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Time: 20:57 CDT 77:01:57 GMT

1/30/74
PAO This is Skylab Control, 01:57 Greenwich

mean time. Next station in 17 minutes tracking station Guam.
However, the crew and the Spacecraft Communicator have signed
off for the evening. Following is the Flight surgeon's daily
crew health summary issued by Dr. Paul Buchanan after his
medical conference with the Skylab IV crew. And it reads
as follows: "The Skylab IV crew continues to manifest good
spirits and good general health. The mild nasal conjestion
reported earlier by the Pilot_ Bill Pogue, and the Science
Pilot, Ed Gibson, has markedly improved. The rash on the
neck of the science pilot is slightly improved and of little
concern to him. Because the uppermost area of the rash is
in the area of the sleep cap worn for the M133 experiment,
the sleep data run scheduled for tonight is being postponed
I until mission day 77. This will allow for further resolution
of the problem, which is of no other operational concern."
That completes the crew health summary by Dr. Paul Buchanan,
the crew physican on this shift. Signing off until 7:30 a.m.
central time Thursday, this is Skylab Control at 01;59 Green-
wich mean time.
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SL-IV MC-2701/I
Time: 07:32 CDT 77:12:32 GMT
1/31/74
CC (Music: "Burning Love" by Elvis Presley).

PAO Skylab Control, Greenwich mean time
12 hours 32 minutes, mission day 77, January 31. The crew
will begin their day shortly, wakeup call coming through
Hawaii. CAP COMM is Hank Hartsfield. As the flight team of -
headed by Gene Kranz still in control here, bronze team.
Today's activities include an around-the-world EREP pass,
a press conference, and numerous handheld photo options for
the crew. We'll bring the line up for this Hawaii pass, 9
minutes in duration.
CC (Music: "Burning Love" by Elvis Presley)
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 comm check that's coming up here in about
25 minutes. That's the only thing I need to remind you of
so yon can look for it; message 7755, TV-27 voice, and it
calls out the configuration we want the comm check which comes
up about 13:13.
CDR Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're i minute from
LOS. Goldstone at 45.
CC Skylab, Houston through Goldstone for
6_i/2 minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston. i minute to LOS. Ber-
muda at 56.
CDR Roger, Hank.
12 hours 53 minutes. Loss of signal through Goldstone. Next
acquisition in 2 minutes and 45 seconds. Today's EREP pass
is the next,to,last pass scheduled for Skylab IV, this
around_the_world pass, which begins at 14:51 Greenwich mean
time_ 2 hours from now, is the 38th pass on Skylab IV program.
The last EREP pass is scheduled for tomorrow, Friday. This
is on groundtrack 6 at Greenwich mean time 16 hours and 49
minutes. This is a double-take pass, the two - two separate
takes d_ring the pass along groundtrack 6. This is also a
lunar cal_bration with the EREP instruments. The early morn-
ing EREP pass for tomorrow has been cancelled. Acquisition
coming through Bermuda in i minute 50 seconds. We'll bring
the l_ne up for CAP COMM Hank Hartsfield as a handover here
in progress. Gene Kranz's flight team turning over to Phil
Shaffer_'s group of flight controllers. The Bermuda pass is
9 minutes in duration. We'll bring the line up for CAP COMM
Hank Hartsfield.
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Time: 07:56 CDT 77:12:56 GMT
1/31/74
CC Skylab, Houston through Bermuda for 8-1/2

minutes.
PLT Roger.
CC Skylab, Houston, I'd llke to talk to you
a little bit about the voice recorder.
CDR Go ahead, Hank.
CC Okay, you probably recall yesterday that
we configured to record both of them on the - record on two
recorders, one of which was using the bypass cable and one wasn't
and we have got some bad news in that the voice that's going
on that bypass cable recorder is almost totally unreadable.
I've listened to some of it and it's really bad. You can
hear some of the voiee 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
some time tonight before we run M092's back-to-back tomorrow,
which we will need to record on both recorders. But for the
time being, we would like to get that BUFFER AMPLIFIER circuit
breaker CLOSED so we ean redesignate and be sure that we're
gettin_ good voice. I notice that we've got an M487Z 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 remember, you can keep the circuit breaker OPEN.
But you'Ve got to remember every time you want to voice record
you'_re going to _ave 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. We'll
g_ve 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 M092ts tomorrow.
CC Skylab, Houston_ we've redesignated the
recorders, and you're clear to use the circuit breakers as you
see fit.
PLT Okay.
CC Skylabp Houston, we've got about 2-1/2 minutes
to LOS. Would you like to get a little bit of the news and
I"ii let Dick finish it up at the next site.
CDR Yeah, fire away.
CC Okay, last night President Nixon delivered
his State of the Union message to Congress, diplomatic officials,
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1/31/74
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 State of the Union address. He also
recommended 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 the 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 comfrontation 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 compre-
hensive 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. And we're about 40 seconds from LOS. Canaries
is next at 07. And I will continue to LOS. The President also
said tNe Arab oil producers soon will hold an urgent meeting
and consider lifting their oil boycott against the United States.
_e 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 Communist countries the leading buyers. The
Peoples Kebublic of China and the Soviet Union currently are
the biggest buyers of U.S. wheat, the Agriculture Department
said Wednesday. The statistics were for the 6-month period
ending on December 30. Overall the drain has been so big
that only 178 million 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 smallest stockpile since
1947. Britain's 280,000 coal miners began voting today on
whether to strike. Their leaders predicted an overwhelming
"yes" vote despite a last-minute peace proposal from Prime
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1/31/74
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.
CC Skylab, Houston, hello from the purple
gang. We're Canary and Ascension for 16 minutes. And would
you like to continue the Henry and Richard news hour?
CDR Yeah, carry on.
CC Okay, 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 affirmative
vote is more than the required 55 percent and a wage settlement
is no closer, the leadership has said it wlll strike the mines
Sunday_ the 10th of February. A group of leading university
economists say government policies here and abroad, rather
than any shortage of oil_ are responsible for current problems
with the supply of petroleum products. The economists also
predicted that in 4 to 5 years oil might be a "glut" on
the world market as higher prices bring greater production.
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. Americans in the 23 states where speed limits
have not been lowered to 55 miles an hour are ignoring a presi-
dential appeal to slow down voluntarily and save gas. But
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Time: 08:08 CDT, 77:13:08 GMT
1/31/74
CC The economists also predicted that in

4 to 5 years oil might be a glut on the world market as
higher prices bring greater production. The economists said
domestic price controls had contributed to the supply problems.
They also indicated that they believed the Arab ol 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.
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. But an Associated
Press road check of the 50 states also shows drivers are stay-
ing close to 55 miles per hour in the states where the
speed limits have been reduced. La Paz, Bolivia: President
Hugo Banzer's military regime claims it has put down a peasant
rebellion in central Bolivia after i0 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. Clark
Air Base in the Philippines: Gerald Kosh, an American
captured by the Chinese in the battle for the Paracel Islands
Ii d_ys ago, was freed today and flown here for treatment.
Kosh, a 27_yeaT_old Defense Department employee from Lafayette
Hill, Pennsylvania had been reported suffering from hepatitis.
Tampa, Florida: Police aren't sure whether they are looking
for a prankster or a burglar. A young couple filed a complaint
Wednesday saying they returned to their apartment and found this
note in their typewriter: "Dear Friend, I broke 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 fence would laugh at him. And at
the Bottom of his note to his intended victims, the would-be
burglar complained: "You don't even have any good eats in
the refrigerator." One last thing. In hockey, Cleveland
5_ the Houston Aeros i.
CDR 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,
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 cheek with each one of you, and then
we_ll be done with that.
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Time: 08:08 CDT, 77:13:08 GMT
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CC I'll let you know when we're locked up

good at Ascension.
SPT Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Ascension.
We've got you for 9-1/2 minutes. And each one of you get
configured for the comm check, if you'll give me a call and
let me know that you're configured, and I'ii give you a call
back and we'll see how it sounds.
PLT Okay, Dick. PLT. How do you read?
CC Roger. Stand by i.
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 five square. How (garble)
me now?
CC Roger. That's a little better. Thank
you much.
PLT Rog.
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?
CC Good morning, Ed, from the purple people.
You sound real good this morning. Good morning to you. Itts
a good comm check all the way around and thank you very much.
Wetd 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 Itm standing by.
CC And Skylab, Houston. I forgot to warn
you but we are dumping the data/voice recorder here at Ascension.
CREW 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 planning for your day, your phone
call is set up at Vanguard at the time of 00:34, left antenna.
PLT Roger.
CC Okay. See you all at Carnarvon.
13 _ours 23 minutes, mission day 77, today, the final day
off of Skylah IV. Commander Gerald Carr, Ed Gibson and
Bill Pogue will perform an around-the-world EREP pass, a press
conference and several out-the-window photographs, as well
as operation of the S063 instrument. Today's Earth resources
experiment follows groundtrack 61 and 62. Data take begins
at 9_51 a.m. central daylight time. The crew will maneuver
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Time: 08:08 CDT, 77:13:08 GMT
1/31/74
the space station out of solar inertial attitude at about

9:42 a.m. central daylight time. The GNC Officer reports
that approximately 150 pound-seconds of TACS to be used
today for this maneuver. At about 9 minutes later this
station will reach the Z-local vertical attitude and the
data take will begin at that time. With Carr at the control
and display console and Pogue at the viewfinder tracking system,
EREP cameras and sensors will operate until ii - until 11:23
a.m. central daylight time. Approximately 90 percent of
tracks 61 and 62 are over ocean areas of the world. The balance
is over the continental United States and South America. This
is by far the longest pass the Skylab Program has conducted.
The pass covering 22,800 nautical miles. Basic purpose is
to make long arc geode measurements, to gather information
on the shape of the Earth over the area to be covered. This
is the next to the last EREP pass. The final one will be
scheduled tomorrow. Skylab astronauts also have a scheduled
news conference today from space beginning at 12:23 central
daylight time. During the news conference, the crew will
answer questions transmitted to them from Mission Control
Center. They will cover a wide range of subjects including
their assessment of Skylab to their predictions about the
future of manned space flight. Wake up was at 7:30 a.m. this morning
through Hawaii. The crew is scheduled to retire this evening
at I0_00 p.m. Next acquisition will be through Carnarvon
in 20 minutes and 25 seconds. At Greenwich mean time 13 hours
25 minutes, this is Skylab Control.
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$L-IV MC2704/I
TIME: 08:45 CDT, 77:13:45 GMT
1/31/74
PA0 Skylab Control, Greenwich mean time

13 hours and 45 minutes. Acquisition coming through Carnarvon
for a 8-minute-30-seeond pass. Today's EREP maneuver begins
at Greenwich mean time 14 hours and 42 minutes as the space-
craft is over the central Atlantic and about 600 nautical
miles northeast of Puerto Rico. The instruments will be
turned on off the east coast of Brazil near Recife, and will
remain on until the spacecraft circles the Earth one time
and turned off as the spacecraft crosses over the Amazon
in Brazil. The vehicle will return to solar inertial attitude
over Rio de Janeiro. We'll bring the line up for CAP COMM
Dick Truly. Flight Director Phil Shaffer, director of the
flight controllers here for the purple tean now on duty.
CC Skylab, Houston; hello at Carnarvon for
8-i/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 some-
body was we don't know because it was dark when we came to
work because of daylight savings time. But the last couple
of days has really been beautiful outside; doing real well.
CDR You're going to have spring already for
us when we come back?
CC Well_ the last couple of days we have it
already. I _ope we don't use it up.
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, l'm going to get my urine
sampling done and then I_ii 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.
CC And, Skylab_ Houston; if one of you guys
Mere at C&rnarvon cam help me_ we'd like to accomplish the
world _ the grandaddy 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 both
the r6g adjust 1 and 2, 45 degrees_ that's 45 degrees clockwise.
SPT That was the granddaddy of them all. How
do they look?
CC Wetll take a quick look at them, Ed, and
we_ll also give you a call after the EREP when we want them back.
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SPT Roger.
CC SPT, Houston. The reg adjust looks real
good_ we sure appreciate it. Thank you much.
SPT You're welcome, Dick.
CC Skylab, Houston; we're going LOS at Honey-
suckle. Guam comes up in 6 minutes at 14:01. Se_ you thore.
PLT Roger.
PAO Skylab Control, Greenwich mean time 14 hours
at loss of signal through Carnarvon. Acquisition coming through
Guam, a 6-minute pass, acquisition in i minute. We'll bring
the line up for CAP COMM Dick Truly.
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.
SPT Last night Bill reeieved 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 Brave 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?
CC Okay, Ed, let us put it together, and
get right back to you.
PLT Dick, this is the second day in a row they've
square waved me with inconsistency in instructions. Before
I said I'd like the idea of telling me when I download it,
but after that there were several days when obviously required
downloading they didn't mention downloading. And so when
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 of the mission and we're still having trouble with
the film padsp understanding what it is they have in mind. And
I dontt mean I donVt mind a few extra words telling me exactly
what they have in mind and what their intent is in configuring
the cameras.
CC Okay,
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PLT configuring the cameras.

CC Okay, Bill. That's a good point and
we'll try to do better. Thank you for that comment.
CC SPT and PLT, Houston. What we'd like to do in
S063, since you have loaded BV50 per our instructions we'd like
you to do the first S063 pass as it is with BV50, and then prior
to the second one load BV42.
PLT Okay. Thank you, Dick.
CC And we're close to LOS here. Hawaii
comes up at 14:14.
14 hours and i0 minutes with loss of signal through Guam
tracking station. A l-minute-40-second pass through Hawaii,
a low elevation pass, in about 3 minutes 50 seconds. Sky-
lab will begin the maneuver for the around-the-world EREP
in approximately 32 minutes from now as the spacecraft loses
acquisition with Bermuda. The spacecraft will still be in
acquisition wil with Bermuda the start of this upcomin_
EHEP maneuver. Spacecraft will be approximately 600 nautical
miles northeast of Puerto Rico. The data take will begin
ii minutes later as Skylab passes off the coast of Brazil.
Data take is 92 minutes in duration. Spacecraft will travel
approximately 22,800 nautical miles during this around-the-
world EREP take. All the instruments will be used. The
S190 _ S191 will be turned on at the start of the EREP pass
to gave - to gather cloud information over the trade winds
area off th_ coast of Brazil. This data take will cover a
groundtrack of about 720 miles. The S193 altimeter will be
on for the entire pass. It's estimated by EREP officer that
4500 feet of magnetic tape will be used by the altimeter during this
around_the_world pass. The altimeter's presently on the last
reel of magnetic tape aboard Skylab for EREP use. The last
reel measuring 7200 feet, approximately 4500 feet of which
will be used for this EREP pass, the remainder scheduled for
use tomorrow's EREP and lunar cal. Next acquisition will be
through Hawaii. We'll hold the line up for this brief pass.
CAP COMM is Dick Truly.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS 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 du_ing this EREP pass what we'd like you to do is to
be sure and leave the SI90A POWER switch ON on because we have
some concern for cycling the power relays but then what we'd
l_a you to do is cycle the three S190 circuit breakers on
panel 202. We think that'll work.
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CDR Okay.
CC But don't turn the POWER switch OFF.
Another comment that I had has to do with the C&D pad itself
and it and if you notice what we're doing down there with
the altimeter. We have a whole bunch of different range
settings that are listed as we go over the large water expa -
expansion as you go around the world. If you've noticed up
in the operate remarks earlier, there're 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 properly per the pad, at the time you go to
STANDBY whatever range you have set there will be recognized
by the altimeter. Than 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 se-
quence of events.
CDR Okay; no problem, Dick.
CC Okay. Thank you very much. We're going
to A _ LOS here at Hawaii. Goldstone comes up at 14:25.
See you then.
CDR So long.
14 hours and 19 minutes. Loss of signal through Hawaii.
Next acquisition in 5 minutes will be through Goldstone as
the Skylab space station crew prepares for the upcoming
around_tkevworld EREP pass covering a distance of more then
22,000 milesp a 92-minute data take gathering information
on weather, geological features, and specifically altimeter
data used hopefully by scientists to determine the
shape of the Earth. Next acquisition in 4 mintes and 30
seconds through Goldstone. At Greenwich mean time 14 hours
and 20 minutes, we'll keep the line up live for this upcoming
stateside pass.
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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 Goddard. And also, anytime you guys
are in a listening the mood, l've got the EREP weather for you.
CDR Okay. Go ahead, Dick.
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 1'11 give you though, is the data take
that's over the continental 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 it starts it's overcast
up 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 completely clear. You will then - begin
to cross some thin cirrus that eventually about the time you
get into the Arkansas area will be 4/10 to 7/10 cloud - broken
cloud. 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 cross
the coast, you'll see the weather associated with that front.
Then as yon come down 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.
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 Stand by, Ed.
CC SPT, Houston. We believe there are
46 frames available on BV50 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.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're a minute from
LOS Goldstone. We're going to drop out a couple of minutes.
I'ii talk to you at Texas.
CC Skylab_ Houston. We're AOS stateside
again for 12 minutes.
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PLT Roger, Dick.

CC And, PLT, Houston. We've reconstructed
the possible trap that we've set on the film thread pad and
SO63 pad. If you still have the film-thread pad in your
hand, I thought l'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 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 BV42/BV50 the Nikon.
But the remark was a little bit misleading, or at least
it just said load Nikon 02 with BV50. And what it should
have - what it should have said - Stand by.
CC We're handing over. I'ii give you a call
in Just a second.
CC We've got - 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 that it asked for 42 and
then 50, but the mark itself probably should have said,
after the first SO63 run, reload Nikon, you know, with BVS0
per the pad, which obviously last night you didn't have in your
hand. The only reason I wanted to point it out to you was that
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.
CC SPT, Houston. When you get a chance.
SPT l'll be with you in a minute, Dick.
CC No hurry.
SPT Go ahead, Dick.
CC Okay, Ed. Just a reminder. In between
the two SO63 passes_ when you reload BV42, it turns out
there are six frames that have been used, so we want you to be
sure and click off about eight frames when you reload. And this
will leave you 38 frames on BV42, which you are free to use
on the second S063 ops period.
SPT Okay. Thank you for the reminder. Bill
and I had talked about that. We'll sure do it.
CC Okay. Real fine. We're about 40 seconds
from LOS. Ascension comes up at 14:53. See you then.
14 hours and 45 minutes. Skylab space station began the
maneuver for the around-the-world Earth resources data take.
EREP data take starts at 14 hours 51 minutes, 6 minutes from now.
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Time: 09:21 CDT, 77:14:21 GMT
1/31/74
This is a 92-minute data take. While Pilot Pogue and -

Pilot Pogue and Commander Carr are operating the EREP instruments,
Science Pilot Ed Gibson will be operating the S063, the
ultraviolet airglow horizon photography. About 50 photographs
will be taken today of the Earth's ozone layer, on two
separate data takes, one beginning at 14:51 in 5 minutes
from now, as the spacecraft enters the Z-LV attitude. And
the second data take beginning at 16 hours and ii minutes.
This will use up all the film scheduled for the S063 experi-
ment. Purpose of this experiment is to photograph in the
visible and ultraviolet light, the Earth ozone layer and
the airglow. Actually there are two separate experiments involved,
the ozone photography and the airglow photography.
Photographers - photographs of the areas traversed will help
principal investigator, Donald Packer of the Naval Research
LaSoratory in answering questions relating to the circulation
of the ozone and its connection with the morphology of weather
patterns and its role in the production of hydroxyl emission
in the airglow - -
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC2707/I
TIME: 09:47 CDT, 77:14:47 GMT
1/31/74
PAO ..... .... - - zone and its connection with

morphology of weather pat_t_rns _and its roll in production of
hydroxyl emission in the airglO_. A message was passed up
to the crew today from PI Don Packer saying congratulating
the crew on a Job well done in performing his experiment.
All of the mission requirments for this experiment have
been completed in Skylab IV A total of today's activity
will add to the photographs takenl The crew will return
5 cassettes of film for PI Packer. A total of 320 photographs
will have been taken of the airglow and features associated
with the ozone layer will be returned with the crew in the
command module. Today's Earth resources pass, which will began
as the spacecraft crosses the coast of Brazil near Recife.
The instruments will - the SI90A, and S191 will be turned
on to gather cloud eharacteristics of the trade winds in
the South Atlantic. The altimeter 193 will remain on for the
entfre pass. And as the spacecraft crosses the coast of the
United States specifically as we cross over Wyoming, additional
data wfll be gathered for geothermal studies in Wyoming. Earth
terrain charactertics will be studied on overland pass as well
as frontal zones_ weather frontal zones, throughout the Continental
United States on this descending pass along groundtrack 62.
Geoglogy studies also made in the Montana area, the Big Horn
Mountains, as well as Colorado, water resource studies in
northeast Kansas, Tulsa, Oklahoma Little Rock, Arkansas area-
as well as future operational data of instruments of this
type will be - data will be gathered over the state of Alabama
for future studies. As the spacecraft crosses into the Gulf
of Mexico ocean currents will be the topic of the EREP instruments.
And as the spacecraft crosses into Venezuela and South America
additional geological mapping information will be gained over
Venezuela, Central Andes, Amazon Basin and Brazil. 27 target
sites _n tkSs EREP pass, 6 mandatory and 21 desired. We'll
bring the l_ne up for CAP COMM Dick Truly on this Ascension
pass.
CDR 52:54 is coming up, frame number 3 starting
to turn.
CDR Stand by.
SPT HACK.
CDR MARK. RADTOMETERts OFF. 53 to even coming
up. Stand by.
CDR MARK. ALTIMETER's ON.
PLT MARK. Starting nadir swath.
CDR I have no READY light.
CC Skylab_ Houston; we're with you for 5 minutes
tkrough Ascension.
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SPT Okay, that was good; both on the same

target.
CDR He's holding pretty well left and right.
Okay at 53:20 Alfa 1 is 76 percent. Charlie 1 just moved
from zero to i00 percent. 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 Go to frame 5 starting to track.
PLT Picking up a new cu now, but not much.
That's at 54.
CDR Alfa 1 60 percent; 60.
PLT Less than i/i0 coverage. Readjust - -
SPT HACK.
PLT Now we're starting to pick up a few.
Still less than a 10th.
CDR There we go.
SPT HACK.
PLT Okay. Now we're starting to pick up
some at 54:20.
CDR Okay, that was good.
SPT Going to frame 7.
PLT Most of this nadir swath has been nothing
but blue water.
PLT Now I'd say it was about 1 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.
SPT HACK.
CDR Charlie i is 12 percent. Okay, I'm going
to put the ALTIMETER OFF again.
SPT HACK.
CDR On at 14. Now I've got a READY light;
no UNLOCK light.
CDR Should have put that on center, but got
busy,
SPT Okay, coming up on 56.
SPT (Garble)
CDR Now the altimeter's working correctly.
SPT Startin_ frame number 9.
SPT Tracking by 9.
SPT HACK.
CDR Are we hot mike, Bill?
SPT HACK.
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TIME: 09:47 CDT, 77:14:47 GMT
1/31/74
PLT Yes, we are.

CDR Okay.
SPT Okay, those are good.
CC I'm even - -
PLT (Garble) 56.
CDR Say again, Dick.
CC I was just going to tell you I was even
listening to you.
PLT Okay, the trade wind cu nadir swath didn't
get much trade winds that cue. Okay, we're terminating, but
of course, I'm just going to let it run, 56:45.
PLT MARK. And now we're starting to pick up
a few spirantic streams from it.
CDR MARK. S190 READY light went out at 50.
Going to STANDBY.
SPT Tracking for frame ii.
CDR 190 POWER OFF at 57.
SPT HACK.
PLT At 15:10 I have to set all the apertures.
PLT Okay, let's see what we've got coming up
here.
SPT HACK.
CDR Stand by - -
PLT A long dry spell.
CDR MARK. REFERENCE set at 2.
PLT 57:30, 4.3.
CDR ALTIMETER's still looking good.
CDR MARK. At 57:30 Alfa i is (garble).
PLT (Garble)
CDR Charlie i is 53 percent.
CC Roger. And we're 45 seconds from LOS.
Carnarvon comes up at 15:23.
CDR Rog, 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 Affirmative.
SPT Ready to track.
SPT HACK.
CDR 20 seconds.
PLT Stand by.
PLT MARK.
CDR Okay.
PLT VTS AUTO CAL.
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TIME: 09:47 CDT, 77:14:47 GMT
1/31/74
SPT HACK.
CREW (Garble)
and 59 minutes. Skylab-IV space station in Z-LV attitude in
the around-the-world EREP 14 hours 59 minutes. Skylab space
station today according to telemetry data down on the ground,
indicates the space station currently weighs 190,636 pounds.
Of this weight 30,320 pounds is the command and service module
with the orbital work station, ATM, MDA, airlock, et cetera,
weighing 160,316 pounds. Orbital weight presently 190,636
pounds. Fuels remaining aboard Skylab in the command module
are 5029 pounds of service propulsion system engine propellent,
and 1685 pounds of RCS propellents in the command module.
RCS command module propellents will be used on mission day 83.
Plann_ng is underway for flight controllers for a burn maneuver
that will increase the orbital lifetime of Skylab. The burn
will be with the command service module RCS engines. Burn
time will be 3 minutes in duration. This will impart a
delta velocity to the vehicle of 12 feet per second.
This maneuver is now scheduled for Greenwich mean time 20
hours 48 m£nutesp or 3:48 p.m. central daylight time on
February 6, mission day 83. This maneuver will be done at
midnight in the Skylab orbit. Midnight in the orbit is when
the vehicle is on the side of the Earth directly opposite
the Sun, and of course, Skylab is also in the darkness at
that time. Skylab_s apogee will be raised about 7 nautical
miles, The plus_X RCS thrusters will be used to perform this
posigrade burn maneuver. It is expected that the extra boost
w_ll add at least 1 year or maybe more extra time to the orbital
l_fet_me of Skylab space station. Current estimates of Skylab
orbital lifetime before this maneuver is approximately 9 years
in orbit. This maneuver again will be made Greenwich mean
t_m_ 20 hours 48 minutes on February 6, mission day - -
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC-2708/I
Time: 10:02 CDT, 77:15:02 GMT
1/31/74
- - before this maneuver is approximately 9 years

in orbit. This maneuver, again, will be made at Greenwich
mean time 20 hours 48 minutes on February 6, mission day 83.
Next acquisition 20 minutes and 33 seconds, as Skylab will
be reacquired through Carnarvon. Spacecraft will still be
gathering data on their around-the-world EREP pass. Greenwich
mean time 15 hours 2 minutes, this is Skylab Control.
15 hours and 22 minutes. Acquisition coming through Carnarvon.
The Skylab EREP pass, which began at Greenwich mean time
14 hours and 51 minutes, 31 minutes ago, still in progress.
The final exposures for the S063 experiment will be made
beginning at Greenwich mean time 16:11. Science Pilot Gibson
taking photographs of the south auroral area on this last
pass, the final operation of S063 for Skylab IV. We'll
bring the line up for CAP COMM Dick Truly for this Carnarvon
pass, i0 minutes in duration.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Carnarvon
for i0 minutes.
CDR Roger, Dick.
CDR Charlie 1 reading 56 percent, slowly
creeping up.
CDR Coming up on 24:30, 24:30.
CDR MARK. RANGE, 70.
CDR At 25:00, Alia 1 is 60 percent, Alia -
Charlie 1 just jumped to i00 percent, off-scale high and
is now drifting down to about 93. Have an ALTIMETER UNLOCK
light, just went out at 14.
CDR Charlie i just dropped down to nearly zero.
We lost our READY light at 25. ALTIMETER to STANDBY.
CDR 25:40. ALTIMETER ON. Charlie i off-
scale high. Drifting down, steady at 47.
CDR MARK it. Going to 69 on the RANGE.
CDR READY light is steady on.
CDR Alia 1 is 60. Charlie 1 is 52. Give
you another reading at 28 even.
CDR Okay. At 28:00, Alia I is 60. Charlie 1
is 53.
CDR ALTIMETER UNLOCK light came on at 55,
off at 57. For a rough time, it just got another flash out
of it.
CDR READY light is out.
CDR ALTIMETER to STANDBY at 29:10
CDR ALTIMETER ON at 29:25. Charlie 1 is
off,scale high and drifing down.
CDR Steady at 50 percent.
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Time: 10:02 CDT, 77:15:02 GMT
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CDR MARK it. ALTIMETER RANGE now is 68.
CC SPT, Houston. When you have a moment.
SPT Go ahead, Dick.
CC Ed, about a rev - a rev and a half from
now we're going to have the press conference _ And the site
prior to that press conference is this upcoming stateside
pass, which I figured would be pretty busy with talking
about the EREP. Wanted to remind you guys to - in preparation
for the press conference to refer to the messag_ that you
that we checked out the comm with a while ago; also, the
TV-27 in the TV ops book. There are a couple of switches in
there that do not appear on either page. There should be
Need to make sure and verify. One is the VIDEO SELECT switch,
which is presently in ATM, and should be in TV prior to the
press conference and that can be put there any time from here
on in. And also_ on your way down to the wardroom, in prep-
aration for the press conference be sure that all of the TV
input stations north of the wardroom are off.
SPT Okay, Dick. We'll do that.
CC Okay. Thank you very much.
CDR At 32 even, Alfa i was 60, Alf - Charlie
i was 51. We just went off-the-scale high on Charlie i and
now we're back down to 92, back up to off-scale high.
CC Roger, Jer. And we're about 45 seconds
from LOS. Guam comes up about 3 minutes from now. I'Ii call
yon then.
CDR Okay. At 50, we got a READY off light.
I went to STANDBY.
SPT Dick, we've got I0 frames remaining in
Bravo-Victor 50. We got five extra sets of data for SO63. It
looked like a real good run.
CC Very good, Ed. Thank you much.
CDR ALTIMETER went back ON at i0. Alfa 1 is
60. Charlie i is 57, now drifting down - down about 50.
CDR Time is 34:00.
CDR Going to 69.
CDR Going into the end of maneuver and back
at 45.
CDR 94.
CDR Still have an ALTIMETER UNLOCK and READY
is on. Off,scale high. READY out at 40. ALTIMETER to
STANDBY at 45.
CDR ALTIMETER ON at 37:00.
CDR Charlie 1 steady at 50 percent.
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SL-IV MC-2709/I
Time: 10:38 CDT 77:15:38 GMT
i131174
CC Skylab, Houston. Gu Skylab, Houston.

