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CC Go SPT.
SPT Hey Crip, the Sun center position for S052
has changed a little bit on the FINE SUN SENSOR readout.
CC Copy, the Sun center position has changed.
Can you - -
SPT Yeah. Yeah, it was in LEFT/RIGHT minus
33, it still is that. It used to be plus 3 and UP/DOWN, now
it's plus 6. 3 arc seconds drift in about 2 days.
CC Our initial thought on that is that it is
probably due to switching fine Sun sensors. And I'm assuming
this is with no bias, in right?
SPT No, right after we switched fine Sun sensors
I looked at it and wrote down the numbers. So it was actually
was yesterday, I guess then. So it really is only over 1 day. I
had a plus 3, and I'm sorry, plus 3 and LEFT/RIGHT is what has
changed. Now it is plus 6. UP/DOWN is minus 33 and that's remained
the same.
CC Okay, copy. It was from plus 3 to plus 6
since yesterday in UP, and correction, LEFT/RIGHT. And
the UP/DOWN is minus 33.
SPT That's right. I've noticed a similar
drift when we were on the other FINE SUN SENSOR. I din't report
the details, however. I'll try to keep up with this one.
CC Okay. And just for clarification Ed, can
you say is that's with BIAS IN or OUT?
CDR Crip, we're all finished with the VTR.
SPT Hold on, Crip, I'll put the ATM work on it,
and then it'll be all set.
CC Copy that.
CC SPT, Houston. Ed, regarding the difference
you've seen in S052 from that LEFT/RIGHT drift, I guess we don't
consider that 52 is probably that accurate and that could explain
that slight change. Regarding our switch to the SECONDARY
FINE SUN SENSOR, we told you yesterday we may be doing another
four-limb coalignment, and switching back to the PRIMARY. WeVre
probably going to go ahead and get another four-limb coalignment
on the SECONDARY as another data point within the next
couple of days before we do any switching, if we do any switching.
SPT Okay, thank you, Bob.
CC Rog. And Ed, for you, or CDR or somebody,
I guess we've got Tananarive coming up in about 19 minutes.
Itts not obvious to us that we really need comm through there,
but we don't have any command capability through Vanguard here,
do we can't select the correct antenna. At your option, if we
want comm through Tananarive we need somebody to go to the command
module and get about three switches for us. I can give you
those if somebody can copy them down.
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SL-IV MC911/I
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CC Go, Jer.
CDR A little comment for the S082 folks, on
the first limb scan I did where the limb offset was minus
2. Just as I was finishing the last - you know the second
and last exposures, which was a times one quarter. The
mirror went unstable, it really went bananas while it was
going from minus 45 down to about plus 1 or 2_ and then back
up to minus 45. I stopped it and got it going on the next
one. It seems to have stabilized now, and its not pulling
any more funnies. I tried to shift to a short wavelength on
on the last one and it wouldn't do it. I waited a little while
and tried it again and it shifted over to a short now. So, I'm
redoing the - the one on this one, it's a normal wavelength short.
CC Okay, believe we copy all that. Let us
think about it for awhile. And if we get a reoccurence,
please let us know.
CDR Okay. They seem to be just kind of random
funnies.
CDR Houston, I might add also, that very
frequently the limb offset will dither between 1 and 2,
rather than staying stable_ at i offset value.
CC I - I'm being told that's a normal
condition, Jer. And we're looking at it right now, and it
looks pretty good to us at this moment.
CDR Yeah, it's looking very stable right now.
CC Okeydoke.
CC Skylab, Houston, we're 1 minute from
LOS. We'll have you again over Ascension in 3 minutes.
And that's at 20:41. And for your information, we show the
VTR is essentially full right now, we're going to take control
of it, and we'll be dumping it tonight during your sleep
period.
CDR Okay.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Vanguard has
loss of signal. Over the Ascension Island station will pick
up Skylab in about a minute and a half. We'll continue to
keep the line up and monitor through Ascension.
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SL-IV MC-912/I
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Also on your details pad this morning you've got the first
bright and early NuZ update. And that opportunity's coming
up in about 8 minutes at 13:02.
SPT Okay, Dick, I got them all. Thank you.
CC Yes, sir.
PLT Dick, PLT here. What pad do you have for
a change for me on?
CC Roger, Bil ! . It isn't even a change,
I can tell you real fast. We sent up in preparations for
your M509 preps, we inadvertingly uplinked the wrong message
and then we sent the correct one. Your message number that
you should use for that this morning is 2937 Alfa. And
2937 with no change letter should be thrown in the trash
this morning.
PLT (garble).
CC That's right, 2937 Alfa. And just anothher
reminder on that pad and also the one for Jerry that supports
M509_ you'll need to use those same pads tomorrow. So after
you get through with the prep today be sure and don't throw
them away and you can use them again tomorrow.
