST position. And if at that time there
was a positive nl,mber in the EMS counter, it
would cause the SPS THRUST light to Just blink
on momentarily. And we think - and then later -
we think that's what we saw as the second SPS
THRUST light during that period of time and - or
at least the first of the two. And then later
when you act_ally did the DELTA-V TEST, of course,
we saw another one. So if that seeml like a
reasonable explanation to YoU, We'!Te_ing to
forget it. This also hop - happened on Apollo 17.

CDR Well, the problem is, Dick, I went •clockwise from

5 to OFF.

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033 20 18 39 CC Okay, we figuredyou might say that. We'll con-

tinue to think, Jerry. Thanks for remembering
anyway. I have one other commenthere that every-
body would be interested in. I guess it's kind
of an answer to Ed's question while ago. Several
days ago, we set up - sent up an end-of-mission
summary that includes, generally, what we intend
to do on each of the days during the deactivation.
And listed in there are the days that we do some
of the specific items in the deactivation check-
list. I'm se - in - Included in that is the one
that Ed just asked me about. Don't misunderstand
this as a request for you to go dig out this mes-
sage and - and read the message every time you
have a question rather than asking us about it,
because we're more than happy to talk about it.
But anytime that you - If you do want to pick out
an item that needs to be done on the - in the
next few days, it might very wellbe included in
that message. We did not make it a permanent
message, and we can reuplink it if you still don't
have the copy. But I Just thought I'dremind you
of that.

CDR Okay, Dick; thanks. We still have that copy;

we'll refer to it.

CC Okay, but don't - don't hesitate to ask if we can

help you answer any question about it.

CDR Okay, and the reason why I remembered which way

I went on that EMS switch is because I remember
there was a preferred direction and I couldn't
remember what the preferred direction was. I
remember thinking at the time I had a 50-50 chance
of being right.

CC (Laughter) Okay, Jerry; thanks much. Incident-

ally, we're about 2 minutes to LOS. Hawaii comes
up at 20:59. _ Through a quirk of the schedule,
this is the last pass - this is the last time that
the on - orbit version of the purple gang has a
shift to do this mission. So except for those
guys from the team here that - this is the last
pass that they will do in Skylab - Skylab, includ-
ing myself. Just want to tell you that we've -
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it's been a lot of hard work, but most of all,

it'sbeen a lot of fun. So you guys fly safe
before you get home, and we'll see you at - at
Ellington.

CDR Thanks a lot, Dick. You guys have done a great

job too, and we really appreciate your work.

CC Thank you, sir. We'll see you out there.

033 20 23 14 CDR Houston, CDR.

CC Go ahead, Jer.

CDR I've got a couple of things, Dick. Number 1 is,

on T025. I see they got Nikon O1 scheduled for
that. That's the one we had the trouble with on
the first EVA. We shifted to Nikon 02 on the
second EVA, didn't have any trouble. And it seems
to me to be prudent to stick with the one that
works. I al - I see also that Nikon 02 is sched-
uled for the Nikon obs outside. I think we ought
to just swap Nikons for the - those two Jobs.
And also we're interested in taking a DAC out
with us. We'd like to try doc1_mentaryphotos
again from outside.

CC Okay, Jerry. We're very close to dropping over

the hill here. I'll have you an answer at Hawaii.

033 20 24 O0 CDR Okay.

033 20 58 52 MCC Skylab, this is Houston over Hawaii for lO minutes.

And we're dumping the data/voice. And we'd like
to talk a little about the EVA.

PLT Hello, Rusty; go ahead.

MCC Okay, I guess it's mainly, from what I can see

on my notes here, Jerry and Ed, but if Bill's
got an ear cocked in the direction of a speaker
box, I'd appreciate it. Okay, your question,
Jerry, ov - over Tananarive there; for your infor-
mation, we are planning to do the doc - the DAC
documentary on this EVA. And you'll be getting
a film threading pad which will reflect using
the 140-foot magazine, rather than the big 400,
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sometime this evening. And it is in the check-

list to perform it, both EVA and during the prep
and post. And - so you can expect to be doing
that.

CDR Rusty, we going to use the same magazine on the

prep and post?

MCC Stand by. I'll get an answer on it.

CDR Notice they got a change in - I notice they got

a change in film sphere - frame speed there.
And I figure we're probably using the _00 for prep
and post.

MCC That's affirmative. We will be switching those

out. We will use 140 during the EVA itself and
the h00 for prep and post.

CDR Okay, very good.

MCC Okay. Let me go down mM list here. In the mid-

dle of that, I'll also hit this T025 stuff for
you. By the way, we agree with your suggestion
on that, on the Nikon usage. And if you can copy
now, I'll give you that configuration. Nikon 01
will be used with the CX5B; that'll be the hand-
• held documentary photos. And Nikon 02 with BE -
Bravo Echo 16 and the 55-millimeter UV lens.

033 21 01 0_ CDR Okay, Nikon 01 is Charlie X-ray 53, and 02 is

Bravo Echo - That 16 or 157

MCC That's 16. And you'll have the 55-millimeter UV

lens on it. And Jerry, I'll get to that later,
but we would like you to be doing the T025 preps,
and make sure that you get a hand at trying this
switching the long eye - relief eyepiece. Let
me Just start down my list so we make sure we
don't drop something through the crack here.

CDR Okay.

MCC Okay. Well, on the Sun end where we're going to

be asking you to retrieve the zero-g cover for
postflight analysis, that's one of those little
5-inch diameter, round access plates on the Sun
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\
end canister. And it's - it's held in with six
screws, and you'll be taking that off. It's the
one - there are four of them out there, and it's
the one _mmediately to the left of the S082B f_]m
retrieval door.

CDR Yes, we've got a picture of the Sun end up here,

and we just referred to it and located it.
Those - -

MCC Okay.

CDR - - screws are - are for a blade screwdriver.

Right?

MCC That's affirmative. Okay. We were J_t going

to tell you about that photograph, and you've
already seen it, so that's fine. Okay, during
the prep, we mentioned preparing a universal
mount to hold the Nikon camera. And wh - what
we've done there is recommended some settings
which will enable you to hold the - the handle
on the universal mount and put you Just about
the right place to get your eye up to the - up
to the viewing port. However, you all can play
that any way you want. We found that that was
about the best setting for us.

033 21 02 51 CDR Well, we'll sure give it a try, Rusty. And get-
ting back to that zero-g cover again, we're not
too in love with the tape up here that's used
outside because as soon as it gets cold, it lets
go. And I wonder if it might be wiser for us to
take a PGA pocket out and strap it onto my arm
or something and put that cover in the PGA pocket.
And I Just measured a pocket, and it's wide enough.
It stretches to about 7 inches.

CC Okay, stand by.

033 21 03 52 MCC Okay, you've got a GO on that Jerry. And I think

you - you certainly ought to locate it on you arm
in such a way that you'll minimize snagging. And
we'll leave that up to your jua_ment.

CDR Yes, we'll do a little experimenting and see if

we can't work something up.
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MCC Okay, fine. Getting back to the Nikon on the

universal mount, iI'd like to remindyou that
although the dovetail will fit on the universal
mount either way, you should follow the arrow
that says lens because it'll only lock going on
one direction.

CDR We 'll do it.

MCC Okay. On the T025 operations, of course, it

would be nice if we can get that T025 out of the
way on that first effective sunset. And that's -
Just wanted to remind you of that so you can be
aware of it. And another one in that same sort
of category is when you retrieve the D-O2h sam-
ples, be aware that without the deflectors, we
are exhausting out the front of the PCU. And to
whatever extent possible, we'd like to minimize
direct impingement on the D-O2h samples.

CDR Yes, we talked about that. We'll do the best we

can there.

MCC Okay, I don't think we could ask for much more

than that. On the - After the last EVA, you
asked about that co-,, card - comm cue card out-
side, whether or not you could retrieve it? And
we've batted that around, and if - if you can
pull it off the - the thermal cover there, we'd
Just as soon you bring it back in. And that might
be another candidate for your little pocket.

CDR Okay. Yes, we thought maybe materials people

would like to see that after it's been omtside
for so long.

MCC Yes, they've already got it cut into two pieces.

And my guess is it'll be five or six by the time
you guys bring it back.

CDR Roger.

MDC Okay, one of the questions that you'd asked a few

days ago regarding the long eye-relief eyepiece,
I' d llke to let you know that we have run that
operation with the EVA gloves. And it does appear
to us as though removing the long eye-relief
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eyepiece will be a relatively straightforward

thing when that time comes. You only have to
push the button on the Nikon to bring it off one
camera. To put it on the other camera, it's Just
a straight press fit, and you don't have to push
the button. So it looks as though it ought to
be straightforward as long as the mechanism is
working right. If you cannot change out the long
eye-relief eyepiece, you may have some trouble
in getting a gloved hand in to adjust the shutter
speed. And, of course, there is going to be diffi-
culty in focusing properly for some of the close-
ups you might want to take with it.

033 21 06 50 CDR Roger. We copy. And we'll - we'll practice a

little bit and see what it looks like.

MCC Okay, Jerry. On the EVA prep cue card page 1.1-3,
we've had you tape in there some Nikon prep. What
we're - what we'd like to do - It's under a - it's
on the right-hand col1_ of 1.1-3. And it's
called out for -

CDR Okay I've got it here in front of me.

MCC Okay, it's called out for CDR and SPT. We'd like -
That double callout is for the review of the EMU
emergency malfunction. The little note we Just
sent up on the T025 prep, we'd like to have the
CDR do that so that you are f_m_liarwith hand-
ling all that stuff.

CDR Okay.

MCC All right, and another minor reminder here: When

you are doing the DAC documentary, both beforehand
and during the EVA, you want to re - remember that
the 2_ frames per second, you have to hold the
button in, in order to get continuous exposure.
Also we have a message up there related to the
tenth of a degree deadband on the CSM in case we
have to take over with the CSM. We'd like to Just
let you know that we've run a lot of simulations
on that do_mhere. And, basically, running a
tenth of a degree deadband allows us to do S020
without modifications. And it does not, ironic-
ally, cost us any more fuel; that is, if we do
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not go from one side of the deadband to the other.

It Just sits on one edge and then at the crossover
point on gravity gradient goes over to the other
edge. So it doesn't cost us anything to go down
to the tenth. By the way we're l0 secoads from
LOS here at Hawaii. And we're picking up Vanguard
next in 21 minutes at 21:30.

CDR Okay, Rusty; thanks for the good words.

MCC Gee, you're welcome. Have a nice time out there

tomorrow.

CDR Sure hope to. Thank you.

033 21 09 06 MCC We'll be watching.

END OF TAPE
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SKYLAB AIR-T0-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

033 21 30 44 CC Skylab, this is Houston through the Vanguard for

9 minutes.

CDR Hello, Bruce.

CC Hello, everybody up there. Hey, we got one ques-

tion for you. Is the CREW ALERT light in the
command module still on?

CDR Have to go check the next time we're up in that

area. We'll let you know.

CC Okay, we got on a handover here that you had seen

it earlier in the day. And to extinguish it we -
if it's still on, we need to send a bunch of com- o
mands to reset some relays. So Just let us know
when you get it checked sometime.

CDR Okay. Hey, Bruce, I want to thank you for sending

up the Old Testamentlast night.

CC We figured you guys would appreciate that. You

got it all, didn't you?

CDR We got a the newbook we'd like for tonight.

CC How about War and Peace?

CDR No, how about Little Women?

CDR Bill says send him a big one.

033 21 32 27 CC If you want something constructive to do, we can -

we'd like to have you to change the teleprinter
paper so we can send some more_ Over.

SPT That's our only defense.

CC Boy, if you guys aren't going to change the paper,

we'll Just have to send all this stuff up by voice
in real time.

CDR You Just got through our defense.

CC (Laughter)

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033 21 38 49 CC Skylab, this is Houston; i minute to LOS. Next

station contact in 1 hour and 29 minutes through
the Vanguard at 23:08. Out.

CDR Okay, Bruce. We'll have an answer on that AT_RT

light and have the teleprinter paper changed out
by then.

033 21 39 08 CC Okay, thank you.

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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

033 23 08 05 CC Skylab, this is Houston through the Vanguard at

sea for 10-1/2 minutes; data/voice tape recorder
dump. Over.

CDR Roger, Bruce. The CREW ALERT light is still on;

the tape recorder paper is changed out. And I'd
like to have you send me another copy of permanent
general message 19 Bravo. And this last message,
which is change number B to the Stowage Book has
got some big blank spots in it, so you'll have
to send it over again too.

CC Okay, that's PGM 19 Bravo and Stowage Book change

Dnmher 3?

CDR That's affirmative. That's, I think, the last

two items that we've teleprinted up.

CC _]I right, and I got a couple of items of interest

to you all. First off is - is that there'sa
tropical cyclone by the name of Pam, that's Papa
AlfaMike, which was formed yesterday in the
southwestern Pacific. At 00:00 ZDlu this evening,
it's forecast to be in the position of latitude,
14 south; longitude, 168 east. That's 14 south,
168 east, near the New Hebrides Islands, with
m_mumwinds of 50 knots. You should be able
to see it and get a few photos around 00:02 Zulu,
if you have the time. And I guess this is sort
of EREP's dying gasp since you closed out all the
rest of their gear yesterday.

CDR 0k_y, Pamis at-aiatitude of 14 South_i683 east,

and we can get it at 00:20.

CC Roger. That was 168 east, I didn't have a 3 in

there, but it doesn't mA_e that much difference.
And if Ed's listening, I've got a comment or two
from him on I_S.

SPT Go ahead, Bruce.

CC Yes, the IMSS fecal container transfer step shown

on page 2-17 of the Deact Checklist that you were
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apparently asking about is scheduled for mission

day 82 at about 18:00. Over.

SPT Roger. That was given up earlier today, but go

ahead.

033 23 l0 22 CC Okay, well, maybe you've gotten the rest of this

also. The EDB1 samples require a chilled con-
tainer and that's the reason for using the over-
can with heat sinks. Since you Dan't find one
of the boric acid cans, we recommend using an
empty I_S D can, one of which , two of which are
now in the chiller. It's identified either as
D or as can number 372. And we prefer that you
use the outdated can from the SL-3, which should
have an expiration date of October or November '73
stamped on the thing. If that's not available,
you can go ahead and use the SL-2 can D. And the
reason we're passing it up now is that We thought
you might be working ahead on some of the IMBS
stuff and we didn't want you to dispose of these.
Over.

SPT Yes, I thought of that earlier today, Bruce, and

we were thinking that was probably an alternative
so we did keep those cans around. I had them all
bundled up, all set to throw out, but left them
in the chiller Just in case. So thanks for the
i_fo, and we'll do it that way.

CC Okay, mighty fine. Would you like us to formal-

ize this with a teleprinter message change in the
Deact Checklist or Just play it by ear.

SPT Play it by ear.

CC Beautiful.

SPT One thing I would like to - to notify you of and

that is - in our EVA prep Cue cards, page 1.1-2,
underEVA-2, S082A, it says I ought to be taking
out the container with LN-5 on it or 82A-5. And
I think that's an error, it should be 2. Also
over on the next page which says 1.1-3, about
halfway down in the left-hand column and in paren-
thesis it says L-5; that should be L-2. So when
we come whistling back with the film, they'll know
which one is which.
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CC Okay, stand by a second.

033 23 13 17 CC Okay, Ed, what we want you to do is load the empty

can on the tree whichever one happens to be, and
if load number 4 is empty, that'll be fine.

SPT Roger, Bruce. We came up with LN-5, took that

out on the last EVA and exchanged film, so we now
have the film- for load 4 is now in container 5,
stowed in the command module.

CC Okay, and load number 4 container is the empty

one that you've got in the MDA. Right?

SPT That 's affirm, and that 's what we got in there.
I Just wanted to make sure people understood what
n_mbers were coming back and which - where the
film was actually located.

CC 0kay, thank you.

033 23 14 55 CC CDR, Houston. On change 3 to the Stowage Book,

-- message 8054, many pages; do you want the whole
thing sent again or some particular page? Over.

CDR Well, I was hoping just to have one or so pages,

but every one of there's got a blank spot in it.

CC Okay, we'll send the whole thing again.

CDR Okay.

033 23 15 54 CC And, Jerry, no answer required. We're sending

a reset salvo command to the CSM to clear the
CREW ALERT.

033 23 21 26 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Ascension for

l0 minutes; data/voice tape recorder dump next
site at Guam. And since it will be about h5 min-
utes after we leave you here, could you give us
some feel for how you're progressing through the
EVA pre-prep activities?

CDR We're all finished, Bruce.

CC Ah, that's a pretty good feel; thank you.

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CDR We' re interested in knowing what 140-foot maga-

zine we' re going to have for tomorrow. We 'd like
to go ahead and load it on tonight and put it in
the airlock.

033 23 24 17 CDR Houston, CDR.

CC Go ahead, Jer.

CDR Roger. Another point too, Bruce, Nikon 01 has

got Charlie X-ray 56 in it right now. It's got
44 frames on it, do you have any feel for how
many frames are anticipated to be used tomorrow?

CC You say that's 44 frames taken or 44 remaining?

CDR 44 remaining.

033 23 30 00 CC Skylab, this is Houston.

CDR Go ahead.

CC Okay, Jerry, the cassette you'll be using for the

EVA doc1_m_ntary photography is Charlie X-ray 48,
that's Charlie X-ray 48; and it's stowed in
India l, and you're GO to go ahead and load it
on tonight and be ready to go tomorrow. Regarding
your question about NK-01 with CX56, 44 frames
should be more than enough for the doc_,_ntary
photo stuff that you'll be doing with that. And
we were Just wondering, did you copy the earlier
message about swapping the Nikons for the EVA and
T0257

CDR Yes, that was my suggestion, Bruce. And we've

done that. How about giving me a frame count
breakoff point where we were - we don't have
enough to go out. See, Charlie X-ray 56 is liable
to be used tonight for a few more out-the-wlndow
pictures, and it seems to me 30 frames ought to
be enough for EVA, so we could probably shoot up
14 more tonight.

CC Yes, we agree with that.

CDR Okay.
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033 23 31 ii CC And we got about 30 seconds to LOS. Next station

contact in 35 minutes through Guam at 00:06. And
since you finished the EVA pre-prep, we're going
to tell Scott Milliean to take the rest of the
afternoon off here.

CDR Good job, Scott; take the rest of the afternoon

off.

CC He's smiling.

033 23 31 36 CDR Good Job.

034 00 06 09 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Guam for 9 minutes.

And we're getting ready for a data/voice tape
recorder dump here, and we'll INHIBIT MOMENTUM
DUMPs to enable you to get your $233 operations
off.

CDR Roger.

034 00 i0 35 CC CDR, this is Houston. The two messages you

_- requestedare on board now.

CDR Thank you, Bruce.

034 O0 14 l0 CC Skylab, this is Houston; 1 minute to LOS. Next

station contact in 31 minutes through the Vanguard
at sea at 00:h5. SPT private phone call at the
Vanguard, RIGHT ANTENNA going to LEFt. Over.

SPT Thank you, Bruce.

034 O0 14 30 CC Roger. AOS at 00:45.

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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

034 00 45 28 CC Skylab, this is Houston through the Vanguard for

10-1/2 minutes. SPT private phone comm, and we've
got a question on the S020 filter. We can
probably hold it, though, until next site if SPT
will be available then.

CDR Roger, Bruce.

034 00 48 53 CDR Houston, CDR.

CC Go ahead, Jer.

CDR Bruce, I Just this minute finished recording a

message to the people in the waste management
area. I think it will be of interest to them
because it might possibly have sc_e impact on
their deactivation plans. So would you cue them
on this tape and have them ready to listen to it
when you dump it?

CC Okay, we'll get right on that. The next scheduled

dump is Guam at 01:43, about an hour from now.
Do you want us to try and dump it at Ascension in
a couple of minutes?
/"

034 00 49 27 CDR If you can do it, that'd be fine. If not, I think

_n hour won't hurt.

CC Okay, Just stay off the tape recorder; we'll get

it dumped as soon as possible.

CDR Okay, we have no need for the recorder for a

while.

CC Roger, Jerry; we'll dump it over Canary Island

at 01:06, which is about 15 minutes from now.

CDR Okay, Bruce; thanks.

034 00 54 h4 CC Skylab, this is Houston; about a minute and a

half to LOS. Next station contact in 7-1/2 min-
utes through Ascension at 01:02. And we need
the S056 and H-ALPHA 1 DOORs, CLOSED, please.
Over.

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CDR Okay, Bruce. Bill's up there doing $233 now and

when he gets finished, we'll have him do it.

CC Okay, thank you.

PLT See if that got it, Bruce.

034 00 55 31 CC Okay, thank you.

034 01 02 26 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Ascension, Canary,

and Madrid for aboutl4-1/2 minutes. And if Ed
is free for a minute we've got a couple of questions
for him on S020.

SPT Go ahead.

CC Yes. Could you see the holes - or a hole in the

S020 filter number 31, which is the one you
installed, without using a penlight? Over.

SPT No, I could not. It really was just a pinpoint

and you had to put the light behind it for it to
show up.

034 01 02 59 CC Okay, realizing this may seem sort of superfluous,

can you describe the pinholes you saw? Or how many
did you See?

SPT Okay, Bruce. I gave all that information previously

and it's also on the dump tape. And what I'll give
you now is what - the best I can remember. What
I saw was one pinhole which was evident with a
flashlight behind it, I could see by the naked
eye. Taking a small magnifying glass I was able
to see an additional five or six - very small. On
the other filter I saw two pinholes and in general
the other - others which I saw, which again was
about another six or seven, seemed to be a little
bit larger. I chose 31 because it seemed as though
it transmitted a smaller amount of light directly.

CC Okay, we copy that. Thank you.

034 01 0h l0 CC Okay, Ed. Thank you very much for bearing with us.
Go ahead and use the one you got installed. The
only reason we were belaboring the point here is
we are concerned about film fogging. But from
your description, it sounds like they'll be okay.
Over.
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SPT That's good to hear. I wasn't sure on the nature

of their optics, whether that would - direct light
would foul them up or not. And I'm glad to hear
it won't.

CC Well, it will, but we feel that the size of the

holes as you've described them are such that we
won't get enough light through to cause any problems.

034 01 04 43 SPT Very good. Those folks have waited too many years
for good data.

CC Yes, indeed.

SPT I was working S020 before I started working the

Apollo extension system.

CC Yes, that's back in the days of AAPIA, also.

034 01 05 12 SPT That was pre-AAP.

034 01 ll 50 CC And we're ready to copy the evening status report

.- when every'all have it handy.

CDR But I gave it over Ascension. Didn't you hear me?

CC No.

CDR Okay. Well, I'ii give it again, then.

CC It was supposed to be over Canary, which is where

we are.

034 01 12 17 CDR 0kay_ 16-millimeter: MI51, M092/171, Charlie

India 65, 74, Charlie India 81. Documentary
photos, urine sampling, Charlie India 129, 40,
Charlie India 78. Nikons: 01, Charlie X-ray 56,
44; 02, Bravo Echo 16, full; 03, Charlie India ll6,
32; 04 is empty; 05, Bravo Hotel 06, 48. 70-milli-
meter: Charlie X-ray 45, 022. ETC, none; EREP,
none. Drawer A; Alfa l, 2, and 3, no change;
Alfa 4, 08, Charlie India 65, 74, Charlie India 81.
Back: 07, Charlie India 129, 40, Charlie India 78.

CC Okay, we copy that, Jerry.

CDR Okay. CDR sleep, 6.5, 5 heavy, 1.5 light; SPT, 7.0,
6 heavy, 1 light; PLT, 6, 6 heavy. Volumes: 170;
_- 300; 260. Water gun: 8971; 5011; 2069. Still
copying?
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CC Yes.

034 01 13 45 CDR Body mass: 6.329, 6.329, 6.329; 6.393, 6.397,

6.397; 6.256, 6.254, 6.258. Exercise: no change
for any crewman. Medications: CDR, three Sudafed
as directed; SPT, none; PLT, one Attired as direced.
Clothing: CDR, shorts, socks, and shirt; SPT
shorts, socks, and T-shirt; PLT, shirt. Food log:
CDR, salt zero, minus one coffee with sugar, plus
1.5 water; SPT, 40 salt, 4.0 salt, that is, plus
two Apollo grape drinks, plus lemon pudding, plus
2.0 water; PLT, zero salt, plus one chocolate-chip
bar, zero water. Flight - Flight Plan deviations,
already reported today. Shopping list accomplish-
ments : All Deactivation Checklist updates are
completed, and CDR instrumented exercise. Inoper-
able equipment: the boot on PLT's urine bag that
connects it to the separator failed this evening and
there was a urine spill of about 100ccs. Unsched-
uled stowage: none.

034 01 15 18 CC Okay, we've got all of that, Jerry. And there are
no evening questions as such tonight.

CDR Very good.

CC And we got about a minute and a half to LOS here.

Next station contact is in 27-1/2 minutes through
Guam. It'll be the private medical conference at
01:43 with a data/voice tape recorder dump possible
at AOS also. Over.

CDR Roger, Bruce.

SPT Hey, Bruce, in the minute remaining, why don't I

try to tell you what Pare looked like.

CC Okay, let her rip.

034 01 16 20 SPT Okay, a fairly extensive cloud cover; what we could

see it was at least 700 miles. We were on the
northeast side. I saw going towards the cerzter
around eight bands of C's, probably prestorm squall
lines. Cirrus streaks were also present above it all;
around five of those streaks, which are running
a.long with the squall lines, same direction with a
clockwise rotation. Saw about five of those in
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towards the center. There was a clear area in the

center, but i_ was very - not a very sharply defined
eye. There was a few overshooting cloud tops;
not a large number of them, though. And there was
a weak feeder band from the northeast; that's from
the ITCZ. And there was no cloud premodes evident,
nor circular exhaust clouds. Most impressive, I
guess, was how extensive it was. And it was pretty
well organized in terms of the clockwise rotation.

CC Okay, thank you, Ed. Did you get some pictures

of it?

SPT Didn't have a camera handy.

034 01 17 22 CC Okay, see you at Guam for the med conference.

034 01 47 57 CDR Houston, CDR.

CC Go ahead, Jerry.

CDR Roger, Bruce. The teleprinter is still on the

bum. I've readjusted the head. Would you send up
a test message right away?

CC We 'll do that.

CC Okay, it may be a minute or so. You'd better count

on getting it over Honeysuckle, which is about
01:57 here.

CDR Okay, Bruce.

MCC Hope you got that test message loaded. They're

going to need it in a minute.

034 01 50 01 CC SPT, Houston. We show that on this, your last

ATM pass, the DOOR on H-ALPHA 1 is CLOSED, even
though the camera is - is taking pictures. Go
ahead and co_nand the door open manually. Thirty
seconds to LOS; next station contact through
Honeysuckle Creek in about 7 minutes at 01:57.
That'll be the last pass of the evening, and we
shall have a teleprinter test message for you there.

034 01 50 31 CC And we show the DOOR OPEN now.

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03401 57 38 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Honeysuckle Creek
for a little over 2 minutes. We're sending you
page 7 of the mission day 82 changes to the stow-
age twice, with a space in between, as a tele-
printer test message since it's a fairly long mess-
ag_. Over.

CDR Okay, Bruce, and I've go another teleprinter head

standing by and loaded ready to slap in if this
one doesn't work out.

CC Okay; mighty fine.

CC It's on it's way.

034 01 58 50 CDR It's no good, Bruce; you might as well stop the
transmission. I'll change out the head.

CC Okay, we 'll do that.

CC Okay, go ahead, Jerry. It's 1 minute to LOS. The

next station is the Vanguard in 25 minutes at
02:24 after your nominal 02:00 sign off. If you
like, we'll send another test message at the
Vanguard and you can check it there. Over.

CDR Okay.

CC Okay, we 'il do that.

CC The new head's in now, Bruce.

CC Okay. we only got 19 seconds here. We'll have to

wait til the Vanguard. We're going to try, though.

034 01 59 55 CDR All right, you can send up a little.

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q

034 02 O0 20 CC It's on its way.

CDR Okay, it's no good either.

CC Okay, try changing the paper and reloading the

head, p_ease. You might even try a new cassette
to take the roll of paper out of.

CDH Keep the message coming; it's beginning to improve.

034 02 O0 55 CC Okay, we're going over the hill. See you at Van-
guard.

034 02 2h ll CC Skylab, this is Houston through the Vanguard for

a little over 6 minutes. For Jerry: we're going
to uplink three copies of the standard teleprinter
test message, and we suspect that the problem that
we had going over the hill there at Honeysuckle
was that after you changed the - the head and put
the power back on - or the cartridge and put the
-- power back on, it takes about 40 seconds for the
system to warm up before it will print reliably.
And we're also considering maybe we need to work
our way a little bit into the roll. So let's see
how these work out. Over.

CDR Okay, Bruce; go ahead.

034 02 25 38 CDR Okay, Bruce. The test messages are loud and clear.
You can go ahead with the rest of the print.

CC Okay, that's good news, Jerry; we will. And we'll

bid you good night; see you in the morning around
ll:00 Z. And let me check and see if we've got
a - a _akeup site here. Yes, we'll call you
through Canary Island at ll:00 Z on the uose.

CDR Okay, Bruce. Good night.

CC And film thread pad's going to be a little late

tonight; better not hold your breath on it.

CDR Okay.
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p -. 034 02 27 19 CC And, SPT, Houston. As we close out for this,

the final _nned ATM pass of the Skylab Program,
could we get a final frame count from you? Over.

SPT Sure can, Bruce. 7B12, 85093, l, 0, 80, and 2242.

CC Okay, we got that. We got about 2-1/2 minutes

to LOS here, but we'll go ahead and bid you good
night and see you tomorrow.

034 02 27 58 SPT Good night, Bruce.

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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUNDVOICE TRANSCRIPTION

034 ii 00 ii (Music: "Walk in a Black Forest" by The Tijuana

Brass )

03_ ll 01 58 CC Good morning, Skylab.

PLT Good morning, Hank.

034 ll l0 36 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from LOS. Honey-

suckle 'll be coming up in 30 minutes at 41.

034 ll l0 51 CDR Roger, Hank.

034 ll 41 08 CC Skylab, Houston through Honeysuckle for

7-1/2 minutes.

CDR Roger, Hank.

CC Would you like to hear a little news this morning?

SPT Sure would,Hank. Go ahead.

034 ll 41 48 CC Okay. President Nixon has rejected the idea of

taxing American workers an additional $3.8 billion
to help finance his new national health insurance
plan, according to two key White House aides. The
plan being prepared for submission to Congress this
week will instead rely upon growth of the economy
and a heavier cash flow into the treasury to cover
the added cost of $5.8 billion in Federal funds,
they said. Reports of temporary layoffs increased
Saturday night as the shutdown by independent
truckers spread over more than 20 states, prompting
Federal officials to ask the na - nation's 50 gov-
ernors to restore peace and commerce to the high-
ways. Reports of scattered violence increased
Saturday night, and scores of truckstops reportedly
closed in the shutdown that will have idled more
than 10,000 workers by Monday. Food became a major
worry as shippers of produce reported sharp drops
in truck movements, and at least a dozen meat pack-
ing plants and slaughter houses reported they had
closed or curtailed operations.

034 ll 42 47 CC While,the dimensions of the energy crisis grew in

197 - 73, so did U.S oil exports,accordingto a
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preliminary study by the General Accounting Office.

The study, ordered by Representative Lester L. Wolff
of New York, also shows that during the same period,
U.S. oil companies reduced production. Senator
Henry M. Jackson has questioned the legality of
the Nixon administration's refusal to place a
ceiling on soaring domestic oil prices. The
Washington Democrat told a hearing of his Senate
Interior Committee that the administration's price
ceiling exemption on so-called new oil 'bay well
be unlawful" and asked for a full report from
energy chief William E. Simon. The Federal Power
Commission says it has authorized the Southern
Natural Gas Company, a major gas supplier in the
southeast, to purchase national - natural gas at
the highest price on record. The commission said
Friday it authorized Southern, based in Birmingham,
Alabama, to purchase the gas at a price equivalent
to slightly more than 55 cents per I000 cubic feet.
The previous high price had been 45 cents per i000
cubic feet. A commission spokesman said Southern
Natural would have to apply to the FPC if it wanted
to pass the higher gas cost along to its customers.
The spokesman could not say what effect the price
of the Southern Natural purchase would have on
future prices, hut said it did not necessarily mean
that future prices would be as high.

034 ii 44 06 CC President Nixon tentatively plans to visit the

Soviet Union around June, it was learned Saturday.
In saying farewell last July to Soviet Commlmist
Leader Leonid Brezhnev at San Clemente, California,
Nixon announced he would make his second presiden-
tial visit to the Soviet Union sometime in 1974.
He was last there in May, '72. June is the approx-
imate current target date for such a Nixon trip,
it was learned. The President has expressed hope
he would be able to visit a number of other cities
besides Moscow. In 1972 he went to Moscow,
Leningrad and Kiev. Officials laying out a tenta-
tive timetable for the foreign trips Nixon plans
to make during the year also have fixed on April
as the likely time for a trip to several European
capitals. There has been no indication when Nixon
might go to Japan, though he has said he would like
to visit Tokyo sometime during the year.
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034 ii 4h 56 CC "It's unquestioned that we're going to have some

kind of flooding this year," said the Mississippi
River Cow,,ission. 'We are getting ready for a major
one. We can't gamble that it won't happen." Some
flooding began in late January in Arkansas,
Louisiana, Mississippi, and Tennessee. Swollen by
rain, the Missisiippi River and several tributaries
the Yazoo, Big Sunflower, the Red, the Ouaehita,
and the Big Black, overflowed into nearby fields
and woodlands. The Mississippi was higher in many
areas on January 31 than it was a year ago. That
was 2 months before the historic floods that lef_
a dozen dead and $1 billion in damage from Illinois
to the Gulf of Mexico. The water didn't recede un-
til May. The mississippi River Commission, a federal
agen - agency run by the Corps of Engineers, has
declared a phase 1 lert - alert in the South.
Patrols make delly - daily inspections of every
levee along the lower Mississippi.

034 ii 45 44 CC Heavy snow warnings were issued Saturday for the

southern parts of New York State and New England,
and 4 inches piled up in Boston as bad weather hit
much of the nation onGroundhog Day. Snow, sleet,
and freezing rain amid - made travel Hazardous from
New York City to northern Ohio. Snow also fell on
the upper Great Lakes region, the upper Mississippi
Valley, and the northern plains. One foot of snow
was on the ground at Minneapolis-St. Paul. Rain
doused an area from the central Gulf Coast through
the Tennessee Valley to the Mason-Dixon line. Up
to 2 inches of rain hit Baton Rouge, Louisiana;
Greenwoood, Mississippi; and Knoxville, Tennessee
in 6 hours. Light rain dampened the northern
Pacific coast, and nlouds covered the middle
Mississippi Valley. The groundhog saw his shadow
over most of the U.S. If he sees his shadow, there
supposed to be 6 more weeks of winter. It was
clear, however, from the central and southern
plains to the Pacific coast. Afternoon temperatures
ranged from 3 below at Sault Ste. Marie to 8h at
Fort Myers, Florida.

034 ll 46 44 CC The acronyms that airlines proudly use to identify

themselves, TWA, MEA, BOAC, and so on, have been
translated into uncomplimentary phrases by young
Egyp - Egyptians. Making up words to fit the
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initials is almost a national pastime comparable

with limericks or shaggy dog stories in the U.S.
For instance, the Belgian airline, Sabena, "such a
bloody experience never again"; or TWA, "try walk-
ing across"; the Pakistani airline, PIA, "please
inform Allah"; and Air India, "Allah informed";
BOAC, "better on a camel"; Alitalia, "always late
in takeoff , always late in arrival"; And finally,
the Middle East Airlines, "miserable, excruciating
airline."

03_ ii 47 32 CC And let's see what we got in sports here. The New
England Whalers knocked off the Houston Aeros 5
to 2 last night. That's their third loss in a
row. The Rockets didn't do much better. They were
downed by the Hawks, 117 to 107. In the Hawaii
open Jack Nicklaus is burning up the course; he's
six strokes ahead after three rounds. And in college
basketall, UCLA, 65; USC, 54. And we're 1 minute
form LOS. Hawaii'll be coming up at 01, 13 minutes
from now, and we plan to dump the recorder there.

PLT Okay, Hank.

CDR Sounds like USC played their stalling game against

UCLA again.

034 ll 48 20 CC Yes, I think they did. It didn't work this time,

though. They had some hopes of knocking them aff
like they have in a few years past, but it didn't
work out.

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034 12 Ol i0 PLT Houston, Skylab.

CC Skylab, Houston. Go ahead.

PLT Roger, Hank. I Just want to clarify a point

involving TO25. We will apparently use the cue
card and do the exposures - all the exposures on
the cue card. Is that correct?

CC I'll check it.

CC That's correct, Bill. Use the cue card.

PLT Okay.

034 12 O1 55 CC And, Skylab, we need the recorder for a dump.

PLT Okay, you've got it, Hank.

r_ 034 12 04 04 CC CDR, Houston. How're you coming with the CSM

powerup?

034 12 04 21 CDR Say again, Hank.

CC Okay, we see it on telemetry now. We were just

going to remind you that the star window was go-
ing to close at 12:19, and was wondering how you
were coming along, but we see it in telemetry now.

CDR Okay.

034 12 07 19 CDR Hank, you got PO0 and ACCEPT if you have any up-
links.

CC Okay, we don't have anything for you this morning,

Jer.

CDR Okay.

034 12 09 34 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute to LOS. We'll

see you in 4 minutes at Goldstone.

034 12 13 33 CC Skylab, Houston through Goldstone for 6 minutes.

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CC CDR, Houston. You need to sync your clock there

before you make your alignment. If - if you give
us PO0 and ACCEPT here, we can do it for you.

CDR Okay, you got it.

03_ 12 l_ _6 CC CDR, Houston. Could you give us P00?

CC PLT, Houston.

PLT Go, Hank.

CC Hey, Bill, it appears to us that there's a good

possibility that we're going to run out of film
for the M151 in the post for Jerry and Ed, and
: it - whatwe'd liketo do is getyou to get out
transporter 07 and tape it up - near th_ F-9 lo-
cation. Correction on that, Bill, it's - it's trans- -_
porter 08, and it's stored in Alfa 4. And tape
it up there near the F-9 location so that if trans-
_ porter 07 does run out of film in the post, that
_ Jerry can go up and change that out after he doffs
.... his helmet and gloves and get the MlS1 that's re-
quired for those post photos.

034 12 16 15 PLT Okay, Hank.

CDR All through, Hank?

CC Standby i.

CC Okay, the computer is yours. We can- and you

look clear for alignment.

CDR Okay, thanks.

03_ 12 18 5_ CC Skylab, Houston. We're about _0 seconds from LOS.

Bermuda is next at 23.

03_ 12 23 16 cc Skylab, Houston through Bermuda for 10-1/2 minutes.

CDR Roger. Hank, what about a nuZ for NOUN 78? Or

can you Just give me an R-3 value?

CC Jerry, we think you're ok_v there.

CDR 0kay, thank you.

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034 12 26 i0 CC CDR, Houston. Do you have a moment?

CDR Roger. Go ahead.

CC Jer, I don't know whether you copied wb_t I was

talking to Bill about, but we think you're going
to run out of DAC film there during the post-EVA.
And Bill's going to take transporter 08 - H and
tape it up by the F-9 location. So after your
EVA, when you get back in, we'd like to get you
....• to_change that out. After you doff your helmet
and gloves just go up to F-9 and put transporter
08 on; and then that'll be plenty of film for you
for your }4151 and 516 ops.

034 12 26 48 CDR Okay, Hank; thank you.

034 12 28 03 CC Skylab, Houston. For info, we're going to go ahead

and turn on the second pump in the PRIMARY COOLANT
LOOP, and when we do that, you'll get a CAUTION
and WARNING. Our configuration will be for the
PRIMARY LOOP: INVERTER 2, PUMPS Bravo and Charlie.
At the completion of the EVA, we'll go back to
normal configuration of INVERTER 2 and PUMP -
PUMP Bravo.

CDR Roger, Hank.

MCC I minute to - -

034 12 33 O0 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from LOS. Ascen-

sion is coming up at 40, 7 minutes from now.

SPT So long, Hank.

034 12 40 31 CC Skylab, Houston through Ascension for lO minutes.

034 12 49 50 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from LOS. Car-

narvon's coming up in 23 minutes at 13:13, and
we'll hand over to the maroon team there.

SPT So long, Hank; have a good day.

034 12 50 l0 CC Thank you; see you tomorrow.

034 13 13 25 CC Good morning, Skylab. Got you through Carnarvon

for lO minutes.

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SPT Good morning, Story.

CC Hi, Ed.

034 13 22 52 CC Skylab, we're a minute to LOS; about 4 minutes to

Guam.

034 13 27 06 CC And we're back with you through Guam for 9 minutes.

034 13 27 53 CC Skylab, back with you through Guam for 8 minutes.

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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

034 13 35 30 CC Skylab, we're a minute to LOS; about 17 minutes

: to stateside
at 13:52.

034 13 51 57 CC Skylab, we got you stateside for 19 minutes. And

Ed or Jer, sometime in the next 19 minutes, like
to know where i you are,

SPT Jer is zipped up in his suit, and I'm Just getting

there, Story.

CC Super. Thanks. And for your information on the

water cooling, if we have a SUS 1 failure today,
you've got a capability of going to SUS 2. And,
of course, if we have a SUS 2 failure, then we've
also got HIGH FLOW, EVA, and gas cooling.

CDR Roger, Story.

{

034 14 00 56 CC Skylab, we show you voice recording here, and we'll

need to take it in the next 2 or 3 minutes. We do
need a dump here.

PLT Go ahead, Story. _

CC Understand we're cleared to dump, Bill?

PLT That's affirmative. I just turned it on per check-

list, and it was a bit early.

CC Okay. We'll be dumping here.

034 14 l0 23 CC Skylab, we're a minute to LOS. The next station'll

be Carnarvon in about 40 minutes at 14:50. We'll
be planning to dump the data/voice there.

CDR Okay, Story. PCU activation's complete.

034 14 l0 37 CC Okay; thanks, Jer.

034 14 50 51 CC Skylab, we're back with you through Carnarvon for

9 minutes.

CC And, Skylab, we're going to be dumping the data/

voice here. And your bioinstrumentation data looks
beautiful.
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CC Skylab, we're seeing your suits pressurized down

here, and we expected to be hearing you on V0X
at this point.

034 14 53 08 PLT Story, how do you read?

CC Loud and clear, Bill.

PLT Okay, I'm going to go recheck the co-_Aud module

configuration - why I'm hearing you on a speaker
box, and we're not hearing you, however, in our
SI - in your headsets.

CC Okay, Bill.

CC Bill, Houston. We got a suggestion for you.

034 14 58 40 PLT Houston, Skylab. How do you read?

CC Reading you loud and clear, Bill. And we got a

sug - -

PLT Okay, I've gone up in the command module, gone

through every switch, and I got it configured Just
as the checklist says. And I'm sort of at a loss
right now.

CC Okay. We're working a Sl_mmary out here for you.

Check on panel 200, the AUDIO CCU, A, check if
that that circuit breaker is CLOSED. It's the
second row from the bottom - second row from the
top. That's panel 200, AUDIO CCU, A, check that
that's CLOSED.

034 14 59 43 PLT That's affirmative, Story. It was CLOSED.

CC Okay, and I guess, with your comm_nd module work,

we got to verify that panel 6 is in mode, VOX
and the VOX SENSITIVITY'S on 9.

PLT That's affirm.

CC Okay, we're about 30 seconds to LOS here, we'll

see you over G_sm in 5 minutes.

034 15 00 l0 PLT Okay.

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034 15 00 i0 CC And how are you talking to us right now, Bill?

PLT Through SIA i31.

CC On channel B?

PLT That 's affirm.

034 15 00 27 CC Okay, thanks.

034 15 04 56 CC Skylab, we're back with you through Guam for

8 minutes.

CC And, Bill, we'd like you to try communicating with

us on SIAs or ll6 and key in channel A.

PLT Say again, Story. I didn't hear you.

CC Are you on channel B right now, 130 - SIA - 131,

Bill?

PLT Negative. I ,m 102 right now.

CC Okay, try talking to us on channel A, on SIA 102.

03h 15 06 18 CC And we're not reading you down here now.

J

PLT That didn't help any, Story.

CC And can you - -

PLT Sc_ehow it seems like we don't have A and B connected

together.

CC Understand you can't read us on A.

PLT Way, way down in the mud.

034 15 08 41 CC Bill, Houston.

CC Bill, like you to go to panel 6 in the co,and

module and turn the S-BAND VOLUME up. And also
check on panel 6, that you S-BAND T/R switch is
in T/R.
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PLT Okay, now we're on BACKUP.

CDE Okay.

CC Reading you loud and clear down here.

CDR Hey, yes, we got you too. How do you read us?

CC Loud and clear, Jer.

SPT Okay, how do you read me here, Story?

CC Loud and clear.

SPT Okay; Story, I guess Bill took panel 6 and put the
AUDIO CONTROL to BACKUP.

PLT It's nice to know somebody else doesn't understand

the comm system either.

PLT Okay, let's see, where were we? We were getting

ready to depress. Okay, I have inhibited CMG
control and done a nominal H-CAGE, I think. I'm
goingto do it again. I.

034 15 l0 29 CC Negative on the cage, Bill. You're looking good

right now.

PLT Okay. All right. Let me - I got to find my place

again after all that folderol! And we were doing
so well too.

CDR Yes, we lost 20 minutes on that one.

CC Skylab, we don't understand your previous co_uni-

cation problems, but you're clear to go ahead
with the configuration you got. And you're GO
for depress. All your systems are looking good.

CDR Okay, Story.

PLT How are you reading him, Jerry?

CDR Okay.

SPT Oh, a little bit weak but nice and clear.

PLT Okay.
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SPT Clear but weak, yes.

volume. Thmre's a way of upping the

/ : PLT Yes, I should have done it while I was in there.

As soon as we get everything squ_red away here,
I 'Ii go in and turn up the volume again.
CD/s

034 15 ii 23 PLT Okay, airlock module depress : warning, EV-I and - 2,

If cuff gage drops below 3.6 psig during depress,
LOCK COMPARTMENT DEPRESS VALVE, CLOSEd and EV-3
forward hatch PRESSURE _UALIZATION VALVE to OPEN.
Okay. AI_ right, 311. For hatch PRESSURE
EQUALIZATION VALVE to OPEN. Stand b_. That's
in work.

PIE Okay, it's closed. EV-I and 2, note: if LOW VENT

FLOW light comes on before depress complete, FLOW
select_,EVA NORMAL. During depress cuff gage may
read 4.1 m-x in D_IEA-P mode. Warning: EV-3, if
rate-of-climb indicator exceeds i00 feet per minute,
_ or if CAUTION and WARNING RAPID DELTA P, Pp02 LOW
or CLUSTER PRESSURE, tell EV-I to CLOSE COMPARTMENT
DEPRESS VALVE. EV-I, panel 318. LOCK COMPARTMENT
DEPRESS - DEPRESS VALVE to OPEN.

SPT Okay, good going; OPEN now.

034 15 12 _ CO 30 seconds to LOS. See you over Goldstone at

15:28, about 16 minu_es.

PIE Okay, Story. EV-3 panel 225, monitor PRESSURE to

YOI_ARD, and 0WS stable, M.8 to 5.2.

BPT 0kay, our PRESSURE's down to 4-I/2; _-i12, cuff

gage good.

(_R Yes, m_ cuff gage is hanging in there.

SPT Yes, we'll be picking up a little bit of ice

there; I see it coming in now.

PIE I'll tell you what. While you're doing that,

I'm going to go up there end tweak that volume up.
SPT Good idea.
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PLT And I can ziggy back if any problem comes up.

034 15 13 27 CC Going over the hill, Skylab. Everything looks

good. _

CDR Okay, Story; thanks.

SPT Down to 3-i/2. Cuff gage, holding at 3.75. Mine's

looking good, 3.85.

034 15 28 25 CDR-EVA ... get into the foot restraints and hold you.

SPT-EVA Okay, because this is a real arm wrestling match

here.

CDR-EVA Okay. Just relax a minute until I get out there.