Guam for 9 minutes.
CDR Roger.
CDR Dick, on the se - the second S063 set
of data, would you confirm that they 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. ALTIMETER UNLOCK light
at about 16, off at 18. Charlie l's to 92, ALTIMETER UNLOCK,
STA - ALTIMETER READY light went at 25, and 30 went to STANDBY
on ALTIMETER.
CDR ALTIMETER ON at 45. Charlie i is setting at
about 48 percent. At 41 RANGE to 72. At 41:30 Alfa i at 60,
Charlie i is 47. At 42 the RANGE is 73.
CC SPT, Houston. I'm not real sure that I
understood the question that you asked about S063. We do
want those 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 again additionally (garble) 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 MAIN 74 at 43.
CC Stand by.
SPT (Garble).
CC Stand by.
SPT They're calling it filters pairs and
_a_handone they're
of them.not even
Then pairs if you
it's just an start trackingset initially
independent of data. on
CC Roger, Ed. Understand. Stand by.
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.
CDR Okay. At 44 I have moved into RANGE 75.
CDR ALTIMETER UNLOCK at ii, lost the READY at the
same time.
CDR Going to STANDBY at 15. 44:30 coming up.
CDR ALTIMETER ON, RANGE to 76.
CDR RANGE to 77 at 45:30.
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Time: 10:38 CDT 77:15:38 GMT
1/31/74
CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 45 seconds

from LOS. Goldstone at 16:02, see you there.
CDR See you then.
CDR 46:30, RANGE to 78.
15 hours 47 minutes, ii mibs, or approximately 55 pound-
seconds of TACS propellant used to this point in this Skylab
EREP pass. Approximately i00 to 150 pound-seconds have been
predicted for this maneuver today. The crew with another
36 minutes to go in this EREP pass. The data take will stop
as Skylab passes over the Amazon - Amazon Jungle in Brazil.
The crew has a press conference scheduled later today be-
ginning at Greenwich mean time 17 hours and 38 minutes.
Following that they will have their afternoon meal. On
menu 4 for today is; Commander Carr is having veal and peaches
and a strawberry drink, Science Piilot Gibson has chicken and
gravy and tomatoes with applesauce and grape drink for lunch.
Pilot Pogue has salmon, butterscotch pudding and tea and
biscuits. Next acquisition will be through Goldstone. To-
day, January 31, an eventful day in the space program in
1961. On January 31 a Mercury Redstone launch vehicle put
the chimpanzee Ham into a suborbital flight lasting 16 min-
utes. Ham was recovered after traveling 157 nautical miles
high in orbit. He was recovered 1400 - 418 miles downrange
from the Eastern Test Range in the Atlantic Ocean. Ham is
presently enjoying a restful retirement at a national zoo in
Washington. Greenwich mean time 15 hours and 49 minutes.
Acquisition through Goldstone in 20 - 12 minutes and 25 sec-
onds. This is Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC-2710/I
Time: Ii:01 CDT, 77:16:01 GMT
1/31/74
PAO Skylab Control, Greenwich _ean time

16 hours and I minute, with acquisition coming through Gold-
stone. The Skylab still in EREP pass) which began at
Greenwich mean time 14 hours and 21 minutes, almost the end -
14 hours and 51 minutes, approximately an hour and I0 minutes
ago. We'll keep the llne up for this stateside pass. CAP
COMM, Dick Truly.
CDR ALTIMETER UNLOCK at 40. 01:40.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS stateside.
CDR Roger, Dick. Charlie i 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.
CDK ALTIMETER UNLOCK light is still on.
CDR (Garble) Charlie i at i 6. The READY
light went out at 20. Putting it to STANDBY. And I'ii just
leave it there.
CDR ALTIMETER MODE to i.
CDR Okay. On my mark it'll be 02:45.
CDR Stand by.
CDR MARK. ALTIMETER ON.
CDR At 51.
CDR MARK. 190 SHUTTER SPEED SLOW. INTERVAL
is i0. FRAMES are 58. Wonder why they reversed frames and
interval in that li_t?
CDR Okay. I saw the ALTIMETER UNLOCK light
flashing while I was doing that 190 sequence. And it's back
on again at 18. ALTIMETER UNLOCK light.
CDR Looking for an S191 READY on.
CDR MARK. READY on at 38. Going - REFERENCE 6.
PLT And it better clear up pretty soon.
CDR Okay. The ALTIMETER READY light's off.
At 55 I'm going to STANDBY.
CDR MARK. At 04:00 190 POWER is ON.
CDR At i0, the ALTIMETER POWER is ON
Correction. Yeah. ALTIMETER POWER.
CDR ALTIMETER UNLOCK light at 17.
CDR Stand by.
CDR MARK. S190 MODE to AUTO.
CDR READY light's out on the ALTIMETER.
CDR Going to STANDBY at 50.
CDR The READY light went out about 48.
CDR Find me another i0 on your Kazoo.
PLT Oh, boy.
CDR ALTIMETER on at 10.
PLT Doesn't look good at all.
CDR Where?
PLT (Garble)
CDR Hasn't been bothering me a bit, Bill.
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Time: ii:01 CDT, 77:16:01 GMT
1/31/74
CDR 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 -
CDR Better not promise, Dick.
CDR ALTIMETER READY light's out at 4 (garble)
PLT Okay, it's holding.
CDR - - Going to STANDBY at 45.
CDR That's 05:42 and 05:45.
CDR ALTIMETER ON at 00.
PLT Now wait a minute, now. We were looking
at the bank on display ops.
CDR Next mark is 06:24.
CDR Stand by.
CDR MARK. 192 MODE to READY. Shifting
gears. Got a TAPE MOTION light. Got an ALTIMETER UNLOCK
light.
CDR That came on during that 192 sequence.
06:30 ALTIMETER to STANDBY. RADIOMETER to STANDBY.
PLT (Garble) zero.
CDR ALTIMETER to MODE 5.
PLT Now, under cloud.
CDR RANGE 79.
PLT Okay. Going for the next shutter speed
to 1/25. Special 02, 10:52, 45 degrees.
CDR I was late getting ALTIMETER to STANDBY
there, about 3 or 4 seconds.
CDR Coming up on 7. SHUTTER SPEED to MEDIUM
on 190. At 06, SCATTEROMETER is ON. RADIOMETER is ON.
CDR 17:18 MODE to CHECK on line. 92. That
was 3 seconds late.
CDR 8:42'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 got distracted before I actually threw it. That
got awfully busy right there.
CDR I think I may have read it but not even
have thrown the switch. I was busy reaching for the other
switches.
CC Well that's a good way to fake off the
CAP COMM, I'ii assure you.
CDR Yes, indeed.
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CDR 8:42 coming up.

CDR Stand by.
CDR MARK it. 192 MODE to READY.
CDR Got tape motion. 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 SO63, we're picking up with frame number 37,
BV42.
CDR 09:44 coming up. Stand by.
CDR MARK it. 192 MODE to CHECK.
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SL-IV MC-2711/I
Time: ii:i0 CDT 77:16:10 GMT
1/31/74
PLT 52 coming up.

PLT Okay, I zoom in and track a uniform site.
CDR I didn't hear you. Did you find the green
mountains?
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.
CDR God'll get you for that.
SPT Stand by.
PLT IMC - okay, there's a uniform sight.
Zoom in, see what it is. Not very zoomed in. Let's take
that uniform sight right there.
PLT DAC.
CREW (garble) DAC.
SPT HACK.
CDR Do one for DAC.
PLT (Garble) DAC's ON; DATA pushbutton
Hey, it looks like I got a sight alongside the Mississippi
here. Nice, wetlands.
CDR I wonder if that's that Tennessee flooding
area.
PLT It very likely could be. It looks like
the water's awful high along in here.
CDR Yes, we ought to be looking at that I
would think. Coming up on 11:50. Stand by - 5 seconds.
CDR MARK it.
CREW Okay - -
CDR 192 is MODE READY.
CREW 12:29's my next - -
CDR Come on TAPE MOTION. I got no tape
There it goes. Got a TAPE MOTION light. 11:56; SCATTER-
OMETER to STANDBY. RADIOMETER STANDBY. Those are all about
5 seconds
SPT (garble)
CDR late. I was watching that tape. Next
mark. 12:15. Stand by -
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. (Garble).
SPT Okay, that was that frame filter 2700
PLT 12:29, nadir.
SPT (Garble) 23:00. Try this again.
CDR 12:32 - MARK. 192 MODE to CHECK.
PLT Nadir swath.
PLT 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.
SPT HACK.
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PLT Okay. (Garble) 9 (garble) up 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 Camera, ON.
CDR MARK. 92 to MODE CHECK. 48 ALTIMETER
to STANDBY.
SPT Frame 4.
SPT HACK.
CDR MODE i. RANGE 77. 14:05 coming up.
CDR MARK. ALTIMETER's ON. Looking for a
READY out at 14:20 on S190.
CDR MARK. READY out at 14:20. S190 still
hanging in there. 14:30 coming up. Steady TAPE MOTION.
CDR MARK. 92 to MODE CHECK. 90 to MODE
STANDBY, RANGE at 79. 17:30 again.
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 run for 22 seconds.
CDR Put it back where it was.
SPT HACK.
CDR Put that RANGE back to 77. Get the AL-
TIMETER ON again. Blunder on my part. That's where it is.
ALTIMETER UNLOCK at 14.
SPT Frame 6, Charlie 1 - -
PLT Okay; DAC OFF.
CDR Switching between 48 and 53.
SPT HACK.
PLT Okay, waiting for 21:11.
CDR Steady ALTIMETER UNLOCK light.
SPT Frame number (garble).
CDR (Garble) READY out. At 15 and 16:00 the
ALTIMETER went to OFF, correction to STANDBY. ALTIMETER ON
at 15.
SPT HACK.
CDR Charlie l's reading 46. Where are you now,
Bill? Out over the Atlantic?
PLT Yes.
CDR Good blooming down there.
PLT Sure is, and we're getting it on 191.
Actually I think we've just come across Cuba in a minute
CDR Oh, yes. Oh, that's - that's that
blooming in that bay there - -
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 Yesp that's right. Yes, Isle of Pines area
is correct.
CDR That's always green. That and the
Bahamas.
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SPT Okay. Going to try to see if I can give

you a
couple of extra sets here.
SPT 7 and 8, call them 7 Alfa and 8 Alfa.
SPT Starting to track.
CDR Stand by -
CDR MARK. ALTIMETER to STANDBY, RANGE 73.
17:43 coming up.
SPT HACK.
CDR MARK. S190 MODE to AUTO. 17:50 next.
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 -
SPT (Garble) Alfa.
CC - - Vanguard at 16:30.
CC In case we miss that Goldstone at 17:39
then we'll see you there for the press conference.
SPT Okay.
CDR Coming up 18:22.
SPT We get two more, we're going to go for a -
CDR Stand by -
SPT 7 Bravo and 8 Bravo -
CDR MARK. 192 READY. TAPE MOTION's on and
flickering a little bit. Coming up on 30, SHUTTER SPEED to
FAST.
SPT Tracking.
SPT HACK.
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CDR TAPE MOTION is steady. (Garble), that was

a (garble) rather than the 16th.
PLT Man, there's some blooming. I want to
go ahead and get that. Push the data pushbutton.
CDR 19:04, stand by.
CDR MARK. 192 MODE CHECK.
PLT Okay, I'm just getting - -
CDR TAPE MOTION's okay at i0.
CDR MARK. ALTIMETER to STANDBY, had an UNLOCK
light. RADIOMETER to STANDBY.
PLT Coastal blooming.
CDR Okay, tape Bravo was at 8 seconds
rather than 16.
PLT (Garble) clear blue water.
CDR (Garble) one more step. Got (static)
coming up.
PAO Skylab - Skylab Control, Greenwich mean
time 16 hours 21 20 minutes. 3 minutes away from the
conclusion of today's EREP pass which began nearly 90 minutes
ago. The crew making comments as they crossed over the
Caribbean. The spacecraft will be returned to solar inertial
attitude in Ii minutes from now at Greenwich mean time
16 hours and 31 minutes as Skylab crosses the coast over
Rio de Janeiro. Next acquisition will be through Vanguard
in 9 minutes. This is a low elevation pass of I degree.
Duration of that pass is 3 minutes and 45 seconds. We'll
bring the line back up at that time. This is Skylab Control
at Greenwich mean time 16 hours and 20 minutes.
16 hours 28 minutes. Acquisition coming through Vanguard
a brief pass. We'll bring the line up for CAP COMM Dick
Truly.
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 look like good data.
CC Real great, Ed. Thank you very much.
CDR Dick, I set up the tape depletion to be
done over South America, and I think we might have had an
operator glitchp I'm not sure. But I showed 3 and 5 FILM
ADVANCE MALFUNCTIONS indicating they were depleted and
the whole sequence (garble). I went back to STANDBY and
then a little while ago went back to AUTO again and finished
up the depletion sequence.
CC Roger, Jerry. Thank you.
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CC Skylab, Houston; we're 1 minute to LOS.

Goldstone comes up at 17:38, that's the scheduled press
conference. We are 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'll be on the press conference.
And, Jerry, when you get a change if you would relay the tape
remaining dimension to us so we can plan tomorrow's pass,
we'd appreciate it.
CDR Okay, I'll have it for you at Goldstone.
CC Okay, Jerry, real fine, or we can pick it
up at Vanguard after the press conference. I'll see you at
stateside.
CDR Okay, and I'll also put it on tape. You
might catch it on your tape dump.
CC Okay.
35 minutes. Loss of signal through Vanguard. Next acquisition
in 1 hour and 3 minutes will be through Goldstone. This pass
Goldstone pass scheduled for the press conference, the crew
answering questions submitted to them by the news media. At
this Vanguard pass telemetry shows that Skylab IV today has
used 24 mibs so far, about 120 pound-seconds of TACS propellent.
i00 pounds of TACS propellent has been predicted for this
maneuver. Ample TACS remaining aboard. As of this morning
14,684 pound-seconds of TACS propellent remaining prior to the
EREP maneuvers. Next acquisition in 1 hour and 2 minutes.
At Greenwich mean time 16 hours 36 minutes, this is Skylab
Control.
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17 hours 36 minutes. Acquisition coming through Goldstone
in 1 minute for the press conference, the last and final
press conference in the Skylab program with the crew from
inflight, questions submitted to Mission Control Center by
representatives of the news media. We'll bring the line up
for this stateside pass. Reading the questions to the crew
will be CAP COMM Dick Truly.
CC Skylab, Houston. Hello 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 have 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 ready.
CDR Okay.
PLT Let's get a comm check on each one
of the crewmen. PLT; How do you read?
CC Bill, I read you loud and clear. How me?
PLT Fine.
SPT Okay, Dick. How do you read me?
CC Ed, I read you loud and clear also. How
me?
$PT Very good. Thank you.
CDR Let her rip.
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 con-
sidering working, living and repairs?
CDR I think the major accomplishments in this
particular mission are - are several. I think the biggest
major accomplishment is the - the tenure, 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 set up housekeeping
in space, that he can adjust to his new environment and I
th_nk from a medical standpoint the medical experiments have
already shown so far that we right now appear to be in better
physical condition then 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
b_ightest coronal transient that's been seen from up here I
think is significant. In the area of Earth resources we
have done nearly 45 Earth resources passes around the Earth.
We_e gathered a heck of a lot of data and I think that is
indeed sign£ficant. And last but not least is we took the
time before we left to do some study on how to do Earth
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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 handheld cam-
eras and we feel real good about that and I think that's that's
been a very significant input from this mission.
SPT Dick, if you'll allow me, let me add a
couple of things on there. We also had, I think, quite an
extensive comet observing program, and although the bright-
ness of the comet was not what we predicted I think the all-
out effort which people all around the world put on it and
particularly up here where we were able to make a large
number of attitude excursions of the vehicle and point at
the comet learned something of its spectra which is going
to tell us of what it's composed, I think is a very signi-
ficant achievement. And I think one that speaks well for
all of Skylab, just ours, but that is that in spite of some
fairly major hardware problems, we've been able to pull off
all three missions and ex - extend ours beyond what we orig-
inally anticipated. We put a sunshade up to take care of a
problem we had with thermal micro - micrometeoroid shield
coming off. We've had rate gyro problems and had to fix
those. On EVA that was - bo - both were done on Skylab I
and Skylab II, and we've lost a control moment gyro and have
been able to do the most extensive maneuvering yet of any
of the missions on two CMGs. So we're all pretty proud of
not just our mission but the whole series.
CC Roger, guys. Appreciate the answer, and
we certainly agree with you. This next question is for Bill
Pogue. Now that your 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 ad-
verse cireumstances. Looking back, it's in 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 what Ed said from the
earlier flight, so that was a major repair Job and represen-
ed a task that had not been done before. We also have
worked outside EVA and made major mods or repairs, sort of
a combination of the two, on one of the radar antennas which
was a part of the Earth resources package and also on the
Apollo telescope mount, one of those telescopes was malfunc-
tioning, so by and large I think that we have - although we
would h@ve liked to maybe have had everything working i00
perc6nt I in view of the fact that it wasn't we've done very
well in spfte of that fact and we feel like we'll be bringing
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back the best data possible for the situation that existed
when we got here.
CC Roger, Bill. Thank you very much. This
one's for Ed Gibson. Yous is the last American crew that
will fly for at least ig 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 Of course, Dick, I think everybody
associated with the program would like to see us have more
flights in the coming years; however, I think what we're
buildinB up to, that's the ability to get man in and out of
orbit with a lot of flexibility, 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 r Dick.
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 fron-
tiers and we've been able to Utilize. Earth resources cer-
tainly is one of utilization of a capability to get up
here and use the space station. Wetre 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. There's no doubt in my mind we're
going to be visiting other planets. When that is, I can't sa t".
It's when the American people chose to - to make that effort.
Those are two directions which are inevitable. How fast
they come is really up to the desires of the people.
CC Okay, Ed. Thank you very much, and
back to Jerry Carr. You guys have been in space longer than
anyone before. What psychological and mental problems do
yonlfo_esee fox space travelers on very long flights to,
say_ Mars?
CDR I think probably the psychological prob-
lems that you would probably face on a mission that long
would be the same kind of psychological problems you get up
north in the winter when you're locked in the cabin for
months o_ on an island, island fever, cabin fever, that sort of
thing, That is the - the lack of the ability to get away.
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You're stuck with the surroundings and there's not a whole

heck of a lot you can do about changing your surro"ndings,
and so what you need to design in a future spacecraft that
are going to do things like go to Mars, is you're going
to have to design lots of - of ways to divert yourself, ree -
recreation, reading, things like that. You got you got
to be able to as we say in the flying game, you got to be
able to close the hangar doors when you go home, and when
you're on a year or 2-year mission you're going to have to
have a place that you can call home and you're going to have
to be able to go to that and be by yourself or - and do what
what 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
spent 30 to 60 days underwater most certainly do understand
this problem too, and they're working it as well as we are.
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CC - - dark. You guys have been in space

longer than anyone before. What psychological and mental
problems do you foresee for space travelers on very long
flights to, say, Mars?
CDR I think probably the psychological
problem that you would probably face on a mission that long
would be the same kind of psychological problems you get
up north in the winter, when you're locked in the the cabin
for months, or on an island. Island fever, cabin fever,
that sort of thing. That is the lack of the ability to get
away. You're stuck with a surrounding and there's not a
whole beck of a lot you can do about changing your surround-
ings. And so, what you need to design in the future space-
craft if you're going to do things llke go to Mars, is you're
going to have to design lots of - of ways to divert yourself;
recreation, reading, things like that. You've got to - you've
got to be able to - as we say in the flying game, you've
got to be able to close the hangar doors when you go home.
And when you're on a year or 2-year mission, you're going
to have to have a place that you can call home. And you're
going to have to be able to go to that and be by yourself
or - and do what 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 30 60 days under water, most certainly
do understand this problem, too. And they're working it
as well as we are.
CC Roger, Jerry. Thank you very much.
This one's for Ed Gibson. Based on your medical studies,
what do you predict your physical condition will be after
splash down?
SPT Okay, Dick. As Jerry already pointed
out, we're in better condition than when we left in the sense
that cardiovascular, that is the ability to perform work with
using - using oxygen. And Especially your ability to utilize
oxygen. In that respect we're ahead. We, of course,
have not had any one-g stimulus to our inner ear. We don't
know exactly how that's going to affect us in terms of
dizziness. We're going to 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
which we have not used. And even though we have
exercised quite rigorously in many ways, the i gravity down
there tended to use d_fferent muscles and we're going to
find that we're going to be a little sore, probably. But,
all and all, I think, we're going to come out pretty well.
And I think if we're in a kind of situation which requires
us to use our physical capabilities when we first got down,
I would have no fear of it.
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CC Roger, Ed. Thank you very much. Back

to Jerry Carr. There's been a marked lack of public interest
in your flight. What do you think causes this, and does it
bother you?
CDR Well, I think, people just get use to
things. Think about about i0 or 12 or 15 years ago
when the space program was first getting going, there was
a decided interest in it then. Lots of action, lots of
interesting things. But I think people get use to these
things. People except them into their lives, and when you
except something into 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 as things stay rather routine in the space
program as it has been lately, I think, what we consolidate,
essentially, what we gained in space exploration, I think
probably the public interest will stay pretty low. But when
the spectacular's come off, people will be interested.
CC Okay, Jerry. Thank you very much.
We've got about 4 minutes left here and I still have a number
of questions. This one's for Bill Pogue. Do you feel your
time in space has been well spent and what rewards has the
American public reaped from the expense?
PLT Well, I think our time has been well spent,
of course. I thought that before we came and I still think it.
And as far as the rewards are concerned, I feel that most of
the reward will be sometime in making full provision. Now
some of our activities have already benefited certain areas
(garble) already, some of our visuall opera - observations.
Observations out the window by eye have revealed certain
things around the world. For instance, a new current the
coast - the northern coast of the island of New Zealand.
This was not known to exist. And when we first reported
that, we had quite a few questions come back on that. [Garble)
we checked it out again and it's there and we've documented
it with photographs over a period of time. It's also, of course,
possible that some of the other visual observations we've made
on ice - ice movement would be of immediate benefit. Weather
observations will also be immediate of benefit. 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 telescope mount, will be years in reaching full formation.
Some of the results will probably manifest themselves in new
theories and new ideas almost immediately. Others will take a
long time before they will actually go through the full process
of moving through basic theories into applications. And so - It's
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hard to, i0 years from now, say, hey look, we went back on
Skylab i, 2, and 3. We developed - we brought back data
that led to this development. And at that time it's not
going to be exciting at all, because at that time it will
be ancient history. But I feel that those are the kind of
benefits which will probably be more dramatic in historical
perspective and some of the things which more or less excite
the imagination right now. I mean, of course, those are im-
portant and we're very excited about them ourselves, because
we can see something coming of it. The Earth resources is
another area which you may take some time to (garble) photo-
graphic data. The photographic and visual imagery will provide
immediat useful data in many cases in which might find applica-
tions in various parts of the world. We've not just photographed
the continental United States. We have done considerable
work in the continent of South America and also in Africa.
The - These photographs, of course, will be available to
these governments and they will use them immediately. Now
some of the other data 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 Row basic a theory you're working with. But, I think
£t w_ll 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, and when I say we, I mean the National
Aeronautics and Space Administration, working in conjunction
w_th several other governmental agencies in foreign continents
that we - we in this period of time_ did collect this data,
w_ch _s now being over several years and will continue to
f_nd applications.
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
t_e to get an answer on this, but I'll ask it anyway. And
Ed_ you can pass it down -
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CC Bill, thank you very muah. We're about