CC And, Bill, I have one more item for you
that you might want to jot down for your own planning. Your
family COMM is set up this afternoon at 01:35 Zulu; the
Carnarvon pass 01:35.
PLT Roger, 01:35.
CC Yes.
SPT Houston, SPT.
CC Yes sir, Ed, go ahead.
SPT I'm looking at the white light coronagraph
display. The streamer which was there at ii o'clock_ I'm
sorry at 8 o'clock, which was fairly intent and very narrow_
is still evident but it's a little less bright, just
barely (garble). And the remainder of the corona looks
pretty much unchanged. I'm going over there and take a
look and see what it looks like in H-alpha after I get my
shopping list i.
CC Okay, Ed, thanks for the update.
CC Skylab, Houston; we're i minute to LOS.
Vanguard comes up at 14:50.
CDR Roger.
PAO Skylab Control at 13 hours 4 minutes and
19 seconds Greenwich mean time. Wetre now 8 minutes and
44 seconds from acquisition at Vanguard and we've just gone
out of range of the Texas antenna. This is Skylab Control
at 4 minutes and 32 seconds after the hour.
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SL-IV MC928/I
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SL-IV MC930/I
TIME: 08:49 CST, 29:14:49 GMT
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49 minutes and 49 seconds, and the crew did pass that record
at 8:51:12 central standard time this morning. This is
Skyla5 Control 12 minutes to our next acquisition of signal.
It's now 2 minutes and 27 seconds after the hour.
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SPT Okay.
MCC That's about it for the day. We've got
the quiet Sun and that's what motivated our choice of selected
shopping list items. The NOAA people tell me that they
greatly appreciate your comments, both on the white light
eoronograph and the XUV MON, and it definitely is a significant
input to their forecasting. Tomorrow, filament 37 starts its
limb passage, which you will finish the following day. Similarly
2 days from now active regions 93 and 98 will begin limb passage.
So those ideas are in our mind here for future planning. And
right now, why don't I turn it back over to you and you tell
me what you see and what you think we ought to be doing?
SPT Okay. First of all in the corona, the
bright narrow streamers which were at the edge of the streamer
activity at around 8 and i0 have decreased in intensity significantly
and they're still there. The one at i0 appears to have moved up a
little more towards the north, so there is some changes going on in
the corona in that area. I did not see any real evidence
though of a blowoff of a filament or any kind of a transient
when I looked at it. In the XUV monitor, we have a bright
area on the limb which we would expect of around 240
to 270. And itts exceptionally bright, even considering
looking at a double limb and limb brightening. It still looks
significantly bright. So I think we've got something just
around the corner. Third point is the bright point, which
has come up over the past - one day and which I'm taking
some observations on right now. It appears at around 241 degrees
at .39 radii, or right now, what I'm looking at is a
roll of minus 5393 up/down of plus and 311 in a (garble) rate of
minus a 182. It appears as a enhancement in the chromospheric
network in H-alpha and - very (garble) localized when looking at
it in the XUV monitor. However, the whole area appears rather
broad. And looking at it with the 55 in oxygen 6. So
I would think that this ought to be something we ought to
be following also today. I looks like - I wouldn't say call
it a EFR (sic). I'm not quite too sure what label to put on it as
yet. But it is in the instrument in the chromospheric network
and a significant bright point, which has grown in 24 hours
in the XUV. So as far as making any recommendations, I
guess, I would look for a JOP 17A, step i, building block ii,
followed by step 4, building block 36A on that bright point
sometime today. Right now I'm doing a little shopping list
item on it, getting a mirror auto raster and an exposure
short wavelength (?) (static) normal 82B on it. And a patrol short
for 56. Second thing is that I was going to ask about JOP 26 and
why we were working over in that part of the limh we were in, opposed
to, say, working at the left limb at rolls of 0000, 0600, 1200, and
1800 to study the activity which is slipping (?) around the corner.
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their plans are for the active Sun when it rounds the limb
the following day, the active sun being defined as 87/92. And
also, at some point in the next 2, 3, 4 days_ what I'd llke
to do is at the tailend of one of these, just give you a
real quickie outline and looksee into the ATM experiment's
comet plan based on how we understand the pointing test went
and what each individual experiment intends to do and hopes
to get. Does that sound okay to you?
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SL-IV MC934/I
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Time: 11:34 CST, 29:17:34 GMT
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said that they had not been able to get good readings from
ground based observed - observations of the comet. It's
very difficult now to determine its brightness, but
Science Pilot Gibson said that it was much brighter today
than when he saw it yesterday. Yesterday, Bill Pogue, the
Pilot of the Skylab Mission said that he found it to be
much brighter than it had been the previous day. So, apparently
the comet is growing substantial in brightness and in length.