SPT-EVA Because as I recall, last time also we were reading

the exposures from the top, and this would be from
the bottom.

PLT Yes, you should be able to adjust that shutter

speed knob fairly comfortably from the foot
restriants outthere.

SPT-EVA Yes. Okay, I see the way - the finger is working.

CDR-EVA Okay. I'm going to use the foot restraints, Ed.

SPT-EVA Yes; okay. There we go.

034 15 29 05 CC Skylab, we're reading you loud and clear;

stateside, 15 minutes.

CDR-EVA All right, Story.

SPT-EVA Hello, Story. Okay; I think that - that's the

proper position. I'm not sure what those words
said, Bill, but they didn't tell the story.

CC Bill, Houston.

PLT Go ahead, Story.

CC If you run into any comm problems, on page 1.2-15

is a - a cutout that we sent up to you, and on
panel l0 there, all - all the panels 6, 9, and l0
should be the same configuration. That's a little
s_,,.maryfor you.
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PLT Okay.

SPT_EVA Jer, what are you doing there?

CDR-EVA What am I doing?

SPT-EVA Yes.

CDR-EVA l'm standing in your foot restraints; holding you.

SPT-EVA Oh, okay, I didn't - okay. Just let - let me get

up there.

034 15 29 58 PLT Okay, Story, those are all checked that way.

SPT-EVA Just lean me forward so my head gets up there,

because I got to see what I'm doing.

CDR-EVA All right. How's that?

SPT-EVA ...

CC Okay, Bill. No changes needed. That's Just a

summary for you in case you run into any problems.

PLT Okay.

SPT-EVA Okay. Let go a little bit a minute, Jer, and I'll -

I'll get positioned and then - if you just hold
me there. Oh, it's my umbilical. That's what's
holding me up. Would you unloosen that fellow?
That's still, I think, is in that restraint.

CDR-EVA Yes. There you go.

SPT-EVA There we go. Okay.

CC Jet, Houston.

CDR-EVA Go ahead.

034 15 30 35 CC While you're playing with that T025, one unknown

to us down here is how you plan to use Nikon 02.
Do you plan to transfer that - that eye relief
or not ?

CDR-EVA Yes, we'll try it. We did it in the glove yesterday,

and it was easier than we thought it would be.
So we'll go on Rusty's advice and give it a whirl.
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CC Okay; thanks.

PLT And, Srory; for your information, 15:19 was hatch

opening time.

CC Thank you, Bill. 15:19.

SPT-EVA Okay. I can take this tether off now, it'll make
it a lot easier to work. Be another day of
finger exercises.

CDR-EVA Yes.

SPT-EVA Okay. Now just lean me forward again there ...

CDR-EVA ... I Just got finished clamping your tether.

SPT-EVA 0kay.

CDR-EVA There we go.

SPT-EVA Okay; how about the good work on those knobs, Bill?

034 15 31 30 PLT Okay. Let me read it again here. It's position

clamp on strict halfway or beyond the first section
of - handrail. Secure clamp by turning top knob
clockwise until tight; then turn lower knob
countreclockwise until tight.

SPT-EVA Okay. It's in work. Okay; that's complete.

PLT Okay. EV-2, pass filter case to EV-1.

CDR-EVA Okay. That 's already done and it 's in place.

PLT All right. Restrain T020, okay. I'm going to

read this anyway, just in case there's information
that you might need. Restrain T025 filter case
on temporary stowage hook, install filter A to
the A-l, Alfa l, position, and align experiment
by turning X and Y knobs until Sun image is located
in center of occulting disk. Image will appear
orange in center.

034 15 32 56 CDR-EVA Hey, Ed; look. There's thw whole of San Joaquin
Valley over ther e . See it?

SPT-EVA Hold on.

J
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CDR-EVA There's the Sierras, the San Jaoquln Valley, and

the Salton Sea.

SPT-EVA Yes.

CDR-EVA Beaut iful.

SPT-EVA Oh, yes.

CDR-EVA So we're out over Arizona; probably Flagstaff.

PLT I can see the Grand Cauyon from in here.

CDR-EVA Yes. There it is.

PLT Lake Powell.

SPT-EVA Let's take a look at that Garlock Fault and see

whether that runs to Los Vegas.

CDR-EVA That's a little bit too far out and to the west
of us.

SPT-EVA Yes, you can't get good definition, can you?

CDR-EVA Uh-uh; not from here.

CDR-EVA BeautifUl. We sure got a pretty country, Houston.

SPT-EVA That it is.

CDR-EVA Okay. Back to the salt mines.

SPT-EVA Okay; now-

PLT We're Just about over Salt Lake City right now.
Okay.

034 15 33 57 SPT-EVA Hold on, Bill. I'm trying to get this thing
lined up, and until you get the Sun in there -

CC Skylab, Houston.

CDR-EVA Go ahead.

CC Jer, we don't want you to get too far downstream

on T025. You got at least another 50 minutes
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until sunset, and we're thinking that may be in

the way of running the clothesline up and down
to the center workstation.

CDR-EVA Okay. Do you want us - do you want us to put

T025 in and do the clothesline work first? I
was under the i/pression we wanted to get T025
out of the way first of all.

SPT-EVA Yes. That's the way the checklist is written,

isn't it, Bill? Doesn't it have that in there?

PLT I don't know - the checklist - I was reading and

I hadn't gotten that far - Just deploying the
clothesline.

CDR-EVA Well, the very first comment on the very first

page for egress says to do T025.

PLT That's right. 25 minutes prior to first ESS.

That's correct. It says stop normal EVA ops and
start T025 ops approximately 25 minutes prior to
first ESS.

CDR-EVAOkay. So -

034 15 35 00 PLT We - we have 47 minutes to go.

CDR-EVA They're planning on T025 on the second day pass

then, I guess.

PLT Well, apparently they think they can get it all

in in 25 minutes.

CDR-EVA Well, let's leave it right here and see if the

clothesline can be deployed now.

PLT Okay, I 'm going to drop back and regroup here.

Ed, it would be nice if you could get it aligned,
so you didn't have to waste any time doing that,
you know.

SPT-EVA That's what I 'm doing right now.

CDR-EVA Okay.

PLT Al] right.

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OB4 15 35 26 CC Skylab, we think you'll do a little better to

get the S020 - -

SPT-EVA °..

CC - - started in here, and then you'll have time

to get the T025 prior to sunset.

PLT You Just get a hint of red on the edges if I

remember correctly. I was really torn with doubt
_there, whether or not I was doing it right.

SPT-EVA Wait a minute. Now we're coming in. There we

go. There we go.

CDR-EVA There's a lot of red land down there underneath

US.

SPT-EVA Let's hear the words on the alignment for this

thing, Bill.

PLT Okay. Align experiments by _ng l_dY _obs

until Sun image is located in center of occulting
L
disk.

CC Bill, Houston.

CDR-EVA Go ahead.

PLT Tmage will appear orange in center and red on

edges. Go, Story.

0B_ 15 B6 24 CC We'd like you to get going on S020 right now, and
then you'll have plenty of time, we think, to get
going on SO - T025, prior to sunset.

SPT-EVA Okay.

PLT Okay.

CDR-EVA Okay.

PLT Well, now that says to me, if I've interpreted

what he says correctly, that we go right straight
to the unstow S020.

SPT -EVA Yes.

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PLT Okay, unstow - I'm going to page 2.4-2, where it

says unstow S020. Unstow S020; verify mounting
bracket is fully open. I'm sorry; there is a
write-in step here. Unstow thermometer.

SPT-EVA We'll get the thermometer after we get up here. Q

PLT Okay, I 'm with you. From airlock module pouch

next to panel 316 - well - Okay, unstow S020 -
we're sort of ad hoc-ing this.

CDR-EVA Okay. I thought I understood what we were going

to be doing today , but I guess I didn't.

034 15 37 23.PIT I'm very confused myself. Unstow S020; verify

mounting bracket is fully open; place vacuum
valve/shutter control to vent; allow 15 seconds
to vent.

SPT-EVA Hello, Houston. Hi, gang.

CC Hi.

PLT Sure a pretty pass here this time.

SPT-EVA Sure is. Looks like they got a good day down
there. Wide open.

CDR-EVA Here you are, Ed.

CC EVA days are always good.

PLT Boy, that is beautiful.

SPT-EVA Come here, Jer, and let me - get a wrist tether

on that fellow before we do anything.

PLT Man, the entire central plains is wide open.

SPT-EVA Okay, I've got it. Okay, this thing goes - Oh,
boy. Does it go up on top?

CDR-EVA Yes, it does.

SPT-EVA Yes. Maybe we can fit it inside there.

CDR-EVA It goes between.

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SPT-EVA Yes.

034 15 38 30 PLT San antonio, Austin. Man!

SPT-EVA Okay, Jer, I may need a little bit more of the -

PLT Soaring right over the top of - Houston ship

channel. Shows up quite well.

CDR-EVA Okay, I'll get the therometer ready.

SPT-EVA All right. Why don't you Just put that on the
temporary stowage hook, Jer?

CDR-EVA 0kay.

PLT Okay.

SPT-EVA Hold on. I'm Just clamping this thing down here
now.

PLT All right. Just tell me when you want some more
_ words.

SPT-EVA I've got it on the truss now, Bill. I Just got

to -

PLT Okay.

SPT-EVA I've - wait a minute. Hold on. What I'm doing

is tightening it up before I take off my wrist
tether.

03h 15 39 23 PLT Yes. Just to be on the safe side, I will briefly

reread the words so you'll make doubly certain
you got everything right.

SPT-EVA Okay.

SPT-EVA Oh, boy. This is beautiful.

SPT-EVA I'm going to have to slide T025 down a little bit,

Jer.

CDR-EVA Okay. You need to have me hold anything?

SPT-EVA No, I Just got to get two hands on this. Up a

littlebit. Man, I've got to put that thing on
there.
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PLT It's a doggone shame you've got to move it. You

know S020 does go on the far side of the truss -
toward the top, I guess, as you're looking at it.

SPT-EVA All right. Yes, if you could hold my feet, Jer.

J
CDR-EVA Okay.

APT-EVA Yes. I need to be moving this thing down. The

only way I'm going to do it is work it - walk it
right down there.

CDR-EVA All right, let me get - get this thing tethered.

SPT-EVA There we go. Probably got about as far as it will

go.

CDR-EVA Okay.

034 15 42 lh SPT-EVA Let me tighten her up again now. Too bad, after
I had all that alignment work done on it.

CC Skylab, we're a minute and a half to LOS.

Vanguard will be coming up in 12 minutes at 15:54.
And, Bill, Houston.

PLT Go ahead, Story.

CC Prior to starting your alignment on S020 or T025,

go ahead and enable CMG control.

PLT Okay.

CDR-EVA Okay, got S020 set?

SPT-EVA No, I don't, I'm - right now, Jer, I'm putting

T025 back on. I'm putting the second clamp -
the second knob - rotating.

CDR-EVA 0kay.

SPT-EVA Lock that one, then I'll - I got S020 on, but I
got to move it over a little bit because its knobs
are interfering with D-7.

CDR-EVA Okay, I got you now.

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SPT-EVA See, that's why I had to move that whole shebang

down.

CDR-EVA Yes.

SPT-EVA Okay. That should do it. Now let me just tighten

that up.

034 15 43 46 CC And as we leave you here Skylab, your APCS and

all the other systems are looking good.

PLT Thank you, Story.

SPT-EVA So long, Story.

PLT Ed, now before you start the - the S020 alignment
and the T025 alignment again, I got to do a CMG
enable.

SPT-EVA Okay.

PLT So Just let me know when you're -

SPT-EVA Go ahead, I 'm done.

PLT Okay.

SPT-EVA I'm ready. Now, if you'll allow me to turn to my

right side here. I got to get under here where
I can see the -

CDR-EVA Okay.

PLT Okay, CMG control is enabled, and press on with

the alignment.

SPT-EVA Okay. It 's in work.

03_ 15 44 19 CDR-EVA Be careful with your helmet. You're banging the

T025 camera.

SPT-EVA Yes. Unfortunately, Jer, the only way you can

get - in here to see the image on S020 - is to
move right - -

CC And we're showing the CMGs are going to have to

pull the vehicle in about 2 degrees here.
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PLT Okay, Story, I'm watching the rates.

SPT-EVA ... going to have to sight along the top here

first.

PLT Outer gimbals look in very good shape.

SPT-EVA There we go.

SPT-EVA What's the attitude error there, Bill?

PLT Okay. Stand by for attitude error. I was look-

ing at rates. I should've been looking at
attitude errors, you're right. Okay. We got
0.1 degrees.

SPT-EVA Okay. That honked it in pretty fast.

PLT So you should -

SPT-EVA Yes. I - I - I'm Just getting th_ - -

PLT Your alignment should be good. Okay. We're

reading 000, and now I 'm going to 10ok at your
rates. Rates are very low.

0B4 15 h6 01 PLT A step down in the noise Almost.

0B4 15 54 08 SPT-EVA Okay. EV-I looking at S.62 and no lights.

PLT Okay. Jer?

CDR-EVA Okay. EV-2 is 3.7 and no lights.

PLT All right. Fold boom hooks toward hatch, if re-

quired closed. Okay.

SPT-EVA We're good. Press.

PLT Okay. V - EV-2, unstow VS tree and pass to EV-1.

CDR-EVA 0kay. That 's in work. VS tree.

SPT-EVA 0kay.

PLT That 's right ....

SPT-EVA Thank you, Jerry.

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CDR.EVA Coming up.

PLT And EV-1, stow VS tree in VF receptacle, F-15,

and lock.

SPT-EVA Okay.

PLT And tell me when that's complete.

SPT-EVA Okay. It 's in work.

CC Skylab, reading you loud and clear through the

Vanguard for 8 minutes.

PLT Roger, Story.

CC And, Bill, I got about four things for you here.

PLT Okay. Pre ss,

034 15 55 18 CC On that CMG control, of course, I get that prior

f_ to starting the experiments on S020 and the T025.
As a general s_Jw,_ary,you'll be in CMG control
during the daytime. And after you get through
taking your T025 data, you can go back to TACS
during the nighttime, and then reenable the CMGs
prior to sunrise and starting your T025 or S020.

PLT Okay, Story. Thanks. I have the procedure out

here. We got sort of bent out of shape during all
that come problem. That's why I did not enable
the CMGs for that first alignment again.

SPT-EVA Okay. We got -

PLT Okay.

SPT-EVA We got S020 going there, Story.

PLT Unstow VC tree -

SPT-EVA Got a 30-minute going on that one. Okay. I've

got the VS tree on.

CC Okay. We - we think you ought to be running the

60-minute one on that S020 first, Ed.

CDR-EVA Okay. That'll be fine. We - we can - we'll ...

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SPT-EVA Okay. That 's right. That 's right.

03h 15 56 lh CC And when you get to night, all you got to do is

go to storage in that position and when you get
back into daylight, Just go back to the number
that you were taking.

CDR-EVA Okay. The way we're set up, we'll get 30 minutes
out of this pass and 30 on the next pass.

SPT-EVA Okay. Hold on Just a minute. Okay?

CDR-EVA Yes.

CC Okay. That sounds fine, and when you 're ready

for the next exposure, all you have to do is move
it up to the next number.

CDR-EVA Okay.

SPT-EVA All right, Story.

PLT Okay.

SPT-EVA Let me have - it again. Yes. I had to move that

boom hook out of the way. Okay. I got it.

CDR-EVA You got it.

PLT And the VS tree in the receptacle.

CDR-EVA It's on its way.

PLT Okay.

CDR-EVA Just handed it out the hatch.

PLT And the VC tree will be next.

03h 15 56 51 SPT-EVA Okay. I'll get it. I never realized what a

tight fit that was.

PLT And, Story-

SPT-EVA Okay.

PLT - -that first exposure was started at 15:h8:30.

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CC Thankyou.

PLT 48:35.

CDR-EVA Got it ?

SPT-EVA I've got it. Thank you.

CDR-EVA Okay. The VS and the VC tree are in position.

PLT Okay. Now it says unstow S020 - we've already

done that. However, there are two steps in here
which I would like to read Just to mske sure we're
in the right configuration. EV-2, unstow the
thermometer from airlock module pouch, panel 316,
pass to EV-1. And, EV-1, stow the thermometer on
the temporary stowage hook.

CDR-EVA That 's done.

SPT-EVA Okay. We've got that. What I'd like you to do,
Bill, is to give me a 10-minute hack before sunset.

_-- PLT Okay.

T-EVA And I'll start working that thermometer.

PLT All right.

034 15 57 56 CDR-EVA Okay, Ed, I'm uneasy about that T025 filter setup.
So what do you say we take this tether and tether
it to the spacecraft because we might lose that
off the stowage hook while we're reaching for
the - -

SPT-EVA 0kay.

CDR-EVA - - thermometer.

SPT-EVA Okay. If you've got any extra, Jer - I'll tell

you what. Why don't I get that extra wrist tether
out there? No, I might disturb - -

CDR'EVA Well, I've got a waist tether here that might work.

SPT-EVA I might disturb alignment. You're right. Let's

hope it'll do with this one. Put the waist tether
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on the handrail and I'll put this other hook on

the eye.

CDR-EVA ...

SPT-EVA I tell you what. Let's put the - let's put it

right up here where I can work it then.

CDR-EVA Yes.

SPT-EVA In other words, I can just tether it right there

and - and I won't have to take it off the tether
in order to - to use it.

PLT Okay. And next step - whenever you're ready.

SPT-EVA- Hold on now. We're - we're working something

here. There we go.

CDR-EVA You want it off the stowage hook?

SPT-EVA Well, let's see now. Wait a minute. That's the

way - You'll be working those filters. So is
that where you want it, or do you want it on here?

CDR-EVA Well -

SPT-EVA What I 'm thinking is I can move that thermometer

over there on its long tether. Then I'll never
have to let go of it.

CDR-EVA All right. Very good.

034 15 59 06 SPT-EVA And then you can Just leave those T025s right on
the stowage hook.

SPT-EVA Very good. Now if you Just put that one on the
other end there - on this end -

CDR-EVA All right.

SPT-EVA Get that little loop there. That'll do it. Okay,

And it's locked. Very good, now let me find a
convenient location up here. Oh, I know how to
do it. And we'll Just put the thermometer cable
right in the temporary - or this restraining hook
for the Sun-end clothesline.

CDR-EVA
0kay.
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SPT-EVA That way she'll be all set to go and remain in

the shade here.

CDR-EVA Okay, what's the next step, Bill?

PLT Okay next step, EV-2 unstow DAC and pass to EV-1.

CDR-EVA All right.

034 16 00 17 PLT EV-1, stow DAC on Foxtrot 5 aft of temp stow hook
.........below clothesline and .lock.

SPT-EVA Below clothes line?

PLT Well, stow DAC on F-5 aft of temporary stowage

hook. I think that should probably tell you
where to put it. Then if there's any clothesline
interference, put it below the clothesline and
lock it.

SPT-EVA Well, all right.

PLT I'm having trouble visualizing it myself.

SPT-EVA Well, the problem is we don't have the clothesline

out - or hooked up down to the ... - -

CDR-EVA Do you want to put your tether on there?

SPT-EVA Yes, I sure better.

PLT Make sure I didn't miss anything.

SPY-EVA No, Jer's up here, so there's no - there's no way.

PLT Oh, I Just left him there.

SPT-EVA Let 's Just see.

CDH-EVA Here you are.

SPT-EVA Thank you.

CC Bill, Houston.

PLT Go, Story.

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03h 16 01 13 CC I 'm probably saying too much here, but you do

have the windows for the data-take times on T025
right there with your cue card, don't you?

PLT Windows? TO25? I do _ot have any pads out.

CC Yes, the start/stop time to sunset and sunrise.

CDR-EVA That's that permsnent general message, Bill.

Permanent general message 48 .....

PLT Oh yes, right here. Here we go.

CC The one that says start at 16:20 and 09 seconds.

PLT Okay. Let me find it.

CC If you don't have the_, I can read them to you

very nicely.

SPT-EVA Well, it's under and locked, but boy, I don't

trust it.

CDR-EVA I got to get out through there.

PLT I have the permanent general message but I don't

see those times in it.

SPT-EVA I know.

CDR-EVA Okay, we'll see what happens there - -

PLT I'ii go ahead and take them down, Story.

SPT-EVA I'ii tell you what. Let's - let's do that and

pull it backwards.

CC It's inside the asterisks, Bill.

PLT Say again.

CC It's -They're inside the asterisks.

034 16 02 lh CDR-EVA There's two little boxes down at the bottom of it,
Bill.

CC I
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CC Or if you're ready to copy, I can read them to

you, and we'll have about an hour LOS here.

PLT Go ahead and give them to me, Story.

CC Okay, the sunset one, start at 16:20:09, and stop

at 16:25:19.

CDR-EVA Good, Ed.

SPT-EVA And then I'll have to move it forward again.

CC And the sunrise times are between 16:57 and - -

SPT-EVA ... I can stand right there.

CC - - 04 seconds, and stop at 17:02 and 17 seconds.

CDR-EVA ... you can do it.

SPT-EVA Okay.

PLT That was 17:02 and 177

CC Yes, sir. And try to take about 20 exposures in -

on the first window, and about 20 exposures in the
secondwindow.

034 16 03 i4 PLT Okay, we're already into our T025 times - time.

SPT-EVA Okay, well, that's the - that's the point. Are -

Do we want to get going on the clothesline or we
want to go T0257

CC You've got about another 17 minutes until the

window opens for T025, so you can time it accord-
ingly. We feel you're pretty well set up already.

SPT-EVA Okay.

CDR-EVA We got it all Just about aligned.

CC Okay, your window doesn't start for about another

16 minutes here; 16:20:09 seconds.

SPT-EVA Thank you, Story.

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034 16 03 43 CC And, we're going LOS; we'll see you over Goldstone
in about an hour and 3 minutes at 17:05.

034 16 03 48 SPT-EVA Thank you.

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034 17 05 54 SPT-EVA Bet you want to move ... to start hack down that
trail, and I'll try to set up the DAC and get you
a Sun end - -

CDR-EVA All right. You need to put the clothesline on my

right wrist.

SPT-EVA Yes.

PLT Okay. I'm going tO read - -

SPT-EVA Okay, watch yourself now. Again, keep a low profile.

CDR-EVA Right.

PLT You want me to read the settings to you, Ed?

SPT-EVA Just a second, until - until we get set here he-

cause I'll only have to have you read them again.

CDR-EVAOkay.

034 17 06 18 SPT-EVA Okay. Just keep your - keep your hips in close.
There you go. Watch, your left foot has got the
clothesline.

CDR-EVA Yes. 0kay.

SPT-EVA Okay. You want to move - -

034 17 06 30 CDR-EVA You need to put a clothesline on my wrist.

SPT-EVA Okay. Let's take a look at your umbilical.

CDR-EVA It's still in the proper side, I believe.

SPT-EVA Yes. 0kay.

034 17 06 40 CC Skylab, reading you loud and clear; stateside for

12 m_nutes, dumping the data/voice here.

CDR-EVA Roger, Story.

SPT-EVA Hello, Story.

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FLT Roger, Story. And during those two data take

periods on T025, Our two men got 31 sterling
exposures there. Did very good work. And I'd
like the next opportunity, please, the next
window. !

CC Let me know when you're ready to copy.

PLT Ready to copy.

034 17 07 04 CC Okay. The sunset starts 17:53 and 23 seconds to

a stop at 17:58 and 33 seconds.

PLT Copy.

•CDR-EVA Okay. It's time to - -

CC And the sunrise is 18:30 and 18 seconds, to 18:35

and 31 seconds.

PLT Okay, thank you. I copied that. I hope we don't

need that one.

034 17 07 34 CDR-EVA All right. Let's keep clear of - -

i
SPT-EVA Well, you're not - you're not, Bill - Jer, move
in. Now hold on before we - yes, you want to
move out a little bit Just to ... - -

CDR-EVA Yes, let me get clear of things. I want to be

clear of the clipboard and all that stuff before
we do anything more.

SPT-EVA Okay.

034 17 07 49 PLT Also, Story, S020's cooking. Started at 17:04:04.

SPT-EVA Okay. What we've done there is release the -

CDR-EVA Oh, yes. One side of it got released up there.

SPT-EVA Yes. Now hold on there, hold on. Hold on, Jer.
Hold on.

CDR-EVA Just a minutes. I got to anchor myself.

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034 17 08 i0 SPT-EVA A]] right, you're going to have to come back, too,
because you've got to put the clothesline around
the other side

CDR-EVA I'll - I'll do it down there.

SPT-EVA All right.

CDR-EVA Well, wait a minute. I guess I can. There.

034 17 08 52 SPT-EVA You got it?

CDR-EVA Now where's that clipboard?

SPT-EVA That's about 3 feet to your left.

CDR-EVA Okay. All right. Now I'll just hang here until
you're ready.

034 17 09 09 SPT-EVA All right. I've got to move the clothesline back
under the restraining hook, here.

CDR-EVA Okay. Let's here the good words on the friendly

DAC there, Bill.

PLT Okay. T-8 or f/8.

SPT-EVA Well, hold on. We got to move the friendly DAC

up to its location.

034 17 09 23 PLT Okay. EV-1, remove DAC and attach to VS clothes-

line, hooks and lock. That what you wanted?

SPT-EVA Attach the DAC to the clothesline?

PLT That's what it says. You said read the words on

the - on the DAC. I didn't know quite what all
you wanted. I figured you Just wanted the settings,
(laughter) but it also has that in there, too.

SPT-EVA Now hold on here .... - -

034 17 09 55 CDR-EVA It's a handheld. It's a handheld. You know that,

didn't you? It's handheld photos.

SPT-EVA Okay. In other words, they had us hook it up

here at this location as a temporary stowage.
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CDR-EVA Yes, correct.

SPT-EVA Uh-huh? All right. Press on with the words.

034 17 l0 lO PLT Okay. The - the words are, EV-1 remove DAC and
attach to VS clothesline hooks and lock. And then
EV-2 transfer DAC to VT. Remove DAC from VS
clothesline, verify settings, which I'll give you
again later. In fact - -

SPT-EVA 0 - Okay. Let's get Jer down there first and - -

CDR-EVA Yes.

SPT-EVA - - get his umbilical straightened out.

034 17 i0 27 CDR-EVA Did you want to take photos as I go out?

SPT-EVA That is what I thought they were after - -

PLT That's what I thought they wanted.

SPT-EVA - - but apparently not.

CDR-EVA Well, you can - we can do that. - -

PLT Yes.

CDR-EVA There's no reason why we can't.

SPT-EVA I thought - -

CDR-EVA We didn't get them last time because the dar - the
DAC failed.

034 17 i0 38 SPT-EVA A]] right, let's do it. Now hold on. Let me get
the umbilical squared away here.

CDR-EVA I'll Just stay here until you're ready. I'm out
of harm's way here now.

SPT-EVA I'm afraid our ,_mhilical situation is - requires

a little work. Oh, boy.

034 17 i0 55 CC Ed, Houston.

SPT-EVA Yes.
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CC You don't need any da - DAC photos until Jer gets

into the transfer workstation.

CDR-EVA You don't want any photos of me moving out there?

CC No, sir.

CDR-EVA Okay.

SPT-EVA Hey, just a minute, Jer?

SPT-EVA Oh well, you can - you probably can't turn back

here, but I am trying to figure where the 1_mhilical
is.

03h 17 ll 20 CDR-EVA Oh, Yours has got a loop in it and mine just goes
around behind the loop.

SPT-EVA Those extra whifferdills we made up here what did

it.

CDR-EVA Now, I 'm - I 'm right under your backside right now.
Just flip it over the top of you like a jumprope,
going backwards. That-a-way. Now I should be down
the right side of you.

SPT-EVA I got to come out of my foot restraints?

CDR-EVA No, you don't have to.

034 17 ll 51 SPT-EVA Yes, you should be, but that's what I was trying
to pull out before. There you go. Apparently it
was a - got in a knot before.

03h 17 ll 57 CDR-EVA No, you had a loop. Yours goes out into a loop.
and then mine goes back behind the loop, is all.

SPT-EVA I see; okay.

CDR-EVA You ready?

CC Bill, Houston.

SPT-EVA Go ahead.

PLT Go.
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034 17 12 05 CC Bill, you're _etting none of the norm_! DAC, none

of the normalDAC ops of transfers and all that.
All the DAC ops are on 2.h-14.

PLT That's what I'm lookingat right now.

CC Okay.

CDR-EVA Well, we just sent down California.

SPT-EVA Oh, I missed it, huh?

CDR-EVA See the Salton Sea and Lake Mead?

SPT-EVA Oh, yes.

CDR-EVA Yes, we're just coming up over southern Cal now.

SPT-EVA Yes, there's Baja.

034 17 12 28 CDR-EVA You can see the Agua Blanca Fault Just big as life
down there.

SPT-EVA Does it extend all the way over the to Gulf?

034 17 12 34 CDR-EVA I can't tell.

SPT-EVA I thought you'd be able to make that - -

CDR-EVA Oh, yes.

SPT-EVA - - observation at a moment's notice.

CDR-EVA Sorry about that, Lee. Man, that's pretty.

i

PLT Sure is.

034 17 13 00 CDR-EVA I can see those volcanics south of San Quintin.

SPT'EVA Beautifuleountry. Glad to be coming back to is.

PLT Say that again.

034 17 13 20 CDR-EVA Now, let's see, I have to go over the top of the
sail don't I, Ed.
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SPT-EVA That's affirm. All right. And you're doing great.

Okay, Story, we've got the - the film from the
center workstation all transferred back and in
here in _he FAS. Hold on, Jer.

CDR-EVA Okay.

034 17 13 47 CC Okay. Thanks, Ed.

SPT-EVA And we worked the clothesline, Story. It worked

out pretty swift. No - no real hangups with it
at all.

CDR-EVA Got loose now?

SI_2-EVA Yes, you're okay.

CDR-EVA Okay.

SPT-EVA What I had to do was give you a little more play

on the clothesline itself.

CDR-EVA Yes, I thought it was kind of plilling ...

SI_f-EVA Got packed in there tight.

034 17 14 12 CDR-EVA Boy, I'm glad we didn't have to change any of

these EPEA things out here.

SPT-EVA That would have been a workout.

SPT-EVA Doing great.

CDR-EVA Okay, I'm in the VT workstation.

SPT-EVA Read on, Bill.

PLT Okay. Find my - place where I wrote, "Start Here."

And I got - I'm running out of fingers to put in
my places - to mark my place here.

034 17 14 51 PLT Okay. Let me reread some of this because - so

it'll pick up the continuity. Transfer VS
clothesline to VT, connect VS. Is - is this
making sense?

CDR-EVA No.
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SPT-EVA Let's Just - we - we know what you're saying so

Just press on in a hurry, Bill.

PLT Connect VS clothesline hook to right glove.

Release hooks from VS clothesline. Connect VC
clothesline hooks together. Restow VC clothesline
bracket. Straighten VS clothesline. That all for
EV-2.

034 17 15 17 CDR-EVA Right, press.

PLT Okay, assist - EV-I assist. And then we come to,

clip VC - this is EV-1, clip VC clothesline under
clip on VE-5.

CDR-EVA Okay - -

STP-EVA Got it.

CDR-EVA - - that's been done.

PLT EV-2, unclamp own LSU, egress VC and translate to

VT going over top of twin pole.

CDR-EVA Okay, I've done that.

PLT EV-1, manage EV-2 LSU and clothesline.

SPT-EVA That's done.

034 17 15 43 PLT VT and VS ops: EV-2, rotate and ingress VT foot

restraints using solar shield handrails to aid
ingress.

CDR-EVA Complet e.

PLT EMU status checks, both.

034 17 15 56 SPT-EVA EV-I's looking at 3.62; no lights.

CDR-EVA EV-2's looking at 3.7; no lights.

PLT Okay, EV-2, phi] pip pin, one of them to - -

CDR-EVA This is the one that always gave me fits in the

water. Let's see if we can do it here.

{
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PLT - - to release VS clothesline attach bracket.

CDR-EVA ... Same problem.

SPT-EVA I'd get a safety diver to do it.

CDR-EVA Yes.

03h 17 16 25 PLT Ah, it'll be okay at zero g.

_ SPT-EVA It won't happen in flight. /

CDR-EVA There we go.

CC Sounds like we had a good sire down here. /

COISPT-
EVA Right.

PLT Okay, you got the pip pin pulled to release it.

CDR-EVA Right.

PLT Rotate end link approximately 220 degrees to lock

in place.

034 17 16 47 CDR-EVA It's locked.

PLT Attach clothesline hook to bracket and lock hook.

CDR-EVA 0kay. (Laughter)

SPT-EVA Boy, that thing is strong (laughter). We could

sooch the workshop over parallel to the ATM with
that thing.

SPT-EVA Uh-oh, watch it. Watch - watch out here, Jet.

CDR-EVA What - -

SPT-EVA Look back here a minute. We're getting that

around the occulting disk.

CDR-EVA Oh, okay.

SPT-EVA Just keep it loose here for a second and I'll try
and - -
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CD_-EVA It's nice and loose.

J
SPT-EVA Yes. Okay, we got another one to con off here.
oh, boy. I'd have to come out of my shoes to get
this ome. It's m_de itself a lasting-type
whifferdill.

034 17 17 32 PLT Man, I .Ne see youa11, but I can't see a thing.

CDR-EVA Okay, I've got the - the hook on and locked and
when you get that clear we can - Well, you know,
I think I mlg_t be able to flip it off.

03h 17 17 49 SPT-EVA You start up there. You've got to %0 get!that

aromad ... - -

CDR-EVA There we go.

SPT-EVA Okay, there we go.

CDR-EVA Okay, Bill, k@ep on reading.

034 17 17 57 PLT Okay, I'm - I'm going to reread same steps. Rotate
end link approximately 220 degrees to lock in
pl_e.

CDR-EVA That'sdone.

PLT Attach clothesline hoop to bracket lock hook.

CDR-EVA Done.

PLT Straighten clothesline.

CDR-EVA Do_e.

PLT Rotate b_se line until locked.

CDR-EVA Okay, that's in work.

03_ 17 18 12 SPT-EVA You know,Jet, it's Zocke_.

CDR-EVA Hurray! It's locked.

PIE Good. Okay.

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034 17 18 18 SPT-EVA I hate to tell you this, but the clothesline from
point to point described a perfect straight line
through T025.

CDR-EVA Right. We're going to have to really be careful

with that.

SPT-EVA Yes.

PLT Okay, now I'm going to read the DAC procedures

here that Story_sai_ apply to our case.

CDR/SPT-
EVA Okay.

PLT EV-1 - -

034 17 18 39 CC Skylab, we're 30 seconds to LOS here; 12 minutes

to Vanguard at 17:30.

SPT-EVA Roger, Story.

PLT 17:30. Okay, that's ii m_nutes.

PLT Okay, EV-1, remove DAC and attach to VS clothes-

line hooks and lock.

SPT-EVA I think I will attach clothesline hook first.

I'm going to leave this wrist tether on it, Jer.
You may need it.

CDR-EVA Okay, good.

034 17 19 O0 PLT Go ahead and transfer the DAC to the VT.

SPT-EVA Tell you what else let's do, let's not hook the
two clotheslines hooks together, or we're going to
be hurting for slack to work around here.

CDR-EVA Yes.

034 17 19 15 CC Skylab, we show you having plenty of time to

realiga T025 for the next window, if you need to.

SPT-EVA Okay, Roger, Story.

CDR-EVA If we're careful, we won't need to.

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CC You'll have the time. And going over the hill

here; all your systems looking good.

PLT Thank you, Story.

03h 17 19 30 CDR-EVA Thank you, Story. Talk to you -

03_ 17 29 3_ SPT-EVA I'm not in the position to do that right now.

CDR-EVA Okay. There's 80 - about 78 percent of the f_]m

left.

PLT Oh, that's good.

CDR-EVA Tell me when you're ready, Ed.

SPT-EVA Yes, I will in a minute.

CDR-EVA Okay.

03h 17 30 18 SPY-EVA I want to get my own umbilical squared away here.

03_ 17 30 21 CC Skylab, we're back with you through the Vanguard

for ll minutes.

PLT/EVA Roger, Story.

SPY-EVA Okay, I got your umbilical, Jerry. You're clear.

Go ahead.

CDR-EVA Okay.

PLT And, Ed, Just for planning on, we need to terminate

S020 in about 3 minutes.

SPY-EVA All right, we'll Just switch on to the next one.

03h 17 30 39 PLT Which is a 30-minute. The next priority is the

30-minute exposure, so we'll have to back-to-back
it also.

SPY-EVA. Story, would they like to pick up the next ex-

posure which is shorter than our 30-minute and
have it all in one sequence, or press on with the
30 which is going to have us break that one up
too?
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CC Like you to press on with the 30 on - even through

you may not have time to finish it. Just go right
down that checklist there.

SPT-EVA Okay, will do.

03_ 17 31 Oh CC And on those, you can initiate them right at

sunrise and terminate at sunset. And don't worry
about going through the atmosphere.

SPT-EVA Okay, I thought - thought we had to. The cue cards

specified it.

CC No, that'll get you a little more time.

SPT-EVA Very good. Thank you, Story. How are you doing,
Jer?

03h 17 31 23 CDR-EVA Well, I don't have anything to hold on to is my

problem. I've got a beautiful view of the
commands module.

F SPT-EVA Just got no way of photographing it.

CDR-EVA Yes, I got two hands holding on and nothing to

hold a camera with.

SPT-EVA Can you get yourself all the way to the other
edge so you can put your foot in on the backside
of one of those - the solar shields there?

03h 17 31 h5 CDR-EVA That's what I'm looking to see, what - what

there is over here to put my feet on. There isn't
anything down there. I think I got a hunch here.
I'm going to waste a little film, but I'm going
to have to punch the camera with one hand and then
flip it.
i

03h 17 32 06 CDR-EVA Cecil B. De Mille would turn over in his grave.

i

SPT-EVA Now, let's see, this is all still 12 --

CDR-EVA Yes.

SPT - - Frames per second. That's a little easier.

PLT That 's affirm.

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034 17 32 14 CDR-EVA I want 20 seconds, Bill?

PLT That's affirm.

CDR-EVA Okay.

PLT Okay, about i minute for changing the S020.

CDR-EVA I'll wait until you do that, Ed.

SPT-EVA Oh, that's all right. There's no big deal there.

All I got to do is flip it, and I can do that in
nothing flat. Umbilical's looking good.

034 17 32 44 CC Bill, Houston.

PLT Go, Story.

CC Sound like you guys are doing it already, but we

suggest finishing up the - the DAC and the Nikon
work here. When you get done with that, it looks
llke you'll come to a convenient time to run your
T025. That window starts at 17:53 to 17:58 - and
finish up the T025 ops during that window. Take
all the frames there.

034 17 32 44 PLT Yes, I think that's right, Story. That ought to

work out Just like that.

SPT-EVA Okay, how about S020 here?

PLT Okay, l0 seconds.

PLT Stand by -

034 17 33 24 PLT MARK. You can go to framenumber 2. |

!
SPT-EVAFramenumber2 set. !

PLT Okay.

SPT-EVA Sounds like an event timer.

PLT Yes.
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SPT-EVA The alignment - okay, the alignment is still good,

but it's - let me give it to you again exactly
what it is. It's -

03h 17 33 hh CDR-EVA Bill, I'm running.

PLT Okay.

CDR-EVA Give me l0 seconds - -

PLT Okay.

CDR-EVA I've only been running about 10.

PLT Okay -

03h 17 3)4O0 PLT MARK.

CDR-EVA Okay.

PLT Okay, that finishes that up.

SPT Okay, we're still looking now at about 1 unit to

r- the left and 1 unit up on the alignment.

CDR-EVA Okay.

CDR-EVA Man, that was wormy.

CDR-EVA I 'm coming back over the edge now.

SPT-EVA Okay, Just a second. I had to get back in my shoes

here, Jer, so I could manage your umbilical.

CDR-EVA All right.

034 17 3h 3_ SPT-EVA Come ahead if you want, though. It looks good.

CC Bill, Houston.

PLT Go ahead, Story.

CC We'd like that first frame of T025 to be filter

A-1 at 1/1000.

PLT When - when we resume operation.

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CC Yes, sir. That'll be at 17:53, that window there.

034 17 34 58 PLT Okay, we'll do it.

SPT-EVA All right . . .

PLT So we pick up with Alfa 2 at 4 seconds et cetera.

034 17 35 08 CC And we only want the sunset part there. After

the Sun goes down, about 17:58, terminate T025.
You can get it out of the way so it won't interfere
with your Sun end ops.

PLT Okay.

CDR-EVA Ah. Done.

SPT-EVA Okay, now - -

CDR-EVA I think I got some real good pictures of the

command module with a lot of Earth going by
underneath.

034 17 35 28 SPT-EVA Very good. Is there any way of checking to see

if that thing advanced film?

CDR-EVA Oh, yes.

SPT-EVA On the readout there?

CDR-EVA Oh, sure.

SPT-EVA Why don't you take a - -

CDR-EVA It's got about 65 percent left on it. I could

feel it running.

034 17 35 44 SPT-EVA We plan to use that?

CDR-EVA Oh, yes. We'll use as much of it as we can.

SPT-EVA Okay.

PLT All right. Let's see now. Let me get back on

my _

SPT-EVA Probably be sending the DAC back in, huh?

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03h 17 35 58 CDR-EVA I think that's our next step. We'll wait and
see.

PLT Yes, Just a second here. Transfer DAC to VF.

CDR-EVA Okay.

SPT-EVA Okay. Come on, friendly DAC.

PLT Attach DAC to clothesline and lock. Transfer

DAC to VF. Remove DAC and attach to functional
-5 handrail.

03h 17 36 i0 CC And, Jer, after you've gotten all the required

DAC there go ahead and shoot it up. Take
anything you' d like.

CDR-EVA Oh, beautiful. Okay. I thought maybe you had

some other plans later.

CC No, we thought you'd like that.

CDR-EVA That 's neat.

03h 17 36 25 SPT-EVA Tell you what, Jer, why don't you save a little
for coming from this and we can get you working
the Sun end tree?

CDR-EVA I think that's a good idea.

03h 17 36 50 CC And in terms of what you're going to do with that

DAC, we show you've got about 19 minutes of day
left.

CDR-EVA Okay.

PLT That 's affirm.

PLT Okay. Tell me when you got the DAC stowed there,
Ed.

CDR-EVA No, we're going to shoot some more DAC film, Bill.

PLT You're going to go ahead and shoot it now. All

right.
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CDR-EVA Yes, I'm going to leave - I'ii leave some so that

Ed can shoot some from the FAS. But how about
you? If you've got a chance, come and stick your
nose in the window right there by the FAS. See
if we can get your shinning face.

PLT Ahhh.

034 17 37 25 SPT-EVA Push your shrubbery against the glass.

CDR-EVA Oh! ThAt's it, Bill. _ _

PLT Boy, the Sun is in my eyes is the only thing.

CDR-EVA Put on your dark glasses and look casual.

034 17 37 34 PLT Okay. Can you see me now? I have my eyes closed.

CDR-EVA Yes (laughter). You're beautiful.

PLT I'll look down this way.

CDR-EVA Okay. Le me get it turned on. Okay, there you

go. Wage your fingers a little bit. Beautiful.
Stick your head in a little further. Oh,
Cecil B. De Mille. That's great. Got your
choppers and everything.

PLT That's right.

034 17 38 04 CDR-EVA All right. I'm going to come on over here and
pan down the busted side of the workshop.

CDR-EVA Now I'll show them a solar panel.

SPT-EVA Yes, that sholder - solar panel; it really looks

neat. That's a - a nice piece of gear.

PLT Just for planning purposes, the next data take

on T025 is about lh minutes away.

SPT-EVA Okay.

034 17 39 l_ SPT-EVA Hey, Jer, save a little. This'd be a beautiful

view down here.

CDR-EVA Yes, I will. I've got about 20 percent left.

I'll take about five more from halfway down the
EVA trail here and leave the rest for you to
shoot up downthere. _
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034 17 39 25 SPT-EVA Okay. Because I'ii tell you, this is a beautiful

view, looking down the axis of the vehicle with
the solar panel and the Earth in the baekground.
Hey, there's our ice island. Hey, look at this
blooming. Hey, you know that blooming leads right
over the ice island.

CDR,EVA Yes. Do you see South Georgia Island around

there anywhere?

SPT-EVA Yes, I think I see it under clouds.

CDR-EVA Yes.

034 17 39 46 PLT Hey, you ought to get the Moon coming up, Jet,
if you can.

CC Bill, Houston.

PLT Yes. Go ahead, Story.

CC Bill, we showed less TACS usage for your last

nominal H-CAGE than we expected. Be sure to
inhibit CMG control before doing the nominal
H-CAGE.

PLT Let me look at my procedure here.

CC You've got message 7940 Alfa in front of you,

don 't you ?

CDR-EVA Okay, Ed. Wave your hand or something.

034 17 40 13 PLT That's affirmative. That's the one I've been

using. I - -

CDR-EVA Good.

PLT - I thought I'd done it that way. I was a little

late getting it, Story. After the last T025,
about 5 minutes late, I think.

CDR-EVA Oh, there's 40 percent left here.

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034 17 40 28 CC Okay. It's probably fine. We're Just being sure.

And - and we - we used less TACS than we expected.
And we're 30 seconds to LOS here. See over
Tananarive in about 15 minutes at 17:56.

CDR-EVA Okay.

CDR-EVA Well, I can't think of any more good angles,

folks - -

SPT-EVA Okay. There's some good ones from up here.

CDR-EVA All right. So I'll send it down to you.

03)4 17 )41 00 SPT-EVA All right_ I'm going to have to get back way
down there in the vowels of this thing again.
Hold on.

CDR-EVA There's about - about 30 percent of the film is

left now.

03)4 17 hi 22 SPT-EVA Okay.

03)4 17 56 25 PLT Okay and that was 200 and - 1/250 on Bravo 3,
was it?

CDR-EVA Right.

PLT Okay, Bravo )4,1/250.

SPT-EVA We have to change filters again?

PLT No. Bravo )4,1/250.

SPT-EVA Okay, here it goes. OPEN. CLOSED.

PLT Bravo 4, one-quarter of a second. That's the

last one.

SPT-EVA Okay, and then I'll give you an S020 temperature

measurement.

PLT Okay.

SPT-EVA There 's }4. Okay, OPEN. CLOSED.

PLT Terminating T025.

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CDR-EVA All right.

SPT-EVA Okay, let me get a temperature measurement here

real quick.

CDR-EVA All right, I'll hold you.

SPT-EVA Thank you.

034 17 57 04 CC Okay, Skylab, we hear you completing T025. Got

you through Tananarive for 7 minutes.

CDR-EVA 99.5

PLT Roger. 99.5.

SPT-EVA Well, that's up there.

PLT Sure is; that's higher than it was at the end of

the last orbit.

SPT-EVA Yes, why don't you - -

PLT Okay; that completes data take.

SPT-EVA Tell you what, why don't you if you - when you
get a chance give Story those measurements -
those temperature measurements.

PLT Okay, I got it- to configure for end of data

take here.

SPT-EVA Okay. Well, that's surprising; we were sitting

here in the low - in the mid 80's there.

03h 17 57 3_ CC What temp did you have last orbit?

CDR-EVA About 8h to 85, Story.

CC Okay.

CDR-EVA Now this time, at the end of this orbit, it's

about 99.

cC Got it.

SPT-EVA We'll get one at the dayside, too, to see whether

it's Just when we're coming into day.
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CDR-EVA Yes.

SPT-EVA See what - -

CDR-EVA Okay, you want to put that filter away.

SPT-EVA - - we should ...

Okay.
034 17 58 01 PLT Okay. Story, I got some temperatures for you.

CC Go.

PLT 84.5 degrees, at 16:15.

CDR-EVA Oh, boy.

CC Okay.

PLT 85.7 at 16:25. 80.3 degrees - -

CDR-EVA Aaaah.

PLT - - at 17:04.

CC Okay.

PLT 99.5 degrees at 17:57.

CC Okay.

034 17 58 39 CDR-EVA Okay, that's it.

SPT-EVA Want to get those things inside, before we knock

one of them or bump them?

CDR-EVA I think that's - a good idea. Get T025 inside,

too.