30 seconds to LOS. Vanguard comes up at 18:03, see you there.
Real quickly, I'm not sure we have time to get an answer
on this one. I'ii 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 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
understand why a flare occurs and how to be able to predict
exactly when it does. Be able to understand that and predict
much better and it will be a benefit not only to people on
Earth but also future space travel.
CC Okay, Ed, I got it. Thank you very much.
17 hours 53 minutes. Loss of signal through Texas tracking
station. Next acquisition in 8 minutes and 50 seconds will
be Vanguard where the press conference will be picked up
again. 18 minutes devoted to Q&A session with the crew on
this the final mission in Skylab, and the final press conference
in space for the Skylab program. We have a 10-minute pass
through Vanguard in 8 minutes and 30 seconds. We'll bring
the line back up at that time. This is Skylab Control at
Greenwich mean time 17 hours 54 minutes.
PAO Skylab Control, Greenwich mean time 17
hours 56 minutes. Correction that the press conference has
been concluded. It will not be continued through Vanguard.
Vanguard acquisition in 6 minutes and 15 seconds. At Greenwich
mean time 17 hours 56 minutes, this is Skylab Control.
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18 hours 2 minutes. Acquisition coming through Vanguard in
45 seconds, a 10-minute pass.
CC Skylab, Houston. Hello at the Vanguard
for 11 minutes.
CDR Hello, Dick.
CC I got two, three things here. For one
thing, the VTR is clean, and except for the scheduled ATM
TV after a while it's all yours for the rest of the day.
Also, I'd like to get somebody to help me out with a reg 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 secure
from the press conference we just had, it lists in there the
panel 200 buffer amps i circuit breaker to OPEN. Of course,
that's now being handled by you guys. As long as it gets
closed when you want to do voice recording you can handle it
either way you want.
CDR Okay. We're going 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 a while ago which is 45 degrees counterclockwise
from where you are now.
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 a
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.
CDR Okay, Dick. Right after lunch we're all
three going to the command module. We're going to review
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 pass.
CC Okay. And the reg bus adjust looks real
good. We sure appreciate it.
SPT Thank yon_ Dick. Hey Dick, let me
throw a couple more sentences onto that last question if I
could.
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CC Okay.
SPT Okay. Really, not just ability to pre-
dict 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 mechanism of release is something we don't understand
and I think it's a basic problem, basic physical problem,
astrophysics if you will, and once we understand that we
may have application for it elsewhere in addition to just
understanding 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 hit 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
quiet, quiescent returning feature near 30/1.0.
CC Roger.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're a minute to LOS.
Tananarlve at 18:31.
PA0 Skylab Control, Greenwich mean time
18 hours 14 minutes. Loss of signal through Vanguard. Next
acquisition in 16 hours 45 seconds will be Tananarive tracking
station for a 4=minute-45-second pass. We'll bring the line
back up at that time. This is Skylab Control at Greenwich
mean time 18 hours 45 - 18 hours 14 minutes.
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18 hours 30 minutes. Acquisition coming through Tananarive
in 50 seconds. Skylab crew presently having their afternoon
meal.
CC Skylab, Houston; hello at 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'ii give you a call at Goldstone
at 19:19.
PLT Roger, Dick.
hours 36 minutes with loss of signal through Tananarive.
Next acquisition in 42 minutes will be through Goldstone
tracking station. The crew in their off time now. Science
Pilot Gibson's scheduled to spend an hour at the ATM control
and display panel beginning at Greenwich mean time 1900 hours.
Commander Gerald Carr scheduled to do some housekeeping chores
aboard the workshop with Pilot Bill Pogue having a block
of off,duty time immediately following lunch period. Today's
Earth resources pass indications here, everything went well;
38th pass in the Skylab program. Tomorrow Earth resources
pass 39 for Skylab mission IV is a stateside - along a state-
side gronndtrack entering above San Francisco, California,
running down the coast, crossing over Mexico, Central, and
then over South America, a data of about ii minutes in duration,
followed by a lunar calibration aiming the EREP instruments
at the Moon to gather calibration data. Tomorrow's EREP pass,
the final in the program is number 94 for the Skylab program,
3_ for this mission. Next acquisition will be thro_igh Gold-
stone in 40 minutes and 40 seconds. At Greenwich mean time
18 hours 37 minutes, this is Skylab Control.
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19 hours 8 minutes, i0 minutes away from acquisition through
Goldstone. We have an announcement here. Skylab is cleared
for mission completion of 84 days. William C. Schneider, Skylab
Program Director announced today that the record-breaking
third and final Skylab Manned Mission has been given approval
for continuation to the end of the planned 84-day period.
Reentry and recovery will be Friday, February 8, with splash-
down expected at 10:17 a.m. central daylight time, approx-
imately 175 statute miles southwest of San Diego. Approval
for extending the mission followed review of the inflight
medical data and recommendation of the NASA Director for
Life Sciences Dr. Charles A. Berry and an evaulation of
Skylab's comsumables and hardware status. This concludes
the announcement. Next acquisition will be in 9 hours
9 minutes and 30 seconds through Goldstone. Skylab Control
Greenwich mean time 19 hours 17 minutes. A brief pass
through the Goldstone tracking station 4 minutes in duration.
Bring the line up for CAP COMM Dick Truly as the crew has
the rest of the day off with a ATM session for Science
Pilot Ed Gibson. The crew has been given a GO for the 84
day mission. Splashdown scheduled for February 8 southwest
of San Diego in the Pacific. We'll bring the line up for
this pass, 4 minutes in duration.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Goldstone
for 4 minutes.
PLT Roger Dick.
CC SPT, Houston. I've got another late
solar activity update for you. At 16:55 Zulu there was a
subflare from active region 38 and also prominence 92 that
I mentioned before at 30/1.0 is reported active by Sacramento
Peak.
SPT 0kay_ thank 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
pamses if I might read them up and you might give us the
answers to them of course without television.
CDR Yeah, 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
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came from a group of 6th grade science students at the

Gardner-Dickinson School in Wyantskill, New York. As a
class project the students submitted questions for Skylab
to the local paper of the Troy Times Record which selected
several and 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 first one 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-i 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 environment around him and so when he's in
zero g he's really out of his environment. And I think it
would take man many years to addapt 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 one 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 to
dump the data/voice recorder there. Maybe if Bill gets
through early there or the next pass, I can ask you the
other three questions that I have. There's three more. See
you there.
hours 23 minutes. Acquisition coming through Vanguard in
16 minutes. One of the final few qestions of the press
conference read up to the crew, answer by Commander Carr,
possibly the other three questions submitted by the
students w_ll be answered during the Vanguard pass. Next
acquisition in 16 minutes. At Greenwich mean time 19 hours
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mean time. Tracking ship Vanguard will acquire space station
Skylab in about 45 seconds at the end of the 3785th Earth orbit
for the space station.
MCC Skylab, Houston with the ATM conference
here, and we'll be doing a data/voice recorder dump here at
your 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; 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 1 - 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 40 seconds to
go until it times out for the exposure here. It'll be
reading 4 after that.
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 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 bat_ in the morning is another JOP 13.
The target is the same as we tried previously, Gamma Velorum.
_owever, we_ll be 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 Canop_s, tweak up our pointing on that and then go by
a cookbook maneuver out to Gamma Vels_ do a tweak maneuver
t_ere a lot like we did last time, and take our data. At
any time that you don_t find it_ for instance on Canopus,
you can look around until you're ready to say that you cannot
f_nd it if that's the case, hit SI and 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 strap
down when we get down to Canopus and initialize again at
Gamma Vel?
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MCC That's affirmative. We initialize as -

after we get to Canopus and then we initialize again at
Gamma 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. Fifty-five will
be doing a 12 Echo, thatVs the calibration of the detectors.
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 sometime let us know and we will drop that out
of the ops tomorrow and substitute something else. Again we
will be supporting that tomorrow as we're ready to do today
with with exact pointings from M auna Loa here as to where to
find the plumes that they do see. Then following it on Saturday
which is two days from now we will have a conference, it will
be the last ATM conference. Right now our planning is we
will be doing a building block 16 which is a calibration
building block. And SO - it is primarily for S052 although
56 and 55 will also operate. And as a message we sent
up earlier says 52 requires 70 frames for calibration because
of the out of sequence bit with the counter where they shot
some unattended. There will be 140 remaining on the counter
when there are physically 70 frames remaining. I mentioned
that mainly in the unlikely event that you go off on a coronal
tTansient here over the next day or so, don't forget to save
140 on the counter for their calibration.
SPT I got that written right above the
frames remaining counter, same as 54.
MCC Okay good. And then the last thing that
we will do that day will he an S055 detector 5 test, where we
will be takimg one MAR at all detectors other than 5 on.
We will take a MAR at the same location with only 5 on in
OVERR_DE and
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MCC - - S055 detector 5 test where we will be

taking one MAR with all detectors other than 5 on. We will
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 OVERRIDE. And
on the last one you will be asked to keep an eye on the DETECTOR
i count in the event it gets up to over several thousand
for more than i0 seconds to turn detector 5 off. This is to
get at the effect of detector 5 on the others in the par-
ticular question such as is it working or just what is going
on there. And - -
SPT We'll be watching detector 5 at that time is
that correct?
MCC Well, you will be watching detector 1
because you cannot look at 5. And you will be looking at
the effects of 5 on 1 if there are any.
SPT Okay.
MCC And as of right now that's the way things
look for planning as far a planned ATM orbits go from now
through the rest of the missionp which brin_s you up to EVA.
And I don't have anyting else to add, willing to answer your
question or what ever you got in mind.
CDR Okay Bill_ I think we'll go ahead and
plan on doing the solar plume tomorrow then. Remainder of
today looks like we got start relearning the command module
and entry proceduresp 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.
But with the lack of film we have and the lack of activity
I think things are grinding down to a halt here. And so as
you described it I thinks it's apt that we finish it up
in this way. I think it's good timing.
MCC Okay good. That's what it looked like
to me also. Which is whay 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 anyting else then, I turn it over
to Dick and he can talk to Jerry about the Press Conference
some more.
SPT Okayp thanks very much Bill.
SPT Hey, Bill one other thing. How many -
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?
MCC Well, have to get you that one Ed. My
understanding is they don't actually up and calibrate so
much as they just take sequences that encompass all of their
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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 with out some frames exposed.
MCC Right.
CC Skylab, Houston. We still have about
3 minutes here. I'll ask a couple more of these question
here maybe we can get them out of the way. We appreciate
you answering them for us. A young lady named 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 toward the same things and we get along
pretty well up here. We're all pretty much the same nature,
and it worked out real well_ no problem.
CC Okay, thank you. Here's one I'm sure
you_ll enjoy giving some thought 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
I second guard exposure. It's on the pad I think. We still have
about a minute and 40 seconds here. I have one more question
lull pass up to you here.
SPT Okay, go ahead. A young fellow named
Mark Schnelling _ Schnellbaecher Mark Schnellbaecher wants
to know if you feel that you are more of a man now, as compared
with before you left, and if so in what ways?
CDR Okay, wetll let the PLT answer that one.
PLT That's alot Jer° Well you say it again
please Dick.
CC Rogerp he want's to know if you feel that
you're more of a man now as compared with before you left, and
if so in what way? We've got about a minute Bill.
PLT Well, I don_t know what constitutes his
def_nlt_on of a man. If it means dealing with problems. I
suppose that we _ave learned a little bit how to deal better
w_th problems of a personal nature_ and of - of say problems
of the type that occur in spacecraft. Because obviously,
although we were well trained we never faced the actual situation
unt£1 we got up here. So I guess in that regard I suppose
web're better crewmen in that we have obviously learned
something s£nce wetve been up here. If he's tracking the
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question more toward a philosophical vein then I would sort

of have to beg off. Because I think that this is sort of
self analysis 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 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.
CC Roger that. Both of those are good answers.
We're going LOS here at the Vanguard. I give you a call
when we get to Tananarive at 20:04. And we appreciate you
putting up with me and answering those extra four questions.
Thank you very much.
PAO This is Skylab Control loss of signal at
tracking ship Vanguard. And a combination of ATM Science
Conference between Dr. William Lenoir here in Mission Control
and Science Pilot Ed Gibson aboard Skylab. And picked up
three more questions from the inflight press conference.
Second set of questions having been submitted from the sixth
grade science class at Gardner-Dickinson School in Wyantskill,
New York. We'll return for voice relay station Tananarive in
12 minutes. At 19:52 Greenwich mean time this is Skylab
Control.
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PAO This is Skylab Control. 20:03 Greenwich

mean time. Voice relay station at Tananarive will hopefully
pickup the spacecraft within the next 45 seconds. Final
Tananarive pass of the day. Standing by for word from the
COMM TECH out at Tananarive that they have indeed acquired
the space station.
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, 200 and some odd frames, whether we should still
CC Break, Break.
SPT - - take the given filters and Just
shoot one right after the other for the duration of that
orbit which might pickup slow or rapid time changes (garble)
time exposures - -
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.
SPT Dick, your coming 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'll - I'll 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,
what ever one they'd like, either timed exposures, manual
or with short, normal or long automatic timing, and just take
the 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.
CC Okay, Ed. Thanks for the question, we'll
get an answer to you. I have one note for you guys. When-
ever yon - 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 Alfa 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.
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
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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.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're 45 seconds to
LOS, Hawaii comes up at 20:49. See you there.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Final loss of
signal at Tananrive voice relay station. Our next acquisition
of the space station will be in 33 minutes over tracking
station Hawaii, on a semi-day off for the crew. Remainder
of the day mostly off duty, showers, other housekeeping, and
physical training. We'll return at Hawaii in 32 minutes.
This is Skylab control at 20:16 Greenwich mean time.
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PAO This is Skylab Control at 20:48 Greenwich

mean time. Acquisition at tracking station Hawaii in 50
seconds. Flight Director Phil Shaffer now in the process
of handing over to Neil Hutchinson estimates that he'll be
available for change-of-shift briefing at 4:30 p.m. central
time in the Houston newsroom. That's at 4:30, change-of-
shift briefing with Flight Director Phil Shaffer. And we're
20 seconds away from Hawaii. Standing by.
CC Skylab, Houston. Hawaii for 8 minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston. We notice that S052
DOOR is OPEN and I think 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 command to get the DOOR CLOSED.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 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.
CC Okay, see you there.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Loss of signal
at Hawaii. And our next station will be tracking ship
Vanguard again in 17 minutes and from Vanguard to the next
station will be Hawaii again about an hour LOS period.
We"ll be back for Vanguard. And at 21:01 Greenwich mean
t_me this is Skylab Control.
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mean time. 50 seconds to acquisition at tracking ship
Vanguard. And about 13 minutes to predicted change-of-
shift press conference with Flight Director Phil Shaffer at
4:30 p.m. central in the Houston newsroom. We're getting
data now through the Vanguard. And we'll stand by for voice.
CC Skylab, this is Houston, through the
Vanguard. Nine minutes to LOS, data/voice tape recorder
dump. And next station contact in 1 hour and 6 minutes
through Hawaii at 22:26.
PAO This is Skylab Control, LOS tracking
ship Vanguard. Almost a full hour to the next station
Hawaii in 57 minutes. We'll return at that time. And
Flight Director Phil Shaffer holding his change-of-shift
briefing in the next few minutes in the Houston newsroom.
Since he's not visible here in the control center we assume
he's either enroute or has arrived at the Houston newsroom.
At 21:29 Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab Control.
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mean time. Final pass through the Hawaii station in 50
seconds. Crew has been rather quiet the last several passes.
All three apparently still down in the command module
going over the systems and entry checklists and not in a
position or inclined to talk much to the ground. Also the
afternoon is fairly much free time for the crew. i0 seconds
to predicted acquisition at Hawaii, as a matter of fact we
have data already. Stand by for voice.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Hawaii
for 7-1/2 minutes. Next station contact in 31-1/2 minutes
through the Vanguard at 22:58. Over.
CDR Roger Bruce.
CC Okay, just wanted to say hi for a second.
And also to tell you 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 over night.
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 not sleeping.
CC Okay, but in all practicality with the
site coverage and things of this sort the bulk of it
will probably be coming up after you get turned in tonight.
CDR Well so far you haven't been able to max
it out to the point where it effected 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 something to work on over
the next couple of days.
CDR Okay_ 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
as we can to get this stuff processed and closed 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 it on the loop a couple
of t_me here so we're all squared away.
CDR Very good.
PAO Skylab Control. Space station has
finally gone over the southern horizon from the Hawaii
tracking station. 21 minutes to tracking ship Vanguard.
The sequence from undocked to splash has been written up
by one of the Houston news room serihs by the name of
Hilt Re±m. And it reads as follows. The nominal end of
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mission for Skylab IV is scheduled for the morning of

Friday, February 8 at 10:17 a.m. central time, as Gerald Carr,
Ed Gibson and Bill Pogue splashdown 176 statute miles
southwest of San Diego. They will have flown in space
longer and traveled farther than any three human beings in
recorded history, having made 1213 trips around the world
in just over 84 days. Early on recovery day at 5:34 a.m.
the command module is scheduled to undock from what has been
their home since November 16, and begin the return to Earth.
At that time Skylab will be over the Atlantic 725 statute
miles northeast of Bermuda.
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PAO their home since November 16th and

begin the return to Earth. At that time Skylab will be
over the Atlantic 725 statute miles northeast of Bermuda.
They will do a flyaround of Skylab and take photos for about
20 minutes. At 6 a.m. central time is the Skylab and the
separated command service modules are 748 statute miles
southwest of Capetown, South Africa. The crew will perform
a 5 foot per second reaction control system burn to separate
the two vehicles, as they prepare for the reentry shaping
burn. The service propulsion system shaping burn will take
place over the Pacific in darkness, at 6:38 a.m. over a
point 897 statute miles due south of Guam. The SPS burn will
reduce the velocity of the command service module of about
- 2 or by about 279 feet per second. About 3 hours later at
9:36 a.m., as the command service module is over a point
414 statute miles due south of Singapore over the Gulf of
Thailand, the crew will perform the SPS or service propulsion
system retrofire maneuver to start them on a reentry
trajectory. A velocity change of 185 feet per second will
be imparted by this burn. About i0 minutes later the command
service module passes over a point between Japan's Kyushu
Island and South Korea, the service module will be jettisoned
by the crew. A velocity change of about 22 feet per second
w_ll be imparted to the service module pushing it slightly
above, ahead, and south of the command module. The first
first sensible atmosphere that the command module will
encounter will occur at 400_000 feet above the Earth, at
lOt01 a.m. over a point in the Pacific, 1357 statute miles
west of Seattle, Washington and about 1783 statute miles
north northeast of Hawaii. The first noticeable g-forces
felt By the crew since their launch will occur some 2-1/2
m_nutes later at 10:03:21 a.m. At that time the .05 g that's
.05 or 5 one,hundredths will be exerted on the crew and
command module. 22 seconds after the .05 g or at 10:03:43
a.m. the spacecraft will enter a period of communication
blackout. At this time they will be 656 statute miles due
west of Eureka, California, Blackout of communications will
continue unt_l 10:07:11 a.m. as they pass 299 statute miles
west of Los Angeles. About i and I-I/2 seconds before the
drQ_gue chutes are deployed_ at 10:11:20 a.m., the forward
heat shield will be jettisoned. The two drogue chutes will
open at 24,000 feet and at 10:12:07 a.m. the three main chutes
will he deployed by a pilot chute, and the drogues jettisoned.
Essentially_ the last 24,000 feet to splash is straight down.
Splash is scheduled to take place at a point 176 statute miles
soutkwest of San Diego_ at the following coordinates: latitude
31 degrees_ 19 minutes north, and longitude 119 degrees 45
minutes west, at a time of 10:16:59 a.m. central daylight
time. 15 minutes to tracking ship Vanguard. We'll return at
that time. At 22:41 Greenwich mean time, Skylab Control.
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mean time. Acquisition in 50 seconds at tracking ship
Vanguard. A brief dropout between Vanguard of about 5
minutes - 6 minutes. And we'll stay up through both
Vanguard and Ascension pass. Standing by.
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 ahead.
CDR Bruce, on $233 I've tried about 4 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 sh - -
CC Okay, we have a little procedure here
describing how you can get it in the field of view. If you're
ready to listen or 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 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 frames
of the camera parallel to the line from homeplate to
first base. Over.
CDR Okay, you said the line between Scheat and
Algenib and that exact same distance on further beyond.
CC Right. That's homeplate through second
base and then the same distance on past it.
CDR All right, you want the long axls 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
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little bit.
CDR It does indeed when you got to stand
on your head to stick your he - face up against the window.
It's very difficult to see much.
CC Rog. Stand by a second. Okay, Jerry.
And if you can't nail it down exactly why do the best you
can. Point the camera 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 brightness of the sky
background. And hopeful]y we'll be able to fine the comet
later in the one that's focused on infinity.
CDR Okay, Bruce. Hopefully with these new
instructions, we might be able to find it. I don't know.
We'll try.
CC Okeydoke.
PAO Skylab Control, loss of signal at
Vanguard, 4 minutes to reacquisition at tracking
station Ascension Island. We'll stay up across this Eap,
and await Ascension.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC2727/I
Time: 18:11 GMT 77:23:11 GMT
1/31/74
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.
CC And Skylab, Houston in the blind we see
S052 door open. WeVre going to send a ground command to
try and close it. Out.
CDR Roger, Bruce.
SPT Houston, that's the second time today in
which you had to send a command to close that door and we have
not gone near the panel. So it's - apparently there is 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 is 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. Jerry, this is Houston, i0 seconds to
LOS. Next station contact in 38 minutes through Guam at
23:57. And we're a little embarrassed to admit 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 are getting
right now looks like it should be fairly near Aldebaran
between Orion and Menkar and just below Aldebaran.
CDR Okay, thanks Bruce.
CC About 4 hours right ascension, which ought
to be about 060 degrees.
PAO This is Skylab Control, LOS Ascension
Island. Guess no one thought to go outside and peer up at
the moon and find out what constellation it's in. At any
rate there was some question there from the crew as to wether
moonlight might be inhibiting sighting of Comet Kohoutek if
it were near the constellation that was passed up to the
crew. Pegasus_ the great square of Pegasus and a projection
from second base to home plate in that four star constel-
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lation. Thirty-six minutes to tracking station Guam. Extremely

brief pass at Guam, 2.7 degree elevation angle. At 23:21
Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC-2728/I
Time: 18:56 CDT 77:23:56 GMT
1/31/74

mean time. 3-1/2 minute pass coming up here at Guam Island.
The first Guam pass of the evening. Next station after
Guam will be the Vanguard and the crew evening status report
followed at Ascension by the medical conference with the
surgeon. Starting to get data now at Guam. And we're
standing by.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Guam.
3_i/2 minutes till LOS. Next station contact in 37 minutes
through the Vanguard at 00:35. PLT private phone call,
LEFT ANTENNA and the evening status report at AOS. Over.
PLT Hey Bruce, if we could I'd like to try
to give the evening status report here.
CC Stand by a second.
CC Go ahead, let her rip, we got three
minutes.
PLT Okay. Sleep: CDR, 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, 4946, 1933, CDR, SPT and PLT respectively. BMMD:
CDR, 6.304, 6.304, 6.308; SPT, 6.370, 6.376, 6.375; PLT,
6.258, 6.254, 6.256. No exercise for any crewmen. Okay,
weight of the f - weight following the stereo photos last
night was as follows, the are three BMMD 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 clothing, Flight plan deviations: No housekeeping
7 Juliet. Shopping list accomplishments: All crewmen got
1.8 hour entry checklist review, we got doeumentory photos
8 Alfa and Bravo. Inoperatable 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 one coffee with
sugar_ plus 1.5 salt; SPT, 1.5 salt, plus one tuna, plus two
rehydratlon water_ PLT, 8.5 salt, plus two crispy bars, plus
one green bean, rehydration water deviation water, zero.
CC Okay_ I'm sure we got all that on tape
BEll. If you've got the photo log, go ahead with that.
FLT Okay. 16_millimeter, EREP VTS Charlie
India 90, 88 percent. Housekeeping 71 Bravo transporter 6,
Ckarlie India 87p 30 percent_ Charlie India 79, Mike 47-4
Foxtrot, transporter 6 also, Charlie India 87, 20 percent,
Ckarlie India 79. _oeumentary 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 both using S063. Nikon 03,
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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 read number 4 again it was 0392. Drawer A configur-
ation: 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 setup for Vanguard, LEFT ANTENNA.
PLT Roger.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Loss of signal
at Guam. Pilot Bill Pogue moved the evening status report
which had been scheduled for Vanguard, an ii minute pass at
Vanguard, and he crammed it into 3-1/2 minutes at Guam talking
as fast as a tobacco auctioneer. So maybe the questions
the evening questions will go up at Vanguard. Ascension
Island and the pass after Vanguard will be the crew medical
conference between the flight surgeon and the crew. We'll
return for Vanguard in 31 minutes. This is Skylab Control
at 3 minutes past midnight Greenwich mean time.
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SL-IV MC2729/I
Time: 19:33 CDT, 78:00:33 GMT
1/31/74
PAO This is Skylab Control, 33 minutes past

midnight Greenwich mean time. Acquisition at tracking
ship Vanguard in 50 seconds. Originally scheduled for the
evening status report here at Vanguard but that was accomplished
in machine gun fashion back at Guam. Medical conference at
Ascension, the pass just following Vanguard here. We'll stay
up all across both stations in case the surgeon turns the
loop back to the control room, toward the end of Ascension
Island pass. And we miss Canary and Madrid this time around.
About 5 seconds to predicted acquisition at Vanguard. And
we do have data coming in.
Vanguard for 10-1/2 minutes. For the CDR. Over.
SPT Bruce, he's up working 233.
CC Okay, Ed. We got another way of pointing
233 for him, if he can listen.
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 the 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. Thanksp Bruce.
CC Okay, and for you Ed, could you verify the
configuration of the WLC AUTO DOOR switch for us? It should
be in NORMAL. Over.
SPT I'll go take a look. No, 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, mission day 78. We'd like to show full
urine samples in the morning in your morning postsleep and
it goes in slot 51p 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 management
cue cards. And wetll have that up on the teleprinter message
to you this evening for insertion tomorrow.
CDR Thanks a lot.
CC Okayp if you want to get out the urine
blood management cue cards, why we can go through the rest
of it here in real time.
CDR No need_ Bruce.
C_ Okay. And last night on evening status
report, you all mentioned DAC 01 was inoperable. Can you give
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us anymore details on it?

SPT Bruce, the only thing we can report on
that is that we tried it with different transporters all
of which we knew worked, or different - yeah different
transporters. And we could not get it to function. We
could hear it clicking. We have not had a chance to
troubleshoot it.
CC Okay. Thank you. And with respect to
the shower blower failure. When you change 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 believe there was any water on through into the
blower because every other time we changed the filter it's
wet.
CC Okay. We copy. And for Bill, have you
all removed the recorder ALC bypass cable yet in accordance
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 teleprinter paper changeout tonight.
And I'ii let you get back to Kohoutek.
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1/31/74
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 estimated magnitude of the great Comet Kohoutek is
7. So it's probably pretty hard to see.
CDR You said it. We've got Persesus and
Andromeda and Cassiopeia located, and we're still looking.
CC Okay.
PAO Skylab Control, loss of signal at tracking
ship Vanguard. Ascension Island in a minute and a half.
Medical conference scheduled at this pass. We'll leave the
circuit open just in case the surgeon completes the medical
conference with the crew prior to loss of signal at Ascension.
Forty-six minutes pass midnight standing by, Skylab Control.
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.
CC What technique did you finally use for
locating it, your star chart and stars or the 20 degrees off the
normal of the window?
CDR Well, I used the Bravo, Delta, Lima
technique, blind dumb luck.
CC Roger, we copy and we'll put that in the
recommendations 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 meactivate you shower assembly.
CDR 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
w_thout them. We can do a pretty good job just washing.
CC Okay_ certainly your option. We wanted
to tell you that y_:'re GO to do that if you want.
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CC And of course Jer, we've got another one

up there in suit drying station.
CDR Yeah, thatVs right, we won't be drying any
suits anymore.
CC Yeah, you will 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 still
have a servicable one. But again we're not trying to push
you into the shower, we're just making the option available.
CDR Okay, thank you.
CC 1 minute to LOS next station contact in
34 minutes through Guam at 01:32 with a data/voice tape
recorder dump at Guam. Out.
PAO Skylab Control, loss of signal at
Ascension Island. Portion of that pass was handed back to
Spacecraft Communicator Bruce McCandless at the conclusion of
the medical conference. Commander Jerry Carr reported that
out of dumb luck as he called it he was able to spot the
Kohoutek just before it set through the Earth airglow, for
$233 photography scheduled on today's Flight Plan. Next
station Guam Island in 32 minutes. At 59 minutes pass
midnight Greenwich mean time, Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC-2731/I
Time: 20:31 CDT 78:01:31 GMT
1/31/74

mean time. 50 seconds to acquisition Guam Island. Changes
in the undocking and Entry Checklist being reviewed here
on the video tubes by the flight control team on duty now
under Nell Hutchinson before they are finally uplinked onto
the teleprinter aboard space station Skylab for cut and
paste job to the onboard checklist. We have acquisition
at Guam. Standing by.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Guam for
i0 minutes. Wakeup site in the morning will be Tananarive
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 scheduled here if you're not using it.
CDR Negative_ go ahead.
CC And CDR, this is Houston. We're ready for
the teleprinter 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 like the stuff that's
coming up is coming out legibly. Over.
PLT Okay, I'll check it.
CC And if you'll change it out now we can
really whip you up a test message right here at Guam.
CDR Yeah, we'll be a couple of minutes. Be
right with you.
CC Okay.
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 ahout five-eighths of an
inch of diameter on 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 watch out for
an overheated teleprinter or something here. We got a bunch
to ship up.
PLT Okay.
CC We - yeah, we changed it out in antic-
ipat£on of our requirements which are something over 35
feet of messages coming up tonight. And we just wanted to
make aSsolutely 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
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most inspiring reading in the world but it checks out the

systems.
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.
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.
PLT Roger.
PAO This is Skylab Control. We've had loss
of signal at tracking station Guam, final call of the evening.
Wake up will be 6 minutes past 6:00 a.m. Friday at the
Tananarive station. We'll be back with the summary of the
medical conference as written by the crew physician Dr.
Paul Buchanan as soon as it's available. At 01:44 Greenwich
mean time, Skylab Control.
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SL-IV MC2732/I
Time: 20:51 CDT, 78:01:51 GMT
1/31/74

mean time. Next station tracking ship Vanguard in 20
minutes. However, the crew signed off for the evening.
Bill Pogue at the last station changed out the teleprinter
paper, even though the roll was not anywhere near gone. But
some estimated 35 feet of messages are going to be uplinked
tonight to the teleprinter. Checklist changes for deactivation,
and reentry. We have now the summary of the medical
conference, by Dr. Paul Buchanan, the crew physican on
this shift. Summary reads as follows: The Skylab-IV crew
has made the most of their day off free time. They sound
rested and relaxed. They elected not to exercise today.
The Commander Jerry Carr took a decongestant tablet tonight
for a mild but nagging nasal stuffiness which developed this
afternoon. The rash on the neck of the Science Pilot Ed
Gibson has much improved, and he will perform the MI31 sleep
experiment. The antihistamine decongestant medication being
taken by the Pilot Bill Pogue will be deereased to one
tablet each morning. He reports marked improvement. That
completes the summary by Dr. Paul Buchanan. Signing off
until 6 minutes after 6 a.m. central daylight time. This
is Skylab Control at 01:53 Greenwich mean time.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC-2733/I
Time: 06:05 CDT 78:11:05 GMT
2/1/74
PAO Good morning, this is Skylab Control at

ii hours 5 minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab is less than
a minute away from acquisition through Tananarive. Wakeup
call is scheduled at this station. Flight Director on duty
now is Milton Windier, Spacecraft Communicator, Dr. Story
Musgrave. We'll stand by for astronaut Musgrave's call to
the crew.
CC Morning, Skylab. Got you through Tananarive
for 4 minutes.
CC Skylab, we're a couple of minutes to LOS,
about 20 minutes to Honeysuckle at 11:30. 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 JOP 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 Bravo 1
do you have?
CC That's the 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 11:30, that's sunset.
CDR We have two complete messages and a partial,
Story.
CC That's just what we wanted to know. Thanks,
Jet.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Tananarive has loss
of signal. Next station is Honeysuckle, Australia in 15 minutes.
At ii hours 15 minutes Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
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_AO 7his is SLylab Control at Ii hours 29

minutes Greenwich ii_ean ti[_e. Skyla0 con_ing up on acquisition
through _oneysuckle.
CC Skylab, AOS through Honeysuckle for 3
I_linu fie_ .
FLT kozer Story.
CC i[orning, Bill. And anyone is near the
STS, like to _ave them check the teleprinter and see that the
messages are coEing up all right now.
S['T Looks good, Story.
CC Yhanks, Ed, and _e'll eoi_anding on C_h' 5
at this time and also powering down the llDA and Aid wall heaters.
And your housekeeping on 99 Alpha looks good. 7he only thing
we can see down here that still needs doing is the idOL SIEVE
B FAilS panel 203.
CC Skylab, we're a minute to LOS. Avout i0
minutes to _awaii.
PAO ibis is Skylab Control. 5kylab out of
range of the i[oneysuckle station no_:. Hawaii will acquire
in 9 minutes, foday is the final Skylab day which is devoted
principally to science experiments. Total nan hours of science
today scLeduled is 27-1/2 hours, fhe final lartk resources
survey of the 5hylab program, also scheduled today beginning
at 11:49 a.m. central daylight time, crossing th= United States
from northwest to southeast, 28-minute pass. Science lilot
Ed Gibson will shortly start a JOP 13 prograr: with the Apollo
telescope mount. JOP I_ is observation of night _ky objects.
i_a will concentrate primarily on Gauma Velorun in today's activity.
Following the Earth resources pass, that equipment will be
calibrated on the lloon, ihat's scheduled about 12:45. T_:o
lower body negative pressure and uetabolic activity medical
experiments are scheduled for this afternoon with the Science
Pilot lid Cibson, the subject for the first run. Pilot 5ili
l ogue the subject for the second run. Jerry Sarr _'ill -e the
observer during both of those runs. And each of the crewneu
at one tir<e or another during today, will attempt to photograph
comet XoLoutek which is fast disappearing and there's a
selection of candidate sites for handhold photography today.
ilawaii co<_ing up in 6 minutes. At ii hours 43 uinutes Oreen-
_;ich i::eaa time, this is Sky!ab Control.
I'AO - through the i_awaii station nov.
CC Skylab, oaok with you through hawaii for
6 minutes .
SPT Aoger Ztory.
CC And Ld, _;e just had a reject on page g
of the EVA cheeLlist updates. Could you chec[t and see if
page 3's all right before _Je send 9?
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SPI Story, it fools all right fron here.