Yesterday, Bill Pogue said that he estimated its length
at 2 to 3 degrees, apparently using the binoculars for
that estimate. Today, Science Pilot Ed Gibson says that
it's about 4 degrees long. 4 degrees would correspond to
about 7-1/2 million miles in length. That's, of course, the
visible length through the binoculars. It would be a good deal
longer than that if more detailed observations were possible
with telescopes or with cameras. Of course, on the $233
experiment, using the Nikon 35-millimeter camera, it will
be possible to determine the length with a little bit more
precision and also the brightness with some somewhat more precision.
We may get a question up to the crew today, to ask them
to estimate the magnitude of the comet. They can do that
by using their binoculars. The technique is to defoeus
the binoculars, that is to put them out of focus on a star
of known magnitude and then compare that to the brightness
of the comet. That's, of course, a technique that's used
by ground obs - ground observers, as well. But, the ground
observers do have the interference of the atmosphere to
contend with. Science Pilot Gibson also said that the
length of the comet being 7-1/2 million miles was about
20 times as long as it was wide. And that would be that
mean that the estimated width of the comet is about 400,000
miles. That's nearly a half a million miles across, with
the widest point coming more than a million miles behind
the forward end of the comet. Comet at this time is about
50 million miles from the Sun. It will reach its closest
point 13.4 million miles two weeks from today. Currently,
its speed is estimated at about 130 miles per hour. That's
very fast, but not fast enough to be noticed in observing
it from Earth. We should get more indication on the comet
later in the day. And we'll certainly be paying attention
for that. This afternoon the Skylab crew will be performing
an Earth resources pass, the thirteenth of this mission. That
pass will - The crewmen will be turned on northwest of
Vientiane over Thailand at 23:52:50 Greenwich mean time. The
first site for observation is an Indonesian storm front.
Thunder storms located over the Island of Borneo. Also
scheduled for observations with the infrared spectrometer,
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SL-IV MC936/I
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width of around 53. And again, all this is eyeball. The - it gets
to full width around three widths back. That is 3/5th of a degree
back from the coma. For the edges, of the tail are very straight
from those three widths back. And at around ten or so back,
it starts to fade away, and gradually, by 20, it's disappeared. I
think a lot of it is dark adaptation . Now the coma itself,
relative to the tail, is relatively bright. And I could see
nothing in the way of a second tail that is either a bluish-
white tail anywhere. This one was come primarily white which I
saw. I cou _ not identify yellow as yet, - had a yellow tinge
to it. It's primarily white. I could not see whether the
comet itself was eliptical. I think we're a little bit too far
out for that. However, comparing it with yesterday, the
brightness (garble) and increased as it moves in rapidly
toward the Sun. I guess it's now almost a half a solar radius
out and itts picking up speed and moving fast. I expect in
the next 2 or 3 days we ought to see a some dramatic changes
and it's going to be pretty interesting from there on.
CC Very good
SPT We'll keep looking.
CC Thank - Thank you for the excellant description,
Ed.
PAO Skylab Control at 18 hours 17 minutes
Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station over the South
Atlantic has passed out of range of the tracking antenna of
Vanguard ship. 6 minutes and 50 seconds to our acquisition of
signal at Ascension. During this pass, a couple of things.
lee islands reported as the space station passed near the
50 degrees south mark. That's as far south as it goes. Just
to the - just to the east of the coast of South America, they
indicated that the clouds over the ice area could be detected
as quite prevalent where there was no ice. But where the
ice was located, of course, there were no clouds. Explanation
being that to produce clouds, you require a certain amount of heat
energy in the water. And when you have no heat energy, therets
a tendency for the clouds to be dissipated. Science Pilot
Ed Gibson gave a more thorough report on the comet and his
observations on of it. Said that it increased in length from about 3
degrees yesterday, to 4 degrees today, which would indicate it's
about 33 percent longer or it's grown in the vicinity of
about 2,000,000 miles in length. He also gave some additional
explanation of what it appeared to be in mention that dark
adaptation, that is to say that his eyes getting used to the
dark had something to do with determining how long it was.