SPT-EVA Yes, ... - -

CDR-EVA So let me get out of the shoes and get in.

SPT-EVA Okay.

034 17 58 50 PLT And, Story, we got 22 minutes and 46 seconds on

the 30-minute exposure on S020 on that pass.

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CC Thanks, Bill.

PLT Okay, now let me regroup here and see where I am.

SPT-EVA Okay. Tell you where we're heading, Bill, is to

get the T025 completely inside.

PLT Beautiful. That 's a good deal.

SPT-EVA Tell me when you are red eye [sic] sir.

CDR-EVA 0kay.

034 17 59 31 PLT Story, that was a - -

SPT-EVA ... I don't have a wrist tether here.

PLT - -total of 40 exposures - -

CDR-EVA I tell you what, let's have - Why don't you

swing it around and let me get ahold of it. And
then I'Iiunloosen it. Yes.

SPT-EVA Yes.

PLT - - on T025.

SPT-EVA Okay, you got it?

CDR-EVA Nope. Now i got it.

SPT-EVA Let me - here_ let me pull the D-ring back over

on this side of the latch a little bit. Okay.
Got her?
I

CDR-EVA Sure do.

034 18 00 02 SPT Okay. It's all yours.

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SKYLAB AIR-T0-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

034 18 00 ii CC Bill, we're not getting any data, of course,

through Tananarive, and you've probably already
done it, but if you haven't, it might be a con-
venient time to inhibit CMG control and get a
nominal H-cage here.

PLT l've already done it. l've remembered it this

time, Stor Y •

CC Okay, Bill.

034 18 00 28 PLT I was about 5 minutes late on the last orbit after
the data-take period. So I think that probably
accounts for the low TACS usage on the last night-
side pass.

SPT-EVA Story, sounds like you guys have got that TACS
figured right down to the last percent.

CC We always try.

SPT-EVA You always do it.

034 18 00 53 CDR-EVA Okay, Ed, I'm ready for 025.

SPT-EVA Okay.

CDR-EVA Don't know just exactly what I'm going to do with

it, but I'm ready.

SPT-EVA I'll tell you what I'll - let me take the wrist
tether that we have on S020 off so we can tether
the 25.

034 18 01 16 CC And once you get T025 secure in the airlock, that
might be a good time to take the long eye-relief
piece off.

CDR-EVA Okay.

SPT-EVA Good idea. Let's do that in the airlock there,

Jer, so in case it does bound out of your hands,
you got a chance of not losing it.
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034 18 01 29 CDR-EVA Yes. You can kind of be like a goalle out

there in f_ont Of the hatch.

CDR/SPT (Laughter)
EVA

CDR-EVA If it comes your way, bat it back.

SPT-EVA Okay.

PLT You're dressed like one anyway.

SPT-EVA Yes. P

CDR-EVA (Laughte r ) That's for sure.

034 18 01 55 SPT-EVA Okay, old friend. Man, who put this on here so
tight? i !

CDR-EVA Watch your right elbow. You're leaning on the -

I

SPT-EVA Yes; the -the camera.

!
CDR-EVA Yes.

S£T-EVA Darn it that guy was strong, whoever he -

CDR-EVA Super Ed.

034 18 02 29 SPT-EVA There we go. There we go now.

i

SPT-EVA Following 2652 - -

I

034 18 02 37 CC Skylab, we're a couple minutes from LOS here.

The next statiSn will be Hawaii about 37 minutes
at 18:40.

PLT Roger, at 18146.

SPT-EVA So long, Story.

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CC So long, Ed.

SPT-EVA Story, I w_sh you were here. I really do.

CC So do I.

SPT-EVA It'll happen.

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•- CC Yes, sir.

CDR-EVA (Laughter)

034 18 03 22 SPT-EVA Oh, boy.

034 18 39 l0 CDR-EVA Hello, Houston; CDR.

PLT 2 minutes and 20 seconds to go on S020, Ed.

SPT-EVA All right.

PLT How's it looking, Jet?

03h 18 39 23 CDR-EVA We're getting there.

CDR-EVA That is good.

PLT ... 531 ... set by ... if you can see what you're
doing, that's better.

PLT Okay, EV-2 tether and remove screwdriver from VS

tree.

034 18 39 h3 CDR-EVA That's done.

PLT Remove four of six screws from 5-inch diameter

cover located between the S055A aperture door, the
S082B-1 aperture door, and the S082B film replace-
ment door handle. I hope that makes sense to you.

CDR-EVA Yes.

034 18 40 Ii PLT You will be discarding the screws, so don't worry

about them.

CDR-EVA Okay.

PLT You're in - -

CDR-EVA I can get to a couple of the screws, but I need

to do a little something else here. Houston, CDH.

03h 18 h0 27 CC Go, Jer. We got you through Hawaii for 6 minutes.

CDR-EVA Okay, Ed's got a water leak in his system Just

about like the one I had. We've got all the Sun
end film taken out, and it's in the tree, and I'm
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about ready to start the zero-g cover, but we have

one problem_ And that is the S082 Bravo 2 door
is open, and that's over that - that cover. I
guess I'll have to unpin the door and - and close
it in order to g_t to the cover.

03h 18 hl 00 PLT 35 seconds, Ed.

SPT-EVA Oh, all right, hold on. I'm - I'm up here working
on something else.

CDR-EVA How's your water?

SPT-EVA Well, it's still spewing out occasionally, but

I've cut the flow down as far as I can, and it seems
to have slowed down the leak anyway

034 18 41 25 PLT Okay, you can turn it - put it to STOWAGE or to

number 3 anytime you want to, Ed, Just give me a
mark when you do it.

SPT-EVA Okay. Stand by -

CDR-EVA Story, do I have a GO - do I have a GO to unpin

S082 - -

034 18 41 35 SPT-EVA MARK.

CDR-EVA - - Bravo 2 door?

CC We're working it right now, Jer.

CDR-EVA Okay.

PLT Did you give your m_rk yet?

SPT-EVA Yes, I did.

PLT Okay.

034 18 4l 50 PLT Going to give me a temperature by any chance?

SPT-EVA No, not right now.

PLT Okay, fine.

SPT-EVA I think the beginning on the ends are good.

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PLT Okay.

SPT-EVA I'm working the - working that other sample.

03_ 18 42 55 CC Jerry, you got a GO to unpin that door.

CDR-EVA Okay, I got one screw about out now. There's a

couple of them I could get to with the door where
it is.

034 18 43 44 SPT-EVA Okay, Story, the water leak I got is from the front
of the PCU. We've got - When I turn the FLOW up,
we can see water coming out, and it's about a
1/8 or 1/16-inch diameter squirt occasionally and
freezes instantaneously, and it's sporadic. And
apparently, the amount has cut way down since I 're
gone to minimum cooling, and it started about,
oh, 20 to 25 minutes ago, which I'd noticed it.
Cooling was adequate up there at - I was at
position 3. I suspect we're losing some from the
system. And I'd like to know what you folks
think about going back up to - above vent cooling?

034 18 45 07 SPT-EVA Story, did you copy that?

CC Yes, sir, and from your report probably you ought

to stay in rain to keep the leak down low. And
if you need more cooling, s_Ithough you're looking
good from down here, go to EVA HIGH FLOW. And
Bill might also check the reservoir up there.

PLT Yes, I'll get that in just a minute, Story. We're

on exposure number 3 on S020, a 7-1/2-minute
Jobberdo.

CC Okay, and after 3 - after you get 3, skip 4 and

go to 5 on the exposures.

034 18 45 39 PLT Okay, let me take a look at that and what - see
what that -

CC Yes, 4 is the 30-minute one. Skip that and go

to 5 which is a 4-minute one. The experiment
is heating up, and we're probably going to terminate
early on it.

PLT Okay. Will do.

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034 18 45 55 CC And we're 30 seconds to LOS; Vanguard in 23 minutes

at 19:08. ! i;

PLT Okay now, Story, I got a capability for taking a

lot more. You see, I've got over 40 minutes of
daylight remaining. You want me to terminate
with the number 5 exposure on S030?

CC What's the last temperature you got?

034 18 46 13 PLT Well, lat_si_see_,_my_i_last_

one here was 90.5 at
18:32. It cooled off after that nightside pass,
you see.

CC Okay.

PLT I see that we got nothing to lose if we go on taking

those short-term exposures.

034 18 46 38 SPT-EVA It's not lengthening the EVA at all. I'm right
here.

CC No, but staying out in the Sun, it could damage

the film that's already in there.

SPT-EVA Okay ...

034 18 46 47 PLT That's a good reason.

034 19 08 12 CC Skylab, reading you loud and clear through the

Vanguard for l0 minutes.

CDR-EVA Roger, Story.

034 19 08 19 SPT-EVA Okay, Story, we got the VS tree back here. We're
Just getting S149 out. We've retrieved the sample
around the airlock. And moving ahead here.

CC Okay, Ed, and with respect to your leak, we recom-

mend min FLOW on EVA HIGH FLOW. If you need more
cool than that, go intermittently to m_x on your
water diverter valve.

SPT-EVA Okay. I think I will up the airflow a little

bit. Stand by.

034 19 08 55 CC And, Bill, did you get a reservoir reading yet?

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PLT Story, I can't tell. I was Just - I went up and

looked at it, it - We definitely have used the
water in a considerable amount. I can't give you
an accurate reading, but I'd say like a - it's
probably 20 percent full right now. That's a
guess.

034 19 09 16 CC Okay, we estimate that Jer ran, with the leak he

had, when he had the leak, about 4 hours. So it
may go a long time.

PLT Okay. I serviced it the other evening and I knew

where the bladder was. And it's hard to read that
thing, you know, with a flashlight back in there
because the bladder gets in the way after it expands
• so far. But anyway, I know we've used water.

PLT Okay, Ed, tell me when you want me to start

reading again.

SPT-EVA Okay, I 'm - I think we 're squared away. I 'm Just

hooking up lh9 to the -

PLT Clothe sline ?

SPT-EVA Clothesline. Right.

PLT Okay.

SPT-EVA Tell you, Story, there's a - these clotheslines

are very simple, and they're easy to use. There's
no problem with the transfer, but working up here
in this workstation doing a host of different
things which - which I have been, it sure compli-
cates the problem. It's very easy to get tangled
up.

03h 19 l0 27 CC Did you notice any abnormal dynamics in the

clotheslines, Ed?

SPT-EVA No. The only difference between the water and

here, of course, is that they oscillate a lot -
with a higher magnitude and a highter frequency,
but no abnormal dynamics. It's Just like whipping
a rope around down on the ground, pretty much feel
the same. Just got another dimension.

CC Okay.
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CC Okay.

CC And, Jer, did you happen to repin open that door

that you had to close to get the zero-g fixture?

CDR-EVA Yes, I did, Story. _ It's open and latched.

CC Beautiful. Thanks a lot, Jer.

034 19 ll 15 SPT-EVA Okay, Jer. Want to hook up around - hooked up on

one - one latch here and it's locked, so coming
out your way.

CDR-EVA Okay.

CC And, Skylab, for your Nikon photos out toward the

Sun end, you may want to get those before putting
the S149 out.

SPT-EVA Tell you what, you want me to send the Nikon out
along with this, Jer?

CDB-EVA Okay.

03h 19 ll 40 SPT-EVA Okay, let me Just _ack her up a little bit here.
Good call, StorY.

CDR-EVA How much daylight left us, Bill?

034 19 12 01 PLT 17 minutes.

CDR-EVA Okay. Open her up to Nikon ops again and read me

what they want.

PLT Okay.

PLT Retrieve Nikon, egress airlock module, ingress

VF foot restraints. Attach Nikon to VS clothesline
and transfer camera to VT. Tether Nikon and remove
!
from Clothesline, take photos-fr-6m-aliworkstations.
i Use followingsettings, for Earth sc_ objects
in sun, 1/250; objects in shade, 1/125; document
discoloration, shadom-lng effects, twin pole sunshade
installation, 0WS, SAS, D024 clipboard with $228,
and sail material, $230, CSM, and other targets of
opportunity.

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CDR-EVA Okay.

PLT Take photos from FAS as desiredafter returning

the Nikon.

034 19 13 02 SPT-EVA Okay. Coming at you, Jer.

CDR-EVA All right.

SPT-EVA Nikon first.

CDR-EVA Take it nice and slow here. Don't want to get

things, wound around. If you'll keep it
separated - -

CDR-EVA Okay.

SPT-EVA - - I'll do a little pulling. Story, that sample

we got for the materials people is a good one.
Right underneath F-9 you got the effect of no
sunlight, very pronounced shadowing.

CC Okay, Ed.

03_ 19 14 17 SPT-EVA S020 is inside, Story. We got that stowed.

PLT Also, Story, the temperature of S020 at PT-58

was 103.7 degrees.

SPT-EVA And that's the time at which we brought it in.

CC Okay; that's good. 105 was the limit that we

wanted to go to in terms of damaging the film.

SPT-EVA Well, we got it Just - just right after that.

PLT Just after that.

CC Okay. Again, another thanks.

SPT-EVA Check the ... of film.

034 19 16 31 SPT-EVA What a photographer. Ralph Morris has nothing on

you.

CDR-EVA That 's right, Ralph. Watch out for your Job when
I get hack.
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CDR-EVA Ed, can you pull 149 back down out of the way?

SPT-EVA Sure can. Hold on.

CDR-EVA That's good enough right there.

034 19 17 28 CC Skylab, we're a minute from LOS. Tananarive in

15 minutes at 19:32.

PLT Okay, Story_

SPT-EVA So long, Story.

CC So long, Ed.

CDR-EVA Bill, did you load new film in this camera this
morning?

PLT Negative.

034 19 17 48 CDR-EVA Doesn't look like it's advancing. Did you set
the counter at 65 or something?

PLT I didn't change it. You know, you said that you
may use it last night and - but I - I haven't
touched that camera since we fixed it up yesterday
afternoon.

CDR-EVA Okay.

PLT Can you see the counter on the back?

CDR-EVA Yes. It says 53. I thought it said 44 when we

started out here. x

CC Bill, Houston.

034 19 18 26 PLT I did, too. Need a little button to movE.

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034 19 33 15 PLT I don't know about you guys_ but I'm working up
a big appetite standing here.

CC So are we. And got you through Tananarive for

6 minutes.

PLT Hi, Story.

CC Hi, Bill, and I got something for you.

PLT Go.

CC Okay, we'd like to bring us SUS loop 2 in case you

need some coolant. And you find it on 1.2-10.

PLT Okay.

cC And I got three calls there with respect to that

procedure, when you get there.

PLT Okay, Story, I'm looking at it.

CC Okay, change _317 to 217, 217.

PLT That's in column 2.

CC That's in the right-hand columu, yes.

PLT Okay. Got it.

CC And change SUS i PUMP to SUS 2 PUMP.

PLT Okay.

CC And then all down that column change PRIMARY to

SECONDARY.

PLT Oh, okay.

CC And verify that you got the Jumper across SUS 2.

PLT Yes, that's correct. We do.

CDR-EVA Bill, when you get - get a chance, tell me which

way to turn the crank.
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PLT Okay. Something -Ll'm going to have to look it

up some place _,because it's not in that little
abbreviated procedure. Slh9.

CDR-EVA I think it's counterclockwise.

PLT Okay. That's the only way that works.

CC That's counterclockwise.
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i
PLT Thank you, Story,

03h 19 35 18 CC And, Bill, have Ed stay in - in rain flow to minimize

that leak.

SPT-EVA I am in min flow, Story.

PLT He - he is

SPT-EVA I did not tome out of it.

CC Okay. And, Bill, if you sense that you've lost

all your cooling and you need cooling you can
get Just change your connectors over to SUS 2 and
have the two EVA crew_n cool on HIGH FLOW EVA.

PLT Okay, and I don't think - I think we're fairly

close. It's just going to be like, oh, maybe
h5 minutes to an hour probably to completion. That's
Just a rough guess. I'm comfortable now, and I
haven't heard any Icomplaints from Jerry or Ed.

CDR-EVA No, I'm - I'm reasonably comfortable,

SPT-EVA I'm fine.

CC Okay, we Just wanted to bring up sus 2, Bill, so

that - since you're on water cooling only.
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PLT Okay.
i

CDR-EVA Okay, the doors are opening out now.

CDR-EVA Little lightning on the horizon:

CC Jer, Houston.

CDR-EVA Go.

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034 19 36 34 CC Was the counter on the motor drive unit on Nikon 02

reset? And when yOu're taking pictures can you
see the - the mirror move up in front of you when
you - when you click the camera?

CDR-EVA Yes. Yes, I can see it, I don't know how the
counter got where it is. It must have got moved
there while we were handling and putting the tape
on it, because we - there were 44 exposures left
and it was looking at - when I finally looked down
at it, it had 53. Some - we must have moved the
counter when we were handling it. But I could
see the - the thing actually taking pictures.
I could feel it transporting film, and I could
see the mirror flop when it exposed. So it's
working.

CC Okay, beautiful. Bill, Houston.

PLT Go ahead.

CC Got a couple of things here - here for you to add

at the very end of the EVA, and maybe you'd like
P to put it on page 2.4-26.

PLT Okay, just a second I was in this SUS loop 2

activation. Okay, say it again, Story. I'm sorry;
I was diverted there.

039 19 37 40 CC It's yes, hate to bug you right now, too, but I'm
going to be running out of passes here. It's on
page 2.4-26.

PLT Okay, stand by I.

PLT I got it, go ahead.

CC Okay, we're interested in that th_ boom, when it's

exposoed to the Sun for a long period of time, if
we see any thermal bending or distortions, so we're
going to run it out. And after you separate in
your flyaround, you'll take some photos of it.
So Just prior to coming on in, take the center
workstation, that's VC boom, and run it but to
the normal operational length, to the crewman when
he's at the center workstaion. And when you run
it out, put - put the hook straight out when you
run it out.
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PLT Got that, Story. i

CC And one more thing. Jer was interested in bringing

in a loss of comm cue card. He said it had some
discoloration on it. If he brings that in, you
can stow it in CSM R-3.

PLT CSM R-3; got it.

034 19 38 43 CDR-EVA Okay, Bill, lh9's complete. It's all ex - expanded.

PLT Okay, let me go back here and find my place. All

right. That completes that activity there. Now.
So - okay, depress clamp lever and attach to solar
shield. Rotate S149 crank slowly to open cassette

CC And we're about 30 seconds to LOS here. See you

over Hawaii in about 37 minutes at 20:15.

034 19 39 18 CDR-EVA Roger.

PLT Fas - fasten restraint to handle. Does that make

sense to you?

SPT-EVA Yes.

CDR-EVA Yes, go ahead.

PLT Okay, egress VT foot restraints and translate to

$230 area.

CDR-EVA Okay, that 's in work.

PLT Okay, let's see. Go back to my SUS loop 2.

CC Bill, going over the hill. I got one more thing

for you.

PLT Roger.

CC If you get any evidence of pump cavitation on

primary SUS loop, turn that pump off.

PLT Okay,will do.

039 19 40 15 CC That's panel 202, SUS 1, LCG PUMPS, PRIMARY to

OPEN.
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PLT Got it. SUS l, LC - -

CC Yes, you only want to get that if there's any

evidence of cavitation or loss of flow.

034 19 40 43 PLT Understand. And thank you very much. That's a

good call.

034 19 41 02 PLT PRIMARY. Okay, now I go up and I can give it a

B0-second shot. Okay, Jer, I'm sorry I left you
there for a minute. Let's see here.

CDR-EVA No problem. I'm on my way back now to get the

D230 [sic].

PLT Okay. Oh, we have -

CDR-EVA Or $230.

PLT Okay it's 25 seconds. 30 seconds. Okay, off for

another minute.

SPT There's the old Jer.

034 19 41 58 CDR-EVA Yes, indeed. I'm right here.

034 20 lh 51 CDR-EVA Well, I'll Just leave the rest for you, Ed.

SPT-EVA Okay, Just cc_e on up in this direction, and I'll -

hand it up.

CDR-EVA It's sitting on 17 right now.

SPT-EVA Okay. Well, I'll run her on down. It may - it

may well be exhausted but we'll - we'll take what
we can.

034 20 15 26 CC Skylab, reading you loud and clear through Hawaii

for l0 minutes.

PLT Roger, Story.

SPT-EVA Okay, Story, we got all the samples taken in.

We're just finishing up the Nikon work, and we'll
be all set to start packing it all hack into the
airlock.
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PLT Okay, you did get a picture of the boom, right.

CC Beautiful, Ed.

CDR-EVA Yes, I got a picture of the boom]

PLT Good.

CC Understand you got the boom out already?

CDR-EVA Yes.

SPT-EVA Affirm.

PLT Roger.

034 20 16 09 CDR-EVA You better start pulling in my umbilical, Ed.

SPT-EVA Uh - oh. Well, I better got down there where I

can do it. Get my warm young, tender, pink, little
bod down in there. You know, we've got a few
pieces of gear hanging around here.

CDR-EVA We sure do.

SPT-EVA Along with ropes and tethers. Hey, this SOP was
not moid - made to avoid hangups. Can you see
me, Jer?

CDR-EVA Yes.

SPT-EVA Okay, what am - what am I hanging up on, this rope

here?

CDR-EVA On the clothesline.

SPT-EVA And what part of me is hanging up?

CDR-EVA Your - the whole backside. Now try slipping down.

Wait a minute. Wait a minute. Wait a minute.
You're on the wrong side of it any way. You need
to have it in front of you when you go down.

SPT-EVA Well, heck. The darn thing must have crossed under
my feet.

CDR-EVA Yes. Because your unbilical is on this side of

it.
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SPT-EVA Okay.

CDR-EVA If you go down that side of it, you Just made a

problem.

CDR-EVA A little bit further. Another - There you go;

your left. Now you're free.

034 20 17 27 SPT-EVA Okay, hey, l'm with it. Now I see it. Now l'm
straightforward. If someone ever told me we'd be
working in this environment 2 or B years ago I
would have said they were crazy; no way.

PLT Okay, Ed, where are you right now?

SPT-EVA With my unbilicals tangled around my feet

(laughter).

CDR-EVA Oh, dear.

SPT-EVA (Laughter) Just a minute I need a - -

CDR-EVA No, you're going the wrong - -

SPT-EVA No, I need a counter_hifferdill.

CDR-EVA Yes, but that's the wrong way, if you're going

to go that way. There's the right way.

PLT I lost control, Story.

CC We copy. We know what that feels like.

CDR/SPT- (Laughter)
EVA

CC Both the whifferdills and the control.

CDR/SPT- (Laughter)
EVA

CDR-EVA Okay, put my umbilical in, monsieur, and I shall

en - entre.

SPT-EVA Okay.

PLT Okay.
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SPT-EVA Go ahead.
i

034 20 18 41 PLT I'm going to start reading. You can pay attention
if you want or not. Verify - -

CDR/SPT- (Laughter)
EVA

PLT What - whatever turns you on. Verify clotheslines

are stowed properly and EVA area secured. So make
sure you didn't leave anything out there.

CDR-EVA Yes.

SPT-EVA Yes, we got a little bit of doing there.

8PT-EVA We got a big, white blivet out here he's trying

to get in right now.

PLT Okay.

SPT-EVA Okay. Come on over .... blivet. Oops. Your -

maybe you should be on the other side of it.
You're getting it lined up. Okay, as you go in,
grab that last little fist full of umbilical.
Grab - Hold on. Your SOP is getting tangled in
the clothesline.

CDR-EVA Oh, it sure is.

SPT-EVA Back - back out a little bit.

CDR'EVA Okay.

SPT-EVA Boy, you know, that's a trap that we've both fallen
into more than once today.

CDR-EVA Yes, that - There's the disadvantage right there.

034 20 19 33 8PT-EVA That's Just made for it. So you're going to have
to go out further, Jer.

SPT-EVA Yes, okay, now pull yourself over this way. Okay,
there you go. Just a minute. Make sure to get
my _mbilical. Okay, go ahead.

SPT-EVA There you go. Why don't you just exchange that -
put your hand on your wrist right here.
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CDR-EVA All right.

SPT-EVA And I'll take a little Jaunt over to the edge there
and pick up what we can, and then we'll clean this
thing up.

CDR-EVA Got it?

SPT-EVA I have it ; thank you.

CDR-EVA Okay.

034 20 20 h3 SPT-EVA Apparently, We've still got water, Story, because

I'm still putting out ice.

PLT No, I'm checking it about every 2 minutes, Ed.

I'm putting mine to max.

CDR-EVA I'm still feeling the coolness, so we're in good

shape.

PLT I would - -

SPT-EVA As long as the CDR's cool, we're in good shape.

CDR-EVA Right.

03h 20 21 03 PLT So in case you're wondering, Story, I have not

pulled that circuit breaker yet.

CC Okay, Bill, and your SUS 2 is looking good.

PLT Yes, I went ahead and ... through that entire

procedure.

SPT-EVA This is not the easiest Job, is it, Jerry?

CDR-EVA No, it isn't.

SPT-EVA Man, you've done a phenomenal amount of work in

a short period of time.

CDR-EVA I'm beginning to feel the effects, too.

SPT-EVA Little hungry?

CDR-EVA Tired and hungry.

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SPT-EVA Got to earn your pay, Jer.

SPT-EVA Don't have to worry about that around here.

034 20 23 53 CDR-EVA Ed, if you rotate to your left now, youu won't get
hung up in that clothesline.

SPT-EVA Okay, I will when I start the ingress. I Just got

to move up a little bit here just a second.

CC Skylab, we,re a_minute from LOs; about 23 minutes

to the Vanguard at 20:47. And, Ed, when you get
inside, could you leave your PCU and LSU connected
for any malf that we come up with to take a look
at that?

SPT-EVA Okay, I certainly will, Story.

CC They're going to be minor, if anything.

SPT-EVA Understand. Okay.

CDR-EVA Now, make sure you're not - You're coming in on

the wrong side of that clothesline, Ed.

SPT-EVA Yes. I got to go back up to where I was.

034 20 25 19 CDR-EVA Okay, give it a chance. There you go.

SPT-EVA There it goes. Yes, I was waiting for those

dynamics.

CDR-EVA That-a-way.

SPT-EVA Yes.

CDR-EVA Now rotate to your left or you're going to get

your SOP caught in it.

SPT-EVA Yes. I just wanted to get that camera down there

beneath me.

CDR-EVA Further to your left.

CDR-EVA There you go. I think that might do it.

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SPT-EVA Yes, I think so.

CDR-EVA You did it. Very good.

SPT-EVA Okay. Now let me get back down this way - -

CDR-EVA Boy, that boom sure is in the way.

SPT-EVA Yes, it sure is. But at least the boom you can
retract - or jettison. Those clotheslines, it
sure is a disadvantage of them, even though they
are simple to work.

CDR-EVA Yes, well, they're a good contingency mode.

034 20 26 14 SPT-EVA I think it was planned right.

034 20 46 45 CDR Okay, I'm opening the hatch.

SPT Hold on, Jerry. We'll see how you're doing on

this umbilical-wise.

CDR Okay.

SPT You look good. Go ahead.

034 20 47 09 CC Skylab, we're seeing you repress and got you

through the Vanguard for 9 minutes.

SPT/PLT Roger, Story.

CC Bill, Houston.

SPT Good.

PLT Go ahead, Story.

CC And go a little change for you here on 3.1-3.

PLT Stand by. Go ahead.

CC Okay, in the right-hand column down there under

EV-3, panel 317, that should be SUS 1 LSU 1 LSU
POWER rather than 2 - SUS 1.

PLT Okay.

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CC And at opposite 323 there, that also should be

SUS1.

PLT Okay.

CC And add below there, panel 217, SUS 2 PUMP switch,

OFF.

PLT Okay, I put that in. Yes, because I turned that

on. Okay. _

CC And before you tear the comm down, I've got one
more thing for you here.

PLT Okay, go ahead.

CC Now we're not going to go through any extensive

malf on the comm. We'd like to verify once more
that with the nominal configuration, we're not
getting any comm on channel A. So if you go back
to page 1.2-15, I've got something for you.

PLT Stand by 1.

034 20 h8 57 PLT 1.2-157

CC Yes, sir.

PLT 0 - okay, ready to go.

CC Okay, down here on that cutout, I incorporated

mine in my checklist in the wrong place, too. I
put mine under "MASTER - as desired" as opposed
to putting that cutout under "MASTER VOLUME - as
desired". We're wondering if you did the same
thing and covered up something?

PLT Okay, let me tell you how mine is configured. I

have "INTERCOM - T/R" in the middle of page,
"MASTER - as desired", "S-BAND T/R," and then my
cutout starts.

CC Okay, yes. Yes, we made the same mistake down

here. And so could you verify, I guess on panel 6,
that the INTERCOM is to T/R and the S-BAND is to
TIR?
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PLT That's affirmative. I can tell you that; I've

checked it about _tl_ree times.

CC Stand by i.

SPT Where the heck did the CDR go? Oh, there he is.

PLT That's panel 6 you're talking about.

CC That's affirm.

PLT Okay, I tell you what. It's not going to take me

but 30 seconds. Why don't I go up there again?

034 20 50 15 CC Okay, and an easy way to do it is to bring that

cutout with you and see that all three panels, 6,
9, and l0 are as on your cutout there, or as
panel lO is there. Just take a look at what we've
got on the cutout for panel lO. All three panels
should be the same.

PLT Okay, just stand by. I'm going to give you a

reading on it. Settle this thing here and see what
we've done wrong. Okay, I'm giving you the panel 6
configuration. MODE is to VOX. PAD C0_4 is OFF.
S-BAND is to OFF.

CDR Did you turn on the camera?

SPT No, did you?

PLT There we go.

SPT I saw you up there by it, and I thought maybe

that's what you were doing.

CDR I was loading it.

SPT Oh, you've changed the mag out?

CDR Yes.

SPT Oh, okay.

PLT POWER is to AUDIO.

SPT Are they 1247

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PLT INTERCOM to T/R.

CDR Not that I know of. It's working.

034 20 51 ll PLT Okay, Story, the S-BAND on panel 6 was not to T/R
because - well, it's not called for on my 6 -
panel 6 cutout. Now that could - that possibly
is the problem right there.

CC Yes, we should have been more explicit on telling

you where to paste that in. Why don't you go
S-BAND to T/R there and go to AUDIO out of BACKUP
to NORMAL and see if we got good comm?

PLT Okay, and we're doing that. Wow'

PLT Okay, how do you read now, Story?

CC Reading you loud and clear.

PLT Okay, that was the problem.

CC Okay, that takes care of the comm; thank you.

PLT All right. (Squeal) Oh, boy. (Squeal)

034 20 52 13 PLT Okay, Jerry how do you read?

CDR Loud and clear.

PLT Okay, I'm trying to adjust this VOX so we don't

get the icepick in the ear.

CDR Okay.

PLT Wow!

CDR Which panel was not in the S-BAND, T/R?

PLT Panel 6.

CDR I thought all three of them were.

CC And if you got any problems with the eomm you can
simply go to AUDIO BACKUP. We'll be back where
we started.

.... [
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PLT Okay. I'm going to BACKUP now. (Squeal)

CDR ...

PLT Okay .... garbled.

SPT The icepick in the ear trick. (Squeal)

034 20 53 05 PLT How do you read now, Jerry?

CDR Loud and clear.

PLT Okay, I read myself very, very weak.

SPT Coming in loud and clear, Bill.

034 20 53 40 PLT Okay, I had a problem there apparently, Jet.

CC It's probably the S-BAND VOLUME's too high, Bill.

PLT No, I Just cut it down.

f 034 20 54 ii PLT Okay, how do you read now, Jer?

CDR Loud and clear.

SPT ... too

CC Bill, you could go to, on panel 6, back where we

were, S-BAND, T/R, OFF and AUTIO, BACKUP and we'll
be back where we were.

PLT Well, I - I just did that. Now I've got every-

thing fouled up there trying to adjust this
VOLUME.

CDR I'll tell you what. Why don't you Just -

PLT I can't kill VOX because y'all are doing this

suited.

CDR Well, we're out of our s - helmets and gloves - -

034 20 54 48 PLT Okay, I'm going to kill VOX, than.

CDR Good show.

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PLT Gee, what a mess.

t
CDR Lousiest c_m, (Squeal)

PLT Still doesn't do it. Oh, glast!

034 20 55 37 CC Skylab, we're about 30 seconds to LOS here. About

an hour to Hawaii at 21:56. And could you give
us the time of end of EVA?

PLT Yes. Stand byj Story.

PLT 20 :38.

CC Say again.

PLT Do you read, Story?

CC Yes. Say again the time.

PLT 20 :38.

CC Thanks.

•034 20 56 25 PLT Five plus 19, total.

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034 21 55 32 CC Good afternoon, Skylab. We're AOS Hawaii; have

you for about 4 minutes.

PLT Roger, Crip.

CC Are you - -

SPT Good afternoon, Crip. How are you?

CC Afternoon. You guys put in a hard day's work

today.

SPT We enjoyed it.

CC That's good. Sounded like fun. I _as over here

listening to the latter portion of it. Couple of
items. This is kind of a short pass and I'm not
really sure where you're getting - getting things
all squared away. I believe Bill is going to be
_ doing the securingof the ATM C&D, and I've got a
couple of items I'd like to note for him if he's
got the - got that checklist handy. That's in the
ATM ExperimentsChecklistand Data Book.

034 21 56 15 PLT I'm in the wardroom but go ahead and give me the

CC Okay, I - I can tell them to you; you don't need

it handy. All it is is that we - the ROLL that
we want to - to go to for final closeout is 10,800.
Okay ?

PLT Roger.

CC Okay. And the other item is that when you get

down working with the X-RAY SPECT, it has you go
to FILTER i. And we would like you to go ahead
and take the tape off of that filter select switch
and try it, Just to find out whether we had a
mechanical problem or an electronic problem
strictly frem an engineering standpoint.

PLT Okay.
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034 21 56 55 CC Okay, and that's the only two items I have. And
I copy Jer has already got the command module all
secured. You guys have been hustling since the
last pass.

CDR Yes, we're trying to get things picked up around

here.

CC Very goodi

CDR Hey, Crip, we got in a change on the EVA cue card

that indicates that the SPT ought to be taking the
EVA bracket off the S020. We're not bringing that
thing back, are we?

CC Don't believe so; let me verify that.

CDR Okay, I don't see any sense in taking the bracket

off, then.

CC Yes, we'll check into it and get - get right back

with you.

CDR Okay.

034 21 58 57 CC Okay, Skylab. We're about 30 seconds from LOS.

Next station contact is through the Vanguard in
26 minutes, at 22:25, 22:25. We'll be doing a
data/voice recorder dump. And that was a good
call; there's no need to take the bracket off,
Jer.

03h 21 59 12 CDR Okay. Thanks.

034 22 24 50 CC Skylab, Houston. We're - are AOS through the

Vanguard for I0 minutes. And we'll be doing a
data/voice recorder dump here.

SPT Hello, Crip.

CC Howdy. For your information, we're going to be

taking PCG-6 off the - off the line at this time
to see if we can get it back in sync with the
AMP-HOUR INTEGRATOR. Also, the - PUMP Charlie is
going to be turned OFF in the primary loop -
PRIMARY COOLANT LOOP.
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SPT Roger.
J
034 22 27 17 CDR Hey, Crip, what've you folks got in mind for
troubleshooting on this PCU?

CC I'm being handed a mission note right now re-

garding it.

CDR Okay. I'm all ready to put it away, so let us

know what you want to do.

CC Okay. We still want to leave the LSU connect -

connected to PCU-10. What we'd like you to do is
to go ahead and restow the LSU in the sphere and
temporarily secure the PCU in the airlock module
lock there.

CDR Okay.

034 22 28 00 CC That'll give us time to - to look at it overnight,

if it won't be in your road there, and consider
_ whatwe want to do aboutit.

CC Jer - -

,, CDR Good enough.

CC Jet, while I've got you here: we're showing that

LOGIC BUS 1 up in the comm_nd module is still
powered; we can't see 2 and 3. Do you have time
to go up there now and check some switches for
us, sir?

CDR Sure.

CC Okay. If you'd do that, when you get up there I

can tell you which ones we want to check.

CDR Okay, Crip. Those - those breakers were not

pulled.

03_ 22 29 53 CC Okay, that looks good. While -while we've got

you there could I get you over on - on panel 3
to verify for us that the S-BANDANTENNA switch
is in REMOTE?

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034 22 30 13 CDR That was in DELTA; it's in REMOTE now.

CC Okay, that's fine. And also I'm assuming that

Bill reeonfigured over on panel 6 and he's got
his AUDIO CONTROL back in NORMAL now instead of
BACKUP.

CDR Okay, it's in NORMAL.

CC Okay. That - that's all the chasing we had to

do. Thank you very much.

CDR Okay, thank you.

03h 22 31 53 CDR Crip, what's the next Charlie X-ray magazine for
the Nikon that's available?

CC Let me check that for you.

CDR Okay, Bill went ahead and loaded 56, Crip. Is

that okay?

CC 56 is fine.

CDR Okay. And if one of our other cameras like

Nikon 04 or so is available, we'd like to load
it up with Charlie X-ray too. So we'll need
a number for that.

CC Okay, you can use CX54 for that one.

CDR Okay. Thank you.

034 22 32 43 CC And, Jer, Just so we'll feel comfortable here on

the ground, can you verify for us when you went
and - and opened those breakers that the - you
did have the SECS [sic] LOGIC BUS 2 and 3
CIRCUIT BREAKERS CLOSED? Sorry to wra - ask you
about it after you left. 2/3, pardon me.

CDR SECS LOGIC breakers, two - those two breakers

CLOSED?

CC No, it's - it's one breaker; it's the - SCS LOGIC

BUS 2/3 should be CLOSED.
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CDR Yeah, I just pulled

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the first three and the -
and the fourth one was left CLOSED.

CC That's where we wanted to make sure we were.

Thank you very much.

CDR Okay.

034 22 34 06 CC Okay, we're about 1 minute from LOS. Next

station contact in 4 minutes through Ascension
at 22:39, 22:39. And we're assl_m_ug that Bill
has not gotten around to the condensate system
yet ; we haven' t - haven' t seen that.

PLT Crip, the condensate hose has been reconnected;

however, I'm Just pressing on through the check-
list. I'm not sure if that's what you meant.

CC Okay, copy that. I don't believe that's got - got

it all yet, but believe you'll pick it up later.
We'll check with you at the next station.

034 22 35 15 PLT Okay.

034 22 38 32 CDR Houston, CDR.

CC You're too fast for me, Jer. We're with you for
9 minutes.
i

CDR Roger. Another one - The piece of meteorite bl_nket

that we brought in today is too big to go in a
contingency fecal bag. What do you say we Just
roll it up with the exposed part on the inside
and tape it?

CC Let me get that one checked for you. Jer, while

I'm trying to get that question answered, I've
got a couple of EVA types hanging around in here
today that would like to get some other questions
answered, if you - if you got a moment to do it.
/
CDR Okay.

034 22 39 09 CC This one's not really a - EVA, but it was something

we were doing yesterday when we were readying out -
checking out the command module. You remember
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we told you that we had an indication of a

THRUST ON light down here. We had one in that
we had not expected, and I guess Dick talked to
you about it last night. And I know some of these
questions that I 'm going to ask you are redundant
to what we've already gone over, but would like
to Just cover them in - in order here so that we
make sure that we've covered all items.

CDR Okay.

CC Okay. Number l, were there any irregularities

experienced with _setting the Delta-V counter or
with the EN_ FUNCTION switch at the time that you
were doing the - the Delta - DELTA-V TEST?

034 2239 51 CDR Negative, Crip; none at all.

CC Okay. Were the EMS breakers possibly cycled?

CDR Negative; I didn,t cycle them.

CC Okay. And prior to performing the DELTA-V SET,

could you have selectedDELTA-V TEST momentarily,
which w_s one J de_ent away?

CDR I think I did; I think I remember doing that.

CC That could answer it for us. That makes a lot of

guys feel-

CDR Yes.

CC Makes a lot of more guys feel comfortable down here.

0B4 22 40 27 CDR Yes, that's it. I remember doing it.

CC Okay. Real fine. Appreciate that set of answers.

By the way, is it - Bill told me a while ago that
he had - had hooked it up that condensate hose.
And I was mistaken. That really should have been
the end of what he had to do with that system.
Is - anybody could get a DELTA-P reading for us
on panel 2167

CDR Okay, Bill's on his way up. I don't know if you

guys were up - on the loop when I was having
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trouble with the S082B door, but we a]most didn't

get that rascal open today.

CC Yes, we - we heard about that problem, and glad -

glad you managed to get it out of the road. We -
there was a little bit of confusion about that
down here. We copy that should have been the XUV -
or the 82B XUV M0N door that was really causing
you the problem. Which are both located out -
right in the same proximity.

034 22 41 26 CDR No, this was the big XUV - or the S082B door that
the film was under, and I couldn't get the door
open.

CC Ah-ha. The 82B DOOR you - would not open so that

you couldn't open the door to get access to the

_!_ film;is thatright?

CDR That's right And this was during that night
pass, and I tugged and struggled with it and
couldn't get it and was feeling pretty bad. And
we decided to wait until sunrise and see if it
would warp the door a little bit, and that must -_
have helped some. And then we also had Bill roll
the door around so that it was right in front of
me and I could get a better purchase on it. And
we managed to get it open. I'd stick my hand down
through the aperture and grab hold of the inside
of the door and pull it out.

03h 22 h2 15 CC Okay, but that - that was a different problem than

where you had to - didn't you have to unpin one
of the doors today to - to get that ramp off?

CDR Yes, that's right, I had to pin that little door.

CC Okay that was the monit - -

CDR 52 door.

CC Okay, that's - that's the two - two things; we

understand. I - okay, I'm with you back now.
One - on your question regarding the meteoroid
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blanket, we are GO for you to go ahead and roll

it up and - and tape it. That sounds like a good
procedure.

CDR Okay, and that's - the other one will be done the
same way. The one we got last EVA.

CC 0kay, fine.

034 22 42 49 PLT Hey, Crip, would you say again that panel number;
was that 216?

CC Yes, sir.

PLT Okay, what was the selection that you wanted.

CC Just wanted to get what the DELTA-P was on the

condensate - on the CONDENSATE reading?

PLT DELTA-P is reading zero. And, again, I'm not quite

sure what is relevant to the question you asked
previously about the condensate system, but I did
not turn on ***

CC Yes.

034 22 43 22 PLT The - you will notice that on page 3.1-6, you have
a qualifying note there regarding MOL SIEVE HEAT
EXCHANGER OUT temp. It is not - if - if it is less
than 46, you delay the next two steps. And it is
less than 46, so the 203 CIRC FANS and the HEAT
EXCHANGER FANS are not on.

CC 0kay, copy that.

PLT And I'm going to go back and check 0WS FANS again.

CC Okay, our - our problem on the - the condensate

system is - I guess is separate from those two
points, Bill. It looks like we might have got
gas in the system because we had - had thought
we would reestablish DELTA-P when you connected
those - those lines up. Which means we may have
to dump it.

034 22 44 20 PLT Okay. I think I understand what you're saying now.

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CC Is the SPT handy to talk a little bit about that

leak that he was running into today? On his PCU?

SPT Go ahead, Crip.

CC Okay. We'd just like to ms_e sure we - we

understand what the situation was. Can you tell
us where the leak was located on the composite
connector? That is, was it top, bottom, left, or
right? Could you identify that?

03h 22 h5 01 SPT Crip, it was either the - the front or the top.
I saw a - evidence of it in the top. What I
essentially saw was, periodically, something about
the size of spaghettl, I guess, is the best in -
best way to describe it, would comeoff in three
or four different directions, mostly going away
from the PCU in the front, and break into small
chips. And small chip would also be coming off
at the same time. Apparently, the ice was Just
breaking loose, and I'm not sure what pressure
was causing it to break loose. I did not - I
saw some ice around the top, which was at the
hinge of the connector lock. That is, you put
the PCU multi-connector on, and you swing the
hinge over and then lock it, the hinge itself, at
the base. Then I was able to see, at that hinge
base, the - a fair amount of ice buildup which
was a greenish water - or greenish ice. So all
I was able to see is it come [sic] out the front.
I, of course, was in the suit and was not able
to lean forward and see where it was coming from,
but I Just saw the ice on the top and saw it come
out the front.

034 22 46 12 CC Okay, fine. I - I guess we can assume that the

LSU restraint hook was mated to the PC"J?

SPT That 's affirm.

CC Okay, a couple of other questions. Was the leak

related to a change in the - in the water diverter
valve position? That Is, was the - was the valve
position changed Just prior to noting the leak?

SPT Say, let me tell you one thing, though, Crip,

before I go on to that question. When I _as
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struggling around there in the FAS area, that

lock did get pushed open as - I my PCU brushed
across one of the clotheslines, something that
really concerned me at the time. Now the - as
far as I know, the - the PCU connector did not
move out at all, and the lever did not swing over.
In other words, the arm - the only thing that came
off was the lock and not the arm itself, which
allows you to pull the connector out. Whether
there's enough pressure there with that lock off
to - to open it partially in order to get a leak,
I'm not sure. That might be a possibility.

034 22 47 16 CC Okay. We'll - we' ;1 think about that one. Do

you have any thoughts about the leak possibly
being related to a change in your diverted
valve ?

SPT Diverter valve? You mean on the suit? The

diverter valve was always vertical. Do you
mean the - -

CC I mean the water. When you were selecting a

_ differentposition on the cooling. I tell you,
why don't you - -

SPT Okay, cooling select.

CC Yes, why don't you check - -

SPT Say again.

034 22 47 45 CC I'm Just about going LOS here. Why don't you
think about that one for a while, and you can
give - if you have any comments on it, you can
give it to us later. We're going to have you
at Guam at 23:24, about 37 minutes away.

SPT Okay, in 15 seconds, Crip, I did go to MAX

cooling once after I was working real hard. And
sometime after that, the leak showed up. I only
was at max cooling for a very short period of
time, though.

CC Okay, prec - appreciate those comments.

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CC A - for Bill, we do indicate that the M0L SIEVE

HEAT EXCHANGER, OUT temperature is greater than
46 degrees, and you're - got a GO to turn on
those fans - CIRC FANS and HEAT EXCHANGER FANS.

034 22 48 34 PLT Thanks a lot, Crip.

034 23 24 26 CC Skylab, Houston. AOS Guam, 6-1/2 minutes.

PLT Roger, Crip.

CC Say, Bill, we're fairly confident that we have

lost the DELTA-P on the CO_-DENSATE SYSTEM. You
can verify it for sure by use -by using the
CAUTION and WARNING CONDENSATE DELTA-P switch,
ENABLING it, and see if you do get a C&W, which
is another transducer. And if that does verify
it, I guess we'd like you to - somebody to do
us a housekeeping 60 Bravo s_netime tonight
at your convenience.

PLT Roger. Housekeeping 60 Bravo.

CC Roger.

PLT Arid you're probably right. I'll check that out

in a few minutes.

034 23 26 15 CC CTR, _Iouston. Jer, if you got a chance we

would appreciate getting an update - where you
are in your post-EVA. Scott really wants
to go home.

CDR Okay. Bill's pretty much done; Ed's about,

what, halfway through putting away the samples
and things. And I've got LSUs put away, and
the one PCU is still attached onto the LSU. And
I've started zipping up the suits for drying.
And we've knocked off now and are having dinner.

CC Okay, fine. I imagine that a little bit of food

would probably taste good after all that hard
work.

CDR It's been a long time.

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CC Yes. Uses up a lot of energy there.

CDR I think things are pretty well under control

here. If those folks want to knock off, I
don't see any reason why they shouldn't.

CC Oh, I was Just Joshing with you.

034 23 30 17 CC Skylab, Houston. We are i minute from LOS;

next station contact in 32 minutes through
• Vanguard at 00 :01.

034 23 30 29 PLT Roger, Crip.

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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

035 00 01 58 CC Skylab, A0S through the Vanguard for about

11 m4uutes.

PLT Roger, Crip. And I ENABT.F.othe CONDENSATE DELTA-P

CAUTION and WARNING, and you were right ; it did
trigger.

CC Okay, fine. And think you can squeeze in that

housekeeping 60 Bravo for us some time tonight?

PLT Roger. It 's in work now. Jerry 's doing it.