CC Okay, Ed. And ti:e bad news this a_orning
is, there's so r._cL paper up tLcre, 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 :.:iscthose.
There's a little hu_::or in there.
CC Well, if you need some more paper up there,
n:aybe we can sen_[ one up.
SPY We' re al_Jays ready to [lear fro_ tLe .[_2A
guys .
CC Skylab, _:e're a rinute to LOS. 2 pinu_es
to Goldstone.
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PAn fhis l_{ o_._ _.a_ Control, hau'al] has loss

of signal, o.._I_ is about a minute a_a:., [rof acquisition
through the Go],] tone, California station. 'Ju '_± keep t',e
line up for tl_e ,ul_sto_.u pass.
CC 3_ylab, A_ through Coldstone for 5 minutes.
Jer, iouston.
CD_ Go ahead, Story.
CC Jer, _'e're at present shi?p'n!, t]!_ ="'
Checklist up te ._ou r1_l_t ",_ no_-. Consi£ering yo_ got t_ _
preprep t_r_orro_ _ a _ ] the ]_V__ in a couple of da],s fro_" nc_ -,
you proba_ , do t,_tter to _:or! on _ ,_ ]_"_ Chechl{_
changes prior to FettinE into the Deactivation anJ Entr _-
_._eckllst c_anges
C_X Yeah, I kind of thought t' at'd be a good
idea too. i_ight now l'm just tryin E to ,..a<.ethrou;<h all
this stuff and _<'_a_ out what we've Sot to do for today aad
get that all cut apart.
CC Xow many feet you got up there right now?
CLX _$ell, let me put it this way ; I can make
it all the ,_ay fro:: the teleprinter to my tal:!e at the uard-
room without eutti_g the paper.
CC i!ov,many times can you do that._
C711 I can' t believe this spaghetti bowl.
CC I guess we s._oul_n t be proud of it, but
it must be some ,_iad of record.
CEK You said it.
CC _nd, you all are pretty !..usy, hut anytime
you want the nu_:_, let us hnow.
_ _ Our ears aren't busy, Story, So ahead.
CC And you are running JOP 1 ° _oday. kight?
You got a good inching maneuver time.
S_ Do ",_e have JOP '3 today, Story?
CC Ue!l, that was a _-riendly Jay of reminding
you since there must be so nuch other confusion up there.
• _ Ue're loohing for the pad now.
EC So _ere we.
CC Pago Pago, American Samoa inky_ s=_
survivors ar_ reported in the eras" of a Pan .'.merican 17orld
Air_ays jet!il-_er c_ its approach to the Pago Pago airport in
.,_-_au_ie. T]_e airline sam_ _.: of the 191 persons
aboar£ tLe ;_oeing 707 jet were U.S. residents. .in airline
S !or_
_o'_"_eoma_.•
.... said th_ plane crashed 199 yards _ _ or the run::ay
during a hea_ ....rain squall Thursday-. Samuel Gold'. vn,_ _i,
pioneer indepundcnt producer of American film:_ an" one of
the :_en ,.;ho fou_de_] founded the motion-picture industry
in the 1920s, died on fhursday. One of the high points in
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his career ca'he i_i 47 when his fi]r: "Tile Lest Year Of Our
Lives" _._on the Acade_y A_ard as best picture. His last film
was "Porgy and Bess" in 1959. A stronF earthquake jolted
Izmir, tile port city in Western Tur_ney, early today, killing
at least t_:o persons, the f_natolia Ye_ss Agency reported.
l'andi!!i r'bservatory in Istanbul said the qua!.e iceasured
5.2 on the Zickter Scale and was centere<' a]_out 2/+5 miles
southwest of IstanLul.
CC Ue' re a minute from Lo_ an<_ about 5 ::inute
to Lernuda. The national health insurance pla_ barns readied
by the administration would guarantee that no one .:ould pay
more than }!,50] a ]'ear in medical e::penses, aceordin_ to an
initial estinate. For this protection, a single <-a_e earner
would pay a monthly pre_,ium of $6.56. For most '_orkers vzith
a family, the pre: iuii might be $19.52 a month. The adr inistra-
tion still is i_utting finishing touches on the proposals for
introduction in Congress on Tuesday. President Hixon sends
his annual ueonoric report to Congress today, 2 days after
voting in his State of the Union speech there would be no
recession in the Uni ted States. The economic men,sage will
spell out details of his econonie policies tl_at were not
provided in tl_e _#eech to Congress and a nation<:ide radio
and television audience.
CC .\nd, _'e' Ii pic': up the rest at Derruda.
CDF Okay.
PAO Skylab Control. Skylab out of range of the
Goldstone station nov. Berr.uda is the ne:-'t station in a
little over 3 :_in_itTs. Skylab grounJtrack is too far north
on this orbit to acquire at Texas and the :[err_'tt Ts]and,
Florida station. There _Jas some banter back and fortk on
this pass concernin Z the a_o_nt o _ m{'ssages beiny sent up on
the teleprinter. 7oda,_' s e::ecute pac':a2e and as_orte@
message <;ill set some hind of a record. It's estJrated that
approximately l_n _ent of paper :J_ll churn out o{ rite tele-
printer a!_oard %]:v]ab !)afore all of tiTe messages _ave ])e_n
transmitted. SkylaL about 2 minute_ a_av from acquJ_ltion
at ]]er_uda. Uo' 71 keep tl e line up for that station.
K_';D OF TAPK
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CC Skylab, back with you through Bermuda

for 8 minutes. And Ed, at your convenience we need a REG
ADJUST.
PLT Go ahead, Story.
CC Okay, Bill. BUS i, 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 recorder ALC bypass cable
out last night?
PLT That's affirmative.
CC Thanks, Bill.
CC The Egyptian Government has allocated $87.5
million for the restoration of the Suez Canal and the war-
ravaged towns along waterway. The cabinet 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 i0 vesse]s sunk during the 1967 Arab-Israeli war and
the silt that's accumulated in the 6-1/2 years that the water-
way has been closed. Several firms, 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. mili-
tary forces, the $47-1/2 billion in salary, military, military
retirement, housing and other personnel costs represent about
the same share of defense spending as in the current budget.
Farm prices, led by big gains for wheat 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 this "encounter dolls," made to represent parents
or employers. "A lot of growth comes 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
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what they feel." Epstein's four-foot people substitute

dolls are made of foam and are suitable for anhilation.
Photographs of faces can be attached to the figures. And
that's all I've got for you this morning, Skylab.
PLT Thanks, Story.
CC Skylab, we're a minute to LOS and 2 minutes
to Canaries.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Bermuda has
loss of signal with Skylab. However, the Canary Island
station will acquire in less than a minute. We'll continue
to keep the line up.
CC Skylab, we're back with you through
Canaries and Ascension for 16 minutes.
CC Go ahead, Jer.
CDR Roger, Story. I'm looking at the EVA
checklist changes here and I see they've got an EVA Nikon for
us and they want us to change the long relief - long eye-relief
viewfinder here 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 platonic head
on that EVA Nikon at all. 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 fight through it that
way.
CDR Or, I should say sight over it.
CC Jet, we've got some time in the Flight
Plan for you tomorrow, to play With that gear. And which
ever you think is the best way for you to get the pose, that's
fine.
CDR Well, right now, Bill, and I think that the
task is - is a nearly impossible. And that - that's pretty hard
work, I think, and it's EVA time wasted fiddling around with a
camera when you can 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. I took a look at it and I decided that that was not
a viable operation EVA, with EVA gloves.
CC Copy, Bill.
CC Skylab, we're a minute and a half to LOS.
We're about 25 minutes to Carnarvon, 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 them,
monitor gimbal angles and your attitude air. If your gimbals
get on a stop and you get out of attitude, just enable the outer
gimbal drive logic. And I've got that procedure, if you don't
have it handy there.
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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 all balls X, Y Z, and all zips.
Then go to standby. Then go to ATT hold CMG. And then
hit inner, and that'll enable your outer gimbal drive logic.
SPT Okay. Thank you, Story.
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CC And Ed, I've got a possible change in

the final attitude for you to expect on step 7A.
SPT Okay. Is it in Z?
CC It's in X, Y, and Z if you initialize
the strapdown (garble) centered on Canopus. The attitude you've
got there is that if you don't initialize the strapdowns
when you've got Canopus. And you ready to copy?
SPT Yeah. Tell me which block. You're talk -
you're talking 7?
CC Step 7A, the final attitude to expect.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Ascensicn has
loss of signal. The next station to acquire Skylab will be
Carnarvon, Australia with overlapping coverage through the
Honeysuckle, Australia station. Carnarvon acquisition in
25 minutes. Science Pilot Ed Gibson preparing to start the
JOP 13 activities, Apollo telescope mount observation of
night sky objects. He'll pay particular attention to the star
Gamma Velorum. At 12 houre 41 minutes Green_%ch mean time, this
is Skylab Control.
PAO This is Skylab Control at 13 hours 4 minutes
Greenwich mean time. The Carnarvon, Australia station is
about to acquire Skylab. There'll be overlapping coverage
through Honeysuckle on this pass.
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.
SPT 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 LOS at the last site.
SPT Okay. Just hold on a minute, Dick. I'd
like to get straightened away. I'm just maneuvering Canopus
in so I can get the maneuver going.
CC Okay. This has to do with your final
attitude coming out of Canopus. So when you get a chance,
give me a holler.
SPT Will do.
PAO The spacecraft communicator now is Astro-
naut Dick Truly. Flight Director is Phil Shaffer.
CC SPT, Houston. We notice the VTR's still
running.
SPT Yes, thanks Dick. I got absorbed in
maneuvering Canopus around.
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CC Roger.
CC Skylah, Houston. We've handed over from
Carnarvon to Honeysuckle. We've still got you for 3-1/2 minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're a minute to LOS.
Hawaii comes up at 13:29. Ed, we see that you have the 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 Okay. X 350.94; Y 344.00; Z, 355.39.
SPT Thank you.
CC Roger.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Skylab has pas_ed
out of range of the Honeysuckle station. The next station will
be Hawaii in 14 minutes. At 13 hours 15 minutes Greenwich mean
time, this is Skylab Control.
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TIME: 08:28 CDT, 78:13:28 GMT
2/1/74

Greenwich mean time. We're standing by for acquisition through
the Hawaii station.
CC Skylab, Houston; Hawaii for 5 minutes.
SPT Hello, Dick. We were running a little
behind schedule there. Coming over to - from Canopus to Gamma
Vel I saved a little time, I believe, by - saw a Gamma
Vel coming in the corner down at - from the minus Y, minus X
quadrant. So, rather than let it go all the way to center,
I Just went at hold at that point and then made a maneuver
into center, then initialized the strapdown once we got there
within a (garble) 300ths 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. And I wondered
whether that time of 13:34 could be extended at all?
CC Okay, I'll check, Ed. We have been notic-
ing yon were a little bit behind, but didn't want to bug you
'cause 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 squared away than I had anticipated.
CC Okay, stand by.
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.
CC SPT, Houston. Gamma 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 minutes 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 ball game
we're after here, and I ought to try and get the best data
we can.
CC Roger, Ed. Understand. We' re about a
minute from LOS, and Goldstone is 7 minutes away. I'ii 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.
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SPT It's in there now. How's it look?

CC Okay, you were doing it as I was saying
it. It looks good to us. Thank you, Ed.
PAO This is Skylab Control; Hawaii has loss
of signal. Goldstone will pick up Skylab in 5-1/2 minutes.
At 13 hours 35 minutes Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab
Control.
PAO This is Sky!ab Control at 13 hours 40 minutes
Greenwich mean time. Skylab is about a minute away from
acquisition through the Goldstone, California station. A
medical status briefing is scheduled for the Johnson Space
Center Briefing Romm in Building i at 10:30 a.m. central daylight
time today. Participants will be Dr. Royce Hawkins and several
of the medical experiment principal investigators. Medical
status briefing including several of the medical experiments
at 10:30 a°m. central daylight time today in the Building i
news briefing room.
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 appreciate it. We're looking forward to seeing if it
shows up also.
CC SPT, Houston; we'd like to get the shutter
closed on SO56.
CC And, Skylab, Houston; upcoming laser
opportunity at 13:52 has had to be scrubbed for weather.
SPT Roger, Dick.
CC Skylab, Houston; we're a minute from LOS.
We're going to drop down a couple of minutes between Goldstone
and MILA. See you there.
SPT So long_ Dick.
CC Bye.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC-2739/I
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2/i/74
CC Skylab, Houston. AOS, again, stateside

for ii minutes.
CDR Roger, Dick.
SPT From this stand point, Dick, gimbals and
rates all look good.
CC SPT, Houston. I guess we must have
dropped out in the first part. We did have your last comment
about the gimbals and rates looking good. I didn't catch what
proceeded 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 REG BUS adjust done.
SPT Okay, Dick. What would you like?
CC Okay. on BUS i, we'd like 45 degrees
counterclockwise, on BUS 2 40, 40 degrees eoundercloekwise.
Those are different than the numbers we have originally put
in while ago.
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 stop except 1 (garble) stop.
CC Roger.
SPT Just moved up one maneuver as I was
trying to maneuver Canopus around, but no real problem.
CC Okay, Ed. Thank you.
SPT You can also tell AI (garble) there are a
couple of changes in the JOP 18B summary sheets.
CC (Chuckle) 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.
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 then.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Bermuda has loss
of signal. The tracking station at Ascension Island will
pick up Skylab in 8 minutes. Control moment gyro number 2
is again, operating in its normally distressed mode. After
more than i0 hours of relatively problem-free operation,
earlier today, from about 3 hours Greenwich mean time to
13 hours 30 minutes Greenwich mean time, CMG number 2 operated
within relatively normal parameters. Normal, in this case,
being as it was designed to operate. Wheel speeds were up
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between 8870 and 8891. And currents were down about 1.02
to 1.03 area. Over Hawaii, at about 13:30 Greenwich mean
time, CMG number 2 reverted to its distressed mode which
has been its almost normal mode for the last week or so.
Wheel speeds now are back down to 8850. And currents now
running about 1.065 to 1.074. Ascension coming up in 6 minutes.
Control.
PAO This is Skylab Control at 14 hours
8 minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab about a minute away
from acquisition through the Ascension Island station.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Ascension
for 7 minutes. We're dumping the data/voice recorder here.
CC Skylab, Houston. Some time 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 sometime in the next rev.
If I could read them up, then you guys could just report
that you've done them, I'd appreciate it.
CDR Go ahead, Dick.
CC Okay. Here's what we need done. 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 i. Same
thing on - Okay, then I'ii just go down: SM RCS heaters
quad Delta to PRIMARY. SM RCS heaters engine package quad
Delta to i.
CC And while you're up there, we'd also
like to reenable 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 paekage heaters to I
for A and the same for Delta, and enable Bravo 5 and Delta 6.
CC That's correct, Ed. And it can be done
anytime 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 then.
CDR Dick, I just finished up the changes on
the EVA Checklist and the cue cards. It took exactly 2 hours
and I probably need at least the same time to do the Deactivation
Checklist.
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 any-
thing different and this afternoon and tomorrow's Flight
Plan, we will get you the time.
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PAO This is Skylab Control. Ascension has

loss of signal. Next station is Carnarvon in 21 minutes.
Control.
PAO This is Skylab Control at 14 hours 38
minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab is about a minute away
from acquisition through Carnarvon.
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.
SPT Okay Dick. That's why I'm powering down to
is unattended.
CC Yeah. 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 impor-
tant 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'll call you a little later.
CC Okay. That'll be just fine. No problem.
CDR Okay Dick. Go ahead if we've still got
enough time.
CC Yes, Jet. 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 the command module entry checks and you'll
be working with Crip on VHF then and I'll be working on the
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 checklist review." However, since y'all spent
some time in the command module yesterday, we didn't know
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whether or not you'd want to do that for a 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 45 minutes for Bill. So there is a good
block of time tomorrow that is not identified as anything except
catching up on your paper work 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 afternoon or something else drastic
like that. And since it's the last opportunity to get that
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?
CDR Dick, it sounds reasonable. However, some-
time after tomorrow, I think we do need another i- or l-1/2-
hour block of time to do a checklist review in the command
module again.
CC Okay.
CDR I was quite amazed yesterday to find out how
rusty we were around those command module switches and every-
thing_ 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 paper work and we'll check
with you again tomorrow afternoon to see how you ended up doing
and give you the necessary time after that.
CDR Okay. That sounds pretty good, Dick.
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'ii call you there.
CDR Okay.
CREW (Music)
PAO This is Skylab Control. Skylab is out
of range of the Carnarvon station. At Guam, we'll pick up
the space station in about 2 minutes. We'll keep the line up
for the Guam pass.
CC Skylab, Houston. Guam for i0 minutes.
CC Skylab_ Houston. Wetd like to take the
VTR for a little while here to be able to dump 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.
CC PLT, Houston when you get an opportunity.
PLT Go Dick.
CC Bill, on this upcoming EREP pass, we the
weatherts - that I haven't given you yet, but I'ii brief brief you on
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later's looking real good, particularly in the area of the

Falkland Current and that makes us want to get some extra
S190 data as we come out of Z-LV and back toward solar inertial
which is going to require some pad changes. And they're all
on your pads, as 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.
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, correction, after S190 MODE to STANDBY, write down
the following item: S190 frames to 99; then TAPE RECORDER
POWER, OFF; S190 MODE, AUTO; EREP, START.
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CC after SI, correction, after S190

MODE to STANDBY, 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 re - correction, TAPE RECORDER POWER
ON. Over.
PLT Okay, this is the way I've got it as of
17 minutes after the entry: Sl90 MODE to STANDBY, I enter
at 17:17. S190 frame 99; TAPE RECORDER POWER OFF, S190
mode AUTO, EREP START. And I do that just in serial sequence.
And then at 17:28:00 EREP STOP. S190 MODE STANDBY; TAPE RECORDER
POWER ON.
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
begin prep time will be moved later to 17:30. 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 VTS. I have
one remark that I would like to add to the top of the C&D pad,
and this has nothing to do with this change that we just
talked 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 reocrder POWER OFF
until ready verification.
CC Okay Bill, you've got it. Appreciate
it. Thank you very much.
CC Skylab, Houston, a minute to LOS. Goldstone
at 15:19. See you there.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Guam has loss
of signal. The next station is Goldstone in 15 minutes.
In this Guam pass, Spacecraft Communicator Dick Truly
passed up some changes in the Flight Plan, which will allow
the crew to gather some additional data on the Falkland
Current along toward the end of the Earth resources survey pass
which is scheduled a couple of hours from now. At 15 hours
4 minutes Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
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17 minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab is about to begin
a pass over the United States with acquisition beginning
at the Goldstone station and extending through the Bermuda
station. The medical status briefing in the Johnson Space
Center news briefing room in Building 1 will began immediately
after loss of signal at Bermuda.
CC Skylab, Houston; hello stateside for
17 minutes.
PLT Hi Dick.
CC And, Skylab_ Houston. If somebody gets
an opportunity would you give me a holler? I'd like to
get REG adjust again for the pre-EREP.
CDR Be right with you, Dick.
CC Okay.
SPT Dick, we got the RCS heaters (garble) caution
and warning.
CC Okay, Ed, thank you very much. We thought
you did, we thought we saw some response from the temps
I was going to ask you about.
PLT Okay, Dick, give me REG adjusts.
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 inchman up there with all the
pencil marks you must have put on and erased.
PLT We've long since erased through the paint.
CC (Laughter) Roger.
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'ii
give you a holler as soon as we know.
PLT Okay.
CC PLT, Houston; on REG i 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 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 MILA we're going to dump the data/voice recorder.
PLT Roger, Dick.
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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 i0 minutes here
at MILA; standing by.
CC Skylab, Houston; we're i minute from LOS.
Carnarvon 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.
CC Roger; and I've got the EREP weather
for you. I'ii give it to you either at Carnarvon or Guam,
whichever one you're in the best opportunity to listen.
I'ii see you at Carnarvon.
PAO This is Skylab Control; Bermuda has loss
of signal. The next station is Carnarvon in 43 minutes.
The medical status report in the news briefing room, build-
ing i will begin immediately. At 15 hours 36 minutes Greenwich
mean time, this is Skylab Control.
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SL-IV MC2743/I
Time: ii:ii CDT, 78:16:11 GMT
2/1/74
PAO This is Skylab Control at 16 hours ll

minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab is 7-1/2 minutes away
from acquisition through Carnarvon. Today's Earth survey,
the 39th and last by this Skylab crew, begins at 16:49 Green-
wich mean time, just south of the Aleutian Islands and more
than 2000 miles west of Vancouver Island over the cold waters
of the north Pacific Ocean. The 28-minute pass covers an
8000-mile strip over the Western United States, Mexico, Central
and South America. Some data will also be taken over the
Falkland Current as the space station begins its return to
the solar inertial or sun pointing orientation. The return
maneuver begins at 17:17 Greenwich mean time. But the instru-
ments will continue taking data through 17:28 Greenwich mean
time when the vehicle has been in solar inertial for 6 minutes.
The oblique Earth survey lasts an additional ii minutes,
covering some 3100 miles of the Skylab orbit and ending as
the space station crosses the South Atlantic Ocean. The
perpendicular view or Z-local vertical portion of the survey
ends over Peru. Today's Earth study is one of the most exten-
sive of the Skylab program. More than 3 dozen areas have
been selected for electronic and photographic study today.
First subject for the Earth resources survey is a powerful
cyclonic storm over the North Pacific, more than i000 miles
west of Van_ouver Island. The storm which exsists in waters
far from the warm tropics that spawn many severe hurricanes_
is producing high winds and rough seas. Data on the ocean's
surface and cloud characteristics will be gathered to aid
scientists in understanding the large storm systems outside
the tropics. Little information is available except from widely
spaced weather instruments and orbiting weather satellites.
The system of streams and other water producing holding and
draining elements that make up the complex water sheds of the
Feather River and Del Norte County in northern California, is
another area of interest. Understanding of snow cover and
water runoff is essential to flood control and to effective use
of water resources for agriculture and to supply urban areas.
Snow cover maps of the Sierra Nevada region will also be
prepared with data gathered today. The Feather River region
will also be surveyed for a pollution study being conducted
by the state of California and for an extensive environmental
investigation of the relatively remote mountain area. This
same area will provide data for agriculural mapping including
rangelands _s an experimental project that will establish the
basic procedures for classifying the agricultural resources
of the entire world. An extensive geological survey of Nevada,
Utah, and Arizona will be included in the 8000-mile pass.
Seven of the project areas are for geological investigation
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including essential studies for mineral exploration. The

Western United States has substantial areas of known mineral -
mineral deposits. With data gathered today, a threatening
worldwide shortage of copper and other resources could - may be
adverted through space exploration. Other areas of interest
in this Earth survey today: mapping of surface features and
recent man-made and natural developments in northern Arizona,
detecting, measuring and mapping urban development in the rapidly
growing area around Phoenix, Arizona, identifying land use,
soil characteristics and select areas for agricultural culti-
vation or other improvements in land management, including
the prevention of erosion, surveying agricultural and forestry
problems and resources in Ecuador, as part of a United Nation
study and gathering mapping data on the central Andes and
Amazon River basin. Skylab's about 2 minutes away from
Carnarvon. We'll stand by for a 5-1/2 minute pass through
that station.
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CC (Garble) Carnarvon for 6 minutes.

CC And, Skylab, Houston; we're going to dump
the data/voice here 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
to the - 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.
CC Okay, Ed, it's a change in the maneuver
due to an update on Nu Z that we have. It will not be changing
again because we're not going to do any dumps between here
and there. It's on the cal maneuver pad and it's cal maneuver
number i, I have new values of X, Y, and Z.
SPT Go ahead.
CC Okay, X, DAS code of 50104, 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 50104, 51101, 50022 for
plus 68.0, minus 65.0, and plus 18.0.
CC Rog, Ed, thank you very much.
SPT Thank you.
CDR Dick, we're ready for the weather.
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 to i0/i0 coverage, then it's going to get a lot
better. Our night forecast was about 4 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. Anyway 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 remnants of a frontal system there that are going
to cause some clouds but it'll - it 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 clobbered. Itts going to
be broken to overcast down there except for an area in Paraguay
which is quite clear. Also as you cross - 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. We hope it's clear down there. So, it looks
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like a real good EREP pass coming up.