That's, of course, one of the problems with determining the
length of the comet's tail and its width, depends on the
kind of instrument you're using, your location. For ground
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event that one of the quads should begin leaking, fuel would
flow from this - this one isolation valve would allow it
to flow back into the general system, and thus go out into
one of the other engines, and couldn't be isolated. So for
that reason the PSM valve has been closed off. The leaking
isolation valve doesn't present any problems at this time
and it will not cause any loss of fuel whatsoever. It would
require a loss of - of valve at the engine and - and of
things for fuel to go overboard. During the previous Skylab
mission, the valves downstream, that is to say the valve at
the engines were found to leak on two quads. At that time
an isolation valve upstream, that is near the fuel source,
was closed to prevent fuel from moving into the lines that
fed the leaking quads. The isolation valve closed to prevent
fuel from reaching the lines during the last mission,
corresponds to the isolation valve that's now been found to
have an imperfect closure on this mission. As I wo - like
to repeat that, the isolation valve itself only allows fuel
to flow from the tanks into the fuel lines, it does not allow it
to flow overboard or to leak inside the engines themselves.
So, it's relatively a small problem but in order to keep that
fuel from going overboard in the event a leak should occur
in any of the engines, they have shut down the PSM or propellant
storage module valve. During our last pass we also got some
information over Ascension about the command module - about
the control moment gyro number 2, checked with some of the
personnel here, and have discovered the total amount of fuel
now available in the even - in the event that command module
control moment gyro number 2 should fail. Is relatively, high and
considered to be safe for an extended period, present expectations
are that should that control moment gyro fail, we would have
sufficient TACS, thruster attitude control systems gas or
nitrogen gas, to last at least 8 days, possibly longer. And
we'd also have enough reaction control system fuel available
to last at least 8 days, and possibly should this patch that's
being worked up by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
be completed, that might give an extension of up to 28 days
of RCS attitude control. So, it's conceivable that even with the
loss of another control moment gyro should that patch be effectively
completed it might be possible to continue a mission for
up to 36 days. That of course would limit to a large degree
the types of maneuvers that could be performed that some
calculations have already been begun on maneuvering without
a control moment gyro. It indicates that for example, an
Earth resources pass might require as much maneuvering fuel
as an entire day's - day's solar enertial attitude control.
But that those figures are certainly encouraging, that - we
have at least enough for 16 days of attitude control and
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The science pilot was at the ATM console viewing the Sun.
We expect to have a change-of-shift briefing with the off-
going Flight Director, Donal Puddy and with William Shoddy,
who is the Skylab Kohoutek Project Manager participating.
That briefing will take place at approximately 4:45 p.m.
central standard time in the news center briefing room in
building number i. We expect to reacquire the space
station in about 5 minutes on what's call a low elevation
pass through Ascension, and then carry it on through to the
Canary Islands and Madrid. So we'll keep the line up for
another 4 or so minutes waiting for the Skylab space station
to be reacquired. Standing by at 21 hours 34 minutes
Greenwich mean time.
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PLT Okay.
CDR All right, I'm now 15 degrees to the left
of track and I've got a little patch of ground. However it
is not vegetated, it is dry and sandy looking.
PLT Standing by for 09:53.
CC Skylab, this is Houston with the overcast
you can scrub the S190 ETC and the DAC operations on 191 for
the balance of the pass, over.
PLT Thank you Bruce, that's a very good call.
CDR Okay, Bruce I'm going to take - I'm going
to look for Canberra if I don't have any luck there, we'll
give her up.
CC Rog, that's the alternate site, sounds like
a good plan.
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then right.
CC Roger, out.
PAO At i hour 11 minutes Greenwich mean
time this is Skylab Control.
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me some other times, l'll get that about oh, 22:20, some-
where along in there. Excuse me 04:20.
CC Hey, Bill let's just scrub the comet
ops there. I think we are getting enough data so that one gap
in the data take with the comet ops won't seriously
compromise anything. And we'll just put you over there
at the regular time and press on. Over.
PLT Okay. And stand by for that ETC comment.
SPT That count should be 40 Bruce, 040 not
070.
CC Okay, thank you very much Bi - Ed. And
I got some evening news here it's going to be broken in a
couple of chunks, but I'ii give it a whirl here.
PLT Go ahead.
CC The House passed and sent to the Senate
today legislation that could put the nation on year-round
daylight saving time by the second week in January. The
bill would require clocks to be set ahead one hour on the
fourth Sunday after it's signed into law. Year-round
daylight savings is one of the measures requested by the
President to help save fuel. A few hours before the arrival
of U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger today, goverment
officials and Western diplomats in the Saudi Arabian capital
indicated that King King Faisal might be willing to
consider a limited resumption of oil deliveries. This would
occure only if Kissinger or President Nixon makes a public
announcement calling for Israeli withdrawal from occupied
Arab land. Seabottoms off the shores of Mississippi, Alabama
and Flord_a will be offered to drillers next Thrusday in an
effort to uncover two to three billion new barrels of oil.