CC Okay, fine. Incidentally, your phone call is going

to be coming up here at Canary in about - at 00:2_.
_'_ And that's about 21 minutes away, and it'll be
ANTENNA, RIGHT.
# i
PLT Roger. And I'm Just getting ready to do a 233 and
I either misled - mislaid the pad or didn't get one.
Can you give me the t_mes that are relevant to the
S2337

CC Roger. The sunset time is 00:10. Start time is

00:ii. Want two frames, both 120 seconds; one at
infinity - the first one at infinity, the next one
at 15 feet,
<

PLT Roger. Thank you,

035 00 03 30 SPT Hello, Crip. I got a question for you on the sail
SA1npl e.

CC Shoot, Ed.

SPT We don't have fecal bags large enough to fit the

sail sample in. What I propose to do is to use
some cardboard we have here and tape up all sides
of it to bring it back. I'm wondering what the
folks down there think, Also, enclose the EVA
comm loss card as well as the twin pole sample.

CC Okay, stand by on that and let me make sure that's

okay.

- SPT Thank you.

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SPT Crip, another question. I was always under the

impression we were going to bring D024 back in the
container which we brought it in from the outside.
But it says to put that also in contingency fecal
bags. Do they really want that done or do they
want it left in the container it'S in?

CC I'll check that one for you, Ed.

!
035 00 06 56 CDR Crip, we just started the holding tank dump.

CC Okay, Jer, thank you.

CC SPT, Houston. Ed, in regard to your first question,

or your - actually about your second one there,
you are correct about D024. That is supposed to
r_m_n in the container that - that you bought it
in from outside in; I - It's a little bit bad
wording, the way they put it in your checklist
change. It is not supposed to be placed in the
contingency fecal bag.

SPT Thank you, Crip. That's what I thought, but the

words led me otherwise.

CC Roger.

SPT How about the other samples?

CC We're still checking that one.

SPT Okay, I think I can tape them up so it's pretty much

almost watertight.

035 00 08 28 CC Skylab, Houston. Looks like we're going to lose

comma little bit earlier here. Ascension at O0:15,
and that's about 7 minutes away. And try to have
your answers there, Ed.

SPT Say, Crip, I could use a couple of bent JOP Su_m_ry

Sheets and make this thing completely watertight -
airtight.

CC Airtight?

SPT Close to airtight.

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CC That's like pretty good.

SPT ... in the fecal bag.

CC Roger. You got a GO, Ed. Use your - use your

i good judgment.

SPTL For the fecal bag?

CC Wrap it however you think best.

035 O0 09 14 SPT (Chuckle) Thank you, Crip.

035 00 15 4& CC Skylab, Houston. We're A0S Ascension. We have

you for 7-1/2 minutes.

035 00 16 39 SPT Crip, one more question.

CC Go.

SPT It also says to stow the clipboard, which we used

to hold the 228 and other sample. That clipboard
has got all kinds of neat depositson it. Some
of it's been shielded by the samples and some of
it hasn't. I'm wondering whether the people back
there would like to see that, also. It's flat
and we can put it right in A-5, right along with
everything else.

CC I'll tell you what. In bringing back any new

items that we currently don't have down, we've
got to run that through the CCB back here, Ed.
So could you stick it someplace and let us take
it in under - under consideration?

SPT Okay, will do. One interesting thing is that

there's a - a couple of drill holes or I should
say just the very start of drill holes, partially
where the material's been polished. And no buildup
collected there whereas it did everywhere else
where the surface was a little rougher. That was
kind of interesting. I don't know whether that's
obvious to the people back there or not.

035 00 17 57 CC Ed, could you give us a couple of more words on

what kind of deposits you're talking about on it?
Is it like a powder or something?
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SPT No, it!s Just a standard dark-brown buildup which

accumulates. We see it all over the whole vehicle.
For example, the plug which we brought in is now -
which was originally white, has gone now a brown.
And we see a little buildup of this stuff on the
commaud module windows. I have seen it all over.

CC Okay, fine. Thank you.

SPT From the pictures, you'll see when we bring them

back, there's just - no part of the vehicle really
L escapes it. The MDA, which used to be white, is
now various shades of brown all over.

CC Roger.

SPT And, also, it's on the windows, so it's not strictly

a sunlight effect, but where the sunlight does not
hit it, it is - tends to be a lighter brown, and
that's where it's shaded. And that'll be evidenced
by some of the materials we bring back which have
been shaded and other parts which have not.

CC Okay.

035 00 22 2h CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from LOS. Going

to drop out here for a couple of minutes. We'll
have you again through Canary in about 2 minutes.
We'll be doing a data/voice recorder dump there.
That's also set up for Bill's phone call, the
ANTENNA, RIGHT.

035 00 24 26 CC Okay, we're back with you once more through Canary,
and we've got you for 9-1/2 minutes.

035 00 2h 53 CC Skylab, Houston. We are A0S through Canary for

8-1/2 minutes, and we'll be doing a data/voice
recorder dump here.

SPT Roger, Crip.

035 00 33 29 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 20 seconds from LOS.

Ne_t station contact is through G,,Am in 26minutes.
That's at 00 - might as well, at 01:00. And we'll
have that set up for the medical conference.
Understand Bill has been having some problems on
his private phone call, so we'll reset that up again
and reschedule it for about 02:00 when we come around
through Canary again if that's satisfactory.
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035 O0 33 57 SPT Okay, Crip, I'ii tell him. Thank you.

035 01 06 26 SPT Hello, Crip.

CC Hello, hello. We still got you for about 3 minutes.

SPT Can't find $230 container, and what does it look

like ?

CC Okay, we'll check that for you. Incidentally, if

you guys have a chance to take a look at your
teleprinter messages tosort of review them and
make sure they were coming up okay, we would
appreciate it. We had a little RFI problem
earlier and may have caused some lines to drop
out or something.

SPT Real quick look, Crip, says they all look pretty
good.

CC Okeydoke.

035 01 07 52 CC Okay, Ed, it should be a bag about l0 inches by

_ 2 feet, and it should be either in 416 or 591 -
_'_ correction,551.

SPT 551's the freezer and I've looked at 416 and it's
not - not there. I also looked in the freezer;
can't find it either place.

CC Okay, we'll try to run it down for you.

SPT Could be a bag that's folded up very tightly; if

so, it may be in 416. I'll have to dig everything
out of there.

CC Yes, it would probably be rolled up pretty tightly.

SPT All right, let me just tear into that locker.

035 O1 08 36 CC Okay, we're 1 minute from LOS. Next station contact

is through the Vanguard in 31 minutes at 01:40.
And we'll try to get an answer to the bag question
there.

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035 01 40 09 CC Skylab, Houston. We are AOS through the Vanguard

for 8 minutes.

035 01 40 3O CC s - -

SPT Hello, Crip.

CC Hello.

SPT No Joy on $230 container.

CC Okay, I was afraid of that. What - what it was,

we had two of the 230 return bags stowed in the
lid of 416. They were kind of wrapped up. And
one of them was used last mission to bring back
a set of samples and there should have been
another one stowed there. And we have been unable
to find out where they might have moved that par-
ticular bag. Can you - can you temporarily stow
the thing tonight to see if we can come up with
something?

SPT Yes, we sure can. Do they want it in the freezer?

CC That's affirm. We'd appreciate it if you could

stick it in there for us.

CDR Hey, Crip.

CC Yes, sir.

CDR We found a - In the S063 locker, we found a pouch

assembly, part number SEC39108467-301 and it's
about l0 by 20. You might ask if that's the one.

CC Okay, were those initial letters SEC - Sierra,

Easy, Charlie?

CDR Right, and the serial number of the pouch is 1001.

CC Okay, we'll run that one down for you also, Jer.

CDR But this is around l0 by 20. This might be it,

but it doesn't say anything about 230 on it.
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CC Okay, fine. Also, Jer, for you. I don't know

whether you got it worked up or not, but it you
have the evening stat here and wanted to go ahead
and get it out of the road, we'd be glad to take
it.

CDR Okay, fine. Bill's got the photo log ready to go.

035 01 h2 28 PLT Okay, Crip. 16-millimeter: M151/Delta Papa 24,

and that - subject of both of those are the EVA
prep, transporter 07. Supply: Charlie India 129,
none remaining, Charlie India 78; M151/EVA post,
Charlie India 65, 61 percent, Charlie India 81;
EVA documentary photos, Charlie X-ray h8, empty.
Nikon: Nikon 01, Charlie X-ray 57, count is 66;
Nikon 02, Bravo Echo 16, count is 03; Nikon 03,
Charlie India ll6, count is 32; Nikon 04, Charlie
X-ray 54, count is 01; Nikon 05, Bravo Hotel 06,
count is 50. Hasselblad: Charlie X-ray h5, count
is 22. And the ETC EREP: no change. Drawer A
configuration: Alfa l, 2, and 3, no change;
Alfa h, transporter 07, supply's been stowed,
takeup in Charlie India 129; Back, transporter 08,
Charlie India 65, 61 percent, Charlie India 81. 4

CC Okay, we copy t

CDR And, Crip, I got a question and that is, since

Charlie India !129 has now been used up and a
little bit of it was used for 151, is there any
other DAC film available for documentary photos
if we cook any more up?

CC We'll check that one out for you, Jer.

CDR Okay, you might just have them put it on the film
thread pad. Indicate that DAC - what film would
be available for any more documentary work. Okay,
evening status. Sleep: CDR, 6.5, 6.0 heavy, 0.5
light; SPT, 7.0, 5.0 heavy, 2.0 light; PLT, 6.0,
h.0 heavy, 2.0 light. Volumes: N/A. Water gun:
8983; 5036; 2139. Body mass: 6.314, 6.312, 6.310;
6.387, 6.394, 6.390; 6.265, 6.26h, 6.268. Exercise:
none for anyone. Medications: CDE, two Sudafed
as directed; SPT, Afrin one time; PLT, one Actifed
as directed. Clothing: CDR, none; SPT, socks,
shirts, and short; PLT, none. Food log: CDR,
3.5 salt, minus two coffee with sugar, plus 2.0
water; SPT, 1.5 salt, plus a lemonade, plus lemon
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pudding, plus strawberries, zero rehydration

water; PLT, zero salt, plus one crispy bar, zero
rehydration water. Flight Plan deviations: none.
_,_" Shopping list accomplishments: none. Inoperable
equipment: Mark I return spring broke again.
Looks like we're going to have to give up on that
one. Unscheduled stowage: none.

CC Okay, we copy that, Jer. And the bag you found

was the correct one. How it got in 63, we don't
know, but you - you're GO to go ahead and stow
230 in that.

CDR Hey, beautiful; thank you.

CC Okay. One little item for Bill. I see he did it

so good the first time that we got him scheduled
to do light flashes again. And on his details,
the time that we specified was the time that the
thing is suppose to actually begin. So he might
want to take and - put a little remark down there
that - that he'll need to start prepping for it
a fewminutes early.

CDR Hey, the other two guys on this crew protest.

CC Oh, no. He's done demonstrated [sic] proficiency

at it.

CDR Yes, how come he gets all the good deals though?

CC Well, you get one, you get them all, I guess.

CDR (Laughter)

CC He's the only one trained; that's what I hear.

CDR Oh, I see. Okay.

PLT Jerry keeps hitting me on the head; that's how

come I see all the flashes.

035 Ol 47 15 CC CDR, Houston. Regarding extra film for the DAC,

we don't have any available right now. And there
may be some after you do 479. And we'll - we'll
let you know about that then. One other little
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item here. Make EGIL feel good if we can get

somebody to check on panel 200 for a circuit
breaker for 02 N 2 GAS FILL PRIMARY and SECOND,
both of them CLOSED. That - that's Just to
verify.

PLT We'll check, Crip. I'm almost positive I've

closed them though.

CC Roger. We - we - we thought so; it's Just - we

need those CLOSEd in case we needed to do any
commanding tonight.

0B5 O1 48 O1 CC We're about 20 seconds from LOS and you guys -

We're going to have you again at Canary at about
02:00 , but I won't call you there unless - unless
you want us with a 10,000 ENTER - 10,000 do not
enter. And one item. You can go ahead and termi-
nate that delta-P dump if you want to go ahead
and secure for this evening. That's good enough.

CDR Okay, Crip. I still say the flight planner's a

fink.

0B5 O1 _8 B0 CC Roger. FA0s are like that.

0B5 02 00 15 SPT Hello, Crip.

CC Hello, Edward. I wasn't going to call you.

SPT Well, I thought I'd give you a call because I

can't find the S052 return container.

CC Okay. We need to keep stowage busy tonight anyhow.

SPT Not in 157 and we've looked in other lockers around

the MDA and I can't find it. I don't recall seeing
a - a second one around here. We used the first
one after the fa- first film retrieval.

CC Roger. See if I can get you a quick answer for

that.

035 02 O1 15 CC Okay, Ed, did you try M-157?

SPT Oh, yes, sure did, Crip. That's the first thing
that was called out.
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CC Yes, that 's what I thought. Okay.

035 02 03 02 SPT Hey, Crip, are they set up? Is Bill set up for
a call here?

CC Okay, there was sc_e confusion about really whether

you wanted to do the call or not. Would you like
to have the phone call? I'm afraid it may not
be set up at your home right now. Tell you what.
Why don't we try to get two of them in tomorrow
night - and then find another spot for you?

SPT Okay, Crip; Elet's do it that way.

CC Okay.

035 02 03 57 SPT Crip, if we cau't find that bag, why don't I Just
go ahead and treat the 52 in the same way as we're
doing 56 and H-alpha? That's stripping of the
2-inch tape over it, and then we'll stow it in
an appropriate location in the command module.

CC Okay, we'll buy that for now. We're still looking.

We've got about 9 more minutes here. We'll try
to come up with something.

035 02 13 41 CC Skylab, sorry we've been totally unsuccessful in

trying to - to help you out. If - It's not
apparently stowed where we think it is. And, I
guess, the best you can do is go ahead and -
with your suggestion, Ed. And we - If we got any
better ideas, we'll tell you - tell you about
them tomorrow. Next station contact, if you need
us, is going to be Honeysuckle at 02:47. And
that's about 34 minutes away.

CDR Okay, Crip. We'll conduct a pretty thorough

search. If we don't find it, we'll tell you -
we'll Just leave it taped and pack it that way.

CC Okay. And we assume you guys are securring the

CONDENSATE SYSTEM - on the dump.

CDR Yes, I'll do that before I go to bed.

035 02 14 23 CC Okay.
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035 02 48 32 CC Skylab, Houston. You know how we lie. We're

AOS with you now through Honeysuckle for 7 minutes.
And looks like you're still awake and working
because we see the CONDENSATE SYSTEM still in dump.
And I think I've got an answer to Ed's 52 stowage
question. I'd like to try to rub it across to
you.

035 02 h8 59 PLT Okay, Crip.

SPT Well, Crip; try it on me.

CC Okay, Edward. Piecing the story together down

here, apparently what we were trying to do was -
on the last time you brought in 52, we had a
cover that we were going to put on that film con-
tainer. We were going to put it into the disposal
bag and stow it down in one of the freezers there.
And this time we had a bag we were Just going to
stick it in without the cover. We suspicion that
may be last time we had put it in a cover and put
it in the bag both and put it down in 552. If
that's the case, you can go ahead and take the -
take it out of the bag, assuming the other one's -_
still got the cover on it, and put this container
in the bag. And if you got a disposal bag avail-
able, you can put the other one in the disposal
bag. That should- that should - -

SPT Okay, Crip. I got to go get a little bit educated

on the difference between a bag and a cover. Let
me look in the freezer.

CC Okay. It should be in 552. And if it's not in

there, it might be in 551.

035 02 51 31 SPT Okay, Crip. I've got a - a black, cold bag which
has got a S052 with a cover on it inside. And
apparently you would like me to take the S052
with the cover on it and put it in a disposal bag
Knd put the other S052 in the black, cold bag and
put them both into the command module. Is that
affirm?

CC No, we - All of that's correct except we'd like

to put them in the freezer. And I believe on
day-82 transfers is where you take it up to the
command module.
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SPT Okay. One of them told me to put it in the com-

mand module, at least this last checklist did.
But if you like, I'll put them both in the freezer.
I Just hope that the Deactivation Checklist has
it that way.

CC Stand by and let me make sure that I got it right.

035 02 52 34 CC Okay, Ed, the answer is that your EVA Checklist

had you move the one that you Just got out, I
guess, up in the command module now and day 82
had you pick up the other. You got a GO to take
both of them if you want or do it as you see fit.

SPT Are they both going to end up in - what, A-5 or

A-87 I'm not sure of the number. I'll have to
look at it again.

035 02 53 l0 CC Okay. We copy one should go in A-h and one should

go in A-8.

SPT Okay, Crip. That's where they're going now.

CC Okay, and the only way I could figure out that

you could know that is Just to know it.

SPT Well, I know it now, so I'm in.

CC We all are.

035 03 53 54 CC And, Ed, if you're still copying, for your infor-

mation, we're not going to change the day-82
transfers. We're assuming that you know you've
Just done one step a day ahead of time or a coup -
couple of days ahead of time.

PLT Crip, could you get the film people down there
to identify the next IR reel, 35-millimeter
magazine?

CC We'll do it for you.

CC IR13.

PLT Thank you.

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CC And that is a reload for you, Bill. That was

downloaded earlier.

PLT Okay.

035 02 55 21 CC PLT, Houston. I'd like to correct my last, Bill.

The IR12 is your - is your load. And that is -
that is a reload.

PLT Okay, IR12. Thank you.

CC Okay, we're about to go LOS. And this time I'm

not going to call you any more. Bermuda won't
be until 03:32. Hope you guys are all tucked
away by that time.

PLT Okay, Crip.

CC Good night.

035 02 55 55 PLT Good night.

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i 'I

035 ii 40 51 CC (Mus!ic: "If" by Bread).

• 035 ll h3 21 CC Skylab, Housto_ Good morning to you. You prob-

ably no_iced_w_ let you catch a few extra winks
since you go_ to bed late last nlght, and we are -
mq_fied your Flight Plan to cover this. You
• _ sh6uld have a new Flight Plan and details on board.
_ _ And you'll also note that there are two film thread
pads; the last one is the one you want to use.

CDR" Good morning, HAnk. Thank you.

CC (Music: "Gypsies, Tramps, and Thieves" by

Cher Bono).

CC (Music: "Sensuous Wcman" by Mystic Moods)

035 ii 49 30 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 45 seconds frc_

LOS. Ascension is next at 57, and we plan to
dump the voice recorder there.

035 01 _9 39 CDR Roger, Hank.

035 Ol _9 hl CC (Music)

035 ii 57 00 CC Skylab, Houston through Ascension for 10-1/2 min-

utes. And if you give us the voice recorder, I
think we can give you 5-minute cleaning service
this morning.

CDR Okay, Hank. No problem on the voice recorder.

I' got a question for you. M487-5 is only scheduled
one time in your new Flight Plan. I wonder - well,
aren't we supposed to do that in the morning and
in the evening?

CC It wu desired to do it that way, Jet. And we

didn't knOw whether you'd have time or not, so
we didn't put it in in the morning. If you can
work it in, I'm sure they would be very delighted
to get that data.

CDR 0kay, we' ii give it a try.

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035 ii 58 39 CC And, PLT, I{ouston. You'll probably notice when

you get all that stuff out of the teleprinter
there, there's a message for you on the condensate
mal, number 8137 Alfa. And we'd like for you to
run that, if you would this morning, during the
block of time that's labeled Mh79, assist CDR as
required.

CDR Okay, Hank. I'll see that he does it.

CC Would you like to hear a little news while you're

stirring around there this morning?

035 12 00 Oh SPT That sounds good, Hank. Sure would like it.

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035 12 00 08 CC Okay, in Washington, the Bureau of Printing and

Engraving is moving into full production of gas-
oline rationing coupons, working on a month's
supply to be ready in case rationing is ordered.
The bureau, which normally is kept busy around
the clock printing money and stamps, has put aside
currency on aishort-termbasis to concentrate on
the rationing coupons. Meanwhile, the truckers'
strike worsens and is spreading through several
states. There has been violence reported in
Tennessee, Mississippi, Oklahoma, and other states.
Rock throwing mud gunfire is damaging trucks
which continue to run, and truckstops in many
areas of the nation are crowded with drivers who
are either irate about fuel prices or afraid to
drive because of violence. They drink coffee,
play cards, sleep, and call home to tell their
families that they will be home sometime.
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f 035 13 00 54 CC From Ohio: Attorney General William B. Saxbe

urged the nation's governors on Sunday to use the
force at their co,and to curb illegal acts grow-
ing out of the nationwide truckers' protest.
"This handful of truckers is not going to bring
this country to its knees," Saxbe said. From
Massachusetts: Calling it "the best meditation
we ever had," two yoga practitioners won a dance
marathon here this weekend by staggering around
a dance floor for a little over 64 hours. Dee
Lopez said she "tried to tap the inner source" as
she danced. And her partner, Skip Cicearelli,
said, "There are a hell of a lot of good vibes in
this room." The couple from C_mbridge won a
10-day trip to the Virgin Islands, new wardrobes,
and cash. The world dance-marathon record, without
benefit of yoga, was established in nearby Sommer-
ville between December the 28th, 1932, and June
3rd, 1933, by Callt,n L. DeVillier and Vonnie
Kuchinski. They d-_ced 3780 hours for a prize of
$i,000. That figures out to 26-1/2 cents an hour.

035 12 02 01 CC From Illinois: Electricity may one day be used

to treat or prevent the bone brittleness which
comes to everyone in old age, a University of
Illinois physicist says, on the basis of experiments
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With rabbits. Research by university physi-
clsts, in cooperation with zoologlsts, veterniary
scientists, and others, has shown that electrical
stimulation promotes bone browth. The scientists
must now try to determine the best amount and
frequency of electrical stimulation to produce
mature !bone. Williams said he is confident this
can be determined. He plans to extend his studies
to hogs and perhaps larger animals.

035 12 02 35 CC Camp David: President Nixon spent a wintry Sunday

at his mountaintop retreat, preparing for talks
with a high-level Soviet envoy, aides reported.
Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko is scheduled
to meet with Nixon on Monday. Gromyko has been
in Havana, where he has Joined Soviet Communist
Party Chief Leonid I. Brezhnev in talks with
Cuba's Fidel Castro• Gromyko, incidentally,
arrived in Washington from Cuba Sunday for tasks
with the President and Secretary of State Henry
A. Kissfnger. Alighting from his twin-engine
Jetliner at Andrews Air Force Base, Gromyko w_Iked
through hail and freezing rain to a bank of mir -
of mic_ophongs, where his first comment to rep ....
reporters was_ "Am I in Antarctica?" Also,
Washington: If Pentagon plans work out, even the
lowest-ranked privates will be able to take their
wives with them at Government expense when they
are sent overseas. It's the latest move by the
milita_jr to keep the troops happy. At present,
men in the bottom three ranks have the choice of
serving lonely, unaccompanied tours abroad or
paying out of _heir own resources to bring wives
and children over and support them there. Don't
have any sports news this morning.

035 12 03 56 CDR Thanks a lot, Hank.

SPT Thank you, Hank.

CC Okay, I Just got the word that Jack Nicklaus won

the Hawaiian Open. He had a four-round score of
271, which tied the course record. And he was
three shots out in front at the finish.

PLT Was that on that Lanai course?

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CC l'm not sure which one it was.

PLT Thank you, Hank.

035 12 04 36 CC Hope you didn't have any trouble sorting out those
Flight Plans this morning. We just figured that
you'd like to get the extra winks.

CDR No problem at all, Hank. Hey, are we just going

over Ascension Island now?

CC That's affirmative.

CC SPT, Houston.

CDR Go ahead.

035 12 05 04 CC Okay, for Ed, "one little quickie, and this will
wind it up. He's got a regroup time scheduled
at - when he finishes ED76, up there at about 13:30.
And somewhere in that time, we'd like to get him
the - run the ATM C&D panel configuration to stor-
__ age. And that's foundon page 5-5 of the A_4
Experiments Checklist and data Book. And in that,
we'd also like for him to remove the tape from
the S054 FILTER wheel and go ahead and cycle it
like it calls for there in the checklist. We'd
be interested in seeing if the thing does move,
wh - whether it's electrical or mechanical failure
we had. And on 5-10 where it calls out for us to
give him a ROLL angle - I know the - the oth -
yesterday we gold him we wanted 10,800, but we've
got a lot of data at that setting, l0 hours'
worth, and we'd like to have a final ROLL of
plus 5400.

SPT Okay, Hank. I got that.

CC Thank you, Ed.

035 12 06 20 CDR Hey, we finally got a picture of Ascension Island,

Hank.

CC Outstanding !

CC That's playing that one right down to the wire.

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CDR Yes. _his is the first time we've - we've been

over here without having it clouded over.

035 12 07 07 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 30 seconds from LOS.

Carnarvon is next at 30, 23 minutes from now.
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035 12 30 32 CC Skylab I Houston through Carnarvon for 9 minutes.

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CDR Roger,!Hank. Hey, I think I gave you bum dope on
Ascension Island, too. We think maybe that was
St. Helena.
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CC Okay. We copy, Jer.

CDR We gotto looking at the time a little closer,

and we were little bit further south than we
thought. And it looks like Ascension was under
its usual bank of clouds.
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CC Okay. When you called, though, according to our

20 - lO by 20 down here, it looks like you might
have been a little bit past ; but we thought maybe
you were looking retrograde there.

CDR No such luck.

035 12 32 50 CC CDR, Houston. The other day you reported the

_nia odor in the waste management compartment
there. And we were wondering if the odor was bad
enough that you wanted us to work up any sort of
a troubleshooting procedure or some way to try to
reduce the odor.

CDR Negative, Hank. My main concern was whether or

not that was going to impact deactivation.

CC Okay; we copy. We won't try to work up anything

on it, then.

CDR Okay.

SPT Sure wakes you up in the morning.

CDR It's a real sinus clearer.

CC Must be pretty bad.

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CDR It's not too bad, but it's pretty sharp.

035 12 35 47 CC PLT, Houston. If it's convenient, we've got one

little thing we'd like to add to that trouble-
shooting message you have on the condensate leak.

PLT Stand by i, Hank. Okay; I have it out. Go.

CC Okay. Before doing step i, we left out something

there we think we ought to cover. And that is,
on panel 217 we'd like you to mate and demate the
LCG there several times and leave it mated. We
have had a leak there before, and we think if we
cycle through that, that might make the procedure
complete.

PLT Mate and demate what again? I didn't quite hear

that.

035 12 36 35 CC The LCG that's normally hooked into panel 217.

PLT Okay. Make and demate several times and leave

mated. Thankyou. Got me Just as I was going up
there.

CC Okay. That's a SUS water/gas separator we're

talking about there, not the LCG.

PLT Okay.

PLT Now, Hank, that is normally left - oh, yes, you -

left demated. Okay.

CC Okay. That's right, Bill. We want to cycle it a

few times and leave it mated.

PLT Okay. Leave mated.

035 12 38 37 CC Skylab, Houston. We're i minute from LOS. Guam

is next at 45; that's 6 minutes.

035 12 44 51 CC Skylab, Houston through Guam; 7-1/2 minutes.

035 12 48 23 PLT Hank, Skylab. PLT.

CC Go ahead.
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PLT Just for information, when I opened 217 panel, I

got about, oh, a cup and a half, two cups of water
in there I mopped up with a towel. And I Just
thought it may be of interest to the people who
are working this problem, that there was quite a
bit of water behind the door on 217 when I opened
it.

CC Roger. We copy, Bill.

035 12 51 25 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from LOS. Gold-

stone is next at 09, 17-1/2 minutes from now.
And we'll be handing over to the maroon team.
Have a good day. We'll see you tomorrow.

PLT Have a good day, Hank.

0B5 12 51 43 CDR So long, Hank.

035 1B 09 38 CC Morning, Skylab. Got you stateside for 18 minutes.

SPT Morning, Story. How you doing today?

CC I'm doing swell. How about you, Ed? --.

SPT Oh, we're charging through the day.

035 13 14 06 CC Jer, Houston.

CDR Go ahead, Story.

CC Good gorning. And we're not showing the VIDEO

switch in the portable TV position, Jer.

CDR Okay. We haven't gotten that far yet.

CC Okay. Is Bill working the condensate tank

procedure?

CDR That' s affirmative.

CC Okay.

035 13 14 41 CC And we'll be dropping out here for about 20 seconds

for a handover.
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0B5 iB 16 4i CC Skylab, we're back with you for ii minutes. And,

Bill, could you let us know where you are in the
condensate tank procedure?

PLT Roger, Story. I'm on page 9-3. And I'm just

getting read)-to connect the condensate--hol_g
tank dump hose to the holding-tank condensate
outlet at port tank/WMC H20 connector in floor of
forward compartment step.

CC Okay, thanks.

035 13 19 09 CDR Houston, CDR.

CC Go ahead, Jer.

CDR On the 18-millimeter-mirror-lens setup for this

M479, the checklist on page 3-1 calls out for
setting the focal length at 1.5 feet. Looks to
me like - like this - this lens has got a fixed
focal length of about 1.25 feet or 1.2, something
like that.
i

CC Okay. We'll get with you.

CC You got it right, Jer. Use it Just the way it is.

CDR Okay.

SPT Hey, Story, in the ATM reconfiguration for storage,

I'm coming across a fair number of discrepancies
between the actual panel and what's in the check-
list. I'm not reporting those, and I'll Just press
on. If you want to hear about them all, though,
I can give them to you.

CC Okay, Ed.

035 13 21 55 CC Ed, Houston.

SPT Go ahead, Story.

CC Ed, press on the way you are. Just follow the

checklist there. You do have change A to the ATM
Experiment Checklist and Data Book. That's
message 7939. You put those changes in, didn't
you?
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SPT Yes; that's affirm, Story. There's a few things

over and above that, though.

CC Okay, fine. Press.

035 13 23 20 SPT Story, I assume I ought to leave the SCAN SPECT

• in its current configurationso it can run on
un att en de d?

CC That's affirm, Ed.

SPT Thank you.

SPT Okay, Story. Are you ready for me to select

FILTER 1 on 5_?

CC Yes; that'll be fine, Ed, right now.

035 13 24 35 SPT Showing a barberpole up here.

SPT Now I got a SPT gray.

CC Okay. We show it went through 4, 5, and 6 and it's

sitting in 1 now.

SPT What's that say about the failure?

CC I guess you'dhave %o conciude_it_-some k{nd

of mechanical hangup as opposed to an electrical
problem.

SPT Thank you. Is there anything else you'd like me

to do? Do you want me to cycle them through a
few more?

CC Not right now, Ed.

035 13 27 ll CC Skylab, we're a minute from LOS and 8 minutes to

Ascension at 13:36.

PLT Roger, Story. How do you read?

CC Loud and clear, Bill.

PLT Okay. At 25 past, I started the WATER DUMP valve

OPEN. And I'll be - continue with the procedure.
I thought you might want to take a look at the
EXHAUST PRESSURE there Just to see what you have
on telemetry. ._
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CC Thanks, Bill.

SPT Would you like 5h FILTER to STORAGE, as the check-

list calls up, Story.9

035 13 27 53 CC That's affi Irm, Ed.

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035 13 37 46 CC Skylab, back with you through Ascension for

4 minutes.

035 13 37 57 SPT Hello, Story.

CC Hi, Ed.

035 13 38 13 CC Bill, Houston.

PLT Go ahead.

CC From down here, we're not showing any dump in

progress. Your transducer on board's not that
reliable. And the only thing we can suggest
right now is to check the PRESS VALVE on the big
tank and the condensate outlet valve on the big
tank and your WATER DUMP VALVE on panel 831 and
the DUMP HEATERS. That's the only suggestion
we've got right now.

/_ PLT Okay. Stand by.

035 13 40 31 PLT Okay. Story, I just verified all the configura-

tion and did a check with the little measuring de-
device. And it has moved about an inch and a
half since I activated it. And there's also a
bub - big bubble of water on the condensate outlet
QD at the tank on the dump hose.

CC Okay, Bill.

PLT Which I think has nothing to do with the problem

necessarily. But it is apparently dumping, but
very slowly.

CC Okay.

035 13 41 38 CC Skylab, we're 30 seconds to LOS; about 25 minutes

to Carnarvon at 14:07. Planning on dumping the
data/voice there. And for Bill, we've got no
other suggestions. We'll take a look at the
platter later on.

035 13 41 53 PLT Okay.

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035 14 08 35 CC Skylab, AOS through Carnarvon for 9 minutes. Be

dumping the data/volce here.

PLT Roger, Story. I think Jer's recording right now.

CC We show someone on the VTR but not on the data/

voice recorder.

PLT Okay, I Just noticed the green light blinking

down here on my SIA I'm using in the wardroom.

035 14 09 14 PLT Also, Story, it looked like some - a logjam broke

or something. The little H20 measuring device
I've been using - the bellows in the condensate
holding tank has moved about 1 foot in about the
last lO minutes.

CC Okay. We see it down here, too. That is if the

flow is increased.

035 14 15 39 CC Skylab, we're a minute and a half to LOS; about

5 minutes to Guam. Jer, Houston.

CDR Go ahead,
Story.

CC Jer, it's not in the checklist, but it is on

your photo pad; Just a reminder, you'll need to
switch to transporter 05 for M479 specimens 7
through 12.

CDR Roger, Story. I just finished the burn on speci-

men number 2. And I don't thinkthe ignition
wire was hot long enough. And I think it'd be
a good idea to go ahead and ignite it again.
Do the folks down there concur?

CC Roger, Jer. We confer [sic] with that. And did

you happen to get the stowage checklist changes
done yesterday that were scheduled around, oh, late
last evening?

CDR Negative.

CC Okay. You'll be doing all that tomorrow, the

day-82 transfers, so we'll need to get that done to-
day. And as you pass through some regroups later
on today, we'll see if we need to get you some time.
Let us know how it's going.
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CDR Okay. I sure will, Story. And this nylon sample

glowed for about 3 seconds and looked like it was
going to get started and then the - apparently,
the igniter wire cooled off or quit at that time,
and the whole thing Just stopped. So I'm going
to repeat the sequence and have a sequence time
of 15 seconds.

035 14 17 07 CC Okay; sounds fine. See you over Guam in about

3 minutes.

035 14 20 53 CC Skylab, back with you through Guam for l0 minutes

CDR Roger, Story. Tried it again on the nylon sample

and it just - it seems to extinguish itself.

CC Copy, Jer.

CDR It will burn only as long as the igniter wire is

glowing, and then it'd immediately extinguishes.

CC 0 - Okay, Jer. We consider that a data point.

And just press on with the rest of the samples.

035 lh 22 18 CC Jer, Houston.

CDR Go ahead.

CC Understand you're using a - a 15-second burn time,

Jer?
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CDR The test time I'm using was 30 seconds the first
time, and the igniter only stays on for about
3 seconds. So I was Just wasting film on a
30-second test time, so I reduced it down to
15 on the second test. And that was no good.
I tried a third test with l0 seconds, and again,
the igniter only stays hot for about 3 seconds,
and then the camera runs for the rest of the time.

CC Understand.

035 14 23 50 CC Bill, Houston.

PLT Go ahead, Story.

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CC Could you check the bellows on the big condensate

tank here, and _f it's halfway or more, press on
with the procedure? If it's not halfway or more,
Just leave it as is and we'll catch it later.

PLT Okay. It's almost to the other end of the tank.

I Just checked it about 2 minutes ago, and it's
about 8 inches shy of the other end of the tank.
So I'll press on.

CC Fine. Press on, Bill.

PLT And I've got to start another experiment here

right now.

CC Okay.

035 14 29 h2 CC Skylab, we're a minute to LOS; about 15 minutes

to Goldstone at 14:45. And, Jer, Houston.

CDR Roger, Story.

CC Jer, a 3-second ignition time - that's normal

on the experiment. We'd like you to try each of
those three times. And it's okay to stop the
DAC if you're not getting ignition. And after
three times, no ignition, press on to the next
s ample.

CDR Okay; will do, Story.

035 14 30 29 PLT Story, PLT.

035 14 46 00 CC Skylab, A0S Stateside 17 minutes.

035 lh 50 lO CC Skylab, we'd like to dump the VTR here if you

have no need for it.

CDR Go ahead, Story.

035 14 50 21 CC Okay, we'll do it.

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035 15 01 23 CC Skylab, we're a minute and a half to LOS; about

12 minutes to the Vanguard at 15:12. The VTR is
i
yours.

CDR Roger. Thank you, Story.

035 15 01 44 CC. Okay.

035 15 ll 55 CC Skylab, we're with you through the Vanguard for

5 minutes.

035 15 17 42 CC Skylab, we're a minute and a half from LOS. The

next station - it's a long LOS - will be Goldstone
at 16:22. That's about an hour and 5 minutes.
Intending to dump the data/voice there. Jer,
Houston.

CDR Go ahead, Story.

f 035 15 18 02 CC Jerry, you can pass on to Bill that when he gets

done with _he_light flashes in $233 - and it is
non-time critical; he can get it even later on
today - he can press on with the condensate tank
procedure. And for you, we don't want M479 to
interfere with your getting your stowage check-
list update and other checklist updates. So,
maybe after dinner, we suggest you get that stowage
checklist update done. And then press on with
Mh79.

CDR Okay. And, I'm - I've just finished sample n11mber

5; beginning to pick up a little steam now as I
get the routine a little better now.

035 15 18 42 CC Okay, fine.

035 16 23 57 CC SkYlab, AOS stateside for 12 minutes. Be dumping

the data/voice here.

CC Jer, Houston.

SPT Go ahead. He's listening.

CC Ed, you all up there in the command module?

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SPT We just moved out and we're going to be going back

in about another 10, 15 minutes.

CDR We're taking a meritorious l0 minutes for the

California pass, Story.

035 16 25 40 CC Okay. Beautiful, Jer. We're sending up a message.

It'll be coming up in the teleprinter about 1 min-
ute from now. It's a w%y of restoring that CIR-
CUIT BREAKER BAT BUS A to BAT A. And if you're
going back up there anyway, maybe on the way up
there you can pick the message up on the way into
the command module. And we would like this done
over a - a station if possible. It's about a - a
5-minute procedure and we've got 9 minutes more
of AOS here.

CDR How about over Vanguard? How much time we got

there?

CC Yes, Vanguard, or really any time would be fine.

If it doesn't get done today, we'll simply put it
on the Flight Plan for tomorrow. The last part
of it, that's the BAT CHARGing procedure - we
don't want that done today anyway. We'll schedule
that starting early in the morning tomorrow.

CDR Good enough, Story.

035 16 26 56 CC Ed, Houston.

SPT Go ahead.

CC Ed, we sent up an ATM message to you. We see that

TV BUS 1 is still on on the ATM. Assume you're
want - going to want to do some observations; that's
why it was left on. It'll need to be on anyway
for this procedure we sent up. Kitt peak has got
a new magnetogram. And at your convenience,
without interfering with any of your deactivation
and coming-home activities, possibly you could
get some VTR on the XUV and some Polaroid pictures.
You'll see the message. It's in the teleprinter
now.

SPT Okay, Story.

035 16 28 31 CC Ed, Houston.

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SPT Go ahead.
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CC Got one more thing. On the way to the command mod-
ule: panel 206, REG 6 FINE ADJUST, mark the set-
ting - mark it where it is now, then rotate all
theway counterclockwise.

SPT Okay, Story.

!
CC And - -

035 16 28 51 SPT Let me ask you again.

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035 16 34 03 SPT Hello, Story. Can I have the words on that REG
again, please?

CC Sure, Ed. On panel 206, REG 6 FINE ADJUST, mark

where it is now; then go fully counterclockwise.

SPT Okay.
4

CC And since you're going to tha location, I got one

other thing to check and that's the PRIMARY N2
supply valve. We're showing that's off, and we'd
like it in COMMAND. That's the upper left-hand
corner of panel 225.

CC And we're 30 seconds to LOS. See you over the

Vanguard in about 12 minutes at 16:46.

SPT Every switch on 225 that can be in COMMAND is in

CON_AND, Story.

035 16 35 ii CC Okay; thanks.

035 16 h7 22 CC Skylab, AOS through the Vanguard for i0 minutes.

CDR Story, how much time do we have?

CC Another 8-1/2iminutes , Jer.

CC Okay, I'm ready to pick up with the first steps

of this battery procedure.

CC Okay. Go, Jer.

CDR Roger.

CDR Okay, Story, I CLOSED the BAT BUS A PYRO BAT A

BREAKER, and the DC INDICATOR does not indicate
BAT BUS A greater than 35.

CC Stand by l, Jer.

035 16 50 58 CDR I'm reading 29 volts.

CDR The - the BAT BUS A MAIN A BREAKER is CLOSED.

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CC Okay, that explains it. And we're GO.

CDR Okay, do you want me to OPEN the BAT BUS A MAIN A

or leave it CLOSED?

CC Stand by i, Jer.

CDR Okay, I see you've got it closed a little hit

further down. So we're in good shape.

CC You can press on, Jer.

035 16 52 25 CDR Okay, I'm showing 14 AMPS on PYRO BUS A.

CC That 's good.

CDR Correction: PYRO BAT A.

CC Roger.

CDR Okay, with BAT BUS A PYRO BAT A BREAKER pulled,

I'm getting 27.9 volts.

CC That
's good,
Jer.

CDR Okay, Story, when I push in on the BAT BUS A BAT

A CIRCUIT BREAKER, I get 15 AMPS on BAT A - or BAT
BUS A and about 29 VOLTS.

CC Okay, that's verified down here. Now if you can

press on and cycle it.

CDR Okay, will do it.

035 16 56 0h CDR Okay, Story, looks like that whipped it. I pressed
it in and held it tightly ten times. I held it
for about - oh, 3 to 5 seconds each time. And
the amperage moved from 15 on up to about 20 amps.
And on the eleventh time, I just closed the
breaker in the normal manner without forcing it
in hard. And it's all the way up and holding
real well.

CC Understand you're not holding it now, Jer?

CDR That's affirmative, Story. It's there all by

itself.
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CC Looks good. Let's OPEN it and that'll do it.

CDR Okay.

035 16 57 19 CC Okay, Jer_ that's good news. We're 30 seconds

to LOS here; see you over the - Tananarive in
about 17 minutes at 17:lb. And the bat charging
procedure we'll put on the Flight Plan for
t_norrow.

CDR Okay, Story. So long.

CC Th,_n_ you.

CC Khd going over the hill, the CONDENSATE DELTA-P is

holding good. I

PLT And the dump - the procedure is complete.

I
035 16 58 ll CC Thanks, Bill.

035 17 lh h0 CC Skylab, AOS through Tananarive for 6 minutes.

The next station, if we lose you here, is Hawaii,
r about _2 minutes at 17:57.
i

SPT Roger, Story.

035 17 19 06 CC Skylab, we're a couple minutes from LOS; about

h0 minutes to Hawaii, 17:57. Jer, Houston.

SPT Go ahead, Story.

CC Ed, ask Jer how many samples he got done on Mh79

and how are they going?

SPT Hers got nine done and he's learning fast. He's
fast - learning and picking up speed.

035 17 19 41 CC Okay, thanks.

035 17 57 5h CC Skylab, got you for a short pass through Hawaii

for 2 minutes.

CDR Roger, Story. And today we're having our special

menu that they've worked up for us, and one thing
they forgot to mention is how much salt each of
us is allowed today. Would you ask the food people
to - what the word is on that?
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CC Okay. And while I got you, Jer, i've got a

priority of items on your Mh79.

CDH Okay. I'm ready to copy.

035 17 58 31 CC Okay. Press on ;as you are for samples 1 through

18. After that, if you get a chance, go on to
19 to 24. It's very unlikely that you'll get to
the 25 through 37's, but if you do, press on. So
it's finish up the ones you're on, 1 through 18,
and then to go to 19 through 24 if you get a
chance, i

CDR Okay.

CC And, Jer, you got a phone call tonight through

Honeysuckle at 02:04, and it's a RIGHT.

PLT Roger. He copied.

035 17 59 09 CC And, Bill, you got a phone call: Guam at 00:16,

and that's a LEFT to RIGHT.

PLT 00 :16, LEFT to RIGHT.

CC And for Jer. Possibly we'll get a message up here,

a change to the general message, that updates his
stowage checklist. In fact, it's - it's up right
now. So before he gets into the stowage checklist
change he'll want to look at that.

PLT Okay.

035 17 59 46 CC And I'm about 20 seconds from LOS here. The

Vanguard next in about 25 minutes at 18:24; be
dumping the data/voice there.

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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

035 18 2h 47 CC Skylab, AOS through the Vanguard for l0 minutes;

be dumping the data/voice here.

CDR Roger, Story.

035 18 30 26 CC Jer, we'll use the DAS for outer gimbal backup.

035 18 34 l0 CC Skylab, the DAS is yours. We're a minute to LOS.

Tananarive in 14 minutes at 18:48. And tamorrow's
Flight Plans are on board.

CDR Roger, Story.

035 18 49 33 CC Skylab, AOS through Tananarive for 7 minutes.

SPT Roger, Story.

035 18 55 27 CC Skylab, we're a minute from LOS. About 37 minutes

to Hawaii at 19:32. Jer, today's a no-sKlt day
F- for everybody.

CDR Okay, Story; thanks.

CC Best we could do.

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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

035 19 33 41 CC Skylab, A0S through Hawaii for 8-1/2 minutes.

035 19 37 19 CC Jer, Houston.

CDR Go ahead, Story.

CC Jer, I've got a four-step procedure here which

will get that PCU and LSU out of the airlock for
'you.

CDR Okay.

CC Disconnect PCU number l0 from LSU number 7. In-

spect both halves of the composite disconnect.
Voice record any abnormalities that you see. If
there's anything you see you could catch with
the 35-millimeter camera, take a photo. And
then restow LSU in the sphere and the PCU on the
forward floor grid. And you can give that to
anyone. Maybe Ed would be a good one to do that.
I can't get to him now; he's doing the M131.

035 19 38 22 CDR Okay, Story. We'll get it done.• Thank you,

CC And I got one other thing for Bill, but I can't

get to him now. We are losing delta-P in the
big condensate tank, and like you to put some
universal sealant - either you, or maybe Bill
between his M131 and M092 runs. That's located
in E-620 E; it's universal sealant or gunk.
And put it on the 217 QD - Just wrap it around
that QD and the 393 QD.

CDR Okay, universal sealant, 393 and 217 QDs. And

that was 62h - was the drawer?

CC That's E-620 E.

CDR Okay, E-620 Echo.

CC Thsmks a lot. And how are you doing on the M479,

while I've got you?

CDR Okay. Right after lunch, I got the stowage list

change all done, and I'm Just starting now. I
Just finished sample number i0.

k• •
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035 19 39 35 CC Okay, fine.

035 19 41 36 CC Skylab, we're a minute from LOS, about 22 minutes

to the Vanguard at 20:03; be dumping the data/
voice there.

035 20 03 49 CC Skylab, we're with you through the Vanguard for

9 minutes, and be dumping the data/voice here.

035 20 05 48 CC And, Ed, I'd like to bug you Just once in the
next 7 minutes.

SPT Go ahead, Story.

CC Ed, have you filled that Apollo drink bag for the
heat sink yet?

SPT Yes, I have; it's the same dimension as the other.

CC Okay, good. And did you fill that from the ward-
room pedestal?

035 20 06 41 SPT Affirm.

CC 0aky; excellent. We're going to use that for a

dual purpose. We'll also use it as a water sample
from the pedestal. Thank you.

SPT Didn't know I was thinking ahead of you, did you,

Story?

CC We're real happy you were taking care of us, Ed.

035 20 07 01 SPT I didn't either.

035 20 08 44 CC Jerry, Houston.

CDR Go ahead, Story.

CC Jer, there's no hurry on it, but just so that we

can interpret the data we're seeing down here,
did anyone get to wrap that sealant around those
two QDs ?

CDR I'm - I'm doing it right now.

035 20 09 17 CC Okay, thank you.

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035 20 ii h7 CDR Houston, CDR.

CC Go ahead, Jer. You got a minute.

CDR Yes, Story. Would you confirm that you want the
gas connector mated to panel 2i7.

CC Stand by i.

CDR That's off nominal from our normal configuration,

and that's what you folks wanted this morning.
But we're still wondering if that's really what
you want.

CC Yes, we want that connected, Jer, and Just wrap

the sealant around it.