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 a 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 16:33. And, Jerry,
I'll have an answer for you on Red Lake there when we get
to Guam.
CDR Okay.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Skylab has moved
out of range of the antennas at the Carnarvon station. Guam
will pick up the space station in about 7-1/2 minutes. During
this Carnarvon pass the weather report for the Earth resources
track was passed up to the crew. The weather's quite good
in the North American portion of the track. However, with
a few exceptions the weather over South America is cloudy
and may interfere with some of the sites on that continent.
Today's Earth resources survey is the 89th since the beginning
of the Skylab program approximately 8 months ago. It concludes
the data gathering portion of the Earth resources experiment
program with many months of analysis and reporting are yet
to come. Nearly 150 investigators and their research teams
will report findings based on Skylab Earth surveys during
the coming year. The Earth resources instruments will be
permanently closed out by Pill Pogue later this afternoon.
After the perpendicular and and oblique portions of the
Earth's survey are completed the crew will collect calibration
data by pointing Skylab_s EREP instruments at the Moon. The
lunar calibration takes 12 minutes and will be accomplished
from 17:45 to 17:57 Greenwich mean time. Skylab about 5-1/2
minutes away from Guam acquisition. At 16 hours 27 minutes,
this is Skylab Control.
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SL-IV MC-2745/I
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32 minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab's about 30 seconds
away from acquisition through this Guam station.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Guam for
4 minutes. And Jerry, Houston. We would like to go with
the VTS pad as is written there. We were The EREP back-
room wasn't aware that we got red light prior to this. However,
the priority that was compared to Lake Mead, makes us want
to get rep repetitive sites on it. So we'd like you to
try to get Red Lake. If it is clobbered try to get Lake Mead
and then in that order.
CDR Okay. Will do it.
CC Okay, Jerry.
PLT Pick up PLT on the status report on
S190.
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.
PLT Rog. When I checked out S190, the
I got a - -
PLT MALF lights on 4, 5, and 6. I tried the
technique on the cue card. I get a i Tango 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 camera 4, 5 and 6, off marked
them and tried again. It's moving no. Three of them are
moving still. So I'm assuming they're working all right.
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 pads. I'll get back to you here
right at Guam.
PLT Okay. And Dick, one other thing, and that's
the transmission over to this S191 cal, do we go ahead and
do a normal EREP C&D post before I do the S191 eal, which
follows after the eat period or do I leave the panel partially
configured.
CC I'll get you an answer, Bill.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're 20 seconds
from LOS. Goldstone at 16:55.
CC And, Bill, we think th_ problem you
just reported on 190 is probably associated with the new
loaded mags we did and it looks like we are GO and
should get good data here on this pass. So we're happy.
PLT Okay.
CC Thank you.
PLT How's it - - Dick?
PAO This is Skylab Control. Skylab has
moved out of range of the Guam station. Next acquisition
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SL-IV MC2746/I
Time: 11:54 CDT, 78:16:54 GMT
2/1/74

minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab is about to be acquired
through the Goldstone station. Crew should be in the midst
of the Earth resources survey at acquisition. This pass
continues down through the Corpus Christi, Texas station.
PLT And ETC POWER, ON, about 1 minute coming
up at 56.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS stateside
for 15 minutes.
CDR Roger Dick.
PLT Stand by for 56:43 for 190.
PLT Okay, ETC POWER is ON. At 57, ETC will be
going to AUTO.
CC Okay.
PLT Stand by -
PLT MARK. 190 MODE, AUTO. 15 seconds for
ETC to AUTO. There go the three MALF lights.
CDR 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, all I know is 191 there's pretty
pretty narrow.
CDR Yeah, I guess it is.
PLT Stand by for 58. Stand by
CDR Cloud cover - -
PLT MARK. SCAT, OFF.
CDR Coastal clouds.
PLT MARK. RAD OFF. 193 MODE CROSS TRACK
CONTIGUOUS. POLARIZATION to i.
CDR Swath is finished and 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 there.
PLT MARK. MODE to READY. Okay 15:36. Stand by-
PLT MARK. SCAT ON and RAD ON.
CDR Looking for red light at 59:32.
PLT ETC will be going to STANDBY at 59:26.
CDR And here comes Lake Mead into view like
advertised. Hey, I'm going to slip in a little lower Eldorado
Valley data here.
PLT Stand by -
PLT MARK. ETC STANDBY.
PLT MARK. READY out on the 190. Waiting
for 59:36. I'm going to CHECK on 192.
CDR Okay. I'm going - -
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PLT 190 MODE to STANDBY

CDR - - getting lower Eldorado Valley data
to 33 up close to Red Lake.
PLT - - 99.
CDR We're on Red Lake. Zooming in.
PLT Okay. 17:023 190 MODE going AUTO.
CDR I'm taking data at 45 degrees.
PLT Stand by -
PLT MARK. 190 MODE to AUTO and at 30, Ed,
ETC to AUTO.
PLT MARK. ETC to AUTO.
CDR Okay. Katherine Playa is next. 01:02.
That's the end of that.
PLT 01:05 coming up next. Stand by -
PLT MARK. SCAT to STANDBY. POWER RAD to
STANDBY. 193 angles are plus 30.
CDR (Garble) Yes.
PLT On 20. Stand by -
PLT MARK. SCAT ON and RAD ON.
CDR And DATA. Started data at 20 degrees.
CC Skylab, Houston. As a potential, we
might get a gimbal on a stop here and get an outer gimbal
drive logic initiated. No action required by you, just letting
you know.
PLT MARK. REFERENCE to 2. Roger.
CDR Okay. Thank you. Just so it doesn't
do what it did last time.
CC Roger that.
CDR Little bit of water in Katherine Playa.
The data pushbutton off.
PLT Standing by for 02:50.
PLT MARK. POLARIZATION to 4 on 193. (garble)
VTS AUTO CAL in about 5 seconds, Jer.
CDR Okay.
PLT Keep on my
PLT MARK. VTS AUTO CAL.
CDR He got it.
PLT Sorry I didn't give you more warning.
CDR That was okay.
PLT 03:1. Okay and wait for 03:30.
CDR Okay volcano. You better be there this
time. Okay. We got the lower Eldorado Valley first, then
Red Lake, and then Katherine Playa. We're in good shape.
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 themselves today. The powerdown should go
real good.
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PLT Okay. I guess you had that on your pad,

Jer.
SPT What's that?
PLT Ed, you pick up I pick up the Ca the lunar
CAL and you come over and get on the C&D, right?
SPT Yes, that's right.
PLT It's got to be on yours then. That's
probably what it is.
SPT What's on mine?
PLT The partial powerdown. I got a special
EREP VTS CAL I come up and do later on and that reading.
SPT Oh, yeah. There's a special procedure
at the end of my
PLT Stand by for 04:45.
CDR Okay. We're coming up on Tampico. There
it is.
PLT MARK. SCAT, STANDBY.
PLT MARK. RAD, STANDBY. CROSS TRACK NON-CONTIGUOUS
left or L. POLARIZATION to 5.
CDR Little DAC film on Tampico.
PLT Stand by for 05:05 -
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PLT left or L, POLARIZATION to 5.

CDR Little DAC film of Tampico.
PLT Stand by for 505.
PLT MARK. SCAT ON. MARK. RAD ON. Waiting
for 05:40, 91 READY.
CDR Okay, I'm taking some DAC film of Sun
glitter and coastal blooming right along the coast of Mexico
here.
PLT 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.
PLT Okay, Dick, I did not get the 191 READY
light on at 05:40, 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.
PLT Rog.
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 READY light.
CDR Oh.
PLT Stand by for 7 minutes.
PLT MARK. SCAT to STANDBY.
PLT MARK. RAD to STANDBY, and then RAD to
OFF.
PLT (Garble) coming up on a big altimeter check
here.
PLT Stand by.
PLT MARK. ALTIMETERS are ON. I do have a
READY light.
PLT Okay, waiting for 08:15.
CDR Okay, I am in the area of (garble), but
I don't see it especially.
CDR Go ahead and take a little data here.
PLT Have an ALTIMETER UNLOCK, but I still
have the READY light.
CDR Okay, now I'm going to try to go for - -
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PLT Just lost it. Okay, going to STANDBY on

the ALTIMETER and that was at 56.
CDR Our little lake, and just beyond the lake
is Actenango.
PLT Waiting for 09.
PLT MARK. ALTIMETER back ON. Waiting for
08:15.
CDR No, we got some clouds over Actenango.
PLT Stand by.
PLT MARK. 192 MODE to AUTO.
CDR (Garble). Oh, yeah, that's a beauty.
All sorts of lava all down the flank. All right now, going
for Fuego. Fuego is also a beauty.
CDR Okay, looking for Pacaya now. That's
a little tougher.
PLT Stand by.
PLT MARK. 9 minutes 192 MODE to CHECK.
PLT Andthe ALTIMETER UNLOCK READY light went
out again. I'm going to STANDBY, and I'll leave it in STANDBY.
Going to MODE 5.
PLT 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.
PLT MARK. ALTIMETER ON at 9 plus 40.
CDR There's some
PLT Got an ALTIMETER UNLOCK light that was at
09:58.
CDR Bay of (garble).
PLT Still have a READY light.
PLT At 10:18 I should finish my 190 sequence.
PLT There we go. Okay, 2 seconds late, MODE
to STANDBY_ FRAME to 63 and don't change the INTERVAL; it's still
6. Okay, (garble) 36. Stand by.
PLT MARK.
PAO This is Skylab Control; Skylab out of
range of the Texas station now as the Earth resources survey
continues. Next acquisition will be the tracking ship
Vanguard in 8-1/2 minutes. At 17 hours ii minutes Greenwich
mean time_ this is Skylab Control.
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SL-IV MC-2748/I
Time: 12:17 CDT, 78:17:17 GMT
2/1/74

17 minutes Greenwich mean time. Vanguard will acquire
Skylab in about a minute and a half. We'll stand by for
that pass. About a 9-1/2-minute pass at VAnguard.
PLT Pretty cloudy all over down there?
CDR No, it's going to scattered now. But
scattered to broken. But it's - been cloudy the whole way.
PLT That's too bad.
CC Skylab, Houston. Vanguard for i0 minutes.
CDR Hi, Dick. We're on our way 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 did not 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, much.
CDR When did we do that auto cal?
PLT At 3 minutes past.
CDR Oh, shoot.
CDR I'll 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 the ground. 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 fact equipment problem,
you you're right.
CDR That's a shame.
CDR Darn volcanoes aren't clear that often.
CDR Yeah, Dick. The hunting was real good
over the U.S.
CC Roger, that. And we concur with your
comments about whether there was indication of 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, Jer. We're still talking.
CDR Okay.
PLT Also just for - 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.
CDR Okay. I've got Montevideo on the screen
here. Oh boy, the Rio Parana is really pouring out lots of
red silt. And the old Atlantic Ocean just isn't - well it's
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accepting it, but boy th there's a very sharp line of demarka-

tion between the red silt and the Rio Parana there in the
Rio de la Plata Bay and the blue of the ocean.
CC Roger, Jer.
CDR Wonder if that silt's being forced way
down deep. Going on out on the bottom?
PLT It has a sort of a -
CDR Looks like a (garble)
PLT Yeah.
CDR On a narrow, you know, a narrow necked
straw or something - on a pipette.
PLT Yeah.
CDR Only it's inverted. And it's of age.
It's got this viniscus.
CDR Okay. We're coming up on the coast-
line now. Let's see if we can see a little bit of South Equaterial -
Equatorial Current blooming.
PLT Yon looking for the Falkland now?
CDR Yeah. We're a little far north of the
Montevideo to see the Falkland. I think we'll be lucky if we
see any of the confluence of the two.
CDR 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.
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 Yeah. But for how long?
PLT Oh. They're going to be working until 28.
CDR Or are they?
PLT 5 more minutes.
CDR Oh, great.
PLT Well, 4 minutes and 20 seconds.
CC Skylab, Houston (cleared throat) Skylab
Houston - Skylab, Houston, for the SPT; just a reminder, the
EREP cal maneuver number l's coming up in about a minute.
PLT I'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.
CDR South Equatorial Current.
CDR It's not very plain to see. However
there's a lot of good coastal blooming.
CDR Go ahead and take a little DAC of the coastal
blooming.
CDR That's off Puerto Alegre.
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CDR I don't know. Maybe it's all that cold

water from the Antarctic area moving up north. And the Falkland
Current is really very very brightly colored, compared to
any other currents we've seen.
CDR South Equatorial and the Humboldt, and
the New Zealand Currents are all very subdued greens compared
to the green of the Falkland Current.
CC PLT, Houston. If you get a chance, wonder
if you could give us a readout on Bravo 7 and also check panel
202, the two 191 circuit breakers.
CDR I'ii check them for you.
PLT Okay, and Bravo 7 is reading 54.
CC Thank you.
PLT They're all in, Dick.
CC Thank you.
PLT CLOSED, I guess.
CC Roger.
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 suppose to run until 28.
PLT Could you cheek that out real quick like.
CC Yes - Yes, that was the time that I read you.
I'ii 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, there's
a lot of slop in the knob. l've got to reinitiate.
CC Okay, Bill.
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 17:28.
That's right now, so you can save a little time right now
getting prepared for the upcoming cal.
PLT Okay.
PLT All right.
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CC - - 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.
PLT Okay, going MODE to STANDBY and EREP to
STOP. And Jerry, I guess we can trade places now and I'Ii
start getting ready for the cal.
CC Skylab, Houston; i minute to LOS; Tananarive
at 17:48.
PLT Rog, Dick. Okay.
CDR Okay, the S190 READY light is out again.
- - ligh£s.
PLT No, I didn't run it to depletion.
PLT If you want it - you want to - If you want
to watch it there's nothing wrong with reinitiatlng it. Go
to MODE AUTO on 190 - -
CDR I know how to do that, but l'm wondering
if - they do want it run to depletion. Right?
PLT It'll be on your pad.
PAO This is Skylab Control, tracking ship
Vanguard has loss of signal as the crew winds up the Earth
resources survey pass. Skylab space station has maneuvered back to
solar inertial attitude. There is uncertainty as to whether
data was gathered with the S191 infrared spectrometer during
this pass, particularly down over the volcanoes in Guatemalo.
No READY light was observed on that instrument. The experts
here on the ground are assessing the situation. Next station is
Tananarive in i_-i/2 minutes. At 17 hours 31 minutes Greenwich
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minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylah is less than a minute
away from the Tananarlve station. Low elevation on this orbit.
Total duration of the pass will be about 3 minutes. We'll
stand by there.
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 malfunction procedures
on it. It looks llke we've had a detector cooler failure at
40, I cycled a cooler switch just to see what we could hear.

The cooler is running and when you 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
READY light.
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. Very good. Hey, that temperature's
still coming down. It's 66 now.
CC Okay good. We may have an early LOS here
at Tananarive. Goldstone comes up at 18:35.
CDR Okay. I have a lengthy post procedure or two.
CDR Okay. 190. I've got to do some things
here. 190 MODE to AUTO. 92 MODE to READY.
PLT Okay.
CDR 93 RADIOMETER (static)
PLT Yes. Pointing sequence I've - -
CDR He wanted the EREP, START at 51:10. Stand by -
CDR MARK it. Okay. We got TAPE MOTION and
then it went out. Now it's 'flickering. 51:43 is next. Okay
I was some 40 seconds late getting the 17:50 data down but I
don't think it made any difference. I think it was just prep
for the EREP START. 51:43 (staKic) coming up.
CC Skylab_ 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.
PAO This is. Skylab Control. Tananarive has
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loss of signal. Next station is Goldstone in 43 minutes.

Crew is still conducting the calibration of the Earth resources
survey instruments using the Noon as a target for the calibra-
tion. Belief now is some of the thermal data gathered durin E
the this past Earth resources survey, may be degraded but
that the other data is expected to be all right. At 17 hours
52 minutes Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab Control.
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SL-IV MC-2751/I
Time: 13:34 CDT, 78:18:34 GMT
2/1/74

34 minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab coming up on acquisi-
tion through Goldstone.
CC Skylab, Houston. Goldstone for 5 minutes.
CDR Roger, Dick.
CC And, Jerry, two things here at Goldstone,
if somebody 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 EREP REG BUS ADJUST done.
CDR Okay, Dick. Bill's on his way.
CC Okay.
PLT Okay. Now what do you want on the REG?
CC I want to return to the original setting
which requires a 35-degree counterclockwise movement.
PLT Okay, take a look at that.
CC Okay. We're looking.
PLT Bravo 7 is now reading about 72.
CC Okay, Bill. Thank you much.
PLT And I - I assume they're mulling 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.
CC Roger.
SPT Hello, Dick. Two points on photography.
One is, which transporter should I be using for H151 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
and 62 before I do any work on it further. Right now, I think
is probably a good time in which to get a shot of what's growing.
SPT Probably need around 2 - 2 exposures
ought to do it on the front side.
CC Okay, Ed. I'll get right back to you.
SPT Thank you.
CC Roger. Skylab, Houston. The transporter
number is 08. It's in drawer 4 and back to the REG BUS ADJUST,
on BUS 2 we request another 5 degrees counterclockwise.
PLT In work.
SPT Dick, TV-67 is on tape now.
CC Thank you, Ed.
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CDR Okay, Dick. REG 2 5 degrees counterclockwise.

CC Okay. Yhank you, Jer.
CC Skylab, Houston. The REG BUS ADJUST
looks good. We're going LOS. Vanguard comes up at 18:58.
We're going to dump the data/voice recorder at the Vanguard.
CC And, Ed, we agree with you on taking
the ED61 and 62 pictures. Have at it.
SPT Okay. Just used some color interior and
whatever camera happens to have it7
CC That's affirm.
moved out of range of the Goldstone station. Next acquisition
will he through the tracking ship Vanguard in 14-1/2 minutes.
Control.
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SL-IV MC2752/I
TIME: 13:55 CDT, 78:18:55 GMT
2/I/74

Greenwich mean time. Skylah coming up on acquisition through
the tracking ship Vanguard.
CC Skylab, 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.
CC Okay, a couple of things for you here.
First of all Ed asked a minute ago about the question about
his photo pad, and the reason he didn't have that information
was because we cleverly sent 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 -
some confusion though, we'd like to verify that we do want
MI51 of the first hiomed 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. Twelve went to zero up/down and I'ii go get the
readings for you right now.
CC Right.
PLT Bravo 7 is reading 75 and Charlie 7 Js
reading 61.
CC Okay, Bill with those numbers we're certainly
go for this cal run you're getting ready to start.
PLT Thank you.
CC And Skylab, we're going to do some commanding
to the heaters right at LOS_ so let's just assume that we will
keep the DAS during this entire period. When we go LOS, it's
yours.
CC Skylab, Houston, we have been dumping the
data/voice recorder here at the Vanguard and so we think you
may have put something on it, if it was in the last 4 minutes,
it'll need to be repeated we were dumping.
SPT That's okay, Dick I tried to record when I
saw you were dumping and I hit the record switch and I came on
after you stopped dumping.
CC I see, Okay thank you, Ed. Skylab, Houston
we're 45 seconds from LOS, Tananarive at 19:21.
PLT Roger, Dick and l'm in this VTS cal check,
and I assume that I just press on if I don't get READY light.
CC That's affirm, Bill.
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PAO This is Skylab Control. Skylab now out

of range of the Vanguard tracking ship. Next station is
Tananarive in 12 minutes. During the Earth resources survey
this morning the crew reported no READY light indication
before they began data with space station's infrared
instrument, tThe Sl91 infrared spectrometer. The spectrometer
was pointed at a number of United States sites near
Las Vegas, and near Tuscon by Skylab Commander Jerry Cart.
The READY light failed to come on because the temperature
of one of two detectors on the pointable infrared sensor
exceeded the set limits. The detector for thermal radiation
the heat sensing element of Sl91 must be kept at extremely
low temperatures to operate well, if the detector temperature
is warmer than minus i00 degrees Kelvin, or about 270 degrees
below zero Fahrenheit, the signal recorded on magnetic tape
contains erratic indications or noise. Today's thermal
data taken of volcanoes in Guatemala may be degraded or noisy
because of the poor performance of the small cooling unit
for the thermal sensor. The problem with the independent
cooling device for the tiny detector maybe due to its
frequent use during the three Skylab flights. It is the
first difficulty seen with the cooler. A second detector
sensitive to the visible range is believed to have worked
perfectly. Skylab now i0 minutes away from Tananarive
acquisition. At 19 hours ii minutes, Greenwich mean time,
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Time: 14:20 CDT, 78:19:20 GMT
2/1/74
PAO Greenwich mean time 19 hours 20 minutes.

Skylab Control. Space station is now nearing acquisition
through Tananarive tracking station. We'll hold the line up.
CC Skylab, Houston at Tananarive for
i0 minutes.
CDR Roger, Dick.
PLT Okay Dick, a little status report here on
the 191 cal.
CC Okay, go ahead Bill.
PLT Eleven seconds into the sequence on the
stand by i.
PLT Eleven seconds into the sequence on
reference i0, I got an end 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 completing the sequence
now - procedure.
CC Roger, Bill understand.
CC PLT, Houston, before you do tape recorder
completion, we'd appreciate you looking and see if the tape
recoreder actually was depleted or whether or not it was
just a light. Also when you get an opportunity before you
shut down we'd like to get a final reading on Bravo 7 and
Charlie 7.
PLT Okay.
PLT I believe there was about i0 inches left
just starting to feed through the compplianee (i?) rollers.
CC Roger Bill about i0 inches. I didn't
catch the last part of the remark about where it was feeding
through.
PLT Looks like we may have gotten it all on
tape. There was about i0 inches of tape not quite feed onto
the take up - take up reel. You know this is just as it starts
through that last set of comppliance rollers and back onto the
head. It just passed the last head.
CC Roger Bill.
PLT We may have gotten all of that on tape
after all. I went ahead and played it just llke it was
working.
CC Okay, that's certainly good thinking.
And we still got 5 minutes here. And when you get a chance
I'ii 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.
CC Skylab, Houston there is a good chance
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we may drop here - out here for 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.
CC Skylab we still have you for - at
Tananarive. We're about a minute to LOS, Hawaii at 20:06.
PLT Rog, I do. It's addressed to you.
PAO Space station now out of range of the
tracking station Tananarive. Next acquition will be
34 minutes from now. That will be through Hawaii at
20:06 GMT. 19 hours 32 minutes this is Skylab Control.
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2/1/74
PAO Skylab Control, 20 hours 5 minutes

Greenwich mean time. Space station is now nearing acquisition
through Hawaii. Commander Carr and Science Pilot Ed Gibson
still doing medical experiments. Pilot Bill Pogue just
beginning EREP closeout.
CC so we can do a CMG heater command.
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 cal.
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 on paragraphs - items 4 and 7 on page 9-1 of
the checklist and whenever you get an opportunity, I'll 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 1/20th the width of the calibration cross
above the horizontal bar and across and on the top and about
1/20th on the inside along the bottom and that is the way the
left/right aligned up. Am I making sense to you?
CC That's affirm, Bill. I'm following you.
PLT Okay, and then on the vertical bar of the
eal cross, I had to go 1/10th the distance in from the right
and it - in order to get the proper indication and I was
1/10th of the width of the cross from the outside on the left
with the vertical line as far as the vertical line is concerned.
CC Okay, Bill let me check with EREP real
quick and make sure we're satisfied and think we understand.
CC PLT, Houston we appreciate your description
and we don't need anymore information on the alignment,
thank you very much. We still got about 5 minutes left
here at Hawaii, l'm standing by.
PLT Roger, and I'll bring back a sketch.
CC Okay.
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CC Skylab, Houston wetre about 30 seconds

from LOS. Haw - Hawaii, Vanguard comes up at 20:35, we're
going to dump the data/voice recorder at the Vanguard. The
tape recorder is - there's 24 minutes of room left on the
VTR and only 3 of those minutes are scheduled, 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.
CC Okay.
PAO Space station now out of range, tracking
antennas at Hawaii. Next acquisition will be a little less
than 21 minutes from now, that'll be through the Vanguard
tracking ship again. 20 hours and 14 minutes, this is
Skylab Control.
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Time: 15:34 CDT 78:20:34 GMT
211174
PAO This is Skylab Control 20 hours 34 minutes

Greenwich mean time. Space station now nearing acquisition
through the tracking ship Vanguard. During the previous
pass over Hawaii there was some comment from the ground up
to the crew as to whether or now the tape recorder for the
191 data was malfunctioning. EREP officer here in Mission
Control doubts that they ran out of tape as the cue lights
indicated. But we want know that until the tape returns
with the crew next Friday. Hold the line up now for this
pass over the tracking ship Vanguard.
CC Skylab, Houston Vanguard for 9 minutes.
And we're going to dump the data/voice recorder here at
Vanguard.
PLT Roger, Dick.
PLT Dick, I have a question on the deactivation
checklist update.
CC Go ahead.
PLT Page 1-21, the instructions there to
change same as page 1-20 except and then there are four
places. Actually there are five procedural title call outs
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 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 i0 of the message there was some kind of a fault,
so he uplinked page i0 of the message again rather than uplinking
an entire new set. So one of those copies is going to have
two page 10s in it and the second one that's there is the
correct one.
PLT Okay, we got that.
CC Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston we're i minute from LOS.
Tananarive at 21:00, see you there.
PLT Roger, Dick.
PAO 20 hours 45 minutes Greenwich mean time.
Space station apparently out of range of the Vanguard tracking
ship. Next acquisition will be 15 minutes from now over
Tananarive. Commander Carr and Science Pilot Ed Gibson still
M092, MI71 experimenting. And Pilot Bill Pogue working on
the S190 Multispectral camera closing it down. He'll be
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retrieving filters, putting them back in a drawer and stowing

the S190 camera in a stowed position. Greenwich mean time
20:45 minutes, this is Skylab Control.
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Greenwich mean time. Nell Hutchinson has taken over as
flight director here in Mission Control with Bruce McCandless
as CAP COMM. Flight Director Nell Shaffer off-going
flight direetor has indicated that he'll be in the briefing
room of Building i for a change-of-shift briefing 30 minutes
from now at 4:30 p.m. central daylight time. Acquisition
through Tananarive. We're about 30 seconds away for this
4 minute pass.
No communication between the ground and the space station
crew over Tananarive. Next acquisition is 35 minutes from
now. Commander Carr should be getting ready for personal
hygiene between his double stints observer for M092/MI71
experiments. Ed Gibson is just finishing up as the subject.
He's due to go to the ATM control and display panel for
observations of the Sun and he will be replaced by Pilot
Bill Pogue for 2 hours of medical experiments coming up.
Greenwichm mean time 21 hours and 7 minutes, this is Skylab
Control.
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SL-IV MC2757/1
TIME: 16:54 CDT, 78:21:54 GMT
2/1/74

Greenwich mean time. Space station is now over the mid
Pacific Ocean. We have 1 minute and 40 seconds of recorded
air-to-ground which took place over this preceding Hawaii
pass which we'll play back for you right now.
CC Skylab this is Houston through Hawaii
for 9-12 minutes, out.
CDR Houston, CDR.
CC Go ahead, Jet.
CDR Hey, Bruce on the deactivation checklist,
what about page 1-17, 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. Okay, Jerry we have canceled that whole left-
hand column of 1-17 and the right-hand part is getting the
camera ready for eloseout. The cancellation of the left-hand
column 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 Yeah, the first block is deleting whole
pages, the second block is deleting right-hand columns only,
the third block is deleting left-hand columns only.
CDR Okay.
CC Skylab, this is Houston 30 seconds to LOS.
Next station contact in 22 minutes through the Vanguard at
22:14 with a data/voice tape recorder dump, out.
PAO That concludes the recorded air-to-ground
over Hawaii. 18 minutes away from acquisition through the
Vanguard tracking ship. At Greenwich mean time 21 hours
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Time: 17:13 CDT, 78:22:13 GMT
2/1/74
PAO Twenty-two hours 13 minutes Greenwich

mean time, this is Skylab Control. Space station Skylab is
now about a minute away from acquisition through the Vanguard
tracking ship. Science Pilot Ed Gibson should be observing
a very quiet Sun right now. There's only about five active
regions of the Sun which face the Earth. Although, the quiet
Sun is just important to solar observations as the active Sun
was. Pilot Bill Pogue still involved in medical experiments
as the subject with Commander Jerry as the observer. We'll
go live air-to-ground.
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 you special polar
plume and polar plume background measurements. On the first
one, the polar plume ROLL should be plus 9510, no change in
the other coordinates. For the seconds one: the background
ROLL should be plus 9700, no change in the other coordinates.
Over.
SPT Plus 9510, plus 9700.
CC You got it.
CC Skylab, this is Houston 40 seconds to
LOS. Next station contact in 8 minutes through Ascension at
22:30. Out.
PAO Space station now out of range of the
Vanguard tracking ship. Next acquisition will be a 3 minute
pass at very low elevation through the tracking antenna at
Ascension. That elevation will be less than 2 degrees.
That'll be 6-1/2 minutes from now. 22 hours 24 minutes,
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TIME: 17:29 CDT, 78:22:29 GMT
2/1/74
PAO Skylab Control, 22 hours, 29 minutes