A total of 147 tracts of continental shelf seabottom will be
offered for lease by the Department of Interior despite
environmentalist objections. We got 38 seconds to LOS. We're
coming up on Honeysuckle in 7 minutes for a one minutes pas
a minute and a half pass. That'll be the last pass of the
evening. President Nixon lit the powered-down national
Christmas tree tonight and said, "the spirit of Christmas is not
measured by the number of lights on a tree. The spirit of
Christmas is measured by the love that each of us has in
his heart." Before he pushed the button that illuminated a
single star at the top of the 40-foot Colorado blue spruce,
the President called attention to the energy crisis that
dimmed the usual bright display. The Greek military regime
began releasing political detainees today, a day after it
promised to free all 300 persons arrested for involvement
in demonstrations last month. The Senate passed and sent
to the House today a bill to permit the government to use
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CC Roger; we copy.
PLT Also, I tried the other timer and on
Nikon 2 and_ with no film in it, and I think it should
work that way and although the remote cable works and every-
thing the that is the manual remote, the timer does not
on Nikon 2.
CC Roger; we copy.
CC CDR, Houston. No need to acknowledge,
but at Vanguard, as soon as you get through with the photos
there, just prior to LOS, we'd like to get you to throw a
switch up in the command module. We're just giving you a
little warning here. What's happened is the pressure is
built up in the quad B ox manifold, because we closed the
PSM isol valve, and we want to get you up there, over the
site and open up quad B's propellant valve, while we can
look at it.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 45 seconds
from LOS. We'll be coming up on Vanguard at 23 and we plan
to dump the recorder there.
PAO Skylab Control at 17 hours 3 minutes
Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station has passed out
of range of the tracking antenna on the Hawaiian Islands.
Beginning of this pass telemetry indicated that the heater
has now come on for the command control momentum gyro
bearings. That temperature had dropped to its low level
before the bearing began to heat up and we had had some
indication of a slight reduction in wheel speed and a slight
increase in current. That's an anomaly that has occured pre-
viously in the mission and is no concern at the present
time, however, in order to reduce stress on the control
momentum gyro, it was determined that we should postpone
the comet operations of S063 today and in its place solar observation
and airglow activity with the S063 were scheduled. The crew
also reported some problem with a timer for the Nikon camera
number 2 and they'll be doing some more work on that. They
have had problems with the Nikon number 2 timer before and
it has been solved in the past. Also, at the very end of the
pass, Hank Hartsfield, the spacecraft communicator told
Commander Jerry Carr that they may be asked to open the
quad B propellant valves over Vanguard, which is the next
pass. Pressure has been building up in that system since
the closing of the propellant storage module valve yesterday.
That PSM valve was closed yesterday to prevent possible
leakage in the event that valve downstream at one of the
engines for the 4 quads on the service module should begin
to leak. There is a very slight leak that has been observed
in the isolation valve for the quad B fuel tank. We're now
19 minutes from acquisition of signal. This is Skylab Control
at 4-1/2 minutes after the hour.
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block 32 and at the end of that_ look at the WLC and if you
do see a coronal transient, you might run that program. And
if you don't, we'd like to return to the original Flight Plan.
schedule.
SPT Okay, Hank. Thank you. Sure was a lot
of material moving off there in a hurry.
CC And Skylab, we're 1 minute from LOS. We'll
see you Guam at 59. Thatts 35 minutes from now.
SPT Okay, Hank. This was not the usual surge
which we've seen out there before which usually appears as
just a spike moving up and then gradually fading away. Here
there was two large pieces of material which was evident
H-alfa maybe about a third of an arc minute or so across. Just
moving out completely with no material underneath reaching up
to them. Looks as though it was just two large pieces of
material just blowing right off.
CC Roger, We copied. Sounds interesting.
SPT I think we got something good coming around
the corner.
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In order to make up the lost time there has been some deletion
of M509 run - run activities. Those previously were mentioned
on the air,to-ground. Reference was made to HHMU, which of
course means handheld maneuvering u - unit. We expect to
reacquire the crew in about 2 minutes through the tracking
station at Madrid. So we_ll keep the line up for the
communication with the crew. The commander is set for a
family conversation tonight at about 1 hour 40 minutes
Greenwich mean time. Oh, roughly about about an hour and
i0 minutes from now when the space station comes around
the next time over MILA, Merritt Island station in Flordia.
StandlnK by for communication with Skylab IV.
CC Skylab, this is Houston throuEh Madrid
for 8 minutes. Out.
CDR Houston, CDR.
CC Go ahead, Jer.
CDR Okay, we're finished with 509. Tell
the guys in Denver, they've got a great simulator. It
flies just llke the simulator.
CC Okay, we'll do that. Thank you.
CDR Essentially Bruce we made a mistake or
two, had to replow some ground which is expected I think on
the first run through.
CC Okay, we copy. Is there anything we
can do to help out or you think that having been through it
once you got it.
CDR Oh, yeah, I think we_ve got it now.