CDR Okay.

035 20 12 35 CC And we're going LOS here. It will be a long

one; about an hour to Hawaii at 21:10.

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_\ SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

(Music: "Rachmaninoff Concerto No. 3" played

by Van Cliburn)
I
035 21 ll 08 CC Good afternoon, Skylab. We're AOS through Hawaii
for 6 minutes.

(Music)
035 21 16 32 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from LOS. Next
station contact is through the Vanguard in 25 min-
utes at 21:42. And we'll be doing a data/voice
recorder dump there.

CDR Roger, Crip. I've got the television camera look-

ing over my shoulder at some of these burn ssmples.
And the polyurethane ... are pretty spectacular.
It'd be interesting to see ... mission comes out
... the television camera to stay at the right
f-stop. But I'm going to do - I've done the
polyurethane; I'm going to do the paper. And I'd
F_ be interested to hear, once you've dumped it,
what it looks like down there.

CC Okay, sounds interesting. We'll - we'll get back

to you as soon as we see it.

035 21 17 19 CDR Okay.

035 21 41 3h CC Skylab, Houston. We are AOS through the Vanguard

for 9-1/2 minutes.

CC For the CDR; no need to acknowledge now, Jer, but

if you get a chance this pass, we would appreciate
a kind of update on how goes it today.
i

035 _l 42 52 CC Skylab, Houston. We will be doing a data/voice

recorder dump this site.

035 21 h3 21 CDR Houston, CDR.

CC Go, Jer.

CDR Okay, Crip. Ed's pretty much on schedule with

his work, and Bill is finishing up his exercise.
I have finished up sample number 18 on 479, and I'm
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rigging the water quench system not to start on

sample number 19. And as I told you before, I
got a little TV for you to look at. I don't know
if it's going to be any good or not because of
the dynaml c changes in the light level as the
flames were going on, but I thought it was worth
at least a try. And as soon as I get the water
quench system set up, I'm going to go on down
and exercise because Ed's going to need the vacuum
cleaner for some of his work. And I'll try to
pick up sc_e more of this 479 later on.

035 21 44 08 CC Okay, fine; appreciate that. And unfortunately

it's going to be a while, like tomorrow, before
we can give you any feedback on the TV. So it's
not going to mean much this - for what you're
doing right now. We won't be able to get it down
until late tonight , and get it back in here in - in
the morning. One item, if you have an opportunity,
you might kind of look at today and - and tomorrow.
We definitely - our intent is to make sure that
you have an opportunity to get through the - the
transfers. And if anything needs to come out of
there, well, we're sitting here prepared to take
it out.

CDR Okay. I really haven't even had a chance to sit

down and look through the transfer list. But if
it's anything like activation, it's - it's going
to be murder.

CC Yes, I - I think, after we got a couple of questions

from Ed last night, trying to find things, we're -
we're anticipating the worst here. So we really
make - need to make sure that we get through
those, and anything else can fall out.

035 21 45 08 CDR Roger. I think about all we can do on the transfers

is Just dig in and - and start plowing and hope we
get done.

CC Okay, fine. If you get a chance there, the - the

Flight Plan, of course, is in the - in the tele-
printer, if you haven't pulled it off yet. So
you might want to take a - take a look at that.

035 21 45 24 CDR Okay.

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035 21 47 13 CC CDR, Houston. I know you're busy working there,

so you don't have to answer me Smmediately, but
we would like to also find out if you put that
universal sealant on the QDs because we are still
seeing a - a decrease in the delta-P on the con-
densate tank. _
1
CDR That's affirmative; I did, Crip.

035 21 47 31 CC Okay, thank you.

035 21 50 26 CC Skylab, Houston. We are 1 minute from LOS. Next

station contact in 6 minutes through Ascension
at 21:57, 21:57.

035 21 57 17 CC Skyl&b, Houston. We're back with you through

Ascension for 7 minutes.
i
SPT Hello, Crip. I got a question for you this
afternoon.

CC Ed, I hope you got easier questions than you had

last night; but, shoot.

SPT Air sampler media which we used as the IMSS-2;

there are only four cans up here - or four little
plastic containers. I believe the checklist calls
for five. The one that's missing is the 1-minute
experiment station.
/

CC \Okay. Let's bee if - what they want to do about

_t.

SPT These were packed and sealed"In a plastic bag,

Crip, and have not been opened until Just now.
So it was in the initial packing which it was
not included, either intentionally or
unintentionally.

035 21 58 13 CC Roger; copy.

035 22 02 47 CC SPT, Houston. Ed, I think I can answer your

question. Apparently they only want four samples,
and I guess step 23 looks a little bit confusing,
saying running its time at 5 minutes and 1 minute,
respectively. They only want one sample at - on
step 23 of 5 minutes. We are currently 1 minute
from LOS. Next station contact is at Guam at 22:hi;
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that's about 38 minutes away. And, Ed, once more,

you should have a 10-minute sample you take on
step 13; a 5-minute sample you take on step 23;
when you get down to step 30, it asks you to repeat
steps 13 and 22 once more, which would give you
another l0 and a 5-minute sample.

SPT Okay, Crip; I got that. That's the way the disks
are marked, and that's the way I'm going. Thank
you.

035 22 03 51 CC Okay.

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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

035 22 hO 50 CC • Skylab, Houston. We are AOS through Guam for

6 minutes.

035 22 hl 02 SPT Roger.

035 22 46 lO CC Skylab, Housotn. We are about 30 seconds from

LOS. Next station contact in 33 minutes through
the Vanguard at 23:18, 23:18.

035 22 46 29 CDR" Roger, Crip.

035 23 18 40 CC Skylab, Houston; we are AOS through the Vanguard

for ll minutes.

035 23 18 h8 CDR Roger, Crip.

CC Roger. And I'm looking for a man to do a task;

I see the PLT might have a little time. Is he
available?

PLT All depends on what you have in mind, trip.

CC Oh, this is an easy one. We're still trying to

save this condensate system from getting down to
where we have to dump it again, and we got one
more item we'd like to try. That - that gunk
that Jer smeared on the QD's a while ago apparently
didn't work. We'd like to go up to - behind
panel 217 on the one that we did _mk earlier, but
we understand that that should be able to wipe
off; it doesn't hurt to go ahead and do what I'm
going to ask you to with it on there. And use
that QD and find some condensate QD caps which
we have about three of them in little bag stowed
in M-lhl. Go ahead and disconnect that SUS water
gas separator gas QD and try putting the cap on it.

035 23 19 58 PLT In work.

CC Okay, while you're up there could we also get you

on the ATM C&D to put the MONITOR ACS select -
selector switch to the DAS position so that we
could do a little test from the ground here, please?

PLT Okay.
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035 23 20 21 CC And, Bill, in case I didn't make that clear that

connector should go on the line and not the water
gas separator.

PLT Roger, copy.

035 23 20 48 PLT Okay, have DAS selected.

CC Thank you.

PLT On all three.

CC Oh no, that was - I'm sorry; it was the wrong one.

We wanted the - the one up there on the top right
under the word MONITOR, associated with the - the
gage - the meter, not the counter.

PLT Okay, I've got that one.

CC Thank you.

035 23 P_l44 SPT Hey, Crip, while he's working that, I have a ques-
tion for you.

CC Go, sir.

SPT IMSS 4, do they want the stainer completely cleaned

out as specified in procedures?

CC Check it for you.

SPT ThAnk you.

035 23 25 ll PLT Okay, Crip the gas line off the liquid gas separa-
tor 217 is capped, and I have a question. I was
using the O-ring lubricant on the one back in the
aft airlock compartment. I Just wondered if - if
they considered using it on this cap here.

035 23 25 31 CC Okay, I don't know whether they did or not. Let

me - let me see if I can find out an answer to
that. You're talking about that Krytox that you
put on last - yesterday evening - or this morning,
rather?

PLT Well, I don't know if it's Krytox or not; it was

called 0-ring lubricant. Now the rest of our
general purpose lubricant is Krytox; I know that.
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CC 0kay, okay.
I

035 23 25 58 PLT Anyway that fitting is now capped.

CC Let's Just leave it capped like that right now,

Bill. We were!- Just wanted to stop it and - so
we can forget about it, and we - we think this
might do it.

PLT Okay. !

035 23 26 45 CC 8PT, Houston. Ed, good call; you can forget about
cleaning out that slide stainer.

SPT Thank you, Crip.

035 23 28 47 CC Skylab, Houstoh. We are I minute from LOS. Next

station contact is through Ascension in 3 minutes,
and that is going to be the med conference. Dr.
Ross will be waiting to talk to you.

035 23 29 Ol CDR Okay, Crip.

035 23 22 35 CC Skylab, Houston. We still got you for about

2 more minutes through Canary and Madrid. Sorry;
it's going to be about 8 minutes total.

PLT Roger, Crip.

035 23 49 29 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from LOS. Next

station contact is through Guam in 26 mintues at
00:16. And we have a redundant phone call set
up for the PLTI at that station; be ANTENNA, Lk_1_2,
going to RIGHT.

CDR Okay, Crip. See you.

035 23 50 13 CC 0keydoke.

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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GBOUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

036 O0 16 24 CC Skylab, Houston. We are A0S through Guam for

l0 minutes. We'll be doing a data/voice recorder
dump here.

036 00 19 13 SPT Hello, Crip.

CC Go.

SPT Page 2-19 in Deactivation Checklist, says that in

D-_40 there ought to be some entry rope; not a
shred of it up there.

CC We're going to do that tonight, too, huh? We'll

check it out for you.

SPT I've been saving them all day long, Crip.

036 O0 19 43 CC I figured that, Ed.

036 00 25 44 CC Skylab, Houston. We are 30 seconds from LOS.

Next station contact is through the Vanguard in
31 minutes at 00:56. And, Ed, in answer to your
question, if you can't find any of the entry rope
in hh0, we do have some PBI rope, which is the
sRme stuff, in 424. You might take a look in
there.

SPT Thank you, Crip; appreciate it.

CC You might aiso look behind the film vault. There

.. was some of the stuff from Pete's EVA that we
understood got stowed back there, and he used
quite a bit of that rope.

CC Ed, you might also look behind the film vault ;

there may be some left from Pete's EVA behind
there.

SPT What was behind the film vault?

036 00 27 01 CC The rope. We're going over the hill. I'll talk
to you at Vanguard.

036 00 56 39 CC Skylab, HouSton; we are AOS through the Vanguard

for 9 minutes.
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036 00 57 O0 SPT Hello, Crip. I managed to get about beaucoup

rope out of the JSC sail and the clippers which
Paul was trying to use SL-2.

CC Okay, we figured there'd probably a - quite a bit

of it sill tucked away back there.

SPT For a while there, I thought you had a guy in

stowage who didn't know the ropes.

CC Oh - oh.

MCC That hurts.

CC Dr. Dell'osso knows the ropes.

CDR Go to your room, ED.

CC Don't tell him to do that; there's too much work

lefttonight. Hey, you _s might be interested to
know that that last little dirty that we did with
the condensate system, by capping that thing on
217, looks like she cured the problem and she's
been holding steady, even gained a little bit on
delta-P.

PLT Well, that's good news.

OB6 O0 57 55 CC Yes, that would really be a - be a pain to have

to he dumping that thing every night.

036 01 04 4B CC Skylab, Houston; we are 1 minute from LOS. Next

station contact in 12 minutes through Canary at
01:16, and we'll be standing by for the evening
status reports, if it's convenient there. Also,
for your information, we are seeing the ATM C&D
coolant loop doing a couple of blips. And we had
been wanting to go back and turn old - old pump A,
which was one of the first one that went out
on us. And we'll problaby be asking you to do
that through the Cra - Canary/Madrid pass, if
it's convenient.

036 O1 05 21 SPT Okay, Crip. And just a general question on light

flashes. Can you tell us what the folks an - down
there are thinking now after Bill going through
two sessions, whether they're still convinced it's
cosmic rays or whether they're willing to admit
that maybe the South Atlantic anomaly and particles
have something to do with it?
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CC I'll see if I can get an answer for you. Are

you - are you wanting to do one yourself; is that
what you're - what you're asking for, Ed?

036 Ol 05 h7 SPT Yes, I think I need a little session studying the

backside of my eyelids.

CC That's - that's what I was doing here between

Guam and the Vanguard.

PLT Also, Crip, would you get a reading on the quality

of the data from this morning's run.

CC We'll do that for you. FLIGHT tells me for Ed,

we got one scheduled between 03:00 and 0h:00 for
him.

036 01 06 13 SPT I'll set the alarm.

036 01 16 16 CC Skylab, Houston. We are AOS through Canary for

14 minutes.

PLT Roger, Crip. And I've got a photo log when you're
ready to copy.

SPT Hey, Crip, would you like pump A on right now?

CC That's affirmative. We also need to get the

circuit breaker for that, and I'm trying to see
whereabouts on the panel that is. It's on panel 202,
needs to be closed; it's in the left-hand portion
of it, down at the bottom. And we are ready for
the photo log. And in addition, if Ed is going to
get that pump for us, on that XUV monitor message
that we sent you up earlier today, we would like
you to go ahead and go through the powerdown. And
that was on the message 8138.

036 01 17 l0 SPT Oh, okay, Crip. I thought over the next few days
that I would be sending some stuff down and was
hoping to leave a good part of that powered up
so I didn't have to go through that powerup each
time.

CC Okay, that's - that's fine. You can leave it

then, Ed.

SPT Thank you.

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CC Send us the photo log, Bill.

036 01 17 30 PLT Roger. 16-millimeter: M516 (S054), Charlie

India 65, 37 percent; Charlie India 81; M479,
India Romeo 06, h8 percent, Charlie India 86;
M479, Charlie India 98, 00, Charlie India 94.
Nikon status: Nikon 01, India Romeo 12, 25; -
Nikon 02, Bravo Victor 41, 47; Nikon 03, Charlie
India ll6, 38; Nikon 04, Charlie X-ray 61, 01;
Nikon 05, Bravo Hotel 06, count is 53. 70-millimeter:
•70-millimeter: Charlie X-ray 45, count is 040.
Okay, and the Nikon 05 anticipated two $233 expo-
sures on per - as per pad tonight. Also, Charlie
X-ray 54 and 53 have been exposed and have been
stowed. Drawer A configuration: Alfa l, trans-
porter 02, India Romeo 06, 48 percent, Charlie
India 86; Alfa 2, transporter 05, takeup is Charlie
India 98. Back: transporter 08, Charlie India 65,
37 percent, Charlie India 81; Alfa 3, Alfa 4, no
change.

036 01 19 07 CC Okay, real fine, Bill. And if - if it's conve-

nient, we'll take the rest of the evening status
report.

PLT Stand by.

CDR Okay, Crip - stand by until I get this squeal.

036 01 19 22 CC Okay.

036 01 19 47 CDR Okay, the sleep: CDR, 6.0, 5 heavy, i light,

SPT, 7.0, 5 heavy, 2 light; PLT, 5.5, all heavy.
Volumes: 275, 200, 225. Water gun: 9000, 5122,
2148. Body mass: 6.310, 6.308, 6.308; 6.393,
6.391. 6.394; 6.273, 6.272, 6.279. Exercise:
the CDR, standard, minus method Bravo; SPT, no
change, used Mark III in lieu of Mark I; PLT,
minus method Bravo. Medications: CDR, one Sudafed
as directed; SPT and PLT, none. Clothing: CDR,
socks, shorts, and shirt ; SPT, socks and T-shirt ;
PLT, socks, shorts, T-shirt, shirt, and trousers.
Food log: CDR, 3.0 salt, plus one coffee with
sugar, minus one pineapple, the can of pineapple
was leaking - it spoiled; rehydration water,
zero. SPT, zero salt, plus one tuna, plus straw-
berries. Getting back to the CDR, add strawberries
to the CDR's list. PLT, B.0 salt, plus one crispy
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bar, plus strawverries zero rehydration water.

Flight Plan devs: none. Shopping list: none.
Inoperable equipment: WMC SR_4D curtain is sep-
arated from the frame. We're having to use the
one in the wardroom for fecal weighing. Unsched-
uled stowage : none.

036 01 21 43 CC Okay, think we've got all that. In answer to

Ed and Bill's question regarding the light flashes
we do see latitude dependence as was probably
obvious to Bill there. The surprising thing is
the great frequency of flashes which we are seeing
in the South Atlantic anomaly. We did see a
decrease in frequency and then an - a large in-
crease in frequency. And from Bill's description,
we think that the particles are most likely not
protons, but some heavier particles. And this is
the first evidenece of that type of particles;
and the PI's very excited about it. And seeing
the data that you sent down earlier today Bill
is excellent.

036 01 22 34 PLT Okay, thank you. My wife was ribbing me a few

minutes ago about the - saying that - they had
some kind of report that I didn't see anything
and turned over and went to sleep for another
3 hours or something to that effect.

CC Yes, yes, and you we're really working. I couldn't

see how you could stay still that long.

PLT No effort at all. PI did a real good Job of or-

ienting me by the way, Crip. That's the first
time I've ever been able to get that much uniform-
ity in the configuration of the flashes.

036 01 23 12 CC Very good.

036 01 25 32 CC For the CDR: Jer, when you were reading the report,
we didn't copy regarding no water deviation on
the SPT. Was that - was that the case?

CC Regarding - -

CDR That's right, Crip.

CC Okay, can you give us a - a status on 479 for

today?
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CDR Okay, I'm up trying to do it right now. I've done

samples 19 and 20. And the water quench system is
not working properly and - but it didn't make any
difference on 19 and 20. They were both b11mmers
anyway and quit burning before we could get the
water quench system on.

036 01 26 12 CC Okay, it doesn't sound like much of that stuff

is burning at all.

CDR The polyurethane foam is really spectacular, in

that the paper Just kind of glows and it - it does
pretty well. The alllm_nizedMylar, the first
three times, burned beautifully, but this last
time didn't do too well. The polyurethane-covered
nylon burns real nicely_-ith a nice blue flame.
And the teflon, once it gets away from the ignition
wire, it quits burning.

CC Okay, thank you very _ch for that rundown. Jer,

would you care to say a few more words about the
problem with the water quench system?

OB6 01 27 06 CDR Well, the lowe nozzle appear to be completely

plugged. And I Just don't have time to mess with
it to try tounplug it. The upper nozzle Just
sends out a dribble rather than a nice spray.
So what l'vedone is l've gone back and completely
reserviced the system again, and we'll try it
over again.

CC Okay, fine. And we concur with not spending a

lot Of time on it tonight, Jer.

CDR Okay, I'm Just going to go as far as I can before

bedtimes, and that'll have to be the end of it.

CC Okay, that'll be fine. Incidentally, next stat-

ion contact is going to be your phone call, set
up at 02:05. And it'll be ANTENNA, RIGHT.

0B6 01 27 53 CDR Okay, thank you, Crip.

CC For the SPT; Ed, regarding that - that coolant

loop, Ed. Right now pump Alfa is looking good,
but since we'd had the problem with it previously,
we don't want to run with it all night. So what
we'd like you to do is, before you get ready to
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retire, to go ahead and switch us back to pump

Alfa - correction, pump Bravo. And if in the
meantime you should see a low delta-P light or
any noise is - is heard on this particular pump
Alfa, we would appreciate getting - you could
put down on voice record any comments about it.
And if you do run into a problem with it, go
ahead and switch back to pump Bravo at that time.

036 01 28 35 SPT Roger, Crip; will do.

SPT Hey, Crip, one other thing. If ... could sent

it down TV. If there was anyone from 52 wanted
me to go Sun center and send them down some TV
of that, I'd be glad to do it, but it would
interfere with the 55 operation. But from the
standpoint of up here, as long as I'm up there,
it's an easy enough thing to do. So if they'd
like it, I could do it.

CC See if I can get a quick answer for you. Okay,

also we have not found the center-of-mass data
_ that you took for us on mission day 76; that's
about _ days ago. If you sill have it available
we would appreciate - appreciate it if you could
put it on the dump/voice recorder for us tonight.
Or tomorrow will be fine. We're about 30 seconds
from LOS, and next station contact is again
through Honeysuckle at 02:05. And I'm not plan-
ning on talking to you there unless you need me.

036 01 30 00 PLT Okay, Cr{p_

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036 01 30 01 PLT Okay, Crip.

036 01 30 07 CC Also, Jer asked about f_]m for documentary photos.

If - when you get through with 479, you can use
_ny of the CI film remaining for documentary
photos, including CI95 and CI96. You can put
those on transporter 05. That's CI95 and 96,
transporter 05; they're in J-5 and J-6.

PLT Okay, thank you, Crip.

CC Good night, guys.

CDR Good night.

SPT Good night, Crip.

CC Take care. Think of some good stowage questions

for me for tomorrow night.

036 01 30 52 CDR We'll have three.

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036 ii 00 01 CC (Music: "Out in the Country" by Three Dog Night)

CC (Music: "I feel the Earth Mmve" by Carole King)

036 ll 05 39 CC Skylab, Houston. A warm good morning to you,

and we're about a minute from LOS. We'll see
you again at Canaries in 2 minutes.

CC (Music)

036 ii 07 52 CC Skylab, Houston. We're hack with you through

Canaries and Ascension for 16 minutes. And we'll
be planning to dump the recorder here at Ascension
in about 7 minutes from now.

036 ll 12 20 CC Skylab, Houston. When you get all squared away

there this morning, I've got a little news for
you and also got a couple of comments on today's
Flight Plan.

CDR Okay,Hank, go ahead.

CC Well, I'll give you a little news here first.

From Washington we hear that the federal and
state negotiators and the independent truckers
appear near a compromise that could end the truck
drivers' strike - spike - say that again, strike.
Most states are feeling the effects of the shut-
down of the truckers. Scattered violence was
reported in 19 states. The National Guard is on
duty in three states and on standby alert in
three others. Food shortages and layoffs have
increased. The effects of the shutdown of the
independent truckers today will cause thousands
to lose their Jobs temporarily in affected indus-
tries. Here's some from Massaehusets. You can
imagine this. Can you imagine a 9-foot-long
aluminum finger. Says here_ the rhythmic yanks
of a 9-foot-long al,lm_num finger Jerked the
world's longest yo-yo up and down the side of a
21-story building Monday at Massachusetts Institute
of Technology. Ten students engineered the huge
toy atop MITs tallest building as a mid-semester
project "just because it was there," said a
professor. It's too bad you don't have a yo-yO
z
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with you, it says, because you could lay claim

to the highest yo-yo on or off the Earth. From
Cyprus: an hour of sunshine gives Cypriots a
hot bath. The Greeks and Turks on this Sun
blessed island of Aphrodite harnessed the Sun
for their domestic energy needs long before the
oil crisis and Arab embargoes. Nearly every
villa and house here has a solar water heater on
its roof. Engineers in Mediterranean countries
have estimated that sufficient sunshine hits the
roof of an average home to supply more than l0 times
its daily power needs. About half that is needed
to heat water. From Belgium: a Belgian worker
won a $10betbyriding a bicycle naked through
the street of _ent to buy a bag of potato chips,
authorities reported. He ended up a net loser,
however, because he was fined $130 and Jailed
for amonth on a charge of offending public
morals. I wonder if you got a picture of that
on one of the EREP passes? Pasadena: scientists
expressed comfidenceMondaythat Mariner 10's
encounter with Venus will be successful Tuesday,
although there is alchance problems could develop. _
The ll08-pound spacecraft is scheduled to pass
within 3600 miles of Venus at 17:01 _ to -
today, providing scientists with the first closeup
pictures of the planet as Mariner continues on
toward its primary destination of Mercury. The
problem that could come up in the flyby involves
the gyroscopes, which are used to keep Mariner
in the proper position so that the antenna faces
Earth, the cameras and equipment face Venus, and
the solar panels face the Sun. Something went
wrong in the gyro system last week, and 20 percent
of the nitrogen gasneeded to operate it escaped.
And in sports, the Houston Aeros beat Jersey 7 to
1 to get back on the winning trail again. They
are now called the "Fighting Areos." Seama they've
wound up in fisticuffs in the last two games.
The Aeros and Jersey go atit again in Houston
tonight.

036 ll 15 55 CDR Hey, Rank, I think I can find $10. Can you get
a bicycle?

CC Oh, I think we'd be able to round up a few bikes.

You got one up there which you might try pedaling
around the world.

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CDR Heck, we've pedaled around the world every day.

CC How are you attired?

CDR Well, l'll have to admit, we usually do wear

something.

CC We're ready to dump that recorder now if you're

not using it.

CDR Okay, go ahead.

036 ll 17 19 CC And for info, if you see something funny with the
lights on the CBRMs when you go pass the STS there,
we're running battery capacity tests on CBRM4 now.

036 ll 17 41 CC Ed, Houston.

CDR Hey, H_k, Ed's using the recorder right now. If

you could hold off on that dump, and then he'll
be right with you.

F SPT Go ahead,
Hank.

CC Okay, we were - we were dumping there, Jerry, and

we're Just a - we're - we're through with it now.
So I don't know how much of that he might have
missed.

CDR Okay, he got a green light, so I guess you were

through before he started.

CC Okay, good show.

CC And, Jerry, while I've got you, the PLT is

deactivating the T003 this morning, and we've
had in his details to go ahead and transfer it
to A-5. And that comes early on the list of your
transfers, so I just want to make you aware of
it. We thought there was no sense in him stowing
the thing and then you unstowing it and taking
it up into A-5.

PLT We'll buy that. That's good thinking.

CC And there is one other transfer item and you will

probably notice it when you look at the remarks
in the film thread pad. Since you've loaded up
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CX61 and used some of that, we'll have to add that

to the transfer list. And it's in the remarks
there of your film thread pad.

PLT Okay.

036 ll 21 02 CC And, Skylab, Houston. For info, we have redesig-

nated your recorder so that you will have a good
light, one that won't blink at you. And so next
time somebody's up in the STS, if you'll give me
a call, I'll tell you what our configuration is
so you can bring your panel 204 up with the current
configuration.

PLT Okay, Hank.

036 ll 22 58 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 1 minute from LOS.

Carnarvon is coming up next at 47; that's 24 min-
utes from now. And at Carnarvon right at sunset,
which is about 2 minutes near that pass, we would
like to get one of you to do a FINE ADJUST on
PCG number 6. We're going to do a BAT capacity
test on that particular PCG.

CDR Okay, about how far away is that?

CC Okay, it's 24 minutes from now, then, at the next

pass at Carnarvon. And the pass is 8 minutes long
and about 2 minutes from the end of it is when
we'll want you to do it, right at sunset. We'll
give you a call there.

036 ll 23 40 CDR Okay.

036 ll 47 20 CC Skylab, Houston. We're through Carnarvon for

8-1/2 minutes, and we'll have a short keyhole
about 1 minute from now.

PLT Okay, Hank. And before the keyhole, I can't find

the stowage bag for T003. Is there anything in
the stowage bag for T003 that I'd need for return?
Otherwise, I'm Just going to make do here. I
know - I don't want to waste any more time looking
for the bag.

CC Okay. We'll check it out.

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036 ll h9 02 PLT Okay, Hank. You can disregard; I was looking in

the _Tong bag by the PS$ and found the T033
return container.

CC Okay, Bill. You saved us a lot of trouble here.

We were scratching our heads here about to try
to find it.

PLT I was looking in the wrong reference bag. There

were two bags by the PSS and I looked in the
wrong one.

SPT Morning, Hank. I'm wondering if you - When you're

setting up the phone call for this evening, if
you could do it so it'd be before 12:00.

SPT That 's 24 :00.

CC Okay. That sounds a little better. You had me

puzzled there for a minute.

CC Matter of fact, we - -

SPT I only had a year - only had a year in the Air

Force.

CC (Laughter) Okay. Matter of fact, we do have it

set up for 23:32 Guam, LEFT to RIGHT.

$PT You guys are always wa_v ahead of me. Thank you.

CC And, Ed, while we got you here, we been - the

biomed's been pouring over the dump tapes here
and we can't find the M092 voice data for the
PLT yesterday. And whenever you get a chance,
we'd sure appreciate it if you could re - record
it. And, also, the same remarks apply to the
post-M131 run comments if you had any. We don't
know whether you did or not, but we couldn't
find any if you did put some on there.

SPT Okay, Hank. I'll do those over again. I'm not

sure what the heck happened to both of them.

036 ll 52 06 PLT Hey, Hank, the two legband measurements were

13 inches even, and the legbands we're Charlle
Jullett and Alfa Quebec.
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CC Roger; we copy.

036 ii 52 53 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 1 minute from

sunset. So if whoever's free could start moseying
on up or think about getting on up to the STS,
we'll be ready to make that REG - FINE REG ADJUST
right at sunset.

PLT Okay, Hank. Jer's on his way.

036 ll 53 34 CDR Okay, Hank; go.

CC Okay, Jer. We've already conlnanded PCG-6 REG on,

and sunset is about l0 seconds from now, according
to our clock. And at sunset we'll want you to -
to, on the REG CONTROL, PCG-6 FINE ADJUST, we
want you to go clockwise until you have a dis-
charge of 15 amps.

036 ii 5_ 05 CDR Okay. It's in work.

CC And for info, we anticipate that this BAT capacity

check will be completed at Goldstone about 2 hours
from now. And we'll give you a call there, and
we'll want you to put that FINE ADJUST pot back
to the little mark you made yesterday.

CC And, Jer, while you're up there, if you want to

go ahead and set up the panel 205 recorders to
our current configuration, I can give you that.

036 ll 55 22 CC Skylab, Houston. We're at 30 seconds from LOS.

Guam in next site at 02, and that's 6-1/2 minutes
from now.

CDR Okay, Hank. Give me that recorder configuration

and I'll do it.

CC Okay. Number 1 is - is EXPERIMENT 1 and voice.

Number 2 is DATA and VOICE. And number 3 is
EXPERIMENT 2; there shouldn't be any change on
that one.

036 ll 55 52 CDR Okay. I got it. Thanks.

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036 12 03 2h CC Skylab, Houston through Guam for 4-1/2 minutes.

036 12 07 02 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from LOS. Gold-

stone is next at 25; that's 18-1/2 minutes from now.

036 12 07 20 SPT So long, Hank.

036 12 25 28 CC Skylab, Houston through Goldstone for 5-1/2 minutes.

036 12 30 08 CC Skylab, Houston. 1 minute to LOS. Texas in

2 minutes at 32.

036 12 32 25 CC Skylab, Houston through Bermuda and MILA for

12-1/2 minutes.

036 12 h3 54 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from LOS.

Ascension is next in lO minutes at 53.

CDR Houston, CDR with a question.

f CC Go ahead.

CDR Okay. For the neutron density can, is that can

the same size as a boric acid can? We could not
find a neutron detector can in S-920; it's ap-
parently been misplaced. But I do have a can the
size of a boric acid can that might work.

CC We 're checking it, Jer.

CDR Say again, Hank.

036 12 44 54 CC Okay. We're checking on that.

036 12 53 35 CC Skylab, Houston through Ascension for 5-1/2 minutes.

CC And, CDR, the can you're referring to that's about

the same size as a boric acid can, is that the
second D-can from the IMSS? We need two boric
,/
acid cans and one D-can to - for the ED31 transfer
later this evening.

SPT I've already got that squared away, Hank.

CC Okay. Thank you.

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SPT So - so he's - he's got another can which he's

free to use and same size.

CDR Okay, Hank. The thing here is you got four little
bitty packets in that big can. That's a big waste
of volume to pack away. If we can get along with-
out it, I 'd propose we wrap those - we taped those
four together and put them in that way.

CC Okay. We'll check that one out, Jer.

CDR Okay.

036 12 55 _3 CC CDR, Houston. We'd like you to go ahead and put

them in the can as it's called out there.

CDR Okay.

036 12 57 57 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about a minute from LOS.

Carnarvon is coming up next in about 25-1/2 min-
utes at 24, and we plan to dump the recorder there.
We'll be handing over to the silver team. This
is the last shift for the bronze and white teams.
It's been a good mission. We enjoyed working with -
you. We _rish you a safe return and look forward
to seeing you back in Houston.

PLT Thanks a lot, H_nk. We'll look forward to seeing

y'all.

036 12 58 23 SPT Thanks very much for your good help and good work,
bronze team. We sure appreciate it. We'll see you
back in Houston.

036 13 23 46 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Carnarvon for

10-1/2 minutes with a data/voice tape recorder
dump. And the silver team's our name and deactiva-
tlon's our game. Over.

CDR It ain't no game, Bruce.

CC Sorry about that, but ... (laughter).

CDR Hey, Bruce, got a question for you here, or I do

want to let you know what I'm doing; and that is
M_79 flammability. They want to bring back
specimens 2 and 8. I intend to bring back 26 as
well, because 26 is a much more interesting specimen
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than 2 and 8. And the question I have is do you

want to leave 2 or 8 behind, or shall I Just bring
all three of them? They're all pretty small.

CC I assume from that you're saying you think you have

room. Let us check it out. Over.

CDR Okay.

CC And at some convenient time, would one of you all

cycle by the ATM C_D and put the EVA AUTO DOOR
switch into the STORAGE position, please? We
show it in INHIBIT, right now, since the EVA.

CDR Okay, it's in STORAGE.

CC Thank you a bunch.

036 1B 26 02 CC Okay, Jer, the real-time FMT CCB is met here.

Bring it back.

CDR Okay, Bruce.

CC That's 2, 8, and 26 now.

CDR Right. And the reason for bringing 26 will be

/ obvious when they read my tape on those - the
experiment last night.

036 13 26 24 CC Okay.

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036 13 33 38 CC Skylab, this is Houston; i minute to LOS. Next

station contact in 3-1/2 minutes through Guam at
13:37. Out.

036 13 37 15 cC Skylab, this is Houston through Guam for i0 minutes.

Out.

03_ 13 43 _i Ca SPT, this is Houston.

_PT Go.

CC Roger, Ed. We'd just like to clear up a point

here if we can. Our understanding, from the
transcripts, is that when you all made up the heat
sink for the IMSS return container, you used an
Apollo-type Juice bag. And could you confirm
that, and that you still have available a return-
water-sample bag for use in connection with the
water sampling and the 8-ounce sample that needs
"_- to be returned?Over.

SPT 0kay, I have never rounded up that sample bag,

Bruce. I was told yesterday that since we had
gotten the water out of the pedestal in the ward-
room that the juice bag would be sufficient for
the water sample.

CC Negative. That's incorrect. We want to go ahead

and do the sampling per the procedure called out
in the Deact Checklist, using the return-water-
sample bag for that purpose. Over.

SPT Roger.

CC The word that we're getting down here is that

that's a specially prepared bag which has been
prepared in such a way as to minimize contamination
of the sample that you're bringing back.

BPT Roger.

CC And for your information, that return-water-sample

bag should be in W-769, W-769.

SPT Roger.
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036 13 h6 22 CC Skylab, this is Houston; i minute to LOS. Next

station contact in 16 minutes through Goldstone
at lh:03. Out.

036 lh 02 4h CC Skylah, this is Houston through Goldstone, Corpus

Christi, and Merritt Island for 17 minutes. Out.

036 lh 03 31 CDR Houston, CDR.

CC Go ahead, CDR.

CDR Bruce, I haven't seen any stowage - configuration

yet for the last EREP tape that we took, Tango 7.
Do you have any idea what they plan to do with
that ?

CC We'll find out. And in the meantime, we need to

get the PCG number 6, FINE ADJUST potentiometer
returned to its marked setting. Over.

CDR Okay. I'll do that. And another question. In

Alfa 8 we've got five _P tapes in the picture
stowed in the front of Alfa 8. And I don't know
how we did it, but it doesn't fit up here. Can't
close the cover on them.

CC Okay. Let us take a look at that.

036 14 09 20 CC CDR, this is Houston. Over.

CDR Roger, Bruce.

CC Okay. Working your tape problem, the first thing

that comes to our mind is that we have experienced
similar difficulty in stowage down here. If the
tape, which is closest to A-5 locker, is stowed
with it's PBI strap either straight up or straight
down, it interferes with the waffle pattern. And
if that's the case, you should rotate it about
30 degrees and see if the lid will close then.
Over.

CDR I tried that and I can't come within three quarters

of an inch of closing the lid.

CC Okay. You don't have any sort of a launch restraint

clip or bracket left in the bottom of the locker,
do you?
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CDR No, I'Ii go recheck. I looked under there and

didn't see anything. And I'm wondering, does the
A-8 locker, is it supposed to have a cutout in the
waffle pattern? I remember one of the lockers
has a cutout.

CC I'll check on that.

CC I don't see it in the photos in my copy of the

book, but we will check it.

CDR Okay.

036 14 IQ 57 PLT Bruce, when I took T-7 tape up there, it said stow
it in the upper equipment bay. I was not quite
sure where, specifically, that meant, so I Just
hung it up there in the command module. And that's
one of the tapes that's going to bug Jer in Just
a minute.

CC Okay. He's already asked about that. And we're

working that one.

CC It goes in the window shade bag.

CDR You say it goes in the window shade bag?

CC Roger.

CDR Okay.

036 14 18 45 CC Skylab, this is Houston; 1 minute to LOS. Next

station contact in i1-i/2 minutes through the
Vanguard at 14:30. Out.

036 14 30 31 CC Skylab, this is Houston through the Vanguard at

sea for 4-1/2 minutes. Out.

CDR Roger, Bruce.

036 14 34 01 CC Skylab, this is Houston; 1 minute to LOS. Next

station contact in 1 hour and 5 minutes through
Goldstone at 15:39, and we're continuing to work
the saga of the five tapes in A-8 for you.

CDR I think I got it whipped, Bruce. It fits if you

force it. And I had to do some real shoving, but
_ I gotit to fit.
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036 14 3_ 2h CC Okay. That's good news.

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036 15 39 22 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Goldstone and

Corpus Christi for l_-l/2 minutes. We'll have a
data/voice tape recorder dump at handover to Corpus
Christi. And if the CDR's listening, I've got a
couple of quick ones for him.

CDR Go ahead, Bruce.

CC Okay. Tomorrow, we're scheduling a trim burn at

20:_8 Zulu. It'll be in your Flight Plan, of
course, and detail pads and all that stuff. It's
a 180-second, four-Jet RCS burn. And its purpose
is to increase the lifetime of the workshop. The
180 seconds works out to a delta-V of 12 feet per
second, which is worth about 1 to 2 years of life-
time on the workshop, giving it about a 5- to 8-year
total lifetime, depending on the attitude it finally
winds up in. Following the trim burn, we will leave
the G&N up, thus eliminating these activities from
the deac t time line and_iying us a little better
plan of - a little better drift check on the IMU and
an early opportunity for upl_nks. We're also going
to have you leave the UP TEI_S_ETRY switch to ACCEPT
following the trim burn. The checklist mod - check-
list modifications to do this are already on board
except for the ones that - that change the Deact
Checklist following, with respect to CMC powerup
or down. And we're going to have a mod to the Deact
Checklist, hopefully, the final mod, coming up to
you over Vanguard this rev in about a half an hour.
It'll be fairly short, but it does have some items
in it that affect you in the near future, especially
the SPT in his after-lunch activities. So you might
take a - a good, close look at it when it comes up.
Over.

036 15 41 27 CDR Roger, Bruce. Bruce, I've got one for you.

CC All right. I guess that's fair enough.

CDR Okay. The Stowage Checklist here calls for three

UCTAs with tracer. And I looked in locker D-426,
I believe it is, the one that's got the mags in it,
and there are none up there with tracer. There
is one bag of three in a white bag that says w/o
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tracer. And I don't know if somebody made a no-

menclature mistake or what. If there is no tracer
in those, we have lithium chloride here and I can
put tracer in them if they want it.

CC Okay. Stand by for a m_uute, and we'll get you an

answer on that.

036 15 42 13 CDR Okay.

036 15 46 13 CC Coming up. on a data/voice tape recorder dump here

through Corpus Christi.

CC Okay. And, Jerry, go ahead and utilize the UCTAs

the way they are, and no tracer required. We figure
they can measure the volume down here on the ground
after you get back.

036 15 47 59 CC Skylab, this is Houston. For your information,

we're taking PCG number 2 off the REG BUS at this
time, in order to allow its integrator to catch up,
so that we'll have a - a good reading on that when
we run the ha_tery capacity test on mission day 85,
afteryou all leave. Over.

036 15 52 58 CC Skylab, this is Houston. 1 minute to LOS. Next

station contact in 10-1/2 minutes through the Van-
guard at sea at 16:03. Out.

036 16 03 41 CC Skylab, this is Houston through the Vanguard for

10-1/2 minutes. We've got the Deact Checklist
change coming up to you here in about 30 seconds.

CDR Roger, Bruce.

CC And while we've got you here, I wonder if you could

give us a status report or progress report of how
you're coming andgoing through today's activities.
Over.

CDB Okay. Be with you in a few minutes.

036 16 09 14 CDR Houston, CDR.

CC Go ahead, Jerry.

CT_ Okay. Everybody's pretty much up to speed so far.

I am on page 3-15 of the stowage transfer procedures.
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And I'm in the process of gathering up the rochelle

salts and things like that to stow in the command
module.

CC _Okay. Beautiful.

CC Hey, you should have three copies of this latest

change to the Deact Checklist on board. And how
about Ed and Bill._ Whereabouts are they in today's
procedures ?

CC Okay. You can delete that one.

CDR i was wondering how I was going to answer it.

CDR Could I say they're well into regroup?

CC Yes.

036 16 13 35 CC Skylab, this is Houston. 1 minute to LOS. Next

station contact in 18 minutes through Tananarive
at 16:32. Out.
s

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SKYLAB AIR-T0-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

036 16 31 55 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Tananarive for

4-1/2 minutes. Out.

036 16 35 28 CC Skylab, this is Houston. 1 minute to LOS. Next

station contact in 44 minutes through Goldstone
at 17:19. Out.

036 17 19 30 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Goldstone for

4 minutes. Out.

036 17 20 04 CDR Houston, CDR.

CC Go ahead.

CDR Let me lay a few on you here now, Bruce. On the

change number - I guess it's number 3 in the
stowage list, the one we've got just recently.
It indicates they want a urine separator motor
that is stowed in W-721, and that I should pick
one of threewith serialnumbers10, ll_ and 12.
Well, there's only one in W-721, and the serial
number next to that part number is number 5; and
I'm wondering will number 5 do?

CC Stand by a second.

CDR Okay, the next questions have to do with the -

the Decadron, the epinephrine, the Xylocaine and
the items that're supposed to be stowed in W-732.
W-732 is the locker which contains all of the ED
experiments, and I wonder if they would check and
clarify that a little bit for us. Are these the
drugs that we threw away and then recovered out
of the plenum bag early in the mission? Or are
these drugs that are up in our drug area right
now?

•CC They're the drugs that you brought up at the

beginning of your mission, Jerry. And we'll get
you a stowage location, if you need it.

CDR Okay, that locker number 732 is all wrong then.

I - I imagine the locker they're talking about
is probably either 700 or 706.
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CC Okay, we'll work on it.

036 17 22 57 CC Skylab, this is Houston. 30 seconds to LOS.

Next station contact in 18 minutes through the
Vanguard at 17:h0 along with a data/voice tape
recorder dump at AOS. And we'll have the answer
on the separator motors and the stowage for you
there.

036 17 23 13 PLT Roger, Bruce.

END OF TAPE
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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

036 17 41 04 CC Skylab, this is Houston through the Vanguard for

10-1/2 minutes with a data/voice tape recorder
dump and some words for the CDR.

PLT He's listening.

CC Okay, Jerry. In freezer number 2, up there in

the upper compartment, F-552, you will find one
urine separator, less motor; and in W-721, you
will find one motor, less separator. Just bring
those two back, disirregardless [sic] of the ser-
ial numbers on them. Over.

CDR I was hoping you'd say that, Bruce.

CC Okay, regarding the injectables, the Decadron

and the epinephrine should be found in W-700.
And the Xylocaine and pentobarbital in W-709.
Over.

PLT Copy.

CC Okay, another little item. For Ed, since we were

talking to him about it this morning, but actu-
ally Bill does the work. If you can't find the
water sample bag that's required on page 1-49 for
the closeout - -

PLT I've already found it, Bruce.

CC Say again.

PLT I've already found it.

CC Beautiful. Delete the rest of what I was going

to say. And now we move on to another one. Did
you ever locate the CCU head that was required
on page 2-64. Over.

PLT Standby.

CC It's a command module CCU head.

PLT What motivated the que - question, Bruce?

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CC Okay, it's not needed for a day or so, but we're

Just trying to make sure that there aren't any
showstoppers when we get down to entry day.

036 17 43 l0 CDR Bruce, is this the head that we took off in order
to put the antisqueal device on?

CC Yes, it is, and we sent you a message about 2 days

ago to sort of eyeball it and try and make sure
you knew where the thing was.

CDR Yes, that's in U-2 along with the T-bar that goes
with it.

CC Mighty fine. Thank you.

036 17 44 31 CC And another item for the CDR regarding the bat-
tery charging that's scheduled to take place at
19:00 Z.

CDR Go ahead.

CC Okay, at 19:00 Z, you're supposed to switch from

BAT Bravo charge to BAT Charlie charging per our --
general message 8233. And we've been watching
BAT B charge down here on the ground and we've
seen what - a few things that are technically
described as "funnies" on BAT B charge. And it's
nothing really serious, but we'd like to monitor
the charging of BAT Charlie. And the way that
we need to do this is to hook up BAT Charlie to
BAT BUS B so that we can read out BAT BUS B volt-
age on telemetry with BAT B, OFF. So to do this,
prior to initiating BAT C charge, we'd like you
to, on - on panel 5, PULL the BAT RELAY BUS,
BAT B circuit breaker; and on panel 275, CLOSE
the BAT BUS B, BAT Charlie circuit breaker. Over.

036 17 45 45 CDR Stand by a minute, Bruce, until I get out the

message and I can insert it right in there.

CC Okay.

CDR Okay, now say it again, please, and a little

slower.

CC Okay, I was trying to give you an overview.

Prior to initiating BAT C charge, panel 5 CB BAT
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RELAY BUS, BAT B, OPEN; and that takes BAT B

off the BAT RELAY BUS. And panel 275, BAT BUS B
to BAT Charlie, CLOSED.

CDR Okay. Prior to the BAT Charlie charge, we're

going to go BAT RFJ._Y BUS, BAT B, OPENED and
BAT B, BAT C, CLOSED.

CC Yes, sir.

036 17 51 O1 CC Skylab, this is Houston. 1 minute to LOS. Next

station contact in 14 minutes through Tananarive
at 18:05. Out.

036 18 06 14 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Tananarive for

8-1/2 minutes. Out.

CDR Roger, Bruce. One of the things that we're

supposed to do is transfer transporters 2 and
7 to the command module. I presume that means
you leave the film on them and transfer them
that way.

CC You dropped down in the mud there for a second.

Say again all after presume you leave the film
on them?

CDR Roger. The transporters have film on them.

One of them has ... has - yes, I think they
both have film on them. One's got Charlie India;
one's got India Romeo film.

036 18 07 59 CC CDR, this is Houston. On the film thread pad

for today, we give you instructions for removing
them: Cut film as required; remove and trans-
fer, umptiump. That includes transporter 2 and
transporter 7. Over.

CDR Houston, Skylab. You're in the mud and

unreadable.

CC Roger. Refer to your film thread pad for today

for instructions for cutting and removing the
film. Over.

036 18 08 41 CC CDR, this is Houston. If you look at the film

thread pad for today, it tells you to cut the
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film as required and remove the cassettes and

configure the stuff for return. Over.

CDR Okay, Bruce. Th_nk you.

CC And we - as a seperate item, we then want to

return the transporter mechanisms themselves,
but the stowag@ will be such that the f_]m that
comes back is not physically on the transporters,
as they are stowed to come back.

CDR Roger. I understand.

PLT Bruce, a quick question on revisit bag contents.

CC Go ahead.

PLT Okay. About two-thirds of the way down on a

general message number 045, it lists some f_]m
they want put in there, and one of them is a -
a Charlie X-ray 63 magazine out of the J-bag.
And I'd already loaded that into a camera and
had some exposed frames on it. I have Charlie
X-ray 62 in my hand. I can either download
the - the 6B or substitute Charlie X-ray 62 or
do whatever else you suggest.

CC Okay. Hold on a second.

036 18 l0 23 CC Okay, Bill. Use Charlie X-ray 62 in the revisit

bag. Over.