Greenwich mean time. Space station Skylab now about a minute
away from acquisition through Ascension. Commander Cart and
Pilot Pogue just about 2/3 of the way through the medical
experiments this afternoon using Bill Pogue as the subject.
And Science Pilot Ed Gibson just about finished with his
third stint of the day at the ATM C&D console. Don't expect
very much communication through Ascension as the elevation
angle is quite low, now about i0 seconds away from acquisition.
CC Skylab, this is Houston passing Ascension
2-1/2 minutes to LOS, next station contact in i hour and
20 minutes through the Vanguard at 01:28, out.
CC Make that at 23:51.
SPT Houston, SPT.
CC Yes indeed.
SPT We're looking at a toning count of
2309 for 54 frames remaining. As I understand it we should
use 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.
CC Roger, out.
Greenwich mean time. Space station now out of range of
Ascension. i hour and 15 minutes away from next acquisition.
Ed Gibson had some comments during this pass on the film remaining
for the white light coronograph images. He was told that
he had some additional frames he could take pictures on
those apparently he is not through with the control and
display panel. We have some further information for you
on the JOP 13, which was performed this morning. That
experiment apparently inconclusive as whether or not they
got the data that they were looking for. They were pointing
the S055A, 56 and 54 devices at a star called the Gamma Velorum.
The S054 is an X-ray spectrograph telescope and takes
photographic images, the S056 is a X-ray telescope also
takes photographic images. The S055A is an ultraviolet
scanning polychromater spectroheliometer and it does not take
photographic images but rather some realtime telemetry
data down. It looks for the ultraviolet spectrum, the other
two look for soft X-rays. According to the Harvard College
Observatory, Gamma Velorum is a rather peculiar and unique
star. It's called a Wolf-Rayette star and stars of the Wolf-
Rayette class there's some dispute as to whether or not
they're hot stars blowing off atmosphere or binary stars at any
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rate, the Wolf-Rayette class of stars have extremely high

surface temperatures and are very rapidly revolving stars.
They're blue stars and they have broad emission lines
covering most of the electromagnetic spectra. The reason
that Gamma Velorum was today's prime subject is that the
ultraviolet energy of the universe has not been mapped
very well. In fact only one other time has an extraterrestrial
vehicle taken any data on ultraviolet or soft X-ray emission
from other than the Sun. And that was about a month ago with
an instrument aboard the Mercury - the Venus Mercury/Mariner
mission, that was in astrophysicist from the Harvard Observatory
named Broadfoot, who interpolated that data. According
to the Harvard Observatory, Gamma Velorum is located in a
region of the sky where a super nova has ionized much of
the interstellar hydrogen, thus making observations of
wavelengths below the hydrogen absorption edge at 912 angstroms
a possibility. No star according to them has heretofore
have been observed to emit in the extra-ultraviolet region
below 912 angstroms. And according to the Harvard College
Observatory and the ATM czar here at Mission Control,
detection of radiation in the region from 300 to 500 angstroms
would be of great significance to astromony. Not only because
both the Harvard College Observatory and the ATM czar
feel that it would change our ideas about the interstellar
medium
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PAO angstroms would be of great significance

to astronomy, not only because both the Harvard College Observ-
atory and the ATM czar feel that it would change our ideas about
the instellar medium. But also, because it would open up an
entire new window of the spectrum to astronomical research.
Spectral information in the ultraviolet soft X-ray range
would enable cosmologists to try a few new experiments.
One of which would be a blue shift as a opposed to a red shift.
The ATM czar here at Mission Control indicate that a blue
shift might not have any results if they were to take
measurements of a blue shift, they might not find that there
was a blue shift. However, if there was a blue shift, it
would give them another tool by which to measure the age of
the universe and distance of receding galaxies. The other
advantage of the soft X-ray and untravlolet wavelengths as a
spectrum of experimentation and energy information gathering
is that it would give astrophysicists and opportunity to
see if black holes do in fact pull material into them.
That wasn't quite explained to me. However, I was assured that
cosmologists were very turned on by the soft X-ray and ultra-
violet this morning. The only problem is that they're not
quite sure whether the S055A which was the prime instrument
for this morning's JOP 13, did in fact get the data. The
ATM czar here in Mission Control said that there was two
possiblities for why it didn't get the data. They were looking
at telemetry information at the time. And they didn't see any
indication that the S055 was viewing ultraviolet energy.
Either the detector wasn't sensitive enough or the field of
view of the instrument which is about 5 are seconds - by 5 arc
seconds, or it's too narrow and Gamma Velorum wasn't in it's field
of view. However, the optimistic here that the S054 and the
S056 instruments did in fact get X-ray pictures of Gamma
Velorum. And they'll have that when they get back when the
crew returns with that film next Friday. Next acquisition
is i hour and 9 minutes from now. At 22 hours and 41 minutes,
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50 minutes Greenwich mean time. Space station Skylab now
about a minute away from acquisition through Vanguard. More
than an hour and 20 minutes from the last acquisition.
Commander Carr should be eating his evening meal right now
having finished up his medical run for the day. Science Pilot
Ed Gibson after a brief personal hygiene period is back at the
ATM console. And Pilot Bill Pogue should be just getting
into his personal hygiene. Both he and Gibson are scheduled
to eat in about an hour from now. We'll go live air-to-
ground for this pass over the Vanguard tracking ship.
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 nuZ which we figured out over
Guam. 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 Yeah, it probably would help.
CC And we're dumping the data/voice tape
recorder here. Oh, no we're not I'm sorry.
SPT Hello, Houston. How would you like a
frame count?
CC Oh, we wouldn't object go ahead.
SPT 7373, 85119, i, i, 312, 2302.
CC 7373 break, 85119/i/i/312/2302.
SPT Correct.
CC Sounds like you're running low up there
Ed.
SPT On everything.
CC And we show that 201K operate pad should
be on board in its entirety now.
CC Skylab, this is Houston i minute to LOS.
Next station contact in 3 minutes through Ascension at 00:04.
Out.
PAO LOS through the Vanguard tracking ship.
Less than 2 minutes away from reacquisltion through Ascension.
We'll hold the line up. Space station is now maneuvered into
a proper attitude for S201 observations. Going on right now
actually - maneuvered by Ed Gibson the operator for the $201
will be Commander Jerry Carr. We'll hold the line up for
this pass through Ascension.
CC Skylab this is Houston through Ascension
for 10-1/2 minutes. Out.
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Time: 18:50 CDT 78:23:50 GMT
2/1/74
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 maneuver 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.
CDR Okay, Bruce thank you.
END OF TAPE
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Time: 19:15 CDT 79:00:15 GMT
2/i/74
PAO Skylab Control, 16 minutes Greenwich mean

time. The space station now out of range of Ascension. Next
acquisition will be 32 minutes from now. Commander Carr work-
ing on the last $201 observation of the Comet Kohoutek at
this time. That'll be the last planned experiment through
the scientific airlock. 16 minutes Greenwich mean time, this
is Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC2763/I
TIME: 19:48 CDT, 79:00:48 GMT
2/1/74
PAO 47 minutes Greenwich mean time, this is

Skylab Control. Space station now nearing acquisition
through the tracking antenna at Guam. Commander Jerry Carr
should be finished with the $201 observation of the
Comet Kohoutek now 95 million miles from the Sun. And
Science Pilot Ed Gibson should be-ea_ng dinner along with
Pilot Bill Pogue. We'll hold the line up for this pass
through Guam.
9 minutes and 50 seconds with a data/voice tape recorder
dump, private phone call and standing by for the evening
status and photo reports, over.
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; 4973; 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 equals
200 - 2600 watt minutes; PLT, no change. CDR, no medications,
short and socks; SPT, no medication, socks, shorts, shirt and
trousers; PLT, one Actifed as directed, socks, shirt socks,
T-shirt and shorts. Flight Plan deviations: ED41 done
early, at 18:00 Zulu. Shopping list accomplishments: chest PT,
muscle good, VTM re - PEM40 (?), but ED61/62 photo. Inoperable
equipment disposition: BMMD 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; SPT, i0.0 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. In
the BMMD, the way that's working now is that when you push the
RELEASE button or rather when you cock it, it releases
immediately 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 (garble). Okay, photo log
coming next.
CC Okay, do you think that that's a problem
with the BMMD 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 do
any maintenance on it unless I just - we've taken a quick look.
CC Okay, might fine.
PLT And unless somebody has, you know, an
inspried thought, that doesn't take too much time, we can live
with it the way it is.
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TIME: 19:48 CDT, 79:00:48 GMT
2/1/74
CC I'm sure we can find some inspired

thoughts, but they'll probably take some time up there, you'd
probably be better off just keeping it the way it is.
PLT I agree. Okay, photo log: 16-millimeter;
ERFP VTS, Charlie India 90, 80 percent. _151; Charlie India
65, 89 percent, Charlie India 81. Nikon: Nikon 01, Charlie
X-ray 56, count is 61; Nikon 02 is empty, Nikon 03 is
Charlie India 116, count is 28; Nikon 04, India Romeo 13,
count is 41; Nikon 05, Bravo Hotel 06, count is 41. Anticipates
use of two more exposures later on 2-233. 70-millimeter,
Charlie X-ray is 45, the count is 22. ETC, Charlie Tango
13, count is 219. EREP, set Uniform 1320, 3494, 1047, 0399,
2170, 1108. Drawer A configuration: the only change is
in Alfa 4, transporter 08, Charlie India 65, 89 percent,
Charlie India 81.
CC Okay, thank you Bill. We copy all of
that and there are no evening questions this evening.
PLT Thank you.
END OF TAPE
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Time: 19:54 CDT, 79:00:54 GMT
2/1/74
CC Skylab, this is Houston, I minute to

LOS. Next station contact in 31 minutes through the Vanguard
at 01:29, at sea, private medical conference. Out.
PAO Skylab Control, 59 minutes Greenwich
mean time. Science Pilot Ed Gibson and Pilot Bill Pogue
still eating dinner. And Commander Jerry Carr involved in
some $201 stowing activity. Today's S201 electronographie
images of the Comet Kohoutek represent the last scientific
data gathered through the space station scientific airlock.
We're told by Apollo telescope mount and corollary officers
here that the crew saw the comet yesterday through binoculars,
the problem with looking at the comet now is not that it's
so far from the Sun, or rather not that it's so far from
the Earth. Itts 95 million miles from the Earth. But the
fact that it is about as far from the Sun and therefore,
the dust tail of the comet has no energy to reflect - Sun's
energy on the comet is very weak at this point. However,
one last picture of the comet before closing down the
scientific alrlock. Next acquisition will be 28 minutes
from now. That'll be through the Vanguard tracking ship.
At i hour Greenwich mean time, mission day 79, this is
Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC2765/I
Time: 20:33 CDT 79:01:33 GMT
2/1/74
PAO Skylab Control i hour 33 minutes Greenwich

mean time. We're now 5 minutes into a pass over the Vanguard
tracking ship. This is the evening medical conference.
However, since it's such a long pass about i0 minutes in
duration the medical conference probably won't run the whole
length. We'll bring you that medical report when we get it.
We'll go live air-to-ground now in expectation of the medical
conference ending.
CC Skylab, this is Houston 4 minutes left
here at the Vanguard.
CDR Roger, Bruce.
CDR Understand your going to teleprinter up
the Old Testament tonight.
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 tele-
printer overheater - overheat input caution and warning.
CC Would you believe we - -
CDR You guys - you guys dumped a lot of
manure in that 5 pound bag, I tell you. It exploded when
I opened it.
CC 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. And just
for our information, a couple of hours ago your you asked
a question on deact checklist mods. And we're wondering
how you - how you all are progressing towards getting your
deact checklist modified. You got 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 a minute or two we come in and put a few more
changes in on a page, or something like that. It's a slow job.
CC Okay, very good. Well we're hopeful
that there won't be anymore - there won't be any changes to the
changes. And you've got some time tomorrow also to work on
them.
CDR Roger.
Next station contact in 7 minutes through Ascension at 01:45.
Out.
PAO Skylab Control I hour 39 minutes Greenwich
mean time. Space station now out of range of the Vanguard.
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Time: 20:33 CDT 79:01:33 GMT
2/1/74
Next acquisition will be 6 minutes from now, that will be

through Ascension. Everybody should be nearing their pre-
sleep activity up in space station Skylab. Some TV-67 and
an educational experiment which were scheduled for this time
by Science Pilot Ed Gibson working the TV and Pilot Bill
Pogue doing the experiment has already been done, that was
earlier in the day. One hour and 40 minutes Greenwich mean
time this is Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC2766/I
Time: 20:45 CDT, 79:01:45 GMT
2/1/74
PAO One hour 44 minutes Greenwich mean time

this is Skylab Control. Space station now nearing acquisition
through Ascension. This pass will take the space station through
Ascension, Canary Islands, and Madrid for a fairly long period
of acquisition with only a brief dropout between Ascension
and Canary. We'll go live air-to-ground now for this triple
header.
for 2-1/2 minutes. Out. Skylab, this is Houston, i minute
to LOS. Next station contact in 1 minute 26 seconds through
Canary Islands. And we'll be calling you through Hawaii at
11:06 for wakeup. Over.
CDR Roger, Hawaii.
CC l'm just fine, thank you.
CREW (Groan)
CDR That's a new aloha in puns.
CC (Laughter) That's even worst Jerry.
MCC We've gotten to the point where we just
can't get control, Bruce any longer.
CC (Laughter)
PLT We can tell, we can tell.
CC Skylab, this is Houston, through Canary
and Madrid for 13 minutes. Out.
CC Skylab, this is Houston, i minute to LOS.
Next scheduled call in the morning at 11:06, I believe it is,
through Hawaii.
PLT No comment.
CC Okay, (laughter) good night.
PLT Good night, Bruce.
PAO Two hours 3 minutes Greenwich mean time.
Space station is now out of range of the Madrid tracking
station. This is the good night call up to the crew as theytre
now in their presleep activity. They actually go to bed
57 minutes from now. They've requested quiet time and
they're getting it. We don't have the evening medical report
yet. We'll bring the line back up and read that to you as
soon as we get it. At Greenwich mean time 2 hours 3 minutes,
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC2767/I
Time: 21:45 CDT 79:02:45 GMT
2/i/74
PAO Skylab Control 2 hours 45 minutes Green-

wich mean time. The crew now well into their presleep period.
There will not be another acquisition or communication with
the crew tonight. We have Dr. Paul Buchanan's medical
report for this evening which I'ii read directly. "The
health of the crew of Skylah IV continues to be satisfactory.
The CDR, Jerry Carr again complained of some nasal stuffiness
developing during the day. He has been advised to take an
antihistamine decongestant tablet tonight and midmorning
tomorrow. The SPT, Ed Gibson reports his neck rash further
improved and not aggravated by the M133 sleep cap. The
PLT, Bill Pogue is nearly symptom free and his medication
will likely be con - discontinued after tomorrow." The
medication for Bill Pogue was also an antihistamine. Skylab
IV crew put in about 25 hours worth of science today. Seven
hours and 52 minutes for Commander Carr, i0 hours and
45 minutes for Science Pilot Ed Gibson, and 8 hours and
56 minutes for Pilot, Bill Pogue. Tomorrows ca1 comm calls
for lot of preparatory activity for both closing down the
workshop for the return trip home and for the EVA on Sunday.
Three hours of EVA prep later on tomorrow evening. Two ATM
stints tomorrow. One of them for Pilot Bill Pogue and one
of them for Science Pilot Ed Gibson. Those two will be the
final Apollo telescope mount control and display panel
manned operations for the duration of the mission. S055A
polycrom - polychromator spectroheliometer will be used in
the unmanned mode until just before hatch closeout. It will
be used while it's in acquisition with ground stations. It
takes telemetry information on ultraviolet sources. Also
tomorrow for all three crewmembers is the checklist update.
They got 35 feet of teleprinter message last night mainly
checklist update. They'll be assembling that and changing
their checklist tomorrow most of the day. And medical
experiments tomorrow with Commander Jerry Cart as the subject.
We'll bring the line down this evening. We'll see you
tomorrow morning at 6 o'clock, that will be Jack Riley.
Two hours and 48 minutes Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab
Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC2768/I
Time: 06:05 CDT, 79:11:05 GMT
2/2/74
PAO Good morning. This is Skylab Control at

ii hours 5 minutes Greenwich mean time on mission day 79.
Skylab is nearing acquisition through the Hawaii station.
Flight Director is Milton Windier. Spacecraft Communicator
is Dr. Story Musgrave. We'll stand by for the wakeup call.
CC Good morning Skylab. Got you through
Hawaii for 8 minutes.
PLT Hi, Story.
CC Hi.
CC And Skylab, we've got a CBRM test in pro-
gress. If you go up to the ATM panel, you'll see the charges
off on CBRMs i0 and 18.
CDR Roger, Story.
CC Morning, Jer,
CDR Good morning.
CC Skylab, i minute to LOS. 3 minutes to
Goldstone.
CC Skylab, we're back with you through Gold-
stone for 7 minutes. And you'll also notice at the ATM panel
that that charger talkback is barberpole. At the test,
it'd been running around 2 and 13 CBRMs. They won't get
fully charged till the next daylight pass. And the message,
7935 for Bill, his participation in the CBRM testing is on board.
No action required for about an hour and i0 minutes.
CDR Roger, Story. Thanks.
CC And let me know when you get to the break-
fast 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 were in 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.
CC Unless hers looking for a little exercise.
CC Washington: A key energy officials said
the United States cannot break the back of the energy crisis
in 1974, as President Nixon seemed to promise in the 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 unemployment 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 gasoline and other petroleum products for a sub-
stantial loss of jobs last month in aviation, auto and recre-
actional industries. Several oil companies pasted hold the
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2/2/74
bill(?). Gasoline price increases Friday ranged 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 expect dealers to pass most or all of
the additional cost on to motorists. Washington: Here are key
points in Senate Democratic 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 insure that the energy
shortage does not devastate the economy and that sacrifices are
borne equitably. Congress: In 1974, Mansfield predicted Con-
gress this year will consider a national health insurance system,
no-fault automobile insurance, better housing assistance,pension
reform, a fair minimum wage, a renewed commitment toexcellence
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 Minister
Andrei Gomiyko and King Hasslin of Jordan will visit the United
States next week as a part of continuing Middle East diplomatic
activity. The two officials will meet separately with Presi-
dent Nixon, Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and other
American officials. Governor David Hall of Oklahoma, said
he's asking the other 49 governors to help him out along emer-
gency daylight savings time. In letters to the other governors,
Hall said he will introduce a resolution to appeal 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.
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 occupied Arab lands and recog-
nizes the rights of the Palestlnians. He made this statement
after meeting with Palestinian guerrilla Arafat. Sadat's
cabinet allocated an initial $87 million to rebuild cities
along the canal and to dredge the waterway. Tel Aviv: The
Israeli army continues to withdraw 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. 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
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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. It claimed 177 lives. And I got
about 30 seconds to LOS. We'll finish up the news at Bermuda.
She's coming up in about 4 minutes.
PLT Okay Story. Thank you.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC-2769/I
Time: 06:25 CDT, 79:11:25 GMT
2/2/73
CC Israeli troops. Sao Paulo: A short

circuit in an air conditioning system triggered a blaze in
a 25-story bank building, claimed 177 lives. And l've got
about 30 seconds to LOS. We'll finish up the news at Bermuda.
Be coming up in about 4 minutes.
PLT Okay, Story. Thank you.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Goldstone has
loss of signal. Skylab is too far north to be acquired by the
Corpus Christi and Merritt Island tracking stations. Bermuda
will pick up Skylab in about 3 minutes. We'll keep the line
up and monitor into the Bermuda station.
CC Skylab, we're back with you through
Bermuda for 8 minutes. Green Springs, Ohio: Columbia Gas
System, Inccorporated 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 which a spokesman said is not in short supply,
into a synthetic which is similar to natural gas. The spokes-
man said the plant is capable of producing 250 million cubic
feet of the gas a day, enough to fill the needs of half a
million homes. 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 development plan to turn
the resort into a year-round 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 thatts about it this morning.
PLT Thank you, Story.
CC And we need the DAS here for dump inhibit.
CC Skylab_ we're a minute to LOS. Couple
minutes to Canaries. We'll be dumping the data/voice at
Canaries.
PLT Roger, Story.
of signal. Canary Island station will pick up Skylab in the
next few seconds. We'll continue to stand by for that pass.
There'll be overlapping coverage through Ascension station.
CC Skylab, wetre back with you through
Canaries and Ascension for 14 minutes. We're dumping the
data/voice here.
PLT Roger, Story.
CC Skylab, we're a minute to LOS about a
half an hour to Carnarvon at 12:22.
PLT Roger, Story.
moved out of range of the Ascension Island station. Carnarvon
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Time: 06:25 CDT, 70:11:25 GMT
2/2/74
will be the next station in 25 minutes. Jerry Carr, Ed Gibson

and Bill Pogue have started their 79th day in space, makes
it 78 down, 6 more to go. The crew has a busy day today
with command and service module entry checks. A medical run
on the lower body negative pressure, metabolic activity
experiments, checklist updates, two sessions with the Apollo
telescope mount. Today is the last day for manned ATM opera-
tion. One of the instruments S055A will be operated remotely
from the ground several more days. Continued photography
of comet Kohoutek scheduled today and later this afternoon
there'll be 3 hours of preparation for tomorrow's extra-
vehicular activity. Jerry Carr is the subject today of the
medical runs with Ed Gibson as the observer. Pogue and
Gibson will each have a turn at the ATM console. Pogue will
take the first stint, doing synoptic viewing of the Sun.
And the final ATM observation will be performed by Gibson.
This latter exercise will exhaust the film supplies, although
Ed Gibson will do some more solar viewing withOut recording
it on film. Gibson will perform the student experiment ED41
this morning to check his motor sensory performance after pro-
longed zero gravity. There will be a science conference this _
morning with Astronaut Bill Lenoir here in Mission Control, who
will update the crew on ATM activities and handheld photo options
for today. 22 handheld options are on today's Flight Plan.
They include fault zones in Morocco, Switzerland, Tiawan,
ocean current boundaries in the Gulf Stream, Brazilian currents
and equatorial currents. Other areas include rangeland in
the Big Bend area in west Texas and the Pampas of Central
Argentina. Several desert areas around the world will be
subjects also. And there will be a couple of attempts to
photograph the laser beam which will be aimed at Skylab
from NASA Goddard Space Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. During
the CSM entry -
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SL-IV MC-2770/I
Time: 06:58 CDT 79:11:58 GMT
02/02/74
PAO During the CSM entry checks, which are

scheduled from 7 a.m. to 10:20 a.m. central daylight time
today, we will be operating on two downlinks from the space-
craft. One from the command module, the other, the regular
one, from the workshop. Two CAP COMMs on duty. There will
be times when we will be talking simultaneously to - to the
command module and to the workshop. Workshop communications
will be prime on this line, the ATM conference is scheduled
during that period. Communleations from the command module
during the checks will be recorded and turned over to the
transcript operation in the News Center. Skylab now 20 minutes
away from Carnarvon and 12 hours i minutes Greenwich mean time,
21 minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab coming up on acquis-
ition through Carnarvon with overlapping coverage from the
Honeysuckle, Australia station. Flight director now is Phil
Shaffer. CAP COMM is austronaut Dick Truly, CAP COMM for
the CSM during the command module entry checks is astronaut
Bob Crippen. Backup Skylab Commander Vance Brandt is also
in the control room.
CC Skylah, Houston. Good morning to you
from the purple gang.
CDR Hello, Crippen.
CC I'm on S-band for 9 minutes.
SPT Morning, Dick and purple gang. Howls
things going down there?
CC Real fine, Ed.
CDR Houston, CDR.
CC CDR, Houston. I'm on the S-band, how
do you read me?
CDR I read you loud and clear and I'm reading
Crip on VHF as well, but he doesn't read me.
CC Okay, I think he just wasn't listening
enough. 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.
CDR You got it.
CC Thank you.
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
transmissions and I've punched off VHF so or air-to-ground
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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 VHF only or
not. And, CDR ver - -
CDR (Garble) kill S-band again.
CC Roger. Verify you on RIGHT antenna.
CDR RIGHT antenna. Okay.
CDR Houston, CDR on S-band.
CC CDR, Houston on - loud and clear.
CDR Okay, reread me VHF.
CC Jerry, we were reading you VHF. Apparently
you were not reading Crip's response.
CDR Okay,
CC l'm simplex Alfa now.
CDR (Garble)
CDR Roger, Crlp. Loud and clear. How me?
CC CDR, Houston. Request you select the
LEFT antenna. I heard you, Crip did not, that transmission.
CDR Okay. I've got (garble) right now.
CDR Hello, Houston; CDR on VHF and S-band.
How do you read me?
CC Okay, reading you loud and clear. I'm
killing S-band.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're i minutes to LOS.
Hawaii comes up at 12:45, see you then.
PLT Roger, Dick.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Honeysuckle has
loss of signal. The next station is Hawaii in 13 minutes.
After some initial problems with the VHF, very high frequency
communications between the ground and the command module
those communications were finally established over Honeysuckle.
And, Skylab Commander Jerry Carr will be in communications
with Astronaut Bob Crippen here in the control center for
the next several hours, performing entry checks in the command
module. Included in today's messages that have been transmitted
to Skylab on the teleprinter is congratulatory message'from
the Apollo telescope mount people here on the ground to the
crew. Reads, "Happy splashdown. Solar physics will never be the
same, and your contributions will last through many changes
in the Sun spot polarities. Congratulations Jerry, Ed, and
Bill, a job well done. P.S., don't forget the film." At
12 hours 33 minutes Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab
Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC2771/I
TIME: 07:44 CDT, 79:12:44 GMT
2/2/74

44 minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab is about to be ac-
quired through the Hawaii station.
PLT Houston, Skylab.
CC Skylab, Houston; go ahead.
PLT Roger, Dick. On the CBRM test, number
i0 kicked off at 12:39:20, voltage was 28; number 18 at
12:43:20, voltage was 27.9.
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.
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 ATCS control during the EVA. We really should have
made that a permanent message and sent you a couple of copies.
We want to make sure you hang onto it, and it's available
to you to use during the 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.
SPT Hello, Dick. Got a question on heat sink(?)
applications (garble) the IMSS/(garhle) 31 return.
CC Okay, Ed, go ahead.
SPT Turns out in going through this slide strainer
that there is only one water bag from the slice strainer. I've
found only one which was not used 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. Stand by.
SPT Thank you.
CC Skylab, Houston; we're going to be in
a keyhole in about 15 seconds; it will last about 45 seconds.
I'ii give you a call out of keyhole.
CC Skylab, Houston; we're out of keyhole. We
still have about a minute left here at Hawaii. 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 AOS Goldstone.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Skylab is out of
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the Hawaii station. Goldstone will acquire in 3-1/2 minutes.