It's _ this is just the old learning curve again. I did
not get to do any HHMU work because we need to get started
stowing. But the bird flies real well and I think it
well be a real pleasure to work on from now on, and we'll
get the kinks worked out of the procedures.
CC Okay, we copy, then that basically you got
the transfers on all 3 mode baselines and the cals and
we_ll work on the future operations.
CDR That'S affirmative. We_ll put a
full debriefing on tape.
CC Roger. Out.
CC Skylab, this is Houston a minute and
20 seconds to LOS. Next station contact in 26 minutes
through Carnarvon at 00:52. And as I mentioned earlier
we_ve slipped the CDH phone call to Merritt Island at 01:40.
Out .
CDR Rog, we copy that Bruce. Thank you.
CC And if youtre all still listening we also
slipped the med conference from Bermuda at 03:21 to Madrid
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of the lower - of the upper panel, right across - above the moni-
tor. XUV MON power switch is right next to the XUV HON doors.
CC Roger.
PLT Ed, would you give me a frame?
CC SPT, this is Houston. We'd like you to
cycle XUV MON power switch OFF then back ON. And same with
MON 1 and MON 2 switches.
SPT That's accomplished.
CC Skylab, this is Houston. 30 seconds to
LOS. Next station contact in 26 minutes through Carnarvon
at 02:31. During this LOS period, we want you to hold your
configuration on the XUV MON, the TV MON switches even if
it means sacrificing part of a pass. Over.
SPT Roger, Houston. Will do.
CC Roger, out.
PAO At 2 hours 6 minutes Greenwich mean time,
this is Skylab Control.
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turned off the - first of all, the four displays and cycled
it and -
CC Wait, wait, wait, slowly - slowly, now.
Now, okay.
SPT Hold - hold on, I took the four switches
under display, and cycled - put those to off.
CC Okay, that's - -
SPT - circuit breaker again.
CC Wait a minute, wa - wait, wa - wa - wa -
okay, that's the four displays which is like DAS ORB phase.
And you turned - turned the four of them to OFF.
SPT That's correct.
CC Okay, then you did -
SPT Okay, then is when I turned off the
8 switches under console power distribution. Then cycled
the circuit breaker at that point.
CC Okay, and the circuit breaker that you
cycled still is INVERTER LCA i.
SPT That's affirm.
CC Okay, you're - you're making - okay,
you're making sense, keep going.
SPT Okay, and then we came back with - you
folks came back with the instructions to put the integral
and _garble) to FIXED. Okay, at that point, I did put
integral and (garble) to FIXED, cycled the circuit breaker
and we've got MON 1 and MON 2 back and XUV MON.
CC Wait, okay, wait a minute - wait a minute.
The circuit breaker that you cycled again is the INVERTER
LCA 1 breaker. Right?
SPT That's affirm, Bruce. That's the only
circuit breaker I have cycled.
CC Okay, and without any further action,
you've got MON 1 and MON 2?
SPT That's affirm.
CC We had the DAS on TV BUS i, didn't - -
SPT Oh, excuse me, I'm sorry. Excuse me,
I left out the 10131.
CC Okay, now, you've told us that - or at
this stage of the game we've got the four display switches
off and we've got the eight console power distribution switches
off. When did they go back on?
SPT Okay, the four displays remained off,
and the eight console power distributions came back on after I had
cycled the circuit breaker and had no - no results.
CC Okay, when did you get the four displays
circuit breakers on?
SPT I don't recall that exactly, Bruce, it
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was probably - Well, let's see, I'm pretty sure I must have
turned those on before we went through the DAS actions, be-
cause we didn't do the DAS until we got well into - well into
the ATM orbit. I'm sure I had the displays up for that.
CC Okay, at any time, do you recall cycling
the - the DAS orbital phase switch up under displays very
rapidly from ON to OFF, and from BUS 1 to off to back to BUS i,
or rapidly through the center position. What we're looking for
is an actuation that would interrupt power for less than 1 sec-
ond.
SPT I don't recall having a specific reason
to do that, or remembering to do that, Bruce, but every once
in a while when you hit those switches, you've - if it's in
the up position for example, and you go to OFF, you can go
right through the center position. I don't recall doing it,
but I couldn't say that it wasn't done.
CC Okay, we copy.
SPT Okay, then we went to put the entry into
the DAS, and I put in the 10131 with the DAS BUS i.
CC Okay, now we - -
SPT BUS i.
CC When you say you put it in, you keyed -
you keyed 10131 then what?
SPT I keyed - I keyed and I did not get that
display back. I got something which I do not recall exactly.