PLT Roger. I'm changing Charlie X-ray 62. Thank

yOU.

CC Say again. You're changing?

PLT Roger. I will comply. Use Charlie X-ray 62.

CC Roger. Out.

036 18 12 57 CC Skylab, this is Houston. 2-1/2 minutes to LOS,

but we may lose you early. Next station contact
in 37-1/2 minutes through Hawaii at 18:50 with
a data/voice tape recorder dump at AOS. Out.
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036 18 49 51 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Hawaii for

8-1/2 minutes with a data/voice tape recorder
dump here at AOS. Over.

PLT Roger, Bruce.

CC Okay, Bill. Just a quick question, since you

answered up here. Which Nikon did you load
Charlie X-ray 63 into? Over.

PLT Nikon 4.

CC Okay. Do we assume from that that you used

up all of Charlie X-ray 61?

PLT That's affirmative. And it's stowed.

CC Okay. Bill, we're going to modify your check-

list and stuff to provide stowage for Charlie
X-ray 63. I wonder if you could Just tell us
what your plans for further utilization are on
it? Or are you just doing target-of-opportunity
typestuff?Over.

036 18 51 08 PLT Yes. Of course, this is to support the visual

ops that we got a briefing about 3 or _ days
ago. We had several areas that - that still
could have - we could get coverage on, if we
had the opportunity. I've gone through the
film and identified the remaining exterior
cassettes and that one color interior cassette
has not been used. And if there's no violent
objections, we will manage that and see that
it gets back in the proper place. But we have
about three or four rolls of color exterior
other than SO - other than the C163, which we
hoped to use prior to leaving the workshop.

CC Okay. Go ahead, Bill. Any data that we can

get like that is great. I guess, if you could,
though, keep us posted on - on what you've used
and are bringing back, and we can take either
of two tacks: One is we can try to formally
define some stowage. Or you can Just bring it
back in a PGA pocket and we'll take it from
there. Over.

°4
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PLT The PGA pocket sounds like the best idea. And
we are documenting it both in a written record
here in our little film logs, and also we're
putting it on tape.

CC Okay. Thank you. Very good.

036 18 52 32 PLT And we - Just a case in point there, we had an

excellent opportunity on the Sierra Madre Occi-
dental which requires coverage because of incom-
plete previous EREP coverage. We've had 2 days
of opportunity on that. And, today, I've got
about 25 stereopairs going down that. So we
are doing good with the film.

CC Beautiful. Thank you.

036 18 53 32 PLT And the revisit bag is tied into position on

the ATM grid and has been photographed.

CC Okay. Thank you.

036 18 57 39 CC Skylab, this is Houston. 1 minute to LOS.

Next station contact in 22 minutes through the
Vanguard at 19:20. Out.

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SKYLAB AIR-T0-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

036 19 20 02 CC Skylab, this is Houston through the Vanguard for

9 minutes. And not that any of you will be on
the DAS, but we're going to go ahead and send up
a nu Z update.

CDR Roger, Bruce. And BAT B charge is terminated,

and I've got the BAT C charging now.

CC Okay. And one thing that I neglected to tell you

earlier. Those two steps that I gave you as a
change to the message, when you terminate BAT C
charge, go ahead and reverse those two circuit
breakers again. Over.

CDR Will do.

CC Roger. Out.

036 19 24 36 CC Skylab, this is Houston. Over.

f-

CDR Go ahead, Bruce.

CC Okay. In our continuing saga of power management

to maximize the condition of the batteries per
postflight, post with respect to you all testing,
we're going to shut down the airlock module PRIMARY
COOLANT LOOP to reduce the load and get the bat-
teries all up to full charge. Over.

CDR Roger, Bruce. Go ahead.

CC Okay.

036 19 28 16 CC Skylab, this is Hosuton. 1 minute to LOS. Next

station contact in 58 minutes through Hawaii at
20:26. Out.

CDR Hey, Bruce, if we got time, a quick question: What

do we have the BAT BUS B, BAT C circuit breaker
IN during this charging?

CC So we can monitor the terminal voltage on BAT C

as it's charging. BAT BUS A and BAT BUS B voltage
are on telemetry, but BAT C voltage by itself is
not.
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CDR I see. Okay. Thank you.

CC Roger. Out.

CC And your Flight Plans for tomorrow are on board,

whenever you want to take a look at them.

CDR Roger.

036 19 29 26 CC And by the way, that's the last Flight Plan in

Skylab.

036 20 26 33 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Hawaii for

7-1/2 minutes. And got a couple of quick items
for you here.

,CDR Roger; go ahead.

CC Okay, special message from Dr. D. Lind: If any

pieces of the shredded $230 foil are found on the
air filters or elsewhere, they should be returned,
if you can mauage it. It's quite possible to
obtain useful data from even very small pieces.
If any of them are found, they should be placed
in the $230 experiment return bag in U-2 in the
CSM. Put them in the bag but outside of the folded
collectors where they cannot touch the foil sur-
faces of the already folded collectors. However,
we don't want you to spend any time specifically
searching for the pieces; this is Just if you
happen to run across some of them. Over.

036 20 27 48 CC Over.

036 20 28 09 CDR Houston, CDR.

CC Go ahead, Jer.

CDR Okay, did you get my last?

CC Negative, you must have been cutting out; we didn't

hear a thing from you.

CDR Okay, we've already gathered up most of the pieces

off of the filters in the MDA, off the screens.
That's all pretty well taken care of.
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CC Okay. Then why don't you get it stowed in U-2,

but outside of the folded collectors where the
pieces cannot touch the foil surfaces of the -
the virgin collectors.

CDR Okay.

CC And with respect to Mh79 water spray, we think we

now understand why it did not work as intended.
According to our records down here, the PRESSUR-
IZATION VALVE on water tank number 9 is CLOSED
and has been closed since SL-2. Our procedure's
in error by not calling this out. When you were
troubleshooting, did you by any chance attempt to
verify the position of this valve? And if not,
would you?

CDR Negative. I did not verify it. I can check it.

However, I did get spray by pulling up on the knob
and forcing it.

CC That's to be expected, I understand down here.

036 20 29 36 CC Okay, we don't need - we don't want you to open

this valve because I understand we've finished
all the water quench samples now. But Just some-
time in the next day or so, for a matter of record-
keeping, if you'd check it, we would appreciate
it.

CDR I'll try to remember to do it, but I'll give you

a dollar to doughnuts I forget it.

036 20 29 59 CC That's a bet I won't take - either way.

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SKYLAB AIR-T0-GROUND VOICE TEANSCRIFTION

036 20 33 30 CC Skylab, this is Houston. 1 minute to LOS. Next

station contact in 24 minutes through the Vanguard
ah sea with a data/volce tape recorder dump at AOS
of 20:58.

036 20 58 12 CC Good afternoon, Skylab. We are AOS through the

Vanguard for 9-1/2 minutes, doing a data/voice
recording dump. How's packing day?

CDR It 's wild and wooly, Crip.

CC Oh, I bet you guys are tucking it away nice and

neat.
i

CDR Sure we are. Hey, Crip, the stowage of A - of

iocker A-5 calls for the TV cushions. Calls them
out in F-521, and theY're not there. And I've
looked in all the obvious places and can't really
locate them.

CC We'll chase it for you.

i
CDR Right now, I'm ready to pack A-5 and just put the
darn TV's on folded towels.

CC Well, we'll see if we can get an answer to you

before we get out of contact, Jar.

036 21 02 29 CC CDR, Houston. The best suggestion that we can come

up with is that perhaps that it might have got
_oved to one of the _dJacent lockers to 521, so
you might take a look in 520 or 522. And if no
joy there, well, you can go ahead and do what you
think best with the towel method.

CDR Okay. I already looked in those lockers, so I

guesswe'll Just have to use towels, They're
_robably down in a,plenum bag somewhere in the
bilges.

CC Okeydoke. !

036 21 07 18 CC Skylab, Houston. We are 30 seconds from LOS. Next

station contact is through Ascension at 21:13.
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That's about 6 minutes away. And, Jer, I assume

that you had a chmu6e_to - to take a look at what
this cushion looked llke. There's a picture of it
_ on page 3-2h of your stowage book. It's a fairly
large item in a bag, and it's big enough to accept
both cameras, And anQther item - panel -
locker 526 was anothe r suggestion, which is in
the same area, and there's some TV stuff there.
!
036 21 07 51 CC We are also looking at how much towels are - for
thickness, as far as _adding is concerned, to rec-
ommend to you.

036 21 13 29 CC Skylab, Houston. We are

i A0S through Ascension for
6 minutes.

CDR Roger, Crip. No luck at all. I can't find any-

thing in any of the lockers in that bank. I had
already checked them. Now I've got some quilted
b_gs here. One bag i_ a TVbag. It's all quilted.
And I've got a T025 bag that's quilted with which
might make pretty good padding.

CC Okay. Our recommendation is probably about a -

a quarter of an inch of padding. You can do it
with that or a couple of towels.

036 21 15 28 CC CDR, Houston. Do you have a moment, Jer?

CDR I'm listening; go.

CC Okay. We have Just uplinked a message to you re-

garding a battery C check that we'd like to do
this evening at the same time that your details
call for you to terminate the BAT C charge at about
00:30. We want to do that over - over the ground.
And, really, what we'!re trying to do is to make
sure that we haven't got a - any reoccurrence of
that circuit breaker problem that we - the one we
ran into. And we've got a couple of others that
we're going to have you close.

CDR Okay.

036 21 18 57 CC Skylab, Houston. We are 1 minute from LOS. Next

station contact in 39 minutes throUgh Guam at
_1:5 - 58, 21:58.
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036 21 58 13 CC Skylab_ Houston. AOS Guam, 3-1/2 minutes.

SPT Hello, Crip. I'd like you to be thinking about

something for me, if you would, please.

CC Be glad to, Ed.

SPT Okay. I've been sizing up the URC and the urine
drawers that we got, and a - a quick fit check says
that we might be in trouble. And I'm wondering
what the alternatives are, either at the present
time or when it comes time to finally fit 5 pounds
in a h-pound box.

CC Okay. Let me make sure I - I understand that, Ed.

You're saying that you have - you've tried it al_
ready, and it will not fit. Is that correct?

SPT What I've done, Crip, is to try to fit four of them

Just to the top end, Just the top end. And I can
Just about make it, but I can see I'm going to
have a real - a real struggle to force them all
the way in there. And some of the tops might give
in the process because the dividers act Just like
guillotines. The - Each container has a few of
them which are sticking up a little bit above the
container levels; and as you know, there's not much
leeway in that container with the partition.

CC Yes. Okay. Let us po_der here for you and see if

we've got an alternative to that. Does it - does
it look like you can get a portion of them stowed
in there? Is that correct?

036 21 59 59 SPT Well, by pushing - I can - I have fit two of them

all the way in there, but I was bowing out the
partitions. And I could fit the other two Just
top-way in without really pushing. I'm afraid that
if I try to push them in now, we might never get
them back out again until they melt.

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036 22 00 13 SPT - - So I really didn't want to give an all-out

effort now. I'm Just running a fit check on it.

CC Gkay.

036 22 01 00 CC Qkay. iWe're 1 minut_ from LOS. Next station

_ontactin 3h minutes through the Vanguard at
22:35.

SPT Bye, Crip.

CC Bye. Glad to see you - Ed, you look like you're

way ahead of us there. It's a good idea.

SPT The only way you can keep even is to try and stay
ahead.

036 22 01 21 CC Roger.

036 22 35 39 CC 8kylab, Houston. We are AOS through the Vanguard

for 10-1/2 m_uutes.

SPT Hello, Crip.

CC Hello, Ed. A - we were looking at a picture of

_he URC here and we showed that it had some fiber-
board, cardboard in it for, you know, making sure
%hat everything was nice and tight. Does yours
have that in it?

SPT It did, but that's tiaken out.

CC I suspected you had already done that. And of

course, the clearance problem is with the card-
board out. ,

SPT Yes, that's affirm, Crip.

CC Okay, we'll - we'lllprobably not be getting back

to you on this one tonight. We'll ponder it over
and maybe talk to you about it tomorrow.

036 22 36 31 SPT Okay, what's the nominal condition on the urine

when it gets onto the ship. Is it still frozen
_ or is it pretty much melted by then?
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CC No, it's usually still frozen.

SPT Well, then, in case a bag gets ruptured or even

parts are sliced off as it's going in, then it's
not a total loss.

CC That's affirm.

SPT That's good.

CC Did you feel that you could have gone ahead and -
and forced it and got it all in there with the -
the possibility of Just ripping some bags?

SPT l'm sure that a bag m_ght have gotten torn at

least or - or decapitated a little bit in order
to - either I would have had to do it or it would
have happened as I forced it in there. Whether I
can get all four of them in there by Just forcing
without doing a little shaving, I'm not sure.

CC Okay, copy, thank you.

036 22 45 23 CC Skylab, Houston. We are i minute frcm LOS. Next

station contact is through Ascension in 3 minutes
at 22:48.

036 22 48 41 CC Skylab, Houston. Back with you once more through

Ascension for 10minutes.

036 22 51 21 CDR Hello, Crip. I got a comment on the URC situation.

CC Comment.

CDR Okay, in looking at the way itts specified to put

the drawers in, they show 7 and i0 with the bottoms
outboard. It turns out there is a little bit of
a ridge on the outside sort of - has a wedge effect.
So that if I did it the other way with the bottoms
inboard, the topswhich could get guillotined might
stand a better chance of getting in there without
getting cut off. I'm wondering if there's a spe-
cial reason for having the bottoms outboard?

CC Doesn't appear there is, and FLIGHT had come up

with that same solution down here.

SPT FLIGHT's a pretty smart guy.

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CC Yes, that's what he keeps telling us.

CC We're still going to study the problem here and

that - that appears to be one - one feasible
solution at least for - for a couple of the trays
there. We're still not sure exactly what's going
to happen with the inner ones, but we'll get back
tomorrow with you on that one, Ed.

SPT Okay, Crip, without hearing anything further what

I do is put the two which are the highest which
have the most protrusions on the outside and I
wedge them in like that and putthe other two
on the inside.

CC Roger. Do you - do you thinkthat would work?

Having had a first - first hand experience of
looking at it.

036 22 53 02 SPT I think getting all four of them in there is going

to be difficult somewhat greater than difficult.
I got them all about - I got two of them all the
way in and - and two more about one-third of the
way in and I started to meet some resistance. I
had the feeling that if I re,:ISy lean on it I
could get them in there perhaps, but some of the -
some of the ice would have to give. And I'm not
sure I could have gotten them out. That's why
I didn't go ahead.

CC 0keydoke. The impossible only takes a little bit

longer. Right?

SPT What I need is a big hydraulic press.

036 22 53 49 CC Don't have Jack Lousma there for that, huh?

SPT Hey, I got another Marine, though. They can do

anything.

CC Marines can dolthat. Say, Ed, I - I don't think

I got back with you on this one but you mentioned
the clipboard that was holding the - the sail
samples when you were EVA and whether we wanted it
back or not. And I guess we have polled everybody
and we can't find the real reason, we think, for
returning it.
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SPT Okay, it'll stay up here with the archives.

CC Roger.

036 22 58 ll CC Skylab, Houston. We are 1 minute from LOS. Next

station contact is Guam in 3_ minutes at 23:33.
We'll be doing a data/volce recorder dump there.
And for the SPT that's where your phone call is
set up; he A_Ta_NA, LEFT going to RIGHT.

SPT 23:33, LEFT to RIGHT. Thank you, Crip.

036 22 58 35 CC Roger.

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!

036 23 33 20 CC Skylab, Houston, We are AOS through Guam for

9_i/2 minutes, and we'll be doing a data/voice
recorder dump here.

PLT Roger, Crip.

036 23 34 08 CDR Crip, we're eating dinner right now and in about
the next pass or so, I'll have a status report for
you on where we stand on the transfers.

036 23 35 09 CC Okay, real fine; appreciate it, Jer,

CC CDR Houston. The other night on the - on the

2d of this month the annual meeting of the Order
of the Caribou, which is a - a military organization
that meets in Washington and has kind of a little
gala affair every year, did a little dedication
to Skylab. And if you got time here, I'd like
to - to play you a little tape they sent to us.
j-

PLT Press on, Crip.

CC 0keydoke.

036 23 36 25 MCC Now soaring in space, ready to come home next week
are the crew of Skylab 3, Lieutenant Colonel
Gerald Carr, Lieutenant Colonel William Pogue, and
Dr. Edward Gibson (applause). The court requests
the top sergeant to express to all astronauts the
Caribou' s a_m_ ration and appreciation.

(MUSIC: "A Tribute to Skylab 3")

(Applause)

CC I thought that was some good dinner music for you

guys.

CDR Yes, indeed, Crip. Thanks a lot. We appreciate

that.

CC Okay. Some day we're going to let the world know

that - that Bill is really a colonel, not a
lieutenant colonel.
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PLT That's okay, as long as finance knows it,

CC That's the important people,

036 23 42 03 CC Okay, we're 1 minute from LOS. Next station contact

is through the Vanguard in 30 minutes at 00:13,
00:13.

036 23 42 14 PLT Roger, Crip.

037 00 13 00 CC (Music: "Concerto No, 3" by Rachmaninoff)

037 00 13 i0 CC Skylab, Houston, We're with you through the

Vanguard for 9-i/2 minutes.

CDR Roger, Crip.

CDR Okay. I got a status for you on the transfers.

CC Why don't you tell us about it?

CDR Okay. Bill and I have finished clearing the film

vault pretty much, anyway. And here's some of the
things we found. On page 3-18 of the stowage
checklist, we're going to stow Charlie X-ray 61
in an eight-hole bag with Bravo Whiskey 07.
Charlie X-ray 61 is one of the extra rolls of color
exterior that we had exposed that was not accounted
for in stowage. And that's going in _ in that
eight-hole bag with Bravo Whiskey 07, so that fills
that bag. On page 3-20, the stereophoto string
is going to be stowed in the eight-hole bag that
contains Bravo Victor 48, and it's in the hole
with Bravo Victor 48.

037 00 14 46 CDR Okay, and here's the way ' way we see it as far
as film being left behind, and it appears to all
be unexposed. 16-millimeter in f_]m vault drawer F,
we got Charlie India 66, 67, and 75; and
35-millimeter Bravo 41, 51, and 52. In drawer Golf,
we have 35-mi]_l_meter Bravo Echo 14, 15, 13
and 12, and Bravo Whiskey 04. In drawer India,
we have 16-millimeter 400 footers, Charlie India 23
and 121, and 140 footer, Charlie X-ray 15, which
I'm going to load into DAC 2 tonight and use. It'll
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be installed in the co_nd module, Okay, in

drawer J, 16-millimeter, Charlie India 97 looks
like the only one there. Now in the 35-millimeter
category, we have a whole bunch - well I shouldn't
say a whole bunch, we have four, Bravo Hotel 03,
04, 05, and 06, They're all exposed and they have
not been called out in the transfer checklist to
be moved to the commsnd module. So we need a
stowage location in the command module for that.
Now the work that's left to be done on the stowage
for tonight on the 82-day stowage is for Bill and
I to go up and start packing lockers. So far
Alfa 5 and Alfa 6 are complete, and we've got all
the rest to do.

CC Okay. That 's a - that 's a good rundown, Jer, And

we'll try to get back with you on those four
35-millimeters that we didn't have a location for.

037 00 16 47 CDR Okay, Don't feel too rushed on that. We've got
lots of other things to do. And I hope we can
get this done tonight, so that it doesn't impact
tomorrow's schedule.

CC Okay. Do you feel that you can do that tonight

without staying up too late?

CDR Well, wetve just flat got to, and we'll try not
to stay up too late to do it.

CC Copy,

CDR And then also tonight, we won't give you a photo

status report, because things are too fluid right
now. And we'll give you a - a real good status
report tomorrow on where everything stands,

CC Okay. That 's fine,

CDR And so all you'll get tonight will be a evening

status from Ed.

CC Okay. That'll be good.

037 00 18 22 CC CDR, Houston. Jer, do you happen to have your

Stowage Book handy?
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CDR It hasn't been more than a foot away from me all

day.

CC Okay. If you'll look on page 3-20, about in the

middle of the page where all the - the lines are
together, the second bag, Tight in about the
middle of that paragraph calls out for your -
those four mags that we - you Just spoke of,
Bravo Hotel, 031, 0h, and 05, and 06.

CDR Very good. Thank you.

CC Okeydoke,

037 00 19 42 CC (Music, "Concerto No. 3" by Rachm_uinoff)

037 00 22 07 CC Skylab, Houston. We are 1 minute from LOS. Next

station contact in ll minutes through Canary at
00:33. And for the CDR, Jer, we'll - Just about
the time you get the securing charges on BATTERY
Ch_rlie we would like to conduct that little BAT C
check that we sent up the message to you earlier.
Also ...

CDR Okay, Crip. What time will that be?

CC About 00:33.

CDR Okay, it'll be ready.

037 00 22 37 CC Thank you, sir.

037 00 32 57 CC Skylab, Houston. We are AOS through Canary for

14 minutes. And we are ready for the evening
status report whenever it's convenient.

SPT Okay, Crip. Coming at you. Sleep: CDR, 7.0,

6.5 heavy, 0.5 _light; SPT, 7.2, 5.0 heavy, 5-
2.2 light; PLT, 7.0 D 7.0 heavy. Volumes: 215,
180, 200. Water: 9014, 5185, 2168. Body mass:
CDR, 6.307, 6.307, 6.309; SPT, 6.393, 6.396,
6.397; PLT, 6.2 - 6.272, 6.278, 6.274. Exercise:
CDR, none; SPT, standard, Bravo done with MARK III;
PLT, standard, minus Bravo. Medication : CDR,
none; SPT, preph; PLT, one Actifed. Clothing:
Soc - CDR, socks and shorts; SPT, socks and shorts;
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and PLT, none. No shopping list accomplimen -

accomplishments, nor inoperable equipment or
unscheduled stowage. Menu: CDR, deviations -
first of all, salt packs used, zero, deviations,
minus one coffee with sugar; SPT, salt packs, ll.5,
deviations, plus lemon pudding, and rehydrated
water deviations, 22.0. Going back to the CDR;
his water deviation was plus 1.O. PLT, salt
packs 7.0, deviations, plus crispy bar, plus green
beans, plus mashed sweet patatoes, and no water
deviations.

037 00 35 18 CC Okay, Ed, I believe we got all of that. One item

I guess I'd like to insure today, when - when we
finished the venous compliance test earlier, we
did get the blood pressure cuff stowed up in the
command module; did we not?

SPT Hold on Crip, let me check. I was assuming we were

going to have that thing done tomorrow, also but
let me take a look.

CDR I - I've got it on my list to do, Crip. It hasn't

been done yet.

CC Okay, fine. We just wanted to make sure that we

didn't forget i_. And, Jer, are you up in the
command module and ready to do that test?

CDR Just arriving.

CC Okay. You can go ahead and terminate BATTERY C

charging.

037 00 36 h9 CC For the SPT, one - Ed, one item on that, did you
say that your water deviation was 22?

SPT 22.0.

CC Copy. Thank yod.

CDR Okay, Crip, you want to terminate BAT C charge first

and then go into the special procedure. Right?

CC That's affirmative.
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CDR 0kay. It 's in work.

CC CDR, Houston. _Jer, also today, earlier they asked

you to configure a couple of breakers so they
could watch the - the charging on BATTERY Charlie.
And I've got the reconfiguration on those in my
hand here if you don't them handy.

CDR I 've got them. Thanks.

CC Okay.

037 00 39 25 CDR Crip, I've got 36 amps for BAT C,

CC 0 - okay. We're looking at 33 right now here.

That's fine, you can press on.

CDR Okay, it fell back to 30.

CDR Got 28 amps this time on BAT C.

CC Okay. That looks good here.

CDR Thatcompletes
it, Crip.

CC Okay, real fine. One other item while you're up

there, Jar. We've been showing out at some of the
sites that we're getting some voice downlink on
the DSE and wanted to check our configuration on
panels 9 and 6to insure that the T/R switch is
OFF - the INTERCOM T/R switch.

CDR Okay.

CDR That's affirmative; it's OFF on both 9 and 6.

037 00 42 57 CC CDR, Houston. If you're still there in the command

module, there's one switch still. Could you check
the AUDIO CONTROL is in NORMAL not in BACKUP on
panel 6?

037 O0 43 52 CC Skylab, Houston. Sorry I forgot to tell you here,

but we are goihg to be doing a data/voice recorder
dump through - through Madrid here.
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CDR Roger.

CC Jerry, did you copy my last one other item on that

might be getting voice in the DSE, if - if the
AUDIO CONTROL on panel 6 is in BACKDP instead of
NORMAL. It's supposed to be in NORMAL?

CDR That's affirmative. I reported it in NORMAL.

CC Okay, sorry. I didn't copy.

CDR Okay.

037 O0 46 20 CC Skylab, Houston. We are 30 seconds from LOS.

Next station contact is through Guam at 01:13;
that's about 26 minutes away. And for CDR, Jer,
we have _ I guess that voice on the DSE has been
intermittent and about the only thing we can come
up with is maybe check your configuration using
the Command Module Systems Checklist, page 3-3
for panels 9, l0 and 6. For your information, we
will also not be dumping the DSE during the med
F conferenceso there won't - won't be any problem
there.

037 00 47 02 CDR Okay, Crip; thank you. We'll try it.

END OF TAPE
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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

037 Ol 13 lh CC Skylab, Houston. We are AOS through Guam for

about 4minutes.

CC SPT, Houston. Ed, you got some time to throw a

couple of switches for me this evening?

CC SPT, Houston. Do you have some time to throw

some switches for me this pass, Ed?

037 Ol 16 i0 CC Skylab, Houston. We are 1 minute from LOS, if

you're reading me. And next station contact is
through Honeysuckle in about 6 minutes. That's
_, at 01:22 and that's set up for your medical
conference.

037 01 16 26 PLT Roger, Crip.

037 02 ii 48 CC Skylab, Houston. We are A0S through Canary for

12-i/2 minutes. And for the CDR or the PLT,
- could you possibly do a little Job for us, please?

PLT Yes, Crip; go.

CC Okay. We show the PPO 2 is getting down a little

bit low. We would like you to do an MS09-F5Alfa
for a 1 hour may or if you go to bed, you can
terminate it earlierwith an F5 Bravo.

PLT Okay, in work.

CC Okay, one other item, we would like to do a little

test on the ATMthermal loop tonight and I'd like
you to secure three switches on the C&W if you
would for me.

PLT Okay.

CC Okay, down there at the bottom about in the middle

on panel 207 ATM CANISTER, PUMP DELTA-P, COOLANT
TEMP, and HEATER TEMP. If you would put those to
INHIBIT, we'd appreciate it.

PLT They're there.

r.
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CC Okay, I'm going to - I'm going to leave you alone.

I copy that Ed's either asleep or trying to sleep.
Good night, guys.

037 02 13 12 CDR Good night, Crip.

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REST PERIOD - NO COMMUNICATIONS

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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

037 ii 06 33 CC Good morning, Skylab. Got you through Carnarvon

and Honeysuckle for 8 minutes.

CDR MoNling, Story.

CC Morning, Jer. Now that I've got you up, maybe

you can get me up.

CDR It'll be the blind leading the blind.

CC Afraid so.

MCC Jerry, you can say that again. Story just barely
made it.

CDR You guys Just coming on or going off?

037 ii 07 53 CC I don't know what to say to that. I really don't

know. I think we've been here a while though.

MCC We've got documentary proof of Story checking

for light flashes down here.

CDR Did you see any, Story?

CC Had them all night.

CDR You'll have to consult with our resident night

flasher up here and cempare notes.

CC They say I got more sleep here than Ed did.

037 ii 09 05 CDR Are you telling me Ed's going to be crabby all

day?

037 ll 13 34 CC And we're a minute from LOS, about 16 minutes to

H_aii at ii:29.

CDR Roger. See you then.

CC We'll be here.

CC Okay, the latest news is you won't have Hawaii

this pass; it's Goldstone at ii:41.
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SPT Morning, Story.

CC Say, Ed, we see you finally got unplugged.

SPT I saw my own shadow, Story. I'm going back to bed.

037 ll 14 39 CC Same here.

037 ll 42 07 CC Skylab, back with you through Goldstone for

5 minutes.

PLT Roger, Story.

CC Morning, Bill.

PLT Story, you awake enough to read the newspaper

there ?

CC Yes, I _n. Unfortunately I don't have a lot to

read, but here - here we go.

037 ll 43 39 CC Representatives of striking independent truck

drivers reject President Nixon's effort to end
trucking tieup by freezing diesel fuel prices. --
A truck driver shot to death in Delaware and more
layoffs and food shortage mark the growing strike
by independent truck drivers. West Viriginia
Governor Arch A. Moore ordered armed National
Guard troops to ride in each truck in five West
Viriginia counties hardest hit by the shutdown.
He said anyone picketing fUel terminals, truck
stops or other areas in the five-county region
will be arrested for trespassing. Guardsmen also
stood guard in Ohio, Michigan, and Pennsylvania
Highways.

CC Scientists have more than 1000 new closeup photos

of the planet Venus in hand, and more are expected
from Mariner l0 as the spacecraft speeds on toward
Mercury. Scientists at JPL here plan to advance
sc_e tentative conclusions about the Venusian
data for newsmen Thursday, but they say final
Judgements might be months away. Mariner will
continue beaming back photos of the cloud-shrouded
planet through February 22.

CC The Houston Aeros defeated the Jersey Knights 4

to nothing last night on the hockey ice here.
f_
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And lastly Pistol Pete Maravleh of the Atlanta

Hawks has been suspended indefinitely by his
coach as a result of a hassle with officials
here in Houston on Sunday. Pistol Pete has an
average of slightly over 28 points per game.
And that's it for this morning.

PLT Not much going on up here either.

037 ll 46 58 CC We'll be dropping out here for about 30 seconds

at the handover at Texas.

037 ll 49 01 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Corpus Christi

for about 9-1/2 minutes. Out.

CC And a late news flash from last night, sill open-

ing our eyes through this morning. The Los
Angeles Lakers beat the Houston Rockets ll6 to
ll2 in an overtime last night; was tieup 106 all
at the end of the regular game. Out.

037 ii 52 42 CC Correction on my last. The Rockets beat the Lakers.

037 12 00 31 CC Skylab, this is Houston; 1 minute to LOS. Next

station contact in 9-1/2 minutes through Ascension
at 12: 10. Out.

037 12 lO 13 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Ascension for

7 minutes. Out.

037 12 17 23 CC Skylab, this is Houston; i minute to LOS. Next

station contact in 23 minutes through Carnarvon
at 12:_0 with a data/voice tape recorder dump
at AOS. Out.

END OF TAPE
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$KYLAB AIR-T0-GROUND VOICE TRANSCHIFI'ION

037 12 40 32 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Carnarvon for

10-1/2 minutes. Out.

CC And it probably is not a great deal of concern

to you, sinc _ you're up in the command module
_right now, but we're going to dump the data/voice
tape recorder in the workshop.

PLT Roger.

037 12 50 02 CC Skylab, this is Houston. 1 minute to LOS. Next

station contact in 3-1/2 minutes through Guam
at 12:53. Out.

037 12 54 17 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Guam for 9-1/2 min-

utes. And as you break off from your command
module activities here, when you have a minute,
maybe Bill or Jerry could bring us up to date
here on your progress towards, along, and through
the stowage and deactivationprocedures. Over.

CDR Okay, Bruce. Just a second.

CDR Okay, Bruce. All the stowage work is essentially

completed. There's a few odds and ends that
need to be done and I've got them noted. I'll
get them done as I go. It mainly concerns
things like the last bits of film and things
like that.

CC Okay, if you have any showstoppers or anything

like that, why, be sure and let us know. We'll
help you track them. Over.

CDR Okay, we have none of those yet. We got over

those that we had yesterday by Just jumping
around them. Things like TV camera pads and
stuff llke that.

CC Okay, how about the closeout photo prep per

page 1-17 of the deact checklist? Is that complete?

CDR When was it sheduled?

CC Entryminus3.
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CDR Oh, that's the Marshall photos, right?

CC Oh, that's the prep of the camera and everything

and the Marshall photos.

037 12 56 05 CDR Okay. Yes, Bill's pretty well got that whipped.

PLT That's all ccmplete, Bruce.

CC Okay. Beautiful. How about the IMSS preparations

per page 2-17 of - of deact?

CDR Those are complete.

CC Okay. Mighty fine. That about wraps up the

questions that we've got.

037 12 57 20 PLT Bruce, you might tell Marshall people that in

calling for the work configuration of particular
areas they can expect to see a few closeout
stowage items in position also, because at that
time there was a bit of Juggling of hardware.

CC Okay, that's fine by us. If you have any sig-

nificant things we can either catch them in the
postflight debriefing or you can put them on
tape as you go by.

037 13 02 38 CC Skylab, this is Houston. 1-1/2 minutes to LOS.

Next station contact in 16-1/2 minutes through
Goldstone at 13:19. Out.

037 13 19 52 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Goldstone,

Corpus Christi, and Merritt Island for 16-1/2 min-
utes. Out.

037 13 35 32 CC Skylab, this is Houston. i minute to LOS. Next

station contact in 44 minutes through Carnarvon
at 14:20. Out.

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037 14 19 44 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Carnarvon for

5-1/2 minutes. Out.

037 14 24 48 CC Skylab, this is Houston. About 30 seconds to LOS.

Next station contact in 9 minutes through Guam
at lh:34. Out.

037 14 3h 07 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Guam for 4-1/2 min-

utes. Out.

037 14 37 55 CC Skylab, this is Houston. 1 minute to LOS. Next

contact in 18 minutes through Goldstone at lh:56
with a data/voice tape recorder dump at AOS. Out.

037 14 56 09 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Goldstone, Corpus

Christi, and Merritt Island for 14-1/2 minutes.
And we're looking at a data/voice tape recorder
dump here at Goldstone.

PLT Roger,Bruce.

037 15 l0 03 CC Skylab, this is Houston. 1 minute to LOS. Next

station contact in 10-1/2 minutes through the
Vanguard, at sea, at 15:21. Out.

037 15 22 16 CC Skylab, this is Houston through the Vanguard for

_ 8-1/2 minutes. Out.

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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

037 15 30 08 CC Skylab, this is Houston. 1 minute to LOS. Next

station contact in 19 minutes through Tananarive
at 15:21. Out - Or at 15:49. Out.

037 15 48 56 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Tananarive for

3 minutes. Out.

037 15 51 08 CC 1 minute to LOS. Next station contact in 45 minutes

through Goldstone at 16:36. Out.

037 16 36 16 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Goldstone for

4-1/2 minutes. OUt.

037 16 39 39 CC Skylab, this is Houston. l-l/2 minutes to LOS.

Next station contact in 18 minutes through the
Vanguard at sea at 16:57. Out.

037 16 57 34 CC Skylab, this is Houston through the Van_la_d for

ll minutes with a data/voice tape recorder dump.

CDR Roger, Bruce.

CC Roger. Roger.

CC And, Jerry, if you have a second, I wonder if you

could Just give us some feel for how things are
going up there. We're not - we're not trying to
tie you at any step in the checklist since we
haven't got any particular checklist we're working
through today. We'd Just like a - a feel for how
things seem to be moving along.

CDR Well, I personally have not done much more than

the quiescent checklist this morning, and an LBNP
run this morning, and that's about it for me; so
I'm on schedule. I'll check with the other guys.

CC Okay.

CDR Yes, the other guys are on schedule too. There's

nothing- nothing happening. We're just kind of
waiting for the other shoe to fall.

037 16 59 03 CC Okay.

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SKYLAB AIR-T0-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

037 17 03 08 CO Skylab, this is Houston. For your information

we're going to be commanding PCG number 3 back on
line and PCG number 5 off for a half-hour integrator
catchup in preparation for your postdeparture test-
ing. Over.

PLT Roger, Bruce.

037 17 07 20 CC Skylab, this is Houston; 1 minute to LOS. Next

station contact in lh-1/2 minutes through Tananarive
at 17: 22. Out.

037 17 22 36 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Tananarive for

about 9-1/2 minutes, so expect to be in antenna
blockage the last part of the pass. Next station
contact in 44 minutes through Hawaii at - make that
through - Stand by. Roger. Through Hawaii at
18:07. Out.

037 17 29 48 CC Skylab, this is Houston. Getting a little noisy

here, so I'll call it 2-1/2 minutes to LOS. Next
station contact in 37 minutes through Hawaii at
18:07. Out.

037 18 06 55 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Hawaii for almost

8 minutes.

037 18 13 h7 CC Skylab, this is Houston. 1 minute to LOS. Next

station contact in 22-1/2 minutes through the
Vanguard at sea at 18: 36. Out.

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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

037 18 36 16 CC Skylab, this is Houston through the Vanguard for

9-1/2 minutes. And I got a question or two about
the urine retain - return container situation.

SPT Go ahead.

CC Okay, Ed, how many trays have this interference

problem?

SPT Okay, Bruce, it's probably about two out of four.

The other two are reasonably tight, but I think
I can get them in. However, in two of them there's
some interference.

CC These are the two thicker ones?

SPT Affirm,

CC Can you tell us where it's located, i.e., in the

_ center of the tray, the outboard rows, both, or
all over?

SPT I have to go down there and look it all over, Bruce.

There's, I would imagine, six or seven or so in
each one of them scattered throughout which are
relatively high.

CC Okay, Ed, our concern here is we're worried that

possibly we'll get scme of the trays all the way
in and some of the trays part way in and part way
out. And it'll be JAmmed to where we couldn't
go either way and we'd lose the whole ballgame based
on that. And I guess what we'll need to do is to
pick a time later in the day if it's not convenient
now, and probably isn't, where you could go down
there and look at the trays and we could talk to
you in real time on the subject. Over.

SPT Okay, Bruce.

037 18 44 43 CC Skylab, this is Houston. 1 minute to LOS. Next

station contact in 16-1/2 minutes through Tananarive
at 19:01. Out.
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037 19 02 i0 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Tananarive for

3 minutes. Out.

037 19 04 23 CC Skylab, this is Houston. 1 minute to LOS. Next

station contact in 38-1/2 minutes through Hawaii
at 19:h3 with a data/voice tape recorder dump
at AOS. Out.

037 19 43 30 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Hawaii for 9 minutes

with a data/voice tape recorder dump here.

037 19 51 55 CC Skylab, this is Houston. 1 minute to LOS. Next

station contact in 22-I/2 minutes through the
Vanguard at sea at 20:15. Out.

CDR Houston, CDR.

CC Go ahead, Jerry. You got about I0 seconds.

CDR Okay. I was Just wondering if we're going to

bring the EVA gloves back with us.

CC Negative.

037 19 52 44 CDR Thank you.

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SKYLAB AIR-T0-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

037 20 15 18 CC Skylab, this is Houston through the Vanguard for

8-1/2 minutes with a couple of quick items for
the commander.

CDR Roger, Bruce; go.

CC Okay, Jerry. First item is a reminder that on

your trim burn be sure to get the DSE running in
high bit rate prior to the burn. High bit rate
is necessary in order to get the thruster firing
data, and we'd like to get a good hack on this
burn in particular. You can reference page G/6-
14 Alfa on the G&C Checklist at time of 55:00,
if you need a checklist reference on it. Over.

CDR Yes, I think there's a pen and ink correction in

there. I'll see that it gets done.

CC Okay, and the other thing is that after your trim

burn - of course, back on the DSE after the trim
burn, we need to make sure that it's OFF for the
private comm, as you're probably aware. It turns
out that VHF uplink gets recorded on the DSE if
it's running at all. But after the trim burn, on
page 2-22 of the ATM Systems Checklist and Data
Book, to reconfigure the rate gyro redundancy
management load - load all 4's in the blank spaces.
And if you want, I'll hold up while you get the
book out.

CDR Okay, I'll be a minute.

037 20 18 59 CDR Okay, Bruce, I'm in position_ go ahead.

CC Okay, Jerry. On page 2-22 under monitor attitude

and rate information during return to SI and then
we've got a bunch of DAS commands. And there're
three blands under rate gyro redundancy management.
We want 4's in all the blanks; i.e., 52015 _I_R;
50014 ENTER; 52015 ENTER; 5 - -

CDR Hey, wait a minute, wait a minute; way, way ahead

of me. I'm still trying to get to the page number.
2-22 is a pink page.

CC Negative; it's a white page.

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CDR Say again the checklist.

037 20 31 27 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Ascension for

3 minutes. Out.

037 20 33 31 CC Skylab, this is Houston. 1 minute to LOS. Next

station contact in I hour and 19 minutes through
the Vanguard at 21:52, with a data/voice tape
recorder dump at AOS. And we show the completion
of the last major medical of the Skylab Program.

CDR That is affirmative, Bruce.

CC Good show, troops.

CC And for Jerry, we see the CMC and the IMU, both
of them up, and they're both looking good to us.
Over.

037 20 34 16 CDR Roger. Thank you, Bruce.

CC ATM Systems Checklist and Data, a big book.

CDR Okay, I had the G&C Checklist. I'm in the command

module. Stand by.

037 20 21 43 CC CDR, Houston. How are you coming?

CDR Go, Bruce.

CC Okay, page 2-22 ATM Systems Checklist and Data

Book. About three-quarters of the way down the
page there's a bunch of DAS entries which starts
out DAS tunptiump maneuver time and 13 minutes, rate
gyro redundancy management.

CDR I've got it.

CC Okay, and there are three blanks. We want a 4 in

each of those three blanks.

CDR Okay, that 's in.

CC So that, in essence, the first redundancy manage-

ment command is 52015, 50014, and then so on.

CDR Right ; we got them written in.

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CC Okay, that's it. That's all the messages I got.

I'm sorry if we got all wrapped around the axle
here. I must not have been too clear or I guess
I steered you up to the command module instead.

CDR Yes, I headed for the command module and was get-
ting in there and getting the G&C Checklist out.
And this data book has already been put away in
the time capsule; we had to dig it out. That's
why we had the delay.

CC Oh, okay. Hey, gee whiz, we - we didn't realize

that, but it was - it's probably good to have it
out for the trim burn.

037 20 23 02 CDR That's right. We'd had to got it out - get it

out for that.

CC Okay, we got 1 minute to LOS. And could you tell

us how the center couch installation and the rate
gyro six-pack band installation came?

CDR Very quickly;no sweat.

CC Okay, that sounds good to us. And we'll see you

in about 8-1/2 minutes through Ascension at 20:B1.
Out.

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SKYLAB AIR-T0-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

037 21 52 06 CC Skylab, this is Houston through the Vanguard for

ll minutes with a data/voice tape recorder dump.
And we'd like to talk with the SPT on the subject
of the urine container interference. Over. Oh,
and can we get a burn report out of the way first?

CDR Yes, Bruce, the burn was on time and nominal, no

problems.

CC Okay. We show that the Y-axis rate gryos were

not reconfigured. We'll take care of that from
the ground here, as well as enabling momentum
dump.

CDR Roger. I wasn't able to verify the DELTA-V very

well, because of the bias in the }_4S counter, so -
but it looked pretty much like everything ran real
well.

- CC Okay. Mighty fine. Thank you Jer.

037 21 53 25 CC And if the SPT is at a point where he can break

away now, we'd llke to talk about the ur-ine return
container.

SPT Okay, Bruce. I took and looked it over. Did a

couple of things. One is there was a little
wooden lip or whatever that soft material is made
out of, I was able to smooth that down with the -
with the file we have on board. And then I tried
the various geometries of fitting that in. Fit-
ting all of the four trays in so that the -
wherever it bulged in one place, would be taken
up by slack in another, and I was able to work
it around to the point where I could get four -
two of them all the way in, and the other - other
two almost all the way in. And I - with a small
amount of extra force, I'm sure I could have
gotten them in. The only problem with this
technique is - as was evident, is that two of the
samples already have their integrity broken, al-
though they're still intact in terms of solid ice.
I think on return day I could probably get them
in there, but we might have a couple of them with
their integrity broken.
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037 21 54 33 CC Okay. Ed, there's one possibility here as far as

getting them in that might help you. If you take
the Teflon sheet out of the humidity control de-
vice in the film vault, you know, there's one on
the inside of each drawer, I think, and one some-
where else in the film vault. It's just about the
right size for use as sort of a shoehorn to put
over the top of the drawer and this would hold
the lids of the sample bags depressed while you're
forcing the drawer in, and then this could be
drawn back out after you get the drawer in place.
How does that strike you?

SPT Yes, that sounds like a good idea. I'll go ahead

and take a look at it. I was using those flat
metal plates for the M071/73 return container.
What are they, about 6 or 7 inches by 10? Using
that as a shoehorn and it seemed to help. But
Teflon sounds like a Better idea yet.

CC Okay, these Teflon Jobs - the length of them is

about a quarter of an inch length - less than the
width of the urine return container, so it's
almost a perfect fit. There's no cutting re-
quired. And that - that's about 40/1000 thick.

037 21 55 45 SPT Okay. That sounds good. I'll go ahead and take
a look at it.

CC Okay. And Just for completeness, we had a list

of questions drawn up here by the people that are
working the problem here. I'd like to go ahead
and ask them anyway, if - if you'd bear with us.

SPT Okay.

CC How - how far are the samples projecting above

the top of the tray?

SPT Okay, I'll have to go down and measure that first.

I'm estimating on the order of a quarter inch.
And it - the problem is that it's not Just one or
two Samples per drawer. A few of them are a
little higher than the others, but when they were
frozen, if one would freeze a little higher than
the other, then all the subsequent ones would
tendto freeze at that same height. And I'll
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• Just have to go down there and give you a more

accurate measurement if they want. Net result is,
though, that four of them will just about fit all
the way across.

CC Okay. I don't think that we need you to actually

measure it. The - your estimate of a quarter of
an inch is adequate for our purposes. Are the
samples loose to the point where you could take
one out, and say put it in the can crusher and
put it back in, or are they pretty well frozen
into place?

SPT Oh, I'd say Just about all of them are frozen in
place. There might be one or two that if I wedged
them a little bit they'd come out. But _Imost all
of them are frozen right in there.

037 21 57 ll CC Okay. When you wound up this last time with two
of them all the way in and two s]most all the way
i-n, how far out-were the-two that went almost
all the way in when you first encountered resist-
ance to pushing them?

SPT I reeountered [sic] resistance to pushing them

almost from the start. But I was careful to try
to wedge them in there in such a way that I wasn't
breaking the integrity Of any of them. Unfor-
tunately, there were two ofthem which did have
their integrity broken. I'd say the force re-
quired is impulsive and probably around 20 pounds
or:so.

037 21 57 55 CC About how far out was the tray still sticking
when you stopped?

SPT Okay. They were sticking about the height of two

samples, whatever that works out to be; maybe
about 3, _ - 3 inches or so.

CC Yes, okay; two-thirds of a compartment.

SPT The resistance as far as going in was pretty much

uniform all the way. And the only reason I didn't
go any further is that the only thing we have to
pull them out is the straps whereas if you leave
them a little bit out you can grab the side and
pull. But I'm confident I could have gotten them
_" inthere.
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CC Okay, we - we applaud that discretion. And one

other comment, Jerry mentioned that there was a
little bit of a ridge on the outside - apparently
on the outside edges of the tray so that it has
a wedge effect. We're wondering if you've noticed
that also, or you or he could elaborate on it.

037 21 58 51 SPT Well, by a wedge, yes. This I mentioned yester-

day. On the - outside th e - you have a metal
bottom to it or, I should say, the whole inside of
the container is metal. And it interfaces with a
top part of, looks like fibergl - fiberboard or
something of that nature which is - has the bottom
piece cut into it; or, I should say, the metal
piece which goes all the way up to about 1 inch
from the top is cut into this fiberboard. And the
fiberboard turned - doesn't go straight up. It
actually has a wedge effect. On one side I found
that the material had been cut back a little bit
further than needed so that there actually was a
slight overhang and that's where I filed off just
a couple of hours ago to try to gain a little
extra space there. And so what I've been doing
is using that wedge effect on the ones that I put --
in the - on that side. I was putting the samples
towards that face so that they won't be going into
the metal sheet which would act like guillotine.

CC Okay, so you're talking - you're describing the -

the broad internal surface of the urine retain
con - return container itself. Is that correct?