We'll keep the line up for the pass over the United States.
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 all ready looked here. First of all, you might look
in the - look some more in the slide stainer. There are
two compartments, both on the front and the right hand side,
and we think it may 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 lefthand corner, possibly in one of those little
cardboard-like boxes that are like 4 by 5 - 4 in the front
and go all the way to the depth of the locker. In the event
you can't find the second slide strainer bag, let us know.
But what we'd like 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.
PLT Stand by, Dick.
CC Okay, Bill.
CC And, while I'm talking to you, the first
laser opportunity this morning that's scheduled at 13:08 is
canceled due to weather.
PLT Roger.
SPT Hello, Dick. No joy in unit location. I
do have another idea,though, is: we have some of the Apollo bag
juice dispensers which I can make up, I think, to just about
the same geometry 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 if it's useable, it is. We'll go ahead and
do it that way. Otherwise we just leave it out.
CC Okay, let me check real quick with biomed
and make sure it's okay with us and we'll give you a GO.
Itll 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.
CC Roger. The only advice we can pass
up is we are a little 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 here to have the ATM
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conference with you at Bermuda. And we are going to dump

the data/voice recorder when we get there.
SPT Okay, Dick. No sweat on those dimensions.
Turned out the Apollo juice bags're the exact same width
of the other bag. It's just a question of folding it at the
right location to make it the right length.
CC Okay, thanks for imp improvising for us.
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Time: 08:03 CDT, 79:13:03 GMT
2/2/74
PAO This is Skylab Control. Goldstone has

loss of signal. Skylab will be within range of the Bermuda
station. Ought to be in Bermuda in 3 minutes. We'll stand
by.
MCC Skylab, Houston with the ATM conference
for about 9 minutes. And we're dumping the data/voice recorder
here.
SPT Morning, Bill. Go ahead.
MCC Okay. I've just got a couple of things
for you here today, the last day of our operations. The first
thing - Is Bill listening, as well?
PLT Affirmative.
MCC Okay. Because it turns out the first
thing on my list here, you're actually doing. And that
regards the SO55 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. 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 3 minutes
into it. We'll be running all detectors except for 5 at a
grating of all balls and that's pretty much standard configura-
tion. 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 detectors on i, 2, 3, 4, 6 and 7 in the normal
configuration, detector 5's still in OVERRIDE. And we ask
you to monitor detector i. If the count gets above i0, 000
for i0 seconds, turn them all off and terminate the test.
Then when we're all done, we'll make sure we take detector
5 back to OFF, so that it's out of OVERRIDE and that concludes
the test. Do you have any questions on that, Bill?
PLT You were cut out just a little bit there
in the middle, but I think I got it all. 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 them 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 7 minutes, 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 jamming the
camera and heating it up, or anything like that. 54 will
not operate in that observing time. They will later take
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two unattended sequences and clear the BB-I that they have
done. And make sure that when you clip the film that we get
all of this good data. Of course, on SO55, you can do anything
you want during that time. Similarly, with 56 and 82B, any
film that remains you're more than welcome to shoot it up on
any interesting feature that you find. However the 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 have on my list here for today.
SPT All of the 82B film, huh?
SPT I'm on frame i right now.
MCC Right. Don't spend it all at once.
SPT (Laughter)
SPT Okay. Is that all you've got?
MCC Rog. That's all l've 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 forecast with
your unique data.
SPT Well, we sure appreciate the NOAA folks.
Matter of fact, I think we appreciate the work of everybody
involved in this. We've kind of reach the end of a phase
here, if you will, in ATM. We still have major phase left and
that's all the data analyses. And over the years we're going
to see a lot of that turning into some pretty, I think, pro-
ductive and useful results and a lot of understanding of
the film will result. I think the quality and the quantity
of the data that we've gotten on ATM has far exceeded our
early expectations. They certainly have mine, and I'm sure
they have other peoples. The quality of the data that we're
getting out_ however, is a direct result of the quality of
people that we've had working on it. We've had about, I
would guess, thousands of people working on this ATM for many
years now. And the results are going to give them a large
step forward in our understanding of the Sun. I think every-
body that's been involved in it can take pride in what is
really their accomplishment. I know the three of us up here
certainly are happy to have been a part of it. And we thank
everybody down on the ground for giving us excellent support
during the mission.
MCC Okay, Ed. Thanks for the words. We
certainly want to thank the three of you for the excellent
jop that you have done. The quality of data that we will be
getting back is due in no small part to the work that you
three guys have done.
SPT Look forward to bringing it back. We
won't forget the film.
MCC Okay. Good enough. And let's see, we've
still got 4-1/2 minutes here at this pass. I'ii turn it back
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to Dick Truly and then Ascension comes up in ii minutes and

that'll be the vis ops conference with whoever is available.
SPT So long, Bill.
CC Roger, Bill. I'm back with you and we
still have 4 minutes left here at Bermuda. Standing by.
CC PLT, Houston. Our TM on CBRM-18 makes a
suspicion that possibly the POWER monitor switch and the
SELECT switch were not turned to OFF after you did that. We
may not have good enough granularity 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 that you - on panel - on the
ATM panel you turn the POWER monitor switch and the SELECT
switch, both OFF.
PLT I did not. I read it, and I failed to
do it. 1'11 go do that right now.
CC Okay, Bill. Thank you very much.
PLT Okay Dick, (garble) we're configured
properly now.
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 there to talk
about vis ops.
of range of Bermuda now. The next station is Ascension
Island in 5-1/2 minutes. During the Bermuda pass, Astronaut
Bill Pogue and Science Pilot Ed Gibson, discussed with Bill
Lenoir here on the ground today's ATM operations. Also a
brief summary of the solar studies accomplished and cudos on
both sides for the quality of the data that has been gathered
on the Sun. And Gibson promised he would not forget the film,
answering the postscript that was attached to teleprinter
message sent to the crew during the night. At Ascension,
Bill Lenoir will continue the conversation with the crew
concerning visual operations and the handheld photography
sites. We're about 4 minutes away from Ascension. We'll
keep the line up for that pass. About a lO-minute pass
scheduled at Ascension.
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Time: 08:18 CDT 79:13:18 GMT
02/02/74
MCC Skylab, Houston with the visual observations

conference for i0 minutes.
CDR 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 ops pads, will be the
last of those that you'll get. We will not be scheduling
anything from now through splashdown, including any optionals.
So, what we're thinking of here is, anything that we get will
be in a purely target of opportunity basis, where you happen
to have the time and the desire to be looking out the window
and get us whatever is outside the window. We -
PLT Bill.
MCC Yeah, go ahead.
PLT Hey, it's something that you - some other
schedule information you can provide us for these last 2
offbeat days. We'll be on peculiar schedules. There's just
a possibility we may be able - we may be up when Western
Europe is in the 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 youtll just be missing Europe.
The one thing that you will catch is that one day that you
get up super early, you will catch some spots in Africa,
potentially, that we're interested in, but you will be missing
Europe.
PLT Thank you.
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 take 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 items. As
an example, in the ocean, our number one thought right now is
in the South Africian area, where the circum-Antarctic,
the Benquila and the Agulhas currents are sort of coming toge-
ther_ this is a direct outgrowth of the blooming that you re-
ported earlier. We would like to follow up on it; however,
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 - -
PLT Did you get my comments from about 2 or
3 days ago?. This is PLT.
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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.
MCC Okay, very good.
MCC Other current areas than that are the Falk-
land and Brazil current areas. New Zealand will begin to come
in - into your day on the night side, in that we move up about
an hour a pass here, so that it will begin to come up before
your nominal bed time. Similarily 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
visibility of sea mounts and likewise island wakes, that's
the HH-34 alfa, which you have been giving us some. We're
interested in doing some more of that. Okay, moving on to
volcanoes, the number one area that we would like to get some
more data on is the Galapagos. Also, as I mentioned earlier,
the Sierra Madre occidental; that's the HH-56. We would like
some photographic coverage of the western side of that, since
we missed that on SL-II's SI90A. We potentially may
schedule you one thing here, in spite of what I said earlier,
Mr. Etna blew it's top a couple of days ago. Uunfortunately
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 check 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
that you could get on the Bravo Victor film, we may send you
up some more words on it. Also, any volcanoes that we had
previously covered, such as Sakurazima, the Hawaiian Shield (?)
volcanoes in Guatemala, just for time developments. Okay,
then in the deserts, the dunes, primarily the dunes that we
will have available will be in the Far East, in China, in
the Gobi Desert, and so on. And they will be coming up
late in the day. The Africian dunes, the Saudia Araban dunes,
and so on, are out of the early morning side of your orbit.
Also, there are some dunes 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
observations of wind, colors, the vivid descriptions, etc,
that you have given us coming. We will be looking at that.
On HH-74, which is the dune site by Tashkent, in Russia, you
had earlier remarked about some white spots in them, and it oc-
cured to me that we never passed up any words about that. It
apparently is due to the high salinity soil there that
causes those white spots. Okay then, moving to the Africian
drought area, this again, as I mentioned, is a high priority
area to us. We don't have nearly as much as we would like.
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Hhowever, 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 in that early day, any of the
HH-90s or HH-151 area are of interest to us. In geology, number
1 is we'd like some more data on the Romanshe fracture extension,
repetative type coverage to see what you're seeing and what
you see the second and third times and so on, which I realize
is unrealistic for the time and effort that we have available.
Also, should Jerry want to continue in the Baja California
iii area, we'd be happy to have him do that on an observations
basis. The San Andreas and the Mexican Faults, the 1141312;
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's
Japan fault, we don't have very much on that, and that tends
to come up later in your day. Again, should you find yourself
looking out at that time frame, we're interested in some data
on that. Vegetation (garble), well, the Africian area has
moved out of our awake cycle, so we're primarily interested
in South America and Australia, which 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 ops 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. Okay, so far
in the mission, we find on our bookkeeping that we have taken
over 700 observations and over ii00 photos. Your film status
for the visual observations film remaining, presently I believe
Charlie X-ray 45 is in the Hasselblad. At the beginning of
yesterday there were 151 frames remaining, and that's it for
the Hasselblad.
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MCC - our bookkeeping that we have taken

over 700 observations and over ii00 photos. Your film status
for the visual observations film remaining, presently, I believe,
Charlie X-ray 45 is in the Hasselblad. At the beginning of yes-
terday there were 151 frames remaining, and that's it for the
Hasselblad. The Nikon 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. Similarly, 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 til 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 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 Ellington.
PLT We'll be looking forward to it.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Ascension has
loss of signal. Carnarvon will acquire Skylab in 22 minutes.
During this pass at Ascension Bill Lenoir briefed Bill Pogue
and Ed Gibson on visual observations and handheld photography,
discussed some of the items that could be done during the
remainder of the mission. He reported that so far in this
mission there have been 700 visual observations recorded
and more than ii00 handheld photographs have been taken. At
13 hours 35 minutes Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab Control.
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55 minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab coming up on acquisi-
tion through Carnarvon for a 10-1/2-minute pass.
CC Skylab, Houston. AOS Carnarvon for
i0 minutes.
CC And, SPT or PLT, Houston. There was
one point on cameras and film that Bill Lenoir wanted me
to clear up here, if you got a chance.
SPT Dick, Stand by.
CC Okay, Ed.
SPT Jerry's working a problem.
CC Okay. Go ahead and don't worry about
this. It's nonconsequential.
PLT Houston, PLT. How do you read?
CC Loud and clear, Bill. How me?
PLT 5 square. Thank you.
CDR Dick, would you tell Crip that we're
reading him 5 square, but apparently he's not reading us.
CC Certainly will, Jerry.
CDR Houston, CDR.
CC CDR, 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
particulars you want to that you can tell us about it
right now?
CDR Okay. Let me give you the sequence on
it. When we closed the BAT BUS A circuit breaker in the
275 panel configuration, BAT BUS A to BAT A and we took ma -
took it off of MAIN A. And at that time, we had 0 volt in-
dication. So we cycled the BAT BUS A breaker. We opened it
and 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 0 again. And the current also dropped to zero, and
that's where we stand right now.
CC Roger, Jerry. I was writing and thinking
there. One question on what 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 a - -
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CDR Roger. Crip says he reads. So I'll

get off S-band and get back on VHF.
CC Okay. Thank you very much.
CC Skylab, Houston. 30 seconds to LOS.
Guam at 14:10.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Carnarvon has
loss of signal. Guam will acquire in 2-1/2 minutes. Skylab
Commander Jerry Carr has reported during this pass that
battery bus A in the command module and service module will
not stay on line. When he first put it on it did show current.
But, when he cut in the main bus ties, the current went to 0.
And that battery bus A will not stay on the line. The experts
here on the ground want some time to think about it. And they
will be troubleshooting that later. We're about a minute and
a half away from acquisition through Guam. We'll stand by for
that pass.
CC Skylab, Houston. On S-band Guam for
i0 minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston. 45 seconds to LOS.
Goldstone at 14:35.
CDR Roger, Dick.
of range of Guam now. Goldstone will pick up the space sta-
tion in 14-1/2 minutes. Troubleshooting procedures on battery
bus A commenced over Guam. The EECOM Flight controller, who
monitors the electrical system, says he is confident that bus
is good and he's using the battery charger to check out the
bus. As we had loss of signal at Guam, Jerry Carr had put
battery A on the charger and reported indication of a small
amount of charger current. We'll continue these procedures
over this next pass over the United States, beginning at
Goldstone in about 13 minutes. At 14 hours 22 minutes
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34 minutes Greenwich mean time. We're standing by for
acquisition through Goldstone.
CC Skylab, Houston; Goldstone for 17 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 ergometer in the background there? 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
module with Jerry 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 heop you out a little bit.
SPT Go ahead.
CC Okay, because Bill is obviously in the
command module he's getting way behind on this - on the
scheduled PT. On 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 PTPH period. This will
free it up for him later during your period or when he's
scheduled there for checklist update review and y'all can
swap that later. One other thing, on your Flight Plan, you'll
notice on your summary it shows you eating just prior to
PT. That was a mistake by us. The S149 prep 4, and the
S020 prep are not time critical. If you'd like to swap
the eat and those preps, that'll give you some time between
eating and PT.
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.
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.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Command and service
module entry checks are proceeding now with battery bus A
tied into battery C. Pill Pogue, who has gone up to the
command module to assist Jerry Carr, when this problem occurred
reported that after he cycled the circuit breaker battery
A, which had been placed on the the battery charger
for a test, started showing full voltage. That battery was
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then taken off the charger, put back on bus A, and the voltage
in the - then dropped to zero again. So the bus was tied
to battery C. EECOM says he's satisfied the bus is good. It
appears to be either a circuit breaker problem or in inermit -
intermittent battery problem. They'll continue studying that,
but in the meantime that bus is tied into another battery,
battery C, and the checks are proceeding normally.
CC Skylab, Houston; we're 45 seconds to LOS.
Carnarvon at 15:35.
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 opening up the main bus tie?
CDR Okay, we'll take care of all of that.
CC Okay, over the hill.
CDR Okay, understand Carnarvon around 46.
CC That's affirm.
CDR Okay.
CC But, Carnarvon's LOS at about 35.
CDR Okay.
of signal. The next station is Carnarvon in 39 minutes. We're
configuring now to play back over the release line the VHF
communications from the command module starting at Carnarvon
on this last pass. It's about 40 minutes' worth of tape. We
may not get it all in before the next acquisition of Skylab.
If not, we'll play the remainder of it at the at another LOS
period. We'll leave the line up. It'll take a couple of
more minutes to reconfigure that tape. We'll come back up
and notify you when that tape is ready. At 14 hours 56 minutes,
this is Skylah Control.
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33 minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab coming up on acqui-
sition through Carnarvon. About a 7-minute pass there.
CC Skylab, Houston. AOS Carnarvon for
!0 minutes correction, 7 minutes.
PLT BAT C is back on BAT BUS A and BAT
B is back on BAT BUS C.
PLT Crip, I have another little anomaly, I
think has occurred. I'd like to explain it to you.
PLT 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 hit that close and the BAT the MAIN B The main
A BAT C breaker, in order to get MAIN - the BUS - the BATTERY
C tied to MAIN A. If I have not done it too confusing there,
the - I still have no current showing on BAT BUS A°
CC SPT, Houston. We're about 30 seconds
from LOS. Guam at 15:49. No response required.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Carnarvon has
loss of signal. The next station is Guam in 6-1/2 minutes.
We'll switch over at Guam and make the command module VHF
communications prime there, and record any workshop air-to
ground. There was no workshop air-to-ground during the
Carnarvon pass. We did tape VHF during Carnarvon. We'll
play that back after Guam loss of signal. However, during
the Guam pass we'll go live with the VHF from the command
module. Skylab about 5-1/2 minutes away from Guam now. At
15 hours 43 minutes, this is Skylab Control.
CC SPT, Houston. Guam for 6 minutes.
CC SPT, Houston. If you have a chance, I
see - we see you're off the bicycle 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.
SPT Go ahead, Dick.
CC Roger, Ed. Real quick. I'm sure that
you guys can figure out most of it better than we can. But,
I wanted to tell you what this command module problem, we
think, has done to today's Flight Plan and what is time
critical and what isn't. The crewmen, one at a, times - Jerry's
the only one that's got a - a big problem, and that is is that
as soon as he's out of the command module we think he ought to
go ahead and do his MO92/171 run, then get whatever PT he
wants to get today and eat 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 bra - to try to get you guys to
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be able to start the EVA pre-prep 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 MO92.
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 SO55 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 nontime critical and he can do as he can find time
to do it.
SPT Okay, Dick. I understand that, and l'm sure
I can work around it. And I'ii 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 something, give us a holler.
SPT Okay. Thank you, Dick.
CC Roger.
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2/2/74
CC S, Houston; we're i minute to LOS. Goldstone

comes up 18 minutes from now.
CC That time for Goldstone is 16:12.
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SL-IV MC-2779/I
Time: ii:i0 CDT, 79:16:10 GMT
2/2/74

i0 minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab about a minute and
a half away from acquisition through Goldstone. Astronaut
Bob Crippen does not expect to have any more VHF communica-
tions with the command module. So we're back to the workshop
S-band as our prime communications on this line. That's what
we will be monitoring as we go into Goldstone. If Jerry
Carr should call down on VHF we will tape that and play it
back. However, not expected that any more VHF communications
will be attmepted. But the command and service module entry
checks drawing to a close now. About 30 seconds away from
acquisition. We'll stand by.
SC Hello.
CC Skylab, Houston. AOS stateside for
16 minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're going 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.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 30 seconds
from LOS. Vanguard comes at 16:37. Just in the event that
we do not have AOS 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'ii remind you again at the Vanguard as soon - assuming that
we do have voice. See you there.
SPT Okay, Dick. We'll do it. So long.
CC Roger.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Had loss of
signal through the Merritt Island and Texas. Next station,
the tracking ship Vanguard in about 9 minutes. There was
additional VHF communication during this stateside pass.
As the result of a technical problem that air-to-ground did
not get transmitted to Building i and was not taped there.
We're attempting to get a tape from within the Mission Control
Center and we'll play that transmission back as soon as possible.
To sum up that VHF conversation, EECOM had determined that the
circuit breaker was the most suspect for the problem experienced
earlier with battery A on bus A. He thought perhaps that
a thin film had formed over the contacts during the long
stay in space and we asked Jerry Carr to cycle that current
breaker 20 times, which he did, to no avail. Still showed
no current from battery A on that bus. Commander Carr was
then asked to push in hard on the circuit breaker and hold
it there. When he did that, we showed full current. That
bus operated normally from battery A. However, when he took
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his finger off at the circuit breaker, the current went back
to zero. So that It has been determined that it is a problem
in the circuit breaker. But we've secured the command module
at the present time and will will not attempt anymore
troubleshooting for the time being with that system. As soon
as we're able to secure a tape of that conversation, we will
play it back for you. Skylab 6 minutes away from acquisition
at the Vanguard. At 16 hours 31 minutes Greenwich mean time,
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TIME: 11:35 CDT, 79:16:35 GMT
2/2/74

36 minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab coming up on acquisition
through the tracking ship Vanguard.
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.
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.
CC Roger.
CC Skylab, Houston; we're about a minute from
LOS. Goldstone comes up at 17:50, see you there.
SPT Roger, Dick; so long.
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 left to right antenna; l'll
remind you again. No response required.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Vanguard has loss
of signal; long LOS now. The next station to acquire at
Goldstone in i hour 2 minutes. At 16 hours 47 minutes Greenwich
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SL-IV MC-2781/I
Time: 12:47 CDT, 79:17:47 GMT
2/2/74
CC Skylab, Houston. Hello at Goldstone

for ii minutes.
SPT Hello, Dick.
CC Hi, Ed. How are you all doing now?
CC 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 series, just finishing the MO92/171. I got sections
of the EVA prep and also the 149 to go.
CC Have you done your PT, Ed?
SPT Yes I have, Dick.
CC Okay. Thank you much. I had a couple
of things to tell Jerry. I see he's on the bike and working
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, number 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 want to let him know
it was on board and and 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 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.
SPT Dick, the film dump says that we will we
do want them.
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 ATM work, why don't
you let us know how you're doing on your Flight Plan with re-
gard to the EREP tape record of a disassembly or PT - PT or
wherever it is that you are.
PLT Okay, Dick. The tape recorder work is all
done. And everything is stowed in MII4. The - I had to
skip the PT today, because we had this problem in the command
module and I spent my time up there. And right now l'm doing
the ATM as assa - 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
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maybe could slip yours in, maybe after that. Hope you get
the chance.
PLT Yes. I intend to if I get the chance.
CC Okay.
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 MII4. I meant MI41, in case any 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.
PLT Roger.
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.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Texas has loss
of signal. The next station is the tracking ship Vanguard
in ii minutes. At 18 hours 2 minutes Greenwich mean time,
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC2782/I
TIME: 13:12 CDT, 79:18:12 GMT
2/2/74

12 minutes Greenwich mean time. The tracking ship Vanguard
is about to acquire Skylab.
CC Skylab, Houston; hello at Vanguard for
Ii minutes. We're going to dump the data/voice recorder
here.
SPT Hello, Dick. Got a question on S149.
CC Go ahead, Ed.
SPT I'm trying to figure out what is the
objective of tomorrow's operations with 149. I see we're
taking it out, but what's going to happen beyond that?
CC Okay, Ed, let's talk about it a little.
I'ii get back with you.
SPT Thank you.
CC $PT, Houston. It's the same purpose as
that revisit bag I was telling you a while ago. If, in fact,
we ever do make plans to have a revisit crew, we could re-
trieve 149 and it, having been left outside, might be returned
by them and provide us some data, but there are no plans right
now to do that, but thatVs the purpose of it.
SPT Okay, thank you, Dick. I thought perhaps
that was it, but I wanted to make sure we weren't missing
any kind of a definite procedure. Very good.
CC Roger. Good question.
CC Skylab, Houston; for your information.
All of tomorrow's Flight Plans and the housekeeping message
is in the teleprinter.
PLT Thank you, Dick.
CC Skylab, Houston; on SO55 we'd like HIGH
VOLTAGE number 2 on.
CC Roger.
CC Skylab, Houston; we're a minute from LOS.
I'ii give you a call at Tananarive at 18:39. See you there.
CDR Roger, Dick.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Skylab has moved
out over the middle of the South Atlantic Ocean now, out of
range of the Vanguard tracking ship. Next acquisition will
be through Tananarive in 14 minutes. At 18 hours 24 minutes
38 minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab coming up on acquisition
through Tananarive.
CC Skylab, Houston; Tananarive for 9 minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston; we're 1 minute to LOS.
Hawaii comes up at 19:24.
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SPT Roger, Dick. So long.

CC Bye.
PAO This is Skylab Control; Tananarive has
loss of signal. Next acquisition in 35 minutes at Hawaii.
Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC2783/I
TIME: 14:22 CDT, 79:19:22 GMT
2/2/74

Space station Skylab now nearing acquisition through Hawaii.
We'll hold the line up as acquisition has been coming early
according to our clocks.
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. 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 see by eye and -
naked eye, and about another six which I could detect with a
magnifying glass 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 expelled 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.
SPT Thank you.
CC Skylab, Houston; we're going to do an
ATM mission timer update, we'll need the DASo
SPT You 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?
CC Well, 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 Bill 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
double shifts or something.
CC No, sir.
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 windows are quite smooth. There are no indica-
tions of any pits or anything in them at all. About the
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only problem we have with it is our little ice thing forms

about once every two weeks. And there's some sort of a deposit
on it on the outside that - it kind of looks like water stains,
the sort of thing that when you wash a oar window but don't
get it clean - rinsed off clean.
CC Okay, Jerry, thank you very much for the
information. We're about a minute to LOS here at Hawaii.
Vanguard comes up at 19:52 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.
CDR Okay, Dick.
PAO Skylab Control, 19 hours 30 minutes.
The space station is now out of range of the tracking antenna
at Hawaii. Science Pilot Ed Gibson commenting that one of
the filters for the S020 experiment which uses the Nikon
camera to photograph ultraviolet and X-ray frequency spectra
of solar sources, stars, et cetera, has pinholes in it; we
don't know why. The corollary officer will come back later with
some kind of indication as to why they think it has pin-
holes in it. Next acquisition is 20 minutes from now, that'll
be through the Vanguard tracking ship. 19 hours 31 minutes,
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SL-IV MC2784/I
Time: 14:51 CDT 79:19:51 GMT
2/2/74
PA0 19 hours 51 minutes Greenwich mean time.