I think it was a ii - was not a _0131. It was ii something,
and I cannot recall what it was. I cleared, tried it once
again, got that same result, cleared, and on the third time, I
got the 10131 looking up at me. I entered that and we got the
displays back and then I noticed a computer reject. At
that point, I tried a 52040 and it locked me out. I got 5
and four 7's.
CC Okay, we're copying all that. The first
time you entered though was when you got a 10131 shown back
at you, right?
SPT That's affirmative, Bruce.
CC Okay, I'm not trying to - to bug you
here, we just need to get the sequence down exactly. We
got the people up from the (garble) standing by and we're trying
to psych it out. The anomaly, if you will, with respect to TV
BUS i, I think we can say is completely explained now by
taking that H-alpha switch in the back of 8 to OFF, and back on,
so what we're working on it right now is the DAS problem
with respect to the ATM DC. And we'll keep you posted here.
Let me sign off a minute and see what's going on.
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CC Stand by.
CC SPT, Houston. For this exposure, at least,
we'd like a 40-second exposure. And we'll check the checklist
change and make sure on that.
SPT Okay, Dick.
CC Thank you, sir.
CC Skylab, Houston; for your information
ATM coolant loop seems to be running real spiffy on the
new pump. So we're going to leave it like this and just
watch it for a while.
CC Skylab, Houston; we're about a minute from
LOS at Tananarive. Hawaii comes up at 14:34.
PAO Skylab Control at 13 hours 57 minutes
Greenwich mean time. We've had a loss of signal at Tananarive
Just before that final call from Spacecraft Communicator
Dick Truly. Our next acquisition of signal is 36 minutes
away at Hawaii. This is Skylab Control at 57-1/2 minutes
after the hour.
PAO Skylab Control at 14 hours 32 minutes
Greenwich mean time. We're coming up on acquisition of
signal at Hawaii and we'll bring the line up for a pass lasting
about 6 minutes.
MCC Good morning, Skylab. Welcome to the active
Sun. And we'll be enabling momentum dump here, and then I'm
ready to talk to Ed about ATM.
SPT Good morning, Bill. We're ready; go ahead.
MCC Okay, let me just give you a couple of
quickies here on today's plan. I think you can look at it
and figure out what we're doing here with the (garble) wave JOP
a couple of active region O0 pointings. The synoptic 82B
work on the latitude variation chromo spheric emission.
And the important thing here is to note the change to building
block 35, which is a change for S054. Just to cover yourself,
I'd recommend you do that in pencil if you haven't already
done it, in case after the Christmas repairs we need to change
that. And a question here regarding JOP 8, building block
17, on page S_25 - S-20 - S-26 on the JOP summary sheets.
Noticed this morning you had indicated you had a pen-and-ink
to change the 82 Alfa exposure from 40 to 20 seconds. And
we show it still at 40 and that's where we want to keep it.
SPT Okay, Bill, I'm not up at the panel right
now, unfortunately. Jerry's in there taking a Kohoutek photo.
Is that the first step which is referenced on 8 Alfa, or is
that 8 (garble)?
MCC Negative, it's the actual number that appears
in the building block itself; on BB_I7 for the 82A exposures.
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for the spaeial and tempo variations here of the very hottest
lines, which really is a misnomer, since the triggering mechanism
here is almost certainly nonthermal. But the point is they
do want to go into flare fall if you catch it even right at
the peak as opposed to forgetting about it. Over.
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some of the Skylab data from the first mission, which showed
rapid changes in spectra immediately following a flare. So,
that would indicate that although before the Skylab activity
beBan, we looked primarly for the rise period of a flare to
gather data on thermal and distance changes in the flare's
growth, we're now interested, too_ in looking at it after
the flares occur to see what's happening in the various spectra.
20 minutes to our next acquisition of signal. It's now
41-1/2 minutes after the hour. This is Skylab Control.
PAO Skylab Control at 15:00 hours Greenwich
mean time. We're now about 56 seconds from acquisition of
signal through the tracking ship Vanguard. The Vanguard pass
should last a little more than i0 minutes. At the present time
the spacecraft communicator is Hank Hartsfield, and we're live
for air,to-ground at Vanguard.
CC Skylab, Houston. Through Vanguard for
i0 minutes.
SPT Good morning, Hank.
CC Good morning. And, as a reminder to you,
we'll be dumping the recorder here at this site. And, also,
for whoeverts free, in order to complete the closeout for
unattended, we need to get the H-alpha i interlock switch to
normal.
SPT Okay, Hank, it's to normal. And, also
at the conclusion of the last orbit, I left the pointing on
Sun center, so that you could look at the corona as the
emphasis was placed on thet_ rather than going to the position
specified in the pad.
CC Okay, we copy, Ed. Thank you.
CC Skylab, Houston. 1 minute to LOS. We'll
see you at Tananarive at 26.