037 22 00 12 SPT The top part of a urine con - return container

which is around 1 or l-l/2 inches. I'll have to
go down there and take a look. It's the material
which is not metal but is fiberboard.

CC Yes. Okay, we copy all that. Thank you very much,

Ed. And we're heartened by your commentary to the
point that you think you can get it in. And we -
we suggest the shoehorn technique with a sheet of
Teflon and we'll continue working the problem
down here.

SPT Okay. One good think I got from Crip last night
is that these usually stay frozen, so that when
we get on the ship if the integrity of any of
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them is broken you can still use the sample.

That was my understanding; I hope that's true.

CC Right, we have verified that, We're not partic-

ularly concerned about breaking even a number of
_hese sample bags. We do expect that they'll stay
frozen and that they can be handled as little
yellow ice cmbes.

SPT Okay, that's good, Bruce. We'll get them in there.

037 22 01 16 CC And, by the way, if you think that the Teflon

that's associated with the humidity control units
up in the film vault is too thick, we suggest the
Teflon sheet which is on the treadmill which is
half the thickness or 20/1000 of an inch thick,
which you will have to cut to make it the proper
size.

037 22 Ol 36 SPT Yes, that's another good idea. As a matter of

fact, there are some points of that which are now
at negative thickness.
i

CC They're now what?

SPT I should say zero thickness.

CC (Laughter)

SPT We've - we've gone through it in some spots.

CC Okay. I guess we got that input the other day

and relayed to Bill Thornton. And we thought you
were pulling a great big Joke on him. Didn't
seem possible - -

SPT When Jerry gets on there and starts charging and

he Just doesn't turn off.

CREW (Laughter )

CC We didn't know know we - didn't know we had such

a hard charger there. Didn't seem possible we
could work our way through a sheet of Teflon in
only 8h days.

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PLT If we could Just get him to clip his toenails,

everything would be all right.

037 22 02 22 CC (Laughter) Okay; 30 seconds to LOS here. We get

out the shepherd's hook and push you guys over
the hill.

CDR Thank heavens.

037 22 02 32 CC 2-1/2 min - 3 minutes to Ascension at 22:05. Out.

037 22 05 24 CC Skylah, this is Houston through Ascension for

10-1/2 minutes. Out.

037 22 07 27 CC CDR, this is Houston. Over.

PLT Stand by, Bruce.

CC Roger.

037 22 08 43 CDR Go ahead, Bruce.

CC Yes, indeed, Jerry. Looking over your shoulder

on the command module telemetry, we need to get
the UP TELemetRY switch to ACCEPT and left there
so w_ _Dl_y our l_ttle game on the uplink and
get you a state vector and stuff. And we'd also
llke to get the SPACECRAFT CONTROL switch to SCS,
please. Over.

CDR Okay.

CC Thank you.

037 22 14 41 CC Skylab, this is Houston; about 1-1/4 minutes to

LOS. Next station contact in 35 minutes through
Guam at 22:49. We have the commander's final
phone call scheduled at Guam at 22:49; LEFT
ANTENNA switching to RIGHT. Over.

CDR Roger; 22:49, LEFT to RIGHT.

CC And for Bill, we'll repeat it again later. We

have his final phone call scheduled at 23:29,
23:29 at Vanguard, LEFT to RIGHT.

037 22 15 25 PLT Roger.

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037 22 49 46 CC Good afternoon, Skylab. We're AOS Guam for

i0 minutes.

037 22 53 21 SPT Hello Crip. How are you doing tonight?

CC Just fine, Ed. And you?

SPT Pretty good. Is this your last session with us?

CC Well, this is the - the last I get to set - sit

in with the crimson team. However, I'll be here
to talk to you when we - when you're coming home.

SPT Hey, that's right; that's right.

CC And the crimson team reminds me that they'll be

here sitting - sitting with the workshop.

SPT Take good care of it. What - what's the lifetime

of it look like now?

CC Depending on who you talk to and by our models of

the aerodynamiccharacteristicsof the upper
Earth's atmosphere, it's somewhere between 6 and
l0 years.

SPT Very good. What kind of mode will this be in?

Just essentially end up with a gravity-gradient
type?

CC Roger. That's - we're just going to put it in

what we consider - what we think is its gravity-
gradient attitude and leave it. And hopefully
it'll stabilize there.

SPT When will you stop send - sending all the commands
and monitoring it?

CC They're going to be running for approximately

24 hours - 22 hours after - after you guys leave.
Got a few little tests they're going to run.

037 22 55 04 SPT Don't want to do them with us - with us on board,

huh?

CC Aw, you guys have got - you guys got enough -

enough problems.
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SPT You got some pyros located in here we don't know

about?

037 22 55 35 CC No, no; not at all. They - they Just didn't want
to come to any splashdown parties, that's all.

CC How's it been going today? Everything clicking

along pretty smooth? Not too rushed?

SPT Oh, yes. As Jerry said, we're just waiting for

the other shoe to drop and a lot of things you
got to get done tomorrow and - after we get up.
I think we got a pretty good handle on it. Don't
see any showstoppers. But we'll keep hustling,
you never can tell.

CC Very good. See, I was noting this morning in

looking back and reviewing the air-to-ground
comments that you and Story were competing for
who got the most sleep last night.

SPT Flight says that Story won hands down.

CC That's what I hear. I'm probably going to be in

competition tonight. We're going to - we're go-
ing to stay on until - until we wake you up again.

SPT Who's going to wake up who?

CC (Laughter) That's - that's going to be the

question. You might better set your alarm clocks.

037 22 57 14 CC SPT - Ed, incidentally, when you talk to Jer again,

when he comes back from the command module, we
noted that he was looking at the CMC clock and
the data in that is meaningless right now. We'll
be loading that tomorrow before it'll - and it'll
start making sense.

SPT Okay. We got spring back there yet, Crip, or are

we still in winter?

037 22 57 53 CC Well, I'ii tell you what. You missed it. The
last few days here have been fantastic. Wish we
could have bottled some of that weather and stowed
it up for you. But today we are having a little
cold front move in. And I understand it's sup-
posed to be freezing by tomorrow night.
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SPT You've got to do better than that.

CC We'll work on it. Time you guys get back here

Sunday, we'll have pretty weather, we hope.

037 22 58 47 CC Okay, we're 1 minute from LOS. Next station con-

tact is through the Vanguard at 23:30. That's
about 31 minutes away. And as Bruce told you
awhile ago, we got Bill's phone call set up there;
ANTENNA, LEFT going to RIGHT. And also we'll be
standing by for the evening status report, there.

SPT Okay, Crip, thanks; talk to you then.

037 22 59 12 CC Okeydoke.

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SKYLAB AIR-T0-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

037 23 30 01 CC Skylab, Houston. We are A0S through the Vanguard

for i0 minutes,

CDR Hello, Bruce. Your voice has changed.

CC You're right. You're right. So has yours

m [sic
].
CDR Touche.

CC Hey, by the way, we see the time display is still

on the DSKY up there, and we're going to go ahead
and - and blank it out here, so the relays won't
be hot all night.

CDR Okay.

CC And you want to give us an evening status report?

CDR Yes, sir. Sleep: CDR, 6.0, 5 heavy, 1 light;

f SPT, 9.7, 8 heavy, 1.7 light; PLT, 7.5, all heavy.
Volumes: 230; 270; 210. Water gun: 9026; 5187_
2199. Body mass: 6.300, 6.302, 6.306; 6.373,
6.374, 6.375; 6.265, 6.265, 6.265. Exercise: No
change, We have all substituted Mark III for the
Mark II, and we're doing what we think is probably
i a good imitationof the Mark II exercises. Medi-
cations: CDR, chl0ral--hydrate tonight; SPT, Da]m_ne
_ tonight; PLT, a Seconal last night, and one tonight.
Clothing: CDR, socks, shirt, and shorts; SPT,
socks, shirt and shorts; PLT, socks, shorts, and
T-shirt. Let's see, I'll get to the photo log
later. Food log: CDR, salt, 17.0, deviations;
plus one lemonade, m_uus one strawberry drink,
plus chocolate chip bar, rehydration water, plus
2.0; SPT, 4,0 salt, plus tuna, rehydration water
plus 12.0; PLT, 4.0 salt, plus a crispy bar, plus
green beans, zero rehydration water.

037 23 32 12 CDR Flight plan deviations: None. Shopping list ac-

complishments: Documentary photos of the treaam_ll
today, and also complied with the spirit of the
permanent general message requesting data on the
treadmill. Inoperable equipment : None. Unsheduled
stowage: I stowed the EVA gloves in W-730 locker
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instead of snaking - snapping them onto the

outside of locker 763. The reason is because they
would have been in the way. It's our understanding
that we're not bringing the •EVA gloves home so
it's okay to put them away. So - The other item
is India Romeo 12 canister, which is stowed in
B-I, we discovered today is empty because we now
have the film available. And rather than break
into B-I, which is loaded to the gills right now,
we have stowed the film in another canister and
it will be stowed in the 8-hole bag labeled late
film. And we're not sure where we're going to put
it; it'll be either A-5 or R-13, and I'ii let you
know.• This is all the film that we're trying to
shoot up to bring home. There'll be a bunch of
Nikon Charlie X-rays, a couple of Charlie Indias
and one India Romeo. And one other item, the
legbands that were wrapped today to be stowed were
to have been stowed in Bravo i. There's no room
in Bravo i, and when I find a better place, I'ii
notify you. That' s it.

CC Okay. Good rundown, Jer, thank you.

037 23 33 49 CDR Oh, more shopping list for you. Venous compliance
on the CDR and the PLT today,

CC Okay. I'm sure that Dr. Bill Thornton will appre-

ciate that.

CDR Okay. On the photo log. This is pretty the final

recap, Well, no, I guess we can still give you
some Nikon information tomorrow, 16-millimeter:
M479, transporter 5, Charlie India 95, 00, Charlie
India 98; another M479, Charlie India 97, 00,
Charlie India 95. Documentary photos : treadmill,
Charlie India 65, 18, Charlie India 81; body -
body acrobatics, Charlie India 65, 00, Charlie
India 81; M487-4 Foxtrot, Charlie India 87, 00,
Charlie India 79. Okay, Nikons 01 and 02 are
empty; Nikon 03 is Charlie India ll4, frame count
is 28 Nikon 04 is empty; Nikon 05 is Charlie
X-ray 63 with 23 frames on the count.

CDR The Has-selbladis Charlie X-ray 45 with a count

of 040. The status on Nikon film is Charlie
X-ray 63 and Charlie X-ray 58, and India Romeo 12
are exposed, and we would like - we're going get
 'l':\d 'i'::!,<. ,141"-II l- )l.

at Charlie India 117, 60 - CharLic ×-ray 60, and

Charlie X-ray 58, and Charlie X-ray 59. And then
all the rest is N/A: the ETC, the EREP and
drawer A configuration.

CC Roger. You guys are really taking pictures.

CDR Well, we'd rather point the camera at something

and shoot it than Just click off the frames.

037 23 36 06 CC We concur. And, Jer, l've got one item here.

We're going to be running a little CBRM test
tonight while you guys are trying to sleep and it
wo_Ld help us if we could get somebody to do a
REG ADJUST for us on panel 206. We need to take
both pots i and 2, 15 degrees clockwise. And -
mark - -

CDR Okay, Ed's on his way.

CC Okay, we need to mark the spot where it's at if

it's still possible.
I--

SPT Got 15 on each, Crip, and l've marked the correct

mark.
t

CC Marked the mark. Roger. We'll take a quick look

at it here and see if that looks satisfactory.

CC SPT, Houston. Thank you, Ed. That - That REG

ADJUST looks good.

SPT You're welcome, Crip.

037 23 39 34 CC Skylab, Houston. We are I minute from LOS. Next

station contact is Ascension at 23:47, and that's
about 7 minutes away from now. See you there.

037 23 47 48 CC Skylab, Houston, We are AOS through Ascension.

We've got you for about a minute and a half here.
And we'll - There'll be a short dropout of about
a minute and we'll turn it over - turn the mike
over to Dr. Paul Buchanan to - for the med
conference.

037 23 48 48 CC Okay, we're about a minute from LOS. And as I

said before, we'll - next pass in about
a minute and 15 seconds is the med conference.
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037 23 h8 57 PLT Roger, Crip.

037 23 57 23 (Music: "Soul of Spain" by i01 Strings)

038 00 00 31 CC CDR, Houston. We got a - got a moment to chat,

Jer?

CDR Sure do, Crip; go,

CC Okay, we've still got you for about 2-1/2 minutes

here through Madrid, Next station contact is going
to be at Guam at 00:28. Do you want a call there
or do you want me to Just knock it off for the
night?

CDR Oh, it doesn't matter, Crip. If you've got some-

thing to call us about, go ahead.

CC Okay, fine. I don't anticipate we'll have any

traffic there. We can go ahead and give you a
AOS-LOS call.

CDR Okay,
good.

038 O0 02 27 CDR Hey, Crip, we're interested in bringing back a

Nikon, one of the small - the mechanical Nikons
with our last roll of Charlie X-ray film in it for
out the window pictures. Wonder if you could see
if you could get us an okay on that?

CC We'll check it out for you.

CDR Okay, we think that with the photomic head on a

Nikon we can do a better job of framing pictures,
and we_d like to take some pictures of the workshop
also out - out the ha - out the side hatch window
using the Nikon.

CC Sounds like a pretty good idea, Wetll see of we

can run it through the board, We're about
15 seconds from LOS, and next station contact is
Guam in 25 minutes, and that's - -

CDR Okay, and we would propose either the 55 or

135 lens.
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038 00 03 15 CC Okeydoke.

(Music: Soul of Spain_101 Strings)

038 00 28 47 CC And wetre with you through Guam for 6-1/2 minutes.

CDR Roger, Crip.

PLT Roger, Crip; and the PLT here_ I'd like a GO on

60 Kilo. One step in the procedures says to noti-
fy you before proceding on 60 Kilo.

CC Okay. We'll _ we'll check that out for you,

038 00 29 18 PLT Okay, It's all ready to go_

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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

(Music: "Carmen" by Bizet)

038 00 30 45 CC PLT, Houston. You got a GO to continue on that.

PLT Gracias, Crip.

(Music: "Carmen" by Bizet)

038 00 34 48 CC Skylab, Houston. We are 1 minute from LOS. Next

station contact in 5 minutes through Honeysuckle.
That's at 00:40.

CDR Roger, Crip.

038 00 35 37 CC See you there.

038 00 40 48 CC Skylab, Houston. We're with you through Honey-

suckle for 3-1/2 minutes.

038 00 43 47 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about h5 seconds from LOS.

Next station contact is a - a low pass through
Vanguard at 01:10. That's supposed to be after
you guys have retired, so we'll go ahead and say
good night here. And we'll try to get back with
you tomorrow on the - the Nikon question, Jet.

CDR Okay, Crip, thanks. Good night.

CC Night.

SPT Night, Crip.

038 00 44 12 CC Take care.

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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

038 09 09 l0 CC (Music: "Shaft" by Isaac Hayes)

038 09 16 28 CC Skylab, Houston. We are about a minute and a half

from LOS here at Hawaii. We'll have you again in
about 3-1/2 minutes at Goldstone, and the crimson
team is - this is the last time we'll have been
working with you. It's been fun. I'd like to
bid you a - bid you a fond adieu. We'll see you
Sunday night and only sorry we had to do it by
waking you up at such a weird hour in the morning.

038 09 16 56 SPT Thanks very much, Crip, and crimson team. We

enjoyed working with you. It's been fun. We'll
see you Sunday.

CC Roger.

CDR So long, guys.

_. CC SO long. You guys are even coherent at this weird

hour, which is more t_n I am.

038 09 17 20 SPT Bill sends his best from the BMMD.

CC Okay; very good. Better there than other places.

PLT That's where Jer is.

038 09 17 48 CC Yes, the SI is kind of handy there.

038 09 20 26 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Goldstone for

7 minutes with your coherent silver team on station
down here. Out.

038 09 26 40 CC Skylab, this is Houston. l minute to LOS. Next

station contact in 5 minutes through Bermuda at
09:32. Out.

038 09 31 35 cC Skylab, this is Houston through Bermuda for

8-1/2 minutes. Out.

038 09 39 02 CC Skylab, this is Houston; i minute to LOS. Next

station contact in 2 minutes through the Canary
Islands. Out. And we'll have a data/voice tape
recorder dump there.
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PLT How about a little news there, Bruce.

038 09 39 17 CC Okay. We'll have it at Canary.

038 09 41 07 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Canary and Ascen-

sion Islands for 16-i/2 minutes with a data/voice
tape recorder dump and the morning news s1_mmary.
The Nikon administration has told Congress that it
plans to end most wage and price controls by
April 30 and proposes to rely in large part on
persuasion in helping to hold down prices. Wash-
ington again: Everybody knows that Thomas Edison
invented the electric light bulb and phonograph.
But how mauy know that Hedy Lamarr holds a patent
as co-inventor of a complex communications system
designed to direct torpedoes at moving ship targets?
Or that Mrs. Richard Rodgers, wife of the composer,
invented the "Johnny Mop," a device for cleaning
toilet bowls? Or that actress Lillian Russell
patented a dresser-tr_1_ in 1912? The U.S. Patent
Office can vouch for their credentials. And if
you want to tip your hat to them, and to the
earners of nearly 4 million other American patents
since the birth of the Republic, you can do so on
February ll, the second annual National Inventors'
Day. It is coincidental with Thomas A. Edison's
birthday. Abraham Lincoln, long before he became
president, was issued a patent for inventing a
device "to bouy vessels over shoals." Mark Twain
not only created memorable characters like Tom
Sawyer and Huckleberry Fin, but also came up with
three tangible inventions, including a "Self-
Pasting Scrapbook;" it was a collection of blank
pages coated with gt,n or veneer.

038 09 42 33 CC "The Ladies Home Journal" has agreed to serialize

Spiro T. Agnew's first novel with the initial
excerpt appearing in the May issue, publishing
industry informants reported. There were indica-
tions that the magazine was paying more than
$100,000 for the serial rights to the book,
although it is not yet completed and there was
no indication when succeeding installments are
to appear. The first excerpt, a sort of preview,
is to be less than 5000 words long, it was under-
stood. Last month Random House turned down Agnew's
proposal for publishing a suspense novel. Robert
L. Bernstein, president of the publishing house
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said it was not suitable for the Random House list

of published books.

CC The House Judiciary Com_ttee, meanwhile, with

a solid mandate from the House, is preparing to
go after any evidence it needs for its investi-
gation of possible grounds for impeaching Presi-
dent Nixon. The House, by a vote of 410 to 4
granted the committee broad subpena powers. Al-
though in Chairman Rodino's view the vote gives
the committee authority to subpena Nixon, he told
the House he would not do so unless it proved
absolutely necessary. Nixon has promised to
cooperate with the co_ittee, within limits.

038 09 43 45 CC Scientist Astronaut Karl G. Henize escaped injury

yesterday in a T-38 landing mishap at Bergstom
Air Force Base. It occurred at l0 a.m. central
daylight time as Henize was landing at Bergstrom
after a flight from Ellington, where he departed
at 09:38 on an IFR flight plan. Further details
are not available at this time.

CC A real tempest in a chili pot bubbled up on the

floor of the U.S. Senate yesterday. Senator
John Tower, Republican-Texas, rose to take excep-
tion to published remarks of Senator Barry M.
Goldwater, suggest - who suggested a similarity
between the Texas version of the peppery dish and
"leavings in a corral." "Wait a minute," said
Goldwater from across the chamber. "Would the
senator use his microphone? If he's going to
insult me, I want to hear it." Tower then loudly
proclaimed that comparing Arizona chili with Texas
chili was like "comparing Phyllis Diller with Sophia
Loren" and challenged Goldwater to a cookoff. He
offered to let his friend pick the time and the
place. He suggested that there be three impartial
judges to do the official tasting. "It will prove
nobody can cook chili like a Texan," Tower said
triumphantly. Goldwater quickly conceded having
said that Texans "don't know chili from leavings
in a corral" and said if Tower promised not to
bring that substance with him to make his chili,
he would be glad to accept the challenge. (Laughter)
"Besides," said Goldwater, "it will be a real
experience to teach a Texan something they don't
know how to do." And that's all of the news we're
"_'_ fit to read up this morning and maybe a little more.
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038 09 45 18 PLT Sounds like Barry's in rare form.

CC Yes, Indeed.

PLT Was the Skylab chili made in Texas?

CC What does it taste like?

PLT The 0.K. Corral.

038 09 56 51 CC Skylab, this is Houston; 1 minute to LOS. Next

station contact in 27 minutes through Carnarvon
at 10:24. Out.

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SKYLAB AIR-TO,GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

038 lO 24 22 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Carnarvon and

Honeysuckle Creek for 9 minutes. Out.

038 i0 32 24 CC Skylab, this is Houston. i minute to LOS. Next

station contact in 15 minutes through Hawaii at
10:47. Out.

038 l0 47 16 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Hawaii for about

8 minutes. If you all are about through with
postsleep activities, I got a couple of item s for
you here.

CDR Roger, Bruce. Go ahead.

CC Okay, first off there's a message in the teleprinter

concerning a configuration of the EVA hatch for
your departure at your option if you can squeeze
it in. The thought behind it was that if the
future revisit happens to be on the shuttle program
F or for some vehiclenot equippedwith an Apollo-
type docking interface, the easiest way into the
workshop might be through the EVA hatch as opposed
to the MDA. So we've worked up a little procedure
there. There was a - a restraint over the hatch
retainer at launch, but this was removed on initial
activation by the first crew, and it may be in a
launch pen bag or may be in the plenum bag down
below. And you all haven't worked with that so
we figured the simplest thing to do would be the
procedure that's outlined, which is safing it with
some safety wire. We have loaded into the commend
module Computer a state vector Greenwich mean time

at Tephem, and we've reselected P00 b - via VERB 37,

so it's integratingright along. And we're putting
the REFSMMAT in at the present time. And when
Jerry is- is free to copy or make a note, I've
got the stars for his P51/52 during the night
period starting at 12:05. Over.

038 i0 49 ii CDR Okay, Bruce.

CC Okay, it's star 22, Regulus, and star 26, Spica.

_ And both of them are available for the entire night
period starting at 12:05. Over.
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SPT Roger, Bruce. He copies. And that safety wiring

Job is already done.

CC Oh, mighty fine. Thank you. And the stars are

available this night period also. Just for ref-
erence, you got about 17 minutes left. Probably
better to just stick with it; however feels com-
fortable to you all.

CDR Okay.

CC And the REFSMMAT load is in and verified. Out.

038 l0 5h 22 CC Skylab, this is Houston. 1 minute to LOS. Next

station contact in 5 minutes through Goldstone at
10:59. And as we progress on through the deacti-
vation activities today and tomorrow, we'd appre-
ciate it very much if periodically, that is every
couple of hours, you could give us a status report
on how you're doing on a - a block-by-block basis
with respect to the t_me line, or an item-by-item
basis as having accomplished those blocks or those
items so that we can check them off down here and
be with you and make sure nothing falls down a
crack. Over.

CDR Will do it, Bruce.

038 l0 55 08 CC Roger. Out.

038 l0 59 25 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Goldstone for

5-1/2 minutes. Out.

038 ll 0h 07 CC Skylab, Houston. 1 minute to LOS. Next station

contact in 4 minutes through Bermuda at ll:08.
Out.

• 038 ll 08 40 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Merritt Island

and Bermuda for 10-1/2 minutes. We see the CMC
self jec - self-test complete and it's looking
good to us. And for your information we have
commanded CMG number 1 bearing heaters ON, warm-
ing the bearings up preparatory to end-of-mission
testing. Over.

CDR Roger,Bruce.

_' 038 ll l0 13 CDR Bruce, you ready for an E-memory dump?

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CC Yes, we are, Jerry. Go ahead.

CDR Okay.

038 ll 12 38 CC Okay, Jer. We see E-memory dump complete, and we

have nothing to uplink to you at this time.

CDR Okay. I just went LOW BIT RATE.

CC Roger. Thank you.

038 ll 15 16 CC CDR, Houston.

CDR CDR; go.

CC Roger. The performance of the CMC self-test wiped

out EMP-51, and we will reload that for you. How-
ever, we'd like to wait until after you do the
P51/52 sequence, because the REFSMMAT is currently
residing in the up buffers. So between now and
completion of that and r_load, about an hour or
an hour and a half from now, EMP-51, which is the
wide deadband, will not be available to you. Over.

CDR Okay, Bruce. Thanks.

CC Roger.

038 ll 18 32 CC Skylab, this is Houston. 1 minute to LOS. Next

station contact in 7 minutes through Ascension at
11:26. Out.

038 ll 25 56 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Ascension for

lO minutes.

PLT Bruce; Skylab, PLT. Would you give us a couple

of ascending nodes, please, for setting the EREP
slider map?

CC Okay. We've got them right here for you. You

ready to copy?

PLT Affirmative.

CC Okay. 163.4 east at a time of 10:40 and 8 seconds

Zulu. Ready for the next?

PLT Roger.
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CC 73.7 west at 02:12:58 Zulu.

PLT Roger.

CC And 167.7 east at 09:59:29.

PLT Thank you.

CC Are you interested primarily in U.S. or world,

because it seems like we got a pretty big gap
between the first and second ascending node that
we gave you.

PLT No, can go ahead and figure it out, Bruce. That's

fine.

038 ll 27 h6 CC Okay.

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SKYLAB AIR-T0-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

038 ll 34 59 CC Skylab, this is Houston. i minute to LOS. Next

station contact in 24 minutes through Carnarvon
at 11:58 with a data/voice tape recorder dump at
AOS. Out.

038 ll 58 36 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Carnarvon for a

little over l0 minutes with a data/voice tape
recorder dump here.

PLT Roger, Bruce.

038 12 08 l0 CC Skylab, this is Houston. 1 minute to LOS. Next

station contact in 4 minutes through Guam at 12:ll.
Out.

038 12 12 01 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Guam for l0 minutes.

Out.

038 12 19 13 CC Skylab, this is Houston with the daily OCV adjust

f procedures.

CDR Say again, Bruce.

CC Roger. We've got the daily tweak on REG BUS 1

and 2, if somebody's around the airlock module.
We don't want to interrupt your work, though,
Jerry.

CDR Roger, Bruce. I had to use Denebola instead of

_ the Regulus on 51. Regulus is much too close to
the Moon. You can't even see it.

CC Okay.

PLT Okay, Bruce. What do you want on the REG BUSes?

CC Okay. Both of them, REG BUS 1 and 2 counterclock-

wise, 15 degrees, 15 degrees. And the rationale
behind this is that with the CSM powered up now,
_e're losing a little ground on keeping the
airlock module amphour integrators peaked out,
so we want to shift a little bit of the load over
to the ATM by doing this.
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PLT Okay. They're adjusted. How about taking a look

at them?

CC Okay, Bill. That looks beautiful to us and we've

got 1 minute to LOS. Next station contact in
16-1/2 minutes through Goldstone at 12:38. Out.

038 12 21 13 PLT Roger.

038 12 37 37 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Goldstone and

Merritt Island for 17 minutes. Out.

CDR Roger, Bruce. Did you copy the torquing angles?

CC Negative. You went over the hill before we could

get them. We're standing by.

CDR Okay, the stars were 22 and 31. NOUN 05 was all
zips, NOUN 93 was minus 00061, minus 00002, and
plus 00100. Torquing time was 12:25:30.00.

CC Okay, we copy all of that. Thank you, Jer.

038 12 42 09 CC And, Jerry, if this is a convenient spot for you

to yield the DSKY for a minute or so we will reload
EMP-51 now. Over.

CDR It's all yours.

CC Thank you.

038 12 4h 47 CC And the DSKY's yours, Jerry. We're through.

CDR Roger. You guys sure load that faster than I can.

CC Fastest finger in the west.

038 12 53 07 CC Skylab, this is Houston. l-l/2 minutes to LOS.

Next station contact in h4 minutes through
Carnarvon at 13:37. And for the CDR, the next
time you get up in the vicinity of the command
module, we'd like you to ZERO the OPTICS and then
leave the switch in OPTIC, ZERO, please. Over.

CDR Oh, yes. Thank you.

038 12 53 30 CC It's the old zero optics game again.

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SKYLABAIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

038 13 37 00 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Carnarvon for

7 minutes. Out.

038 13 h2 58 CC Skylab, this is Houston. 1 minute to LOS. Next

station contact in 8 minutes through Guam at 13:51.
Out.

038 13 51 05 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Guam for 6 minutes.

Out.

CC And perhaps sometime during this pass you all

could give us a brief update on your progress this
morning.

CDR Bruce, we're exactly on schedule. I'm stowing

the FDF now and Bill is doing the fecal bundle
sto1_age at this time.

CC Okay, great. That means Ed must be doing the

squeezer bag dump and removal.

CDR We're going to hold that off since it's Just a

short thing, and we're going to wait and doing
that first thing in the morning.

CC Let us work on that one, Jet. I'm hearing some

groans in the control center here and seeing some
heads shaking back and forth. It may impact the
water system deactivation and things like that.

CDR Okay. The idea, though, is after the last time

we wash is when we would do it; so that this will
have to be before the deactivation of the water
system.

CC Jerry, the quick-look response here is that if you

don't do it now, it's going to delay your going
to bed tonight. Water system does get closed out
before you go to bed tonight, and we would earn-
estly suggest that you go ahead and do it now on
schedule and try to stick to the time line that
we've got worked out. You just won't have time
to work it in tomorrow. Over.

CDR Okay, Bruce.

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CC Roger. Thank you.

038 13 56 07 CC Skylab, this is Houston. 1 minute to LOS. Next

station contact in 18 minutes through Goldstone
at lh:lh. And Just for your background information,
before you deactivate the water system, we do have
directions in here to moisten some towels that
you can use for personal hygiene and general
cleanup on your hands and things like that, after
the water system's deactivated.

038 13 56 32 PLT Roger.

038 l_ lh B1 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Corpus Chri -

through Goldstone, Corpus Christi, and Merritt
Island for 15-1/2 minutes. Out.

038 l_ 29 13 CC Skylab, this is Houston. 1 minute to LOS. Next

station contact in l0 minutes through the Vanguard,
at sea, at 1_:39 with a data/voice tape recorder
dump at AOS. Out.

END OF TAPE
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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

038 14 39 19 CC Skylab, this is Houston through the Vanguard for

l0 minutes with a data/voice tape recorder dump
here. For your information, next site, Goldstone
at 15:52, is the site for the evening status report,
And next Vanguard is at 16:16 - is the site for
the med conference.

CDR Roger, Bruce.

038 14 48 24 CC Skylab, this is Houston; i minute to LOS. Next

station contact in 1 hour and 3 minutes through
Goldstone at 15:52 with the evening status report.
Out.

038 15 52 35 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Goldstone for

ll minutes; standing by to copy the evening status
report. Over.

CC Stand by. I understand we tve got a keyhole coming

_ up.

038 15 54 46 CC Skylab, this is Houston. Back to you through

Goldstone out of the keyhole, and standing by to
copy the evening status report.

038 15 55 17 CC Skylab, this is Houston. Are you copying?

SPT Stand by.

038 15 55 25 CDR Okay, Bruce. Sleep: CDR, 6.5 - 6.5 heavy; SPT,
8,5 - 8 heavy, 1/2 light; PLT, 6.0 - 6.0 heavy.
Volumes: 190, 150, 185. Water gun: 9035, 5222,
2216. Body mass: 6.290, 6.291, 6.388; 6.375,
6.376, 6.374; 6.273, 6.273, 6,263. No exercise.
The closeout volume - -

CC Was deleted.

CDR Okay. Stand by for the water gun closeout, That's

in a different book.

CC Okay.
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038 15 56 35 CDR Okay. Closeout water gun: 9050, 5222, 2219.

• Medication: CDR, chloral hydrate, tonight; SPT,
Dalmane, tonight; PLT, Seconal and Actifed, tonight.
Clothing: CDRp socks and shorts_ SPT, socks, shorts
and shirt; PLT, none. Food log: CDR, salt, 2.5,
food deviation, minus the chicken and gravy, minus
a coffee with sugar, water, plus 12.0; SPT, salt,
4.0, mluus the chicken and gravy, plus 2 grape
drinks, Apollo, plus 20,0 water_ PLT, salt, zero,
deviations, plus a chocolate chip bar, minus
strawberrieS, water, plus 8.0, Photo log we won't
have for you. Flight Plan dev's none; shopping
list, none;inoperable equipment, none; unsched-
uled stowage, none,

038 15 57 36 CC Okay. We've been working the subject of the

35-millimeter camera return for you. And the
situation is that over the last few weeks wetve
had a tough time holding the line on return stowage,
And since we_ve had to turn down a lot Of other
peopie's requests to bring back various and sundry
items, and it appears that you can do the Job with
the Hasselblad, I guess that we'd like to suggest
that you not return the 35-millimeter camera,
Over,

038 15 58 08 CDR Roger, Bruce.

CC And can you give me some feel for how youtre coming
on a block-by-block basis through the activities
today. I guess you got the CAUTION and WARNING
INHIBIT and the SCS powerup andlthe SPS/RCS out
of the way. And that sort of thing. Over.

038 15 58 26 CDR Everybody's right up to speed, right exactly on

their blocks.

CC And we've got the squeezer bag taken care of?

CDR That's affirmative.

CC Okay, It sounds beautiful. Thank you, Jer,

038 15 59 04 CC And for your P52 coming up at 17:00, Jerry, we'd

like to suggest Spica and Arcturus; they're
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stars 26 and 31. And our alternate would be

Denebola, of cotu'se, which you used earlier today,
star 23.

CDR Roger.

038 15 59 36 PLT And, Bruce, a quick question on page 1-53.

CC Go ahead, Bill.

PLT Roger. On 1-53 it says circuit breaker in HSS,

wardroom H20 HEATER OPENed. I'd Just like to
verify that's the configuration you want.

CC That 's affirmative,

038 16 O0 02 PLT Okay, then on page 1-55, that panel 700 H20 DUMP
HEATER light ON, verified?

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SKYLAB AIR-T0-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

038 16 00 14 CC Right. Is there a conflict there?

PLT I think turning that breaker OFF turned that heater

off.

CC We're getting a negative on that. I'll go check

myself, but for right now consider the configuration
correct unless we call you back.

PLT Oks_. Well, I -When I got to the step on

page 1-55, the light was off. I went ba - I
remembered throwing that breaker, so I went back
over to put the breaker on and the light came back
on.

CC Are you sure you're - you're pulling the right

breaker. It's the one for the water heater under
the wardroom table.

PLT All right. Stand by.

CC We - we suspect you may be pulling the DUMP HEATER's

wardroom water circuit breaker instead.

CC Yes. The one you want to be pulling is the fourth

one in from the left, not under DUMP HEATERs.

PLT Youtre right. Thank you.

CC Skylab, this is Houston. 1 minute to LOS, Next

station contact in 13 minutes through the Vanguard,
at sea, at 16:16 for the private medical conference,
Over.

038 16 02 55 SPT Roger.

038 16 20 25 CC Skylab, this is Houston. 6-1/2 minutes remaining

this Vanguard pass.

CDR Roger, Bruce. And I owe you some information that

I forgot to give you during the evening status
report pass there, In the SPS RCS quiescent
termination I found SYST_ITEST meter numhar 8
Charlle read zero i4uatead of the 1.3 to 3,7 area,
And the PSM OXIDIZER MANIFOLD PRESSURE is running
a little bit high; it's 210.
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CC Okay, we copy that, We confirm the OXIDIZER

MANIFOLD PRESSURE. We'll check the rest of it
out. And that 210 level is acceptable.

CDR Okay.

038 16 25 21 CC Skylab, this is Houston a little over 1-1/2 minutes

to LOS. Next station contact in 16 minutes through
Tananarive at 16:42. For the commander, 8 Charlie
is SPS oxidizer tank outboard temperature. The
transducer is known to have failed quite some time
ago, so therets no concern about that reading
being low. And the four entry pads that you need
are on board now in the teleprinter: P-30 maneuvers
for separation, shape, retrofire, and the entry
pad. Over.

CDR Okay, thank you, Bruce.

038 16 26 01 CC Roger; Roger.

038 16 41 51 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Tananarive for

9 minutes. For CD - -

CDR Roger, Bruce. On the Li/OH canister replacement,

canister number 24, the seal was damaged in the -
in the overwrap, so I went to bear - locker 125,
and I've replaced number 24 with 34.

CC Okay, we copy that. Thank you. And we wonder if

you'd take a minute to look over the three burn
pads and the entry pad that are in the teleprinter
and let us know if you got any questions, because
wetve got the lower trench team here, and we need
to release them so they can go home and get some
sleep to come back here in the morning and support
your entry activities. Over.

CDR Okay, I'll get to it in Just a minute.

038 16 46 &O CDR Okay, Bruce, I have the pads. Theytre readable,
and I won't be able to say too much more until I
get some time to sit down and transfer it into
the book and look at them a little bit, but they
look okay so far.
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CC ()kay, next station is IIawaii in 39 m_nut.es at

17:26. I guess we'll plan on talking to you there.

CC Or, if you like, we'll Just go ahead and let the

entry team go on home and resume support in the
morning. Over.

CDR Okay, I think you can let them go. I dontt - I

doubt if there's any problem, and I'm sure if I
have a question somebody there can answer it.

CC Okay, we'll let them go,

038 16 49 45 CC Skylab, this is Houston. 1 minute to LOS. Next

station contact in 36-1/2 minutes through Hawaii
at 17:26. Out.

038 17 27 01 CC Good evening, Skylab. Got you through Hawaii for

6 minutes.

PLT Hi, Story. Good evening.

f_ CC Hi,Bill.

PLT Story, the water system deact and closeout is

complete, and PLT tasks are complete. I would like
to report one anomaly in the water s_mtems d_ng:
the deactivation on page 1-59.

CC Go.

PLT On the step where it says panel 700 H20 dump pres-
sure indicate a less than 0.7, less than or equal
to 0.7 psia. I was getting a fluctuating reading.
And I rechecked the purge fitting to make sure
that I did have a good vacuum, and I did, so I
went ahead and proceeded with the rest of the
steps on page 1-59 and everything lookedgood.

CC Okay, Bill.

CC And in the next 5 minutes sometime, we'd like to

get the NOUN 93's and the NOUN 05 from Jer.

CDR Roger, Story, We just started 26 and 31, The

NOUN 5 was all zips. NOUN 93, plus 180, minus 411,
minus 160,
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CC Okay, 26 and 31 all balls, plus 180, minus 411,

minus 160.

CDR Okay, and we torqued it at 17:12:00.00.

038 17 29 40 CC Thank you.

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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

038 17 32 22 CC Skylab, we're about 45 seconds to LOS. The next

station the Vanguard in about 23 minutes at 17:5h.
And we're planning on that being the last station
before we put you to bed.

038 17 32 39 PLT Roger, Story.

038 17 55 08 CC Skylab, we're back with you through the Vanguard

for 9minutes.

SPT Hello, Story.

CC Hi, Ed. How are you today?

SPT Doing real well, Story. Thanks.

CC Hey, the back course down here is just begging you

to come home. Just can't wait for you.

_ SPT You got all the rattle snakes and deer cleared away?

CC No, everything's clear; it's dry. It's just wait-

ing for your foot tracks.

SPT Sounds like I'm being set up again.

CC (Laughter) Funny you should think that.

038 17 56 54 SPT Hey, Story. How far are you going these days?
Did you cut back to 15 or are you still up around
2O?

CC Oh, the best I'm doing at one time is 18. I'm

averaging about 8.

SPT You sprint the 8 and jog the 187

CC I'm afraid it's all slow.

CC And, Skylab, if you're looking at it, we're com-

manding to the DSKY and we will be the next 8 hours
or so.

CDR Okay, Story. I hadn't gone up there yet to make

my last check and see that it was cleared.
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CC Yes. We're clearing her from down here, Jer.

CC And while I've got you, I can offer you a wakeup

time 20 minutes early or 20 minutes late.

CDR Better make it 20 minutes early this time.

CC Yes. We agree with that. It'll be Honeysuckle

at about 01:40.

CDR Good enough.

038 17 59 43 SPT Say, Story, we haven't seen the procedure written

anywhere, but the way we're planning on doing it
is to take the bags out of the urine separators
first thing in the morning and put them in the
black bags and take them up to the command module
and use them that way.

CC Okay. I'll check on that.

038 18 03 31 CC Skylab, we're a minute from LOS. The next sta-

tion is Tananarive in about 15 minutes at 18:18.
This is our last pass for the night. After Ta-
anarive it'll be 19:01. Good night.

CDR Good night, Story.

CC See you in the morning.

SPT Okay, Story. Good night.

CC We're bound to have a few sinking spells down

here Just because you all are sleeping.

CDR Hang in there, Story.

SPT You've never fallen asleep on the Job Jet, Story.

Don't make it a first.

038 18 04 19 CC We've got some photos for you when you get back.

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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

039 01 34 05 CC (Music: "Going Back to Houston" by Dean Martin)

039 01 37 13 CC Good morning, Skylab, for the second time. Got

you through Honeysuckle for 5 minutes.

CDR Good morning, Story.

CC How y'all doing this morning?

CDR Doing great; we're ready to roll.

CC What kind of sleep did you get?

CDR Oh, I think ranging from not so good to pretty

good. I got 5 hours.

CC Okay, great.

CDR Bill got about q.

039 01 38 26 CC Ed, Houston.

SPT Hello, Story.

CC (Laughter)

CC Hello, Ed. It's kind of an anticlimax to what we

played before, but regarding your question about
the handling of the - the urine bags; that's on
page 2-50 and 2-65. What you do is you put the
three of them in any kind of a bag. It says dis-
posal bag; you probably don't have anymore. But
you put them in any kind of bag, bring them to
the co_nand module, and you hang all three of them
on the couches for use after separation and coming
home.

SPT Thank you.

CC And we prefer you don't use the fecal return

container.

039"01 39 29 SPT Okay.

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039 01 41 22 CC Skylab, we're a minute ['rom LOS. The next station

is Bermuda in about 35 minutes, 02:17. And for
the maroon team, this is our last pass for your
mission. We'Ve appreciated all the work that
you've done. We th_nk you very much for it. It's
been great working with you. We wish you a good
trip home, and we'll see you at Ellington Sunday
af_ternoon.

CDR Roger, Story. So long_ you guys. Take care. So

long, super Aggie.

SPT So long, maroons. Enjoyed working with you.

CC Okay, Ed, itls been great.

pLT See you all soon.

039 01 42 04 CC Roger, Bill.

039 02 17 52 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Bermuda for

7-1/2 minutes. For the CDR's information, welre
doing a CMC clock sync here. No action required
on his part. And the stars for the P52 at
04:00 Zuiu are Spica, Arcturus, with Denebola as
an alternate, Just like you've been using. Over.

CDR Thank you, Bruce.

CC And for use in preparation of your travel vouchers,

as you get around to them today. The mileage from
lift-off to splashdown should be 30,561,000. Over.

CDR How much was that again, Bruce?

CC (Laughter) Roger. 30,561,000. The only problem

with claiming mileage is it's all government
transportation.

CDR Yes. Quarters and meals, too.

CC Right.

CC No charge for the view.

039 02 20 24 CC And, Ed, would you verify that you're ready for
us to verify ATM co_nand capability from the ground.
It looks to us like you've got the panel powered
down.Over.
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SPT I'ii verify that verified, Bruce.

CC Roger. We copy.

039 02 21 51 CC: And we got the 2.3 minutes' worth of - or the

3 minutes' worth of VTR time, Ed. We'll go ahead
and dump it here in sequence. ATM Command checks
are completed and they're GO.

CDR Roger.

039 02 24 45 CC Skylab, this is Houston. i minute to LOS. Next

station contact in 3-1/2 minutes through Canary
Islands with a data/voice tape recorder dump at
handover to Madrid a few seconds later. Out.

039 02 28 20 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Canary Island for -

and Madrid for 9-1/2 minutes. We'll have a data/
voice tape recorder dump coming here in about a
minute.

039 02 29 27 CC CDR, this is Houston now coming to you through

F Madrid. The pads that we sent up for entry sepa-
ration and the burns are all GO. CMC clock sync
is in, and it's now synchronized to phase elapsed
time, PET. Approximate time PET is 07:54. SPS
repress is scheduled for Carnarvon at 03:02 Zulu;
I'll say that again, 03:02 Zulu. And the stars
that I gave you earlier Spica, Arcturus, alternate
Denebola at 26, 31, 23 are good all day long for
all activities. Over.

CDR Verygood, Bruce. Thank you.

039 02 31 52 CDR Houston, CDR.

CC Go ahead.

CDR Roger, Bruce. I wonder if you'd teleprinter us

up a couple of copies of a couple of messages
here. Number 8651 Alfa, 8650 Bravo - -

CC 0 - -

CDR - - and 8506 Alfa.

CC Okay, that's 8651 Alfa, 8650 Bravo, and 8506 Alfa.

They'll be up shortly.
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CDR Thank you, sir.

CC And I understand that you'll comply with those

messages.

CDR No question, Bruce. We've complied with every

message we've gotten. Don't want tobreak our
string.

039 02 37 01 CC Skylab, this is Houston. 1 minute to LOS. Next

station contact ip 25-1/2 minutes through Carnarvon
at 03:02. And we'll be ready to watch your SPS
repress over Carnarvon.

039 02 37 15 CDR Roger.

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039 03 02 49 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Carnarvon and Honey-

suckle Creek for 15-1/2 minutes. And we're ready
to support SPS repress, Jerry. Over.

039 03 04 41 CC Okay, Jerry, we're seeing the SPS pressures coming

up at this time.

CDR Roger.

039 03 05 37 CC Okay, Jerry. That's a good repress. You can put

1 to AUTO and leave 2 in AUTO at this time.

CDR Okay. That 's done.

CC Roger. Thank you.

039 03 17 37 CC Skylab, this is Houston; 1 minute to LOS. Next

station contact in 31-1/2 minutes through Corpus
Christi at 03:49. And for your information the
messeger you're - messages you requested are on
_- board.

SPT Okay. Thank you, Bruce. We got the URC in the

command module and the ED31 IMSS container all
tied down.

039 03 18 03 CC Beautiful. I understand all the trays and stuff

like that went in the URC.

SPT That's affirm. There were about three or four

decapitations along the way, but they're all in
there.

039 03 18 16 CC Okay. Thank you.

039 03 49 16 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Corpus Christi,

Merritt Island, and Bermuda for 14-1/2 minutes.
And when you have them, we're standing by for
the P52 numbers. Okay, belay that; we see you
in P52. We'll just look over your shoulder.

039 03 50 42 CC Okay, hold that a second; we'll copy it off the

DSKY. Okay, we've got the numbers; stand by.
And you're GO for talking, Jerry.
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CDR Okay.

039 03 52 21 CC CDR, this is Houston. The gyro drift that we're

seeing from this P52 is completely compatible
with the previous one. We like it. We have a
set of _ro compensations in work, We'll uplink
them to you later, Just leave the whole works in
ACCEPT. Over.

CDR Okay, Bruce. And I have one question for you

concerning the SOP that's in the command module.
We still have a SOMA on it. Seems to me we don't
want to bring that back with us, do we?

CC Stand by.

039 03 53 31 CC Okay, Jerry, you're right as rain on that one.

In the presleep activities last night for Ed on
p_ge 1-73, we had him take the whole SOP SOMA
assembly out of the command module _d stow it
anywhere down in the experiment Qompar_men%.

CDR Okay, thank you, Bruce.

CC Roger.

039 04 02 56 CC Skylab, this :is Houston; i minute to LOS. Next

station contact in 4-1/2 minutes through Madrid
at 04:07 with _ d_a/voice tape recorder dump at
AOS. And we'll p_ba_ly have a gyro drift com-
pensation load coming up over Madrid. Out.

039 04 03 15 CDR Roger, Bruce.

039 04 07 38 CC Skylah, this is Houston through Madrid for 8 min-

utes with the data/voice tape recorder dump.

039 04 14 51 CC 8_71a_, this is Hob%on. 0o% a_ou% _0 seconds %0

LOS. Next station contaat in 27 minutes through
Carnarvon at 04:h2. And for the CDR, we need _u
to complete the _ro dri_ compensation load for
us by doing VERB 33 ENTER. A PROCEEDwill not
work. Do a VERB 33 ENTER for ul, please. Over.