Space station now nearing acquisition over the tracking ship
Vanguard. Collorary officer here in Mission Control indicated
earlier that the pin holes in the S020 filters for the Nikon
camera will degrade the data but not significantly. That
camera will be used tomorrow during the EVA to photograph
the Sun. We'll hold the line up now for this pass over the
Vanguard.
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.
SPT Okay, it's on page 2-17, IMSS container
transfer. The IMSS 1831 contents configuration verification
step i.
CC Why don't you let me get - Ed why don't
let me turn to that page and then that way it will probably
help me.
SPT Okay.
CC Okay Ed go ahead, I'm I'm looking at it.
SPT Okay step one I have not seen where that
is called out anywhere in the deactivation phase and I'm
wondering when that is going to be done. Second part is that
we only have two boric acid cans up here. We do however have
the large cans in which the charge particle mobility demo-
stration and ED31 where launched in, and which very well could
be used as a return container. I would propose that we return
the charge particle mobility demostrator and ED31 all of the
petri dishes, fifteen of them in the same container they were
launched rather than coming up with something new like what
apparently we've got here.
CC Okay Ed, I'm afraid I can't answer it
immediately. 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 i. So we have taken that
into consideration. 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.
CC Roger.
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CC Skylab, Houston. Tananarive comes up at

20:16. We're about a minute from LOS at Vanguard, see you
at Tananarive.
CDR Roger. See you then.
PAO Twenty hours 2 minutes Greenwich mean
time. Space station now out of range of the tracking ship
Vanguard. Next acquisition will be 13 minutes from now.
That will be over the voice relay station at Tananariveo
This is Skylab Control at Greenwioh mean time 20 hours
2-1/2 minutes.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC2785/I
TIME: 15:15 CDT, 79:20:15 GMT
2/2/74
PAO Greenwich mean time 20 hours 15 minutes,

over the voice relay station at Tananarive. At this time
Science Pilot Ed Gibson is doing physical training and
Commander Carr and Pilot Bill Pogue are updating their
close-out checklist. This will be a 5 minute pass over
Tananarive, now about 3 seconds away.
CC Skylab, Houston; we're at Tananarive for
5 minutes.
SPT Go ahead, Dick.
CC And CDH, Houston when you get an opportunity.
PLT He's listening, go ahead, Dick.
CC Okay, this morning there was a little
conversation that we think we have explained when Jet
was doing the entry test in the command 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
explanation as to how this may have happened and I thought
IVd tell it to you and see if it sounds reasonable so you'll
just realize that nothing's wrong. After the entry test,
after you do it, you should - would be in the EMS TEST 5
position. If in the next step causes you to go take that
rotary switch to OFF, if you happen to move it to OFF in the
counter-clockwise position, one of the positions that you
moved through is a DELTA-B TEST position and if at that time
there was a positive number 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 actually did the Delta-V test of course we saw another
one. So if that seems like a reasonable explanation to you
we're going to forget it. This also hop - happened on
Apollo-17.
CDR The problem is Dick, I went clockwise
from 5 to OFF.
CC Okay, we figured you might say that, we'll
continue to think Jerry. Thanks for remembering anyway.
I have one other comment here that everybody 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 checklist, llm se - in - include in
that the ones that Ed just asked me about. Don't misunderstand
this as the request for you to go dig out this message and
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and read the message everytime you have a question rather

than asking us about 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 - in the next few days, it
might very well be 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'd remind you of
that.
CDR Okay, Dick, thanks. We still have that
copy, we'll refer to it.
CC Okay, but don't he don't hesitate to
ask if we can help you answer any questions 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 perferred direction and I couldn't remember what the
perferred direction was. I remember thinking at the time
I had a 50/50 chance of being right.
CC Okay, Jerry, thank you much. Incidentally,
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 the on-orbit version of the purple gang
has a shift to do this mission. So except for those guys
on the purple team that are going to be with you at entry,
there are a number of guys from the team here that this is
the last pass that they will do in Skylab - Skylab, including
myself. Just want to tell you that we've - it's been a lot
of hard work but most of all it's been a lot of fun. So
you guys fly safe before you get home and we'll see you 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 and we'll see you out there.
CDR Houston, CDR.
CC Go ahead, Jer. I've got a couple of
things, Dick. Number i is on T025. I see they got Nikon 01
scheduled for that. That's the one we had the trouble with
on the first EVA. We shifted to Nikon 02 on the next EVA,
didn't have any trouble and it seems to me, to be proof
to stick to the one that works. I al - I see also that
Nikon 02 is scheduled for the Nikon ops outside. I think
we ought to just swap Nikons for the - those two jops. And
also we're interested in taking the DAC out with us, we'd
like to try this documentry photos again from outside.
CC Okay, Jerry, we're very close to dropping
over the hill here, I'ii have you an answer at Hawaii.
CDR Okay.
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CDR Okay.
Space station now out of range of Tananarive. The tail end
there was a request that they use Nikon 02 instead of Nikon 01°
Nikon 01 had some problems on the first EVA. This is for
the S020 experiment. Next acquisition will be 33 minutes from
now, that'll be through Hawaii. 20 hours 25 minutes Greenwich
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SL-IV MC2787/I
Time: 15:57 CDT 79:20:57 GMT
2/2/74
PAO 20 hours 57 minutes Greenwich mean time,

through Hawaii. For this pass, Rusty Schweickart will be CAP
COMM. Rusty is the EVA expert, he_ll be talking about some
changes to tomorrow's EVA procedure. One change is that Nikon
01 camera will be traded and won't be used. Nikon 02 camera
will be used. The crew - Commander Cart indicated earlier that
they'd had some problem with Nikon 01 during the first EVA.
That'll be using a 55 millimeter ultraviolet lens. Now about
i0 seconds away from acquisition, we'll await the CAP COMM
callup.
CC Skylab, this is Houston over Hawaii for
10 minutes, and we're dumping the data/voice. And we*d like
to talk a little bit about the EVA.
PLT Hello, Rusty, go ahead.
CC 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, l'd appreciate it.
Okay, your question, Jerry, ov - over Tananarive there. For
your information, 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 sometime this evening. And it is in the checklist
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?
CC Stand by, I'ii get an answer on it.
CDR I notice they got a change I notice they
got a change in film sphere - frame speed there, and I figure
we're using the 400 for prep and post.
CC ThatVs affirmative, we will be switching
those out. We will use 140 during the EVA itself and the 400
for prep and post.
CDR Okay, very good.
CC Okay. Let me go down my list here. In the
middle of that I'll also hit this TO25 stuff for you. By the
way, we agree with your suggestion on that, on the Nikon usage.
And if you can copy now, I'ii give you that configurations.
Nikon Ol will be used with the CX53, that'll he the handheld
documentary photos and Nikon 02 with BE - Bravo Echo 16, and
the 55 millimeter UV lens.
CDR Okay, Nikon 01 is Charlie X-ray 53 and 02 is
Bravo Echo at 16 or 15?
CC That's 16, and you'll have the 55 millimeter
UV lens on it. And Jerry, I'ii get to that later, but we would
like for you to be doing the TO25 preps and make sure that you get
a hand at trying this switching the long eye - relief eyepiece.
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Let me just start down my list so we'll make sure we don't drop
something through the crack here.
CDR Okay.
CC Okay, well on the Sun end, we're - we're
going to be asking you to retrieve the zero g cover for post-
flight analysis. That's one of those little 5 inch diameter
round access plates on the Sun end canister. And it - it's
held in with six screws and you'll be taking that off. It's the
ones - there are four of them out there - and it's the one
immediately to the left of the S082B film retrieval door.
CDR Yeah, we've got a picture of the Sun end
up there, and we just referred to it and located it. Those
CC Okay.
CDR - screws are for a blade screwdriver.
Right?
CC That's affirmative. Okay. We were just 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
have done there is reccommended 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.
CDR We'll sure give it a try, Rusty. And
getting 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 get 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.
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MCC Okay, you've got a GO on that Jerry. And

I think 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 judgment.
CDR Yeah, we'll do a little experimenting
and see if we can't work something up.
MCC Okay fine. Getting back to the Nikon on
the universal mount. I'd like to remind you that although
the dove tail will fit on the universal mount either way
you should follow the arrow that says lens because it will
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 effected sunset. And that's just wanted to
remind you of that so you could be aware of it. And another
one in that same sort of category is when you retrieve the
D024 samples, 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
D024 samples.
CDR Yeah, 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 comm card comm cue card outside whether or not you
could retrieve it. And we've batted that around and if
you can pull it off 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. Yeah, we thought maybe materials
people would like to see that after it's been outside for so
long.
MCC Yeah, they've already got it cut into
two pieces. And my guess is that it will be five or six
by the time you guys bring it back.
CDR Roger.
MCC Okay, one of the questions that you'd asked
a few days ago regarding the long eye relief eyepiece. I'd
like 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 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 is just a straight press fit
and you don't have to push the button. So it looks as though
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it ought to be straightforward as long as the mechanism

is working right. If you cannot change out the long eye re-
lief 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 difficulty in focusing properly for some of the close-
ups you might want to take with it.
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 column 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 that we just
sent up on the T025 prep we would like to have the CDR do
that so that you are familiar with handling 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 remember that the 24 frames per
second you have to hold the button in order to get continuous
exposure. Also we have a message up there related to the
tenth of a degree deadband on CSM in case we have to take
over with the CSM, We'd like to let you know that we have
run a lot of simulations on that down here. And basically
running a tenth of a degree deadband allows us to do S020
without any modifications. And it does not ironically cost
us any more fuel, that is, we do 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 anyting to go down to the
tenth. By the way we're i0 seconds 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 welcome, have a nice time out
there tomorrow.
CDR Sure hope to thank you.
MCC We'll be watching.
PAO Skylab Control 21 hours and 9 minutes
Greenwich mean time. Quite a lot of conversation from Rusty
Schweickart to the crew up there. Several things happening,
a changeout of the S020 camera, and indication that
materials people on the ground would llke to retrieve a
visual cue card which was left out from the previous EVA.
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That would give some indication as to the durability of

materials in a zero g, very cold vacuum environment. Also some
documentary photographs being taken tomorrow with a 16-milli-
meter documentary camera. And a metal cover on the ATM
canister will be retrieved. The suggestion there from the
crew was that they'd rather use a pocket as the tape that
they've been using outside doesn't hold when it gets cold,
the gum just lets go. Next acquisition will be 20 minutes
from now. That will be over the Vanguard tracking ship.
Twenty-one hours and i0 minutes, this is Skylab Control.
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SL-IV MC2789/I
TIME: 16:20 CDT, 79:21:20 GMT
2/2/74
PAO 21 hours 20 minutes Greenwich mean time,

this is Skylab Control. Change-of-shift almost complete
here at Mission Control. Flight Director Neil Hutchinson
taking over from Phil Shaffer and CAP COMM Bruce McCandless
taking over from Dick Truly. Flight Director Phil Shaffer
has indicated that he'll be in the briefing room in Building 1
at 4:30 for a change-of-shift press briefing. That_s 4:30
in the briefing room in Building i. Next acquitition will
be in 9 minutes from now, that'll be through the Vanguard
tracking ship. We'll be taping that to bring you the press
conference live and play it back later. Greenwich mean time
21 hours and 21 minutes, this is Skylab Control.
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Time: 16:53 CDT 79:21:53 GMT
2/2/74

We have 2 minutes of recorded air-to-ground which took place
over the Vanguard tracking ship about 20 minutes ago, which
we'll play back for you now.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through the Vanguard
for 9 minutes.
CDR Hello, Bruce.
CC Hello, everybody up there. Hey, we got
one question 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've 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 commands to reset
some relays. So just let us know when you get it checked
sometime.
CDR Okay. And, Bruce, I want to thank you
for sending up the "Old Testament" last night.
CC We figured you guys would appreciate that.
You got it all
CDR We got a the new book we'd like for tonight.
CC How about "War and Peace?"
CDR No, how about"Little Women?"
CDR Bill says send him the big one.
CC If he wants 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 arenlt 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)
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
ALERT light and have the teleprinter paper changed out by then.
CC Okay, thank you.
PAO That concludes the recorded air-to-ground
over Vanguard. Next acquisition now is i hour and ii minutes;
that's once again over the Vanguard. 21 hours 56 minutes, this
is Skylab Control.
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TIME: 18:07 CDT, 79:23:07 GMT
2/2/74

Space station is now nearing acquisition through the Vanguard
tracking ship. About an hour and 20 minutes ago it passed
over the Vanguard, also. Getting ready here in Mission Control
for this evening's dinner planned by Nell Hutchinson so
that as the mission winds down, several more people could
get a taste of Mission Control. Each of the console operators
has invited a guest up for this evenings dinner which I'm
told consist of steak.
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
ask you to send me another copy of permanent general message
19 Bravo and this last message which is change number 3 to
the storage book, has got some big blank spots in it so
you'll have to send them over again, too.
CC Okay_ that's PGM 19 Bravo and stowage
book change number 3.
CDR That's affirmative, that's - I think, the
last two items that were teleprintered up.
CC All right and I got a couple of items
of interest to you all. First off is - is there's a tropical
cyclone by the name of Pam, that's Papa Alfa Mike which was
formed yesterday in the Southwestern Pacific. At 00:00 Zulu
this evening, it's foreasted to be in the position of latitude
14 south, longitude 168 east, that's 14 south, 168 east near
the New Hebrides Islands with maximum winds of 50 knots. You
should be able to see it and get a few photos around 00:20 Zulu,
if you have the time. And I guess this is sort of EREP dying
gasp since you closed out all the rest of their gear yesterday.
CDR Okay, Pam is at a latitude of 14 south,
1683 east and we can get it at 00:20.
CC Roger, that was 168 east, I didn't have
a three in there but it doesn't make that much different.
And if Ed's listening I've got a comment or two for him on
IMSS.
SPT Go ahead, Bruce.
CC Yeah, the IMSS fecal container transfer
step shown on page 2-17 of the deact checklist, that you were
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.
CC Okay, well, maybe you've gotten the rest of this
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also, the ED31 samples require a chilled container and that's

the reason for using the overcan with heat syncs. Since you
can't find one of the boric acid cans, we recommend using
an empty IMSS D can, one of which - two of which are now in
the chiller. It's identified either as D or as can number 374
and we perfer that you use the outdated can from the SL-III
which should have an expiration date of October and November
73 stamped on the thing. If that's not available you can
go ahead and use the SL-IV can D and the reason we're
passing it up now is that we thought you might be working
ahead on some of the IMSS stuff and we didn't want you to
dispose of these, over.
SPT Yeah, 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 info and we'll do it that way.
CC Okay, mighty fine. Would you llke for us
to formalize 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 on the med is - in our EVA prep cue cards page 1.1-2,
under EVA 4, 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 4. Also over on the next page which says
1.1-3 about half way down in the lefthand column and in parenthesis
it says L-5, that should be L-4. So when we _ome
whistling back with the film, they'll know which one is
in which.
CC Okay, stand by a second. 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 of a last EVA and exchanged films and 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
numbers were coming back and which - where the film was
actually located.
CC Okay, thank you.
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SPT That's affirmative and that's what we got

in there. I just want to make sure people understood what
numbers were coming back and which - where the film was actu-
ally located.
CC Okay, thank you.
CC CDR, Houston, on change three 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 everyone of them's got a blank spot in it.
CC Okay, we'll send the whole thing again.
CDR Okay.
CC And Jerry, no answer required. We're
sending a reset (garble) command to the CSM to clear the
CREW ALERT.
Less than 2-1/2 minutes away from reacquisition through Ascension.
The cyclone that the crew will look for on the next revolu-
tion is located northeast of the subcontinent of Australia
east of the island of New Guinea and southwest of Hawaii,
just about midway between. Cyclone Pam - and it has winds
up to 50 knots. We'll hold the line up for acquisition
through Ascension about 2 minutes away now.
for i0 minutes. Data/voice tape recorder dump next site at
Guam. And since it will be about 45 minutes 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 pretty good feel; thank you.
PLT We're interested in knowing what 140
foot magazine we're going to have for tomorrow. We'd like
to go ahead and load it on tonight and put it in the airlock.
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.
CC Skylab, this is Houston.
CDR Go ahead.
CC Okay, Jerry, the cassette you'll be using
for the EVA documentary photography is Charlie X-ray 48,
that's Charlie X-ray 48, and it's stowed in India i and you're
GO to go ahead and load it on tonight and be ready to go
tomorrow. Regardomg your question about NK01 with
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CX-56, 44 frames should be more than enough for the documentary

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 in T025?
CDR Yeah, that was my suggestion, Bruce.
And we've done that. How about giving me a frame count break-
off 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-window pictures and it seems to me 30 frames
ought to be enough for EVA, so we could probably shoot up
14 more tonight.
CC Yeah, we agree with that.
CDR Okay.
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 Millican to take the rest of the afternoon off here.
CDR Good job, Scott, take the rest of the
afternoon off.
CC He's smiling.
CDR Good job.
Space station now out of range of Ascension. Next acquisition
will be 33 minutes from now, that'll be over Guam. Crew is
head of themselves this evening and they're trying to get
ready for tomorrow's EVA probably coming off on time. If
the crew's prompt reaction time is any indication. 23 hours
and 32 minutes, this is Skylab Control.
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SL-IV MC2793/I
TIME: 19:05 CDT, 80:00:05 GMT
2/2/74
PAO Five minutes Greenwich mean time, mission

day 80. Space station now within a minute away from acquisition
through tracking station on Guam. All three crew members
should be eating dinner now. After dinner Pilot Bill Pogue
is scheduled for another picture of the Comet Kohoutek using
the Nikon $233 instrument. We'll hold the line up for this
pass over Guam.
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.
CC CDR, this is Houston the two messages
you requested are on board now.
CDR Thank you, Bruce.
CC Skylab, this is Houston i minute to LOS,
next station contact in 31 minutes through the Vanguard at
sea at 00:45, SPT private phone call at the Vanguard,
RIGHT ANTENNA going to LEFT, over.
SPT Thank you, Bruce.
CC Roger, AOS at 00:45.
PAO Skylab now out of range of the tracking
antenna at Guam. Next acquisition will be 29 minutes from
now, that'll be over the Vanguard. 16 minutes Greenwich mean
time, this is Skylab Control.
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2/2/74
PAO 44 minutes Greenwich mean time. Space

station now nearing acquisition through the tracking ship
Vanguard. Pilot Bill Pogue should be taking pictures of the
Comet Kohoutek right now. Commander Carr and Science Pilot
Ed Gibson still finishing up dinner. Mission Control is
filling up with guests of the console operators for this
evening's Neil Hutchinson dinner party. We'll hold the line
up for this pass over the Vanguard.
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 the SPT will be available
then.
CDR Roger, Bruce.
CDR Houston, CDR.
CC Go ahead, Jer.
CDR Bruce, I just this minute finished re-
cording a message to the people in the waste management area.
I think it will be of interest to them because it might
possibly have some 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.
You'll have to try and dump it at Ascension in a couple of
minutes.
CDR If you can do it, that'd be fine. If
not, I think an hour won't hurt.
CC Okay, just stay off the tape recorder and
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.
CC Skylab, this is Houston, about a minute
and a half to LOS. Next station contact in 7-1/2 minutes
through Ascension at 01:02, and we'll need the SO56 and H-
ALPHA I DOORS CLOSED please. Over.
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 Bruce. See if that got it, Bruce.
CC Okay, thank you.
PAO 56 minutes Greenwich mean time. Space
station now out of range of the Vanguard. Reacquisition
through Ascension will be 5 minutes from now. Science Pilot
Ed Gibson coming up for his last opportunity to look at the
Sun during this mission. A 1-hour stint at the ATM C&D panel
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about 30 minutes from now, scheduled for his last video

recording of the Sun's surface features. Expect very little
comment out of him, however, the Sun is now well into its
quiet period. 57 minutes Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab
Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC2795/I
Time: 20:01 CDT 80:01:01 GMT
2_2_74
PAO One hour and 1 minute Greenwich mean

time. This is Skylab Control. Space station now nearing
acquisition through Ascension. When Ed Gibson finishes his
hour at the ATM console this evening, Apollo telescope mount
experiments will have totaled 336 hours and 17 minutes
worth of manned viewing time aboard Skylab.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Ascension,
Canary, and Madrid for about 14-1/2 minutes. And if Ed is
free for a minute we've got a couple of questions for him
on S020.
SPT Go ahead.
CC Yeah, could you see the holes or hole in
the S020 filter number 31, which is the one you installed
without using a pen light. Over.
SPT No I could not. It was really just a
pinpoint I you had to put the light behind it for it to
show up.
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 imformation
previously. I thought so on the dump tape. And what I'll
give you know 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 pinhole 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.
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 llke they'll be okay. Over.
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, glad to hear it won't.
CC Well_ it will hut we feel that the
size of the holes as you've described them are such that we
wontt get enough light through to cause any problems.
SPT Very good, those folks have waited too
many years for good data.
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CC Yes indeed.
SPT I was working S020 before I started
working the Apollo extension system.
CC Yeah, back in the days of AAPIA also.
SPT That was pre-AAP.
PAO Keyhole as Canary Island reacquires the
space station. We'll hold the line up as the space station goes
through Canary and Madrid tracking stations on this revolution.
CC And we're ready to copy the evening status
report when ever y'all have it handy.
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2/2/74
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 suppose to be over Canary which
is where we are.
CDR Okay.
CDR 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
Charlle X-ray 56, 44; 02, Bravo Echo 16, full; 03, Charlie
India 116, 32; 04 is empty; 05, Bravo Hotel 06, 48. 70-
millimeter, Charlie X-ray 45, 022, ETC none; EREP none.
Drawer A: Alfa i, 2 and 3 no change; Alfa 4, 008, 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?
CC Yep.
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 crewmen. Medication: CDR, three Sudafed as directed;
SPT, none; PLT, one Aetifed as directed. Clothing: CDR,
shorts, socks and shirt; SPT, short, socks and T-shirt;
PLT, shirt. Food log: CDR, salt 0, minus one coffee with
sugar, plus 1.5 water; SPT, 4.0 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 Plan deviation: they're already reported today.
Shopping list accomplishments: All Deactivations Checklist
updates are completed and CDR instrumented exercise.
Inoperable equipment: the booth on the PLT's urine bag that
connects it to the separator failed this evening and there
was a urine spill of about I00 cc. Unscheduled stowage:
none.
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 will 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
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don't I try to tell you what Pam looks like.

CC Okay, let her rip.
SPT Okay, a fairly extensive cloud cover. What
we could see it was at least several hundred miles. We were
on the northeast side. I saw her going towards the center at
around eight bands of CB's, probably prestrom squall lines.
Cirrus streaks were also present above it all about and
five of those streaks which are running along with the
squall lines, the same direction with a clockwise rotation.
Saw about five of those in towards the center. There was a
clear area of the center but it was 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 north-
east, that's from the ITCV. And there was no cloud premodes
evident or 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.
CC Okay, see you at Guam for the med conference.
PA0 Loss of signal through Madrid. Ed Gibson
reporting that they saw tropical storm Pam_ northeast of the
coast of Australia midway between Australia and Hawaii.
Next acquisition from now will be 25 minutes and that'll
be through Guam. One hour and 18 minutes, this is Skylab
Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC2797/I
TIME: 20:46 CDT, 80:01:46 GMT
2/2/74
PAO One hour 56 minutes Greenwich mean time.

Space station Skylab now just southwest of Guam well into
the acquisition. Medical conference going on right now
with Dr. Paul Buchanan. Everybody's eating here in Mission
Control, Neil Hutchinson's MOCR dinner. We'll hold the
line up in expectation of a short medical conference.
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 maybe 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.
CC SPT, Houston; we show that on this, your
last ATM pass, the door H-alpha i is closed even though the
camera is taking pictures, go ahead and command the door
open manually. Thirty seconds to LOS, next station contact
through Honeysuckle Creek in about 7 minutes at 01:57 and
that'll be the last pass of the evening and we should have
a teleprinter test message for you there. And we show the
door open now.
PAO One hour 52 minutes, space station now
out of range of Guam. We'll hold the line up as reacqusition
through Honeysuckle Creek, will he less than 4-1/2 minutes
from now. That'll be the good night call up to the crew.
We'll have this evenings medical conference report from
Dr. Paul Buchanan when he finishes eating dinner, that should
be about an hour from now. Holding the line up i hour
52 minutes Greenwich mean time.
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 stowage, twice with
a station between as the teleprinter test message since it's
a fairly long message, over.
CDR Okay, Bruce and I've go another teleprinter
head standing by and loaded ready to flap in if this one
doesn't work out.
CC Okay, mighty fine. Itls on it's way.
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. Okay, go ahead, Jerry
it's 1 minute to LOS, the next station is the Vanguard in
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TIME: 20:46 CDT, 80:01:46 GMT
2/2/74
25 minutes at 02:24 after your nominal 02:00 sign off, if

you'd like we'll send another test message at the Vanguard
and you can check it there, over.
CDR Okay.
CC Okay, we'll 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.
CDR All right you can send up a little.
CC It's on it's way.
CDR Okay, it's no good either.
CC Okay, try changing the paper and reloading
the head, please. You might even try a new cassette to take
the roll of paper out of it.
CDR Keep the message coming, it's beginning
to improve.
CC Okay, we're going over the hill.
See you at Vanguard.
PAO Two hours i minute Greenwich mean time.
This wasn't the good night call up due to teleprinter problems.
They changed the head and that didn't solve the problem.
They're going to change the paper, reinstall the head and
send another message up over the Vanguard tracking ship.
So next acquisition will be 22 minutes from now over Vanguard.
Two hours and 1 minute Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab
Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC2798/I
Time: 21:23 CDT 80:02:23 GMT
2/2/74

Space station now nearing acquisition through the tracking
ship Vanguard. We should find out over this pass whether or
not the teleprinter on board Skylab is working. We're going
to send up two test messages to check the unit out. About
45 seconds from acquisition, we'll wait the call-up signal.
Vanguard for a little over 6 minutes. For Jerry, we're going
to uplink three copies of the standard teleprinter test mes-
sage, and we suspect that the problem that we had going over the
hill 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 concerned and
maybe we need to work our way a little bit into the role, so
letWs see how these work out. Over.
CDR Okay, Bruce, go ahead.
CDR Okay, Bruce, the test messages are loud
and clear. You can go ahead with the rest of the prep.
CC Okay, thatts good _ews, Jerry, we will.
And we'll bid you good night, see you in the morning around
ii:00 Z, and let me check and see if we've go_ a wakeup site
here. Yeah, we'll call you through Canary Islands at ii:00 Z
on the nose.
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.
CC And, SPT, Houston, as we close out for this
the final manned ATM pass of the Skylab program, can we get
a final frame count from you? Over.
SPT Sure can, Bruce. 7312, 85093, 1080, 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.
See you tomorrow.
SPT Good night, Bruce.
PAO Skylab now out of range of Vanguard. That
was the good night call. Crew will be awakened tomorrow at
ii:00 on the nose, that'll be through Canary. Teleprinter
worked fine, two test messages sent up came out clear, there'll
be three messages that'll be repeated for the crew. There
were large dropouts on the messages. Earlier in the evening,
about 6 hours ago, Commander Carr reported that while passing
over South Georgia Island in the South Pacific, he saw two
ice islands. One was about 5 to i0 miles across and 20 miles
long, and the other was i0 miles by i0 miles, and both of those
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Time: 21:23 CDT 80:02:23 GMT
2/2/74
islands had large chuncks of ice breaking off of them. He

reported that he took several photographs of them. We haven't
got the medical status report yet. Dr. Paul Buchanan indica-
ted earlier that he'd have that after he finished dinner.
Hers just finished dinner, so we expect the evening medical
report about 30 minutes from now. 2 hours and 31 minutes
Greenwich mean time, the crew is now all in their presleep
period. Ed Gibson just finishing up his last stint at the
ATM C&D panel with the final film count. We_ll bring the
line back up for the medical status report when we get it.
Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-I_ MC2799/I
TIME: 21:50 CDT, 80:02:50 GMT
2/2/74
PAO Two hours and 50 minutes Greenwich mean

time. The crew almost to bed, i0 minutes before their
bedtime. We have Dr. Paul Buchanan's exceedingly short medical
report which I'll read to you now. "The minor nasal conditions
and skin rash mentioned earlier this week by the crew are
all resolving satisfactorily. They continue in good spirits."
The crew this evening was very well ahead of themselves on
the EVA pre-prep and Science Pilot Ed Gibson finishing up
the ATM panel, today was the last manned observation of the
Sun; the SO55A will continue in unmanned mode Just prior to
hatch closeout before the crew returns to Earth. Tomorrow
morning will be spent mainly in preparatory activities for
the 4-1/2 hours spacewalk scheduled for 15:00 Greenwich
mean time. Commander Carr and Science Pilot Ed Gibson will
be the EVA people and Pilot Bill Fogue will be the EVA monitor.
Following the EVA most of the day is taken up wit_ stowage
activity and change list checkout procedures. The crew is
scheduled a brief period of PT later on in the evening. Most
of tomorrow however is EVA. We'll bring the line down now,
we'll bring it back up tomorrow morning, 06:00, Jack Riley
will he your morning man. Two hours and 51 minutes Greenwich
END OF TAPE

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SL-IV MC2700/I

Time: 20:57 CDT 77:01:57 GMT

PAO This is Skylab Control, 01:57 Greenwich

CC (Music: "Burning Love" by Elvis Presley).

CC Skylab, Houston through Bermuda for 8-1/2

high government officials and the American public. As you'd

Minister Edward Heath. The balloting continues Friday. Counting

CC The economists also predicted that in

CC I'll let you know when we're locked up

the space station out of solar inertial attitude at about

PA0 Skylab Control, Greenwich mean time

PLT configuring the cameras.

CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Goldstone

PLT Roger, Dick.

This is a 92-minute data take. While Pilot Pogue and -

PAO ..... .... - - zone and its connection with

SPT Okay, that was good; both on the same

PLT Yes, we are.

- - before this maneuver is approximately 9 years

CDR Coming up on 30:00.

CC Skylab, Houston. Gu Skylab, Houston.

CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 45 seconds

PAO Skylab Control, Greenwich _ean time

CDR Visibility between me and the clock

CDR 8:42 coming up.

PLT 52 coming up.

PLT Okay. (Garble) 9 (garble) up to 45 degrees

SPT Okay. Going to try to see if I can give

CDR TAPE MOTION is steady. (Garble), that was

CC Skylab, Houston; we're 1 minute to LOS.

PAO Skylab Control, Greenwich mean time

observations from out the window and do handheld photography,

You're stuck with the surroundings and there's not a whole

CC - - dark. You guys have been in space

CC Roger, Ed. Thank you very much. Back

CC Bill, thank you very muah. We're about

PAO Skylab Control, Greenwich mean time

PAO Skylab Control, Greenwich mean time

PAO Skylab Control, Greenwich mean time

came from a group of 6th grade science students at the

PAO This is Skylab Control, 19:39 Greenwich

MCC That's affirmative. We initialize as -

MCC - - S055 detector 5 test where we will be

exposures like patrol shorts normals and longs. But we'll

question more toward a philosophical vein then I would sort

PAO This is Skylab Control. 20:03 Greenwich

sampling this morning. And after a little closer perusal

PAO This is Skylab Control at 20:48 Greenwich

PAO This is Skylab Control, 21:18 Greenwich

PAO This is Skylab Control. 22:24 Greenwich

mission for Skylab IV is scheduled for the morning of

PAO their home since November 16th and

PAO This is Skylab Control, 22:56 Greenwich

CC Skylab, this is Houston through Ascension

lation. Thirty-six minutes to tracking station Guam. Extremely

PAO This is Skylab Control. 23:56 Greenwich

PAO This is Skylab Control, 33 minutes past

us anymore details on it?

CC Skylab, this is Houston, 1 minute to LOS.

CC And of course Jer, we've got another one

PAO This is Skylab Control. 01:31 Greenwich

most inspiring reading in the world but it checks out the

PAO This is Skylab Control, 01:51 Greenwich