PAO Skylab Control at 15 hours 12 minutes and
28 seconds Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station is now
in the South Atlantic anomaly, out of range of the Vanguard
tracking ship. 13 minutes from acquisition of signal at
Tananarive. In this last pass, the Skylab crew was informed
to make sure that everything w/s set up for unattended operations
of the solar instruments. The next pass of daylight will be
handled unattended, that is to say, by the ground, rather
than by a member of the crew. At this time some preprations
for $201 photography with the far ultraviolet electrinographic
camera are under way_ and also Commander Jerry Carr is in the
process of getting hooked up for his lower body negative
pressure run. Today's activities include seven sessions on the
solar instruments and also the operation of several experiments
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CC Roger. We copy.
CC SkylaB, Houston. We're 1 minute from
LOS. We'll see you at Vanguard at 40 and we plan to dump
the voice and data recorder there and for the CDR, we_ll give
you some more words on that leg band, the situation on the
med status pad either tonight or tomorrow.
CDR Okay. Thank you, Hank.
PAO Skylab Control at 16 hours 20 minutes
Greenwich mean time. We're now out of range of the tracking
antenna on the Hawaiian Islands. 20 minutes to acquisition
at Vanguard. Skylab crew was awakened this morning by a
new and violent Sun. The solar region 00 has given four
flares during the overnight period, tThe last being an M-d, the larg
largest flare so far on this mission. While ground controllers
were operating the space station solar telescopes that M-3 flare
erupted on the Sun's eastern edge. Solar flare's the first
indication that the Sun's more active side is once again
rotating into view after 2 weeks of relative quiet. Active
region 00 is still not come into full view on the disk and is
expected to be a very large and active one, and it is at present
an unstable region. Solar activity may Be substantial during
the next several days as a number of unstable regions move across
the disk. Today Commander Gerald Carr and Pilot Bill Pogue will
be usinK two of Skylab's special cameras to photograph the
growin_ comet Kohoutek. It's speeding toward the Sun at
more than 140,000 miles an hour now and constantly accelerating.
Only 12 days remain before Kohoutek whirls around the Sun, which
is still 45 million miles distant. At its closest approach
it'll be about 13-i/2 million miles away. Earlier this
mornin_ the Skylab astronauts regained control of the space
station's main computer, the computer used for attitude con-
trol. The typewriter keyboard that's used for instructing
the computer had been automatically shut down by an improper
signal last night. Ground control was maintained, however,
and the keyboard is now working perfectly again. Durin_ this
last pass had an indication from the crew that the leg Band
used in the lower body negative pressure device runs apparently
is again ac inaccurate today and for that reason there may be a
changeout scheduled for that. They'll get instructions tonight
on a teleprinter pad. This is Skylab Control. 18-1/2
minutes to acquisition at Vanguard. It's now 22 minutes
after the hour.
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good deal of time left for the ATM solar intruments. This
is Skylab Control. We're live now coming up on the island
of Ascension tracking station. Pass through Ascension will
last about 9-1/2 minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston through Ascension for
9-1/2 minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston. For your information
there's a message we just sent up regarding S082B operations
for the rest of the day, for whoever_'s got the next ATM pad,
PLT Roger, Hank.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 40 seconds
from LOS. We'll see you at Guam at 18 and that's about 37
minutes from now.
PLT Rog, Hank.
SPT Okay, Hank, Got a question on the 82B,
number 2. It says to shorten it by one-fourth. If we're
taking a series of three exposures, which one would they
like us to knock off? That one-fourtk is a little uncertain
in my mind.
CC What we mean here is we want the exposure
time shortened by a fourth. Well, this - this film this
special film is four times as sensitive as the regular film.
SPT Oh, okay. I got you. Thank you.
PAO Skylab Control at 18 hours 42-1/2 minutes
Greenwich mean time. The Skylab space station is now crossing
the coast of Africa out of range of the tracking antenna on
Ascension Island. 25 minutes to our next acuqisition at
Guam. Present time the ATM control on display panel coolant
loop is still operating properly with pump C; rate of flow
is 243 pounds per hour which is only slightly lower than
that of pump B and is nominal for that loop. No additional
problems have been seen yet on that. There were no variations
in flow rate observed on pump B during the several hours it
operated this morning. However, this morning when the pump
C was turned on originally at the beginning of the day there
was a reduction in its pressure to about 195 pounds per hour,
which is a an anomaly, and at that time we did shift to
pump B at which time it came up to 250 pounds per hour imme_
diately. Earlier the crew did indicate they heard some whine
and also that the flow rate indicated a low pressure for a
period of about 15 seconds. Light remained on. This is
Skylab Control. It's now 43 minutes and 41 seconds after the
hour.
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