039 04 I_ ii CDR Will do it.

END OF TAPE
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SKYI,AB A LI_-'L'O-Gf_OL_I_L]
VOI (:1,; 'I'L_AN_CI_iL_'L']ON

039 04 41 50 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Carnarvon for

6 minutes with two items for Bill.

PLT Go, Bruce.

CC Okay. On page 2-49 of your Deact Checklist,

you do REG ADJUST pots per STDN direction. And
I've got the directions for you.

PLT Okay. Go.

CC Okay. BUS i, 15 degrees clockwise. That's

15 degrees clockwise. BUS 2, 75 degrees
clockwise. That's 75 degrees clockwise. We're
intentionally setting up an unbalance here,
so that we can perform some after-your-departure
testing. Over.

PLT Roger. Understand. And as per checklist

_- page 2-43,.would you verify command capability?

CC Okay. We'll do that andon telemetry, also,

there's one item here that has us a little bit
puzzled. We had a change to your checklist on
page 2-33 which involved turning the AM DUCT
FANS, OFF and putting the cap in the supply duct.
And we don't see the DUCT FANS, OFF. We're
wondering if you got that change entered properly.

PLT I have it entered, but I did not do it. I'll

go do it right now.

CC 0keydoke. Mighty fine.

CC And that was the final OCV adjust, you may have
gathered.

PLT Roger.

039 04 4_ 26 PLT Okay, Bruce. I adjusted BUS 2 the maximum amount

available. Better take a look at it.
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CC Okay. We're d[scussiug it now. I understand

it was less than 75 degrees available.

PLT That's affirmative. It was about - oh, l'd say,

60 degrees.

CC Okay.

PLT Stand by, Bruce. I had that thing set wrong when
I started.

cC Okay.

PLT Okay. Take a look at that right there.

CC We'll take a look.

039 04 46 50 CC Okay, Bill. We'd like to get about 5 degrees more

clockwise on REG 2 if you can get it for us. And
we're 1 minute to LOS. Next station contact in
7 minutes through Honeysuckle Creek. Over.

PLT Okay. That's complete. See if you have time to -

check it.

PLT DUCT FAN, OFF. The duct is capped.

CC Very good. Thank you.

CC Can you verify the two BUS TIE circuit breakers

on panel 201 are still CLOSED, please, Bill?

PLT Yes, the two REG TIEs are still CLOSED.

CC Roger.

CC Okay. OCV settings look good. Thank you very

much.

039 04 47 49 PLT Roger.

039 0h 54 18 CC Skylab, this is Houston through H0neysuckle Creek.

And l've got an item for the PLT here.

PLT Go, Bruce.

k
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CC Eight, o,ip:u_c] 200, tile VIiF TRANSPONDEE circuit.

breaker should have been a verify in the CLOSE
position, but when we commanded it by telemetry
we didn't get the proper response. Would you
verify it CLOSEd? It's the third row down on
panel 200 on the right-hand Side.

PLT Stand by.

CC And for the CDR and the SPT, we could get a

couple of quick words on how you're progressing
through the checklist?

SPT I'm just getting into the biomed sensors, and

Jer will be right after me.

SPT Everything's complete up to OBS and - and suit

donning.

CC Okay, mighty fine.

PLT VHF TRANSPONDER circuit breaker is down CLOSE.

CC Understand it was down or is down?

PLT It was and it is.

CC Okay, thank you very much.

039 04 55 34 CC Andwe've got about i0 seconds to LOS here. Next

station contact in 28 minutes through Corpus
Christi at 05:24.

039 05 24 07 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Corpus Christi,

Merritt Island, and Bermuda for 16-1/2 minutes.
Over.

CC Or out.

039 05 25 54 CDR Houston, CDR.

CC Go ahead, Jerry.

CDR Okay, Bruce. For the stowage people, I promised

to let them know where this late film eight-hole
35-millimeter bag would be stowed. It will be
in Alfa 4.
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CC Okay. Eight-holer in Alfa 4.

CC Are all eight holes full?

CDR Affirmative.

CC Okay. Thank you.

039 05 27 32 CC And for Bill's information, the AM command

verification testing has been completed, and all
the checks are GO. Out.

039 05 39 42 CC Skylab, this is Houston. 1 minute to LOS. Next

station contact in 5 minutes through Madrid at
05:45. Out.

039 05 45 16 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Madrid for

9 minutes. And just for background info we're
taking PCG number 8 off line again to continue
the amp-hour meter catchup. And for Bill, after
you've done the LOCK COMPARTMENT dump valve
uncap and EVA hatch handle unlock, we'd like to
get a commentfrom you on that. Out.

039 05 46 47 PLT Bruce, I was right in the middle of something

when you called. Would you say it again, so
I got the precise information?

CC Yes. We surely didn't want to interrupt anything.

But, you know, that message we sent you up the
other day about taking the cap off the LOCK
COMPARTMENT dump valve and unlocking the airlock
EVA hatch handle as your last action, last time
you leave the lock compartment, we just wanted
to verify that you're planning on getting to that
in - in sequence.

PLT Roger. Okay. We - we're aware of that and we'll

have that done.

CC Okay. Thank you.

039 05 53 18 CC Skylab, this is Houston. i minute to LOS. Next

station contact in 14 minutes through Tananarive
at 06:08. Out.
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CDR Roger, Bruce. _'m on page 2-52, and I just

tried to verify gas flow into the suit return
hoses. And the left-hand hose, I don't seem
to be able to get it. l've tried turning the
other two off and cycling the SUIT RETURN VALVE.
And still no luck.

CC Okay. We copy that.

CC Okay. We're going over the hill here. We'll

probably have to get to you at Tananarive on
that, Jer.

CDR Okay, Bruce.

039 05 54 31 CC Did you get the little write-in procedure that

says "verify gas flow into suit return hoses,
3 - red; if no flow, isolate compressor against
valve by putting other two valves to OFF and
momentarily CLOSE SUIT RETURN VALVE."

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039 06 07 58 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Tananarive for

about 6 minutes. For the commander.

CDR Go ahead.

CC Yes, Jerry. On that suit return flow hose, what

we think you have to do is CLOSE the SUIT CIRCUIT
RETURNVALVE. Andthen plug up, with your hands
or something like that, the center and right re-
turn hoses in order to develop the maximum suction
across the left hand hose and have - have the left
hand flow valve, of course, in FULL FLOW.

CDR Okay. I'll try that. Last time I just turned the
other two valves OFF.

CC Yes. Without the suit interconnects in, and we

assume that you don't have them because they
_weren't launched with you, closing off the
r valvesis in the supplyside of the line, and it
doesn't affect the suction or the suction check valve.

039 06 ll 45 CC Okay, Jerry. We got about 1 minute to LOS here

at Tananarive. 19 minutes to Honeysuckle Creek.
If that hasn't helped the problem, two more things
you can do is bring on a second suit compresser so
you got two of them running at once. And another
thingyou might try is taking the left suit hose,
putting it up to your mouth and seeing if you can
develop enough pressure by blowing into the hose
to unseat the check valve down there or to other-
wise clear things up. Over.

CDR Okay, Bruce. Thanks.

CC Any luck yet?

CDR Not yet.

CC Okay. We'll talk to you over Honeysuckle at 06:32.

CDR Okay.

039 06 14 05 CC We're still hearing you if you're trying to

transmit.
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CDR Roger. We got it, Bruce, with two compressors.

039 06 14 ll CC Beautiful. Thank you.

039 06 31 50 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Honeysuckle Creek

for about a minute and a half. Out_

SPT Roger, Bruce. We're just getting the probe in now.

CC Okay, copy probe installation.

039 06 32 37 CC Skylab, this is Houston. i minute to LOS. Next

station contact in 27-1/2 minutes through Gold-
stone at 12:24 PET.

CC And from us down here on the ground, the workshop

configuration looks great. The closeoUt is
beautiful.

039 06 33 01 SPT Thank you, Bruce. Thank you.

039 07 00 02 CC Skylab, this Houston through Goldstone, Corpus

Christi, and Merritt Island for ii minutes and
20 seconds with the - for what it's worth, the
last data/voice tape recorder dump, the last
manned MOMENTUM Db_P, and, coming up shortly, the
last manned MOMENTUM DUMP, INHIBIT. Over.

PLT Roger, Bruce.

CC And we ha - -

PLT I'm doing a suit circuit check right now, Bruce.

CC No response reqiured. We have a PIPA bias update

coming up to you.

PLT How do you read, Bruce?

CC Loud and clear.

PLT Okay.

039 07 05 22 CC PIPA bias is loaded. CMC is yours.

SPT Roger.
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039 07 i0 30 CC Skylab, this is llouston. 1 minute to LOS. Next

station contact in 1-1/2 minutes through Bermuda
at 12:36 PET, and speaking on behalf of the silver
team, I'd Just like to say that we've enjoyed very
much working with you over the period of the - the
last 3 months here. We wish you good luck in your
reentry and future endeavors. And we'll be seeing
you when you get back to Houston here on Sunday.

039 07 ii 15 CC Wish you a fair wind and a following sea. Out.

039 07 12 18 CC Good morning, Skylab. We're AOS through Bermuda

for 6 minutes. Party's over; time to quit the
fun and come home and go to work.

CDR Hello, Cripper.

CC How's it go?

PLT We' re in TUNNEL VENT.

CC Roger.

039 07 17 12 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from LOS. Next

station contact in 5 _inutes through Madrid at
12:46 PET. All my future references to time will
be in PET.

039 07 17 23 CDR Roger, Crip.

039 07 22 47 CC Skylab, Houston. AOS through Madrid. We have

you for 9 minutes.

CDR Roger, Crip.

CC And, Skylab, Houston. If you got a minute, can you

tell us if the tunnel vented on down okay?

CDR Yes, the tunnel's looking good. We're - we are

holding it steady now and checking it. It's hold-
ing at 3.1. I got about another minute to go.

CC Fine a_d dandy" Thank you.

CC And we have a keyhole coming up shortly. I'll call

you out of it.

039 07 23 46 SPT Roger.

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039 07 24 hh CC Okay. We' re out of keyhole, back with •you again.

Still about 7 more minutes in this pass.

CDR Okay.
CDR Okay, Crip. It held real well at 3.1, and we've
got it back in VENT again.

039 07 27 l0 CC Okay. Thank you for the update, Jer.

CDR Roger, Crip. Go.

CC Okay. We're not seeing any indication here that

the secondary loop prep was performed back on
page 2-52. You might check that and if you get a
chance to go ahead and do it.

CDR Okay, Crip. That di'dn't get done because I got

distracted by that suit circuit problem. I'll
get it.

039 07 27 34 CC Roger. Thank you, Jer.

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039 07 30 _5 CC Skylab, Houston. We are 1 minute from LOS. Next

station contact is through Tananarive, and that's
going to be at 13:06.

039 07 30 55 CDR Roger, Crip.

039 07 43 16 CC Skylab, Houston. Back with you once more through

Tananarive for about 7 minutes.

CDR Roger, Crip. The tunnel depress is complete now.

We're pegged out on the meters, and we've doffed
the helmets and gloves.

CC Copy.

039 07 4_ 38 CC CDR, Houston. Jer, you had a chance to get to

your E_S DELTA-V TEST yet, null bias check?

CDR Yes, sir. Stand by a second, I'ii give you the

results.

CC Okeydoke.

039 07 45 29 CDR Okay, Crip. On the DELTA-V TEST, it counted

down to minus 21.4. And on the null bias, we
went do_-n to 98.0 in a minute and 40 seconds.

CC Okay. Copied delta-V a minus 21.4, and bias was

98.0 in 40 seconds.

CC It was 1 plus h0, rather.

039 07 47 36 CC CDR, Houston. Jer, we assume that you did start

at minus 100 and ended up with a minus 98.0 for
the checklist on that bias. Is that correct?

CDR Yes, that's right, Crip.

CC Okay. Thank you.

CDR Now seems to me that differs from what we did

last time. Didn't we get a little different
value be fore ?
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CC That's - according I,oG&C we got the same value.

Yes, we started it at plus 100 before. Went to
102.

039 07 49 33 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about a minute and a half

from LOS. We'll have you again in 18 minutes at
Honeysuckle at i3: 31, 13: 31.

039 07 49 43 CDR Roger.

039 08 07 36 CC Skylab, Houston. Back with you through Honey-

suckle, 9 minutes.

CDR Roger, Crip. We're ready to start the RCS hot

fire.

CC Okay, Jer. If you don't mind, we'd like to wait

until Hs_aii. We've got all of our recorders
configured to cover it there.

CDR Okay, fine.

039 08 08 02 CC Okay, and if you can give us ACCEPT, we see you're

in P00, we're going to go ahead and give you a
state vector uplink°

CDR Okay, you've got it.

039 08 08 21 CC Thank you, sir. Incidentally, Jer, on - in doing

that hot fire over Hs_aii there, might want to
go ahead and try and get your F52 out of - out of
the road as soon as you got sunset, which is going
to be around 13:43. Then we can get the hot fire
and give you a little bit more time to get out
of your suits.

CC And we do not have any - -

CDR ...

CC - - Don't have any update to your pads.

CDR Okay, we 're spring loaded.

039 08 09 34 CC Skylab, Houston. Are you still in the process of

doing the undock prep panel configuration? We've
noted that we haven't seen the VHF come ON yet.
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CDR Okay, we'll turn it ON.

CC Okay, we were just asking, we're - It's to get a

status on where you were there, whether you'd
gotten through the - the prep, or the undock
prep panel.

• CDR. Yes, we've finishedthat.

CC Okeydoke.

039 08 ll 46 CC CDR, Houston. Jer, just to to make us feel more

comfortable here, we'd li - would like to verify
that we did get through the undock prep panel
configuration 5-3 through page 5-9 of the CSM
Systems.

CDR That ts affirmative.

CC Okay, fine.

CDR Yes, we did.

039 08 13 22 SPT Hey, Crip, how's the VHF look to you now?

CC We'll check it for you, Ed.

CC Okay, and we've got the state vector in now. You

can go ahead and go back to BLOCK.

CDR Okay.

039 08 14 41 CC Looks like a good day for you guys to come home.
People out on the New Orleans are sitting there
waiting for you, and you got fairly calm seas
today.

CDR Good show. Glad to hear that.

039 08 14 59 CC And the VHF is okay now; that looks good,

CDR Roger. We just missed it.

CC At least it got a comment out of Ed there. I

was afraid he'd gone back to sleep.

039 08 i5 38 CDI_ Heis trying to get his clothes off so he can

sleep more comfortably.
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CC Ah, so. Very 6ood.

059 08 15 52 CC Okay, we're 1 minute from LOS. See you again in

11-1/2 minutes at Hawaii, 13:51. And we'll stand
by to do the RCS hot fire there.

059 08 16 04 CDR Okay, Crip.

039 08 27 31 CC Skylab, Houston. We're with you through H_aii

for 9-1/2 minutes.

CDR Roger, Crip. P52's completed. We used stars 22

and 2_. And NOUN 05's were all zips; NOUN 93's
minus, all zips 4. Y, plus, all zips i; Z, minus,
all zips i. Gyro torque time was 13:48:20.00.

CC Okeydoke. Very good.

039 08 28 01 CDR Got a pretty nice PIPA bias in there.

CC Roger.

CC Okay. We're getting the data all settled down

here. And when we have it so, I'll inform you
so we can go ahead and do the RCS hot fire check.

CDR Okay.

039 08 28 h9 CC Okay. We're ready for it when you are, Jet.

CDR Okay. It 's in work.

039 08 30 03 CDR Okay. Here comes the plus PITCH.

CC Okay. Standing by for it.

039 08 30 16 CC That looks good. Go ahead and give us minus PITCH

now.

CDR Okay.

039 08 30 37 CC Okay. That one looks good. Plus YAW now, please,
Jer.

CDR Roger.

039 08 30 53 CC Minus YAW now, please,

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CDR Roger.

CC And, CDR, Houston. The hot fire is GO all the

way around. It looks real good.

CDR Very good. Thank you.

039 08 32 54 CC CDR, Houston. Jer, can you tell us if your

FDAI SELECT Switch is in i/2?

CDR That's affirmative, 1/2. I'm just getting ready

to do a GDC align.

CC Roger.

039 08 35 54 CC Skylab, Houston. We're i minute from LOS. Next

station contact in 3-1/2 minutes through Gold-
stone. And, CDR, Houston. If you manage to
get out of your suit by there, there are a couple
of items l'd like to visit with you at stateside.

CDR Okay. What time will we be there?

CC Oh, it's only about 3 more minutes. But that's -

that's no big problem. We can get it later if -
whenever you get out and get comfortable.

039 08 36 18 CDR Okay.

039 08 39 39 CC Skylab, Houston. AOS Goldstone, 7 minutes. And

we're gettingready to co_nand the vehicle to TACS
ONLY here. So you might see it drift around a
little bit. We'll also be putting in the undock
gains.

CDR Okay. And I'm ready to copy whatever you've got

to say there.

039 08 39 58 CC Okay. I guess, just to cover ourselves, one item

we were thinkihg about was the contingency case
in case the capture latches fail to disengage at
undocking. What we were going to recommend is
that we go ahead and Just get off by doing a -
a DOCKING RING SEP. And if you see no problem
with that, I'll tell you how we recommend slip-
ping that into your procedures.
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CDR Okay. You want to do a DOCKING RING SEP if we

don't get off the capture latches.

CC That 's affirm.

CDR Okay. Go ahead.

039 08 40 36 CC Okay. The - the backup procedure is in your CSM

Syst_ma Checklist on page 2-13.

CDR Okay. Page 2-lB.

CC Okay. What we'd like you to do is to go ahead

and - and follow that, except after the little
starred box if no probe retract portion.

039 08 41 02 CDR I'll tell you what. Let me get that checklist
here in front of me.

CC Oh, okay. Yes, I would like you to have that.

CDR Okay.

CDR Okay.Go ahead.

039 08 41 24 CC Okay. One item, before you start writing there.

We will be over a site when you're - when you're
_,s undocking. So what we would like you to do is,
before you get into this sequence, we will go
through a quick logic sequence check. And we'll -
we'll do that one verbally. But if we go into
here, when you go through the retract probe
portion, you'll get down to the - to the little
starred box. After that - after the little starred
box, "if no retract," we want to have you do
panel 2 DOCKING RING SEP 2 on up. And then go
ahead and complete that procedure up to, but not
including, the command module/MDA tunnel pressure
integrity check.

039 08 42 05 CDR Okay. Panel 2, DOCK RING SEP 2 on up. And that's
right after "if no retract."

CC Yes, sir.

CC All - am basically it's doing, Jer, is that we

would go ahead and - and arm the busses and go
ahead and retract the probe to get you back in
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so we won't be Just hanging there on the end

of it when you separate off the thing, and then
Jettison the - the docking ring, and then Just
clean up some Switches.

CDR Okay.

039 08 _2 42 CC Okay. Another item, Just aS a matter of infor-

mation, for the shaping burn and the - for the
retroburn- retrofire, through 0.5 g's, your
horizon will be dark. So there shouldn't be any
problem with ec - confusion of the terminator
in - at all. The terminator will not be in view
in any of it.

039 08 43 08 CDR Okay. Good. We've got a nice Moon, which helps
find horizons, too.

CC Very good.

CC And -

CDR That's good - that's good for night car quals,

too.

CC Roger that. I've done forgotten how to do that.

039 08 43 31 CC One other item here is - is PLT busy right now?

I was going to put one -

PLT Go ahead, Crip.

CC Okay. We're going to recommend - normally, I

think we have you have the DC INDICATOR switch
in BAT C for - for entry. We're going to
recommend due to the circuit bresker problem
that we had previously that we monitor BAT BUS A
if - if you concur with that.

PLT I concur.

039 08 _3 57 CC Okay. If - if you've got the Entry Checklist

handy, it's on page E/h-9 of the - and that is,
of course, the - the updated pages that we -
section that we're working with there.

PLT Stand by i.

039 08 h5 13 PLT Okay. I have the entry book open to h-9.

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CC Okay. On the right-hand side, down at the bottom

where it has the separation checklist, the first
i - line item there is DC indication BAT C, and
that's where we recommend that you go ahead and
select the BAT BUS A position.

PLT Okay. That's complete.

039 08 45 B6 CC Okay. Very good. Andthis is just a verbal

here, that we're pretty tight on DSC time. And
we'd Just like you to - to operate the DSC as
close as possible to the checklist for entry.

PLT Okay.

039 08 45 53 CC And that's really about all the items I had to

chat with you about at this time. We're abont
30 seconds from LOS, and we 'll have you again in
4 minutes through Bermuda at l_:14.

CDR Okay. I think we'll get this house cleaned up

a little bit with our shits off and have a bite
toeat
....

039 08 _6 12 CC Sounds good.

039 08 51 13 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS through Bermuda for

7 minutes.

PLT Roger, Crip.

CC And I copy that Jet's busy getting out of his

suit now.

PLT That 's affirm.

CC Okeydoke.

039 08 52 01 CC Skylab, Houston. Is anybody in a position to

take a look at ball 1 right now? We're interested
the - to see if the attitude error needles are
pegged.

CC We're seeing -

PLT Stand by 1.

CC We're seeing big attitude errors down here and

that's what we're asking for. "-_
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039 08 52 28 PLT Yes, Crip. We do have large errors.

CC Okay, Bill, can you check there over on panel -

panel 1 if you could see if - whether the
FDAI, SELECT is in 1/2 and SOURCE is CMC?

PLT Stand by i.

039 08 52 56 PLT That's affirmative. We are.

CC And ATT SET switch is in GDC.

PLT Stand by.

039 08 53 16 PLT Negative, it's - Stand by l, Crip.

CC 0keydoke.

PLT It 's in CMC.

CC No, I mean ATT SET switch, the one Just to the

right of it there. Is it in GDC?

PLT Okay. I 'm having to relay all this. Stand by 1.

CC Sorry about that.

039 08 53 52 PLT It's in GDC, Crip.

CC Okeydoke. We copy. Let us think about it for

a minute.

039 08 57 28 CC Skylab, Houston. We are about 1 minute from LOS.

Then we' ll have you again in a couple of minutes
through Canary at 14:24. And no need to acknow-
ledge it right now, but one oth - another item you
might check on ... the large errors are pegged at
attitude error needles, is on panel 7 to insure
that the FDAI/GPI POWER switch is in BOTH.

PLT Okay.

PLT Okay, Crip. That's verified.

039 08 58 14 CC Copy. Verified.

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039 09 03 02 CC Skylab, Houston. Just something to keep you busy

while you're trying to get out of your suits and
get ready to eat. To check out those error
needles, we would recommend in your malbook to
go through G&C number 2, which is on page 1-5.

PLT G&C number 2, 1-5.

CC Roger.

039 09 09 14 CC Skylab, Houston. As a matter of information, we

have no data at this time, and it's a ground
problem only.

039 09 l0 ll CC SkYlab, Houston. As a matter of information only,

we do not have any data on the ground here. It's
a problem we got here at the ground other than
the spacecraft.

PLT Roger,Crip.

039 09 13 48 CC Skylab, Houston. We are 1 minute from LOS. Next

station con - contact is going to be Carnarvon
at 15:07, 15:07; 30 minutes away.

039 09 14 01 PLT Roger; 15:07.

039 09 42 41 CC Skylab, Houston. We're with you through Carnarvon

for l0 minutes.

CDR Roger, Bob.

CC Jer, did you get - -

CDR Bob, we've gone through G&C malfunction number 2.

And we end up in box number 16, as best I can tell.

CC Copy; box 15 or 16?

CDR Roger; 16.

CC Copy.
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CDR What happened is I did a VERB 43 and entered

the three numbers, the 2.5, 3.33 and 3.33. And
they Just - the error needles go to the right
place. And now I Went back and I loaded NOUN 22
to be equal to NOUN 20. And my error needles
did not zero off. Okay. The error needles are
looking good now. I have - We've loaded the
undock DAP. And it's beginning to look a little
better.

CC Okay. Copy right now we're - the error needles

are working properly. That's correct?

CDR Okay. Let me Just make one more check now. I'ii
compare NOUN 20 with 22 again. I've got a VERB 62
ENTERed.

039 09 45 38 CDR Okay, Bob, it looks normal to us now.

CC 0keydoke.

CC Jer, did you guys manage to all get out of your

suits, get squared away and start having some
chow?

CDR Well, we didn't have any chow. We wanted to

play with this problem first and make sure we
_j werein goodshape.

CC Roger.

CC 0keydoke.

039 09 51 50 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from LOS. Hawaii

in 14 minutes at 15:30, 15:30.

039 09 52 01 CDR Roger, Crip.

039 l0 05 28 CC Skylab, Houston; A0S Hawaii, 9 minutes.

CDR Roger, Houston.

039 l0 08 02 CC CDR, Houston. You got a mc_ent to chat, Jer?

CDR Go ahead, Bob.

CC Roger. One of the things that we are looking at

here now regarding those attitude error needles
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earlier was that there is a problem note on the

CMC that says, following a coarse align, it is
possible that the error registers would not be
initialized properly, and one of the ways of doing
it is by loading the undock DAP which is, looks
like, exactly what happened.

CDR One of the ways of fixing it is to unload - to

load the undock DAP?

CC That's correct.

CDR Okay. Well, that's what happened then because I

did a coarse align, oh, way back when, I think
it was on a P52, option 1.

CC Now that way back when was about yesterday. But

you Can bet there's several iterations here.

CDR Yes.

CC And, CDR, Houston. Just to make sure we've

checked over everything,we would like to go ahead
and get a VERB 74 and - so we can do an EMOD and
look over the inside of the computer.

CDR Okay. Want it right now?

CC That's affirm.

CDR You have it.

039 l0 13 31 CC Skylab, Houston. We are 1 minute from LOS. Next

station contact in 4 minutes through Goldstone
at 15:42, 15:42.

039 l0 13 41 CDR Roger, Bob.

039 l0 17 31 CDR Bob, I'm going to go ahead and load P30 for the
separation burn.

CC 0keydoke. And we've got you here for about

6 minutes through Goldstone.

039 l0 22 36 CC Skylab, Houston. We are 1 minute from LOS. Next

station contact, 4-1/2 minutes; Bermuda at 15:51.
And you are GO for undocking.
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- CDR Roger,Crip.

CC FLT, Houston. We are not copying any biomed data

on you. You might check your suit plugs.

039 l0 27 21 CC Skylab, Houston; AOS Bermuda for ll minutes.

CDR Roger, Crip. We're all ready to go.

CC Roger. Say goodby for us; she's been a good bird.

CDR Roger. Sure has.

CC And for the PLT, we've got good data now. Thank
you, sir.

PLT Roger, Crip.

CC Bill, can you tell us what corrected the problem,

pleas e ?

PLT I didn't have it hooked up.

039 i0 28 09 CC Copy.

PLT Crip, you with us ?

CC Yes, sir. Still got you for 3 more minutes.

PLT Okay. We're undocked. We released the cap - the

docking extender released a little bit too soon.
It caught on the capture latches, had to release
them and thrust our way off.

CC Okay. Copy.

CC Okay guys. We're 1 minute from LOS. Ascension

in 7 minutes at 16:08, 16:08.

039 l0 XX XX CDR Roger, Crip.

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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUNDVOICE TRANSCRIPTION

039 i0 44 05 CC Skylab, Houston. AOS Ascension for ii minutes.

SPT Hello, Crip.

CC Hello, Edward.

SPT I'll tell you, this vehicle sure looks like it's
been worked over.

CC Well, it's been worked in, I know that.

SPT A lot of tender loving care has gone into the

exterior of this thing.

CC Yes, sir.

CC And for the CDR's information, we're convinced

there's no problem with the c_nputer in the
software regarding the error needles, so you're
_- free to use that as you - as you desire.

CDR Okay, Crip. Thank you.

CDR We got one fold in the sail, Crip, that has |

apparently opened up recently, and it's a whole
lot lighter color, a lot whiter than all the
rest of the folds in the accordion pleats in the
sail.

039 i0 _5 01 CC Copy.

039 i0 47 38 SPT Say, Crip, you can see two colors in the sail,
the - the - that's the sail underneath. One
where it was orginally covered by the one on top,
and then the one on top pulled away a little bit.
It's got two shades of brown, one very dark, and
one just about a light tan.

CC Roger, copy. That's on the parasol, right?

SPT That's right.

SPT It's been a good home, Crip.

CC Yes, sounds like it. You guys occupied it long

_ enough.
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039 l0 50 25 CC Skylab, Houston. Everything's looking good here.

You are GO for the sep maneuver.

CDR Roger, Crip.

SPT Hey, Crip, you can tell A1 Bean and guys that they
/ did a great Job putting that sail up. It's very
s_ _,,.._tric.

CC Very good. I'm sure they'll appreciate the words

on their good work. Certainly helped to have it
out there and keep you comfortable.

SPT Yes, there's only one little spot that's not too
well covered_ and unfortunately it was right by
my sleep compartment. (Laughter)

CC Yes, they arranged that specifically for you, Ed.

SPT I believe it.

SPT The only thing to look forward to, Crip, is a

biggerandbetterone.

CC Roger that.

039 l0 53 58 CC Okay, we're 1 minute from LOS. Next station

s contact is through Carnarvon in 24 minutes at
16:41, 16:41. See you there.

CDR Roger. See you there.

SPT It's been a real useful machine, Crip. Hate to

think we're the last guys to use it.

CC Yes, yes. Well, it certainly - certainly did a

good Job. Served its purpose.

CC Along with s_ne real fine guys running it for us

up there. We appreciate all the good work.

039 l0 55 19 SPT That's the whole NASA team that did that.

039 ll 19 17 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Carnarvon , 8 minutes.

PLT Roger, Crip.

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CC Okeydokey. And if you get a chance, we would

appreciate a sep burn status.

CDR Roger, Crlp. The sep burn was on time. And the
yaw was 3 degrees rather than 1 degree. And that
jwas it. The - we've nulled the residuals.

CC Copy. Sounds good.

039 ll 25 28 CC Skylab, Houston. You are GO for the shaping

burn. And, incidentally, you've had that little
note there on top of 4-4, that sunset times are
not correct on it. Sunset coming up here will
be 16:50. And over Guam, after we get the shaping
burn out of - out of the road, if we can we'd like
to get the logic sequencer checks in. And the
checklist for that is at the top of 4-5.

CDR All right, sir. We'll be ready.

CC 0keydoke.

CC CDR, Houston. We show the error needles pegged

at this time. A VERB 61 should give you the G&N
er - error needle.

CDR Okay.

CC We are 1 minute from LOS. Next station contact

is through Guam in 4-1/2 minutes at 16: 55. 16:55.

CDR You still with us, Crip?

CC That's affirm.

CDR Looks like BAT a may be acting up again.

CC Copy.

PLT I put BAT C ON.

039 ii 27 54 CC We think it may be because we did not charge BAT A.

We - see you when we_ve got good contact. Going
over hill.

039 ll 31 55 CC Skylab, Houston. We're A0S Guam, 8 minutes.

039 ll 33 24 CC Skylab, Houston. We are with you through Guam

_. for7 minutes.
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CC Skylab, Houston. We're looking at the residuals.

We'd like - like to get the delta-V if we could.
The counter, that is.

CDR Okay. The counter is reading 14.8 at 40-plus

45 seconds after the burn. I gabe you the time
because of the delta-V bias. Okay, you see our
_0UN _s.

CC CDR, Houston. Jer, when you can get to it, we

are ready for the logic sequencer checks procedure
on the top of 4-5.

CDR Roger, Crip,

039 ll 35 55 CDR Okay. Houston, this is Skylab. We're ready to

throw the SECS LOGIC, ON.

CC You're GO.

CDR They 're ON.

CC They let us takea lookat it. _

CDR Okay. Standing by.

CC Skylab, Houston. Looks good here. You are GO

for PYRO, ARM as required.

CDR Roger, Crip. Thank you.

CC We got about 3-1/2 more minutes and we'd like to

hear a little bit more about the - the BAT A
problem if you got time.

PLT Okay, Crip. When I put MAIN BUS TIE, BAT A/C,
ON, I did not get an appreciable rise in current.
It may be right. It may have not - not have
enough capacity show. But I didn't want to take
any chances, so I went ahead and, then punched
BAT C, ON and we burned out in configuration with
BAT BUS A powered, by BAT A and BAT C breakers
anyway, and in BAT BUS B powered by BAT B.

CC Copy.
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039 ii 38 31 CC PLT, Houston. Bill, are you still in configuration

such that you've got BAT C on BAT BUS A, or did
you return and put BAT A on?

PLT l've returned to the original configuration -

the nominal configuration.

CC Thank you, sir.

CC PLT, Houston. To let us check it out, would you

throw the A/C motor switch on up?

CC A/ ..., right.

PLT Roger.

039 ll 39 24 PLT Okay. A/C is going to go 0N now. And I did get

a small rise in current that time, but it's still
reading zero, Just - Just off of full scale low.
It looks like it is working.

CC Okay. We're about 40 seconds from LOS. Next

F station contactin 24 minutesthrough MILA at
17:28, 17:28.

PLT And, Crip, if you're happy, I'll go ahead and

turn that switch back OFF agian.

CC You're GO to do that.

PLT Roger. Going OFF now.

CC Okay, Bill. We show it about 2 amps here and we

think that BAT A is fine.

039 ll 40 ll PLT Okay. Thank you.

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@

039 12 Oh 02 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS through MILA. We've

got you for about 8 minutes.

CDR Roger, Crlp.

CC One item for Bill, if - we think there's no

problem at all with that battery A, but if you
have any doubts this - when you're coming up for
this next burn, you have a GO to go ahead and put
PYRO BAT A on BAT BUS A.

PLT Underst and.

CC Roger. And, of course, if you did that, then

anything that was called out to do with BAT A
you would go ahead and - you would go ahead and
do it to PYRO BAT A.

CC Heard you - heard you guys thought that - got quite

p_ a kick from the SPS when you were doing rendezvous.
How does it feel after you've been up there for
about 8h days?

CDR It 's a real grabber.

CC Got your attention, huh?

CDR Yes, indeed.

039 12 05 37 CC Keep you up to date with what's going on with your

ex-home. We have now commanded CMG 1 on. And
we're sitting here looking at it. We're not sure
really what 's happening, though.

SPT Is it spinning up?

CC Can't really tell at this particular point.

CC Yes. We - we knew we had lost the tachometer on

it, so we haven't really got that. We're Just
having to watch the wheel currents.

039 12 06 57 SPT From the ground now.

CC Say, again.
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SPT It looks like we're going to scrape the ground;

we're getting so low.

CC Aha, you've been use to flying up there pretty

high.

SPT Almost looks like the - looking out the cockpit

of a T-38.

CC Roger. I've forgotten what that looks like, also.

039 12 09 50 CC Skylab, Houston. We are i minute from LOS. Next

station contact will be through Carnarvon in
42 minutes. That's at 18:16. And just as a
matter of information, your next sunset time will
be at 18:21.

SPT Thank you, Crip. Talk to you then.

CC Roger.

039 12 l0 26 CC And, a matter of interest, you're 5 minutes from

perigee, still going down. So perigee's running
right around 90 miles, I guess.

CDR Better suck up our ianding gear, I guess.

CC (Laughter) Roger.

CDR Boy, the ground really moves a lot faster down

this low.

039 12 i0 49 CC Roger that.

039 12 52 29 CC Skylab, Houston. A0S Carnarvon for 7 minutes.

CDR Roger, Crip.

CC Roger. We'd be interested in hearing the results

of the SCS, BMAG 2, drift check and also P52 if
you've got it in.

CDR Haven't done BMAG 2. Let me - standby, I'll get

you BMAG 1.

039 12 53 35 CDR Okay. NOUN 20, lb.03, 130.70, and 0.89. On the
thumbwheels, it was 16.8, 132.h, and 2.1. Delta-T
was 32 minutes.
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CC Could you read us X-ROLL again, please?

CDR Read what again?

CC Read ROLL.

CDR Okay. ROLL was - NOUN 20 was 14.03, and on the

thumbwheel it was 16.8.

CC Okay. We got it. Thank you.

CDR Roger.

039 12 55 ll CDR Crip, do you want me to go ahead and do a BMAG

check on 1 as well?

cC No, that's not required.

CDR Okay.

CC Did you get a P52 in?

CDR S_re did. Stand - stand by. I'll get you that.

CC Okeydoke. Appreciate it.

CDR Oh, negative, Crip. You've all ready got that

P52. We're going to get one at this next night
period.

CC Roger. Roger.

039 12 56 24 CC Skylab, Houston. I can give yof_ a little update

on the weather. As I told you earlier, it's
really looking good out there. Clouds are - got
a high cirrus broken layer, and visibility's
l0 miles. Wind is out of the north-northeast at
lO knots. Got 1-foot waves on B-foot swells.
Temperature's about 59 degrees.

CDR Hey, that 's good land-lubber weather there.

CC Roger. Always nice in southern California.

039 12 58 28 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from LOS. See

you at Guam in 7-1/2 minutes at 18:BO, 18:30.

CDR Roger, Crip.

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039 12 58 37 CC And we see you 52 in progress.

039 13 06 07 CC Skylab, Houston. We're A0S through Guam for

6 minutes. And we saw the results of the P52, so
we won't need that.

SPT Roger, Crip.

CC And if you've gotten around to looking at it yet,

we would be interested to know whether CM RCS
preheat's going to be required.

SPT Okay. Stand by, Crip. We're working something

here, and we'll get back to you.

CC Okay.

0H 13 07 48 CDR Okay, Crip. No preheat required.

CC Copy that.

039 13 ll 26 CC Skylab, Houston. We are 1 minute from LOS. Next

station contact in 20 minutes through Goldstone
at 18:55. And we'll be standing by for the com-
mand module RCS activation at the States, and I'll
also have a new entry pad for you there.

SPT Okay, Crip.

CC We copy you're still in FREE, and you're drifting

out of attitude. Starting T-20 you might want to
go to CMC, AUTO.

039 13 12 05 CDR Thar_ you, Crip.

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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

039 13 31 49 CC Skylab, Houston; AOS across the States. We've

got you for about ll minutes.

CDR Roger, Crip.

039 13 31 55 CC Okay, if you'll give us ACCEPT, please, we'll give

you a big state vector.

039 13 32 02 CDR You got ACCEPT.

CC Okay, fine and dandy. And when - when somebody

can get around to it on - need to give you a new
entry pad, page 5-2.

CDR Okay, ready to copy.

039 13 32 18 CC Okeydoke. Pad as follows: Area, Echo Oscar Mike

5 Golf; 035; plus 31.32, minus 119.75; ll40.1,
25985; 27:26; 28:01; minus 0272.3; right 54/54,
32:37; 27:48, 31:17, 35:27. Read back, please.

CDR Okay, Echo Oscar Mike 5 Golf; 035; plus 31.32,

minus i19.75; llh0.1, 25985; 27:26; 28:01;
minus 0272.3; right 54/54, 32:37, 27:48, 31:17,
35 :27.

CC Good readback, Jer.

CC And all the original comments that we gave you on

the entry pad are still valid. You can go ahead,
and when you get your PYRO BAT checks out of the
road, we'll be standing by for you to go throi_h
your RCS checks. I'd say ... -

039 13 38 08 CDR Okay, phyro [sic] - PYRO jet - PRYO ch - BATTERY

check is complete and we'll start deactivation in
Just a second.

CC Roger.

039 13 34 55 CDR Houston, this is Skylab. We're ready to throw

the LOGIC switches.

CC Go ahead then, Jer.

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039 13 35 lh CDR LOGICs are on.

CC And we're GO for PYR0 ARM.

CDR Roger.

039 13 35 h6 CDR There it goes.

CC Looks good here.

CDR Okay.

039 13 37 lO CC Skylab, Houston; we got the vecto_ in and both

target loads and the computer belongs to you again.

039 13 37 17 CDR Okay, Crip, and we just threw some ice crystals
about a minute and a half ago and it's all cleared
up now.

CDR We had quite a shower of them go by on the left

side.

CC Copy that.

039 13 38 58 CC Could you read the ring 2 HELIUM source PRESSURE,

ple as e ?

CDR Okay, it 's about 3450.

SPT How's that look to you, Crip? Have you seen the
change ?

CC Yes, it looks like a slow leak in it. But it has

b] owdown capability.

039 13 40 53 CC Skylab, Houston; we recommend you turn the CM RCS

PROPET,T.&NT 2 switch OFF right now.

039 13 41 01 CDR Okay, it's OFF.

039 13 41 h9 CC Skylab, Houston; we are 1 minute from LOS. Next

station contact in 14-1/2 minutes through the
Vanguard at 19 :20, 19 :20.

039 13 42 00 CDR Roger.

039 13 56 21 CC Skylab, Houston. A0S Vanguard. We've got you for

about 3 minutes.
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CDR Roger, Cri p. You got, any updates to our NOl_ h7

and h87

CC No updates. What you've got is good. Regarding

the si - -

CDR Okay.

039 ]3 56 43 CC Regarding the situation on the command module RCS,

leak that we reported to you earlier, it is still
leaking and what we would like for you to do is
to go ahead and come in using ring 1. That's the
current configuration you're in if that switch
is still - still closed, com - the one we had you
close earlier, COMMAND MODULE RCS PROPELT_NT 2.
And when - you can go ahead and leave the jet
select configuration as you've got it per normal.

CDR Okay. Leave the Jet select up for - set up for

ring 2 and just leave the PROPELL_NT SWITCH OFF.

039 13 57 17 CC That's affirm. And - I guess, right now we're not

sure whether it 's propellant or the helium that 's
coming down. We show that if it 's helium, it 'd be
depleted in about 1 hour. You can monitor your
H_,IUM source PRESSURE and MANIFOLD PRESSURE. If
the source become less than MANIFOLD, that tells
you that you do have blowdown capability, and that
it is a helium leak. And if you need - need to
select it, well, it's there available to you.

039 13 57 47 CDR Okay. Do you want us to test out both rings when
we get into the RCS checkout?

CC Negative. Ring 1 only.

CDR Okay.

039 13 58 00 CC Also, right after the retroburn we're going to

have you in ARIA pass. At that time we would
appreciate getting a readout on your HELIUM source
and MANIFOLD PRESSUREs.

CC For ring 2.

039 13 58 12 CDR Okay. And we're tossing a few more ice crystals
NOW.
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CC Copy that. And also when we go LOS here, we'd

appreciate it if Bill would go ahead and select
OMNI Delta so We can be configured for the ARIA
pass.

CDR Copy. OMNI Delta.

PLT Okay, Crip.

039 13 58 40 CC We are 1 minute from LOS. Should see you on the

ARIA in about 37 minutes.

039 13 58 46 CDR Okay. See you there.

CC Roger.

039 13 59 04 CC Skylab, Houston. We are GO for deorbit and entry.

CDR Roger. Thank you. So are we.

039 13 59 16 CC I bet that's an understatement.

039 14 35 38 CDR Make you out loud and clear.

039 14 35 46 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS through the ARIA, got

you for about l0 minutes. How you read?

039 14 35 52 PLT Loud and clear, and we're about to burn.

039 14 35 37 CC Understand you got the burn.

MCC They're about to burn.

039 14 36 15 PLT Looked like a good one, Crip. WE'll give you the
details later.

CC Roger.

039 14 36 32 CDR *** as a rock, Crip.

039 14 36 56 CDR Minus 28.

039 14 38 12 CDR Okay, Crip, we're looking at 22:00 TANK and

185 HELIUM *** MANIFOLD PRESSURE.

CC Copy.

039 14 38 46 CC Skylab, Houston. If - if you've got a moment I'd

like to run over the ring situation. There are a
couple of recommendations.
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CDR Okay. Go ahead, Crip. We're about ready to shift

over to COMMAND MODULE.

CC 0keydoke. If for any reason you run into a ring 1

problem, which we don't anticipate, we would
like to go ahead and use what is ever left out
of ring 1 or ring 2 to go ahead and set it up
for a rolling entry.

039 14 39 18 PLT Understand, if we have a problem with ring 1 we'll

go - use what's left to set up a rolling reentry.

CC That's affirm. Also, in descent during the repress

if for any reason you should get a fishy or an
acid smell we recommend using the 02 mask. And it
may be a good idea to use them anyway. Use your
descretion.

039 ]4 39 52 CC Skylab, Houston. How do you read?

039 14 39 57 PLT We read you sort of about clarity 3, strength 4.

CC Okay, will say again. If for any reason you

should get a - a smell - a fishy smell or an acid
smell during descent, we recommend you use the
02 _sks. It may be wise to use them anyway.

CC And in the - -

CDR ...

039 14 40 28 CC Also we would like to leave the PLV VALVE closed,

the POSTLANDING VENT VALVE closed.

PLT Copy.

039 14 41 19 CC Skylab, Houston. From the report that you gave us,
of course, on the HELIUM source and MANIFOLD PRES-
SURE, most likely we have lost one of the pro-
pellants for ring 2.

CDR Okay, Crip_ we copy. We've lost one of the pro-

pellants, you think.

CC That's affirmative.

039 l_ 41 40 CDR Okay, we're yawing for sep.

i'_ CC Copy, yaw for sep.

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CDR ... worked out pretty good.

039 14 43:58 CDR Skylab, we're ready to sep.

CC Roger.

CDR ...

039 14 44 19 CC We're about 1 minute from LOS on the ARIA. We

should see you on the other ARIA after blackout.

039 14 44 26 CDR Roger.

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sKYLAB AIR-T0-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

039 15 08 27 CDR Hello, Houston, how do you read?

CC Loud and clear, how me?

CDR Okay, read you loud and clear. We're doing fine.

CC Very good.

CDR Looking good, Crip.

039 15 08 36 CC Sounds great. Hey, one thing we would like is

another reading on ring 2, helium source and
MANIFOLD PRESSURE if you could, please.

CDR It's reading about 1900, Crip.

CC Can you give us MANIFOLD, please?

039 15 09 00 CDR About 285.

CC 285, copy.

039 15 l0 h8 CC Skylab, Houston. If you end up using your

02 masks, recommend the 02 REPRESS valve to FILL
which allows you to use the source pressure. And
we encourage using the masks.

_039 15 ll 05 CDR Roger, Crip.

039 15 12 03 CC Happy landing, guys.

039 15 12 17 PLT 12,000, Crip. There go the drogues.

PLT Roger ... *** beautiful.

CC Copy.

039 15 12 27 CDR Okay, the mains are unreefed, open full.

SPT Looking good, Crip.

PLT What a beautiful sight!

039 15 12 40 CDR Okay, Crip, go ahead with your transmission.

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CC Read you loud and clear, how me?

CDR Loud and clear. Give us - go ahead with your

transmission, Cripper.

CC Oh, I wasn't giving you a call. I was Just salv-

ing that sounded good to me, too.

039 15 13 08 CDR Roger. Roger, chutes look good, we've got

7000 feet.

039 15 13 i7 R-1 Skylab, Skylab, this is Recovery. Over.

039 15 13 19 CDR Hello, Recovery, Skylab. Loud and clear.

SPT HellO, Recovery, we're looking at 3131 and

minus 11977.

R-I Recovery, roger. And I have a three-item message

from New Orleans. Message follows: Item i,
interrogative, RCS status ; item 2, request you
keep POSTLANDING valve closed; item 3, interrog-
ative, ring source and MANIFOLD PRESSURE with _
names. Over.

039 15 13 50 CDR Okay, ring 2 source is 1900; MANIFOLD, 300.

Ring i, helium, 3100; MANIFOLD, 300.

R-I Recovery, Roger. New Orleans, you copy?

NEW Say again ring i.

CDR The PLV valve closed.

R-1 Recovery, New Orleans. You copy miss distance?

039 15 lh 43 CDR 4000 feet.

R-I Recovery; understand, 4000.

R-1 Orleans, you Copy?

NEW Negative.

039 15 14 52 R-1 Roger. Miss distance, 4000.

S-1 New Orleans, ...

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NEW Roger, Swim.

039 15 15 28 CDR 2500 feet.

039 15 16 32 R-I New Orleans, Recovery. Stand by to mark splash.

NEW Roger, Recovery.

R-1 New Orleans, Recovery -

039 15 16 55 R-1 MARK, splash.

END OF TRANSCRIPTION